Chapter 1
"Oh sofu."
She fell to her knees in front of him. The old scarred man reached out with his gnarled hands but she roughly pushed them away. She was literally shaking in her shell and as she looked up to him, her eyes were wide and wild, like an animal trapped. He shook also. The fear that radiated from her spread to him and he was frightened to reach back to her again.
"Sofu, something terrible has happened, Ai-", her voice cracked, "Ai has been manipulated. He's Shredder's pawn, I can't-I can't save him."
Violent sobs racked her body.
"Innen…" but Shinji couldn't finish his words. He couldn't say anything.
Karma closed her eyes, but the vision of Ai snarling and trembling was imprinted on her eyelids. She remembered how he nearly tore away from the arms of Leonardo and Michelangelo, screaming and cursing her. That wasn't her brother, that wasn't him at all.
"I don't know what to do."
Forcing his old knees to bend, he knelt next to her and managed to prise one of her dead cold hands open. The warmth of his hand spread to hers eventually as they knelt together.
"I-I shouldn't have come. I've endangered you grandfather, I'm sorry."
"Kame, my little kame… I will do anything for you. Do not worry for my safety, let me worry for yours. What has happened to Ai?"
She sighed, trying desperately to pull herself together.
"A lot has happened…" she began.
Author's notes:
This may be longer than the chapter itself, so I apologise.
I've had a hectic 12 months, involving losing all the stuff from my old laptop, including my old TMNT chapters and switching Universities, so, I'm sorry, so very sorry :( I've been a bad author.
The good news is that I'm back and will be writing again. I really don't know what direction this will take, my muse is very fickle, and I may be slow with chapters as I have Uni work, but I aim to upload at least once a week. Hold me to that?
If you're still interested in Karm et al in any way, then hi :) She's back.
Hope you're all doing good, and that I hear off you soon.