I got this idea together with some of my friends. The girls from this story is named after them. My English is no way near to perfect, but I am Danish so English is not my first language.

I don't own Ninja Turtles.

But Enjoy it :D

Life is what you make it. I have always lived by these words. But I'm not sure I can use them anymore. Not now. Everything is so different. We are so different, and I can't stop feeling that it is my fault what happened to us. If just I had known. If I had known this would happen, I would never have let my four girlfriends meet these turtles. But we did and nothing in this world can change want happened.

I ran home. It feels natural to call Sofie's home my home. In a way it is, but in a way it isn't. It is just a few months since I moved here to New York. My peaceful home in Australia is replaced with the noisy New York. But I don't complain. This is not the first time I have been here. I lived here when I was young. My parents passed away when I was young, so I lived with my uncle. He is an okay dude, but he works a lot, so I moved over here. I was only 6, but my uncle came with, but left some weeks after. Sofie's mom Marie was a friend of my mother, and Sofie and I just clicked. We were soon joined by Sissel and Meriyam. Meriyam was from Irak, but her parents send her to New York to live with a family to get a better education. Sissel is from Faroe Islands where she lived with her mom. She also dicided to go to New York where she lived with Marie too. Marie raised us like sisters, and I do see the other girls as my sisters. Marie was a ninjutsumaster, so when we showed interest she taught us. Sissel and I were a little more into it than the others.

Meriyam was the funny one. She always had a funny answer. She wasn't so into ninjutsu, but she liked cooking, and she was good at it. That is properly also why Meriyam got knifes as her weapon. She is great with them. She is so good that I wouldn't be afraid to stand with an apple on the top on my head. She can hit anything with those knives of her. Meriyam is also the youngest of us, but she really understands people. She is a great sister.

Sofie was the smart one. She used a lot of her time reading, inventing or sitting in front of her computer. I guess that is why she wasn't so much into ninjutsu. Marie knew that, so she taught Sofie to use a bow. She is really good, even better than Marie. Again I wouldn't say no to stand with an apple. Sofie is about the same age at me, but way smarter than me, and everyone else.

Sissel is actually older than me. She is really good at ninjutsu. She and I…. Well we can really pull up some fights. And she wins over me, but I win over her too. But even though she is the oldest one and she is really good at ninjutsu, she isn't the leader of our little group. The problem is her anger. And she can got really angry really often. We have often got into fights because of Sissel's anger. Sissel's weapon is a large samurai sword. It is heavy, and she is the only one of us who can lift it. But that is just it. We each have our special weapon, and we can't use each others.

And at last there is me. My name is Emma, but I'm also called Em by my sisters. I'm the….. Well I don't know what I am. But I am the leader in a way. Or not in a way. I am the leader. I didn't really want to, but Marie chose me. But it doesn't really change anything. I make choices when we don't all agree, but I have to listen to the others. Oder than that there isn't really anything different. But it isn't easy being leader either. I have to make tough decisions and face the consequences of them after, and then there is the toughest of them all; I have to stop Sissel from killing someone out of anger. And trust me that is not easy. But I did the best I could, but when I turned 16 I decided to go back to Australia and live with my uncle. Marie let me do it. I'm really not from Australia. I was born in the north, but my parents moved to Australia where I have lived until my parents died. I use two swords. A little smaller than Sissel's and a lot of lighter.

Sissel moved soon after me. I don't know why, but she did. She went back to her mother, and left Meriyam and Sofie together with Marie.

I came back when I was 17, and so did Sissel. And suddenly we were all back together. Even though me and Sissel never were the best friends because of her temper and my…. Well let's just say that I ALWAYS follows the rules, we were all happy. We all went to school. It was our last year. Even though Sofie is smart enough to be a year ahead of us, she decided not to. Instead she takes every suspect a level higher than us.

Now back to me running home. I just got a call from Sofie. And even before I pick up my phone I knew what it was about. Sissel. She has got into some kind of trouble. And I have to save her butt. I ran home and into the living room.

"What happened?" I quickly asked, even without looking around.

Sofie standing over Sissel who sat on the couch. Meriyam stood in the door and looked over at me with a smile when I ran in.

"Hey Em. Not much, just the usually. Sexy here got into a fight." She told me.

Sissel looked ignored over to Meriyam who laughed. Sexy was Meriyam and Sofie's nickname to Sissel, because they thought it sounded funny when they said "Sexy Sissel". But Sissel did not like that name. Not at all.

Sofie turned away, showing a Sissel with a cut over her left eyebrow. Sissel is good enough not to get injured, but when she can't control her anger she lose focus and gets injured. And of cause I have to tell Sissel that, and I know exactly what her answer is going to be. This was one of the many times I did not want to be the leader.

I sighed. There was no way to do it easy.

"Sissel? What happened this time?" I asked her tired.

She just look angry at me, and here it comes:

"Seriously Em stop being such a rule-follower." She started. " It was their fault. That purple dragon should have known better than to ask ME out."

I sighed again.

"Sissel, you can't just start beating up a guy because he asks you out" I told her.

She stood up and looked even angrier at me. We stood face to face now.

"Don't mess with me Em. You now I can beat you." She said.

I felt that I was starting to get angry to.

"Maybe, but as your leader it is my responsibility to make sure that you don't bring this family to any danger."

"I don't bring this family to any danger by beating up a stupid guy!"

"Well but it was a purple dragon, and we both know there is a lot of them, and they can find us. What will you do then?"

Sissel lay one of her hands on the sword.

"They can bring it. Just like you can."

I was just about to answer.

"Emma! Sissel! Stop that now!"

We both turned to Marie who came in with a couple of bags in her hands. She walked over to us and put each of them in our arms.

"You two listen to me. You are both right in this. Emma, you know Sissel is helping people. That man could have moved on and jumped an incent girl."

I looked down in shame. Marie was right. Sissel may have stopped that man.

"But Emma it also right Sissel. She is the leader in this group. And even though you are the oldest you have to listen to her." Marie continued. "Now come girls, and help me put these things the right place."

We all nodded and went into the kitchen. We started putting the things away.

"So what are we going to have for dinner? I am starving." Meriyam asked.

Sofie laughed at her.

"OMG Meriyam you are the one cooking. It is you who decides what we will get for dinner."

Meriyam laughed.

"You're right. I completely forgot."

"No change there." Sissel said with a smile.

Meriyam stuck her tongue out of her and started cooking.

Marie went into her room, and left us. Sissel, Sofie and I went into the living room and sat on the couch. Sofie found her laptop, and Sissel turned on the television showing a comedyshow. I had nothing else to do so I watched it too.

Meriyam came in soon after.

"Hey Soffy. What'che doing?"

That was another of Meriyam's weird nicknames for us. And this time it is for Sofie.

"Just calibrating the network server to curtain strictly secret codes that I can break with a networkkey, but if I take a networknumber to….."

"WOW WOW WWWWWWWWOWOWO" Meriyam stopped her. "Understand weird talk I do not."

Meriyam always change her way of putting her words when she wants to make a point.

"Just forget it." Sofie said.

"She already has" Sissel said.

"I do not." Meriyam said.

"Do too"

"Do not"

"Do too"

"Do not"

"Do not."

"Do too."

"HAHA. Got you" Sissel laughed.

Sissel and Sofie started arguing, and I started to look outside the window. We lived highest so we had a perfect view over New York's buildings.

After a while I saw four shadows moving on the rooftops. They moved like….. ninjas. I saw the shadows clearer, but then they were gone. They didn't look like humans. They looked like… No that is impossible. I turned to the other girls.

"Did you just see that?" I asked them.

Sissel and Meriyam stopped arguing and looked confused at me. Sofie looked up from her laptop and looked confused to.

"What are you talking about Em?" Sofie asked.

"I just saw someone moving as ninjas on the rooftop over there" I told them.

Meriyam looked at me like I was crazy.

"That is crazy. No one is stupid enough to do that. You just saw wrong. You are properly just tired" She smiled at me."I bet they looked like turtles too."

She laughed, but I didn't. I turned away from them and looked over where they shadows had been a moment ago. They did look like turtles. Giant turtles. Maybe the other girls don't believe me, but I know what I saw. There was something else in this town. Something there wasn't here a year ago.