Many Fears

Chapter 1: An Unexpected Guest

A/N: This is the first story out of the Fears Series I'm doing. This story is only 5 chapters long but the next one is more. Sorry bout that.

Disclaim: I do not own or know the TMNT. Sorry.

Raph was the only one up. He had been writing a letter to his family that said: Dear Family, I'm going away for a while. Don't worry, I'll be fine and I'll be home in a couple of days. Raph He decided to go to a place he had found and do some thinking. He knows this would be unusual for him but he has so much on his mind. He keeps telling himself: If I don't get some time to think, my head will blow. He starts to head back to his letter when he sees someone out of the corner of his eyes. It was a girl who appeared to be badly wounded. She was limping badly and was holding her shoulder. Raph froze for a minute. Then, without thinking, he hurried to help the girl. When he got close enough to see her, he realized that she was more wounded then she let you see. Her close were ripped so muck you would think that her close went through a shredder, her skin looked like a hundred daggers scraped her skin. Raph caught the before she fell.

"Are you ok?" Raph asked.

"I...I couldn't stop them. They're... they're on their way here," the girl said trying to move. Raph helped the girl onto her feet and led her to the couch.

"Who's coming? "Raph asked.

"Darkness," the said before she passed out. Great, Raph thought, I don't know this girl's name and now she says darkness is coming? Who -or what- is darkness? Raph was about to get up when Leo taps him on the shoulder.

"What are you doing?" Leo asks.

"I'm trying to figure who-or what-is darkness," Raph said as he stood up.

"Darkness is a what not a who," Leo says rolling his eyes.

"No, this girl said that someone whose name is Darkness is coming," Raph said raising his voice.

"This looks like she has been out for the past hour," Leo says raising his voice too.

"She just fell asleep! And how would you know!? You were asleep as well!" Raph yelled. He had woken up Don, Mike, and Master Splinter when he first raised his voice.

"My sons. This is no time to fight. It is the middle of the night and all of us need to sleep," Master Splinter says.

"But what about Darkness and his army?" asked the girl as she rubs her eyes. Everyone froze. Leo and Raph had forgotten about the girl and Master Splinter, Mike, and Don didn't see her on the couch.

"Who?" asks Don.

"Darkness. You're telling me you never heard of Darkness and his army?" the girl asks wide eyed. The Turtles and their sensei shook their head. The girl gets up and walks into the middle of the lair.

"I'm Emerald by the way," the girl says. "My family was lost to Darkness or so I think. I just made it out of the battle when Loss, the general, had destroyed my family."

The Turtles look at each other while Master Splinter looked at Emerald calmly.

"When are they coming?" Master Splinter asked calmly.

"I don't know," Emerald said. "All I know is that they're after you."

"What does this Loss look like?" Raph asked.

"Loss..." Emerald hesitated. "Loss is...a turtle like you. He's different though. He is the oldest in his family. He, unlike his family, is with Darkness. I think he is because of a jewel he wears around his neck."

"How big is his family?" Don asks as he settles himself in front of a cross-legged Emerald.

"He has 5 younger siblings," Emerald said as the Turtles and Master Splinter finished making themselves comfortable in front of her. "Their names, from oldest to youngest, are Loneliness, Hatred, Sadness, Death, and Fear. Loss is a boy as well as Loneliness and Death. Hatred, Sadness, and Fear are girls. They were named after... well let me explain it by showing you." Emerald takes out a stone out of her pocket. "It is an emerald. My parents gave it to me when they told me to run for my life. I can show things with it."

As Emerald was talking the stone started to glow. Emerald held her hand flat in front of her. The emerald floated up and stopped 3 feet above the ground. Emerald, the Turtles, and Master Splinter stood up and stood in a circle around the stone. The lair dissolves away and is replaced with a forest.

"Hurry! You must get out of here!"

"But-"

"No time! He's coming!" A group of mutant turtles run into the clearing. One was carrying one and another was riding piggyback on another. The final two finally came into the clearing.

"Everyone ok?"

"Ya."

"Good."

"When are we going to get our names?"

"Now seems to be a good time."

"What are they going to be?"

"You know those Turtles at 3rd Earth that we keep hearing about?"

"I do."

"Well, why don't we-" The turtle that was talking was cut off by a tree falling.

"What the shell?!"

"Guy's! Run!" The turtles ran into an invisible barrier at the edge of the clearing.

"I know what your names should be," a shadow said.

"Darkness!"

"You!" Darkness said as he pointed to the turtle that was holding the smallest turtle. "You're the oldest aren't you?"

"What is it to you?"

"Your name shall be Loss for the fear of the rat sensei of the Turtles on 3rd Earth."

"What?!" Loss said.

"You!" Darkness said as he pointed to the one carrying a turtle on its back. "Your name shall be Loneliness for the fear of the one called Donatello."

"No!" Loneliness said.

"You shall be named Hatred for the one called Michelangelo," Darkness said to the one that was next to Loss. "You shall be called Sadness for Raphael's fear."

"What?! No way!?" the turtle next to Loneliness said.

"The turtle on Loneliness' back will be called Death for Leonardo's fear and the last one with no name will be called Fear for a girl who travels dimensions named Emerald's fear."

"That can't be our names! They won't be our names!" Hatred said as a tear fell down her cheek.

"Too late! These names are imbedded into you so that you can't change them," Darkness said. With that he disappeared.

"Loss," Loneliness said with a wince, "what's around your neck?"

"What?" Loss asked. He looked down at his chest and saw a black jewel hanging from a black chain. "Hatred, take Fear and listen to Loneliness. This jewel is a black controller. Loneliness, you're in charge. Go! Go far away and don't look back! If you run straight for several days, there is a portal that will take you to 3rd Earth. You will be inland a couple of miles. You need to go to a place called New York City. There you will find the Turtles. Talk to them and tell them everything. Just remember to stay out of sight. Ok?"

As Loss's family nodded yes, the forest started to melt away and was replaced by the lair. The still silence was eerie and nothing seemed to make a sound. The silence was broken by the sound of running bare feet.

"Prepare yourselves!" Leo says as he gets his katana out.

"Maybe we don't have to," Emerald said as she headed to the door. "I think it's them."

"Who?" asks Don.

"Loss's family," Emerald says with a smile.