Chapter one – Strange Events
This is a story about a young, spirited girl. She's living in an average sized apartment in downtown New York City. She has red, dark chocolate brown hair that is halfway pinned up and goes down to her knees, also leaving some of her bangs down in front of her eyes. Her eyes are dark, chocolate brown and she likes to read whenever she gets a chance to. Well, one evening she was walking down Fifth Street, minding her own business when a bright blue SUV came roaring down the street. It zipped past with a "whoosh" making everything around her sway with the sudden gush of wind. The bag that she was carrying, unlatched and papers started flying everywhere. She groans at the sight of her papers and started to frantically pick them up.
Almost instantly she hears another screech except this time it was in front of her and is coming from the same vehicle that just passed her in a hurry. It started to back up revealing a small cat in the middle of the road. "Oh my...!" escapes from the young girl's mouth. After she collected all of her papers she walked over to the small frail cat that was now on the side of the road. She looks down at the cat and notices there was something blue tied around its neck, bending down she started to scratch the cat with affection and looked at the blue bandanna with wonder and curiosity. The cat eyes closed and it started to purr as the girl petted it between the ears. Then she gently picked up the cat and started to look for a name tag but found nothing. "Where are your owners, little cat? Or are you a stray?" she asked the cat. The happy, purring cat just looked at her with clear blue, crystal eyes. "Well…from the looks of you I don't think you have an owner….hmmm….maybe I can change that…" she said to herself. "Well… I guess I'll take you home with me cause' I can't leave you her all alone now, your just too darn cute." The cat just looked at her again except this time it perked its ears and started to look at the roof of the buildings across the street. It jumped out of her arms and sprinted across the street and into a dark alley. "H-HEY…WAIT!" the girl screamed, "You can't go in there….."
She ran after the cat into the dark, damp alley. As she entered the alley she slowed her pace and found the cat batting at a strange device that was round, white and had a blue screen with weird symbols on it. She walked cautiously towards the cat and the device, "What in the world is that!?" she asked no one in particular. She started to bend down to pick it up when she heard a loud "BANG" coming from inside the garbage dumpster on her right. She squealed silently and turned to run for safety, picking up the white and grey Calico cat on the way. Half way out of the alley she turned her head to get a look at the creature that made the noise in the dumpster. As she looked she found out that she was scared for nothing it was just a black guy in a weird looking suit of armor.
He got out of the dumpster and fell onto the ground, she heard him grunt in pain and saw him stand up. Suddenly he stopped doing what he was doing and looked at the ground where the white, round device was laying. He picked it up, looked at it with a puzzled look and took one end of the wires coming from the device and stuck into his battle armor. His armor started to change; it repaired itself in matter of seconds. Once a ruined piece of armor was now a gleaming, red piece of technology with weapons that could kill. The girl was frozen in place looking at the strange man with a horrified expression on her face. The cat kept twitching and moving around in her grasp giving the girl the start that she need to shake out of her trance. She turned to flee with all of her might making sure that the strange man didn't see her. She didn't stop running until she got inside her one person apartment.
Once inside the safe haven of her apartment, she laid down on the bed while setting the cat down onto the floor and tried to comprehend on what just happened back in the alley. Suddenly there was a loud "BBZzzzzzz…." making the girl jump and fall out of her comfortable bed and onto the floor where she groaned while cradling her head. She stood up and walked towards the intercom that was next to the doorway. "BZZZZZ…." "OK…..ok I'm coming just hold your horses, already!" she yelled into the intercom that connects to the front door. She opens the door and finds her best friend standing in the hallway with shorts and a t-shirt and with her hair tied up into a ponytail. She had brown eyes and hair. And was very tall for her age, she was 5ft and 11in tall.
"Hey, JASMINE!" Carmen yelled when she saw her friend open the door.
"H-Hey…Carmen….what are you doing here?" Jasmine asked with a puzzled look on her face, as Carmen came into her apartment.
"I was just dropping by…and I thought we could go get something to eat together for dinner." Carmen said while sitting down onto the couch.
"More likely you wanted food and you have no money sooo.….you came here to use me as a food source…..am I right or am I right?" Jasmine said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice while leaning over to give her new pet a scratch on the head.
"…..O-ok…..You caught me….." Carmen responded with her hands up in the air like she just got caught doing something bad by the cops.
"That's what I thought" Jasmine said while chuckling. "And I have to ask….why are you in short shorts and a t-shirt, did you have track practice again?"
"Yeah, I had to run about twelve miles today….it was….EXHAUSTING!" Carmen said while lying down onto the couch.
"Suurrrreeee…..for you that's really easy since you're a distance runner and you pretty much run about twelve miles every day when I probably can't even run two miles…." Jasmine said while putting on her coat, and getting ready to go out to eat with her crazy friend. She started to walk out the door and looked over her shoulder at her friend that had invaded her apartment, "Are you coming or what?"
"H-huh? ….ohh…..yeah ima' coming!" She yelled as she did a back flip off of the couch and landed straight up onto her feet.
"Well hurry it up cause' I want to make it to Pete's Pizza restaurant before the rush hour!" Jasmine yelled back as she was walking down the hallway that connected to the stairs that took you to the lobby.
As Carmen was leaving her friend's apartment, she almost tripped over the now sleeping cat that was next to the couch. "WAAAHHH!" she yelped as she fell to the ground trying to avoid the sleeping cat. As she picked herself up, she thought to herself, "Since when did Jasmine have a cat also equipped with a blue bandana….hmmmm…wait a minute….I think I've seen you somewhere but I can't quite put my finger on it…oh well, it doesn't matter now!" She ran out the door towards her receding friend.
The two girls walked into the lobby and out the front doors and started walking towards their destination. On the way to Pete's, Jasmine kept looking over her shoulder as if someone was following the both of them. She wasn't quite sure why she had this feeling but whenever she did have these feelings they are usually right, unfortunately. "Hey, do you feel like someone is following us or…is it just me?" she asked her friend that was walking beside her.
"I think it's just you…" Carmen replied.
"Hmmm….maybe your right…." Jasmine said halfheartedly to herself.
The two girl's made it too their destination with no trouble despite the nervous feeling that Jasmine was having on the way there. They entered the restaurant and went to sit in a booth by one of the windows and waited for their waiter to come and get their order. "Told you we weren't being followed by someone." Carmen bragged to Jasmine that she was right and had nothing to worry about.
"Ok…Ok…you were right, BUT I'm still gonna be on the lookout for trouble. Don't you remember the last time I had one of these feelings and you paid no attention to it and we got into a huge fight and I got beat up pretty bad but you couldn't leave the hospital for a WEEK!" Jasmine reminded Carmen. "Yeah….I don't think I'm just gonna let this feeling go away without at least seeing why I'm having it in the first place!"
"ALRIGHT! I get it…*sighs*….you can be pretty stubborn sometimes, can't you?" Carmen replied.
"…yeah….." Jasmine said but she was looking behind Carmen with a trance-like look in her eyes almost like she was being hypnotized by something. She was also twirling the golden, tri-pendant necklace that she got from her mother when her mom was on her death bed, literally. The necklace had three pendants one green, one blue, and the other red; each pendant has its own unique shape giving its name a true potential meaning.
"H-hey…..JASMINE! WAKE UP! HELLO ANYONE IN THERE?" Carmen yelled in Jasmine's face while lightly shaking her to wake up.
"H-huh…..what do you want Carmen?" Jasmine said while pinching the bridge of her nose trying to get the fogginess out of her head.
"Well…for one thing you were staring off into space for no apparent reason and it was kind of freaking me out…" Carmen said cautiously making sure Jasmine wasn't gonna go into the weird trance again.
"…..Ohh…..sorry about that….to be honest I'm not exactly sure why I did that in the first place." Jasmine said.
"Well just don't do it again…ok?" Carmen asked her confused friend.
"Yeah I'll try not to do that again, if I can help it anyway…but I did hav-" Jasmine replied while cutting short because of the waiter that just appeared next to their table waiting for their orders.
"What can I get for you two ladies, tonight?" the waiter asked both of them.
"We'll have a large pineapple pizza with extra cheese, please." Carmen said with a smile. "Ohh…and can we both have Dr. Pepper to drink, please."
"Sure thing, I'll get those drinks out right away while your pizza is being made." The waiter replied with a sweet smile that could brighten anybody's day.
"Thanks." Carmen said.
Turning towards her friend, Carmen asked, "Are you sure you're ok?"
"Yeah….yeah I'm fine just a slight headache that's all." Jasmine replied.
"…Okay…" Carmen replied still unconvinced with Jasmine's reply. "I hope she will get better soon, and I'm not positive but it feels like she's hiding something from me….but what and why?" She thought to herself.
The two girls got their food and drinks within ten minutes. They finished their meal with barely any conversation during their meal. After they paid for their food, they left the pizzeria and went their separate ways towards their comfy, warm apartments. But after a few short steps towards her home, Carmen quickly turned around and yelled, "JASMINE, DON"T YOU DARE GO CRAZY ON ME OR I'LL HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO SNAP YOU OUT OF IT EVEN IF IT MEANS I HAVE TO DO IT LITERALLY!"
Jasmine jumped at the sudden loud comment from her friend, but she turned around and yelled back, "OK! I'LL TRY TO STAY SANE!" Jasmine chuckled to herself and thinking to herself that she was truly grateful for her caring friend even though Carmen shows her affection in her own special way.
Jasmine entered her apartment and locked her front door. She set her coat down on her couch and went towards her bedroom, slamming down onto her warm, cozy bed. She recollected her thoughts and started to rethink the crazy moment she had with Carmen in Pete's pizzeria. "I wonder what that weird dream I had in the restaurant was about and maybe in a way the feeling that I was having was trying to warn me about that dream….hmmm…well I can't think about it too much or my head might explode. UGHH! Stupid headache why did you have to come now!" She said to herself while flaying her arms about. "Well….I better get some sleep before I have to go to school tomorrow and maybe some sleep will help this headache go away too." Jasmine soon nodded off into a deep sleep still trying to figure out the weird dream she had in the restaurant.
Even before the crazy event happened, Jasmine's fate was already entwined with the group of unknown mutant turtles. And maybe sometime soon she will find out what the dream or vision was about. But what is this weird dream/vision? And why was Jasmine the one to receive it? And who was this mysterious guy with the armor that was in the alley? And how does this adorable but mysterious cat fit into the picture?
*Sorry for the long chapter but I couldn't find a good spot to end sooo…..it ended up being pretty long….hehehe…..anyways I hope you liked it and I hope you will be staying with this fan-fic because there will be more to come, I can promise you that ^^ Also I would appreciate if you give me your opinion/advice on this because this was my first time writing a fan-fic. Thanks a Bunches (: