Many Friends, Different Lives
Chapter 1: Meeting After a Fight
Summary: Master Splinter passed away two months ago. My twin brother, our friends, and I met the Turtles a month after the death. I wonder if my twin can feel it too. Will we all survive the losses from our pasts and the ones in the future?
Disclaimer: I do not own the TMNT. I only own the characters I made up.
Master Splinter had passed away a month ago and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are having a hard time getting back onto his feet. Raph was sitting on the couch when Leo walked in the room.
"Time for training," Leo said loud enough for his voice to ring through the whole lair.
"Even when Master Splinter's gone, Leo's still has to make us train," Raph said to no one in particular.
"Raph," Leo said, "If we don't then we'll never survive."
"How do you know?" Raph said as Don and Mike walk into the room.
"I…" Leo stuttered.
"Made you speechless fearless leader?" Raph said with a smile on his face.
"Not again," Don said to Mike.
"You're just sore because you're a ninja drop out," Leo said, crossing his arms.
"That's it!" Raph cried as he jumped over the couch. He attacked Leo with his sais in hand. Leo just had a splint second to pull out his katana to protect his face from the end of Raph's sais.
"Guy's stop!" Mike yelled running over to Leo and Raph.
"Mike!" Don yelled as one of Raph's sais head strait at Mike's heart. The sai hit Mike strait on, just above Mike's heart.
"Mike!" Leo ran over to Mike's side and he started to freak out. "Don! Go get the first aid kit!"
Raph just stood where he had frozen. He had meant to throw it at Leo but he had missed by a long shot. Leo helped Mike over to the couch where Don began taking out the sai. As Mike's screams of pain ran through the lair, Raph turned and ran out of the lair. Raph headed towards the surface as fast as he could and he headed to the roofs. No matter how hard or how far he ran, he still couldn't get the incident or Mike's screams out of his head.
The moon was high overhead when he stopped running. He didn't mean to hurt Mike but he had hurt Mike. Why am I like this? Raph asked himself when he crashed to his hands and knees. Why do I make mistakes more then ever know?
"Don't be so hard on yourself Raphael," a female voice said. Unsure what to expect, Raph looked at the person who talked to him very slowly. A female mutant turtle, like him except she was wearing a gold gown, was standing in front of him.
"I told you you should have asked if he was ok first before saying his name," a male mutant turtle said, wearing gear similar to Raph's, as he walked next to the female. "Midnight, Ashara's not going to like that you met him without being cautious first."
"But Nightmare-" Midnight said.
"But nothing," Nightmare said. "How are you going to explain to Raph how you knew him?"
"I could say I've been watching him for a week," Midnight said, hoping to get Nightmare to give in.
"Then that would mean that you're a spy and that would make him angry and we don't need that," Nightmare said, crossing his arms.
"Excuse me," Raph said just as Midnight opened her mouth, "but where did you two come from?"
Midnight and Nightmare looked at each other with worry in their eyes.
"Why don't we show you," Midnight said, looking back at Raph. "It would be better to explain where we came from that way."
Nightmare nodded his head and he turned around, leading the way. Midnight helped Raph to his feet and she hurried after Nightmare. Raph stayed behind a ways as he followed Midnight and Nightmare.
"Raph!" Midnight said over her shoulder. "Hurry up!"
Raph jogged over to Midnight, who was waiting for him at the edge of the building. He looked ahead and he saw a worn down building that looked like it had been unoccupied for years.
"Come on," Midnight said, jumping down to the sidewalk. She ran across the street and waited for Raph to catch up. "In here. My brother went ahead of us."
"Your brother?" Raph asked as he and Midnight walked into the building.
"Yeah," Midnight said. "We may have forgotten to mention that we're twins."
"Ah," Raph said looking around the room he had just walked into with Midnight. "What is this place?"
"This is the meeting room," Nightmare said, wearing nothing but white flowing pants and a gold band on his upper left arm to represent that he's the leader of his group, walking out of the shadows cased by the candles that were in the middle of the room. "The meeting is going to start in a few minutes. Wanderer is preparing Raph a room and I think she is almost done."
"Actually, I'm finished," a girl said as she walked into the room. She was about 15 like everyone else, she had brown hair that came down halfway down her back in a braid and she was wearing a gold gown that all girls wear. "Hello Raphael. I'm Wanderer. Please follow me and I will show you to your corridors. Your brothers are here. Leonardo is in the room to your right, Donatello in the room to your left, and Michelangelo is in the health clinic but he will be in the room in front of your room."
Raph nodded his head as Wanderer opened his door. She led him into his room before heading towards the door again.
"When the meeting is finished, someone will come up and bring you some close and food," Wanderer said. "Other than to see your brothers, please don't leave your room. We don't want to anger Ashara even more."
"Why am I being brought close?" Raph asked, turning to face Wanderer.
"Ashara prefers you to be in the close that are brought to you," Wanderer said, "but other than that, I wouldn't know. There are others who asked the same question."
"The ones I met?" Raph asked sitting on his bed.
"Yes," Wanderer said as she shut his door. "Good night."
Raph nodded his head as Wanderer closed his door. Just as Raph's door clicked, Don's door opened and Leo came out looking pale and wearing nothing except for the pants he was given that looked like Nightmare's.
"Is something wrong Leonardo?" Wanderer asked, taking her hand off the doorknob and bowing.
"I think my brother's sick," Leo said, his face becoming paler.
"What do you mean Leonardo?" Wanderer asked, walking through the open door.
"I would appreciate if you called me Leo instead," Leo said, following Wanderer. "And I think he's been poisoned kind of sick."
Wanderer didn't have to ask why he would like to be called Leo instead and she could see why Leo was so pale. Wanderer walked over to Don, who was so hot, you could feel the heat coming off of him and he had no color in his face. Wanderer pulled a blue oval stone out of her pocket and she held it in front of her.
"Leanna," Wanderer said to the stone. "You need to come up to Donatello's room. Sin, get another bed in the health clinic ready for Donatello. You may have your hands full during the meeting."
Out of nowhere, two female voices said ok and Wanderer putted the stone into her pocket again.
"Do not worry Leo," Wanderer said. "We have the most skilled on the job. If you will follow me, I will take you to where you can meditate."
Leo followed Wanderer down to the first floor and to the end of the corridor. She stopped in front of two doors, both painted soothing colors.
"This is the male's meditation room." Wanderer said, pointing to the darker colored door. "I'm not allowed in so I'll get Shadow to get the room all ready. Walk in. No one is supposed to occupy it until after the meeting unless they are guests and you and your brothers are the only guests. Someone will come get you when we have training. From what I've heard, you like training. Am I wrong Leo?"
"What? Oh, no." Leo said, realizing that his mind was wondering off at the sight of the meditation room. "I would be honored to take part of the training group today."
Wanderer bowed and she walked away just as a boy, wearing the same thing as Nightmare and Leo, and all the other males are wearing, and is about 15 with black hair, runs into the meditation room Leo was in.
"Leo," the boy said, bowing. "I am Shadow. I will prepare your room and I will escort you to training today."
"Thank you," Leo said, bowing back at Shadow. "Don't you have to be at the meeting?"
"I do," Shadow said, hurrying around to the bowls of fire and putting in herbs that made the fire give off relaxing scents, "but Ashara wishes that you and your brothers are taken care of before the meeting. The ones in the health clinic or the ones ordered not to, though, do not join the meetings."
"Will I meet my brother's and my host?" Leo asked.
"I do not know," Shadow said, heading to the door, "but I do not know Ashara well. Sly does and most of the time he is very busy."
Leo bowed as thanks and that he understood. Shadow bowed back and he shut the door. He hurried back to the meeting room to be stopped by Gwin, a boy of 15 with copper hair and wearing a gold band.
"Ashara wants you to go get these items quickly," Gwin said, handing Shadow a list. "We need these for our guests and for Midnight. I do not know why for Midnight but I'm sure it's not good."
Shadow nodded and he headed for the front door, grabbing a coat off of a hook and a shirt off of the shelf. Gwin watched Shadow disappear into the night before turning and entering the meeting room. Muttering met his ears of the 4 groups talking to one another. Gwin joined a group, since most of his group was off doing orders, and began to talk about the same subject that was going around the room like wildfire. Are they going to tell the Turtles everything, are they going to tell them some but not too much that would put the Turtles in harm, or are they going to tell them anything and just lie? All of the sudden, everyone got silent and they took their seats around the circle of candles. Gwin got up and walked over to a corner and he picked up an orb. He placed it in the middle of the ring of fire just as Ashara sat down in the shadows.
"We have much do talk about," Ashara said. "First on our list is do we tell the Turtles everything? Emerald?"
A girl, dark green hair that was like Wanderer's (all of the girls have their hair like this) and a mix between a cat and a human wearing a gold band, stood up.
"My group has talked and we have decided that we should tell the Turtles everything," Emerald said before sitting back down. At once, murmur went around the circle before Ashara putted her hand up and everyone went silent.
"Nightmare?" Ashara asked.
"I agree with Emerald," Nightmare said when he was standing. "My 'group' doesn't agree with me though."
"I would understand since your group, who is at the meeting and is allowed in the meetings right now, is your sister," Ashara said as Nightmare sat down. "If we allow the Turtles to be able to join a group, your group will take them."
"Why does Nightmare's group get more people?" Cara asked, just like Emerald only she doesn't have a gold band, and she has white colored hair.
Everyone was shocked at Cara's outburst. Usually she isn't like that but for some odd reason, she did.
"Cara, I know you are mad because of the incident earlier but Nightmare's group consists of two people and the Turtles belong in his group," Ashara said calmly.
"Because the Turtles look like Nightmare and his twin sister?" Cara asked, ignoring her twin brother, Kay, telling her to sit down.
"No," Ashara said calmly. "The Turtles finish the group just like you finish Emerald's group."
"But-" Cara started.
"Please do not continue," Ashara said as Cara sat down. "Now. The next subject we have to deal with is what everyone knows about the new enemies that have joined the Foot and who have followed us from our home dimensions."
"You mean some of our home dimension?" Toe Ama, looks like Emerald except she has gold hair, asked. "You do not have an enemy from your home dimension Ashara."
"Yes," Ashara said with a chuckle. "I, as well as Sly and Leanna, do not have an enemy that had followed me here."
"I know a little bit about Fear and his Shadows," Kerron, a light brown haired boy with no gold band, said as he stood up. "I have seen some of his Shadows and they are real Shadows. Fear, himself, is human who feeds off of fear."
"How do we fight someone when there is fear for him to feed off of?" Angelina, dark brown hair and no gold band, asked.
"We will figure a way," Ashara answered, shifting in her seat. "I know this subject is making most uncomfortable so if you have any information, please see me. The last subject is the new schedules that you all found on your doors. Does anyone have a problem with his or her schedule? Good. This meeting is now over and the training group for today should go to the training room. Sly is your teacher for today. I can't teach you because some business came up. You are dismissed."