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Chapter 1: Flicker
Flicker- to shine with an unsteady or intermittent light: a candle flickers. To move quickly to and fro; quiver, flutter, or vibrate, to cause to flicker. An unsteady or brief light or flame. A swift quivering or fluttering movement.
The first time he noticed it was when we had just finished a kata, in the candle-lit dojo very early one morning. He chalked it up to being tired the first time. The second time he thought it was his imagination. But the third time he was sure he saw it and half thought it was Mike trying to scare him. Which was not likely to happen, he didn't scare easy. But the fourth time…the fourth time terrified him…
Leo stilled, mid-kata, as the temperature in the room drastically dropped. It was suddenly freezing, the air felt as if it had been dragged out of the room, the candles sputtered, gasped, and then went out abruptly.
"Mike…this isn't funny, what did you do? Don's going to kill you," Leo muttered softly as he turned around to find the matches beside the largest candle in the room. He whipped around after it felt like someone was breathing down his neck.
No one was there.
Leo frowned, before turning around and again trying to find the matches. His hand closed around the box and he carefully opened it, muttering as the box's drawer ended up being upside down and the matches clattered to the training matt covered floor. They seemed horribly loud. He stilled, heart racing, as he felt someone breathing on his neck again.
He whipped around again, this time lashing out, he hit nothing.
"Cut it out MIKE!" he ordered.
There was no response, not even a typical Michaelangelo chuckle.
Leo backed slowly into the table where the candle was, he fumbled with the match box, causing more matches to clatter to the ground. Leo managed to pull a match out and strike it , he turned and lit the candle, then looked up.
What he saw made him scream.
A/N: Please review if you are interesting in seeing this continue…Thanks!