The night was silent. So silent you could here a tiny bird call in the distance. (Coo coo) a pigeon landed on a roof top pecking at some crumbs, then scurried away and flapped its wings, as Karai and the foot came landing on the roof top from higher ground, with an unrecognized girl with long thin dark down hair with bangs that swept to the side, with green eyes and a black form fitting top, with black shorts, the girls skin was light, a fair balance between pale, and tan, with freckles that aligned her nose and cheeks, beside Karai. That girl was me... Hi, I'm Ariel, and NO, not the Little Mermaid Ariel, more like, deadly assassin Kunoich that's loyal to The Shredder Ariel. Is it my real name? No. I don't know my real name, so let me tell you the story. When I was very young, about two, I was sent to an orphanage in my home town, Irland, then, a man, sharply dressed with a briefcase came in to adopt me, but he also already had a daughter, named Karai, we grew up together, like best friends, anyway, so, the Shredder told me about his times in Japan, and then when I got older to understand, his history with Hamatto Yoshi, who killed his wife, and ruined his family. So he trained me in the martial art of ninjitsu, So in a way, I owe him, he gives me a home, food, shelter, and a great skill, I help destroy his enemies. I love to fight, it's almost all I know. Shredder named me Ariel because my long hair I always used to dye red reminded him of Ariel, and my love for swimming and other aquatic sports. And I like to collect random things I find on the streets... Wow... I'm like a deadly human version of The Little Mermaid. "Alright foot- bots, and Ariel" Karai began taking off her mouth mask and turning to us, "the turtles may be coming directly three meters across from us on this very building, so stay in hiding, then we attack, got it?" The foot-bots bowed. "Got it." I replied. "Good" Karai then said, there was a clomping of running feet, we all swiftly hid. This is so exciting! My first ambush on those awful (so dad tells me) pupils of Hamatto Yoshi (AKA Splinter), the turtles.
"Alright team" I hear one say. "We wait here for the Krangg to come, Donnie, keep April safe, you to Raph, Mikey, you'll look out with me. Alright?" I peeked out from where I was hiding to catch a glimpse of the turtles. Then Karai gave the signal to attack. YES! We all rushed out in our fighting positions, I adjusted my mouth mask, it matched Karai's except mine was more of a navy blue. Then Karai swiped out her sword as I arched my bow and arrow. The foot bots geared their weapons. The turtles turned around getting out their weapons to, one of them had freckles! Didn't know that was possible... And no, they are not regular turtles, they are mutant turtles, big turtles with human structured faces but still turtle like, masks, and the body position of a human but still with their turtle selves. "Cute Karai, but I'm not up for it, we're kind of busy." The blue clad turtle who was the third shortest said to my sister, "Ya? Well we don't care." I said giving the turtle the evil eye, he glared at me, then the fight broke out. "Who's the other girl?" The tall purple clad turtle with the tooth gap said flipping and stabbing his Bo-staffs knife piece into a foot-bot, no! Why did he have to stab Bobby? I swiped my leg under his tripping him on his back... shell... Something... I took off my mouth mask and said, "Names Ariel." Then, the fight stopped and the turtles started laughing. The turtle got up and said, "A-Ariel?" He said with tears from his laughter. "It's not funny!" I shouted. "Ya... Im sure you'll make us SEA SICK." The blue clad turtle joked. "Quit it!" I yelled, my face red. "Something on your mind..." The red clad second shortest turtle with green eyes began. "Princess?" The red clad turtle finished. It felt like an arrow of hurt and dishonour was shot into my heart. Now, I'm really angry, I spin a kick to the red clad turtles face, and shoot an arrow directly on a target painted on a water tower in the centre dot, making a huge leak with water poring out. I turned around and shot the turtles a death glare. "How's that for a Princess?" I said taking off my mouth mask. I put it back on and jumped off the roof, Karai and the foot followed. As we walked back to the lair, I found a piece from someone's necklace, it was pink heart made from swirls and tiny plastic jewels. I bent down to pick it up and put it in my pocket. "You know you don't need that..." Karai said as I caught up to her. "You know I love collecting things..." I told her, we smiled at each other and made our way into the lair, house, or dojo... Let's just say, my place, the front was a huge split door made of stain blue glass just like all the windows including the roof. With a ledge at the top I go on when I wanna be alone. "Karai, Ariel, Where are the turtles?" Shredder asked as Karai and I knelt down on the walkway to his throne... Chair... Whatever... "Father, they escaped..." I told him looking up with apologetic eyes. "Your teenaged foolishness is getting in the way. I trained both of you to destroy the turtles and find Splinter, no lacking off... But Ariel, this was your first time, I will give you both one more chance, but fail again, I will deal with Splinters students myself, until then... Both of you, to the dojo, I want you both to train extra hard... No more lollygaging. NOW!" Karai and I hurried to the dojo across the glass floor with water underneath lining the tile pathway.
I swung a kick to Karai but she dodged it. She pulled out her sword and came at me, but I took my bow and arrow and shot it out of her hand. It hit he wall sticking out, Karai ran to grab it and came at me once more, we made an x with our weapons, face to face. "Why is Father still bugging about Ting Shen? She's dead, has us for 'daughters' he needs to get over it!" I said breaking the x. Karai stood there and replied. "I know... But either way... She was my real mother..." She then looked down with eyes closed and a frown. I went to give her a hug. The we sat down side by side. "It's okay Karai..." I began. "So when you gonna tell Father he's not really your father?" I asked Karai. "I don't know..." She said wiping her cheek. "I find it funny how we are such good friends, yet you really are from here, and I'm not... I mean, you KNOW about your adoption! Shredder actually cares the slightest bit for you..." Karai softly commented. "Cares for me? I don't think so... He doesn't even feed us. Although, I do enjoy when we ask Xever for Money and he just gives it to us for pizza or something." I said smiling. We both laughed, then it shortly faded. "Thanks for cheering me up Ariel." Karai said looking at me. "No prob."
The next morning I woke up more tired than ever, training yesterday almost killed me, no really, Karai needs to use a wooden sword or something in training at least. I grabbed a box from my small (more like giant stash) bag of blood red hair dye. I went to the bathroom and put in the dye, hopped in the shower and washed up. I got out and put on my teal green skirt that goes just above my knees, light purple front ruffled blouse, light purple knee high socks and white flats, today I was going to the spring dance at my school, I only went to school because. I chose to, Father gave us a choice if we wanted to go to school or not, I said yes but Karai would rather stay at home training all day, but she's came a few times on special days. I grabbed my books and stuffed them in my black hobo bag with white poka-dots. Grabbed a granola bar from the pantry (which was kind of one of the only foods we had...) and headed to school. Not even saying bye, but right as I closed the door behind me my phone made a 'ping!' Noise and I looked at my texts -BYE! :)- Karai sent me. I smiled and replied -See u after the dance! :)- Then I put my phone in the small pocket in my bag and continued to walk. I met up with my friend Catarina Who had short curly honey coloured hair, baby blue eyes, and skin about the same tone as mine, she was about a foot shorter than me, and didn't have freckles like me, she was originally from here, New York. "Hey Ari!" She said walking my way, waving and smiling her really white teeth. "Hey Cat!" I smiled, still holding onto my bag. She gave me a hug, and was incredibly jumpy, even for a Monday morning... "Okay.. Why are you so happy?" I asked as Cat separated the hug. "Well, you know Jake right? Tall, black hair swaying hair, dark brown eyes and perfect smile?" She said dreamily looking up at the clouds (gloomy dark clouds). "Yaaaaa..." I asked engaging in her story. "HE ASKED MY TO THE DANCE! EEEEEEEK!" She said jumping up and down. I rolled my eyes and smiled. Once Cat finally stopped jumping, I held her shoulders down and said. "That's great! I'm so happy for you!"
"Now all you need is a date!" Cat said swinging her arm around my shoulders as we continued to walk. "What? No no no no no! I do NOT need a date! I'll just hang out with Sonya while you dance, laugh, and eat with Jake." I said with a smile.
Then Cat gave me a serious look "You NEED a date... And I'm gonna help you! Let's see... There's Randy..."
"Ew"
"Carlos"
"No!"
"Casey?"
"Jones?"
"Yes"
"Nah..."
"Daniel?"
"Gross! Look," I began putting my hand on Cat's shoulder. "I'll be fine."
