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Archie Adventure Series turtles Universe.

I sit here and I wonder why I try. I just shouldn't say anything. I'm rude, I'll admit that, but what am I going to do just sit there and be happy? She's gone, gone with her people and I'm just stuck. I just have to sit here and bear it. I hate to admit it but I miss her.

"You ok bro?" Mikey jumped up onto the ledge beside me. I could faintly see the scar on his face, covered mostly by his mask, but you could see it behind, we'd been through a lot, I'm missing an eye, Mikey got a bomb in the face, he can see now, but he was blind for weeks. He'd been blinded in an explosion, in Israel, he'd seen someone tossed a molotov cocktail, and he tried to get to it to stop it but he got it mostly in the face. He's still got scars, but he's brave my little bro, he brushes it off.

"Yeah Mike, I'm fine." he's got a way with me, being the youngest, I can be hard on him, but he can make me so calm with his lightheartedness. "Just thinking."

" 'bout Ninjara?" He asked pretty coyly, didn't want to get me mad, and it didn't. Shocker there, I didn't get mad, I just felt a little sink in my chest, and empty feeling, so lost.

"Yea, kinda." I looked up at the moon, I knew it was the moon she looked to every night, and that was good enough for me, we would share that, if it was the last thing we were to share.

"Well, there's sushi inside." He was smiling i could tell.

"Thanks Mikey, I'll be down in a minute." Down, meaning the apartment April and Casey share. I reached up and scratched my eye patch, the eye was gone, but I still got terrible pain from the empty socket. I adjusted my purple ball cap and stood and backed away from the edge of the building and I nodded to my bother. "Lets go pal, i could use a bite to eat." I put my hand on his shoulder and we started inside.

"Hey guys!" Don smiled as he sat next to Splinter.

"Master." I nodded to him and walked to his side, I was still rubbing at my eye.

"Raphael, leave your eye be." I nodded walking behind him I rolled the only eye I had.

"Raph! sup," I nodded taking a beer from the hand that held it out.

"Not much Case." Casey Jones, thank god for the man, makes my anger look tame, except when we are together, then necks get broken, and sometimes faces get smashed. I turned and took a place next to Leo, we're not as close as Splinter would like but even though we are not buddies, we respect each other at least now, we've been through too much not to.

"Crap." Donnie looked up from the table and turned to his satchel, a beep had started, a whine we got to know all too well. "Stupid sewar animals," He stood, the swear dwelling's alarm had gone off, it doesn't happen too often but it's almost always a racoon, due to Mikey leaving food out.

"We should check it out." Leo stood.

"Are you guys Sure?" April took a seat opposite Splinter.

"We can check it out Leo, no big deal, let the other's eat their dinner, we can go and be back in 10 minutes." I stood and looked to him "Whadda you say?"

"I think that would be acceptable," He looked at Splinter "If we are not back in twenty minutes, please come home." Splinter nodded to him, and I started for the fire escape.

"Lets go Leo."

"Ok." He jumped out of the window next to me, and we jumped down the side of the building to the alley. "Should we leave Mikey alone with our dinner?"

"Most likly not," I laughed "But I've not been very hungry."

"I know, this is a hard adjustment, staying in one place." He lifted the manhole cover and i lept down, with Leo hot on my trail. "I swear if I can't find a way to keep out the raccoons I'm gonna go nutz."

I nodded at that, we've got all this hi tech stuff Donnie installed but we can't keep out the local wildlife. "I bet ten bucks it's a coon." I tilted my hat up a bit.

"I'll take that." Leo smiled gently "I'm going with Badger myself."

"It's been a year since we saw one of those!" I protested.

"All the more reason for one to show up sooner or later." He was laughing, and I was exausted, we reached the main access, and it was open, too wide for a coon, and there was blood on it. I drew my sai, and I heard Leo draw his swords behind me. I looked to him and he motioned down. I jumped down the hole and was standing in the main stair well, and I started down into the lair and the blood trail continued.

"Leo.." I was very quiet. I could hear him flanking, the stain lead to the couch, a large brown tail lay over it, I could not mistake that tail. I dropped my sai and I ran to the couch. As I got around it, she lay, covered in a pool of blood. "Ninjara?" I dropped to my Knees. "Leo! GET HELP NOW!" I panicked I didn't know what to do.

"They're dead.." She was bawling, "Mokoshan, all of them are dead."

I didn't know what to say, she left me for him. I just tired to calm her and myself down.

"I'll be right back." Leo tore out of the Lair the fastest I've ever seen him.

"It's ok," I turned and grabbed a blanket off of Master Splinter's chair. I covered her and tried to put pressure on the wounds. "How did you get here from Alaska?"

"I traveled, I hid in the trailers of the semis." She was in so much pain "Mokoshan!" She cried out. More emotional then physical.

"Shhh." I reached under her neck and pulled her to me. "Don't talk, just rest." I started to cry, I loved her still, and someone, something had destroyed her, her fur was stained and her face had a large gash across it.

"I tried to fight them off." She moved in my arms "They were ninja...they were too good, they attacked without warning, I didn't even hear them coming." She blinked "I should have heard I'm ninja."

"Shhh." I was looking around and i heard something

"RAPH!" Donnie was heading to the lair 'thank god' I thought.

"DONNIE! In here!" I cried, as they started to enter all of them ..april, casey, my brothers, and master splinter.

"Master." She was moaning, Splinter was slow in coming and came to her side and took her hand. "I failed them."

"We will discuss this later, we must tend to your wounds." Rapheal bring her to my chamber, Donatello, please get what you need to bandage her wounds and make her comfortable. The rest of you, give us quiet." He turned and I followed.

"Does that mean I can hang out with Casey tonight?" Mikey asked. "I don't want to be in the way."

"Yeah that's fine we'll call if we need you." Leo pat his shoulder.

I took her in and lay her across the mat on Master Splinter's floor. I was so hurt at this point I didn't know what to do with myself. I looked Splinter in the eye. "Let me stay." I pleaded

"Very well." He nelt down beside her and I waited to hear the news.

Don spent three hours patching her up and wiping away the blood, master splinter lit candles and began to meditate. Don finished and run a wash cloth out in a small bucket of water and left it by my side, he lay a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry Raph." I couldn't say anything so I shook my head. Donnie got up and left. I did not sleep that night. I moved up tword her head and I nelt down and began to meditate hoping it would do something,

"Raph?" I'd fallen asleep I guess, hours had passed in the blink of an eye. I looked down and her eyes had fluttered open.

"Master splinter.." His eyes opened and he rose coming forward slowly nelt beside me and Ninjara.

"What's happened my child." He reached down and touched her face.

"Master they're dead...all of them."

"What's happened?" He tried again.

"There were ninja..hundreds ...I couldn't stop them all, the others...we had no chance, I was torn to shreds ...trying to defend them...I finaly lept in a tree and hid in the shadows. I waited silently and didn't move for almost two days." She coughed a little and moved to the left, she ajusted her position and tried to sit up, but Master Splinter returned her to her back. "I traveled many miles," She cried "I did not know who to call on for help."

"You are always welcome here my child." Master splinter stood and turned to me. "Take her to a more comfortable place to rest now." I nodded and stood, moving around and lifted her up in my arms.

"I'm sorry this was done to you." I said as gently as I could.

"Raph please don't..." I nodded to her, and i moved up to my room with her. I pushed the door open. "I don't want to stay with you."

"I know." I pushed my door open, walking inside i laid her down in the bed we use to share. i covered her, and grabbed my pillow and headed for the couch.