Summary: The Lotus Ninjas believe they have defeated most of their old enemies, but they soon discover that a new evil is rising from the ashes.
In the Crete Fortress, Ella slept peacefully on her bed inside her bedroom.
"Rafaela..." A female voice whispered.
Ella opened her eyes at once as she got up and found herself hovering in a dark reddish, starry outer space room filled with dull brownish gold stars, constellations and various other celestial bodies floated around the circular perimeters of the room.
Suddenly, Ella could see a feminine figure unraveling from the shadows. It was a tall, beautiful woman with a curvaceous figure speeding forward towards her. The woman's speed slowed down until she stopped right in front of Ella, who was staring at her with a surprising face. The woman has deep-dark red skin, long bright red curly hair, and bright green eyes. She wore a long-sleeved red leotard with a black hooded cloak and red knee-length boots with black soles.
Ella could feel strange but powerful energy beginning to grow inside of her as if it was making her better and stronger than before. She reached her hand out to get a better look of the mysterious woman's face behind the hooded cloak, but the woman grabbed Ella's hand and started to speak.
"Rafaela, your destiny must be fulfilled." The mysterious woman warned. "The time has come. There's a greater evil that is waiting to be summon and you must stop it before it's too late."
Before Ella could ask, she unexpectedly broke off with a small cough and everything erupted green flames all around her as she clutched her hands at her throat. The entire room was engulfed in green fire, leaving her completely hem in on the floating rock platform. She then saw unfamiliar demonic looking hooded creatures emerging from the green flames around her.
"Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa." The hooded creatures spoke in unison. "Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa. Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa. Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa. Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa."
Ella stared in mute terror to watch the flames forming a face that looked something like a male demonic dragon. The face was staring down in front of her with a malicious smile.
"Navasa, zaan, kanda, athrovaxa, noruto, zavasay!" A demonic masculine voice spoke. "Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa. Kavaxas!"
"NOOOOO!" Ella screamed.
Ella gasped sharply as she woke up from her nightmare back in her bedroom. She began sweating and struggling to catch her breath while her red heart-shaped birthmarks were still glowing on her palms. Ella then closed her eyes and surrounded herself with red psychic energy, disappearing from her bedroom and then reappeared on top of a building rooftop in seconds. She twisted her hand into a fist and opened it in the air, swirling her red magic to change her night clothing into her kunoichi outfit.
Ella sat on the edge of the building rooftop and stared at the illuminating city.
Could this really be happening? Ella thought with a worry face. First, Donatella and now me?
Suddenly, Ella noticed that someone was hiding right her. She got up and stood on the rooftop ground as she quickly summoned her psychic energy magic and found herself face to face with five female masked mystic kunoichis. They had a very voluptuous frame with a well-toned muscular built. They have slanted brown eyes and wore a skintight black bodysuit with metallic bracers over their arms and upper chest armor. They also wore metallic black domino masks with dark grey eye visor. But they each have different hairstyles: one has long black hair with bangs tied on the bottom and shorter strands on each side of her head with dark grey bands, the second has black hair pulled back into a ponytail, the third has shoulder-length black hair, the fourth has long black hair with dark grey tips on the ends of her hair, and the last has black pixie cut hairstyle.
"Look, I don't know who you guys are, but if you're looking for a fight, then good luck try to break me." Ella said with a firm face.
Five masked mystics charged forward to attack Ella with dark energy blasts, but the red mystic kunoichi easily dodged them with a red psychic energized shield. A group of Shadow Droids began circling the red mystic kunoichi with fast speed. Ella unleashed a sudden barrage of red psychic energy waves at the masked kunoichis in low and high directions. The five masked mystics came together and combined their dark magic to strike Ella with large dark energy blasts from their palms that send the red mystic kunoichi to the ground near the rooftop ledge. Ella took deep breaths as the masked kunoichis were surprisingly fast and strong to overwhelm her in seconds.
Suddenly, Ella's eyes went blazing in a red glow and her red heart-shaped birthmarks started shining as bright as the sun that caught the masked mystics' attention.
"I'm through playing around." Ella grinned as she slowly got up and looked straight at the masked mystics. This time, her voice was accompanied by a mature feminine voice. "Time to kick it up a notch."
Ella swiftly summoned five giant red energy columns to hit the masked kunoichis from the ground beneath them. She then created red energized heart emblem in front of her that fired forward at the masked kunoichis with one shot. Ella finally gathered her psychic energy magic around herself in the shape of a giant Chinese dragon and then fired it forward to attack the masked kunoichis on heavy impact. Ella's vicious smile grew, but her eyes returned back to normal in a sharp gasp. She stared at the downed masked mystics for a second and looked down at her glowing birthmarks with fear in her eyes.
As she watched the masked mystics slowly recovering their strength, Ella immediately conjured a pair of thick black gloves to cover her hands and disappeared back to the fortress.
In the Crete Fortress, Lee was mediating silently mid-air in the living room and Donna was chowing down her plate of pizza gyoza on the couch.
Suddenly, Ellie teleported herself into the living room while carrying a box of anime DVD covers.
"Hey, girls!" Ellie exclaimed excitedly. "I've found more DVDs to watch. I went out and took them from the last video store that went out of business in the city."
Lee levitated down on her feet and walked over to the box until she saw a familiar DVD cover in her hands.
"O.M.G!" Lee gasped with a starry-eyed face. "Ellie, pizza is on me tonight! I can't believe you actually found it!"
"Found what?" Ellie asked with a raised eyebrow.
"The super rare DVD covers of Battlestar Matrix: Fast Forward." Lee replied with a wide smile. "I've spent months tracking them down and now it's finally here."
"Better than long-lost VCR tapes." Donna commented.
"I just hope this show is better than the original." Lee said happily.
Few seconds later, Lee stared at the anime show on the TV screen with wide eyes and a fangirling smile. She was watching the scene where a beautifully immortal Sergeant Mila was leading the new mission with her new teammates, who are the children with her old gals.
"So awesome!" Lee cheered with a huge smile.
"Eh, it's okay." Ellie said.
"This is just as plain as the first Battlestar Matrix." Donna commented.
"Are you kidding? This show is making my heart pound times infinity. I love this cartoon!" Lee grinned excitedly.
Suddenly, Ella reappeared inside the living room as she was struggling to stand on her feet. She was looking completely bruised all over her entire body.
"Ella!" Donna and Ellie exclaimed as they got up from the couch to help their older sister.
"What happened?" Lee asked with a worry face.
"I...was out patrolling the city...after my nap." Ella explained. She doesn't want her sisters to know about her glowing birthmark and her nightmare. "Then, I was cornered by five strange masked mystics that came out of nowhere. I tried to fight back, but I was no match for them. So, I was able to escape at the last second."
"What type of mystics were they exactly?" Ellie asked.
"I don't know, but all I know is that they were faster and way stronger in every way." Ella replied with a shrug.
"Well, my security sensors have been picking up five strange beings roaming in the city." Donna said. "But I didn't think that was them."
"If these mystics are causing trouble, then we need to do something about it." Lee said with a firm face.
Meanwhile, five masked kunoichis marched straight inside an underground chamber and bowed down to the floor as a hooded figure was standing in front of a pentagram carved into an outcrop above them.
"You have done well, Shadow Phoenixes." A female voice spoke from the hood. "Our time is almost at hand. Once they succeed on finding the Scroll of the Demodragon, our masters will again honor us with their presence. Go and make sure that no one stands in your way!"
Back in the Crete Fortress, Donna held out a black metallic beetle-shaped device in her hand to her sisters inside her lab.
"I've finished upgrading these new motion detectors to track down our masked friends." Donna explained. "Now if they're anywhere in the city within a ten-mile radius, we'll find them."
"Good work, Donna." Lee said. "Let's see split up within ten miles in the city. Donna, you take Ella. Ellie, you're with me."
Outside, the Lotus Ninjas began putting up black metallic beetle-shaped sensors on different rooftops around the city. Lee and Ellie have finished installing up the last of the sensors on the rooftop in the east side of the city until the device suddenly began beeping in alert.
"The motion sensor is detecting them right on time." Ellie said. "But where exactly?"
Lee closed her eyes to focus on five black auras around the rooftop area. She quickly opened her eyes and pointed her finger just in time to see five female masked mystics standing on the tall building rooftop across from them.
"Let's move, Ellie." Lee said.
"Whoa, wait a minute, Lee. Should we call the others on this?" Ellie asked.
"We can handle this on our own. Come on." Lee replied.
Lee and Ellie disappeared from the rooftop they were standing on and then reappeared on top of a building rooftop in seconds. The five masked mystics noticed them and got into their fighting stance.
"I don't know who you think you are, but if you mess our sister, you mess with all of us!" Ellie said with a serious face.
Lee and Ellie charged forward to attack the Shadow Phoenixes. Ellie jumped up high in the air and dove down to deliver orange psychic energized kicks at the two masked kunoichis. But two masked mystics moved away from the attack and dashed forward to unleash a series of rapid punches at the orange mystic kunoichi that sent her rolling to the rooftop ledge. Lee lifted both arms above her head to form a large ball of blue psychic energy and send it towards three masked mystics, who avoided the attack and jumped into the air to fire dark energy blasts at the blue mystic kunoichi in a 360-degree fashion. Lee and Ellie got back on their feet as they enveloped their fists in psychic energy magic. The Shadow Phoenixes engulfed their fists with blazing dark energy and charged forward to attack two mystic kunoichis in fast speed, but Lee and Ellie blocked the masked mystics' dark energized punches and kicks with their psychic energy shield. Lee and Ellie were no match for the Shadow Phoenixes' speed and strength. One masked mystic kunoichi knocked Lee to the ground with a flurry of berserker kicks and then simply dislocated her arms that made the blue mystic kunoichi scream in pain. Lee looked up to watch Ellie getting toss straight in front of her.
Before four masked mystics are preparing to face off the outclassed ninjas, the masked mystic leader signaled her team to stop with hand gestures.
"The Foot Cultists have succeeded their mission on retrieving the Scroll of the Demodragon." The masked mystic leader spoke. "Let's move."
Four masked mystics understood and the Shadow Phoenixes vanished out of sight, leaving the two mystic sisters alone on the rooftop.
Back in the Crete Fortress, Donna started to research information on her touchscreen pad while Ella waved her glowing red hands to heal Ellie's wounds and then popped Lee's arms back into place.
"I could take one good guess on how you two got injured." Ella said.
"You were right about those masked mystics, Ella." Lee said. "They took us down like they were training dummies."
"Yeah, it was crazy." Ellie said.
"Hey, girls. I've found something important." Donna said. She showed a detailed page of a brownstone on her touchscreen pad. "Those masked mystics were actually keeping off to anyone who will invade their accomplices. But one of my devices detected their three accomplices were stealing something at the penthouse. A wealthy collector owns the place to his collection of weird but important magical stuff. The scroll they stole was the Scroll of the Demodragon."
"What's that?" Lee asked.
"It's an ancient evocation said to summon a powerful monster called Kavaxas." Donna said.
Ella gasped sharply. She heard that name from her nightmare as the pounding of her rhythmic heart was beating rapidly inside her.
"Kavaxas belongs to a mythical race of Demodragons believed to reside in the Netherworld." Donna continued. "Magicians are rumored to have summoned them for millennia, their efforts always ending in tragedy."
"Any idea where those creatures took the scroll, Donna?" Ellie asked.
"Well, I was able to determine a clear pattern of movement on those masked mystics thanks to my upgraded sensors." Donna said. She uploaded a map on her touchscreen pad that showed red dots on the screen. "They're right here, here, and here under the south-east part of Lower Manhattan. But they all are converging somewhere in the middle of the sewers."
Ellie stared the red dots at the screen. Donna looked back at Ella, who was looking down at her hands when she took off her gloves. Donna's eyes lit up with surprise as she saw two heart-shaped birthmarks appeared faintly on Ella's hands. Ella quickly put on her gloves and took deep breaths, unaware that Donna was watching out of the corner of her eyes. But what Donna herself didn't know is that her purple clover-shaped birthmark started to glow faintly on her forehead.
In the dojo, Lee stood in front of a shrine to Saldana as if she could feel the loss of her mother, the pressures of leading her siblings, and the danger of the looming threat started to overwhelm her stare of mind.
"Do not be sad, my daughter."
Lee gasped as she looked around the room and saw a physical manifestation of Saldana standing in front of her with wide eyes.
"Mother." Lee said softly.
"I know the weight of leading your family has been pressuring you since my death, Leona. But you must remember that I will always be with you." Saldana said reassuringly.
"But we're facing something we've never encountered before, mother." Lee informed. "I can even sense something really dangerous with my aura sense. What can I do?"
"Find the light within your spirit that can save you against the darkness." Saldana said wisely. "But I sense something dangerous coming that belong to your distant past with your sisters."
"What do you mean by that?" Lee asked.
"Uh, Lee, who are you talking to?" Donna questioned as she walked into the dojo and stood towards her oldest sister.
Lee looked away from Donna and back to Saldana, but the physical manifestation of her mother was already gone.
"Nothing." Lee answered sadly as she looked at the bamboo floor. "Come on, let's move out."
Donna watched Lee walking out the dojo and glanced at the picture of Saldana and the Lotus Ninjas as five-year-old kids.
The Lotus Ninjas began investigating the coordinates that Donna triangulated inside the sewers. They snuck around through the tunnel at their destination until they came to a stop.
"This is definitely the place, but it doesn't look suspicious enough." Donna said as she looked around the other tunnels.
Lee closed her eyes to focus on one black aura through the tunnels. She quickly opened her eyes and pointed her finger at the tunnel on the left side.
"I sense someone here close in this tunnel." Lee said.
Donna, Ella, and Ellie looked down at the tunnel that Lee was staring through as they detected one Shadow Phoenix right in front of them. The masked mystic moved forward with fast speed and the Lotus Ninjas started following her with stealth. The masked mystic pressed her hand onto the wall that opened up a secret passageway. The Lotus Ninjas swiftly sprinted inside the secret passageway before it closed behind them. Four mystic kunoichis walked down the stone stairs while looking around the tunnel. They heard chanting and stopped as it got louder. They looked down to see group of red cloaked entities bowing in front of a multiple red pointed pentagram with candles in the center on the ground.
"Whoa." Ellie gasped in awe.
The Foot Cultists stopped chanting as their leaders stood on the pentagram above them. The Shadow Phoenixes stood behind their leaders in silence.
"Children. Our time is nigh. We finally have the Scroll of the Demodragon in our possession!" A female voice spoke from the hood.
"Now we shall summon a being who will give us all the power we will ever need!" A male voice spoke from the hood.
Two mysterious cloaked figures threw back their hoods that revealed themselves to be Tiger Claw and Tigress!
"No way!" Ellie exclaimed quietly.
"Tigress and Tiger Claw are the leaders of this cult?!" Lee whispered in surprise.
"Excellent work, my Foot Cultists. You understand the higher truth of our goal just Tigress's Shadow Phoenixes." Tiger Claw said. He held up the scroll and a circular stone in his hands. "Now I will use the scroll to summon Kavaxas. And with this mystic Seal of the Ancients, I will control him, and be his master."
"Okay, that doesn't sound good." Donna said.
"You got a plan, Lee?" Ella asked Lee.
"Simple. Donna and Ellie will distract them while Ella and I will get that seal away from Tiger Claw." Lee ordered.
"Uh, that might be a problem." Ellie said as she turned around with wide eyes.
Lee, Donna, and Ella turned around to see the Shadow Phoenixes standing right behind them. They summoned their dark magic from their fists and the Lotus Ninjas got into their fighting stances with psychic energized fists.
"Oh, boy." Ella groaned. "You and Lee could have told us they were here, Donna."
"They're somehow blocking my seismic sense." Donna said.
"And my aura sense." Lee added. "It worked before, but now it doesn't anymore."
The Shadow Phoenixes charged forward towards the Lotus Ninjas and tackled them with their dark magic as they captured the mystics and pinned them down in front of Tiger Claw and Tigress. The Lotus Ninjas noticed that the Turtles, April, and Casey got pinned down next to them by the Foot Cultists.
"Our old enemies." Tiger Claw greeted. "Perfect timing. Now you can bare witness."
"The Foot and the Shadow are finished!" Leo yelled as he was struggling to break free against the Foot Cultists.
"Why'd you two come back? So, we can beat you again?" Lee demanded.
"The Foot and the Shadow are by no means finished." Tiger Claw explained. "Look all around you. We have been reborn. After our last battle, the Foot and the Shadow went underground. And in these very sewers, we discovered a strange race of creatures completely dedicated to the Shredder."
"Also, before Lady Shade's demise, she was able to create the quintuplets with the help of her powerful dark magic into serving the Shadow Clan as trained knuoichis at my command." Tigress added.
"And who are these freaks?" Mikey questioned as he was looking at the group of Foot Cultists.
"Something you couldn't possibly understand." Tiger Claw replied with a smirk.
"Make them watch." Tigress ordered the Foot Cultists and the Shadow Phoenixes.
The Foot Cultists and the Shadow Phoenixes forced the Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, and Casey on their knees.
"Let us go, Tiger Freaks! Or I'll knock all nine lives out both of you!" Casey shouted threateningly.
"You will bear witness to the summoning of a greater being." Tiger Claw said as he and Tigress proceeded to the altar until they both stopped at the rising podium. "Kavaxas, the most powerful of all the Demodragons. And his power will soon belong to us."
Ella started to feel light-headed as strange images began flashing in her head. The demonic dragon with large wings and green fire power!
Kavaxas. Ella thought. Why does that sound so familiar?
Suddenly, Ella saw images flashing before her eyes as if she was started to remember someone long ago.
Kavaxas was the Demodragon in my past? Ella wondered.
Ella shook her head and watched the ritual for a minute in daze.
The Foot Cultists began chanting as Tiger Claw held the scroll in his hands and started to recite the incantation.
"Navasa, zaan, kanda, athrovaxa, noruto, zavasay." Tiger Claw recited. "Mavakaaa sekulaa nadavaaaa. Kavaxas!"
Suddenly, a powerful flame eruption blasted everyone back from the pentagram. Tiger Claw and Tigress recovered from the flaming eruption as they looked up to see a tall red-scaled dragon humanoid standing in front of them. He has leathery bat-like wings, a spiked tail, and yellow reptilian slit eyes.
Kavaxas then turned his attention to Tiger Claw and Tigress.
"Mortals! You dare call upon Kavaxas? Lord of the Demodragons, Ruler of the Netherworld?!" Kavaxas spoke threateningly. "I will burn you and the rest of these abominations to ash."
Kavaxas unleashed powerful stream of green flames at Tiger Claw and Tigress, but the tiger mutant held up the seal in his hand that protected himself and the tiger mystic mutant from the Demodragon's attack.
"You will do nothing but obey me." Tiger Claw ordered.
"Ahh! The Seal of the Ancients." Kavaxas said as he backed away from the stone seal in fear. "You are wiser than I thought, creature. Very well then. What would you have me do, Master?"
Kavaxas bowed reluctantly as Tiger Claw and Tigress laughed evilly.
"You will destroy the Turtles, the Lotus, and their human allies, as a sign of fidelity to the Foot." Tiger Claw ordered. "Make it slow. Make it painful."
"As you command." Kavaxas said.
Kavaxas opened his wings and flew high into the air while breathing green flames from his mouth.
"Um, I have some spare pizza here for you." Mikey said nervously as he pulled out a slice of pizza. "It's an inter-dimensional sign of love."
Kavaxas unleashed powerful stream of green flames that burned it to the pizza slice.
"Man, dragon-dude, you don't have to be such a hot-head." Mikey snapped.
"Mikey, forget the pizza! We got bigger problems right now!" Ellie exclaimed.
"Get him!" Leo shouted.
The Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, and Casey charged forward to attack Kavaxas, but the Demodragon unleashed powerful stream of green flames down at the heroes that made them scatter away.
Mikey wrapped an extended nunchuck chain around Kavaxas's arm to bring him down, but Kavaxas sent green flame travelling down the chain and burned Mikey that knocked the mutant turtle into Leo's arms.
"Mikey!" Ellie shouted. She looked back at Kavaxas with an angry face. "Oh, it's so on!"
Ellie sprang high in the air and performed a backflipping wide-arced orange psychic energized kick at Kavaxas in rapid speed, but that attack didn't even damage him at all.
"Your magic is no match for me, mystic." Kavaxas said.
Kavaxas rushed towards Ellie while engulfing himself in green flame that delivered painful damage to the orange mystic kunoichi, who fell hard straight to the ground. Kavaxas then started channeling his flame as green beams through his fingertips to attack the Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, Casey, the Foot Cultists, and the Shadow Phoenixes indiscriminately, causing the top of the cavern to shake that made several falling stalactites crush some of the Foot Cultists.
"No, Kavaxas. Attack only the Turtles, the Lotus, and their allies. You will obey me." Tiger Claw ordered as he held up the seal from the podium.
Kavaxas stopped attacking and turned his head down to Tiger Claw with a firm face.
"Yes, Master." Kavaxas said.
Kavaxas landed himself down on the ground and started to fight the heroes on physical approach. Donnie, Mikey, Raph, and Casey attacked the Demodragon one after the other, but Kavaxas smacked all of them out of his way as he simply walked forward with ease. Leo took his grappling line and used it to build up momentum as he ran against the wall and slashed both swords at Kavaxas's head, but his weapons shattered into pieces harmlessly. Kavaxas then smacked Leo, making him roll to the ground. Kavaxas noticed Raph and Casey trying to pull Donnie up from the side of the outcrop. As he opened his hand to destroy them with a powerful green flaming blast, April stood in front of her friends and summoned up a telekinetic force field to protect them from the attack.
"The mortal has gifts." Kavaxas said with a surprising face. "And when I eat her whole, I will absorb her power and use it as I wish."
Kavaxas started walking forward towards April, who was trying to push him back with her powers. But the Demodragon simply walked through it with an amusing laugh.
"Why...can't I...move you? April questioned as she was struggling to use her telekinetic powers at the Demodragon.
"Because I am not of this reality, child!" Kavaxas answers as he was reaching his hand out at April.
"April!" Casey yelled.
April moved out of the way as Casey used his hockey stick to hit some of his exploding pucks at the distracting Kavaxas, but he was completely unharmed by the attack.
Then, the Lotus Ninjas launched forward towards Kavaxas with psychic energized fists and delivered a quick series of slashes from multiple directions. But their attack wasn't enough to attack the Demodragon. Kavaxas snared the Lotus Ninjas in burning green tendrils that extended from his hand.
"Struggling only makes it worse." Kavaxas said with a cruel smile. He started warming up his other hand in green fire. "But don't worry, this won't hurt a bit."
"Wanna bet?!" Ella yelled as her voice was accompanied by a mature feminine voice.
Suddenly, Ella's eyes went blazing in a red glow and her red heart-shaped birthmarks started shining as bright as the sun when it disintegrated her gloves that caught everyone's attention.
Ella broke free from the burning green tendrils and released a booming scream as she was lifted up high into the air. Glowing reddish-white sparkles began to form around her, changing her into a totally different person. Her eyes turned bright red and her red hair was tied up in a bun with metallic red hairsticks. She suddenly wore a short form-fitting red dress with long spiked black sleeves and knee-length slits at the sides along with black patent leggings and knee-high dark red boots. She also has a dark red heart symbol on the left side of her face.
Everyone became simply stunned by Ella's transformation.
"Incredible!" Tigress exclaimed in surprise and shock.
"No way!" Ellie gasped in shock.
"So, Ella is another reincarnation of the Four Dragoness." Lee said with wide eyes.
Only Donna remained silent. She could see strange images flashing before her eyes as if she was started to remember sharing the control her body with Lyssa, trying to destroy the Aeon crystal, and her violent rampage on April. After all of the images kept flashing in Donna's mind, her eyes slowly glowed in a blazing purple light and her purple clover-shaped birthmark started to glow faintly.
"I recognize...that symbol before." Kavaxas said with wide eyes. "It can't be."
Ella flew high above Kavaxas and fired powerful red blasts of psychic energy into the air that rained down on the Demodragon, who got hit painfully by the powerful attack. The Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, Casey, Tiger Claw, Tigress, and the Shadow Phoenixes were surprised to see that Ella's powerful magic was actually hurting Kavaxas.
Ella groaned as her eyes went back to normal just in time to look down to see Kavaxas in great pain below.
"Whoa." Ella breathed in awe.
Tiger Claw looked at Ella with amazement, but he shook it off and prepared to use the seal on Kavaxas, but Tigress grabbed his arms to stop him.
"Wait! We need to see this." Tigress said.
Ella lowered herself down on her feet to the ground as Kavaxas moved closer to the red mystic kunoichi with a confused face.
"Don't you remember?" Kavaxas asked softly.
"Remember? Remember what?" Ella snapped in confusion.
"Don't you recognize me at all?" Kavaxas urged as he leaned close to Ella's face. "I never thought being reborn into a new body will prevent you to remember me."
"Remember what, Kavaxas? What are you talking about?" Ella said.
"Where it happened!" Kavaxas said as he suddenly grabbed Ella's wrists. "Where I first laid eyes on you, and fell in love with you for the last time before you were killed in that battle! But now you've returned to me and at long last, you can rule by my side!"
Ella looked at Kavaxas with a frightening face as she started to see ghostly visions of her past life with Kavaxas flashing in her mind.
"Let me go!" Ella yelled as she broke free of Kavaxas's grip.
"You are her! You are Ceto!" Kavaxas cried desperately. He approached closely towards Ella, who was stepping back from him with fear. "You can't escape your destiny. You know you can't. You will join me as my queen."
Ella could feel a sense of fear overwhelming her state of mind, causing her to levitate high in the air and huddle herself hopelessly. Her eyes went back to dark red, but Ella cried out and clapped both hands to her face. Kavaxas opened his wings and flew high into the air in front of Ella.
"Ceto, you must listen to me." Kavaxas said. "You cannot hide from your destiny."
"Leave me alone! Get away from me!" Ella yelled.
"But you can help you." Kavaxas pleaded softly.
"Kavaxas!"
Everyone, including Kavaxas, looked at the source of that voice and it belongs to Donatella!
"She said leave her alone!" Donna yelled as she broke free from the burning green tendrils and landed down gently on her feet.
A large blazing purple energy ring extended from the center of Donna's body and swept in opposite directions vertically across her body, transforming her into a familiar being. Her eyes turned bright purple and her brown hair was tied up in a bun with metallic purple hairsticks. She suddenly wore a short form-fitting purple dress with long spiked black sleeves and knee-length slits at the sides along with black patent leggings and knee-high dark purple boots. She also has a dark purple clover symbol on the right side of her face.
"Hello, Kavaxas." Lyssa greeted. "It's been years since I last saw you."
"Lyssa!" April gasped in shock.
"She's back?" Donnie asked with wide eyes.
"You will stay away from Ceto and return back to the Netherworld!" Lyssa said as she pointed her finger up at Kavaxas.
"And what will you do if I don't?" Kavaxas questioned. "You don't have the guts to stop me in that weak body."
Ella looked down at Lyssa and back to Kavaxas. She took a deep breath and her eyes slowly turned back to dark red as she disappeared from the demodragon and reappeared next to Donna.
"That's what you think!" Ceto said with a firm face.
Donna and Ella combined their magic to deliver a simultaneous blast of purple and red psychic energy that drove Kavaxas back to the ground. Then, they used their magic to break Lee and Ellie from the burning green tendrils, causing them to land on their feet.
"We have to retreat! Let's go!" Leo shouted. "Mikey!"
"Booyakabunga!" Mikey hollered.
Mikey jumped in front of Donna and Ella as he threw a smoke bomb to the ground that made the heroes disappeared in a puff of smoke. The Turtles, April, and Casey escaped into the tunnel as the Lotus Ninjas followed them from behind. Kavaxas opened his wings and flew forward to chase the heroes while unleashing green flames at them. But Ella turned around to block the flames with a red psychic energized shield and pushed the fire back.
"You can't run away from who you are, Ceto." Kavaxas said.
Ella narrowed her eyes and ran after the others. Kavaxas narrowed his eyes and started to follow her, but Tiger Claw held up the seal in his hand to prevent him from going after the heroes.
"Stop! You will pursue no further." Tiger Claw ordered. "You will not leave my sight."
"As you command, Master." Kavaxas said.
"You have proven your usefulness." Tigress said with a satisfying smile.
Meanwhile, the heroes raced through the sewers and collapsed in the tunnel while gasping out of breath.
"Oh, man. Kavaxas is even tougher than Super Shredder and Lady Shade." Donnie said.
"We could barely take down three Cultists. How are we gonna take down an army plus Tiger Claw, Tigress, and Hot Head too?" Mikey pointed out.
"Don't forget those Shadow Phoenixes." Ellie said. "Since they're part of Shade's DNA, I've doubt that we have a chance against them."
"What now, Leo and Lee? Raph questioned.
"Well, at least we know where their lair is. We just need a new plan of attack." Leo noted.
"Donnie, we need an upgrade." Lee said to Donnie.
"I can help him with that." Donna said. She noticed that everyone was looking at her. "What?"
"Donna, you were able to allow Lyssa control your body to fight Kavaxas." Donnie said. "I mean, you and Ella were indestructible to that Demodragon."
"Well, after seeing Ella hid her birthmarks in her gloves, my birthmark brought some of my memories about the Aeon crystal and Za-Naron back." Donna explained. "I know you all are trying to keep me from going out of control again and I'm not mad at you guys for that."
"Thanks, Donna." April smiled as she hugged Donna tightly.
"Ella, why would you keep something like this from us?" Lee asked with a concern face.
"I...don't know." Ella said, looking away from her sisters and her friends. "I thought I can handle it on my own, but I can't anymore now that Kavaxas knows who I am."
"Ella, you always can tell us." Raph said softly as he placed a comforting hand on Ella's shoulder. "You don't have to go through this alone."
Ella smiled and planted a small kiss on Raph's cheek.
"Everyone, listen up." Ella said to her sisters and her friends. "Now that the spirits of Ceto and Lyssa has awakened, I think it's time they tell us everything."
"Wait a minute, what do you mean?" Ellie asked.
"About our previous lives as the Four Dragoness." Donna replied. "But I think it's better if Lyssa and Ceto could explain the whole story."
Donna's eyes went back to dark purple and Ella's eyes went back to dark red, allowing Lyssa and Ceto to take control of their bodies.
"Long ago, we Four Dragoness were known as the most powerful mystics who ever lived to protect the world as our purpose to the planet." Lyssa spoke. "During their lifetime, we fought numerous populating supernatural creatures."
"Around that time, the Earth was taken over by Kavaxas and the other demodragons." Ceto added. "We fought them in the fierce war, but we were wounded to death after the war was over."
"We used her magic to formulate a rare spell that send us to be reborn in a peaceful future on Earth as four normal mystics." Lyssa continued. "Now that Kavaxas has been summoned out of the Netherworld, it's our duty to fight for that cause."
"Wait, you said Four Dragoness. What happened to the other two?" April asked.
"They're right here." Ceto replied, pointing her finger at Lee and Ellie.
"Ellie is the reincarnation of Selene and Lee is the reincarnation of Asteria." Lyssa said. "But the spirits of their past lives will take time to be awaken in certain situations."
"Now, we find a way to defeat Kavaxas and send him back to the Netherworld." Ceto declared.
With that, Donna's and Ella's eyes went back to normal.
"Can we get our hands on like, say, two or three dozen tanks?" Casey asked.
Donnie groaned and Ella rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"April, is this Kavaxas the new leader of the Foot and the Shadow?" Leo asked April.
"I don't think so." April answered. "I did sense that Tiger Claw and Tigress summoned him because they're crucial to their plans whatever they are. That's all I could get."
"I wonder what they're really up to." Ellie murmured.
The Turtles, the Lotus Ninjas, April, and Casey looked at each other with wondrous faces.
Back in the underground cavern, Tiger Claw held the seal to bind Kavaxas to his will.
"I call upon the power of the Seal of the Ancients to bind you to my purpose." Tiger Claw said.
"By the spirits of all Demodragons past, you have my will." Kavaxas said with a bow.
"Is it true? Only you have the power to manifest our wish, do you not?" Tigress asked in wonder.
"Indeed, Master Tigress." Kavaxas answered. "I have that power and so much more."
"Then you must do it." Tiger Claw ordered. "No matter what it takes. No matter who stands in your way. You will bring the Shredder and Lady Shade back from the dead!"
So sorry that I took so long to finish this chapter. I had a test on Wednesday and I have to stay focus on it. But I pass the test and finished this chapter at last. Review and enjoy.