AUTHOR'S NOTE- Chapter 2 is here! Hope I didn't take too long! lol Thanks to all you readers who've reviewed and all you betas that helped my spelling and etc. I really hope in this chapter I caught Don's true character, but most of it is guess work to be honest. I hope in future chapters it does get better. Okay well I have some bad news, I'm heading off to Virgina tomorrow and depending on whether or not there's internet connection, the chapters may not be updated till next week. Let's just say this, if I update Monday or Tuesday I have internet, if not... Sorry

DISCLAIMER- I do not own TMNT or anything associated to it, Nickelodeon does...lets see how that works out.

I thought all of it was just a dream. A nightmare really. I thought when I next opened my eyes I would be safe in my bed panting madly. Then I would calm myself down, climb out of bed and just go into the family room and help myself to one of Mikey's scrambled eggs. I would listen to Leo and Raph have a small argument and Splinter happily chewing on some rice. Mikey would be cracking jokes and everything would be normal. That's what I wanted, that's what I expected.

Instead I woke up to darkness. I woke up to nothing. I thought I was still out cold. In previous times when I was out everything was blurry and came in flashes of shapes and had blurry edges. Sometimes I would feel as if I was looking at the world through a kaleidoscope and everything would sound as if it were being said underwater. But this was different, there were no colors, or sounds just nothing. I looked down at my hands, but only saw blackness.

I panicked, where was I? How did I get here? What happened? Wheres my family? My thoughts raged.

"No need to worry about them any more Donatello." A deep voice pierced through the darkness.

"Who are you?" I asked nervously, then courageously "Where's my family?"

The voice said nothing. I repeated the question, fiercer this time. "Where are they!"

A figure appeared from the darkness. It took me awhile to realize that it was the Shredder. I was scared but I could not feel my heart. I couldn't hear my own voice.

"You are never going to see them again." he said, not as a threat as a fact.

"What have you done to them!" I screamed out of fear and fright.

The Shredder remained still, not intimidated in the least. I took a couple of seconds of realization.

"You killed them didn't you." I said, more to myself then him. My stomach twisted at the phase.

"No" he said simply I looked at him, detailed this time. He hardly had any shape. His smoke was slightly lighter then the impending darkness around him. His red eyes illuminated the space. Everything stopped. I would have fainted had I been...

"You-you killed me didn't you?" I asked in a terrified whisper.

"Your only half right." he scowled.

I stared at him. "I have destroyed your physical form and captured your spiritual one."

I tried talking again but my voice was useless. "When you control enough dark energy you can do anything," he said simply.

"When any being's physical form is no longer able to hold their spiritual one, then their spirit goes to either Heaven or Hell, in your case I created an in between"

"Why-why?" I dared to ask.

"To keep an eye on you. And so that there's no possible spiritual contact between you and your family, so they can't help you."

"You don't know my family! They'll find a way!" I said finding my courage.

"Not possible."

"That's never stopped them." I retorted, but I was getting more and more frightened by the second.

"And if they can't find me I'll find a way out myself!" I added which was a lie to him and myself, no one believed me.

"Insolent fool!" the Shredder shouted "There is NO way out!" he screamed.

Suddenly puffs of gray smoke appeared all around me and as soon as they vanished, rusty bars were in it's place. The surrounding darkness and silence was replaced by intense by suffering mourns all around me and what looked like floating tissue in the water was the new sight. Ghosts. There was evil laughing in the background followed by cries of pain. Babies whined like sirens and their mothers wails pierced through the suffering.

I ran to the bars and gripped them tightly. I pulled and pulled, but it was no use. I stuck my face in between them best I could and screamed. Though the scream was drowned by the other cries and wails of pain.

"Don't you see turtle? You are trapped in a cell which has no key! In an endless world of suffering."

None of it seemed real, but it was. This must have been where nightmares came from.

After what seemed like years of screaming and fighting I had finally given up and slumped to the floor. I buried my face in my arms and tried to block out the sounds of pain. It was impossible. The Shredder had left as silently as he had come. In a way I was almost sad, without him I was more alone then I had ever been in my entire life. None of the passing spirits noticed me. It was almost like a pair of white water falls. Except one went up, the other down. No spirit stayed in the middle for more then a few seconds.

But I didn't think about that. All I could think about was my family. How would they react to my disappearance? Would they figure out I was dead? Would they forget about me when they do?

"Don's been out for awhile now." A voice. Its sounded like an angels voice. I turned around and came face to face with the lair, my old home. I screamed but no one even flinched. I felt as though I was at the movies. My family's conversation was a scene playing in front of me and I was the only audience member. It took me awhile but I finally got used to that.

My entire family was in the main room, surrounding Leo.

"Uww you worry to much, he probably got carried away and lost track of time." Mikey said, his eyes were still glued to the screen.

"Yea but for three hours? That's not like him." Leo continued.

"You know the brainiac he probably got off talkin to the professor bout space or whatever." Raph said also concentrating on his punching bag.

Leo turned to Master Splinter. "Master?" he asked.

With one eye open Master Splinter responded "I too think that there is nothing grave to worry about, but if you are concerned Leonardo you should try to make contact through his shell cell."

Leo nodded and started to call me. He frowned when the number he had dialed was not in working order. Raph saw his face.

"No answer?" he inquired.

"It's not working all together." Leo responded.

Mikey put down his game controller. "So what now?" he asked.

"Let's go to the dump and look for him, he could probably use some help carrying back some parts anyway." Leo suggested. Mikey and Raph nodded and they all head towards the exit.

"Be careful." Master Splinter called after them.

My heart ripped, how would they react when they couldn't find me at the dump? And even though I knew they'd never find me I couldn't stop hoping that they would bring me home that night and help me with supplies.

When my brothers arrived at the dump they immediately located the professor.

"No I haven't seen Donatello today, I have been in a deep asleep thanks to a nasty cold." he explained.

My brothers exchange worried glances and spent the next few hours searching every square inch of the dump looking for any sign of me. It was dawn when they regrouped.

"Any luck?" Leo asked.

"Nope." Raph and Mikey answered in unison.

"I say we aren't lookin hard enough. I mean its not like he could just disappear!" Raph growled.

"Not disappear, but we may be looking in the wrong place. Raph call April and Casey, ask them if they had seen Don and if they could help look for him." Leo ordered, Raph nodded and left.

Mikey slowly approached Leo.

"Where could he be Leo?" he asked his voice soft and scared.

"I don't know, but we're going to find out, even if we have to turn this entire city upside down looking for him." Leo said reassuringly. He was amazing that way; Mikey calmed down instantly.

But even Leo's calm approach couldn't lead then to me. I had all the confidence in the world in my family but I wasn't stupid. I knew it would take a miracle for us to be reunited.

AUTHOR'S NOTE- Now we're getting somewhere! Still might have been spelling/ grammatical errors ehh.. so report them to me and I'll fix them as soon as I can. And hey if you have the time.. review pleaseeee