Chapter 2

Leonardo fell to the ground and rolled awkwardly with his swords still in hand. Getting up immediately, he looked around disorientedly for Karai.

But before he could understand what was happening, ropes suddenly tied around him and yelling echoed loudly around him. The ropes tightened as he wildly tried to resist. Finally the ropes pulled tight enough that he was forced to drop his katanas. Clenching his teeth in pain, Leo summoned all his strength as to try to break the ropes and free himself from his invisible captors. But he suddenly froze when he heard his name. 'Karai!'

Trying to look around him, he spotted her struggling under the weight of heavy chains draped on her body. "Leonardo..' she called out weakly.

Leo stared at her. He hated her. He hated her enough to kill her, but her she was before him suffering and possibly going to die. What should he do? Suddenly the ropes around him loosed and fell off of him. Leonardo looked around him, but all he saw was darkness. Karai was still there though, the chains crushing her as she gasped in pain.

Then a sword appeared and was raised above her. It stopped at a point and then slowly lowered itself toward Karai's body. Karai struggled wildly, but to no avail. She looked at Leo, with fear and pleading in her eyes. "Leonardo! Please-"

But Leonardo just stared at her, unable to move. He didn't even try as the sword sank into her back and blood splattered around her.

He didn't even try to save her.

Leonardo woke up to being painfully kicked in the ribs. "Leonardo. Get up!"

He grimaced and looked up, expecting Raph to be his aggressor. He had barely opened his mouth to yell at his brother for rudely wakening him up, when he realized that Raph wasn't the one who kicked him.

It was Karai.

Leo jolted to his feet. All the memories of last night came rushing back to him. Whatever game Karai was playing at, she will suffer for. She stared at him, tilting her head and not bothering to hide her empathy for him. Though Leo thought he detected more in those slanting green eyes.

"What is this Karai? Where did you send me?" Leo asked; his voice on edge. His hands reached back toward his sheaths, grasping over thin air where his katanas should have been.

"Looking for these?"

Leo watched Karai dangle his swords from her wrist carelessly; smirking as his eyes widened in shock. "Give… me… my… swords!" Leo demanded, anger dangerously emanating out of his every word.

Karai actually looked as if she was considering the command. For a few precious seconds time stood still.

Then she threw them at his feet. Leo stared in surprise as Karai laughed.

"Are you so blind with your hatred for me that you do not see the world around you, Leonardo? She asked.

Leo blinked.

For the first time since he had woken up, he tore his eyes off of Karai and looked around at his surroundings.

He was in a forest, with trees growing on slanted ground in every direction. They looked like elms or pine trees. Their thin branches covered the blue-red sky that shown above him. 'Dusk?' he thought to him-self puzzlingly as his gaze drifted upward. A crow flew onto the branches and cocked its head at him.

Leo looked back to Karai. "Where the hell have you taken me?"

Karai looked surprised as she answered defensively, "I have not taken you anywhere, Leonardo. This is the work of some other force."

"Do you really expect me to believe that?" He nearly spat.

Karai balled one of her fists, the only sign of her patience slipping, "Believe what you want, but I will not waste my breath on trying to convince a fool who cannot see the obvious right in front of him."

Leonardo's anger flared. He opened his mouth to return a vicious remark, when he realized that she could be right.

He wasn't in Foot headquarters or a lab, and not a single Foot soldier was in sight. Considering that the last thing he remembered was having a one-on-one death match with Karai, it wouldn't make sense for her to suddenly change the rules like this. Though he wouldn't put it past her.

Leonardo silently wondered as he stared at Karai. She was angry and tense, arguing with him. Trying to convince him of something. Why would Karai pretend to be ignorant of her own plan? What was there to gain? He would never trust her again and he knew their hatred for each other was equal. She wanted to kill him as much as he wanted to kill her…. and yet, she had given back his swords. She had thrown away her only advantage over him. Why?

Just what the hell was going on?

But Leonardo's line of thinking was broken when a long howl echoed around them. Both he and Karai looked over to where the howl came from.

And noticed that the sun had set behind the hills, leaving them alone in the darkness.

TBC...

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