Tadashi Angel knocked on the door of the Hamato mansion, a few seconds later, it was opened by a servant. "Ms. Tadashi, how are you this evening? Come in come in." She beckoned.

"I fair well, how are you these days Mrs. Rosette?" Angel asked.

Rosette Minder was a red haired- with a few grey hairs- servant, her skin wrinkled with age, she was much shorter than the average person, and had been with the Hamato family from before Miwa had been born.

"I am well, I am well, the boys are in the back, getting ready to saddle up, I'll send someone to get another horse ready so you can join them." Was all she said and before Angel could finish saying thanks, disappeared into another room.

Angel kept her shoes on as she walked down one of the many hallways within Hamatos summer mansion, only stopping to make sure she looked nice in the mirror that hung on the hallway. Angel was a tall girl, her ears were pointed, She had a mass of blonde hair, with random pink highlights in it. Angel had a small nose, rosy cheeks, and red lips. Her outfit was that of the usual in the Tadashi kingdom, white leggings, white tank top and a white overcoat that buttoned at her stomach, but flared out to her knees, the crown on top her head also white. At her waist she had a golden belt beneath the overcoat, with a single Katana blade sheathed in it.

Angel was the princess of the Tadashi kingdom, she was sixteen years old and loved many things in life. However she loved hanging out with the Hamato family, Hamato Miwa, Raphael, michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo, they were her best friends- Hamato Leonardo she was much closer with- and of course it helped that they were all Princess and Princes of the Tadashi's neighboring kingdom the Hamato kingdom.

By the time Angel reached the other side of the mansion, it was nearly noon, and Angel could see all four of the princes getting their horses ready. Raphael was the first to notice her and he gave a short dip of the head in acknowledgement and continued getting his black horse ready. Raphael was tall, not as tall as Donatello or Leonardo, he had red hair that spiked at the top- a golden glinting on top, and green eyes, definitely the most muscled out of the others.

Michelangelo waved at her, he was already on his brown horse, running around in circles as he waited for his brothers to finish. Michelangelo was the smallest and youngest of the Hamato family, with blue eyes and freckles over the bridge of his nose. His crown was laid sloppily on his head, however it was smaller than his brothers.

Donatello was too busy fixing the straps on the white horse Angel assumed she was to be riding to notice her entering the stables. Donatello was the tallest, despite him being second youngest. He had shaggy brown hair and had brown eyes. Angel noticed that his crown was in his saddle bag and not on his head as was the way it should be.

It only gets in my way when I wear it and work, I'll wear it when I'm actually in the presence of something other than machines Was what he told her when she had asked one day.

Leonardo was sitting patiently on his white mare, and gave a shy smile when he saw her. Leonardo was the second oldest- Hamato Miwa being oldest- and had a haircut that was shorter in the back with longer hair covering his forehead. It was black, however the tips were died a blue. His crown resting on his head.

He hopped off his horse gracefully and met her as she left the stables to greet him. He took her hand kissed it, giving a short bow "I'm glad your highness could make it."

"Leonardo." She said, dipping her head as a formal way of greeting another royal. "Of course I made it, I'm glad the invitation extended to me."

Donnie and Raph joined them, Donnie giving the white horse's stirrups to Angel, and got onto his own horse. Once they were all saddled Mikey joined them "What are we waiting for dudes?" He asked

Angel and the three princes looked at each other, and as an answer beckoned they're horses into a run, straight to the forest that loomed over head. The wind and countryside zoomed past them as the horses galloped across the field. Entering the forest the horses slowed just a bit as they navigated through the roots and branches of the thick forest.

After a few minutes the horses slowed as they reached their destination. A small clearing, with a beautiful waterfall on the other side. "Wow" Angel breathed as she watched the mist rise from the bottom of the waterfall.

"Its beautiful isn't it?" Leonardo said as he came up beside her

"You weren't kidding when you said the perfect place for a picnic we're you?" She asked

He gave her a shy smile "Me and my family, we used to come here all the time when we were younger, just spending all day just playing in the waters, me, Miwa and Raph always tried to see who could climb to the top of the waterfall faster." He laughed at the thought.

"What happened?" Angel asked, when he gave her a frown, she clarified "You said used to, what happened that you guys stopped?"

He shrugged as he got off the horse and let it wander around the clearing, Angel did the same and as they walked towards the pool of water he answered. "We grew up, Miwa, Raph and I got our own kingdoms to rule as we came of age, Donnie is coming near to that age, life moves on."

"I see, how does your kingdom fair?" Angel asked

"It is actually in quite the peaceful kingdom now, a few robberies on our southern border, but I sent guards to handle that, other than that we have plenty of income and even a few new inventions to improving farming. How about the Tadashi kingdom?" He asked

Angel bit her lip "It seems we are bordering a dangerous line with the Thornswood kingdom, as always they are trying to work the trade system to their advantages. However, my father told me to tell you that we have accepted the invitation to watch Miwa get crowned during the third moons sunset."

Leonardo nodded "That is great news! My sister will be glad to know you are attending."

"Where is your sister by the way?" Angel asked in curiosity

He bit his lip "No idea, she wasn't in her room this morning and her horse was missing, so we assumed she went out for a ride."

Angel opened her mouth to say something when a sweaty hand wrapped itself around her and Leonardo's neck "Come on, can we stop talking about business and have some fun" Raphael told them.

Angel gave Leo a look that told him her plan without saying anything and as he got the plan he gave a smile, as one they grabbed his wrists and ducked downwards, pulling him over them and slamming him into the ground. "You're right that was fun." Angel laughed.

Raphael growled "I'm gonna kill both of you."

Leo grabbed Angels hand and they ran as fast as they could away from the pursuing Raphael. They ran past Donnie and Mikey, who were already running into the lake beneath the waterfall and up the hill. They reached the top and hesitated, Raphael was already feet behind them, Leo and Angel looked at each other and smiled Leo waved a hand and they're clothes replaced by trunks and a two piece bathing suit, hand in hand they jumped off the cliff and down the waterfall, landing in the lake below in a giant splash.

Angel kicked her legs and she broke through the surface and found Leo staring at her with a playful smile. They both looked up to see Raph looking down at them, shaking his fist and then heading back down the hill. Leo looked back at her, and reached for her hand. "Has anyone told you that your wickedly smart?"

Angel swam closer to him, "yes, but I don't think you have your highness."

Leo leaned in and said "Well, you are." And kissed her, she kissed back and ignored his brothers as they said ewww and aww and Mikey started singing a random love song as they were entangled with each other.

{Time- 5:30 p.m. approximately 3 hours later}

Leonardo sat against one of the trees with Mikey and watched his brothers spar, Angel had wanted to go on a walk in the forest. Raphael was going against Donnie, they stood a few feet apart and bowed to each other, then got into fight position. Donnie made the first move and spun his staff around and towards Raph, immediately the earth responded to his command.

Rocks heaved themselves from the earth and flew at Raph, who responded by throwing his hands up to cross themselves and form a X, immediately a wall of fire flared up around him, the rock collided with the wall and bounced off, and in one swift motion dropped his shield and fired a wall of fire at donnie, who dodged the fireballs and shot rocks at his sides.

This continued for another ten minutes, fire and rock attacking each other, until Donnie was able to sidestep another fireball and fling his staff into the ground, the earth split at Raphs feet and Donnie flicked his staff upwards, and a rock the size of a boulder left the ground beneath Raphs feet and flung Raph upwards into the sky.

Leo laughed as Raph hit the ground with a painful crunch "Nice one brother. When did you learn that move?" He asked Donnie

Raph stood and shook himself, grimacing at his bleeding forearm, he waved a hand over it and the skin healed itself. Donnie shrugged "I've been trying some new moves lately, didn't think it would work but the circumstances were quote perfect given the weather and the-"

"Yeah yeah we get it, you learned a new move." Raph interrupted "Don't need to also make my brain hurt."

Leonardo was about to say something when a voice interrupted Leo, leo I found Miwa it was Angel, using the mind communication they had set up years ago.

What are you talking about Ang.? Where are you? He asked her

I'm about a mile into the forest, I'll send you an image of where, but I see Miwa, she doesn't look happy. Angel responded

Leonardo was off the ground the minute he heard the last part his brothers looked at him in alarm, they reached for their weapons. "Stand down, Angel contacted me, apparently she saw Miwa, something's wrong with her."

Mikey frowned "Sis is in trouble?"

Leonardo bit his lip "I don't know, I'm going to check it out though." Seeing the concerned faces he continued "I'm sure our sister is fine guys, why don't you guys head back to the mansion, I'll see what wrong and we'll see you at dinner."

His brothers exchanged glances but relunclentely nodded, Mikey whistled and the horses came trotting over. Donnie and Mikey nodded and got onto the horses, disappearing into the forest, Raph held back and looked at Leo, he grabbed his wrist and Leo did the same "Your sure she's ok?"

Leo gave a smirk "I'm sure everything's fine Raph, see you at dinner." Raph frowned but nodded and left on his horse.

After a few minutes of walking through the woods and following the trail Angel gave him through his mind he found Angel. "Hey what's up? Where's my sister." She hugged him then pointed towards a area of trees I'll let you handle this, I'll be at the house if you need me.

He nodded and she kissed him on the cheek before waving a hand and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Leo turned and headed to where Angel had indicated, and saw what had gotten Angel so worried.

Miwa was at the base of a tree, knees arms tucking her knees into her body, and head down, she was clearly upset, and crying. Her black horse was grazing nearby and Leo stepped forward, "What do you want?" She asked him through a muffled voice.

Leo hesitated, but walked out of the shadows, "I could never sneak up on you" He joked

Miwa didn't look up "Leo, just leave me alone, please."

Leo walked over and sat next to her "Well I can't do that, then I'd be a bad little brother." He said, she said nothing so he continued "So you wanna tell me whats wrong?"

She didn't move, so he leaned back against that tree and gave a giant huff "I'm not leaving until you start talking." He said in a singing voice.

When she still refused to move, he positioned himself so he was in front of her and he put his hands on her shoulders "Miwa, come on, I want to help." Something clicked in his mind "It's about the crowning ceremony isn't it?"

She flinched, and looked up, her Amber eyes swollen from tears, her lips a thin line. She had long black hair that swept past the shoulders. "Leo what am I going to do?" She asked

Leo cocked his head "What are you talking about?" He asked

Miwa stood suddenly and threw her hands up into the air "What am I talking about?! Leo, in three days time I'm going to be crowned the next leader of the Hamato Clan! And when that happens dad is going to see how horrible of a mistake he's making, see how I'm not going to completely screw up and then he's going to banish me, disown me and-"

"Whoa, whoa whoa, Miwa what are you talking about? First off, in what strange universe would dad banish or disown you? You're his little princess! Second off why do you think you would be a horrible leader?" He interrupted, watching her pace on the forest floor.

"Because Leo! I-" She thought a second, and shook her head "I'll mess something up, and dad, uncle, and the rest of the family will be so disappointed in me. And besides what could I possibly bring to the clan?"

Leo suddenly disappeared in a puff of blue smoke and reappeared in front of Miwa in another puff of blue smoke, his hands tight on her shoulders, looking straight into her eyes "You wanna know what this is telling me?" Leo asked

She frowned and bit her lip "It tells me," He continued "that father made the best choice in choosing you to be the next Hamato Clan leader. You are so worried about how the clan will think of you, that you cannot see how good of a leader that makes you. Miwa, in three days time, you are going to be crowned the leader of the Hamato clan, yes that is a responsibility far more heavier than that any of us ruling our kingdom, but if anyone can take care of it, it's you."

Miwa looked at him and said "You really think I can do this?" She asked

He smirked "I know you can!"

She wrapped her arms around his shoulders in an embrace "Thank you Leo. What would I ever do without you?" She asked in his ear

He laughed "You would still be the best Hamato Ninja to ever exist." He said

Miwa pushed him away playfully and waved her hand, and she cleaned herself up in a puff of red smoke. Instead of ruined jeans and torn T-shirt she now wore a outfit similar to Angels but with black leggings and tank top, with a white overcoat. "Alright, let's get back to the mansion. Time I kick your butt in training." She joked

He raised an eyebrow and said "Oh really? Because as I remember last time-"

He got no further as his vision exploded in black and Leonardo was sent flying backwards. "Miwa!" He tried screaming as he heard her screams echo in his mind. But as his voice formed the words he felt darkness come over him and he slipped into unconsciousness.

{TMNT World. 10 a.m.}

Hamato Leonardo's eyes flared open, and questions formed in his mind quicker than he could process them. Where was he? What had happened? Where was Miwa? How did the attacker sneak up on the two of the mightiest ninjas?

He had a pounding headache, but that didn't stop him from opening his eyes- he had had much worse injuries and much more serious situations than a headache. As he opened a eye he nearly let a scream, however he did go wide-eyed and back up on- what was he on?- he was even speechless. Hamato Leonardo had been in wars, battles, and tough situations all his life, he had seen creatures with wings, and snouts, and hooves. But never, never had he ever seen the strange creature that now held sai's to his throat.

"Where is my brother?" The giant green thing with a red bandana snarled at him.