ZOMG! I have three fan fictions I have to finish, get off my back! Well, I'm back!
*silence* No one really cares? Ok…
I don't own the turtles… Italics are memories…
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It was 15 years ago that the turtles realized their brother was in a spell on obedience. If Master Splinter needed something, Leo got it first. If Raph has a temper, Leo burned it out. If Don didn't eat, Leo helped his eat the food he almost always forgot. If Mike was hurt, Leo got there first to heal him.
Obedience is what Leo lived off of now.
Don closed his eyes to focus on toning out Leo and Raph's familiar fight. If he learned anything, it was he could never get a break. Leo's eye color chart was on the wall and it was really specific.
Don looked at the calendar, 17 more days.
The three figures wanted him around Christmas time, well Christmas has passed only a few days ago and they were in January. He only wished they wanted him in summer, it was cold in the sewers, even if January was easing up on them slightly.
"You need a break!" Raph called as Leo passed right under him and into the lab.
As Leo laid down the tray of food, he grabbed Leo's good arm.
"I thought I told you to rest…" He told him.
"You've been in here for a while without food, so…" Leo motioned to the food.
Don looked into Leo's eyes and sighed, they were blue. Wait! Don looked closer and his eyes were blue and green. He tightens his grip on Leo's wrist.
"Leo, you're eyes are showing a hint of green, what's happening?" Don said standing to his full height.
Leo sighed in a way to show that he couldn't hide a thing from his family.
"Fine…" Leo toke a long breath, "My stomach has been hurting lately."
Don looked up and down, "And that's it?"
"Yes."
Don gave Leo some painkillers and followed him to his room. When Leo turned around he groaned, but keep walking. Getting away was known a problem.
Raph clapped, "How do you do it, I can't get him to follow doctors' orders."
"Well, I don't take my eyes off of him…" Don said until Leo opened the door and walks into it.
Raph follows his eyes and waits till he heard the sound of sheets moving and stopping. He got serious…
"How long?"
"We have up to 17 days left before he is truly due back. Those figures want to meet him where we first bet Rahzar and Fishface, remember?" Don said as he moved to the living room.
April came up to them and started telling them, "How's the due date for Leo going?"
She knew about their childhood and the whole Leo vendetta thing or whatever they call it with the random figures. Every comrade did everyone but Leo.
"Oh very well…" Raph said sarcastically, "Only we have up to 17 days!"
April made a sad face to show she was scared for Leo and sad because of Raph yelling at her. Don slapped Raph on the back of the head in a rare moment of courage.
"I'm going to check on my patient. Stop being rude or I'll come down with a sword, a specific sword," Don looked at Raph with a warning, no time to care, he walked up the stairs soon after.
"Douche," Raph growled.
"Why is Don so upset? I thought he would be happy," April started to ask as Don closed Leo's door.
"Happy?! Why would he be happy?!" Raph started with his temper fit.
"Well, I mean, you guys are so close to meeting the people who saved you years ago. You can say 'thank you' for saving your life," April said as her eyes showed a new happiness.
"'Thank you'? 'Thank you'?! They killed a man in front of us, and put a curse on Leo that made him sick more but also made it harder to hide something from us!" Raph snapped.
"Well, at least he can't hide anything," April said at a loss of ideas.
"YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT!" Raph yelled.
Just as that left his mouth, a sword logged itself in front of Raph. April jumped out of the way but Raph just laughed as a fuming Donatello closed Leonardo's door once again…
-In Leonardo's room—
Don closed the door once more as Leo swallowed his pills.
"Feeling better?" Don asked with a curious eye.
"First you make me got to bed and take pills and then you wake me up not long later just to take more!" Leo simply implied.
"I'm guessing well," Don softly laughed.
Don's red eyes (yes, brown was not good enough) met Leo's now unstained sapphire eyes. Leo just smiled as he pulled his covers to his chest and folded his hands over his chest, in a Snow White position. As he closed his eyes Don remembered those figures never left them alone…
-Rise of the turtles-
The turtles first day on the surface, it was definitely beautiful. Not the alley way they landed in, but what the alley lead too. Don's red eyes scanned the area and nearly flipped out of his shell at seeing the computers, lights, electrical billboards, and other things, while Mikey was into the fortune teller glowing hand/eye sign.
Leo started to run to an alley, apparently he was talking, "… or this one!"
Don couldn't see in the alley his brother was looking in but he could hear the silence, all but a faint meow from a cat.
"There's not, but there could be!" Leo rushed on.
Don was about to move on with Leo, but Raph stopped him and Mike as well. Raph moved his head left to signal something, and being smart, Don looked up and helped Mikey look in the same direction. As he looked, two cloaked figures stood on the roof of the building right beside them, one other cloaked figure was watching from farther away and obviously he was watching Leo as they were distracted.
-It Came from the Depths—
Don was ticked, Leatherhead, a new friend, had used him as a rag doll. He was the only one who was slung around like a doll by the face. If looks could kill…
"Don!" Mikey called as he stormed away from the room.
"What!" Don spun on his heels, "I need to ice my face!"
"Leatherhead said he was sorry, the Kkrang did this to him, be mad at them," Mickey said pulling Leatherhead's new gift, pizza stew in a gallon pot, down.
"I'm not mad at Leatherhead. I just…" Don fumbled his words trying to sound serious but tempered, "…don't understand!"
"What?" Leo said with Leatherhead behind him.
"Does my face have a target? Because if it does, take it off! I can't stand to be a punching bag…" Don whined.
Everyone chuckled, but if Don looked over Leo's shoulder, he saw the purple and orange figure in the shadows. Don stopped chuckling and growled, and since he was looking in Leo's direction, and started Leo.
"Don, are you ok? You're growling at me…" Leo stepped back.
Don snapped back into reality, "Yeah, sorry Leo. Just… saw one of my missing projects walk by… I need to ice my face…"
As Don left, Mikey turned around and saw the same figures from their childhood…
-New Girl in Town—
"So what's with the girl trying to kill you?" Raph demanded, only barely loud enough for Don to hear.
"She didn't try to kill me, she saved me…" Leo pointed out.
"…She threw a knife at your head…" Raph continued.
"She threw a knife near my head," Leo raised the Tanta knife blade beside his head to emesis his point.
"She's in the foot clan…" Raph started with a better point.
"No one's perfect!" Leo pated Raph's shoulder while looking up at his little brother (yes, Raph and Leo switched height).
Raph let Leo pass with a loud sigh, and they all watched as Leo rose to look at the knife as he walked away. Don looked at the pipes above and saw the red figure standing there, and by his stance, was fuming with anger, the orange one sitting Indian style but looked at ease. No purple figure, though.
-Showdown 1—
Leo blew up the TCRI building and was squirming in the air. Leo realized that the ground was coming hot and fast, so he protected his face…
Soon the feel of arms holding him, he looked at Raph.
Don wasn't able to hear, he was too busy celebrating on his glider at their victory. But Mikey's jinx soon came to bite them in the butt, the Technodrome.
Raph looked down and saw all the figures lined up with, very, scared stances and weapons almost exactly like theirs but more descriptive. He couldn't tell you anything else because it was war…
-Showdown 2—
"Leonardo!" Raphael said and pushed into the glass of the pod.
Everything was slow as their decent hit the water. As the pod opened, Mikey started to rejoice.
"We made it…!"
An explosion from the sky came and the pod shook in the water. They looked back to see that the Technodrome, where their brother was held, drowned. It was all horror.
"Leo, NO!" Mikey called as he leaned over the edge.
April held onto Don and it was a grieving moment. Raph looked franticly around the water, all the other pods had opened and people cheered and animals made noises, but no blue masked green turtle figure was anywhere. Raph looked at a lone pod far northern then the rest, which held the three figures. The red one was trembling, the purple was sitting with his head bowed low, and the orange was slumped over the edge. Raph wanted to yell at them to leave them alone, but no, he just plopped down and grieved.
"I gave him nothing but a hard time… if I could do it again, I would have treated him better…"
"Really?!"
"Really… Leo?!" Raph spun around and stood up, with Leo swimming closer.
Everyone was rejoicing as Leo made an appearance. Raph looked over the happy hugging and cheering with Don as well and saw the pod empty, no figures at all.
-Follow the Leader—
"Come on Leo!" Raph said as he tried to get closer to Leo.
Leo groaned and tried to reach for him more, foot robots pulling him down more.
Just as Raph was about to grip his hand, the line broke and Leo fell in a low noise of terror.
As Don got over the shock he grabbed the broken line and held it up to examine it. Weight broken. Mike joined him to look at the rope damage as Raph finally got over his shock.
"… He's gone and it's my entire fault…" Raph mourned.
Don looked up to see the red and orange figures. The red looked seething with anger and the orange was shaking his head with a disapproval speed.
-Slash and Destroy—
Slash was pushed aside as Leo helped Raph up.
"You ok man?" Leo said as he helped Raph up.
"Yeah, man…" Raph said as he panted from the air getting knocked out of him.
Slash got up and was grumbling curses as he charged at Leo from behind.
"Leo, watch out!" Raph warned as he got himself pulled together.
As Leo turned, Slash hit him harder than any hit given to the others. Leo sprawled over the concrete roof and scratched his skin to pieces as Slash laughed in triumph.
"I've… been looking forward… to that for a long time," Slash panted with a small laugh.
Don looked at the roof above them and only saw the red figure as he let the world slip from his true vision…
-Normal time—
Donnie moved his head and looked at Leo as Leo asked him if he heard him.
"No, I'm sorry Leo, what did you say?" Don asked.
"Well, I've noticed this for a while… and I thought you guys should tell me the truth," Leo said as he sat on his knees on his mattress to look at Don.
"Truth! What kind of truth…" Don gulped.
"Well, you guys may have not noticed… but three colored figures have been stalking us, got any explanations?" Leo asked with an almost confused and anxious look.
Don choked on air…
'…Crap…'
Ohhhh! Caught red handed. Thinking of the figures just to have your older brother ask about the figures.
Hope you enjoyed this, my birthday was awesome but we aren't going to celebrate much.
R & R
Special thanks to:
'Kiraynn'
'Nacey2013'
'Yukio87'
'Dani-Curtis-16'
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