Chapter three!

TMNT (c) Mirage

Amy (c) me

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Chapter 3: Suddenly Hunted

It was coming dark when master Splinter let his students to stop training.

"You will have a short break before we eat. And I'm cooking tonight" he said and looked at Amy who had stood up.

She smiled, as she joined the boys as they went to the entertainment area.

"What training! I can't walk for three days" Mikey said, falling on the couch.

"It has been awhile when he had made us practice so long" Don said, sitting next to his brother.

"He has started to hate us!" Mikey said.

"No he's not, Mikey. We're just so good nowadays that we need more practice than before" Amy said.

"Yeah, well I liked more when we were having less practice" Mikey said and opened TV.

After watching TV for fifteen minutes, they heard master Splinter calling:

"Dinner's ready!"

"Great! Food!" Mikey said happily, jumped up and ran to the kitchen.

"And I thought he said he couldn't walk for three days" Don said, when the rest of them stood up.

"Yeah, but when it comes to Mikey, he could run even after a marathon, if he can get something to eat" Amy said.

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"Okay, who's up for some night exercise?" Leo asked couple hours after they dinner.

"Oh come on Leo! We just got through one exercise, give us a break" Mikey said.

"Fine then, I was just thinking about going out for a patrol, but if you're not interested, we leave you here" Leo said.

"What? No, I wanna come too!" Mikey said and jump from the sofa.

"I'm so ready to kick some foot goon's shell" Raph said.

"You know, Foot hasn't done anything for a year. I think Karai has finally given up being the evil Shedder" Don said.

"You never know. It's the Foot. Maybe some of them got rebellion against Karai and formed own group of goons" Raph answered as they head the ladder to get topside.

"Raph you think every bad guy is always a bad guy" Mikey said, climbing the ladder first.

"Remember that Karai helped us to defeat the original Shedder" Don said when Raph followed Mikey.

"And it always felt fishy" Raph said.

"Well I think it's a good thing that Raph thinks that way. I wouldn't like if he started to be friends with Bishop" Amy said.

"You couldn't even pretend to be friends with Bishop even if you life was up to that" heard Mikey's voice.

"Come on" Leo said when Don started to climb.

Amy turned into a cat and jump on top of Leo's shell.

"Aahh, New York night tastes always so good" Raph said, smelling the air.

"Really? I only smell gas and garbage" Mikey said.

"Shut up" Raph said, raising his hand in warning.

"Come on, we can't be here too long" Leo said, leading them to the shadows.

"Ha-ha, last one on the roof is the Shedder!" Mikey said, starting to run to the nearest house.

"I think you wouldn't make a good Shedder, Mikey" Don said, using his staff to jump ahead of Mikey.

"But we could use a Shedder with brains this time, Donnie" Raph said, taking the lead.

"But I think you could make the best Shedder from five of us, Raphy boy" Amy said, jumping as a cat from shell to shell, making Raph the number two.

"Ha-ha and I'm the winner!" Amy said, climbing the rooftop, "Or maybe not."

Leo was standing in front of her, moonlight showing his face as he smiled (in Amy's opinion) his most handsome smile.

Amy was so glad at that point that she was in her cat form, because her blush couldn't be seen.

"Well, at least I'm number two... Hey, Leo! When did you get here?" Mikey said, joining Amy and Leo.

"Trough the fire escapes when you four didn't pay attention to me" Leo said, helping Mikey to stand.

Soon Don and Raph came up too (Mikey making fun of Raph who had become the "Shedder" and Raph hitting Mikey for that).

"So, Fearless, what kind of practice were you thinking us to have?" Raph asked.

"Well..." Leo started.

"Guys, we have company" Don said, pointing the rooftop next to them.

"It's the Foot! I told ya they are still here!" Raph said.

"Okay, why are they running away?" Mikey asked when the Foot ninjas started to run away.

"Maybe they want us to follow them" Leo said, "come on."

"Yeah, maybe Karai wants to meet us" Raph said.

"Damn it, it's so dark I can't see where they went" Mikey said, "Don, don't you have your amazing night vision goggels with you?"

"No, I accidentally forgot them" Don said.

"No worries, I'll find them" Amy said and turned into a dog, starting to sniff the ground.

"There they are!" Leo said, pointing couple of ninjas, who had just appeared in their sight.

But when they got to the place where the ninjas have just been, there was nothing.

"This is weird. Usually the Foot comes to us, fight us and then they run away. Now they just run away" Mikey said.

"Looks like they left in a hurry" Don said, showing them a piece of clothe, similar which they have seen the Foot wearing.

"Maybe they got into a fight with each other" Mikey said, looking the clothes, "look there's the Foot sign" Mikey said, pointing the red mark.

"Let me see it" Amy said, walking closer to Don.

"Don't you mean smell it?" Mikey said grinning.

Don look at Mikey with a warning sign, as he let Amy to smell the clothe.

After sniffing it, she looked at the clothe with concerned face, and then Don with the same face.

"What is it?" Don asked.

"I... It doesn't smell like the Foot. Foot has its own smell, its smells like..."

"Feet."

"Mikey!" Raph said.

"Whaat?"

"No, not like feet, but it has its own smell, this one doesn't. But it does smell familiar, like I've smell it before" Amy said.

"Before?"

"Yeah, but I just can't remember."

"Are you sure? Maybe they decided to wash they clothes or changed deodorant" Mikey said.

Slap!

"Oww! What was that for?" Mikey asked, holding his head and looking at Raph.

"Because you're being an idiot... Hey, is it just me, or does it feels like the roof is crumbling?" Raph said, looking at his feet.

"What the shell? The roof is crumbling! Let's get away from here!" Leo said, but it was too late and the whole building started collapse.

As they started to fall, Don quickly took a rope from his bag, throwing it to next rooftop, getting it hold on to something.

"Quickly, take my hand!" Don said and Raph took his hand.

"Mikey! Leo! Amy!"

Mikey took Raph's reached out hand and Leo took Mikey's. Amy turned into a cat and jump on Leo's shell.

"Leo! Try to get us to that fire escape!" Don yelled.

Leo started to swing himself, making his brothers swing with him. When he had enough speed, he let go of Mikey's hand and jump to fire escape,

others following his lead.

"What was that?" Raph asked.

"I don't know. I hope no one lived in there" Leo said, looking at the building that has been destroyed.

"No, I just remembered that house burned in a fire couple months back. It was so bad condition it was no wonder it started to collapse when we were top of it" Don said.

"We aren't that heavy!" Mikey said.

"Anyway, I think it's better if we get out of here. Someone could see us" Leo said.

As they got away from the fire escape to a dark ally, Leo turned to see his shoulder.

"You okay, Amy? You've been quiet for some time"

But there was no answer.

"Amy?" Leo said, touching his shell, just feeling his shell and katanas.

"Guys, Amy's not here!" Leo said.

"What? I thought she was with you!" Mikey said.

"She must have fallen when we jumped" Leo said, "let's go look for her."

Soon after, they got to fallen house.

"Amy? Are you here?" Mikey shouted.

"I hope she didn't fall badly, that was one nasty fall" Don said, looking at the fire escape where they've landed.

"I can't believe you let her fall! You should have known that she can't hold on to ya shell as a cat!" Raph said angrily to Leo.

"I know. I should have told her to hold on when I jumped" Leo said.

"Yeah, you should have" said a voice from the shadows.

Amy walked to them as a human, cleaning her clothes from the dust.

"Amy, you're alright!" Mikey exclaimed happily and hugged the girl.

"Yeah, I landed pretty well but then a small rock hit me on the head and I passed out for awhile. That's why I couldn't come to you earlier.

I woke up before you came here shouting my name" Amy said.

"Amy, I'm sorry. I should have told you hold on, to take care of you" Leo said.

"Its okay, Leo. I'm alive and kicking, right?" Amy said.

"Let's go home. I think it has been enough adventure to one night" Leo said.

"Or maybe not" Don said, turning around.

In front of them was over a dozen men with weapons, ready to shoot them.

"Who are these guys?" Mikey asked.

"Don't you recognize them Mikey? Those guys are Bishop's men" Don said.

"Finally time to kick some shell!" Raph said smiling and taking his sais.

"What are they doing here? And what do they want?" Leo asked.

And he got his answer quickly than expected.

"You know the orders. Take the girl alive, kill the turtles if you have to" said one man, who seemed to be the commander of the team.

Amy freeze. She has been able to run away from Bishop's men for so long, and now they just appeared like that.

Leo turned to see Amy, as he took his katanas.

"Amy, run! We'll hold them! Run, we'll follow you!" he yelled.

"There's no way I'm going to abandon you guys!" Amy said.

"Just go now! We'll catch up with you!" Leo said.

Amy saw the serious look on Leo's face and knew she have to obey the order.

She turned around and turned into an eagle and flew away from the Bishop's men, and her brothers.

'You better follow me' she thought, as she started to run for her life, again.

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And that was the third one, I hope you liked it. :)