Lost in Spirit

a/n: Okay this is the second to last chapter. And I guess that just about covers what I want to say in this note. The word for this chapter is theory. Enjoy! :)

Chapter 4

The family all sat in the house. The boys had all taken refuge on a cushion each and Donnie hadn't left his sister's side.

Leo was curious as to what was actually going on. But there was no time to catch up the boys on the conversation, which continued as before.

"You asked about how you are lost, child that is something that only you can answer." One of the other kunoichi explained.
"How can I answer that question when I'm not so sure of the answer."
"I didn't say you couldn't get help." The kunoichi stated. The boys were now really confused.
"Hold on a minute, what is actually going on here?" Leo asked.
"That is nothing of concern to you. Now keep out of the conversation."
"Annaisha, he's only concerned for their sister. It is the reason why they made this journey in the first place." Splinter defended.
"Well that doesn't mean that I have to put up with back chat from a child." Annaisha commented. Leo went to say something else but was abruptly stopped by Splinter.

After the short interruption the conversation continued.
"So you're going to help me to figure out why I'm so lost?" Samie asked, feeling as though there was a little bit of hope left for her.
"Well what lead to you being given the necklace?" Shen asked.
"I had screwed up on patrol and managed to get us all ambushed by the foot."
"No you were lost before that earlier." Annaisha demanded.
"I had an argument with Sensei after a particularly bad training session." Sam answered.
"Why? What was it about?" The first wearer asked.
"Because I had just found out why most kunoichi are trained and I wanted to know why I wasn't told about it."
"Yes, and you found out before because someone from the foot clan had said so the night before when we fought the foot on the rooftops." Leo added as he inched away from the angry face of Annaisha.

Samie sat down and realised something. "I'm so lost because I let our enemies get into my head. I also had to figure out why I let it consume to the point where I even started to disrespect my father. I now know that despite the fact that it was my fault, we all make mistakes and that I shouldn't wallow in it." Sam said to the room.
"Don't worry about Samie, as long as you're safe then everything is alright." Raph stated.
"Yeah sis, it's all good." Mikey added.
"Nothing to add Donnie?" Sam asked. Donnie shook his head and put a hand over his mouth.
"You can't speak why not?"
"An evil spirit stole his voice to gain control of his soul and we went to an apothecary, who couldn't return his voice to him, but was able to free his spirit." Leo explained, on behalf of his brother.
"That makes a lot of sense." Sam responded. "I bet it was the guy in the Sheriff's uniform."

As the conversation mainly revolved around Samie being lost and her not knowing why, it was beginning to go around in circles. Of course as time went on it caused the minds of Leo, Raph and Mikey to wander. Donatello, however was listening to the entire thing intently. Ever since he had been reunited to his sister, the twins hadn't separated and the closeness was beginning to creep everyone out. If there was ever a time for the two of them to seem more like twins it was then.

Leo looked lazily out of the window as the sun slowly set over the tiny town. "Master Splinter, I was wondering?" He asked. "If it was supposed to get more dangerous the further we travelled East, then why has nothing bad happened since we got into this town?"
"Has the sun went down yet Leonardo?" Shen asked him, Leo looked confused and shook his head.
"Not yet it hasn't, why is that important."
"At night this town is the most dangerous place to exist." Shen answered. "It is too dangerous for anyone to go outside."
"How come, it's beautiful here during the day." Mikey answered.
"There is a spirit that is truly evil and it terrorises our village every night." Said a woman who the turtles automatically knew was Splinter's mother. He looked a lot like his human form, which they had seen a picture of every day since they could remember.
"What does it do?" Sam asked curiously.
"It does something different every night, we never know what to expect and to top it off the spirit takes a different person with it when it leaves." Annaisha explained.
"Hasn't anyone ever tried to stop it before?" Raph asked.
"No, it is too dangerous to stop Raphael." Shen answered.

Moving away from the window Leo joined the rest of the room. "Guys we have to do something about this." He explained. "We can't let a spirit terrorise an entire town, especially a town where past kunoichi from our family live."
"He's right, Sensei, we have to do something." Mikey agreed. The twins and Raph nodded.
"You may try, but this spirit is dangerous. It will take everything I have taught you and more for you to defeat this and save the town."
"Hai sensei." Came four voices.
"Be careful my children." Splinter called out as they spun their weapons and headed out.

As they went into grab weapons from the dojo Annaisha grabbed the twins and held them in place.
"Your spirits are interlinked, you will be able to use that to your advantage in order to defeat this spirit." She told them. They nodded their heads, but no further explanation came. The twins left as Leo called out to them and flung staffs their way.

The turtles headed to the rooftop of the house where the spirits of their deceased matriarchs lived. The five of them stood waiting for the sun going down. They knew not what the spirit looked like, but that it was dangerous and could cause them to lose what they had come here for in the first place if it took too long, but they were prepared to take that risk in order to help people.
"Okay here's the plan when the spirit comes we attack it from different angles." Leo stated.
"Wouldn't it be better if we could see what it looks like first." Sam suggested.
"Maybe, but you don't get to make that call." Leo answered.

Before long, the spirit came. "It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be." Raph stated. Splinter opened the door.
"My children please it is too dangerous, you do not know what you are doing." He yelled up to them.
"Master Splinter, please we can handle go back inside Sensei." Leo called back.
"Are you sure you can handle this on your own?" Splinter asked.
"If we can't then we risk our souls, and I am not willing to give that up." Leo stated.
"I trust you Leonardo, take care of the others." He stated and went back inside.
"Is it just me or was that easier than I thought it would be." Raph commented.

The spirit was now right beside them. It was a big hairy spider that came from the direction of the forest. Raph shuddered when he realised that was the reason the webs were there. The giant spider lived in that forest.
"Guys its from the forest." He told them."

"Why does that matter?" Sam asked confused as to why her brother chose this moment to bring up a forest.
"Donnie nearly got eaten in that forest." Mikey responded. Don looked indignant.
"He tried to wander off the path, he wasn't nearly eaten." Leo corrected. Sam nodded slowly in understanding.

Now the spider spirit was right on top of them. The turtles launched themselves off of the roof and attacked with the weapons they had borrowed from the dojo inside the house.

The attack barely had an effect on the spirit that was attacking. "Wait how can it be the spider that lives in the forest if it's something else every night?" Sam asked.
"It's in its true form." Leo answered as he dodged another attack from the spider.
"How do we get rid of this thing?" Raph asked. "It's too strong." He was proved right as Mikey was flung right into him.
"Sorry dude." Mike apologised.

Sam had an idea. "Donnie come with me." She said and pulled his arm, not really giving him a choice. He gave her a look that said everything. "We just have to focus our shared energy at the spider. Remember what Annaisha told us." She explained. "We are interlinked."

The twins held hands as they stood still on the roof. The other three stopped what they were doing as they began to glow in a mixture of yellow and purple. It was breathtaking as they once again the spirit was jumped by the twins.

They attacked together, never letting go of the other. Around five minutes later the spirit was reduced to being the size of a bug. It landed on the roof and Leo squished it under his foot. The twins fell to the roof, and let go of each other. They were no longer glowing but they had done it, they had gotten rid of the spirit and now the turtles were heading back into the house that belonged to all of the Hamato Kunoichi throughout history.

As the family sat with her ancestors Yoshi and Shen nodded at each other. "Samantha, hime come can you come with us for a minute." Splinter said.
"Sure, be right back guys." Sam said and went with her parents.

Splinter and Shen showed her up the set of stairs and down a long corridor before they stopped in front of a random door. Sam was confused, she could see letters written on the door in Japanese but couldn't make out what it said. When they moved to the side her face lit up. It was her name.

Inside the room was her dream bedroom. It was filled with all of her favourite things. "When you die Samantha, this will be your room." Shen explained.
"It is your room because you are Hamato whether you chose to be or not. It is your name it is your identity and it is your heritage. My daughter, you are Hamato through and through. You and your brothers are destined to do great things with your lives. And these things will be trying, just promise us right now that you will never let yourself forget who you are again."
"I promise Sensei." Sam agreed. She hugged her father and then Shen. "thanks mom." She said. It was one of the happiest moments of Shen's existence as her daughter held her close.

The Hamato's were preparing to leave. Their ancestors were with them. "Thank you for helping me." Sam said as she bowed down to them.
"You repaid the favour in kind when you helped us get rid of that spirit." Annaisha explained. "You and Donatello will never lose your connection to each other. You will always be together."
"Good we work best when we work with each other." Sam responded. She hugged the spirit. "I'll never forget how you all helped me."
"You helped yourself child. Come along it's time to leave this realm." Splinter explained. "We can visit again soon."

Splinter sat on the floor in a meditative pose and told the turtles to do the same. They focused on re-entering their bodies and faded away from the spirit world.