Leo knew that the battle was over...and that the war had just begun...his palms were sweaty ,and he flexed his fingers to try to loosen them up a little...a fresh surge of adrenaline charged his body...he had one good fight left in him...he'd make this one count...
Oroku saki started to walk towards them...the foot ninja drew back ,giving him plenty of room...no one wanted to be in for the kill...least their lives be taken along with the enemy's...
Leo waited for orders...he waited for splinter to instruct him...to tell him which attack style they would use...his father didn't communicate with words...but Leo could tell what the old rat was going to do ,just by the way he stood...but...this time...as the shredder drew near,splinter didn't move...he just stood there,staring from Saki,to his fallen sons lying half buried in debree...
His whole body was trembling...a bit of foam clung to his lip...it was then that Leonardo realized what was wrong...splinter was just too exhausted to fight anymore...he new that he didn't even have enough in him to delay the shredder...to buy his sons time to escape...he knew that Saki would end him...and that his sons would die slowly...one by one...each watching the others suffer...each knowing no help would ever come...
The foot ninja ,he could fight...but not saki...not like this...the old rat knew he had failed...he knew the end had come...in a few seconds Leo saw his father age a hundred years...
