A/N: This chapter is set a little while after the last one. Ninjara and Raph are still alone together.
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Raphael watched as Ninjara slept. He knew he'd have to wake her soon. He listened to the soft sounds she made as she slept. The knowledge of Ninjara's reason for coming, and the fact that something about the threat made her stay silent made him worry. ~She knows what we'll be facing, she should tell us. If I ask later will she tell me? Should I ask? Press for the details.....no. She'll tell me when she's ready. She'll tell all of us when she's ready to.~ He thought ~At this moment the only thing that matters is her. She came a long way just to get here. I wonder if this danger scares her, if that's why she won't tell us right now.~
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/She walked silently through the woods. The sunlight glittered off the surface of the small lake she now stood next to. The scent of cooking meat blew in from the direction of a nearby temple.
Her clan lived nearby deeper in the forest. They avoided the humans at the temple, and the humans never knew they were there.
Everything was good for her, until that day. The report of a gunshot nearby reached her ears; she froze for a minute, then curiosity and fear overtook her to find out where it came from. She ran in the direction of the gunshot; from the opposite direction came Kaimuri, her oldest brother and the Clan Leader. Kaimuri clutched at his chest and his face wore a look of pain.
The way Kaimuri held his chest and the metallic odor in the air told her that her brother had been shot.
"Brother," Ninjara spoke softly as Kaimuri swayed. Then he began to fall.
"Kaimuri!" she cried moving to his side catching him as he fell. "Kaimuri, who did this?"
"Umeko...little sister, listen to me." Kaimuri whispered as he gasped for breath. "You are...now on ... control of the...clan. You must... lead them ....well." His pain was evident to Ninjara.
"Who did this?" she asked again.
"It was..." Kaimuri's voice trailed off, he stopped breathing and the light left his eyes.
"Kaimuri." She knew he would not speak again. Her vision became blurred with her tears and she closed her eyes against them.
Her psychic sense, inherited from certain ancestors, showed her exactly what happened.
Ninjara saw Kaimuri at the hunting valley. He was hunting for food, she saw the bullet fly at him and looked for the assassin. Following the bullet's trajectory back to the gun, she saw Carius in the tree line with a gun in his hands. Her twin brother shot their older brother. Kaimuri had always been good to them both, Carius had no reason to do such a thing.
"What happen to Kaimuri, sister?" Carius asked as he stepped out of the tree line.
"You did, Carius. I know it; I saw you do it."
"Did you really?" he sighed. "Of course, your psychic abilities. Well, sister, everyone knows that I did it. They knew when I was planning it for years. They've agreed to follow me. And you must as well. Or you can share Kaimuri's fate along with that of your mutant friends."
"Carius, don't you dare, you damn bastard." Her voice rose as she shouted at him. "If you hurt them, Carius, I swear I'll kill you myself, you asshole."
"You can't stop me, Umeko. I'll win; you can either help me or die after your mutant friends."
"Forget it. I'll never help you, Carius. You're a damned dickhead. And you'll never win."
Ninjara turned to run, while he stood there looking at her departing form. He motion for the others in the trees to chase her.\
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"You asshole! Stay away from me! Leave me alone!" Her shouts and struggled on her sleep wake Raphael from his rest.
"Ninjara, wake up." Raph says as he tries to wake her. She struggles against him trying to get away before waking up.
"Raph? What happened?" she asked softly.
"You were having a nightmare." he said, quietly.
"I was." She admitted as she glanced around the area.
"You want to tell me about it."
"Not really. No." She paused to think for a minute. "Raph, I need to tell you...about this threat. It's...." She trailed off.
Raphael watched as she seemingly went into a trance of some sort.
"Ninjara?" he asked, not sure what was happening. Then, she suddenly came out of it.
turning to him she asked:
"Raph, are the others still in the park?" She sniffed at the air. An all too familiar smell was nearby. She knew that he was there now. Carius had found her and the Turtles.
"I think so. They wouldn't leave without us. Why?" he asked.
"They're in trouble." She said quickly.
"What do you mean?" he asked softly.
"He's here and he'll kill them all." She said simply and softly.
