When the Hamato family heard about what was happening to Leo and the consequences of what could happen if Leo's avatar were to fall into the hands of Cobra forced the worst out of everyone. Mikey continued to sob most the night; laying his head on his father's lap while clinging tightly to his waist. Anytime anyone tried to remove Mikey from Splinter side, he would shake his head and rub the tears that were falling off his eyes and onto his father's tear soaked kimono.

Raph on the other hand went berserk and started thrashing the temple until Kon kicked him out and into the forest where he could focus all of his rage and frustration on things less priceless. Hopefully when Raph would return he would be less like his wild uncontrollable self and more of the big brother that his younger brothers could lean on.

But the cool headed Donnie just sat in front of his stoned older brother and talked to him about anything he could think of. Everything that they had gone through to things that he never got the chance to talk to him about. Donnie kept his eyes closed the whole time when he spoke to his eldest brother; imagining him in the flesh rather than the stone figure comforted him. Donnie remembered a time when after the events with Draco and being sent to future where there was nothing but destruction and chaos caused by the Shredder.

It was bad enough that he was placed during a time where his brothers no longer called themselves that but worse of all being the cause for each of their deaths. Leo would skip meals, hours of sleep, being both emotional and physical exhausted just to make sure that he was fine. Anytime he awoke from one of nightmares about the period he was in, Leo would be the first to rush in and comfort him for the night. Rubbing soothing circles on his shell and lending his shoulder for Donnie's tears. Donnie needed Leo more than anyone would believe but with everything that has been happening to them and the over whelming odds against them it was almost hopeless to save Leo in time. Something that was shattering each of the Hamato family's hearts bit by bit.

'Please Leo hold on, we'll get you back...somehow' Donnie thought falling asleep between Leo and his father's side.


~Meanwhile~

It was close to midnight and Raph was still taking out his aggression on the forest. Anything that moved or was in his way Raph tore through that obstacle and continued to hunt for Cobra. Just because the Tribunal, the Ancient One, and his father told him not to go looking for Cobra didn't mean he was going to listen. At this point of time and anger, really the only person that could break him out of his trance was Leo. But the memory of his brother in his stone prison and Kon's warning kept replaying in his mind, which made his exhausted bruised body continue to move forward. The only thing that was keeping him from being in his older brother's arms was the one causing his family all of this grief and pain; Cobra.

"Argh!" Raph yelled smashing his fist into the trunk of a tree. Raph pressed his shell against the tree trunk, collapsing on the ground, Raph looked around to see if anyone followed him. Seeing no one was near, Raph let out a small sob that grew and grew until he finally broke down. Calling out the name of the brother that couldn't hear his voice, the brother who left them for two years, the brother who now is on the verge of dying.

Raph's entire body shook at these thoughts. Suddenly Raph felt a small presence on his shoulder, slowly opening his eyes Raph turned his head to see Leo's avatar looking at him.

"Hey there little fella." Raph whispered opening the palm of his hand the little dragon jumped from his shoulder and into his hands. Raph watched as the little dragon walked in a circle in his hands until it finally stopped and started to lie down but instead of resting its head the dragon just looked up at Raph and stared at him.

Raph and the little dragon sat together in silence, the only sound was the wind blowing the leaves of the trees and all the little creatures that lived in the forest.

"What do you want me to do?" Raph asked the dragon. Dragon just stared at Raph, standing back up the dragon turned around and stared at the trail of destruction Raph left.

"What me to go back?" Raph asked. The dragon shook his head. "Then what, the only other thing to do is continue on this path of destruction or what Master Splinter and Leo do best and mediate." The dragon nodded his head.

Raph cocked his head to the side. "You want me to keep destroying the forest?" Losing the last of his patience the dragon blew blue flames into Raph's face. Raph dropped the dragon and covered his face.

"What the hell was that for!?" Raph yelled. The dragon just stared at him, Raph chuckled.

'Just like all the fights me and Leo out in.' Raph thought.

Raph waved his arms in surrender, "Alright , alright, I'll mediate."

Raph sighed, "This is going to be a pain." Getting himself ready to mediate, the little dragon flew into his cupped hands. Raph shrugged at this, closing his eyes, he lowered his breathing and his heart rate.

The dragon watched as Raph was getting closer and closer to the astral plane, just as Raph was about to enter the astral plane the little dragon's eyes started glowing white; Raph's chi marks appeared on his body and started growing just as strongly as the dragon.


~Astral Plane~

Raph slowly opened his eyes. The astral plane was just as it normally was; nothing but white. Raph looked around to see something was different this time.

'A door' Raph thought. Walking over to the door, Raph took the knob between his fingers and slowly opened the door. The still confused Raph walked through the door into what appeared to be another world. The door Raph used slammed shut and merged itself back with the world. Raph jumped at the door and started slamming his fist in the air trying to get the door to reappear.

"You know you're just hitting the air, right?"

Raph's entire body froze, slowly turning around to the voice Raph stared with wide eyes.

"Leo." Raph muttered.

Raph ran over to his older brother, Raph was about to throw himself at Leo but a small barrier appeared between them. Raph growled and started pounding the barrier walls; desperately trying to get to his older brother. Leo shook his head, "It's never going to work Raph."

Raph was breathing heavily looked at Leo.

Leo was transparent but looked like his normal self and not the stone figure that was in the Tribunal temple. But what boiled Raph's blood were cuffs on his arms and legs, and one on his neck. They all connected to a longer chain that was bolted to the ground a few feet away from where Leo was sitting. A picture of a cobra was engraved on the cuff on Leo's neck. Leo smiled sadly both of his hands were cuffed together but when he stood on his knees he was able to place his hands on the face of the barrier. Raph followed Leo's lead and placed his hands on the face of the barrier.

They both smiled, may have been a barrier separating them but they both were together again.

"Leo how am I talking to you, Splinter has tried over and over to contact you but he was never able to reach you. We all thought that meant you were dead." Raph said looking away from his older brother's gaze.

Leo smiled and said, "I think you know the answer Raph. My avatar is the key to all of this."

The ground started to shake, Leo and Raph looked at the bolt that was holding the chain. The bolt glowed with a Cobra on the side of it. The chain that was allowing Leo to get as close as he could to Raph was starting to drag him away from Raph.

"LEO!" Raph shouted.

Leo struggled as the chain was growing shorter and shorter.

"Raph I give you permission to use my avatar to find Cobra. Use me to find him, stop him so that he doesn't resurrect her!" Leo shouted, looking at the bolt and the chain he knew there connection was about to be cut off.

"Who?" Raph shouted. Raph fell to his knees the ground under him was crumbling and the ceiling and walls were starting to cave in around him. Raph knew he had to cut his connection with Leo or else he would be trapped in the astral plane but he had to know who they had to stop Cobra from.

Leo struggled more and to get back to Raph but the more he struggled the more the chain shorten. Leo looked up at Raph, Leo knew he wasn't going to leave unless he got his answer but it would only make Raph want to stay more.

"Raphael it's time to leave. Use me to find Cobra and stop him." Leo commanded. With little strength left in his body Leo concentrated all of it to push Raph out of the astral plane and back into his own mind. The chain finally stopped when Raph was pushed out the room.

Leo collapsed on the ground in exhaustion, his body was starting to become more and more translucent but that wasn't the whole picture. Leo knew that if Raph saw what was truly happening to him that he would have tried to stay to help him or tried to bring their father and little brothers to his side. Leo closed his eyes and let out a sigh, the mark of Cobra on his cuffs started to glow brightly. Leo kept his eyes tightly closed, biting the bottom of his lip. His legs and arms were completely turned to stone, the magic from the amulet was stronger than he thought and was now making its way across his plastron. And if it reaches his heart and turned it to stone not only would Leo be trapped but he would just be another vessel for his master.

'Please Raph forget about me and stop Cobra. I rather die than have him use me to enslave the world with her.' Leo thought.


~Back in the Forest~

Raph slowly opened his eyes and shook his head. Looking up, Raph saw it was getting close to morning and his family was probably worried about him. Raph looked down in his lap, Leo's avatar was sleeping in his lap with his head resting on his knee. Rah chuckled, carefully picking the dragon up into his hands Raph started to make his journey back to his family to tell them the news.

It was about an hour later when Raph returned to the temple. Mikey was still clinging to their father's lap while Donnie sat in front of Leo. Splinter looked up from Mikey and said, "Raphael where have you been all night? We were all very worried about your safety."

"Sorry master but I needed to clear my head and I needed to talk to someone." Raph said as he walked over to his father and baby brother. Sitting in front of their father, Raph told Splinter about what happened to him and even the part with his meeting with Leo.

As soon as Leo's name came up, Mikey and Donnie broke out of their respective trances and place all of their attention on Raph. Raph talked about what was happening to Leo and what he wanted them to do.

"So Leo does want us to use his avatar to find Cobra." Donnie said. Raph nodded.

"Yeah he was pretty adamant about it. And that we need to stop Cobra from doing something else, something about his true master and resurrecting her or something."

Donnie closed his eyes and concentrated on everything he had read about the Cobra. Mikey on the other hand looked at Raph and Leo's avatar. Picking the dragon up Mikey was about to try and make contact with Leo when Raph yelled at him to stop.

"Mikey I just got back from wherever I was and from the looks of it; it doesn't look like the connection will be there. Beside look at Leo's avatar." Mikey looked down at the dragon. The once vibrant blue and silver armored green skin dragon was now had pale green skin and when he blew his flame it was smaller and weaker than before. Mikey pulled the dragon closer to his face and started to cry once again.

"So you have returned."


The Hamato family turned to see the Tribunal stand in the doorway with the Ancient One. Kon walked over to Mikey and with some resistant took Leo's avatar from Mikey and walked back over to the Tribunal. Mikey quickly stood up and was about to run over and take Leo's avatar back when Raph and Donnie grabbed him by his arms and pulled him back over to their father.

Kon once again concentrated until an orb appeared in his hand, dropping the dragon into the orb, everyone watched as the dragon started to change its form into a flame.

"See what is happening to your brother." Kon stated. Every watched the flame glow starting to grow smaller and smaller.

"We all know what is happening and we can still do nothing." Kon said.

Raph stood up and walked over the Tribunal.

"There is something. I made contact with Leo and he wants us to use his avatar to find Cobra. He doesn't care about the consequences, just to find Cobra and stop him from stopping whatever he is trying to resurrecting someone." Raph stated.

Kon looked at Raph and asked, "Did your brother tell you about this person's identity?" Raph shook his head,

"No, our connection got cut off." Donnie jumped up and yelled,

"I know who Cobra is trying to resurrect."

Everyone turned their attention on Donnie.

"Remember the amulet was Medusa's head and in turn, turned Leo to stone. Cobra gave up his humanity so he could use the amulet. Don't you guys get it , Cobra is trying to bring back Medusa so they can turn the world to stone and everyone to stone." Donnie stated.

There was silence in the room. Donnie looked at his father for answers, Raph looked at Leo he knew he had to be strong for their brothers and father, Mikey once again cling to their father's lap wiping the tears away on his father's tear soaked kimono while Splinter rubbing his paw in soothing pattern.


The sound of clapping startled everyone. Everyone turned their attention to Leo's stone figure. The hooded figure started walking from behind Leo and continued clapping. Everyone sprung up and with their weapons out. The figure removed the hood on its head.

Raph cursed under his breath.

"Cobra" Raph muttered.

"So we meet again turtles. Now I believe you have something of mine." Cobra stated pointing his arm that was covered by the robe he was wearing at the orb with Leo's flame.

Everyone stood in front of Kon.

"You're never gonna get him. We're freeing Leo and then finally ridding ourselves of everything you have done to this family." Raph roared.

"You will not stop me, my followers and I will have the flame and there will be nothing to stop me from standing by my Master's side." Cobra snickered.

"Oh yeah, I don't see your so called followers." Mikey stated.

Cobra broke out in laughter. Cobra closed his eyes and concentrated and said, "You want proof of my army? Well you're gonna wish you hadn't."

Cobra removed his robes; revealing his entire upper torso covered in scales, his arms also had scales that ran all across his arms until it reached his wrist. His lower torso was covered by pants that were loosely tied at the waist by some rope. Cobra raised his arms in the air grasping with both hands the amulet he yelled,

"My comrades hear my call come to my aid so that our Master can once again walk this world and make it our own."

The ground started shaking and cracking all around them. As the ground split arms and hands started to break through the cracks.

"What the hell are they?" Raph yelled.

"Demons of Hades" Kon said.

Inhuman shrieks pierced the air. Everyone covered their ears and watched in horror. The room was filling up quickly with demons of Hades. Every time they looked away, more and more demons rose up from the cracks in the floor.

Cobra grinned as he watched the turtles and the Tribunal fight the endless onslaught. When they took one down two more arrived in its place. Everyone gathered together at the other end of the room, there was no end to this battle.

Looking down at the amulet in his hands Cobra brought the amulet to his face and whispered into it,

"Soon my master, the demons will rid myself of the turtles and I will finally have Leonardo's power to return you to the material world."


i'm almost on the edge my self here :3

no i'm not x3 me and SSH are planing ahead here...just don't flip plz