Hey guys, I want to just say that I was hoping more people would see this coming! Only one person did!

Reviewers:

StarTraveler: Well you'll have to keep waiting because that won't exactly happen! At least not in the way you think!

DP fanboy: Yeah he is, but not the way you'd expect. Also what do you mean by spoiling? I'm not trying to be annoying or anything, I genuinely want to know so that I can fix it. And some things I like to consider foreshadowing.

Dr. Guest: You'll just have to keep reading to find out!


After Hun and his henchmen left, the others went to check on Leo. The lights in his room were off and there was a lump under the covers. Raph walked forward and shook him.

"Leo! Hey wake up!" He shouted. The lump stirred.

"No...I don't...want to get up," Leo rasped, keeping the blankets over his face. His voice was hard and rough. Donnie stepped up.

"Are you ok? You sound like you're sick," Donnie pulled the blankets away from Leo and gasped.

"Bro..." Mikey whispered. In the place of Leo was a snake. Exactly like the one they had just sent away, only slimmer.

"How did...but we just saw you...you were...Karai?" Casey stuttered. The snake shook its head.

"No, no! Not...Karai! Leo!" It spoke. The others stepped back.

"But you can't be. Leo wouldn't ever, he wouldn't, Leo is our brother!" Raph growled.

"I am Leo...dudes?" The snake hissed. Mikey stumbled forward, tears running down his face.

"Leo? Is that you buddy?" He whimpered. Donnie grabbed him and tugged him back, holding him away from the snake.

"No Mikey, it's not him," Donnie warned. Mikey turned back to him and balled his fists.

"Then what do you call the other mutant we saw? What about the one we gave to Hun! Huh Donnie? How do you explain that!" He yelled. April put her hand on Mikey's shoulder.

"Mikey, calm down. For all we know, Karai can clone herself. In the meantime we should test if this even is her," April turned to the snake. "What are all of our names?"

The snake began pointing to everyone. "Mikey...Donnie..." It started.

"No. Full names," April clarified. The snake squirmed.

"Um...Michelangelo...Donatello...Raphael...April Neals...Cassie Jones?" It offered. Casey threw his hands up.

"Cassie? CASSIE? That's a freaking girl name!" He exploded.

"And my name is April O'Neal," April pointed out.

"Oh," The snake lowered its head in shame.

"So who are you really?" Raph snarled, drawing his sai.

"...It's me...Karai..." Karai muttered. She felt something cold poke into her skin and looked up to see Raph's sword at her neck. She hissed sadly.

"If you are Karai, then where is Leo?" Raph asked deliberately and slowly. Karai sighed.

"You gave him...to Shredder," She said. The blade pushed deeper until blue-black blood burbled up from under her scales. She whimpered.

"WHAT THE SHELL!" Raph screamed.

"Raph chill dude," Casey shoved him backwards, away from Karai.

"She snake-fied Leo and made us give him away and you want me to chill!" Raph spat.

"That's why you did it isn't it?" April scowled.

"That's why you turned him into a snake!" She continued. Karai looked at her with a cold look in her eyes. Those eyes that belonged to a wild animal, cunning, ruthless.

"Not at first. At first it was to show him...show him what he wanted...give him happiness...Then later things became complicated," Karai said monotonously. It was the most she had spoken so clearly since she became a snake.

"That's messed up dude..." Mikey muttered with tears still shining in his eyes.

"What will you do now?" Karai asked fearfully.

"We're going to get Leo back. And send you off where you belong. But for now, you'll stay here," Donnie sneered. He locked the windows and walked out with the others following him, locking the door as well.


Leo didn't know where he was. All he knew was that he was in a dusty grey cell. He slithered in circles, pacing. His stomach cramped and ached. Hungry. His venom sacks were swollen and throbbing. After another minute, he couldn't take it anymore. His head snapped backwards, then forwards at warp speed. His fangs struck the metal bars with a clang. Nothing. Now both his venom sacks and his actual fangs hurt.

He sighed, sighed because that was the only thing he could do. Snakes can't cry. He barely even knew how his transformation had happened. Leo had been stumbling and dragging himself back to the lair when a rat had crossed his path. He remembered hunger. So much hunger. And the warm, succulent smell of blood.

After that, Leo was pretty sure he black out and then...That was it. He woke up and found himself completely mutated, but just carried on to the lair. Leo stopped, he heard footsteps.

"Karai, how are you my daughter?" Shredder loomed over the bars. Leo sighed again. He didn't want to pretend to be Karai any longer. But what were his options?

"Hello father," He muttered.

"You know, I only lied to protect you. Hamato Yoshi is a corrupted man. I care about you Karai," Shredder said. Leo looked up, surprised. How do I respond to this?

"I care about you too father," He offered. Shredder's gaze turned cold. He stared at Leo, as if looking through him.

"That is new," Shredder said under his breath, then he got up and stiffly walked away. Leo froze. He's on to me.


Thanks for reading and please review! And it has finally happened! Leo is a full snake! Well I guess it really happened last chapter, but you guys didn't know it yet! I love writing this and I look forward to hearing from you all! Anyway...

Wolf out...