Chapter 7:
"It didn't happen that long ago actually. My brothers and I happened to be on patrol when we saw him and his Dragons trying to rob a freight train." Leo stood firm in front of me as he told his story. He also had both his hands on his belt next to a few throwing stars, just in case. Probably a good idea on his part since I'm practically minutes away from dishing out on everybody. Casey and April were a few feet away from Leo next to Michelangelo or whatever his name was.
"When did this happen?" I didn't remember being assigned to a freight heist in the recent years. Once again, Hun was keeping secrets with me and it only made me wanna punch him even harder.
"Maybe a year ago."
Why would Hun not assign me to these missions? Especially in the last year him and I had gotten pretty close so why would he hold back on me?
"Whatever." I pretended not to care but Leo obviously saw that I did. All I wanted to do was get out of here with Angel, get her to a safe place and find Hun. I wanted to kill him so bad but I needed answers from him first.
"You said you were ganna hunt down Hun. So you're technically not a Dragon, right?" He was playing with me again. He was asking dumb questions to make me look stupid.
"I'm still technically a Dragon which means you're still my enemy! Even if I wasn't a Dragon yah would be my enemy!" I pointed at him with my good arm and growled.
"Some people just don't change." I saw Michelangelo shake his head but then take a few steps back when he saw I was looking at him.
I had to get out of here. I couldn't stand to being next to these low lifes! I took very subtle glances to my left and right. The right was blocked by Casey and friends but the left was wide open. Once I had Angel, we would high tail it out. And if one of them happened to get hurt in the process…oh well. When I turned back to face Leo he was shaking his head slightly from side to side and his eyes were narrowed. He reached one hand behind his back and pulled out one of his swords with a quick movement. The tip of it settled in the dirty sewer water.
"Nice Sais." He said to me. I looked down in my belt and saw their red handles. Did he wanna fight? A sudden rush of adrenalin and pleasure spilled over my entire body, even to my broken arm. "I take it you have a back ground in Ninjitsu?"
"What the hell is that?" I spat into the water as if I didn't care, which I really didn't.
"Well I figured since you owned Sais…you would know." He picked up the tip of his sword out of the water and examined it closely. He twisted the blade around itself and then looked at me expectantly.
"Well I don't and yah know what? I also don't care." I crossed my arms over my chest, painfully, and gave me an ugly glare. He was just making me angrier by the minute. Maybe I should show him what happens to people who make me angry.
"It's a fighting style. I assumed…"
"Well stop assumin shit you don't understand."
Leo straightened his posture and let a noise of frustration out of the back of his throat. I grinned a little at the gesture.
"Well then help me understand." He threw out another smart remark.
"I could show you." I widened my grin and took my Sais out from my belt, making Casey shift positions and tap his foot. "I grew up alone and then when I finally found someone who wanted me, they taught me a few things. The rest is from the Dragons."
"That makes sense." Casey snorted.
"So you're a street fighter?" Leo asked quickly, ignoring Casey.
I didn't want to answer his question. I didn't want to tell him anything about me. However, I was afraid that if I didn't, he would keep Angel from me or worse, hurt her.
"However the Dragons fight is how I do it. The only difference is that I use blades. They use dull weapons or anything they can get their hands on."
"Are you any good?"
"I guess."
"Is that why Hun wants you dead? Maybe he's afraid of a mutant who can fight." Leo sheathed his sword and crossed his arms over his chest. I was taken aback. This guy thinks he's got me all figured out doesn't he?
"Well if Hun's afraid of me then I suppose you have a reason to be too." I snorted.
"Sure, but the only problem is…" He opened his arms and shifted his weight onto his other leg. "I'm not Hun."
"Maybe yah should follow in his footsteps then."
At the spur of the moment, I heard someone walking through the sewers to my right. About a minute later, Donatello had returned with Angel in his arms. Her eyes were blindfolded and even though I couldn't see her all that well, she looked beat up and run down.
"Angel!" I called out to her but Leo had one of his swords across my plastron. At that point, I lost it. I kicked him in his plastron and grabbed the sword from his hand. When he smashed against the sewer wall, I was about ready to jump on him but Casey intervened. He had Angel standing on the ground and a small pocket knife far from her neck.
"She's what you want, right? Maybe yah shouldn't ruin it by making a dumbass move like the one you're about to do." He said. "Get away from my friend."
I looked down at Leonardo and he wasn't moving. He wasn't trying to sneak attack me either, he was just staring, watching me closely. After a moment of eye contact between us, he shifted his legs underneath me and reclaimed his weapon. I fell back first into the water and before I could get up, there was a sword it the base of my throat.
"Why should we give her back to you?" He asked me but the tone of his voice was playful again.
"Piss off!"
"Raph!" Angel looked at me with angry eyes. The blindfold was off. "Can you not be a dick for once?!"
Leo looked to her, then back at me. She was right, even though I didn't want to admit it. I had an issue with picking fights when the odds were against me.
"Nice to see yah too." I snorted.
"I'll let you two go if you promise to stay away from the Dragons." Leo demanded. It made me sick looking at him. Who did he think he was telling me what to do? I opened my mouth to shout something at him but the look on Angel's face made me hold back. She looked exhausted, like she hadn't gotten any sleep. I could see her better now and she looked unusually thin. I couldn't waste time with these guys again. Angel needed somewhere to rest and recover.
"Fine." I agreed but of course I was lying. I had to see Hun, and soon so staying away was ganna be a problem.
I was surprised that Leo let me go. Casey swore under his breath when Leo told him to release Angel, but he did. She ran to me as fast as her unhealthy body would allow her to. I've never hugged her so tightly in my life but even though I was thrilled to see her, I didn't waste time. Before we were even done, I pulled her up into my arms and took off down the left tunnel. I could hear Leo saying something but I couldn't quite make it out. I didn't care though. I only cared about Angel.
"Follow them."
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"Took yah long enough." Angel slapped me on the back of the head once we finally got out of the sewers. I moved her off my shoulders and into a cradle carry to help make her more comfortable. The sun was low in the sky and only left a few more minutes of darkness covering over the city before it would be daytime. Even on this unpopular side of town, people and cars were already flooding the streets.
"Sorry kid, I think I passed out or somethin." I lied.
Angel sighed apologetically. "He hit yah that bad huh?" She teased.
I paused for a brief moment and ignored her joke. I wanted to get on a more serious note if I'm ever ganna figure all this shit out. "Did yah know about them?"
"Who the turtles? The other turtles?"
"Yah." I said quietly.
"No. I'm guessing you didn't know either."
"I wonder if Hun knew…" I got angry at that thought and tightened my grip on Angel.
"Yo hey! I'm fragile!" She grinned.
"Sorry."
Her smile dropped when she saw the look on my face. She looked away for a minute and then started to play with her nails. I walked over behind a dumpster in the ally and sat down with her still in my arms. I leaned my head against the wall and closed my eyes. Down in the sewers I felt like I could snap a boat in half, but now I feel like I'm ganna pass out from exhaustion.
"Why you getting at Hun all of a sudden?" She asked after about 5 minutes of silence.
"Because…"
I made it sound like I was ganna answer her further but I didn't. After she slapped me pretty hard on the arm, I slowly started to tell her what happened after I "woke up" three days ago. I told her about the Dragon goon that came across me. I told her that he wasn't expecting to find me because Hun sent me to 2nd Time Around to be killed by Casey. At first she told me that he could have been lying, but I told her that I had him in a pretty un-liable situation. I didn't go into detail about what's been going through my head though. I just wasn't that kinda guy.
"So yah think he went back and told Hun you're alive?" She asked.
"I don't know. Either way I don't care. Worst case scenario Hun starts lookin for me. However, that means that I don't have to go lookin for him." My eyelids were refusing to open. I didn't know how much longer I could stay awake.
I heard Angel biting the tips of her nails. Something was on her mind so I asked about it.
"You don't think I would…I would never…."
"I know yah wouldn't betray me. As a matter of fact, it never even crossed my mind." I opened my eyes and smiled at her. A flush of relief went over her face and she laid her head on my plastron.
"I'm tired."
"Me too, kid." I couldn't control it anymore. I slid down a little bit on the wall and wrapped my arms tightly around Angel. She moved her head up to the base of my neck and let out a long breath that was warm on my skin. I leaned my head against the dumpster and joined her in a well-deserved slumber.
:: (Third Person)
12 hours earlier:
The Dragon ran as fast as he could through the dark roads of the Lower Side. He had nearly survived a drop that should have killed him. He knew he survived for a reason, he had to tell Hun. He was loyal to the Purple Dragons and it was his duty to report any mishaps, even though he promised not to tell.
He ran out of an ally and onto a street where he jumped over the hood of a car and slid on the other side. He had never run so fast in his life and he kept looking back to make sure Raphael wasn't following him. Once he finally made it to the side of the river and into the hideout, he was out of breath and speechless.
He collapsed onto the beaten up, wooden floor in a heap where the other Dragons made a circle around him.
"Hey, it's Zee!" One of them called out. "Where have you been? Master Hun aint happy with you, Zee."
"Move aside!" A large, well-built man pushed through the ground and stood over his collapsed servant. "What's so urgent that you have to come bursting through that door, Zee?!"
"It's Raphael sir." Zee tried hard to speak but his lungs felt like they were collapsing. "He's…he's…"
"He's what?!" Hun bent down and shook the fallen man's shoulders.
"He's alive! He nearly killed me!"
"What? Raphael…alive?" Hun dropped the man and stood up. "I thought for sure that Casey character would have finished him off." He stared into the distance for a few seconds and then looked back down at the lump of human on his floor. "So he nearly killed yah huh?" Hun grinned
"Yes sir."
"But he didn't…so that means you must have told him something so he would spare your life…" Hun crossed his arms over his chest.
"I…" Zee's hands started to sweat and his heart started to beat at a hundred miles a minute. "I told him yah wanted Casey to kill him! I didn't say anything else!"
"But now he knows! Now he's ganna come back here lookin for me!" Hun kicked the Dragon sharply in the side of his gut. He rolled a few times across the floor and started to shriek from the pain. "That mutant is stronger the he looks!" Hun walked up to Zee again and kicked him in the chest.
"We'll be ready for him, Boss." One of the Dragons said while tightening his grip on his gun. "It's one mutant against dozens of Dragons with guns. What harm can he do?"
"That's just it; we trained him with our skills our techniques! He knows how to fight us!" Hun kicked Zee again in the ribs until he was silent. "Plus there's no doubt in my mind that Angel is with him. Those two could recruit and army!"
"Why don't we just hunt em' down and take em' out?"
"You don't think I would have thought of that?!" Hun threw a punch at a Dragon who went flying across the room and into the wall.
"Master Hun…" Another Dragon called out over the sound of crashing boxes.
"WHAT?!" He swerved around with his hands ready to snap a neck.
The Dragon pointed to the door where nearly 4 dozen men in black uniforms were standing. He hadn't even heard them come in.
"Hun…" One of them spoke but no one could tell which one it was. "Our Master would like to speak with you."
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