So...Here is a chapter I've been planning for a really long time, I originally thought it was gonna be The Revenants of Dark Earth but I ran out of Space so it is here...I've had a chance the revise how it was originally gonna be done, here Artemis contacts Marzipan (Probably because as a Mage Monarch she was the most easy to contact,) to warn them of her Brother's machinations instead of someone just having a random burst of intuition that they shouldn't let Eartha and Ringo see the 'Night Rainbow' does kind of give the feeling that Artemis is still involved with the plot and she didn't just task the heroes and simply sit in her crystalline prison for the rest of the story content they would be fine on their own.

The next day started rather innocently, after waking up and eating breakfast, Eartha said "I think I want to return to the Mountain we last saw Black Creature standing on."

"Why?" Asked Leo

"I saw there was a cave entrance and well...I have this feeling we should explore that cave." Eartha said

"Think he may be hiding there?" Raph asked

"I don't think anything in particular." Eartha said "I just have the feeling we should explore it."

So...Taking the Enchanted Cooler and a few other necessities with them, Eartha and the Heroes from Other Earths (Plus Si'Ni) went back toward the Mountain on the Eastern Edge of New Eden, that was still mostly sand and rock and the plants for some reason had yet to reclaim it.

They found the entrance to the Cave, Mikey winced at the thought of more spelunking but he tried to be brave he followed his Brothers into the cave.

Eartha led the way, she seemed to be looking for something, she didn't know what but Ringo finally saw his chance to talk with Morgan, the Ring-Neck Revenant slowly slithered up to the beautiful Black Mamba, and he finally said "Hey."

When Morgan turned and looked at him, Ringo froze, he realized that if he had revealed that Eartha and himself and eavesdropped on that very emotional talk she had with Donatello yesterday, she might not like that. So Ringo after a moment of sweating said "I know we haven't really talked at all...Much of what I learned about you came from other creatures telling me about you."

Morgan cocked her head "What do you think about what you've heard?"

Ringo quickly looked down at his own hands "That a lot has happened in your past..." Was all he could think to say "...And I realized what I want, is to talk to you."

Morgan of course was no fool when it came to this sort of thing she simply said "You're infatuated with me, aren't you?" She wasn't harsh or condemning, she said it as if she was talking about the weather.

"Yes." Was all Ringo could say

"Why me?" Morgan asked "Why not a Fellow Revenant Snake...One of your own particular species?"

"Because all of them were always smiling and laughing, while I was the only one who was miserable!" Ringo finally blurted out causing everyone to look at him, the two Snakes froze when they saw all eyes were on them, but Ringo decided to not stop, instead he held Morgan's hands in his own and said "All the other Female Snakes...Like every other Creature in the Belly except for Eartha was always smiling and laughing and content. But I was not, I looked around me and I thought 'Doesn't anyone remember what had just happened to them? How brutally we had all died?' I thought I was the only creature in the entire Belly who remembered how painful the death was, and everyone was acting like...It all didn't happen? That somehow what was happening now meant the Past didn't mean anything anymore...Eartha was the only one who wasn't as content, but it wasn't because she was thinking about her death...It was because she was thinking about what she saw when she was dead and that she just wanted to see that beauty again! When I saw you for the first time Morgan...I saw...A Snake-Face a Female Snake-Face...That looked as unhappy as my own...And that loneliness I saw in your eyes, was more beautiful then the dull sleep walking happiness I saw on all the other Female Snake Revenants!"

Morgan was beginning to feel tears form in her eyes and a lump rise in her throat hearing this.

"And that was the moment I realized..." Ringo said "...That I found my happiness...My happiness was that I wanted to know you...Know why you were unhappy...And together we would become happy."

"When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them."

Terrence Mallick

Morgan was at a loss for words for a moment "You see me as I am now..." She said "...But I'm not sure what you would feel if you know what I had done..."

Eartha realized this conversation might risk exposing the eavesdropping, so without thinking about herself...Only thinking of saving her Friend's chance for true love, she ran to a tunnel that led to an unknown cavern and said "Hey everybody! I found it! I found what I'm looking for!"

They followed the Mole Revenant down the tunnel and when they reached the end they saw a brightly lit chamber...Partly flooded with sand as if someone was trying to create the world's largest sandbox, and scattered throughout the sand was various...Things...Human things...Broken furniture...Broken appliances...Old toys...All sorts of assorted things. Raph took one look at this collection of sand and junk and said "This is what you were looking for? Piles of garbage?"

Eartha chuckled a bit awkwardly "Well, I've never seen most of these things before." She said

"There could be some vital clues in here." Leo said "Why else would there be a bunch of stuff in this cave? Do you think...Black Creature brought these things here?"

Everyone waded through the sand to inspect the various things down here. Eartha and Ringo sat in the cool sand for a few moments, Eartha communicated in Animal-Speak to Ringo that she did this to distract so they wouldn't have to reveal they eavesdropped, so they better start looking interested in the various things.

And so they nosed around the various things, at times Eartha would ask what something was and Donatello was happy to explain what it was particularly if whatever she was asking about was some kind of machine.

There were quite a few still-nice things particularly old and beautiful toys, Marzipan being the sentimental bleeding-heart she was, asked the Turtles if they could take these toys and give them to April for her shop.

The Turtles were intrigued by the Prospect but Don did raise the question "Would taking something form another dimension and selling it be some kind of space-crime? Could it possibly have a negative effect on the time-space continuum?"

"Well if you're obviously stealing something that doesn't belong to you it's a crime." Marzipan said "But if these were just tossed out with the garbage then we would be recycling...And no, taking these inanimate objects won't effect the space-time continuum."

"Hold on." Leo said "While, most of this stuff is junk, we don't know how it got here...If Black Creature brought all these things here...Then it is possible he stole things to...Decorate this cave...Anyway...We can hold onto these things...Maybe they're a clue...Maybe we should just return them to where they came from but either way, they could come in handy."

Leo took the Toys from Marzipan and placed them in the Cooler, (For lack on any better container to place them in)

They even found what looked like a piece of a cardboard set from...Some kid's television show, judging by what was left of it contained a smiling sun, cartoonish looking plants and piece of a rainbow.

Eartha and Ringo became very interested in these pieces for some reason, and as they gazed at them, Marzipan turned and found herself looking at a large piece of sheet metal. Before her very eyes...The Cat-Girl saw a vision in the sheet of metal...She saw the pearly white face of Artemis...The Dragoness roared but only Marzipan could hear...A telepathic message was transmitted into her brain in the short amount of time it took for Eartha and Ringo to have their own psychic intuition simply by gazing at the piece of cardboard rainbow.

"Ringo!" Eartha exclaimed to her friend "The Night Rainbow! It's tonight!" And with that the two Revenants began running for the only way out of the Cavern, the same tunnel they entered from.

Marzipan's eared perked up and she yelled "Someone stop them! They can not see the sky tonight!"

Ichabod, was closest to the exit, tried his best to block with his scrawny beanpole body, but he knew that if they didn't simply squirm past him, they would shove him aside or possibly worse.

Fortunately, Don and Mikey were on it, they quickly ran after the two Revenants, Don grabbed Eartha, Mikey grabbed Ringo.

Both of them screamed and shrieked but both the Turtles held fast...Of course a Mole and Snake are two of the slipperiest animals on the planet, a Mole in particular is designed to move backwards through a tunnel as quickly as forwards, so she tried to wriggle backwards through Donatello's legs the feeling of super-soft super tickly Mole fur against his inner legs, caused a shiver through his entire body, he slackened his grip by a fraction and Eartha nearly broke free, Thinking quickly, Don sat down with a heavy thump! Pinning Eartha before she could escape, The Mole-Girl screamed again, this time from legitimate pain, Don realized the edge of his carapace was digging into her spine, so he quickly shifted position, instead of straddling her body, he sat he his two legs hung over her left side and the edge of his carapace hung over her right.

"Good idea Donny." Mikey said as Ringo was also trying to slither out from between a Turtle's legs. Mikey sat down on Ringo's tail causing the Snake-Boy to scream with pain.

"Get off me! Get off me!" Eartha protested, and her claws tried to dig away, but here was the shallow part of the sandbox, and now Eartha's claws were only scraping against bare rock.

"Not a chance." Don said gruffly as he mopped the sweat from his brow "Since I can see I've got you clearly pinned under my posterior, I shall sit here for as long as I need to, think of this as payback for biting my butt!"

Si'Ni, who actually had been taking great pleasure in seeing all these Strange things and was learning from Don's explanations along with Eartha and Ringo, was...Very confused by what had happened in the last whirlwind few minutes but as these Creatures had been so kind to her, these past few days, she felt obligated to try to return the favor. "If you need a break..." She said mildly "Perhaps I can sit on them for you...My...Physique is well suited for this kind of task."

Don and Mikey looked at each other for a few minutes

"That's very sweet of your to offer Si'Ni." Don said "But we were tasked to protect Eartha and Ringo, you've clearly been through enough, we shouldn't burden you with our duties."

Si'Ni nodded

"Besides..." Don said with an evil smirk "...Eartha makes a really nice cushion..." He began to bounce/grind his butt into her, with every bounce he gave a word "Really! Plush! And! Velvety!"

Don's butt finally gets it's revenge! Tune in next time for a song and the revealing of why they shouldn't see the Night Rainbow