Chapter Eight
Thoughts
Back at her hideout, Monalisa lay curled up under the blankets on the mattress. She shivered slightly as her mind was plagued by the same nightmares that haunted her. She gritted her teeth and clenched her fists as she saw the faces of her attackers and rapists again and heard their animalistic and lustful voices.
In her nightmare she was looking up at her attackers, seven men, all with Purple Dragon tattoos, laughing and jeering as they ripped off her clothes and roughly touched the sacred parts of her body, she raised her hands as she tried to fight them off but they over powered her and lowered themselves down to her about to carry out their horrific actions...
Mona awoke with a cry and grabbed the sides of her head, digging her fingers into her hair; tears fell from her eyes as she thought about those horrific memories.
"Why won't you leave me...?" she whispered.
She got up from under her blanket and walked over to the broken windows where she looked out towards the city, the sun had set again and the city had gotten dark apart from the streetlamps that still lit up the streets. She looked away from the window and walked over to her camping stove.
She lit it up then picked up a clean saucepan as well as a can of beans and poured them into the saucepan, after her nightmare she was feeling so aggressive she needed to get outside and search for more Purple Dragon Scum. She stirred her beans until she felt satisfied they were ready then took the saucepan off the stove and began to eat the beans.
As she ate she thought about the warriors who interrupted her fight the night before.
"Who were those guys?" she thought "And how dare they interfere with my business!"
She thought hard as she tried to remember them. Because it was dark in the room and they stuck to the shadows, she did not see what they really looked like.
They sure were deadly fighters after they managed to bump off the Purple Dragons, but who were they? There was something about them she could not quite place; they seemed keen to catch her as well as she remembered them trying to chase after her across the rooftops.
"If they find me again" she thought "they'll regret they met me! They have no business with what I do!"
She shovelled the beans until her mouth until the pan was empty. She then got herself ready again to go out into the night. She pulled on her leather trousers, her heeled boots and black top, and then put on her long black coat and gloves.
She then picked up her cowl and placed it over her face, "Beware Purple Dragons" she thought as she tied it around the back of her head
"I'm coming for you, and you'll not see the end of tonight" she turned towards the windows and leapt out of them into the street. She then ran into an alleyway and disappeared into the darkness.
Back in the Turtle's lair, Donatello was awake before the others; he was sitting at his computer and looking back at the websites he had saved the night before. He scratched the top of his head as he looked through the websites. He had been awake for a couple of hours and he couldn't get back to sleep so he had decided to do some more research.
He then found some other websites where news reports were talking about some vigilante in black, who had been seen at certain areas when some Purple Dragon Murders had taken place, but the reports gave no other information about who the vigilante was, but there were appeals asking anyone for any information.
Donatello sighed and rested his chin on his hand as he continued to read, "no other information" he thought "All we know is the vigilante's a female, but what her motive is...we have no clue" he clicked the back button to see if there was anything else he could find.
As he did, he began to think hard, there was something about the vigilante that made him start to wonder, he remembered when they first met Casey Jones and how he harboured a deep grudge against the Purple Dragons because they burned down his father's shop and later killed him for telling the police, he started to wonder if the woman was the same?
"A woman scorned" he thought "It's likely" He thought back to what she had said to them:
"How dare you interrupt my fight?"
"This has nothing to do with you!"
"This isn't your business...Even if you believe it is! If you had any sense you'd stay out of my way!"
As he thought about how she spoke, she sounded like a true woman scorned, her voice was really angry and the way she told them to stay away from her, she sounded like she really did not want anyone to interfere with her business.
As he continued to think, he heard his brothers come out of their rooms, Leonardo and Michelangelo jumped down from the upper level of the lair and Raphael came out of his room stretching.
"Hey Don" said Michelangelo "you're up early"
Donatello turned to his brothers. "I woke up a couple of hours ago and I couldn't get back to sleep"
"Still trying to do some more research?" asked Raphael "did you find anything else?"
Donatello shook his head, "only reports of murdered Purple Dragons and information on their deaths, but no other information on who killed them and why"
Leonardo sighed, "So technology won't help us here" he said.
Donatello looked saddened, being a techno turtle and using technology to find answers he was feeling disheartened that he had found no information given all his experience in hacking and digging real deep.
"Looks like the only info we're gonna find is from our vigilante babe" said Michelangelo, the other turtles looked at him. "What?" said Michelangelo.
Raphael shook his head and hopped over to the kitchen area. He instantly started making coffee for everyone. The other turtles joined him, and Michelangelo instantly went to the fridge to find some ingredients to make some breakfast.
As Raphael was passing mugs of coffee to the other turtles and Michelangelo was making some pancakes, Master Splinter came out of his quarters.
"Good morning my sons" he said bowing to them. The turtles bowed to him, Raphael then handed him a white mug filled with green tea.
"Thank you Raphael" said Splinter as he took the mug and blew on the top of it to cool the drink.
"Master Splinter" said Donatello "I have been doing research on the vigilante" Splinter looked at Donatello, and leaned on the table, "and what have you found out my son?" he asked softly.
"Well..." said Donatello "I was awake a lot earlier than my brothers, I couldn't shake away my curiosity so I did research" he took a sip of his coffee before continuing.
"I have a hunch on the vigilante" he then told Splinter about what he believed after thinking about her similar behaviour to that of Casey Jones and how he believed that may be a woman scorned.
"Hell hath no Fury like a Woman scorned!" commented Michelangelo as he flipped a pancake with the spatula which flew through the air and landed on Raphael's head.
"Hey!" shouted Raphael crossly as the hot sticky pancake landed on his head and the butter ran down his face.
"Opps" said Michelangelo with a sheepish look on his face.
Raphael glared at him and pulled the pancake off his head and rubbed it clean with a napkin.
Leonardo and Donatello laughed and Splinter chuckled. Soon Michelangelo finished making the pancakes and served them to everyone who tucked in gratefully.
"Once we're geared up, we shall search for that woman" said Leonardo.
"There are many things I want to ask her" "Do not rush into it my Son" said Splinter softly, "be patient and careful" Leonardo nodded.
"We will not hurt her Sensei" he said "but we will do what we can to bring her down and ask her questions"
Splinter smiled at his eldest son, "I know you will not hurt her" he said "but you must be careful, and be prepared for anything" the turtles agreed, "we will Master Splinter" said Raphael "We'll be real careful" said Michelangelo with a mouthful of pancakes. Donatello just nodded.
"I just hope we have better luck tonight" he thought as he placed the last piece of pancake into his mouth and sipped the rest of his coffee, "she was pretty fast on her feet" he then took his empty plate and cup to the sink and washed them up.
Looks like Donatello's got a hunch about Mona
But what will happen when they find her? Find out in the next chapter!
