Author's Note: Ok, Chapter Eight, we meet a new character, although you know stuff about him already so I won't worry about a little description. Ok, the story won't be read unless I stop talking and get on with the story, so without further ado, Chapter Eight.
Summary: When street turtle, Raphael frees a genie from a lamp, he finds his wishes granted. However, he soon finds that the evil has other plans for the lamp – and for Princess Leonora. But can Raphael save the Princess and his love for her after she sees that he isn't quite what he appears to be? Read to find out. AU! RaphxFem!Leo
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Chapter 8: Meet Carpet; Casey
Night time. Out in the desert, thunder clashed and a sandstorm was brewing. But that didn't stop Raphael, Michelangelo and the beggar who trudged on walking through the storm to the Cave of Wonders. The old man was riding a horse, while Raph was pulling the animal along, so that the beggar didn't have to use his feet, but the emerald turtle wasn't happy about being the one to walk the animal, but he had to suck it up and continue. Especially if he wanted that treasure, the beggar told him about. They walked throughout the night til they came to the place where the Cave of Wonders resides after the old beggar activated the two bug medallions.
The head of the triceratops emerged once the bug medallions split in half and stuck themselves within the dune. Its large mouth looks both inviting and intimidating.
"Who disturbs my slumber?" the deep voice of the triceratops head boomed. Raph looked speechless and Mikey was shit scared hiding in Raph's vest.
"Uh, it's me, Raphael," Raph answered breathless. The white eyes of the triceratops head studied the terrapin's appearance and saw his worth.
"Proceed. Touch nothing but the lamp," the cave said as he opens his mouth wide with a roar and a staircase appears in front of the red clad terrapin and his companion.
"Remember, boy, first fetch me the lamp, and then you shall have your reward," the beggar said before Raph and Mikey could descend into the cave.
"Come on, Mikey you wimp," Raph whispers to his friend who is shivering from fright.
"I-I'm not a wimp, Raph," he bravely says as they descended the stairs together, the monkey turtle hiding further down his vest.
"Could've fooled me," the red clad turtle growled back. As they descended the stairs, they couldn't help but think that it was taking forever to get to the bottom, but that didn't stop them, they trudged on. After what felt like an eternity, they have reached the bottom and started walking through an arch that acted as a door, Mikey was more scared at finding what was on the other side of said door, so he stayed hidden within Raph's vest, but the bigger terrapin was amazed and couldn't keep his excitement in. "Would you look at that!" he states speechless.
"What dude? Look at what?" Mikey asked as he peeked out of his friend's vest, and looks astonished at where they are. A golden chamber filled with treasure. More treasure than they could ever imagine, treasure that could make them rich beyond their dreams.
"Just a handful of this stuff would make me richer than the Sultan" Raph said, looking around the treasure in amazement, mainly to himself. Mikey couldn't hold back any longer, he jumps out of Raph's vest and bolts for it, "MIKEY!" before he could touch a piece of the treasure his bigger friend stopped him. He stops and stands on a beautiful multi-coloured rug, mostly of blue and gold, with a distinctive pattern depicting the Cave of Wonders in all four corners and flames along the top and bottom and a gold pattern in the centre that appears to consist of four swords and eight small genie lamps, that is on the floor, just before the treasure. "Don't… touch… anything. As much as it is tempting, we can't touch" Raph was stern in saying so. "We gotta find that lamp." He walked off as Mikey looked sadly at the treasure then glared at Raph as he follows, mumbling under his breath. The rug Mikey was standing on rises off the ground and smirks a mischievous smile, he then begins following them, slowly. Mikey could almost swear that someone was following them
"Hey, monkey! What's happening?" the carpet, says softly, almost as a whisper. Then lies flat on the floor once the smaller terrapin turns around.
"Huh?" the monkey turtle says curiously. He turns, sees the carpet on the floor, but nothing else, turns back and continues following Raph. Said carpet gets up and begins following again.
"Hey Monkey! I'm here" he softly says again. And again, Mikey turns back around and doesn't see the rug on the floor, but rolled up and leaning against a pile of treasure. Mikey, scared, runs to Raph and tugs at his pants.
"Raphie! Raphie!" he yells and points at the carpet, scared and almost hyperventilating. Raph not caring at the moment was getting irritated, turned toward his small friend and glared.
"Mikey, will you knock it off?" he growls out, then continues walking. Mikey, on the other hand was angrier than anything, he glared as he followed the bigger terrapin once again. The carpet follows once again, but this time, instead of flying, it tiptoes to the monkey turtle. When said terrapin turned around there was no one there, not even the carpet. Unknowingly, to Mikey, the carpet was hovering above him and gently pulls his tail with his tussle, used as hands. Mikey looks the other side of him in a karate stance, breathing heavily. The carpet reaches down and plucks Mikey's fez off of his head with a tussle and puts it on himself. Mikey sits down on the ground thinking.
"Yo, monkey dude, I'm here," the carpet said as he waved a tussle in his face. Mikey turns when seeing the carpet and jumps a mile in the air, scared. The carpet doing the same.
"AHHH!" they both screamed and ran away, the carpet to hide and Mikey to Raph. But the smaller terrapin literally tackles the red clad turtle for his attention. He jumps on him and pointing to the carpet, in anxiousness. Raph was trying to get him off, without any luck.
"Mikey, what are you, crazy?" he asked as Mikey turns his head to look at the carpet, who peeks out from behind a pile of treasure. "A magic carpet. Awesome." He stated in awe. "Come on. Come on out. We're not gonna hurt ya" Raph coaxed the carpet out. He came out slowly and on edge.
"Yea, can never really trust some people who says that you know," the carpet… he said as he picks up Mikey's fez and dusts it off. Raph was taken aback.
"You can talk?" he asks bewildered.
"Of course I can talk. You talk don't ya?" the carpet replies.
"Yea, but he's a turtle, you're just a rug."
"Well, sorry to burst your bubble, dude, but I can talk to." He says as he flies over to Raph and tries handing Mikey his fez, but said terrapin screeches and jumps onto Raph's shoulder.
"Get away from me, ghost."
"Hey, Mikey, take it easy will ya? He's not gonna bite," Raph says.
"Much," the carpet responded as he hands the fez to Raph.
"Thanks," who in turn gave it to Mikey. Mikey takes it and places it on his head, shaking his fist at the carpet and shouts.
"You bite, you'll get some beating you know ghost, now buzz off." Mikey shouts at him.
"Fine, I just wanted someone to play with. Being trapped here for years with no one to talk to or play with is very boring. I'll just go then," the carpet said as he walked off 'sadly'.
"Hey, now, wait a minute. Don't go. Don't listen to Mikey, he doesn't know what he's saying most of the time. I'm Raphael and this is Michelangelo" Raph said.
"I'm Casey," the carpet, Casey replied.
"Maybe you can help us Casey. You see, we're trying to find this lamp," Raph started.
"Say no more dude, I know exactly where it is, follow me," Casey says as he motions for them to follow. Mikey and Raph does just that. As they walked, Casey started chatting on and on about the loneliness he had for a millennia, and other things that he does, until they came to a cave where it looked dark, like it was night time. "Well, dudes, there it is up there" Casey says as he gestures up to a pile of huge rocks that act like stairs. Raph went down the ledge he was on to go over some stepping stone, but before he left, he looked to Mikey sternly.
"Wait here, and don't touch anything" he whispers also sternly and heads off. Mikey wasn't happy. He grumbled his disappointment and looked around. His eyes fell on a shrine with a golden monkey, its outstretched hands held a giant ruby, as if it were teasing Mikey to take it. The orange clad turtle was hypnotized by its beauty that he slowly walks towards it as Raph finishes crossing the bridge and made it to the stairs and ascended them. What Raph had said was not registering through the monkey turtle's head as Mikey, still hypnotized was still walking toward the statue with the ruby. Casey saw him gone and looked around for him. He spotted him heading to the gem.
"Mikey! Don't ya dare!" he says as he grabs the monkey turtle's tail to hold him back. Raph reached the top and sees the lamp. He grabs the object and inspects it.
"This is it? This is what we came all the way down here to…" he starts, unbelieving until he looks behind and sees Mikey break free of Casey's grasp. "MIKEY! NO!" he yells, but, too late. The smaller terrapin grabs the ruby, then all of a sudden there was rumbling.
"Infidels" the cave shouted. At the outburst, the room begins to shake even more.
"Uh-oh…" Mikey says in fear.
"What have you done, dude?" Casey asked with his hands on his 'head'.
"You have touched the forbidden treasure!" the cave continued as if to answer Casey's question. Mikey gives an innocent smile and places the gem back in the statues paws. But the jewel and the shrine melted into lava. "Now, you will never again see the LIGHT OF DAY!" the cave finished. The whole cave was starting to collapse around them. Will Raph and Mikey make it? Or will they perish within the cave, along with their new friend?
Demon Kirara out
DEMON~DEMON~DEMON
Author's Note: A cliff hanger, who would've thought. That was Chapter Eight, Raphael and Michelangelo, have entered the cave and have met Casey, the Magic Carpet. Won't need any describing of him, you all should know him by now. Tune in next week for the next chapter.
Until then Demon Kirara out.
