Authors notes- I do not own the TMNT or any of their compadres.
Chapter 8
"But wasn't sensei all 'don't go beat Shredder dude's ass by yourselves'?"
"Huh?… Oh, I dunno, Raph just told me to ask you to leave a note for Splinter..." I stand by Mikey who's scribbling a note down on Don's desk.
"You okay Karm? You seem distracted." He looks up from writing.
"I'm fine." I give a small smile and get a nod in return. Mikey puts the pen down and straightens up. I glance over what he's written.
'Hey sensei, sorry but Leo's gone to do his ol' Fearless leader thing and tell the Shredder dude the deal is off. I bet we'll be back before you read this note, you won't even noticed we've gone, ha ha!
Mikey, Raph (the smelly one), Leo, Donny and Karmy (who insisted we take her)'
"Mikey! I didn't insist!" I scowl at my grinning brother who takes the note and sticks it to the punching bag with a spare sai before dashing off laughing into the tunnels. I follow him to meet with everyone else in the tunnels. Leo stands tall, the red and black katana casually slung onto his back with his other katana and a solemn expression painted on his face.
"Ready?" He asks Mikey and I.
"Yup, note written and left in an obvious place." Mikey grins.
"Right… you know you all don't have to do this with me, don't you?" Leo's face falls kinder.
"What kinda brothers would we be if we just let ya go get your ass headed to ya?" Raph straightens from leaning against the wall. I failed to notice him at first, he was lazily blending into the shadows.
"And there's nothing like going topside, even if it is to beat up some big scary dude." Mikey grins.
Don, who was sealing off the door to our home, reassures Leo by exchanging smiles with him, but a worried glance comes my way.
"Karm? You don't have to come."
"No, I want to." I look to Leo, forcing a smile onto my face. "What kinda sister would I be?" Leo only smiles slightly back before leading off. We all follow him through the tunnels, me trailing at the back. Don falls back from the front with Leo, to walk with me.
"Hiya Donny." I smile at him.
"Hey Kar… I don't mean to intrude but, are you okay? Your mind seems elsewhere."
"Everything's fine." I nod at my brother.
"I didn't ask how everything is Karma, I asked if you were okay." He takes a stricter tone with me.
"Yeah I'm okay Donny, just a bit tired."
"You can go back if you want, you don't have to always rush in where we do."
"I want to and I'm okay." I smile slightly again.
"If you're sure." Donny lets out a small sigh.
We make our way down the tunnels and stop at the nearest manhole leading to the surface. We follow Leo along to the old warehouse where Shredder first offered his deal.
The Shredder or Oroku Saki, chose whichever, he's still the same evil man that thought I was "perfect" for destroying my own family. I remembered that dream that seemed too real. I was back in Stockman's lab and was introduced to a "Mr Saki". He told me he was the head of a very important organisation and I was destroy these creatures who were interfering with his business. The thing is, that wasn't a dream, that was a real memory. I just had the unpleasant experience of reliving it twice, luckily the second time was a dream.
Raph is the only one to know about my dream just because he was there for me when I woke up from it. At the time, I was so upset, I doubt he got much out of me in my hysterical state. He probably doesn't remember this won't be my first encounter with The Shredder.
