The Black Ninja
Chapter 9: You Take; I Receive
Karalynn's Point of View:
Its been a couple months since our last encounter with the Shredder, and in that time frame, the winter quickly and strangely left early this ear, causing us to begin to get buds and green grass by late March thirtieth, today's date and seven days later then Kim's birthday, which we celebrated here when we arrived a short while before that date. Kim enjoyed her birthday very well and spent a large part of it with Leo, which kept both of them out of our hair.
We were currently all enjoy some extreme early warm weather due to some strange heat waves from the south that have been continuously heading our way since about mid March. It was up to the high seventies and had even April out in a spaghetti strap shirt and shorts and the grass and buds were out. It was certain strange to see it out so early, but it was beautiful all the same. I enjoyed the warm weather to the fullest as it was supposed to turn to down pouring rain for the next week and turn twenty to thirty degrees cooler, and that's only during the day.
Daddy had the guys training at the moment and Mom had through the girls into the mix as well, normally I wouldn't be exempt from training, but Daddy decided to let it slide after a new burden was placed upon me, and one was lifted from Leo. Daddy and the other had started to notice that I took charge much more often then I had before Tori and Damien had come into my life, and my father and mother had apparently notice these signs as well. He called me into his room where he was meditating this morning and talked to me about this issue.
Karalynn's Memory (Also her POV):
Daddy had called me into his room only a short time ago to speak over some facts that had been bothering him as of late. When I arrived in his room, Mom was there with him. I saw the two of them look up at me and for the first time in a long while, I felt nervous of what my parents were about to tell me. My instincts had been right, but I hadn't known them at the time.
"My daughter, please kneel." I obeyed my father as I had been trained when I was younger and kneeled before him and my mother. The two of them looked at me with their eyes judging over me, like they were looking at a different person.
"Karalynn, would you please tell us about the orders you give around to the others?" My mother's question caught me off guard and I didn't understand what she was asking of me.
"Mom? What do you mean?" I questioned her softly.
"There is nothing to fear my dear child, but we do require some answers." Daddy explained. "As of late, your brothers and Serena's daughters have notice your sudden and strange leadership role you seem to play over Victoria and Damien, as well as even them from time to time. Can you explain that?"
"As of late, my powers have been getting stronger as I'm sure you've noticed." I began. I looked over at the two of them and my father nodded for me to continue. "Because my powers are getting stronger, so are my senses, they reach out further then my brothers and the girls' do. I give them orders in the spur of the moment to get them out of the way of an attack and what not because I can't make it to them in time and they know how to get out of the way faster then where I could direct them."
"And what of Victoria and Damien? They look to you for orders before they do anything other then when you're injured or incapable of giving them?" Mom questioned.
"I really don't know, but if I had to guess, it's because I know more about the powers they posses and this history and reasons behind them. I know what'll happen to their bodies before they do because I've already gone through it. I guess I just fell into the roll of helping them along the way and showing them how it needed to be done."
My father sighed and Mom placed a hand on his arm. "My daughter, I'm sure that you remember the day when I told Leonardo that he would be leader of the five of you, yes?"
"I remember." I was about to add how Raph was mad at Leo for the longest of time because of it, but I kept my mouth closed.
"Then you know that as a leader you are required to train more often then those you lead and protect. My daughter… you are no longer part of your brother's group and under his leadership."
I felt my breath turn to stone in my lungs as I heard his words over and over again in my head. I was no longer part of Leo's group? Then where did I belong?
"From what your father and I have discussed, you are to become the leader of your own group, that of Victoria and Damien." Mom explained during my silence. "You have shown abilities to show that you can be a leader, and your eldest brother can only lead so many before his skills fall flat. By having you as a leader as well, this will lessen the burden placed on your brother's shoulders, but increase it upon your own. We are not sure where this decision will take you along with all the other burdens you carry, but we hope that it will help you blossom into a wonderful warrior and magic user, and person."
"We will give you time to think this over however, if you think that our thoughts are wrong on this subject." My father said calmly. "If you feel that you are not ready for the task, let us know and we will forget this conversation had ever taken place. But should you accept this burden and responsibility, we will announce it to your siblings and your own team in due time. You are free to go now my daughter."
I quickly rose from my seat before them and hurried out the door. I needed time to think and the only time to do that was during the guys training practice.
Present Time (Still Karalynn's POV):
Since their conversation with me about being the leader of my own group, I've been out here in the calm of the edge of the woods while the others were all at practice, minus Damien and Tori who had joined me thinking I was training all on my own in a new art. I let them believe so and allowed myself to listen to my brother's conversation as they were training. Daddy and Mom were having them defend themselves without seeing anything.
"Uh… Master Splinter? When you said we were coming up here for a little rest and recuperation, I thought you meant rest and recuperation." Donny noted as his mask was twisted so that it covered his eyes and a staff was in his hands. All my brothers and the girls were like that and waiting for attacks to hit them head on.
"Ah Donatello," my father approached him with Mom at his side. "There is nothing more restful for a ninja then rigorous training. It brings focus and- huh?" Daddy turned when the sudden sound of game like blasting noises came from behind him.
Mikey and Ally had wandered away form him and were playing a video game off to the side. They seemed to be doing well on it until Daddy grabbed Mikey and Mom grabbed Ally, dragging them both over to the others and throwing them back into place while they're game system was dropped to the ground.
"Game dude!" Ally cried. Mikey cried with her for a moment before our parents whacked them over the head.
"Now, defend yourselves." Mom ordered them.
"Uh, Master Splinter? Master Serena? We got like zero visibility here." Raph noted.
"And we have to defend ourselves for you two? We can hardly do that with our eyes open." Jade scoffed, but she was prepared to defend and attack either way.
Mom and Daddy used this moment to attack everyone at least one and give them a chance to attack back with the staff they were given. Everyone passed easily with flying colors until it came down to the last one that was attacked, Mikey. Oh, he was able to block the attack…
"Not bad, huh Sensei? Master Serena?" Mikey questioned with a haughty smirk with his eyes still hidden.
"Yes, not bad at all." Daddy told him, slowly rising to his feet from where it had landed.
"The lesson is over for today." Mom added in and walked over to where Ally was as she and her two elder sisters and my three younger elder brothers all turned around their masks while the pair struck. It was like a line of dominos as I watched one fall into another and then land into a large heap, the only ones to avoid this were Kim and Leo, who jumped over the others and landed next to Mom and Daddy.
"Master Splinter!" Donny complained.
"Mother! I though you said we were done for the day?" Sophie continued with her own complaint to the rat pair known as our parents.
"A true ninja should never believe everything they hear." Mom said to them. She and Daddy both bowed to Leo and Kim.
"Well done Leonardo, Kimberly." Daddy gave them praise and everyone else got sour over that.
"There goes Leo and Kim making us look bad again." Donny muttered. Leo helped him to his feet while Kim helped out her sisters.
"Well Kimmy and her Leo don't do everything fucken perfect all the time." Jade muttered.
"Hell yeah Copper." Raph growled in agreement.
"What was that Jade? Raphael?" Mom questioned them. Their angry faces instantly vanished and they walked by them to join their siblings.
"Nothing Sensei." They both muttered.
"Come, let us sit and talk." Daddy led the guys back over to where April and Casey were sitting under the shade of a tree. Casey was in a lawn chair just enjoying not doing anything and April was reading some sort of book that looked quite interesting to her. "My daughters and son, come join us." I nearly felt the beaming pride come from my two close friends, now siblings. They loved hearing Daddy call them his son or daughter or children, anything to recognize that they belonged now to a family. We easily rose from our spots and joined our family as they sat on the laid out picnic blanket.
"It's no big deal really, but I was thinking about the first time we met the Shredder, and how he almost had Leonardo here 'going over to the dark side'." Raph waved around his fingers and hands to emphasis his point.
"Yeah, at least Kim had the smarts to talk to Mother first." Jade agreed and leaded against Raph's arm.
"Ugg!" Leo groaned. "Here we go again. You know," he looked over at Raph. "I still feel like an idiot about that whole thing."
"I don't blame ya; the Shredder almost had you believin' he was a good guy. Remember?" He placed a hand on Leo shoulder and squeeze it in a brotherly love way, it was the most affection that I'd seen Raph give to Leo in a long time and not snap at them. "The Shredder invited you to a little party, and like a sucker you went. Alone."
Leonardo's Memory (Also His POV):
There seamed to be nothing but hallways for a short while, until there was a light threw a door. I walked a head of Kim and looking threw it, seeing no one was there, I motioned to her to come inside with me. We both walked in the large room, lit by dim lights on the ceiling.
"Hello?" I called, looking around in the room for any signs of movement. "Hello?" It was then that I saw the symbol of The Foot plaster all over the walls. I instantly crouched and growled loudly, glaring at them.
I heard Kim draw her swords next to me and looked to where she was now looking, up in the rafters were nearly thirteen ninja. I drew my own swords and stood with my shell against Kim's. We then both preformed a jump in the air that sent us in opposite directions, but gave us more space from the Foot Ninja. They then attacked. I had no time to see how Kim faired as I dealt with my own, but I easily knocked mine out by getting to an angled handstand and pressing back into some of the ninjas with my feet, sending them into the ground. More came at me with their swords; I broke theirs with my own and knocked them out as well. They were all down and Kim rushed to my side.
"Are you okay?" She asked me quietly.
"Not even a scratch." I whispered back to her. My eyes instantly turned when we both heard the sound of clapping across the room. Turning to see a man dressed in white Japanese clothing, that I almost wanted to resemble to a robe and a kimono. Two Foot symbols were on the front chest plate of each shoulder. His black hair was short, just below his head, but above his shoulders. He stepped more out of the shadows and smiled somewhat darkly at Kim and I.
"Impressive, very impressive." He said to us. "My agents said you were good, but their description doesn't do you justice. I am Oroku Saki, eighth generation master of ninjutsu. And, you are?"
The two of us both placed our swords in their proper place on our backs. "Leonardo Hamato." I responded.
"Kimberly Mora." Kim said neutrally next to me.
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"You have been caught in the middle of a battle that is so much bigger then yourselves. But you must know that the force, a corrupt and evil force that is out there, right now, working its insidious tentacles into every aspect of our world. It is an organization devoted to obtaining power threw crime, political manipulation, corruption on a global level."
"Whoa..." I nearly gasped. I quickly glanced at Kim who looked really torn between Saki's words and not believing him.
Saki sighed. "Unfortunately, the only thing standing against this evil force is me and my… humble army of ninjas. We stand along against them, as my master did, and his master before him. It has been my destiny to fight for the side of good." Saki walked to the point where he was once again standing before Kim and I. "I was hoping that you two would find it in your hearts to join me and fight against this evil. We could stand together!"
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
Mikey began to make noises like that from the Star Wars movies with Darth Vader over the silence that fell over us. "Join me Leonardo," he said in a Vader like voice. "I am your father." The other completely ignored him however and continued on with their own conversation.
"I can't believe you bought the Shredder's twisted story." Raph commented with a slightly worried face.
"Neither did I." Leo glumly said.
"Do not feel bad my son, you hoped his words were true." Daddy told him.
"It is a good nature to hope Leonardo, do not feel shamed of this." Mom said.
"I'm just glad that you guys opened my eyes, especially you Sensei, Master Serena," he looked over at Kim next to him. "And I think I owe you the most Kim, if it wasn't for you, I don't think I'd have gone to Master Splinter or Master Serena at all."
"I just wanted to keep you and everyone safe." She said softly. "You meant a lot to me then, you're my world now, I can't lose that." Leo smiled and kissed her softly on the sided of her head.
"You won't." Kim smiled up at my eldest brother and leaned on his arm.
"I'm glad that the Shredder didn't see Mother or Master Splinter the first time we faced him, or else we'd be gone." Ally commented.
"Yeah," Mikey agreed. "Remember the first time we faced the Shredder? He kicked our shells all over the place!"
Kimberly's Memory (Also Her POV):
In a sudden flash Leo had joined us in our huddle against the wall. I caught him as his body slid into mine and I cradled his shoulders and head in my arms, his swords slid to either side of him. The Shredder then approached us as his flunkies crawled away to lick their own battle wounds and he raised his bladed arm over his head.
"None of you will leave here alive!" He growled.
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"I thought for sure that the Shredder was going to finish us off." Leo sighed.
"Yeah, too bad he forgot about a couple things, one, a group of magical beings that could hurt him easily that we know as K-lynn, Damien and Tori." Raph smirked.
"And two, one ninety pound weapon of mass and an eighty pound weapon extreme terror and ferocity we like to know as Master Splinter and dear old Mother dearest." Jade snickered.
Kimberly's Memory (Also Her POV):
"K-lynn!" She cried. True to her words, the very girl spoken of was standing before us, some kind of double bladed sword in her hands, covered on its small handle between the two blades were black and white cloth, tied around it. Each side of the sword didn't look normal, one blade seamed to be made of some kind of black metal and the other blade seamed to be made of a white metal. K-lynn had the white blade holding back the attack from the Shredder; both arms of enemy and friend were shaking from the pressure pressed against one another.
"Magic child, you have finally showed yourself, after all these years." The Shredder laughed. He suddenly then yelled in pain after a flash of black raced by him. K-lynn now had the black blade faced upward and she had cut off his arm. The Shredder held the shoulder with his bladed arm.
"Get the hell away from my family you fucken murderer!" She the raced forward and started swinging her double blade at him. The Shredder backed away and fought with only his left arm against the guys' little sister. Their weapons clashed as she tried to force him back on the roof, but he had other ideas. When he was given an opening, he slashed K-lynn's arm. I heard Tori, and now even Damien together on the roof calling to her that they were going to help, but one glare from her said to stay put. She placed her hand that held her weapon over her arm and I saw her release the same energy as Tori did, healing her arm.
"How-" The Shredder stuttered. "You can heal?" He didn't get an answer from her, she charged again and sliced the front of his arm, he had only jumped out of the way just in time.
"You don't know what I can do." She growled at him and raced forward, jumping and had her weapon high over her head. The weapon was about to hit when all went red in our eyes. The Shredder had gotten a good long gash on K-lynn lover abdomen and she fell to the ground. The Shredder kicked away her weapon as she tried to heal herself and he raised his weapon above his head.
Damien and Tori could no longer watch their best friend be hurt, they rushed in and Damien took on the Shredder, using the katana that looked to be the one K-lynn always carried around, while Tori helped K-lynn heal her wound. Damien was not as skilled with a katana yet though as K-lynn was and it was knocked out of his hand before his chest was cut and he was thrown back. Tori then left K-lynn, only healing half of her wound and charging in to face the Shredder herself. Her hands became covered in this red energy that we had sometimes seen K-lynn use, but her hands had black diamonds floating in this energy, and she raced her hand forward to face the Shredder. It never made contact with him or his armor, but for some strange reason, the armor in Shredder's side began to crumble.
"What kind of trickery is this?" The Shredder roared. Tori charged at him again and this time was able to place her palm on his chest, the armor instantly turned to rust and we saw his skin underneath coming apart, ripping into pieces.
"That's what my other ability does." Tori snapped. "It pulls apart skin and tissue, and when it comes into contact with weapons or armor, it shatters." She picked up the Shredder's severed arm and it turned to dust in her hands. "My ability separates everything. You get hit in the right spot with enough power and you're a goner." She rushed at him again, but this time he was ready for her attack. He jumped over her head and stuck the back of it, Tori fell instantly unconscious.
Shredder then turned back to K-lynn, she was still healing the large cut on her abdomen. His single fist with its blade on his wrist was raised above her head and we all shouted at her to get out of there. His fist came down and we closed our eyes, no longer able to watch.
When we heard the clang of metal and wood, we looked up. We saw that Master Splinter had blocked the Shredder's attack and Master Serena had forced him back away from K-lynn, Tori and Damien.
"You have destroyed both our families' once; we refuse to let it happen again!" I heard our mother cry out in the night. She and Master Splinter then kicked him toward the center of the roof and stood before the water tower. They motioned for him to attack, and he did.
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When I was sure we had gotten all the others to safety, I dared to look back at our masters fighting with the Shredder. The water tower now swerved back and forth from the Shredder cutting its support beams. I could see the look of slight fear on his face as he watched the tower rock.
"This is for my Master Yoshi!" Master Splinter growled.
"And this is for my Master Alisa!" My mother snapped. The two of them jumped in the air by the water tower and they knocked out the last of the support beams strength, the water tower then fell toward the Shredder as he and his flunkies, that were left, ran away from the on coming water. As we watched from the next building, we saw the Shredder crash into the concert ground below. The water tower then fell over the edge and I felt Ally press her face into my shoulder when the Shredder was crushed under the tower.
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"I thought I had avenged my Master Yoshi, and Serena of her Master Alisa, but the Shredder was not finished." Daddy sighed as he remembered upon that day.
"Do not dwell upon it too deeply Splinter, we are safe and with our family now." Mom soothed him with her words, but he still looked hurt.
"Finished?" Casey finally shouted from the lawn chair he was laying back on. "I wonder if he'll ever be finished!"
"He does have quite the habit of turning back up, especially at the worst timings." Kim sighed and took Leo's hand in her own.
"Yeah, remember April's apartment?" Sophie questioned as I saw the thought pop into her head. She tightened her hold on Donny and Donny rubbed his large thumb across her knuckles on the hand that was in his own.
"I wish I could forget it!" Mikey commented worriedly.
"Me too… I hated that day." Ally muttered.
Karalynn's Memory (Also Her POV):
"THE WINDOW!" I screamed and everyone turned and looked, just in time to see Leo and Kim crash through them and fall flat on the floor. "LEONARDO! KIMBERLY!"
"Leo!" Raph yelled, rushing to his side.
"Kim!" Jade nearly screamed when she saw her sister broken. They were both bleeding badly and dealing with several deep wounds. It was a miracle that they were still alive when Donny and Sophie said they were.
"Who did this to you?" Raph question.
"What the hell happened Kimberly Mora!" Jade snapped at her sister as tears rolled down her face. Both of our hot-heads stood up from where when they didn't get an answer and they stood and grabbed their sais and left to the window.
"Raph/Jadey." Leo and Kim called out for the two of them both at the same time. The two turtles looked at each other sadly before they went back to their crumpled eldest sibling lying on the floor.
"He's back…" Leo whispered before he faded from the world. We all looked over at Kim, hoping she'd stick around long enough to tell us who.
"The Shredder…." She sobbed before fell from the real world and into her mind. We all gasped and I felt my heart sink to the bottommost pit of the world. He was alive, the man who killed my family, and now he's taking my other one too.
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All the Foot Elite were standing at the front door. April and Tori now had Leo and Kim safe in the back of the store while the rest of us stood before our enemy. Another silhouette though was in the outside doorway of the shop and was then kicked down. In came the very man that whore that blood covered armor. I shook slightly in rage and fear as I saw him enter.
"It's true, its him!" Mikey quivered in disbelief.
"Just like Kimmy and Leo said!" Ally agreed.
"Shredder…" Damien growled. I took my stance next to the others and we watched him come closer.
"You freaks have been a thorn in my side long enough." Shredder told us when he walked into the shop. Daddy and Mom both jumped before him and glared at him. "No one apposes the Shredder, and now I will have my revenge for our last encounter! Say farewell to each other, while you still can."
"Oh yeah Mr. Spikey Pants?" Mikey worked up his courage, but it honestly didn't seam to help him here. "You're the one who should be saying farewell…" He looked quite lost for a moment, trying to find words that worked, but he already sent himself down another path. "To yourself!"
"Oh yeah Mikey," Jade sighed. "That's got him."
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"I hated that night." I mumbled in my arms that were wrapped around my legs that I had brought up to my chest. I felt Damien put his arm around my shoulders and allowed me to lean against his shoulder.
"I know, I hated that night too." He muttered sorrowfully. "We almost thought we lost you." I felt Tori curl her body into my side as I leaned into Damien's.
"At least we safe now right?" She questioned softly.
"Yeah, we're safe now." Damien snorted and pulled the two of us protectively closer to him.
Karalynn's Memory (Also Her POV):
When I next woke, I felt my hands could not move. I pulled against them and tried to use my powers, but then I saw that my energy was low and I tied with metal rope.
"Don't bother magic child, you're my slave now, and you family, is as good as dead." Shredder was standing next to me. We were on a rooftop, one that was right across from April's. I saw the fire there, and it jagged back memories from the last fire. I felt the fear rise up into me.
"Where's my family?" I shouted at him.
"Still inside that cooler room, the building should implode in a few-" before he could finish, the entire building burst into flames and collapsed.
I felt my heart freeze as I watched the flames trying to spread to other buildings, and no bodies were in the fire. Were they lost in the explosion? Did they get out? All I knew was that if anything happened to me now, I wouldn't care so long as I was dead.
That feeling then, it changed to rage, so much rage. So much that I felt my very vision got black and red in everyway I looked. I used all my strength to pull against the binds; I wanted to slaughter them all.
"Take her back to the tower." Shredder commanded. His ninja behind me nodded and pulled me to my feet. They had to drag me across the roof to get me anywhere.
My rage, I was so consumed in it, I didn't realize it when I was stealing most of the energy of those around me, giving me a crazy amount of energy that I had little control over.
I screamed out into the stormy night and lighting came flashing down from the heavens, it hit every man on the roof, and whether they were dead or not, didn't mater to me. Shredder was the only one left standing, and he was covered in brown smoke from his metal conducting. How he survived that attack I don't know, but I didn't wait to find out.
I jumped from roof top and hurried to the back of April's building, avoiding the police as they recoded the 'accident'. When I got there, I saw that no one was there. The building was mostly gone, other then the flames that still lingered. I felt to the ground there, and I cried and sobbed, screaming my heart out into the night. No coherent words passed my lips, only rage and sorrow filled growls and shrieks.
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"Do you think he's gone? For good? The Shredder?" April asked worriedly.
"I don't know, I sure thought Leo had finished him off that night at Foot Headquarters." Raph chucked his thumb in Leo's direction with a sour expression on his face.
Karalynn's Memory (Also Her POV):
Damien then flew us around in the sky, and we helped Raph and Jade fire planes out of the sky. We knocked out quiet a few before I saw my brothers and their girlfriends (still not including Kim and Leo in that reference) stood before Shredder on the roof. His elite guard was down and he was only left with the Sword of Tengu. Though out of nowhere, Shredder summoned more ninjas. It was then that we saw a new party join in the fight, the Guardians. It appeared that they had joined arms with us and were helping the others below on the roof.
I screamed with Tori when I felt Damien suddenly shot us downward in direction and a few shots raced by us. We held onto each other for dear life as Damien straitened us out and we quickly took out the other few Foot left in the air.
It was only as we were taking those final shots that I looked down and watched as the Shredder had Leo's swords and Leo had the Sword of Tengu. I gasped as I watched the two of them leap at each other and strike. I wasn't able to see at the moment who actually won until they landed.
It was then that I saw Shredder's head fall off his body, and his body fall to the ground. It was over…
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"But it wasn't the end of him." Jade muttered angrily. "Fricken bastard came back in the TCRI building and nearly blew us up."
"And just when we were helpin' our new pals the utroms back home after ten fucken centuries." Raph added on.
Karalynn's Memory (Also Her POV):
Mortu set down his body and climbed out of it. "Donatello, Sophie, if you two would do us the honor of powering up the trasmat."
"Sweet!" Donny yelled.
"Oh I'd never through I'd get to work with this technology!" Sophie nearly squealed as she and her boyfriend rushed over to the panel and started in.
While they were most of the way through, two shuriken came out of no where and hit the panel where the two brainy turtles were working. It sparked and the lightning spread, but Damien and I used our powers to keep it from hurting anyone by firing it at the empty mechanical bodies left by the other utrom. We looked over to where I saw the shuriken come from and I felt my body tense once more. Can't this guy just die already?
Shredder glared at the lot of us. "As long as I live, you will not leave this place alive!"
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"Seems like he's always trying to make sure we don't get out of anywhere alive." Kim sighed heavily.
Karalynn's Memory (Also Her POV):
Hun then walked off with the Foot Elites, but not before a small object fell from Shredder's hands and landed on the floor. It looked like it was infecting the entire space with red lines covering everything except for us. My brothers walked toward it to try and disarm it, but Mortu stopped them in alarm.
"Do not touch it!" His voice forced my brothers to flinch back from the device. "It's an utrom implosion device. A device that's technorganic virus will destroy you." My brothers backed away from it slowly. "Already it's infected the entire system. The building will implode in less then ten minutes!"
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"Bomb, smob. You guys are forgetting the really freaky part!" Mikey argued.
"Like how the Shredder was an utrom!" Ally whined in fear.
Karalynn's Memory (Also Her POV):
Shredder got up from his spot before the trasmat and looked at all of us in the greatest rage I've ever seen him in (and believe me, that's quite a feature.) "You…" he hissed. "You have been little more then thorns in my side. But now, you have robbed me of my triumph! And for that, you shall pay with your lives!" Shredder brought down his bladed hand upon my family, but Daddy was able to stop him before he could do any damage.
"Shredder! There is no time! The building is about to implode! Even you would not survive." Shredder then, through his rage, cut through my father's walking stick and he fell back ward into my brother's and Mom's hands.
"Then we will all perish, together!" The mad man shouted. Donny and Sophie then rushed forward and tried to knock him out from behind, but they're bo staves cracked and snapped in half on the back of his head. They were then shot off to the side with a deadly punch that was certainly going to leave a bruise for a week.
From there it was another battle with him. My brothers and the girls all tried to make dente in him with their weapons, but he somehow would always move out of the way, get their weapons into his hands, and fight back with just as much force. It wasn't until an attack by Leo and Kim with their katanas that Shredder was knocked down a peg and we were given a moment to re-gather our weapons and try to form a plan in three seconds.
Time was getting short on the time when Raph and Jade finally was able to get through his armor, stabbing their weapons in the hard metal. I was shocked to see his body staggering and sparking, I knew that wasn't from the two clashing.
"Guys! Use your weapons to penetrate his armor!" Donny shouted. "I think we can finally stop him for good!" It was then a race against time as we all rushed forward with any weapon we had, I summoned my black and white blade from its sheath on my back (I normally don't use it too heavily, but I bring it just incase) and Damien drew his katana and we all lashed out at the Shredder. It took no time at all for him to have all our weapon stashed deep into his armor.
I then saw Donny working on some wires at the back. "Donny, let me worry about giving it to Shredder, work on getting us out of here before this place goes!" My brother nodded and soon his girlfriend quickly rushed over to his side and helped him out.
Once I got them set strait I looked back at Shredder as he whined about how he couldn't be beaten. "Vous êtes fait." My hands sparked and I shot out a beam of lightning at Shredder, all the metal in his body made a wonderful conductor and he flung himself about before he finally was silenced and he fell over.
My family and I walked over to him and watched as smoke apparently came out of his abdomen. The parts to the armor there slowly receded and we watched as a hole large enough for an utrom opened up. From the hole we saw two large angry looking eyes and slowly it climbed out. The utrom inside was a dark blood red and there was a purple scar or tattoo on his face that covered most of the left side of his head and all around his eye. He angrily crawled out and glared at us.
"The Shredder's an utrom?" Nearly everyone screamed at the sight of him.
"It's the prisoner dude!" Mikey nearly had a heart attack before us. "He's the one who-who-"
"Who escaped after causing Mortu's ship to crash a millennium ago!" He hissed.
"He ain't so tough now." Raph growled, pounding his fist together.
"Let's squish him!" Jade hissed and lunged at the body of Shredder. Shredder, however, moved out of the way of her attack and jumped from her back to Raph where he was about to attach himself to his head before I intervened. I used my levitation powers to throw the evil utrom up into the air, having his body take a full blown hit from the ceiling. From there u thrusted his body from wall to wall in an attempt to really hurt him and let out all my frustrations. I hated the fact that he could keep coming back to haunt me about my painful past he induced upon me many years ago, all for my power. The people he took from me, it hurt so much…
"Enough, my daughter, it is time to leave." I suddenly felt my father's hand on my shoulder and I turned back to him. He steered me away from where I stood and to the trasmat where Donny and Sophie had got it up and running again. Damien and Tori took me into their arms as the trasmat powered up and we were suddenly transported away with the Shredder leaping at us, but he didn't make it. I felt no discomfort for leaving him there; I hope he enjoys hell, because I know that's where he was going.
Karalynn's Point of View (Present):
"How come every place we go things get blown up?" Mikey questioned.
"Just lucky I guess." Raph grumbled.
"Lucky? Yeah, but that last time wasn't so lucky for the Shredder." Donny looked deep in thought when April placed her hand on his shoulder and Sophie hid a scowl.
"But there's no way he could have survived that, is there?" April questioned worriedly.
"I dunno April, the Shredder may play rough-"
"And he may play dirty," Ally added.
"But he doesn't play dead." The two youngest turtles of each gender spoke together in perfect harmony and looked at each other for a moment before grinning.
"Jinx! You owe me a soda!" Ally called.
"Awe! Ally!" Mikey whined.
"And he sure leaves a path of destruction wherever he goes." Kim sighed. "It makes me think of Mother's master, Master Alisa. She was a guardian as well as Master Splinter's Sensei, right Mother?"
"Yes she had been Kimberly." Mom told her. "My Master Alisa most likely knew Splinter's Master Yoshi when they both lived. They both protected the secrets of the utrom, no matter where they were."
"What do you mean by that Mother?" Sophie questioned.
"You, my dear daughters, were turtles that were born and raised in the south, a state I believe is called Arizona. My Master Alisa had gone there for a short trip of taking Mortu to another location where he had spread his business. In the middle of the night, she was captured and tortured for months before her body's will finally died, and I was there the entire time, hiding in her clothing to stay with her and try to find a way to save her, but there had been none."
"Mother…" the four turtle girls all looked over to their mother in worry and horrified sadness.
Master Serena sighed and shook her head. "It's alright my daughters. Now you and the boys please do us a large favor and retrieve some fire wood, the night is starting to settle in." She looked upward at the sky and everyone finally noticed that it was starting to turn to dusk.
"Yes Mother." The girls echoed and stood, looking for wood to keep the rest of us warm tonight.
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After the guys and girls had spend a short time out in the woods, they soon brought back wood for the fire and got it started as the sun was nearly set now, Damien, Tori and I had gathered near the fire to stay warm and Damien and I constantly flew small flames of fire out of our mouths to keep us warm. The boys seemed content in the weather as they and the girls curled up together, but the nights were still colder then I would like.
"You guys wanna hear the funny part?" Donny questioned as we all got settled.
"There's a funny party?" Raph snorted.
"Well, not ha ha funny, but kinda ironic." Donny replied. "I was think that the Shredder had a bigger hand in our lives then we know. Without the Shredder, we'd all still be pet turtles in a glass jar right now." The faces of the eldest four turtles was priceless, but I kept my voice down and let them sink in this information. Donny was right as always, but my brothers had some pretty hard heads that he often had to break through with a crane.
"What'chu talkin'bout Willis?" Mikey said suddenly and Tori snorted next to me, hiding her face in my side to keep herself form bursting out laughing. Damien and I kept our faces and emotions in control, but on the inside, I was laughing my ass off.
"Well, allow me to explain. As you all might recall, we got mutated by that strange ooze when we were only babies."
"Ah, I remember it as if it were yesterday," Daddy sighed. "You were all so cute." Even Damien and I couldn't help suppress the laughter within us for that moment. A chocked laugh escaped us, but it was quiet and no one paid us any mind.
"The ooze that mutated us came from the TCRI building right?" Donny continued. "And, why did the TCRI building even exist? Because the utroms were trying to build their trasmat so they could go home. And why did the utroms need to go home?"
"Uh, cuz they were late for dinner?" Mikey guessed.
"Oh, that's bad…" Ally noted. Another sort of laughter escaped us and this time April gave us a light glance over at, but other wise didn't say anything.
"No, cuz an evil prisoner they were transporting across the galaxy sabotaged their star ship. Causing them to crash land on Earth centuries ago. And they've been trapper here ever since. And who was this evil prisoner that caused the utrom so much trouble? He was in fact…" he quickly turned to Sophie. "A drum roll please." She nodded and she rapidly hit the gram cracker box with her fingers as a drummer would his drum. "The Shredder!" Donny exclaimed. "And there you go, the Shredder had a direct hand in our creation. See what I mean?"
Unlike the other who couldn't catch on as easily as Donny and Sophie could to these things, Damien, Tori and I all understood and nodded over in our little huddle to remain warm in the middle of the night by the fire. Donny was very right, but the guys' heads are just a little too thick from time to time.
"Uh, I think I speak for everyone when I say 'no'." Raph told him flat out.
"Ladies and mutants! How not to tell our origin story!" Mikey laughed with Ally in the back.
"Here, let me put it in simpler terms for the simpler minded." Sophie said as she rolled her eyes at everyone. "If the Shredder hadn't made the utroms crash land here all that time ago, then there would be no ooze, and without the ooze, we never would have been mutated and would be in some child's aquarium right now." Everyone looked at her in surprise and shock before they all looked worriedly at her.
"Whoa, that was deep." Mikey noted softly.
"Fuck! Being so closely related to the Shredder, makes me fell kinda dirty." Raph shivered in his spot and Jade hissed next to him.
"Raphael…" Daddy warned him when he used his language. Raph huffed and stayed quiet.
"While the Shredder may have played a great role in all of our lives, we are the ones who decide our fate." Mom said
"And, even if the Shredder's still out there, no matter what he throws at us, no matter how he messes with our lives, nothing he does will change the most important thing of all, that we're family." He placed one arm around Kim and she nodded into his embrace.
"That we are." She leaned up and kissed Leo cheek and he blushed from the action. The moment was wonderful until Mikey decided to ruin it with his laughter. Even Ally was unimpressed with his ruining of the moment.
"Leo, that was off the charts on the sappo meter. You've been watch way too many after school specials Bro." He laughed and pointed his marshmallow at Leo.
"Mikey!" Ally hissed. "You ruined the moment!"
"Ally's right Mikey, way to ruin it." Jade hissed.
"Keep fucken quiet Mikey, Leo's got a point-" before Raph could say anything else, Mikey chucked his marshmallow at Raph and it hit him square in the nose. Raph flinched angrily before I saw the fire light in his eyes and he used Donny's body to stand up and walk over to him. "Oh you are so dead you laughing bastard!"
"Watch the gram crackers!" Leo shouted, pushing Kim out of the way just as Raph jumped toward him and Mikey and the two of them rolled into the background from the tackle. They roughhoused a bit before the rest of my brothers joined in and then so did the girls, last came Casey before Tori and Damien jumped onto the pile with them and everyone ended up in a giant ball of bodies.
"I'm surprised you did not join them my daughter," Daddy chuckled.
"I would have, but I just don't feel in the mood." I sighed. "I've been thinking about our conversation this morning." April silently sat next to us and even the others in the background quieted down to hear what I told Daddy.
"I see…" My father looked sadly at me. "And your decision? Have you made one yet? The look in your eyes tell me you have."
"I have, my decision… is yes."
Witch's Note:
I could really kick myself for making you guys wait so long for a single chapter. A month! A month is how long it's been since I last updated! What the hell is wrong with me? You guys must have though I wen't off and died somewhere!
(In the Lair)
"Don't freak out over this Halloween, its just a spell your going through, summer's almost here and soon you'll get back to where you should be." K-lynn was trying to cheer me up since I found out I owed seven chapters.
"Ugg… I just feel so horrible K-lynn!" I turned to face the girl and away from my laptop. "How can I justify myself like that? A month I've been gone with no news other then a warning and a promise that I broke!"
"Halloween, you're overreacting. Take a deep breath and calm down for a moment." She forced me to do so and turned me back to face my laptop. "It's just a phase and it's the end of your junior year, you have a lot of work to do besides all these chapters. You will get it done if you just focus."
"I'm trying K-lynn, but it's hard."
"I know it is, but keep trying. Eat up real quick and I'll come and check on you soon." She left the tray next to me and walked out the door. I sighed and took a bit and opened the new document.
Better get back to work. I sighed.
(Out of the Lair)
Poor Halloween, she seems quite a bit stressed over this, and I think dear readers that it might be due to the fact that she had only a couple reviews for the last chapter. Your reviews add to her inspiration. It's your words that gets and keeps her going. Please dearest reviews, review for Halloween and help her get back the energy she needs to get her prized and favorite story back on track. ~ From Karalynn Black/White Hamato
I'll see you guys as soon as I can, I'm hopefully going to camp this weekend where there's nothing to distract me and no internet, so hopefully that can get me going. Don't forget to say how many times Raph sweared and what the date was!
Sadly there's no French words from K-lynn that we haven't had translated already (since I just grabbed them from older chapters) so there's no translation this time. I love you all and please review for me!
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