Heya people, once again another chapter emerges! Sorry this took a while!
Chapter Nine
"Uncle Leo!" Pandora cried "Uncle Leo!"
As she looked around, the beautiful countryside had vanished and it was now a blackened wasteland.
"Uncle Leo!" Pandora cried "Where are you?"
"That damned turtle!" the growling voice came "I shall finish him!"
Pandora looked up.
"Who are you?" she cried "Where's my Uncle Leo?"
"Damn!" the growling voice came again "The brat has awakened!"
"Let me go!" Pandora cried "I want my mummy! I want my daddy!"
"So...you want mummy and daddy?" asked the growling voice "Well, if you wish to see them, here they are!"
Pandora then saw Mona and Raphael materialize before her and them fighting something unseen to her.
"Mum! Dad!" Pandora screamed "Mummy! Daddy!"
But the red masked turtle and the lizard lady didn't respond to her.
The voice them cackled.
"I gave you a chance to live in a happy dreamland!" the voice cackled "But now you're awake, I have no choice but to punish you!"
"No! No please!" Pandora cried as she fell to her knees "Please don't!"
But the voice cackled and Pandora soon saw her uncles and grandfather Splinter appear before her, all fighting unseen forces and their faces full of suffering.
"What are you doing to my family!?" Pandora sobbed as tears erupted from her eyes.
"You're going to wish you never woke up!" the voice snarled "You have no choice now! You will be trapped here forever in my power! As long as I have you! You will be my gateway into the world to bring nightmares to life!"
"No!" Pandora screamed "I won't let you!"
She looked at her family as they continued to fight unseen forces and were unable to respond to her cries.
Tears spilled from Pandora's eyes as she looked at her family, helpless and scared.
As she cried, she suddenly heard Leonardo's voice again.
"Pandora!" he shouted "Pandora!"
Pandora looked up and saw Leonardo who was fighting then unseen force yet he had started to get focused and show no fear.
"Pandora!" he shouted again "I know you can hear me! You can beat this creature! Remember what we used to say to you about the monsters under your bed? They can't hurt you if you show no fear and that you don't believe in them!"
Pandora swallowed hard as she looked around.
"But Uncle Leo, I'm scared!"
"It's alright to be afraid Pandora! We all are! Even as ninjas, we get afraid and right now we need your help!"
"What can I do?" Pandora screamed.
"You have to stand up to that Monster!" Leonardo cried "You need to show it you're not afraid! As long as you have fear that creature will feed off of it! You must be strong!"
"You'll never stop me!" the voice growled "You're a weak child!"
Pandora screwed her eyes shut.
"You'll never escape me!"
"Be strong Pandora! Beat him!"
"You're weak!"
"You're strong my little niece!"
"You'll never stop me!"
"You can do it Pandora! Show him you're not afraid!"
"You can't do anything! You're mine child! MINE!"
"Fight back Pandora! Fight back!"
The voices kept resounding around Pandora, and she could feel a niggling in her belly, like a spark and it started to grow into a flame and she started to feel it get stronger like a nuclear bomb.
As the voices got louder Pandora couldn't stand it any longer and she shut her eyes, put her fingers in her ears and screamed loudly.
As she screamed, the area around her began to vibrate and shake, she kept screaming loudly and more desperately as the voices rang in her ears.
As that happened, the turtles, Mona and Splinter began to feel unsteady on their feet and their enemies froze and looked around.
Then before they could register what was happening, the area around them shattered like glass!
The turtles, Splinter and Mona closed their eyes and covered their ears as the shattering rang in their ears and they were knocked off their feet. It was soon followed by a scream.
Raphael and Mona recognised the scream as Pandora's which soon went silent.
"Pandora!" Raphael shouted, he stood up and saw the nightmarish insectiods were gone, and he saw the other members of his family laying on the ground groaning.
"Brothers! Sensei! Mona!" he cried as he ran over to them.
Leonardo was the first to get to his feet.
"Raph?" he said for a moment, wondering what had happened, but then his eyes widened.
"She did it! She did it!" he cried.
"What did what?" Michelangelo asked, he too came round and found himself with his family and Ren was gone.
Splinter himself was overjoyed as he got up and saw his children around him and not in graves and Mona and Donatello were relieved to no longer be facing Dr Arden and his abominations.
"Is everyone okay?" asked Leonardo.
"We're fine!" said Mona "What...what happened?"
"I don't know." said Donatello.
"Whatever happened, Pandora got us out of it!" said Leonardo as he looked around.
"Pandora did this?" asked Splinter.
"I knew it!" Mona cried "I thought I recognized her scream!"
"Pandora!" Raphael cried as he looked around "Pandora! Answer me!"
As Raphael called out, red tentacles appeared from the walls again.
"Look out!" Leonardo shouted as he looked around.
"Oh no no! Not again!" Michelangelo cried, fear pooling in his stomach as he thought he would be faced with Ren again.
"You won't take us this time freak!" Raphael snarled as he drew his sai.
Mona glared as she opened her fans.
Donatello and Splinter also got into fighting stances ready to at attack any tentacles that came near them.
"Where's Pandora!?" Mona screamed.
"You wish to see that little brat again!?" the voice from the air sounded "That little monster will pay for defying me!"
Leonardo sliced at a tentacle.
"You won't dare hurt her!" he shouted.
Raphael also stabbed the monster as a tentacle came for him.
Mona also sliced a tentacle in anger as she looked around for Pandora.
Meanwhile as all that was happening, Pandora was trapped in her own nightmare as she tried to look for a way out.
"Let me go!" she screamed "Please! Let me go!"
"You'll never escape me! You're mine! And so is your family!"
Pandora closed her eyes, the voice still resounding in her head and many scary shapes dancing around her like demons.
"No!" Pandora screamed "NO!"
"You can't stop me child! You're weak! And a weak child will not stop me!"
Pandora gritted her teeth.
"No!" She screamed "I'm not weak! I'm not weak! I'M NOT WEAK!"
As the reptiles and Splinter fought the tentacles, another scream was soon heard and the tentacles recoiled in shock.
The reptiles and Splinter looked around in confusion, then the wall in front of them opened revealing the glowing heart of the monster.
Leonardo's heart caught in his throat as he looked upon it, remembering his encounter with it years before.
The scream continued and the glowing heart shivered as if something was trying to break out.
"What the shell's going on?" asked Michelangelo in fear.
Leonardo drew his swords and held up up ready to fight if needed.
They kept watching the heart then suddenly it started to shatter almost like glass, then a figure covered in goo appeared from it.
"Holy shit!" Raphael cried as he watched, then saw the figure uncurl from it, revealing it to be Pandora!
"Pandora!" everyone cried as the dazed hybrid child looked up dripping in goo.
"Little Geisha!" Mona cried running over to her daughter and pulling her close, not caring that she was covered in the slimy substance.
The others ran over to assist Mona and Pandora as well as get ready to fight, but as they did, the monster began to slowly disintegrate.
"What's happening now?" asked Michelangelo as he looked around.
The others watched in silence as they saw the tentacles start to rot and turn to dust.
"Sick..." Raphael muttered.
Before long the monster soon melted and disappeared into goo and dust.
"Whoa..." said Donatello "It's like the thing just died..."
"You mean it's gone?" asked Michelangelo "Whoa! What a relief!"
A small cough brought their attention to Pandora and they looked down at the hybrid who was coughing and spluttering.
"Pandora!" Raphael cried as he tried to help clean her up as best he could "Are you alright?!"
Yet Pandora didn't speak, she just seemed dazed and confused.
"We must get back home!" said Splinter "This has indeed been a frightening ordeal!"
"Aint gotta tell us twice!" said Michelangelo.
Raphael instantly scooped Pandora into his arms and held her close.
"Come on!" said Donatello "Lets get out of here, before anything else happens!"
He began to lead the way out of the area and back to the lair, yet as he did, Leonardo looked back at the area where the monster had disintegrated and wondered how a small child could defeat such a creature, yet he felt proud she had done it.
"I don't know how you did it Pandora..." he said "But somehow you did! It seems you are showing a strong mind to become a great ninja!"
Whoa! That was intense! It seems that Pandora's strong will against the nightmarish monster defeated it!
Well I have learnt that facing your fears in your dreams made them weaker! Seemed to work here!
Tune into the next to chapter to see how Pandora is after her experience!
