May harshly swallowed her own spit as Ernest and a group of men behind him walked closer to the turtles and May. She couldn't even think to move. Her body was in such a state of shock and fear that it would not respond to the wishes in her brain.
"Missed me? Cutie pie!" Ernest smiled.
Just then May was grabbedin three different areas around her body. Leo stood behind her and held onto her waist. Mikey stood to the right of her and clutched her right arm. Donny stood on the left of her, and held onto her left arm. Raph stood in front of her, growling.
"Don't come any closer, dude." Raph was dead serious. "I've already beaten your sorry ass once. Don't make me do it a second time!" He finished ripping off his beanie that hid his bald green head.
"Shit. Your that freak from the other night!" Ernest laughed. "See boys, I wasn't kidding!"
"What the shell is he talking about?" Donny asked Raph.
"What happened May?" Mikey asked scared.
May said nothing. 'What does he want? Why now?' She thought.
"So I loved the week I spent in jail…My gang bailed me out, and now I'm gonna kill the losers who put me in jail!" Ernest said pointing to them. Suddenly, men from all four of the alleyways came into view. May looked to the sides of her, behind her and Leo and saw about 10 men or so down each of the alleys. 'Shit. We are cornered..." She thought. Just then Ernest ran toward May and the turtles and all of his men, from whichever side they were on, ran to them as well.
May felt herself thrown to the right into Mikey's arms. He ran with her in one arm, and with his defending nunchuck in the other. He jumped, kicked, punched, and ran through the men through the alley. They escaped the mob but Mikey continued to run and then stopped, facing the back of another mob group.
"Great…we've gone in a complete circle!" Mikey yelled, blowing their cover.
May could see Raph fighting Ernest. Ernest had a metal pole that he was fighting against Raph's sais.
Just then Mikey was kicked in the stomach and May flew out of hishands. She landed face down, 4 feet away from Raph and Ernest's fight. Raph noticed May's lifeless body just as soon as Ernest did. Without thinking, Raph kicked Ernest, but unfortunately, He had kicked him towards May.
May sat up slowly and saw Ernest sitting right next to her. "Shit!" She screamed and kicked him in the stomach. He grabbed her leg and threw her back onto the floor. Right as he tried to punch her in the face, May punched him first. As he was clutching his face the blonde took away the metal pole that was next to him and threw it to Raph. She picked Ernest up by the collar and threw him to the side as best as she could. It was only about 5 feet or so towards Mikey.
She looked at the fight. Leo and Donny had taken down about half of the men on their side. Raph was fighting off random guys that were attacking him. She looked back at Mikey but her attention turned to Ernest with a gun in his hands pointed towards Mike.
May gasped and, as fast as she could, ran towards Mikey.
She felt her whole world turn into a slow motion picture. Her heart was pounding, her breath was loud. 'Mikey! Just a bit closer!' As soon as she was close enough she pushed Mikey out of the way. The two both missed the bullet's path just by a hair.
The bullet went through one of Ernest's gang member's and killed him instantly.
'I'm not dead! It's a miracle!' May was face down on the cold ground, her hair was everywhere. 'Gotta get up. Gotta save the others…' She twitched her head a little and tried to sit up, but someone had pulled her up first. They yanked her up by her hair and pinched her head.
May cried out in pain, her neck had cracked when Ernest grabbed her hair. "You are sooo dead." He angrily declared and May felt a cold sharp knife on her throat.
'I'm done for…' May began to cry.
"Get that shitty knife away from her!" She heard Raph roar. He had strangled Ernest and Leo held both of his katanas to his throat.
May felt the knife draw away from her neck and she heard it cling on the floor. Her hair was let go, and she fell forward face down on the floor once more. She could hear Ernest yell and scream for help as Leo and Raph fought him.
"May! Get up!" Donny shook her back trying to get her to sit up. She could hear sirens in the distance and lifted her head to see the purple bandana ninja. She curled into a fettle position and started to cry. "Come on May! We don't have time for this! Not here!" Donny picked her up by the waist and slung her over his shoulder.
"Let's get out of her guys!" Leo yelled and climbed up to the rooftops, followed by Raph, Mikey and Donny with May on his shoulder.
May looked at the crime scene and saw Ernest and the rest of his conscious gang member tied up and against a wall. She continued to cry as Donny and the other turtles began to run across the city by the roofs.
The five stopped at an abandoned building. Donny sat May down against a wall as she continued to cry. Don looked at her injuries, but she had only minor cuts and bruises. He hadn't a clue why she would be crying.
"Come on May! This is ridiculous! What the hell is wrong?" Raph screamed. She cried even more.
"May…don't be sad. Please?" Mikey came and sat down next to her.
May wiped away her tears. "Why is it always me that gets into trouble?" She screamed. "I'm always the one that is in the middle of it all! Always in distress! I hate it!" She cried even harder.
Mikey hugged her, Donny rubbed her arm. Raph started to pace back and forth yelling at May to stop crying. Leo stood next to Mikey looking out into the big city.
"Leo? You were right." May wiped away a tear. Leo looked over at her.
"What are you talking about?" He asked confused.
"You said yourself that you didn't want to go out tonight because something could happen. Mikey almost died because of me! You all could have gotten hurt because of me…" She cried softly with every word.
Raph stopped pacing and growled.
"Yea but May, you saved Mikey. And who knows, maybe if we had tangled with that guy on another night without you, we may not have Mikey…" Donny comforted her.
"Besides," Raph yelled. "We needed to finished our fight with that guy! If I ever see him again, he is dead! For real!" He punched his hand.
May sniffed and wiped her face.
"May, you shouldn't feel sorry that you have us…" Mikey stated. "You feel happy and protected to have us on your side."
"Yea. 'Cause we will always be there for you!" Donny smiled and stood up.
May looked up at all four of them. "Yea. I just wish I could be stronger."
Mikey stood up and held his hand out for May. She smiled and sniffed back a burger or two from her nose. Reaching her hand out Mikey helped her up.
"May, if you can't be strong in any situation, then we'll be strong for you." Leo walked over to her.
Mikey nodded his head and hugged May. She then felt two of them hugging on her sides, and one hugging her to the back.
May felt such warmness and protection from them. 'I know with them in my life I can be strong forever….."
With that they let go and Mikey picked her up onto his back as they all hopped across the rooftops to the sewer once more.
May woke the next day at the depressing 6 am as she always did every weekday. "No one should ever be awake during this time! Ever! Not even…the president or the news or," She heard a noise from the kitchen. Usually she and April were only ones awake. But April was still in bed. "Or someone in the kitchen. Who the hell would want to be up?" She quickly put on the rest of her uniform and walked downstairs.
She walked into the kitchen and saw the notorious Raphael eating his favorite, cereal.
"What are you doing up?" She asked.
"Couldn't sleep!" He said with a mouthful.
"Oh. Okay next time say it don't spray it!" She walked over to get her lunch and breakfast.
"Hey could I walk with you to your school?" Raph said before he ate another bite.
May took a bite of her apple. "Yea. Sure. Why?"
"Can't sleep. 'Member!" He drank the rest of his milk.
"Well we gotta go now or else I'll be late." She walked to the moving wall and Raph tagged behind her.
They walked in silence, at first. "So why did you even like that guy?" Raph randomly asked.
"Who Ernest?" Raph nodded. "He was cute and sexy and I honestly couldn't believe he was into me. I guess I thought he would honestly be my boyfriend. But we know otherwise now." She took another bite of her apple.
"Yea well you need a guy who isn't afraid to protect you 'cause you get a lot of trouble missy."
She laughed. "Yea and where can I find this guy?" Raph got silent.
"God. I'm so mad that my English teacher is making our class do these stupid mentor projects. They are sooo pointless!"
Raph perked his head in interest. "What kind of project is it?"
"I get to do a topic on anything I want, but I have to have a mentor and then come up with a product or something. I don't know all of it 'cause she just started talking bout it Friday, but it's gonna be a bitch." She finished her apple and chunked it to the side.
"And now you're litterin." Raph laughed.
"What? No I'm not!" She lightly pushed him.
He laughed and pushed her back. She hit the sewer wall. "Ow you jerk!" She shoved him and then ran. Raph laughed and ran to catch her.
May quickly climbed the ladder to the man hole that led to her school, but Raph grabbed her foot and pulled her down in his arms.
May kinda had another slow motion moment, she felt really safe and secure being held Raph's arms. Just then she closed her eyes and had a vision.
"Raph. Get off your ass. We gotta do something." An older version of May yelled at a sleeping Raph.
"Just leave me alone." He yelled.
"Come on. Leo's been gone forever! And the city needs the night watchers!" She had on an all black outfit.
Raph sighed and then got up. "Fine." He put on a metal outfit and grabbed a helmet. "Let's go…" he ran past her.
May looked behind her and wiped away a tear from her eye.
May gasped and opened her eyes widely. She saw the normal verison of Raph holding her, and frowning. "What's wrong?" He asked. "Oh nothing. I just realized I didn't do some homework. That's all." Raph let her down and she climbed up back the ladder. "I'll see you at 3!" She smiled and moved back the man-hole cover.
Raph smiled back at her and walked back to the lair.
May shook her head as she put back the cover to the sewer. 'What in the world was that all about? Oh well. I guess I'll just have to know when I'm older.' She ran to school because she had just heard the bell rang.
She was late.
Again.