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chapter 10

I awoke just before my alarm and waited till it went off, bulletproof by la roux,

Been there, done that messed around I'm having fun,

don't put me down I'll never let you sweep me off my feet

I start humming along with the song as I roll out of bed, to get ready for the day.

I won't let you win again The messages I tried to send My information's just not going in

I shrug into a clean tank this one deep purple to match my nails, and change my jeans. I grab my jacket, and am about to head out the door when I remember my IPod, I run back to grab it and plug some head phones in. The song changes to california girl's by katy perry.

I sigh as I lock my door and start searching my playlist for another song. I find the song she wolf by david guetta.

a shot in the dark

a past lost in space where do I start?

the past and the chase

you hunted me down like a wolf,

a predator I felt like a deer in love lights

I allow this song to continue on as I walk down the hallway into a shadow, and come out near one of the training rooms, I check inside for karai but she's not there, I back out and move through the shadows into the main throne room.

I can see karai and master, but karai seems to be angry, I decide not to come out of the shadows just yet. I sit in the shadows and listen to their conversation. Karai seems to be really angry about something,

"I don't see why she has to stay here!" she says indignantly

"I mean, why can't you set that monster up in another place!" I assume she is talking about xever and bradford.

"She is needed to our campaign, karai" master replies, who is this she he is talking about?

"I still don't want to sleep in the same building as that demon!" she grumbles " besides you saw the foot soldiers she's killed, she doesn't even care who's she's killed!" she continues.

"Karai." he says harshly "that is the exact reason we need her, it's your humanity that has gotten in the way of all of your missions to destroy the turtles and bring hamoto yoshi to me!" he reprimands her harshly.

She bows her head and pouts, 'princess' I scoff to myself silently.

Her eyes brighten after a moment with that gleam I know all too well. "How do we know her loyalties will lie with us when it comes to the final battle?" she asks slyly

"Shadow will side with us whether she likes it or" he answers simply.

"WHAT" I shriek into the silence of the shadow realm causing the shadows to flare around me. ' I mean I know I wasn't the most sisterly of sisters, but I looked up how they acted towards each other, I even stalked another girl and her sister from the shadow realm! All for karai and this is how she responds to that after all those years, she was acting like she liked me!' My anger flares and my true form starts to emerge as I slowly unfurl my wings from my back and flip my eyes so that they are cats eyes again. I stalk deeper into the shadow realm looking for a shadow creature to destroy or at least beat up. ' Master Shredder, I knew something was up with him the minute he tried to stick me with that ass hole, but karai I thought generally cared for me! wait what did he mean by 'I side with him no matter what?'

I growl out loud at the commotion clamouring for my attention in my brain.

I look around me and realise that I am near I minor wyvern's nest, you can tell by all the half eaten human souls. I stalk towards the darkest shadow indicating a niche in the shadow realm serving as a cave for the creature. I wait and watch as the long necked small dragon crawls out of the niche. It sees me and immediately charges me with a roar I grab my long knife, War out of its sheath, and whip out of the wyvern's path, but not without dragging War down the small dragons side creating a long gash, it only infuriates the wyvern more as it charges me again, but before the wyvern connects its bony head with me it rears up on its hind legs and slashes at me with its claws. I duck out of the way as its claws connect with nothing more than air and shadow. I slice up creating a gash from the bottom of its stomach to its shoulder. I don't react as the dark black blood splashes my features.

I don't relax my stance as the wyvern lets out a high pitched scream and falls back while scrambling away from me. I clean the black blood off of War and gently slide the long knife back into its sheath as I pull my long bow off my back and notch an arrow towards the wounded wyvern, I pull my arm back, and release to perfectly straight arrow towards my target, the arrow sinks deep through the skin in the dragons tail effectively pinning the wounded wyvern in the perfect spot. Although I could kill the creature in any position I figured I needed, a bit of live practice, If you know what I mean.

The damn foot soldiers didn't trust me enough to let me tape bulls eyes to them and have them run around in front of me, I wouldn't have hurt them too much, I even suggested using dulled arrows, cowards. Whatever I aimed for I hit, when I got bored with it I finally put the creature out of it misery.

I don't have human emotions, shadowlings don't, its part of the whole survival thing. How humans have survived as long as they have, I have no freaking idea, what I chalk it up to mass repopulation. I exit the shadow realm onto a roof top. I grab a seat on top of a large rain-water tank and just sit there and watch new york roll by as the day starts to pick up, I stay there in that position meditating.

I don't realise that the sun has set and its almost 10 at night, until a ton of screaming disturbed me from my meditating, I had been contemplating the fact that because I am a shadowling does that mean I could die on earth or would my body be transported back to the shadow realm? Am I even able to die?

"ugh" I groan quietly as I sink through the dark shadows gathering around me down towards the sound. I open my eyes to see a tall man raising a kitchen knife and bringing it repeatedly down on a young human girl, ugh, humans why are they always so barbaric? I think to myself.

"well I don't believe that is so chivalrous, to be treating a lady that way." I say out loud towards the tall man as I call a small lizard like shadow out of the darkness to come and sit in the palm of my hand. The man stumbles around towards me. I can immediately tell he's drunk.

Oh I am going to fun with this I think as I laugh quietly. I send the small shadow out of my palm towards the tall man's head, the lizard quickly glides right between his ears effectively knocks the man out cold. He drops like a sack of potatoes, I look over at the lady and call back the shadow lizard.

She looks over at the man "is he dead" she whispers as if he might wake-up.

"No" I shake my head slightly, I walk towards her slowly treating her like a startled animal.

"you're going to need to stop moving if you don't want to bleed out on the floor" I say as I watch her eyes start to glaze over with shock as she looks down at her beaten, battered, bruised, and now bloody body.

I sigh looking at the mess that was made around her apartment, I take the little shadow lizard and kneel down as she relaxes back on to her back with little motivation from me, and place it on her forehead and close her eyes gently with my hand.

The shadow lizard will take her fear and ease her pain. I set to work on her bloody wounds, luckily for her only two were deep enough to much of a concern the others will need stitches but they aren't the wounds that will kill her, I look up and around the apartment for paper towels, I get up to grab them off the counter. I look back towards her wounds, I place my hands over the wounds, feeling the blood immediately start streaming out between my fingers.

I relax my body and focus on healing her, I feel the bleeding start to slow and then the flesh start to pull itself together. I finish on the first wound and start healing the second, before I get half way done healing the other one her eyes flutter open and she tries to sit up right away,

"Relax," I tell her "you'll rip the new skin" she looks down at herself to see blood staining her blouse and the boot of the unconscious man. Then her memories seemed to come flooding back, even with the shadow lizard sticking off the middle of her forehead like some sort of demented horn, I smile at this thought and push her gently back down so as to not break the new skin open on her recently healed wounds, she reluctantly lies back down.

"who are you?" she asks quietly, as I replace my hands on her abdomen to staunch the new blood flow through the half healed wound.

"I am no-one" I reply quietly to her. Its better she doesn't know my name, all I need right now is a girl spreading rumours that she was healed by a girl out of the shadows. I look closer at the girl she looks vaguely familiar with her deep red hair, then it comes to me she looks like the girl who tried to help me at that noodle shop only older.

I go back to working on her wound, I can feel her eyes on me. 'I wonder if they're related?' I think to myself. I am just about finished, and exhausted because of it, when there is a small gasp from the other side of the room where the door is. 'god damnit' I think to myself, I peek over the armrest of the couch to see the exact same red haired girl, from the noodle shop, just my luck. I hear a metallic sliding sound and catch a glimpse of the girl holding a tessen. I slowly duck my head behind the couch arm again so as to not alert her to my position, sadly the lady I am healing does that for me and tries to get up to go towards the girl I take my hands off, and let her get up, she staggers to her feet and the girl immediately hides the tessen be hide her back, she still hasn't seen me I should slip out before she does. And I was just about to do just that when, I realized that the two girls were talking and now both were staring at me,

'god dammit' I growled quietly to myself, as I stood there waiting for one of them to say something, instead the younger red-head says,

"thanks, for saving my aunt" she says cautiously, I don't move from my position with my back to them.

"no problem, her screaming was interrupting my meditation anyway." I reply simply.

She just narrowed her eyes at me.

"aunty, perhaps we should get you to a hospital" she tried to suggest to her aunt, while motioning to her other cuts, none as deadly as the ones I healed.

"No," she said refusing "I'll be fine as long as I have my guardian angel watching over me" she said as she sat heavily on the couch and fell asleep almost instantly. I can feel the young girl watching me, but instead of turning my attention to her, I am distracted by the smell of new blood, I sigh and look down to see the wound that was only partially heal had ripped open, again. I kneel down and lift the shirt so that is no longer covering the wound, and place my hands over her wound as the sound of metal against metal hits my ears. I watch her out of the corner of my eyes,

"relax," I say "I am just going to stop the bleeding." I let my energy flow to heal the poor woman.

After I am finished I get up and move away from her to let the red-head near her aunt. She doesn't take her eyes off me but rushes towards her aunt anyway, only putting her tessen away when she goes to hug her passed out aunt.

I turn away to head back up to my meditation spot on her rooftop, but she stops me,

"wait, how did you do this? where are you going?" she calls I ignore her first question and point up to the roof.

"meditation" I say as I disappear into the shadows and reappear in the same spot I was earlier. I hear clattering around down stairs and voices, I shrug and delve deeper into meditation. I don't move as the screech of a door, opens up to my left.

I hear her foot steps walk towards me, and they stop not to far from where I am sitting. She is silent for a while, then "thank you," she says "for saving my aunt. I saw the scars." she says a little louder. I tip my head in her direction to acknowledge her. "My names April, what's yours, " she asks curiously.

I sigh and open my eyes "shadow" I say speaking more to the wind and the whole of new york than to her in herself.

Right then a sharp pain blossoms in my neck, spreading a numbness through my body, I whip around to see the red head looking at me with a fear and sorrow in her eyes as 4 shapes appear behind her, and watch me as my body slumps towards the ground. The last thing I feel is a pair of arms catching me before I hit the ground.

Yay cliff hanger! well not so yay for you my dear readers but yay for me muyhahahaha :)