Now it's Splinter's turn to give Cyrus some guidance and some training as well.

Chapter 10: Bonding with Splinter

Another day goes by and Cyrus is laying up in his room, just hearing the silence everywhere, surrounded by total darkness. As he was laying there, he started to feel very anxious, because he hears some growling echoing in the back of his head. He hears the wolf's constant snarls and growling inside his head and it was something he couldn't handle.

He tosses and turns around in his bed, groaning and whimpering and mumbling in his sleep.

"Please...leave me alone...what do you want from me? What do you want?"

Nightmare

The thunder crashes and Cyrus steps in a puddle while he's running. He runs furiously while he hears some growling coming from behind. He looks and sees the wolf catching up to him. He keeps running frantically only to find that the wolf is blocking his way when Cyrus sees him in front of a log. He skids to a stop and the wolf pins him down with his paws.

The wolf growls and said, "Prepare to meet your end!"

"Please leave me alone!"

The wolf opens his mouth to devour him, but Cyrus smacks him with a tree branch. He took off running and went down to the sewer. Then, as he runs back to the lair, he pants furiously, hopes that he wouldn't find him there. As he turns around, he sees something that's completely terrifying. Leo hanging on the ceiling, lifeless and blood coming out of him. Cyrus' look was mortifiying to see that.

"No...Leo, no! This can't be happening!"

He backs away slowly and feels something weird from behind him. He slowly turns around and sees Raph's body, slumped on the couch, blood coming out of his leg and shell. He screams a little and then, sees Mikey's body and Donnie's body on the floor, lifeless with a chalk outline in front of them.

Cyrus was devastated and frightened to see this happening. Then, he backs away and feels someone's hand on his shoulder. He turns around and sees that Splinter is hanging on the ropes, lifeless with blood dripping out of his robe. Cyrus could not believe his eyes and it was horrendous. He got down on the floor in his knees, screaming, "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!"

"Oh, it's happened."

Then, he turns around and sees the wolf standing there. Cyrus panted and said, "You... ."

"Indeed, I did. And you're next!"

Cyrus was mortified as the wolf jumps out and Cyrus starts screaming hysterically and then...

Cyrus starts screaming loudly and falls out of the bed, then he looks around and sees that he's back to reality. He panted furiously and sweat was dripping out of his head, knowing that it was a nightmare. He was shaken up over this that he punched in a wall and he let fire come out from his finger and aimed at the closet door. Cyrus realized his mistake and used his ice power from his other finger and let it die down. It seems as though he couldn't contain his power anymore.

He sits down on the edge of the bed and a few tears fell from his face. Then, he hears a silent knock on the door.

"Cyrus-san?"

He recognized Splinter's voice and turns around and sees that it is him. He comes in the room and said, "Heard you scream. Is something wrong?"

"I had a nightmare that you all were dead and got killed by the wolf and I have a feeling that he's coming after me."

"You lost your temper, haven't you?"

Cyrus sighed and said, "Yeah."

Splinter didn't say anything and he got up and told Cyrus to come with him. He got up from the bed and followed Splinter to his room. While he was there, Splinter told him, "There are many ways to control your anger and your powers."

"How?"

"For one thing, always be careful of what your powers might do. All you have to do is keep yourself calm and not let anger come at you."

"Can you help me?"

"I will do anything to help you with this one."

Splinter told Cyrus to cross his legs, close his eyes and think peaceful thoughts. Then, he starts inhaling and exhaling in transit. Splinter was right besides him for this and said, "What are you thinking right now?"

"I am thinking..."

Then, he had a picture of the wolf inside his mind and his face was scary-looking. Then, Cyrus replied, "The wolf is coming for me."

Splinter sighed heavily and said, "We have a learn."

Suddenly, Splinter had Cyrus do everything to keep his anger down low. He did some muscle-lifting, push-ups, sit-ups, punching a punching bag several times hard and even do some ninja training as well. Cyrus was working up a sweat and it seems as though he's trying to contain himself from getting angry.

Splinter nodded his head and said, "Now, let us see how you can contain your powers."

Cyrus breathed heavily and then, fire comes out of nowhere and Splinter jumps up and grabs it. He widened his eyes and sees that Splinter feels no pain from it. And then, he tries to do the ice power and Splinter caught it as well. Then, finally, he does the telekinesis part, where he has to focus on moving the swords directly towards him. He closed his eyes, tries to focus by squinting his eye and then, one of the swords flies towards him and lands on his hand as he grabs the handle.

"Perfect. Now let's start out the second way. I'll be the bully, and you be you."

Suddenly, Splinter smacks his head and said, "You will never amount to anything! You are worthless and why would somebody take you in?"

Hearing that, Cyrus was starting to get ticked off on this and said, "Don't you DARE say that to me!"

"You know what you are? You are a wolf-killing, fire torching monster!"

Cyrus was starting to seethe and said, "You better shut up before I literally kill you!"

"How about you kill yourself? Monsters like you can get killed. Your parents might have died because they do not want a worthless pitiful excuse of a monster like you!"

"THAT'S IT!"

Cyrus grabbed Splinter's neck and said, "You better take back everything you said, or so help me I'll-"

Fire was about of come out of him and he starts getting more furious, then he looked into Splinter's eyes and realize that he couldn't actually kill Master Splinter. His face softened a little and then, he lets go of him slowly. He sighed and said, "I don't want to fight you nor do I want to kill you."

"And what does that tell you?"

Then, Cyrus realized something. He stopped himself for doing something crazy or dangerous that might let his anger get the best of him. He also learns that by Splinter's look that it was just a test to see what would actually happen if he did lose his temper. Then, he said, "That I have to keep control of my anger when it comes to my powers."

He nodded his head and figures out that he can stop his anger and calm himself down. Splinter said, "Sometimes we can get angry, because it is the only emotion possible where it can be very easy to be more confrontational. But then, it will always lead to something worse. Anger is normal, but sometimes it can result to foolish antics and sometimes it can contain some serious consequences, which will eventually lead to tragedy. We might hurt the ones we love most-physically, mentally and emotionally-or even say some things that we do not even mean. Having superpowers can be difficult when it comes to dealing with our anger issues. Sometimes, we cannot control ourselves if we use our powers in the wrong ways. We have to always learn how to be very careful not to use our powers as a way to add anger into it."

"So, what should I do?"

"Just talk to someone you can trust, write it down, scream and also take time to stop, go back to the situation and resolve it or you can walk away from a bad situation. And here's another alternative-meditating. It can help you find peace and tranquility."

"You think I should?"

"If you put them to good use."

Cyrus began thinking about it and realizes that Splinter is right. He's never had someone to learn how to control his anger issues before. Then, he looks at Splinter and said, "You really know how to resolve it, don't you?"

"Does living with four turtles explain much?"

"Good point."

Cyrus sat down and said, "Well, there's always this problem I have all my life. After killing those wolves, I spend most of my time alone in a little farm in Northampton, but eventually I burned it to the ground and lived out in the forest instead. While I was there, I've had some animals come out and call me a 'monster'. It really destroyed me and I started sinking deeper and deeper into depression-mode, believing that I am a monster. Every night, I would often be up all night, because I was too afraid to go to sleep for tow reasons-hearing kids scream and get hurt by their father or loved one and the wolf coming back to hurt me. I've been in isolation my whole life, homeless and parentless, like I've got no one to comfort me or something."

"Well, I have been left alone as well. A long time ago, my master-Hamato Yoshi-took me from Japan to New York City. But, he was killed by this arch enemy Oroku Saki. After he killed my master, I was living in the sewers of New York City, trying to stay alive. Then, I saw four baby turtles coming across the sewers and they crawled into a strange glowing ooze that mutated them and me and we had become intelligent. I taught them everything that my master had taught me and instills in them. At least I had my sons by my side and I've been their master and their father for a number of years. They're the only family I ever have." Splinter said.

"Really?"

"I often have bad dreams at night, worrying if something might happened to them, that they might be injured or worse."

"Why?"

"They are my sons. I would not let anything bad happen to them. If something does happen to them and I am not there for it, I do not know how I will ever forgive myself."

Cyrus could kinda understand what Splinter is saying how the turtles are the only family he ever has. That reflected on him in a huge way and realized how grateful their sons are and how grateful Splinter is that he can wake up every morning and gives his sons the love he has. He looks at him and asked, "You really love them do you?"

"Yes, I do. Now that you are here, I wanted to give you something."

Splinter gets up and then, he looks in his old box of Japanese stuff and he pulls out some knee pads and shoulder pads and a belt to go with it. Cyrus looked at them and said, "Whoa. This is cool."

"Try them on."

He gives them to Cyrus and then, he puts the pads on his knees and elbows and then, ties to belt and sash around him and puts on his brown bandana over his face. He turns around and asked, "What do you think?"

Splinter smiled and said, "You are now an Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle."

Cyrus looked at himself in the mirror and sees a huge change in himself. He chuckled and said, "I feel awesome."

"Yes, you are awesome. You are more than awesome. You are...totally radical, dude."

Cyrus started laughing and said, "You're so funny."

"That is true. Welcome to the family, Cyrus."

"Thank you."

Splinter comes over and gives Cyrus a hug. For the first time in Cyrus' life, he definitely feels like he belongs where he is and Splinter helped him get through his path out of loneliness and into his element and Cyrus might be fitting in with the turtles more often.

Okay, tell me that was not awesome! Guess what happens next!