Ok so I'm starting to think I should drop this fic since no one is reviewing, which tells me that no one is even interested in this…I mean…one review in like two days? So here is a request and then some triva.
If you would like me to continue posting this I would like to see 6 reviews on this chapter.
Trivia- what is the irony of Bane's name? (hint-look in the dictionary)
Prize: Piece of artwork from further on in the story (if I continue it if not a art piece of your favorite turtle).
Onward. (I mean we're just starting to get to the good stuff…so…review "cackles")
Chapter 10: Kyoufu (Fear)
~Day of the Wedding~
Bane cocked his head as Leo walked into the lair's kitchen, obviously tense.
"Leo?" Bane whispered hesitantly.
Leo turned and gave the grey wolf glance.
"You're fur looks much better. Did the tangles all come out?" Leo asked softly, pouring himself tea.
"Yes…Master…Splinter…he helped me get cleaned up…I…I was wondering why you're so…nervous…your sent is all…wrong…" Bane stammered softly.
Leo blinked and then sighed.
"Master Splinter explained how our family…works…right?" Leo said softly as he leaned against the counter with his cup of tea cradled in hand.
"I…I know you are the…Alpha…but…Splinter is too…Raphael is your Beta…" Bane murmured.
Leo nodded.
"Yes, you're right," Leo said gently.
"I am confused though…if you are the Alpha why does Mikey speak of a mate as well? Do you allow your…" Bane struggled for the right word, "…I do not know exactly how to say it but…those below you…to mate? To breed and take your power away?"
Leo's mouth quirked upward slightly in a smile.
"We're not that kind of pack," Leo chuckled softly, "you're thinking too much like a Wolf and not enough like a Human. My family, including you, have every right to find mates. It is their right and my gift to them."
"Oh…I think I understand…you are saying that by giving them this right…it…makes them more loyal?" Bane finished with a question.
Leo made a "so-so" gesture with his hand.
"That would be the easiest way to explain it I guess. We don't believe that…I have the only right to take a mate, but that we all do. In Japanese culture, which Master Splinter grew up in, respect is the key. The thing that drives us as a whole. By respecting those above you or older than you, you are given a…it's hard to explain…a place I guess. An honorable part of the whole group. Do you understand?" Leo asked softly.
Bane nodded slowly.
"You believe that respect is what holds you together…not the right to dominate each other," Bane said softly.
"Exactly," Leo said with a smile.
"But you are troubled," Bane whispered.
Leo sighed, he had hoped that Bane would forget that part.
"I am…making a-" he was cut off as Raph started shouting in the other room. Leo grumbled and walked over, a scowl now present on his features.
"What is it Raph?" Leo sighed.
Raph was in front of the TV, standing with fists clenched and eyes blazing. Leo followed his gaze and froze. The sound of automated voices reached his ears.
Yes, we're doing our best to get rid of these pests that is why were are asking to search for them below ground.
What are these pests exactly?
Animals that have endured horrible mutation from nuclear waste. Most die or attack humans in an insane rage. Very few live very long anyway, but we are trying to prevent them from causing people harm.
Thank-you, (camera pans) well everyone now you know the reasoning behind the tents above the manholes and searches gong on in the sewers lately. Hopefully this creature that was spotted will be taken care of properly.
Leo's hand hung slack, his tea cup splattered all over the floor. Raph whirled around and glared at Bane, who had crept up behind them and was trembling in horror while staring at the screen.
Leo shot toward the lab, screaming Don's name frantically, but when he got there Don wasn't in the lab. A note was pasted to the screen of his computer though.
Went to the Lab at Saki Industries. Be back in time to help you all get ready for the wedding.
-Don
Leo was nearly hyperventilating before he managed to calm down, if there were people searching the sewers they had to evacuate and quickly. He took a deep breath and after he pulled out his Shell-Cell he then dialed the only other turtle that wasn't around.
Mikey.
~*~
Mikey grumbled as his Shell-Cell went of and rolled over slowly. Anna woke as he moved.
"M'y?" she mumbled.
"L'o?" Mikey growled as he answered, slowly sitting up.
Turn on the news and then call me back.
He hung up and Mikey glared at the phone, then tensed.
"What wrong?" Anna asked.
Then Mikey remembered what Leo had said and reached over to the bed stand, grabbing the remote and turned on the TV.
What he heard make his cold blood nearly freeze. There were humans in the sewers searching for his family.
Anna gripped his hand and they exchanged a horrified glance.
"Oh no," Anna managed, "oh no no no….Mikey…the others."
Mikey scrambled to his feet and grabbed his things, hastily getting ready.
He grabbed his Shell-Cell as Anna frantically got dressed and brushed her hair.
Mikey dialed Leo only to have it go to voicemail.
Mikey turned to Anna with a nervous look on his face and her hands slowly moved toward her mouth in horror. She frantically shook her head, a family she had just gotten to meet was suddenly gone.
~*~
Leo was sprinting toward Saki Industries, body nearly flat in his haste. Raph had grabbed Master Splinter and they had headed out of the lair, Bane had vanished after they split up frantically gathering things and evacuating.
Leo nearly stumbled as a gust of wind went past him, then twisted to a stop.
"Bane?" Leo managed as he skidded to a stop, wincing as his feet began to throb. Bane was crouched in front of him, his skinny sides heaving.
"I want to help," he managed.
Leo paused and then nodded.
" Let's go," Leo ordered.
Bane nodded and leap after Leo as he took off again.
~*~
Raph growled softly, eyes flicking toward the side tunnels before he nodded to Splinter, the old rat followed his son carefully. Age was starting to bother him lately.
Raph glanced worriedly toward his father before he moved along the wall and found the hidden door to Leatherhead's home. Leo had ordered them to warn him and to head toward the safe house Don had built within the lower regions of the sewers, down, closer toward the ancient city they had discovered years ago.
Leatherhead was poised for an attack when the door opened and Raph narrowly avoided being skewered.
"LH it's me," Raph managed.
Leather head nodded and stepped back, beaconing them in.
"I saw the news I thought…forgive me," he whispered.
Master Splinter shook his head.
"No it is fine, I am glad you are aware of the problem, but we must get out of here and toward the safe house. Leonardo told us you and Donatello built it?" Splinter comforted.
Leatherhead nodded.
"Yes. Let me gather some things first, then I will take you there…where are Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo?" he asked suddenly.
"Mikey's with his wife and hopefully on their way here. Leo went to get Don," Raph replied.
"Wife?" Leatherhead questioned.
Raph chuckled when he realized that they had never told Leatherhead.
"Sorry LH we never told you huh?" Raph said softly as the door closed.
"Michaelangelo eloped with a young woman and finally told us when we found out about the Kekkon no Jouyaku between Leonardo and Oroku Karai," Master Splinter said quietly.
Leatherhead nodded, he had been helping Don to stabilize the Disguise Pieces.
~*~
Leo walked into the lab where Don had been and shifted nervously. Don had already left for the Lair and he wasn't answering his phone. Leo jumped as his Shell-Cell went off and grabbed it.
Bane was half-crouching in nervous silence.
"Hello?" Leo said softly as he heard the receiver pick up.
Sorry Leo I was heading toward the sewers. There are people down here and-
"Get to Leatherhead's the others are heading that way, Bane will meet you at the junction on Eastman and third then get going," Leo ordered.
Bane gave him a confused look.
"But…I," Bane started.
"My responsibility is to make sure the alliance that comes with this wedding…happens. You were partially right when you questioned Karai being my mate…I am not her mate…just her husband. After tonight…I…I don't want to think about it. Go to the Junction underground that I told Don about and wait for him. Stay silent and hidden until he comes out of the shadows…is that clear?" Leo asked.
Bane struggled.
"I can't let you…you said all of your family deserved a mate…you shouldn't have-" Bane managed.
"Bane…Karai and I are…were….enemies…if there is to be peace for my family…I must marry her," Leo whispered.
Bane rose onto his feet and walked over to Leo, his heavy paw-like hands fumbling before he pulled Leo into a hug and then stepped back
"She…she will chain you…won't she?" he managed weakly.
Leo gave him a grave look.
"In her own way…I fear she will my friend…now go. Hurry," Leo ordered.
~*~
Raph was pacing when his Shell-Cell went off.
"Mikey," Raph gasped in relief.
Leo just finally called me back…were outside let us in. hurry I think I hear people coming.
"Yeah…yeah LH the door!" Raph said quickly.
Leatherhead opened the door to allow the couple to come in. The door clanked shut behind them. Mikey hugged a nervous Anna and pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead in comfort.
Anna looked around and nodded to the others, pausing a second in surprise at the sight of Leatherhead.
"Oh…um…hello," she whispered.
Leatherhead nodded in greeting, then turned toward the door with a look of horror. Sparks flickered along the bottom.
"Hurry…everyone follow me," Leatherhead ordered.
Raph grabbed his Shell-Cell as it went off.
~*~
Don remained in the shadows and gave a relieved sigh as Bane's scrawny figure inched along the walls, golden eyes glittering in the dark.
Don stepped out of the shadows to greet Bane when the figure froze and growled.
A slender, though scrawny, panther stepped out of the shadows.
It wasn't Bane, but the blur that shot past him was. The panther screamed and twisted away from the snarling jaws of the wolf.
Seconds later the panther lay sprawled in a lifeless heap below Bane who was sobbing, obviously torn over the death of the other mutant.
"Bane," Don coaxed, "its ok…come on we have to go…hurry."
The wolf gave him a slow scared look and then hobbled over to Don on all fours. Don hugged the figure before making him stand on two feet.
"Come on my friend," Don said softly.
Bane's eyes brimmed with tears.
"Leo…" Bane managed weakly.
"What?" Don said softly, "where is he?"
"The Tower of his…mate…he said that all of you should hide," Bane managed.
They jumped as shots glanced off of the walls around them.
Bane growled, a snarl curling his muzzle.
"Run my friend…if I can I will protect the family that I have gained…Leonardo would want me to," Bane said frantically as he looked back at Don. Don pulled his Bo from his back and shook his head.
"No…this family doesn't leave another to fight alone…but I'm calling in back-up," Don hissed.
Bane blinked in surprise and then twisted around as a bullet grazed his fur along the shoulder.
His growl make the room tremble a little.
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