p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"strongTo Turn a Blind Eye/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A broad happy smile spread across a furry face as sharp eyes look down on the few humans walking the streets of New York at such a late hour. Back muscles starting to ache from staying in an uncomfortable position for too long, the shadowy figure stands up and stretches. Hearing a soft 'wolf whistle' come from the other side of the roof, the figure turns around and folds their arms across their chest. A cheeky stray tomcat grins and saunters towards the tall feminine figure. She rolls her eyes, tired of the cat's flirty demeanour. Sitting a metre away, the cat looks up at the powerful feline mutant./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "What do you want WolfSong?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "I just want to talk is all..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Pfft, oh yeah right you do. You're the cat version of those shifty humans that sell stolen and faulty goods"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "Ebony! I'm hurt that you think so lowly of me..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Just cut to the chase WolfSong. I don't have the patience to listen to you ramble on"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "For a lovely young lady like yourself my dear. I was scrounging for a snack earlier today when I heard strange voices coming from an open window. Almost robotic and with very bad grammar I must say. So I jumped up onto the window and had a peek inside. You know those freaky pink aliens that dress up as identical humans and look like brains without their suits? Well I saw three of them in the room with a little human tied up in front of them on the floor. They were talking about experimentation or something"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Where were you when this happened?!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "An alley on Fifth, the one between the alley that stinks and the graffiti alley"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong squeaks in surprise as Ebony suddenly scoops him up and takes off running. None of the few cats Ebony has carried while running have gotten used to the sheer speed at which Ebony can run at full speed. WolfSong could barely see anything with the wind in his eyes and even if he could see, there wasn't much to look at except buildings and streets going past in a blur. As she runs, Ebony thinks about just how she got back home to New York./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"emTwo days earlier/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "You are really going to do that for me?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Jenny "Of course we are dear. We can't have you going hungry whenever food was scarce like you were before. Now, every Sunday night Fred will drop off food to last you for the week at a location you two will choose when he drops you off. If you need anything, text or call us and I'll personally make sure that it is added to the next delivery"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony smiles and hugs Jenny happily. She was overwhelmed by the lengths to which people were willing to go to for her. Everyone spent the rest of the day preparing for Ebony's departure. Keith was finding it hard to say goodbye, even though he knew it wouldn't be long until she visits again. As the time for Ebony to get into Fred's truck drew close, Keith found it increasingly difficult to assist in the preparations. Ebony pauses to glance around and catches sight of Keith standing apart from everyone else./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony's ears flick back against her head slightly in worry then forward again as she walks over to him. Keith glances at her and smiles, having not noticed her approach until she was right beside him. Ebony just smiles back and wraps her arms around him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "What's bothering you?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "You're going back to New York..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "You know I'll visit often silly. I don't want to go but at the same time I do. I miss my home and there are things going on in New York that need sorting out..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "I know. You've already told me about your... what did you call them?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Missions or adventures. I really haven't made up my mind about that. You haven't forgotten that I'll be back for next winter have you?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "I haven't forgotten, but winter is so far away..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Winter will be here in 8 or 9 months. It's not that far away, it only seems like it. It'll give you time to think of things we could do when we have spare time..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith couldn't stop himself from grinning at the tone of her voice. He could feel her fingers tapping a rhythm on his ribs and see the slow, gentle swaying of her 6'1 long fluffy tail. Keith sighs contentedly as he wraps his arms around her and holds her close. Ebony glances over at the others when she hears that they were finished. Keith sighs and lets go of her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "I guess it's time for you to go now..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "I guess it is. I'll keep in touch"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony looks up at him and kisses him lovingly. Keith couldn't help feeling abandoned as Ebony pulled away from the kiss after a minute and walked towards Fred's truck. Watching her climb into the truck and close the door was hard enough, but watching Fred drive away... he didn't have to watch. The tears in his eyes blurred his vision so he could barely see./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"emBack to the present/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony pushes the memory away and focuses on where she was going. All she could hear was the usual noises of New York, the sound of her feet on the ground and her own pounding heart. Her pace changed to reflect her heartbeat. To her, it minimised unnecessary noise that could potentially drown out threatening sounds./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong glances up at what little he could see of her. All he could see was her neck, the underside of her chin and jaw and glimpses of her face. What surprised him was the sheer determination on her face. Nothing is going to stand in her way while she is in this mood. Ebony lets WolfSong jump down once they had arrived at the alleyway. She didn't need him to tell her which window, she could already hear the all too familiar voice of the Kraang. Ebony growls softly and silently sneaks closer with WolfSong at her heels./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A young female cat called Snowbell watches them from behind a trashcan, wondering what they were doing. Her human family had recently moved nearby and had only just started letting her out. Only just old enough to no longer be considered a kitten, Snowbell's curiosity sometimes got the better of her. Being a rare breed of cat called a Burmilla, her family had gotten her micro chipped and put a collar around her neck. Ebony glances at the two cats and gets an idea./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Meanwhile inside, two of the three Kraang prepares a vial of mutagen for the experiment. One looks over its shoulder at the third Kraang, whom was carrying the young human WolfSong had seen. Putting the semiconscious girl down in a corner, the Kraang joins its companions. Ebony peers in through the window as WolfSong jumps onto the windowsill from her shoulder. Snowbell walks up Ebony's tail onto her back, waiting for her signal. Ebony waits until WolfSong was in position then signals Snowbell. The young cat leaps through the window to land quietly on the floor of the room. Her life as a house cat had its advantages. Ebony keeps out of sight and waits./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Just as the Kraang turn towards the girl, WolfSong seemingly leaps out of nowhere and yowls like a demon was after him. The distraction had the desired effect, giving Ebony enough time to leap in through the window, take out one of the Kraang and go after the next. Snowbell jumps into the little girl's lap to try keep her from freaking out as she came to./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"During the fight, the last Kraang was bumped into hard enough for it to spill the mutagen. Snowbell leaps out of the path of the mutagen as it flew through the air just in time as it splashed onto the girl. Ebony quickly defeats the last Kraang then watches helplessly as the girl begins to mutate, knowing the risks if she tried to touch her too soon. The poor girl's fearful cries fill the room as she mutates. As soon as it was safe for her to do so, Ebony comforts the terrified girl as best she can. Her appearance made it that much harder to calm the poor girl down./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A sound behind her was Ebony's only warning of what was coming. She turns to look over her shoulder just as a powerful punch hits her in the side of the head, knocking her away from the child. Ebony snarls and shakes her head to clear it and glares in her attacker's direction. Her anger quickly turned to confusion./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Standing between Ebony and her only means of escape was a muscular male Felisar. Despite the Kraang being terrified of Felisars, the three she had taken out were working with one. His two tails flick back and forth in aggravation. His lips curl in a snarl as he growls at the pest who had just ruined his experiment. The high council had banished him from Truearus after his 'illegal' experimentations were discovered and destroyed. He had managed to salvage his research and had bargained his way into a fragile alliance with the Kraang. Now this... this... impudent welp had gone and just about ruined all of his hard work in a matter of seconds!/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony snarls back as she get to her feet, preparing to fight. She only had mere seconds to prepare herself before he attacked. In such a fast paced fight, it is nearly impossible for an onlooker to figure out who had the upper hand. Finding himself losing a fight with a youngster half his age, the Felisar decided to cheat in a fair fight. Leaping back as he reached into a pocket, he caught her off guard. The next thing Ebony knew, he had thrown or sprayed something in her face, and it BURNED! It had gotten into her eyes and nose, causing immense pain. The room echoed with her cries of agony. When she could finally open her eyes again, they were milky white. Whatever he had thrown or sprayed had rendered Ebony blind./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The Felisar began to attack her with no mercy. Blind and with her sense of smell greatly diminished, she was defenceless against him. She yelps as her arm is slashed and makes a futile attempt to attack him. He got through her every defence, weakening her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Unknown to him, Ebony was losing on purpose, learning. Her eyesight is gone and her sense of smell is crippled, but her hearing wasn't affected at all. Straining her ears to their limit, she finally picked up what she was straining to hear, her opponent's heartbeat. Head low, she grins savagely./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Believing he had the upper hand, the Felisar goes in to finish her off. For Ebony, time slowed down. She could hear 5 individual heartbeats, one of which was her own. The girl hadn't moved from the corner, WolfSong was beside Snowbell, trying to calm her. So that just left one. In a heartbeat, the Felisar was knocked back, completely taken off guard. He growls at his blind opponent, wondering just how she did that./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Felisar {It doesn't matter anyways. As long as she is younger than 18, I've got this in the bag. Even if she has hers already, it won't matter. It'll just be a little more interesting}/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"He grins evilly as a plan forms in his head. Ebony shifts her feet nervously as he begins to change forms. Felisars have three forms which they can take. Their normal form, their pet form where they look like your average Earth cat, and then there is their third form, the feral form. The pet form and feral form are 'locked' until the Felisar reaches a certain age. The pet form is normally 'unlocked' at age 5 while the feral form isn't 'unlocked' until the Felisar is at least 18 years old. Ebony could only hear the changes that were taking place as he changes into his feral form./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A Felisar's feral form ranges in size but is about the size of an adult tiger and has a similar skeleton. The largest feral form of a Felisar ever recorded stood an inch taller than the largest tiger. This Felisar's feral form is one of the largest, only a few inches smaller than the record breaker. He growls savagely at Ebony as he moves into position to attack. What happened next took him by surprise./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Just as he lunges for her throat, Ebony lashes out with a punch strong enough to knock him to the ground. He watches in surprise as Ebony began to change, becoming her feral form for the first time. His surprise turned to shock as she became as big as him and kept on growing. When Ebony finally stopped growing, she was absolutely HUGE! Standing 7'2 at the shoulder and weighing in at a whopping 700 kilos, she was twice the height of what used to be the largest Felisar feral form on record. With a deafening roar, she attacked and ended his life. Calm again, Ebony changed back into her normal form. She walks unsteadily towards the girl, still totally blind./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "It's OK now, he won't hurt you anymore. I won't hurt you. I came to rescue you"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The girl shies away from her, too terrified to trust her. Sounds only Ebony could hear spooked her, causing her to scoop up the girl and lunge blindly out the window. The girl was in no position to struggle, her hands and feet still bound. WolfSong and Snowbell quickly follow Ebony out the window and look up at her. Despite being blind, Ebony got out the window fine. How she was going to get home was another matter altogether./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "WolfSong..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "Yes Ebony?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Do you think you can find someone for me? Bring them here?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "I'll try my best"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony nods and tells WolfSong who to go look for. The tomcat nods and races off as she settles down to wait where she wouldn't be spotted with Snowbell's help. Ebony and the girl spent the next 2 hours just talking as they waited for WolfSong to return. Snowbell relaxed on the girl's lap as the two talked. As it turned out, the girl's name is Coraline, the 9 year old daughter of an unemployed couple, of whose care she had been removed from at an early age. She had been kidnapped a week prior to Ebony's return to New York and been held captive by the Kraang and Felisar. The 18 year old started to speak but then fell silent as faint sounds reach her ears. Ebony flicks her ears and then relaxes against the wall, smiling softly./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "WolfSong is back and he brought company. You have no reason to be afraid of them"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Coraline looks at Ebony then hides behind her as four mutant turtles jump down into the alley from a rooftop. Ebony smiles in their direction, relying solely on her ears to figure out where they were./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Donatello "Ebony... you're..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Michelangelo "Dude, what is up with your eyes Ebony?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "I am blind. I should have known that WolfSong couldn't have explained what happened. Huh? But there is no time to explain. It isn't safe here. Come on Coraline"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The 4 boys stare in surprise as the little girl steps out from behind Ebony. She was a human no more, but a mutant cat. Ebony picks her up and lets the four brothers lead her to a safer location. After helping her sit down, they ask her to explain. Ebony nods and explains what happened, but left out that the alien that showed up was a Felisar and just how she defeated him. If she hadn't, they would have wanted to know how she knew and the truth about what she is would be revealed sooner than she'd like./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Michelangelo "Wow! You defeated that alien blind with using just your hearing?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Raphael "Yes Mikey, she just said that"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "There is one problem though. Because I am blind, I can't make my way home alone. I know where you four are because I can hear your heartbeats. Finding my way home is impossible with me like this"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Leonardo "Just tell us where to go and we'll take you home"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Thank you"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The four turtles help Ebony back to her feet as she tells them where she lives. Leo and Donny walk beside her while Mikey scouts ahead and Raph trails behind. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A broad happy smile spread across a furry face as sharp eyes look down on the few humans walking the streets of New York at such a late hour. Back muscles starting to ache from staying in an uncomfortable position for too long, the shadowy figure stands up and stretches. Hearing a soft 'wolf whistle' come from the other side of the roof, the figure turns around and folds their arms across their chest. A cheeky stray tomcat grins and saunters towards the tall feminine figure. She rolls her eyes, tired of the cat's flirty demeanour. Sitting a metre away, the cat looks up at the powerful feline mutant./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "What do you want WolfSong?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "I just want to talk is all..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Pfft, oh yeah right you do. You're the cat version of those shifty humans that sell stolen and faulty goods"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "Ebony! I'm hurt that you think so lowly of me..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Just cut to the chase WolfSong. I don't have the patience to listen to you ramble on"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "For a lovely young lady like yourself my dear. I was scrounging for a snack earlier today when I heard strange voices coming from an open window. Almost robotic and with very bad grammar I must say. So I jumped up onto the window and had a peek inside. You know those freaky pink aliens that dress up as identical humans and look like brains without their suits? Well I saw three of them in the room with a little human tied up in front of them on the floor. They were talking about experimentation or something"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Where were you when this happened?!"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "An alley on Fifth, the one between the alley that stinks and the graffiti alley"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong squeaks in surprise as Ebony suddenly scoops him up and takes off running. None of the few cats Ebony has carried while running have gotten used to the sheer speed at which Ebony can run at full speed. WolfSong could barely see anything with the wind in his eyes and even if he could see, there wasn't much to look at except buildings and streets going past in a blur. As she runs, Ebony thinks about just how she got back home to New York./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"emTwo days earlier/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "You are really going to do that for me?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Jenny "Of course we are dear. We can't have you going hungry whenever food was scarce like you were before. Now, every Sunday night Fred will drop off food to last you for the week at a location you two will choose when he drops you off. If you need anything, text or call us and I'll personally make sure that it is added to the next delivery"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony smiles and hugs Jenny happily. She was overwhelmed by the lengths to which people were willing to go to for her. Everyone spent the rest of the day preparing for Ebony's departure. Keith was finding it hard to say goodbye, even though he knew it wouldn't be long until she visits again. As the time for Ebony to get into Fred's truck drew close, Keith found it increasingly difficult to assist in the preparations. Ebony pauses to glance around and catches sight of Keith standing apart from everyone else./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony's ears flick back against her head slightly in worry then forward again as she walks over to him. Keith glances at her and smiles, having not noticed her approach until she was right beside him. Ebony just smiles back and wraps her arms around him./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "What's bothering you?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "You're going back to New York..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "You know I'll visit often silly. I don't want to go but at the same time I do. I miss my home and there are things going on in New York that need sorting out..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "I know. You've already told me about your... what did you call them?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Missions or adventures. I really haven't made up my mind about that. You haven't forgotten that I'll be back for next winter have you?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "I haven't forgotten, but winter is so far away..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Winter will be here in 8 or 9 months. It's not that far away, it only seems like it. It'll give you time to think of things we could do when we have spare time..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith couldn't stop himself from grinning at the tone of her voice. He could feel her fingers tapping a rhythm on his ribs and see the slow, gentle swaying of her 6'1 long fluffy tail. Keith sighs contentedly as he wraps his arms around her and holds her close. Ebony glances over at the others when she hears that they were finished. Keith sighs and lets go of her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Keith "I guess it's time for you to go now..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "I guess it is. I'll keep in touch"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony looks up at him and kisses him lovingly. Keith couldn't help feeling abandoned as Ebony pulled away from the kiss after a minute and walked towards Fred's truck. Watching her climb into the truck and close the door was hard enough, but watching Fred drive away... he didn't have to watch. The tears in his eyes blurred his vision so he could barely see./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"emBack to the present/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony pushes the memory away and focuses on where she was going. All she could hear was the usual noises of New York, the sound of her feet on the ground and her own pounding heart. Her pace changed to reflect her heartbeat. To her, it minimised unnecessary noise that could potentially drown out threatening sounds./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong glances up at what little he could see of her. All he could see was her neck, the underside of her chin and jaw and glimpses of her face. What surprised him was the sheer determination on her face. Nothing is going to stand in her way while she is in this mood. Ebony lets WolfSong jump down once they had arrived at the alleyway. She didn't need him to tell her which window, she could already hear the all too familiar voice of the Kraang. Ebony growls softly and silently sneaks closer with WolfSong at her heels./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A young female cat called Snowbell watches them from behind a trashcan, wondering what they were doing. Her human family had recently moved nearby and had only just started letting her out. Only just old enough to no longer be considered a kitten, Snowbell's curiosity sometimes got the better of her. Being a rare breed of cat called a Burmilla, her family had gotten her micro chipped and put a collar around her neck. Ebony glances at the two cats and gets an idea./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Meanwhile inside, two of the three Kraang prepares a vial of mutagen for the experiment. One looks over its shoulder at the third Kraang, whom was carrying the young human WolfSong had seen. Putting the semiconscious girl down in a corner, the Kraang joins its companions. Ebony peers in through the window as WolfSong jumps onto the windowsill from her shoulder. Snowbell walks up Ebony's tail onto her back, waiting for her signal. Ebony waits until WolfSong was in position then signals Snowbell. The young cat leaps through the window to land quietly on the floor of the room. Her life as a house cat had its advantages. Ebony keeps out of sight and waits./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Just as the Kraang turn towards the girl, WolfSong seemingly leaps out of nowhere and yowls like a demon was after him. The distraction had the desired effect, giving Ebony enough time to leap in through the window, take out one of the Kraang and go after the next. Snowbell jumps into the little girl's lap to try keep her from freaking out as she came to./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"During the fight, the last Kraang was bumped into hard enough for it to spill the mutagen. Snowbell leaps out of the path of the mutagen as it flew through the air just in time as it splashed onto the girl. Ebony quickly defeats the last Kraang then watches helplessly as the girl begins to mutate, knowing the risks if she tried to touch her too soon. The poor girl's fearful cries fill the room as she mutates. As soon as it was safe for her to do so, Ebony comforts the terrified girl as best she can. Her appearance made it that much harder to calm the poor girl down./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A sound behind her was Ebony's only warning of what was coming. She turns to look over her shoulder just as a powerful punch hits her in the side of the head, knocking her away from the child. Ebony snarls and shakes her head to clear it and glares in her attacker's direction. Her anger quickly turned to confusion./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Standing between Ebony and her only means of escape was a muscular male Felisar. Despite the Kraang being terrified of Felisars, the three she had taken out were working with one. His two tails flick back and forth in aggravation. His lips curl in a snarl as he growls at the pest who had just ruined his experiment. The high council had banished him from Truearus after his 'illegal' experimentations were discovered and destroyed. He had managed to salvage his research and had bargained his way into a fragile alliance with the Kraang. Now this... this... impudent welp had gone and just about ruined all of his hard work in a matter of seconds!/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony snarls back as she get to her feet, preparing to fight. She only had mere seconds to prepare herself before he attacked. In such a fast paced fight, it is nearly impossible for an onlooker to figure out who had the upper hand. Finding himself losing a fight with a youngster half his age, the Felisar decided to cheat in a fair fight. Leaping back as he reached into a pocket, he caught her off guard. The next thing Ebony knew, he had thrown or sprayed something in her face, and it BURNED! It had gotten into her eyes and nose, causing immense pain. The room echoed with her cries of agony. When she could finally open her eyes again, they were milky white. Whatever he had thrown or sprayed had rendered Ebony blind./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The Felisar began to attack her with no mercy. Blind and with her sense of smell greatly diminished, she was defenceless against him. She yelps as her arm is slashed and makes a futile attempt to attack him. He got through her every defence, weakening her./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Unknown to him, Ebony was losing on purpose, learning. Her eyesight is gone and her sense of smell is crippled, but her hearing wasn't affected at all. Straining her ears to their limit, she finally picked up what she was straining to hear, her opponent's heartbeat. Head low, she grins savagely./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Believing he had the upper hand, the Felisar goes in to finish her off. For Ebony, time slowed down. She could hear 5 individual heartbeats, one of which was her own. The girl hadn't moved from the corner, WolfSong was beside Snowbell, trying to calm her. So that just left one. In a heartbeat, the Felisar was knocked back, completely taken off guard. He growls at his blind opponent, wondering just how she did that./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Felisar {It doesn't matter anyways. As long as she is younger than 18, I've got this in the bag. Even if she has hers already, it won't matter. It'll just be a little more interesting}/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"He grins evilly as a plan forms in his head. Ebony shifts her feet nervously as he begins to change forms. Felisars have three forms which they can take. Their normal form, their pet form where they look like your average Earth cat, and then there is their third form, the feral form. The pet form and feral form are 'locked' until the Felisar reaches a certain age. The pet form is normally 'unlocked' at age 5 while the feral form isn't 'unlocked' until the Felisar is at least 18 years old. Ebony could only hear the changes that were taking place as he changes into his feral form./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"A Felisar's feral form ranges in size but is about the size of an adult tiger and has a similar skeleton. The largest feral form of a Felisar ever recorded stood an inch taller than the largest tiger. This Felisar's feral form is one of the largest, only a few inches smaller than the record breaker. He growls savagely at Ebony as he moves into position to attack. What happened next took him by surprise./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Just as he lunges for her throat, Ebony lashes out with a punch strong enough to knock him to the ground. He watches in surprise as Ebony began to change, becoming her feral form for the first time. His surprise turned to shock as she became as big as him and kept on growing. When Ebony finally stopped growing, she was absolutely HUGE! Standing 7'2 at the shoulder and weighing in at a whopping 700 kilos, she was twice the height of what used to be the largest Felisar feral form on record. With a deafening roar, she attacked and ended his life. Calm again, Ebony changed back into her normal form. She walks unsteadily towards the girl, still totally blind./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "It's OK now, he won't hurt you anymore. I won't hurt you. I came to rescue you"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The girl shies away from her, too terrified to trust her. Sounds only Ebony could hear spooked her, causing her to scoop up the girl and lunge blindly out the window. The girl was in no position to struggle, her hands and feet still bound. WolfSong and Snowbell quickly follow Ebony out the window and look up at her. Despite being blind, Ebony got out the window fine. How she was going to get home was another matter altogether./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "WolfSong..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "Yes Ebony?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Do you think you can find someone for me? Bring them here?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"WolfSong "I'll try my best"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony nods and tells WolfSong who to go look for. The tomcat nods and races off as she settles down to wait where she wouldn't be spotted with Snowbell's help. Ebony and the girl spent the next 2 hours just talking as they waited for WolfSong to return. Snowbell relaxed on the girl's lap as the two talked. As it turned out, the girl's name is Coraline, the 9 year old daughter of an unemployed couple, of whose care she had been removed from at an early age. She had been kidnapped a week prior to Ebony's return to New York and been held captive by the Kraang and Felisar. The 18 year old started to speak but then fell silent as faint sounds reach her ears. Ebony flicks her ears and then relaxes against the wall, smiling softly./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "WolfSong is back and he brought company. You have no reason to be afraid of them"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Coraline looks at Ebony then hides behind her as four mutant turtles jump down into the alley from a rooftop. Ebony smiles in their direction, relying solely on her ears to figure out where they were./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Donatello "Ebony... you're..."/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Michelangelo "Dude, what is up with your eyes Ebony?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "I am blind. I should have known that WolfSong couldn't have explained what happened. Huh? But there is no time to explain. It isn't safe here. Come on Coraline"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The 4 boys stare in surprise as the little girl steps out from behind Ebony. She was a human no more, but a mutant cat. Ebony picks her up and lets the four brothers lead her to a safer location. After helping her sit down, they ask her to explain. Ebony nods and explains what happened, but left out that the alien that showed up was a Felisar and just how she defeated him. If she hadn't, they would have wanted to know how she knew and the truth about what she is would be revealed sooner than she'd like./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Michelangelo "Wow! You defeated that alien blind with using just your hearing?"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Raphael "Yes Mikey, she just said that"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "There is one problem though. Because I am blind, I can't make my way home alone. I know where you four are because I can hear your heartbeats. Finding my way home is impossible with me like this"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Leonardo "Just tell us where to go and we'll take you home"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"Ebony "Thank you"/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: #fffffa;"The four turtles help Ebony back to her feet as she tells them where she lives. Leo and Donny walk beside her while Mikey scouts ahead and Raph trails behind. /p