Hey guys! :D I know I promised you the chapter/episode I, Monster. I am almost finished with it so don't worry. I just had gotten this idea off the top of my head and I just had to write this! It's not a full-on episode or whatever, and I apologize for that, but I still hope that its interesting enough for you :3 I MADE EVERYTHING COMPLETELY UP! Yay me~ X3 lolz

Jordan: Aww! I consider you my friend as well :3 *hugs you* (HUGS ARE COMPLETELY AWESOME!)

Enjoy!~

A yawn escaped Tracy's mouth as she walked out of her room. Her large cat ears lazily lay against her head. They weren't completely flat. She was just groggy at the moment. It was early morning. Maybe…4:30 or 5:00? She didn't look and she didn't really care. She couldn't even comprehend anything. She might be mutated with a nocturnal mammal, but if she gets up extremely early, like she did now, she's basically just sleepwalking. She's all groggy, can't even tell where she's going, stumbling around (only slightly)… She's just not that much of an early bird. She had left Lucifer on the bed to sleep, so now she was dragging herself down the hallway.

Only when she found herself facing a closed door did she stop to backtrack her mind. Blinking a few times, wiping her eyes, and shaking her head quickly to get rid of her grogginess, she still found her face a few inches from one of the bedroom doors. With a quick sniff to take in the familiar scent, she knew she was in front of Raphael's door, even if she hadn't noticed the multiple comic posters that were stuck to the door.

What the…? Was the only thought that went through her mind at that point. Why in the world had she come to Raph's room? How had she not noticed it until she came face-to-face with his door? Wouldn't she have noticed his fresh scent in her nose before then? Billions of questions of the like raced through her mind at once as she blinked. Apparently, from the soft noises that each individual mutant turtle made, she could tell that they were still asleep. Good. That means that no-one would even notice she had been there in the first place.

Even so, Tracy's heartbeat had quickened between the moment she had fully gotten rid of her grogginess and now as she stood staring at the door in front of her. She didn't know why. She's never felt this way before. Sure, she's gotten nervous before. Everyone had. But…like this, just by standing in front of a certain person's door? Surely not. But, she had to make sure and clarify it.

Turning swiftly and silently on her large paws, the female mutant walked back to her room. Unlike the turtle brothers, her door didn't have anything that clarified it as 'Tracy and Lucifer's Room'. She figured she might want to at least out something on the door later, but right now, she could care less. She pushed the door open and closed it all the way behind her, satisfied when she heard a click. She walked over to the bed and sat crisscross, her tail curled around her slightly. The gray cat still lay on the bed, curled and peacefully sleeping. She hated to wake her companion up, but she wanted answers.

"Hey, Lu?"

Lucifer's ear flicked to the sound of her voice and he opened one eye to glance at her. 'Yes, Trace?'

"Did you even realize if I had gotten up at least a minute ago or so or not?" Tracy asked, fiddling with her nails.

Noticing her nervousness, Lucifer lifted his head to yawn before opening both eyes. He sat up and gave his chest fur a couple of licks before fixing her with his yellow stare, his tail curled delicately around his paws. 'I don't think so, no. Why? What happened?' He tilted his head in confusion.

Tracy bit her lip before explaining her daze to him, the way she realized where she was only when something was right in front of her face, and the nervous feeling she had gotten, her racing heartbeat. Her heartbeat had finally calmed down now, thankfully. It's probably because she was in her own room now, her territory. "I don't…exactly…know what had happened," she told him with a sigh. She flicked her tail and ear slightly.

Lucifer was silent for a few moments. His gaze was fixed on nothing as he sat in silent thoughtfulness. The daze she had explained sounded really close to an old story he had heard, but he had never really experienced it himself, or heard of it otherwise. It was confusing to him, but he tried to make sense of it. His gaze was still fixed on nothing when he finally spoke. Though, his voice was slow as he tried to explain and gather his own thoughts. 'I'm not exactly sure how to make sense of that,' he told her softly. 'But what I do know is that I have heard of that daze before from an old story.'

"A story?" Tracy blinked in slight surprise and confusion, though she didn't ask anything else.

Lucifer nodded slowly. 'The story says that an ancient cat-warrior had fought for his kind for centuries. He fought for the freedom of his people, to protect his land, and defend his family. He was a brave cat-warrior, and nothing seemed to get passed him or catch him off guard. But the one thing about this cat-warrior that deterred him…was his secret.'

"His secret?" Tracy echoed softly.

'Yes, his secret,' Lucifer meowed. 'Before I get to that part, I must tell you this: The cat-warrior had saved an innocent woman's life from battle and brought her to her home safely. He had left after he had made sure she was okay and safe with her own family, but his life had changed right after that incident.' He paused, as if to recollect his thoughts, before continuing. 'Now, his secret. Almost every day, at night and/or early morning, he would walk as if in daze – much how you described your daze – to that very woman's house. He didn't know why, and he couldn't explain it. It would happen almost every day, and he would only come back to his senses at a certain place or time.'

Tracy listened intently to the story. Her ears caught every word that he would mutter and she soaked up each word into her mind. She knew it was important know. It would help her sort out what had happened earlier.

'Since it would happen most at night or early mornings before or at dawn, the woman and her family never even knew he was there or had been there to begin with. But one night, the woman had stayed awake through the night. If she was working on something or just simply couldn't get to sleep, was unknown,' he said, shaking his head slightly. 'Of course, the cat-warrior arrived that night in his usual daze. He would stare at the house in a certain spot under a tree nearest the house in his daze. But this time, the woman noticed him. She had been confused to see him there, but didn't confront him or make a sound to alert him that she had seen him. Every night, she would stay up and watch him watch her. She knew something wasn't exactly right with him, other than the fact that he was different from herself. One night, though, in the cat-warrior's daze, he had actually walked to the house and into her room. He had come to his senses when he was standing in from of the woman.

They had stayed silent for a while that night, but then they finally spoke to each other. They exchanged information about each other, and grew to know one another better. But the one thing that was certain was that they were in love. The cat-warrior certainly was in love with the woman from the start. Some say that the daze had been the cause of being in love, and his mind had clouded over so that he could be near his love. The daze didn't happen any longer when the warrior finally spoke to the woman and spoke with her every night afterwards,' Lucifer explained. He blinked and leaned back slightly on his haunches with a flick of his ear, signaling the end of his story.

Tracy was still silent for a moment as she took the story in. The cat-warrior was only in a daze because he had fallen in… "Wait," she finally said. "Wait, wait, wait. Hold up. Back up for a second." Lucifer blinked in slight amusement as she tried to say something. "Are you saying…that I'm in love with…?" She couldn't even bring herself to finish her own sentence.

'Raphael? The hot-tempered turtle of this lair? Yes indeedy,' Lucifer finished with a grin, showing off his pearly white fangs in the process.

"What?!" Tracy gawked at him for a second in complete shock. "How is that possible? I mean…it's just a story…right?" She didn't exactly want to believe the story of the Cat-Warrior, but part of her knew it was true.

'Well, it basically is,' Lucifer shrugged nonchalantly. He then fixed her with another wide grin. 'But based from your description, it seems like it's true for at least one person or another.'

Tracy groaned in frustration as she held her face in one hand. That would explain why I had gotten that nervous feeling when I stood there. And why my heart was beating so fast… Her ears flattened against her head. She peeked through her fingers to stare at her companion with one blue eye. "What if it is true? What happens?" She asked slowly.

Lucifer shrugged once more. 'Either you agree with yourself that you like him and your little 'Love Daze' stops, or you continue to deny it and it keeps happening, eventually getting yourself caught.' He grinned at that thought. 'Ooh. I wonder how embarrassing that would be if you did get caught…' He snickered with a paw over the bridge of his nose.

Tracy glared at him. "Ha ha, very funny," she said sarcastically. "Shut up." She kept her mouth open to say something more, but she couldn't find anything. So she clamped her mouth shut and let out a faint hiss of annoyance, lashing her tail to once side as she did so. It only made her companion's snicker turn into a laugh.

What they both didn't know, was that a certain rat had been standing by their door, listening to their story the whole time. Splinter hadn't heard of the story before, and he was interested in it. A Love Daze. It sounded interesting, and according to the small gray cat, Tracy had been in that daze once that morning. Making a soft noise if interest to himself, he turned and made his way back to his room in the dojo to meditate. He smiled to himself. So the female mutant liked his hot-tempered son? Interesting indeed.

"Yeah, yeah, it's completely funny," Tracy sarcastically growled as she watched Lucifer laugh with his paws over his face. "Now, shut up. Don't tell anyone." She flattened her ears with a small lash of her tail, staring almost pleading and threateningly at the same time at him with her blue eyes.

Lucifer stopped laughing at this and placed his paws back on the bed. He stared into her blue eyes with his own yellow ones before letting a sigh escape through his nose. 'Alright, fine. I promise not to tell anyone,' he told her. He then smirked once more. 'But it makes a great topic to tease you over!'

Tracy grunted in frustration and annoyance as she fell backwards onto the bed and covered her face with her pillow. She didn't want to hear any of this 'Love Daze' crap any more than she had to that morning, but knowing her companion, he would certainly tease her whenever he had the chance to. She could hear him snicker to himself before curling up, probably with his tail curled over his nose. She smirked to herself under her pillow. She was certainly glad that she doesn't take the gray cat on mission anymore. Sure, she takes him out sometimes to get fresh air, but she rarely took him out on their missions for fear of him getting hurt. She knew he would definitely find it amusing to tease her about it while on a mission, so she was glad that she never takes him on any anymore. She just hoped he'd leave the topic alone for the rest of day, but her hopes might not get answered…

I wanted to have Tracy have a love interest (and on her bio on her pic here - art/Tracy-Kittin-Ref-Sheet-387438318 it says that she starts to like Raph), so I just had to figure out a way write how she finds out that she likes him and whatnot :3 Nothing particularly changes between them, its just one of those 'Okay, I like him so leave me alone' kind of things. She may have some sort of mental conflict with herself every now and again (I'm not sure yet) XD but she still acts the same way around him.

I actually like the story of the Cat-Warrior and the Love Daze :3 How Lucifer knows it, I am not quite sure. He may have heard it from his parents before he was abandoned and found by Tracy, or he had heard it from a group of elder-cats that were laying around telling stories to younger cats and he just happened to pass by and stop to listen. Who knows. But isn't that interesting? XD Tracy is the only known one so far to actually have the Love Daze from an ancient story lolz

I am working on the next chapter, so don't worry :3 (PLZ DONT STEAL MY CAT-WARRIOR STORY DX) Plz review!

Luna WhiteWolf~