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Chapter Twenty-one
Leo was shocked to see who was underneath that mask after Raph pulled it off of her head. "...Jean?" He finally spoke, not being able to find any other words to say.
Donnie was just as surprised as his brother. "But Jean," He stammered. "How did you find the Foot? Why did you join them? You should have come to us--"
"I should have come to you guys why?" Jean glared at him. "So you guys could fill my head with lies again?"
Donnie looked over at Leo with a worried expression. He had no idea what Jean was talking about.
"We never lied to you, Jean," Leo stated. He was still too shocked to speak. "I don't understand what you're talking about."
"Her father." Raph said.
"What?" Leo took his eyes off of Jean and looked at his brother. "Her father's--"
Mikey shook his head, knowing what Leo was going to say. "Joined the Foot." He finished.
Jean swiped her mask out of Raph's hands. "Now are we going to finish this battle or not?"
No one replied. Leo and Donnie were still confused about why she had joined the Foot, what she meant about how they lied to her and where her father came from since they thought he disappeared. Mikey couldn't believe how angry she was with them. The Foot must have told her something to make her feel this way. He didn't understand that she was still going through with this. Couldn't she tell that he and brothers felt bad and that they were telling her the truth? Didn't she know them by now?
"No." Raph finally spoke.
Jean raised an eyebrow. "No?"
Raph crossed his arms over his chest. "No. We're not going to finish this battle."
"Then I supposed to guys want to talk like you always do," Jean didn't give any of them a chance to reply. "Or are you guys surrendering?" She looked around the lair, not being able to see Master Splinter through the mess of Foot ninjas. "Because it looks as if you guys have all ready lost."
That's when Leo turned around and noticed that he wasn't able to see Master Splinter either. "Master Splinter?" He called out in worry and left Jean and his brothers. He knew that his brothers could handle Jean themselves.
"I'll go help him." Donnie looked worried as well as he eyes scanned the lair for his father and then he ran away, pushing Foot ninjas out of his way.
Mikey watched Leo and Donnie leave and then he turned back to Raph and Jean.
"Mikey, go help them find Master Splinter." Raph ordered.
"But--"
"Go help Master Splinter." Raph interrupted more firmly.
Mikey gave Raph a confused look as he began to back up a little. He didn't know what Raph was thinking and he also didn't know if Raph even knew what he was thinking.
"I got this," Raph reassured his brother. "Now go."
Mikey gave him a slight nod and ran away to go find his brothers and help them find their father.
Raph turned back and looked down at Jean. "Jean, we need to talk."
"Here we go..." She rolled her eyes.
Raph grabbed her arm and walked her over by the staircase. "We need to talk now.
"I don't want to talk!" Jean crossed her arms over her chest. She was being stubborn, as usual. "There's nothing to talk about. If you have a problem with me right now, battle it out." She lifted her sai blades in the air to begin another fight with Raph.
Without hesitation, Raph grabbed her sais out of her hands. "I gave you these sais, I can take them right back," He put them on one of the steps on the stairs. "I don't care if you don't want to talk, you're going to listen."
Jean glared at him and crossed her arms over her chest again, not knowing what else to do with them. "Fine. But make it quick."
Raph raised an eyebrow. "Why? You going somewhere?"
Jean rolled her eyes. "Come on, Raph. If you have something to say, then say it. Otherwise I'm going to--"
"You're going to what?" Raph interrupted her. "Are you going to get Daddy?"
Jean looked the other way, not wanting to make eye contact with him. "Raph, can we just let this go?"
Raph tried not to laugh. "You run away from us, join the Foot, and then attack our lair with the whole Clan accusing us of lying to you and you just want to let this go?" He shook his head. "No. We're not going to let this go. I want to know what happened."
"Nothing happened." Jean sighed out of annoyance.
"Obviously something happened. Who told you that we lied to you? What did they tell you about us?" Raph wanted to ask more questions, but he didn't want her to get even more angry with him than she all ready was. He hoped she would tell him and if she did, he hoped it was the truth. "And I want the truth." He decided to add.
Jean stared at the ground. She had always trusted the turtles before she met her father. Now, even when she wasn't on their side, the turtles still treated her the same way they always have. She was confused now more than ever. She took a deep breath. She decided she would tell Raph, but she wasn't sure who to trust anymore. "My dad told me what happened between you and Shredder." She thought about it more in her head. The way her father told the story made the turtles look like the bad guys. She looked up at Raph with pleading eyes. "How did that story go again?" She had a feeling that there were going to be two sides of the story.
"Now?" Raph asked surprised. She wanted him to tell her that story now while everyone was fighting in the background?
Jean nodded her head, trying to hold back tears from everything going on around her and in her head. "I don't know who to believe anymore." She whispered.
Raph made a funny face as he tried to figure out what she was talking about. However, he was suddenly picked up and thrown across the room.
Jean ducked as Raph flew over her head. She turned around and watched him make a hard thud on the floor and turned back around to see who threw him. "Daddy?" She didn't realize he was standing right there. Was he listening to them the entire time?
Jean's father ignored her and walked right over to Raph.
"What are you doing?" Jean became nervous. "Dad?" She called again when he didn't turn around.
Raph groaned as he pushed himself up onto his feet. He stood up, taking his sais out. He didn't notice a Foot ninja behind him, so he wasn't quit ready.
Raph turned around, with his sais ready, but he lost his balance when he received a punch in the face.
"Dad!" Jean shouted.
Ignoring his daughter once again, her father took Raph's sais out of his hands and tossed them to the side.
Jean watched Raph stand up. She knew he battled well without any weapons, but her father had a mace. This could get ugly.
Jean turned around and grabbed her two sais off of the stairs. She gripped them tightly in each hand and turned around and watched Raph trying to block her father's blows with his mace. She looked down at her sais. There was no way she was going to be able to defeat her father. Even with her sais.
She looked around for Leo, Donnie, Mikey, or Master Splinter. Maybe they'd be able to help. Although, when she found two out of the four of them, she were busy fighting off countless Foot ninjas. She looked back to Raph and her father and the two of them were still trying to hit each other while at the same time blocking the other's attacks.
Jean knew Raph wouldn't win without his sais and she knew that she wouldn't win alone with just her sais. She ran up to another Foot ninja and knocked him out, taking his sword. Daddy taught me how to handle a sword. Although, I am better with sai blades, but I'm just going to have to deal with what I got!
Jean ran up behind her dad and punched him in the back.
Unharmed, but confused, her father turned around. "Jean? What the...?"
Since he was distracted, Jean tossed Raph her sai blades. "Catch!" She yelled.
Raph caught her sais and stood on guard with one gripped in each hand.
Jean's father noticed the sai blades and turned back to Jean. "I'll deal with you later." He told her and threw her across the room like a doll.
"That's it!" Raph hated this guy. He put both sais in one hand and using his free hand, he punched Jean's father in the face, making him lose balance. Raph put the sais in each hand again and charged for her father, punching him again.
Jean knocked into Donnie. "Sorry!" She said.
Donnie paused. "Did you just say sorry to me?" He was puzzled because now she seemed like she was on their side.
Jean sighed. "Please, not now. Raph needs help."
Donnie looked over at Raph and he noticed him fighting one certain Foot ninja. "Okay!" He bolted away from the other Foot ninjas he was fighting and ran over to Raph's side.
Jean help the sword in her hand tightly. She felt useless holding it, however. She watched Donnie and Raph fight her father. They were defending her and her father just tossed her to the side like she was dirt. She looked down at the sword and then back to her father and the turtles. Donnie was thrown across the room and Raph was smashed into a wall.
Jean gripped the sword in both of her hands. She knew which side she was on now.
She ran up to her dad and punched him in the back again to get his attention.
"I said I'll deal with you later!" He snapped at her.
"We end this," She glared at him, pushing him away from Raph. "Now."
Ann: Yes, another cliffie. I'm sorry. I'm also sorry to say that the next chapter will be the last. T.T Anyway, thanks for reading and please review!