"No- no! Come on Leo breath!"
Vinny held his brothers head, keeping the slit in his throat pressed closed, his hands shook... Splinter lay beside his sons, tears streaming down his face, in each of his hands he held theirs... Donny was coming... Casey and April were staying with Mikey... The old rats world had crashed around him in one terrible night... By morning it was only too likely he would have not five, but two sons... It was too great a price... Splinter bowed his head... They could not move Leonardo or Raphael without killing them... His dark wet eyes fell on the blades sticking up through his sons plastron... At the gash in Leo's neck that was seeping a lake of red blood... Every now and again it would bubble as his son tried to breath... Vincent tried to block out the waves of pain coming from his brothers, he had to focus... He had to bring them back... Had to keep them here... As he prayed he suddenly became aware of another presence... a dark creeping shadow appeared behind Leonardo... It crouched there, watching and waiting... Vincent leaned protectively over his brothers body and challenged it...
" Get away from him!"
Splinter looked up, he saw Vinny glaring apparently at the wall...
Then he saw it too...