"You're sure that's what you saw?" Leo asked as he put his katana strap on his back from the dojo wall. Raph nodded his head.

"Yeah Leo. It was dark, but I mean, I remember how she acts. It was weird. Realizin' it, even after all this time." Raph said as Leo folded his arms over his plastron.

"We should tell Master Splinter."

"Jade is in there." Raph sighed.

"Later then. He needs to know and we need to figure this out before it becomes too much." Leo said with his commanding tone. "Purple Dragons and Foot at once." He sighed running his hand over his head. "This isn't going to be pretty." He walked out of the dojo with Raph.

"Clear your mind my child." Splinter breathed as he kneeled in front of Jade in his candle lit room. She closed her eyes slowly, breathing in through her nose and out through her mouth with slow, cautious breaths. He took her hands in his paws as he moved them in a slow circular motion. "Breath in all the good around you, pushing out the bad." She did as he said. "Find yourself in a place of contentment. Alone, in a place where your troubles and worries cannot find you." She went through her memories as they flashed through Splinter's mind eye. He saw her as a little girl, the age of at least sixteen. The wind from the ocean blowing across her face as a single tear ran down it. Boats ahead of her floating in mid-air before falling back to the waters surface. Turning around in the darkened city back drop with Foot surrounding her. The jolt of fear and awareness as they lunged towards her and her sisters. Trying to keep them away, and fight for them and not herself. The undeniable sense of honor running throughout her as she protects her family from the Foot, the Shredder.

Splinter opened his eyes slowly as Jade's were clenched shut. Her lips pressed together tightly as her hands clenched onto his paws. He put them together, placing her hands in one of his as he covered them with his other. She opened her eyes slowly as he patted his paw on top of her hand.

"They are not going to harm you again my child." He said in a calming tone. She put her head down as tears started to swell in her eyes. He placed his fury finger on her chin as he lifted it level to his. "Emotion, showing it, embracing it is not something to be ashamed of my dear. You hold something very powerful within you, love. Love for my sons and your family. You're heart will carry you through whatever battle you will face. You are not alone in this, never again with my sons to be there by your side. June does not rule you any longer, her linger spirit within you will be gone if you no longer wish to hold onto it." She nodded her head slowly taking in another breath. "Tell me of your dream so we can extinguish this flame of hate once and for all."

"So you saw Karai?"

"No lame brain I think I did. Now don't go runnin' your mouth." Raph said as he glared at Mikey.

"This is huge bro!"

"We know Mikey. Let's just see what happens." Leo said putting his hand on his brother's shoulder to calm him.

"Well, what are we gonna do? What if they go after the girls?" Mikey asked as his voice went higher with concern. Leo sighed and shook his head.

"Let's just wait it out. She hasn't come to us yet so we just need…"

Leonardo turned his head as Raphael ran to the entryway as Jacqueline stumbled in, holding onto her side. Lexine couldn't mange to hold her up any longer as her adrenaline was wearing off. Blood stained her clothing as Donatello ran from the kitchen to her side. He pushed Raphael out of the way as he looked down at Jacqueline, limp on the floor.

"What happened?" Raphael asked staring at his bleeding girlfriend. Lexine shook her head.

"I-I-I don't know. We were out, Purple Dragons surrounded us, then this woman, she just came out of no where and she said something about a plot and going on with some plan…I-I can't remember everything…" Lexine said shaking her head as she ran her blood coated hands through her blonde hair. Stands of her hair stuck to the thick blood as she tried to wipe it off on her jeans. "Oh Jesus, Donnie, help her…please tell me you can help her?"

Donnie looked up at Lexine as tears streamed down her face. He looked back down at Jacqueline as she coughed, wincing to the pain rushing through her body. Her chest felt like it was going to cave in. She reached out as she felt someone grab a tight hold onto her hand. She managed to tilt her head to look at Raphael gripping onto her as he looked behind him at someone. She felt the warming sensation of her sister's hug consume her body as she saw Jade's outline above her.

Jade closed her eyes slowly calming Jacqueline's pain with her mind as she kneeled down next to Raph. She ran her hand down her arm slowly as Jacqueline closed her eyes letting her head fall back against the concrete.

"She passed out." Donnie said as Raphael picked her up in his arms. Jade followed holding onto her sisters limp hand, running her fingers slowly over Jac's knuckles.

Raphael put her on the medicine table in the lab as Lexine covered her face with her hands trying to breath normally. Jade walked over, wrapping her arms around Lexi and pressing her head into her shoulder. She brushed her hands over Lexi's hair as she stuck to the parts knotted together with blood. She closed her eyes with a deep breath calming herself as she pushed Lexi out of the room.

"But I need to…"

"I'll come out if anything happens. Go."

"But Donnie…"

"He'll be fine."

"I need him." She says softly pleading with her eyes.

"He needs to concentrate right now. Go comfort your twin, she needs you." Jade said gripping Lexine's shoulder as she slowly nodded her head leaving the lab. Don looked up at Jade as Raphael paced behind them. "What's wrong with her?"

"Nothing fatal. Just a flesh wound that needs to stop bleeding. She passed out from blood loss. Lexi must have had a long haul from where she was. Where was she?"

"She said something about going to a movie. I had to do the meditation thing with Splinter and Fiona wanted to stay in with Mikey. Lexine was the only one that would go with her. I didn't feel anything. I was too distracted by letting everything go in my head that it must have blocked out what was going on with our connection." Jade said shaking her head. "I could have prevented this!"

"No you couldn't of. You would have never made it in time, either way." Don said as he patched up Jacqueline's stomach. Don looked back down at the wound as he washed away the dried blood around it with disinfectant. "She must have just hit her to scare them off maybe? Give them a warning."

"That bitch better not touch her again." Raphael growled as he paced behind Jade. Jade turned around placing a hand on Raphael to steady him. He resisted at first, but she placed a firm hand down.

"She will get what is coming to her Raphael. Believe me." Jade said as her eyes faded off. Her looked turned intense as her eyes flashed purple. Raph furrowed his eye ridges as he looked at her lost expression.

"Jade…?"

"Dragons…" Jade said softly before looking up at Raphael and his uncertain glare. "Purple Dragons, circled them in an alleyway. They kept them off for a couple moments before Foot attacked. Then, Karai. She came and…She was trying to scare them. Jacqueline was protecting Lexine. She stepped in and Karai just ignored her burning flesh as Jac's flame burnt through her clothing. She sung her katana and Jacqueline moved in the way of Lexine. That explains the angle." Jade said as her eyes moved back and forth in thought. She slowly dropped her head down, turning around at her sister. "Idiot. You're too brave." She whispered softly, taking Jacqueline's hand and kissing it.

"That gave us our incentive." Donnie said looking up at Raph. He nodded his head once before leaving the lab.

He made a B line to Leonardo who leaned against the counter, arms crossed over his plastron as his hands gripped onto his biceps. His glare fixed on one spot on the floor. He heard Raph's pounding feet meet the concrete beside him as he lifted his head to meet his glare.

"Karai, the Dragons, the Foot. They did this. They made their move, now we make ours." Raphael said as Leonardo stared at his brother for a moment. He weighed the options in his head.

They did made the first move. Something he wished they waited on. He didn't want this happen so soon. It's only been a few weeks, almost a month this the Shredder's death. Everything was finally settling down in his life. He was in love with a beautiful girl that loved him back. He was content and happy, and now again…Karai. She comes back like an explosion in their lives. The first time Leo "killed" the Shredder, she came and fixed everything. He came back as soon as their connection was brought back.

She was always something he feared to face alone. She was seductive and dangerous and knew the honor and code of the Ninja. She was a Ninja and moved just as well, if not better than him and his brothers. Not combined. The Foot are too clumsy and stupid to have that kind of connection and Karai would never let them in on that kind of level.

He put his head down as he remember that night. It was cold as the wind blew over his moist, sweat covered skin. He had been fighting for hours and now, laid on his shell as Karai stood above him katana fiercely pointed at his throat. She met his eyes as they were fierce, glaring into his. He could feel them pierce the very last inch of his soul and his stomach twist and turned. He caught his breath in his throat as she pressed the tip of her blade against his skin. The cold metal felt welcoming, as he didn't want to wait any longer. He wanted it now. The groans and pained screams from his brothers to stop echoing in his ears, the harsh breathing he made that was echoing in his ears.

He wanted it to just stop, but she pulled back. She straightened herself up and extended her hand. He took it and got to his feet as their bodies brushed against one another. She dropped his hand as she looked behind him, then behind her seeing no one there.

"Go." Was all she said to him as he furrowed his brow and she was gone. Into the night's shadows like the Ninja that she was.

He could never understand why she spared him. Why she left him to tend to his wounded brothers. Why she offered him her hand and why she didn't push him away with disgust as their bodies grazed one another. He lifted his head meeting Raphael's stare as he nodded his head.

"I'm not waiting around this time." Leonardo said as he pushed himself off the counter and walked into the lab.

Jade leaned on the table as she sang softly to Jacqueline, running her over her brilliant red hair. She felt Leonardo's tension rolling off his body as she straighten herself turning towards his intense eyes.

"What is it?"

"They started something, and now we finish it."