A.N: Ok, college apps are killing me….and then I have to wait two weeks for new tmnt episodes….
Ericaphoenix16: I'm glad you loved it.
Beawolf's Pen: We'll be hearing more about dancing bears later. I'll keep an eye out for the pics.
I don't own TMNT
(Translation)
CHAPTER 37
They got to the cemetery and Fillien hid in the trees over the crowed of people who gathered around her brother's casket as it was being lowered into the deep pit. But she wasn't listening to the priest who said the parting words or the people whispering among themselves. All she could hear was the distant laughter of her brother from the memories that played over and over in her head. She just couldn't believe she was seeing this all now. He had such a short life, he didn't deserve this. None of her family deserved this. The worst part is, she still didn't know. Why was the League after her family in the first place? Well, whatever it was, she couldn't let her family's death be meaningless.
When the casket was dug in and everyone was gone, the sun was just setting. Fillien jumped out of the tree and walked on over to the head stone. Pepin's name engraved with the date of his life. Twenty, he was only twenty. Another distant laughter of her brother was heard and this time she saw herself, five years old, play dancing with her brother who was eight at the time. They were listening to classical music and just twirling each other around, something other boys would have said was dumb. But not Pepin, he'd do anything for Fillien. "He'd even give up his own life." Fillien whispered. The cat girl looked up at the sky, remembering the night before she left for training her brother said that if she ever felt far away, she could always look up at the sky and see the moon. The same moon that he would see and that it would make her feel closer.
Well he was closer, underground. Fillien shook her head. What now? Was she to go on living with the Foot? Just….what? She was so confused. It made her angry. Just why? Why would they take her brother? Her family? Why! Her claws extended and she clawed the ground. She closed her eyes and bared her teeth. Eyebrows furrowed in anger. She wondered if this is how Karai felt, learning the reason behind her mother's death. Wanting nothing more than to kill the man who took her away from her. The need to finish it all. Because this is how Fillien felt right now. She wanted to find the Griffes League, she wanted to find them and have them pay for what they did. "Don't worry Pepin. I'll make things right." She said to the head stone. "I wish you were here. I don't know if you're up there and can hear me but, I mean every word in that speech. Every word. I'm glad I could come and see you, one last time. I promise, I'll stay safe."
Fillien turned around and ruffled her wings so they opened up smoothly. After she made sure the sky was dark enough for her to fly up in, she took off into the air, heading for her Uncles place.
From the shadows of the trees standing yards away from where Fillien had been, a man all dress in heavy dark leather eyed the empty space by the headstone with confusion but realization. Then he started to walk away in the darkness. He pulled out his phone and started to call someone, when the other line picked up, he heard a, "Bonjour?"
"Malveil?"
"Est-il confirmé? Est-elle ici? Avez-vous la voyez à l'enterrement?" (Is it confirmed? Is she here? Did you see her at the funeral?)
"Non, elle n'était pas à l'enterrement. Je restai longtemps pour s'assurer qu'elle était en fait ici. Puis ce lion taille chat est sorti de nulle part, une fois tout le monde était parti." (No, she wasn't at the funeral. I staid longer to make sure she was actually here. Then this lion size cat came out of nowhere once everyone was gone.)
"Notre espion a été tout de suite, elle a été effectivement transformé." (Our spy was right then, she has actually been transformed.)
"Oui. I didn't think it was possible, but the monster talked, speaking to the headstone as if it were his sister. It must be her."
"Then we'll need more equipment to take her down if we want to catch her. We'll attack later than planned. I'll let the Boss know about this situation. We need that last of the Creators."
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Karai was jumping roof tops with a patrol of six with her. They were searching for Kraang activity and hoping to find something more useful from them. Karai mentioned to her father some more equipment they had, maybe in hope of obtaining some for themselves and using it against the turtles.
Their search wasn't turning out so great, and by midnight they had nothing to turn up with. Karai proposed a split up of the group, and she decided she would go on her own. When she got a long while away from her group, she stopped to look around this part of the city. She wasn't all optimistic in finding the Kraang, they weren't so great of an entertainment when she fought them last time. The most that came out of that for her was messing with the turtles. Especially Leo. She wished she could get a skirmish out of him. He was pretty talented, and equally matched with her. His reactions to anything were the priceless part.
As if the world heard her thoughts, she noticed a shadow of in the distance. Four shadows actually. Having a good feeling it was the turtles, she jumped off the roof she was on and ran after them.
When she got a few yards behind, she followed them silently until she saw them stop by a sign that was advertising Cola. She stayed behind it and overheard the conversation. She came in hearing Raphael say, "…..and I'm not spending another hour looking for nothing."
"It's not that bad Raph." Said a younger voice. Karai recognized the youngest voice, and so the youngest had to be Michelangelo. "We could be looking for something lame like socks or something." Karai now understood why the Foot called him the stupid one.
"Socks? Really? Is that the best you could come up with?" said the other one. Since it wasn't the other three, it had to be Donatello. "But Raph's right, Leo, let's change it up a bit."
Leo began to say. "Ok, we'll make a game out of it then. First one to find the Kraang wins. Extra points if it's the missing power cell. We'll split up but if you do find something don't engage or touch it. We'll call each other on the T-Phone."
"Sweet! What do we get if we win?" asked Michelangelo
"Um…."
Raphael cut in, "You get my eleventh issue of Mighty Man."
"Yes!"
"Ok, break." Leo finished.
Karai heard two pairs of feet run off. She waited until she heard, "You're not really giving him your comic, are you?"
"Shell no." Raphael almost yelled, "But you can come up with something. I just want to get this over with already." Karai then heard another scuttle of feet fade away.
She then heard Leonardo say to himself, "Sure, fine, because I'm leader I have to come up with the prizes."
Karai smirked and walked around the billboard into the light. She saw Leo standing back to her with hands on his hips. She said, "Well isn't that what leader's do?"
Leo turned around. Seeing Karai, he pulled out his Katana's. "What are you doing here?"
"Eh….killing time. And you? Playing games with your brothers?"
"Don't ask."
"I won't. I'm guessing it has to do with that missing power cell you were talking about. Mind if I join in on this game?"
Leo relaxed his defensive stance a bit. "What are you getting at?"
"Nothing. Just looking for a bit of entertainment." Karai pulled out her Tanto and charged him. Leo swiped his sword forward but Karai jumped over him, using his shell to hoist herself over to the other side. He stumbled forward but skidded around on his feet to face her. She said, "See you when I win." She called out and she jumped off the roof."
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Fillien woke up around sunset the next day. She was still a little jet lagged and she had a hard time sleeping last night. Her Uncle had gone out for something and wouldn't be back until later tonight.
Now that she was alone, she was bored. She had to get out. She looked outside the window and saw clouds coming on from the north. It was would just fog about to come and settle for the night, so Fillien thought that would be perfect cover for her flight. In the meantime, she occupied herself with looking through the stuff she had gotten from her brother and parents. Her Uncle would take them all to his condo in Montpelier and keep them safe.
She opened one box and looked in seeing her father's stuff. Mainly photos, trinkets, books, documents, and art materials. Fillien remembered how great of an artist he was. Then there was her mother stuff which had dance equipment, dresses and journals. She saw some more photos and some other jewelry as well. Her brother had left her everything he had. From clothing to electronics. Fillien would take some of the most important stuff with her in her saddle satchel, whatever she could fit. Luckily she didn't have much to choose from.
Fillien felt the presence of darkness come around the room and Fillien peeked out the window to see the clouds had finally rolled in over the city. Even though there was just a little bit of day left, she still felt compelled to go out. Maybe she would look at the sites and take a look through little boutiques, hidden of course. Fillien opened the window, and as quickly as she could, she flew up into the sky and towards the fog.
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Karai smiled, losing Leo who had attempted to chase after her. She took a west route and went towards the park. When she got tired she stopped on a roof and hid in a shed. She waited a while and then looked out to make sure Leo had not caught up with her. Seeing no one, she walked out and almost giggled at her slyness. Karai took a look at her surroundings, seeing which way she should go now. Karai turned serious when her eyes landed at a roof across from her and saw Michelangelo dancing on a roof top just next to her. Again, she could have laughed, but she didn't. She wanted to know why he was dancing, if one could call it dancing. Then she heard an apartment building nearby was playing music. Five Seconds of Summer's Look so Perfect was playing. If there was one thing she knew wasn't weird, it was a good song to dance to. It was the dancing that ruined it for her.
She didn't have time to watch though. She wanted to do something more fun. Karai silently jumped to the roof Michelangelo was on and hid behind a ventilation shaft. Michelangelo must have heard her because he stopped dancing and pulled out his nun chucks and twirled them around. "Come on out or you're going to half to face my nun chuck fury! WAAAAYAHHH!" He suddenly just started to do moves in the air, and to the beat of the music still playing. Karai couldn't tell, either this kid had talent, or he was just dumb as hell. He stopped doing moves and got to a defensive stance. "Well?" He yelled. Karai waited again. Michelangelo didn't seem to spot her so he said, "Eh, whatever. I have to find that power cell anyway." He turned around and was about to put away his nun chucks in his sling when Karai came in quickly from behind and grabbed one end of them.
He got surprised, seeing a blur of black and silver just come from behind him and grab his weapon, extending the chain. He suddenly found himself wrapped by it and then kicked in the shell. He fell forward on his stomach and looked up. He saw Karai standing over him and laughing. When she was done, she said, "I think you need to check your surrounding more." She started to walk away but as she did she said, "By the way, you may also want to practice your dancing." Michelangelo blushed.
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Fillien flew in the fog, trying to stay as hidden as possible. It felt like forever but she finally was enjoying the feel of flight again. And the fact that she was higher up in altitude then she usually flew, it was exhilarating. "I should do this more often." Fillien twirled around a bit in the air. One time she flew up high and then let herself stop, the momentum dragging her back feet forward so she was belly up. She let herself fall back a good distance until she came back down level with the ground. "Ah…." Fillien saw the Eiffel tower up ahead. She flew to it from the air and once she was right over it, she flew down to the top level. The very top of the tower. Fillien remembered how elevators closed at night, so no one would want to try and climb up the stairs to this spot.
Fillien landed just out of sight of one security camera, so on front of her she got a view of River Seine and the rest of the city. Fillien sighed. She really loved the beauty of her home city. The twinkling lights. The air. The people. The food. The wonder. The love. Everything. She wished she wasn't forced to leave. But she knew she had to be safe. It wasn't all bad though. She did miss Paris, but she now missed being with the Foot. Mainly because of Karai, her only friend in Foot. The one who actually gave something. Fillien had to wonder though, "I wonder what she's up to?"
A.N: If only you knew, Fillien. And if only you knew there was someone watching! I think we all know who it could be. But hey, let's add tension by putting in someone else who wants revenge, like we don't have enough of those characters am I right? Ahaha. Leo after Karai and Karai judging Mikey's mad skills. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!