A/N: This is Cath's original chapter. The idea is a mixture of what several of you gave me, which I've merged together to make better story.
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In a dark, swampy jungle, a bunch of bugs fly around, when Cath swings on a vine past a few trees.
Cath: You're probably wondering why I'm swinging through...
Cath lands on a branch of a tree, and looks around
..this jungle right now? Well, long story short; I've...
She begins jumping from branch to branch along the next few trees.
..been zapped to this freakish jungle, inhabited by Humanoid Turtles.
A small village hung in the trees behind her, with several Turtles staring down at her.
Yeah, you heard me; Humanoid Turtles.
The tribe's chief looks at his young daughter in a hut, who's asleep and burning up.
I don't know how I got here, but the tribe's Chief's younger daughter is very sick.
Cath lands on a branch crouched down, then looks down at a cave outside the treeline.
The only known thing to cure her, is inside that cave, which no one has ever come out of.
She jumps from the branch and lands in front of the cave.
I know it's not my...
She then enters it, then walks down it while carrying a lit torch.
..normal job, but I felt like I had to do something.
"Ah!" she gasps, hearing a noise.
She backs away, as a pair of large red eyes show up in the distance.
I just hope I live through this to get back home.
The red-eyed creature stuck a long tongue out, as Cath turns and runs down the tunnel.
In the lair, Cath was reading a medical book, looking at a page which showed a stab wound on a shoulder.
"In order to heal a wound that can't be stitched up, you must put a bandage around the patient's wound, then change the bandage regularly so it doesn't become infected and get worse." she read in her head.
She lowered the book slightly.
"Interesting." she thought.
She looked up, and saw Donnie sitting at his computer, talking to April, while Leo was training, slicing off candles heads with his sword, and Mikey on the crouch reading a comic. She then saw Elisa doing kata moves on the upper level, before she went back to her book, just as Mikey got up, and Leo landed near a sliced candle.
"You wanna know why I love comics, Leo?" Mikey asked, holding his comic up.
Leo lowered his sword and sighed.
"I know you wanna know." Mikey said. "Come on, guess?"
Leo dived towards another two candles and sliced their heads off, before he dived towards another two.
"Probably because..." he said, slicing their heads off, before approaching another two. "..of the superheroes."
He then sliced off the heads of another two candles.
"Focus, Leonardo!" Splinter ordered, watching.
Cath looked up from her book and stared at Mikey, frowning slightly.
"Ding-ding-ding! Give the sword-welding Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle a prize!" Mikey whooped, turning to Klunk. "It's all about superheroes. Super powers, super villains, super costumes."
Klunk ducked down as Mikey held his hand like a claw over him.
"It's all just so amazingly perfect!" Mikey whooped.
Leo began slashing both his swords around.
"Michelangelo, enough!" Splinter snapped, turning to him. "Leonardo is training! You may join him, since you have too much free time on your hands!"
Cath stared at Mikey, who scratched the back of his head as he turned to her.
"Yeah, Mikey. Or could you keep it down a little? I'm trying to read here!" Cath complained, holding her book up.
"Um..." Mikey muttered, putting his comic down. "I think I hear Donnie calling me. Coming, Donnie."
He turned and jumped off the couch nervously, then stared at the TV's, when the whole lair began to shake.
"What the shell?!" Cath exclaimed, getting up while putting her book down.
Leo put one of his swords away, while Elisa turned to the others on the lower floor, while Donnie turned around.
"I think we're having an Earthquke!" Donnie gasped.
"An Earthquake?!" Mikey exclaimed, turning around. "Earthquakes always mean something really bad happens in this city!"
"What the shell is going on?!" Elisa exclaimed, jumping down to the lower level.
The river water began to rise up as Donnie turned to it, then a wormhole opened up as it went back to where it was.
"Master Splinter, what's going on?" Leo panicked.
Donnie ran towards the couch. "We've seen that kind of energy before." he recalled, pointing at it.
A large figure came out of the wormhole, which then spread its wings out, showing it was Ultimate Drako.
"Drako?" Splinter gasped.
"And the Daimyo's son." Leo said. "This is what we told you about, Master Splinter. They merged somehow, combined together!"
Raph came out of a room, blocking the light from the wormhole with his forearm.
"All into one ugly package." he said.
"We told you we would return!" Ultimate Drako snarled. "We told you we would have our revenge!"
The wormhole vanished behind him.
Raph began charging at him with his Sais out, spinning them around.
"Revenge this, whack bag!" he roared.
"Raph, wait?!" Elisa warned.
Raph jumped up and dived towards Ultimate Drako, who shot a blast from the Time Scepter at him, which hit Raph as he jumped up to kick him, freezing him stiff.
"AGH!" he yelped.
Ultimate Drako then grabbed him with his tail, then threw Raph across the lair with it.
"AGHH!" Raph yelled.
He hit the pillar with the 'Sewer sweet sewer' sign on, before he hit the floor on his shell.
"As if you could simply fight us?!" Ultimate Drako snarled.
Raph sat up, rubbing his head, as the sign landed beside him.
"We control time and space!" Ultimate Darko snarled, as Raph got up. "With Lord Simultaneous' Time Scepter, we are unbeatable!"
"Someone quick, grab the-" Donnie began.
The Turtles and Splinter all jumped towards Ultimate Drako, who waved the scepter around, stopping them all in mid-air.
"Now we will have our vengeance!" he snarled.
"Leonard, destroy him first!" Ue-Sama sneered, glaring at Leo.
"No! We agreed, the rat first!" Drako argued. "Then the Daimyo, your Father."
"Then Leonardo!" Ue-Sama said.
"They will all pay, all of them!" Drako declared.
Ultimate Drako held up the scepter, as the end lit up.
"Yes! All of them will learn the meaning of suffering, beyond time and space!" he declared.
He waved the scepter around, then sent a beam forward, which hit Splinter and the Turtles.
"AGH!" Cath grunted.
Cath wound up in a jungle, landing right near a swamp.
"Oh!" she moaned, hitting the ground on her chest.
She lifted her head up, then looked around while rubbing the back of it.
"Huh? Where am I?" she questioned.
She looked around, and saw the jungle had large tall trees, bushes all over the ground, and a swamp nearby, as well as a river.
"Okay...Now how did I get here?" she muttered.
She looked around carefully, before she heard a noise.
"Huh?" she gasped.
She looked around and saw a large bush on her left, which she then dived towards. She then peeked out from it, and saw a Bull-like animal pulling a carriage like an old wagon, with a turtle humanoid figure sitting on its seat.
"Hyah!" he said, whacking the Bull with the ropes.
The Bull kept pulling the wagon forward as Cath stared at it.
"Okay...wherever I am, it's not New York." she sighed. "This means I'm either in another dimension like Usagi's world, or I'm on another planet altogether. Oh, shell! I seriously need to find a way back home quick!"
She turned and ran off into the jungle, before she stopped near the river.
"Better follow the river for now." she decided. "I just hope it's drinkable if I get thirsty."
She then continued to run off alongside the river through the jungle.
About an hour later, she leaned against a tree while staring at the river, wondering where to go now.
"I'm getting nowhere just following the river." she sighed. "I need to find someone for directions."
A loud roaring noise got her attention, making her turn right, seeing the same wagon from earlier. She then saw the same humanoid turtle from earlier along with four others, before four blue snapping turtle humanoids showed up, all holding spears and bow and arrows.
"What the?" she gasped.
"AH!" the turtles gasped.
The snappy turtles all laughed as they approached the wagon.
"Hand over your supplies?!" one of the snapping turtles demanded.
"NO, please?!" one of the turtles called Watick cried. "We need them?!"
Cath frowned, not believing what she was seeing, before she dived into the lake.
"I've gotta help them." she thought.
Near the wagon, the turtles backed away towards it, as the snapping turtles approached them threateningly.
"Please don't do this?" Watick pleaded.
"Too late, Watick." the snapping turtle snapped. "You and your pal can't fight us all!"
Watick turned left to another turtle called Talbo, who held up a club.
"I got your back, buddy." Talbo assured.
"I don't think it'll be enough, Tal." Watick gulped.
The four snapping turtles laughed, just as Cath's head rose up from the river and stared at them.
"You fiends should never rob from others?" she thought, annoyed. "Oh, great, now I'm sounding like Mikey."
She rose up slowly from the lake, then picked up a vine on the ground. She crouched down, then tossed it at one of the snapping turtles' legs, wrapping around it.
"Huh?" he muttered.
He looked down just as Cath pulled the vine back, causing him to trip onto his chest.
"OH!" he moaned.
"Huh?" the others muttered.
All 10 turtle creatures turned to Cath, who then brought out her Tonfas and spun them around.
"Leave them alone!" she demanded.
"Who are you?!" the head snapping Turtle scowled.
"Your worst nightmare!" Cath retorted angrily.
The normal turtles turned each other in shock, while the snapping turtles glared at her.
"Just who is?" one called Parra muttered.
"I have no idea." a female one called Kneesma said. "I just hope she's here to help."
"Well, it looks like it." the last one - also female - called Larose said.
The snapping turtles all charged at Cath, including the one who'd been knocked over, then one tried to stab her with his spear, but missed as she dodged. She then jumped as he tried to slash her with it, before he dived down and kicked him with both feet, knocking him down.
"UH!" he moaned.
Cath then rolled forward as another tried to slash her with its spear, but then she spun around and axe kicked it in the jaw.
"AGH!" he yelped.
He then wobbled slightly, before he fell onto his shell.
Cath then turned and blocked the third's spear with her left Tonfa, before whacking him in the belly with her right one, knocking him back.
"Uh!" he moaned.
Cath then jumped and butterfly kicked him in the chest, knocking him down.
"OH!" he moaned.
Cath then landed and put her right foot on his chest, before turning to the leader.
"Why you?!" he roared.
He fired a bow from his arrow, but missed as she jumped up, then she spun around in the air, before she dived towards him.
"Uh-oh." he gulped.
Cath crossed her Tonfas over and hit him in the chest with them, knocking him down, then she flipped forward and landed crouched down near the normal turtles.
"OH!" the snapping turtles moaned.
The normal turtles stared at Cath in amazement, who turned to the snapping turtles, as they got up worriedly.
"Let's get outta here!" one cried.
"Come on!" another cried.
The four snapping turtles all turned and ran off scared into the jungle.
"You're lucky I don't have time to chase you." Cath huffed, putting her Tonfas away.
She turned to the normal turtles, seeing up close, they were actually shorter than her, but only by a head, unlike the snapping turtles.
"You guys okay?" she asked.
"Uh, yeah." Watick said. "Thanks...whoever you are."
"Why did you help us?" Kneesma asked.
"I...I just couldn't stand by and watch them steal from you." Cath answered.
"Well, thanks." Kneesma said.
"Yeah. The stuff onboard our wagon is important for our village." Watick explained.
"Village?" Cath questioned, intrigued.
"Yeah. It's where our tribe lives." Parra explained. "We've been out picking up supplies."
"Does your village have, um...a shaman or something?" Cath asked. "Someone who can do magic?"
"Master Logai, yeah." Talbo answered. "Why?"
"It's a long story, but I need to get back home." Cath explained. "And unfortunately, it's not from around here."
"If anymore might know a way, it's Master Logai." Watick assured. "Come on, we'll take you there. It's the least we can do to repay you for saving us."
"Thanks." Cath said. "But you sure they'll let me in."
"When I vouch for them, they will." Kneesma assured. "I'm the Chief's daughter, so they'll have to listen to me."
"Okay." Cath said. "The name's Catharina by the way, but I prefer Cath."
"I'm Kneesma, and these are my friends; Watick, Talbo, Parra and Larose." Knessma explained, as the others nodded.
The wagon soon approached a tree-top village in the jungle, as Cath and Talbo looked at it, as they sat in the front.
"Your village is in the trees?" Cath inquired.
"Yeah." Talbo said. "Don't worry. We all know how to get up and down when we have to leave."
As the wagon got closer to the village, more turtles began to storm down a set of steps and approached it. They were all armed with spears, bows and arrows, and clubs, before one of them pointed at Cath.
"Who is this?" he demanded.
"Wotchie, wait, she's with us!" Talbo explained.
Parra, Watick, Kneesma and Larose all got out of the wagon and ran to the front of it.
"Watick, what's he talking about?" Wotiche asked.
"Easy, bro?" Watick asked, approaching him. "She saved us from some Snappings back near the lake."
"Really?" a louder male voice said.
The turtles all moved aside, as an older one approached them all with a walking stick.
"Father?!" Kneesma gasped.
"Kneesma, just who is that turtle?" her Father asked, pointing at Cath.
"Father, please? She's friendly." Kneesma assured. "She saved us from Snappings at the lake when they attacked us."
"But where'd she come from?" Wotchie inquired. "I mean, how do we know we can-"
Kneesma turned and glared at him angrily, making hum shut up.
"Okay, okay." he said.
"Kneesma, that's not polite!" the Chief frowned.
"Indeed it isn't." came an elderly voice.
Everyone turned as another older turtle approached Cath, before some of them - including Talbo and Parra - gasped.
"Master Logai?" Talbo gasped.
He and Cath jumped down from the wagon, then Cath stared at the Chief and Master Logai.
"You're the village shaman, aren't you?" Cath inquired.
"The what?" Logai inquired.
"Uh, the village wizard...sorcerer or whatever you call it!" Cath translated.
"How would you know that?" Logai snapped.
"We told her." Parra explained. "She says she needs to get back to her home."
The Chief and Master Logai turned to each other sceptically, as Wotichie and the other warriors kept their weapons pointed at Cath.
"Chief, listen, your daughter and her friends are telling the truth." Cath assured. "I won't harm any of you. I only helped them because what those Snappings did was unhonourable."
"I have a way of knowing whether you're telling the truth." Logai said. "You'd better come to my hut."
Later, Cath sat in Logai's hut, which had all sorts of magical artefacts in, including a staff, and a cauldron. Logai picked up a potion bottle from a cupboard, then walked towards Cath, as the Chief, Watick and Talbo all watched.
"If you're telling the truth, this potion will confirm it." Logai explained. "It never makes people lie."
"I understand." Cath said, taking it.
She drank the potion, then began to feel woozy for a minute, before she shook her head.
"Are you alright?" Watick asked.
"Yeah." Cath replied. "Must be bad taste."
"Not surprising." Logai said. "Nobody likes that potion's taste. Now, what's your name and where are you from?"
"My name is Catharina, and I come from the planet Earth, in the Milky Way." Cath answered.
The turtles around the room gasped slightly.
"That's nowhere near our planet." Talbo whispered to Watick.
"Weird." Watick muttered.
"And how did you get here?" Logai asked.
"I was zapped here by Ultimate Drako, who used the Time Scepter." Cath answered. "One minute I'm home, the next I'm in this jungle. That's all I know."
Logai turned and approached the Chief, as Watick and Talbo turned to each other. The Chief and Logai muttered to each other quietly as Cath stared at them, before they both turned to her.
"We find this hard to believe, but that potion never makes people lie." Logai explained. "So, we'll assume you're telling the truth."
"I am." Cath insisted, annoyed. "So would you mind please telling me where I am?"
"Hey, no need to be rude!" the Chief snapped.
"Sorry." Cath said. "It's just, I need to get back to my family. Who knows what's happening to them."
Logai and the Chief turned to each other, muttering, before they nodded and turned back to Cath.
"Well, since you're telling the truth because of the potion, you're on the planet Shelldor." Logai explained.
"Shelldor?" Cath questioned. "Oh, shell! Who knows how far away I am from home?!"
"Yeah, you are." Talbo said.
"Master Logai, do you have a way to send her back?" Watick asked.
"Hmm? I don't know." Logai sighed. "I'm sorry, Catharina."
Cath sighed, before she began to phase away.
"Huh?" she gasped. "What the shell?"
The four male turtles backed away as she got up.
"Maybe that's your ticket home." Watick said.
"Well, if it is, goodbye I guess." Cath said.
She then stopped phasing away, making her look at her hands.
"Oh, shell!" she cursed.
"Looks like you're stuck here." the Chief sighed.
Kneesma then came running into the hut, getting everyone's attention.
"Father, come quick?!" she asked.
"Kneesma, what is it?" the Chief asked.
"It's Ashma, she's getting worse!" Kneesma cried.
"Oh, no!" the Chief cried. "Lead the way?"
They both turned and ran out of the hut, as Cath looked confused.
"Who's Ashma?" she asked.
"Kneesma's little sister." Watick explained. "She hasn't been well for the past 15 moons."
"Moons?" Cath questioned.
"Um, well, you might call it something else, but it happens every time the sun downs down, then rises up again." Logai explained.
"Oh, I get it." Cath said. "Can you take me there?"
Talbo and Watick nodded.
In the Chief's hut, the Chief and Kneesma stared at a smaller turtle, lying in a bed, as the Chief's wife touched her forehead.
"How is she, Mom?" Kneesma asked.
"Worse, I'm afraid." her Mother cried. "I don't think she'll make it."
Kneesma cried as her Father hugged her.
Logai, Cath, Watick and Talbo soon entered the hut and stared at the family. Cath approached the family, as the Mother turned to her and gasped.
"Who's that?" she gasped.
"Mom, relax?" Kneesma asked. "She's friendly."
"It's true, dear." the Chief sighed. "She's been zapped here from another world."
Ashma flinched as she turned in her sleep, making her family gasp.
"What's wrong with her?" Cath asked.
"I'm afraid she's dying." Logai sighed. "She's been ill with an illness that is lethal to us."
"Isn't there a cure?" Cath asked.
"There is, but it's in a cave that no one has ever returned from." the Chief sighed. "It's laden with all sorts of booby traps."
Cath turned to Ashma, who coughed slightly, before she frowned slightly.
"Where is it?" she asked. "I'll get it."
Everyone expect Ashma turned to her in shock.
"Cath, are you crazy?!" Watick exclaimed. "If you go in there, you might not come back out!"
"And if that happens, you might never get home!" Talbo added frantically.
"Even so, I can't stand by and watch someone die like that!" Cath argued. "My brother Leo was once badly injured after running into an ambush when he was out training. He came back to us so badly hurt, I was worried he wasn't gonna make it. All me and my family could do was watch as he recovered, but I felt nearly useless."
"Man." Talbo said. "Your brother must've been one tough guy to pull through after been hurt that bad."
"He was." Cath sighed.
"Alright." the Chief said. "We'll get the map that'll lead you to the cave, and some supplies to help you, but you'll have to go on your own."
"I understand." Cath said. "I'll wait outside."
She left the hut, as the others turned to each other.
"Kneesma, get the map." the Chief instructed. "Have your friend Larose gather up some supplies for Catharina."
"Yes, Father." Kneesma said.
A little later, Cath stood at the edge of a wooden railing in the village, staring out at the jungle, when Kneesma and Larose both approached her, Larose carrying a pouch bag.
"Hey, Cath." Kneesma said.
Cath turned to the pair of them, as Larose handed her the pouch.
"You're gonna need this." Kneesma explained. "It's got a map leading to the cave. Your supplies are in there as well."
"Thanks." Cath said, taking it.
"It sure is brave of you to do this." Larose commented. "After what's happened to our previous warriors, none of us have dared go back there."
"Well, if I'm gonna be struck here for who knows how long, I might as well do something." Cath said, putting the pouch over her shoulder. "And I can't stand to see people in pain, no matter who or what they are."
"I wish there were more outsiders like you." Kneesma sighed happily.
"Thanks." Cath said. "Can you tell me what it is I'm looking for?"
"It's a purple liquid substance called Funereid." Kneesma explained. "There's a bottle in the pouch for you to put it in."
"Good luck out there." Larose said. "I really hope you make it back."
"To be honest, so do I." Cath said. "See you."
She turned and jumped over the railing, grabbing a jungle vine, which she then swung on, as both Larose and Kneesma watched.
"Let's hope she makes it, for your sister's sake." Larose said.
"I know." Kneesma sighed.
Later, Cath swung forward on another vine in the jungle, before she landed crouched down on a branch. She looked around, seeing nothing in sight, before she took the map out of the pouch bag.
"Hmm? According to the map, I should be about here." she thought, pointing at a spot on it. "Which means I have to right for next few miles."
She put the map away in her pouch bag, then she jumped from branch to branch along the next few trees. She then grabbed another vine and swung forward on it, before she landed on another branch, which she then ran along. She then jumped off it, then landed on another branch, then she turned left and jumped off it, before she grabbed another vine and swung forward on it.
"Yee-haw!" she yelled.
She then landed on another branch, then let go of the vine, before she face-palmed herself.
"Great! Now I really am starting to sound like Mikey!" she moaned.
She turned and ran along the branch, then jumped onto another, then another, then she jumped and grabbed one above her, swinging forward on it before she landed on another.
Back in the village, Kneesma and her parents stared at Ashma in their hut sadly, as Logai sat near her.
"How long does she have?" the Chief asked.
"Until sundown, I'm afraid, my friend." Logai sighed. "That's all Catharina has."
"Let's hope she returns then." the Mother sighed sadly, touching Ashma's forehead.
Outside, Watick, Parra, Larose and Talbo all stood where Cath had been before she left.
"I wonder how Cath's doing?" Watick said.
"Hopefully she's at the cave by now." Talbo hoped. "Let's hope she makes it past the traps."
"I know what you mean." Larose sighed. "I don't want Kneesma to lose her little sister."
"I don't think none of us do." Parra said, touching her shoulder, as they all stared at the jungle.
In the jungle, Cath swung forward on a vine, and then landed on a branch crouched down. She then looked down at a cave outside the treeline, which had a swamp near it. She took out the map from the pouch bag, then looked at it, seeing where she was.
"Guess this is the place." she sighed, putting the map away.
She got to her feet and looked down and around the cave.
"Doesn't seem to be any trouble." she said. "But then again, it might be different on the inside."
She jumped from the branch and landed in front of the cave. She then slowly approached it, before she looked down it.
"Well, here goes nothing." she sighed.
She entered the cave, but after a few minutes, saw it was too dark.
"Ah, shell!" she frowned. "I need some light in here!"
She bent down and felt around, before she found a stick on the ground, followed by a couple of rocks.
"This'll do." she sighed.
She put the rocks together, then scraped them together four times, before they created a fire on the torch.
"Phew, that's better." she sighed, picking it up.
She got up and walked down the cave, using the torch to help guide her through the darkness. Unknown to her, as she did, she was spotted by a small camera behind her.
In a chamber somewhere in the cave, a dark-reptile figure stared down at a lake as the water rose up from it, while sitting in a throne chair.
"So, another intruder has come to steal my precious Funereid." he sneered. "Whoever this fool is, he won't get far thanks to my traps."
He sniggered as he pressed a button his throne, making a set of levers show up on either side of him.
"This should take care of him." he smirked.
He reached for a lever on his left, which he then pulled backwards.
In the cave, Cath kept walking forward as the torch lit the cave for her.
"I wish those guys had a map of the cave." she sighed. "At least that might help me find the Funereid."
She kept on walking when something fell behind her.
"Huh?" she gasped, turning around.
She saw a door slam down behind her from the ceiling, followed by another as she backed away.
"Oh, no! Run like the wind!" she cried.
She turned and ran off down the hallway, as about a dozen more doors slammed down behind her. Once she saw a larger area ahead of her, she dived forward and landed on her chest, just as the last door slammed down. She lifted her head up and shook it, before she turned around to the door and sighed.
"Now that's what I call cutting it close." she sighed.
She saw her torch had gone out, before a bunch of torch brackets lit up around the room, lighting it up.
"Well, that's a relief." she said, getting up.
She got up and looked around, unaware a camera was looking at her from the ceiling.
In the chamber, the dark figure growled and punched his fist as he stared at his lake, showing Cath in the large room.
"So, you manage to get past phase 1, eh?" he sneered. "Well, you won't get past phase 2!"
He pulled on a lever on his right as he laughed.
In the large room, Cath looked around, before she saw a turtle lying on the ground on her left.
"Huh?" she gasped.
She ran towards the turtle and touched his neck, but found no pulse.
"He must've been killed trying to get the Funereid." she sighed. "But what happened to him?"
She soon got her answer, as a bunch of spikes began to rise up from both ceiling and the ground, as the ceiling began to lower itself towards them.
"Ah!" she yelped, as one spike lifted up the turtle's body.
She backed away as she looked around, just as the doors that slammed down rose up towards the ceiling. She then ran towards the gap quickly as the spears got closer, then she dived towards the door. She made it through it, but her pouch fell off her shoulder, making her gasp as she turned.
"The pouch!" she gasped, turning around.
She reached for the pouch and pulled it back just before the ceiling fully came down.
"Okay...now I know why those guys don't come here." she sighed.
She stared at the spears, before the ceiling rose up again, as the spears all retracted back into it or the floor.
In the chamber, the dark figure banged the side of his chair in anger, while staring at the lake, as it showed Cath walking back into the large room.
"AGHH!" he growled. "Whoever this turtle is, he's not like any of the previous ones!"
He got to his feet and clutched his fists, seeing Cath approach a wall. She then touched it, moving her hand along it, before her hand touched a hidden panel, opening a passageway.
"A secret passage?" she gasped. "I hope this leads to the Funereid."
She then began to walk down the passageway, as the figure sat down in his throne.
"So, it's a girl turtle, eh? Well, I don't think so, little missy." he sniggered. "Phase 3 should phase you!"
He laughed evilly as he pulled a lever on his left.
In the passageway, Cath walked down it slowly as torches lit up on either side of it for light. As she turned left down the passage, she saw the hallway looked clear, but as she stepped forward, she saw two dead turtle bodies on either end.
"I wonder what happened to them?" she wondered.
A bunch of axes began to swing down from either side of the passage, giving her her answer.
"Ah, shell!" she cursed, backing away.
She looked at the axes carefully as they kept swinging around.
(The chamber)
"Ha, ha! You won't get past this one, girly." the dark figure sneered.
(The passageway)
Cath kept looking at the axes as they swung from either right or left.
"Okay, focus, Cath." she thought.
She kept staring at the axes, before she jumped up past the first, then kicked her foot against the right wall, before she dived down past the next two, landing between the third and the fourth. She then looked at the remaining three, before she rolled forward past the fourth after it swung by, then she dived past the fifth, then rolled forward and missed the sixth by inches.
"Oh, boy, that was way too close." she sighed, getting up. "I hope there's no more of these traps."
In the chamber, the dark figured gritted his teeth angrily, as the lake showed Cath walk down the passage, before turning right.
"Impossible!" he exclaimed, banging his fist on his throne. "No one has ever gotten past my axes before! Good thing I have one more trick up my sleeve."
He pulled a lever on his right while gritting his teeth.
In the passage, Cath walked down it slightly, before turning right down it, before she spotted a fountain of purple liquid at the end of a hallway.
"That must be the Funereid." she realized. "Right, the quicker I get it, the quicker I can get outta here."
She began to run down the hallway, when the hallway began to move around like it was spinning around.
"What the shell?" she exclaimed.
She ran forward as the hallway spun around, before she dived forward and landed right near the Funereid fountain.
"Phew, that was close." she sighed.
She turned around, seeing the hallway had stopped spinning, then she turned back to the fountain.
In the chamber, the dark figure clutched his fists angrily, as the lake showed Cath taking out the bottle from the pouch.
"I don't believe it!" he exclaimed. "She actually made it to my fountain!"
Cath put the bottle in the fountain and filled it up, before she put a cork on it, then put it in the pouch.
"Now I just need to get outta here." she said.
She turned around and ran off down the hallway, as the dark figure growled.
"Right, that's it! If you want something done right, you've gotta do it yourself!" he exclaimed.
He clapped his hands together, then vanished in a puff of smoke.
A little later, Cath had made it outside the cave, the booby traps having not worked on her way out.
"I wonder why the booby traps didn't go off like when I went in?" she wondered, turning to it.
She stared down the cave's tunnel, when the figure popped up behind her in a puff of smoke.
"That's because I didn't activate them!" he sneered.
Cath gasped and turned around, seeing the figure was a normal turtle like those from the village, expect he had an eyepatch over his left eye.
"You're...you're from the village?!" she gasped.
"I was, until I was banished, by my cursed brother; the Chief!" he snarled.
"You're the Chief's brother?!" Cath gasped.
"Yes!" the turtle snarled. "Gorak's the name, and that title should've been mine!"
"What makes you say that?!" Cath frowned. "Are you older than him or something?"
"No! But he was always the one they talked about! Made me jealous." Gorak spat. "I was then banished for trying to poison his wife, as I fell in love with her too. I ultimately decided if I couldn't have her, no one can!
"So you've been stopping your own kind from getting the Funereid to cure themselves to get back for your banishment?!" Cath scowled. "You monster?! How could you do that?!"
Gorak laughed evilly. "Like you'd care, missy!" he snarled. "You look nothing like the turtles on this planet!"
"You do realize your own niece is dying?!" Cath snarled.
"She's not my niece!" Gorak roared. "And you're not taking the Funereid away!"
"I won't let you stop me delivering it!" Cath retoted.
"Well, then, you'll have to get past me to do it!" Gorak roared. "It's been years since I've been in battle, but I'm sure I can handle you."
"Out of training, huh?" Cath inquired. "Well, that's gonna be your undoing."
"We'll see about that!" Gorak roared. "AGHH!"
He charged at Cath, who brought out her Tonfas and spun them around. She then back flipped away, then pounced forward and dived towards him, making him stop.
"What the?" he gasped.
Cath crossed her Tonfas over, hitting Gorak in the chest with them both, sending him flying away, as she landed crouched down.
"AGHHH!" Gorak yelled.
Cath got up and stared at him, as he landed in the swamp, then began to sink beneath it.
"NOOOO! This can't be?!" he roared.
"Should've stayed in training instead of relaying on traps to do your dirty work." Cath teased.
"AGHH!" Goark growled. "You'll pay for this, whoever-"
He then fully sank beneath the swamp, muffling up his voice.
"Normally I wouldn't say this, but I hope you don't come out of there, you monster! Now to get this Funereid back to the village." Cath said.
She turned around slightly and jumped up, then grabbed a vine and swung forward on it, landing on a branch, then she began to jump from branch to branch, back to the village.
A little later, in the village, Watick and Larose stared out at the jungle as the sun began to set, while Parra and Talbo came towards them.
"Still no sign?" Parra asked.
"No." Watick sighed. "It looks as if Cath's failed."
"No! I won't believe it!" Larose snapped. "Besides, there's still time!"
"But-" Watick began.
"Guys, look!" Talbo exclaimed, pointing forward.
The others all turned, and saw Cath swinging on a vine towards a tree near the village, before she landed on a branch on it.
"I don't believe it!" Watick gasped, rubbing his eyes. "She made it back?!"
"Incredible." Talbo said amazed.
Cath ran along the branch, then jumped onto another, then another, before she grabbed a vine and swung on it. The four turtles backed away as she landed over the railing and on the walkway, before she panted.
"You okay?" Larose asked.
"Yeah." Cath panted. "I've got the Funereid."
She took the bottle out of the pouch, and handed it to Kneesma.
"Come on." Kneesma said.
She turned and ran off, as Cath followed her, while the others stared at them.
In the Chief's hut, the Chief stared at Ashma sadly, as his wife had her hands over her eyes to cover her tears, as Logai stared at them.
"Father, she's back!" Kneesma called.
Her parents and Logai turned to the door, as she and Cath stormed into the hut.
"Is she too late?!" Kneesma asked frantically.
"No." her Mother assured, touching her shoulder. "There's still time."
Kneesma handed the bottle to Logai, who turned to Cath, who took the pouch bag off and put it down.
"You have done well, Catharina." Logai remarked.
He approached Ashma while opening the bottle, as the Chief approached Cath.
"I don't know how you got out of that cave, but I'm glad you did." the Chief said.
"Thanks." Cath said.
Logai poured the Funereid over Ashma's face, causing her to light up brightly. Watick, Parra, Larose and Talbo all stormed into the hut and stared at Ashma, before the light vanished from her.
"OH!" she moaned.
She turned her head slightly, before she woke up, as her family stared at her.
"Mom? Dad? Kneesma? What-" she began, sitting up.
"Ashma, you're back!" Kneesma cried happily.
She hugged her sister tight, catching Ashma by surprise, as their parents joined in.
"Oh, I'm so proud you're better, Ashma!" the Chief cried.
"We were so worried!" his wife cried.
The three then parted, before everyone turned to Cath.
"Catharina, you have done what no one in our village has ever done before." the Chief stated.
"Yeah. How'd you get outta there?" Talbo wondered.
"Well...you might say it's because of my Dad's training." Cath answered.
"Your Father's the one who taught you how to fight?" Watick asked, amazed.
"Me and my siblings." Cath explained. "And those traps you mentioned, Chief, you won't have to worry about anymore. The turtle who operated them isn't there anymore."
"You mean someone operated those traps to prevent us from getting in?" Parra inquired. "They weren't just random?"
"Yep. But he won't bother you again, as he fell into the swamp outside the cave." Cath explained. "I doubt he'll be able to get outta there."
"Well, thank you, Catharina. At least now no one will ever have to worry about traveling there again." the Chief said. "Do you know who it was?"
"I'm afraid it was your brother, Garok." Cath explained.
Everyone gasped.
"Uncle Garok?!" Knessma gasped.
"I'm afraid so." Cath sighed. "He told me himself after I escaped."
"I knew my brother was evil, but not that evil." the Chief gasped. "That's why I banished from the village for his evil deeds."
"He always was the black sheep of the village." Parra recalled. "The way he did things and all."
"Yes. Thanks, Catharina, for everything." the Chief said.
Cath smiled, before she began to phase away again.
"Huh? Again?!" she gasped, looking at her hands.
The Chief, his wife, daughters, Logai and the others all stared at him.
"And it's stronger this time!" she gasped. "Guess I'm leaving."
"Thank you, Catharina, for everything." the Chief said.
"It was my pleasure, Chief." Cath assured.
"It's been nice knowing you." Watick said.
"And an honour too." Parra said, saluting.
"Thanks. Goodbye, everyone." Cath said, waving.
She then vanished as her voice echoed throughout the hut.
"Thank you, for everything." the wife cried softly.
"I'll never forget you, Cath." Kneesma promised. "And thanks for saving my sister."
That night, the village held a happy festival ceremony, with everyone either dancing, talking to each other or playing music from instruments. Kneesma smiled as she stood near Watick, while they stared at the party.
"You okay?" Watick asked.
"Yeah. I'm glad my sister's alright, but I just wish Cath was here to see it." Kneesma sighed.
Watick wrapped his arm around her, just as her Father stepped onto a stage in the edge of the party.
"Attention, everyone!" he shouted.
The music stopped as everyone turned to him.
"As you all know, my daughter Ashma has fully recovered." the Chief explained. "But, it if wasn't for our new friend, that may never have happened."
Parra and Talbo pulled on a rope each, lowering the curtain, showing a portrait of Cath.
"And so, this festival is for Catharina, the Turtle from another world, who aided us despite not knowing much about us." he said, holding up a goblet.
Everyone at the festival held a goblet up.
"And so, to Catharina." the Chief toasted.
"Catharina!" the villagers toasted.
Watick and Kneesma toasted their goblets together, just as Larose came towards them both. They then toasted together, before the three of them looked up at the sky, hoping Cath was alright, and had made it back home.
A/N: For those wondering, this is the order I'm doing the Time Scepter arc: Mikey, Cath, Raph, Donnie, Elisa, Leo.