TMNT Labyrinth Crossover ~
Leo and Donnie searched behind the tree they had been passing, in case Drelic had decided to take a different corner. No. No dragon hiding there. They both walked back to the spot they had turned on and found no Drelic, and stared at each other.
"You really shouldn't have said nothing will do anything to us . . ." Donnie said, head straight but eyes dashing around the place. It was more than a little odd for a dragon to disappear into thin air.
Leo ignored what his brother said. "I don't know where he disappeared to, but I wanna know HOW he vanished."
Donnie stopped and froze. "Did you hear that?"
Leo stopped as well, and looked at his brother, listening. A few seconds later he frowned.
"No. I didn't hear anything."
Something moved behind the tree they were standing in front of. They froze for a second, pulled their weapons out and leaped to the place where it had come from. There was nothing there. They looked about slowly, creeping a few steps to the side.
"Drelic . . .?" Donnie called, frowning.
A high pitched cry from behind them made them spin - and find tons of little creatures glaring at them, each holding something sharp. They looked to be a mini Koppel, but after a few seconds of looking at them, they were quite different. They were bald, and red skinned. Their eyes glowed yellow, and their faces were small and round. They had three slits for nostrils and two pairs of small, thin arms. They were growling softly, but menacingly.
Leo and Donnie stared, and backed up against the tree.
"Okay, a new problem," Leo pointed out, sounding slightly breathless. "Wanna run for it? These little suckers could cause a bit of damage."
"Good plan Leo," Donnie nodded.
But before they could move, one of the little red demons jumped and landed on Leo, slashing his face with the spear it was holding.
"Agh! - You little - !"
"Leo! Come one!" Donnie grabbed his brother round the arm and dragged him, running flat out. The little red demons gave yells of excitement and chased.
Leo, who was still being dragged by Donnie, with one hand on his cut cheek, was still glaring and growling.
"You stupid wombat!" He yelled at them. "Little Sucker!"
The two turtles ran faster than the little creatures, but the demons had the help of swinging vines, so they kept up. Leo and Donnie were quite ahead though, but were afraid they trip over some of the rocks that jutted out from the ground. Luckily they didn't trip over any, but behind them, neither did the critters.
//\\
Navaura watched through her crystal, grinning evilly from her throne chair, opposite the blue shield. As much as she'd love this chase to go on, she had a different idea. Still looking into the crystal, she snapped her fingers and a little stout, bat-creature appeared in her throne room.
"Hello Kopy," she smiled, and turned her gaze on him.
"Koppel," he said automatically. He stared around the room and realised with a jolt where he was.
Navaura got up from her chair and walked slowly towards him. Her cloak flowed majestically behind her.
"Why aren't you with my victims?" She asked. Navaura walked around him and went to lean on the blue shield, perching the crystal on it, then letting it roll into her waiting hand. She repeated this.
"Er, well, I - er . . . They knew I wuz taking them to the beginning so they, er, gave me the slip," Koppel chuckle weakly. His eyes widened slightly as he saw what was trapped inside the blue shield. Two other turtles; both lying on the floor, breathing deeply and slowly. He knew these were the brothers of Leo and Don. He quickly turned his eyes back on Navaura, feeling ten times worse for deserting his friends now he had seen the reason they had come here, for their dieing brothers.
"Well . . ." Navaura said lazily. "I have a new plan, Koppel."
"You do?" Koppel's heart sank. 'Great . . .'
"Yes. I have a present for the two turtles," Navaura picked up the crystal, threw it into the air, and when they fell back down, there were two. She caught them neatly and threw them to Koppel. When they landed in his hands, they were now blue Yiri (a sort of blue peach, but with a different taste, and instead of a seed in the middle, they have a thick, blue edible juice in the centre).
"They . . . They ain't gunna hurt them, are they?" Koppel said.
"What do you care?"
"Well, er . . . They, er . . . I'm their -"
"Friend?" Navaura laughed. "Who could like, or befriend, a snivelling coward like you? You'll give them the Yiri or I'll throw you into the Pit Of Forever Pain faster than you can drop them!"
Koppel flinched under her sharp tone, but to his own surprise, didn't snivel or drop to his knees and beg for forgiveness . . . Not that she should forgive him for anything.
"What . . . Is it gonna do to them?" Koppel asked, rather bravely than he would have talked to the Queen of Demons.
"Oh, nothing horrible . . . After they've eaten, they'll just feel a little . . . memory loss, should I put it. You'll see."
Koppel shuddered and looked at the fruit in his hands as though they were glaring at him. He stuffed them in his pockets.
"Now, go and return to you 'friends'. They should be needing your help right about now . . ."
Koppel watched as Navaura walked back to the shield and clicked her fingers. Before he was sent back into the Labyrinth, Koppel got another glimpse of the two turtles in the shield. One of them was watching him, face pressed weakly on the floor , they other was lying too still . . .
//\\
"Okay! Not good! Dead end!" Donnie pointed out as he and Leo ran round a clump of bushes and a large tree, to a stonewall in front of them. Both turtles rushed up to it and stopped. They were trapped between a bunch of ugly, red demons, and a large wall.
The yelps and cries from the red creatures drew louder, and their little footsteps could be heard.
"Oh, great . . ." Leo panted with his back to the wall. Just then something touched his shells and he spun, Katana in hand and chopped - a rope!
"Eh?" Donnie, who had jumped back when Leo had swung his Katana, looked up the wall to see Koppel bending over, waving at them to pull themselves up the rope.
Leo put his Katana away, having no time to feel sheepish for attacking a rope. But now that he had, they had to jump slightly as it was a little short. They pulled themselves up, using the wall to walk up. They were half way up when the little demons rounded the tree and bushes and yelled and yelped in anger. A few tried jumping to the turtles, and Leo, who was the last to climb, after his brother, was stabbed again with another spear in his calf muscle.
"Ow!" Leo shouted, and kicked out with his foot, catching two creatures in the jaw. They fell back down, dazed and eyes spinning.
Donnie climbed over the side and quickly turned to help his brother up.
Leo pulled himself up with the help of Donnie's strong hands, and sat nursing his leg. It was bleeding, but it wasn't too bad. Donnie looked at it and told him it should be alright as long as he got nothing in it. They would clean it up when they had the chance.
"Koppel . . . You came back." Leo stood up gingerly and looked at the black creature who was pulling up the rope so the creatures couldn't climb and follow.
"Er . . . Yes, I did." Koppel hoped he wouldn't ask why . . .
Leo frowned at him. "Why?"
Damn. Koppel was about to stutter something that came to mind, but as they were walking, one of the stones slabs collapsed and Koppel was cut off as his feet fell from underneath him.
"Whoaaaaa.!" Donnie and Leo yelled as they slid down a sloping tunnel underground, Koppel in front. They suddenly came to a very narrow walkway, and over that was a black pit. Koppel screamed as he fell towards it, but Leo grabbed his arm and clung on to a thick branch sticking from the side of the hard, sandy wall at the end of the tunnel. They hung there, not daring to believe it, until Donnie lost his gripping and slid down further, only just managing to scrape desperately at the rocks side. Only his head and arms could be seen, the rest of him was dangling over the black pit, which was shaped like a bog or swamp would be. Dead plants hung over it, and muffled screams rose from far below. It was very much like a swamp; rocks and dead plant life floated around it, as though floating on water. But the rocks were hovering, looking steady enough.
"Ahh, help. . ." Donnie said, glancing down to the darkness below. His heart stopped as the rock he was holding moved, pulled on his weight.
"Hold on Donnie . . ." Leo said. He lifted Koppel up easily in one hand, and placed him on the safe, but narrow stone path. Then Leo let himself slide down slowly towards his brother, who was just out of reach. The turtle in blue stretched out his hand.
"I can't reach that!" Donnie said, trying to keep himself from losing his head, as the rock was now slowly sliding out of place on the edge.
"I can't get any further!" Leo cried, still stretching. "You're gunna have to just let go and dive for my hand."
"Are you crazy?! I let go, I fall."
Koppel stood watching this frightfully from the side, feeling guilty and safe. (Though he still had to cling to the wall to keep from going over).
"It's the Pit Of Forever Pain!" Koppel wailed. "You fall in there, you never come out!"
Leo glared at him, then turned back to his brother.
The rock Donnie was holding, slid again, making a grinding noise against the wall. Parts of it crumbled past the turtle and fell. No sound was made as it was meant to hit the bottom.
"Donnie just do it!" Leo ordered.
Donnie gasped. His arms were screaming pain at him. He was trying to take some weight off the rock by planting his feet on the cliff's wall and pushing up, but he couldn't get a grip. He got ready to jump for Leo's hand, but as he took his hand off the rock to throw it towards Leo, the rock crumpled altogether and fell, giving Donnie nothing to grip and no thrust to Leo's hand. Their fingers brushed against each other's; but Leo couldn't grab them, and his brother fell.
"DONNIE!"
Donnie gasped as the rocks scraped his arms, and his weight seemed to float up as he fell. Leo disappeared from sight, behind the edge. The wall sped past him, and he tumbled down towards the blackness . . .
Leo and Donnie searched behind the tree they had been passing, in case Drelic had decided to take a different corner. No. No dragon hiding there. They both walked back to the spot they had turned on and found no Drelic, and stared at each other.
"You really shouldn't have said nothing will do anything to us . . ." Donnie said, head straight but eyes dashing around the place. It was more than a little odd for a dragon to disappear into thin air.
Leo ignored what his brother said. "I don't know where he disappeared to, but I wanna know HOW he vanished."
Donnie stopped and froze. "Did you hear that?"
Leo stopped as well, and looked at his brother, listening. A few seconds later he frowned.
"No. I didn't hear anything."
Something moved behind the tree they were standing in front of. They froze for a second, pulled their weapons out and leaped to the place where it had come from. There was nothing there. They looked about slowly, creeping a few steps to the side.
"Drelic . . .?" Donnie called, frowning.
A high pitched cry from behind them made them spin - and find tons of little creatures glaring at them, each holding something sharp. They looked to be a mini Koppel, but after a few seconds of looking at them, they were quite different. They were bald, and red skinned. Their eyes glowed yellow, and their faces were small and round. They had three slits for nostrils and two pairs of small, thin arms. They were growling softly, but menacingly.
Leo and Donnie stared, and backed up against the tree.
"Okay, a new problem," Leo pointed out, sounding slightly breathless. "Wanna run for it? These little suckers could cause a bit of damage."
"Good plan Leo," Donnie nodded.
But before they could move, one of the little red demons jumped and landed on Leo, slashing his face with the spear it was holding.
"Agh! - You little - !"
"Leo! Come one!" Donnie grabbed his brother round the arm and dragged him, running flat out. The little red demons gave yells of excitement and chased.
Leo, who was still being dragged by Donnie, with one hand on his cut cheek, was still glaring and growling.
"You stupid wombat!" He yelled at them. "Little Sucker!"
The two turtles ran faster than the little creatures, but the demons had the help of swinging vines, so they kept up. Leo and Donnie were quite ahead though, but were afraid they trip over some of the rocks that jutted out from the ground. Luckily they didn't trip over any, but behind them, neither did the critters.
//\\
Navaura watched through her crystal, grinning evilly from her throne chair, opposite the blue shield. As much as she'd love this chase to go on, she had a different idea. Still looking into the crystal, she snapped her fingers and a little stout, bat-creature appeared in her throne room.
"Hello Kopy," she smiled, and turned her gaze on him.
"Koppel," he said automatically. He stared around the room and realised with a jolt where he was.
Navaura got up from her chair and walked slowly towards him. Her cloak flowed majestically behind her.
"Why aren't you with my victims?" She asked. Navaura walked around him and went to lean on the blue shield, perching the crystal on it, then letting it roll into her waiting hand. She repeated this.
"Er, well, I - er . . . They knew I wuz taking them to the beginning so they, er, gave me the slip," Koppel chuckle weakly. His eyes widened slightly as he saw what was trapped inside the blue shield. Two other turtles; both lying on the floor, breathing deeply and slowly. He knew these were the brothers of Leo and Don. He quickly turned his eyes back on Navaura, feeling ten times worse for deserting his friends now he had seen the reason they had come here, for their dieing brothers.
"Well . . ." Navaura said lazily. "I have a new plan, Koppel."
"You do?" Koppel's heart sank. 'Great . . .'
"Yes. I have a present for the two turtles," Navaura picked up the crystal, threw it into the air, and when they fell back down, there were two. She caught them neatly and threw them to Koppel. When they landed in his hands, they were now blue Yiri (a sort of blue peach, but with a different taste, and instead of a seed in the middle, they have a thick, blue edible juice in the centre).
"They . . . They ain't gunna hurt them, are they?" Koppel said.
"What do you care?"
"Well, er . . . They, er . . . I'm their -"
"Friend?" Navaura laughed. "Who could like, or befriend, a snivelling coward like you? You'll give them the Yiri or I'll throw you into the Pit Of Forever Pain faster than you can drop them!"
Koppel flinched under her sharp tone, but to his own surprise, didn't snivel or drop to his knees and beg for forgiveness . . . Not that she should forgive him for anything.
"What . . . Is it gonna do to them?" Koppel asked, rather bravely than he would have talked to the Queen of Demons.
"Oh, nothing horrible . . . After they've eaten, they'll just feel a little . . . memory loss, should I put it. You'll see."
Koppel shuddered and looked at the fruit in his hands as though they were glaring at him. He stuffed them in his pockets.
"Now, go and return to you 'friends'. They should be needing your help right about now . . ."
Koppel watched as Navaura walked back to the shield and clicked her fingers. Before he was sent back into the Labyrinth, Koppel got another glimpse of the two turtles in the shield. One of them was watching him, face pressed weakly on the floor , they other was lying too still . . .
//\\
"Okay! Not good! Dead end!" Donnie pointed out as he and Leo ran round a clump of bushes and a large tree, to a stonewall in front of them. Both turtles rushed up to it and stopped. They were trapped between a bunch of ugly, red demons, and a large wall.
The yelps and cries from the red creatures drew louder, and their little footsteps could be heard.
"Oh, great . . ." Leo panted with his back to the wall. Just then something touched his shells and he spun, Katana in hand and chopped - a rope!
"Eh?" Donnie, who had jumped back when Leo had swung his Katana, looked up the wall to see Koppel bending over, waving at them to pull themselves up the rope.
Leo put his Katana away, having no time to feel sheepish for attacking a rope. But now that he had, they had to jump slightly as it was a little short. They pulled themselves up, using the wall to walk up. They were half way up when the little demons rounded the tree and bushes and yelled and yelped in anger. A few tried jumping to the turtles, and Leo, who was the last to climb, after his brother, was stabbed again with another spear in his calf muscle.
"Ow!" Leo shouted, and kicked out with his foot, catching two creatures in the jaw. They fell back down, dazed and eyes spinning.
Donnie climbed over the side and quickly turned to help his brother up.
Leo pulled himself up with the help of Donnie's strong hands, and sat nursing his leg. It was bleeding, but it wasn't too bad. Donnie looked at it and told him it should be alright as long as he got nothing in it. They would clean it up when they had the chance.
"Koppel . . . You came back." Leo stood up gingerly and looked at the black creature who was pulling up the rope so the creatures couldn't climb and follow.
"Er . . . Yes, I did." Koppel hoped he wouldn't ask why . . .
Leo frowned at him. "Why?"
Damn. Koppel was about to stutter something that came to mind, but as they were walking, one of the stones slabs collapsed and Koppel was cut off as his feet fell from underneath him.
"Whoaaaaa.!" Donnie and Leo yelled as they slid down a sloping tunnel underground, Koppel in front. They suddenly came to a very narrow walkway, and over that was a black pit. Koppel screamed as he fell towards it, but Leo grabbed his arm and clung on to a thick branch sticking from the side of the hard, sandy wall at the end of the tunnel. They hung there, not daring to believe it, until Donnie lost his gripping and slid down further, only just managing to scrape desperately at the rocks side. Only his head and arms could be seen, the rest of him was dangling over the black pit, which was shaped like a bog or swamp would be. Dead plants hung over it, and muffled screams rose from far below. It was very much like a swamp; rocks and dead plant life floated around it, as though floating on water. But the rocks were hovering, looking steady enough.
"Ahh, help. . ." Donnie said, glancing down to the darkness below. His heart stopped as the rock he was holding moved, pulled on his weight.
"Hold on Donnie . . ." Leo said. He lifted Koppel up easily in one hand, and placed him on the safe, but narrow stone path. Then Leo let himself slide down slowly towards his brother, who was just out of reach. The turtle in blue stretched out his hand.
"I can't reach that!" Donnie said, trying to keep himself from losing his head, as the rock was now slowly sliding out of place on the edge.
"I can't get any further!" Leo cried, still stretching. "You're gunna have to just let go and dive for my hand."
"Are you crazy?! I let go, I fall."
Koppel stood watching this frightfully from the side, feeling guilty and safe. (Though he still had to cling to the wall to keep from going over).
"It's the Pit Of Forever Pain!" Koppel wailed. "You fall in there, you never come out!"
Leo glared at him, then turned back to his brother.
The rock Donnie was holding, slid again, making a grinding noise against the wall. Parts of it crumbled past the turtle and fell. No sound was made as it was meant to hit the bottom.
"Donnie just do it!" Leo ordered.
Donnie gasped. His arms were screaming pain at him. He was trying to take some weight off the rock by planting his feet on the cliff's wall and pushing up, but he couldn't get a grip. He got ready to jump for Leo's hand, but as he took his hand off the rock to throw it towards Leo, the rock crumpled altogether and fell, giving Donnie nothing to grip and no thrust to Leo's hand. Their fingers brushed against each other's; but Leo couldn't grab them, and his brother fell.
"DONNIE!"
Donnie gasped as the rocks scraped his arms, and his weight seemed to float up as he fell. Leo disappeared from sight, behind the edge. The wall sped past him, and he tumbled down towards the blackness . . .