TMNT Labyrinth Crossover~
Leo and Donnie leapt three steps at a time up the spiral staircase. They reached the top only a few seconds after they had nodded their goodbyes to the others. When they left the staircase, their jaws dropped slowly as they saw the room they were in.
It wasn't quite a room, but a lot of staircases fixed to together in what would have been a temple. Staircases everywhere; some where upside down, others on their sides, some normal, some at an angle, most looking impossible to climb. It was another maze.
Suddenly Navaura appeared in front of them and Leo stepped back slightly. Instead of talking, the Demoness started to sing, and as she did, she walked on the staircases as if gravity didn't exist to her. They tried to keep her in sight by the sound of her voice as she played with they, disappearing from view, then reappearing suddenly.
How you turn my world
You precious thing
You starve and near exhaust me
Everything I've done, I've done for you
I moved the stars for no one
You run so long
You've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel
She appeared in front of them, staring into Leo's eyes. He couldn't turn away, but then she turned and walked over the platform they were on.
Just as I can be so cruel
She appeared again on a level down they had taken. She held a crystal up to them, then turned from them, and threw it. They watched as it bounced along the stairs, and to a blue shield below on the ground floor. Inside the blue shield, lying still on the floor, was -
"Raph! Mikey!" Leo and Donnie cried, and forgetting Navaura, ran past her and attempted to get down to their brothers. They ran down one set of stairs, and found that they were upside down and that their brothers in the shield were on the ceiling or floor. They kept running up and down and round the stairs to get to their brothers, but as they moved, it seemed the shield did, and as with Navaura, gravity didn't matter to it.
Though I do believe in you
Yes I do
Live without your sunlight
Love without your heartbeat
I . . . I can't live . . . Within you . . .
"Raph!" Donnie called as they ran down another set of stairs and tried to find the blue shield which held his brothers, among the sandy stairs.
"Mike!" Leo cried.
They both ran up a long staircase, and at the end was a platform. They ran to the edge and looked down to the circular platform meters below. On it was the shield; and inside where their two dying brothers, noticeably struggling to draw the last of the oxygen from their prison.
Both Leo and Donnie made up their minds without looking at each other. They both held their breath and jumped.
They fell, and fell longer than was needed to reach the platform. But when they landed, they were not on the sandy stone floor with their brothers. They were on a large, floating platform, floating through blueness. Large structures of sandy blocks floated slowly around them. Then she appeared in front of them again.
"Give us our brothers," Leo said in a tone that even Raph would have stepped nervously back from.
But Navaura only smiled at them.
"Beware," she said. "I have been generous up till now . . . But I can be cruel . . ."
"Generous?" Donnie frowned angrily. "What have you done that's generous?"
Everything!" She said loudly, making them move back just a bit. "Everything you have wanted I have done . . . You asked for your brothers to be taken, I took them. I gave you human form, you threw it away. I have reordered time, turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you!" She walked a step towards them, only a meter apart now. "I am tired from trying to live up to your expectations . . . Isn't that generous?"
While Leo listened to her, Donnie had been remembering a scene that was all too familiar. The same thing happened on something . . . And there was a key to defeating the bad guy at the end. Who was the bad guy? Donnie didn't need to think twice; it was her. The same thing that was happening now, happened on Mikey and Raph's game. They had been quoting her line from the game so often that Donnie knew them. Knew them enough to know that if her words were said by someone else to her, that they would win over her, and get into the castle she was guarding. But she wasn't guarding a castle; she was guarding his brothers. Donnie realised with an inner gasp, that all he had to say was those words . . .
Donnie looked her in the eyes, and she stared at him oddly. He started to walk slowly towards her.
"Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered," Donnie intoned, pushing her back, a quick look of surprise, and a surprising look of fear, washed over her face as he continued.
Leo knew what his brother was doing, he knew the words too, he should do anyway, Raph and Mikey said them so often. He joined in.
They both continued:
"We have fought our way here, to the castle beyond the Demon city, for our will is as strong as yours, and our -"
"Stop!" Navaura held out her hand to them in the stop signal. "Wait, just look what I have to offer you." She held out her other hand and showed them a crystal. "Your dreams, everything you want . . ."
But Leo and Donnie only said tonelessly:
" . . . And our kingdom is great . . ." They both faded off. Neither could remember the line that their brothers always whispered. It never seemed to sink in.
Navaura took advantage of their pause.
"Just lend me your soul, and you can have whatever you desire," she said, hoping to sound soft and seductive.
"Our kingdom is great . . ." Leo muttered to himself. Then it hit him the same time it hit Donnie, and they both looked up at her.
"You have no power over us . . ."
The sly smile slowly faded from her face, and was replaced by a painful grimace, then she screamed, threw the crystal up in the air and clutched her face.
The hole of the platform had disappeared and they could only see her cloak in their vision as it was swept by an invisible wind. The crystal fell back to earth slowly, and landed slowly in Leo palm. Navaura began to sink, screaming into the ground, and the noise of a clock chiming echoed around them. The blueness appeared again, and the Demoness completely vanished, along with her high pitched wails.
Leo and Donnie closed their eyes against the strong winds that blew sand into them. The clock chimes continued; Six chimes . . . Seven . . .
The wind fell, and the sand stopped beating roughly at their skin. The chimes continued. Leo and Donnie opened their eyes, and to their surprise and relief they saw the walls, the couch, the floor and the mess of the lair. They were home! And the lair looked just like they had left it. There was the mess of trash in Master Splinter's chair, the batteries, the newspaper, and the device Donnie had been working on, all in place.
The chimes stopped and the echoes faded. Donnie turned to Leo.
"Thirteen chimes . . ." Donnie half whispered, his chest deflated as his words mingled with his breath.
Leo stared at him, and they both dashed to the shut door of their brothers' bedroom. Leo yanked it open and they stood in the doorway, staring at the room and the beings in it.
On the floor, in the places they were sat before this horrible ordeal had started; Raph and Mikey slept peacefully on the floor, Mikey was curled up, hands together under his cheek as a pillow; Raph on his stomach, one arm under his head the other bent round next to his face. They moved their heads once as they slept, breathing normally.
Leo smiled and looked at Donnie. His brother grinned and smiled back. They were glad they had these two noisy brothers back, but right now, they weren't such a noisy pair.
Leo shut the door three quarters of the way, and he and Donnie turned back to the lair.
Splinter was stood, having just come in from his walk in the sewers.
"Is there something wrong, my sons?" Splinter asked.
Leo smiled. "No . . . Not now . . ."
Splinter looked at them funnily. "Where are Raphael and Michelangelo?"
"They're asleep," Donnie smiled also.
Splinter raised an eyebrow. "The noise has gone, what did you do to them?" He smiled.
"I guess the game was too much for them," Leo sighed.
It was true. After all, it was Leo and Donnie who had been through all the trouble to get them back, as they will know about it in the morning. But all they had to do was nearly die . . . Couldn't have been much work, could it?
Leo and Donnie relaxed, happily, into their seats on the couch. Splinter had gone into his room to meditate and rest. Both turtles looked up into the mirror above the TV on the wall.
In the glass, in the exact reflection of the lair, but with no Leo or Donnie reflected back; stood Drelic the dragon. On his head sat Didymus, holding his stick, saluting to them with it; then there was Koppel, who was sat on the back of the couch, grinning.
Leo and Donnie smiled at them, as the soft growls of Drelic could be heard into the real, but strange world of the sewers . . .
~ THE END ~
Leo and Donnie leapt three steps at a time up the spiral staircase. They reached the top only a few seconds after they had nodded their goodbyes to the others. When they left the staircase, their jaws dropped slowly as they saw the room they were in.
It wasn't quite a room, but a lot of staircases fixed to together in what would have been a temple. Staircases everywhere; some where upside down, others on their sides, some normal, some at an angle, most looking impossible to climb. It was another maze.
Suddenly Navaura appeared in front of them and Leo stepped back slightly. Instead of talking, the Demoness started to sing, and as she did, she walked on the staircases as if gravity didn't exist to her. They tried to keep her in sight by the sound of her voice as she played with they, disappearing from view, then reappearing suddenly.
How you turn my world
You precious thing
You starve and near exhaust me
Everything I've done, I've done for you
I moved the stars for no one
You run so long
You've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel
She appeared in front of them, staring into Leo's eyes. He couldn't turn away, but then she turned and walked over the platform they were on.
Just as I can be so cruel
She appeared again on a level down they had taken. She held a crystal up to them, then turned from them, and threw it. They watched as it bounced along the stairs, and to a blue shield below on the ground floor. Inside the blue shield, lying still on the floor, was -
"Raph! Mikey!" Leo and Donnie cried, and forgetting Navaura, ran past her and attempted to get down to their brothers. They ran down one set of stairs, and found that they were upside down and that their brothers in the shield were on the ceiling or floor. They kept running up and down and round the stairs to get to their brothers, but as they moved, it seemed the shield did, and as with Navaura, gravity didn't matter to it.
Though I do believe in you
Yes I do
Live without your sunlight
Love without your heartbeat
I . . . I can't live . . . Within you . . .
"Raph!" Donnie called as they ran down another set of stairs and tried to find the blue shield which held his brothers, among the sandy stairs.
"Mike!" Leo cried.
They both ran up a long staircase, and at the end was a platform. They ran to the edge and looked down to the circular platform meters below. On it was the shield; and inside where their two dying brothers, noticeably struggling to draw the last of the oxygen from their prison.
Both Leo and Donnie made up their minds without looking at each other. They both held their breath and jumped.
They fell, and fell longer than was needed to reach the platform. But when they landed, they were not on the sandy stone floor with their brothers. They were on a large, floating platform, floating through blueness. Large structures of sandy blocks floated slowly around them. Then she appeared in front of them again.
"Give us our brothers," Leo said in a tone that even Raph would have stepped nervously back from.
But Navaura only smiled at them.
"Beware," she said. "I have been generous up till now . . . But I can be cruel . . ."
"Generous?" Donnie frowned angrily. "What have you done that's generous?"
Everything!" She said loudly, making them move back just a bit. "Everything you have wanted I have done . . . You asked for your brothers to be taken, I took them. I gave you human form, you threw it away. I have reordered time, turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you!" She walked a step towards them, only a meter apart now. "I am tired from trying to live up to your expectations . . . Isn't that generous?"
While Leo listened to her, Donnie had been remembering a scene that was all too familiar. The same thing happened on something . . . And there was a key to defeating the bad guy at the end. Who was the bad guy? Donnie didn't need to think twice; it was her. The same thing that was happening now, happened on Mikey and Raph's game. They had been quoting her line from the game so often that Donnie knew them. Knew them enough to know that if her words were said by someone else to her, that they would win over her, and get into the castle she was guarding. But she wasn't guarding a castle; she was guarding his brothers. Donnie realised with an inner gasp, that all he had to say was those words . . .
Donnie looked her in the eyes, and she stared at him oddly. He started to walk slowly towards her.
"Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered," Donnie intoned, pushing her back, a quick look of surprise, and a surprising look of fear, washed over her face as he continued.
Leo knew what his brother was doing, he knew the words too, he should do anyway, Raph and Mikey said them so often. He joined in.
They both continued:
"We have fought our way here, to the castle beyond the Demon city, for our will is as strong as yours, and our -"
"Stop!" Navaura held out her hand to them in the stop signal. "Wait, just look what I have to offer you." She held out her other hand and showed them a crystal. "Your dreams, everything you want . . ."
But Leo and Donnie only said tonelessly:
" . . . And our kingdom is great . . ." They both faded off. Neither could remember the line that their brothers always whispered. It never seemed to sink in.
Navaura took advantage of their pause.
"Just lend me your soul, and you can have whatever you desire," she said, hoping to sound soft and seductive.
"Our kingdom is great . . ." Leo muttered to himself. Then it hit him the same time it hit Donnie, and they both looked up at her.
"You have no power over us . . ."
The sly smile slowly faded from her face, and was replaced by a painful grimace, then she screamed, threw the crystal up in the air and clutched her face.
The hole of the platform had disappeared and they could only see her cloak in their vision as it was swept by an invisible wind. The crystal fell back to earth slowly, and landed slowly in Leo palm. Navaura began to sink, screaming into the ground, and the noise of a clock chiming echoed around them. The blueness appeared again, and the Demoness completely vanished, along with her high pitched wails.
Leo and Donnie closed their eyes against the strong winds that blew sand into them. The clock chimes continued; Six chimes . . . Seven . . .
The wind fell, and the sand stopped beating roughly at their skin. The chimes continued. Leo and Donnie opened their eyes, and to their surprise and relief they saw the walls, the couch, the floor and the mess of the lair. They were home! And the lair looked just like they had left it. There was the mess of trash in Master Splinter's chair, the batteries, the newspaper, and the device Donnie had been working on, all in place.
The chimes stopped and the echoes faded. Donnie turned to Leo.
"Thirteen chimes . . ." Donnie half whispered, his chest deflated as his words mingled with his breath.
Leo stared at him, and they both dashed to the shut door of their brothers' bedroom. Leo yanked it open and they stood in the doorway, staring at the room and the beings in it.
On the floor, in the places they were sat before this horrible ordeal had started; Raph and Mikey slept peacefully on the floor, Mikey was curled up, hands together under his cheek as a pillow; Raph on his stomach, one arm under his head the other bent round next to his face. They moved their heads once as they slept, breathing normally.
Leo smiled and looked at Donnie. His brother grinned and smiled back. They were glad they had these two noisy brothers back, but right now, they weren't such a noisy pair.
Leo shut the door three quarters of the way, and he and Donnie turned back to the lair.
Splinter was stood, having just come in from his walk in the sewers.
"Is there something wrong, my sons?" Splinter asked.
Leo smiled. "No . . . Not now . . ."
Splinter looked at them funnily. "Where are Raphael and Michelangelo?"
"They're asleep," Donnie smiled also.
Splinter raised an eyebrow. "The noise has gone, what did you do to them?" He smiled.
"I guess the game was too much for them," Leo sighed.
It was true. After all, it was Leo and Donnie who had been through all the trouble to get them back, as they will know about it in the morning. But all they had to do was nearly die . . . Couldn't have been much work, could it?
Leo and Donnie relaxed, happily, into their seats on the couch. Splinter had gone into his room to meditate and rest. Both turtles looked up into the mirror above the TV on the wall.
In the glass, in the exact reflection of the lair, but with no Leo or Donnie reflected back; stood Drelic the dragon. On his head sat Didymus, holding his stick, saluting to them with it; then there was Koppel, who was sat on the back of the couch, grinning.
Leo and Donnie smiled at them, as the soft growls of Drelic could be heard into the real, but strange world of the sewers . . .
~ THE END ~