~Whoa, I got a new word processor and had to play around with it for five minutes before I figured out how it worked. Donnie I need some help in here… Op, got it working, never mind hehe. Alright where were we… oh yes, the tunnel, still in that blasted tunnel… what else are we going to find…
From here the tunnel started to get lower until I could reach my hand up and brush the top of it. I'm only five feet tall. Another few hours passed and I came to another large room. This was cleaner than the last. Like it was used as recent as a couple years ago. A purple robe was draped across the floor here, and a mat was set in a corner. The walls by the mat had some dents in them like someone being thrown around or even punching the wall.
Looking around some more I discovered a chest shoved off in a corner the opening facing the wall. I pulled and leaned my body onto it to push it away from the wall and saw it was locked. Looking around I couldn't find anything to bust the lock off so I just started to kick it until it flew off in a corner. Slowly I opened the chest to see what was inside.
It was china, very old, fragile looking china. I picked one up and looked closely to the artwork. You would almost think they were hand painted, but I couldn't tell for sure. As I looked through I noticed that the chest seemed to end halfway before the actual bottom. I felt around with my hand and found a niche, one on each side. Taking all the china out, I pulled on it with my fingers and found that the false bottom of the chest came out. There were stacks of letters and some journals on the bottom. I pulled them out and spent the next few hours reading.
February 6,1992. It's been two years since we've seen April or any of New York for that matter. Master Splinter says we are reaching a point, but what that point is, he will not say. Today was the last day we used the dojo for any practiced and left it and the old lair for good.
I flipped through some entries until I saw one about Shredder that caught my eye.
The old Shred-Head surprised us, down here and we almost died for not being prepared. We knew there was a possibility of him following us but never were prepared to actually see him, we …
The journal ended there, and no matter where I looked I found nothing on what happened. Having some room in my bag I stuffed all the journals and paperwork inside and yawned. Looking at my watch I saw that I had been going pretty much the whole day. I went and flipped the mat over, where there was far less dust. Lying down, I turned off the flashlight to conserve the power and closed my eyes. Thoughts drifted through my head like, how did they eat, where were they going, then I drifted off to sleep.
I woke some time later and froze. Remember the old childhood feeling of waking up in the middle of the night and you know that something horrible beyond belief was with you and you wanted to look but were too scared to? That's how I felt right at this moment. Normally a child would call for mommy or daddy who would come in and switch on the light making the bad monster go away. But I couldn't do that here. I was alone, with just a flashlight.
Opening my eyes made no difference it was pitch black in here. I strained to listen for any noise that my ears started to ring. Aside from the thumping of my heart, I heard nothing. Sitting up I scooted until my back was on the wall. Praying that I wouldn't find any monster, I moved until I was in a corner and flashed my light on the center of the room. There was nothing there. As my light moved towards the tunnel I just came from, I saw two flashes of something. Something was reflecting two beads of light from the flashlight back at me. They disappeared and came back again like it blinked, then faded completely.
I grabbed my stuff and started to back down the new tunnel. When the eyes didn't come back I let loose a breath and turned around to walk forward. I still kept an ear out for noise over my shoulder but no way was I going back with that behind me. Stopping for a moment I tried to calm my heart as it beat wildly. With my eyes closed I felt something brush on my leg. Stifling a shriek, I got ready to smash whatever it was with my flashlight then stopped. It was only a cat. I sunk to the floor and the cat crawled into my lap.
"Hello," I said. "Who are you?" He purred as I pet him behind the ears and I noticed he looked starved. I pulled some food out of my bag and gave him some along with some water. A journal fell out and lay open. When I picked it up I saw the word cat and started to read.
Klunk, my cat is gone. He must have gone back to the lair, but Master Splinter won't let me go back to get him. Some tear drops blurred some of the words. …ove him very much and now, I don't think I'll ever see him again. I hope someone finds him and takes good care of him. He's such a good cat, even if he did drop dead mice on my while I was sleeping. He only meant well.
I thought I was going to cry from reading that. I remember Aunt April mentioned a cat and realized that is who is with me. Klunk, Michelangelo's cat.
"Klunk," I said. He perked his ears up and looked at me. "What to go with me to find your master?" This cat seemed to understand for he got off of my lap and took a few steps in the direction I was heading. "Let's go then." And we started to walk together.
~ My dog started barking just as I was at the eyes shining part and scared the heck out of me. It's all quiet here then I hear this low growl. Hmm where to go from here, will this tunnel ever end? I don't know yet, I'm writing what comes to my mind as I go. I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying it so far :o) And HexAdecimal, are you going to update the trip soon, I'm going nuts here :o) I'm just curious ::looks off in thought:: I bet I get us all lost in the sewers, that'd be me, no sense of direction :o) Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions on if your not sure on if I'll do something or whatever, okay?
And Daydream… what's going on with Fanboy. Eric isn't going to just spring up on us one night when we're all asleep is he? I can see us all one has a nightmare and comes face to face with him, ugh!
Lenni, I hope you update soon :o) I don't mean this as harassment guys, I love you all… I'm just inpatient darn it. Gotta work on that… Okay I'm done blabbing… I think ::Thinks for a moment:: Okay yeah I'm done. If I got more to say well, I can just hurry up and post another chapter :o) Have a great day everyone! And thanks for all the reviews!