Thanks for the review Daydream :o) I just figured that Leonardo never mentioned Shredder's real name to Melody and used it to his advantage. I hope everyone likes this chapter :o)

Ch8 Conclusions

"Today Melody we're going to take you on a test run," Oroku said. I nodded, knowing that this would be happening sooner or later, but now I was starting to feel nervous. We went to the streets and walked around for a bit. I didn't think we were going to find anything tonight. As we rounded a corner, I saw the foot robbing a store. I went to back away but Oroku pushed me forward.

"Perfect, stop them," Oroku said. Feeling nervous, I went up to them squeezing my hands so tightly I drew blood. When the first soldier noticed me, he laughed and walked up to me.

"Oh what you gonna do, girlie?" I smiled and pointed at him. He immediately flew back and was pinned to the wall. His buddies saw this and turned to run. Using what Oroku has taught me on control, I eventually had them all up against the wall, not moving. They had brought some rope with them and I used that, the same way I pinned the soldiers, to tie them up. The last one was tied as police sirens were heard. Going back to where Oroku was I looked at him.

"I want to find this Shredder and take him out," I said. Oroku smiled a disturbing smile.

"Not a problem, me dear."

Down in the lair, Master Splinter was waiting for his eldest to get home. As soon as Leonardo burst in, he sat next to Master Splinter.

"Get your brothers," Master Splinter said. "This concerns all of you." Once all the turtles were around Master Splinter he started to speak.

"In my meditations, I was told by the spirit, that Melody has already been taken by the enemy and we must proceed with much caution. If we fail to rescue her, not only is her life in danger, but the rest of the world is as well."

"Should we patrol to see if we can find her?" Leonardo asked. Master Splinter nodded.

"Yes, my son's, or all will fade to darkness," Master Splinter said lowering his head. Donatello got up.

"Hold on I got something that might help." Donatello left the room and came back again holding a gun that looked like it came from star trek. "This is my rope tying gun, watch." Donatello hit a button pointing the gun at Michelangelo. Rope shot out and immediately tied the turtle up and gagged him as well.

"Hmmffmmmrrrr," Michelangelo said.

"So you can see this should aid us pretty well," Donatello said putting the gun down. Everyone looked from him to Michelangelo. "Oh, sorry Mikey," Donatello said untying him, which took a few minutes. As the turtles headed out Master Splinter stopped Leonardo.

"My son, after this is over, you and Melody can be together," Master Splinter said. "It was wrong telling you to be away from her in the first place." Leonardo went up to Master Splinter and gave him a hug.

"Thank you Sensei, but to be honest, I reached that decision a while ago," Leonardo said. "I just hope it is not too late." Master Splinter gave his son a smile.

"Your heart will lead the way, now go, rescue the girl," Master Splinter said. Leonardo ran off joining his brothers. Up top they didn't have to patrol long to find Melody. She was standing in front of another bank tying the foot up, with what seemed to them, with magic. Once they were all tied up the turtles were just about out of the Shadow's. Oroku saw them and smiled.

"Melody," he shouted. "More are in the shadows." I turned waving my hand about, pinning the turtles to the wall, but I couldn't see them. Strangely this also made them unable to speak. Oroku walked over finding Donatello's gun he pointed it at the turtles and took a shot at them. Seeing that it tied them up, he quickly tied the last three.

"Okay Melody, you can relax now," Oroku said. I put down my hands and was shocked when I saw each of the turtles fall down into the light, tied up.

"Wait a minute, these are the good guys," I said. Oroku stopped me from untying them.

"Yeah, but that's what makes this so much more satisfying." I looked at him confused until one spoke.

"What have you been doing to her Shredder?" Leonardo demanded. I looked from the turtles to Shredder back to the turtles.

"S s shredder," I stammered. Shredder bowed and I moved my hand to hold him still. Shredder grabbed my hands stopping the movement, and twisted my arms behind my back. I cried out in pain as James stepped out of the shadows.

"Here you go," Shredder said, handing me over. "I'm done with her now."

"James," I whispered near tears. "Why?"

"Because as a human I always admired you but never had the guts to tell you," James said grabbing my arms, immobilizing me. "Now I can take the rest of your life to tell you. I looked back to the turtles each of them tied up helpless, and it was all my fault. As James tied my hands behind my back, rendering them useless, I watched Shredder load the turtles up into a van. He saw me watching and took that opportunity to hit Leonardo in the jaw. My stomach turned as I watched his head roll around, then James drove us off.

"Is Shredder taking them to where we were?" I asked softly.

"Yeah," James said nonchalant. "He's going to do to them what he did to April all those years ago." My head shot up hearing her name.

"What happened to April?" I was dreading the answer.

"Dissected her while she was still alive and some other torture stuff." That was it, I couldn't hold it any more and retched in James car. He swerved and pulled over.

"Aww, jeez, couldn't you have warned me first," James said annoyed. I was still bent over, my head in the back seat. James came to my side and tried to pull me out.

"Can't move, my hands," I moaned. James sighed irritated and untied my hands then pulled me out of the car. As soon as he leaned in to see how much of a mess I made, I slammed the door on him, stunning him and took off running to where the turtles would be. James staggered up and laughed.

"You'll never make it on time," James yelled. "The spell that was cast on you will wear off at midnight." I stopped and turned.

"What do you mean?" I yelled back.

"Shredder had me find a witch to put this spell on you, because he knew the turtles would find you. The good witched, I guess you can call them, found out and tried to warn you, but we got to you first. I'm glad I made that car hit that shape shifter of a dog, or she would have told you everything." I stood there then looked at my watch, it read 1130. I turned and ran as fast as I could.

"You'll never make it," James yelled laughing at me. I hailed a taxi and took off. James saw this and his laughter faded. "Oh, dang, I forgot about taxi's. Oh well Shredder's deal." James turned leaving the car and walked into an alley. No one ever saw him tackled or staked as he turned to dust.

I reached Shredder's lair and looked at my watch, 1140. Running up the stairs, I used what I had left of the power to push down the doors and burst in. Each turtle was strapped to a table, Shredder leaned over Leonardo already had a scaple knife almost through the plastron. I waved my hands, flinging the scaple out of Shredder's hands into the wall. Before I had a chance to react, one of the foot stepped behind me, shot me with Donatello's gun leaving me helpless on the floor. Laughing Shredder walked over to me.

"Well Melody, it seems you have, oh, twelve minutes left." Shredder said joyfully. In the meantime, watch as I tear your turtle friends to pieces. I was propped in a corner and all I could do was watch as Shredder put the blade down again and Leonardo's scream of pain. Foot soldiers were putting the door back when a force that reflected blue light knocked them down, stunning all the foot. Shredder threw the scaple down this time.

"What now?" He growled. A lady walked in, short with whitish gray hair, followed by a panther another male who had brown hair and a tall thin blond woman behind them. "Get out, I have enough to deal with…" Shredder started. The lady in front waved her hand.

"Silence, you've done enough damage tonight," She said. Shredder froze in suspended motion. I watched as the panther, changed into Katie, and saw Logan walk in from behind the tall woman. They untied the turtles and me.

"Sorry we couldn't tell you Melody," Katie said as Logan took the rope away. "But we were not allowed to portray any messages until we were sure." I stared at my friends dumbstruck until I heard Leonardo moan. I rushed over to him and saw that his face was ashen, the cut was deep.

"Unless something is done, this young turtle will die," The tall thin woman said. I saw that it was only 1157 and stepped forward.

"Let me help him," I said. The woman nodded and put my hands over his wound.

"Concentrate, put all you have into this and you can make it work," She said. I closed my eyes and did the only thing I could think of. I prayed and concentrated. I prayed that Leonardo would heal and be healthy, that we would be happy and stay together always, for his happiness.

"That's it Melody, pour your love into him," Her voice seemed to shout and I heard a watch beep midnight. My eyes rolled up in my head and all went black.