Chapter 6

"I can see you three have not practiced much while you are here." Master Splinter said from one side of the first floor dojo.

"Sorry sensei." They replied, kneeling before him.

"Only Raphael is the only one that had a reason for not practicing because of his misshap four days ago. For that I will excuse him for not practicing the past few days. As for you three, I want you to do extra practice every day for the next eight days for punishment." Master Splinter added.

"Aww man. I knew I was forgeting something." Mike replied after bowing to Splinter and getting up to look at the weapons collection on the opposite wall.

"At least I practiced." Leo smirked.

"Yeah, once." Don replied.

"Looks like teacher's pet is not the teacher's pet after all." Raph remarked.

"What was that Raph?" Leo spoke.

"You heard me."

"Raph. Leo. Stop your fighting now or both of you will receive 10 extra flips."

"Yes sensei."

"Hey guys, how's it going?" Tyger asked from the door.

"Hey TW. We are doing great. Wanna watch?" Mike said while finding nunchucks on one wall.

"Sure, if that is alright with you, Master Splinter." She replied as she walked towards Splinter and bowed.

"You may watch. They are just starting to practice."

"Thank you."

"You four may begin after you find your weapons."

After the other three found their weapons they paired up, Don with Raph and Mike with Leo.

"Watch your feet Raph, he's trying to trip you." Tyger said after Don tried to trip Raph a few times.

"Thanks for the tip, but I think I have this match." Raph replied.

A few seconds later, Don successfully triped Raph and pinned him to the floor.

"I warned you." Tyger chimed.

"I see you know how to fight. You want to see if you can beat one of my son's?"

"I do know how to fight. Sure, why not. There is nothing to lose, besides I need the practice." Tyger said, getting up and bowing to Splinter.

"Leo, you will fight with Tyger instead of practicing with Mike."

Tyger went over to one wall full of different kinds of swords and axes and searched for the right one. After looking over the swords, she took a twin bladed sword from the wall and went over to the middle of the dojo.

"That is not fair! She has a twin bladed sword!" Mike complianed.

"It is fair. Leonardo has two katana's in his posesion and she wanted to make it fair." Splinter interjected.

"He's right you know." Donny replied.

"Leo is going to win, I bet on it." Mike said.

"How much do you wanna bet?" Raph asked.

"A hundred bucks." Mike said.

"Make that two hundred."Donny added.

"Deal." They agreed.

"Boys."Splinter groaned.

"What is going on?"Daydream asked.

"Tyger is going to fight Leo." Raph said.

"Cool. Can we watch?" Nightmare pleaded.

"Come on in." Don said.

Everyone came in and stayed close to the wall.

"Any one wanna join the bet on who wins?" Mike asked.

"How much is the bet?" Elle asked back.

"Hundred bucks a person. Raph so far is the only one that thinks Tyger is going to win."

"I'll join. Hundred for Tyger." Kiki responded.

"Egor bet on Leo too."

"Leo."Danceingfae, Sasami, and Zip added.

"Tyger." Daydream, Elle, and Splinter spoke.

"Leo." Mily and Sss979 replied.

"Tyger." Lenni and Snow White said.

"I will also bet on Tyger." Protaeus replied as he walked towards the group.

"Betting over. Eight bets for Leo and eight bets for Tyger. Everyone chip in their hundred bucks. The winners will get their hundred back and a extra hundred bucks for winning, bringing the total to two hundred bucks for each of the winners." Mike said.

Everyone gave their hundred bucks to Master Splinter so no one would try and steal the pot. The fight started and everyone rooted for who they betted on. They both started to circle each other, waiting for the other to attack. Leo decided to attack first and tried a jump attack, but was blocked and knocked over.

"You are good, for a beginner fighter." Leo said while getting up.

"Beginner? Beginner this!" Tyger said as she attacked and knocked one of his katana out of his hand.

"Leo never lost a katana this early in the fight. She must be better than we given her credit for." Don explained in awe.

"Either that or fearless leader has lost his touch in sword fighting." Raph replied happily.

"You are good Tyger." Leo pointed out.

"I learn quickly and look for weakspots." Tyger replied.

"You can beat her Leo." Mily yelled.

"You can do it." Sasami added.

"Come on Tyger!" Lenni rooted.

"Wanna go for round two or do you want to quit?" Tyger asked, taking one of her hands off the twin bladed sword and putting it to her side.

"I will not go down so easily." Leo responded as he saw his chance and charged.

Tyger was surprised by Leo's attack and went off to the side and fell. Leo ran over to try and disarm her while she was down, but was knocked to the side. He rolled over to where his other katana was and picked it up. He got up and saw Tyger was going to strike and moved out of the way. Tyger got up and started to strike Leo, but he defended himself and tried to knock Tyger down at the same time. After five minutes of each other attacking the other, Leo managed to get Tyger's twin bladed sword out of her grasp and threw it behind him, putting himself between Tyger and her weapon.

"Give up?" Leo asked, putting one of his katanas in front of him.

"No, and never put your weapon where your opponent can get it." Tyger replied.

As soon as she said that, she jump kicked the blunt side of the katana and knocked it out of his hands. The katana flew upwards and past Tyger and she did a backflip to move back and had caught it in between the palms her hands.

"Make that a lesson for you. Learn not to have your weapon so close to your opponent unless you plan to kill them." Tyger explained while taking the katana by the hilt and holding it close to her.

"Man she is even better than Leo." Mike said in amazement.

"Yeah. Not even Leo could do that." Raph added.

"That was something I did not teach him." Splinter remarked.

"Why?" Daydream asked.

"It is very very difficult and very dangerous. Only a few who tried to learn it survived long enough to prefect the technique. It would take a man half his lifetime to perfect to the point where he would do what she just did, and somehow she learned faster than anyone that tried it." Protaeus explained for Master Splinter, who nodded in agreement with Protaeus.

"I must agree with you on that one. Only TRUE ninja masters are able to do that techniqe. Not even I can do that." Master Splinter added before looking back at the fight.

"You are better than I thought, Tyger." Leo said, slightly out of air.

"Your not bad yourself." Tyger claimed.

Leo saw that she was trying to get around him to get her sword and he was blocking her every attempt to get around him. Tyger finally gave up trying to swerve around him and dropped the katana she was holding and try and jump over him while he got the katana that she dropped. Leo moved to pick up the katana like she had hoped he would and he had thought she was going to swerve to his left and was not prepared for her to jump over him. He fell to the ground and was about to get up when he was pinned and had something sharp touch his neck because Tyger had quickly picked up her sword and went over to Leo to pin him.

"You would be dead if this was real combat, but since it is only practice, I spared your life." Tyger said.

"I admit defeat."

Tyger got of Leo's shell and lifted her sword.

"Way to go dudette! Someone finally beat fearless leader at his own game." Raph said as he walked over to Tyger.

"You were awsome." Ziptango added.

"Ditto." Lenni replied.

"Mike where is my money?" Snow White asked.

"Master Splinter has all the money."Mike replied, motioning to Sensei.

"Egor wants money!"

"Egor you bet on Leo, and Leo lost, so you don't get anything." Kiki replied to Egor.

"Pizza party!" Daydream yelled.

"Pizza! Egor wants pizza!"

"Yes Egor, you will get pizza."

"Yea! Egor gets pizza!"

Everyone started to ramble on what they wanted on their pizzas while Tyger wrote them down to order the pizzas, then went into the kitchen to order.

"Domino's Pizza, may I take your order?"

"Yes, I would like 3 large pepperoni, 3 large cheese, 2 large mushroom and sausage, and 1 large tropical with marshmallows." Tyger responded.

"Would that be all for you then?"

"Yes. Put it on the Jameson account and have it delivered please."

"Yes ma'am. The pizza should be there within a half hour. Good bye."

"Bye."

Tyger goes back to find the group in the living room.

"When is it coming?" Mike asked.

"Half hour."

"Good I'm starving." Daydream replied.

They watched MIB2 while they waited for the food. The food arrived and everyone partied while they finished watching the movie. Everyone except for Master Splinter and Protaeus, who went upstairs to their rooms, continued to party until midnight. By then, everyone was really tired from everything that happened that day, so they all went upstairs to bed. Mily came out of her room after changing to go to the bathroom and get some water. Because it was dark, she saw a large figure coming her way. As the figure went by, she saw that it was a turtle, thought it was Mike, said good night and there was no response back to her. She got all mad and started yelling. Since they were closest to Raph's room, Raph opened his door to see what the comotion was all about.

"What in hell is going on here?" Raph said madly.

"Mike just passed me and won't say good night to me." Mily responded, on the verge of crying.

"What are you talking about? Mike is in my room. How can that be Mike?" Raph asked as he pointed to the figure who had stopped where it was.

"Yeah, I'm in here." Mike yelled from Raph's room.

"Then who's that?" Mily asked.

"Don or Leo maybe."

"Will you please shut up? We are tyring to sleep here." Leo and Don yelled from their now open doors.

"I was wrong." Raph replied.

"If it is none of you guys, then who is it?" Mily asked.

"What is all this commotion about?" Daydream asked from the next floor up.

"Yeah." All except for Tyger replied.

"Mily thought this figure here was one of us." Mike replied as he got out of Raph's room.

"Show your face." Raph told the figure as he flipped the hall light on.

The figure turned around slowly. The figure had a bandana that was the same color as Raph's but it covered the top of it's head. It looked just like the guys but it was female. Raph gasped, thought it was Tigger and charged. The female saw him charge and ran downstairs. Raph's quickly followed the female and tackled her to the floor.

"What are you doing Raph?" Leo asked as he ran towards his brother.

"She is trying to be me!" Raph yelled.

"How can that be?" Don inquired.

"She is a shapeshifter." He replied.

"Get off of me. I don't know what you are talking about!" The female yelled.

"Get off of her so that she can explain. Shapeshifters are legends Raph, she can't be a shapeshifter." Leo said as he pulled his brother off the female.

"There's more of you guys?" Nightmare asked loudly.

"Cool." Danceingfae said sleepily.

"I am Natedlana. I live here and I am not a shapeshifter as you claim." The female replied to everyone.

"She's lying." Raph claimed.

"I am not. I was getting something to drink when she shought I was someone else." Natelana said as she pointed out Mily from the group.

"Raph just leave her alone. If she says that she is not a shapeshifter, then she is not a shapshifter." Lenni said.

"What is going on and why is everyone yelling?" Tyger demanded as she closed her door and went to lean on the railing.

"Mily saw Natedlana here walking passed her and thought it was me and Raph went postal after she turned around which caused everyone to get woken up again and we are trying to sort everything out."Mike said in one large breath.

"Are you ok Natedlana?" Tyger asked as she came down the stairs.

"I'm fine. Who are they?" Natedlana asked as she pointed to the guys.

"I'm sorry. The one with the blue bandana is Leo, the with the orange bandana is Mike, the one with the purple is Donny, and the red one is Raph. I'm sorry he tried to hurt you, he had an accident a few days ago and he woke up today. You must forgive him, he is not himself today." Tyger explianed.

"That's ok. I wasn't hurt. Nice to meet all of you. You must be the rest of Tyger's friends."Natedlana said.

The girls all nodded in response. No one had noticed that there was a large snake lurking in the shadows. It made its way to the stairs before Sasami noticed it and screamed.

"What the?" Don asked.

"It's a. It's a. It's a." Leo stammered in fright.

"It's a anaconda!" Mike yelled, scaring everyone even more.

Tyger went up to it and then stood in front of the snake.

"Move Tyger! It's going to eat you!"Sss979 yelled from where she was.

"You should know better than this. I am ashamed of you for scaring everyone." Tyger told the snake.

"Snakes are not able to reason, Tyger!" Don said.

The snake looked up at Tyger and changed into a dove and flew up to the fourth floor. The rest of the group was stunned on what just happened, got out of their hidding places and walked towards Tyger.

"What was that?" Kiki asked, still stuned at what just happened.

"That was a shapeshifter my friends, a shapeshifter." Tyger pointed out.

"I thought shapeshifters were mythological creatures." Donny said.

"Well, there is only a couple left on earth." Tyger replied.

"I'm going to bed. I had enough for one night. Good night everyone." Zip spoke as she yawned and went upstairs.

"Me to. I'm going to do the same. Good night." Elle added.

"Hey Natedlana, can I sleep with you tonight?" Mike flirted.

"Not if you were the last being on earth. Besides I am with someone else." She replied as she went upstairs.

Everyone followed and went to their rooms leaving Leo, Tyger and Raph in the living room.

"What is wrong Raph? Something is bothering you, isn't there?" Leo asked.

"I don't want to talk you about it. You wouldn't understand." Raph replied.

"Fine, wallow in your own problems then." Leo said as he went up the stairs to his room.

Tyger stood there looking at Raph like he commited the biggest crime ever.

"What?!?" Raph asked.

"Just trying to figure you out, that's all." Tyger said before leaving.

"Tyger, can I talk to you somewhere private?" Raph asked after a minute of silence.

"Sure. We could go to the library and talk."

"Thanks. I just need someone that won't be too judgemental to talk too."

"No problem." Tyger replied as she and Raph aproached the library doors.

"So, what do you want to talk about?" Tyger said as she took a seat.

"Something that I have not told to my family and friends."

"Really? Tell me, and trust me, I won't tell anyone if you want me to."

"I want no one to know right now, besides you. The reason I have been acting weird the past day is because of what happened when I was five. I had found a friend in the sewers one day and she was a shapeshifter. At the time, I thought I was cool and everything. I had decided to not tell my brothers or Splinter for fear that they might of hurt her or taken her away. We were the best of friends. She taught me things that I never forgot."

"Amazing. What did she teach you?"

"She taught me how to draw better, fight better, taught me things that I would of never learned."

"Really. What was her name?"

"Tigger. I have a feeling that she is here but she does not want to show her true self to anyone."

Raph was going to say something else but was disrupted by a noise outside the door. He silently got up and slowly went to the door. The noise outside the door turned into a scratching. Raph withdrew a sai and quickly opened the door. A large doberman was the creature that was making the noise. The doberman ran to Tyger and jumped up on her to get her attention.

"What is he doing in the house and what does he want?" Raph asked.

"This is Waseen, he rarely ventures away from Natedlana's sister's side. When he does, it is because his owner is in some kind of trouble and he comes to me to help her." Tyger explained as she followed Waseen to his owner, and Raph following behind.

"Where are we going?" Raph asked quietly as they passed the girls bedrooms.

"Fourth floor."

They followed Wasseen to his owner's door. He scratched to notify that he came back with help and someone opened the door.

"I'm glad you made it Tyger. Angela just went into labor and you have to help deliver." Natedlana said.

"Hey. I'm the midwife, that's what I do."

"Hi Raph."

"Hi. I'm really sorry for earlier, I had a lot on my mind and you reminded me of someone who left me."

"Appoligies accepted. Come on in and help. We need all the help we need." Natedlana replied.

"That's ok. I have to go to bed anyway. I hope to see you soon." Raph spoke as he yawned.

"Good night, Raph." Tyger and Natedlana replied at the same time.

Oohhhhh, a clifhanger. You will have to wait for the next chapter to see what happens next.

I can't believe no one tried to guess the other shapeshifter yet. It is so easy, and yet he has not been guessed yet. He is in every chapter in some way and yet no one has guessed him yet. Some people have no mythological knowledge of Greek monsters, geez. &Goes of into the background and starts rambling unmentionable words and knocks stuff around. Comes back a few minutes later still a little mad, but is calm enough to type.& Some people today, they don't even know the name of the monster that can shapeshift.