Undiscovered Power
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"Raph where have you been? It's late," Leo said quietly as his brother walked into the dimly lit kitchen with Casey and grabbed a drink for them both. The clock on the kitchen wall read 11:30.
"Oh, chasing some criminals across town," Raph said nonchalantly.
Leo's eye ridges rose ever so slightly. He did think Raph or Casey would actually find those crooks.
"You found them?" Leo asked, watching their faces for any signs of a smile that would give away their little joke. "The criminals that have been breaking into antique stores?"
"Yeah, we found 'em," Casey said, "stealing some things from another small antique store. Then we chased them across town to a small deserted building, where WE found out they were planning to break into the museum to steal something."
Leo crossed his arms, head tilted to one side.
"So then we followed them over there," Raph continued, dropping into his chair. "And heard they were looking for something small and triangular with something purple in the middle. Then we kinda had to split before we were seen." He took a long gulp from his drink as his brother watched him.
"Well, whatever it was it'll be on the news, as well as that little shop," Leo said, and then stifled a yawn.
"It's a good job that crook took his gun with him," Raph said, leaning his carapace on the chair arm, closing his eyes. "Otherwise they would have checked for fingerprints and found yours, Case."
One of Leo's eye ridges furrowed down and he glanced at Casey.
"Yeah, wannit just," Casey agree, stretching out on the couch. "If they'd found prints, it would be a little hard trying to explain that my only defendant is a mutant turtle, who, unfortunately, could not be with us to confirm my innocence as he tends to cause blind panic when seen."
They both chuckled, and straight after dropped off to sleep. Leo shook his head and made his way back to his room that he shared with Donny. His brother had fallen asleep long ago.
Leo climbed into his own bed on the top bunk, and stared at the ceiling, thinking. Casey had been visiting them more often than he used to. This had been going on for, what was it, about . . . three months. And only tonight after that amount of time plus the time they had throughout that weird transformation had Casey actually suggested that he and Raph go back to their old ways of busting heads topside. Everything had returned to normal.
()()()()
"Guys - those criminals have broken into the museum. S'on the news!" Donny called out through the dark lair, making the shadows that were Casey and Raph, who had been laying on the couch and arm chair, jump awake.
"Wha?" Raph said, voice thick with sleep.
Leo walked in noticing the only light in the lair was the TV light. It was meant to be morning.
"Turn it up, Donny," Leo commanded, standing behind the couch that Casey was sitting up on. Mikey walked in rubbing his eyes. His gazed fixed on the TV as well.
Donny turned the knob on the TV set.
" . . . was stolen from the museum last night. A strange, small artifact that the museum experts have been unable to find out about its origin, or the intriguing symbols surrounding the purple crystal in the center, which is called the Eye . . ."
A picture of the artifact appeared on the screen. It looked to be about four inches long ways and two inches width. It was in the shape of a diamond, and in the center was a beautiful, deep-purple crystal. Around it was a pattern of twisted gold, liquid-like metal. On either side of the crystal length-ways was two symbols, also twisted into form by the strange mental. The picture disappeared and the woman who was on the news returned.
"Wow, looks like something ancient and mystical," Donny said, still staring at the TV from his crouched position. He turned down the volume.
"Yeah that's what we tried to nab before the crooks did last night," Casey said leaning forward with his elbows across his knees having studied the object he had tried to reach before the criminals.
"Last night?" Donny questioned, frowning at Casey, and then looking at Leo.
"Casey and Raph followed them to the museum last night and heard they were planning to steal that." Leo explained, nodding his head towards the artifact, which had just disappeared from the TV. "So they tried to get it before those five crooks did."
"The woman crook called it 'the one piece', or something like that," Raph said, swinging his legs off the chair arm.
"Well, it's understandable," Mikey said with a lazy smile. "I mean, I'd swipe something like that if I could."
Everyone turned and looked at him.
"If I was a criminal," Mikey added. He turned and made his way blindly to the kitchen in the dark, arms out. "Donny when are we gonna have some light down here?"
"Oh," Don said, standing up. "I forgot." He walked our of the TV light and into the darkness in the direction of the ladder. A few seconds later there was a dull thud on the wall and then a click, and their eyes suddenly clamped shut automatically as bright light filled the sub way.
"Whoa! Dim it down, Don!" Mikey called from the kitchen, squinting.
The lighting softened to the usual strength, and everyone looked about as Donny walked down the stairs, smiling.
"Ta daa!" He said, opening his arms out.
"Good, Donatello, now you boys can clean up," Splinter's aging voice spoke. They turned to see him stood next to his armchair.
The turtles all groaned, and Donny moved further back into the room.
"I gotta check out this artifact first, Sensei," he said, starting to walk towards his lab. "Maybe I can find out about it on the net." He disappeared to his computer.
Leo moved over to the candles on the TV and blew them out, along with the smaller ones on the tables. He then joined Mikey in the kitchen to grab a drink.
"Hey dudes, who wants to watch a movie?" Mikey asked, slamming a cupboard door shut in the kitchen as the lid of Leo's coke hissed and he hurriedly stepped over to the sink as it leaked everywhere.
"Yeah, okay," Raph agreed, absently-mindedly.
"Great, what movie?"
"Men In Black 2," Raph suggested, staring at the wall.
Mikey smiled, going to get his coat. "Cool, we've only seen that movie once, and that was when it was . . ." Mikey's smile faded. ". . . on at the cinema." He looked at his brother who was staring non-blinkingly at the wall as though watching his own sad memories. Mikey's shoulders dropped.
"Maybe you should see what recent films have just come out and get that," Casey suggested. He looked at Mikey, who nodded. They all remembered WHO they went with to see that movie.
//
Up on the surface, above the sewer system, the bright sunlight shone down on the video store, which had only just opened, as it always did, at 9:00. The man behind the counter was familiar with most of the customers, especially one kid who came in dressed in a trench coat, never showing any part of his body. He was weird, but he came in regularly. Today three of his customers were currently picking a good movie to rent.
The teenage girl who had only just popped in picked up a movie case from the shelf and read the back. Her long brownish red hair draped down her back in a loose ponytail.
"I thought you said you knew what you wanted to get?" Said her sister, walking over to her.
"I do, I'm just looking." Prida said, in a monotone, trying to read the cover while mustering the effort to speak at the same time.
"Okay, I'll be in the food store next door when you're done," Mai said, and walked out. The bell tinkled when the door was opened.
Prida put down the video and moved around the high shelf to the other side just as the bell jingled again. She picked up the video she was after and began to walk to the counter. She could hear someone moving on the other side of the shelf.
Mikey walked along the shelf looking for the video Raph had specifically asked him to get, feeling a sudden warmness. He glanced up expecting to see a ventilation grate, but didn't; he shrugged mentally. Another video caught his eye and he stopped to glance at it. He could hear someone faintly saying "thank you" at the counter in the back of his mind and then soft footsteps. Mikey took his eyes off the video case and walked around the other side of the shelf just as the door bell jingled and someone walked out. Mikey looked up at the 'M' section. Men In Black 2 wasn't there. Mikey sighed, and picked up another one. He took it to the counter.
"It's a bummer Men In Black 2's out," Mikey muttered to the man. "My brother likes that movie."
The man behind the counter took his money. "You were a minute too late," he said. "A girl took it just now."
Mikey nodded. "Oh, well, thanks." He turned and left the store, heading to the alleyway that was away from prying eyes and up to the manhole that would lead him to his home. He put the video in his pocket, knelt down and lifted the heavy manhole cover. He climbed down onto the ladder and replaced the lid, then he dropped down into the sewer water and trotted home.
His journey was about thirteen minutes back to the lair. But a tunnel before he got there he met April.
"Hey Mikey, where've you been?" She greeted.
Mikey held up the video. "To the store. We were all bored so I decided to grab a movie."
April smiled and rolled her eyes. "Good thinking," she said sarcastically. They were always watching movies.
They both walked around the tunnel to the trapdoor in the floor. Mikey opened it and stood aside.
"Ladies first," he said, smiling sweetly, gesturing with his hands.
"Such a gentleman, Mikey," April chuckled, and climbed down the ladder. Mikey followed, replacing the wooden door as he stepped down.
"Hey guys," April called out as she stepped off the last rung of the ladder. Mikey jumped the last three, and they both walked down the steps to where Casey was watching TV with splinter.
Casey took April's hand and pulled her down onto the couch with him. "Hey babe," he said smiling, noses touching.
April smiled. "I hate it when you call me that." She slipped her hands over his shoulders and lent her forehead on his.
"Ugh," Mikey said, turning away to the TV. He looked at the couch and then at Splinter. "Where're Raph and Leo?"
"They are sparring," his Master replied in his whispery voice.
Mikey put the video on the small table next to Splinter's armchair and just then Donny popped his head out of his lab door.
"Hey - I managed to get some info up on this artifact from the museum," he called, then disappeared back inside the room.
Mikey tilted his head and jogged over to the dojo. "Hey guys," he said to a sweating Leo and Raph who were facing each other, hands raised. "Don found something on the net."
They grabbed a towel and followed Mikey into Donny's room, where their brother was sat at his computer, clicking away.
"What ya found, Don?" Leo asked, bending down to look over his brother's shoulder at the screen.
"Well, this relic is called the 'Eye' artifact of Yailea," Don explained slowly, staring at his screen as he spoke. "A.K.A the Eye of Yailea."
"What?" Mikey screwed his face up at the names.
Donny sighed and gave the computer mouse a click. He continued: "Yiretz is a supposed galaxy far away from the Milky Way or any other surrounding galaxy . . ." He paused for a second, listening to the silence that told him he had their undivided attention. ". . .It was believed to have been a myth to a small group of a very superstitious ancient Egyptians, who star glazed as much as Mikey eats pizza. In this galaxy there was a planet called Yailea, with a material containing elements almost identical to our metal, but it gave power. This power would only be awakened if a crystal from the same planet was connected to the metal, which was then called The Eye. . . The Eye of Yailea was formed on one certain night when all the planets, including those of the different galaxy, had aligned and the star constellations were at a certain point in the sky, reflecting the star patterns in the Yiretz. It somehow appeared on Earth on the same night - which is impossible because if it fell as a meteor it would have taken AGES for it to reach Earth."
Donny stared at his screen as his brothers remained silent for a second, then Mikey said in a barely audible voice, "weeeird."
"Maybe it didn't fall," Leo suggested, staring at the last word Donny had just read aloud.
"Well how else would it have gotten here?" Mikey asked, frowning.
Leo shrugged, shaking his head slightly. "I dunno, maybe when it was formed, and the crystal touched the metal, it kinda zapped here."
"Good assumption, Leo," Donny said, tilting his head, slightly impressed with his brother's theory. "It WAS supposed to activate its powers when the metal and the crystal came in contact, but why would it fall to this planet?"
"Duh Donny," Mikey said, bending slightly and knocking on his brother's head as if knocking on a door. "Earth is the only planet in the galaxy with life forms, it might have needed humans to suck the life out of."
"I said this came from the galaxy Yiretz," Donny said. "Not our galaxy . . ."
Mikey straightened up. "Well then I guess we ARE the most intelligent beings in the whole universe," He smiled. "If it decided to land here."
"It doesn't have a mind of it's own, Mikey," Raph said, arms crossed. "It didn't 'decide' to land here. It's a chunk of metal."
Leo turned from his two brothers to Donny. "Can you find out when it was created, Don? When it fell to Earth, and then we could find out who was born on the day when the planets and stars were the same as when it was made; maybe that's the reason it fell to Earth."
"Thinking like I am, Leo," Donny smiled and cracked his fingers. " In fact," he grabbed the mouse again and scrolled down on the page he had been reading from. "It DOES say that these Egyptians believed it fell to Earth for that reason: To mark the birth of something in the future."
"How cute," Mikey suddenly said. "An alien Godfather sent his Godson or Goddaughter a piece of metal that would allow them to use it for power."
"It doesn't say if it was living," Donny said leaning closer to his computer, rereading it. "I'll see if I can find out when it came to Earth, but I dunno if I can get the information, it was a LONG time ago."
"We know you can do it," Mikey said, and turned to leave, but he stopped when Raph spoke.
"Hey, Donny, can you print that picture out?" Raph asked his brother, staring at the picture of the museum artifact on the screen.
"Sure," Donny said, and clicked a few times. The printer hummed to life and started to take in the paper. It sounded very old. "By the way guys, I want money for this, the ink has nearly all gone, because SOMEBODY has been printing pizza recipes." He gave Mikey a meaningful look.
"Mikey," Leo scowled. "You usually make your own pizza recipes."
"And money from you Leo," Don said, smiling. "I printed that picture so YOU could have target practice."
Leo and Mikey gave their brother a tilted look that tried to tell him to forget it. They grumbled when Donny turned around deliberately, and left while Raph watched the printed picture slide out and onto his hands.
"What do you want that for, anyway?" Donny asked, sitting back in his chair and looking at his brother.
"So I know what it looks like and steal it back later," Raph said with a smile and a glint in his eye. He turned and walked out.
Donny shook his head and turned back to his computer screen. He sighed; this was going to take ages if he had to find out something that happened way back in the past.
Raph walked past Mikey and Leo, who were arguing about something, and into his and Mikey's room. He sat down on Mikey's bed and shuffled further on it so he could lean his shell against the wall, sitting on Mikey's pillow. He looked at the picture in the middle of the A4 sized paper. It was printed off larger than its actual size, but the details stood out better. Raph centered his focus on the two symbols molded into the metal patterns next to the longest two points of the crystal Eye. He ran his finger over one, tracing it. Why did these symbols look so familiar?
**** ~Flashback~ ****
Humming, buzzing, it was people talking. He was in a corridor full of people. Through the mass of people walking in front of him he saw the flash of eyes, and a chain; a pendant hung from the chain. The eyes locked onto his for a second before they and the pendant disappeared into the sea of people, and Leo's voice invaded his thoughts. His brother's voice was cut off -
**** ~End Flashback~ ****
Raph blinked, still looking at the symbol. He brought it closer to his face, staring at each line of the emblem.
**** ~Flashback~ ****
He walked forward in a classroom, following his brother; but under his left foot he had trodden on something, and he stopped and lifted his foot. On the floor under his sneaker was a necklace chain, and on it was that pendant. He picked it up, and held it in his hand, looking at it for a second before dropping it in his pocket . . .
**** ~End Flashback~ ****
Raph lowered the paper, and lent back against the wall, frowning. This symbol on the picture was the same as the pendant on that chain. Raph looked at the picture again, just to make sure he was seeing it properly. Over the past few months he had gradually recovered from his depressed state, but he had always seen something that reminded him, it had driven him mad and his Master was forced to lock him in meditation to try and calm his mind down. It had worked, but it had not had the great effect Splinter wanted for his son. Instead he told Raph that he should try to put his mind on something else. But now, after at least two weeks of relaxing with no disturbing memories, did his heart start to ache badly again. It made Raph laugh crazily to himself to think that he suffered like this because the feelings were new to him; he had never had a friend that was his own age, opposite sex, and as nice to him as Mikey was. But Mikey . . . Raph suddenly felt sorry for his brother. His brother coped with those emotions so much more than Raph did because he allowed them to overcome him sometimes. That was why Mikey was strong in that area, and Raph was not.
~
"Raph where have you been? It's late," Leo said quietly as his brother walked into the dimly lit kitchen with Casey and grabbed a drink for them both. The clock on the kitchen wall read 11:30.
"Oh, chasing some criminals across town," Raph said nonchalantly.
Leo's eye ridges rose ever so slightly. He did think Raph or Casey would actually find those crooks.
"You found them?" Leo asked, watching their faces for any signs of a smile that would give away their little joke. "The criminals that have been breaking into antique stores?"
"Yeah, we found 'em," Casey said, "stealing some things from another small antique store. Then we chased them across town to a small deserted building, where WE found out they were planning to break into the museum to steal something."
Leo crossed his arms, head tilted to one side.
"So then we followed them over there," Raph continued, dropping into his chair. "And heard they were looking for something small and triangular with something purple in the middle. Then we kinda had to split before we were seen." He took a long gulp from his drink as his brother watched him.
"Well, whatever it was it'll be on the news, as well as that little shop," Leo said, and then stifled a yawn.
"It's a good job that crook took his gun with him," Raph said, leaning his carapace on the chair arm, closing his eyes. "Otherwise they would have checked for fingerprints and found yours, Case."
One of Leo's eye ridges furrowed down and he glanced at Casey.
"Yeah, wannit just," Casey agree, stretching out on the couch. "If they'd found prints, it would be a little hard trying to explain that my only defendant is a mutant turtle, who, unfortunately, could not be with us to confirm my innocence as he tends to cause blind panic when seen."
They both chuckled, and straight after dropped off to sleep. Leo shook his head and made his way back to his room that he shared with Donny. His brother had fallen asleep long ago.
Leo climbed into his own bed on the top bunk, and stared at the ceiling, thinking. Casey had been visiting them more often than he used to. This had been going on for, what was it, about . . . three months. And only tonight after that amount of time plus the time they had throughout that weird transformation had Casey actually suggested that he and Raph go back to their old ways of busting heads topside. Everything had returned to normal.
()()()()
"Guys - those criminals have broken into the museum. S'on the news!" Donny called out through the dark lair, making the shadows that were Casey and Raph, who had been laying on the couch and arm chair, jump awake.
"Wha?" Raph said, voice thick with sleep.
Leo walked in noticing the only light in the lair was the TV light. It was meant to be morning.
"Turn it up, Donny," Leo commanded, standing behind the couch that Casey was sitting up on. Mikey walked in rubbing his eyes. His gazed fixed on the TV as well.
Donny turned the knob on the TV set.
" . . . was stolen from the museum last night. A strange, small artifact that the museum experts have been unable to find out about its origin, or the intriguing symbols surrounding the purple crystal in the center, which is called the Eye . . ."
A picture of the artifact appeared on the screen. It looked to be about four inches long ways and two inches width. It was in the shape of a diamond, and in the center was a beautiful, deep-purple crystal. Around it was a pattern of twisted gold, liquid-like metal. On either side of the crystal length-ways was two symbols, also twisted into form by the strange mental. The picture disappeared and the woman who was on the news returned.
"Wow, looks like something ancient and mystical," Donny said, still staring at the TV from his crouched position. He turned down the volume.
"Yeah that's what we tried to nab before the crooks did last night," Casey said leaning forward with his elbows across his knees having studied the object he had tried to reach before the criminals.
"Last night?" Donny questioned, frowning at Casey, and then looking at Leo.
"Casey and Raph followed them to the museum last night and heard they were planning to steal that." Leo explained, nodding his head towards the artifact, which had just disappeared from the TV. "So they tried to get it before those five crooks did."
"The woman crook called it 'the one piece', or something like that," Raph said, swinging his legs off the chair arm.
"Well, it's understandable," Mikey said with a lazy smile. "I mean, I'd swipe something like that if I could."
Everyone turned and looked at him.
"If I was a criminal," Mikey added. He turned and made his way blindly to the kitchen in the dark, arms out. "Donny when are we gonna have some light down here?"
"Oh," Don said, standing up. "I forgot." He walked our of the TV light and into the darkness in the direction of the ladder. A few seconds later there was a dull thud on the wall and then a click, and their eyes suddenly clamped shut automatically as bright light filled the sub way.
"Whoa! Dim it down, Don!" Mikey called from the kitchen, squinting.
The lighting softened to the usual strength, and everyone looked about as Donny walked down the stairs, smiling.
"Ta daa!" He said, opening his arms out.
"Good, Donatello, now you boys can clean up," Splinter's aging voice spoke. They turned to see him stood next to his armchair.
The turtles all groaned, and Donny moved further back into the room.
"I gotta check out this artifact first, Sensei," he said, starting to walk towards his lab. "Maybe I can find out about it on the net." He disappeared to his computer.
Leo moved over to the candles on the TV and blew them out, along with the smaller ones on the tables. He then joined Mikey in the kitchen to grab a drink.
"Hey dudes, who wants to watch a movie?" Mikey asked, slamming a cupboard door shut in the kitchen as the lid of Leo's coke hissed and he hurriedly stepped over to the sink as it leaked everywhere.
"Yeah, okay," Raph agreed, absently-mindedly.
"Great, what movie?"
"Men In Black 2," Raph suggested, staring at the wall.
Mikey smiled, going to get his coat. "Cool, we've only seen that movie once, and that was when it was . . ." Mikey's smile faded. ". . . on at the cinema." He looked at his brother who was staring non-blinkingly at the wall as though watching his own sad memories. Mikey's shoulders dropped.
"Maybe you should see what recent films have just come out and get that," Casey suggested. He looked at Mikey, who nodded. They all remembered WHO they went with to see that movie.
//
Up on the surface, above the sewer system, the bright sunlight shone down on the video store, which had only just opened, as it always did, at 9:00. The man behind the counter was familiar with most of the customers, especially one kid who came in dressed in a trench coat, never showing any part of his body. He was weird, but he came in regularly. Today three of his customers were currently picking a good movie to rent.
The teenage girl who had only just popped in picked up a movie case from the shelf and read the back. Her long brownish red hair draped down her back in a loose ponytail.
"I thought you said you knew what you wanted to get?" Said her sister, walking over to her.
"I do, I'm just looking." Prida said, in a monotone, trying to read the cover while mustering the effort to speak at the same time.
"Okay, I'll be in the food store next door when you're done," Mai said, and walked out. The bell tinkled when the door was opened.
Prida put down the video and moved around the high shelf to the other side just as the bell jingled again. She picked up the video she was after and began to walk to the counter. She could hear someone moving on the other side of the shelf.
Mikey walked along the shelf looking for the video Raph had specifically asked him to get, feeling a sudden warmness. He glanced up expecting to see a ventilation grate, but didn't; he shrugged mentally. Another video caught his eye and he stopped to glance at it. He could hear someone faintly saying "thank you" at the counter in the back of his mind and then soft footsteps. Mikey took his eyes off the video case and walked around the other side of the shelf just as the door bell jingled and someone walked out. Mikey looked up at the 'M' section. Men In Black 2 wasn't there. Mikey sighed, and picked up another one. He took it to the counter.
"It's a bummer Men In Black 2's out," Mikey muttered to the man. "My brother likes that movie."
The man behind the counter took his money. "You were a minute too late," he said. "A girl took it just now."
Mikey nodded. "Oh, well, thanks." He turned and left the store, heading to the alleyway that was away from prying eyes and up to the manhole that would lead him to his home. He put the video in his pocket, knelt down and lifted the heavy manhole cover. He climbed down onto the ladder and replaced the lid, then he dropped down into the sewer water and trotted home.
His journey was about thirteen minutes back to the lair. But a tunnel before he got there he met April.
"Hey Mikey, where've you been?" She greeted.
Mikey held up the video. "To the store. We were all bored so I decided to grab a movie."
April smiled and rolled her eyes. "Good thinking," she said sarcastically. They were always watching movies.
They both walked around the tunnel to the trapdoor in the floor. Mikey opened it and stood aside.
"Ladies first," he said, smiling sweetly, gesturing with his hands.
"Such a gentleman, Mikey," April chuckled, and climbed down the ladder. Mikey followed, replacing the wooden door as he stepped down.
"Hey guys," April called out as she stepped off the last rung of the ladder. Mikey jumped the last three, and they both walked down the steps to where Casey was watching TV with splinter.
Casey took April's hand and pulled her down onto the couch with him. "Hey babe," he said smiling, noses touching.
April smiled. "I hate it when you call me that." She slipped her hands over his shoulders and lent her forehead on his.
"Ugh," Mikey said, turning away to the TV. He looked at the couch and then at Splinter. "Where're Raph and Leo?"
"They are sparring," his Master replied in his whispery voice.
Mikey put the video on the small table next to Splinter's armchair and just then Donny popped his head out of his lab door.
"Hey - I managed to get some info up on this artifact from the museum," he called, then disappeared back inside the room.
Mikey tilted his head and jogged over to the dojo. "Hey guys," he said to a sweating Leo and Raph who were facing each other, hands raised. "Don found something on the net."
They grabbed a towel and followed Mikey into Donny's room, where their brother was sat at his computer, clicking away.
"What ya found, Don?" Leo asked, bending down to look over his brother's shoulder at the screen.
"Well, this relic is called the 'Eye' artifact of Yailea," Don explained slowly, staring at his screen as he spoke. "A.K.A the Eye of Yailea."
"What?" Mikey screwed his face up at the names.
Donny sighed and gave the computer mouse a click. He continued: "Yiretz is a supposed galaxy far away from the Milky Way or any other surrounding galaxy . . ." He paused for a second, listening to the silence that told him he had their undivided attention. ". . .It was believed to have been a myth to a small group of a very superstitious ancient Egyptians, who star glazed as much as Mikey eats pizza. In this galaxy there was a planet called Yailea, with a material containing elements almost identical to our metal, but it gave power. This power would only be awakened if a crystal from the same planet was connected to the metal, which was then called The Eye. . . The Eye of Yailea was formed on one certain night when all the planets, including those of the different galaxy, had aligned and the star constellations were at a certain point in the sky, reflecting the star patterns in the Yiretz. It somehow appeared on Earth on the same night - which is impossible because if it fell as a meteor it would have taken AGES for it to reach Earth."
Donny stared at his screen as his brothers remained silent for a second, then Mikey said in a barely audible voice, "weeeird."
"Maybe it didn't fall," Leo suggested, staring at the last word Donny had just read aloud.
"Well how else would it have gotten here?" Mikey asked, frowning.
Leo shrugged, shaking his head slightly. "I dunno, maybe when it was formed, and the crystal touched the metal, it kinda zapped here."
"Good assumption, Leo," Donny said, tilting his head, slightly impressed with his brother's theory. "It WAS supposed to activate its powers when the metal and the crystal came in contact, but why would it fall to this planet?"
"Duh Donny," Mikey said, bending slightly and knocking on his brother's head as if knocking on a door. "Earth is the only planet in the galaxy with life forms, it might have needed humans to suck the life out of."
"I said this came from the galaxy Yiretz," Donny said. "Not our galaxy . . ."
Mikey straightened up. "Well then I guess we ARE the most intelligent beings in the whole universe," He smiled. "If it decided to land here."
"It doesn't have a mind of it's own, Mikey," Raph said, arms crossed. "It didn't 'decide' to land here. It's a chunk of metal."
Leo turned from his two brothers to Donny. "Can you find out when it was created, Don? When it fell to Earth, and then we could find out who was born on the day when the planets and stars were the same as when it was made; maybe that's the reason it fell to Earth."
"Thinking like I am, Leo," Donny smiled and cracked his fingers. " In fact," he grabbed the mouse again and scrolled down on the page he had been reading from. "It DOES say that these Egyptians believed it fell to Earth for that reason: To mark the birth of something in the future."
"How cute," Mikey suddenly said. "An alien Godfather sent his Godson or Goddaughter a piece of metal that would allow them to use it for power."
"It doesn't say if it was living," Donny said leaning closer to his computer, rereading it. "I'll see if I can find out when it came to Earth, but I dunno if I can get the information, it was a LONG time ago."
"We know you can do it," Mikey said, and turned to leave, but he stopped when Raph spoke.
"Hey, Donny, can you print that picture out?" Raph asked his brother, staring at the picture of the museum artifact on the screen.
"Sure," Donny said, and clicked a few times. The printer hummed to life and started to take in the paper. It sounded very old. "By the way guys, I want money for this, the ink has nearly all gone, because SOMEBODY has been printing pizza recipes." He gave Mikey a meaningful look.
"Mikey," Leo scowled. "You usually make your own pizza recipes."
"And money from you Leo," Don said, smiling. "I printed that picture so YOU could have target practice."
Leo and Mikey gave their brother a tilted look that tried to tell him to forget it. They grumbled when Donny turned around deliberately, and left while Raph watched the printed picture slide out and onto his hands.
"What do you want that for, anyway?" Donny asked, sitting back in his chair and looking at his brother.
"So I know what it looks like and steal it back later," Raph said with a smile and a glint in his eye. He turned and walked out.
Donny shook his head and turned back to his computer screen. He sighed; this was going to take ages if he had to find out something that happened way back in the past.
Raph walked past Mikey and Leo, who were arguing about something, and into his and Mikey's room. He sat down on Mikey's bed and shuffled further on it so he could lean his shell against the wall, sitting on Mikey's pillow. He looked at the picture in the middle of the A4 sized paper. It was printed off larger than its actual size, but the details stood out better. Raph centered his focus on the two symbols molded into the metal patterns next to the longest two points of the crystal Eye. He ran his finger over one, tracing it. Why did these symbols look so familiar?
**** ~Flashback~ ****
Humming, buzzing, it was people talking. He was in a corridor full of people. Through the mass of people walking in front of him he saw the flash of eyes, and a chain; a pendant hung from the chain. The eyes locked onto his for a second before they and the pendant disappeared into the sea of people, and Leo's voice invaded his thoughts. His brother's voice was cut off -
**** ~End Flashback~ ****
Raph blinked, still looking at the symbol. He brought it closer to his face, staring at each line of the emblem.
**** ~Flashback~ ****
He walked forward in a classroom, following his brother; but under his left foot he had trodden on something, and he stopped and lifted his foot. On the floor under his sneaker was a necklace chain, and on it was that pendant. He picked it up, and held it in his hand, looking at it for a second before dropping it in his pocket . . .
**** ~End Flashback~ ****
Raph lowered the paper, and lent back against the wall, frowning. This symbol on the picture was the same as the pendant on that chain. Raph looked at the picture again, just to make sure he was seeing it properly. Over the past few months he had gradually recovered from his depressed state, but he had always seen something that reminded him, it had driven him mad and his Master was forced to lock him in meditation to try and calm his mind down. It had worked, but it had not had the great effect Splinter wanted for his son. Instead he told Raph that he should try to put his mind on something else. But now, after at least two weeks of relaxing with no disturbing memories, did his heart start to ache badly again. It made Raph laugh crazily to himself to think that he suffered like this because the feelings were new to him; he had never had a friend that was his own age, opposite sex, and as nice to him as Mikey was. But Mikey . . . Raph suddenly felt sorry for his brother. His brother coped with those emotions so much more than Raph did because he allowed them to overcome him sometimes. That was why Mikey was strong in that area, and Raph was not.