Unbelievable Discoveries
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"Okay, so we're only following them," Leo whispered, crouched down behind a dumpster with Raph and Casey. "Do not engage in combat if they start breaking into places."
It was late that night, and Donny was still trying to find more information on this thing that Leo, Raph and Casey were going to steal back. They had all decided that if it was powerful, it didn't want to be in the hands of some crooks.
"I bet you love saying those lines," Raph said sarcastically, narrowing his eyes coolly at his brother, who turned and gave him a glare.
"Guys, save your brotherly love 'til later," Casey cut in, crouched behind them both. "We have company."
He pointed to the end of the alleyway they were in, next to the shabby snack bar, where three black dressed figures, faces exposed, rounded the corner and started to make their way towards the end of the alley where the fire exit door to the snack bar was. Leo, Raph and Casey lowered closer to the ground, backs against the dumpster, and trashcans in front of them. It stunk, but they were well hidden.
The three men did not talk as they walked past the dumpster and the trashcans to the snack bar's entrance. They disappeared inside, and muffled voices began to speak.
The three outside all leaned a little closer, trying to catch the words. Casey felt something small fall on his head, and he put his hand there. He looked up at the dark, cloudy sky.
A second later it felt as if a bucket had been poured over them, as it started to chuck it down with rain. In the few seconds they had frozen, feeling the ice-cold water run down their necks, they were soaked.
"Great - now we can't even hear ourselves!" Casey said loudly, knowing the amount of noise the rain was making on the dumpster next to them drowned out their voices to the crooks in the building.
Leo's eyes turned upwards and he glared at the sky. He turned around to face Raph and Casey, who both looked as though they had been thrown in a lake.
"We'll just wait until they come out, and then follow them," he said as loud as he dared over the roar of the dumpster next to them. "They won't be planning to attack anywhere tonight, especially not in these conditions."
So they waited in the downpour for what seemed like an hour, and without a watch, it probably was. Leo and Raph had to take off their fedoras because the rainwater hat pretty much flattened them to their heads. Casey's shoulder-length hair was matted to the back of his neck and his shoulders, and as it kept sliding forward in the streams running down his shoulders, he kept flicking it back and hitting Raph. It was a night Mikey would be rolling around on the floor laughing at.
After the hour of water torture, in which they had moved places around the building trying to hear better, but couldn't; movement was noticed in the door and three figures walked out into the rain and headed for the end of the alleyway. They were dressed in black pants and casual dark colored shirts. Leo, Raph and Casey watched as they disappeared around the corner and onto the streets. A few seconds after that, they turned back to see two more figures walk out. One in dark navy jeans and a normal blue-gray shirt; this was the woman. Her face was not hidden in the black facemask she had worn before, so her sharp jaw line and high check bones could just be seen in the dark alleyway. The man she was with had a short, neat hair trim, and a strong jaw bone. He wore dark beige pants and a black baseball shirt. They both disappeared from view.
Casey stood up quickly, eager to follow them. The two turtle brothers remained crouched for a second, before standing also.
"Stealth Mode," Raph whispered smoothly, grinning.
Without a sound they rushed to a ladder that was hanging in the alleyway from the wall of the building, and climbed it to the rooftop. Casey looked down over the edge of the small building they were on, and his eyes located the two people on the other side of the street.
It was a great night for jumping rooftops. Great as in not much people were around so the chance of them seeing three figures jumping from roof to roof was slim. And great as in it was a night of solid navy sky to look at. The bad thing was it was cold, and after being frozen by the ice-cold water, Leo and Raph almost missed the last roof after an hour of following, because their systems were starting to slow due to the cold. They had had to dispose of their wet coats, so there was no disguise for them either. But this night they weren't backing down, and so when the two people who they were following met up with the other three people, the two turtles and Casey stopped to catch their breath and watch silently.
They were out of the busier areas now, and into the quieter ones. But these neighborhoods were not known for violence, and so, when the five figures walked up to a gate, waited for it to open and then disappeared into a mansion-look-alike, Leo, Raph and Casey realized why no one had found the crooks' hideout.
"Whoa," Casey said, nodding his head slightly at the glamour of the house. "These guys must be living it good."
"Well I guess business booms when you steal stuff," Raph said with a slight mocking tone. He and Leo were shivering every time they inhaled.
"Great, that obviously means they have good security around the grounds," Leo said, squinting down to the gates that secured the big building, connecting to a brick wall that ran around it. He could see a control panel for the gates, the one they had just seen the crooks use to get in.
"We can get through that," Casey boasted coolly with a smile. He glanced at his two pals who were shivering and he raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, c'mon, let's go," Raph said, and jumped into an open dumpster. He disappeared under the trash, but resurfaced a second later and climbed out stealthily, creeping across the road to the other side. Leo and Casey followed his suit, but remained in the dumpster as a slow car drove by.
Leo and Casey climbed out of the metal dumpster and ran across the road to where Raph was, having been hiding from the car behind the wall of the gates.
"We can't get through here," Leo said, looking at the gate. "We'll have to find another way around the back."
With silent footsteps, they hugged the wall and crept away from the gate to the back of the building, where there was a smaller gate with a padlock. They scoffed at the padlock and climbed over the gate, dropping silently on the other side, into a small jungle of a garden.
They slinked, animal-like, round the path into the open garden where they got a better view of the house. Before it was a white veranda, as far as they could tell in the dark. Keeping their eye on the lightened window, they made their way towards it.
Someone passed in front of the window and they dove for cover behind the steps of the veranda. They could hear muffled voices from the lightened room, and they listened as the loudest turned away.
"One questions before we move," Casey spoke, quietly. "Where would they hold a little triangular piece of metal in a house that size?"
The two turtles stared back at him blankly.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," Casey sat back against the stone steps on the grass.
Leo turned off his butt onto his knees and peered over the edge of the steps to look at the window. He could see two of the crooks smiling. The one on the right passed something small and triangular to the one on the left. Leo sat back down, a small smile on his face.
"Mrs. White, in the living room, with the candle stick," he said, smiling widening.
Casey frowned at him, and nodded, chewing his tongue.
"Okay, so how do we snatch it from right under their noses?" He asked.
"We just walk in, bust some heads, grab the jewel and walk out," Raph said, sliding his palm smoothly through the air while he spoke.
Leo rolled his eyes. "No, they'll probably have guards or dogs -"
"Guard Dogs," Raph interrupted, with a small smile.
" - And besides, we haven't got our disguises, we can't let them see us."
"Well they've gotta put it down sometime," Casey said. "Let's just sneak in, watch the activity from inside and grab the artifact when their backs are turned."
Leo said nothing, but stared at the grass, trying to decide. He nodded, agreeing with Casey's tactic.
They got to their feet, crouched, and ran along the veranda to a door just on the other side of the building. Leo stepped aside and let Raph unlock it with his Sai, figuring they wouldn't put a wire on the door when they had a whole brick wall to keep intruders out. It would make them look very suspicious.
As Leo thought, the door only opened with a click, and a small squeak as Raph pushed it open, looking into a large kitchen. They moved forwards, closing the door to behind them.
There were two doors in the kitchen, not including the one they had come through, and Leo pointed to the one on the left side of the wall they were facing.
They looked almost plain on this side, but when they opened it, it was decorative on the other side. Looking up from the door, Leo looked into the large corridor they were in. There was a long, red carpet running to the end, and patterned wallpaper. On the left was a row of magnificent looking windows, high and wide. Positioned along at about two meters apart opposite the windows were expensive wooden bureaus.
"Whoa," Raph said, mouth open. "I'm dying to see what the rest of the house looks like."
They sneaked to the end of the corridor; feeling dwarfed by the height of the ceiling in there, and pressed their ears to the door. There was no sound, so Leo grasped the curved door handle and carefully turned it down. The door opened with no creak, and they peered into the room.
It was an office room, with another, larger bureau along the far wall and a very heavy-looking desk in the center, cluttered with papers and a lamp. The wallpaper was a brown, almost tea-stained color, and the floor was dark. Directly opposite them on the left wall was a door-less opening that lead into the living room, from where the voices where coming from and at next to the wall it was near, on the left side was a door that must have lead somewhere else.
Since the opening was on a corner, the people inside the room could not see the two turtles and Casey, who moved further into the room. Leo backed right up against the wall next to the opening and listened to the voices. Raph and Casey stood behind the desk, watching and listening too.
"I guess this means a toast," One male voice was saying, clearing from his high-spirited tone he was smiling.
"I wouldn't toast just yet," a low, female voice spoke in an intelligent tone. They were soft footsteps. "We still have to figure out what will activate the Purple Eye, and that may take as long as it took to find the damn thing."
A quiet voice spoke next, and Leo moved even closer to try and hear it. He crouched down, low to the ground, and slowly peered around the wall into the room. There was a very expensive couch with its back to him, and a large armchair with its side facing him, opposite a massive, fancy fireplace with a dancing fire. There was another couch, identical to the first, opposite the first. The walls were gold with patterns, and the carpet was dark red. Whoa, luxury or what?
One man was sat forward in the armchair and picked up something from a small table next to the chair arm. He studied it while the others watched him. The woman and the strong-jawed man were stood next to the fire, wine glass in hands; one other man was stood in the center, and the last was sat on the couch with his back to Leo.
Casey, who had been leaning as far as he dared on one foot to see into the room, stood back up straight. He elbowed Raph.
"Got an idea," he whispered, and made towards the door they had come through.
Leo turned to look where he was going, as Raph was muttering to himself, "S'long as it ain't ringing the doorbell."
Casey disappeared into the long corridor, and Leo held out his hands to Raph, asking where Casey had gone. Raph shrugged and mouthed 'got an idea'. Leo's eye ridges rose and they both turned to look back into the living room. One of the men was arguing with another.
"You try looking for something that happened thousands of years ago!" His voice calmed down as his breathing returned to normal. "Look, I've been doing some research, finding all I can. Lemme get my papers, I might have missed something when I read through them . . ."
Leo and Raph recoiled and jumped behind the desk as soft footsteps turned towards them. But before the man could reach the room, a soft but loud chime rang through the house.
Under the desk Raph made a face and mouthed 'the doorbell?!' Leo grinned.
"Who the hell is that?" One voice spoke.
"No one should be able to get through the gate . . ." Another male voice said lowly. "Check it out."
Leo and Raph emerged from the table as all five crooks' footsteps walked out of the room. They looked at each other, surprised, and crept to the opening. No one was in the room, and the fools had left the triangular metal piece on the small table next to the armchair.
Taking this chance Leo leaped into the room and grabbed the Eye, just as one of the men strode back in remembering it, with the woman behind.
Leo froze for a slit second, heart jolted because they had seen him. Then he spun and bolted out the room, while the other two recovered from their shock and called out, alarmed. Leo and Raph rushed to the corridor and ran high-speed to the kitchen. Rapid footsteps followed them but they made it outside and ran to gate where Casey had been waiting for them, waving his arms, telling them to get a move on. He climbed up the gate and jumped over the other side as Leo tossed the artifact over the gate to Casey so he could climb quicker. He and his brother jumped down just as the man who had seen them ran into the gate, rattling it, and started to climb over it too. He gave up with an angered snarl when Leo, Raph and Casey sprinted away into the darkness.
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"You STOLE it back?" Mikey asked, incredulously, as he took the triangular artifact from Leo's hands gently, as though it was something royal he shouldn't really be touching. He stared at it with his mouth parted, hypnotized by the fluid look of the piece, tracing his fingers over the smooth, crisscrossing lines of the tangle of metal that ran around the purple 'Eye' in the center.
Leo used both his free hands now to rub his frozen arms, while Donny, who noticed the signs, ran back into his lab and grabbed two thick, woolly sheets. He rushed back in and wrapped one around Leo, who nodded, shaking, and thanked him. Donny handed Raph the other and then walked into the kitchen, making hot drinks. Casey, who had relaxed on the couch, arms stretched over the top of the back, rested his head back against it as well.
"I c-can't believe you r-rang the doorbell," Raph shivered, grinning, the sheet Don had given him slung over his shoulder. He ignored the fact he was freezing and shaking.
Casey straightened his head and shrugged modestly. "Well, it got them all out of the room."
"I think we'd love to hear details," Donny said with a smile as he handed Leo a steaming mug, and Raph another. Leo sat down at the end of the couch next to Casey who was stretched in the middle. Mikey, who was still staring at the artifact, sat on the couch arm, with his feet on the cushions opposite Leo. He turned the Eye over and looked at the back. Then he studied the two symbols on the front, while Raph sat in his chair opposite Splinter's, which Donny sat in. Splinter himself had obviously gone to bed; it was a late hour. Donny had been surprised their Sensei had not asked where Leo was when the latest time his oldest son ever returned passed. But, knowing his all-knowing mind, he guessed Splinter had a fair idea where they had gone, after all, they had filled in to their Master the information of this artifact.
Leo, who was shaking pretty badly, did not speak as information about the Eye was passed on to Casey, so he could consume his steaming drink slowly, letting the heat of it warm his insides pleasantly. Raph had not touched his own, and his blanket was thrown over his chair arm. The lighting in the Lair had been switched off, and a few of the old candles had been lit, giving the five figures of the subway a flicker glow.
After they'd finished their account of how they stole it back, they became silent for a few seconds, and Casey took the Eye of Yailea from Mikey, who was done with studying it. Casey turned it over several times in his hands, feeling the weight and noting the intriguing patterns. He appeared unimpressed, and handed it to Leo as he spoke next.
"Ah dunno; it's a bit small to have powers, innit?" He asked them all, as Leo handed it to a stretched out hand of Donny.
Donny turned it over and studied the back first. "The size is unimportant, Case," he said as he turned it over and looked at the front, staring deeply into the beautiful purple crystal.
"Yeah, I mean, look at Men In Black," Mikey chipped in, leaning forward over the couch with his hands clasped together, arms leaning across his legs. "There was a WHOLE galaxy in one little -" He stopped when he saw everyone was staring at him. Mike looked down at the couch cushion. "Yeah, like Don said - Oo, and like the Godzilla saying: 'Size doesn't matter'."
"Mikey shut up," Raph said. Even in the dim light his muscle spasms could be seen just barely as he tensed and shook for a second, and then relaxed, only to be followed by more quick shaking. Leo was doing the same under his blankets.
Donny was now running a finger over the symbols. An odd feeling deep down inside his chest fluttered for a second. It felt like a quick sense of recognition, but it disappeared almost as soon as it rose.
Silence had again dominated the Lair as Donny's eyes ran over the metal, and as Mikey watched him. Casey sighed tiredly and dropped his head back against the top of the couch back.
Mikey yawned loudly and deeply, stretching his arms out. When he had finished he said, "Well, I'm goin' to bed, see you guys in the morning . . . make that afternoon." He slid off the couch arm and walked with heavy footsteps to his and Raph's car, where he disappeared from the glow of the candles.
Finding Mikey's notion a good idea, Leo and Raph make their shivering way to their own beds, and a minute later, after putting the Eye on his computer desk, Donny joined Leo in their room, where he fell asleep on his bottom bunk. Casey was left to stretch out on the couch as he had done many times. He stood up and picked up the blanket Raph had left on the chair arm, then he walked over to the candles on the TV and blew them out. He made his way back to the couch, only a few feet away, and dropped down on the old, but soft cushions, pulling the blanket over him. Within a few minutes he was asleep, as were the other four previously awake occupants of the Lair.
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Thanks for your reviews, I know this sequel takes a different path than the first, but I think it wud be weird if I had them human again in this one. I just hope you guy'll like where I'm going with this (
"Okay, so we're only following them," Leo whispered, crouched down behind a dumpster with Raph and Casey. "Do not engage in combat if they start breaking into places."
It was late that night, and Donny was still trying to find more information on this thing that Leo, Raph and Casey were going to steal back. They had all decided that if it was powerful, it didn't want to be in the hands of some crooks.
"I bet you love saying those lines," Raph said sarcastically, narrowing his eyes coolly at his brother, who turned and gave him a glare.
"Guys, save your brotherly love 'til later," Casey cut in, crouched behind them both. "We have company."
He pointed to the end of the alleyway they were in, next to the shabby snack bar, where three black dressed figures, faces exposed, rounded the corner and started to make their way towards the end of the alley where the fire exit door to the snack bar was. Leo, Raph and Casey lowered closer to the ground, backs against the dumpster, and trashcans in front of them. It stunk, but they were well hidden.
The three men did not talk as they walked past the dumpster and the trashcans to the snack bar's entrance. They disappeared inside, and muffled voices began to speak.
The three outside all leaned a little closer, trying to catch the words. Casey felt something small fall on his head, and he put his hand there. He looked up at the dark, cloudy sky.
A second later it felt as if a bucket had been poured over them, as it started to chuck it down with rain. In the few seconds they had frozen, feeling the ice-cold water run down their necks, they were soaked.
"Great - now we can't even hear ourselves!" Casey said loudly, knowing the amount of noise the rain was making on the dumpster next to them drowned out their voices to the crooks in the building.
Leo's eyes turned upwards and he glared at the sky. He turned around to face Raph and Casey, who both looked as though they had been thrown in a lake.
"We'll just wait until they come out, and then follow them," he said as loud as he dared over the roar of the dumpster next to them. "They won't be planning to attack anywhere tonight, especially not in these conditions."
So they waited in the downpour for what seemed like an hour, and without a watch, it probably was. Leo and Raph had to take off their fedoras because the rainwater hat pretty much flattened them to their heads. Casey's shoulder-length hair was matted to the back of his neck and his shoulders, and as it kept sliding forward in the streams running down his shoulders, he kept flicking it back and hitting Raph. It was a night Mikey would be rolling around on the floor laughing at.
After the hour of water torture, in which they had moved places around the building trying to hear better, but couldn't; movement was noticed in the door and three figures walked out into the rain and headed for the end of the alleyway. They were dressed in black pants and casual dark colored shirts. Leo, Raph and Casey watched as they disappeared around the corner and onto the streets. A few seconds after that, they turned back to see two more figures walk out. One in dark navy jeans and a normal blue-gray shirt; this was the woman. Her face was not hidden in the black facemask she had worn before, so her sharp jaw line and high check bones could just be seen in the dark alleyway. The man she was with had a short, neat hair trim, and a strong jaw bone. He wore dark beige pants and a black baseball shirt. They both disappeared from view.
Casey stood up quickly, eager to follow them. The two turtle brothers remained crouched for a second, before standing also.
"Stealth Mode," Raph whispered smoothly, grinning.
Without a sound they rushed to a ladder that was hanging in the alleyway from the wall of the building, and climbed it to the rooftop. Casey looked down over the edge of the small building they were on, and his eyes located the two people on the other side of the street.
It was a great night for jumping rooftops. Great as in not much people were around so the chance of them seeing three figures jumping from roof to roof was slim. And great as in it was a night of solid navy sky to look at. The bad thing was it was cold, and after being frozen by the ice-cold water, Leo and Raph almost missed the last roof after an hour of following, because their systems were starting to slow due to the cold. They had had to dispose of their wet coats, so there was no disguise for them either. But this night they weren't backing down, and so when the two people who they were following met up with the other three people, the two turtles and Casey stopped to catch their breath and watch silently.
They were out of the busier areas now, and into the quieter ones. But these neighborhoods were not known for violence, and so, when the five figures walked up to a gate, waited for it to open and then disappeared into a mansion-look-alike, Leo, Raph and Casey realized why no one had found the crooks' hideout.
"Whoa," Casey said, nodding his head slightly at the glamour of the house. "These guys must be living it good."
"Well I guess business booms when you steal stuff," Raph said with a slight mocking tone. He and Leo were shivering every time they inhaled.
"Great, that obviously means they have good security around the grounds," Leo said, squinting down to the gates that secured the big building, connecting to a brick wall that ran around it. He could see a control panel for the gates, the one they had just seen the crooks use to get in.
"We can get through that," Casey boasted coolly with a smile. He glanced at his two pals who were shivering and he raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, c'mon, let's go," Raph said, and jumped into an open dumpster. He disappeared under the trash, but resurfaced a second later and climbed out stealthily, creeping across the road to the other side. Leo and Casey followed his suit, but remained in the dumpster as a slow car drove by.
Leo and Casey climbed out of the metal dumpster and ran across the road to where Raph was, having been hiding from the car behind the wall of the gates.
"We can't get through here," Leo said, looking at the gate. "We'll have to find another way around the back."
With silent footsteps, they hugged the wall and crept away from the gate to the back of the building, where there was a smaller gate with a padlock. They scoffed at the padlock and climbed over the gate, dropping silently on the other side, into a small jungle of a garden.
They slinked, animal-like, round the path into the open garden where they got a better view of the house. Before it was a white veranda, as far as they could tell in the dark. Keeping their eye on the lightened window, they made their way towards it.
Someone passed in front of the window and they dove for cover behind the steps of the veranda. They could hear muffled voices from the lightened room, and they listened as the loudest turned away.
"One questions before we move," Casey spoke, quietly. "Where would they hold a little triangular piece of metal in a house that size?"
The two turtles stared back at him blankly.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," Casey sat back against the stone steps on the grass.
Leo turned off his butt onto his knees and peered over the edge of the steps to look at the window. He could see two of the crooks smiling. The one on the right passed something small and triangular to the one on the left. Leo sat back down, a small smile on his face.
"Mrs. White, in the living room, with the candle stick," he said, smiling widening.
Casey frowned at him, and nodded, chewing his tongue.
"Okay, so how do we snatch it from right under their noses?" He asked.
"We just walk in, bust some heads, grab the jewel and walk out," Raph said, sliding his palm smoothly through the air while he spoke.
Leo rolled his eyes. "No, they'll probably have guards or dogs -"
"Guard Dogs," Raph interrupted, with a small smile.
" - And besides, we haven't got our disguises, we can't let them see us."
"Well they've gotta put it down sometime," Casey said. "Let's just sneak in, watch the activity from inside and grab the artifact when their backs are turned."
Leo said nothing, but stared at the grass, trying to decide. He nodded, agreeing with Casey's tactic.
They got to their feet, crouched, and ran along the veranda to a door just on the other side of the building. Leo stepped aside and let Raph unlock it with his Sai, figuring they wouldn't put a wire on the door when they had a whole brick wall to keep intruders out. It would make them look very suspicious.
As Leo thought, the door only opened with a click, and a small squeak as Raph pushed it open, looking into a large kitchen. They moved forwards, closing the door to behind them.
There were two doors in the kitchen, not including the one they had come through, and Leo pointed to the one on the left side of the wall they were facing.
They looked almost plain on this side, but when they opened it, it was decorative on the other side. Looking up from the door, Leo looked into the large corridor they were in. There was a long, red carpet running to the end, and patterned wallpaper. On the left was a row of magnificent looking windows, high and wide. Positioned along at about two meters apart opposite the windows were expensive wooden bureaus.
"Whoa," Raph said, mouth open. "I'm dying to see what the rest of the house looks like."
They sneaked to the end of the corridor; feeling dwarfed by the height of the ceiling in there, and pressed their ears to the door. There was no sound, so Leo grasped the curved door handle and carefully turned it down. The door opened with no creak, and they peered into the room.
It was an office room, with another, larger bureau along the far wall and a very heavy-looking desk in the center, cluttered with papers and a lamp. The wallpaper was a brown, almost tea-stained color, and the floor was dark. Directly opposite them on the left wall was a door-less opening that lead into the living room, from where the voices where coming from and at next to the wall it was near, on the left side was a door that must have lead somewhere else.
Since the opening was on a corner, the people inside the room could not see the two turtles and Casey, who moved further into the room. Leo backed right up against the wall next to the opening and listened to the voices. Raph and Casey stood behind the desk, watching and listening too.
"I guess this means a toast," One male voice was saying, clearing from his high-spirited tone he was smiling.
"I wouldn't toast just yet," a low, female voice spoke in an intelligent tone. They were soft footsteps. "We still have to figure out what will activate the Purple Eye, and that may take as long as it took to find the damn thing."
A quiet voice spoke next, and Leo moved even closer to try and hear it. He crouched down, low to the ground, and slowly peered around the wall into the room. There was a very expensive couch with its back to him, and a large armchair with its side facing him, opposite a massive, fancy fireplace with a dancing fire. There was another couch, identical to the first, opposite the first. The walls were gold with patterns, and the carpet was dark red. Whoa, luxury or what?
One man was sat forward in the armchair and picked up something from a small table next to the chair arm. He studied it while the others watched him. The woman and the strong-jawed man were stood next to the fire, wine glass in hands; one other man was stood in the center, and the last was sat on the couch with his back to Leo.
Casey, who had been leaning as far as he dared on one foot to see into the room, stood back up straight. He elbowed Raph.
"Got an idea," he whispered, and made towards the door they had come through.
Leo turned to look where he was going, as Raph was muttering to himself, "S'long as it ain't ringing the doorbell."
Casey disappeared into the long corridor, and Leo held out his hands to Raph, asking where Casey had gone. Raph shrugged and mouthed 'got an idea'. Leo's eye ridges rose and they both turned to look back into the living room. One of the men was arguing with another.
"You try looking for something that happened thousands of years ago!" His voice calmed down as his breathing returned to normal. "Look, I've been doing some research, finding all I can. Lemme get my papers, I might have missed something when I read through them . . ."
Leo and Raph recoiled and jumped behind the desk as soft footsteps turned towards them. But before the man could reach the room, a soft but loud chime rang through the house.
Under the desk Raph made a face and mouthed 'the doorbell?!' Leo grinned.
"Who the hell is that?" One voice spoke.
"No one should be able to get through the gate . . ." Another male voice said lowly. "Check it out."
Leo and Raph emerged from the table as all five crooks' footsteps walked out of the room. They looked at each other, surprised, and crept to the opening. No one was in the room, and the fools had left the triangular metal piece on the small table next to the armchair.
Taking this chance Leo leaped into the room and grabbed the Eye, just as one of the men strode back in remembering it, with the woman behind.
Leo froze for a slit second, heart jolted because they had seen him. Then he spun and bolted out the room, while the other two recovered from their shock and called out, alarmed. Leo and Raph rushed to the corridor and ran high-speed to the kitchen. Rapid footsteps followed them but they made it outside and ran to gate where Casey had been waiting for them, waving his arms, telling them to get a move on. He climbed up the gate and jumped over the other side as Leo tossed the artifact over the gate to Casey so he could climb quicker. He and his brother jumped down just as the man who had seen them ran into the gate, rattling it, and started to climb over it too. He gave up with an angered snarl when Leo, Raph and Casey sprinted away into the darkness.
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"You STOLE it back?" Mikey asked, incredulously, as he took the triangular artifact from Leo's hands gently, as though it was something royal he shouldn't really be touching. He stared at it with his mouth parted, hypnotized by the fluid look of the piece, tracing his fingers over the smooth, crisscrossing lines of the tangle of metal that ran around the purple 'Eye' in the center.
Leo used both his free hands now to rub his frozen arms, while Donny, who noticed the signs, ran back into his lab and grabbed two thick, woolly sheets. He rushed back in and wrapped one around Leo, who nodded, shaking, and thanked him. Donny handed Raph the other and then walked into the kitchen, making hot drinks. Casey, who had relaxed on the couch, arms stretched over the top of the back, rested his head back against it as well.
"I c-can't believe you r-rang the doorbell," Raph shivered, grinning, the sheet Don had given him slung over his shoulder. He ignored the fact he was freezing and shaking.
Casey straightened his head and shrugged modestly. "Well, it got them all out of the room."
"I think we'd love to hear details," Donny said with a smile as he handed Leo a steaming mug, and Raph another. Leo sat down at the end of the couch next to Casey who was stretched in the middle. Mikey, who was still staring at the artifact, sat on the couch arm, with his feet on the cushions opposite Leo. He turned the Eye over and looked at the back. Then he studied the two symbols on the front, while Raph sat in his chair opposite Splinter's, which Donny sat in. Splinter himself had obviously gone to bed; it was a late hour. Donny had been surprised their Sensei had not asked where Leo was when the latest time his oldest son ever returned passed. But, knowing his all-knowing mind, he guessed Splinter had a fair idea where they had gone, after all, they had filled in to their Master the information of this artifact.
Leo, who was shaking pretty badly, did not speak as information about the Eye was passed on to Casey, so he could consume his steaming drink slowly, letting the heat of it warm his insides pleasantly. Raph had not touched his own, and his blanket was thrown over his chair arm. The lighting in the Lair had been switched off, and a few of the old candles had been lit, giving the five figures of the subway a flicker glow.
After they'd finished their account of how they stole it back, they became silent for a few seconds, and Casey took the Eye of Yailea from Mikey, who was done with studying it. Casey turned it over several times in his hands, feeling the weight and noting the intriguing patterns. He appeared unimpressed, and handed it to Leo as he spoke next.
"Ah dunno; it's a bit small to have powers, innit?" He asked them all, as Leo handed it to a stretched out hand of Donny.
Donny turned it over and studied the back first. "The size is unimportant, Case," he said as he turned it over and looked at the front, staring deeply into the beautiful purple crystal.
"Yeah, I mean, look at Men In Black," Mikey chipped in, leaning forward over the couch with his hands clasped together, arms leaning across his legs. "There was a WHOLE galaxy in one little -" He stopped when he saw everyone was staring at him. Mike looked down at the couch cushion. "Yeah, like Don said - Oo, and like the Godzilla saying: 'Size doesn't matter'."
"Mikey shut up," Raph said. Even in the dim light his muscle spasms could be seen just barely as he tensed and shook for a second, and then relaxed, only to be followed by more quick shaking. Leo was doing the same under his blankets.
Donny was now running a finger over the symbols. An odd feeling deep down inside his chest fluttered for a second. It felt like a quick sense of recognition, but it disappeared almost as soon as it rose.
Silence had again dominated the Lair as Donny's eyes ran over the metal, and as Mikey watched him. Casey sighed tiredly and dropped his head back against the top of the couch back.
Mikey yawned loudly and deeply, stretching his arms out. When he had finished he said, "Well, I'm goin' to bed, see you guys in the morning . . . make that afternoon." He slid off the couch arm and walked with heavy footsteps to his and Raph's car, where he disappeared from the glow of the candles.
Finding Mikey's notion a good idea, Leo and Raph make their shivering way to their own beds, and a minute later, after putting the Eye on his computer desk, Donny joined Leo in their room, where he fell asleep on his bottom bunk. Casey was left to stretch out on the couch as he had done many times. He stood up and picked up the blanket Raph had left on the chair arm, then he walked over to the candles on the TV and blew them out. He made his way back to the couch, only a few feet away, and dropped down on the old, but soft cushions, pulling the blanket over him. Within a few minutes he was asleep, as were the other four previously awake occupants of the Lair.
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Thanks for your reviews, I know this sequel takes a different path than the first, but I think it wud be weird if I had them human again in this one. I just hope you guy'll like where I'm going with this (