Chapter Two
Madison blinked at the empty screen. Had she said something wrong? After she had told him about her dream, she sensed that something was up, she had never seen Don leave the conversation so quickly and it puzzled her. Her alarm went off snapping her out of her daze. She sighed to herself. The gym, then work.
God my life sucks!
She headed to the bathroom to wash off the mud mask, then got ready for the gym and left home for the day.
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Don sat at his desk, deep in thought. It wasn't possible, it couldn't be. Could it? He shook his head. Coincidence? It had to be. His thoughts drifted to the night in question. It was almost a year ago, the night that they had almost lost Leo. He had been walking April home that night as they were all worried for her safety... some psycho fan had been stalking her... the car came out of no where, he pushed her out of the way... he shruddered at the thought.
Looking over to Leo, he smiled. He was almost back to his good old self and he was glad. They had been so sad, so lost, then finally the six week coma broke and they had him back. Their master had always said so, but as the weeks went by, they had all started to give up. Hope... they didn't have any, then on Christmas Eve his hand twitched and he slowly opened his eyes. Don's gaze then moved to Mikey, no longer did they hassle him about his nose always being in "those" books. It was strange but Mikey had become quite good with eastern and western medicines, and it was with his help that they rigged up those drips that had kept Leo's body nourished for all that time.
"What's with you?" A voice startled him and he looked at Raph annoyed.
"Nuthin'... I was just thinking about..." Raph rolled his eyes.
"Don't tell me... it's about those hot cyber chicks isn't it?" Then an image of a geeky nerd with thick rimmed glasses and zits popped into his head "They're nerds just like you.. on second thought..." he grinned at Donnie.
"Hey there's nuthin' wrong with being a nerd... haven't you heard? You always gotta watch the quiet ones!!!" Raph looked at him.
"Yeah right! In your dreams bo boy!" and he walked off into the other room. Leonardo did his best to hide his amusement. Don looked at Leo who quickly hid his face in the book that he was reading.
"Hey, I saw that!"
"What?" Don's thoughts driftered back to Madison.
"Just forget it, ok" he turned and swivelled on the chair, looking at the blank screen. His shoulders dropped and he sunk into the chair.
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Madison skimmed over the notes that had been left on her desk. She and a colleague had been researching this story now for months and they had been getting nowhere fast. She looked at the photos. Ninjas in full uniform, here in Sydney, responsible for the increasing crime rate? That was the most ridiculous thing that she had ever heard! Then there was the name of this so called "clan", she knew this one, it was a body part. She bit her bottom lip. Now what was it? Hand, leg, arm? She glanced over to her notes. Ah the Foot Clan. She rolled her eyes. She looked to Jenny who had the same blank expression on her face.
"Remind me the kill the shit head that came up with..." Jenny coughed and she stopped in mid sentence.
"Mister Peters what brings you here?" She looked up to her boss.
"Howz my little assignment going?"
I should've known...
She smiled as sweetly as she could.
"We're at a dead end sir, the ah.."Foot Clan" a bunch of ninja thieves, are you serious? There's not one shred of evidence." His face started to go red with anger.
"Yes I'm serious, what the hell am I paying you two for? You are research assistants, go out there and research!!" He stormed out of the small office slamming the glass door behind him, causing the entire glass room to rattle a little. Madison frowned and looked down to the picture on the desk.
Ninjas all the way out here? This can't be good.
As if sensing her thoughts Jenny said "Why the hell would they come here for? We're a tiny island with a fairly small population...". Madison hit herself on her forehead.
"That's it you're a genius! That's exactly why they're here. Australia 's three quarters desert. They can go where ever they want, whenever they want and, if they're really good, they can smuggle what ever they want, whenever..."
"I get the picture". Madison had picked up a magnifying glass and had started to study the picture more carefully.
"So what next?" Madison glanced up quickly.
"You've got some japanese contacts floating around in Hay St, near Chinatown, go see what they know."
Jenny got up and nodded, no questions asked. Madison was the Head in this department, but Mister Peters never treated her like she was. To him, all the staff were the same, and he treated all of his staff like shit. Good thing the pay was good. She went back to studying the picture. There was something familar about it but she couldn't put her finger on it. She sighed and without a seconds thought, popped the photo into her bag.
As soon as she turned logged on, she had a message notifying her that she had recieved five new e mails. She looked down the list and a smile spread across her face. Don had finally decided to e mail her.
Sorry that I was so rude. It was quite a shock. I'll explain later.
She had to admit to herself, that was the one thing she had liked about Don. He always got to the point. She then scrolled down the list. Choosing one she opened the file. It was from "Miss Lee".
Please Madison, you must stay away. The Foot are bad news. Your life could be put on the line. Drop it please, I beg you.
So much for you being a contact! She shook her head in disgust and deleted the message. The warning from Miss Lee didn't bother her at all, it only made her more curious and she was getting paid to be curious. The rest of the messages where pretty much the same. The Foot were a bunch of ninja thieves who originally came out from Japan years back under the leadership of a man called "The Shredder". Madison rolled her eyes. Like that's suppose to scare me! Here we have a leader of some bad ass ninja clan and they name him after a kitchen appliance!! She couldn't help it and she started to giggle. It had to be a bad joke. Then she remembered the photo and she stopped. The photo was taken by a surveillance camera and had come from a police file. How they managed to get it, she didn't even want to know. And now they were here and there was noone to stop them... well maybe noone. An evil grin crept across her face. Not if she could help it!
A headache started to lurk around the left side of her head and she started to rub her temples. She could hear Jenny now "told you that it was bad looking at that thing for too long, especially without the screen to ...." without even realising it she put her head on her desk and fell asleep.
They were in a medium sized room and everywhere you looked there was junk.There was a woman, and three shadows.
"Hasn't Raph been gone a long time?" the woman asked.
"Nah." One of the shadowed figures said " He does this all the time. He likes it".
The three figures started to explore the room, then after a while, they decided to go back upstairs.
"Are you sure Raphael's okay?" The woman asked.
"April, don't worry, he'll probably be back any minute now, threatening to..." something caught Madison's eye and she looked up to see... men in black, they had something in their arms and then they dropped him. She had a closer look. Him... it... was green, and unconscious... then everything went black. There was a man, with body armour and a helmet. The room was filled with men in black, with red headbands and they where laughing. Laughing at her!
"You think that you can stop us?" The laughing increased and bounced around in Madison's head. She found the room had started to spin and she found herself falling to the ground, the laughing was getting louder and louder....
She jerked awake as someone had started to call out her name. It was Sue, one of the other office staff, and she had tears in her eyes. She closed the door and beckoned Madison to stay seated. Sue threw some papers onto the desk.
"Someone handed these in..." fresh tears sprung into Sue's eyes " it was a hit and run.. there was nothing they could do..." She looked at her watch, more than three hours had passed. Madison glanced at the papers. The one addressed to her had dried blood on it. She tried to get up but she started to feel faint.
"What the hell?" The colour had drained from Sue's face and her hand started to shake as she pointed to the monitor.
You were warned.
Madison screamed in terror and then the darkness took over.
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Madison sat in her chair, with two medical officers hovering over her.
"Please, I'm okay, it was just a big shock..."
"We just want to make sure Madi..." Mary said packing the equipment away.
"I know Mary... thanks." She looked at the two of them. Apparently, they had gotten there within a minute. She didn't think that the staff in the building cared that much.
"Sure you'll be okay? Can you drive home?"
"Yes Mary, I'm fine, thanks." After a minute they left. She held the papers in her hand and started to cry. Because of them, the Foot Clan, Jenny was dead. She gathered all the paperwork and put it in her briefcase. She opened the door, then looked over her shoulder to the empty room. Now it was personal! Lest we forget.
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She shuffled her feet as she climbed the four flights of stairs to her unit. Could her day possibly get any worse? Finally she reached her door and dug into her bag to get the keys. She was about to put the key in the lock, when the door swung loosely in its hinges. She pushed the door open and walked into her livingroom. She was speechless as she looked around. She had expected the place to be trashed, but it was the same as it had been when she had left this morning. She put her bags down. Jessica must have arrived early and let herself in.
"You didn't tell me that you'll be ear...." She stopped in mid sentence as she entered her bedroom. Before her were two fully armed Foot members. She gulped hard.
Chapter Three ~ Up soon!
Madison blinked at the empty screen. Had she said something wrong? After she had told him about her dream, she sensed that something was up, she had never seen Don leave the conversation so quickly and it puzzled her. Her alarm went off snapping her out of her daze. She sighed to herself. The gym, then work.
God my life sucks!
She headed to the bathroom to wash off the mud mask, then got ready for the gym and left home for the day.
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Don sat at his desk, deep in thought. It wasn't possible, it couldn't be. Could it? He shook his head. Coincidence? It had to be. His thoughts drifted to the night in question. It was almost a year ago, the night that they had almost lost Leo. He had been walking April home that night as they were all worried for her safety... some psycho fan had been stalking her... the car came out of no where, he pushed her out of the way... he shruddered at the thought.
Looking over to Leo, he smiled. He was almost back to his good old self and he was glad. They had been so sad, so lost, then finally the six week coma broke and they had him back. Their master had always said so, but as the weeks went by, they had all started to give up. Hope... they didn't have any, then on Christmas Eve his hand twitched and he slowly opened his eyes. Don's gaze then moved to Mikey, no longer did they hassle him about his nose always being in "those" books. It was strange but Mikey had become quite good with eastern and western medicines, and it was with his help that they rigged up those drips that had kept Leo's body nourished for all that time.
"What's with you?" A voice startled him and he looked at Raph annoyed.
"Nuthin'... I was just thinking about..." Raph rolled his eyes.
"Don't tell me... it's about those hot cyber chicks isn't it?" Then an image of a geeky nerd with thick rimmed glasses and zits popped into his head "They're nerds just like you.. on second thought..." he grinned at Donnie.
"Hey there's nuthin' wrong with being a nerd... haven't you heard? You always gotta watch the quiet ones!!!" Raph looked at him.
"Yeah right! In your dreams bo boy!" and he walked off into the other room. Leonardo did his best to hide his amusement. Don looked at Leo who quickly hid his face in the book that he was reading.
"Hey, I saw that!"
"What?" Don's thoughts driftered back to Madison.
"Just forget it, ok" he turned and swivelled on the chair, looking at the blank screen. His shoulders dropped and he sunk into the chair.
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Madison skimmed over the notes that had been left on her desk. She and a colleague had been researching this story now for months and they had been getting nowhere fast. She looked at the photos. Ninjas in full uniform, here in Sydney, responsible for the increasing crime rate? That was the most ridiculous thing that she had ever heard! Then there was the name of this so called "clan", she knew this one, it was a body part. She bit her bottom lip. Now what was it? Hand, leg, arm? She glanced over to her notes. Ah the Foot Clan. She rolled her eyes. She looked to Jenny who had the same blank expression on her face.
"Remind me the kill the shit head that came up with..." Jenny coughed and she stopped in mid sentence.
"Mister Peters what brings you here?" She looked up to her boss.
"Howz my little assignment going?"
I should've known...
She smiled as sweetly as she could.
"We're at a dead end sir, the ah.."Foot Clan" a bunch of ninja thieves, are you serious? There's not one shred of evidence." His face started to go red with anger.
"Yes I'm serious, what the hell am I paying you two for? You are research assistants, go out there and research!!" He stormed out of the small office slamming the glass door behind him, causing the entire glass room to rattle a little. Madison frowned and looked down to the picture on the desk.
Ninjas all the way out here? This can't be good.
As if sensing her thoughts Jenny said "Why the hell would they come here for? We're a tiny island with a fairly small population...". Madison hit herself on her forehead.
"That's it you're a genius! That's exactly why they're here. Australia 's three quarters desert. They can go where ever they want, whenever they want and, if they're really good, they can smuggle what ever they want, whenever..."
"I get the picture". Madison had picked up a magnifying glass and had started to study the picture more carefully.
"So what next?" Madison glanced up quickly.
"You've got some japanese contacts floating around in Hay St, near Chinatown, go see what they know."
Jenny got up and nodded, no questions asked. Madison was the Head in this department, but Mister Peters never treated her like she was. To him, all the staff were the same, and he treated all of his staff like shit. Good thing the pay was good. She went back to studying the picture. There was something familar about it but she couldn't put her finger on it. She sighed and without a seconds thought, popped the photo into her bag.
As soon as she turned logged on, she had a message notifying her that she had recieved five new e mails. She looked down the list and a smile spread across her face. Don had finally decided to e mail her.
Sorry that I was so rude. It was quite a shock. I'll explain later.
She had to admit to herself, that was the one thing she had liked about Don. He always got to the point. She then scrolled down the list. Choosing one she opened the file. It was from "Miss Lee".
Please Madison, you must stay away. The Foot are bad news. Your life could be put on the line. Drop it please, I beg you.
So much for you being a contact! She shook her head in disgust and deleted the message. The warning from Miss Lee didn't bother her at all, it only made her more curious and she was getting paid to be curious. The rest of the messages where pretty much the same. The Foot were a bunch of ninja thieves who originally came out from Japan years back under the leadership of a man called "The Shredder". Madison rolled her eyes. Like that's suppose to scare me! Here we have a leader of some bad ass ninja clan and they name him after a kitchen appliance!! She couldn't help it and she started to giggle. It had to be a bad joke. Then she remembered the photo and she stopped. The photo was taken by a surveillance camera and had come from a police file. How they managed to get it, she didn't even want to know. And now they were here and there was noone to stop them... well maybe noone. An evil grin crept across her face. Not if she could help it!
A headache started to lurk around the left side of her head and she started to rub her temples. She could hear Jenny now "told you that it was bad looking at that thing for too long, especially without the screen to ...." without even realising it she put her head on her desk and fell asleep.
They were in a medium sized room and everywhere you looked there was junk.There was a woman, and three shadows.
"Hasn't Raph been gone a long time?" the woman asked.
"Nah." One of the shadowed figures said " He does this all the time. He likes it".
The three figures started to explore the room, then after a while, they decided to go back upstairs.
"Are you sure Raphael's okay?" The woman asked.
"April, don't worry, he'll probably be back any minute now, threatening to..." something caught Madison's eye and she looked up to see... men in black, they had something in their arms and then they dropped him. She had a closer look. Him... it... was green, and unconscious... then everything went black. There was a man, with body armour and a helmet. The room was filled with men in black, with red headbands and they where laughing. Laughing at her!
"You think that you can stop us?" The laughing increased and bounced around in Madison's head. She found the room had started to spin and she found herself falling to the ground, the laughing was getting louder and louder....
She jerked awake as someone had started to call out her name. It was Sue, one of the other office staff, and she had tears in her eyes. She closed the door and beckoned Madison to stay seated. Sue threw some papers onto the desk.
"Someone handed these in..." fresh tears sprung into Sue's eyes " it was a hit and run.. there was nothing they could do..." She looked at her watch, more than three hours had passed. Madison glanced at the papers. The one addressed to her had dried blood on it. She tried to get up but she started to feel faint.
"What the hell?" The colour had drained from Sue's face and her hand started to shake as she pointed to the monitor.
You were warned.
Madison screamed in terror and then the darkness took over.
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Madison sat in her chair, with two medical officers hovering over her.
"Please, I'm okay, it was just a big shock..."
"We just want to make sure Madi..." Mary said packing the equipment away.
"I know Mary... thanks." She looked at the two of them. Apparently, they had gotten there within a minute. She didn't think that the staff in the building cared that much.
"Sure you'll be okay? Can you drive home?"
"Yes Mary, I'm fine, thanks." After a minute they left. She held the papers in her hand and started to cry. Because of them, the Foot Clan, Jenny was dead. She gathered all the paperwork and put it in her briefcase. She opened the door, then looked over her shoulder to the empty room. Now it was personal! Lest we forget.
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She shuffled her feet as she climbed the four flights of stairs to her unit. Could her day possibly get any worse? Finally she reached her door and dug into her bag to get the keys. She was about to put the key in the lock, when the door swung loosely in its hinges. She pushed the door open and walked into her livingroom. She was speechless as she looked around. She had expected the place to be trashed, but it was the same as it had been when she had left this morning. She put her bags down. Jessica must have arrived early and let herself in.
"You didn't tell me that you'll be ear...." She stopped in mid sentence as she entered her bedroom. Before her were two fully armed Foot members. She gulped hard.
Chapter Three ~ Up soon!