Dimensional Adventure
"Ok, guys", Kida said seriously, pacing around the small room, "this isn't gonna be easy. The castle has more than one level - way more . . . if we want to get in quickly, we have to work quickly. No stalling, no dawdling, and NO messing around".
As she said her last words, all eyes turned to Mikey.
"What?" Mikey asked. "I've been here 3 days and Kida and Theo already think I'M the practical joker?"
Kida glanced at Theo, and he glanced back.
"Yes", they both said.
Mikey shrugged. "What can I say? I'm unique".
"Everyone's unique", Kida said, a slight annoyance to her voice. "We will rest here for a couple of hours, and then head on. The castle is in full eye-view now, so best save your strength".
"We're not the ones with the injuries", Raph pointed out, waving a hand at her arms and stomach.
"No", Kida snapped. "But if you was, you'd be slumped down in this room here and now. You're weak inside - I'm not".
"What?!" Raph shouted. "That is a load of -"
"Leave it Raph", Leo said firmly.
Raph growled and sat down on the hard floor, folding his arms. The room was the worse one they had been in so far, and Raph didn't have a clue why, since the others were so much nicer.
"Why are we in this dump anyway?" he asked. "What happened to the other types of rooms?"
"I kinda have a theory about that", Donnie said.
"You have a theory for everything", Mikey smiled.
Donnie smiled back and turned to Kida. "You know a lot about this place. I was wondering . . . with what has - er . . . happened - so far . . . does this place go on emotions also? Because, looking outside, it's still raining - and it started when . . . well, anyway . . . does the mood of this place change when other peoples' emotions do?"
"How should I know?" Kida said. "I'm just the 'princess' of this dump". She said the word 'princess' with the sarcastic tone Raph was so used to.
"Kida - you've never complained before", Theo said.
"Yeah - well . . . I am now!" she snapped, and walked into the dull bathroom that was attached to the room, slamming the door loudly.
Mikey smiled slightly. "Something tells me - 'discussion is over'!"
Donnie nodded. "You think?"
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Kida sighed and looked at her reflection in the dusty bathroom mirror.
It did not do her justice.
Her face, so brown and clean, now looked as though she had been beaten up. Her blue eyes didn't show their usual glint, and were red from crying and lack of sleep. Her lips felt dry and cracked, even though they weren't. Her cheeks ached from so many falls she had taken in the past 3 days, and she had lost the glow from them.
Her body didn't do as much justice either.
Kida sighed and pulled off her clothes, doing it the mortal way instead of being lazy and using her powers. She never wanted to use them again . . . who knew what she could do now. Checking herself over, she sighed again. Bruises scattered her arms, thighs, stomach and back. At this rate she'd be as green as the guys. Blood soaked through the bandages on her stomach, and the ones on her shoulder and hand were mudded up. She took the bandages off her hand, and shook her head at the dried blood. Typical, she thought.
Taking off all the bandages, she studied herself fully. Her whole bodied was covered in dry blood and bruises. Kida felt the anger boil inside of her as she looked herself over.
"Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" she growled angrily, and punched the bathroom wall.
She wiped the tears from her eyes roughly with the back of her hand, and turned on the water for a bath. Better to be clean than bloody bruised, she told herself.
In the opposite room, all 5 heads looked up at the bathroom wall.
"Hmm . . ." Mikey shrugged. "A-lo-lot of anger in that girl".
"Oooh", Theo said with a small smile, "she can get SO much angrier than THAT!"
Raph, Leo, Donnie and Mikey stopped what they were doing and looked at Theo, all each with one eye-ridge raised, mouths partly open.
"She CAN?" they all said, and Theo laughed.
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When Kida came out later, with a clean pair of jeans on and a green t- shirt, the guys kept quiet. Her face wasn't the happiest one ever seen. In fact, it made her look like a right moody child.
"Did you take your bandages off?" Donnie asked.
Kida shrugged. "Yeah . . . but I've redone them".
"Oh, ok then", Donnie said.
Kida clicked her fingers and a hair bobble appeared in her hand. Sighing, she began to plait her dry hair, as it wouldn't plait wet so she was forced to use her 'freaky' ability. That was she saw it as now - freaky.
The guys watched in silence as Kida separated her hair in three sections, plaiting it as fast as she could. They had noticed the change on her face now, from when she had first used her powers in front of them. Now it seemed as if she didn't even want them anymore.
Her hair now plaited, Kida headed towards the entrance. "You coming or what?" she snapped at the guys, who sat still.
Leo shrugged slightly and stood up. "Yeah", he said slowly. "C'mon guys".
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"I love this sneaky stuff", Mikey whispered. "It's so awesome!"
"It won't be awesome if you don't keep quiet!" Kida snapped.
"Gee, lighten up", Raph said.
"Lighten up?!" she hissed at him. "Lighten up?! We're on the first floor, your brother won't stop yakking, I've had the worse day of my life and you want me to lighten up?! Man, you are pathetic. I can't wait until you leave!"
"Look", Leo said. "Let's just get going. No arguing, ok?" He threw a look in both Raph's and Kida's direction.
"Whatever", she said, before leading them on.
"Sorry guys", Theo whispered, when Kida was out of earshot. "She isn't normally like this, you know".
"We know", they all said back.
"Guys!" Kida hissed. "Guys! Over here! Sssh!"
Walking quietly down the first damp, cold corridor Kida has shown them, they all leaned around the first corner they came to. Mikey leaned on Kida's shoulder to look, and she stared at him with an expression as stoned as the walls. Mikey just grinned and eased his grip, not knowing which shoulder was her injured one. He leaned forward some more and gasped along with his brothers when he saw the giant, sleeping tiger in front of them. It was massive - way massive! With silver fur and dark brown strips, just a few different shades of colour from Tiran but about 8 foot bigger.
"Hey!" Mikey whispered. "He looks like -" He stopped when everyone looked at him, Kida's eyebrow now down in a quiet growl.
"Never mind", Mikey quickly said.
"Ok", Kida whispered, throwing another angry look at Mikey. "Just quietly walk past him. No noises. He'll stay asleep as long as he hears NO noises. You guys are ninjas, so you should be good at this".
She pointed over to the far side of the corridor, where a door was opened for them to go through. "Just run through there", she said. "And best go in ones or twos".
Leo nodded. "Ok", he said. "C'mon Donnie".
"Wow, what a magnificent creature", Donnie whispered quietly. Leo rolled his eyes and walked a few paces ahead on silent footsteps. Donnie followed behind, creeping silently behind his brother, making no noises at all. When they made it to the door on the other side, they motioned with their hands that the next pair could come.
Raph and Mikey went next. Raph kept his hand over Mikey's mouth, knowing what his brother was like when it came to sudden comments. He joined Donnie and Leo before releasing his brother.
When they turned around they saw Theo running quietly across the floor, past the tiger's mouth and then standing right next to the guys. The turtles looked back for Kida, but she wasn't there.
"Hey, where's Kida?" Leo asked.
"I'm here", she answered, standing behind the door.
"Hey", Raph said. "How did you get here before us?"
"I can teleport, remember?" she whispered. "There is NO way I am running past that thing!"
"You made us run past that thing!" Raph hissed.
"Yeah", she snapped. "But I don't care about YOU!"
"Kida!" Theo snapped. "I don't know what's the matter with you! Look, we all know that the tiger looked like Tiran, but you don't have to take it out on Raph!"
"No", Raph said, holding his arm out. "Don't worry about it, Theo. She knows she can't cope without Tiran, so she's taking it out on us. She knows that when we go, she'll have nothing to do! Because Tiran isn't here!"
A tense silence suddenly grew as Kida's hand flew across Raph's face, leaving a painful looking white and then red mark glowing on his cheek.
"Ouch . . ." Mikey whispered so silently that Theo, who was standing next to him, was the only one that heard it.
As Raph let out a growl, Theo ran up to Kida and grabbed her arm, giving a sweet, apologetic smile to Raph and his brothers. "We'll walk ahead", he said. "Just don't lose us, ok?"
"Ok", Leo said. "We won't". He smiled slightly at Theo, whom he had made quite a friend out of since Tiran had died.
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"I can't believe she slapped me!" Raph hissed, walking up an old staircase with his brothers. Kida and Theo were walking ahead, and since Kida and Raph hadn't spoken for about an hour now, they both kept their distance apart. Raph himself hadn't mentioned the slap until now.
"You know", Donnie said quietly. "You kinda deserved that".
"Why did I?!" Raph snapped. "C'mon genius, why did I deserve that?!"
Donnie looked at Leo and Mikey, answering their reason as well as his why Raph deserved what he got. He turned and looked Raph dead in the eyes. "Because what you said was true", he answered seriously.
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"What floor are we on now?" Kida asked with a sigh.
Theo glanced down the corridor they had reached and looked for the number that was normally carved in the stone. When he had found it he replied, "Number 10".
Kida sighed. "Splinter's at the top. Ages yet".
They walked on in silence, listening to the muffled arguments of Raph and Donnie and few steps behind. Theo felt the need to say something, but everything he thought of in his head all lead to a slap just like Raph had got. Theo stifled a laugh. Kida wouldn't slap him - they had been friends for years.
Kida noticed his smiling face and frowned. "What's so funny?" she asked. "Personally I don't think this is the time for smiling".
Theo looked at her, his green eyes so much like Tiran's. Kida felt a lump rise to her throat but she swallowed, forcing her emotions down.
"Well?" she snapped. "What?!"
He smiled again, and Kida really felt the urge to slap him. How could he be smiling like that when so much had happened already?
"I was just thinking", he said. "If I was ever like Raph, would you slap me?"
"C'mon!" Kida said. "You are nothing like Raph! No one can be like him!"
"You are", Theo said.
"Excuse me?"
"I said you are", he repeated. "Oh, come on Kida! Think about it. He never reveals his emotions and neither do you. He gets angry easily and so do you. He can snap if he's not in a good mood and so do you! You're like this!" He crossed his index finger and middle finger over to prove his point.
"We are not!" Kida snapped.
Theo smiled again.
"You better wipe that smile off your face before I slap it off!" she threatened.
Theo's smile just widened. "Go on then".
She growled at him and turned around, stomping her way up the stairs. Boys! Why did she have to be with a group of 4 boys! Well, 5 with Tiran - but he wasn't exactly human or a boy like Theo - or the guys when she thought of it. Tiran was more of a young man, probably in his twenties if she pictured him human. But she liked him better as a tiger - bold, fierce and capable of love if chance was given.
"Hey", Theo's voice broke into her thoughts. "Watcha thinking?"
Kida shook her head. "Nothing", she replied.
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7 painful, breathless hours later, the tired group reached the top level - number 110.
Mikey collapsed on the floor of the corridor, and Donnie slumped down beside him. Leo even rewarded himself to a rest on the cold, stone floor, having congratulated himself on climbing so many floors in so many hours. Raph had finally plucked up the courage to say sorry to Kida, away from his brothers, and she had accepted, telling him he could off said sorry 6 hours ago then, whenever they had stopped for short rests, she wouldn't have looked at him so coldly.
Raph had laughed slightly at this. "Heh, if looks could kill -"
"Oh, in my head you were dead and buried 6 hours ago", Kida said.
"What?"
She smiled for the first time. "I'm kidding. BUT - you were badly bruised".
Raph gave her a small smile and walked over to his brothers, sitting down next to Mikey for his own rest. Kida watched him from where she was and shook her head. She had lied; he was dead in her eyes when she had slapped him.
"Everything good between you two?" Leo asked, coming up beside her.
Kida nodded. "Yeah - but I don't feel guilty for slapping him".
"He knows that", Leo said, smiling at her. "But he is sorry, Kida, even if it doesn't seem to show".
"It shows all right", Kida said.
Leo shrugged. "Maybe you're the one who can only see it", he said, before going over to join his brothers, playing punching Mikey when he offered his lap.
"Leo's wrong", Theo said, standing next to her. "I could see the guilt written all over his face earlier. But then again, that's just me!"
"He's lucky I didn't kill him", Kida said, looking out the small window that was placed in the corridor. They still had to keep moving, but Kida figured that the guys at least deserved some rest.
Theo smiled. "Aww, come on. What he said was wrong but death wasn't in order, was it?"
"Would have been if you hadn't have moved me", she muttered. "And I'm getting sick of your smile!" she added, snapping at him. "Will you stop smiling?! Tiran's dead and you're smiling!"
The smiled widened. "Tiran wouldn't have wanted a frown", Theo said.
"Tiran didn't want death in the first place!" Kida snapped, grabbing at his t-shirt and pulling him so close that their noses almost bumped together. "I'm serious, Theo. Stop smiling!!"
His smile remained. "Why?"
"Argh!" Kida let go of him and sighed. "I would slap you if we didn't know each other!"
"You love me really!"
Kida had to laugh at that. "Since when did you become so annoying?"
"Since I haven't seen you laugh in ages", he said, and his smile vanished. "There - no more smiling. I just wanted to get a laugh outta you. Now are we going?"
"Sure", she said, growling at him for tricking her. "Lets go, guys!"
"GO?" Mikey asked, shocked. "I've only just sat DOWN!"
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(Phew, thank god for that! Soooo sorry I haven't posted. To be honest I can't wait until I've finished this - then I think I'll stick to short stories. Thankies for the reviews anyway Leo, Raph, etc, etc, etc ^_^)
"Ok, guys", Kida said seriously, pacing around the small room, "this isn't gonna be easy. The castle has more than one level - way more . . . if we want to get in quickly, we have to work quickly. No stalling, no dawdling, and NO messing around".
As she said her last words, all eyes turned to Mikey.
"What?" Mikey asked. "I've been here 3 days and Kida and Theo already think I'M the practical joker?"
Kida glanced at Theo, and he glanced back.
"Yes", they both said.
Mikey shrugged. "What can I say? I'm unique".
"Everyone's unique", Kida said, a slight annoyance to her voice. "We will rest here for a couple of hours, and then head on. The castle is in full eye-view now, so best save your strength".
"We're not the ones with the injuries", Raph pointed out, waving a hand at her arms and stomach.
"No", Kida snapped. "But if you was, you'd be slumped down in this room here and now. You're weak inside - I'm not".
"What?!" Raph shouted. "That is a load of -"
"Leave it Raph", Leo said firmly.
Raph growled and sat down on the hard floor, folding his arms. The room was the worse one they had been in so far, and Raph didn't have a clue why, since the others were so much nicer.
"Why are we in this dump anyway?" he asked. "What happened to the other types of rooms?"
"I kinda have a theory about that", Donnie said.
"You have a theory for everything", Mikey smiled.
Donnie smiled back and turned to Kida. "You know a lot about this place. I was wondering . . . with what has - er . . . happened - so far . . . does this place go on emotions also? Because, looking outside, it's still raining - and it started when . . . well, anyway . . . does the mood of this place change when other peoples' emotions do?"
"How should I know?" Kida said. "I'm just the 'princess' of this dump". She said the word 'princess' with the sarcastic tone Raph was so used to.
"Kida - you've never complained before", Theo said.
"Yeah - well . . . I am now!" she snapped, and walked into the dull bathroom that was attached to the room, slamming the door loudly.
Mikey smiled slightly. "Something tells me - 'discussion is over'!"
Donnie nodded. "You think?"
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Kida sighed and looked at her reflection in the dusty bathroom mirror.
It did not do her justice.
Her face, so brown and clean, now looked as though she had been beaten up. Her blue eyes didn't show their usual glint, and were red from crying and lack of sleep. Her lips felt dry and cracked, even though they weren't. Her cheeks ached from so many falls she had taken in the past 3 days, and she had lost the glow from them.
Her body didn't do as much justice either.
Kida sighed and pulled off her clothes, doing it the mortal way instead of being lazy and using her powers. She never wanted to use them again . . . who knew what she could do now. Checking herself over, she sighed again. Bruises scattered her arms, thighs, stomach and back. At this rate she'd be as green as the guys. Blood soaked through the bandages on her stomach, and the ones on her shoulder and hand were mudded up. She took the bandages off her hand, and shook her head at the dried blood. Typical, she thought.
Taking off all the bandages, she studied herself fully. Her whole bodied was covered in dry blood and bruises. Kida felt the anger boil inside of her as she looked herself over.
"Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" she growled angrily, and punched the bathroom wall.
She wiped the tears from her eyes roughly with the back of her hand, and turned on the water for a bath. Better to be clean than bloody bruised, she told herself.
In the opposite room, all 5 heads looked up at the bathroom wall.
"Hmm . . ." Mikey shrugged. "A-lo-lot of anger in that girl".
"Oooh", Theo said with a small smile, "she can get SO much angrier than THAT!"
Raph, Leo, Donnie and Mikey stopped what they were doing and looked at Theo, all each with one eye-ridge raised, mouths partly open.
"She CAN?" they all said, and Theo laughed.
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When Kida came out later, with a clean pair of jeans on and a green t- shirt, the guys kept quiet. Her face wasn't the happiest one ever seen. In fact, it made her look like a right moody child.
"Did you take your bandages off?" Donnie asked.
Kida shrugged. "Yeah . . . but I've redone them".
"Oh, ok then", Donnie said.
Kida clicked her fingers and a hair bobble appeared in her hand. Sighing, she began to plait her dry hair, as it wouldn't plait wet so she was forced to use her 'freaky' ability. That was she saw it as now - freaky.
The guys watched in silence as Kida separated her hair in three sections, plaiting it as fast as she could. They had noticed the change on her face now, from when she had first used her powers in front of them. Now it seemed as if she didn't even want them anymore.
Her hair now plaited, Kida headed towards the entrance. "You coming or what?" she snapped at the guys, who sat still.
Leo shrugged slightly and stood up. "Yeah", he said slowly. "C'mon guys".
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"I love this sneaky stuff", Mikey whispered. "It's so awesome!"
"It won't be awesome if you don't keep quiet!" Kida snapped.
"Gee, lighten up", Raph said.
"Lighten up?!" she hissed at him. "Lighten up?! We're on the first floor, your brother won't stop yakking, I've had the worse day of my life and you want me to lighten up?! Man, you are pathetic. I can't wait until you leave!"
"Look", Leo said. "Let's just get going. No arguing, ok?" He threw a look in both Raph's and Kida's direction.
"Whatever", she said, before leading them on.
"Sorry guys", Theo whispered, when Kida was out of earshot. "She isn't normally like this, you know".
"We know", they all said back.
"Guys!" Kida hissed. "Guys! Over here! Sssh!"
Walking quietly down the first damp, cold corridor Kida has shown them, they all leaned around the first corner they came to. Mikey leaned on Kida's shoulder to look, and she stared at him with an expression as stoned as the walls. Mikey just grinned and eased his grip, not knowing which shoulder was her injured one. He leaned forward some more and gasped along with his brothers when he saw the giant, sleeping tiger in front of them. It was massive - way massive! With silver fur and dark brown strips, just a few different shades of colour from Tiran but about 8 foot bigger.
"Hey!" Mikey whispered. "He looks like -" He stopped when everyone looked at him, Kida's eyebrow now down in a quiet growl.
"Never mind", Mikey quickly said.
"Ok", Kida whispered, throwing another angry look at Mikey. "Just quietly walk past him. No noises. He'll stay asleep as long as he hears NO noises. You guys are ninjas, so you should be good at this".
She pointed over to the far side of the corridor, where a door was opened for them to go through. "Just run through there", she said. "And best go in ones or twos".
Leo nodded. "Ok", he said. "C'mon Donnie".
"Wow, what a magnificent creature", Donnie whispered quietly. Leo rolled his eyes and walked a few paces ahead on silent footsteps. Donnie followed behind, creeping silently behind his brother, making no noises at all. When they made it to the door on the other side, they motioned with their hands that the next pair could come.
Raph and Mikey went next. Raph kept his hand over Mikey's mouth, knowing what his brother was like when it came to sudden comments. He joined Donnie and Leo before releasing his brother.
When they turned around they saw Theo running quietly across the floor, past the tiger's mouth and then standing right next to the guys. The turtles looked back for Kida, but she wasn't there.
"Hey, where's Kida?" Leo asked.
"I'm here", she answered, standing behind the door.
"Hey", Raph said. "How did you get here before us?"
"I can teleport, remember?" she whispered. "There is NO way I am running past that thing!"
"You made us run past that thing!" Raph hissed.
"Yeah", she snapped. "But I don't care about YOU!"
"Kida!" Theo snapped. "I don't know what's the matter with you! Look, we all know that the tiger looked like Tiran, but you don't have to take it out on Raph!"
"No", Raph said, holding his arm out. "Don't worry about it, Theo. She knows she can't cope without Tiran, so she's taking it out on us. She knows that when we go, she'll have nothing to do! Because Tiran isn't here!"
A tense silence suddenly grew as Kida's hand flew across Raph's face, leaving a painful looking white and then red mark glowing on his cheek.
"Ouch . . ." Mikey whispered so silently that Theo, who was standing next to him, was the only one that heard it.
As Raph let out a growl, Theo ran up to Kida and grabbed her arm, giving a sweet, apologetic smile to Raph and his brothers. "We'll walk ahead", he said. "Just don't lose us, ok?"
"Ok", Leo said. "We won't". He smiled slightly at Theo, whom he had made quite a friend out of since Tiran had died.
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"I can't believe she slapped me!" Raph hissed, walking up an old staircase with his brothers. Kida and Theo were walking ahead, and since Kida and Raph hadn't spoken for about an hour now, they both kept their distance apart. Raph himself hadn't mentioned the slap until now.
"You know", Donnie said quietly. "You kinda deserved that".
"Why did I?!" Raph snapped. "C'mon genius, why did I deserve that?!"
Donnie looked at Leo and Mikey, answering their reason as well as his why Raph deserved what he got. He turned and looked Raph dead in the eyes. "Because what you said was true", he answered seriously.
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"What floor are we on now?" Kida asked with a sigh.
Theo glanced down the corridor they had reached and looked for the number that was normally carved in the stone. When he had found it he replied, "Number 10".
Kida sighed. "Splinter's at the top. Ages yet".
They walked on in silence, listening to the muffled arguments of Raph and Donnie and few steps behind. Theo felt the need to say something, but everything he thought of in his head all lead to a slap just like Raph had got. Theo stifled a laugh. Kida wouldn't slap him - they had been friends for years.
Kida noticed his smiling face and frowned. "What's so funny?" she asked. "Personally I don't think this is the time for smiling".
Theo looked at her, his green eyes so much like Tiran's. Kida felt a lump rise to her throat but she swallowed, forcing her emotions down.
"Well?" she snapped. "What?!"
He smiled again, and Kida really felt the urge to slap him. How could he be smiling like that when so much had happened already?
"I was just thinking", he said. "If I was ever like Raph, would you slap me?"
"C'mon!" Kida said. "You are nothing like Raph! No one can be like him!"
"You are", Theo said.
"Excuse me?"
"I said you are", he repeated. "Oh, come on Kida! Think about it. He never reveals his emotions and neither do you. He gets angry easily and so do you. He can snap if he's not in a good mood and so do you! You're like this!" He crossed his index finger and middle finger over to prove his point.
"We are not!" Kida snapped.
Theo smiled again.
"You better wipe that smile off your face before I slap it off!" she threatened.
Theo's smile just widened. "Go on then".
She growled at him and turned around, stomping her way up the stairs. Boys! Why did she have to be with a group of 4 boys! Well, 5 with Tiran - but he wasn't exactly human or a boy like Theo - or the guys when she thought of it. Tiran was more of a young man, probably in his twenties if she pictured him human. But she liked him better as a tiger - bold, fierce and capable of love if chance was given.
"Hey", Theo's voice broke into her thoughts. "Watcha thinking?"
Kida shook her head. "Nothing", she replied.
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7 painful, breathless hours later, the tired group reached the top level - number 110.
Mikey collapsed on the floor of the corridor, and Donnie slumped down beside him. Leo even rewarded himself to a rest on the cold, stone floor, having congratulated himself on climbing so many floors in so many hours. Raph had finally plucked up the courage to say sorry to Kida, away from his brothers, and she had accepted, telling him he could off said sorry 6 hours ago then, whenever they had stopped for short rests, she wouldn't have looked at him so coldly.
Raph had laughed slightly at this. "Heh, if looks could kill -"
"Oh, in my head you were dead and buried 6 hours ago", Kida said.
"What?"
She smiled for the first time. "I'm kidding. BUT - you were badly bruised".
Raph gave her a small smile and walked over to his brothers, sitting down next to Mikey for his own rest. Kida watched him from where she was and shook her head. She had lied; he was dead in her eyes when she had slapped him.
"Everything good between you two?" Leo asked, coming up beside her.
Kida nodded. "Yeah - but I don't feel guilty for slapping him".
"He knows that", Leo said, smiling at her. "But he is sorry, Kida, even if it doesn't seem to show".
"It shows all right", Kida said.
Leo shrugged. "Maybe you're the one who can only see it", he said, before going over to join his brothers, playing punching Mikey when he offered his lap.
"Leo's wrong", Theo said, standing next to her. "I could see the guilt written all over his face earlier. But then again, that's just me!"
"He's lucky I didn't kill him", Kida said, looking out the small window that was placed in the corridor. They still had to keep moving, but Kida figured that the guys at least deserved some rest.
Theo smiled. "Aww, come on. What he said was wrong but death wasn't in order, was it?"
"Would have been if you hadn't have moved me", she muttered. "And I'm getting sick of your smile!" she added, snapping at him. "Will you stop smiling?! Tiran's dead and you're smiling!"
The smiled widened. "Tiran wouldn't have wanted a frown", Theo said.
"Tiran didn't want death in the first place!" Kida snapped, grabbing at his t-shirt and pulling him so close that their noses almost bumped together. "I'm serious, Theo. Stop smiling!!"
His smile remained. "Why?"
"Argh!" Kida let go of him and sighed. "I would slap you if we didn't know each other!"
"You love me really!"
Kida had to laugh at that. "Since when did you become so annoying?"
"Since I haven't seen you laugh in ages", he said, and his smile vanished. "There - no more smiling. I just wanted to get a laugh outta you. Now are we going?"
"Sure", she said, growling at him for tricking her. "Lets go, guys!"
"GO?" Mikey asked, shocked. "I've only just sat DOWN!"
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(Phew, thank god for that! Soooo sorry I haven't posted. To be honest I can't wait until I've finished this - then I think I'll stick to short stories. Thankies for the reviews anyway Leo, Raph, etc, etc, etc ^_^)
