Chapter 18
disclaimer: don't own the turtles, do own the reapers, Shayl, the Xawks, and any respective characters not from the TMNT
a/n: wow..thanks for all the reviews, guys. I'm really flattered and glad that people are still around from before. I hope I get some new readers...that would be awesome, but it's you guys from before who inspired me to write again. Thanks so much! I actually think I can see an end in sight for this story, but we'll see. It's always sad to end a story, but you do always have to end at some point. Part of the reason I had before was the unsureness about ending it, but I have some ideas now, so that's good. Hope you like it!
Oohh, also...this is a very complicated story and it was cruel for me to quit and then start up again without some kind of helper key. So, here we go...we'll get you caught up:
1. Donatello was killed at the beginning by Ssylvar and brought to an afterlife Demon world.
2. He was made into a 'Reaper.' Someone who collects dead souls.
2a. Don stinks at doing magic. Shayl, the second weakest Reaper, is trying to teach him.
3. There are 365 Reapers, all ranked in stregnth from 1 to 365. Don was made the Siyem, the #1. Mike was later made the Wiyem, the #365.
4. Reapers live by rules. They can't kill other demons, only each other. They also can't go to earth unless they're collecting souls.
5. When demons kill each other, they collect their energy.
6. Demons can die, and no one knows what happens after that. The mystery of death remains even after you die. But, it's REALLY hard to kill a demon unless you're a powerful Reaper.
7. Leo and Raph were tricked into coming to the demon world because they though Donatello was being impersonated by an evil demon.
8. The Siyem hears the voice of the earth, Gaia, and Donatello was cut off from her. All the Reaper's rules ended when he was cut off.
9. Leo and Raph were given demonic stregnth and attacked Don. He opened a portal to earth and escaped.
9. Gaia's last act before being severed completely was to make Michelangelo the Wiyem. This was because Ssylvar and Orgo were using a spell to open a portal to earth that would open at the new Wiyem's feet. Gaia wanted to make sure it happened near Don so he could stop it. She forced Don to kill Mike and the portal closed.
10. Rigai is the voice that Ssyvar can hear who is apparently behind the mayhem
11. Xawks are the messengers of the Reapers. They can go anywhere except earth, and they can always find any Reaper or Demon if they look hard enough.
There ya go. Hope that helps a bit!
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Justin nearly fell out of his makeshift chair when his tiny Xawk flashed into the room, right in front of his face. The little beast was in a frenzy, and it took Justin a few minutes to get it to calm down enough to make sense. Once the message was delivered, Justin went into a frenzy of his own.
"They've caught the Siyem!" he screamed, running about the abandoned building/rebel headquarters, "They're gonna kill him! God damn it!"
Most of the other rebel Reapers began to panic at Justin's cries, each of them wondering how much longer they had to live with their only hope about to be executed.
Raphael and Leonardo had been practicing their katas as Justin's cries reached their ears. Raphael responded with a suitable curse, but Leonardo immediately strode into the main room and put up his hands.
"Everyone calm down!" He called, but the words fell on deaf ears. Raphael hurried into the room shortly after and bellowed, "SHUT THE HELL UP ALL OF YOU! WHAT KIND OF POWERFUL DEMONS DO YOU CALL YOURSELVES ANYWAY?"
Raphael's words seemed to have an effect on the Reapers, and their shouts of distress quickly settled into a dull roar. Justin came up to the two turtles, a disturbed and defeated look on his face.
"You two might as well begin contemplating your deaths," Justin said, "We're all history now."
Leonardo shook his head, "He not dead yet, is he?"
"No," Justin said, "But he will be in an hour. After that, Ssylvar and Orgo will own the world."
"Well then, we've gotta bust Don out," Raph said, crossing his arms. A muffled sort of anxious laughter erupted throughout the room.
"Bust him out?" a strained voice from the crowd exclaimed, "How the hell would we do that?"
"Easy," Raphael said, "One of you freaks takes us there with one of your portal things, and Leo and I sneak around and get him out."
"Yeah, right," the voice in the back said skeptically.
"Wait..." Justin said, putting up his hand, "What makes you think you can get around in there without being noticed?"
"Simple," Leonardo said before Raph could respond, "We're ninja."
Justin raised a pierced eyebrow, "You'll never evade demons, they're too powerful."
"Obvoiusly you've never met a ninja," Raph said, crossing his arms.
"This is nuts..." Justin said.
"We have to try," Leonardo said, "It's the only hope left. We can't just -let- them win."
Justin shook his head, "You've got heart, both of you." A pause. "All right...I'll take you to Ssylvar and Orgo's headquarters. I'm sure Donatello is there somewhere, but once you're in, there's nothing else I can do."
"Whatever," Raph said, "Let's just go."
Justin sighed and waved his hand. A swirling portal opened up in front of him and the two turtles stepped through eagerly, glad to finally be doing something. Only for a moment did Leonardo wonder if this plan was too reckless...that perhaps they should have thought about -where- Justin was taking them...
----
Donatello paced the tiny space in his cell nervously. His time was coming soon, and he hadn't figured out a way out of here yet. The room was of simple construction, but because of the magical enhancements, Don had no hope of breaking out by taking it apart. He'd tried his earthquake spell, but that had simply caused him to fall over and hit his head on the side of the cell. The whole room had shook, but nothing had broken or even cracked. He'd also tried to teleport, but as usual he couldn't move himself around in the demon world. He couldn't even send himself to Earth, which had always been his forte. He suspected some kind of spell had been placed on his cell, though it scared Don to think they they could do something like that to him...the supposed 'most powerful demon.' Don sighed...he wasn't the most powerful anything. He was just a phony, a geeky turtle thrust into a situation he couldn't handle. Time ticked by, slowly but surely, and Don was still stuck, helpless and alone.
----
Shayl peered carefully out of the portal before stepping through, guesturing to Michelangelo and Spinter to follow. Rudy had shown them to an empty room in the large building; apparently Orgo and Ssylvar hadn't been able to find uses for all of the rooms in their 'palace.'
"This is perfect," Mike said. Splinter put his finger to his lips. He then guestured for Shayl to come closer. She complied, and Splinter whispered into her ear, "You must go now and find the two fiends." Shayl nodded and created another portal, only looking back for a moment before diappearing.
Mike and Splinter looked at each other for a moment before exiting the room, immediately becoming shadows. Shayl's job was to begin her distraction and send back a Xawk to tell Mike and Splinter that her part of the plan was underway. Splinter and Mike followed Rudy down a narrow hallway, moving as quietly as possible.
Neither of them knew their way around, so hiding was going to be difficult. Michelangelo knew it was best to trust his master at a time like this. Michelangelo had also made it very clear to Rudy before they left that stealth was a must. The little Xawk informed him that since no Xawk was better than he was, he would be the quietest Xawk ever. Michelangelo reminded him that that did not mean he would be quiet enough. Rudy was a bit abashed, but promised to be as quiet as he could.
Now Rudy was leading them down a narrow hallway, and Michelangelo was painfully aware of the lack of hiding places. Suddenly, Splinter ducked into an open doorway. Michelangelo followed, moments before another door at the end of the hallway opened and two dog-faced demons walked out. Michelangelo, Splinter, and Rudy watched from the shadows of the room they had entered (which was thankfully empty, and Michelangelo was again grateful for his master's skill) as the two Demons walked past their door and down the hall. No one moved for several minutes, until finally Splinter stood up and exited back into the hallway. The chase was on again.
Rudy led them past several doors, until finally the hallway came to a T. Rudy turned to the left and then stopped at a closed wooden door. Michelangelo reached out his hand to open it, but Splinter grabbed his wrist, shaking his head. The wise rat then carefully put his ear to the door, which Michelangelo quickly imitated. Muffled voices could be heard, but Mike couldn't understand the words. Splinter frowned and pressed his ear harder to the door. His sensitive rat ears were able to pick up a few snippets of conversation:
"...it'll be soon..."
"...should go now..."
"...relax, he'll...I know what I'm doing."
Splinter pulled back from the door and looked up at Rudy. The little Xawk looked frustrated and confused. He wanted to go through -this- door, but apparently they couldn't. He gave a huff and sped off down the hall. Splinter and Michelangelo followed. Then, the door they had just been at opened. Splinter heard it first and ducked into an adjacent room. Mike hurried to catch up, just as Ssylvar emerged from the room. Orgo followed shortly after.
"What do you mean you want to wait even longer?" Orgo asked, livid.
"I want to increase the drama," Ssylvar said, "Make sure more of the rebels show up."
"You're nuts!" Orgo exclaimed, "The longer you wait, the more chance someone has of rescuing him."
Ssylvar barked a laugh, "Rescue him?? He can't even rescue himself! What makes you think some weak-ass demons with a thousandth of his stregnth could do any better?"
Orgo scowled, "You never know. You should just get it over with."
Ssylvar waved his hand dismissively, "Come on. It's time to meet our adoring fans..."
The two Reapers continued on down the hallway and beyond the earshot of Mike and Splinter. Mike was feeling intense emotions of disgust as the two creatures walked on, and he knew they had been talking about his brother. His resolve deepened. He had to save his brother, never mind the cost.
They backtracked toward the door Ssylvar and Orgo had just left, knowing they had little time. Ssylvar's delay might buy a little time, but who knew if it would be enough...
----
Shayl's portal opened up in another abandoned room near the palatial chambers. Rudy had told them of many of these rooms, and they were proving to be very useful now. She carefully opened the door and peered outside, wondering how exactly she was going to create a diversion big enough to attract the attention of Ssylvar and Orgo. Her magic was too weak to hurt anyone important, so that was out of the question. She sighed and stepped out into the hallway. She would just have to think of something.
----
Justin's portal opened up right in the middle of a crowd of Demons. There were a few cries of disgust as Demons were pushed out of the way by the magic, but then the crowd settled down. Leonardo and Raphael stepped out of the portal, followed shortly by Justin.
"There you go," Justin said, turning to leave. Raphael grabbed his arm,
"Where d'ya think you're going?" Raph said, sneering.
"I'm leaving. It's not safe for me here. I'm a rogue, remember?"
"Coward," Raphael said, "You've been running for weeks. Now you have the chance to actually do something, and you're still gonna run."
Justin opened his mouth to speak and then shut it again. He waved his hand and the portal closed behind him.
"Well, you didn't take much convincing," Leonardo said.
"I wanted to be persuaded," Justin admitted, trying to shake his arm free of Raphael's grasp. "I wanted someone to tell me I was being a coward....it was just something too hard to overcome on my own."
Raph rolled his eyes and released Justin's arm, "Whatever. You're here now, so quit whining. What do we do now...and why did you drop us off in the middle of a crowd?"
Jusin shrugged. "I don't know...I thought you might be able to be sneakier if you started out in public...you know, like they wouldn't be expecting it..?" Justin looked embarassed, but Leo smiled.
"It's a good idea. We can start from here." Leo said, "We just need to come up with a plan. We need to get inside that place and find Don. I just have no idea how to do that."
"Look for him, what else?" Raph said.
"It's not that easy," Justin said, "It's not like we know the layout of the place."
"Ok," Raph said, "That's why we look around. Figure it out."
"We don't have time for that," Leo said, "The execution is due in 20 minutes."
"So, we'll make time," Raph said, and then turned around a punched a nearby tiger-demon in the face.
The creature was knocked backwards, right into another Tiger demon. The two exchanged angry growls before the first lunged back at Raphael. The turtle eagerly punched him again, this time knocking him into a demon that looked more like a blob than a person.
Quickly, other Demons in the crowd began to notice and started attacking Raphael, who gladly fought back. Soon the fighting began to spill over into other groups, and Leo realized what Raph was doing. He was starting a riot. Chaos would be their ally.
Leo smiled and accepted a punch from a poodle-demon. He was careful to join in the fights with a tender punch, not wanting to harm anyone with his superior stregnth. He wasn't so sure Raph would be holding back. Leo also noticed that no one was attacking Justin. Apparently they knew better than to pick a fight with a Messenger.
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Shayl entered a hallway with many open windows and immediately noticed the sounds of commotion coming from outside. She hurried to one of the windows and carefully peered outside. What she saw was an enormous crowd of demons, all fighting with each other. The fight was so intense, in fact, that the guards had been dispacted from within the palace in an attempt to contain it.
Shayl couldn't believe it...a distraction had created itself! Still, was this the kind of distraction she needed? Would it even last? She needed to find a way to compound the problem...maybe even get Ssylvar and Orgo involved. She'd sent Blackie to locate them, and she had done well, preventing herself from being seen. Shayl hurriedly tore open a portal, sending Blackie off with a message to Splinter and Michelangelo as an afterthought.
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Ssylvar stopped in midstride as the sound of fighting reached his ears.
"What the hell is that?" he snake man exclaimed, striding up to a window. His face wrinkled into a sneer as he witness the building riot outside.
"What's going on?" Orgo asked, walking up to the window.
"A damn riot, what's it look like?" Ssylvar asked. He began to walk down the hallway again.
"What do we do about it?" Orgo asked.
"Nothing," Ssylvar said, "Let them fight. It's time to go get the Siyem. They'll settle down once we start the execution."
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a/n: all right...I wanted to get a longer chapter out there for you guys before I started another week of homework. I'll be back in a little while with some new chapters, but I think I want to get a few written before I post anything, just for some insurance against writer's block (since that was my problem last time). Look for a new chapter soon, though! I've already started on the next one.
a/n: wow..thanks for all the reviews, guys. I'm really flattered and glad that people are still around from before. I hope I get some new readers...that would be awesome, but it's you guys from before who inspired me to write again. Thanks so much! I actually think I can see an end in sight for this story, but we'll see. It's always sad to end a story, but you do always have to end at some point. Part of the reason I had before was the unsureness about ending it, but I have some ideas now, so that's good. Hope you like it!
Oohh, also...this is a very complicated story and it was cruel for me to quit and then start up again without some kind of helper key. So, here we go...we'll get you caught up:
1. Donatello was killed at the beginning by Ssylvar and brought to an afterlife Demon world.
2. He was made into a 'Reaper.' Someone who collects dead souls.
2a. Don stinks at doing magic. Shayl, the second weakest Reaper, is trying to teach him.
3. There are 365 Reapers, all ranked in stregnth from 1 to 365. Don was made the Siyem, the #1. Mike was later made the Wiyem, the #365.
4. Reapers live by rules. They can't kill other demons, only each other. They also can't go to earth unless they're collecting souls.
5. When demons kill each other, they collect their energy.
6. Demons can die, and no one knows what happens after that. The mystery of death remains even after you die. But, it's REALLY hard to kill a demon unless you're a powerful Reaper.
7. Leo and Raph were tricked into coming to the demon world because they though Donatello was being impersonated by an evil demon.
8. The Siyem hears the voice of the earth, Gaia, and Donatello was cut off from her. All the Reaper's rules ended when he was cut off.
9. Leo and Raph were given demonic stregnth and attacked Don. He opened a portal to earth and escaped.
9. Gaia's last act before being severed completely was to make Michelangelo the Wiyem. This was because Ssylvar and Orgo were using a spell to open a portal to earth that would open at the new Wiyem's feet. Gaia wanted to make sure it happened near Don so he could stop it. She forced Don to kill Mike and the portal closed.
10. Rigai is the voice that Ssyvar can hear who is apparently behind the mayhem
11. Xawks are the messengers of the Reapers. They can go anywhere except earth, and they can always find any Reaper or Demon if they look hard enough.
There ya go. Hope that helps a bit!
----
Justin nearly fell out of his makeshift chair when his tiny Xawk flashed into the room, right in front of his face. The little beast was in a frenzy, and it took Justin a few minutes to get it to calm down enough to make sense. Once the message was delivered, Justin went into a frenzy of his own.
"They've caught the Siyem!" he screamed, running about the abandoned building/rebel headquarters, "They're gonna kill him! God damn it!"
Most of the other rebel Reapers began to panic at Justin's cries, each of them wondering how much longer they had to live with their only hope about to be executed.
Raphael and Leonardo had been practicing their katas as Justin's cries reached their ears. Raphael responded with a suitable curse, but Leonardo immediately strode into the main room and put up his hands.
"Everyone calm down!" He called, but the words fell on deaf ears. Raphael hurried into the room shortly after and bellowed, "SHUT THE HELL UP ALL OF YOU! WHAT KIND OF POWERFUL DEMONS DO YOU CALL YOURSELVES ANYWAY?"
Raphael's words seemed to have an effect on the Reapers, and their shouts of distress quickly settled into a dull roar. Justin came up to the two turtles, a disturbed and defeated look on his face.
"You two might as well begin contemplating your deaths," Justin said, "We're all history now."
Leonardo shook his head, "He not dead yet, is he?"
"No," Justin said, "But he will be in an hour. After that, Ssylvar and Orgo will own the world."
"Well then, we've gotta bust Don out," Raph said, crossing his arms. A muffled sort of anxious laughter erupted throughout the room.
"Bust him out?" a strained voice from the crowd exclaimed, "How the hell would we do that?"
"Easy," Raphael said, "One of you freaks takes us there with one of your portal things, and Leo and I sneak around and get him out."
"Yeah, right," the voice in the back said skeptically.
"Wait..." Justin said, putting up his hand, "What makes you think you can get around in there without being noticed?"
"Simple," Leonardo said before Raph could respond, "We're ninja."
Justin raised a pierced eyebrow, "You'll never evade demons, they're too powerful."
"Obvoiusly you've never met a ninja," Raph said, crossing his arms.
"This is nuts..." Justin said.
"We have to try," Leonardo said, "It's the only hope left. We can't just -let- them win."
Justin shook his head, "You've got heart, both of you." A pause. "All right...I'll take you to Ssylvar and Orgo's headquarters. I'm sure Donatello is there somewhere, but once you're in, there's nothing else I can do."
"Whatever," Raph said, "Let's just go."
Justin sighed and waved his hand. A swirling portal opened up in front of him and the two turtles stepped through eagerly, glad to finally be doing something. Only for a moment did Leonardo wonder if this plan was too reckless...that perhaps they should have thought about -where- Justin was taking them...
----
Donatello paced the tiny space in his cell nervously. His time was coming soon, and he hadn't figured out a way out of here yet. The room was of simple construction, but because of the magical enhancements, Don had no hope of breaking out by taking it apart. He'd tried his earthquake spell, but that had simply caused him to fall over and hit his head on the side of the cell. The whole room had shook, but nothing had broken or even cracked. He'd also tried to teleport, but as usual he couldn't move himself around in the demon world. He couldn't even send himself to Earth, which had always been his forte. He suspected some kind of spell had been placed on his cell, though it scared Don to think they they could do something like that to him...the supposed 'most powerful demon.' Don sighed...he wasn't the most powerful anything. He was just a phony, a geeky turtle thrust into a situation he couldn't handle. Time ticked by, slowly but surely, and Don was still stuck, helpless and alone.
----
Shayl peered carefully out of the portal before stepping through, guesturing to Michelangelo and Spinter to follow. Rudy had shown them to an empty room in the large building; apparently Orgo and Ssylvar hadn't been able to find uses for all of the rooms in their 'palace.'
"This is perfect," Mike said. Splinter put his finger to his lips. He then guestured for Shayl to come closer. She complied, and Splinter whispered into her ear, "You must go now and find the two fiends." Shayl nodded and created another portal, only looking back for a moment before diappearing.
Mike and Splinter looked at each other for a moment before exiting the room, immediately becoming shadows. Shayl's job was to begin her distraction and send back a Xawk to tell Mike and Splinter that her part of the plan was underway. Splinter and Mike followed Rudy down a narrow hallway, moving as quietly as possible.
Neither of them knew their way around, so hiding was going to be difficult. Michelangelo knew it was best to trust his master at a time like this. Michelangelo had also made it very clear to Rudy before they left that stealth was a must. The little Xawk informed him that since no Xawk was better than he was, he would be the quietest Xawk ever. Michelangelo reminded him that that did not mean he would be quiet enough. Rudy was a bit abashed, but promised to be as quiet as he could.
Now Rudy was leading them down a narrow hallway, and Michelangelo was painfully aware of the lack of hiding places. Suddenly, Splinter ducked into an open doorway. Michelangelo followed, moments before another door at the end of the hallway opened and two dog-faced demons walked out. Michelangelo, Splinter, and Rudy watched from the shadows of the room they had entered (which was thankfully empty, and Michelangelo was again grateful for his master's skill) as the two Demons walked past their door and down the hall. No one moved for several minutes, until finally Splinter stood up and exited back into the hallway. The chase was on again.
Rudy led them past several doors, until finally the hallway came to a T. Rudy turned to the left and then stopped at a closed wooden door. Michelangelo reached out his hand to open it, but Splinter grabbed his wrist, shaking his head. The wise rat then carefully put his ear to the door, which Michelangelo quickly imitated. Muffled voices could be heard, but Mike couldn't understand the words. Splinter frowned and pressed his ear harder to the door. His sensitive rat ears were able to pick up a few snippets of conversation:
"...it'll be soon..."
"...should go now..."
"...relax, he'll...I know what I'm doing."
Splinter pulled back from the door and looked up at Rudy. The little Xawk looked frustrated and confused. He wanted to go through -this- door, but apparently they couldn't. He gave a huff and sped off down the hall. Splinter and Michelangelo followed. Then, the door they had just been at opened. Splinter heard it first and ducked into an adjacent room. Mike hurried to catch up, just as Ssylvar emerged from the room. Orgo followed shortly after.
"What do you mean you want to wait even longer?" Orgo asked, livid.
"I want to increase the drama," Ssylvar said, "Make sure more of the rebels show up."
"You're nuts!" Orgo exclaimed, "The longer you wait, the more chance someone has of rescuing him."
Ssylvar barked a laugh, "Rescue him?? He can't even rescue himself! What makes you think some weak-ass demons with a thousandth of his stregnth could do any better?"
Orgo scowled, "You never know. You should just get it over with."
Ssylvar waved his hand dismissively, "Come on. It's time to meet our adoring fans..."
The two Reapers continued on down the hallway and beyond the earshot of Mike and Splinter. Mike was feeling intense emotions of disgust as the two creatures walked on, and he knew they had been talking about his brother. His resolve deepened. He had to save his brother, never mind the cost.
They backtracked toward the door Ssylvar and Orgo had just left, knowing they had little time. Ssylvar's delay might buy a little time, but who knew if it would be enough...
----
Shayl's portal opened up in another abandoned room near the palatial chambers. Rudy had told them of many of these rooms, and they were proving to be very useful now. She carefully opened the door and peered outside, wondering how exactly she was going to create a diversion big enough to attract the attention of Ssylvar and Orgo. Her magic was too weak to hurt anyone important, so that was out of the question. She sighed and stepped out into the hallway. She would just have to think of something.
----
Justin's portal opened up right in the middle of a crowd of Demons. There were a few cries of disgust as Demons were pushed out of the way by the magic, but then the crowd settled down. Leonardo and Raphael stepped out of the portal, followed shortly by Justin.
"There you go," Justin said, turning to leave. Raphael grabbed his arm,
"Where d'ya think you're going?" Raph said, sneering.
"I'm leaving. It's not safe for me here. I'm a rogue, remember?"
"Coward," Raphael said, "You've been running for weeks. Now you have the chance to actually do something, and you're still gonna run."
Justin opened his mouth to speak and then shut it again. He waved his hand and the portal closed behind him.
"Well, you didn't take much convincing," Leonardo said.
"I wanted to be persuaded," Justin admitted, trying to shake his arm free of Raphael's grasp. "I wanted someone to tell me I was being a coward....it was just something too hard to overcome on my own."
Raph rolled his eyes and released Justin's arm, "Whatever. You're here now, so quit whining. What do we do now...and why did you drop us off in the middle of a crowd?"
Jusin shrugged. "I don't know...I thought you might be able to be sneakier if you started out in public...you know, like they wouldn't be expecting it..?" Justin looked embarassed, but Leo smiled.
"It's a good idea. We can start from here." Leo said, "We just need to come up with a plan. We need to get inside that place and find Don. I just have no idea how to do that."
"Look for him, what else?" Raph said.
"It's not that easy," Justin said, "It's not like we know the layout of the place."
"Ok," Raph said, "That's why we look around. Figure it out."
"We don't have time for that," Leo said, "The execution is due in 20 minutes."
"So, we'll make time," Raph said, and then turned around a punched a nearby tiger-demon in the face.
The creature was knocked backwards, right into another Tiger demon. The two exchanged angry growls before the first lunged back at Raphael. The turtle eagerly punched him again, this time knocking him into a demon that looked more like a blob than a person.
Quickly, other Demons in the crowd began to notice and started attacking Raphael, who gladly fought back. Soon the fighting began to spill over into other groups, and Leo realized what Raph was doing. He was starting a riot. Chaos would be their ally.
Leo smiled and accepted a punch from a poodle-demon. He was careful to join in the fights with a tender punch, not wanting to harm anyone with his superior stregnth. He wasn't so sure Raph would be holding back. Leo also noticed that no one was attacking Justin. Apparently they knew better than to pick a fight with a Messenger.
----
Shayl entered a hallway with many open windows and immediately noticed the sounds of commotion coming from outside. She hurried to one of the windows and carefully peered outside. What she saw was an enormous crowd of demons, all fighting with each other. The fight was so intense, in fact, that the guards had been dispacted from within the palace in an attempt to contain it.
Shayl couldn't believe it...a distraction had created itself! Still, was this the kind of distraction she needed? Would it even last? She needed to find a way to compound the problem...maybe even get Ssylvar and Orgo involved. She'd sent Blackie to locate them, and she had done well, preventing herself from being seen. Shayl hurriedly tore open a portal, sending Blackie off with a message to Splinter and Michelangelo as an afterthought.
----
Ssylvar stopped in midstride as the sound of fighting reached his ears.
"What the hell is that?" he snake man exclaimed, striding up to a window. His face wrinkled into a sneer as he witness the building riot outside.
"What's going on?" Orgo asked, walking up to the window.
"A damn riot, what's it look like?" Ssylvar asked. He began to walk down the hallway again.
"What do we do about it?" Orgo asked.
"Nothing," Ssylvar said, "Let them fight. It's time to go get the Siyem. They'll settle down once we start the execution."
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a/n: all right...I wanted to get a longer chapter out there for you guys before I started another week of homework. I'll be back in a little while with some new chapters, but I think I want to get a few written before I post anything, just for some insurance against writer's block (since that was my problem last time). Look for a new chapter soon, though! I've already started on the next one.