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One of the readers poke authoress awake...Huh? What? Oh. Sorry. Been sick today......anyways...yawn...zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Readers poke her awake again...Okay! Okay! I'll write!!!!
DISCLAIMER:
Here goes Disclaimer #3:
I DO NOT OWN THE TURTLES, OR ANYTHING THAT THIS STORY MAY REMIND YOU OF. FOR EXAMPLE: tenku no shiro Laputa; OR CASTLE IN THE SKY IN ENGLISH, OR ATLANTIS, THE LOST EMPIRE. OR ANY OTHER STORY. Thankyou.
Additional notes:
'thoughts'
"talking"
dream sequences
P.S: I suck at latin, so please don't try to correct me. Thank you!
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Everyone stared at him.
"Err...what?" Raph growled, looking surprised.
The leader smiled. "Come, come! If it is indeed true that you have received that e-mail, then you are welcome!"
With that, the leader took Leo's hand and began to shake it furiously. The others behind him lifted their spears and cheered.
"Call me Caurus! But come, this is no place to linger for long..." The leader said, finally letting Leo go.
Caurus, as soon as he let Leo go, swiftly made his way to a hole in the ground, that just appeared out of nowhere!
Caurus hinted for them to follow, before jumping down into the hole.
Two of the men followed, while the rest looked at the turtles.
Donny shrugged. "They seem friendly enough..."
Raph growled before looking at the other men. "And I wanna find out what the shell is going on!"
Splinter sighed. "Raphael...no cursing!"
"Sorry, Sensei."
All of them began filing down into the hole.
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Inside the hole, it was dark. Darker than normal night, but lighter than what they had to live with in the sewer tunnels. Leo decided.
Once his eyes adjusted, Leo saw that the hole was indeed a tunnel. A long, winding tunnel leading to nowhere. Or so it seemed.
After a good ten minutes of wandering aimlessly after Caurus, Leo suddenly realized that the tunnel was getting lighter.
Suddenly, the tunnel ended with a sheer drop. Looking down, Leo couldn't help but gasp.
There was a whole underground city down here!
Caurus turned and looked at the astonished group. Smiling, he waved his hand down to the city. "Welcome to the City of Aether."
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They had managed to scale down the sheer cliff successfully. It turned out that there was a small pathway leading down the cliff.
Once they were down, Caurus lead them through the city. Inside the city, they were surprised to find children running around, playing on the man-made streets; houses built out of clay and rock; people walking around as if they had been here forever!
The people stopped and stared at them as they had passed through, but said nothing. Caurus, meanwhile, had ignored the stares and kept leading them to the center of the city. In the center, there was a big hut made out of clay and rock as well.
Caurus hinted for them to go inside.
Inside, they were surprised to find that the hut was cozy and warm. On the ground, there was home-made woven cloth and pillows, onto which Caurus indicated they should sit.
Once they were all comfortable, Caurus spoke up. "This is the council house. We discuss all things here. Now, onto business." Caurus said, turning to Splinter.
"You have mentioned a so called e-mail. What was written in it?"
Casey stared. "But if you wrote it, why the hell do you need to know what's in it?"
April glared at him, and received a clueless 'what??' as an answer.
Splinter sighed. "It told of something called 'Caerulus Aurae'"
Caurus sat up at that. "Caerulus Aurae? Then the legend is true!"
That caught everyone's attention.
Donny spoke up. "Legend? What Legend?—"
Raph cut in. "And what the hell is this all on about??!!"
Caurus laughed. "True. We do owe an explanation." He took a deep breath. "You see, a long time ago, millennia's to be exact...we were once a great people. We had a great kingdom, all because of something called 'The Caerulus Aurae.'"
Raph scoffed. "And would you mind explaining what the hell it is??"
Splinter hit Raph over the head with his stick. "Raphael! Control yourself!"
But Caurus didn't seem to mind. "Caerulus Aurae is what we call the 'Blue Wind of Destruction.'"
Mikey suddenly gasped. "Hey! That was written in the e-mail thingie!"
Caurus nodded. "Yes. It is referred to a stone, ice-blue, which can emit such power that the World could bow down before it! It is said that the Gods gave it to us, when one of our people pleased them with such a strong trait."
Donny leaned forward a little bit. "And what was that 'strong trait'?"
"We do not know. But the Gods seemed pleased with that one man for that trait, so they gave him the gift of controlling the 'Blue Wind'. However, there was one catch. The stone would only work for one who showed that particular trait in such measures that no other could, would the stone only obey to."
Caurus took a shuddering breath. "Time passed. One day, our sworn enemies became jealous and suspicious of how we became such a great kingdom. Before we realized it, they found out what was that we used, and the catch to it. Then, they lay sage to the kingdom. Our people suffered and died. But the enemy ruthlessly slaughtered them..."
Leo had not been paying attention to the last part at all. Instead, his attention was more focused onto a figure standing in the far corner. Suddenly, the figure turned his head towards Leo. Leo had to hold back the gasp.
The figure had blue eyes. The same blue eyes he had saw in his dreams!
But the figure turned around before looking back again. He signaled for Leo to follow him.
Sneaking a look at his brothers, and seeing they were not paying attention, Leo scooted silently back until the shadows completely covered him.
Then, without a sound, Leo followed the figure out the open door.
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Leo was surprised to see that there was no one outside. If he hadn't seen the people moments before, Leo could've sworn that this was a ghost town.
Suddenly, Leo saw the figure again. Leo knew immediately who it was. "Boreus."
The figure smiled sadly at him, before hinting for him to follow. Leo looked around, and followed.
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"Our current leader and bearer of the stone then, was called Boreus. He led us bravely, but the enemy forced him to make a deal. Either he would join them, or watch his people die. He made the deal, despite our pleas. But at the last second, Boreus hid the stone itself in a place unknown. He went with the enemy, but the enemy, once realizing that he hid the stone, tried to force him to show the place to them. However, Boreus died before he told them."
Caurus sighed. "Now the stone is a mystery. Only a legend. However, we have found a single small piece of fragment from the stone. None of us have been able to use it, but we have taken the fragment with us when we hid down here. However, the enemy still hasn't given up on the stone just yet, thus we must stay hidden."
Donny nodded to show that he was listening. "But what does this have to do with us?"
"We, when we realized that the enemy was still after us, remembered a little speech that Boreus had told us before he left..."
"Hold it!" Raph cut in. "Hold it, hold it, hold it! You mean to tell us that you were alive back then??!!"
Caurus nodded before chuckling. "The stone has vast powers. It gives us air to breath down here. It shields us from our enemy. It even allows us to live long lives."
"But you said there was only a fragment!" April stated.
"Yes, but the fragment is a part of the stone. Thus, it provides the same things that the stone would, but considerably weaker things." Caurus sighed. "Now, anyways. We remembered a speech that he had told us. He had said that if the situation would turn worse, then we should write an e-mail and send it. Boreus had said that he had asked the Gods to send it to the one who could help save us. Of course, we believed that to be rubbish.
"However, once the situation did take a turn for the worst, we tried it. But millennia's passed without a word. We believed all was lost until you all showed up!"
The turtles looked at each other. There was an uncomfortable pause. Then Don spoke up. "Well, what do you think Leo?"
Silence.
Donny looked around. "Leo? Guys where's Leo?"
Everyone looked around.
Raph scratched his head. "I could've sworn that he came inside with us!"
Suddenly Mikey shivered. "Dude! Who turned on the cooler!"
Everyone started to shiver violently. Suddenly, Caurus gasped. "It is said that the spirit of Boreus has stayed with us. Wandering, searching for another who could help us! But then why did he take your brother?"
Suddenly, Caurus looked hopeful. "Unless..." He looked at them. "We must make haste!"
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Leo followed Boreus silently. He didn't really know why he was following him, but something told him that it was important.
Suddenly, Boreus turned and walked into a small little hut located at the edge of the underground city. Leo hesitated, but followed.
Inside, the hut was extremely cold. Leo immediately began to shiver.
Suddenly, he realized that Boreus was gone. "Why did you lead me here?" Leo yelled through chattering teeth, but no one answered.
Leo looked around panicking slightly, when he saw that there was a small door in the corner. Underneath the door, there was blue light shining through.
Leo cocked his head, before walking slowly towards it. The room became colder as he approached it.
Leo reached out to touch the doorknob, when suddenly he heard a scream. It was distant and echoed. Leo paused before leaning closer to the door.
There, behind the door, echoed thousands of voices, crying and pleading.
Leo jerked back and stared at the door in horror. The screams reminded him of his dreams! But why?
Leo closed his eyes before reaching out again and grabbing the doorknob and turning it, trying to ignore the thousands of screams. This was important....too important...
Leo took a breath before letting the door swing open.
Inside, there was a small, teeny tiny piece of fragment, no bigger than the tip of his finger, was floating inside the room, glowing blue.
Suddenly, the screams stopped. The fragment flashed blue and slowly allowed a single beam to travel towards Leo, before pausing on his heart.
Leo suddenly heard voices screaming in his mind, so loudly, so sadly...
Then, there was darkness.
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