Don groaned as his mind unfogged. Why was his face to cold? He opened his eyes to a squint, and blinked. Where ever he was, it was really foggy. He blinked several more times, and his brain took in what his eyes saw. He was in a cell, and he was lying on his stomache on the cold stone floor. He moaned again and he pushed himself up with both arms and looked up. He was staring straight into the eyes of the Dameiyo's son, outside the cell with Emily beside him. "You just had to come, didn't you? Just had to come save her and ruine it all! Well, now that I have them both," he said to Emily, " I only have your OWN life against you, seeing as how they're going to rot here anyway. Oh well... Have a nice stay, boys... while you're still alive." He walked away, cackling, and gripping Emily's arm tightly again, so tightly that a lightened shade of Emily's green skin surrounded his finger tips.
Donettello glared after him, not having enough strength in him to get up, much less try to bust the cell's bars. He looked to the side, to see Usagi's unconsious form slumped on the floor in an awkward position, like he'd just been tossed there, which he probably had. Don sighed painfully and collapsed, his arms not able to hold him anymore, and his brain not having enough strength to remain consious.
WITH LEO
Leo, Nicole, and Sasha sprinted for the Dameiyo's temple, which could be seen not too far from them. Leo and Nicole had taken Sasha with them because Leo, as much as he loved Linda, didn't really trust her to keep a totall eye on Sasha. Leo looked behind him to make sure Nicky and Shasha were still behind him, and stopped when he saw that Sasha had stopped a ways back, and was doubled over. He and Nicole jogged back to her. "Sash, what is it? How come you stopped?" Leo asked her, and he heard her panting heavilly. "Can't...run...anymore..." she panted, gasping to catch her breath. Leo rolled his eyes. They didn't have time for this! He bent down. "Hop on, Sasha!" Sasha hopped on his back, and sat on his shoulders. "All right, hang on!" Leo told her, and started sprinting again, Nicole next to him.
Leo ran straight for the wall that Don and Usagi had been against a while ago, and made his way for the door. Nicole stopped. "Leo there's guards!" Leo didn't seem to hear her, and she hissed louder. "Leonardo! Guards, guards!" He stopped suddenly, and ran the other way as he saw the guards on the ground starting to get up. Nicole rolled her eyes as he put Sasha down and leaned against the wall next to her. "When I tell you there's guards, you don't keep going!" she snapped at him. "I didn't hear you!" he lashed back at her, and she blew a piece of hair out of her face in her frustration with him.
"Well, how do we get in, now?" he asked her, and she looked up down and around. "This way..." she said, and started to inch the opposite way from the guards along the wall. "There might be a door on this side too." They inched and inched, but when they finally got to the other side of the wall, there was only brick there. "Great! You know, evenly decorating is not their number one priority, Nicole!" Leo hissed at her, and she glared at him. "Shut up! I won't be made the idiot here! I wasn't the one about to run right into guards with an eight year old on my back!" she snapped. Leo shook his head as he relised that they were so nervous they were at each other's throats.
Nicky looked up. "Leo, there's a window up there. How do we get to it?" Leo squinted up at it, and shrugged. "Uh... got a rope?" Nicky looked around again, and found a length of rope on the ground some feet away from them. "There!" she said, and ran to it, dragging it back with her. "Got a shuriken?" "Duh." joked Leo, and took one out. Nicole tied the rope around the opening in the middle of the shuriken, and tossed it up to the window. The shuriken hooked onto the window ledge, and Leo pulled on it to make sure it was secure.
Leo stared up at the window. "All right, I'll go first..." "Why can't I go first? You think I'm helpless or something?" Nicky asked, and he shook his head. "Look, sweetie. I know you're a feminist and I respect that but I REALLY don't want anything to happen to you! Now would you just listen to me when I tell you what to do? Stop arguing at every little thing!" Nicole looked down at the ground. "Sorry..." Leo smiled and kissed her lightly on the cheek, and then started to climb the rope. He was almost to the top of the large building when a hand came out of the window, took the shuriken out of the ledge and let it go, sending Leo plummeting to the ground.
WITH RAPH
Raph and Katie hid behind a tree, only feet from the wall where Don and Leo's groups had been. "Well, there's guards at that door, and there's bound to be more guards on the other side of the wall. So what do we do?" Katie whispered. Raph looked up as he heard voices. It was the Dameiyo's son, with Emily's arm tight in his grip. Raph heard Katie growl, much like he did except more feminine. "Oh, he had better get his hands off my sister!" she threatened, and Raph held her back. "Kate, hold it, babe. We need to keep cover. For Em's sake." Katie sighed, her eyes cleared, and she nodded.
Raphael and Katie listened closely as they heard Emily talking to the Dameiyo's son. "You're going to pay for what you did to them! All four of them!" "The turtles and the rabbit are very troublesome to me, I must be rid of them. And, it will not be them who will pay if you don't stop mouthing off! Besides, Leonardo deserved to fall out of that window, he's such a large burden to everyone anyway! And Donettello deserves to rot in that cell! He is only here because he wants revenge." Raph closed his eyes shut tight as he imagined Leo falling out of a window of the temple. Katie put a hand to her mouth, and Raph gripped the tree tightly. Emily spit in the Dameiyo's son's face, and he jerked away from her. " Don't you EVER talk about Donettello like that! He's here because he loves me!" The Dameiyo's son laughed evilly. "Oh, you stupid girl. Filling your head with thoughts of love and loyalty. Fairy tales, Emily. He's here because I am his enemy, as well as his brothers'." Emily's eyes could be seen filling with tears. "That's not-" "Oh, shut up and come! Now!" He jerked sharply on Emily's arm, and she nearly fell over with the force.
Raph and Katie looked at each other. "Don's in a cell?" Katie questioned. "Leo fell out of a window!" exclaimed Raph. Then, he looked up as he heard a long yell erupt from the temple. "That sounds like Don..." said Katie, and Raph scrambled up and ran for the temple, Katie right on his heels.
WITH MIKEY
Michaelangelo darted along the ground, Kristin right beside him. "Mike look!" Kristin whispered, and Mikey jolted to a halt. Kris was pointed to Katie and Raph, who were positioned behind a tree. They were watching the Dameiyo's son, who had Emily's arm in his tight grip. "Ah, Em..." whispered Mike, wincing as he spotted Emily's pale and fearfull face as the Dameiyo's son nearly jerked her arm out of it's socket and left. Mikey heard Kristin gasp as a loud cry sounded from the temple. Raph and Katie left their hiding spot and sprinted for the temple. "Well, Raph's got that one covered...I wonder where Leo is..." "Mike!" cried Kristin, pointing down at the ground. Mikey looked down, and felt his heart jump. He was sinking right into the ground, they were in a quicksand pit! "Oh shell!" he exclaimed, and struggled violantly. Kristin jumped out of the sand quickly so as not to sink as well. "Mike, don't struggle! It'll only make you sink faster!" she cried, and Mike stared at her. "Well what do you want me to do, wait patiently to die!" he yelled at her. "I want you to stay calm while I figure a way to get you out!" Kristin screamed at him, and Mike stopped struggling, trying not to panick.
WITH LINDA
Linda and Josh were running toward the Dameiyo's temple, but Linda suddenly stopped. Josh skidded to a halt, and looked behind him at her. "What's the problem, Lin?" he asked her as he stood beside her. Linda listened," I hear yelling..." She gasped as she recognized the panicked yells. "It's Mikey! Come on!" she told him, and Josh hurried after his girlfriend as she headed twords the sounds of her twin's voice.
She finally found Mike and Kristin in a clump of trees. He was sinking in a quicksand pit! She motioned Josh over to her, and the two of them threw all of their strenght onto a large log beside the pit. "Mikey!" Lin yelled, and Mike turned his head to look at her. "Lin!" he asked, and she nodded. "Grab on, dude!" she yelled, and Mike pulled his arms out of the quicksand. He nearly reached at root of the large log, but yelled," I can't! I can't reach it!" Josh and Lin tried to push it farther, but the log wouldn't budge. Linda stood on the log, and Josh grabbed her hand. "Are you crazy!" he asked her. "Yes!" she told him, and got down on her knees and inched down to the end of the log. She reached out to Mikey as far as her arm would let her. "Grab my hand, Mikey!" she said, and Mike struggled to get her hand. When she finally had him, she felt herself being pulled in with him. "Stop struggling Mike!" she screamed at him, and Mike stopped moving, wincing with the pain of his arm stretching. He shook his head, and blinked. "Mike, what is it?" Lin asked, but he didn't answer. His eyes clowded over and rolled to the back of his head, and he passed out, Linda still holding on his arm.
WITH JEN
Jeniffer, Chris, and Vicky had made it to the other side of the temple, taking a path that Vicky had spotted when they landed on the ground. Now, they heard a voice as they made their way around to the other side of the temple, looking for an entrance. Jen was walking backwards, looking around for any guards, or the Dameiyo's son, or SOMETHING that could ! Then, she shrieked as she backed into somebody, and whipped around. "Nicole!" she exclaimed, and Chris ran to them, Vicky on his back. "Nicky! Where's Leo and Sasha?" asked Chris, and Nicole beckoned them over. Jen gasped as she saw Leo lying the ground on his shell, with many cuts and bruises, and Sasha at his side staring at him. "What happened to him!" Jen yelled, and Nicole winced and put a finger to her lips. "He was climbing up to that window, so we could get in. But somebody took the rope off the ledge, and he fell." "HE FELL!" exclaimed Jen, staring up at the at least fifty foot tall wall. "FROM THAT!" she screamed, pointing up at the window, as if to emphasize her point. Nicky put a finger up to her lips, telling Jen to be quiet. "Jen, I know you're panicking, but you HAVE to be quiet! There's guards everywhere, they'll hear you!" Jeniffer scowled, but lowered her voice as she hissed, "Leo just fell off THAT and you're not panicking at all!" Nicole grimaced, and Chris put his hands on Jen's shoulders to calm her down. "Of course I'm panicking! I think I might hyperventelate! But, for Leo's sake we have to keep calm and find a hiding place!" said Nicole. Jen looked down at her brother's scarred and pained face, and nodded absent mindedly. "Okay..."
WITH KARA
Kara, Derik and Jill were running towords the Dameiyo's temple, and Kara yelped as she heard a sharp yell erupt from it. "What was that?" asked Jill, looking around for the source of the noise. Derik looked around too, as though the thing that had yelled could be in the trees next to them. Then, he heard a sharp rustle from the trees, and Kara jumped. Derik took out his sword quickly, and got into a defensive stance while standing in front of Kara and Jillian. "What was that?" asked Jill again, and Kara put her hand on Jill's mouth. Derik squinted into the darkness of the trees, and tightened his grip on his sword. Suddenly, a large guard(can't get enough of those) sprung out of the trees, and slashed out his sword, slicing Derik's arm. The young warrior cried out in pain, but looked over his shoulder to glare challengingly at the guard.
Kara eyed the guard's huge axe, and spiked armor with worry. "Be careful, Rik!" she hissed, and Derik nodded, narrowing his eyes at the guard. The guard narrowed his eyes at him as well, and made the first move to attack. He flung his axe in front of him, headed straight for Derik's chest. At the last second, Derik whipped his sword upward, colliding with the guard's axe. As they pushed against each other's weapons, testing the other's strength, Derik and the guard's faces were but inches from each other. Finally, the guard broke the moment by taking out a small round piece of metal and throwing it onto the tree next to Kara Jill. The thing was designed so strangly, the three turtles didn't really know what it was. The guard sprinted away from the clearing, back into the trees, and Derik watched him run. Then, he heard beeping. It was slow and steady. Beep...beep...beep... He moved twords the noise to see where it was coming from. His ears were leading him twords Kara and Jillian. Then, he looked to the side, where the beeping was coming from. He looked straight at the object that the guard had thrown onto the tree. He got closer to it, and then... Beep...beep...beep...beepbeepbeepbeep! The beeping spead up, and Derik gasped sharply. "Kara, Jill! Run, it's a bomb!" Then, the tree completly exploded, and Kara screamed and tumbled to the ground, grabbed Jillian in her arms as she went down. Derik threw himself to the ground, next to Kara, and both turtles got pelted with pieces of bark and twigs.
WITH ERICA
Erica screamed and jumped as she heard a loud explosion, and the ground rumbled. Hannah actually fell down to the ground from all the shaking. Gary gasped too, and stopped short of his walking. He stood next to Erica, looking around for where the noise might have come from. Being only kids, they weren't very good at defending themselves just yet, but Gary took out his Ronin Blade anyway, and squinted into the trees. Hannah frowned. "Does anyone else feel hot?" she asked, and Erica looked down at her. Then, she DID feel humidity coming from the trees. "Yeah. Gary, what do you think-" Then, she looked up. "Gary, smoke! Look! Above the trees!" Gary looked up quickly, and saw the smoke. He also saw the the tops of the trees were on fire! "Erica, the trees are on fire!" Erica backed away as the tops of the very trees they were standing under started to burn, and soon the fire had started to burn everything, right down to the grass on the ground. Hannah ran to her big sister, clinging tightly to Erica's leg as if this would protect her. "Gary, what do we do?" Erica screamed. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" yelled Gary, and pushed her and Hannah to the ground just before a huge burning tree came crashing down on them. Erica screamed and covered Hannah's body, and putting on of her arms over her own head as bark and wood landed painfully on them.
Gary scrambled up, and looked for a way out of the burning clearing. But, everywhere he looked was blocked by a wall of fire. "Erica!" he yelled to her, " Our only chance is to jump through the flames!" Erica stared up at him. "What, are you nuts!" she screamed. "Just come on!" he told her, and she got up, picking Hannah up in her arms. Gary gestured twords the wall of fire behind them. "All right, on my signal!" he yelled, and Erica nodded. "One..." Erica grabbed his arm. "Two..." She covered Hannah's head and face with her arms. "Three..." Erica and Gary held their breath, and Hannah whimpered. "JUMP!" All three of them yelled as they ran twords the trees, and then leapt right through the blazing hot flames.
A/N: So, what do ya think? Bad luck strikes again, huh? Please read and review!