The Enemy

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Chapter four – Lesson

Kirra:

I knew that today father would start the fun and games with our prisoners. Others might even get a chance to join in the games that was if father was in a generous mood.

As it was morale and the spirit of the Foot clan itself was running high with our victory from the night before.

I was working out with a group of Foot Soldiers in one of our practice rooms, when father entered it was clear, to me, at least that he wanted to speak with me so I decided to finish up the session by defeating the remaining soldiers, then bowing curtly to them before going over to father who didn't seem too pleased by the other soldier's efforts.

He gestured for me to follow him after giving them some sharp orders to keep at their practice.

I fell into step slightly behind him and to his right watching him attentively as we strode into the halls. I didn't ask but waited instead for him to speak.

" I want you to give a lesson to Raphael." He informed me a minute or so later.

" Any instructions before I start?" I asked giving a wicked grin at the prospect of being allowed to 'play' with the aggressive turtle a bit more.

I recalled all too well Raphael's longing to fight. His strong desire to kill me for all I had done to his family. I knew that he was the sort who would want the upper hand in any battle and the fact that he had failed meant it would eat away at him, causing him to want revenge.

I was aware that he had far more years of training and experience then I had under me. However I was very confident in my own skills and training. Besides he could provide me the sort of challenge that I rarely received from the Foot Soldiers.

I knew I would have to take precautions to ensure he did not escape during his lesson but I also wanted to justify my father's faith in me.

I knew father wanted the turtle tortured it was his part of his plan to make them suffer before we granted them their final peace in a sleep they'd never get a chance to wake from.

As his daughter, I knew, that I was fully expected to do almost as good of a job as father himself.

I now waited eagerly for father's reply so I knew how far I was to go.

" Do whatever you wish. Hurt him cause him extreme pain and suffering but try not to break any bones just yet." He insisted after some contemplation, " I want him around for a time so do not injure him too badly."

I nodded no fatal wounds or bone breaking otherwise I was free to do as I pleased.

" By the way Kirra I want you free this afternoon when I take on the leader of their clan." Father stated.

" That I would want to see anyways Master" I admitted quite honestly.

I felt honoured to get a chance at Raphael and I wondered if I'd get a chance to lesson the leader as well at a later date in time.

I'd love to be responsible for bringing the leader to his knees making him beg and plead for mercy while granting him none of it. However I knew that father was most likely going keep Leonardo for himself.

Father dismissed me and went on his way. I eagerly decided to get the lesson started so headed for the prison.

When I entered the hold area I noticed that Michaelangelo was all ready missing, which meant someone else had probably taken him for a lesson as well. Father was in an extremely generous mood to allow others to join in on the lessons.

The guards gave a slight bow my way and one of them came over unlocking the male's cell for me handing me the keys to unshackle my victim.

I walked past Michaelangelo's empty spot and paused, out of reach, in front of Raphael.

" Looks like I get to see if you are any better today then you were yesterday." I smirked.

" I'd like to do to you what your friend did to Serena and Kei" he growled at me.

" I might give you that chance" I smiled slightly, " I like a challenge I just don't get much of it around here." I confessed.

" I ain't surprised" Raph grumped.

I closed the gap moving fast but as I moved in he kicked out, I dropped down and grabbed the chain jerking it forward causing it to trip him and send him back where he ended up banging his head slightly on the wall.

" Your stupidity and your anger tell me that you will not be much of a threat to me at all." I muttered as I knocked him out with a hard blow.

I looked at the guards who had been enjoying the show " One of you go call a few soldiers in here to help me get him to a spare practice room."

" Right away Kirra" one of the guards acknowledged.

I released the shackles from off the turtles wrist and ankles before securing his hands behind his back. I kept my senses alert to his every move just in case he was trying to fool me by faking an unconscious state in hopes of luring me in to a subtle trap. I wasn't about to let Raphael get the drop on me.

I felt a cold penetrating gaze locked on me. I raised my head slightly arching my eye ridge at Leonardo, meeting his stare with one of my own.

" Don't worry father wants to play with you later" I smirked at him.

" Where is there honour in harming innocent people, or in killing defenceless children? Where is there honour in torturing us to please your own sadistic whims?" He demanded sharply.

" You can worry about honour Leonardo. The Foot just want revenge for all the pain and the suffering you have caused us over the years. Trust me, we are owed and we will take full payment." I informed him briskly, " Don't tell me that you are still thinking about them!" I grumped jerking my thumb back in the direction of the other cell. I was right to spare their lives to cause him more suffering.

" Tell me noble leader" I mocked him " How close is she to delivering her baby? I don't know much about pregnancies but she doesn't look too far along. Three months is my guess."

His eyes turned icy " Leave her Alone" he hissed.

I smiled " For now. None of our people ought to touch her without father's permission" I replied, " you ought to be grateful for that, as some of the soldiers here would love to take their liberty with such a fine lady." I hinted, " then again there are those foolish enough who might try to play with her even without father's permission."

He saw what I meant and his face turned truly dark and ominous he trembled for control while I stayed out of his reach and laughed at him, the guards joining in on my little joke, also laughed at his expense.

By then the Foot I had requested had arrived and I turned to them as the guards unlocked the cell door for them to enter.

I kicked Raphael's foot as I passed by to lead the way " Bring him and follow me. I have need of your services." I stated sharply.

We went to one of the smaller practice rooms where the soldiers almost threw the turtle to the floor. I tapped one of the four soldiers who had come to assist me.

" You go and retrieve me an electric whip and bring it back here quickly." I barked my command.

" Yes Kirra" he replied bowing before hurrying out the door to do my bidding.

The electric whip was a combination, of an electric prod and a whip. The whip had a long lash that conducted the electricity out of the whip and into what ever the lash touched.

The whip handle had a small control that could set the electricity from a low to very high setting. Of course the electricity could also be turned off from that control as well.

It was a device my father had some foot scientist design for him many years back and it was often one of his favourite tools.

I removed the chains off the turtle who was starting to stir, I hoped he wouldn't wake least not just yet. By the time the chains were off the soldier had returned handing me the whip.

I quickly turned the power on and checked the setting before giving the turtle a taste of it. His eyes snapped open suddenly and he lunged to his feet, casting a glance around the room before rubbing slightly at the soar spot on his arm.

I clicked the weapon off and tossed it back to the soldiers who were by now standing guard by the door.

" Set it on high and use it on him if he tries to leave this room at any time." I ordered loudly enough so that he would also knew what lay in store if he made an attempt to escape.

Raphael leered slightly " Trust me I ain't leavin' this room till you are dead and I've mounted your shell on the wall."

I smiled at his threat " Funny my father wants to do the same to you." I admitted, " Here you seem to be missing something" I stated as I tossed him my sais, which he plucked as in mid fall twirling them expertly in his hands.

I reached behind pulling my katanas and took a relaxed stance as I allowed him to make the first move.

He gripped my sais tightly in his hands and advanced with caution towards me a cold, hunter's stare in his eyes.

Good, he was being wary and that meant he wasn't likely to do some thing foolish to throw our match away. Perhaps this fight would be worthwhile especially if he had gained enough knowledge to control his temper.

" You killed most of our family" he snarled.

I smirked " Don't feel too bad now for I do intend on finishing the job." I said sweetly rather amused by his attitude. He ought not to be thinking of what I had done before, far better for him to think of what I might do to him now.

He slashed out with his left and I blocked the move with ease, his right hand flickered slightly and my sword came down intercepting the strike. For a while there was only the sound of metal striking metal as we tested one another.

He often tried to lure me out in hopes of providing an opening for him to get the first blow but I was not easily drawn into his feints and ruses. We circled each other, predator and prey, but at this moment in time it was almost impossible to tell which was which.

I began to push him harder demanding that he either dig deeper, work harder or suffer the consequences as I began a series of quick strikes beating time with my blades, his sais whirled blocking every move as he met my challenge.

I smiled this was what I had been hoping for and now sensing that I was close I decided it was time to move beyond the kids game of testing each other out. If I wanted a child's game I would challenge the foot to a match. I wanted and expected more from him.

A sword tip snuck past his defence drawing a scratch along the upper arm but he used the left handed sai to trap the blade pushing it up and away.

As if finding new strength from some where deep inside he began to go on the attack, his sai flashing wildly forcing me to back peddle and give ground to him. Now I had to work harder for I could feel his anger and irritation rising and I knew that it fuelled his hits. I fell into a meditative state that allowed me to sense his moves before he made them matching his blows with calm, controlled energy.

His anger was growing and I decided I had enough of our match for the time being, especially as I had a lesson to give yet. Now I made a move matching it to the flow of the blows he was already landing I caught the sais with ease on my sword's blades and forced the weapons from his hand disarming him quickly almost effortlessly.

He flipped back out of my way and made a dash for the sais where they had landed.

I shrugged indifferently. Far as I was concerned I had all ready won this match by disarming him. I gestured for the electric whip as I sheathed my katanas.

The Foot receptive to my needs tossed the weapon my way I caught it and checked the setting on the handle turning it slightly higher, until I could hear the faint hum and crackle of the electricity in the whip.

I snapped the whip out hard and it wrapped about his wrist the jolt o electricity travelling up his arm causing him to release the sai he had managed to get.

" Fuck!" he roared in pain.

I drew the whip back again allowing it to crack back out this time the lash hit his cheek " Learn some respect" I demanded sharply.

" Kutabatchimae" he responded with a growl. ( Go to hell.)

" Iie akutai kame kichgaijimita." I scolded him ( No bad language insane turtle.)

Really, I had spent most of my life in Japan did he think that I would not know the language of my home?

I kept whipping him driving the lash out over and over, listening to the almost soothing hum of the electricity as it sang between us. I knew the blows I gave him were painful. It showed not just in the welts and the burn marks that I scored on his thick hide but in other ways as well. Eight times out of ten the lash was able to find unprotected skin.

At first he tried to avoid the whip's blows but now the constant jolts of electricity seemed to be slowing him down.

He collapsed to the floor his body jerking in spasms, panting heavily and gritting his teeth against the pain. I continued to lash at him until I heard the slightest whimper escape from his throat.

I smiled in victory but continued to beat him as he began to curse me in numerous languages before finally gasping " Stop please, or just kill me damn it!"

I relaxed stopping the blows now that I had achieved what I had wanted. I had broken him mentally and physically. He would know that he had asked for my mercy and that it was either in my power to grant it or not. The very fact that he had asked for it, would eat away at him, for he was not the sort to ask for clemency of any kind from his enemies.

I walked over to him slowly to stand over him where he lay in a silent crumpled heap. I placed a well aimed kick into a tender spot between the carapace and plastron where the shell gave no protection.

His head jerked around and his eyes shot open blazing the defiance and hatred that Raphael still held.

I was shocked for I felt sure that I had beat him into submission but realized his ability to regroup gave me yet another chance to topple him.

" I think I know whose shell will be the trophy on the wall" I remarked almost pleasantly.

He grunted and tried to get to his feet though he was still weak and I knocked him back to the ground with little effort on my part.

" I think when I transport you back to your cell. I will have you chained and dragged so any Foot Soldier along the way can kick you, stomp on you spit at you, or anything else they might please to do to you." I decided.

He growled at me as I laughed.

" Don't worry I won't let them hurt you too much just enough to hopefully teach you how to respect your masters" I paused " Kiekei." (freak). I concluded.

Somehow I knew that word would get him going " Ama jama shimaide" he spat at me in a fury. (fuck off bitch)

He would learn or he would die in the learning. That was the whole point of giving lessons after all.

I don't think he cared one bit for the gauntlet he was dragged through the Foot most definitely enjoyed the fun I permitted them at the turtles expense.

Word seemed to spread quickly and there was a mass of soldiers pushing and shoving for a chance to get at Raphael as he was dragged by. They did all I had said and much more some took spears or swords and cut at him as well, and I permitted it.

By the time we entered the prison and gave the guards their shot at him, just to keep everything fair, he had given up on voicing any obscenities.

The young girl looked at her uncle her hands clenching the metal bars " Oh Uncle" she gasped upon seeing him flinching visibly as the guards had their amusement.

I finally got him back into his place in the cell and backed away warily making sure not to give him an opening, though I felt that even if I had presented one that he was in no mood to take me up on it.

I noted as I left the males cell that the female and children had some fruit and plastic water bottles in their cell. Obviously father saw no need to starve them, however the males weren't as lucky.

This was yet another form of torture, the males could see the food, smell it and yet would be denied it. There was no possible way even for the woman and children to pass any of their bounty over to the other turtles.

I had noticed that Leonardo and Donatello were both missing from the males cell but Michaelangelo had been returned and chained up, he was sitting propped up against the wall, clearly unconscious who ever had lessoned him had done an exceptional job of it, judging from fresh bruises and other cuts and injuries.

I went over to look in at the female and children " Take a good long look children and remember this is what happens to those who dare to cross us and show no respect for the Foot Clan." I let a small smile play about my face " Learn that lesson well" I advised them coldly.

The girl trembled she gave a large swallow and backed slowly away from the front of the cage but the boy came forward placing himself between her and I. He crossed his arms over his plastron and glowered at me.

As I turned to leave I noticed something from the corner of my eye and whipped around in time to see a peach pit strike the bars and drop to the floor.

It might very well be fun teaching the little Ryu a lesson as well, I thought to myself as I turned and left them on silent feet.

TBC

Reinbeauchaser: I lied there is no torture scene in chapter five but there is a torture scene in six. Yes Mike does have quite a challenge ahead of him self as to who might fully win this contest well time will tell. I really didn't want to give names to the dead especially as they were going be killed quickly. A gratitude for your insight.