Chapter Six – Running Away to Trouble

I just kept walking, walking, walking. I didn't know where I was going to go, I just kept going, to nowhere. I saw a bus-stop bench and sat down on it exhausted. Dawn was creeping up on me and I had been walking all night. After sitting there for a while I stood up and walked towards Central Park.

My mind kept wandering, it kept wandering back to Donnie, the last kiss we shared before we left. If I was forbidden to see him, then I didn't want to be around him. He meant so much to me that if I couldn't be near him I couldn't bear to be in the same place as him.

I sighed as I slumped down onto a bench, I held my head in my hands and cried softly. After who knows how long, I leaned back against the bench closed my eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning I stood up from the bench and started walking around, thinking about everything that had happened after I was sent on this mission from Master Shredder. At first I thought that none of this would've happened if I never decided to follow Shredder in the first place. But then I thought that I would have never met Donnie and his family, never gotten to know Donnie and his family. Donnie…I would have never fallen in love with him if I didn't come on this mission.

I looked up into the sky, "I love you Donnie" I muttered quietly. My mind went blank and I started to not pay attention to where my feet were taking me. I just went along with them.

Looking down at the beautiful city I realized that my feet had taken me to the worst place possible. How could they do this to me! I was on the top of the Empire State Building in the exact spot where Donnie and I had first kissed.

I sighed and leaned up against the railing and just stared at the city, but then I looked away and closed my eyes at what I saw. I had just seen the Shredder's tower, I didn't know that it was so close to the Empire State Building, it was too close.

All of a sudden I had a flashback. Shredder was talking to me after I had fainted in Donnie's room, "I will have complete control over your body so you will not betray me and tell him what I am planning, unless you have already told him. Then I would have to kill you, have you told him?"

I shook my head.

"Good, now you will keep leading him on and then you will draw him to me, you will find a way to do that, I know you will. You will be free to act as you wish, most of the time, but your tongue is now forbidden to say anything about me and my plans, now go." He pushed me back into the darkness.

I gasped, oh no, Donnie don't find me! He would be able to see us on top of this tower! He would get to you, and then your family would be in trouble because they would come to find you, and Donnie, he might hurt you!

"I thought you would come here." I practically jumped out of my skin in surprise.

"Donnie! What are you doing here?"

"I came to find you, I thought you would have come back to the lair in the morning after seeing how pointless it was to run away. But since you didn't, I decided to come and find you and bring you home."

I rolled my eyes, "whatever," I felt no worry now that he was here with me, I felt that everything would be fine. Even though everything was not.

I started to freak out after realizing that Shredder was probably watching us right now. "Donnie, you shouldn't be here. You need to leave now!" This would be the perfect time to strike, there weren't many tourists here, so there would be less people to split up.

"Why?"

"Donnie, don't ask me why, just do it!"

"Well, well, well, if we don't have one of the turtles within my grasp. Donatello is it?" A low harsh voice spoke. We both spun around and saw the Shredder and a large group of his minions surrounding us.

Donnie immediately took a fighting stance, "what do you want Shredder."

"What do you think? To destroy you and your family!"

"If you can't see, my family isn't here at the moment."

"Oh, but we have somebody even better here, someone who will grab your attention and get you to cooperate better." The Shredder then snapped his fingers.

My eyes widened as five of the foot grabbed me and pulled me back to the Shredder. They were going to use me as bait!

"No! Don't touch her!" Donnie lunged out to me but several of the foot kicked him back.

The Shredder held a dagger up to my throat threateningly. Donnie looked so helpless, "you see, I will kill her if you don't surrender."

"Don't do it! I'm of too much value to them!"

"Shut up Kristina! I will punish you for your betrayal later!" Shredder barked and pressed the dagger harder to my throat so that a thin line of blood protruded.

Donnie seemed to panic when he saw the blood and he immediately dropped his hands to his side and relaxed, "I surrender."

"No!" I screamed.

"Very good," The Shredder released me after the foot had bound Donnie's hands behind his back.

I ran over to Donnie and threw my arms around his neck and kissed him. I then acted like I buried my face in his neck when really I told him, "you may be thrown into a cell that in the back left corner there is a switch that opens the cell door, I'll give you a signal of when to do it, you will know what the signal is when I do it. But if you're not in there, I'll find some way to get you out. I love you." I kissed him until we were ripped apart and they took Donnie away.

Falling to the ground with my head in my hands I started to sob like I had ever cried before. I had just probably sent my only love to his death.

"Good job Kristina, you delivered him to me just as I had ordered."

I opened my eyes, they had tears in them, but they were not tears of sadness anymore, they were tears of anger. Leaping up I tried to beat Shredder to a pulp, but the Elite Ninjas grabbed hold of me and kicked me in the gut. I fell to my knees clutching my stomach and spitting out blood.

"You need to learn more respect for your Master Kristina."

Wiping the blood from my mouth I stood up yet again defiantly, "you are not longer my Master. My Master is now Master Splinter, my sensei. All you are is some no good rotten…" I didn't get to finish my sentence because the Shredder had snapped his fingers and the Elite kicked me again, and then dragged me off in the direction that they took Donnie. I glared back at the Shredder as he left my sight.

I was now locked up in one of the torture chambers, there was a puddle of blood under me. My hair was now in bloody tangled clumps lying across my face as my head had fallen forward.

"Have you had enough yet, are you willing to obey me now?" A menacing voice I had now grown to hate said.

I lifted my head and stared hard into the Shredder's eyes. "I will never obey you again." And then sucking up the saliva I had left I spat onto his mask.

"Send her to her room to clean up, we will be having a feast tonight, for our future victory." He said to one of the torturers. The Shredder turned back to me, "you will soon learn to obey me."

I was let down from my chains, and was taken to my room. After I had cleaned up and was forced to put on my old Elite Ninja outfit (because I was the highest Elite Ninja and the only girl, I had a different outfit than the others), I found out where they were holding Donnie and I went in the prisoner chamber.

Ordering the guards to leave the room, for I wanted to speak to the 'prisoner' privately I walked over to the cell. Donnie was bruised and bleeding, he was sleeping on the hard cot inside the cell. Unfortunately, he had not been put in the cell that you could easily escape from.

Grabbing some medicines, I unlocked and entered the cell and gently woke Donnie up.

He opened his eyes and looked up at me and smiled, "Kristy…"

"Shh," I started to gently clean his wounds. He winced as I did so and didn't say a word for a while.

After I was done he looked better already, except he still had a little bit of blood in his hair. "Kristy, how did you get here?"

"Shh," I said again and leaned forward and kissed him, but instead of enjoying the kiss we were interrupted.

"Aw, how sweet. My daughter and one of my worst enemies in love."

I glared up at the Shredder while Donnie looked at him with confusion.

"Daughter?" He asked.

I winced, wishing he hadn't asked.

"Yes my daughter, you see, I was too once in love but then I had to kill her after she had Kristina because she tried to betray me.

"Don't," I pleaded softly.

"Don't what? Tell him how you've been working for me to get rid of him and his family?"

I winced and shut my eyes tightly not wanting to see Donnie's reaction.

I heard him asked softly, "What?"

"Oh, you haven't noticed by now how she is wearing a elite ninja uniform and has been treated much better than you."

"Apart from the torture," I muttered.

"You needed to be punished!" The Shredder snapped. "Anyway, she is the highest Elite Ninja, she was sent to you turtles so that she could help me turn you human, making you weaker, and then I would capture one of the brothers, preferably Leonardo, but you'll have to do and make the family weaker so it will be easy to defeat them and kill them so you will be out of my life forever. That's what she was sent to you to do, to destroy your family and you." He emphasized the word you to make it more powerful.

Donnie turned to me, "is this true?"

I nodded, "but I've changed. I've seen the wrong in his plan, how it was so evil. I had always been taught how evil you guys were so I only knew that, but now I see the truth. I am no longer like that."

"Don't try to explain yourself, you are still the same! Now come, we are going to be starting our feast."

I quickly gave Donnie a kiss, and then stood up saddened. He had not responded, was he believing the Shredder? I desperately wanted to know what was going on inside his head at the moment.

At the feast I didn't respond to anyone, I didn't even listen to anything, I was just going through all of the memories that I had, all of the happy ones anyway. I only started to listen when the Shredder started to talk about how he had just sent the message to Donatello's family and they would be arriving shortly so we needed to get prepared for battle.

I stood up and declared, "I will not be apart of this rubbish anymore! I will not help you fight Donnie's family!"

The hall went quiet, Shredder turned to me and started laughing, "it seems that our young ninja has fallen in love with one of the turtles!"

No one moved, everyone was staring at me with their mouths open.

"Now, you will fight my daughter, or your love will be killed on the spot."

I sat back down hard, tears in my eyes. Everyone's eyes were still on me, their mouths still gaping. I couldn't handle this any longer, I threw my chair back and marched out of the hall and back into the prisoner's chamber. I threw open the cell door not caring if Donnie hated me or not, I threw my self on him and cried into his shoulder. I felt his arms curl around my waist and hold me close. He still loved me!

I lifted my head and looked into his eyes, my tears falling onto his chest. He reached up and wiped the tears from my face, "it's alright, I'm here." He soothed.

I started to cry even more, "Donnie, they're c-coming, they're going to be k-killed! And its all my fault!"

"Shh, no it's not, you didn't know what you were doing, but now you know right?"

I nodded my head.

"Then it's okay, we'll get through this, together. Now, I have an idea."

"What?"

"When we hear the fighting start and we know that my family is here, you bust me out of here, you do know how to pick a lock, right?"

"Of course."

"Then you get these chains off me out of here, we'll join my family, and go home. Okay?"

I laughed, "you're just making it simpler for me, I bet it's more complicated than that. Plus, there's always a guard right next to the door so that not even an elite ninja can take the prisoners out without the Shredder."

Donnie grinned, "of course it's more complicated, and besides, there's two of us and my family will be out there to help us."

I smiled, and pulled my feet up and snuggled against him, "I guess we can try it."

I don't know how much time I laid in Donnie's arms, but we heard fighting outside of the door. And then there was banging on the door. Donnie and I both stood up quickly. I pulled out a dagger and picked his locks and soon he as free. We were about to run out of the cell when I noticed that it was shut and locked.

"Crap! I can't see the lock! How am I supposed to pick it?"

"Here? Let me see the dagger." I gave him the dagger and he reached out through the bars and it sounded like he was actually picking the lock on the door. Then the lock click and the cell door opened slightly.

"How'd you do that?" I asked him as we headed towards the door.

"Well being an Electrical Engineer you have to kind of do somethings without looking at them."

"Nice." I said quickly as we came to the door.

I was just about to declare that this door was locked too when the door went flying off of it's hinges and Leo was standing where it once was. I had to duck out of the way from the flying door, so I had fallen to the ground and Donnie was helping me up.

Leo saw me then yelled and grabbed me and threw me against a cell.

"Leo no!" Donnie yelled.

I cried out as I hit the cell but I quickly gathered myself and started blocking all of Leo's attacks. "Leo what are you doing?"

"You betrayed us! We trusted you! And look what you did! You captured our brother and have been torturing him!"

"No Leo, you don't understand!"

"Oh yes I do!"

Donnie lunged forward and grabbed Leo, holding him back. But Raph then entered and charged me too and I again had to block attacks from him only he had sais this time and I had to use my two katanas to block them. And then in his rage he moved like lighting and sliced my middle with his sais.

I gasped and grabbed my middle and fell to the floor in a puddle of blood.

"No! Raph what did you do?" Donnie ran over and picked me up.

"She betrayed us Donnie!"

"That's no reason to kill her!" Donnie yelled through tears.

Even Leo was standing there dumbstruck at what Raph had done.

"Look at what she's wearing Donnie! She's wearing one of the Elite uniforms! She's one of them!" Raph yelled back.

"Get out of my way!" Donnie pushed Raph away with such fury that Raph was slammed into the wall cracking it. Raph almost attacked Donnie but Leo held him back.

I looked up into Donnie's eyes, "D-Donnie, I-I love you." I started to close my eyes.
"No! Kristy! Don't give up, you just can't!"

"Donatello, what happened?" I heard Splinter ask, I couldn't see him, I couldn't see anything anymore.

"Ask Raph!"

Splinter seemed to understand, "Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael!"

"Yes Master Splinter?" I heard Mikey, Leo and Raph ask.

"Help your brother get Kristy out of here!"

"Why! She betrayed us anyway, we should just leave her to die, she deserves it!"

"Raphael! You do not understand the full reasons! Now do as I say!"

The last thing I heard that night was sounds of yelling and metal clashing.

Should I end it there? Eh? OF COURSE NOT! GOSH! Who do you think I am? Some character killer…well, maybe. So! Will Kristy survive, or will she be lost to Donnie forever? Review and tell me what you think!