Holy Crap! a review, its been so long since i got one on this site i had almost forgotten what they look like lol. Im finally getting close to finishing off this series as well as my stand alone a well lit dark. I have a few ideas bouncing around in my head that just might turn into something but im open to suggestions so if anyone had a request feel free to email me or leave it in a review!
It took only a matter of minutes for Julie to explain how she knew and where he was and they were off. The speed through the tunnels towards the location named in the paper, he would no doubt be somewhere near by.
Mikey lead the pack he was running so fast it was hard to keep up with him, before long they had lost sight of him entirely. She had a bad feeling about that she didn't want him to encounter his older self alone, she loved her Mikey and wouldn't trade him for the world but she had no doubt that if they fought he would lose.
Leo was leading now at a much more reasonable pace, Julie couldn't tell where they were or how far they had gone she hadn't paid enough attention to her surroundings for that.
She rounded a corner and began to feel weak, too much running she supposed. The feeling increased at a surprising rate, the sounds of the others foot steps echoed in a distant way and the dim light flickered, she felt like she was going to faint.
Without warning she dropped to her knees, images flashed before her eyes so fast it made her sick. Blurry speeding images, a fight, shouting , blood, pain. The images vanished as suddenly as they had came.
She struggled to her feet mumbling an excuse about tripping to the others and speed off, her feeling of panic increasing with every step.
In a matter of minutes they were climbing a ladder out onto the street, the cold air helped to settle her stomach. They started off towards the crime scene as quickly as they could manage without being seen, there were still CSI's on the scene collecting evidence, not that it would do them any good.
"Let's split up" Leo said breaking the silence. They divided up Leo and Leo, the older April and the younger Raph, Don and the one eye Raphael, herself and April.
She and April walked through the area as casually as possible, no one seemed to take notice of them. The followed the street to the end of the short block and hung a right looking for anything out of place, a manhole cover ajar, a light in an old building but they saw nothing.
They turned down an alley to check for any homeless people who might have spotted a giant talking turtle from one of there boxes and that when they heard it. Shouting, fighting , at least 3 voices all of which were familiar.
The sounds came from the rooftop of the building at the end of the alley, without a word Julie ran full speed down the alley and jumped onto the fire escape. She vaguely heard April's voice calling after her but she didn't slow down , she climbed as fast as she could.
She could make out Raph's voice yelling something as she neared the top, it echoed too much to be heard clearly.
She vaulted the last bit and finally her feet made contact with the roof. The scene laid out in front of her made her want to scream.
Mikey lay fallen and bleeding, bruised at battered. Don crouched next to him check him over. And Raph stood looking venomously at the spot his sai had hit, several feet from its intended target, no doubt his missing eye was to blame for his lack of depth perception.
And there a few feet from the thrown weapon was a one armed turtle, not looking nearly so worse for the wear as she would have hoped. He chuckled at Raph and disappeared over the side of the ledge.
"Come back here you coward" Raph yelled after him, but it was too late he was already gone.
In a short time everyone had gathered there, Mikey thankfully was ok aside from a serious beating. He leaned on Julie the whole trip home, he was heavy and one of his brothers probably could have been more help but she felt it was her place now.
The trip home took much longer than the trip there had, no one said anything and there was a heavy feeling a defeat hanging over them. When they finally pushed open the front door to the lair Donnie finally broke the silence.
"Take Mikey to my room will ya" He said turning to face Julie " I wanna patch him up a bit" She nodded and they slowly made there way through the kitchen across the living room and finally into Don's room.
She helped him into bed without much protest. " That was really stupid you know" She said helping him take off his pads.
"I know" She said in a sad tone " I just wanted him gone so bad, I just want things to be settled" He continued reaching up to cup her cheek " Quieter, safer"
She nodded with a weak smile, she knew exactly what he meant.
The sounds of shouting leaked in from the living room and broke the moment. Julie insisted he stay in bed and promised to check it out and fill him in. She shut the door behind her and hurried toward the living room.
The room was a hive of activity they were all gathered in a circle talking and shouting at once, Leo held a piece of paper in one hand.
"Guys, GUYS!" She shouted over them trying to get there attention " What's with all the shouting?" She questioned looking from one turtle to another.
Leo turned and held out the piece of paper " Master Splinter is missing