I didn't follow the Elite Guard, the Foot and Don to wherever they went. I don't think I was allowed to because the Elite had motioned for me to head towards my room. I became concerned on what would happen to Donatello. I honestly I couldn't tell why I did what I did. The whole incident happened so fast and I felt like I had no control on my actions. Was I angry to Donatello for what Saki had told me on how he was deceitful? But then again Don didn't really seem that type to be deceitful and cruel, but maybe he was really good at it? Was I jealous that Donatello actually had feelings for Tina before? How silly! Why the heck would I care who he liked or like! I didn't like him! But I knew I couldn't make myself lie. I did like Don…but anymore it was different than on how I felt about him when I first met Donatello. It seemed to be so deep that I could hardly feel it and I begin to question if I did in fact cared for him at all. It was like I seem to feel like I cared nothing for him at all but then his very presence would bring up my feelings and I would get so frustrated. Or was I so scared about the Elite that I really had no choice?

I stepped inside my darkened room and turned the light on and I saw that Hun had placed my 2 sais that Saki had given me onto my bed. I looked down at them and gently traced my fingers around on the handles. I tried my best to push the thought of Donatello out of head, but then I kept having this gnawing feeling inside that made me so frightful for him. I stood there, totally confused on what to do. I knew that Saki really didn't like the turtles at all and I shouldn't either because Saki had told me how terrible they were, but then again I knew deep down inside that I still didn't want anything bad happen to Donatello. I had no clue on where the Elite were taking him, but I knew I had to find a way to try to keep him safe while he was here. I sighed and took my sais with me, holding both of them by the handles in my right hand. I walked down my hallway to the elevator to get to the top floor where Saki's dojo was.

Moments later I was on the dark, top floor. I heard talking slightly, but I couldn't really hear what was being said. Curiously, I cracked open the door some to allow me to look inside some to see what was going on without being noticed. Inside, a few feet away from me I saw Hun standing, watching, with his back to me, and then I felt my heart almost sink when I saw Don lying on the floor. He appeared to be hurt; there were several bruises all over his arms and sides. Saki was standing about 3 feet away, glaring down at him, he was talking, but I couldn't exactly hear what was being said. Don groaned some in pain as I saw him try to lift his body up but every time he did, I saw that the Elite Guard, who was behind him, would kick him hard on the shell to make him fall back to the floor, face first.

My eyes went wide as I watched this, immediately I dropped my sais to the floor as emotions started to rush through my mind and heart. The sais made a loud clang as they hit the floor. I cringed as I snapped back to reality when I heard this, immediately the Elite, Saki, and Hun turned back around to look at me. I felt scared since they knew I was there and witnessed some of this. Stupidly I said, "S-sorry…I didn't know you were busy…I can come back later." I felt so scared; I didn't know what to do. I saw Hun make a motion towards me as if he was going to come over and escort me back out, but then Oraku Saki spoke up.

"It's okay. Please come in and join us, Melinda," He said gently to me. I bent down and gathered my sais back in my hand and then walked inside gently, trying my best not to make any eye contact with Don. "I am very pleased with you capturing one of these pathetic freaks for me. For the longest time, my men have tried their best to get rid of them for their danger to the society, but you have done it. I am very proud of you." He looked at me and I could see a huge smile on Saki's face, his voice was very soothing and calm.

"Stop lying to her!" Donatello managed to yell out. My eyes went wide and I immediately looked over at him. He was lifting up some, his eyes glaring at Saki.

Suddenly I felt Hun put his hand on my shoulder behind me, he laughed some. "I would be careful with your words, you pathetic reptile. You and your kind are garbage on the streets. She knows how you have hurt people before with your OWN lies. She knows about how you hurt Tina. Melinda is much stronger, she doesn't give into your false feelings for her." I gulped some as Hun spoke. I looked over at Don with my eyes fixed upon him. I was waiting on what Don would say. When Hun brought up Tina again, I felt myself becoming numb again. I looked over at Saki; he had his eyebrow raised as he looked at Donatello.

Donatello looked up at Hun and me with a very confused face. "Huh? What the shell are you TALKING about? That is a pretty pathetic story, Hun. Is that what you told Melinda? I don't even know who this Tina person IS." He then fixed his eyes upon me as he was trying to look past my eyes and more into my heart and soul. "Melinda, listen to me. Don't LISTEN to them. You are not weak! They think you are dumb and feeding you this. You are smarter than this, please do not listen to them!"

I tensed up and looked at him, breathing in sharply. I didn't know what to do or say, I know Don's words were striking me pretty hard. I was kind of thankful that Saki had spoken up again once more. "Funny, you say that you don't remember anything, but Hun clearly tells me that Tina remembers you."

"Hun doesn't have the brain capacity to take in anything that holds truth. All he can handle is wasteful information such as lies. Speaking of lies," Don's glare snapped back at Saki. "Did you tell Melinda that you have Lea?" My eyes went wide as I stood there. Now I knew where Lea was! But why was she here? I knew she had some pretty close ties to the turtles so that meant that Saki wouldn't have liked her. Don turned his head and looked at me again. "Did you tell Melinda that you cut her because she wouldn't give into the poison that you were feeding her?"

I felt my stomach grow sick by this. Lea was hurt! I looked at Don, scanning his eyes and face, trying desperately to see if he was in fact telling me the truth about this. He held my gaze and looked at me. I finally broke from his gaze when I heard the sound of Hun growling lowly to himself, his grip on my shoulder was now tighter. I looked at Saki again. He seemed to be frustrated. The expression on his face truly had changed from calm to anger.

"I am tired of your interference!" Saki screamed out and kicked Don hard in the middle of his plastron. I heard Don let out a groan as he fell back some and landed on his side. "You pathetic freaks will cause me no more trouble!" He growled again as he walked over to Don, who was still on his side. Saki bent down some and grasped Don's wrist tightly, he jerked his arm up and gave it a slight twist. I heard Don let out a cry and Saki lifted his arm just high enough then kicked Don sharply in the upper side. I knew where his ribs would be at. I knew the skin in between Don's shell and his plastron was very vulnerable for a turtle. Don let out an agonizing cry as he dropped to the ground again. I shook my head some as I watched. Feeling so helpless for him, I felt like running over to stop the attack, but when I tried to jerk away some, Hun's grip was so tight that it held me in place. Saki walked over to where Don lay. I knew that Don was completely at Saki's mercy for the time being. I noticed that the expression on Saki's face changed from anger back to calmness.

"Hun! I am tired of dealing with him right now! Take him away. He will be useful to lure out the other freaks," He spoke, his eyes fixed on Don. I felt Hun took his hand away from me and walk over to where Donatello was. Saki then looked over at me. "Melinda, you stay here with me." He motioned for me to walk over towards him. I walked over where Saki stood, but my eyes were fixed on Donatello. I felt so bad deep down inside to allow all this harm come to him. Don let out a sharp gasp as Hun jerked him by the same arm that Saki had injured earlier. When I saw the door close as Hun walked out with Donatello, I let out a deep sigh. I knew what I had done was not right at all, but how I was going to fix it now? "You don't have feelings for him, do you, Melinda?" Saki asked with a great deal of suspicion in his voice.

I turned my head away from the door sadly and kept my eyes lowered to the ground. "No, Master, I don't…" I said. I knew that I had lost Donatello for good at that point no matter if I did change my mind about the matter and wanted to be with him. How could he forgive me for what I did to him?

"So, you ready to learn how to fight with your weapons that I gave you?" He asked as he walked away from me.

I looked down at my sais and replied, "Yes, Master Saki." My mind still wasn't off of what I just had witnessed and the fact that Don mentioned that Saki had captured Lea. I wanted to ask what was going on, but I knew it would be bad to ask at the moment so I kept my troubles inside. I watched Saki walk over to where a foot ninja was standing. The ninja handed a katana blade to Saki.

"What training have you had in the martial arts?" He said as he walked back over to where I was standing, his eyes fixed upon me.

"Well I took karate when I was really young and I took fencing about a few months ago in my last semester of college," I said kind of nervously.

"Ah, fencing. Very good! How were you with that?"

"I was okay. I had a hard time with slowing down to learn specific moves, but I was very aggressive."

"I see and what hand do you normally use?"

"I am ambidextrous, sir. I fight with my left hand, but I am very good with the right as well," I said.

"Good," Saki said, I could tell he was pleased with me, which kind of made me feel better. "Being able to use both hands effectively is needed to use the sais." His eyes then studied me for a moment as if he was thinking then he spoke once again, "Alright, I want you to take a few steps back and get a good grip on your sais. Then I want you to come after me. I want to see how you fight naturally." I nodded my head and did what I was told.

I am not too sure how long I practiced with him. This guy was REALLY good! I did get hit some, but it wasn't anything major, but I knew I had some pretty big bruises, especially on my arms and bruises. But I also knew that I was really out of shape; the guy wore me out after three sparring sessions! However, Saki seemed to be really impressed with me so I didn't feel so bad. "I think you're done for the day, Melinda," He said smiling at me. "You did well for your first time, but you will get better from the practice that I will give you. You fight very well naturally with the sais. You have a natural warrior tone to your fighting and there's nothing wrong with that." I smiled big, feeling really happy from hearing that since in fencing class I always felt like I really sucked! Because in fencing class, I lost every bout! "Go rest for the night and tomorrow you will get up and train with my foot ninjas with their exercises. We shall have this practice session again tomorrow night. I am very proud with your effort that you are making."

I nodded my head and told him goodnight. I felt really good about my session but then again I was kind of confused how he seemed to totally forget what had happened earlier. Was he not bringing it up on purpose? I wanted to ask about the whole issue with Lea, but felt I could wait until tomorrow to ask but just keep alert on what was going around me.

I decided to take the stairs down to the floor to where my room was; I wanted to explore the place if I could. I was still kind of uneasy about Lea and Donatello. I didn't mind the walk either because I really didn't want to go to bed yet even though my body was aching. About 4 floors from my floor, I noticed a foot ninja was standing at a door near the end of the hallway. He was looking through a small window on the door as if he was checking on something and then continued to walk on. Luckily, his back was to me. This brought great interest to me and I figured that this might have been the room that they had put Donatello in. I knew I had to talk to Don and see how he was doing, no matter if he hated me or not, but I couldn't get near him without alarming any suspicion to Saki or Hun so I decided to wait till later on that night when everyone would be asleep to check on him. I noted the floor and the proximity that the door was at and then continued on down to my floor.

I set my sais on the floor near my bed when I entered my room and then lay down on my bed. I sighed some as I looked up at the ceiling. My body was aching for some rest, but I wouldn't allow it. I couldn't. I was deeply troubled. What the heck was wrong with me? About a week ago or so, I felt like I had grown so close to Donatello to even make me believe that I had deep, strong feelings for him. But now I couldn't feel anything at all for him. I was so numb inside even though I knew my feelings were still there. They felt so hidden. Like as if they were at the bottom of the ocean and I didn't have the oxygen to go that deep to get them. What had made me this way? When did this just seem to happen? Even that I didn't know. I didn't feel really angry with him at all. But now since I saw him get hurt by Saki and the Foot, I felt bad for him as if I wanted to break down to him and tell him how sorry I was. I knew the only thing that would make me better and that was to see him again. But also I needed to find Lea. Was she really here? Why was she so important to Saki?