2012

The turtles were fighting TigerClaw, Rahzar, FishFace, Bebop and Rocksteady, along with Don Vizioso's thugs.

But there was a new enemy in this fight. A dragon-like demonic entity, who seemed to call himself Kavaxas.

TigerClaw was somehow controlling Kavaxas with a seal of some sort.

The mission was simple. Get out alive, and maybe grab the seal in the process.

"You know, guys, Ming would be a lot of help right now!" Mikey cried, avoiding Rahzar's attacks.

"Who's Ming?" April asked.

"Mikey's imaginary friend." Raph grunted in reply, fighting FishFace.

"She is not imaginary, she's REAL!" Mikey yelled, dodging a couple attacks and landing his own.

"Yeah. About as real as that PizzaFace guy?" Leo growled, narrowly avoiding a thin stream of green fire from Kavaxas.

"Yes!" Mikey snarled.

Impatient with his brothers' disbelief, Mikey pulled out a smoke bomb and disappeared, reappearing on the roof of a nearby building.

He pulled out a small blue crystal. Ming had said that if he ever needed her, to blow gently on the crystal, and speak her full name. It had taken a few tries to memorize the name, but he had managed.

"Amingethia Arianna Satan. Help." He muttered to the crystal. It glowed brighter, meaning she was coming.

Mikey smiled, replaced the crystal, and went back to the fight. Raph had nearly been bitten by FishFace, and Donnie and Mondo Gecko were fighting their way out of Don Vizioso's warehouse restaurant.

Mikey continued fighting Rahzar, when he felt a pain in his leg.

Looking, he saw that TigerClaw had shot him in the leg with his blaster. It hurt like shell.

Leo managed to distract Rahzar's attention from the injured turtle. Unfortunately, Mikey had caught Kavaxas's attention.

The demonic dragon blasted his green fire at Mikey.

"Mikey!"

"No!"

"Little brother!"

The others looked in horror as the fire surrounded Mikey, and then died away, to reveal both Mikey, completely unharmed, and a strange girl they had never seen before.

She had red hair and glowing neon-blue eyes. She had giant bat-like wings that resembled Kavaxas's, except that her wings were black. A long, black, winding tail swished back and forth behind her, with a triangular point at the end. She wore a tube top that covered about half of her belly, and micro-mini shorts, along with black boots that reached up to her knees, with red on the top.

The girl hissed, revealing long, sharp fangs and a forked tongue, like a snake's.

She was standing protectively in front of Mikey, glaring with pure hatred at Kavaxas.

The others only gaped.

The girl turned to Mikey, her glare turning to calm kindness. She put a hand on his leg, and when she pulled it away, the leg was completely healed.

The girl helped fight Kavaxas, flapping her huge wings and taking off after him.

"Kavaxas!" Barked TigerClaw. "That girl! Destroy her!"

Kavaxas turned and attacked the girl, flying at her. The girl avoided him, with barely a movement of her wings and a flick of her tail, and then moved her hand in an odd gesture, sending Kavaxas flying into a building, head first.

The demonic dragon-like entity turned angrily, and shot a stream of green fire at her. She held her hand out flat, and the fire... Did not reach her. It rebounded towards Kavaxas.

"TigerClaw! I cannot defeat such power! We must retreat!" He called down to the tiger mutant.

"I decide when we retreat! Destroy them! All of them!" TigerClaw commanded, holding up the seal.

Kavaxas nodded slowly. "At your wish."

The girl held her hand in a fist, and water seemed to encircle that fist. Water wrapped around Kavaxas, holding him still.

The girl then turned to TigerClaw. She blasted a fireball down at him. TigerClaw attempted to ward off the attack using the seal, but it did no good. The seal couldn't control this creature the way it could control Kavaxas.

TigerClaw called a retreat.

The girl laughed at the mutants as they left, then she turned and pointed at Don Vizioso's machine, which started to malfunction. The men retreated, and Donatello and Mondo Gecko regrouped with the others.

The girl folded her wings and began to fall, landing perfectly on her feet.

Leo, Raph, Donnie, April, Casey and Mondo Gecko all stared at her. Mikey ran and hugged her happily.

"Hiya, Mikey! You okay? Did those big jerks hurt you?" She asked, hugging him back.

"Nope. I'm okay. Thanks to you." Mikey grinned.

"Good. Nobody hurts my turtle." The girl kissed Mikey's cheek.

"Um... Mikey... Who's this?" Leo asked.

"Who are you?!" The girl growled, baring her sharp fangs. Her eyes glowed brighter.

"It's okay. This is my big brother." Mikey explained.

"Big brother?" The girl's eyes lit up. "You didn't tell me you had a big brother. What's your name, Big Brother?"

"Leonardo." Leo replied.

"Ooooh! Leonardo. Heroic and majestic. Yet, not overly so." She trilled.

"And that's my brother Raphael. He's the strongest." Mikey pointed out Raph.

The girl knocked Raph over onto his shell and pinned him down, looking him over. Raph struggled.

"Such spirit. And strength. Like the angel Raphael. But not quite so... You know... Angelic."

"This guy is Donatello. He's the resident genius." Mikey continued, standing next to Donnie.

The girl stood from pinning Raph down, and held out a hand to shake.

Donnie took it, and was immediately shocked with what felt like a joy buzzer. He yipped, pulling his arm away.

The girl laughed. "Sorry. I needed to pull that on somebody. Everybody I know is getting wise to it."

"These are April and Casey." Mikey pointed to the two humans.

The girl scoffed. "I didn't know you had mortal allies."

Mikey shrugged. "They're not so bad. I mean, Casey's a little loud, but they're not so bad."

"And who are you?" April asked, suspicious.

The strange girl stiffened. "Use a little more respect. A mortal shouldn't get mixed in powers and forces that they do not understand."

"This is... My 'imaginary' friend." Mikey smirked.

"That's Ming?!" Leo gaped.

"She's real?!" Raph stared.

"Yep. As real as PizzaFace." Mikey nodded.

"Brrrrr... I hated that guy. Y'all are lucky you got a brother so brave and smart and strong as Mikey." Ming shuddered.

Raph choked back a laugh. "Smart?! Brave?! Girl, do you have the wrong turtle."

Ming glared at him, and then, she caught fire. The others screamed, but Mikey watched excitedly.

The fire spread until she couldn't be seen behind it, and then it disappeared.

Ming was... Different.

Her hair was no longer red and straight, but blonde, slightly wavy, and a little shorter. Her eyes were no longer glowing, but they were still blue, almost like the middle of an ocean.

Her wings and tail were gone, and her outfit had changed as well. She now wore a hoodie and baggy pants with many pockets, and her boots had become well-worn sneakers.

Ming grinned, showing that her fangs were gone, and that her tongue was no longer forked.

"Now, then. Cops'll be here any sec. I suggest you get going, unless you want to be caught." Her voice was different, too. It sounded more human, as opposed to before, when it was seductive and dark to a degree where it was almost of a different creature.

"You aren't coming?" Mikey sounded disappointed.

"I can't." Ming shook her head. "I got business to attend to. But I'll meet up with ya later." She grinned, winking.

"Bye." Mikey waved, as his friend left, walking down a dark alley.

At the same time, on the other side of the city, two thieves were digging for something precious and dangerous, a tool to be used to command and control a vicious being.

"We found one! Haha!" Harold cried with glee.

"Let me see." Rey took the golden seal. On it was a crown, and strange writing in a different language. "Beautiful. Ol' Al will decipher what this code here means, then Boss'll have his own demon on his crew."

The thieves laughed evilly, taking with them the gold seal. They had unwittingly discovered the seal of one of the most powerful and dangerous of all the demons.

Rey and Harold dropped the seal onto the work table of their scientist comrade. Al shivered nervously.

"'Ey, Ol' Al! Decipher the writing in this mystic seal." Rey commanded.

Al nodded, taking his microscope and peering at the seal.

"Oh, easy." He spoke in his airy, nervous, stuttering voice. "This says 'Princess of Hellfire' under it is the name 'Amingethia'."

"And that means?" Harold asked.

"It means that's the demon controlled by this seal. The Princess of Hellfire. Princess Amingethia. Honestly, don't you two keep up with anything?"

Rey and Harold smirked. "Okay, genius. How do we summon the demon this controls?"

"Oh, the Boss knows how to already."

The thieves nodded, leaving to Don Vizioso's room.

"Did you get one?!" Vizioso demanded.

"Yeah, Boss. Princess Amingethia's." Harold replied.

"Perfect. Now I have something to fight those freaks off with. Even if it means fighting fire with fire!" Don Vizioso laughed evilly. "I'll summon her personally tonight."

That night, Don Vizioso stared gleefully at the entity before him.

Opening her wings from around herself, a female demon stood to face Vizioso.

"You!" Vizioso gasped. The demon was the one that had fought them earlier that day, alongside the turtle freaks.

"Have we met, mortal?!" She snarled.

"Oh, we've met. And now, I'm your Master!" Vizioso held up the seal.

The demon princess hissed. "WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT?!"

"Where they're all hidden, my dear. Unless I'm very much mistaken, you can't so much as lay a finger on me, so long as I have this." The fat man stroked the seal with a grubby finger. "A demon. All mine to control. And I know just who to test you on, first."

She grimaced. "What is your wish... Master?"

"Find and destroy the mutant turtles!" Vizioso commanded.

Destroy the turtles?! Kill her friends?! Hurt Mikey?! That wasn't going to fly with Ming.

She hissed.

"You will do it!" The fat old disgusting brute held the seal out. Ming had no choice but to obey. She took off for the lair.

Vizioso commanded some of his men to go with her, to make sure that she finished the job. He let Vinnie, his most trusted comrade (and also his little brother) take the seal, in case the demon needed reminding about who was boss.

They climbed down into the sewers. Ming could easily track Mikey down, thanks to the crystal she had given him.

She was starting to regret making the crystal trackable. She wished she could just turn around and tell the goons that she couldn't find them, and suffer in silence whatever punishments they threw at her.

But she couldn't. She had to find and destroy the turtles. She couldn't resist the commands from the seal. The spell that had been used to tie her to it was much too strong.

They finally emerged in the turtles' lair.

"Ming!" Mikey grinned at her.

"Wait, who are they?!" Leonardo demanded drawing his katana.

"Two of... Don Vizioso's goons." Ming replied.

"What?! You lead them straight to our home?!" Raph snarled.

"Enough chatter, Princess. Get them!" Vinnie held out the seal.

Ming gasped in pain, and stepped forward, lunging at Raphael and Leonardo at the same time.

The turtles were well-trained and skillful, but they couldn't defeat her. She was an entity beyond them.

"Ming, wait!" Mikey cried, distracting her.

Ming glanced at the man holding the seal, and started chasing after her friend.

"Ming, wait! It's me! Mikey! Remember? I don't wanna fight you!" He protested, dodging her attacks with relative ease.

"I don't wanna fight you, either, but I don't have a say in the matter." Ming replied, and sent him flying into a wall.

Donnie ran out of his lab, April, Casey and a large rat behind him. They, Raphael and Leo all surrounded Ming.

"Wait! Wait, don't hurt her!" Mikey begged. He knew something was wrong. Ming was his friend. She wouldn't just attack him, or anyone, without a good reason.

He looked at the men that had arrived with Ming. He gasped, recognizing what one was holding.

"Guys!" He cried out. "Ming's being controlled by that seal thingy! We gotta help her, dudes!"

Raph stabbed at Ming with his sai. "You're not getting away, sister! I didn't trust you the minute I saw you!"

"You don't understand. Mikey's right! I can't stop myself, I don't have any control! It's that seal!" Ming gasped.

"She's right. There are one of these babies for every demon, born or cursed. God's gift to man, you might say." Vinnie smirked.

Mikey went for the men. Vinnie held the seal out. Ming swooped in and knocked her friend over.

"Oww!"

"Sorry! I'm sorry!" Ming gulped.

"Now, finish it off." Vinnie commanded.

"No!" Mikey gasped. Ming could easily kill him if she wanted to.

Regret, chagrin, pain and fear flashed through Ming's eyes as she helplessly held the squirming turtle down, and felt fire begin to bubble up from the back of her neck. Her hand closed around his throat.

"I'm so sorry..." She closed her eyes, not able to watch as he gasped for breath under her grasp, struggling to stay alive.

Suddenly, the pull of the seal changed.

"Stop." She heard Leo command, and, miraculously, she released Mikey.

Ming looked up to see the blue clad turtle holding the seal. She breathed a sigh of relief, and stood shakily, helping Mikey stand. The goons were all unconscious and tied up.

Mikey hugged her. Ming smiled tearfully.

"It's okay. I forgive you. We're still friends, right?" Mikey asked.

"Yeah."

"Step away from Mikey." Leo growled. He still held the seal, so Ming obeyed. She didn't object, she didn't want to.