Hours later, Master Splinter returned. Previously, he had gone to inspect the empty lairs for wandering rogues. Now back, he found all of his sons surrounding the couch. Curious, he wandered, smiling.

"What is so interesting?"

They gasped and turned back, shielding their bodies over whatever it was.

"M-Master Splinter! Your back." Don managed.

"Yes and it seems you have found something. Or someone."

Two looked down almost guiltily, the other peering behind to make sure. Splinter walked around behind them and stood shocked. "Well..."

Ame's ears perked. "Someone new?"

"Ame, this is our sensei. Master Splinter, Ame. Ame, Master Splinter."

"An honor to meet you." she bowed her head low.

"Yes. To you too. If you do not mind me asking, where are you from?"

"Not here." Mikey intercepted.

"Somewhere far away." Don joined.

Splinter raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. "Very well then. I trust you will take care of her?"

"Yes!"

He walked back to his room, tail flicking from side to side in good humor. The three breathed in relief. "Where's the fearless leader?"

"Right here." Leo emerged quietly from the shadows. "Where is she?"

"She's..." they turned to look. "Somewhere."

Four brothers looked around, slightly irritated. "Don't tell me she ran off like that..?"

"You guys would just love to have that, would you not?" her voice snickered up above. The lair consisted of two levels, by either jumping or taking the ladder up. From the second level, the roof was fifteen feet up. Ame was hanging, upside-down, practically mocking gravity, on the ceiling. How she got there, was a mystery.

"Weren't you just..?"

"When did she...?"

"How in the heck?"

And silence and her feat. In the dim lighting, her eyes beat bright purple against the shadows. The bloodied bandages around her body slowly slipped off, revealing no trace of there having been any wounds or bruises. She sighed in relief. "Much better. Told you I can do magic, Mikey."

"But healing in not even a few hours! We hardly even brought you here this morning!"

She pointed to her ears. "Not to sound rude but, do I look human to you?"

"She's got a point there, Donny." Raph approved her boldness. "Even by our standards."

"Her genetic design must be complex if her body is able to reconstruct itself in a brief period of time." Don thought out. "There's no animal I know of that could possibly heal as fast as you. Nanos-"

"Are robots, programmed to adapt to whatever problems it may have, something of a living machine. But I can tell you, with all my heart: I. Am. Not. A. Machine."

"I didn't mean to offend you."

"I stick up for my friends, wether he is a machine or not, I do not care." she glared slightly, voice tinged in offense. "Any friend I make, I protect them with my life. Remember that." She softened. "I know you did not mean to offend me, but I am just making one thing clear. If you insult my friend, you insult me. If they should be punished, punish me instead."

Mikey gave a low whistle. "So if Master Splinter where to-"

"You are on your own." she laughed, jumping down from the second floor to the first.

"Worth a try. Anyway, how'd you get up there?" Mikey pointed up at the ceiling.

She looked nervous. Instead of answering, coughed once and said. "For me to know." 'He is going to kill me for that..' she thought.

"You're healed." Leo spoke up. "Are you leaving soon?"

All the fun and laughter died in her still blind eyes. "My eyes are not yet healed. But if you so soon wish to see me leave-"

"Leo," Mikey looked up at his older brother. "You know, along with everyone in this room, that she is still not yet capable of surviving out there."

"It is alright Mikey." she got up, already making her way to the door. "I know when I am not wanted."

She got up to leave. Her ears perked suddenly, tail flicking violently. Her pupils dilated and Ame's cat parts bristled. "They found me." she hissed.

The lair went silent, and the four now heard something close by. Ame's eyes flashed, intent and focused on whatever it was.

"What is that?" Mikey whispered. It sounded like it was hunting, and only carnivores hunted. With speed and silence, Ame scaled up the wall on her bare feet and hands. The sound of sniffing soon turned to growls as she grew closer. The growls came from one of the cave exits, clawed feet clicked against the ground. Ame was at the mouth of the cave above it, arms and legs tense and nails extended to claws. An unearthly roar announced her attack, ringing and echoing off the walls and made the brothers cover there ears. She lunged in the cave, wrestling now with the thing in it. The thing howled in acceptance to the challenge. The sound of flesh tearing and cries of pain was all they heard. Master Splinter came out, bewildered, but knew well enough not to say anything. The sound of the spinal cord breaking sickened them. After a few minutes, silence. No one dared spoke.

Red eyes flashed, and a blood covered Ame came out. She was holding a cross between a dog and a huge rat in her mouth. Sharp teeth in rows of no particular pattern with old and new flesh caught in-between, stained dark red from blood. It's body was furry, too long for it's small head. The tail was a large, fat rope that was cut off halfway. The feet were like that of a dogs, only dogs never had nails the size of a hawks or as sharp. The eyes were what scared them the most. Beady pools of black, open and staring up at them. Even if it was dead, those eyes mocked them with an evil they had never met before. This one was of a cold dark race, where hope was just some sort of thing that was just mocked, kills were for the thrill, and everything weaker than them was just their playground. She spat it out.

"This one was a scout."

"You mean that thing is only a runt!"

"Yes," her eyes still retained the blood lust from before. The deep thirst was still there. "The females are three times smaller than the males."

Her blood dripped into a small pool, some of her cuts pretty badly infected from the bacteria from the animals claws. She looked up at them gravely. "I am sorry to have you five mixed up in this, but now that you know, they will not let you live."

"What do we do?"

"You have to come with me now. It is the only thing I can think of."

"Can't you just erase our memories?" Mikey tried to joke.

"Even if I did, they would kill you to anger me."

"Why? What would happed if you did?"

"...Did you see, did you hear what I did to this thing?" How she was able to smile at all bewildered them, but there was a haunting effect to them. "You are lucky I was able to hold back. If not, I would be eating this thing right now. Or alive. The blood is more fresh alive." Ame hesitated. "That was only a taste of what happens."

"When do we leave, child?" Splinter asked.

"The sooner the better."

Ame picked up the rat in her mouth and ran off to dispose of the creature.

"Master Splinter. Are we really gonna leave this place?" Mikey spoke up.

"We have no choice."

"But it's her fault," Leo scowled with his arms crossed. "We never should have brought her here."

"Leonardo." Their teacher said strictly. "It is not her fault. She did not know they would follow her. What is done is done."

"How do we know that we can even trust her? How do we know this wasn't all just some sort of trap to lure us out of hiding?"

"It seemed real enough." Don.

Leo glared at him. "It seemed real enough."

"What more do you want?" Ame stepped quietly out of hiding. "Would you like me to go berserk and start eating on its flesh in front of you? Do you want me to find the other hundreds hunting now for me?" She stepped into the ring of their family. "It is my fault, but the sooner I leave, the sooner they will leave. I brought you into this mess, I know, but for that reason, I want to insure your safety."

As soon as they brought only what was necessary and said goodbye to the place they called home, she used her "magic" powers to transport them into even more bizzare worlds. In the future times, some would be magical and interesting. Others would be filled with horrors. Acceptance and truth will be needed to learn of the real universe they lived in.