The world was suddenly alive with sound, in the striking contrast creative by the complete darkness Leo's ears thundered with the sounds of battle. He felt helpless he couldn't see and the noise of so many fighters made it impossible to concentrate, no one else seemed to be having that problem.
He felt the wind of a weapon blow by him and raised his blades in an attempt to block, in the pitch black there was no way to tell if they were friend or foe. His feeble attempt to block did him no good and a hard object struck him square in the forehead knocking to the ground.
Blood trickled from the blunt force wound as he attempted to collect himself, it was so foreign not to know what to do or how to respond, the dark was not supposed to be his enemy.
A fighter slipped over his outstretched had and he decided the ground was not the place to be. He resolved to stand and fight even if all he could do was swing blindly. To his right someone fell the sound of their body bouncing off the hard concrete echoed in his ears, they were definitely not going to get up again, ever.
He lashed out hoping to strike an enemy, his blade glimpsed through thin air. The noise around him increased as looters filled the streets bellow smashing and grabbing, the city above and bellow was a state of chaos.
Some where behind him two warriors were clashing loudly, steel on steel ringing out louder than the rest, aggressive blows forced by anger. He wondered for the first time since the lights went out where Raph was, he hoped for the first time that his brother was performing far better than him.
He hoped Raph was but there was someone else here in the dark that he knew would be battling as forcefully and precisely as ever, Miharu. It was unusual to know someone that didn't need him, she lead and needed no help, battled and all others lost, she was something he had always wanted to be.
Suddenly voices cried out in Japanese and there was a flurry of movement, a hand grabbed him arm and began to drag him off. He ran blindly but carefully listening for the absence of noise to signal the jump, the reappearance the distance.
Small lights in the distance caught his attention, flickering in the night lighting the windows of the warehouse. Had Miha known this was coming?
He wanted to ask but it didn't seem like the time as he finally began to regain some vision, the person next to him who had prompted his movements he now recognized as Raph's friend Yumi, he wondered briefly if she had known it was him in the dark and not Raph.
He dismissed the thought as the ninja began to file into warehouse, the injured were laid out in one room to be cared for. Leo noticed with approval that there numbers had not slimmed much, did that mean they had won? He wasn't sure.
He spotted Miha ahead giving orders, he moved silently through the crowd and waited until everyone had been given an order.
"Well thank god that's over" He said lightly hoping she didn't know how lost he had been. If she did she gave no indication of it , she just stood stoically and watched the injured.
"No Leo" She said not moving " It has only begun".