Chapter 7-Surrounded!

2 hours later…

Raph woke up suddenly and thought that, by now, Mikey would have come down from his turn on lookout duty and switch with the next person who volunteered to go next after Mikey, and that was him.

However, time was up over an hour ago and there was still no sign of him, so Raph thought to himself about going up there and letting him know that it was time to switch places.

Making up his mind, Raph got up and quietly left the others to avoid waking them up and then headed up the stairs to the lookout point. Once he was up there, he found Mikey who was sitting on the edge of the tower and looking from left to right with tired eyes to make sure that nothing bad or evil was around, and not noticing that Raph was standing behind him.

Raph slowly approached his little brother and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder, which caused Mikey to jump and turn around quickly, but he calmed down after seeing his red-banded brother looking at him with a smirk.

"Hey Raph…, I'm guessing it's your turn to keep watch now?" Mikey said tiredly whilst he carefully stepped down from the edge of the tower.

"Yeah…, but I also came ta check on ya since ya didn't come down ta switch with me when your time was up," Raph answered before he asked him a question in a concerned tone. "Are ya sure ya ok, bro?"

Mikey looked at Raph with a sad smile before answering. "Yeah, I'm ok…, I just thought that I'd stay and keep watch for a little longer to make up for my actions earlier. If I hadn't been so childish and careless during the mission and then ran off because I couldn't face the music like a real ninja, our position wouldn't have been exposed and you wouldn't have gotten ambushed heavily in the forest earlier. I'm sorry…" By the time he finished speaking, Mikey sniffled and looked away as tears began to develop in his tired eyes.

After hearing his brother's heart-breaking speech, Raph looked at Mikey in shock. He couldn't stand to see his baby brother so upset, especially since he himself caused him to be like this in the first place, so he immediately engulfed him into a hug before he spoke.

"Hey…, Shhh…, it's alright, bro. I told ya it wasn't your fault, it was mine. Ya may be an annoying knucklehead at times, but you're a great ninja as well as an awesome little brother, and I would do anything to keep ya safe from harm, just like how you would do da same fa us."

Mikey returned the hug and then cried with his face buried in Raph's shoulder after he heard what his brother just said to him. Raph didn't pull away but instead, he let his baby brother release all of his sadness from the recent events, which he had bottled up inside until now, onto his shoulder. "Let it all out, bro…, it's ok…" Raph said whilst looking out at the view in front of him to keep an eye out for intruders.

A few minutes went by, and Raph was starting to hear Mikey beginning to settle down with only the sounds of sniffling and hiccupping remaining. Then, Mikey slowly lifted his head from Raph's shoulder and Raph gently released him from the hug to allow him to wipe away any stray tears from his eyes.

"Thanks, Raph…," Mikey said in a raspy voice due to the amount of crying he did.

"No worries, bro, ya needed dat release. Just don't tell da others about dis or else I'll smack da green off ya," Raph replied with a smirk after hearing his baby chuckle lightly to that before continuing. "Now, you should go and get some sleep, ya had a rough day."

"Yeah, you're right…Night, Raph," Mikey said before heading towards the staircase that leads to where the others were sleeping.

Just as Raph was about to say goodnight to Mikey, a loud and ferocious roar suddenly echoed into the atmosphere, causing the two turtles to freeze and look at each other in fear before running over to the edge of the tower to see what it was.

What they saw made their eyes widen in horror; they saw a large, dark monstrous creature that had features including a dragon-like body and tail with large wings, but it had wolf-like features as well as it had a wolf's head, arms and legs with sharp claws, and fur on its back and neck. It was also not alone as the two turtles noticed that over a hundred demon creatures were starting to move forward towards the tower after its roar ended.

"No…, that thing… was also shown in my vision…!" Mikey said whilst shaking in fear.

"Go wake up the others, Mikey!" Raph instructed whilst keeping an eye on the demon army.

Mikey didn't have to respond to that as he already dashed off down the stairs to the others.

"Guys, wake up! We've got company!" He shouted, before watching as everyone was startled awake and stood up straight away.

"Is Raph already up there?" Leo asked Mikey after noticing that Raph was absent from his sleeping spot.

"Yeah, he was about to switch places with me before more monsters appeared, and I think their Chief is there with them. Come on!" Mikey explained before heading back upstairs to Raph, with Leo and the others following him from behind.

Once everyone gathered near the edge of the tower next to Raph, they could see now what Mikey meant when he said the word 'Chief', because they looked in awe and in horror as they saw the larger demonic beast looking up at the group as the smaller ones began to try and break into the tower through the door.

"We have to stop them from breaking in, or we'll be surrounded and ambushed from the inside!" Said Donnie as he looked on with worry before Leo spoke up.

"You're right, Don. We'll split into teams; Raph, Adam, Faragi, the Ancient One and I will keep the entrance secure, whilst you, Mikey, Joi, Torra and Master Splinter will keep an eye out for any signs of an attack from the lookout point here. We'll let each other know if back up is needed. Understood?"

Everyone nodded to Leo's instructions and began to split into their teams and head to their positions.