Heya readers!
Sorry about the wait, I've been on holiday in Egypt for a week, and boy was it amazing! I spent my days sunbathing, snorkelling, riding camels, and swimming with dolphins and sea turtles! I also visited the historical city of Luxor, I've always wanted to go there, and I did!
It was an amazing holiday, but I'm glad to be home and back in routine as well as update another chapter!
Last place we left off, Diablo, after deciding to live his own life and follow his own rules as a mutant, had fled Mutopia but not before shooting several down and injuring his older brother! Yet he was being followed by his sister, Tyroth and others!
Hope you enjoy this long awaited upload!
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Aftershock
Back in Mutopia, the children hid in Sonia's room under a table, hugging each other in fright.
Sonia tried to remain calm as the other children huddle close to her terrified.
Pandora was snuggled against Kemeko who was whimpering softly.
"Where's daddy?" the little Japanese girl asked as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Pandora said nothing but bit her lip scared.
Freya and Loki were whimpering softly yet Loki was looking angry as well as scared.
"I hope daddy burns the bad guy to ash!" he said.
"Me too brother!" Freya agreed.
"Shhh!" Sonia said "Stay quiet."
She looked towards the door through a gap in the cloth that covered the table and prayed to all the powers that be that whoever was attacking Mutopia wouldn't come through.
She had been told before in the past that if anyone or anything did attack Mutopia that she had to hide where no-one would find her, even though there were many other places to hide within the hidden village, she knew that if she tried to find them, it would do more harm than good, and she knew that no-one dared fight Tyroth and the Chicago Knights, and even those who were part of the Knights could hold their own pretty well.
"What's happening Sonia?" Pandora asked in a worried voice as she looked at the Chamelon.
"I don't know." Sonia said "I can't hear anything."
Pandora gently let go of Kemeko and started to edge towards the cloth.
"No!" Sonia said in a loud whisper "Stay here! The grown-ups said to remain here until it's safe to come out!"
Pandora didn't answer but peeked her head out from under the cloth.
"Pandora!" Sonia hissed again "Get back here!"
"Please come back!" Kemeko whimpered as she crawled over to her adopted big sister and took her hand making the mutant lizard/turtle child jump slightly.
Just then the door opened and all the children cried out in horror and Pandora quickly withdrew back under the table.
Sonia pulled all children close to her, terrified that it was whoever was attacking Mutopia, yet relief overwhelmed her as she saw Tania and Panda come through the door.
"Tania!" Sonia cried as she loosened her grip "Thank goodness!"
"Kids?" Tania ran over to the table and lifted the cloth.
At once the children crawled out from under the table and the questions they had wanted to ask were heaped on the Panda before she had a chance to speak again.
It was only when Sonia stopped the younger ones from speaking that she looked up at Tania.
"Tania, what's happened?" she asked "Whose in Mutopia?"
Tania looked pained, as well as very pale.
"It was no intruder children." she said kneeling down so she was level with them all.
"No intruder?" asked Sonia and the younger children looked shocked.
"No..." Tania said "It was the Raven! He's turned on Mutopia and hurt several of us!"
"No!" Sonia cried "He can't have?"
Pandora stared at Tania, too shocked even to cry.
"Uncle Callum?" she asked.
Tania bit her lip, feeling stupid as well as angry at herself for blurting it out as she had forgotten that Pandora knew Callum as her mother's younger brother.
"Pandora..." she said softly.
"No!" Kemeko added "He couldn't have!?"
The Geckolings just stared in horror.
"Who has he hurt?" asked Sonia "Is anyone dead?"
"No luckily." Tania said "They're with James and Donatello."
"Where's mummy and daddy?" asked Pandora.
Tania was silent for a second, then Pandora it her lip reading the Panda's face then before anyone could stop her, she ran for the door!
"Pandora!" Tania barked as the little mutant girl ran outside!
"Pandora No!" Sonia shouted.
Tania leapt to her feet and raced after Pandora.
"Sonia!" she shouted without turning around "Stay with the others!"
"Big sister!" Kemeko cried.
"Come back Pandora!" the Geckolings yelled.
Sonia sighed exasperated at the fact that Pandora had run off before being told it was safe to leave, yet she understood she was scared for her parents and the look on Tania's face told her without words that something had happened.
All Sonia could do was stay put with the Geckolings and Kemeko and pray Pandora hadn't gotten herself into trouble.
As soon as she ran out of the door despite Tania, Sonia, the Geckolings and Kemeko shouting after her, Pandora raced straight to James's Medical room!
She knew she was getting close as she could hear James's shouting or orders and screams of those Diablo had wounded.
Yet as she arrived she saw Master Splinter being carried into the medical room by Barry the Warthog and Donatello was leading Raphael whose left hand was soaked in blood and he was cursing in pain as well as anger.
"Daddy! Grandpa!" she cried as she saw them disappear in the medical room and she heard Barry yelling at James that more were wounded.
Running over to the entrance she soon saw to her shock and horror that James was running around tending to wounds and handing out small glasses of water from the well to the Mutopians who were wounded which included Patch the Badger, Jack the Wolf, Percy the Grasshopper and Kate the Viper.
She also saw her Uncle Michelangelo cradling his arm which was in a sling sitting next to Kate who was breathing heavily in a medical bed.
No sooner did the new casualties enter than everyone was shocked to see Splinter wounded and James moved away from the bed of Percy to examine the old rat.
"Holy shit!" he barked "What happened?"
"The Raven shot him in the stomach!" Barry reported with a growl.
"Put him over here!" James shouted "I got to examine that wound!"
"Master Splinter!" Michelangelo cried out in horror.
"Stay seated turtle!" Leona the Fox ordered who was sitting next to Patch's bed and holding her hand.
James instantly went to examine Splinter and pulled his robes open to see where the bullet had hit.
"Fuck!" James cursed "This could be serious if I don't do something now!"
"You can save him right?" Donatello asked in a terrified voice.
"Yes!" James said "But I'll need you to look after the others whilst I help your Master!"
Donatello nodded then turned to Raphael and sat him on a chair.
"What's happening to him?" Raphael asked over his pain.
"The bullets gone right through his body!" the Chimpanzee reported "It may have hit some vital organs! If I don't get in there now he could bleed to death!"
"Please save him!" Michelangelo begged, despite the pain over his arm.
James nodded and turned to the rat who was breathing heavily in pain.
"James..." he grunted.
"Shhh!" James insisted "I've got you, you'll be alright!"
"My sons...daughter...granddaughters..." the rat moaned, he could feel the pain in his stomach and feel the blood ebbing from his wounds from where Diablo had shot him.
"Callum...how could he do such...a thing..."
James produced a syringe and injected Splinter's arm with it.
"It's going to be alright!" he said "I'm going to help you! You'll see your family again!" he then inserted the rat with IVS and started to examine the bloody wound.
"I knew there was something about that Raven..." he growled "I knew I didn't trust him!"
He shook his head and focused if he was to save Splinter, he would voice his opinions later, but right now he had a life to save!
Michelangelo turned to Donatello and Raphael.
"Diablo got you too?" he asked Raphael in worry.
"He shot me in the hand!" Raphael lifted his bloody hand showing there was a hole right through his palm!
"I don't know what made that crazy black bird turn on us!" Donatello said "But he's on the loose now! Mona, Leo, Tyroth, Heather, Jake, Amber Sharky have gone after him!"
"Bring that bastard down!" Kate hissed in pain "After what he did to us!"
"I'd like to hack him to pieces!" Jack said as he sat up from his medical bed having had a glass of the Wells water "We shouldn't show traitors mercy!"
"I agree!" Percy growled.
Donatello wrapped Raphael's hand with bandages and was about to speak again when he saw Amber and Jake come into the Medical room.
"Jake! Amber!" he cried in shock then saw Jake had blood on his hand that covered his face and his broken glasses were in his other hand as Amber had lead him inside.
"What happened to you?" Michelangelo asked.
"My brother..." Jake groaned.
"He slashed him across the face!" Amber said "Where's James?"
"Trying to save Master Splinter!" Donatello reported looking pale with worry but he knew he had to look after everyone else, as he was the only other experienced Medic in Mutopia.
She looked down at Raphael who nodded at him as well as held his bandaged hand prompting him to go over and assist Jake to which Donatello did and coaxed the young man over to a chair so he could see the wounds.
Meanwhile Amber relayed to everyone who was awake what had happened and that Diablo had fled the sanctuary into one of the tunnels leading to Lake Michigan.
"He got out?" Kate demanded.
"They can't let him get away!" Leona cried "If he escapes, Mutopia will be at risk!"
"That's what I'm afraid of!" Amber said "My brother, Mona, Leo, Sharky and Heather have gone after him! I'm hoping like you Tyroth can bring him down and he'll be made to stand trial!"
"Why not just let the boss kill him?" asked Jack with a growl.
"He wouldn't do that!" Amber replied "Not to a fellow Mutopian."
"He is no Mutopian!" Percy argued "He might have drunk the water from the well, but he betrayed us! And Hurt us!"
"Nearly killed us!" Kate added.
"I'm with them Amber!" Raphael hissed as he looked at his hand where the bandages were starting to turn red as the blood soaked them through.
"He also knows Mona wouldn't allow it!" Amber continued "He is her brother! And she still tried to get through to him!"
Jake groaned as Donatello lifted his hand so he could examine the wounds and the purple masked turtle gasped as he saw the deep slashes on Jake's left side of his forehead, cheek and eye.
"Holy Shit..." he said.
"Wh...why?" Jake asked wincing at Donatello started to clean the wounds "Why did he...?"
"Shhh." Donatello said "Don't speak..."
It was then Pandora made her presence known.
"Daddy!" she ran over to the red masked turtle who jumped when she rushed in, as did the others.
"Pandora!" he cried in shock.
"What happened to you daddy?" Pandora began to weep in fear.
"How did she get here?" asked Amber, and it was then Tania arrived inside afterwards.
"I'm so sorry!" the Panda grovelled "I went to check on the children after Sephie went around to check on everyone and she ran here before I could catch her."
"It's okay Tania." Raphael reassured and stroked his daughter's head with his right hand as she sobbed into his lap.
"Where are the other children?" asked Amber.
"Still in Sonia's room." Tania reported then turned to Pandora "Sweetie, you have to come with me."
"No!" Pandora said clinging to her father's legs "I won't leave daddy!"
Raphael looked at his daughter and stroked her hair.
"I'll be alright baby." he said "Go with Tania, she will look after you."
"What about mummy?" Pandora sobbed "And grandpa? And Uncle Mikey?"
"They'll be okay precious." Raphael said trying with one hand to coax Pandora's paws off his knees "Go with Tania, you need to stay somewhere safe."
"What's going to happen to Uncle Callum?" asked Pandora.
"We don't know Pandora." Raphael said, though he growled slightly as he thought of Diablo "But you need to return to Sonia's room, we'll come and get you later, but I promise everything will be alright."
Pandora was still reluctant to leave her father but she let go of his knees and turned to Tania who look her hands and lead her away.
The Panda apologised again and lead the weeping child out of the medical room.
Rapheal watched her go then looked at everyone who Diablo had shot then thought of his mate and the others who had gone after the Raven.
He hoped that they would bring him down and make him stand trial for what he did, but if it was up to him he would kill the Raven, but that would devastate Mona, and Jake.
Although, looking at Jake, he saw him look furious as well as heartbroken and he wondered after what Diablo had done to him, would he still carry the same love he had before, or would he disown him?
He also hoped that Leonardo and the others who followed the Raven would be okay, he knew Tyroth would protect them, but it didn't stop him worrying.
Meanwhile, Tyroth, Leonardo, Heather, Cam and Sharky had followed Mona as she had pursued Diablo and as they emerged from the entrance onto the Island, they saw Mona had grabbed Diablo's ankles as he tried to fly away!
"Mona!" Leonardo shouted after the Lizard Lady as the Raven fly high above the water trying to shake her off!
"What the hell is she doing?" asked Heather.
Tyroth glared as he watched the Lizard and Raven struggle then opened his wings to fly up into the sky to pursue Diablo.
At the same time, he saw Mona try to pull Diablo down with her weight over the water, then the Raven leaned down and pecked her hands with his sharp beak to make her let go!
"MONA!" Leonardo screamed in horror along with Heather, Cam and Sharky then they saw her plummet towards the water before hitting it with a big splash!
Tyroth glared both in worry and anger, he wanted to fly after Diablo but he wanted to save Mona who started to sink below the water and make no attempt to swim to the surface even though he knew if he attempted to, his wings would drag him under the currents.
Luckily Sharky as soon as he saw Mona hit the water, he ran towards the shore and dived into the water after her!
Confident that the mutant shark would save Mona he flew up after the Raven who started to fly higher and towards Chicago.
"DIABLO!" he shouted to which the Raven stopped and hovered before turning to him and glared.
"For fuck's sake, don't you ever quit?" he sneered.
"You traitor!" Tyroth snarled, his blood red eyes flashing and he held up his claws "You will rue the day you choose to betray us!"
So we've checked in on the others, and luckily no-one is dead, yet Master Splinter being unable to drink the Well's Healing Water being not a Mutopian, is not out of the woods yet! Will he survive?
And also Tyroth has confronted Diablo in the sky above Lake Michigan! Stay tuned for the final battle, you do not want to miss it!