Chapter 1- Alive and Kicking

Kim's POV

The spotlights hit my skin. The enormous cheers and whistles of the crowd below bellowed in my ears. I took a deep breath as I stepped forward once more and faced the microphone, the lights bouncing off my black skirt. I turned around and faced three girls behind me as they smiled. I nodded and the sound of instruments flowed through the speakers and my voice soon filled the air like a melody. As the song ended, the enormous cheers around me grew in volume and we all bowed before the curtains dropped down in front of us.

"Welcome back." I whispered to myself as I stared at the 'Eternal Pegasus' symbol on the back of the deep red, velvet curtains.

"So, where to next?" My sister Lilly asked, packing up her drum kit.

I turned around and smiled widely. Each of my sisters looked at me confused.

"Home." Was my reply.

My sisters stared at me in disbelief before they all jumped up and down excitedly cheering maybe even louder than the now dispersing crowd.

Before we all knew it, we were on a jet plane ride home. Our manager Stephanie somehow hooked us up with our own personal jet for our tours. She said it was because our instruments wouldn't make it past security, and she was right.

I sat on my own plush white chair that swivelled around by a window on the right. I sat with my legs tucked close to me, my feet pointing to the window. I was holding a new diary Leo had given me before I left 8 weeks ago. I laughed at how much I hated writing in a diary like a little girl, but I gently unlocked the leather bound book and a small tear fell. I shook it off and took out my gel pens from my carry on bag. I realised that Leo and I shared everything together. Even this journey I took, so I decided to write.

Dear Diary,

'What do you normally write?' I thought to myself

'Anything!' Was the simultaneous response I heard in my mind from my sisters.

I laughed and ripped out the paper, threw it on the floor and started again.

Dear Journal,

Well, it's Kimberley Phoenix, brand new singer/songwriter, college student and Princess. I've never written in a journal before, but I'm starting now since it's winter and I have another hour or so flying home to New York with nothing else to do.

It's been exactly 1 year and 1 month since my younger sister Violet graduated with honours from NYU with a medical degree to become a doctor.

Flashback

"And although your diplomas are equally important, remember: you are all going out into the world as individuals. The lives of New York City and others around the world are in your hands. Remember the friends you made here and the lessons you have learned. I now proudly present this year's New York University of Medical Science's graduating class." The director of NYUMS stated over the microphone.

The auditorium was quickly filled with loud cheers and applause as well as the display of thrown caps raining down on the graduates. Violet's form poked out from the crowd and she ran over to her sisters and her friends, April and Casey and hugged them tightly, showing them her diploma.

"Congratulations, Doctor Phoenix." Donatello's voice broke through Violet's mind.

She spun around and saw the turtles and Master Splinter in human form, all smiling widely. Violet squealed as she threw herself into Donnie's arms. Her sisters and friends smirked and high fived each other, watching Violet celebrate her diploma with her boyfriend.

"There was no way we'd miss this, Vi." Donnie commented

Violet smiled widely and kissed him.

End Flashback

Violet is applying for the internship of Paediatrician at the local hospital close to the apartment. She is so excited.

I looked over at Violet strumming softly on my acoustic guitar, singing her own song she wrote to my left. She was looking out the window with the sunglasses Donnie had given her before she left on tour over her eyes. I smiled.

"Everything is almost fine.
Cause every night I'm still pretending,
You're not on my mind.
But I lie."

My baby sister Lilly is the same as she continues to cause turmoil, but now as a fashion designer with her own business. She didn't desire having other designers like Gucci stealing her ideas if she worked for them, but she also decided to drop out of NYU because the teachers didn't understand her creative flow, meaning they were stealing her ideas. But she is now also an illustrator and co-creator/writer of a comic series she and Mikey have started.

I swivelled around in my chair and saw Lilly on her own plush pink chair reading her first comic with a little toy dog Mikey had sent her while on tour. She named him 'Shadow' and he sat beside her. She looked at me and she smiled that smile I loved, the one that looked so childish that made her beautiful blue eyes sparkle bright. I smiled back and turned back around to my journal.

And Riley? Well, she passed all her entrance exams for the force. Now she's working at the NYPD helping Inspector Brown finish the reports on Robert, Dan, Randy and Brandon and the Shredder after we defeated them last year. She was in the newspaper last week, not for our tour, no. In fact, it was about her saving the life of a young boy toddler in California from being hit by a car. She didn't use her powers or anything, she just jumped in front of the car and grabbed the boy and they skidded and rolled across the other side of the road, but Riley protected the boy from harm so she was left with some injuries.

I took my eyes off the journal and listened quietly. I heard the soft snoring of Riley in front of me. I placed the journal on my chair's armrest and stood up quietly. I walked along the aisle, past all the plush chairs in different colours and saw the sleeping figure of Riley lying on the long black and white striped couch. I grabbed a blanket from the floor that had fallen off her and placed it back over her. Then I removed some of her black hair out of her face and placed the picture of her and Raph back in her photo album he had sent over. I placed the book on the coffee table behind me and walked back to my seat.

"And how's Leo", you may ask?

I smiled widely and took out our picture from the inside pocket of the journal.

Well, we're more than fine. He finally forgave himself for attacking me and we celebrated many anniversaries, many of which ended up at my apartment. Let's just say all my sisters are agreeing that the walls are too thin. But, I say the same thing regarding the walls of their bedrooms or the guys' bedrooms in the lair. Yeah, life's good, I love Leo with all my heart and I still cannot imagine how my life has changed. He's always there and he's very supportive. He's supportive of my music career, my studying and my career as an author. I released my first book, 'Experiencing Unknown Love. It's Worth It' last year and was listed in New York's top 5, coming 3rd underneath 'Twilight: New Moon' and the new book from the 'Artemis Fowl' series. If Leo hadn't been there all those months ago and helped my sisters and I from Karai and the Shredder, I don't know what might have happened. I've moved on and I'm enjoying my life with the love of my life. I don't want anything to change.

"Miss Phoenix, look out the window. And welcome back to New York." A young flight attendant announced quietly so she wouldn't wake up Riley.

I thanked her and closed the journal, putting it away and looked out the window. Ah, there it is, my beautiful New York. Of course, I'm completely excited to be going back, but I'm also a bit nervous. Every time my sisters and I head outside, we're swarmed with reporters and cameras. Not to mention how jealous the guys get when some male celebrity comes into contact with us or some other cute guy gets an autograph. I don't like calling myself a celebrity, because all those other 'celebrities' are either partying, drinking or doing drugs. Since we're back, I've been told that Drake wants to assimilate me into royal life, and wants us to access our 'true powers'. Whatever that means.

I slowly grabbed my backpack, gently woke up Riley and went over to get my two guitar cases. I saw Riley grab her case and Violet with her guitar case and keyboard case and Lilly with her two backpacks. I smiled at them and our eyes glowed and we were surrounded in a bright light. When the light faded we looked totally different from our regular selves. We used our magic and changed our outer appearance to avoid the reporters.

Instead of brown hair and green eyes, I now had black hair and blue eyes. Violet now had blonde hair with green eyes, Riley had brown hair with a black streak and blue eyes and Lilly now had red hair and brown hair with freckles.

We all laughed and exited the plane. The reporters confused our plane with another first class flight. We all sighed with relief at our choice of not having our band's symbol on the plane. We walked through the terminal and grabbed our luggage and walked out to the waiting area filled with many people looking for luggage, flights on the giant TVs, the terminals with their planes and some just sitting around reading or with headphones waiting patiently.

Only, that was everyone except quite a large group of people waiting impatiently and some arguing. I looked over at my sisters and they smirked evilly and walked over to the group. April, Master Splinter and Casey saw us and were confused. Riley winked at them and Lilly placed a finger on her lips to quieten them. They got the message and suppressed smirks.

We walked over to the four young men who were bickering between themselves. One had nice tanned skin, burnet hair and brown eyes, another had short blond hair with bright blue eyes. The next had short jet black hair and dark brown eyes while the last man had short light brown hair with a small side fringe and hazel eyes. He stared at me for a moment and raised an eyebrow.

"Can I help you, miss?" He asked

I simply shrugged and smiled sweetly.

"I don't know, can you?" I replied back.

I looked over at my sisters and they smirked back, while the four guys seemed confused.

"Look toots, either we can help you or we can't so-" The jet black haired guy was silenced when Riley grabbed his face and kissed him passionately.

I suppressed my giggles along with Vi and Lilly as we watched Raph's stunned face. Riley pulled away slowly and smirked, her hands now resting on her hips. Leo, Mikey and Donnie were about to say something when Raph beat them to it.

"Kitten?" He asked disbelievingly and she nodded as she pulled away.

She didn't get very far before Raph pulled her back in for more. Donnie, Mikey and Leo then looked at us three, stunned. Leo's eyes bored into mine, looking for something that I couldn't figure out.

"Found what you were looking for yet?" I teased

Leo's eyes widened in recognision at the teasing tone I used. He immediately pulled me close and kissed me passionately. I smiled and wrapped my arms around him, opening my mouth against his, our tongues battling for dominance. When we finally pulled away Leo hovered over my face, his breath lingering on my face.

"I much prefer how you looked before you left." He whispered huskily.

I laughed softly and kissed his lips gently.

"We needed some way to get off the plane." I replied when I pulled away, "Besides, it's not permanent."

"Thank god." Leo mused, pulling me back into his embrace.

"Yo! I know it's been awhile, but seriously tonsil hockey isn't pleasant for the rest of us!" Riley cried out, breaking my moment with Leo.

I looked over at her with Raph's arm around her waist with his right and holding one of Riley's bags with his left.

"Fine. But the next time I see you and Raph do that, I get to say that too." I answered

Riley froze and her cheeks turned the slightest bit pink. Raph noticed and teased her. Riley growled and got out of his embrace and stalked over to me. Everyone froze as Riley stood right in front of me.

"Oh, I dare you to try." Riley growled

I smirked and looked her in the eyes.

"Challenge accepted." I replied smugly

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah."

With that said, our voices grew and an argument had started. No one gave it a thought, because this was normal for us sisters.

"Well, I think it's safe to say these are our girls." Donnie commented

Everyone laughed and Raph and Leo pulled Riley and I away from each other before we started getting physical and caused a scene in the airport.

Riley was still being uncooperative with Raph, so he picked her up and chucked her over his shoulder.

"If you're not gonna' back down and stop us from getting embarrassed, then you're gonna' get embarrassed by yourself." Raph grunted while trying to deal with a struggling Riley.

Riley soon gave up and let herself be carried out of the airport. Unfortunately, she was stuck listening to Lilly and Mikey's bad jokes as they followed behind her and Raph.

"Okay, what do you call a little fish that's cornered by a shark?" Mikey asked

"Bait!" Lilly finished as she and Mikey laughed.

Riley groaned and placed her hands over her ears, but she could still hear them.

'Kill me now.' She thought miserably.

I watched the scene, a big smile appearing on my face. I loved that my sisters were finally free, so free that they could act like themselves. I looked up out a passing window, watching the bright sun touch everything and birds flying around.

'I don't want anything to change at all. This is perfect.'

End Kim's POV