Hell bent, Heaven sent

Raphael couldn't believe what he was hearing. Fina wanted to bond with him? Luna would have two soulmates? How would that even work? He was torn. His honor would not to allow Leo to destroy himself that way, but Raph had to admit that he wanted this.

He was already in love with the girl.

He met Leo's gaze. It tore him up to see the pain growing there as Leo thought about what this would mean. This girl was everything Leo ever wanted. How could he even think about this?

But, if Leo didn't allow the bond, how could they save Luna and Mikey from something they couldn't fight?

Leonardo closed his eyes in pain and bowed his head.

I lost her once... before I even knew there was a bond.
It almost destroyed me.

Rejecting this would damn her and my little brother.
I would give my life for either of them, is my love a higher price?

"I concede." Leo whispered.

Luna shrieked as the wraiths tried to drag Michelangelo away from her. She grabbed desperately at his shell, feeling his arms close around her protectively, even as they flew into the air.

The wraith threw them back against the closed door to the elevator shaft, howling in anger. Mikey twisted in the air to cushion her impact, and hit shell first. Luna heard pieces of his already abused body shatter at the impact.

She lay still for a moment where she had fallen on top of Mikey's panting chest. He wasn't trying to get up, and the wraiths were closing in.

She finally surrendered to the despair she was holding inside and moaned, a deep hopeless tone.

It was her fault, all her fault.

This beautiful creature, this loving, happy, carefree being, who brought such life and joy was going to be extinguished in front of her. He would never have encountered these monsters, never been up against something he couldn't fight, if she just hadn't taken shelter with them.

Michelangelo stirred at the moan, and struggled to lay her gently down at his side.

"Don't worry, Sleepy Moon." he whispered, as if reading her mind. "You are the best thing that ever happened to us."

"No," she wept, "I've destroyed you."

With great effort, he summoned a smile. It was tired and filled with pain but completely genuine. He reached out to her slowly, stroked her cheek and tucked a stray hair behind her ear.

"I love you, little sister. I'll always protect you. No matter what."

Then, despite his mortal injuries, he struggled to his feet and limped in front of her prone form; prepared to make his last stand.

The brothers raced across the remaining rooftops faster than they ever had in their lives; flanked by two immortal fragments of a goddess' soul. They reached the final fire escape to the building, and didn't even slow. Swinging and climbing over each other in their haste, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael made the final leap onto the rooftop and stopped stunned.

The stillness lasted only a moment before Donatello shot to his fallen brother's side. His eyes drowning in horror as he categorized all the splintered bones, bleeding gashes and horrible contusions on Michelangelo's body.

Mikey's face was a mangled mess, his mask gone. His left eye had swollen almost shut. His shell was broken, missing large pieces, and his tender back and spine lay exposed.

His breath was so shallow, it took Don several seconds to make sure he was still breathing.

Luna lay behind Mikey on the concrete in front of the elevator. Don didn't know how badly she was injured but his sensitive ears picked up her quiet weeping. She was still alive.

Right now he couldn't afford to take his hands from Michelangelo. Not if he wanted his brother to survive.

Leonardo and Raphael peeled off in different directions and prepared to flank the ghastly creatures. The power emanating from the two turtles was an enticing lure for the wraiths, and they turned aside from, the now weaker, Luna and Mikey to pursue these new targets.

Leo's first powerful sword thrust went right through a wraith's body.

"Donnie was right!" Raph yelled as his throwing stars passed harmlessly through the wraith nearest him. "Now what?!"

now us!

Fina and Sol moved as one towards their bonded and dove into their rapidly moving forms.

Leo's blades erupted in blue light and his next stroke caused a wraith to scream and writhe in pain. He pushed the oozing creature back with blow after blow, moving rapidly to counter the third when it tried to get in behind him.

Raph's sai changed as well. Fina crowed in his mind as each sai was coated in red fire. With every twirl and flourish, his blades produced a brilliant fireball that shot towards the wraiths as if pulled by a magnet.

But they were still fighting a losing battle.

The wraiths began to heal, almost as fast as they were injured; drawing power from the injuries they had inflicted on their previous prey.

Leo continued fighting as if possessed, but Raph was paying attention.

"Leo!" Raph called as he lept and bound to avoid an attack, "Lay off! Send the power to Luna! We aren't doing enough damage alone!"

Leo backed off, reached for Luna and panicked. He couldn't locate her. Then he remembered Sol had blocked her from him.

"Sol!" Leo shouted, "You're keeping me out! I can't feel her!"

prepare yourself… Sol said quietly, then opened the link.

Luna lay sobbing quietly into the blackness behind her eyes, overwhelmed by Mikey's agony and her own sorrow, when the sound of a voice she would know anywhere broke through her tangled thoughts.

"Sol! You're keeping me out! I can't feel her!"

Leonardo was here!

Moments later, a blinding light smashed into her forehead. She saw blue, then red, as energy flooded into her core like a tidal wave breaking over the shore. Suddenly Luna found herself on her feet, braced in front of Michelangelo and Donatello, without a clear recollection of moving.

Sol had returned with reinforcements.

Her eyes filled with an unearthly blue glow, that did not fade. She could see, and the nightmare was worse than she had imagined.

Michelangelo, who had filled her days with sunshine, love, and reassurance, lay destroyed at her feet. Portions of his beautifully patterned shell had been broken. His arms and legs had been punctured in dozens of places, and muscles were torn away.

She gasped as the pain and agony she was still keeping from him ran through her once again. But, even now, Mikey clutched his weapons and groped weakly at her ankle, trying to get her to move back.

She forced her eyes away from him. First she must take care of the danger, then she could see he was healed properly. She changed her focus as the influx of power demanded her attention.

She recognized the cool, blue, healing energy of Leonardo, but it had been magnified by Sol a thousand-fold. It healed all her own injuries, and forged an even tighter bond between them. So powerful was the flow that it followed the silver thread of her celestial life force back to it's source and strengthened the connection, letting through an enormous wave of her own inherent power.

Intense silver light rushed over her body as she turned to face the three grotesque green creatures quivering in the air before her. She expanded the light into a glimmering silver shield, protecting herself and those she stood before from the draining, despairing cries of the wraiths.

The shield accomplished, a blinding rage began to build within her. Her family had been brutally attacked and a member nearly killed trying to defend her. How dare these insignificant demons think to harm what was hers!

Her eyes glazed with Mikey's agony and her own rage, she raised her hands and prepared to send them back to Hades.

Orange, red, and golden fire flared to life in her palms and flowed down her hands, dripping with a hiss onto the gravel of the rooftop. Startled, she dropped her gaze to them.

RED? Sol can only summon cold, blue fire!

Her rage surged again and overwhelmed that moment of doubt. This fury carried the tang of a deep volcanic pit. The kind of natural, bountiful, violence that had been boiling beneath the surface for years. This anger wasn't entirely her own.

Raphael! she realised. She could feel Raphael!

But that meant another soul piece had returned, but which one? The red flames gave her the clue.

Fina? she whispered.

here!

Luna's face lit with an almost unholy glee.

Fina, we're gonna set the world on FIRE!