Ch.4: Brothers Reunite!

All of Splinter's extra trianing had made Rapheal's senses sharper and his speed quicker. Just as the arrow was released from it's bow Raph heard the whoosh of air as the arrow flew. Quickly realizing the danger coming his way, Raph dodged the arrow in the nick of time. The arrow itself embedded in the rooftop just a few inches where Raph had been standing earlier.

Carefully Raph peered into the direction which the arrow had flown, but the archer was long gone by this point. Picking up the arrow Raph felt a slip of paper tied around it's shaft. Reading over the note Raph could tell instantly it was from Karia. The full message read as follows:

I recieved your calling card. Since we both more likely on the same page I decided to send you my on invatation. Meet me at Central Park, midnight. We need to talk.

-Karia

Rapheal folded up the message and took out his shellcell. The time read 8:30 exactly so he still had a few hours until his little meeting with Karia. At about the same time the plane Leo, Mikey, and Don were on just started coming into the airport.

As soon as the plane landed the three brothers debarked and started heading into the city with Leo taking the lead. Much of the city had changed while the three brothers had been gone, but the sewers seemed to remian the same. Mikey slowly breathed in the familar scent.

"Good to be home," he said.

Don and Leo silently agreed with thier youngest brother. The lair seemed to be pretty much the same too. However, only Splinter was there to greet the return of his sons. Leo looked around the lair wondering where Raph was.

Splinter saw the question etched on Leo's face and answered "Rapheal is on patrol. He'll be glad when he sees you have returned as much as I do,"

"Raph? Glad?" said Donatello sarcasticlly "now there are two words you can never use in the same sentence,"

Everyone laughed at Don's little joke. A sudden sound caught Leo's ears and the blue-masked turtle looked deeply into the shadows behind him. The laughing instantly stopped and all eyes were pointed in Leo's direction.

"What's the matter Leo?" asked Mikey curious to see what his blue-masked brother obivously saw that he didn't.

"Something" said Leo "...in the shadows"

The sound of clapping hands greeted the turtles ears as the shadowed figure slowly made her way into the light. It was a brown-colored wolf with saphire-blue eyes that looked sharply around the room. A grin was spread on the wolf's face as she approached the turtles.

"Nice to see you agian Master Splinter," said the Wolf bowing to the old rat.

"Master Splinter" said Leonardo in shock "you know her?"

"Indeed I do my son" said Splinter "ever since we went our own seperate ways, I trained Rapheal to the brink of his limits. Eventually on one of his patrols he bumped into Ms. Wolf here,"

"Yeah" said the Wolf nodding " it was that I ran into your brother that everything changed,"

(Flash Back)

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Wolf's POV

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Bright orange flames were licking at the wooden beams of my room. I could hear my mom shouting deperately from outside. A large wooden beam just above my head started creak away from the cieling until it finally began to fall. I couldn't breath a single breath.

Death was approaching at enormous speed and I sat there, helpless to stop it. But, the beam never reached my head. A shadowed figure had stopped the beam before it had even touched me. I couldn't see much through the smoke, but the figure seemed to odd for a fireman.

The shadowed figure pushed the beam away and got me out of the building just in time before everything collasped. My mom was in a panic as the shadowed figure set me down into her arms. As soon as he had come the shadowed figure took flight and I wondered if I would ever see him again.

Weeks later my mom got a job over at West Labortories. People there were nice and provided mom and me a place to stay while we were still searching for a new place to live. Unfortunely, one day at the lab I accidently spilled one of the chemicals onto my skin and soon turned into a life-sized werewolf.

One of the workers just happens to walk in at that moment and sounds the alarm to all of the employees. I crashed through the window and ran and ran as far as I could. That's when I bumped into a huge turtle wearing a red mask.

"Whoa" he said "I thought werewolves only exsisted in myths,"

"I'm not a werewolf" I said "I am...I was a human being until just a few minutes ago,"

"First that fire and now a shewolf" the red-masked turtle grinned sarcasticlly "this town is just full of surprises,"

The word 'fire' caught my ear and I instantly realized that he must have been the one who saved me from the fire just months ago. Talking wasn't as easy as it seemed, but eventually we at least got to each others names. Steadily me and Raph became friends and now patrol the city as a super crime-bashing team.

(End Flash Back)

"So what are you and Raph up to now?" asked Don.

"There had been a number of robberies lately comitted by the Foot and Karia" said Wolf " major chemicals have been stolen from West Labortories. At Rapheal's request I joined up with the Foot ranks, disguised as a solider in training, to get the inside info we need about the Foot's scheme. But, it's seems now that Karia has two plots instead of one,"

"What are you talking about?" asked Leo.

Splinter was wondering as well. A feeling of imense danger serged through his whole body as he waited for Wolf to explian.

"Just a few minutes ago I heard Karia say that she has added on a new part to the plan and is going to trap him tonight,"

"How do you know Karia meant Raph?" asked Mikey confused.

"Her calling card" said Wolf "we have to find Raph,"

"No problem" said Don " I installed tracers in our shellcell's just in chase. Finding Raph will be the easy part, taking on Karia though will be a lot harder,"

"Midnight," Raph thought looking at the clock on his shellcell then clicked it off.

Karia had still yet to arrive at the meeting place that she had arranged. It wasn't like her to be late at all. Raph sat on one of the park benches, patiently waiting for Karia to arrive. Ten minutes passed as patience slowly grew to impatience.

Just as Raph had had enough and was fixing to leave Karia finally showed. Raph looked at his shellcell clock, the time now read 12:30.

"You're late" said Raph drawing out his sais " now what is it we need to talk about?"

"If you will please put away your weapons I shall tell you," said Karia dropping her sword to the ground indicating that she didn't want to fight. Raph got the message and sheathed his sais.

"Alright spill," said Raph.

"I know you and I are sworn enmies to this day, but now I would like us to be more..." said Karia.

There was some hidden subtext that Raph wasn't getting here and he knew it. Just what was Karia trying to say?

"All the years we have spent fighting againist each other shall be put to rest if you agree to an alliance with my clan..." continued Karia.

This time Raph's mind was going on high alert! Alliance with the Foot! Not even his brothers would want that. But Karia still had more to say, and it was those last few words that really struck hard.

"And become mine,"

The hidden subtext became all to clear for Rapheal at this point. Karia wanted to marry him! There was absoutely no way that was ever going to happen. He had to admit that Karia was beautiful and all but she was also the new Shredder. She was an enmie, someone who Raph spent his lifetime throwing punch after punch at.

"Forget it lady" said Raph " I wouldn't go out with you even if cut me in half with that sword of yours,"

"One way or another you will be mine" vowed Karia walking walking away "I believe that somewhere you truly have feelings for me and when the time comes you will come to accept my offer,"

Rapheal watched as Karia disappeared into the darkness of the trees and went his own seperate way. Soon Raph arrived back at the lair just before a search party went to look for him. Raph indeed was glad to find out that his bros had returned and that they were together agian, but for right now he decided to keep his meeting with Karia a secret. If anyone found out the truth it could really mess with his rep.

Wolf went home leaving the family to enjoy thier reunion. Splinter's eyes were studying Rapheal's face and could sense relief in his son's eyes. Something had bothered Rapheal that night and Splinter knew what.

Author's Note: Uh oh, it's seems like Splinter has somehow figured out about Raph's little discomfort around Karia. What's going to happen now? Find out next chapter!