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Krystal silently opened her eyes, glancing around the room, only to blink when she saw Leo meditating near by, "Leo?"
Leo opened his eyes, "Are you hungry yet?"
"No…"
Leo glanced up a worried look on his features, "You really need to eat something."
"I just…" she bit her lip, "I just don't wanna eat."
"Are you alright?" Leo asked.
"I don't know…" she whispered. She blushed when in a matter of seconds; Leo's hand was resting on her forehead.
"You're running a fever," he stated, "I'm going to get Donnie…"
"Why?" she blinked.
"I think I know what's wrong," he stated.
Several minutes later, Don and Kat were in the room, Don studying Krystal's shoulder, "I knew something about that dagger was familiar."
"What is it Donnie?" Leo asked.
Don sighed, "I've been reading books on legends that aren't very known… and there was a mystic dagger that was wielded by one of the most dangerous women that has been walking the earth since time began."
"Okay…" Leo nodded.
"Unlike Winters… her thirst for power keeps on growing, using the blood and souls of two female warriors that keep on being reborn," Don stated.
"Wait… what does this have to do with…"
"The dagger is cursed to poison the person the moment it pierces the skin," Don stated, "but the poison doesn't kill its victim, it weakens its victim."
Krystal paled, "So… I'm…"
"It's alright, I got somewhat of an antidote being made right now," Don stated, "Kat and I will be up in fifteen minutes with the antidote."
"Why fifteen minutes?" Leo asked worriedly.
"Leo… stuff like this takes time," Don stated, picking Kat up, and leaving the room.
"What is wrong with me!?" Krystal growled, "What in the freaking heck is WRONG with me!?"
"Krystal… it's not your fault," Leo stated.
"Yes it IS! I put my guard down, and look at what happened to me! I can't believe…" her eyes widened when she felt Leo kiss her, either to silence her, or because he wanted to, or both; she found herself relaxing, returning the kiss.
The moment they broke apart, "What was that for?"
"To silence you," he stated causing her face to fall, "plus I really wanted to."
-
Kat leaned on the back of Don's chair as he sat at his computer, "Did you ever find out the woman's name?"
"Wha?" Don asked.
"That woman, who had the dagger…" Kat stated.
"All I know is that she's called the Dark One… why?" Don asked, glancing at the boiling test tube that was sitting on his desk, and glancing at the timer.
"Something wasn't right about this from the beginning…" Kat whispered.
Don nodded, "But at least we met…"
"True," Kat stated, as he stood up and grabbed the antidote, pouring it into a glass.
"Let's go…"
-
Krystal stared at the antidote, sniffing it, and took a sip; she made a face, "That stuff tastes nasty, I'm not going to drink it."
"Krystal… all medicines taste nasty," Kat stated.
"Not all…" Krystal frowned, "But I'm still not going to drink it."
Leo frowned, "Krystal… you are going to drink it."
"No…" she frowned, holding the glass away from her.
"Don…" Leo glanced at his brother, "Where's the funnel?"
"In the kitchen, why?" Don asked.
Krystal's eyes widened in horror, "Leo, you…"
"If you won't drink it, I'll make you drink it," Leo stated.
She cringed, staring at the glass, before taking a deep breath, gulping it down in a matter of seconds, nearly vomiting it up when she finished drinking it, "Get me water!"
Kat grabbed the glass that was brought up there earlier, handing it to her, and watched as she gulped it down, "Leo… Don…" she glanced at them, "I need to talk to Krystal in private."
Don nodded, "Just don't take too long, we're ordering a pizza."
"Okay," Kat nodded, patting him on the shoulder as he and Leo walked out.
"What do you want to talk about?" Krystal stated.
"I think I've found out what has been causing my nightmares," Kat murmured.
"How?" Krystal asked, "I mean your parents tried everything to find out what was causing them."
"I found out a little more about the dagger while Don and I were waiting on the antidote…" Kat stated, "Do you believe in reincarnation?"
"Why?" Krystal asked.
"I have a reason to believe that you and I are two reincarnated warriors," Kat affirmed.
"Why do you think that?" Krystal asked.
"I don't know… but something inside me is telling me that it's true," Kat stated, "what else can explain your sudden adrenaline rushes."
"Maybe we shouldn't have left," Krystal stated, "Lily and Helen were right… something was bound to happen to us…"
-Flashback-
"I don't think you two should go," Lily stated, her blue eyes narrowed fiercely as she stood in front of her friends.
"Lily's right guys," Helen stated worriedly, "plus we'll miss you."
"Come on Lily, Helen, we'll be fine," Krystal stated, "besides, this will look good on our college tuition…"
"But something is bound to happen to you two," Lily stated, "Especially knowing Kat."
"Hey," Kat pouted.
"Well… it's true," Lily stated.
"We'll call you two if anything happens," Kat stated, "we promise."
Lily rolled her eyes, hugging Kat, "You be careful, ya got that… and CALL me."
"We will…" Krystal stated, hugging Helen, and then hugging Lily when Kat went to hug Helen.
"And if you meet anyone, tell us," Helen stated.
"We will…" Krystal stated, "Come on Kat, let's get on that plane."
"Bye!" the four girls said, hugging each other one last time, before Kat and Krystal disappeared through the boarding gate.
-End Flashback-
"Do you think they'd kill us if we call them and tell them that we met someone a week and a half after we met them?" Kat thought.
"Lily would kill both of us…" Krystal stated, "Helen would just glomp us… after coming up here by plane."
"I wonder how they're doing," Kat said to herself.
-Georgia, USA-
"I miss them…" Helen sighed.
"I know what you mean," Lily frowned, "but I'm going to be strangling Kat when I see her next if she doesn't call."
"Yeah…" Helen sighed.
-Back at the Lair-
"They probably don't," Krystal sighed, "Lets see if we can get out of this room…"
"Need to see different scenery?" Kat giggled.
"Oh yeah," Krystal smirked.
Kat stood up, and opened the door, only to blink when two eavesdropping turtles collapsed in front of them, "Uh… hi…"
Don grinned, "So..."
"What?" Krystal blinked.
"Are you hungry?" Leo asked.
Kat and Krystal glanced at each other, "Of course we are!"
Leo beamed, "Okay ladies, dinner is served."
-
The sound of Raph yelling at Mike got their direct attention when they reached the lower level, it was odd because Mikey was holding onto Flora and Spencer protectively, "You're plotting something!"
Raph glared at his baby brother, "Why would I plot something!?"
"Because you said you HATED baby animals," Mikey growled.
"WHY WOULD I HURT THEM!?" Raph shouted, "They're my best friends…" he covered his mouth the moment those words escaped his mouth, Mike's jaw dropped, Kat and Krystal giggled, and Leo and Don bursted into laughter.
"I didn't just say that!" Raph growled.
Kat and Krystal walked over to Mikey taking their babies from his grasp, "Sure you didn't."
Raph blinked when Leo and Don stopped laughing suddenly, and he noticed why... Kat and Krystal stood there with their hands placed gently on their heads.
"Kat and Krystal are you two okay?" Leo asked.
"Dizzy…" Krystal groaned.
Raph couldn't help but smirk when they took the girls to the kitchen, "Where can I get one?"
"Get what?" Mikey asked stupidly.
"You're stupid, ya know that…"
"No seriously, get what?" Mikey asked.
"Ah, you already know… you did witness…"
"Oh… I don't know," Mikey stated, "let's spy on them."
"Fine whatever…"
-
"So did anything happen while we were asleep?" Kat asked suddenly taking a bite out of her slice of pizza.
"Well…" Don turned crimson, "You tell them Leo..."
"Tell us what?" Krystal asked.
"We... uh... got... THE talk," Leo stated, blushing a bit.
Krystal dropped her pizza on her plate, fighting back the laughter that was about to escape her throat, Kat who just took a sip of water spat it all out, and Flora and Spencer just stared at them.
"What?" Leo asked.
"Dude, we got that talk when we were in middle school, after health by our parents," Krystal stated.
"Huh?" Leo and Don blinked; making the two girls to giggle, Spencer to 'meow,' and Flora started panting happily.
-
Miss Toho stared into her book, her eyes glowing a faint red, her blood red lips formed into a wicked smile as she stroked the books pages longingly, "Soon I will replenish my immortality, my love, and this time I shall free you from the curse."
The golden book glowed faintly, her eyes filling with tears and hate, "And those two warriors won't trap you again… I promise."
She closed her eyes tightly, the pain filled memories filling her mind.
-Flashback-
The two young women stood before her, one had a weapon in their grasp, and the other had a small book of spells and curses. After drawing their blood in a particularly bloody battle days earlier, she and her love were prepared for anything… after all this was the 15th century.
"Toho Gina and Tohomik Jiro, give up at once!"
"Ai, Hikari, you shall not stop us from ruling chaos!" Gina shouted.
Hikari held out her spell book, aiming at Jiro, "Ri na kah ro taro!"
Gina narrowed her eyes at Hikari as she cast the curse, and was about to play the curse to take her soul until she felt a spear being stabbed into her shoulder, by Ai.
She watched in horror as her love changed into the book she would always have by her side for centuries. She glared at Ai and Hikari, "You will pay for what you've done!"
"Shanect parnamae zomoont!"
She cackled as the two warriors cried out in agony as their souls were pulled out of their bodies, and into the pool of life.
"I shall be immortal for another fifteen hundred years, and soon enough, my love shall be freed from his curse," she hissed.
-End Flashback-
Miss Toho sighed, tracing the scar on her shoulder, "I may have continued the pattern of my immortality, but my love was turned into this cursed book..." she looked at the book with a gentle look, "I have grown stronger, and I will break the curse this time..."
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