Many Fears

Chapter 3: Fight, Talk, Remember

Disclaim: I don't own or know the TMNT. Sorry.

"Well, well, well," Loss said with an evil grin. "Everyone is here. This will be easy." I got in front of everyone and took out one of my swords.

"You may have changed Loss," I said, "but you will never defeat me."

"Really?" Loss said as he crossed his arms.

"I'll beat you like I usually do," I said as I pointed my sword at Loss.

"We're not sparing Emerald," Loss said, "this is the real thing." With that, he signaled Darkness's army to come out of the shadows. We were surrounded with no way out and I could tell this would be a hard fight. Please let me be strong enough to beat Loss, I pray under my breath.

"Attack!" Loss yelled. Darkness's army came poring in and everyone was fighting except Loss. I aim at Loss and I fight my way to him. By the time I got to him it had been a half hour.

"Tired?" he asks with a grin.

"Yes but I have energy to spare," I say as I catch my breath. He charges at me with the legendary Dark Blade, a sword of mass destruction.

I had 2 choices. They were block Loss with my swords or move. I was too slow. I decided to move but Loss had got me on my right leg. He had cut a slab of skin right off. It was a little longer than my hand, 4 inches wide in the widest part, and a centimeter deep in the deepest part. I placed my hand over the wound hoping to stop the blood coming out. It was no good, all it did was cover my hand in blood and increase the pain. Raph was the closest to me and he saw the whole thing. He finished the dude he was fighting and ran over to me.

"Are you ok?" he asks when he gets next to me.

"I'll be fine when this wound stops bleeding," I said rudely. He smiled and took off his mask. He rapped it around the wound and tied it tight.

"Thanks," I said with a sigh of relief.

"No prob," Raph said before he was pulled back into the battle (literally). I got up and Loss and I were alone once more.

"Hurts doesn't it?" he asks in a mischievous way.

"Yeah," I said, "but it won't stop me."

Loss gave me a dirty look and charged at me again. I was prepared for this attack this time. I didn't just dodge him, I had cut him across his gut. It was like a paper cut but it was still painful. He came at me again and I had a chance to stab him in the heart but I didn't. I knew he was still the one I knew before he was like this and all that had happened was that this was a mask to cover the one I knew. I decided to cut him across his chest. This attack was a little deeper than I intended. The cut was an inch deep and dripping tons of blood. Loss still stood where I had cut him staring at his wound. I took this as an advantage. I rammed him in the back and kept him on the ground.

"Get off!" he yells.

"Not unless you promise to listen," I said as I struggled to keep him down.

"Fine," he said as he relaxed and stopped fighting me. I got off of his back and picked up my swords and putted them away. Loss putted his away as well.

"Now," I said, "what has happened to you?"

"You," he says as if this was a laughing matter.

"No," I said firmly. "I mean what happened to make you join Darkness in the first place? He use to be your enemy."

"What are you talking about?" he asks. "I've been serving the master ever since I was born."

"You don't remember do you?" I ask dreading the answer.

"Remember what?" he asks.

"Let me take you back on memory lain," I said as I got out my emerald. The emerald did the same thing that it did when I showed the TMNT the Fears. The scenery became a green field with a small house at the far end.

"Where are we?" Loss asks. "It seems so familiar, like a dream."

"No dream," I said as I turn around. "We use to play all the time here when we were younger. Look!" I point to a young mutant turtle and a little girl. The turtle was chasing the girl in a game of tag.

"Come on Sly!" the yelled over her shoulder.

"I'm not as fast as you!" the young turtle yelled. "Em! Slow down!"

"The girl is me," I said, "and the turtle is-"

"Is me," Loss said cutting me off. I blinked. I looked at him and saw a tear coming down his right cheek.

"Do you remember?" I ask.

"Yeah," Loss said as he wiped his eyes. " I can't believe that I joined Darkness."

"It's ok Loss," I said as I placed my left hand on his shoulder. "Everyone makes mistakes."

"Not like mine," Loss says as he faces me with my hand still on his shoulder. I don't have to say anything and he knows the answer "Yes they do". The scene around us became the lair where everyone was still fighting.

"Shall we spare for old time's sake?" Loss asks as he pulls off the evil necklace. I nod and hand him one of my swords. I walk back a few paces as well as Loss and we both bow. Just as we both stood strait the wall to my right blew sending some bricks at me. One hits my shoulder as another one hits my leg wound, sending a wave of pain through my body. A black wave came from within the hole and the wave, hitting me like two tons of bricks, flying me 3 feet away from were I was standing.Emerald hit the ground so hard that it makes her pass out. The wave hit everyone else in the lair too except me. It literally went over my head like I had a force field around me. Everyone flew 3 feet from where they stood or laid and when they hit the ground, they passed out just like Emerald.

"Don't look so surprised Loss," a dark voice said. My attention swung to the new hole in the wall.

"Darkness!" I yelled as a pure black shadow walked in through the hole. "Why are you here!?"

"To finish everyone off," Darkness said with an evil chuckle.