Note To Readers: Ding, ding, Schools in squares!! LOL. I'm sorry about the mix-up. I posted the wrong chapter, here is the actual chapter. I thought my only day off so I might aswell put something on, before I continue on. My mind is starting to sway away, so I need to refresh my brain juices and put a great climax and some falling action to this old thing. Ready for the latest chapter? Well, here we go!
Chapter 13: Cave of Trails Part 3
Raphael followed Leonardo with anger. He felt that same rage he had just days ago. He thought it would never come back so soon. A year maybe, but not now. He wanted to pull out his sai and slash a scar right across his plated chest.
Leo carried Donatello on his shell, as he was too weak to walk. The path will be long. It felt like they have been in the cave for days. Don is damaged mentally, Raph was pissed, and Mickey was worried. He just hopes the next trail comes soon. Leo turned around and saw a red painted mark on the wall. " Raph, it's your turn."
" You stole my line," Raph said. Leo turned around and saw a blue mark where Raph stood. " What's the deal?"
" I don't know…" Suddenly Leo was forced against the wall.
" WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?" Raph said. Mickey caught Don just in time. " I'm sick of this!"
Splinter's voice thunderous voice echoes throughout the cave. "That is what you need to do Raph. Settle your differences. Between you and Leo. Go now."
"GLADLY!!" Raph roared as he tackled Leo onto the wall, making Don fly off his back. Suddenly the wall shifted back and Leo and Raph tumbled into a pit, as Mickey gripped his slumbering brother. Leo rolled off Raph and flipped onto his feet. Raph stood up, his feet planted firmly, and his fingertips touching the ground. " I can't wait to pound my fist into your face."
"Really?" Leo felt that dark feeling within himself that he felt before. He smirked, "I'll bet you won't leave a scratch on my plastron. You'll never win. You know that. We are destined to fight for eternity, and I will always win. The fact remains, most importantly, I'm better than you."
" Hehehe," Raph laughed back. " We'll see, I'm going to whip that pretty little smile off your face!" Raph rushed in with his fists drawn, as he through hooks at Leo, yet only hitting after images. Leo slid from the fist smoothly and kicked Raph in his chest. Raph stepped back and recovered from his hit, and went back into the fight.
Raph swung above him, but Leo ducked and drilled a series of painful hits into Raph's chest, sending him flying back as he gripped his chest. "Damn you!" Leo looked on, with the same dark smirk he wore on his face. Raph ran back into the fight.
Leo ducked, dodged, strike, and ducked again. Leo was trapped in his ego, as he moved as if he was just practicing on a punching bag. "What's the matter, that head holding you down?" Leo knocked on Raph's head, until Raph swung at Leo, but only hit air as he looked for his brother.
" Is this yours?" Raph turned around only to have his face smashed in by Leo's fist sending him into the air, and into a wall. Raph slumped to the floor. " Haha, I thought you were going to win this one. I mean, those words were so believable!"
" Your crossing the line, Leo!" Raph growled. His mouth had blood leaking from his mouth. " Don't you say another word."
"Oh," Leo joked. " I'm so scared."
Raph roared as he trusted a fist at Leo who dodged it, but Raph gripped Leo's shoulder, vaulted over him and pulled his sai out and held it to his neck. " Know what?!"
Leo tried to pull Raph's arm away from his neck, but the blade slowly came closer to his neck. Leo closed his eyes, and focused his back against Raph's chest. Leo dipped down into a split, causing his ninjaken to slide out it's sheath. Leo gripped his sword, swiped his legs around, tripped Raph, and leaped to his feet with his sword to his neck. " Same question?"
Raph rolled backwards, gripped his second sai, and prepared for battle. Leo pulled out his second ninjaken and turned to his brother. Together the brothers leaped into the air and clashed their swords in mid air. Leo landed, pivoted, and landed a two his strike on Raph's sai so hard, sparks shot off the metal, causing Raph to flinch from the burning pain. Raph pushed the swords out his way, flipped his sais, handle first, and punched Leo with the handles before, back handing him. Leo spun around and kicked Raph into a spin, before spinning with his swords, causing two quick slices on Raph's arm and leg.
" You cut me?" Raph looked at his brother who stood in a stance that looked directly off a japanese painting. " oh, I see how it is."
"I can't allow this to continue!" Mickey said. He laid his brother onto the ground, slid down into the pit, and jumped in between his brothers.
" Move it dope!" Raph said as he ran at Leo. Mickey, in a split second, wrapped his nunchacku around Raph's sai and wripped it out his hand. Raph slid onto the ground as Leo jumped above him, blades ready to deliver a blow, but Mickey leaped between the space, and used Raph's sai, to block Leo's slash, and his nunchaku to pull the second blade into the ground, inches away from Raph's face.
Leo landed, with his sword in his hand, as he got into his solo stance. Mickey held the sai at Leo, and his nunchaku in a defence stance. Raph pulled Leo's sword out the ground and held his sai forward. " Stay out this Mickey," Leo said. " I don't want you to get hurt."
" I won't allow you guys to continue," Mickey declared.
" Then get run over!!" Raph snarled as he began to charge at Mickey to get to Leo. Mickey looked at Leo who started to run at them as well. Mickey began to swing his nunchaku and leaped up as he began to brace himself against Leo ad Raph's assault. When Mickey opened his eyes, Don had leaped beneath him, blocking Leo's slash, and kicking Mickey out the way as Raph launched Leo's blade at Leo, that flew past them into the wall. The brothers split four different sides.
Don held his staff tight, using it as a krutch. " Mickey, stay out of this, they can't fail there trails!"
"It's not right…"
"Since when did you become the person to say it's not right?!" Raph yelled. " Your always screwing up, and you dare try to correct us!?"
"Shut up Raph!" yelled Leo. " This doesn't include him. This is between me and you!"
"It includes all of us!" Mickey told his brothers. " I thought we were together, again we are still apart-"
"Out of my way!!" Raph yelled, as he ran through Mickey, and clashed with Leo once more. Leo and Raph used their only weapons and began to clash with each other. The sword and the sai sent sparks off as the clashed at the speed only Leo and Raph could go, as they stared each other down . They continued until Raph slashed Leo's hand and Raph spin kicked him into a wall. Raph leaped on top of Leo, and held the blade at his throat.
" Game over, I win." Raph grinned.
" I don't think so." Leo smirked. Raph didn't notice the blade he so carelessly thrown into the wall, is no one the back off his neck, at a point that if Leo wanted to, he could kill him easily. " Still 2 to 0 huh?"
Raph growled. Then he laughed. Leo dropped his blade, and Raph rolled off his brother. Leo stood up and picked his brother up off the ground. "Damn it! I almost got you."
"You did," Leo said. "This was a tie. If it was real, we would both be dead." Raph reflected on every life threatening attack Leo did, he pulled. The two slashes on his arm and leg didn't even bleed. Leo had played him all this time.
" Your trails are now complete." The four brothers turned around, and noticed Splinter, sitting on his staff, balanced easily. " These obstacles had never caused any harm to you physically, it was mentality that helped you through these, but you knew that didn't you Leo?"
Don looked puzzled, but then pulled out the flower Leo asked him to retrieve. He was crushed up and ashy, do being burn. Leo smiled. " This is gen'eishokubutsu, Illusion plant. When you burn it, whatever you think in your head comes to life. That is why you spoke before each challenge right?"
"Indeed, my son." Splinter said. "Through these challenges. I finally trust you will be able to defeat the Shredder."