Wow, i didn't even think anyone even remembered this story, but i got a few reviews, so FOR THEM.
Sorry about any spelling mistakes, i wanted to get this out as soon as possible!
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"Your not even our real sister!" Day slammed the pillow down harder, she didn't want to hear this, she didn't want them to fight, and she wanted their master back. As if they heard her thoughts, the fighting stopped. Day should have gone back to sleep, but she had to know what was going to happen next. Standing, she placed her ear against the wall, straining to hear
Day had expected screaming, maybe the sounds of weapons slithering out of their sheathes, or the sound of the dojo door sliding open. She could've handled any of that, it still would have been hard, but she could've handled it. Instead, their was just the sound of heavy feet, the slamming of a window, and then a horrible silence. The silence went on, and on. Day only opened her door when even the sound out her own breathing was painful.
Lilly stood in the doorway "I-I didn't...I was just so, angry...it slipped out...she, she....Oh my god, Rave!" She sat heavily on Rave's bed. "I was yelling, and then...and then" Glancing up at Day she seemed to realize who she was talking too, her voice changed motherly "Day? Shouldn't you be in bed?" She stood busily and ushered her out. "Come on, you head to bed, I'm going out to find Rave. If you get thirsty, there's milk in the fridge. If im not back by morning, make Ally some fruit-loops. But I should be back before then."
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I froze when I reached the doorway, it seemed so trifle, something any normal family would of taken for granted. It seemed like the firsts time in months that I'd seen Lilly and Rave sit in the same room without trying killing each other. Rave, Rave was laughing, clutching she sides, as if she was going to explode. Lilly was chuckling, a sweet sound that sadly, wasn't often heard. Ally oblivious to hysterical sisters continued what she was saying "-gather all the stars and fly to the center of the galaxy to rescue Princess Peach of course What other object could a Mario game possibly have?" The younger girl turned her head to grin at her older sisters. "He's only been saving his one true love since, like, the beginning of time"
"Sounds like a pain," Lilly couldn't help but smile, folding her arms across her chest. "He should teach her some self defense or something."
Ally out and out snickered at that, nearly missing her jump as she did so but somehow recovering at the last minute. "That would make it a VERY different game, sis. Maybe we should send that to Nintendo…"
Rave sat on the arm of the couch, sorting through an old box of video games "I remember this game!" triumphantly she pulled a colorful game from her box, Animal crossing.
"Oh god, I really really hope that's not what I think it is" Ally almost groaned.
"We haven't played that game in years" Lilly did an over-dramatic gasp. We all had our horror stories about that game.
"Aw, but I miss some of our old neighbors...who are...mobbing after me in this illustration...Leopold was the first person I ever spoke to..." I couldn't help but supply.
Ally added in, "Butch wore a pink dress..."
"Olivia decided she 'couldn't read' a letter I wrote to her with a very large sum of bells tucked into it (she kept it, of course)..." Lilly glared at the game sitting innocently in Raves lap.
"Billy was...uh...he was a goat..." I grinned
"And Bob...he was my bud...he sent me a manhole cover on Valentine's Day..." Rave snorted. Back in the old days, Rave had had an unbelievable crush on Bob, and had been mercilessly teased about it.
"You know...Bob was pretty hot-" Rave had it coming the moment she'd pulled out the box.
"Shut it Ally" Rave almost tripped over the couch in an attempt to strangle the giggling clown, all she achieved was a face-plant into couch-ness.
Wanting to end the upcoming violence before it started, I changed the subject "So Lilly, why'ed you call us all down here" and immediately regretted it. Rave's face fell into the unemotional mask that was beginning to appear more often than I'd like, and Lilly's face lost its relaxed posture and took on the seriousness of a child forced to growup far to soon. Ally looked up from her game.
Her voice was grave "Rave and I have come to a compromise and-"
"Woah man, don't drag me into this" Rave's voice was muffled by cushy-couch-ness.
I swear if looks could kill, Rave would be pushing up daises, Lilly hated being interrupted "I have come to the conclusion that blah, blah, blahbeness, of blahbys, blah, blah, blah, blah" I bet, on Lilly's back, there's a switch that says 'on', 'off', 'lecture mode'. She's gotten to a point that even I cant follow her. Here's some advise, if Lilly starts blahing, Run. Like. Hell.
By the time she finished, Rave and Ally had lost interest. They only looked up when I spoke, "Okay, so what dose that mean?"
"Guys...we're going back to school" Yes she said back, in the past we had attempted public education. And the fault was indeed mine that we wernt there now, its amazing what one little tail slip can do to people.
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Metal clashed with metal as she began the deadly dance, twisting and turning under the weapons, blocking and deflecting attacks as she pranced across her stage, attempting to knock out as many foes as she could whilst keeping an eye on Raph and Casey.
"Who the hell are these guys!" She yelled as the black and red ninjas surrounded her.
The only ninja without a mask stood proudly "We are the foot, and we will be your end, warrior" She got the fain impression of a Chinese accent as Raph swiped at her head.
"Damn," She cursed loudly as she buckled beneath the weight of a particular blow, only just managing to roll away from the finishing sweep of the sword, landing at the edge of the roof. She hoped that her two companions were having better luck than she was. The ninja had followed her, forgetting the drop, she balanced on her right foot and delivered a sharp kick to his jaw. The ninja stumbled behind a heating vent as Rave started to fall backwards. The unmasked ninja from before gave her a sharp push. Her ninja reflexes kicked in before she dropped into the alley below, and she grabbed the edge of the roof.
The unmasked ninja nelt on her fingers, and towered over her. "Little girl, you have a bad choice in friends" Giving her a sly smile she gestgerd to the fight going on behind her. Leaning down farther she whispered in her ear "and a very bad choice in enemies"
Turning her head Rave brushed her lips ageist her ear "And you have a horrid sense of fashion!" Startled the unmasked ninja jumped away, the sudden lift of wait caused Rave to slip two more inches downward.
She looked up when sparks specked her face with tiny burns, Raph was battling the unmasked ninja and was winning. The ninja switched to offence, trying to keep from getting wounded. Even an untrained eye could have seen that she was losing more energy every second, dogeing Raph's chains she made a motion with her hands and the foot faded into the shadows
"Raph!" She attempted to pull herself up, but her fingers betrayed her. Her screech echoed off the walls of the alley, she ran her hands down the bricks side of the building and finally came to a stop by slaming down on a fire escape.
A green head poked over the top of the building. "Rave? Rave, are you okay?" Her reply was a mix of groans and swears. "Are you hurt?"
"No, Im completely fine, I just fell-" her sarcasm was delayed for a momment as her eyes wandered up the wall "-Seven stories. I'm completely fine." Glowering at him, she grabbed the railing and pulled herself up. She tested one of her legs and then put her weight on it, putting her weight on the other one, she crumpled to the metal again.
"Hold on, don't go anywhere!! I'll be down in a second!!" There was a short conversation in the roof, followed by a loud thud. After a moment Raph was next to her. Gruffly he streched out her leg and inspected it. When she yelped, his hands gentled and he sent her an apologetic glance. When Casey droped down above them Raph looked up "It's definitely sprained, we might have to cast it."
"Should we take her to the lair?"
"Naw, if Donny caught us he'd skin us alive. Do you think, maybe April would help?" Raph scrunched up his face as he thought.
"Guys, Im fine, seriously, I'll just get one of the girls to pick me up and- Guys?"
Both men glanced down. "Yeah, Ape would help, but then we'd have to explain, how she got it." Raph slung her over his shoulder, Ignoring her swears and struggles.
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Casey slid open the window and clambered inside, turning quickley so he could catch Rave when Raph handed her in.
"Casey, what are you doing?" April's living room flooded with light, and she squinted at him.
"Err...well, I was out, and...and she fell...broke her leg?" He turned to the Nighwatcher to help, but the window was empty.
"Her leg? Bad enough that she could'nt walk?" She looked pointedly at Casey's arm wrapped around Rave's shoulders. Frowning she gestured too set her patient on the kitchen counter, dissapering into her bathroom she returned with a large med kit. "You really should have just called Donny. Whats with her helmet, is she a biker?" Casey shrugged awkwardly, glad that Rave had at least stopped her tirade when they'd come in.
April's words had been sharp, but her hands were gentl as she prid off Rave's leather boot. Without the leather she could see the extent of the injury. Hissing sympathetically she started to wash off the grim and sweat that had built up from her rooftop run. Rave's leg was a mass of purple and black, her ankle the size of a grapefruit.
"I'm April" she said, her hand outstretched
"And I'm fine" Rave growled. April grinned tiredly, reminded of a turtle that she hardly saw anymore.
"I'll be right back, me and Casey have to have a little talk." Handing Rave a ice pack she grabbed the front of Casey's shirt.
Rave looked up as the Nightwacher slid onto the window sill. She offered a feebly smile, which he did not return. "So that was the famous April?" she teased referring to all the rants Casey had about how hard it was to talk to her. "I'd expected her to be a least...ten feet taller? Waht do you think of my leg?" She streched her leg out for him to admire, turning it back and forth, for effect.
Ignoreing her question, his tone was grave "Rave...I think you should stop coming out with us" Her head slammed up, the look she gave him was almost as cold as the ice pack in her hand. "Its nothing personal b-"
"Barely know her, cause that looked just like barely knowing!" A voice said angrily from the other side of the door.
Raph winced, poor Casey. "Maybe we should take this outside, the roof?" He grabbed her shoulder, about to help her up, but she swatted it away. She jumped down, pulled her boot on, and hobbled to the window. If the situation had been less serious, Raph would have laughed. She hoisted herself up on the windowsill, bighting back a yelp as her ankle jarred against the metal. He offered to help as she pulled herself up the fire escape, but the look in her eyes stopped him from taking action.
When they finally got to the roof, Rave sat on its two foot rim, crossing her arms. Raph wished not for the first time he could see her face. He leaned against a vent.
"Its just, tonight you got hurt. If you keep coming out with us, you'll keep getting hurt, I don't want you hurt, because Rave, I like...." She was watching him, and he couldn't say it. He'd even practiced in front of the mirror at home, spinning around and saying it dramatically, angrily, even happily. He'd wanted to be prepared, so when he found the time, he could tell her outright, but in all the times he fantasized about telling her, he hadn't thought she would look angry and hurt.
"What Raph, its cause I got hurt?" She snapped. "You don't think I know the risks? I was out fighting crime before your face even appeared on the papers! Do you think I can't take care of myself?" Her hand went instinctivly to the sais at her belt, the ones he'd been teaching her to use. "I could take you on!"
He snorted. "You? You're a girl, puls you can barely stand! Take me one, you wish!"
That had been the wrong thing to say, he'd known even before the words left his mouth. Her eyes when wide, and then narrowed.
Her voice was deadly. "Is that what you think, that this entire time you've been protecting me?"
"Without me, Im surprised you could've even lasted one night. Oh but that's right, you have a whole group to help you. I bet you couldn't even live without your sisters!" He dodged the throwing star at grinned wickedly. "Is that all you got? I bet my Grandpa has better aim!"
The next star went so close to his head it scraped the metal on his helmet. He ran toward her brandishing his sais. She met him halfway, slamming her own pair of sais down on his. With a flick of his wrist one of her sais went flying, and stabbed blindly. She blocked with her one sai, backing up. He spotted an opening, and kicked out one of her legs from under her, her other leg crunched as all her weight was suddenly on it. Only then did he remember her wound, horrified, he watched as she fell to her knees in front of him. Blood seeped out from the bottom of her hurt leg. She couldn't put any weight on it at all, so she used the edge of the roof to get up.
It was his fault, he'd only wanted her to be safe. By the time he'd unfrozen his mind, she was gone, leaving a bloody trail behind her.
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Donny pulled Mikey out of the way as a motorcycle flew past. "Crazy bikers!" For a moment he thought one of her legs was bloody, but dismissed the thought as him being tired.
"Did you see that? She looked exactly like the Nightingale!!"
"Who?" Donny asked, more to keep Mikey entertained than seriously wanting to know.
Mikey shot him an incredulous look. "The Nightingale, she all over the news! She supposed to be the Nightwachers partner, or girlfriend, something like that." seeming to realize what he just said he shouted "Hey do you think the Nightwachers nearby?"
Don shook his head. "I think she looked upset, maybe something happened. Come on, lets head to April's before you get run over"