Disclaimer:I own Mitchel Gordon but no one else...well the plot....sneeks over and hugs Leo, covering him up better in the process. "sleep tight"

Chapter 11: DreamScapes

All I can do is stare at April....I'm trying to figure out if I heard her right. Don looks just as dumbstruck as I feel and Mikey looks shocked. April is laughing at us but Casey looks just as stunned.

"Here" April laughs and after getting up she gets a hold of a magazine looking thing and hands it to me.

It reads Leonardo Hamato's DreamScapes. I open the cover to see a image of me with flames twisting around me, my scars and muscle tone clearly defined. I'm clutching my Sais and my mask looks like its made of a piece of red fire the back ground is darkened flames. I have a deadly air to me and my Sais appear to be dripping blood. It's titled "The Ember Burning". I'm stunned. I can't breathe...is this how Leo really sees me? I turn the page and gasp surrounded by technological things and computers is Don. He's leaning over the back of a chair, one hand on the keyboard and the other on the desk. Don has his head slightly turned so that one chocolate-brown eye is gleaming in the electrical glow, inteligence blazing behind it. Its titled, "The Mind's Eye". I shake my head and find myself turning another page. Mikey is standing in the sewers a goofy grin on his face, all charm and cuteness. He's holding his chucks in the "at ease" position and he's looking like he does after he pulls a good prank. His orange mask is whipping around him as if a wind is blowing it. Then I notice Mikey's skateboard beside him and a helmet sitting on it. This piece is titled, "Jester's Delight". I grin. There's more though...one of Master Splinter sitting is shadows, candles casting a majestic glow to him, the shadowed room is full of ninjitsu and Japanese things, Master Splinter has a scroll open in front of him and he is holding a brush up as if preparing to write in caligraphy. It's titled "Shadowed Wisdom ". Another is of a Swallow-tailed butterfly resting on a leaf. It's wings are open, showing off the delicate beauty it has, it's titled "Spring's Child". I can't think as I look over the others, one of me working on my bike, one of Don welding, one of Mikey cooking with food everywhere, other butterflies, flowers. I stop at the sight of one I'm stunned to find.

It's a female turtle...or at least what Leo must picture one like us to look like. She's sitting in a lilly pond, head tipped back suductively. Her eyes are pure gold, her skin is light green. A thin nearly see-through white gown clings to her where she's wet. She's holding a lotus up, held loosely to her chest. I'm stunned...she's beautiful...I feel as if she's about to come off the page. It's titled, "Lotus Dreams". Does Leo really dream about girls like us? Wow. There are others...but none of the other females Leo's painted hold the same mystique and beauty. They are all stunning...but nothing like the first. Heck...I think I'm in love with a painting...I'm definatly losing it...

I turn the last pages and find a self portrit. Leo is standing in shadows, his head turned away so that one golden-brown eye glitters with a fierce fire. I see the edge of a sword gleaming in his hand, it's plain...only shadows, the blades, and him...nothing like ours. At the same time its got just as much feeling to it...Leo appears a mysterious warrior, his blue mask seeming to ripple around him, it's titled, "Shadowed". The last painting is titled "Leader's Love" and its Leo standing over us in the den. We are all asleep, sprawled on the couch and chair. Leo is covering us up, smiling gently. It's beautiful...because it is Leo, as much as "Shadowed" is. I pass the portfolio on and stare at April.

"Amazing aren't they," She says quietly. I can only nod. Don gasps beside me as he turns the pages. By the time it returns to April we are all too stunned to move.

"I never knew..." Don breathed. Mikey just sat there, looking like he'd forgoten how to speak. Casey is grinning.

"Well never figured Leo'd dream about girls," he says. Suddenly that gets us laughing because he's right we never pegged Leo as the romantic type. I want Leo back...I have so many questions...I want to see him paint like that again. The images are just breath taking. Suddenly a thought occurs to me.

"April....how did Mitchel recognise Leo?" I ask. She smiles.

"Mitchel demanded a meeting with the delivery of 'Lotus Dreams', Leo obliged after a contract was made about secrecy. Remember the night Leo just disapeared? He went to meet Mitchel that night. Ever since he meets up to hand over the paintings...apparently Leo didn't show up to deliver one of his latest paintings. 'Night Weaver'. I found it in his room the other day," April replied. She got up and went to her room after a few minutes she came back and pulled a cover off the painting. It was shocking.

Before us was a female turtle that surpassed "Lotus Dreams" by leaps and bounds. She was leaning against a tree, one arm up against the trunk, fingers brushing the bark gently. Her eyes are deep blue...like pools of Sapphire. Her skin was very light green almost mint green her shell appeared to be a creamy tone. She was wrapped in a thin black dress. Her other hand was holding a black fan up to her face, hiding all but her eyes.

"Wow," I breathe.

"Mitchel liked the females the best I guess...he said he asked Leo if they were real like you guys and him. Leo told him no," April said quietly, "Mitchel asked for one of females at night in the woods. Leo did this."

I'm stunned, Leo just thought these up? They are beautiful. Well guess I never expected for there to be real female turtles like us but...yeah. After a while April shooes us upstairs to bed. Leo is out cold, he mumbles as we settle down and leans into us.

"Night guys," I whisper. I hear then say the same before I fall asleep.

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Reviews? Please? *I will attempt to do "Lotus Dreams" and "Night Weaver" myself...I also might take a crack at the guys portraits so you guys can see what I'm talking about.