Hi, I know I am extremely late, but I have been having some really hard times in real life.

Leo POV:

We followed the albino girl, err i mean "Venus," led us through the strange, dark forest. Never before had I ever felt so lost. Aside from the ever present fog covering the area and the lack of a sun or moon, I could feel a large sense of dread in the air.

Venus spoke to us, without moving her head from its position. "You can feel it can't you? The depressing aura of this place. That is the nature of this this realm, for this is where the Shinigami* place the souls of those who are not ready to pass to the other life. Most of these people are either murder victims waiting for justice, suicide victims, or just had a bad life."

Me and my brothers shifted uncomfortably at this. I couldn't imagine what these people had been through. Venus was unwavered, but continued to speak to us.

"Your Sensei is highly praised by my master for being kindhearted with these wayward souls. Even if he couldn't give advice on a situation, which was rare, he was a good listener."

I felt a bit of pride to have such a father, but I was reminded about our mission. Who would kidnap our father here if he was helping people? Surely all the truly evil souls would have been sent... I didn't want to finish that thought.

The rest of our walk was in silence as a awkward aura covered us. Even Mikey was strangely quiet, which I found to be be most odd. I looked at him to see him with such a solemn expression. Naturally I became concerned for him, but I kept my mouth shut for the sake of the mission. We eventually stopped at a large temple. It was shaped like a Mayan step pyramid, only it was just as dull and grey as the rest of the world. Venus turned around to face us.

"This is where your Sensei is being kept. I am not entirely sure what his kidnappers intentions are, but I have a feeling that they are a force to be reckoned with. I highly doubt that it is dead either."

She pulled out long strips of paper and handed them to us. The strips had chinese symbols on them in red ink.

"Wrap these securely around your weapons, they will not be cut by the blades."

We were confused, but we did as she told us. The weird thing is that after I finished wrapping it around one of my Katanas, the strips began to glow a slight yellow colour. I shielded my eyes and dropped it to avoid blinding myself. After the glowing stopped I looked back down to see that the blade now had the symbols embedded on it. The others looked at their weapons confused at what just happend. Venus decided to fill us in after Raph gave her a not-so-friendly look.

"Your weapons would be completely useless against the dead without a talisman on them. otherwise they would just pass through the ghosts. While it is impossible to kill a ghost, the talismans will change the ghosts into a "soul" form upon contact."

She opens the folds of her cloak to show a large amount of weapons strapped onto her body. She pulled out a large, brown metal gun and held it in both of her hands, i was more so surprised at the fact that she could even carry the heavy looking thing.

She turned back to the pyramid and signaled for us to go forward. I had a feeling that we had a large, hard fight ahead of us.

I know I know a short chapter after a long HIATUS is a bad thing but I will be updating soon-ish. Please forgive any spelling/grammar errors, I had to type this on Google Docs.

*Shinigami: Death god in Japanese. In this case, they are also known as grim reapers.