CHAPTER 5: THE FURY OF RAPHAEL.

"What the…?" All the people in the temples' hall were chocked.

"Kazan!* What are you doing here?" Yuto said angrily.

"I'm working for Nisshoku and I'm here to get the pearl fragment!" He laughed evilly and shot big fireballs on the floor that split in more balls that then became fire ninjas.

"Stop me, if you can!" He ran to the fragments' pedestal but Kan tried to stop him and shot some arrows very skilfully but Kazan turned around and burned them and threw fire lances that defeated him.

Chikara took a big rock and threw it towards Kazan. He jumped high and kicked it hard. The stone split in two parts.

"You're pathetic!" Chikara jumped and tried to kick him, but Kazan blocked the kick with a punch and kicked her fast and twice, and she flew against the wall, loosing consciousness.

"Holy pizza!" Mikey shouted.

"He's really powerful!" Donnie agreed. Yuto used very sharp metal fans and threw them at Kazan. He melted them too but meanwhile he did that Yuto surprised him with a sword attack. Kazan almost lost his balance but he opened his mouth and a ray of fire hit Yuto and he was soon beaten too.

Izomi took some golden powder from one of his little bags and spread it on his hands. Soon strong and big fire balls formed in his hands and he hit Kazan with them. For each one he threw a new one took its place. But Kazan dodged from all the fire balls and took Izomi by the arm and threw him against the walls. He then added:

"Your technique is too easy…" He reached the pedestal and almost took the fragment, but Julie, April and the Turtles were faster:

"GROUP ATTACK!" Kazan turned around and threw them away against the wall with a fire wave. Meanwhile, the fire ninjas were terrorizing the city, killing everyone that came in their way.

Raphael stood up and said:

"No…a being like you will never have the fragment!" He ran towards him with his sais ready to attack. But Kazan was faster and punched him in the stomach, making him fall on his knees. He laid his hand on his head and closed his eyes.

"Hmmmm…what an angry filled soul…so much hate! You're a perfect body! It'll be a pleasure!" He whispered something wired and suddenly his body started to enter Raph's. In the end, Kazan was into Raph's body. Raph started to shout as crazy, as if his soul was burning.

"Raph! What's happening to you?" Donnie shouted, rising up. Raph writhed on the floor, continuing shouting. His screaming froze the blood in his brother's veins. Suddenly, he remained silent. He rose silently. Donnie came closer to see if he was ok.

Raph turned around and gave Donnie an evil look and had maleficent, red eyes. He then laughed and punched him, and Donnie flew some meters, landing hard on the floor.

"Donnie! Are you crazy Raph?" Leo shouted, running to his brother to help him up. Raph laughed again and started talking, but it wasn't his voice.

"Hahahaha! Raph is not here anymore! I'm controlling his body now! You should see what he has in his soul! So much hate! It's so pitiful!"

"Shut up! You don't know anything!" Leo rose and took his katana out. Raph dodged his attacks and took his sais from the floor, dodging the next attack with them.

"Ah, Leonardo! You should know how much Raph is jealous of you, how much he is suffering because of you!"

"Just shut up!" Leo managed to hit him. Raph staggered.

"Hm, you're good, but not good enough!" He hit him with his sai, but Leo dodged the attacks and started to punch him and hit Raph twice.

"Live in the shadow of his own brother! What and awful thing!" He kicked Leo and he felled to the ground dropping his katana. Raph took one and put them closer to Leo's throat.

"Leo!" Julie, Donnie, Mikey and April tried to intervene to stop him, but a wall of fire blocked them.

"Now you'll die!..." He didn't finish the phrase, because his eyes suddenly became brown again and he started panting, as he was breathing after a long while.

"No…you won't have me, you bastard!" He shouted and started to scream again. Leo rose and took his katana. The fire wall disappeared and Donnie ran to Leo.

"I'll help you know!" Raph soon had red eyes again.

"He's resistant, that Raph!" Donnie tried to attack him and hit him, but Raph was stronger and he was soon defeated. Leo was exhausted and Donnie was almost unconscious for the attacks he got. Some guards came in to the temple to help them. Raph activated the fire wall again and said:

"Look at this; I'm sure you'll like it!" He held the sais tight in his hands and stabbed the guards brutally. Blood splattered. He killed every single guard in a horrible and gross way. April screamed and covered her eyed with her hands. It was terrible to watch.

"Let my brother be!" Mikey jumped very high over the fire wall and hit Raph with his nunchakus. He fell on the ground.

"Come back to normal Raph! Don't let him manipulate you!" He had tears in his eyes.

"Your brother does not exist anymore!" Raph hit him away.

"Enough! You're annoying me! Black destruction fire!" A black enormous fire hit the Turtles and the others. Now they were all exhausted and nearly unconscious. He laughed malefic and said:

"When I'll leave your brother's body, he'll be just a clump of flesh!" Julie rose staggering but holding decided her katana. Raph was walking towards the pedestal.

"Wait! It's…not over yet!" Raph laughed again and said:

"It'll be a pleasure to kill you!" He ran towards her holding up his sais, but she protected herself with the katana and hit him. She was going to hit him again when he kicked her, making her fall on the floor. He took her by the throat and threw her against the wall.

"JULIE!" Leo rose up; but there still was the fire wall. She rose again and ran towards Raph. He ran too, and their weapons clashed. A metal sound echoed in the hall. Blood dripped down in the floor. Raph had stabbed her on her arm. He kicked her and Julie fell down. He blocked her so she wouldn't be able to rise and bent down over her and raised his arm to stab her throat.

"NOO!" Leo shouted. Raph smiled and attacked her.

But suddenly, he stopped, just some centimetres from her throat. Julie was crying. With a broken and sad voice, she said:

"I beg you Raph! Come back to us! Win the darkness that surrounds you! I know you can do it! I…I believe in you…" A tear felled down from her eye and down her cheek. The Chi medallion suddenly began to shine bright, and white, beautiful and delicate drawings appeared on her body, like a pattern. The light was transmitted to Raph who remained still. His eyes became brown again and panted just like before.

A fire creature came out of his shell as if he was thrown away. Kazan screamed and whirred as someone had poured acid on him. When Raph realised that he was over Julie's body, he immediately moved to make her move again. He looked at his hands. They were covered with blood, as his whole body. He looked around and saw all the dead guards and the blood. He understood. He had done it. Raph had a chocked and incredulous face. The fury of his soul had caused all this, his weakness…

The fire wall disappeared and Leo ran to Julie.

"Are you all right?"

"OH LEO!" Julie hugged him tight and Leo held her tight too. She was shaking for the terror and horror, but Leo was with her now. She could do it. Leo helped his brothers to rise up. He laid a hand on Raph's shoulder.

"We'll fight together, whatever happens." Raph nodded. Meanwhile, Kazan had risen up too. The chi of that girl was very strong! How could she have won over his strongest technique? He turned against them, forming a fire sword in his hand and ran towards them. Raph focused. Red drawings covered his body, shining bright red. He would have beaten Kazan, because he was strong. Together with his brothers and friends, he would have done it. Julie activated her chi too and they jumped to do a last group attack. There was a big explosion and Kazan flew in the wall.

"Ok, you won this time, but next time I'll take the fragment!" He disappeared in a fire whirlpool. Everyone breathed out. April hugged Donnie. She had been afraid, but in the end they won. She was happy to have Donnie by her side. He caressed her hair. Mikey started dancing and jumping. But Raph was still choked and looked disgusted at his hands.

The Turtles helped the Ninja Tribunal fixing the temple and help the people that had been attacked by the fire ninjas that disappeared with Kazan. They all went to the hill near the temple, were there was the baskets with he lanterns waves for the torches. Most of the people lighted a lantern for their loved ones that died in the massacre and the other one wishing that a thing like this never happened again in the future.

Leo lighted one and let it fly in the sky.

"For whom did you light the lantern?" Julie walked close to him and smiled.

"For Sheng and Miwa." He took her hand. "And you?"

"For my aunt. She died 8 years ago." Leo nodded and laid his arm around her shoulders.

"And do you know what I wished?" She asked.

"What?" She smiled again.

"That we can be together no matter what happens!"

"You can count on that!" He said and kissed her forehead, hugging her.

Donnie had just let the wish lantern fly up, when April walked to him.

"Hi…" Donnie smiled.

"How are you?"

"I'm tired but happy. I thought that I wouldn't survive, but luckily I'm here alive…" They looked silently at the sky for a little while. Then Donnie pulled April closer to him. Her heart started beating fast. He looked at her with happy, brilliant eyes. She hugged him tight, and Donnie said:

"I'm glad that you survived. I was afraid too. Afraid that I'll never hold you closer again, never see you again…"

"Donnie…" He kissed her check, and together, they watched the lanterns that flew up to the star filled sky.