In the last chapter, the turtles met two strange individuals. But are they friends or foes?
Who are they? And were did they come from?
TMNT 2003 does not belong to me.
Chapter 2
A Battle For Answers
The four turtles looked in shock at the two reptilian mutants, no quite sure how to should handle the situation at hand. The air was thick with tension, as the six mutants was about to engage each other in battle.
Time seemed to stand still, as nobody moved a muscle for a full minute.
A bolt of lightning lit up the night sky, acting as a signal to begin the fight and the mutants charged.
Leo and Raph charged the dragon-man, while Donnie and Mikey went for the female lizard.
Leo's katanas clashed with the dragon's sword and sparks flew, while Raph tried to stab their opponent from the side but was interrupted by a tail swiping at him, forcing him to jump back. A mighty swing of the large sword came at Leo, who had to bend backwards to avoid it.
Mikey and Donnie approached the lizard reluctantly, as they weren't sure how to fight someone that looked so much like Monalisa, whom they saw as a sister.
Sensing their hesitation she asked: "Are you just gonna stand there or are you actually gonna attack me?" as she moved closer, daggers in front of her.
Raph lunged at the dragon, hoping to hit him in the ribs, but missed as the dragon jumped to the side and prepared to strike back. Seeing this, Leo quickly moved to intercept the two, jumping up to bring down both katanas on the large mutant in an overhead attack.
Donnie still hesitated but Mikey started to swing his nunchaku as he moved towards her, still reluctantly. Suddenly she dashed at him, forcing Mikey to counter attack, swinging his nunchaku at her arms. To both turtle's surprise she jumped, spinning to the side of Mikey and struck him on the shell with her tail, making him loose his balance and fall forwards.
A swarm of sparks flew when the katanas was parried by the dragon-man's sword. During a split-second, Leo stared the large mutant right in the nonhuman eyes. And he saw a lust for battle, burning stronger than anyone else the turtle had seen before, as the eyes almost glowed. But he also saw something else, deep beneath the battle-lust there was, not anger but compassion.
"Mikey! " Donnie called as he attempted to trip the lizard with his staff. She was however to fast and jumped over the staff and , to Donnie's shock, used her tail to grab hold of the staff. He wasn't prepared for the strength her tail possessed when he was thrown to the side by it. Mikey had gotten back on his feet and was about to charge her when she dashed him again. This time she delivered a kick in the stomach pushing him backwards into the wooden pole behind him. In a swift motion the lizard used her daggers to nail Mikey's nunchaku to the pole through the chains. She was about to punch him in the face when she caught something in the corner of her right eye. Ducking she saw that Donnie tried to stab her with his staff, she had do a couple of backflips to get out of reach, then she turned her left and ran toward the wall.
With a snarl Leo was pushed away, but landed safely on his feet and saw how his brother managed to deliver a powerful roundhouse kick to the chest.
To both brother's surprise the kick did little to nothing as the dragon stood in place. Raph knew that the dragon felt the impact even though it didn't leave a mark, for Raph it was like kicking a sandbag and his foot hurt a bit. Despite that, Raph managed to move away from their opponent before the tail hit him as the dragon spun round.
Not knowing what to expect, Donnie covered Mikey's back while said turtle recovered his nunchaku. The surprises wasn't over though, as both turtle's jaws practically fell to the ground when the girl ran straight up on the wall a good ten meters without effort, and then turned toward the turtles as she crouched, winking with a smile.
"What the shell is it with this night and surprises?" Mikey exclaimed. "Someone please pinch me, I must be having a nightmare!"
"Fascinating! She must be part gecko" Donnie said, completely ignoring Mikey's "request".
Giving of a slight giggle she turned gaze to the other battle and saw how the dragon was about to charge the turtle with blue mask and twin swords. Her eyes got a determined look and she reached her left hand to the pipe on her back and grabbed a staff-like object that unfolded to a bow, while using her tail to open a circular hole on top of the pipe and pulling out a pair of arrows with her right hand. She prepared to fire both arrows and took aim.
Leo watched as the dragon was charging towards him, and prepared to sidestep and slash the right side, planing to wear down his foe with "bug bites", little by little.
He was completely taken by surprise when his two katana were knocked out of his hands by two well placed arrows, hitting the swords simultaneously just above his hands with deadly accuracy.
Instinctively looking at the direction from which the arrows came, he felt a strong, scaly hand pick him up by his neck. The dragon had taken the opportunity to grab Leo, who was finding it hard but not impossible to breath. The sword was raised and pointed to the turtle's throat as he struggled to get free.
Seeing his brother in danger, Raph once again lunged at the large mutant, determined to save Leo.
"I'm not losing you again!" he thought as he remembered after nearly losing his brother a year ago.
He succeeded in stabbing one of his sais by the right collarbone, penetrating a good seven centimeters. The dragon flinched a little from the pain, dropping the swordarm and throwing the blue masked turtle into the red masked one, causing both of them to hit the ground shell first.
As Raph and Leo opened their eyes they saw the dragon towering over them with the sword pointed at them, while he removed the sai from his chest. To their horror, the wound quickly closed itself and there was not even a scar left. Not even Mona could heal that fast.
"Guys!" Seeing what happened Mikey began to run to his downed brothers, turning his back to the female mutant on the wall. She pulled out another arrow, this one had a silver colored cylindrical part with a flat end instead of a normal arrowhead. It whistled through the air as it was fired towards Mikey's back.
"Ghaahh!" The arrow hit his shell and let loose electricity through his body causing him to collapse on the ground unconscious.
"Mikey!" Donnie cried and was just about to run over to him, when a powerful kick hit his chest and knocked him on his shell. He saw the lizard girl standing near him with the bow drawn, armed with an arrow that had a red cylindrical head with a pointed tip.
Guessing that this one was dangerous he raised his hands and hoped for the best, as two of his brothers were at the mercy of the dragon-man and the third was out cold.
Donnie was told to go to the other two as the female mutant kept him in her sights. Once he sat down with them she lower her bow and went over to Mikey. She used the staff Donnie dropped when he got kicked to wake the turtle up.
"Ugh. Whoa. Earth to me. I had the strangest dream, dudes. We were fighting some clone and a dragon."
"Sorry to break it to you, but that did happen." the lizard answered. "And for your interest, you lost."
Mikey opened his eyes as he stood up and saw her, now with her bow aimed at him. He rubbed his head.
"Bummer."
After he was placed with his brothers, the girl walked over to the clothes they had used and dressed herself.
"Sure you can handle them?" she asked her large friend, with a tone that indicated she cared for him.
"I am. Be careful not to be seen, when you return the purse." he said in a similar tone.
"Wait, what? 'Return the purse'?" Raph said with an confused and angry voice. " You stole it! I saw you running into the alley with it!"
"No we didn't. We were already in the alley when the purse-snatcher ran in." said the lizard.
"Didn't take long to knock him down." the dragon continued. "He's probably still out cold in the dumpster."
"Then you showed up," the girl said pointing to Raph, "and demanded the purse. We thought that you were another thief."
"Then why did you try to run?" Raph asked, still angry.
"We didn't want to reveal what we are during a fight, so we tried to outrun you and hide. But, seeing how that went, we should probably have run the other way" the dragon answered. "It seems that we had the same goal: returning the purse, and we basically fought over who would get the honor of doing it. How's that for irony?" he said chuckling.
"Awkward Raph." Mikey said grinning. He was about to get slapped on the head, when Leo cut in.
"Cool it Raph. Who are you anyway?" he asked looking at the two.
"I'm called Tyroth," the dragon said "and she's called Sephie."
"Tyroth and Seffie?" Mikey asked aloud.
"It's pronounced Seffie, but I spell it with p h. Just so you know." Sephie said as she took out the purse from the pocket of her coat. The turtles looked at Tyroth, who shook his head and said "Don't ask..."
"Right... Well I'm Leonardo, or Leo for short. And these are my brothers. Donatello, or Donnie, Michelangelo, also known as Mikey, and you've already met Raphael, Raph. But, what happened to you?"
"Hold on, wasn't there someone else you mentioned during the fight? Mona or something?" Sephie asked.
"I think it would be easier to tell our story if all are in same place, saves time." Tyroth said to the turtles.
A minor discussion between Tyroth and the brothers started as Sephie ran to deliver the purse. Shortly after she came running back really fast.
"Guys, we got trouble! Our fight attracted the cops! We need to scram!" she said worried, dropping the purse on the way.
"To the sewers!" Leo said pointing at the manhole near the alley. They all hurried to grab their gear.
Later, in the sewers the turtles walked with Tyroth and Sephie in tow.
"Remind me why we are letting them tag along, Leo." Raph whispered.
"Because, regardless of what they are, humans will fear them. They're in the same boat as us.
And I'd rather have two powerful friends than enemies."
"But they attacked us!"
"They defended themselves, you attacked them first, remember?"
"Do you even know if we can trust them?"
"No. But I have a feeling that we can, if they trust us."
A few minutes later Leo halted them.
"If we are gonna bring you with us, i need you to promise that you won't attack us again" Leo said with a serious voice.
"You have my word of honor, one warrior to another." Tyroth answered in a calm voice. "Beside, you wouldn't be much of a challenge in your current state." he continued with a bit of sarcasm.
"One thought guys." Donnie said to his brothers. "What about Mona? We almost thought that Sephie was a clone. How do you think that she will react?" he asked. "Um, you aren't a clone, are you?" he said nervously to Sephie.
"Wow. Sounds like this Mona will get a real shock because of me. But no, I'm not a clone. If we had the right equipment you could just compare the DNA to confirm it."
"It just so happens that I have the needed equipment back in my lab. So it should be a piece of cake."
"Provided that Mona don't kill her first." Raph cut in.
"You'll have to make sure she don't." Leo replied.
"Dare I even ask what happened to her, to all of you, regarding this 'clone'-business?" Tyroth asked.
Before anyone had the chance to say anything, Mikey answered. To his brothers dismay.
"Well, you see dude. About a year ago, some freaky doctor captured Mona and experimented on her. Wanting to use her DNA to make some super strong ninja dudes for our enemy, the seriously bad Foot clan.
But we busted their plan."
"Way to go blabbermouth." Raph said annoyed.
"Hmm. I understand. That kind of ordeal would leave marks."
"Anyway, lets keep walking. We're almost there." Leo said, and the group set of.
This chapter was even longer than the last one. There are still a few questions to be answered though, check the next chapter for more of those. Thanks for reading.
Note: Due to references to Bloodrayne666's fic 'A Warrior's Journey',
this story is turning into a non-canon of said author's fics. A fanfic of a fanfic. Weird.