Concealed
Chpt. 14
After having severe writers block, I have finally gotten done with this damned chapter! I swear it felt like performing brain surgery!...
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"Lonae?" Zaramon said looking through his wine glass to a stunned looking Mozar half bowed before him,"Didn't you dispose of our little song bird?"
"I thought I had sir," he said keeping his head down,"But here she is with one of her soldiers demanding your presence."
"Very well," he said containing his chuckle,"Send our little birdie and her escort in, I'll dispose of her the proper way."
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"Lonae if this fails in any way," he felt the older woman's body quake in his grasp to those small words,"I'll personally see that you suffer."
"You truly are a killing machine aren't you?" she spat back getting a dark smile to emerge from his lips.
"You have no idea," his eyes rose as a shadow scoffed to him,"Raphael, you're not very hidden if I hear you."
"I hope you know what your doing," he smiled a sweet smile to the words.
"Could I lie to you?" he stated simply eyes floating to the clock chiming above him,"Don't answer that, you know I need you right now."
Raph watched the boy from the corner of his eye as he waited in the shadows, smiling to his every reaction always getting something new each time. He watched him tighten his grip upon the woman's body tensing to the shadow at the top of the stair way ahead of them.
"Relax, child," an older triceriton with power in each action called to him,"I will not harm you unless I need to. How did a child as yourself get past my guards?"
"They are far too stupid to see a wondering shadow," he declared Lonae pulling slightly away from his touch as she saw his fingers glaze upon his blade,"Will you speak to me calmly or will I have to destroy you?"
Zaramon smirked to the child's confindence,"I will gladly see you for dinner, is that well enough young one?"
"If you poison me, I will strike you down before it begins to take effect," he warned the leader's smile widening, he had never seen some one so willing to declare war then this child.
"What is your name boy?"
"I am one you'll never know," he laughed to the child's response he hadn't seen this much cockiness in awhile, especially from one from Blanque's ranks!
"Lonae where did you come across such a strange young boy?"
"Just lucky I guess," she grumbled.
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"Why have you come to see me dearest Lonae?" his sweet words irritated Leonardo, he wished to see the blood lust he knew he had already.
"Your general left me for dead!" she spat cutting away from technicalities that usually bound her.
"Come, come," he laughed the boy's eyes rising once more ignoring the food put before him by the soldiers,"You came to tell me that? Why even bring your friend here if you wished simply to talk of all the ways betrayal circles."
She snarled under her breath but before a barrage of hate filled litanies could escape her lips Leonardo held her back with a single glance.
"Your right," Leonardo whispered rising from his seat the chair falling behind him from the quickness of his action,"I have not come here for this woman's complaints, I'm here for the fugitoid. If you deny me, I will kill whoever you send to do me in and you will be the first to die!"
He smiled brightly to that, a wonderouse thought occuring to him making him truly curriose if this boy was as great as he claimed he was. Lonae had fear shimmering through her eyes, this was not how she had planned it all out.
"Lonae," he finally called through the drawing silence getting the woman to shakily raise her head,"I'll trade your life and whatever I owe you for this child."
Leonardo's eyes cut warningly to her line of sight the shadow's glaring eyes upon her now she smiled,"His comrade is hidden within the shadows. They will not be taken down easily, but the boy has quite the weak heart you could use that."
Leonardo's weight was caught by General Mozar before his rage could be fully throw at the woman, had it been a trap this whole time? His body clashed against the stronger arms, rage making many of the strategies he would usually think of fade away, watching many other soldiers hurry from in the hall.
He felt blood splash against the side of his face, the strong arms releasing him many strained curses fluttering from his mouth, Leonardo using this as an opportunity to escape the grasp smirking slightly to the sai penetrating through Mozar's arm.
"Any bright ideas, fearless leader?"
"Just one," Raph's eyes flowed to the boy and nearly fell to the floor to response,"Don't die."
"I could have thought of that," he grumbled watching the boy with ease side stepping each direct hit, it was as though he danced with death. He feighed a few direct shots from their laser, the hilt of his blade slamming into the throat of a triceriton as he dove at him.
Eyes then falling upon Lonae who was chancing her get away,staying close to the back wall to keep from battle. He took a step towards her, if they were going to die here so was she.
A blur like shadow soon stood before him before he could move, fingers were clasped around his wrist before he could even move an inch only watching as the woman shot from the room. His eyes moved up to meet the back of Leonardo's head, the hand holding him back slightly shaking. As Raph's eyes traveled to the front of him he caught tiny streams of blood flowing evenly from his arm held out before him and his missing sai mounted in the fresh wound.
"Have fun in the rings child!" he heard Lonae call from behind him making his mind fill with rage,"I pray you'll live in return of your assistance!"
"Don't turn your eyes to her," Leonardo spat not bothering to even glance back,"Keep them on battle, on me if you must, but don't turn it back to her."
His eyes were now glued to the slightly shaking child his grasp gone, fingers once more returning to his blade. Every emotion lost somewhere inside him, eyes merely weighing the outcome, he wasn't backing out of this one. He had come too far to do that.
Before Raph had time to react his sai was thrust back into his hand red ooze soon staining his palm, the boy no longer in his line of sight. He smirked ducking a blow to the head, fist slamming into the attacker's stomache, he had never seen anyone so quick on their feet. His eyes never held sympathy, it was simply his line of work. Raph lost his breath slightly as the dinosaur rammed into him knocking him to the ground.
"Keep your eyes on the battle," Leonardo demanded blood splashing into his face as the tip of the blade met flesh,"Breath it in, think of nothing else. Don't die on me."
He rolled his body away from a direct blast to the face, the words bringing irritation yet gratitude. His leg slammed against one knocking him to the ground a heavy strained breath rising from him, springing to his feet avoiding yet another straight shot to the head.
"Stop showing your mercy off in battle!" the boy snarled throwing the weight of his blade behind him into flesh jumping behind another lodging a concealed kunai into the back of his neck,"You'll only cause your own problems, your strength won't last you if your forced to re fight the same drone over and over again."
Raph pretended not to here that, he had never killed in his life and was never planning to purposely do so. He felt cold fingers wrap across his wrist as a fog of smoke filled the air, he smelt a metallic aroma as the boy retrieved his blade.
Once more the grasp was released as they entered the main hall, Raph staring to Leonardo as he tried to regain his ground to figure how they had gotten to the place they had been. A sigh finally came through his lips as a decision was made in his mind.
"Wait for me in the town, I'll be there soon with the proffessor," he said quietly eyes still scanning the surroundings for a chance of a new battle.
"And let them kill you?" Raph snapped back hardly realizing his own fingers were laced around the boy's wrists now.
"You do not trust my ablities?" he snarled back, the fingers holding him tighter now.
"You don't trust mine?"
Their eyes were locked for stilling seconds before the boy finally scoffed head turning from his comrade,"Fine, we'll do it your way just don't go dying on me."
"I could say the same for you..."
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The dark entwining stair way was all beginning to seem like a bad idea as Leonardo silently stepped behind Raph, fingers gliding across the wall to his right to make certain he had not passed any sort of door. He slowed his pace and shook his head to the thought of simply ditching the turtle who had proven himself semi use full and the machine that was his only ticket home.
Possibly, exploring the vast galaxy playing the part of a ronin would not be so bad? he pondered his head shaking curtly seconds after thinking it, he would not throw away his honor for childish fantasies.
He paused slightly as fingers hit an opening in the wall, smiling to himself slightly. He was about to call to his acquittance when a strong force covered his mouth and soon a cobra like arm slithered across him.
"Don't tire yourself out too much," a deep scratchy voice echoed in his ear yet was silent to the rest of the world,"You'll only harm yourself in the process, little boy."
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Professor Hunneycutt felt so trapped, he had awoken not very long ago to find himself away from Kol's humming machines ( to his ever delight) to find himself in the enemy's lair. He didn't need to see very well to know that. Light steps of feet soon found there way to where he sat upright now awaiting the worse.
"Professor?" his heart (well more figuratively since he didn't really have the type that pumped blood through his body) felt relief to the voice knowing it was Raphael.
"Over here! I'm here!" he called through the darkness, a light instantly filling the room revealing the now relaxed turtle,"I'm thank full your here, it feels like such a long time since I've seen you but where is Leonardo?"
Raph was taken back by the words, eyes widening as he realized the boy was no longer behind him. He had grown so accustom to his silence that he barely noticed his absence.
"Leonardo?" he called down the winding stair way silence being the only thing to meet his ear a slight tang of worry overwhelling him in an unexplainable way.
"Searching for this?" a deep voice penetrated Raph's mind forcing him to quickly turn around to find General Mozar one arm firmly entwined around Leonardo's struggling form and the other hand slapped across his mouth, faint mumbles calling through. He stood in front of another entrance to the room a sea of soldiers standing behind him.
"Come quietly," he instructed firmly his hand dropping from the boy's mouth, a gun soon held in it jabbed uncomfortablely into his head,"And I'll allow your little friend to live."
"Don't take his command so gulliblly!" Leonardo barked,"If he wished me dead, I'd be dead! Don't drop your guard, grab Hunycutt and turn back now, I can handle myself! If I die so be it, you still have every chance of survival!"
The words were unbearable enough but the seriousness in his eyes made the decision for Raph. Slowly his sais dropped from his fingers and he raised his hands in surrender getting an irritated snarl from the boy but thankfully Mozar's hand was already forcing his words to a halt before the rant could begin.
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In all his life Leonardo had never felt so frustrated, blood flowed in even trails as he bit harder and harder into his lip, mind thinking of nothing more then tearing the woman apart bit by bit. He had stopped struggling against the giant's strength what seemed like hours ago, not in defeat but in pure knowledge of the matter.
He was a professional in the arts of stealth, speed and above all trickery but he never found strength a major priority not even now. Strength was its own weakness, riddled with far too many cracks to possibly count. He tasted nothing but the bitter sweetness the streams becoming less even as his teeth slid back and forth. His and Raph's eyes met, for once his companion giving him a stern warning to hold it together. They were thrown together in a small cramped cell.
"Are you ok?" Leonardo's head rose to the words slightly confused by them.
"Yes, I am." he finally replied sounding much younger then he had,"Yourself?"
"Been better," he scoffed resting his head against the wall,"Getting chased around a strange world by people who wanted a tin can, breaking into a military base, being betrayed by some weird woman with a lust for money, getting thrown in a cell by extincted lizards and above all getting bossed around by the shredder's baby boy isn't what I would call a good day."
Leonardo said nothing wiping the blood from his face staring ahead to the opposite side of the room fingers toying with the pendant,"You are wrong," Raph's eyes slid to him staring off with his expressionless feature,"I stopped being 'the shredder's bady boy' as you call it, a long time ago."
They sat in silence after that line, once what the meaning sank in Raph almost want to pity him but at his stern glare he stopped in an instant. He didn't want pity, he just wanted him to know nothing held deep emotional importance in his life or his family's.
"You are quite the odd ball of the bunch aren't ya?"
"I suppose you can refer to me as such," Leonardo shrugged head lolling across the wall not looking to nothing in particular,"But remember never to let your guard down, you'll never know quite when I'll strike."
Raph half smiled to himself nearly forgetting they were foes, perhaps if things were different he could find out everything he would ever wish to know about him, but for his family's and his own life's sake, he couldn't chance it no matter how curios he was of the strange foot soldier.
"You can stare all you wish, you'll never find a single answer to your question," Raph's eyes rose back up to Leonardo, eyes at the door now,"I don't know half of them, maybe when we get back to earth you'll figure out every little piece for yourself."
Raph smirked to his response eyes fully upon the child now, wrapping the slow bleeding wound on his forearm. Rolling his eyes he fully leaned against the prison wall eyes half lidded not wishing to be not even slightly unprepared when they returned.
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...and it felt just as long! Originally this chapter was going to longer, but it felt like it was getting far too long so I stopped it here. Don't worry though, I won't leave you hanging very long on the next update just give me a day or two to finish up the next part. If nothing happens like far too much home work or tragic death of the writer lol. Don't worry though, my teachers are as lazy as I am and I don't plan on getting hit by a bus, I really hope that didn't jinx me. ^.^'