CH. 4 [The Truth Is…]
"You had a long day, huh? Sleep well Alex." Leo smiles at her sleeping face and brushes her hair to behind her ears.
Later on that night Raph sees the two of them passed out on the dojo floor. Shaking his head with a sigh Raph picks up Leo carrying him on his back and moves Leo to his room and then goes back for Alex. Raph picks her up princess style careful not to wake her up.
'Her skin is so soft and she's really light.' Raph looks at her as he walks to the couch. Alex moves a bit in her sleep snuggling closer to his chest. 'Sh-she's warm too. Shake it off Raph.' He shakes his head as he gently places her on the couch and covers her with a blanket. Just as Raph takes a step back his foot lands on Mikey's skateboard and he falls forward. Luckily he places his hands on the couch fast enough that he didn't land on Alex, but was right above her.
"Damn you, Mikey. You need to watch where you p…" Raph mumbles under his breathe until he sees how close he is to Alex's face. Raph blushes as he notices he is inches away from her lips.
'Has she always had eyelashes this long? And her lips look… really soft.' He starts inching closer to her mouth slowly with a slightly red face as his heart starts beating faster. As he was just seconds away from kissing her,
"Raph…" Alex mumbles in her sleep making Raph freeze with wide eyes. "…stop picking on Mikey."
'Geez, is that really how you see me?' Raph sighs with a sweat drop over his head. Then he looks to see how close he is to her lips. Blushing like mad he quickly stands up flustered and runs to his room.
"Wh-what was I..? What's wrong with me? Don't I keep telling Don to give-up on April? Why would I..?" Raph huffs in his room red as a tomato with his hands over his lips. As he thinks back to how close he came to kiss her his heart beats faster. "Oh man. Why is my heart pounding so hard? Why can't I calm down?" he slides down his door to the floor holding his chest looking a mix of sad and confused.
Meanwhile in her dreams, Alex stands with her eyes closed in a place where there is just water as far as the eye can see. She slowly opens her eyes and then starts walking around on top of the water like she was walking on the side walk as she looks all around. Just then the girl that looks like her walks to meet her with a serious expression. The two meet in the middle with being just a foot apart, they stood in front of each other like reflections in a mirror.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Alex asks looking confused at this familiar face. Once again the girl moves her mouth with no sound coming out. "I can't hear you. What are you saying?" she explains to the strange girl.
Just then the girl moves her hand and her eyes begin to glow a deep violet as the water slowly begins to rise in droplets all around them. Alex watches this with wide eyes as she twirls happily and excitedly as she stare at all the water drops floating up to the sky like a revers rain.
"…Guardian…" Calls an unknown voice. Alex freezes for a secant and then slowly turns to the strange girl.
"What was that?" Alex turns to the girl with wide eyes.
"It's time Guardian. Awaken." The girl says seriously as she continues to levitate the water drops. Alex stares dumbfounded and confused. "Awaken and Decide." She moves her arm and the water drops freeze in place all around them like floating crystals.
"What do you mean? Decide what? And why are you calling me "Guardian?" Alex stares at her more confused.
"Time is running out. You most awaken and decide." Her eyes glow again as she points to Alex.
"I don't get it. What do you mean?" Alex shakes her head.
The next morning in the turtles lair in the swears in the morning, slightly cloudy and windy day. Alex wakes up on the couch, confused on how she got there she looks around still half asleep. Finally she gets up heading for the kitchen and breakfast, but then her new shell cell goes off due to a text from April.
Text;
Hey Alex! Want a girls' day? I figured we could meet up today and hit a few shops. What do you say?
'That sounds nice.' Alex sends her a text back saying she would meet her in a few minutes. Alex heads out of the living room at to the kitchen and writes a note for the guys.
Note;
Hey guys. I went out shopping with April. See you later on.
-Alex
A while later topside April and Alex meet up. The two of them go from store to store happily. Although Alex is having fun she can't help but think about the girl from her dreams and what she meant. Due to thinking about that April noticed her distant looks. After hours of shopping the two of them sit down at a café drinking hot-chocolate and eating pieces of chocolate cake with their bags by their feet.
"So are you having a good time?" April sips her hot-chocolate.
"Yup. I really need this, thanks April." Alex smiles happily at her.
"Are you sure? Because you seem out of it." April looks worried at Alex. Alex sighs revealing her guess is right. "Do you miss your family?"
"No. I mean yeah, but that's not it." Alex tries to explain and April looks at her relieved yet confused. "I've been having… this weird dream for a while now." She starts explaining as she rubs the side of her cup and looks worried.
"What's the dream about?" April looks concerned.
"Well… normally I'm running in the shadows… and then I end up in this place of water and a… a girl that looks like me, but with purple eyes and in a ninja outfit, shows up. But I can't hear what she's trying to tell me." Alex sighs as she explains and April listens to her wide eyed.
"That sounds rough." April goes to take a sip of her hot-chocolate but stops right before the cup touches her lips. "Wait, 'Normally?' So something changed?" April puts down the cup and looks at Alex intrigued and Alex nods slowly.
"This time… I was already in that world and the girl told me; 'Awaken and Decide.' She also called me 'Guardian.' Weird right?" Alex takes a sip of her hot-chocolate with a sigh.
"Yeah it is. I wonder what it could mean." April ponders as she finishes her piece of cake.
"I wish I know." Alex finishes her hot-chocolate with unsure and sad eyes.
"Hey I got an idea! Let's hit the movies. We can invite Irma and Casey. What do you say?" April smiles warmly at Alex as she pulls out her shell cell.
"Yeah, that sounds good." Alex smiles slightly as she nods.
Later on that day outside the movie theaters Casey looks annoyed as he stands next to Irma waiting for April. As he sees Alex with April Casey's face looks shocked and disappointed as he realizes this WASN'T a date. After a quick intro to Irma and Alex they head in to pick a movie. They decided on a Si-fi adventure and get their snakes then head into the movie. They all had fun, well aside from the pouting Casey in between Alex and Irma.
"That movie was great!" April shouts bursting through the theater doors. "I mean with the guy… and the space ship!" she continues excitedly.
"It was pretty good." Alex smiles happily as they start walking down the street.
"I want to know why they came on our date?" Casey points to Irma and Alex.
"Uh, hello. We're right here." Irma looks a little mad and Alex just stands their a bit confused.
"THAT'S the point!" Casey looks pissed with angry hand movements.
"Who said this was a…" April starts but then she gets dizzy holding her head.
"What's up?" Casey asks in a clamber tone.
"We're being watched." April looks around. While Irma looks thoroughly confused and Alex looks about as well as Casey.
"Let's split up and meet 'There.' I'll take Alex with me, plan?" Casey whispers to the two of them.
"Plan." The three of them dart off leaving a very confused Irma behind.
Casey and Alex run down the streets and cut into an alley way. Huffing the two of them look down the street and see no one. Casey grabs his bag of stuff from a fire escape and then Tigerclaw comes out of nowhere ready to pounce. The two of them manage to dodge his attack and start running again. The two of them run until they get to a roof top. Once there they realize they have nowhere to run or hide.
"You are mine." Tigerclaw slowly moves closer to them as Casey and Alex get ready to fight. "I shall take the girl with me to Master Shredder and YOU shall parish for what you did to me." He continues to move closer.
"Why does Shredder want her? And really dude, your still mad about that warm thing?" Casey glances at Alex and then at Tigerclaw.
Tigerclaw, pissed off, runs and rams into Casey throwing him off the roof. Casey lands on a car and then on to the ground with a hard thump.
"Casey!" Alex starts running to the end of the roof. But her hand is grabbed hard by Tigerclaw.
"You will be coming with me. Master Shredder has been looking for you, Alex Moore." Tigerclaw starts pulling her along as Alex struggles to get free.
"I don't know how you know my name. But I'm not going with you." Alex tries to pull herself free with no success. Tigerclaw ignores her still pulling her along as she digs her heels into the roof top. "Let me go! I said… LET… ME… GO!" Alex growls as her eyes turn a glowing dark-purple. As she looks at Tigerclaw his hand releases her immediately.
'Now's my chance.' Alex runs down the fire escape and goes over to Casey to see if he's alright. Realizing he was breathing she gives a short sigh of relief. Then Tigerclaw jumps down from the roof just a few feet away from them.
"You WILL come with me girl." Tigerclaw growls as he moves closer.
"No I won't! You will leave us ALONE!" Alex's eyes, still a dark-purple, glow again as she moves her hand in a sweeping motion. As she did that Tigerclaw went flying down the alley and landed in a dump truck just before it started up to leave. As she watched him be driven away her eyes went back to normal and she lost all the energy in her body falling to her knees by the badly beaten Casey.
'W-what is this? Why can't I move? I… feel so sleepy.' Alex fights to keep herself awake as she reaches for Casey's shell cell. 'Got to… call the guys." She picks up the cell and hits Raph's number.
At the same time at the skating rink. Mikey mess around on the ice skating about, while Raph stud on the side lines staring at the ice thinking about last night. As he remembers how close he was to kissing Alex he blushes and then shakes his head to try and chase the though far away. Just then his shell cell rings with Casey's picture on the screen.
"Hey Casey. Where are you?" Raph answers with a clam tone.
"Raph… Help." Alex huffs into the cellphone.
"Alex?! Where are you?! What happened?!" Raph starts to panic as he hears Alex's tired and out of breathe voice.
"Tigerclaw attacked… Casey's hurt… And I… we're… in an… alley…" Alex sounds more and more tired until the shell cell clicks out with Alex passed with the shell cell in her hand.
"Alex!? Alex?! Hey!" Raph panics into the shell cell. "Mikey how are we going to find them?" Raph looks over at Mikey.
"Why don't we use are shell cells to triangulate their location?" Mikey smiles slightly at Raph.
"That's… actually a good idea." Raph looks at Mikey dumbfounded.
"You can find pizza delivery guys that way too." Mikey smiles stupidly.
The two of them get to the alleyway and see the two of them on the ground. Raph and Mikey check on them to see if their still breathing. After making sure they are alive Mikey puts Casey on his back and Raph caries Alex princess style.
"Let's get them to Splinter." Mikey lifts up a manhole cover and then jumps down.
'Please be okay Alex.' Raph looks down at Alex with worried eyes as they travel through the sewers.
As they get to the lair Mikey puts Casey on one end of the couch and Raph gently places Alex on another end of it. Splinter looks over Casey and Alex. Mikey and Raph wait impatiently for Splinter to say how they are.
"They will be alright." Splinter turns to his two sons with a slight smile and watches as they give a sigh of relief. "Casey will need some time to heal, but he'll be alright. And Alex passed out due to being tired." He walks to his room to get a first aid kit. As Splinter heads to his room Raph puts his cool hand on Alex's forehead.
'Cool. Why's it cool?' Alex thinks in a sleepy haze. 'Ah right, it must be one of the guys hand. I wonder who it is. It feels...' She wakes up slowly as she puts her hand on Raph's and sees he has a sad and worried expression on his face. 'Why does he look so sad?' she, still half asleep, blinks while looking at him.
"Hey Alex! You're awake!" Mikey cheers happily as he jumps up and down.
"Yeah." Alex tries to sit up but gets dizzy and almost falls. Raph catches her having her land on his shoulder.
"Y-you better not move around much." Raph blushes slightly as he sits her up and then lays her against the side of the couch.
"I guess you're right." Alex gives a slight laugh still half asleep. Raph gives a slight smile of relief at the sight of her smile. Just then Leo and Donny return with April and… Kairi.
"I don't believe this! In what world is it okay to bring the PRINCESS OF EVIL HOME?!" Raph gets pissed at the sight of her and yells at Leo.
"Casey?! Alex?! What happened?" April runs over to them worried.
"Tigerclaw beat them up. And YOU brought his partner in crime here!" Raph scowls at Leo and Kairi.
"Shredder lied to me! I'm not with him anymore." Kairi shouts with a seemingly sad face.
"I don't believe you. I bet she's leading Tigerclaw here right now." Raph glares at her and then back at Leo.
'Could she choose Splinter over Shredder? I'm not sure myself.' Alex thinks as she watches Leo and Raph continue to argue.
"Enough! What's going on out here?" Splinter comes out with a first aid kit and spots Kairi. "Niwa?" his eyes widen at the sight of her.
"Splinter." Kairi bows her head.
"April you treat Casey's wounds. N… Kairi, fallow me." Splinter hands over the first aid kit and then walks into the dojo. Kairi fallows staring up at the tree with amazement. "I kept very little from my old life. But this I will never give up my daughter." He hands her a pic of her mother and Splinter as a human.
"I… I don't believe it… you were telling the truth." Kairi's eyes widen in shock.
"Wait, I thought you did believe it. If you didn't then… then what are you doing here?" Leo looks confused and Raph stares at her sharply.
"Father… what have I done?" Kairi begins to panic.
"For now you boys help Kairi lead away Tigerclaw. I will stay her with April to look after Alex and Casey." Splinter quickly gives them a plan as they head out into the living room.
"Before I go. Alex, Shredder is after your power. I don't know if you have any idea what it is, but that's why he wants you. Please stay safe from him." Kairi bows her head to Alex and then heads out with the turtles.
"Powers? What powers?" April looks confused as she sits on the edge of the couch.
"Well… The truth is… when Tigerclaw attacked I… I was kinda able to through him down the alleyway with a hand movement." Alex hesitates as she scratches the back of her head.
"H-how?" April stutters as both her and Splinter look shocked.
"I'm not sure. It just kind of happened." Alex shakes her head slightly.
"We will need to look into this more. But for now rest." Splinter strokes his beard in a thoughtful manner. Alex nods and closes her eyes again.
'I wonder how I did that.' Alex sighs as she starts to drift off and hears the sound of water dripping before falling asleep again.
