AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry about the delay folks, But Like I said, this story will be having new chapters when I get to it.
The family continued on to the night, running from one rooftop to the
next.
They were heading east.
"So how exactly are we gonna get to Japan?" Mikey asked.
"The same way I got there, cargo boat." said Leo
"Aww man." Mikey moaned. "I thought you said you took a plane when you went there."
"That was on the way back." Replied Leo.
"There goes the peanuts, soda, and hot flight attendants." Mikey sighed.
The others rolled their eyes and went on. The lone foot ninja fallowed behind, close yet discrete. The rain poured down hard and the thunder echoed
All through the city. The occasional flashes of lightning lit up the skies
For only a moment. They crossed through parts of the Lower Eastside and
Chinatown, but soon they took a break on a office roof top.
"How's Raph?" asked Don.
"Peachy." Raph mumbled.
"Have patience my son, we shall make it." Splinter assured him.
Raph let out a hard cough as he clenched his chest, his eyesight all blurry
again. Mikey and Splinter helped Raph up.
"Time to get a move on." Splinter ordered..
They nodded and all sprung up, Don and Leo went ahead. The other 3
were about to leave when there came a noise.
"What was that?" asked Mikey.
The three looked around, nothing other than the rain and smoke coming
up from the building. Splinter took a sniff of the air, the only sent was the
smoke coming from the chimney.
"Lets go." Sighed Splinter
They went on, the lone foot peeked out and clicked his headset, sighing
at a close call of being spotted.
"My Lord, they are heading for the marina." Said the ninja.
"Excellent.. The others and I shall meet you there." Karai responded.
And with that the ninja continued to trail the Hamato family. After a few more blocks they reached the end of their trip, carefully they looked around
to see if there was any overnight workers in the area. Leo rushed around the area, checking inside the shacks and ware-houses. Everything seemed quiet, even for that time of night.
"Something isn't right." Leo said to himself.
Leo wondered back to the others, he drew out a katana as soon as he was with the rest of the family.
"This place is quiet." said Splinter.
"Too quiet." Leo added on.
Mikey and Don withdrew their weapons also, Raph went for his sai but Splinter just looked at his son and shook his head. Out of no-where came set of shuriken. Leo ran up and swiped them away with his katana! One by one
Foot ninja started to appear out of nowhere. There appeared to be hundreds of ninja all around the docks.
"Don't you dudes get sick of us always kicking your ass?" said Mikey with a smirk.
"You have caused us a lot of trouble." Said the leader. "You cost us our master and nearly put us out of business for good, It's your turn now...GET THEM!!"
The two opposing groups of ninjas, one of good mutants and the others evil human, ran at each other. They collided with slashes, punches, and kicks.. Leo
clashed his katanas with the enemies, back and forth the blades clanged. Quick as a flash he stabbed one in the chest before jumping up and kick another in the face without pause. He back fisted an on coming ninja and blocked another with his second katana! Mikey was treating the situation like it was a game. Swinging his nun-chucks and batted them in the face, then sending them flying with an uppercut or a high kick. He was looking around as group circled him, but as soon as they got in close he did a half-backflip and spun on his head like a break dancer. In once quick circular motion he managed to kick all of them. Don knocked a few from all directions. He jabbed his staff into the ground and sprung into the air
and kicked them into a shack really hard! Mikey and Don were back to back, surrounded by the enemy.
"Dude! How many are there?"
"More than you can count Mikey." Said Don.
Splinter was fighting his share, protecting Raph. A foot standing several
feet away threw a couple of shuriken behind splinter. Quickly the sensei switched his opponent around and the ninja caught the stars in the spine!
More came at him and this time he extended his claws to slash them. The old rat easily cut through their masks left deep scratches on their face.
"Stay away from my son!" said Splinter.
Leo kept on fighting, slashing them until they were bleeding on the ground.
Out of nowhere a cloaked figure came into battle and knocked the katanas out
of Leo's hands. She slashed and swiped and him, but he just kept dodging until he caught the bare blade between his hands.
"Karai!" said Leo "What are you up to!?"
She didn't respond and punched him from the left. Leo backed away to while
releasing the sword and retrieved his own blades. Once he had them he went back and tried to get a stab in. As their blades clang against one another Leo
would interchange his slashes with his two sword. He rushed in and backed her
to the side of the boat, then he ripped the mask off her face with his swords still in hand and used his other arm to pin her against the boat.
"Answer me!" he said angrily!
"You made your fate long ago Leonardo-san." said Karai.
He gripped on his other blade as he preparing to strike her, but
Something inside him still didn't feel right. Karai decided to use his moment of
hesitation to her advantage and brought her knee up to the his stomach.
While his stomach was protected by the underside of his shell, it was soft
enough to knock the wind out of him.
That caught Leo off guard and allowed her to get out of his grip. With
lightning fast reflexes she had her blade pointed at the blue masked
turtle, though Leo aready recovered and had both sword ready to attack as well.
"You two have are very talented and I am impressed, which isn't an
easy thing to accomplish." Said a male voice.
Leo easily recognized the voice since it hadn't been that long since he
Heard it. To his horror Itachi came out of the darkness and behind Karai,
but that quickly changed to anger. He jumped back and regrouped with the rest of
his family. The foot backed away as Karai and Itachi came within 10 feet of
them.
"I see that you know my new business partner. We recently made a deal." said Karai.
"What kind of deal?" Asked Splinter
"He teaches me new abilities that I can use to kill you and the foot
delivers something he wants." She said pointing as she finished and the four healthy mutants looked to see that she was motioning to Raphael!
"What do you want with Raph?" asked Don.
"He's the only one of you 4 that put up a decent fight.†said Itachi.
"Strong hatred dwells with him and I'd like to have him to help me to destroy a place that bothers me."
Splinter stepped in, gripping his stick furiously angry and ready to tear Itachi limb from limb.
"You shall not lay your hands on my son." Splinter's voice seemed more fierce than even the turtles ever heard. "I will not have you corrupt him for your gain!"
And with that the family charged at them, Splinter taking on Itachi, Leo with Karai, and Mikey and Don finishing off the rest of the foot ninja! Splinter
fought as much as he could, but Itachi just blocked all of his attacks as did Splinter did blocked his own attack. Itachi's kunai was caught with in
Splinter's cane and he received a claw to the face. Itachi back handed the sensei to the ground.
"Master Splinter!" Leo called out.
The shelled ones tried to break away from their enemy, but they were too much
from the mutants. They just couldn't find an opening. Itachi picked the rat up
by the throat and held him tightly in the air. The red eyed human gripped his knife ready to stab him. Splinter looked at the blade and back at the red eyed man.
"My son shall never join the side of evil." said Splinter with an angry look on his fur covered face.
"We shall see." said Itachi.
He steadied his blade and jabbed down, but instead there came a long blade going through Itachi's shoulder blade! Behind him jabbing it in was Raphael,gasping for air and really pissed!
"Put my father down you bastard!" He demanded.
Itachi dropped the rat and jumped up on the boat. Karai and the rest of the foot joined him moments later. Itachi reached and pulled the sai blade out of his shoulder, then tossed it at Raph and Splinter caught it!
"You shall pay for that Kame Demon!" yelled Itachi.
He then put his hands together and Karai watched him carefully to memorize his hand movement. Soon he made his hands shift through several different
forms that was nearly to fast for even the turtles or Karai to follow. He then brought his right hand in front of him and held his palm out. Suddenly a rift appeared and it then started to spark a dark greenish blue color
before swirling. A dark vortex appeared several feet above the boat. The foot ninja all jumped into it until only Karai and Itachi were left. Itachi jumped inside and Karai would soon follow.
"There getting away!" Mikey exclaimed.
"Not today!" said Raph trying to run up.
Karai went in and Raph jumped in after her! His brothers and their father looked at each other.
"Ugh...RAPH!" Leo said rather annoyed.
They all ran up on the boat, up to the portal and jumped in before it closed completely. All became quiet on the boat docks.
On the other side of the portal
They all fell out and came crashing out onto the ground. Splinter looked around and
sniffed the air, but there was no sent of Itachi, Karai, or even
the foot. The air was fresh. The surroundings were forest, nothing but grass,
trees and a stream were around them. The skies were dark, the stars shinning bright and the moon full.
"Where are we?" asked Mikey.
"I dunno." Said Leo. "Where's Raph?!"
"I'm over here."
He was resting underneath a tree, "That Itachi guy wasn't here when I arrived." He said coughing. "Your girlfriend and the foot were outta here too."
Leo blushed a bit and glared at Raph as he put his Katana back in their sheaths.
"Do you have any idea how dangerous it is to go into an unknown portal like that!" Leo yelled, pointing at his brother.
"Well I wasn't gonna just let him get away with almost killing our
father!" Raph yelled back.
"You aren't in any shape to be fighting, you could have been killed!"
Raph got up and was about to throw a punch when he heard one thing that guaranteed an end to all his fights with Leo.
"Leonardo, Raphael...Enough!" Splinter commanded. "It has been a long night and we are all worn out. Let us just get some rest."
"Yes Master Splinter." The two said in unison while glaring at each other.
Leo build a fired and the mutant family sat around the glowing source of heat. Splinter looked at the trees and the rest of the surroundings, reminiscing of his old home in Japan with his master Yoshi. He would watch
from his cage as his master and the ancient one practiced in many forms of ninjutsu.
"Tomorrow we shall explore this strange world and find someone to help your brother."
"Yes sensei." Said the four turtles.
They all found their spots and closed their eyes, going into sleep….