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Chapter 3: Dazed Origins

Eventually, Violet stopped crying, but was still hugging Leo. She seemed a lot calmer now but at the same time appeared to need comfort and support. Leo smiled at the thought of this, but stopped as Don knocked at the door. "I have to go" he spoke gently and she released her grasp on him. She winced in pain as she did so due to her injuries. "I'll be back, I promise" he soothed her and got her sit back on the bed. She was left in the room for a few minutes alone.

She looked around the room, as if seeking a hint as to where she was, but jumped as the door opened again. Another turtle entered, but he was wearing a purple mask instead of a blue one. "Violet is it?" he asked shyly. She nodded and he smiled, "I just need to check you over as you seem to have been hurt somehow" he informed her calmly.

"So, you must be Donatello" she asked equally as shy as he had been.

"Yes, but please, call me Don, or even Donny, you're pick" he winked at her. She smiled as he came and started to check her.

He had already bandaged part of her arm where it had had been cut somehow when they had first brought her back. She winced more as he felt her right arm, especially around the wrist and shoulder. "A lot of this is bruising, so it should heal in a couple of days. But some how you're right hand side has been badly hurt, the muscles in you're wrist and shoulder are in a bad state so they could take longer. The way it's bruised, it looks almost as if you dislocated your arm from your shoulder and it's been relocated"

She looked at Don "Thank you" she spoke to him.

"For what?" he asked curiously.

"For saving me" she answered.

"I think that was mainly Leo, all I did was help carry you back" he blushed slightly.

"Don, you're too humble" she answered and smiled at him. He smiled back.

Leo soon returned. "Our master, Master Splinter, would like to see you" Leo looked towards Violet.

"Oh, o.k. then" she answered and followed Leo out of the room. Don soon followed them, so he could help Leo get her safely down the stairs.

"Are you all right?" Leo asked her and she just smiled at him to show she was fine. She re-entered the study where she had woken up.

"Please, sit" Master Splinter gestured as she slid the door closed behind her. "So, Leonardo informed me your name is Violet" he stated to her.

"Yes, it is" she answered.

"I am their sensei, Master Splinter, Splinters for short" he introduced himself to her after seeing she was quite anxious. "If I could be so bold" he started "why are you wearing a pink ninja mask?" She picked up the mirror once again and looked into it. She looked similar to the other turtles but was wearing a pink mask and had more defined eyelashes, almost as if she was constantly wearing mascara. She put the mirror back down.

"I don't know" she concluded after a while. She fingered the mask a little as she had only just noticed it. He also noticed she still had discomfort at looking at herself.

"Could you tell me the last thing you remember?" She nodded and closed her eyes as if playing it through again in her head.

"I was on my way home, but was late. I knew a shortcut though, down an alley, so I started down it. Suddenly I felt a pain in the top of my right arm. I looked to find a dart in my arm. I pulled it out which cut my arm open quite badly but was too late as the tranquilliser had already been injected. A load of people came out of nowhere, they were wearing sort of... black pyjamas... I think they were ninjas. Their masks showed yellowish eyes in the darkness. They approached me, but I was scared, so I ran, not sure where, but I just ran. They were rapidly approaching as I was slowing due to the tranquilliser dart. I had to screech to a halt as I approached a cliff face. I turned to run somewhere else, but they had caught up and had surrounded me. I lost my energy and fell backwards, struggling to stay awake. Someone grabbed my wrist as I was falling, which hurt like hell. All my weight was put on it, I screamed as my shoulder throbbed with pain. I heard him ask for help to pull me up but was answered by someone claiming it didn't matter as their boss would probably get rid of me himself. They were unsure but my shoulder had gone, the intense pressure dislocated it and the sudden change made them let go. Without any support, I fell. As I was falling, I felt strange; it was as if I was changing in some weird way. But I blacked out and can't remember anything else except waking up here"

She finished. Splinter considered something; he was concerned about the whole foot part of the epic tale. Also something didn't quite add up. "And what did you change from exactly?" he asked already suspicious that he knew the answer.

"I was human, I had long brown hair, hazel eyes, a slim figure, but I took it all for granted. Look at me now!" she sighed.

"One is not shown for what their spirit holds on the outside, Violet. It sounds as if fate decided to aid you but in the only way it could, releasing the being within. You make yourself what you want yourself to be, looks matter little" he concluded. She nodded, a little confused, all she knew that was pretty deep.

"So what's with the mask?" she asked.

"I may be wise, but I do not know everything!" Splinter answered, now smiling at Violet.