Chapter 15: Raph vs. Musaki

Minutes later, they were all watching the from arena back at the palace where Raph was on the left side and Musaki on the right side and the others are watching through the top of the stands. Shifu and Splinter are the ones standing behind to determine who will win the battle.

Raph twirls his sais around and uses his ninjitsu moves in order to bring some intimidation towards Musaki. Musaki, however, wasn't so worried about it. He looked at his moves and said, "I've seen better."

"Think you have greater moves than me? I'm a force to reckoned with." Raph said.

"Yeah, and I'm the Queen of Vietnam." Musaki said, sarcastically.

"Okay, you two. Are you ready?" asked Shifu.

"Ready!" Raph shouted.

"All set." Musaki replied.

"Good. You may not cut, stab, bludgeon and/or harm the opponent. It's as simple as that." Shifu said.

"So, who's gonna win?" asked Raph.

"Shifu will decide who wins."

Shifu looked at him and said, "Only I can speak for myself."

"Oh, sorry."

Shifu sighed heavily and then, stood up straight and sees that this is gonna be interesting to see who wins. He chuckled and said, "Ready and...fight!"

As soon as this goes on, Raph runs towards Musaki first, hanging on to his sais and as soon as he goes after him, Musaki leaps up into the air and lands on the other side. He looks at Raph and smirks at him. Raph turns around and sees Musaki waving at him, as if to say, 'you want a piece of me, sucker?'. Raph grew enraged and then, comes at him, but Musaki attempted his anti-gravity lean movement and Raph misses again and falls down to the ground.

Musaki starts laughing and asked, "Is that all you got?"

Raph snarls at him and then, grabs him by the ankle and punches him in the face, but Musaki made a backflip and landed back on his spot. He turns to Raph and then, he runs towards him, does a backflip, high-kicks him in the face. He got down on the ground and Raph gets up from the ground and landed on his feet.

"You're messing with the wrong turtle, kid!" Raph shouted.

He runs towards Musaki and plans to punch him in the face, but Musaki ducks down and goes past him by running through his legs. Raph was surprised and looks down and sees Musaki from behind as he gives him a wave, then looks behind and kicks him in the face.

"That's for tormenting me yesterday." Musaki said.

"Less talk, more action!" Splinter exclaimed.

"On it!"

Musaki turns around and sees Raph kicking him in the face and falls down to the ground. He grunts heavily and gets back up and asked, "Is that the best you could do?"

He's down, but is not ready to throw the towel. He runs towards him, does a backflip, leaps up to the air and falls down all corkscrew like and bangs him on the head. Once he tried to do a kick to the face, Raph grabbed him by the ankle, twirls him around and throws him in the air, but grabs on to a tre, rolls upward and then, flies at him, punching him in the stomach.

Raph groans in pain, but is not giving up yet. They both go around each other, seeing that they were gonna give the big finish. Raph leaps up to punch him in the face, but suddenly, Musaki raises his hand in the air and out of nowhere, a blue and green lightbeam suddenly flashed from the air and lands on Raph.

Musaki crossed both his arms like a 'X' and transforms himself to his alter-ego, 'Saki Mange'. His personality transforms into a ginormous warrior where his eyes change into red, and unleashes his ultimate superpower;

"Sonic Thunder Blast!"

He unleashes an ultimate red and white thunderblast and landed directly towards Raph and punches him head to toe and flies towards him and punched his eyes out. Suddenly, he fell down to the ground and Musaki changed back to his old self and Raph still wants to take him down.

Musaki chuckled and asked, "Give up yet?"

Raph pants heavily and said, "I'm getting warmed up!"

He runs towards him bodyslammed him to the ground, but Musaki grabbed his hand and flipped it to the ground three times. Splinter abruptly stopped the entire fight.

Both Musaki and Raph panted heavily and stared at themselves wondering who's victorious. Shifu came in front of them and said, "You both were amazing fighters. However, the only one that stands out is..."

Raph chuckled softly and said, "I win, kid. Might as well get used to it, cause nobody messes with Big Raph!"

"Musaki!"

Raph was shocked to hear that Musaki won. Even Musaki was shocked to hear that he won. Raph got severely heated and said, "What? This is impossible! How could this little brat still win?"

"It was my choice and also Splinter's choice, as well."

He turned to Splinter and asked, "Why?"

"When I saw those moves and that new power, we both decided that he is the most skilled fighter and the most focused."

Musaki chuckled and said, "Well, I live for training. Everything Shifu taught me and I taught myself as well."

Raph could not take defeat any longer, so he ran towards him, grabbed him by the neck and attempted to choke him. Musaki looked into his eyes and saw that he's really mad. He said, "You little punk! If you think Splinter likes you better than me, you've got another thing coming! I will freakin' beat you down until you have no air left! You can't take that away from me! You will regret you ever messed Big Raph up! I will kill you so bad, there's gonna be no way that Splinter will ever-"

Shifu and Splinter tried to break up the fight, but Raph shoved them off. Musaki took a few steps back and makes a run for it. Raph chases after him and plans to beat him up, but Shifu stopped him by kicking his legs and he fell down to the ground. He walked in front of him along with Splinter and said, "That is enough! Musaki won! There is no need to start a fight here!"

"Oh, there's gonna be a fight, that's assuming he won't have any left when I'm through with him!"

"Raphael! That is enough! You have been taking this thing far too long! It is bad enough that you do that to your brothers, but to do it with a young panda? Why?"

"You think he's better than me! When will you get through your thick skull that you know NOTHING about him?" Raph shouted.

Splinter knew that it was the last straw and got really angry and said, in a calm voice, "Never raise your voice at your master. Musaki won, but that does not mean that you are better than him. I do not like him just because he has skills and training. I like him because he is strong, compassionate and trustworthy. He has had a rough past in his life wth losing his parents and you should just respect him for who he is and do not judge him so harshly."

"Raph, head over to your dorm. We'll be coming in later." Shifu said.

Raph calmed himself down a little and went out of the arena to reflect himself. Shifu sighed heavily and Splinter looked at him and said, "I am sorry that this happened."

"Apology accepted. Musaki has been in situations like this before, but he forgets about it and move on."

Musaki walks towards them and said, "I'm sorry if I embarassed you guys."

"No, do not apologize, Saki-san. You did not do anything to embarass us."

"You've done well." Shifu said.

"I have, haven't I?"

"Yes. Are you okay?"

"I guess so."

"Why don't you head to your room for a while and take a break? We'll deal with Raphael."

"Okay."

Musaki walked out of the arena and Shifu kept thinking to himself, 'Where's Master Oogway when you need him?'

So, what's Raph gonna get now? Stick around!