Welcome to Japan. A stunning country famous for natural sights like cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji, cutting-edge technology, wacky karaoke and vending machines, popular anime and manga, mouth-watering food, and cultural values.
Under a night sky filled with beautiful stars, a mystic kunoichi shut her eyes as she slowly and deeply inhaled and exhaled throughout the balance of the universe. It was time for her final peaceful mediation of the day. She'll missed the beautiful cherry blossom forest, her daily time of reading manga, her lunch and dinner ramen noodles, and her hammock slung three hundred feet above the ground in the canopy of a silk-cotton tree.
It's almost time for the mystic kunoichi to return home. Something that had been tucked away inside her consciousness.
Just then, the ringing sound of screaming interrupted the mystic kunoichi's mediation. She turned her head to see the loud scream was coming from the Aokigahara forest not far from where she is. She snapped her fingers and conjured a hooded golden-amber cloak around her neck, knowing that her time for mediation would have to wait.
"Pitiful humans."
A feminine plant-like humanoid monster levitated towards a cowering group of citizens. She has pale green skin, long wavy deep bluish-purple hair styled in voluminous curls, and lilac eyes. She wore a hunter green dress covered with a layer of pink glittery tulle petals.
"Now, you all shall feel wrath of Amanita!" The plant monster spoke.
Two giant plant golems joined Amanita with dangerously narrowing eyes as the helpless citizens are becoming fully aware on what Amanita is capable of.
Most of Amanita's long plant vines already wrapped themselves around all of innocent children and teens. Even though Amanita only concerned about the environment, she's armed with a powerful ability to manipulate plants at her will.
Out of the corner of her eye, Amanita spotted a little girl hiding behind a nearby tree.
"Boys, bring that girl to me." Amanita ordered to her golems. "Now!"
Two golems began to approach the little scared girl.
Then suddenly, a long heavy chain made of blue energy flew through the air. It wrapped itself around the arms of both golems. The golems immediately slammed to the ground unconsciously.
Suddenly, Amanita and the children looked toward the edge of the forest. They saw a pair of blazing blue eyes opened in the darkness as a mysterious mystic kunoichi revealed herself out of the shadows. She presented herself wearing a kitsune fox mask on her face under the hood.
"The kitsune warrior." A thirteen-year-old boy whispered as her fear quickly turned into feelings of hope. "The kitsune warrior that punishes those who prey upon the weak."
"Show yourself!" Amanita shouted, staring at the hooded mystic with a glare. "You can't defeat a vast plant being! I am not afraid of a warrior!"
At that moment, the hooded mystic generated a pair of long nine tails made of blue magical energy.
"You should be, weed." The hooded mystic said with a cocky grin.
Amanita lifted her arms in front of her and shot several thorns from her palms at the hooded mystic, who shielded herself all of the incoming thorns coming in her direction with her tails. The hooded mystic then charged forward and delivered a swift, blue energized kick that hit Amanita sixteen times by an unseen force.
"Who…who exactly...are you?" Amanita stammered, struggling to lift her hands up in the air.
"A warrior who will show you how I deal with freaks who harm innocent people." The hooded mystic said as she pointed her finger to Amanita.
The hooded mystic leaped straight into the air and delivered a roundhouse kick to the Amanita's stomach simultaneously. With a groan, Amanita fell to the ground and passed out. The hooded mystic created several blue energized shuriken from her hands and tossed them to free the captive children and teens, who cheered with happiness and relief.
"Kitsune warrior!" The same nine-year-old girl shouted, rushing toward the hooded mystic and hugged her with a smile. "Thanks for saving us."
"No problem, child." The hooded mystic said with a grin as she patted the little girl's head.
With that, the hooded mystic faded out into the darkness.
The next morning, a young girl pointed her finger at the forest. A Caucasian-Irish American woman took off her sunglasses and squinted at the forest area. She has ginger hair that is completely covered by a green hat and green eyes. She wore a sleeveless yellow shirt, green jeans, brown gloves, and brown shoes. She also has a brown backpack on her back. Her name is April O'Neil. She's greatly known for her work as an amazing reporter and archeologist.
"Right there. That's where I saw her from last night." The young girl said.
"Thank you." April said. "You better get home now."
"Do you know the warrior, ma'am?" The young girl asked.
"You don't know the half of it." April smiled kindly.
April walked through the forest on the search for the "kitsune warrior" as she looked around to notice that the bushes rustling around her. When April traveled farther into the forest, she suddenly caught herself in blue energized chains wrapping around her body until she was pulled up to the high trees and landed on the hammock.
"Heh, I've never thought I'll see you here." A familiar elegant voice spoke.
April looked at the person who was holding the blue energized chains and couldn't help but smile at the sight of her mystic friend. She has long straight black hair worn in a ponytail with longer bangs neatly framing her face and golden-amber eyes. She wore a sleeveless dark blue bodysuit with a black sash-like belt, black gloves with dark blue arm bands, and matching dark blue combat boots. Her name is Leona.
"Hello, Lee." April smiled happily.
Lee unwrapped the blue energized chains and evaporated them out of thin air.
"So, what brings you here to Japan?" Lee asked as she sat on her hammock.
"I'm here on a scoop on the local legend for ancient artifact." April explained.
"Ancient artifact?" Lee repeated.
"Yeah, a rich industrialist has an interest on collecting 3000-year-old statues." April replied.
"Well, you do have a habit in archaeology." Lee smiled.
"And you have a habit of coming back to your old home." April smiled back.
Lee's eyes widened as she knew what April meant. Japan was her first home that taught her everything about its culture and ancient times of magic, but her new life in New York has more adventure and excitement that stored for her. Especially when she first met her boyfriend: Leonardo. Leonardo is a mutant ninja turtle who wears a blue ninja bandana for the eyes and is armed with a pair of katana swords.
"Anyway, how's the Turtles?" Lee asked.
"Well...Leo still hasn't returned his training just like you." April replied.
Lee looked down with a sad frown. When she and her family moved to New York, she and Leo first met during their fight against a group of Foot and Shadow ninjas one night. There, they formed a magical attraction through eye contact that is known for a mystic to find their soulmate called Soultouch. Since then, they always joined together in every mission that involved the Foot Clan and the Shadow Clan, while falling in love with each other at the same time. After the defeat of the Shredder and her arch-nemesis Lady Shade, Leo and Lee got together and the two became a couple.
Lee even remembered the time that her mother Saldana and Leo's sensei Splinter made their decision to send both of them a long journey for a year to hone their ninjitsu skills, so they can become a more efficient leader of their team. Leo and Lee shared a good-bye kiss before leaving to their one-year training. No matter how far away they are from each other, Lee missed Leo and his brave smile deep down inside her heart. But that doesn't mean that she missed her family.
"Besides, ever since you and your sisters have graduated high school, they've been taking different set of separate interest lately." April said.
"Like what? I'm sure Donna can do great things with that amazing brain of hers." Lee said reassuringly.
Well, Donatella is definitely using her amazing brain alright. During Lee's absence, she got a job to work online as an IT Tech Support that paid her a lot of money by helping people all over New York City during the summer season. At the same time, Donatella took on a leader-esque role to keep the group together. Donna has long brown waist length hair with messily bangs and chocolate brown eyes. She wore a purple tank top, dark blue jeans, and white sneakers with black soles and laces.
"Hello, sir." Donna spoke into her headset. "I'm Donatella, your professional IT tech support here to help you 24 hours a day. How can I help you?" She leaned back into her seat. "I see. I can help you with that. Since your computer is on, you have to plug your phone cord for the USB screen to pop up on the screen." She let out a proud smile. "Okay, good, let's get started."
Lee gave April a confused look on her face as she wasn't exactly sure why her intelligent sister didn't use her scientific brain to focus something more incredible on her inventions.
"I know Donna's a genius and all, but why would she take a job as an IT Tech Support?" Lee asked.
"On the bright side, it's keeping her busy for the summer." April admitted.
"If that's the case, then who's keeping a close eye on Ellie?" Lee inquired.
"Ellie's gotten into the pop star business for stardom and entertainment." April stated.
Michelle cracked her knuckles from both hands and held out a shiny golden microphone in her hand as her android bandmates got their positions with their signature instrument on the stage inside. During Lee's absence, Ellie's cute rocking voice got her shot as a pop singer in New York City, bringing out many attentions for the civilians with her concerts in order to support her family. She even posted her singing video on social media that gained over 1,000 followers. But at the same time, Michelle became sadly affected by the physical and emotional absence of her oldest sister. Ellie has long blonde hair worn in twintail braids with somewhat longer bangs that frame her face and blue eyes. She wore an orange left-sided one strap top, reddish-orange denim capris with a chain hanging off across her hips, and dark mahogany stiletto ankle boots.
"Hell-o New York City! Tell me who you love!" Ellie shouted through her microphone.
The entire audience chanted her name as Ellie can feel the sense of excitement around herself.
"That's it! Are you ready for a coolest song ever?" Ellie asked.
As everyone cheered happily, Ellie was amazed by the cheering crowd and began performing an awesome song for them.
Lee let out a tiny smile as she was glad that her fun-loving sister wasn't causing any trouble with her crazy magic schemes.
"She has become the center of attention around the city." April said with a shrug.
Lee released a low sigh as she was ready to hear the last sister of her family.
"Okay, how's Ella doing?" Lee asked.
"Not sure." April replied. "All she does is work out all day."
"Well then, what keeps her active all night?" Lee wondered.
The dark night was set for the brilliant full moon. Rafaela smirked as she looked at the city on the rooftop of the tallest building. During Lee's absence, Ella has spent her nights as an armored vigilante known as The Night Star, fighting crime at night in a very sadistic fashion. Ella has short red hair reaching her neck with very long strands on the sides of her head and dark hazelnut eyes. She wore a sleeveless black leotard with dark red trim around her shoulders and waist, and a wide crescent moon design over her chest, a pair of black fingerless gloves, and black thigh-high combat boots. She also has a rounded, silver-tinted visor in place for her eyes that will help her on the job.
"2802, 2802, burglary in progress at Fulton Street. Suspects considered armed and dangerous." The police spoke through the radio hidden in Ella's visor.
"Time to have some fun." Ella said with a smile.
Ella pulled out her grey high-tech inline skate-like wheels under her boots. She quickly began to jump off the building and skated off on her skates. In quick seconds, Ella immediately spotted the criminals started to get away with a bag of cash over their shoulders in the alley. The criminals were a group of five human sisters. They all have tall, athletic figure and they all wore black catsuit and black combat boots. One has long red hair down her back and green eyes. Another has short auburn hair with white streaks as bangs in the front of her hair, grey eyes, and purplish-black lipstick. The third has long chocolate brown hair and dark brown eyes. The fourth has short wispy blonde hair with bangs, blue eyes, and pink lip gloss. The fifth has long brown hair usually pulled up into a ponytail with layers that frame her face and light blue eyes.
Ella swiftly threw two exploding red energized bombs at two women and dashed forward to send them away into the alley darkness with fast speed. That made three women aiming their handguns up at the darkness.
"Who's out there? Show yourself!" The long red-haired leader demanded.
Suddenly, the red-haired leader got punched in the face and sent flying into the wall by a powerful kick. Ella then launched herself forward and cartwheeled through the air to kick the long brown-haired woman harshly multiple times before kicking her to the wall with a final kick. Then, Ella turned around to face the last woman standing.
"Looks like it's just you and me." Ella grinned.
The brown ponytailed woman dropped the bag and her handgun down to the ground as she got into a fighting stance.
"Oh, you definitely made my night a lot more satisfying." Ella smirked.
After Ella and the brown ponytailed woman clashed together in a quick fight, the police pulled up in the alley. They looked up at the four unconscious criminals glued on the wall that Ella attached them with a high-tech electric net in astonishment through their eyes.
"Night Star." The first cop said. "This is the third time she's been doing her job for us this week."
"I've bet Night Star and the Nightwatcher will become this city's fighting duo one day." The second cop said.
Unknown to the police, Ella stood above them on the rooftop and eavesdropped their small talk.
"Nightwatcher, huh? Interesting." Ella said. "Now that sounds like someone I can break bones in mere seconds."
Lee felt the sense of curiosity in her mind as if she knows that her hotheaded sister is doing secretly dangerous back in the city.
"Saldana told me that you still contact with her telepathically after your training ended a year ago, but you haven't come home yet." April stated. "How come?"
"Because, as a leader, I can't let anyone down. Mostly my family." Lee replied determinedly. "I already know that many people will always need me more than my sisters. The whole reason my mother sent me down here is for me to become a better leader. The more I stay here, the stronger I'll be for anyone out there."
"Lee, you know in your heart that your sisters and your mother need you. They even felt lost whenever you're not around." April said.
Lee thought what April said, but she let out a low sigh.
"I heard you, April." Lee said. "But I just need the moment of peace here in Japan before I can make a decision."
"Take all the time you need." April smiled.