Ancient Prophecy.
Well, another chappy, as always please review good or bad! Enjoy! P.S. See if you can spot someone from an older story of mine in this one.
Chapter Five:
Sayuri looked to the side at the girl she had met in Los Angeles, she was her height with baby blonde hair and wore an outfit consisting of knee high boots with thigh high tights underneath, and a mini dress that fell to her mid thighs, a break in the dress was connected by strips of material criss-crossing around her body and connecting to the top half. This wasn't cut low but looked like a crop top and had long sleeves that flared out at the elbow, a slit in each sleeve and fell past her hands so that when she held her hands by her sides they were hidden. The whole outfit was white making her the least conspicuous person Sayuri could possibly hope to get associated with. In the girl's defence however, she had helped Yuri in LA against both her brother and Hex and was a powerful witch. They were currently in a tall building that was in the middle of the bay.
"What was this place called again?" She asked her companion.
"They call it the justice tower," the blonde explained patiently knowing that Yuri didn't know much about the modern world and was often bombarded with so much information that she forgot some of it, "and I'm hoping the justice force can help us figure out where that book is, along with fighting your brother and his freaky wife."
"But they aren't witches or sorceresses," Yuri said and saw the young witch nod her head in the affirmative, "so if they're not born of magic then how is it they can do what they do?"
"I guess they have some sort of mutation." The blonde shrugged.
"But Elyssa, why. . ?" Yuri stopped as she saw a tall redhead approaching with a tall black man, both in tightly fitting outfits that left little to the imagination.
"The white witch?" The black man said raising an eyebrow at Elyssa. The red head approached the girl and gave her a warm hug.
"It is good to see you again child," the woman said releasing her and smiling, "to what do we owe this pleasure?"
"Hi Chrysalis, Sentry," Elyssa smiled, "there's a big bad that's moved on from LA and been spotted here in New York and I need your computers to research the whereabouts of something they're after."
"Can we aid you in fighting them?" Sentry asked with a worried tone eyeing the teenage girl and thinking her far too young to be going up against anyone. He then looked at the purple haired beauty beside the blonde and held out his hand. "I'm sorry; I don't believe I know you."
"Oh! Sorry!" Elyssa blushed slightly, "Silver Sentry, Chrysalis, this is Sayuri. She's actually the one who's trying to stop these guys and I'm just helping. Sayuri," she indicated back to the two heroes, "Sentry and Chrysalis. Oh, and sentry it's Witch," she smiled at his confused expression, "White Witch is what the public call me and I always think it's such a mouthful. Besides, a lot of the attack spells I use could actually be considered black magic, so technically I neither a black nor white witch."
"I see," Sentry said even more confused then before then turned to Yuri and shook her hand, "it's a pleasure to meet you. Chrysalis has spoken very highly of your friend and I know that she is a trustworthy hero. . ."
"Heroine." Elyssa corrected then mumbled, "I hate when people used the masculine."
"Why don't I show you where we research missions?" Chrysalis motioned for them to follow and before she left turned to her leader, "I almost forgot, Nobody called in and told us that the turtles are in trouble again and one of them has been taken by the purple dragons." Yuri ears perked up at the mention of turtles and hoped that Raphael was alright. "He said to mention he was going to be a little busy for a while trying to find him and he might use Guardian if needed."
"I'll bear that in mind if anything comes up." Sentry replied, "I hope you find what you're looking for and if you need any help then that's what we're here for."
"Thanks Sentry." Elyssa smiled and followed Chrysalis down the hallway. The woman led them to a large room with no windows, that was full of machinery and Yuri sighed, she hated machines.
"I'll just enter the pass code and," Chrysalis paused as she logged the large computer on, "there, you're set to go. So how's you're grandmother?"
"She's fine!" Elyssa said a little too loudly making Yuri roll her eyes, "Brilliant actually!"
"Let me guess," the heroine crossed her arms and grinned, "She still doesn't know you fight crime and she definitely doesn't know you're here." She laughed at the girl's red and sheepish face, "My lips are sealed." Chuckling, the red head exited and left to go about her business.
"Interesting people." Yuri looked over Elyssa's shoulder and watched as she effortlessly got the computer to do what she wanted.
"Yeah, Chrysalis is great," Elyssa shrugged, "she doesn't care that I still haven't finished high school, the rest though. . . well they're nice and all but they don't think I can fight bad guys cause I'm still a teen, some even play the girl card against me. It gets kind of old after a while."
"I can imagine."
"Hey didn't you say you saved a turtle's butt the other day?" the blonde asked without even looking up from the screen.
"Yes, he was badly beaten," Yuri sat back against what she hoped was a table of some sorts and not a machine she could damage, "but he fought my brother bravely and is a worthy warrior."
"Oh, so in other words he turns you on, huh?" Elyssa grinned at Yuri's blush.
"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Yuri said looking anywhere but at the witch.
"Yeah right!"
"I simply appreciate a good warrior," Yuri nearly cursed as she felt herself blush harder, "he showed a lot of potential and it would be a great shame if his light were extinguished before he could reach it that's all! I have a lot of respect for him especially as he was capture attempting to keep his family safe!"
"Yeah that and you like him!" Elyssa sang, "you want to kiss him, you want t. . .OW!" she rubbed the sore spot on the back of her head where Yuri's hand had smacked her.
In fight circles she was called the Cat and she had a rep that made her perfect for the job Nobody had given her. Around a year ago the masked hero came to her after she'd won a street fight and asked her to infiltrate the purple dragon's highest echelons without being suspicious. She wasn't a fan of thugs and she only partook in street fights to survive and keep her skill tuned. Of course Nobody had offered her enough of an incentive to take on the job. That evening she'd received a call from Nobody asking her to meet him, where he told her that a friend of his had been taken by the dragons and she was to find his whereabouts. He'd also told her that the guy she was looking for was a mutant turtle that was injured when taken. She'd never really worried about mutants before there where a few on the street fighting circuit around the world, each with differing origin, she could even be considered herself to a certain extent. Some were good people just trying to make money, others were psychopaths that were in it for the blood, and she had enough scars from them that she knew they were the ones that considered organised street fights as mortal combat. She pulled up her gleaming red bike up to the warehouse and waited for the doors to open before she pulled in and parked up. Greeting some of the dragons there she made her way down to the lower levels that had been built in secret. It was then she heard a blood curdling scream and she stopped in shock.
"Relax red." A guy named snake came up behind her and grinned pointing down a corridor to their right, "Hun's got a new play toy. Word is he's been itchin' ta cause this guy some real pain for a while now and sounds like he's really going ta town with it."
"What did he do?" Cat asked looking in the direction snake was indicating.
"From what I hear the thing's been messin with Hun since he was working for the foot," Snake shrugged, "but relax sweet thang, he's just some freak of nature. Saw him brought in and he looks like some big frog or somethin'" Cat looked at Snake then down at the corridor, wincing as another scream tore through the facility.
"I don't understand him." Cat said, and carried on to explain, "Why doesn't he just kill him."
"You know Hun," Snake began to walk down another corridor away from the screaming and she followed him, "he's into the torture and likes ta feel em as they slip away."
"Sick." She muttered.
"Yeah, but he pays well." The large gang member opened a door and turned back to her, "you here long?"
"Yeah," she replied, "I've gotta find a stooly that's gone underground," she rubbed the back of her neck, "figured I'd hack his cards and see if he's using them anywhere."
"Ain't that a cop trick?"
"Yeah, but sometimes the good guys have got it right!" They grinned and she went off to the control room relieving the guy stationed there so she could work in peace. Instead of doing what she had said she tapped into the security feed and with a bit of searching found the room the screaming was coming from. At the sight that greeted her she closed her eyes to compose herself, "The sooner I get back to street fighting the better." She said inserting a flash drive and recording some of the footage to give to Nobody. She turned up the volume slightly just to here what her blonde boss was saying to the guy chained to the ceiling.
"You and your brothers' thought you would get away with all the crud you did ta me?" Hun took what looked like a skewer and began piercing the guys chest slowly and painfully making the mutant whimper. "I'm going to make you suffer so bad there won't be anything left of you by the time I've finished!" Another scream erupted as Hun pushed the skewer suddenly to the side and tore the turtles skin. Cat frowned as she watched.
"There may not be enough time to get Nobody, or this guy's friends down here," she said to herself thinking, "looks like I'm going to be getting back to street fighting sooner than I thought. She sighed and sent a message to Nobody on her cell telling him what she was planning and then turned her attention to finding the guy she's been talking about earlier so she could get the guy some protection.
Hours passed and finally Hun had left the room and the now unconscious turtle, to do whatever it was he was off to do. Cat got up, making sure to retrieve her flash drive from the USB and made her way silently back to the where she had heard the screaming and found the door to the turtle's cell. She took a few minutes to pick the lock and stepped inside where she found the turtle still out cold.
"Oh God," she said taking in the pitiful sight and trying to hold down her lunch, she touched his face gently and pulled back, "you're burning up!" She looked around and found the mechanical release for the chains and pressing the button he dropped to the floor she took his arm and thanked whoever was looking down on her, that she was stronger than ordinary humans and pulled the guy onto her shoulder then slowly took him towards the sewer entrance.
"I always thought you were too good to be true." She stopped and attempted to control her breathing.
"Hello Hun." She spat.
"So you work for the cops or the FEDs?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" She put the injured turtle down against the wall and turned to the walking mountain.
"You know what babe," he said licking his lips, "surrender now and I'll put you up in my own personal quarters."
"Oh gross!" she made a face pleased at the angered grunt from Hun, "how about I kick your big ugly butt and take this guy out of here instead?" Hun threw back his head and laughed, but before he knew it she was charging at him with her jacket on the floor and in the air. He just about dodged out of the way but she landed on her hands and spun her legs behind her knocking his out from under him.
"You're stronger than you look girly." He threw a punch and missed her by miles, "quicker too." She grinned but didn't reply, she preferred to fight in near silence, the only sounds coming from her mouth yells or grunts as she charged and connected. She advanced again aware that there wasn't enough room to fight at full strength and she needed to finish this fast before anyone else noticed their scuffle.
'At least I hadn't had anyone relive me in the monitor room yet." She thought. She grinned remembering a trick some one had once shown her and advanced on him again. Cat lashed out, there was no power in her kicks and punches but her aim was perfect and she hit every pressure point making Hun fall to the ground still conscious but unable to move. "Awe don't feel bad Hunny bear!" She teased kneeling down to pinch his cheek causing him to growl again, "After all I'm a champion street fighter and use techniques from nearly every style of martial art there is." She got up and picked the turtle back up, "There aren't many guys who can beat me." She grinned again and took the turtle into the sewers and up to street level at the point the manhole where she would usually meet Nobody.
"You should have waited Cat." Nobody jumped down from the roof top accompanied by the Guardian Angel who took the turtle off of her and instantly flew off.
"The way Hun was going that poor guy would never have lasted the night." She argued crossing her arms and leaning against the nearest building. "Besides I don't think I could stand pretending to be a dragon for much longer! I mean I'm not into all that honour crap, but that doesn't mean I like standing around watching whilst those creeps did all the stuff they got up to." She remembered the flash drive and reached into her pocket, "here," she threw it at Nobody and he caught it easily, "that's got info on a guy named Grant, he'll be in need of some serious protection from the dragons, there's a little bit of footage on what Hun was doing to that poor guy too." She turned to leave.
"What are you going to do now Nikki?" she rolled her eyes at both the question and the mention of her real name.
"There's a big annual fight in Japan coming up soon," she said and brushed a little of her short red and white hair out of her face, "I figure I'll get to Asia and take in a few fights on the way there."
"Asia's pretty big," he told her, "that may take a while."
"Yeah well, the fight's not for three months so I figure I can make it, it's not as if I'm taking in every country just the ones with some warm up fights." She shrugged.
"Do you want me to tell your parents you're okay?" She looked up at him suspiciously.
"Do what you want," she turned and walked away, "they'd never find me anyway." With that she left and Nobody followed after his comrade.
"Guys!" Mikey yelled as soon as he got off his Justice Force communicator, "Nobody found him! He's at the Justice Tower!" Leo sighed in relief as he came from his room where he'd finished placing an exhausted Serena.
"Then we will go and retrieve him my sons," Splinter said not bothering to hide his joy, "I will not be satisfied until he is home."
"Fraid not sensei." Mikey said apologetically, "Nobody says that their medics are working on him now and he won't be able to move for at least a few days." Mikey looked down at the floor not wanting to see the panicked look on his family's faces, "He said a lot of medical stuff I didn't really understand, but he did say that he's alive and we can stay at the tower until he's better."
"Then that is what we do," Splinter said looking around at his sons and noticing Leo looking up towards the rooms, "although perhaps we should take turns so that Serena and April are kept safe."
"And so Casey doesn't destroy the place while we're gone." Don muttered currently fixing the toaster that had been thrown across the room for burning Casey's toast.
"We will figure it out later though for now Raphael needs his family around him and I am sure you all wish to see your brother is safe." Splinter continued ignoring Donnie.
"I hope he's okay." April said leaning into the aforementioned human for comfort.
"You'll tell Renie where we are right?" Leo almost pleaded and April nodded with a smile one her face then watched as they left.
It took them around ten minutes to make their way to the tower thanks to Donnie's toys and Mikey took them up to the med labs where they found Amanda checking over something in a room occupied with someone covered nearly head to toe in bandages and crisp white sheets, it wasn't until Mikey entered the room and approached the former super villain that he noticed the green fingers at the end of a bandaged arm and he blanched. Amanda looked up and sighed when she saw him.
"Hey Mikey." She greeted, "It looks worst that it is." She tried to comfort him.
"My son?" Splinter hurried over to Raphael's side as he and the other turtles entered the room tentatively.
"We've run every test possible and it's mostly broken bones and surface wounds," she explained as the small family surrounded their fallen member, "A few of them are older, reopened wounds that needed re-stitching." She sighed again and carried on not really sure if any of them were actually taking it in, "His right hip and left lower leg are fractured, along with his left collarbone and all but two ribs are broken, the last two are badly bruised, his face is very badly bruised but his skulls in tact and we've had to put him on a heavy dose of pain killers to make sure he doesn't feel anything." Donatello nodded in response as the others looked on horrified. "The next twenty four hours will be critical and our medics will do everything they can for him." She left the family to sit with Raph and stopped at the door, "our medics are trusted even with our secret identities, you're all safe here my friends."
"Thank you." Splinter bowed to Amanda and found Leonardo had pulled a chair over for him so took the seat next to his son gently holding Raph's hand. The old rat felt the warmth there and let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.
"It's okay Mikey," Don said pulling his youngest brother into his arms the moment he noticed he was crying, "He'll be okay, you'll see." Leo took all of this in and stared at Raph's prone form, the wires connected to his body monitoring his heart and brainwaves, the tube that was stuffed down his brother's throat forcing him to breathe and finally the drips connected to each arm that he assumed were providing the painkillers he needed. He felt the anger bubble up inside of him and found that, for once, he didn't want to control it. Leo turned heel and headed towards the door.
"Leonardo," Splinter turned to him, "where are you going?"
"I need some air." He lied and left heading for home.
"Casey?" Leo said making the human jump out of his skin.
"Jeez Leo!" Casey said jumping up from the couch where he'd been watching a horror flick.
"I need your help."
"Sure thing buddy." Casey said hoping the turtle hadn't gone back to how he'd been before he had trained with the ancient one. "Raphie okay?"
"No, he's not." Leo said and waited as Casey went to grab his gear. Once his human friend was ready he headed for the door, "Hun is going to pay once and for all."
"That bad huh?" Casey felt his stomach drop for his best friend and the anger began to rise, "Think the girls will be okay without us?"
"We won't be long." Leo said finding Raph's shell cycle and jamming on his bike helmet. "Raph was keeping tabs on the dragons before," Leo clenched his fists, "before all of this started. He said there's a warehouse where a lot of dragons spend a lot of time in. He said they go in and take an elevator down and some don't come up for hours. I'm thinking we start there." Casey stared up his own bike and followed Leo through the New York streets towards the warehouse and before long they were sneaking in.
"Wouldn't your bro's be better at this than me?" Casey whispered.
"They're with Raph." The turtle replied and leapt out of their hiding place. He threw a shuriken at the security camera and took out the guard by the elevator, what shocked Casey was that Leo didn't just knock the guy out but killed him. Leo beckoned for Casey to follow. As the doors opened both jumped out prepared to attack but there was no one there.
"You know," Casey scratched his head, "for a bunch of thugs, you'd think there'd be more around. Specially since Hun got into organised crime."
"Let's try this way." Leo led his friend down one corridor and noticed a door with the lock broken. He pushed the door open and peered inside and at the curse uttered from his lips, Casey looked in as well to see the bloodied chains, hanging from the ceiling and the disregarded instruments laying on a table to one side, also covered in blood, Raph's blood. Leo let out a growl and noticed Casey was finally getting that dangerous glint in his eye.
"Hun must die!" Casey said gripping his baseball bat so hard his knuckles turned white.
"This way." They back tracked and took another corridor that led them to two large doors at the end. Leo pushed it and found it unlocked, opening it a crack and he grinned to see Hun on a table being massaged by some scantily clad girl.
"I swear I find that red head I'll make sure the bitch pays!" He grumbled.
"Relax honey," the woman said rubbing at his muscles, "she's gone now. Just let Baby make you feel better." The dark skinned woman began kissing Hun's neck and Leo resisted the urge to throw up at the sight of this woman getting up close and personal with the one who nearly tortured his brother to death. Grabbing another shuriken he threw it at the light and the woman screamed.
"What the?!" Hun exclaimed as Leo advanced on him and sliced out with his blades, "Argh!" Leo heard as he connected with flesh. Hun's eyes adjusted to the light and he could see a shadow approaching him again, he dodged the swipe and grabbed the assassin by the arm then threw him against a wall, then against another.
"Oh no, you ain't hurtin' any one else!" Casey yelled and pulled out his hockey stick and hitting Hun hard across the back of his neck. Hun fell to the ground and rolled away from his attackers.
"I know that voice," he grinned knowing exactly who it was, "Jones, is that you? And one of the freaks I assume." Leo growled and he and Casey attacked Hun relentlessly until the huge blonde was forced to his knees.
"You will never hurt my family again Hun!" Leo screamed and as the leader of the purple dragons rose and tried to leap at him, Leo stepped to one side and thrust his swords through Hun's back hard enough to puncture the other side. The woman in the room had hidden in a corner, she crawled over to a desk on one side of the room and switched on a side lamp and screamed for all she was worth. "We're leaving!" Leo stated and ran out of the room, making sure Casey was close behind. They met several more dragons as they left but each one was mowed down by the pair.
Casey and Leo stood panting by their bikes and looked back at the warehouse before heading back to the lair without a word. Leo felt numb, he was covered in blood and very little of it was his own. He went to his room and vaguely noticed that Serena was no longer in his bed, he then walked over to his shower and turning it on he let the water flow down his body and wash the blood from him.
"Casey!" April ran to her fiancé and wrapped her arms around his neck, "where have you been? What happened? Have you seen Leo?"
"With Leo and we made sure Hun don't hurt Raph again!" Casey said feeling a little ashamed of what he and Leo had just done.
"Where is he?" Serena approached him and he looked down at his hands.
"I think he went to his room," he said, "there was a lot of blood on him an I think he's real worried about Raph."
Serena nodded and went to find him. When she got to his shower room she found him curled up against the wall quietly sobbing and her heart broke for him.
"There was so much blood." He said before she even realised he knew she was there; "I've killed before but only in when I needed to. But I went there to kill Hun on purpose!" He pulled away from her as she tried to pull him into an embrace, "I'm a monster, a heartless killer."
"No!" She said grabbing his shoulders and making him look at her, "If you were you wouldn't be regretting your actions now! Besides after all he's done to you I'm surprise one of you hasn't off'd him sooner."
"But. . ."
"No! You are a hero!" She kissed his forehead, "what you did was for your family! I've spoken to Don and I know how bad it is! So don't you dare think twice about taking out a few worthless gangsters?"
"But life isn't worthless!" Leo argued.
"Don't you think I don't know that?!" she said pulling away from him, "But sometimes bad things have to be done for the greater good! Why do you think I spend my every waking hour studying my aunt's spell books?" She paused for a moment but never gave him the chance to answer, "It's so I can fight Hex and kill her sorry ass."
"Please don't." Leo whispered.
"What?"
"Don't go against her again, if something happened. . ." Leo looked straight in her eyes, "I don't know if I could handle loosing you." He closed his eyes as she caressed his face and began kissing his neck.
"I'll never leave you hero." She reached up and turned off the shower then pulled him up off the floor towards his bed. She pushed him down so that he was sat up on it and carried on kissing him as she removed his gear. Before Leo knew what was happening she had her clothes off and they were soon both moaning in pleasure. "I love you Leonardo." She said gasping as he slipped inside her.
"I love you so much Serena Craft."
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