Ancient Prophecy.
Here's another one for you, I'm hoping to get a bit more action in it soon but I have to get there first, I hope you enjoy.
Chapter Thirteen:
"Hey mom!" Elyssa smiled at the blonde woman at the bottom of the pit.
"Lysie dear! What brings you here? I thought you were in New York right now." The older woman smiled and stood up to brush the dirt off of here khaki trousers and vest top. Her sandy coloured hair was held back in a messy bun with a handkerchief tied around to keep any going into her eyes.
"Grandma and I have been looking for a few things to keep from some uber bad guys." She explained.
"Oh, I see," Angela held out her hand for her daughter to help her out of the hole, "well so long as you're keeping well and what's this I hear about a Donatello?" Lysie blushed furiously.
"What's Grandma told you?"
"Only that he's a lovely young man and you've yet to come to your senses and tell him that you like him." Angie led her daughter to a tent on the outskirts of the site where they entered and Angela made straight for the kettle.
"Mother!" Elyssa rolled her eyes, "I hope dad doesn't know anything about this."
"Oh you know your father; if he had his way then you'd still be with us being home schooled and kept far away from all of the nasty little boys who are obviously out to get you." Her mother chuckled, "He's still in denial that you're nearly an adult, honestly Lysie to him you will always be his little girl."
"But Eric's off tomb raiding at nineteen and dad nearly blew a gasket when he found out I'm the super hero Witch, it's so not fair!" she whined pouting.
"I know dear," Angie smiled apologetically, "so what about this boy, do you really like him?"
"As a friend mom," she rolled her eyes again then quickly changed the subject, "anyway mom I wanted to ask you about the God's temple."
"What about it?"
"Well have you found anything that might be a hidden room or something?" Lysie asked looking out of the tent towards the site, "or a place that you can't get into?"
"Not yet but we've only been here a week you know as well as I do that it will take a while before we find anything like that and from what I've heard we have to be careful as the whole place may be set with ancient traps, tea?" Lysie turned to find a cup shoved under her nose so she smiled and took it, "Does this have something to do with these books you and Rose are looking for?"
"I'm not sure, we already have one but the ones we're up against have already found two and the last one looks like it may be hidden here in this temple. We don't even know what they're after, for all we know they've already got the information they need and it's pointless getting this last one." She took a sip of her tea wondering if Rose had managed to find her dad wherever he might be digging, "If they have got what they need then were pretty much screw. . . um in trouble."
"I see well the next tent over has all the research we did on this temple, its whereabouts and the legends surrounding it." Angie smiled stretching her back out, "if you find anything other than your book you tell us and for Gods' sake be careful with it, you were never all that good around the antiques."
"Mom I was three!" She whined taking the tea with her as she went to the tent to study what her parents' team had found out about the place, "Maybe I can see something they didn't." She murmured to herself positive it was going to be a long day.
Xxx
Anyone watching might have thought it was a dance on the rooftop situated on the bad side of town, but it was anything but. Raphael stood on the sidelines desperately wanting to help Yuri but knowing that he would only be in the way until he built up his strength again, so he watched. Her sword sliced through one of the demons like butter and with a guttural scream it fell lifeless on the ground and the others charged. She leapt over the first and plunged her sword into the heart of the second then spun and blocked the first claws before crouching and manoeuvring herself so quickly Raph was having difficulty keeping up. Before long however the last demon fell and she flicked the blood off her sword.
"Man you are something else!" Raph told her in awe, "No wonder you can take your bro on and live I mean that guy wasn't even tryin' with me and he beat me."
"You didn't know what you were up against," she shrugged resisting the urge to shake her head to clear the odd light headed feeling she had, "It's not like you'll make the same mistake twice Raph."
"No, but I bet if Leo hadn't been injured he woulda done better than me." Raph bore a hole in the ground dejectedly.
"Nonsense," she scolded re-sheathing her sword, "you are not your brother Raphael and no one wants you to be, I keep telling you that."
"Bet master Splinter don't think that," he replied still not looking her in the eye and absently rubbing his arms where he could still feel some of the deeper cuts that he'd made himself, "I've screwed up a lot over the years."
"Everybody makes mistakes, if we didn't we'd never learn anything." She raised an eyebrow.
"Mister Perfect don't make as many as me." Yuri frowned at the last statement and approached him placing a hand on his face and making him look at her, he expected a pitying look but all he found was a hint of worry in her midnight blue eyes.
"My mother once told me that for some people discipline and skill come easy and those people become great warriors," She felt her heart quicken at the closeness of his face to hers but continued, "for the rest of us it's not as easy, we have to work harder to achieve perfection, we're more likely to question how things are done and those are the warriors who have the potential to be legends." Both realised how close they were and pulled away blushing furiously, "So are we up here to train or what?" He chuckled and lunged at her hoping to catch her off guard but she dodged and he nearly lost his balance, "Raph you're still out of shape, why don't we work on something that should build you back up again?"
"Aw come on! I ain't done nothin' for months! I can finally move without crutches or a cane or even a limp you don't seriously want me ta meditate of somethin'?!" He grouched.
"If you don't built your muscles up slowly then you could end up doing yourself more harm and then you'll be out of action even longer." She said patiently knowing damn well she'd be just as impatient if the situations were reversed.
"Fine!" He sighed in defeat, if it had been Leo he would have argued till he was blue in the face but he never seemed to get that mad at her. They'd argued a few times but that's what a couple of headstrong people are bound to do every now and again and they'd always apologised quickly enough after. She approached him and stood a couple of feet away and facing him.
"Mirror the katas I do, do them as slowly as I do and concentrate on both the fluidity of the movement and the quality of your breathing." He nodded and did as she said mirroring her every move and paying attention to what he was doing, after a while he was barely paying attention to her and he felt a calmness he hadn't felt since he was a child. Not long after the calmness he realised he was starting to feel odd, or perhaps it wasn't so much odd as more in tune. It was like he could feel the heart beat of the city, all of the people moving around, the birds living here and there the rodents making their way around and . . . The yelp brought him out of his little trance and he looked towards Yuri who was on her knees and grasping her head.
"Yuri, what's the matter?" He frowned and knelt beside her.
"My head I . . ." she cried out again and gripped her head tighter, "It hurts so bad, I've never felt . . . anything . . . Raph help!" This time her cry was almost a scream, her eyes began to water and Raph was plain terrified.
"Hold on Yuri," he said picking her up and heading back to the layer, "good job we didn't go far huh?" He ran as fast as he could ignoring his body's protests, every so often offering Yuri a reassuring word but by the time he was half way there he wasn't even sure she could hear him any more.
"Donnie!" He yelled as he burst into the layer and headed straight to the infirmary, "Donnie, damn it where the hell are ya?!" He screamed at the top of his lungs hoping to whatever deities there were that he hadn't gone out.
"What is the matter my son?" Splinter demanded casting a worried glance over Sayuri who no longer seemed to have the energy to scream simply moaned every now and again and was limp in Raphael's arms.
"We were out and then she was screamin', holdin' her head and she said it hurt real bad!" He said quickly noticing Leo come out of the Dojo with his katana drawn but the eldest soon placed them behind his shell and ran off, hopefully to find the brainy turtle, when he saw Yuri.
"She okay?" Mikey asked approaching tentatively from the entertainment area.
"Michelangelo, where is Donatello, he is needed." Splinter asked as he guided Raph towards the infirmary.
"He went with April, Casey and the baby to check everything's ready at their apartment." He said following them.
"Then get hold of him quickly," the old rat turned to see his eldest returning with Serena in tow, "child is there anything you can do for Sayuri?"
"I can try but without knowing what's wrong it might be difficult." The witch replied and allowed Raph to gently place her on a bed; Leo then pulled him back so that she had plenty of room. Renie reached out with her magic to see what it was that might be affecting her and gasped as she felt the immense dark energy invading her mind.
"What is it?!" Mikey asked before anyone else could.
"It's a spell," she replied, "a very dark spell and it's invading her mind," she turned to Raphael, "when it started was she more coherent?"
"Um, she was screamin' and tellin' me how bad in hurt, but when I was nearly home she seemed ta just go limp and all she did then was moan every so often." He walked over being careful not to be in Renie's way and his fingers twitched wanting to comfort her.
"When the three of you were attacked at that comic shop," she turned to address Mikey and Raph, "did Hex do anything to her?"
"We didn't see anything." Mike said watching Yuri's prone form on the bed.
"They didn't teleport us ta the sewers at the same time." Raph told them never taking his eyes off of Yuri.
"You think it is possible Hex cast a spell on Sayuri at that time." Splinter placed a paw on Raph's elbow hoping it would calm him in some way.
"Maybe." Raph then looked at Serena with a hopeful gleam in his eyes, "Can you break it? I mean you're a witch so that's what you do right?"
"It's not that simple, if I go in blind and use the wrong spell I could give her serious brain damage." Renie sighed, "I need to figure out what spell Hex used and work from there."
Xxx
"Get everything she knows, if you can." Zuko watched over Hex's shoulder as she used a large crystal to view the information she was stealing from Yuri's mind. There were images of her childhood that Zuko vaguely remembered flashing across, they soon turned to her early teens just after her twin had died and she'd run off to become a mercenary. Then he smiled as images showing a place from his native land and two children, the image was watery as if Yuri had seen it through a mirror or a pool but the area he knew and he turned heel as soon as he did. "My love, I need you to send me there. But keep going she may have more useful information." Hex smiled and snapped her fingers watching her lover disappear before turning back to her crystal.
"Ah home," Zuko took a few steps forward surveying the area, "now to find my dear brother's children." It didn't take long to find the large manor house and children could be heard giggling from behind it. Once he had reached the building he made his way around and got a good view of what he was up against, which wasn't much. There were no warriors or mercenary's placed as body guards only a few maids playing with the children in the garden. The toddler threw her ball and it landed not far from his feet as she hobbled up to it a little awkward with only just having mastered the art of staying upright, he frowned at the ice blonde hair she had inherited off of her mother, but the little girl did have his family's trademark blue eyes. "Is this yours young lady?" He asked picking up the ball and bowing majestically as soon as she was close enough.
The little girl giggled and curtsied, pulling her skirt out as she did, "Thank you sir," she took the offered ball and beamed up at him unaware of the imminent danger she was in, "I sorry if hit you."
"That's quite alright little one," he replied trying not to smirk, "the ball merely fell nearby."
"Anastasia get away from that man!" One of her maids shouted approaching him whilst the others ran in fear once they saw him.
"But he gave ball back." She grinned showing her ball, "He's nice."
"Yes, I'm nice," he failed to hide his smirk this time, "in fact I'm so nice I wish to take you and your brother on a little holiday." He scooped the little girl up who squirmed in his grasp now unsure of the 'nice man'.
"You leave my sister alone!" Alex yelled pulling out a wooden sword and brandishing it like it would slice him to ribbons.
"Oh, I like you," Zuko chuckled, "you've got spunk!"
"You will leave now or we will call the guards!" The maid who had approached him said loudly knowing full well who the young man was and terrified for not only her life but for the lives of her charges as well, they were supposed to be safe here but the spell protecting them must have somehow been broken or bypassed in some way.
"Go ahead old woman," he laughed, "they won't get here before I take these children and they are going to be a great help in my plans. So I am not going to let you or anyone else get in my way!"
"Sukie what should we do?!" Alex asked worriedly.
"Sukie is it?" Zuko raised an eyebrow. "I thought I recognised you, "Am I to assume you're the very same Sukie who raised Princess Azmaria!" He bowed and her face told all, "Well it must hurt to know that you are unable to protect her children as well." With one more laugh he grabbed Alex's wrist, "Hex." With that simple name spoken he disappeared and Sukie was left looking at an empty space. The old woman fell to her knees and wept for the two children she had promised to protect but had failed so miserably.
"Gods protect them, please."
Well another chappy, I know where I want to go with this one I'm just not sure how to do it yet so I'm afraid the chapters will be a little slow for the time being but I will get a bit more action in soon I promise! I hope you're still enjoying it all the same, oh and I'd like to mention to Eve; all will be explained in due time trust me! Hope you like this one! Toodles Angel xxx P.S. Sorry it's a little short I hope to make the next one longer!