This chapter was a little short, but I had such fun writing it. I love their counterpart's children I think they are hilarious! Please enjoy!

Chapter 6

Darkness looked around her. "I suppose we can get rid of the scenery." She said as the blood in the chamber vanished. The doors to her chamber opened and Atrumlucidus and Astrumlumen strode in. Their white floor length gowns hugged every curve of their bodies. Their green and brown eyes flashed with youthful determination.

Darkness sighed inwardly. Well the peace had lasted only so long, and their timing couldn't be worse. They stomped up to their fathers. "Dad how are we supposed to go out on a date if you keep threatening to smite all of our suitors." Starbright accused her father.

"You're too damn young to be dating anyone." Raphael roared.

"We are not!" Starlight said angrily stamping her foot. "We are 17 years old!"

"Which is too damn young." Raphael growled getting in her face.

"Do you have any idea what that is in god years?" Starbright said dangerously. "I'm practically an old maid" She railed at Raphael.

"Raph's right." Leonardo said angrily. "What if some young god decides to make you his wife?" Leonardo growled.

"That's the point." Starbright said with a roll of her eyes.

"Not at this age. Wait until you are a few hundred years old and then maybe we will talk about possibly letting some young god talk to you." Raphael said crossing his arms in anger.

"A few hundred years!" Starbright screamed. "By then all the good young ones will be gone. They are the only ones not scared to death of mom. I'll be lucky to get a date by the time I'm a thousand!" She huffed out.

"It must be quite a challenge for you to have any approach you considering who your parents are." Lucifer observed.

"You stay the hell out of this Lucifer." Raphael raged.

"Raphael, you are melting the floor." Darkness observed.

Raphael looked down at his feet as he tried to control the flames that had begun licking at his flesh.

"Uncle Lucy, Uncle Gabe, get some clothes on." Starlight said wrinkling her nose in disgust.

"Mom, tell the dad's that they are being unreasonable." Starbright whined.

"That's the great thing about being a guy." Cleas said as he strode in with Féirín. "Hey mom, can we have our shells back now, we promise not to use our transformative powers for checking out any bathing goddesses." They said innocently their brown eyes pleading, their blonde heads pressed together creating the impression of young angelic innocence.

Darkness rolled her eyes. "Just because I actually believe you doesn't mean I don't think that you are scheming how to use your transformative powers to spy on other naked goddesses doing other activities besides bathing."

They looked at each other and cranked up the innocent vibe. The sword and sai pulled themselves from the wall and their shells hovered in the air. They whooped as they grabbed their shells transforming into their turtle forms. "Ahh I love being a turtle." Trick said contentedly hugging himself.

"Only because you like impressing the goddesses with your bigger package." Treat said punching him in the shoulder as Trick smiled deviously.

"So, so not appropriate." Michelangelo said with a shake of his head.

Darkness groaned. "We have company you know." Trick, Treat, Starlight and Starbright looked at their guests in surprise as they realized that there we other people in the room.

"Other daddy?" Starbright asked as her face broke into a grin. She launched herself at Leonardo. Leonardo stumbled back and they fell in a heap.

"So if you were my real father would you let me go out on a date. There's this really dreamy god, Slien, he's one of the off-world alien gods, anyway, would you let me go out on a date with him. Starlight thinks he's totally dreamy too, and it is the first guy we have both actually agreed on, isn't that wonderful, because that has to be like Fate or something." She threw a dirty lance at Donatello. "And since Daddy Donny won't tell us who we marry I think that we should be able to date him to see if he is the one."

Darkness covered a smiled as she watched the emotions flitting over Leonardo's face, starting with, overwhelming shock (OMGs they were only 5 the last time I saw them!), which turned into embarrassment (Where did the breasts come from?) to indignation (No young god is going to get within 100 feet of my not really but almost daughter, because they are too damn young to be dating!) Followed by, (wait, they both want to date him?)

"If I was your father I would lock you up and throw away the key, both of you." He growled out.

Starbright stood up with a huff.

"If you deny them the experience of dating, they are just going to want it more. That is not how you handle this situation." Darkness said shaking her head.

"Thanks mom you're the best!" The two girls said hopping up and down in excitement.

Darkness smiled as her husbands glared at her. "But if he brings you back one minute after dawn I will make sure that he wishes he were dead. And I will make you two do Mon's paperwork for a month."

"But…Mon's job is so boring." Starlight squeaked.

"Make it two and just try getting a date after I spread little screaming bits of young god throughout Darkrealm."

They paled in horror. "You wouldn't" Strabright asked in a barely audible whisper.

Darkness smiled cruelly. "Just try me." She said as darkness started seeping into her eyes.

They swallowed. But nodded. "Make sure you have fun." Darkness said with a cheery smile. "Now be polite and say hi to all of our guests. No one likes a selfish goddess."

"Gods she scares the hell out of me." Michelangelo said as he dragged her close and gave her a bruising kiss.

"Eww dad yuck." Trick said as he closed his eyes and looked away sticking his tongue out. "It's bad enough having to watch Uncle Lucy and Uncle Gabe kiss mom, which for the record, is just weird. But way more gross seeing you do it."

"Yeah dad, get a room." Treat said closing his eyes in disgust.

"I have a room, you two hooligans are standing in it." Michelangelo growled at his sons.

"Hey, who is she?" Trick asked studying Nightmare.

Trick and Treat circled Nightmare. "She's got a mortal body. That's interesting."

Stralight nodded. "The only goddess ever to be bound in a mortal body was the Golden Goddess." She said with a sigh. "Most romantic story ever."

"Yeah too bad the gods went and killed her." Treat said as he looked at Nightmare's ass. Trick kicked him.

"Hey." He protested.

"Okay you two." Michelangelo said herding his son's out. "Go bother someone else, preferably someone who deserves it and who we don't know. Even better, go bother a mortal." Michelangelo shouted after the laughter of his retreating sons.

"You know they are going to go out and try to check out naked mortal women now, don't you." Darkness observed.

Michelangelo shrugged and smiled. "They're 16 what do you expect?" He asked.

Raphael looked at their counterparts seriously. "Kids are just trouble. Way more trouble than they are worth. Sure they look all cute an innocent when they're born, then you know what happens, they learn to talk, and then it is all downhill from there. If I had hair, it would be grey" He grumbled.

"Yeah, but you love us Daddy." Starlight said giving her father a kiss on the cheek. Starlight gave a worried glance at Raphael who was still partially slumped on the floor. She walked over and knelt down. "Other daddy?" She said in a soft whisper. She reached out and touched his shoulder.

"He should be able to hear you now." Darkness said softly as Starlight looked at her in worry.

Raphael's head lifted up and his sightless eyes looked at her. "Starlight?" Raphael questioned. He looked around confused.

Starlight looked at him and looked at Nightmare who was standing a little ways off, repressed anger pulling at every line of her body. But Nightmare paused as she looked at Starlight and Starbright. She bowed her head slightly in acknowledgement. Starlight frowned as she tried to figure out who the goddess, who Nightmare was. Her eyes widened in shock as she recognized the soul that pulsed within Nightmare. Starlight covered up the confusion on her face. She was smart enough to realize that there was something else going on at the moment and Nightmare had not openly acknowledged her, meaning Nightmare was determined to keep her identity a secret, at least for now. Starlight leaned in and gave him a comforting hug. "Good luck daddy." She said softly as she pulled away and stood up walking back to her father.

Raphael sighed as he put his arm around his daughter. "Have fun." He growled. She smiled, gave one last worried glance at the other Raphael, grabbed her sister and ran for the door. Starbright ran back and gave Leonardo a bruising hug. "Sometimes wishes do come true daddy, don't give up." She said with a worried smile.

"Bye dad." Starbright said to her father as she caught up with her sister.

"You're letting those two out?" A voice said from the doorway. A miniature Darkness stood at the door draped in black and gold kimonos, her hair styled ornately around her black cat ears.

Darkness smiled at Hitsuzen. "With threats hanging over their heads, yes."

Hitsuzen shrugged. "I suppose they have to make their own mistakes." Her 14 year old daughter said with a smile.

"Hitsuzen don't torment your fathers, they are already having a hard enough time." Darkness admonished.

Hitsuzen smiled deviously. "Hello other daddy." She said walking up to Donatello. She patted his cheek. "I see my dream helped, I'm glad." She said with a smile, but frowned slightly as if she noticed something. She slowly looked at Darkness who nodded, acknowledging that Donatello was dying, but that there was another Fate that was beginning to take hold of Donatello.

Hitsuzen paused, but then bowed and walked out of the room. Donatello put his hand to his cheek which came away sticky.

She looked at their counterparts. "Good luck." She said to them. She knew they were not going to have an easy road ahead of them.

"Darkness what's..." Donatello began.

"Nightmare is gone, you had best hurry before the portal closes." Darkness said softly cutting him off.

They looked at the portal and nodded. Donatello bent down and with Leonardo's help managed to drag Raphael off the floor. Donatello gave one last worried glance at them through the portal and he was gone.

Darkness watched the portal close, the golden daydream fluttering behind Donatello, attracted by the nectar her daughter had left on his cheek. She looked at it thoughtfully.

"Donatello, which came first, the chicken or the egg?" She asked him.

"The chicken." He said giving her a strange look. "The chicken developed the necessary biological and instinctual changes needed in order to produce offspring in the form of an egg."

"It is never easy to have a philosophical conversation with you. I was not being literal Donatello, more, I had believed we were the originals and they the echo of us, but I believe it may be the other way around." Darkness said softly.

Raphael frowned. "How does that make sense?"

Darkness tipped her head in thought. "I had always wondered where Bloody Rage and Capricious Death were forged and who wielded them and filled them with so much hate and hope. Goddess' gauntlets as well. But I believe I now know who did."

"I thought that Goddess got the swords from Diemortia and Persephone?" Leonardo said as he walked over to her and pulled her into a cool embrace. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the feel of his arms, the lightness she felt in her soul when he was around. She opened her eyes.

"She did, but where did they get them? I believe I now know who thinned the barriers between our world and T'lae-ran." She said thoughtfully.

Donatello frowned. "But that doesn't even make any sense. Nightmare is from an alternate Earth. How could what she does on her world affect our world thousands of years in tha past?"

"Because she is more powerful than the Golden Goddess ever was. I am more powerful than she is, but not by much." She looked at Lucifer. "With the power of Hell behind her, plus every scrap of magical belief on Earth, not to mention the very Tree of Life itself, it is possible that she is going to sunder worlds and remake the universes."

"Is she dangerous?" Leonardo asked in worry.

"Incredibly." Darkness said with a smile.

"So how do we stop her?" Raphael asked.

Darkness chuckled. "We don't. For us what she has done has already happened."

"So we are the echo?" Michelangelo asked.

Darkness smiled. "Yes Michelangelo, we are the echo and they, the originals."

So what did everyone think?