Archery

Days had past and Adelia's life so far went from normal, to deadly, and now just plain weird. She was sitting in the turtles lair on the couch that extended on all sides of the square. She was sitting with her newly found friend April. She had found out so much during these past days. About the Turtles, April and the Kraang that were for some unknown reason going after her. She watched in horror as Mikey ate a piece of pizza he found under the table. It smelt like it was growing mold, while its color was distorted and hairs where on its surface. Yet he but yelled with excitement and stuffed his face. Adelia felt as if she would throw up, glancing at April who was oblivious to everything as she typed on her laptop. Adelia stood up and walked closer to the television, passing Raph from above as he pummeled the hung up dummy. Making her way over to see Leo watching Space Heroes and quoting everything the captain said. She rolled her eyes and giggled slightly, that caught his attention.

"Whats so funny?" He asked dropping his hero stance, turning towards her. She looked up at him and smiled, rolling her eyes to the right.

"Well, just that you can quote this word for word." She said giggling a little once more.

"See, I'm not the only one who thinks that shows stupid!" Raph said, before going back to pounding the dummy. Leo glared at his brother out of the corner of his eye annoyed.

"I never said that, i actually like this show!" Adelia said smiling and sitting down a few feet away from the t.v.

"What?!" Raph asked, hitting the dummy sending it off the hook before turning to her with his most confused face. Leo smirked confidently and smugly at his brother before sitting down next to Adelia, continuing to watch his beloved show, on occasion glancing over at her smiling face.

"Guys! I might know where the Kraang are going next!" Aprils voice boomed over everything causing everyone to turn including Adelia. And then with that, when night neared around April left to her aunts home, and the turtles left to go inspect where they might find these Kraangs. Leaving Adelia alone in the safety of the lair.

Master Splinter was also there, like he was all of the time. Though Adelia didn't know exactly where to find him, through out the few days she had been here she never knew where he could disappear to. Adelia turned off the t.v in the middle of the lair, standing up and decided to wander about a little. Eventually finding herself to the dojo, a twisted banzai tree sprouted out of the yellow-tan room. She smiled to herself, examining everything around until her eyes fell on a bow and arrows. Though they were suction cups, she still gave a great interest in them. She looked around afraid of Splinter or anyone for that matter, to just come in and watch her.

She picked up the wooden bow, strumming the string listening to its tight music. Humming to herself she then picked up the arrow satchel, sliding it on and tightening it all the way to fit her. Adelia hummed a tune and happily grabbed an arrow, aiming it and hitting the farthest away. She continued this, humming, and hitting random spots of the dojo. She hit over t the door just in time for Master Splinter to walk in calmly. Grabbing the arrow before it could even try to hit him, Adelia's humming was replaced with a sharp gasp, her caught her mouth with her hands and froze in place.

Master Splinter stood there, his usual calm self, eventually he opened his eyes and but his hand with the arrow behind his back. Adelia immediately gripped harder on the bow and bowed.

"I-im sorry, I-i will put them a-all back" Splinter chuckled slightly, pointing upwards causing her to look up from her bowed position, eventually standing straight.

"Even that one?" He asked, then dropping his hand to its normal position. He walked over to her and Adelia looked to the floor, upset and what she had done.

"Take this, and hit right there" Splinter said, handing her the arrow and then pointing to a small circled grate across the room. She looked up at him confused, but he rose his eyebrows waiting and she grabbed the arrow. Setting it up against her bow, she kept glancing at Splinters face, it was relaxed and his eyes were closed yet it was though he could see still.

Adelia aimed, looked at Splinter and then back at her target. She let go, yet she closed her eyes out of nervousness. When she opened her eyes she saw that she had completely missed her target. Lowering her bow she murmured her sorry to Splinter, who simply opened one of his eyes, staring at where she hit, and then back at her.

"Why apologize?" He asked, she looked forward sadly, and turned to Splinter.

"I-i missed...Im sorry.." Splinter rested a hand on the small girl's shoulder and pointed to where she hit.

"Oh really, you might have missed, but you seemed to do something new" Adelia looked to over where she hit, It had landed behind and around the tree. Way off mark, she couldn't see where Splinter was coming from with this.

"My girl, you may have missed the target, but you managed to curve your arrow." Splinters voice some how seemed filled with pride, and he watched as the girl turned back to where she hit and her eyes grew wider.

"H-How is that possible?!" She asked, looking from Splinter, to her arrow, repeating that process until he spoke.

"Sometimes we amaze even our self with our own hidden talent." A question though came across Splinters features.

"Who taught you to do archery?" He asked blandly. She shrugged her shoulder, still slightly shake up at what she had managed to do.

"M-my father used Yumi, but h-he never taught me how to do this.." Her voice trailed off as the loud bang from outside crashed and echoed through all of the walls. It was Raph, his brothers were yelling at him. Splinter gave a small noise of thought and stroked his long beard, walking out of the dojo to his sons with Adelia close behind him. It was rather interesting indeed, but Splinter did sense unusual spiritual power from the girl when she first arrived here, but he couldn't seem to link the pieces of the puzzle together.

But for the mean time, he had his sons bickerment to go over with. He ordered them all to the dojo, sending Adelia to the main part of the lair. It was Friday, which meant for the sake of her safety, she would stay with the turtles through the weekends. They would also watch over her in patrols whether she was at home or at school late. Not one of them wanted her hurt again from the Kraang, her injuries shouldn't have been as bad as they were. Which was just another added piece to this big puzzle.