The guys and Sarena are fast asleep while Master Splinter is visiting the Ancient One in Japan. A shadow crosses the floor of the Lair. The light from below the water shows it to be Aneras.

whispering shh, they're sleeping brings out a megaphone and yells I. AM. NOT. DEAD!

All but Aneras: AHHHHH! They all tumble out of their rooms with Leo landing on Sarena.

Raph: Not yet! Who the shell gave her the key to the Lair?

raises hand

Raph: Rena, why?

Seemed like a good idea at the time sees where Leo's hand is um...Leo...could you remove your hand please?

Leo: sees his hand is on her breast Oh sorry removes it and helps her up.

Don: Aneras, it's been two months. I thought you'd given up by now.

Writers block, couldn't help it. I am going back to camp soon and I wanted to get this online before then. Plus I'm going to Chicago on Friday.

Mikey: Why do we pay you to babysit if you're never around?

You don't, remember? You started hanging out with me while I wrote my stories so you stopped paying me. It's not like she needed it anyway.

Leo: What are you doing now?

I'm continuing the story I said I may not finish. Oh, that's right, you guys weren't there. You were chasing Mikey for blowing up the TV or something. Basicly it's about Leo and Rena dealing with Shadow, but mostly Leo. Oh, by the way sorry for confusing some people about Shadow's name. In the first chapter I put it as "Phantom" instead. I don't know what I was thinking, but it has been fixed.

I'm surprised I didn't notice.

You were staring at a picture of Leo at the time remember?

blushes oh yeah.

Mikey: Whose turn is it to do the disclaimer?

Raph: I don't know, Leo you do it.

Leo: fine, Disclaimer: She doesn't own anything.

By the way, what was with the Shakespeare quote at the end of last chapter?

My class had been reading "Romeo & Juliet" at the time and it seemed like a good line. Oh, fun fact. Did you know that Kimra has a cousin who lives with her named Tybalt?

No

Well she does now, one of these days I'll put him in here, but for now I might want to tell you that the last chapter ended in season four episode...what was it again?

Raph: You don't remember?

I don't like the first half of season four because it makes Leo so emo.

Ditto

Oh yeah, now I remember. It was "Dragon's Rising" I keep getting it confused with "Dragon's Brew" Enjoy! Oh, and thanks to my Beta Reader/ Friend SinsRose. There is a reason I spelling is my worse subject in English.

Mikey: You have a Beta Reader?

Leo's Ordeal

Chapter 2

The next time Leo woke up he was staring at the ceiling in the Lair. He sat up with a start. Had they been taken home? Looking around he saw that he was in the room he shared with Sarena, in his bed, in his own body. Had Shadow just been a dream? He looked down from his spot in the top bunk and saw his sweet little sister sleeping soundly in her bed, clutching her little Leo doll to her chest. Jumping down beside her he sat on her bed and brushed a stray hair from her face. She stirred and clutched the Leo doll tighter. Being skilled at such a young age (A.K.A Mutated) Sarena had sewn the Leo doll when they were two. Other than Leo himself it was the only thing that protected her from the endless stream of nightmares she usually had.

'Oh Sarena, what did I do to deserve a sister as sweet as you?' he thought to himself. Sarena blinked her eyes open and, as soon as she saw Leo, fell back against the wall in terror. So Shadow hadn't been a dream. She was really scared of him, just like he had promised. Leo felt his anger boil for a second before remembering his current task. He'd deal with Shadow later, but right now he had to earn Sarena's trust back.

"Sarena, it's okay. It's me," he said trying to calm her down.

"You're lying," she squeaked out. "You're not Leonardo. You trapped Leo inside his own heart. Give him back!" She threw her pillow at him and clutched her doll tighter to her chest. "I want my Leo back." Ugly tears fell from her eyes. At that moment Leo could feel his heart break. Shadow had made the Leo part of her personality become unstable which had caused her already unstable emotions to become even worse than he could sense they had been. He finally understood their current situation and, giving her the same look he had given her on that ledge before, placed a hand on her tear stained cheek.

"It is me," he said. He could sense everything happening inside her through the link. Sarena gasped as a familiar feeling, long thought vanished, spread through her body from Leo's hand. The feeling pulled at her heartstrings and mind, telling her that this really was her oldest brother sitting in front of her. A wide smile lit up her face as she jumped into his arms, grasping him for dear life.

"Leo, I'm so sorry. I tried, but…" He silenced her with a kiss on the lips and she instantly relaxed in his arms. When he broke the kiss he saw that biggest smile he'd seen her have since Shadow appeared.

"It's alright Rena. You tried your best, that's what matters. I'm proud of you for lasting as long as you did." Sarena looked around.

"Are we back in the Lair?" she asked.

"I don't think so," he answered. "I think we're in your mind."

"What?"

"When Shadow grabbed your arm I was able to use that as a passage way out of my body and into yours."

"So then, you're…"

"Yes, I'm inside your body." Sarena stared at him in a kind of shock. He should have expected this, but he had to tell her now. Her body was responding to his soul being inside her. He had to get her to open up to him completely or he'd be forced out. "Sarena listen to me. If you don't let me in I'll be forced back to Shadow." He could sense she didn't understand. She could feel his presence in her heart, they were in her mind, and his soul was inside her body.

"But, aren't you?.."

"Not yet, please." He could feel a tug on his soul already. Sarena smiled gently and opened up her heart, mind, body, and soul to Leo. They sealed it with a kiss.

Leo opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling of the original trio's room. How long had they been out? It was already sunset.

"She's awake!" All of a sudden the girls ran to his side, worried for their friend.

"You okay Rena?"

"We were so worried."

"What happened?"

"Girls, enough," said Lilly. "Give her some room to breathe. Are you alright Sarenaty?" Leo nodded. Sarena was asleep again and he was controlling her body.

"You been asleep for three days," said Peej. "We're just lucky the school's pluming broke when it did."

'It sure does break a lot,' thought Leo looking at Bonnie, who had a sly and completely guilty look on her face, out of the corner of his eye.

"Let's go get Rena some tomato soup," said Bonnie.

"You guys go, I'll stay," said Kimra as the girls ran off. "Clever trick, using Shadow's lust for Sarena against him Leonardo." Leo was shocked. How had Kimra figured it out?

He let out a small chuckle. "What gave me away?"He asked.

"Your eyes," she said bluntly. "Sarena's are wide green. Yours are narrow brownish blue."

"Sarena calls them a bluish brown."

"Where's Sarena?"

"She's still asleep, exhausted from having to deal with that thing in my body."

"You mean Shadow?" Leo looked at her in shock. "I scanned your minds while you were asleep, pretty interesting."

"Well, what do we do now?"

"This isn't going to last forever."

"What?"

"I'm part witch remember? I know these things. When a soul leaves it's living body whatever's possessing it still has a hold on it, even when the soul has found a willing host. The hold the possessed has is the soul's blood. As long as every drop remains in the body the possessed can pull the soul back just by touching its host and can even pull the host's soul in with it." That couldn't happen. Leo refused to let Sarena be in danger of that thing anymore. "However, if Sarena drinks at least a litter of your blood the hold Shadow has will disappear." Leo looked at her in mild disgust.

"And how is Sarena gonna get close enough to him to drink my blood?" Kimra shrugged. Looking down Leo saw, for the first time, that Sarena's body had changed. It was an inch taller and her hair was its original length. Anything green she had on was now blue including her mask, which lay beside him. From a mirror a few feet away he could see that her features were sharper, but she still had the same frail air that she always had.

"Must be a side effect of your two souls sharing a body," Kimra explained. At that moment the girls came back in with the soup. Leo realized that he and Sarena were hungrier than he thought they were and ate it all. It wasn't Sarena's home cooking, which he was used to, but it was still pretty good.

'You should probably rest more Rena, you'll need your strength for school," said Peej taking the bowl.

"When it reopens that is," said Bonnie.

"Let's leave her alone for a while," said Lilly leading the girls out. Kimra followed, but then turned back to Leo.

"I won't tell them if you won't." Leo nodded and she left.

'Leo?' Sarena appeared next to him in spirit form, like he and their brothers used to all the time when she was in middle school. Letting out a small yawn and rubbing an eye Leo couldn't help but think she was almost too cute. 'I'm worried about the others being alone with Shadow.' He nodded.

'I am too Rena, is there anything your powers can do to help?' he asked. Sarena thought for a moment and nodded with a smile.

"I can make a clone." Sarena brought her powers forth and, mixing it with Leo's, made a fully functional, human clone.

"Don't worry you two, I'll keep your brothers out of trouble," she said.

"Thanks Luna." With that Luna leaped towards the rooftops and out of sight. "Hopefully the guys will be fooled." Leo nodded in agreement.

"You heard the girl's sis; we should probably get some sleep. You might have school tomorrow."

"Key word here being might, but as always you're right. Goodnight big bro." As she fell asleep Leo sighed. He wished she could call him something else besides "big brothers". He liked it and all, but he wished they were something more.

"Goodnight Sarena." He laid his head down and fell asleep.

Leo and Sarena watched from behind the stairs as Luna laughed with their brothers at Don and Mikey's joke. They had to admit, Luna posing as Nobody's "sidekick" was a great idea. Now that she had the guys' trust all they had to do was get her into the Lair and there was only one way that would happen. If Sarena permitted it, since it was already established that Luna was her friend from school, the guys couldn't say no. Leo just had to make sure she stayed away from Shadow. Sarena, however, wanted at least one of their brothers to know they were alright ahead of time and there was only one who was close enough, Raphael. Leo snuck up behind their brother and slipped their hand into his.

Before Raph could react they both said through her lips "Goodbye Raph." He froze and they slipped their hand out. When he turned around he couldn't see them because they were in her old hooded cloak that made her invisible. They silently moved away from their confused brother and went to the ledge opposite him in full view of everyone. As they pulled out her broom he saw Shadow staring right at them with a hungry look in his eyes, but shook it off as paranoia.

Letting Sarena takeover he waited as she took off the hood, making her visible and yelled "Hey Luna!" Everyone stared at her in shock. "Keep an eye on them for me!" With a wink she leaped off the roof and Leo took over as she used her broom to fly. With one last look towards their brothers they steered the broom back to the girls' place.

He didn't know how she had talked him into this. Answer: When it came to her he was weak.

Things had been going well the past few weeks. Luna earned her keep with the guys by cooking and cleaning for them. Leo was enjoying being in Sarena's school and was eternally grateful that she had not chosen gym as an elective. The last thing he needed was to grope her or worse…surprisingly Sarena had let him sing during her concerts and, he had to admit, he had done a pretty great job. The only problem they really had was that now they had to eat enough food for two people, but other than the fact that Lilly was getting worried about Sarena's weight, which they had assured her many times was not a problem, it wasn't a huge deal. Now she had somehow convinced him to agree to spend Halloween with their brothers despite the danger of Shadow. He could remember his initial protest even now.

He had been helping her with her homework on the floor of the girls' room when she popped the question.

'What!'

'Please Leo, it's only for one day and we can go trick or treating like we used to. Plus it might help us find a way to sever Shadow's hold on you.'

'Sarena it could be dangerous. If Shadow got a hold of you then I…I don't know what I'd do.'

'Pwease Big Bwotha?' She stared at him with sad puppy dog eyes on full blast. Leo stared at her immense cuteness for a second before giving in.

'Okay, fine.'

'Thanks Leo.' She gave him a kiss on the cheek and went back to her homework.

'But then Kimra had to dress her didn't she?' Unfortunately, or was it fortunate? Leo couldn't decide, Kimra had dressed her as an incredibly sexy witch. Right down to fish nets, extremely mini skirt, tight large V-neck tank top, collar, and high heels. The only things he insisted on was that she wear her mask and keep her dagger with her. If Shadow tried anything he had to be prepared. 'She's just doing this to torment me, isn't she?'

'Are you okay Leo?' Sarena was currently in control of the body having followed Luna to April's apartment. While Luna was talking to the guys about her giving them another chance she was under the window trying to keep her witch hat and cape from being seen. 'I know it's embarrassing looking like this. I don't know what Kimra was thinking.' From his spot next to her in spirit form he could make out a small blush on her face in the darkness. Leo felt his face heat up looking at her barely covered form.

'It's alright Rena, It's not like it's your fault,' he said looking away. 'Just stay away from Shadow, okay. He'll have a field day seeing you like this.'

'Yeah, I think that might've been Kimra's intention. Man, it's how do girls wear these high heels. I've only worn them for five minutes and they're already annoying the shell out of me.'

'I don't think that was her actual intention,' he thought to himself.

He had cornered Kimra before they had left with Luna for April's.

'Why did you have Sarena dress like this Kimra?'

'No reason, I just thought you'd like it. I mean from the way you were trying not to look at her while she was putting it on it's not hard to see that you do.' Leo blushed hard at that. 'Dude, relax. It's Halloween, she's supposed to dress up and she can't just wear the same thing she wears everyday of the year.'

'You do know you're talking to a green guy who wears a mask everyday of the year.'

'Touché.'

"Sarena." They looked up and saw Luna leaning out from the window. "You can come in now." She moved out of the way as Sarena grabbed her broom. "Now remember guys, no molesting her."

Leo took the liberty of wrapping the cloak around her to hide her body from view as he heard Raph say "Luna, she's our little sister. Why would we do that?" Taking great care with the high heels on, Sarena slowly made her way into the room.

"Hi guys," she said before she was pulled into a tight green hug.

"Rena, are you okay?"

"Where have you been?"

"We were so worried."

"Guys give the girl some room to breathe." The guys let go of her at Luna's words. Leo happened to notice that Shadow was giving her a dirty look and glared back.

"What's with the cloak Sarena?" Don pointed at the said item. Sarena blushed.

"I just don't want you guys to see. Kimra made me wear this. It's kind of embarrassing," she said.

"Come on, how bad could it be?" said Raph. Looking at Leo's spirit form out of the corner of her eye she sighed and opened the cloak, putting it over her shoulders. Their brothers' and Shadow's eyes were bulging out of their skulls as they saw her outfit. "Woah."

"Rena, Wha What are you wearing?" Don asked. Rena blushed again. Leo could see Shadow licking his lips at the sight of her and shook with anger.

"Who knew Kimra had such a dirty mind." Said Mikey. Shadow came up next to her.

"Nice to see you again little sister." He tried to touch her waist, but Leo took over and pulled away before letting her take control.

"Oh, yeah I forgot. Don't touch her Leo," Warned Luna. "She's still a little scared of you." Shadow snarled quietly and returned to his katas.

"Hey sis, check it out!" exclaimed Mikey holding up the pumpkin he had been working on. "A Leo o'Lantern."

As the demons flew out of the portal it emanated a high pitched sound that made Sarena's ears hurt.

"AAAHHHHHH!!!"

"Rena!"

"What's wrong?" Instead of answering she knocked Shadow through the wall, out of the room, and into the hallway, but before he could take advantage of it he felt a sharp prick on his neck.

"No!" He tried to push her away, but her grip had become too strong. From what Leo could tell in her mind the high frequency noise had caused her to become crazy for the blood of the person she cared for the most, which apparently was him. She had become a vampire. As she calmed down she removed her new fangs from his neck and gently licked the two tiny wounds she had caused to heal them with her magic. She pulled back and kissed his lips, removing the blood from her and turning her back to normal. Shadow smirked and whispered "I knew you'd warm up to me eventually." Sarena quickly realized what she was doing and pushed away from him. Kicking her high heels off Leo took over and ran down the hall, leaving the concerned yells of their brothers and Luna in their wake.

As they ran he could've sworn he heard Shadow say "The hold may be gone Leonardo, but I will get your precious little princess. One way or another."

Well...

You waited two months to post this?

Yep sorry.

Don: And you woke us up why?

Because I wanted to? smiles innocently

Raph: I hate you. You know that right?

Yep.

Leo: Come on Rena, let's go back to bed. grabs her hand gently

Raph: To sleep or do you have other plans for our sister Leonardo?

blushes

Leo: blushes and glares at Raph I've told you, we are too young. We're only...

Don: interrupts sixteen, but mature wise we're adults...except for Mikey.

Mikey: Hey!

ENOUGH! The room goes silent Let's discuss this some other time, like when we're not doing a story.

Don: Right, sorry. Read and Review!

Leo: If you have any questions about Sarena or anything else please PM her.

Later!

Raph: Whatever

I have a dress and I 'm not afraid to use it.

Raph: ...You wouldn't dare.

holds up the dreaded green Victorian dress with red frills and smirks. It shows signs of being torn apart, but perfectly restored to it's original horror Try me.

I thought we were over this gag.