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AN: Warning! Following chapter includeds cussing (Tori!, Raph!)...blood (Not gore thought, well maybe a little)...and lots of sadness
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Already night had fallen, the moon a bright light against the dark backdrop. From her bed she stared out the window at the dark sky. Her room was pitch black, just the way she liked it. Her mind was wandering with the thoughts of how she was going get everything done. She was responsible for so many things, how to protect them all she didn't know…
How to protect them…
"JAS!"
The lights flipped on, blinding her, as a person walked in. It was Tori, the resident hothead.
"What the heck?" She asked, sitting up
"What the heck?" Tori snorted, with pure sarcasm in her voice
"Sorry let me translate that…" She paused "What the hell do you want?"
Her sister was a complete and utter loud mouth, not always using the best word choice. Usually the she was the proper one, the one that was respectful, but she could use the same X-rated language as her sister.
"Get your ass outta bed" The younger said
"Why?" She groaned, wanting to lay back down
"Alice wants to play a game" The red head replied, crossing her arms
"I'm tired" Saying this was pathetic, but she really didn't fell like getting up
"Yeah whateva…get up" Amber eyes said
"No" She groaned, about to turn over and bury her head in the pillow
"I'll get the water then" Her sister said evily
The last thing she wanted, other than getting up, was to get water dumped on her head.
"Fine" She gave in, not wanting to argue with her sister. Plus she really was tired, the last mission using up a lot of her energy.
"Finally" Tori smiled, before taking her hand and dragging her along so that she couldn't just flop back on the soft bed
"You're evil" She hissed as they approached the common room
"Good, I'm doing my job then Invi" The younger replied
She groaned that stupid nickname, it was even worse than Jas…even though she really didn't mind it.
"Don't call me that" She grumbled, not that her sister could hear
Entering the common room, they encountered the resting scientists. They had been on an uneasy truce with the humans for years and finally they were relaxed around them. Moving around the roaring Tv, the two made their way to a table in the far back. It was by a window, a board game spread out on the dark wood.
Around the table was the rest of their family. Their younger sisters were sitting on the far left, their mother sipping a cup of coffee beside them. Raising her head, the cat acknowledged them and said "It's good that you have joined us" flashing them a smile.
Not looking up from the instructions of the game, Simone said "We are almost ready to start"
"What are we playing?" She asked, taking a seat next to her sensei
"Sorry" Alice answered, her blond hair shifting as she moved
"As long as it's not Trivial Pursuit, I'm happy" Tori muttered, sitting beside her
"That because you couldn't answer any of the questions" Simone murmured under her breath, only so low that she could hear
"Well that's because you lost last time we played it!" Alice commented, laying out all the bright plastic pieces
"Did not!" The elder of the two growled
"Did too!" The pink bandanna shot back
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Shut up!"
"Never!"
She couldn't take it, the constant bickering, it never stopped. She had more important things to do than listen to it! How the hell was she suppose to protect them and complete the mission if she couldn't think? After what seemed like hours to her (though it had only been a few minutes), she spoke up.
"Chill, it doesn't matter"
This didn't even make a dent in the fighting. She was trying to keep her calm nature, but they didn't get it...she had so much to do.
"Bring it!"
"NO"
"You're scared!
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Not!"
"Yes!"
"SHUT UP! Nobody gives a fuck who won!" She yelled, causing everyone to look at her
Humans, their eyes wide, looked at her like an animal they should avoid.
Her family members looked at her with concern.
She stood up from the table, walking out into the hall. It was long and deserted as she strode briskly away from the room. Then she heard footsteps coming from behind her. A cloud of smoke appeared and with it was her sister Simone.
She didn't speak, only tried to move past her. The grey bandanna blocked her, as a hand grabbed her arm. Swiveling, she saw that it was Tori, her eyes blazing. Yanking out of her hold, she began to walk away from them.
"What was that?"
The question just hung there, yet it made her stop. She turned to face her sisters, looking to Tori who waited for her question to be answered.
"Nothing" She answered
"Bumping into someone, that's nothing. But what happen back there was anything but nothing" Simone said
"Just forget about it" She mumbled
"I can't, you're my sister and I can't ignore that something is wrong" Tori growled
"There's nothing wrong" She hissed, trying to stay calm
They had no idea what pressure she was under, why couldn't they just leave her alone!
"There is something wrong; you have never acted like that before" Her brown haired sister replied
She remained silent, it was true.
"We know you Jas, something has to be wrong" Tori said
"Leave me alone" She snarled
"Why the hell are you pushing us away!" Tori yelled
"You won't understand, you never will!" She shot back
"Well then tell us so we can understand! You never tell us anything!" Simone hissed
"Because you would be in danger if you knew!" She regretted the words right after they left her mouth
"What?" The two said, almost whispered
"I don't tell you to protect you, so that you won't get hurt" She said, the anger she had felt vanished
"But…" Simone's voice was cut off by the alarm
It screamed in their ears, people started rushing past them. The scientists pushed past them heading for a place they knew all to well…
The escape pods, they were under attack.
"We'll talk about this later" She said, running towards the place where her sister and mother would be
"Like hell we will" Tori commented, as they arrived into the room which had been full before
There was their mother and sister fighting a black horde of ninja they knew far to well…
…the foot
Pulling out her katanas, she sliced through the humans quickly and without much blood shed. The room covered in the black clad bodies, she turned to her sisters who were looking at her. Her mother took her place as leader for the moment, giving out an order.
"Get out of here"
The words seemed simple enough, the order easy enough to follow. Yet they shook her to her core, she didn't want to follow them.
"What about you?" She asked
"I will follow shortly" The orange cat replied, drawing her tessens
"But…" She tried to say
"Take your sisters and go" Her mother said, before leaving them
She froze; she didn't want to leave her. Then she snapped back to reality, as a gas filled the room. Obediently, her sisters followed as they rushed away from the white cloud into the hallway. It followed them, before a ninja horde stopped them allowing it to consume them. It was thick; she could hardly make out the shapes of her sisters beside her.
She expected for them to pass out, but they didn't. Not pausing to consider why it didn't, she plunged her weapon into a ninja. Pulling it out with a fast jerk, she let the body fall to the floor the blood spilling from the fatal wound. Looking around, she saw her sisters running towards the place that they could escape. There were bodies littering the floor, blood covering the white walls. Most were the scientists that had hated them; some being foot that had fallen.
She didn't pause to see if any were alive, her main priority was to get her sisters out of there. Then they caught sight of it, the escape pods…their ticket out.
She growled at what stood at the way, an army of foot. Their weapons were stained with blood, the blood of the fallen no doubt.
"Move or be killed" She said, gazing at them
It was easy to pick out the newer members, they were the ones that flinched at her words. No one attack yet, she said, giving her sisters a signal behind her back. They would win, after all they always did.
"Surrender or die" Another voice challenged her
She was shocked, it was her. Karai was at the head of the army, waiting to kill her.
"Says you bitch!" Tori roared, as she plunged straight into the fight
She followed, heading straight for the black haired female. She moved to strike her across the chest, only to miss as she moved. She had betrayed her! She had trusted Karai, now she was fighting her!
A quick look around reveled that her sisters were winning, that they didn't need her. About to turn her attention back to Karai, she saw a blade coming down on Alice.
"Look out!"
The pink bandanna heard the warning, raising her hands to extend a shield. She sighed in relief, she was fine. Then a scream of pain reached her pain as her sister's blood was split. The wound in her shoulder bled as the youngest fell to the floor. Instantly she ran to her side, running her sword into the attacker's abdomen. She felt her sisters beside her, protecting their own. Digging the bloodied weapon deeper, she sliced his mid section open, his intestines slipping out as he stumbled back. In one slice she finished the battle, before turning to another.
"Simone?" She said, asking for a status report
The answer came from behind her, where the fallen turtle was. Beside her she felt as Tori sliced through another enemy trying to get past them. If there was one thing she knew for certain it was that both her and Tori wouldn't let anyone past them.
"The wound is not serious, but there was not reason that her powers didn't work" She heard her sister reply
"Can you heal her?" Tori asked
"No"
The word shocked her, she did a leg sweep before speaking.
"What do you mean no?" She said
"My powers aren't working either" Simone replied, standing the injured sister up
"I'm okay" Alice assured them, but they weren't convinced
"Must have been the gas" Tori growled
"Good chance it was a toxin that targeted our nerve systems" Simone added, as they steadily made their way through the crowd
Karai was no where in sight, but that was the last thing on her mind.
Then she took a hit, knocking her swords away. Avoiding blades aimed at her, she fought hand to hand. She could always get new blades, not sisters.
"Jas!" She heard Tori yell
A shock ran through her body, a blow knocking her feet from under her. Laying on her stomach she felt multiple people holding her down. Have to get up! Have to protect them! She struggled, trying to escape to no avail.
"Invi!" She heard her sister scream
Looking up, she looked to see her sisters being dragged away from her. The blood still pored from her sister's body, her pink bandanna soaked.
"NO!" She yelled, trying to escape
"Help!" She looked to see Simone be beaten down, her body already beginning to show bruises. Tears pored down her face as she watch her baby sisters beaten within a inch of their lives. Their screams reached her ears, torturing her more than any physical pain could.
"TAKE ME!" She screamed, trying desperately to get to them
She watched helplessly as her sisters, were dragged into the last pod. Thrown in without mercy, the glass door a second after Tori rose to her feet. Suddenly she was pulled to her feet, forced to walk towards the glass door. No longer did she cry, all her energy put into getting free. She was forced to face her sister's form, a glass wall between them. A sword was held to her throat, it's owner was Karai.
Her sister screamed, pounding on the glass. The other two joined in, any way to break through.
Six hands hitting the glass.
Three voices calling for her.
For her help, they needed her.
"JASMINE!" Tori roared
"Do it" She whispered "Kill me, but leave them alone"
"No, you will live and they shall..." The other female's answer shook her to the core
The last word, that last word.
"...die"
The pod slid away, her sister's forms growing fainter.
She didn't feel her self be freed, be released from their hold.
She didn't hear herself scream their names, scream for her sisters.
She didn't see the explosion a moment later, the falling ball of fire that was once her sister's ship.
Sliding to the floor, she wailed at the loss. She had failed, she had failed them!
They were gone, dead!
Mother, she thought, what of her mother? Collecting the bloodied swords that belonged to her, she ran through the hallways. It can't be true, the can't be! She tried to ignore her self from collapsing from the fact that they were dead and it was her fault.
She ran trying to escape.
Trying to forget, but never would she forget...
The night, the night she failed.
The night her hands were stained with blood, with failure
The darkest night.
"You already know the rest" Jasmine said softly, trying not to let the tears run down her cheek
No one spoke, it was to much. Even Leo, who was gripping her hand, was in shock at the story she had just told.
She knew this would happen, that they wouldn't understand.
"That bitch!"
The comment shook the initial shock away and it was delivered by Raphael. His curled fist was around one of Sias, he gripped it resisting the urge to throw it across the room.
"Next time I see Karai..." He growled, death in his voice
"It was my fault" She spoke
"No it wasn't" Leo encouraged, but like Raph he was filled with rage
He had once thought that Karai had some honor, but he knew now she had none. No wonder the female had tried to save Jasmine, she was trying to make up for killing her sisters! He knew that if he saw Karai again that he would have more than words for her.
"Yes. it. was." Everyword came out as serious as the grim look on her face
"Don't keep beating yourself, it's in the past" Don said
No, it's not.
Both Leather head and Jasmine knew that her sisters were alive, that they still remembered the night. That's why she can't forget, LH thought, becuase she thinks that they hate her because of what happened.
"How can I forget the image of them screaming my name, needing me, and being able to do nothing?"
Her question hung in the air, no one knew how to answer it.
"You can't forget, but you can accept that blaming yourself won't bring them back" Mikey offered
Then she giggled.
All eyes turned to her, hadn't she just been depressed?
"I didn't know you could be so serious" She laughed, a smile blossoming on her face
"Well the knuckle head must have smacked his head against something" Raph chuckled
They all relaxed, the sadness seemed to be diminished for the moment. But they knew the story was burned into their minds, the reason why she had screamed earlier that night.
The reason why there was only one female turtle.
The reason why she hated the Shredder, why she was being hunted.
Little did they know that four survived.
That there were four females, three turtles other than themelves.
That her sisters were alive, searching for their sister...wanting her dead.
That the dark night was remembered by more than one, the horror still locked in their minds.
Still she looked to the stars, they were fading.
The sun would be up in a few hours, their search would continue.
Finally Alice had fallen asleep, after hours of trying to calm her down.
She hadn't slept, only stared at the stars.
She still remembered the night, still remebered the moment.
Last time she had seen her, before the search had begun.
This time she was going to end it, her revenge would be complete.
She would kill her sister's murderer and...
...nothing was going to stop her.
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