NOTICE TITLE: CHAPTER 25 PART 1!

I don't own the turtles.

"Higher sensei! Higher!" Mikey called out, waving his arms around in the air like a young bird just learning to fly.

Leo laughed as he slightly tossed his little brother into the air as he held him over his head.

"I'm a air-pane! Brrrrrrrr ah!"

"Alright," the blue clad turtle said, putting his arms down with a relieved expression, "That's enough little one, time for bed."

Mikey frowned and sighed, "Kay Aniki."

The eldest scooped up the multi-colored baby blanket laying across the back of the couch and wrapped it around his youngest brother, who yawned before laying his head in the crook of his neck, mumbling coherent words, much like any 4-year-old child his age would when they were half asleep.

The eldest passed through the main room of their new lair and made his way into his bedroom. The largest room in their new home had become their dojo and his little brothers, as young as they were, amazingly had forced their older brother to take the second largest room as his bedroom. Of course, until they could get more furniture, as in beds, the youngest turtles were sleeping on the single mattress Leatherhead had given them in Leo's room.

Walking inside the said room, the blue clad turtle smiled affectionately to see that Raphael and Donatello were fast asleep, each curled up under the large and thick quilt April had given them. As Leo tucked the youngest in beside his other little brothers he smiled at the words they were mumbling.

"On guard!" Raph shouted in his sleep, his arm twitching as if striking with a sword..

Don's words were incoherent, he didn't really say anything, but his fingers were twitching, repeating the motions he had been using for that day. All day, they had worked on the dojo, since the eldest had deemed it too dangerous to leave the lair. Donatello had found a bit of a woodsman in himself, the eldest had taught him to make a homemade bow and arrows. It was then that their dojo gained something they had never had before. They had always set targets up around the room but now an elongated part of the room had become an archery range, which the younger turtles couldn't wait to use.

Leo turned his attention back to Mikey, who was fidgeting in his sleep.

"Aniki…" he mumbled, obviously either having a nightmare or reliving a memory.

The eldest frowned and placed a hand on his baby brother's forehead. It only took a few seconds for the warmth and comfort of his presence and touch to soothe the toddler back into peaceful slumber. Leo smiled, removed his hand and walked towards the door.

Once outside, he reached back to close the door, but not before gazing in and mumbling softly to the young tots, "Goodnight, my little ninja."

"Sensei!" a voice called out, waking Leo from his meditation on the rooftop of the farmhouse.

He sighed in annoyance, got to his feet and walked to the edge of the rooftop to stare down at whoever was calling him.

"There you are," the voice called, relief cascading the form of the speaker.

"Is something wrong Donatello?" Leo asked loudly, so his younger brother could hear from his standing point on the ground.

"Mikey found something strange in the woods, and by strange I mean glowing blue light strange."

"Is it Rennet or Lord Simultaneous?" Leo asked after he jumped onto the ground below.

He may be older than the others, but he's wasn't a senior citizen as of yet.

"I wish you wouldn't do that," Don said, his eyes sparking from the old sense of disappointment he had always thrown at Leo when his older brother tried to and frequently accomplished what he deemed was impossible. He reminded himself to start using the word improbable from now on.

Shaking away the thoughts Don quickly sprinted towards the woods, "Come on, everyone else is already there!"

Leo felt, what he deemed his 'ninja sense', acting up. He momentarily thought of the most recent Spiderman movie they had all watched the night before but shoved it away in favor of catching up to his younger, purple banded brother. Leo found it strange that he could sense the portal before the two even reached the area, meanwhile Don was still racking his brain to figure out the problem. As they approached the group, that consisted of Raph, Mikey, Casey and April, all indeed standing around a too familiar glowing portal, they heard the current conversation that the other turtles were having.

"I say we go through," Mikey said loudly.

"Oh no you don't! We ain't doing anything until Don comes back with Sensei."

"What's happening?" the blue banded turtle asked as he stepped out from behind the trees that were surrounding the group along with Donatello.

"We have no idea," April explained, motioning to the portal.

"Yeah dudes, when one of these things appear, usually Rennet comes out."

"Sensei?" Raph asked quietly, "I may be wrong and I hope I am, but I think she's in trouble."

"That's possible, why else would a time portal be opened and neither her nor Lord Simultaneous come out of it?"

"Unless…" Mikey breathed and froze.

"What is it Mikey?" Raph asked.

Mikey took a deep breath, his eyes widening as they jumped around at the trees, "Unless it was-"

"Stockman," Leo growled and then his eyes were scanning the trees as well as he withdrew his twin swords.

"You mean the crazy mad scientist is here!" Casey yelled, reaching down for a large stick since his baseball bats and hockey sticks were back at the farmhouse.

The entire group turned away from one another, scanned the trees and then all turned sharply at the sound of rustling leaves. It had been too heavy and deep a sound to just be the wind, especially considering there wasn't even any breeze to speak of. Leo stepped forward his cautious eyes looking at the tree branches above.

Rustle.

Maybe it was a bird, or a squirrel, maybe it was a chipmunk. The rustling quit and no sound followed. Leo raised an eye ridge then sheathed his swords with the knowing satisfaction that whatever had been there was now gone.

"SENSEI!"

Leo spun around quickly, his breath being taken away at the sight before him. The blue portal, acting like a live organism, had reached out with a stream of blue light that resembled the tentacle of an octopus and it was dragging Raph towards it. The others were waking at the tentacle of light.

"Hey, let go of my brother!" Don yelled, grabbing Raph's hand and pulling to try to counterbalance the force pulling his older brother towards the portal.

Donatello knew then that this had to have been a set up, it was Stockman's plan! How could he have been so stupid as to have not seen it? He only took his thoughts away from that when other hands joined his, pulling at Raph as the read banded turtle himself was trying to damage the portal with one of his swords.

"Sensei help us!"

But Leo was not jumping to the rescue, Don found himself battling three emotions as his eyes searched for his teacher, shock, disgust and betrayal. The eldest had simply sat under the nearest tree and had began to meditate. That idiot! They needed help now! DIDN'T HE EVEN CARE!

Leo then snapped his eyes open and the portal vanished, throwing Raphael on top of the others a few feet away.

"Alright, what the shell was that all about!" Raph yelled while climbing to his feet and scrambling off the others.

Many went to speak up before Leo silenced them, "An illusion."

"Dude, that seemed pretty real to me!" Mikey protested.

The eldest closed his eyes again for a moment before reopening them. He opened his mouth to speak before a voice made him jump back onto his feet and draw his weapons once again.

The voice was soft, a mumbling one did under their breath, just so they could hear it and no one else.

"Skin to ashes…

Congealing blood…"

The entire group got back to back again, all their weapons drawn, even though April's and Casey's were nothing more than simple sticks that they had scooped up from the ground. Better to have them than nothing, right?

The voice continued, the problem being that no one could pick out exactly where is was coming from, it seemed to be encircling them.

"Rotting muscles…

Eyes to water…

Breath to air…

Heart to coal…"

Leo snapped his head when he was convinced that he had located the source and jumped into one of the nearest trees.

"Sensei!"

Raph growled, "Stockman!"

The red banded turtle bounded up after Leo. Mikey and Don ran forwards, breathing heavy and gasping in physical exhaustion and fear. Just as they sat foot underneath the said tree there was a blinding blue light that they had all familiarized themselves with over the years.

"Form to skeleton!"

There was great rustling of leaves as the voice finished off what sounded like a spell and then heavy objects began hitting the branches above the youngest turtles' heads. Fear for something fall on them made them jump back but what fell from the tree made them drop to their knees in horror.

Four swords, two pair, Blue and red.

And what lay next to them…

Two…white…turtle skeletons.

"Skin to ashes…

Congealing blood…"

Hey everyone, that's the end. No, not of the story. You see, this last chapter isn't very long but I've split it in two for three reasons.

One, I haven't actually decided how to end this, I'm still working on it.

Two, I'm greedy and therefore want more reviews.

Three, I LOVE cliff hangers. Don't you?

Ha Ha! I loved writing this chapter and yes I know people are going to start asking and getting bored of me killing the turtles like this but believe me, it is essential that this happens for part 2.

Anyways, reviews please? Part 2 of this chapter needs some details and I just moved so any internet connection I pick up is shaky at best.

~Moonsetta