Chapter 6

Training

Once Michelangelo had gotten over the shock of Kate being the extra guest that Tyroth and Sephie had brought with them, the young mutants started up the game and played for a while. The matches were quite even, though Michelangelo was still a bit shaken, and a little scared of Kate. The viper, on the other hand, seemed to soften up a bit when the orange-masked turtle was around. It was clear as day to everyone else that she liked Michelangelo, and Monalisa was really curious to see how things would develop between the two. She would also want to try and get the two mutants alone with each other whenever possible.

After a while, Splinter called his students over to the dojo, it was time for their training. They began with Splinter calling out various moves that the five ninja had to execute, all while their guests observed from the side. As usual, Sephie tried to copy their moves while memorizing the names of them, and Kate tried a few as well. Tyroth however, only observed, watching for small movements that could give the move away during a real fight, and thinking of how to best counter them.

The exercise continued for an hour, and once they were done, they moved on to sparring hand-to-hand, something that all could attend, even Tyroth, though most weren't too thrilled of sparring against him, he wasn't know as the most powerful mutant for nothing. But he promised that he wouldn't use fire or magic, as that would have been far too unfair.

Splinter thought for a while, deciding on who would train with who.

"Hmm. Leonardo, you spar with Kate. Raphael, you with Sephie. Donatello and Michelangelo. And finally, Monalisa with Tyroth. Hand-to-hand only, no weapons." he said.

Monalisa was a little hesitant to training with Tyroth, normally she would hate it if anyone held back while training with her, but after having seen what the dragon is capable of, even if he promised not to use his fire or magic, she had no problems with him going at least a little easy on her. But she wasn't the only one concerned about the pairing.

"You be careful with my mate, Tyroth." Raphael said, slightly worried.

"Don't worry, Raph, I won't use too much force, just enough for her not to win instantly. She can take care of herself even against powerful foes, so she'll be fine. And if I were you, I'd worry more of your own fight."

At first, Raphael wasn't sure what the dragon meant, but then he remembered that he would spar with Sephie, and since she had been training some Kung Fu with Monalisa, she was at least as dangerous as the Lizard Lady in close combat.

"Take your positions." Splinter said. "And begin!"

Kate opened with throwing a couple of punches at Leonardo, but he was able to parry them and retaliate with a swift kick. Kate managed to evade it by quickly stepping backwards and attacked again, punching, kicking and scratching at the turtle. Leonardo found that he actually had some difficulties against the viper, while her moves weren't really anything special, she was still lightning fast with them as well as her reflexes.

After blocking another of her attacks, Leonardo went on the offensive, striking at her with punches of his own, forcing her to block. He then followed up with a high kick, but this time Kate was prepared and caught his foot in her hands. Throwing Leonardo's foot upwards, she hoped to flip him onto his back, but it didn't go according to plan. Instead, Leonardo landed on a handstand and launched himself back at Kate, knocking her off her feet and pinning her down on the floor.

"Fuck!"

"You fought well, Kate, and you'll get more chances." said Leonardo, helping Kate back on her feet. "I actually think that you have potential as a ninja with your reflexes, if you're willing to learn."

"You think so? Maybe I will try then, we'll see."

Raphael wasn't having the easiest time against Sephie, the energetic gecko kept moving around erratically, striking at him whenever she found a window and evading his attacks when he tried to hit her. Blocking one of her punches, he tried to counter immediately with a punch of his own, only to have Sephie duck under it and delivered a sweeping kick at the turtle's feet. Doing a backflip, Raphael avoided the attack, and quickly launched himself at Sephie.

Jumping over Raphael to avoid his attack, Sephie used her gecko grip to latch on to his shell with her feet and her hands on the floor. Using all her strength to swiftly pull him over her, she tossed him almost halfway across the room once she released her grip on his shell. Raphael landed flat on his plastron.

"What the shell just happened?"

"I think that I won." said Sephie. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just a little shaken."

Donatello skilfully defended against Michelangelo's attacks by blocking and dodging them, much to the annoyance of the youngest turtle, but he didn't let up, he continued to try and hit his brother to the best of his ability. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to fully focus as part of his mind still hadn't accepted the fact that Kate was visiting them, and she scared him. But that was not all, another part also thought back to Shari.

Seeing Michelangelo's lack of concentration, Donatello took the opportunity to actually attack and placed a kick in Michelangelo's side. Stumbling a bit to regain his balance, Michelangelo snapped out of his myriad of thoughts and tried to focus more on the training. Lunging at Donatello, he missed when the purple-masked turtle stepped to the side and gave him a shove in the back as he passed, making him fall over.

"Not in the game today, Mikey?" Donatello asked.

"Something like that."

Monalisa was wary of fighting Tyroth, even without all his powers, he still had claws sharp enough to cause injuries akin to those from knifes and swords. She trusted that he wouldn't try to hurt her with them, but they both still needed to be careful none the less.

Deciding to make the first move, Monalisa dashed towards him and did a few of the moves they had trained earlier. But Tyroth had studied them as well and blocked all of them with a speed not expected of someone his size. He then countered with a swipe of his hand, forcing Monalisa to do a back-flip. Tyroth continued to punch and swipe at her, and she kept on dodging, but as the dragon did another straight punch, Monalisa jumped over it and landed on his arm, to his surprise. Before Tyroth could react, she took a few quick steps up his arm, jumped off and spun around, swatting him across the face with her tail.

While Tyroth shook off the hit, Monalisa landed a few feet away and dashed back to attack again, scoring a few hits on his torso with lightning fast strikes with her hands, utilizing the Snake Style Kung-Fu. But even though that style was effective on most opponents, Tyroth was different matter, capable off shrugging off most hits that could incapacitate others. The dragon countered with a quick slash, just barely missing Monalisa as she took a step back.

Still within arms reach and preparing for another attack, Monalisa was confused when she saw that Tyroth had stopped and his eyes widened while blushing, only to quickly turn away his head. Not sure what he was doing, Monalisa looked down and saw why he was acting as he did. His claws, while they hadn't hurt her in anyway, had cut through her top, and now most of her breasts were bare for him to see.

Monalisa cried out in shock and embarrassment, blushing greatly as she covered herself with her arms.

"Mona, I'm sorry, I-"

"Don't look!" Monalisa snapped, instinctively lashing out and slapping Tyroth across the face, taking him by such surprise that he lost his balance and fell to the floor.

"Oh god! I'm sorry, Tyroth! I didn't mean to!"

"It's okay, I kinda deserved that I guess."

"Mona! What happened?" Raphael asked as he and the others stopped their sparring when they heard her cry and hurried over.

"Whoa! Did you just take down Big T, big sis?" Michelangelo asked astounded.

"Not exactly… We had a little… mishap." she said, still covering her chest with her arms.

"What kind of mishap? You seem fine as far as I can see." said Donatello.

"Do I really have to spell it out for you? My top got torn. Why do you think I'm holding my arms like this?" she said, causing all of the guys to blush once they understood what she meant.

"Ah… right… okay… um… but you're not hurt, right?" said Leonardo.

"No, I'm fine, just… not decent at the moment. I need to change clothes and get this fixed."

"Then perhaps we should end tonight's training here then." said Splinter. "We will continue tomorrow night, hopefully without another incident."

Grateful for once that the training was cut short, Monalisa hurried to her and Raphael's room to find another top and hopefully mend the torn one.

"You okay, big guy?" Donatello asked, helping Tyroth back on his feet.

"I'm alright, just wasn't prepared for any of this to happen."

"Just how much did you see?" Raphael half demanded, Monalisa was his mate after all, and he wasn't about to allow anyone else see what she only showed to him.

"No more than a glimpse, I promise, and I averted my eyes immediately."

"Always the gentleman, huh?" said Michelangelo.

"A trait that's getting all the more rare these days, and I'm glad that you respected her that much, even if I didn't expect anything less." said Sephie.

"I don't see why I shouldn't, but can we leave this subject and do something else?"

"Well, I'm game for another round of Smash if anyone else is." said Kate.

"You're on!" said Michelangelo.

"One last tournament before bed then." said Leonardo. "Let's just wait for Mona to be done and maybe she will join us."

Seems training was cut a bit short today. What? It's not like mishaps don't happen during training, even in a small filler chapter.

The story will continue, once Mona have changed into some whole clothes.

Also, thanks to Bloodrayne666 for her suggestions that I worked into this chapter. See you all soon. :)