Random quote: "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

~Benjamin Disraeli

Disclaimer: don't own 'em..... yet -evil grin-; still writin' fanfiction

And now...

Onto the story!

Leo, Raph, and Naomi hurried downtown to where Naomi's sister was being held. Naomi's family was being housed in a private enclosure.

Naomi picked the lock to the cage and slipped inside. "Mom..." she whispered. "Dad..."

Her parents were sitting on a huge rock. They growled when they saw her.

"What re you doin here? Who are you?" the big, strong male growled.

"What're they sayin'?"Raph asked. The turtles could not understand the tigers.

"They're speaking in the Ancient Language of the Tigers. It's been in my family for generations." Naomi whispered back. She took a step forward and sat down, cat-like. She mewed, "I am your long-lost stepdaughter. I have come to be of aide to the one the humans call 'Luna.' I wish to take her to a safe place."

"You will take my sister nowhere, imposter!" a loud voice growled. A young tiger stepped from the shadows.

"Rambo!" Naomi cried, bouncing forward. She wrapped her uninjured arm around her older brother's neck.

"Is it really you, little no-name?" Rambo asked. He sniffed her fur. "It is! Mother! Father! It is your daughter! She has come back!"

"Mother, where is my father? What has happed to him?" Naomi asked.

"I'm sorry, my daughter. Your father... he died last year..."

Naomi bowed her head. "What of?" she whispered.

"We do not know. He was alive one minute... and the next he was gone."

"Little one, we ask the you help our daughter. Her illness... it is getting worse..." the male tiger yowled.

"Very well. Good-bye. This will be the last time we meet." Naomi said. She walked over to the small enclosure thaat the zookeepers were holding Luna in and opened the door.

"Who's there?" a frighteningly weak voice croaked. "Please... no more tests..."

"I'm not here to hurt you." Naomi said softly, motioning for the turtles to stay just outside the enclosure. "I'm a fried."

"Who... are you? I hurt..." the voice whimpered.

"I'm your sister. No-Name, remember?"

"I remember... Are you... going to help me?" Luna padded into view. She was thin and scraggly-looking. Her once shiny, clean coat was now matted and dirty. She was trembling all over and as she stepped into the moonlit area, she stumbled and fell. Her four paws scrabbled for purchase and she fell.

"Luna!" Naomi yelled, running forward. Luna's breathing was ragged and labored and with a shudder, she transformed.

Her front paws merged into human hands and arms. The fingernails were sharer and most children's. All in all, she could have been Naomi's twin, if not for the fact that Luna's fur was orange with black stripes while Naomi's was white with black stripes. Luna's eyes were an odd silvery-golden-green mix that was actually very beautiful, while Naomi's were a stunning golden.

"She... She mutated..." Naomi murmured, stunned. "Donnie? What happened?"

The scientist explained to Naomi that Luna had somehow been exposed to a mutagen, which had triggered the transformation.

"We have to get her home." Naomi said, turning to her fallen younger sister.

"Hurry. The zookeepers approach." the male alpha tiger said from the separate pen.

Raphael picked up the tiger... or girl, whatever the case may be. They ran from the zoo and Naomi took one last look at her past family.

"Goodbye." she whispered, a single tear rolling out from under her mask.

They reached the Lair undetected and Luna was placed on the couch. She mumbled something they couldn't catch, rolled over, and was still.

"Come on, Luna... Wake up..." Naomi breathed. She knelt down and placed a hand on her furry sister's forehead. She jerked it back as if scalded. "Dinnie she';s running a fever!"

"Get some ice." Donatello ordered, taking charge.

Naomi ran to the kitchen and grabbed an ice tray, shoved some ice in a Ziploc baggie, and ran back to Don. He placed the bag on Luna's head and nodded. "That's all she'll need. It's a small fever; it should break by morning."

Naomi glanced at the clock. It was nearing six; dinner had to be started. She sighed. "Guys... about dinner..."

"I'll order some pizza!" Mikey cheered grabbing his Shell Cell. "Hello? Yeah, I'll have three boxes of cheese, three boxes of whipped cream and peanut peanut butter, and two boxes of cream and jellybeans. What? No, this isn't a joke! I'll pick it up in twenty minutes! A name? Mike. That's M-I-K-E. Thanks dude!"

"Now that that's bee takin' care of..." Naomi said under her breath.

She dragged an armchair in front of the couch and sat down. She took one of her sister's hands in her own and stared at her face, willing her baby sister to wake.

"Any news?" Leo asked three days later. Naomi was still in the chair; she hadn't eaten, slept, or even moved.

"No." she said, fighting to keep her eyes open.

"Nomi, you need to sleep."

"I'm fine."

"At least eat something."

"Naomi shoo her head. "I'm O.K." She layed her head down on Luna's arm. "Maybe... I'll sleep... for a few... minutes..." she mumbled, drifting off.

She awoke ten minutes later with a start. "Luna?"

There was no change in the young girl's condition. She would occasionally twitch, but that was the only movement.

"Wake up, sis..." Naomi whispered. "Please..."

There was no response.

A week came and went and there was still no change in Luna. Don said that her body might have gone into shock, that she might never come out of the comatose state she was in.

"She will come out out of it." Luna had growled. "She's my sister. She will wake up." She has to...

"And then you leaped to the top of that really high rock. I didn't tell you then, but I was so proud of you for making it." Naomi was telling the still unconscious Luna all her memories of the times Luna had outdone her natural limitations.

"And the other time, when you leaped across the... water..." Naomi said, faltering slightly. She shook her head. "I've never told you how proud I have always been of you. I've ever really said it but... I love you, sis."

Luna stirred and was quiet once more.

Luna finally awoke.

She stirred and slowly opened her eyes, blinking in the light. "Hello?" She said, sitting up.

"Luna!" Naomi cried, hugging her sister around the waist.

"Mom?"

"No, shell-for-brains" I can't believe I just said that!

"Who are you?"

"I'm your sister, Naomi. Well, your half-sister, really. Remember me? You were maybe two or three when I left."

"No-name?" Luna's eyes widened. She shrieked. "Sis!" she cried, embracing Naomi tightly.

Unbeknownst to the girls, Master Splinter was watching silently from his room. He smiled at the scene, then quietly shut his door. His daughter had found her tamashiino choukyoushi.

Her spirit tamer, or soul keeper.

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-12kirby12