OK, here is the next chapter. This is really short, sorry. But I just had to end it where I did...(the voices, they made me!) But the next chapter is almost finished, so hopefully that will make up for how short this is. Thanks to Leo112.

I don't own them!! (the voices have spoken)

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Chapter 5: Fear Itself

Leo hadn't been meditating long. He felt a presence in the room...his brother.

Something else?

Leo opened his eyes into narrow slits, Raph was standing by the doorway. His face was darkened by the shadows of the main area of the lair.

"What do you want Raph?" Leo asked.

"You know this doesn't say 'Leonardo's Dojo'," Raph scoffed.

"I didn't say that it did," Leo replied, frustration crept up on him, like fingernails on a chalkboard.

"Well ya act like it!" Raph spat.

Leo closed his eyes. "Maybe if I ignore him, he'll go away," he thought.

"Where are Mikey and Don?" Raph asked as he entered the dojo.

"Junkyard. I think," he answered, eyes still closed.

"You mean 'momma hen'actually let them leave the lair?" Raph said.

Leo rolled his eyes, meditation will not be achieved tonight. He slowly stood up as his brother walked closer to him.

"What is your problem, Raph?" Leo tensed, warning bells were going off in his head. But this was his brother...why did it feel like he was confronting an enemy?

"YOU are my problem, Fearless!" he growled. "When are you going to stop treating us like babies?"

"When you stop acting like a two year old!" Leo spat back, anger washed over him.

An evil grin swept across Raph's face.

More warning bells.

Leo let out a curse. If he had hair, it would be standing on end right now.

"Well, well, well...not so perfect, are we?" Raph taunted. "You kiss Master Splinter with that mouth?"

A flash of green and blue and Raph was pinned to the ground. Leo was inches away from his face, anger radiating off of him.

"Why do you insist on being such an insufferable jack-"

Leo's voice cracked and he let out a strangled noise.

Raph gave him a confused look as Leo rocked back off of him, his eyes were wide and his hands grasped franticly at his throat.

"Oh come on, Leo," Raph said as he sat up. "You know you want to finish that sentence!"

Leo stumbled back a few steps.

"Leo?"

Raph felt like he had a bucket of ice water poured over him. All the anger and rage was replaced by fear. He shook his head to clear his mind. He wasn't even mad to began with. He was on his way upstairs, he saw the lights in the dojo and he felt a fog of anger engulf him.

But that was gone. Now all he felt was icy fear.

"Leo, are you alright?" he asked as he approached his distressed brother.

Raph stopped in his tracks and glanced around the room. The alarm was now going off in his mind.

The candles around the meditation mat flickered wildly, but the shadows on the walls didn't move with them.

He swallowed thickly as the blackness from the walls dripped onto the floor and swept across the mat...he followed it as it rolled under Leo's feet, inching it's way closer to him. It pulsed as it moved, like it was breathing. Like it was alive.

Like it was hungry.

Leo had fell to his knees, still gasping for air. Darkness nipping at the edge of his vision. He could only watch in horror as the shadow swirled under his red clad brother's feet.

With out warning, Raph was jerked downward into the abyss.

As soon as Raph disappeared, the room returned to normal. The shadows danced along with the candle light.

The air hit Leo with a jolt, knocking him backward.

Leo swallowed a deep breath, then another. His head started to clear...

"Raph!" he gasped.

He sat up and frantically looked around the room.

Empty.

His brother was gone...

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Confused? I hope not...Creeped out? I hope so!