Turn down the lights and get ready for some more creepiness...

Thanks to Leo112. :)

I don't own them (and I bet that they are very happy)

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Chapter 6: Darkness Takes Shape

Running from room to room calling his brother's name wasn't helping a bit, but that is all he could think to do at the moment.

"Donny," Leo said to himself as he grabbed the nearest shell cell.
He could barely get his hands to stop shaking as he dialed the number. The phone made a low humming noise before going dead. Leo pulled the phone from his ear, and recoiled in horror. There was a thick, black, tar-like substance oozing out of the speakers of the phone. He threw the cell down and stared as it clattered to the floor.

Darkness scampered from the device and into the nearby shadows.

Leo backed away quickly and then turned on his heel and ran to the door. He threw the switch.

Nothing.

He tried to override the code.

Nothing.

He unsheathed his katana and spun around. His eyes darted back and forth, scanning every part of the living area of the lair.

"Show yourself!" he screamed.

Silence.

Leo gasped as a sudden pressure grabbed his wrists and twisted. His grip on his swords was loosened and they were jerked from his his hands by an unseen force. He watched in disbelief as his weapons were hurled across the room, out of reach.

A low roar filled the lair and the shadows on the walls started to melt together and roll across the ceiling. It made a whirlpool of black mist directly over where Leo was standing.

A scream shattered the silence and the missing turtle fell out of the swirling black cloud, hitting the ground with a sickening 'thud'.

"Raph!" Leo yelled. Ignoring the black entity, he rushed to his brother's side.

"Talk to me, bro," he pleaded as he helped him to his feet.

Raph had a large knot on the side of his head and he was gasping for every breath...but he was conscious.

He leaned heavily on Leo as his brother half carried, half dragged him toward the living room.

"No, Leo..." he gasped. "We got..."

Another deep breath.

"We gotta get outta 'ere!"

"We can't," Leo said as he lowered him onto the couch.

"Wh-what do you mean 'can't'?" Raph stuttered.

"That thing...whatever it is...we can't...we have to leave NOW! Leo, we have to leave!" He was in a panic.

"The door won't open," Leo said as he ran to the kitchen. He returned with a glass of water and handed it to Raph.

"The phone isn't working either," he said gravely, and glanced over to where he had thrown the phone down.

Raph nodded and drank the water down. He was trying to let the information sink in.

Leo sat across from Raph. He carefully checked the knot on his head and his eyes to see if there was a concussion.

"What do we do?" Raph asked as he handed the empty glass back to Leo.

"I'm not sure," Leo shook his head. "I don't even know what we are dealing with."

"Evil," Raph said. "Pure evil."

Raph looked Leo over to make sure he didn't have any injuries that he was trying to hide.

"Where are your swords bro?"

"Uh...over by the dojo." He hadn't told him that they were ripped from his hands by some invisible force.

"Stay here," Leo patted his brother's shoulder and went to retrieve his weapons.

As he bent over to pick up his swords he glanced over at Raph. His brother was staring at him wide eyed, shaking his head wildly.

The doorway that Leo was standing in front of was pitch black.

No light.

Raph couldn't speak, couldn't warn his brother.

"What?" Leo asked. "Raph, are you..."

He never finished the sentence. Two dark tentacles shot out of the doorway and one wrapped around Leo's face, the other around his waist. It jerked him back into the darkness.

"NO!" Raph screamed. He sprinted to the dojo.

The doorway was no longer darkened.

"Leo!"

He was gone.

"Leonardo!" Raph yelled, running from room to room, like Leo had done just a little while before.

The front door slammed open. Don and Mike rushed inside.

"Raph! What is going on?" Don asked as he followed him around the room. "I heard you screaming all the way down the tunnel!"

Raph was ranting. "It got 'em! I-I couldn't warn him! I couldn't stop it!"

"What are you talking about?" Don tried to get a straight answer from him.

Raph stopped pacing the room.

"That shadow thing, it got 'em! It got Leo!"

"Shadow thing?" Mikey raised an eye ridge.

Don shrugged, obviously his brother had been sent off the deep end.

"How did you get in?" Raph asked.

"The door," Mikey replied.

"No, no the door couldn't be opened!" Raph started to pace again.

"Raph, the door is fine." Don shot Mikey a worried look.

A thump upstairs got all of their attention.

Raph pushed Don out of the way and darted up the steps. The sound came from the bathroom. Raph jerked the door open and peered inside.

Leo was laying half on the floor and half in the bathtub. Blood from a gash on his forehead was pooling onto the floor.

The only thing that could have took his attention away from his blue clad brother was the thing standing in between them.

The shadow had took a human like form. The cloaked figure stretched nearly to the ceiling. The shadow that formed it's robe rolled and twisted, like something was alive underneath. It had no face, just a mouth full of sharp teeth and eyes that were blood red.

It drew in a deep breath.

Raph felt his chest tighten. He couldn't breath.

No air.

The evil entity smiled at him, long white teeth shown out like daggers.

No air.

Raph heard Mikey call his name and arms grab him before he lost consciousness.

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Hmmm...this thing is getting outta control. Wait until Donny meets it...(bwah-ha-ha)