Here is more fluffy, rainbow, unicorn, love, love, goo...uh, sorry..that's not right. More creepy, shadow, dark, dark, evil ;)

Thanks to Leo112, for her help :) and kittenfire (I couldn't reply to your review).

I don't own them. I really, really don't.

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Chapter 7: Believe me

Raph slowly opened his eyes and winced at the sudden brightness. His head was pounding like a jackhammer.

"Auggh," he growled and glanced around the room.

Don's lab.

His genius brother was currently washing his hands at the sink, his back to the red clad turtle.

"Don?" he rasped.

Don quickly turned around.

"Good, you're awake," he said as he dried his hands. He tossed the towel to the side, onto a pile of blood soaked towels.

Raph's eyes widened and his face paled.

"Head wounds bleed...a lot," Don said as he traced Raph's attention to the bloody mess.

"You have a knot the size of a golf ball on the side of your head, and it took seven stitches to patch the gash in Leo's forehead," Don said as he examined his brother's wound. "Care to tell me what happened?"

"Where's Leo?" Raph asked suddenly, ignoring Don's question.

"Upstairs," Don replied. "Mikey is with him. Now what happened?"

Raph narrowed his eyes. "I told you," he grunted.

"Yeah, you told me a shadow thing had Leo," Don said annoyance and frustration lacing his words. "But we found Leo upstairs. Did you two get into a fight?"

"Yeah...no, I-I mean at first. But then that shadow, it-it was in the dojo. It grabbed me and..."

"Wait. It grabbed you?" Don interrupted.

"Yeah." Raph nodded. "But then I fell, like out of the ceiling..."

Don stared at his brother like he had grown an extra head. This wasn't making sense.

"I'm not crazy, Donatello," Raph huffed.

"I didn't say that you were," Don retorted.

"Well, you are lookin' at me like you want to fit me with a straight jacket and find me a nice padded room!" he spat.

"No Raph..." Don started.

"I wanna talk to Leo!" Raph demanded.

"He isn't awake yet," Don said as he stood up. "I'm going to check on him. You stay here."

"What! You think that I did this and then made all that stuff up?" Raph growled.

"I think you two fought...again, and you hit your head a little too hard," Don growled back. "Now you stay here, or I'll will dope you up so much that you won't wake up until Christmas!"

Raph opened his mouth to reply but was cut off by Mikey's shrill announcement.

"DOOONNNYY! HE 'S AWAKE!"

Don shook his head and started to walk out the door.

"Leo will tell you the same thing," Raph said.

Don paused at the doorway. "We'll see," he said over his shoulder and closed the door behind him.

Mikey was standing at the top of the stairs.

"He's awake," he announced again.

"Yeah." Don rolled his eyes. "Along with half of New York."

Mikey shrugged as he descended the stairs. "You asked me to inform you when he woke up." He flashed Don a toothy smile.

Don handed Mikey a bottle of pills.

"Get Raph something to drink and give him two of these," he said. "And do not let him leave the lab."

Don started up the steps. "Use force if you have to," he added.

"Yes sir!" Mikey saluted and made a bee line for the kitchen.

"I swear, they can't be left alone for five minutes without trying to kill each other..." he grumbled as he climbed the steps.

Frustration was boiling in the usually mild mannered turtle and he didn't notice the misplaced shadow that was following him up the stairs wasn't his own.

He opened the door to Leo's room and went in.

"Leo?" Don said as he approached the bed.

His brother looked pained and disorinated...but he was awake.

"Wh-where is Raph?" Leo asked.

"Downstairs, in the lab," Don replied. He noticed how agitated that his brother was getting. "Don't worry, Mikey is with him."

Leo shifted and tried to get up.

"No," Don said and pushed him back down. "Don't try to get up. Now can you explain what happened?"

"Huh?" Leo blinked.

Don let out a frustrated sigh. "What happened?" he repeated. "To you and Raph? Did you fight?"

"Yeah," Leo drawled, his mind trying to remember the events that happened.

"I knew it!" Don growled. "You two are going to kill each other one day and I won't be around to pick up the pieces."

Leo took a deep breath. "We argued Don, but then we were attacked."

"Attacked?"

"Yes." Leo nodded.

Don didn't like where this was going.

"By what?" he asked, not sure he wanted to know the answer.

"The shadows.." Leo's voice dropped to a whisper. His face paled even more than it was.

Don frowned and rubbed his temples.

"Stay here," he sighed and turned to the door.

"You believe me, don't you Donnie?" Leo called after him.

Don didn't turn around.

"I'll send Mikey," he said as he walked out the door.

"They've both gone nuts," Don thought as he started down the stairs.

Suddenly the air felt thick and a cold wind swept down the stairs.

He looked down at his shadow, it was cast down the stairs in front of him. His breath hitched. The way the light was, his shadow should be behind him.

He slowly turned around...another shadow lingered behind him. His shadow.

Whipping his head back around the other shadow was gone. The air grew colder and painful to breath.

He looked to the side. The shadow was there, dark as night, staring at him.

"Staring! Shadow's don't stare!"

But this one did, with two narrowed, crimson red eyes.

Don opened his mouth to scream, but nothing came out.

Deep red eyes and flashing white teeth....Darkness.

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Ack! Any guess as to what happens to poor, poor Donny? You'll find out soon, the chapter is finished...I just have to go over a few things.