Lost
Chpt.1
Steadily Leonardo perched on top of the convenient store roof, letting out another sigh then softly he shook his head, he needed to get a hold of himself he was acting like a child. All he did was moping around and pick fights and pretend like he was some else anymore, he out of all the sons knew his father was going to die, so why was he in the most pain? His mind couldn't seek the answer and even he knew he was unstable and not at all himself, but he just couldn't grasp the answer to what to do.
Silently he sank down on the edge of the building staring off blankly watching the city boom to life with the glamorous lights and people scurrying off without a care in the world, he could of done this for hours, not thinking of anything and letting the scene paint itself before his eyes for once and not having to worry about trying to run it, but Raph out of all of them would be yelling if he didn't get back soon. He almost forgot why he was even here, as the scene came back to mind he growled under his breath, he had a cup of tea twenty minutes before they told him to get more.
I feel the love… he thought laughing to himself; he probably would have kicked himself out too. Laying back and staring at the starry sky he felt more relaxed then had in months and couldn't help but break the tranquility as memories of the past flooded his mind, making him sigh and almost want to break something. He had to get back, he needed to see his sensei one last time, but he couldn't go back empty handed. Sighing gently he grabbed his phone out, his head hitting the roof top once more. Ring, he bit his lip thinking the worst, Ring, his breathing bout near stopped trying to get rid of all the feelings making his pulse quicken.
The final ring and the clicking of the call connecting, "Hello, Leo…"
His heart stopped pounding as he pressed his emotions back, "What kind of tea?"
"It doesn't matter anymore Leo, it just doesn't matter…" his shaking voice said simply, the phone disconnected and a loud noise screeched in his ears and his mind began buzzing. His mouth went dry and a vile taste entered his mouth, he jumped up just staring at the phone. He didn't know what to think, what to do, how to feel, unfortunately for him it was all chosen for him in those brief seconds as a kunai zoomed past his ear and smashed into the phone, cutting through his flesh and connecting the phone to the ground.
His survival instincts instantly kicking in, he dove for the ground grabbing the kunai a ribbon fluttered on it the insignia of the foot clan printed across it. Without turning his head he caught sight of about twenty or so of the foot perched on the buildings around him. Quickly he jumped up as a ninja dove at him, in dance like movements he dodged his deadly strikes and his allies stealthy steal always inches away from his flesh. The blade finally met flesh, but too bad for the foot ninja it was his flesh. Leonardo forced his katana out of the ninja's thigh and drove it into his stomach, then closed his eyes as he hit the alley behind the shop a pool of blood forming around him. Another foot began a strike followed by the rest of his foes, but he noticed another swiftly run off. Knocking all the other ninja away from him, his instincts told him to follow the one who didn't wish to fight, something told him the foot weren't out to attack him and his brothers tonight, they had more imperative matters to attend to.
The pitter patter of their feet echoed across the back ally, his blade knocking away any enemy who got between him and his prey. Finally his fist was able to lock into his prey that just was not fast enough to get away from him; swiftly he grabbed his prey by the collar and threw him against the wall.
"What does Karai want? What is she up to?" he growled his fingers tightening around the ninja's shirt, his eyes full of anger just thinking of what she could be up to.
As he slammed him against the wall again both of their eyes hit an old pendant that flew from his robe and rolled to the ground, Leo's eyes looking closely at it, it had some kind of ancient writing engraved into it, made of some stone, the edges had cracks running across them, it looked like the silver chain it was bound to was far more priceless then the stone would ever be, it left him beclouded to why Karai would want such a thing. Without thinking he grabbed the pendant holding it in his hand tightly.
"Why does she want this?" he demanded of the ninja who just shook his head, making his anger rise, growling under his breath he slammed his blade into the ninja's shoulder. His cry of pain echoing across the ally.
"What is she up to?" he repeated loudly pressing the blade deeper into his shoulder until finally gave in, but only saying one word.
"Shredder…" Leo was too stunned to stay anything, his eyes jumping to the pendant truly wondering what this was exactly. His mind snapped back to the sound of footsteps, swiftly he hid in the shadows behind a dumpster near the end of the ally clinging to the pendant in his injured hand, blood staining the pendant as he clung tighter to it, hearing Karai's angered voice.
"Where is the pendant?" her accented voice cried out with a hint of desperation in her dark tone.
"It was the turtle…Leonardo…" the voice gasped and Leo didn't have to look to know he was handing her his lost weapon. It almost broke his heart in half to hear the shattering of his weapon by Karai's hands; she truly was the shredder's creation.
"I want him found! I want this mess cleaned up as well! I do not want his brothers' tracing this back to me! Now hurry and find my pendant!" Like father like daughter…he thought bitterly stepping from the shadows.
"Looking for me, Karai?" Without answering him her blade swung toward him, his own following the beat, "Or maybe you would like shredder better?"
"Call me nothing!" she cried her blade driving down into his shoulder, his foot slamming into her torso making her feet skid back still keeping her balance. Leo yanked the blade from him and tossed it at her, her head simply sliding out of its path only tiny shreds of hair fluttering onto her shoulder.
"You're out of practice…" she mocked seizing her blade from the wall it struck into, blocking Leonardo's strike her smirk widening, "Unlucky for you..I am not."
Leo barely had to time to react to the blade slicing at him cutting open his cheek, ribbons of blood fluttering down seeping into his mouth, her foot meeting his torso knocking him into the wall behind him. Thinking quickly he jumped to the roof top behind him, Karai following suit.
He clung to his shoulder that was still flowing thick trails of blood, his mind and heart wanted to stay and fight, but his instincts told him to keep going and not look back. His body was on his instincts thought process so he kept going, his vision becoming blurry. He ducked behind a chimney, catching his breath, his heart racing, Karai wasn't far behind. More footsteps were coming from the other direction; he clung to his sword thinking of the worse, he couldn't have been more right.
"Oh Karai…so nice to see you here," Hun's voice said to the stunned Karai,"My men saw you and thought we would say hello…we are very hospitable to guests on our turf of course…"
He could hear her gasp as Hun grabbed her, "By the way Karai…I hear you just got done stealing something that I wanted…" Leo stared down at the pendant, why did they want this so badly?
Hun clung tightly to Karai with one arm, her squirming not helping a bit, a blade in his other hand pressed against her throat, "Bye Bye Karai…I'll see you in hell, since you obviously don't have the pendant, your useless to me."
Karai shut her eyes as she felt a tiny droplet of blood leak from her throat, Hun's grip instantly disappeared. Her eyes went up to find that Leonardo had saved her life, his foot connected to Hun's head knocking him over, all the while his eyes locked on the pendant hanging off of Leo's neck.
Karai soon found herself back in the fray of the fight knocking Hun off Leonardo and her prize, then unfazed kicked the turtle over and her foot slamming down on his torso.
"Give me my amulet or die!" she snarled the pressure on his chest escalating making it harder to breath. Hun regained composure instantly raising himself from the crates he was knocked into, his eyes going towards his men.
"Kill her! I don't care what happens to the turtle, but I want that amulet around his neck!" he yelled to them, a barrage of bullets raining at Karai and Leo. Both swaying away from the bullets effortlessly. Hun then slammed into Karai like a line backer as she raised her body from the ground knocking her back down with a gasp of pain, Leonardo then slamming himself into the oversized man nearly sending toppling off the building. Then he took his chance to listen to his instincts while he still could. Unfortunately Foot Elites awaited him on the next building.
His sword hit one; it soon faded away and appeared again from behind him sending him crashing into a wall behind him. His body staggering as he forced himself up and back into the fight of trained killers just waiting for his head. His blade skittered out of his hand as he was stuck down again by the elite; the sound of cracking filled the air as a foot slammed upon the blade. The elite knelt upon their knees heads bowed, Karai coming into Leo's blurred line of sight.
"Give me that pendant," she growled grabbing him by the throat her others fingers inching towards the pendant hanging from his neck.
Without thinking, Leo spat into her eye making her fingers instantly snap off his neck, allowing him to catch his breath. Out of rage her foot slammed into the gasping turtle knocking him off the building, instantly she regretted her move. Her eyes snapped to the elites around her.
"Find me that pendant!" she yelled, but quickly began to curse as she heard sirens flaring from behind her, quickly she threw a smoke bomb to the ground and in seconds her and her elites vanished.
…
Leo felt himself falling, but had no means of stopping it. He then felt his body slam into something and his head began to pulse in pain, then his mind blacked out.
…
Seconds before Leo's body hit the ground, an older woman stepped out the balcony door to find her cat. She called and called for the cat but it didn't seem to be on the balcony anywhere. She was quite worried she was on the fifth floor of the seven floor building; this fall would have killed her poor kitty. She turned to go back into her home, when a crash about gave her a heart attack. She spun back around to find what appeared to be a giant turtle crashed into her patio table. She could very well have called the police on this one, but lucky for the turtle she was an old doctor who happened to have believed in conspiracy theories, mainly that 'aliens/mutants' were just as much human as the next person.
"Jeffery?" she called into the house, "Come out and help your mother, then go dig out my medical supplies…"
…
Blurry eyes softly opened to a pounding head ache. A man about thirty with thick red hair hurried to him.
"Hey are you ok?" he asked softly, the other didn't know how to respond to that but even more surprisingly he couldn't seem to know how to respond to the next question either, "Who are you anyway? And if you don't mind me asking, what are you?"
His eyes snapped close again hoping for answers that wouldn't come to him, all he could manage to say was, "I don't know…"
