Lost

Chpt. 8

"He's driving me crazy Don," Raph growled looking at his older brother who was currently playing video games with Mike. Don sighed not knowing what to do, it had been like this all week, he wished his older brother would have learned some good habits from the questionable places he had been and not the ever growing list of bad ones.

He was almost worse then Raph, he went up top giving them all heart attacks he came back half drunk asking what every one was doing. He gambled, won every cent Casey had to offer in card games he knew he would win. And possible worst of all he had a smoking problem, it drove Don crazy. But Don also had another theory, Leo was doing all this on purpose to get even with them for not being there for him the last three years when he needed them.

"Ch. And you said you were an expert at this game?" Leo scoffed playfully Mike pouting beside him.

"Dude you used to hate video games saying they were a waist of time, what gives now?" Mike laughed watching his brother shrug.

"I needed something to do in my down time and even I can only read so many god damned books," Mike just simply nodded in agreement, he knew that feeling,"I used to test my ninja skills by busting into arcades while no one was around, I laugh to how well that worked, but I will say I did feel like a natural at those games I played maybe I only said I hated them. They were very stragegical..."

Mike nodded, maybe that's where his big brother got all his ideas and never wanted some one to know his secret. Maybe, just maybe, his brother was the one who kept the most secrets only making it that much harder to remind him of who he was.

...

Raph couldn't help watching his brother go through the katas, maybe the foot was a good place for him to have been, at least he was kept in practice. His eyes shot to him making Raph freeze he wondered how long his brother had sensed him there.

"You want to practice with me or something?" he said gently catching his brother in the corner of his eye,"It's rude to stare..."

Raph scoffed stepping in front of his brother,"You think of me rude? Your the one who took all of poor Casey's money, he about got murdered by his finance."

"Hmph. He should have consetrated more or maybe he shouldn't have taken my gambling wager."

Raph rolled his eyes, his brother really was worse then him, it almost made him wonder if he stepped into the twilight zone where his perfect older brother was the new him, he growled lowly, there was no way in hell he was going to turn into his older brother.

"Are you good with bokken?" his brother asked gently a glint of excitement in his eyes, just like him, even without memories he was excited to play with swords.

"Pretty well," he replied dryly watching him closely wondering if he was going to try to cheat him out of his money.

Leo smiled to him tossing him a wooden sword from the weapons rack. Raph caught it nonchalantly his eyes firmly on his brother waiting for his first move.

Before he knew it the fight was on. Leo was allot faster then Raph had anticipated, he could barely keep to the rhythm of his feet. His brother smiled as he kicked the sword out of his hands, knocking him to the ground his foot locked with his throat the bokken inches away from his face. Raph's breath hitched in his throat but slowly went back to normal as his brother's foot slid off him, a smirk on his face.

"Your out of practice," he offered him his hand, Raph sighed grabing onto it,''You should try harder next time."

He snarled watching him leave the room, only his brother could get him this angry.

...

"Will you please put that out Leo?" Don snapped making him roll his eyes, blowing a puff of smoke out of his mouth making Don cringe in anger, which he never thought Leo of all people would make him do.

Don's eyes turned to slits when he saw his brother light up another cigarette. Swiftly as he could he snatched the pack of smokes and thew them in the trash, making his older brother pout.

"You know those cost a pretty penny," he snapped making his younger brother smile.

"Well maybe its time you quit," he said triumphantly sticking his tongue out to his older brother's glare.

"Maybe," he said softly grabbing Don's lab top that sat in the middle of them at the table making Don tilt his head in currisity.

Gentle chuckles soon turned to hysterics as his brother looked at something on the computer making the youngest brother poke his head around the corner, Don all the while had question marks popping over his head wondering where his brother's sanity had escaped to.

"What is it? What is it?" Mike acclaimed excitement filling his voice.

"Oh nothing," he said slyly shutting the computer,"Your brother writes some naughty stuff. Man I've never heard of such sex as the smut he writes is it from personal expierence? I wonder the girl in the story's name is April...hmmm..."

Don's eyes widened in shock and a devish smile crossed Mike's smile as Leo piecefully left the room.

Mike wore a disappointed face as he opened the computer up seeing nothing but scientic data,"This isn't porn! This is just plain up nerdy stuff! But I can see it turning you on Don."

Don growled slightly throwing a cross word puzzle book at his younger's brother head.

...

It was late but Leo couldn't sleep. His eye stayed on the ceiling, from the room next door he could hear Michelangelo flirting with girls that only lived in his dreams. Leo sighed gently he felt bad for him, he knew what it felt like to be in love with a beautiful woman and all it did was bring pain. His hand travelled across his pendant, his mind wondering off turning a memory in his head that gave him the answers.

"Oh wow," April whispered turning the stone over in her hand all their faces on her, Leo held his breath blocking out the pain in his shoulder paying full attetion to the red head,"I never thought it existed, I thought it was a story."

"Story?" Don and Leo mumbled in unison both of them had their eyes locked on her as she nodded crossing the room pulling out a book from the book shelf. Leo's head tilting to the scribles he knew to be chinese, what would that have anything to do with the amulet?

She flipped through the book ignoring their stares, opening to a pacific page holding the book open in front of the brothers of the medalian. Leo's heart about stopped, he would gladly trade his ability to read Japanese to read Chinese.

"This is a book I got while I was in China awhile back, its old folktales and legends," Leo and Don had their palms against their forehads, neither was looking in the right section.

"And to think I was actually looking in Harry Potter," he grumbled in Japanese, no one paying a speck of attention to him.

"In the story it describes a general, a great general who had never lost a fight," all eyes were on Leo as she talked and he knew what they were thinking, he didn't need to know his past to know he hadn't lost any fights recently,"But he could not keep the dark army down, the story says they were powerful warriors that his army was having difficulties keeping at bay."

Leo and Don looked to each other both trying to form something together to describe what they were hearing but neither coming up with anything.

"The war was growing ever more fierce, bodies were lining the battle field but the other warriors suffered hardly any casualties," she contiued her voice soft,"One full moon night as the army slept, the general snuck into their camp with his men and began killing them off one by one, he crept into the leader's tent and was shocked to see how sickily he looked.

'You have come to kill me.' the other general stated his eyes glowing with death. A pendant around his neck was glowing brightly around his neck.

'Your army won't live though the night,' he stated the general growing in confusion,'My wish has been granted. But I wonder will yours?'

The general simply stared as he thrust the pendant glistening in his enemies blood in his hand the other smiled evily,'I substained the demon just for you, I wish for you to suffer as I have.' With that he died and outside he could hear the blood curling screams of his army as they too died.

Many weeks later when he came back home, he took the pendant to the high priestess. The priestess knew immediately it was a curse and explained to the general about the demon who was sealed away inside the pendant and who will come free once more after granting the wish who ever holds its heart desires as long as the demon is able to get a taste of whoever holds the pendants heart by feeding off their emotion. The general didn't care about the demon, he wanted this wish the other spoke of. He wanted one thing, immortality. He ordered the priestess to perform the ritual. She complied but asked the general how he would like his funeral to be prepared? The general didn't seem to hear or care what she said, he was so close to his desire. His fingers wouldn't stop going across the pendant all the while the priestess worked.

His blood dripped on the pendant and he saw the pendant glowing and he knew it was working, the full moon blazed over his head. But something went wrong, his fingers were not moving, he looked down to see they were stone! It slowly moved up his body, his attempts to knock them away were in vain. His last sight was the full moon as he turned completely to stone his wish for immortality granted."

April concluded the story her eyes scanning across the brothers, none knew what to say about the story.

"I'm guessing nothing happened when Karai tried the ritual because it wasn't the full moon and neither of you wanted the same thing," she said simply shrugging.

Leonardo looked down at the pendant, he wondered about this thing many nights and now he now he knew, it was bizarre.

...

He lit up a smoke, as he watched the smoke flutter around the room, he knew what he had to do. He had to finish what him and Karai had started, he couldn't wait anylonger. Softly he wrote a note for his brothers then grabbing his swords, left.

...

"Hello, Karai," he said sweetly into one of the foot soldiers he knocked out's transmitters.

"What is it?" she snarled back, he smiled she could be so cute when she wanted to.

"It's time we settled things, how about it?"