Lost
Chpt. 12
A/N: Just got back from Mayhem Festival, Korn and Rob Zombie and Lamb of God were spectacular. But now I'm back to my story with the final two chapters. That's right your nearly done. Enjoy and remember to review.
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Don had an uneasy feeling as he sipped his sixth cup of coffee ( being a genius always means staying up into late hours of the night and relying on coffee to keep you going), he looked at the clock again and it read 9:02 exactly two minutes since he last looked to it. His brother should have been up by now, it was not like him to wake later then 5 a.m. He sighed in the dojo he could hear Raph punching the punching bag, Mike was intently watching t.v some kind of game show it sounded like but his oldest was no where to be seen. He sighed once more wishing his older brother would just act like he always had, he didn't care if it drove them nuts at time but they needed his perfectionist personality to help them not this fun loving Leonardo who could just lead them into more trouble.
"I should of never sent you out to get tea," he grumbled to himself quickening in his pace to get in as he strolled to his brother's room upstairs.
The room was empty, nothing of life was to be seen only the still lingering scent of smoke from his accursed habit. On the bed laid a single sheet of paper making Don's heart thud quicker and quicker.
Dear brothers,
It is not working out. I may be your brother by blood but I'm not who you want. So I dread to say it but I cease to be your brother if I am not the same person who lingers aimlessly in your hearts. Being who I am, I must leave and finish the business I hold else where. Maybe you should go back to thinking your Leonardo is dead and this Leonardo was just a mistake, a dream even. I thank you for the name, but it won't last. I must leave, I have to finish what Karai and I started.
Sincerely yours,
Leonardo.
P.s. who would of thought ninjas would have Italian names? It is bizarre in a way... But I guess everything else you've said is bizarre as it is...
"He's lost his mind!" Don groaned casting the paper aside, hurrying down the stairs. He took two steps at a time nearly stumbling on the last step but managed to make it into the living room stepping in front of the t.v making Mike scowl.
"Donny! Move!I need to know if Donna gets the sports car or not!" he snapped, Don not paying him any head.
"Leo's gone!" Mike's eyes widened he was jumping off the couch.
"What?" Raph snapped walking into the room his eyes locked upon his smart brother, who was opening his mouth to speak but the words wouldn't come forth.
"Leo's gone, Raph! He must of run away!" Mike acclaimed his arms waiving around. Raph soon couldn't find his own words, he simply fell back against the couch the guilt of kicking him out in the first place leaking back in place.
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Anger was a usual emotion for Raph, he had known it his whole life but now it about near hatred for the foot clan for turning his brother into this. Someone who puts revenge over everything else in his life, he snarled he didn't know what he wanted to do more when he found his brother cling to him in relief that he found him or knock sense into him. His breath held inside him for a few seconds as another thought came to mind, if he was still among the living.
"He was here," Don said pointing to a foot print in the ground made of water from a puddle,"It looks like he was running...it also appears he was dragging someone around by how close the other foot prints are and how spaced out then the others are."
"Or it could of been a fight and those could have been the foot spectators," Raph stated bending down by one of the foot prints Don nodding in unease.
"Or he could have been fighting the purple dragons," Mike stated shrugging slightly, Raph's face shooting at him in a glare.
"What proof? Why would-"before he could finish what he was going to say he saw the ripped up bandanna with the insignia of the Purple Dragons pinched between his brother's finger tips.
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Karai shook Leo harder not even getting a budge from him and the pendant glowed brighter by the second as he grew paler, the life flickering from him like a candle in front of her eyes. It had been like this for awhile now, at first it seemed like he had simply passed out, but now he looked like death itself.
"The PD drug me or something?" he groaned making Karai lean closer to him, he hadn't spoken in a long while.
"No, they didn't, they must be trying to figure out what to do with us, I haven't seen them in awhile," unsurprisingly he didn't answer back he became once more warped into his own world. She sighed looking at the pendant glowing brighter by the second, maybe it was more of a curse then anything.
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The wear house before them blended into the scenery, it didn't feel out of place at all with the other look alikes surrounding it making Don sigh, he wished the street punk they got answers from was more specific then 'our hide out is a wear house by the coast!' before blacking out. He could feel his brothers' disappointments as well just by the way Raph's half snarl turned into a heavy sigh and Mike's groan faded out. He also knew they didn't have much time to sit around and wait for anyone to come out of the wear houses, they had to go with chance on one.
"I really wish the Purple Dragons were as brainless as they look, it would be so much easier if they just put a big sigh up that said 'Welcome to the Purple Dragon Hide out! Enjoy your stay and please no flash photography!' " he flinched ever so slightly expecting a famiar had to smash upon his head but it seemed Raph was agreeing with him or maybe was too worried about Leo to care about anything the youngest said.
"If I had a guess," Raph began making Don look to him in surprise as if a stranger was talking to him,"I'd say they were in Wear house thirteen, every street punk's (A/N: and mine) lucky number, maybe a sign to know how much bad luck their going to have when I get my hands on them." Don just rolled his eyes, why were his brothers always so confident about things that made him want to cringe in frustration to? He'd never know but when they got like that, he would follow them to the edge of the unknown without questioning them once.
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Karai sighed Hun was already getting on her nerves and he had just stepped in. Their eyes locked together hatred going through both, since the first time they met she knew she hated him and he felt the same way. Her father had been the one to trust him, never her, he was an unhonored street punk. He was not worthy enough to have his blood painted on her blade. Her blade was an extent of her, it would not be sullied but the kunai lying in her robe could be tainted. Her fingers barely had a chance to flex before she stopped herself, she could not leave Leonardo in whatever condition he had landed himself into, until he snapped back into himself she would have to stall her escape plan.
"What is wrong with him?" Hun snarled his voice echoing across the make shift cell Karai readying herself for any kind of fight that awaited her as he strided like an angered bull closer to her.
Behind them the pendant grew ever brighter and Leo was becoming more pail, his breath growing ever slower.
Karai kept her breathing steady as she side stepped every one of Hun's large fists that made every anticipated move. Both stopped, at the bright light brimming every brighter behind them. Both of their hearts moved to the same rhythm staring into the light.
"What is going on?" Hun snapped turning to Karai as the stone began to shatter.
"The demon," Karai whispered closing her eyes to block away the blindingly bright light,"It is finally coming back, Leonardo must have released it somehow."
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A sickening loud screech filled the air as the brothers stepped into the wear house a blinding light soon following making any of the Purple Dragons were prepared to fight them before rush out the door sensing something bad was about to go down.
Coming from under the cracks of one of the doors showed where the light was being produced from. Eyes clamped shut the brothers headed for the door, Raph was the first to reach it his fingers the first to turn back the nob.
As the door creaked open, a bizarre scene awaited them. Karai was curled up in the corner, her hands clamped tightly around her ears her nails biting into her scalp her eyes clamped shut almost in a fear filled way, Leo was passed out across the room not moving a mussel his breathing low, his skin pale as death. Hun was laughing hysterically on the ground his eyes were like glass staring off his fingers running through nothing laughing and saying all at once 'I'm rich! It's all finally mine!' Standing in front of him was a fair maiden with flowing black hair, ivory flesh and scarlet red eyes wearing a dazzling pearly white kimono with cherry blossoms running down it, she was the last thing you would expect of a demon she was more like an angel.
"I am free from my acursed prison," she whispered running a hand through her hair,"I am ready to grant your hearts desires now."
Don's head was spinning his eyes staying on Leo, they needed him badly now, it was hard enough fighting human enemies without their fearless leader he didn't want to imagine what it would be like to fight a demon. Without thinking about it much he shot across the room to his brother's side, the demon scoffing at him as he shook his shoulder and called his name.
"It's no use child, he will be dead before long," she said in her scratchy voice,"All because he had too big of imagination. He gave me more of his heart then any one else who held me. Every dream, every heart break, every emotion he poured into me. Holding me like a life line each time he got trapped in his thoughts. I thank his foolishness, it has freed me after all this time. But I gave him the perfect world he desired in return."
Don didn't know what to do, what had his brother done? He wanted to yell until finally his brother answered him, but knew it would do more harm then good. Sighing he held his brother close to him checking his pulse, it was there but growing faint. Setting him down as gentle as possible, he drew his boe from behind his back.
"To hell with logics and statistics on the outcome," he mumbled running at the demon for head on into an unthought out battle, he wasn't going to let his brother die like this.
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Raph was at Karai's side shaking her repeatable asking her what happened but got no answer beside the shaking of her head. Mike was poking Hun with his finger, in the back of his mind he was snickering to how he was acting. He poked him again getting no response just louder claims of how rich he had become. A spark of annoyance grew in him, he took his numb chuck from his belt whacking him upside the head, still no response.
"Man when I thought you were hard headed, I never thought it would be actually true!" Mike snapped. His eyes widening seeing Don rush at the demon single handily. What is he thinking? was the only thing going through his mind,they had no idea what she could do. What she did to Hun, Karai and Leo and he was going to rush at her without a plan?
"Is every one turning into Raph this weak? What is this world coming to!" he grumbled to himself, his hand meeting his forehead. Was he the only one left with common sense?
"What is your brother doing?" Karai finally whispered her fingers slipping from her ears coming back to her senses, Raph being taken back alittle but moved his head back to where her eyes were pointed. His heart stopped and he soon found his mind asking the same question Karai had.
Don waved his boe around aimlessly trying to hit the demon but she was like the wind, untouchable. With each hit she seemed to faze out and appear inches away from where she had been without her feet moving an inch. A light smile flickered across her lips her fingers touching his cheek a bright light once more filling the room. As it disappeared Don was on the ground.
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Don blinked back tiredness, was he just asleep? He could never tell. He took in his suroundings, it appeared he was back stage of some kind of auditorium! He jumped to his feet sighing with relief when he realized he wasn't in a cage or bound in any way.
"Donatello, I swear you can be as lazy as Michelangelo!" his eyes met his older brothers, his arms were draped across his chest looking as annoyed as usual.
"Leo? Dude, what happened?" he began but his brother already had his hand up telling him to stop.
"I swear, its your special day and your the one to forget," he sighed pushing him along side him,"How could you forget you just won a Nobel prize for curing cancer?"
"I-what?" he snapped looking disbeilvingly at his brother who shoved him on stage where he was met by a cheering crowd.
"Are all geniuses this forgetful?" he heard his brother grumble from behind him.
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Mike was in a state of shock as he finally reached his smart brother, he was grumbling some scientific garbage his eyes like glass as he sat up a smile on his face. His hand pointed out like a teacher pointing something out to an invisible class. He had to blink twice to understand he was under some kind of spell not explaining something to him.
"What did you do to him?" he snapped anger consuming him as the woman smiled brightly.
"I gave him his heart's desire, just as I will for you," with that her fingers glazed over his cheek making an overwhelming sensation break threw his system as he faded out of reality.
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"Yo Dude!" some one called over him making him come back to his senses, he was lying on the beach. As he rose he realized many beautiful girls surounding him, their arms draped over him. He blinked standing in front of him were his brothers all wearing bright smiles.
"Dude you need to get up, the town needs you and your still asleep!" Raph snapped at him, his other two brothers nodding in agreement.
He looked up to see a large M in the sky, he turned his head Leo was handing him a mask making him bite his lip to contain his excitement.
"Come back and see us again, Mike?" the girls giggled making him blush, he wondered though what was he doing before he fell asleep? He shrugged away the thought, he couldn't waist his time thinking about it he had a city to save!
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Raph snarled as he weighed the outcome, one girl had just taken down both his brothers and Hun without trying. His eyes went to Karai, she could be use to him, if he was lucky the demon was like a seductress and only worked on men, so if he went down he still had hope. But still the thought of him going down and looking like he had been smoking too many mushrooms didn't seem to make him easy on the inside. His hand was already hitting his forehead watching Don give a lecture to invisible people, Mike swooshing around him and Hun now bragging about his non existent riches he had.
"I have a plan," Karai whispered into his ear making him nod they needed one at the moment,"I know the ritual that can seal the demon but I need you to stall her."
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The demon's eyes never left Raph as his never left her. They stayed in this staring contest for awhile, the demon enjoying his nervousness.
"So, I thought that you made their desires become reality not make them look like they've had one to many bad mushrooms," Raph stated keeping his distance from her.
"A misinterpredation," she stated swishing her hair behind her back,"I was made by the desires of the heart of men, I simply give them what they wish, who cares if it is not reality?"
"What about the general? He was turned to stone, that is reality," he picked his words carefully, he wanted to keep her talking, not piss her off.
"He was a special addition, he was the one to restore my life after being cast away, I have always had a special power for them that I don't wish to use on other mortals, they give me their life so I give them their dreams. I destroy their enemies, I make them immortal, I do what ever they wish for reviving me, but some don't have the decency to appreciate that, sealing me back away before I'm fully charged. It's sickening," she spat the last part with venomocity.
"What about my brother Leo? I don't see any of his enemies dead, he's not stone, he's just dying!" Raph snarled losing his cool facade.
"I did give him as he wished, he wanted nothing more then a perfect existence and to be far away from here," she shrugged smiling,"I granted his wish."
It took Raph several minutes of thinking to realize he was trapped in his own mind and it made him sick, but it also made him smile, she must not know his brother, he was as stubborn as they come and would find a way to slip out of any mess.
"Well what if my heart's desire is to watch you die?" he raised his sais,"What would you say to that?"
"I would say that you could try," she laughed in mocking way a sword appearing in her hand.
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Karai splashed her blood across the ground painting the symbols with her fingers. The pendant beside her, she didn't know if this would work completely. Beside her Leonardo began to stir ever so slightly making her heart beat faster. His skin was regaining color to it, whatever was wrong before seemed to be disappearing.
The sound of clashing was heard from in front of her, Raph and the demon moved like dance parteners each keeping up to each swing of the other's blade.
"You are good," she whispered in his ear he was so close to him, he didn't know how she got there so fast,"But I grow weary of our game."
Her fingers made contact with his flesh making him stutter slightly trying his best to keep the darkness to keep clear from him but to no avail.
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Raph opened his eyes, he was back home. Everything was as it was before his father had died, Mike playing video games on the ground laughing, Don was in the lab working on some new invention and his heart pounded with ease seeing his brother on the ground meditating and beside him was his master. Seeing everything the way it was supposed to be made him feel more at ease then anything. He didn't even mind that he knew this wasn't reality.
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Leonardo eyes blinked open, trying shake away the groggy and petite feeling that had him in its clutches. He felt the presence of someone else beside his eyes slowly move up to get a full view of Karai.
"Well, isn't it nice to see the true Shredder Jr," he whispered making her jump slightly stopping what she was doing.
"What did you call me?" she snapped raising an eye brow.
"Well, you are the leader of the foot, Oruku Saki's daughter, you even took up his place as the shredder after he died," he stated simply in his hoarse voice taking her into another full step of confusion,"And being Hamato Leonardo, I shouldn't have feelings for you but you are in fact the woman I love and you most likely wouldn't be that if the shredder hadn't raised you."
"You got your memories back? How?"
"I'll explain later, but what's going on here?" he looked around to see Hun on the ground throwing around fake money, Mike throwing weak punches at him and Leo was guessing he was trying to shoot laser beams, Don was pacing around shaking hands with people he could not see and Raph was on the ground looking at something with glazed eyes.
"The demon was released and has put some sort of spell on them," she stated quickly getting back to scratching the symbols on the ground,"When I say when, you need to drop your blood onto the symbols."
He nodded his eyes meeting the demon's shocked gaze.
"Your supposed to be dead," she snapped a snarl of annoyance escaping her mouth,"But no matter, I can not have my full power unless you are so I guess I'll have to do it myself."
Her right hand turned into a claw, in Leonardo's weakened state he didn't know if he could rise let alone fight a demon with who knows what kind of power.
As the demon glided toward him, his body felt as it was made of lead. A strong push shoved him to the side, his head spun to were he once was and saw the demon with her clawed arm through Karai's chest. Blood spilled down her mouth as she gasped for air.
"Put your blood on the damn pendant!" she snapped to him snapping his mind back into action reaching for the discarded kunai on the ground cutting open his hand splashing his blood on the pendant. It slowly began to glow.
"Go back to hell," Karai snarled blood oozing from the sides of her mouth, lowly the leader of the foot clan began to chant words under her breath making the symbols glow brightly. A deathly wail filled the room, the demon evaporating turning into wind fluttering back into the pendant that slowly closed itself.
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Raph woke with a groan, his head was killing him. His eyes scanned the room it looked like the others were coming back to.
"Ohhh, I shouldn't have listened to that computer, the cake was a lie!" Mike groaned rubbing his head, Raph's hand instinctively hitting the back of his head. Don rolling his eyes beside them as he began scanning the room himself. Hun was on the ground rubbing his head, mumbling 'what happened?'
He found Leo in the corner of the room holding Karai tightly, blood covering her. He kissed her softly whispering her name. Don didn't need to know what happened to know that Karai was dying.
"Karai, Karai, Karai, Karai, Karai, Karai, Karai," he repeated over and over. Don put his hand on his shoulder, knowing that repeated word would be his makeshift lullaby for the time being each night to make him sleep.
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to be concluded...
Damn that was long. Hope you liked it.
