"You were never meant to die…" An eerie voice called out above her. "What?" she freaked out and looked above the tree tops. "Where are you! W-who are you?" She readjusted her coat.
"I am…" She turned around and saw a cloaked man with a hood looking at her. She tried to see his face but he backed away. She looked down at his feet and gasped as she saw none. "What are you?" she covered her mouth with her dirty fingers.
"I am…fate." It called out from above again but moved its head with every word as if it was talking. "You were not fated to die with your family, May Catherine Gibson. You, have a greater purpose on earth. Your family was only in the way." The voice made the hair on her arms stand up. She felt like something cold breathing on her neck and looked up and realized the creature had floated behind her.
She turned around and back up. "What do you mean?" She looked down as it peered into her face.
"You killed them." She whispered. "Your future did." The creature turned and floated towards the depths of the forest.
"No! Don't you leave me here! You killed them! If I would have known they would have died I would have killed myself! I should have protected them!" She ran in front of the creature blocking it from leaving.
"Think about your family. Would April be as she is now if you weren't with her?"
May thought about the time May fought against Hun blocking April from his attacks.
"Anna, Lilly and Kala would not be alive."
She thought about the time she forced the turtles to stop the gang wars from the surface.
"And the turtles. They fight to save you."
She thought about her best friends. About Leo and the night that he confessed he loved her.
"Where would they be without you? You still have other duties to accomplish." The creature stuck his covered arm towards her and a bony white hand clenched around her wrist. She screamed in pain as memoires of her year away from her parents flashed before her eyes. He let go and suddenly a fire surrounded May and the creature. May didn't know what to do or say.
"You are scared. Good." It then ran though May's body, knocking her down to the ground. "You are destined for greatness May Catherine Gibson…." The voice echoed out and the fire grew more powerful.
May screamed and stood to her feet. "How am I…?" She looked around for some place to escape but the flames started to enclose in on her. Tears poured out of her eyes but evaporated on her cheeks. "What do I do…?" She whispered and fell to her knees still terrified of the flames.
"LEONARDO!" She screamed out in desperation holding onto the top of her head. "Fire…why is it always fire…? I hate fire! It killed my family, it burned down April's home." She cried.
"MAY!" She looked up and saw Leo through the flames. "Don't worry I'll get you out of here!" He called out to her.
"You can stop it. Just do it." The voice called out from above once again.
May looked up. "I CAN'T DO IT! I'M AFRAID! LEAVE US ALONE!" she screamed the top of her lungs and when she opened her eyes all she saw was Leo standing in front of her. No flames.
She breathed heavily, "W-what?" she looked up at him as he caught her before her knees gave way. "May, what the-" Leo started but stopped when he noticed something coming towards him. "Who are you?" Leo reached behind and pointed his katana to the figure. He pulled May closer to him.
It nodded, "Greatness."
"Hey Leo! May!" The two heard Raph and the others calling.
"You… are fated, May." Leo looked down at the girl. She winced at his voice and a tear rolled down her face. Whoever this person was, Leo would not let it touch her. He stood her up and reached for his other katana in an attempt to attack the person. But as he did it disappeared from sight.
"May are you alright?"
"Hey your champion is here!"
"May, what the heck happened?"
Leo's brothers questioned her. He turned to face the blonde girl and found her in such a distressed state of mind. "M-May?" He whispered putting his weapons away.
She looked up at him. She licked her lips and took a deep breath, "I-I…" She paused not finding the right words. "It said I was…destined for…greatness? That…my family…was meant to die." She covered her mouth again with her dirty fingertips, "Can we go…home? Please, Leo?" She held onto her forehead making her entire face dirty.
Leo walked over to her and wrapped both his arms around her. "Yea, let's go…" He whispered in her ear.
Everything seemed to be okay when the group got back to NYC. April left the group and hugged her precious niece goodbye for the week. "Only a few more weeks until school starts up again. Enjoy the rest of it kiddo!" She waved goodbye to her and the others.
May on the other hand seemed to be even more depressed and after an entire day of her moping around the lair, Leo couldn't take it anymore and neither could Raph. The red bandana turtle pulled his blue bandana brother aside the next morning.
"Leo, what the hell happened? You said some weird cloaked figure attacked May. There had to be something else. It had to have said something to her…"
"I know, Raph, she hasn't said anything…I just remember it saying 'greatness' and 'you are fated, May.' I don't know why though." He looked over at her sitting on the couch watching Mikey play his usual games. But she just stared at the TV instead of playing or commenting about it. "It definitely said something to her." Leo sighed.
"Hey everyone! Come over and help me work on the battle shell!" Donny yelled from the garage across the room.
"What do you mean, techno geek?" Raph placed his hands on his hips agitated by his brother.
"I mean I had an epiphany of ideas for our car. Now come on all of you!" He waved them to him.
Mikey moaned and paused his game, "Come on May, let's go see what he wants!" He leaped in front of her.
She half-smiled and stood up, "I guess so…" She walked over following the leaping orange bandana turtle. She stopped and then looked back to the two older brothers. "You guys coming?" She tilted her head questioning them.
They looked at each other and then followed her towards the garage.
The group had worked from the afternoon until the midnight in the garage fixing up the battle shell. So far May had started to return to her old self, laughing and joking with the guys. Around midnight everyone could feel the drain of sleep depriving them. "Donny you gotta stop having these techno geek brainstorms!" Raph laughed as stretched out his arms.
"Are you kidding? We are getting so much done on the Battle Shell! It's gonna be awesome!" He smiled and started to turn a screw.
May sat on top of the vehicle and yawned, "Donny, let's call it a night. The battle Shell is already great!" She smiled with her feet dangling down from the top of the car.
Just then a knock at the garage door to the surface franticly pounded, "Guys! Guys! Help please!" A female voice yelled from the other side. Everyone jumped from their position to the door and Raph opened the heavy steel door. "Angel?" He questioned as the dark red-haired teenage girl panted.
"Guys! You've gotta help me!" She ran over and hugged Mikey. He patted her head as she told the group her story. Apparently her brother had been missing for three days after he found gold at a construction site he had been working at. Everyone hopped into the Battle Shell and headed to the site her brother set off to.
"May, look at this…" She placed a small gold coin in front of the blonde's face. She took it an examined the coin, "Angel, this is dated 1611! Your brother really found buried treasure?" She looked at the girl.
She nodded, "I told him not to go back because I had a bad feeling about the place, but he didn't listen. That was three days ago." She cried into her palms. May felt horrible and patted the girl's shoulder.
"What did the police say?" Leo asked her.
"They said they were too busy dealing with the mess from the invasion to look for some guy on a treasure hunt." She wiped her eyes. Raph knelt next to her. "It's okay kid." He hugged her as she cried.
May looked at the coin in her lap. It didn't feel natural even as it shined with every move she made it turn.
"There it is! That's the building Don!" Angel pointed and Donny parked. "Talk about creepy central!" Mikey gasped. The group got out of the car and walked through the front doors of the mansion without any struggle.
"That's weird…" May wondered aloud. "What's that?" Raph faced her, "How is it that a building on Wall Street wouldn't have any security?" She looked up at the tall ceiling. "I got a bad feeling about this…" She looked back at him.
Her statement was answered as a scream came from Angel. "What was that?" She gasped. "What was what?" Donny questioned. "Oh I guess it was nothing, I'm just really freaked out I guess…" She sighed and then gasped again.
May watched the girl walk over to the wall and lift up a curtain pressing a triangle button. "Angel stop!" She ran over to the girl and grabbed her arm but it was too late.
A trap door from the center of the floor appeared right before the turtles. "Angel? How did you-" Donny looked back at her and she and May walked over to them.
"I-I don't know. I just sorta knew it was there." She looked frightened. May looked back at the girl and then down the staircase. "Gentlemen first this time." She waved the guys down.
As the group made their way down the tunnel they came at a stop to a giant circle wall with a pyramid with a circle at the top of it. "What does that say, Don?" Leo asked.
"Well, it's Italian. 'Abandon all hope. He who enters here.'" Donny read.
"See what did I tell you? Creepy!" Mikey shook.
May noticed the symbol on the coin Angel had given May earlier matched the one on the door too but before she could say anything Angel ran over to the wall.
"We've gotta find my brother! He could be anywhere!" She tried to push it open. "Angel! No!" Leo yelled out but it was too late. A red glow from the eye at the top of the pyramid started to glow and suddenly the gang came face to face with real life zombies!
"Is it just me? Or is this WAYYYYYYY off the creepy meter!" Mikey yelped. Raph leaped into action first trying to attack as many as he could while the other brothers joined in as well. May ran over to Angel and kicked a walking skeleton from grabbing onto her.
"You fools! You cannot kill the dead!" An old voice called out from the stair case. "Hurry and run this way!" He had a lantern and waved them towards the staircase.
They maneuvered their way through the dead walking zombies and up to safety as the man closed the trap door.
"What the shell is going on here?" Raph yelled at the man.
"Silence, you shouldn't have come here! If you truly want answers to your questions, then follow me." He walked off with his lantern guiding him and the others.
May looked over at Leo with a nervous face, but his small head nod was all she needed to confirm their safety with him.
The group made their way to a study and the old man turned off his lantern. "Uh, sir, aren't you the least bit freak out? About seeing us I mean?" Donny questioned the sanity of the man.
"I have seen many strange things in my life so I am not as scared as you may think. Let me tell you though, there is no good thing that comes from the treasure buried within."
Angel stepped forward, "We aren't here for the money. We came to save my brother. Tall, brown hair…" sighed.
May stepped forward with the coin in her hands, "We have this coin, sir. Her brother found it here and came back looking for more." She held it up walking in front of the man. "That would have been about three days or so ago." He took it from her fragile hands.
"Yes, I gave him the same warning I give them all. But he ignored me and he will never return."
"Well then we will just have to bring him back by force!" Raph yelled holding onto his sais.
"Fools! You will not be able to stand the monster that lives below!" the old man started to tell the tale of how a meteor with an evil creature landed on earth centuries ago. The Indians had made a weapon from the stone that incased the creature so they could destroy it, but a foreigner destroyed the Native Americans and kept the creature alive. It had stayed in its position all the way to present day and the only way to stop it was to kill it with the Indian spear. The old man tried to many times, but could not due to his hold from the creature. "Do you still wish to face this beast?" He asked.
"We have to!"
"We don't have a choice." Leo and Raph answered for the group. The man smiled. "You have courage. Here take this." He tapped the wall and brought forth the spear from the story he had told them. "May it serve you in your time of need." He handed it to Leo and he nodded to them, "good luck."
The group headed down the trap door once again, this time without Angel. "May you shouldn't come too. You need to rest." Donny tried convincing her for the fourth time.
She growled, "For the tenth time, Donny, I am fine! I swear you guys never believe me sometimes." She was the first to walk down the tunnel.
"Well you've just been acting weird lately, and in San-" Mikey started but Raph covered his mouth. May looked down but continued to walk down the stairs.
"I am fine. I had a dream, that's all." She had tried to tell them she imagined the things she saw, but that didn't prove the fact that Leo had seen them too.
The red light started to glow once again and the dead zombies rose from their spots on the ground. "Back off!" Leo pointed the spear at them and then screamed running away. The circle wall opened for them and they followed Leo down the path.
"Hey, you guys believe that old guys story?" Raph asked the group.
"After those skeletons," Leo looked back, "I'm about to believe anything."
May looked up ahead and gasped as she noticed a red glowing ball in the center of the pit room. "What the heck is that?" She ran past Leo and the others and walked up to the glowing ball.
"Be careful May!" Leo warned and ran over to her. "Aw, I'm fine…" May waved him off and stared into the ball.
"That's gotta be the meteor the old man was talking about." Donny concluded. "Hey wait, look over this way." Leo pointed over to the wall of the cave. "What the heck is that!" Mikey screamed.
May looked over to him and gasped at the strange egg-like objects all on along the walls. Leo took out one of his katana and cut one of the eggs open. A war like skeleton fell from out of it as Mikey squealed.
"There are thousands of these eggs, if Angel's brother was in one of these; it could take us weeks to find him." Leo scanned the area.
May ran back over to the group. "This is so creepy."
"So what're we gonna do?" Raph twirled his sais in his hand but their answer came from a voice that filled the room. "COME TO ME!" the voice called out.
"What the-?" May started but she screamed in the middle of her sentence as an orange tentacle wrapped around her chest.
"May!" Raph jumped to cut her out of the monsters clutch but he tripped as another tentacle wrapped around his leg and up to his waist. Three other tentacles captured the others as well. May winced as the tentacle squeezed her tighter and tighter until blackness faded all around her.
May could feel the cold hard ground on her face and grime and dirt all over her body. Sitting up from the floor she looked around for the others in the cave, but none were in her sight. "May sweetie!" May turned around at the sound of her Aunt's voice.
"A-April? What are you doing here?" She stood and ran to her aunt.
April smiled, "I came to save you and the others. Come on lets go this way." She walked off from her. May raised an eyebrow. Somehow she didn't think this was the normal April.
"Aunt A? Is everything alright?" She asked crossing her arms. April stopped walking and slowly turned around, "You should be great full. The monster has chosen to be merciful to you and me. We can become rich and powerful beyond our wildest dreams." April's eyes glowed a bright red.
"April! What are you talking about?" May took a few steps back as the demented April walked towards her.
"Join me, May." April held her hand out to her niece.
"No! This is not real! It can't be! Guys!" she ran off in the opposite direction hoping to find the others. She found them, but like April, their eyes also glowed red too.
"Guys! No, not you too! Please, help!" She tripped over her feet falling on her bottom and held her head hoping to protect herself from them.
"May! May wake up! Can you hear me?" Leo's voice rang through her ears. She looked up but screamed as she saw Leo's eyes and his green hand reaching for her.
"Leo! Help, stop this!" She cried.
"This is a dream! Wake up!" she could hear him talking, but the Leo in front of her did not move his lips.
May opened her eyes awakening from the nightmare. She saw a red capsule around her and slime covered her body head to toe. "Wha-" May turned her head and then threw herself onto the blue bandana turtle that peaked his head in the capsule. "Leo, I'm so glad it was a dream!" She whispered.
He patted her back, "Me too." He whispered and helped her out of the egg. She looked at him and noticed he was also covered in the same slime she was.
"Okay, everyone is outta those creepy eggs!" Mikey boasted from the side of the two.
"Yuck, this is so disgusting…" Donny wiped off his arms and May looked at her own body. Her jean shorts and her pink shirt were definitely ruined now.
"Somehow that creature or whatever it is was manipulating our minds." Leo looked around the group.
"Let's just get Angel's brother and get the shell outta here!" Raph growled and everyone nodded.
"When I opened your shells they were glowing. It must have something to do with the creatures power." Leo looked around the room hoping to find another glowing egg. "There!" He pointed to a glowing red egg on the other side of the room. Raph ran over to the egg and cut it open instantly.
"No, stop! She's just a kid!" The guy squirmed inside the capsule. Raph and Donny pulled him out while May walked over and woke him up. "Huh? What the- who are you?" He blinked a couple of times at the girl.
"Angel sent us here to rescue you. Don't worry, you are in good hands." She smiled and nodded to the others. Angel's brother looked up and screamed falling down. "What are you?" He stuttered.
"Don't worry, we are just a bad dream, just pretend that we aren't here." Raph smirked and May smiled at his tactic. Hopefully it would work until they got to the surface again. "Come on; let's get him out of here before…" May started to say but a rumble stopped her. "It's too late." She murmured as the orange tentacles from before started to chase after the group. One wrapped around May's tender neck and she fought against it to free herself. "Leo!" She called out and he looked over and tried to help her. "The spear! Get that spear!" She called out and it shook her violently. She screamed as it threw her to the floor resulting in a loss of May's consciousness.
Raph ran over to the girl. "May, get up!" He patted her back. His ninja sense kicked in as he swiftly stabbed the tentacle that tried to attack the two. "Come on you over grown piece of sushi!" He yelled out. May started to sit back to consciousness and clenched her fist from the pounding in her head. She looked up and saw Raph fighting for her. But her attention longed for Leo, scanning the room she found him near the glowing meteor and had the Indian staff in hand. She started to sit up, but fell back down when the ground beneath her started to rumble. Raph quickly ran to her side and picked her up. "The ground is about to-" He tried to finish but the ground crumbling beneath them spoke for him. He pushed off a piece of the falling ground and to a part that was stable.
May practically pushed herself out of his arms, "Raph, I'm fine. Let me go." She whined. He pouted evilly at her but she wasn't too concerned. Her attention turned to the giant squid-like creature attacking her new love interest, Leonardo.
He stumbled a bit but regained his composure and threw the spear at the head of the monster. A bright light blinded everyone and once it died down, the creature was nowhere in sight. "Ya hooo!" Mikey laughed.
"He did it!" May smiled and rubbed her arm.
"Guys, is everyone alright?" Leo looked over and asked the group. May raised a thumbs up to him and Raph nodded. "Come on spear turtle." Raph grunted and walked off in the direction they entered in through.
"What's up with him?" Mikey pointed to his hotheaded brother. May just shrugged and followed him. "Hey Raph?" She called out running towards and catching up with him.
He grunted as May frowned and ran in front blocking him. "What's up? Tell me. Is everything okay?" She held her hands out to stop him.
"I just want to go to sleep ok?" He pushed her along and continued on his way.
Angel ran over to her brother limp in Leo and Donny's arms. "David! Big brother, I'm so glad you are okay!" She hugged him and cried.
"Hey so where is that old guy?" Mikey asked from the other side of the study. Angel laughed, "You're standing in him."
Mikey looked down and noticed a pile of dust and the old man's clothes. He screamed and ran around the room. "Angel, was he that old guy he mentioned in his story?" May giggled. She nodded, "Yea, but I'm so glad you guys found David. Thank you so much guys!"
"Come on, let's go home! I've had more than enough weirdness for a lifetime!" Donny walked towards the entrance.
"Angel, you guys gonna be okay to walk home?" Leo asked. She smiled and nodded and led her very confused brother out of the building.
May and the turtles climbed into the Battle Shell exhausted for the night. "Uh, Donny, are you sure you can drive after being so tired?" Mikey whined.
"Quit whining you baby." Raph smacked him. "Wha? I'm tiredddddd." Mikey rubbed the spot on his head.
May laughed and closed her eyes relaxing in the chair. She must have gotten too comfortable because her head bounced back up after apparently dozing off. She sat up, wide eyed trying to fight off the sleep until she got to the lair.
Mikey laughed at her. "Hahaha, that was so freaking funny!" he clutched his side.
Raph was about to hit him again, but May stopped him, "Allow me." She smacked Mikey instead.
The next morning came too early for the gang. Master Splinter called for all five of them to begin a hard first half of the day training.
"Splinter-sensi" May rubbed her tired eyes walking out from the bathroom, "Can't this be an afternoon thing?" She wore a black athletic tank-top and dark green shorts.
She sat down on the mat and pulled her hair back. "Miss Gibson, the warrior is ready for anything at anytime. You will be wise to take heed in these words." He then raise his walking stick in attempt to attack the distracted girl.
But May had been paying attention, she jumped backwards from the ground and blocked Splinters stick from hitting her in the face.
"Go May!" Mikey cheered walking over to the dojo. May smiled, proud at her action and bowed in respect for her master.
"Now my students, let's begin!"
The six trained long and hard for the rest of the morning, but Donny had noticed something strange. May had usually been so angry and frustrated whenever his oldest brother would help or train her. Now, she seemed to be fine with his presence and almost ignore him and his other brothers. He didn't know what to say or what to do, he just knew that something was up between the two. And he wasn't the only one to notice. Raph had noticed too, and it pissed him off even more.
At the end of the session, May ran over to Splinter and whispered in his ear.
"Well, if that is what you would like to do, you may do as you wish. My stories are going to be on soon anyways." Splinter smiled and hobbled away.
May ran over to her suitcase in the TV area and came back to the dojo with her iPod and then tip-toed over to one of the standing punching bags. The boys started to head out of the dojo but they watched May as she sat down to put tape on her hands. Curious, Mikey ran over to sit next to her. "Whacha doing?"
She smiled and stood up. "I found this song and I thought of a really cool move that went with the beat of it. It's super cool, well, at least in my head that is." She stared at the bag and tried to figure out the best way to execute the move.
A green hand pounded on the bag scaring May from her thought. "This punchin bag ain't for immature little girls." Raph stared her down.
May laughed and put the headphones in her ears. "Well it's a good thing 'I ain't immature!'" May imitated the hot-head.
He growled and didn't move. "Come on Raph. Move please!" She sighed in annoyance but he refused to move one bit. As the song she wanted to listen to started she shook her head. "You better move."
"Make me-" Raph started but a foot flew in his face. He caught May's ankle and held her in her place. He caught a glance of her smiling and then the next thing he was on the ground with May pinning him down. "I win!" She smiled, her face close to his. He could hear the song escaping from the head phones in her ears.
"Hahaha! You got whipped Raphael! Gosh you're such a lame turtle!" Mikey laughed rolling on the floor taunting him.
Raph started to growl as his rage meter started to reach the limit. May had no time to react as the tables turned and Raph was the one to hold her down, even as she still was on top of him. "Ow, Raph! Stop!" She realized how pissed off he was starting to get even as Mikey taunted him more. He threw her off of him but luckily she had enough time to catch her balance. "What the-" She took off her headphones and stuffed them in her pocket along with her iPod. She looked back at Raph. He was breathing hard and his hands wrapped along his sais. "Mikey, cool it! Or I'll go over there and whip your ass too!" She yelled but it was too late to cool Raph as he charged at her with his weapons.
She screamed and tried to avoid him as best as she could. "Stop Raph!" She grunted but tripped backwards.
Luckily, two swords stopped the Sais in their tracks before the seriously hurt the blonde.
The two older brothers met in a growl between their weapons and they pushed off of each other. Mikey ran over and swooped up his friend before she became a victim once again.
"Stop this my son!" Splinter commanded from the other side of the room. May pushed off of Mikey and headed to the two. "Raph, I'm sorry. I thought we were playing around! You know I don't have anything to defend myself from your sais." She tried to reason with him.
"What were you thinking?" Leo put his swords back, "You could have seriously hurt her!"
"It wouldn't have mattered anyways! You woulda stopped me just like you always do, big brother!" Raph yelled. Leo looked puzzled. "Oh and don't pretend I don't know what's going on. I ain't as dumb as I look!" He threw his sais on the ground.
May felt nervous. "W-what?" She mumbled.
"Raphael. I suggest that you leave the air and come back once you have calmed down." Splinter looked pissed at his son. May shook her head. "All I wanted to do was train by myself." She ripped out the ponytail holder from her blonde hair.
"May where you going?" Mikey called back.
"I'm going to take a bath. Leave me alone!" She yelled out not looking back at any of the turtles.