She sat in the bathtub while the hot water erased the sweat and grime from her body. She couldn't believe that Raph would all of a sudden just snap on her like that and almost seriously hurt her. Then she thought about what he said just before Master Splinter excused him from the Lair.

"Oh and don't pretend I don't know what's going on. I ain't as dumb as I look!"

She sat up and poured shampoo on her hair, 'Does he know about Leo and I? How could he? It's not like Leo and I have kissed or done anything while they were with them.

She finished and stared at her naked body in the mirror. She examined the muscles in her torso and marveled at how defined her arm muscles were. Sure she had muscles before from gymnastics and from being somewhat skinny, but now she was lean and toned.

She looked at her stomach and outlined the six pack that was starting to form, "Damn I look good." She laughed and threw on her clothes before she became a narcissist.

She slowly opened the door to the lair and looked around to see what the guys were up too. They weren't in sight so she opened the door all the way and walked to her bag to search for her phone.

"Miss Gibson, may I speak with you?" Splinter called out from his room. May rolled her eyes only imagining what he would want to talk about. "Coming sensei." She hid her phone in her pocket and walked over to him.

Once inside his room he stared at the girl as they sat in a meditative position. "Uh, Splinter…why-" She started but he answered for her.

"Miss Gibson, you are becoming very talented in ninjutsu. Even though you have very little training I am considering the specialization of a weapon for you."

May face lit up. "A weapon, Master Splinter?"

"Yes. But I am not sure what it will be. You and my sons often fight with many different enemies and it is vital that you have a way to protect yourself."

May smiled from ear-to-ear. "Splinter you don't know how much-"

"But you must promise me that you will only use this to fight and to defend yourself and the ones you love. This will not be a toy, or something to show off." He sternly looked at her. "Of course, sensei. I would never do anything like that!"

He smiled at the girl and then waved her away but she would not move. "Uh, Master Splinter…about Raph, is he-?"

"Raphael has always had a temper on his shoulder. Even the slightest of things can upset him." He responded.

"I know but…" May didn't know how to say what was on her mind.

"My sons enjoy your company more than anything in the world, Miss Gibson. Whatever is going on between you and Leonardo, Raphael will just have to cope with his own conscious." Splinter stood up leaning on his stick.

May shook her head, "Master, I don't want Raph to cope with anything by himself. He's my friend. And-and, there's nothing between me and Leo." She hoped she wasn't too obvious.

Splinter smirked, "Well, realize those two have always argued about anything. Even as young children. You must figure out for your own self who is right." Apparently she had been too obvious. 'Wait a minute, what? Pick between Leo and Raph? How could I? They are both…my best friends…' She stood up bowing and then left Splinters room.

Before Mikey had a chance to annoy her, May had her cell phone to her ear. "Anna? Hey girl it's May. Can we please hang out tonight? I need major girl time…" She plugged her exposed ear from the guys. "Okay, see you there! Bye!" She hung up and glared at Mikey.

"Woah. Don't go all Raph on me!" He laughed but she just shook her head. "I gotta get some girl time. You guys stress me out." She put on some shoes and a jacket.

"When will you be back?" Donny asked from his lab.

"Where are you going?" Mikey placed his hands on his hips pouting at his friend.

She growled. "What are you? My mom or something-" She stopped mid-sentence as her eyes grew bigger and tears formed.

"May?" Mikey whispered placing a green hand on her shoulder snaping her out of the trance.

"I-I'm sorry." She shook her head and put on her jacket heading out the lair. "I'll be back later. Bye guys."

Anna and May met at a café Anna had wanted to try for a couple of weeks now in Times Square. They had to stick close to one another since it was summer and the streets filled all types of tourists.

"So, what's up girl? I love hanging out with you, but why did you sound so upset? Is everything okay?" She asked after the two ordered their food.

"Yea. I don't know. I've just been hanging out with some of my Aunts friends and they are super awesome, but I think I might have a crush on one." She sighed resting her cheek on her hand.

Anna's eyes light up. "Ohhhhhhh! A romance! May, this is awesome."

May sighed again, "Yea. Well, it's not…just one."

Anna choked on her water. "What? Excuse me? Did I just hear that May has a fling with two guys?" She wiped her mouth off, "Do they know each other?"

May nodded with no emotion. "OH MY GOD! You are sooooo scandalous!" Anna smiled.

"Here you are ladies. Cesar Salad with chicken for Anna, and Strawberry Fields Salad for May." The waiter placed two giant salad bowls in front of each girl. "Anything else I can get you?"

Anna shook her head, "No unless you have a cure for scandal in your pocket!" May kicked Anna's shin as the male waiter laughed. "Enjoy your meal ladies."

"Okay, so who are they?" Anna dug into her meal.

"Well, they are…um…brothers." Anna choked again. "May! This just gets better and better! Go on!"

"Okay, and the oldest one, Lee told me a couple weeks ago he loved me." She took a bite and finished. "And then today the other brother kinda flipped out and mentioned he knew what was going on and that he isn't as dumb as he looks. I just don't know what to do. I've never really talked to Rap- Ray as much as I do to Lee. And Lee said he loved me."

"Did you say you loved him back?" Anna asked with a mouthful. May shook her head. "Well then you really don't have a commitment with him. Do you love Ray?"

May thought about Raph. Did she love him? "I don't know…"

"Do you love Lee?"

May thought about Leo. How he confessed to her and how many times he had protected her in the past. "Again, I don't know… I love them both…" She took another bite as the girl's stared at each other in silence.

"Well, you're gonna have to figure it out soon. You can't keep them both thinking you love the other. That will make it worse."

"But I don't want to hurt one of them." May couldn't stand to see one upset especially because they were brothers. Then she thought about Donny and Mikey. 'I don't even want to explain to her about them…'

"It's better than making them fight with each other. If you pick than at least one knows you weren't trying to lead them on." Anna tried to help May understand.

"Yea…I just don't know which one…" May looked out at the billboards and people that roamed the streets. One sign caught her attention, "Chicago…"

Anna looked confused and then looked up at the sign. "That's it! I'm taking you to go see it!" May looked back at the strawberry blonde. "What? No! I was just-"

"Girl, you are so distressed right now. You need to get your mind off of everything." Anna smiled as the two finished their food.

The two sat in the balcony of the theater since their cheep student tickets only offered it. Nonetheless, they were there watching the scandalous show May had never seen before. She watched and loved every single minute of the show. How the women dominated over the men that had cheated them and how the main character eventually made it big despite killing a guy she had an affair with. When the show ended May didn't want to leave.

"Come on silly! We better leave before it gets too late out." Anna dragged her out of the seat.

They walked along the back roads of the streets to avoid tourists. "So I take it you liked the show?" Anna smiled with her hands in her jacket pocket.

"Yea! It was brilliant!" May looked behind her at all of the lights from Times shining in the black sky. "I've never seen a Broadway show before and that was excellent!" May smiled looked at her friend.

"Yea, my favorite is Wicked and then Lion King would be my second!" Anna smiled and then looked at the ground. "May I wanted to tell you something…"

May looked back at her friend scared about what she was about to say. "Kala isn't going to our school anymore. She called me last week and said she's moving. But she wouldn't tell me where."

May stopped and faced her, "What? Why?"

Anna shook her head. "I don't know but I've heard some rumors that she's not leaving at all, that her parents are making her drop out or she is dropping out." May looked down and thought, "That's weird. Why would they let her or make her?" "That's what I said." Anna agreed and they continued to walk.

"She got a tattoo, too." She laughed. May smiled, "Really of what?"

"I don't know, some type of dragon thing. You know she has other ones too. She just has them so that no one can see them. But this one was on her forearm and it wrapped around it. Totally tacky." May stopped in her tracks. "Anna…what color was it? The dragon I mean."

Anna raised her shoulders, "I don't know… black I guess. I didn't see it, Lilly did." May nodded and they continued on their way.

As they passed by one of the alleys that was close by the train station they needed to get too.

"Put that in the box, Hun wants us to get the best of the best for the purple dragons." May heard a voice echo down the alley. She stopped and ran back and hid next to one of the buildings that lead down the 'hallway'.

"May!" Anna whispered and hid next to her. "What are you doing?" She panicked. May covered her mouth. "Be quiet. You don't have to come, but I want to check this out." She ducked down and ran behind a large dumpster. Anna looked around and then followed her friend.

"The purple dragons are bad! Remember!" She argued at the blonde.

"Yea, so shut up!" May looked out trying to see what they were doing. They had a group of people caring out boxes from a door in the back of a building. "What the hell is that giant bastard Hun doing anyways? I never see that oaf anymore…" One of the members said.

"Just shut ya trap and bring that shit in. We got other things to do!"

"Don't Hun work for that metal guy? So don't that mean we work for him too?" May assumed the 'Metal guy' would probably be the shredder.

"Didn't you hear what he said?" A female voice yelled. May's ears perked up. "Hey that sounded like-" Anna went to turn to face the gang but in the process she knocked over a trash can near the dumbster.

'What the heck? Did I bring Mikey's twin along with me or something?' May sighed.

"Oi! There's someone there!"

"Bring 'em here!"

May stood up and pushed Anna behind her. "Anna, run!" May commanded.
"But May, those people. They'll hurt you! No! They'll kill you!" She cried as two familiar purple dragons made their way out from the shadows.

"'Ey! It's dat girl! Da girl dat hangs around them freaks!" One pointed.

"Yea. The hot girl though. There's others. Like that bitch Angel!"

May clenched her fists. "You shut up! What are you doing?" She yelled at the two as they revealed pipes in their hands.

"May!" Anna screamed but May had pushed her out of the alley. "Run Anna! Don't look back just RUN!" May then charged after the two.

"You just a dumb girl! What can-" One of the dragons started to yell but May shut him up with a kick square in his face and throwing him into the brick wall.

She punched the other in the gut and then knocked him down to the ground taking his pipe out of his grasp.

"Get that bitch!" The leader of the mission yelled.

May fought her way through the men with the pipe and just when she thought the battle had been won, a curve ball threw her for a huge loop.

"Hello May. Good to see you…" the female voice from before walked out from the shadows. May dropped the pipe gasping at the black-haired, small framed girl.

"K-Kala!" May cried out staring at her friend.

She smiled twisting a chain in her hand. "The one and only." May looked at her forearm and just like Anna had told her earlier a dragon tattoo wrapped around her limb. But it was indeed purple.

"Kala what are you doing with them! They are bad people!" May couldn't believe she would have to fight against her friend.

"Just got initiated. Guess Anna told you I had to quit school huh?" She walked closer to her friend.

"Kala, you dumb bitch. Finish her off!" The leader yelled. "She friends with those freaks we told you about."

Kala widened her eyes. "May, you know them?" May assumed she was talking about the turtles. "So they are the ones you always hung out with during the year." She pointed everything making sense for her now.

"Kala, stop this please! Don't make this mistake!" May tried to reason her friend but it was too late. One of the guys she had hit from earlier picked up a pipe hitting her in the back of the head.

"May!" Kala screamed out but she didn't respond. She had been knocked out and defenseless against New York's most notorious gang.

Leo overheard Master Splinter and May's conversation from earlier and he was happy to hear that she would be receiving a weapon in the near future. She had worked so hard lately that she deserved it. And then he heard Splinter talking about May having to choose between him and Raph. That pissed him off.

He heard May leaving saying to Mikey and Don she needed some 'Girl time' and that the guys were stressing her out. As much as he would have loved to go out and watch over her he decided not in case she found out about him.

After an hour, Leo made his way out of his confinement in his room and ate some leftover pizza. An hour after that, Raph came back home.

Raph walked over to the TV room towards a dueling Mikey and Don on their game station, "Where's May?" He crossed his arms.

"Oh, she went out with her friend…uh, Anna I believe." Donny didn't pay him any attention. "Oh! I just kicked your shell Mikey!" He laughed.

Raph growled at his younger brothers and walked to the kitchen. Leo wanted to confront him, but then again, he thought about what Master Splinter said and it pissed him off again.

Around 2 a.m. Mikey and Donny had called it quits and were itching to get out on the streets. "Come on Leo! Let's go running! We haven't done it in a long time!" Mikey begged.

"Yea, Leo! I'm wanting to go out too!" Donny actually agreed with Mike.

Leo sighed and thought about May out on the streets. He didn't want to leave and then for her to get to the lair all alone, then again, May wasn't scared easily. "All right. Raph! You coming?" He yelled to his brother in his room.

A couple of seconds later Raph jumped down from the second level. "Why not huh?" And with that, the turtles were off.

The brothers hopped from roof to roof enjoying the night life. They managed to may their way off course almost near Times Square, a high traffic people area. "Hey guys, we should probably head back. We don't want to get spotted since lots of tourists come around here." But Leo's comment went unnoticed as the turtles heard a female scream from below. They ran over to the edge and watched as a distraught girl ran towards a security guard.

"Please help me! My friend, she's back there still!" The guard tried to calm the strawberry-blonde girl but she burst into tears. "Please, don't leave her there with the purple dragons!" The guards eyes widened and he refused to help her but the turtles ran into action at the direction the girl pointed her friend was in. They all jumped from the rooftops and into the shadows. Two dragons rubbed their heads and looked around the alley before they got into their van. Another one came out from the back of a building with a female dragon. "What do you mean you won't work while she's here! This girl is our ticket to may it big with Hun!" He yelled at the young girl.

"I'm not gonna hurt my friend." She crossed her arms and glared at him.

He raised his hand and smacked her across the cheek. "You will, or your family will face the consequences." He grabed her arm with the infamous purple dragon tattoo wrapped around it. "You made a commitment with us, you can't go back on it now! Got it!" He threw her arm and headed to the van. "Besides, this girl will be a huge bargaining chip for Hun and the metal guy with those freaks-" He shut the door and the van drove off.

Within an instant the turtles ran from out of the shadows. "You don't think he meant-?" Mikey asked nervous.

Donny sighed. "They have May."