Wow! I can't believe it's been 50 chapters of JYAD! This is awesome! I want to thank all of you that have kept reading and reviewing throughout the journey. Your comments have made May into one of my favorite characters I've made and I can only hope that you all feel the same about her and her story! I would only hope there will be 50 more chapters, but my story is getting closer and closer to the epic ending that I have pictured since the day I posted this story! Don't worry it's not done yet and there are still very unanswered questions and more people to meet in the series!
So in general, thank you so much for all of your support and keep up that wonderful and constructive comments that have pushed me both as a writer and a person!
-yesiamweird
It was that time again.
The time when May could walk out of the doors of New York City High and not have to walk through them for another two and a half months. It was probably the best feeling in the entire world to say good-bye to the horrible and annoy teachers for the summer and not have to worry about making it to school during the midst of a furious battle. May could be herself during the summer.
And that was exactly what she had planned to do.
"So are we on for the movies tonight?" Anna smiled to the blonde and then to Lilly as well. "You know it sister!" The brunette cheered clicking her heels in the air. "God I need a break from all that studying!"
"Lilly, you went around to all the cute boys in school asking if they would tutor you." May rolled her eyes walking down the street. "I'm surprised half of them even said yes."
"You gotta do what you gotta do!" She winked and then placed her hands on her hips, "Hey so when am I ever gonna met this guy you've been interested in, Anna? Secrets secrets are no fun, unless you share with everyone!"
It was true that Anna and Donatello were sort of 'seeing each other' in a sense. They contained themselves in Donny's lab so that he could rest from his mutant outbreak virus. In the same token, the two were beyond curious to examine May's blood and trying to provide and explanation for her healing regeneration. Of course, May and Anna had revealed the true story of May's experimentation to the turtles. Raph nearly broke the wooden table by how furious he was with the whole ordeal.
Nonetheless, everyone was happy that she was alive and even gladder now that she wouldn't receive damage to her body anymore. Donny had said the serum had mixed with her blood as well as her DNA. He claimed she was, like them, a mutant and for some reason May hadn't seemed upset with the idea.
She was like them. She was so used to being around other mutants and monsters that she almost felt out of place NOT being one as well.
Of course, Raph and Leo had other thoughts on the issue.
"Well, maybe one day you'll get to meet him. But like I said, we aren't dating or anything. Donny is just- just a really good friend!" Anna smiled walking in the middle of the two.
"Yea, well at least you're not like little miss greedy over here. She gets two guys to fall for her and won't share with the rest of us."
May snorted, "Lilly, please. You could get any guy to date you if you wanted. But the last I checked you didn't want to be 'committed' to just one guy."
The brunette brushed her hair back. "True. Very good point." The three were going to Anna's apartment to hang out and gossip before they went shopping and then to end the night at the movie theatre. It was a tradition they started when May first moved to New York but after becoming best friends with mutated turtles had its toll on a teenage girl's life.
As the three made their way into Anna's home, they quickly re-dressed themselves into casual clothes and then headed out towards Fifth Avenue in the touristy part of the city. "Ah! I just love the smell of tourists in the morning!" Lilly stated sarcastically being pushed aside by a family of foreign tourists. "Oh the start of the summer. Just marvelous!"
May only laughed, "Come on, Lilly. We wouldn't want you to get lost in the big apple!"
They had bought a good amount of clothes, accessories, and even shoes and makeup throughout the rest of the evening and then stopped at a nearby coffee shop just before they headed into the movie theatre. Now being friends with one of the boys that worked at the theatre, Lilly had gotten him to put the shopping bags in his locker while they watched the movie.
May would have to learn the ways of Lilly – her convincing tactics to make men to do whatever she asked. It was powerful what she could do. Maybe even more powerful than Raphael's anger management.
Sitting on the edge of the row, May couldn't help but remember just what theater room she was in. It was the same one she and the turtles had sat in and enjoyed a movie the night they were attacked from some punk that had tried to rape May before. It made her sad to remember the whole night, but she quickly brushed the memory under the carpet of her brain and stood. "I'm going to the bathroom before the movie starts." She declared and then walked up the red carpet of a pathway towards the doors of the show.
Taking care of business, May flushed the toilet and was about to unlock herself from out of the stall when she heard the bathroom door open and close indicating someone else had entered as well. But something wasn't right as she heard the door to the bathroom click as if someone had just locked the two in the room together.
"Hello?" May opened the stall door cautiously not sure what to think. As she closed the door she came face to mask of the perpetrator and gasped with a jump backwards. There standing a good seven-foot tall samurai warrior bowed to her. "What the-?" She questioned and then screamed as the samurai took his wooden tonfa from out of his belt trying to harm her in the process.
Jumping back quickly, May avoided the attack reaching for her Kusari when she remembered it wasn't around her waist like it should have been. Looking up she saw the warrior and the smooth surface of his weapon in her eyes. "Aw shell-"
"Okayyyy. More freaky weirdness anyone?"
May groaned feeling the weight of the world as she lifted her aching head from the dusty floor. She was contained in some type of cell. Where she was and who captured her, she couldn't tell. But the voices from the other side of the door were more than comforting.
"Uh guys, our weapons don't usually float in the air by themselves, do they?"
"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder!"
May turned to her stomach kicking her legs into gear to see through the small cell openings of the steel door. Her thought was confirmed as the back of Raphael's shell came into her view. "Weird or not, I'm getting my gear." He reached for his sais floating in the air just as Donny had questioned. The other's following after the hot head.
May looked around the cell seeing if her Kusari Gama was anywhere in sight, but it hadn't been. She needed to get out of this place and she knew just how to do it. Backing herself ever so slightly, May began to kick the door. "Open up!" She screamed. "Let me outta here!"
"May?" She heard the four cry out and then heard the shuffling of their feet on the opposite side of the door.
"Let me-!" She cried again giving the piece of steel another kick but then fell into the giveaway as the door opened automatically. Tumbling face first, she and an orange bandana turtle rolled on the ground below. "Go? Guys?" She pretended to play dumb sitting out of Mikey's grasp.
"Ugh, good to see you too." He smiled.
"What is going on here? What did you guys drag me into this time?" She brushed off her jean shorts with a pout. "All I was doing, was minding my own business. Having a girl's night, not doing any type of ninja-stuff and 'boom' I get thrown into the fire anyways!" May ranted.
"May, not now…" Leo crossed his arms causing May to mimic his actions. She growled for a moment and then remembered something vital. They all had their weapons, she had nothing. "I can't even fight. I don't have my Kusari and-"
"You lost it?" Mikey questioned fueling to the fire. "I didn't lose it Mikey! I didn't have it to begin with!" May yelled throwing her hands down by her sides. "Now what am I supposed to do, defend myself with a pebble! Where the hell is that samurai anyways. Asshole…"
"Wait a second. May, is this your Kusari?" Donny pointed a finger to her weapon floating alongside four other types of weapons.
"AHHH!" She shrieked taking her precious object in her hands and kissing the top of the blade carefully, "Mommy missed you, yes she did! Oh yes I did!"
"Wow…" Mikey muttered, "I see what you guys feel when I'm annoying like that."
Ignoring the snickers from the boys May turned pointing at the other objects. "Guys, if this isn't ours…then who's is it?"
As if her question was answered, four doors opened revealing a strong well build man, a blonde woman, a Japanese man with a long ponytail, and a muscular dark skinned man as well.
"Maybe theirs?" Mikey questioned sarcastically earning him a slap on the beak from May. After the four other prisoners retrieved their weapons, May and the turtles took theirs out defensively ready to attack.
"Are you our abductors?" The woman questioned coldly.
"Hey goldilocks, we don't have a clue to what you're talkin' about!" Raph snapped back.
"Who sent you?" The Japanese man asked quickly.
Donny took the opportunity to speak, "We weren't sent by anybody."
"Yea, some wooden mannequin guys with tonfa knocked the snot out of us and we woke up here!" Mikey added. The four warriors started to nod lowering their weapons from their position. "Who are you?" The dark skinned man asked.
"What are you?" The blonde woman sneered causing May to sneer back. "That's kind of a long story…" Leo replied looking to the others. "We're ninja's." Raph added. "And turtles!" Donny spoke quickly after. Mikey cheered his arms in the air, "Ninja turtles! Well besides her." He laughed making May shake her head.
Sheathing his sword, Leo began the introductions, "This is Raphael," He placed his hand on Raph's shoulder resulting in a grunt and head nod from said turtle. "Donatello, Michelangelo, May, and I am Leonardo."
"Greetings Leonardo." The woman stated, "I am Joy."
"Adam!" The big burley man smiled with a wave.
"Furaigi" The other strong dark skinned male nodded.
The Japanese man raised a hand in the air, "Tora." He smiled softly. "We too were abducted."
"Well we're gonna find out what's going on here." Leo nodded, "You can follow us, if you like." They nodded and walked down the hall along with the mutants, May now being considered a real mutant, until they arrived at a door. Pushing it to the side, Leo stepped forward first walking into a blue lighted room.
"Hm." Joy stopped as the others walked into the center. "This is different."
"It looks like a dead end. No more doors." May crossed her arms digging her hip into her standing leg.
"I'll say, the door we came in through," Tora looked behind gasping, "It is gone!"
"Okay…I'm not enjoying this whole haunted mansion motif." Mikey shuttered holding onto May's arm. "I want a door and I want it now! Pleaseeeeee!" As if Mikey's answer was wished, a giant door grew from the base of the floorboards until it touched the roof of the ceiling.
"This is like some sort of fun house!" Adam gasped.
Mikey let go of May's arm, "Yea without any of the fun!" He pouted.
"Well, let's see who's running this freak show and make a complaint." Raph muttered pushing aside the heavy doors with a grunt. As he did, the room revealed to the nine warriors was lavished from head to toe. The walls were lined with hand carved caverns each one with a thick and mighty lit candle. The floor below was marble and polished so much that May could see her reflection from under her feet. And ahead of the group, an altar decorated with a staircase and dragons. As they walked forwards May made an astonishing notice in the walls.
Hidden in the caverns stood motionless were the same samurai statues that had attacked each of the warriors. "Leo, check it out!" May gasped holding onto his arm just in case of an attack. "Stay on your guard everyone. Be ready, for anything." Leo finished his warning just as the lights around the alter shined.
"Bow when you enter this sanctuary." A voice demanded but May had been more focused on the four masked people standing on the altar. They were each a different color and each resembled- "No way! Four Shredders!" Raph yelled closing in on the other side of the blonde.
"This doesn't look good…" Don sighed, "Yea! We could barely handle one Shredder!" Mikey groaned as well.
"Stand your ground!" Leo snatched his swords into his skillfully trained hands, "Be prepared-"
"Silence!" A figure yelled out shutting Leo up from his statement. "We are the Ninja Tribunal. Prepare to be judged!"
"A great evil is coming," Another more masculine voice sounded. "Darkness beyond your worse imaginings."
"We require warriors to combat it, and as pathetic as you are, you nine are our best hope." This next voice sounded more feminine, but much deadlier than the others.
"You will battle each other and only the most worthy will survive. The warriors left standing will become our acolytes. To aid us in the coming darkness." Hearing the task at hand, May and the turtles looked to the four warriors and then to themselves not wanting to fight anyone.
"You expect us to fight one another!" May yelled crossing her arms. "Forget it, bucket heads!" Raph added.
The Shredder in blue leaned forward, "You WILL fight, or you will be destroyed." From the walls jumped out the samurai wooden warriors that brought May and the others to this place. Each held out their tonfa ready to attack.
"Fight. Be judged. Prove your worth. The Ninja Tribunal commands it!"
"If you do not fight, others will suffer. The world will suffer."
"Like your Aunt, Joy." The feminine voice retorted making the other blonde gasp. "Or your brother, Adam. Or the rat you four call your father! Don't fight to save yourselves, fight to save your loved ones!"
The nine warriors crouched down each picking a partner to fight up against. Being the odd man out, May found her way over to Mikey hoping to back him up in their fight.
"This is crazy…" May muttered swinging her blade to the floor.
"Yea," Adam and Donny clashed weapons, "You guys seemed alright, well for being giant turtles and all."
"To save our families we have no choice," Tora nodded back up from Mikey and May. "There's always a choice!" May nodded back looking to the four Shredders.
"Yea, instead of fighting each other we should be fighting those four goons!" Raph growled throwing his sai back from Joy's position.
"I agree, I will not be judged by the likes of them." Furaigi held his weapon down looking to the Tribunal. "Then if we are all agreed, let's kick some shell!" Leo pointed his sword to the altar and then ran forwards but their force was being held down by the wooden warriors that had jumped down before.
Taking one on her own, May found herself to actually be enjoying fighting this wooden lifeless warrior. She had so much on her plate at the moment that taking all of her anger out on an inanimate object was the perfect release. But it seemed that being made of wood had its benefits since every strike seemed to not affect the warrior. "Damn." May muttered just as the samurai attacked her to the floor. Like her, the other eight warriors were on the ground as well.
"Hold!"
"So this is your choice?"
"You would attack this Tribunal before you would attack each other?
"Yes!" Leo yelled out. "Without question!" Furaigi added.
"You have been judged."
"All nine of you have passed the first trial."
"The first of many."
"You are now acolytes of the Ninja Tribunal to be trained in the most secret techniques of ninjustu arts."
"A great honor had been placed upon you."
"But know this, the training will be hard, the weak will be separated from the strong and the battle you are being prepared for will be fought against an enemy unlike anything you have been faced before." The feminine voice responded coolly.
Just in front of the standing 'acolytes' grew a floating staircase and a hole opening in the ceiling above. "Take this time to reflect on all you have seen and heard thus far."
"Okayyyy?" Leo took the lead again climbing the stairs. May and Raph stood back glancing at one another for a moment. The look on his face matched the statement he responded seconds after, "I am not likin' this, one bit."
"I'm with you, Raph." Joy muttered making May raise an eye brow at the woman. Since when did she have the authority to call Raphael, Raph? And why was this woman talking so casually towards him? May tried to calm the anger boiling in her chest as she climbed higher and higher up the stairs. Her angry thoughts were replaced by the ceiling she and the others were now standing on. "What is this place?" May gasped observing the area.
"Let's find out." Leo smiled continuing to walk forward once again. May and the others followed the leader to the side of the ceiling looking down. "Woah!" Everyone murmured.
They appeared to be on some sort of ship. A large green dragon decorated the mast in the front of the boat and large orange sails blowing with the wind. "We're in the middle of the ocean!" Adam gasped along with the rest of the group.
"Argh! Dis is messed up!" Raph growled, "I say we find a way off this tub and forget we were ever here!"
"What makes you think the Tribunal would allow us to escape?" Joy questioned taking a closer step to Raph. "They are very powerful."
"What do you think, Leo?" Mikey asked in addition.
"I don't know what to think. They say there's a great evil coming. Maybe we should-"
"Hey guys!" May called out leaning over on the side of the railing. "Land ho!" As the smoke cleared from the sight, a view of large and snowy mountain tops could be made in the distance.
"That sure as shell ain't New York!"
"Where are we?" Furaigi stated annoyed.
May turned to the side seeing a happy smile on Joy's red lips, "My friends, welcome. To Japan!"
The groups separated into small groups as the boats sailed closer and closer to the island. May, Leo and Raph were gathered around the window door that had allowed the acolytes to enter the deck of the ship in order to see any movement between the Tribunal. So far they hadn't moved an inch.
"I don't know about you, but dis cruise in da mystery is gettin' real old real fast." Raph growled resting his side on the mast. "Dis stinks, Leo." He turned his head to look at his older brother, "Big time!"
With the roll of his eyes, Leo turned his attention to Tora resting on the widow. "Any movement from the Tribunal?"
"Nothing, kame." He responded causing Raph to deepen his animalistic growl. "Den I say we go down there and make a move!"
"There's still too much we don't know about the Tribunal." Leo stood from his kneeled position glancing to May for a moment and then to his brother. "About this threat, they mentioned."
"You gotta be kidden me! Dey kidnapped all of us!" Raph pushed Leo's shoulder to face him. "Dey set their wooden soldiers on us, and tried to make us take each other out! They're the threat! And you still wanna wait and see!"
"Warriors!" Furaigi called from the mast making everyone face him. "We have arrived!"
As the ship came to a stop, the group gathered to the center as the Tribunal made their way to the edge as well. "Acolytes, you must disembark now! The path ahead is long and difficult and your burdens are great. Probably, too great."
"Burden?" Donny questioned. "What are you-?" The Shredder in blue only pointed to the mountain the ship had docked near with a pile of mountain hiking bags on surface. May growled as she jumped off the giant ship. "I hate hiking…" She muttered picking up a bag from off of the dock.
As May and the other Acolytes continued on their journey up the steep mountain, she couldn't help but smile at the annoying bickering voices from behind her. "What did dey pack these things wit?" Raph argued, "Bricks?"
"Nah bro, that's just your head!" Mikey replied.
"Keep yapping Mikey, soon as we get ta the top-"
May focused as Adam rolled his eyes from the two turtle's constant bickering. "Sheesh, are they always this way to each other?" Leo took the moment to reply before May, "No, usually they are a lot more annoying!" She giggled from his statement and continued to press forwards.
They seemed to be walking on forever, almost down a never ending path. May stopped for a brief moment looking over the side of the cliff to the boat they had traveled on still motionless below. "What do you think the Tribunal is up to?" She asked wondering why the four leaders hadn't traveled alongside of her and the others. How exactly where they going to get to the top of the mountain? As if things couldn't get any weirder, the boat seemed to float into the air at the moment May finished her thought. "Woah, guys look!" She pointed downwards as her pointer finger traveled up as the boat rose in the air. "Why the hell couldn't we have ridden with them!" She yelled stomping her foot on the ground while the other acolytes stared nervously at the fuming girl.
"Is she always this angry?" Adam whispered to Leo. He nodded and the continued forwards. "Nobody said there was an express elevator! Come on! That's not fair!" Mikey added following behind the blonde girl.
"Da old turtle luck running true to form. Just great." Raph muttered.
After what seemed to be hours upon hours, the nine warriors made their way to the top of the mountain now walking towards the entrance to some Japanese style building ahead. "I think I saw this place in Better Homes and Nightmares!" Mikey joked gaining a slap from the blonde. "Quiet." She responded. The doors to the building opened automatically, almost seeming like magic in a way.
"You think they have a payphone in there? Master Splinter has to be worried." Mikey questioned as Leonardo continued forwards. "He wouldn't be the only one." He responded to his youngest turtle brother.
As the nine stepped through the dark room, a bright light from the corner shined as a voice screamed out their titles, "Acolytes!" May wasn't sure how much she liked being called an 'acolyte' instead of her actual name. "Behold!" The voice yelled again now revealing a light throughout the room. "The Lap of the Gods, a monastery and your new home!"
"Sit! Time is short!" The nine continued to walk forwards to the altar where the Tribunal sat on their throne-like chairs in front of a green pool. May took a spot next to Raphael on the end. "An ancient evil imprisoned for over a thousand years threatens to return. You nine have been chosen to combat this threat." The Shredder in blue stood, "Our enemy can reek untold destruction through both physical and mystical means. You must be prepared to combat it on ALL fronts!"
The Shredder in silver then stood and clapped his hands together in some sort of pattern until his hands formed a circle overlooking the nine acolytes. As he finished, a gold circle appeared on May and the other's chests. "A necklace?" she questioned looking down at the shiny gold pendant.
"These are the Amulet of the Acolyte, they will aid you to focus and amplify your inner power. Your Chi."
May looked to Raph wearing and observing the same amulet she wore as well. With a raise of her eyebrow she looked down to the necklace becoming stunned at the red glowing bead in the center of the gold talisman. "Great," Raph huffed looking to Leo on his right and then May on his left, "Now we get dog collars."
"Perception is not always truth. All you think you know, about this world, about yourselves, even about reality itself, all of this will be challenged. Here in the Lap of the Gods, you will learn secrets not shared for milliena. Secrets only known by we of the Ninja Tribunal."
"I am Kon Shisho!" The Shredder in a steel color rose and then a cloud of smoke surrounded him. As the mystical cloud disappeared, a skinny man with a metal outfit and steel-colored hair came into focus, "Ninjustu master of spirit." He looked to the Shredder in royal blue that seemed to be engulfed in smoke just as Kon was just before. "This is Juto Shisho," The man that appeared had a long sleeved shirt that covered his hands. "Ninjustu master of weapons!"
Before Kon had a moment to speak, the Shredder in green grunted and threw a punch to the ground as a mystical flame of green surrounded the person. As the smoke cleared a woman, like May had guess from the sound of her sharp voice, appeared crossing her arms. "Chikara Shisho, Ninjustu master of strength." Chikara was certainly frightening, with her eyes glowing green and the sharp stern look of her frown. May was sure she was not someone to mess with. Then again, she was the master of strength.
The last Shredder in orange simply removed his cloak revealing a very tall and well built dark skinned man. "Hisomi Shisho, Ninjustu master of stealth."
"All things will be explained in time," Chikara began to say, "As for training, it begins now!" She proceeded to pat her hands together in a different kind of pattern but May hadn't been focusing on her hand movements. Instead, she noticed on the altar five thrones but only four of the Shisho were introduced. 'Strange…hopefully we aren't here to compete for a spot to be one of them or something…' She thought for a second and then changed her focus to behind at a bright light shining throughout the room.
"Uh oh, every time dey do dat patty cake thing it always means trouble!" Raph commented as he and the others made their way over to the light now transforming into a door. "A door. What is up with these doors?" May commented as the door opened and a room appeared from within it.
"Hey guys, it looks like!" May could hear the smile in Don's voice as he walked forward. "YES!" It was some sort of library of some kind.
Adam scratched the top of his head, "This doesn't look like training to me…it looks more like-"
"Studying!" Donny replied running off down one of the isles of books. Mikey groaned, "Studying! Aw man. I don't suppose they have a comic book section?" Just as Raph raised his hand to slap the back of Mikey's head, May stopped him and allowed herself the opportunity to perform the task instead.
"Come on you guys." Joy pushed pass May, a bit forcefully, and then looked back with a smirk. At first, May thought it was a sort of challenge towards her, but then she noticed that Joy hadn't given her gaze to May. Instead, she was looking to Raphael alongside of her.
Frowning and crossing her eyebrows as Raphael walked behind the other blonde, May stood still crossing her arms while the others spilt up. "Are you alright?" Adam looked downwards towards the small blonde girl seeming to fume from her pale skin.
"What?" She looked up at his bald head and then rolled her eyes, "Yea, I'm fine…I'm just mad cause I just got done with school the other day. I didn't think I'd go back to studying so soon."
Adam only laughed, his voice booming as he did so, "You are nothing but a spit-fire!" Despite the intimidation of this tall mountain of a man, she smiled at his teddy-bear attitude. When she first met Adam in the holding cell, she thought he would be somewhat familiar with Hun. How wrong her assumption was.
The rest of the afternoon was filled with even more training. First with Kon and his poles of doom, as Mikey put it. Their goal was to reach the top of the pole and retrieve a flag. But a spirit dragon would attack them just before they got too close to the target. May felt disappointed in herself that she couldn't pass, but then again no one else had either.
The next test was with Juto and his task had been to shoot a Bow and Arrow into a flame target. May had hit the target on the first shot which she had been ecstatic about since she'd never shot an arrow before. But her moment of victory was short lived as an armada of arrows shot towards her.
After that painful defeat, Chikara had made the nine acolytes travel up and down the mountain with a beam and two boulders dangling from either side. May failed horribly at this task. She was so bad at it that Mikey had offered to carry her stick just so she could catch up to the others. Chikara had appeared right as May took Mikey on his offer and she was transported to the bottom of the mountain forcing her to climb back to the top without the company of her fellow acolytes.
To make the end of the night even worse, Hisomi refused to talk as part of his 'stealth' mastery causing May and the others to figure out his task by themselves. They figured they needed to walk across a type rope to the other side. Well, that was way easier said than done. As soon as they got close enough to the edge, the rope would trip causing the victim walking across to fall into the murky water below.
By the end of the day, May was tired, hungry, sore, and wet. She wanted nothing more than to throw her amulet off of her chest and go back to NYC. She wasn't alone though, the others felt the exact same.
Chikara stood in front of her throne with her hands placed on her hips in an angry matter, "We had hoped for more acolytes."
"Their efforts are unimpressive, perhaps we were mistaken." Kon added, "Perhaps they are hopeless."
"Perhaps they are WEAK!" Juto retorted. "Do you not understand what is at stake!"
May was about to respond to their negative comments when instead a comforting voice chimed up instead, "How can they possibly understand what is at stake when you have told them nothing!" The group turned around towards the entrance doors at a small shadowy figure. As the figure removed a Chinese top from off of their head, it was clear to May and the others just who this person was.
"Master Splinter!" They shouted but their shout soon became another. The second one as a warning at the group of wooden tonfa warriors who had jumped from the ceiling to attack the rat master. "Protect Master Splinter!" Leo declared removing his swords from the sheaths on his back and jumping into the line of fire. May and the other three turtles did the same. "Bring it on, blockheads! I've been waiting to break something all day!" Raph yelled.
"ENOUGH!" Juto commanded making the wooden warriors back away. "The rodent is not permitted here, as it well knows."
"How did you come to find this monastery?" Chikara added with her sharp tongue. Just then a set of footsteps entered behind Splinter and the others causing May to tilt her head at the short and very fat man crouched down to catch up to his breath.
"Dude?" Adam walked over to Raph and May as the fat man and Splinter walked towards the Tribunal at the altar, "Your sensei is a rat!"
May rolled her eyes, "Oh really? We hadn't noticed!"
"Splinter-san, let us not make things harder than they need be." The fat man attempted to persuade Splinter away from his protective father ways, but he would not back down. "Your sons are safe. We should rest and discus this with a level head in the evening."
"There is no time for discussion, young one. The crisis we have prepared for now is upon us." Chikara added as Kon stood and clamped his hands into another one of those pattern-thingys causing an orb to rise from the pool in front of the altar.
Chikara continued to talk, "The five Harolds of the dark one are coming. Harolds with only one purpose, to reawaken the evil master. They are after three artifacts which will allow them to complete the ritual resurrection. Two of the artifacts were stolen from us and are already in the possession of the servants." The bubble of the five mystics gathering together disappeared, falling back into the water and splashing the acolytes. "If the mystics complete the ritual, a terrible evil will be unleashed upon the world. This cannot be allowed!"
Leo took the moment to speak up during the pause, "You mentioned three artifacts. Where is the third?"
"The third artifact is hidden here in the Lap of the Gods." Juto responded making Splinter huff in front of the nine acolytes, "Then the Tribunal can continue to protect it, without my family." Splinter turned pulling May and Leo's arms in his hands motioning for the other three to follow.
"Do not test us, rodent. We may seek your sons if we must." May looked behind her back towards Juto that had snapped to Splinter. She opened her mouth to respond to his comment when a piece of rock fell from the ceiling above.
"Huh?" Mikey gasped as the building began to shake, "What the SHELL is that!"
"No! Impossible! How could they have moved so quickly!" Kon yelled as the temple began to crack. "Acolytes, to the inner chambers. We will deal with the intruders ourselves." Chikara demanded.
May's world fell into chaos in that next moment as she watched in horror as all four of the Ninja Tribunal masters fell at the hands of the invisible attacker. "Master Splinter!" May clutched his shoulder as if she was attempting to protect him, but in all honesty she wanted him to protect her.
"It's up to us now!" Leo yelled to the others ready to fight. "Yea! Just us against what, exactly!" Raph added just before the ceiling broke apart revealing a dragon demon of some kind. It was black and red and had an evil laugh that made the hairs on her neck stand up straight.
"Heh heh ha! Fools, they were foretold of the return of the master, and now they think they can stop it?" The monster yelled and then huffed out fire, "The master cannot be stopped! All who will stand in his way will perish."
"Splinter! What the hell is that thing?" May retrieved her Kusari, "A fire demon!" He responded quickly and then pushed her out of harm's way as the demon cut the ceiling right above her and the rat. With a grunt and a back flip onto her feet, May looked towards her master now engulfed in the flames the demon spat at him. "NO! MASTER SPLINTER!" She ran towards the pile of rubble trying to make her way to save her master until a force pulled her back.
"Let me go, JOY!" May spat into the other blonde's face but due to her heightened emotions and not strength, May couldn't remove Joy's grip on her arm. "Please, Master Splinter is-"
"We can fight this demon together." She smiled holding her Kusari like weapon in her other hand. With a raise of her blonde eyebrow, May nodded for the woman to continue. "You take hold of one of the demon's arms and I'll get the other. Hopefully one of the boys will figure out what to do from there."
For once, May smiled at the woman giving a slight nod to their plan. As the turtles and the other men continued to attack the demon, it gave the two females the perfect opportunity to strike. May threw her chain towards one of the demon's wrists, while Joy attached to the other. "One,"
"Two,"
"THREE!" The woman counted together and then pulled using what left of their strength. It wasn't enough. The demon laughed falling a bit forwards in the air, but then quickly pulled back bringing the two females with it. Looking up, May watched in complete horror as the demon's black stomach grew into a living group of tentacles now attaching to Joy and May's feet.
The tentacles continued to engulf May's lower half sucking and pulling her into the pit of the demon's stomach.
"Guys!" May called out for a brief second only seeing Raph and Leo's faces before everything went dark.