Hey everyone! I hope you ALL have a great thanksgiving tomorrow! I know I'll be eating lots of turkey! Whoop! But back to the story...this chapter bugged the crap out of me because so much is revealed and I wanted to make sure everything made sense and connected. If anyone has any suggestions or comments I'd appreciate it a ton!
But I'm also excited about this chapter! Because it reveals so much! So I'd like to say thanks to pokemonjkl, Snow Wolf Alpha, -sparrow, ShotgunRedneck, storygirl99210, Livangel16, IceColdFever, and IanMoone10 for reviewing! And now on with the story!
-yesiamweird
After the disappointing realization from the ancient one, May stood on the balcony of her and the turtle's room overlooking the dock from the boat. She sighed for a moment and then calmly rolled her eyes towards Splinter and Ancient One meditating in the other room, silent, as usual.
"Master Splinter, Ancient One, when will the others be back?" She questioned walking over to them. With a pout she plopped herself onto a meditation pillow. "They've been gone for a while now."
"Patience young one." The fat ninja master muttered, "You and Michelangelo have the worst set of patience I have ever witnessed. Besides as soon as they return your fate will be judged." May titled her head in concern at his words while Master Splinter proceeded to lightly but sternly hit the Ancient One's arm. The fat man smiled hesitantly and then shook his head returning to his meditation.
"Well either way…I'm getting outta this dump. I'm-"
"Sit my student." Splinter commanded turning the girl towards them once more. "And meditate."
"Already did that twice today, sensei. I just-"
"Sit!"
With a stubborn groan, May fell to her knees and took a stance right next to her master. Closing her eyes she thought of being back home in New York, enjoying her summer vacation and hanging out with her girlfriends, and more importantly not being ruled underneath the Ninja Tribunal. When she felt that her chi and spirit relaxed she opened her eyes to see that Splinter and Ancient One had left the room without her. What turned into a few thoughts ended up being an hour of meditation.
Standing up quickly, she ran to the balcony and smiled at the large ship docked near the bay. The young ninja turned to run out to greet her friends when she stopped dead in her tracks at a realization. "As soon as I go down there, I'll be judged…damn tribunal." She cursed snapping her fingers. "Might as well get kicked off the island…" She nodded looking down at her feet and then pulled her head up to look at the closed door in front of her.
With a heavy sigh May opened the door and walked through…although instead of walking down the hall she accidently ran into someone and fell to her but on the floor. "Careful!" A female voice called out above May's head. "Wouldn't want you to get hurt now would we!" Joy held her green gloved hand out towards the ninja on the ground.
"No." May refused her help and stood on her own. "I wouldn't want to hurt you." She scoffed and brushed her shoulders off with her back turned.
"Hey." Joy stated in a soft voice causing May to stop in her tracks. "I just wanted to tell you…" The young blonde turned her head towards the older blonde waiting for some snide remark. "No matter what the Tribunal says to you, I want you to know that it has truly been an honor fighting and training alongside of such a courageous young woman like yourself."
Turning her whole body towards Joy, May stared at her in shock. All this time she had gone off about how much she disliked Joy that she never really got to actually meet her, although she still didn't like her constant flirting with Raph. "Thanks. You too." She muttered in an embarrassed tone.
Joy smiled and placed her hand on May's shoulder, "Thank you. But really May Gibson, you are such a brave and strong Ninja. I am honored to have fought alongside you and the others." Her smile turned into a bite of her bottom lip, "And no matter what the Tribunal says, I will stand behind and defend your honor."
"Thanks." May nodded, "That really means a lot, Joy."
"No problem!"
"Step forward, May Gibson."
All nine of the Acolytes stood in The Lap of the Gods side by side to one another with May stuck in the middle of Raph and Leo. Master Splinter and Ancient One stood behind the students staying silent as usual. Looking to the two turtles next to her May nodded to each and then took five steps forward towards the thrones the Tribunal sat upon.
"You will be judged." Juto stated with a frown.
"Throughout your time as an acolyte, May Gibson, you have failed test after test." Chikara stated in her usual harsh tone. Her disrupting words only made May angry and she made sure to do everything in her power to keep a hold on her tongue. "Your lack at completing a fight or a test has been disappointing, to say the least."
"But," Kon started, "There is only one test that proves your worth of being a part of the Tribunal." May's eyes widened in happiness after hearing that, she wasn't failing as bad as she thought then. "Your Chi. It is as we presumed from the beginning."
"You have the same Chi." Chikara nodded.
"The same courage." Juto added.
"And the same determination as her." Kon nodded only adding to the confusion. "You are the incarnation of Oroku Sakura. The sister of the evil one."
May took a step back from the Tribunal. "No." She stated looking down at her hands. "I can't be…"
"You are. And you will protect the universe with her power." Juto commanded, "It cannot be done unless you aid in the process."
Looking back to her friends, May caught a glance with Splinter from behind. He looked saddened and more importantly he refused to look directly into her eyes. "You knew it didn't you Master Splinter? You knew from the moment we got here…" She accused the mutant rat and then turned back to the Shishos, "But I thought Sakura died after sealing her brother? How would he come back if-"
"The seal has and will be broken again!" Chikara stood from her chair. "The Heralds have already done so and thus the time for Sakura's magic must be brought back. Only you can do so."
Kon stood from his chair as well and walked down from the top of the stairs towards the empty chair. "When Sakura aided in the five dragons quest she scarified her body in order for her brother's harm to be stopped. However, she gave us another aid just in case he returned." He picked up a small green amulet held by a small gold chain. "This amulet holds her soul. Only the rightful incarnation of Sakura can be the one to wear it."
"But why?" May shook nervously. "Why me? How do you know?"
"We have always known." Juto nodded as Kon walked down the staircase towards the small blonde. "Ever since you were born, we have known. Now, with the circumstances and Fate lining everything into place, it is your duty to wear the amulet."
Kon stopped in front of May, his eyes glaring- almost seeming to burn through her flesh and to bear witness to her soul. He clutched her wrist down by her side and placed the small amulet into her palm carefully closing her fingers after.
As he walked back into position, May opened her fist to stare into the gem. It was crystal clear, and every time she turned it in her hand she could help but admire the glistening green color.
"So, May get's ta stay?" Raph questioned hopefully.
"No." Chikara shook causing everyone to look up at her.
"What do you mean I can't stay?" May frowned closing her fist and dropping it down by her side again, the small chain made its way to dangle from out of her fingertips.
Chikara took a seat and crossed her arms and legs, "The amulet will revise Sakura. Your soul will merge with hers and when the dark one is finished you will meet the same fate as she."
"WHAT!?" May and the acolytes shouted with their echoes bouncing off the tall room. A cold hand wrapped around May's waist pulling her into a hard plastron. "You can't be serious!" Raph yelled from above her.
"This has to be some misunderstanding!" Leo yelled from the side. "Yea! May can't be the incarnation, she's not even Japanese!" Mikey stated.
"Enough!" Chikara yelled forcing everyone to wince at her harshness.
"Do you not want to save the world?" Kon asked honestly. But before May had time to answer Chikara spoke up, "Her opinion does not matter, Kon. She has been fated to protect the universe and she will."
"But what if I don't want to!" May pulled out of Raph's grasp walking towards the throne. "I have too much to live for!" She yelled harshly and then thought about something Chikara said. "I've been fated?...Fate?" Looking up at them nervously, she assumed by their smirks they had read her thoughts.
"You have never had anything to live for. Never." Juto's voice was a whisper but a harsh one at that. "Ever since that day."
"W-wh-what day?" She shuddered.
Juto frowned even deeper, "The day Fate killed your family."
The entire room spun so fast May fell to her knees from the shock. "Fate…he was in on it with the Tribunal…the whole time?"
"What are you talking about?!" Raph growled. "Explain-"
"Fatemous!" Chikara called out and a gasp pulled May from her thoughts on the ground towards the throne. There standing in his black cloak, kneeled the figure that haunted May ever since she visited her parents grave. "You!" She gasped as he stood from his position.
His arms and hands, still nothing but bone, reached out to the hood of his cloak and remove it from his body. A scream was sounded from Joy in the back and gasps from the rest of the room were made as well. The skeleton stood there, looking down towards May on the floor with his red gleaming eyes staring directly at her.
And then suddenly…flesh grew onto the bones. Muscles budged and clothes wrapped around his body from out of the air. The skeleton was turning into a man.
"What?" May knelt up looking at him as hair grew on the top of his head, short stubby brown at that, and noticed the style of clothes he wore. It almost seemed like he was from the middle ages but without armor.
"We meet once again." He nodded to the girl. "When we first met I informed you that your future was the thing that killed your parents. That you were not meant to die with them."
May remembered. She recalled that horrible day after crying over her parents graves in San Francisco and seeing Fate in the depths of the woods. Something called to her. Whether it was him or not, she trusted her gut and found him…found the killer. "You killed my family!" She yelled through tears that seemed to pour from out of her eyes.
"I only did what they decided." Fatemous nodded with a frown.
"So these guys are the real reason, your parents are dead?" Raph removed Bonrai from his belt and twirled it. "What do you say guys? Should we be-"
"Raphael! Enough!" Chikara used her magic to seal Raph into the ground below. "There are matters that must be discussed. Now, place the amulet around your neck May Gibson and you-"
"NO!" May interrupted with a shout. "I REFUSE to help the group of people that KILLED off my family so that I could help them in the future! How DARE you even think I would agree to this!" Looking down at her hand with the amulet still placed inside she threw in on the ground and secretly she wished it would have cracked when it landed.
"You cannot leave." Fate's words caused her to look up towards him. "I am your fate. Without you, I die." Even though he spoke his mouth did not move. It almost seemed like he was talking to her through her mind. "I know you are scared, May Gibson… but I have shown you images of the future. This fate they speak to you of…you will not die, May…do not be afraid."
"June…" She whispered with a nod and then looked down to the amulet still positioned by her feet.
"Yes. Your daughter. The turtles. They will be waiting for you in the future."
"But how…How can I trust the world will be saved?" May looked from Fate towards the Tribunal. "How do I know that I can stop the evil one?"
"Because," Kon sighed, "Because you must." Hisomi began to move and twist his hands strangely indicating he was using his magic. She watched as the amulet rose towards her face. "Place the necklace around your neck." Kon nodded. "You must."
The magic faded and the pendant fell into her hand. How ironic that so much power had been placed into her hands. She could either take on her fate at full force or throw it back into the Tribunal's faces that she did before.
Fate had said she would survive. That her daughter would be waiting for her in the future and so would her best friends… "Raph." May whispered down to him struggling in the earth below. He looked up briefly with a worried glance. "Take care of the others for me…" She nodded looking back towards Leo, Mikey and Don.
Quickly and without another ounce of hesitation, May wrapped the gold chain around her neck with the pendant dangling down her breasts. At first nothing happened, but then she felt a warm feeling shrouding over her body and a bright gold light erupting from within the green pendant.
"MAY!" the turtles yelled out but her focus could be on them. The Lap of the Gods room spun around her viciously merging into a swirl of colors. She wanted to vomit from the sensation, but there had been an under winding calm and secure sensation that made her feel safe in whatever was taking over her body.
"May Gibson?" A woman's soft voice called from behind in the sea of color. Looking behind her shoulder, the blonde focused on the most stunning woman she had ever witnessed. With long dark black hair and pale white skin in a traditional gold and pink Kimono, the woman smiled with her red lips. "You have nothing to fear. Thank you."
"Sakura?" May questioned as the woman continued to walk forwards. Before the girl could ask another question, the oriental goddess walked into May's body blinding her with a bright gold light.
Leonardo couldn't believe his eyes as he watched May glow after placeing the amulet around her neck stubbornly. Literally, her body began to glow a gold yellowish color. And just when that couldn't get any weirder, her hair began to turn black and long while her clothes stretched into a long flowing Kimono. This wasn't May- he recognized, this was Oroku Sakura taking over May's body. The woman sunk to the floor after the glowing stopped but caught herself on her hands and knees to not hurt herself.
Looking quickly to the Tribunal he noticed that Fatemous had fallen to his knees as well. Wanting some answers, Leonardo took a step forwards towards the man but then stopped as soon as he realized Fate was beginning to disintegrate.
"What's happening to him?" Donny asked nervously. "I'm not sure…" Leo shrugged and then continued forward. Meanwhile, Raphael still stuck in the ground began to violently scream May's name from the sight of this new woman standing next to him.
"May!? Please! What the hell did ya do to her!?" He cursed attempting his best to get out of the ground. But it seemed as if each thrust he made only sunk him further.
"Raphael!" Master Splinter commanded walking from behind. "Enough my son."
"But Masta, May…what did. What happened to her?!"
"She has become the spirit inside of the amulet." Juto nodded standing. The other Shisho stood as well, "She has become Sakura." Chikara finished.
"And what of Fatemous?" Leo questioned as the man shriveled into a pile of dust. "What about him?"
Kon walked down towards the leader in blue, with a frown still on his face. "He is not of any concern. Now move aside." Still continuing to walk forwards Kon stopped in front of the woman kneeling. "Sakura." He muttered holding a hand out in front of her.
The woman looked up with her bright blue eyes towards Kon and smiled. Grabbing his hand, he helped her stand to her feet and then lead her towards the throne. She looked around the room from behind and noticed Ancient One and the other human acolytes standing there in shock. But as soon as she noticed the turtles and Master Splinter in front of her, the woman stopped walking.
First she noticed Raphael, still stuck in the ground and then looked to Master Splinter with his small paw on his shell. "Kame?" The woman questioned taking her hand out of Kon's and walking towards Raph instead. "Nezumi-san?" She smiled at Splinter and then looked back to Raph. "Kame, I tasukete" Her smile was warm. Familiar. It was May.
She touched the ground next to Raph and muttered a few words underneath her breath. Suddenly, the ground broke apart allowing the turtle to escape. As soon as he pulled himself up to a standing position he took the moment to recover briefly and then looked towards the woman he once knew as May Gibson. "What did you do ta her?" He clutched the woman in his green three-fingered hands. "Huh?"
The woman stared into his face as if she was trying to focus on every detail about him.
"Raph!" Leo yelled sternly by placing his hand on his brother's shoulder. "Let her go."
Overlooking this woman one too many times, he finally release his grasp. "Fine."
"I am sorry…" The woman started to stay in English. She turned to the tribunal quickly and frowned. "I refuse to help unless the time is needed." All four of the Tribunal gasped at her words. "And the time was not needed."
Sakura held her hands into the air with her kimono sleeves dangling down. In her hands seemed to be a glowing gold force that lit her entire body. "kieru!" She yelled and then disappeared into a bright glow of light.
Everyone was silent and completely shocked at the events played out. May had been the one to hold Sakura's soul, Fate and the Tribunal had been the ones to kill her family, and when May allowed for Sakura to take over, Sakura disappeared because it was not the time for her help.
Mikey looked to all of his brothers, the other four acolytes and then to the Tribunal shaking his head, "So what do we do now?"
Kame: turtle
Nezumi-san: Mr. Rat
Tasukete: help
Kieru: Disappear
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