It had been a whole hour later that Don and Leo had finally realized that something felt off.

Leo felt the unsettling wave come to him first, he had the sudden urge to talk to Master Splinter as soon as he did.

"Hey Don?" Leo called as he sat on the makeshift bed in the cluttered lab.

"Yea Leo?"

"I'm going to meditate for a while, I'll be in my room if you need me."

Don nodded and continued typing away at his computer.

As Leo opened the lab door the sickly feeling intensified, he pushed past the uncertainty and headed towards his room. Before he went though he looked around, "Mikey?...Raph?"

No answer, not a snicker or a mumble, just a hallowed out silence. Leo's concern was over flowing now.

'Just keep moving, go talk to Splinter...those two probably just went to go get pizza or something.'

When Leo finally made it to his room he quickly lit a few candles and crisscrossed on the ground. Soon enough he was in the spirit realm face to face with Master Splinter, telling him a full report of the past few days.

He also made sure he included details of how Raph was now supporting Mikey.

Through the whole report Splinter stroked his beard in deep thought. "My son...this is most grave news...Michelangelo seems to be stuck in his own spiritual turmoil. But please do not put your brothers assumptions down so quickly. Have you given any thought as to if Michelangelo was actually giving you the truth about this shadow creature?"

Leo looked down in shame. "Not at all Master...in fact...that night when we had to rescue Mikey down in the water me and Raph saw...something...it looked like a pair of red eyes. Instead of being like Raph and believing Mikey once he saw the evidence I just...denied it and went on. I didn't give a second thought. Until now."

Master Splinter saw the evident guilty features cascade over his eldest son's features, he sat a hand on the now shamed turtle. "Leonardo, do not burden yourself with your own mistakes. You know what to think of now, I believe you can find the truth in all of this mess an-"

A shudder went through Master Splinters body, he felt two of his sons souls weaken.

"Leonardo...when you first started meditating were all of your brothers in the lair?"

Leo shook his head hesitantly, he saw the dire look in his fathers eyes. "Why? Is something wrong?"

Master Splinter took a deep breath and gathered himself. "I believe so...Leonardo listen carefully, I have been meaning to tell you the state of the damiyo for a time now.

In the week I have been gone and helping the care takers stabilize his health, it has been gradually been getting worse no matter what we do."

Leo nodded at this like he understood but Master Splinter saw the gleam of confusion cross his sons face.

"Over the course of the week the caretakers took a sample of his blood and believe that he has been poisoned.

The reason I have told you this information is because just the other day I saw the thing that you have been describing to me. I believe that this shadow demon is truly real and has been effecting both Michelangelo and the damiyo."

Leo cocked his head to the side. "But...Master Splinter...why? It just doesn't add up!"

Master Splinter bowed his head a bit in thought. "I'm not sure as to why myself, my son. But, I do know one thing, I sense that Michelangelo and Raphael are in grave danger.

Please Leonardo be sure to support Michelangelo's story for now, I think what he is telling you is all too real.

Also, after you return to the physical realm I want you to gather your brothers and come to this dimension. I think we have a powerful and most evil being among us."

Leo nodded his head already making a quick mental plan, he slowly rose and bowed to his sensei.

As he returned to the physical realm he faintly heard Master Splinter say good luck. As soon as Leo opened his eyes he stood and ran for the lab to collect Donny first, Leo quickly explained the situation they were now in.

Don was a bit skeptical at first but gave in when he heard that all this was on Master Splinters instincts. Don questioned alot of things, that was what scientist did after all, but one thing he learned over the years was to never doubt his fathers instincts.

"Alright Leo, let me just gather my stuff and we can go."

Leo nodded and waited as Donny loaded his old duffel bag that he always carried everywhere they went.

Only a minute later Leo's thoughts trailed back to his and Splinters conversation. His eyes widened as he remembered the warning of Mikey and Raphs safety.

'What did he mean by that?! I thought he meant to keep an extra eye on them when I got back...no...shell. They were gone when I first started meditating...does that mean...'

"LEO!"

"Wha?!" Leo panted and looked at Don confused.

The brainy turtle scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry bro, you were in some sort of trance...you looked terrified...you ok?"

Leo was in a cold sweat now, the sickening feeling he had before he had started meditating had come back with a vengeance. He clutched his stomach fighting the urge to start vomiting everywhere.

Don's concern intensified as he saw his elder brothers skin tone drop to a pale sickly green.

"Leo."

Don put both his hands on the now shivering turtle and made him look in his eyes. "Come on bro, tell me what's wrong."

Leo shook his head, coming out of his horrific trance. "I-that thing...it was in my head..." Leo said, clearly lieing. "We gatta- we gatta find Mikey and Raph. There in trouble."

Don nodded slowly and stepped back, as Leo turned to open the door Don kept a close eye on him just in case he went back into his trance.

As the two raced around the lair calling there missing brothers names there stomachs twisted with worry.

The last room that was checked was Mikeys, Don gasped as the faint smell of blood came into his senses. He entered the room cautiously, Leo followed suit in the same fashion.

Don gasped as he spotted the substance responsible for the repulsive smell, there in the middle of Mikeys trash covered floor was two small puddles of blood.

Leo rushed over to the scene and was quick to discover a note that was stuck to the floor with Raphs sais.

The sais were missing there handles, this sent a chill down both Leo and Don's backs, beside the letter he found Mikeys nunchucks in a broken heap, the chains were broken in half and were tied around one lone shell cell that was stained with blood.

The cell phone looked to be completely broken.

Leo knelt beside the clues and found that the letter was turned over to where they couldn't see what the demon had wrote.

This meant that he would have to remove the sharp weapons that held there only clue.

He sighed then closed his eyes and started to remove the two sais from the ground, since there was no handles the edge of the sharp weapons they dug mercilessly into his skin as he pulled at them.

Leo breathed through the pain and let Don pick up the blood stained letter. He read it aloud ignoring the disturbing fact that the letter was written was written with blood.

'Dear turtles, I assume if you are reading this you have finally realized that I have your two brothers. Its a pity you weren't all together but this set back has put me in a much more grand position of authority, wouldn't you agree? In any case, the location of your brothers can be found on the broken cell shell that lies with your brothers weapon. I hope to see you soon we are all missing your company.'

Don shuddered as he finished reading the letter, before he moved to get the shell cell he noticed a small p.s. at the bottem he read it to himself.

'If you are wondering whose blood this is, don't worry I didn't waste my own.'

Don's eyes widened, he stood in shock from the sick comment that was made then shook his head and looked over to Leo who was just getting over shock himself.

"A-alright. We have a lead. Lets do this." Leo sounded anything but confident in what he said.

None the less Don acted as if everything were normal and nodded his head with a new determination in his eyes.

Before he left the room he took a look at Leo who had not moved since he made the semi brave statement.

Don cringed as his eyes meet Leo's mangled hand. He walked over to his fearless leader and guided him out of the room silently.

Once at the lab Don sat Leo down on a fairly new exam table he had found and cleaned in the junk yard. Once he sat Leo down and got out his supplys and started to clean and wrap Leo's hand, then, Don ended the procedure with giving Leo some painkillers.

He put a hand on Leo's shoulder and slowly told Leo he was going to go to his computer and trace the signal from the other shell cell. After he explained he carefully leaned the shaken turtle back until his head meet with a soft pillow.

Upon seeing no reaction from his eldest brother except a blank stare, Don covered Leo with a thin blanket.

Don knew that Leo was in mild shock, shell, he wasn't sure how he wasn't himself! There was no time to ponder that now, though. He had work to do and a very little time span to do it in.

Don quickly hooked a cord to the near broken phone and let his tracking system program load. After what seemed like forever the map that would contain a small dot to specify where his brothers were popped up.

As Don carefully scanned the map he found himself at a loss.

"H-how are they not on the map?!"

He thought to himself for a while when finally... "Maybe...just maybe..."

Don clicked a button that immediately expanded the map to a world map instead of the country's map.

Upon not finding anything Don went to the last setting.

There universe, the scan wouldn't be exactly on target but it would at least give him an idea as to where in the shell his brothers were.

He gave his computer time to load when finally the target was zeroed in. Don cocked his head in confusion.

"The damyios dimension?"