me: hello readers, this chapter took a bit longer than i though it would and was a lot longer than I initially thought so the next chapter really WILL be the final conclussion to Casey's story arc. Enjoy!

May 2nd… 2012… 12:10am… The Lair…

When a person makes a mistake, and doesn't correct it, then that is another mistake. When a person doesn't realize he/she made a mistake and think their actions brought a noble outcome, then you may have trouble in your near future. This was very much the case with Raph. His first mistake: leaving his brothers to go fight someone he had no reason to fight against. His second mistake: He didn't re-join his brothers until after they had to fight the Kraang without him. His third mistake: He assumed too much in thinking another person was going to be killed. His fourth mistake: He revealed himself to another person when there was no need to. His fifth mistake: Unintentionally antagonising the same person. His sixth mistake: Not realising the consequences of his actions and thinking that somehow, he made a good difference. Six mistakes in one night and upon learning the events of the night from his sons, Master Splinter was quietly furious with Raph. For being a ninja as he had been trained to do and for potentially bringing all of them out of the shadows. Master Splinter was quiet, which made Raph a little nervous about his response.

"Raphael. Tonight, you have displayed irresponsible actions, and yet you do not realise that your actions will bring unwanted consequences?" Master Splinter said in a tone that said he was demanding full attention. That was directed at Raph so the other three turtles didn't feel that tone at them. And though they were sat, kneeling on the floor and close to one another, only Raph could feel that tone on him.

"Sensei, he wasn't going to stop, he was the most brutal person you ever met- "it was then that Mikey leaned in towards Raph,

"Except for you!" Mikey said as he grinned and was hit on the head by Raph in response and making him flinch back to his previous kneeling position,

"If I hadn't done what I did, there would've been a dead person tonight." Raph said as he justified his actions, and even though the other four couldn't fault him on that, there was one thing he was missing,

"Raphael, I know you meant well, but violence in any city is sadly common. And you have also got to know beyond doubt and your own assumptions that a violent act will take place. From what you told me about the act in question here, I feel as though a death was not about to happen." Master Splinter's words caught Raph's bewilderment,

"But Sensei, he was armed and looming over the guy like he was going to finish the job!" Raph said but Master Splinter was prepared for it,

"You assume too much, Raphael. If this vigilante had the mission to kill the other man, he would have done so as you were approaching him." Something in those words made something inside Raph's mind click. Sure, it didn't take long for him approach the vigilante from behind, but also in that time, the vigilante could've easily killed the other man. Seeing this, Master Splinter dismissed the four turtles to rest for the night and to have Raph think over his actions he made tonight.

8:06am…

After a good night's rest and a nice breakfast, Raph thought that his actions from the night were forgiven. He was so wrong about that. It was only five minutes into their morning training, and already his arms and legs were starting to shake under the strain he found himself in. As his three brothers were just about beginning teamwork exercises and sparring sessions, Master splinter devised that Raph should be punished for his actions last night. So, he had Raph stay in a horse stance (his legs positioned like being sat on a horse), and made sure his thighs were horizontal and told him not to move a single muscle, for if he did then the two bowls of water on his thighs would tip not only on him but the dojo floor as well. There were also two bowls of water on his shoulders, his arms were out in front of him with two cups of water balanced on the back of his hands and a single bowl of water balanced on the top of his head. Raph was in quite the predicament he found himself in. If he moved in any way, he would soak himself and the dojo, and then Master Splinter would rub salt in the wound by having him clean up the dojo. Master Splinter knew how capable Raph was at maintaining a solid stance, now he just needed to work on staying perfectly still. And much to his annoyance, his three brothers found this sight to be a huge laugh.

"I should've made a camera! I know this image is going to be remembered, but an actual picture would've been nice!"

"Dudes, what would happen if we tried to tickle him?"

"Mikey, no. He would knock you into next week!"

"It's a cause worth dying for!"

"Imagine if he were covered in itching powder!"

"Donnie, Sensei is strict but he's not cruel."

It was then that Master Splinter, who was standing at the bridge in the middle of The Lair had spoken up,

"Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo. The three of you will engage two on one for one minute, after which you will change partners until you have teamed with each other once." Master Splinter instructed.

"That's three matches between the three of us so makes three minutes." Donnie concluded and he spoke to make sure that Raph could hear him. The results were him glaring at all three of his brothers as if to say, 'just get it over with already'. Then after a few seconds of teasingly moving about to start, training was eventually in session.

8:10am…

Usually, three minutes wouldn't sound like a long time. However, if a person would be in Raph's position, three minutes would feel like hours. Being stuck in a horse stance for three minutes, with bowls and cups of water being balanced on different parts of his body and with his Sensei keeping him from brawling with his annoying brothers with only his gaze alone.

Raph was finally allowed to have a break when the three minutes were up and his Sensei carefully (and slowly) removed the bowls and cups (one by one). Unsurprisingly, Leo, Donnie and Mikey didn't bother helping and simply sat in a kneeling position, waiting for the next part of Master Splinter's training session.

Eventually, when Master Splinter removed the last bowl from his leg, he motioned for Raph to finally exit his stance. Which Raph did, clumsily, by falling flat on his shell with exasperated groans and moaning.

"…uuuhhh… finally…" was all about he could manage,

"I hope you have learned the importance of patience and staying put, Raphael." Master Splinter said and Raph could only respond with raising his arm up and giving a thumbs up gesture and a groan as he did.

"Good, now we can proceed with the remainder of morning training." Master Splinter said with Leo, Donnie and Mikey all responding with, "Hai, Sense!".

9:30am…

The training session could not have ended any slower for Raph. After sitting in a horse stance for what felt like ours, only finish with ninjitsu forms and techniques, Raph felt like doing nothing more than relaxing on the sofa and watching whatever program he liked. Though as a lack of luck would have it, there was nothing on that caught Raph's eye, and simply kept the channel on for the Channel Six news. Maybe something exciting on the news would get his attention.

"This is Carlos Chang O'Brian Gambe here for the Channel Six news with a new update on New York's vigilante." This definitely caught Raph's attention, "With the number of hospitalised Purple Dragon gang members increasing, police believe if something isn't done about this, the violence will only get worse. And so, the police have begun an investigation on the identity of the mystery vigilante." Raph had no doubt that it was the same vigilante whom he had fought last night. Though what Raph didn't realize was that Leo was standing behind the sofa,

"You know something…"

"WOAH!" Raph was surprised that he didn't notice Leo standing behind where he sat. He blamed it on his tired muscles, but he turned to Leo,

"Seriously, you gotta learn not to go sneaking around our own home!" Raph complained but Leo just gave him a slight smile as if repressing a chuckle,

"But, I wasn't sneaking, Raph. My footsteps were normal and I did announce myself before coming over but you probably didn't hear me." At that, Raph looked at Leo a little bit dumbstruck but Leo continued talking even though he saw Raph's expression,

"Anyway, you know what we must do later on tonight, right?" Leo asked and Raph looked towards the TV with the report on the vigilante having finished up. Raph also knew,

"We have to find this vigilante." Raph said and Leo agreed,

"That's right. We have to find him, TALK to him, and find out if we're on the same side." Leo put an emphasis on 'talk'. Raph knew why and it just annoyed him.

"WHAT? You think I can't talk to a guy?" Raph said as he raised the tone of his voice to sound about as annoyed as he felt,

"Well so far, no." and from there another argument ensued.

From the kitchen and Donnie's work table, the other two turtles could hear Raph's angry voice and Leo's annoyed tone, and chances were that Master Splinter could hear as well. But the two turtles knew better than to get in between those two when they were arguing.

Eventually, the arguing stopped and the two arguing turtles stopped the after argument glaring and walked away from each other. Leo probably went to a quiet and large open space of their home to meditate, and Raph with his blood boiling, went other to the training dummy to pound the stuffing out of it in order to vent his anger.

7:50pm… Eastman Land Abandoned Warehouse…

During the days as another homeless person living on the streets of New York, Casey was essentially invisible to others. There are sadly a lot of homeless people living on the city's streets and alleys, and one more seemed to happen almost every month or so. During the day, Casey would keep himself fed through the use of mobile kitchens that helped homeless people like him and good thing about it was that they didn't ask questions. However, as normal as that sadly was, what happened last night was far from normal. Getting jumped by a ninja-like turtle mutant, fighting said mutant and losing to him was definitely not an everyday occurrence. But it wasn't like he could report this to the police, any way he would try to explain it, he would no doubt be found out as New York's vigilante but his descriptions would likely end up with him in an asylum.

Losing didn't stick well with Casey, and whoever this turtle mutant is, he was going to make sure not just to get even, but also to prove that he was also the better fighter. Casey was determined to make sure of it, as well as placing the smack-down on a few more Purple Dragons as well.

With this in mind, he geared up in his vigilante outfit, with his numerous weapons ready to use and set out to scour the city of more Purple Dragons to beatdown and a rival fighter to beatdown as well.

"CASEY JONES WILL NOT STAY DOWN OR STAY BEATEN!"

9:22pm… New York City Rooftops…

Scouting the city for one man amongst an entire city's population would be like trying to get hit by lightning- you weren't going to have much luck. Though that didn't stop Leo from barking orders,

"Okay guys, I know looking for one guy amongst an entire city population is a tall order- "he was then interrupted by Raph,

"Understatement of the century." He said in a deadpan tone of voice, but nonetheless, Leo continued,

"But we may have some luck. We just shadow some of the Purple Dragon criminals that he's targeting until he shows up. Or we end up finding some badly beaten Purple Dragons as we do so and just follow the trail from there." Leo had given the order and even though the other three turtles complied, it didn't stop Raph giving off a disgruntled grunt.

10:44pm…

It had been over an hour of scouring the rooftops, but they eventually found what they were looking for. In an alley down below, a lone woman holding a handbag was in the process of being mugged by some Purple Dragons, and even though Raph wanted to show them whose boss, he not only remembered what Splinter did to him to teach him about patience and keeping still in the shadows but he also saw the target of their search.

"Guys, over here." The other three listened and walked over to where Raph was looking down below and they saw what he saw.

Standing at the entrance to the alley, was the very vigilante they had been searching for. He wielded a hockey stick in his right hand and was tapping it against the ground so the noise attracted the attention of the thugs.

"Purple Dragons… come out and plaaayyyy…" he said in a taunting tone of voice as he approached the thugs,

"It's that wacko in the hockey mask! Let's get him!" one of the thugs said and with that the Purple Dragons charged the vigilante, and from above, Raph could only comment at the ensuing fight,

"Looks like this is gonna be good!"

One the Purple Dragons threw a wild swing at the vigilante only for Casey to counter by sidestepping and whacking the attacker with the hockey stick and knocked him to the ground, next up was another Purple Dragon who could only charge at Casey but didn't get the chance to attack as Casey simply smacked him on the top of his head with the hockey stick and knocked him to the ground. Casey then turned his attention the last remaining thug he flinched at the sight of him and didn't attack as Casey made the first move and swung his weapon at the thugs face and knocked him flat on his back. Casey wasn't yet done however as he then approached the downed thug he wasn't yet unconscious,

"I'm putting you punks out of business." Casey said as he raised his hockey stick up and swung across the thug's head with a loud THUD! The thug then went limp on the ground, unconscious for sure. As were the other two thugs and during the scuffle, the woman they were mugging had run off from the alley.

Up above, the four turtles voiced they own opinions on the fight,

"Well that was quick!" Donnie said,

"Yeah, that was almost kind of lame." Mikey said, expressing his disappointment at a boring fight,

"But no killing." Leo said and although Raph didn't admit it out loud, he understood then that last night, he did in fact jump to the wrong conclusion and acted far too soon.

"We follow him to see what he does next, and we do not make any moves until it's absolutely necessary." Leo ordered and Raph then chose at that moment to express his own disappointment (albeit with sarcasm),

"You know, one of these days you're gonna just order an all-out assault, guns blazing!"

11:09pm… National Park…

Unaware of the four shadows that were trailing him, Casey went to patrol New York's National Park, a large open area that had beautiful green fields, ponds and trees. It was also a favoured hotspot for gang activity and it was no different for the Purple Dragons. Though like any gang activity, for whatever reason than to be shady, the Purple Dragons had opted to stay within the darker areas of the park that the trees provided. This was perfect for Casey, since the shadows played a role in unleashing successful surprise attacks. In one such dark area that Casey was hiding in, he spotted a small group of four Purple Dragons in an open area and they in the middle of what appeared to be a street weapons deal that consisted mainly of pocket knives. Any deal made by Purple Dragons was bad news in Casey's book and that was all the motivation that he needed.

The four Purple Dragons never knew what was coming, blissfully unaware of the vigilante in the shadows of the park until the shout of "GOONGALA!" suddenly rang in all four of their ears… three since Casey seemingly came out of nowhere and hit one over the head with his baseball bat. Surprised but deterred, the remaining three Purple Dragons and Casey circled each other until they ended up swapping places. For the Purple Dragons, it would be the next mistake they would make.

Hidden amongst the shadows in the trees, the four ninja turtles looked on atop the branches as the lone vigilante launched a surprise attack on the Purple Dragons.

"You know, for someone who isn't a ninja, that guy just pulled off a good surprise attack." Donnie said as he complimented the vigilante's actions but Leo just frowned at the statement,

"No Donnie. A good surprise is making sure you keep the surprise going. Because look…" at this Leo pointed to the vigilante and the Purple Dragons that were circling each other, "… that gang is no longer surprised."

"That guy could probably take 'em down, but I say we show him what a real surprise attack is." Raph said and Mikey piped up at this statement,

"Ooh! Can I do the honours?" Mikey asked as he brought out the kusarigama extensions of his nunchucks. Leo grinned at this and made the encouragement,

"Go for it, Mikey!"

Turning their backs to the trees was definitely a mistake that the Purple Dragons definitely did not see coming. After all, who would've guessed that a chain and hook would wrap around the ankles of one the gang members and drag him feet first into the darkness that the trees provided with him screaming at the top of his lungs? No-one would've guessed that, but alas it did happen and when it did the other three turned their attention to the dark area where the Purple Dragon was dragged off to, but Casey saw the opportunity presented to him and using his baseball bat, he attacked the two surprised Purple Dragons and knocked them to the ground. As one the downed gang members sat up holding his head with his right hand, the same chain and hook suddenly flew out of the shadows and wrapped around the man's hand and said man had only a second to be surprised as the chain dragged him into the same shadows head first with him screaming as loudly as his fellow gang member. The fourth and final Purple dragon opted not to let this happen to him, and decided to run away, but before he could even get onto his feet, the vigilante suddenly appeared before him and delivered a hard kick to the Purple Dragon's face, knocked him onto his back and rendering him unconscious.

Thanks to the help of whoever it was in the shadows of the trees, Casey brought about vigilante justice to the Purple Dragons once again. But he then turned towards the trees where his help came from.

The only reason why the Purple Dragons had stopped screaming a second after they were dragged into the dark was because they were met with a strong blow to each of their heads that rendered them unconscious. For now. Once the vigilante finished the fourth remaining Purple Dragon and turned toward the trees that they were hiding in, Leo gave his next order,

"Okay guys, we can now reveal ourselves. No-one else is around to see us." Leo said and at that, the four ninja turtles leapt from the shadows and into the vigilante's line of sight.

Although Casey had met the four turtles last night, he was still just as amazed and bewildered by the sight of them. Even more so when it seemed that the four turtles were helping him and not fighting him as one of them was doing last night. And yet despite this, Casey still felt the need to raise his baseball bat as if ready for another fight. Seeing this, Leo raised his hands as a show of not wanting to fight as he approached the vigilante but still kept his distance. Raph on the other hand had clenched his fists and readied himself to fight the vigilante again.

"Woah, woah! Easy. We're not here to fight." Leo said in hopes that the vigilante would listen, but when the vigilante's gaze was on Raph, Leo could see why he was ready to fight as he could see that Raph was just itching to fight. Leo looked towards Raph with a look that told Raph to stand down. Raph saw this and although no words were exchanged between the two, Raph still got the hint and relaxed his stance and simply folded his arms and looked away from Leo.

When Casey saw this action, he still wasn't convinced of their next action and kept himself ready to fight the four turtles. Leo saw this and continued talking,

"We just want to talk." Although Leo's intentions were honest, Casey didn't see it that way,

"Oh what? So you can talk me into putting my mask up and live quietly? Well boohoo! Cause that ain't happening! Not if I have anything to say about it! GOONGALA!" at that shout of that last word, Casey charged at the turtles, and Raph was quick to respond by raising his twin sai and charging ahead of his brothers (who were standing idle), and met the vigilante head on with his own honest intentions of wanting to fight being brought out.

Casey vs Raphael (round two)

The moment that Raph and Casey crashed into each other with their weapons in a deadlock and the two trying to overpower the other, Donnie and Mikey raised their own weapons and tried to join Raph, but for whatever reason, Leo stood in front of them and kept them away from the two hot-headed combatants. Donnie and Mikey were confused, why wouldn't Leo let them help their brother?

"Leo? You do know it's all for one and one for all, right?" Donnie said and Mikey supported this claim,

"Yeah dude. We never leave a turtle to fight alone… even if he did ditch us once." Mikey said in support(ish).

"Agreed. But we only came here to talk to the guy to see if we are on the same side. Besides, when two hot-heads fight each other, the best thing to do is wait until they have blown off some steam. Unless, getting your faces caved in is on your list of things to do today." Leo said and when he did, Donnie and Mikey not only listened but agreed with that statement,

"I suddenly want to keep my head on." Donnie said in reference to Raph's strength,

"Yeah, let's just let them get on with it." Mikey said.

And get on with it, they did. After failing to overpower each other, they both broke away from each other, and Casey went on the offensive by swinging the bat at Raph's head, but as he did, Raph ducked underneath the swing and swung a kick at the vigilante's arm. The attack connected and effectively disarmed Casey of one of his weapons. Casey was not going to let that stop him, and pulled a hockey stick from the golf bag on his back. He swung at Raph's head with the hockey stick several times, but each time, Raph would either duck underneath or sway back, effectively dodging all the attacks. After Casey's last attack missed Raph, he did the same thing as before and kicked Casey's weapon out of his hands and disarmed him again.

"Hockey season's over!" Raph taunted,

"Yeah? Well baseball is IN season! Batter up!" Casey responded as he pulled out two more baseball bats out from his golf bag.

"Fine! Playball!" Raph said as the two began to circle each other before charging at each other once again. The two crashed into each other again with their weapons locked into each other,

"Stay outta my way, green… lizard… thing!"

"TURTLE! Tur-tle! That's what we are, Einstein!"

The two then broke away again and Casey went on the offensive again and swung his bats at Raph's midsection. Raph got hit by the bats and landed on the ground shell first. Luckily his midsection was also armoured by his plastron and didn't get the wind knocked out of him like it would do to a normal person.

"Like I care!" Casey said as he raised his bats and swung them down at Raph's face. Raph reacted and raised his twin sai up and blocked the attack and the fighter's weapons deadlocked again,

"Actually, I don't care either!" Raph said as he pushed himself up onto his feet and thrusted a kick forward into Casey's stomach. Casey fell backwards and rolled onto his knees and elbows and got up as quickly as he went down. "I'm still gonna kick your butt, just like I did last time!"

Casey wasn't going to take that lying down, so he charged at Raph with his martial arts target shield raised up. Raph tried to respond by stabbing at the shield with his twin sai but when the shield connected with his chest, the shield stopped the attack in its tracks and Casey pushed Raph back until he abruptly stopped and kicked Raph's midsection. Raph only staggered back and still remained on his feet and allowed the fight to continue on. Casey lunged at Raph in a shoulder tackle attack and Raph reacted by thrusting his palms forward at Casey's attacking shoulder and stonewalled the attack until he and Casey broke away a few feet from each other. Raph then took the offensive, he swung a round kick at Casey's head and when Casey blocked it with his martial arts shield, he then swung his bats at Raph's head who then dodged the attack by back-flipping away. Casey then attacked with the left bat, but Raph blocked it with his right sai, and then just as quickly, Casey attacked with the opposite bat and Raph blocked with the opposite sai, then when Casey attacked with the other bat, Raph ducked under the attack and countered by landing a successful punch to Casey's gut and then followed up by thrusting a front kick to his midsection. But Casey was not done yet, and with a surprising amount of retaliation, he swung his foot up high and the kick smacked right into Raph's jaw, sending him up off his feet then whilst in the air, Casey swung his bats at Raph who didn't have enough time to react as the bats connected with his midsection and sent him flying back until he hit his shell against a tree. Casey took the opportunity to charge at the downed turtle but Raph quickly got up and met the vigilante head on and shoulder tackled Casey in his ribcage which stunned him. Casey tried attack with his bats but as he was stunned the attacks were only half the power and speed and Raph easily dodged the attack before thrusting a punch to Casey's gut and then followed up by thrusting another to Casey's mask covering face which sent him staggering back and onto the ground on his back. Round two ended in Raph's favour.

Casey was beaten again, and although he wasn't going to admit that out loud and tried to get up on his own, his body just wouldn't allow it.

"Uh… I can't believe I just got my butt kicked again…" Casey muttered as he found the strength to at least place his hand on his head. Raph then approached the downed vigilante as he placed his twin sai back in his belt.

"Look I'm no fan of crooks and criminals either… but… ya gotta know… when to pick yer fights…" Raph said and at the last part of that sentence, Casey almost didn't hear him but he heard him as did the other three turtles who were watching and approached the two hot-heads.

"Oh, so Raphael has finally learned something important!" Leo said almost mockingly and Raph looked away from Leo with his arms folded,

"Yeah, whatever. I just didn't want… you-know-who dishing out another of his punishing lessons." Raph said as though it were the most obvious thing but the three brothers just snickered at this. Since they knew it was usually his way of admitting he learned his lesson. Casey looked on a bit puzzled at the scene before him and Raph turned to him,

"Picking fights with every single criminal you come across, sounds like a blast! But what if the next time you pick a random fight and the people you're fighting aren't the criminals you're looking for? What if their just ordinary people or other people who just made a mistake with the law? What then?" Raph said and although he wasn't thinking it, he acted just like Leo. Donnie and Mikey thought this but decided against saying out loud. Lest they find themselves wedged into a tree.

Casey listened to Raph who extended his hand out to help Casey up who took the hand and allowed Raph to pull him up onto his feet.

"Look, ya don't know what you're talking about." Casey said,

"Try me." Raph said almost like a dare. Casey didn't know why he did, but for reasons he didn't know, he lifted his mask off his face, revealing himself to the four turtles and made direct eye contact with Raph. The turtles were impressed with this amazing show of trust, even if they didn't know why.

"It's not a memory a like to recall…" Casey then recalled the events that happened that led to his vengeful acts against the Purple Dragons, from living peacefully(ish) with his Dad, going to school, training to be a Pro Hockey player and the terrible things that happened to him and his father, the Purple Dragons breaking into their shop and home, the Purple Dragon leader called Hun and the murder of his father, the fire that engulfed and destroyed his home and his decision to run away and fight rather than wallow in despair and wait for justice to be served.

As Casey was telling the turtles about the horrible events that happened to him in one single evening, they all looked downcast as they could only imagine what they would've done if Splinter had been killed. They shuddered at the thought and as Casey neared the end of his story he placed a hand on Raph's shoulder to lean on him as he could no longer look at him in the eye as he hung his head low as tears formed in his eyes and fell from his face. The turtles looked on and guessed that the vigilante had been keeping all his emotions bottled up and they burst as he told his emotionally damaging story. He needed an outlet and judging by the way he was leaning on Raph to keep himself from falling to his knees, now was definitely the time before all his bottled-up emotions and rage guided him to do something he would regret later.

When Casey was done with his tears, he once again looked Raph in the eye and withdrew his hand from Raph's shoulder,

"So don't tell me how to deal with Purple Dragons!" Casey said as his voice still had traces of being shaky,

"Just be careful, not choosing your fights right because of your anger can take yer down. Or make you act just like them!" Raph said and it was those words that dealt more damage to Casey than any of his attacks from their fight. The last thing he wanted to act just like a Purple Dragon thug. No. He had to be better than that.

"My… father… taught me about patience and choosing my fights… when I didn't get it the first time around…" Raph said and he knew he was going to regret mentioning his father figure and Sensei to a hot-headed vigilante.

"Patience and choosing fights… yeah, I can do that." Casey said as Raph's words sunk in,

"Well yeah, I mean, as much patience as a couple of hot-headed whack-bags like us can manage!" Raph joked and Casey caught on and joined in with the joke,

"Me? You're the only whack-bag here, doc!" Casey joked as he smiled for the first time since the murder of his Dad.

"Hey, I'm not half as crazy as you!" Raph said as he playfully jabbed at Casey's shoulder,

"Sorry, but for a little green dude, you are totally nuts!" Casey said as he also playfully jabbed Raph's arm, and noticing the similarities in their heights, Raph just had to point it out,

"Little? We're almost the exact same height! And anyway, I'm not the one running around in a hockey mask!" Raph said as his grin was growing and Casey just placed a hand over his chest as he said,

"I gotta protect my good looks! Besides, it looks cool!" Casey said with an equal amount of honesty and humour, "Besides, what about your friends here?" Casey then asked and Raph had to correct him,

"Brothers, actually." Raph said, "Meet, Leo, Mikey and Donnie." Raph introduced his brothers as he said their names as Mikey and Donnie waved hello (Mikey with more enthusiasm) and Leo simply nodded. "Ya already heard them call me Raphael, but just call me Raph." Raph said,

"And you can call me, Casey." Casey said as he held out his hand out for a handshake and Raph accepted the handshake but then the introductions were abruptly interrupted by a gruff voice in the backround, and it did not belong to any of the five present.

"Well, isn't this romantic!"

me: hey there! writing this chapter was a little more difficult than I thought, and i hope the results are to your liking! Until next time!