Chapter 2: Man Slaughter
The two teens ran across the street and stood on the path at the very edge of Raph's lawn.
They stared hopelessly at the basket ball that lay just 10 feet away. Donnie sighed and put a hand on Casey's shoulder. "Sorry man." He sighed and turned to leave, but Casey quickly grabbed his arm.
"Donnie wait! Yer all grown up now, ya get it!" He smiled.
Donnie's eyes widened in disbelief. "Casey your ball just landed on Raphael Hora's lawn. It doesn't exist anymore." He insisted. "I payed twenty eight dollars for that ball. I ran 10 miles and asked my Mom for a dollar twenty six times, I've never worked that hard in my life." Casey groaned.
Donnie rolled his eyes and looked at his watch.
He frowned and looked back at the house in confusion. "Raph hasn't come out yet." The turtle said out loud as he watched the door and the two windows, but not one of them moved.
"So?" Casey asked.
"So maybe he's sleeping. Alright I'll do it." He sighed and stepped closer to the grass. "I'll never forget this, hurry though." Casey said. Donnie nodded and ran towards the ball, he was just about to pick it up when the door suddenly creaked open and a livid Raph stepped out.
"No." Don whispered in fear when he saw him.
Raph ran straight at him but Donnie ducked out of the just in time. "YER AS GOOD AS DEAD!" Raph screamed and ran for him again. Donnie ran as fast as he could towards Casey, but before he could get there Raph grabbed his arms and lifted him up in the air.
"YA THINK YA CAN JUST COME HERE TERRORISE MY LAWN?!" He screamed in the mutant teen's face.
"No I'm sorry!" Donnie cried. "YA WANNA BE A DEAD PERSON!? THIS PLACE IS NOT A PLAY GROUND FOR CHILDREN!" Raph shouted angrily. "No I love life, I got it from now on." Don whimpered in fear.
"THIS IS MY HOUSE! WHY CAN'T YA RESPECT THAT?! WHY CAN'T YA JUST STAY AWAY FROM MY-"
Raph Hora suddenly frozen. Donnie was completely frozen in fear. Still holding Donatello, Raphael slowly fell towards the ground until he was unconscious on top of the mutant teen.
The two teenagers were in such shook that they failed to notice the front door slamming shut or the thick black smoke bellowing from the chimney...
In about 20 minuets an ambulance arrived.
The two paramedics quietly loaded the elderly turtle onto a stretcher and started to wheel him away. His left arm slipped off and a strand of grass wrapped around his finger, but it soon lost it's grip.
As they wheeled Raph away Donnie noticed something shining in the grass.
He picked it up and saw that it was a shiny silver key with a blue heart shaped diamond at the hilt. Suddenly the stretcher seemed to be stuck. What everyone failed to notice were the strands of grass that were wrapping themselves around one of the wheels.
When the paramedics finally pulled the stretcher free they didn't see the missing wheel get pulled into the ground.
Donnie watched as the ambulance drove away from the house. "No sirens dude, that's never a good sign." Casey said hopelessly as he and Donnie turned back to Raph's house.
"I'm a murder." Don said in disbelief.
"No yer not, when it's an accident they call it man slaughter." Casey smiled. All of a sudden a black car pulled up in Donnie's drive way. Karai was here...
Oroku Karai was an 20 year old human girl.
She was Donatello's height and was quite slender. Karai also had short, dark black hair with a large portion of it dyed blond in the back. She wore bright red eye liner over the tips of her eyebrows.
Oroku Karai wore a smack brown biker jacket with metal studs all over it, a black shirt underneath the jacket and blue jeans.
Donnie walked in his house and saw Karai looking for everyone. She smiled when she saw Donnie. "Hey Donnie, I just saw an ambulance did I miss anything interesting?" She asked.
"Karai, can I talk to you for a second?" Don asked. "Sure thing green-bean, where are your folks?" The human asked.
"They already left." Don sighed. "Ok usually deal, indoors at nine, in your room by eleven, lights out is your call." She listed. The mutant turtle groaned because she wouldn't let him talk.
"Listen up, I control the TV, stereo and the phone." Karai added quickly.
"Don't talk to me like I'm a baby! I don't even need you here Karai!" Donatello exclaimed. Karai smirked and casually picked up one of his mother's plant pot, suddenly she let it go and it smashed all over the floor.
Donnie gasped.
"Gosh Donnie, why'd you do that?" Karai asked. "But I didn't." Don argued. "Yeah but who do you think their going to believe?" Karai grinned. Donnie growled and stormed upstairs to his room...
When Donnie came into his room he slammed his door shut and looked around the bed room.
His room had purple wallpaper, a black carpet and on the walls were dozens of posters of diagrams and pictures of famous scientists. Donnie dug into his pocket and pulled out the key he had found on Raph's lawn.
There was not a single bit of rust or a scratch on it.
It almost looked brand new. However, Donnie notice something engraved into the key that said 'Made In 1951 New York'. That meant that this key was made about 45 years ago.
Donnie sighed and threw the key on his desk that still had his notebook and his pictures of Raphael.
Donnie walked over to his window and looked across the street and at the now empty house. The turtle sighed again, he moved the telescope away as he felt that there was no need for it anymore.
He closed the blinds and fell asleep on the bed...