A/N: The epic fight scene, and three more chapters to come after this. Enjoy! comment.

Chapter 7

"He's mine," Leo shouted twirling his katana's .

"Aaargh," Shredder shouted pulling his arms out of Raph's grasp. He quickly turned and punched Raph in the stomach making him flinch.

I coughed and turned to my side. I pulled my staff up and lifted myself off the ground.

"Alex you okay?" Mikey said looking to me.

"Yeah Mikey," I shifted near him. We surrounded Shredder.

"So that's how you want to do it?" he said lifting his arms to us.

"He's going to use his blades again." Donnie said.

"YURI," I shouted to her.

"Take your sisters and get April, Casey and Vern out of here…." I shouted to her. She nodded and they ran to their cell. All of them forcefully tried to lift the bars.

"Hey Shredder," I said twirling my staff. We all circled him.

"We've had enough of you, and your vigilantes," Leo said.

"You haven't seen anything yet," Shredder said. He turned quickly on his feet and blades flew out of his arms.

"DOWN," Leo shouted as he pulled me down.

"Ninja's attack," Shredder said distracting us. We were suddenly surrounded by more then twenty ninjas.

"Great," I said backing up towards the guys.

"He's distracting us," Donnie said. He swung his bo into the air and down to the ground knocking out ninja's around him.

"I know…. He's planning something, or getting them to wear us down," I said to them.

I twirled my staff in to the air then around my back, I slide my footing away from the guys and swung my staff to the knees of five ninja's who surrounded me.

"Well let's take them out," Leo said swinging his swords in to the air attacking the ninja's near him.

"LET'S ROLL," Raph said swinging his sai's, he threw one in the air hitting a ninja taking him down.

"They're out numbered," Nina said looking to us. The seal on the bars didn't budge and there was no code near the gates that would unlock them.

"No, they can handle it, we do as they say…. We need to get out of here and get back up," Casey said to the girls.

"We won't have an advantage," Yuri said to her sisters.

"Let's do as Alex says get them out of here," she said to her sisters.

"Yeah," Mikey said throwing a punch at a ninja, and twirling his nunchucks in the air knocking some out. We managed to take out some of the ninja's when Shredder lifted his hand up. They all retracted back.

"Turtles," Shredder said circling us. We pushed in together, watching his moves.

"You managed to keep up with my ninja's," he said to them.

His armor changed around is body and shifted into a different form.

"What is that?" I said.

"His armor is changing," Donnie said nervously.

"Alex, he's become stronger," he said again pushing his gear to his head.

"Great," Leo said.

His armor shifted and changed around his body, he seemed to have a slick smooth surface with his arms as weapons. Blades protruded from his arms and hands.

"Stay here Alex," Raph said as he charged at him. He swung his sais at Shredder attacking his armor trying to crack it.

Shredder blocked his attacks with his blades.

"CAREFUL, RAPH HIS BLADES ARE COATED WITH POISON," I shouted at him.
"What," he shouted back pulling his arms over his face as Shredder threw punches at him.

Donnie jumped in to help him.

"IT'S A NINJA TACTIC, he's coated his blades with poison, watch your skin," I said to them.

"SILENCE," Shredder said swinging around Donnie and Raph throwing blades out of his arms at us.

We all dodged them, I swung my staff around at some of the blades.

"Damn," I said as a blade whizzed by my face.

Donnie grunted and swung his bo at Shredder attempting to break his armor. He lifted his bo and hit it against Shredders stomach.

He flinched but the armor didn't crack.

Leo jumped in and swung his katana's at Shredders blades as they retracted to his arms breaking a few of them.

"Stupid turtle," Shredder said shaking his arms.

"Cowabunga," Mikey shouted as he charged at Shredder. He jumped over Raph's shell using it for a boost and swung his nunchucks at Shredders shoulder. It cracked his armor.

"Yes," I said. I heard the girls at the gate as they tried to pry weapons against the metal bars.

"ENOUGH," Shredder said shifting his feet around he bent down and jumped to the air.

The guys backed away.

Shredder jumped to the ground and rammed a fist to the concrete floor breaking it. His armor shook and broke off his body, his arm blades shifted against his arms.

He stood up his armor was completely destroyed.

"He's going to fight hand to hand combat," I said to the guys. I swung my staff around my body and in to its holster on my back.

The guys put their weapons away.

Shredder then lifted a hand to us, and a huge beam of power surged through his arm blades and into the air. It threw all of us to the ground.

"Uuuuh," I said holding my arm.

"What was that…." Donnie said rolling over on to his shell.

"Everyone ok," Leo asked as he picked himself up.

"AAAH," I half shouted, he had hit me with a blade. I was cut along my side and my suit was bleeding.

"CRAP," Raph hissed he pressed his hand against my side.

"Shredder enough of this," Casey shouted at him. I looked over to the girls who had given up on the gate and were now near us.

"Hahaha," Shredder said pacing in his spot. The ninja's around us shifted near Shredder.

"She could be poisoned," Yuri said leaning over me.

"I have something in my pouch," I said to them feeling my skin burn.

Mikey reached in to the pouch I pointed too and pulled out a red powder.

"What is this?" he asked opening the cap.

"It's junberry powder from Japan," I said.

"I've heard of it," Aki said she took it from Mikey and tapped some on her fingers and pressed it against the cut.

"AAH," I shouted. It defiantly burned.

"That's it," Leo said standing up.

"Why are you doing this Shredder?" he said pulling out his katana's.

"To end you mutants, to create a new army," he said throwing his hands to the air.

"That's never going to happen," Raph said throwing a sai at Shredder, he blocked it with his arm pinning it to the wall behind him.

"Ninja's, take them…. Lock them up," Shredder said to his men. All the ninja's jumped us including the girls.

"AAhhh," I shouted covering my body. They didn't seem to be attacking me, they didn't even touch me.

"Alex," Nina said hovering over me. Raph noticed them protecting me and shifted near us as he tried to fight off the ninjas.

The ninja's managed to subdue the guys pushing them into the cell I was in, the gate shut down behind them.

"HEY…" the guys shouted trying to pull the gate up.

"HEY," Yuri shouted as she and her sisters were pulled into the other cell with April, Casey and Vern.

"Hey hey watch it," Vern shouted as he and Casey tried to push out the ninja's.

"April," Casey shouted to her as she tried to slide away, but she was pulled back.

I rolled over to my side and on to my knees.

"What's the big idea Shredder?" I said trying to catch my breath.

Shredder waved his hand to one of the ninja soldiers near him. He threw him a bo.

"Alex, get out of there… get away," Mari shouted at me. Everyone in the cell tried to shake the bars or break them in some way.

I turned around and jumped to my feet.

I shook my arms trying to compose myself.

"The poison won't kill you," Shredder said twirling the bo with one hand.

"Your protected by your staff," he said pacing in front of me.

"What do you know about my staff," I hissed at him.

"I know its from Shinto temple, the place I burnt down," he said twirling the staff around his body.

"You burnt down the Shinto training grounds," Yuri hissed at him.

"Turtles, I give you the honour of watching what a real warrior can do," he said turning around with his arms in the air. His arm pieces broke off his arms and to the ground.

"You see, she was trained by high monks the art of shadow fighting…." He said shaking his finger in the air.

"YOU HURT HER IN ANYWAY SHREDDER I SWEAR IT….." Raph shouted angrily through the gate.

"Quiet down turtle, you'll get your chance to destroy me…. Once I destroy her STAFF," Shredder shouted at me. He ran at me and swung his bo hitting my staff. I planted it in the ground and used it as a shield blocking his blow.

My staff shook but didn't break.

"What the…" Shredder said jumping back away from me.

"My turn," I said I swung my staff over my head and around my body, and struck him in the side with it.

He flinched and fell to his hands and knees.

"YEAH," Everyone shouted.

"See Shredder, even though the temple was burnt down, I still met one of the monks who trained me," I said circling him twirling my staff with one hand.

"And he…. Fixed my staff," I said to him. I noticed the ninja's shift closer to us.

"Not a chance," Shredder said reaching for something in his pocket.

"ALEX, STAY AWAY FROM HIM," Donnie shouted to me. I looked to him and that's when a powder struck me in the face.

"Aaah," I said and shifted away from Shredder. He jumped to his feet.

"What…." I stuttered blinking my eyes.

"He blinded her," Leo hissed angrily, that's when I heard their weapons clash against the metal bars.

"I… I can't see," I said frantic, I waved my hands in to the air trying to feel anything around me.

"We need to help her," Nina said to her sisters.

"ALEX HE'S THREE STEPS IN FRONT OF YOU," Nina shouted to me.

I took a deep breath to concentrate, I remembered my training at the shrine where the monks would blind us with temporary powder and teach us how to fight blind.

"No point in coaching her," Shredder said to Nina as he hovered around me.

"See that's why I killed all the monks there," He said swinging his bo around him and striking me in the side. I fell to the ground.

"Aaah," I said shifting to my knees.

"They train their ninja's to fight blind," He said lifting his staff and striking me on the back. I fell down again.

"Hey not fair," April and Vern shouted.

"SHREDDER LEAVE HER ALONE," The guys all shouted.

Shredder stepped away from me and let me compose myself. I rolled over on my back and closed my eyes.

"Alex, always remember shadows have sounds… you can hear them if you listen with your staff," I remembered the words of Akima say to me.

"Shift your body and your staff with their shadows…. Like a dance," I heard his voice say in my head.

I shifted up to my feet and held my staff straight out in front of me.

"Alex," I heard Shredders voice in front of me. I let my staff guide me. I shifted my feet as Shredder shifted his.

I followed his moves in a circle.

"You don't seem to understand, I kill you infront of your mutants, then I'll kill their friends, and finally…. I'll kill each and every one of them," he said taunting me.

"Alex," I heard the voices of everyone around me. I blocked out all their voices and concentrated on my staff.

"You should've stayed DOWN," Shredder shouted charging at me.

I shifted my staff straight up and down and planted it into the ground blocking his attack. This caused a surge between my staff and Shredders making his bo vibrate. He jumped back away from me.

"EVERYONE GET TO THE BACK OF THE CELLS," I shouted.

"ALEX, DON'T YOU DARE…." I heard the guys shout at me, they knew exactly what I was planning.

"Get back, get back," I heard Casey shout to everyone in his cell.

I opened the pouch on my belt and pulled out the purple powder, I tapped it to the tip of my staff.

"ALEX DON'T," I heard Yuri say to me.

"ALEX….." the guys shouted at me.

"I have a surprise for you Shredder," I said to him twirling my staff over my head.

"Oh? Well so do I," He said twirling his bo.

But before he could strike me, I slammed my staff hard in to the concrete cracking it. I had aligned his shadow with the ninja's.

"NO, NO WHAT HAVE YOU…." was the last thing I heard from Shredder.

I felt my staff shake and vibrate as it took the shadows and souls of everyone in the room.

"ALEX," I heard the guys shout at me.

Their gates opened and I fell to the floor.

"Oh my god," I heard April's voice over me.

"She killed them, they're all corpses," Verns voice sounded distraught.

"I need an ambulance and back up to….." Was all I heard from Casey as my mind went blank.

"Why'd she do it," Mikey said as he shook me. I think he was crying, I couldn't tell, but his voice sounded like it.

"She's stupid that's why," Raph said as he tried to take the staff from my hands. It wouldn't let him.

"No, we can't take it from her, monk Miyatsu said if she takes more then 100 shadows and souls, her soul will be taken," Yuri said to them

"What? No way," Leo said as he tried to pry the staff from my hands.

"Ambulance is here," Casey said leaning over me, I felt his hand touch my neck for a pulse.

"Step aside," some voice said. Then I felt arms pull me onto a gurney.

At the hospital…. Four hours later.

"She's alive, that's the main thing, but we can't seem to pry her away from that stick," a doctor explained to the turtles as they waited in the waiting room.

"We'll have a nurse monitor her, and security watching her room." The doctor then said to them again.

"Thanks doc," Leo said to him. Raph had gone with Donnie to get Splinter and retuned with him just as the doctor left the room.

"What happened?" Splinter said coming in to the waiting area.

"She used her staff, took Shredder and all the ninja's down with it," Donnie explained to him.

"We can not take the staff from her," Yuri said again.

"She is now in battle with the spirit of the staff, she has to fight it in order to keep her life," Aki said crossing her arms and standing near the door to my room.

"You mean to tell me that Alex is fighting the staff for her life?" Raph said rubbing his head.

"Yes, and if she wins the staff will be destroyed and she will never fight again," Yuri said again.

"Oh man, this is not cool," Mikey said and sat down in a chair.

"I have faith in Alex," Splinter said touching a hand to Mikey's shoulder.

"We all must allow her to do this herself," he said again.

"How long will it take," Leo said pacing in his spot.

"As long as she needs my son, we all must believe in her, and give her the strength to do this," he said to them. He sat down on the ground.

"I don't think meditation is going to help Alex get through this sensai," Donnie said kneeling in front of him.

"Yes it will," Aki said. She joined Splinter on the ground and sat down near him.

"Our spirits can reach her, and help her fight this," Nina said sitting next to her sister.

Raph paced around and grunted at the idea.

"Raphael, do you not trust Alex to be strong enough to do this?" Splinter said to him sternly.

"I trust her, but that staff is trying to kill her, no amount of meditation will make that staff disappear," He said angrily. He came around Splinter and to my door.

Yuri blocked him, and Leo stood in front of her.

"I won't let you," she said to him.

"No, Raph… Splinters right, we have to let her do this," he said touching a hand to Raph's shoulder.

"Then take her home, where she's with us, not here in this place," he said pushing Leo's hand away.

"He's right," Casey said coming in to the room.

"It'll be easier for her to be in her home, without all this," he said as Chief Vincent followed behind him.

Splinter stood up and nodded to him.

"Okay, we take her home," Raph said shifting to Vern and April.