A/N: Ta-da! Here's chapter 6. I hope you all enjoy and thanks for your support in this story. Now get on reading. Go on, go on!

6: Leo

Alec

We walk for what seems like forever. I occasionally fly up to see how far we are form Three Crossing. It seems to get farther away every time I look.

I think Raph hates me. I can feel the hate radiating from him, his glower burning into my skull. I didn't my family to know what happens to me. To know what I do to myself. But clearly I'm even a failure at that.

Shredder and I share the leading position. One minute Shredder is leading us down a gully, the next I'm leading us out of it.

Over the gully, a forest comes into view. It is made of weeping willows.

"Pretty," April murmurs.

Shredder doesn't give it a second thought," Move."

Now he's leading. We follow silently.

The forest is pretty. The sun is blocked out by the canopy. Only splotches of light make it through. Flowers are along the path. As we get deeper in, water appears on both sides of the path.

"Um, guys," Casey starts," back in Abandon, before Aro showed up, Be'Joke was saying something. A warning. Do you think he was warning us about this forest?"

"Look," Donnie says, mockingly," Casey is being a chicken."

"No, I'm not," Casey growls.

"Nothing's happened to us yet, guys," I say. "We're half way through. Keep walking and we'll be fine."

As I say that I walk just two steps when I hear something, someone, calling my name.

Leonardo. Leonardo.

I don't know that voice but it sounds so welcoming. I find myself kneeling by the water, looking down into it. I think one of my brothers is talking to me but I can't tell. I can't hear anything except that voice.

Leonardo. Follow me. Come to me. Leonardo. Be free.

I can't help it. I find myself slipping beneath the water.

It's numbing cold! I go numb the moment I slip under. My breath is gone instantly but the voice urges me to keep going.

The water is beautifully clear. On the surface it was dark and reflecting. Under it, you can see weird glowing fish swim by, flashing. It confuses me for a second, and then I swim deeper under.

The bottom is scarred with tree branches and vines. The vines reach toward me like they're going to trap me.

And that's exactly what happens.

The vines are wrapping around my wrists. A black needle-like thing sticks into both of my palms. There is only a sting of pain and it's over.

Dirt moves as a horse head appears, looking me in the eye. Then the body emerges. It's the thing calling to me.

Hold tight. Hold tight.

It feels like a needle is traveling up my veins. As I look at them, they slowly turn black. Then I realize what this is.

I have fallen into a trap. A suide trap at that.

My air is gone, everything is going black and I can't breathe. Everything's so cold. I can't believe I'm so stupid as to follow a horse that feeds off of a suide. I can't believe I'm gonna die down here.

The needle in my veins reaches my forearms, spider webbing in my wrists as I back out.

Then… I scream!

My voice blows out and my lungs ache because I scream so hard. I don't open my eyes. Someone has save me but I don't want to look at their face.

My head hits something hard. I shiver like no other in this persons arms. I try to think of whom it is that saved me. April? Donnie? Casey?

"Shell, you're cold,Leo."

Raph!

"Donnie, his hands are bleeding like crazy. That thing stuck something in him. It was pretty far up in to him, too."

Someone, whom I assume is Donnie, grabs my hands. He is wrapping something around them. I think it might be his wristbands.

Raph rubs my arm as I groan," You shell brain," Raph growls," when a monster talks to you, don't respond."

"That's right,Raph," Donnie whispers," Keep him warm."

"Is he okay?" April asks.

"He'll be fine," Don replies," But his hands won't heal for a while."

Suddenly, water sprays us and a booming voice calls out," You dare take away Alec's dinner!"

Raph has a growl rumbling in his throat. Mikey yells at the person," Leo isn't your dinner!"

I open my eyes. Raph has his eyes trained on the person who's talking. I follow his gaze.

The horse I saw stands, rather floats, feet away from us. It is shimmering blue with blood red eyes. "Oh, he's my dinner all right. Quite a delicious one at that."

Raph screams at the Alec and throws a big rock at him. The horse neighs? No growls? I don't know but it is charging straight at us.

But then Shredder gets in its way.

"Look you demanding, pig sucking horse, we're on a mission, and if you don't move, my claws are going through your head." Pig sucking?

The horse glares at Shredder, then looks at me," Not until I get my meal."

"Touch my brother and you'll regret ever living," Raph spits.

The horse jerks in surprise," I got myself a angry group I do. And they're not even suides."

"Yeah, we're angry," Mikey says in a smart-alecky way," because we're Hamato's."

Alec freezes up. The horse looks sick.

"Hama…Hama…"

He pukes up my blood everywhere. Shredder ends up falling on his butt so he doesn't get any on him.

"What is so bad about our family name?" Donnie says, confused as the rest of us.

"Other than Splinter abusing Leo?" Raph points out.

"Well… yeah, other than that."

"I DRANK FROM A HAMATO!" Alec howls. He lets out a shriek and slinks as fast as he can back into the water, my blood trailing him as he goes.

Once he's gone, it's quiet. I break it by saying, "Um… Don…Raph…I think I'm going to be sick."

The world spins as Raph makes me look at him. Don groans," Oh, shell."

"Uh, guys," Casey calls to us. We look over to him, then follow his gaze.

A black-brown haired boy dressed in a white kimono and black obi stares at us.

He calls out," Are you really the Hamato's?"