Note: References to my fanfics 'Fury Within Her' And 'Falling Inside the Black' appear in this chapter, as well as references to the TMNT 2003 episode 'Prodigal Son'.

Chapter Twenty

Reaching Further

Back in Chicago, Monalisa and Tyroth sat in the temple of the well, Monalisa sat cross-legged whilst Tyroth sat behind her.

Whilst on the rock where Pandora's hair had been found, Monalisa had kept trying to meditate more to find out what had happened to Pandora, yet she couldn't see any further.

She wasn't sure if it was because she felt under pressure from everyone watching and demanding if she had seen anything, or that she was trying to force the meditation to try and get further which given her training, was not the right way to go, but given how desperate she was to know what had happened to her daughter, she was clutching at straws.

It was then Tyroth suggested they return to Mutopia and go into the Temple of the Well, like they had before when he had suggested after Diablo's betrayal, they try an amplified meditation technique to reach the Afterlife so Monalisa could talk to her deceased mother.

"It's worth a shot Lizard Lady." Tyroth said as he stroked Monalisa's shoulders in an attempt to relax her.

"I know Leo's not here to help, but we could try and use my magic with what you have learnt in your meditation to see further what happened on that rock."

"I'm willing to try anything T." Monalisa said "If only to find my baby girl."

Tyroth nodded and held Monalisa's shoulders.

"When you're ready we shall begin." He said, then took a few deep breaths, then he felt Monalisa do the same as she got comfortable.

"Just focus on that location and Pandora." He said "Keep focused on it, I'll handle the rest? Alright?"

Monalisa nodded.

"I'm ready Tyroth," she said and closed her eyes as she focused hard on Pandora and on the rock where Devina had found her hair.

"Pandora...where are you?" she whispered as she started to slip into meditation, Tyroth's magic flowing from his paws that rested on her shoulders into her being and enveloping them both.

Outside the temple Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Devina, and Sharky were waiting outside.

"What's happening in there?" Michelangelo asked.

Raphael looked at his brother and started signing to him.

'Tyroth hopes to use his magic to help.'

Donatello also saw Raphael's signs and looked to the tunnel.

"Like how Leonardo was able to find us after Karai attacked us those years ago?" he asked to which Raphael nodded then signed again about how Leonardo helped Monalisa find her killers, as well as help her along with Tyroth's magic reach her mother in the afterlife after Diablo's betrayal.

"Do you think this might help her find Pandora?" Michelangelo asked with desperation in his voice.

"I hope so..." Donatello whispered.

"We all hold onto the hope she and Tyroth may find Pandora and know where she is." Devina spoke up, "I pray to all divines."

Sharky said nothing as he looked down the tunnel.

He still felt terrible he was unable to find the hybrid, and he wondered along with everyone else what had happened to the Hybrid, and he was hoping it was sooner than later that they found out.

Back in the temple, Monalisa kept breathing as Tyroth's magic flowed into her, and she kept focusing on Pandora.

"Little Geisha..." she thought, "My Tigress, please...where are you? I'm trying to find you, I love you, where are you?"

She soon began to smell the water of the lake once again and the weeds on the rocks, and before long she opened her eyes and found herself standing on the same rock where they found Pandora's hair, yet as she looked down, she saw to her horror the burnt and bloodied up body of Pandora laying there washed up on the rock!

Before when she had seen her in her vision, she only saw specks, but now it was clearer, and it horrified her!

"No! My baby!" Monalisa cried as she knelt to her daughter laying there as if dead, yet she couldn't touch her.

She could see the many wounds on her body, mainly burns and deep cuts and the seagulls above were circling her body.

"My baby girl! My Geisha!" Monalisa wept, then looked to see the seagulls starting to fly down to her.

"No! No!" Monalisa shouted, yet it was hopeless as the seagulls flew past her and through her like air and landed around Pandora's motionless body and began to peck at her!

Monalisa again could only watch as the seagulls pecked at Pandora's skin, their powerful beaks pecking out bits of flesh and Pandora just lying there unmoving.

"Leave her alone!" Monalisa screamed as she swatted at the seagulls, but again because she was only watching a vison of what had occurred before, her presence could not be acknowledged by the scavenging birds.

Just as Monalisa was about to give up hope, it was then she heard the rushing of wings, larger ones this time and she looked up to see a shape above her, along like that of a larger bird.

"What the...?" she questioned, then she saw the large bird circle the rock then fly down almost like a rocket.

As it did that it scared the seagulls away and they flew off screeching, Monalisa then stepped back and squeaked in fright as she thought she was going to fall into the lake as she almost lost her balance on the rock, yet she kept steady as everyone who knew her, she was an expert at keeping balanced due to her crane kung fu training.

Bringing herself back to the situation, she looked over and she soon saw a brown female mutant peregrine falcon land next to Pandora.

Monalisa's eyes widened in alarm as she took in the mutant falcon, and she felt the breath catch in her chest, recognising her, yet refusing to believe it.

"No... No..." she panted "No...it can't be?"

"Holy Christ! What in God's name happened to you?" The falcon said as she studied Pandora's body and touched her face and neck before she gasped.

"Wait!? You're alive!?"

Monalisa then gasped as she heard that.

"Alive?" she cried then saw the falcon start to push hard on the hybrid's chest in an attempt to get her breathing again.

"Come on! Breathe! Breathe!" the falcon pleaded as she pushed on Pandora's chest "Come on kid! Come on!" she shouted yet Pandora made no response.

Monalisa couldn't believe what was happening before her eyes and she wanted to scream and shout at the falcon as well as try and bring Pandora back to her, but she couldn't.

She could only watch in helplessness as she saw the Falcon try and get her beloved daughter to breathe, but then she saw her take out the walkie talkie and speak into it.
"Boss! Boss!"

"Come in Lilith!"

No sooner did Monalisa hear that voice on the radio than her blood ran cold.

"No! No!" she stumbled as she felt faint and she looked up to see the Falcon, now known as Lilith, speak more into the walkie talkie.

"You'll Never Believe that I found! A body on one of the Islands in Lake Michigan! Barley alive!"

"What? Report back immediately!"

"Roger that Diablo! Get Lamia and Chastity! Their skills are needed!"

"For sure! Over!"

"Over and Out!" Lilith replied then she looked down at Pandora and scooped her into her arms holding her close.

Monalisa instantly ran forward with her arms out.

"No! No please!" she screamed yet Lilith opened her wings and took off into the skies.

"Hang in there girl! Just hold on! You'll be alright!"

"No! No! Lilith! Lilith! Bring her back! Give her back!" the lizard lady screamed yet her voice went unheard as she watched Lilith fly off into the skies with her daughter to only who knew where.

But what she had found out, was that that falcon was one of the Disciples! There was no denying it! And she was taking Pandora to the Mutopian Traitor! Her brother! Diablo the Raven!

Monalisa soon found herself back in the temple and her eyes shot open and she fell against Tyroth who was rather shocked to see her pull herself out of the meditation so quick.

"Mona?" he asked in a worried voice looking at her.

Monalisa turned to look at him, her face pale, and her eyes wide.

"I didn't want to believe it Tyroth!" she said "But I saw it... I knew I saw something!"

"What?" Tyroth asked turning Monalisa around fully to face him "What did you see!?" he demanded.

Monalisa's eyes filled with tears, and Tyroth wondered if the worst had happened to the hybrid and he shook his head, yet nothing prepared him for what Monalisa was to say next.

"Lilith the Falcon!" she said, "She's one of his followers!"

Tyroth blinked as he heard that, and he narrowed his eyes, yet Monalisa went on.

"She's taken Pandora! She found her on that rock! And she's taken her!"

"Pandora's been taken?!" Tyroth cried "By Lilith?"

Monalisa nodded.

"She's one of his Followers! She's taking my daughter to Diablo!"

Tyroth's jaw dropped, and his eyes widened.

"No..." he muttered "No, please... she's not?"

"I saw it!" Monalisa cried "Pandora was washed up on the rock! She didn't drown, at least, I saw in my vision! She was washed up on the rock, but she didn't drown fully! She's not dead! She was found by one of Diablo's Disciples, Lilith the Falcon! She carried her off, and yet I have no clue where to!"

Tyroth couldn't believe it, after many years, and despite believing Diablo had never set foot in Chicago since he betrayed them, he had returned, and not only that, but he had also taken Pandora!

"That fucking traitor!" he snarled, his eyes flashing.

Monalisa started sobbing again, almost unable to fathom the fact that her brother had Pandora in his possession.

But also, she wondered if Pandora was willingly with Diablo, or he was holding her prisoner just to spite Monalisa after the way things had ended between them.

"He's got to be holding her prisoner!" she said "He's got to be! Pandora can't be willing! She wouldn't join a traitor!"

She put her head in her hands.

"Oh Diablo, even after all these years, I've believed that there was still good in you, that there was still my young brother in there, and yet, you have taken my daughter! What are you doing to her? Why did you take her? If you had any heart, you would have returned her to us! I would have then let Tyroth and the Mutopians give you a chance to redeem yourself, after all the crimes you committed, but now... I don't know what to think, or feel..."

She soon felt Tyroth's paws on her shoulders and she looked up at him.

"I'm with you Monalisa," he said "Pandora, despite what she has done that might have mirrored Diablo's actions, she is not a traitor, she's lost, and Diablo has her, and we're going to find him, and his Disciples and bring her back!"

"We will?" Monalisa sobbed.

"We will!" Tyroth nodded then hugged Monalisa tightly "That's a promise Geisha Warrior," I said, "And I will never break that promise,"

He let go of Monalisa and looked to the entrance of the well.

"We need to inform the others and then start a plan to figure out where to start looking for that traitor!"

Monalisa nodded and took Tyroth's hand as they started to walk out of the tunnel.

As they walked, Tyroth narrowed his eyes as he thought of Pandora in Diablo's possession and whether he had either brain washed her or was keeping her prisoner after she had been brought to him.

"You've crossed the line, Diablo." He thought "For years you've been merely causing havoc and performing horrific deeds to sinners, but now, you have one of our loved ones in your possession, whether as a prisoner, or as a brainwashed victim, you will fear our wrath and we will take back what is ours... just you wait..."

With Tyroth's help, Monalisa was able to see her vision more clearly, and she's learnt that Pandora's alive, and that she's now in Diablo's company!

Looks like there's gonna be a proper hunt on the horizon once the others are made aware!