#Fortheloveofshell

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For the Love of Shell - Chapter Forty Six - Halloween Festivities

Another chapter for you to snack on!

Here it is in its entirety. 

HALLOWEEN FESTIVITES

It had taken Donnie close to two weeks of hacking and snooping the government database to find out who and what that strange man was about. He was the head of a secret agency funded by the US Government called The Earth Protection Force or E.P.F for short and went by the name John Bishop.

 Unfortunately there wasn’t much on Bishop’s past but from the looks of his training and connections he wasn’t someone to cross.

Leo leaned against Donatello’s desk, his arms crossed over his chest deep in thought. He had been watching his genius brother search through pages upon pages of tedious government documents trying to learn more about this new threat. They were aware of their existence even before they saw them. Bishop said something about a little birdie chirping in his ear about them, who could that be? Was it possible one of the police officers that had assisted them with taking down Krang informed the government about them? Rebecca had assured them their secret was safe.

 His name being called broke him from his thoughts and Leo looked down at Donnie still parked in his chair. “What is it Don?”

 “Do you think if they got a hold of us they would really dissect us?” his younger brother’s voice wavered with  the horrid thought of being strapped down to a metal table cut and apart like a lab rat.

 Leo’s large hand rested gently on his younger brother’s shoulder giving it a quick reassuring squeeze, “I would never let anyone dissect any of you. I would die before I would let that happen.” The vile images that raced through Leo’s mind of his dead brothers in pieces made his stomach churn making him feel sick to his stomach. It was true though, he would lay down his life in a second to save his brothers and die defending them to his very last breath.

 Looking up from Donnie’s brown eyes Leo saw Mikey and Raph saunter in towards the Leader and the genius. The sly smile on Michelangelo’s face put Leo on edge, the youngest had something up his sleeve and was ready to test is sway with his eldest brother.

 Reaching Leo, Mikey swung his arm up and over his shoulder pulling the blue leader to his side.

 “What do you want Mikey?” Leo sighed allowing the brotherly embrace.

 “Do you know what today is oh brother of mine?” Mikey cooed playfully slapping his palm against the hard plates of Leonardo’s plastron.  

 “It’s October 31st Mike.”

 “Yeah Brah, its Halloween and we wanna go out and enjoy the parade. We never get to go out and do anything fun.”

 Leo let out a heavy sigh shaking his head, “Mikey, I told you before, we’re ninja and we stay in the shadows. Going topside isn’t a smart idea.”

Raphael moved next to his younger brother and tilted his head eyeing Leo, “We know what we are fearless and we know we don’t belong on the streets. But today is the only day in the year we get to experience walking around with the humans unnoticed and safe. I think after all we’ve dealt with lately I think we deserve to go have a little fun topside.”

 Before Leo could reply the voice of their Sensei interjected stopping the conversation. “My sons, you are right, you have been so dedicated to the safety of this city that you have not been able to enjoy the spoils of your hard work. Halloween is the only day you can go up into the streets with no fear of hatred for your appearance or fear of scrutiny of your mutation. Please take this day to enjoy yourselves and unwind. Interact with the outside world but please be careful.”

 Leo and his brothers stared wide eyed at their aging father. He had just given them permission to go topside and enjoy Halloween. For the first time ever!

 “Besides.” The old rat continued. “You are old enough to make your own decisions and able to care for your own safety. Who am I to keep you from your destiny?”

 The atmosphere in the lair exploded as Raph and Mikey jumped into the air in excitement high threeing each other. Mikey turned to his genius brother beaming from his large skateboard chair and slide to his side smacking him on the back of his shell.

 “Tell them about that party you heard about Donnie. Maybe we could go there for a bit. Didn’t it say there would be food?” Mikey turned Donnie’s chair to face his other brothers who were now looking at him awaiting a response.

 “What’s he talkin about Donnie?” Raph quipped picking up a small trinket from Donnie’s desk flipping it over and over in his oversized palm.

 “I follow a local neighborhood watch blog and I guess someone bought that old church on the edge of town that’s been abandoned for years for a dollar. You know the one, the one built in the early 1800’s with all the missing windows? It’s been in shambles from all the vandalism over the years.  They have been remodeling it for the past year and finally finished a few weeks ago. They’re holding a neighborhood Halloween party for all the people in the neighborhood. There had been so many people stopping by during the construction to see what was going on, the owner thought it would be nice to let everyone see the work done to restore the old church. Supposedly there will be food too, which is what caught Mikey’s attention a week ago.”

 Mikey took out a lone nunchaku and spun it in his wrist circling Leonardo; he could tell by the confused look on his brother’s face he couldn’t remember the place. “You know that old church we used to play in when Master Splinter went to bed, we’d sneak out and play around swinging in the open rafters and hurtling the old pews.”

 Suddenly Mikey stopped in his tracks the blood in his veins running cold, he realized what he had just confessed in front of their father. Something he did not know about their past.

 “Mikey.” Raph growled in frustration resting his large head in his hands.

 With a grimace across his face Mikey slowly turned his head to face his father, dreading the death glare from the feisty old rat. The amused look on the rat took him by surprise, he wasn’t angry?

 Splinter watched his sons faces as they glared at their youngest brother then trained their gaze to their father to see how upset he was. When all their attention was on him he began to laugh, a good belly laugh he hadn’t managed to have in quite some time. “My sons you were only 6 years old when you started to venture out on your own. Your ninja skills were barely even tapped yet, so I heard you four leave each time. Instead of punishing your natural inquisitiveness for the outside world I just followed close behind to make sure you were safe. You boys will have hardships around every corner as you continue to age, who was I to stop you exploring your city. The more you got comfortable with your surroundings the more you could protect yourself; learn faster ways to get home. It was a very tiring time though, making sure I heard you each time, so I could supervise. Not a lot sleep when you were curious toddlers. But it did help your confidence and your bond with each other. You knew you had to rely on each other to get back home safely.”

 Their tense bodies relaxed as their father confessed he knew they had gone topside when they were younger. It was a secret they had promised not to tell anyone just in case it would get back to their father. As it turned out he knew the entire time and had followed them on each adventure.

 Leo let out a shaky breath realizing the wrath of his father would not come. A large bullet had been dodged and a small weight of the lie was lifted. “Yes, I know which church you’re talking about now. Yeah, I wouldn’t see why not, could be fun seeing the old place redone.” Leo scratched his chin contemplating their route; if they were going up to the streets they needed some sort of plan before they headed out just in case they got lost in the crowd. They still needed to be careful even though this was a leisurely outing. There was always a chance of running into some Purple Dragons at Halloween.

 To their surprise and delight it wasn’t difficult to get into the parade. With their great “costumes” they were pulled into the sea of people by several hands congratulating them on the detail of their work. At one point people on a parade float had tried to coax them up and onto the decorated trailer. Politely declining they moved back away from the reaching hands. That would expose them more than they already were. Thankfully their ninja skills had helped them mange to avoid any cameras as well.

 It was nice getting to know people, conversating and mingling with their fellow New Yorkers. There were no screams or flying insults, just random high fives and praises.

 “So life like!” One woman squealed running her hands over Raphael’s forearm excitedly and pressing down on his skin to feel the dense muscles beneath. “It feels like real scales; how did you do that?!”

 The red brute smirked when her wandering hands tried to encircle the impossible mass of his biceps. He allowed her hands to travel farther up to his neck, her touches giving his green skin a rush of goose bumps. “These hands are pure talent sweetheart in more ways than one.” He cooed seductively stepping into her personal space getting lost in the attention.

 Leo watched the exchange and figured it was a good time to pry the beast away from his prey before he sunk his teeth in too far. “Come on lover boy, let’s get moving before you bite off more than you can chew.” His hand hooked around the back of the brutes harness and started to pull him away from the unsuspecting female.

 The woman grew disappointed when Raphael was pulled from her groping fingers, “Come back! He’s fine, I like it rough!” She called after the retreating terrapins.

“Damn Raph, you attracted the girls real quick.” Mikey laughed giving a quick glance over his shoulder at the sad woman they had just left behind.

 Raphael turned abruptly ripping his harness from his older brother’s tight grasp and hissed in frustration. “Damn fearless, why you gotta cock block a brother.”

 “What were you gonna do Raph when she found that ‘costume’ doesn’t come off? When you got back to her apartment for a few fun evening activities?” Leo laughed as he moved around a poorly designed SpongeBob costume.

 “You never know Leo; she could have been cool with fucking a mutant turtle? Aurora can’t be the only woman who’s willing to spread her legs for mutant dick?”

 The comment made the leader stop in his tracks and the dense muscles in his neck bunch painfully. Slowly he turned to face his brother and the expression Raph was expecting was nowhere close to the look on the leader’s face. Pain swirled in the blue orbs of his eldest brother making Raph instantly regret the remark.

 “I-I’m sorry Leo, that was disrespectful to Aurora.”

 Leos’ eyes lowered to the city streets contemplating something and gave his muscled brother one final glare before returning his attention back to the mass of people in the parade.

 Donnie came up to the ashamed brother and nudged his shoulder gaining his interest, “You know you’re not wrong Raph. Statistically speaking there are plenty of woman out there who would be willing to bed us. There is a huge following of people online calling themselves ‘Furries’ and ‘Scalies’ that would prefer our unusual body types and larger…….physiques to normal human beings.”

 With a deep rolling laughter Raphael patted his genius brothers shell, “Thanks Don, I’ll keep that in mind next time I’m on the net.”

 As the parade came to a close they parted from the bustling crowd and headed towards the remodeled church that was holding the public house warming party. The walk was short but the anticipation for their first real party was staggering.

 Just as they remembered, the old church was surrounded by a large brick wall that towered even over them, perhaps 15 feet tall. It would require scaling it they needed to get over its walls. The old cast iron door they was barely holding onto its hinges was replaced by a massive wood and iron door. Its structure looked sound and secure not like the rickety old gates. This was built to withstand some heavy pounding and privacy.

  As they passed through the new protective doors they gazed up at the newly restored stained glass windows, marveling at the colors. When they were kids they remembered several kids throwing rocks at the beautiful glass shattering the window to smithereens. It was good to see them intact and cleaned for once; they seemed to sparkle in the moonlight.

 The once broken and uneven stairway up to the main door had been removed and replaced by fresh concrete and a new wood and iron hand rail. Gone were the tags from gang members and inconsiderate kids who defiled the old brick work on the outside of the ancient building. Someone had spent hours power washing the outside to rid the grey stone of the canned paint.

 Reaching the top of the stairs the old wooden doors that had been long torn from their hinges had been replaced by new metal doors. About half way up the thick doors were matching stained glass windows just above their eye line to complete the look of the exterior.

Donnie pointed to the almost invisible camera just to the left of the large front door, noting the advanced security system that protected the property. “So far I’m impressed, the tech is high end, like nearly impossible to hack and the outside is wonderfully redone. Even the shrubbery is trimmed and lush.”

 Raph’s large thick fingers wrapped around the elaborate handle and opened the door revealing the newly converted sanctuary. After all the years of abuse most of the pews had been burned or stolen so it wasn’t too much of a shock seeing the rows of benches gone. All of the religious relics were long gone as well; even the large wooden statue of Jesus that had hung above the pulpit had been taken years ago.

 The large spacious vaulted ceilings were repaired and refinished leaving no trace of the old roof’s leaks to see. At the back of the sanctuary was a huge circle stained glass window that sat high above the pulpit. It had been shattered long before they found the old building when they were tots so they never saw the vibrant colors inside the window. Now inside the round window sat a beautifully crafted piece of art, each little different colored piece of glass formed a dahlia flower. The large center piece was outlined with more flowers and stars with a background that transitioned from light blue to dark.

 Below the circle stained glass window was a large flat screen TV hanging from the wall with an oversized u-shaped couch just before it. Already people were sitting on it mingling and having conversations while snacking on plates of food.  

 The atmosphere was friendly and inviting and almost immediately people began to introduce themselves commenting on their ‘costumes’. That was when the aroma of delicious smelling food invaded their senses. Mikey was the first to grumble and turned towards the large kitchen sitting to the left, open to the expansive room of the old sanctuary. Atop the counters along with another large island covered in white quarts sat a plethora of foods and desserts.

 Mikey wasted no time and made a beeline for the kitchen and the foods followed by Raph and Donnie. Leo kept his attention on the transformation of the old church. They had never seen the space so lit up besides the beams from their flashlights. It was nice to see the old church fixed up and ready for its new life.

 Leo left his brothers to pillage the refreshments and continued down a wide hallway to look at more of the house. A bright sign with bold lettering was sitting on a stand just at the opening.

 “Please feel free to roam about the house. If the door is open you are welcome inside, but if the door is closed please respect the privacy of the home owner and remain outside.”

 Continuing down the wide hallway he peaked through each room that was open. The first room on the right was the old Library, it looked like it had been restored to its former glory. All of the busted shelves were whole and matching the rest of the wood perfectly. You wouldn’t have been able to tell of the previous vandalism which was nice, there had been too many swastikas lining the floor.

 Shelves took up every inch of space on the walls, from floor to ceiling it towered. Almost every inch of space was lined with books ranging from what looked like ancient to new. Colors splashed the shelves from their spines like an abstract painting making his fingers inch to pull a book from its home to read. They had their own library but nothing this expansive. His eyes and finger tips roamed over some of the spines and grew a bit envious at the rare books he only dreamed of reading. Some of them were ancient books from Japan dating back almost 200 years, he wondered if they should be in a museum not sitting freely on someone’s bookcase.

 Resisting the rising urge to pull a book from the shelve and take a spot on one of the lush chairs Leonardo took his leave and headed back out into the hallway. With a quick look the blue banded terrapin found his brothers hovering over the food thoroughly stuffing their faces. With a crooked grin he turned back and continued his tour of the renovated church.

 As Donnie and Raphael moved away from the refreshments Mikey stayed behind sampling a tray of fancy cheeses. This was a great opportunity to try different cheeses together to better his pizza making skills. Where else would be get chance to sample so many cheeses at once…for free?

 Putting a slice of munster and gouda on top of each other Mikey slid the concoction between his lips and found very unpleasantly the two did not mix. While his face was scrunched up from the awful taste the person behind the counter who had been diligently working to prepare a new snack turned around and nearly dropped the tray in their hands.

 Mikey’s hand moved over his mouth as he hurriedly tried to finish off the taste on his tongue, “I’m sorry.” He mumbled quietly before popping a strawberry in his mouth to mask the flavor. “Munster and gouda do not mix. Mistakes were made. Blerg….”

 The woman in what was a phantom of the opera costume set the plate of what looked like pizza pinwheels down next to the veggie tray and stepped back. She smelled of freshly baked breads and sweets, it was comforting and made his stomach grumble for more. Mikey ignored her unsure gaze and swiped up a pinwheel to pop it in his mouth.

 “Wait!” she cried out reaching for him as the pastry disappeared behind his teeth. “It’s still hot!”

 She was undoubtedly right; he could have sworn he heard the flesh on his tongue sizzle at the treat settled on the wiggling appendage. But instead of spitting it out Mikey huffed around the burning deliciousness trying his best to cool the food down and not drool all over himself. In and out he sucked in air desperately trying to bring the temp down. After a few minutes of rolling the burning dough around on his tongue it was finally cool enough to swallow. Mikey took a swig of his punch to sooth his throbbing tongue and eyed the now giggling woman.

 “Are you alright?”

 Sticking the tip of his tongue out he nodded, “I no longer have skin on my tongue but you know I’ll live drinking the rest of my meals through a straw.”

 She mumbled something under her breath but Mikey couldn’t make it out.

 “What was that?”

 “Ohh oh nothing, just talking to myself really.” The woman stepped back and leaned up against the counter, “So that’s a pretty elaborate costume you got there.” Her finger waged up and down alluding to his massive shell and green skin. “If I didn’t know any better I’d think you were a living breathing turtle man.”

 “Nope.” Mikey coughed popping a piece of cool broccoli in his mouth. “All foam and plastic. Can you imagine a giant turtle living in New York. Where would something like that live?”

 “The sewer?” she calmly remarked. “I can imagine there are a never ending slew of tunnels under us with abandoned train stations perfect for subterranean housing?”

 Mikey reached for a chicken salad sandwich and paused. “Don’t you think it would smell down there?”

 “Nah, it’s not that bad down there.”

 “How would you know?” His baby blues rose in surprise but found the woman gone and another plate of pizza pin wheels in front of him. “Hmmmm.”

~~~~~~~~~~~

Leonardo made his way down the hallway and found a bathroom, two extraordinarily large empty rooms but only encountered two closed doors.  At the end of the hallway there were two large French doors open wide to a giant roaring fire. Taking his time to reach the large room he noticed an open set of stairs leading to the second floor to the old structure. Making a detour he began scaling the old wooden stair case noting the restored finish and carpentry work.

 His hefty green hand ran over the handy work with each unhurried step taking in the detailed craftsmanship. At the first landing there was another partial stained glass window that had been restored like the others along with a built in bench. Stopping to peer out Leonardo found a beautiful fresh garden with a massive water feature just below. The water poured out freely from a fountain that contained four large turtles perched on top of each other playfully. What a usual choice of animal for a fountain he thought in the back of his mind making his way up the last flight of stairs to the second floor.  

 At the landing Leo found the master bedroom just to the right. Like the large room below it had two ornate doors leading into a massive room and a large fireplace in the same spot as the first floor. Looking up he saw the only original stained glass window left sitting high on the wall. A massive circle with the virgin Mary holding a baby Jesus, the array of colors was stunning and as the moonlight filtered through the colored glass it left beautiful streaks of color on the white linen of the king size bed just below.

 A flair of jealously sparked through the leaders mind, to be human to be able to live above ground with such luxuries like windows and clean linen that didn’t smell like the dank sewer systems. To finally be able to sun themselves in the sunlight, would be a treat in itself. His fingers ran over the soft fabric and pressed down on the mattress enjoying the textures against his skin.

 He wandered around the room for a bit and ventured into the bathroom, his blue eyes wandered to the very large tiled shower and massive soaking tub. The tub alone looked like it could fit him and his shell plus another person comfortably inside. Taking his phone out Leo took a quick picture to show Donnie. What an improvement to the lair it would be to be able to actually have a tub large enough for them to immerse completely in, shell in all.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Raphael made his way through the open doors of the first floor, until he found the giant study in the back with a massive warm crackling fire in the gigantic hollow of the room’s main focal point. It radiated a welcoming heat helping the chill from the night’s air melt from his scaled skin. Looking around Raphael remembered most of the walls in this church had been crumbling stone. There had been small holes in the structure as time ate away at the history of the building. Now all the walls had been repaired and covered with sheet rock and no doubt insulated property for New York’s winters.

 He walked around the room running his finger tips over the antique wooden desk when a voice came from  behind him.

 “And there was two.”

 Spinning around her found a woman leaning up against the thick trim of the open doorway dressed as a female phantom of the opera. She was dressed in a nice fitting tux with a large flowing red cap, a black brimmed hat covered her hair and a white mask that covered more than half of her face. He vaguely remembered seeing the woman working in the kitchen putting out fresh food for the guests. Maybe she was the host?

 Resting his backside on the edge of the desk Raphael kept his sights on the woman as she moved forward into the room, “Yeah I’m here with my brothers. If you see two more less attractive pretend turtles they be them.”

 “Brothers?” She cooed. “Are you all as handsome? And who is the talent behind these amazing costumes?”

 He watched her shift close fingers trailing along the crevasses of Raph’s muscled bicep. As she passed by he could smell bread and sugar, the woman had been baking all day for the scent to cling her to her like that. A hint of pizza accompanied the delicious smell as well making him suddenly hungry.  

 Raph was ecstatic Fearless wasn’t there, he may not get to take anyone home but by the way the woman was circling him like a vulture he was more than happy to offer up a small meal to the woman. He deserved a little action. Besides it had been a while since he had kissed a woman and Raph very much missed the taste of her even if it was brief. “Yeah we’re blessed, but you’re lookin at the cream of this crop lady. It don’t get any better than this.” His arms opened flexing his muscles putting on a show for the enthralled female.

 The woman stopped a few feet in front of him and smiled, “Impressive. What brings you guys to the open house and not out winning some costume contest? You could win top dollar looking like that. Not that I’m complaining about the position I’m in.” closer she moved resting her hands on his thighs.  

 The lowered lights and flickering flames from the fire crackling in the background made it difficult to see her eyes but one thing was for sure, she was definitely eye fucking him. The signal couldn’t have been clearer. Raphael leaned back spreading his legs which shifted her fingers higher on his thick thighs, “You’re just lucky I guess.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As he finished his solo tour on the second floor Leonardo found three more empty bedrooms along with their own en suites with equally large shower stalls and soaking tubs. Each room even had their own fireplaces, most likely for heating the rooms back in the day when electricity wasn’t widely available. Exiting from the last room he saw Mikey and Donnie leaving the master bedroom still munching on hors d’oeuvres.

 “I can’t believe you did that Mike!” Don growled giving his younger brother a smack on the back of his carapace.

 Mikey gave an indignant huff and shrugged his broad shoulders, “What? I wanted to see if I could get in the tub. Don we need one of those in the lair, I think Leo would love to take baths in the winter.”

 “Please tell me you didn’t let him get in the tub.”

 Both stopped in their tracks and found Leonardo standing just down the hall from them, his thick arms folded over his chest in frustration.

 Mikey popped the last of his mini slider into his mouth and smiled sticky sweet to his older brother. “Omf corsh nomf ((swallows)) why would I crawl into a complete strangers tub to see if our shells would fit inside? I mean who would be that crazy and rude? You have such little faith in me brah.”

 “Of course he did,” Donnie cut in dryly. “Had to swat his hands away from the faucet to keep him from filling it up for a ‘test run’.”

 “Mikey.” Leo’s voice was low and threatening in its authority wiping the smirk right from the younger turtle’s face instantly.

 With one stern gesture from their fearless leader all three mutants headed back down to the main floor. Without a word Leonardo felt himself pulled subconsciously into the large room with the fireplace just to the right of the staircase, as if it called to him.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With delight Raphael allowed the enthusiastic woman to crawl into his lap straddling his powerful legs. Now with her so close the bread smell gave way to a familiar smell, the smell of a woman and her arousal. It was thick and clouded his senses as she leaned in, mask still covering her face. His large hands found her waist but didn’t stop her from advancing further.

 “God you smell amazing, it’s been too long Red.” And with that she leaned forward slanting her mouth over the brute’s beak claiming a kiss.

 The familiar taste flooded his senses and Raphael reacted gripping her tighter. His tongue pressed into her mouth plundering the warmth groaning as she whimpered softly grabbing his cheeks with her hands.

 “Fuck.” He moaned breathlessly between each engage of their lips.

 As their mouths connected Leo, Donnie and Mikey walked in on the pair stopping in their tracks. They watched Raphael’s enthusiasm skyrocket as the kissed deepened. Both large arms wrapped around the woman pulling her impossibly close returning the kiss with everything he was.

 Raphael’s large mitt ran up the back of her neck and ripped the black hat from her head and locks of blonde were wound up in his green fingers. Mouth open and dumbfounded the three brothers could hear his rumblings over the fire. Raphael was clinging to the mysterious woman like she was a life line.

 “Hey it’s the snack lady!” Mikey pointed out breaking the spell around the two entangled on the desk.

 The woman slowed their kiss and disengaged from the brute and the massive turtle slumped down on the desk panting with a punch drunk look on his face; lips still glistening from their activities. One hand reached to her cheek under the mask cupping the right side of her face lovingly.

 Slowly she reached for the mask covering her face and slipped it free. There perched above the content brute was Aurora. Her violet eyes met with all three brothers and grinned. “Welcome to my home boys.”

 @imthegreenfairy88​ @tmntspidergirl​ @ravn-87​ @alonia143​ @blossom-skies​ @tmnt-bucklover​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

When you’re writing a fun scene

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love Of Shell - Chapter Forty Five

Another installment of my bullshit! It’s looonnnggg too!

Full Story Here

It was the soft chirping of birds that awoke Leo first, stretching his long limbs above his head he yawned having had the best sleep he had in almost a year. The scent of their activities still lingered in the air and when he moved his arm over the large bed Leo the spot next to him empty and cool. Lurching up from bed he looked to the spot Aurora laid a few hours ago still crumbled from the weight of her body.

“Damnit.”

 She had left sometime in the early morning leaving him alone and unaware of her departure. Letting a heavy sigh leave him Leo flopped back down on the bed groaning in frustration. He had hoped that……who was he kidding, what did he really expect? That an apology and a few orgasms would set everything right in one night? Being alone this morning without so much as a goodbye was what he should have expected. But it didn’t make it hurt any less. Last night was more than miraculous, having her in his arms again, kissing her, hearing his name fall blissfully from her lips again was everything he had wanted, everything that he missed.

 Short lived as it was Leo would savor last night’s memory until the end of his days. He had just hoped it wouldn’t be the last time he would get to enjoy her in that way. He wanted forever.

 The walk of shame back to the healer’s quarters was agonizing. Once he entered through the threshold of the healer’s quarters Leo found his two youngest brothers sitting next to Raph who was now strong enough to sit up in bed. Thank god for the mutagen that coursed through their veins. As they saw him enter Donnie and Mikey jumped to their feet running towards their leader bombarding him with questions.

 “Where have you been?” Donnie questioned pulling his eldest back to Raphael.

 Mikey grumbled behind his brothers as the genius guided him towards their recovering brother. “We were worried sick about you!”

 Reaching the hothead Leo watched his younger brother eye him up and down as if he were gauging his current mood. Then Raph closed his eyes and Leo saw his nostrils flare and his tongue dart from his mouth. Ever so slowly Raph’s lips curling into a devilish grin. “I can smell her on ya fearless, you didn’t do what I think you did, did ya? Because that could possibly make things worse with her.”

 Donnie cocked his head giving both his brothers a puzzled look, “What are you talking about? Smell who on Leo?” Leaning towards his older brother Donnie scented the air around him and released an uncharacteristic growl. “Oh…” his three fingered hand came to rest over his mouth startled by his animalistic reaction.

 Mikey shrugged his shoulders copying Don and Raph and they watched their little bother’s eye dilate releasing his own deep rumble. “Aurora.”

 Raphael adjusted himself to face his red-faced brother. “Ya had sex with Aurora last night.”

 Donnie’s brown orbs flashed with anger; his mouth snapping shut in a thin line. Mikey’s baby blues burned into his soul showing disappointment in his brothers’ inability to take things slow. Their icy glares made him want to hide in his shell, something he hadn’t done since he was a child.

  “How could you have been so careless? Where is she now?” his genius brother growled angrily at his eldest for the first time in his life, the vibrations of his reprimand giving Leo goosebumps of shame.

 “I…I don’t know, she was gone when I woke up.” Leo felt so small right now with his three brothers glowering at him. Did he ruin everything by going to her room last night? He was the one who broke her heart, and he went to her room. But he had gone in fully intent on just talking to her, to apologize, hoping to repair some of the damage he had done a year ago. Sex had not been the plan. They had fought together; she had saved Raph and his lives. He thought it was a good change to mend fences, did he just mess it all up?

 “I can’t believe you did something so irresponsible Leo? You entered into her room in the middle of the night after an emotional battle. Did you actually think she would be able to tell you no? You broke up with her Leo, knowing full well she is still in love with you!” Donnie’s posture was tense, his fists clenched but he was looking down at the floor unable to look his brother in the eye.

 The last sentence stung, and Leo grew slightly angry himself. “I’m in love with her too you know! I didn’t plan on having sex with her; I just went in there with the intent on just talking and telling her I was sorry and that I still loved her. She had been avoiding me like the plague since we first saw her, I just needed to get her alone, to explain things. One thing led to another and it just…happened.”

 “Sex doesn’t just happen bro.” Mikey cut in dropping down next to Raph, his arms folded over his chest.

 The turtle in red grumbled testing his wound with a tentative push of his two fingers. “If you forgot Leo, we all love her, she’s not just yours…...” Letting out a frustrated huff Raphael pinched the bridge between his eyes. “All I know is it better not be another year before we see her again because you couldn’t keep it in your pants oh fearless leader.”

 Soon Gyoji and Master Splinter made their way into the large room. Gyoji stopped a few feet from the brothers while Splinter moved next his eldest.

 “My son,” He started. “Your brothers were worried when you disappeared last night. They insisted coming to find you, but I told them you would return when you had finished with what you felt you needed done. By the look on your faces, I gather it did not go as planned?”

 “No Sensei.”

 Splinter’s hand came to rest on Leo’s forearm making the leader look down at the aging rat, “We must remember my son, time heals all things. There is no manual for life, mistakes are bound to happen so we must be patient and learn from our failings. Give Aurora time, her love for you all is boundless and nothing will sway her from those feelings. Yesterday’s trials were hard, but they set us on the path for reconciliation. I will give you a bit of good news though my sons, you will see her yet again today.”

 The news brought smiles back to their faces as all expect Raph stood to hear more.

 Splinter turned to Gyoji who took the invitation to address the family. “Honored ones, the kingdom thanks you for your help in saving our Daimyo, we are forever in your debt.” Gyoji bowed to them in respect and continued. “Despite yesterday’s horrible events, the award ceremony for the Battle Nexus Championship will still be held in Michelangelo’s honor. It will be held when the sun is at its highest this day. The second-place winner will also be recognized.”

 Mikey got excited smacking Raph in the arm but regretted it instantly hearing his brother groan in pain. “Oh sorry bro! Dude, I’m so sorry…..so, she’s still here?”

 “Yes Ms. Yoshi is still present in the nexus and plans on attending the ceremony. You all will be allowed up at the podium with your brother as he accepts his award. The Daimyo doesn’t want you separated from each other. Raphael the healers have informed me you as well enough to be brought up as well so you don’t miss this joyous occasion.”

 Raphael rolled his eyes watching Mikey’s face nearly burst from happiness. “Yea, it’s joyous alright. He ain’t neva gonna let us live this down.”

 “Nope.” Was Michelangelo’s quick response brushing off imaginary dust from his shoulders.

 When the time came, Raphael with the help of his brothers was settled into a wheeled chair, gathered their belongings and made their way to the Daimyo’s platform high above the battle nexus’s arena. The other three brothers towered over their father but remained behind as the old ninja master lead the way.

 As they made their way up into the Daimyo’s personal perch above the championship the blonde and purple of Aurora’s hair came into view. She was currently kneeling before the seated sullen ruler speaking softly. Her right hand was resting atop his large one in comfort and the edges of his lips lifted to a small smile. He pulled it from beneath hers and rested his massive palm on the top of her head before running it downs the side of her face to give her a gentle pat on her check. The Daimyo nodded and spoke a few whispered words which in turn made the kunoichi smile.

 They watched the private interaction until the pair became aware of their audience and stood to greet them.

 Aurora was dressed in black pants with grey knee-high boots. Her upper half was covered in a sheer blue shirt with a white tank underneath and a long necklace that hung just below her breasts. The blue in her attire did not go unnoticed to Leo who found it difficult to keep his eyes off the woman.  Just hours before she was beneath him, naked, writhing…….calm down. This is not the time or the place.

 “My friends,” The Daimyo started softly, breaking from Aurora to approach the family of five. “I know this trip has been a mix of ups and downs.” The old man swallowed hard as if trying to bury his anxious sadness. “We are in your debt for your help yesterday and of course from a year ago. If it wasn’t for you five.” The Daimyo turned slightly to address Aurora as well who stayed a few feet away. “This dimension and no doubt the rest would be in peril. You will always be honored heroes of the nexus and are always welcome with the highest regard. But this day is a happy occasion; we honor Michelangelo for his triumph in the Battle Nexus Championship as well as Aurora for runner up.” His hands reached out for the pair. “Come, it is time to present you to the people.”

 Without hesitation Mikey approached the Daimyo, he was quick to bow and the ruler’s sad eyes brightened just a little at the youngest gusto.  Turning to Aurora the Daimyo held out his hand which she took and he pulled them forward to the massive opening bring them into view of the mass crowd below. As they looked down at the swaying masses the arena erupted into applause.

 The Daimyo took both their hands and raised them high which made the roaring thunder rise to near ear splitting decimals.

 “My fellow warriors!” the sorrow that filled his voice was gone. Strong and booming followed his words as he put on a show for the masses. “This year’s Championship was found with great success! You honor us with your courage and strength! This year we are graced with a new champion and runner up in their first year to compete. Not only are they fierce fighters but also part of a team that has saved its Daimyo twice! Our runner up is a human from 3rd Earth Aurora Yoshi!”

 He held her hand higher in his excitement virtually pulling her from her feet. She stumbled a bit trying to stay on her tippy toes but a palm to his side stabilized her enough until he realized her predicament and lowered her down to the flats of her feet. “Last year she stopped an arrow from finding its place in my skull and helped us defeat Tigerclaw and his army.” From his robes he pulled a bright purple ribbon with a silver medallion attached at the bottom. He lifted it high and passed the ribbon over her head settling it around her neck. “We thank you for your part in the championship and your help in keeping this kingdom safe.”

 Aurora nodded and was turned forward one more time to be presented to the crowd.

 As the Daimyo turned to address the crowd once again Mikey turned to find Aurora smiling at him. She held out her hand which he accepted getting a squeeze. He couldn’t hear her over the ruckus from below and the bellowing of the massive man before them, but he could read her lips, ‘I’m proud of you.’

 Then he was abruptly pulled from her view and brought to the edge of the platform, his hand was raised with the same enthusiasm and the crowd screamed. It started slowly; muffled words swelling into his name growing in volume until everyone in the arena was chanting. Mikey ate up the attention bowing and adding a little flare with a back flip.

 The Daimyo came up to Mikey resting his hand on his shoulder, “Michelangelo proved himself worthy yesterday to be among the hall of champions. He also along with his brothers alongside Aurora saved this dimension twice over with the defeat of Drako and… my son Ue-Sama yesterday and ending the war with Tigerclaw last year. We are forever grateful!”

 Pulling another ribbon from his robes, this time a vibrant orange to match his mask and a large gold medallion at its end the Daimyo presented Michelangelo with his award. Mikey bowed his head to accept the award with pride. As he stood back to his full height he found his family’s admiration beaming with each face he saw. “You honor your family with your skills and your dedication to your craft Michelangelo.  You should be proud of yourself because I know your family is.”

 With slow hands the ruler turned the young mutant to face him; Mikey could see the tears in his eyes. Despite the happy face he was showing the Daimyo was in pain, an immense amount that he was now struggling to keep contained.  His smile thinned and faltered so Mikey reached up giving him a much needed embrace. This was when he could feel him shaking and waved his hand to Aurora.

 The kunoichi took the cue and pulled the Daimyo from his grip and away from the prying eyes of the crowd.

 Mikey did one more bow and waved, “See you all next time!” before throwing a smoke bomb disappearing from the ledge getting another roar from the captivated crowd.

 The Daimyo allowed Aurora to escort him from the balcony and too Splinter and his sons. “I am truly thankful for your help yesterday, all of you. But I’k sure you all wish to return to your homes for rest.” His hand rose waving Gyoji over. “Aurora you will be sent home today, Gyoji will return you to the location he retrieved you from. Old friend I’m sorry but your son is not yet healthy enough to take the trip through the dimensional portal. The energy within would rip his wound wide open. Raphael must remain here until his wounds have healed more.”

 “We shall stay behind as well if that is alright with you?”

 “You and your family are always welcome.”

 Letting go of the large man Aurora went to her bag and swung it over her shoulder. “Thank you my Daimyo, and thank you for everything. I am sorry about Ue-Sama, I truly am. But I have a feeling we haven’t seen the last of him or Drako.”  

 “As a father I hope you are right about my son but as a ruler I hope you are wrong.”

 Leo could feel the panic rising in his chest. He hadn’t thought about what would happen when this was over. She was leaving again and they would have no way to contact her. How long would it be before they saw her again? He moved on instinct stepping towards her, his hand came out to rest on her shoulder. “W-when will….where?”

 At the contact Aurora looked over her shoulder and tried to keep her composure as his beautiful blue eyes bore into her soul. She knew what he wanted but she wasn’t ready to give them her location. Not yet, soon but not yet.

 Splinter’s paw came down on his forearm and Leo released her shoulder, “My dear when you are ready you know where to find us. Our door has and will always be open to you my child.”

 As the white portal opened to her destination Aurora turned to the Daimyo and bowed and turned to do the same to Master Splinter. “Till next time.” She called before slipping through threw the light and disappearing from their life again.

 The Daimyo saw the expressions on their faces as the portal snapped shut swallowing up their kunoichi. His hands came down on Leonardo’s and Splinters shoulders. “Come my friends let us go get lunch.”

 It took two more days for Raphael to be well enough to travel home. Gyoji conjured up another portal, the swirling white light meant home, a proper shower and pizza. The Daimyo face grew solemn and reached down to the old rat. His large arms wrapped around Splinter’s small frame but was careful to do no harm.

“My friend please treasure your sons for you never know when it will be the last day you will see them.” They could hear his old voice struggling with his words as he clung to the old rat. Then his head lifted and looked at the four brothers and smiled passed his sorrow. “Give her time, she still loves you all. I could see the inner turmoil tearing her apart.”

 “Until we meet again my old friend. I shall do my best to come see you more often. My sons are grown and require less observation so I should be able to get away.”

 A gentle smile lifted the ruler’s lips, “I would love that my old friend. I look forward to it.”

 With one final bow the family of five said their farewells and stepped through the portal into the large space below the city streets that was their home.

 As they crossed over the threshold into the lair Donnie’s com rang and a very worried April came over the speaker into the genius’s ear. Pressing his finger to the device in his ear he began to listen to their friend. “Yes April, Raph is doing fine. Thankfully the mutagen in our blood has sped up his recovery tremendously. He’ll be back to giving us hell and crushing skulls in a week or two. How did you know? She what? For how long? I see, yes you can come over. See you in 20.”

 “How did April know about Raph already?” Leo asked helping their Sensei to the kitchen table.

 “Aurora…..I guess she’s been in contact with April the past couple weeks. Aurora called her yesterday when she got back to our dimension letting her know about the fight and to check up on us. She’s ahhh coming over with pizza for us and sushi for sensei.”

 Leo looked back at Donnie as he filled the kettle for tea, his mouth open in disbelief. Aurora had been missing for a year and she had started talking to April a couple of weeks ago and April didn’t tell them? The blue leader was upset but refused to vocalize it since he himself might have dashed their chances to reconnect with Aurora themselves. Finishing up filling the kettle Leo started the burner and set the kettle on top of the stove. His attention returned to his injured father helping him to the bathroom.

 “You’ll feel better after a shower Sensei, and your tea will be ready when you get out.”

 Weary and tired Master Splinter thanked his son before closing the door. He was looking forward to a hot shower and his own bed tonight, of course after a hot cup of soothing tea. After a few moments Leo heard the shower start and the shower curtain pull closed. Assured his father was ok Leo returned to the kitchen and started to prepare the tea leaves and steeper for his father’s tea.

 Looking up from his task Leo found his brothers scattered over the lair. Seeing Raph sitting on the couch pressing his finger to his covered wound Leo sighed making his way over to his brute of a brother.

 Sitting down next to him Leo grabbed Raph’s hand preventing another jab to the bandage setting it down on his lap, “What the shell are you doing Raph?”

 “Feeling.” Raph grumbled crossing his arms over his chest wincing at the shooting pain in his side. “Is that ok with you?”

 “Why w…” before he could finish, the whirlwind of April tore through the lair heading straight for Raph and himself. In her left hand she carefully balanced four pizzas and on her right slung a bag from their favorite sushi stop. Setting the goodies down on the coffee table April sat down next to the two turtles and immediately started fussing over Raphael. After a few moments Raph visible softened to their human friend and allowed her to clean his wound with the fresh supplies Donnie had just brought over.

 April had gotten into the familiar rhythm of taking care of her friends each time they came home from patrol battered and bruised. Over the past year as the operations of the purple dragons increased she saw more blood and dark marks on the brothers than she cared to witness. Thankfully none had been life threatening until this day. This was the first time a wound could have been mortal. When she had gotten the phone call from Aurora she could tell Aurora had been worried. The attack on the family was troublesome and set her on edge. Even the hitch in Aurora’s voice as she gave a short detail of the attack sent a heavy chill through her body. Looking to the Leader next to Raph she took note of his bandaged hand and winced remembering the story behind it.

 That hand saved them both, Raph and himself by grabbing the business end of a sword. The sharp metal sliced through his palm and fingers like warm butter before coming to a halt from the pure strength of his grip. It was a testament to Leo’s commitment to his never ending training and continuing pursuit to perfect his body. Leo was always looking to get better, always ready to defend his family and had proven many times the dutiful leader always putting himself in danger to keep his family safe. Splinter had made the right choice to put the blue banded terrapin in charge.

 After ever bit of food she had brought into the lair was consumed by the guy’s ravenous appetite April watched Leo shift in his seat suddenly looking a little suspicious. His bandaged hand ran over his blade crown and released a long drawn out sigh. Even before he said anything she knew who the question would be about.

 “Have you seen her since she contacted you?” His usual commanding voice wavered at the subject of his question.

 “I haven’t seen her yet but I know she’s back in the city somewhere. She keeps promising to meet up for dinner but her current project has kept her pretty busy.”  

 “Current project?” Donnie cocked his head at the notion from across the kitchen table.

 “Not sure yet, she’s being pretty secretive about it but she assured me I’ll get to see it when it’s done. Not gonna lie, I’m super stoked. It’s been way too long. How did she look?”

 Leo watched April from across the table asking about Aurora. He could see the hesitancy in her features like she was playing with something fragile. She didn’t want to upset him but she wanted to know. Then the soft smile turned excited and she nearly jumped from her chair.

 “Wait! Who won the Battle Nexus Championship?!” Her big beautiful eyes scanned each brother waiting anxiously for an answer.

 “You mean SHE didn’t tell you?” Raph laughed leaning back on his chair testing the strength of the old metal on the vintage chair.

 “All she told me was it was someone I knew.”

 Mikey’s sudden push of his chair sent the thing teetering dangerously on the kitchens platforms edge as he stood. His thumbs hooked under the straps of his harness and pushed them forward as if they were suspenders. The soft ridges of his eyes wagged as he stepped away from the table and took a sliding side step towards April. “You anglecakes, have the privilege of looking upon a bona fide multi dimensional battle nexus champion.”

 April could barely contain the squeal of excitement for the youngest brother. Jumping from her chair she ran into his arms giving him a long hug. “Mikey I’m so proud of you! I knew all that extra training would pay off! Did you get a trophy or something?”

 “Yeah I got a gold medallion and there will be a statue made in my likeness in the hall of champions. You should have heard the crowd, it was killer!”

 “Who did you beat to win?” April asked letting go of Mikey returning to her chair.

 “Aurora.”

 “Oh damn.” April gawked at Mikey.

 “Yeah tell me about it.” Mikey’s smile grew.

 Donnie shifted in his chair trying to get the woman’s attention and leaned towards April setting his chin in his hands batting his big brown eyes, “So are you going to give me Aurora’s new phone number?”

 April gave him a half hearted smile shaking her head, “Sorry guys, she told me not to give you the number yet. She’s not ready yet and Don if you hack my phone to get it none of us will hear from her again. Don’t push the issue and let her come back on her own time. I could tell by the tone of her voice the other day she was struggling with seeing you guys, she misses you all, just know that.”

 April stayed for another hour before having to return home to get ready for work in the morning. Soon after, the lair was dark as the turtles and their sensei retired to their own beds for some rest. It had been a stressful few days and the comfort of their own sanctuary brought sleep early.

 It had been a few weeks since their return from the battle nexus championship and things were returning back to normal. After two weeks of highly resented rest Raphael was healed enough to be able to return to patrols with his brothers.

 Their current location was running over rooftops heading towards the newest lead their genius brother had figured out for the Purple Dragons. The chill in the night air indicated the change to fall, from what trees that were dispersed around the city started to change colors.

 “You better be right about this warehouse Donnie, wrestling was about to start.”

 “Yeah yeah Raph, from what reliable sources I found something big is going down with the Purple Dragons tonight. Rebecca wanted us to check it out first before she sent in the Calvary. The one word that kept popping up in the black market chat sites kept saying something about weapons.” Donnie used his bo staff to help himself vault over the next roof landing just behind Leo who had stopped holding his hand up in a silent order to halt.

 As they crept over to the warehouse in question the four brothers looked down into the alleyway finding several large trucks with their doors open awaiting their unknown cargo. There were only a few bodies below watching the trucks so Leonardo signaled the move to the roof of the warehouse to get a better look. A skylight in the far corner of the roof gave the best vantage point and they made their way over peering down below.

 “Jackpot.” Raphael whispered happily pulling his sai from their holsters on his harness. As usual the large mutant was itching for a fight.

 Below was the largest gathering of the Purple Dragons they had seen so far. From what they could see there were at least 50 of the scumbags crowded around a hulk of a man. The first thing they noticed was his stark white long hair braided midway down his back. With the stature almost comparable to Raphael and with a large purple dragon on his left arm that spanned from his shoulder all the way down to his fist, this guy looked like bad news.

 The promise of a challenge made Raph giddy with excitement.

 “That has to be their leader, Hun. We’ve never seen him before and from the way they are all looking to him screams man in charge.” Leo mused scanning over the inside of the warehouse finding several large crates on the opposite side of the gathered Purple Dragons.

 Catching their attention a door adjacent from the gang members swung open and several heavily armed men filtered into the large space below coming to meet Hun. Soon after, a tall but well built man in a black leather coat and dark aviator sunglasses entered moving his way through the armed men coming almost nose to nose with Hun.

 Leo looked to his brothers and held his finger to his mouth needing silence and carefully lifted the skylight giving them a chance to hear the exchange from down below.

 The man in the leather coat spoke first pulling his glasses from his face addressing the gargantuan boss and his lackeys. “Hun, I presume.” He started, smiling when he got a quick nod from the large man. “I presume we have a deal then? I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but your reputation and size of your operation makes you a valuable ally. Plus, I need results sooner than later. If I give you these weapons you and your men will keep an ear to the ground and report back to me any type of unusual activity in the streets.  After that large ship assembled itself above Manhattan a few years ago the government has been on high alert now fully aware we are in fact no longer alone in this universe. There has been a little birdie chirping in my ear and there has even been talk from your own men of four large green mutants taking out your operations lately. I want to know if there is any truth to these accusations and if so I want them taken alive. I would like to study them to find out what makes them tick. From what I’ve heard they were highly trained and have enhanced strength. They could be some use to me.”

 Hun eyed the large crates with interest all the while cracking his oversized knuckles. “So you’re telling me the government is gonna give us these weapons to be their look out? All we gotta do is keep an eye out for the weird freaky shit and let ya know?”

 The man sighed pinching the bridge of his nose, “No, this isn’t coming from the government you idiot. If they knew I was supplying a hostile territorial gang with weapons, my funding would be cut. This is under their radar, off the books you hear me you big baboon. This cannot get back to me you hear me.”

 “No need to get nasty, I hear ya. How do I get a hold of you if I come across these….freaks?”

 The movement to quick to see the man pulled a small white card from the breast pocket of his jacket and handed it to Hun. “Call this number and ask for the name on the card.”

 At those words Leo turned to his brothers giving them a tight frown. Not only were these animals about to get weapons from some government reject but they were looking for them as well? This wasn’t good. Leo moved away from the opening and addressed his three brothers quickly, “We have to stop this, those trigger happy idiots can’t get their hands on those high tech weapons. We need to figure out who this guy is and what section of the government he’s part of. Donnie contact Rebecca and get some back up over here asap.”  

 Donnie nodded and turned away to contact the chief of police and Leo turned to his other two brothers who were awaiting their instructions. “Once Donnie is done we’re gonna cut those lights and take them out. We know the skill set of a Purple Dragon, but those government men look like they’re expertly trained along with those weapons, so be careful with them. The plan is just to keep them busy until the Calvary shows up, they can take it from there and keep things legit. Stay safe and alive.”

 Donnie hung up his com turning back around, “They are on the way, should be here is 10-15 minutes.”

 Returning their attention back to the gathering below Leo motioned for the genius to do his thing. With one push of a button on his wrist the large space below them was plunged it into darkness. The reaction was almost instantaneous bringing loud and angry cursing from within the pitch black void.

 Taking their cue Leo lifted the skylight fully and the four brothers drop down into the darkness ready to stop the exchange no matter the cost. Thankfully with all the confusion of the lighting failure their presence to the unwitting party had gone unnoticed. This gave them the upper hand and the element of surprise which they took full advantage of and attacked. Quickly and quietly the four turtles took out the first 10 Purple Dragons before the rest of the large room’s inhabitance became aware of the threat.

 As flashlights were found and turned-on, streaks of green whipped by in the streams of light startling the men.

 “It’s them!” Someone yelped in the darkness before being silenced by Raphael.  

 “Someone get those goddamned lights back on now!” Hun growled before being tackled to the ground by the hurdling weight of Leonardo. Immediately the large man began to fight the unexpected weight holding him to the ground. Leo watched the man’s eyes widen in shock blocking a blow from his fist. Hun couldn’t make out too much in the darkness, but he could see his large silhouette hovering above him. “Get off me!”

Finding that Hun was stronger than he anticipated Leo was able to get a few blows in before he was unceremoniously thrown over Hun’s head landing on two Purple Dragons. Getting to his feet he avoided as much of the lights that desperately searched for the hidden attackers. Leo leapt from the ground swinging up into the rafters to find his brothers who were now scattered around the warehouse.

 Mikey was the farthest way taking on four gang members single handily.  Donnie was fiddling with something by the crates hopefully figuring out a way to keep the guns from the Purple Dragon’s greedy hands. And then there was Raph who had just found Hun and like two unmovable forces colliding Leo could have sworn he felt the shockwave from their kinetic energy.

 Then Leo noticed the strange man and his subordinates staying back away from the fight. One of them was working on a tablet just behind the man in the glasses. What was he doing?

 Thankfully most of the Purple Dragons were down for the count not including Hun who Raph was still working on, so all they needed to deal with was the governments men. When the lights hummed back to life engulfing the once dark space Leo knew what the man was working on. To Leo’s horror Mikey and Raph were out in the open exposed in full view of the strange government man and his men. He watched the man pull his glasses from his face and wicked smile curled up his wide mouth.

 “So you are real?” he laughed manically stepping closer to the two visible turtles.

 Hun looked up at the beast he was fighting and stepped back in shock, “F-freak! There are freaks in the city!”

 “Freaks?” Raph growled at the large man. “You’re the freak asshole. You’re the abomination to this city, stealing and killing for financial gain.” His large fist reared back and slammed into Hun’s face sending the man sprawling back head over heels.  

 Now Raph and Mikey stood in the middle of the room weapons in hand ready to continue the fight. Leo watched from above, his attention on his two brothers and on the genius high in the pile of crates. Donnie finished and turned to look at his eldest brother giving him a thumbs up.

As the cluster of men started forward towards Raph and Mikey, Leo pulled a kunai from his hip and threw it down embedding into the floor of the warehouse. The blade a warning stopped the government men in their tracks. Their eyes rose to the ceiling and followed the large green mass land a few feet from them blocking their view from the other two turtles.

 “Another one? Interesting? How many of you are there?” the man cooed stepping over the blade to face the large mutant in blue.

 Leo stood his ground folding his arms over his chest, “What kind of government official hands over deadly weapons to a gang well known for their brutality and violence?” his voice was dripping with venom taking a step forward.

 The men behind the new threat took notice and started to engage but the man held his hand up stopping their movement.  “What are you? I must know.”

 “That is none of your business and you will leave us alone.”

 “I’m afraid I can’t do that mutant. It’s in my nature to know the unknown and you are making my head spin with excitement. I’ll find out what you are and if I have to dissect you to do that, then so be it.”

 Leo growled at the thought of his brothers tied up opened up like a can of sardines. His hands clenched into fists ready to wail on the man but Donnie waved at him getting his attention. Signaling the emanate explosion Donnie swung up into the rafters waiting impatiently for his brother.

 The strange man followed Leo’s line of sight and found another mutant swinging up to safety, “And there was four.” He hissed returning his gaze back to the mutant before him.

 Leo side stepped and looked back to see Raph and Mikey already gone. Pulling a smoke pellet from his belt he threw it to the floor engulfing him in a dark blue smoke. In the confusion he slipped to safety. As Leo was clear Donnie detonated the bomb sending debris flying everywhere, flames roaring over the crates engulfing them.

As the men got to their feet they all converged on the leader helping him to his feet.

“Sir, we have to get out of here.”

“Bishop!” another called.

“Yes, yes let’s head back to base. I have a report to write.”

 @imthegreenfairy88 @bluesakurablossom @alonia143 @ravn-87 @blossom-skies​ @tmntspidergirl

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

My story has over 100,000 words and I’ve only posted around half of it so far. 😬

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love Of Shell - Chapter 43

This photo inspired this chapter. Art done by Winkcal Blanke (Check them out)

Full Story Here

Battle on the Water

Fatigue was beginning to affect him as Donnie plowed through another batch of shadow ninjas. He kept a close eye on his younger brother making sure he was still able to handle himself. But who was he kidding? What would he do if he saw Mikey needed help, when he was having trouble himself keeping up with the supply and demand of these things? They reminded him of evil elves with their long heads, it made it look like they had stocking hats on.

When Aurora finally got the door open, the kunoichi rushed into the unknown room followed by a handful of their attackers. They were persistent obviously not keen on them entering that space. When she called out for them, Donnie knew The Daimyo and Master Splinter were being held inside, he just hoped they were alive.

Aurora swung her blades breaking the binds that kept the Daimyo connected with the cold brick wall. He landed on his feet softly for a man his size following Aurora to his old friend who was in need of help. With another swipe of her mystic blades Master Splinter tumbled into Aurora and the Daimyo’s outstretched arms.  

Master Splinter moaned in pain being release from his confines but sighed when the heavy metal no longer cut into his limbs. He looked up into Aurora purple eyes grateful to see her concerned face but where were his sons? He needed to know they were alright, that Draco had not succeeded in his threat. “My sons?” he whispered past parched lips grabbing her to in desperation.

“Mikey Donnie!” she called again out to the two brothers and returned her attention back to their hurt father. “They’re just outside the room Master Splinter, I unfortunately don’t know where Leo and Raph are. Donnie lost contact with them a little bit ago.”

Mikey came tumbling into the room his nunchakus swinging and stopped dead in his tracks seeing horrid sate his father was in, “Sensei!” he cried out launching himself forward to take his wounded father into his arms.

Aurora allowed the young turtle to take his father and stood back up heading for the door, where was Donnie? They needed to get out of the bowels of the palace and now. Just then Donnie ran into the room colliding with Aurora. Before she fell from the collision Donnie’s arms were around Aurora steadying her body against his plastron. The first thing she saw was a thick trail of blood running down his plastron. Donnie was hurt! Following the crimson trail up his body she saw the large gash on the top of his cranium. Blood was smeared over his green skin covering his forehead and beak.  Somehow the blood had stayed out of his eye, thank god.

“Donnie, your head.” Reaching for the wound Aurora found her momentum stopped by his large hand midair pulling it back down to his chest.

“I’m fine, how is Splin……” his usual steady voice broke seeing his father lying broken in his younger brother’s arms. Gently moving Aurora out of the way he hurried to their side pulling down his goggles to scan his sensei.

“Father.” He cooed softly touching his father’s limbs tentatively checking for any broken bones.

“My sons, I knew you would find us. I am alright, nothing is broken but we must hurry to find your other brothers. We were given a grim threat by one the masters of this treachery.”

“Who? Do did this to you?” Mikey growled venomously.

“Can you stand Sensei?” Donnie asked helping Mikey lower his feet to the ground.

“I will tell you on the way.” With unsteady feet Master Splinter stood with a little help from Mikey’s arm. He pulled at his sons arms towards the exit eager to see daylight and find his last two sons. He watched Aurora move past them into the main room meeting with the final minions of Draco taking care of them with hast.

As he observed her move through the threat, her stance, her follow through there was no doubt over the past year her technic had improved significantly. It made his heart swell with pride; he missed her presence and the happiness she brought his sons. He hoped this was the beginning of her returning to their clan.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Everything hurt, every inch of him ached and his lungs protested painfully ready to pull in the water surrounding his mouth. Leonardo could feel all their hands holding him below the fast current of the waterfalls pull. He was going to drown; he was about to die. The pressure above him lessened suddenly and then again, then a large hand grasped his holster yanking him from the water and his lungs burst gasping and coughing for oxygen he desperately needed.  Before him was Raphael holding him just above the water his massive body battered littered with cuts and soaking wet.

“Thanks Bro.” Leo coughed settling his feet back beneath him. This trip had not turned out like he thought.

“Don’t thank me yet, we’re not out of this by a long shot.” Raph handed him back one of his katana he had lost, and the familiar hilt shifted under his strengthening grip. Returning his gaze to their watery battlefield Leo sighed at the new wave of shadow ninja surrounding the two tired turtles and prepared for another fight.

“Stay alive Raph.”

“You too fearless.”

~~~~~~~~~~

Aurora took the lead up the stairs finding the onslaught of ninjas thinning out and ending as they reached the main floor of the palace.

“My lord!” they heard several guards call from down the hall their armor clanging loudly as they neared. They tried to usher him to the healers but he waved them off pushing forward to the main door. “There is no time, Leonardo and Raphael are in danger. Gather what men you can find. Where is my son?”  

The guards had no idea where Ue-Sama current location was, “We hadn’t seen him since he ordered most of the guard out into the countryside to search for you my Daimyo.” One guard stumbled over his words scanning the Daimyo for injuries

“Which means there are limited guards in the palace…….it makes no difference.” The Daimyo growled turning to Donatello. “Where did you say your brothers were the last time you heard from them?”

“Above the palace at the waterfall.”

The Daimyo turned to the guards next to them and grabbed one firmly by the arm, “Go, gather the rest of the guard in the palace. There is trouble up on the waterfall for our friends Leonardo and Raphael, they require assistance now!”

With a quick nod the guards took off in search for the rest of their fellow soldiers leaving the small group alone in the hallway.

“Master Splinter, pleases stay here with the Daimyo while we go to Leo and Raph.” Mikey pleaded helping his father sit on a bench a few feet away. He knew his father wouldn’t’ stay but he had to try.

“I will not sit idly by while two of my sons are in danger. I am alright, let us go to their aid.” The old rat used his arms to push himself up and to his feet refusing help from anyone and started down the hallway. “There is no time.”

Aurora watched the old stubborn rat get to his feet pushing away the worried hands of his sons and head for the exit. He was a true testament to his sons, and she knew where they got their strength and stubbornness from. Splinter had most certainly been beaten for quite some time from the look of his body but still refused to be left behind when it came to his son’s safety. She could see his unsure footing and the slight limp in his left foot. He was in pain, but it didn’t matter he was going to help.

There was feeling in her gut that had been festering for an hour now, her stomach was twisted in knots. They had to be quick, something was wrong. Picking up the pace she made her way to the front just before Master Splinter, she would be the first line of defense. Aurora had no idea of the Daimyo’s fighting skills and Master Splinter was in no shape to fight himself and god knew Mikey and Donnie were focused on their father more than the danger in front of them.

Moving behind the palace away from the village they headed up towards the top of the waterfall on the Daimyo’s private pathway. If they weren’t in danger Aurora would have loved to take a leisurely stroll up the path. The colors on the trees and the view out to the countryside were breath taking.

Thankfully this path was a short cut because time was of the essence. As they neared the top Aurora reached for her blades removing them from their sheaths. Soon the muffled sounds of fighting reached the ascending groups ears making Aurora’s heart jump into her throat. Then a loud bellow of pain echoed over the top of the waterfall followed by Leonardo’s scream for his brother in red.

“Fuck!” Aurora took off like a rocket leaving the four behind her running as fast her legs would carry her. “Please be ok. Please be ok.” She kept repeating to herself as she neared the top. When her feet found the top of the hill Aurora stopped in her tracks mouth open in horrified shock.

There in the middle of a large circle of shadow ninjas stood Leonardo weaponless clutching Raphael’s motionless hemorrhaging body. In one hand he struggled to keep the brutes head above the rushing water and his other was wrapped around a blade stopping it from impaling him in the chest. There was so much blood, it seemed to pour from Raphael’s side, the blade still protruding from the wound. She could barely hear the rest come up behind her screaming for the two hurt brothers.

She felt it deep in her stomach first, the hot bubbling sensation that matched the same intensity as that night in Japan. It bloomed quickly spreading out into every limb like wildfire. Her vision blurred when Leo’s terrified eyes met hers, finding quick reprieve in her sudden presence. All at once his bright blue eyes widened in shock. His mouth opened to call out her name, but his voice never reached her ears.

The thundering rush of blood in her veins was all she could hear and red-hot rage burning inside her seeing two of her loved ones covered in blood. Then an intense tingling started at the end of every limb coursing through her body in an instant and the leather beneath her fingers creaked with the strength of her tightening grip.

Leo was helpless to help his brother when the long blade pierced his side sinking deep into the soft tissue of his muscle. He had been a few feet away tending to his own impending doom. Raph’s thundering howl of pain ripped through Leo as he lunged forward dropping his katana to catch Raphael before he collapsed into the coursing river to be swept away.

There was no reprieve when another blade came for him aimed for his chest intent to kill. With no other options his hand shot out catching the shape blade in the tight grip of his hand. Leo hissed in pain as the blade sliced through the soft flesh of his palm and the tender pads of his fingers. Almost instantly blood ran from his unwavering grip but thankfully he was able to stop the blades momentum, for now.

The fact that there was no movement from his brother terrified him to no end, “Raph!?” he called looking around at the slowly enclosing circle of enemies. The pressure on the blade increased and he winced as the sharp metal sliced through her hand further. Was this it? Was this the end of Raph and himself? The smiling faces of his two youngest brothers flashed before his eyes, he would never get to see them again. Tell them he loved them, was proud of them for the men they had become. Then Aurora’s face invaded his mind, her mesmerizing purple eyes and her unwavering love for him a mutant turtle. He would never get to kiss her again; tell her he was sorry and what a fool he was. Or feel her warm body under him again. The hot sting of tears pricked his eyes as his heart filled with unchecked sorrow. He wasn’t ready to die.

Then movement from the edge of the river brought him back to the present and his eyes locked on Aurora’s, she was here and she was alright which meant so were Donnie and Mikey. She would have made sure they were fine. Her face soured in horror and the purple light he hadn’t seen in a year swirled in her eyes making his heart jump unexpectedly. When the purple flame of her powers engulfed his kunoichi Leo nearly dropped the dead weight of Raphael into the water.

Donnie, Mikey, Splinter and the Daimyo reached the top of the pathway as Aurora’s power erupted sending the cascading fire to consume her frame. Her hair floated about her shoulders with the force of the purple aura giving Splinter the first view of her abilities.

“By the gods!” Master Splinter gasped under his breath grabbing for his sons arms to steady his surprise, even the scrolling on Aurora’s swords were illuminated. His sons had told him of her powers, explained what happened in great detail, even seeing on video in japan but seeing it first hand was something else. Words did not do it justice leaving him captivated by the display of shear power that flowed through her small frame. If this two sons weren’t in mortal danger several yards from him he wouldn’t have been able to pry his eyes from Aurora. But that was just it, Leo was trying his best to hold his unmoving brother above water while still defending them both with his bare hands, quite literally.

As everything came bubbling to the surface Aurora screamed with fury sending a purple shock wave forth. Her other hand re-sheathed a katana and came up her fingers curling just slightly creating a protective barrier around Leo and Raph barring them from the advancing shallow ninjas. The force of the shock wave sent every ninja hurdling in the opposite direction leaving Leo and Raph safe within the protective barricade.

Now that they were out of harm’s way Aurora turned her unbridled rage to the recovering shadow ninjas. Unsheathing a katana she screamed, the sound echoing over the water in a determined battle cry. She launched forward trudging into the river current dead set to even the score.

The blade in Leo’s bloody grasp snapped in the barrier and Leo finally collapsed to his knees still keeping Raphael’s head above water. With a splash the remanence of the weapon slipped from his grasp and dropped into the water leaving Leo’s hand lacerated and blood soaked.

Now safe Leo turned his attention to his fallen brother shaking his body trying to revive him. “Raphael! Brother! Wake up Raph!” His eyes landed on Raph’s plastron looking for any kind of movement. Was he still breathing? Finding his pulse point with his two fingers Leo hoped to find a pulse. Letting out a heavy sigh the weak but still there steady thump against his fingertips sent a rush of relief through him, Raphael was still alive.

Looking up he saw his family staring at him waiting for any word Raphael was still with them. With a shaky smile he gave them a bloody thumbs up giving them the ok to breathe once again.

With their two brothers currently out of danger the rest of the group entered into the fray behind Aurora who was decimating the large force of ninja.

With one hand Leo gingerly pulled the blade from his brother’s side and pressed his fingers to the gushing wound stopping the flow of blood. Sinking them farther into the cold water Leo hoped the temperature would slow the blood flow. Raphael had already lost too much blood for his taste and until Donnie was able to look at him Leo’s was Raphael’s life line.

As the battle raged on around them Leo felt helpless watching them all fight for them. If he left this protective bubble Aurora was managing to keep securely around them it would leave Raph alone with no pressure to stop the bleeding. How was she managing this anyways? He found her not far from them the breathtaking display of power still radiating around her, but she was only using one katana? The other was still securely in its holster and her one free hand was outstretched towards them curled as if holding an invisible ball.

He came to the realization she was fighting and concentrating on keeping them safe inside the bubble at the same time. How she was managing it he would never know.    

This was the first time she had used her power since Japan, she had refused to use it when it nearly took them from her. But when she saw Leo gripping that blade with his bloody bare hand and Raphael limp in his arms bleeding profusely, she felt it come to life taking over whether she liked it or not. They were in trouble and that was all that mattered, and she let it consume her willingly.

Aurora could feel the power emanating within her making her faster and stronger, giving her the power she needed to bring every last one of these shifty ninjas down. She took out the ninjas with one hand and kept Leo and Raph safe with the other. It was Leo’s job to keep Raphael alive while they took care of the rest of these scum, at least until Donnie could get to them.

Thankfully the fight ended faster than in the palace’s dungeon, with the open space they were able to move freely unhindered by walls and tight spaces. With one final swipe of her katana the last of the shadow ninjas fell disappearing into dust. All that could be heard was the rush of water beneath them and heavy breathing from her friends. All eyes flew to Aurora who returned her katana to its holster and let her hand drop ending the protective bubble around Leo and Raph.

Donnie, Mikey and Master Splinter rushed to their side giving Leo the reprieve he needed. Donnie’s hands found the wound at Raphael’s side and cautiously removed Leo’s blood-soaked hand examining it. Pulling down his goggles he observed Raphael’s heart beat and blood pressure taking note of the uneven breathing his brother managed to be taking.  If they could stop the bleeding Raphael should be fine he hoped.

Before he could vocalize just that they heard the startled yelp of Aurora behind them. Turning their gaze, they found Aurora in Ue-Sama’s grasp a knife to her throat and a hooded figure doing them same with the Daimyo.

“Aurora! Daimyo!” they screamed scrambling to their feet to notice another batch of ninjas closing in.

“Shell.” Mikey signed pulling out his weapons again. When would this end, he was tired and wanted to go home.

Before they could move the purple protective bubble surrounded them all keeping them safe from another onslaught of attacks. Looking to Aurora they saw her hand back in the position making the barricade with her curled fingers but keeping her hand down out of Ue-Sama’s eye sight.

Donnie got to his feet pulling his bo staff free as well while Mikey readied to fight once again but were stopped by the solid barrier. Their green hands pressed against the purple wall trying to break through, but it was no use. There was no getting out as long as Aurora held that barricade. They began pounding on the wall pleading for her to let them out.

They watched as Ue-Sama leaned down pressing his tongue to her cheek licking a wet stripe across her skin. “Let them out my love, let them meet their end.” He cooed pressing the blade harder into her throat. “I want you to watch them all die, and then we can finally be together to rule all we desire with the war staff and your power.”

Aurora could feel the power draining from her quickly. After the initial loss of adrenaline she felt the her whole body sag from exhaustion, but that was normal. After the danger was over she usually passed out. But when Ue-Sama caught her by surprise she tried to hold onto it, to bring it back, the danger was not over. It was already too far gone but she refused to let that barrier break, she had to protect them at all cost. They were the most important people in her life and she wasn’t going to let anyone hurt them while there was still breath in her body.

“If you think I’m going to let you kill them and then expect me to fall into your arms from grief you are sorely mistaken. I could never love you.” She spat still concentrating on keeping conscious. “You’ll have to kill me before I let you harm them further.” She heard him growl in anger dragging the sharp metal across her throat finally drawing some blood.

“Kill her, and then them my Daimyo. Let’s get this over with. Do not doddle.” The figure in the dark hood hissed pressing the struggling Daimyo to his knees.

“Please my son, what are you doing? Why are you doing this?” The Daimyo pleaded trying to make eye contact with his son.

“Shut up father, you’ve been Daimyo long enough it’s my turn to rule. I will bring this world to its knees and they will worship me! And you will be mine Aurora whether you like it or not. The war staff must be able to help me with that.” Reaching behind him Ue-Sama pulled the war staff free lifting it into the air.

“No you fool!” The hooded figure pulled his hood back revealing Draco as he lunged for the inexperienced young Daimyo releasing the current Daimyo in the process. But it was too late; Ue-Sama concentrated and started a red swirling portal above them that soon started a horrid unholy sound within it.

“My son no! You don’t know how it works you’ll destroy us all! Your inexperienced mine will conjure things you have no control of!”

With Ue-Sama distracted Aurora made her move bursting free of his hold tumbling clumsily into the water. In her weakened state her hand finally dropped the barrier when it connected painfully with the rocks below the surface setting them free.

Draco knocked Ue-Sama to his knees grabbing the War staff which made the red swirling portal open faster bringing the suction of its pull to the ground.  The first to feel its pull were the shadow ninjas who slid from their feet flailing helplessly towards the portal, each one disappearing into the vortex.

The Daimyo leapt for Draco grappling for the war staff rolling onto the embankment. He was the only one who could stop the unstable vortex. He had to get it back and stop this madness before it consumed them all.

Soon the pull reached Aurora taking her from the water; her hands grasped wildly for the slimy rocks or anything to stop her ascent towards the portal.

Leo laid Raphael in Donnie’s arms and lunged for Aurora grabbing her hand and turned to reach for Mikey who had a hold of something beneath the water. Donnie and Master Splinter reached beneath the water as well finding the large root Mikey had found. As the pull of the vortex intensified they began to lift out of the water stretching to their limits.

Aurora watched Ue-Sama lift into the air failing to grab anything to keep him grounded. Then the sound of a roar brought their attention to the Daimyo and Draco to find The Daimyo holding the war staff once again and the red dragon flying towards to portal that was growing rapidly in size.

The Daimyo gripped the war staff and concentrated on closing the portal. His will faltered seeing his only son hurtling towards the opening but knew it was too late, there was nothing he could do to save his son, his main goal was to stop the portal his son had so foolishly created, everyone here in this dimension was relying on him. His eyes lifted to see several guards making it to the top of the walkway stumbling as they got caught in the pull. He had to stop this now.

Aurora’s hold on Leo’s wrist was slipping, the water and blood that coated his skin made it difficult to get a good grip. Below, his eyes were focused on his family next to him making sure they all were still holding on. The drag was so strong she could feel her pants start to slip from her body; just then a boot slipped free sailing towards the portal. Then her fingers slipped farther down his arm sliding into his hand catching his attention. His eyes shot to their failing connection and then to her eyes.

“Hold on!” he screamed over the horrid sound coming from the portal. “Don’t let go!”

“What do you think I’m trying to do!” she yelled back intertwining her fingers with his.

Unexpectedly Splinter slipped free and flew passed Leonardo in a flash. “Sensei!”

Aurora watched Splinter come sailing by and managed to grab a hold of his leg stopping his climb into the abyss. Gritting her teeth she felt both her shoulders protest at the sudden strain threatening to pop from their sockets. “Fuck!” she cried out but kept her grip on the furry ankle. “Daimyo please! We’re slipping!”

In the distance they could see his struggling to stay grounded his eyes closed both hands wrapped tightly around the war staff. His mouth moved whispering inaudible words and then with a burst of blue light the portal snapped closed ending the unbearable sound and strong pull, sending everyone crashing to the ground.

Aurora burst from the surface of the river gasping for breath thankful to still be in this dimension. Searching the water she found all four turtles around her along with Splinter. Next she found the Daimyo on his knees on the embankment staring up into the sky the war staff cradled in his lap.

Her eyes searched the water and embankment and found no trace of Ue-Sama or the large red dragon. They must have passed through the portal before he could close it. Aurora was thankful it was over but her heart went out to the Daimyo, he had just lost his son to his own demons. Those emotional wounds would take a long time to heal.

@imthegreenfairy88​ @bluesakurablossom​ @ravn-87​ @alonia143​ @tmnt-bucklover​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For the Love of Shell - Chap 42

Next chappie for those who are reading this!

Here it is from the beginning for those who want to start! Filled with smut my loves

Chapter Forty Two – Betrayal of the Son

By now the palace was now overrun with guards searching for the Daimyo. The sound of the clanging metal of their armor was almost deafening. It had taken Ue-Sama far too long to order the palace searched for Aurora’s liking. Since she had shown up at the palace this morning Ue-Sama had been acting very bizarre. Particularly the kiss he forced onto her after the tournament. He was planning something, she could tell and now with the Daimyo’s disappearance it seemed to solidify her speculation. Now Mikey, Donnie and herself were slipping silently through the palace on their own mission, one being done under Ue-Sama’s nose.  

There was no sign of Ue-Sama when they pasted the dining room on their way to the lower levels. It was still in disarray with a few servants trying to clean up the damage. There was a knot forming in her stomach, she did not like this one bit. With the door to the basement in sight Donnie hurried forward and brought his giggles down over his eyes. His hand shot up and waved back signaling them of guards coming up the stairs. The three disappeared easily into the shadows waiting for their opening. With a loud clamor five more guards barreled up the stairs heading to the main hallway. Slipping silently down the poorly lit staircase to the basement and the dungeons, she noticed Mikey and Donnie staying close to her keeping her between them as they descended. They stopped at the first level scattering to cover more ground faster.

“Be careful, yell for us if you find anything or need help.” Donnie gazed down at her with a worried look while his large three fingered hand rested on her lower back.

“Will do.” With a half hearted smile she nodded to the two turtle brothers and ran in the opposite direction in search of any clue of the disappearance of the Daimyo and Splinter.

~~~~~~~~~~

Master Splinter groaned in discomfort as he came too. His skull felt like someone had cracked it open with a sledgehammer. He needed to rub his temples to release some of the pressure but found his arms immobile. In fact when he finally opened his eyes he found he was hanging from a brick wall in a dimly lit room by his wrists that were stretched painfully tight on either side of him. Due to the lack of height he was hanging suspended off the ground. His weight was pulling at his old limbs making the predicament even more excruciating.

A soft cough next to him alerted the old rat he wasn’t alone in his dilemma and his mind went to his dinner companion and the series of events that lead them to this dark musty room. They had been enjoying each other’s company about to start dinner when he tasted something foreign in his soup, something that wasn’t supposed to be there. Dropping his spoon his hands thrust forward disengaging the spoon from his friend’s hand toppling the bowl of soup with it.

Before he would warn the Daimyo about the unknown substance in their food they were attacked. Dark shadowy figured came from everywhere and converged in on them showing no mercy. They fought them as best they could but in the end there was too many and were knocked unconscious. Now in the present they found themselves at the mercy yet again of their captors.

“Splinter?” the groggy voice of the Daimyo hit his fury ears.

“Yes, my old friend I am here with you. It looks like we have found ourselves in quiet a predicament. I wonder who our host is?”

As if on cue a large hooded figure emerged from the shadows with bright red eyes glowing under the heavy hood.

“Who are you? Why have you done this?” The Daimyo scowled yanking on his confines. “Release us at once!”

Rough as gravel, a deep twisted laugh rumbled from the mysterious cloaked figure. The movements so smooth it seemed their captor floated across the room on air, stopping a few inches from the old rat. Two large scaled hands emerged from the large sleeves pushing back the hood.

“Draco!” Splinter hissed through clenched teeth.

“Yes you sniveling rat! How long I’ve waited for my revenge against you and this old fool. Years of planning and now my patience will be rewarded. I will take from you what you love the most in this life and rip ripe apart your son’s bodies using their bloody hollow shells as foot rests. And then after I’ve shown you their mutilated carcasses I will end you!” the red dragon spat at Splinter, his face mere inches from his.

The usual gentle features of the old ninjutsu master hardened and an ominous growl rolled from his lips, “You will not touch my sons.”

“Oh on the contrary you old fool, as we speak they are scattered around the grounds looking for you, two with that little bitch the young daimyo has his sights set on and your two eldest heading to the falls and right into my trap. I have several of my shadow minions at my disposal all ready to attack and dismember each and every one of your sons.”

“What of the woman?” the Daimyo quickly cut in, trying to pry a little more information out of Draco. “And why do you call my son young Daimyo?”

The dragons head snapped to the old man hanging from the wall just next to the giant rat, “Your son seems to have plans for her. He talks about some sort of power that she possesses that could help him. He covets your throne old man hoping having her at his side will solidify his place upon it. Either way it doesn’t matter. I will have my revenge then that brat can have his kingdom.”

The Daimyo’s eyes widened in shock, letting the dragon’s words roll over him. Again his wrists pulled at the metal shackles holding him to the wall. “M-my son……. Is behind this? How can that be?” the sorrow apparent in the old man’s voice trying desperately to hold onto the hope Draco was lying.  

“Your son is an idiot; he couldn’t orchestrate this by himself. He is an overgrown child throwing a tantrum that he can’t have the throne right now. The woman is something new though, he fell for her a year ago when she quiet literally fell into your laps. But there is no way she would be persuaded to go along with his plans; she’s too smart for his games and won’t do anything to hurt you. He just refuses to see it. So she will need to be eliminated as well. Which is a shame really, someone with powers would be convenient to have on my side. The idiot already tried wooing her by kissing her after the tournament today but she rejected him. He’s too blind to see she only has eyes for his son, the one in blue, Leonardo is it?” Draco’s red eyes shifted to Splinter. “But that is neither here nor there now and makes no difference. None of them will survive this. I need your son compliant so a strong headed woman is out of the picture.”

“They will find us and foil your plans. You will not succeed.” Splinter smiled; with Aurora at his son’s sides once again they would defeat Draco and Ue-Sama. He was sure of it.

“We will find out now won’t we, because the party is about to begin.”  

~~~~~~~~~

Aurora turned down another hallway searching the final group of rooms coming up with nothing, yet again. Each room she had checked her fingers skimmed over every nook and cranny for any hint of a hidden door. Someplace someone could hide two unwilling victims. Finishing with the last room she headed back to the stairs to meet up with Mikey and Donnie.

With her mind spinning with worry she didn’t hear the shadow ninja creep up behind her. By the time she sensed it’s presences it was too late. A hand reached out grasping her long hair pulling her back and down to the ground. Her shriek of surprise echoed through the halls reaching the sensitive ears of Donnie and Mikey but unfortunately they too were in their own battle for their lives. Surrounded by several dark shadowy ninjas Donnie reached for his com calling for his older brothers.

“Don?” the familiar calm voice of their leader came over the speaker on his shoulder.

“Leo we’ve been ambushed in the bowels of the palace. We need back up.” Donnie called into his com anxiously blocking a blow with his bo staff. “They came out of nowhere and have no faces! They look like shadows!”

Knee deep in the falls high above the palace Leo and Raph stopped in their tracks listening to their genius brother in distress. They had come up empty, no tracks or any kind of clues to the whereabouts of Master Splinter and the Daimyo, when Donatello’s frantic call came over their coms.

“Donnie are you alright? Where is Mikey and Aurora? Are they with you?”

After a few seconds Donatello came back over the com, his labored breath telling them it was imperative they hurry. “Mikey is just outside in the hallway with his own party of ninjas. And I don’t know where Aurora is but we did hear her scream a few minutes ago. We can’t get to her! Mikey!!!” then the com went eerily silent.

“Don! Donnie! Are you there?! Donatello!!” Leo felt his heart jump into his throat and looked to Raph with terror in his eyes. They were in trouble and needed their help.  

Raph heard the fear in his brother’s voice making the already burning rage inside him increase to an uncontainable inferno. The grips on his sai tightened and he caught his brother’s eyes that held the same wild fury. Someone had kidnapped their father and now were attacking their two younger brothers and Aurora. But then like a light switch Leo’s demeanor changed and lunged forward tackling his larger brother into the water.

Bursting from the surface Raph tried pushing Leo from him, “What the shell Le…..oh!” his eyes immediately narrowed in on the kunai now rooted deep into the top of Leonardo’s shell. Leo had just saved his life for the thousandth time. Reaching up he pulled the offending item from his brother’s shell and they both scrambled to their feet pulling their weapons out. Just like Donnie had described them, they looked on in shock at the weird shadow figures surrounding them. There had to be at least 40 of them closing in on them fast and it didn’t seem like they wanted to play nice.  

“Shell, looks like they’re not getting the back they need.” Leo growled readying his katana.

Raphael readied himself as three of the figures launched themselves at him bringing down their weapons on his waiting sai. With a grunt he took the brunt of the force faltering on the slimy rocks below the surface of the water.  “Looks like we might need that back up now.”

Reeling back Donnie swung his electrified bo staff forward connecting with two of the ninjas sending them flailing against the wall disintegrating like a puff of cigarette smoke in the wind. The last of his attackers were beside him but with expert balance his long leg shot up colliding with its head making it explode in a cloud of smoke. Without skipping a beat he headed out to help his little brother who was on the ground holding off three of the shadowy figures with his nunchaku.

“DONNIE?!” they both heard Aurora shriek from farther away then they’d like.

Mikey’s gaze snapped to Donnie and they both took action. With a swift kick of his legs Mikey sent the three assailants over his body crumbling to the ground. With the momentum of his legs coming down and his pelvis rolling up into the swing he was on his feet. Then Mikey and Donnie took care of the rest of the dark ninjas with a swift determination to get to their friend in trouble.

Taking off towards the sound of Aurora’s worried cry, they hurried through the halls in search of her. They could hear sounds of metal on metal and exasperated grunts from beyond the bend. Before they rounded the corner two of the shadowy ninjas came sailing out into view colliding with the wall. Taking the corner, they saw her pressed against the wall, eight figures on her ready to drive a tanto blade through her heart.

“A little help guys!” she cried out ripping a hand from one of the them punching it in the face.

They were on them in a second ripping Aurora’s attackers from her body one by one. Mikey lurched forward grabbing the blade poised for her heart and threw it down the empty hallway, the sound of the metal clanging across the ground echoed in the large halls.

Aurora took advantage of the distraction and placed her feet on the wall and pushed forward taking three of the ninjas with her. The back of their heads slammed into the hard surface of the wall behind them making them disappear beneath her momentum. She caught herself before she fell to the floor getting her feet under her. “They’re skilled but break easily. I’ve never seen anything like them; it was like I was fighting shadows of smoke. What the hell are these things?” Aurora groaned picking up her blades taking care of another ninja.

Donnie electrocuted the last one ending their current fight. Mikey went to Aurora making sure she was alright. His eyes moved over her body assessing damages, touching and pushing at her skin.

Her fingers found his quickly easing his overzealous attention to a halt. “I’m fine Mikey.” Aurora tried her best not to be too cold with the two brothers but didn’t want to act like them being together in this moment felt right. She couldn’t let herself get used to their presences; this was a temporary mission to save the Daimyo and Master Splinter. After this was over Leo would no doubt end this as well.

“They put up quite a fight, we must be getting close.” Donnie calmly stated using his goggles to scan for heat signatures on the level they were still on.

“Agreed, let’s move to the lower level.” Aurora moved around Mikey who was still looking at her hopeful. His baby blues tore at her soul, she wanted to tell him all would be alright but time was of the essence and they needed to move.

The three of them descended to the lowest level of the palace, this time sticking together. The silence that hung around the dungeon was a bit unsettling. No guards what so ever nor any prisoners. The uneasy feeling within each of them grew. This was too easy.

“Shell!” Donnie broke the eerie calm. “I called Leo for back up a while ago; he should have been here by now.” His fingers flew to his com calling for his older brother. No response came so Donnie called again this time for Raphael. Still nothing, a deafening silence that made the already chilly dungeon seem suddenly colder. “I don’t like this.”

~~~~~~~~~

Draco landed another blow to Splinters jaw continuing his unrelenting assault on the old rat. With each strike the metal chains moaned from the sudden movement of the body it held. Blood was running down the dark fur of the old sensei’s mouth but showed no sign of discomfort.  The Daimyo beside him pleaded with the large dragon to stop his assault but if fell on deaf ears as another hit connected with Splinters gut.

Without warning several dark cloaked ninjas appeared behind the angry dragon. His attacks ended as one whispered in his ear. The smug smile slipped from his face into a frustrated scowl.

“They’re down here already?! They took out how many of you? SIMPILTONS!! Yes, send more to stop them! I can’t have them ending this plan just as it begins!” as quickly as they came the ninjas vanished into the shadows leaving the dragon with his two helpless prisoners. Reaching to the wall he grabbed the cloak he had removed when he started his assault on Master Splinter and swung it back around his shoulders lifting the hood to conceal his face once more. “You’re lucky I have other things to attend too you old fools, but I will be back to finish this. I have some turtle flesh to filet.” His wicked eyes flashed and retreated out the hidden door in the wall leaving them alone.

“My friend! Are you alright?” the daimyo immediately called to his battered friend. A soft cough alerted him to fact the old rat was still in fact breathing. The chains creaked when Splinter shifted uncomfortably spitting out a mouthful of blood.  

“Am I my friend, a little worse for wear but I am alive. Do not worry my sons will free us, they will stop this madness.”

“They have too.” The daimyo started. “If they try and use the war staff without proper training they will bring upon destruction to this dimension and all who reside here.”    

~~~~~~~~~~

The pull for air made his lungs burn as Leo fought the many hands that held his body submerged under the current of the river feeding the massive waterfall several feet down stream. There was far too many of these shadow ninjas for Raph and himself to defeat. They seemed to come out of nowhere like the never ending flow of water they fought in.  

It had been almost an hour since Donnie had called them for help and they were ambushed on top of the waterfall. He hoped all three of them were alright. They had to be, he didn’t know what he would do if he lost his two younger brothers and Aurora. But the way things were looking they might lose him, there were so many on top of him keeping his head below the water drowning him. The strength was leaving him as the lack of oxygen to his brain began to affect his dexterity, he was losing this fight.

~~~~~~

Aurora could feel it, something was horribly wrong. More wrong then what was happening in the dungeon with Donnie, Mikey and herself fighting off an infinite flow of these damn ninja. Every cell in her body was on alert, something else was happening, something was happening to Leonardo and Raphael.

“Guys!” she screamed over the thunder of clanging metal and grunts. “We have to get to Leo and Raph! Something’s wrong!” Blocking another tirade of attacks Aurora flipped up landing just behind the shadows slicing through them with her katana.  

As Donnie fought his goggles scanned the walls for false walls and air drafts. They had to be down here judging by the massive assault they were receiving. Then something flashed in his goggles when he turned to deliver a shock from his bo staff. Quickly turning back he saw two warm bodies behind the wall, a large form and a smaller one hanging midair.

“There!” Donnie screamed pointing to the small wall just a few feet from where Aurora was.

Immediately Aurora sprang for the wall feeling with her hands for anything to open the hidden door all the while keeping the growing mass of ninjas as bay.  Out the corner of her eye she saw the blade gliding through the air aimed for her throat, determined to hit it’s mark with extreme prejudice. Before it could find its target the hilt of Mikey’s nunchaku stopped its momentum pushing back the assailant.

“I got your back angel cakes!” the orange banded turtle smiled at her while taking down anther ninja with his band hands.

The battle in the dingy basement was deafening, she couldn’t hear herself think. A shove behind her sent her sprawling against the cold brink of the wall she was searching. But with a stroke of luck the hit brought her fingers in contact for the latch for the door making the brick door shift open revealing the entrance to the hidden cell.

The heavy scrapping of the brick door opening brought the Daimyo’s and Spinsters eyes to the entrance of their confinement.  Expecting the tall hooded dragon to appear they were surprised by two spinning blades followed by Aurora as she fought her way in.

Her eyes snapped to the old men hanging on the wall. The state Master Splinter was in sent her blood boiling. Battered and broke he was bleeding from several parts of his old furry body; someone had worked him over pretty good. Thankfully the Daimyo looked unharmed for the most part besides a busted lip and his white hair askew. “Donnie! Mikey!” she bellowed ending the five ninja currently before her. Whoever had hurt Master Splinter would pay, would pay dearly.

@imthegreenfairy88​ @bluesakurablossom​ @ravn-87​ @alonia143​ @tmnt-bucklover​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love Of Shell - Chapter 40 Unhappy Reunion (FTLOS)

Here is chapter forty of my OC story For The Love Of Shell.

His blue bandana whipped around his green skull snapping and fluttering against his sweat soaked brow. Massive three fingered hands clutched nervously at the blue hilts of his katanas as the plates of his chest heaved with exertion.

Just the sight of his giant exceptionally toned body made every part of her woman hood clench in knee jerk reaction. Besides catching him and bunny foo foo in the street this morning this was the closest she’d come to blue banded terrapin in a year. It was unfair; he still took her breath away and by the extra bulk on his arms and legs he had be dedicated to his self improvement.  

A thin layer of sweat covered his green skin from his earlier victorious battles. The icy blue pools of his intoxicating gaze locked in on her purple ones and for a moment she forgot to breath.  Involuntary she let out a whimper grasping her katana tighter, the leather creaking beneath her strength. She knew there was a chance she would face one of them in here but why, why did it have to be him? And why did he have to look so good? This was going to be harder then she had originally thought.

Almost instantly Leonardo’s famous concentration broke and his blades lowered. “Aurora..” he began sheathing a katana to reach for her. Leo ignored his role in this tournament and tried to talk to her but Aurora shook her head stopping the terrapin before he could continue.

“Don’t Leonardo.” She virtually snarled, “Please…… don’t do that. I can’t deal with you right now. I need to concentrate, we need to concentrate. I don’t want to hear it anyways. You made your point loud and clear this morning.” Not giving him another moment to rethink his strategy Aurora dove for him, blades aimed for the soft spot between his carapace and his plastron. The soft corded muscles that she had loved to touch, to kiss. “Stop that!” she scolded herself concentrating on her fight she was determined to win.

His full name from her lips stung more then he cared to admit. She looked beautiful as ever, the year away had been good to her. He was fascinated with the purple streak in her hair; it seemed to enhance her features but he figured she could have done anything and he would be enthralled. It was true what they say, absence does make the heart grow fonder.

He could feel his body begin to ache. It all came rushing to him realizing how much he missed her, how much he still loved her. Even the harsh tone of her voice made his heart beat faster with longing. There was nothing more he wanted to do then gather her in his arms and kiss her, claim her, mark her. Kiss her deep enough that she would forgot about everything he had foolishly done and be part of their lives again. But there would be no easy fix, he could see the resentment and pain in her eyes, Aurora would have none of it right now, maybe not ever again. Suddenly her eyes darkened, and she lunged for him with such ferociousness that it caught him off guard. The sheer force of her blow sent him stumbling back trying frantically to regain his footing before he fell on his shell.

She was on him in a second, their blades grinding against each other creating sparks from the immense friction. But the large body in front of her made her weak, made it extremely difficult to think clearly, especially being so close to him. Even his god damn smell was distracting! If she didn’t get a hold of herself she was going to lose to him and that just wasn’t an option. Not after everything, she had to win she had to prove to him, to herself she was strong and didn’t need him to be happy. Every ounce of her pain flowed through her, engulfing her in the warmth of her thundering passion for the blue terrapin, fueling her resolve. Focus!

Ue-Sama watched high above the nexus championship his eyes trained in on one battle and one battle only. Aurora attacked Leonardo with everything she had taking the large mutant by surprise. He barely had to time to defend himself as she struck again and again determined to win. It took Leonardo a few minutes to gather himself and start to attack back but Ue-Sama could tell by Leonardo’s reaction time he was not focused on the battle but on the woman. The woman who looked like she wanted to end him with every swing of her blade and thrusting kick of her leg. She had the power within her to do it too, he knew it, saw it when his father tapped into it with his staff. The raw power that flowed within her small frame was enormous and he wanted it, needed it. She had no idea how to harness the power she possessed, and he could mold her into what he needed her to be. Aurora would be a crucial part of his plan and he had to figure out how to keep her here with him. And with how she was looking at the turtle at this very moment he didn’t think it was going to be as difficult as he first thought.

When she was brought to the palace by Gyoji this morning his father had asked where the turtles were. Much to his delight Aurora told them how Leonardo had ended things between them urging her to move on with her life finding normalcy. It had been a year since she had seen them and was trying not to interact with them as much as possible. She knew there was a chance they would meet in battle but hoped it wouldn’t come to that. Now she was wiping the floor with the blue leader wearing him out ready to end the inevitable. Or could it be he was letting her win? He shook his head, it didn’t matter either way she was upset with him and maybe would be inclined to stay with him.  

Moving from the balcony that over looked the battle Ue-Sama sauntered back into the palace and headed towards his wing opening the door to his personal dojo. In the far corner lurked a large cloaked figure it’s glowing eyes fixed on the young prince.

“My lord.” It smiled wickedly stepping into the light, its hulking frame towing over Ue-Sama. “I think this woman will only cause trouble with your plan. If she is anything like the turtles and that blasted rat she will not be persuaded to help you over throw your father as Daimyo. She is growing rather fond of the old coot and I would doubt she’d wish any ill will on him.”

“Quiet your tongue you insect! Remember your place here, you are my counsel nothing more. I do what I want, and I want her. You didn’t see the power, the shear raw energy within her body.  She will be a pivotal part in all of this and she will have to agree. She’ll see what’s at stake and will want her own piece of the pie. Woman always want to be in control, to be part of the power of a Daimyo. My father had no problem finding wives. She won’t be able to resist me once I’m Daimyo.”

The large figure narrowed its eyes in frustration lowering its body’s height in an awkward bow to show submission, “As you wish my Daimyo.” It cooed softly before shifting back into the shadows.

Leo had definitely gotten better since the last time they had squared off; she was out of breath, her chest heaving from the effort she had to put into defending herself. With the back of her hand she wiped the sweat from her brow. Every flex of his impressive biceps or pulse of his thigh muscles sent heat rushing between her thighs. Even his goddamned heavy breathing was affecting her. “Fuck!” she screamed internally. He shouldn’t be affecting her this much. It had already been a year! He swayed nimbly on the balls of his feet, his katanas out and ready before him. She could tell he was ready to strike the coil of his calves gave him away. Ready for his next move Aurora sheathed her katanas and slid forward on her knees ducking below his next attack grabbing a hold of his wrists pulling him down and over. Sailing between his open legs she pulled him into an unsuspecting summersault making him land on his shell. Aurora didn’t give him time to react; she spun him on his carapace to face her and straddled his narrow hips. Pulling a kunai from her thigh holster she brought it down on his plastron.

Before it could connect with the plates of his chest Leo’s eyes widened in shock and his body disappeared beneath her in a blue dust taking him from the competition. As her body settled on the ground Aurora let out a shaky breath closing her eyes holding back unshed tears.

Leonardo reappeared in the medical wing of the palace with Raphael looking down on him with a shit eating grin. “Who took ya out?” he laughed helping Leo to his feet.

“Aurora.”

“Oh shell! Man that’s rough! Did she say anything to you?”

“I tried to talk to her but she wasn’t having any of it. You should have seen her Raph; it looked like she wanted to actually kill me. But shell, it was hard to concentrate having her so close.”

“Well fearless you did break up with her and then the first time she sees you , Asuna has her tongue down your throat. I can’t say I blame her.” The red banded turtle didn’t help as he patted his older brother’s shell.

“Yeah yeah, I got it, I messed up. If I could go back in time I would.” Leo waved his brother’s hands away from his back while they made their way out into the halls of the palace to watch the rest of the games from the contestant’s row.

Donnie lasted two more rounds while Aurora and Mikey dominated defeating each of their competitors with ease. Begrudgingly Donnie took up the seat next to his brothers sitting down with a frustrated huff his arms crossed over his chest. Leo put his arm around his brother pulling him into an awkward side hug before playfully pushing back away with a deep chuckle.

Raph was intently watching their younger brother flip and maneuver around his latest victim, there was no doubt that little shit was faster than the rest of them, and way more flexible to boot. He was without a doubt holding back during practice. He turned his head to face Leo but his eyes remained on the dizzying display of talent just below them. “You know if he wins this thing, we’ll never hear the end of it…..you know that right?”

Leo and Donnie smiled nodding as they watched their little brother use all of his training bringing his nunchaku down ending yet another fight. They watched their orange banded brother search the crowd for their faces hoping they were watching him. The grin that spread over his face when he found each one of them howling for him couldn’t have compared to the brightness of the sun.

He bowed to them and returned his gaze to Master Splinter who had the very familiar proud papa gleam. Mikey bowed to his father as well, a silent think you for giving him the tools he needed to get this far.

As the rest of the matches ended the partitions retracted revealing the last of the contestants. Mikey stood near his brothers in the arena as Aurora was revealed farthest away just as she was sheathing her katanas. A large purple anthropomorphic pig to their left lifted his hands above his head letting out a triumphant roar and crablike alien turned a few times hyping itself up but made no noise. The roaring crowd died down when the Daimyo and Ue-Sama rose.

“Congratulations to our final four warriors! You have come a long way to get to this point. Your skill and stamina is a true testament to the hard work you’ve done to get where you are today. We thank you for sharing your talent with us all this day. Now there are two more matches before we declare a new battle nexus champion and I’m sure you all are excited to see this championship to fruition. When this battle is over and two remain the walls will drop and will go directly into the championship. Good luck to you four.”

Aurora made quick eye contact with Mikey as the partition rose giving her a quick playful wink before he disappeared behind the large wall. This time Aurora wasn’t engulfed by the light and stayed where she was. After a few seconds the blue light swirled in front of her and the crablike alien appeared before her. It looked her up and down all the while snapping it’s pinchers and began to laugh, a deep crackling laugh that reminded her of a sputtering diesel engine.

“This will be easy, a stupid human woman cannot beat Klarkapil!” its pinchers snapped quickly in front of his large awkward body before he shuffled forward on his many thick legs.

Aurora roller eyes at the alien wondering how something so large and awkward could have gotten so far in the tournament? The answer soon came when its pinchers came at her with impressive speed snapping at her throat. With a quick yelp of surprise Aurora dodged the alien crustacean’s snappers rolling to the right pulling her katanas free.

“Yes woman run away from Klarkapil! Tremble with fear at my size and speed!”

This thing was way too cocky and was beginning to annoy her as it circled around clucking about how good it was and how scared she should be. Maybe that was part of its shtick, to annoy her into submission?  Again a pitcher lunged for her this time snapping at her leg but she managed to evade the snapping appendage. She had to be careful this thing was fast and vicious. Despite the alien’s bulky frame it was able to move very quickly and its pincher’ aim was precise.

As it rattled off more sexists insults Aurora figured out how she could avoid its pinches and end the battle. It seemed too concerned with putting her down to come up with any kind of strategy let alone pay attention to what she was devising. He was too cocky and wouldn’t be able to resist her trap. Blocking another pincher she flipped through the air and landed several feet in front of him and sheathed her swords and knelt on the floor closing her eyes and waited.

Almost immediately the crustacean laughed and rushed forward ready to claim his victory. Its pinchers reared up and snapped in preparation before they came down ready to crush the woman below. As they connected with hard ground he gasped in surprise seeing the spot where she had just been empty.

Aurora rolled beneath the large circular body and popped up behind pulling her tantou free from its sheath behind her back. Crouching down she sprung forward onto the aliens back landing just behind’s its head. As she brought her blade down she whispered into the once smug alien’s ear. “You were just beaten by a woman.” Before the blade connected with its shell its scream of dismay disappeared with its large body in a blue dust of defeat. When her feet connected with the ground the crowd roared with a thunderous applause as she stood to her full height. Looking around the spectators she saw happy ecstatic faces, especially from all the females. Sheathing the tantou behind her back once again she took a moment to celebrate and raised both hands into the air with a shout.

Turning around she saw Master Splinter smiling down at her his furry hands clapping with the crowds applause. He looked so proud of her as if he had watched her grown up and develop into the woman she was now. Her heart broke a little at that thought; would she ever be able to spend time with the old rat again? She had a feeling she could still learn a few things from him.

The movement of the walls indicated the match beside her had ended and she was about to see who she would be fighting for the championship.  Soon the familiar green scalp of Michelangelo appeared as the partition began to recede into the ground. Then his baby blue’s framed by his signature orange mask came into view as his eye ridges waging with mischief. She would be fighting the youngest of the turtles for the win, adjusting her stance she placed her hands on her hips waiting for the turtle to be fully exposed to her. Before it was fully recessed in the ground Mikey stepped over the wall and into her space closing the distance between them, his nunchaku hung loosely from his fingers.

“Fancy seeing you here Angel cakes. Long time no see.” He cooed stopping a few feet from her.  

Tears began to prick her eyes threatening to spill as she took in the warm sight of the young turtle. She missed them so much it hurt. Being this close to him was ripping every bit of strength from her tearing away at her sanity. Her lips began to quiver but bit her bottom lip to stop it. She needed to get this over with so she could win or lose and go home. Pulling her katana from her sheaths she readied her stance. Doing her best to blink away the offending tears in her eyes she gave him a small smile. She didn’t want to be mean to him he just didn’t understand how much it hurt to see him and not be able to touch him, hold him, kiss those rosy cheeks of his.

“Hey Mikey, are you ready?”

“For you? Always.” He started spinning his weapons with his wrists. “Ladies first.”

Mikey could see the pain flash over her face as he got close to her, could see the tears welling up glossing over her purple iris’s. It actually pained her to see him and that tore at the very fibers of his being. The last thing he wanted for her to feel in his presence was pain let alone him making her feel that way. Leo needed to fix this and fast. He wanted to touch her to tell her how much he missed her but unfortunately this wasn’t the time. He had a championship to win and Aurora was the only one standing in his way. He wouldn’t like defeating her but if that was the way to prove to his father and brothers he was an equal part of this family then so be it. He had been training for a year for this moment. He wasn’t going to let it pass him by even if it was Aurora in his way of his victory. He could do this.

Leo, Raph and Donnie were standing now with the rest of the audience, there was too much sweet anticipation running through the crowd to stay seated. Below them their baby brother and Aurora were about to fight for the title of Battle Nexus Champion.

“She’s gonna mop the floor with him.” Raph laughed gripping Leo’s shoulder a little too tight.  

“I don’t know Raph, you’ve seen him the past few matches. This is the best I’ve ever seen him. I think he has a chance against her. It might be slim but there is still a chance.” Leo winched feeling Raph’s fingers bite into the soft tissue of his shoulder. His fingers reached up prying the three digits from their perch.

“Oh sorry Leo, just a little excited. Man, I need some popcorn.”

Instead of attacking Aurora began circling the orange turtle, it had been a year since she had taken him on. Leo had improved significantly and had almost won, there was no doubt Mikey had gotten better as well. Hell, he had made it to the end and not his brothers. That alone was a sobering thought. How good had Mikey gotten? This was going to be fun figuring it out.

His eyes never left her as she circled him watching him move. No doubt looking for some sort of tell or a moment when he wasn’t paying attention. But if she was waiting for that she was going to be sorely disappointed, she was the only thing on his radar. She had his full attention. The clink of his chains on his nunchaku while they spun were the only sounds in the arena, the crowd was eerily quiet fixed on the two final warriors of the championship anxious for a winner.

The ball of her boot shifted across the ground scraping against the sand and dirt. Her fingers flexed with the tightly bound leather and silk of her katana handles. Aurora was ready as she’d ever be, it was time. Bending at the knee she dug her foot down and launched forward.

If Mikey had a strategy she couldn’t figure it out. With each attack she doled out his wide but nimble body flipped and darted away. She wasn’t landing nearly as many hits as she wanted too by now. His speed had increased and his ability to perceive what his opponent was going to do next was finely tuned. Mikey was quickly becoming better than his brothers. She was seriously impressed. Even his flexibility had gotten better.

“Jesus Mikey are you made of rubber?” Aurora laughed landing behind him, giving his carapace a swift kick sending him forward onto his knees.

“This turtle got skills yo.” He chuckled lifting his nunchaku up taking the brunt of her katana.

Aurora jumped up and swiped her leg across his body hitting him square in his chest. While he tumbled backwards onto his back she flipped forward landing on top of him bringing her blade down once again “Well color me impressed.”

Catching her blade on the chains of his weapon his legs came forward wrapping around her neck, his feet locking around the back of her head. He heard her startled gasp when he rocked forward bringing her down on her back with his large hand pressing down on her abdomen holding her in place. Her purple eyes wild with shock he raised his weapon above his head ready to make the final strike. Mikey grinned down at her squished face when a smile crept over her flushed checks. She was pinned and could nothing more to stop him, the fight was over. His hand hesitated faulting just above his head.

Her voice broke though his jumbled thoughts. “Do it Mikey, you won, end this.” Her eye filled with pride she nodded but he could tell she was still trying to break free even though he had her immobilized indefinitely.

Bringing down his nunchaku she disintegrated into blue dust eliminating her from the tournament leaving him the battle nexus champion. The crowd broke out into a deafening roar as he stood claiming his title. His eyes found his three brothers in the stands all on their feet screaming for him. They looked so proud.

Aurora found herself lying on the floor of the healer’s quarters in the palace with three healers hovering over her. “I’m fine. No injuries. Just a bruised pride.” She reassured the three concerned healers who nodded and let her be. She sat there for a moment catching her breath with her forearm over her eyes. At least she made it to second place, after all the competitors she saw today, she was lucky to get that far. At least she lost to sweet Mikey, he deserved it, the lovable goof.” Again, emotions bubbled up from her gut, she had been so close to Leo and Mikey reminding her what she had lost a year ago. “Fuck.” She mumbled under her breath holding back tears for the fourth time today. She needed to get out of there, she had no doubt they would come looking for her and that was something she wasn’t ready to deal with just yet. Especially Leo, she knew she couldn’t trust herself around him. Just being a few feet from the tall muscular turtle in blue sent her traitorous body into heat. But the swish of a long tail across the floor told her she was too late. Removing her arm from her face she sat up to meet Master Splinter’s warm stare.  

“You did splendid my dear.” He cooed as he watched her get to her feet.

Retuning her katanas to their sheaths she bowed to the old rat. “Thank you, Master Splinter. Your sons fought well today, they have improved significantly. Your training has paid off.”

Master Splinter’s dark iris’s seemed to flood with emotion as he neared the woman he hadn’t seen in a year. His small furry hands came out and took hers; he could feel her tense a little at the contact. With a little tug he urged her to lower to his height, after a few moments she obliged the old rat and met him eye to eye.

“They have trained hard this year plus the extra patrols around the city because of the rise in crime have kept them in top physical form. Leonardo has been pushing them to better themselves, to keep their minds moving. He has been trying to keep his mind from wandering to something he lost, something he regrets letting go.”

Splinter didn’t need to say it, she knew he was talking about her. Pulling her fingers from his hands she stood back up to her full height and turned her gaze from the old rat. “It was good to see you Master Splinter.” And with that she turned from him and disappeared down the hallway.

She flew down the hallway running for the room she was provided for the tournament by the Daimyo, for some privacy. As she turned down the final hall she ran smack dab into a tall sturdy body. Arms grabbed for her steadying Aurora’s rocketing form. She pulled herself away from the warm body looking up to see red hair and green eyes.

“Ue-Sama. I’m sorry, I wasn’t looking to wh..”

“Aurora I’ve been looking for you. I am sorry you lost to one of those troublesome terrapins. Are you alright?” his hands rested on her hips keeping her close to him.

She didn’t fight it for now, but she still wanted to be alone, and she especially didn’t want to deal with Ue-Sama’s bullshit right now. “I’m fine, Mikey deserved to win, he did an excellent job today.”

“Then why are you running? You seem upset, is there anything I can do to help?”

Aurora put her hands on his chest pressing gently trying to discreetly let the red haired ninja aware she wanted to be released from his grasp. But it went unnoticed; actually it felt like he pulled her a little closer. “I’m not upset because I lost; I’m upset because seeing the turtles for the first time hurts, hurts more than I thought it would.”  Again she pushed, a little harder but his determined hands remained on her hips.

With the speed of a true ninja, his arms shifted from her hips and enclosed around her back spinning them, so he could press her up against the wall. The sheer speed of his movements along with being caught off guard sent her mind spinning unable to stop what happened next. Ue-Sama leaned down and slanted his mouth over hers pressing his tongue into Aurora’s mouth moaning as his questing tongue found hers.

His knee slipped forward parting her thighs pressing up against her core grinding his crotch against her thigh. Her mind reeled at the unwarranted advance. His lips were rough and impatient taking the kiss, nothing like Leo’s. There was no passion, no gentle urging just pressing and pushing, taking. Leo’s kiss sent heat coursing through her body making every part of her tingle with anticipation. This was nothing like that, she didn’t want him, she wanted Leo, god she missed Leo.  

Everything rushed back to her and she panicked pushing against his chest frantically desperate to end the kiss. She tore her mouth from his gasping for breath. “Ue-Sama!” she yelped looking up at him in dismay. Pushing him further from her Aurora glared at the red haired ninja.

“Please, I’m sorry for that, I just can’t help myself. Let me help you, help you forget him, help you forget them.” He moved forward reaching for her yet again.

Aurora held up her hands stopping his advance. “Please stop, I appreciate the offer, but you can’t just do that Ue-Sama. I gave you no indication I wanted to be kissed. Just a few seconds ago I told you that I was clearly not over…… I - I just can’t do this right now.” Without giving him a second to respond she spun around and ran to her room escaping inside.  

Ue-Sama was fuming when he finally reached his room. His hands were clenched trembling with the force of it. A large cloaked figure emerged from the shadows edging up behind the red haired ninja.

“What troubles you my Daimyo?” it smoothly questioned it’s red glowing eyes flashed behind the dark cloak.

With a pained grunt Ue-Sama’s fist collided with the rough walls of his massive room. “I will never have her if those pesky turtles are still around. Even after a year she still has feeling for them, especially Leonardo, curse that turtle! I kissed her, I kiss her with all the passion within me and she pushed me away like I was on fire.”

“Maybe it’s time to let her go my Daimyo? She will never go along with your plan and once she finds out she will tell the turtles and they will do all that they can to stop us. I believe it’s time take care of the meddlesome turtles before they become wise to our plans, while their guard is down as they celebrate. I can send my shadow ninjas to take care of them, take care of them all.”

Ue-Sama strode to his window and looked down at the arena filled with the contestants of his father’s tournament. His heated gaze narrowed in on the four turtles in the center of the arena celebrating with the rest of the competitors. His anger grew as he stared at the turtle in blue patting his younger sibling on the back. How did Aurora find that monster of a mutation attractive and not him? He was a prince in his own right, primed and ready to take over the throne from his father. He had so much more to offer her then a smelly sewer, three brothers and a giant rat? He would have the throne and Aurora with her power if it was the last thing he did. He spun around to face his counsel and growled his order, “Destroy those turtles and you can do what you will with the rat as promised but do NOT harm the woman. After they’re gone she’ll have no one and will fall into my arms. Especially when I am sitting on the throne with the war staff in my hand and control the Battle Nexus Championship.”

@imthegreenfairy88​ @alonia143 @ravn-87 @bluesakurablossom​

Here it is in its entirety 

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

Chapter Forty One - For The Love Of Shell

Welcome to chapter forty one bitches!! Take a gander and thank you for those who have been reading my baby!

Start at the beginning I dare you

The once empty arena was now filled with competitors and spectators a like. The turtles stayed in the middle congratulating their youngest brother of his victory, mingling and stepping aside as others applauded Michelangelo as well.

After a while Usagi and Gen found them in the chaos as well as Asunaa few minutes later who stayed back just a bit keeping them all in her sights. The rabbit kept in front of Leo, hoping to catch his attention.

“I can’t believe you beat Aurora!” Raphael laughed smacking Mikey’s carapace sending him stumbling forward with the force of the blow.

Mikey was ecstatic, he had won, they were never going to hear the end of this he chuckled to himself taking a high three from Donnie. The only thing that could make this triumph better was if Aurora was there celebrating with them. Even though he had beaten her in battle he could tell their kunoichi was proud of him as she vanished beneath him. It was a bittersweet victory that was for sure.

After the crowd filtered into the arena Mikey was happy to see Usagi and even his friend Gen when they found them in the crowd and congratulated him on his win. But when Asuna appeared a few minutes later staying a few feet from them, her eyes always on Leo, his high quickly faded. Nonchalantly he moved his body in between her and Leo blocking her eye sight of his eldest brother.

As the arena started to clear out, it was announced there would be a giant feast prepared for the contestants and would be ready in an hours’ time. The turtles moved about the thinning crowd and headed towards the palace. They found Master Splinter with the Daimyo in the throne room along with Ue-Sama. When they entered the massive room the Daimyo’s eyes lit up with pride.

“Michelangelo, I believe there are congratulations in order for your win today young man. You should be very proud of yourself as should your family on this day. You have defeated the best in the universe to become the Battle Nexus Champion. There will be a ceremony tomorrow in your honor, where you will be presented with a trophy for first and Aurora for runner up.” The giant man came up to Mikey and rested both hands on the young turtle’sshoulders; his smile was from ear to ear.

“Speaking of Aurora, do you know where she is? I’d like to congratulate her as well. It was neck and neck for a while.” Mikey asked sheepishly looking up at the Daimyo.

Leonardo watched Ue-Sama out of the corner of his eye looking for a reaction from the Daimyo’s son and got a sour reaction when Mikey asked for Aurora’s location. The red haired ninja squeezed his fists in frustration and stepped forward ready to respond for his father. “She is fine and does not wish to be disturbed by you.” He hissed lowly glaring at Leonardo even though he didn’t ask the question.

“Myson, please show some respect to our friends and honored guests. They are heroes in these lands and should be treated as such.” The Daimyo snapped quietly at his son. “If she doesn’t want to see them she will need to tell them herself. We do not meddle in other people’s business. Aurora is a good woman and is not a poor sport. Let her decide is she wants an audience with Michelangelo and his family.”

The green eyes of Ue-Sama grew dark and bowed to the four turtles and their rat father, “My apologies, the last time I saw her she was entering her room. But I have a feeling she will be attending the feast shortly, so you could probably find her there.”

“We shall find her there; we will leave her to get ready.” Master Splinter smiled respectfully at the angry ninja retuning the bow before ushering his sons from the throne room.

“My friend!” The Daimyo called after them catching the old rat before he left. “Please join me for dinner this evening while your sons enjoy their feast and merriment with their fellow competitors. They do not need their fathers hanging around.”  

“I would be most honored Daimyo.”

Leonardo sat next to Usagi at a large table in the middle of the large town square. Mikey and Donnie were across from him and Gen and Raphael were talking one person down from Usagi. The meal was brought out and devoured by everyone. They had yet to still see Aurora at the feast, but they couldn’t find her face in the mass of bodies. An hour passed after the meal had finished and the tables were cleared,and a gigantic bonfire was lit along with a band that played upbeat music.

Several people got to their feet dancing happily to the steady beat of the band in the distance. The flames of the roaring fire seemed to sway with the bodies that moved around it’s towering inferno. Donnie and Raph had moved from the table to mingle with the people of the city and warriors of the tournament. Gen had wandered away earlier looking for more food to eat.

Usagi stayed beside his friend in blue watching him and Michelangelo banter back and forth over the table. A smile played over his lips watching the two brothers laugh and reminisce longing for the close connection he never had when he was growing up. The more he hung out with the turtles the more he envied their closeness which made him want to spend more time with them. More so the blue leader who he seemed to have a lot in comment with, very quickly they were becoming close friends. And for knowing him for such a short amount of time he could see the sadness in his eyes. Leonardo’s gaze floated over the crowd searching for that one face, the one he longed to have back in his life. Actually, he could see all four of them searching for Aurora. Even fully focused in on the conversations they were having, they still looked for her face in the crowd. His long ears twitched sensing someone watching them, turning around in his seat his cold glare found Asuna just behind them. Her fingers pointed to herself and back to them indicating she wanted permission to join them. With an angry huff he shook his head and turned back around to his terrapin friends ignoring her. That stunt she pulled earlier today was cold and calculated something he would not forget or soon forgive.

Leo laughed at his little brother who had just made a joke at Gen’s love of food. The rhino had eaten his full meal plus part of Leo’s and Usagi’s, yet still wandered away for more. His love of gambling was apparent as well when he tried to make a wager with Usagi about who could eat their roast faster. Usagi chuckled but politely declined his friend, knowing full well the rhino would win. “My friend you know that would be a foolish wager to take.”

Usagi was a little older than him but Leo was finding he enjoyed the ronin’s company. He could tell even with the short time in knowing him he was a trustworthy ally and quickly becoming a good friend.

Out of the corner of his eye Leo took in a sharp breath, the face he had been looking for all night finally appeared past the dancing flames of the bonfire. Aurora had finally made an appearance at the celebration. Out of her gear she had a dark grey skirt on with a slit up the side ending mid-thigh and a dark blue shirt that hung off one shoulder semi exposing some sort of marking, a tattoo perhaps? She was talking with a few of the contestants oblivious to him and his brothers.

Mikey could see the change in Leo’s demeanor and followed his line of sight finding Aurora just on the other side of the fire. His muscles flexed as he stood from his seat eager to get to her. He could feel the air shift behind him telling him Leo was now standing as well. Quickly they maneuvered around the table making a beeline for their friend. A few females stopped in front of them trying to get Mikey’s attention gaining a few moments of their time.

Ending the conversation quickly they bid the three females goodbye and continued their trek to Aurora’s location but when they reached the spot she had been previously their kunoichi was nowhere to be found. Frantically they searched the faces again and found Raphael a few feet from them pointing across the way. She was now on the opposite side of the fire nearly the same spot they were in talking to Usagi. She laughed at something he said and gave the large samurai rabbit a hug.

Moving as quick as possible without bringing attention to themselves, Leo, Mikey and now joined by Raph raced towards where they had left Usagi. But again she was gone and Usagi was sitting back at the large table.

“Where did she go bro?” Mikey called coming up behind the rabbit.

“Who? Aurora? She was just here a few seconds ago.” Usagi stated looking around a little confused.  “She just wanted to say hi but took off rather quickly.” Usagi looked up at his frantic friend searching the crowd for their friend and chuckled. “I think she’s trying to avoid you my friends. Might be smart to let her be.”

Raphael let out a frustrated sigh, “Screw that, I wanna see her and I wanna see her tonight.”

Soon Donnie came jogging up to his brothers, “Hey I just saw Aurora over there, I tried to get to her but she disappeared.”

“Yeah we know we tried too. She thinks she can avoid us but she’s got another thing coming.” Leo smiled formulating a plan in his head.

Aurora had successfully avoided Donnie and was hiding behind a large statue of a large unknown warrior having a discussion with the one of the warriors she had fought today in the tournament. It was going to be a busy night keeping tabs on the turtles to keep them at arms distance.  She couldn’t bare being around them, their smiles, their smells were too painful to endure. Her two incidents with Leo and Mikey proved her body couldn’t be trusted when around them. It was drawn to them and it was something she couldn’t help. After Japan everything was different, it felt like they were a part of her, an extension of her being. She found the year without them had left her feeling hollow and unfulfilled, a feeling she had never felt before. Like she was missing part of her soul.

A new song started from the band a little slower then what they were usually playing. The beat soft and slow she found herself swaying a bit with the melody. A large hand tapped her on her shoulder and she turned around to face a large rhino man with a white kimono with two red claw marks on each breast. His hand came out offering it up to her.

“This is my favorite song and I was wondering if you’d like to dance?” He asked quite sweetly.

Aurora cocked her head and smiled, if she was dancing she wouldn’t need to worry about the turtles talking to her. Taking his hand, she agreed, and he immediately brought her to him wrapping his arm around her waist and began moving to the beat around the large fire. For such a cumbersome being the Rhino was a rather good dancer.

“The name is Murakami Gennosuke, but you can call me Gen.” he started with a sly smile. “You’re very gifted with the katana. I thought for sure you would beat the orange terrapin today, but I could see you were a bit distracted. Why was that?”

“Ummm, he was a friend. It’s been a while since I’ve seen him. So, it was a bit difficult to fight him.”

Gen looked down at her puzzled as his arm pushed back dipping Aurora, “Was? You don’t seem the type of human to lose friends. Plus, you’re here in a tournament with every species and alien known in the universe so I can’t imagine it’s because he’s a large green turtle?”

“It’s a long story I really don’t wish to get into, it’s rather painful. But I do miss him, and his brothers more than they could ever know.”

The sly smile on his face widened as he curled her into his embrace, “Good cause they miss you too!” With a push he spun her out into the crowd landing squarely against a hard chest. The first thing she saw was sunglasses and a large chain necklace. Her hands rested on the hard plastron of Mikey who was looking down at her with a wild pleased as punch grin.

“Hey angel cakes.” He cooed wrapping his arms around her waist before she could move away from him and started to sway with the music forcing her to continue with the song.

She felt his large three fingered hand spread open on the small of her back pressing her firmly into his chest. She knew she shouldn’t, but she looked up into his baby blues anyways and felt herself melt into him pressing her forehead into the crook of his neck. There was no point in fighting it, her body moved on its own hooking her fingers around the top of his plastron as he moved them to the beat. It just felt right, like she was home.

Michelangelo could feel Aurora tremble against him once she realized she had been caught. Her fingers lightly grazed over his plastron feeling the groves of his scutes. Slowly she let out a shaky breath finally pressing into him grasping at the top of his plastron. Leaning down he nuzzled his nose into the top of her head taking a long pull of her scent. God, he had missed her. Aurora allowed him to move her around the bonfire keeping with the soft melody. He had no notion of letting her go but he could feel their eyes boring into his shell. After a few minutes he looked up to see his three brothers looking at him longingly at the form in his arms. Letting out a long sigh he reached under her chin with a single digit pulling her purple gaze back to his. Leaning down he placed a quick kiss to her trembling lips lingering longer then he had planned and spun her out of his arms into Raph’s open awaiting embrace.

Everything spun as she was hurtled across the dirt ground once again, arms quickly encasing her.She didn’t even need to look up to know it was Raph she was pressed against. Raphael had a certain smell, thick and earthy no one could reproduce. A low rumble in his chest soothed her trembling hands as his fingers enclosed around the back of her neck and just above her butt. He didn’t’ speak just kept moving with the momentum of the song, keeping up with the rest of the people dancing around them.

“I didn’t know you guys could dance?” she asked quietly refusing to look up at the hothead.

His chuckle was deep, vibrating his plastron against her palms, “We’re ninja, we need for our movements to be smooth and fluid. Master Splinter thought it would be a good idea to learn how to dance to help with the lesson. Let’s just say it was a bit awkward slow dancing with your brothers.”

It was her turn to laugh, but she quelled it quickly feeling his arms tighten around her possessively and then he began to tremble a bit himself. The big bad turtle was shaking; she never thought she’d see the day. Finally, she gatheredher courage and looked up finding him staring down at her and to her surprise there were tears in his eyes. Tears from Raphael.  

“Oh Red.” Aurora gave him a tentative smile lifting her hand to his cheek. The hand wound up in her hair came up to the back of her hand pulling it from his face, so he could place a kiss to her palm.

“We miss you.”

Before she could react, Raph spun her once again into Donnie’s impatient long arms. With a quickness the genius pulled her to him pressing a warm kiss to the top of her head. She could hear him smell her hair and let out a heavy sigh holding her just little tighter.

“Just like I remembered.” He whispered almost to himself. His hands smoothed over her back his warm palms gaining as much friction as possible. Strangely it was almost sensual the way Donnie’s hands worked over her as if to memorize the contours of her back.

She was becoming very aware of the heat rising in her body. Their smells, their hands, their bodies, even their voices sank into her soul bringing up the emotions she was trying to suppress all day. Then it hit her like a ton of bricks, she had been in Mikey, Raph and Donnie’s arm. There was only one left, one turtle that was waiting patiently for his turn to hold her. Like a flash of light, the scene from earlier today with Asuna and Leo kissing made her emotions do a 180, anger bubbled over the heat rushing through the sadness. Like hell he was going to touch her, if he wanted that damned bunny he could have her, but he couldn’t have her anymore. She wouldn’t let her body melt into him, he didn’t want her anymore. Donnie’s arm loosened around her ready to spin her to Leo but her fingers found the edges of his plastron preventing him from launching her from his grasp.

“No.” she said matter-of-factly looking up into his brown eyes.

Before he could question her, a ruckus began to spread in the city.  Guards and people moved anxiously around stopping the celebration in its tracks. A mummer rose in the crowd, but they couldn’t make it out.

Aurora turned from Donnie to see Leo a few feet from them in position for her but his head was now turned paying attention to the disturbance. Aurora reached out grabbing a guard as he whizzed by. He grunted losing his momentum and stopped to look at the woman who had grabbed him.

“What’s going on?” She asked still holding onto his uniform refusing to let him budge until he answered her question.

“Please Ms. Aurora the Daimyo is missing. He was having dinner with a friend and when one of the servants went in with the main course they found the room trashed with neither of them to be found. I have to go please release me.” Ripping his chest plate from her grasp he ran towards the palace.

Her gut suddenly felt like it had rocks inside of it pitting a heavy weight at her center. The Daimyo was missing? Turning back to Donnie she could see the worry in his eyes as they moved from brother to brother.

“What is it Donnie?”

“Master Splinter was with the Daimyo having dinner.”

All at once the mood shifted and they moved together rushing towards the palace with Usagi and Gen in tow. Weaving around guards they made it to the dining room finding it in disarray. The Daimyo’s large head chair was in pieces his mask lay broken in the ruble. The chair right next to it wasn’t in any better shape, in fact there was blood splattered over several parts of the broken wood.

A few seconds after they arrived Ue-Sama came clamoring into the room his mask sat on top his head his eyes scanning the carnage. Then something strange hit her, in his left hand Ue-Sama had the war staff clutched tightly. Why would he have that in his possession, she thought, only the Daimyo was able to use the staff?

“My father! What happened?!” he began screaming hysterically distracting her from her train of thought.

Something was off about him, but she couldn’t put her finger on it. Four large bodies beside her showing their own panic brought her back to the present. Aurora moved past Leo and Raph around the remains of Splinter’s seat to where the Daimyo would sit. His bowl of soup half spilled across the table in a certain direction grabbed her attention. Dipping her pinky finger in the contents of the bowl she brought it to her lips testing it with her tongue. She caught Ue-Sama eyeing her from the other side of the room warily. A bitter taste hidden in the vegetable soup made her spit out what was in her mouth.

“There was something in the soup, I’m not sure if it was poison or a sedative but Splinter noticed it and stopped the Daimyo from consuming it by pushing it from his hands.” She mimicked what the old rat did by brushing the bowl away spilling more of the soup over the wooden surface.“I’m guessing whoever was behind this was watching them and attacked knowing they were onto the substance in the food. Which in turn started a fight for their lives. The food is still warm so whoever has them can’t be too far.” Not waiting for a response Aurora dashed around the turtles ignoring their astonished looks and headed towards her room.

She could hear heavy foot steps behind her no doubt the turtles following her. Closing the door in their faces, she stripped of her current clothes pulling on what she wore for the tournament and reattaching all her weapons she had discarded. Ripping the door back open all four of the turtles, including Usagi and Gen were on the other side staring at her waiting impatiently for her to finish. Leo was standing in from of them his eyes searching hers.

“How did you…..?” he questioned Aurora keeping her from exiting her room.

“Part of my training was to detect foreign substances in food. Now get out of my way Leonardo, we’re wasting time.” With a hard shove to his plastron Aurora pushed Leo out of her doorway and into Raphael. She waited for no one and broke into a run down the hall.

Mikey looked to Leo who was still watching Aurora disappear down the hallway, “Do….do we follow her bro?”

After a few suspenseful moments Leo swallowed licking his dry lips and nodded before taking off after her. Rounding the corner they saw Aurora next to the door of the dining room keeping herself hidden from prying eyes. What was she doing?

Aurora peered through doorway at the hysteria still bustling in the room. Ue-Sama still hadn’t made any orders for the guards to start looking for his father. The way he walked around the room he didn’t seem too much in a hurry to find his father. She could tell the guards were getting a bit antsy wondering what the Daimyo’s son was going to do about the attack. Then Ue-Sama seemed to calm down a bit looking out the window.

Aurora could feel him come up next to her, the heat from his body permeating into her skin when his warm hand rested precariously on her hip. He was so close as he leaned over her she could feel the puffs of air from his mouth hit her neck inciting goosebumps across her skin. Leo was waiting for her to make the next move.

“Something’s not right……. I don’t like the way Ue-Sama is acting nor the fact he already possesses the war staff. I have a bad feeling about all this.”

“I do too. I have a feeling we need to do our own thing here. We need to find Master Splinter.” Leo whispered inches from her ear. She felt his three fingers lift from her hip and curl around her arm pulling her with him.

She didn’t resist the pull of his hand, following the large turtle leader past his brothers and down the hallway to the main entrance where they met up with a worried Usagi and Gen. Leo took the lead informing them of what happened and their concerns.

“We need to split up to cover more ground and we need to do it now. Usagi and Gen I want you to go to the east side of the palace and then make your way to the north. Donnie, Mikey and Aurora I want you guys to search the castle but keep a low profile. If our suspicions are true I have a feeling Ue-Sama has stashed them in the palace somewhere, most likely in the basement near the dungeon. Raph and I will take the east side of the palace and make our way up to the falls above the castle. But we have to move fast we don’t know what the end game is for them.”

Donnie reached into his belt and threw a small device to Usagi, “If you happen to find them and need assistance press this button and we’ll come running.”

Usagi turned the device over in his paws studying the thing and then tucked it safely into his pouch hanging on his belt. “Good luck my friends.”  

Each group hurried off into the directions they were told determined to save the Daimyo and Master Splinter from whatever plan that was made before it could come to fruition.

 @imthegreenfairy88​ @bluesakurablossom​ @ravn-87​ @alonia143​ 

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For the Love of Shell- Chapter 38

Here is chapter 38 of my Oc story! 

Full Story here

With winter come and gone, spring and summer came rushing in. The dreary slush and ice melting away to flowers and flowers gave way to hot summer nights. It was hard to believe the year was already half way over with.

They continued to keep the purple dragons check with the police, their mutant presence known within its ranks. They had yet to meet the brains behind the operation, Hun, but it was only a matter of time before he would make himself known and deal with them himself. They looked forward to that meeting maybe that could end this foolishness with his downfall.

The battle nexus championship was a just a week away, and everyone was beside themselves with excitement. Leo looked forward to seeing his friend Usagi again, along with showing what he and his brothers could do in the tournament. He was determined to have at least one of them win the championship, they had been training hard and hoped they deserved to at least make it to the finals.

Master Splinter was going to accompany them to the Battle Nexus but was not going to participate in the tournament, but he was looking forward to seeing his old friend the Daimyo. Leo sat on his bed sharpening his katana when he looked to the side of his bed and rested his eyes on the special bonsai tree that sat proudly on his night stand. Well maintained, green and lush, he took pride keeping the tree alive and well. It had been almost a year since they had seen Aurora last; her last painting had sold in Egypt for a substantial sum. Most of the proceeds were given to a local charity which didn’t surprise him in the slightest.

He hoped she was well and happy. Maybe she had a boyfriend? Maybe she was married? The thought suddenly made his heart drop into his stomach, rolling over on itself at the mere thought of her in someone else’s arms.

Shaking the unpleasant image from his mine he didn’t need to think about that. Besides he was the one to let Aurora go so foolishly, so he needed to stop thinking about her and learn to deal with the consequences. He allowed the tree to remain by his bed side as a reminder of the love they shared, that he had, had a glimpse of happiness for at a moment in time. He never wanted to forget the smell of her, the taste of her lips, the sound of her voice. Each of those precious memories were slowly slipping away as time went by. Vanishing from his senses like dust in a storm. It hurt to lose them like he was losing a part of himself as they faded from his mind. Selfishly he hoped she would attend the Battle Nexus championship, so he could see her once more, maybe refresh the happy memories of her sound and smell but knew she most likely wouldn’t. He imagined she had moved on making a new life for herself and wouldn’t trouble herself with a championship of mutants and aliens.

Leo imagined her lying on a beach in Egypt curled up on someone’s arms nuzzled into their armpit like she once did with him, kissing his lips. Shaking his head of the unpleasant thoughts again he finished sharpening his katana and made his way to the kitchen were Mikey had just finished preparing dinner for the family.

The entire family sat down at the kitchen table as Mikey set the large casserole dish filling with something delicious smelling on the makeshift trivet in the middle of the too small for four mutant turtles kitchen table.

Splinter leaned forward taking a low pull of the pleasant aroma his eyes closing in delight. “My son, your cooking skills have much improved over the past year. What is this dish called?”

“Shrimp and White Bean Cassoulet sensei.” Mikey smiled sitting down next to Raph who was already dishing up a sizable helping for their father.  

The old rat took a spoon full of the helping he was given and took a tentative bite. Mikey watched his father chew the food he made and waited with baited breath to see if he liked it or not. After what seemed like forever his father’s swallowed what was on his mouth and a giant smile broke over his face and took another bit bite. “You have outdone yourself Michelangelo. It is very good.”

After the approval of their father the rest of family eagerly dug in filling their bellies with Mikey’s new talent.

Raphael leaned back rubbing his now fully belly and gave his little brother a thumbs up. He could get used to the home cooked meals; he was beginning to get tired of pizza nearly every night. His eyes wandered over to his eldest brother, their leader. He seemed a little distracted as he played with his fork from across the table.

He was still angry with him but after time passed he begin to understand why he did what he did. Aurora deserved to be happy and if it was without them then he was ok with it. But damn did he miss her. “Penny for your thoughts fearless?” he finally asked tossing his napkin at the distracted turtle.

Raph smiled when his older brother caught the flying projectile without even looking up, his senses had definitely gotten better over the past year. Leo had been training pretty much nonstop most likely to keep his mind off of the forbidden subject in the lair. Aurora’s name had barely been mentioned since last Christmas. Leo took care of that bonsai tree like it was his child, tending to it every day without fail. He would admit he had spent a few times sitting on Leo’s bed staring at the tree imagining Aurora near death laying beside the small fragile sapling fighting with her body to stay awake, to stay alive. He would give the tree a mist of water before running his fingers over the green foliage before returning to his day. He knew Mikey and Donnie did the same, he had caught them both staring at the tree several times as well.

Finally Leo looked up from his fork and locked eyes with his hothead brother.

“Just thinking about the Battle Nexus Championship, trying to mentally prepare for it I guess. Looking forward to seeing Usagi as well, it’s been a year since we’ve seen him.”

“What about little bunny foo foo?” Mikey playfully cooed running his fingers up his older brothers arm. “I’m sure she’s gonna be happy to see you bro!” His eye ridges waged suggestively.

“Yeah she’s gonna be happy to find out your single.” Donnie chimed in taking another bite of casserole directly from the dish still sitting on the table.

Leo grunted in frustration at the nickname Aurora gave Asuna and shook his head letting his fork drop with a clang onto his plate. “Not interested, she’s the one who put doubt in my mind when we were there last.”

“What?” Raph suddenly got irritated eyeing his brother. “What did that fucking rabbit say about Aurora?”

“She asked me how long it would take for Aurora to realize that I couldn’t give her a normal life. I can’t marry her, can’t give her children. I can only offer seclusion and a sewer.”

“That bitch.” Both Raphael and Mikey growled.

“What makes you think you can’t give her a child?” Donnie cut in questioningly.

“Um..I’m a mutant turtle and she’s human.”  

Donnie leaned back in his chair and hummed his disappointment in his brother, “In theory there is no reason we can’t have children with humans. You forget we ourselves are half human with human DNA. I’ve analyzed my semen and found it nearly identical to humans. There’s no guarantee but it’s not impossible.”

“Donnie my boy, I don’t wanna know how you got your hands on human sperm to compare to your own.” Mikey laughed gathering up the remains of dinner before shuffling it off to the sink to soak the dishes.

“Sperm banks Mikey.”

“Ewwww!” the orange banded turtle grunted in disgust from the sink.  

Donnie shook his head pushing himself away from the table and began helping Mikey with putting away dinner. Gently nudging his younger brothers from the sink he took over the duty of washing the dishes.

Leo ignored his brothers, his thoughts lost to the pleasant thought of Aurora’s belly swollen with child…. their child. Lying in his arms her back resting against his plastron as his hands rubbed lightly across the taught flesh of her extended belly feeling their unborn child shift beneath his fingers. A genuine smile tugged at his lips as his fingers splayed across the table rubbing the formica top.

“Leo?” a deep voice broke him from his thoughts.

“Hmm?” Leo looked up to see Raph eyeing him cautiously.

“After we digest all this shrimp you wanna train?”

“Sure Raph.”

~~~~~~~~~

The four brothers sat in the poorly lit alleyway and watched their father draw the mystic symbols across the old bricks of the vacant building with white chalk. Each swipe of the chalk was smooth and calculated as his furry fingers drew the symbols from memory. Finally finished Master Splinter handed the chalk to Donnie who quickly placed it into his duffle bag. Taking a deep breath the old rat pressed his palms together in a praying pose and began to recite the incantation.

Slowly the water that lay in the alleyway rushed towards the symbols rolling up over the chalk outline merging and swirling into what looked like a water door. After a few moments the water congealed into a watery doorway and began to glow with a light blue hue. Splinter wasted no time and passed through the liquid passageway followed shortly by his four sons.

As the white light of the portal faded they found themselves in the bustling city of the Daimyo’s kingdom. The streets were teaming with anthropomorphic animals buying and selling wares seeming unfazed by the sudden appearance of five bodies through a portal.

Hoisting their bags over their shoulders they made their way through the market towards the Daimyo’s palace. They were invited by the Daimyo himself to stay in his home as they attended the battle nexus championship.

As they passed by the carts of goods eyes began to follow them, fingers pointing in their direction followed by excited mumbles. Young females of all species lined up on the street to stare at them eyes bright with enthusiasm.

“What was that about?” Mikey whispered to his older brothers eyeing the eager gazes in the crowd. The young turtle could feel the adrenaline start to race through his veins. This was exciting; it looked like they had been expecting them and thrilled to meet them, his baby blue eyes sparkled with anticipation.

Reaching the gates the large doors opened allowing the passage into the court yard. The main door slide open revealing the large ruler his arms outstretched in welcome as they approached.

“It is good to see you old friend.” The large man rumbled with laughter as his eyes beamed with happiness.

“My old friend it has been too long and for that I apologize, the past few years have been….busy. And I am sorry it wasn’t me that introduced you to my sons last year. How have you been? How is your son?” Master Splinter grinned up at Daimyo his hips tiling as he bowed out of respect.  

“Nonsense Splinter, there is no need for apologize our meeting a year ago was destiny I am sure of it. Ue-Sama is good, healthy and eager to learn. His skill advances everyday and looks forward to his time as Daimyo. Sometimes I think he’s a little too eager to take over. But that is here nor there. Now I’m sure you’d like to see where you’ll be staying for the tournament? I hope you don’t mind sharing a room, it is big enough to accommodate all five of you and has been set up with five beds but rooms this week are scarce in the palace as you might have guessed.” The Daimyo smiled ushering them into the large door of the large palace.

Leo stepped next to his father and spoke up, “We are grateful for your hospitality Daimyo and will take whatever is available to us. We are used to sleeping in the same room so it is no trouble.”

The Daimyo slowed and looked down on the blue leader while he led them through the great hall. His aged eyes flashed with something but quickly returned to his joyful demeanor before answering him. His large came down resting on the top of his carapace, “Leonardo I look forward to seeing you and your brothers competing in the tournament this afternoon. There have been stories of you four and your skill and bravery from last year’s battle. You four have become rather popular with the ladies.” A deep rumbling laugh escaped the ruler’s throat opening a door to what looked like their quarters for their stay.

“Yes we noticed the stares as we passed through the market. We were wondering what that was about.” Donnie said setting his duffle bag on one the farthest bed from the door.

“Yes don’t be surprised if you become very popular very fast. Now if you will excuse me I need to make final preparations for the tournament this afternoon. Please make yourself at home and don’t hesitate to ask Gyoji if you require anything. Please present yourself to the battle arena for registration at 2pm your time. You all must take part in the qualifying round before you enter the tournament. But I have no doubt each of you will succeed. I’ll see you all on the arena. Good luck turtles.” And with that the Daimyo exited their room disappearing down the hallway.    

Leo sat down on the bed he chose and set his bag down next to him. His eyes moved to his brothers as they settled in. “Does anyone want to join me in the market? I’d like to wander around for a bit before we register. I’m hoping we can run into Usagi, would be nice to see him before we go.”

All three of his brothers were happy to go but Sensei wanted to stay behind to attend to a small matter, but promised to meet them at the arena at the given time of registration.

The street loud with conversation they looked over the wears and food for sale. Every once in a while they were stopped and gushed over, random hands brushing up against their shells and fingers lingering on their arms. Most of the admirers were female but they did get a few males come up to them shaking their hands thanking them for their help last year.  

Mikey and Raph soon broke off from the other two wanting to find something warm to eat and Donnie got distracted by some old artifacts.

“I’m gonna be a bit, go ahead and keep going I’ll meet you back at our room in an hour.” Donnie waved his eldest brother on turning an ancient metal tool over in his fingers.

Further down the street Leo was buying a sharpening stone when his name rang out behind him. Turning around after completing his purchase his eyes narrowed in on a familiar female rabbit.

“Asuna.” Leo forced a smile waving to the cheery rabbit as she jogged towards him her arms outstretched for an apparent hug. Bracing himself he let the rabbit practically knock him on his shell wrapping her arms around his carapace.  

“It’s so good to see you Leonardo. It has been too long! Are you and your brothers here for the tournament?” She smiled sweetly up at him her chin placed on the top of his plastron her eyes sparkling with adoration.  

Returning the hug awkwardly he gently pushed her from his body. “It’s good to see you too Asuna. Yes my brothers and I are here to participate. Hey have you seen Usagi? I was hoping to chat with him before everything starts.”

Her fingers remaining touching his forearms and nodded quickly pulling at his arms. “Yes he’s down by the stables talking to Gen. Here I’ll take you to him. He will be very pleased to see you. He has also expressed his excitement in seeing you today.”

Being led by his arm Leo had no choice but to follow the eager rabbit doing his best at keeping the young female from brushing up against him as they weaved through busy streets. He was finding it very difficult to keep her from touching him, her hips brushing up against his, her grasp pulling a little too hard so his arm would brush across her breasts. She was incorrigible.

After a few silent moments being dragged by his arm she finally slowed giving his arm reprieve. Her white furry fingers began dancing across his pebbled skin of his bicep and he could tell she wanted to ask him something. He didn’t have to wait long.

“So is Aurora here? I figured she’d be by your side.” She asked almost in a whisper her eyes training on his looking for any emotional reaction.

Letting out deep sigh he shook his head. “I have no idea, I broke it off with her a year ago and we haven’t seen her since. And that’s all I’ll say about it so I would appreciate the topic not being brought up again.”

Her head turned no doubt keeping the happy grin to herself at the news he was no longer with Aurora. He really didn’t want to see her nor spend any time with the meddlesome rabbit. She was conniving and calculating her mind scheming, she was nice enough but he didn’t trust her. True it was still his fault his relationship with Aurora ended due to his poor judgment but she had planted the poisonous seed of doubt that grew into a snarling demon in his mind.  The sooner they got to Usagi the sooner he’d been free of little bunny foo foo.

As they rounded the corner Asuna’s body tensed and pushed him back around the corner pressing him carapace back against the brick building. Her eyes darted to him and back to the looming corner they had just been.

“What? What’s going on?” He asked feeling annoyed at the close proximity to the female rabbit.  

A smile spread across her face and she struck with a quickness he couldn’t prepare for. Her furry hands cupped his cheeks and leaned forward her lips slanting over his. Her tongue pressed into his mouth catching him off guard he couldn’t even make his mind move fast enough to push her away. Her warm body pressed firmly to his her breasts compressing against his plastron.

His mind began to process what was going on and his hands rested on her shoulders ready to push the conniving rabbit from his body when he saw why the rabbit was kissing him.

In what seemed like slow motion Aurora in all her glory rounded the corner nearly running smack dab into them. His mind still in a confused fog he was unable to react fast enough as her purple eyes focused quickly in on his.

Not quite registering what she was seeing she smiled awkwardly at the kissing duo but realization struck her like a runaway bull hitting her in the stomach. Her eyes widened in shock then pain watching helplessly as the rabbit’s mouth assaulted his. Leo noticed her body go rigid her hands clenching into fists at her side as her breath hitched in her throat. The sorrow that played over her startled features soon was replaced by anger as her purple eyes flashed for a second with their brilliant light.

It all seemed to happen slowly dragging on before his very eyes as he tried to get his body to respond with his minds commands but in all reality it all happened in a matter of a few seconds. Getting his hands to move Leo finally pushed Asuna from his body their mouths popping as their lips parted.

“Aurora.” Leo gasped for breath wiping their mingling saliva from his mouth with the back of his hand. But time began to run at normal speed again and as quick as she was there she disappeared back around the corner leaving his eyesight.

“Asuna, what the shell were you thinking?” Leo growled trying to go after the retreating Aurora but was slammed back against the wall by Asuna who pressed back into him her eye hooded with excitement no doubt pleased with her display.

“Let her go Leonardo. She’s human, your animal, you should be with an animal, you should be with me. I’ll treat you right, I’ll love you, I’ll obey you.” She cooed trying to run her fingers down his cheek but was abruptly stopped by Leonardo crushing grip. A yelp of pain pushed past her lips as her smile faded from her face.

“I can’t believe you did this, your advances are unwarranted. I told you before I was not interested in you Asuna but you still pulled this inappropriate display to blatantly hurt Aurora. Please leave me and my family alone.” Not giving her a chance to object Leo pushed Asuna with force nearly sending her into a cart behind her.

He wiped around the corner fully intent to find Aurora as she retreated but found her gone. As fast his legs would carry him he darted down the street searching the busy crowd for her. How difficult would it to be to find a human in a street filled with animals. Very, apparently, he had no luck locating her doubling back twice to make sure he didn’t miss her.

True to her nature she had vanished into the shadows like the skilled kunoichi she was. At least he knew she was there, no doubt getting ready to take part in the battle nexus championship.

@imthegreenfairy88​ @bluesakurablossom​ @alonia143​ @ravn-87​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love of Shell

It’s time for the battle nexus championship!

Read it in its entirety here 

Chapter 39

After a few inquiries, Leonardo managed to locate Usagi who was talking to a man who resembled a rhinoceros. The man was big and burly, muscled yet lean and Leo noticed quickly it looked like the male’s horns had been cut off. He could only imagine that was the Gen, Asuna had been talking about. Before Leo could approach Usagi looked up to see the blue banded turtle making his way over.

“Leonardo son!” Usagi yelled hurriedly making his way over to his turtle friend. Their hands shot out clasping each other’s forearms in a firm steady handshake. “My friend I’m glad to see you. I hope all is well with you and your family.”

Leonardo smiled back at his rabbit friend watching as the rhino man made his way up behind Usagi his deep onyx eyes fixed on him.

Usagi heard his heavy friend come up behind him huffing through his nostrils. Turning slightly Usagi ushered to the man wearing a white kimono with red paw prints on each breast. “Leonardo son this is my friend Murakami Gennosuke, he will also be joining us in the tournament.”  

Leo waited for a curt or rude comment from the intimating Rhino but the thin line of his lips parted revealing a bright smile. His hand shot forth gasping Leo’s in a firm handshake. “Please.” Gen started. “Any friend of Usagi is a friend of mine and my friends call me Gen. Usagi has told me much about you and brothers and everything you’ve done for the Daimyo over the past year. It is an honor to meet you Leonardo. I will say I am a little worried to face you in the arena, I don’t want to put you off when I beat you in combat. By the way would you like to make a small wager on the tournament? It’s a good deal.”

Leo studied Gen and gauged his facial expressions finding them genuine and light hearted. The rhino was cocky but actually friendly. “I appreciate the offer Gennosuke….err sorry Gen, but I’m not a gambler but I look forward to facing you in the arena. We’ll see who beats who and please, Leo will do.”

A large belly laugh came from Gen who patted the back of his carapace shaking his hand once again. “I like you turtle, you have spirit.”

“Leonardo son please tell me how things are with you and your family? How are your brothers and how is Aurora? Where is she? I thought she’d be traveling with you.”

Leonardo took his time telling his friend what had transpired in the past year in their lives including Asuna’s inappropriate advance that had just happened 20 minutes earlier. He watched as Usagi’s happy demeanor soured as Leo explained the scene, his fists clenching in anger.

“I am sorry my friend, what she did was horrendous, I am ashamed for her. I will talk with her and urge Asuna apologize.”

“There is no need Usagi son, her actions do not project onto you and it is not your place to make her apologize. I just wish to keep her away from my family for now. I have no idea how much damage she’s done and I have not have seen Aurora in a year so I am unsure how to approach her now. I just want her to know I wasn’t a will participant.”

“Women are nothing but trouble my friend!” Gen laughed wrapping his arms around both Usagi and Leo’s shoulder pointing them towards the arena in the distance. “Delightfully soft and delicious trouble! Now my friends no more talk of such distractions, let us get something to drink before we battle!”

Being stubborn, Gen wouldn’t take no for an answer and drug the two to a nearby tavern filling their glasses with cool amber liquid that burned.  They spent an hour sharing stories and a few laughs but Leonardo and Usagi refused any further mead wanting a clear head for the tournament.

Usagi and Gen followed Leo back to their room to gather his brothers. It was time to register for the tournament and get ready for the qualifying round. Opening the door to their shared suite they found his brothers sitting on their beds going through their purchases. Mikey and Raph were examining each other’s new blades when the door swung open. Donnie’s head shot up seeing his brother walk in with Usagi and a massive Rhino.

All three of his brothers made their way over to the door greeting Usagi and meeting Gen. Raph and Gen hit it off rather quickly flexing as they clasped hands and soon began talking about their work out regiments. As the two brutes chattered on Donnie could see something was up with Leo; he wasn’t making eye contact with any of them as he ushered them out of their room and towards the arena. His eyes were searching the crowds frantically for someone.

“Leo, who are you looking for? Master Splinter said he’d meet us at the arena?”

“She’s here.” He said softly his eyes never leaving the swarm of contestants.

“WHAT?!” all three of his brothers yelped closing in on their leader grabbing his arms to stop him.

“You saw her?! When? Did she say anything to you?” Raph’s hands pulled him to face him, his large hands hooking around his carapace almost bringing him into a hug.

“Yeah I did, but the reunion wasn’t a happy one due to the compromising position Asuna had me in.”

“What are you talking about Bro?” Mikey chimed in.

“Asuna found me in the market and was going to bring me to Usagi since she knew where he was but on our way there she started acting funny. She pushed me back against a building and kissed me and of course just as she did Aurora came around the corner and saw it. There’s no doubt in my mind Asuna saw Aurora coming and did what she did to make Aurora jealous or angry. She was successful in her pursuit. There was a mixture of surprise, hurt then anger.  Either way by the time I pushed her from me, Aurora was gone.  But at least we know she’s here to compete. I need to find her and tell her I wasn’t willingly kissing that manipulative rabbit.” He could feel the anger rising within him again, “I can’t even imagine what’s running through her mind right now.”

“I am sorry my friends.” Usagi sighed. “She has talked about you quite a bit over the last year. But I didn’t think she would be capable of such a callous act let alone the assault to you Leonardo son.”

Raphael growled low in his throat as they started walking again. “You need to keep that bitch on a leash or I’ll do it for you. She’s messing with my family.”

Usagi didn’t respond moving alongside the four turtles and Gen to registration.

Leo could feel the tension from his brothers pulsate around him; it was almost to the point of excitement. They could possible see her or maybe fight against her in the tournament. That itself was a sobering thought. That was not the first way they wanted to see her after a year, but it was at least better then how he first saw her with Asuna pressed into him……. Lost in thought Leo almost ran into the line to register but Donatello’s hand came out to stop his momentum.

True to his word Master Splinter met them at the arena, watching proudly as his four sons registered for the tournament. After completing their enrollment Leonardo told his father of his quick and unpleasant interaction with Asuna and Aurora. He could tell by the darkened expression his sensei was also upset at Asuna’s behavior.

“We will deal with his turn of events after, now is the time to prepare my sons. Concentrate on your goals and your strategies. See your opponent and anticipate his or her next move but most of all have fun. Enjoy this glorious one of a kind experience. You honor your father by continuing this tradition.”

A large gong was rung indicating the beginning of the tournament and all contestants poured into the large arena waiting patiently for the Daimyo to make his appearance. The four turtles began searching the mass of contestants looking for that one face they longed to see. Leo’s gaze drifted and unfortunately found Asuna, who was several feet from them, trying her best to gain his attention but Leo ignored the troublesome female.

There were so many different species and aliens, large and small from the vast universe that had come to attend this battle of skill. It was a bit mind blowing seeing what was out there past the stars. So many colors and shapes it boggled the mind.  

“Dudes! Do you see the big triceratops man over there?” Mikey squealed in enthusiasm pointing to the behemoth that oozed danger several few to their left. Just like most of the contestants he stood on two feet carrying an oversized ax that rested on his broad shoulder. He was adorned in some sort of uniform no doubt part of some kind of military. They hoped they didn’t need to defeat that monster, well maybe Raph wanted to test his skills on the warrior.

“There she is!” Donnie called pointing to the opposite side of the arena they were standing. Their eyes moved through the bodies and finally saw her. She was in black pants with a band around her upper right thigh with an assortment of Kunai. Her top was covered in dark plum, long sleeves pushed up to her elbows and a neckline that plunged down her sternum ending just at her breasts.

Her hair length seemed to be the same length but what drew their attention was the purple streak of color in her hair running down the left side of her face. Eyes moving to her side they saw both of her mystical katanas hung securely at her hip by a leather strap, their four colors still interweaved into the hilts of the ancient blades. She looked healthy but foreboding with an ominous scowl displayed on her full lips. She was ready and waiting to prove herself to the Daimyo and the rest of the warriors.

Another gong rung bringing their attention to the top of the arena, where the Daimyo, Ue-Sama, and surprisingly Master Splinter had appeared looking down at the eager crowd of contestants. Somehow sensei had gotten a front row seat to the tournament; it was good to be friends with the Daimyo.

The war staff clutched in his hand the Daimyo raised both hands high in the air gaining a thunderous cheer from the crowd. Leo noticed Ue-Sama’s gaze trained in on someone in the crowd. Following his sight line down to the arena, Leo found the Daimyo’s son practically drooling as he looked down upon Aurora who was currently unaware of the lustful stare. The leader hands clenched at the flaring anger, digging the tips of his nails into the palms of his hands.

As the crowd quieted down it gave the Daimyo the chance to speak. “Great warriors from near and far, we welcome you to this year’s Battle Nexus Championship! We welcome the new and the returning contestants; you honor us with your presence and your skill that you put to the test today. Each of you will battle each other until there is only one left. The lone winner will become this year’s Battle Nexus Champion. This is a non lethal combat so before the final stoke can be delivered the loosing combatant will disappear from the arena and be brought to the medical wing of the palace to be checked over by our healers. Now the first fight will be a qualifying round and you will be paired by random. If you pass this round you will move to the first round of the tournament. If you fail, you are done until the next championship. All victors please wait in your partition patiently until all matches are finished. You will be presented to the rest of the victors before the next round commences. Now everyone let the tournament begin!”

As the final gong bellowed indicating the start of the tournament Leo looked back to where Aurora was standing and locked eyes with her violet iris’ making him suck in a mouth full of air in surprise. She was staring at him and he could see the hurt and anger behind her eyes and it tore at him but the walls of the tournament rose ripping her from him once again.

Aurora could see them from across the arena, all four of them standing there watching the Daimyo hype up the contestants before this whole thing started. Besides witnessing that painful scene of Leo and that damn rabbit pressed together earlier today this was the first time seeing the four brothers in a year. They looked good, healthy and from what she could tell, happy. It took every drop of willpower she had not to run over to them and wrap her arms around each and every one of them….well maybe not everyone.

Leonardo had obviously come back to the nexus for little bunny foo foo. Maybe that was the real reason he ended it between them, to come back here for Asuna? To be with someone like him? From what she could see earlier today they seemed rather content to be in one and others arms. But to be fair she didn’t stay long to analyze the situation, the moment she saw her lips on Leo’s she saw red and left before she could do anything stupid. Leo wasn’t hers anymore and no longer could get mad when that little bitch touched him. Now wasn’t the time to think about such things, the tournament was about to start and she needed to focus. She just hoped that she would end up in a match with Asuna so she could blow off some steam. One final glance and she would be done with it. Returning her sites back to the four brothers Leo’s gaze met hers. Those deep blue pools almost looked sad as they held her gaze. She swallowed the sob that rose in her throat; she wouldn’t give him the satisfaction. Why was there so much longing after all this time, she didn’t want to hurt anymore? As his lips parted and hands rose the walls shot up engulfing them in the white light of the war staff, it was time.

It felt like a dry liquid as she was rushed up into a small partition of the arena ready to test her skill against the best in the universe. She didn’t expect to win but it would be fun to see how far she could get. There was a lot of intimidating competition from what she could see, even weird looking aliens.

As her competition rose from the liquid a wicked smile spread across her face, karma was sweet this day.

Asuna was ready to win this fight as she rose into the competition, her sword already pulled from its sheath ready to strike but her confidence fell like a lead balloon as she saw her opponent. Aurora stood triumphant a few feet away, her one hand already gripping the hilt of one of her twin katana. If looks could kill she would no doubt be dust on the ground with only her sword as evidence she was there. She had to think fast, needed to mess with the superior opponents mind, throw her off her game. Leo’s brilliant blue eyes flashed across her vision and the taste of his lips flooded her mind. She would use the heartbreak of loosing Leonardo to her advantage and get inside her head. All was no lost….yet.

“Little bunny foo foo….. I am so glad to see you.” Aurora cooed almost seductively slowly pulling one of her katana from its black sheath. The sing of her metal as it slipped free of its confines echoed in the chamber. “I was hoping we’d meet in here. I have so much anger to unleash and to dole it out to one of the very sources of it would be so appropriate and gratifying.”

Asuna stepped tentatively forward as she began to circle Aurora, her eyes never leaving the human. Think, make her angry. “You mean about me finally getting Leonardo and his delicious lips. You know his tongue is so soft and nimble, it tastes like peppermint.” If the woman was affected by her taunting she wasn’t showing it. She needed to hit harder, deeper. Time for the big guns. “Do you know who planted the seed to the inevitable end to your doomed romance with Leonardo?” Oh that peaked her interest. “I did, I told him you would grow tired of being in the shadows and want a normal life with a normal human man. That you would yearn for marriage and children of your own and he could never give you those things.”

Her vision suddenly became very clear zeroed in on the female rabbit with the very smug look on her face. “It was you?” Aurora hissed between clenched teeth pulling the other katana free from its confines. She could feel every muscle in her body coil ready to strike, the heat of her power beginning to stir within her, the power she had rarely used in almost a year. She was the spark that grew into the flame that burnt her life to the ground taking everything that she loved from her?

Asuna swallowed the sudden rising lump in her throat as Aurora’s eyes swirled with a purple light of her rising powers. She had forgotten about those. She had definitely awoken the beast within but in for a penny in for a pound. No turning back now. “Now he and I can be together, I can make him feel normal because he’s with his own kind. I can give him what he needs. Leo doesn’t need to hide below the surface in your dimension anymore. He and his brothers can walk in the sunlight and buy wares like normal people here. ”

Red, all she could see was red. Asuna was the cause of her pain, the loneliness she endured for a year, banned from returning to the lair from seeing the turtles, kept Leonardo from her. All because little bunny foo foo had a lady boner for Leo. So she could take her place and hop right into his awaiting lap? “Breath” she whispered to herself. She was trying to get under her skin; the rabbit was just trying to throw her off her game, so she could gain the upper hand. Well not today bitch!

Spinning her extremely sharp weapons in her hands Aurora was tired of this game and screamed lunging forward bringing her weapons down on the overly confident rabbit knocking her to the ground.

Somehow Asuna managed to block her attack as she stumbled back the once smug look on her face was replaced by sheer panic. With all the finesse of her training Aurora kicked off the wall and spun kicking Asuna in the gut as she got to her feet making her tumble to the floor once again.

“Get up!” Aurora growled advancing on the rabbit both katana gripped in her fingers, her knuckles white from the force. “You were the catalyst that took everything from me! I had finally found my family, someplace to belong and you played on Leo’s insecurities and took them from me! Just so you could get a chance with him! You hate me so much then prove it! Fight me! GET UP!”

Asuna grappled to her feet once again readying her blade hearing the agony in the Aurora’s voice. She had struck a nerve with the woman but she didn’t falter or show any signs of losing control. She was just angry, very very angry and looked extremely terrifying. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea? But Asuna wasn’t ready to give up this fight, she wanted to compete, and she wanted Leonardo. “He’s mine now! You lost him, now move on!” The white female rabbit attacked with vengeance defending herself, but her skill level was nowhere near Aurora’s. Before she knew it, she was struggling to keep up with her, stumbling as Aurora moved with precision each blow she brought down hitting its mark. Asuna could see just how sharp those blades were and was suddenly very thankful this was a non lethal competition.

The hilt of Aurora’s blade connected with Asuna’s abdomen adding to the growing aches across her body. She arched back at the force of the hit and leaned back just as the long blade came up across her right side catching the tail of her harness slicing a section free.

Somehow Asuna managed to keep the scream that threatened to burst free at bay and brought her katana up meeting another swing of Aurora’s weapon. The woman moved quickly dropping down swinging her leg out bringing Asuna to the ground.

Asuna rolled backwards away from the seething female and got to her feet defending herself once again.

A few short moments later Aurora stopped, the anger and venom had drained from her face, all that remained was emptiness and grief. She sheathed one of her weapons and adjusted her top resting the dull side of her remaining katana on her shoulder, “I-I can’t keep holding on to this. You’re not worth my energy anymore. This is taking away from my peace and I don’t want you to hold that much power over me.”  

Aurora shifted on her feet and flipped over the rabbit and brought her katana down and before the blade came in contact with her skull Asuna vanished in a defiant scream in a swish of blue light.

Landing where Asuna once stood, Aurora dropped to one knee, trembling from the adrenaline coursing through her. How could Leo have let her influence him, he had let her get into his head doubting what she felt for him, that she needed nothing else but him. She would have died for any of them, hell she still would, a sobering thought that made her heart beat faster than it already was.

The walls started to lower signaling the qualifying round was over, she had made it and was onto the first round. Standing back up she looked around the arena and found each of the turtles still inside the arena but now in different places far from each other. She noticed Donnie was only a few feet from her his eyes trained in on her, his leg muscles tense ready to close the distance between them but he remained in his place when the Daimyo began to speak.

“Congratulations to those who made it passed the qualifying round, you have now made it to the first round of the tournament. Good luck to you all!”

Donnie reached out as the walls came back up, “Auro…” and he was gone again, and the liquid feeling returned bringing her back to herself, away from her feelings. Deep breaths let her regain her composure just in time for her to reappear in a new partition staring up at a giant squid thing with nine tentacles and purple slimy flesh. Its four eyes narrowed in on her rumbling an unmistakable bout of laughter and shot four of its nine long appendages towards her ready to ensnarl her limbs.

“Fuck.”

Raphael roared launching himself towards the female alien that had just nearly handed him his shell on a silver platter. She was quick and nimble moving faster than his eyes could follow. Somehow, he was managing to sidestep each of the thrusts of her unique circle blades. He could hear her displacing the air as she moved around him and he decided to try the trick Aurora taught them back at the cabin in the woods. Gripping his sai in each hand he closed his eyes and listened letting everything else fall away. To his left he heard her moving just enough to evade her blow. She was getting louder easier to pin point. Behind him she was coming and fast, whirling around he brought his sai out and heard her gasp. He opened his eyes just in time to see her floating in the air millimeters from the business end of his sia. She mumbled something in her native tongue and smiled before disintegrating into blue dust. He had won; with a deep bellow he lifted his hands into the air in triumph.

Having won his match Leo re-sheathed his katana and waited patiently for the wall to retract hopefully revealing his equally successful brothers and Aurora. After about 20 minutes on waiting the wall disappeared and he searched the dwindling mass for his brothers. Quickly he found them all with victorious smiles on their faces, his heart swelled with pride. Then his eyes landed on Aurora and nearly burst out laughing from the sight, she was slicked up with some sort of slim covering her from head to toe. The look of utter annoyance painted her face as she returned her katana to their sheaths and tried to wipe off as much of the substance from her arms as she could.

“You have passed the first round warriors!” The Daimyo voice broke over the arena pulling their gazes back to the large ruler. Leo could see his father sitting on the edge of the ridge looking down on them, his eyes filled with pride.  A small commotion next to their sensei made them look to the Daimyo and Ue-Sama who was pointing down to the slippery Aurora below. The Daimyo chuckled and nodded waving the war staff above his head.

Turning to Aurora they watched her yelp in surprise as she was lifted off the ground and suspended in a red light. After a few moments she reappeared and seemed to be bone dry, no trace of the slippery substance anywhere. Her gaze went to the old man high above and waved a quick thank you before checking to see if her blades were clean as well. Finding all her gear was clean and dry she readied herself but didn’t give the turtles another glance.

The wall rose again engulfing each contestant in the liquid sensation. As Donnie was lifted into his partition a familiar low laugh made him turn on his heal. There stood Raphael ,his sai out ready with a shit eating grin on his lips.

“Welcome to the thunder dome Donnie boy.” The large red banded turtle rumbled again lunging forward towards his brainiac brother.

“Bring it Raphie!”

The electric staff swung out catching the hurdling red missile in his gut stopping his momentum instantly. Raph grunted as the wind was knocked from him and toppled forward from the force of the blow. When did Don learn to hit like that?

Donnie flipped backward when Raph’s arms swung out trying to tackle him as he fell forwards.

Raph got to his knees looking at his tall brother, “Looks like someone has been working out. That blow had some power behind it Don but in the end, it won’t help you!” Flexing his colossal calf muscles the red turtle lunged forward again grappling for Donatello but came up empty yet again.

Donnie was slimmer more agile then his older brother, not to mention he had a quick mind. Being a genius was always a benefit when it came to ninjutsu. While his hothead brother relied on his brute strength for his strategy Donnie relied on his big brain. Always thinking about how he could outsmart his enemy using what he had available to him to meet his goal. Raph would no doubt try to bum rush him stabbing wildly with his sai but Donnie knew how to win against Raphael. It wasn’t the nicest approach, but it would definitely work. The rage that constantly bubbled from within the large turtle was his ultimate downfall, a few well-placed verbal jabs and the colossal turtle would be swinging blindly with fury. He wouldn’t be thinking about sneaky Donnie and his bag of tricks when he was seeing red. Narrowing his eyes, Donnie bounced lightly with his knees as Raph began circling him, his sai swinging in and out of his palms as if it were a nervous twitch.

“Here goes nothing.” Donnie smirked readying his sharp tongue.

Aurora put away her katana and knelt with her palms out preparing for her next battle. Taking a deep breath she centered herself. This alien she had just beaten was a bit perplexing and terrifying. It was about half her size, small, fluffy and adorable. That was until it screamed for glory and sprung for her throat with its once tiny smiling mouth, it opened wide nearly engulfing half its face with jagged blue teeth dripping with yellow saliva. Several chains shot forth from its claws wrapping around her limps pulling her towards the large snapping mouth. If Aurora wasn’t in compete shock by the horrifying transformation from cute to terrifying she would have screamed at the top of her lungs. To say it was fast was an understatement but luckily for her wasn’t that strong. Thankfully Aurora already had her katana in hand and was able to bring the metal down on each chain that held her arm and break them with ease.  As reflexes took over she ducked, dodging the mouth full of teeth and rolled forward away from the furry creature. Getting to her feet Aurora dodged another flying attack catching the back of its body with a handful of fur. Hoisting it into the air she flung the small thing high into the sky and it howled with anger sending its chain rushed towards her again. This time she was prepared and dove away just as the chain bit into the hard floor of the arena.

Aurora’s hand shot forth and grabbed the chain and began swinging it around in a circle above her head like a cowboys lasso. The furry being screamed as it was flung around getting angrier and angrier the faster Aurora went. Finally finished Aurora pulled down hurtling the thing to the ground and swung her blade just before it hit making the alien disappear.  Jesus that was weird.

Just then the walls began to lower and as the last of the contestants were revealed a loud bellowing yell came from the palace.

“DONNIE!” There was no mistaking it was Raphael.

Looking over to the genius he was leaning against his bo staff with a sly smirk on his face and Raphael nowhere in sight. He had beaten Raph in the nexus championship and by the sounds of the hotheads scream he was not happy about it. Good for Donnie though, he deserves to be seen not as a genius but an excellent fighter.

Making sure not to catch his eye she stood from her kneeling position and faced the castle waiting for the next match. The contestants were dwindling and Donnie, Mikey and Leo remained of the turtles. There was no way she wasn’t going to be matched with at least one of them before this thing was over with. She just hoped it wasn’t Leonardo. She didn’t think she could handle that, at least not after what she saw in the street a few hours ago.

The Daimyo stood along with Ue-Sama who looked down at her from above with a large smile on his face. She knew that look; she had seen it the last time they were here.  It was the look she couldn’t reciprocate with the Daimyo’s son but she gave him a warm smile back nodding in acknowledgment. After this was done she would head back home, the more time she spent with the man the more uneasy she became. There was something not right about him, like he was scheming something behind his father’s back. It made her skin crawl and she hoped she was wrong.

Again the Daimyo raised his war staff and the walls began to rise engulfing the remaining warriors in its power.   Aurora closed her eyes taking quick solace in the feeling of being weightless even if it was for only a few seconds. As she rose into the next battle she let out a small sigh before opening her eyes. Pulling her katana from her sheathes she heard a shaky breath just a few feet from her. Without a second thought she opened her eyes and her blood turned cold as her body froze in place.

“Leo.”

 @bluesakurablossom​ @alonia143​ @imthegreenfairy88​ @ravn-87​ @blossom-skies​ 

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love of Shell - Chapter 37

Here we go, another chappie!

Here it is from the beginning

Minutes turned to hours, hours turned to days and days turned into weeks, but Leo tried not to notice how slow the days crawled by. He spent most of his time in the dojo meditating keeping away from his brothers and his father, avoiding their questioning stares. He had yet to tell them of his decision with Aurora and dreaded when it would finally be brought up. It was all going to come to a head soon, it had been two weeks since she had returned to the lair to see them and he could see they were getting antsy. He had stopped Donnie from calling her the other day by distracting him with a question about the cameras in the west tunnel. It was a close one, but he couldn’t hold them off much longer. His brothers were many things, but stupid wasn’t one of them, they knew something was wrong.

A curt call of his name from the main lair made his stomach roll, he had a feeling it was time to face the music whether he was ready to or not. Standing from his lotus position Leo gracefully made his way into the main part of the lair and hesitantly approached his three tense brothers.

They stood staring at Leo as he exited through the tunnel, their muscled arms folded over their wide chests. The looks on their faces held no secrets, they were ready for some answers and they wanted them now.

Donnie stepped forward first, his brown eyes narrowing in on his eldest brother, “What’s going on Leo? You’ve been rather distant lately spending most of your time in the dojo, more so without father. And we haven’t seen Aurora in two weeks, which is not like her. What’s going on? When is she coming back to the lair? Is she ok?”

“Yeah spill it.” Mikey laughed nervously coming up next to Donnie.

Leo looked at his two youngest brothers, his gaze guarded and then traveled back to the hothead who still hadn’t moved his green eyes suspicious. He could see the brute of a turtle work his muscles in his jaw as he clenched his teeth waiting for Leo to talk. It was now or never, taking a deep breath Leo copied his brothers and crossed his arms over his chest and let the hot hair press out through his nostrils. “She won’t be coming back.” He said sternly as if it meant nothing. His eyes remained on the red banded turtle eyes as they grew wide in shock.

“What do you mean not coming back?” Mikey growled low in his throat. Something he had never heard his younger brother do before. It sent a chill down his spine.

“I ended it with her over a week ago. It was time for her to move on with her life. She was free of the demon and with the Kingyo’s defeated she no longer needed to hide. I told her she was no longer welcome back to the lair and to live a normal life.” He could hear his own voice tremble trying to control the raging emotions he had been fighting for nearly two weeks. He was beginning to fail. He was miserable and it ate at him from the inside out.

Then he spoke, “You did what?!” Raphael hissed through clenched teeth dropping his hands to his sides resting on the hilts of his sai. Leo could see the fury swirling in his brother’s eyes; he sat waiting for the large brute to lunge forward, to attack him but the blow it never came. The red banded turtle stood frozen in place a deep angry vibration emanating from his lower plastron.

Donnie looked to the ground her name barely a whisper from his lips. The usually gentle genius clenched his fists in anger raising his gaze to Leonardo, the look on his face foreign. “Fuck you Leo.” The hurtful phrase dripped with vehemence, those crass of words he never would have thought would come from his genius brother hurt more then he would like to admit.

“My son, what have you done?” the calm voice of his master came from behind him, his soft paw resting on his forearm. His masters words stung the most cutting into his already broken soul even further. How could he make them understand he was doing this for her and them? He turned to look at his father, but the heavy foot falls of his retreating brothers brought him back around to see all three of them running from the lair no doubt to her apartment. He knew he couldn’t stop them even if he wanted them too.

“Leonardo?” Splinters voice was a bit stern now, he wanted answers.

Reluctantly Leo turned around to face his master, the large turtle falling to his knees before his rat father. His iron like composure threatening to break as his gaze meet with his sensei’s dark searching eyes. “Dad.” Leo started taking a deep breath trying to calm himself. “I had too, she’s never had a normal life. She was given to a monastery at age three and trained by men who gave her no kind of sense of family or comfort, always fighting, always on the run. Now with the demon and the Kingyo’s gone, she can have a normal life, she can get married, have babies. I can’t give her those things and if she continues to be part of our family she never will.”

Leo watched his father’s eyes fill with sorrow and both of his furry hands came to his son’s face, “My son, it saddens me thinking you don’t believe you deserve to be loved by Aurora. Human or not, that woman loved you, loved your brothers. She would do anything for any of you and you four would do the same. I believe she didn’t care about a normal life all she wanted was you and your brothers in her life.”

“But Sensei she knew nothing else. She doesn’t know what it’s like to go on a regular date to a restaurant with a regular human man who can take her on vacations and go to stores to buy her things. To walk down the aisle in a beautiful white wedding dress to her normal human fiancé waiting for her at the end with tears streaming down his face because of how beautiful she looks. He’ll be able to give her a child…. a family.”

“Leonardo, she is her own person and allowed to make that decision on her own. When she was give to the monastery did she have a choice?”

Leo shook his head ‘No’ as his eyes trained in on the open green palms that lay on his thighs.

“When she was thrust into the part of Guardian, did she have a choice?”

Again, Leo shook his head, beginning to see where his master was taking this line of questioning.

“Did Aurora have a choice to fight the demon and vanquish it using your souls as power watching you die in the process?”

“No Sensei.”

“Now when everything was over, did she have the choice to leave this path she was currently on or defer and start a new course which didn’t include mutant turtles and a large old rat?” Before Leo could respond Splinter held his hand up and answered for him. “No, she didn’t, someone again took that decision from her and made it his own. Again the choice was taken from her.”

Leo’s head spun fast and hard with his master’s words, he had taken the first decision she could make on her own, a decision that would affect her life. That didn’t revolve around that stupid urn and that damned demon within her. How could he have been to rash, so blind? How stupid could he be, ending the first thing that meant the world to him? Letting go of someone he loved just as much as his brothers and father, maybe even more? Maybe he wasn’t too late, maybe he could fix this? Maybe?

Heavy footfall sounded, alerting them to the other brothers’ return from the surface, which worried him. It was far too soon for them to return from her apartment. He had figured they would be there nearly all night talking to her, consoling her.  Leo turned to meet the angry and worried eyes of Donatello and Michelangelo.

“My sons, you have returned rather quickly from your trip to Aurora’s apartment.” Splinter asked, he too realized the shortness of their departure was not a good sign.

“She’s gone.” Mikey growled at his older brother as Donnie pushed past his younger brother to get to his desk.

Leo mulled over those words as he watched his genius brother hastily drop down on his chair and began feverishly typing away at his keyboard, his concentration solely on his search on the web.

“She’s not home? She’s probably out to dinner or something? Maybe a walk? She’ll be back.” Leo called anxiously playing with the band on his wrist, wondering what Donnie was looking for on the internet.

“No fearless, her fucking  apartment is empty.  She’s gone.” Leo heard Raphael growl as he jumped over the turnstile his green eyes focused on him. He could see the determination in his walk, heavy and fast never taking his eyes from his older brother.

“What?! That can’t be?” Leo wheezed unexpectedly getting to his feet stepping towards his hastily advancing brother.

“What did you think was gonna happen Leo? All she’s done for the past several years is move from town to town hiding living with the bare minimum just in case she needed to leave in a hurry. And then she’s told she can no longer see the people who matter most to her; of course she’s going to take off. She’s trained to leave at a moment’s notice. To leave to trace.” Mikey spat pacing the lair tears staining the green skin of his cheeks. His hand clenched and unclenched as he moved apprehensively trying not to look at Leo.

“What did I tell you fearless, she wasn’t just yours? We all loved her! I loved her! Now she’s gone, probably forever! How could you do this to us?!” Leo turned back to the advancing brute who was now screaming at him. He was practically onto of him now and the blow Leo waited for before finally came and it came hard. Raphael’s fist collided with Leonardo’s cheek sending the blue leader tumbling backwards just barely missing their stunned father.

“Raphael!” Master Splinter yelled in shock turning just lightly to avoid Leonardo’s flailing feet as he rolled past him.  

“No Sensei!” Raphael growled marching past his father to his fallen older brother who was trying to scramble to his feet holding his now throbbing face. “This time he gets what’s coming to him!” His large hands reached down to the stumbling leader and pulled him harshly back to his feet grasping painfully at the dense muscled of his shoulders. “You made this decision without us knowing very well how we would react!” Again his fist shot forth smashing mercilessly into Leo’s nose making him see stars and starting a cascade of blood from his nose.

Leo stumbled backwards, his carapace slamming into a support column of the lair; stars filled his field of vision and he tried blinking them away before another blow from his brother came. Donnie had abandoned his search on his computer and was now standing watching Raph attack him, Mikey as well watching from the distance not doing anything to stop their two older brother’s quarrel. He didn’t blame them; he would want to pummel his face as well. Not wanting to deny his brother’s his rage Leo let Raphael come at him again, his brother’s hands finding the well muscled column of his neck.

Raph looked so intimidating standing over him, fury racing through his veins, his hands closing firmly around his throat slowly cutting off his air supply. His eyes were wild with unbridled hatred for his own flesh and blood. Leo kept his hands at his sides refusing to fight his furious brother. Tears threatened to burst from his younger brothers eyes nearly sending his own that he hide carefully behind his stone like facade spilling down his own cheeks.

“I’m sorry Raph, I thought I was doing what was best for her. We have no choice to stay hidden in the shadows due to what we look like. She does Raph and she deserves to have a happy normal life. I thought she would eventually want to have a regular life and leave us, breaking not just my heart but all of ours. I wanted to protect all of us from that. Protect her from making that decision.” Leo wheezed past his collapsing windpipe.

“Yeah but you didn’t let her have that choice did ya Leo? You took that from her, took her from us! Maybe that’s what gets ya off, making decisions for everyone. You get off on the control!”

Leo’s eyes widened as his air supply was cut off completely, his mouth opening slightly to gasp for air.

“ENOUGH!”  Master Splinter yelled again slamming his cane roughly down on the concrete floor. He had, had just about enough of this foolish fight. “Raphael even though your brothers actions were rash and unwarranted he did so thinking it was in the best interest for everyone. He now has to live with the pain of those actions. He does not need further aggravation when he is already hurting.”  

Raphael sucked in a mouthful of air and screamed with all of his rage at the top of his lungs into his bothers face before releasing his throat. Spinning on his heals he fled the lair followed by Michelangelo who gave his brother one final sorrowful gaze as he disappeared down the tunnel after his brother.

Donnie let out a shaky sigh and returned to his work on the computer but Leo didn’t have the guts to ask him what he was working on so he turned back to the dojo. He would try and meditate again but he knew he would just sit and stare at the dancing flame of the candle. There would be no rest for him, not for quite a while.

Master Splinter came up quietly behind Donatello watching his green fingers fly over the keyboard with expert precision. He could see her name being typed into several search engines and many different websites. Donatello was trying to find her but was having no luck.

“She’s closed all of her accounts Sensei and has gone off the grid. The only way I’ll be able to track her is by the sales of her painting and that’s only if she continues to paint and sell them for money. She’s a master of disappearing when she wants too, I won’t be able to find her. We’ll never see her again dad.” Donnie’s head hung low his fingers finally stopping their search droplets of the genius’s tears splashing against his worn keyboard.

Master Splinter brought his hand up and rested it on his son’s shoulder, “Don’t worry my son, your fates are intertwined and I do not doubt your paths will cross again. We must have patience and give her time.” His dark eyes trained in on the dojo and the dark form of the lost leader mediating inside. “But I fear it’s not Aurora we need to worry about right now.”

It took nearly a month before his brothers began to talk to him again and another two months before they followed him out as leader for a much needed night of patrol. Raphael was still angry with him and Leo didn’t blame him, didn’t blame any of them, his confidence as leader had been shaken after his reprehensible mistake with Aurora.

Donnie never gave up trying to locate where she had disappeared too.  He had an alert on his computer each time one of her painting was sold. They seemed to pop up sporadically across Europe and too frequent in dispersion to sufficiently track her. The loss of her presence had hit them all more than they had initially thought, especially how short of time they had known her. She had wormed her way into their hearts fully taking a part of each of them when she left. Leo didn’t want to admit it but their family felt incomplete, missing an interact piece of their complicated puzzle. Even April had shunned him a bit making her loose one of closest friends. Casey didn’t seem to care either way; he had only spent a few days with her so it didn’t affect him enough to change his stance with Leo. But he did make a few observations of the loss of enthusiasm between the four brothers since her absence.

As the months crept by and winter began to settle over the city they noticed an increase in gang activity in the inner city, robberies and muggings and even a few rapes began to escalate gripping the city in fear. In turn making their patrols more frequent, filling their nights with action which kept their minds from wandering to sore subjects. Leo welcomed the distraction as well as his brothers. Busting low life’s skulls was good for relieving tension and helped with their confidence.

As they made their way over the snowy roof tops to a known hot spot for the gang activity Donnie turned to his older brother in blue.

“They finally gave themselves a name; they call themselves the Purple Dragons, and from what I’ve found in my searches they are led by a guy named Hun.”

“The Purple dragons?” Raph laughed curtly flipping over a large air condition unit to keep up with their stealthy leader. “What a lame name.”

Donnie followed suit avoiding the large unit landing next to Mikey with a heavy thud continuing his momentum forward after his two older brothers, “Lame or not they’re making a name for themselves on the streets. I talked to Chief Vincent last week and she said their fan base is growing like a weed getting a hand full of new recruits almost daily. She thanked us for helping them keep it under control.”

Leo halted just before the ledge of the current building they were advancing on, “Tell Chief Vincent we’ll do what we can.” Bringing his finger to his lips he quieted all further communication as they crept forward silently peering over the side of the building to the scene unfolding below.

A large box truck was backed up to the loading dock of the closed electronic store. Several young men wearing bandanas over their faces were loading stolen merchandise into the back of the truck with haste.

Raphael looked down at the thieves in enjoyment cracking his knuckles, “It’s time to smash some skulls.” With no words spoken the four swung over the ledge dropping down attacking with ferocity.  Pulling his katanas from his sheaths as he descended Leo attacked someone carrying a box full of iPhones.  The box dropped to the ground as the young man stumbled backwards stunned by the sudden assault.

“Gentlemen, do you mind if I see your receipts for these purchases?” Mikey smiled swinging his nunchaku against another’s man’s side sending him flying sideways making him drop his loot.

It didn’t take long for the four mutant turtles to take care of the inexperienced hoodlums. Tying them up and presenting them like a Christmas present to the police was just an added bonus. With a quick call to Chief Vincent they headed back to the lair. It was Christmas Eve after all and April and Casey were coming down to the lair for dinner. April said she had an unexpected surprise for them all but didn’t elaborate further.

Jumping over the turnstile they came into the wonderful smell of fresh baked ham and all the wonderful sides that came with Christmas eve dinner. Since they found April they had started the tradition of having Christmas Eve with her and once Casey came into the picture and their relationship blossomed it was only natural for him to become part of the tradition.

Coming up to the kitchen, the four turtles noticed the five large beautiful boxes wrapped specifically color coded to each turtle sitting on the kitchen counter, along with a fancy silver one no doubt for Splinter, who was sitting at the table sipping at his steaming cup of tea. As they reached the table their fingers ran over the delicate paper their eyes moving questioningly to April who was leaning up against the oven her hands placed precariously on her hips.

“Presents April? We’ve never gotten each other presents before? We didn’t get you anything?” Mikey asked timidly his fingers playing with the orange ribbon on his assumed present.

“They’re not from me.” The brunette said solemnly turning to the oven checking on the baked ham. “Casey and I both got one as well. It came to my apartment this morning by courier with no sender info. I’ll give you one guess who they came from.”

“Aurora.” Leo answered looking to his younger brothers with sad eyes.

Several uncomfortable moments slipped by as they all stared at the presents.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Open ‘em.” Casey ushered them waving his hands towards the mystery boxes.

Nervously they all went to their boxes but Leo held his hand up and motioned for Splinter, “Please Sensei, you first.”

Splinter nodded and set his tea cup down on the table palming the present on the table. Carefully he set the silver wrapped box in his lap and delicately removed the paper. With precision Splinter sliced open the tape on the cardboard box with his nails prying open the flaps. His hands reached into the box and pulled out an elaborately decorated Japanese wrapping box. Gently his palms moved attentively over the silk and lifted the top open revealing its contents to the old rat. With great care Splinter pulled out a brand new black woven kimono from Japan to replace the tattered old one he had been wearing for years. Silver scrolling wove around the back in intricate design passing over the sides to the breast of the garment. Four elaborate hand woven turtles lined the bottom of the garment finishing off the piece beautifully. The smile on his master’s face showed his delight to the thoughtful gift. The origin of the beautifully crafted garment showed she had returned to Japan in her travels.

Leo motioned for Mikey to go next and the youngest turtles ripped haphazardly at the orange paper, opening the box his eyes zeroed in on the item concealed inside. His head cocked and reached his hands into the box pulling out a set of white nunchakus. Turning them cautiously in his hands he looked to his brothers in confusion. He already had a set of nunchaku he got from his father. They were his babies, he didn’t need another pair? But as his hands turned the old weapons in his fingers he saw black writing on the handles. His baby blue eyes widened and mouth dropped open in shock he nearly shrieked in excitement clutching the weapons to his chest!

“What Mikey? What’s written on them?” Donnie asked with enthusiasm wanting to know what was so special about them.

“They’re signed by Bruce lee! They’re a pair of Bruce Lee’s nunchaku!”

Raphael came up next to his little brother looking over the items with excitement, it was very cool and something Mikey would cherish forever due to the fact Bruce Lee was his favorite actor. Mikey had spent hours when he was younger perfecting his moves to the T when he was finally given his weapons. There was many night Splinter had to carry the young terrapin to his bed as the credits rolled in the darkened lair.

Raphael was next, the large turtle opened his box with unusual hesitance as his oversized mitts pulled out a medium sized mechanical part from several layers of bubble wrap. His green fingers rolled the piece around in his palm eyeing it confused until something went off in his head and his mouth opened in a wide exuberant smile. “She found it……she fucking found it!”

“She found what my son?” Splinter asked softly taking another sip of his piping hot tea.

“A part from the bike I’m rebuilding! I have been trying to find this part for forever! No one has it because the bike is so rare.”

Donnie leaned forward over his box eyeing the part, “You mean that Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird you found at the dump last year? She found the cylinder head you’ve been looking for?”

“Yeah, now I can start working on the body.”

Next Donnie grabbed his purple present and sent it on his lap. Just like Splinter his three-digit fingered hands slide across the wrapping paper with such care as if he was reading brail. A puff of pent up air shot out his nostrils and his fingers finally peeled away the paper and opened the box. As his brown eyes looked in to the box they widened in surprise and then excitement. Unwrapping the small green chip thing from the many layers of bubble tape he began spouting something about being able to hack the government fast with it and wondering how she got her hands on such top-secret equipment.  The box tumbled from his lap as he leapt to his feet running to his main computer to install the device. Before he could even sit down Master Splinter called to the over eager genius making him return to his family at the kitchen table. Leo still had to open his.

All eyes were on Leonardo as he ran his fingers over the blue paper of his present, a present from Aurora. From the woman he missed more than anything in this world. He almost didn’t want to open it. Opening it would end the suspense which seemed like letting her go again. She had thought about them still, thought to buy specific presents for each of them, to wrap them with their colors in mind and have them delivered so they could open them on Christmas Eve. It would be rude not to open it to see what she had gotten him. Hesitantly his fingers ran under the edge of the paper and pulled ripping the pretty paper free from the box beneath. Grabbing a small knife from his belt he cut through the tape and opened the box. His eyes fell upon a see through bag and what looking like moister gathered on the inside. Pushing his fingers past the plastic on either side of inside the box he lifted the contents from the packaging and set it down on the kitchen table. With great care Leo opened the bag pushing the plastic down to reveal a beautiful bonsai tree in a handmade ceramic base painted blue. An envelope was tapped to the side with a hand written note inside, it read.

This bonsai tree was taken from the spot where I had fallen when I thought I would take my last breath.

Blood flowing from my body I lay clutching the urn to my body, I could feel my life leaving me as my breathing slowed. I lay alone dying shivering from the cold from the loss of blood and the chill from the mountain air. Coming to terms with my imminent death I closed my eyes and thought of you four, realizing I would never meet you if I gave up. If I let death win.

 My complicated life flashed before my very eyes. All the training, all the preparation for my destiny, and the loneliness I had endured. None of it hurt as much as not meeting you, not finding the missing pieces to my soul. It was then I decided I wasn’t going to die there on that forest floor alone. I was going to meet my warriors no matter what. The thought of you four gave me strength to move, to get up and live. The spot in that forest was a turning point in my life to keep going, to survive. You four gave me strength and you four continue to do so.

 My life hasn’t been perfect, it was hard and lonely, but I wouldn’t change any of it. I enjoy the chaos, I enjoy the fight, it gives me purpose to help those in need, it brought me to you. If I had to do it all over again I would take the same path over and over again if it meant I got to meet you and your brothers. To love you with everything that I am, to love a mutant turtle with such intensity that the thought of life without you was unbearable. After everything that has happened I don’t regret our meeting, I don’t regret giving myself to you.

 This bonsai tree represents my never ending love for you, for your brother, your family. For your presence in this world gives me purpose, to give me life and that I can never thank you enough for.

 ~Aurora

 @bluesakurablossom​ @alonia143​ @imthegreenfairy88​ 

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love Of Shell - Chapter 35

Chapter 35 of my baby

Full story here

After filling their bellies with the food Master Yoshi had provided, they departed once again finishing their journey to the airport. With Aurora still drained of energy Donnie insisted on finishing the trip in the driver seat. Reluctantly she agreed, grabbing her bag she disappeared into the back room to put on fresh clothes for the plane ride. It was probably best she didn’t have bloody clothes on when she went through airport security.

Back in the main cabin Master Yoshi sat in front of Aurora at the kitchen table his arms outstretched his hands covering hers. The wonderment in his eyes he couldn’t hide, he had been waiting hours to talk to her. “Aurora, I have trained and prepared all my life in anticipation for yesterday’s events. And even seeing everything with my own eyes I still have trouble wrapping my mind around it. The masters had doubt that a woman would be able to endure everything that was required of you. Not only were you able to withstand the adsorption of power of all four warriors but you were able to give them their lives back when your task was done. I still don’t know how that was possible, it was a miracle.”

Leo walked up behind Aurora, he leaned on the back of the seat his hands in the open space of the seat next to her. His green digits reached absentmindedly for the empty water bottle rolling along the table and began rolling in between his wide palms. “We’re hoping it doesn’t have any lasting effects on her. When we get back Don is gonna do a full work up on her and us for that matter. He wants to see if anything that happened yesterday changed anything in our bodies or have become unstable from the surging power.”

“That would probably be a wise Leonardo, just to be on the safe side.” Master Yoshi agreed.

Aurora looked out the window watching the Japanese hillside pass by becoming less and less green as they drove into town and off the mountain, ominous dark clouds drifted across the sky covering up the blue morning sky alluding to a storm in the near future, “There is one thing I’m confused about.” Aurora started. “The demon, I mean he was large in stature, but I guess I was expecting something much larger. Like Godzilla big, you know?”

“The form you saw yesterday was his weakened form essentially. That’s why he needed you and the warriors. If he was successful with your consumption he would have grown exponentially, then he would have had the strength to take the warriors and after them he would have grown yet again four times the size. His power would have spread more quickly infecting the world’s population. He would have been invincible and able to destroy the world one city at a time.”

Aurora picked at the label on her water bottle and looked out the window to the vibrant colors of the Japanese morning. She could feel the warmth of Leonardo as he hovered next to her his presence bringing her solace. The sound of gravel below the large tires made them turn to the front of the RV; they were entering into the far field where she had picked up the turtles at the beginning of their journey.  As the RV rumbled to a stop the rain began to pelt the windshield. Donnie put the rig into park and turned the engine off looking up into the darkened sky. At least the storm would conceal them as they snuck onto the airport grounds and unnoticed into the bottom of the plane. Getting up from his seat he took the spot next to Raph who was sitting on the couch next to the kitchen table.

“The plane leaves in 2 hours. We better get a move on. Aurora still has to get through customs.”

Leo stood up as Aurora scooted from the bench seat and made her way to her bags closing up both. Leo quickly came up beside her his hand resting on her upper back. He could see she was still weak; her footing was timid and unsteady. “Do you want us to take your weapons bag so you don’t have to check it? It’s one less thing for you to carry.”

Letting out a heavy sigh she knew he was right. Just giving the bag a quick tug she could tell her strength was nowhere near what it usually was. She could barely carry her own body weight let alone the duffle bag with her two sets of katanas and miscellaneous weapons. She only had to carry it to customs but still she tired easily right now, still weak from yesterday’s ordeal. Nodding reluctantly, she lifted her duffle bag to Leo’s extended hand and he took it hooking it over his shoulder.

Reaching down Leo helped Aurora to her feet steadying her by placing his palm to the small of her back. He could feel her lean into it slightly getting her balance back; he hated seeing her like this. Usually strong and defiant he could see her legs tremble under her weight; he was a little worried letting her go alone on the plane. But he knew she would fight him so he left it alone, there was no use fighting when he knew she wouldn’t budge on the matter.  At least she gave up her bag to him.

Master Yoshi stood before them all; his smile was grateful and proud. “Turtles, you should be proud of yourselves. Your father taught you well and you have more than proven your worth. I know this deed will never be known more than an urban legend on the mountains, but I want to thank you for all your efforts yesterday. The world is safe once again with the demon banished back from wince it came, a feet unable to be fulfilled in a thousand years.” The old monk ran his fingers over his tired chin smiling warmly. “I suppose now with the Kingyos gone maybe I can re-open the monastery and update its teachings. I want you all to know that you are always welcome at its doors and this is including Master Splinter. If he would like I would be honored for a visit, I’m sure there are things I can teach him and perhaps a few things he can teach me. I wish you safe travels back to New York and I thank you for taking good care of Aurora.”

The four turtles gathered their belongings turned to bow to Aurora’s Sensei, showing their respect.

“Thank you, we will convey the message to our sensei, I’m sure he would be pleased to visit.” Leo smiled shaking the master’s hand.

Leo maneuvered around Master Yoshi and came up to Aurora his green fingers finding her chin tilting her face up to his. Her violet eyes bore into his as his mouth slanted over hers taking a quick but heated kiss. Pulling away slightly he ended the connection and closed his eyes. “We’ll see you in two days ok. Go home after the plane ride and go to bed and rest. When you get up the following morning come see us.”

“Sir, yes sir.” She mocked him giving him a sloppy salute.

Leo gave her a playful poke and stepped away revealing Donnie stationed right behind the blue banded turtle. He quickly filled the space Leo had once occupied and looked down on Aurora. “Your heart beat is still a little high and I can tell you’re still dehydrated. Make sure to drink lots of fluids preferably water and try to sleep on the plane. You need to get your strength back before I can take blood from you. Hopefully two days will be enough.” Timidly he leaded down and pressed a timid kiss to her lips.

Aurora smiled feeling the shy turtle kiss her, reassuring him she pressed up giving the sweet gesture a little more friction making the breath in Donnie’s throat hitch and his heart quicken.

“Ok, ok my turn.” She heard the grumpy voice of Raphael mumble pushing Donatello from her breaking their contact.

“Guys, I’ll see ya in two days.”

“Yeah we know but the past two days have been……stressful and emotionally and physically draining. The ordeal has left us all a little needy for each other’s presence.” Raphael’s usually rough demeanor softened as he gently gathered her into his arms. The bottom of his chin rested on the top of her head and the long warm drawls of breath from his nose rustled her hair.

The closeness of the big turtle made his scent drift through her nose and the dream she had flashed through her mind making her cheeks flush with red. “Get a hold of yourself.” She scolded herself internally, being close to any of them was making her pulse quicken for some reason. Raphael’s fingers relinquished their hold around her waist and slide slowly down lightly brushing against the top of her butt and around her hips sending a quick shot of heat to her groin. It almost seemed deliberate; she wondered if they were having the same residual reactions as she was.

Mikey curved around Raph’s retreating form and curved his one arm around her waist and dipped her back, his lips dove not for her mouth, but the side of her throat places a warm wet kiss to her pulse point. Her gut tightened at the spontaneous pressure from his moist lips grazing gently against her flesh and she could have sworn the tip of his tongue skated out tasted her skin. Hoisted back up she did her best to look normal despite her heart pounded against her chest. There was no disguising the flush in her cheeks and Mikey could see it giving her a playful wink before opening the RV door and disappearing into the storm. The three other brothers slowly filed out the door into the morning storm after their little brother.

“Let me know you got on the plane ok?” she called out to Leo’s retreating form as it disappeared into the deluge.

After returning the RV to the rental company at the airport concierge Aurora turned to Master Yoshi at the airport check in. She hoisted her backpack over her shoulders and bowed to her sensei. His face was warm and sincere as he closed the distance between them encircling her in his arms.

“I am so proud of you my dear. After all these years you’ve survived under great pressure and adversity and in the end you fulfilled your density. Hopefully now you can move on with your life with your turtle companions. I can see they all have strong feelings for you and you return them. I’m not so sure how deep those feelings go but you’ll all figure that out as time goes on. I think since you were a little girl you always knew you’d end up with them, you’d day dream about them often and I’d have to snap you out of it to continue your training.” He let out a soft chuckle reminiscing. “I’ll stop blabbing I know you have to catch your flight. All I have to say is, don’t be a stranger, I’ve missed you. Please come back for a visit. Because of your braveness and resilience I will be taking females into my teachings.”  

“Good, every gender deserves the right to learn the art of ninjutsu and the teachings of bushido. I hope my story has proven that in spades. There is no such thing as a weaker sex. And don’t worry; I will be back Sensei, I promise. You have my number now if you need to get a hold of me. I think it’s time I put down roots now that I’ve found my home.”

Master Yoshi now bowed to her in respect, “You honor me with your bravery and skill. I couldn’t have asked for a better pupil my dear. I wish you all the happiness with your future.”

Taking her leave Aurora entered the check point and headed towards her ride back home. Reaching the large overlooking window of the tarmac, the kunoichi stared at the large airplane that would return her and the turtles back to New York. The clouds were dark and heavy making the morning sky feel like late evening and the rain still poured from the heavens would easily conceal the four large stowaways waiting in the shadows.

An announcement over the airport com system informed the plane would start boarding first class now. Aurora waited for the line to die down and kept her eyes on the back of the plane as the last of the bags were loaded into the open hatch. Suddenly the lights around the plane flickered and cut off plunging the plane and surrounding areas into darkness. If she wasn’t in tuned to the darkness due to her training she would have missed them. Through the downpour four large shadows shot across the tarmac and into the open gate of the plane disappearing inside. Within seconds the lights hummed back on as if nothing had happened.

Several baggage men came out scratching their heads looking at the fuse box on the side of the building. After a few minutes they shrugged their shoulders and returned to their business closing up the back of the plane getting ready for takeoff.

Knowing they were safely onboard Aurora boarded the plane and took her seat by the window. A light buzzing brought attention to her phone in her hand.

“We’re aboard and ready to go home.” The message scrolled across her screen from Donnie. Quickly her fingers ran over the digital keyboard and responded, “See you guys at home, I love you all.”

Soon the plane pulled away from the main airport hub and started towards its departure. Thankfully the storm wasn’t too severe, so they were able to take off without a hitch. After the plane left the ground and ascended into the sky Aurora leaned her seat back and closed her eyes. She hoped she could sleep most of the way home, she could barely keep her eyes open, so it didn’t seem like it wouldn’t be possible. She concentrated on the low hum of the airplanes engines and soon drifted into slumber.

Below Aurora in the belly of the plane they four turtles were arranging several bags, so they could get comfortable for the long flight. Mikey flopped down in his pile resting his hands behind his head and let out a long sigh. “Well this trip didn’t turn out like expected.” He huffed.

“No, no it did not. But the upside is Aurora is free and no longer has to hide anymore. The demon is gone as well as the Kingyo’s.” Donnie smiled lying down on his makeshift bed as well.

Raphael sat down next to a crate which housed a sleeping dog, his green fingers slide through the grate and brushed over the soft fur of the canine. His mind racing, he looked up to his older brother and locked with his blue iris’. “Do you think we’ll ever know what happened while we were….um… you know.”

Leo and Donnie shot each other and glance and Leo nodded giving him the ok to inform them of the recording.

Donnie cleared his throat sitting down on his pile of bags, “When Aurora was thrown into out weapons she somehow activated my go pro, it recorded everything. I only watched a few moments before turning it off. But we should wait until were home so Master Splinter can watch the video as well. I have a feeling we’re only gonna want to watch this tape once.”

Making eye contact with each other the brothers nodded solemnly in agreement and settled down for the long ride.

Leo laid back and closed his eyes his dream from last night replaying in his head. The theme of the nighttime vision was of an erotic nature which included Aurora and all his brothers. It entailed each one of them taking their own turn exploring her body, taking her to blissful heights while the rest of them watched. It was rather strange; he had plenty of dreams about Aurora but none with his brothers included. He wondered if it had something to do with their merge, so to speak. He would need to broach the subject with Donnie when they got back and see if any of them had similar dreams as well. His green fingers ran unconsciously over the zipper of Aurora duffle he kept close to his person, getting quick wafts of her scent. His body was sore and tired and he needed a shower desperately. His mind was heavy with the burden with the choice he needed to make; it would alter their very lives and affect everyone in his family. He just hoped he would make the right choice which was in the best interest for all of them. With his tumultuous thoughts swirling around in his head Leo soon drifted to sleep.

Aurora jolted awake as the plane connected with the ground; her eyes shot open her hand clutching her heaving chest. Looking out her window the familiar sight of New York’s sky line calmed her racing heart. They made it home safe and sound, a little worse for the wear but nothing a little time wouldn’t fix. She had no idea how she did it but somehow she had sleep through the 14 hour flight without waking. She was still tired but when she stood to begin her exit from the plane her legs didn’t wobble beneath her.

Pinching the bridge of her nose she took a deep breath, her heart was still pumping quiet fast. She may have slept through the whole plane ride but she still dreamt. She had another dream but this time Donnie was prominent taking her from behind on his desk in his lab, with Mikey thrusting into her keen mouth. She could still feel Donnie embedded within her body, deeper then Leo or Raph could reach. And Mikey, she could have sworn she still tasted the saltiness of his release that he emptied himself down her throat with a shout.

She hoped she wasn’t making noises again but luckily no one was giving her sideways glances like she was a freak moaning in her sleep.  What was going on? These were Leo’s brothers, she loved them but this sudden attraction was very quick to manifest, or was it? She always had feelings for them, deep feelings that has grown over time. Brushing those thoughts away she exited the plane and made her way to the overnight garage to get her truck. It was time to go home and take a very very long hot shower.

Getting behind the wheel she pulled out her phone and typed a quick message to Donnie telling him she’d see them tomorrow.  

Getting off the plane undetected they disappeared into the sewers and hurried home, with everything that had happened seeing their father was of high importance. Coming face to face with death made the urge to see Master Splinter that more urgent. They had things to tell him….to show him.

Jumping the familiar turn styles of their lair their loud voices announced their arrival to their master who was mediating in his room.

“Father?” Leo called setting Aurora’s duffle down on the circle platform in the middle of the lair.  

Their eyes trained in on the entrance to Master Splinter’s room as he emerged from the darkened space. His smile was a ray of sunshine in the dark cloud that had followed them home. On light feet they all ran to him each giving their father a hug.

“My sons,” Splinter called out arms outstretched for his four mutant sons.  “It has only been a couple days since we have seen each other; you act as if it has been several months.”  Splinter chuckled looking up at his four large overzealous sons.

Leo kneeled down next to his rat father looking into his wise gaze, “Father, the trip did not go expected. They had a scout still at the monastery and they found us.”

Master Splinter’s smile faded and replaced with worry, his furry hands came out grasping his eldest son’s arms waiting more info. Leo continued, “They were prepared for us and we were hopelessly outnumbered. So needless to say the ritual was performed.”

Splinter tore his gaze from Leo searching behind his sons frantically, “Aurora?”

“She’s fine, just really worn out and tired. Her body took a lot the past few days. She went home to rest. She’ll be over tomorrow; I wanna do a few tests on her.” Donnie cut in reassuring his father.

“Sensei…..” Leo swallowed hard trying to bring his father’s attention back to him. “Aurora’s sensei is still alive, and we met him. He was able to give us the information we needed to defeat the demon. If the demon was released there would have to be sacrifices in order to give Aurora the power to defeat the creature.”

Splinter cocked his head, “Sacrifices, my son?”  

“Our lives.” Raphael whispered kneeling down with Leo. He needed to be part of this conversation.

“We died sensei.” Mikey made his voice known as well.

Donnie laid his hand on his father’s shoulder, “We had to give ourselves to Aurora to give her the power to defeat it.”

“But you are all here my sons and Aurora would never allow you to sacrifice yourselves.”

“Aurora tried to stop us, pleaded with us, but she was on the brink of death herself, she was being consumed by the demon and we were next. We had no choice. We don’t know anything after that except she was able to bring us back to life. There is a recording of the events after we passed on Donnie’s go pro. We waited until we got home to watch it. We figured you’d want to see it as well so we would all watch it together.”

They watched a range of emotions pass over their father’s face, his hands tightening their hold on Leonardo arms pulling him in for another embrace. Splinter moved to each son giving him an unusually long hug for the characteristically aloof rat. They could have sworn they had seen tears in his eyes.

After a few moments he spoke. “Come my sons let us watch this recording and hopefully it will answer some unrequited questions, so hopefully we can move on from all of this and grow with its knowledge.”  The old rat ushered them to the couch where they all sat down ready for the footage Donnie’s go pro had captured. The genius’s fingers flew over his wrist keyboard pulling up the footage sending the projection into the air for all to see.

“Father, please be prepared this will not be pleasant……for any of us.” Donnie called as the footage came up.

As the recording started Splinter flinched involuntarily seeing the large demon hurtling itself towards the camera taking him by surprise. It’s toothy gaping mouth screeching nearly engulfing the entire view of the camera stopping just inches from the go pro. His furry hand jumped clamping around Leonardo’s wrist hearing the pained cry from Aurora as she was hauled out into view of the go pro. Her face contorted in pain she tried freeing herself from the large hand wrapped around her bare waist. That’s when he saw his son’s hanging helplessly from shackles from a nearby wall.

Leonardo listened to his father’s breathing as he watched the fight enfold on the giant screen before them. Right off the bat when he saw the horrid demon, the old rat jumped not expecting to witness such an intense scene right away. Then his hand latched around his wrist and Leo could hear his father’s breathing catch and stop as the demon took hold of Aurora.

He couldn’t blame him; he was there for all of it, but reliving the nightmare was still just as horrible. As the video played they neared the part Leo knew would be difficult for his brothers and himself, especially his father. His blue eyes zoned in on Aurora’s as she writhed in pain being drained of her life, it pulled at his very being seeing her like that. The pain and sorrow in her eyes knowing she could do nothing to stop their impending decision.

Soon they all found themselves leaning forward towards the screen knowing what was about to come. They were about to witness their demise on screen and in color. Raphael and Leonardo felt their father’s arms come around theirs holding on to them his eyes transfixed on the scene.

Splinter felt his heart clench painfully watching his children, his precious four son’s bodies surrendering their life forces before falling lifeless. Tears welled up in his eyes and spilled forth wetting his fur. He knew they would be fine for they were sitting right next to him on their couch back at home with him but seeing it play out was heart breaking for a father. For a second a vision of them as babies tucked in their beds as he kissed them goodnight overtook him. His body trembled as short quick sobs escaped his throat. He felt both Leo and Raph’s hands come around and press down on his hands comforting him and through Leo and Raph’s arms came Donnie and Mikey’s hands resting gently on his knees.

“Dear Aurora had to witness that first hand.” Splinter softly whispered watching his son’s souls dance in the sky just above Aurora’s dying body her horrified eyes glued to his four sons bodies. “I am watching knowing full well you are alive sitting next to me but she didn’t kn…..” his voice cut off as their souls merged with her body sending out a burst of energy sending the demon flying.

Mouths hanging open they watched as her body hovered above the ground radiating her violet aura. Her eyes were closed squeezed shut tightly in agony, she had just witnessed their deaths and she could no doubt feel them within her. Her aura began to fluctuate and pulse as her hands clenched into tight fists her lips pressed into a thin line. Then everything exploded engulfing the screen in the vibrant purple hue, her haunting scream echoed over the speakers that delivered the sounds of the recording. They could tell Donnie’s pack rolled with the energy displacement but thankfully it rotated just enough to still record everything. As the light diminished revealing the scene again the forest fire had been quenched and the thick dense smoke had been cleared. Like something from a sci-fi movie Aurora’s body emanated power sending waves of her violet aura through the air.

Leo and Raph hissed feeling their father’s nails dig into the green skin on their arms as he watched Aurora stare at his son’s bodies seeming oblivious to the ravenous charging demon. Hearing them wince in pain Splinter let up on his grip never taking his eyes away from the screen. “Come on my dear he’s almost upon you.” Splinter called to the screen as if he was watching one of his stories.

Then she spoke lowing herself back to solid ground, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry I wasn’t strong enough to stop him myself. I’m sorry you’ll never see the sun again or Master Splinter.”

Closer the demon came, and her eyes remained on the four bodies hanging lifelessly. They could see her face contort in anger and fury as it built within her fueling her power. It was almost upon her and just as he was about to collide with her she stopped him midair with her outstretched hand.

In perfect unison everyone took a deep breath in shock as she stopped the 20 foot demon without even touching it, she lifted the stunned immobile demon higher into the air as if he weighted nothing. Then in a fit of explosive rage she began to throw the demon around like a rag doll with what seemed like the flick of her wrist.

“I won’t let you win.” She hissed low in her throat at the dazed demon she had just thrown across the large space into a smoldering tree truck.

It scrabbled to its feet launching at her again, but light shot from her fingers sending the demon back once again.

“They’re dead; I couldn’t stop it, now I have to live without them in this cruel world!” They could hear the sorrow in her voice behind the unbridled fury. Her eyes wide tears flowing freely, she was breaking. Aurora closed the distance between her and demon and extended her finger out and curved it bringing the flailing demon back into the air. The purple aura around her expanded growing brighter as her fingers opened her palm outstretched to the cool evening air and then she clenched her fist sending the demon into a twisted pain filled spasm.

Launching the demon once again she turned to her swords laying a few feet in front of her, eyeing them carefully she took a few steps forward retrieving them. When her palms connected the hilts of her blades the steal began to glow, the purple hue rolling down the scrolling illuminated the writing on the edges of the blades. Rising again into the air she waited.

By now the demon had gotten to its feet, the determination apparent in its wide soulless eyes. It was determined to end her, to drink every last drop of her powers hopefully taking what remained of the warriors within. It launched itself forward again ready to take the human woman down. But its plan fell short as he reached her and found her swords impaled in its chest. It gasped for breath clawing at the hilts eyes wide with disbelief.

“How?” it growled.

“It doesn’t matter now. Go back to hell!” Aurora yanked her katanas free stepping back to watch the demon disappear. A red light began to engulf the demon as it howled in the agony of it, consuming it. Aurora backed up further towards Master Yoshi and the turtles and her hand reached behind her covering them once again in a protective bubble just in time as the demon exploded sending a devastating surge of obliteration hundreds of feet around them.

Each one of them were breathing heavy their hearts racing, she had done it and they had been able to see it. They were able to witness her raw power, the rage, the pain, the passion, and the sorrow. The experience of it all was intense leaving them all at the edge of their seats, but it wasn’t over yet. She wasn’t done, she still needed to bring them back, and they were reminded they were dead a few feet behind her.

She dropped the shield and her katanas, the heavy metal echoed as it hit the stone ground. Her head fell back her chest heaving for breath as everything came rushing towards her at once. Closing her eyes her mouth opened her lips trembling with her unhinged emotions.  Her throat constricted and let a guttural sob rip from her throat as her hand pressing over her face muffling the heart retching sound. Her whole body shook with her grief.

The four turtles didn’t realize they had tears rolling from the corners of their eyes wetting their green pebbled green skin as they watched her mourn them. It was nearly too painful to watch.

Master Yoshi reluctantly came up behind her placing his hands on her shoulders steadying her. Ignoring the gesture, she moved to them her eyes moving over each of them. A sudden realization in her face made her eyes widen and gasp out loud, “Oh god!”

Raphael was first in line as she approached him taking his cheeks in her hands. Raphael held his breath waiting for the moment to happen, his fingers dug into the old tattered fabric of the couch in anticipation.  He heard her whisper her nickname for him and his heart leapt into his throat holding back a sob.

Then it happened their eyes moved her to stomach as their colors began to swirl behind her abdomen behind her skin. Her body arched forward towards Raphael’s body as red inched up her chest into her arms. Aurora gasped realizing what was happening, she stared at her arms in shock and looked back at Raph’s face a hysterically wide smile moving across her face. Moving her face towards him the red continued up her throat and poured from her mouth into Raphael’s making him lurch forward inhaling gulps of air. His whole body began to twitch back to life. Caught in the moment Aurora pressed her mouth to his kissing the red banded turtle. Her hands rose up pulling him free of this metal shackles with ease allowing Raphael to land on his feet. He quickly cupped her cheeks taking another impromptu kiss.

Raphael looked over to his older brother and nudged him in the arm playfully, “Sorry bro I couldn’t help it, was a heat of the moment thing.”

“It’s alright Raph, calm down.” Leo calmly reassured his younger brother he wasn’t upset with him.

With each turtle she brought back they watched their colors pull from her stomach bringing them back to the living at the same time draining Aurora of her new found strength. When she finally collapsed in their awaiting arms Donnie ended the recording. The lair lay silent for quite a while as they processed what they had just watched. No one wanted to be the first one to comment. There were no words just emotions that none of them were ready to deal with.

@blossom-skies​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For The Love of Shell - Chapter 34

Here is chapter 34 of my OC story. This is my baby, please read! This one has some fluff and some self indulgent smut! DON’T JUDGE ME!

Here it is if you want to start from the beginning

Chapter 34 - Dreams for All

A soft rocking accompanied by the low rumbling of a motor brought Aurora out of the heavy void that was slumber. She could feel heavy arms around her pressing her to a warm plastron with a beating heart behind it. That thought made her warm and beyond elated, they were alive, by some fucked up luck she had managed to bring them back. Even now she couldn’t wrap her head around the process behind it. But all that mattered was the four of them were alive and it was over.

Opening her eyes, she saw beautiful green pebbled skin, a pair of sun glasses and a gold chain. She had found herself in Mikey’s arms and his steady rhythmic breathing indicated he was fast asleep alongside her. Lifting up her head she winced in pain as her sore body protested the movement. Looking around with her limited mobility due to how tight Mikey was holding her Aurora saw they were in the back of the RV on the master bed and the RV was in motion. The forest rushed past them through the windows as the big rig rattled down the uneven roads.

Her hand reached up touching his cheek caressing his green skin, her finger tips running along the bottom of his orange mask. Mikey didn’t wake but moved enough to give her room to lean up and press a kiss to his sleeping lips. This was the first time she had been this close to Mikey without the action of a hug. Taking a deep breath, she took in his scent. Past the smoke aroma he surprisingly smelt a bit sweet like candy and a hint of spice, kind of like a spice cabinet would smell like.

“Hey.” She heard Leo’s familiar voice come from the door.

Turning as much as she could in Mikey’s tight grasp she saw the blue banded terrapin leaning up against the door frame his large arms crossed over his expansive chest. A sweet smile sat upon his lips as he stared at her in his younger brother’s embrace. God he was good looking.

“We didn’t know how long you’d be out and didn’t want you to wake up alone. Not sure how much you would remember, didn’t want you to think we were still up there…..dead and freak out. Don said your body went through a lot up there, your heart was beating too fast, thought you were going to have a heart attack. We’ve been taking turns lying in here with you. Mikey practically had to kick Raph off the bed when it was his turn. How are you feeling?”

Emotions began to bubble up in her chest and tears threatened to spill but she did her best to keep them under control, the danger was gone, they were safe, all of them. “Like I was hit by a truck, then ran over by a steam roller and then submerged in hardening cement before being beaten out of it with a sledge hammer. Plus, like I haven’t slept in 3 weeks. Other than that, I’m peachy. How long have I been out?”

Leo adjusted on his feet, “Eight hours. After your body gave out we went back to the Monastery and gathered our things. Soon after that the fire and rescue helicopters flew overhead no doubt to put out the fire on the mountain. They were in for a surprise, they’ll be scratching their heads for weeks trying to figure out what made that large crater. We decided it would be smart to vacate the area to avoid possible detection and headed to the RV.”

“Sensei?” she suddenly became a little anxious.

“He’s here in the RV. Wanted to be here when you woke up, said he’d hitch a ride back up to the village when we left.”

Relaxing a bit she sunk back into Mikey’s comforting arms, he shifted in his sleep pressing his mouth to the top of her head, his hot breath cascading over her hair, they were alive. “Where are we heading? And I’m guessing Donnie is driving?”

“Back to the airport, our flight leaves in six hours. And yes, Donnie is behind the wheel. Now go back to sleep I don’t think Mikey is letting you go anywhere anytime soon.” He chuckledslipping out into the front of the RV leaving her confined to the youngest turtle’s chest.

Relinquishing her halfhearted fight, she cuddled back up to Mikey closing her eyes.

Just before she slipped back under she heard heavy footsteps and the bed dipping just behind her. She recognized that scent, the spicy musk and oiled leather smell of Raphael filled her nose feeling him move up behind her wiggling his arm under Mikey’s closing protectively around her,his large palm spreading out on her still bare midriff. His warm breath fluttered her hair as it blew against the back of her neck sending a quick chill down her spine. They were alive.

“I’m glad you’re ok.” His deep voice whispered in her ear as he pressed up against her backside spooning her giving a few quick kisses to her shoulder.

Her voice caught in her throat as she tried to talk, sobs of uneven breaths followed “I wat-tched you die… I thought……. I thought I wasn’t ever….”

“Shhhhh, it’s over.” Raph tried to sooth her. “We’re here with you. We ain’t goin’ nowhere.” He cut off her shaky voice trying to sooth her.

Aurora nodded taking a deep breath calming her nerves. She was encased in between Mikey and Raph’s large bodies, Leo and Donnie were out into the front taking them back to the airport, back home. They were alive.

As she drifted in and out of sleep she hoped everything would start to be normal and now life could really start. A soft snore rattled behind her, Raphael was now asleep too. Closing her eyes once again she took a deep breath letting their smells and heart beats lull her back to sleep. They were alive.

Leo watched Raph sneak back into the bed with Aurora and Mikey, snuggling up to the back of her. Any other man who did that would have their neck severed from their body but it was a different story with his brothers. He couldn’t be jealous with them because she wasn’t just his. She was just as much theirs as she was his and each one of them belonged to her. It was a bit weird to think about, but it made sense, to them at least, an unspoken bond.

His mind shot back to several hours ago when she was dying in the demon’s arms, her life essence nearly gone lying limp in its spindly hands. Even then he could feel the pull from her, and he was happy to give himself over to her, they all were. If it meant Aurora’s survival and earths they would die a thousand deaths.

He had already come to terms with letting her go as he took his last breath, knowing it was for the best. But when he woke up and she was there in front of him literally pouring the life back into him. What happened, how was she able to bring them back? Donnie said it was surreal watching her giving them back their lives. Like something out of a sci-fi movie, which their lives had become lately. Master Yoshi wasn’t in the talking mood yet; he just kept staring back into the room that Aurora occupied. He was in some sort of shock about all of this. The only thing Leo was sure of was, it was over, the demon was gone and Aurora could have a normal life. Asuna’s words drifted through his subconscious.

“How long do you think it will be before she realizes she can never have a normal relationship with you? She’s a human Leo, you’re a nearly 7 ft tall talking turtle. You said in your dimension you must hide because the humans wouldn’t accept you. She can run about the world freely and you can’t. How do you intend to have a life with her? Marriage? Children?  Those are things you can never give her. I don’t mean to be disrespectful to you Leo, but it’s true and you know it. If you truly love her, you’ll let her go and let her have a normal life with a normal human man.”

Breaking from his fog his gaze returned to the back of the RV, she looked so happy lying between his two brothers, she seemed so happy with them. But she really didn’t know much else. They were the first friends she connected with, so she really didn’t know the companionship of normal humans with normal daily lives. One of her hands rested on Raph’s thigh and the other on Mikey’s plastron her fingers hooked on his harness. Was she really better off without them? Did they need to let her go? She no longer needed to run or hide. She was free to live her life the way she wanted and hanging out with four mutant turtles would prove to be an added hindrance to that plan. He loved her more than anything, they all did but he wanted her to be happy and live a full life. It would be selfish to keep her hidden, wouldn’t it?

The thought of losing her tore at his soul taking the very breath from his lungs. But maybe knowing she was alive moving on with her life would make the loss easier? Shaking his head, he dispelled the thoughts for now. They had just saved the world from annihilation and everyone was alright, and they were heading home. That was what he should be focusing on right now. Moving to the front of the RV he sat down in the passenger seat next to Donatello.

“She wake up yet?” Donnie asked his eyes still fixed on the road ahead of him, his one hand gripping the steering wheel keeping them from careening off the steep hill.

“Yeah she did, Mikey is still passed out and won’t let her get up and Raph just snuck back there again, that poor mattress. She said she felt like she had been hit by a truck and was still tired. So I told her go back to bed. I just hope she can with those two lug heads hogging the bed.”

Donnie was quiet for a bit biting his lower lip anxiously and the awkward silence didn’t go unnoticed by the blue leader.  

“What is it Don?”

“When Aurora was thrown into our weapons by the demon she accidently activated the go pro on my pack. I noticed it when I picked it up and saw the red light flashing on the camera. Somehow even at the angle it was sitting it recorded everything.”

Leo stared blankly for a few minutes at the headlights illuminating the road. “Did you watch it?” he nearly whispered his heart beat starting to rise.

“Just a few seconds of it, I figured we should watch it together. I don’t think I’ll want to watch it more than once. I mean we have our deaths on camera, gods Leo, we died. I just…..We should watch it together and then delete the footage.”

“Agreed.” Leo looked back at Master Yoshi and his eyes were finally turned away from the back room and to the windows watching the sun beginning to rise in the distance.

“Has he said anything about it yet?” Donnie asked.

Leo knew he was talking about Master Yoshi, he shook his head. “No, hasn’t talked too much. He’s just waiting for Aurora to come out of that room. I think us lying with her is freaking him out a bit.” Leo let a chuckle slip past his lips. Donnie joined him giving him a sly grin.

“He has no idea how strong our bond really is?” Donnie snorted taking a swig of the coffee they had gotten at the first gas station they saw for the genius. “Not gonna lie though, I wish I had a chance to lay back there with her. After everything I have a strong urge to be next to her, like I’m sure the rest of you do. Feeling a bit left out, you guys need to learn how to dri…..” a yawn interrupted the genius’ sentence. Rubbing his eyes he looked over to Leo, “Drive.” He finished abruptly the white of his eyes a bit red from exhaustion.  

“Hey, let’s pull over for a bit, you’ve been driving for hours with no sleep and we’re almost there anyways. Let’s get a couple hours of sleep before we catch the flight.” Leo rested his hand on Donnie’s shoulder and gave it a quick pat.

Donnie squinted at the road and agreed, he was having trouble keeping his eyes open and it would be foolish to survive what they just did to die in a car crash. After a few miles they pulled into a grocery store parking lot and parked in the back. Leo and Donnie pulled a few cushions from the couch and laid them on the ground next to each other. They motioned for Master Yoshi to take the bed where the kitchen table was and they laid down for a few hours.

Aurora woke to the sound of silence and the RV unmoving. They must have stopped for a few hours for some shut eye, poor Donnie. Finding herself free enough from Mikey’s arms she inched clear sitting on the edge of the bed. Looking down at her stomach she saw the darkening bruises that covered from her hips to the hem of her bra. Pressing her fingers into the purplish flesh she hissed at the discomfort.

Carefully getting up so she didn’t disrupt the two large turtles sprawled on the bed she headed out into the main cabin. Sensei was asleep on the bed that was once the table and she found Leo and Donnie sprawled out on a few cushions on the floor they had stolen from the couches. To her delight they were both surprisingly close to each other. Tip toeing over, she crawled in between them cuddling up next to Donnie who she hadn’t been able to see yet.

Donatello’s eyes fluttered open feeling someone press into his body and looked down at Aurora nestled in his arms. A smile pulled at his lips and drew her mouth to his stealing a kiss. Even such a simple innocent thing made Donnie’s cheeks redden and his pulse quicken. Her fingers ran just under his purple mask enticing goose bumps across his green skin. Breaking the kiss her violet eyes sparkled with something he hadn’t seen before in her eyes. He couldn’t quiet place it. But having her there between him and Leo felt right and brushed it off.

Lowering her head back down she rested the palm of her hand to his plastron just above his heart finding the strong heart beat. Taking in air she took the time to smell Donatello getting to know his scent. He smelt of motor oil and pine, like a cool spring morning in a pine forest. It was very calming.

Rustling came behind her and the warm body of Leonardo pressed up against her back, his arm moving to her side tracing lazy trails with his finger tips instantly erecting a fine layer of goose bump down her back. His warm lips pressed to her shoulders and the tip of his tongue made a wet line up the back of her neck. Taking her other hand she reached around running it over Leo’s arm pulling it around her waist. Her head still resting in the crook of Donnie’s arm and his other draped over her back all three fell back to sleep.

As her mind began to rouse Aurora could feel the warmth of skin, hands running along her arms down to her breasts dipping down to her to torso, fuck it felt good. Her mind was a muddy warm mess feeling those hands caress her flesh with tender care, more than one pair of hands! Jesus!

Opening her eyes Leonardo and Michelangelo were both above her, their three fingers hands caressing her naked skin eliciting goosebumps across her bare flesh. Warm lips descended to her neck making her involuntarily moan as they left a warm wet trail along her jugular. Purple tails of Donatello’s mask brushed past her face as his mouth continued down to her collar bone his tongue dragging across the hollow of her throat. Then hands at her inner thighs pushing them apart and Raphael’s red banded head emerged between her legs his signature smirk just inches from her exposed core. How did she become naked? His honey colored eyes sparkled with sinful thoughts as he blew his sweltering breath against her entrance making her back arch at the delicious sensation. Wide eyed Aurora gasped as Leonardo’s lips latched around one of her pebbled nipples and Mikey’s connecting with the other a few seconds later, their wicked tongue swirling around the base before enclosing around the areola.

“Guys?” she cried out her breath catching in her throat as Raph’s tongue dove into her wet folds dragging his long tongue up her core and to the sensitive jewel at the hood of her sex. “Jesu-s-s Raph! Fuck! W..what’s going on? Why…?” She unintentionally mewled just before Donnie’s mouth crushed over hers silencing her voice. His lips parted to urge hers open allowing his tongue slip between her lips giving him access to the warm cavern of her mouth. When she obliged the genius he growled deepening the kiss taking what little oxygen she had in her lungs. Holy shit he was a good kisser!

“We love you Aurora and we know you love us. Whatever happened up there on that mountain cemented the notion that we are yours and you are ours. We know you want this, let us take you and make you ours.” Leo whispered against the cooling moister from his mouth on her aching breast. He blew hot breath over the tip making her arch her back at the electric feeling.

Donatello’s mouth left hers trailing down her jaw line back to the side of her throat sucking in the tender flesh of her neck between his teeth clamping down softly marking her.  “I……Donnie.” She cooed lifting her chin giving him better access. Then the sudden loss of warmth at her mound made her aware Raphael’s mouth had left her over sensitive core. Looking down between her legs Raphael’s large form snaked up her body his freed erection bobbing with his powerful movements. It was huge, a bit bigger then Leo’s. What was happening? Was she going to allow this? Was Leo? Her hands bunched the blankets below her feeling Raph’s hot phallus brush up the inside of her thigh. They all wanted to….. all four of them wanted her? The thought of it sent blood and heat straight to her core; her lips were absolutely throbbing with need.

“I wanna mark you inside and out, I’ve wanted to since the beginning.” Mikey groaned into the soft mound that was stuffed in his wide beak.

“I wanna be inside you and make you cum on my cock, Aurora. I wanna feel your walls around me as I fuck you. We all wanna fill you with our cum, marking you as ours.” Raphael growled grabbing his thick member lining it up at her wet entrance and pushed forward gently. As the tip spread her swollen lips sinking into the tight heat Raphael closed his eyes growling low in his chest.

Despite his massive size his entry was smooth and delicious, his warm balls touching just below her sex as he filled her to the hilt. He grunted softly pressing forward kissing the entrance of her cervix with his spongy helm.

Just as she cried out Donatello’s mouth slanted over hears again silencing her rambling moans. Pouring her excitement down Donnie’s throat, she arched up as she took every inch of Raphael’s engorged length, stretching her, drawing her almost to climax with the single movement. He stilled letting her get use to his girth, his breathing raged and labored trying to regain control.

“Fuck, yerso tight.” He panted gripping her hips pulling back and thrusting forward in a slow languid motion getting a broken cry deep within her throat. Engrossed by the overwhelming sensation of Raphael embedded within her Aurora almost didn’t feel Leonardo’s hand work its way down her belly his fingers finding the bud at the apex of her thighs. With light circles his fingers began a delicate pressure helping her climb to her rushing climax.

Raphael started a steady rhythm within her his hips snapping forward with lustful urgency. “God, I love you.” Raph muttered breathlessly as the snapping of his powerful hips became more unhinged and animalistic.  

Small grunts escaping between his clenched teeth and the throb of his engorged member inside her indicated Raphael was close to his end. His callous hands adjusted her hips angling her canal just right feeling the bulbous tip of his cock brush against the bundled knot of nerves at the roof of her sex igniting the fire in her belly sending her over the edge her hands gripping Leo and Mikey’s shoulders.

Breaking the kiss with Donatello she cried out as she went ridged her back arching pressing her breasts further into Leo and Mikey’s hot impatient mouths. With her spasming walls she heard Raphael curse under his breath faltering his pace bringing Raphael to his thunderous completion slamming the tip of his pulsating shaft to her cervix filling her with hot jets of his boiling essence, his guttural rumble filling the small space sending the vibrations of it directly into her chest.

Lost inside her head riding out the mind numbing orgasm she was overwhelmed by all four of them pressed against her in some way, stealing away every bit of rational thought she had left. She could feel the heat of Raphael as he flooded her insides, Leo and Mikey’s mouth still attacking her breasts and Donnie drinking down her screams as she came crashing back to earth, back to her body.

That just happened and surprisingly she was fine with it, more than fine actually. What was wrong with her? What was this change in dynamic between them? She wanted more.

“Aurora.” She heard Leo call over Raphael and her erratic heavy breathing.“Aurora, wake up.” Again, he called a bit more concerned. Looking over to Leo his eyes shown down on her his smile wide and full of love. “Are you ok?” his hands went to her stomach shaking her.

With jolt she woke up still nestled in between Leo and Donnie both looking down at her with amused confusion.

“Someone having a good dream?” Leo mocked her running a stray finger across her bare abdomen. She jumped slightly still sensitive from her apparent overstimulating dream. That was a very vivid dream, she could still feel Raphael between her legs and their wet mouths on her. She pressed her knees together quelling the unspent desire.

“Yeah, you really didn’t want to wake up.” Donnie laughed lying back on the cushions running his hand over his face trying to wake himself up. Truth was he was trying desperately to control the growing erection between his legs. The sounds of her soft moans and breathless sighs got him going. Breathing though his nose he thought about complex equations bringing his mind away from the ever rising images in his head from his dream of her naked below him, stuffed to the brim with his cock, crying out as he brought her to orgasm after orgasm. He could still hear her gasping his name her nails digging into his green scaled skin. Damn it, that didn’t help, calm down Don! Ever since she had brought them back from death his mind had been filled with inappropriate thoughts about Aurora. She was Leo’s, his older brother who he loved very much and would never betray. But by the gods he wanted to kiss her pink flushed lips so bad right now. What he wouldn’t give to know what she had just dreamt about.

Raphael woke with a raging hard on, his mind filled with the delicious images of his stimulating dream with Aurora. It was so real, he could still see her above riding him, her velvety walls gripping him like a glove as he watched his ridge member sliding in and out of her willing body. Her hands interlocked with his helping her move up and down on his shaft bringing her to the brink of oblivion. Her lips parted whimpering his name as she came undone around him soaking his lower plastron.

“Fuck.” He whispered pressing down on the tent he was pitching in his pants. Looking down in between him and Mikey Raph found her sleeping form gone. Just Mikey beside him mumbling in his sleep his obvious erection pressing against the fabric of his shorts as well.

“Hey numb nuts! Wake up, yer pitchin a tent!” Raph yelled smacking his younger brother in the plastron jolting him awake.

Mikey’s hands raised up in the air in surprise being so rudely awoken from his marvelous dream, “Dude! I was in the middle of something and you ruined it!”

“From the looks of it, it was a good dream.” Raph nodded towards the bulge in his brother’s pants.

Mikey suddenly felt self-conscious cupping his morning wood and looked down sighing in relief seeing Aurora gone. The awkwardness of his raging boner was averted.

Raph watched his younger brother’s reaction and put two and two together. He wasn’t the only one having an elicit dream about their kunoichi. His mouth opened in a thunderous roar of laughter, “You little sexual deviant! You were having a wet dream about Aurora!”

Mikey’s eye went wide and immediately jumped to his large brother covering his mouth with his hand muting his loud cackling. “Shhhh brah! I don’t want Leo to know! It was the first one I’ve had with her in it. Ever since yesterday being brought back from the brink it’s all I can think about.”

Raphael finally calmed himself down pushing Mikey from him and patted his younger brother on the shoulder. “Don’t worry little bro, you’re ain’t alone in this.” Raph lifted his hand showing he wasn’t the only one with a stiff problem.

“You too?!”

“Yeah, was a good one too, of course I woke up before I could finish. But the sweet memory of her cuming from my cock will be stored in my spank bank for quite a while.”

“Yeah tell me about it, some big lug ruined it for me.” Mikey glared daggers at Raph tapping the tip of his restrained erection with his green digit. His eyes cast down at the floor suddenly his mood shifting, “We shouldn’t be thinking about her that way bro, she’s Leo’s girl.”

“Fuck that Mikey, I know we all love Aurora but yes only Leo gets to be intimate with her but fuck if I’m not going to enjoy my dreams with her. It’s all I have. Besides I can’t control what I dream about and neither can you.

Soon Leo’s voice filtered from the other room calling out for Aurora. Raph and Mikey looked at each other and darted out into the living space of the RV. Finding Aurora between Donnie and Leo, they had just woken her up from a dream.

“Someone having a good dream?” Leo smiled down at her.

“Yeah you really didn’t want to wake up.” Donnie laughed lying back down on the cushions him and Leo had pulled from the couches.

Raph couldn’t help but notice the small bulge between the genius’s legs he was failing to control, looks like him and Mikey weren’t the only ones. Then his eyes laid upon Aurora as she looked at each brother and her cheeks noticeably flushed. Scenting the air, he could smell her arousal, she had a dream as well, interesting. He wondered if Leo had one too? “Everything ok in here?” he asked nonchalantly stepping up to the fridge pulling out an orange crush.Thankful his erection had gone down enough to go unnoticed.

“Yeah, we’re ok. Aurora was having a dream, that’s all.” Leo smiled assisting her to a sitting position. His smile soon fell finally noticing the darkened pattern of bruising covering her exposed stomach. His hand reached for the purplish skin, but her palm quickly swatted it away.

Aurora got to her feet and moved to her bag pulling out a long sleeve shirt pulling it over her head covering the dark bruises, hiding them from their worrying gaze. She could still feel the heat at her cheeks and pressed the back of her hands to her face trying to calm her anxiety. She had just had a sex dream with all the turtles, her lower belly coiled at the memory.

That’s when she noticed Sensei was gone, the bed returned to the kitchen table again. She looked around quick maybe she had just missed him, but the door opening sent every one of the turtles scampering to the back of the RV slamming the bedroom door shut leaving Aurora alone in the main room.

“Real stealthy guys! And you call yourselves ninjas?” she laughed watching Master Yoshi climb into the RV his arms filled with food. Alleviating some of the wonderful smelling food from his arms Aurora set several boxes on the counter. The bedroom door slowly opened, and the turtles filed out into the kitchen their noses guiding them.

“Sorry I left so early, but I know a friend in this town who has a restaurant and you have another hour before you have to be at the airport.So, I called him and asked for a feast worthy of earths mightiest heroes.”

@blossom-skies​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

For the Love of Shell Chapter 36

Here is the next installment of my OC story.

Full story here 

Hard Decisions 

Aurora’s trip home was quick, pulling her truck into her parking spot in the underground parking ramp at her apartment building. Taking the elevator up to April and her floor she stepped out into the hall and slowly passed her friends door. She thought just for a second to knock and update her friend on happenings of the past few frantic days but decided against it, a hot shower was calling her name.

Unlocking her door, Aurora stepped inside and threw her backpack on the couch and headed for the bathroom. First and foremost, she needed a shower, a nice long hot shower. Peeling her clothes from her body she dropped them as she walked entering into the large glass stall turning the water to near scalding.

Aurora hissed as the hot water pelted her aching body loosening the dried blood and grime from her bruised flesh. She stayed under the hot spray for nearly 15 minutes allowing her muscles to soak up the heat of the water before starting to wash away the filth of the past few days. Each time she closed her eyes she could see them hanging from their wrists, dead. It made her body convulse involuntarily at the traumatic memory making her eyes snap open in fright.

“They’re alive and back home safe with Master Splinter.” She whispered to herself in a quiet mantra rinsing the rest of the conditioner from her hair. “It’s over. It’s finally over, you can finally live your life the way you want, no more hiding.” A small smile finally graced her steam flushed lips. She had to remind herself of that fact. It was finally over, they were all safe, and they did it.

Turning the shower handle to the off position Aurora stepped into the foggy bathroom and began to dry herself of its moister. The thought of crawling into bed and going to sleep wasn’t as appealing as it had been an hour ago. The sun had just recently set but she wasn’t ready for bed quite yet. Pulling on a pair of jeans and a hoodie she headed out into the busy streets of New York. She could use a good slice of pizza and some fresh air, well as fresh as New York Cites air can be.

The fall air was crisp and had a certain energy to it. The hum of the conversations of happy couples and giggling friends as she passed by made her body feel alive. The fresh slice she had purchased from  Antonio on the corner a few blocks back was already warming her stomach. Her mind started to wander as she continued down the busy sidewalk. Japan was beautiful, and she did miss it, but there was something about New York. The people, the old buildings the whole vibe of the city was exhilarating, but the four green mutants below the street were the main reason she was ready to call this big city home. She could actually have a home, someplace that was her own. No more moving, no more hiding.

Finding herself back in front of the old church she had explored a week ago, her eyes trailed up the giant peek and smiled. Something about this place called to her, it was so beautiful, it just needed some love. A sign by the main gate that wasn’t there before caught her eye, squatting down she read the large sign and let a laugh escape her lips. Pulling her phone out she called the number displayed on top. It was fate.

That night was restless for Leonardo, his mind a constant whirlwind of emotions and uneasy thoughts. Sleep didn’t come easy but when it finally did take him he dreamed in quick fragments. Blurry and unfocused images of Aurora holding a baby, her baby, the look on her face was happy and content. That was something he could never give her, a child, marriage, normalcy. The tiny infant was wrapped up in a blue blanket with purple octopi on it. Due to the fogginess of his dream Leo could only make out one characteristic of the tiny cooing bundle, their eyes. Leo could see the vibrant purple iris’ that matched its beautiful mother’s, but one of its eyes had an anomaly to it. The left iris was half purple and half blue, it was breath taking. The sight of the tiny bundle made his heart clench.

Aurora looked up at someone and her smile grew giving no doubt the father of the child a comforting exchange. She looked so happy her hand reaching out for the father’s just before him. Those were the only imagines he could remember and it broke his heart. Maybe it would be better to let her go. She deserved that beautiful baby in her arms, she deserved to be happy and she couldn’t have that living in the shadows with him.

The next day Aurora took care of a few errands and bills before heading down to see the guys. Slipping below the surface of the manhole she took her time down the passageways of the sewer system. Making it to the opening she hoped over the turnstile and everything inside the lair came to a screeching halt. All eyes, even Master Splinter’s focused in on her, making her suddenly feel naked.

“Hey guys.” She waved anxiously.

A green blur shot forward colliding with the kunoichi crushing her between four mutant turtle bodies. Having the wind nearly knocked form her body she let out a grunt adjusting herself inside the cluster of hands and arms that were vying for any part of her body.  

“Guys?” she wheezed allowing the frantic embrace.

“Donnie’s go-pro recorded everything on the mountain after you were freed. We watched it last night.” Mikey called through the arms of his brothers.

Aurora’s heart jumped up into her throat and she stilled. They had seen her, seen her when they died, seen her when she killed the demon, watched her bring them back to life. She didn’t have to explain anything, they knew what had happened after they…….. her body finally gave in and began to tremble with the stress of it all. Wrapped in their arms she let go and clung to them, crying letting everything out. She had never in her entire life cried this much, she hated how vulnerable it made her feel, but being in their arms she felt safe, it felt right, like home.

After a few minutes she finally collected herself and they relinquished their hold opening her gaze to the old rat waiting patiently for his sons to let the woman go. Their eyes met and his eyes began to water, without thinking twice she fell to her knees and hugged the emotional old rat.

“My dear, thank you for bringing my sons back to me. There are no words to express how much I am in your debt. I don’t know what I’d do without them. I can never repay you for what you’ve done for this old rat.”

Aurora leaned back on her heels looking into his wise old eyes. “I have no idea how I did it but I’m thankful I was able too. I don’t know what I would have done….if..”

“I actually have a theory on how you did it.” Donnie cut in grabbing her hand pulling her to her feet again.

Aurora took a deep breath regaining her composer and turned to the genius turtle cocking an eyebrow.

His large green hand moved to her abdomen and rested on her lower belly pressing forward just a little. “Your womb.”

Aurora’s hand rested over his, “My womb?”

“Yes, you’re a female who can carry life. Your body is built for such an incredible miracle. I’m guessing if we had been taken into a male guardian’s body we would have been absorbed completely but since you are meant to hold life within you we were held protectively in your womb. Watching the recording when you brought us back our souls came from your stomach. I know it sounds weird but it’s the only explanation I can come up with. Let alone the strong bond each of us felt for you when it was over.” His cheeks reddened at the slight admission.

Leo came up behind her pressing his palm to her lower back, “We all had dreams about you that night, dreams of a sensual nature.”

Her eyes shot to each turtle, her cheeks flush. Donnie and Mikey’s faces showed embarrassment, Leo was calm as usual, but Raphael’s lips curved into a delicious smile and winked at her. Of course, he wouldn’t think twice about having a sexual dream about her, he was incorrigible. The rush of adrenaline pooled at the apex of her thighs remembering her own illicit dreams with all four turtles. She played with her fingers nervously deciding if she could tell them she had dreamt of the same thing. Slowly her eyes came back up to Leo’s and his widened realizing her unspoken confession.

A laugh burst passed his lips, “You did too, with all of us?”

Aurora nodded sheepishly.

“That explains the sounds you were making that morning in the RV.” Leo smiled smugly.

Donnie tilted his head looking at Aurora in eager satisfaction; she had a sex dream about him. What he wouldn’t give to know what it entailed.

“God I feel so much better! We’re not the only ones!” Mikey exclaimed leaning back against the wall, his large hand covering his face in relief.  Then his hand dropped and his eyes focused in on Aurora, “Wait,…that means you had a naughty dream about me!” Mikey’s excitement was uncontrollable as he bounded for her grasping her shoulders pulling her to look at him.  His blue eyes waged with seductive urgency. “What did it entail? I need details,” he cooed lowering his voice a few octaves running a single digit over her cheek.

“You first Michelangelo.” She called his bluff. Her hands pressed on his plastron pushing him back against the wall her eyes hooded. Aurora’s tongue darted out of her mouth moistening her lips and inched forward till her lips were only a few inches from his. “What did we do in your dream Mikey?” She could see him stiffen and swallow hard feeling her so close to him, she pressed her breasts up into his chest just to drive her point home. He opened his mouth but quickly snapped it shut  deciding it was better to leave this alone, what happened in their dreams was no one’s business.

“Y-you know what, never mind, I’d like to k-keep a little mystery in our relationship Aurora. You’ll just have to use your imagination.”

“That’s what I thought.” She grinned snapping her teeth at the youngest brother before pushing away from him and turned back to Donnie who had an amused look on his face. “So you’re telling me the end result of us merging was we all got a little hot and bothered for each other?”

“Hey, I was hot and bothered for ya before we ‘merged’ little lady.” Raph growled in his throat coming up behind her, his massive size dwarfing her small stature.

“You have made that quite obvious Raphael.” Splinter eyed his son making him moved back sheepishly.

Donnie cleared his throat, “Yes, I have a feeling the ‘merge’ maybe have intensified all our feelings for each other, due to the intimate nature. I’ve already collected blood from each of us, I just need a sample of yours to compare them too.” Donnie held out his hand urging her to take it.

Aurora nodded sliding her hand into his green one curling her fingers with his and followed the tall genius to his lab sitting down in his skateboard chair. Soon he returned with a syringe, freeing it from its sterile packaging. He wrapped a rubber band around her arm and tied it bringing the vein up. He looked at her with his chocolate brown orbs and swabbed the pit of her elbow and carefully slid the needle into the plump vein. Pulling back on the plunger, blood filled the vile almost instantly with vibrate crimson.

Leo came over with a cotton ball and a band aid handing them to Donnie.  Pulling the needle free from her flesh he pressed the cotton ball to the wound and placed the band aid over it effectively stopping the flow.

Without a word the tall mutant turned with the vile of her blood his eyes transfixed on the syringe and began his work. Aurora absentmindedly press her fingers down on the cotton ball for good measure and looked up at Leonardo whose gaze was on his genius brother.  She smiled at the mutant standing just a few inches from her as his hands fiddled with the wraps on his hands. Reaching out she grabbed his hands making him look down at her away from his brother. She noticed something in his eyes, he seemed a little off. Usually cool as a cucumber, the blue leader looked a little stressed like something was weighing on him more than usual. “Hey, you ok?” she asked, using her grip on his hands to pull herself to her feet.

Gripping her fingers as she rose the distant look on his face disappeared and a brilliant smile replaced it. Ignoring her question, he responded with one of his own.

“How are you feeling today? Still tired?”

Deciding to let it go she nodded, “Yeah better today, still a little tired and sore but nothing that would ruin my day. A hot shower helped a lot last night.” Noticing movement behind Leo she tilted her head to see Raph coming up behind, his eyes locked solely on hers.

“How are you guys feeling? I mean, you’re the ones who actually…” her voice failed dropping off not finishing the sentence.

Raphael was standing next to Leo now, his arm resting on his older brother’s shoulder. “I don’t know about these bozos, but I feel great. Like dying rejuvenated my body or that kiss. Of course, maybe both could have done this body good. Either way I’d do one of the two again without question.” Raph pursed his lips and waged his eyes at Aurora making her smile at the large brute.

“Incorrigible.” She laughed pinching the bridge of her nose shaking her head in amused frustration.

“Raph.” Leo groaned irritated, shoving his brothers arm off his shoulder giving him an annoyed look.

“What? I’m just hopin maybe you’d be willin to share. Just making you aware I’d be willing to help you keep her satisfied.”

“Raph!” Aurora yelped in embarrassment smacking him playfully on his plastron.    

“Just sayin.” He winked before turning on his heal returning to the couch plopping down next to Mikey who had turned on the large TV. The sound of a game show filtered throughout the lair extinguishing the silence.

“We might need to muzzle him.” Aurora laughed as she was pulled into Leo’s strong arms. She felt his chin rest on the top of her head, but said nothing. Even after Raph’s rude comments he remained uncharacteristically silent. She would have thought he would have at least smacked his younger brother. Something in the back of her mind started nagging her, something was wrong, she could sense it. Pushing from his arms she looked up at him, “Somethings wrong. Spit it out Leo.”

Again, he didn’t respond but reached down lifting her chin. Leo’s intense blue gaze pierced hers and leaned down pressing his lips to hers. His mouth moved urging hers open gaining access to the sweet warmth of her mouth. His three green fingers slid from her chin to caress her cheek his thumb running tenderly against her soft skin.

Momentarily forgetting his reluctance to answer her questions she gave into the sweet gesture pressing her hands softly against his plastron, one hand gripping the strap to his harness.

Leo’s lips transitioned from gentle to desperate both hands grasping each side of her face pouring his passion into the deepening kiss. His eagerness was contagious but they were in the middle of the lair with his three brothers and father just a few feet away. After everything that had happened in the past few days made her ache for the large green terrapin. Unfortunately, this was not the time, or place for this to go any further then a kiss but Leo seemed oblivious to their company or he just didn’t seem to care. He pressed Aurora firmly up against a support pillar his knee urging her legs open as his clothed thigh lifted her up bringing her off the ground making sure every part of his torso was touching her.

The breath hitched in her throat as she was lifted off the ground her hands grabbing for the dense muscles in his biceps gaining some stability. Leo’s hot tongue moved over hers tasting, exploring pulling a moan from her lips grinding his hips against hers. Breaking the kiss, Leo rested his forehead against her catching his breath.

Aurora opened her eyes watching his face; his eyes were closed tight as hot long breaths came from his mouth, his lips glistening from their saliva. His hands still enclosed around her face holding her immobile. His body was tense, she could feel it, and she could tell he didn’t want to move.  One of her hands released his arm and went under his chin lifting his head, his eyes remained tightly closed, his breathing slowing as he regained his control.

“Hey.” She whispered softly. After a few minutes without a response from him her brow furrowed. Again she tried to get his attention. “Leonardo…” she used his full name to try and break him from this spell. His eyes shot open and gently lowered her back to solid ground.

“Sorry.” He managed to murmur before letting her face go. He was about to turn from her when her arms shot out grabbing a hold of him stopping his momentum.

“Whoa there Leo, what’s going on? You are a million miles away.”  

Looking back at her the tall terrapin leaned in and pressed his lips to hers once more for a quick kiss and smiled, “I’m fine, just tired. It’s been an emotional few days.”

Eyeing him warily she ran her hand up his arm over his shoulder and rested on his thick neck. She gave it a quick squeeze and let go. “Liar.” She said matter-of-factly smiling up at him sweetly. “But I’m not going to press you; you’ll tell me when you’re ready.” Movin around him she made her way over to the couch and sat down in between Raph and Mikey. Raph wasted no time and put his arm around her pulling her to his side. Not to out done Mikey scooped his arm under her legs and pulled them over his knees resting his three fingered hands on the top her thighs and returned to watching his show. Aurora didn’t protest and let them manipulate her body so they were touching her in some way.

After about an hour or two she had managed to fall asleep in their hold. A gentle hand pressed down on her shoulder waking her from her light slumber. The purple tails resting on her chest indicated Donatello was behind her. Lifting her head she smiled up at the genius staring down at her.  The tall turtle held out his hands and she obliged him, he hoisted her up and off the couch earning two dissatisfied grunts from his brothers on the couch. Aurora took a quick scan of the lair and found Leo and Splinter meditating on the round platform, she watched them as Donnie lead her to his lab having her sit down.

“Well I finished the analyses of our blood.” The tall turtle said sitting down on the desk next to her.

“Well did you find anything?”

“Your cells are radiating with energy, much more than before from your first outburst with Eric Sakes. With you no longer restraining the demon within you, your abilities have become more prominent. The only thing I can see that’s different with our cells is our merge made the mutagen that created us has become more stable. Every one of us feels better, stronger if you will. Like your power gave us all a boost of some sort. It’s a little perplexing. Do you feel any different?”  

Aurora shook her head leaning back in his oversized chair. The size of the skateboard chair made her look insignificant. “I’m not really sure, the only thing I’ve noticed so far is the feelings I have for you all have increased.” She blushed a bit lowered her head keeping her eyes form the genius. “God I’m not used to all these feelings.”

Donnie’s hand rested on her knee giving it a quick squeeze, “I think the feelings are mutual, so don’t worry.”  

Aurora stood from the large chair and moved between Donnie’s legs wrapping her arms around his carapace as much as her arms would allow. Her head nuzzled into his neck feeling his arms come around her pulling her further into him, his chin resting on the top of her head. They stayed like that for several minutes in silence listening to each other’s breathing.

Gently using his shell for leverage she pushed away from the genius turtle his hand returning to the top of his desk. Her hand moved to his cheek cupping his face and smiled up at him, “You know you’re amazing right?”

Donnie blushed at her comment leaning into her warm palm. “I appreciate you saying that. You don’t what it means to me to hear that from you.”

“Donnie, I mean it, the world is missing out, not getting to see your genius. I mean look at all your designs and gadgets you’ve made, not to mention all you’ve done with this lair. It’s astounding how smart you are.” Aurora let her hand slide from his green skin and adjusted her footing.

“Hey Aurora, you wanna stay for pizza?” Mikey interrupted their moment running up behind her encircling her waist with his hands pressing a quick kiss to the side of her exposed throat.

“Um,… sure. I really don’t have any plans for dinner so why n…..” she let out a shocked yelp when Mikey hoisted her off her feet by her waist and under his arm like she was a rolled up rug. “Michelangelo!” she hissed playfully slapping his lower plastron trying to free herself from his strong grip.

“Thanks Donnie, I’ll take her from here!” Mikey waved to his brothers with his free hand as he trotted off with the squirming kunoichi.

“Later Aurora!” Donnie called out standing up from his desk and dropping into his skateboard chair with a huff.

Mikey plopped her body unceremoniously back on the couch next to Raph and took his spot on the other side of her scooting his arm behind her pulling her to him. “Comfy?” he cooed nuzzling her shoulder with his cheek.

After dinner they all sat in front of the large TV and watched a movie together. Aurora stayed between Raph and Mikey and Donnie took the spot next to Raph. Master Splinter took his recliner next to the large homemade couch while Leo sat at the kitchen table cleaning and sharpening his katanas.

Throughout the movie Aurora would look over to Leo to see him staring at her but as soon as they would lock eyes he would look away as if he was ashamed. It was perplexing why he would stay so far away while watching a movie. Maybe he just wasn’t into the film?

As the end credits began to roll she noticed Mikey’s cheek pressed against her shoulder as soft snores drifted pasted his lips. Turning her gaze to the kitchen table she cocked her head seeing it empty. Leo was nowhere in sight; his bed was empty as well. Gently she woke Mikey, so she could get up to stretch, her eyes scanned the rest of the lair looking for the leader in blue, still nothing.

“Where did Leo go?”

Raph got to his feet and shrugged his shoulders, “Who knows, fearless sometimes likes to sneak out and roam the city alone. I wouldn’t worry about it, he’ll be back in a few hours.”

Aurora checked her phone she noticed it was midnight, she was a bit confused why he would have left without saying goodbye, Leo was acting funny. She didn’t like the feeling she had in the pit of her stomach. It was kind of like the feeling she got the last time they made love in Japan. Not wanting to think about Japan she pushed the feeling away, it had to be nothing. Everything was fine, they were fine. Maybe he would come to her tonight. Waving her goodbyes, she headed back to the surface and to her warm bed.

That night he didn’t come, nor the next, the feeling in her gut grew. The next few days were a bit busy with securing a new investment, so she didn’t have time to think about what was going on with the blue leader. There was plenty of paperwork to fill out, several trips to the city planning and licensing and a lawyer for good measure. But she finished, and she could move forward with its development and even managed to have lunch with April in the process.

She was excited to tell the guys about it, she would head over tonight with some dinner. She wanted to run through a few katas on the roof after the sun went down to let off a little steam before she headed over. She would talk to Leonardo tonight hopefully he was ready to talk to her.

Leo landed on the rooftop next to Auroral and Aprils apartment. He took a deep breath trying to calm his frazzled nerves. His whole body threatened to shake but he squeezed his palm quelling the rising panic with a few deep breaths. This had to happen, it was now or never before he lost his nerve…. again. “This is the best thing for her.” He repeated to himself for the hundredth time this evening. His eyes caught on the top of the building in her usual spot effortlessly running through a complex kata. Her finely tuned muscles flexed with each stretch and thrust of her body, her balance impeccable. One final calming breath Leo launched himself over to the building, landing on his haunches a few feet from her. She didn’t jump but continued with her movements turning her body just slightly, so she was facing him.

“I need to talk to you.” He did his best not to show the unease in his voice which was on the verge of shaking.  

Those words made her halt her kata and look at him in concern. “Ok? It is about what’s been bothering you for the past few days?”

“Y..yes, I um don’t want to beat around the bush so I’m just gonna come right out and say it.” He looked quickly to his shaking hands. Another deep breath he steadied them once again. “Aurora now that your free of the demon it’s time to move on with your life.”

Aurora looked at Leo a bit confused, “Yes Leo I know, what do you think I’ve been doing? It’s been a busy week with me moving onto the next step of my life. I was going to come by tonight and let you guys know what I’ve been doing since we got back from Japan.”

“No you don’t understand, it’s time to move on from us. It’s time to have a normal life without any mutants or fighting. Find yourself a normal human man, get married have kids.”

Aurora suddenly felt her heart drop to the bottom of her stomach. Did he just tell her it was over? Her heart began to beat rapidly behind her ribcage. Taking a tentative step forward she reached out her hand but recoiled when the large mutant retreated putting a few more paces between them. His blue eyes large and full of unknown emotion. “Leo, you’re scaring me. What’s really going on? Are you telling me you don’t want to be with me anymore?”

He swallowed hard at those words, of course he wanted to be with her, he loved her more than anything, but he couldn’t keep her hidden with him. She didn’t deserve to stay in the shadows with him and his brothers. She needed to be out in the world experiencing everything the world had to offer. Something he and his brothers would never be able to do. “You can’t come back to the lair anymore Aurora. I need you to stay away from us, it’s time to grow up and find your own life beyond the life the monastery thrust upon you. You’re free now to do what you wish with who you wish.”

Anger began to push away the fear she was radiating with, “I am doing what I want and with the person I want to do it with. You Leo, I want you. I want to be with you and your brothers, I love you all.”

“We’re mutants Aurora! We’re mutants who happen to be ninja’s, we will always live in the shadows. We have no choice in this, but you do! I can’t marry you, I can’t fill your belly with beautiful children!” Leo’s voice was rising, he was getting upset. His fingers curled into his palm in frustration. Why wasn’t she understanding?

“Marriage? Kids? Leo who said I needed those things? Who said you couldn’t offer me them? I love my life; I love my life with you!”

“That’s because you know nothing else but training and fighting. You were abandoned and given to a monastery because of the color of your eyes. You’ve been trained since you were 5 years old, you’ve nearly been killed several times, you’ve hidden most of your life from the outside world. It’s time for you to move on and have a normal life. Please I…….it doesn’t matter, I’ve made up my mind. I came here to say goodbye Aurora and tell you my piece.”

Aurora stepped back shocked tears threatening to spill from her eyes, but she held them back she wasn’t going to give him them. “So, you made this decision, on your own? I have no say?” she was starting to shake trying to control the raw emotions running through her system.

He was no longer looking at her, his eyes glued to the floor not wanting to show how he really felt. This was for the best he reminded himself again. She would thank him later when she was married holding that beautiful purple eyed baby from his dream. “I’m sorry Aurora, I really am. But this is goodbye. Please…….I hope you have a full and wonderful life. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me one day. But this is for the best.” Not letting her say another word Leo swung around and jumped from the rooftop disappearing into the night, leaving her alone once again.

With Leo finally gone from sight Aurora caved and fell to her knees with her eyes searching the darkness, hoping he would reappear and tell her he was sorry and didn’t mean it. She waited for far too long sitting alone in the evening air. She felt numb and drained of everything she was as she sat on the rooftop her gaze no longer fixated on anything.

Finally letting her head fall back Aurora allowed herself to cry long hard uncontrollable sobs. Her body shook with mourning and sudden overwhelming loss she felt. Each of their faces flashed before her, wide smiling faces, loving mutants she’d never get to see again.

After the tears had run dry and the chill had soaked deep into her bones Aurora staggered to her feet. She would never get to see the turtles again; never get to kiss Leonardo again. She was alone……..again.

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

Chapter 32 of For the Love Of Shell

Shit hitting the fan in this chapter. Come read my story, I’ve been writing it for far to long. 

Read it here

@blossom-skies​

[aurora-the-kunoichi]

Chapter Thirty Three - For the Love of Shell

This chapter is angst filled to the max. While I wrote this particular chapter I listened to “The Dark of You” by Breaking Benjamin's. I recommend listening to it in the background to get into my head. 

The Dark of You

WARNING: Major Character Deaths

Read my angsty bullshit!!!!

@blossom-skies​