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Chapter 7 : Save him

“For the last time, I am telling the truth!” Donnie said frustrated.  For the last fifteen minutes Donnie has been trying to convince his brothers to go back and save the dragon.

“Says you, but do you have any proof?” Mikey said as they have been laughing the whole way back to the lair with Donnie’s nonsense.

Donnie opened his mouth, but closed it at again. He didn’t have any. Only his theories. And knowing his brothers they won’t convince them unless he has some hard proof.

Mikey laughed again when they entered the lair. “Orange! Quite down! I cannot hear what April is telling me!” Splinter scolded. “Why are you even being so loud?”

“Donnie is trying to convince us that the dragon is Leo. Which totally can’t as he’s here and the foot clan has captured the dragon.” Raph told April and Splinter. Splinter and April looked worried at each other, like they know more than they are willing to tell. “You need to find the dragon and save it.”

“What? Why?” Mikey looked confused at his father. “Why is everyone so worried about the dragon?

Donnie face palmed. “Because the dragon is Leonardo!”

“Donnie, you really need to lay off the coffee.” Raph said to his second oldest brother, only to get a frustrated groan and throwing hands in the air as responds.

April look with doubting eyes to Splinter. Splinter knew what she was asking him and nodded. If it’s the only way to convince the others, then they have to break the promise they made. April grabbed her phone. “Is this prove enough?” she asked, holding her phone out to the three turtles.  

“Ha! I knew it! I knew Leo was the dragon!” Donnie grinned when he saw Leo changing back into a dragon on the phone. The others stared at the screen, watching the replays. “Leo is the dragon…” Raph mumbled to himself. “WE GOT SAVE HIM!”

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The turtles jumped down a abandon build’s roof. “You sure it’s here, Donnie?” Raph asked, staring down at the abandon building across.

“If the noise and the goons patrolling isn’t enough proof for you, then yes I’m sure. Leo’s phone location is in the building across.” Donnie tabbed on his wrist band.  

Raph nodded. “Let’s go.”

“Woah!” Mikey said as they entered the not so abandon building. The building was full of Foot members and equipment.   Everyone’s eyes turned to the roaring sound in the middle of the room. In the middle of the room, there was the dragon in steel cage, banging his head and tail against the cage and getting response by getting electrocuted by some foot members.

“Leo.” Mikey said with a soft voice. “Is it me or is he more…”

“Feral?” Raph finished his youngest brother sentence.

“He is.” Splinter said as he studied his son. “We need to be careful once we’re close to him.”

“Agreed.” Donnie said while tapping on his wristband. “We do not know what he will do in this state.”

“Alright guys, let’s split up!” Raph spoke in his leader voice. “Pops and April free Leo, while we distract the foot.”

Everyone nodded and split up. “Hey Lieutenant stink foot! Let the dragon go!” demanded Raph, while standing in battle position. “Why do you even need him?”

“I can ask you kids the same.” Lieutenant said, not even surprised to see the turtles. “You have been hunting it for a month’s now and still fail to catch it. Besides we needed some money and a customer payed us up front. Now attack!”

Raph changed his grip on his tofu’s as the foot members attacked him and his brothers. While the brothers distracted the Foot, April and Splinter sneaked closely to the cage. They took down the guards easily.

‘Blue...’ Splinter looked worried as he stood as look out while April tried to unlock the cage. Leo growled as he kept banging against the cage until the cage disappeared into the ground. Leo immediately grabbed the foot member that came running towards them with his mouth, biting down and shaking it before throwing it as a rag doll away.

Leo looked for to his next victim. April. Growling dangerously and showing his fangs at her, Leo walked slowly towards her. April moved backwards, tripping over a tick wire cored, until she was against the wall. “Leonardo! No!” Splinter yelled, jumping between the dragon and the female teen. Splinter held his arms out as blockage even when he knew his son easily could over power him.

Leo stared at them, fangs still showing and growling, before turning his attention towards the attacking foot members. Leo tried to fly away, but couldn’t as his wings were injured. Leo attacked them instead.

Splinter sighed in relief, before turning to the teen. “April, are you al-“ Splinter bent down in front of April and placed a hand on her shoulder. “April?”

April was staring before her shaking like a leaf. She never been afraid of him like now. “It’s okay.” Splinter grabbed her into a hug, stroking her hair. “It’s okay, you’re safe now.”

--

The foot Brute cursed as he tried to keep up making origami foot soldiers, only to be sliced by the turtles. Mikey kicked another paper foot soldier into smithereens. Mikey grinned, until he bumped into someone. Turning around he saw Leo up from close by. Leo stared back at him, but not with the lighthearted eyes Mikey’s used to.

“L-Leo?” Mikey stuttered.  Leo growled at Mikey, leaning a bit closer to him, Leo sniffed at Mikey. Mikey gasped when Leo launched himself, mouth wide open, towards him. Mikey stared in fear at his brother shoulder. He thought Leo was going to bite him! Leo pulled back, revealing a origami foot soldier or what’s left of it. Leo looked at him with the now turning to ashes foot soldier, before turning back to the fight.

Mikey stood there for a second, thinking what just happened. “Jgaah!” a voice scream from the left. Mikey didn’t react fast enough to avoid a kick to the face from the Foot member and crashed head first against the concrete wall. Mikey slides down against the wall unconscious.

The foot grinned behind his mask, but immediately screamed in pain when Leo bite down in his shoulder throwing him against some other foot members. The Foot members crawled back up surrounding Leo and Mikey.

Leo moved over to Mikey, fangs showing and growling angry at the closing in foot members. A brave foot member attack first with his katana, charging towards the dragon, only to be cut by the bladed tail.

More foot members attacked Leo and every one of them met the same fate as the others. Either being slashed by his tail, throwing away like rag dolls or slashed by his claws. From the corner of his eye, he saw someone reaching for Mikey. Leo immediately turned towards the intruder, grabbing him by the shoulders and digging his claws deep into the persons flesh. “Leo!” said the person right before Leo wanted to bite down.

Leo looked confused. He knows that voice! Looking better at intruder he saw a red bandana with familiar eyes. Sniffing the scent up from the intruder, it was familiar as well. It even had some scents from the orange one on him too.

Trusting the familiar scent, Leo released the intruder and pushed him towards the wounded orange one.  

Raph rubbed his shoulders confused, but was grateful Leo didn’t bite his head off as intended. Raph kneeled next the youngest turtle. “Mikey?” Raph gently shook Mikey’s shoulder, watching Leo defending them as a angry mother protecting her young. “Wake up.”

“Raph!” Donnie landed next to him with April and his dad. “What happened?”

“I don’t know.”Raph said, watching Leo attack the foot. “I’d saw Mikey on the ground and-“

“Leo’s protecting Mikey.” Donnie finished. “We need to get him out of here.”

A roaring pain was suddenly heard. Looking up the turtles saw the Foot firing grabbling hooks towards Leo and running electricity through them, while firing tranquilizing darts. Leo grabbed the hook that was on his plastron and pulled it out while wincing.

“Take it down!” someone yelled.  

Leo pulled on one of the cables, sending the person other end towards him. He bites in the weapon, crushing it with his jaws before throwing it away. Roaring through the whole building, Leo unleased a sea of fire around the whole building.

The foot scream and ran away out of fear. “We need to go, now!” Splinter said looking away from the raging dragon.

“But, Leo….” Mikey said worried. Splinter didn’t answer and pushed the others out of the building. They all watched the building burn. “Leo!” they screamed once the roof collapsed. Out of the fire and smoke, a dragon figure flew up in the sky, before crashing into the ground. Splinter held his arm out before anyone could run towards him.

Leo pushed himself up in sitting position, panting for air. He growled and showed his fangs towards his family, ready for a fight even when he had trouble with staying awake or even moving.

Splinter walked towards Leo, reserving threating growls from the dragon. It didn’t stop Splinter from coming towards him. “It’s okay, my son.” Splinter placed a hand on Leo’s muzzle.   Leo panting for air slowed down as he started to calm down by the touch. “Stop fighting it. Go to sleep, Leonardo.”

“Dad?” Leo whispered before falling forward into Splinter. Splinter grabbed Leo and placed him gently down on the ground, stroking his head as the others joined them. “Let’s go home.”

“I’ll carry him.” Raph bent down, allowing his brothers to place the sleeping dragon on his back.

Chapter five:  Telling a story

Few hours crawled slowly over the night and Leo still hasn’t fallen asleep yet. Normally, he would blame his insomnia for another sleepless night, but this time it was his dragon instinct begging him to go out and change.

Ever since his brothers found out that he tends to hang out in the sewers during daytime, they started to patrol the sewers as well. Forcing him to skip a few days to change into his dragon form. Those days are the hardest as his instinct starts to come out and show even when he is in his normal form.

Leo slapped his hand in his face as the feeling to change kept nagging him. “Just for an hour.” He mumbled to himself.

Leo stood up and pulled his curtain away. He listened quietly for any sound of his brothers. Besides Raph’s loud snoring, he didn’t hear anything.

Leo sneaked quietly out of the lair into the sewers. Leo made sure he was a bit further away from the lair, until he changed into his dragon form. ‘Okay, this feels good.’ Leo thought as he made satisfying noises while stretching out.

“So the rumors are true.” A voice said behind Leo. Leo immediately stopped stretching and turned around.

Right behind him was his dad, Splinter. “The dragon does live in the sewers.” Splinters said, moving into a fighting position.

‘Dad!’ Leo thought and started looking for an escape route.  “Don’t even think about escaping.” Splinter warned as if he could read Leo’s mind. “Now, let’s begin.” With that, Splinter jumped into the air, attacking Leo from above.

Leo avoid the attack and kept avoiding the punches his dad threw him. “You know, you remind me of my son, Blue.” Splinter said as he kept attacking. “He has almost the same markings and wears a blue bandana around his face, not his neck. Same goes for the blue slash with pouches.”

‘Oh crap! He’s on to me!” Leo growled when a punched landed in his face. Splinter smirked. “Did I distract you with something?”

Splinter threw a other punch, but his hand was caught with a green red and yellow marked tail. Leo gave Splinter a toothy grin before throwing the rat further back in the sewers. Splinter landed on his paws and looked up. He saw Leo slightly bend on his front paws, ready to attack.

Splinter smiled. “Let’s dance.” Splinter let out a war cry, storming towards the dragon. Leo roared before attacking too.

Leo tried hitting Splinter with his tail again, but was failing as Splinter jumped away and threw some ropes towards Leo.

It was Leo’s turned to jump away. Attack his dad again, Leo still was looking for to escape.  After a while Leo was standing in a web of ropes. Splinter pulled on one of them and the ropes moved quickly towards Leo, trapping him down on the ground.

Leo growled and tried to get free, biting the ropes. Splinter threw another rope, muzzling Leo and being completely trapped to the ground.

Leo sighed that came out as a long growl, but stopped as soon he saw his father right before him.

“You made it too easy for me.” Splinter said. “One of the first lessons I taught you was never get distracted by the enemy, Leonardo.” Splinter heart melted when he saw the fear in his sons eyes. He immediately cut the muzzle.

“D-Dad…I’m sorry.”  Leo said with a scratchy voice. “I know I should have told you guys, but it all happened so fast…I wanted to tell you, but….” Tears started to flow down Leo’s face. “thinking of what you guys will do when you find out or even disowning me…”

Splinter grabbed his son into a tight hug. “I never will disown you. I will love you in either form,  turtle or dragon, because you are my son. I’m only disappointed you never told me.” Splinter said as he untied the ropes with his tail.

Releasing his son from the hug and looking up as Leonardo went sitting straight up, Splinter whipped the last few tears off his son’s face. “Let’s go back home.”

“I can’t.” Splinter raised an eyebrow. “I need to let is loose for a while. Otherwise I can’t keep it contained.”

Splinter nodded. “Fine. Do what you need to do, but be back in a hour. We’ll discuss this tomorrow when your brother are gone.”

Leo nodded and quickly flew away from his father. Splinter sighed before returning back to the lair.

After a hour and a half Splinter walked to Leo’s room. He smiled when he saw his blue bandana son was back in bed, in turtle form, fast asleep. Splinter walked into Leo’s room and draped the covers over Leo, before planting a small kiss on his head. “Goodnight, my son.”

--

The next morning everything was everything normal. Or at least almost everything.  When Splinters is around Leo, he acts a bit weird. Besides April, who immediately noticed this, no one reacted on it.

“He knows.” Leo had whispered to her when he had the chance.

“When did he find out?” April asked in a hushed voice.

“Last night, he wants to talk about it when the others are gone.”

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“So who’s ready for tonight’s WWE’s tournament?!” Raph said pumped.

“Yay!” Mike said happy. “You coming too, Leo?”

“Blue still has to do the task he hasn’t done yet.” Splinter answered before even Leo could answer. Leo knew it was a lie as the only thing he has to do is sort the dirty clothes and put in the washer.

“I’d told you should go and do the laundry.” Donnie said to his blue brother.

“And let you destroy my high score on ninja revolution 3? Never!”

“Let’s go guys.” Raph said, walking towards the exit of the lair.

“Have fun with the laundry, Leo! Bye April, see you tomorrow.” Mikey waved before following Donnie and Raph.

“Have fun you guys!” April waved.

Leo watched his brother go before going to the laundry room and sort the clothes out. “So, how did Splinter find out?”

“He followed me into the sewers, fought me, tied me up before telling he knew.”

“Wait, your dad kicked your dragon ass?” April grinned at her best friend.

Leo shoved April as she started laughing. “I wasn’t focused! Besides I didn’t want to hurt him!”

“Whatever you say, Leon.”

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Entering the kitchen, April and Leo saw Splinter with three cup of tea standing ready. The rat motioned to sit down. “Now,” Splinter said when the teens sat down. “Tell me everything.”

Leo took a deep breath. “I was around eight when my first transformation happened. I was not feeling well and I didn’t want to wake you guys up. So, I ran into the sewers and that’s when I changed.  I was freaking out and I didn’t know how to control it or what just happened to me. I wanted to tell you after I was sure I could control it. But as time goes on, I wasn’t sure if you would believe me. If you still would accept me for what I am.”

Leo wrapped his hands around the cup of tea, not facing anyone. “As the years passed, I didn’t had the courage to tell you anymore. So I kept it a secret from everyone until April found out about it a month a half ago.”

April nodded in agreement. Splinter sat quietly, thinking about the new information he was told. “I have to change every day just to keep my dragon side contained. Which is getting harder ever since the others started hunting me.”

“What was the longest time you didn’t change?” April asked.

“Three day was the longest.” Leo answered.  

Splinter took a slip from his tea before speaking. “I understand why you kept this as a secret and why you still don’t want to tell your brothers. But know this, I will never disown you for what you are, Leonardo. Same goes for your brothers. I know you can smell my fear right now, it will fade over time. And they will need time when they will find out.”

Leo nodded. He smelled his dad’s fear since he got up this morning. It wasn’t that bad, but worse than when April learned what he was. “You’re not going to tell them?” Leo asked.

“No.” Splinter replied. “They either will have to find out on their own  or when you’re ready to tell them.”

Leo nodded, silently thanking his dad for not forcing him to tell his brothers. “How did you find out?”

“I started to observe you when you said  you never encounter the dragon in the sewers. Then I noticed the growling, the predator walking and the disappearing for no reasons. And I’d saw Purple’s notes. Your name was written a few times on it.” Splinter explained. “Now that your brothers are gone, I’d suggest you change and have some fun. But avoid the south part of the city.”

“Yes! Let’s go Leo!” April said excited. “I’ve got a new saddle I want to try out.”

“Another one? You call a backpack with stuffing a saddle?” Leo asked as he pulled his leg and arm gloves off.

“Hey, it’s better than the horse saddle.”

Splinter chuckled, but stopped and stared as Leo started to change into his dragon form in front of him for the first time. Leo didn’t look at his dad as the fear smell hit his nose hard. ‘Give it time, it will go away.’ Leo thought as he let April place the backpack on him.

April jumped on him and tested the saddle out. “Perfect! Giddy up, Dragon.” Leo gave April a look before walking out of the lair.

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Loved the mikey and splinter episode! I just wonder If we would get a more like these with the other turtles in the future.

Chapter Two: Don’t tell

Leo immediately grabbed April’s legs. “Please don’t tell them! Please, Please!” Leo begged, “I’ll do anything.”

“Anything?” April heart melted when she saw the look on the blue bandana turtle. “Okay, tell me everything about it. Tonight. And I want a ride on your back.”

Leo nodded rapidly. “Deal.”

“Hey Leo! April!” Leo froze when he heard Mikey’s voice from behind the curtain. “Want to go and play some video games?”

“Sure, Mikey!” Leo said nervously before standing up and walking out of his room.

‘Leo’s really desperate to keep this a secret.’ April thought. April watched Leo play with Mikey as nothing has happened between them.

-

“What do you wanna know?” Leo and April stood on a rooftop later that day.

“When?”

“Years ago, even before we met you.”

“You kept this a secret for years?”

“Jah.”

“Why?” April asked. “Why keep it from them?”

Leo closed his eyes and sighed. “I’m afraid they won’t accept me.”

“Are you kidding me?” April yelled smacking Leo on the head. “They will!  You’re family! Why wouldn’t they?”

Leo held his head and sighed again. “April…. Sometimes I have problems controlling it. Jah, I’ve got more control now than in the beginning, but still at some certain fights I’ve get knocked down easily, because I’m battling my instincts. It screams at me to let it go, to take over. I don’t want to find out if I let it. I’ve got to change every day to keep it in check. Sure, I can skip a day or two. But the longer I wait, the harder it gets to ignore it.”

April placed a hand on Leo’s shoulder. “Then we make sure you won’t lose it.” She said.

“Thanks, April.” Leo smiled. “So, you still want a ride to the skies?”

“Heck yeah!”

“Hop on them.” Leo changed into his dragon form. April jumped on Leo’s back. “Ready?”

“I was born ready!” Leo grinned and take off. April grabbed Leo’s shield when she felt she was sliding a bit.

April gasped once she saw the view from the sky. “This so awesome!”

“Really? How about this?” Leo started to dive and making a sharp turn to the right and then making some corkscrews.

April screamed her lungs out. “Loop the Loop! Loop the Loop!” she yelled when Leo stopped making sharp turns and corkscrews. “Yay!” she screamed as Leo did two loop the loop. “That was awesome!”

Leo laughed and flew around the city while answering April’s questions.

-

“I can’t believe he ditch us! Again!” Raph yelled angry.

“Well, it is Leo we’re talking about.” Donny tab away on his phone.

“Yeah, but he’s ditching us for weeks now!” Raph said frustrated. “Just he wait till I’m back home! He’ll won’t hear the end of how this mission was cool and he wasn’t there!”

“Looking for a rumor new mutant that roams the city is cool?” Donny asked.

“Not just any rumor mutant!” Mikey beamed. “A dragon!”

“Who is causing chaos in the city!” Raph looked at his brothers. “Now let’s get going!”

“Fine.”

“Yess!”

They jumped over to the rooftops while looking for the dragon.  “Donny found anything yet?”

“Well, according to my data it is a…. No.” Donny said.

“It can be anywhere in a city like this!” Just when Mikey said that, the dragon they look for past over their heads. “There it is!”

“Get it!” Raph yelled.

Leo looked down when he heard some yelling behind him. ‘Oh great! They spotted me. Woah!’

Leo rolled when one of Donny’s rockets past by him. ‘Too close.’ He thought. ‘Better get the hell outa here.’ Leo dived in one of the alleyways and used them to get rid of his brothers.

Suddenly, Mikey landed on Leo’s back. With a stick he found somewhere he tried to shove it in Leo’s mouth and steer him towards the ground. On the ground, Donny shot a net towards them.

Leo saw what was coming and kicked Mikey off his back into the net and crashing into his twin brother.

‘Two down, one to go.’  Leo thought.  Leo landed on a rooftop. ‘Come on, where are you?’ Raph jumped right in front of him. “Let’s dance!”

Raph ran towards Leo. When Raph was close enough, Leo threw him down on the ground and launched himself into the sky. “Get back here!” Raph yelled after Leo.

-

The next day, Leo walked into the kitchen. “Morning,” he muttered to his brothers.

“Leo! You never guess what we’ve fought last night.”

“A worm with hair that looks like the king of rock from the sixties?”

“The dragon!” Mikey beamed. “We fought the dragon!”

“Mikey, dragons aren’t real.”

“It was real, Leo! It threw me and Donny into a net and used Raph as a launchpad!”

Leo gave Mikey the ‘are you really serious?’ look. “It’s true, Leo! Donny! Let him see the video.”

‘What?! When did they film me?!’ Leo thought as he watched Donny take out his tablet and play the video.

Leo stared at the video and said nothing. Raph grinned and grabbed his brothers together. “Boy, we’re going to hunt some dragon tonight!”

Chapter one: She knows

 April was walking back home in the night. It was late again and her mom called her where she was. April had told her mom she was with her friends again and she’ll be home soon.

April had a good time with the turtles today, only she finds it weird that Leo suddenly disappeared without saying anything to anyone else.

‘He does that sometimes.’ Donny dismissed when she asked him.

April was almost home when she noticed a big shadow passing over her head. ‘What was that?!’ She looked up and sees a dragon passing by.

“A new mutant?” April wondered, running after the dragon. April runs up the stairs when she sees the dragon landing on the rooftop. She tries quietly open the rooftop door and sees the dragon standing there.

“So cool!” she says and grabbed her phone. She takes good look at the dragon. The dragon had strange yellow markings all over his body except his tail. The tail had some red markings. On the dragon’s face were red markings too. Like a red slider turtle. Looking further she noticed a blue bandana around the neck and a very familiar blue belt around him. ‘Why does that look so familiar?’ She thought, switching from photo to video.

The dragon looked around as if he was checking if no one was around, before starting to change. April gasped when she saw the dragon turned into someone she knew. “Leo?!”

Leo jumped down the roof into the ally and into the manhole.

“Okay, what did I just witness?”

-

After school, April immediately started walking towards the turtle lair. She will find out what she saw last night!

“Hey guys!” she greeted Donny, Raph and Mikey. She looked around but didn’t see the blue bandana turtle. “Where’s Leo?”

“He’s in his room reading comics.” Mikey said. “Why?”

“Oh, I wanted to ask when he wants to go urban exploring with me again.”

“Awesome! Can I come too?”

“I wanted to go to the Old City Hall Station.” April said, knowing Mikey immediately would pass for another time.

“Oh…Maybe next time then.”

April smiled and walked to the blue turtle room. When she entered the room, she saw Leo reading his comics as Mikey had told her.

Leo looked up and smiled at her. “Hey April.”

“Don’t you ‘Hey April’ me! You’ve got some explaining to do!”

Leo looked confused at her. “Okay, what did I do?”

“Oh, maybe you suddenly left yesterday to change and fly around as a dragon?”

Leo stared at her, before breaking into laughter. “Really April? Did you spend too much time with Mikey again?” Leo immediately stopped laughing when April pushed her phone in front of Leo.

The video of a dragon looking around before turning back into himself played. Leo started to look bit lesser green.

“Please don’t tell anyone.”

-

More?

Chapter six: The Foot

Two weeks have past and the turtles still where playing a cat and mouse game with the dragon. Donatello  stared frustrated at the computer screen before him. He had a file on it with a the info about the dragon. On the file was everything. Guessed height, skin color, where it appears. What Donnie doesn’t have was a good picture of the dragon. It  always managed to avoid Donnie’s camera.

Donnie opened another file on his second screen. Leonardo.  Ever since he noticed Leo was acting strange, Donnie started to take notes of his brother behavior.  

The more Donnie started to watch Leo, the more he noticed things. Donnie sighed. He had a feeling  Leo and the Dragon have a connection between them. Donnie had some theories, but he wanted to keep them to himself for now. He needed more evidence before he confronts his younger brother.

Donnie placed his hands on the keyboard and started typing. ‘Third day, getting more anxious and jumpy for no reason. Stays more in his room and starts avoiding us. Stares at the clock as if he needs to be somewhere. Father still  waves Leonardo’s behavior off. Wonder if he will let Leo go on the mission tonight or use another lame excuse to keep him home.’

“Donnie! It’s time! Let’s go!”

Donnie saved the file and closed his computer before coming down the main room. “What’s the point of hunting it? We never will catch it.” Donnie heard his blue banana brother saying. ‘There we go again. Leo will get benched and don’t join another mission.’

“We will! If everyone work together!” Raph argued with Leo again. Donnie sighed and took his phone out as it will take a while before their done.

“And what do you mean by that?!” Leo growled.

‘Growling? That new.’ Donnie looked up from his phone. ‘Another thing to add to today’s list. Wait are those claws and fangs?’

“Fine than stay home!”

“I will.”

“Let’s go guys.” Raph said, walking to the door. Donnie put his phone away and watch out of the corner of his eye, his second youngest brother.

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While his brothers left the lair, Leo  battled his instincts for control. “You okay?” April asked when she sees the blue turtle hands shaking. “I’m fine.” Leo said with a growling voice even when he felt his tail growing slowly.

“Clearly you’re not.” April said as she watched Leo’s eyes shift into his dragon eyes and his tail sweeping over the ground.

“You should go now that your brothers are gone.” Splinter worried as he watched his son struggling to stay in control.

Leo immediately started to walk towards the exit of the lair as soon he had his dad’s blessing. His instinct was screaming louder and louder at him while he was climbing the ladder to the surface. April had a hard time keeping up with Leo as he was already on the rooftop when she only just reached the surface. ‘Someone anxious.’ She thought.

Leo pulled his gloves out as fast he could before changing into a dragon. “Feeling better now?” April asked when Leo was done.

“Much better.” Leo said stress relived. “But a flight around the city would help even more.”

April smiled and placed the backpack on Leo’s back before jumping on. Leo takes off and flies around the city.  While flying around Leo started to relax some more. April wasn’t talking too much either and just enjoyed the view.

Leo was making a turn when he suddenly let out a cry of pain. April jumped off immediately when they landed on the roof. “What the?” she  said when she saw an arrow sticking in her friends wing.

Leo growled in pain again when April managed to pull it out. “Thanks.” Leo cursed when he and April got surrounded by the foot clan. They all stared at them as if they are waiting for something. “Get on.” Leo whispered to April.

“Why? We can take them!”

Leo threw April on his back and took off just in time as the foot attack him a second later. “Come on we could have taken them!” April yelled, hitting Leo on the head with her hand.  April jumped when another arrow passed by her face.

“Too many!” Leo said. “You need to get back to the lair.”

“The lair?!” April said in disbelieve. “I’m NOT leaving you alone here, Leo!”

“April listen, I’m going to lead them to my brothers. They can help defeating them, but they will figure it out when they see you on my back.” Leo explained, landing on one of the rooftops.  April hesitated, before jumping off. “Fine, but don’t get caught or I’ll be kicking your stupid ass.”

Leo gave her his trade mark smile. “I won’t.”

April sighed and watch Leo take off with the foot clan following in persuade. Leo try to fly as fast he could with his injured wing. “Come on, guys…Where are you?” Leo said to himself.

Leo immediately dived and hit Donnie on the head with his paw to get his attention. “Hey!” Donnie looked up angry. ‘The dragon!’ Donnie stared at the dragon while it circled around him very close. The dragon looked at him with pleading eyes for some reason. ‘April’s stuffed backpack?’ Donnie thought when he noticed the bag on the dragon. Donnie stared in disbelieve when he finally put two and two together. “Leonardo?”

Donnie watched Leo take off with the foot clan after him. “The foot!”

“Raph! The dragon! It’s here!” Mikey scream at their eldest when he spotted the dragon flying away. “Come Donnie!”

Raph ran past Donnie after the dragon. “What’s going on, Nardo?”Donnie followed his brothers. “The foot are chasing it!” Donnie said.

“But why?” Mikey asked.

“Don’t ask me.”

“Let’s ask them!” Raph said as they ran after the foot.

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Leo groaned as he crash landed in a small park. The bola finally got aimed right. It got around his wings, causing the crash landing. Leo tried to get the bola off his wing quick as possible, but the sleeping darts and arrows started to fly around him.

Growling angry at the foot that was surrounding him. One of the foot attacked him with a sword, but stumbled back when he felt his clothes being cut. Looking up he saw  a sharp blade on the end of Leo’s tail. The foot narrowed his eyes and attacked Leo again, this time with the whole group.

--

Behind a hill, the turtles looked down at the battle between the foot and  the dragon. “We need to help him.” Raph said, looking down at the dragon. “It may be a pain in the ass for months now, but it doesn’t mean it deserves this.”

Everyone nodded and jumped down attacking the foot. Leo roared as a few sleeping darts hit him some more. Leo hit the shooters away with his tail and growled at the remaining foot only to be followed by a screaming pain. One of the foot members had shot him with a grabbing  hook, sending electric through his whole body. Leo kept screaming until he passed out from the pain.

“Tie it up and get ready to portal it.” One of the foot said to the others.

--

Donnie shot one of the foot away, looking up where his second youngest brother was fighting.  ‘Leo!’ Donnie thought when he saw the foot take down Leo with the electric grapple hook.

Donnie fought his way to Leo, but was too late. Leo was hauled into the portal before Donnie even could get there.

“Ninja Vanish!” a thick American accent said and every member of the foot clan retreated in a minute.

Raph and Mikey looked around. “Where did they go?” Raph asked. “Where did the dragon go?”

“They took him.” Donnie said in defeat. “We need to get him back.”

“Wait, the foot capture the dragon?” Mikey  asked confused. “Why would they need the dragon for, Donnie?”

“How I’d supposed to know?! For battles in Battle Nexus maybe? What I do know is that we need to get him back!”

“Since when are you so worried about the dragon?”

“Since I’ve discovered that the dragon is one of our own!” Mikey and Raph just stared dumbfounded at their Purple bandana brother. “It’s Leo! The dragon is Leonardo!” Donnie said frustrated.

Mikey and Raph started laughing loudly a second later. “Good one, Donnie!” Mikey laughed. “Leo a dragon!”

Donnie stared annoyed at them. “Wait, you’re serious?” Raph whipped a tear away.

“I’m always serious.”

“Come on, let’s go home and tell what happened to the REAL Leonardo who’s at the lair.” Raph and Mikey still laughed as they walk away from a annoyed Donnie.

Chapter four: Sharing notes

 Donnie stared at his laptop. It has been two weeks since they started hunting for the dragon. Two weeks and they still didn’t catch it or know the location of it.

“How’s the research coming, Donnie?” Raph asked as he walked into the kitchen.  

Donnie sighed. “I didn’t make much progress as I wanted to. It is like it knew when we’re there and how to avoid our attacks. As if it can read our minds, which totally can’t as there is no such mutant who can.”

“So, you also said about dragons.” Mikey walked in and looked at his brothers.

“Hey I’m just a turtle. I make sometimes mistakes.”

“Yeah, but are you sure you’re not making one right now.”

“There is no such thing as mind reading, Michael!”

“Alright, enough you two. There has to be something we missed.” Raph said thoughtful.

Donnie stared back at the screen on the laptop. “Here are the spots where we encountered it.” Donny said pointing on map. “Maybe by marking where we encountered it, we could pin point where it lives. Did any of you had a encounter when you were alone?”

“I saw it two weeks ago.” Mikey suddenly said after a long time of silence.

“And you forgot to mention how, Michael?”

 --

 Two weeks earlier,

Mikey was humming a song to himself. He was walking in the sewers back to the lair from a evening chilling at April’s house. “Wow, it must be raining really hard now.” Mikey said as he passed a huge sewer room with a whirlpool beneath him.

Mikey turned around the corner and took out his phone. ‘Raph again.’ He thought, seeing his oldest brother has texted him again to know where he was. ‘I’m almost home.’ Mikey texted back.

Mikey kept texting and didn’t see he walked into someone. Mikey looked up and gasped. Right in front of him was the dragon! “Aah!” Mikey screamed, moving backwards from the dragon. “Please don’t eat me!”

The dragon looked hurt and reached his paw out towards Mikey. Mikey kept moving back until he slipped of the edge of the huge sewer room.

“Mikey!” a voice yelled when Mikey started to fall into whirlpool.

Mikey screamed as he fell, then he landed on something hard. A Shell? Mikey looked up and saw he was on the back of the dragon!

The dragon laid down once they flew back on the edge of the whirlpool room. Mikey hopped off the dragon and stared at him. “Thanks.” Mikey said. It nodded, before it spread his wings and took off into one of the sewers pipes.

--

“And that’s what happened.” Mikey said when he was done telling his story.

Raph and Donnie stared at their youngest brother. “And you didn’t bother to tell us why?” Raphael asked with his over protective brother voice.

“And how does it know your name?” Donnie asked.

“I don’t know.” Mikey shrugged. “Maybe it learned our names when we yell at each other.”

“Hmmm.” Donnie said thoughtful.

“Is there a chance it lives in the sewers?” Raph suddenly asked.

“There is a small chance, yes. Why?”

“I might have found it in the sewers too a week ago.”

 A week earlier,

 “I knew I shouldn’t have taken the left!” Raphael muttered as he walked in the sewers alone. “Where am I? Okay, stay calm, Raph. No need to go feral.”

Raph kept walking until he stopped middle in his tracks. He had entered a empty room with sunlight. Right before him, he faced the back of the dragon they have been hunting for a week now.

‘Oh shit!’  Raph thought and froze on spot. Raph watched dragon in silence. The dragon just made a relaxing sound before stretching himself some more out. ‘What is it doing?’ Raph asked himself.  Raph stared and noticed it was laying on his belly, his wings wide out and its legs stretched out. ‘Is it sunbathing?’

“Maybe the time is right now to attack it.” Raph muttered to himself.

Leonardo made another satisfying growl. Suddenly, someone jumped on Leo’s shell, grabbing his mouth shut and pulling his head backwards. Leo tried to break free from the grasp, but he couldn’t get loose easily. Leo started to stand up and move around wildly, trying to get Raph of him.

“Yiha!” Raph said as Leo jumped up and down.  ‘Get off me, Raph!’ Leo growled and pushed Raph against the wall. “Woah.” Raph started to lose his grip a bit before suddenly Leo threw Raph with full force of his back and on to the ground.

“Ugho.” Raph was startled when he saw the dragon staring right in his eyes. The dragon turned around and ran into a dark tunnel. A familiar giggle was heard in the tunnels.

 --

 Raphael looked at his brothers when he was done telling his story of the dragon. “Looks like we can confirm it is very possible that it might live in the sewers.” Donnie said to his brothers. “As I did encounter it a well.”

“When?” Both Mikey and Raph asked.

 “A week ago,”

 --

 A week ago,

Donnie walked back with two bags in his hands. He just came back from the junkyard with some new or better said old hard drive stuff for a one of his projects. Donnie was thinking about his project, until he was pushed onto the ground.

Looking up from the ground, he saw the dragon grinning at him. “Are you insane?!” Donnie started yelling. “This is very sensitive hard ware I’ve got with me!”

The dragon just grinned and stood there challenging him. “Just you wait! I’ll whip the grin off your face once my project is done!”

The dragon kept grinning and walked away as Donnie grabbed his stuff and kept yelling at the dragon.

 --

 “Hey Leo, did you encounter the dragon in the sewers?” Mikey asked as the blue turtle walked into the room.

“No, I didn’t.” Leo said, taking a slip of his tea.

Donnie raised a brow when he heard this. Leo hangs most of the time in the sewers and didn’t even once encounter the dragon in the sewers?

“Well, if it does live in the sewers, we can look for it in the sewers as well.” Raph said to his brothers.