And Then There Were Five

Chapter 13: Goodbye?

The song for this chapter is Flightless Bird American Mouth by Iron & Wine

(Michelangelo's POV)

I couldn't believe Silv said she was leaving us, just like that! When she told us her plans to take off, my heart felt like it had taken a trip down to my feet. After she got into a fight with us, she stormed off into Leo's room, probably to pack, or nap. I always like to nap when I'm feeling down.

"Silv?" I knocked on the door to Leo's room quietly. Leonardo was seriously rattled by Silv's leaving, so he left right away to train. Raph and Don had followed him, but I wanted to try and convince her to stay first. "S, I know you're in there. Open up," after a few seconds of silence, I added, "pretty please. . .with a cherry on top?" I heard the lock 'click' and the door swung open.

Silvana stood there, her wings droopy, her cheeks and eyes puffy and red, and the tear tracks down her face were evident.

"Dudette, you don't look so good," I said.

"No shit Mikey, I'm not really feeling the greatest either," she snapped at me. Harsh.

"Whoa, okay then we can talk about it. I happen to be a master of persuasion," I winked.

"You can't change my mind."

"We'll see."

She sighed deeply, "Mikey, please don't make this any harder than it has to be, okay?"

"But Silv, you said we were like family!" I whined.

"I don't want to talk about it right now, Michelangelo." Kay, so she used my full name, which was not a good sign, but I'll just pretend I didn't hear that.

"But Silv-"

"Get out!" she screamed. Oh boy, that was so savage.

I held up my hands in surrender, "Okay, jeez, I'm going!" And with that, I left a very hormonal, very angry teenage girl to fume in my brother's room, and headed to the dojo to join my brothers in training.

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"Dudes, what's going on up in the dojoooo?" I strolled in to see Raph punching the dummy in the corner, and my other two brothers grappling in the middle of the room.

"Shut up Mikey!" they all yelled in unison between grunts.

"Raph, go me!" I challenged my brother, flexing my biceps.

"Oh, I am so going to enjoy this!" Raph cracked his knuckles. We took our ready stances across from each other.

"Booyakasha!!" I yelled and ran at my brother in red, and he charged at me with his sais pointed forward. He stabbed at my side, and I dodged to the left, swinging one of my nunchucks at his head. I only clipped him in the side of the temple, which made him, like, super angry. He growled and charged at me again.

"Oh! Too slow!" I teased as he missed my neck, and I flipped, landing on the opposite side of him and kicking one of his sais out of his hand. Okay, I thought he was angry before, now he was really really angry. I think I actually heard a legitimate snarl come out of him! He used his free hand to punch me square in the face, and blood squirted everywhere.

"Ow!" I held my nose with both my hands, and he used that chance to roundhouse kick me in the gut, causing me to fall backwards on my shell, where he pinned me to the ground.