The Dragon's Eye (a teenage mutant ninja turtles fanfic (tmnt))

Art Class

"Micah?!" I exclaim when I look behind me too see who was complementing my art.

"Jaspen?" he replies back and we both point at each other like what?

"You two know each other then?" the teacher asks and we nod slowly.

"My real name's Jade." I tell Micah as he sits down across from me.

"Still a cool name." He says with a shrug. I then look back down at my wolf silhouette and finish it up. Then I start to draw something else until the bell rings. The rest of the school day goes by pretty quickly. Unfortunately it starts pouring rain as I go outside. I groan and pick up my board. I've learned the hard way that you shouldn't skate while it's raining. When I get back to my apartment I'm soaked to the bone and I find that the door's wide open. I look in cautiously to see the whole place trashed along with ten skateboards broken. I run in and drop to look at them before a hand grabs the collar of my shirt.

"Hello you ingrate." I hear the voice I had hoped never to hear again in my ear. And as thunder rumbles I start to let out a scream before my dad puts his hand over my mouth. "Now we wouldn't want mummy to come home and find you dead on the floor now would we?" I nod and he uncovers my mouth and I gasp for air. Still holding me by my collar he throws me on the floor. "You know what? Jade is a good name for you. So is your middle name Crimson. Jade Crimson Wright. You know why it's a good name for you?" I shake my head terrified.

"Because you're about to be covered in blood and coughing it up ingrate." He says kicking me in the stomach until I bruise. Then he punches me until I do actually cough up blood. That's when he takes out a knife and starts cutting up my back. I can't hold back a scream of pain when he digs the knife into my back making jagged marks all over it. To make the pain even worse he pours mom's last moonshine whisky all over my the wounds on my back. I scream so loudly that I'm surprised the neighbors didn't come over asking anything.

"Now when will mummy come home?" dad asks me all crazy looking. I shrug because I have no idea.

"No idea. I seriously don't know could be a day could be a week. Her work hours are sporadic." I say and he takes out his knife again.

"Well I guess you'll have to satisfy me until she comes back." He says and I shake my head desperately. "Ingrate you should be happy that you're even alive." He says coming over and torturing me until I faint. The next day when I go to school I can't even ride my skateboard. Every jostle sends a billion and one jolts of pain to my back. Irma ended up pulling on my arm a little to hard and my eyes started tearing up.

"What happened?" she asks noticing my eyes and I shrug then grimace at another jolt of pain. "Jade what happened?"

"Nothing alright!" I say and she looks at my t- shirt.

"Then why is there blood coming through your t-shirt?" she asks.

"I'm gonna go see the nurse."

"Oh my god honey what happened?" the nurse asks me as I come in and take my t-shirt off to show her my back.

"Hell happened. Could you bandage me up?"

"Fine but come back after every period so I can check on the bandages." She says taking medical bandages out and bandaging me up.

"Thank you!" I say after she's done.

"Take some aspirin too." She says and I grab the aspirin out of her hand and the little cup of water and drink it down.

"Would you mind if I stayed here a little longer?"

"No you deserve as much a break from moving as you can get." She says and I give her a grateful smile. I lay down on the bed and fall asleep. That is until she wakes me up.

"It's the end if the day." She says and I notice much less pain coming from my wounds.

"Thank you again ma'am and thank you for taking care of me while I was sleeping."

"You are my patient. I'm supposed to take care of you honey." She says with a smile and I nod. I grab my skateboard from my locker and turn to see Casey, April, and Irma blocking my escape route.

"What happened?" Irma asks me. "Why weren't you in class at all? What happened to you last night?"

"Nothing alright may I go now?"

"If nothing happened then why was blood showing through your T-shirt?" April interrogates me.

"Jade there you are. I've been looking everywhere for you!" I hear a voice say and look around them to see Micah coming towards us.

"Hey Micah let's go." I say rushing past them towards Micah grabbing his arm and sprinting away.

"Why did they corner you?" Micah asks me and I almost consider spilling everything to him. About how my dad's waiting for me at my apartment to scream at me and beat me until I faint, but I don't.

"No reason. I'm fine. They're just being paranoid." I say and Micah invites me to skateboard with him and Quinn. I say yes of course, anything to avoid my dad. If you asked me to get high on drugs with you I probably would've said yes even though I try to avoid drugs.