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

Grieving

"Good morning guys." I say cheerfully as I enter the kitchen.

"Jade!" Mikey exclaims hopping over the counter to help me.

"You're sweet Mikey, but this demon child was made for healing quickly." I say with a smile sounding more sure than I actually feel. Maybe I really am a demon. Both my parents seemed to believe it.

"You can't believe that you're a demon can you?" Mikey asks me looking me straight in the eyes.

"No I don't." I say, looking him in the eyes and lying through my teeth. After he's done staring me down I sigh.

"Is everybody else up yet?" I ask him and he shakes his head.

"They were up late last night to wound up about everything. Especially Donnie. Damn is he annoying when he's high strung." Mikey says handing me a plate with pancakes on it.

"Thanks man and how bad was it?"

"Bad. Raph and Leo were up all night planning for the stuff we have to do against the Krang and against Shredder. Donnie was in his lab till I don't even know when, but he woke me up with his screaming and I was just like oh hell no bro." He complains and I shrug.

"I was probably able to sleep through a tornado then." I say and Mikey nods.

"Why is it whenever you fight you get exhausted afterwards? I could've used your help calming the bros down!" he complains again as Raph enters the kitchen groggily. Mikey quickly hides the beer he was drinking in a cabinet nobody uses.

"Morning sexy. You look like you could use more sleep man."

"Ugh..." Raph says putting his head on my shoulder. I roll my eyes and put my hand on his head gently as Donnie comes in. At this point Mikey's getting pancakes for everybody. Leo comes in just as tired as Raph and I just smile amused. That's when Splinter comes in and Raph takes his head off my shoulder and sits next to me. Leo sits on my other side and smiles at me still blinking tiredly.

"How ya feeling?" he asks.

"More alive than you." I reply and he smiles.

"Probably true." He says eating.

"Morning master Splinter." I say to Splinter and Splinter smiles.

"Good morning Jade. Will you come see me after breakfast?" he asks and I nod, realizing that now I have a week and a half before all hell breaks loose and I likely lose my life. Then I start thinking about my mom and the way she looked at me yesterday. I manage to eat everything on my plate say a quick thanks to Mikey before rushing to my room and crying. I cry like a little baby. It's been a long time since I've cried like this. Once I manage to get my emotions in check I clean my face up and go to Splinter. Kneeling in front of him like the boys do, I wait for him to talk. Just being in his presence makes me want to cry. My eyes end up tearing up, and he opens his just in time to see me crying again. He stands up and holds his arms out. I hesitate for a second and then start just sobbing. We stay like that for I don't know how long.

"Thank you master." I say as we sit again.

"Jade you're mother one of the few people you trust, betrayed you. That is the least I can do." He says seriously and I nod smiling. "Do you feel up to training today?"

"Oh hell yes. Anything to get my mind off of.... that." I say and he smiles.

"Alright then prepare yourself. Those tonfas you used yesterday seemed to fit you well." He says and I grin.

"I loved them!"

"Good. I would have been disappointed if you did not." He says handing me the tonfas. "They are yours. Take good care of them." He says and I nod. "Let us begin." He says whacking my head with his cane. I had put one of my tonfas up too late. I groan, but recover and he attacks again this time I'm prepared and block, retaliating with my own attack. He blocks easily, and this continues until lunch.

"How was training Hãi ér?" Raph asks me and I rub my head which is sore along with the hundred other bruises all over my body.

"Ugh..." I say putting my head on his plastron. He smiles.

"It's like that at first." Then I realize something.

"Oops school. I skipped it today." I shrug. "I hate school anyways."

"Why would you hate school junky?"

"Oh why hello there Casey Jones." I say rolling my eyes.

"Hey Casey!" Raph says and I move to the couch.

"One sec Raph. April told me to bring you this stuff." Casey says dropping all our homework on me.

"Casey you're so lucky I was just training. Jerk." I say and he laughs. Raph high fives him and they leave. I roll my eyes and end up falling asleep on the couch.

Mikey looks at me disappointed, screaming monster at me because I killed his brothers and my parents are there watching shaking their heads and screaming demon child at me.

"What the hell?" I say when I wake up. I notice nobody's there to say anything which makes me incredibly happy. I go to the dojo and decide that meditating will help.