Donnie groaned as he sat up, rubbing the crown of his head. He knew he'd hit solid ground and it had not felt good at all. He opened his red eyes drearily and looked around. Raph was sprawled out on the ground a few feet away from him, a groan escaping the older terrapin as he sat up. Mikey was hanging upside down from a tree branch, his Nun-Chuk tied to the branch and tightening on Mikey's foot.
"Damn, that was not a good landing." Raph groaned, grimacing as he sat up. Donnie stood up on shaky legs, dizziness overwhelming him as he stood up. It was most likely one of the side-effects of traveling through a portal to a world unknown, but if it meant finding Leo then it would soon be worth it. Donnie felt for his Bo-Staff, still thankfully placed in its holder. He took it and used it like a cane, steadying himself as another wave of dizziness washed over his bruised cranium.
"Hey, uh, can someone help me down." Mikey called, realizing he was hanging upside down. Lucky for the youngest brother, his head hadn't been smacked into the ground upon arriving to, well, wherever the hell they were. Mikey wriggled around like a worm on a hook; the Nun-Chuk only tightened its grip.
"Hold on. Stop squirming so much or else I won't untangle you." Raph replied, standing up on shaky legs. Donnie, still using his Bo-Staff like a cane, limped over towards his tied up brother. Using the branches he climbed the tree, steadying himself as he stood on the branch that the Nun-Chuk was tied to. Carefully, he pressed the switch along the outer side of his Bo-Staff, which released the blade, or the Naginata. Gently, he moved the Naginata through the tangled chain, making sure he stayed clear of the branch and Mikey's wiggling body.
"Mikey, you do realize this would be so much easier if you stayed still for five seconds." Donnie suggested as he dodged Mikey's foot again. He was having trouble directing the Naginata alone, but with Mikey squirming so much it was getting harder and harder to direct the sharp blade. Mikey stopped squirming somewhat, giving a little shake to try to squirm free every once in a while. Donnie sighed, but was at least able to control the Naginata's direction better.
Raph stood below Mikey, watching as Donnie made his way closer and closer towards the Nun-Chuk itself. He was winding the Naginata through the chain of the Nun-Chuk. The Nun-Chuk itself had somehow popped out the Kusarigama, the sickle-like blade attached to the handle of the Nun-Chuk. The Kusarigama had embedded itself into the tree branch, only an inch or two of the blade to be seen.
Finally, Donnie was able to reach the Kusarigama with his Naginata. He poked around the base until he was finally able to lodge the Naginata into a slim part of the crack. Carefully, he worked his way under the Kusarigama's pointed edge and pushed upward. Gently, and ever so slowly and carefully, the Kusarigama started to become dislodged from the tree branch. Mikey slowly started to become untangled, the orange masked ninja finally able to break free after a few good wriggles.
"That was fun!" Mikey said as he caught his Kusarigama without getting cut by the sharp blade. Raph rolled his eyes and Donnie sighed, yet neither complained to the young ninja how hard it had been to get him down from the tree. Donnie stood up and pressed the switch again, his Naginata retracting back into his Bo-Staff. He sighed and stretched his back, the dizziness and soreness from his legs and back seeming to have disappeared. The purple masked ninja looked around; surveying the area they had landed in. And that's when it hit him.
"Whoa." Donnie murmured as he was met with a weird yet intriguing sight. The trees were taller than the one's back in New York. These trees dwarfed them by feet, standing taller than the baobab tree. There branches were big enough for him to lay on without having the fear to roll off and hit the ground at such a height. Its leaves were green, but the bark was a mixture of both roughness and smoothness, switching from rough to smooth across the entire layout of the trees. These looked and felt nothing like the trees back in New York or in the forest.
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New World: The Darkness Rises (Discontinued for Time Being)
FanfictionRobotic World has been in a constant threat since the dawn of time. Darkness, a dark spirit of death, known by many names, has risen once more to try to claim the world as his own. Light Spirit, the one who created the first world of the Universe, m...
