Timbers & Rivers (Leorai)

Chapter Eleven

"Never discuss the rights of the strong, you are too weak for that..." - Dmitry Gluhovsky

Leo closed his eyes and opened them, only to find himself in the exact same place in his last dream; the black building. He looked behind him, and saw Chris doing the same.

"We're the only ones?" Chris whispered, but Leo could hear him clear as day.

"Think so." Leo whispered back, and they both walked close to each other. "Where're they?"

"Not sure..."

The two thought about leaving the building, but that let might've been a bad idea.

As if on cue, a single Dark One appeared. It was small, half the size of Leo, and it teleported in front of them.

All of a sudden, the two woke up to find guards shoving a tied up Dark One, it was the same as the one they saw in their dream.

"No!" Leo hissed and Chris and him stood up in anger. The others also woken up to the noise and Raph heard Leo whisper his protest.

"A Dark One!" Donnie chirped.

Chris and Leo stormed over to Donatello angrily.

"A child! He's a child!" Leo yelled and got disapproving glares and sighs.

Chris decided to back him up. "A child possibly taken away from family, a hold that is probably going to be experimented on and tortured!" He yelled with Leo.

"You're not even part of this team." Raph growled and then turned to Leo. "And there you go again; sympathising with monsters!"

"My son, Raphael is correct. You cannot sympathise with beasts that kill for a hobby." Splinter butted in and held his hands behind his back.

"We'll, let me tell you this; humans kill way more than them, we've killed more than they ever have because they've barely been here!" Leo argued and some of the group looked to the ground, not wanting to admit Leo could not be any more right.

"Leo's... Actually right. I dot wanna admit it, but he is." Karai sighed and gave Leo an apologetic glance.

"Maybe... But, we cannot do anything. Go back to sleep, my children." Splinter ordered and they all resumed their original positions.

But, Leo and Chris sneaked away from the group and, when they were out of earshot, began to discuss things.

"We cannot just sit here and let him be experimented on." Chris declared angrily. "We're gonna go save him. Right now."

"Ditto. But we need a plan. I think that while the guards are distracted by him, we can sneak in through the vents and follow the scientists with him. Then, there's no way they'll already have tools, while they leave the room to get tools, we can drop through the vent an save him!" Leo explained, confidently.

"You're confident... Good. Confidence's good. We should go now before we loose 'em." Chris said and immediately the two ran after the soldiers.

It wasn't long before they caught up with the soldiers and they secretly followed them through the shadows, minding smashed glass and dried dirt or rocks.