Red is for Revenge

Chapter 3:

Chapter 3:

Suddenly someone was holding me in their muscular arms. I looked up to see the plates in the air I froze them and moved them to a place on the counter away from the edge. I removed myself from the arms to turn around and see Raph looking at me. “You should be more careful. You almost fell flat on your ass a few seconds ago. I bet if your brilliant head wasn’t attached to your shoulders it would be lost forever just like Mikey’s would be.”

My face was bright red at this point. “Uh thanks Raphael for catching me.” It soon registered that he had warned me, insulted me, and complimented me all in three sentences. “But if someone was careful and didn’t spill water all over the floor when getting water for his pet turtle, Spike. We wouldn’t have this problem now would we Red and I wouldn’t be slipping in puddles of water.”

“I just save you from hurting yourself and now you’re insulting me? Bitch you’ve got guts.”

“Oh you did not just call me a bitch,” I wasn’t embarrassed, now I was angry.

“You heard me bitch. I just called you one again.”

“Which is why I’m going to do this,” I slapped him across the face hard with my palm. I was angry and I didn’t care anymore. I hadn’t been this angry at anything or anyone since my parents were murder.

Raph walked towards the door I followed without hesitation. His brothers and Sensei followed us as well. He walked while I shouted at him. Suddenly he turned around and slapped me. “Shut up you’re so lucky I haven’t sliced you to bits.”

“Oh you plan on slicing me to bits, huh? Well you have another thing coming cause I’m pretty sure after this you won’t be living.” I ran at him. I ran as fast I could, I sprinted. I collided with him and we fell to the ground. I changed forms without wanting to and became a turtle. Raph and I wrestled on the floor for a few minutes. Trained fighters who had changed into squabbling little children. We fought to win. We kept trying to pin one or the other down but we always escaped. One second I’d be pinned under him. The next he would be down and I’d be on top. We kept shouting things at each other angrily.

It seemed like it would never stop. Until suddenly we were separated and there were two figures standing between us as we sat tiredly on the floor. Mikey and Donnie had decided to take action because things were getting out of hand. Leonardo and Splinter stood watching us carefully from afar.

I stood up and transformed back into my human form. “I can see why you didn’t like what was in that black bag El but in truth it makes you look splendid,” Leo looked at me and winked before he turned to Raph.

I sighed and groaned as I got up. Donnie and Mikey rushed to my side asking if I was okay and if Raph had hurt me. I replied telling them no I was fine. They kept commenting on how no one ever seemed to get that mad besides Raph. And he only got that angry at Leo on occasion then he would depart and go off somewhere away from everyone else. He’s never done anything like that before.

Leo was talking to Raph sternly now. He was getting a lecture. “Shut up Fearless. I don’t want to hear it,” he shouted and shoved Leo out of the way. Raph gave me this look as he walked past it wasn’t hatred. It was more like teasing anger. I watched him go before I went after him.

Donnie and Mikey rushed to stop me but Splinter stopped them. I followed Raph topside he jumped from rooftop to rooftop. I followed until he stopped I landed silently after he did. We’d been roaming around carefully all day and night had just set in. “Look Leo I don’t want another lecture okay? Just leave me alone,” he sounded tired.

“It’s not Leo. It’s me.”

“Oh Ellie you should go back too. I want to be alone with my stupidity for a while.”