The Super Shredder attempts to finally end Hamato Yoshi once and for all, but his plan is disrupted when there's a different body in his wake. Leonardo knows his family can't afford to lose their master, father....their true leader, so he sacrifices...
Despite many one-man picket lines and stink pellets thrown into people's open windows, I do not own TMNT.
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"Is this how you choose to die brother," The Super Shredder snarls throatily, the thunder falls of his footsteps rapidly approaching, "Lying on your belly like an animal?"
Splinter, wheezing wearily from the onslaught of merciless blows, reaches forward with shaking fingers to grip his staff. With the steadiness of a toddler taking its first steps, the mutant rat manages to get back to his feet with his staff at his side. He narrows his eyes, his mouth curling into a deep grimace of pain and boiling anger.
"Come, Saki," Splinter tempts the gargantuan mutant monstrosity before himself, "End this madness."
The Super Shredder roars an ear-splitting scream from deep within that forces its way from his mouth, as if his tainted soul has unleashed a demon. Splinter's ears twitch as he crouches into a defensive stance, waiting for the opportune moment to avast the attack, and perhaps turn his enemy's speed against him. With a soft, barely imperceptible click, the end of his staff transforms into a whip, and with a crack he ravels it around the charging mutant's leg, swinging him off the edge of the roof.
Panting heavily, Splinter slowly turns to Raphael and April, quickly flitting his eyes over them for any signs of major injuries. "Yes," Raphael crows weakly, his mouth twisting into a weak smile as he leans heavily into April, "You did it, Sensei."
"My family," Splinter gasps out, relieved.
April's smile falters, and she whispers, "Oh, no," Eyes widening in horror she screams, "Splint - No!"
The only thing Splinter could hear in those few short moments, those precious few seconds, was his own heart beating steadily, in a slow tune in his own ears. The twisted blades of bone steadily approached and he could not dodge, for there was way to twist away from the swinging arc of great blades that would soon penetrate his belly. A scream sounds off in the distance and he hears fast approaching footsteps. Then there is abruptly a great rush of wind as a body lunges in front of him, barely blocking the menacing blades of bone meant to impale him. There's a spray of crimson, blinding as it splashes against his face and a pained, guttural wheeze as the breath was forced from their body. He blinks, feeling drops of blood dribble down the fur on his face, and his mouth parts ever so slightly as he's thrown to the ground.
Splinter opens his eyes, runs his trembling fingers over his face in a poor attempt to wipe away the blood. "...No," He utters, voices the lowest of croaks, as his vision begins to blur,"N-no... i-it cannot be...!"
But his red cladded son's pained, gasping moan confirms the bloodied figure in his vision,"Leonardo!"
Leonardo is collapsed against the Super Shredder, the blades of bone impaled in his abdomen and protruding from his splintering shell. The blue cladded turtle's eyes are wide in surprise, shining with unshed tears, and a flood of blood is dribbling from his gaping mouth. The mutant turtle releases another shuddering breath, his hands twitching weakly as they claw down the mutilated mass of flesh, the monster, holding him in place. A single tear trickles down his cheek as he gasps aloud, swallowing thickly against the tide of blood rising in his throat.
