TMNT: I Fight Alone

Chapter 20: Starry Night

(Y/n) POV

My fingers clenched around Mickeys cold hard face like a coffin not yet ready to close. All thought of sanity and peace was all but gone now, and the only thoughts that filtered through my head was Mickey.

I didn't know him long, but I knew him long enough to know that he is sweet, and kind, and thoughtful, maybe sometimes a little too energetic but thats what I love about him most! He has his own personality that he made for himself.

Such a bold trait I could never seem to grasp.

But now he lay here in my arms, completely empty of his spontanious personality. His face held an open expression, but it seemed completely empty. It was like someone had come in and just cut out the parts of Mickey that made him Mickey.

"YOU DID THIS!" I bellowed into the air, but I know who the real person to blame was.

The person who didn't take a chance to save her friend in need. They purposfully placed Mickey in this room with me, set me up, and tested my reactions.

And I failed.

After a couple hours had passed, I passed out from exhaustion.

3rd persons POV

(Y/N) woke up in a new room, this time, instead of a bright, beachy room, she found herself in a dark forest-themed room.

The lights strung to the ceiling above her head shone dimly, casting long shadows over the various plants and rocks scattered randomly over the floor. The room had to be about the size of a school cafeteria, stretching down about 60 feet until hitting a solid, black wall.

(y/n) faintly stood to her feet, her head swaying slowly as if some silent music was pulsing through her head.

With weary eyes and various steps, (Y/n) proceeded to step forward into the darkness, the shadows engulfing her and reeling her into its nasty clutches.

She wandered around for a while until a wave of hunger washed over her.

Walking any further seemed unimaginable, so (Y/n) decided to sit herself down against the trunk of an old tree and close her eyes, acceoting that this may as very well be the place where she drew her last breath.

Overtime her observers became bored of the lack of excitement they were seeing, so they decided to move things on a bit,

"(Y/n)?" Donnie approached (Y/n) carefully, not quite sure to trust the figure he had spotted just yet.

With one arm behind him, holding his other brother back, he slowly advanced toward (Y/n), who kept her eyes shut in hopes that the voices would go away and she could die in peace.

But they didn't.

Donnie layed a hand on her shoulder, proving to her that her worst fears were indeed true.

"Get away from me!" She shrieked, jumping away from Donnie and Leo shaking her head profusely.

They are going to hurt them. They are going to hurt me. Theybare going to kill them, and it will be my fault, (Y/n) thought to herself, her blood racing.

She glanced up at Donnie, his face was sunken and bruised, and he looked frightened. (Y/n) could tell that for once, Donnie had no clue what to do. He was absolutely clueless.

And Leo, well he looked awful. His limp was way more evident now than it had ever been. His face was bleeding and his arms were scrapped up pretty badly as well.

(Y/n) choked back a sob and rushed forward, embracing the two brothers.

She cried her heart out, whispering apologies after apologies for Mickey, for them, for everyone.

It wasnt until she looked up did she see that Leo and Donnie were crying as well, which made her bawl even more.

For a while the group sat on the ground together and just sobbed until their hearts hurt. They comforted each other and supported one another until they could cry no more.

"Im so glad you guys are O.K" (Y/n) sniffled, placing her hand on Leo's thigh and glancing at Donnie, acknowledging them both.

Leo blushed slightly, rolling onto his back. (Y/n) and Donnie did the same, laying on eother side of Leo.

And tofetger they sat, staring at the eerie ceiling as if it was a bright starry night.

For a while, things even seemed peaceful, then the vines frim the tress above the three teenagers bagan slowly growing down towards them, wrapping around their limbs and wrapping tighter and tighter the more they struggled.

"Leo!" Donnie screamed as a vine wrapped around his neck, cutting him off short. He gagged, desperately trying to suck in air but finding himself unable to.

"Donnie!" (Y/n) bellowed, ripping vine after vine from her arms and torso, but they grew back just as fast, maybe even faster. Soon Donnie was completely covered in vines, invisibke in a mess of vines and leaves.

"No!" Leo yelled, tearing vines from his legs and chest in bunches, looking like a gorilla on a rampage, but the snake-like vines were just too quick.

With a strangled yelp, a vine stuck around his neck and pulled tight, snapping it sharply.

"LEO" (Y/n) wailed, tears streaming down her face. Her hair flew around wildly as she shook against the leaves and vines until eventually they went slack, dropping her and her friends to the ground.

"No, no please no" she whispered, dragging herself over to the limp bodies of her friends.

Leo was the first one she crawled to, his neck at an awkward angle and his arms scratched bare.

"I never got to," she choked back a sob, "tell you how I feel about you" she whimpered, placing her head on his plastron.

She didnt forget about Donnie, it was just too painful for her to see him like Leo. So there she sat, where she sat only minutes ago with her friends, staring at the ceiling, but now she was staring at the ground, the ground of which she had let her friends blood wash away.

Where she had failed to save her friends as they had done for her what seems like only days ago. And she knew it wasn't over. There was still one more that she had yet to kill.

Raphael