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Brotherhood-Chapter 4

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Brotherhood

Chapter 4-Despair

I'm trying to find it. I've lost it, and no matter how much I search, I can't find it. It's hiding from me, taunting me. I look for it in the leftover pizza we always keep lying around. But it's not there. I look for it in the video games that I always play in between training sessions. It isn't there either. I get out my precious horror and science-fiction movies, but still, nothing. I'm getting desperate, I actually try searching for it in the training sessions I always groan over. I find something there, but not what I'm looking for. I'm pretty much ready to resign myself, but I have one place left to look. I'm almost afraid to even try it, I'm terrified that it might fail me. I search for it, thoroughly, endlessly, within my comic books. BUT EVEN MY BELOVED SUPERHEROES, WHO'VE NEVER FAILED BEFORE, FAIL ME NOW!
"UGH!!!"
I contemplate throwing my whole collection all around the lair in a tantrum, before just sighing and putting it back into order. Exhausted after hours of looking for it, I collapse onto the couch, staring blankly at the news on the television, too tired to reach for the remote. I hear a soft mew, and I sit up, looking over near the pantry.
"No no no no! Bad kitty! Pizza is not for you!"
I just barely manage to snatch up Klunk before he gets his first taste of our food. Sighing with relief, I put the box away on a high shelf, and carry Klunk back over to the couch with me.
"Klunk, you should know better than that! Kitties get Kibble, not pizza pie!"
The orange tabby just mews at me, and I can't help but smile. Except it's still missing. Without it, the smile is just empty. But an empty smile is better than no smile at all, and I just lay there on the couch, my little pet curled up on my stomach. I feel my eyelids get heavy, even though it's nowhere near time for bed. I hear my shell cell ring, but it's too far away from where I am for it to matter. I wonder to myself, maybe I'll find it if I can just close my eyes for a while. I hear a familiar voice. Raph's? It doesn't matter, what I'm looking for isn't there. Even so, my connection with my family forces me to strain myself to listen. I can't make out the first part, it doesn't reach me. I sit up, gently moving Klunk to my lap, so as not to disrupt his sleep. I might as well not have, since the next thing I hear from the shell cell makes me jump up from the couch.
"...I think he's gonna jump!!"
"WHAT?!"
I rush for the nearest shell sled, leaving a slightly dazed Klunk on the couch.
"Klunk, you're in charge of holding down the fort! If I catch you in the pizza box again, you're grounded!"
I speed off out of the lair, into the dark, dank sewer tunnels that have always been my home. The only difference is, now that I've left the lair, I'm in danger. Danger of the thing that I fear finding me, taking me away from my family. I drive for a few minutes, aimlessly, turning away from where I sense the thing I fear, before I realize that I'm lost. It's only happened to me once before, getting lost, I mean. Then, I remember being lost in the same place before. I rev the engine, I speed off again. I follow the path that our Sensei showed me when I was young, after a close call with some bad humans on the surface. I remember his words when we reached the end, I power through the exit of the same tunnel.
"Look, my son. You see the great statue on that island in the distance?"
"Yes, Master Splinter."
"Do you know what that statue represents, Michelangelo?"
"No, Sensei."
"It represents liberty, for all humans. It was a gift from another country, meant to inspire peace. Although that peace does not extend towards beings such as ourselves, we should cherish the fact that being the minority allows us to create peace more readily than the surface world."
"I... I don't really get it, Sensei."
"Don't worry, my son. You will, one day."

My memory is broken as Raph crashes down onto the back of the sled.
"YIPE! Jeez, Raph. What train ran you over?"
"Faster, Mikey, faster!"
I know better than to argue, I kick it into high gear, crashing down the river. I look up briefly, I see Leo, my eldest brother, the responsible one, doing one of the most irresponsible things I can imagine. He's trying to commit suicide! The thing that I fear the most starts to reach for me, as I watch in horror as Leo jumps, Donnie catching him, then screaming as they both start falling. But Raph saves me, the thing is dispelled, as he jumps over me, landing on the hood of the shell sled.
"DUDE, RAPH, I CAN'T SEE!"
He isn't listening, he's too focused on the situation, on saving our family from suffering anymore.
"MIKEY, HIT THE BRAKES, RIGHT NOW!"
For a brief moment, I wonder what he's doing, then I do as he tells me. The shell sled screeches to a halt, along with me, and everything in the entire world. The only things left moving in all the world at that moment were Raph, Donnie and Leo. One was flying, two were falling. For the slightest moment, I find what I had spent the entire day searching for. When I see that we, as a family, are all working together so hard to keep our bonds from breaking, I'm able to feel it. Happiness...
Then, as Leo and Don crash to the ground safely, Raph charging off again, it's gone as soon as it arrived.
Here is Brotherhood chapter 4, this one from the point of view of my personal favorite Ninja Turtle. (Take a wild guess.) Sorry I didn't upload this sooner, this thing called school got in the way. Anyway, please enjoy!
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Terrve's avatar
Mikey's your favorite, Sensei? What about Raphie-boy? Anyway, IT'S SO PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...um, I mean, this chapter is awesome! lol