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Shadows in the night	By : selfless1978 Category: +S through Z > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Views: 2290 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Leo stood on the edge of a building, his form outlined against the full moon and the cool breeze taking ahold of his mask ties, making them gently wave in the cool night air. He calmly surveyed his surroundings enjoying the peaceful night. The city had been quiet the last few weeks with the Foot still in hiding and the Purple Dragons not being up to their usuall mischief. The last few patrols he and his brothers had gone on they didn't even bag a single mugger. He had seen quiet phases like this before and was always greatfull for them but his insticts told him something was brewing.
"It's been so quiet lately." Raph said as he walked over to stand next to his older brother, echoing the very same thoughts Leo had been thinking. "If it keeps up like this we are gonna get flabby and out of practice."
Leo smilled. "Now, you know I'd never let that happen. I'll keep you in shape, even if I have to beat up on you myself."
His red masked brother chuckled. Then he looked at Leo. "What's bothering you. You have been quiet all night."
"I don't know, Raph. I just have this uneasy feeling that something is about to go down."
Raph turned his head to look out over the city. "You know, these insticts of yours would be a lot more helpful if they would give you more information."
"I know, but it doesn't work that way."
"I didn't say it did. I just said it would be nice."
Leo couldn't help it, he laughed.
There had been a time when he never felt so relaxed around Raph. When they were teenagers it had always been a constant struggle to keep him in line. He had been quick to anger, rebelious and he had gotten them into serious trouble more than once. He had often disappeared on his own to the frustration to Leo and Splinter. Raph had always seemed on the verge of an explosion. Leo could never understand why his brother had so much anger. Splinter had tried numerous times to help him let it out in a positive way.
Then one day, after a particular nasty disagreement between him and Raph, his brother had lost all of his self control. Raph had drawn his sais and went after Leo with a fury he had never seen in his brother before. It had been all Leo could do to hold him back and he had tried desperatly to calm Raph down. Finally they had locked blades, their faces inches apart, with Raph's sai points aimed at Leo's face. Leo then had asked his brother "Do you want to kill me, Raph?"
That one question had snapped Raph out of his rage. He had looked in horror at what he was doing then had backed off from Leo, dropped his weapons and collapsed to the floor. He had then looked up at Leo. "Leo, please help me, I can't control it anymore..."
Leo had dropped his katanas and knelt in front of his brother on the floor, put his hands on Raph's shoulders and said "Raph, that's all I have ever wanted to do is help you. You just never would let me in. So I'm asking you to let me in now. Let me help you." Raph had then let all of his defenses down and he and Leo talked for hours about his feelings, frustrations and hurts. Years worth of hurtful emotions bottled in finally came out into the open and Leo had helped his brother work past them. The end result being a Raph who now would talk if he felt like he was loosing control, he was more open to his brothers. They all worked now a lot better as a team than they did before. Raph still lost his temper on occasion but it was nowhere near as bad as it used to be.
"OK, you got quiet again. What are you thinking about now?"
"On how much we have changed over the years."
"Getting sentimental now are you?" Raph smiled "Fatherhood is turning you into a pansyass."
"Yeah, but I like it, so your stuck with a pansyass for a leader." Leo grinned back at his brother.
"So, should I call you Pansy now instead of Fearless?"
"Sure, if you will let me call you Muffin."
"Do I look like a cat to you?"
"I'm sure we can find a cute kitty costume for you to wear."
"Good luck trying to get it on me. This kitty has some big claws." Raph pulled out his sais, spun them and flipped them back into their holders.
"I was going to let Amy do it." Leo grinned. "She has you wrapped around her finger, Raph."
"Hey, it's the dimples. How can you resist a little girl with dimples?"
"Easy. You say 'No.' "
"Pffft. That's your job. Your the one that took over the father role. I'm her uncle, I get to spoil her."
"Don't let Vicky hear you say that. She might have some choice words to say to you about that."
"I wasn't planning on telling her."
Leo laughed. "Come on. Let's go round up Donnie and Mikey and go home. Don't look like anything is going on tonight anymore."
"Yeah. I don't think-" Raph stopped talking as the sound of gunfire rang out into the night, a lot of it. After a stunned glance at each other they took off over the rooftops towards the sound. Leo could see a couple of blocks over that Donnie and Mikey were also running toward the noise. They started to veer in to meet up with Leo and Raph as they all ran.
The gunfire had by now ceased but they found the spot where the shooting took place with no effort. That was because the street below them had about ten men lying on the ground, all of them maimed in someway and all of them dead. There were body parts and assault rifles scatterd in the street. It looked like a scene from a horror movie.
"Whoa...Dudes, what happened?" Mikey asked.
"I don't know." Leo replied. He lead the way down to the street.
Once they reached the ground Donnie began looking over the corpses while his brothers spread out and searched the area. After a bit of searching Raph called them over to where he was next to a broken window. As Leo and Mikey reached him he held up what looked like a tuft of hair. "I found this stuck on some of the broken glass still in the windowframe."
Donnie came over to join them. "Those men had been torn apart. They all have what looks like claw marks on them and some of them have had limbs just ripped out. What do you have there Raph?" Raph handed the hair to him and Donnie looked it over. "This looks like animal hair. I'll take this back with us and look it over in the lab."
"So who are the guys that got turned into hamburger meat?" Raph asked.
"I don't know. They are too mangled up to tell. And I'm not going to sit here the rest of the night trying to play 'Which body part belongs to who.' " Donnie replied.
"Smart ass."
"Knock it off you two." Leo then entered the building with the broken window. The broken glass was on the inside of the the building which meant that it had been broken in to, not out of. He then carefully walked around the inside. The place was in complete disarray, things had been pulled off of shelves as if someone was trying to find something in a hurry. After looking around he went back carefully out through the window. "It's a pharmacy."
"I could have told you that by looking at the sign." Raph, said pointing to the sign over the main doorway.
"Do you have to do that?"
"Yes, I think I do."
Leo glared at his brother. Raph just grinned back at him.
"You know Raph, there are times when you are more annoying than, Mikey" Donnie said.
Mikey spoke up "Hey! Nobody is more annoying than me. That's my specialty."
Leo closed his eyes and sighed 'Why me.' he thought then said "It seems like someone, or something, broke into the place and ransacked it looking for something. Apparently when whoever was leaving these poor guys came onto the scene."

"Anyway you can tell what they took?" Raph asked.
Leo shook his head. "Not with the way the place is tore apart."
Donnie thoughtfully tapped his chin. "Maybe I can hack into the police files later on. We can find out what's missing that way. That is, if the owner makes a report on it."
"Speaking of, dudes. Listen." Mikey said. They heard sirens off in the distance.
"That's our cue to go, guys." Leo then turned and scaled the building. his brothers right behind him. They stood watching from the rooftop for a while. Leo found his thoughts wandering. What had happened here tonight? What on earth had torn those men apart? What had they been shooting at that they couldn't take down with all thoses weapons? The more he thought about it the more questions he had. He sighed, there was nothing they could do here anymore. Leo looked to his brothers. "Lets go home." They quietly slipped away into the night.
Leo knew that feeling he had earlier was dead on. Sometimes he hated it when he was right.
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