Lily stared at the creature in the blue mask for a heartbeat or two as she carefully thought over his words. A small frown marring her face as she thought, I've been into contact with one of their family. This guy must be insane. She was pretty sure that she would have noticed if she had come into contact with someone like them. Not that she was going to say anything about it to antagonize the guy with the two sharp pointy swords strapped to his back.

He might try to poke her with one of the sharp pointy thingys. And then she'd have to sic Stormy on him like she had his little friend in orange.

"Well," Blue demanded as he glared at her. "Are you going to tell us what we want to know?"

Probably not. She thought before saying, "No. Because you sound like an utter lunatic. Now get out of my home before I sic Stormy on all of you." Shifting on her bed slightly, she started to lay back down and paused just long enough for Stormy as the kitten trotted over and flopped down next to her on the bed and glared warningly as only a mean spirited Siamese kitten could, at the four intruders.

Blue's eyes narrowed at her as he made a low rumbling growling sound and said something to the others in what must have been a combination of mandarin and Japanese or something. Because she could only make out three or so words with the guy and his friends switching languages back and forth while talking.

The jerks. Lily thought as she reached out absently and tapped Stormy on her right paw with the tip of her index finger. Trying to work the kitten up to stroke level rage in a short amount of time like tapping her paws always seemed to do. She'd had enough of the four jackasses harassing her and keeping her awake.

Now it was time to retaliate-

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Splinter had awoken to an empty lair and a deeply rooted feeling of... Worry? Panic? No that wasn't exactly it. What he was feeling was something else altogether. Fear perhaps. Scowling to himself in the dark, Splinter sat up in his bed and looked around at the knick knacks and things he had collected over the years with the help of his children.

The two small Japanese style tea sets that his youngest son had carefully crafted then had his eldest brother carve patterns into the side of the cups and kettle. One was a dragon and flower design. And the other was little koi fish that looked so real and life like that they looked as if they would swim right off of the kettle and matching cups. And then there was the incense and medicinal herbal teas painstakingly put together by his smartest son Donatello to help him with his arthritis, immune system and breathing since he often had trouble with allergies now that he was much older than he used to be.

And now that he thought about how thoughtful his son's were. Even his second eldest son Raphael who had 'anger' and 'self esteem' issues... Well he couldn't help but wonder- What exactly was it that had awoken him?

He didn't really remember anymore.

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Lily covered her mouth to stifle a laugh as she watched from her bed as the four big strong men were cornered by her little Stormy, thinking that maybe she had gone a bit overboard by sic'n her kitten on them.

The hissing and spitting little hellion hopped from one side of the small corner she had the strangers backed into- to another. Swiping at them with her little claws and nipping at their ankles with her sharp little teeth as three of the four screamed in fear and horror and tried to climb the walls. While the third tried desperately to shoo the kitten away and had to give up when Stormy launched herself at him and attached herself to his hand with a growl.

"Ouch!" He hissed as he shook his hand in an effort to dislodge the kitten as another one screamed like a little girl and made for the window.

"It's got Donny! It's every turtle for himself!"