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Chapter 10: Revived
Mike was thrown back screaming as electricity slamming into his frame and sent agonizing pain through every inch.
Mike crumpled into a heap upon hitting the ground and didn't move.
"NO!" Raph roared, attempting to reach Mike.
Raph stopped short when Jacob snarled a warning before turning once again towards the youngest Hamato.
Then before anyone else could re-act a brilliant burst of light exploded between Mike and Jacob.
Jacob jerked back, color draining from his face; he covered his face in a desperate attempt to block the light.
"JACOB," it was roar of rage, a deep fury.
The light faded to reveal a woman, nearly translucent in her paleness between Jacob and Mike.
"No…you're dead! How?" Jacob gasped.
"It's time to be punished Jacob," she whispered, her voice echoing and sounding similar to melodious wind chimes.
"You?" Jacob threw his head back and laughed, "you can't hurt me."
"But I can," came a stern, dangerous, voice.
Don's head , along with everyone else's, snapped to the other side of Jacob.
Leo stood tall and perilous, electricity crackling at his fingertips, his eyes bright pools of golden-brown blazing like fire.
Don heard April's breath come in sharply next to him and Raph's gasp.
Jacob laughed.
"You're too much of a coward Leonardo, you'll never beat me. You tried once remember? You tried to kill me and failed," Jacob scoffed gesturing outward as if daring Leo to strike.
And Leo did.
Jacob was slammed against the wall of the barn over a hundred feet away with Leo running straight for him a ball of electrical power cupped in his hands. Jacob slowly stood, just in time for Leo to lay a solid punch into the man's stomach, pushing the electrical power into the man and then in one smooth motion dragging it back out again and laying Jacob out with a series of kicks to the head.
Jacob staggered back up and dropped into a stance hold twin balls of electricity in his hands and snarling in rage at the eldest Hamato.
Leo mimicked the stance, exploding sound at the elder turtle causing him to stagger and shake his head. Then in tandem with Leo's explosive sounds, bright light from the girl began to flash behind him, blinding Jacob and allowing Leo to land blows.
Jacob lashed out burning Leo's arms and sides with the electrical power in his hands, but Leo never even flinched.
Rage and the desire for revenge poured adrenalin into every pore of Leo's body and before he knew it Jacob lay broken at his feet, coughing up blood from a last blow to the face and sporting burns.
The girl stepped up beside Leo and they both stared down at Jacob then after glancing at each other they moved forward and with a single identical motion they touched a forefinger to Jacob's forehead and the man screamed.
Then he slumped, unmoving on the ground.
Leo staggered and the girl caught him and slowed his progress as he slumped into an exhausted heap.
Raph bolted over to Mike as Don scrambled towards Leo and both men inspected their siblings.
Mike moaned before waking and clutching his stomach where the burns were as Raph got to him.
"What happened?" he managed.
"Leo…well…just beat the crap out of Jacob," Raph sputtered.
"He's alive?" Mike gasped.
Raph blinked and nodded.
"Well he was…Don's checking on him now," Raph whispered as he helped Mike get up so as to move him into the house.
April had darted inside with Casey to gather medical supplies and to make some food.
Don had knelt beside Leo and the girl and was searching for the eldest's pulse.
"He's gone Donnie," she whispered, tears rolling down her cheeks, "it took all he had left."
"No," Don choked, "please no."
Don pulled his brother to him and clutching the limp figure, wept.
"Jacob always said they end up killing each other," she whispered, her white hair twisting around her. Then before Don's eyes she changed the pure, translucent, white shifted steadily to the opaque and darkened. After a few moments the tips of her fingers were the darkest black and it crawled up her frame till it consumed all but her sapphire blue eyes.
Long black locks twisted around her as she stood and a lamenting song swirled around her, tears rolled down her cheeks and she wept.
Then a gasp made them freeze and the sound of the electricity in the barn groaning made them turn to look at Leo.
Don slowly laid Leo back down and waited, fingers glued to his brother's wrist.
Then Leo coughed, blood flecking his cheeks, before golden-brown eyes fluttered open.
Then instantly, the girl was no longer darker than night but as she had been when Don had first seen her.
"Leo," she breathed, "how?"
Leo opened his hand to reveal a handful of batteries and coughed weakly.
"Just enough to make my heart start again," Leo choked, "then I just grabbed onto the only other source of power."
"You're insane," Don laughed, shaking his head.
Leo managed a weak smile before coughing.
"Sorry to complain, but everything hurts and I'm cold," Leo mumbled, eyes fluttering closed.
"Let's get him inside," the girl whispered, helping Don stand while holding Leo in his arms.
Jacob's body lay abandoned in the grass, it was burned the next day by the two who had been his victims.
"What's your name?" Don asked the girl after they got Leo bandaged and comfortable.
"Lucy," the girl replied.
It took a good four months before Leo fully recovered from the fight and in that time he watched with a smile as Mike and Lucy formed a bond and a spark of romance crackled between them.
The End
A/N: Sorry for the long delays in updates, I've had a lot going on. At the time I'm not planning on a sequel for this fic, but I might start working on one if enough people would like to see more. Hope you all enjoyed the ride and I look forward to hearing from you guys on my other works.