FINAL CHAPTER: A FUTURE, A NEW ADVENTURE.

"You won't catch me!" A 12 year old girl with brown wavy hair and sparkling, chestnut brown eyes shouted running through the living room of the lair.

"Oh I will!" Raph said jokefully, catching her by the waist and span her around and around, and then made her land on the sofa tickling her.

"HAHAHAHA! Stop!" She laughed joyfully.

"Tsk…you're 12 years old and you still do games for five year olds?" A tall and thin boy said, while he was doing math homework. He had black messy hair and big, chocolate brown eyes and black nerdy glasses.

"Well you should enjoy life a little bit more Daniel, you're 10 and you study like crazy!" The smart little boy looked irritated at her and sighed rolling his eyes.

"You are so childish…" There was a 'pling!' from the computer, and Raph literally jumped fast as a horse to it to check his mail inbox.

"A new mail?" Julie asked walking out of the kitchen after cooking, along with April.

"Yes! From Melanie!" Raph said with brilliant eyes. Julie remembered well that night 12 years ago. After the victory party, the Ninja Tribunal had gathered them in The Lap of The Gods for some important information.

"A while ago, we stopped Leo's transformation so you won't get distracted from your mission…" Chikara started,

"WHAT?!" Julie exclaimed.

"But, yesterday night, we felt that the spell suddenly broke. Your love was so strong…and we've decided that both Leo and Donnie will from now on be able to transform to humans and back to Turtles whenever they want!"

That news had made Julie and April very happy and thanks to this, the two new Hamato families had grown: Julie had two new kids: Raffaele and Chiara, while April had four: Daniel, the twins Casey and Jimmy and finally little Shadow. But that night, there was a bad news for Raph too:

"Melanie, as a princess you have enormous powers, which can bring your planet back to life. And as its queen you have an important task: build it up again and rein it."

"Does this mean that I will not live on earth?"

"Exactly." Raph became furious.

"Wait a sec, what the f…" Melanie stopped him.

"Raph stop! In fact I had already thought that I might had to go back to Hikarishi…and I understood that I can't be egoistic and only think about myself when I can save millions of people. So…I will go." Raph couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Melanie…what will happen to us?" She looked sadly at him.

"Listen…I have a task, but that doesn't mean that we have to part completely! We can stay in touch…and I'll come and visit…" Her voice started trembling.

"And then…I'll never stop loving you! We…we all have to do sacrifices in life…I know we'll meet again! Right?" He had teary eyes.

"Melanie…I…" She dragged him close to her and kissed him, with tears flowing down her cheeks.

"You'll always be my love, no matter what will happen!..." She ran out of the hall, and left the next day.

But now, Raph seemed his normal self, and Melanie came and visited at least once a month and they kept very much in touch through mails and phone calls, and Raph loved her as much as before. Chiara came out of the kitchen with her apron dirty of food.

"I'm glad to see uncle so happy!"

"Me too!" Julie smiled.

"Casey, Jimmy! Get away from that PlayStation and Mikey, be a good rolemodel for them!" April said tiredly to Casey and Jimmy, who were playing at Justice Kart with their uncle.

"But Mooom! We're almost done; it's the last round of the race!" Casey said whining.

"Yeah, let us finish!" Mikey said moving fast the buttons on the control concentrated.

"Guuuys! I'm trying to concentrate here!" Raffaele said, drawing a masterpiece on the floor some meters away. April sighed and said to Julie:

"Shadow is training with Splinter, isn't she?"

"Yep! I can call her if you want, Donnie will soon be here…along with Leo!" April laughed.

"I think she'll notice it by her own, that child has a fantastic hearing!" Julie laughed too and helped her set the table. The Turtles had now got a job from the Ninja Tribunal: they got paid to protect the Ninja Tribunal's Castle and areas when monsters attacked. Thanks to this, they could maintain their families.

Shadow was sitting in the dojo meditating with Splinter. Even if she was only 8 years old, she already had the natural gifts of a true ninja, so her grandpa decided to train her from a tender age, and she was very happy about it. Suddenly, she heard a familiar voice coming from outside:

"We're home!" Donnie shouted.

"Pardon me Grandpa, I have to go!" Splinter smile and rose up to welcome his sons, while Shadow ran to her father.

"DAD!" All four of Donnie's children ran in his arms.

"My sweeties!" He hugged them tightly. "Are you alright?" They all nodded with radiant smiles. Miwa, Raffaele and Chiara hugged their father lovingly.

"Daddy, I've done a pretty drawing I can show you later!" Raffaele said excited.

"Of course!" He hugged them again.

"Hi my love…" Julie said coming closer. They kissed with a jokefull 'bleaaah!" From the kids, who covered their eyes laughing. Everyone laughed and then ate all together and talked about what they'd done during the day.

Later, at 05.30 in the morning, Julie couldn't sleep anymore, so she walked out on the roof to take some fresh air.

She looked at the yellow-blue sky, and thought about things. Many years had passed, and everything had gone well. Now the whole Hamato family was living happily and serene. The most amazing thing was that she could never thought about a better life. And all thanks to that comic book she found in the attic 15 years ago.

"You cannot sleep?" She turned around. It was Leo, who walked towards her. "It's a splendid sunrise…"

"Yes…" She smiled. They looked at the sky silently for some minutes as the sun was rising, and then Leo said:

"Shall we go inside?" Julie nodded and hand in hand, they looked one last time at the sky and the rising sun. She thought that everything had gone exactly as in fairy tales. Everyone had got their happily ever after. Surely, she got hers.

THE END!

THE LAST A/N: Hi folks! So…this is the end! Oh…time has gone so freaking fast it's scary! You know, it's been a year since I first wrote TMNT Next Dimension in Italian, in my notebook. Back then, I thought I would never be able to publish my work anywhere since I knew it was illegal. So I kept writing the story and the other books reading them for my sisters. And finally six months ago, I got to know that it was legal publish them online, so I did it: I translated my first fic to English here and Quotev for my friend and on . At first, I thought my fics would just get lost in the stream, and that no one would read it since there were so many other much better fics. But then, people actually started liking my stories, I got true fans who read and supported my story and gave it so much positive feedback I honestly never thought I could get, and I'm not kidding.

If my saga has gone this far, if I've continued publish them in English, it's thanks to each and every single of you readers and visitors. Without you, this saga wouldn't even be online. I honestly so, so so sooo happy and lucky to have such sweet and sincere fans, seriously, I am. I'm thankful for to all of you for reading and enjoying my stories as much as you did. I don't care if you've just read this story, or started reading at Nightfall or has followed me form the very beginning, I'm so thankful to all of you, old and new fans. I'll never, ever forget you ^^ :,D You are the best fans a writer could ever wish to have, thanks so much for all your support, tips and reviews! :DD

But now, I want to hear from you: Which was your favorite story of all four or of them you've read so far? Your fav chapter? Fav OC?

What would you like to see in my maybe 5th fanfic? More lovey-dovey, more action or blood, more from a certain pair in the story? And what was your fav pair? What should I do better (A goal to myself: You must better your grammar Sushi! XD) all this feedback is very important to me, to bring you another amazing story in the future, so if you can, answer some of the questions if you want XD

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-Sushi :D