A/N: Well, for all of you guys who are still waiting for me to upload, here you go. Chapter three : )
Big, big, BIG thanks to TassanaBurrfoot for putting up with my lack of knowledge in grammar! Thanks for being such a fantastic BETA reader! :D
Chapter 3- So, you know each other?
After a few minutes, Lavina and Donatello emerged from the train car.
"Hey Don, was it really necessary to wrap up my whole arm?" Lavina asked, sitting back down on the couch.
"Better safe than sorry." Donny shrugged.
"True that," Lavina said as she traced the soft wrapping around her arm.
"V- Vee?" someone mumbled.
Lavina turned around to see Diana propping herself up on her elbows. Lavina's eyes lightened up and she ran to her friend's side.
"Diana! How do you feel?" Lavina clutched her friend's hand as if she would never let go.
"Fine." Diana opened her eyes a little bit more and looked around, and finally looked over to Donatello. "Donny?" She asked, still a little bit drowsy.
"Diana?" Don said leaning forwards to get a better look at her. "Oh my gosh, it is you! I can't believe I didn't recognize you!"
"Yep, it's me. So, how've you been?"
"Oh, fine. And by the way, you still owe me a slice of pizza," he replied.
Lavina sat and watched the two, confused. It was like they were old pals that hadn't see each other in ages, and just bumped into each other on the street. "Whoa, wait. You two know each other!?" Lavina pointed back and forth between Diana and Donatello.
"Yeah, Donny saved my life a few days ago," Diana said finally sitting up.
"Oh c'mon, I didn't 'save your life.'" Donatello waved his hand in front of him, trying to dismiss Diana's thought.
"Well, you did save me from being mugged, and I'm grateful for that." Diana walked over to Donatello and started a complicated hand shake.
Lavina still had the expression of a lost puppy. "Wait! You got mugged!?" Lavina snapped out of her 'puppy like' state and grabbed Diana's shoulders.
"Aw c'mon, Vee, you messed up our hand shake." Diana pouted.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Lavina let go of her friend's shoulders.
"Because I just didn't feel that I needed to share it." Diana shrugged and turned back to Donatello. "Hey Donny, where are your brothers that you told me about? I'm dying to meet them."
"Oh, they're probably in the dojo with your other friends." Donatello motioned the two girls to follow him as he walked off towards a room with a bright light turned on.
"Mari and Gwen are here too?" Diana asked hopefully as she ran to catch up with Don.
"Yep, the gang's all here." Lavina said jogging to her friend's side.
Donnie smiled and walked into the room. The two girls followed and were amazed by the size of the room.
"It's like a school gym," Lavina mumbled.
"Uh huh," Diana mumbled back in reply.
"Dee! You're up!" Marietta screeched.
Diana, Donatello, and Lavina looked to where the screech came from. Marietta and Gwen sat on the other side of the dojo. Marietta waved frantically for her friends to come over with them.
"I'm gonna go train with my brothers for a bit, 'kay?" Don said walking towards his sparring siblings.
Diana nodded and ran off to her friends, leaving Lavina standing in the doorway.
Lavina watched as her friend reached Marietta and Gwen. The two girls attacked Diana and she was smothered in a group bear hug.
"Lavina!" someone called from the other side of the dojo.
Lavina turned her head away from her friends and looked to the four turtles staring at her.
"You should train with us." Leonardo smiled and waved her over.
"You guys sure? I'm not really 'ninja' skilled." She said, walking over to the teenage turtles.
"Well then, training will help you with that." Leo smiled once more as Lavina reached them.
"So, what do you guys doing in trainin'?" Lavina unfolded her arms and kept her gaze on Leo, like she was almost afraid to look at the others.
"Just weapons for today," Mikey shrugged as he explained. "You said you studied the sai's, right?"
"Uh, yeah." Lavina looked to the ground.
"Raph should have a smaller pair from when he was younger. You could use them. Right, Raph?" Mikey smiled to his brother, who was glaring at them.
"Sure," he mumbled and walked to a small room to the left of them.
"How long have you studied ninjitsu?" Donatello asked, trying to avoid an awkward silence.
Lavina bit her lip, not really remembering how long she had studied. "Uh, a few years."
Raphael returned with a much smaller pair of sai's, the perfect size for Lavina.
"Here." He shoved the weapons into Lavina's small hands.
"Raph, do a few warm-up's with her," Michelangelo snickered and walked away with his brothers following him.
Raph sighed angrily, and looked over to Lavina, who was still looking at the ground. He rolled his eyes.
"Do you know black ice?" Lavina spoke up and finally looked up to Raph.
"Duh," he replied and adjusted his grip on his weapon.
"Alrighty then." Lavina backed up and went to a starting position.
Raph did the same, and started the form. Lavina tried to keep up with him, but made many falters. She cursed herself in her head; it probably looked like she had never done this before.
Raph stopped in the middle of the form and turned towards Lavina.
"You're making so many mistakes."
"Yeah, I know. I haven't done this for a while, remember?" Lavina sneered.
Raph rolled his eyes and started the form from the beginning. Lavina couldn't keep up this time. And the insults just kept on coming.
"C'mon SlowLympics. Why can't you keep up? That step was wrong. Seriously, it's not that hard. This is the easiest form there is! You should remember this by now…. Are you stupid or something?"
All those things were deep cuts for Lavina. No, she couldn't remember this. She wasn't stupid; she just couldn't remember.
After yet another mistake, Raphael turned to Lavina and glared.
"Ok, miss short-term-memory…" He growled.
Hearing this, Marietta, Diana, and Gwen looked over to their friend and the much bigger turtle teen. This wasn't going to end well.
Lavina gripped the handle of the small sai's. She whipped her head around to the turtle. Ok, enough was enough.
"Just shut up!" She yelled and threw the sai towards the wall behind her. The sai stuck into the brick wall, Lavina dropped the other sai and stormed out of the room.
Gwen walked to Raphael's side and stared at the turtle with a disgusted look on her face. "That wasn't nice, Raph." Her tone dripped with disappointment. Her, Diana, and Marietta followed Lavina out of the room.
"What ya do, Raph?" Donatello asked as he walked over to his fuming brother.
"I called her just a stupid name and she flipped out!" He threw his sai's to the ground and walked out of the dojo.
In the main portion of the lair, the three girls sat on the couch, with Lavina nowhere in sight.
Gwen looked up to Raphael, she glared at him. She stood and walked over to him. She stood only a few inches away from the dark green turtle.
"Don't you ever call my friend 'miss short-term memory' EVER AGAIN!" Gwen shouted.
The three other turtles poked their heads out from the dojo, and saw their brother glaring at Gwen.
"And why not?" Raphael stepped back and crossed his arms over his plastron.
"Because…." Gwen dragged out the word. "Lavina does have short-term memory, she forgets stuff so easily and it frustrates her, so just LAY. OFF." She poked Raph in the chest/plastron.
"Whatever." Raphael rolled his amber colored eyes and walked towards the lair's exit. He opened the door and trudged off into the sewers.
"Uh, sorry for Raph's rudeness dudette. He… he doesn't mean to be mean." Michelangelo said as he walked up to Gwen with his brothers, he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.
"It's ok, we understand. Lavina does stuff like that all the time." She sighed and walked back over to her friend's and the turtle brothers followed.
Donatello and Michelangelo sat down on the other couch, while Leonardo sat in a arm-chair.
"Hey! I know what will lighten this bummer mood!" Michelangelo said smiling widely. "Some cartoons!" He reached for the remote and clicked the TV on.
When the TV's screen turned on, the news was playing. Before Michelangelo could change the channel, Donatello put his hand out to stop him and said, "Wait, Mikey, I want to see this."
"In other news tonight, from a call into our station only a few moments ago, someone has reported a Nightwatcher sighting." The News anchor reported, and Michelangelo perked up, while Leonardo tensed up. His brothers didn't know…
"And yet another sighting was reported, of the newer vigilante, Midnight Mistress. Very few have seen this vigilante, but she is very well known around the Manhattan area. Some say that she's a heroin. But the police say she is to be feared, and that contact with her should be avoided, because she could be dangerous."
"Alright, a new kick-ass vigilante! And this one's a dudette." Michelangelo lightly bounced on the couch.
"Don't go getting any idea's, Mikey." Donatello rolled his eyes and handed the remote back to his brother.
~ShimDogGirl13~
A/N: well, there ya have it : )
The third chapter! :D Sorry it took so long ^^;
I've been dealing with a lot of stuff lately (sicknesses, back to school, etc…)
So, anyways, I know there is still probably some mistakes in there. The reason being is because I normally write and read over this story late at night when I can't sleep. So I'm always a bit tired and don't pay attention….
So stay tuned for the next chapter! (only god knows when that will be! XD )