A/N Don't own the turtles, only the OC's!

Hello all! Welcome to Part 2! Anybody have any guesses on what is going on so far? Yes, No, confused, worried? Well read on!

p.s think of this as a continuation but a different arc of the story if you will. I hope you enjoy!

Morning Star: Part 2 Chapter 1

Raphael lay crushed into the snow. He couldn't even breathe, the weight of the hound upon his back had forced all of the air from his lungs and he could no longer inhale, not that it mattered since his face was pressed into the frigid snow anyway.

Bells rang through the night, toning like the sad gong of a cemetery bell.

"Here puppy puppy, come fetch the stick." A muffled voice came from behind him. "There's a good ugly puppy."

Raphael felt the weight on his back disappear as he took in a gasp of much needed air.

He coughed as he pushed himself to his knees.

"Bye bye ugly." The voice said.

He watched as a figure dressed from head to toe in black pulled back a bow. The figure let loose a blue arrow that blazed red. The arrow struck the hound in the chest. The hound let out a whimper of pain before it began to disintegrate.

Raphael wildly looked around for the figure in black, but he was already gone.

Michelangelo tried to get his leg from the mouth of the Hellhound but it wasn't letting go. Bells tolled in the distance. The Hellhound let go of his leg as its massive head turned towards the sound. There was a black blur and suddenly the Hellhound's head separated from its body. Michelangelo looked in shock at the head as it began to disintegrate in front of him.

"Oh gross." He said as he scrambled back until he felt Donatello at his back.

The other hound seemed to be tracking something they couldn't see. The hound pulled back black lips and growled. It lunged and hit a black figure. The Hellhound crushed the figure underneath massive paws. A figure in black shot with blue, blocked a mouth full of razor sharp teeth with one Katana blade as he plunged the other through its chest. The hound whimpered as the figure pushed the disintegrating body off him. He stood, looked at them, and then was gone.

Michelangelo looked at Donatello in confusion. Whoever it had been was wearing some sort of black suit that completely covered the figure from head to toe. He had worn a full face helmet with a strip of blue running across the side. The black visor blocked the wearers eyes and face from view. Black armour had covered the torso over whatever fabric the suit itself was made of. Blue arm guards and shin guards had covered his arms and legs, black boots adorned his feet.

"Who was that?" He asked Donatello.

Leonardo watched as the mantis demons crouched, ready to pounce. He pulled Strabright in close. "Close your eyes sweetheart." He told her as regret welled up in him. He should have listened to Katherine and took the girls to the lair and out of harm's way. But because of his stubbornness, his selfishness, Starbright was going to die.

The sound of bells ripped through the night. The bells tolled and rang with such sadness, such utter and total despair, that Leonardo was surprised at the sorrow that welled in him at the sound.

The demons stopped and stood straight as if they were confused at the sound.

"Mommy!" Starbright shouted happily.

Leonardo didn't even see the blades coming, didn't even hear them as they ripped through flesh and bone as easily as a hot knife through butter. The demons screamed as they fell, their blood arching through the night sky, spraying bright red blood onto fresh white snow.

"Don't touch the blood Daddy." Starbright warned as a petite figure suddenly appeared in front of them, black wings blocking them from the spray of demon blood.

Then the figure was gone, and all he had glimpsed were black robes, and black feathered wings.

He looked at the blood spattered ground and watched the blood steam and melt through the snow and begin eating into the ground beneath.

He looked at the strange bladed weapon driven into the ground in front of him. It was comprised of one piece of metal, a blade on each end of the 4 foot slightly curved weapon. Each blade was single edged and triangular in shape. The other side of each blade bore a hooked piece of metal. In the center black, blue and purple ribbons fluttered in the slight wind, bells ringing softly.

Starbright walked up to the weapon which was bigger than she was. She pulled it easily from the ground and split it in the middle. She gave him half. He looked at the blade in shock. It glinted with a strange silver light.

"Starbright, that was your mom?" He asked softly as he knelt in the snow.

She nodded happily as bells rang out through the night. Screams and shouts began echoing through the dark. There were flashes of red and silver that lit up the darkness around them. All thoughts of running to the cemetery deserted him.

Starbright held her blade defensively in front of her. He recognized the stance, it was one that he always used against rapidly approaching enemies.

She pulled back her arm and threw the blade. The bells didn't even chime as the blade struck home in the head of a Hellhound. It collapsed to the ground where it disintegrated.

He looked at the spot where the hound had fallen. He hadn't even seen or heard it coming.

"3 o'clock!" Starbright said suddenly. He threw the blade as she had to his right. There was a yip of pain as another Hellhound fell to the ground. Starbright held out her hands and both ends of the blade reappeared in her hands creating the single weapon again.

Michelangelo and Donatello collapsed beside him. He looked at Michelangelo whose leg looked to have been badly mauled. Blood was soaking through his jeans. He looked at Donatello whose left arm hung limply at his side, his sleeve nothing but a mass of crimson wetness.

Raphael stumbled out of the brush to his left. He avoided the holes in the ground caused by the demon's caustic blood.

Raphael stood in front of his brothers against the figures that emerged from the darkness. There were 5 figures in all. The woman stood in the middle. Large black wings fluttered in the night. She was dressed in black robes that fell to the ground. She wore black shoulder guards and a black breast plate with a gold tipped black butterfly emblazoned upon the held the twin of the bladed weapon Strabright now held, in a hand encased in clawed, black metal, gauntlets. She sheathed the weapon, the other weapon disappearing from Starbright's hand to settle itself on the woman's back. She wore an elaborate black headdress with blue and purple accents. The mirror image of a white crescent moon with the points facing up and down was emblazoned upon the headdress that obscured her hair. A silver metal visor covered her eyes and most of her face. All he could see was the bottom of her pale chin and lips the colour of blueberries. She was drenched in the blood of demons, but this did not seem to bother her.

"5 minutes." The man to the woman's left said to the rest of them. They were all dressed identically in black bio-suits of some sort which covered them from head to toe, even muffling their voices. The man directly to the woman's right was in a completely black suit, two sai sheathed at his sides. He stood beside a man on the end whose suit was accented in blue, two Katana strapped to his back. The man who had told them they had 5 minutes, his suit was accented in purple, a halberd strapped to his back. To his left was another man all in black, a bow slung across his shoulders.

"Where is she!" The man with the sais shouted. "Where is my daughter!" He roared.

Leonardo clutched Starbright to him protectively. "Daddy!" She yelled at the man on the end with the katana blades strapped to his back.

The man took a step forward. "Let go of my daughter." He growled.

"Darkness!" The man with the sais said in panic. The woman tipped her head to the side and pointed a clawed finger towards them.

"Daddy!" Starlight yelled as she stumbled from the brush. She ran to Raphael as he bent down and pulled her into his arms. He hugged her close. "I'm sorry daddy. I'm so, so sorry. There wasn't anything I could do." She sobbed into his shoulder.

"3 minutes." The man with the halberd said.

"What happened?" Raphael choked out as he brushed the tears from Stralight's cheeks.

"Mommy hid me, but, the demon he..." She swallowed hard as Leonardo felt his vision turn black. "He took her." She said miserably.

"Starlight, Starbright, we need to take you home. Now!" The man with the halberd said.

"But he took other mommy!" Starlight yelled at him. The men all looked at each other, then back at the little girl.

"Do you know where he took her?" Leonardo asked desperately.

Starlight nodded."To Hell." She said softly.

"We have to go, now!" The man with the Katanas said.

"Daddy, we can't leave, they took other mommy!" Starbright insisted as she clung to him.

"Don't touch her." The man with the halberd and purple accented suit said, as the man with the katanas advanced menacingly. "You're covered in demon blood. One minute." He said.

"Can she take them all?" The man with the Katana asked.

"We can't interfere in their world." The man with the halberd replied.

"But we already have." Said the man with the bow. He had been silent until now.

"A few demons don't count. It isn't like we even killed them, they will just reform in Hell anyway." The man with the sais growled. "Well, except for the ones killed with the Domkir blades, those ones are dead." He said with a shrug.

"But what if we are supposed to interfere?" The man with the bow asked.

"We can't even begin to determine the probability or the consequences of such an action." The man with the halberd said. "30 seconds."

"But it's Katherine." The man with the bow said softly.

All of the men looked at each other and nodded.

Leonardo studied the woman who had been silent and unmoving throughout the entire conversation.

The man with the halberd began tapping on his arm in a series of short and longer taps, like Morse code, but like none he had ever heard before. The woman tipped her head to the side as if she were listening.

"Mommy can't hear, or see, or speak." Starbright said softly. "It isn't the sound of the taps, it is the movement of the taps she senses."

The woman spread her arms and wings wide, her black wings blending into the darkness, almost becoming the darkness.

"Wait!" Raphael yelled. "What do you mean can she take us! We aren't going anywhere. We have to save Katherine! Who the Hell do yo..."

Leonardo didn't hear the rest of Raphael's words. He felt nothing. He couldn't see anything, hear anything or feel anything. He shouted into the darkness that surrounded him but he couldn't even hear the sound of his own voice. He felt as if his whole body was beginning to freeze. He began to panic in fear.

Sound rushed back to him as he felt the scrape of stone against his jeans. He could feel Starbright in his arms again. He opened his eyes. Everyone but Starbright's mother was groaning and pushing themselves off the floor.

The man with the halberd rushed to a giant computer with at least twenty holographic screens that were constantly streaming data faster than his brain could comprehend.

"Where the hell are we?" Raphael growled as he clutched his head in pain.

Michelangelo frowned and pulled up his pant leg. Where his leg had been mauled the flesh was now perfect, not even a scar to show that he had been injured. Donatello moved his arm around as he studied his surroundings.

They were in a large room with stone walls. Beyond the giant computer was a big screen TV, a couch, coffee table, and a small kitchen area. Children's toys were scattered here and there but not many, as if there was a rule against it, but the occasional toy made it into the room anyway.

"Tell me I can take this damn suit off now!" The man with the sais roared impatiently.

"Sorry." The man at the computer said. "You need to stay in your suits until Darkness pulls herself all the way back. We don't want to find that pieces of you have gone missing in the dark.

"There are no pieces of me missing. And if this was so damn dangerous how could you have exposed the girls to this!" He roared.

"The girls are fine. They can't get lost in the dark. We are lucky they didn't get all scrambled on the way." Purple said pointing at them. "Alright, Darkness is back and the tear has been closed. You can take the suits off." He said as he reached for his helmet and pulled it from his head.

Leonardo didn't know what he had been expecting. Creatures that looked like them, bore some resemblance perhaps, enough to confuse two little girls, but instead he watched as each face was revealed. He felt his world get a little fuzzy around the edges as he looked upon his brothers and himself.

Hehe. So first chapter of Part 2 whatcha think?

Think you have it all figured out? *Smiles*