Leap of Faith, Part One: Out of the Darkness
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Comics › Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Adult +
Chapters:
13
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1,860
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1
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all other recognizable characters are property of Mirage Studios and not me, sadly. I'm just playing with them for a while, and am not making any money off of this story. However, any OC's are mine! Ha
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen
Though injured, Miranda did not appear to have let the Knights take her without a struggle. Leonardo emerged from the Five and Dime and followed the four men as they half carried, half dragged the writhing young woman down the alley. They ducked into a building and Leonardo followed, relentlessly pursuing his enemies to the top floor. The group emerged on the roof, and finally paused, glancing uneasily around and above. They appeared to be waiting for something, and Leo noticed a way to approach them unseen across the building's ledge. Miranda was shoved to her knees, clearly in pain and out of breath; though Leo once more noticed the glint of anger in her eyes, and smiled inwardly. She's bruised, but not beaten.
His attack was swift and fierce, but miscalculated just enough to keep from being deadly. Wishing for his brothers' help, Leo finally managed to drop two of the Knights with a few well-placed slashes of his blades. He knocked the other two aside and seized the opportunity. He hauled Miranda to her feet and guided her across the rooftop. They were higher up than he'd realized, and when she saw the view, Miranda turned away and retched. In her eyes, anger had been engulfed by pure terror, and Leo recalled her intense acrophobia. That can't be helped right now, he decided. There was only one way out of this that he could see, and he could tell that Miranda would not make the same deduction. So he did the only thing that he could think of to distract her long enough to let them get away unseen.
He kissed her. Hard. When they pulled apart, she simply gaped at him, and at once he felt irrationally foolish and pleased.
"What...." she whispered.
Leonardo shook his head, and indicated the Knights, approaching hastily. Guilt washed through him like a strange tide. "I'm so sorry," he said quietly, even as he sensed weapons being drawn.
"For....what just happened?"
"For what's about to happen," he replied, and promptly grabbed her waist tightly and threw himself off of the roof simultaneously triggering his grappling hook to catch a hold on a distant building. As he did so, he noticed with relief that she'd passed out completely. Her dark hair streamed out behind her and into his face, blocking out most of his field of vision.
As the night sky spiraled above and the lights of Manhattan rushed to meet them, the woman and the turtle plunged into the darkness.
End of Part One!
Though injured, Miranda did not appear to have let the Knights take her without a struggle. Leonardo emerged from the Five and Dime and followed the four men as they half carried, half dragged the writhing young woman down the alley. They ducked into a building and Leonardo followed, relentlessly pursuing his enemies to the top floor. The group emerged on the roof, and finally paused, glancing uneasily around and above. They appeared to be waiting for something, and Leo noticed a way to approach them unseen across the building's ledge. Miranda was shoved to her knees, clearly in pain and out of breath; though Leo once more noticed the glint of anger in her eyes, and smiled inwardly. She's bruised, but not beaten.
His attack was swift and fierce, but miscalculated just enough to keep from being deadly. Wishing for his brothers' help, Leo finally managed to drop two of the Knights with a few well-placed slashes of his blades. He knocked the other two aside and seized the opportunity. He hauled Miranda to her feet and guided her across the rooftop. They were higher up than he'd realized, and when she saw the view, Miranda turned away and retched. In her eyes, anger had been engulfed by pure terror, and Leo recalled her intense acrophobia. That can't be helped right now, he decided. There was only one way out of this that he could see, and he could tell that Miranda would not make the same deduction. So he did the only thing that he could think of to distract her long enough to let them get away unseen.
He kissed her. Hard. When they pulled apart, she simply gaped at him, and at once he felt irrationally foolish and pleased.
"What...." she whispered.
Leonardo shook his head, and indicated the Knights, approaching hastily. Guilt washed through him like a strange tide. "I'm so sorry," he said quietly, even as he sensed weapons being drawn.
"For....what just happened?"
"For what's about to happen," he replied, and promptly grabbed her waist tightly and threw himself off of the roof simultaneously triggering his grappling hook to catch a hold on a distant building. As he did so, he noticed with relief that she'd passed out completely. Her dark hair streamed out behind her and into his face, blocking out most of his field of vision.
As the night sky spiraled above and the lights of Manhattan rushed to meet them, the woman and the turtle plunged into the darkness.
End of Part One!