blue dragon

Blue Dragon - Chapter 1 - Japan

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Leo looks up as Raph says, "Hey Case, man you look ticked off, whats up?" "I'll tell you whats up!" said a steamed Casey Jones as he shows four tickets, "I wanted 4 tickets to the champion hockey game and I round up getting these!"

"what are they?" asked Leo as Casey says, "4 tickets to Tyoko, Japan"

"Japan?" said Leo "Casey thats awesome, I always wanted to go there" "No their not awesome to me!"

"oh boy here it come, Ranting jones" "I ain't into this japan stuff! I wanted to go see a hockey game and I got these instead!" "can't you exchange them?" asked Donny as he and mikey walk out of the kitchen,

"Nope" he sighs looking at them, then holds them to Leo, "here you take'em" Leo blinks as he says, "but Casey you won them, I can't actually..." "No no, I insist, you and the guys are into this stuff, I ain't into this odd stuff"

Leo wanted so much to just snatch them, but he says, "are you sure Casey?" "Yeah I am" said Casey putting them in Leos hands, Donny says, "well...Japan does have good weather I heard"

Raph smirks, "and a robot convention, Nerd Heaven eh Donny?" Donny answers that with a pillow smacking into Raphs face.

Mikey laughs as he says, "and talk about the anime they have there!" Leo thought and says, "Let me go ask Sensi"

The 3 nodded as Casey sits on the couch, defeated at the thought that he won't be able to see the hockey sports championship as Leo went to Master Splinters room and knocks, "come in" said Splinter as Leo opens the door and bows before entering.

"Master Splinter?" "Ah yes Leonardo?"

Leo sits before his sensi and told of the streak of luck, at least to him it is. Splinter nods saying, "So you wish to go to Japan?" Leo nods "yes Master Splinter, from what Casey explained it was all set up" "you do know that you will need to make sure you show respect in the land, they have different customs"

Leo nods again as Master Splinter closed his eyes and as he opened it with a nod, Leo smiles as he showed repsect and bowed saying, "thank you Master Splinter"

"You are welcome my son, but you know this means you should sleep early since you will needing to get to the airport"

Leo nods as Splinter dismissed his son then as Leo left, letting the smile creep his mouth, he was actually going to go! As he reached the living room he says, "We will need to crash early guys"

"huh? why?" asked Mikey as Leo says, "were going to Japan" Leo looks at Casey, "think April is willing to drive us?" Casey nods, "no worries I'll ask her"

Leo nods as he saw the others going to crash, Donny and the other brothers said goodnight to Leo. As Leo got into bed to sleep, he soon begin to have a dream...

~*~

A small japanese type village and in the center of the village was a temple, a tradional shinto temple. As Leo looks around he smelled the fresh smell of spring grass and saw cherry blossom trees blooming their bright petals seen.

but soon the scene changes and leo see villagers who were standing at the temple steps, Villagers, many men but some women also stood at the steps at he saw 3 turtles standing on the temple steps,

"Please, we do not wish our families and children ill with this disease, let us stay sealed in your temple"

The turtles look at one another unsure what to do, but they knew they could not let anyone else get infected by this "illness" a turtle wearing a red kimono held up his hand and says, "yes, the village must be protected somehow, we will shelter you in the temple, but we implore you that you do not come near the garden, that will be where our medicine is"

The turtles in the orange and dark purple kimonos walk around the crowd allowing them to enter the temple as they all walk in going to the main room of the temple, the turtles walk to the gate closing it as one says,

"Jiro, what do we do? We never handeled something like this" Jiro says, "I wish I knew Shiro...but we cannot let the rest of the village get the illness, at least here, should they die, we can give them proper burial"

The turtles nodded as they sealed the temple gates.

~*~

Leo awoken again blinking, he thought "illness....what illness?" He checked the time, it was 5:00, he got out of bed and packed his things up.

(end of Chapter 1)