Team Mutant Ninja Clan

“It’s about time, I was beginning to think you wouldn’t show.” Phantom White Mask said with a comb voice.

“Don’t worry about that you’re not the only one who was in doubt.” Leo said as he pulled out his swords.

“Very well, I will end this quickly.” Phantom White Mask said as he flung his cape off as it flew over and wrapped around Leonardo.

Leo began to struggle as the cape became tighter around him.

“Good go ahead and struggle, it will do you no good, besides even if you do escape my cape can sense if it doesn’t have a hold of something.” Phantom White Mask said as Leo continued to struggle.

“I don’t get it the harder I struggle the tighter this thing gets, wait, I’ve got it.” Leo said as an idea snapped into his head.

“The fun part is that I can control the cape, as if it is another part of my body.” Phantom White Mask said as the rest of the cape wrapped around Leo’s face and feet.

Suddenly the cape began to float into the air as it slowly began to spin in circles.

“If the lack of air doesn’t kill you the ride will.” Phantom White Mask said as he made Leo crash into the ground and back up.

A minute passes by as Phantom White Mask picks up the speed making Leo hit the ground faster and faster changing direction as he goes.

“Now for the finishing touch.” Phantom White Mask smiled as he brought Leo towards him.

As he made contact with his cape he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. A second later blood slowly runs out of his mouth.

“Why is he bleeding?” Mikey asked.

“Look over there.” Sasuke pointed.

There standing behind Phantom White Mask was a pretty bashed up Leonardo.

“But how, you’re supposed to be inside my cape.” Phantom White Mask said.

“Think back you said struggling would do me no good, so I barely struggled which gave me a small opening winning me this match.” Leo replied.

“You haven’t won yet.” Phantom White Mask replied.

“If Leo is right there, then who’s in the cape?” Mikey asked.

“He probably learned how to do the shadow clone jutsu.” Naruto pointed out.

“Even if he has mastered the shadow clone justu he wouldn’t have used it, after all he said not to use any chakra.” Neji said adding in.

Phantom White Mask opens the cape as he finds one of Leonardo’s swords jabbed into his stomach. He then falls to his knees.

“You’ve lost too much blood, you lose.” Leonardo said.

“Finish him.” Shang Tsung said.

A moment of silence goes by.

“No, I’m no killer.” Leonardo replied as he walked over and helped Phantom White Mask to his feet while slowly taking his sword out of him.

“Your better then I thought.” Phantom White Mask said.

“And you have good tactics, it was nice of you to show up.” Leonardo said.

That second Shang Tsung walks up behind Phantom White Mask as he grabs him up into a choke hold.

“Let us not play games, Leonardo finish him.” Shang Tsung said as Phantom White Mask gasped for air.

Leonardo gets into a fighting stance.

“This was never part of the rules, the only one I will be finishing is you.” Leonardo said.

“Very well.” Shang Tsung says as he snap’s Phantom White Mask’s neck letting his body drift to the ground.

“No!” Leonardo yelled as he charged at Shang Tsung.

Mikey was about to step into the ring as Raph put a hand on his shoulder shaking his head. Shang Tsung easily dodged all of Leonardo’s attacks as he tripped him to the ground.

“Your ninjitsu needs some work but that is not your greatest weakness. Your passion for the safety of others makes you weak, I can see it in your soul.” Shang Tsung said so only Leo could hear.

“The winner of this match goes to Leonardo.” Shang Tsung said as Naruto and Mikey came to Leo’s side.

“I’m alright.” Leo said as he stood to his feet.

“What were you thinking fighting against him?” Mikey asked as they exited the ring.

“He didn’t charge him for a fight, but to place a microchip of some kind on him. Am I right Leonardo?” Sasuke asked as they walked right next to him.

“So you noticed.” Leo said as he stopped in his tracks.

“Let’s just hope Shang Tsung didn’t.” Sasuke replied.

“Leo, why did you plant a microchip on him?” Naruto asked out of curiosity.

“I promise I’ll tell you as soon as this last match is over.” Leo said as Neji began to walk towards the ring.

“Neji, don’t use any of your chakra attacks.” Leonardo reminded.

“Don’t worry, I don’t plan on it.” Neji replied as he stepped into the ring.

“It seems Leo has found out as well, why else would he not want any of us to use our chakra.” Itachi said to himself.

Neji stepped into the ring to see a guy dressed in a black tuxedo with a black hat on. He had red and white diamonds on all of his fingers. He smiled as Neji looked over at him.

“I am Diamond Doom, prepare yourself warrior.” He said as he crossed his legs.

Neji just stood there as Shang Tsung stood up from his chair.

“Let this next round begin. Round one, Fight!” Shang Tsung yelled.

All of Diamond Dooms rings began to light up as an energy field warped around him. Seconds later one of Diamond Dooms left eye glowed red with his right eye glowing white. Then suddenly all the glowing stopped and the electricity disappeared.

“I forfeit, Shang Tsung I’ll let Neji have this victory.” Diamond Doom says as he stepped out of the ring.

Shang Tsung sat there in confusion as the warrior walked off and vanished into the distance. Neji walks out of the ring as he stands beside his friends.

“What in the shell, who just quits.” Raph said as everyone agreed with him except Leo who stood there with a straight face.

An hour went by as the remaining fighters of their group fought in their match’s which they won. Later that night they got into a group.

“So Leo what’s the deal, how come we can’t use any chakra?” Raphael asked.

“Because we don’t want to reveal any of our attacks before the real tournament begins.” He replied.

“What do you mean, there’s another tournament?” Sasuke asked.

“Yah, explain yourself Leo.” Naruto added.

“Well last night when I was out training I came across Shang Tsung and some creature I’ve never seen before. It had these sharp blades that would come out of its skin.” Leo said.

“Ewe, gross.” Donatello Commented.

“I heard them say that things are almost in place for the real tournament to begin, along with some talk about the soul taking of the greatest warriors.” Leo continued.

“You actually believe what they said.” Raph said.

“You better believe him, they have the ability to do so.” Liu Kang said as he walked up to them.

“Who are you?” Raphael asked.

“I am Liu Kang. I met a few of you earlier” He replied as he looked over at Neji, Mikey, Sasuke, Donatello, and Naruto.

“And I’m Leonardo, so how much do you know about this guy?” Leonardo asked.

“We go way back, he goes back with the history of my clan before I was even born.” Liu Kang said.

“So does he truly have the ability to swipe away souls?” Sasuke asked.

Before Liu Kang could reply a loud bell goes off in the distance alarming everyone to come. They all walked as Liu Kang continued.

“He is an evil sorcerer which can assume the many fighting styles of all the souls he has taken.” Liu Kang said as they entered a large cave with tables, chairs, food, lit torches, and all the rest of the fighters.

“Welcome everyone, it is time to announce the real tournament. It will be held tomorrow.” He started. “My fighters will take part in this tournament, for now on each person must kill their opponent, if anyone declines raise your hand right now.” Shang Tsung said as he stared straight over at Leonardo who didn’t raise his hand.

Mikey raised his hand in a proud fashion thinking the rest of his friends a master would raise their hands. Which none of them did as Shang Tsung looked over at him.

“So Michelangelo do you wish to forfeit?” Shang Tsung asked.

“Nah just stretching dude, you can continue on.” Mikey said as he heard giggling from others in the distance.

“Nice play-off.” Raph whispered.

“I don’t like this one bit.” Splinter said to himself.

“Alright then, you may now all dine.” Shang Tsung said as he walked off.

Minutes later everyone began to eat as Leonardo walked off. Johnny Cage and Naruto noticed and followed. Leo ran out of the cave into the dark woods with Johnny Cage and Naruto struggling to keep up. After about two minutes of running Naruto could feel a sharp damp pain in his legs as he gulped it out of his mind.

Suddenly Johnny Cage came to a stop as they looked around. It was hard to see in this dark forest, there was also a slight mist around as well. Suddenly they heard someone walking towards them as they are pulled up into the trees. Naruto wanted to yell out but turned only to see it was Leonardo.

“Shhh.” Leonardo whispered as they looked down at the ground to see a figure down in the mist.

Naruto was finally able to picture out whom it was, it was Shang Tsung. He now understood Leo had tracked him here from the device he planted on him earlier in the day.

“I thought I heard something.” Shang Tsung said as he looked back then walked a few yards away.

Then they saw Shang Tsung opened up a door which leads into the ground. There were red stone stairs leading to a pathway and Shang Tsung walked down in. A few seconds later the chamber began to close behind him.

“Now.” Leo said as the three of them jumped out of the tree and barely made it into the hide out of Shang Tsung.

The air was very damp and had dust glooming over their pathway as they walked down the stairs. When they got to the bottom of the stairs they looked to both sides of the wall to see skeletons and skulls behind glass.

“Let’s get going, we don’t want to lose him.” Leo said.

“Stay together, anything could happen in this place.” Johnny Cage added.

Naruto swallowed as they made there descend down the misty hall.

“Now I’m wondering why I followed, hopefully I won’t regret this.” Naruto said.

To Be Continued