Hello, dudes and dudettes! Relax, this isn't another announcement about my contest. It's actually about something else. I was wondering if there are any Raph, Mikey, Donnie, Leo, April, etc. accounts that RP on here who'd want to RP sometime, let me know. And even if you're not one of them, just message me and we could start a TMNT RP if you want to. I will always RP as the Madi from this book when it comes to TMNT RPs, so if any of you are interested, let me know. Alright, that's all, enjoy!!! :D

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"Kore wa, Sensei idaina supudesu." Madi said after she took a sip from the porcelin bowl in her hands. This is great soup, Sensei. Within the last month, they had been focused more on learning Japanese than hand-to-hand combat- Madi was already nearly superior in her skills to Master Splinter and didn't need any further training in ninjitsu- so that had left some room for learning the second language and Japanese history, as well. Master Splinter sat crossed-legged on the grass-covered ground across from her, holding an identical filled with the same red liquid with sliced wild carrots and wild celery floating at its surface. 

"Arigato." Splinter replied. Thank you. She smiled and took another sip.

"Sore wa watashitachi ga saru tame no jikandesu."  

Madi spit out her soup all over the ground in front of her, barely missing Splinter in the process. She looked up at him in pure shock, the bowl falling from her hands and landing on the grass in a heap of boiled celery and carrots.

"What?" Madi asked in English this time. "What do you mean it's time for us to leave?" Splinter got to his feet as Madi quickly picked up the bowl and set it on the large boulder resting next to them, where they had set all of their stuff from New York. Dread filled Madi's heart while she stood up and followed the giant mutant rat. Back to New York? Was he serious?

"You have learned everything you could from this place. It no longer has a purpose." 

"But, Sensei, you can't be serious-" She immediately stopped talking when he sent her an icy glare that had the words 'shut up and listen' written all over it.

"We have been gone for over five months now," Splinter began. "My sons are no doubt in need of my guidence-"

"Then you go, Master Splinter." Madi said quickly. "Let me stay here. Let me stay-"

"-where you can hide from your troubles?" Splinter finished for her. Granted, those weren't the words she had been planning on using, but they had the same meaning. She hung her head in shame. "Your mother? The drama going on between you, Raphael, and Donatello?" He put his hand on her shoulder and she looked up at the giant rat. There was something in his eyes that she could only call understanding.

"I know that life is difficult and that fate chooses certain people for things they might not want to do, but it is your destiny." The teacher told his student firmly. "You are the only one who can stop the Shredder's reign of terror. You and you alone are the only one capable of facing him. Yes, I have tried fighting him myself. But this is not my destiny. The universe has called you to face this challenge. And sooner or later, it is going to fulfill itself whether you like it or not."

"So what you're saying is that even if I do stay here, my father and I are going to have to face each other?" She asked him hesitently, praying that the answer she was expecting wasn't what she really was going to recieve. But Splinter just nodded. Madi deflated like a balloon. She shrugged his hand off and turned around to face the pond, her face contorting in anger. After months of peace and quiet, of calm and serenity, she was just about to bust at the seams. She had coiled up all of her anger like a spring, and now it was about to leap free.

"I never asked for this." She began and folded her arms. "I never asked for a crazy psychotic father that wants me dead. I never asked for a sister that joined him, or a boyfriend that abandoned me. I never asked for everything to be kept from me." She picked up a pebble and tossed it into the pond, causing little ripples to spread over its smooth surface.

"I never asked for these powers." She picked up another pebble, only this one was slightly bigger, and threw it into the small body of water. This time, the pebble splashed and created even larger ripples. "I never asked for all these unstable emotions." Again, another pebble bigger than the last. Another splash that made small waves. "I never requested this screwed-up destiny." She chucked the next rock as hard as she could. She could feel her anger beginning to boil up to the surface.

"Gakusei-" Student- Splinter tried to warn her, but to no avail.

"I didn't want any of this!" The next pebble wasn't even a pebble any more, it was a rock the size of her fist. With a mighty heave, the little brown and grey blob of matter flew through the air and landed with a loud PLUNK in the pond, then sank to the bottom. She could feel the stressful tears she had tried so hard to hold back this whole time bubbling up. It made her even more angry. After months, she had worked so hard to hide her inner-emotions. Now all of that progress had been lost because of her weakness. 

"I didn't want to be weak!"

Plop! 

"I didn't want to lose my family!"

Thunk! 

"And most of all-"

Ker-plunk! 

"I WANT MY FATHER BACK!"

SPLASH! 

The enormous wave was bigger than it normally would've been. The rock had only been the size of a watermelon, but still had the same effect as if it had been as big as a barrel. She fell to her knees on the pond's bank, her blonde hair falling past her face and hiding the shame she felt. She was ashamed of her past, her present, her future. Madi was ashamed of how she failed her family, her sister, her father. She had been too weak- that was the whole reason why he had faked his death and Karai's when she had been five. Karai had always been the stronger one, the child he had shared with the previous wife he had loved more than anything in the world.

More than her.

She hadn't been worthy of his love.

And that was what hurt the most.

"Madi..." Her sensei started and sat down beside her. She didn't look at him. She couldn't. "It is alright to be upset for your past. But those are things that you cannot change, they are set in stone. What you need to do is think about all the good that you need to fight for now, in the present. The man who calls himself 'Oroku Saki' isn't the man who you call 'Father'. That man is gone, replaced with a killer now known as 'Shredder'. What you need to do is fight for what is right, and your torment will end." She sniffled after he had finished talking, then spoke herself.

"It's not that simple. It never is."