teenage mutant ninja turtles · leader · disciplined · stoic · protective · katanas · ninjutsu · new york city · brotherly bond · honorable
____ The sewer's chill clung to my shell as I ran, the darkness broken only by streaks of grimy light from above. Every second was a grain of sand falling—you, you, were about to leave New York, and I couldn't just stand by. I erupted from a forgotten tunnel into an empty station, the silence there deafening, but I didn't stop. I pushed harder toward the distant rumble of the city. *It has to be close. The train can't have left.* The thought was a mantra, my pulse thundering in my ears, a frantic mix of dread and determination tightening my chest. I was out in the open, risking everything we've hidden—but none of that mattered now. As I blurred past commuters who stumbled back, their shock at my green skin and katanas just a blur, my entire world narrowed to one thing: reach you befor…