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The winter storm of my brother's heart Chapter 10

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The winter storm of my brother's heart

A/N: Okay so last chapter had an exciting and tense twist didn't it? Donnie's going bad? How will it go now? Well, let's find out, shall we?

Edit of the song to the deleted version with Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel.

Chapter 10, I am not a curse!


(Donnie's P.O.V)

I felt the mutagen flow through my veins and through every part of my body. I had never felt so strong before and my brain was also changing. The thoughts and point of views I had only a few hours earlier were gone and had been replaced by new thoughts and new points of view, new everything! And I liked it. It was somehow making me stronger and I didn't care a thing about the people that got in my way or any living creature out there. Not even my brothers, father or April, the ones who used to the most important things in my life. I didn't even care that there were ice shards in my heart, it didn't matter to me. I knew what to do to stay alive. I raised my hand, placed it over my chest and let a new kind of cold reach into it, creating a defense for it, and protecting it from freezing into something solid and making me just as cold and hard as my heart. I had a cold heart, a frozen heart. I wouldn't freeze myself, but I would live in cold and hate, which was fine by me. I then began to freeze the door and the walls, and the kicked the wall with newfound strength and it crashed through the opposite wall and walked out. Almost immediately Karai's foot robots came into the corridor, along with Karai herself. She had a drawn sword and looked raged and was almost red in the face.

"You really want to do this the hard way? You have really started to get on my nerves!" I stepped out of the cell and looked at Karai straight in the eyes and raised both hands, ready to use my power.

"You know what Karai?You have made me pretty upset too. And I am so gonna look forward to kick your butt!" She looked even angrier and made a sigh to the foot bots and they attacked me with every weapon they had programmed into them. But I didn't even flinch, I just stepped forward with one foot and froze the floor in front of me where the robots were running. And then used both my hands and shoot out a giant ball of ice at them, freezing them solidly in my ice. Karai looked shocked and took one step back, but then raised her sword and ran towards me with a yell. I just looked at her, sighed in boredom and just waved with my hand and her feet froze into the ground and she couldn't move from the spot. She jerked and grunted in a meaningless try to get free from the ice and moved the sword and made a move to chop up the ice, I was thinking ahead of her.

"Oh no, you don't! You wont need that." I moved forward and put on finger and the sword blade and it froze too, making it useless. Then I moved my hands upwards and the ice on her feet spread to her legs, to her stomach, to her arms, to her neck and stopped there, making the half of the neck and her head the only thing that wasn't covered in ice. She had stopped looking angry and was now looking pretty horrified. I put my hands down and walked up to her and scratched the ice over her chest with my fingers and met her eyes.

"I hope you'll show a little more respect to me from now on Karai, cause your life just might depend on it. Literally." I laughed evilly and and then turned to a window. One target down, and five more to go.


(Mikey's P.O.V)

We had gotten back to the city a lot faster than we had gotten to Donnie's ice palace and that had taken about one and a half day. Now we had gotten back to the city in only a few hours. But I guess it was because it wasn't a crazy blizzard right now and it wasn't that late when had started to walk back to the city and we didn't need to stop and sleep. And it could be because we had run most of the way back too. We saw the city in front of us and stopped running in shock. The buildings, the streets and everything in the city of New York was covered in feet deep snow and icicles with the size of a sai and ice covered most of the window frames and the statue of liberty had icicles hanging from her nose and the torch she had in her hand was looking more like a vanilla ice cream cone. Wow, things had gotten way worse then when we had left. And to make it even worse, a new storm had started just when we had gotten back. April looked over the city with wide eyes and an open mouth.

"New York..." She whispered and looked over the coast and the whole city, or at least what she could see from where we stood. Raph took a step forward and looked from left to right as he looked over the coast.

"It's completely frozen." He said and took a long glance at the Empire State Building. And then a glance at April who rubbed her arms and looked a little sad at the city. And I could somehow understand her a little. While we had grown up in the sewers and had gotten the closest to the city when we watched TV, she had grown up in the city and now it was completely frozen and covered in nothing but snow and ice which made it look like something from Narnia or something like that. It couldn't be easy. Leo walked up to April and put a hand on her shoulder. She looked down at his hand, then looked up into his sapphire blue eyes. He smiled reassuringly at her.

"We'll fix this April. It'll all be okay." She smiled at him and nodded. Then we started to walk towards the shore and then we told Alex to hide somewhere and keep a low profile, then we climbed up on the first best roof top we saw, but it took a little while since there was ice here and there and we slipped a little on it. But when we finally made it up to the roof we started to jump on the roof tops and made our way towards the foot HQ.

"Do you think Donnie is scared?" April asked after a little while and looked at the rest of us from Raph's back. Raph looked up at her and let out a sound like he wanted to say 'are you dumb or something?' with that single sound.

"Of course he is! Didn't you see his reaction when we told him about this? He must be completely broken right now!" April hesitated before she answered.

"Well, yeah. But I can't help but feel something is really wrong. I guess its nothing." Leo looked like he was about to answer, but then we saw that we were at the foot building. We walked in through the door and immediately felt something was out of order here. It was way too quiet and there was no one to be seen in the whole building. No foot robot, no Fishface, no Rahzar and no Karai. It was pretty strange.

"Anyone else feel like we're walking into a trap?" Raph asked and looked around the room we where in right now. Leo bit his lip and seemed to think hard and long on something. Then he gave his orders.

"Let's go into the Shredder's throne room. Maybe their all there, torturing Donnie or something!" We all started to run in that directions and stopped when we got into a corridor that was covered in ice on both the floor and on the walls and about ten foot robots were frozen solid in a thick layer of ice. I thought it looked pretty creepy even if they were robots and not alive. It looked pretty creepy. We figured that Donnie had put up a big fight and either won or lost. And we thought that this could be a trap but we kept going anyway and when we were outside the throne room. We heard voices in there and we heard Donnie talk and sometimes Karai was answering, and sometimes Rahzar and Fishface threw in a comment here and there. But we couldn't hear what they said so we tried to open the door, but it was pretty hard, since it was somehow stuck to the wall and it took a lot of pushing and a lot of hitting on the door and even using our weapons and after a little while we managed to open the door. And the sight was pretty shocking.

Karai was frozen all over her body except for half her neck and her head and Fishface and Rahzar was also frozen in the same way and it looked a little funny since they had been in a fighting stance when they got frozen. Fishface looked like he was about to kick someone in the head and his other leg was folded in under himself and his looked like he was also going to punch someone, but couldn't for obvious reasons. And Rahzar was looking like he was running towards someone and punch him. And Donnie himself was standing where the Shredder's throne was standing and was for the moment looking in our direction. And he looked different from when we saw him last time at the ice palace. On his feet and arms it looked like ice had crawled up and formed boots that went to his knees and on his arms it looked like he had some kind of fingerless gloves hat went to his elbows. And he had some kind of plate on the upper part of his chest made of ice, and it went over his shoulders and from them a cape hung and it looked like it was made entirely of frost. But it was the ice thing on his chest that made me a little worried, since it was over the part of his chest where his heart was, and his eyes were also different, so cold and full of hate. But he did put a smile on his face when he saw us. It wasn't exactly his usual and warm smile, more like he tried to put on an act.

"Hello there guys. It's about time you got here." Leo took a look at Karai and the frozen mutants and then looked back at Donnie. He wasn't exactly pleased with what he saw.

"What the heck are you doing Donnie?! What have you done!?" Donnie just smirked and walked down to us and placed his hand on Rahzar's head without even quivering. It was clear he wasn't afraid of the mutant or his big teeth even if his head was the only thing that wasn't frozen.

"I thought I should take care of the vermin in this place. Don't you like it?" Rahzar shook his hand of his head and bared his teeth and growled in anger. He wasn't pleased with his new state, and wasn't afraid of showing it.

"You better release me at once and fight with honor against me, or I-" He didn't get to finish that sentence before Donnie started talking, and not very nicely.

"Honor? You?! Shredder and his ninjas don't know the meaning of honor! Including you! And besides, what are you gonna do? You're frozen solid! Only I can remove it, but am I gonna?" He chuckled and then turned to us. He smiled at us, and it looked pretty real, and not like he was trying to create an act for us.

"I'm glad you're here. I've been waiting for you." I couldn't help but smile at him and started to walk towards him and raise my arms to hug him, but Donnie shook his head and stepped back.

"Mikey please, I don't want to hurt you." I put my arms down, but didn't stop smiling. It seemed like Donnie was starting to act like himself again. The Donnie that I hadn't seen for so very long. I walked up to him and took both his hands and gave them a reassuring squeeze.

"Donnie, don't worry about that. That's all in the past." He looked at me with confusion, but also with a small smile.

"It is?" I nodded and kept talking, soothingly, trying not to scare him again like last time.

"I came all this way to give us a fresh start, and now that you're like, wow, you're all like warm in my heart."

Donnie smiled as well and touched my shoulder with a cold, but brotherly hand. I couldn't help but feel like this was finally going our way.

"Well, this is who I am, welcome to the real me. You have no idea how great it feels to be free"

Donnie seemed more relaxed than before and looked less scared and his panic was gone entirely. I stepped forward and touched his shoulder, as he had his hand on mine.

"We've been falling out for way too long, so let's forget who's right." He smiled wider and I felt his muscles relax even more, at least in his shoulders.

"And forget who's wrong"

"Okay."

"Why don't you stay? There's room for family in my court."

Donnie had let go of me and gestured around himself and tried to look invitingly. And the rest of us was smiling. Finally things were going our way!

"Cause life's too short, to always feel shut out and unloved by the brother I long to know."

I looked at Donnie straight in the eyes, trying to make him see my sadness and that I and the others wanted him to come back home again. So we could start over and be a team again.

"Life's too short, to never let you see who I am, the true king of the ice and snow."

"Wohohooo."

"I never understood, but now I do, that life's to short, to miss out on a brother like you."

Finally things were looking better! Maybe this could actually work out pretty good. This time Leo opened his mouth. Big mistake, as it was shown later.

"So you'll come back then?" Donnie looked a little confused and a little laugh that matched his face expression left his mouth.

"Back?" Raph looked like Donnie had forgotten something very important and looked at him with a raised eye brow. And spoke a little unsure.

"To thaw the city? You know, it's still frozen solid and no one can survive the cold for much longer." Donnie's smile disappeared immediately and his eyes narrowed and his eyes were nothing but small slits.

"Oh..." He sounded like he had realized something, but I didn't get what was wrong now. The air was getting tense and a little harder to breathe.

"So..." April said carefully, trying to make him talk. Donnie let out an offended sound and put his hands in his sides.

"What... I don't believe you!" I felt confused and couldn't help but ask.

"What? We just assumed that" I didn't get to finish the sentence before Donnie started talking again.

"That I'll shove on the gloves, that's how your story ends?!"

Donnie made gestures of putting gloves on when he said that sentence and looked pretty angry, but I couldn't help but smile. It was out plan after all.

"It does ! It's just like it was, except for we'll be best friends"

I ran forward and hugged him and his arms were pressed to his sides. I felt him tense in my arms, but then he suddenly pushed me away while talking.

"So that's been your plan, to force me back in a cage?!"

I put my hands up in a way to say 'Calm down and let me explain.'

"Whoa, whoa! Don't get upset let's get back on the same page "

Donnie just shook his head in anger and didn't show any signs of calming down. I didn't remember if I had ever seen him this upset.

"Gee, thanks for coming up to see the place, and showing off your mastery of tact and grace, okay!"

Donnie mocked me, by doing some 'graceful' movements that I always made look clumsy and untactful. So I am a little clumsy, so what? I was still an awesome ninja

"Run down the hill and spill my secrets, make a full report!"

He pushed me away and created a wall between us with a door in it, and for a moment his anger disappeared and was replaced by a fake glad smile on his face as he waved his fingers at us.

"Bye-bye!"

"Wait!"

I yelled after him, but he turned his back on me, and slammed that door once again slamming a door in our faces.

"Cause life's too short"

He had barely turned around and walked a few steps before I opened the door and started talking again, pointing at him accusingly.

"There it is! The door you'd love to slam in my face! You did well there for a spell, but now you're back in the same place! Kick us out if you want, but we're the only ones who is not one hundred percent convinced the this curse is you!"

We started walking in a circle around each other and both of us were really mad at each other. It wasn't that often Donnie and I fought, but when we did it was small fights, usually a screaming fight or just a bigger argument, not something like Leo and Raph would do. At the end of my sentence I pointed Donnie in the face, between his eyes. He looked down at my finger, then swatted my finger away and his anger took its place in his face.

"You can think whatever you want 'cause I don't care! You're the fool who trusted a stranger!"

He pointed he in the face and was inches away from my nose. I gasped and slapped his hand away.

"That is so unfair"

"I swear I'm through with taking your unshaking brotherly support!"

"Support!"

"Support! HAH! Life's too short!"

"To let you treat the people down there just as coldly as you always treated me"

As I circled around with my eyes locked on him and talked, Donnie had put his hands to his ears and made loud noises so he wouldn't hear.

"La la lalala laaaa! Life's too short, to listen to a reckless fool who only ever sees the things he wants to see!"

Okay, that hurt. I'm not entirely sure what he meant by it, but by the way he said it, I'm sure it was an insult that was supposed to hurt really bad. I turned away for a second and wiped the tears that was threatning to fall and turned back to him with hurt and anger is my eyes.

"You don't know me"

While I talked I pointed at him, and he did the same thing and pointed at my face while he also started to talk.

"You have no idea"

"What I've been through. Because of you! Life's too short to waste another minute. Life's too short to even have you in it! Life's too short!"

We got closer and closer to each other for every sentence and as we talked we ended up being only about two feet from each other with big angry faces and tongues to match.

"I've been so wrong about you!" I spat in his face and he looked at me with a mock smile and a raised eye brow who a few seconds later turned into a scowl.

"You?! You've been so wrong about everything!" I felt the anger burn in me, and then, when he said those words, I lost control.

"Maybe you are a curse!" That seemed to make him lose control completely and his eyes were literally getting darker and darker by the second until they were almost grey. And then he snapped.

"I am not a curse!" He shot out two big energy balls of ice and they hit the floor and I, Leo, Raph and April saw the ice crawl so fast we didn't have time to react and they crawled up our feet, legs, chest and arms until only our necks and head were free from the ice.

"What?"

"What the heck!"

"What's going on?"

"What are you doing?!" As the ice stopped crawling we expected Donnie to panic and try to free us, but he started laughing. He laughed so hard he had to wipe tears from his eyes. And not his usual laugh, but an evil sounding kind of laugh. Raph struggled and tried to break the ice, but was unsuccessful.

"I can't move!" He said and kept on struggling until he was too exhausted to keep on. By then Donnie seemed to have recovered from his laugh and looked at Raph as if he was stupid or a complete fool.

"Well what did you expect? You're covered in ice! I swear, sometimes you guys are just so stupid it's too easy to trick you! I don't know why I didn't do this years ago. Well, minus the ice, but you get the idea." Leo moved his mouth without any words leaving him, but then he got his tongue back.

"Wha-what are you talking about?" Donnie walked over to a window and looked out over the city, waited a few seconds before starting to talk.

"All these years I put down a lot of work on our lair, on weapons that could help us and fixed your problems." I shook my head, having a feeling I knew where this was going.

"Donnie no..." He turned back to us and looked at us with a blaming look in his eyes and face.

"But that was never enough. No matter what I did it was nothing but 'boring science' or 'soon-to-be-failures' or things like that. And when you needed me you expected me to know everything about everything! Never a moment of peace or understanding and not even a 'thank you.' I was nothing but a little handy man who you gave attention when you needed him!" By now he was over at us and kneeled down and put his hands on his knees to meet our eye level.

"Now, tricking you into this place and make you think I was helpless and needed help was easy enough. And all I have to do is let you freeze to death and then I'll be the mightiest mutant in the city! Of course Splinter will be a problem, but I'll handle him in good time. Then the city will be in my hands, for as long as I live." Raph looked at Donnie as if he had gone crazy, which he sort of had, and then he found his tongue.

"But Donnie, the more you use your powers, the faster you send yourself to your own doom! You'll freeze to death yourself in a matter of time!" Donnie put a finger up and shook his head. He seemed to enjoy this somehow.

"No I wont. You see this?" He gestured to the ice over his heart. "This little baby keep my heart from freezing into an ice cube. Sure I'll live my life seeing it with hate, coldness and despair, but hey, that's life. Right?" Leo looked at him in shock and started yelling out a lecture.

"So you'll rather live your life in coldness, hate and despair then with a family that loves you?!" Donnie turned to him sharply and grabbed his chin roughly and made him look him in the eyes. His cold pale eyes bore into Leo's, making him almost shake in, fear? Hm, it wasn't often I saw Leo scared. And the, Donnie spit Leo in the eyes and scoffed at his words.

"Love me? You sure have a funny way of showing it! 'Donnie do this, Donnie do that, Donnie stop babbling, disarm this bomb, bla,bla,bla! It's all I ever hear! And I'm sick of it! So consider yourselves out of a handy man!" He let go of Leo's chin.

"What do you think of me now, brother?" I looked at him and now I opened my mouth for the first time in a long time.

"Why are you doing this bro?" He turned to me and looked me in the eyes while he gave his answer. But as his eyes met mine I could practically feel the cold winter wind grow stronger in the room.

"With a cold heart, no one can hurt you, put you down or break your heart. Isn't it obvious?" Raph looked at him and this time he didn't look angry. He looked at him with care and a little fear, but I could wrong about the last one.

"I don't want to fight you! You're my little brother!" Donnie turned to him and just looked at him with a raised eye brow and put on an evil smile.

"Well, things can change. That little brother you once had is gone!" Raph shook his head in determination and had looked him with some kind of 'Raph-love.'

"He doesn't have to be! I don't believe that!" Donnie chuckled mockingly and threw his head back and just let out his laugh, making me feel a little uneasy. It didn't sound the way it was supposed to. He sounded like some kind of mad scientist and it kinda scared me.

"Oh believe me, it is so. I'll never be who I once was." He said and bent down to Raph's level. And now April couldn't be quiet anymore.

"But why? Why have you turned your back on us?!" Donnie turned to hear, and the hate in his eyes hardened a little. He walked over to her and just looked at her, before answering.

"I am sick of being treated like dirt! I have done my best to make life easier for us, but what have I gotten for that? Nothing! Nada! Zip!" He backed away from April and looked at all of us. Raph whispered something to himself and it was barely I heard it.

"I don't believe it..." Donnie turned to him and smirked with hate and looked him straight in the eyes and said words I had never expected him to say.

"Do you still think I'm too good-hearted, big brother?"


A/N: Wow, what a chapter! I hope you like it! And now I have a little request for you guys, but I don't want you to feel forced to do anything. And I would also feel glad if anyone could do drawings from this story on deviant-art, but again, don't feel forced. It's only a suggestion. Well, that's about it. Bye, see you later!

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wow, i love the song "life is too short" bad it was outcut from the movie :(

mean donnie, control yourself fella!!!! (ok, hes pretty cool when he act like this but anyway he FROZE his brothers.....)

this true awesomeness! TRUE! this is almost better then the movie! :heart: