The winter storm of my brother's heart Chapter 11

The winter storm on my brother's heart

A / N: Here is the new chapter.

Chapters 11, A moment of insight

(Leos P.O.V)

I stared at Donnie with fear and something inside me told me that it was just a dream, a nightmare and I would wake up soon. But it wasn't a dream. Donnie had turned his backs on us, slammed the door in our faces and also wanted to destroy us! Donnie, who regularly wouldn't hurt a fly, unless he had to, had just caught us and turned against us! It was just something that was so unexpected, like we would let Kraang win and take over the Earth! Or that Raph would act kind and polite for a whole day or something like that. And he had even turned Raph's words against him. Too good-hearted? Sure, he could sometimes be too good, but I wouldn't say that his good heart was too big and that it was a bad thing that he was compassionate. If anything it was good he could be, well good. He saved April's dad, us from Metalhead, the Pulverizer and April from falling from that helicopter and much more. And here he was, convinced that we were his enemies, and he would destroy us. I turned to my youngest brother, who had tears in his eyes and eyed our icy brother. Raph looked at Donnie with shock in his eyes.

"To be cold-hearted is nothing to be proud of! Believe me, it'll be the worst mistake of your life if you do this!" Donnie snorted and rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"Whatever. It's still my choice, not yours, right?" He said with a small hint of frustration in his voice, and he looked just as heartless as any other enemies that we had ran into. And now Mikey couldn't keep quiet.

"Are you g-going to kill us?" Donnie looked down at him with a mocking smile and shook his head in amusement. He liked to play with us like this, that was plain. Like a cat with a mouse.

"Of course not Mikey, I'm not a monster." Wait, what? But why had he froze us then? "I just like to scare you like this." Ah, that was it, he liked to see us scared. He raised his hand and waved it. As soon as he made the little gesture, the ice cracked and fell off us, even Karai, Rahzar and Fishface and we all fell from our positions and to the floor. But he stepped up to us and we looked up at him from his feet to his head. I hadn't realized how tall he was up till now and the all the coldness in the room was coming from him, and I couldn't help but shudder, both in fear and cause it was cold.

"But you might want to stay out of my way, cause if I run into you again, I may not go so easy on you." He then went over to the middle of the room. But I still wanted to try to change his mind.

"But Donnie, you can't ..." I tried to say, but Donnie started screaming at me, just a few inches from my face.

"I can do whatever I want, I am the Snow King! The snow and ice obeys me , and me alone, I'm sick and tired of being Mr nice guy, all my life I've done nothing else than trying to help others and take care of them in every way I can and where has it gotten me? Nowhere!" I looked at him, shook and couldn't believe the words that came from his mouth.

"You, you don't really believe that, do you?" I almost whispered out and it was a miracle that he heard me. But all he did for responding to my words was to snort and walked away from me. This time April tried to reason with him.

"Donnie, please. You don't have to do this, you can still come back to the lair, we can work this out and-" Donnie snorted and looked at her in almost (and I can't believe I'm saying this) loathing.

"And then what?, I'll go back to being the sweet and obedient little handy man and scientist used only when needed? No-ho thank you sister, I will never go back! Now, back off if you don't want to end up as an ice sculptor!" April didn't back off, she tried to touch his shoulder and looked him in the eye.

"Donnie, please-" Donnie jerked away from her hand and looked at her with more hatred than loathing this time and raised his hand and pointed at her.

"I will not be the weak one! Not anymore anyway! Just give it up already, I will never give up my new power or go back to how it once was. Donnie is gone forever." He said 'Donnie' as it filled the mouth with lemon juice and stepped a few steps back and looked out the window and around the room, it was covered with snow, ice and frost. He then started making other gestures with his hands, causing the snow to swirl around the room

"My power is flowing through my blood and through my veins" He looked down at his hands and again began making gestures and create more ice and snowflakes falling from the ceiling and a strong cold wind started to blow through the room. The wind was so strong and so cold I could barely keep my eyes open and my body felt numb and stiff from the cold. He was really strong, too strong for anyone to fight. There was nothing stopping him now.

"I've finally broken all my shackles and my binding chains" Donnie did swirling gestures with his hands to create swirling winds blowing snow around the entire room and the temperature dropped even more and the ice covered the window and the doors at the other end of the room.

"I've finally defeated my conquering fears" He threw out a few blasts of ice at all of us, not just at us and April, but even at Karai and her mutants on the floor, causing icicles grow dangerously close to us. He then went over to the Shredder's throne and as it froze, he created a large ice ball and let it fall on Shredder throne, leaving nothing but crushed ice and metal.

"Now that I'm finally free, the winter domineers" He walked up to the now frozen window and raised his leg and kicked as hard as he could and the glass and ice just broke that it was china and not frozen glass and ice. He then looked back at us with a hard stare and walked to the middle of the room again.

"Let it go, let it go I'm the king of snow and ice!" He created a large snowflake over your head and let it disunite and let the snow it was made of fly out the window and across the city. And when he had done that he grabbed his mask, ripped it off and let it get covered with sparkling frost before tying it back and make it look like it was transparent, and some sort of crown made of transparent ice and a large blue crystal in the center of it. When he was done he let the cape flow in the wind, and he looked down at himself and admired his work, and he really looked like a king, sort of. In a cold and icy way.

"Let it go, let it go! No more being sweet or nice. Hear me now, no more summer days " He then walked over to the hole in the window and when he did, he raised his arms, one by one, and when he did, icicles grew up from the floor and he looked out the window as the sun rised and let the sunbeams hit his cape and crown and let sparkle in a beautiful, yet dangerous way.

"Let the storm rage on!" He took a look over the city and let out a big sigh of relief and some kind of sardonic pleasure.

"The cold never bothered me anyway" He took one last look at us, his eyes filled with hatred and jumped out the window. As soon as he had jumped out of the window we got our feet, ran up to the window and looked out through the hole in the glass. We saw him running from roof top and just let his blizzard grow and grow and didn't seem to mind. In fact it seemed to make him stronger and it was more than welcome. It took a while before anyone spoke but after a few minutes April opened her mouth.

"I can't believe it..." Raph shook his head in disbelief and just stared after our brother, who carried the cold destruction in New York and the U.S within himself.

"Yeah, I've never imaged Donnie of all the guys to be a bad guy." He said lowly and we could hear the sadness in his voice. Mikey got a little smile on his face, but not his usual smile, and tried to crack a joke.

"Didn't you hear him? He is the king of snow, so he's the Snow King!" We looked at him with anger and just stared at him. He looked at us and smiled innocently at us.

"Really? You give Donnie a villain name, you know, our brother? Seriously?" I said sternly, and he backed away from me a little. Then he shouted back at me, with force.

"Well, I'm sorry, but that's how I deal with stress and fear!" I jerked back and just looked at him and was a bit shocked.

"Wow Mikey, you sounded a bit like Donnie right there." Mikey backed away from me a little, his eyes first filled with sorrow, and when he smiled and laughed a little, but humorless.

"Well someone has to, right?" I laughed and pushed him lightly on the head, but I got a little tense when I saw in the corner of my eye that Karai and Rahzar and Fishface had got up from the floor and stared at us.

"Wow, your brother is really cracked. Was he always like that?" Raph got an angry glare on his face, but before he could attack Mikey and I grabbed him and Mikey replied Karai's question with anger and despise, something that was not as common for Mikey.

"No, he wasn't! And he is not now either! He just affected by the mutagen in his blood, that's all. When Leo made the ice struck him before, he got that mutagen reaction in himself one mor time, making it a bigger reaction, that's all there was! He's not crazy, the mutagen messed up his brain that's all!" Now we're all staring at Mikey in awe. Mikey had never come close to those kind of theories. And even if it didn't sound as complicated as Donnie would have said it, it still sounded like similar.

"Wow, you really do sound like Donnie, Mikey. Have you planned to take his place?" Mikey looked at Raph like he was crazy and shook his head violently. He almost seemed upset.

"Are you, like, totally out of your mind?! I could never be like Donnie, none of us could." He sighed and looked at the ground. "But he has changed from good to bad. And it's my fault." April, Raph and I shared a look and April put a hand on his shoulder. Mikey met her eyes and tried to smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes. Only his mouth, so he didn't give much of a smile.

"It's not your fault Donnie turned on us, Mikey. If anything, all of us are partly responsible for this." Raph looked in her direction and looked offended. He didn't like getting blamed for things.

"What do you mean our fault ? We've been there for him the whole time the past few months, he was the one who didn't want us to help him!" April looked at him seriously and looked him straight in the eyes. She was not playing around with this statement, that was easy to see.

"I'm not just talking about the last few months., I'm talking about before that. I can without a bad conscience say that I haven't always been there for you, especially when I decided to shut you out. I was blinded, but by anger and not fear. And when I did go back to you it was because of Donnie, he has always been there, and I know that I'm not the only one who hasn't always been there, right?" We eyed each other and I didn't want to be worse than April and I spoke, a little shaky.

"I guess there has been times when we haven't been there to support him. I mean, it can't be easy. Having so much to do and so many expectations on him, making him think he has to succeed in everything he invents, builds or does. I should know, having so many responsibilities on you that you're up to your ears in stress." I sighed and closed my eyes and blinked away a few unshed tears. I let out another sigh before I opened my eyes and let my tears fall. Raph looked shamefully at his feet and let out a sigh of sadness.

"I'm probably the worst of us. I never showed that I appreciated him, I just criticized him for what he couldn't do right instead of praising him for what he could do right. And worst of all, I'm one who planted the idea of being heartless in his head. And as much as I hate to admit it, it's just as much my fault as yours. If not more." He also had a silent tear fall from his lime green eyes. Only one, but it was more grief shown from Raph in a day than we usually saw in an entire year. April put her hand on his shoulder, and looked at him with sympathy. And for once, Raph not smack her hand and let it rest there. Mikey looked at us and then sighed and kicked the top off one of the big icicles in frustration and grief.

"Donnie was right before, we've never really showed that we cared about him before, so what was so special about this time? While working on things both day and night for weeks that we didn't notice and now we did, what was different?" April's head snapped in his direction.

"Why do you say that Mikey? Of course this time was different!" We all looked at her with confusion. She saw something we didn't, but it's not like it was a surprise, she usually did.

"Guys, you're brothers, you know each other better than you know yourselves! You're used to Donnie being cooped up in his lab day and night because he still came out to train or to get something to eat and he was still there for you when you needed him, when he refused to come out of the lab at all you knew that something was wrong from there, you knew that the Donnie you knew would never shut you out for no reason and even if you didn't realize it before, you know now that he kept a secret, you knew something was wrong and wanted to help, but did it the wrong way when you pushed him too hard that day before. These things happen. And as for not being there for him before, it's not too late to change ." She paused for a second and let her words sink in before she put her hand under my chin and made me meet her eyes. They were full of comfort and kindness and she wanted to help.

"You've already lost him once Leo. Don't let some snow and harsh words cause you to lose him again." I thought her words over and then nodded with a small smile on my lips. And before I stopped myself because of how I had to put up a professional picture, I put my arms around her in a hug, which she returned almost immediately.

"Thank you April." That was all I said, and it was only a whisper, but still. I didn't need say more, she understood. She didn't answer either, but I knew that she understood what I meant and there was no need for words. Our moment was interrupted by Karai, who was apparently sick of the touchy moment.

"Um, sorry to break up the touchy scene, but how do you plan to stop him? You saw him, he's stronger than he ever was before, or any other mutant or human in this city, how do you plan to put an end to this winter and your brother?" I broke the hug and turned to kunoichi at the other end of the room. The two other mutants had left the room, probably an order from Karai, and she began to walk over to us as she spoke. I narrowed my eyes and glared at her.

"We're working on it Karai As soon as we have found a way, we are going to fix this and get our brother back!" Just as soon as I had said that, a huge cloud of snow started blowing through the hole in the window and the wind blew so strongly and was so strong that we nearly fell to the ground, and it howled strong and very loud. In the wind I heard Karai's scream through the snow.

"Yes, but first you might want to find a way to survive this blizzard!" Mikey turned to her and shouted back through the snow and wind.

"That's not a blizzard... That's my brother!" And through the snow, and my eyes could be playing a prank on me, but I could have sworn that I saw Donnie on a tall building, creating a similar snowflake as he had made before, and it sounded more snow blowing across buildings and streets in New York City. We had no time to lose, we had to make a move now, before it went too much out of control.

"Come on guys!" I shouted to the others. "We have to get back to the lair and regroup and maybe get a little warmer! Then we must make a move before this has gone too far out of hand!" The others nodded and with great difficulty we jumped through the window and made our way back into the sewers. Even the sewer was covered with snow and ice, but not as much as on the surface. We wanted to hurry back, but as soon as we started running we almost slipped on the ice or falled into the snowdrifts, so we walked back to the lair instead. as fast we could.

It felt like it took forever, but we did eventually return to the lair, and what a sight it was! Icicles hanging from the ceiling and a few grew out from the floor. A thick layer of snow was covering every inch of the floor and the walls were covered with ice and it was freezing cold! It was so cold in the air it hurt your bare skin, which in our case were our faces mostly, but still.

"My sons?" Master Splinter came into the living room, also dressed in a coat that April had left for him in case it got colder, which it had. He rubbed his hands in an attempt to keep them warmer and looked at us, obviously a little disappointed that we were four, not five as he had hoped.

"Where is your brother? Is he alright?" We looked at each other in realization. We hadn't thought of that yet. Who would break the news to Splinter? Mikey took a deep breath and met Splinter eyes. A new deep breath, then he started talking.

"He's fine, sensei. But he's, well, he has changed. A lot..." Master Splinter ears twitched up and he listened with full attention. April took a step forward and put a hand on his shoulder when she told him the rest.

"He attacked us. Told that he will bring an eternal winter over the city and America. He has gone bad., I'm sorry ..." Splinter ears fell and he looked heartbroken. And who could blame him, another one of his children had gone bad. Raph looked at me with a bit of anger in his eyes.

"Just because 'Fearless' here thought Karai's life was more important than his and got him to hit himself with his powers." I immediately felt offended and stared at him with anger.

"Oh, so now it's my fault, I thought we had discussed it and agreed that we were all partly responsible for this!" Raph took a breath to yell back at my face, but Splinter was interrupted before he could .

"Chinmoku! It is not important who is to blame, it is about saving your brother and the city and the rest of the country." He led us over to the couch, brushed off some snow and gestured for us to sit down. "Now, tell me everything."

(Alex P.O.V)

Something was wrong, I just knew it. After they had left me in a safe place and I had been there a while, I knew just had something gone wrong. So I followed the way they had walked and entered a large building that had a dark sinister edge to it. Breaking in was easy and I walked through the corridors and into a large room with the turtles, the girl and a few other people. The great wolf-dog that we had seen in the ice castle and a big fish with mechanical legs and a black-haired girl. But the center of attention was Donnie, who created a huge snowstorm and let it spread throughout the city, all while changing into the superior ice master. The Snow King.

He smashed a window and jumped out, and I figured he ran away. I then listened to some of the others, and then decided to help in a way. So I ran out of the building and into the street, where the wind had become stronger and more snow flew around me and buildings. I saw Donnie on a tall building and ran away and jumped from building to building. So I ran after him on the ground, which was a challenge because I didn't have very long legs, and he was a well trained ninja. I almost lost him a few times, but somehow found him again. After a while I started to get tired and shouted after him.

"Hey, Donnie! Wait up!" He stopped and looked around for a few seconds. Then he saw me and got a scowl on his face.

"You?" He jumped down to me and raised his hand and was about to crush me. But I jumped out of the way and raised his hands in surrender.

"Wait, wait papa!" Donnie stopped in his move, and looked at me with half-shut eyes and had a sour look on his face.

"Papa? Seriously? What do I look like, your father?" I nodded and looked at him with a smile. I stretched out my twig arms as if I was about to hug someone, which I did. I ran up and hugged his right leg.

"Yes, you do. You created me all those years ago, and did it again. That makes you my maker, and my papa. At least in my eyes." He looked down at me shock, then pushed me off him with a look of disgust and raised his hand again.

"Ugh, don't try to get cute with me, I made you, you got that right. But I can also break you!" When the ice began to form in my hand, I raised my hand and tried to reason with him. He had a look of hatred on his face and his eyes were dark blue, but deep down I could see a little bit of doubt and compassion in his cold eyes.

"Wait, just hear me out before you destroy me, okay?, I just want to talk to you." Donnie hesitated, seemed to think it over, rolled his eyes in annoyance and put his hands down and sat on an overturned garbage can, put his elbow on his thigh and leaned his chin in his hand. He looks bored, but I pushed it aside and waited for him to answer. A minute passed and he stared at me, then got sick of being quiet.

"I'm waiting... Maybe you would like to start talking this year?" He lifted his hand and rolled it, makes a sign at me to get on with the talking.

"Oh, right." I cleared my throat and started talking. And judging by the way he looked at me, I would have to be very, very convincing.

"Well, you know, I can understand your hatred and anger towards your family. But is it really necessary to create a winter that makes a lot of people suffering, I mean, you've been very hard on your brothers and your friend, but no one else, isn't that a bit too much?" He looked at me, and for a second he looked like he was thinking it over with warmth instead of coldness, but shook it off and looked at me in anger.

"They were never there before, although I was there for them, why should I be nice now? For what reason would I be nice and help them this time?" I was a bit surprised by his outburst, but shook it off and started talking again.

"Family? Love? Warmth? Those are things that everyone deserves and can have. But not all do not see the love and care given to them. Are you really going to give up a family that cares so much about you that they are willing to go out and risk their lives to get you back to them?" Once again he looked thoughtful, and once again shook it off, but not with the same force as he had before. He began to see the light, not much of it, but still.

"T-they just want their little handyman and scientist to help them out with situations they can't handle on their own. I mean, April just want her father back from being a mindless mutant bat. She doesn't care about me as much as she could. Nobody does." I went up to him and placed a wooden hand on his knee and patted it.

"No, she does care about you. All of them do. I heard them talking about you when I met them, and from the sound of it, it sounds like they've missed you and that you used to be very close to each other before. You have spoken from a frozen and cold heart, it's no wonder that you have felt hatred and sorrow. But you don't have to live that way. You don't have live in the cold, but rather in the warmth and love." This time he did not look that he was angry, he looked like he regreted what he had done.

"But still, it's the way it should be. The cold heart has no place in society. Never has, never will." He sounded pretty sad, and I could be wrong, but I swear I saw water dripping from him.

"But look around here. Do you really want to be responsible for all this." I removed my hand from his lap and made a gesture to the city. Donnie looked around and watched with fear as the snow fell to the ground and the ice hanging from the windows and roof. And this time, I really saw water dripping from his chest. An ice plate was placed over his chest and it had started to melt. I guess love had gotten through to him. He sank to his knees and the tears began to fall from his eyes.

"Sadness swirls within me like the snow. I've frozen out the only friends I'll ever know. There's no way I can win, but I wish I had been there for them long ago." I went up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder as more tears began to fall from his eyes and the ice continued to melt from the chest, as his icy personality began to melt with it. His personality came back to what it once was and that he was no longer cold and unemotional.

"Life's too short to be such an inconsiderate fool. So mindless that I couldn't see. Life's too short to be so selfish and so crude that I only ever thought of me. "

(Mikey's P.O.V)

"These are very grave news indeed. I never imagined one of my own sons turn against us. And I never saw this in Donatello..." Master Splinter stroked his beard with sad eyes and he looked more collected than I guess he was. Raph, Leo, April and I were sitting on the couch and rubbed our arms and blew warm air into our hands in attempts to get warmer.

"It's getting colder down here by the second, guys if we do not do something soon, we'll all freeze to death!" Leo looked at Raph and his jaw shuddered when he was cold and he was stuttering when he talked.

"I-I know T-too Raph, but he's s-still our b-brother. We c-can't just-attack him!" It was a bit annoying to hear him stutter, but I had other things to think about. Donnie had always been my best friend, we were always closest to when we were smaller. onnie had never wanted to hurt people, except for when he had to and he wanted to help in anyway he could when he was needed, he was both generous and compassionate, and now he had turned into a bad guy. It just didn't seem right.

"Sadness blows inside me like the snow, I've forgotten about bestest friend I'll ever know. There's a small chance we might win, but I wish that I had been there for him long ago." I took a look at a photo that hung on the wall and brushd the snow from the glass. It was a photo with all of us on it when we were about fourteen. It was Leo and Raph arms wrapped around the other's shoulders, Master Splinter in the background and Donnie and I stood there smiling at the camera, and Donnie had his arm wrapped around me in a one-armed hug. Like I said, we had always been best friends.

"Life's too short to be such an oblivious fool, so reckless that I couldn't see. Life's too short to be so desperate to be seen, that I only ever thought of me. "

(No one's P.O.V)

A / N: Try seeing Mikey and Donnie sing together in this part of the song.

"I wish I saw things clearly, I guess I'm just not the sort. Now all I know is life's too short." Mikey felt a few tears fall from his eyes and Donnie's tears just continued to fall in a small stream, they had both began to realize that this just might be the end of something that had survived so much, a brotherhood that nothing on this earth could destroy, nothing but one cold frozen heart.

(Donnie's P.O.V)

I felt the tears fall from my eyes like an endless stream, and I just couldn't stop. I felt a twig hand place itself on my shoulder and I looked at the little snowman I had created that had managed to knock some sense into me.

"Oh, Alex. What have I done? I'm a monster! A cold, heartless monster!" He patted my shoulder and squeezed it a little.

"Maybe you were before, but you don't need to be anymore. You know, it's never too late to change. You've shut them out once, do not make the same mistake again and let them in this time and let them help you through this." I thought about his words and made my decision. I was going to fix my mess, and repair my family bonds. I stretched out my arms and threw them around the snowman in a hug.

"Thank you, Alex. For making me see things clearly again." I felt that he returned the hug, but then I saw something that scared me out of my shell. My arms turned into an icy blue hue down to the elbows and looked like ice too. Then it hit me, when the ice plate on my chest melted, the protection from turning me into ice myself was destroyed, and now I would turn into an ice sculpture in just a matter of time. I pulled myself away from the hug and looked at my arms and down on my feet, which also turns into the same icy blue color.

"Alex, I'm freezing!" He looked at me in fear, and touched my arms and tapped on them, and that scared me even more was that I did not feel a thing in my arms. I had lost all feeling in my feet and arms.

"We have to find your brothers and get help for you. Quickly!" I nodded and tried to stand up, but my feet and arms didn't obey me. I just fell back down to the ground. I panted with effort and looked at Alex and stretched out my arms at him.

"Alex, help me to stand. I must find a way to thaw this winter storm and make amends with my brothers before it is too late." He nodded and grabbed my arm and put it around his neck and pulled me up and made me lean on him so I could stand and walk. Now we had a hurry, we did not have much time.

A / N: Oh my god, that was a long chapter! I hope you like it, and I know that Donnie did not stay evil for long, but I didn't want him to stay evil for a long time, since I don't intend to make him look like a bad guy and I wanted to get this done, so I did it a bit rushed as well, so sorry in advance for the mistakes in the writing. Anyway, hope you enjoyed it and stay tuned for the next chapter, and a reminder that agi-nekonin's comic on this story that is starting to come up on DA.