~ Venus: The Mutant Ninja Female Muscle Turtle ~
Created by Dark Phoenix
Edited by Michael-Leonard
Feedback appreciated: thedarkphoenix2008@yahoo.com
In this climactic battle, all bets are off!

~ WARNING ~
This story is not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18 (21 in some locations). This story depicts extreme female muscularity, intense sexual situations, violence, explicit language, and smoking. If any of this offends you, then do not read any further. This story also depicts the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in a mature theme. The female character, Venus de Milo, is depicted in this story in a completely different (and highly sexual) way from her original depiction. If you don't like the idea of Venus and the TMNT in adult situations, then this story isn't for you. You have been warned. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy the story!

~ INTRODUCTION ~
The name of the chapter practically spells it out without making it too obvious. Nothing much else to say except the story isn't over yet!


Chapter XVII: The Death of a Good and an Evil

It was a sight that froze Tiamat in his tracks. Leonardo was back on his feet, rejuvenated by this surge of mystical energy. But where was it coming from?! He wasn't capable of consciously controlling mystical energy! And yet it glowed like an aura, surrounding him with power that seemed to match his fury.

Tiamat did his best to gather himself. "Enough of this! What the hell are you?!"

Leonardo's glowing blue eyes remained fixed on his opponent. "I am the instrument of your destruction! You will pay for all of your transgressions!"

Leonardo moved with speed too quick for Tiamat to follow. Before he could even react, a fist connected with his midsection, which forced blood to fly out of his mouth. Leonardo nailed him with a series of punches that literally lifted Tiamat off the ground. He followed that with an upward kick that caught Tiamat's jaw and sent him flipping head over heels into some nearby wreckage.

Leonardo retrieved his katana swords and walked over to where Tiamat was now laying. But Tiamat wasn't out of the fight yet and burst back onto the scene.

"I don't know where you got that power, but don't think you've won!" Tiamat shouted.

Tiamat channeled his mystical energy into his arm and converted it to his lightning element. He then started intensifying the bolts, making their reach greater.

"Let's see how well you like this attack! And most of all, there's no dodging it!" Tiamat said as he began blasting his lightning bolts from his arm at Leonardo. Thinking quickly, Leonardo pulled out his katanas, planted one into the ground while holding on to it, and thrust the other one up in front of him. His trick worked as the otherwise highly lethal lightning bolts became drawn to the outstretched katana like a lightning rod and flowed through Leonardo to his other blade, channeling it into the ground. But this also left him immobile, as he had to maintain the grounded connection to avoid being scorched by the lightning bolts. Tiamat couldn't believe what he saw. He kept up his attack though, figuring Leonardo would falter sooner or later.

But falter he wouldn't. His own mystical energy started to become increasingly amplified as his anger rose within him again. He will kill Tiamat! His aura started to explode outward as his own energy actually managed to overpower Tiamat's lightning element energy. Leonardo took this opportunity to remove his swords and run at Tiamat, ready to impale him. Tiamat had to stop his attack and leap into the air to dodge. But there was no keeping up with Leonardo's speed. Leonardo leapt into the air after him and landed a series of short kicks, momentarily put away his swords to free up his hands, grabbed Tiamat's arm, and swung him around and launched him downward so fast, he moved like a blur toward the ground. Tiamat hit some wreckage and it exploded outward from the impact.

Leonardo landed and again drew his swords, his outpouring of mystical energy finally dying down. Tiamat stirred as he struggled to sit up. He was beaten and a trickle of blood came out of his mouth. But Leonardo didn't show a trace of remorse in his eyes.

"Heh heh, well. I guess I was wrong about you. You... and I aren't so different after all." Tiamat goaded.

Leonardo placed his swords, crossed scissor-like, around Tiamat's neck. "You're wrong. I am nothing like you. You're a monster that wishes only to take lives. I should've done this from the beginning!"

Tiamat laughed. "Don't think you've won! Even if you destroy all of us, it is nothing compared to the horrors that you will eventually face! Oh yes, it's all so clear to me now! Everything you've done, everything you’ve shown, it all points to a dark legend that is written in the Akashic Records that we have seen in the dream world. The human race will be extinguished in the end!"

Leonardo had enough of Tiamat's ranting. "This nightmare ends here. Goodbye, Tiamat!"

Leonardo swung his swords through Tiamat's neck, severing his head and killing him. He stood over Tiamat's corpse as his head cleared and he became calmer. A hand touched his shoulder. He swung around swiftly, one of his swords mere inches from Splinter's throat.

"Leonardo, stop! It's me!" Splinter yelled.

Leonardo showed recognition as his eyes returned to normal and were wide with terror over what he almost did and dropped his swords.

"M-Master Splinter. I'm so sorry! I don't know what came over me!" Leonardo said as he dropped to his knees.

Splinter was beside himself. "I can understand killing Tiamat. He had no remorse in him. But it was like you were a different person there for a minute."

Leonardo was at a loss for words. He couldn't explain it either. Ever since Tiamat had him at the business end of his sword with the electric current pushing him close to death, he felt this rage within him that was greater than he expected it to be. All he wanted was to kill Tiamat, but that power was what scared him. He had never learned how to use mystical energy, and yet he felt his whole body overflow with it. By all accounts he should be dead from his wounds now. This power... was it always inside him? If being so close to death is enough to trigger this reaction in him, it might be worth taking up instruction in learning how to control mystical energy. But Master Splinter wasn't skilled in its use, and I Chung was dead. The only one he could learn from is Venus.

"Venus! We’ve got to help her!" Leonardo cried as he remembered Venus.

Donatello and Michelangelo had remained silent this whole time. Neither of them could understand what happened to Leonardo anymore than Splinter could. They were glad to see him alive and well.

"That's our plan. We need to help Venus take down Tatsuo for good. She's very strong, but Tatsuo is not to be underestimated. We must help her!" Splinter said.

Leonardo wiped the blood off his katana swords and put them away as he joined Splinter, Donatello, and Michelangelo to search for Venus.

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"CLANG!" came the sound of Tatsuo's fast swinging fire sword as it knocked one of Venus's tessen out of her grip and into a nearby pile of wreckage, where it disappeared from sight.

Venus caught Tatsuo's arm as he was swinging and landed some well-aimed kicks to his midsection, and then used her physical strength to wrench his sword from his grip. Venus went to swing her remaining tessen at Tatsuo's head, but this time he grabbed her wrist and nailed her in the face with a headbutt. The force of the blow caused her to stagger as he picked up his sword, ignited it with fire, and swung it down on her head. Venus only barely got her tessen up in time to block it, but the combined force and fiery intensity was enough of to split her tessen in half. Venus let go and leapt back. She pulled out her remaining katana blades and charged full force at Tatsuo. Tatsuo once again intensified his fire sword and began parrying her attacks and trying to connect with his own. Both locked their blades together, trying to overpower each other. But Tatsuo just grinned.

"What could possibly be funny?!" Venus asked, bemused.

"Oh, it's just that you fail to realize that you are beaten!" Tatsuo declared.

Venus couldn't help but chuckle. "Well boy, aren't you getting ahead of yourself! It's not over ‘til it's over!"

This time Tatsuo really laughed manically. "Oh but it is! I hate having to do it just to win a fight, but I'm increasing my powers to maximum! And my sword is more than just able to channel elemental fire! The immense heat also increases it's cutting potential even greater than Tiamat's lightning element! Which means..."

Tatsuo's sword became so hot that Venus could feel the heat right through her shell. Her swords were also becoming very hot when finally, the fire sword snapped them both in two. Venus jumped back to gather herself. This wasn't good. Tatsuo's fire sword returned to normal as he held it out in front.

"C'mon! What happened to avenging I Chung? Hmm? You are ready to die for that vengeance aren't you?" Tatsuo taunted.

Venus wasn't about to back down. She would avenge her father. And if it meant dying to attain that vengeance...

"I'm not afraid to die. But, if that is my fate, then rest assured you will work hard for it!" Venus said simply.

Tatsuo’s laugh became more evil. "Ha! This will be fun!"

Venus focused solely on her enemy. The rest of her world faded away as, more than ever, her hard and shaped muscles would be put to the ultimate test. She sprang forth, narrowly blocked an attempted sword swing by Tatsuo with her forearm, and successfully landed a palm-thrust to the side of his head, making him stagger. This was all she needed to land several more punches. Tatsuo staggered back some more and, when he managed to look back up, he was on the receiving end of a powerful leaping roundhouse kick.

Venus could clearly tell that Tatsuo had indeed increased his fighting powers to maximum, as that same combination would've knocked him down already. But instead, he returned a powerful blow to Venus's chest, sending her flying several feet and barely landing on her feet as she skidded to a stop. She clutched her chest for a moment and ran at Tatsuo, then leapt in the air and landed a couple feet shy of him into a sliding leg sweep. But Tatsuo jumped to avoid it, flipped in midair and landed a few feet away from her. He was indeed faster and more responsive than before, but Venus was running on pure muscle! Tatsuo had barely turned around when a fist hit him so hard, he sailed into a nearby wall with a thud. Venus had also turned up her fighting ability as she kept up her offensive by bounding off the wall. Tatsuo stepped back, but couldn't dodge another wide kick from Venus's muscled leg, sending him head over heels. He managed to turn it into a backflip to stabilize his momentum, but was still unable to get away from Venus or to avoid an upward kick that once again sent him for a loop. He landed and instantly put his guard up, just in time to stop another frontal assault by Venus as they locked arms.

Tatsuo smiled wickedly as he hit her with another headbutt, which stunned her long enough to get in a good thrust kick that sent her flying backwards. She looked up just in time to see Tatsuo swinging his sword at her head and she barely managed to duck it, the sword clanging against a scorched car. Venus knocked Tatsuo's sword arm away, grabbed him by his shoulders and pushed him backward as she jumped, increasing her forward momentum. She got her legs up over Tatsuo's chest as he fell off his feet, and doubled his impact on the ground by kicking her own feet down onto his chest, allowing her to bounce off him. But she felt his hand grab her ankle. Tatsuo swung her around and around as fast as he could by her legs, smashing her through various pieces of wreckage and threw her at another wall as hard as he could. But Venus landed vertically against the wall as it cracked from the impact.

It was clear that Venus was looking increasingly battered, but she was in the fight of her life and nothing short of broken bones would stop her from fighting to the end. She sprung from the wall and dove at Tatsuo, landing a punch with such vicious ferocity that he bounced off the ground like a skipping stone. But Venus moved so fast that she blew past him, took hold of him, and used his momentum to throw him skyward. Venus crouched down and shot up into the air. She grabbed Tatsuo by one of his wounded wings, and snapped him down to the ground with blinding speed, causing the ground itself to shake a little on impact.

Venus landed and was beside herself to see Tatsuo stirring among the wreckage. There was no way he could survive an assault like that! Was he just toying with her earlier?! Tatsuo's fist shot out of the debris, scattering it as he got back up. He may have survived her attack, but he was clearly worn down. But was it enough?

"That was a nice try. But I said I would prove my superiority by showing you my full power! I hope you enjoyed what advantages you had over me before because now, they're gone, and so are you!!" Tatsuo said as he threw the shell of a car at her.

Venus backhanded the car and it exploded into several pieces, but it was a distraction. Venus felt the cold steel of Tatsuo's blade pierce her chest. Tatsuo looked deep in her eyes with his own evil glare as he savored the deathblow. Venus looked down at the blade as Tatsuo sent fire down the blade, causing it to burn her insides.

"NOOOO!!!" came the scream of Leonardo as he and the others had just appeared on the battlefield only to witness this horrifying scene before them. Tatsuo looked up at Leonardo and grinned as he savored his kill. Venus grimaced in pain, but then felt that pain fade away. Memories of I Chung flashed through her mind as she saw him smiling at her, completely free of pain. The life left her eyes as she died on Tatsuo's fiery blade. Tatsuo laughed as he swung his sword, throwing Venus's lifeless body off to the side where it landed with a thud.

Tears filled Leonardo's eyes as he looked at the half-burned body of the woman he had come to realize deep down inside that he loved. He ran over to her and cradled her lifeless body close to his. Tatsuo stood there, amused, as he watched this pitiful scene unfold before him.

"No Venus! This can't happen! You can't die! You just can't!" Leonardo cried in despair. Tears flowed down his cheeks as he put a hand to her open eyes and gently closed them.

"I love you, Venus. You were the one, the one I was destined to love with all my heart," he said.

He noticed a wide glowing stream of faint light flow out from Venus's body. The stream looked ghostly as it moved off into the distance.

"Goodbye Venus," Leonardo said.

Leonardo looked up at Tatsuo with renewed rage. He hoped the powers that awoke within him before would return to the surface again, but they didn't this time. Not that it mattered right now. He would give Tatsuo a fate similar to Tiamat's.

But no sooner did he stand up to run did he see an arm appear in front of him.

"Stop! This is not your fight just yet," Splinter said.

"No, damn it! Tatsuo is mine to kill!" Leonardo yelled in defiance.

"You will do as I tell you!!" Splinter shouted, which seemed to snap Leonardo out of his anger.

"Master Splinter. I..." Leonardo started to say, but Splinter interrupted him.

"I know how much you care about Venus. But Tatsuo is much stronger than Tiamat. Righteous anger will only work against you. Psychologically, Tatsuo has the advantage. And I swore to avenge I Chung in Venus's place should she happen to die trying herself. I have to try," Splinter explained.

Leonardo was very tempted to disobey Splinter and go after Tatsuo anyway, but he remembered all of his training and everything he himself had tried to teach Raphael about his temper. He didn't like it, but he stepped back.

"Thank you, Leonardo. The same goes for the rest of you! This is my fight!" Splinter said to the other turtles.

Tatsuo held up his sword. "So then, you want to join Venus and I Chung yourself, do ya? Well I'd be glad to make your wish come true!"

Splinter pulled out a wooden staff that was oddly shaped and prepared to fight. Everyone watched as they were about to see their sensei in action.

TO BE CONTINUED...!