MF: Legend of the Mystic Past

[Kali_WolfChilde]

the SPD fic i was writing is on the back burner. I started writing a MF fic a week or so ago, and since im definitely gonna finish it, i figured i't start posting it on here. there will be about 18 installments. here's the first installment:
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Mystical Forest; nineteen years ago

A young woman hummed aloud as she picked flowers, fruits, and herbs and placed them in the basket she was carrying. She’d been out collecting things for a good part of the day, and after a another ten minutes she started back for her home. As she approached the small dwelling, a woman who had similar looks emerged from within the house.

" Sister, I did not know you were coming by today," the woman with the basket spoke up, almost faltering in her steps, but managing to catch herself before her sister knew something was up.

" I was looking for some chokeberries. The ones that grow around here seem to be better in my spells and meals. Are you all right, Niella? You look a little pale," the woman’s sister told her.

" I’m - fine, Udonna. I had a headache earlier, but I boiled some bark from an aspen tree to help with the pain," Niella replied, just as a tiny whimpering came from inside the house.

" That sounded like a baby," Udonna said as she ducked back inside the house. When she came out, she was holding a blanket-wrapped bundle. " Niella, why would you have a baby in your home?" Udonna asked her sister, and Niella gulped before replying.

" I - found the baby in the far reaches of the forest. It’s parents were probably killed by the undead monsters that the Master sends up every now and then," Niella said, the lie coming easily. She held her arms out and took the baby, crooning softly to it.

" You have always wanted a child. I am proud that you were the one to find her," Udonna said with a smile as she gave her sister a hug, taking the basket from her and putting it on the kitchen table inside the home. She was arranging the ingredients on their proper shelves when a terrified scream erupted from outside, causing her to hurry to find out the cause of her sister’s scream.

When she cleared the doorway, she saw her sister scrambling to her feet, running after someone who was running away from her. " Bring back my Diora!" Niella screamed, throwing up her hands and shooting forth beam after beam of sparkling white energy.

The creature that held the tiny squawling baby stopped for about five seconds to try and hush the baby up, and that was long enough for Niella and Udonna to catch up with it.

With an angry hiss, the creature dropped the baby into the bushes, whirling around to face the two women. " Necrolai," Udonna angrily observed.

" Give me back Diora," Niella cried, anger mixed with the fear on her face and in her eyes.

" I don’t think so," Necrolai coldly replied, just as a portal to the surface world opened up close to them. Necrolai laughed at the expression on Niella’s face. " I can kill the child in an instant if I want to," she taunted the distraught woman. A strange looking creature suddenly appeared on the scene, humming an off-key nonsensical tune aloud. When he saw the two women and the female creature, he froze.

" Please, get my daughter to safety," Niella pleaded with the second creature before she leapt at the female thing before her. Her sister joined in, but they were still having a hard time keeping their magic strong. With a final slash from her dagger-like weapon, the thing called Necrolai took flight, angrily soaring away from the two women, who were now lying on the ground.

When Niella was strong enough, she got up, looking around. Sadly, the baby was gone, as was the creature she’d asked help from. Unable to stand the shock of not knowing the fate of her child, Niella suddenly collapsed to the ground, her eyes closing in unconsciousness. Udonna weakly got to her feet, using her snow-flake-tipped wand to levitate her sister’s body.

" I hope we can someday find the child," Udonna whispered as she arrived back at her sister’s home. She didn’t even notice the faint wink of light that appeared a hundred feet from the front door, nor did she notice the creature from earlier appear from the trunk of a tree.

" Oh, I hope the witches don’t realize what I’ve done," he groaned, hurrying off quickly into the woods.

* * * * *

The town of Creighton Falls, South Carolina; 1988

" Look, Alan. Our daughter is trying to spell her name," a woman happily exclaimed as a one year old toddler tried her best to pick out the right letters from the plastic box beside her.

" She is a smart one. We’re lucky to have her as a daughter. Everyone keeps telling us how adorable she is," the man named Alan proudly boasted to his wife.
With a grin of glee on her face, the little girl waddled over to the man and woman, holding her arms out. " Mommy, hold!" she proudly said, and the man and woman laughed at her audacity.

" I think she’s ready for a bath. How about it, you little munchkin?" the woman asked the little girl, and the girl nodded, clapping her hands together in agreement.

" All right, we’ll go take a bath, so we can be ready for daddy to take us out to dinner," the woman said as she got up and carried the child down the hallway.

" Foo, Foo!" the little girl exclaimed, meaning food. Neither parent noticed the tiny hair-sized trickle of dark energy that the girl’s fingers left on her teething ring, nor the fact that a flower in the vase in the kitchen wilted even as another blossomed brighter when the girl passed by.


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The town of Creighton Falls, South Carolina; eighteen years later (present day)

" But mo-om!" I protested, folding my arms over my chest and glaring at a spot on the wall.

" Don’t ‘mom’ me, Blaze. We’ve been talking about this move for weeks and weeks. Your father and I have decided we need a change in scenery, and the town we’re moving to is lovely. It’s where we found you," my adopted mother told me.

" I know that, but I seriously thought you were kidding about moving! I mean, I’m supposed to be going back to college this semester!" I exclaimed as I watched my mother packing the last of my clothes into a duffel bag.

" I’m sorry your plans are going to be upset, daughter, but it’s for the best. Your father’s job can transfer to the branch in Briarwood. Now, I don’t want to hear any more about not wanting to go. Everything’s already been packed, and we’re leaving the house in ten minutes. If you’ve got to use the bathroom, go before we leave. I’ll meet you at the car," Mother told me before putting the duffel bag on the bed and leaving the room.

I almost instantly felt bad for practically yelling at her, so I hurried in and out of the bathroom, grabbing my three small duffels before hurrying from the house. I gave it one last look as my dad placed my bags in the bag of the van. " I’ll miss you, Creighton Falls," I whispered as I climbed into the car, and dad drove us to the airport.

I didn’t even look out the window as the plane started up and we coasted down the runway, my thoughts in a turmoil. A hand on my arm startled me, and I jumped a bit before realizing it was Mom.

" Take a nap, sweetie. It’ll be a few hours before we get to Briarwood," she told me, handing me a pillow and one of the blankets that we’d brought on the plane with us. I leaned my seat back some, pulling down the window cover before laying my head on the pillow and slowly drifting off to the sleep.


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" Blaze. Blaze, sweetie, wake up. We’ve landed," my mother’s voice said, breaking through the layers of sleep that surrounded me.When I sat up, I saw that over half of first class was already empty, so I quickly grabbed my duffel bags and followed Mother off the plane. Instead of going towards the luggage claims area - our belongings had been shipped by U-Haul air - we went out to the parking lot, where dad was unlocking the rental car that had been left for him, courtesy of his new employers here in Briarwood.

When I saw a close-up of the car, I started grinning because it was an older model four-door German-engineered convertible. Casually tossing my bags in the back of the car, I climbed in behind the passenger seat, after adjusting the radio to my liking, of course. Native American music soon came blasting out of the speakers, and I settled down as dad began the drive to our new home.

" Just what kind of place are we going to be living in, anyway? Another apartment building?" I wanted to know after about twenty minutes of riding.

" You’ll see when we get there," was all my dad would say. I was about to ask him again, just to see what kind of funny reaction I’d get, but I was knocked back against the car seat as something exploded less than twenty feet away from the right side of the car.
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i found the logo on Linear Ranger's MF site, and i added the words under it via Word Perfect.

[Angelfox]

sounds cool

[rangermaster]

Awesome. Can't wait for more

[Kali_WolfChilde]

Dad swerved the car to avoid that blast, only to have another series of blasts explode all around us. The car went spinning out of control, slamming up against a tree and sending me flying through the air, where I landed - painfully - fifty feet away from the car.

I cried out as I tried to move and felt a sharp pain in my left wrist; guess I must’ve sprained it or something. My mother’s cry of pain was even louder than mine, drawing my attention back the car where she and my now unconscious dad were still at. Groaning through the pain, I used a broken limb from the tree by me to steady my body as I made my way back to the car.

I nearly fainted when I saw the blood on my mother’s chest, and the deep gash on my father’s forehead from where a jagged tree limb had sliced across his head.

“ Blaze,” my mom whispered as she tried to keep conscious.

“ Mom. Oh my God, I’ll - I’ll call the paramedics,” I told her, trying to grab my cell phone out of my biggest duffel bag. Yet another blast shook the ground, causing dead leaves and dirt to get kicked up all over us.

“ No! You - must - find cover first. Go, run for safety, and - then call,” my mother rasped before lapsing into unconsciousness. I tried to open the car door, but something went whizzing by my head, destroying a tree near me. With a last look at my parents, I darted for the safety of a large oak tree several yards away. When I chanced to look from behind the tree, I nearly passed out myself when I saw the monster standing less than a hundred feet from the car. The freak was like something out of an evil fairy tale, and I cringed as another blast landed near the place I was hiding.

“ Dead humans will please Imperius,” the thing said, before five colored blasts of energy struck it, sending it flying through the air. I screamed and ducked down the ground as the thing landed, for it was now less than ten yards from me, though it had its back turned.

“ Stop right there!” a voice shouted, and five suited people seemingly just dropped out of the sky, landing in defensive stances on the leaf-strewn ground.

“ Power Rangers, how nice of you to show up,” the ugly monster thing sneered as it climbed back to its feet.

“ Pink, Blue, get the people out of that car. Green, Yellow, and I can handle this freak for awhile,” Red said to the two of the costume-suited people that had skirts on their costumes. They nodded their helmeted heads and ran to my parents’ car, allowing the three guys to begin the task of fighting the ugly creature. I watched from my crouched position as the monster continuously kept knocking the three figures away from him. Even when the girls joined in, they were still getting beaten.

“ Mystic Muscles!” Green called out, and the upper arms and torso of his suit began to bulge out.

“ Mystic Gloves!” Yellow called, summoning a pair of boxing-like gloves to his fists. I cringed as they were both sent flying back ten minutes later, smoke and sparks coming from their suits. Red, Blue, and Pink tried to defend their teammates, but eventually they, too, were sent flying back. One of their weapons landed at my feet, and I gulped when Red’s head turned in my direction and saw me.

“ Get out of here! Get - to safety!” he shouted at me, even though he was obviously hurting. I was too paralyzed to move, even after the creature turned in my direction.

“ Goodie, another human!” he screeched, readying the blaster weapon he held in his hands.

“ No! Leave - the civilian alone!” Blue shouted.

I grabbed the weapon off the ground, shakily getting to my feet. “ Don’t worry about me, whoever you five are,” I told them, ducking as a round of blasts ripped apart the tree beside me, sending it crashing to the ground.

When the monster prepared to fire at me a second time, I tossed Red’s weapon at him and ran, hiding behind the remains of my parents’ rental car. As the monster fired at Red, something moved in to block the blast, simultaneously firing a blast that sent the monster flying. I waited no longer to see what would happen, because a nearby citizen came and grabbed my arm, dragging me to safety in a nearby store. “ Let the Power Rangers handle the fight,” the stranger told me.

“ I have to find a phone. My - my parents are badly hurt, and I - I don’t know where the Pink and Blue Rangers took them,” I moaned, cradling my sprained left wrist against my chest.

“ Paramedics came and took them to the hospital. I will ask someone to drive you there after the fight is over,” he told me, before he hurried to a back area of the shop. I was left to watch as the Rangers managed to get in a few blasts and hits from their weapons before they were knocked back again.

The monster was about to finish the five Rangers off when another Ranger appeared on the scene. This one had on a lot of gold armor, and he carried a different weapon. “ Wow,” I whispered. That was the last thing I said before unconsciousness reached out and claimed me. I never even felt it as my body collapsed to the floor of the store.

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Nick Russell smacked his fist against his palm, angrily striding into the room currently occupied by two females and three other males. “ You too, huh,” the guy with the reddish-orange hair said.

“ I can’t figure it out. That freak should’ve been easier to beat. He was way stronger than any of the usual monsters we’ve fought,” Nick complained as he dropped onto a stool beside the guy who’d spoken.

“ Yeah, don’t I know it. I think I’ll have a bruised backside come tomorrow,” the darker-haired younger guy spoke up, his voice identifying him as an Australian native.

“ You did well, Rangers. As best you could. You saved innocent civilians from being killed,” the woman in the flowing white clothing spoke up.

“ Thanks, Udonna, but that doesn’t make me feel any better. That girl almost got herself killed, and her parents could still die,” Nick mumbled.

“ Where are Vida and Madison?” the oldest of the guys wanted to know.

“ I asked them to go to the hospital and check on the girl and her parents. After she threw me my Magi Staff, I figured I owed her at least that much,” Nick replied.

All of a sudden, Udonna swayed on her feet, and the other female had to reach out and grab her arms to keep her falling. “ Are you okay, Udonna?” the girl asked, and Udonna nodded.

“ I’m fine, Clare. I’ve just got a small headache, that’s all,” Udonna told the girl as she withdrew her arms from Clare’s hands, causing the older guy to frown a bit.

“ Are you sure?” the guy asked her, and she nodded.

“ Yes Daggeron. The only thing differing today from any others is the strange energy reading I got from the Crystal Ball,” Udonna admitted, shutting her mouth when she realized she’d revealed something she’d not wanted to share with her friends as of yet.

“ What strange energy reading?” Nick asked.

“ Not long before the attack, I got a strange energy reading from the area where the monster attacked. I’ve never seen the readings before, not even when the Mystic Wizards were fighting the forces of evil all those years ago,” Udonna told them.

“ Udonna, something strange is happening with the Crystal Ball!” Clare called out. She’d gone over to the Ball to see if she could see anything. Udonna and the others crowded around behind her, staring solemnly into the Ball, until a picture began to form in the black-purple mist inside.

Clare had a puzzled look on her face. “ That’s funny. Why is it showing images of patients in a hospital?” she asked.

“ I do not know. It has never shown these images before. Daggeron and I will study these thing further. Rangers, I think the three of you should go back to your homes and your lives. Rest up until we need you again,” Udonna told the three younger guys.

“ I’ll go up to the balcony and feed Fireheart some chokeberries,” Clare said, picking up a basket from along the wall and leaving the room. Once she and the younger guys were gone, Daggeron turned to face Udonna.

“ There is something you are hiding from us, old friend. Can you not even share it with me?” he asked her. After a bit of mental deliberation, Udonna gave in.

“ There has been one other time when I’ve gotten a reading like that, and when I’ve felt dizzy,” she told him, causing one eyebrow to raise.

[rangermaster]

Ok. I totally want to know what is going to happen next. I'm totally hooked. Loving this.

[trekkie]

Im rocking back and forth in my seat wanting more lol:023:

[FlashmanX]

Another great work
I always look forward to your fics

[Kali_WolfChilde]

He was silent, so she continued. “ Many years ago, almost a year before Clare was born, Niella found a baby in the outer reaches of the forest. She took it in and cared for it, but Necrolai tried to steal her away when the baby was only a few months old. Phineas - who we didn’t know at the time - showed up just before Niella attacked Necrolai."

" A portal had opened up near us, and by the time Niella was able to get to her feet, Phineas was gone and so was the baby. She cried many times for over a week, morning the loss of the baby. Yet for some strange reason, she called the baby hers. The only man she even thought about before the baby showed up was Calindor,” Udonna said.

“ That is strange. But when exactly did the reading show up?” Daggeron wanted to know.

“ I was picking chokeberries near Niella’s home - almost a month after the baby disappeared - when Calindor showed up. He said that his ring was missing. I’d already guessed this, because his ring is what caused the readings to show up when I was looking into the Crystal Ball earlier that morning. I saw the ring, but it was on a chain around a baby’s neck."
" Since then, I haven’t sensed anything. Until today, I’d forgotten about the ring. If it’s in the surface world, then that means that the baby that Niella found could still be alive,” Udonna murmured, thoughts of how distraught Niella had been over the baby’s disappearance beginning to roll through her mind again.

When the mental cogs slipped into place, Udonna and Daggeron’s gazes met once more. “ I can’t believe I didn’t see this before,” Udonna whispered.

“ I remember Niella acting a bit strange for almost nine full months, Udonna. I also remember you telling me about the baby just showing up. Udonna, I think that Niella gave birth to the child, and hid her pregnancy with her Gatekeeper powers,” Daggeron spoke up.

“ Then that would mean that her baby’s father could only be one person,” Udonna murmured.

“ Calindor,” Daggeron practically spat, anger springing to his eyes.

“ He must have taken advantage of my sister, and when she began hiding her pregnancy, she must’ve taken Calindor’s ring from him when he didn’t realize it,” Udonna gasped. At that moment, the Crystal Ball began clouding up with a black mist. Udonna turned and stared into the mist.

“ The same strange reading is coming from the hospital the wounded family was taken to,” Udonna observed.

“ I’ll contact the girls and tell them to try and find the source of the signature,” Daggeron told Udonna as he pulled out his Mystic Morpher.

“ I’ll go over the spell books to see if there’s a way to help them,” Udonna said as she left the room. Neither of them noticed the brief picture of light glinting off of a ring that showed up in the Crystal Ball.


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I awoke with a groan, placing a hand to my head as I sat up. When I opened my eyes, I was briefly disoriented to find that I was in a hospital room. An IV needle was stuck in my left arm, and I shuddered, for I truly hate needles. At that time, I remembered how I’d gotten there, and I swung my legs over the side of the bed. I was reaching to remove the IV needle when two girls I’d never seen before came walking through the door. When they saw me awake, and saw me attempting to get up, the girl with the short hair hurried for the nurse while the girl with the longer hair hurried to my side.

“ The doctors said you would be unconscious for several more hours. You need to rest,” she told me.

“ Who are you? And where are my parents?” I demanded to know.

“ I’m Madison Rocca. My sister Vida is the one who went to get the nurse. Your parents are in the room next door. They’re pretty banged up, but they’ll be okay,” she told me as her sister came hurrying back with a white-clad nurse. The middle-aged woman checked my vital signs, shaking her head in puzzlement before leaving the room once more to confer with a doctor.

“ I’ve got to get to see them. A monster attacked us, and we’re new in town, and - wait - how’d you know I was here in the first place?” I queried. The sisters gave each other looks before Madison spoke up again.

“ We work at the Rock Porium. We came in late to work, just as the monster attack ended, and we found you on the floor just inside the front door. We drove you here,” Madison said with a small smile.

I stared curiously at her. “ Thanks, but I really need to get out of here. I don’t like hospitals, and I like IV needles even less,” I admitted, just as the doctor came in. He made the girls wait outside while he himself examined me.

“ You’re one of the best recovery cases I’ve seen in my time at Briarwood Memorial Hospital, Ms. Matthias. Other than some slight dizziness and occasional pains from the bruises you’ll have, I can’t see any reason why you can’t immediately be released. I’ll talk to the head nurse about getting you your discharge papers,” the doctor told me before he started to leave; the nurse had unhooked my IV while the doctor was talking.

“ But what about seeing my parents. We’re new here, and we were headed for our new house when some monster attacked,” I told him as the nurse helped me slide off the bed.

“ Unfortunately, the sedatives and painkillers we had to give them are very strong, and will cause them to be unconscious for two or three days. You can go in to see them in four days, “ the doctor informed me before he walked out of the room, the nurse right on his heels. I groaned aloud to myself.

“ Ugh, great. Now where am I gonna live until then?” I mumbled.

“ Um, we couldn’t help but overhear. If you need a place to crash for a few nights, you can stay with us. I’m sure our parents wouldn’t mind,” Madison piped up, earning a surprised look from Vida.

“ Maddie, I don’t know if that’s such a good idea,” Vida protested.

“ If our parents get mad we can tell them how she wound up here. Come on - uh, I didn’t get your name,” Madison said with a sheepish smile.

“ I’m Blaze, Blaze Matthias. And you have no idea how much my parents will appreciate this when they wake up. No one brought our things from my parents’ car, did they?” I asked, and Vida actually nodded.

“ We asked some of our friends to rescue the stuff before it got totally ruined. We had a nurse place an outfit in the closet, and we left the rest of your things at our store. We can go by and get them,” Madison offered, and I finally smiled, giving her and Vida brief hugs before grabbing my outfit from the closet and heading into the tiny bathroom. I was in and out of there in ten minutes, and - after peeking in the window at my parents - I finally followed Vida and Madison from the hospital.

We’d climbed into a light blue convertible and were maybe ten minutes away from the hospital before I heard a strange sound. Vida and Madison glanced at each other before Vida - who was in the back seat - took out some cool kind of cell phone and held it up to her ear. She seemed to listen for a bit, then closed the phone and put it back in its case on her belt.

“ Change of plans. I’m sorry, Blaze, but we’ll have to drop you off at Rock Porium. We’ve got an important meeting to attend. I hope you don’t mind,” she told me, and I shrugged my shoulders, keeping silent until we pulled up to a rather lovely music store. Vida and Madison ushered me inside, introducing me to the store’s manager before hurrying back outside. I glanced around at the place, noting how all the CD’s and discs were in alphabetical and genre order.

“ I’m sorry about your parents. But feel free to look around. I have plenty of music,” Toby told me before disappearing into his office and shutting the door behind him.

No sooner had he done that than a customer walked in. I started to call for Toby, but I could sense that he was very busy, and since the woman was in a hurry and I didn’t see anyone else around, I decided to ring up her purchases. The cash register was a standard two-thousand-six Keystone model, so it was easy to figure out how to use it.

I thought that Madison and Vida would be back at any time; turns out, I had to wait on ten more customers before I saw the girls driving up outside. I shut the drawer and came around the counter as they came back inside the store. Madison looked from me to the departing customer.

“ Were you just waiting on her?” she curiously asked me, and I nodded.

“ Yeah, waited on her and ten other people. Toby seems busy in his office, so I didn’t want to disturb him. I went by the prices marked on the label. Oh, and someone named McKenzy said they’d be back for some more Bon Jovi music,” I added with a shrug.

“ Maybe we should talk to Toby about hiring you. McKenzy doesn’t normally like talking with anyone but Vida. I think he has a thing for her,” Madison said with a wink, and Vida lightly punched her arm.

“ He does not, and you know it. I just tell him the truth about music, that’s all,” she retorted. The front door opened yet again, and three guys came in, all wearing work shirts just like Vida’s and Madison’s.

“ Hello, I’m Xander Bly,” one of the guys said, walking forward to shake my hand. His voice had a rather charming Australian accent in it, and I smiled at him.

“ Hello, Xander. I’m Blaze Matthias. It’s nice to meet all of you. During the attack on me and my parents, I thought about packing myself up and leaving Briarwood for good, but with the Power Rangers helping me and then Vida and Madison asking me to stay with them for a few days - well, I think I just might decide to stay after all,” I spoke. No sooner had the words left my mouth than Vida’s phone rang again. She moved away from me to answer it, then ran back to our little group.

“ Blaze, stay in here and hide. We’ve got to go,” Vida said as she and her sister and their friends practically ran out the door. Not wanting to miss what was going on, I followed after them, coming to an abrupt halt when their trail ended in a dead-end alley. Puzzling over their disappearance, I started to walk out of the alley, when I noticed a strange symbol on the ground.

[Angelfox]

oops there busted already

[Cerebro]

Please keep the fiction installments coming, Kali... Like your Wild Force fiction, I'm hooked to this one already... :D

Keep up the great fiction writing.

Peace. :023:

[WolfLMG]

Sounds interesting.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

" What in the world?" I murmured, reaching down to touch the symbol. Before my fingers even encountered the thing, the circle enlarged, encompassing me in the center. I opened my mouth to shout, but the circle dragged me down into the ground before I had a chance to.

When I was able to breath again, I found myself in a dark, strange room. Sparse light penetrated the eery doom-and-gloom feeling of the area, and it was by sheer luck that I spotted a strange case lying on a wall table. I opened the case and removed the object inside.

" A cell phone? What’s a cell phone doing in a place like this?" I whispered to myself.

" Show yourself!" a voice suddenly shouted, and I jumped back into the shadows as a vicious-looking bat creature entered the room. I began to inch my way along the wall - big mistake. The creature heard my movement. With a hiss of rage she reached forward, grabbing my shirt collar and dragging me up close to her.

" P-please d-don’t hurt me," I pleaded, almost dropping the cell phone I held.

" A human! How did you get down here?" she demanded to know, shaking me until I raised up both my hands.

" I - I don’t r-really know," I protested, stumbling when the creature dropped me back to my feet.

" Foolish liar, " she hissed, quickly grabbing my arm and dragging me from the room. When we came to another room, I was the most frightened I’d ever been in my life, for the walls of the room went up higher than I could easily see, and the walls were filled with strange looking identical monsters, from two different groups by the looks of them.

" Necrolai, why have you brought a human to the Underworld?!" a voice thundered through the cavernous room.

I almost fainted when a weird mummy-looking freak entered the room by means of a different opening. He carried a fan, that - like most of his body - was a silvery grayish color.

" She appeared in the locker room. She was trying to steal the Dark Magi Phone," the creature practically spat, her grip on my arm still vice-like and unshakable.

" So what? Kill her and return the phone to the locker room," the silver-gray creature ordered, turning his back on the bat-lady in dismissal.
I closed my eyes and fervently wished for something good to happen to me. After thinking on it a second or so, a purple seal identical to the one I’d touched appeared on the floor of this room.

Not thinking, I managed to duck away from the bat-lady, touching my hand to the seal as it brightened with light. The bat-lady’s screams of rage were the last thing I heard before I was sucked back into the ground again. When I finally dared to open my eyes, I saw that I’d appeared in some sort of forest.

" Where did you come from?" someone demanded to know, and I whirled to find myself face-to-helmet with a suit-clad warrior, though this one looked evil. A glance behind him confirmed my thoughts - all five Rangers were lying on the ground, all but Red and Blue trying to struggle to their feet.

" Like I told bat lady, I don’t know!" I shouted, turning and bolting through the forest. I’d gotten perhaps a hundred yards before a third purple circle appeared in front me. I had no time to dodge it, and ran into it head-on, coming out back inside Rock Porium. Toby was just coming out his office, and seeing me obviously startled him.

" I thought you left with the others," he said, glancing around to see if there was anything wrong with his store.

" I - I did, but I - decided to come back. Danger and me - we don’t get along," I told him, making sure to hide the phone before he could see it.

He moved off to straighten a few CD displays, and I went and sat down in one of the plushly-overstuffed armchairs. Man, this day really sucks. Could anything weirder possibly happen to me? I thought to myself. Me and my big mouth. Almost immediately I felt the phone suddenly vibrate, and I slowly took it out of my jacket, opening it to stare at the screen.

" Rangers!" a woman’s voice called out, and the screen went staticy, switching to a view of the Rangers just getting to their feet where I’d seen them in the forest.

" Koragg’s - too - strong. We - need Daggeron," Pink said after the tiny view switched to her.

" I’m sorry, Rangers. Necrolai suddenly appeared downtown. He has gone to battle her," the strangely familiar woman’s voice replied, just as the screen went staticy again.

I got back to my feet, fear coursing through my veins. " What was that noise?" Toby asked as he poked his head out his office door.

" I’m sorry, Toby, I’ve got to go. If you see Madison and Vida and the guys, tell them something urgent came up," I told him, dashing out of the store and back to the alley I’d been in earlier.

The same purple seal was still there, and it became bigger when I stood beside it. " Mom, dad, if there’s anything I can do to help the protectors of the Earth, I’m gonna do it," I whispered aloud before stepping into the center of the circle. It sucked me into the ground, and I kept my eyes closed and concentrated as hard as I could on the forest I’d been in scant minutes before. I ended up behind some bushes, so I squatted down as I watched what was happening between the Rangers and the creature called Koragg.

It wasn’t a pleasant sight, for Koragg was thoroughly beating the Rangers. Another girl ran onto the scene, standing protectively in front of the fallen Rangers. " You’ll have to go through me to get to them," she boldly said.

I cried out when Koragg fired at the girl, and instead of the blast hitting the girl, it somehow zoomed back around the evil warrior and blasted me instead. I fell back flat on my butt against a tree trunk, my body jerking as black tendrils of mist began snaking over my body.

" Ancestors protect me!" I cried, giving a loud mental scream when the tendrils of light exploded, covering my body in a blanket of black light.

When the light disappeared, so did the pain. I kept my eyes closed until I stood back up, and when I opened my eyes, I nearly screamed out loud. I was now covered in a suit almost exactly like the one the evil warrior wore, though mine seemed to be black where his was purple.

" You still have magic, Gatekeeper. The Master will be pleased to have that magic," I heard Koragg say.

" I didn’t do that," the girl protested.

" Leave - Clare - alone!" I heard Green Ranger shout, and another blast shook the ground.

" Stay out of my business, Green Ranger. There is no honor in interfering in matters that do not concern you," Koragg replied.

" There is also no honor in overpowering those weaker than you when they are already beaten," I suddenly spoke up, wanting to smack myself when Koragg suddenly turned in my direction.

" Honor does not belong to those who hide while their friends are beaten. Show yourself!" Koragg shouted, blasting at the tree beside me.

" If that is what you wish, Knight Wolf, then I shall oblige you," I said, and with a calm I didn’t know I possessed I stepped out from behind the bushes, allowing the sun’s rays to bathe my suit in their light.

" No way!" Yellow Ranger protested as the girl - Clare, obviously - helped him and his teammates to their feet.

" Another Koragg?" Green Ranger asked in a puzzled voice.

" It’s not possible!" Pink Ranger shouted.

Koragg pointed his sword at me, his anger obvious in his stance. " What foolishness has Necrolai done to create you?" he asked.

" Necrolai? You mean she who looks like freaky bat chic? Imperious ordered her to kill me, but some purple circle appeared on the ground, so I escaped," I told him, which was the slightly edited version of the truth.

" The Master will be glad to claim your power," Koragg said, holding his shield up.

" Wolf Attack!" he called out.

" Huh?" is all I had time to say before several wolf-head shaped blasts struck me, kicking up dirt, dust, and smoke. When the cloud disappeared, even I was surprised that I was only shoved back a few feet.

" Impossible!" Koragg shouted in anger.

" No way!" Red shouted.

" Uh, stupid question, but am I the only one who wants to know how that happened?" I asked.

" Is this one of Daggeron’s tests?" Clare asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, then shook my helmet-covered head. " I don’t know any Daggeron. Though I did hear that name mentioned on my new phone by some woman when you were calling her and asking for help," I admitted, clamping my lips shut when I realized what I’d just said.

" I will return, Rangers," Koragg promised them as a purple-looking circle appeared in front of him, disappearing after he walked through it. I looked nervously at the Rangers, who were still a little shaky on their feet.

" Uh, so, what now?" I asked them.

" Rangers, Daggeron needs your help," a woman’s voice said.

" Uh, I may be new here and everything, but these guys look like they need a break," I instantly replied, causing Claire to give me a shocked look.

" Who is this?" the woman’s voice asked, via some kind of Comm-Link thingie in my suit.

" The newbie. Your Ranger friends need some help themselves. Hows about getting them to safety, and getting me a ride to help this Daggeron guy?" I suggested.

" If that is what you wish,, strange. Rangers, come back to Root Core. You too, Clare," the woman’s voice said.

The Rangers turned their helmeted heads to me one last time before Clare helped them off into the forest. " Hey, what about my ride!" I called out. Almost immediately something came up behind me, tossing me through the air. When I landed, I immediately grabbed on to whatever it was I was sitting on, my eyes bulging when I realized I was on a dragon.

" Ahhhh!" I screamed as the dragon took flight. I kept my eyes squeezed shut under my helmet, opening them when I felt the dragon pass through one of the circle’s I’d been through several times in the past thirty minutes.

When I came through on the other side, however, I was alone, and standing on my own two feet. Not only that, but I was on the very edge of some sort of battle. A bunch of the freaky things from bat-lady’s pit where fighting against another Ranger, as was bat-lady herself. " Hey, these don’t seem like fair odds," I mumbled to myself, letting out a piercing whistle as soon as I’d mumbled the words. Every head turned in my direction.

" Koragg?" bat-lady asked in a puzzled voice.

" Nope. Guy in the purple suit went running when I showed up. By the way, I have a question for you. Who in the world do you think would be caught wearing a suit like yours?" I boldly asked the bat-lady, shocked even at my own audacity.

" Hidiacs, destroy the intruder!" bat-lady - Necrolai, I reminded myself - ordered the dozen freaky things. They immediately began congregating around me, and I gulped nervously.

[Angelfox]

cool

[PinkFoxRanger]

Intriguing.

[Silver-Ranger]

Hmm Interesting Very Interesting.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

I was just hoping for some sort of help when a black mist suddenly covered my right hand and lower arm, coalescing into a solid shape that looked almost exactly like the shield Koragg had had, except for the colors. I automatically held the shield up, causing the wolf’s head part of the shield to slide up. “ Phantom Blaze!” I shouted, that being the first thing that came to my mind.

I stared dumbly as several dozen blasts of energy erupted from the eye in the shield, striking and destroying the things called Hidiacs. The wolf head slid back down over the eye, and I stared from Necrolai to the shield and back again. “ Now that was weird,” I murmured.

Necrolai angrily released the Ranger as the wings on her lower body extended outward. “ Heeyah!” she screeched as she took flight, quickly leaving the area.

“ Man, that was awesome!” I shouted, turning to face the Ranger, who was just getting to his feet. He retrieved his weapon from the ground, his helmet-covered head turned right towards me.

“ Come with me, and I will not have to force your compliance,” he ordered me, and I was dumbstruck.

“ Say what? Look, dude, whoever the heck you are, I just helped save your life. What’s with the orders and the serious tone?” I wanted to know, taking a few steps back when the Ranger raised his weapon in my direction.

My eyebrows shot skyward when the lid of the lamp popped up, and a freaky-looking cat head poked out of the lamp. It saw me, and promptly ducked back inside the lamp. “ Jenji, do you sense something?” the Ranger asked the lamp, and I heard a confirmatory “yes” from inside the lamp.

“ The - the Phantom Knight. Calindor always wanted to become it, but he never had the power,” the cat spoke up.

“ Who’s Calindor?” I wanted to know, just as the Ranger fired the lamp at me, knocking me flat on my ass. My shield disappeared, and as I was struggling to get my breath back from the surprise attack when the Ranger yanked me to my feet.

“ Hey, have a little respect for a lady, would ya?” I grumbled, angrily yanking out of the Ranger’s grip. He pointed the lamp at me again, and I gave a snort of disgust. “ Some thanks I get. I’ll go with you this time, but next time you can save your own sorry ass,” I spat.

“ Malorium Orvious,” the Ranger said, and I became slightly sick when my body dissolved into billions of tiny black lights, which shot across the sky. My vision was nonexistent with me being like this, and I was quite happy when my feet touched back down on solid ground. However, I wasn’t happy to find the Ranger pointing his lamp at me. Glancing around revealed that I was in a strange room, and it also revealed Clare and the other Rangers, who were still morphed.

Clare started to come towards me, but the Ranger holding his lamp at me shook his head. “ We do not know if this warrior is friend or foe, Clare. She is giving off strange readings, and Jenji said she is known as the Phantom Knight,” the Ranger adamantly said.

“ Daggeron, did you find out anything about the Phantom Ring?” a woman’s voice asked. My heart skipped a beat when a woman in flowing white clothing entered the room. Her gaze came ti rest immediately on me. “ The Phantom Knight??” she whispered in shock, even as she came closer.

I immediately started backing away, for some strange images started flashing through my mind. Among those images was one of the woman before me kneeling by another woman, though the woman before me was much younger in the image.

“ Udonna, find, my daughter. Diora,” the other woman was saying before she had to stop to catch her breath. “ Blaze,” was the last thing the woman said before she disappeared, and when that image - the last one, and lasting only about five seconds - flashed through mind, I backed into the Ranger behind in my haste to get away.

“ No,” I protested, causing the woman to give me a puzzled look.

“ Daggeron, let the girl go. Rangers, I need to talk with her, whoever she may be,” the woman in white told the Rangers beside her. They started to leave, but I shook my head.

“ I - you - Niella!” I shouted in protest, having a hard time finding words to speak. The woman’s face took on a new look when I mentioned that name.

“ How would you know my sister’s name?” she demanded to know.

“ Udonna - Niella. Necrolai, and - and Diora,” I stammered, my mind a little scrambled after seeing the images I’d just seen.

The woman’s face turned a little white at my words, and Claire had to come steady her. “ I think it’s about time you revealed yourself, Phantom Knight. I don’t like the reaction Udonna is having at your words,” the Ranger behind me said, and I gulped nervously.

“ If - if Blue and Pink will, th-then I will,” I stammered, at last managing to get something intelligible to come out of my mouth. The Ranger behind me nodded at Pink and Blue, and they immediately powered down, causing my mouth to drop open behind my helmet.

“ Madison? Vida? I’ll be damned, I thought there was something weird about you two when I first met you,” I spoke up.

“ Your turn,” Madison told me.

“ First, let me say that I think you and your lady friend here might want to sit down,” I told them, and the lady in white actually did just that, the girls and the other three Rangers choosing to remain standing. “ Fine then. Phantom Knight, Power Down,” I said, and my suit shimmered and shattered off of me.

It was Madison and Vida’s turn to be shocked. “ Blaze?” Madison practically squeaked.

“ How’d you get to be a Knight?” Vida wanted to know.

“ Probably with this,” the Ranger behind me said as he tossed something to the woman in white. I saw that it was the phone I’d had earlier.

“ Hey, give that back. Finders keepers,” I protested, reaching to grab the phone back from the woman. The ring on the necklace around my neck slipped into view, and the woman’s eyes became riveted on it.

[dnglover24]

Could somone give me the link to the WF FF?

[Kali_WolfChilde]

the what?

[Angelfox]

Sweet, so does she need the morpher or the ring to Ranger up???

[mr p]

are you gonna post more of this fic. its well kwl

[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ Diora,” she whispered, her eyes moving over my face in shock.

“ How did you get the Phantom Ring?” Clare asked me, and I shrugged.

“ My adopted mom and dad said it was the only thing beside my baby clothes that my birth parents had left me with when they found me on their hotel door step. Can I please have my phone back now?” I asked them. I wasn’t at all prepared when Red, Blue, and Yellow powered down to reveal Vida and Madison’s guy friends, nor was I prepared when the woman in white slowly got up and took my hands in her own.

“ Diora, I have been searching many years for you. My sister missed you dearly,” the woman whispered.

“ Udonna, do you really think this girl is Diora?” the Ranger behind me asked as he stepped up beside the white-clad woman. He had already demorphed as well, and was staring at me and the woman he called Udonna.

“ She has the Phantom Ring, and she has Niella’s eyes. She is Niella’s child,” Udonna firmly said, and I gave them both puzzled looks.

“ Whoa. You mean you guys knew my birth parents? Do you know where they are?” I asked, and Udonna let out a sad sigh.

“ Your mother - my sister - died helping to seal the gates of the Underworld. Your father is - was - Calindor. He is now evil, and calls himself Imperious,” Udonna told me.

“ Wait just a minute. You mean that freaky Egyptian mummy-looking reject is my dad? No way, he ordered me killed!” I exclaimed.

“ He does not know you are alive, but judging by the fact that you became what he always wanted to be, then he will know soon enough. You must begin training with the other Rangers,” she insisted.

“ Training? What do you mean by training?” I asked.

“ Martial arts and magic. In our fight against the Master’s forces, those are two things you must have knowledge of,” Madison told me.

“ Magic? Yeah, right. I don’t exactly believe in magic. Kinda something that most people say doesn’t exist,” I retorted.

The lamp on the table - set there by the Ranger at Udonna’s side - suddenly started wobbling, and some sort of white cloud erupted from the lamp’s spout. Immediately, the cloud solidified, and I was left staring at freakishly big car, who was dressed in some freakishly weird clothes. Giving a yelp of surprise, I jumped back.

“ What the f - what is that?” I squeaked, almost unable to find my voice.

“ Don’t be frightened, it’s just Jenji, Daggeron’s genie,” Madison told me.

“ You’re afraid of me?” the cat asked, and I hollered and stumbled backwards.

“ It talks? You guys have a talking cat genie thing?” I asked in disbelief.

“ Yeah, he can grant you wishes,” the guy name Chip piped up, and Vida elbowed him the ribs.

“ That true?” I asked the cat.

“ Sure, I can grant any wish you have, except when it comes to killing people,” Jenji admitted.

“ Fine. Then I wish to know what powers I have. I also wish to know whether I’m good or evil,” I calmly said, folding my arms across my chest.

When the Rangers gave each other startled looks and started looking around, I was puzzled. “ What, am I invisible or something?” I asked them.

“ You kind of are,” Chip said, and I turned immediately to the nearby mirror.

“ Ahhhhh!” I screamed. I looked down and couldn’t even my own body! “ Ahhhhh!” I screamed again, just as my body - err - returned to visibility.

“ Cool, the power of invisibility!” Chip exclaimed.

Jenji seemed a bit nervous, though. “ She also has both dark and light magic in her. She can control a good deal of each, though the powers have to be worked on. If you’ll excuse me now, I have a cat nap to catch up on,” the cat genie said before returning right back to his lamp on the table.

“ Dark and light magic? Udonna, is that possible?” Madison wanted to know.

“ Apparently so,” Udonna replied as Clare came towards me.

“ If you’re Niella’s daughter, then that - that makes you my older sister,” she whispered.

“ Uhhh, yeah. Guess it does. Weird, huh? I’m new in town, yet I find out I have a sister, an aunt, find out my birth mother’s dead, and my birth father’s the proverbial picture of evil incarnate. Swell, ain’t it?” I sarcastically quipped. Nonetheless, I gave my half-sister a hug.

“ What are we going to do about her adopted parents? They’ll want to know what’s happened to her when they wake up,” Madison sensibly pointed out to Udonna.

“ I shall have to tell them that I am Diora’s aunt, and that her birth parents are dead. Hopefully they will allow me to stay in contact with her,” Udonna told Madison, reaching forward suddenly and giving me a tight hug. “ I’ve missed you for many years, my niece. Had I known you were alive, I would have come for you years ago,” she whispered. Hesitantly, I hugged her back.

“ Uh, okay. Look, I appreciate all the love and all, but I have a question,” I said, and Udonna drew back to look at me.

“ What is it you wish to know?” Udonna asked.

“ Well, among other things, I want to know where in the world did you get that dragon that took me to that circle thing? And also, where can I get one?” I asked, earning a laugh from all five of the younger Rangers.

“ His name’s Fireheart, and he’s the last dragon there is. He thinks of Clare as his mom,” Xander piped up, and I laughed for the first time since encountering Koragg in the forest that first time less than an hour earlier.

I stopped laughing when something started nagging me. Curious, I gave the guy next Udonna a closer look. “ Hey, I’ve seen you somewhere before. You’re the guy that pulled me to the safety of Toby’s store,” I said, and he nodded.

“ I am,” was his reply.

“ Well, even considering how you treated me after I saved you, I still owe you a thank you. What Ranger are you? The other colors are kinda obvious,” I casually said.

“ I am Daggeron, the Solaris Knight, with the power of the sun. I apologize for my behavior. It is an honor to meet a fellow Knight, Diora, especially the daughter of the Gatekeeper,” he said with a formal bow.

“ Gee, thanks. So, what do you guys do for fun around here? My - my parents are still in the hospital, and I can’t see them for another four days,” I informed Udonna.

“ We practice our magic, and we learn things about how to properly use the magic,” Nick told me.

“ Oh, okay. Well, being the newbie here, how do I start out doing this whole magic thing?” I asked, causing Madison to giggle at the look on Daggeron’s face.

“ I will take you training in a few minutes. I must first talk with Udonna alone,” Daggeron said, gently grabbing Udonna’s arm before guiding her out of the room. This left me alone with Clare and the Rangers, which left me feeling a little awkward. Madison was the first of the five to step forward, giving me a quick hug.

“ Welcome to the team, Blaze,” she told me before Chip came over, a grin on his face.

He, too, gave me a hug. “ When you called Necrolai ‘she who looks like freaky bat chic’, I almost actually laughed. I’d love to see you say that to her face,” he boyishly told me, and I grinned.

“ Maybe I will call her that, if she attacks again,” I told him as the other Rangers hugged me.

“ She will attack again, of that we can all be certain. Come, my carpet is waiting to take us to the practice area,” Daggeron said as he came back into the room.

“ Carpet? You wouldn’t by chance mean flying carpet would ya?” I asked, and he actually nodded before handing me my phone back and leading me out of the room.

[mr p]

woah thats soo kwl

[Angelfox]

no fair..i want a flying carpet too...LOL great stuff Kali

[Kali_WolfChilde]

BTW, my character's character description is below

Name: Blaze Matthias
RD: Diora, the MF Phantom Knight
Age: 19
B-Day: April 10th, 1987
Played By: Aishwarya Rai

Weapons: Phantom Shield, Gatekeeper Staff
Personal Power: Invisibility
Other Powers: Dark and Light magic (mostly dark when against others)
Morpher: Dark Magi Morpher
Morphing Call: “ Phanto Mysto, Magical Raijio!”

Ranger Transportation: I can teleport, use the trees, or I can use Daggeron’s carpet
Phantom Ring: Was left to me by my birth mother.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

The second we stepped out into the open, we were whisked away into the air, and I fell flat on my butt. I made the mistake of looking down, and realized we were a good fifteen feet of the ground, and moving at a rather fast pace - and on a magic carpet no less! I kept my eyes closed after that, opening them when the carpet came to a complete stop and Daggeron touched my arm.

After jumping off of the carpet, I looked around, not really surprised to find myself in a small clearing in the woods. “ So, what’s first on the agenda?” I asked Daggeron.

“ We will begin your training with tai chi, to center your mind and body, which will allow you to concentrate on your fighting skills and power, which you will learn after you have passed this lesson,” Daggeron said. I actually groaned.

Tai chi sounded too new agey to me, but I went along with what the guy said. We practiced some of the same moves over and over, and I was completely relaxed by the time Daggeron called an end to the practicing. “ Aww, man, I was just getting into it,” I protested.

“ You have passed that test, Phantom Knight. Now you must pass the broom test,” he said.

“ Broom test?” I asked, confused, until a broom suddenly showed up, flying in lazy unstraight patterns in the air nearly twenty feet above my head.

“ You must use your morpher to lasso the broom,” was all he would tell me. I withdrew my phone, opening it and pointing it at the broom.

After following the broom’s movements for almost ten minutes, I shot a blast of light from the phone. The beam hit near the top of the broom handle, and the broom fell down straight into my hands. Grinning like a jackass eating briars - as my adopted mother would say - I turned and proudly faced Daggeron. “ What next? More tai chi?” I sarcastically asked.

My phone rang at that moment, so I opened it back up. “ Um, hello?” I asked, not knowing who would be contacting me.

“ Blaze, get back here, pronto. Necrolai and Koragg have kidnapped Fireheart, and they’re threatening to destroy him if the rest of us don’t show up at their specified location,” Madison hurriedly told me.

“ We’re on the way,” I promised her. Daggeron summoned his carpet, and we both hopped on, flying back as swiftly as we could to where Madison had called from. She and the other Rangers were trying to comfort a distraught Clare, who was rocking back and forth while sitting on a fallen log.

“ When do you have to be there?” I asked Madison, and she glanced at her watch.

“ In five minutes. Koragg has challenged everyone but you to a fight with him and Imperious’ latest monster creation. Udonna wants you to stay here with her, where it’s safe,” Madison informed me.

I waited until they Rangered up, then I headed inside after them. When they disappeared into one of the walls - which had their respective colors on some sort of slots in it - I turned to Udonna. Daggeron had stayed outside to wait on the rest of the Rangers to appear. “ Why can’t I go help them?” I demanded to know.

“ You do not know the ways of magic, Diora. You must stay here,” she told me before moving to watch the fight in her crystal ball. Clare sat nearby, still distraught, so I slumped onto a stool across from where Udonna was standing, on the opposite side of the crystal ball.

It wasn’t long before images of the battle started flashing through the ball, and I raised my upper lip in disgust when I saw how badly Koragg and his monster were beating the Rangers. My eyes grew wide with fright when I saw Imperious himself appear on the scene. With a single word, a black and silverish-colored tornado swept towards the Rangers, sending them flying through the air and onto the ground.

“ That tears it! I’m not just gonna sit around here and watch my new teammates get the crap beat out of them!” I angrily shouted. My cell phone gave out a strange beep, and when I looked at it, the symbol on the inside glowed with black light, as did three of the numbers. I took on a different stance, copying what I’d seen the others do earlier.

“ Phanto Mysto, Magical Raijio!” I called out after entering the number code that had lit up. Black tendrils of light surrounded me and exploded, leaving me in my Phantom Knight suit. I turned to Udonna. “ What’s the fastest way to get to wherever they are?” I wanted to know of her.

“ I can teleport you there, Diora, but it could be deadly for you,” Udonna protested, even as she raised her hands and began chanting.

“ Thank you,” I told her as my body began dissolving int black lights again. I wasn’t even conscious of where I was going, but I was extremely grateful when I landed on my feet again. I glanced around, noting the tall buildings not far from where I was.

Even as I noted those, something came crashing into me, knocking me flat on the ground. By the time I realized it was Madison, Vida had wound up beside her sister. Both had demorphed from the blow they’d received, and both groaned as they desperately tried to climb back to their feet.

“ Blaze, help us,” Madison whispered when she saw me, and I nodded as I got up, my shield materializing in my hand. Xander and Chip came flying by my head, but I didn’t have time to help them, because the monster that’d tossed them had spotted me.

“ Me like Rangers!” it screeched, and I glared at it from under my visor.

“ Phantom Blaze!” I called out, thrusting my shield forward. When the dust and smoke cleared, all that remained of the freak was scattered bits of gooey body parts. Necrolai, who was battling Nick, and Koragg, who was battling Daggeron, both turned to face me, tossing the Rangers they were fighting to the ground.

“ She is the one that stole the Dark Magi Phone,” Necrolai told the thing standing beside her, and when he turned around, I glared angrily at him.

“ Who might you be?” he asked me.

“ I am Diora, the daughter of the Gatekeeper. I am the Phantom Knight. What’s the matter, daddy-o? You’re looking a little gray around the gills. Age seems to not be agreeing with you,” I sarcastically sneered, causing Koragg to actually laugh.

“ Shut up, you fool! Daughter or not, you will pay for stealing from me,” Imperious told me as he raised his fan and fired. I braced for the attack, but I was shocked when Daggeron threw himself in front of the blast, his suit shattering from around him as he fell to the ground unconscious.

“ Monster!” I screamed at Imperious after making sure Madison and Vida had gotten Daggeron and a badly beaten Nick to safety.

“ Dear child, you have no idea of what kind of power Imperious wields. Shall I destroy her for you?” Necrolai asked Imperious, but he shook his head.

“ No. You and Koragg may retreat. Take the dragon with you,” Imperious ordered Necrolai, and it was then that I noticed Fireheart nearby, his body chained to the ground.

“ I don’t think so. Malorium Orvious, Rangers and Dragon to Rootcore !” I shouted. The ground rumbled and the chains fell to the earth as Fireheart and the Rangers all disappeared

Necrolai and Koragg were quick to leave, and finally it was just me and Imperious. I faced him with a calm I had no idea I had. “ You are very powerful, my daughter. Come and fight by my side. Together, you, the Master, and I could rule the surface world!” Imperious exclaimed. My nostrils flared up and my eyebrows came down, a sure sign to my friends back in Creighton Falls that I was royally pissed off.

“ You think I’d want to rule by your side, you mummified Underworld reject? Not a chance in hell! You didn’t deserve my birth mother’s love, and you sure as hell don’t deserve to call me daughter!” I screamed.

“ Very impressive show of anger, Phantom Knight. Let us see how you do against dark magic,” he said, saying one word and pointing his fan at me, I held my shield up just as a barrage of lightning bolts struck. I was knocked back on my butt, but except for a bruised backside and a little pain here and there, I felt fine. I angrily got back to my feet as the dust and smoke cleared.

When Imperious saw me standing there, he took a half-step back. “ Impossible!” he hissed, and I smiled under my helmet.

“ Let me give you a bit of your own medicine, Imperious. Ulilayo!” I called out, thrusting my hand forward. Lightning arced down all around Imperious, with several bolts striking him and forcing him to retreat.

“ I’ll be back, Phantom Knight,” he promised me as a dark circle opened up behind him.

“ I’ll be waiting, you sorry bastard!” I shouted after him, just before the circle disappeared

[Silver-Ranger]

cool!!

[Angelfox]

Now that's how you kick some ass

[mr p]

fight on phantom knight

cant wait for the next part

[Kali_WolfChilde]

As soon as he was gone, my shield disappeared. Man, I gotta learn to control that, I thought to myself as I looked around. The civilians had obviously cleared out of the area the minute Imperious and his little entourage had appeared, so I didn’t have to worry about getting anyone to safety. When something nudged my back, I t turned and laughed when I found Daggeron’s carpet floating in the air before me.

“ I’ll be damned,” I murmured before jumping up onto the carpet. It just continued floating there, so I tilted my head, puzzled. “ Uh, back to Rootcore. And put a rush on it,” I said, feeling more than foolish for talking to a carpet.

I felt stupid as well, because the carpet took off like a bolt of greased lightning, speeding through a black Mystic Circle so quickly I didn’t have time to even blink before we were back in the Magical Forest and on our speedy little way to Rootcore.

When the carpet came to a stop, I slowly stepped off onto the ground, my legs shaky from the ride. Udonna came hurrying out, as did Clare. “ Diora, are you all right?” Udonna asked me as I demorphed and took her arm.

“ Pr-pretty good. A word of advice, though. Never tell that carpet to get you somewhere and to put a rush on it,” I told them, and Clare gave me a tiny smile as the three of us entered Rootcore.

Instead of staying in the room with the crystal ball, Udonna led me into a different room. When I saw the Rangers either lying or sitting down on separate cot-like beds, anger for what Imperious had done surged up within me, and I probably would’ve attempted to go after him then and there if Udonna hadn’t placed a restraining hand on my arm and led me over to where Daggeron and Nick lay. Nick was moaning as a concerned Madison applied a gauze wrapping to one of the wounds.

“ Madison, you should be resting,” Udonna lightly chided the blue Ranger, and rather reluctantly Madison returned to laying down on her own cot. When I knelt by Daggeron, I was shocked to find his body beaten and bruised far worse than those of the others. He was also the only one still unconscious.

“ When he took the blast meant for you, it greatly damaged his body, and his powers. Even I cannot seem to wake him,” Udonna said.

“ Have you tried using the genie?” I asked her, just as Jenji himself came walking in.

“ I can’t kill people, and I can’t heal them when they’re this badly hurt,” he told me as he took a seat on the stool next to Daggeron’s cot.

I groaned in anger. “ Then what the h - what the heck are we supposed to do? Do we need dark magic to help heal him? Because according to the talking cat I have dark magic at my disposal,” I spoke up, but Udonna shook her head.

“ It would take a great source of power to heal him. Unfortunately, the only beings capable of such magic are Imperious, Koragg, Catastros, and - and Unitastros,” Udonna hesitantly added.

“ Imperious would rather die - not that I wouldn’t be happy to oblige him - and Koragg seems to have this thing about honor. He’d take too long to trick. Who’re Catastros and Unitastros?” I queried.

“ Catastros was - is - the most fearsome horse in the land. No man or group of men could tame him. As the gates were being sealed, evil reached up and dragged Catastros into the depths of the Underworld. Ever since, Catastros has been under Koragg’s control."

" Unitastros is the only creature that could ever hope to equal Catastros in strength, and she was the only equine - though a unicorn - that was able to get near him without getting chased away. Catastros listens only to Koragg, and Unitastros has been in and out of hiding ever since the Great Battle,” Udonna said.

“ I’ll have to go find this Unitastros then,” I said in a solemn voice.

“ But you can’t. Dear niece, no one has ever attempted this. You would die if you tried. Unitastros was last seen in the Sumerian Forest, a lethal place even for those humans of great power,” Udonna told me.

“ You may be my aunt, Udonna, and you may be one hell of a sorceress, but I’ve got to go. None of the other Rangers are in any shape to go with me,” I retorted.

“ I’ll go. I’m the least injured of us, and I owe Daggeron a favor,” Madison quickly spoke. Ignoring Udonna’s protests, she came to stand beside me.

“ Udonna, Unitastros may be Daggeron’s only chance at a full recovery,” Clare quietly spoke up. Unable to protest against all three of us, Udonna finally gave in.

With a big sigh, she gave me and Madison quick hugs. “ You will find traces of Unitastros near the Great Spider’s Web. You must be careful, and never let your guard down. I wish you luck, Rangers,” Udonna whispered as Madison and I quickly left the room. When we were standing in front of the Crystal Ball, we took out our morphers, punching in the same numbers, and taking up similar stances.

“ Magical Source, Mystic Force!” Madison called out.

“ Phanto Mysto, Magical Raijio!” I shouted.

Our signature Ranger colors surrounded us and exploded, morphing us into our respective Ranger suits in less than three seconds. Madison grabbed her broom and disappeared into the thing in the wall, and I ran outside and jumped onto Daggeron’s carpet, flying it up almost to the top of the tree to wait on Madison.

The second she came out on her Mystic Racer - man, I wish I had one of those! - we were off, speeding through and above the trees at a rate that was almost equal to how fast the carpet had gone earlier. It wasn’t long before the Racer and the carpet came to a gradual complete stop, allowing Madison and me to dismount.

The Racer disappeared, but the carpet settled down onto the ground, instantly becoming camouflaged. “ I gotta get me one of those things,” I mumbled to myself as Madison led the way into the forest.

* * * * *

“ That’s the tenth time in the past hour that I’ve almost fallen into a mud bog. God, what’s with this place? Why can’t we just point our morphers at that clearing and say ‘Unitastros appear?’” I impatiently asked Madison as I tugged a piece of wet vine off of my suit.

“ There’s no need for magic,” Madison whispered.

“ And you say that because?” I asked her.

“ Because Unitastros is in that clearing already,” Madison replied, forcing me to turn slowly around and stare in the direction she pointed.

“ Yes! Now all we have to do is capture it, and get it to heal Daggeron!” I hissed in excitement. Another big mistake coming from my big mouth.

Unitastros heard my voice, and when she looked up, she whinnied and fired a beam of energy from her horn. She whinnied again and charged right at us. Madison turned tail to flee - apparently the beast had scared her - but thanks to my clumsiness I fell flat on my back when I tripped over an above-the-ground tree root.

Unitastros reared up on her hind legs, pawing the air near my helmet-covered face. Almost on instinct, I demorphed, holding my arms up in defense. “ I mean you no harm, Unitastros. I came to ask for your help,” I said, closing my eyes and waiting for one of her hooves to strike me dead. When nothing happened, I opened my eyes and looked up, startled to find the unicorn standing there just staring at me. Slowly, I got to my feet, careful not to startle the beautiful beast.

“ I am Bl - I am Diora, daughter of Niella. I came t ask you to help my friend Daggeron. He was badly wounded when he took a blast meant for me. Will you please help me?” I pleaded, slowly reaching a hand out towards Unitastros’ mane. As I touched my hand to her mane and moved my hand to rub her neck, the horse nodded and whinnied at me. A beam of light came from her horn, and when it solidified in my hand I was holding a small vial of black-purple and white liquid. Some strange sort of instructions were wrapped around the bottle.

Sighing in relief, I gave the horse a tentative hug. “ Thank you, Unitastros. Thank you. I owe you one,” I whispered to the horse before running back to where I knew the carpet was waiting; though on the way back there I managed to avoid all the bogs, thank goodness. A worried Madison was pacing back and forth, stopping only when she aw me.

“ Did she decide to help you?” she asked, and I nodded, holding up the vial.

“ Yeah. We gotta get back to Rootcore, and fast,” I told her as Daggeron’s carpet revealed itself to us. Madison and I easily hopped on, and I actually grinned at my now unmorphed friend. “ Hold on tight. Carpet, back to Rootcore, and put a major rush on it,” I told the carpet. I myself had to grab on to the edges of the carpet as it went zooming through the forest. We moved so fast that we were back at Rootcore’s entrance in less than five minutes.

“ That - was intense,” Madison said, and I agreed as we hurried inside. Udonna met us at the door to what I had dubbed the sick room.

“ Daggeron has gotten worse. His skin is dangerously pale,” Udonna worriedly told me as I handed her the vial and hurried to Daggeron’s side.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3268/phantomknighthl2.png

thought i'd post this. this is about how the Phantom Knight looks. basically looks like a black Koragg (though i couldn't alter the suit the exact way i wanted, the waist would be a little slimmer). (based off a Koragg suit someone on PRE did)

[Angelfox]

Nice touch bringin in the Unicorn...

[Kali_WolfChilde]

My gaze remained on him as Udonna chanted the instructions, then poured the vial of liquid down Daggeron’s throat. He would’ve choke had not Udonna rubbed his throat to help him swallow. His hands twitched several times, and it was a full five minutes before his eyes fluttered open.

“ Hot damn, he’s alive!” I happily crowed, giving everyone a happy grin as Daggeron’s eyes finally focused on Udonna.

“ What - happened?” he rasped.

“ You took a blast meant for Diora, and you wound up here,” Udonna told him, prompting him to quickly sit up.

“ Where is she?” Daggeron asked, and I took his hand in my own.

“ I’m right here, Daggeron. Madison and I just got back from the Sumerian Forest. I had to go ask Unitastros for help, and she was gracious enough to agree. I owe her a great favor,” I whispered, embarrassed when Daggeron placed his right hand on my right one.

“ And I owe you,” he whispered.

“ You took a blast meant for me, and it almost killed you. I think we’re even now. And you need to rest,” I added, prompting him to slowly lay back down on the bed.

“ I think all of you Rangers should go back to the surface world. Give Daggeron a while to rest before he restarts training,” Udonna suggested, and the other five Rangers reluctantly left the room. I started to leave, since Udonna and Clare had left ahead of the Rangers, but Daggeron called me back.

“ I want you to come back tomorrow, young Knight. I will tell you stories of your birth mother, and I want to teach you a few spells,” Daggeron told me.

I blushed a little. “ Sure, that would be - nice. Sleep well,” I told him, giving him a quick peck on the forehead before hurrying from the room.

“ He - uh - he wants me to come back tomorrow so he can tell me about - about my birth mother. He also wants to teach me a few spells,” I stammered to Udonna.

“ I would like that as well, Diora. Madison and Vida are waiting on you outside,” Udonna informed me, and I nodded politely to her before leaving Root Core. I found Vida and Madison standing by a tree.

“ How are we supposed to get to your house?” I asked the sisters.

“ Tree traveling,” Vida said, touching the tree and instantly getting sucked inside. I took a step back, but Madison took my hand, drawing me back towards the tree.

“ It’s a bit scary the first few times, but you get used to it. The boys already went ahead, and they’re taking your bags to my parents’ house. Come on,” Madison said, placing a hand on the tree and disappearing the same way her sister had.

“ Well, here goes,” I mumbled, hesitantly touching the tree. My body did the same thing Vida and Madison’s did, and despite my fear, I couldn’t open my mouth to shout. I was actually traveling through trees!

That’s not exactly something you talk about over the dinner table, or in the supermarket. I sucked in a deep breath when my journey came to an end, and I stumbled out of a tree. Madison was waiting on me, and Vida had gone inside the house we were behind.

“ Wow, that was intense,” I murmured, causing the blue Ranger to laugh as she led me inside the house.

Luckily, Mr. and Mrs. Rocca weren’t home, so Vida and Madison were able to quickly help me set up my things in the guest bedroom when the boys arrived.

Since we were supposed to take it easy after that fight - well, the others were supposed to - we all just headed for the rec room in the basement. Since most of the games down there were only two player, we all square off against each other: Me versus Madison at table hockey, Vida versus Chip at the Xbox, and Nick versus Xander at the motorcycle racing game.

After about an hour of playing table hockey - during which we played ten games to ten points, and I only won half the time - I decided to take a break, so I left the basement and went outside. For some reason, I got to thinking about my adopted -parents being in the hospital, and my birth mother being dead, and it made me feel kinda melancholy.

It also made me feel a little, I don’t know, iffy, so I returned to the house to play the Rocca sisters’ Playstation 2 system, which also happened to be located back in the basement.

I played for almost two solid hours, whooping vampire and undead butt on the Buffy game Madison had gotten for her last birthday. I was actually unhappy when I had to quit playing, but that only happened because Mr. And Mrs. Rocca had finally gotten home, and they had brought supper for all six of us.

“ You have no idea how much I appreciate you letting me stay here for a few days, Mr. and Mrs. Rocca. I’m sure my father will find some way to repay you,” I told them as I hungrily dug into the mashed potatoes and gravy. Mmmm, KFC, I thought to myself.

“ I’m glad to do it, Blaze. Whether you realized it or not, your father moving here to Briarwood made him my boss. I figured I owed him a favor for not downsizing the office like a lot of other companies have done,” Mr. Rocca told me.

“ I’ll be sure to put in a good word with him. And Mrs. Rocca, did you make that cake that’s in the fridge?” I asked, causing Mrs. Rocca to smile.

“ Yes I did, dear. It’s a recipe my own mother used to us,” she replied.

“ Well, she and you are great cooks. If my dad ever has a company cookout, I’m requesting a cake like that,” I told her. I’d eaten a piece of the cake on the way up to putting my bags in my temporary room, and the cake had been delicious.

“ Thank you dear. I’m sorry we didn’t get back until nine o’clock. I had to fix something that went wrong at my job,” she told her daughters.

“ That’s okay, mom. C’mon, Blaze. Let’s go watch TV,” Vida suggested, as she and I were the first ones finished with supper.

“ Okay. Thanks again,” I told her parents as I followed her to my bedroom. We sat on the bed for nearly two hours, watching a new Last Comic Standing episode. I don’t remember being sleepy, but it seemed like one minute I was laughing at a skinny Mexican man’s joke, and the next minute I’m climbing into bed, yawning. My head had barely hit the pillow, and then I was out like a light.

* * * * *

I blew out a frustrated breath, blowing a stray strand of hair out of my face. Four days had passed since I’d gotten the medicine to help Daggeron, and I’d been coming to Rootcore every day to learn new spells. The other Rangers had been learning the spells with me, although they were much better at it.

I stepped back as Xander stood up, thrusting his Magi Staff forward and causing two green vines to suddenly appear from the tree above. He started to grab one of them, but Daggeron held a hand up, taking one of them in his own hands and motioning for me to take the other.

Since Daggeron and I were the only ones still unmorphed, I placed my morpher back in its holder, taking the vine Daggeron offered me. We nodded to each other, backed up a few feet, and jumped forward, the motion causing us to go swinging forward.

Daggeron let go at the right time and landed easily on his feet. I, however, accidentally let go too quickly and went flying, landing right in his arms. Of course, that set my face to blushing, and I ducked my head a little as he set me down and the others came rushing over to us. “ I really need to practice that,” I mumbled.

“ You did better than the first time. At least you didn’t land in the little ditch, like Daggeron did when Xander created a bad vine that one time,” Madison spoke up helpfully, and I couldn’t help but laugh as the others demorphed.

“ That must’ve been a sight!” I giggled.

Nick’s morpher chose that moment to beep, and we quickly became quiet as he took out his morpher. “ Nick here,” Nick said.

“ Nick, take the other four Rangers to downtown Briarwood. There’s dark magic at work there,” Udonna’s voice said.

“ But what about Daggeron and me?” I spoke up.

“ Diora, your adopted parents are beginning to wake up. I want Daggeron to escort you to the hospital. He may join the Rangers if he is needed,” Udonna replied before she cut the connection.

“ Ready!” Nick called out as he and the others raise their morphers.

“ Magical Source, Mystic Force!” the five called out, morphing into the core part of the Mystic Force Power Rangers. Their Mystic Racers appeared in the air over their heads, and the Rangers mounted them and went zooming off, leaving me alone with Daggeron for the moment. We hurried back to Rootcore, where I changed quickly into some clean clothes before following him as he teleported us straight to the hospital.

[Angelfox]

nice nice

[mr p]

more more more please

[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ You know you shouldn’t reveal your Ranger identity to your adopted parents, Diora,” Daggeron reminded me as we hurried down the hospital hallway.

“ I know,” I replied before bursting into my parents’ bedroom. I was surprised to find them both sitting on the edge of one of the beds, my dad’s arm around my mother’s shoulder.

“ Mom, Dad, I’m so glad you’re okay!” I exclaimed, giving them a quick but gentle hug.

“ Blaze, thank God. We didn’t know where you were until Dr. Hanrahan came in a moment ago and told us where you’d been,” Mother whispered as she and Dad hugged me back.

“ And who is this?” Dad asked as Daggeron stepped up behind me.

“ Uh, he’s - um - he’s my teacher. Yeah, he’s been teaching me how to - work with herbs and stuff. He’s a great cook, and you’ve said yourself you can never cook too well,” I stuttered, trying to come up with a lie I thought they’d believe. I was one of the few people who could honestly say they’d never lied to their parents - except maybe the times when I’d cut myself rollerblading when I was five - and lying to them now was hard.

“ Nice to meet you then. I’m glad my daughter has been learning such an important skill. She hasn’t seemed to interested in cooking in the past,” Dad said, and I noticed immediately the slightly suspicious glint in his eyes.

Daggeron reached out to shake my father’s proffered hand, but stumbled when an explosion suddenly shook the hospital. “ What in the world?” mother whispered, ducking against my father when a second explosion shook the walls, sending both mirrors in the room crashing to the floor.

“ Not another monster attack!” my dad exclaimed, just as a third explosion hit. The windows exploded, sending glass slivers rocketing all the way across the room. My father threw his body over my mother’s body. Daggeron’s morpher beeped, so he ran into the bathroom, even as a nurse came running into the room.

“ The Power Rangers are getting beaten! The staff is thinking about evacuating the hospital because the fight gets too close. We need every able-bodied person we can find,” the nurse said, all in one breath.

When Daggeron - already morphed - came rushing out of the bathroom and took a flying leap out the broken window, the nurse gasped and fainted right on the spot. Mother and Father hadn’t even noticed him gone, they were so frightened. I grabbed my parents’ hands, hurrying them into long white bathrobes, a pair of which had been hanging in their tiny little closet.

“ Mom, Dad, I need to get the two of you to safety,” I told them, just as a fourth explosion shook the hospital.

I heard more windows shatter, and I heard the simultaneous wails of mothers and newborn infants coming from the maternity ward, which was just down the hall from my parents’ room. Something snapped within me, and I turned to my parents even as I withdrew my morpher.

“ Blaze, what is that?” Dad asked as I strode over to the broken window.

“ What are you doing?! Sweetie, please, get away from there. We need to get to safety so the - the Power Rangers or whoever can deal with the attack,” Mom told me, but I shook my head. The door to the room was shut - the nurse had closed it for some reason, so I at least had some privacy.

“ Mom, Dad, I don’t have time to explain. I only have time to act,” I told them, punching in my code on my morpher. “ Phanto Mysto, Magical Raijio!” I called out, standing still as my suit formed onto my body, which took the usual less than three seconds. I heard my parents gasp, so I turned my head briefly towards them.

“ I’ll be back. I’ve got friends to save,” I told them as I, too, took a flying leap out of the window. Luckily, Daggeron’s carpet caught me five feet below the windowsill. Already knowing where its owner was, the carpet went zooming forward, zigzagging up and down streets until it came to a stop some fifty feet above the ground.

The carpet just floated there, allowing me to watch as my friends - in their Titan Megazord formation - were knocked to the ground, causing them to separate into their individual Titan forms. At the same time, the Solar Streak Megazord - which Udonna and the others had told me plenty about, as had they told me of the Titan Megazord - was knocked to the ground, sending Daggeron flying through the air.

I didn’t catch him in time, so I made the carpet move down to where he’d fallen, slowly lifting him up on the carpet. He was unmorphed, but luckily he was still conscious. Jenji popped out of the lamp, kneeling on the carpet beside his long-time friend.

“ Jenji, I wish to have my shield and to know what Koragg uses to make himself grow,” I told him, as the Titan Megazord reformed.

“ The others destroyed the monster already. You can’t defeat Koragg,” he protested, and I angrily grabbed Daggeron’s lamp, rubbing it and repeating my wish.

“ I - grant - your wish,” Jenji reluctantly told me, touching my shoulder. My shield appeared in my hands, and I jumped off the carpet, running around to the front of the building, which was behind the Titan Megazord and facing Koragg in his centaur form.

“ Phanto Vilastow Mysto!” I called out, tightly clutching my shield in my right hand. I felt a strange sensation go through me, and all of a sudden I began shooting up - and up, and up, and up - growing until I was a bit taller than Xander as the Mystic Minotaur was.

“ You mess with one Ranger, you mess with the rest,” I growled, holding my shield in front of the Megazord when Koragg fired his weapon at it. Before I could bring the shield back in front of me, Koragg fired off three consecutive blasts straight at me, which struck me in my chest, sending me tumbling to the ground. He then blasted the Titan Megazord down beside me, though it still remained together.

“ Foolish Phantom. You are not even worthy to be called a Knight. You are even weaker than the other five put together,” Koragg sneered.

I tried to use the same attack on him that I’d used on Imperious the other day, but I was too weak and undertrained, and he was able to block the attack. Groaning angrily, I shoved myself to my feet, moving to stand in front of the fallen Titan Megazord.

“I may be weak, but I am loyal. I will - protect my friends - if I have to die trying!” I screamed at him.

“ Allow me to grant your wish, Phantom,” Koragg said, raising his sword and blasting at me, I tensed for the blow to hit me, but a strange sound split the air, and when I opened my eyes I was puzzled to see Koragg’s blast exploding in the air.

“ What - was that?” Xander asked from inside Megazord.

“ Who dares interfere?” Koragg demanded to know, and the same sound split the air. My head was drawn towards the hospital, and behind my giant helmet my mouth dropped open.

There on top of the building stood the one creature I’d thought to never see again.

“ Unitastros?” Chip whispered in awe.

“ Wow!” Vida exclaimed.

Koragg was pissed, I could sense it. “ Leave this place, unicorn, and I will let you live for the time being,” he warned the creature. It neighed at him, rearing up and charging its horn with more energy.

Koragg raised his shield, preparing to fire at the majestic unicorn, but I jumped forward, grabbing his shield to keep him from using his most common attack against what I now considered a friend.

“ Leave her alone!” I shouted at him, smashing my shield against his wrist. He retaliated by slashing my chest, sending me stumbling backwards.

He fired the blast anyway, and I screamed as the blast seemed to impact with the unicorn. When the smoke from the blast cleared, Unitastros was nowhere to be seen. Koragg let out an evil laugh, which really pissed me off.

I was about to try the lightning attack again when I raised my shield - and found Unitastros standing on my hand. She neighed something at me, stomping her foot against my suit armor. When I turned my helmeted head towards Koragg, I was grinning, though he couldn’t see it.

“ Koragg, you’ve been the big dog around the Underworld for awhile, and I think it’s time we Rangers sent you running with your tail tucked between your legs,” I said as I tossed Unitastros straight up in the air. She disappeared, which made Koragg take a bold step forward.

“ She could have helped you, Phantom. Now you will die by my sword,” he told me, stopping his sword in mid-swing and bringing it back to his body when I shook my head and raised one finger up.

“ Just hold that thought for a minute there,” I told him, thrusting my outstretched hand towards a spot that was a good five hundred yards away, in the forest. “ Unday Vegor Unitastros!” I shouted out. Seemingly in the middle of the forest, a black mystic circle appeared, and up from it came Unitastros, in her zord form. The horned equine reared up on her hind legs and neighed before she charged through the air straight towards me.

“ Impossible!” Koragg angrily shouted, taking a few steps backward.

[DarkRoseThunder]

wow! write more! I do have a question for ya, are you going to include the Nick/Bowen reveal into your story at all, if you were to place this into the storyline, where would it take place? I'm really enjoying your story!!

[Kali_WolfChilde]

thanks, DRT. and no, i wrote this before i saw "The Light" so Koragg stays Koragg.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

I was grinning like a Cheshire cat as I leapt through the air. “ Centaur Uniforce Cecrestras!” I called out. Unitastros’ body changed and grew even more. Her head slid down into her body, and my legs slid into her front legs. An explosion of light fused our bodies together, and when the brightness cleared, I struck a new fighting pose.

“ Phantom Centaur!” I exclaimed, calling out the title of my current form.

“ All right!” Madison exclaimed.

“ Got get ’im, Phantom Knight!” Vida shouted.

“ I do not know how you were able to unlock Unitastros’ zord form and summon her to fight with you, but I will make sure you both regret it in the future,” Koragg promised as he turned away.

As one of his dark mystic circles appeared a few feet in front of him, I held my hand forward. “ Ulilayo!” I called out, causing lightning to strike the back end of the Centaur.

It reared up in fright, instantly separating into Koragg and Catastros, before both warrior and zord tumbled through the seal. The seal closed immediately behind them, blocking any remark the evil warrior might have made.

Happy cheers and whistling erupted from the Titan Megazord, and I quickly powered down to my regular morphed size, after first separating from Unitastros. My teammates followed my lead, and soon we were all standing on a sidewalk beside a street that had a bit of damage to the buildings on it.

“ That was amazing!” Xander cheered.

“ Hitting Koragg like that was cool,” was Chip’s comment.

A gentle nudge from behind made me turn around, only to find Unitastros standing there. She neighed at me, and I smiled under my helmet as I patted her head.

“ Thanks girl. I’m glad you showed up,” I told her. She nodded her head, stepping backward and disappearing through the same type of mystic circle through which she’d appeared. When she left, I turned back to my teammates.

“ We need to go check on Daggeron. He was injured rather seriously again,” I told them.

“ I am fine, Phantom Knight,” Daggeron said as he came around the corner - again fully morphed.

“ What? How?” I asked in disbelief.

“ Unitastros healed me,” he said as he came to stand in front of me.

“ Rangers, come back to Rootcore,” Udonna told us via our suits’ Comm-Link’s. Madison and the others summoned their Mystic Racers and mounted them, flying up into the sky. Daggeron’s carpet came flying around the corner, and he helped me up onto it before the carpet took off. When we got back to the Magical Forest, instead of heading towards Rootcore, we headed away from it.

“ Where are we going?” I asked Daggeron. He didn’t give me a reply, so I was forced to just sit there as the carpet wove its way through the air. When it started to descend into a small clearing,

I was puzzled, even more so when I saw the house standing at the edge of the clearing. Vines had grown up over the walls and roof, and the grass had grown almost waist deep due to there not being any tree growing in the clearing. Daggeron helped me down from the carpet, then led me towards the house.

I stopped several times before I got there, picking up a partially-rotted basket, a palm-sized box of dried flowers, and half-broken vase. When we entered the little cottage-like house, I curiously looked around, finding several discarded things that only told me this place had been abandoned for many years.

“ I brought you to this place for a reason,” Daggeron told me as I set the things I’d picked up onto the wobbly wooden table.

“ Why’s that?” I asked him.

I jumped a bit when he placed a gloved hand on my shoulder. “ Almost twenty years ago, this is where your birth mother lived. This house used to be Niella’s,” Daggeron softly said, and I slumped against the wall in disbelief.

“ No. It can’t be. You just brought me here for some kind of training session. This cannot be my mother’s house,” I protested, the denial sounding false even to my own ears.

“ It is her house, Diora. Knowing what we do now, she probably always intended to pass the house and her powers onto you. When she died, and the Great Battle ended, Udonna created Rootcore, and this place fell out of shape,” Daggeron told me.

In an instant, I was back in my regular clothes, tears misting my eyes.

Daggeron demorphed as well, and when he embraced me I practically melted as tears began pouring down my cheeks. “ My m-mother died pr-protecting the world. She thought I was dead, and the entire t-time she’s thinking that, I’m in the surface world, not having a s-single care,” I stuttered as my tears soaked into Daggeron’s shirt.

“ You were only one or two when she died, Diora. You cannot blame yourself for what happened. Niella would not want that,” Daggeron whispered to me.

I kept crying for several more minutes, until I was able to bring my tears under control. With red-shot eyes, I looked up at Daggeron. “ Thank you, for bringing me here. I’d like to fix the place up, make it a memorial to my birth mother. Do you think Udonna would let me?” I asked him, and he gave me a small smile.

“ As Niella’s oldest daughter, you inherited this place the day she died. I’m sure she will let you do as you wish with it,” he told me, and I let out a short gasp.

“ Oh, snap! I forgot, I had to morph in front of my adopted parents! They’re probably thinking something terrible happened to me!” I exclaimed, bolting out the door, Daggeron right on my heels. He stopped me from getting onto the carpet, and instead teleported us straight back to the hospital. We landed right in my parents room - luckily they were alone and the door was shut.

When Mom saw my body appear in a sparkling of black lights, she very nearly fainted, instead moving back and sitting down quickly on the bed. “ Mother, I’m sorry. This just happened for the first time about four days ago,” I told her as I moved forward to sit beside her.

“ How - what - you grew,” she stammered, and I nodded.

“ How is a long story, and as for the what part, I think my friend Daggeron, and my birth aunt should explain things to you,” I told her. The part about my birth aunt shocked her and my father.

“ You know some of your birth relatives? When did this happen?” Mother wanted to know.

“ Yes. It happened not long after I became a Knight for the first time. I found out I have a very powerful aunt, plus a half-sister. I know you’d like them,” I added at the still-confused look on her face.

“ But how did you grow so big. You combined with what looked like a unicorn, and then you just - just beamed in here,” Dad said, and I had to give him a smile at his choice of words.

“ I teleported. And if I’m to explain how everything happened, I have to take you to a place where no one from the s - from outside our little group can hear what I tell you,” I told him. Since someone had provided my parents some clothes, I turned my back while my parents got dressed. When they were finished, Mom, gently touched my shoulder.

“ If you don’t want anyone to know what you say, then how can we get out of here without anyone knowing?” she wanted to know.

“ While you were dressing, Daggeron pulled a few strings and got you discharged. And as for leaving, we’ll go the same way Daggeron and I came,” I told her, grabbing her and Dad’s hands before they had a chance to protest. My body dissolved into black light, Daggeron’s into gold-yellow, and my parents’ into a snowy-white color, and our light-bodies rushed through the air.

When we finally landed, we were inside Rootcore. Mom and Dad wobbled a bit, but soon regained their composure. They looked around them, puzzled and startled to find themselves in a different room. “ Where in the world are we?” Mom asked me.

“ You’re in Rootcore, a place my birth-aunt created after the Great Battle,” I told her, taking a step back when she whirled to face me.

“ You don’t mean the Great Battle between good and evil,” she said, and my eyebrow shot skyward as I nodded.

“ Yeah. How did you know what I meant?” I wanted to know.

“ Meagan? Alan?” Udonna said in disbelief as she entered the room, followed closely by Clare and the rest of my teammates.

“ Udonna?” Mom asked.

“ What?” was my question.

“ I haven’t seen you since the Great Battle. When you left for the surface world, I thought I’d never see you again,” Udonna said as she moved forward to hug my parents.

“ O-kay, what’s going on here? How could you possibly know them?” I asked Udonna.

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[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ Alan was once known as Aliador, and Meagan was once known as Miara,” Udonna said as she led my parents over to the stools around the crystal ball, where she and they sat down.

“ What? Whoa, wait just a minute. You’re telling me that my adopted parents are actually from here, and you knew them way back when? Just how well did you know them?” I wanted to know.

“ Miara was my best friend, and Aliador was my brother,” Udonna said. At that, my legs could no longer support me, and I collapsed into Daggeron’s arms. He picked me up, carrying me over to the stool beside Udonna.

“ You’ve got to be kidding me. You mean to tell me that the entire time I’m growing up, I’m being raised by my birth-uncle and my birth-aunt’s best friend? This is way too much to absorb,” I muttered.

“ Had I known you were Udonna’s niece, Blaze, I would have come back to the Magical Forest much sooner,” Father told me.

“ There’s another secret we’ve been keeping from you, Blaze,” Mother suddenly said, and my gaze turned immediately to him.

“ What else could you possibly be hiding from me?” I asked.

“ I’m not only Udonna’s best friend, but I’m also not completely human,” she said, crossing her right fist over her chest. Bright light surrounded her, and when the light disappeared she was no longer human-looking. She looked like some sort of robot or suited warrior. Her body seemed to be made of some sort of white metal, and was covered in silver, gold, and red armor.

Now even Daggeron was surprised. “ I thought I’d never see you again,” he whispered.

“ O-kay, I’m flabbergasted now. How does Daggeron seem to know my adopted mother?” I spoke up.

“ Miara was my sister-in-arms during the Great Battle. She was in a separate part of the forest during the Great Battle, in her own battle with almost a hundred Hidiacs and Styxoids,” Daggeron said as my adopted mother returned to her human form.

“ I think we’ll give you guys some time alone,” Nick said as he started to usher the other four from the room. He stopped in his tracks when Clare, who’d been keeping a sharp eye on the Crystal Ball, spoke up.

“ There’s a dark energy reading in the forest,” she told us, causing everyone to turn to face the Crystal Ball.

“ Rangers, go,” Udonna told my teammates.

They quickly morphed and grabbed their brooms, disappearing through their places on the far wall. “ Um, not to sound stupid or anything, but since I found out you knew - know - my adopted parents, what are we going to do about our little situation?” I curiously asked.

“ You are more than welcome to make your home here in Rootcore. I do believe Diora already likes it here,” Udonna told my adopted parents.

“ We’d be happy to. It will be good to use my magic again. After the Great Battle, leaving for the surface world blocked our powers,” Mother said.

Udonna returned to watching the Crystal Ball, so I got up and moved away from the others. “ Finding this out was just as shocking for me as for you,” Daggeron said as he came up beside me.

“ I doubt it,” I mumbled.

“ Daggeron, Diora, the Rangers need your help. Koragg and several Styxoids have shown up,” Udonna told us.

Immediately, Daggeron and I removed our morphers. “ Magical Source, Mystic Force!” he called out, morphing into the Solaris Knight.

“ Phanto Mysto, Magical Raijio!” I called out, morphing into the Phantom Knight. I gave my adopted parents quick hugs before following Daggeron outside. His carpet appeared, and we hopped on, standing side by side as the carpet took off.

When we got to the scene of the fight, Koragg was fighting Nick, a freaky-looking monster was fighting Xander and Chip, and twelve Styxoids were fighting Vida and Madison.” Hey, pick on someone your own size, ya freak!” I shouted, leaping from the carpet and landing against the monster’s chest, which sent him flying backwards into two Styxoids, demolishing them but not even harming him.

“ Thank you for falling into my trap, Phantom Knight,” an evil voice said, and I didn’t have time to turn around before a huge blast of wind knocked me sideways, straight into and through the trunk of a tree. When I got to my feet, I was thoroughly pissed to find Imperious standing before me. With a snap of his fingers, he reverted to his human form, something Udonna had not told me about.

“ My daughter, give up this meaningless life. Come and fight with me,” Calindor told me, and I took a step backwards.

“ You - are not - my father any longer!” I hissed at him as my shield appeared, and I defiantly glared at him from under my helmet.

He gave me an evil smile, holding his hand up as black tendrils of mist began to coalesce around it. “ Then you won’t mind if I take back my Ring,” he calmly said, throwing his hand forward and lobbing the ball of black energy at me. It exploded against my shield, sending me flying once more.

This time, I landed at the feet of the monster fighting the guys, and with what sounded like glee the monster stomped on my chest, sending sparks flying from my suit as pain arced along my nerves.

“ Pathetic, Phantom,” Calindor sneered as he advanced towards me.

With a curse that I knew I’d be reprimanded for later, I threw the monster away from me, flipping back to my feet using a move I’d seen Daggeron use.

“ I’m tired of being called pathetic by someone who looks as old as the pyramids. Unbatha!” I angrily screamed, causing a terrific tornado to appear in the air before me. Calindor promptly disappeared as the tornado swept everything evil off its feet before it disappeared as well. The Styxoids ended up getting destroyed, but Koragg and the monster were quickly back on their feet.

“ You are learning, Phantom Knight, but you cannot ultimately beat my power,” he told me as he called out for Catastros. I did the same for Unitastros, and after another bit of spell-casting, we alone faced each other, giants towering above the trees, two centaurs as different as night is from day on the inside, yet nearly identical on the outside.

“ You wounded me last time, Phantom Knight, but I have the upper hand. Osay Mijor Ultimas!” he called out, separating immediately from Catastros. I stood there, stunned, as Catastros’ body shifted, forming some sort of a pair of arms, a lower torso, and legs. Koragg slid into the torso part, and a bright flash of light fused them together.

“ Centaurus Wolf Megazord!” he announced, calling out the title of his new combination.

“ Did somebody call me?” Daggeron asked as he appeared beside me in the Solar Streak Megazord. The monster grew to Koragg’s Megazord size, prompting my other teammates to form the Titan Megazord. This is going to be one long, dangerous battle, I thought to myself. As usual about these things, I was right.

The fight lasted nearly thirty minutes, during which I, Daggeron, and our teammates got the stuffing kicked out of us. Daggeron’s Megazord was the only one of us that was still standing now. I had gotten beaten down by Koragg nearly twenty minutes ago, with the Titan Megazord following suit soon after.

“ At last, an end to the Solaris Knight,” Koragg said in a rather calm voice. I looked up from where I was laying, having gone down to normal size after falling to the ground; Unitastros had left to heal herself.

“ Louther,” I managed to rasp, holding my hand out towards where the giant monster was advancing towards the Solar Streak Megazord. A dark mystic circle appeared under the creature, dragging it back to the depths of the Underworld.

Koragg shouted in anger before quickly following the creature via a circle of his own. My body totally exhausted, my arm flopped back to the ground, and I lay there unmoving, my strength having already ebbed from me.

“ Blaze, where are you?” Madison shouted as she and the others began looking for me.

“ Blaze! Are you okay?” Chip called out.

I was barely able to move my eyes upward as a shadow fell over me.

Daggeron quickly picked me, holding me against his chest as the other Rangers ran over to us. One look at my pale skin had sent fear coursing through Daggeron; I could still sense things, though I couldn’t move.

“ She’s - dying,” Daggeron whispered. He turned and immediately teleported me to Rootcore. Udonna and my adopted parents ran over to us, their faces paling a bit when they saw my condition. My adopted mother burst into tears, and my adopted father had to comfort her.

“ She did the same thing her mother did. She used too much magic,” Udonna whispered in fear as she checked my pulse and placed a hand to my forehead.

“ I swore to protect Niella and the Mystics. I cannot fail again,” Daggeron said in part anger, part fear, and part sorrow.

“ Isn’t there anything you can do?” my adopted mother sobbed, her tearful gaze moving to Udonna as my uncle - my adopted father - sat her down on a stool.

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“ I’m sorry,” Udonna whispered, causing my mother - Miara, I reminded myself - to collapse against Aliador’s body, her sobs racking her whole body.

At that moment, the other five unmorphed Rangers came hurrying in. “ Udonna?” Madison fearfully whispered when she saw the looks on all the adults’ faces. Udonna sadly bowed her head, and tears began misting Madison’s eyes.

My ability to stay awake was fading, so I made one last statement to my teammates and family, though it was mental - telepathic.

If I go now, my friends, I go in peace. At least I helped out some. For that - opportunity - I am glad. Take care of one another, and be good to your teachers - and Aliador and Miara, I told everyone, my eyes fluttering closed as the dark void of unconsciousness came up to claim me.

* * * * *

Everyone in the room had tears in their eyes when the Phantom Knight closed her eyes. “ She is - close to death. We have - to prepare a burial place for her,” Udonna sadly said, forcing back her tears even though losing her niece was like losing her sister all over again. Daggeron gently carried the young Knight into his own bedroom, lying her on the bed before taking a seat by her side.

“ I want to be with her as much as possible until she passes,” he told Udonna, forcing his own tears back so that his students would not see him cry.

After saying their goodbyes to the young Phantom Knight’s dying body, the five misty eyed teen Rangers went back to the main rom, leaving Daggeron alone with the young Phantom Night.

Now that no one was watching, Daggeron allowed his tears to come, not even wiping them away as they slid down his cheeks. One tear hit the Phantom Ring on the young Phantom Knight’s finger. He was too sad to notice the tiny bright light that briefly glowed on the Ring, disappearing in less than two seconds.

“ I will miss you fighting at my side, young friend,” Daggeron whispered as he forced his tears back once more. He leaned down, giving the young Knight a light kiss across the cheek, before he stood straight and walked out of the room.

* * * * *

Seven uneventful days had passed, and despite hoping against hope, the Phantom Knight had not woken up. Her breathing had become fainter over those seven days, until the Rangers were afraid to leave her alone for too long in the fear that she would cease to be while they were gone. Miara had not been able to bring herself to go look at the Knight, for having raised her as her daughter made thinking about the Knight’s death that much more heartbreaking.

Even the cat genie, Jenji, seemed to be moping around Rootcore a lot more than normal. That could have been caused by the feelings he could sense coming from Daggeron. “ She’s dying because she saved me,” he angrily muttered for the umpteenth time in the past seven days.

“ Daggeron, it’s not your fault. You couldn’t have known she was going to do what she did,” Madison told her teacher.

“ Maddie’s right, Daggeron. You shouldn’t blame yourself,” Vida spoke up, laying a hand on Daggeron’s arm. Still angry with himself, Daggeron angrily shook the girl’s arm off.

“ I hope Koragg attacks soon. I’m going to destroy him the first chance I get,” the Solaris Knight growled. This anger was unlike him - everyone that knew him knew it.

Any response anyone would’ve made was stopped when Udonna told them that there was a dark energy reading coming from Briarwood. With an angry look on his face, Daggeron led the others in morphing. He ran outside to his carpet, zooming off so quickly that the other five Rangers on their Mystic Racers almost didn’t catch up with him.

Clare came up to Udonna, her own eyes a little red-rimmed from crying. “ Her breathing has almost stopped,” the young woman whispered into her aunt’s ear. The powerful witch nodded, keeping her composure even though she was feeling terrible inside. Together, the witch, her best friend, her brother, and her niece watched the battle between good and evil via the Crystal Ball.

It was apparent the Rangers had all lost a little heart during the past week.

The evidence was in their fighting, and the fact that they barely managed to destroy the group of Styxoids confronting them. Koragg suddenly appeared on the scene, already in his Megazord form.

“ The death of a Knight in battle is honorable. Stealing your powers will be easier with the Phantom Knight gone,” Koragg told the Rangers as they formed the Titan and the Solar Streak Megazords.

“ You heartless creep!” Madison shouted.

“ You will pay dearly for what happened to the Phantom Knight!” Chip angrily screamed.

His words came back to bite him in the ass when Koragg fired such a blow at the Titan Megazord that it immediately separated the Titans and forced them down to their Ranger forms, weakening them so much that they had not the power nor the willpower to reform the Megazord. Inside the Solar Streak Megazord’s cockpit, Daggeron was fuming. He launched punch after punch, blast after blast, at the enemy Megazord. Few of the hits connected, and none had any effect.

“ You will join your friend,” Koragg said, blasting the Megazord to the ground and forcing Daggeron to eject from the cockpit. Koragg met the Solaris Knight on the ground, and the two began trading blows.

Finally, the dark Knight gained the upper hand, smashing his shield against Daggeron’s chest so hard that the Solaris Knight went flying backward into a large boulder, his suit sparking badly. A cut on his shoulder oozed a trickle of blood inside his suit, and Daggeron stared defiantly at Koragg as he slowly approached, his sword raised.

“ Goodbye, Solaris Knight,” Koragg said as his sword charged with dark energy.

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*Next update will be longer than this one. school's kept me from feeling like updating every week, like i'd like to. hop u all enjoy this installment.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ Nooooooo!” I screamed as I sat bolt upright in bed, my fists clenched against the covers. My mother’s words last words echoed through my head:

You must find your inner power. What magic cannot defeat, love will always overcome. Even as I was thinking these things, my body disappeared, forming into a ball of white light, which quickly left Rootcore. I arrived at the fight scene just as Koragg’s energy-charged sword was swinging down towards Daggeron’s chest.

Remembering my mother’s words a second time, I zoomed right in front of Daggeron, unfurling my still-light-covered body. The blade bounced off of my body, sending Koragg stumbling backwards even as my weakened, unmorphed, teen teammates stumbled into view.

“ What kind of magic is this?!” Koragg angrily shouted, trying twice more to slice through me, though his sword bounced away harmlessly. When he began to try a fourth time, I simply threw my hands forward, sending him skidding back several yards and causing him to drop his sword.

“ What is that?” Vida asked as she leaned against a tree’s trunk.

“ Koragg, you were foolish to attack the Solaris Knight. I would have died otherwise. You asked what magic this was. I will repeat the words of my mother: ‘What magic cannot defeat, love will always overcome,’” I told him in a calm, flowing-sounding voice.

“ Who are you?” Daggeron asked from behind me, and I extended a flowing tendril of magic towards him, instantly healing most of the wounds on his body.

I kept my face neutral as my body became completely solid again.

Everyone became still as they stared at me. Koragg was the first to react. He took a bold step forward. “ You cannot possibly have come back to life. This was a trap,” he angrily said, but I shook my head.

“ No, it was not, Knight Wolf. And I came back from the brink of death because of my mother. Even in death she gave me the strength I needed to come back. Her powers live on through her daughters,” I calmly told him as a new weapon appeared in my hands.

I did not wait for Koragg to attack, I brought the attack to him. “ Power of the Phantom, Dark Magic Attack!” I called out, spinning the staff through the air before stopping it and pointing it straight at Koragg. A huge ball of black light exploded against his body, causing sparks to erupt all over his armor as he fell to his knees on the ground.

“ The Master will prevail,” he warned me before he and his weapons disappeared into one of his signature spell circles. As soon as he was gone, my staff disappeared.

Madison, Vida, Xander, Chip, and Nick ran to me as fast as they could, hugging me and laughing, talking and pinching me a few times to see if I was real - I wasn’t morphed.

“ I just can’t believe this. We all thought you were going to die,” Madison said before giving me another hug.

“ I was due to die today, had not my mother intervened and given me the advice that she did,” I told the five as I turned away from them to check on Daggeron. He was gone, and that kinda surprised me.

“ I’ll meet you guys back at Rootcore,” I told my friends before teleporting back to our headquarters. My body solidified in Daggeron’s room, and I found him standing with his back to me, his disbelieving eyes on the bed where I’d been less than ten minutes before.

“ Daggeron,” I softly whispered, causing him to turn around to face me. I tentatively placed a hand on his cheek, blushing even despite the strange circumstances. He reached up a hand to capture mine, seeming to not want to let got of my hand for fear that I might go away again.

“ I thought I’d lost you. Now that you’re back, I know that I can never love you, because loving you is wrong,” he sadly whispered.

“ Because you’re my teacher? Daggeron, that doesn’t matter. Whether you’re my teacher or not, your love for me is one of the things that brought me away from the very edge of death. Were it not for you and your love, I would have gone and joined my mother,” I told him, tears misting my eyes at the sad look in his own eyes.

Suddenly, he put his arms around me, crushing me to his chest. “ Please, never do that again,” he whispered, and I nodded, just as I heard hurried footsteps coming up behind us. Letting go of Daggeron and turning around, I saw the shocked and disbelieving faces of Clare, Udonna, Miara, and Aliandor staring at me.

Clare was the first one to react, rushing forward and throwing her arms around me. “ Thank goodness you’re okay. I thought you were going to die on us. I’m glad I haven’t lost my sister,” she told me, and I gave a gentle smile as I gently pushed at her arms.

“ Um, Clare? I kinda still need to breathe,” I rasped, causing her to let go of me.

Miara and Aliador hugged me next. “ I know you’re not my blood daughter, but all during this week, I felt like I was losing a part of me,” Miara whispered into my ear.

Finally they stood back, and Udonna stepped forward. “ It is good to have you back, Diora,” she told me.

“ Diora’s back? All right, she’s back!” Jenji exclaimed as he appeared from Daggeron’s lamp.

I laughed as he gave me a quick hug. “ Even you missed me, Jenji?” I asked him.

“ Of course. Who else has the strength to call Necrolai and Imperious names?” he asked, actually causing all of us gathered in Daggeron’s room to laugh.

“ Were there any attacks while I was - er - dying?” I asked Udonna.

“ Surprisingly, no. It was the calmest it’s been since the forces of evil started attacking. Speaking of which, where are the other Rangers?” she asked.

“ We’re right here,” Chip spoke up from behind Udonna.

At about that time, Udonna seemed to notice the way I kinda kept close to Daggeron - even when they had been hugging me - so she kindly cleared her throat. “ I think we need to leave Diora and Daggeron alone for a few minutes,” she said. I gave her a thankful smile. Jenji, Miara, and Aliador left, but my other five teammates stood there.

“ Why do you want us to leave them alone?” Chip asked, getting an elbow in the stomach from Vida.

“ Does she have a crush on him?” Xander jokingly asked, getting an elbow in the ribs from Madison. Rubbing the places the girls had poked them, the two guys Rangers turned and left as well, being immediately followed by Nick, then Vida and Madison, and finally Udonna. She shut the door behind herself, and I finally turned back to Daggeron.

“ Even Udonna senses how we feel about each other. Why should we hide it?” I asked him, my breath catching in my throat when he pulled me to him again, planting a long, tantalizing kiss on my lips.

“ We shouldn’t,” he actually agreed.

I grinned happily at him. “ Great. Hey, here’s a weird thought. Since we’re both originally from this dimension, do the surface world rules of boyfriend and girlfriend apply here?” I curiously asked him, slightly tilting my head to one side.

“ I believe they do. It has been a while since I thought of such a relationship. Do the men usually buy the woman presents?” he asked, and I knew he was making fun of me, so I went along with him.

“ Yes, lots and lots of presents,” I mockingly told him, and he kissed me again before he said he thought it was best we not be alone too long.

When I asked him why, he said, “ Because the others will begin to think something is going on.”

“ But something is going o - ohhh. Right,” I whispered, opening the door and making my way to where the others were.

* * * * *

A week had passed since my back-from-the-edge-of-death experience, and other than two more attacks from some of the Underworld uglies, I was actually having fun. I’d learned a few more good spells, as well as a few bad ones, any of which I could use properly with the right amount of training.

Actually, at the moment, I was training. Daggeron had set up a skills course, to test the magical skills of each of his students. Each section of the course had either a group activity, three duo activities, or six activities set to test each of our powers. Right now, we were on the last section of the course.

The others had gone their own ways, leaving me to use my invisibility to get past an obstacle course of sorts. One wrong move and bam! - I’d get splattered with paint balls and jolted by tiny amounts of power.

I had just made it to the end of the course, without tripping any of the traps, when I heard the others moving in my direction. “ Daggeron said to ambush her here so we can truly test her reaction time and her skills,” I heard Nick whisper, and I had to smile. Thanks to Daggeron, my senses had become extremely heightened, and since I’d learned to control my invisibility to a rather good degree, I could now see my own body, whereas others could not.

“ Ulilayo,” I whispered, throwing my hand forward. Lightning shot from the sky, grazing the seat of Nick’s pants several times. He yelped and jumped back even as our teammates giggled.

“ Very funny, Chip,” Vida spoke up when the giggling had subsided.

“ That wasn’t me,” he protested.

“ Unbatha,” I whispered, throwing my hand forward again. A small tornado appeared, sweeping Chip off his feet and sitting him flat on his butt on the ground.

“ What was that for, Vida?” he asked as he got back to his feet.

“ It wasn’t me,” she protested back. All five Rangers got serious looks on their faces then, and began looking around.

“ All right, Daggeron, you fooled us. You can come out now,” Xander spoke up, and I laughed, allowing them to hear me.

“ You guys really should keep your voices down when you talk about Daggeron and his ambush plans. I’m ready and waiting for you,” I told them, allowing myself to appear, showing them where I was.

“ I wanted to see how you would do in a battle when the odds are against you, and are as powerful as you are,” Daggeron said as he appeared on his carpet, which came to hover above and in front of me.

“ Well, then why don’t you and I battle, oh mighty teacher? Hmm? Knight against Knight. What do you say?” I asked him, instantly morphing into the Phantom Knight. His response was morphing into the Solaris Knight. He jumped down from the carpet, and we began fighting. What I lacked in spells and knowledge, I made up for in strength. You’d think that would make us pretty evenly matched, right? Wrong.

I constantly had to bring my shield around to block the blasts from Daggeron’s lamp. Before I knew it, Daggeron had me backed up to the edge of river.

With a blast from the lamp and a kick to my shield, he send me flying back into the water. I was kept dry by my suit, but being bested kinda ticked me off. An idea came to me, and I held my shield up the way I normally did.

“ Entrowa,” I calmly said, and the water under me erupted, throwing me forward. I flew over Daggeron, kicking him in the backside and sending him into the river where I’d just been.

Landing on the ground again, I turned around and smirked as I demorphed, my eyes full of laughter when I saw Daggeron getting up and moving back to dry land. He demorphed as well, his right eyebrow raised. “ You are learning well, young Knight,” he complimented me.

I grinned at him as I calmly stepped to the side, allowing Nick’s fire attack to sail past me, Daggeron’s eyes grew wide and he flung himself to the side as Nick’s little fireball exploded harmlessly in the water. “ I had a great teacher,” I told him as I helped him to his feet.

“ Are you sure she should be training with us, Daggeron? I mean, we can beat her with two to five of us, but in one on one she beats our butts,” Xander spoke up.

“ That is why I want her to train with the five of you, Xander. For her to learn the value of teamwork, she needs to be able to fight against the team and hold her own. It will eventually help her fight as one with the team. Training is over for today,” Daggeron spoke up, and the others went back through the forest, demorphing and walking back to Rootcore. I was gonna follow them, as I normally did after training, but Daggeron laid a hand on my arm.

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keep going! this is such a good story!!

[Kali_WolfChilde]

tyvm

[Angelfox]

awesome, cant wait for more

[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ I have something I would like to show you. Something I think you’ll like,” he told me, leading me over to where his carpet was lying in the grass.

We stepped onto it, and it slowly rose into the air, moving at a slower pace than what Daggeron usually had it flying. When we came to a now-familiar clearing in the woods, my mouth dropped open in shock.

Where there was once waist-high grass inside the clearing, there was now freshly-cut grass; where there were once vines growing up onto and over the house, there were now freshly-painted walls.

“ Oh my God,” I whispered as the carpet settled onto the ground, and we stepped off and move inside the cottage. “ Oh my God,” I repeated, in awe at the pristine condition the place was in. “ It’s - wonderful. Did you do this yourself?” I asked Daggeron, and he beamed at me.

“ I did some of it. Some of the magical creatures in the woods helped out. They said to tell you and the others thank you for protecting their homes,” Daggeron told me, and I stood up on tiptoe and threw my arms around his neck, giving him a big smooch.

“ Tell them I said thanks to them. And thanks to you too. Hehe, you’re like my Knight in shining armor,” I giggled, outright laughing at the expression on his face.

Before he could form a reply, someone came running up to the door. “ Phineas, are you okay?” I asked him. I’d met the troblin several times in the past week.

“ Came - to ask for your help. My fairy friend asked me to,” he told me.

“ What’s wrong?” Daggeron asked him.

“ She broke one wing and ripped the other wing when she was flying through a cluster of trees” the worried troblin told us.

“ I’ll teleport us there,” Daggeron told him, telling the troblin to concentrate on his hurt friend as our bodies turned into billions of tiny lights, shooting out of the cottage and across the sky.

I blinked my eyes as we landed, finding myself standing outside a rather nice-looking hut. A fairy was wringing her hands as she paced outside the door, but she stopped in her tracks when she saw Daggeron.

“ The Knights are here!” she called inside before motioning for us to enter the hut. As we cleared the doorway, I stared in shock at the bed against the far wall. A young woman - she couldn’t have been any older than me - was lying on her stomach on the bed. The only thing that proved she wasn’t human were the pair of silvery gossamer wings that came out of her back.

One wing had several bad rips in it, and was oozing tiny trickles of silver-colored blood. The other wing seemed to be bent at a strange angle. The fairy was crying into her pillow, biting back screams as her fellow fairies washed her body with cool water, the movement only adding to her pain.

When another fairy - this one looking exactly like the injured one - looked up at us, I saw the silvery tears gathering in the corners of her eyes. “ Please, help my twin. We will give you anything that you desire in return,” she told us.

“ I thought that fairies had magic of their own,” I whispered to Daggeron.

The girl overheard me, though, so she spoke up again. “ We fairies do, we have powerful magic, but when it comes to our wings, our magic is useless,” she whimpered, the sound of her voice tearing at my heartstrings.

Daggeron and I took out our morphers, touching the tips together and pointing the touching tips at the injured fairy; we told the other fairies to get out of the way first. A bright beam of mine and Daggeron’s colors shot forward, striking the fairy’s body and causing her to moan in great pain.

Daggeron and I kept up the light beam, but as strong as our magic was together, it wasn’t doing much good. All it did was heal the broken wing.

“ We need help,” I mumbled, as shocked as the rest when an additional beam of light joined ours. The light soon ceased, so Daggeron and I separated our morphers, putting them back where they belonged as the injured fairy’s wings slowly fluttered. She tested the wings for a bit before using them to hover above the floor.

“ Thank you so much!” her twin sister said, throwing her arms around me and Daggeron.

“ There’s someone else you should probably thank,” I told her as Unitastros appeared just inside the doorway. Every fairy in the room - five including the twins - gasped in shock. I smiled and rubbed Unitastros’ neck and ears. “ Thanks for that, girl. I owe you a basket of white apples,” I told her, and she neighed and nodded her head.

The fairies slowly approached Unitastros, each placing a hand on the unicorn’s body. I suddenly realized that none of them had ever seen Unitastros. Heck, come to think of it, I don’t remember Udonna mentioning that many people who had seen the legendary unicorn at all in the last few years.

After the fairies had finished giving Unitastros their thanks, they each gave her a white apple, which seemed to glow with a golden aura. When Unitastros was through with the apples, she snorted and shook her head, backing out of the hut before running off into the woods. All but the twin fairies left, going to tell their friends of what had happened.

“ We owe you a great debt, Solaris and Phantom. What would you like in payment?” the formerly injured fairy twin asked us.

“ We will not ask for anything at the moment, good fairies. For now, your thanks is payment enough,” Daggeron said, giving them a respectful bow before taking my arm and guiding me outside. Instead of teleporting back to my mother’s former home, we used the trees. I grinned to myself as I took a different route from Daggeron, landing on a thick tree branch some ten feet off the ground, just as he appeared from the same tree, though below me.

He looked around in bewilderment, wondering where I was. I grinned to myself again as I jumped from the limb. He turned at the last minute, our combined momentums sending us tumbling over the grass.

When we came to a stop, he was lying over me, and I blushed deeply at the weirdo feelings running rampant through me. When Daggeron kissed me, those weirdo feelings went right up to bizzare and crazy. When Daggeron’s left hand touched my waist and his arm encircled my waist, the feelings just went whacky, sending strange shockwaves along my every nerve.

The feelings blurred slightly when Daggeron teleported us straight to the newly-renovated cottage, but they came back full-force when our bodies solidified on the bed in the bedroom. I had my eyes closed, but I opened them when Daggeron suddenly drew back.

His face was a mask of fear, concern, and - something I couldn’t identify. “ What’s the matter?” I asked him as he got up and sat on the edge of the bed. I moved up to sit beside him.

“ It is not proper for me to be doing this. I should be training you in the ways of magic, not taking advantage of you. It is not my way,” he mumbled.

“ You aren’t - aren’t taking advantage of me, Daggeron. I - well, I wanted you to kiss me. And you’ve taught me plenty of magic. I couldn’t have wound up on the tree limb like I did if it hadn’t been for you and the others teaching me how to tree travel. And you taught me to control my invisibility. Didn’t you yourself say I was doing remarkably well in that area already?” I asked him, and he nodded.

“ All right then. You aren’t taking advantage of me, and that’s that. If you won’t kiss me any more, will you at least teach me some more spells?” I wanted to know.

“ Of course I wi - ” he started to say, just as my phone beeped. I took it out, flipping it open in the process.

“ Diora, Koragg has issued you a challenge. He says that if you do not meet him in the Sumerian Forest in exactly four minutes, he will destroy the Forest and everything in it,” Udonna told me.

[DarkRoseThunder]

nice! I could picture all of that while I was reading! you've got me hooked!

[Kali_WolfChilde]

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“ It’s a trap. Koragg can’t be trusted,” Daggeron spoke up from beside me.

“ She has no choice, Daggeron. I’m afraid Koragg managed to kidnap Clare and Phineas. He is holding them hostage. If Diora does not show up, his is threatening to hand them over to Imperious,” Udonna told us, the fear evident in her voice. By asking me to go against Koragg alone, she was risking losing not only one of her nieces, but both of them.

“ That purple poser! I swear to God, if he hurts them - never mind. Udonna, I’m going. Tell the other Rangers to stay back. If I cannot get Clare and Phineas to safety myself, tell them to help teleport those two to safety. I have a few ne tricks up my sleeve to keep that son a bitch busy,” I growled before cutting the connection.

Without waiting for Daggeron to say anything to me, I morphed, running outside and disappearing into the closest tree possible. I traveled through the trees as fast as magically possible, scouting around the area where I sensed Koragg. When I knew he had his back to me, I appeared from a tree, holding my shield at the ready. “ You are on time, Phantom Knight,” Koragg said as he slowly turned around.

“ You sadistic self-serving low-life shit-eating bastard! I thought you were a son a of a bitch before, Koragg, but this is a new low for you,” I spat at him.

“ Your mother would turn over in her grave to hear you speak so. Taking away your power will be a pleasure,” he calmly said, quickly using his usual Wolf Attack blast on me. I threw my shield up, blocking most of the blasts, cringing as the other blasts struck my suit. He’d been tweaking his magic, for the wolf-head energy blasts were much stronger than the last time he’d used the Wolf Attack on me.

“ Your magic has grown in the past two weeks, Koragg. But so has mine. Entrowa! Ulilayo!” I called out, using two magical attacks at once. Water gushed up from the ground, lashing at Koragg as lightning shot down all around him. The attack lasted for about thirty seconds, until Koragg growled in anger.

“ Enough!” he shouted, suddenly blasting me with his shield. I wasn’t able to bring my shield up in time, and so I was sent sprawling on my back.

By the time I got back to my feet, Koragg was already combined with Catastros as the Centaurus Wolf Megazord, so I summoned Unitastros and combined to create the Phantom Centaur. A pair of white-colored beams flew through the air, and I was glad to know that Udonna and the others had managed to teleport Claire and Phineas to safety.

“ Let’s do this,” I snapped, moving into action against the fierce evil warrior of darkness.

As I’d told Koragg, my magic had grown in the past two weeks - even though I’d been unconscious for one of those weeks - but in his current form, he was much, much stronger than me. He sent me down to the ground time and time again, and time and time again I got back up to meet his onslaught of magic.

After almost forty minutes of this, I was very tired, so tired that I couldn’t block the Dark Magic Spell Seal that Koragg slammed at me, causing me and Unitastros to separate, and both of us to fall to the ground, though still in our giant forms. “ Give up, Phantom Knight,” Koragg told me, holding his weapon near my neck.

“ Never!” I spat at him, still struggling to get to my feet.

“ Then I will destroy you,” he told me, raising his sword and beginning to bring it down towards my chest.

“ Diora!!!!” I heard Daggeron shout as the sword came closer and closer to me.

I braced myself for the death blow, screaming as the sword struck me and sent waves of powerful dark energy coursing across and through my body. Koragg moved away as my body was still convulsing, turning his sights on Unitastros, who still couldn’t get to her feet.

“ I will have ten times the power I now have,” he calmly told the equine as he raised his sword to slash the zord as he’d done to me.

“ NOOOO!” I bellowed, weakly throwing my hand forward, though I was a good seventy - regular - feet from my friend. The dark energy within me suddenly pulsed forward, overcoming Koragg’s dark energy before a ball of energy zoomed from my hand, hitting the Centaurus Wolf Megazord in the head and causing it to stumble backward.

Even though I was still as weak as a newborn kitten, I managed to crawl over in front of Unitastros, dragging myself to a sitting position and holding my shield in front of me.

“ You’ve gotta - go through me - to get to Unitastros!” I shouted at Koragg.

He actually laughed as he raised his sword, swinging it against my shield.

Dark energy once more coursed over me, and I gritted my teeth against the pain. Mother, I’m coming to join you, I thought to myself as the light suddenly exploded, sending me sideways onto the ground. I could barely move my fingers now, and when I glanced to the side, I saw Koragg getting back to his feet. My gaze also took in the sight of Fireheart coming up behind Koragg.

“ Phantom Knight, can you hear me?” a tiny voice asked, and I managed to turn my head the other way. I found myself facing the two twin fairies Daggeron and Unitastros and I had met earlier.

“ Y - yes,” I rasped, the effort of speaking now paining me. The two fairies glanced at my giant, sparking body as Fireheart began distracting Koragg.

“ Because of what you did, our village of fairies gave us each two large pouches of fairy dust, to give you when the need seemed to be greatest. We can use it to give you strength to fight Koragg. Do you want it?” the fairy we’d healed asked, and I managed a small nod. The two fairies flew to hover a few feet above my body, each opening a bag of fairy dust that had to be as big as them.

They flew over my body, sprinkling the dust all over me. Everywhere the dust settled, my suit began to sparkle with energy, and I began to feel my strength returning, allowing me to sit up, and then to stand up. “ Thank you. Get to safety,” I told them as I picked up my repaired shield.

Fireheart was just about to get hit by Koragg. “ Hey, purple pimp!” I called out, causing the Megazord to whirl to face me.

“ What?!” it shouted, shocked to see me back on my feet and seemingly uninjured.

“ Unbatha!” I shouted at him, causing a black tornado to appear and blow the Megazord off its feet. As the tornado dissipated, the Centaurus Wolf Megazord slowly climbed back to its feet.

“ What magic is this?” Koragg angrily wanted to know.

“ The power of friendship and love, the power of good over evil. Good will never give up when there’s even the tiniest chance that we may win. We fight on despite the odds, and we don’t give in,” I calmly told him. A bright light suddenly lit upon my left hand, and as I stared down at it, new knowledge flowed into me, causing me to grin under my helmet.

“ Nothing you can do can defeat me, Phantom Knight,” Koragg confidently told me as he readied his weapon to fight.

“ Oh, really? Let’s try that theory out. Osay Mijor Ultimas!” I called out, turning and thrusting my outstretched hand towards Unitastros. Her body lit up with white and black light, and it changed and grew as she flew into the air. As soon as her body was all changed around, I leapt into the air, our bodies fusing together into one giant body.

I was still grinning as I landed back on the ground. “ Centaurus Phantom Megazord!” I proclaimed, striking a new fighting stance, my own weapon held at the ready.

Koragg made the first move, and charged straight at me. Not wanting to waste time talking, I didn’t say a single word - unless it was for a spell. Even though I was strong in this new form, I still had to work at besting Koragg.

As I held my weapon at his Megazord’s neck, I coldly stared at him - his weapon had disappeared after my last blow.

“ I should destroy you now, you filthy beast, for what you’ve done to my friends, before and since I got here,” I hissed at him.

Before I could do just that, a purple dark spell circle appeared under the Megazord, and he vanished inside it. I growled in frustration, powering back all the way down to my morphed form. Unitastros neighed down at me before disappearing through a mystic circle of her own. I walked over to Fireheart, who was sitting at the edge of the Sumerian Forest, where he’d been while watching my and Koragg’s Megazords fighting.

“ Thanks for the distraction, boy,” I told him. He roared at me before taking flight, disappearing over the tops of the trees. I sighed to myself, powering down to my street clothes.

At least, I thought I was powering down to my street clothes. Instead, I was now in a uniform much like Daggeron’s although mine was mainly black and silver with some white. The “S” symbol was changed to the symbol from my morpher in the background, with a unicorn symbol on top of that.

Also, I had a cape like the others did, and my shirt was short-sleeved, with arm braces like those the others had. Even as I observed this, I felt my body being teleported away, and I was grinning when I landed back in Rootcore. My teammates all crowded around me to get a look at my new uniform, then stepped back to give Daggeron and Udonna time to hug me. “ I was so afraid for you,” Udonna told me.

“ I was scared too,” I admitted.

“ I can’t believe you called Koragg a purple pimp,” Chip spoke up, causing me to laugh.

“ I was inspired,” I replied with a grin.

“ Your mother would be very proud that you and her friend became as one,” Udonna whispered, though everyone could hear her.

Everyone’s gaze shifted from me to Daggeron when he suddenly knelt down in front of me. “ Uh, Daggeron? What are you doing?” Madison spoke up.

“ Diora, I’ve only known you a short time, and in that time I’ve grown to love you. I almost lost you again today. I don’t want that to happen again,” he said as he took a ring out of his shirt and slid it onto my left hand ring finger. “ Diora, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?” he asked me.

Gasps reverberated through the room, my own gasp included as I stared from Daggeron to the ring and back again to Daggeron. “ Oh - my - God! Yes, yes, YES!” I screamed happily, causing Daggeron to smile and get back to his feet. He gave me a quick kiss on the lips before turning to face our friends.

“ I hope none of you will object to this marriage,” he told them.

Udonna was beaming. “ Of course we won’t,” she said, hugging me again, then hugging Daggeron. “ I’m happy for you, Daggeron. You too, Diora. It will give me great pleasure to attend the wedding,” she told us.

“ Attend? Oh, Udonna, I was hoping you’d be my maid of honor,” I blurted out, causing her to stare from me to Miara, who was standing between her and Aliador.

“ I don’t mind,” Miara told Udonna at her unspoken question.

“ I was hoping you’d say that, because I plan for you, Madison, Vida, and Clare to be my bridesmaids. You don’t mind, do you, Daggeron?” I asked him, and he shook his head.

“ On the contrary, I like the idea. Nick, Xander, and Chip will attend as my groomsmen. Aliador, I would like you to be my best man,” Daggeron said, and Aliandor quickly agreed. We all sat down in the room, talking for hours about what wedding plans to make.

At long last, Daggeron and I left the room, going to his room where we each changed - him into a pair of silk navy and gold pajamas, and me into a white spaghetti-strapped silk top and a pair of white silk pajama pants - I’d gone to my room first to get my clothes.

As we climbed under the covers of his bed, I blushed again, which made him smile. “ I will not take advantage of you, my Phantom,” he whispered, giving me a slow, lingering kiss before I turned over and snuggled back against him.

“ I know, Solaris,” I whispered back, slowly drifting off into sleep.

* * * * *

[Kali_WolfChilde]

A month later; Briarwood Park; December 1, 2006

“ And do you, Blaze Matthias, take this man, Daggeron, to be your lawfully wedded husband? To have and to hold, for richer or for poorer, to love honor, honor an obey, in sickness and health, as long as you both shall live?” the preacher asked me. I quickly nodded.

“ I do,” I murmured, my gaze still on Daggeron’s face.

“ Then by the power invested in me by the town of Briarwood and the state of California, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride,” the preacher told Daggeron.

Daggeron slowly lifted my veil, bending his head to give me a tempting, thrilling kiss, as applause erupted all around us. He soon stood back up, and we turned to face the crowd.

“ Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Daggeron and Blaze Knight!” the preacher announced, causing the applause to get louder. I even heard a few whistles - more than a few coming from my teammates - and their happiness over my marrying Daggeron made me even happier.

“ The bride and groom will now leave for their honeymoon. As agreed, they will hold an after wedding reception when they return to Briarwood,” the preacher said as Daggeron and I began walking back down the aisle.

We around behind the gazebo at the edge of the woods, then immediately teleported straight to the Magical Forest, after making sure no one could see us. The second we landed, magical creatures swarmed around us, talking excitedly as they lead us to the dining hall that was located in one of the main camps in the forest.

Daggeron and I sat on the right side of the head of the table, just as Udonna appeared behind the seat at the head of the table, Clare, Miara, and Aliador appeared to her left, and my teammates appeared to Daggeron’s right. The rest of the guests seated themselves at other tables throughout the dining hall.

My teammates sat as well, leaving only Udonna standing. “ This is truly one of the happiest day the Magical Forest has seen in these past few months. I would like to propose a toast to my niece and my friend. May they live together, always in happiness and love,” Udonna spoke up, raising a goblet full of wine - it was plain sodas for those of us not twenty-one or older.

Being in the Magical Forest still didn’t make us any different age-wise than the teens in the surface world.

Everyone else raised their goblets as well. “ Here here!” everyone said.

Then Miara and Aliandor stood up to make a toast. “ We raised Diora as our daughter - our little girl. Now it seems that in the blink of an eye, she’s become a married woman. We wish you happiness and love,” Aliandor said.

After they sat down, Nick - then Chip, Xander, Madison, and Vida - made toasts to me and Daggeron. Clare had just stood up to make a toast when an explosion rocked the ground, causing many of the younger magical creatures to start crying, whimpering, growling, snarling, hissing, or cowering in fear.

My face turned red from anger, and I leapt to my feet. Before I could go outside, though, Daggeron stopped me.

“ Help Udonna, Aliador, and Miara get everyone to safety,” he told me before morphing and running outside to join our teammates, who’d already left the dining hall to find out what was going on.

When I turned back to face Udonna, Aliador, and Miara, I saw anger and fear on their faces. When I saw how Clare was cringing, I swore silently to myself.

“ I need the four of you to help me teleport these creatures to safety. Then get to safety yourself. Use the trees, but use them quickly,” I told them. They gathered at different evenly-spaced points around the dining hall. We all raised our right arms upward, keeping our palms open.

“ Magical Friends, Malorium Orvious!” we shouted together. Beams of colored light shot from our hands, merging together near the roof in the very center of the dining hall. The light slowly spread downward, surrounding the magical creatures. One by one and in groups, all two hundred of them were teleported away. As soon as the last one vanished, we lowered our arms.

“ Do not try to fight. This time, it’s personal,” I warned my family before hurrying from the tent and following the sounds of fighting .

* * * * *

I was spitting mad as Necrolai and I clashed weapons. “ You - stupid - Dorkula - bitch! How dare - you - ruin - my - wedding - reception!” I screamed at her between trading blows, my face heating up under my helmet as I swung the Gatekeeper Staff at the vampire queen over and over again.

“ Foolish, Knight, do you think I care? I could destroy you in a split second if I wanted to,” she said, throwing me up against a tree. I immediately went invisible, rushing toward her in a curved angle before smacking her with my shield and sending her flying through the air.

“ Like I believe that. You can’t destroy the other Rangers, you can’t destroy Daggeron, and you sure as hell can’t destroy me. You would’ve if you could’ve, but you can’t, so stay the hell outta my way, bitch, or I swear you’ll be moved by force,” I snarled at Necrolai. She swung at me several times, though I was still invisible, so she couldn’t see me.

When one of her clawed hands came close to my helmeted head, I swore silently.

“ Lathure Malorium!” I hissed, thrusting the Gatekeeper Staff forward.

Necrolai fell flat on her butt five feet from where she’d been standing, and she landed right in the middle of the black mystic circle that’d appeared on the ground. She screamed in unholy anger as she was sucked through the circle and back to the Underworld.

I became visible again as I leaned up against a tree, allowing my body and powers time to recover. Sending Necrolai back to the Underworld had taken a great deal of magic, though the main reason behind that was my wording. I’d created a personal spell for Necrolai, which would seal her in the Underworld for a month, give or take a few days.

As I was recovering from my magic usage, a Styxoid rushed towards me, its weapon held high. Before it could even come within five feet of me, it was blown into innumerable pieces by a beam of reddish-white light. I looked up to find Miara, in her other form, standing before me.

“ I thought I told you to get to safety,” I told her as she came over to me.

“ Knights stick up for each other, and protect each other, no matter what. As the Volcano Knight, I am the guardian of all female Knights and magical creatures, as well as the magical children. Go, let your powers gain strength at Rootcore,” she told me before running off to help Daggeron.

I sighed and demorphed, touching the tree behind me and using it to travel back to our headquarters. Once there, I proceeded to change out of my wedding dress - I had morphed while still in it, though thank God morphing had not ruined the dress, else-wise I’d have been doubly pissed at Necrolai, and probably would’ve killed her instead of temporarily sealing her in the Underworld.

As I slipped into an ankle length white flowy skirt, a pair of high-heeled white sandals, and a sleeveless white top, Clare walked into the bedroom, a puzzled look on her face. “ Something the matter?” I asked her I brushed my hair back and put a headband on.

“ How was I able to use such strong magic back there?” she asked me.

“ You’re the Gatekeeper’s daughter. Heck, you were the Gatekeeper, for however short a time it may have been. Our mother allowed me to access her Gatekeeper Staff, and I used it to help give you a temporary power boost. But I don’t think you needed it that much. You seemed to know what you were doing,” I told her.

“ Really? You think I’m getting better as a sorceress in training?” she asked in a hopeful tone.

“ Of course. It may take awhile, but you should be ready to graduate in another few months or so. Our mother would be proud of how much you’ve progressed,” I told her, giving her a tight bear hug.

“ Thanks, Diora. And I’m sorry your wedding reception got ruined,” she told me as we left the room side by side.

“ It’s not your fault. I guess Daggeron and I will have to reschedule the reception for another time. By the way, how much longer do you think my new husband will be fighting those Styxoid freaks?” I asked Udonna as Clare and I stepped up beside her, where she was standing stirring a pot of some unidentifiable brew. The words had no sooner left my mouth than Daggeron, my teammates, and Miara came strolling into the room.

They all had a few tiny bruises, but nothing major. Daggeron came immediately to me, giving me a tight hug that nearly cut off my breathing. “ What was that for?” I asked as he stepped back and put an arm around my waist.

“ What was that for? Blaze, you didn’t tell Udonna and Clare what you did?” Xander asked me, and I shook my head.

“ What did she do?” Udonna asked Daggeron.

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[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ Uh, I, um - well, I kinda sorta made up a new spell for Necrolai,” I sheepishly admitted.

“ You made up your own spell?” Udonna asked in astonishment, and I nodded.

“ Yeah,” I told her.

Chip decided to speak up then. “ She made up a spell that sent Necrolai back to the Underworld,” he said.

“ You did?” Udonna asked me, and I nodded my head. “ How long did you say for the spell to last?”

“ Uh, for a month, give or take a few days,” I mumbled. My teammates hadn’t known how long the vampire queen was going to be gone for, and my words caused Chip to stare in shock at me.

He wasn’t the only one who was shocked. Udonna was startled as well, as was Daggeron. “ My wife, you shouldn’t use so much magic at one time. You could get hurt in more ways than one,” he told me, and I rolled my eyes.

“ I know, but I was pi - I mean, I was ticked off at Necrolai,” I protested.

“ You should’ve heard some of the things she said,” Xander piped up, clamping his mouth shut when I shot him a warning look.

“ Um, are you two going on your honeymoon now? I mean, since your reception was - well - cancelled,” Clare wanted to know, and I actually blushed at the smile on Daggeron’s face.

“ Yes, we will be leaving as soon as we can pack our bags,” Daggeron said.

“ I’ll help Blaze,” Madison suddenly piped up.

“ Cool,” I said, blushing even more than before when Daggeron gave me a brief but taunting kiss before moving off to his room.

My room was in the opposite direction, so Madison followed me as I went there. I had no idea where Daggeron was taking me, or just how long we were going to be gone. And asking Udonna, Miara, and Aliador had proved a futile thing, for if they knew they weren’t telling.

“ Um, Blaze? Can I ask you something?” Madison suddenly queried, and I turned to face her.

“ Sure,” I said with a shrug of my shoulder.

“ Well, say there’s this girl, and she really likes this guy, but he doesn’t know it, and they’ve been great friends for a while. What should I - I mean, what should the girl do?” Madison asked me, and I broke out in smiles.

“ Madison, I know you like Nick. There’s no need to pretend,” I told her as I started back to packing my things into a duffel bag.

“ Well, what do you think I should do? I thought I’d ask you, since - you know - you’re only two years older than me and you just got married,” she mumbled.

“ I think you should let Nick know how you feel. I’ve been watching you two since I came back from the brink of death over a month ago, and he’s been showing an interest in you as well,” I informed her, tossing my first duffel bag onto the bed where it landed beside the duffel bag Madison had already filled up.

“ He has?” she whispered.

“ Yeah. Same as your sister and Chip hanging around with each other and watching out for each other all the time. I think those two could have something, too,” I said, causing her to laugh.

We kept right on talking for the next ten minutes, until Daggeron came walking into the room. He pulled me to his side, giving me another brief, taunting kiss. “ Are you ready to go?” he asked me, and I blushed briefly yet again and nodded.

Instead of me and him carrying our bags out to the Solar Streak train, which was waiting outside Rootcore, he had our teammates carry our bags for us. “ It’s a weight-lifting exercise,” was his excuse, and I gave him a light punch on the arm as the guys joined the others in Rootcore’s entrance.

“ Take care of my niece, Daggeron,” Aliador told my husband.

“ I will, Aliador,” Daggeron told him as the two briefly clasped hands.

“ Be safe, Diora,” Udonna told me as she gave me small hug.

“ I will,” I promised her.

“ Have fun!” Chip pipped up, and I blushed as red as a beet as my other teammates started laughing. Daggeron led me to a door in on the Train’s cars, then led me inside.

“ You can stay in here until we arrive at our destination,” he told me.

“ But where are we going?” I asked him for the millionth time in the past month.

“ You shall see,” was his response before he left the car. I looked out fo the train car’s window, waving to my family and teammates until the train drove away and I couldn’t see them any more.

When the Solar Streak Train left our dimension, I sat down on one of the seats, nervously twining my fingers together. Oh my God, tonight’s my wedding night. Oh boy, I just married the guy I loved, and on honeymoons newly married couples generally - oh boy, I thought to myself, blushing at the thought of just what most couples did on their honeymoons.

My thoughts were suddenly interrupted when the Train came to a halt. I nervously stood up when Daggeron opened the door to the car I was in. He held out his hand, and I took it as I stepped out of the train. Looking around, I saw that we were in a rather lovely country-like setting, with rolling hills around us, and forested areas nearly half a mile away.

“ Where are we?” I asked him.

“ Yrandagor,” he told me as our bodies turned into billions of colored lights, which quickly shot across the sky. After opening my eyes yet again, I saw that we were in front of a rather quaint little cottage very similar to my mother’s old cottage. I was admiring the cottage so much that I was startled when Daggeron suddenly swept me off my feet, carrying me inside the little cottage. He used his foot to shut the door behind him, and a bit of magic to lock it as he laid me down on the bed.

There was a strange look in his eyes as he came back from lighting a fire in the fireplace, and I gulped nervously as he removed his shirt, tossing it over the back of a nearby chair. He then got onto the bed with me, drawing me to him and giving me a long, tantalizingly delicious kiss.

“ You are beautiful, my Phantom,” he whispered. I laid there as he slowly slid my top off, blushing a bit when he removed the rest of my clothing, tossing it carelessly on the floor. I was now as naked as a newborn baby, and I gulped again when Daggeron suddenly stood and - using a quick mumbled spell - he was soon as naked as I was. He climbed back under the sheets with me, and - I won’t tell you the rest - but let’s just say we had a great wedding night.

* * * * *

I awoke the next morning to the feeling of something licking my face. My eyes fluttered upon, and I yelped as I leapt back in bed, my heart pounding. Before me stood a lion, and honest-to-God real-life lion!

Daggeron’s chuckle cause my head to turn towards the bedroom doorway. He was standing there, a basket of fruit and flowers in his hands. “ Leonis, I told you not to startle my young wife like that,” he mockingly scolded the lion, and I was even more shocked when the lion, too, chuckled a bit before rearing back onto its hind legs and - in the blink of an eye - turning into a fully-clothed man.

“ Sorry, Daggeron,” he told my husband before extending his hand to me. “ I am Leonis Calervra. A shape-shifter of the Lion clan,” the man told me. When I looked down, I saw that I was in my mystic uniform, so I tentatively took the man’s hand and allowed him to help me out of bed.

“ Udonna never told me about shape-shifting lions,” I mumbled, and Leonis laughed outright.

“ How is the sorceress? I haven’t seen her since my family and I moved here from that dimension years ago,” he said with a smile on his face.

“ She is fine at the moment, Mr. Calervra,” I told him.

“ It’s pronounced Ca-lerv-ra. And please, call me Leonis. I hate to chat and run, Phantom Knight, but I have a bit of hunting to attend to. My wife wants a pair of good-sized hares for breakfast, and I’ve learned never to disappoint a hungry pregnant lion-woman. Good day to you,” Leonis said, tipping an imaginary hat before changing back to his lion form and loping out of the cottage.

“ How did you sleep?” Daggeron asked me as I went and gave him a quick kiss.

“ Like a baby. What’s on the agenda for today?” I wanted to know, snaking my arms around my husband’s waist.

He smiled as he cut up some of the fruits from the basket he’d set on the table. “ I thought it would be nice to take you to see the place where the Ancient Titans are rumored to have had their last council meeting,” Daggeron told me.

“ Sounds exciting,” I murmured before finally sitting down and beginning to eat my breakfast.

* * * * *

“ How much further is this place? And why can’t we just teleport or use the trees, or your carpet?” I asked him as I trudged behind him up a tall grass-covered hill. I’d been walking and hiking since breakfast, and that was nearly two hours ago.

“ You should not rely totally on your magic, Diora. That is why I have been training you in martial arts, as I have the others,” Daggeron called back over his shoulder. Hmph, I thought to myself, that sounded more like a teacher than a husband.

Another ten minutes of hiking, and we finally reached the top of the hill. “ Wow,” I whispered as I looked at what lay before me. My eyes had taken in the gently-rolling ankle-length emerald-green grass, but it’d also taken in the ruins of a majestic-looking building in the center of the nearly flat-topped hill. I was silent as Daggeron led me forward and we entered the ruins.

“ Holy cow. This place is awesome,” I murmured in awe as I craned my neck back to gaze at the pock-marked twelve foot ceilings.

“ This place is rumored to have been the last place the Ancient Titans met before their final battle as living, individual beings and not spirits. It was said that here the Gatekeeper powers were originally thought up. It is also said that it was here that the Phantom Ring and its power was forged, by the Phantom Titan, a friend of the Ancient Titans.”

“ The Phantom Titan never had a chance to use the Phantom Ring. The Battle consumed the Ancient Titans’ real bodies, but allowed their spirits to be preserved as a set of powers, which was handed down eventually to the Mystic Warriors,” Daggeron told me as we took seats on a stone bench nearby.

“ Dang, sounds like they were some cool people - creatures - whatever,” I murmured as I continued to look around.

“ That is not the only story, Diora,” Daggeron said, a strange note of - I don’t know - sadness in his voice.

“ What other stories about this place and the Ancient Titans are there?” I curiously asked.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

well, as with my SPD fic, this one is nearing its end. this is the next to last installment. hope you all out there have enjoyed reading my fics. after this fic is over i will start posting on my other MF fic, "PRMF: A Mystic Mystery".
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“ When the Gatekeeper powers were created by the five Ancient Titans, the Phantom Titan had her own Titan form. She was out practicing her magic when the Gatekeeper powers were being created. As the finishing touch was added to the powers, the Phantom Titan lost her Titan form. She was forced into a human form, though she could still work most of her magic.”

“ Since she was essentially now a human with powers, the Ancient Titans allowed the Phantom Titan to keep the Gatekeeper powers in her own care. They were to be handed down to the Phantom Titan’s human descendants, if the need ever arose. Since the Phantom Titan was now human, she also used her powers to create the Phantom Ring, which she kept hidden, until the Solar Titan found out.”

“ By the time he did, though, the Ancient Titans’ last battle had begun, so he helped keep the Phantom Titan safe. Ever since then, only a select few of the Phantom Titan’s human descendants were able to access their ancestress’ magical heritage. The Solar Titan was distraught when the Phantom Titan finally decided to leave him and venture to the Magical Forest to live on her own, so he decided to obtain a human form. He kept the form for the rest of his life, until he died,” Daggeron told me. I just stared at him.

“ Dang. I feel sorry for the Phantom Titan. I mean, I’m sure she missed having her form and all. I know I would - what?” I asked when I caught the way Daggeron was staring at me.

“ The Phantom Ring was created after the Phantom Titan lost her Titan form. She created it in the hopes that one day she could use it to become her old self again. she never got to,” he slowly said.

“ And your point is?” I wanted to know.

“ The Ring would not only work for her, but for any of her descendants that was able to use the Ring. Anyone capable of using the Ring to become the Phantom Knight would be capable of becoming the Phantom Titan as well, if things were that dire,” he said.

It took a few seconds for his words to sink in. “ Say what now? You’re telling me that there’s a whole new form I can take? Why haven’t you said anything before now?” I asked him.

“ Because. Not only will the Ring allow you to become the Phantom Titan in human or giant form, but it will allow you access to the powers that were blocked to the original Phantom Titan when she was forced into her human form,” Daggeron practically whispered.

I was on my feet in a split second, disbelief radiating throughout my body.

“ You’ve gotta be joking,” I mumbled.

“ I’m not. Those rumors may be just rumors, but they’re the most powerful ones I know of concerning your powers’ original owner,” he told me.

“ So you’re saying I’m the descendant of some high and mighty Titan, and that I can become that Titan by using the Phantom Ring?” I hissed, though I wanted to shout in shock and anger that I hadn’t been told this right at the beginning of becoming a Ranger.

“ Yes, I am telling you that,” was Daggeron’s reply, and that just set my anger pot to boiling over - meaning, I was royally, thoroughly, downright pissed off.

“ You - you - God, I can’t think of anything to call you. I can’t BELIEVE you! You should’ve told me this earlier. I could’ve permanently taken care of Koragg, Necrolai, and probably Imperious too!” I screamed at my husband.

“ I thought it was best for you not to tell you,” he whispered.

“ And why the hell not?” I furiously asked.

“ Because, the Phantom Titan may have been a powerful being, but if she had used the Phantom Ring to regain her Titan form, she would have died or become corrupt. The power was that great,” he murmured.

My anger evaporated like snow under the Arizona sun. “ I - I - I gotta be alone right now. I’m sorry,” I mumbled, turning and fleeing from the ruins. I kept running until I reached the bottom of the hill, then I fell to my knees, exhausted; the hill was about a hundred feet high, and the slope ranged in places from a gradual incline to a steep one.

I was so busy thinking my own little thoughts that I was startled when a young woman stepped up to me, a basket of flowers held on arm and a bag of some strange-smelling herbs or something strapped to her waist. “ I hear tell that the Phantom Knight from the Magical Forest dimension is here in Yrandagor. Have you seen her?” she asked me.

“ I’m her. What do you want?” I mumbled as I got slowly back to my feet.

“ We of this dimension have been waiting a long time to meet a descendant of the Phantom Titan. Our legends tell great things of what your powers can do,” she told me as gave me calm head-to-toe appraisal.

“ Those legends are probably false. I need to - to get away from here. What’s the quickest way back to the Magical Forest?” I asked the woman.

“ Oh, the fastest way is the way you came. With yonder Solaris Knight,” she added, nodding towards the hill. Glancing back, I saw Daggeron coming at a rather fast pace down the hill, worry and fear on his face.

“ I so don’t have time for this. I’ll create my own way outta here,” I told her, hurrying up to the nearest tree.

“ Diora, don’t try tree traveling there!” Daggeron shouted as he morphed and ran towards me.

“ Try and stop me!” I screamed back, touching the tree and allowing it to suck me in. Once I was inside the tree, I concentrated entirely on Rock Porium, centering the core of my attention on the back of the big tree in front of Rock Porium. I felt a strange sensation after about two minutes, and I realized I’d actually passed into the Magical Dimension. Another sensation later, and I knew I was back in the surface world.

I was just popping out of the tree - somehow I was now fully morphed - when Daggeron suddenly appeared on his carpet, having already arrived here before me via the Solar Streak Train. Before I could protest, he yanked me up onto the carpet, gripping my arm tightly as the carpet continued flying. “ You could’ve been killed!” he scolded me, and I angrily yanked my arm out of his grip.

“ Yeah, well, that’s almost happened several times already, and so far, it ain’t actually happened. And you have no right to treat me like you’re doing now,” I spat at him when he grabbed for my arm again.

“ Time in Yrandagor is four times as long as the surface world or Magical Forest dimension. The others are in trouble. They’ve regained their powers and gained the power of the Legend Warriors, but they need our help,” Daggeron told me.

Anger burst within me, and I angrily punched Daggeron in the stomach, causing him to plummet from the carpet to the ground as the carpet came to a halt; lucky him, we came to a halt at the battle, and he landed on three Hidiacs, destroying them immediately. Every head turned up to look at me.

“ Phantom Knight, I owe you a battle,” Koragg told me, and I glared at him.

“ Kiss my ass, Koragg,” I growled.

“ Diora, we need help!” Nick called out, as the battle between him and the others and the Hidaics, Necrolai, and the monster had resumed.

“ Bite me, Red Ranger,” I snapped.

“ What?!” he called out, surprised, which caused a group of ten Hidiacs to be able to land a series of blows to his armored suit, sending him to the ground.

“ My ancestress, the Phantom Titan, unwillingly gave up her powers due to the creation of the Gatekeeper powers. And it was the Ancient Titans’ fault! I’m here to avenge her memory!” I called out as I leapt from Daggeron’s carpet to the roof of a parking garage.

“ Diora - they didn’t mean to do what they did!” Daggeron shouted as he climbed back to his feet.

“ I don’t care! I want revenge, and revenge I shall have! Phantom Blaze!” I called out, thrusting my shield forward. The wolf’s head slid up, and energy blasts shot forward. This time, instead of striking the Hidiacs, the monster, Necrolaim or Koragg, the blasts hit Daggeron and the Rangers.

“ Diora, what are - you doing?” Madison asked as she got to her feet.

“ Defeating the holders of the Ancient Titan powers,” was my reply as I called for the Gatekeeper Staff. It didn’t appear, and that pissed me off even more, especially when Daggeron took a stumbling half step backwards.

“ She can’t - summon her mother’s Staff. The Ring turned her evil,” he rasped, holding his stomach due to having been struck by several of my energy blasts.

“ What?!” Nick exclaimed.

“ Oh no,” Xander whispered.

“ She can’t be!” Madison exclaimed, and I laughed at her.

“ I will destroy her myself!” Necrolai screeched as she spread her wings and prepared to fly up to me.

“ Back off, hag, or you will suffer the same fate as the Rangers,” I growled down at her. My choice of words intrigued her, and she retracted her wings.

However, my choice of words had the exact opposite effect on the Rangers themselves. Judging by their actions in now fighting the Hidiacs and the monster - and as Necrolai joined back in - they were scared.

“ Come down and join me in battle against our enemies, Phantom Knight,” Koragg told me, and I grinned under my helmet.

“ Glad to,” I told him, easily leaping down from the garage and landing at his side.

“ Fight with honor,” Koragg reminded me as he squared off against Nick and Daggeron.

I was still grinning as Madison and Vida finally made their way over to face me, having finally destroyed the last of the Hidiacs. Necrolai was sitting by filing her nails - stupid hag, I thought angrily - and Chip and Xander were facing off against the monster, which, I realized, was the same one that I had sent back to the Underworld, the act that had nearly cost me my life.

“ Diora, let’s talk about this,” Madison pleaded, and I shook my head. “ You can’t be evil! Remember how many fights we’ve been in together?” she asked. I did remember, and that made me angrier.

“ Yes, I do remember,” I murmured, lashing forward and kicking her to the ground. “ But now I have a new goal. Revenge. People think my ancestress was all happy and giddy during her life as a human? No! She hated not being able to access her Titan form, and she died a secretly bitter old woman, a bitterness which spread to later generations and to the Phantom Ring and its powers as well,” I snapped at her, ducking a blow from Vida that was mainly thrown to allow Madison time to get back to her feet.

“ Diora, come back to the Magical Forest. I can help you,” Udonna’s voice said over my suit’s Comm-Link.

“ You only want to make me into a puppet, happy with fighting the forces of evil. ’Case you forgot, Auntie, I’m good and evil,” I growled in response, cutting the connection as Vida and Madison took on fighting stances once more.

“ We’ve got to fight her, sis,” Vida told her sister, a note of sadness in her voice.

“ I know,” Madison sadly replied as she and Vida attacked as one. As Xander had said, I could beat them one on one, but beating two of them was impossible, especially since I no longer had my mother’s Gatekeeper Staff, and they had gained Legend Mode. I was about to try and make a run for it, in hopes of separating the sisters, but Necrolai came to my rescue.

“ I hate them as much as you,” she told me as she began to take on Madison, leaving Vida to face me.

“ We should never have trusted you,” she growled at me as she held her Lion Staff in a firm grip.

I chuckled at her. “ Probably not, Pinkie. If my mother had never given me the Phantom Ring, and Daggeron hadn’t taken me to the Ancient Titans’ last meeting place in Yrandagor, I probably never would’ve been here to face you. Thank God for them, eh?” I quipped, smacking my shield against her chest and causing her to stumble backward.

“ Fire Attack!” I heard Nick call out, and I didn’t have time to dodge as his attack hit me full-on, sending me flying back against the parking garage in front of me. I turned around just in time to have Vida’s Whirlwind strike me, sending me whirling through the air. When the Whirlwind disappeared, I plummeted to the ground from a height of fifty feet, my body creating a two foot crater in the ground.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

My body was aching, my suit armor was sparking, and my temper was raging.

“ Unbatha!” I called out, throwing my hand out towards Vida. “ Ledayon!” I shouted, throwing my other hand out towards Nick; my shield had fallen out of my grasp when I’d plummeted back to the ground. A tornado hit Vida, and a ball of fire hit Nick, sending them flying back into their teammates.

“ I think it’s time to take this battle to the next level,” Necrolai said, just as a purple circle like the ones I’d first used appeared under the monster. Instead of getting sucked into the ground, this circle caused the monster to grow to a giant height.

The Rangers retaliated by becoming a Megazord I’d not as yet seen, Daggeron summoned the Solar Streak Megazord, so Koragg and I made ourselves grow. We turned our helmeted heads towards one another, nodding before turning our gazes for the forest.

“ Unday Vegor Catastros!” he called out.

“ Unday Vegor Unitastros!” I shouted, and we thrust our right hands forward. Two circles - his purple, mine black - appeared in the air above the trees, and our equine zords came thundering up out of the circles.

“ Osay Mijor Ultimas !” Koragg and I called out as we leapt into the air. Our zords reshaped themselves, and we fused together with our zords.

“ Centaurus Megazords!” we called out together as our Megazords struck fighting poses.

“ Let’s end this,” Daggeron sadly said as his Megazord squared off with the Centaurus Wolf Megazord, leaving me and the monster to fight the Manticore Megazord.

The monster went bye-bye rather quickly, and I nervously gulped as the Megazord turned its full attention on me. “ I, like Koragg, have honor. I will make your power loss quick,” I promised them as I charged my weapon to full power and slashed at the Megazord. It was knocked back several feet, but I was stunned when the smoke cleared and they were still standing.

“ Flaming Fury!” all five Rangers called out from their cockpit. The Megazord spun its staff through the air, creating a circle of flaming energy. With a backwards swing, the circle of energy was sent flying into me.

I screamed out in anger and pain as the energy seared my Megazord, separating me from Unitastros and powering me down to my normal human form; luckily I ended up on the parking garage again. Unluckily, I was hurting badly, and there were burn marks on my body.

Unitastros was hurt, but she was still in her zord form. She got back to her feet, doing her best to try and injure the Manticore Megazord.

“ Unitastros is still under her control!” Madison cried out in shock.

“ Then we have to destroy her,” I heard Nick say as the Manticore Megazord kicked Unitastros backwards, where she landed on her side, unable to get back up or leave to heal herself.

“ Manticore Megazord, Final Strike!” the Rangers called out as the tip of their Staff ignited with the fiery energy coming from the wings on the Megazord’s back. I was stunned when they started to aim the flaming staff at my zord.

“ NOOOO! Unitastros Lendaya!” I screamed, throwing my arms towards my zord. A sparkling of white lights surrounded her, but not before the blast of energy struck her, causing her to scream out in agony before my magic teleported her away. The Megazord then turned to face me, and I glared at it.

“ Is there a spell to take away her magic and make her good again?” I heard Chip ask his friends.

“ Guys, I need your help!” Daggeron called out from the Solar Streak Megazord, which was getting thoroughly beaten by the Centaurus Wolf Megazord.

I spat a wad of blood and saliva on the roof, then tried to morph - and couldn’t.

“ Guys, she can’t morph. We’ll help Daggeron and deal with her later,” Nick told his teammates, and the Megazord moved away from me.

“ I swear on my ancestress that you Rangers will pay,” I hissed through my teeth before teleporting away to Unitastros’ location.


* * * * *

I angrily kicked at a clump of grass that sat near my feet. It had been a week since my last battle with the Rangers. I had tried morphing to go up against them again, but I still hadn’t been able to. Unitastros was badly injured, and was still stuck in her horse form, barely keeping alive, even with my magic helping her.

“ Those low-down Rangers,” I spat angrily as I sat down on a fallen tree. “ They were after me. They could’ve left my zord alone.” Unitastros whinnied right then, and I ran to where I’d created a small hut for her to recover in.

Blood was again oozing from the large gashes on her left flank, and as I knelt to begin removing the bloody bandages, she reached down and touched my hand with her nostrils. A bright white light surrounded her body, and when the blinding light disappeared, I couldn’t believe what lay before me - a fully-clothed woman! Her clothes were almost identical to Udonna’s, though this woman’s clothes had gold etchings around the hems and arms, plus golden bands around the shoulders.

The gashes were still on her stomach, though, and they were still oozing blood. “ Oh - my - God. Who are you? And what happened to Unitastros?” I asked her as I began to change her dressing anyway.

“ I am - the original - Phantom Titan. I - was cursed - by the Master - so that when I died - I would become a unicorn. I have not long - left this time - and I must warn you. Do not fight against - the Rangers, and - do not use the Phantom Titan form. I - was wrong - to blame the Ancient Titans, when it was - the Master’s fault."

" Be strong, my - daughter,” the woman rasped as blood began bubbling from her lips. I tried to heal her once more with my magic, but it was useless. As the blood quit bubbling from her mouth, the blood oozing from the wound ceased flowing, and her eyes closed as death overcame her.

Her words rang through my mind even as her body became a ball of white light and left the hut. Slowly, I got to my feet. The sound of laughing echoed briefly throughout my head, followed quickly by words I’d not heard before, but whose voice I’d recognized.

My foolish daughter does not realize that the moment she left the Magical Dimension on her honeymoon I began to control her. With her power on our side, we will defeat the Rangers! my father was saying to someone.

I balled my hands into fists. “ You fucking BASTARD!!!!!!” I bellowed, causing the hut to explode around me and birds in every direction to suddenly take flight in fright. I morphed then touched the closest tree and allowed myself to be sucked in. I was headed for Rootcore, but the sounds of battle reached my ears via my morpher, so I changed direction and popped out of a tree less than a hundred yards from the battle. The Rangers - in Legend Warrior mode - and Daggeron were battling Koragg and fifty Styxoids - and were losing.

“ We haven’t seen Diora in a week. Maybe she decided to give up on her vengeance thing,” Chip spoke as he used his Lion Staff to clear a path to Vida.

“ I doubt it. She’s probably recuperating from the battle,” Vida replied as she blasted a group of Styxoids away from her.

“ You are right about that, Vida,” I said as I allowed my body to become visible.

“ I vote we go big or go home,” Chip suggested, and the Rangers did just that, becoming the Manticore Megazord. I just stood there, ignoring them as I watched Daggeron get slashed down by Koragg. Daggeron demorphed from the assault, and Jenji’s lamp went flying, landing at my feet. I smiled as I leaned down and picked the lamp up, rubbing my glove over it.

Jenji popped out of the lamp in a stream of grayish smoke. “ I wish to finally have access to my ancestress Phantom Titan form,” I calmly told the genie.

“ I know I’m going to regret this,” he said as he touched my shoulder. A smoky haze entered my armor, and Jenji took his lamp and ran back to Daggeron’s side; Koragg had combined with Catastros to form the Centaurus Wolf Megazord by this point.

“ Phantom Power, Titan Form!” I called out, and the smoky haze surrounded me. My body began growing, and the haze kept up, moving in and out of my suit and my body. The smoke suddenly changed to light, which quickly exploded around me - the entire process only took about five seconds. When I could see myself again, I laughed.

“ Oh no!” Xander cried from the cockpit of the Manticore Megazord.

“ Oh yes, Xander. You killed Unitastros, and I intend to even the score. Phantom Staff!” I called out, summoning a staff nearly identical to the one the Manticore Megazord had.

“ Excellent,” Koragg said as he pointed his weapon at the Rangers’ Megazord. I was still grinning when I pointed the staff at Koragg’s Megazord, unleashing a wave of black and aqua-blue energy that struck the Megazord full-on, sending it tumbling head over heels for several hundred feet before it came to a stop on its face.

“ Uh, why’d she just do that?” Chip asked his teammates.

I screamed as an intense pain ripped through me, causing spots of light the size of Ford pickups to appear on my body. I screamed again as I was forced back down to normal unmorphed human size, the holes now becoming dozens of tiny pinpricks of light. Koragg teleported away to heal, and the Rangers powered down to their normal sizes. Daggeron leaned over me, tears in his eyes.

“ The power - is killing me - just like Unitastros said it would,” I rasped as my teammates ran over and stood around us. I took a deep breath before continuing.

“ Imperious - was controlling me, making me fight you, and - I was too stupid to know it. Unitastros was really - the original Phantom Titan. When she died as an old human woman, the Master - had her cursed - so that she’d become a unicorn. She warned me not to use - her Titan form, but I - did it anyway.”

“ I’m sorry for what I did. Tell - tell Udonna, Miara, Aliador, and - Claire that - that I love them,” I whispered as the pinpricks of light grew bigger.

“ This so can’t be happening,” Chip murmured, tears misting his own eyes.

“ It - is. Be strong, my - friends. And I love you, Daggeron,” I gasped, struggling not to scream despite the pain.

“ I love you as well, Diora,” Daggeron whispered back, placing a kiss on my forehead as his tears splashed onto my face.

“ Jenji?” I asked, and the cat genie stepped forward. “ One last - wish. I wish that - after I die, Daggeron - would find - new love. Our wedding day was - the best day of my life, but he needs - and deserves - to be happy,” I rasped as the pinpricks of light grew to fists-sized holes of light.

“ Wish granted,” he sadly said.

“ Take care - my friends. Be brave, and never give in to - the forces - of darkness. I will - forever - be guarding you - even after, the last battle - is over. Goodbye,” I whispered as my body was swallowed up by light. My light-body floated there for a few seconds before I felt my body being drawn towards a bright light. I could see my mother, Niella, waiting there, as was the Phantom Titan in her human-sized Titan form. I smiled at them as I entered the light they were inside.

* * * * *

The Rangers were crying as they laid flowers on their friend’s memorial. Udonna, Claire, Miara, and Aliador were crying as well as they stood nearby. The Rangers had gotten back to Rootcore the day before to tell their friends of what had happened to Diora. Udonna had taken it the hardest of the four, fainting and not awakening for nearly three hours. Even Phineas and several magical creatures had joined in the memorial ceremony.

“ You were a good friend,” Madison whispered, wiping futilely at her tears.

“ You were a great fighter,” Vida whispered, clinging tightly to her sister .

“ You were great at whooping our butts in one-to-one combat,” Xander whispered.

“ You gave your life for us,” Nick mumbled sadly.

“ I’ll always miss how you called Koragg and Imperious and Necrolai those names,” Chip spoke up.

“ You were a great daughter,” Miara whispered.

“ I was and will always be so proud of you,” Aliador mumbled through his tears.

“ I’ll always miss my big sister,” Claire sobbed.

“ You were a great woman,” Daggeron murmured

“ You were my sister’s firstborn. Now the two of you are together again. I will miss you greatly, Diora,” Udonna whispered, collapsing to her knees from the sadness. The magical creatures stepped back as Fireheart came onto the scene. His wings were drooping, as was his tail. He opened his mouth and shot out a fiery blast, hitting the giant stone beside which the flowers sat.

He moved his mouth a bit, with the flame still shooting out, and when he closed his mouth, smoking letters could be read on the stone: In memory of Diora. Magician, Daughter, Niece, Ranger, Lover, and Friend. You will forever be missed. After Fireheart had done that, the magical creatures said goodbye to the Rangers before they departed to their own homes, leaving the others to enter Rootcore.

They didn’t notice the figure that was watching all of this from over a mile away, because he was using his powers to see the events. “ She was a valiant warrior, and she fought and died with honor. If only I had her powers,” the warrior said before he got to his feet and disappeared through a purple mystic circle.



THE END

[Angelfox]

HMMM, magic doesnt easily disapear....wonder who that guy is....hope to see this storyline continue, it was a real pleasure to read Kali, well done