Summary: Hunter and Blake were just your average teens when you first look at them, but secretly they are foxes; foxes with abilities. Because of the element Hunter holds, which is lightning, he has attracted bad attention from an evil, dark force. This has been happening for a year now. Blake, even though the youngest, has to keep a protective eye on Hunter at all times, though, sadly he can't always but the good thing is he doesn't have to.

Couples: Shane/Hunter, Surprise character/Blake

Main Couple: Shane/Hunter

Genres: Romance, Fantasy, AU (alternate universe)

Important Note: Hunter and Blake are real brothers, not adopted brothers. Power Rangers don't exist in this universe, that's part of the AU, so don't tie any of that to this 'cause that's not what this story is about. And yes, the bad guys in this are the bad guys in Zelda: Twilight Princess. They make good and intimidating antagonists, so I just had to use them. To see what Hunter, Blake, and Shane look like in their animal forms, go to my profile and click on the glowing blue link located between 'Note' and 'About Me'. That will take you to my covers of my stories. Scroll through till you find the cover of this story and the pictures of Blake, Shane, and Hunter as animals will be on there. Hunter is 18, Blake is 17, Shane is 18, Tori is 18, Dustin is 18, Cam is 19.

Animals Elemental

A Power Rangers Ninja Storm fanfic

Chapter 1: Blue Bay Abnormalities

A crimson red fox dashed through the woods, black legs and ears with white on the end of its fluffy tail, a beautiful contrast to the dark red that covered the rest of its body. It may look like just the average wild animal but this animal held no feral or primal quality to its eyes. No, they held intelligence, human intelligence. Something was chasing it, three of them. They were black in color and looked like something that crawled out of pure shadows. They had a shield-like head with tentacles for hair and some coming from it's mouth behind the shield-like head. They had human like arms, hands, legs, and feet other than the black line patterns on its skin, but those were the only familiar features it had of human kind. They also had a big, bright red symbol on the front and back of their torsos, which glowed sometimes. They were known as shadow beasts.

They were following the crimson fox ruthlessly and with determination with the hopes of capture, but the fox was smart and fast. It stayed just out of grip from the dark creatures. When the fox came up on some buildings and spotted an ally, it went for it and quickly jumped right in. five seconds later, a short haired blonde boy, who looked to be in his late teens stepped out feigning nonchalance as he saw the creatures run passed him as if he wasn't the one they were just chasing seconds ago. The boy smirked in amusement as he watched them go and disappear into the trees. The boy huffed out a short laugh.

"Idiots." He muttered as he walked in the direction that lead into town.

He was to meet his brother at a local gift shop; that is until those damn monsters showed up and began to hunt him while on the way there. He left their apartment and went to the pond in one of their town's parks that morning to meditate and relax when he got a call from his brother, Blake, asking him if he would like to meet up at the gift shop he was about to head off to. He agreed and set off to meet him. He figured, since he's quite a few miles away from town, to shift in to his fox form so his brother isn't waiting too long for him. He stuck to the rout with all the tree cover and underbrush so as to not draw attention to himself, but apparently, that strategy didn't work against everything like he'd hoped. Those monsters spotted him after running two miles and chased him for the rest of the two miles he had till he reached town. It was no biggie, really, he's gotten used to it after a year. He walked inside the gift shop once he got there and started looking around for his brother. He found him looking at some figurines with a thoughtful, undecided look on his face.

"Hey." Hunter greeted.

Blake looked up and over at his brother and smiled. "Hey, bro,"

Blake's smile faded slightly when he noticed Hunter was a little flushed like he had been running, and it takes a lot of running for him to get flushed.

"You look a bit flushed. Have you been running?" Then a thought immediately popped in his head, which caused him to look annoyed. "Don't tell me it was those monsters again."

Hunter shrugged like it was nothing. "Yeah, but it's cool, I can take'em. Some of them are pretty stupid, and it just so happens that those very ones were the ones to chase me."

Blake sighed. He was tired of this happening. Really tired of it, but in order for it to stop happening he would literally have to follow Hunter where ever he goes 24/7and that was just impossible. These monsters have been a part of their lives for a whole year now….well, really Hunter's life, since he's the one they're after. The reason being? Well, because Hunter is a fox that just happens to have the rare gift to control lightning. It was quite unusual for their kind. He and Hunter are elemental foxes, which was inherited from their parents. Elemental foxes usually are born with the gift to control one of the following elements: water, ice, fire, or earth, never lightning. Blake has power over water. The ones after him are a race called 'The Twili' from a place called the 'Shadow Realm', which exists next to this world, which is known to the twili as the 'Light World'. A male twili named Zant is the one responsible for sending the monsters after his brother. They've never seen Zant; they've only heard his voice, but Blake would give anything to hunt Zant down and tear his throat out for threatening his brother's life, the only family he has left since their parents died. But without knowing what he looks like or even how to draw him out to him, he can't do anything to him. And it pains him knowing that.

"I really wish they'd give it up. You've gone through enough drama." Blake said tiredly.

Hunter breathed out a sigh, he was tired of all this, too. "I tell myself that a lot. And I totally agree with ya, bro. I wish I could stop this, stop him…but I don't have the strength to, not on my own or even us together."

Blake gazed up at him in empathy. "We'll figure something out. We have to. This can't go on any longer." He said gently while rubbing Hunter's arm comfortingly.

Hunter offered a small smile in reply. "Yeah."

Blake smiled back then went back to the task at hand. "Alright, so….any present ideas?"

Blake was talking about their boss's birthday. Her birthday was next week. And since their boss was so amazing and was like a mother to them, they just have to get her something. Hunter was going to buy his this weekend but since he's here he might as well get it now.

"Uh…well, her favorite scent is mint; how about looking for something that smells of it." He suggested.

A huge grin appeared on Blake's face. "Brilliant! Thanks, dude."

Then Blake was off to search for something that was mint scented. Hunter smiled and thought of what else their boss, Kelly, might like. Then Hunter thought of it: amethyst. It was her favorite color. Finding something that was that color would surely be liked by their boss. He eventually found a necklace that was made up of amethyst crystals and deemed it perfect, so he bought it along with Blake, who bought mint scented soap.

"She'll definitely like our presents." Blake stated when they left the store.

Hunter smiled. "I have no doubt she will." After that they went back home and went to work on wrapping up their gifts to get them ready for next week.

In another part of Blue Bay Harbor lived Shane Clark, an eighteen year old elemental wolf. He and his long-time friends; Tori, Dustin, and Cam are all sitting under a tree at a picnic table eating snow cones not too far from the snow cone booth where some other people were ordering. Shane found out what he was at age twelve when he caught himself growling at a bully that was picking on a kid when he was in middle school, and then later smelling what they were gonna have for lunch through the closed door of his classroom, which was on the second floor and the cafeteria being downstairs on the other side of the school. He inherited it from his father, who is an elemental wolf as well. His three childhood friends, who he's known since kindergarten, already know his secret. In fact, he told them right after the day it happened, his young kid brain not being able to withhold such information from his best friends.

His friends were surprisingly supportive and thought him being a wolf was super cool; him being able to control many different elements making it even cooler. Elemental wolves have control over many different elements, unlike elemental foxes, which can only control one. Shane has the power of fire, water, earth, air, ice, lightning, and psychic energy. Dustin seemed the most excited, him being a big fan of superhero comics and all. Shane was the most surprised that Cam believed him, since he's so scientific. Shane was sure that he wouldn't believe something that couldn't fully be explained by science but Cam surprised him by saying that 'not everything in existence can be fully explained, such as things like love, so who's to say that things that can't be explained don't exist when something already exists and does not have an explanation.' Shane was grateful to have them by his side through everything, and thanked them often for it.

"So Shane, any wolf adventures lately?" Tori asked before she took another scoop of her berry blast flavored snow cone to put in her mouth.

Shane swallowed his strawberry and banana flavored ice before answering.

"No, lately things have been pretty uneventful on that side."

Dustin looked disappointed. "Aw, that sucks, dude. It would be so cool to hear those amazing stories people like you have to experience…like saving those who are in life threatening danger and stopping evil from taking over, and finding love through all of it then-"

Cam interrupted the Dustin babble with a fond and amused smile.

"Dustin, Dustin…you're delving too much into your fantasies, you're just rambling now."

Dustin gave a sheepish smile and started running his hand over his hair in embarrassment.

"Oh, heh, sorry."

"It's cool, Dust," Shane said with a comforting smile. Then he got to thinking about what Dustin was saying and sighed in thought.

"It would be pretty cool to make a difference on a bigger scale. The most I've done in heroics in terms of humans is stopping robbers and scaring away bullies hurting the helpless."

"Which are just as good, just with less pressure on the hero." Tori chimed in.

"She's right," Cam stated. "No matter how big or small the favor is, it's still a weight off someone's shoulders and makes their days happier."

"Yeah, dude, you don't have to accomplish big things to be great. You'll always be pretty awesome to us." Dustin added with a warm smile.

Shane's heart was filled with warmth from the affection he was getting from his friends and gave a big grin.

"Thanks, guys, really. I love you guys."

Tori smiled and hugged him. "And we love you."

End chap. 1

So what do you think of this idea? I like to get creative with plots, so sorry if you feel it's too different for you. This chapter was a bit uneventful but hey, this was only an introduction chapter. Next chapter will have the two groups meet, and interesting things will happen. Maybe even a little danger. *Insert evil laugh here*