Chapter 1

A young woman who had loved traveling was finally getting tired of it. She decided to pay an old friend ,who opened a pizza shop no less, so her she was in Ocean Bluff. She stood tall for a half Japanese girl, at 5'6 1/2" was a little tall. She had long black hair with deep teal(more on the green side) streaks. She wore dark jean shorts, an off the shoulder deep teal(matches her hair) tee, and some cool deep brown bellted knee high boots.

She walked into Jungle Karma Pizza and it was near chaos. It looked like only a curly brunette was working try to make pizzas and run the dinning area. She was failing.

She shook her head. She walked behind the counter grabbed an apron and put it on. Grabbing a pencil and order pad, threw some menus in her apron pocket. She took over the dinning area and pushed the brunette in the kitchen.

Over an hour later when things cooled down and the crowd thinned to 3 tables. 5 people walked through the front door. The new girl was walking to the kitchen to give the brunette a new order. The five looked at her wondering who she was. She turned and headed for drinks for the table.

"Excuse me, who are you?" The. guys with longer hair asked. The girl whipped around surprise on her face, teal eyes burning.

"RJ! Dom!" She ran to them and glomped them. The girl in yellow and the guys in red and blue moved out of the way.

"Rei, is that really you?" RJ asked still a little shocked.

"It's awesome seeing you Rei." Dom said happily.

They never hit the floor so she finally released them but held their hands a bit longer.

"What are you doing here?" Dom asked.

"Oh the place was swamped. You're girl needed help so I helped." She smiled brightly.

"What are you doing in town?" RJ asked.

"Oh,I'm getting tired of traveling. Thought I'd come visit for awhile." She smiled again.

"Well it's great to have you. Everyone, Fran you too." RJ called everyone the the counter. "This is Hirei, she is one of the youngest masters, of Pai Zhuq. She became a master at 15." RJ introduced her.

"We met her when we were still training there." Dom added.

"That's great, thank you for your help." Fran smiled sweetly going back to the kitchen.

"Oh no, table 7's drinks. Hold on." Hirei grabbed the drinks slipped to the table very quickly and back again.

"So what are you master of?" Theo asked.

"My mother's fox style." Hirei smiled sadly.

"Your mother past away not long after you became a master?" RJ asked, he had heard but wanted to clarify. Hirei just nodded.

"Sorry we weren't there for you then. We didn't hear till a year later. We missed having you around. Your pranks were the best." Dom said in sympathy and then tried cheering her up. He squished her between him and RJ.

"It is great to have the old gang back together."RJ said hugging her like Dom was. "Come on you can even stay here." RJ added.

Later it was decided after Lily offered Hirei and Lily would share a room. Like Casey and Theo did. Hirei brought her two bags in one filled with clothes the other with personal precious things. Like a picture of her mom and a separate one of her dad. Sadly none together. She put those on her nightstand, she had a few Japanese heirlooms. Like an old picture of the Shinto temple she grew up at. Her mother's childhood home and family home. Her mother was adopted from overseas. Brown curls and sapphire eyes pale skin.

She reminisced about her home. She sort of hid her father's picture being he was in his true form.

The next day Dom and RJ invited her out so they could catch up. They went for lunch and strolled the park. She played a few tricks on them too. Just like old times.

She did some illusions and did certain things. Like one she turned RJ's hair purple and teal. Another she turned Dom's face fluorescent orange. She adored picking on these 2. RJ differently then Dom and some times more.

Dom could see something between Rei and RJ but he wasn't sure what.

He couldn't dwell on it though because some Rinshi attacked. The three jumped into action fighting off the Rinshi. When the the Rinshi disintegrated. Camille appeared with a new monster. It resembled a puffer fish and called itself Puff Strike. It wasn't super smart but it was strong.

"Rhino Morpher Initiate! Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!" Dom called as he morphed and started fighting the monster.

"Here. There maybe new illusions for you." RJ said handing Hirei a pendant. Then turned to morph to. "Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!" He morphed and ran into the fray.

Hirei looked at the pendant it was burning Pai Zhuq claws in teal flames. "Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!" Hirei called and she morphed into a teal fox helmet ranger. She ran into the fray and fought side by side with her two best friends.

"Fox Fire!"Hirei threw teal fire at the monster. The monster was thrown back and Camille jumped in and attacked Hirei. The monster occupied RJ and Dom then.

"RJ! Dom!" Casey and Lily called as they arrived with Theo. They morphed and joined the fight. Lily tried helping Hirei but more Rinshi showed up. She was dragged into fighting the Rinshi with Casey and Theo.

"What's wrong new ranger can't fight without your friends?" Camille taunted.

"What do you think? Fox claws!" Hirei asked and issued a new attack. Teal flame covered claws pierced her gloves and she swiped them at Camille taking chunks off her animal face.

Camille screamed and lashed her tung out hitting Hirei so hard she flew into the bushes.

The others had called their zords and took out the monster puffer. They all ran to where she disappeared. RJ found her first. They had all powered down.

Her hair was everywhere and was now white with teal streaks. She even appeared to have a white fluffy tail.

"Hold on everyone! Give her a minute. Something unusual happened." RJ said cryptically.

Everyone waited on the other side of the bush.

"Rei are you alright?" RJ asked lifting her to sit up slightly.

"Yeah, I just never been a fight that intense!" Hirei said excited. She took her arm and pushed her hair out of her face and down her back. She then realized her hair was white and looked at her wrist. "No! It's gone!" She looked at the ground and found the broken bone like bracelet."Damn papa's bracelet!"

"Rei, you've always been the fox. It matters not that you look like one. Sometimes the wolf has escaped me." RJ said trying to comfort her.

"That's not it exactly. Come on let's go back to the loft and I'll explain. to everyone." Hirei stood and everyone saw her hair, ears and tail.

"Want to borrow my headband?" Lily asked offering her yellow and black headband she was wearing.

"Thanks that helps a little." Hirei slipped it on hiding her ears. She then wrapped her tail around her waist and they left.