Author's Note: She's baaaaack! I'm actually quite excited. The Aliyah we all know and love is back in all her angered glory. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is unrecognizable about from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban although Operation Overdrive was created by Disney.
Warning: Rated T for safety
Warning: Before you go any further, I suggest you read the stories that come before this rewrite, or else some references and storylines may confuse you. Thanks.
Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! - Prehistoric Storm - Against All Odds - Secrets and Lies.
Title: Destiny Fulfilled
Summary: After the death of a Pai Zhuq master, Aliyah and Tyler are called to Ocean Bluff to help deal with the resurrected remains of Dai Shi. As usual, Aliyah is anything but happy, but be it life or death; she is determined to make this ranger team her last.
"What are you supposed to be?"
"My name is Stingerella," the poison replied, "and you must be the pesky rangers that destroyed my brother - Rantipede."
"Yeah, so what if we are?" Aliyah snapped. "You come here to join him?"
Stingerella laughed. "You couldn't stop me even if you tried," she said. "I have a secret weapon, you see, white Ranger - meet my team of rhythmic Rinshi." She threw her hands into the air and summoned a handle of bouncing Rinshi, only this time they didn't just bounce up and down, they bounced around and around too.
"Are they... dancing?" Tyler asked, staring at the Rinshi in confusion.
"Or at least trying too," Aliyah replied, reaching out and grabbing an arm of the nearest Rinshi. She twisted it around and flipped the foot soldier over her shoulder, it landed with a crack on the ground and, still holding it for support, Aliyah kicked up at several more. She planted two well-aimed kicks into the guts of two Rinshi soldiers and quickly let go of the first.
Tyler, meanwhile, was having a little difficulty navigating his way through the dancing swarm. "We should call the others," he yelled to Aliyah.
"If you must," Aliyah called back, blocking a punch and shoving the Rishi's arm into the air. She pulled back her fist and slammed it into the soldier's stomach, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to stumble. As the Rinshi lost its footing, Aliyah elbowed another than got to close and swept the feet out of several more.
Stingerella growled as Aliyah pounded her way through the dancing Rinshi without so much as breaking a sweat. "Stop it you insolent girl!" she yelled.
"I'm coming for you, Stingerella," Aliyah said, deflecting more Rinshi and taking an ever growing step in the poison's direction. "You're going to be as easy to beat as your brother was. If you wish, I'll make it quick and painless."
Stingerella clenched her hands into fists. "Let's up the tempo, shall we?" she asked, summoning more Rinshi. The white Ranger had to have a breaking point, and she was determined to find it. She would batter the insolent child all day long if she had too, she would eventually tire.
"Hey!"
Stingerella looked around as three other Rangers ran towards her in the opposite direction. She could only assume that they were the rest of the team, but hadn't Dai Shi warned her about six rangers? If so, where was the remaining one?
"Rangers, you're just in time," Stingerella squealed, clapping her hands together. "Watch this dance." She jumped through the air, planted a single kick each into the chests of Aliyah and Tyler, both of whom who had not been expecting it, flipped over mid-air and struck Casey, Theo and Lily too.
The five rangers hit the ground groaning.
Stingerella laughed and stalked towards Aliyah, she caught the brunette by the scruff of her collar and hauled her into the air. "Who do you think you are destroying my Rinshi?" she demanded.
"I'm you're worst nightmare," Aliyah said, trying to pry Stingerella's grip from her jacket. But the scorpion held fast. The only way Aliyah knew to get free now was by trying to distract Stingerella, but the warrior seemed only to have eyes for her.
Thankfully an explosion from near-by diverted everyone's attention. There, towering over the city stood the thirty-foot poison that both sides knew as Toadie.
"Toadie, what are you doing?" Stingerella called in surprise. She released Aliyah and the white Ranger stumbled backwards in surprise.
"I'm saving you from these colorful fools," Toadie shouted furiously. He made a grab for the Rangers, but they jumped out of his way.
"You guys deal with his," Aliyah yelled at Casey, Theo and Lily. "Tyler and I will deal with Stingerella."
"Right," Casey nodded, reaching into his pocket for his sunglasses. "Ready?"
"Ready!" the others replied, following his head.
"Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!"
With the others off on their own mission, Aliyah and Tyler exchanged looks and squared off against Stingerella. They didn't feel like they needed to morph to fight against the scorpion warrior, all they needed to do was to follow their animal spirits.
From above, Toadie croaked and slammed his fists into the Jungle Pride Megazord, knocking it over. The ground shook, but Aliyah, Tyler and Stingerella managed to stay standing as they fought amongst themselves.
"This is an unfair fight," Stingerella said, deflecting a punch from Tyler. "I'll be back to finish this later, Rangers," she said, disappearing.
"Coward!" Aliyah yelled at thin air.
Tyler turned his gaze skywards to watch the Megazord battle. The others didn't seem to be faring well, and he was very close to summoning his animal spirit in order to help them, but he didn't need to after Casey initiated the Spin Attack and smashed the Megazords fists into Toadie multiple times.
"Stingerella?" Toadie asked, scanning the surrounding area for the scorpion. When he didn't find her, he let out a wail of despair and run off, shrieking, "I've ruined everything!" as he disappeared.
"What's his deal?" Tyler asked.
"Beats me," Aliyah shrugged.
~*Destiny Fulfilled*~
"That freaky dance group had some moves," Lily said, leading the others into the loft. "I'll give them that."
"Sure," Rebecca agreed. She was waiting in the middle of the room for them. "But so do you, Lily, and Aliyah, I'm aware that you're partial to the dancing lifestyle yourself."
Tyler frowned at his cousin. "What are you getting at?" he asked, curiously.
"I think it's time to fight fire with fire," Rebecca elaborated. "Lily, I want you to teach your new dance to Theo, Casey, Tyler and Aliyah, and incorporate it into your fighting styles."
"No, no," Theo said, shaking his head. "I don't dance."
"Fine," said Aliyah, her hand falling onto Theo's shoulder. "If you don't dance, then you don't get to fight, either."
Theo stared, aghast. "Why not?" he asked.
"Because how would you be able to keep up with the Dancing Devils?"
Tyler scoffed. "Is that what we're calling them now?" he asked. "The Dancing Devils?"
Aliyah shrugged. "If the shoe fits, why not?" she asked.
Tyler shook his head and turned to Lily. "Well, I'm a horrible dancer," he said. "But I'll give it my best shot. Lily, take us a way."
Lily giggled and led the way out onto the floor. Rebecca removed herself from the vicinity and went to help RJ with the new weapons, whilst she was an active ranger on the team; she spent most of her time helping in the restaurant with Fran than actually out in battle.
"First we'll need some music," Lily said, pressing play on the stereo. Upbeat hip-hop music started to play throughout the room and Aliyah bobbed to the music. Lily grinned at her. "That's it, Ali, now show me your moves." She performed her routine and pointed at Aliyah to see if she could keep up.
Aliyah smirked and breezed through the routine with ease. When it came to dancing, she picked up the steps rather easily, but never seemed to come in useful other than for competitions or parties; but Aliyah usually only danced for fun, she never used it to compete.
"Alright!" Lily said high-fiving the white Ranger. "OK. Come on, guys, it's your turn," she added, looking to where the boys were watching them.
Casey shimmied out onto the dance floor and clapped his hands, ready for the first set of moves, Tyler followed him and so did Theo, with the blue ranger settling between them. Spinning on the spot, Casey kicked up with his foot and glared at Theo as he caught hold of his leg.
Meanwhile Tyler, oblivious to the feud between Casey and Theo, slipped his foot around the floor and started to shimmy backwards, straight into the glaring duo that were his teammates. Casey and Theo groaned as they hit the ground and Tyler apologized quickly for his mistake.
Aliyah, however, was frowning at Theo and Casey and turned to Lily for an explanation.
"Something happened this morning," Lily explained. "Long story short, they started arguing over who would throw and catch me, and then Theo snapped at Casey for being the 'new' guy."
"I'm more new than Casey is," Aliyah pointed out.
"Yeah, but I also don't have a standing luncheon with you every second Tuesday of the month."
"Huh?" Aliyah asked, confused. She blinked and then shook her head. "Wait, you mean a date?"
"It's not a date," Theo groaned.
Aliyah turned to look at the blue ranger, missing the hurt look that swept across Lily's face. The look was gone when Aliyah returned her attention to the cheetah, seeing as the Jaguar, Tiger and Fox had managed to screw up the routine one more time.
Silence fell and the Rangers each turned to see Rebecca standing beside the Stereo.
"I have an idea," Aliyah said. "Why don't Lily and I go deal with Stingerella, whilst Tyler helps Theo and Casey work out their differences?"
"You can't handle the Dancing Devils by yourself," Tyler protested. He didn't see why he bothered; there was no way Rebecca would've allowed Aliyah to leave the loft without a guardian present anyway, especially not now with Dai Shi released.
"Because you're going to need to work as a team to command the Claw Cannon," Rebecca replied. "It's going to take all five of your animal spirits to charge it."
"Well that sucks," Aliyah said.
RJ pouted at the white Ranger. "It's to unify team work," he said.
"Well, it doesn't exactly unify team work if two of the team are fighting each other now, does it?" Aliyah snapped.
Rebecca rolled her eyes and stepped in front of Aliyah, blocking her fiancé from her sister's view. "You two need to figure out this animosity between you," she said to Casey and Theo, "and work it out fast. Stingerella could return at any moment, and if you're not ready, then we're all screwed." She walked away to help RJ and left Lily and Aliyah in charge of the bickering cubs.
Lily sighed and turned back to her friends. "Do you have any more bright ideas?" she asked Aliyah.
"Just one," Aliyah said walking over to the cubs. "You," she grabbed the front of Casey's shirt and hauled him off the ground, "over there," she pushed him to the left. He stumbled but caught his footing before falling over again. "You," she grabbed Theo by the front of his shirt and pulled him off the ground, "over there," she pushed him to the right. "Tyler, here," she pointed between the two boys. "You," she pointed at Casey, "stay in your corner. You," she pointed at Theo, "stay in your corner. Stay away from each other and master the routine. You won't get another chance. Got it?"
"Fine," said Casey, straightening his shirt.
"Whatever," Theo said, rolling his eyes.
Tyler looked at Aliyah and shrugged. "Whatever you say, boss," he said. "So, shall we dance?"
Aliyah shook her head and walked back to the stereo. "Take it away, Lil," she said, pressing play and starting the music from the beginning.
~*Destiny Fulfilled*~
Within seconds of mastering the routine was the alarms blaring and the Rangers were running out the door to deal with Stingerella and her dancing devils. They morphed as they rushed through the streets, coming up on the dance group outside of the city plaza.
"This time that annoying toad better not interfere," Stingerella said. She looked up as the team of five arrived and pointed them out to her Rinshi. "Let's show these fools again what true rhythm looks like. Dance." She struck a pose, and then turned on the spot. "Turn."
The Rinshi followed her every move.
Tyler grabbed his head. The dance was almost hypnotic.
"Stick it out, Ty," Aliyah said, shaking his shoulder. "Just remember the steps to Lily's dance, and you should be fine."
"Easy for you to say," Tyler said. "You're a dancer."
Aliyah rolled her eyes and gave her cousin another shove. "Hold it together," she snapped at him.
"I'm holding it, I'm holding it," Tyler whined.
"Come on, guys, it's time to dance to a different groove," Casey said, taking a step towards Stingerella.
"What?!" Stingerella screeched. "So you think you can dance, huh?"
"I know we can dance better than you, you she-devil," Aliyah yelled. She jumped forward and landed in front of Stingerella. "We've got a score to settle!" she added, grabbing the scorpion's arms and shoving her away from the dancing Rinshi.
Tyler and the others, however, landed amongst the dancing Rinshi and, using Lily's dance moves managed to knock each of them down with a series of punches, elbow hits and front kicks.
"But how?" Stingerella yelled as Aliyah kicked her in the stomach.
"It's all in the beat," Aliyah said. "Now you're mine."
Stingerella let out a laugh and prepared herself to battle Aliyah, but before she could there was a commotion from behind her and she turned to see Toadie approaching. He looked furious, and she felt annoyed that he had shown up again.
"I won't let them destroy you," Toadie shouted. "You are my responsibility."
"Since when?" Stingerella asked, as Toadie stopped in front of her, protecting her from Aliyah. "You are just a worthless toad!"
"Enough!" Toadie shouted.
Aliyah scoffed. "I'm not usually one to defend a monster," she said, glancing at the scorpion. "But are you really going to let him talk to you like that?"
"I said, SILENCE!" Toadie shouted, blasting Aliyah aside. "This is my destiny! I love you, Stingerella, and together we will destroy the Rangers!"
"Oh," Stingerella mocked. "That's so chivalrous."
Jumping up, Theo swung his tonfas around in his hands and lunched himself at Toadie. The toad blocked the attack and threw Theo into Aliyah as she finally made it to her feet.
Aliyah growled and shoved Theo off of her.
"Jungle Bo!" Lily shouted, jumping at Toadie and swinging her Bo around.
"Weakling," Toadie said, catching the staff and holding it into the air. With his free hand he punched Lily several times in the stomach and threw her back into Tyler who had come to help.
"Call to the beast inside! Free the tiger!" Casey called, summoning his tiger spirit. The tiger sprinted towards Toadie but was hit by a lime-green barrier.
Casey gasped as his tiger faltered and disappeared. "How..."
"My love," said Toadie, turning his attention to Stingerella. "Together, we will be unstoppable."
"How do we beat him?" Tyler asked.
"Animal spirits," Aliyah said. "There's no way that shield can block us all."
"It's worth a try," Theo agreed. "Call to the beast inside! Unleash the Jaguar!"
"Call to the beast inside! Bring out the cheetah!" Lily called, summoning her spirit.
"Call to the beast inside! Bring forth the fox!"
"Call to the beast inside! Release the white tiger!"
The four animal spirits rushed at Toadie and Stingerella, but were met by the same lime-green barrier that had stopped Casey. After much knawing and scratching, the spirits faded away, leaving the Rangers taken aback.
"Stingerella, attack!" Toadie said, stepping aside.
Stingerella flipped forward into a handstand and started to spin around furiously. She sped towards the rangers, knocking them off of their feet and onto the ground, clutching their chest, arms and whatever other part of them hurt.
Aliyah groaned and tried to push herself up, but the pain was too much for even her to withstand. "I guess she is going to let him talk to her in that way," she grumbled.
"Well done," Toadie praised.
"You were so right," Stingerella said, turning to him and sounding happy. "Together, we can rule!"
"Side by side," Toadie said, triumphantly. He turned his back on the rangers and held his arm out for Stingerella to take. "Let's go."
Struggling to her feet, Aliyah called for her white tiger spirit one more time. "It's not over!" she yelled, unleashing her spirit onto the unsuspecting poisons. The white tiger's claws latched onto Stingerella, causing her to scream in agony.
Toadie, angered by the altercation, turned wildly onto the white ranger. "You'll pay for hurting my beloved!" he sneered, rushing towards Aliyah.
"NOW!" Tyler shouted, summoning the last of his strength and jumping to cover his cousin. He met the toad head on and kicked the toad in the head, knocking him back. "Bring forth the fox!" he shouted, unleashing his fox spirit.
Not prepared for another spirit, Toadie failed to bring up his barrier in time and the fox spirit rammed into him, knocking him backwards into Stingerella.
"RJ, send us the canon," Theo called through his earpiece.
"Claw canon!"
"Wait!" Casey yelled, jumping in front of the canon and preparing to fight.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked. "Teamwork, remember?"
"Yeah, well, tell that to Theo," Casey said, running towards Toadie. He jumped over Tyler and Aliyah and punched Toadie in the side of the head.
Aliyah gasped. "What's he doing?" she asked.
"I'm going after the other two," Stingerella said, running at Theo and Lily. She kicked the claw canon out of their hands and started to slash at them with her hands.
Clenching her hands into a fist, Aliyah stood quickly and turned to Tyler. "You get Casey," she said. "I'll get Stingerella."
"Got it!" Tyler nodded, running off to help his new leader.
Aliyah spun around to face Stingerella and a growl rumbled in her chest. She rushed towards the scorpion and kicked her in the lower back. The Scorpion fell forward, rolling over herself and glared as she got back to her feet.
"I'll get your for that," Stingerella said.
"Are you sure about that?" Aliyah asked. "Or do you suddenly need your new boyfriend to protect you now?"
"I need no one!" Stingerella raged.
"Well, it seems that Toadie doesn't agree," Aliyah taunted. "He seems to think he owns you, and that you can't do anything without his say so, therefore, I can ultimately destroy you."
"I'd like to see you try," Stingerella said, preparing to fight.
Aliyah reached for her Sais and twirled them in her hands. "Jungle sais!" she shouted, throwing them one after the other at the scorpion. They hit her exterior and bounced off, causing Stingerella to laugh.
"Is that the best you can do?" Stingerella asked. "That was pathetic."
"Hardly!" Aliyah yelled. "You two, get the cannon!"
Theo and Lily nodded and rushed to pick up the fallen cannon.
"It's almost charged!" Lily said. "We need the others."
"No we don't," Theo said. "We can do this ourselves."
"Theo now is not the time," Lily scolded. "Rebecca was adamant that this cannon wouldn't work without all five of us, and I believe her."
Theo sighed. "Then what do we do?" he asked, looking around at the rest of the team as they battled the two monsters.
"I don't know," Lily said, shaking her head.
Aliyah crossed her wrists and blocked and a hit from Stingerella. She quickly twisted her way out of the blow and grabbed the scorpion's hands, holding them fast and kicking her in the side.
Stingerella stumbled into a pillar and ducked as Aliyah swung her fists at her face. "Not this time," the scorpion yelled, spearing Aliyah at the shoulder with her stinger.
Aliyah yelled out as she hit the ground, her shoulder throbbing and stars appeared in her eyes.
"Aliyah!" Tyler yelled, racing to help her. He ducked under a punch from Stingerella and landed on his knees beside his cousin. He helped her too sit up as Stingerella turned her attention to Lily and Theo.
As he had watched Tyler battle Toadie, Casey had seen the attack Stingerella had done to Aliyah. Suddenly he felt furious and protective; whilst the white ranger was older than him, and a veteran Ranger and qualified ninja, she was still a part of his team, and it angered him to see one of Dai Shi's monsters hurt her. Her scream of anguish was enough to make him realise that there was nothing more important than his teammates' lives, even Theo.
"It's over, Rangers," Stingerella laughed, stalking closer to Theo and Lily.
Casey growled and swung around to face Stingerella. "No," he yelled, "stay away from them."
He jumped to protect his friends, fighting off Stingerella long enough for Tyler and Aliyah to regroup with them. Even though she looked badly wounded, Aliyah was still as determined as ever to finish the battle that had been started.
"Put your hand here," Tyler said, placing Aliyah's hand on the claw cannon. He followed her lead and instantly felt his power pooling together and seeping through his fingertips. There were five cylinders all over the cannon; two of them were full of blue and yellow energy, whilst another two were slowly filling up with white and green.
"It's almost done," Lily said. "Casey, we need you now!"
"Alright!" Casey said, punching Stingerella again. He kicked forward and landed a blow into her stomach, knocking her backwards into Toadie. The loved-up poison held her delicately, and protectively put her behind him, ready to protect her from the Rangers.
"You think that little weapon can hurt us?" Toadie laughed, eyeing the cannon with distaste. "Your white ranger is already feeling the effects of my darling's poison, within a few minutes she will cease to exist."
"Don't bet on it," Tyler said. "I've seen Aliyah walk away from a lot worse than this."
Aliyah gave a weak laugh but found she wasn't feeling up to a snarky or snappy comeback, whatever Stingerella had done to her was taking its toll, and fast.
"Engaged!" Casey said, pulling back the handle of the canon. "Powered by animal spirits! FIRE!"
The ball of fire that exploded from the mouth of the cannon hit Toadie, reducing him to ashes within seconds. But it was the force of the explosion that knocked Stingerella through the air. As the dust cleared, the Scorpion poison made it back to her feet and stared at the place her beloved had once stood.
"No!" Stingerella cried. "What have you done?"
"What we always do," Aliyah said. "Destroy evil."
"But I loved him."
Aliyah shrugged, and groaned as her shoulder burned. "No one ever said love was easy," she said. "If anything, it is one of the intense emotions you'll ever feel, that's why it's certain to hurt like a bitch."
"You shall pay for what you have done," Stingerella yelled, summoning the last of her energy and using it to grow to the thirty-feet tall.
Tyler looked down at Aliyah. "You up for a Megazord battle?" he asked, unsure of how much more fighting she could withstand.
"Just call your fox spirit," Aliyah said, pulling away from him.
"You got it," Tyler said. "Let's do it, guys."
The others nodded and summoned their animal spirits from within.
"Animal spirits unite as one!" the team of five commanded. The five spirits combined together to create two Megazords - the Jungle Pride and the White Tiger Pride.
Stingerella snarled at them. "Let's see how you like this!" she shouted, throwing out her hands and unleashing a hundred thousand scorpions at the two Megazords.
"Not this time!" Aliyah yelled. "Fox inferno!" She held up the arm of the Megazord and fired a fireball from the mouth of Tyler's fox. The ball hit the scorpions heading her way and disintegrated them.
"Spin attack!" Casey yelled from the Jungle Pride Megazord. The top half started to spin wildly, sending scorpions flying into each direction.
"Fox Inferno!" Tyler and Aliyah yelled, firing several more fireballs at the critters and destroying them mid-air.
"No!" Stingerella yelled. "That's impossible."
"Nothing's impossible," Aliyah said. "Make your move."
Angered by their continued accounts of defeating her, Stingerella jumped into the air and launched herself at the two Megazords. Unlike the rangers, it was five against one, and she had no way of splitting herself into another poison to fight. But, if she could take out the white tiger Megazord she figured she'd have a fighting chance. The white ranger was already one step away from instant destruction anyway; taking her out of the running should've been an easy task.
But things were never an easy task when rangers were involved.
"Not this time..." Casey said, jumping in front of Aliyah and Tyler. He, Theo and Lily commanded their Megazord to jump into the air and kick Stingerella. The Megazord did and blasted the scorpion poison into the air.
"We'll take it from here!" Tyler said, stepping around the Jungle Pride Megazord. "White Tiger! Lightning Final Strike!" raising the arm of the right arm of the Megazord, Tyler and Aliyah summoned a lightning storm over Stingerella. Black, green and white lightning clashed together, and flashed towards the poison. It hit her dead in the chest and exploded seconds later.
As the explosion cleared the rangers saw that Stingerella was finally gone for good.
"JUNGLE FURY RANGERS!"
~*Destiny Fulfilled*~
Aliyah stretched her arms above her head as she entered the JKP restaurant later that afternoon. She looked around for any signs of her friends and spotted Theo sitting at a table holding a Cheetah toy. "Ooh, I know that look," she said, taking a seat opposite him. "Love on the rocks?"
"It's not love," Theo defended.
"OK, so, what is it?" Aliyah asked. "If it's not love, why are you so jealous of Casey and Lily getting close?"
Theo sighed. "Lily and I just used to be a duo," he explained. "Now we're a trio. Things are just different."
"Different isn't so bad," Aliyah said. "I mean, if everything always stayed the same, things would get boring."
"That's rich, coming from you," Theo said.
Aliyah rolled her eyes. "Look, from my experience, inner team fighting isn't a good thing," she said. "It can cause a lot of problems down the line, and a lot of awkward team-ups."
"What do you mean?" Theo asked.
"Well, back on my first team, there was this guy, and he and I just didn't get a long, at all," Aliyah explained. "We fought constantly. I don't know exactly what it was about him that got under my skin, but he irritated me so badly that I just had to figure out a way to block him out, weirdly enough, causing him pain helped."
Theo stared at her strangely.
"My point is, when it came down to fighting on the same team, he and I always managed to put our differences aside," Aliyah continued. "Look, I'm not telling you that there was all sunshine's and rainbows during battles, because there weren't, but if the other needed help, whether it was asked for or not, one of us was there to lend a helping hand. Of course, that usually brought on more inter-team fighting but that's how we dealt with things."
"You're not helping, you know that?" Theo asked.
Aliyah shrugged. "OK, so maybe I'm not the best person to being giving team advice," she said. "But aside from Hunter, I got on really well with the rest of my teammates. I guess what I am trying to say is, there's going to be times where we don't get along, not just you and Casey, but all of us, we just need to be sure that we can put those differences aside when we morph, otherwise we're not going to be able to defeat the Rinshi, much less Dai Shi."
Theo sighed and looked back at his cheetah figurine.
"Whatever happens off the battlefield happens," Aliyah added, getting to her feet. "But when we're on it, we need to be able to count on those around us. Believe me when I say that trusting anyone is one of my biggest flaws, but I am willing to work on it. You and Casey have to be willing to work on trusting each other, as well as the rest of us, if we ever stand a chance of surviving this fight. Think about it." She walked away, leaving Theo to contemplate what she had said.
As Aliyah disappeared into the kitchen, RJ approached the table, confused as to why Theo was sitting alone with a Cheetah figurine and not outside with Lily. "What are you doing here?" the master asked. "Lily's been waiting outside for ten minutes."
"What?" Theo asked.
"Something about a lunch... thing?" RJ asked.
Excitedly, Theo jumped to his feet and rushed for the door.
"Where's he off to in such a hurry?" Rebecca asked approaching her fiancé and watching Theo disappear.
RJ glanced at her and wound his arm around her shoulders. "He's got a lunch thing with Lily," he said.
"You mean a date?" Rebecca asked, looking up confused. "They have a lunch date?"
"Apparently it's not a date," said Fran, wandering over after serving a customer. "At least that's what Theo said."
Rebecca frowned and shook her head. "Well, he flew out of here like his tail was on fire," she said, picking up the cheetah figurine. "Makes me say it was a date."
"Oh, it's definitely a date," said Tyler, passing behind the three. "Theo's just a little... nervous to admit it."
"Isn't love grand?" Fran said, smiling as she walked away.
Tyler shook his head. "Yeah, when you finally admit that it is love," he said. He turned his attention back to Rebecca. "Speaking of love. I have a girlfriend to check in with. Excuse me." He disappeared into the kitchen.
Rebecca and RJ exchanged looks, smiled and lightly kissed one another before heading back to work.
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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated 28th July, 2016 at 3:27pm