Blonde, Blonde, and Emily
"You've got this," Jayden grunted as he trained with his power disk, "it's up to you. You can do this!"
He yelled as he thrashed out with his Fire Smasher. The flames hit the dummy, and he quickly made it back into a regular sword. The teenager did a sideways flip in mid-air with a spin before slashing down and to the left. A blue flame hit the dummy once more, and he threw the green disk in the air. Hitting it with his powered sword, it began to glow. Striking it with his weapon, a gulf of green flames finished off the training dummy.
Puffing with exhaustion, the Red ranger collapsed onto the training area. He had been training for hours, all night in fact. Sweat poured down him as he body ached in protest. Giving a final heave, he slipped into blackness.
When he came back around, he was sprawled across the ground as the morning light broke. Feeling too weak to get up, he just laid there. He needed to get hydration, food, and a rest. Just as Mentor had already said, just like when he was kid, he just didn't give up until he was sick.
That was flaw that could someday cost the heath of his team.
"Jayden!" a familiar voice screamed as feet rushed across the concrete.
The Red Ranger was suddenly looking into worried hazel eyes. Those eyes belonged to his girlfriend whom adored him in every possible way. Who is that? Emily.
"What happened?" she looked at his burnt and wounded body franticly.
"I…" he swallowed nothing, "I…train..all night…"
"Oh, Jay," she listened to his chest before heaving up halfway to his feet, "you're sick. You've got to get in the recovery room!"
"Fine…" he mumbled, swaying in exhaustion, "I'm…it'll….okay…"
"You can barely talk, much less walk," she fussed, "come on. Lean on me as much as you need."
When he woke up, he was in bed in the recovery room…again. His burns were healing well, and the silk sheets made him feet cool and safe. Blinking, he looked around. Emily had his arm in her gentle hands, whispering something Jayden could just make out.
"Herbs heal these wounds, liquid cleans his body," she murmured, "let these waters of healing cure this boy, his existence must stay."
Healthy skin replaced the burns and ash marks within a minute. Sighing in relief, Emily put her head on his chest. That is when she realized he was awake. Sitting up, she brushed his dark hair out of his mysterious eyes.
"You can't keep making yourself sick," she gently chided her leader, "I know you only want to help. But please stop hurting yourself."
"I'll try," he coughed, "but right now I need to undo the damage I did to myself again."
"And I will leave you be," the Yellow Ranger nodded, "but first, take this." She held a large cupped leave with creamy gold-silver liquid in it to his cracked lips.
Once he'd drinken it, he laid back and closed his eyes once more. The stress and training he put on himself was doing a lot of damage, and he needed a long rest with medicine. If he gave it the right amount of time and rest, he would be good as new. It would take a lot to do this again, but first he needed to recover from this trauma.
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The six Samurai Rangers rushed into battle as soon as the Gap sensor went off. Jayden was asleep and under orders to stay in bed, so they had no choice but to leave without him. They haulted to see not one but three Nilock monsters.
"Samurai Rangers," they spoke as one through oily black skin, "which one is which? One of me is real, the other is fake. Choose wisely, and if you choose wrong, I'll explode and destroy all of you. Which one is me?"
They shuffled, and the rangers gulped. They all looked the same with the midnight skin, red glowing eyes, and yellow hair sprinkled on their wrinkled heads.
"It's this one," Mike finally said, pointing to the one on the right.
"No, it's the center," Kevin protested.
"It must be this guy," Wesley pointed at the left.
"This is impossible," Mia whispered, "they all look the same."
"We…all we…no…" Kevin gulped, "we need Jayden!"
"Looks like having one short," the Nilocks laughed, "is going to cost you."
The six were sent tumbling.
"We have to meditate," Antonio moaned as they staggered up, "it will come if we concentrate."
Behind their masks, they all concentrated hard. After a moment, Mike exclaimed, "I know who it is. It's him!" He pointed to the left one.
Together, the team lunged out on him.
"Very good," he smiled as he tried to dodge, "but it's going to take another trick to save your friend. Now, who to choose…"
His cold eyes rested on Emily. "How about you, sweetheart?"
"What?" she gasped, "no!" She screamed as the other two blasted her.
"Emily!" Mike screamed as the three Nilock formed into one.
"Have fun," he grinned wickedly, "you have until Friday before she's destroyed. Or, should I say, they're destroyed." He laughed cruelly before vanishing in a gap.
Mike rushed forward and knelt to see Emily passed out in street. He gasped at what he saw next. There was another Emily…and another one beside her! The Green Ranger gaped at the three curly blonde, hazel eyed passed out Emilys. The others gasped when they caught up.
"Which..which one is it?" Mia gulped softly.
"I don't know," Kevin replied, "but we only have two days to figure it out."
"Well, come on!" Mike scooped up the first Emily he'd seen, "let's get these girls back to The Shiba House. Maybe Mentor will know what to do."
Author Note: Three Emilys? That is only a little weird! Oh, and thx to jemilylover16 for inspiring me with her story Hi, Jayden, Jayden, and Jayden? Great story, and I recommend it highly!