Author's Note: I would like to make myself clear.
I hate Power Rangers (Super) Samurai. Bad acting, bad storylines, bad everything in general. If you go on RangerBoard, I'm one of those users who constantly puts down Samurai.
But I couldn't resist writing a fanfiction about Jayden and Lauren. Their chemistry is that good. I died when I saw that scene in "Fight Fire With Fire"...it was so. Freaking. Sweet.
The fic is broken up into sentences, each sentence something along the lines of a thought or a scene. :) Hope you guys like it...
Stood there and watched you walk away,
From everything we had,
But I still mean every word I said to you.
He would try to take away my pain,
And he just might make me smile,
But the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead...
—Haunted
Lion
i. gone
The sad thing is that he hasn't ever realized how much he likes the fact that she's around until she's gone.
ii. opposites
They were like oil and water; like most siblings, they constantly fought over the pettiest things.
iii. sibling
And, he admits, several times, he finds himself wishing that she's gone forever, that his big sister will go out of his life for...well, forever.
iv. revelation
And as far as Jayden knows, she is indeed gone forever.
v. memorable
He can't comprehend exactly what is happening—what could a five-year-old boy understand at that time, anyways?—except for a blurry rememberance of a heated fight, his father, clad in a shiny red suit, quickly herding him and Lauren out the door of the big house.
vi. captured
Strong arms belonging to someone else hugging him tightly as his father leaves him behind in the doorway, still rushing outside with his big sister.
vii. will
Mentor Ji is waiting at the gateway, his face set with grim determination. Determination for what, he doesn't know.
viii. prelude
He watches as Mentor picks Lauren up as if she weighs nothing and seats her quickly and roughly on a horse, instantly slapping its hindquarters a moment after that.
ix. away
He watches as the horse throws its head back, watching as it frenzily gallops off into the night, carrying Lauren off into the unknown.
x. gone
He watches the shadows envelope the human and the horse, embracing them into its dark folds, and they disappear from his life.
xi. whatever
He remembers that the only thing he could think at the time was something along the lines of, Good riddance.
xii. no
...Or whatever it was in five-year-old speak.
xiii. time
But as time passes, Lauren doesn't come back, and Jayden wonders what's taking her so long to return.
xiv. silence
His mornings are plain and quiet; the only thing he usually does is eat and train for...something.
xv. blank
His evenings are empty, yet filled with endless lessons of kanji writing.
xvi. nothing
The bed on the right side is empty as well, its sheets drawn up, neatly done without a fold in the covers.
xvii. mortify
Every time he crawls under his covers at night, he turns towards the wall, instinctively doing so, but then realizes, with a dash of shame, that there is no one to hide from.
xviii. questions
And as the years pass, he begins to question where his sister is. What she is doing. Where she is.
xix. answers
When Mentor finally tells him, albeit reluctantly, he feels a heavy weight settle in his chest, one that he knows he will have to carry every single day of every single year, until his sister comes back.
xx. symbol
With the Sealing Symbol fluently mastered.
Fire
i. forever
She's older than Jayden, which means that she questions the morality of being thrown onto a horse and being sent off into the unknown, maybe for the rest of her life.
ii. away
When Lauren followed her father to the gateway of the Shiba House, drawn by the urgency in his voice, she did not expect to be sent away for a lot more than half her life.
iii. sickness
She did not expect to sit on a moving animal for what must have been an hour, its muscular hindquarters moving under her legs fluidly and smoothly, giving her some sort of motion sickness.
iv. awaken
She did not expect to fall asleep on said horse, and then wake up in a completely unfamiliar place and, seemingly, time.
v. history
Everywhere she looks around, she sees something straight out of a thirteenth-century-Japanese-manuscript.
vi. training
Swords—like, real swords, with an actual sharp blade, not the ones with the bamboo stick they had back at the Shiba House—stacked neatly agains the wall, scrolls tucked into their little wooden cubbies on the opposite side, a large training ground in the center. There are dummies reminiscent of an ancient samurai strewn in seemingly random places across the room.
vii. short
The last day she stays here (which happens to be exactly a week since she arrived), her mentor looks very harried, shoves her usual small bowl of bland porridge for breakfast in front of her face, and tells her to eat.
viii. repitition
She has barely swallowed her last mouthful when he takes her by the hand, gently pushing her out of the area towards another horse, saddled and waiting for her.
ix. hidden
She doesn't know what she has done to gain it, but her teacher bends down, looks into her eyes and tells her to stay safe, and kisses her lightly on the forehead.
x. again
And she's off into the unknown once again.
xi. dammit
This happens two more times before she realizes that she isn't staying anywhere for a long time anytime soon.
xii. annoyed
She really, really, really hates her life.
xiii. years
And through the years, even past a decade, she never stays in one place for more than a month.
xiv. deadpan
Lauren gets used to all the moving around, getting woken up at three in the morning to travel to yet another training ground.
xv. lifeless
It's a really sad thing to know that she doesn't have a life.
xvi. quest
And at every single darn place she goes to, she still adheres to some pre-planned diet, training course, and whatever has been planned since she set off on her journey.
xvii. end
When at last, her voyage has come to a halt...or, at least, what must have been her three hundredth mentor tells her.
xviii. soon
She finishes writing her letter, frowns over it for a moment, and heavily gets up from her seat, sealing it with a blob of red wax.
xix. power
The thing that her mentor tells her is that she should now have the power to seal away Master Xandred.
xx. failure
And it kind of scares her...whether or not she will fail.