Title: Casey's Destiny
Summary: Casey begins hearing voices and realizes his past is coming back to haunt him.
A/N: If the entire story comes out all underlined, I don't know why.
Chapter 1: Voices
Casey handed the large pepperoni pizza to Lily for her to serve.
"Thanks," she said, flashing him a smile.
Casey smiled back, then turned to the dough he was preparing. Fran suddenly walked in.
"I hate the lunch rush. I'm just so glad you guys don't have to leave to fight like you usually do."
Audible footsteps sounded as Theo and RJ ran downstairs from the loft.
"Sorry Fran, duty calls!" RJ said, grabbing Casey and pulling him out of the kitchen.
Theo pulled Lily outside and they headed off towards the fight.
"But…oh no," Fran said as people started to ask for all their food. "Be right with you."
X.X.X
The four rangers appeared in the middle of the street, morphed. It was a Rinshi Beast in Rinshi form.
"Oh, great!" the Rinshi Beast cried, turning into a bear-like monster. "Lunch!"
"Not if we can help it!" Casey said, pulling out his two Shark Sabers.
The Tiger Ranger in Red jumped up and combined the two sabers, then came down and slashed the Rinshi called Bearclaw.
Bearclaw flew back, and Theo and Lily jumped in the Jungle Mace and Fan. They both hit Bearclaw, and he shrieked out in pain. Finally, RJ powered up his Morpher and purple fire blasted Bearclaw.
Bearclaw only choked, then grew giant.
"Let's get the--" Casey began, but then something sounded in his head.
Voices screamed inside of his head. He screamed himself. Pain filled his entire body.
"Casey!" Lily cried, rushing to Casey who now lay on the ground shaking. "What's wrong?"
Casey coughed, and suddenly de-morphed. "It-it-it hurts!" Casey managed.
Casey grabbed his head and screamed out again.
Oh my God! Lily thought panicking. What's wrong with him?
Lily looked up. "Use the Jaguar and Wolf zords to hold him off. I've got to help Casey."
RJ and Theo nodded, and hopped on their zords.
Lily turned back to Casey. "What hurts? Casey, what hurts?"
Casey heard so many voices.
It's your destiny! Casey had heard inside his head. He also heard things like: "We're coming!" "Your destiny will be fulfilled." The rest was just rambling he did not understand.
Casey answered weakly, "Voices…"
Casey's eyes shut, and he passed out.
"Damn it, Casey!" Lily screamed, de-morphing, revealing the hot tears which were now flowing out of her eyes and down her cheeks. "Wake up! Open your eyes! Look at me! Casey, please…look!"
X.X.X
Bearclaw cried out as the Jaguar zord bit his head, causing him to fall back. Then, RJ slashed the bear with the wolf's tail slash attack. Bearclaw turned to stone, and broke into a million pieces, destroyed.
RJ and Theo jumped from the zords and down to Casey and Lily. Lily was sobbing.
"H-h-he won't w-wake up!" she sobbed.
"Don't worry," Theo said, de-morphing and rushing to tend his friend. "He'll be okay."
RJ de-morphed and began to carry Casey back towards JKP.
"C'mon, we gotta get him out of here," RJ said.
X.X.X
When the four rangers arrived, the store was closed and Fran was sitting at one of the tables, looking miserable. When she saw Casey in RJ's arms, she gasped.
"What happened?!" she cried out in surprise.
Lily's tears came out harder and she ran up to the loft, head in hands.
"W-was it something I said?" Fran asked, feeling foolish.
"No," RJ lied.
Theo, RJ and the unconscious Casey went upstairs to the loft, where RJ laid Casey down on his hammock.
"What happened?" RJ demanded, bewildered.
Lily turned, wiping some of her tears away. "H-h-he s-said he h-heard voices." the Cheetah replied.
RJ went and sat in his recliner. "Well, let's get some sleep. Hopefully, Casey will be better tomorrow."
"Let's hope so," Theo muttered.
Lily and Theo went to their hammocks and slept. Lily silently cried herself to sleep.
RJ sat in his chair, wondering what truly happened to his student.
"How could voices cause such a horrible outcome?" RJ pondered out loud.
RJ fell asleep in his recliner in the middle of the night while he was thinking on how such a thing could possibly happen.