Chapter 1

The sun shone brightly over a peaceful city, with the citizens doing their own daily thing, like the adults heading off to their job ready to work, teens and young children going to school, those kind of things. Though at a Japanese style house in a secluded area not too far from the city, were 4 teenagers training outside in the back with practice wooden swords. Two males were performing moves in sync with one another while two females were doing a practice sword fight. Meanwhile an older looking man looked on with another male and female by his side. The older man began slowly pacing back and forth, not once taking his eyes off the four teens.

"The life of the samurai must be one of discipline and order, samurai must constantly improve to ready themselves for battle." told the older man

With the two males, one who wore a training uniform marked in green was accidentally hit in the shoulder by his partner that also wore the same uniform except marked in blue. He cringed a bit in pain from the hit "Ow!"

The male who stood by the older man wearing the training uniform marked in red saw this and walked over, "Are you ok?"

"Of course!"

"Get into your opponent's head. Use your instincts to sense their next move and feel their attack coming." He then swung the practice sword he had at the guy in blue who quickly dodge the oncoming attacks.

The male marked in green was amazed at his training partner, "Wow Kevin that's amazing!" He soon cringed again in pain as he was hit by the practice sword again.

"Mike always keep your guard up." advised the male in the red training uniform

The older man who had been watching the whole time spoke, "Mike let me ask you something…"

Unfortunately once Mike took a step forward towards the older man, he was once again hit in the shoulder by a practice sword "Ow!" He looked to the male in red. "Hey that's not fair! You distracted me!"

He simply gave him a look that Mike understood. "Ok I get it, let me try again." Mike soon dodge an attack by doing a flip only to get hit in the butt by the practice sword.

"Now watch this." said the male in red

He began fighting with Kevin who again kept dodging his attacks but this time his pants fell in the process. The girls saw this and began to laugh while the older man shook his head. Then the girl with blonde hair took notice that someone was missing and began looking around, "Hey where did Mike go?"

Everyone began to look around too until the female who had long straight black hair, donning a royal Japanese type kimono began to harshly cough a bit. This caused the male in red to go over to her side, "Nariko are you all right?"

She managed to cease her coughing a bit before nodding, "Yes Jayden I'm all right…"

The other female with long black curly hair looked at her in concern, "Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure Mia…"

The older man gently placed his hand on Nariko's shoulder, "Come. Let us go inside, it's time that you took your medicine and tea, Nariko."

"Yes Mentor Ji."

"Do you want me to make your tea for you Nariko?" asked the blonde female

"If you don't mind at all Emily…"

"Of course not! Anything that'll help make you feel better soon!" Jayden then wrapped his arm around Nariko's shoulders and led her inside the household with the others following.

Meanwhile in another place where no humans can reach, there is a river with an old looking ancient Japanese ship upon the waters. Aboard the ship were evil demons, one of the demons who happened to be a female was looking out of the ship and at the waters below them "With the water level this low, we'll never flood Earth."

Another demon that had a head resembling a squid looked at the female demon "Ooh, ah, ooh! Hear it down there Dayu if we just frighten those human crybabies, the water will rise and we can sail out of here!"

A sinister looking demon who sat upon the floor and being served a drink by another demon barked, "Then quit flapping your noodles and start scaring some humans! Incase you forgotten what scared looks like take note!" He then began choking the demon that was serving him.

Just then a Tsuchikorobi like demon came aboard the ship, "You're in a violent mood today boss!"

"Oh Rofer I'd asked you to lend a hand but why not lend us two?" questioned the squid demon

"How about I'd lend you two of the finest fists the world has ever seen?" suggested Rofer

The female demon named Dayu casually leaned against the wall, holding her shamisen in one hand. "I hope you don't brag like that in front of the samurai rangers."

Rofer turned to her, "Better watch what you say! If it wasn't for Master Xandred where would you be?"

Dayu threw a blade at Rofer which purposely missed and imbedded itself in the wooden wall. She then angrily advanced towards him, "It's actually you. You should watch what you say to me! You have no right to talk to me you big fisted, little brain nitwit!"

"Hey I like my big fists and my brain is uh…"

Dayu stopped in her tracks and turned away in disgust, "Ugh nitwit!"

The sinister demon that Rofer referred to as Master Xandred threw the demon he was choking, "Rargh! That's enough! Both of you stop bickering!" He then stood up and began walking towards the ship's window gazing at the river below. "The Sanzu River can't rise with you standing here, Rofer you get down to the business to getting those humans to cry me a river."

Rofer began walking towards the exit of the ship, "That's exactly what I came here to do and I won't let any goody two shoes Power Rangers stop me!"

Back at the household, Jayden and Nariko were sitting together in the living room. The two watched as a little robot lion began walking around on the floor before jumping onto the coffee table and on Nariko's head. She giggled at this while Jayden softly chuckled. The lion then climbed down and jumped onto Jayden's shoulder, folding into a box. Master Ji soon strolled into the room carrying a practice sword, "Have the both of you seen Mike?"

Jayden looked at Nariko who shook her head before turning his attention to their mentor, "No…What's going on?"

"No one has seen him since he left practice this morning."

"Where did he go?"

Before Ji could even respond, an alarm went off throughout the household. Nariko clenched a fistful of her kimono, "A Nighlok has appeared in the city…"

"Jayden and the others will take care of it right away." told Mentor Ji

Jayden nodded at this and before leaving he lightly put his hand on Nariko's, "Don't worry…I'll be back before you know it."

She nodded at this and immediately Jayden took his leave. As he departed from the room, Mentor Ji sat by Nariko's side. "You know there's no need to worry that much Nariko. Jayden and the others can take care of themselves. After all they are Power Rangers."

"I know…But I just can't help it especially for Jayden since…"

Ji soothingly rubbed her back hoping to comfort her, "I know my dear, I know."

Not having to wait too long Jayden and the others returned with an injured Mike, whom was treated by Nariko with the help of Mia and Emily. While the girls were bandaging up Mike, Jayden, Kevin and Master Ji watched them a foot away.

"Thank goodness you were there. You prevented that Nighlok from injuring lots of people." said Mentor Ji to Mike

"We came as soon as we heard the news." told Jayden

Mike lightly shrug off Nariko who was finishing up his bandages, "I thought I could take him on alone."

"That was brave of you, but imagine what could've happened." said Kevin

Mike sighed in defeat, "I know…"

Jayden went over to him, "Mike…Being a samurai ranger is the ultimate sacrifice. Since we're fighting evil you must stay away from your family and friends in order to keep them safe."

Mike put on his shirt, covering his bandaged body. "I realize that now, but I at least gotta go check on my friends."

The group simply watched as Mike departed even though Mentor Ji tried to at least stop him. "Mike…" but the ranger brushed past him. Ji looked back at Jayden who just nodded letting Ji know it was all right.

That night the moon shone brightly over the household and at that time everyone was asleep in their rooms except for Nariko. She laid in bed staring at the ceiling for quite sometime. Realizing that she wouldn't be able to sleep anytime soon, caused her to get out of bed and depart her room. Nariko thus roamed around the hall until she noticed the door leading out to the training yard was opened. She made her way towards the door and looked outside to see Jayden there, his back facing her with a practice sword in one hand.

"Jayden?" called out Nariko

This caused him to quickly turn around, gripping his sword tightly ready to attack. He automatically relaxed once seeing who it was. "Oh Nariko."

Now realizing what time it was Jayden went over to Nariko and gently grabbed her by the shoulders. "What are you doing out here? It's late and you're suppose to be in bed."

"I couldn't sleep…What about you? What are you doing out here so late at night?"

"I was trying to figure out how to sense the enemy's attack…Come on lets get you inside and back to bed you need your rest."

Nariko softly sighed a bit and nodded, letting Jayden lead them back into the household to finally retire for the night.

The next day Jayden, Mia, Kevin and Emily departed the household to fight Rofer who had appeared again in the city. The group was still having difficulty trying to land an attack on the Nighlok until Mike up and came up with a solution on how to defeat the demon. His plan was successful with the help of Jayden, but before the rangers could celebrate Rofer came back as a huge Nighlok. This caused the rangers to bring out their foldingzords and combine them into their Samurai Megazord. With it, the rangers defeated Rofer and cheered at their success.

Back at the household, they entered the living room to find Nariko and Mentor Ji, patiently waiting for them. Jayden took this time to pat Mike on the back, "Good work Mike."

"Yeah you were great!" said Kevin

"The way you tricked that Nighlok was beyond creative." said Mia

Emily began moving her arms around in a wave like motion, "It was so cool how you used those wacky arms against him."

Kevin patted Mike's back "Couldn't have done it better myself."

Mike watched as Jayden took a seat next to Nariko, "Well the truth is…I did trick him but it wasn't enough…Actually it was Jayden who helped me defeat him I only anticipated the attack of one of his arms Jayden got the other one, I couldn't have done it without him."

Jayden stood back up smiling at his team, "We can do anything as a team." He then stood in front of them and held out his hand, one by one they put their hand over his and all together they said, "Rangers together, samurai forever!"