Disclaimer: Saban and Disney own the Power Rangers. Of course any characters that you do not recognize are mine.
Warnings: It's a horror story so be prepared for anything…
Alternate Universe: In this story Rocky is adopted and does not become friends with Adam and Aisha until late in High School.
Review but no flames please…Prolog…
Everyone has a dark secret one that they do not want to share with anyone else because mostly they are afraid, they are afraid because if anyone knew about their dark secret the people around them would disappear. They would no longer want to be around them. For some, dark secrets remain as dark secrets…but for others, some secrets were just never meant to remain a secret.
That was the way it was for Rocky Desantos. At least that is the name he went by. Rocky was indeed his first name but Desantos was not his true last name. Rocky's past, was clouded and perhaps even dark, depending on how you would look at it, but no one knew the truth, not even his two closest friends Adam and Aisha. Ever since he was adopted, Rocky changed into a different person, maybe for the best.
He was never the type of person to be so happy and so outspoken, he was a loner, and he preferred it to stay that way. For the longest time he was alone, but ever since he was adopted, his entire personality changed, and he no longer remained as a loner.
In fact because he was adopted, he had to move to not only a different school, but also a different state all together, which was even better, it only guaranteed that no one from his past would ever find him in Stone Canyon, California.
On his first day of school he bumped into Adam Park, he immediately liked him. Rocky felt like he could trust Adam and so Rocky's personality began to change, especially when Adam would grow concerned over his well being. He felt like Adam was like a long lost brother, and the more time he spent with Adam, the more his attitude would change when it came to being around new people.
In fact, it was because of his friendship with Adam that landed him a new friend named Aisha. Rocky never before had another normal female friend, so he enjoyed spending much of his free time with her and Adam. Together the two of them would share a lot of good times together and soon they would all become very close.
It was not long before Adam, Aisha and Rocky ended up in joining martial arts at Stone Canyon High School. Of course, Rocky had been studying martial arts since he was a kid, mainly for protection but he remained in the sport because he enjoyed it and found he was good at it. It was one of those things that came natural to him. He found Adam to be a great sparing partner so the two had spent a lot of time together to train for a Martial Arts competition.
There was this martial arts competition that was held in Angle Grove, they were surprised of course to know that they were each chosen for it to represent Stone Canyon. So Adam, Aisha and Rocky soon found themselves moving to Angle Grove.
It would have been a scary experience for Rocky again, but since he had his two best close friends along with him, everything seemed to work out perfectly for him.
Upon their arrival in Angle Grove it was not long before they met a group of teens from Angle Grove High. They became friends with these teens and it was not long before Adam, Rocky and Aisha found out the truth about them, that they were the famous power rangers.
Now that Rocky knew that they were rangers, he knew that it was only time before they too would be involved. Becoming a power ranger was a great thing for Rocky. His new friends along with his new home made things seem almost perfect. He had everything a young teenager would ever want or need, and now he finally had the family to go along with the package.
His parents of course moved to Angle Grove with him, along with his many brothers and sisters and Rocky was grateful for that. He never knew until he met Roger and Lily Desantos how wonderful it would be to have two people to care about you like they did. They treated him like he was one of their own, and so Rocky was more than eager to change his last name to theirs. It suited him, and so from then on he only referred himself by their last name, he never once mentioned to anyone else that he was adopted.
Not even Adam and Aisha knew that he was adopted, and it was not just his decision to keep that fact a secret but his new parents found it was for the best that no one knew. It was for the best. But because Rocky was already 13 when he was adopted, forgetting was not an easy thing to do. And nearly every night he would wake up from a horrible nightmare, screaming or covered in sweat, for the many first nights that he had spent with his new parents, he had spent them sleeping in their room.
The dark scared Rocky. He hated the dark, and whenever it grew late, before sundown, Rocky made sure he was home before it grew completely dark. He was always afraid that something evil was going to pop out in the dark so even at night in his room he would sleep with his bedroom lights on. Every light in his room would remain on, and even though his parents would assure him that he was safe, Rocky felt that the light was the only way to keep the evil away.
Even now, he slept with the lights on, but he would leave only his closet light on. But still he always found himself waking up in the middle of the night, and he would check everywhere in the house and make sure all doors would be and are still locked.
He did this routine of his every night and because of his nightmares, he would not have sleepovers, he stayed at home. Of course both Adam and Aisha knew that he was afraid of the dark, but they did not know why, and if Rocky could help it, he would keep it that way…
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