Disclaimer: I do not own either the BtVS series or the Power Rangers series.
Warning: Character deaths in this chapter.
Note: Zen-Aku will be acting a little OOC in this chapter.
Prologue
In the forests around Turtle cove the seal that covered the seal of Zen-Aku the wolf Duke org had stood for centuries without anyone bothering it.
But the seal was weakening and something was opening it which woke Zen-Aku up, his memories of the past were nothing but shadows of pain and misery.
He let out a gasp as he found out that he was somewhere dark and cold, he struggled against the chains that bound him, which created earthquakes that were loosening the chains that bound him but each time he was pushed back by the seal but it was weakening.
One day he sensed something; someone was outside of his tomb and he yelled, "Help me, help me, RELEASE ME!"
Andrew looked at the ancient seal and felt something tickle his senses, he heard a wolf howl and a voice whispered, "Release me boy so I can fulfill my wish for vengeance, if you grant my wish then I shall grant you a wish, you have my word of honor boy."
Andrew frowned, he had come to Turtle Cove with his family on their way back to Sunnydale and he had decided to investigate some old ruins, he saw a tomb he guessed or some sort of building and started to mess with it, the tomb had somehow called to him from the hotel, the desperate howls for freedom and, in a way, companionship.
Zen-Aku blinked, he felt that someone was trying to open the casket and he frowned as he sensed something odd about the person, a loneliness. As he felt the tomb open he leapt out of the tomb and looked at the outside world for the first time in centuries.
He breathed deeply, smelling the fresh air and then he saw the small child in front of him, the boy was barely on the cusp of manhood and his eyes blinked owlishly at the Org.
"Freedom! You have granted me this freedom, what is your name? I am Zen-Aku."
"You are so cool looking!" the boy said, "Oh, I'm Andrew."
"Andrew," Zen-Aku said, "Why are you out here alone?"
The boy explained about a trip his family had taken and he decided to explore the forest nearby.
Zen-Aku said, "I have heard enough Andrew, what is your wish?"
"Wish?" Andrew said, "Oh yeah, you promised me a wish. Ummm, hmmm, could we be friends forever? I don't have many friends."
"You wish…. to be friends?" Zen-Aku said, "Hmmm, what does that mean? To be friends?"
Andrew looked confused and said, "I don't know but I think we play games and stuff. Me and my family are on our way back home to Sunnydale from here when I heard a whisper and I found you."
The Duke Org thought it over, he nodded and said, "Very well Andrew, you and I shall be friends; you shall teach me more about this world and perhaps I shall teach you to be, yes, a warrior, you seem weak but I shall teach you to be strong Andrew."
Over the next few months Andrew showed Zen-Aku how to have fun and told him about his friends and Zen-Aku enjoyed the company of this relatively sweet natured boy but he found that Andrew easily followed people.
'But that will change,' he thought.
One day several months later Zen-Aku watched as the boy looked at him with confusion but that was normal as Andrew was generally confused about things, Zen-Aku found that endearing about the boy but he noticed that there were tears this time.
Zen-Aku frowned and said, "What's wrong Andrew?"
"Oh," Andrew said, "Umm, my friend Jonathan said we can't be friends anymore, he, umm, joined the mythology club and they don't just let anyone in."
Zen-Aku frowned and thought, 'Does Andrew know about the dark things in his hometown? The things that hunted humans, both guilty and innocents alike and they were not Orgs, no they were something else.' Even thought they were pathetic creatures they seemed drawn to Andrew and Zen-Aku was unsure of why.
'Andrew is happy to have friends and he has treated me well without any disgust or hatred,' Zen-Aku nodded, the boy was his friend, he will defend Andrew from these creatures and find out why Jonathan hurt Andrew's feelings, Andrew should be happy not sad.
Zen-Aku stroked Andrew's hair and said, "Come, I shall teach you of the way of healing herbs Andrew."
After Andrew left for home Zen-Aku nodded, Jonathan will be taught a painful lesson for his careless disregard of Andrew's feelings. Zen-Aku walked away playing his flute.
Andrew had treated Zen-Aku with friendship, kindness and love and the Duke Org would protect him from these dark creatures.
As Zen-Aku walked he felt the dark creatures whisper both his name and Andrew's name and the words whispered were of light and dark: he was the darkness to Andrew's relative innocence and he had made sure to scare Warren away as the boy was not worthy of Andrew's affections, it was a pleasure to cause Warren to run screaming into the night.
Jonathan was different but he had abandoned Andrew a few days ago and it seems that Andrew had learnt a lesson of friendship himself; that friendship sometimes causes pain. Zen-Aku would make sure that Jonathan would know pain before this night was through but he was puzzled by Jonathan's actions.
Zen-Aku frowned as he sensed something odd at the mall but his target was there as well, so he will strike both down at once.
He held out his blade and said, "It is time for me to show this boy the meaning of fear and pain."
In the mall Jonathan stood behind Buffy and knew he had made sure that Andrew was safe especially since he'd have tried to help and he was startling to look a bit buff now, he said his friend was teaching him but Jonathan wondered what friend was he talking about?
The Judge chuckled a bit at the arrow sticking out of his chest and said, "No weapon forged by man will ever harm me."
Before Buffy could say anything a flute song echoed throughout the mall, The Judge looked around and said, "What is making that sound?"
Both groups watched with curiosity as a wolfish being walked out playing the flute, the wolf looked at the Judge who sneered at him and said, "You reek of humanity, of nobility."
The wolf simply held out his weapon and said, "Crescent Blade, Crescent Wave!" and waves of energy struck the Judge.
The Judge frowned and said, "That hurt."
Zen-Aku looked at the demon and sneered as he began to play his flute again, then he flung three crystals into his flute and yelled, "Dark Wildzords, arise!"
The Judge frowned and said, "What is that sound?"
Xander blinked and said, "Do I hear a wolf howling?" and he looked at the skylight of the mall and said, "Umm, a robotic hammerhead shark, alligator and a wolf? Hmmm, do those count as forged by man? And to think I got you the missile launcher for no reason Buffy."
Buffy looked on as the wolf demon yelled, "Dark Wildzords combine!" and she saw the robots transformed into an even bigger robot, then the robot's hand shattered the skylight and pulled the Judge closer to it and flung the monster up then the Alligator head suddenly chomped down and destroyed the Judge.
Then the giant robot disappeared and the wolf creature reappeared in a flash of black light.
"Okay, what the shit!?" Angelus roared, "I fucking wanted to see the world burn! I wanted suffering! I wanted pain!"
"I wanted…." Angelus's sentence was cut off when the creature's sword thing went through his neck, he looked down and blinked once before he turned to dust, freaking out the other vampires.
As Zen-Aku turned to the children he saw Jonathan and walked towards him, Buffy stared as the wolf snarled and backhanded Jonathan and said, "You have sealed Andrew's fate, he is mine now to train. I shall be his…. friend and you will never see him until I allow him to come back to seek his just vengeance on you, if that is his wish."
Buffy punched Zen-Aku but he just glared at her, shrugged and walked away, he played the flute as he disappeared into wind.
Buffy stared at the empty space and said, "Jonathan, you have to find your friend, that creature cannot take him."
Xander grabbed her and they walked out of the mall and, followed by Jonathan, they looked at where the wolf creature was.
Andrew was asleep as Zen-Aku appeared, the wolf org stroked his hair and nodded to himself, he looked up and saw Andrew's older brother, who frowned and said, "Jonathan called and told me that he's coming over to save Andrew from you."
"And," Zen-Aku said, "What will you do?"
"Nothing," Tucker said venomously, "Andrew's been happier with you. Fuck, you've been a better friend than Jonathan has been lately, take him now, my parents probably know about you. Please, he'd better off with you than he'd be with us."
Zen-Aku nodded and he picked up Andrew gently so not to disturb his sleep and said, "My promise to you is that Andrew shall become more than he was here."
Tucker nodded and said, "Okay, just be good to him and don't worry, Jonathan's as pathetic as my brother is or was."
Zen-Aku bowed and in a rustle of leaves disappeared with Andrew.
Tucker smiled Andrew would be better off with new friend than in this town.
Several months later.
Andrew blocked another sword strike from Zen-Aku who nodded and said, "You are getting better Andrew, I am very proud of your growth as a warrior and as a man," he smiled as Andrew hugged him, he had taught Andrew the way of herbs and medicines in the wild and he liked how Andrew listened to his stories.
Andrew's use of the crescent blade was inspired and Andrew still showed Zen-Aku what he enjoyed, it was comforting for him and the Org was content to have Andrew as his friend and he decided that Andrew could never go back to his town as the whispering shadows would try to take him and corrupt him.
They had been travelling for a year and a half but they were happy together and Andrew was a lot better than he was on the Hellmouth as no dark whispers got to him. Andrew was almost as good as he was in battle, training to use the crescent blade. Zen-Aku explained that he couldn't be easy on Andrew during the lessons and they were hard lessons and Zen-Aku trained Andrew in the use of many types of weapons.
Zen-Aku stroked Andrew's hair, the boy sighed and said, "Zen-Aku, I kinda miss school but you're so much cooler."
"Ah," Zen-Aku said, "Thank you Andrew and you are my friend."
The Dark wild zords growled their agreement and Zen-Aku frowned as he looked at the glittering city in front of him, it was called Angel Grove and he had been mysteriously drawn here for the past few days, Zen-Aku looked on as Andrew went to sleep and he frowned as he sensed that something was in the woods with them.
He looked up and said, "what do you want?"
A person in green appeared in front of him and said, "My Empress detected you and She has commanded me to take you to Her."
"I serve no one," Zen-Aku growled, "Be gone from my sight."
"I will not fail my Empress," the man said as he transformed into a green garbed warrior with a golden chest plate.
Zen-Aku frowned and said, "I serve no one, no one is my master least of all you but if you want to fight then we do it away from the boy I protect."
The Green warrior nodded and they teleported away, Zen-Aku held his blade out and said "Crescent Blade, Crescent Wave," and shot out waves of crescent energy at the green warrior who held out his own weapon and blocked it.
Zen-Aku frowned, this boy was not much older than Andrew and he hesitated as he noticed that there was an evil force guiding him, he frowned and said, "Boy, you are not yourself, perhaps I can help you fight the spell that has taken over you."
The warrior laughed and said, "You're weak now, aren't you protecting the boy? who is he?"
"My friend," Zen-Aku said, "My dear friend, yes but I have found humans fight their hardest to protect something or for vengeance and you simply fight because you are a puppet."
A sword of darkness appeared in the green warrior's hand and Zen-Aku frowned and the warrior shook his head and began to fight harder.
Zen-Aku bowed, he had anticipated this dark fate.
Andrew woke up when he heard a wolf howling and thought, 'Where's Zen-Aku?' He got up and heard metal clashing against metal and he walked towards the sound.
As he walked through the forest he grew more and more concerned, as he ran towards the sound he came through to a clearing and stared as clouds covered the moon, he froze as he noticed that Zen-Aku was weakened when the light of the moon couldn't shine on him and Andrew saw that the green warrior was still fighting viciously.
Zen-Aku saw him and roared, "Andrew, get back to the forest."
The Green warrior laughed and ran towards Andrew, his dark sword shining with dark green energy but Zen-Aku teleported in front of the green warrior when he fired and the ray of green energy pierced through Zen-Aku.
The green warrior laughed and said, "Weakness, just as my Empress said," and then he disappeared in a flash of green light.
Zen-Aku fell down and looked at Andrew, he coughed and said, I remember everything. Andrew, come here."
Andrew ran over to his fallen friend, Zen-Aku coughed and said, "Take my hand pup."
As Zen-Aku took Andrew's trembling hand Zen-Aku said, "I'm sorry I will not be able to be your friend for much longer, the warrior was granted power by his mistress but I shall never be apart from you if you remember me in your heart and your memory, but you must never go to Sunnydale again because there are whispering shadows that hunger for you and others. Andrew, take my dark wild zords and all of my power and forge your own destiny."
He thrust the crescent blade into Andrew's hand and said, "Promise me on your honour as my pupil that you will never go back to that town, you will use your power for whatever you want."
As Andrew nodded Zen-Aku disappeared and there was a man there, Andrew looked up as a bright flash of light suddenly illuminated the night sky and he frowned as he saw a giant robot looked down at him and said, "I grieve too for my dear friend and I shall watch you now my young warrior."
As the man's body disappeared Andrew heard several distant animal cries of sorrow. Andrew sat in the clearing alone and he remembered the green man, he was going to kill him, he was going to fight him and he heard the dark wild zords howl their agreement
Whoever he was that man was going to feel the wolf's fang at his neck.
TBC.
Should Buffy forgive Zen-Aku for what he did to Angelus?
How should season two continue without Angelus around?
Should the Scooby gang look for Andrew? To make sure he is ok and hasn't turn dark.
How will things change in the Mighty Morphing era with the Wild Zords around?
Note: Pairings are not decided yet but warnings will be added when they have been decided.
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