Power Rangers Indomitable Spirit
By Talanane
The following is a work of Fanfiction. This means that it contains some characters, items, locations and other things that I neither own nor have the rights to. It also means that I never have and never will make any money off of these works.
In this Universe there are two factors that make up life. The physical, which makes up the body, and the spiritual, which provides the driving force for living things. Now for most of human civilizaion, with a few exceptions, mankind has focused on the physical aspect of existence, being either unaware or just ingnoring the spiritual. This has contributed to an imbalance between the physical and the spiritual. Now certain forces and entities are emerging to take revenge on the human world. Fortunately ther are those who are granted the power to oppose these forces. They are,
POWER RANGERS INDOMITABLE SPIRIT!
Episode One: Spiritual Awakening.
Location: Prairie City High School.
It began as just another relatively boring afternoon in Henry Lightbird's American History class. Well, most of his students would consider it so, and it showed since a number of them were obviously not paying very much attention. He sighed inwardly and harrumphed.
"Class, I know that it's getting toward the end of the day, but please!"
"Aw, come on teach! It's Friday!", one male student said.
"That may be.", Mr. Lightbird told him. "But I also know that anyone who ignores history will repeat it, next year."
"Oh, Benny's like that all the time.", one girl said.
"Is that so Miss Shivers." the teacher replied. "Then maybe I should refer Mr. Delt here to the Councilor's or the Principal's office."
The class laughed at that for a few moments before Henry reigned them in. "Now to continue. As is was saying....."
The bell rang before he could say anything else. As the class began picking up their books to leave, Mr. Lightbird called out. "Now please remember to read pages 217 to 225 for Monday. And make sure to have those worksheets on the Trail of Tears all filled out, all right?"
"Yeah, Yeah," a few of the students mumbled.
As the students were filing out, Mr. Lightbird caught sight of two boys within the group, who just so happened to be two of the better students in the class. One of them, a young man with light brown hair and another with dark brown hair, brown eyes ans sporting thick dark eyebrows. "Ah, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Urawa, one moment!?"
"Mr. Lightbird?", "Sensei?", the two boys O'Neill and Urawa said respectively.
"Well boys, I was wondering if the two of you had anything you had to do this afternoon?"
"Why? Are you giving us more homework?", O'Neill asked.
The middle aged Native American teacher laughed. "If you consider meeting a pretty girl homework, it is."
"What?" the boy replied, confused.
"Well, you see, my daughter is coming into town at the bus station a little later this afternoon, ans it's her first time in this town. Well, she's about your age and she doesn't have any friends here yet." Mr. Lightbird clarified.
"I get it." O'Neill said. "It's an escort mission, of sorts."
"Something like that." the teacher chuckled. "I just want you two to come with me when I pick her up. If it would be all right with your folks that is."
"I got no problem with it." O'Neill replied.
"Understood Sensei." Urawa said.
A few minutes later Mr. Lightbird and the boys were all in the teacher's old and somewhat scuffed up black now more of a gray pick up truck. Since it was only a standard cab mode, the boys were seated in the truck's bed in the back.
"Hey Ryo!" the O'Neill boy called out to Urawa. "What do you thing Mr. Lightbird's kid is like?"
"How should I know John?" Ryo replied. "It's not like I can predict everything."
"Who's asking you to predict?" John said back. "It's not like I'm asking you who's going to win the Pennant or anything."
"Well, If she takes after her father, she probably has brown skin and eyes with black hair. Anything else I can't say." Ryo replied.
"Gee, thanks a lot!", John shot back sarcastically.
A few moments after that comment the truck stopped at an intersection, but not due to a traffic light. Instead they could hear the honking of horns and when they looked, they could see that there was a traffic jam at the intersection.
"A traffic jam?" John said. "Must have been an accident."
"Must have been." Ryo agreed, although for some reason he had a feeling that there was more to it than that.
Just then a local police officer was making her way down the line of stranded vehicles, checking out the mess. She might not have paid special notice to Henry Lightbird's truck, except for the fact that the two boys were riding in the back. Since this was technically illegal, she approached on the driver's side and had a few words with the teacher.
"What's going on officer?", Mr. Lighbird asked as she approached.
"Oh that?" We're investigating now, but it seems to be a simple case of a truck driver losing control. It's just lucky that you weren't in it, or those two boys riding back there would have been thrown out for sure. As she said that she pulled out her ticket book and started writing. "Just so you know, I'm going to have to write you up for that, since the law requires all passengers to be wearing seat belts."
"What?" We were just going to the bus station to pick up my daughter. It wouldn't have taken long. Henry replied.
"No excuses." the officer said a little curtly. "Now I expect all three of you to show up in court."
"Grr. White man's law.", Henry thought as he took the ticket. Then the female officer continued down the line of cars with a 'have a nice day.", as she left.
It took about another twenty minutes for the traffic jam to be cleared and traffic to resume. By the time Henry and his students finally reached the bus station, all three of them were a little tired. There were a few people waiting in an area with wooden benches and a few hard backed wooden chairs, most with a suitcase or two beside them. This included two young people, one of them a girl with short medium brown hair and amber eyes, with light tan skin. She was wearing slightly tattered jeans and a gray T Shirt with a Playstation logo. Not at all how Ryo had speculated Mr. Lightbird's daughter to appear. He was proven totally wrong when she saw the teacher and got up, holding the handles of two small suitcases in either hand.
"Finally!" she said. "You're late Old Man." as she almost dragged her suitcases making her way toward him.
"Sorry Lisa. We got held up by traffic." the 'Old Man' answered her.
"Whatever." she said, not really focusing on her father but rather taking a couple of sidelong looks at the boys, which both of them noticed.
"Ahem." John said.
"Oh yes." Mr. Lightbird answered. "Boys, this is Lisa. Lisa Lightbird, my daughter."
"I'm John, John O'Neill." John said, holding out his hand in greeting.
"Ryo, Ryo Urawa." Ryo introduced himself, bowing slightly.
"Hey Ciao." the girl replied, taking neither the handshake nor the bow. The two boys just shrugged at her behavior.
"Kids these day." Henry groused as his daughter just set down her suitcases and traipsed out the door, leaving him to pick them up. In turn he pointed to them and asked, "Boys, if you would please?" , to which the two of them just nodded and picked up one bag apiece. A couple of minutes later they were in the parking lot, loading the bags into the truck bed and crawling back in, while Lisa took the second seat in the truck cab.
"That girl looks like she's going to be trouble." John commented as the two boys took their positions.
"A little rude and disrespectful maybe." Ryo said, nodding.
Meanwhile in the cab, Lisa's father was telling her about it.
"Lisa, you were quite rude to those boys back there." he said
"So what, they're just boys." she replied. "But that one, Jon, Jonny was it? He's kind of cute."
"It wouldn't have hurt you to greet them more politely." Henry told her. "At least you could have asked them to carry your bags if you didn't want to, instead of just dropping them."
"So?" she replied, pouting.
"I don't know how your mother puts up with you."
"Well, she's not around a lot." Lisa put in. "So I don't have to 'be polite'."
"Lisa, Lisa." Henry sighed. "Your mother is a wonderful woman and would do anything for you."
"So why didn't she stay with you?" Lisa asked, a little saddened and angry at the same time. "I know why. It's because she never really loved us."
"Lisa!" her father said, almost losing control in more ways than one. Neither he nor his daughter had time to say anything more because the nest moment he had to swerve to avoid something that was in the middle of the road. He slammed on the brakes, almost throwing the boys out of the back like the officer had warned earlier. When he and his daughter had recovered their breath, they peered out the windows at what was outside.
"What the heck are those!?" Lisa shouted, making her father's ears ring.
The older man looked at them and realized something. "They're spirits, child. I don't know why, but somehow they have become disturbed.
"Spirits? As in Ghost?", Lisa queried.
"Ghosts are only one kind of spirit." Henry told her. There are also spirits of Earth, Water, Sky, and many other things." As he opened the truck door, he reached into a decorated leather pouch, taking out what appeared to be some sort of charm, an 'Ojo del Dios', or 'God's Eye', bound with black, white, and gray yarn and strung on a leather thong. Passing this to his daughter he said. "Now hold onto this and don't lose it. It will protect you."
"What?" the girl replied.
"Just take it." her father pleaded, pressing the talisman into hier hands and slowly stepping out of the truck.
Meanwhile the boys were standing up in the truck bed, also looking at the things and rubbing a few bruised they had picked up in the sudden stop. The things seemed to be some combination of bird, wolf and snake all rolled into one. (A vulture's head on a humanoid wolf's body, covered in scales with the fur growing out between them, and with the hide missing in spots, showing the bones.) Ryo, like their teacher, noticed that somehow these things were not physical creatures.
"Kami?!" he said as he looked at the things.
"Kami, what?" John asked.
"What you would call spirits." Ryo replied
"Oh great." the O'Neill boy said back sarcastically. "As if the 'snakes' weren't enough."
"I take it you don't particularly like snakes, O'Neill?" Ryo commented.
"Hate em." John replied in a matter of fact tone.
At that moment their teacher had gotten out of the truck and came up to them saying. "Oh, boys? I want you two to go stand by the front and look after Lisa for me while I go see about these spirits."
"I don't know about that pops. I don't thing these things, whatever they are, are in the talking mood, you know?" John said, noticing the things edging up toward the truck.
"Maybe not." Henry Lightbird replied. "But I have to try." He then passed each boy a talisman identical to the one he gave his daughter. He then turned and made his way toward the spirits, holding his own, more complex talisman up to protect himself. As he did, the boys jumped down from the back of the truck and moved to stand by the doors as their teacher had asked.
The middle aged man held the talisman he had forth and began focusing his spiritual power. A a white glow began forming around him that only others with spiritual senses could see. Beginning a chant in his native language, the newly revealed Shaman began addressing the spirits before him.
"Oh wandering Spirits, what is it that disturbs you? Why are you wandering around with such anger?"
Unfortunately for him, John O'Neill happened to be right in that these spirits were not in a talkative mood. Nor were they just any wandering spirits, and they couldn't really understand him anyway, much less speak. Instead they just attacked, their spectral claws ripping into the man's own soul.
"What the!?", the Shaman wheezed as he stepped back from the advancing creatures. "I can't get through to them?" He almost dropped his talisman, barely managing to hold onto it. Meanwhile both John and Ryo, who both just happened to have enough Spiritual awareness to see it all, moved forward a little to stand a half meter diagonally in front of the truck's front bumper, holding their own talismans up. Lisa also saw what happened and came out of the truck, moving to a position between the two boys, also holding her talisman.
"Pop, no!", she shouted with some concern, even though she and her father didn't usually get along. Ryo, seeing what could happen, moved a little in front of her, while John did the same. "John, Mr. Lightbird's in trouble!" Ryo shouted. "I see that!" the other boy replied, just as concerned. All in a moment as Henry backed away from the oncoming spirits, each of the young people could suddenly see one or more creatures of different colors in their minds and hear their calls.
"John O'Neill saw the image of a great bird with flaming red plumage and he could almost swear that actual fire streamed off of it's wing's trailing edges. He heard a cry typical of a bird of prey and the sound of thunder.
"Ryo Urawa saw and heard two creatures. The first was something like a small wolf with unusual blue fur, and which howled up at the sky. The second was a yellow scaled humanoid lizard with unusually strong and agile limbs and a powerful jaw, and inexplicably, no neck, wearing a silver breastplate. It was also armed with what appeared to be outsized swiss army knives where it's lower arms and hands should be. It called out one word Ryo could not quite hear.
Lisa Lightbird saw a small brownish yellow furred creature with long ears and legs, a hare, swift and agile. It made no sound.
As their individual visions faded, the talismans in the young peoples hands flashed and changed from their black, white and gray colorations into the same colors as the creatures they had seen. Two shades of red for John, blue and yellow for Ryo, and two shades of yellow for Lisa. After the talismans had changed, the kids found that they were now attached to their wrists. Furthermore each could have sworn that they could hear a voice call out to them in their heads. "Now call out! Spirit Warrior Power!"
At first they didn't believe what they were 'hearing', but John O'Neill, knowing that he had to do something, decided to take the chance.
"Spirit Warrior Power!" he shouts. Suddenly John feels a great flow of energy through his body as he is surrounded by a red spectral light. When it faded his clothing had changed. He was now dressed in a dark red version of a military BDU (Battle Dress Uniform), over which was of all things a dark robe with a hood. In his belt is what appears to be a combat knife in a sheath.
Having witnessed O'Neill's transformation, Ryo also decides to take the chance, shouting the words. He feels the same surge of power and change of clothing. Only in his case he is dressed in a blue Hakama with it's surcoat. On his belt is a small hook holding a high grade Swiss Army Knife.
Finally Lisa calls out her transformation and in a flash is dressed in the traditional garb of the Shamans of her father's people, only these garments are yellow. She is armed with a stone knife with a bone handle.
By this time John had started advancing toward the creatures with almost too much confidence for someone so young, as if he had been in combat before. Before he could reach the old man he was confronted by two of the bird/wolf/serpent things, hooked bony claws poised to slash at him. Ryo saw his new friend in trouble and moved to help him, swiss army knife at the ready. Lisa hung back, not really knowing these guys, moving more toward the left, toward her father.
John had just manged to dodge the first attack of his adversaries while Ryo moved up and awkwardly caught the attack of one of them on his knife. This gave the other boy just enough time to draw his own combat knife and block another attack. Henry Lightbird meanwhile was busy blocking the attacks of three other of the monsters with his talisman. He had not yet noticed the kid's transformations.
Lisa was still hesitant. She did not really know what to do. This was too dangerous for some kids and an older man, wasn't it. Shouldn't they run away? Still, her father was in trouble. A moment later the decision was made for her as three more of the things caught up to her and forced her to use the stone knife she had to defend herself.
By now John and Ryo were dealing with five of the fiends and had to stand almost back to back to hold them off as they were surrounded. Henry was also surrounded, and he didn't have the recourse to either weapon or martial arts. Ironically it was Lisa who managed the first telling blow, as her knife connected with one of the opponent's bone like appendages during a wild swing. To her surprise the blade actually hurt it a bit, causing the thing to stumble back, giving her a little breathing room. Still the boys were on their own as she didn't thing to tell them the observation. John in a desperate move tried to tackle one of Ryo and his opponents, managing to push it back just enough for the other boy to stab at it. Like Lisa Ryo found his weapon effective on the things.
"John, Use your knife! It should work on them!" he shouted. Quickly the O'Neill boy tried Ryo's suggestion and nodded as the thing groaned in pain. "Alright!" he shouted. "Now let's do this!" Both boys continued striking with their weapons, alternating with defense and fists when they had to. Henry Lightbird however was still stuck on pure defense, and was on the verge of being knocked down.
Meanwhile in another dimension connected tangentially to the Spirit Realm, several pair of eyes were watching what was happening on a kind of spiritual viewing screen, which was more like a viewing spell.
"What is this!?", one of the beings, watching the events bellowed. "Humans able to fight the Primals! Who are they!?"
"I don't know my lord." another, squeakier voice said. "Perhaps you should send a ModSoul Monster after them?"
"No, it would be a waste at this point." the first voice replied.
"He's right." a sinister female voice added. "It would be a waste of precious spirit energy."
"I don't really know about that." yet another male, feral sounding voice said. "The way they're fighting reminds me of something."
"I'd be careful if were you Lord Toskarat." a second female voice added. One of them definitely looks like he could be a Soul Reaper, although he seems to be quite inexperienced."
"One of your kind Hinamori?" the being now known as Toskarat asked. "I'll take your advice under consideration. For now let's watch what unfolds."
One of the creatures now known as Primals took as swing at Henry Lightbird and knocked him down, putting him in an awkward position. He now prayed almost desperately to the Great Spirit and his Guardian Spirit. It seems that they had heard him for in his mind's eye he suddenly saw his Guardian Spirit, which took the form of a white stag braying out a challenge call. Immediately his talisman started glowing and transferred itself to his wrist, while his clothes changed to a white version of his Shaman Clothes. He was now armed with a wooden staff with a crystal set in the head. Swinging the staff tho block one of the Primal's sickle blows, he found that it easily smashed the creature's claw, making it cry out in pain. Another Primal aimed a body blow at him, but he was able to block it with the other end of the staff, although not without cost as the impact jarred Henry's arm, making him wince.
John and Ryo were now able to hold their own with the creatures, trading blows and steadily wearing the things down. Lisa was practically in a stalemate with her three foes. They were the ones wearing her down. Henry had managed to get up, but was likewise in a standoff with his foes.
"Man, we need to find a weak spot on these things or something!" John commented.
"No kidding!" Ryo answered. "This is tiring!"
The two boys had no time for more talking as they were busy defending themselves. Lisa managed another wild shot across one of the Primal's faces, causing it to drop back, covering it's head. This allowed her just enough of an opening to rush through. She fully intended to get away and get help, but the other two creatures wouldn't allow that. Instead they forced her between themselves and the three creatures fighting her father. Thus she wound up right beside him. The good thing about this was it allowed the two of them to guard each other. This turned out to be necessary as the Primal Lisa had injured had recovered itself, taking a swing at her back, which Henry saw and intercepted just in time, although it further jarred his injured arm.
Now the group was fighting in two pairs with the boys against five Primals and with Lisa and Henry versus six. The battle could go either way unless the Humans could find a way to defeat the monsters. It was Ryo who eventually found it, as he just so happened to stab his swiss army knife between the jaws of one of the things just as it was taking a bite at him. (Although he risked losing the hand in doing so.) The blade hit a pale green glowing sphere of energy within the thing's head and by some property in the knife, the energy was dissipated. A moment later the Primal itself collapsed and disappeared.
"In the mouth!" Ryo shouted. "That's their weakness!"
"You have got to be kidding! Through those jaws!" John replied as he dodged a bite from his opponent. Henry and Lisa overheard Ryo's shout, and Henry tried out the young man's suggestion, aiming staff blows at the things' heads whenever he could. It was Lisa though who made the first kill on their side, finding that a stab through the eye was just as good a one through the mouth.
"The eyes work too!" she shouted to her father. John heard her and nodded to himself. That was more reasonable than trying to get through the teeth. He stabbed at the eye socket of one of the Primals that Ryo was distracting at the time. A third one down! Eight to go!. Now only facing one creature between them, the boys could now double team it. While John punched the thing where it's stomach would be if it had one, Ryo took the mouth shot while it was screaming. Another down, seven to go!. Now they could look to helping out Lisa and her father. In a moment they were upon the creatures assailing the two, attacking them from behind. This distracted two of the monsters enough for Henry to bash through one's skull, destroying it and for Lisa to take down the other. Five left.
Now the odds were more even. With the boys harassing the Primals from behind and the others attacking from the front, soon two more joined their compatriots in non-existence. One of the remaining three tried to turn around and face the boys, only to have John's knife stuck in it's eye socket, destroying it. A few moments later the last two were taken down and the battle was over.
"Whew! What in the world were those things, really?" John asked panting as everybody's transformations faded away, leaving them in their normal clothing. "
"Hostile Spirits, like I told you before." Henry Lightbird answered, rubbing his injured arm. "I don't know why they're attacking the Living though."
"Well, they kind of looked like some ancient Egyptian things. I wonder. Nah.", John added.
"What do you mean by that?" Lisa asked.
"Like some big bad or something might be controlling them or something?" John answered her.
"That may be possible. I have heard tales from my ancestors of such things. It would explain what happened here."
"Who?" Lisa asked further.
"An Elder Shaman or someone else with enough Spirit Power.", Mr. Lightbird said. "This person would either have to be quite evil or truly believe they were doing the right thing, even though it was wrong."
"I've heard stories like that too." Ryo added. "There are legends of certain powerful beings with such abilities in my homeland. I don't remember the details though."
"I don't know what is going on any more than the three of you do." Henry said. "I'll have to meditate on this."
Over in the tangential dimension, the Spirit Lord Toskarat roared, "What!? How is this possible!?", as he witnessed the three youngsters and their teacher defeat the Primals he had sent to the Living World.
"I guess they were indeed a bit stronger than your normal Humans." Hinamori, the woman in the Soul Reaper garb commented.
"Like I suggested before, perhaps we should have sent one of my ModSoul monsters down when the fighting started." a short figure with a white face, whiskers and a squeaky voice added.
"I should go myself to stop them before they become any stronger, if they're what I think they are!", a winged monkey-cat hybrid snarled.
"Really Goldar?" a woman with red hair and eyes in a somewhat skimpy purple dress, and with claws on her hands remarked. "You think they're some kind of 'Power Rangers', like you keep going on about? Like the ones who defeated your former masters?"
"Silence Beryl!", Lord Toskarat bellowed. "Whether or not they're 'Power Rangers', or anything else, the Primals will defeat them next time. Even if it takes all of them!"
The monkey/cat being now known as Goldar shook his head slightly. He thought that Lord Toskarat was making a big mistake. If he knew anything, it was that the Power Rangers were always stronger than any villain thought at first.
Back at the battle site, just as Mr. Lightbird, his daughter and the boys were piling back into the truck to continue their journey home, they didn't notice that there was yet another spirit watching them.
"I'm sorry children.", the spirit thought to himself. "A new evil is indeed rising, and there was no other way. I know that your lives have been hard up until now. But it was those very hardships that have given and will give you the strength to do what now must be done. My thoughts and prayers will be with you Rangers."
Next Time: Four Lives, Impact
Author's note: In this story I am using two incidental characters from Stargate SG 1 and the Sailor Moon Anime as two of the new Rangers, giving them the chance to be the heroes they were never allowed to be in their respective canons The other two Rangers are OC's. My main villain is an OC as well, although the other villains are drawn from old Power Rangers shows, the Sailor Moon Anime, and Bleach. (As are certain story elements.)