Disclaimer: "Magiranger" is owned by Toei Company

Since the fall of Infershia, the world has been left in peace. Since Sphinx and Nai and Mare (a.k.a. Vancuria, for both of them) are making the underground a better place to live, not only have they thereby provided a job for Kai (a.k.a. Magired), they also managed to get Hades beasts of any type to become better beings. And even though mere months have passed since the fall, it is pretty clear that the Magirangers have changed a lot. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean their adventure has stopped!

It started when the Ozu family was having one of their many traditional celebrations. It all started very quiet... so to speak. Either Houka had another boyfriend, Makito was having trouble with Erico-chan, Urara was still trying to find her place in Magitopia, Kai was trying to work on his football career (despite all his work in the underworld), Tsubasa and boxing,... it started relatively quiet.

What really caused a lot of commotion was when Mandora Boy made his entrance.

"OH NOOO...!!! IT'S TERRIBLE!!!!! IT'S SO TERRIBLE!!!!!!!" he shouted while jumping around the dining room.

Makito only just managed to catch the too energetic mandrake, forced him to calm and asked: "What's so terrible?"

"Ju... just look at the mirror in the hidden room!" he still panicked.

Everyone was dying to see what he was talking about. The whole family ran to the hidden room, and looked into the mirror, as they were told. What they saw was indeed quite a shock.

Tsubasa was the first to say anything at all: "General Branken?"

"Didn't we kill him before!?" Kai screamed.

"You did once believe that Miyuki-san was killed too! Maybe it's the same here!" Hikaru said.

Particularly Urara wasn't very happy about this being said: "How dare you even compare that with this?!"

"It doesn't matter how he got here!" Miyuki tried to get to their minds, "Branken is here now!"

"He looks different!" Isamu noticed, "Normally he looked like part man part machine! But now he is that part machine is gone!"

Kai couldn't stand here and wait any longer: "Let's go and get him this time!"

He turned around and left the room. His brothers and sisters followed him, including his brother-in-law. Soon enough, they could be found in the forest where the mirror had spotted Branken.

The five siblings took out there magiphones, and called: "Mahou Henshin! Maagi Magi Majiro!"

Hikaru followed shortly after: "Tenkyuu Henshin! Goolu Golu Goludiiro!"

The six of them were ready to attack, but Branken seemed to be one step ahead of them. He pulled some kind of a rope, upon which two logs appeared from either side of the Magirangers, about ready to fall on them. Magigreen used his magic to stop them from impact. But this caused enough distraction so that Branken could use one of his own magic spells on the six of them. It didn't take long before all six of them were down. Defeated by an old adversary, in such a seemingly simple way. Not only was this humiliating, it was also bad news to the world.

"Give it up, magicians!" Branken told them, "There's no way you can defeat the new and improved me!"

He laughed evilly. But doing this helped the six to regain strength. So they got back to their feet, and attacked him. He only needed one sway of his sword to take all six of them down.

"You keep it up this way, and you'll be the first to die by my blade!" Branken said triumphantly.

That's when something completely out of the ordinary happened. Something invisible seemed to grab hold of him, pucked him up, and pulled him down the hill. Like Branken, the Magirangers had no clue as to what just happened.

They got up, and looked down the hill. The surprise was big when they saw another magician down there. He wore a suit like they did, though without a cape. He also wore some kind of an armor, but unlike Wolzard's this one looked smaller, lighter and easier to move in. What was mostly peculiar was the fact that his suit was plain black. Even the M on his suit didn't have it's own color.

The magician spoke: "You are not supposed to be here."

"I know I'm supposed to be dead!" Branken made no effort to deny that fact, "But I'm back now!"

"Yes!" the magician said, "By accident."

The six couldn't believe what they were hearing.

The magician down there kept talking: "You weren't supposed to be revived."

"But I am!" he said as he got up, "And there's nothing you can..."

Again he seemed to be in some kind of grip. The magician was pointing his wand to Branken, which was likely the cause of the grip. He said: "You are not going to tell me what I can or can't do!"

Like playing with a model airplane, the magician started to swing Branken around. Up and down, left and right, forward and backward, until Branken had enough of this three dimensional world. The magician's wand changed into a scythe. He was about to attack Branken with it, but then he heard someone say: "You've seen that? How did he do that?"

The magician turned his face up the hill. He seemed to be as surprised to see the six as much as the six were surprised to see him. This gave Branken a chance to recover and attack. The magician made one quick move with his scythe. He sliced Branken with it, after which he blew into pieces.

The six were more than surprised to see this. Magired was the first to talk: "You could take him down all by yourself?! You must be some really..."

"Who are you?!" he called. He sounded a little panicked though.

Magishine seemed to know the right thing to say: "Naturally! We should introduce ourselves!"

Magigreen began: "The howling earth element! Magician of the green! Magigreen!"

Magipink followed: "The blowing wind element! Magician of the pink! Magipink!"

Before Magiblue could say anything, the magician shouted: "STOP!!!"

Neither one of the six understood why he freaked out like that. He remarked: "You people make necromancy obsolete."

Only Magishine seemed to understand his remark: "Are you saying you're a necromancer?"

"Yes." was his short answer.

"But that's forbidden magic!" Magishine added.

"So what if it is? It's not like the police would arrest me or anything!" the magician said flatly.

He turned around, and walked away.

"What an arrogant git!" Kai said.

Note: the black magician is mine