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Summary of last chapter: Dana worries about Sydney's powers and for the future of her daughter, Carter comforts her. We meet Wes and Jen once again and their little boy, Sky Tate. Sky and Syd play together.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Power Rangers SPD. I wish I could own Sky and Syd, but I don't.
Captured
Dinner had officially ended three hours ago and the Mitchell- Grayson manor was filled with a deadly silence. Everyone in the house was now asleep tightly, not even the sound of the tree branches hitting softly against the glass windows could wake them up.
Syd was struggling to sleep, she had her eyes closed but she was still conscious. She just couldn't shake off the feeling that something bad was about to happen. She desperately wanted to know what was about to happen, but she couldn't find any answer to it. She tried to wander off to a peaceful sleep once again, just as her many other several attempts to do this, she failed. She hugged Peanuts the stuffed animal tightly, almost ripping its head off.
Whys was she scared? Why couldn't she shake that negative feeling off? Why couldn't she forget about it and go to sleep? The questions flashed through her mind quickly. The sound of the trees bashing into the windows made her open her blue eyes completely.
Then the unwanted and already predicted by 7-year-old Sydney Drew happened. A loud explosion noise filled the entire manor. The sound of footsteps approaching her room made her jump a little bit. The door swooshed open revealing her parents standing outside her room.
"Mommy, what's happening?" Sydney asked, still shaken up from the explosion
"There's someone attacking the house!" Dana spat. Syd started crying and Carter pulled her into his arms. The hug ended and Syd was face to face with her father once again. He kneeled down and grabbed his daughter's hand with his. His hazel eyes met her watery blue eyes.
"Syd, you have to go hide with Sky and leave this fight to us." Syd just nodded her head in disagreement
"No, I'm not leaving you and mommy alone." Pain read all over through Syd's face, she couldn't hide it. Tears were rolling down her cheeks.
"Syd, you have to go hide. Please do this for me and daddy." She quickly understood that all her parents wanted was for her to be safe, she nodded her head slowly and ran to the closet where she knew Sky was hiding.
She ran desperately inside of the cleaning supplies closet and crouched to the wooden floor in the small storage room. She sat besides Sky and clutched his hand tightly in hers.
Her parents in the other hand had just met with the responsible of the attack. It was not a human, not even a burglar as Syd had suspected. It was worse than that, much more worse than that. The attacker was an alien and it was not a cute green one with big and weird black eyes kind of alien, as it was pictured in weird magazines and publications. It was a grim-looking alien, it had a skeleton appearence with flashy red eyes and two big horns on the top of his head. The creature walked over to the kids' parents and looked directly into their eyes, quickly filling everyone with fear. Dana shot a disgusted look at the skeleton-like creature standing in front of her.
"Who are you?" Dana snapped
"Who I am is not important, what I want is the important thing here." The creature snickered. Then, a creature, correction a robot, walked over to him. The skeleton whispered something to him, something the parents did not listen to.
"What exactly do you want?" Jen said harshly
"You'll see what I want in a moment." The creature snapped his fingers and some of his robotic soldiers came to him, including a new creature which had a big cape and a glass jar covering his head.
Then Sky came screaming and his deep blue eyes filled with tears. He ran to his dad and mom and hugged them. Dana's eyes started to filll with tears as she understood what the skeleton wanted, Carter embraced his wife.
"Where is our daughter?" Carter screamed
"Don't worry your daughter is safe... with me." He started laughing evilly
"What are you going to do with her?" Jen asked
"That... is none of your business." The other creature said from inside of his glass encase, all of the adults shot the creature a defaint look
"Now take the girl away Broodwing, I'll pay you for your services later." The skeleton creature said to the other creature.
"Yes, Emperor." With that said, all of the creatures in the manor disappeared in a flash of light and left the house in a mess and with a big loss to everyone, Sydney Grayson.
Somewhere in the universe
Sydney was dragged by her arms to the main chamber of the creature's ship, or what looked like a ship. She hadn't said anything since she had arrived or was captured that same night. Her blue eyes started filling with tears, but she knew she had to be strong. Not only for herself, but for her parents, aunt Jen, uncle Wes and most importantly... for Sky. The creature with the glass case over his head brought her down to her knees.
"Now kneel in front of the future emperor of the universe." Syd stayed quiet, she knew it was better for her own sake not to protest
"Don't scare the poor girl, Broodwing." The skeleton helped Syd up and stood mightly before her. "After all, she will help us in our goal."
Sydney then heard other footsteps approaching the quarters. She listened closely to the footsteps. Syd heard a clicking of heels against the ship's floor. Syd immediately thought that this someone or something was a woman. The figure came into the room, as Syd had guessed, it was evidently a woman. The woman looked several years older than her, she had long raven hair that fell all the way, up to her well- defined hips. She looked normal, except for a little detail on her face, she had a purple thunder drawn just under her right eye. She shot a disgusted look at Syd. She had obviously taken an immediate hate to the seven-year-old.
"Is this the little brat you told me about?" The raven haired girl remarked
"Yes she is, she may not seem like much. But in a few years, we'll see the real potential of her powers." The skeleton said
"Years!? Grumm, you know I'm not getting any younger! I can't and won't wait that long fo her to get those stupid powers." The raven- haired girl screamed frustatedly
Syd had already learned two of the villians' names. The skeleton creature's name was Grumm, or Emperor Grumm as the other creature called him. The other creature's name was Broodwing, but Syd was still curious about learning the woman's name. Sydney started feeling sleepy and accidentally let out a yawn from her mouth. Emperor Grumm turned to face her.
"Are you tired?" Grumm questioned her, Syd was still scared and stepped back a bit
"Yes... yes... Emperor." She said nervously
"Don't be scared, Sydney." Grumm walked over to her and stroked her face lightly, Syd didn't respond. "We are not going to hurt you. We are actually going to help you."
"OK, Emperor." Syd muttered under her breath
"Very well, now let's brand her." Broodwing said
"Brand me? I'm not an animal!" Syd screamed
"Yes, don't worry, it will only hurt the first few days." Broodwing said without noticing her
"Besides, if you escape, the brand will help us locate you. If you ever try to escape, I'll personally kill you." The raven- haired girl snickered
The raven- haired girl approached her and brought her to her knees. She opened the back of Syd's light pink nightgown and looked for the perfect place to put the brand on. She decided that she would put the brand on the middle of her back and proceeded to sticking the hot iron against Syd's delicated skin. She slowly pressed the iron against Syd's skin, Syd tried to contain herself from crying. She failed not to cry and let the tiny tears roll down her cheeks freely. The other girl had already finished branding her and removed the iron from Syd's skin.
Grumm approached her and observed the brand closely. The brand consisted of two diagonal waves with two points on oppsite side of the waves. Grumm touched it and Syd flinched. The tears stopped and Syd yawned again, she was really exhausted after everything that had happened that night.
"Morgana, the brand is a real piece of art." Grumm bragged
"In my native homeland's sign language that means evil." Morgana informed
"Broodwing, you will receive the payment for your services later. Morgana take Sydney to her room, I the Krybots already moved in her personal belongings." He ordered
Grumm and Broodwing exited the main quarters of the ship and Morgana was left with Sydney. Morgana took Syd's small hand and took her to a room in the back part of the ship, where Morgana's room was also located. Syd didn't even noticed her room. the only thing she did spot was her bed. She flopped down on it and quickly fell asleep. Morgana shut Syd's door and Sydney began sobbing once again.
AN: If you don't understand the description of Syd 's brand, just think about Lana's/ Isobel's tattoo in Smallville, I got my insipiration for the brand there. If you are wondering how Syd looks when she is little, think about the actress who played young Beth in Moonlight.
