Jayden (September 2008)
All these years of imagining what my team of rangers were like, I didn't come close to ones in front of me.
We are sitting around the living room after our first battle with a nighlok, getting to know each other. So far they match the descriptions of their parents and ancestors.
Kevin Hamasaki is the typical dedicated and traditional blue ranger, Mia Watanabe is the caring and graceful pink ranger, Mike Hayashi is the fun loving and rebellious green ranger and Emily Suzuki is the cheerful and clumsy yellow ranger.
Emily is also the most beautiful person I have ever seen. Her blonde hair falls into natural curls around her heart shaped face with a button nose and soft pink lips. But I can't stop thinking of her eyes.
I've never been intrigued by hazel eyes before but hers are different. They're the perfect combination of green and brown, they seem to be lit up with the happiness emitting from her.
It seems like everything makes her happy until Mia starts talking about her brother and the topic of siblings starts. As soon as the word brother is said her face changes from happy to sad and she starts playing with her necklace, which looks like a musical note charm on a gold chain.
I'm about to ask her what's wrong when Mike asks if I have any younger brothers or sisters. When I say that I don't they ask Emily.
Emily is still looking at her necklace. The others are confused because she didn't respond.
"Emily" Mentor Ji calls her and she looks at him like she's undecided about something. He nods and she sighs.
"I have an older sister, Serena." She starts playing with her necklace again. She sounds so heartbroken I...Wait did she say older sister? The samurai ranger is the birthright of the eldest child. The others still look confused.
"Why isn't Serena here then?" I don't want Emily to feel like we don't want her here but Serena was supposed to answer the call.
She lifts her face to look straight at me. She looks so scared and sad I mentally promise to do whatever I can so she never feels this way again.
"Three years ago she was diagnosed with a mutated form of leukaemia. Over the last couple of months she's gone downhill, she can't sit up in bed now. Doctors say she only has a year left if she's lucky."
Mia
My heart broke when Emily told us about Serena. Her voice was breaking and there were a few tears falling down her face but she held strong.
I was so excited when I received the call but if I knew that it could possibly be the last time I saw my brother Terry, there is no way that I could be as happy as she has been all day.
There is a second of silence before someone speaks up.
"Man that sucks." Mike laments which causes Emily to laugh and the tension to dissipate.
"Alright rangers you can continue this tomorrow. I suggest you get some sleep. You starting training in the morning at 7.30am sharp." says Mentor. I look at my watch and see that it is getting late.
"Of course. Goodnight Mentor." Jayden responds as Mentor gets up and walks down the hall.
"Come on Emily, we should go too." I say putting my hand on her shoulder. She looks at me, smiles and nods.
"Goodnight guys." We say at the same time which causes us to burst out laughing as we walk to our room. Once we're changed I climb into my bed and start reading when I hear the most haunting sound. I look up to see Emily sitting on her bed playing a wooden flute, so engrossed in the music she has her eyes closed.
She plays so beautifully that all the boys have come to stand in the door frame. We all listen in silence for a few minutes until she finishes.
Opening her eyes she's surprised to see everyone looking at her and her face goes tomato red with embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to keep you guys up." I've got a feeling that this wont be the last time she apologises for something unnecessarily.
"Don't be. That was amazing. You have a real talent for that." Kevin reassures her while Mike and Jayden nod.
"Alright guys, out. You can hear Emily play tomorrow. Go to sleep." I push the guys out the room, failing to hide the smile on my face.
"Good night." They tell us again. I close the door and giggle with Emily.
"You too missy. Tomorrow is our first day being official samurai rangers."
"Yes ma'am" she salutes me then puts her flute away and lies down in bed. "Goodnight Mia"
"Goodnight Emily" I close my eyes and remember the sounds of her flute as I fell asleep.
Mike (October 2008)
Ugh why do people get up this early? I've been doing this for a month and I'm still not used to it.
I groan and get out of bed, put on my training uniform and head to the kitchen for breakfast. Thankfully Mia is still on her morning run so I get myself a bowl of cereal. Mia is a great person but not a great cook. I sit down next to Emily and watch Kevin and Jayden discuss samurai battle techniques.
We've all become a strange little family. Jayden is like the obedient oldest child, Mia is the caring big sister, Kevin is the brother that worships Jayden, I am the laid back little brother and Emily is bubbly little sister.
After defeating Rofer I've realised that we've all become closer friends, especially Emily. I've come to see her as my little sister. She was the only one who didn't criticise me for trying to take him on by myself, rather she told me I was brave and next time I would definitely get the nighlock.
That's the confusing thing about Emily. She's always happy and optimistic, never says a bad word about anyone...except herself. She always compares herself to Serena and Mia. She still considers herself to be the weakest by a wide margin, even though Ji and Jayden say she has improved greatly since we came together.
After training the gap sensor goes off and we run to the nighlok. Negatron, as he calls himself, is ugly but not as intimidating as other nighloks we have faced.
My confidence gets the best of me and I charge towards Negatron, spin sword ready.
"You had training wheels on your bike til you were ten!" How did he possibly know that? Suddenly I'm hit with a purple beam and fly into the building behind me, as I land on the ground I demorph.
"Mike!" I hear Mia running towards me and she tries to help me up but I can't move. Doesnt take me long to realise that the others need her more then I do.
"Mia go. I'll be right" she hesitates for a second but runs over to the others just as Negatron strikes again.
"You're just plain old boring blue." Kevin is sent flying into another building
"You're a horrible cook." Mia quickly follows him.
Now there is just Jayden and Emily left standing. Man I hope that Jayden is strong enough to defeat him because Emily won't be if Negatron targets her.
"You've got a secret red ranger." That stops Jayden charging but does not send him flying. Maybe we have a chance...
"You're a liar liar red pants on fire."
...Or not. Jayden just went flying into the wall. Emily tries to help him up but it's like we are being pinned down by a big rock.
Suddenly Emily gets angry and starts charging at Negatron, all we can do is lay there and watch our younger sister be defeated.
"Airhead" Emily doesn't react and manages to strike Negatron.
"Klutz" again nothing from Emily
"What's up with this chick? Cry baby" still nothing
"Earth slicer" Emily manages to make Negatron dry up and run back to the Sanzu River. We just look at Emily in shock.
We managed to make it back to the Shiba house and are now sitting in the meeting room. No one has said a word. They are all too scared about bringing up what Negatron said.
"Just because I had training wheels on my bike doesn't mean I needed them." I'm breaking this tense silence. And there is NO way that I'm letting these guys believe that I can't ride a bike.
"Am I boring?" Kevin asks us. To be honest it's the first time I've heard Kevin doubt himself.
"No Kevin you are extremely disciplined, it's a great trait for a samurai." Jayden comforted Kevin who gently smiled.
"And I'm a good cook right?" Mia wants us to reassure her but I don't know if I can without hurting her feelings. Thankfully Emily steps in. "Your combinations are strange but we are lucky that you even want to cook dinner for us."
"I don't understand why Emily wasn't effected by what he said like the rest of us." I didn't mean to say that, I was thinking out loud.
"Maybe she has some sort of special power." For once Ji didn't have a definite answer. Emily giggles and shakes her head.
"It's nothing like that. I used to get teased a lot when I was younger, Serena taught me to ignore them like they hadn't said anything. Guess it works on nighloks too."
At this point I'm not even thinking of what I'm saying.
"But you are always putting yourself down with the same comments. Unless that's really what you think of yourself?"
Her face drops instantly. "I'm sorry" tears are running down her face as she runs out of the room.
"The nighlok may not be able to hurt her feelings Mike, but you can." Mia gently scolds me. Looking around the room Kevin looks angry, Ji hangs his head and I think Jayden has gone to check on Emily. I drop my face into my palms.
Man I always do this. Dad always tells me 'think before you speak Michael, you never know the damage of words'.
Authors Note:
Hey guys Kalgoorliegirl here
So this is my first story ever so please don't hate me if this is bad :)
Just so you guys know I haven't seen the episodes in such a long time so if something doesn't quite match I'm sorry (kinda) but hopefully it will all make sense when the story is finished. Lauren wont be included in this story but I had written the end of the story before I realized that I left her out. I didn't want to rewrite it so she didn't make the cut.
yes it will be a Jemily story! I'm sorry to Memily and Jia shippers but NO! not happening.
Just want to thank a few people
1. RosesAreRed464 for being the first one to review and favorite this story. I swear I couldn't keep the smile off my face when I saw this
2. Jemilyfan6 for reviewing as well
and 3. sweetredranger for being the first one to follow my story. Again couldn't keep the smile off my face.
That's all for now. I will try to keep the authors notes to a minimum going on
Enjoy!
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