Chapter 2: First Day

There were a million things that Angie could hate about being the new kid, but she didn't.

A new start, she kept thinking to herself.

"Angelina Greyson," said the Professor looking at her marks from her previous school, "For now sit beside Ms. Green, I'll give you your textbook tomorrow,"

Angie quietly nodded and sat beside a curly haired brunette girl with dark skin. She wore a pink ribbon in her hair whcih matched her nailpolish. She didn't even notice Angie sitting down as she was looking at her smartphone.

"Josie Green!" exclaimed the Professor as the girl got startled, "Now since it seems like you were paying attention, would you mind telling me the answer to this question." He pointed to the last question on the board.

Angie looked at Josie, who obviously had an expression of "Are you freaking kidding me?"

"3x," Angie whispered to her. She didn't know why she did, but she knew the answer and the girl seemed desperate.

"3x?" Josie repeated outloud. The professor looked stunned, shocked and kind of annoyed that she got it right. He remained quiet as he went back to his teacher's desk.

"Thank you so much," Josie whispered to Angie, "Hey are you new here?"

"Uh, yeah," Angie whispered back with noted sarcasm, but she didn't seem to notice.

"Well if you want, I can show you around," she said cheerfully.

She seemed nice, Angie thought and she nodded.


The whole school day seemed like the longest day of her life. Josie never met up again with Angie, so she had to defend herself through the hallways and classrooms. Angie kept quiet, not really talking to anyone, not wanting to cause a scene.

After school, she waited outside the main doors.

"Where is he?" she said looking at her watch. Her brother was over 40 minutes late. She decided to walk home.

Putting on her earphones, she walked across the street. Instead of walking around the whole neighbourhood, she decided to go through a pathway in the woods.

At first it seemed like a good idea, until she got lost.

"They're just the woods," she kept repeating to herself, "Nothing to be afraid of,"

She started to walk faster and faster until she tripped, "Uhhh, stupid branches," she muttered.

As she got up, she felt a slight chilled breeze. She turned around and saw two monsters behind her.

The monsters with black, shadowy figures with red glowing eyes. Angie quickly turned around, wanting to run, but there were 3 more behind her.

She wanted to scream, but no noise came out of her throat. She was in shock. She never saw these creatures in her life.

They started to come closer, but then a light scared them. The light was coming from around her neck.

It was her necklace. She took the necklace off her and held it up. The monsters started to disappear.

She was now alone. She looked at her necklace again. It was the only thing she had that belonged to her mom. It was a yellow topaz gem, that her brother got designed to be made into a necklace. She never went a day without wearing it.

"What just happened?" she said to herself. She started to adjust her mind, until she heard the sound of metal coming from behind her.

It was a figure dressed in black armour. "Oh man, this could not get any weirder," she said.

"You made my demons run?" the knight said, coming closer to her as she took steps back, "Your energy levels are quite high."

"Who are you?" she asked trying to look for the best escape route.

"Xeldar, humble servant of Malakai," he said proudly.

"What?" she exclaimed.

Her heart beat raced as he saw him take out a sword.

"Don't worry, I'll make this quick," he said in a sly voice.

He began to charge at her, until he was hit by an arrow.

They both looked up, and saw a guy, in red armour and a helmet in the trees as he jumped down in front of Angie.

"How many of you freaks are there?" she yelled in shock.

"Dragon Ranger? When are you going to give up?" said Xeldar.

"Wait, you're a power ranger?" said Angie. Her dad use to tell her stories of power rangers when she was young, but she didn't think it was real.

"Hide," the red ranger said to her. She did as she was told.

Both Xeldar and the red ranger started to fight with their swords.

The red ranger lost his weapon, but still seemed confident.

"Forgetting something Xeldar," he said as he used his hands to create a flame to surround Xeldar.

The red ranger had Xeldar right where he wanted him, until Xeldar exclaimed, "Another time Ranger," suddenly disappearing.

Angie got up from hiding, and approached the red ranger.

"So do you want to explain to me what happened?" she asked.

"Trust me, you don't want to know," he said, "Quickly go back towards that path, and don't come into the woods again got it?"

Angie looked at the path, "But how…" she turned back again and the ranger disappeared.


Later when Angie got home, she smelled smoke coming from the kitchen.

"What the?" she exclaimed, seeing her brother with the fire extinguisher.

"What did you do?" she asked.

"Another fail attempt at dinner," he sighed. He picked up the phone, "So Mexican or Chinese,"

Angie wasn't really paying attention. She was still thinking about what had happened.

"Earth to Angie?" Zane exclaimed, "What bad day at school?"

"Uhh…no," she stuttered. She wanted to tell him, but it seemed crazy.

"You ok?" he asked.

"Yeah, you know. New school, new people," she said quickly taking her bag and going upstair.

Zane leaned against the door, feeling bad. He wanted to tell her sister, but it was for her own good.