Chapter 1: Broken spell part 1

Chelbell2016:

Well first chapter is up. I am not going to skip too many chapters for this maybe one or two not like the other stories in the series. . Please review and tell me if you have any ideas also I need to know wether anyone wants Bowen to later become a ranger or a knight or just stay a sorceress as Courtney will be the red ranger.

*Keeper of the powers*

Courtney's POV:

I am on my way to Briarwood and I am really excited about the chance to find my parents. My dad has been really understanding and I promised him that I would flame home whenever I could. I still had vet school to go to which is what I applied to at the university not too far away. I stop at the edge of some woods take my helmet off as I came on my bike that dad brought for me. I stare at the city where I hope to find my parents. It looks pretty nice and whats good is that there is no monsters to distract me from my goal to find my parents. The problem is I don't know wether they are even alive.

"So that must be briarwood!" I say to myself as I continue to look over everything.

I get back on my bike and take off again. I am also hoping that if I find my parents I will also find out what my strange powers are. But knowing my luck they will probably have no idea what I am talking about.

All of a sudden there is a huge earthquake. I loose control of my bike and I call out as I go sliding on to the grass and fall off.

"Ouch!" I say out loud as I hurt myself a little when I landed.

I lift the visor on my helmet as the earthquake continues to go on. After it is finished and I notice that my bike is damaged and will not work. I know that I am going to have to get it to town and fix it myself otherwise I am not going anywhere at all. I look around and when I am sure there is no one around I flame my bike thinking about an alley way anywhere in Briarwood.

I end up in an alley way and when I walk out I see that there is a record shop around. I might check it out later after I have checked into the university. I could do with an income so I need to find a job preferably not far.

I am just getting my bike fixed when I hear a voice.

"Somebody please help me!" I hear a mans voice say. "Please someone! Anyone! I need help! It's my brother. We were walking just up the road, and some creature grabbed him. I fear the worst. It's just out of town. The creature took him into the woods."

I frown when everyone starts to walk away from the man at the mention of the woods. Some town I have come too. I hear the man continue to plead for help.

"I will," I say raising my voice to make sure I am heard I hear gasps as everyone turns to see who spoke. I dropped my tools and looked over. "I could use a break."

"Thank you!" The old man said approaching me. I stood up and I noticed that everyone was still giving me strange looks.

A guy wearing a checkered shirt and with a helmet under one arm steps forward to speak to me.

"Hey!" He says and he looks like he wants to flirt as he walks towards me and I place my jacket on. "I'm uh.. I'm Xander. You're new around here aren't you? Probably not aware of all the facts. And there's just one you go into those woods. You don't come out."

I roll my eyes and look behind him to see his four friends. Two girls and two boys.

"Heard about it!" I say nodding but not caring. "But the guy needs help. And not to insult anyone here but no one else in this city seems to care."

The guy gives me a look that tells me I'm nuts but I don't care. This guy is too arrogant for my liking.

"I'll go with you!" One of his friends says stepping forward she is wearing a denim jacket and has black hair with streaks. I turn to smile at her. "Not everyone in this city's a coward!"

I nod at her and she glances back as another of Xander's friends speaks up.

"I'll go too!" This friend had ginger hair and a blue shirt over a light blue T-shirt. He looks really excited. "I've always wanted to go on a dangerous quest! This is a dangerous quest right?"

I smile as he looks like a kid about to go to a toy shop.

"Perilous!" The girl says to amuse him and I smile wider. Those two should be a couple.

"Sweet!" The guy says.

"Well let's go!" I say as we all take off.

*Keeper of the powers*

I have found out that the two teens that came with me and the old man are named Chip and Vida. We arrive at the woods and I scoff as I see a 'DANGER! Keep out!' sign. Briarwood would quiver at the danger I have seen in my life. The old man stops and turns back to us as we walk towards him.

"You sure you're willing to enter?" He asks us and I frown at his questioning when his brother is in danger. "The woods are a very scary place."

"Trust me when I say I've seen scarier!" I say to him and then glance at the others. "And you sure do ask a lot of questions for someone who's brother is in danger!"

"Everyone's in danger!" The old man says and I frown. I hate that line.

" 'Everyone's in danger'?" Chip repeated in question.

We suddenly hear the honking of a car and we look around to see a Jeep pulling up towards us. Vida moves forward and she looks really angry.

"Xander!" She told the guy who talked to me earlier and was driving the jeep. "I told you if you ever took my car I'd rearrange your limbs!"

I love her attitude. I would be the same if Conner ever used my bike.

I walk forward as both he and the other female who looked a little like Vida climbed out of the Jeep and Xander pats it.

"You're going into the woods and never returning," Xander says smiling at her. "As if you're ever going to see it again!"

I roll my eyes at him and he frowns at me.

"Drama queen!" I say.

"He's got a point!" Chip says but chuckling at what I said.

The young girl in a tan jacket steps forward to address Vida.

You're my sister where you go," she sighs deeply. "I go."

I hear the old man say something from behind me but I don't hear what.

We all begin to walk through the woods. We hear birds as we go along.

"Eh it's creepy out here!" Maddison states.

I chuckle.

"I live near woods!" I tell her. "Trust me this is not creepy!"

"Well I think it's creepy too," Xander agreed.

I just sighed.

As we walk on I sense something. It feels good but also powerful. It then feels like we pass through a veil of some sort and I gasp at the feeling. I turn as Maddison speaks up.

Huh? What was that?" She asked and I go wide eyed wondering how she had felt that too. "I felt something, something weird."

I turned to say that I felt it too but as I turned I noticed something.

"Wait?" I say to the others and they pause as well. "Where's the old man?"

I walk towards Maddison hoping that I see him anywhere. But I don't and it worries me.

"Ten seconds into the woods and we're already lost!" Chip says excited. "All right! Just trolls goblins and elves live in the woods too!"

He was starting to annoy me. Yes this could be true but that doesn't mean he has to brag.

"I've also heard a witch lives here!" Chip exclaims. "She's hideous with green skin and a black tongue with yellow drool that slowly drips from the corner of her mouth when she speaks!"

"Okay stop I'm gonna loose my breakfast if you carry on!" I watch as everyone turns and then goes wide eyed. "Please don't play look there's someone behind you!"

Then I sense someone.

"There is someone behind you!" Vida says.

I turn nervous now to see someone in a black cloak that falls to the ground.

I step back and stand in front of the others. I automatically fall into a fighting stance and the others give me a weird look.

"Anybody wanna run?" Maddie asked in a nervous voice.

"Already tried!" Xander says sounding just as scared. "But my feet won't move!"

"I aint running from nothing!" I say with confidence.

Then these weird creatures jump out and face us. They remind me a lot of Kelzacks and Tyrannodrones.

"Not again!" I whisper under my breath.

"She brought friends!" Vida cries.

"BACK OFF!" I yell at the creatures and then I sigh. "Way to go Courtney. You are becoming Hunter!"

The creatures growl at us and continue to surround us.

The black cloaked person suddenly pulls something out that is a stick with a snowflake on and is glowing which surprises me.

"DISPEL ARATAN!" The voice belonging to a woman yells.

Six broomsticks come flying out of nowhere and before I can do anything I am flying through the air.

The other four are all screaming but I am just hanging on trying to make sure I don't fall because creating a shield would not be a good idea in front of civilians.

We land in the middle of who knows where and I search our surroundings. I also notice that the other four did not land on their feet.

"Okay," Xander says and I look around at him as he turns to me. "So, new girl now you know why nobody comes into these woods!"

"The names Courtney," I tell them all smiling and placing my hands on my hips.

"What is this place?" Vida asks.

"I call it Rootcore!" A voice says and I turn to see the woman in a black cloak appear again.

We all stumble backwards to inside the tree.

*Keeper of powers*

I look around in shock as we end up in a room that looks like it could be a command centre.

"I thought it best you were brought here," I see the woman from outside says from a balcony.

"Hi I'm Xander," Xander speaks approaching a table that has some sort of crystal ball on it. "It's a really nice place you've got here. It's really... woody."

The woman pulls of the cloak to reveal she has red hair and is wearing a white dress. I am shocked when the woman raises her stick thing and the brooms appear on the wall behind us. I also notice the different colours around the room.

"I am the sorceress Udonna!" She tells us smiling at all five of us I walk forwards a little. "Welcome to my home!"

We glance around to see the room has computers and on top of the balcony a book.

"WOW! This is awesome!" Chip exclaims.

I just looked around amazed.

"When the five of you entered the forest," Udonna says looking around at all of us. "You stepped into a magical dimension!"

"A parallel dimension outside of Briarwood!" Chip said impressed. "Do we live in a great city or what?"

Udonna suddenly appears next to us having moved like in the blink of an eye.

"A few years ago there was a great battle in our world," Udonna says to all of us. "Dark magic conquered our realm and was about to enter your dimension when we finally defeated them and sent them back to the underworld, but at a great cost. The gate was sealed with a powerful spell. However, during the recent Earthquake, a crack appeared in the gate, and evil has slipped through."

I can't believe I have got myself into this mess. AGAIN! But the thing is everything Udonna has done up to now it reminds me of my extra gifts.

"Remember me? Xander?" I sighed as Xander spoke up looking at Udonna. "Well I'm just wondering. What does that have to do with us?"

Did he have to ask.

"It could mean the end for both of our worlds!" Udonna stated.

"Oh come on!" I exclaim. "Not again! Seriously how many times can a world end?"

"I promise you what I tell you it's true!" Udonna says walking up the stairs again to a book. "The Xenetome! The book of the unknown!"

I walk over with the rest to see what she is looking at.

"In it," Udonna continues as we arrive behind her. "is everything we do not know!"

Strange writing appears and I look at it confused.

"What kind of language is that?" Maddison asks.

"I've never seen it before!" I say agreeing with Maddie.

"It is the language of the ancients!" Udonna informed us smiling. "You will soon learn it. It says that when evil rises again, five mystical warriors from the human real will step forward. You are those warriors. You are the power rangers!"

I sigh and look around at the others who all look shocked.

"Oh nice!" Chip being the predictable one said happily.

"Look excuse me," Xander says holds his hand in the air like he is in school. "But there must be some mistake. How are we gonna defeat pure evil? Our high school hasn't even won a football game in like six years!"

"Speak for yourself cowboy!" I say and I raise my hand and move a book off of the shelve towards me. Both Udonna and the rangers gasp. "I have a ranger history that will surprise all of you!"

"You are already powerful!" Udonna says staring at me. "You already have strong magic."

"So that's what it is?" I asked and she nodded.

"These are your magic wands!" Udonna says and she holds out five wands Each one has a different colour and a different sign on top of it.

She passes them out and they glow as each person takes theirs.

Chip- yellow.

Maddison- blue.

Vida- pink

Xander green

Me- red

I was shocked when I received red and how brightly it glowed. Red was the leader. Well usually.

"Never go anywhere without them!" she tells us.

"Udonna! Udonna!" A voice says and we all turn to see a young girl about my age enter the room and come up the stairs. She stops in shock when she sees us. "Oh hello. Nice to meet you."

Udonna heads over to the young girl.

"Uh excuse me. Udonna?" The young girl and Udonna converse for a few seconds to themselves.

"You must stay here until I return!" Udonna tells us. "Do not go into the woods by yourselves!"

then there is a flash and she disappears.

The girl then imitates her clicking her fingers and getting annoyed.

"I wish I could do that. I practise and I practise but nothing!" She then remembers us and approaches. "Oh um hello again. Um I'm Claire, sorceress in training here at Rootcore as well as Bowen."

I wonder who Bowen is?

"Look I'm outta here!" I say needing to do something.

"Oh no!" Claire says raising a hand to stop me as the others follow my lead.

"I want to go and help!" I tell her but she was having none of it.

"Udonna says you have to stay here till she returns!" Claire tells me and I sigh.

"We all better go!" Maddie says and I put the wand down to try and budge Claire out of my way.

"Oh this is not good!" Claire exclaims and then an idea comes to her. "Ooh I know! I will conjure a spell that will freeze you where you stand until Udonna returns!"

She then tries to cast a spell but ends up turning herself into a sheep and we all leave.

*Keeper of powers*

"Come on!" I tell the others.

"Look!" Maddie says and we see a village that is destroyed.

"Who are they?" Xander asks surprised at how it all looks.

We all see that they are fairies and other creatures.

"I should have known you wouldn't stay at Rootcore!" Udonna says suddenly appearing with a young man who looks a little older then me.

"Hi," he says holding out his hand and I shake it. "I'm Bowen Udonna's son!"

"Hello!" I say and I feel that he is very powerful.

"What happened here?" Maddie asked as Bowen returned to Rootcore at his mothers request.

"Woodland village was destroyed!" Udonna tells us as we walk towards her. "Tomorrow it will be another village!"

I look around at all the destroyed debris and I feel guilty that all these creatures have lost their homes.

"The darkness destroys everything in it's path!" Udonna continued and I looked back at her. "Until they find what they want!"

"What are they looking for?" Chip asks her.

"Me!" She states bluntly. "And then they will go after you!"

"Yeah well what's new?" I ask a little annoyed that I am back where I started.

"It is them!" A woodland creature suddenly says and we all look around. "It is them! The protectors are here! Hail the mystic force!"

They all began to bow like we were royalty.

"I always wondered what it would be like to be worshipped," Xander says and I roll my eyes at him. "It's not so bad!"

I looked over at Udonna and she was smiling at the five of us.

All of a sudden there is a loud roaring sound and a giant monster appears.

I drop into fighting stance.

"Okay that's bad!" Xander says.

I watch as the monster approaches us.

"Take out your wands!" Udonna says and then I remember I left mine at Rootcore by accident.

"Uh we kind of left them back at the tree!" Chip states nervously.

"All right!" Udonna says and approaches the monster herself. "Stand back! You leave me no choice!"

I worry that it's a bit much for Udonna to take on her own.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!" Udonna calls and she morphs into the white mystic ranger. "Flurry of snow! White mystic ranger!"

"Now that's cool!" Vida calls and I nod my head.

"Been there done that!" I say and they all smile.

Udonna jumps at the monster and fires at him from her staff. It has no effect and the monster goes to hit her and she flips out of the way. Then the weird creatures from before appear and I am the first to see them.

"Guys we have company!" I tell the others.

The others turn to look and they all begin to freak.

"Well the way I see it is we have two choices," Chip says. "We can surrender and be destroyed."

"Or fight?" Maddie says.

"Well as a former ranger!" I look at all of them. "I say we fight!"

"Oh no, no, no, no," Xander stops me as I'm about to teach these guys a lesson. "There's a third option. Plan Xander: I'll just reason with them!"

I raise an eyebrow at him. "You've got to be kidding me!"

He doesn't listen and walks toward the strange creatures.

"Hi, I'm Xander," Xander says walking forward and I resist the urge to face palm. "We're not really from these parts, eh. So if it's okay with you we'll just be heading off in another direction."

I yank him back and the others gasp as I raise a shield that the minions bounce off of it and go flying.

"I will say it again. We fight!"

They all nod and the monsters try again to blast us but they are unsuccessful.

Two try to grab me but I flip them both away. I then kick one in the chest and punch another. I duck under a kick and sweep the feet out from underneath two. Doing a back flip I land once again on my feet. Unfourtanetly one catches me off guard and throws me into a tree and my back hits it. I feel the wind get knocked out of me but I force myself back to my feet. I then hear Udonna's voice from behind me.

"Just remember to use magic," she says to us. "All you need to do is believe in magic!"

I listen to the others try this and I know that I have magic so I say it proudly.

"I DO BELIEVE IN MAGIC!" I yell.

Flames come flying out of my hands and turn the monsters into ashes.

I then run forwards and fire a blast at the rock monster just after Udonna has frozen him.

"Udonna duck!" I call and she does and the fire blows the monster up. "You're on fire!"

Udonna approaches me and smiles.

"Thank you!" she says and I nod. "You have great talent!"

"Thanks!" I tell her.

"Very nice!" Udonna says as we all gather together. "Are you up to the task? Are you now ready to accept your legacy?"

"Oh yeah!" Chip says happily. "Bring it on!"

"I'm in!" Vida agrees. "I kicked some serious evil back there!"

"This is so unlike me but I'm sticking with my sister," Maddie says a little unsure.

"Someone's got to look after these guys right?" Xander says smiling.

"And I will be looking after all of you!" I say and Udonna nods. "I was a leader in my last team and I can still complete my studies and be a ranger!"

I feel a dark presence and all of a sudden a dark purple spell seal appears on the ground and a weird man type being appears with a sword and shield.

"You may have defeated my hidiacs!" He says to all of us. "But you will not defeat me! WOLF ATTACK!"

I tried to raise a shield but the evil magic ate straight through it and we all hit the ground hard.

"I already despise this guy!" I growl as we all look up at him.

*Keeper of the powers*

Chelbell2016:

Ok guys first chapter and please tell me what you think. Please review.