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Title: The Little Samurai
Summary: A Samurai's life was dangerous; he knew that better than anyone. But with his best friend thrown into the mix, Jayden will do everything he can to protect her.
Ava giggled as she tiptoed into Jayden's bedroom that morning. She had been up for the last quarter of an hour and demolished half, if not all, the cookies her father had made the previous afternoon. He should have hidden them in a better place than the cupboard; did he seriously think that she would sleep in while she knew there were chocolate chip cookies in the house?
Creeping closer to the Red ranger's bed, Ava smothered her giggles in her hands as she took hold of his blanket and yanked it off of him. Jayden groaned in his sleep, rolled over and muttered something indescribable, causing Ava's giggles to come hard and fast.
"Jayden," she whispered, testing the boundaries. It was only half five, she knew that in half an hour Jayden's alarm would be going off, it had done, every morning, like clockwork, for years, but her whisper was rewarded with nothing from the Red ranger.
Ava pouted and threw the blankets that were still in her hands to the floor. She hated being ignored.
"Jayden," she hissed. "Do not pretend you are sleeping, Ranger boy! I know you can hear me!"
Again, Jayden did not answer her.
Getting frustrated with his lack of response, Ava decided on another approach. She knew that he could hear her; Jayden was a heavy sleeper, yes, but not this heavy! He was like Kevin. Anything could wake him. A pin dropping in the dead of night would wake up both Jayden and Kevin, while the rest of the house slept peacefully.
Carefully she climbed onto the bed, straddling his hips, and leaned forward so that her arms were folded on his chest. She grinned, her face inches away from his, and a familiar memory of how many times she had freaked him out by staring at him while he slept, popped to mind.
Ava couldn't help the quiet giggles that escaped her lips.
"Jaaaaaayden!" she giggled.
Suddenly, and unexpectedly, Jayden's arms rose up from the bed and caught her around the middle, as he rolled over, effectively trapping her between him, the bed and the paper thin wall. Ava giggled and struggled in his arms.
"Stop moving!" he muttered.
"Aha! I knew you were awake!" Ava said, punching him lightly in the chest.
"Course i'm awake," Jayden nodded, dipping his head and burying it in the nook between her shoulder and her neck. "It is kinda hard to sleep when I got you pouncing on me early hours of the morning! What you doing up so early?"
"Daddy made cookies," Ava grinned burying her face into his chest.
Jayden groaned. "Oh no,"
"Oh yes!" Ava giggled. "Sugar! Sugar! Sugar! I'm gonna scare Mike and maybe wake Emily so we can have cookies together!"
She jumped up from the bed and made a mad dash for the door, she would have made it, had it not been for Jayden's quick reflexes. His arms wrapped around her waist, and he hauled her over his shoulder, carrying her back to his bed. "Sleep," he ordered, throwing her down onto the mattress, and climbing in beside her.
He grabbed the blankets from the floor and pulled them over them both, switching his alarm off in the process. He knew that with Ava so hyped up off of cookies, he would not be waking up at his normal hour to start training.
"Me no sleepy," Ava muttered as she snuggled closer to him.
Jayden sighed.
"Count sheep," he yawned, rubbing his eyes with one hand and wrapping the other around her, pulling her closer.
"Tell me story," she insisted.
"What story?"
"The Samurai..."
~*Little Samurai*~
Later that morning, during training, Ava was still as bouncy as ever.
Jayden shot Ji a sour look as the White ranger sparred with Mia. Normally, without the cookies, Ava would sit on the sidelines and watch the others train, making notes on things that she could use during her own training. The only reason she was paired with Mia and not Mike was because the Green ranger was practicing his sealing symbol powers a few feet away.
"Ha!" Mia said slicing the air with her sword.
Ava brought up her own sword and clashed it against Mia's.
"Ha!" Ava said, remembering her training the previous evening. Jayden had blocked her attack and then aimed a hit for her stomach; he had taken her by surprise as she jumped backwards, to avoid the collision, before he had aimed a hit for legs and swept them out from under her.
Mia jumped up over the wooden sword and swung at Ava again, causing the younger girl to duck down, to avoid her head being taken off.
"Ava is learning well," Ji nodded proudly as he watched his daughter spar. "Or is it the sugar?"
"I think it's the sugar," Jayden nodded, although he had to admit he was impressed with the progress his friend was showing.
Ji chuckled.
"I'll hide the cookies before lunch," he promised.
"How about hiding them before bed," Jayden suggested. "Half past five this morning she was in with me..."
"I heard," Ji nodded. "Apparently Kevin was surprised to find her with you."
"Don't remind me," Jayden muttered. He had tried his hardest to play the emotionless team-leader in front of the others, but it was impossible to ignore Ava, and the new feelings he had for her, for too long. Even if the others did depend on him, he couldn't ignore the ball of energy that was his best friend. She always managed to weave her way under his skin.
Mia groaned as she hit the ground on her knees; whilst Ava stood over her, bouncing on the balls of her feet and clapping her hands, energetically, as she finally managed to floor someone on a higher level than her.
"I did it!" Ava giggled. "Did you see, Daddy? I did it! I beat Mia!"
"I saw," Ji nodded, smiling down at her. "Well done. You progress nicely every day."
Ava smiled and turned back to Mia, held out her hand and pulled the Pink ranger to her feet, just as Mike let out a happy yell from the otherside of the garden. Turning to face her friend, Ava smiled as she watched leaves fly up from the paper, and flutter around the Green ranger.
"You did!" she cheered, racing forward and hugging him. "I knew you could do it!"
"Well, a wise Samurai once told me," Mike smirked. "That practice makes perfect!"
Ava rolled her eyes. "I told you that," she nodded, shoving him playfully, and turning to Kevin who had just approached them both.
"Hey, Mike," Kevin said, patting the Green ranger on the shoulder. "I know how hard you've been working on your symbol power. It took me years to master them, if you ever need to talk, i'm here for you. You too, Ava," he added, ruffling the White ranger's hair. "If you ever need a sparring partner, just give me a shout, OK?"
"Yeah," Ava nodded, slightly freaked out by his change in personality. Normally, Kevin reminded her of Jayden, only slightly more intimidating. "I don't need any more sparring partners, but thanks for the offer; I'll keep it in mind."
Kevin nodded, turned away, and hurried towards Mia.
Mike frowned and exchanged a look with Ava.
"What was that about?" he asked.
"What you looking at me for?" Ava asked. "He's your roommate."
"He's your house mate," Mike retorted, following her over towards Jayden and Mentor.
"Yeah, but you see him more than I do," Ava added.
Mike frowned. "Ava, we live in the same house! How could I possibly see him more than you do?" he asked.
"Well, Emily lives in the same house too," Ava pointed out. "And I see her more than you do!"
"Yeah, but girls stick together,"
Ava cocked her head to the side, viewing him from a different angle.
"And guys don't?" she challenged.
"No more sugar for you," he said, pointing his paintbrush at her.
"Party pooper!" Ava pouted, folding her arms in protest.
Mike blinked and shook his head, as he turned back to Kevin who ducked backwards to avoid a kick to the face from Mia. "But seriously what is going on with him?" he asked, turning to Mentor and Jayden. "Why is he so worried about everyone?"
"I don't know," Ji nodded. "He has been like that since yesterday."
"As long as he doesn't ask to be my sparring partner, I'm good," Ava nodded, turning back to the house. "I get beaten enough as it is!"
"You just beat Mia," Mike pointed out.
Ava paused in the doorway and glanced over her shoulder at him. "She let me win," she said, simply, before disappearing into the kitchen.
"She did?" Mike frowned, looking at Jayden.
The Red ranger nodded his head in confirmation and turned back to Kevin who was, once again, fussing over Emily.
~*Little Samurai*~
Emily smiled as she and Ava sat cross-legged in the yard. They had just finished their symbol powers and created a mixture between a snowstorm and a sandstorm, resulting in the both being covered head to foot in frozen snow and then plastered with snow.
Now, they were entertaining themselves by interacting with a stray cat that had wandered into the yard.
"I didn't know you had a cat," Emily said.
"I don't," Ava said, shaking her head. "She's the neighborhood stray. Been coming around here for years, I used to play with her all the time, give her treats and all that; Daddy didn't seem to mind, as long as I never brought her in the house."
"Why not?"
Ava shrugged. "He just warned me to never bring the cat indoors," she said. "Something about it getting used to its surroundings and never getting rid of it, not that I'd care, I've always wanted a pet, and now seems like a good enough time."
Emily smiled as the cat walked towards her, its tail flickering through the air. "My sister, Serena, always used to warn me about naming stray animals, she would see me as its mother and that they would automatically come back to me if I named them."
"We should ask daddy for pet," Ava said as the cat jumped up onto her and weaved its way under chin, rubbing its head and body against her face and purring madly. "I mean, we don't have to go out and buy one, we could just keep this one!"
"Sounds awesome!" Emily grinned. "I've had horses, chickens, cows, goats and dogs..." she listed. "I've always wanted a cat."
Ava's eyes widened. She would love living on a farm, surrounded by animals. "I envy you, Em," she admitted. "I'd love living with so many animals. No wonder you're such an animal person. You're like an animal magnet."
Emily giggled. "So are you," she said, pointing at the cat, which was now curled up in Ava's lap, nearly asleep.
All of a sudden, a loud blaring ripped through the air.
"The Gap sensor!" Emily gasped.
"A Nighlok has crossed into our world!" Ava squeaked, picking up the cat and rushing inside with Emily. If her father could see how much she really wanted a pet, maybe, just maybe, he would let her keep the stray that she had been playing with for the last few years; it would also have been better if she could get the others to side with her too: Emily was already on her side.
~*Little Samurai*~
Rushing into the living room, Emily and Ava skidded to two separate halts beside Jayden and Mike.
"Where is it?" Emily asked.
Ji looked up at her, and spotted the ginger cat in his daughter's arms, he offered her a stern look. She knew better.
Ava pouted and clutched the cat closer to her, she had already bonded with the elegant and furry creature, she didn't want to put it back outside and let it leave again. She wanted a pet.
"The park," Ji answered the Yellow ranger.
"Let's go, Samurai," Jayden said swiveling around and leading the way out of the house.
Mike, Kevin and Mia run off after him, while Emily and Ava made sure that the cat was safe inside the yard before running off, they didn't want to chance the feline getting away before they had a chance to talk to Mentor about adopting it as their own.
~*Little Samurai*~
"You can really do that?"
"Of course," the Nighlok nodded. "Monsters can do anything."
"You promise?"
"I promise!" the Nighlok said, patiently. "Pinky-finger swear!"
He held out his little finger to the boy sitting at the base of an oak tree, he was wearing a baseball uniform and cap, with a miniature baseball in his hands.
"Hey!"
The Nighlok gasped and looked up as Jayden swooped down at him with his spin sword, momentarily distracted, the Nighlok failed to notice Kevin and Mike ambush him from separate sides while Ava, Emily and Mia rushed to the little boy's side.
"Are you OK?" Mia asked, kneeling in front of the kid.
"Nighlok, what kind of mischief are you up to with this kid?" Jayden grilled, shouldering his spin sword.
"Nothing!" the Nighlok answered. "We're friends, right?" he added, turning to the little boy.
Ava touched the boy's shoulders as he backed away nervously, his breathing coming in short and terrified gasps.
"You're lying!" Ava accused. "He's terrified!"
The Nighlok snarled.
"Back off!" Mike demanded.
"Run away as fast as you can," Emily instructed. The little boy nodded, jumped hastily to his feet and run off towards his bike, which was resting against a wooden bench not too far away, he hopped on it and disappeared from view.
The Nighlok growled. "Stay out of my business!"
"Oh yeah?" Kevin asked, as he, Jayden and Mike charged forward, while Mia, Emily and Ava attacked from behind.
"Hey, didn't I just warn you to mind your business?" the Nighlok hissed as the rangers charged at him, blades drawn. He made quick work of each of them, knocking them aside like rag dolls. "Fighting you rangers is like a walk in the park for me!" he said, kicking Jayden in the chest and rounding on the female trio. "Your turn girls..." he tempted.
Pushing themselves up; Ava, Mia and Emily backed the Nighlok into the trunk of another oak tree.
"As you can see I play well with others," he said, leaning forward as Mia rolled across his back, and pushing Ava up as she aimed a high-kick to his head. The White ranger squeaked and pushed off of the tree to avoid hitting the branch above her; she flipped over and landed on her feet beside Emily. "The fun has just begun!" he said, before leaving them, escaping into a crack in the tree.
Mike sighed. "I think he's planning something real bad," he stated.
"I'm worried about that kid," Mia said. "We need to find him!"
"Right, let's split up and look for him," Jayden nodded.
"Right!" Emily agreed, darting off with Mike.
"Yeah!" Kevin nodded, following Mia.
Ava turned in a circle as her friends brushed past her. "Hey," she whined, shaking her head as the blood rushed to her brain, it was then she realized that Jayden had run off without her. "Wait for me!" she called, chasing after him across the field.
~*Little Samurai*~
"I don't feel so good," Ava groaned, clutching her stomach and holding a hand over her mouth. Her eyes widened and she run off into the trees where Jayden could hear her throwing up the cookies she had scoffed down earlier that morning.
Grimacing, the Red ranger followed her into the undergrowth and rubbed her back. "Are you OK?" he asked. "I told you not to eat so many cookies!"
"Don't say 'I-told-you-so'," Ava grumbled, wiping her mouth on her sleeve and returning to the trail.
"I wasn't going too," Jayden smiled. "Are you sure you're OK?"
"Yes, Jayden," Ava nodded. "I'm fine. Stop being so over protective. It's just a sugar crash. Yuck, now I have that yucky taste in my mouth!"
Jayden chuckled and squeezed her shoulder. "C'mon, let's get you home and remove that yucky taste!" he teased.
"But what about the kid?"
As if on cue, Jayden's Samuraizer sounded from his pocket. He answered it while Ava shuddered at the icky feeling in the pit of her stomach and the taste of bile in her mouth. She felt sick again.
"OK. Keep an eye on him," Jayden said, observing her from the corner of his eye. "I'm taking Ava home, she just threw up half that was in her stomach, and she's still looking a little green."
Ava threw him a bitter look. "Don't tell everyone!" she whined.
"Yeah, I'll tell her," Jayden said to whoever was on the other side of the call. "Just keep as close as possible without freaking him out. We'll keep a look out for the Nighlok. OK."
He hung up.
"Emily and Mike?" Ava asked.
Jayden shook his head. "Mia and Kevin. They found the kid," he explained. "He's safe and at home."
"No sighting of the Nighlok?"
"Not yet," Jayden said.
Ava sighed and turned away.
"What does he want with that kid?" she wondered, loudly. "Kids should be happy and carefree; not terrified to go outside their front door!"
"I know," Jayden agreed, drawing her into a hug and kissing the top of her head. "C'mon, let's go home."
Ava nodded, and still with Jayden's arm around her, they returned to the Shiba house.
~*Little Samurai*~
Emily and Mike paused as they returned to Shiba house. They had been a few minutes away when they had received a call from Ava saying that Mia and Kevin had found the kid and were staking out his house just to be sure that the Nighlok didn't return during the night; she also told them that she and Jayden were heading back home and they should do the same.
"Is that smoke?" Mike asked as he opened the front door and allowed Emily to walk in ahead of him.
"Yeah," Emily nodded, sniffing the air. "It smells like something burning..."
Eyes wide, both Emily and Mike turned to one another. "Kitchen!" they said, simultaneously, pushing open the second set of doors, ahead of them they spotted Jayden and Ava outside the kitchen, and hurried over to them.
"We could smell smoke from outside," Mike said. "What's going on?"
"Mia's cooking," Ava answered. "She just burnt the chicken. If the poor bird wasn't dead before, it sure as hell is now."
Jayden rolled his eyes.
"Ava," he said, swatting her across the back of the head.
"What?" Ava whined, pouting over her shoulder at him. "I'm just saying! There is a reason that Daddy does the cooking around here."
"This happens to be one of those reasons," Emily nodded. "But I can see where Mia is coming from. Kevin's feeling sad, so Mia wants to cheer him up with something a little less fancy, you know?"
"Like burnt chicken?" Ava frowned.
Emily poked Ava in the ribs. "It's the thought that counts," she said, turning away from the door.
"Yeah," Ava nodded as she followed her friend into the living room. "And I, for one, do not envy Kevin tonight."
~*Little Samurai*~
After Mia had finished cooking Kevin's dinner, she packed a blanket and headed out, leaving the rest of her team behind.
"It'll be like their first date," Emily giggled as she and Ava waved the Pink ranger off, before spotting the ginger cat that they had left behind that morning.
"Oh, he came back!" Ava cooed scooping the cat up and hugging it.
"How do you know it's even a boy?" Emily frowned.
Ava paused. "I don't," she said shaking her head. "You check!" she said, holding the cat out.
"I'm not checking," Emily said, pushing the feline away. "I don't know him all that well! Argh!" she whined as she realized she had called it a boy too.
Ava smirked. "Well i'm not checking! We may be close, but that's just rude!" she said.
"Well we have to know!" Emily said. "We can't just name it without knowing if it is a boy or a girl."
"But then who -?" she broke off, a sly grin edging onto her lips.
Emily eyed her, warily. "What are you -?" she started.
"Jayden is team leader," Ava said.
"Yeah," Emily nodded. "So?"
"He's the big boss guy, right?" Ava asked. Emily nodded. "Everything usually needs to be run by him. Well, if we want a cat, he could our mascot or something, and then we need Jayden's permission for him to join the team."
Emily frowned, confused on where Ava was going with this. "I guess," she nodded, out of humour for her friend. "I still don't see -?"
"Jayden should check!" Ava said. "C'mon, we'll get Jayden and Mike to check whether we have a boy or a girl, while you and I go and pester Daddy about keeping him or her. Deal?"
"As long as I don't have to look under the tail," Emily shrugged.
Ava giggled and caught her friend by the wrist. "You won't have too," she said, tugging her back inside. "Just start thinking of names."
~*Little Samurai*~
"See," the Nighlok laughed. "I'm all kinds of trouble for you Rangers."
Pounding his fist into the ground, Kevin sighed in defeat. "He's right!" he complained, causing Mia to poking in the ribs.
"Never give up, Kevin," she said. "A Samurai never gives up!"
"Oh no! We're the only sane ones left, Mike," Ava cried, dramatically, as she and the others jumped over their fallen friends and run at the Nighlok with their spin blades. "They've corrupted Mia too!"
Emily pouted. "What about me?" she asked. "I'm sane!"
"Yeah," Ava nodded. "Insane!"
"Am not," Emily whined.
"You want to name our new cat 'Agent Orange'," Ava pointed out. "I'm all for it being his codename if we ever need one, but a full name? No, just no!"
"Meanie!"
Ava stuck her tongue out, despite the fact that she had a helmet on, but as her upper body leant forward, Emily knew what she had done.
"What cat?" Kevin asked, confused on what the two youngest were fighting over. "We don't have a cat."
"We do now," Mike answered. "And I told you, she looks more like a Tabby!"
"No!" Emily and Ava shouted causing Mike to shrink back.
Jayden shook his head, and as Emily and Ava went back to bickering over names, he turned to Mia and Kevin. "We raced here when the gap sensor sounded," he said.
"Thanks," Mia said, turning her blade over in her hand. "You're just in the nick of time."
"Moogers," the Nighlok, Doubletone, called out. "Come out; come out, wherever you are!"
Several gaps all over the forest floor glowed red as Moogers seeped out from the Netherworld and into the human world. They didn't waste any time, as the second they were free they leapt at the Rangers, breaking them apart from one another.
"Hey!" Ava and Emily shouted. "Can't you see we're trying to have an argument here?"
~*Little Samurai*~
"Fire smasher!" Jayden shouted, summoning his secondary weapon. He loaded it with his fire disk and wielded it about, smashing it into Moogers as they came close. "Its fall season for you Moogers; and thanks to my fire smashers, all of you will be taking the fall!"
Ava shrieked as she was kicked in the chest and sent stumbling backwards, crashing into Jayden, who had had his back turned to her. "Ow," she groaned, rubbing her chest. "If you're gonna pick on the Moogers, can you make sure they don't take revenge on me?" she asked, activating her Spin sword.
"Ice Naginata! Winter's come early for you Moogers! Sadly all you're getting for Christmas is a lump of coal!" she swung her staff-like weapon over her head and then slashed through the moogers with it. They turned instantly to solid ice.
"Forest spear!" Mike called, powering up his second weapon with his forest disk. "Moogers to the left of me, Moogers to the right... but when I'm down with them, they all say goodnight!" he said, attacking the foot soldiers with little to no effort.
Emily activated her Spin sword and summoned her secondary weapon, powering it up with her own disk. "Earth slicer!" she said, throwing he boomerang-like weapon at the Moogers and slicing them all down within seconds.
Ava grinned and run towards her friend. "Take them out!" she said, pointing at her ice sculptures.
"Naw, it's no fun when they can't move," Emily sulked.
"Please!" Ava pleaded.
Emily giggled. "Only if I can name him Agen -"
"No 'agent' anything!" Ava said. "As a codename, yes, mostly because I suck at codenames, but she needs a proper name."
Emily brooded. "Fine. No Agent Orange or anything," she caved, swinging her Earth slicer at the ice sculptures and shattering them into tiny flakes of snow. "But the name needs to fit..."
"Deal," Ava agreed, shaking hands with the Yellow ranger.
Jayden and Mike rolled their eyes just as Mia and Kevin blew up the Nighlok.
~*Little Samurai*~
"Carrot?"
"Cheddar?"
"Cheerio?"
"Cherry?"
Cinnamon Taffy?"
Ava and Emily paused in their bickering and turned to look, weirdly, at Mike.
"What?" the Green ranger asked. "You were both throwing out names..."
"We are not naming her 'Cinnamon Taffy'," Emily decided as Ava nodded in agreement. They were sat on the bleachers waiting for Ryan's baseball game to begin; but before that the Yellow and White rangers had rushed home to collect the new addition to the Samurai team, at least to benefit Kevin and Mia, and to prove that they really were telling the truth about their new house pet.
Mike groaned and slumped in his seat. "Does that mean we have to continue listening to you pair bicker?" he grumbled.
"I bet your parents bickered over your name, Mike," Ava pointed out.
"Yeah," Emily nodded. "Oh! Oh! How about Chianti?"
Ava made a face and stuck her tongue out.
"What?"
"Diego?" Mia suggested. "No, wait; is it a boy or a girl?"
"Girl!" Emily and Ava announced.
Mia nodded. "Huh, never mind then, Diego is more masculine," she shrugged. "Carry on!"
"Mia!" Mike complained, covering his ears as Emily and Ava resumed bickering over names, whilst the cat pounced up onto the bench behind the two girls, and wandered over towards those less noisy rangers.
Jayden smiled and scratched it behind the ears as it brushed past him.
"Courtez..."
"... Crimson ..."
"... Current ..."
"... Darla ..."
"... Coral ..."
Mike groaned and threw his hands up in defeat. "How hard is it to settle on a name?" he asked, scooping up the cat. "I do not envy you right now, Missy," he said, shaking his head and scratching her stomach as she purred lazily.
"Hey, look, there goes Ryan," Kevin said, interrupting the bickering and pointing out onto the field. The rangers, even Emily and Ava, turned to face the game as Ryan stepped out fully clothed in his baseball gear.
Jayden smiled and reached for his Samuraizer. He drew a symbol in mid-air, and sent it spinning towards Ryan, activating as it hit him in the back, drawing out a spirit of an old gentleman.
Ryan turned and gasped.
Meanwhile, with the rangers, Mike was staring, in disbelief at the spirit, while Emily and Ava looked like they were about to cry, although they each had different reasons for crying.
Emily because she had been touched by Ryan's story, and Ava because she knew what it was like to be without a parent; while Ryan's father was still alive, he still wasn't with his only child, and in her eyes, no child should have been without a parent.
"How did you do that hocus pocus?" Mike asked.
"I just helped a dream become a vision," Jayden answered, before adding. "But I can only sustain it for a moment!"
Kevin smiled and turned to Mia. "You know, Mia, the two of us make a great team," he nodded. "We're going to fight those Nighlok and make sure no else has to give up what they love."
"Or their dreams," Mia grinned.
Fighting back their grins, Ava and Emily burst into giggles as they made eye contact. Kevin and Mia were so blatanly obvious, that it was hard to contain themselves when they were so helplessly flirting with one another in front of everyone.
Mike and Jayden frowned and exchanged looks.
"If there is nothing worse than them bickering," Mike said, leaning forward so Jayden could hear him. "It's them giggling."
"Yeah," Jayden nodded, glancing at Ava.
Looking up at the sound of cheers, Kevin pointed out onto the field. "Hey, there goes Ryan now," he announced to his friends.
Just then, several things happened at once: Ryan swung the bat and cracked it against the ball. The sound was like a gunshot going off; a sound that startled the cat in Mike's arms, causing it to hiss and streak off away from the rangers.
Emily and Ava gasped, exchanged looks and screamed: "Cheetah!" as they shot off after it.
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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 2:03am