Abby Holloway series

Jungle Fury: The Call to Destiny

By xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Author's Note: Hi, two of you have managed to answer my curious questions at the beginning of last chapter. And although I can't actually give you the answer, it is nice to know that some of you actually are reading deep enough.

Dedications: Chapter goes out to the following: DJScales, Bryan102694, Dean Winchesters Baby Girl, RHatch89, BeckyBoo12221, 10th Squad 3rd Seat, Tylerbamafan34 and Fallingstar22


She was walking down a long stone corridor, thinking over the next plan to take out the Power Rangers. Those pesky Rangers had managed to spoil her last two attempts to destroy Ocean Bluff, when did those colorful nuisances have to show up now? Why couldn't they just be good citizens and surrender? They were annoying to say the least.

But she had a plan that would knock those four annoying pests back a few steps, and hopefully make them reconsider standing in Dai Shi's way anymore.

"Behold, the Five Fingers of Poison," she murmured quietly to herself. "An elite squad of venomous warriors each possessing a unique and treacherous poison."

She paused outside a door and peered into the chamber. A stone tablet was situated on the far wall; it bore the picture of a centipede. A red-robed Rinshi, wearing a white sash on his chest and a silver centipede emblem on his forehead.

"Rantipede. He can stride a hundred times before his opponent can respond,"

She moved onto the second chamber, this time it was decorated with large stone cobra's head on the wall. Another red-robed Rinshi, wearing a blue sash and bearing the same Cobra emblem, walked into the frame of the picture on the wall.

"Naja, the Cobra. Cold-blooded and lethal. It will take but one strike to conquer his foes."

She entered the third chamber, which was exactly like the third, but the picture on the far wall was that of a giant Scorpion with a red sash.

"Stingerella. Her hypotonic dance lures her prey closer and closer...until she strikes!"

The fourth picture held that of a green-sashed Gecko.

"The cunning Gakko. Master in the art of the surprise attack."

The last chamber housed the picture of a yellow-sashed Toad.

She smiled as she peered at the creature in the frame. "And Toady. Able to ward off the strongest offences. Not smart, but not to be underestimated."

With a grin, she stepped back as purple swirls filled the rooms, and seconds later the five creatures stood before her in the long corridor. She nodded in approval, turned toe and lead the way towards Dai Shi's chamber.

"As you requested..." she said, upon entry to her lord's chamber. "Five of the most dangerous warriors in your army."

~*Abby*~

It was midday at JKP as Casey and Lily were hard at work making pizzas for all the hungry customers. Fran was in the dining room taking orders with Theo, while Abby had taken her morning break to spend it with Ronny while Nick returned to Briarwood.

"Sometimes I just can't believe my luck," Casey said, as he grated cheese with a huge grater. "Shredding cheese one minute, shredding evil beasts the next."

"Hey, this whole thing came out of nowhere for you, Casey," Lily replied. "It's got to be majorly intense. Especially for a cub."

"Well, I'm not a cub anymore," Casey pointed out. "You don't have to worry about me."

Lily smirked. "Tell that to Abby. She still sees us all as cubs."

"Yeah, well that's Abby," Casey shrugged. "She is going to see us as cubs, we are younger than her."

The Yellow ranger nodded. "Hey, Case, have you noticed something off with Abby?"

Casey looked thoughtful, before nodding, something had been worrying about Abby lately; she hadn't been sleeping well during the nights, often getting up at random parts of the night and falling asleep in RJ's chair. The first morning they had found her, they had woken her before RJ found out, but he found her the second morning, surprisingly enough he was OK with the whole situation.

There was also the fact that she had been having weird cravings lately. First it had started out with regular, sweet things like Ice Cream, but now it was manifesting into something even stranger. Like last night for example, she had been eating pizza with the rest of them when she suddenly added chocolate covered marshmallow's to her toppings. It was disgusting to say the least, but the White ranger had eaten it like it was an everyday topping.

"She's starting to remind me a little of Chip," Nick had said, and then went onto explain that the Yellow ranger on his old team used to eat the weirdest of things. Chocolate covered Marshmallow pizzas were just the beginning.

"I'm fine!" Abby would always defend. "It's nothing! Chip always told me it was nice, and you know me, I'll try anything!"

But they were starting to worry about her, especially when she admitted to Ronny that she felt woozy and queasy. She hadn't thrown up or anything, but what really pushed the limit (especially for Nick and Ronny) was when Abby had said that her size 8 jeans were no longer fitting her. It was nerve-wracking because Abby had never been anything other than a size 8.

"Yeah," Casey nodded, coming out of his thoughts long enough to answer Lily's question. "I'm sure she is fine though, she would tell us if anything was wrong, wouldn't she?"

Lily shrugged. "I don't know," she answered. "It would be nice to know that she trusted us enough to tell us if something was wrong. I mean, I know her father is in the hospital, they have given him two weeks before his tumor completely destroys him; but why would she have put on weight, with the stress and fear that she could lose her father at any given time should have had her losing weight, not putting it on. So what other reasons could there be?

But before either of the younger rangers could start passing ideas on what was wrong with their mentor, Fran pushed open the door and shouted another order.

"One large Thrilla Gorilla Pizza, extra banana!"

"Thrilla Gorilla, comin' up!" Casey answered, and Fran closed the door. "Banana's?" he questioned Lily.

"RJ says," Lily smirked, raising her hands and imitating their Master's voice and mannerisms. "'Everything's better with bananas.'"

Casey snickered. "Where is RJ, anyway?" he asked.

"No clue," Lily shrugged. "He's been working on something in the garage for days. You get the board, I've got the dough!"

Casey nodded as he turned to pick up the board which was behind him; he then turned as Lily threw the dough into the air and grinned as it landed on the board with a soft thud. Casey then sprinkled it with bits of flour, before raising his hand and flinging some playfully in Lily's direction.

"Ooops! My bad!" he teased.

"Oh, no, you didn't!" Lily gasped, grabbing a handful of cheese.

"Lily, now wait, you're a reasonable person, I..." Casey tried to say, but was cut off as the Cheetah took off his hat, dumped cheese on his head and then replaced his work cap.

"Whoops! My bad!"

Casey smirked and nodded. "Oh, laugh it up," he said. "Because you're gonna be so sorry for that one."

He picked up a wooden spoon from the pot beside him, and dumped handfuls of mashed bananas on top of the cheetah.

There was a heavy pause, as the two stared at one another, before starting to throw ingredients from the table at one another. Lily laughed loudly, and neither noticed that the kitchen door had opened.

Ronny gasped and stopped dead, looking dumbfounded at the teenagers. Abby yelped as she crashed into her best friend.

"Hey, what's the big idea?" Abby complained, rubbing her face and ducking around the former Yellow ranger. Her eyes widened as she took in the state of the kitchen, and then her gaze landed on Casey and Lily, who looked worse for wear. "What the hell?" she exclaimed.

Casey and Lily stopped throwing things and turned in her direction.

"He started," Lily said, pointing at Casey.

"Did not!" Casey defended.

Abby shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose. "I don't care who started it," she said, "you've got half a dozen hungry customers waiting out there and you're in here acting like a couple of five year olds! Clean this place up, and get back to work! Oh, and Casey, take...whatever that is off your face."

Ronny smirked and draped her arm around Abby's shoulders. "Wow, you'll be ready in no time!" she smirked.

"Shut up,"

"Ready for what?" Casey asked curiously.

Abby shook her head, as she grabbed Ronny's hand and pulled her towards the stairs leading to the loft. "Nothing. We're going upstairs, we have to check something. Call me if you need help!"

"OK," Lily called.

However, Abby hadn't made it to the top of the stairs, when their morphers beeped.

The White ranger sighed and turned to her best friend.

"Go," Ronny smiled. "We'll check it when you get back. Just be careful."

Abby smiled, and took off with her cubs, who had left Fran in charge of cleaning, cooking, taking orders and serving.

"Urgh. I bet Wolfgang Puck never had to put up with stuff like this," Fran complained, as Abby skirted around her.

"Ronny will help you!" the White ranger called over her shoulder as she fled. "Just watch her with the ovens!"

~*Abby*~

"Surprise!" the red Ranger yelled as he and the others appeared before the monster that was attacking the city. "We're here to stop you!"

Abby staggered to a halt as she got a good look at the creatures in front of her. "Snake. Scorpion. Centipede. Toad. Gekko. - Oh no..." she breathed, as her eyes widened.

"So these are the Pai Zhuq students?" the scorpion asked. "I'm so not impressed."

"They look pretty sorry to me," Gakko frowned.

"And ugly," Toady nodded.

Abby gasped. "Who you calling ugly, Toad?" she snapped. "At least we don't have warts!"

"Let's just get this fight started!" Rantipede said.

"Yes," Gakko nodded. "Let's."

"By the power of the Dai Shi, inner beasts arise!" the five beasts called together.

And before the Rangers eyes they started to transform.

"A hundred legs to strike you! Rantipede!"

"Fangs full of venom! Naja!"

"Queen of the toxic dance! Stingerella!"

"Master of trickery and decit - Gakko!"

"Skin stronger than armor! Toady!"

"Together we are the Five Fingers of Poison!" they called in unison.

Casey frowned. "Poison?"

"Huh?" Theo questioned.

"What?" Lily gasped.

Abby, meanwhile, having foresaw these creatures being brought to life by Camille earlier that morning, stepped forward. "Give it your best shot!" she challenged.

Naja smirked and snapped her fingers. "Get them! But leave the girl to me...I sense something about her that is... tantalizing!" she tasted the air with her forked tongue.

Charging forward, the four Rangers selected a creature and the fight began. But the beasts proved to be too strong and soon the three cubs were huddled together on the ground, while Abby still fought Naja near-by.

"You're a feisty one," Naja slithered. "But are how are your reflexes?"

"Pretty good for a surfer, Motocross rider and Skater," Abby answered, jumping backwards as Naja tried to wrap her snake-like body around the White ranger. "Did you honestly think I would stand there and let that happen? You're slower than I give you credit!"

Naja hissed angrily, before jumping forwards. Abby ducked to avoid being hit, but Naja didn't have eyes for her anymore, instead she repeatedly attacked the next closest thing - Casey.

"No!" Abby yelled, as Casey hit his knees and de-morphed, his morpher clattering to the ground beside him.

"Yes!" Naja hissed.

Abby felt her fists shake. "You bitch! Leave him alone!"

"Aw, is the young mother worried about her cub?" Stingerella taunted.

Abby ignored her, disappeared with a pop and reappeared behind her cubs. "Lily, Theo, grab Casey," she ordered. "They're too strong. We have to regroup."

She grabbed Casey's morpher, and then touched Lily and Theo's shoulders before disappearing.

"That's right. Run!" Naja laughed, as the Rangers retreated.

~*Abby*~

"Sit down there," Abby ordered as she and the other Rangers re-appeared at the bottom of a mountain, with rocks and boulders surrounding them. "Don't move the poison will spread faster the more you move."

"How do you know this?" Lily asked.

"I lived in Australia for a while when I was a kid," Abby explained. "My father was a motocross rider, and now he is a trainer, but when my mother died he used to take me and Kelly with him on his around the world trips, Australia was one of them. I learned a lot about snakes and spiders out there, and how to deal with the poison if someone I knew had been bitten. It is also where I developed my fear of Spiders."

Lily, Theo and Casey looked impressed.

"So, what do we do?"

"The key to survival is to remain calm," Abby said. "I know it sounds stupid, but it will save your life. By becoming agitated, your heart is beating faster and you're increasing the blow of blood to the affected area and increasing the amount of toxin able to find its way into your body tissue. Just rest."

Casey nodded and slumped backwards into the boulder. "I liked it better when we were just fighting one at a time," he breathed

"I feel you there," Theo nodded.

Suddenly, there was a huge explosion that knocked all the Rangers down. The five fingers appeared and created a diamond shaped pyramid. There was black and gold lighting as Dai Shi appeared at the top of the pyramid.

"Whoa! Is that..." Theo gasped.

"Jarrod!" Abby said.

~*Abby*~

"Jarrod? What are you doing?" Lily demanded.

"The one you call Jarrod is gone. I am now filled with the evil of Dai Shi,"

Casey sighed. "Great. It was bad enough when you were just a jerk that got kicked out of our school."

"And you were responsible for that humiliation! Now you'll pay!"

"You're responsible for your own actions!" Abby yelled. "Casey did nothing but show your true nature! It is a wonder how you managed to complete 10 years at the academy with your violent nature!"

Jarrod - Dai Shi - glared at her. "Sayuri Guardian..." he growled. "With more power than she can wield. You're on the wrong side, precious."

Abby felt her skin crawl.

Camille, who had just appeared, approached Dai Shi and smirked as she turned to face the Rangers. "Ohh, this is going to be good!"

Dai Shi smirked, threw off his cape and transformed into his armor form. "I challenge you to a battle, Red Ranger!"

"I beat you once, I can do it again!" Casey yelled.

"No, Casey!" Lily said, stepping in front of her friend. "Not if he has the power of Dai Shi!"

"I can't back down now," Casey said, reaching for his morpher. However, before he could morph, there was an almighty roar from behind him, and seconds later a white polar bear run towards Dai Shi.

Lily, Casey and Theo turned to Abby, who was morphed and ready for battle.

"What are you doing?" Casey asked. "He challenged me!"

"Are you really this stupid?" Abby asked. "You're hurt Case, you're not going to survive an animal spirit fight with him! Just focus on the venom, I'll deal with Dai Shi!"

With that she followed her Polar Bear which was now in battle with Dai Shi's lion. While the two animal spirits rushed at each other and fought in midair, Abby and Dai Shi leapt at one another and clashed in midair, punching one another a few times before falling to their feet.

Abby then swiped at Dai Shi, who managed to block all of the blows. He grabbed the her arm and spun her several times, before landing a powerful punch to her chest, sending the White ranger flying backwards into her friends.

"The Arctic hunter is tamer than I thought," Dai Shi laughed. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

"Yes, master," Stingerella smiled as she walked forward, towards Abby.

"It is really too bad," Dai Shi smirked. "You could have provided me with the future evil. Such a shame that you refuse to cooperate! I guess now neither of us will get to keep what we want!"

Abby frowned in confusion, but before Stingerella could reach her, there was a fast moving blur and the Scorpion was knocked away.

"RONNY!" Abby yelled, as her best friend skidded to a halt in front of her.

"Good thing for super speed," Ronny grinned, pulling the White ranger to her feet. "Am I glad that Mr. Hartford let us keep our genetically enhanced skills."

"Me too," Abby nodded.

Dai Shi growled in annoyance at the former Ranger, before turning to Camille. "Leave them! Within a few hours they will be down a ranger anyway!"

And in a flash of Black and Yellow lightning Dai Shi, Camille and the Poisons disappeared.

~*Abby*~

Casey was curled up in his hammock, while Lily knelt beside him holding a washcloth to his head, it was nighttime outside of the windows, and Abby was curled up on the windowsill, with a shawl wrapped around her, she was watching the darkness as Ronny rested against the wall beside her; she looked over towards her cubs as Casey spoke.

"Thanks. I feel much better." he coughed feebly.

"Are you sure?" Lily asked, genially worried.

"He said he's fine," Theo scoffed as he entered the room. "Leave the guy alone."

"Freaky that Jarrod turned out to be Dai Shi," RJ said, popping up from under Casey's hammock.

Abby shook her head. "It's not really that freaky to me," she said loudly enough for her team to hear her. "I stand by what I said in the forest, he got kicked out of the academy of his own accord, Casey did nothing but show his true nature!"

"Standing up to him took a lot of guts," Ronny nodded.

"Or not a lot of brain cells," Theo muttered.

"Theo, i'm ignoring your negative energy," RJ said. "Casey, I'm working on something new for you that you're just gonna love. You just power it up with your Tiger spirit and it'll blow your mind."

"Is it dangerous?" Lily asked.

"Casey already has two mommies," Theo inputted, "he doesnt need another."

Lily frowned. "Two?"

"Abby," Theo said nodding at the White ranger, who was no longer listening to the conversation, and was, instead, staring out of the window.

"You don't hear me complaining," Casey smiled, getting comfortable in his hammock.

RJ shook his head and straightened up. "Okay, Lights out team! We're up against some major badness here. We all need some rest."

"I hear ya," Ronny nodded, turning to Abby. "Come on Precious!"

Abby glared.

"Too soon?"

"You think?"

Ronny sighed. "Okay...but seriously, c'mon, time for bed."

"What are you, my mother?"

"I can be, if you want?"

"I do not envy your child," Abby muttered, jumping down from the windowsill and walking towards her room.

Ronny frowned. "What's that supposed to mean?" she pouted. "I happen to think I'll be a great mother,"

"You may want a baby," Abby grinned. "But trust me; it takes a lot of will power to look after an adolescent."

"How would you know?"

"Because I have three," Abby answered, pointing at the younger rangers. "Occasionally four..." she added, pointing at RJ.

RJ, Lily, Casey and Theo frowned.

"Hey!" they exclaimed as they realized they were being criticized.

~*Abby*~

"Okay, Jarrod! This is going to end here and now!" Casey yelled as he and Dai Shi stood alone in a forest.

"In your dreams!" Dai Shi laughed.

Casey charged at the lion master, but Jarrod simply raised his hand. "I call forth the spirit of the mighty lion!"

The lion charged at Casey and blew him back.

"CASEY!" Abby called as she shot up in bed, sweat dripping from her forehead, and she looked scared.

"RIPPER!" Ronny yelled as she shot up in bed, startling Abby even further. "Whoa...weird dream..."

Abby shook her head and rubbed her eyes tiredly. She had been sharing a bed with Ronny for the last two days, seeing as there wasn't exactly any space to set up another one, and she refused to Ronny to sleep on the couch. "Tell me about it..." she mumbled, running a hand through her slightly damp hair.

"Are you okay?" Ronny asked. "You're looking a little pale..."

"I'm fine," Abby answered, as her stomach growled. "I'm hungry. Do you want anything?"

"Abby, it's four in the morning," Ronny said, grabbing the alarm clock. "See!"

Abby swatted it away. "I know. And my tummy is telling me that it's hungry...I won't be able to sleep if I don't eat. Do you want anything?"

"Um, no," Ronny said, shaking her head, and as Abby slipped out of bed and grabbed her white dressing gown, she reached for something in the drawer of the bedside table. "Here, things got a bit tense earlier, but I haven't forgotten!"

She handed Abby a small home test.

"God, I hope i'm not," Abby whispered as she took the box and left the room.

~*Abby*~

When Ronny woke the next morning, Abby's side of the bed was empty and cold telling the former Yellow ranger that Abby had been gone for a while. "Abby...?" she called, as she left the bedroom after getting dressed, the others were starting to emerge from their own bedrooms, looking tussled and tired, but Ronny was starting to worry about her best friend.

"Hey, is Abby thinking about coming to work today?" Theo asked, spotting Ronny.

Casey, however, had just spotted the monitors and pointed. "Looks like she's already at work," he said.

Ronny, Theo and Lily looked around and gasped as they saw Abby take on Rantipede by herself.

"Abby..." Ronny sighed.

~*Abby*~

"You're mine!" Rantipede smiled. As he punched her repeatedly, but Abby was faster and blocked each of his punches.

"I don't think so," Abby smiled, as she changed tactics from defense to offense, and managed to get Rantipede to his knees.

Rantipede growled, and straightened up, so that he was towering over the White ranger.

"Hey!" Theo yelled as he, Casey and Lily arrived. "What's the deal, going off on your own? I thought as a veteran ranger, you would have known this!"

Abby glared through her visor. "I seem to be doing just fine," she responded, although she knew that he was right, she should not have gone off on her own. They were stronger as a team.

"Not for long! Rinshi warriors, charge!"

A small branch of Rinshi's materialized and hopped forward.

"Me and my big mouth!" Abby muttered.

"I've got these guys covered!"

"Right," Lily nodded.

"Right," Theo agreed.

Abby frowned. "Huh...wait...what did I miss?"

"This is what you get for running off," Lily said, as she grabbed Abby's hand and started tugging her along behind them.

Theo nodded and grabbed Abby's other hand and helped Lily pull the stubborn White ranger off the battlefield.

"Time to test RJ's new invention," Casey grinned. "With the strength of a tiger - Strike Rider, cruise!"

A red bike was created using the tiger spirit summoned by Casey. The red Ranger jumped on the bike and smiled at the speed of the vehicle.

"Tiger Strike! Full Throttle!" he yelled, speeding towards the Rinshi. With his new bike, he easily defeated the Rinshi within seconds.

Abby stared at the bike in awe.

"I WANT ONE!" she yelled.

~*Abby*~

With the battle over and Rantipede being the first of the Poison's to fall to the Jungle Pride Megazord, the Rangers returned to the base where Abby was being punished for going off to fight evil without informing her team.

"Whoa," Ronny said as she entered the kitchen and spotted the pile of dishes that Abby had to work though. "Is the dishwasher broken?"

Abby smiled. "It's my punishment..." she answered, "for going off alone!"

"Casey's thankful, you know?"

"I know," Abby nodded. "I've spoken to him. I apologized for treating him like a cub, but to me, they are cubs...and I guess I just feel protective of them. I mean, Dr. O felt protective of Kira, Conner, Ethan, Trent and myself when we were Dino Rangers, I guess it is only fair that Casey, Lily and Theo know that they have someone who will worry and be protective of them throughout this whole ranger thing."

Ronny nodded, picked up a dish towel and started to dry as Abby washed, there was silence between them for a few minutes before Ronny spoke...about a subject that was in no way related to the Ranger business, but some rather personal business that included both Abby and Nick. "So...did you tell him?"

"No," Abby shook her head, knowing full well what Ronny meant.

Ronny sighed. "Abby..."

"What am I supposed to say?"

"I don't know, but you have to tell him! He deserves to know."

"I know,"

Ronny paused. "So, how far...?"

Abby glanced sideways at her best friend, paused and then said, "Five weeks..."


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A/N: Does this answer help those who are wondering/guessing what is going on with Abby? I wrote this chapter up while I had a three hour break in Uni today…so if you are lucky, you may get chapter four out before bedtime tonight.

Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Chapter updated Wednesday, March 07, 2012 at 05:54pm