VISIONS OF FROST PART 3
They were cornered against what felt like a bleak pile of ice. The meteor-the glacier was standing right behind them which they didn't notice. The size was massive, reaching 50 miles wide, there were icicles draping on the sides and permafrost layers of water around the crater.
She finally found it, after 6 miles of running.
Brandon made a promise to Nick, that he would ensure Vivian's safety, but he placed her and himself in a dire situation that would greatly risk their lives. Seeping out from the forest around them the burning skeletal monsters began to encircle the duo. Brandon knew they had to flee. However, Vivian had other plans. These creatures, if they were here does that mean her parents were unsuccessful in halting this infernal horde? She didn't even want to consider the possibilities. Behind all the fear that was whispering and planting doubts in her mind, there was one drive that continued to motivate her and that was the will to fight.
Brandon thought she was insane, but to Vivian, it was more than just a compliment, it was a desire to ensure her own well-being as she opened and closed her fist.
"OW!" Just a touch of its skin and she burnt herself, "Okayyyyy, I changed my mind."
"..Run?" Brandon hinted.
"My feet are ready," Vivian acknowledge and off they went. The hustled as quickly as they could just as they were caught with trumpet sounds of explosions erupting right behind them as they flew off their feet. They had no chance against the faceless. The worry and doubt again began to creep into Vivian's mind, she was shaking with fear. Brandon was just as afraid though he was trying his hardest not to show it. There was something about this area that seemed familiar to Vivian, she had distinct memories of being in these woods from the dreams she's had and recollected a possible route of escape.
"Come on Brandon," Vivian's strong will encouraged Brandon up to his feet as they hoped over the dead trees and dived under fallen branches. The crevice was located just 20 feet away from where they first stood and in they went, to their luck the faceless continued to storm forward without a notice of the hidden crevice Brandon and Vivian snuck into.
Vivian and Brandon exhaled with relief but gasped once a door sealed the two without a verge of escape.
"Seriously!" Another voice other than Vivian and Brandon shouted in anger.
"Ava, Heath, Genesis?" Brandon said surprised.
"That was our only form of escape, and you guys just let this thing close on us in again!" Ava was angry.
"How'd you guys even get here?" Vivian asked.
"The same way you did," Ava answered as she began forcing her palms on the roof of the closed crevice.
"Nooo, stop playing," Vivian said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.
"Heath is the one who suggested to come here since we were blocked from going back to the buses by those things," Genesis said. There was now way of getting out now, the crevice was sealed shut. Ava was never fond of small cramped places, first the unwanted room of the shelter home and now the cold dark crevices with 4 teenagers she barely met.
"Oh this is rich," Ava stepped off the scarp of stone, "You see what you did?" Ava directed her words to Vivian and Brandon.
"Did what?" Brandon asked.
"We're locked in here, forever now."
"You want to be out there? With all those monsters?" he asked.
"It's better than in here, no food no water, we'll be lucky enough if we don't freeze to death!" Ava was angry and Vivian could tell by the kicking and grunting as Ava rushed back to the sealed crevices.
"Relax grumpy, I think I know a way," Vivian said as Ava treads to her.
"How?" Ava demanded as Vivian recalled the moments of her dreams. Behind her back was a much larger door, imprinted with a conjury seal.
"We tried that, it doesn't open," Said Genesis as Vivian reached for the seal and as her hands glided over the marking, the room shook and there the door slide opened from the sides.
"How'd you do that?" Genesis was astonished and so was Brandon and Heath.
"No idea," Vivian answered. The scenery behind the door was very much like the Arctic as the temperature dropped. Up head where several pathways to a safehold, each path seemed to take you but only one was the key to survival.
"I'm going this way, it shouldn't matter anyways." Ava gestured to the path on her right which had the qualities to be the way out of the meteor, but Vivian advised not too. The path was just too easy while one looked the hardest and the longest, the one that circled the others and became smaller towards the end.
"Get out of my way," Ava growled once Vivian stepped in front of her from making any stupid mistakes.
"You're making a big mistake, that path will only lead you deeper into this crater." Vivian explained .
"And how do you know that? I thought this was your first time in here."
"It is...well kind of. I know it sounds weird but I dreamt of this." Vivian said.
Ava chuckled, "What is your name again, oh right Vivian Russell, the one they call the freak at school?"
There was then a stare down between Vivian and Ava. Vivian swallowed harshly as the thoughts came to her mind. She just wanted to turn and walk away from the situation at hand, before she ever thought to take her fist up and into Ava's ugly jaw. But she avoided Ava completely when Heath gasped,"Vivian Russell? You're a Russell?"
"Heh, tell me something I don't know," Vivian said as her body blocked Ava's way of leaving.
"..So that means, you wouldn't happen to know Conrad Russell?" Heath said.
"Who?" Brandon wondered.
"Conrad Russell? A man that's been dead for almost 75 years?" Ava answered Heath's stupid question.
"I knew something was off about that," Heath admitted, "So you're not related right?"
"Sorry to burst your bubble," Vivian said.
"Anyways Vivian, what are you my mother now?" Ava rolled her eyes as she pushed Vivian out of the way only to be blocked again by Vivian. This time Ava grunted as Brandon pulled the two girls apart before any conflict was to begin.
"Calm down you guys," Genesis insisted.
"Oh be quiet, you're one to talk." Ava snapped.
"Hey enough, we're better off surviving if we stick together," Brandon mentioned.
"What if we all go down the wider path, seems safety and legit...wait," Heath bit his bottom lip, realizing Vivian's path may be the best. Even Genesis began to recognize the easiest way wasn't alway the brightest. She should know after playing the Legend of Zelda so many times.
"If that's what you guys wanna do then so be, you can stay behind." Vivian seriously needed to stop worrying about Ava and just move on.
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Nick just wanted to take his Mystic Racer up to the glacier and look from there, but Dr. Angel warned him not to. The only way to the glacier was a pathway and the last time anyone had flown past the glacier they were pronounced down by the thunder and lighting which would roar above it.
If was just him, he wouldn't care if he were lost or not but this was his daughter, he was scared for his daughter. She had no idea of the dangers which lurked ahead, she couldn't make a grilled cheese properly for crying out loud. He knew the risk and he still went ahead on this field trip all because Madison begged him to, but now she was regretting it herself.
As minutes past, there was a surge of wind as two Mystic racers soared above them and two rangers in the colors of green and yellow hopped off the mechanical mystic broomsticks. They glided down with their silky capes draping behind them as they landed on the ground, instantly demorphing in a purge of sparkles; Xander and Chip.
"Hey Nick," Xander came as soon as he heard the news, embracing Nick in a brotherly hug as he wore his favorite plaid green shirt.
"Hey man," Nick sighed as he embraced Chip after as Chip then shook 's hand who came along with Nick to find Vivian. "Dr. Angel good to see you again."
"As am I," responded.
"So what are we looking at here?" Xander then broke the questioned as Nick answered, "Magma monsters seems about it."
"Magma?" Chip said as Dr. Angel took the privilege to answer the rest, "Yes, apparently they have a keen of resurgence. From what I observed, they aren't working for themselves."
Xander and Chip took that as a note of information, this was going to be so exciting the mystic force team back together again. Though they were down two members. "Hey, where's Maddie?" Chip wondered.
Nick inhaled, "She went with one of Vivian's friend's parents to the hospital after all of this, it's better that she didn't come. She'll lose it if we find Vivian harmed, I asked Vida to stay with her in the meantime in case anything comes up."
"Good grief and to think I had enough of this," Dr. Angel chuckled slightly as he looked at his feet.
"What do you mean?" Nick became curious.
"Think about it, Nick. There were five of them and then all of sudden we were attacked by hellion monsters. This glacier has been shining 5 different colors, maybe those dreams weren't just a dream, they were a prediction of her destiny."
"..You think they will be power rangers?" Xander asked.
"Most likely, we'll know the real truth if they return unharmed or they remain secretive of their leery excuses whenever trouble breaks the ice," Dr. Angel stated.
"Breaks the ice," That's when Nick remembered, "as a matter of fact, Vivian always stated she had dreamt of the ice glacier, maybe she could be there."
"Then it is this way," then led the way through a forbidden path as their feet crunch through the chilling course of the branches and leaves. Finding Vivian unharmed will be the biggest miracle ever, but if what said was true and Vivian did become a Power Ranger, it will be the biggest fright of Nick's life. Vivian is only 15, she is not ready for that passage, for that responsibility.
It was unusual, during the climb to the glacier peak Dr. Angel was silent. He has come to know the Mystic Rangers for a great number of years ever since the end of the ranger saint war. He never understood why Nick and the others were so worried when they know what it's like to be called to action as a ranger.
"You know, something has been scratching at my mind," sure was a curious man, but there was one thing about Nick and Madison he wanted to know as Nick, Xander, and Chip awaited his question.
"Is it another alien?" Chip said as they continued to walk down the path.
"No, it just... why would you move to the very place that causes Vivian's nightmares?" That was 's real question.
"Vivian's been having nightmares?" Xander asked as Nick suddenly stopped in his tracks. Speaking about it turned a knot in his stomach, but he had to let his friends know.
"Of this very meteor," Nick nodded as he sighed, "We just thought that bringing her here would help her overcome it, but instead they became worse."
"You should have stayed in Briarwood," Chip intersected, "we would have helped her."
"We know that, but we didn't know what else to do. When we were in Briarwood her nightmares may have been a minimum, but instead she would wake up with convulsive attack and fevers...fire blood fevers." It was hard for Nick to even mention that word.
"So before she moved here she was in physical pain, not just mental? Odd." This caused Dr. Angel to think as he positioned his thumb and index finger below his chin, "But as her mental pain grew, her physical pain receded. Most would think of it as a coincidence, but we know better than that to believe in coincidences. While they do exist, they are never of something of this magnitude."
Dr. Angel sighed, "Chances are, the closer she gets to the meteor, the more she understands, but she doesn't know it yet. In all likelihood, the situation in which she was born is linked to the meteor itself. How this works, I have no clue, especially because you don't talk about that night much." Dr. Angel ended.
The day Vivian was born was the best night of Nick's life but it was also the worst. Xander and Chip kept their gazes on course with their minds fumbling to the night they almost lost one of their own.
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It was hard to think or even stand still. Madison's hands were shaking and her lips were trembling, she wanted to be out and in the mountains looking for her daughter, but Nick was right. How could she even function properly if her body trembles in fear and the shuddersome scene of the hospital, put her into an even more scare to see her daughter being rolled up into the ER.
Oh for peak sake!
She needed to calm down, but that was the cost of being a mother. Madison recalled the first time Vivian was lost at the age of 2, only to find her hiding underneath her sister's DJ table all along or when she was 3 and she wanted a chocolate chip cookie from the top shelf of the cabinets. Madison told her no and offered her a piece of a baby carrot and when she wasn't looking Vivian retaliated and climbed the tall counter tops as she reached the jar of cookies.
How she got up there was still a mystery to Madison, when she caught Vivian stuffing the cookie in her mouth and when she asked how did Vivian got the cookie, Vivian's response was so pure,"I'm a wild one mommy."
Those were memories Madison never wanted to let go of, even the ones where Vivian was so stubborn.
"No mommy, keep that thing away from me," Vivian was only 4 years old this time and it was time to brush her teeth.
"Come on Vivian, you need to brush your teeth," Madison strongly asked as Vivian refused to let her mother scrap the edges of her teeth with the slimy green toothpaste.
"No I want peppermint, I don't like wintergreen!"
"The peppermint flavor is your father's and it's too strong for you. Stop being so picky!" This was going to be harder than Madison thought.
"I am not..picky mommy...what picky mean?" Vivian asked as Nick came walking past the bathroom with his eyes aiming directly at his touch screen phone. He then place it into his back pocket as he made eye contact with Vivian's bubbly cheeks. "It means, you're being a bad girl. Listen to your mother, you know what happens when you're a bad girl."
"EHHH," Vivian's jaw dropped to the sides and so did her eyebrows as she sat on the edge of the black radiant sink.
Oh man that face, that face was the cutest thing Nick had ever seen.
"We are not spanking our child, Nick." Madison assumed the worst as she rolled her eyes.
"Mommy's too shy," Vivian confessed to Madison's poor ability to discipline her child. Passing under her mother's arm as she snuck her way around Madison's elbow and to the peppermint toothpaste. Trying to force the paste on her to her little brush when Madison caught her and instantly slapped her hand from budging anymore paste onto the toothbrush, which already had wintergreen paste.
"Aaa, that hurt!" Vivian whined, blowing on her adorable little fingers.
Nick laughed, "That's not what I had in mind, but I think you got it covered." He winked as he went off.
That had irritated Madison as she closed the door for privacy between Vivian and herself. It irritated her so much, that she didn't have the parenting skills to get her daughter to at least brush her teeth.
It took some time but she finally persuaded Vivian into brushing her teeth, promising to bring the movie Doll and the Beast; that weak imitation for Beauty and the Beast. "Now, was that so hard?"
The bad part was she had to bribe Vivian, but what came next drew a hole in Madison's heart.
"Vivian?" While Madison brushed Vivian's teeth, her daughter's stare became out of the ordinary. She quickly pulled the brush from the little girl's mouth, Vivian hadn't moved.
"Sweetie are you okay?" Madison asked once she put the toothbrush down.
"I feel hot mommy," Vivian's eye sight became blurry to the touch of her mother's hand cupping her cheeks and then her forehead.
"Oh my god you're burning up."Madison quickly turned on the faucet of the sink as she wet a towel in the cold water.
"My stomach it hurts," Vivian breathing was rapid until her eyes rolled back. She shook her head in sudden doubt and disbelief as he daughter's arms shook.
"Nick, NICK!"
It hurt that she wasn't around most of her daughter's life because of her job and that day to see her daughter in so much pain was enough to keep away than to see her suffer. Although it was different, Madison should have been there, it was so hard on Nick to see those dreadful moments alone when she was out at work, hiding from it.
"Maddie," Madison sighed as she was removed from her forlorn daydream. She hadn't realized it but tears had begun to streak down the side of her face as she thought about Vivian. As she looked up her sister Vida had arrived to comfort her as Madison quickly wiped away her tears.
"Sis," Madison stood from her chair in the waiting room as she clasped her arms around Vida's shoulders.
"Is everything okay? What happened?" Vida gently pulled back as Madison explained.
"We were all attacked by these lava looking monsters, and Vivian is still out there."
"Oh my god Madison," Vida was disappointed, "why would you guys even let her participate when you know it's dangerous up there?"
"I know I know, it was a big—big mistake on my part. This all my fault, Nick told me we shouldn't but I wanted Vivian to finally get rid of her doubt and horror. I thought it would be safer if we came, but that's not how it happened."
"Calm down sis," Vida comforted her sister, insisting she sit down and take a breather, "how long has it been since Nick and the others left?"
"15 minutes ago." Madison sniffed as she crumpled her tissues in her hand.
"And why are you here?"
"Nick told me to just stay here, you know how I get in these situations. Remember when you were a vampire? I freaked out, if Xander and Nick weren't with me when we went looking for you, I would have been a mess."
"But you are now," Vida said, sitting next to her sister.
"One thing for certain is, it all happened when these three witches, pulled the moon down to earth but were never seen again when they were destroyed by the forces of two groups of Powers Rangers." How long was Heath's mystical tale? Man, that guy could talk but then as he interpreted his story he'll change his mind and announce it was performed a different way.
"You remind me of my uncle, friend. Fairytales, Witches, senseless theories. I've heard enough of those things." Vivian said behind the other teenagers who shivered from the cold as they walked deeper into the meteor.
"But you said it yourself that the dreams took you here, seems like magic to me," Heath mentioned as Vivian came to a stop before him. "It's not magic, it's just some risky Uncle Sam scheme that no one else can handle. I'm just going to tell them to stop."
"Insanity is what this really is," Ava said, having compunctions in choosing to follow Vivian when her way was better.
"I find it kind of strange, yet it seems right," Genesis interjected. A walk that took them 20 mins felt like hours from the frigid cold. After the slippery walk and the mindless tunnels they arrived. Arrived at a dead end.
"What the hell is this? What the HELL is THIS?!" Ava screamed at the top of her lungs
"Quiet down Ava! Those creatures could be nearby!" Heath warned.
"No! This little miss freak show here thought the path we could have gotten ourselves killed on was a good idea, and it was a dead end! Emphasis on DEAD!" Ava was loud.
"Well excuse me, sister! At least I was trying something!" Vivian responded, "You just wanted to choose the easiest way! I thought you were training for the Olympics! Do any of them choose the easy path?"
"Oh, like you are any better! You decide to follow a dream. A DREAM! Not even something you wanted to do, but something you see while you're asleep! Oh my god, I can't believe I decided to follow you down here." Ava argued.
"At least I had some semblance of a plan! If I hadn't stumbled on you, you would have been raw meat!" Vivain snapped.
"Oh, so you don't think I can take care of myself?!"
Vivian scoffed, "You were running scared before anyone else."
"I was not! I would have faced them myself if Dr. Angel didn't force me to run!"
"Oh please!" Vivian smug's had Ava on her toes as Vivian continued to speak, "You ran, case close and would have been lost and alone without me! Heck, you probably are alone from the panic attack you're conflicting."
That got to Ava as she stepped in towards Vivian, putting her face close to Vivian's; too close, "Please, I am too tough for that. Besides from what I have seen of you and your parents, it is no wonder you could never get any real friends, mostly because of how stupid you are!"
That was it! Ava was the snobbiest carp of a person she has ever seen in her life. All she was trying to do was help, but to Ava, it was more than a fault of hers. Her parents weren't around, so this would be her opportunity to give another fool a broken nose if she had too, but Brandon was sure watching and so was Heath and Genesis. Yet, Vivian's eyes were burning with fire and her throat was tightening from the anger. She wasn't stupid and the dreams couldn't have been a lie, but from the waves that froze on their way out, it seemed as if it was all just an illusion as her fist tighten before there was shattered of ice as it heated up.
All five of the cold and shivery teenagers fell to the floor from the sudden eruption. Coughing and wheezing from the mist and dust that began to kick up from the shattered ice.
"Good grief," Genesis crouped, "Your argument was so heated it expanded that ice to exploding!"
"I didn't even know that was possible," Brandon said.
"Only if the conflicting temperatures are too drastically apart," Heath said, "Woah! Does this mean I am Thor?"
"What?" Brandon was confused by Heath's random theory until just in front of them the mist had cleared revealing to the teenagers five hammers fasten in the ice wall and other metal material hanging from the handle of the hammers which appeared to be gauntlet with 5 individual colors. Heath then rose to his feet by the astonishment to the 5 hammers and gauntlets, reaching his hand to the black and green gauntlet with a wolf insignia printed on it.
The others stared in wonder as Heath grasped the hammer.
"Don't touch that, you idiot!" Ava said, but Heath was perfectly fine.
Vivian, on the other hand, had suddenly gained an interest by the hammers, walking over in the slushy snow of the room and without a second thought put on the red gauntlet on her left wrist with the insignia of the saber tooth tiger as she hauled a hammer from the wall.
"Vivian! We don't know what these are!" Brandon panic as he rushed to her side.
"Duh, they are weapons-weapons we can use to try to fight our way out," Vivian said.
"She has a point," Genesis admitted after a small period of silence, standing to her feet and putting her attention to the yellow gauntlet with the symbol that was formed into a bird; a Teratorn she recognized.
The insignia was designed after the ancestors of the condors as the shine from the Blue Gauntlet caught Brandon's eyes. He took the risk and pulled it for himself as he mounts the gauntlet onto his wrist; designed with a mammoth skull. All that was left was the pink gauntlet which was perfect for Ava, even though she was a foul mouth whimper like Noel. Maybe one day Vivian might set them on a blind date since they were so much alike.
"Come on Ava, didn't you say you were going to fight anyway?" Vivian teased.
Ava stammered some before her silent, admitting defeat and grabbing the last hammer and gauntlet. They were highlighted with pink and had the design of a bear on them.
"Great," Ava pursed her lips,"now that we are all armed, it is time to get out of here?"
"Should we use the hammers to try to and crack open a new path? I really don't want to go through that other path again," Genesis was scared to turn back after almost slipping off and falling to her death.
"It's worth a try," Brandon agreed, getting into position to swing at the wall with the edge of the hammer, but before he could create the slightest scratch, the entire meteor began to rumble.
"Oh, what now?" Ava complained to her feet stumbling to keep balance.
Even outside the mountain shook as if was to erupt, Nick and the others held on to their own as Madison and Vida stagger to stay standing in the hospital. Instantly the meteor opens like a flower sprouting as towers grew from the inside, but in Nick and the other ranger's eyes, the meteor vanished as the shaking stopped.
"NO!" Nick shouted as he charged forward into the mountain's forest, rushing his way to where the meteor once stood. Expecting to reach the meteor he reached a contrasting wall, a force field now surrounding the resting point of the old meteor.
Right behind Nick came Xander and Chip as pressed his fingers against the field as he examined it closely.
"It's gone," Xander said as he looked up to an empty sky.
"The children must of activated something, something powerful." Dr. Angel presumed.
"What are we going to do now?" Chip asked as Nick surged with questions hoping they'll be answered with a clue or some way to break the forcefield.
"What about Phineas guys, does he know anything about this?" Nick was anxious.
"As a matter of fact, as much as Phineas knows everything and doesn't tell us anything, he was most definitely clueless about this," Xander answered.
"But wait, Xander. He did tell us about someone named Skebel." Chip said.
"...You guys are telling me this now?" Nick became irritated. He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, muttering to himself. Nick reminded himself to calm down, he didn't want his magic to be unleashed in response to his emotions, he had to think and be rational.
"Sorry Nick, I just remembered it now." Chip apologized."He just barely told us. Remember when he said he knew of someone who lived in these mountains but forgot their name? He barely remembered until Leila spilled a batch of her skittles all over their house, Leelee was not happy."
Nick sigh to his friends late attempted to tell him the most valuable information they needed, he loved those guys but sometimes they can be feebleminded.
"What brings you young people to this part of the mountain?" A female voice said in the silence of the space.
"Who are you?" Dr. Angel demanded as the Rangers went on guard from the obscure being who spoke right behind them. The being was slender, a female elf who's hight was just up to Nick's shoulder and eyes which sparkled in green as her beige colored clothing kept her warm in the mountain's numbing frost.
"Heh," The female elf jeered, "Are you really going to ask who I am? I mean come on, you young children shouldn't be out here."
"Young children? We're not that much younger than you are," Xander was offended but yet he took that as a compliment.
"Actually, we're way older." Chip pointed out.
"She looks like a 13-year girl," Nick said after.
"Incorrect! I'm actually 378 to be exact. Basically a third of yours, so if you don't mind I'll ask again. What brings you here? Or have you come to disturb the peace of my friends and family?"
"Relax," Nick stepped forward, "We aren't here to hurt you, we come in peace, I'm Nick, this is Xander, Chip, and Dr. Angel. I'm not sure which type of magical creature you are but you're certainly not human. I think it's safe to ask you if you've ever heard of the Mystic Force Power Rangers?"
The eyes of the elf widened when she heard the name Mystic Force. Who hadn't heard of them, the legendary warriors who defeated Octomus, the master of the underworld. "It's highly possible that I heard of them, depends on what do you want with them. Have you come to destroy them? Well if that's the case, I won't let you!" The scrawny little elf then put her hands up to her chest and into fists.
"Calm down, we are the mystic force power rangers." Chip concluded.
"Except for me, but I once was a Power Ranger before." Dr. Angel put it into note as Nick, Xander and Chip affirmed their proof by the sight of their mystic morphers.
"OH MY DEAREST MAGICAL BISHOP AND HAIL THE MYSTIC MOTHER,THE MYSTIC FORCE POWER RANGERS ARE STANDING JUST BEFORE ME!" The elf was overjoyed, so much overjoyed so toppled onto Xander as he fell to the grassy floor and by god she was heavy and he thought Phineas had some weight on him.
Nick sighed heavily he was losing patience, he did not have time for these whacky antics especially when his daughter was missing. Could this elf be the help they've been seeking for? Since she seemed to know the area quite well. "Now that you know who we are, by any chance are you Skebel?"
"I most certainly am," Skebel stepped off of poor Xander who had to endure the feeling to be turned into a pancake by Skebel's heavyweight. "What can I help you fine gentlemen with, anything."
"Anything?" Chip said.
"Anything." Skebel nodded.
"This forcefield, it wasn't there before. We believe there are children beneath the glacier that once stood behind this wall. We need to get in or at least they need to get out. How can we do that?" Dr. Angel said once he was finished analyzing the forcefield.
"Oh ummmmm," Skebel hesitated as she fiddled with her fingers, "I can't answer that, even to the mystic warriors."
"Are you kidding us?" Xander spat as he rose to his feet.
"No no no, you said you could help us with anything, this is anything. I'm not going through this again, like when a genie told me I could have one wish and then misrepresent his words." Nick's words were stern but as much as Skebel wanted to she couldn't tell. "I'm sorry, but whatever is happening behind that forcefield has to take its turn. Whether the children are dead or not, destiny awaits its decision and you can't change destiny."
"No you don't understand, my daughter is probably in there and so are 4 other kids." Nick said growing more and more irate do to the stress of his missing daughter. Nick was trying very hard not to explode but his forbearance was waining, he will not rest until Vivian is back in his arms.
"Ooooooh firey temper to go with your firey zord, unless I'm mistaken I'd say you're the LIGHT. You're not to bad looking if I do say so myself" Skebel spoke winking to Nick. Was she serious? Did she seriously try to make a pass at Nick?
"Listen, I don't mean to sound rude but—,"
"Shhhhhh, Shhhh, shhhh, I wasn't finished guessing yet, hold your magical horses for a second, sunshine," Skebel said pressing her greasy to Nick's lips.
"Now if I were writing this dramatic story, I would say that like you, your daughter has a name. If you are the Light then she must be The Shining!"
"Yes, but—," Nick stammered.
"Not done!" Skebel said shushing Nick again "You haven't told her about her heritage...Yes? I could see it in your eyes, that's the thing about fate. You can't stop it, you can't reverse it, but there's one thing I could tell you guys that might change your mind."
She then pointed to where the meteor once was as the Rangers look in that direction. Before they could pose a question
the feet of Skebel was crunching on the floor as she ran off.
"Hey!" Nick wasn't going to let Skebel escape so easily as he gave chase and so did Xander and Chip as Dr. Angel remained near the forcefield. Pursuing Skebel around the trees and up the rocky crags of the mountain. Nick grew tired of running, if he was to catch up to that pipsqueak he needed to be faster and the only thing that could go that fast was his mystic speeder.
1-2-4 were the numbers he dialed into his mystic morpher cell phone, to the sound of his morpher shouting, "Galwit Mysto Morto!" The Mystic flyer descended from the air as it landed on the ground, developing into wheels and handle bars now in the form a motorcycle. At that moment, his red mystic suit sparkled onto his body as he hopped on his bike.
"GET BACK HERE!" The Red Mystic Ranger bellowed. He rode his magic cycle through the trees like he's done many times before when he lived in Briarwood. Skebel wasn't going to get away as Nick twisted the handle of his bike prompting it to go faster. In mere seconds Nick managed to catch up to the sneaky elf. She was halted below the muggy depths of a willow tree paralyzed, only gazing above as Nick stomped to her without demorphing.
"Now stop playing games with me little girl, I know you have answers!" By the volume of Nick's voice, he regretted ever shouting as a roar pounded against his ears and as he looked up he saw what Skebel was repelling by standing still. A 3 headed hellhound which about 15 feet tall growled, angered by the attempted to sleep peacefully.
"Oooo Mister Mystic red, you shouldn't have followed me here. Now he's going to eat us both." Skebel had to poke fun at this, still Nick couldn't believe his eyes. To think his life a full time ranger was over but now it was reopened for business.
