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Unmasked Pt. 2
"ELIJAH!" The female ninja ran towards the fallen warrior who had now de-morphed and was lying unconsciously on the ground.
"Exit stage right!" Pierrot cackled, raising his staff into the air and preparing for the final blow before him and the Pantodrones suddenly disappeared.
The three others stared ahead as the creatures disappeared before turning to the two ninjas up ahead.
"Wait… So if that's Elijah then she must be… Ami?" Dustin's eyes widened in surprise.
Who would have guessed that these two would actually be ninjas, one of which even was a Power Ranger. Then again, they did show up around the same time as Doragg as well as the ninjas were sighted.
"Elijah! Elijah wake up!" Ami kneeled down next to her wounded brother, shaking him carefully in an attempt to wake him up. Her eyes fell upon the silvery object around his wrist, his morpher that seemed to have overloaded with power as sparks were escaping from it.
"Is he okay?" Tori asked as the three of them walked up closer.
"Stay back!" She glared back at them before turning back to her brother, placing her hands on his chest and closing her eyes for a second before softly reciting the same incantation she sang when she healed Dustin, a soft white glow radiating from her palms. "Lunae lumen dolor sanare."
"That's what she did to me the other night… The magic healing thingy…"
She sighed as the glow disappeared, looking at her hands for a moment before looking back at Elijah.
"Did it work though?" Shane frowned.
"Elijah…" She shook him again but he didn't wake up.
The boy in red and black scratched the back of his head, "Hey, let's take him to Ninja Ops! It's far too dangerous to stay out in the open like this."
"No thank you." She growled softly, keeping her eyes on her brother.
"Well it's either that or the hospital, Cam knows some medical stuff too so one or the other is your best bet." Tori explained.
Though she didn't want their help, she didn't want to risk something bad happening to her brother now that he was injured. Because she didn't want to get involved with any authorities, the hospital would be out of the question and she had no other choice but to accept.
"Fine."
"My lord, why didn't you let me finish him? We could have gotten rid of all the pesks in one blow!" Pierrot demanded to know, not quite sure why he was called back to the fortress when he was just seconds away of total victory.
"I cannot have you destroy them just yet…" Doragg replied thoughtfully. "Both of them are born in the line of power. Though they are now just bugs getting in our way… I've come to realize that we might need them for our plan to succeed."
"What does that mean?" The mime tilted his masked face.
"Instead of destroying the one person who might be able to unlock the power of the ginzuishou, why not utilize his ability for our own benefit?"
A soft chuckle escaped from the mime player, catching on to the plan his master was creating.
After carefully carrying Elijah back to the Ninja Ops, Cam ran some tests to find that most of his wounds except for a couple of scratches had been healed, thanks to Ami's healing power, and he was just knocked out for the time being.
With that worry out of the way, however, the others decided to take this chance to get some answers out of Ami.
"First of all, give us back that scroll you took earlier." Shane held out his hand.
She refused, "It's not yours to begin with, I took back what was rightfully ours, property of the Moon Academy!"
"Then what was it doing in our scroll cabinet?" Tori continued.
"I don't know, you lousy Wind ninjas probably stole it years ago?"
"Hey, who are you calling lousy?" Dustin jumped. "You're the thief here!"
"I am not a thief!" She jumped up.
"She is right," Sensei finally chirped in.
Sensei and Cam had been monitoring the fight all along and as they had returned to the Ninja Ops, he had been awfully quiet, his mind wondering in deep thought as he slowly realized what the situation was.
"Sensei?" Tori asked.
He nodded, "That scroll does not originally belong to the Wind Ninja Academy, however we did not steal it from yours either, Amilia Wentworth."
She stared at him in shock as he called her by her full name. No one aside from her brother called her that, no one aside from him even knew that Ami was just short for Amilia.
"Then how did it get here, father?" Cam wondered with a thoughtful frown.
"A long time ago I met with Sensei Haruka, the head of the Moon Ninja Academy. She asked me to take the scroll and hide it, fearing it might fall into the wrong hands. She had known of a prophecy which led her to believe that it wouldn't be safe at their school."
"A prophecy?" Tori repeated.
"You mean she knew about the upcoming revival?" Ami asked softly.
Sensei nodded, "And as prophecies cannot be altered, she made some safety measures to ensure that they were well prepared for it to come true."
"So that explains why the scroll was here… But it doesn't explain you guys. Nor the creeps we saw earlier…" Dustin scratched his head.
"Ami, I think we owe them some explanation…" A voice said and they turned to see Elijah wobbling inside after finally waking up.
"Elijah!" she hopped towards her brother, carefully wrapping her arm around his waist and helped him to the seating area around the table. "We don't have to tell them anything. We can just leave."
He shook his head however, "I agree that I thought keeping them out of our business was the best idea… But I realized that we might have made some errors in our plans."
"Good to see you awake, Elijah." Sensei noted. "How are you feeling?"
"Like I got run over by a truck, no big deal. It's good to see you again, Sensei Watanabe." The boy chuckled.
"Wait, you two have met before?" Shane asked.
"Ah, your sensei stopped by the academy a couple of times in the past and I may or may not have been one of the best students Sensei Haruka wanted to brag with when he did visit."
"Modest as ever."
Ami frowned, "Wait, if you two know each other and he knew about the scroll then why the heck did I have to go through so much trouble to reclaim it? Couldn't we have just walked in and asked it back?"
"What's a ninja without a bit of sneaking around though?" Elijah chuckled, ignoring his sister's glare who didn't find it as amusing.
"Alright then, why don't you start talking?" Shane crossed his arms.
Elijah sighed before nodding, "We are ninjas from the Moon Ninja Academy, trained under the watchful eye of Sensei Ayame Haruka. The students are all trained on their ability with the element of light and energy. Some students are skilled at cloaking just because of their ability to bend light deeming them invisible. Some can create force fields while others can use their power to heal."
"Like what Ami did with Dustin and you after you got hurt?" Tori tilted her head slightly.
"Something like that." Ami nodded slowly.
"Ami and I, we were born in something called the line of power. This enables us to obtain the secrets of the legendary warrior, the master of light who once founded our academy so many years ago. It's also why I got the Lunar morpher to be able to become a Power Ranger." Elijah continued.
"And I got diddly squat because there was only one morpher and he pulled seniority on me!"
"And because, unlike you, I advanced in my training and sensei thought that if the weight of the world would rest on someone's shoulders, at least it should be someone who knows what he's doing."
"Don't give me that, just because I got bored during a couple of classes that taught me nothing but passive skills does not mean that I'm not able to protect the world from Doragg and the revival of Orpheus."
"Orpheus? You mean there are more than just Doragg and that other thing?" Cam asked.
Both of them nodded as Elijah continued explaining the story, "The serpentine creature you met before, Doragg is an evil alien space lord, a force to fear rather than mock but he works for a greater power. He is the servant of a great evil named Orpheus, he's the god of everything bad and he once tried to rule the planet thousands of years ago. Fortunately, the legendary warriors stepped in to stop him, unable to destroy the evil entity completely they sealed him away into a solitary prison deep inside an asteroid that was light years away and on a course even further away from our planet."
"As luck will have it, the asteroid somehow changed its course and set back to Earth instead. Naturally it would take centuries to reach our galaxy so there wasn't much to fear. They assumed that with the time passing, the power of evil would weaken and by the time it would hit Earth, Orpheus wouldn't stand a chance against any fighting force." Ami added slowly.
"When Lothor attacked, our sensei wanted to send us over to help fearing it was Orpheus. Since only a few people knew of the existence of our Academy, there was no way Lothor could capture us as he did with all the others."
"But when she realized it was just Lothor and saw the Wind Rangers, she held us back and instead made us prepare something else. Something worse." The girl shifted in her seat slightly.
"And what was that?" Shane questioned.
"When the Abyss of Evil was re-opened not too long ago, Lothor wasn't the only evil soul that escaped. Doragg, who had been banished to that place managed to find his way out as well as bringing a couple of his generals. He set out to gather all that was needed for the revival ceremony as Orpheus was on its course here." Elijah continued.
"Doragg infiltrated our academy and destroyed it from the inside. He managed to corrupt students who caused havoc until he ultimately had a showdown with our Sensei… Beforehand she set us out with a mission. Though if I had known we wouldn't be able to return to the academy anymore… I would have stayed and fought with her." Ami sighed, clutching her fists together.
"She wouldn't have let you, because of our heritage we're the only hope so naturally she would send us out before Doragg could get to us."
"So… With Doragg being here… Does that mean that your Sensei…" Tori trailed off, not really sure how to word it and not really wanting to assume the worst case scenario though the two ninjas' reaction said enough.
"She protected the academy until the very end, she had always been a valiant warrior." Sensei tried lifting the mood slightly.
There was a brief silence in which the others let the information sink in bit by bit. So this situation was a lot more to worry about than they had assumed at first and they were already pretty concerned especially with just their ninja powers at hand.
"So what are you doing here in Blue Bay Harbor then?" Dustin perked up.
"After completing one part of the mission our Sensei send us out for, retrieving the Lunar morpher from where she kept it hidden all these years, we followed Doragg to here." Elijah tapped the table lightly, "Though we weren't sure what he was doing here for a while, but we have a hunch now."
"Which is?"
"He is looking for the ginzuishou, the legendary silver crystal which possesses one of the greatest powers the universe has ever known."
"Which is somewhere here?" Tori asked.
Ami shrugged, "We're not sure. It's actually something we are after as well, the crystal could be a key to defeating Doragg and his minions as well as stopping the resurrection of Orpheus."
"It is said that the ginzuishou is hidden deep inside Artemis' temple, a temple created to honour the great goddess of the moon, the mother of light and also the one who once gifted the legendary warrior with his powers." Elijah continued where his sister left off.
"And hopefully our great lady in the sky can sprinkle some moon dust on me and give me something awesome as well." Ami nodded.
Her brother rolled his eyes, "We are not doing this for personal gain. See? This is why I took on the Ranger powers. You are far too greedy and immature."
"I am neither! I'm just saying, if I had some different power than just my stupid healing thing we could have kicked Orpheus back to burn on the sun!" she argued. "Now I'm as worthless as them!"
"Hey, we're not worthless!" Dustin protested.
"We're the ones who defeated Lothor. Twice. We might not be rangers anymore but we still have power and we can definitely help out in this fight!" Shane agreed with his brown haired friend.
"Uh, hello! Even Elijah got his butt kicked by Pierrot – nice going by the way," she nudged her brother who gave her an irritable glare, "And he still has his Power Ranger powers. What makes you think you're of any help to us?"
"Ami…"
"No! Seriously, we were send out on a mission. We have a score to settle with Doragg for destroying our academy and killing our mentor. You're always saying that when time comes that you need to morph I need to stay out because without any morphing powers of my own I'm more of a risk than a help. Why are you even considering their help? We got what we came here for, let's just go find the ginzuishou and complete our mission!"
"Ami, be quiet!" Elijah ordered while raising his tone at her, which came to a bit of shock to her as well as the others. "Despite what I have said in the past, it's clear that even with the Ranger powers our enemies are far too strong, not to mention the fact that they outnumber us. We need their help."
"We can't do too much though, our powers were drained indefinitely during our last encounter with Lothor." Tori sighed sadly.
"There might be a way to awaken those Ranger powers once more, tying them with your own individual abilities." Elijah nodded.
"To awaken them? How?" Cam adjusted his glasses slightly. He had spent nights pondering over a way to regain their powers and the ability to morph but to no avail.
"You need to find a way to unlock the power of your guardians."
The four exchanged slightly confused looks hearing this vague answer. Power of their guardians? What was that supposed to mean? What guardians? They had them?
"What does he mean by that, Sensei?" Shane asked, turning to their mentor.
The man pondered for a moment before answering his question, "The ancient warriors who each possessed your powers, those who fought in the great war against Orpheus alongside the warrior of light, the founders of our own academy."
"The ones looking down from wherever they ascended to and shaking their heads in great disappointment…" Ami mumbled softly, crossing her arms.
"And you're only telling us that now?" Dustin jumped from his seat. "Man, we could have been Power Rangers again ages ago!"
"And for good reason, Dustin." Sensei replied calmly. "Though unlocking their powers may grant you your morphing back, it is not certain that it would work. For one we have yet to discover where any of the guardian temples are hidden and even so you may not be able to harness the powers."
"But why not? We were the chosen before right?" Tori questioned, recalling what their sensei had told them before the great battle between them and Lothor. They were always destined to become the Power Rangers.
"Usually, in order to unlock and harness the power of a guardian you need to be of direct descend. Born in the line of power like Elijah and me." Ami explained, mostly to her. For some reason she felt just slightly less irritated by her lack of knowledge than the others, probably because she wasn't as obnoxious as Dustin for example.
"However, since you were destined to be Rangers and masters of your own elements, there may be a chance that you could gain those powers even if you turn out not to be born into the line of your element." Elijah nodded.
"So all we have to do is track down the temples, unlock the powers and it's back to morphing time?" Shane suddenly smiled eagerly. "That sounds simple enough!"
"Locating the temples might be harder than it sounds, Shane. We have no idea where to start looking. And even so, those powers are guarded and you will have to go through challenges to deem yourself worthy."
"So basically this information is useless to us." Dustin sighed.
"Meaning you guys are useless to us." Ami added.
"Stop calling people useless Amilia" Elijah sighed.
"Don't call me that."
"Want me to go back to calling you kid again?"
"Don't call me that either."
"Then start behaving maturely."
"Hey! Just because you're older and got the morpher does not mean you can start acting like your better than me, Elijah." With that said she stood up and marched out of Ninja Ops.
"Excuse my sister, she can be a brat sometimes." He sighed.
"Sometimes?" Dustin chuckled slightly though was quickly silenced by Tori's elbow in his side.
Cam moved over to his computer, "I could run some tests to see if I might be able to pick up on something, maybe a hint as to where the temples could be?"
"I'm not sure if technology would be able to track it down but it's worth a shot," Elijah nodded.
Tori then realized something"What exactly is on that scroll that you guys wanted to badly?"
Elijah remembered the scroll and picked it up from the table, observing the outside for a moment.
"According to our Sensei, this scroll could tell us exactly where to find the ginzuishou."
He unrolled the scroll and placed it on the table, his eyes slightly widening with surprise as he scanned over it. The scroll was empty. There were no words writing, no symbols or drawing. It was just a rolled up piece of parchment.
"Well… That sure is useful…" Shane frowned.
"I don't get it… She said that everything we needed to know in order to find the temple and the crystal was written on here."
"Why would she ask to hide it here if it was empty, Sensei?" Tori turned to their mentor once more.
He didn't seem to have an answer yet he didn't seem that surprised by it. Was it just his poker face or did he know the scroll would be empty. Did it have some deeper meaning to it or was it just that. An empty scroll?
For those wondering, no this has nothing to do with Sailor Moon. Guinzuishou is actually Japanese for the words "silver crystal" and because I wanted to give it a mystic feeling I decided to dub it that instead of just calling it the silver crystal.
The words Ami recites in order to use her healing powers are Latin and means "Moonlight heal the pain" which I know might be a bit lame but hey it's my story and my lameness.
For those wondering as well, yes Blake and Hunter will show up and very soon I might add.
I hope you guys liked this chapter. Let me know what you think, okay?
