Chapter Three: We Have a Problem
"Kira, can I come in?" Conner asked as he knocked on the locked door to the room they shared.
His answer was the door swishing open, letting him in. He walked into the room and saw her curled up on a ball, on the bed holding her stomach. He quickly shut the door and made his way over to the bed, sitting down next to her.
"She wanted me to…….." Kira trailed off as Conner pulled her into his arms.
"She didn't mean it rock star. You know that." Conner said as he ran his hands through her hair to calm her down.
"I know jock. I know. "she replied as she rested her head on his shoulder swiftly falling asleep.
Conner waited until he was sure she was asleep until he moved her and placed her back onto the bed.
He then left again to go to the gym. When he got there he saw Andros and Tommy sparring so he began to attack a punching bag again, as Andros and Tommy stopped their spar to watch him attack the poor thing.
Conner felt their eyes on him but he didn't stop his training. He did a round house kick and then came back with a series of quick jabs that almost knocked the bag off its chain.
Andros and Tommy shared a quick look and then pulled Conner off the punching bag causing him to swing at both of them. Andros dodged the swing while Tommy blocked it and came back with a series of punches Andros right behind him. Conner blocked most of the punches only taking one to the face but he dealt it straight back at Andros hitting him in the gut. They continued trading blows until Kira, Ashley and Kim walked into the room/
The three broke apart as the girls walked up to them.
"Having fun?" Kim asked as she wrapped her arms around Tommy.
"No we where getting our butts kicked, by a rookie non-the less!" Andros exclaimed as Ashley gave him a quick kiss.
"That's what you get for underestimating someone" Kira said a twinkle in her eyes.
"Think you can do better than me?" Kim asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes." Kira said matter-o-factly
"Is that a challenge?" Kim asked.
Kira locked eyes with her precede.
"Yes." She said bluntly.
The three guys shared worried looks.
"Rock star, didn't Ducleana say you where to only train with me remember?" Conner said.
"She's not going to find out." She said as she shot Conner a look that could kill.
Conner shrugged and gave in.
Kim grinned and positioned herself on the mats as Kira did the same opposite her.
Both girls attacked at the same time making them both have to go on the offense to block the other's attack.
Kim then attacked trying a round house kick that Kira defected and attacked with her own roundhouse kick causing Kim to do a backhand spring to get away. Kira smirked.
"So you're a gymnast?" Kira asked with a small smirk.
"Yeah since I was three." Kim dodged a well aimed kick as she spoke.
"Funny." Kira began "So am I"
Kira did a back hand spring tuck and then fell back into her fighting stance bringing her left leg up in a swift kick that knocked Kim off balance.
Kira reached out her hand to help Kim up.
"Good job Kira. Like Andros said, not bad for a rookie." Kim said smirking.
"Trust me Kim. I'm no rookie. First degree black belt is not a rookie and neither is a Gold Medal at the Pan Globals for floor, bar, beam, horse and flexibility." Was Kira's blunt reply.
Kim paled. "I just fought a first degree black belt?" she asked weakly.
Conner laughed at how Kim was reacting.
"Yes you just fought a first degree black belt and the best at her school at that." Conner said as Kira walked over and sat down in his lap. Conner raised an eyebrow at her but didn't say anything.
Tommy's mouth, on the other hand, was imitating a cod fish, as it was still on the floor.
"Dr. O you may want to pick your jaw up off the floor before that mouse crawls in it." Kira said laughing.
Tommy quickly closed his mouth and then glared at her.
"What have I told you about calling me Dr. O?" he said for what seemed like the hundredth time.
"We are to call you Tommy" Kira and Conner said in perfect unison causing everyone to laugh.
"I don't know how your parents manage you" Tommy said jokingly.
Kira and Conner shared a glance right as their cell phones started to ring.
"You just had to say it didn't you?" Kira asked as she glared at Tommy, her fiancée' doing the same.
Tommy held up his hands to fend them off.
"He didn't know he'd jinx it sorry. Try and get rid of them fast we don't need them tracing the call so keep it under a minute." Andros said as they pulled their phones out of their pockets.
Conner looked at Kira and raised an eyebrow. She nodded her head and they handed each other their phone.
"Hello?" they both said at the same time. A few minutes of quick talking and the others parents completely forgot about the fact that their child hadn't come home and were trying to figure out why a teenager of the opposite sex was answering their child's phone.
When Kira and Conner hung up the others phone and gave it back to its owner they noticed the looks the others where giving them.
"That was to well done for a spur of the moment." Kim said stating what everyone else was thinking.
Kira and Conner laughed, realizing what they all thought.
"Nothing like that. When I was kidnapped my Mesogog, Conner covered for me with my parents. While he was captured I covered for him and it just became second nature for us to cover for each other when we had to sneak out. "Kira said laughing.
Everyone else laughed at how stupid they had been acting. A few minutes later Rocky, Kat, Billy, Trini, Wes, Jen, Merrick Alyssa, Taylor and Eric all came into the room, scattering out and finding places to sit.
"Conner, Kira, Tommy, mind if we ask you guys some questions?" Jen asked from her spot on the floor. "Your team was one of the most famous in the year 3000."
All three nodded their head in consent.
"What happened when you where kidnapped? The history pretty much glossed over that." Jen said directing the question to Kira.
Kira closed her eyes as if lost in thought while Conner's hand found hers squeezing it to give her silent support.
Jen noticed this. "If you don't want to talk about it it's ok." She said quietly.
Kira shook her head. "No it's ok; although I think showing you would probably be a better way of explaining it."
Kira pulled her outer shirt over her head leaving her in a yellow tank top.
She turned her arms over to reveal a multitude of scars that were still visible even though the attack had been almost two years ago.
"I went to a doctor about them, told him I was a cutter that was cured, and asked him how long they would take to heal. He said they where to deep into my tissue. I will have them for life." She said as she let all of them see her arms.
Tommy was shocked that she had hid them so well for so long. Then again he was still hiding some scars from Kim that he had gotten as the evil green ranger.
Tommy glanced back at Kira's arms when he saw it.
"Kira…. Is that…" Tommy trailed off unable to finish his train of thought.
Kira pulled the strap of her tank top down but held it so it wouldn't fall to reveal some horrifying.
'She is mine' was craved into her shoulder blade by what looked like a very sharp knife. Conner and the others blanched at what they saw. Kira pulled her over shirt back on over her tank top and buttoned it back up. She then cuddled back into Conner's arms trying to forget the memories that talking about it had brought up.
The others changed topics tactfully and began to talk about the prophecy.
"We'll reach Phobos within two weeks. The Talismans of Love are somewhere on Phobos. No one knows where they are, it is just known that they are there. Once we retrieve the Talismans of Love we will become the legendary Rangers of the Crystal. After that all we can do is wait. Ducleana told me that the love the couple has must be at it's highest and there is no way to force that. So to unleash the full potential of the Talismans of Love will take some time, it really just depends. Once the full potential is released they become The Power Talismans and that is what we need to unlock the temples. Once we unlock the temples, we gather the two gems in each temple and place each gem with it's partnered gem and palace all ten completed gems in a container at the Temple of the Spirit and then Conner and Kira must retrieve the Book of Light and Shadows which will lead us to another power source to defeat Lord Grimm. She said the hardest part will be translating the Book of Light and Shadows." Andros said with Ashley interjecting at parts.
"So the power source we have now is just to help us reach The Talismans of Love which will transform us into the Rangers of the Crystal and then they become the Power Talismans which we use to unlock the temples we get the gems from each temple place them together and then send the two rookies to get a book we must translate." Kim said summing it up.
"This is going to be a long journey." Zhane said summing up everyone's feelings.
AN: I have changed the name of this fan fiction to Rangers of the Crystal because once they get the Book of Light and Shadows I am starting that as a sequel to Rangers of the Crystal. I hope this doesn't confuse anyone.