I don't own Super Sentai but I do own Kodenranger.
Elemental Sentai Kodenranger
Chapter 4: Brave Souls to Victory! Gattai Begin!
A man was working in the gym, training himself for he was a professional athlete. He had to do his best for his team. After all, it was a team right? He can't afford to slack off. He lifted once more, and he was done for the day. He got ready and exited the gym, only to then be captured in an instant by something. He didn't even have time to scream.
At Yatsude High, the students all wear their uniform proudly. Said uniform consists of a red blazer on top of a white dress shirt. On the collar of the dress shirt is a red tie. Yet there is one person in school who doesn't even have the red tie on, other than Rai who has a reason to wear his green tie. Yes, there is a boy Rai's age who wears not the red tie, but instead wears a blue tie. He also wore his Blazer unbuttoned. He had spiky hair that spiked upwards. He was walking in the hallways, his footsteps resound through the emptiness of the halls. Every one but he was in class. He walked towards the door and grabbed the door handle. He slid the door open.
"And so this number gets carried over here," said the voice of Takeshi.
"Yo Takeshi-sensei," said the boy with the blue tie.
Takeshi perked his ears up upon hearing the boys name. Takeshi turned to look at the boy. "Lee?" Takeshi said to the boy.
"In the flesh." Lee, the boy, said.
"You skipping class again?" Takeshi said while writing on the board.
"Yeah." Lee said.
"Boring class?" Takeshi asked.
"No not really, but we have a substitute because Mai-sensei's not here today."
"And you're ditching because?"
"Because Mai-sensei's not here, there's just no eye candy in the class today." Lee said with a cat's smile. :3
"You're pretty sick thinking about your teacher like that." Takeshi said to Lee.
"Have you seen her?" Lee asked. "She's hot."
"Yes you are right." Takeshi whispered so his students wouldn't hear him. Takeshi then looked at his class. "Oh yes, ok. All right, class. This is Lee Hamura, one of my old students. He's ditching his class today so make him feel at home."
A student raised his hand. "Sensei, you encouraging this guy to ditch?"
"Yes, because I actually like this guy." Takeshi said. "So Lee, just sit anywhere."
"Ok, thank you." Lee said with a cheerful smile and said it in English. There was a chair next to a mopey boy with hair shaped like small flames so Lee sat on that chair. Takeshi went back to teaching the whole class.
Lee listened in on some of the stuff that the students were whispering to each other. They were all talking about how during the whole week, athletes have been disappearing without a trace. One student said that his father, a police officer is baffled by the case. No evidence were left at the scene of the crimes. Upon hearing such news, Lee felt really uneasy. Lee himself had been feeling uneasy lately and he himself didn't even know why he felt uneasy.
Lee then looked at the boy next to him. The boy was silent, yet not listening to Takeshi's lecture. He was looking down with a look of shame on his face. The ponytail wearing girl next to him from time to time looked at the boy with a worried face. The twin tail wearing girl behind the boy had a worried look as well. Both girls were worried about the boy as the boy had a mopey face. Lee noticed that the boy appeared to be about to cry at any moment.
Lee inched his chair up closer to the boy. "Hey, how's it going?" Lee said softly, but not as soft as the other students that were talking to each other. The boy ignored Lee. "Come on, talk to me." The boy continued to ignore Lee. "Sensei!" Lee raised his hand.
"Lee, I'm not your teacher anymore." Takeshi said, annoyed as his lesson was interrupted again.
"Well can you tell me the name of this gorgeous kid over here?" Lee said, astonishing every one in the class, except for the boy as the boy seemed to be in his own little world at the moment.
"Lee . . . just because you're gay doesn't mean you have to act gay in my class right now."
"I'm straight remember?" Lee said to Takeshi.
"Like hell I can believe you!" Takeshi barked.
"Well what's his name anyway?" Lee asked again.
"Ryunosuke." Takeshi said. "But he's probably not going to answer to you right now, he won't even talk to me."
Lee tapped Ryunosuke's shoulder. "Oi, Ryunosuke. Oi." Lee said to Ryunosuke. Lee then gave up on talking to Ryunosuke. He however grabbed Ryu's shoulder, getting no reaction from Ryunosuke, and then Lee head butted Ryunosuke.
"OW!" Lee and Ryunosuke shouted. Lee had a bigger reaction though, despite being the initiator of the head butt. "You have quite the hard head."
"EEK!" Ryunosuke squeaked. "Please don't hurt me anymore!"
"Hey, hey, don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you." Lee said to Ryunosuke.
"What did you hit me for, that really hurt." Ryunosuke whined.
"Hey you weren't answering me so I had no choice but to hit you." Lee said.
"COULDN'T YOU HAVE DONE IT IN A MORE PEACEFUL WAY!" Ryunosuke shouted.
"OI!" Takeshi bellowed. "If you two are going to be loud, then just get out and have your argument out there!"
"But he's the one who hit me!" Ryunosuke whined.
"I'm not your student." Lee said raising his hand.
"WHO CARES!" Takeshi screamed. "Just GET OUT!"
Lee and Ryunosuke stood outside near the door. Ryunosuke was crying. "I've been a good boy, why did I have to be driven out of the classroom."
"Hey, don't worry about that Ryunosuke." Lee said.
"WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO USE MY FIRST NAME!" Ryunosuke screamed in Lee's face.
"Well what's your last name?" Lee asked.
"Rekka." Ryunosuke replied.
"Meh, not cool enough, I'll just call you Ryu." Lee said.
"BUT I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU!" Ryu shouted.
"Lee." Lee said extending a hand out.
"Huh?"
"Lee, that's my name. Lee Hamura." Lee said. "I won't forgive you if you call me Hamura."
Ryu looked at Lee's hand, then at Lee's eyes. "Uh, yeah." Ryu shook Lee's hand. "N-n-nice to meet you . . . Lee."
"It's nice to meet you too Ryu!" Lee said boisterously.
"SHUT UP OUT THERE!" Takeshi shouted from inside the room.
Ryu and Lee shirked upon Takeshi shouting, then the two boys looked at each other again. "So, what's with the sad face Ryu?" Lee asked Ryu.
"Huh?"
"You're awkwardly mopey." Lee replied. "Looks too unnatural." Lee smiled. "Come on smile, a gorgeous kid like you looks better smiling."
Ryu just stared at Lee. "Hey I'm not gay."
"Neither am I." Lee said.
"Hard to believe." Ryu said sweat dropping. Then Lee grabbed Ryu's hand. "OI! Are you sure you're not gay!"
"I peek on girls all the time, you call that being gay?"
"Um . . ." Ryu didn't know how to answer to Lee's straightforward response.
"Come on, let's go." Lee said.
"Huh, to where?" Ryu asked.
"Outside." Lee said.
Ryu stood out on the baseball field while Lee came over with a baseball. "Hey, why are you telling me to ditch class?" Ryu, with an irritated face, asked Lee.
"Well you've been driven out of class and I'm ditching anyway so why not come out here to have some fun?" Lee asked.
"Why?"
"Because you're moping." Lee replied.
"Huh?" Ryu asked, then caught the ball that Lee just threw.
"Come on, throw it back." Lee said.
Ryu looked at the ball, then threw, except the ball didn't go far.
Lee walked over and grabbed the ball and walked over to Ryu.
"YEEP! I'm sorry!" Ryu shouted. "PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!"
"Huh, I'm not going to hurt you." Lee said handing Ryu the ball. "I'm just going to teach you how to throw." Lee got behind Ryu and held Ryu's arms. "Don't just use your arms to throw, you got to put your whole body into it." Lee moved Ryu's arms and body to show Ryu how to throw. Lee went back to his spot. "Come on, let's try again."
Ryu looked at the ball, and then followed Lee's advice. Ryu stepped backwards, and then he threw the ball towards Lee. The ball flew into Lee's hands.
"Yes, there you go." Lee said. "Nice job." Lee said in broken English and gave a thumbs up. Lee threw the ball back to Ryu.
Ryu threw the ball back to Lee. "Hey this is kind of fun." Ryu said.
Lee threw the ball to Ryu. "So now do you mind telling me what's going on your mind?"
Ryu grunted upon being asked again. Ryu caught the ball and didn't say anything upon throwing the ball back to Lee. Lee noticed that Ryu wasn't going to talk, and then Lee just dropped the baseball to the ground. Lee walked over to Ryu. "Come on, let's get going."
"Huh?"
Now Ryu was standing on the basketball court while Lee came over with a basketball. Lee threw the basketball to Ryu. "Come on." Lee said. "Let's play."
"Um . . ." Ryu said rubbing the back of his head. "I'm not really good at sports."
"No worries, I'll go easy on you." Lee said. "Come on . . . or do you not know how to play basketball?"
"Of course I know how to play basketball!" Ryu shouted. He started bouncing the ball. Lee came over and was all over Ryu. Ryu attempted to keep the ball away from Lee.
"Hey come on, since we're so near each other, how about talking to me now?" Lee asked. "Why are all mopey?"
Ryu grunted, then he continued dribbling the ball, and tried to find an opening so he could land the ball into the hoop.
"I'm not going to let off unless you tell me." Lee said.
Ryu growled, then Ryu threw the ball into the air. Lee blocked Ryu's shot attempt with a hand and the ball bounced away from the two boys.
Ryu had a sad look on his face, then Ryu sighed. "How would you feel, if you got a great power, yet you still need the help from others?"
"Huh?" Lee was trying to figure out what in the world Ryu was talking about.
"Well?" Ryu was still waiting for Lee's answer.
"Well . . ." Lee said. "I wouldn't care really."
"Huh!" Ryu couldn't believe how straightforward Lee's answer was.
"Well for one, even if you're good at something, that doesn't mean that you're the best in it." Lee said. "Look at me, many people in this school rely on me to help make their team a success because I'm good at sports, but is it because of me that this school's sports teams are so good?" Lee asked. "Nope. Actually the truth of the matter is, I wouldn't be able to do all those things without the help of my teammates." Lee chuckled. "After all, no one can do everything themselves."
"But . . ."
"No buts." Lee said. "Whatever ailing you is because you can't do anything yourself." Lee flicked Ryu's forehead. "Get the mindset that you have to do everything yourself out, you're not God you know. No one likes a person who can do everything perfectly anyway."
Ryu looked at Lee with astonishment. Lee didn't know what Ryu was talking about yet Lee still made such a speech for Ryu.
Lee got into a boxing stance. "Come on, let's fight."
"Eh?"
"You fought Rai-Kaicho a few days ago, so how about fighting with me for a bit. After all fighting between men is really exhilarating and usually brings up the spirits of those that are sad."
Ryu was a little weirded out by Lee's logic especially since Lee just made a dramatic speech towards Ryu's mood. Ryu realized that Lee said something about fighting Rai a few days ago. "When did I fight Rai-Kaicho?" Ryu didn't fight Rai, Kai did, except during that time Kai was dressed as Ryu.
"Come on, a person who can match up with my best friend, I just got to fight at least once." Lee said with a cheerful squeal.
"EH!" Ryu was a little surprised to hear that Lee was Rai's best friend. "You're not looking for revenge are you!" I don't even know when I fought Rai! WHEN DID I FIGHT HIM! Ryu didn't, Kai as Ryu did.
"Oh come on, I'm not that type of person." Lee said. "But come on, fighting will raise your spirits! I'm just doing this for you."
"O . . .K." Ryu got into a battle stance. The two then threw a few fists at each other, except they were stopped by a whistle.
"OI LEE!" Rai shouted. Next to him was Ayako, the vice president who was the one who blew her blue whistle. "What the hell are you doing out here! I thought you were just going to Takeshi's classroom to ditch, I didn't think you'd ditch out here!"
"Well sorry about that, just helping Ryu out here." Lee said wrapping an arm around Ryu and pulling Ryu towards him.
Rai opened his eyes in shock and looked at Ryu. "You." Rai growled.
"EEP!" Ryu slipped under Lee's arm and hid behind Lee.
"So you're ditching with Lee." Rai said. "I knew it, you're just a son of a bitch aren't you."
"I'm . . . sorry." Ryu said. He tried to hold back tears since he didn't want Rai, who already hated Ryu, to see him cry.
Lee turned around to look at Ryu and noticed that Ryu was just about ready to cry. "Oi Rai." Lee said. "Stop."
"What?" Rai was a little surprised to see Lee standing up for Ryu.
"I don't know why you hate Ryu, but you still shouldn't talk down on him."
"Lee, you stay out of this." Rai said. "So come on, Ryu, just because you're the headmaster's grandson it does not mean that you'll go unpunished."
"Yeah you're right." Ryu said. Ryu was about to walk up to Rai thinking that Rai was going to administer the punishment, then Lee stopped Ryu.
"If I go back to class now, you'll come with right?" Lee asked Rai.
Rai looked at Lee with surprise then Rai said, "of course."
"Ok then." Lee said. "Since you'll be going back to class, then you won't have to be here to punish Ryu." Lee walked up to Rai and Ayako. Lee turned to Ryu and gave Ryu a salute. "Sorry, I'll talk to you again after school ok?"
"Huh?"
"We're friends . . . right?" Lee said with a smile. Ryu blushed upon Lee saying that.
Lee, Rai, and Ayako all walked away, leaving Ryu alone in the court. Ryu had his hands together. "That was the first time . . . that a boy ever called me his friend."
After school, Lee looked around for Ryu. He ran into Takeshi's classroom and talked to Ryn and Karen. "Hey, where did Ryu go?"
"He went straight home." Karen replied.
"Why are you looking for him anyway?" Ryn asked.
"Well I told him I would talk to him after school." Lee answered. "But . . . I guess he forgot about that."
"Well he just left a few minutes ago, I think you might be able to catch up with him." Ryn said to Lee.
"Yosh, thank you." Lee said in broken English. He ran out the door.
Ryn turned to Karen. "You know, I wonder what he and Ryu did the time they were outside."
"They probably became friends during that time." Karen suggested.
Lee ran outside the school. Lee was about to exit campus, but then a football came flying by. Lee ducked and the football flew past him and landed outside campus.
"SORRY SENPAI!" Shouted a boy's voice.
"Whoa, almost took my head off didn't you Chiaki-kun?"
"Sorry about that." Chiaki, the name of the boy, said. He was in full red football gear. "Still working on my throws."
"But you've gotten quite far." Lee said. "Just keep going and you'll be an awesome American Football player."
Chiaki smiled upon hearing Lee say that. "Thank you Lee-senpai!" He bowed to Lee. "Where are you going Senpai?"
"Just chasing a guy." Lee said.
Chiaki had a really confused look on his face. "I thought you said you were straight." Chiaki remarked.
"Why does every one have to ask me about my sexuality, seriously!" Lee exclaimed.
"Sorry!" Chiaki bowed again. "I didn't mean it like that!"
"Meh, whatever." Lee said. "Just forget about it."
"HAI!" Chiaki said. "Ok then, I'll get back to practice!"
Chiaki was about to go back to the field, but then Lee said, "don't you have to get the ball back?"
"HAI!" Chiaki bowed again. "You are absolutely right!" Chiaki ran out of campus to get the ball, but the moment he exited campus . . . Chiaki was swept away.
Lee was in shock that a dark blur just came out of nowhere and Chiaki was gone just like that. "CHIAKI!" Lee shouted. Lee ran out of campus and looked around. Lee heard bouncing steps and looked up. Lee saw a brown figure jumping the buildings holding Chiaki in hand. "Damn it." Lee ran after the brown figure as fast as he could. "Hold on Chiaki!"
Ryn and Karen ran out later with their pink and yellow Koden Gems floating in the air. "Oh great, the gem reacts the moment school ends." Ryn said.
"I still find it a little weird that these things can fly." Karen said.
"Well it's useful at least, they tell us when we need to get to work and whatnot."
"That is true." Karen nodded.
The brown figure building jumped till he landed in an abandoned construction site. The building in the site was nearly finished. The figure entered the building and in full view the figure turned out to be a brown Horse Kagejyu with light armor.
It carried the unconscious Chiaki inside where there were a lot of athletes in the room getting tortured by Kaigeshis.
Kai was in there with a ball of dark flames which gradually got bigger the more the Kaigeshis tortured the athletes.
"Kai-sama, I have another one." The Kagejyu said to Kai. Kai sighed. "What is wrong Kai-sama?"
"You should all know me by now. It's already been many years you know." Kai said.
"Yes, I am sorry Kai-sama." The Kagejyu said putting Chiaki down.
"But I have no choice, how else am I going to get stronger?" Kai said looking at the ball of flames in front of him. "Despair . . . why do I need despair to get stronger?"
Outside, Lee ran up to the site and looked at the dirt. On the dirt were footsteps that didn't seem human at all. "What kind of thing could make such footsteps?" Lee wondered. He walked up to the site, but stopped when he saw Ryu just standing outside staring at the near finished building. "Hey Ryu, what are you doing here?"
"Ah, nothing!" Ryu jumped back in shock upon being talked to by Lee. The red Koden Gem was just flying around Ryu.
Lee stared at the flying gem. "Is that a flying ball?" Lee asked Ryu.
"Huh what?" Ryu looked at the red Koden Gem then grabbed it from the air and stuffed the gem into his coat pocket. "What ball?"
"Ryu, don't lie to me, I'm not some idiot who can't put two and two together." Lee said.
"It's . . . not something I can tell you about." Ryu blurted out.
"Ok fine, you don't have to tell me. But at least tell me what you're doing here."
"I'm trying to figure that out myself." Ryu said. "I came here because I had to-"
"You had to come?" Lee asked Ryu.
". . . sort of. It's just something I have to do." Ryu replied. Ryu then looked at the near finished building. "I want to go in there but . . ."
"But what?"
"I'm . . ."
"Spit it out," Lee urged Ryu on.
Ryu started shaking wildly. Lee could see that Ryu's legs were shaking a lot and it looked as if Ryu was about to collapse. Lee held on to Ryu so Ryu could stay up.
"I'm scared." Ryu said.
"Huh?"
"I'm scared of the things to come. The last time something like this happened, I was completely overwhelmed. I was alone and I didn't know what to do then and I don't know what to do now." Ryu looked like he was about to cry.
Lee patted Ryu's back. "Well if you're afraid of going then how about I come with you?" Lee said. "That way you won't be alone."
"But you-"
"No buts." Lee said. He walked into the building. "Come on Ryu, just come in here. You don't have to worry about anything with me in here."
Ryu looked at Lee with worry, "Lee, just get out of there right now! You don't know what you're dealing with!"
"Do I care?" Lee asked. "If one is to only think about the things that he knows, then he won't be able to progress." Lee said. "If you're going to be afraid the rest of your life, then you're not going to get anywhere and you'll be stuck in the same position that you are in right now. Now come on, just get in here."
"O . . .k." Ryu hesitantly walked in and while he met up with Lee inside, Ryu was thinking, I can't involve Lee! He'll die!
Despite the building looking near finished, the inside looked really scary. Dusty boxes all over the place, tiles falling off the walls, bugs scurrying around inside, webs all over the place. "I heard this place was abandoned two years ago because of a ghost." Lee said. "It is said that this place was built on top of a burial ground of a vengeful criminal."
"Lee, why did you have to say that?" Ryu whined.
"Why, scared of ghosts?"
"NO!" Ryu lied. "I just don't like to hear about ghosts."
"Hey perk up, I'm scared of ghosts too." Lee said cheerfully.
"But you say that with a smile." Ryu said.
"It's because in life, you can't just do things with a frown, you gotta smile." Lee explained.
"You're kind of weird." Ryu said. "How can any one smile in this situation?"
"Ryu, you just don't get it do you?" Lee asked.
"Yeah, I don't get it, you mind actually explaining it to me."
"If you're always afraid of everything, then you'll never confront what you're afraid of." Lee said. "Which is why Rai continues to bully you."
"I . . . see now." Ryu said.
"Rai's a pretty nice guy, so I'm really surprised to see him bully some one." Lee said. "I guess it has to do with you being so wimpy."
"Sorry for being wimpy." Ryu sulked.
"Mah, it's ok." Lee said patting Ryu's back.
"Why did you even talk to me today?" Ryu asked. "I didn't even know who you are before."
Lee paused for a while. "Who really knows?" Lee shrugged his shoulders. "I guess it's because you remind me of myself."
"How did that happen?" Ryu asked seeing as how Ryu's quite the wimp while Lee's the best athlete in school that every one looks up to.
"Don't tell any one this, but I used to be a total wimp." Lee said.
"EH!" Ryu was really surprised by what Lee said.
Lee nodded. "Yeah. I was really unconfident in myself, constantly being bullied and sulking in my little corner. I always held back tears since I didn't want to be seen as weak. But one day, I decided to smile." Lee chuckled. "Oh you should've seen me. The moment I smiled, everything felt better and that was the day I confronted my fears head on. And look at me today-"
"Yeah you're quite different from that description." Ryu said with a sweat drop. "Are you sure that was true?"
"I'm really not good at lying." Lee said.
"Lies." Ryu retorted.
"Ok, ask me a question and I'll show you just how bad I'm lying."
"What do you think of me?"
"You're the wimpiest person in the world and you're better off changing your gender into a girl since you're just so gorgeous that I could just date you if you would just not have your family jewels. I'm also a straight guy." Lee said without falter.
"You . . . I'm really pissed off by what you said seriously." Ryu remarked with an annoyed face.
"You asked that, I had to answer didn't I?" Lee shrugged his shoulders.
"I guess."
"So yeah, I guess I saw myself in your expression today and I wanted to do something about that." Lee said. "So smile."
"That's funny, just yesterday my friends were telling me that my smile all day was creepy." Ryu said with a sigh.
"Well I don't mean literally smile all the time." Lee said. "When something bad happens, try not to think too hard about it and try hard to smile through trouble. If you keep moping then you'll never be able to see yourself through. Wait a minute . . . you were smiling all day yesterday?" Lee looked at Ryu with surprise.
"Don't ask." Ryu muttered.
"Well, that's understandable. You don't believe me that I used to a wimp, I can't believe that you can even smile." Lee said straightforwardly.
"Your straightforwardness is pissing me off." Ryu retorted.
"Sorry." Lee said saluting.
While the two boys were conversing, the shadows around the room started to shift around. The shadows followed the two boys while the boys kept talking.
"I'm kind of surprised to see that you're Rai-Kaicho's best friend." Ryu commented.
"Huh why?" Lee asked.
"He's been mean to me ever since he bumped into me in school. And then there was that day he saw me in a dress."
Lee choked upon hearing that Ryu wore a dress. "Wow, no wonder you're so gorgeous."
"I DIDN'T WEAR IT BECAUSE I WANTED TO!" Ryu shouted.
"Mah, you'll still look good in a dress." Lee said.
"I'm trying to be as manly as I can." Ryu sobbed.
Lee chuckled. "You're a pretty girly boy." Lee said. "You should stop trying to be macho. It just doesn't fit you."
"How about you, didn't you used to be a wimp yourself?" Ryu asked.
"Yeah I was a wimp." Lee said. "But I tried to be true to myself in front of my friends. Even after I stood up to the bullies that picked on me, I didn't act any different from my nerdy self-"
"You were a nerd?" Now this was even more surprising to Ryu than the fact that Lee used to be a wimp. "Are you sure you're telling the truth?"
"Didn't I just say I suck at lying?" Lee retorted. "Anyway I continued being a nerd for a good portion of my childhood."
"How come now you're so macho and stuff?" Ryu was really interested in Lee's development into the strong person he (Lee) was today.
"Well . . . I guess it was because studying got boring." Lee said. "While my friends went out together, I was stuck in my room studying. My dad and grandpa run a dojo and I'm just sitting there reading a book. I guess I just wanted to do something exciting. Just because I was a nerd didn't mean that I liked studying." Lee let out a cheerful laugh. "So I made it my goal that I would become great at every sport there was."
"At least you're good at something."
"Not really." Lee confessed. "Tell the truth, I'm just good at the sports I play because I have great friends to support me and good support on the field. There's no way I could actually be good at anything without the help from my friends. If anything, my friends are better at the sports I do than I am."
"I think you're too humble." Ryu muttered.
"Maybe, but that still doesn't stop the fact that my friends are just as good, maybe better, than I am in athletics."
The shadows around the two boys started to bulge up. Something was emerging from the shadows.
Lee stopped walking and so did Ryu after Lee had stopped. "What's wrong?" Ryu asked. The red Koden Gem was flying wildly behind Ryu.
"Something feels strange." Lee said ominously.
A Kaigeshi emerged from behind Ryu. The Kaigeshi was about to cut Ryu from behind with a sword, but the red Koden Gem reacted and bashed the sword away from Ryu. Lee heard the clanging of crystal against metal and turned quickly. Lee pushed Ryu away, then Lee punched the Kaigeshi's chest.
"Ho WA CAH!" Lee shouted and inched his arm forward, unleashing a one inch punch on the Kaigeshi, launching it backwards. Lee got into a fighting stance and started hopping around. More Kaigeshis appeared around the area. "Man, where did you people come from?"
"Those aren't people, Lee!" Ryu shouted.
"Huh?" Lee asked and dodge a sword swipe at him. Lee grabbed the Kaigeshi's head and grabbed the face and tried to take it off. "Man you're right, this is his real face." Lee shoved the Kaigeshi back and kicked the the Kaigeshi away. "HWA!"
A Kaigeshi swiped at Ryu from behind with a claw. "YIKES!" Ryu jumped forward and the red Koden gem rammed the Kaigeshi away. The Koden Gem flew into Ryu's hands as if it wanted Ryu to transform. Ryu was about to take his Kodenchangers from his pockets, but he thought about it and realized that if he transformed right here, then Lee would find out that Ryu was a ranger and that would blow Ryu's cover. Ryu retracted his hands from his pocket. A Kaigeshi jumped in the air and was about to cut Ryu with a sword, but the red Koden Gem flew out of Ryu's hand and bashed the Kaigeshi away. The collision of the gem and the Kaigeshi made a huge impact that caused the the Kaigeshi to drop its sword. Ryu saw the sword and picked the sword up and slashed a Kaigeshi with the sword. Then Ryu ran up to another Kaigeshi and sliced that Kaigeshi. That Kaigeshi had a sword so when it was downed Ryu grabbed the sword from the Kaigeshi. "Lee, here!" Ryu threw the sword to Lee.
Lee grabbed the sword and just threw it on the ground. "Don't need it!" Lee shouted. Lee grabbed a Kaigeshi's head and kneed the Kaigeshi. "My fists are all I need!"
"BUT YOU'LL DIE!" Ryu screamed. Ryu swung his sword to cut a Kaigeshi.
Lee snap kicked a Kaigeshi and quickly shifted his leg to kick again. Lee elbowed the Kaigeshi away then ran to the sword he threw on the ground. He grabbed the sword and threw it back to Ryu.
Ryu caught the sword with his free hand and stabbed two Kaigeshis. Ryu retracted his swords and slashed two Kaigeshi behind him.
Lee jumped on a pillar and grabbed a Kaigeshi by the head. "HO WA!" Lee flipped behind the Kaigeshi and threw the Kaigeshi on a fallen Kaigeshi's claw, piercing the Kaigeshi. "Sorry! But you're not human so I can't hold back!" Lee looked around, saw Ryu slashing surrounding Kaigeshi, and noticed that the Kaigeshi's were just endless. "Ryu, just get out of here!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" Ryu screamed. "If I leave then you'll die!" A Kaigeshi was running towards Ryu from behind and Ryu didn't notice the Kaigeshi coming.
"RYU!" Lee back kicked a Kaigeshi away then he ran towards the charging Kaigeshi. Lee jumped and tackled the Kaigeshi away from Ryu. Ryu heard the sound of a tackle and turned to see Lee on the ground with the Kaigeshi. Lee punched the Kaigeshis swiftly, knocking the Kaigeshi out. "If I'm not here then you'll die!" Lee shouted. "JUST HURRY UP!"
"BUT LEE!"
"NO BUTS!" Lee shouted. "How many times do I have to say that! Now go!" Lee grabbed a Kaigeshi and headbutted the Kaigeshi.
"LEE!"
"GET OUT OF HERE!" Lee shouted. "If you get out then there's a higher chance for you to live!"
"But what about you!"
"I'll handle myself, just get going!" Lee bellowed.
Ryu grunted then he turned towards the exit. A claw Kaigeshi ran towards Ryu and Ryu stabbed the Kaigeshi. After the Kaigeshi disappeared into black blobs, Ryu turned back to Lee. "Don't die, ok?"
"Ok then, if I don't come back then you can just kill me the next you meet me." Lee said, not really thinking about the logic behind his words. Ryu ran outside, leaving Lee alone. Lee turned to face the remaining Kaigeshi. Lee noticed a door behind the Kaigeshis. "I see, I get the feeling I need to get in there." Lee got into boxing pose. "Come on all of you, how about you guys come here for a killing!"
After Ryu ran outside the building, he stopped and then realized that he could transform without Lee seeing him. Ryu stabbed his two Kaigeshi swords on the ground then turned to the building. He quickly snapped on his Kodenchangers and his red Gem flew to Ryu's hand. Ryu pushed the gem into his Kodenchanger brace, then Ryu snapped his glove knuckles. "Release!" Ryu shouted. "Legend of the beast!" Ryu punched the air in front of him. "KODEN HENSHIN!" The wave in front of him launched forward but then bounced back towards him as a wave of flames which engulfed Ryu. The Kodenred suit appeared on Ryu's body and Ryuoh's projection appeared and bit Ryu's head, creating the helmet. After the henshin was done, Ryu grabbed the Kaigeshi swords. The swords transformed into Kodenred's twin swords.
"RYU!" Ryn and Karen shouted. Kodenpink and Kodenyellow came running over. "You're here already!"
"Come on, we need to hurry up!" Ryu shouted. "Lee's in there!"
"That guy that came into our classroom today?" Karen asked.
"YEAH!"
"What's he doing in there?" Ryn asked.
"I'm not sure how to explain but we need to get going now!" The three rangers ran inside.
Lee dodged sword swings and claw swipes. Lee ducked from a sword and swept kicked the Kaigeshi away. Lee karate chopped a Kaigeshi and ran for the door. A Kaigeshi chased Lee so when Lee got to the door, Lee stopped and back kicked the Kaigeshi away. Lee opened the door and ran in.
Ryu ran back to the area with Ryn and Karen. "LEE!" Ryu shouted. "Lee, where are you!" Ryu couldn't see Lee around. "Damn it, I hope you're ok." The Kaigeshi appeared before the rangers and all paused upon seeing the rangers.
"These guys huh?" Ryn said. She held out her blade bow. "I guess we'll be fighting these for the first time."
Karen held her chakrams at ready. "Ryu-san, you won't have any trouble with these monsters will you?"
"Call me Ryu." Ryu said. "And . . . I probably will get beaten by these things again, but not if you guys support me. We'll take them all down . . . as a team." Ryu held his swords at ready. "You two, make sure we do this together. We'll be getting out of this together!"
"You seem to be feeling a lot better from today." Ryn commented.
"I'm feeling lots better, now, IKUZO!" Ryu, Karen, and Ryn dashed towards the Kaigeshi. The Kaigeshi charged towards the three rangers. Thank you, Lee. Ryu thought as it was Lee who had supported him throughout the whole day. I'll make sure I get you out of this.
Lee however was already out of that battle and he was inside a strange hallway. "Man, this is starting to feel like a horror movie." Lee said. "Deserted dark hallway?" Lee stared at the hallway. "AWESOME!" Lee shouted cheerfully. Lee ran down the hallway and the shadows around him started to move. Kageshi jumped out from the shadows. "THESE GUYS AGAIN!" A Kageshi tried to spear Lee. Lee dodged and whacked the Kageshi with his arm. "Huh, you're dressed differently." Lee dodged a sword swing. "WA CHA!" Lee punched the Kageshi that swung the sword away.
Kai heard something beyond the door. "Hey, can you check out the disturbance?" Kai asked the Horse Kagejyu.
"Certainly." The Horse Kagejyu answered. The Horse Kagejyu entered through the door and walked a little bit . . . right into an identical Horse Kagejyu.
"Hello," said the new Horse Kagejyu.
The old Horse Kagejyu looked behind the new Horse Kagejyu and saw the Kageshis. "You . . ." The old Horse Kagejyu was about to say only to get devoured by the new Horse Kagejyu.
"Well that was fun." The new Horse Kagejyu said. He chuckled maniacally. He turned towards Lee. "I think I'll kill someone with my new found powers." The Horse Kagejyu walked towards Lee. A serrated blade appeared in the Kagejyu's hand from dark flames. The Horse Kagejyu was about to simply end Lee's, who was fighting Kageshis at the moment, life. Then Lee side stepped and the Horse Kagejyu ended up slicing a Kageshi in half. "WHAT!"
"HO WAH CHA!" Lee shouted his battle cry and elbowed the Kagejyu's hips. Lee then started punching the Kagejyu rapidly. "AH TATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!" After he was finished rapid punching the Kagejyu, Lee had a fist on the Horse Kagejyu's chest and immediately inched his arm forward. "WATA!" Lee one inched punched the Kagejyu towards the door that Lee had entered from. The impact that the Kagejyu collided with the door was huge. The door shattered upon the Kagejyu crashing the door and entering the battlefield with the Kaigeshi and Rangers. "Man that was one weird looking monster." Lee said. Lee ran down the hallway again, ignoring the fact that the thing that he had just attacked looked extremely different from the other grunts that he had been fighting.
Inside the torture room, Kai was awaiting his Horse Kagejyu's return so when the door opened, Kai went to greet whoever opened the door. "So what happened out there?" Kai turned around, only to see a whole group of Kageshi run in. Some Kageshi attempted to slash Kai while others went and killed all the Kaigeshis. One Kaigeshi got beheaded while another was stabbed through with spears. "You, WHEN THE HELL DID YOU ALL GET IN HERE!" Kai screamed and grabbed a Kageshi's head and ripped it off the Kageshi's body. Kai then punched his fist right through a Kageshi's guts. Kai ran over to the wall and jumped off the wall to use a jumping roundhouse kick on a Kageshi.
One Kageshi was about to kill Chiaki, but Kai ran over and stabbed the Kageshi's chest with an open hand. Kai looked at the dark ball of energy that he had used to gather up the despair of the ones he had been torturing, but Kai knew that he no choice but to stop gathering despair if he was to make sure the people around would survive. Kai jumped in the air and grabbed the ball of energy. Kai threw the ball of energy to the ground. "HERE! Take the despair that I had worked SO hard to gather!" Kai shouted. Kai fell to the ground due to gravity and slammed the ball of despair, releasing streams of energy which sliced the Kageshis into pieces. Kai panted in exhaustion afterwards. "Damn, all that work wasted, now what am I going to do?"
The Horse Kagejyu got up and growled. "How could I get beaten by a human!" The Kagejyu screamed, however he noticed Kodenred fighting the Kaigeshis. "Well, since I didn't get the chance to kill that human, then Kodenred will just have to do!" The Horse Kagejyu galloped at Ryu.
Ryu was busy swinging his swords at the Kaigeshis. Ryu used a circle swing to cut down the Kaigeshi ring around him, and right after the Kaigeshis fell from Ryu's blades, the Kagejyu came ramming Ryu straight towards a wall. Ryu let out a shrieking gag after being rammed into the wall. The Kagejyu afterwards started bashing the red ranger on and on with punches. The Horse Kagejyu grabbed Ryu's head and started kneeing the poor Red Ranger on and on. The Horse Kagejyu was about to end it with an overhead slash.
"Feather Swirl!" Ryn announced. Feathers started flying in the air and the feathers all struck the Horse Kagejyu, pushing the Kagejyu away from Ryu.
"Biting Earth!" Karen announced and came jumping in. She bashed the Horse Kagejyu to the ground with her knees, then bashed the ground with her fists and stomped the Kagejyu with her knee which propelled her into the air. A large rock tomb then emerged from where Karen had smashed the ground and swallowed the Kagejyu. Karen ran over to Ryu. "Ryu-san, are you ok?"
"I'm fine Karen." Ryu panted, holding onto Karen as he had just been giving a beating from out of nowhere which left him heavily beaten.
The Rock Tomb that had swallowed up the Kagejyu shattered to pieces, revealing an enraged Horse Kagejyu. It ran towards Ryu and Karen. Karen yelped as the Horse Kagejyu whacked her away. The Horse Kagejyu grabbed Ryu's neck and threw Ryu to the ground. The Horse Kagejyu stomped on Ryu multiple times. "DIE!" The Horse Kagejyu shouted and attempted one more stomp. Ryu grabbed the Horse Kagejyu's hooves.
Ryn fired an Energy Bolt from her blade bow. "Hey, if you keep focusing on Ryu then you'll get killed." Ryn fired more Energy Bolts then pulled back the energy string of her bow. A large spear shape arrow gradually appeared on her bow.
Karen ran in holding her Kodenbuster, the name the sidearm at the side of her belt. She fired from the gun, blasting the Kagejyu. Karen pulled the handle of the gun back and a sword blade appeared from the gun. Karen ran up to the Kagejyu, "Take this!" and slashed the Kagejyu with her Kodenbuster sword and one of her Kirin Rin Kins.
After the Horse Kagejyu was slashed, Ryn fired her large arrow, piercing the Horse Kagejyu's chest. The Horse Kagejyu let out a scream of pain, only to get throw up by Ryu. Ryu stood up and pulled his fist backwards. "Hah," Ryu's fist slowly inflamed, "ORYAH!" Ryu threw his flaming fist forward, smashing the Kagejyu forward.
"SUPER KODENJYU OUGI!" The three rangers shouted. Their respective Mechas appeared behind them as projections.
Karen ran in and kicked the Kagejyu once, "Hyper Kirin Dance!" Karen then unleashed a powerful dance of kicks, launched the Kagejyu into the air, jumped high up, and flash kicked the Kagejyu towards the ground, propelling the Kagejyu with an image of the Kirin Mecha pushing the Kagejyu down.
Ryn ran under the Kagejyu, then stood on one hand. "Hyper Phoenix Whirl!" Ryn kicked the Kagejyu's head, then hand stood on her other hand which spun her body so her other leg kicked the Kagejyu. Ryn then continued to spin on the ground, kicking the Horse Kagejyu on and on. The Phoenix Mecha flapped its wings and blew Ryn high into the air, bringing the Kagejyu into the air with Ryn. After her last spinning kick, Ryn kicked the Kagejyu once more, smashing it away.
Ryu jumped high into the air and flipped under the cover of the serpentine Ryuoh projection. After a few flips, Ryu ended in a flying kick pose. "Hyper . . . Blazing . . . BREAK!" Ryuoh blew a breath of flames, propelling Ryu forward. Ryu flew towards the airborne Kagejyu, and Ryuoh landed a blazing flying side kick on the Kagejyu. After the Kagejyu crash landed, Ryu, Ryn, and Karen stood near each other.
"Time to end you!" Ryu shouted.
"SUPER KODENJYU OUGI!" The three announced again. All of them got ready as they got into their final stance. "ANGELIC BLAZE!" The three jumped in the air.
Ryn and Karen towards the Horse Kagejyu. Ryn's leg was glowing pink and Karen's leg was glowing yellow. Both girls kicked the Horse Kagejyu with a flying side kick. After the two girls landed, Ryu landed on their shoulders and jumped even higher. Ryu came falling down on the Horse Kagejyu.
"DORYAH!" Ryu battle cried and his leg was ablaze. He swung his leg, unleashing a jumping roundhouse kick. Ryu blazed through the Kagejyu and landed a few feet away from the Kagejyu with his back turned.
The Kagejyu stood there speechless and flinching in pain. Sparks started flying left and right on the Kagejyu's body as it started to fall backwards. "How could I . . . LOSE!" The Kagejyu dropped to the ground, and exploded in a glorious blaze.
At the same time the fighting between Kagejyu and Ranger had been going on, Lee made his way to the room where the captives were being tortured. Lee ran in after Kai had destroyed all the Kageshis. Lee found Chiaki strapped to a table. "CHIAKI!" Lee ran to the boy and started to untie Chiaki from the table. "Oi, Chiaki, wake up, CHIAKI!" Lee slapped Chiaki's face in an attempt to wake Chiaki up.
"Hm, five more minutes mom." Chiaki mumbled.
"Phew, you're still alive." Lee said in relief and laid Chiaki on the ground. Lee looked around and noticed that the many people around were athletes whom all had been reported as missing these past few days. "Man, what are all these people doing here?" Then Lee saw a black robed boy with his back turned. Lee thought he knew who the boy was. "Hey Ryu, when did you change to these snazzy looking clothes?"
"Who's there!" Kai who was the black robed boy turned around frantically to look at Lee.
Lee could only stared at Kai's masked face. "Wow, and where did you get that mask?"
Kai only gawked at Lee in surprise. How did a mere boy make it past all the Kaigeshis and Kageshis! "Who are you talking to?"
"You Ryu." Lee replied.
Kai shuffled back in shock. "I'm not Ryu." Kai said putting a hand over his mask.
"Oh come on, you're not fooling anyone. Any one can tell that you're just Ryu who changed his hair and clothes plus wearing a cool looking mask."
"I'm not who you think I am." Kai said calmly. "My name is Kai . . . Orochi Kai. Remember that."
"Ok, 'Kai'." Lee said using his fingers to do air quotes. "What are you doing here anyway?" Lee asked.
"Stop talking to me like I'm your friend." Kai said to Lee. "Just go away."
"Oh come on, we're friends aren't we?" Lee's hands nearly touched Kai's shoulder.
"I told you, I'm not RYU!" Kai flung his body around in an attempt to back hand Lee. Lee dodged, leaving a clear view towards Chiaki on the ground. Kai gasped in surprise. "You . . . you're here to save these people?"
"Well I came here to save him, but I guess we'll have to free all the people that are here-" Lee said, only to then find a fist coming right at him. Lee stepped back and the fist ended up right in front of his eyes.
"You . . . I CAN'T LET YOU FREE THESE PEOPLE!" Kai shouted. "I have yet to actually finish what I need to do!"
"What the heck are you talking about!" Lee exclaimed after dodging a roundhouse kick. "Ryu, snap out of it!"
"I AM NOT RYU!" Kai screamed at the top of his lungs. "I am a bad guy! Get it over your head you dumb boy!"
Kai's fist came towards Lee, then Lee grabbed Kai's fist. "Ryu, stop acting like this!" Lee said, however, afterwards, he felt a surge of energy coming from the fist that he had just grabbed. It was very different. The energy felt . . . evil. "You . . . who are you?" Lee gasped.
"KAI!" Kai shouted and tried to roundhouse kick Lee again. Lee ducked then elbowed Kai. Kai grunted and came charging at Lee again. Kai punched Lee, Lee parried Kai's fist, but then Kai grabbed Lee's arm and made a small twist to Lee's arm which struck a nerve point. Lee flinched upon Kai hitting a nerve, but Lee quickly recovered. Kai then flung Lee's arm away so Kai could get a clear shot at Lee's chest. "ORYAH!" Kai shouted and his fist landed on Lee's chest, or so Kai had thought.
Kai's fist actually landed on Lee's fast reacting hand, not Lee's chest. "Phew, that was close." Lee said. Then Lee glared at Kai. "You trying to do an one-inch punch?" Lee asked. Lee pushed Kai's fist away and landed a fist on Kai's chin. "HERE'S AN ONE-INCH PUNCH!" Lee thrust his arm forward and smashed Kai with a one-inch fist. Kai flew backwards and after landing, had to stumble around to get his footing.
Kai rubbed his mouth as blood had started trickling down the lips. "Heh, looks like you're pretty good." Kai said and got into tiger stance. A solid dark aura started to surround Kai. "Looks like I can't hold back."
Lee could see Kai's dark aura. "What in the world is that!" Lee exclaimed upon seeing such an astonishing sight as an aura around a person. "I got a bad feeling about this."
Outside, Ryu, Ryn, and Karen were just about to attempt to search for Lee, when the shadows in the room started to swirl around the spot where the Kagejyu had been demolished. The Kagejyu slowly reformed from the shadows.
Karen turned her head from the search for a second and caught sight of the Horse Kagejyu. "He's still around!" Karen exclaimed, then she let out a yelp when she saw the Kagejyu grow to the size of the building, and taller still. The Kagejyu crashed through the ceiling and demolished a good chunk of the building.
The three rangers ran outside so as not get squashed. When the Horse Kagejyu made a step towards the three rangers, the three rangers had to roll away to avoid getting squished.
"How are we supposed to fight that thing!" Ryn exclaimed.
Ryu started his chant towards summoning Ryuoh. Ryu directed his open hand to the sky. "KODEN SHORAI! RYU RAI JYU! Appear, the Legendary King of Dragons!" A projection of Ryuoh appeared behind Ryu and grew. Ryuoh solidified into reality.
"Whoa . . ." Karen and Ryn gasped upon seeing the Dragon giant. Then they noticed that in the area there were civilians all trying to run away in a chaotic manner. The least that Ryn and Karen could do were to help these people find a way to get away from the battle safely while Ryuoh handled the giant Horse Kagejyu. They ran over to the civilians and guided the civilians away.
Ryu jumped into Ryuoh's cockpit. "Elemental Henkei, RYUOH!" Ryu pushed the control orb and Ryuoh transformed into its warrior form. "Elemental Warrior Ryuoh, Blazing up!" Ryuoh ran up to the Kagejyu and threw fist.
Inside the room where Lee and Kai were fighting, the ceiling started to crumble. Lee and Kai ignored the falling debris and kept fighting each other. Kai threw a fist at Lee.
The Horse Kagejyu grabbed Ryuoh's arm and threw Ryuoh to the ground.
Lee grabbed Kai's fist and threw Kai to the wall.
The Horse Kagejyu stomped on Ryuoh.
Lee kneed Kai on the stomach.
Ryuoh's chest head blew flames at the Horse Kagejyu, driving it away. Ryuoh got up and side kicked the Kagejyu.
Kai headbutted Lee and kicked Lee away. Kai then snap kicked Lee into the air.
Ryuoh attempted to strike the Kagejyu while it was down, but the Kagejyu's blade appeared in its hands. The Kagejyu slashed the airborne Ryuoh, then the Kagejyu rapidly slashed Ryuoh in succession.
Kai was about to throw one more fist charged with Dark Energy at Lee, but Lee reacted quickly. "OH!" Lee battle cried and quickly rolled up, dodging the fist. Lee then elbowed Kai, "WOH," Lee then punched Kai with the fist from the other arm, "AH," Lee then kept punching Kai in rapid succession. "TATATATATATATATATATATA" Lee ended with a heavy thrusting punch.
Ryuoh grabbed the Horse Kagejyu's sword, then punched the Horse Kagejyu's face. Ryuoh stood back and charged fire energy into its fist, then Ryuoh unleashed a fiery punch at the Kagejyu, launching the Kagejyu backwards.
Kai was stuck to the wall after being launched backwards by Lee's fists. Kai peeled himself off the wall and stood up menacingly. "You leave me no choice." Kai growled and the dark aura around him started to blaze around. "Get out of here, while you still have your life." Kai said cautiously.
"Not until I get every one in this room out of here!" Lee shouted.
"Then so be it." Kai said. The dark aura shifted to Kai's foot. "I don't like to kill, but if you're in the way, I won't hesitate to do it!" Kai jumped in the air. Kai swung his glowing leg at Lee.
Lee blocked the leg with his arms at a cross formation, however Kai jumped off Lee's arms. Kai then used his other leg to kick open Lee's blocking stance. Kai boosted forward and used a flying side kick on Lee's chest, launching Lee backward. Lee let out a painful cry when he was flying back. Lee crashed into a wall behind him, leaving a mark the size of his body. Lee's eyes closed, and he dropped to the ground. His head drooped down while a trickle of blood dripped from his mouth. He fell silent . . .
Ryuoh was about to jump up in the air, ready to finish off the Kagejyu, but the Kagejyu quickly got up and galloped at top speed towards Ryuoh. The Kagejyu grabbed Ryuoh's leg while Ryuoh was in the air and threw Ryuoh to the ground. The Kagejyu got on top of Ryuoh and started bashing at Ryuoh's head on and on. Ryu screamed with each hit that Ryuoh took.
Ryn looked towards Ryuoh, which was at this moment taking a beating. "Ryuoh's getting beaten!" Ryn shouted as she helped a child and its mother away.
"Well how else are we going to help!" Karen asked.
"Single file you people, don't push ok? You'll all be safe if you all run away in an orderly fashion." Miku's voice sounded. Miku was there helping the people away from the battlefield, just as Ryn and Karen were helping the civilians as Kodenpink and Kodenyellow.
"MIKU!" Karen yelped. After the people that Miku had been helping were away, Karen ran up to Miku. "Miku, you were the one who gave us these gems, you have to know how we can help Ryu up there!" Karen pointed at Ryuoh, which was taking a huge beating from the Horse Kagejyu. At this moment, the Horse Kagejyu lifted Ryuoh in the air, and kept cutting Ryuoh up.
"RYU!" Miku shrieked upon seeing Ryuoh getting such a beating from the ferocious Horse Kagejyu. Miku started panicking. "You two, you have to summon your Kodenjyus!"
"Our . . ." Karen started.
"Kodenjyu?" Ryn finished.
"The same kind of beast that Ryu has summoned." Miku explained. "Listen to your hearts and you'll find the path to summon your Kodenjyus!"
"Our hearts?" Ryn wondered what Miku meant. Ryn then relaxed and then let her instincts take over for a while. Ryn's Koden Gem started to glow. Symbols similar to the symbols that had appeared on Ryu's visor appeared on Ryn's visor. Ryn chanted them softly, then, "Koden Shorai," She chanted, "Appear, Legendary Beast of Wind, the great Queen of the Sky. Awaken . . . KODENHOUOU!" Ryn directed her hand to the air and Kodenhouou, her Kodenjyu, solidified into reality. Ryn gasped in awe. She jumped into the air. "BURST!" Ryn's eight wings flared out and she flew into Kodenhouou's cockpit. Inside, there was a pink control orb. After Ryn had touched the orb, the back lit up and four strips of pink light appeared.
"Whoa." Karen gasped. Karen then did the same thing Ryn did and let instinct take over. Her Koden Gem glowed and similar words appeared on Karen's visor. She chanted and then said, "Koden Shorai, Appear Legendary Beast of the Earth, the Mother of all Nature. Awaken . . . KODENKIRIN!" Karen directed her arms towards the sky. Kodenkirin, her Kodenjyu, solidified into reality. "BURST!" Karen's wings blazed out and she flew into the mecha's cockpit. She touched the yellow control orb and the five yellow strips of light behind her lit up.
"Protect Ryu, you two." Miku said softly.
Kodenhouou flew to the scene. The Horse Kagejyu threw Ryuoh into the air and was about to slam Ryuoh into the ground. Kodenhouou interrupted the Kagejyu's attack by flapping its wings and blowing the Kagejyu away.
Kodenkirin ran over and kicked the Horse Kagejyu with its four legs. Kodenkirin kept kicking in rapid succession, then kicked off the Horse Kagejyu. Kodenkirin galloped to Ryuoh while Kodenhouou flew near Ryuoh.
"Ryu-san, you ok?" Karen asked Ryu from the cockpit.
"I'm fine now, thank you." Ryu said. Ryuoh stood up and Ryuoh was ready to do battle again. "Except this guy's pretty tough, I'm not sure if we can beat it at our state."
Miku on the ground crouched and made a huge jump."RYU!" Miku shouted and landed on top of a building near Ryuoh.
Ryn and Karen were a little surprised to see Miku standing on top of a building. "How in the world did she get up there?" Ryn asked herself.
"Miku!" Ryu was also surprised to see Miku near them.
"You got to combine!" Miku said to Ryu. "Combine them your Kodenjyus!"
"Combine . . . COMBINE!" Ryu exclaimed. "That's right, we as Sentai Senshi, have the power to combine our powers!" Ryu looked at both Kodenhouou and Kodenkirin. "You two, follow my lead!" Ryuoh ran forward while Kodenhouou and Kodenkirin followed suit.
The Horse Kagejyu galloped towards Ryuoh, then Ryuoh jumped in the air.
"Terra Gattai!" Ryu announced. Kodenkirin reacted to the command and jumped in the air. Ryuoh's left leg retracted, allowing Kodenkirin which formed into a leg piece, combine with Ryuoh.
Karen appeared in Ryuoh's cockpit next to Ryu to the right. The Yellow strip behind Ryu and Karen lit brightly. "Gaia Ryuoh, Blazing Up!" The two shouted and move in unison and therefore Ryuoh following their movements.
The Horse Kagejyu looked at the new combination in surprise. "What are you trying to pull!" The Horse Kagejyu galloped towards Ryuoh. "That doesn't scare me!"
"HAH!" Gaia Ryuoh's Kirin leg kicked the charging Horse Kagejyu before the Horse Kagejyu got near. The Earth element of the Kirin added a really huge impact to the kick. The Horse Kagejyu felt an extreme jolt of pain. "ORYAH!" Gaia Ryuoh then retracted its leg and Ryuoh's leg kicked the Kagejyu.
"Elemental Hi Ougi!" Karen announced.
"KIRIN SPIRE DROP!" Both rangers announced. Gaia Ryuoh jerked its body so it started to spin. Earth slowly flew onto the Kirin leg as Gaia Ryuoh spun, forming into a spire. Gaia Ryuoh spun wildly and drilled through the Horse Kagejyu. The Horse Kagejyu screamed, though it still stood.
"Not done yet." Ryu sighed. "Ryn, let's go!"
"HAI!" Ryn nodded.
"Soaring Gattai!" Ryu announced. Kodenkirin detached from Ryuoh. Kodenhouou flew into the air. Gauntlet type items dropped from its wings, its tail detached, and its helmet detached. The gauntlets flew onto Ryuoh's hands and Kodenhouou attached to the back of Ryuoh as wings. The helmet dropped onto Ryuoh's head.
Ryn teleported into Ryuoh's cockpit to the left of Ryu. The yellow strip dimmed down and the pink strip lit brightly. "Heavenly Ryuoh, Blazing Up!" Heavenly Ryuoh grabbed the Phoenix tail which now created a sword from Ryuoh.
The Horse Kagejyu swung its sword at Heavenly Ryuoh. Heavenly Ryuoh parried the sword and pushed the Horse Kagejyu back. Heavenly Ryuoh the slashed multiple times at the Kagejyu. Heavenly Ryuoh thrust its sword, pushing the Kagejyu backwards.
"Elemental Hi Ougi!" Ryn announced. "Kaze (Wind) . . ." Heavenly Ryuoh swung the sword while it glowed pink with wind energy, slashing the Kagejyu once.
"Kasai (Fire) . . ." Ryu continued. Ryuoh's leg blazed up and kicked the Kagejyu while a fiery slash came quickly afterwards in the same direction. The attacks created an X shape on the Kagejyu.
"ZAN (Slash)!" Both shouted and finished the attack name. Heavenly Ryuoh slashed once more, down the middle of the X shape, creating a huge mark on the Horse Kagejyu. The Horse Kagejyu refused to explode and held on only by its stubborn will.
"It sure is stubborn." Karen remarked.
"One more time!" Ryu shouted. "Heaven and Nature! Angelic Gattai!" Ryu commanded. Kodenkirin combined with Heavenly Ryuoh.
Karen teleported into the cockpit of Ryuoh. The yellow line lit up. "ANGEL RYUOH! BLAZING UP!" The three rangers shouted.
The Horse Kagejyu struggled to move to fight.
"You know you're dead." Ryn said.
"Now it's time to be finished." Karen declared.
"ELEMENTAL HI OUGI!" The three rangers shouted. Angel Ryuoh flew into the air. It charged energy into its sword and the sword enlarged to twice its size. "ORYAH!" Angel Ryuoh threw the sword at the Kagejyu, piercing the Kagejyu's guts.
"Fiery Judgement," Ryu said.
"FINAL STRIKE!" Karen and Ryn announced.
"BLAZING CHARGE!" Ryu finished. Angel Ryuoh flew downwards then got into a flying kick stance. Angel Ryuoh's body started to blaze up. Angel Ryuoh kicked the handle of the sword that was stuck on the Horse Kagejyu and kicked the sword through the Kagejyu.
"I can't . . . I can't . . . I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO LOSE! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE STRONGER!" The Horse Kagejyu fell backwards while Angel Ryuoh grabbed its sword from the ground. Angel Ryuoh turned its back to the falling Kagejyu. Once the Kagejyu hit the ground, the Kagejyu exploded.
"YES!" Ryu pumped his fist. Ryu hugged the two girls that had helped him towards victory. Ryu looked outside towards Miku. "Thanks Miku!" Ryu gave Miku a thumbs up.
Miku somehow saw Ryu's thumbs up. Miku smiled and she gave a thumbs up back to Ryu.
Inside the crumbling room, Kai walked over to the silent Lee. Kai knelt down to Lee's face and noticed that Lee was still breathing. "You're pretty strong to be able to survive my attack." Kai said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a glowing blue Koden Gem. "This thing seems to like you." Kai threw the gem into Lee's lap and Kai stuffed a blue Kodenbrace into Lee's pocket. Kai looked up and noticed the ceiling falling. A big piece of debris was about to crush Kai, but Kai lifted his leg and just kicked the debris into smithereens. "Looks like all my plans failed today, Ryu didn't come in to stop me, but I don't really have much choice now." Kai released every one from their shackles with just a snap of the finger. Kai then went up to every one and woke them all up.
Every one was surprised, especially Chiaki. "SENPAI!" Chiaki ran up to Lee, "Senpai, wake up!" Chiaki panicked as the ceiling was collapsing.
"Just get out of here with your lives." Kai said to Chiaki.
"But I can't just leave Senpai here!" Chiaki shouted.
"Just leave, I'll take care of him." Kai said to Chiaki with a reassuring smile. "Don't worry about it." Chiaki looked at Kai's mask and didn't know whether to trust Kai or not.
"Come on, we need to get out of here!" A person in a basketball jersey said. The athletes ran out, Chiaki was soon to follow but not before talking to Kai once more.
"Make sure Lee-Senpai gets out safe." Chiaki said.
"Don't worry about it, I can't have him dying yet." Kai said. Chiaki ran away with the other athletes. Kai walked up to Lee and picked Lee up. Kai wrapped one of Lee's hands around his (Kai) shoulder and helped Lee get out. Kai formed a dark barrier which protected him and Lee from the falling debris of the collapsing building.
Lee started to stir and the first thing he asked was, "Chiaki-kun, is he ok?" Lee asked without taking into account who he was talking to.
"Don't worry, he got away." Kai said. "Along with all the others."
Lee heard Kai's voice and opened one eye to look at Kai. "Huh, I see you're not a bad person after all." Lee chuckled.
Kai flinched upon hearing that. "I'm a really bad person, now hate me with all your guts."
Lee let out a laugh. "You're not fooling any one kid."
"I am not a kid." Kai said.
"Sure you're not." Lee said to the seemingly sixteen year old person. "But you're wearing a mask, and the only type of men who wear masks are evil men or cool mysterious men. Since you're not evil, then I bet you're cool and mysterious."
"I'm really evil." Kai said.
"Yeah right." Lee let out a chuckle. "You're real funny, Kai-kun."
"It's Kai Oji-san to you." Kai said.
Ryu, now with the Kodenred suit dematerialized, ran back to the site as the sun started to set. The building had completely collapsed. "LEE!" Ryu screamed. "Lee, where are you! LEE!"
"I believe this is yours?" Kai's voice sounded. Ryu turned toward where Kai's voice came from and Ryu found Lee in Kai's arms.
"LEE!" Ryu shouted in relief. Ryu ran up to Lee. "Lee, what happened to you!"
"I got into a fight." Lee said. "But then this guy helped me out." Kai jumped back in surprise as Lee didn't even mention that he (Lee) fought and was beaten badly by the one who carrying him (Lee) now.
"Thank you, Kai." Ryu said.
"Don't . . . thank me." Kai moped. "You'll . . . only hate me more in the future."
"Huh?" Ryu asked tilting his head.
"Whatever, just take him back! My back's started to hurt." Kai exclaimed and handed Lee to Ryu. Ryu now helped Lee stand up. Kai turned around ready to leave. "Ryu . . ."
"What?" Ryu asked.
"Be careful out there." Kai said.
Ryu was silent for a bit, then Ryu nodded. "I will Kai." Kai then jumped high into the air, gone for the time being.
Ryu helped Lee walked back home. "Thanks Ryu." Lee struggled to say. "Man it hurts to talk."
"You sure took a beating." Ryu remarked. "Did those monsters do that to you?"
"Not exactly, but close." Lee said. Lee didn't want to mention anything about Kai attacking since Lee now sees Kai as a good person.
"You were . . . really brave." Ryu said.
"Nah, I was scared shitless when I found out those monsters were really monsters." Lee said. "But I had to save Chiaki-kun and I had to make sure that you came out of all that alive so I ended up fighting them with all I got."
"Still, that's something I would never do." Ryu said. "If it was me, I might've ran away the first sight of those monsters."
"Nah, you say that but I bet you'll rush to someone's aid and fight for them if that ever happened." Lee said. "You just need to have more confidence in yourself man. You'll eventually become a strong person later on in life, just trust me. You have the heart of a courageous man."
"How would you know?" Ryu asked.
"Because, you and I are quite alike." Lee chuckled. Ryu joined in on Lee's laughing.
At night time, after Lee was out of the shower, he went into his room while he wore only a towel over his crotch. "Man that shower was all I needed." Lee sighed in bliss. Lee threw his uniform from the bed to a chair. The blue Koden Gem and Kodenbrace flew out of the pocket and clanked against the floor of Lee's room. Lee perked his ears up and looked at the gem and brace. "What in the world?" Lee picked the items up and examined them. "What the heck are these things?" While Lee looked at the gem, the gem flashed. Lee blinked his eyes as he could've just sworn he saw the gem flashing. "This is . . . weird."
Teach us Ryunosuke-sensei!
"Yo, nice to see you all again." Ryu greeted every one.
"Where is Lee this time?" Rai asked sarcastically. "Let me guess, this time he is sleeping with the snake."
"No, he's taking a shower right now with the fish bowl inside the room as well." Ryu replied. "The water flowing on Lee's well developed body, washing his spiky hair down and all while the fish is inside."
"Too much information." Miku said.
"Way too much." Ryn continued.
"It sounds hot though." Karen remarked.
"WELL YEAH." Ryn and Miku nodded in agreement.
"So as you can see here on this chapter, the Gattai pieces in action." Ryu said.
"So this is what you meant by the parts not going to be buso parts anymore?" Ryn asked.
"Moreorless." Ryu replied. "You see it's due to the whole fact that it's just a lot more epic to have everything be gattai. Seriously, who doesn't feel 'Terra Gattai' and 'Soaring Gattai' is awesome? But to get my point across, the reason for this change is because in the original fic, there was one gattai between two pieces that somehow was classified as gattai while every other Ryuoh plus single part or even double part equaled an Armament. This whole thing is to rectify all that by making everything Gattai pieces. Sounds cool huh?"
"Not bad." Rai said.
"I find it weird that Lee received a lot of attention today." Karen said. "He's not even a ranger yet."
"I'm not a ranger at all." Kai said. "But chapter 2 was focused on me."
"And that's the rewrite at work." Ryu said. "Without Lee today, it would've just been another 'ooh watch as Ryu does everything while every one is in the background doing NOTHING' type of story. But this chapter was used to flesh out Lee. Besides, the author likes Lee for some reason even more after the author actually drew Lee for the first time."
"And for the first time, Lee's Bruce Lee shouts are not just limited to just a few lines." Rai said.
"Exactly." Ryu said. "So that's all we have today, hope to see you all next time, see ya!"
Then a half naked Lee came in with only a towel over his crotch. "Um . . . anyone got a spare bar of soap?" Lee asked.
"OH MY GOD!" The girls squealed upon seeing the half naked Lee in all his half nakedness glory. "HE'S HOT!"
"Oh boy." Ryu said. "I'm losing my Harem to the big guy."
"IT HAPPENS." Rai and Kai said patting Ryu's back.
And now for the first Koden Life of the series . . . BLAZING UP! This is a Ryu centric segment which details Ryu's side story with his various friends.
Koden Life
Ryu was exhausted from the day. He had just taken a beating from a mental Horse Kagejyu and nearly got killed by said Kagejyu had he not gotten help from Ryn and Karen. He also couldn't have done the things he did today had he not had help from his teammates. "Lee is right, I really can't do anything myself . . . I need the help of others." Ryu got up. "Man, Lee's such a good friend." Ryu took off his shirt. "I'm exhausted, but first things first, a shower." Ryu took off his pants. "I've worked up quite the sweat." Ryu took off his boxers and took a T-shirt and shorts into the bathroom. The room was already steamy for some reason. "What the? I don't remember turning the water on." Ryu thought about why the room would have hot water and be all steamy. "Did . . . either Take-papa, Taku-tan, Ojii-chan, or Shinji-san use this bath?" Ryu asked himself. "That may be it." Ryu entered the bath. "Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk, I'm using this bath water." Ryu sniffed the air. "Man it smells good." Ryu used a towel to wipe his body. Ryu whistled and turned his body . . . to catch sight of a surprising sight. "HOLY SHIT!"
"Yo Ryu." Miku was in the bath with Ryu at this moment. Ryu could stare at Miku's luscious naked body.
"M-m-MIKU!" Ryu shouted. "What are you doing here? How did you get in here?"
"You always leave a key under the carpet." Miku said.
"Oh right." Ryu said. "But why did you come?"
"Well I wanted to visit you but you ended up not coming home for a while so I ended up staying for a long time. I hope you won't mind if I stay in this house tonight will you?"
"Not at all." Ryu said shaking his head and blushing.
"Why were you so late coming home?"
"Well, after helping Lee home, his parents invited me to dinner at their house. I didn't want to impose myself on them but they insisted and since it was free food, I went for it." Ryu rubbed the back of his head while staring at Miku's busty chest. "Um . . . yeah, sorry for keeping you waiting."
"It's ok." Miku said. "At least I got a chance to bathe with you again."
"Hey Miku."
"What?"
"How do you know so much about the Kodenjyus and stuff?" Ryu asked. Miku flinched upon Ryu asking that question.
"I'm not quite so sure myself . . . so I can't really answer you." Miku said.
"Hey that's mean, you're hiding something from me!" Ryu exclaimed.
Miku giggled. "You're so cute when you're trying to be mad." Miku said.
"Well I still want to know why you know a lot of the stuff about the Kodenjyus and how you seem to know that I became Kodenred the day I became Kodenred!" Ryu shouted.
"I'm really sorry, but I really can't tell you yet." Miku said with a smile, hoping it would help calm Ryu down.
Ryu sighed. "Fine." Ryu said sitting back down. "I'll not ask." Ryu started to look down, then Miku crawled over, swishing the water as she did, and went up to Ryu's face. She gave Ryu a kiss to the lips. Ryu blushed upon being kissed.
"How's that for making up for being unable to tell you?" Miku asked Ryu sensually.
"It's . . . fine." Ryu chirped. "Um . . . how about . . . more?"
Miku giggled, then she kissed Ryu back and Ryu kissed Miku back this time bringing their tongues against each other as well.
After they were done with the bath, Ryu went to bed and Miku followed. "Um . . ." Ryu, who was fully clothed looked at Miku who only had a red towel on. "Why are you not dressed?"
"Well I don't want to sleep in my uniform." Miku said. "You don' t mind . . . right?"
"If I said no, would you call me a pervert?" Ryu asked.
"No."
"Then yeah, I don't mind." Ryu said.
"Okay dokey." Miku said. "After all, you are moreorless my boyfriend right now."
"Um . . . didn't you say something about me being able to date other girls?" Ryu asked.
"What about it?"
"Nothing!" Ryu squeaked. "Just asking that's all."
"It's fine with me." Miku said. "We just got to keep our relationship a secret then . . . ne?"
"Sure." Ryu squeaked again. Oh boy, Ryu thought, that bath happens and now I'm going to sleep with her while she's wearing nothing . . . man . . . it's either we've really grown up a lot or this is an awesome dream. MAH, who cares! Ryu didn't question things any further.
Here ends chapter 4. Hope you guys like. Please Review.