"Udonna! Udonna! What happened? What's going on? Where's Mads? Who was it?" Daggeron knew the rangers had arrived the instant they were in Rootcore; their voices carried.

He could hear her hush them and then the sound of a calm, cool, controlled pace leading a stampede behind it. It was only seconds until the Rangers stood at Daggeron's door frame and peered into the room, sadness hitting all of their features simultaneously as they eyed the unconscious woman on the bed.

"What happened?" Vida asked first, her voice trying to hide the anger that was so evident toward the knight who had allowed this to happen.

"It was one of Necrolai's monsters. It curses people using the stories that children grew up with," Daggeron replied, putting on a serious façade to keep the sadness and concern out of his voice.

"So that's the monster that cursed you?" Chip asked, always quick to catch on.

"That is correct," Daggeron replied.

"So what story does this follow then?" Vida turned to ask the group, she wasn't that big on fairy tales and princesses. She was more of a GI Joe and Transformers kinda girl.

"Well it looks like sleeping beauty," Xander mused, tilting his head and he investigated the scene laid out in front of him.

"That would mean she'd need to be kissed by a prince," Chip added, looking amongst the people in the room, "Does anyone know of any princes?"

"Well if you say so," Xander suddenly responded, puffing out his chest and moving toward the sleeping blue mystic. Nick and Vida hitting him until he stopped trying to move toward her with his lips pursed.

"We need to be serious here Xander," Nick stated, "We need her to wake up."

"Wow really Nick?" Xander asked slightly annoyed, "We know we need to wake her up."

"Hey guys," Chip began, "Let's not fight. What can we actually do in this situation?"

"Well she needs a kiss," Nick stated, shrugging his shoulders.

"From a prince…what about the snow prince," Xander sputtered out.

"What if it isn't a prince?" Chip questioned, "I mean just because the stories are about princes the prince isn't the key thing to worry about. Most of the time it's that whole true love's kiss that'll break the spell."

"Hmm," Xander mused aloud, "That's a good point."

"Maybe we should all give her a kiss and see if anything happens?" Nick decided, shrugging nonchalantly. Daggeron fought the scowl that was attempting to cross his face.

"Well why bother, obviously I alone could break any kissing spell," Xander stated with a condescending smirk as he made his way over to her and made a kissing face. Daggeron wanted to step in; to hold the green mystic back; to punch him square in those stupid pursed lips, something…anything to keep him away from Madison. Instead he stood there stoically, attempting to keep all emotion from his voice.

"Yeah, your kiss would definitely wake her up, if only due to vomiting," Vida scoffed, her arms crossing in front of her chest.

"Ha ha, very funny Vida," Xander grumbled, moving closer to the fallen girl. "Are we gonna do this or not?"

"Yeah fine just get this over with you guys," Vida sighed, waving her hands in a hurried motion. Xander, not needing to be told twice, leaned down toward the sleeping girl and placed his lips on hers; Daggeron simply looking to any other direction.

Xander seemed to lift his head in slow motion, staring hard as if willing to set her head ablaze but alas neither did her head set on fire as did she awaken, "Who's next?"

Nick sighed and began to take a step forward but it seemed the Chip beat him to it, tossing his cape out of the way so as he bent down to wouldn't cover her like a blanket. He quickly pressed his lips to hers before taking a step back abruptly, "Well that didn't work; your turn Nick."

Daggeron watched Chip go stand beside Vida and shrug; it seemed that Chip had interest in a different sister; well maybe…there was no telling what was going through Chip's head.

Nick paused and glanced at everyone in the room acting as though he was about to face a lion and the chance of survival was diminishing every second. "Well, here goes nothing," he huffed, moving toward her and firmly planting his mouth to hers. He seemed to let it sit there longer than necessary but Daggeron didn't dare move any closer. And then, after what seemed like an eternity, he pulled away and stared at her. Waiting for her to blink, the only problem it seemed was that she didn't. Nick's kiss didn't work either.

"What do we do now?" Vida asked concerned, "If it isn't any of you guys then that must mean it's just some guy somewhere…how in the world are we going to figure that out?"

"That's a good question because I have no idea," Nick grumbled.

"Well…I guess we could always go looking for guys that Maddie's talked to," Chip assessed.

"I think that will have to wait Rangers," Udonna stated as she burst into the room, as calm and collected as one can be from running around Rootcore as she had, "It appears that a monster is in the city."

"Great," Vida huffed.

"Now what?" Xander questioned annoyed.

"We'll have to figure out Maddie later," Nick answered, "We gotta go guys."

"Right," they responded as a group, running from the room and not even paying mind to Daggeron; not that he had paid them much attention to them either. It seemed they were all focused too much on Madison to notice one another. But Daggeron had noticed Nick, well in the sense that he wasn't able to wake Maddie and that seemed to be all the mattered at the moment. Daggeron took a couple tentative steps toward Madison until he was at her bedside and he stared at her hard. Nick hadn't woken her up, he still had a chance. Who was he kidding, she wasn't about to wake up if he kissed her either. What a stupid thought process. But despite everything, he felt himself lean toward her face and before he could stop himself he was kissing her.

He was thinking about everything and nothing all at the same time. About how her lips, despite being kissed by 3 others today, still tasted like the watermelon chap stick that she carried in her pocket, or that her hair smelled of coconut, or that there was a hand slinking around his neck and pulling him closer…wait, what? He felt pressure against his lips and felt as the girl pulled him flush to her and deepened the kiss, her arms snaked around his neck and her fingers gently brushing through his hair.

He pulled away quickly in disbelief and watched as Madison's chest rose and fell quickly as she attempted to catch her breath; and despite everything that had happened only seconds prior, he couldn't help but laugh as the first words to escape her lips were, "This isn't the forest?!"

"Madison my dear," he began and she raised an eyebrow causing him to cough uncomfortably, "You were cursed by Taeyl during our journey through the forest, I brought you back here."

"Why did you kiss me?" she questioned; her finger tracing her lips, remembering when his lips had been there and wishing that they still were.

"To break the spell…as you had done for me," Daggeron replied quickly. Madison's heart dropped at that. He was only breaking the spell, he only kissed her to repay a debt…and she had kissed him back. She was mortified at the thought; he was just doing his knightly duty and she was trying to make-out with him. She glanced up to look at him and watched him fidget uncomfortably. No wonder he was uncomfortable, she just tried to maul him with her lips; how embarrassing.

"Where are the others?" she asked him, trying to steer away the conversation to safer ground.

"Ohh, the Rangers are off battling a monster, we should help them," Daggeron sputtered out, he had forgotten about that. Madison stood from the bed and swaggered a bit but refused Daggeron's outstretched hand none-the-less. He had helped her more than enough today already.