CHAPTER 7: RING OF FIRE (part I)

They stared each other down. Looking deep into one another's eyes they saw both saw victory. Their health was weak, but their fighting spirit was still burning strong. The battle was near the end.

Justin released one mighty punch and won the match. Jumping up and down in victory he laughed as Kory slammed the controller.

"This is a pointless game of only fighting." Kory said as he crossed his arms and closed his eyes.

"You lost!" Justin stuck his tongue out. But Justin quickly stopped laughing when he found Kory pulling on his tongue. He kept pulling and eventually gave in. "Okay, okay, you win." Justin's sentence was muffled from having his tongue being tugged on.

"That's what I thought." Kory was now the one smiling. His attention was then quickly diverted to the opening of the back door. But he was snapped back to Justin as he realized that he still had the tongue captive. He released it.

"Ouch!" Justin shouted before he was shushed by Kory, "Don't you shush me."

"Justin be quiet." Kory told him.

The two were as quiet as they could possibly be. All seemed quiet until Justin looked behind Kory to see something big. "Behind you," Justin yelled before getting hit in the back of the head. The force of the blow completely knocked him out.

Kory leaped and turned to kick at whatever was behind him but his leg was caught and Kory was whipped around like a rag doll. At least until he was released and was sent flying into a wall; soon he to was unconscious.

5 HOURS LATER

Joey bent down gazing upon the broken picture which fell from the wall. He stared at the picture of Justin, Kory, Amber and Ali sitting on a picnic table at the park. They looked so happy, so content. But Joey had to brush away the thoughts and return to the matter at hand.

Amber walked in from Justin's room shrugging her shoulders. "I got nothing."

"Alright, I want a complete perimeter search. Whoever broke in here did so quietly, but even he must have left something behind." Joey ordered Amber to keep searching. Until his attention was drawn over to Ali as she rushed in appearing to hold a piece of paper.

"I got something." Ali handed it to Joey.

DEAR POWER RANGERS,

YOUR FRIENDS ARE SAFE FOR NOW BUT

EVEN THAT'S ONLY TEMPORARY IN A

RING OF FIRE

Joey took his eyes off of the message. "Ring of fire." Joey was confused.

Amber asked, "What's that?"

"Wish I knew." Joey answered having no answers.

"Wherever they are it can't be good." Ali said.

SOMEWHERE

Justin and Kory lay unconscious until they both felt the cold of water smack their faces.

Justin was the first to sit up. "What the hell!" He was furious. But he soon came to regret his comment as he realized that they were surrounded by creatures of all sorts; all of them snarling and grunting. Justin tapped at Kory. "Come on get up." He was slow and careful not wanting to make the monsters mad. He then felt something around his neck. He also saw Kory with the metal band. Upon closer examination all creatures had them.

Kory quickly noticed his surroundings quickly as well. "Where are we?" Kory asked smiling at the creatures.

Justin shrugged his shoulders not knowing how they even arrived there.

"They brought you." One of the creatures snarled an answer.

"Who…are…they?" Justin shook a little.

"The ones at the law firm…" but he was quickly cut off by a man in a well dressed suit.

"That will be quite enough cretin." The man told the creature.

"Hey," Kory called to him, "what makes you think you can just kidnap us? You have no idea who we are?" Kory asked trying to scare him.

"You're Kory Jones seventeen-years-old the Green Power Ranger," he then turned to Justin, "and you're Justin Johnson sixteen-years-old the Blue Ranger."

"I guess you do know who we are." Kory found his shoe in his mouth.

"Why did you bring us here?" Justin asked.

"I represent someone who loves cage fighting. And what better fight then between Power Rangers." He gave the two a moment to sink in the information, "But don't worry you'll have to fight and kill these guys first. Or they'll kill you." He told the rangers while smiling.

"And if we refuse to fight?" Justin asked.

"Well either way you're getting in the ring so if you refuse then these savages will kill you first. Personally I think killing them would be in your best interest." He answered.

"Or we just take you out now." Justin said

The man asked, "With what power?"

Kory and Justin then noticed that their power morphers were gone and they were replaced by a type of metal band. Looking at one another they were confused. Until the man decided to answer their unspoken question, "Your morphers will be returned to you during the final battle. Oh and those bands keep you from escaping."

Justin had to ask, "How?"

The man then took out a small black box. It was about the size of a palm. It had a green button with a red one next to it. He pressed the green one. Justin was the one to feel a slight tingle before receiving an electric shock. He fell instantly to the pain.

Kory dropped to catch Justin who seemed weakened.

"See," he proved hid point, but that was followed by a warning, "and trust me you don't want to find out what the red switch does." The man then walked over to a wall with a calendar and a clipboard which he picked up. "Now Justin, you'll be the first. Your opponent will be Takas."

Justin looked over to hear the rage of whom he guessed would be Takas slamming his head against the wall. He peered upon a hulking monstrosity with sharp teeth and claws, glaring red-eyes, yellow pupils, and spikes coming out of his head.

"We thought it would be best to work your way up." Justin was dumbfounded.

The man just smirked and told Justin to be ready in ten minutes.

"We got to get out of here." Justin said as Kory nodded.

THE DOJO

The rangers had asked Sensei Akiyama if he had ever heard of the fire ring, and once he heard "fire ring" he becam wide eyed.

"What is it?" Joey asked.

"I've heard about it a few times." He continued, "There are some people who love cage fighting. Some more than others. I heard that there is an underground arena where humans

fight monsters against eachother."

"And now what better fight than between Power Rangers." Ali added.

"But how would these people know who we are?" Amber asked.

"That I cannot tell you. The only thing that should be on your mind right now is rescuing Justin and Kory." Sensei Akiyama told them.

JUSTIN AND KORY

The man sood in the middle of the ring of flame with his microphone. Surrounded by the hundreds of people that had paid to be there. It was his job to make their stay as entertaining as possible. "How's everyone doing tonight?" He waited until the crowd cheered before continuing, "Well tonight you'll definetly see some action. For our next match we have Takas versus a special opponent," the gate then opened and Justin was forced out, "featuring Justin the Blue Power Ranger, and tonight he'll have to face his battle without his ability to morph. So let's get ready to rumble!" With that the crowd cheered even louder.

Justin turned to see the other gate lower and Takas stepped forth. He now faced him down. The brute foamed at the mouth ready to begin the battle. Justin could smell the monsters breath and just plugged his nose. "Damn dude, brush your teeth sometime." Then the bell rang and Justin was immediatley punched.

Kory watched from a small television in his cell. "Come on Justin, don't give up."

Justin leaped up and placed himself in his dragon style fighting position. He waited until Takas made another punch. Justin easily dodged back and was able to spin kick his opponent in the head. Coming back around Justin quickly punched Takas several times in the head which he ended his assault with one tornado assault with his feet colliding with the monsters neck. But upon contact he heard something crack and Takas fell to the ground. Justin quickly stopped as he realized that Takas was now a limp body.

The man with the microphone once again came back out. "Wow!" He was trying to ge a rise out of the crowd, "Takas has been vanquished. Justin is the winner of the match. Now he'll move on to face his next opponent." The man looked over at a smaller creature who ran as fast as his pudgy body would take him. The announcer then snatched a piece of paper from the small man. "Oh my god! It seems that Justin's next opponent will be Kory the Green Ranger."

Both Justin and Kory grew wide-eyed. They were soon going to be forced to fight one another to the death.

TO BE CONTINUED...

NEXT TIME POWER RANGERS DRAGON MASTERS

KORY AND JUSTIN ARE FORCED TO

FIGHT AND THE OTHERS ARE STILL HAVING

TROUBLE LOCATING THEM,

WILL THEY FIND THEM IN TIME?

FIND OU NEXT TIME!