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Avril snuck down the stairs of her home, once she was in the dark living room she tiptoed to the front door. Just as she unlocked the door and grabbed the doorhandle, the light in the room came on, scaring her and making her scream as she spun around her back hitting against the door.
Kaylynn was sitting on the couch with her arms folded. "Where are you going?" She did not look happy.
"I'm going out with my friends." Avril answered, but her mother shook her head.
"Do you honestly not think that I don't know what you're up too?" Kaylynn demanded. "I know where you're going, and I know who."
"Mother, do you honestly think that I'm up to no good?" Avril asked as she locked the front door again.
"We need to talk." Kaylynn told her. "So take a seat."
"I can't." Avril argued. "My friends need me."
"Avril Anastasia Chambers, you sit your butt down right now!" Kaylynn said firmly, her voice leaving no room for argument.
The gold Ranger winced. The middle name, it's never good when your parent calls you by your full name. So she walked over to the Lazy-Boy recliner and dropped down.
"I know what you have been up too." Kaylynn started. "And I don't know if I'm ok with it." Her daughter said nothing. "I know who you are." She revealed. "And I know what you are." She watched as Avril's eyes widened. "You are a Power Ranger."
Avril opened her mouth, but her voice wouldn't work.
"You're a Mystic." Kaylynn revealed again. "Just like your father." She shook her head.
"M, m, my ... my father?" Avril breathed, watching with wide-eyes as her mother nodded.
"Yes." Kaylynn nodded. "You are just like him in many ways." Tears filled her eyes as she looked away.
"Why bring him up now?" Avril demanded. "I've always wanted to know about him, but you refused to even mention him at all."
"I was trying to protect you." Kaylynn rounded. "Protect you from the dark magic that haunts the woods."
"I'm not a little girl anymore." Avril protested. "I know how to defend myself." She paused. "You know about magic?"
"I know everything about the Mystic Realm." Her mother revealed, and Avril opened her mouth, but her wand chimbed, she pulled it out.
"What is it?" She asked into it.
"Where are you?" Chip's voice came through. "Nick's steeming mad."
"I'm on my way." Avril promised with a nod. "I'll be there shortly." She lowered her wand, placing it on her lap.
"Go." Kaylynn told her. "We'll talk further once you're back."
Avril nodded. "I'm looking forward to it." She stood up, she lifted her wand and disappeared when she flicked it gently.
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"I give up!" Xander announced, cutting through the silence that had fallen over the group of five out of six Rangers. They'd been working on and off for the entire day and a good bit of the night as well. "Maybe we're not meant to find out the secret of the Fireheart." He sighed heavily as he pushed a book away from him.
Avril threw a paperbook at him. "Bite your tongue!"
"Come on." Nick shook his head and shoved a book into Xander's arms. "Don't give up. Never give up." He said determindly as he gave Maddie another book.
"We need to find the Fireheart first, Xander!" Avril told Xander with a glare, just as they heard someone arrive and saw Vida breeze in.
"Yo crew, sorry I'm late." She said in a board voice, not sounding apologetic as she sat down at the table and leaned back in her chiar.
"Late? We haven't seen you since yesterday." Nick told her as they all stared at the Pink Ranger. "That's beyond late. So much for giving us your word." He said as he joined the others.
"Relax." Vida swung in her seat and rolled her eyes. "You're not my dad. So I missed a night of saving the world." She let out a wide yawn. "Good news is, world's still here." She shrugged, apparently not caring in the slightest. She leaned forwards and rested her elbow on the table, porpping her head up with a lazy smile.
"Uh, V? Are you ok?" Avril asked as she stood in between Chip and Maddie.
"Yep!"
"I was worried about you." Maddie told her sister hurtfully, all she got was voicemail as she tried to contact Vida.
"Lookk, I'm sorry." Vida sighed and stood up as she looked around the group. "I gave my word and I blew it, it won't happen again." She insisted as Avril felt something bad in her gut.
"Hey, no problem V." Chip spoke up before the others could. "We all make mistakes." He said, and she smiled at him. Not liking this, Avril started to speak, only for Nick to let out a cry of pain as he grabbed his head into his hands.
"Nick?" Maddie asked.
"We gotta go guys. Koragg's back." He hated it when the dark Knight could get in his head.
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Dawn was fast approaching as the Rangers ran through the forest, looking fof Koragge and his minions. Slowing to a stop where Nick had been told they would be, the team looked arounnd, before Hidiacs swarmed them, and the rangers fellinto fighting stances. Vida smirked.
"Let's Ranger up!" Nick called, only for Vida to step forwards.
"Why bother?" She asked, and before they could lift their morphers. Vida ran through them, knocking each of the mutants to the ground. She turned and smirked to the others, who stared at her in shock, before she continued to fight off the Hidiacs.
"Man, look at V go!" Nick's eyes are wide.
"This catching up on her sleep thing seems to be paying off for her." Xander was just as shocked.
"I don't like it." Avril said. "She's completely different."
"Go sis ... I've never seen her like this before." Maddie laughed.
"Neither have I." Chip nodded. "It's just weird." He muttered. Vida used her magic, turning into a tornado and finishing off the monsters.
Nick, Xander, and Maddie cheering her on as they ran up to her, with Avril, and Chip hanging back, and Avril looked at Chip with confusion.
"Very inpressive." Koragg appeared, and the Rangers dropped into fighting stances, ready for battle. "Now how about a real challenge?" Casting a spell, he transformed into his much larger form. The Rangers grabbed their morphers quickly, ready to fight.
"MAGICAL SOURCE, MYSTIC FORCE!" They called on their magic, transforming themselves to their Titan forms and faced Koragg.
"Welcome to your last fight!" The dark Knight yelled as he drew his sword and held it up.
"That's what you think!" Nick held up his own sword, but as they went to attack, Koragg moved first.
"Wolf attack!" He blasted the Rangers, with only Chip, Nick, and Avril able to avoid it. "Come on!" He yelled as they leapt at him. He easily fought them off with his sword and shield, knocking Avril back. Maddie recovered and went to attack, but was hit and thrown back.
"You want some of this?" Xander stepped forwards as Maddie fell into Nick. The Green Ranger swung his large axe down at the much shorter Knight, but Koragg blocked it. He shoved Xander back and hit him across the chest, before taking on Nick as the Red Ranger attempted to go at him again.
"Could use some held V!" Chip called as Nick was thrown into Avril, knocking them both to the ground.
"Incoming!" Vida flew through the air in her ball form.
"Little game of catch, Koragg?" Chip caught the ball, and hurled it at Koragg. Surprised by the attack, Koragg barely managed to block it, and the power forced him back.
"I'm not done yet!" Koragg told them as he recovered as he grew angry. He cast a spell, calling on his horse. Then combining with Catastros, he cormed his Megazord. "Now you will feel my real power!" He warned as he held his lance, ready for round two.
"Talk is cheap, you don't scare us!" Nick told thim as the regrouped.
"Let's show him!"
"Let's do this!"
"Let's go!"
"MYSTIC TITANS, DRAGON FORMATION!" The Rangers combined into their dragon form as the sun rose, but Vida let out a pained scream.
"The sun's so bright!" She cried as she shielded her eyes from it. "I feel all." She fell to the ground and rolled over before returning to her normal siz and demorphing. She hit the ground hard, trying to get up and failing.
"You ok sis?" Maddie called down to her sister as they gathered around.
"V!" Chip called down to the fallen Ranger.
"You lose one, and you all quit?!" Koragg snarled, not about to let them take a break just yet. Looking around quickly, Xander blocked the attack from hitting anyone else, and fell to his knees. "Look at your pitiful selves ... you are defenceless." Koragg scoffed, disgusted. "I waist my time." He turned and disappeared.
"Guys, we have to help her!" Chip cried as he foused on Vida as she blacked out.
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While Maddie stayed behind with her unconscious sister at Rootcore, the other Rangers returned to Rock Porium, where they knew they would find Leelee. The blonde looked a little startled at the four walked up to her.
"You barbie bitch." Avril growled, reaching for hurt her, but Nick was faster and held his angry friend back while Leelee jumped backwards from them.
"What happened to Vida at the club the other night?" Nick demanded as he continued to restrain Avril.
"V's been acting a little strange since then." Chip added, and Leelee laughed.
"She's was acting strange at the club. She was like, nice to me, even talking to me!" She told them laughing as they frowned.
"Nick, let go of me!" Avril cried. "I'm not going to hurt Leelee, just wring her neck, maybe even breaking it!" She struggled hard, but he wasn't giving up. "This girl is up to something! I can smell it! She's a rotten apple!"
"I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, but I couldn't stay. My mom called and I had to leave." Leelee became serious. "Vida was fine when I left." She shrugged.
"I smell a lie!" Avril growled as she finally stopped trying to break free from Nick. "Just how long have you been cooking that lie up Leelee?" She demanded. They then all looked around as Maddie, and Vida walked in. "Vida!" Avril gasped.
"Hey V." Xander smiled to the pink Ranger.
"Hey." Vida muttered.
"Are you feeling better?" Avril asked with worry as Leelee moved away quickly.
"I guess so. Just a little sensitive to sunlight." Vida shrugged, walking straight past them.
Avril folded her arms as they watched Vida. "This is just too strange for me." With that she turned and walked out of Rock Porium.
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The next day, with the Rangers nowhere near to solving the mystery of the Fireheart, the Rangers spent another day at Rootcore. Reading through as many books as they could, but Vida had gone to get some sleep, and Chip was now acting strange.
"Good morning Rootcore." Vida arrived with a smile, still pale but more active then she had been.
"Very funny, V." Avril said as she flipped through a page in a book, she was skimming through. "You know full well that it's night time."
"Hey sis, you're feeling better!" Maddie looked at her sister with a relieved smile.
"I'm feeling great! I slept like a baby." Vida told her with a grin. "Let's rock and roll!" She cheered.
"You slept like a log." Nick told her as Maddie laughed, grabbing her camera. "22 hours worth." He added with a shake of his head, before continuing to read the book in front of him.
"Hey V, say a few words to your fans." Maddie called to the pink Ranger as she turned on the camera and pointed it at her.
"Alright, I'll show you a new pose that came to me in a dream." Vida smirked at the camera and held up her fingers in a V shape by her eye. She laughed, leaning against the table as Chip approached her.
"After such a long nap, you must be very thirsty V." He handed her a goblet, which she grabbed and took a gulp from. When she spat it out, making a disgusted noise, everyone looked up quickly.
"It's tomato juice!" Vida yelled at Chip, who smirked.
"Aw what, did you think it was blood?!" Chip's accusation took everyone by surprise.
"Blood?" Avril scrunched up her nose.
"I am a card carrying member of Count V." Chip held up and ID as Vida grimaced, the taste of tomato juice still in her mouth. When Chip was met with four blank stares, he sighed. "Containment of Underworld Nocturnal Transylvanian Vampiries Club! And I, my friends, have found myself a vampire!" He declared, looking right at Vida.
"My sister is a vampire?" Maddie asked.
Chip looked at them. "Yeah!" He exclaimed. "Ave, come here for a second."
The gold Ranger walked up to the red head, who then gently pushed her to Vida. The pink Ranger gasped in fright as Avril fell backwards, the pink Ranger let out a scream and shoved Avril into Chip as she quickly, the yellow Ranger catching Avril as Vida backed away from the table, and away from everyone. "Pale skin, sleeping all day? She has a thrust for blood? She's sensitive to the sun, and she can't even look at Avril" Chip held up a book that was titled 'How To Spot A Vampire' as Vida laughed a little.
After a moment of silence, in wich Vida looked to Chip with a careful expression, Xander, Nick, and Maddie burst out laughing. Avril looked at Vida, who laughed as well.
"This isn't funny guys, Chip is right." Avril defended her red head friend. "Vida isn't Vida anymore."
"Come on guys, we're late for work." Nick had managed to calm his laughing a little more then Xander and Maddie as Chip looked at them, his smile dropping.
"I'll meet you guys later." Vida grinned to the others, and looked to Chip. "I gotta grab a bite before I go!" She winked at Chip, who jumped.
"That's not funny at all Vida." Avril folded her arms as she still stood between the two.
"Ok ... maybe I'm wrong." Chip mumbled, looking down at his book. "I'll stay here and go in with V." He told the others.
Avril went to follow the others, but she stopped and turned to Chip. "I believe you Chip." She told him seriously, and he grinned.
"Thanks!"
"Well you be ok here by yourself?" She asked as she walked up to him. "I can stay if you want me to."
Chip smiled at her. "Thanks, but you don't have too. I'm just going to do some more research."
"Then take this." Avril cast a spell and a garlic necklace appeared in her hands. "I know we're in Rootcore, but this'll keep you safe." She held it to him.
Chip gently took the garlic necklace. "Thanks again Ave." He smiled.
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"They're still not here?" Nick frowned as he emerged from the office and found no sign of Chip and Vida. "Toby's gonna have a fit." He added while the others shrugged.
"Chip was pretty convinced that V's been turned into a vampire." Xander commented as they stood together. "Maybe he's stopping her from leaving?" He suggested.
Avril sighed. "You guys, Chip is on to something!" She protested. "I know it! There's something not right."
"But she can't be a." Nick trailed off, finding it too ridiculous.
"She is!" Avril argued. "I see the signs too!"
Nick folded his arms. "Then why is she only reacting towards you?" He argued, causing her to roll her eyes.
"Because I have the magic of the sun!" She quickly looked around to make sure she wasn't heard, then she narrowed her eyes at Nick "You're a desendent of the Mystics too!" She reminded. "Do you feel that something's not right?"
Nick looked ready to argue, but paused. "Ok, ok." He caved. "I'm telling you that your wrong."
"Alright fire boy, if I'm right, you replace Xander as my slave." Avril challenged, causing Xander to cheer.
"And if I'm right." Nick took the bate. "You take my shift for the weekend."
"You're on!" Avril said, and the two shook hands firmly.
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"V!" As soon as they finished their shift, the four worried Rangers returned to Rootcore to see if Chip and Vida were still there. they hadn't shown up at all at work, and they weren't answering their morphers.
"Chip?" Avril called in deep worry and concern. "Chip, where are you?" She called.
"You're out here awefully late." Udonna commented as she, and Clare walked into the room. "What's going on?"
"Chip, and Vida didn't show for work." Nick explained as they walked over to her. "We think there may be a problem."
Udonna frowned. "They seemed alright when the last time you saw them?"
"Not exactly." Avril siad. "Vida's been acting really strange the last couple of days. And Chip's convinced that she's become a vampire." Nick, Maddie, and Xander laughed. But Udonna did not.
"There are many things in the woods that seem unbelievable, but I assure you, they do exist." Udonna frowned at the three laughing Rangers, and their laughter instantly died.
"Hey, I just thought of something." Maddie realized. "I filmed Vida earlier today." She cast a spell on her camera, and the video showed up on the screen.
"V, say a few words to your fans."
"Alright, I'll show you a new pose that came to me in a dream." They watched as Chip held out a goblet of tomato juice.
"Ok, that's weird. She was dead center frame when I took this and now." Maddie trailed off, shaking her head.
"I told you guys!" Avril accused the three. "I told you Chip was right!"
"You must find them Rangers, they need your help." Udonna told them.
"Let's go." Nick told them, putting a hand on Maddie's shoulder for a moment as she looked stunned.
"Yes! I'm off the hook!" Xander cheered, bouncing after his friends. "And now Nick is on the line!"
"Shut up Xander!" Nick growled.
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Finding a monster was attacking Briarwood, the four spotted Chip, and Vida facing him down. They were already morphed and ready to fight.
"Chip!" Avril cried happily as they reached the two, who looked around quickly. "You're ok!" She smiled as she took his arm happily.
"V!" Maddie was relieved to see her sister. "Are you alright?" She asked, and Vida nodded.
"Never better!" She cheered and posed.
"Good! Let's swat this fly!" Nick told them.
"Force as the sun! Green Mystic Ranger!"
"Ever changing as the wind! Pink Mystic Ranger!"
"Fluid as the sea! Blue Mystic Ranger!"
"Fast as lightning! Yellow Mystic Ranger!"
"Forceful as the fire! Red Mystic Ranger!"
"Courage is our magic!"
"And your downfall!" Vida told Flytrap confidently.
"No problem!" Flytrap wasn't intimidated by the Rangers words. He shot several vines at the Rangers, wrapping around them and stopping them from moving.
"Let me try some magic!" Vida called to the others. She focused and disappeared in a flash of pink lights. The vines that had restrained her, dropped to the ground, and the tiny Pink Ranger flew through the air. "Magi Staff!" Returning to her normal size, Vida swung her staff down hard and freed her friends.
"No!" Flytrap cried out, falling backwards as his vines smoked from the attack.
"Magi Staff, crossbow mode!" Chip called on his own staff and changed it into a crossbow. "Fire!" He blasted the monster with his yellow magic, making the monster fall back.
"Nice one Chip!" Vida cheered her friend on, still holding her staff. They all leapt through the air and surrounded Flytrap, who cried out in surprise as he looked from one to the other. "Tornado time!" They all began spinning, throwing Flytrap through the air. He crashed to the ground, and growled angrily.
"Shut your traps!" He started to glow.
"Let's even this out!" Chip called. And they all drew their morphers and called on their Titan forms, before combining to make their Megazord.
"Let's get him!" Maddie cheered, glancing to Vida quickly. "You alright sis?" She checked, and the Pink Rangers nodded.
"Never been better!" She told her, striking her pose again.
"Liking the new pose V! Titan Sabor!" Chip grinned.
"TITAN SABOR!" The others followed suit, and they summoned their sword.
"Try and stop these!" Flytrap tried his vine attack again, but with a quick slash, the Rangers called on smaller swords that cut through the vines and struck the monster several times.
Avril sddenly gasped. "Guys! The sun!" She yelled as the pained cried of those infected by Flytrap cried below. The Rangers yelled out in horror as they realized their deadline was fast approaching.
"We have to break the spell, fast!" Chip exclaimed quickly.
"Ready!" Nick looked to the others. They held out their Staffs, and put a hand over their consoles.
"Ancient Power! Mystic Spell Seal!"
"Attack!" Flytrap rushed at them, attemping to attack before their Spell Seal was ready, but they were faster. With a powerful slash of their sabor, the Rangers slammed him with a Spell Seal.
"You're planted!" Flytrap staggered as red lights shot from his body, before he exploded, destroyed. The sun came up, and the Rangers watched from a higher lever as the teens who had been infected stopped yelling, and walked off as if nothing had happened.
"Chip saved the day, I got my sister back, and Briarwood's teens are back to normal." Maddie summed up.
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Music filled Rock Porium as Vida jumped down from the stage and danced with Leelee, who laughed at how much more energetic the pink Ranger was. Relieved what Vida was ok, the others were relaxed.
"I'm still not convinced that Leelee is a rotten apple." Avril jumped up onto the counter, next to the cash register.
"You're still not over that?" Nick asked, he frowned as Chip suddenly crouched down on the floor and began drawing with chalk.
"What's he doing?" He asked Maddie, as she laughed and stood next to him.
"He's showing us how Vampire chalk works." She giggled.
"Sorry, these are #300 boots!" Leelee snapped at the yellow Ranger as she jumped away from him. "Draw your chalk near someone else's feet." She growled. Vida laughed as Avril rolled her eyes. Nick and Maddie started laughing as Chip got backk to his feet, and Vida continued dancing. The phone rang, and Xander turned to get it.
"Hey V!" The Australian leaned on the counter besides Avril to look over to the pink Ranger. "We got any Coltrane on CD?" He called to her as she stopped dancing.
"Lemme check!" Vida told him, but as she made to step over the circle that Chip had drawn around her, a forcefield shot up. She cried out in pain and stepped back, her eyes wide. Xander hung up as he, and Avril exchanged shocked looks, and they all ran over as Vida attempted to get out again, only to cry out in pain when she slammed straight into it.
"Uh ... V? Are you alright?" Chip asked carefully as all traces of laughter was now long gone. She looked up and hissed at them, her eyes glowing red as she bared her fangs at them.
"No." Maddie choked out, trembling, and Nick wrapped his arm around her to pull her close to him.