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Chapter - Protection or Restriction
It had been only two days since that first major event of their this journey as the rangers and also a new friend had joined them in this. The rangers were trying getting out of the trauma that they had been in in different ways.
Prince Alvin , seeing the effect of the event caused due to Eliastro's plan, had decided to give rangers a break in order to come out of their traumas and be back with all their strength, physically as well as mentally.
Leon had made a plan to visit his grandfather and mother and as usual James played it very cool and find a way to sneak out of it. As for Blase, he told everyone that he is going to meet his old friend. The girls had taken this opportunity to go and hangout in the mall though Tabitha manage to get away from this idea and instead was sitting alone by the sea side.
Tabitha was sitting by the beach when a paper that looked like an advertisement of some short flew towards her. She took it and started to see what it was about. "A Fencing Tournament is going to happen in the city. The top three contenders will be awarded with the cash prize" she read out as she was looking fully determined to participate. 'Thanks Kevin your teaching may help me tomorrow to win the cash prize and help in the survival' she thought to herself.
Meanwhile at the C3 someone was walking towards the training area. The figure reached towards the training area when he realized that someone was already there. The gate opened and it came out that the person who was already there was none other than Eldon Dunt.
"You were not supposed to be here practicing today" said the unknown yet familiar voice.
"It goes same for you, James" said Eldon as the unknown figure is revealed to be James. " You see I want to be as strong as I can atleast for the sake of Roxy. I mean she is my younger sister and it's my duty to protect him from everything. So here I am to practice. But what about you why are you here?" questioned Eldon after telling him his concern.
"Looks like we both are the passengers of the same boat" said James in rather low but relieved tone.
"Pardon?" asked confused Eldon.
"You see, don't know why but I got this feeling to protect Tabitha from every danger like a big brother. Maybe it is because of a long urge for something that I have in me. But one thing for sure I know is that I have to protect her like a younger sister." said James getting ready to do the practice session with the newly joined crimson ranger.
Next day Tabitha just came out of the registrar office after getting registered for the tournament she bumped into a Japanese-American girl with medium length black hairs and brown eyes with fair skin tone and dressed in white and both fell.
"Mari!" a boy with athletic toed body, brown shaggy hairs, green eyes and dressed in red called out to the girl. "Be attentive of where you walk. I know you are super excited regarding this tournament but dare not to hurt yourself" the words came out of that boy's mouth as he along with two girls came towards Mari.
"Sorry Ash" said Mari with a sheepish smile and blush on her face.
"You ok girl" asked the first girl dressed in yellow, having sun-kissed skin, long curly brown hairs and deep chocolate eyes.
"Here get up" the second girl who was dressed in pink offered her a hand to get up. This girl had long purple hair with blue strips, green(left) and brown(right) eyes and tan skin.
"Sorry to you too. I am Mari this is Ash, the one in yellow is Liz and in pink is Kara." said Mari introducing everyone to her.
"Myself Tabitha. By the way you had got a quite caring boyfriend" said Tabitha as both Ash and Mari were blushing.
"We are not in a relationship." said Ash in a rather hurry.
"Don't tell me that you still lack those guts to propose her" said Tabitha bluntly as per her nature and Ash and Mari were again blushing.
"Looks we have someone quite good at mocking others" said Kara.
"You way good observer Tabitha" said Liz.
"Tabitha where have you been. We were searching you everywhere?" said a James as he was really concern about her.
"Looks like you too had got quite caring boyfriend" Ash tried to counter Tabitha with her words.
"There are other feelings like of being a big brother that also gives life to caring nature. It's not always love." said James again shutting Ash mouth.
"Looks today is not your day to win in a talk, bro" said Kara teasing her brother.
By this time all other teens had also reached there and the formal introduction was over and the Ask, Kara, Mari and Liz said bye to their new friends.
"Hi don't you think there is much more to them then what it appears to" said Liz.
"What do you mean?" asked Mari.
"You are talking about the variance in the group and the color coded clothes" said Kara to which Liz nodded.
"You mean they can be a team of rangers" said Ash.
"Maybe " said Mari as all nodded.
Back to the teens, they had decided to go to the cafe near the registrar office.
"By the way what were you doing here Tabitha?" asked Roxy.
"I am taking part in the competition." said she.
"What? you are not going to participate in it Tabitha. You may hurt yourself." said James.
"Stop treating me like a kid. I can take care of myself " said Tabitha.
"Hey he is only saying it for your good Tabitha beside he is concern about you as a big brother like I an for Roxy" said Eldon.
"If it is so then I am with you Tabi in this." said Roxy
"What are you talking Roxy" asked a surprised Eldon.
"I am telling the truth. Stop treating me as a kid bro. I am a grown up now and can take care of myself. Plus there is a difference between protectiveness and over protectiveness" said Roxy
"That's enough guys. Don't start fighting among yourselves" Leon tried to control the situation. Just than their morphers reacted as to inform about an invasion.
"Guys lets go" said Twyla.
"I am ready to kick some butts baby" said Blase as they all headed towards the point of invasion.
When the rangers reached there fully morphed they saw the gobots along with a humanoid panda with a bamboo stick in his hand and parts of bamboo forming the legs, elbow area, stomach area ad neck area.
"Wow the taste of Zuthora king is too weird than I thought it would be" commented Blase as he rushed into the battle without listening.
"God! don't know when this boy will learn to have patience." sighed James as others too joined the battle.
It was only a matter of time that the rangers destroyed the gobots and were ready to face the monster. Just as they were going to attack Indigo lightning send them flying back to ground.
'Not again. Eliastro, he will be targeting Tabitha again. I have to protect him like a big brother' thought James.
'I am not letting anyone to hurt my sister no matter how powerful he or she is' thought Eldon.
"Ok guys Tabi, Roxy, Eldon and Twyla handle Eliastro. Blase, James come with me" ordered Leon as they all stood back on their legs.
All nodded as they regrouped as per the order and started to attack their respective villains.
Tabitha attacked with her trident which Eliastro stopped with his sword. Eliastro easily dodges attacks of Blase, Eldon and Twyla. Eliastro then pushed Tabitha and using the electric powers to send the three to the ground.
On the other hand Padamboo was attacking the three rangers who were trying hard to defend themself but all in vain. Leon tried to attack with his katana but Padamboo stopped it following with stopping the attack of Roxy's bo-staff leaving it open to get attacked. James show the opening to attack and stepped to attack but show Tabitha struggling against Eliastro and instead of attacking Padamboo ran to help her.
"James" cried both Roxy and Leon getting distracted of which Padamboo took advantage of and attacked on both Roxy and Leon.
Eliastro was about to send a powerful electric attack at Tabitha and she was all set to defend herself but James came in way and pushed her to ground. The electric attack hit a pole and the pole fell on Tabitha's hand.
Meanwhile Padamboo had sent Leon to ground and was ready to strike Roxy with his weapon but in a crimson blur Eldon ran and tackled the monster, making his weapon send towards the rangers as the monster losses his grip, hitting others as well as the two too.
"Huh! What a waste of time it was. Looks like the new ranger had only weaken the team. Padamboo destroy them now and return back to the base. I will be waiting for your arrival" said Eliastro as he teleported to the base.
"Oh so sorry rangers but it's time to end you, though I really enjoyed playing with you but now the playtime is over" said the monster as he sent a powerful strike towards the rangers who were struggling to get back on their legs. The strike was about to hit them when a snow storm came out of blues protecting them.
"huh what was that? who did this?" was the only thing that leave the monster's mouth.
"What just happened?" asked Blase as he was confused with this sudden twist of event.
"We are on the same boat as you Blase" said Twyla.
"Rangers we will investigate about this incident later, first we have a monster to defeat" said Leon as everyone was back in position of attack.
They again rushed to fight but all in vain. Eldon and James, in order to defend Roxy and Tabitha, were working off beat and causing hurt not only to themselves but also to others.
Tabitha and Roxy now had a huge build up inside them. The monster again send all of them to ground.
"We have to think about some other way to defeat him" said Blase.
"We will never be able to defeat him" said Tabitha.
"What do you mean by that" asked a shocked Twyla.
"I am with her on this. Can't you see how effortlessly he is over powering us and all thanks goes to Eldon and James" said Roxy.
"What?" asked shocked Eldon and James.
"They are saying the truth, Eldon. Brother This is bitter but true" said Leon.
"What are we doing? we are just two big brothers trying to protect their younger sisters" said Eldon.
"There is a difference between being over protective and protective." said Tabitha.
"Your over protectiveness is the reason for our loss Eldon and James. This is not only being the restriction for two of us but also for the capability of you two" said Roxy.
"But..." was only what James was able to say when Tabitha cut him off.
"Look James, I appreciate that you feel like a big brother to me but being a big brother not only means that you have to protect your younger siblings but means that you stand with them on what they are going to do." said Tabitha.
"It means that you guide them what to do and What not to. To protect them from the bad consequences of their bad choices and make the able to defend themself and help them to become a good human" said Roxy.
"Huh stop this nonsense of your's. I am fed up of that foolish talks of yours. Now it's time to end you all" said the monster.
"Never , never ever you or any other monster will be able to destroy us." said Eldon.
"Instead get ready to be get defeated. Roxy, Eldon and Tabi come with me and Bro please let it be fight of four of us" said James asking the permission from Leon to which Leon nodded.
The four rangers charged at the enemy. Eldon using his super speed tackled the monster but the monster then attacked with his weapon but James made a whirlwind to stop it. From the top of the whirlwind came Roxy and Tabitha having their bo-staff and Trident covered in electricity and water respectively and striking the monster and then hit by many green colored wind balls hitting him hard sending him to ground.
"All ready" asked James as the three nodded as they were cowered in their own colored aura. "Defender beasts spirit blast"
They all ran towards the monster as the aura started to change shape and at last the four auras transformed into their respective beasts with the rangers inside them, hitting the monster at the same time and destroying him.
With the end of the monster all rejoyed.
At the Tournament, It has been a pretty much good show of the talent. The rangers met Mari, Ash, Liz and Kara once again and with the twist of faith, both Mari and Tabitha made to the finals.
The fight had approached almost to it's end but still they were both with equal points.
"Looks like none of them want to lose" said Ash.
"Yeah both of them have the burning spirit to win" said Blase.
James was happy too to see how much others were praising Tabitha, when he observed that Tabitha was now playing a little odd. He observed that her had was hurting her.
'This must be because of that pole' he thought remembering the incidence.
At the end Tabitha was not able to bear the pain and loss with a point making Mari the winner of the tournament.
"It was a great fight Tabitha" said Mari as she offered her hand for handshake.
"Yeah, it was a great one, Mari. Hope we will get another chance to face each other" said Tabitha with a smile.
With the end of the tournament the four returned to their hometown saying bye to their new friends i.e the rangers of Majestic hills.
"I am sorry Tabitha as it was because of me that you lost" apologized James.
"It's not your fault. It was just that my luck fall short, big bother" said Tabitha as the both of them smiled.
"I think I should also apologize" said Eldon to Roxy but Roxy instead hugged him.
"You don't have to brother" said she as they all smiled and kept on moving.
Author's Note: Mari, Ash, Liz and Kara are from the power rangers neo defenders by Loveginger30. I am a big fan of her and she is my inspiration to handle this much big group of rangers to handle. One more thing, I had posted the prologue of my another story Power rangers forces of Tilism and I need Oc for it. If you guys have time then please help. Also tell me of what you think of the story, chapter, and the questions, as well as the places that needed to be improved in review as they are always encouraging. Until next time, bye!
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