Finals weeks have arrived, I won't be able to make as many chapters as fast but I will try my best
It doesn't happen to often, but here in Blue Bay Harbor the weather has become the news. A cold front is gripping the city. The voice came from a computer in Ninja Ops.
"No kidding" Cam was sitting on his chair, a thick blanket wrapped around him.
causing an unprecedented shortage in the heating oil supply.
"You sure you're okay dad?" he worried son turned towards his father.
"This is the first time I am glad to have fur." the Sensei turned to more serious matters, "have you had any luck locating the rangers?"
"Nothing, it's like they vanished into another dimension."
Tori slowly rose up from the gravely rock, she looked around and saw Dustin running up to her, helping her up.
"Thanks." the blond said.
Dustin nodded before continuing, "I feel like I just got run over by a full gate of 250's"
"yeah, me too, whatever that is." she looked around and saw Shane running up to them.
"Hey" he said, "I hiked up a hill, we're on an island." The ranger relayed the grim news to his friends "As far as I can see, there is no one else."
Dustin pressed a few button on his morpher, but nothing happened.
"Great," he said "last thing I remember we were playing battling zords with Blake and Hunter."
Shane glanced towards Tori "Yeah, don't remind me."
"There's an explanation!" Tori protested.
"I think everything is pretty clear!"
"What does that mean?"
Shane clenched his teeth at the thought of the thunder rangers. "we've known those guys for what, a month, and when have they not been trying to take us out."
"You didn't see Blake the other day, something must happened to he and Hunter on Lothor's ship."
"When you're ready to get real, come talk to me." Shane said as he walked off.
Dustin tried to cheer Tori up, "we could always trade him in for a new ranger, maybe a green one."
A raven flew above the island, soaring around it, it's eyes were purple, and it's pupil were gold.
"Ok, it was brutal, I admit it!" The blonde said, as she ran up to Shane, "but you have to allow for the possibility that there is some logical explanation to all this."
They came up to an old forest, the rangers saw two blurs move around in it.
"You guys saw that, right?" Dustin asked,
"I did" Tori reaffirmed him.
The three rangers ran past a flurry of trees and over a stream.
"It came this way, I saw it!" the red ranger said,
"Good eye Shane." Blake said, as he stood across from them with his brother.
Hunter glared at them "you ever wonder if two thunder ninjas, and three wind ninjas got into a fight, who would win?"
"No one, the only way we win is by working together" Tori replied.
Dustin scoffed at them "Which I thought we were doing."
"guess you were wrong" Blake glared at the yellow ranger.
Hunter smirked evilly "We'll even give you guys a head start, if you want to run."
That was it, Shane was sick of it, he balled up his fists, "Tori, whatever their problem is, we're not going to fix it by letting them stomp on us."
Tori glared at them "I have no intention of letting them stomp us."
The rangers charged at each other, the wind striking the thunder.
"Your plan seems to be working Lothor" the hooded figure stood by the screen, watching with interest.
"Yes, but I am unable to locate that young brat." Lothor frowned at his holographic map, it displayed his army, the rangers, but had no lock on Malice.
"We will find her... we always do."
The rangers were now battling in the open.
"We having fun yet?" Shane asked
"No, but there's always this." Hunter retorted, "Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!" Hunter and Blake appeared in their ranger forms.
"Saw that coming." Shane and his friends raised their hands "Ninja Storm! Ranger Form!" they appeared in their ranger forms, "I'm done holding back."
"If it's them or us, I choose us!" Dustin agreed.
"Finally someone is listening to me." The three rangers drew their ninja swords and charged at each other.
The raven flew overhead, in it's eyes it could see a large phantasmal citadel; its walls and elegant towers glowing purple. Bright colored streams running through it, while different types of bird perched themselves on nearby trees and vines. A phantasmal army of tremendous size stood on the outskirts of the citadel, matching trebuchets fired large flaming boulders. It tore down part of the great walls. The invading armies clashed with the defenders, who were outnumbered 10:1.
"This is crazy!" Cam said, he was shivering beneath his blanket, "we've broken every record since the weather service existed."
"Why couldn't I be a long-haired Peruvian Guinea Pig?" the sensei asked, he too was feeling the cold.
"well, I've turned the heat up, but i'm worried about having enough power to drive the search system."
"we have no choice Cam, we must find the rangers."
The five rangers were tired, sweaty, and frustrated.
"I love dirt as much as the next guy-" Dustin was cut off by Blake
"Too bad it doesn't show in your riding!"
"YOU DID NOT JUST BAG ON MY RIDING!" Dustin charged towards Blake, and the two rangers struck at each other.
Hunter was prepared to join, but something rung in his head, "why are we fighting? Wait, Dustin is our friend." me muttered.
He had flashbacks of he and Dustin riding in the track and hanging out.
The flashbacks were interrupted when the thunders were blasted with ninja beams, sending them stumbling, it was coupled by a strike from the Storm Striker, causing them to be rocketed away.
The phantasmal invaders suffered heavy losses, but managed to overcome the defenders. They stormed through the crumbling walls and ransacked the warehouses, they set fire to the homes, and tore down various raven totems. At the back of the citadel, crying women and children, and a few guards, began piling onto five large warships. One was larger than the rest, it bore violet borders around its hull. Standing at the helm of this ship was a young girl, she couldn't have been more than 19.
She wore around her neck a gold necklace, hanging in it was a single bright and purple gem, it glowed against her skin. In her ears were matching ear-rings and a purple Orchid flower sat in her lush, black, shoulder length hair. She wore a black dress made of fine silk; wrapped around her arms were long flowing strands of purple silk. Her face, it looked just like Malice's.
A single guard walked up to her, "My queen, the city has fallen."
Tears streamed down her cheeks, she was filled with guilt and anguish, the young queen nodded to the guard and faced the island. "Eternal curse of Winter's blight, I name thee tyrants, murderers too! Be cursed, doomed, afflicted! This island be your doom, sink beneath the cold waves, emerge once every third decade, and fill the land with Winter's ire, so they may know blood's blasted stain!" her gems shined brighter, and purple mist rose up from the ocean and surrounded the island, dragging it under. The invaders screamed in the distance as they disappeared beneath the dark waves.
"My queen." the guard said weakly, "where do we go now?"
The young girl replied "Due west, there we will build a hidden catacomb, where in 12 years time, it will be done."
The guard shouted something to the other ships, and they began to churn across the waters.
The queen clenched her teeth, "Blast those Hunters!"
Blake and Hunter were holding their heads, they were feeling groggy,
"Where are we?" Hunter asked.
the wind rangers came cautiously up to the thunders, and the five lowered their visors.
"What are you guys doing here?" the Bradley brothers asked in confusion.
Tori glanced towards Shane "They seem themselves,"
they were interrupted by a loud voice coming from the top of a hill, standing there was Chubo, "Hey, you down there, in the bug suits!"
"he better not be talking to us!" Hunter snapped.
The rangers closed their visors, and prepared to battle Chubo.
"I worked too hard for you to mess things up!" the green alien continued, "Super Toxipod!" an explosion was heard behind the rangers, and the newly formed Super Toxipod appeared, laughing maniacally.
"Didn't we already fight this guy?" Shane asked.
"But he smells even worse!" Tori said.
The snail monster laughed again "Everything about me is worse!"
Kelzaks ambushed them from the sides and began fighting with the wind rangers.
"We gotta help them!" Hunter said to his brother,
"All over it bro!" The navy ranger began to run.
Chubo leaped off the hill "Not so fast!" he said. "Listen to me Crimson ranger! Your brother has betrayed you, hear me?"
a beam shot down from Lothor's ship, Hunter saw it and pushed Blake out of the way as he was struck by it.
Hunter stood there for a moment before muttering "My own brother..." the crimson ranger lifted his staff and struck Blake, bringing him to his knees.
Dustin pointed to the thunder rangers, "Woah!" now they're fighting each other." The wind rangers were battling Super Toxipod and a group of Kelzaks, while Hunter an Blake dueled each other.
Steam began to erupt from small geysers in the ground.
"What is that?"
"Toxic Steam, the island is sinking fast!" the giant snail laughed.
Three Kelzaks flipped over the monster and struck the wind rangers, but all that was left was their ranger uniforms. The foot soldiers looked around in confusion.
Shane appeared out of no where and kicked the Kelzak, sending it flying to a stream of the toxic gas. The slimy creature rose up and attacked the other Kelzaks with a great fury.
"I get it!" Tori said, realization dawning on her, "it's fighting because of the steam!"
The furious Kelzak was struck down by Super Toxipod, but it was too late, the Kelzaks lay dead.
Hunter raised his staff over Blake, ready to end him.
"Wait!" Shane yelled,
"Stop!" Dustin pleaded,
"Don't do it!" Tori's heart sunk into her stomach.
"Hunter, you're not thinking Straight!" Blake said, "You got zapped with that beam, remember!?"
"More lies!" Chubo yelled, trying to keep a hold on the situation.
"but...I..."
A stream of spoke blew past Blake and hit Hunter. "Get out of there!" The navy ranger called to his brother.
The steam subsided, revealing Hunter covered in green toxins.
"The steam got him!" Dustin said, slamming his hand on the ground.
"Right in the face!" Tori yelled.
"This is the end Blake!" the enraged Hunter charged at Blake, but Dustin and Tori ran past and tried to hold him down while Shane fought the snail.
"Don't hurt him!" Blake pleaded
"We're not trying to hurt him." Tori said as she struggled with the crimson ranger,
"We're trying to hold him." Dustin finished her sentence as the two of them were slashed with a thunder staff.
Blake ran up to Hunter, trying to control him "Come on, you're stronger than this!"
The crimson ranger struck his brother twice, before sending him flying overhead.
"Hunter, this isn't you, think about everything we've been through!" Blake tried to snap his brother out of it, but was met with another strike.
"You have to snap out of it!"
"Get off him!" Shane pushed Hunter off of Blake, "this has gone on long enough!" The three rangers threw smoke grenades at the ground and disappeared in a puff of smoke, when it settled the navy ranger was gone too.
"She still hasn't emerged!" Lothor said, slamming his hand on a console.
"The situation has become dire." The hooded figure said, "she will reveal herself soon."
An enraged Hunter walked past the rocks, in the distance he spotted a raven, its eyes were an eerie violet. Like a caveman he began to chase the raven.
The four rangers sat on the ground in a circle.
"Shane, that wasn't us back there." Blake said.
"I know" Shane was feeling guilty for turning on them so quickly. "We're there for you."
A raven zoomed past them and flew to the top of a hill in the distance.
Dustin frowned in confusion "Uh... was that a-"
"-Raven" Tori finished.
"Yeah," the teens knew the difference between crows and ravens since Malice had come around.
"Maybe we should follow it." Tori suggested,
Shane furrowed his eyebrows "Why?"
"You got something better in mind?"
Shane looked down in defeat and began walking towards the hill.
Cam sat by his computer, shivering. "bad news dad," he adjusted the green blanked around him "the temperature is dropping one degree every hour."
he continued "I traced the energy signatures back to an island in the Mediterranean sea, in Turkey's territorial waters, the island once housed the capital of the Halicarnassus empire."
"So the island's submersion is causing the catastrophic weather." the sensei said.
"Exactly, and I have no way of stopping it."
The rangers arrived at the top of the hill.
"Where'd it go?" Tori asked.
"Look!" Blake pointed to a small wooden shrine built into the hill. It housed a celestial mirror, with a raven totem on either side.
"It's some sort of... I don't know what it is." Dustin admitted.
Hunter came grumbling up the side of the hill.
"Hunter!" Blake said in surprise
the crimson ranger glared at him, "Blake!" he ran towards his brother, weapon drawn, but a raven flew in between them and landed at the shrine. A bright purple light and huge winds emanated from it, knocking the rangers to their feet.
An alarm sounded on Lothor's screen.
"Hmm, it has appeared." Lothor said,
"Finally." The black hooded figure signaled towards the back entrance, a large automaton came forward. It was armed to the teeth
"I will deliver the greeting card." it spoke, in a robotic voice, the light from a torch glistened on a mark on the robot's chest - it was the mark of the Hunter.