Power Rangers In Retrograde - Mystic Force – Trick 26 Into the Dream
The baby cried for his mother as he was gently rocked, swaddled in a red blanket.
"Hey V how do I look? V?"
Koragg!Vida shook her head to clear the vision, one hand dropping to her stomach as she returned to the present and looked across the table to Fem!Xander entering from the back room in some of her clothes, a smile forming.
"V?" Madison tilted her head, looking curiously to her 'sister' and placing a hand on her forehead, "You alright?"
the other Mystic Rangers sat around the table having breakfast but turned toward Udonna as Vida spaced out, "Is V alright?"
"She's not like, turning back into Koragg is she?" LeeLee says nervously.
Koragg!Vida laughs, "Guy stop over reacting...I'm me...Vida Roca not Koragg."
"That isn't completely true," Udonna reminds her but gives a comforting smile, "But we shouldn't have to worry as long as Xander stays close to keep their bond strong."
Fem!Xander moves to sit at the table with a smile, "Guess I get to understand how Nicole feels. Guess I'm lucky that I don't have any parents in this country to worry about when I go home."
"Yeah...parents..." Koragg!Vida says softly as she holds her stomach again, her voice cracking, "U-Udonna...is there any way that Koragg was...p...pregnant? I mean I know he was a guy...but..."
"Pregnant my child? You think your pregnant?" Udonna says softy as the other ranger look on in shock.
"Well…," she sighs, "It's just since I returned I've been having this flashes...these….visions...of a child...my child...but…." she sighs again, "I don't know it doesn't make any sense."
Udonna sat next to Koragg!Vida and held her close to her chest like a concerned parent, "Oh child this must be so confusing for you. I can't see ho you could become pregnant in the short time between when Koragg became a woman and you were set free but it is an easy matter to check."
Koragg!Vida smiles as Udonna steps away and waves her wand around her smiling.
"You need not worry, you are not with child," Udonna says comfortingly.
Koragg!Vida gives a relived sigh, "That's a load off my chest."
"Honestly I'm surprised half of us aren't pregnant," Nick injects, "What with how things went down with Vicamros when the Adventurers wandered into our realm."
"Did somebody say my name?"
The soft sound of dice rolling was heard as the infamous bard entered with the rest of his party. One by one each of the Rangers swooned, nearly fainting as they held their hearts a moment, the few who were still male, Nick and Chip mainly, instantly shifted to female form as Vicamros smiled.
"Now isn't this a lovely sight, such beauty is beyond compare."
The girls, Clare and Udonna included, all blushed and giggled.
Caren rolled her eyes, "I knew it was a bad idea to bring you along."
Vic smiled to the elf paladin making her heart skip, "Ah but who better to sooth a heart of darkness then a skilled bard."
Charlotte shook her head , clearing it somewhat, "I-Is that why your here? Another defense to keep Vida from reverting to Koragg?"
He nodded, "Indeed, Lady Udonna thought it might be worth investigating if our parties various abilities could help with the current situation."
A broad smile on his face he moved to Koragg!Vida and kissed her hand, "You are lovely as the forest during moonlight."
Koragg!Vida cheeks grew redder as she giggled, "R-Really?"
Vic nodded, "I must confess I do feel an unusually draw to you above all the other lovely ladies I have met in this world." his smile widening he looked across the room to the other girls and strummed a simple melody on his lute, "That is not to say I love any of you less. But just as will the Original Lady Vida I feel a strange connection to this one."
"Well Vida did create you," Maddie purrs as Vic takes a seat next to Koragg!Vida and she takes the opportunity to slides up to his opposite side.
Charlotte, along with the other girls, starts to turn red with jealousy as she slides pull Madison out of her seat to slide in next to Vic, "Don't get so comfortable Maddie I'm going to need you to run some errands."
"E-Errands? What are you up to Charlotte," Maddie fumes as she pulls Charlotte up and Nick pulls Koragg!Vida from her seat, "Stop getting so chummy with my man!"
"You're man!" Koragg!Vida shoves her, "I created him! I have every right to get to sit next to him!"
"You created no one," LeeLee hisses pushing both girls aside to take the seat, "The Real Vida did and he wouldn't even be here if not for my book!"
"Ladies!" Vic smiled as he started to strum a tune, the light sound of dice rolling echoed in the air, "There is no reason to fight over little old me. I have plenty of stamina to share with all of you."
Tensions eased as Vicamros played, Caren and Loraella swept up into the magic of the bard's music as Crunan and Norian shared a laugh, "We are never going to find our own ladies if we keep hanging out with Vicamros."
Norian laughs as Vicamros leads Koragg!Vida into the back room, both discarding their clothes along the way, "He must have slept with half the female population of the Mystic woods by now."
"Half?" Crunan laughs, "You really need to spend more time adventuring with us. I don't think there is a town in Yggdrasil that after we visited Vicamros hasn't turned all the ladies into his personal court."
"You can't seriously mean all the women, even the old hags and children?" Norian hides his disgusts as Koragg!Vida's soft moans start to drift out of the back room while the rest of the girls have already disrobed and are anxiously waiting their turn.
"Well no, not the children, of course," Crunan smiles, "But the older woman yes he has bedded them, anyone over the age of consent, though that is not to say those under it do not pine for him after they hear his song. Sometimes his song of vitality even critical and the older women emerge revitalized as if several years had been returned to them."
"You can't seriously be suggesting that he can turn back the hands of time with his love making?"
"Turn back? No but he revitalizes them such that their bodies gain new levels of stamina and as a result recover some of their lost vitality that once made them feel so much older. They feel younger, more full of life, and so their bodies reflect that energy returned to them."
Nicole pauses, looking at her hand, it was so strange to see her flesh and skin, even stranger to look over to where Koragg once stood and see see her feline form.
'How have I still maintained my sanity? The Master has suffused my body with so much Dark Magic I should have a heart darker then Imperious but I feel the same, better even. I thought it was the suit but The Master peeled that from me and turned it into a new general and yet my mind is still clear.'
Her gaze drifted to Vida as she turned the Black Mystic Morpher over in her hands with a dark smile, but even as dark as her heart had become Nicole could still feel their bond, her hand resting over her heart a moment as she gave a sharp gasp, motes of pink energy starting to waft off both their bodies as suddenly she felt a burning fire in her loins, both girls rubbing their legs against each other as they rubbed their chests and moaned. Nicole and Vida shared gasps as Necrolai looked over curiously and lustful images danced in their heads.
"Oh...oh my..."
Imperious smiled deviously.
Necrolai quickly pinned him to the wall hissing, "What sorcery are you up to now traitor, release your spell from our Empress and my Child! Now!"
Vida struggled to slip down her short under trembling, sweaty hand as Nicole struggled with her new corset, the demands of their bodies not abating. While Imperious laughed and shifted into his human form breaking Necrolai's grip.
"It would see that our Empress and your daughters other halves are quite aroused and the connection they share has even reached us in the underworld...but do not worry I have a solution for such issues."
Necrolai hisses, "Keep your traitorous hands off them both."
"N-Necrolai stop," Nicole panted as he fingers slipped between her legs with a soft gasp, "Let him be!"
Necrolai hisses as she watches Vida also slip her hand between her legs panting. Then glares at all the Hidiac and Styoids around them, "All of you out! Out!"
Then turned her gaze to Imperious as he began to lower his pants, "I'm keeping my eye on you."
"Shut up and get over here!" Nicole howled, "NOW!"
"As you command, my Empress," Imperious smirked.
"I feel like a new woman," Koragg!Vida gasped softly.
The girls had retreated to a hot spring deep in the woods, all of them: Caren, Loraella, Nick, Charlotte, Koragg!Vida, Madison, Xander, Clare, and Udonna and were relaxing in the warm waters, Udonna looking several years younger, motes of their signature colors wafting around them. A short distance off the boys, Daggeron, Crunan, Vicamros, and Norian were preparing a picnic.
"Tell me about it, whenever Vicamros is around I just forget completly about myself and just want to get him inside me as quickly as possible, my god he just gets better and better."
"This is so wrong," Nick adds, "But my god does it feel soooooo right."
Clare is the first to shift the subject looking curious to Koragg!Vida, "This was your first time right?"
"What are you kidding me? My first time is when he and the boys came out of the campaign book."
"Y-You remember that?" Madison says confused, "B-But that happened to the real...er other Vida."
Udonna was eerily silent her body slightly red but she found the courage to speak, her voice however was soft and low, tinged with embarrassment, "It is as I said before since Koragg absorbed Vida's Mystic Morpher along he...or rather she, is the embodiment of all her experiences and memories, I have no doubt the other Vida has these memories as well but Koragg has her magic and a piece of her spirit comes with that."
Koragg!Vida flusters, "You make me sound like I stole her life, how many times do I have to tell you guys, I AM VIDA. Stop treating me like some stranger."
"V," Xander begins, "You have to understand, you may have her memories, her magic but you are not her, the...original...is still trapped in the Underworld as the pawn of Necrolai and Nicole."
"Nicole..."
"A penny for your thoughts Sir Daggeron," Norian pauses from petting his dragons head who was playing with the Mystic Forces clutch of dragons and Phineas.
"I just can't stop thinking about her last fight, she whispered to me that I should let her win but then later on she was so savage, so intent on destroying us I have to wonder if her earlier line was a lie and despite my wish to keep her protected from the Master's influence even Jenji's power was not enough."
"She was wearing The Mythril Bikini right?" Crunan injects.
Daggeron nods, "Yes her wish to embody the nature of her atire mixed with the clothes she acquired from Caren transformed her into a beast long before The Master got his tendrils into her, but I hardly see the importance of some armor. It protected her at first, or so she says but..."
Vicamros smiles resting a hand on the knight's shoulder, "We had enough adventures with Caren and with the mail to know full well its various curses, most notably the random chance for the wearer to fall into a Wild Temperament, a state where they are consumed with death and killing barely able to recognize friend from foe."
"Is that so?" Daggeron tilts his head curiously, "Why keep such a dangerous artifact on hand then?"
Crunan chuckles, "It's very powerful armor, though restricted to only being worn by women. Which our party lacked until Loraella and Caren joined us who at the time were in dire need of gear before we ventured out to face Mort Kemnon."
"I have heard the name in my travels across realms, though never had the displeasure of actually righting him."
"So our adventures are not mere stories," Norian smiles, "I was starting to worry that the reason we couldn't find a way home was that our home only existed in the realm of fantasy."
Daggeron laughs, "We all are someone's fantasy if you venture far enough. In my travels I have found worlds populated only by lady heroes dressed in flowing gowns, another full of men in armor as strong as my own but not drawing power from the Magical Source, instead their power comes from technology and instead of a Mystic Morpher their power is center upon their belt. And even further I have heard of realms where there is no magic and our stories are just that, myth and rumors of the denizens of this magic free realm. I would not be surprised if there was a work out there where the story we are telling right now is just the fables and myth of some creative mind."
"That's a sobering thought," Norian says softly, "To think we are all someone's fantasy."
"Udonna?" Clare says softly as she slides closer to the mentor, "Are you alright, your unusually quiet? Did something happen between you and Vicamros?"
The other girls are leaned in closer their idle chatter coming to a halt.
"No my children," she says softly, "He was a perfect gentleman and I felt more alive then I have in years...since…"
"It's Lienbow, isn't it?" Nick cuts in, "You feel like you betrayed him?"
"Lienbow?" Koragg!Vida says softly holding her head as another flash of her child floods her mind, "W-Who is Lienbow? A-A former lover?"
Udonna sighs and sinks deeper into the water, "He was my husband, and father of our child Bowen...b-but during the Great War I lost both."
Koragg!Vida holds her head a moment, images of Udonna's soft lips filling her mind, images of a child, her child."
"I-I need some air," She says stumbling out of the hot springs, and quickly using grabbing her Mystic morpher to summon some clothes.
Udonna watches her stumble off curiously and begins to excuse herself, 'N-No it couldn't be.'
"I'll keep an eye on her," Xander offers as she pulls herself from the water and grabs her own Mystic Morpher to summon up clothes and follow after, Udonna transfixed as she watches the two girls wander deeper into the woods.
"You don't think," Nick breaks Udonna focus, "Y-you don't think Koragg is Lienbow."
"N-No of course not," Udonna's voice trembles, "Lienbow died fighting the master as the Gatekeeper lowered the gates back into the Underworld. There is no way he could have survived that."
"But didn't you says Koragg had another soul in him," Madison injects.
"Yes but..." Udonna shakes her head, "It's not worth thinking about, even if it's true right now Koragg hods the spirit of Vida, and what's more thanks to your battle with Nicole we have back her Mystic Morpher and my Snow Staff, but like Koragg they are soaked in Dark Magic that must be carefully cleansed. Even on the off chance that Lienbow is the other soul I am positive he would have died in his battle, all that would be left would be a trapped spirit that by all rights died twenty years ago used as the building blocks for Koragg. If Lienbow is inside her body then the right thing to do would be to set it free to pass on to the after life."
"Your talking about your husband, and Bowen's father," Clare injects, "What if he somehow survived? Like Nicole and has just been corrupted into Koragg."
"Enough!" Udonna shouts her voice raw and tears straining her face, "These are all issues that should wait until Koragg is fully cleansed, we won't be able to do anything until after that."
Nick slides closer to her holding her close, "Hey, hey let it all out, believe me I know what it's like to miss your parents."
"Nick?" Udonna says curiously as she sobs into the girls chest, "Y-you lost your parents? Oh child I am so sorry."
Nick smiles brushing Udonna's hair from her face, "Na I was just raised in an orphanage, never knew my folks, and saw plenty who never got adopted. By the folks who adopted me became my family. And never regretted it. But being raised in an orphanage you see everything you see all of the stories. Kids growing up never knowing their parent until they are cut loose at 18, others who run through parents, always returning to the orphanage like their new families were just a summer vacation, either because they were a bad, fit, bad people, or the child just can't let go of the friend they made in the orphanage. And I have seen kids wind up like me, with great loving families who never looked back, never wondered what their real parents were like because their family now was their real family. And I've seen the opposite kids who could never let go, and wasted their life looking for their real parents to find out why."
"Y-You're an orphan?" Udonna dries her tears as she looks deep into Nicks eyes, 'N-no I'm just reaching, trying to force the world to fit my ideals...he can't be Bowen...can he?'
Nick smiles, "Yeah guess I never mentioned that to anyone but Maddie, came up to Briarwood to spend time with my cousin and uncle. I've got family all across the country, its why I keep traveling, I like to stay in touch."
Udonna smiles as Clare offers her a handkerchief, "Sounds like you have a wonderful family."
Nick smiles, "Yeah I do. And if Bowen is anything like his parents I'm sure that wherever he is out there in the world he's made a wonderful life for himself. When this is all over I'll help you track him down."
"T-thank you."
Nick smiles.
"Vida?" Xander hurries after.
She continues to stumble, violet motes swirling around her as she hold her head, memories fighting for control, images of a child, her child. Images of The Master, loyalty and honor. Images Madison and Chip, family, friendship.
"Stay back!" She growls, summoning her sword and shield, as she launches a Wolf Attack at Xander as her armor takes shape.
Xander quickly leaps to the side to dodge, Rangering up, "Get a hold of yourself V!"
"Stop trying to confuse me Green Wizard!" Koragg howls.
"Oh no I'm not loosing you V!" the Green Ranger shouts as she summons up vines to restrain Koragg and quickly rushes over to her, her body glowing Pink.
"I am not the Pink Witch! Release me!"
Greens shut starts changing color, becoming lighter, softer as she wraps her arms around Koragg, Pink Motes enveloping her as well, her armor shifting from deep purple to hot pink as The Pink Ranger bind them together with vines and roots. "We aren't going anywhere V until you worth though this."
"I am not," Koragg begins to sob, "I'm not," her armor falling away, "I'm not..."
Xander armor also disappears as the vines and roots recede, Koragg collapsing into her arms, "I'm so confused Xander…so many conflicting memories...I can remember Maddie last birthday, I remember our parents." Tears mix with smiles and laughter, "Chip wearing that stupid costume to school. B-But I also remember having a child, a wife...or maybe it was a husband...I don't know it's all such a mess. A-and worst of all I remember the Master, I remember all the horrible things I did in the name of 'Honor'. None of this makes any sense...who am I?"
There's a soft buzzing as bee swam around them, a cloud of them as both girls wings erupt from their backs, fairy dust mixing in the air with the pink energy and the bees.
"You're Vida, our friend," Xander says as her body begins to shift and change along side Koragg.
"B-But I'm not...I-I just stole her..."
Xander whispers shushes her as they shrink down to the size of the bees, becoming sprites, Xander taking her hand as the swarm begins to fly off as they move through the forest, "You feel it right? The wind, the air, nature all around us?"
"Y-Yes but," Koragg continues to cry, "That's just because I have the real Vida's wind magic."
"And I have Nicole, but I still know who I am." the swarm breaks off as they fly hearer, breaking the tree tops, green motes wafting off of Xander as she presses her lips to Korragg, whose eyes grow wide before she begin to moan softly.
When Koragg opens her eyes again she is alone, "Xander?"
"In here," Koragg's hand moves to hr heart of it's own accord as Xander's voice whispers in her mind.
She gasps and feels the warmth of the sun fill her soul, resonating with the energy she stole from Daggeron back when he, Nicole, and Chip sought the Staff of Topaz. Her tears dry as she feels with wind on her wings, Nicole and Vida's energies awakening within her. Her breath short as she can feel the threes tickle her toes as they reach out for her.
"You understand now?" Xander voice whispers into her mind as she sinks back toward the forest, "We are one with nature, protectors of it. We are the Mystic Force. You are the Mystic Force."
Koragg nods as Xander separates from her and they return to human form, Xander pale, exhausted, female.
Xander smiles as she rests a hand on Koragg's stomach, and holds Koragg's hand to her own, "We are nature. We are life...you understand. You dream of a child because you embody life."
Koragg nods slowly, "Y-Yes I think I understand...you have felt this way too?"
"I think all of us have at some point," Xander explains as Koragg help her stand guiding her to a log to rest on, "When we found the Fireheart you remember what happened right?"
"When we became a real dragon?"
Xander nods, "And we gave birth to a clutch of dragons."
Koragg shakes her head, "but this child was human, not a dragon."
Xander smiles, "We are the elements of nature, especially you and Nicole, sprites, creatures of the wind and magic itself. I've gotten bits of it here and there after Nicole fused with me but it is part of who you are."
Koragg smiles, resting her hand on her stomach, "I-I think you're right. I've been channeling nature itself, and nature is all about new life."
Xander smiles as her strength returns, waving her mystic morpher over a patch of dirt where a small sapling sprouts. "LeeLee, Nick, Chip, Maddie, You, Nicole, Daggeron, Chris, Udonna, myself, heck even Clare. We are all aspects of life, of nature. That is why we were chosen to protect it."
Koragg nods, "Earth, fire, Lighting, Water, Wind, the Sun, ice and snow, wood and the Moon. Your right. Each of us is an element of nature..."
Xander smiles as she pulls Koragg to her feet, "Come on V lets get back the others are probably worried and the boys have to have the picnic ready by now."
Vida smiles, kissing Xander's cheek, "Thanks Xander."
"What was that all about?" Necrolai glares at Nicole as she and Vida sit at the edge of an abyss starting down into nothing.
"Hell if I know," Nicole flusters, "Suddenly my body was on fire and I just NEEDED to have sex. Was overwhelming."
"Kinda reminded me of whenever Vicamros was around," Vida adds, her breath drawing short, "You don't think?"
"That he seduced everyone into bed...V this is Vicamros we're talking about, YOUR character, if he was around the girls do you think he could resist, do you think they could resist?"
Vida growls, "I really hate making that guy, sometimes."
"But you like the role reversal don't you, you liked being the strong male lead who get to sleep with any girls he wants instead of being the damsel or the white mage."
Vida flusters, "Maybe a little...it was fantasy after all. I mean how often do the girls get to be the playboy, and have a courtier of guys swooning over her."
"Never," Nicole laughs, "not that there's anything wrong with being the princess, getting rescued by your hansom prince." she sighs dreamily, "Oh imagine how beautiful I'd look in a flow white wedding dress, rose petals everywhere. Maybe two or three kids while my dashing husband chases dragons."
Vida pinches her, "You're letting the Rose Ranger get the better of you again."
Nicole sighs, "I know, I can't help it."
Necrolai tilts her head curiously, "You know we don't need you as the Rose Ranger to lead us to victory against the surface world."
"What are you getting at Necrolai?" Nicole narrows her eyes.
"I'm just saying that if Koragg can remove his magic...and with Vida loosing hers...well you are her backup."
"Necrolai," she gasps reaching into her stomach as she pulls out an orb of glistening glowing pink energy, lances of green suffused through it that she passes over to Vida, "You're brilliant!"
Vida holds the orb feeling it's warmth before absorbing it into herself, letting out a great gasp, "Oh wow this is just...I've never felt so strong."
"Tell me about it, I've never felt so clear headed," Nicole gasps as a shiver runs through her body, her form shifting changing. Hips shrink, her chest flattens, hair shortens, and in moments Nicole is gone and Blecker has returned.
"N-Nicole your..." Vida eyes shifting from red back to their normal color.
"I-I know V," he says patting himself down, "And Vida your eyes...are you."
Necrolai hisses as she flies around in front of them and locks her gaze with the duo, "Not on my watch. Now sleep, sleep my children and awaken reborn."
Vida and Blecker fall backward as Necrolai eyes glow and her fangs gleam, "I will not give up my last daughter so easily. Nor will I let such a perfect chance escape me."
"I just want to apologize again for my freak out earlier," Koragg!Vida says softly as the gang sit around enjoying a picnic deep in the Mystic Woods. "And I hope I didn't worry you Udonna with all my talks about having a kid."
Smiling Koragg!Vida slides closer to the still female Xander, the rest of the rangers were also in female form, "Xander really helped me set my head on straight."
"Xander?" Maddie coughs in shock.
Xander flusters as she leans back a warm breeze blowing through the glade as flowers bloomed all around them, "Laugh it up, but ever since Nicole fused with me I've felt...different...connected to...everything."
"S-seriously?" Nick tilts her head curiously as she looks around at the others. Chip burying her head in her cloak.
"S-sorry again Maddie."
"Not your fault Chip, could haven happened to any of us..."
"Y-Yeah but..."
Koragg!Vida coughs to change the subject, "S-Sooo I know I'm a little behind...all of you have fused with someone else and that's how you unlocked Legend Mode?"
"Well everyone but Nick," LeeLee teases, "not that I haven't offered."
Koragg!Vida tilts her head curiously, "But you unlocked your legend mode?"
Nick coughs nervously, "Y-Yeah...I mean I don't want to toot my own horn but I guess I just had more willpower."
Koragg!Vida laughs, "I seem to recall you were the last person to get this entire magic thing and yet your the first one to reach the next level without help!"
"You don't need to rub it in V!"
"Oh look me and Nikki are turning into tornado, Xander's controlling the very forest, Maddie's summoning typhoons and Chip's commanding the thunder but 'I don't believe in magic.'"
"Yes V I was being bull headed, I get it, I'm sorry," Nick flusters.
"I'm sorry it's just after everything that's happened, after how this all started I can't help but laugh that while the rest of us flounder to fight our own inner demons," she glaces to LeeLee, "or get over our commitment issues," her gaze drifting to Xander, "Or the myriad other problems we have faced to get here the guy who resisted becoming a Ranger most has shot ahead of all of us in terms of personal Ranger related accomplishments." Koragg!Vida laughs, "It's just hard not to laugh."
Nick continues to blush but soon laugh, joining the rising chorus, "Y-Yeah I guess it is a little funny."
"But seriously," Koragg!Vida turns to Daggeron, "We need to get back to some serious training, when are you guys going to let me of probation. Hell I want to go home, show mom and dad I'm alright."
Madison is about to inject when Koragg cuts her off, "Yes I understand I'm not the 'real' Vida or the 'whole' Vida but I'm still Vida, I still love our folks, and I know they have to be worried since I was...say what did you tell our folks?"
Madison coughs, flustered, "Well we Kinda told Toby and our folks the same thing….the bad guys caught you and LeeLee and then later the Rangers rescued LeeLee so I guess we'll just say the Rangers rescued you as well."
"Yes cause those 'Power Rangers' are amazing," Koragg chuckles
Everyone else joins the laugh.
"But seriously," Koragg gets serious again, "My other half is still trapped in the Underworld, puppet of Necrolai and Nicole's probably killing herself trying to break the spell from their side. If we want them both back we need to break Necrolai's hold over my other half."
"You really think Nicole is still on our side?" Daggeron says apprehensively.
"Oh definitely! That girl is tenacious! Hell she put her own life on hold just to be my back up and you used a wish to make her strong enough to hold out. I'm sure she is just playing the part of the villain."
"But she was so savage..."
"As I said," Crunan interjects, "That is one of the curses that was levied on the armor she borrowed from Caren."
"Have faith in our friends," Caren smiles, "Therin watches over all who walk in the light. And as she is the one who created me I am sure that like me she will not let some dark monster break her will. She will fight to the biter end."
Daggeron nods, "Sometimes the teacher becomes the student...well in that case once everyone is done eating we can resume our training."
Briarwood Residential area where a young couple sleep soundly together, outside 2 pairs of red eyes watch before turning into a mist and slipping under the lip of the window before solidifying into a pair of attractive young women.
'On three V,' the second ones voice appear in the first mind as they bear their fang and inch closer.
'On your Count Nikki.'
'One'
'Two'
'Three!'
The two vampires lunge, singing their fangs into their victims necks eyes shooting open in alarm before the girls hypnotic gaze put them in a trance.
From outside a third set of eyes watches, laughing evilly to herself, "Yes my children drink, drink, let their life force make you stronger. Because the time is coming, oh yes the time is coming for the Master's Return and for the fall of that fool Imperious!"
Koragg rises from her sleep fitfully, smiling as she sees Xander, still female, sleeping beside her in their cot in Rootcore and gently kisses her forehead before transforming to her sprite form and back to homan again at the entrance.
"Where are you going," Xander yawns sitting up.
Koragg keeps her voice low so as to not wake Udonna or Clare, "No to loud."
Xander quickly take sprite form and flies over to join her by the entrance, "Another nightmare?"
Koragg smiles, "You know me too well."
"We do share a spirit."
Koragg laughs softly as she turns back to sprite form, "I just need some fresh air."
"I'll come with you," Xander adds also shrink to sprite form.
"You really don't have to," Koragg says flying out of the dragons nose, Xander right behind her.
Xander smiles sheepishly, "Actually I kind of do, Udonna's orders are to keep you close, keep your Good Magic flowing. But that's now why I'm always here for you."
Koragg stops, hovering, as Xander places her hand over Koragg's heart, "We are connected, though Nicole's energy, and more recently through my own."
Koragg nods, smiling softly flowers blooming all around them, "I remember, I can still feel your energy inside...along with Daggeron's and Chips. And through them all of nature...it's...strange."
Both girls reverted to their humans forms as a warm breeze blew through their hair and grass and flowers bloomed at their feet."
Koragg found a log to sit on as she slipped off her socks and shoes digging her toes into the dirt as vines snaked up her legs, across her body, and small roots grew fro her feet as flowers bloomed from the vines, "Nature, life, it flows through me...though us."
Xander nods sitting next to her as she kicked off her own socks and shoes, the air was perfumed with the fragrance of many flowers attracting a swam of bees but the girls sat calmly, unafraid, even as the bees hovered around the flowers that bloomed from their bodies taking way the nectar and pollen.
"Just don't let it overtake you," Xander smirks letting some back and thicker roots take form, "I can tell you from experience that is not a good state to bee in."
Koragg chuckles at the pun even as Xander hair bunched up into twigs forming a nest as the bark around her belly button widen as a squirrel scrambled up her leg and vanished into the hole.
Koragg chuckles as she reaches into Xander stomach and fishes around for the squirrel as her eyes expand into compound disks reflecting a hundred Xander's, a hundred woods as antenna sprouted from her forehead, "Seems your bark is worse then your bite."
Xander giggles reach in with her own hand to try and find the elusive quire as a bird nest in her hair and the bark spreads, her shorts tearing as her legs fused into one solid trunk and her stomach begins to lengthen, "Hey careful in there, both of you."
Koragg's clothes fall around her as she shrinks, extra arms and yellow fuzz spreading across her body as she flew inside Xander chasing the squirrel.
"Seriously both of you stop fooling around inside of me," Xander voice was firm and even though most of her body was covered in bark now, her finger long spindly branches ending in small bunches of leaves while other smaller breaches sprouted from her trunk, everything above the midsection was still clearly human, her breasts, head, shoulders, arms, while coated in in wood were definitely human even as her mass shredded her clothes and her free arm turned out stiffening into a breach with growing foliage, a beehive starting to form from the elbow.
"I mean it," her voice getting more gruff as an area around her right breast trembled and fell to the ground revealing a second hole that the squirrel scampered out and up the stationary arm, an angry queen bee on its' tail.
Xander sighed, "Finally, now get a hold of yourself V!"
The Queen Bee buzzed around Xander's head before her attentions were drawn to the be hive as several regular bees began to file in.
Xander sighed as the left breast, shoulder, neck and head reverted to human while she left the right side as it was and yawned annoyed, "Fine V you can play Queen bee for a few minutes then then I expect you to come back out, understood. And no getting pregnant!"
Xander sighed as the squirrel climbs back down and slipped beck into her breast poking his head out playfully a moment as he chewed on an acorn, before scrambling back down the trunk to find more food, "Figures."
Xander let the bark spread back up her neck and face so only her left breast and arm remained human and then continued to let her form grow larger, spreading out her roots deeper into the earth until it was less like a tree growing out of a young girl and more like a young girl who had somehow gotten herself stuck in a tree.
Koragg!Bee buzzed around the hive until another bee caught up to her, guiding her to another section, a place full of something other then honey, a palace with a thick jelly he was trying to offer to her. Koragg reach out to smell the royal jelly, it made her head swim, to buzz.
'No! Keep it together girl, your getting distracted!'
she shook her head, but the bee insisted.
"I said no!"
The bee sullenly relented as Koragg started shifting into her sprite form and quick flew out, quickly return to human form and scrambling to get dressed.
"Xander? Where are you?"
"I haven't gone anywhere," a muffled voice said from behind her.
Koragg spun around only seeing the tree, a few moment later she gasped, "Oh god Xander! Can you change back? I go so distracted I-"
"Just shut up and give me a hand," the muffled voice said as the arm wiggled her fingers and Koragg tilted her head as she could have sworn she saw another set of fingers wiggle around when flesh met wood.
"Xander?"
Vida found herself scaling the tree to get a better look at the seam and indeed there was finger by the seam, and a hand connected to it that pulled against the bark, "Your in there?"
Xander sighed as Vida started to chuckle, a new branch grow up beneath the exposed arm that Vida moved to sit on as she worked her fingers into the tight opening the grab the hidden hand and began to pull.
"You are really wedged in there!" she grunted
"Tell me about it! It's one thing to separate flesh from tree but not so easy to get out once I do."
"So wait," Vida grunted, steam escaping her nose as her muscles and body bulked up, tearing her clothes even as she got a much better hold, small point,s horns breaking from her scalp and she shorted in effort. "You grew the tree around you but stay in such an awkward position? Why?"
"Stop asking question Vee and just pull me out of here!"
He form continued to bulk up as a ring grew out of her nose and her face pushed out. With one great final short they both tumbled out of the tree Xander falling atop the massive form of a living minotaur, her cheeks reed as she realized how exposed she was and feeling something rather long and hard brushing her back side, "V-V? Is that you?"
"Who else would it be," she snorted as Xander's delicate fingers traced his chest, "W-Wow that's some definition."
"Huh?" Koragg says confused as he tries to look past Xander's small frame (well small compared to his new size) and felt blood rush to his cheeks and elsewhere. "Y-you know your pretty cure when your flustered."
Xander trembled as she felt something large press against her lower back, "Oh god its real..."
"Xander what are you going on about," Koragg snorted as he tried to sit up.
Xander shrieked and pushed him back down, "Don't move, I..." she bit her lip nervously, "Just lay back and relax."
"Xander?"
Xander took a deep breath as she shimmied backward bringing the large shaft into her with a soft yelp and a surprised but pleased grunt from Koragg!Vida the Minotaur.
"What the?" Madison's head shot up from the bathtub, a large grunt echoing in the night broke her out of her meditations.
She looked down at her tail and sighed, "This isn't going to work I need to hit the beach or something, I just can't clear my head like this."
A large golden Garuda comes in for a landing where Phineas was waiting. On his tail was a devastation, a full clutch of dragons. Who landed far less gracefully then the Garuda. Once the Dragons had pulled their head out of the dirt the Garuda paced over to each in turn, "Great Formation Icelance, much improvement. But try tucking in your legs more, like this," Garuda instructed, "when coming in for a landing."
The blue dragon nodded, nuzzling her mother, of sort, Chip was male currently but when combined with the other 3 angers that created Dragon Formation, Madison, Vida, and Xander the four of them had become the matron dragon, birthing all but Fireheart from their womb. Collective the four of them composed the Mother Dragon. And now that the clutch was fully grown, and after his deep fusion with Madison unlocked not only his legend mode but also the power to embody his element and his totem Chip Thorne had taken to doing the best he could in teaching his clutch how to fly and breath fire (or ice, or wind or lighting, or poison, or whatever particular element they had), though in all honestly unless he could somehow convince the others to become the Matron Dragon again the later lessons would be that much harder. As a Titan, as Garuda he had a lot of experience with flying, and could even fire lighting from his eyes and wing tips but breaking lighting was outside his expertise.
"Try to keep you head up when you land Fireheart, I know it's a hard habit to break but it's is best to break it now."
Fireheart screeched as he nusseled under Chip's wing.
"I thought PJ was doing a great job," Phineas adds as he tosses some grilled corn into each of the dragons and Chip's mouths, "thanks for teaching my babies how to fly."
Chip finished his corn quickly as he shrank down to human form, clad in his Mystic Attire, "Their my babies too. What kind of mother would I be if I didn't try and share my knowledge with them?"
Phineas shrugs, "My mother tried to crush my rock with a skull so your already better then her in my book."
"That's terrible!" Chip gasps.
"It is?" Phineas shrugged, "sure she wasn't mother of the year but I know she still loved me...or was it loved to hate me...whatever!"
Chip just shakes his head, "Thanks again for watching them when we're busy, I know things have been kind of crazy lately."
"Awe think nothing of it," Phineas says dismissively as he tickles Windbreaker's chin who coos playfully. "My babies are your babies! So what do the other Rangers teach them?"
Chip sighs, "It's not that easy, I mean even if they could unlock their Titan form none of them really have the sort of body that would benefit dragon training...Don't get me wrong they do what they can, feed them play with them but there really isn't too much a Minotaur, a faerie, or a A mermaid can teach a devastation of dragons. I just lucked out my titan form is a flyer."
"Well I think your doing a great job, shoe in for mother of the year for sure!"
Chip flusters, reflexive shifting to her female form in the process.
"You did it again," Phineas notes.
"Yeah, I know, ever since..." Chip couldn't bring herself to say the words, Nick warning still hanging in the back of her mind...He was right of course...if he hadn't come back when he did...Maddie might…
Chip shook her head, "In any case It's something I'm working on, seems to happen whenever I loose my focus, even a couple times at work, nearly exposed myself to Toby on several occasions already."
Phineas shrugged, "Boy, girl, doesn't really matter your still you...well unless you want to have kids then I guess it matters...is that it...you want to have more kids but Toby is against it? What a jerk!"
Chip shook her head, "I know magic is normal here in the mystic woods but in the city it's a whole other ball game and trying to explain to a bunch of people why some random kid keeps turning into a girl, a kid I'll remind you they don't know is a Power Ranger, just raises too many questions I can't answer."
"The Human world is overly complicated."
Chip laughs, "Why do you think I spend so much time here!"