Abby Holloway Series
Jungle Fury: The Call to Destiny
By xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Author's Note: Hey guys, I am back from hiatus. I finally managed to update the first half of my Teen Wolf story, and am now planning the second half. I know I have taken... whoa... a year... wow, has it really been a year since I last updated? 24th August, 2013... Yep! A year! I apologies profusely. I promised that I wouldn't abandon and, involuntarily, that is exactly what I did. Feel free to PM me and shout at me.
Dedications: Once again, you all deserve dedications. You've earned them for being so patient and waiting a year. Love you all. But here is to those extra special people who took the time to review: Razmend, Jessfairy88, Grapejuice101, I love power rangers7135, Nova Lioness, BurnedSpy, Weathergirl17248, Starpower21, Fanfic dood 77, JJ, ZyudenSentaiKyroyugerisawesome, Skyfrost, Fallingstar22 and Operation Mystic. (Do you want a special dedication? Then leave your review at the end of this chapter).
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything unrecognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban although Jungle Fury was created by Disney. Enjoy.
"CAMILLE!"
Camille turned in surprise and ducked the sword that was aimed at her head. She growled and looked up as Abby and Dominic landed on the roof the car behind her. The two white Rangers were followed by their teammates, who fought the Rinshi, leaving Camille open to them.
"Deal with her!" Abby told Dominic. She was pointing at the brunette on the floor. "Camille and I have some unfinished business."
Camille laughed as Abby lunged off of the roof of the car and aimed a high-kick for her head. "Nine months is a long time, Ranger," she said, blocking Abby's attack. "Your body is worn by your pregnancy."
"It's been nearly a month, Camille," Abby retorted, spinning around and swinging her fist at the chameleon. "My body is getting better."
Camille laughed again caught Abby's wrist. She twisted it around and slammed her into the back of the car. Abby groaned and struggled against the LeeLee look alike. "Life would be so much easier without the Power Rangers," she said, before transforming into her Phoenix mode.
"Hey, why don't you try picking on someone your own size, Camille?" Dominic shouted. He had left the brunette and run back to help Abby. Camille let go of the new mother and turned her attention onto Dominic, the two fought back and forth for a while before Camille got the upper hand.
"You disappoint me, Rhino Ranger," Camille called as she tossed Dominic away, and then turned her attention onto woman beside Abby.
"You, get in the car!" Abby said, looking at the brunette beside the car. "It's you that she is after."
The woman picked herself up from the floor and slid into the driver's seat.
"Now it's your turn!" Camille said, stalking forward.
"Not so fast!" Abby shouted. She jumped up from the ground and roundhouse-kicked Camille, knocking her away from the car. The Phoenix general hissed in annoyance and jumped into the air, planting a kick to Abby's chest.
"You're not as fast as you used to be, Polar Bear," Camille teased. She jumped over the car and grabbed Abby's shoulder. She shook her hard and then threw Abby into a stone pillar, causing her to groan and slide down to the floor. Turning her back on the legendary white Ranger, Camille re-set her sights on the reason she was there.
Terrified, the young brunette clambered out of the passenger's side of the car and tried to run. Camille growled and jumped over the car, landing between the woman and her only exit. She laughed as the brunette cowered, clutching the briefcase close to her chest. "Ooh, nowhere else to run," Camille taunted. "I'm tired of this game. Let's end it."
The brunette screamed as Camille fired her lasers, but before the lasers could hit Dominic jumped into their path. He knocked the woman aside, but not without breaking the chain that connected the briefcase to the handcuff around the woman's wrist. The briefcase slid across the ground and stopped at Camille's feet.
"Thanks," Camille said with an evil chuckle. She picked up the briefcase and disappeared.
With the threat eliminated and Camille on her way back to Dai Shi's temple, Dominic turned to their latest victim. "Are you all right?" he asked, helping her back to her feet.
"Yeah. I'm all right," the woman replied.
"Good. I thought that you might be..." Dominic trailed off as he looked into the face of his damsel. His breath caught at the beauty of her and he couldn't help the words that tumbled from his lips before he could stop them. "Beautiful - I mean 'hurt.'"
"I'm fine," the woman insisted. She looked down at her wrist and gasped. "It's gone!"
"What was in the case?" Dominic asked.
"I have to go," the woman said, pulling away from Dom and taking off for the exit. As the woman disappeared, the other Rangers rejoined their friend, whose attention was still on the woman.
"Who was she?" Theo asked.
"I don't know," Dom answered his voice distant. "But I'm gonna find out."
~*Abby*~
Back at the loft, Abby picked up Alyssa from her nap and hugged the baby. It had been nearly a month since Whiger had rescued her from Dai Shi's temple as a thank-you to Abby and Casey for showing him kindness, in that month Abby and Nick had taken to being parents faster than most.
They were both devoted to their daughter, protecting and playing with her whenever she wanted. Tori, Ronny and Kelly could already tell that Alyssa was going to be spoilt rotten; she never had to cry of anything because whatever she wanted was always there for her to play with. Kelly had insisted that Abby try to learn to be a 'tough mom' but since Abby was too childlike herself, Kelly knew that it would be impossible.
"Did you find anything out on our mystery woman?" Abby asked her sister.
"If you mean Maryl Snyder," Tori replied, pointing at the monitors where a black and white image of Dominic's damsel was playing over and over again. "Yeah."
"She's not that pretty," Fran said, earning herself a few incredulous looks from her friends. "Well, she's not!" she defended.
"She's beautiful," Dominic said, sighing dreamily. He pulled up a stool and slouched in front of the monitors. He as oblivious to Fran's jealousy.
"Do we know anything else about her?" Abby asked.
"I did some research after I got this image from the parking-lot surveillance video," Kelly said. "And Maryl Snyder is a leading scientist in her field."
"You mean she's beautiful and a genius?" Dominic asked, looking and sounding excited.
"Yeah. She's a genetic engineer," Kelly answered.
"Great. She can drive trains, too," Fran scoffed.
Ronny and Tori exchanged amused looks behind Fran. It wasn't difficult - unless your name was Dominic - to see that the young brunette was jealous of Dai Shi's latest victim.
"Uh, Fran, I think it's time to go downstairs and open the restaurant," RJ said, also sensing the jealousy in Fran's voice.
"Fine!" Fran sighed, walking away.
Once Fran was out of sight and ear-shot, Casey piped up. "So, something to do with genetic engineering interested Camille enough to make an attack like that," he said, looking to his friends' in hopes that one of them could fill in the blanks that he was missing.
"But what?" Theo asked, proving that he was just as clueless as Casey.
"That's what we're gonna have to find out," Lily said.
"We should go talk to her," Abby suggested.
Casey, Theo and Lily nodded and headed for the door. Abby kissed Alyssa's head and handed her over to Nick, but before she could follow the others they were stopped by Dom.
"No. No!" he said, jumping to his feet and racing over to the door. He closed it and stood in front of it, blocking the others way out. "I don't think that would be a good idea."
"Why not?" Casey asked.
"Well, there's a lot of work to be done," Dom said, fishing for an explanation.
"Really?" Abby asked, looking around.
"Not up here," Dom said, shaking his head. "But downstairs... in the restaurant."
"Uh-huh," Ronny said, smirking. "Are you sure that's the only reason?"
Looking around at each of his friends, Dominic crumbled. "Okay. Fine. I like her," he said.
"No, really?" Tori asked, earning a laugh from Ronny and Abby. "We never would've guessed unless you told us."
"All right, that settles it," RJ said. "Dominic gets to go talk to Maryl and we go to work."
"Yes!" Dominic cheered. "If that's what you want, Boss," he added at the look RJ was giving him. Clearly his enthusiasm was a little too much. He pointed over his shoulder, opened the door and walked out.
Abby couldn't help but giggle as she noticed there was a slight spring in Dominic's step as he left.
~*Abby*~
After tracking down Maryl, and revealing his secret to her, Dominic decided to take the genius back to the restaurant in order to get her to trust him. He smiled and opened the door for her, allowing her to walk in ahead, which also meant that she was the first to come face-to-face with Fran.
The bookworm's face dropped when she saw who had entered. She couldn't believe that Dom would bring Maryl here, of all places. Had he done it just to spite her or to mess with her obvious growing feelings for him?
"Table for two, please," Dom said, smiling at Fran.
"Uh, sure," Fran said, trying to swallow her heartache. She motioned to a booth near the door and then hurried back to the kitchen as Dom and Maryl sat down. She burst into the warm kitchen, startling the rangers that were inside, and pointed over her shoulder. "Dominic brought her back here," she announced.
"Oh," RJ said, leading the others to the door. Right across the way from them was the rhino ranger and his 'date'.
"I need to know what was taken from you," Dominic said. "It's already gotten into the wrong hands, and we need to know what we're up against."
"I swore I wouldn't tell anyone until it was perfected," Maryl insisted. "It's just that I don't really trust anyone."
"I understand," Dom insisted. "But you can trust me. You know my secret. I need to know yours."
"Well, I guess I have to trust someone eventually," Maryl said.
Looking up, Dominic spotted his friends spying on him from the kitchen. Their eyes widened and they ducked back inside, but they knew they had been caught.
"I'm sorry, Maryl, can you give me one minute?" Dominic asked, sliding out of the booth. "I'm sorry." He straightened up and headed across to the kitchen and walked straight inside to find his friends busying themselves with making pizzas. "What's going on?" he asked.
"We're just working," Casey said, scrubbing down a pizza tray.
"And spying?" Dom asked.
"Oh, that," Abby said, sheepishly. "Well, we weren't really spying. We were just looking."
"You're a terrible liar," Dominic said, pointing at her.
"Sue me," Abby grumbled.
"You know, she's really not that pretty," Fran said. She was sitting on the stairs leading to the loft.
"Uh, Fran, why don't you go upstairs and watch the monitors, huh?" RJ asked.
"And give this to Nick for me," Abby said, handing the bookworm a bottle of warm milk.
Fran sighed, took the bottle and headed upstairs.
"We're going about this all wrong," Theo said, addressing Dominic. "Maybe I should go in there and just explain all this to her."
"No!" Dominic said.
"Why not?" Lily asked.
"You've got to trust me on this one," Dom insisted. "I'm the only one who can do this."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure," Dom nodded. "I asked her about the vial, and she was just about to tell me. I don't you guys to act weird and stuff, OK? Got to play it cool. She's got some trust issues."
"What makes you think she'd tell you and no one else?" Casey asked.
"'Cause the girl likes me," Dominic answered, ignorant to the door opening behind him. "I mean, she likes me. She'll tell me everything, and then I'll tell you. I'm her hero. She's fallen for me. She's putty in my hand... She's at the door, isn't she?"
"Yeah," the team said.
Dom turned on a dime and came face-to-face with Maryl.
Turning on her heels, Maryl stormed out of the kitchen.
"Maryl!" Dominic shouted as he chased after her. "Maryl, wait! Maryl, I'm sorry. I'm sure what you heard in there could easily be misunderstood."
"Actually, no, I understood quite clearly," Maryl said. "Goodbye."
"No! Let me explain! Maryl. Maryl!" Dominic shouted, but Maryl didn't heed his call and kept walking until she was as far away from the restaurant and Dom as possible. With a heavy sigh he returned to the kitchen.
"I'm sorry, Dom, that was some bad timing," Lily said, apologetically.
"Yeah, no girl, no information - not sure which one I feel worse about," Dom sighed.
Abby smiled and patted her colour twin's shoulder as Fran rushed down the stairs looking frantic. "Uh, big problem - a monkey is attacking the city," she said.
"A monkey?" Casey asked.
"Something tells me Camille didn't waste any time," Abby said, removing her apron and heading for the door. "Let's go."
~*Abby*~
"Who let you out?" Casey asked as he and the others arrived behind the monkey menace. The creature squawked and turned to face the Rangers.
"One monkey shouldn't be too much of a problem," RJ said.
"Maybe not one, but how about a ton?" the monkey asked, holding up a silver vial. He opened it and poured it over his head.
"What?" Dominic breathed.
"Huh?" Theo frowned.
"Weird," Lily murmured.
"This is going to be fun!" the monkey said as, right before the Rangers eyes, he started to duplicate and multiply.
"OK, I guess that takes the mystery out of what was in the vial," Casey said as the hundreds of monkeys circled around him and the others. "It's a cloning formula."
"And there are hundreds of them!" Lily said, looking around.
"Advantage, monkeys," RJ said.
"Not if I can find Maryl, and figure out the secret of the formula," Dominic said.
"You think you're the best person to do that?" Theo asked.
"Yeah, I do," Dominic replied.
"Are you sure?" Abby asked. "I mean, you screwed up big time last time. What makes you think she's going to trust you again?"
"I'll figure something out," Dominic said. "Can you just hold them off until I get back?"
Abby eyed the monkeys around her and shrugged. "Can you think fast?" she asked.
"If I have too," Dominic nodded.
"Then go," Abby said.
Dominic nodded and took off.
"Are you guys ready?" Abby asked the others.
"Do we have a choice?" Casey asked.
Abby shook her head. "Nope," she said.
"Then let's do it!" Casey said. He summoned his weapon and led the charge forward. The others followed his lead and broke off to fight their own group of monkeys.
Summoning her fox blades, Abby fought back-to-back with Casey. Both were fighting off one of the monkeys as the rest destroyed the city. "There's too many of them," Abby said over her shoulder. "I can't believe monkey's used to be cool."
"Cool, but annoying!" Casey said. "Switch."
Ducking under Casey's arm, Abby slashed at the monkey that the red ranger had been fighting and then jumped up, planting a double kick in its side. The monkey howled and jumped up into the air; it rolled its staff between its hands and slashed at Abby.
"Nice try," Abby said, jumping up from the ground and striking the monkey. It shuddered but didn't implode. "OH COME ON!" the white ranger whined.
"This one won't die either," Casey said. He had managed to get a hit in but the monkey didn't seem fazed. "I think they're clones."
"Whatever gave you that idea?" Abby asked, seconds before she was thrown through the air. She landed with a heavy thump on the pavement and was soon joined by the others.
"That didn't go as planned," RJ said, picking himself up.
"Where the heck is Dominic?" Theo asked. "I knew someone should've gone with him."
"Hey, give the guy a break," Lily defended. "He's got a crush."
"I'm all for him having a crush," Abby said, shaking her head. "But maybe he can do it after the fight?"
"We promised Dominic a chance," Casey said, getting back to his feet. He grabbed Abby's arm and helped her back up. "Come on, we can take them."
"You can't be serious!" Theo said, nudging his friend's shoulder. "There are hundreds!"
"I say it's time to call in some reinforcements," Lily said, looking to Casey and Theo. The two boys knew exactly what she was edging towards and nodded in agreement.
"Go for it," RJ said.
"Spirit Ranger - Shark!" Casey said, summoning the spirit of the shark.
"Spirit Ranger - Bat!" Theo said, summoning the spirit of the bat.
"Spirit Ranger - Elephant!" Lily said, summoning the spirit of the elephant.
Abby looked down at her hands, and then up at RJ. "I've got an idea," she said.
"It better be a good one," RJ said.
"We're gonna need more help - Nick, Ronny, you guys want in on this?" Abby asked, touching the side of her helmet.
"On our way, Abs," Ronny replied.
"How about you, Tor?"
"I thought you'd never ask," Tori said and Abby could hear the grin in her voice. Despite not having the ability to morph anymore, Tori could still use her Ninja powers to take out as many clones as she possibly could.
"Abby, be careful!" Kelly warned.
"I will," Abby replied. "Look after Alyssa. I'll be back as soon as I can."
Ending the comms link, RJ and Abby run back into battle against the monkeys. Abby twisted her fox blades between her hands and sliced and diced at the monkeys around her; one managed to evade her blades and another leapt down at her from the bridge, but before either of the two could land a hit, they were knocked aside by a powerful blast of water.
Abby looked around to see Tori standing on top of a car, her hands outstretched in front of her and water spraying everywhere. The monkeys squawked and tried to hop out of the way, but they were attacked by a blur of yellow and jet of hot flames.
"Double team?" Ronny asked, stopping beside Abby.
"You know it!" Abby said. She grinned and raised her fox blades above her head, crossed them over and then swung them down at the monkeys. The blades sliced across the chest of two monkeys, and when Abby spun in a complete circle she slashed the others that had grown closer.
Each of them exploded but then reappeared seconds later.
"Where's Dominic?" Ronny asked.
"That's a good question!" Abby growled. She glared at the small army of monkeys that now surrounded her and her friends. "That's it! Call to the beast inside - time to bust out the Polar Bear!" As the spirit of the Polar Bear collided with the monkey's they imploded.
"That got 'em," said Nick, wrapping his arms around Abby's waist as her spirit animal returned to her.
"Sure did," Ronny agreed, rushing over.
Tori climbed down from the car and approached her friends. She removed her face mask and smiled at her little sister. "Who knew a Polar Bear could pack a punch," she teased.
"Hey, Polar Bears happen to be one of the largest land carnivores in the world," Abby pointed out. "So of course they pack a punch."
~*Abby*~
The next day, during the lunch rush, Abby found Dominic sitting on his own at the booth near the door. It was the same on that he and Maryl had shared yesterday before their 'date' had been cut short due to Dominic's idiocy.
"Ooh! What's with the long face?" Abby asked, sliding in across from the Rhino Ranger. She set Alyssa's bottle down onto the table and held the baby up against her shoulder as she started to burp her.
"I asked Maryl to meet me here today," Dominic answered. "I thought maybe she'd reconsider giving me a second chance. I guess I was wrong."
"Aw, Dom, don't be like that," Abby said. "You said it yourself that she had trust issues."
"I know, but I thought maybe she'd realise how sincere I was when I apologized, and she did tell me how to defeat the monkey clones, I really thought I was getting through to her, you know?"
Abby smiled sadly and reached across the table to squeeze Dom's hand. "Hey, chin up," she said. "Just because you struck out with Maryl doesn't mean there's never gonna be a girl in your life."
"Who'd want to be with someone as insensitive as me?" Dominic asked.
Spying Fran hovering across the room, Abby smiled and motioned for her to come over. "I can think of one person," she said.
"Hey, guys, what can I get you?" Fran asked.
Sliding out of the booth, Abby took the menu and notepad from Fran and slid them into her pocket. "How about I get one of the guys' to bring out your favourite pizza?" she offered.
"My shift's not over yet," Fran said.
"It is now," Abby said. She grabbed Alyssa's bottle from the table and turned to walk away.
"Hey, wait, Abby," Dominic said, stopping the white Ranger from leaving. "Who's the one person?" he asked.
"Seriously, Dom, if you have to ask that question," Abby said. "Then you're clearly as clueless as Maryl is with you. But never mind, you'll figure it out... eventually."
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A/N: I simply love the Dom/Fran pairing. They're just so freaking adorable! Three chapters left and then I'm putting Abby on the same hiatus Hannah Bradley is on so that I can catch up with my other stories (mainly Ava, Aliyah and Nuala).
Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Tuesday, September 02, 2014 at 3:32am
