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House of Power Rangers
Chapter 9: House of Leaders
It had only been a few days since Nina had been at the palm woods but apparently the Nighlok had decided not to give them a break since then. Every day since had been a new battle and today was no exception. Mia and Emily had gone shopping (Nina would've gone with them, but she had schoolwork to do). However, about an hour after they left the gap sensor began ringing and flashing throughout the house. Nina groaned, annoyed, before running out of her room to meet the guys in the living room.
"They're all around the city, standard and giant," Jayden informs her, seeing her enter. "Emily and Mia are already out there. Nina, you help them down there, Kevin, Mike and I will take on the giant moogers with the zords." She nods before they all run out.
They weren't being sexist when they separated into guys and girls; it was because the guys were the ones with the upgraded zords. Jayden had the Tiger disc for the tiger zord, Kevin had been able to claim the Swordfish Disc for the Swordfish zord a couple of weeks ago and it was only a few days after that that Mia had given Mike the Beetle Disc for the Beetle zord. When these three zords came together they could make the Samurai Battlewing, another megazord! They decided as a team that the guys were the best suited pilots for their respective discs.
"Why won't they let up?" Nina exclaims, slashing another Mooger with her spin sword before kicking another. She'd been fighting the seemingly infinite number of moogers for long enough that even the guys had come back from taking down the giant moogers for fighting alongside them now. They'd been able to get the moogers away from the civilians and into a dry field, but this didn't make it much easier. They just knew now they weren't terrorising innocent people. There were a couple of brave people that had tried to help the rangers fight the moogers earlier, two men, one significantly younger than the other, possibly just younger than Nina herself. However, while it was sweet and brave, it was also quite dangerous because it was clear they were inexperienced. Mia ended up having to save the younger one before getting them to leave.
The rangers followed their leaders lead and tried using their spin swords and discs to give themselves that extra advantage with power of their elements. It seems to work, knocking down all the moogers… until more come!
"What? I don't understand! How are there more?" Mike exclaims as the moogers come towards them again. They stay nearby each other but separate far enough to each have their own group to battle. However, just as the fight seems to be reaching its peak, the moogers battling relentlessly, a faint yet overpowering voice drifts seemingly over the wind, causing them to stop.
"Red ranger… red ranger…" It sounds so evil; it gives the rangers chills, but they don't have time to dwell on that because the moogers seem to be responding to the voice too.
"Guys! They want Jayden!" Mia yells, noticing all the moogers heading for their leader.
"We have to protect him!" Kevin tells the others, who rush forwards to circle the red ranger, fighting off any moogers that come towards him. However, while the team tried hard, a couple of moogers were able to slip past, Jayden having to take care of them himself.
"Guys, there's a new symbol combination I've been wanting to try out for a while now but there's never been a need to use it. Now's the time," Jayden tells them. He quickly grabs a sword from his closest teammate which happens to be Emily. She seems shocked at first but doesn't fight him. He places a disc on her sword before spinning it on her and his sword at the same time, swinging it around before yelling,
"Spin sword, blazing storm!" Luckily, the force of this strike wipes out all the moogers.
"Red ranger you're in danger…" the voice says before disappearing altogether.
"What was that voice?" Nina asks, demorphing with the others.
"I don't know. It sounded so evil!" Emily replies.
"Jayden, that wasn't a normal Nighlok was it?" Nina asks, turning to their leader who shakes his head.
"I think that was Master Xandred."
"Are you being serious? Master Xandred as in lord of the Nighlok? You think he's back?" Kevin asks.
"What I want to know is why the ruler of all Nighloks only wants you? Why was he just calling red ranger?" Mike asks. Jayden's eyes roam over his team before he exhales, knowing they need to get home immediately. They need to talk.
Once they arrived back home, it didn't take long for all the rangers to settle in the living room with Mentor Ji. There were many unspoken questions running through everyone's minds, but no body spoke until,
"Jayden, Master Xandred must know," Mentor Ji says.
"Must know what?" Mike asks, his brow furrowing. He promised Nina not to ask about their secrets so as much as he wanted to, he didn't, but if the Nighlok already knew wasn't it safer for them, his teammates to know too?
"There's a symbol which can create a seal to imprison Master Xandred. The previous red ranger used it to seal him, because when he last attacked, we weren't ready for it; we were almost defeated. The seal is how Jayden's father was about to trap Xandred away last time." Ji looks around at all of them, his eyes resting on Nina for a moment before Mike speaks.
"So, it's down to Jayden?"
"Only members of the Shiba family can use the seal, yes."
"Your father did everything he could to save us," Emily breathes, acknowledging the fact that Jayden had to lose his father to save the whole world.
"He did," Nina nods, looking straight at Jayden. "We'll make sure it wasn't in vain." The rest of the team nod in agreement.
Nina was slightly annoyed when the gap sensor rang again later that day. Of course, she knew that being a ranger came first but she was a little bit behind with her schoolwork because she didn't quite understand some of her work and she just wanted the rest of the day to attempt to catch up.
"Where's the red ranger?" The Nighlok called as they reached the quarry. Jayden stepped forward, making himself known. "Boss heard you've got a big trick your sleeve. We don't like that, so I'm gonna have to destroy you. Sorry," he shrugs before jumping down from the ledge he was on before.
"You're sorry? We'll show you who's gonna be sorry!" Jayden yells but the Nighlok just laughs. Jayden starts forwards but Kevin pulls him back.
"This is exactly the type of battle you should be avoiding," he says, "Let us protect you!" Jayden ignores him running forwards to attack the Nighlok.
"Go, go samurai!" He yells, drawing him symbol to morph.
"Yes! Try and fight me! When they ask who it was that defeated the red ranger, tell them it was Robtish!"
"He won't listen," Mia sighs but Nina steps forward drawing her samuraizer out.
"Were you really expecting him to sit back and let us do all the work? Let's just go and help him." The rangers morph before running forwards to help Jayden. Unfortunately, but expectedly, moogers appear, blocking their path. They each fight their group of moogers trying to finish them off so they could go and help their leader.
Jayden's luck wasn't any better than the rest of his team. He was fighting the Nighlok at the top of a cliff but the Nighlok was cornering him. He kept fighting but he was coming close to the edge of the cliff one more hit from the Nighlok and he would fall… and that's exactly what happened!
"No!" Emily yelled seeing their leader land near her. He groaned on the ground as the Nighlok jumped down. Nina and Kevin who were also close by heard the extra commotion and saw their leader on the ground. Seeing that the Nighlok was preparing to attack him again when they were down, the two of them rushed forwards to help Emily however Nina was pulled back by more moogers, trying to prevent her from helping them. Seeing her fellow rangers fall in front of her sparked something Nina. She placed a disc on her spin sword, spinning it to take down the remaining moogers.
Mike and Mia stepped in front of their fallen teammates, the purple ranger making her way over to join them in protecting the others helping Jayden to his feet. However, just as he gets up a new yet familiar Nighlok appears, unexpectedly striking her with such force that she flies back, landing so far and hard that she demorphs, losing consciousness - Deker.
"No!" Jayden exclaims, quickly picking up his sword, seeing that the last two of his standing teammates have also been taken down by Robtish. Luckily, they're still conscious but clearly, not ready to fight. Jayden picks up one of their fallen swords to fend off the two Nighloks.
"Two against one. This is hardly a fair fight," he says, blocking an attack from Deker who in turn is hit by Robtish, confusing Jayden. It seemed like all of them were in fact having a two against one fight. While both Jayden's current enemies were Nighlok, they seemed to also be fighting each other…
"The red ranger is my opponent. Leave him," Deker says, swinging his sword at Robtish, who dodges and goes to attack Jayden instead who blocks him with his sword.
"Master Xandred sent me to destroy the red ranger!" Robtish exclaims, clearly angry that someone else was trying to take his fight. The three-way fight, continues for a couple of minutes, no one really seeming to win until Robtish groans, "Ugh, I'm drying out!" When the Nighlok goes back through a gap Jayden turns back to Deker.
"We will fight, red ranger but not today. You're weak. I need to battle you at your best," Deker tells him before walking away. Jayden wanted to go after him, but his priority was his teammates. Mike and Mia were already checking on them, Mike over with Nina who still wasn't waking up. Emily and Kevin seemed to be coming too, luckily but they were clearly injured. Mike had his samuraizer out; he was calling Mentor Ji.
When Nina finally woke up, there was a throbbing pain at the back of her head. She groaned, turning away from the light, which seemed to be making the pain worse. It took her a couple of moments before she realised where she was. She squinted her eyes, turning her head to see Emily and Kevin on the hospital room beds next to her. They were asleep. She knew they weren't at an actual hospital - it would be too complicated, and Mentor Ji was qualified. Besides them, the room was deserted. She figured she should try to find Jayden, if it was her, she would feel pretty bad about her teammates getting injured trying to protect her, so she wanted to see if he was alright. Sitting up was a bit dizzying and she took a few minutes to steady herself before getting up and walking out of the room slowly. She could hear Mike and Mia in the kitchen, but she walked past the room - she'd talk to them afterwards. She can see both the indoor and outdoor dojos are empty, so she goes to his room.
"Jayden?" she calls, knocking on his door. "Jayden, it's Nina. Please talk to me." Mentor Ji must have heard her because she turns to see him coming down the corridor.
"Nina, what are you doing out of bed? You should be resting," he scolds her, but she doesn't really acknowledge it.
"I will but where's Jayden?"
"I thought he was training," Mentor says furrowing his brow, but Nina shakes her head.
"The dojos are empty and he's not answering his door." Ji knocks on the door before opening it and finding the room empty. "He's gone."
"Okay Nina we don't know that, but we'll deal with it in the morning. You need to rest," he tells her, shutting the door before guiding her back to the room.
"What even happened? Why does my head hurt?" She asks him as they walk.
"When you were at the quarry a Nighlok, Deker, unexpectedly appeared and hit you. You flew back quite far and hit your head. Luckily your helmet protected you, so you only have a mild concussion but you're not helping yourself worrying about Jayden. Rest now, we'll deal with that later."
Jayden didn't return the following morning but when the gap sensor rang later in the day the rangers knew they had to go, with their leader or without. Emily was quite bruised, and Kevin had had his arm in a sling, but they were otherwise fine. However, as rangers, this didn't stop them from joining the fight. As they arrived at the park, they saw the red ranger already there, protecting a group of kids who were trying to run away. The Nighlok from the day before, Robtish, had returned, apparently to finish the job. The rangers helped him quickly, taking on the moogers the Nighlok called forth once they arrived. While it was clear the Nighlok was here for Jayden, his team made it known that they were together and were always going to protect each other. They finished off the Nighlok with their five-disc cannon.
"Nice work, Kevin!" Emily cheered as they walked back home. While defeating the Nighlok in the megazord wasn't easy, Kevin had come up with a plan to merge the Battlewing and the Megazord, creating the Battlewing Megazord! It was amazing! Of course, coming up with new battle strategies is what Kevin would do when he was injured and although Mike made fun of him for it, it worked.
"Yeah, you did great," Jayden nods.
"Well we couldn't have done it without you Jayden," Kevin says to which Mia nods.
"He's right. We need you Jayden and we get that you want to protect us but it's our job to protect you too. That's what makes us a team," she says. Jayden agrees with them, apologising for leaving. While Nina was upset with him leaving in the first place, she's glad that he's back.
Chapter numero nuit is done did. (Yikes these are just getting worse.) Anyways, Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! Whatever you're celebrating (Christmas for me!) I hope you have a wonderful day and know that, while I may not know you personally, I am thinking of you and this is my (pretty terrible but heartfelt ) gift to you. See you on Friday (I'll actually be on time this time!) and thanks for reading
