(A/N: Yall, IM BACK! I haven't updated since like July or something, but I'm here now! So sorry for the wait. I moved, started school, and work so I've been running on empty for the past few months...or more...Anyway, I have decided to upload three chapters at once. BTW I MISSED MY SECOND YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Please enjoy these next few shitty chapters 3)
Disclaimer: PRMF aint mine, Aria and her story line is.
Chapter 18: Dark Wish pt.2 and 3
Previously: After the rangers left the tension in Rootcore was almost unbearable. Aria stood with her back leaning against the round table fiddling with the angel hung around her neck. When a cold gust of air blew throughout Rootcore, the crystal ball swirling with more dark energy than Daggeron or Udonna has ever seen.
"Udonna what's happening?" Daggeron asked
"It's like the world has turned purely evil. I have never seen anything like this"
Looking up from the ball she watched in horror as Daggeron faded into dust and all the colour around them had become dull and muted. She felt a tingling sensation all over her body. When she looked down at her hands, speechless, and watched her skin become paler and her hands turning into claws. She looked up at Udonna and Claire and they were met with the pitch-black eyes faintly glowing red before she too faded away.
-Briarwood-
The five rangers huddled around together; all the colour was gone from the world, the people on the street were dressed in tattered rags shuffling their feet with their heads down.
"The Rock Porium…" Xander breathed
The much beloved music store was run down and boarded up prompting them all to worry about their eccentric boss.
Suddenly, Vida's eyes landed on a hunched over man pushing a cart up the street. His normally wild curly hair was matted down, and he seemed to be hiding himself from the world. "Toby?" she called out gently.
"Hey guys!" he greeted, his voice was hoarse "I was worried about you. I thought that…" his eyes widened in terror before falling onto Nick in the back. "Who's he?"
The five of them laughed nervously before Nick joked "At least he still has his sense of humor"
"No seriously who is he?" Toby questioned
"Toby, what happened to the Rock Porium?" Vida questioned, trying to ignore the sinking feeling in her stomach "What happened to all the colour?"
"You-You're trying to mess with me?" He replied gravely "You don't remember how the darkness took over? Four months ago…"
Nick shook his head at the coincidence "Guys," he started "somethings happened…the world as we know it has changed. Four months ago, is when I first came to Briarwood and we became…you know who."
"Hey guys!" Toby interrupted "Do you hear? I got…music!" he sounded like an addict almost "I still have to listen to it even though it's been banned"
"Banned music?" Chip repeated "Toby, who banned it?"
On cue, the trademark symbol of the underworld erupted and Hidiacs grabbed Toby, ripping his Zune away from him and crushing it.
"Let's Ranger up!" Nick said reaching for his morpher only to find it missing. "We'd better get to Rootcore"
They rushed to the tree again, trying to jump through the portal only to find out it was solid; the portal was closed
-Underworld-
Imperious laughed manically at the sight of the five Mystic rangers rushing to figure out what had happened to the world around them.
"I want them to always remember what they have lost!" he cried "I'm a genius!"
-Rootcore-
They ran as fast as their legs could carry them to their home away from home only to find it rotted away; the glowing red eyes were dull and the vines draping around the entrance were dry and brown. Maddie was close to tears as her sister tried to console her.
They walked closer to the dragon's mouth when Xander bent down to pick up the Xenotome…or at least a half of it. "What happened here?"
"What happened everywhere?" Nick corrected
A new voice emerged "Get away from here! My home! Get away!"
They looked over to find their mentor, Udonna trying to shoo them away with a broom. She wasn't the regal, poised, refined woman they had grown to love, but a shrunken, dazed version of herself.
"Udonna, don't you remember us?" Maddie tried gently, "You taught us everything we know we're the power rangers…the Mystic Force?"
"Liars!" Udonna declared "The legendary ones never came. I waited for them…they never came! Only the darkness, only the darkness"
Clare then appeared, dirt on her face and a protective aura around her, different from her normal awkward, goofy self. "There you are" she sighed at the sight of Udonna "I've been looking-who are you?" she demanded when she saw the five of them "You better not try and harm us!"
"Claire we would never harm you" Xander reassured
"You know my name…You must be one of them!"
"No," Chip added "We're your friends"
Nick spoke "Claire, can you please tell us what happened? What happened to Briarwood? What happened to Rootcore? What happened to you and Udonna?"
"Don't you know what happened? There's no more good magic in the world…"
"Wait…" Nick said, how could he have not realized? "Where's Aria?"
"DON'T SPEAK HER NAME!" Udonna shrieked "She was too powerful…" she muttered "No one could tame her…"
The five of them looked to each other worry and fear etched on their faces
-Woods-
The rangers trekked through the woods, not really sure where they are supposed to be heading. They didn't know what to do, they had no mentor, Daggeron was technically never retrieved from the cave and Aria, well, Aria had long gone.
"So, since we never became rangers then Daggeron was never rescued from the cave – that explains why he's gone" Chip thought out loud "But what could have happened to Aria?"
"With how terrified Udonna looked, I'm not sure we should find out" Xander answered
Nick turned around "She's still one of us. We're going to figure what is going on and we are going to fix this"
Before an argument broke out Koragg then leapt in front of them, "I've been looking for you" he exclaimed with his sword drawn. With an extravagant swing he struck his sword into the ground "We need to talk"
"We don't talk" Nick fried back, pushing his way in front of his friends "Not to you" he grabbed Koragg's sword and prepared to strike when the others pulled him back
"Hey!" Vida yelled "You know me Nick, I love a battle as much as the next guy, let's hear what he has to say" but he wouldn't listen "You know Aria would want you to hear him out"
"We have no more magic Nick" Maddie added "It's over…"
Nick paused, he looked past the pink ranger and lowered the sword. Maddie took it out of his clenched fists and slowly handed it to the Knight
"We'll talk…"
Koragg sheathed his sword "The world we know it has changed, you must tell me what you know of this"
"All we know is that our world changed soon after Solaris and I lost his genie to that…bulldog and the yeti" Vida explained
"Of course," Koragg realized "Your knight lost his genie, and Imperious made him grant a wish that the power rangers never existed."
"How does that include Aria?" Nick demanded
"Your black ranger would have fully accepted her place in the Master's ranks long before this occurred Red Ranger."
"If power rangers never existed she wouldn't have become a ranger down in Blue Bay Harbor…" Nick said to himself
Koragg finished Nick's thought, "Then she would have fulfilled the prophecy."
"She became the Child of Darkness…"
He motioned to the skies, "This was her doing"
"Okay, how about the bulldog? And the yeti?" Xander asked
"Fightoe and 50 Below – they work for Imperious and they are as much my enemies as yours"
"Am I missing something?" Chip asked surprisingly angrily "You and that mummy have been trying to vaporize us for months, and your saying that you don't like the new guys because they got rid of us?"
"Not because they did, but because of how they did it and how they tried to get rid of me." Koragg stated "But most of all those two are planning to overthrow the Master."
"So, you want darkness to rule the world," Nick repeated "But not if they don't do it nicely?"
"Without honor, victory is meaningless" Koragg growled "It is the one thing in this world that no one can take from you. I would battle them myself, but my magical powers have also been taken away. But I can help you get your powers back and defeat Fightoe and 50 Below."
"And you guys took his sword away from me" Nick laughed
"Nick, what choice do we really have?" Xander asked "We know the outcome the way things are now, at least Koragg's way we still might have a fighting chance." Nick looked away "Nick, this may be the only way of saving Aria"
With a sigh and shake of his head he agreed with the green ranger.
Soon, all six were walking through the woods where Koragg discussed what they would have to do to have things go back to normal. "You must go to the Tribunal of Magic and ask them to reverse the wish, it's the only way"
"And you're gonna take us to them?" Vida asked
"The Tribunal resides in another dimension. I no longer have the magic to transport you. You'll have to go him." Koragg pointed to their beloved dragon Fireheart
The rangers eagerly walked up to their dragon when he blew a wall of fire to block them
"He doesn't remember us…" Maddie sighed "We raised him from an egg"
"No, you didn't, you never found the egg. I did. I raised him. He's my dragon." With a few words Koragg made sure that the dragon would take them where they needed to go "Go with honor"
-Skies-
The rangers were soaring in the air, Chip shouting excitedly in the back when they were hit by a spell. They tried to see who was attacking but the smoke was too dense to look through and Fireheart was bobbing and weaving all over the place.
When they finally got a good look at who was attacking they realized how familiar she looked. The wild, curly raven hair blew in the wind as her giant black wings lifted her into the sky. Black magic flew from her red tipped talons and glowing red eyes widened with excitement
"Going somewhere?" she demanded
"That isn't…" Maddie started
"It can't be…" Nick added
"Gotcha now!" Aria taunted as she flew along side them before firing her magic
Fireheart circled back and fired at her
"Wait don't hurt her!" the rangers begged
Fireheart roared and clipped her with his own wing before blasting her to the ground
"Aria!" they screamed as they watched their friend fall
-Underworld-
Aria flew back to the Underworld blasting a few Hidiacs along the way out of frustration. "Where are they?!" she demanded, tossing another Hidiac out of the way.
"Ah, you're back" Imperious grinned
"Where are they?!" she screamed again flying up to Imperious's face.
"Come now my dear, they are not worthy of your power"
"They shot me out the fucking sky! It's personal now"
Suddenly, the giant glowing red eye in the ground shot open and called Aria to hole in the ground. Looking into the eye of the Master Aria was shown an image of the powerless rangers.
"Perfect" Aria grinned evilly her eyes glowing menacingly.
-Later-
-Briarwood-
Aria, having fully accepted her title as the Child of Darkness, searched the city for the five who had the balls to attack her. Her magic and power were unmatched, even Imperious was impressed by her skill. She finally found them, fighting Hidiacs.
'Idiots' she thought.
In her eyes these mere mortals were useless, she once believed that perhaps she could live among them. But she was shown the light by the Master. She swooped down and landed in front of the five humans.
"Aria!" one called, she couldn't bother to remember who he was, "I don't want to fight you!"
She scoffed "Too bad" she blasted him "Because I do"
Despite her attack Nick pushed forward using all his strength to try and distract from going after the others
"What happened to you?" he asked after he was thrown to the ground
"I saw the light. All my life I have been hiding my true self but now? I get to be free" she smiled evilly "Aria's gone"
"What about Blake and Hunter? Your friends in Blue Bay? Tori?" he tried "Dustin?!"
"Who?"
Soon all five were surrounded by Hidiacs, Aria and Necrolai preparing to give the final blow when a strange wind blew through the air. The sky turned from bleak and gray to sunny and blue. The colour around them returned as Aria began clutching her chest.
Her body shot up to the sky as the evil dark magic fired out of her chest and into the air before disappearing. While the evil was pulled out of her, her normal appearance began to come back. The red eyes faded back to green, her wings vanished, and talons shrank back into fingers.
Nick quickly came forward and helped the weak girl back to her feet and shielded her from Necrolai and her Hidiacs. They morphed and ran straight into battle. She hid away as she tried to clear her head. She felt as though the past few days were a blur. Then suddenly it hit her like a truck.
She began to panic. She had become her greatest fear. And she didn't know what to do. The rangers were easily taking down their enemies, so she ran. As she always does.
-Rootcore-
The rangers, Claire, Udonna, Jenji, and Daggeron stood in a circle. After Daggeron up to speed as to what happened they began to discuss Aria's whereabouts.
"Any ideas?" Vida asked
"Maybe she went back home?" Xander tried
"They would have said something, especially if Aria was upset" Nick reminded
"How bad was it?" Maddie asked
Nick sighed and shook his head "At first she was confused then I turn around and she's gone. She didn't even remember who her brothers were"
Suddenly the crystal ball alerted them that there was another attack from the Barbarian Beasts.
"Go rangers," Udonna said "We'll find her"
With a nod of their heads they ran out the door.
To their surprise the Tribunal of Magic granted them more power allowing them to easily defeat the last two Beasts. In that time Udonna and Claire found Aria deep in the woods. She was sat by a little brook, tossing pebbles in the water. Claire had agreed to stay behind while Udonna went after Aria.
"Sorry I ran off Udonna" she said just as Udonna opened her mouth to speak. Aria looked behind her "You can't sneak up on a ninja remember?"
"There's no need to apologize child" she reassured, coming closer to give a comforting hug "I can't begin to imagine what that must've felt for you."
"You know what the thing is though?" Aria asked "It's so easy to become…that. What if-"
"Don't think that Aria, your heart is pure, and it is true." Udonna said sternly "For reasons unknown you were chosen to have this burden put on you. But I know who you are, your family knows who you are, your friends know who you are. You are Aria Bradley, you are a warrior, and you will overcome and be the savior in the prophecy."
"Will I be strong enough to fulfill that prophecy? That's not really something that we covered" Aria joked lightly
"Even I do not know, but in that moment, it will come to you and you will know what to do"
"Right…" Aria sighed as she stood up and help a hand out to help her mentor up as well "Let's go home…"
A/N: Thanks for all the people who have supported me the past two years and thanks for asking me to update, I was honestly 100% sure that no one liked this story. So thank you all so much XOXOX