Author : Wild-Melody
Disclaimer : If I really have to do one of these, we have some serious issues going on here! I do not, I repeat, I do not own the Power Rangers! Happy?
Summary : Um…I have no clue. Read and find out!
Warning : Um…again, no clue. I don't think there really should be one…except for maybe Rocky's angry tirade later in the chapter.
Genre : I guess it could be supernatural, mystery, romance, drama…etc, etc, you take your pick. LOL. Not much help here, am I?
Without any further interruptions, lets get on with the show…turn the lights down low…
Um…forget that…music gets stuck in my head, that has nothing to do with the story. Now, please continue on to the story…
THE POWER RANGERS IN :
THE HARDEST THING I EVER DID
PART 2
Chapter 14 : The Fox and the Hound…oops sorry, wrong story. The Fox and the Dolphin (actual title)
"Now how 'bout you tell us about this Legend?" Kat asked, never taking her eyes off of the Jaguar sitting no more than five feet from where she stood. "Does it have to do with just Rocky and Isabel, or are the rest of us included?"
"And just who said I was involved in this?" Rocky asked, removing his hands from around Isabel's waist and raising them in the air.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out Rocky. A child is suppose to be born from the Eagle and the Ape-" Kim began, only to have Rocky interrupt her.
"And just who said I was…the…Ape?" Rocky asked slowly, already knowing the answer to the question.
"Well duh!" Kim said, blowing her breath out on a sigh. "That don't take a rocket scientist either Rocko. And you most definitely are not the Eagle, that's for sure!"
"Who said I want to have a kid with him anyway?" Isabel spoke up, jerking her thumb back in Rocky's direction just behind her. "I couldn't imagine having a kid as conceited as you are," she said and elbowed him in the ribs to let him know she was just joking.
"It could do worse, it could have your mouth and never shut up!" Rocky said as he wrapped his arms around her and drew her up against himself, kissing the top of her head.
"Get a room you two," Aisha mock-complained.
Isabel turned her head to look at the dark skinned woman, "We weren't doing anything…" Isabel paused and Aisha opened her mouth to respond, but Isabel continued on, "Yet!" She said and smiled. Turning around in Rocky's arms so she was facing him, she placed her hands on either side of his face and kissed him squarely on the lips.
They didn't break apart for a couple of minutes, after which, Rocky said with a smile, "I could get use to this." Isabel pulled away with a smile and turned to face the rest of the group and literally smirked at Aisha.
The group broke out into laughter. Aisha just shook her head, "Like I said earlier, get a room!"
"Can we get on with this Legend?" Trini asked once all the laughter had died down.
"That would be Talon's area of expertise," the Falcon replied.
All eyes turned toward the Eagle, she beat her wings against the air as she spoke, a slight gusting of wind breathed across each of the Rangers faces. "The Eagle rides the thermal gateways to an unknown power, her courage comes from her love and her loss. She mates for life, but her first life-mate betrayed her and it is for this reason that she can't give her heart completely to the Ape."
Rocky looked down at Isabel, her head was resting against his chest, her arms wrapped around his back. She had turned around in his arms once more, but she appeared not to be listening to what the Eagle was saying, like her thoughts were a million miles away. He knew she was though because her breathing had become slow, almost like she was sleeping. She was waiting for the Eagle to continue.
He ran a hand through her blond hair, wondering who the guy was who had betrayed her before. What had happened? He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and drew her closer, vowing that once he found out what had happened it would never happen again. If only he knew how far from the truth that would be.
"Beautiful in all her majestic splendor," the Eagle was saying.
Rocky felt Isabel's voice vibrate against his chest, "She must be talking about herself," she whispered.
"What makes you say that?" He whispered back.
"Majestic splendor? That really just doesn't describe me."
"I think you're beautiful," Rocky said softly into her hair.
She just smiled up at him then rested her head against his chest again.
"If you two are done, we're trying to hear this," Aisha said, her hands planted on her hips, but a smile on her face.
"Done," Isabel murmured.
"Anyway," the Eagle said, "She comes from a foreign land, carries with her dark secrets, not known to the rest of the spirit animal holders and friends. Her dark secrets could destroy her relationship with the Ape, or could bring them closer together."
"Dark secrets?" Jason asked. "What sort of dark secrets?" He met Trini's gaze and read his own thoughts reflected in her onyx like gaze. Rita, Zedd…Goldar…surely she didn't have something to do with their past enemies.
Be not so sure of one's past, his spirit animal's voice echoed in his head.
"I'm not done," the Eagle reprimanded. "And besides, when she is ready, it will be up to her to reveal that which she wishes you to know."
"Sorry," Jason replied softly, wondering what it was that his spirit animal had meant. Sure she didn't have something to do with them…was she a pawn of theirs like Kat had once been? Or Tommy? Jason's eyes sought out Kat and Tommy, but they were paying attention to the Eagle.
"The Ape, and we are definitely not talking about Brutus here," the Eagle said as she turned her eagle-eyed gaze toward Rocky. He just met her purple stare, but his arms tightened around Isabel. The Eagle bobbed her head in approval, as if he had passed some unknown test. "The Ape," she began again, "Life unfolds around him, but tragedy lies in waiting, only once he looks past the past hardships and rises above that which would pull him asunder, will he and his beautiful Eagle find the happiness that awaits them and that they so much deserve.
"Life will be cruel and take one blessing from him, but from the heartache will arise a new beginning, if only he will embrace it." The Eagle paused and looked around at the group, "That is all I am permitted to tell you for now, the rest will be known when the time is right."
"What does it all mean?" Kim asked from her hospital bed.
"You will find out in time," the Eagle replied.
"What part do the rest of us play in all of this?" Tommy asked. "What you told us only involved Rocky and Isabel. How do we fit in all of this?"
The Eagle sighed and turned her bright purple eyes to the Falcon. "Am I permitted?" She asked the winged lord.
The Falcon nodded his head.
"The son of the Falcon and the Crane shall become guardian of the Eagle hatchling, and from them shall arise a great power. When all seems but lost, it will be from these two that all hope shall arise-"
"Wait just a minute here!" Kim exclaimed.
All eyes turned toward her. Kim smiled a bit sheepishly, "You mean that Tommy and I are gong to have a son?"
"Is that not what I just said?" The Eagle inquired.
"Just checking," Kim answered. "Pretty nice to know what you're going to have a head of time."
Tommy just looked at her, she smiled at him then returned her attention to the Eagle.
"In time, we know not how long, evil will arise once more and try to destroy that which must be. If they succeed, the future we know, the future that is to be, will be no longer. The future will be altered and evil will win. Without the combined powers of the Crane child and the Eagle child, all will be lost."
"The Crane child and Eagle child? Now I'm confused," Rocky said, looking strangely at the Eagle.
The Eagle bobbed her head, "I'm sorry, I have not explained things well. The Child of the Crane will be your and Isabel's daughter, the Child of the Crane is the son of the Falcon and the Crane, Tommy and Kimberly. The child is always referred to by the mother's spirit animal-"
"Well that's a bit sexist, don't ya think?" Zack piped up.
The Eagle stared at him, "If you carried the child for nine months then bore it, it would be known by the father's spirit animal then. Since you don't, it is known by the mother's spirit animal."
"Won't they get their own spirit animals?"
"They already do," the Falcon answered. The Eagle stared at him, surprised that that bit of information had been revealed.
Isabel saw the look on the Eagle's face, "Were we not suppose to know this?" She asked.
"If the Lord of the Skies sees fit for you to have this knowledge I am not one to question him," the Eagle answered.
"What are they?" Kat asked.
"What are what?" Talon asked.
"The children's spirit animals," Kat answered.
The Eagle looked again to the Falcon for permission to reveal something more she felt they didn't' need to know at the present time. The Falcon bobbed his head once more. "The son of the Falcon and the Crane will be the holder of the crimson Fox, the child of the Ape and the Eagle shall be the holder of the amethyst dolphin."
"They get their own colors?" Kat asked.
"And their own powers," the Falcon answered.
Everyone turned surprised eyes toward the majestic bird. "The powers you held will not be enough to defeat the evil that will arrive in their time," the Falcon explained. "Your world has never seen anything of its like. Entire worlds and galaxies have fallen beneath their evil, entire solar systems wiped out on mere whims. Your old powers would not be enough to defeat that which is coming."
"Are you talking about the evil that's coming here after us or the one in their time?" Trini asked.
"The evil that will be coming to alter your timeline you will be able to battle, the one that will come in their time you would not. It would crush you." The Falcon answered.
"Just exactly what is this evil?" Tommy asked. "Will we still be alive?"
"Yes you will," the Falcon answered, but there was a hesitancy to his voice. "As for the evil, we know not at the moment."
"But I thought you knew everything about what is going to happen?"
"Not everything," the Eagle answered before the Falcon could even try. "There are some things that even we do not know, and the type of evil your children will face is one of them." Her eyes were glistening with tears, but they did not fall. She knew something she was not telling.
Isabel saw it though, "What are you not telling us?"
"Some of you will not live that long, will not live long enough to watch as your children except the power that will be theirs one day." the Eagle answered.
"Who?" Rocky asked.
"I can not answer that," the Eagle said, but her eyes sought out three of the Rangers. Rocky watched as the purple hued eyes of the Eagle glanced from one woman to the next. Aisha, next to Kat, then lastly to Isabel.
"What's going to happen?" Rocky fairly growled, his arms tightening around Isabel even more. He noticed that Billy took Aisha's hand and squeezed it then pull her into his arms. Kat was hugging herself, the fear apparent in her eyes. They had all seen the look the Eagle had given them.
The Eagle sighed, "Please, ask me no more. I can not answer your questions."
Rocky let go of Isabel and advanced toward the Eagle, "You've already told us stuff that we weren't suppose to know yet, what would it hurt to reveal a few more things?"
"If I were to tell you that Isabel would die in childbirth, what would happen? You would never have the child you are meant to have, then the whole future would be disrupted. That must not happen at all costs! I cannot tell you that which will happen! I can not tell you the downfall of those three."
Rocky took a step back, his face suddenly ashen colored. "What are you saying?" he asked. "Are they going to die?" He looked back at Isabel, "Will she die because of this child we're suppose to have?"
"I did not say that," the Eagle answered. "But if that was what were to happen, would you still have the child?"
Rocky looked at the Eagle, then glanced back at Isabel, he could see the tears in her eyes. He shook his head, not knowing how to answer the question. Would I change the future just to keep her with me? Would I sacrifice the life of one child, or possibly a thousand people I don't even know, just to protect her from death? Would I do this just to protect the one I love more than life itself? Rocky paused in his thoughts, When had it become love?
"I…I…don't know," Rocky finally answered. He looked back at the Eagle, "I would do anything to protect her…"
"Even change the coarse of the future?" Talon asked. "Would you forsake the child that must come from your union?"
Rocky looked down at the floor, not sure how to answer the question.
"And what of Aisha or Kat?" Talon asked as she glanced at Aisha and Billy then over at Kat.
"Will they die?" Billy asked. "Are Aisha, Kat and Isabel going to die in the future?"
The Eagle hung her head.
"That's all the answer we need," Tommy said as he looked at everyone. "The one thing I want to know is how." He demanded.
The Falcon glanced at him, his fathomless black eyes echoing an age-old sadness. "We can not say."
"Can not or will not?" Tommy snarled, his eyes turning almost black with anger. "You came here to help us but you won't tell us what will happen to them!"
Isabel stepped forward and placed a calming hand on Rocky's arm, "If I am to die giving birth to our child Rocky, I can accept that," she said to him quietly.
He turned on her, his expression one of anger, "You maybe able to, but I can't!" He growled, his voice low and deadly. He whirled around to look at the Eagle, his breath coming in short, fast bursts, "How is she going to die? Tell me damn it!"
"I can not," the Eagle said softly.
Rocky growled in anger, turned around and left the room, the door slamming shut behind him. "Rocky," Isabel said softly and moved to follow him.
"Let him be," the Falcon commanded.
Isabel turned to look at the bird, "Let him be? How can you ask me to do that?" She asked angrily. "You come here with all intentions of helping us, but you cause more trouble than you do good!"
"His anger in the end will be your downfall," the Falcon said quietly.
"His anger is going to kill me?" Isabel asked in disbelief.
The Falcon shook its head, "His anger will lead to your death."
"What do you mean?" Kim asked, it was the question on all of their minds.
The Crane sighed, "I will try to explain this as best as I can," all eyes turned toward her. "Life will be cruel, and take one blessing from him, but from the heartache will arise a new beginning, if only he will embrace it," the Crane quoted what the Eagle had said earlier. "Something will happen to break you apart, something devastating, and in a time of need, when you will need him the most, he may not be there for you, due to his anger. If he cannot overcome what has occurred and listen to his heart, he will loose you…forever. If he can see past the lies and mistruths that are before him, all will be well…if not, it will be your end." The Crane gazed around the group, "It will be the end of all of you."
The Eagle bobbed her head, her eyes closed as if she were in deep meditation, "Beautiful and guileless, she's agile in her element, a dancer on the winds." They could hear the Crane, Falcon and Jaguar pleading with the Eagle to be quiet, but she appeared not to hear them. "Courageous at heart, the heart of the team, always one to rise to the occasion and never back down. May not be the stealthiest of fighters, or the bravest, she makes up for it with her heart.
"Soulmate to the Falcon, she'll leave him in a time of tragedy, just to protect him from the inevitable. In the end, one half of the soul will seek out the other half in order to complete themselves…from them will come the child of the fox."
With that, the Eagle collapsed, the Jaguar just barely managing to catch the large bird between her powerful jaws.
"Wh-what was that all about?" Kim asked shakily, looking down at the sleeping bird.
"Something you were not meant to know yet," the Falcon answered.
The Jaguar looked up at the assembled group, her voice came out like a purr, "If she dies, it will not be long after that that you two will follow her. Your fates are all connected, woven together." She looked down at the still form of the Eagle, "What fate befalls one of you will in time befall the other two…death for you will be inevitable."
This story is becoming increasingly more difficult. Ok, the usual applies here…REVIEW!!!! Can I make it any more obvious? Review, Review, Review…am I getting on your nerves yet? Ok, well, this story is trying for all it's worth to screw with my brain, and unfortunately it's working! How will Isabel die? Better yet, will she actually die or am I messing with both your and my mind? What about Aisha and Kat? How are their destinies interwoven together with Isabel's? Will Kim and Tommy's and Isabel and Rocky's kids actually get together in the future…well, um, that's an entirely different story there!
Now for the shout outs!
Krazymelmo5385 : glad you like! Keep up the reviewing and I'll continue.
Aurora Force 1 : Hey little sis! If you're immature for 17 what am I at 24? LOL. I want to see your story up by the end of the week, quit keeping me in suspense! As for Iz, I love her too, why do ya think I'm so hard on her? Not to mention Kim!
Shorlixa Dragoness-Spirit : glad to have you back! I write mystery? Wow. LOL Glad this was the first you read after making it back! Here's the next chapter, I'll be waiting for your review! LOL
Baseballmomok : In between you and Hartfelt telling me to step on it, here it is! Hope you like.
Rocky : you know what, I really envy you of the penname! As for the friendly rivalries, my story would be nothing without those quirky animals! Just got to love 'em! Hope you're still reading.
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Amara : I had fun writing the part with Tommy jumping thanks to his spirit animal, I almost had a problem writing it 'cause I couldn't stop laughing! Hope you liked this chapter, even though it is a bit sad.
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Sorry for my idiocy in the beginning…I was feeling quite foolish, straight whiskey will do that to you. And NO, I am not an alcoholic, I just like writing some of the chapters half toasted…did that make any sense? I didn't think so…*shakes head at self*
Well, that's all for now, thanks to everyone who reviewed, and to those of you who read and didn't review…I'll get you next time! I don't know how, but I will…In the infamous words of one of my favorite characters…
Catch you on the flip side!
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