Caroline Rhea is my newest OC
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In a different magical dimension. A beautiful woman wearing a plum Renaissance, Boho Maxi dress with flowing sleeves, complete with a Crystal Leaf Wedding Diadem forehead band that's a Rhinestone tiara crown. She walked calmly down a hallway.
"High Priestess!" A fairy called out flying towards her. "High Priestess!"
The woman stops and turns around. "Silvermist, what's the matter?" She asked as the fairy finally reached her, and doubled over to catch her breath.
The fairy finally straightened. "It's about the Mystic Realm!"
"Mystic Realm?" The High Priestess questioned, alarmed. "What happened?"
"The others believe they found China."
The High Priestess gasped loudly. "China?" She breathed in a whisper. "My child?" She looked to the side. "Daggeron." She choked, placing her left hand on her chest, she looked back at the fairy. "Take me!" She commanded. "Now!"
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At Rock Porium, Chip is looking at the recovered half of the Fire Heart. "Hey Chip, any luck with you-know-what?" Vida asked Chip was trying to make heads or tails, turning it sideways then other other way and even upside down.
"No." The red head walks behind her as he still tres to read it.
"Ha! I have outsold you by $12.50." Vida said, turning to Xander. "I win the bet. You owe me lunch."
"Not so fast." Xander argued, stacking records. "Xander the great still has four minutes to go."
LeeLee walks in.
"Ah, LeeLee?" Vida makes a face.
"Can someone help me here?" The blonde asked.
"How about a one way ticket to outer space and into the next blackhole?" China suggested, walking past and bumping LeeLee's shoulder on purpuse on the way out. "Heading out to grab that train ticket now!" She calls, leaving the store.
"Isn't she great?" Xander grins fondly after her, then looks at LeeLee. "Afternoon."
LeeLee smiles. "Nice zit … Rudolph." She smirks at him.
"'Zit'?" Xander asked with confusion, then goes cross-eyed to look at his nose and his eyes grow large. "Whoa!"
"Oh, Xander the great … big pimple!" Vida exclaimed as she and Chip laughed.
"Oh, it totally ruins my perfect profile." Xander said, staring at his reflection in a mirror. "This zit is like having an extra nose." He complained.
"That's it!" Chip exclaimed, suddenly as he looked at Xander, then to the map, then to Vida.
"What's it?" Vida asked.
"Maybe the scroll to the Fire Heart is like two halves of the same face, minus the zit of course."
"Shhh!" Vida quickly shushed, the two looked over at LeeLee, who was pretending to mind her own business.
"Yes! Success!" Toby shouted from his office, the door burst open to reveal him stumbling out and he turned to the three. "I finished this extra cryptiomagnetic puzzle in just under 40 minutes." He told them proudly. "I should work the CIA, or the FBI." His face lit up. "Or better still. The Power Rangers!"
Chip and Vida quickly straightened up, as Xander quickly turns from looking at himself in the mirror.
Toby frowns as the three give him startled looks.
"Uhh." Chip starts, then trails off.
"Nothing!" Vida exclaimed.
"That's a great idea." Chip said nervously. "You should uh."
"Give them a call." Vida finished, trying to not look so nervous.
Toby liked that idea. "Give them a call!" He turns and heads back into his office. "Give them a call!"
Both Chip and Vida sigh in relief as Toby's office door closes.
"Aw man." Xander is once again staring at his reflection in the little mirror.
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Inside of Rootcore, Clare is working spraying something on a plant. "Ok, this time it has to work." She said. "Hmm." She sets down the bottle and moves off the steps. Xander is currently walking around with a vanity mirror as he looks at himself.
"Yeah, then it hit me." Chip was telling Nick, Maddie and China. "The mirror was the key. So, while Xander was staring at himself, and I was staring at Xander, the answer was staring at me." He explained, moving to grab the mirror from Xander and set it next to the map on the table. "What mountain does that look like?"
"Mount Fuego!" Nick and the girls said in union. "Yeah, Chip!"
Clare came back to her potted plant when suddenly it perked up. "Ah! It worked!" She cried loudly in a cheerful voice and the Rangers turn their attention to her. "Look, I actually did something right!" Clare hurried over to the small flight of stairs next to a potted plant of flowers.
"What did you do?" Xander asked, coming up to her.
"It's a potion I concocted to make sad, dull looking flowers become perfectly gorgeous." Clare explained with a big smile, she then hurried off.
"It's a perfection potion." Xander stared at the vase of flowers.
"Right, lets go." Nick said. "Fireheart is waiting. We'll have to split up to cover that much territory."
The team hurries off, minus Xander, who was still in a trance.
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In the other dimension. The Priestess now stood with other fairies, as they faced a ceiling to and floor mirror.
The Priestess places a hand on the mirror. "Show me my daughter. Show me China." She told the mirror, light gold sparks appear around her hand and the mirror swirls in a soft white mist before it shows the inside of Rootcore.
"Xander!" China runs to the teen in green, who had just spayed himself with a potion. "Xander." China grabs his arm with both her hands. "Don't make me turn you into a fern again." She threatened.
"Alright, alright." He said, allowing her to pull him out of Rootcore.
The mirror goes blank and back to being a reflection again. The fairies all mutter to themselves.
"She looks very pretty, High Priestess." Silvermist smiled, turning to look at the woman next to her.
"She does." She smiles with a nod. "And she has found her path."
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On Mount Fuego, the Rangers had split up. Xander and Vida are currently climbing the hill side. "V! Come quick!" Xander shouted.
Vida hurried up the side of the hill. "What? Did you find it?"
"What?" He blinked. "Oh. No, no, no. But look." Xander is smiling brightly as he turns his face to the side. "My perfect profile has been restored. I'm back! Xander's back!"
"This mountain ain't big enough for the three of us." Vida growled. "You, me and your ego." She started to walk past him, but stopped when she saw a cave entrance. "Whoa, look at that."
Something on the rock glittered and both Rangers ran towards it. "That's definitely the symbol." Xander said as they recognized the carving.
"Be ready for anything." Vida warned as the two walked into the cave, she stepped on a thick rock and a panel above them opened.
"Whoa! Watch out!" Xander cried, noticing first, quickly rolling out of the way. Vida wasn't so lucky so when she looked up green slime poured down on her, covering her all over.
"Cave slime." She groaned. "Nasty."
Xander picked himself up. "Look." He said as he walked over to a pair of doors with writing on the above the walls. "'Fireheart is close at hand.'" He read ."'Those who find it, shall rule the land. But take good care, for there is no clue. Is it door number one or door number two.' What do you think we should - V!" He cried, reaching out just as Vida leaped for door number one and yanked it open.
Revealing a shining chest.
"Fireheart." Vida smiled, looking at Xander. "Come on."
"Hold up, I wanna see what's behind number two." Xander decides, grabbing the door and pulling it open. A loud roar rumbled out and the green Ranger quickly slammed the door shut. "I, on the other hand, am not so lucky." He gulped as he leaned on the door. The door suddenly fell open as they quickly backed away and a monster burst out.
Let's Ranger up and show who's the boss!" Xander said, reaching for his morpher. Seconds later, the two are thrown out of the cave. "Ok … he's boss!"
"Ya think!" Vida snapped.
The two jumped out of the way as the monster lunged at them, the two Rangers attempts to knock the monster back, but it slammed its fist into Xander's stomach, flipping him to the ground.
"Magi Staff!" Vida calls, pulling out her magi staff. "Tornado Power!" She sent the monster flying, and crashing down with a loud explosion.
"Power down." Xander demorphed, still lying in the grass on his back.
"Power down." Vida dimorphs, walking over to him, then helping him up.
"Thanks."
"Let's get the Fireheart." She ran back to the cave, Xander started to follow, but stops when a tingling pain hit his arm, he moves a part of his cloak to lift the sleeve, revealing a plant leaf growing out of his arm.
Quickly covering it up, he ran to help Vida bring the chest with Fireheart out of the cave.
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"Hey, we heard an explosion!" Nick calls as he, Maddie, China, and Chip run towards them as the two tried to open the chest.
"It's stuck." Xander said.
China sees a rolled up paper on the chest. "What's this?" She asks as she reaches for it and pulls off the paper, the chest immediately starts a countdown. "I didn't do it!" She cried in panic, quickly shoving the scroll into Nick's chest.
Nick unrolls the scroll and looks at it. "'This ancient puzzle is your task at hand. Solve it quickly to receive what's grand. But if you fail this timely chore, the Fireheart will be no more."' He read the scroll out loud, then sighed. "Great another riddle."
Suddenly the Rangers got blasted off their feet.
"Hand over the chest!" The Hidiac responsible, demanded as he lowers his weapon. The Rangers got back to their feet as more appeared and surrounded them.
"Let's Ranger up." Nick said, the team grabbing their morphers. "Ready?"
"Ready!"
"MAGICAL SOURCE, MYSTIC FORCE!" Now morphed, they began to fight off the undead creatures.
The Rangers made quick work with destroying the enemy.
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The Rangers are now back at Rootcre, and completely stumped over the puzzle and the countdown on the Fireheart chest.
"Agh, it's still counting down." Maddie complained.
"Sorry guys, I've never seen a puzzle like this." Chip apologized as he walked around it. "I don't even know where to begin."
"Not it!" China held up her hands. "I'll be getting overwhelmed and accidentally blow it up."
"No you won't." Xander commented. "You'll turn it into a plant."
She glared at him. "I'll turn you into a tree!" She threatened as she moves forward, but Nick is quick to stop her.
"Xander, don't start." Vida warned.
"Guys, we've lost an hour." Maddie said worriedly, standing up. China notices that Xander's been scratching.
"Xander, you still got leaves stuck in your hair from the battle." She moves and reaches to pull.
"Ow!"
The gold Ranger quickly stepped back, bumping into Nick with her eyes wide. "I swear I had nothing to do with that!"
"It's nothing." Xander said, turning away. "Really. I'm just having a little issue." He shows off his arms that are covered in bark and patches of grass, the others are shocked before starting to laugh. "This is funny to you guys?"
"Oh, come on Xander." Vida managed to say. "Hey, you always laugh when Clare turns herself into funny stuff." She and Chip burst out laughing again.
"I'm sure its just a side effect of your organic powers." Maddie smiled, she bit her lower lip. "Knock on wood." She, Vida and Chip dissolved into another round of laughter.
"Guys, come on, enough. Leaf Xander alone." Nick told them, but that just caused an increase of hysterically laugher.
"Guys, can we focus on something more important?" A very irritated Xander questioned. "We're running out of time." The laughter finally stopped.
"Hey, I got it." Chip suddenly got an idea.
"What, you solved the puzzle?" Maddie asked in disbelief.
"No, but I know you can."
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While the team had gone to Rock Porium, China had stayed behind when Udonna asked her too.
And now the two walked through the Mystic Realm. "What did you want to talk to me about?" China asked.
"I have been wanting to ask." Udonna started. "Do you remember what happened when you fainted?" The snow Witch asked gently.
China looked off in the distance. "I remember." She nods. "I've been getting that dream every night." She confesses. "I'm walking in some woods, but I'm not scared, cause it feels more like home." She explains. "I come across this cabin, when I go to investigate, the people inside are blurred." She turns to Udonna. "But I recognized your voice, it was younger, but I did, you were holding a newborn. I think the woman on the bed had just given birth. And when she moved her arm, I saw she had the same mark as I do." China looks down at her left wrist. "I always thought it was a birthmark. A big birthmark."
Udonna smiled sadly. "You are right." She nods a little. "I was there." She reveals, shocking China.
"I knew it!"
"The newborn … was you."
China gasped. "Wh … me?" She took a step backwards.
"I promised your mother that I wouldn't let anything happen to you." Udonna revealed. China flies. "China!" Udonna calls, watching her. "Oh dear."
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China slid to a stop as she breathed heavily.
"The inside counts Xander." Vida's voice had her turning around to find Vida and Xander sitting in a camp.
China walked up to them. "Xander." She breathed, her eyes growing and he turns away.
"Please don't look at me."
Vida stood up and walked over to her. "I think he's learned his lesson."
"What lesson?" China asked. "It's not a side effect?"
Vida shook her head. "No. Remember Clare's perfection potion? He sprayed it on himself."
China gasped. "Xander." She walked up to him, he wouldn't look at her. "I'm sorry we laughed so much, we thought it was a side effect."
"It's ok, it's not your fault."
Vida walked up to them. "Confidence comes from the inside, Xander. You're still Xander. You just don't have to be Xander the Great."
China grabs Vida's arm and the two back away a little. "Is there a cure?" The gold Ranger asked with worry.
"Clare's working on a cure right now."
Nodding, China turns to Xander and walks over to him. "I'm sorry I keep turning you into plant. Then threatened to turn you into a tree." She said with worry, her voice shaken.
He shook his head. "It's ok. You're just being yourself."
Vida walked up to them. "Come on, let's get you back to normal." She held out a hand.
Xander looks at her, he takes her hand then his other hand take's China's offered hand. When the girls pull him up, there's a creaking heard in Xander's body. "Ah! I can't move!" The three look down at his feet.
"You're taking root!" China cried, trying to pull his hand harder.
"Come on, Xander!" Vida cried, also pulling hard.
"It's not working!" Xander cried. "My arms are stiffing! Gonna take a miracle!"
China lost her grip and fell backwards, landing on her butt. "Xander, don't you dare leave us!" She cried, reaching for an arm but Xander's arms had stiffened to his sides as he was straightening and rapidly turning into a tree.
"Guys! Guys!" Clare comes running with the antidote in her hand as she held it high. But she tripped and falls to the ground.
"Clare, hurry!" Vida said as Xander's body begins to take the shape of a tree.
"Quick, my mouth is starting to." Xander's cut off by the bark covering his mouth. Clare started to spray him with the cure.
"I got a faster way!" Vida grabs the bottle. "Mystic Rain Cloud. Transforming herself into a raincloud, she quickly flew above Xander and the cure rained down on Xander. Vida then returned to normal.
A bright light engulfed Xander, then in a burst of light, he returned to normal looking at his hands. "It's gone!" He looks down at himself, then turns to the three girls. "Thank you. I could not have gotten through this without you." Suddenly his morpher chimes, he reaches for it and flips it open. "New spell code."
"Guys, we need your help! Hurry!" Nick's voice came next.
"Let's go." Xander said.
"You guys go, I need to talk to Udonna." China turns to Clare. "Come on."
"Wait!" Xander called, reaching for China's arm, she turns to him. He kisses her cheek. "Thanks China."
Blushing, China stumbled. "Come on Clare." She turns and hurries off.
Vida laughed, shaking her head. "You should just ask her out."
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"I'm sorry I ran off Udonna." China apologizes with guilt, sitting at the table inside Rootcore.
"It's alright dear." Udonna gently patted he hand.
"I was born in the Mystic Realm?"
"Yes. Your mother is from The Celestial Realm. But your father is from the Mystics."
China looked down at the table, her left finger is tracing her mystical symbol. "What happened to them?"
Udonna shook her head. "I'm sorry, I wish I knew."
The door is suddenly heard opening. "Udonna! We got the Fireheart!" Chip cheerfully called.
Xander and Nick were walking in, carrying the chest and setting it down in the middle of the room as China and Udonna got up from the table.
"Toby got the code unlocked." China smiled, coming up to Xander's side.
"He did." The Australian nods.
"Ok." Nick reached for the chest. "Here we go." He lifts the lid. Revealing a large egg resting inside.
"An egg?" A disappointed Chip, asked. "Fireheart is an egg?"
"This is no ordinary egg, Chip." Udonna said. "This … is the last dragon egg."