Just another Day
By Pyrorescue1
Summary: Will Dana's birthday be just another day?
Disclaimer: I own nothing Power rangers, wish I did but thus is my lot in life.
Author's note: this story takes place after Ryan leaves to find the sorcerer of the sands and before the last few episodes.
Chapter 1
"Man I so completely loathe mornings." Joel grumbled as he filled a cup of coffee in the Galley's cafeteria line.
"I hear that." Kelsey mumbled as she filled her cup with a highly caffeinated soft drink.
"Come on guys it's not so bad." Chad put in as he filled his own cup with Orange Juice and proceeded to wait his turn to check out.
"Not so bad? Man, how can you say that when every new day leads to another monster battle?" The sky cowboy asked after paying his bill and moving to one side to wait for his friends.
"Hey we are the power rangers; it's our job to fight demons." Chad reminded him cheerfully.
"To be out of work." Joel sighed wistfully and led the way to an empty table.
"Hey you ok?" Chad asked taking the seat to Dana's right.
"Hmm?" Dana looked over from the trey she'd just set down. She didn't seem the least interested in the food on her plate and only now seemed to realize she had zoned out. "Oh yeah." She gave him a wan smile. And she idly picked up her fork.
"Hey Kelse," Chad moved slightly so he could talk to the yellow ranger. "Do you know what's up with Dana?" The daredevil didn't have a chance to reply before Joel broke in to the budding conversation.
"She's probably just wiped out." The green ranger then added, "I sure am."
"It's her B Day." Kelsey murmured glaring at the cowboy hat clad young man.
"It is? I didn't know that." Chad replied frowning slightly even as Carter neared their table.
"'yeah, but she's not really up to having a party, you know with Ryan and all." Kelsey told her friend solemnly.
"Yeah, I guess that would suck, having her resurrected brother come home only to leave town and not be here for her birthday." Chad nodded solemnly.
"but she knows the mission is important." Carter said taking a seat on Kelsey's other side.
"I know but that would still stink." Chad shook his head sadly.
"Hey guys do you think you could run some errands for me in town today?" Ms. Fairweather asked approaching their table, cup of coffee in hand.
"Sure Miss F what do you need?" Joel asked immediately, his eyes now wide open. Gone was the lazy sluggishness.
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"Man everyone's out today." Chad commented and Kelsey shrugged as she skated around two others on the sidewalk. They were in the business district and although it was a mission Kelsey had insisted on bringing her blades.
"It's a weekday." Dana shrugged as if this was nothing new.
"Yeah but not a holiday season or anything." Chad pointed out as they reached the water front.
"People still have to live. Life doesn't stop after Christmas."
"Right, so what's the address again?"
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"So where did she say we had to pick up the stuff?" Joel asked Carter who looked at a scrap of paper and then at the addresses on the buildings about them. The two of them were in the area where Ms. Fairweather's father live. She'd apparently talked him into stashing the party supplies for her.
"1225 main." The red clad young man replied distractedly.
"Right." Joel said trying to decide how to bring up the thing he most wanted to talk about. "Hey man what do you think of Dana?"" He finally blurted. It really had been bugging him to see someone who cared for another so much afraid of that and he wasn't sure about Carter but he had a feeling he cared too.
"She's Dana," Carter shrugged. "Why?" Carter asked looking over at his sometimes second grade like friend.
"Well, you know she likes you right?" The sky cowboy asked and Carter forgot all about the address they'd been sent to find.
"You have to be crazy." Carter forced a laugh although just that thought sent his heart to racing. Did she like him? He wished she would, she was so nice, so smart and so, Dana…
"Naw man, think about it she's always around when you need someone to talk to, she's always big time worried about you and she has that way of leaning when your talking that says tell me more." Joel said like the true Don Juan.
"She does not." Carter argued and Joel grinned.
"So you do like her." Joel smirked and Carter rolled his eyes in exasperation.
"I didn't say that." The red clad young man wished he'd never opened his big mouth, now he'd never hear the end of it. Definitely if the stunt pilot saw what he'd gotten the girl in question.
"Man, you didn't have too." Joel was laughing as if he'd just heard the best news since they invented the chopper.
"Look, we have to find this place." Carter said in an attempt to get Joel's mind off of their current topic and back on their little assignment.
"There it is." Joel called a few seconds later pointing to a tall brick structure with four steps leading up to a cozy looking porch. .
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"There's the place." Dana told the others as they neared the fish market serving as one of the informants.
"So the zombie is alive." Chad teased his friend and she didn't seem to get it.
"Hmm?" She looked at him in confusion.
"You've been acting like an automaton all day." Kelsey explained from where she was checking the building for quick exits as she had started doing a while after becoming the yellow ranger.
"Come on guys we're on a mission here." Dana pointed out and moved to open the door.
"Not so fast rangers." A melodical voice called and the three knew what it was even before they turned to see the strange looking demon. It was dressed in a floppy chef's hat and white smock. If not for the rotting flesh pealing from its misshapen bones it would have looked like a cartoon cook.
"Talk about a half baked idea." Kelsey shook her head and prepared inwardly for a nice long battle.
TBC
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PLZ let me know what you think, is it too much done? I've been kicking the idea around for a while but I wasn't sure what to do with it. PLZ let me know what you think, should I continue?