AN:
Thanks to all the ppl who are giving me advice. I am really sorry when I
write confusingly and I hope in the future that will be less of a prob.-Jen
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
KAABOOM.
Temporarily thrown off balance the three looked at each other. They had a nagging feeling and were itching to just fight whoever had decided to enter their sacred childhood sanctuary. That's when the rose-light hit them, freezing them where they stood. Torn from one idea to the other; to shield their eyes vs. protecting themselves from an attack. The outline in the smoke was clearly female that much they could figure. Witty as usual Dustin remarked:
"Maybe it's a ghost." Looking at him as if he was crazy Shane commented realistically.
"We don't fight ghosts." Tori, however, was figuring out all the odds in her head and calculating what she thought she already knew. Only seconds away from being reassured by the ghost-figure before them. Tori couldn't help but try to give her friends a hint.
"Wait a minute.Could it be?" Looking from one to the other it was clear the boys were clueless.
The aparition decided enough was enough and the time was now to come forward and continue down the path destiny had lain before her. Slowly she stepped down the stairs and walked out of the light so that she could be seen.
Dressed in a rose defined jumpsuit with a morpher still clinging to her wrist she paused in front of her friends and she herself was quite surprised at who they were.
"You're Naomi Grant?" The question came from Shane. She looked at them in wonder, and amazement until her eyes fell upon Dustin's. She wasn't all that surprised that Dustin's destiny meant he'd be battling as a ranger.
"Did y'all miss me when I was in Ireland?" She quietly asked afraid of the answer. What she got in return was more than what she expected. Her friends ran up to her and gave her a big group hug.
"Wait a minute you're a ranger?" Dustin exclaimed excited to find his dear friend in the same boat as them. He couldn't help but grin at that thought.
"I could say the same about all of you. Especially you two." Pointing at Tori and Shane in that playful mood of hers. The others laughed in a way they hadn't since she had left.
"I can't believe I went looking everywhere for you and you ended up right in plain sight." She shook her head. 'This is soo unbelievable.' Then thinking about what Dustin said she replied to his initial statement/question.
"Oh and to answer your question W. B. I am not officially a ranger, if y'know what I mean." She glanced at the morpher in partial annoyance. It had caused her more trouble with her new friends and was bound to make more.
"My comrades are a little more difficult than I would have liked. But what of you all," quickly changing the subject to a lighter note, sarcastically put," you seem to have that whole teamwork thing down with those thunder boys."
Naomi Grant was trying to choose her words carefully because in her heart she knew it would take more than a day or so to stop feeling like they betrayed innocent people by acting upon vengeance with a major badguy.
"They aren't so bad, once you get to know them." Tori replied first in a rush that as the two old friends looked into each other's eyes Naomi gave that all-knowing smirk.
"I am assuming you fancy one of them and that's why you let your guard down." Standing in triumph she allowed an exchange of looks. Knowing that this was a dangerous subject she decided on one less difficult.
Even though they felt at ease at having their friend so near they were concerned about how this was going to affect her and her other two friends who were in all technicality her teammates. Peeling off the thin piece of ice and taking Dustin's hand off her shoulder she spoke to them.
"So, I am thinking that I should stay and help you. Especially since Cam is now a ranger and can't be in two places at once." She remembered hearing Cam's story in her dreams and now she understood what her dream had meant. Letting the thought drift off her tongue she isssued another thought, stopping her old friend before he started.
"I know that sounds like I am betraying them, Dustin, but I am not." She knew all too well that Dustin didn't like her breaking off of her team.
"Are you so sure about that." Responded Shane. Looking at the situation from both sides even he knew it was delicate.
"Y'think you can get Gabe to cool off or something for us." Tori exclaimed reminding them of the airhead doing their job. Naomi couldn't help but laugh, he really is causing a major sitch here isn't he. She thought to herself. Shrugging her shoulders she replied to their wish.
"If only it were that simple. He's kinda-"
"Airhead." Replied one.
"Dark." Shane retorted.
Mysterious." Supplied Dustin thinking of Gabe as a 'lone warrior' type.
She eyed her friends with a childs' enthusiasm.
"I was going to say complicated."
Abruptly Shane said to her.
"So at the very least you're going to come back with us to talk this over, right?" Trying to confirm what she had just said moments ago. A force stronger than nature knocked the wind rangers when they thought about loosing their friend a second time.
"Don't tell me this is goodbye." Tori reguarded her with just as much hope.
"Dude, I don't want to have to say good bye to you again it was hard enough the first time." Dustin took her hand and looked into her eyes and pleaded. She looked away and considered her options. She felt at home among her old friends but the thought of leaving behind Kaia, was hard to deal with. "She needs so much guidance that I know I can give. Perhaps I can do both?" She mentally inquired.
"Like I said before I'll come back with you to work this all out. I meant it when I said I want to help. Though I want to warn you that I can't control what happens with Gabe. When it comes to him I'd be prepared for the worst before the best!"
She grinned back at them and could feel some relief pass through as they all walked out of their sanctuary and to Ninja Ops where they could truly talk in private. ______________________________________________________________________
It was one-thirty in the morning most people would be asleep dreaming of whatever there subconsciousness desired. However, most people weren't Kaia Mackenzie. Kaia softly padded out of her bed and past a sleeping Gabe. She looked for a minute at the sleeping form before opening a window and pulling herself through it.
"There has got to be a better way than this" Muttering, she was trying to think of another exit than the window for next time. Jumping down she stayed still for a moment and relaxed when she heard Gabe still snoring.
Grabbing her bag she ran through the woods and using her GPS she tracked Naomi down. When she started to fade in to civilization with all its blinking lights and stop signs she slowed.
The signal got stronger as she closed in on her friend. She could sense she was getting closer. She walked along the side of a huge building hiding in the shadows. Reaching into her backpack she put her tracking device away and clung to the side. Silently and slowly she looked over the building's North side.
"I know it sounds unfair but I can't help it. I am not going to just leave y'all. Kaia does whatever Gabe says so they'll probably end up going back. He doesn't even like it here; he just complains about how much work he's missing." A familiar voice was telling three teens that Kaia recognized as the enemies. Grinding her teeth she didn't budge as they came closer. Not believing Kaia for a minute.
"Are you sure that's a good idea." Tori questioned as she thought about what Naomi had told tem of her life in Ireland and more importantly about her friends.
"Yeah, it sounds like you were a major influence on her." Shane commented reminding her, in a subtle way, how much Kaia had meant to her.
"Truth is.Kaia will most likely be taken back by the people in Child Services. She'll then be placed in another home in Ireland or shipped off somewhere else." Replying matter of factly, refusing to accept that she could do anything about it.
"You can't get split up; like it or not they are still your family." Tori said in thinking about how unclose her family and her was. Tori didn't want to see that happen.
"NO. You guys," Naomi pointed to Tori, Dustin and Shane, "you are my family they are just a liability. I am not loosing you all like I lost my parents." Blurting out the secret that had most scarred her and changed her into the silent type.
In the dark Kaia's eyes were filling up with tears. Tears , that she would be shipped off when this was over, tears because Naomi lost her parents- she understood what that felt like, and tears because in truth Naomi didn't want her around because she hated her.
That hurt more than anything in the world. She wanted-needed to be loved by someone. It sucked that someone she loved so dearly disliked her to the point she wished that she would be sent off somewhere far away.
Deciding she couldn't take anymore she raced off in a white light to their temporary HQ. Pulling herself up she slipped through the window and gently walked over to her bedroom door and opened it silently.
"I told you she would turn on us." In the dark she could see Gabe. What he said to her was the truth but now was not the time to hear how right he was. _________________________________________________________________
Sitting in a chair Naomi looked first at Sensei then at her friends and she, finally, eyed Hunter and Blake warily. She still didn't trust them- that comes with time. But she was willing to accept them as Rangers in the mean time. Feeling like a hurricane hit her she sighed impatiently.
"You know you have to do what is right by everyone. They need you just as much as you need them." Sensei said which startled her. She looked up at him expecting him to continue on.
"The three of you must work together." He continued on just as she predicted in a 'no non-sense' kind of way.
"I realize that but it's just not that simple." Crying out in exasperation.
"It is." Replied evenly. She wanted to shoot venomous eyes at him.
"Guys, I am picking up another thing. But I can't see what it is. I think we better take a look." Cam broke into the conversation. His friends quickly transformed and then he did himself. Looking at his friends he said;
"Let's fry this guppy!"
"Yeah before Gabe does it again." Blake hissed. They all walked out as Naomi took battle stations at the computer and tried to figure out how to use it. Wishing Kaia was around she wanted to curse the stubborn computer who just sat their flashing lights. Then the lights went out.
"I think we're in trouble." Naomi thought more to herself than Sensei. She grabbed her pocket for her mini flashlight.
Only something hard hit her in the head and she went out. Sensei struggled to see in the dark and luckily was able to spot two figures standing over her. Looking at them he saw one with the jacket lettering G. P. and the others' baseball cap registered as K. He knew what was going on and he struggled himself with the decision on how to handle the situation at hand.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
KAABOOM.
Temporarily thrown off balance the three looked at each other. They had a nagging feeling and were itching to just fight whoever had decided to enter their sacred childhood sanctuary. That's when the rose-light hit them, freezing them where they stood. Torn from one idea to the other; to shield their eyes vs. protecting themselves from an attack. The outline in the smoke was clearly female that much they could figure. Witty as usual Dustin remarked:
"Maybe it's a ghost." Looking at him as if he was crazy Shane commented realistically.
"We don't fight ghosts." Tori, however, was figuring out all the odds in her head and calculating what she thought she already knew. Only seconds away from being reassured by the ghost-figure before them. Tori couldn't help but try to give her friends a hint.
"Wait a minute.Could it be?" Looking from one to the other it was clear the boys were clueless.
The aparition decided enough was enough and the time was now to come forward and continue down the path destiny had lain before her. Slowly she stepped down the stairs and walked out of the light so that she could be seen.
Dressed in a rose defined jumpsuit with a morpher still clinging to her wrist she paused in front of her friends and she herself was quite surprised at who they were.
"You're Naomi Grant?" The question came from Shane. She looked at them in wonder, and amazement until her eyes fell upon Dustin's. She wasn't all that surprised that Dustin's destiny meant he'd be battling as a ranger.
"Did y'all miss me when I was in Ireland?" She quietly asked afraid of the answer. What she got in return was more than what she expected. Her friends ran up to her and gave her a big group hug.
"Wait a minute you're a ranger?" Dustin exclaimed excited to find his dear friend in the same boat as them. He couldn't help but grin at that thought.
"I could say the same about all of you. Especially you two." Pointing at Tori and Shane in that playful mood of hers. The others laughed in a way they hadn't since she had left.
"I can't believe I went looking everywhere for you and you ended up right in plain sight." She shook her head. 'This is soo unbelievable.' Then thinking about what Dustin said she replied to his initial statement/question.
"Oh and to answer your question W. B. I am not officially a ranger, if y'know what I mean." She glanced at the morpher in partial annoyance. It had caused her more trouble with her new friends and was bound to make more.
"My comrades are a little more difficult than I would have liked. But what of you all," quickly changing the subject to a lighter note, sarcastically put," you seem to have that whole teamwork thing down with those thunder boys."
Naomi Grant was trying to choose her words carefully because in her heart she knew it would take more than a day or so to stop feeling like they betrayed innocent people by acting upon vengeance with a major badguy.
"They aren't so bad, once you get to know them." Tori replied first in a rush that as the two old friends looked into each other's eyes Naomi gave that all-knowing smirk.
"I am assuming you fancy one of them and that's why you let your guard down." Standing in triumph she allowed an exchange of looks. Knowing that this was a dangerous subject she decided on one less difficult.
Even though they felt at ease at having their friend so near they were concerned about how this was going to affect her and her other two friends who were in all technicality her teammates. Peeling off the thin piece of ice and taking Dustin's hand off her shoulder she spoke to them.
"So, I am thinking that I should stay and help you. Especially since Cam is now a ranger and can't be in two places at once." She remembered hearing Cam's story in her dreams and now she understood what her dream had meant. Letting the thought drift off her tongue she isssued another thought, stopping her old friend before he started.
"I know that sounds like I am betraying them, Dustin, but I am not." She knew all too well that Dustin didn't like her breaking off of her team.
"Are you so sure about that." Responded Shane. Looking at the situation from both sides even he knew it was delicate.
"Y'think you can get Gabe to cool off or something for us." Tori exclaimed reminding them of the airhead doing their job. Naomi couldn't help but laugh, he really is causing a major sitch here isn't he. She thought to herself. Shrugging her shoulders she replied to their wish.
"If only it were that simple. He's kinda-"
"Airhead." Replied one.
"Dark." Shane retorted.
Mysterious." Supplied Dustin thinking of Gabe as a 'lone warrior' type.
She eyed her friends with a childs' enthusiasm.
"I was going to say complicated."
Abruptly Shane said to her.
"So at the very least you're going to come back with us to talk this over, right?" Trying to confirm what she had just said moments ago. A force stronger than nature knocked the wind rangers when they thought about loosing their friend a second time.
"Don't tell me this is goodbye." Tori reguarded her with just as much hope.
"Dude, I don't want to have to say good bye to you again it was hard enough the first time." Dustin took her hand and looked into her eyes and pleaded. She looked away and considered her options. She felt at home among her old friends but the thought of leaving behind Kaia, was hard to deal with. "She needs so much guidance that I know I can give. Perhaps I can do both?" She mentally inquired.
"Like I said before I'll come back with you to work this all out. I meant it when I said I want to help. Though I want to warn you that I can't control what happens with Gabe. When it comes to him I'd be prepared for the worst before the best!"
She grinned back at them and could feel some relief pass through as they all walked out of their sanctuary and to Ninja Ops where they could truly talk in private. ______________________________________________________________________
It was one-thirty in the morning most people would be asleep dreaming of whatever there subconsciousness desired. However, most people weren't Kaia Mackenzie. Kaia softly padded out of her bed and past a sleeping Gabe. She looked for a minute at the sleeping form before opening a window and pulling herself through it.
"There has got to be a better way than this" Muttering, she was trying to think of another exit than the window for next time. Jumping down she stayed still for a moment and relaxed when she heard Gabe still snoring.
Grabbing her bag she ran through the woods and using her GPS she tracked Naomi down. When she started to fade in to civilization with all its blinking lights and stop signs she slowed.
The signal got stronger as she closed in on her friend. She could sense she was getting closer. She walked along the side of a huge building hiding in the shadows. Reaching into her backpack she put her tracking device away and clung to the side. Silently and slowly she looked over the building's North side.
"I know it sounds unfair but I can't help it. I am not going to just leave y'all. Kaia does whatever Gabe says so they'll probably end up going back. He doesn't even like it here; he just complains about how much work he's missing." A familiar voice was telling three teens that Kaia recognized as the enemies. Grinding her teeth she didn't budge as they came closer. Not believing Kaia for a minute.
"Are you sure that's a good idea." Tori questioned as she thought about what Naomi had told tem of her life in Ireland and more importantly about her friends.
"Yeah, it sounds like you were a major influence on her." Shane commented reminding her, in a subtle way, how much Kaia had meant to her.
"Truth is.Kaia will most likely be taken back by the people in Child Services. She'll then be placed in another home in Ireland or shipped off somewhere else." Replying matter of factly, refusing to accept that she could do anything about it.
"You can't get split up; like it or not they are still your family." Tori said in thinking about how unclose her family and her was. Tori didn't want to see that happen.
"NO. You guys," Naomi pointed to Tori, Dustin and Shane, "you are my family they are just a liability. I am not loosing you all like I lost my parents." Blurting out the secret that had most scarred her and changed her into the silent type.
In the dark Kaia's eyes were filling up with tears. Tears , that she would be shipped off when this was over, tears because Naomi lost her parents- she understood what that felt like, and tears because in truth Naomi didn't want her around because she hated her.
That hurt more than anything in the world. She wanted-needed to be loved by someone. It sucked that someone she loved so dearly disliked her to the point she wished that she would be sent off somewhere far away.
Deciding she couldn't take anymore she raced off in a white light to their temporary HQ. Pulling herself up she slipped through the window and gently walked over to her bedroom door and opened it silently.
"I told you she would turn on us." In the dark she could see Gabe. What he said to her was the truth but now was not the time to hear how right he was. _________________________________________________________________
Sitting in a chair Naomi looked first at Sensei then at her friends and she, finally, eyed Hunter and Blake warily. She still didn't trust them- that comes with time. But she was willing to accept them as Rangers in the mean time. Feeling like a hurricane hit her she sighed impatiently.
"You know you have to do what is right by everyone. They need you just as much as you need them." Sensei said which startled her. She looked up at him expecting him to continue on.
"The three of you must work together." He continued on just as she predicted in a 'no non-sense' kind of way.
"I realize that but it's just not that simple." Crying out in exasperation.
"It is." Replied evenly. She wanted to shoot venomous eyes at him.
"Guys, I am picking up another thing. But I can't see what it is. I think we better take a look." Cam broke into the conversation. His friends quickly transformed and then he did himself. Looking at his friends he said;
"Let's fry this guppy!"
"Yeah before Gabe does it again." Blake hissed. They all walked out as Naomi took battle stations at the computer and tried to figure out how to use it. Wishing Kaia was around she wanted to curse the stubborn computer who just sat their flashing lights. Then the lights went out.
"I think we're in trouble." Naomi thought more to herself than Sensei. She grabbed her pocket for her mini flashlight.
Only something hard hit her in the head and she went out. Sensei struggled to see in the dark and luckily was able to spot two figures standing over her. Looking at them he saw one with the jacket lettering G. P. and the others' baseball cap registered as K. He knew what was going on and he struggled himself with the decision on how to handle the situation at hand.
