I'm trying to write while im inspired, because I have a knack of starting a story and never finishing it... That will not be the case with this fic, so I'll be dishing chapters out nearly every day unless something serious happens to me, or I get laid up because of school work. So here's the fourth chapter. Oh. New couple added to the entire fray: Dustin and Dray n.n I think they'd be cute together. So yes, that does mean slash or whatever. If ya dun like it, to darsh bad.
Just a Bit Early
Chapter 4: Back Off Lightning Boy
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Sarah smiled brightly as Dustin jumped up and down, excitedly waiting his turn to get ahold of his morpher. He was currently last in line, and she had just finished up with Shane, and was now on Blake.
"Hold out your hand."
Obediantly the black haired male did so, and she placed her hand lightly atop his. A faint glow occurred, and she removed her limb to reveal his morpher.
"Dude. Awesome."
"My turn!" Dustin lunged forward and eagerly held out his hand.
She burst out laughing, "Alright. Alright. Somebody's eager."
"Yeah. Well. Hunter got to morph yesterday, it's my turn, that's all. Gimme gimme!"
Fingers brushed against his hand, and with a flicker of yellow, his morpher appeared, "There you go. Have fun."
"Whoo!" Dustin dashed over to the others who were currently admiring their restored powers.
"Breakfast everyone!" Sarah called from over at a nearby table, that suspiciously, wasn't there before. Set upon it was a variety of cereals, a platter of eggs, ham, bacon, toast, butter and so forth spread apart, with a set of paper plates on one side, and drink cups with several choices at another. Including coffee.
"Dude. I totally didn't see this a minute ago." Conner rubbed his head.
"For once, you're not hallucinating. I didn't see it either." Ethan pointed out.
"That's because Sarah conjured it up."
"You make me sound like a witch Cole." She shot him a glance, and he stuck his tongue back at her. Rolling her eyes, she directed her gaze to the others, "Eat up. We have major war planning today."
She didn't have to say that twice. Within seconds, half the food was gone, and everyone was chowing down. Well, everyone except Acacious, Sarah and Eve. Kira shot Eve a peculiar glance, "Aren't you going to eat?"
"Ghosts don't eat." She sent her a smirk, "I feed off moonlight."
"Uh...Oh... What about them?" She pointed at Sarah and Acacious, who sat together, and seemed in deep conversation.
"Sarah's immortal, so she never has to eat. Besides, she's technically not even a real human. She doesn't have human organs. She's like a blank hole. Her body doesn't even need food, or water, or anything. Even if she could digest it, she wouldn't be able to taste it. As for Acacious, he ate last night. He feeds off, well, it's disgusting, but, he drinks blood to survive."
Kira frowned, "Like a vampire?"
"Sorta."
Sitting, elsewhere, was of course, the entire Ninja group conversing. "So Hunter... What all happened yesterday?" Tori sent him a glance.
"Huh?" He looked up from his food and frowned, "What do you mean?"
"She means, how'd you do against all those evil things, and what did you think of them?" Shane asked him.
He finished the food off his plate and leaned back against the tree he was sitting under, "There was nearly fifty after us, and there's no way I would have survived without being able to morph. No. Scratch that. I wouldn't have survived without her being there." He sent a meaningful look Sarah's way.
"Ah. She saved your ass, didn't she?" Dray commented from his position beside Dustin.
"Yeah. Several times."
"She does that alot. Takes the brunt of everything. She thinks it's her fault we're all here, so she does her best to keep us safe. Really takes a toll on her sometimes. Especially since we're mortal, and she isn't so we actually constantly need her help in battle and healing."
Tori frowned, "Why does she blame herself?"
Dray raised an eyebrow, and shot Cole a glance. The blue ranger shook his head, and Dray shrugged slightly. At that moment, Eve popped up next to them, and leaned up against her fellow red ranger, "Go on. Tell them. I told the blue Dino Ranger yesterday."
"You what?" Mike snapped, "Dude. Sarah's going to be pissed."
"What am I going to be pissed about?" They hadn't noticed her approaching them, so they were caught completely off guard as she came to stand behind Mike, her arms crossed.
"Well....uh... Eve did it!" Like a child, he pulled the common switch the blame, and pointed a finger at Eve.
The ghost merely shrugged, "I told Ethan about Charken and you. I'm pretty sure he's told the other Dino rangers, so I figure, why not tell these guys?"
"I'm confused. Who's Charken?" Dustin rubbed his head.
"Charken's the demon you guys have been brought here to help us kill. You know, the guy sending all those Crare after us." Eve filled them in.
Sarah was abnormally quiet. The subject hadn't been brought up in a while, and now, faced with the fact of admitting there was some sort of connection between her and the person trying to kill them all, to these new rangers, was not something she looked forward too. With a sigh, she ran a hand through her hair, "Whatever. Fill them in if you want to. Eve. I need to speak with you."
Without a word, the white clad female stood and followed Sarah towards the main part of the camp. All of the Ninja's eyes turned towards Dray, expectantly.
The red ranger shrugged, "Ok then. Sarah used to be the Angel of Death right? Well, she acted like the Grim Reaper almost, although, she was a welcome sight, except for the black wings. A hundred years ago, a couple months before she was sent here, she fell in love with a demon. Charken, the one in this realm. And he fell in love with her. Since love between angels and demons is forbidden, she lost her current status, and was outcasted, loosing her feathers."
"Yeah. And the demons weren't so pleased either. Some bitch was hired to punish Sarah, so Falissi, Acaciou's mom, sent her to this nightmare world, and turned Charken against her." Mike finished up.
"So, he's been trying to kill her for a hundred years now?" Shane frowned, "Dude, that's harsh."
A sudden, shrill whistle caught their attention, and all eyes shifted towards Sarah, who stood, hands on her hips, "Finish up eating. I'm calling a meeting in five minutes." Eve had myseriously vanished from her side, and was nowhere to be seen. Nowhere.
As they were cleaning up, Hunter headed over towards Sarah. She was currently carrying on a silent conversation with Vast, who stood perched on two legs, vicious tail lashing behind him. With a sudden chirp, the bird-like Utahraptor sent Hunter a glance and turned, bounding off in long, powerful strides.
"Dude. I didn't mean to scare him off or anything."
"Nah. He went off to find something to eat. Can I help you?"
There was something there. Something in the depths of her hazel orbs that he could not decipher. Something sad, and yet angry at the same time. These two emotions were neighboring strangers, and commonsly seen together, but...it unnerved him, for it seemed to be directed towards him.
"Ummm Hunter?"
She waved a hand infront of his face, and his vision faultered. Rubbing his head sheepishly, he tried to ignore the flicker of dread lingering atop her features, so slight it was hard to see. "Oh. Sorry. Hey. I uh... Wanted to thank you again for saving my butt yesterday. Dray said you do that alot, so I wanted to make sure you knew I appreciated it."
The expression vanished, and dread was replaced with relief, "Heh. You're welcome." She gave a slight smile, "Really. You don't have to keep thanking me."
"I have a question though."
"Hrm?" She glanced toward him, and cocked her head, "What is it?"
"How old are you?"
She burst out laughing, only to stop at his expression. He hadn't expected that sort of reaction, "That's wuite a personal question."
"No.. I was just... I mean... A hundred years, and you look only eighteen, maybe seventeen. I was just....uh...curious."
"I know. I know. I'm currently many thousand years old. I was, however, made to model a teenager, so I never aged past this point. And let me guess. Your next question is: What is God like?" She paused a moment, and his face told her that she was right, "I really don't want to get into religion with anyone. People are rather touchy about that fact. So let's just, not ok?" Before he could say anything, she glanced at the watch on her hand, "Eh. Meeting time." With a quick smile, she flounced off.
Hunter went to follow, only to be shoved back viciously by a pissed of Acacious.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" The Lao demon spat.
The ninja raised his arms defensively, "Dude. I don't know what you mean."
"You know perfectly well! Don't even fucking think about touching my sister. Get any fucking thoughts out of your head. Now."
"Hey." Hunter shot back, "You're her freakin brother. What the hell do you care?"
Acacious narrowed his eyes, and the snake about his neck hissed and writhed in anger, "It's not like that you imbecile. Dray told you the fucking story. Do you want to get her killed? Do you want to die?"
"I don't fucking get you man. Spit it out."
The demon's voice lowered to a dangerous level, "That bastard is still in love with her. If you start trouping after her like some god damn love sick puppy, you'll get yourself not only killed by him, but by me. Plus, you'll get her in a whole fucking boatload of trouble, especially if she falls for you. So just back off lightning boy." He sent Hunter reeling with a shove, and turned, heading off.
Seething in anger, the thunder ranger snapped back, "Thats thunder you fucking asshole."
"Bro. What's going?" Hunter turned to find Blake behind him, a concerned expression littering his facade.
"Nothing. Just nothing." he snapped back, and headed off towards the group gathering, Blake trailing behind him.
"Where's Eve?" Trent piped up from his position next to Mike. He was still saying the names with hesitation, for he was slow to accept others as friends, and all of this had happened quite quickly for him.
Sarah, who had taken to head of the meeting, and was sitting perched atop a large rock infront of them all, glanced towards Trent, "I sent her off to recruit one more person to help us out. He owes me a few favors."
Finally, something donned behind a vacant Kira's eyes, and she yelped, "That reminds me! You guys brought us here, and now only Dr. O is standing between Mesogog and his goons!"
"Oh man.. You're right... What if something's happened by now?!" Ethan yelped out.
"You've got to send us back!" That was Conner, of course.
Dray groaned, "It's about damn time they thought about that. Great ranger instinct." He muttered sarcastically.
"Calm down. Believe me. No harm has come to your advisor, or the Earth. The Earth works on a different time scale than this place. One hour of your time is one month here. Technically, you've only been in this realm for about two of your minutes." She reassured them.
"Wait. So that means..." Ethan did the calculation quickly in his head, "If you break 100 years into months, and then divide those twelve-hundred months into quantities of 24 hours, then you've technically only been here for fifty days!"
"And....." Tori started.
"Yeah. It took you guys about a year to actually get here. After Eve tossed you the marble. Since she can only really materialize in the existing world once a year without seriously being depleted in energy, we had to wait a while to get the Dino rangers."
"Ah man... I feel terrible." Blake groaned, smacking a hand to his head.
Sarah sighed and shook her head, "No need too. We thought it would take that long. However, lucky for us, we didn't have to wait another year for the Dino rangers."
"But you sent Eve back already." Ethan noted.
"Yeah. I did, and I regret doing so, but we really need this one last guy." She glanced at her watch, "She should be back too, within the next three or four hours. So, let's get down to business."
She gave a weak smile, "We've had a plan for some time now, which will enable us to destroy Charken. However, we lacked the man power until now. Acacious had Asonyth scout out Charken's castle. How? I don't even know. Two days from now, Charken will need to feed. He feeds at the end of every month. Yeah, you're probably thinking, so what?"
She paused a moment, "He doesn't eat like a normal person, duh, since he is a demon. Instead, he feeds off energy from the Gorgis not to far from here. The Gorgis is equivilant to a black hole. Where it goes, we don't know. We do know, however, whatever falls in, does not come back, and we're pretty sure they don't exactly live. Anyway, at this time, he's away from his castle, which makes him vunerable. This doesn't mean he will be unguarded." Twirling a lock of her hair in around her finger, she continued, "Ever since I tried this method of attack about fifteen years ago, he's tripled his guard. Now that you're here, he'll most likely have an army milling around, and it doesn't just consist of Crare."
"What else does he have?" Shane inquired.
"Dragons, animal demons, especially Luuka demons, which you really, really need to stay away from. Plus, any imaginary creature you can think of. This is a nightmare world, you know."
She continued. "Our plan of attack is to do so when he is feeding. Once he starts, he cant stop, for fear of loosing all his energy. You see, the Gorgis works both ways. He can take energy from it, but it sucks energy away from the atmosphere. That's why I will be the only one going near it. My energy replenishes itself without need of sleep. We will be divided into groups. Acacious will be in charge of taking care of the dragons and Luuka demons. Do I have any volunteers to go with him?"
"We will." Hunter and Blake piped up, and Acacious immediately glowered.
"No."
Sarah shot Acacious a glance and frowned, "They volunteered. What's with you?"
"Lightning will have no effect on Frion Dragons."
"That's thunder." Hunter hissed.
"But your magic will. You'll take them both. Got it?"
"Yeah. Whatever."
"Ok then." Sarah glanced among the crowd, "Eve will be leading the battlion to take on atleast half the Crare. Volunteers?"
Automatically, Ethan and Shane raised their hands.
"Perfect. And the other half will be attack by Dray. Volunteers?"Tori and Dustin raised their hands.
She hrmed softly, and nodded, "Ok then. Cole and Mike will take Conner and Kira to ward off the inside ring of monsters, and Trent, I'm going to need you to watch my back."
The white ranger glanced up, "Me?"
"Him?" Conner frowned, "Dude. Trent always get's the good jobs."
"Conner. Guarding me presents a higher risk of death. I chose Trent because of his performance yesterday. I would have gladly chosen Hunter, but due to his quick volunteering, I have seen that he will indeed by much more needed in the section his is in. Do you accept Trent?"
He nodded, firmly.
"Then I will leave your leaders to discuss their plans with you. Lunch will be right after Eve gets back. I'm going to meet her, and have a chat with our new guest."
It was nearly three hours later when Sarah reappeared at the edge of the forest, Eve and their new 'guest' nowhere in sight. Everyone immediately grouped about her.
"Well, where is he? Or she?" Mike inquired.
Sarah rubbed her head and groaned, "This is so not going to be pretty." She glanced behind her and called towards the foliage, "Eve, bring him out."
Rather reluctantly, the ghst withdrew from the shadows, and behind her came none other than the black armoured freak the Dino Thunder Rangers knew so well.
"Zeltrax?!?"
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TBC. Weee.... Sorry this took so long. I've been having horse troubles. Got kicked twice in the right leg, and it hurts....horribly.......x.x I'll get the next chapter out faster. Please review, love yall. Cyas.
