Is Love For Real?

Chapter Fourteen - Thunder

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"I think perhaps that it would be a good idea to stop trying to break down the barrier," Sensei told Cam after watching his son try again, in vain, to find a way of breaking through the barrier blocking the entrance to the Cavern of Lost Souls.

"Why?" Cam asked. "I'm sure I'll be able to find a way of breaking down the barrier eventually, if I keep trying."

"Perhaps you don't need to?" Sensei suggested. "Whatever, or whoever, has created that barrier may have done it for a good reason. Perhaps the presence of the others would only serve to interfere with what is going on in the Cavern of Lost Souls."

Before Cam could reply to that, Shane's voice came through the morpher. "Hey, Cam," the red wind ranger said. "Blake thinks that we don't need to try and enter the Cavern of Lost Souls. Apparently, he thinks he saw Hunter's ghost." The leader of the Power Rangers sounded rather confused, and almost like he thought Blake had been imagining things. But he probably wouldn't argue with the navy thunder ranger.

"Oh, ok," Cam responded after a moment's hesitation. "Are you going to come back to NinjaOps, then?"

Almost as soon as the words had left Cam's mouth, three coloured streaks sped into NinjaOps - Shane, Blake, and Tori.

"That was fast," Cam commented, turning round in his chair to look at the three Power Rangers.

"Well, we didn't think there was much point in hanging around outside the Cavern of Lost Souls," Shane answered. The red wind ranger walked over to the green samurai ranger, who had turned back round in his chair, and rested his hands on Cam's shoulders, leaning over him to look at the computer screen. "What'cha doing?"

"Well, I was trying to find a way of breaking down that barrier," Cam responded. "But I guess now I don't need to."

"Want to make out?" the red wind ranger asked with a grin.

Cam rolled his eyes. "Hunter's trapped between the living and the dead, and you want to make out..."

"Hey, I'm kidding," Shane replied, moving back from Cam and raising his hands in mock surrender. "We'll make out after we get Hunter back, instead," the red ranger added, deliberately trying to rile Cam.

Tori laughed while Sensei just shook his head sadly. Blake stared at the ground.

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"So, who was that girl?" Dustin asked Alessa, as he followed the white cat.

"I told you, I was hunting," Alessa answered. "I didn't see any girl at all. Are you sure you didn't imagine her?"

"I'm sure," Dustin replied firmly. "She handed me a stick, and then helped me pull Shane out of the water."

"Well, she must be a spirit," Alessa said. "There are a lot of them around, even if you can't always see them."

"Are you a spirit?" Dustin wanted to know.

The white cat sped up, either not hearing Dustin's question, or, more likely, just ignoring it. The yellow wind ranger had to almost run to keep up with her. "Where are we going?" he called.

"To the place of the next test," Alessa answered.

"But where's that?" Dustin demanded.

Before Alessa could reply, the yellow wind ranger heard someone call his name, and Cam hurried up to him.

"Hey, Dustin, can you help me out with something?" the green samurai ranger asked. "It's an experiment I have to do."

"Um, sure," Dustin replied. He was past wondering just why his friends were featuring a great deal in his tests. He just wanted to complete them.

"Come on, then." Cam turned, and started running.

After a few moments, Dustin started running after his friend.

And ran straight into a thunderstorm.

"Cam!" Dustin yelled, squinting to see his friend in the sudden downpour. The rain was in his eyes, and the lightning was almost blinding him. "Cam, we have to get out of this thunderstorm!"

There was no reply.

Dustin pushed forward grimly, battling against the wind. He was a wind ranger, a little wind wasn't going to hurt him!

Dustin tried yelling for the green samurai ranger again, but the wind snatched his words away.

The yellow wind ranger suddenly bumped into Cam, who was standing still, staring at the lightning in apparent fascination.

"Cam, come on!" Dustin yelled, grabbing at the green samurai ranger's arm. He's probably in shock or something.

Cam still didn't move.

Dustin cursed, and looked up to see a bolt of lightning strike just in front of Cam. He grabbed the green samurai ranger's arm, and streaked off, still holding onto Cam.

Dustin had no idea where he was going, but he felt like he was being pulled somewhere.

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