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Chapter II: When dreams aren't just dreams no more
Ashley leaned against her locker and closed her eyes wishing that the pounding in her head would die down.
"Ashley!"
Ashley turned around so fast that a wave of nausea swept through her. She had to hold on the locker to prevent her from falling over, but that didn't stop her pounding head. If anything, I just made it worst.
Cassie, who had called her name, ran to her best friend when she saw the condition Ashley was in.
"Ashley, are you alright?" Cassie asked as she reached the lockers.
"Ye-yeah… just a little headache… don't worry…" Ashley replied softly.
"If you're sure…" Cassie said as she and Ashley walked towards their last class for the day.
Andros, TJ and Carlos were walking out of their last class for the day and were walking towards the lockers.
"So.. what did you guys do, huh?" Carlos asked Andros suspiciously.
Andros turned to face his teammate and raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"
TJ, who had been silent, chuckled, "You and Ashley… What were you two doing this morning? We couldn't find you in your room…"
"I was at th-"
"And we couldn't find Ashley in her room too…" Carlos cut Andros' sentence before he even had a chance to deny it.
Andros sighed knowing that he couldn't win against the two rangers.
"I couldn't sleep… so I decided to go search for Karone, and incidentally, Ashley was at the bridge. We talked and I guess we fell asleep… that's all. Nothing happened… promise."
TJ and Carlos raised an eyebrow.
"What? It's true…" Andros whined (A.N: can you just imagine? Andros whining? So cute!)
Carlos and TJ nodded knowingly.
Just then Cassie and Ashley came up to them.
"Hey guys… we're going to the surf spot. Zhane's meeting us there, you going?" Cassie asked the guys.
"Sure," TJ, Andros and Carlos answered in unison.
15 minutes later, the five teens were on their way to the surf spot. Cassie was the first one to spot Zhane from afar.
The rangers were finishing some of their homework when their morphers beeped.
"C'mon guys…" Andros instructed the rest of the team.
They morphed when they reached an abandoned alley.
Once reaching the Angel Grove Park where the 'monster' was attacking, they saw that it wasn't exactly a monster but it was a man, dressed in a dark flowing cloak.
"Who are you?" Andros shouted to him.
The man just chuckled softly and looked up. Ashley gasps as she saw the face of the man. The rest of the rangers stepped back in surprise as they saw the eyes of the mystery man. His eyes were out of the ordinary; they were golden with a touch of violet. Ashley couldn't move. She knew she had seen that person somewhere before but didn't know where.
She was too preoccupied with her thoughts that she didn't hear her friends calling out to her. She didn't even feel herself moving towards the man. All she saw was those eyes.
Suddenly, Ashley felt as if tons of bricks had dropped on her. She cried, falling to her knees and holding her head in her hands.
Andros was the first one to reach Ashley when she dropped to her knees. The mysterious man just disappeared when she had cried out.
"Ashley!" Andros called out to her, taking her in his arms, cradling her.
Ashley was unconscious. Andros, after looking around, making sure no one was around, slowly took off Ashley's helmet and gave it to Zhane who was kneeling right beside him.
"Ash?" Andros whispered softly as he took her face in his hands.
He felt a hand touch his shoulder and looked up at the person and saw Cassie looking down on him.
"Let's take her back to the megaship."
Andros just nodded and carried Ashley in his arms.
"Deca, six to teleport." Zhane announced to his morpher.
The rangers were soon in the med bay. Andros ran a scanner on Ashley trying to find out what had made her screamed like that just now. Andros almost threw down the scanner when he couldn't find anything wrong.
"Argh! God! Alpha, there must be something wrong with this thing!" Andros announced to the robot, his voice rising.
"Ai yi yi… Andros, there is nothing wrong with it. I just checked." Alpha replied as he took the scanner from Andros and ran it over Ashley once again.
"Ai yi yi… I can't find any reading of injuries… Ai yi yi…"
"That's why I said that's something's wrong with the scanner." Andros said exaggeratingly.
TJ and Carlos looked worriedly at each other.
Cassie stepped forward.
"Andros, relax… you really need to calm down… let's just ask Ashley what happened when she wakes up…"
Andros nodded and slumped down the nearest chair but he could almost hear a silent 'if' around the room.
