Disclaimer: Like I said, Ray's mine.
Summary: Mornie utúlie. Believe and you will find a way. Mornie alantie. A promise lives within you now. He went on a mission never to return again. Or so they said.
Necroblade: That's okay. Hope I didn't sound to mean in my reply, it's never my intention to snap at my reviewers, unless they flame. :puts on an innocent face: Glad you like the story. This chapter should give another very small clue. In chapter 5 things will all become clear, just not where this story is going to end.
Juzblue: As usual, here's the next chapter.
Arwennicole: Glad you liked it. Some more explanation in this chapter.
AbareKiller: I'm not going to comment on your guess, I'll only tell that until chapter 5, I won't confirm or deny it. As for 'May It Be' parts of the song will keep returning in the story.
Ghostwriter: Hope you'll keep think of this like that.
TF Princess: Don't keep it to yourself, I want to know if your right or not. Not that I'm going to tell you if you are. Chapter 5 contains the biggest explanation. I always update soon.
The-power-of-love: That's the most creative one yet. I love it, but I'm not going to confirm or deny it. Though one is going to be shot out of the air in this chapter.
Jenny: You are so cheating. That's not fair, but I'll treat you just as the others. I'M NOT TELLING, nanananana. As for the mood swings, Aurora is a real daddy's girl and she really misses him. His loss is still hurting her, making her cranky.
Phantom Rogue: Yeah, I love LoTR and I love Power Rangers. You're going to name your kid Aurora? Cool. Aurora's middle name is Aileana, it means light. I gave her those names because Aurora was the light in her parents life when she was born, not that their life was so dark, Rora just was a precious little gift sent from heaven. Her father? I don't know, I'd say take a wild guess.
What Was Lost
Chapter 3
"Ray." She smiled, watching her ten-year-old brother come running her way.
"What are you doing here? I thought you still had Universal Languages?" Ray grinned happily at his older sister.
"Genis told me to skip." Aurora replied, hugging her brother.
"I'm not even going to ask. I'll get my stuff and we can go home."
"I'll go with you." Aurora said, swinging one arms around his shoulder.
Ray put an arm around her waist and they walked into the school.
"Hey Aurora, taking care of your brother again?"
"Yes, Miss Montgomery. My mom had to work again." Aurora replied to her … grade teacher.
"Your mother must be very glad to have you around to watch him when she needs to work."
"Yeah, she is."
They walked into Ray's classroom and Ray quickly slipped out from under her arm and dumped his stuff in his bag. His teacher watched his with a smile. Aurora knew why. Her brother was a bright boy, hardly anything but happy and he showed the love for life she had lost so long ago.
"Ready." Ray smiled.
"Alright then, let's go home." She smiled back, waving at his teacher when she walked out the room.
It didn't take them long to get home. On the driveway their old red Kia Sportage stood. It was already fourteen years old, but her mother didn't sell it, since her father had driven it all those years ago. The yellow Toyota Landcruiser that usually stood next to it was missing though. Yet another indication of her mother having to be at the office today.
Most of the time she worked at home, but sometimes she had to go to the office to work. Luckily, she had a great boss. Whenever one of them had had a day off or had been sick or something, she had been allowed to call in sick on his advise. On the rare occasions her mother had to go to a conference when they had a vacation, she got the rest of that week off and she take her and Ray with her, so they had a vacation, hotel and food paid by the company.
Everyone in the company knew that his only child had died in a car-crash and so, every kid who's parent worked there was like a grandchild to him.
"Auroooo-raaaa" Ray whined, standing in front of the front door.
Aurora sighed and pulled out her keys, opening the door for her brother. As soon as the door was open, Ray quickly slipped passed her and dumped his bag in the hallway.
"No TV until you've done your homework." Aurora yelled after him, when he ran into the living room.
Defeated, Ray walked back into the hall, picking up his bag again and walking up the stairs to go to his room to do his homework. Shaking her head, Aurora closed the door behind her before following him up the stairs to go make her own homework in her room.
Reefside
In the back yard of one of the houses, a group of 40 retired rangers and their children had gathered. The age of the children reached from 15 to due to be born in 5 months. The older ones were running around playing games, the eldest girl sat at the base of a tree, reading a book. The younger were staying close to their parents, too shy to make the first contact in this foreign environment.
The parents were chatting happily amongst each other. This was their third reunion and it held four new faces. But even the joy from finally meeting the new additions to the ranger family could not hide the slight gloom hanging over the gathering, for three people were missing from their midst; two rangers and their daughter, the eldest of all the children born to the rangers ever to have defended Earth with the risk of their own life.
They hadn't been there at the last reunion either and would probably not be there at the next. One of the two missing rangers would never be able to join them ever again. Officially, he was still missing in action, since his body was never found, but they all knew…
The absence of the other two was their own fault, they knew it. Everyone that had known him had been so caught up in their own grief, they had forgotten the ones he left behind and the pain they had to be feeling.
When they finally saw past their own grief, it was too late to reach out to them. Too much time had past and they hadn't dared to show their faces again after ignoring them in their time of need.
That knowledge was the biggest damper put on the, otherwise so happy, reunion.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Review.
