The dark ninja priestess Ninkana slowly walked through the smoke towards the powerless rangers with a dark energy ball in her right palm. She approached them, slowly laughing low and darkly as the rangers looked at her in question.
"I underestimated you rangers. Even in a verge of near defeat and diminish of your powers, you still manage to over turn the tables." she spoke to them.
"Who are you?" asked Shane in a demanding tone.
"My name, people had known me by is Ninkana. I am also the cousin of the known Shimazu!"
"You're Shimazu's cousin!" everyone shouted.
"Yes and I'm quite impressed that you managed to defeat my servant."
"You mean you're the one who sent that thing?" stated Hunter.
"Of course, you think a creature from Lothor would be that hard to handle. I also wanted to thank you for freeing me. Without your powers I would still be trapped."
"That's why the monster stole our powers." said Cam understanding now.
"If you're thinking about getting back your powers, you can forget it. In freeing me, that used up all your powers and they are forever gone and as well of your ranger days!" and the priestess laughed as the rangers eyes widen of the sudden news.
"Our powers are gone?" said Dustin who couldn't believe.
"Now the only problem left is you rangers. Once I get rid of you then I can join Lothor and take over the Earth!" Ninkana laughed out once more.
"Not as long as we are here!" shouted Blake.
"Which you won't be, once I'm through with you."
The priestess immediately thrust out her right hand that held the dark energy ball and hurled it at the rangers. The guys saw this and quickly everyone jumped and rolled out of the way as the ball hit where they just were and exploded. Ninkana formed another dark energy ball in her left palm and hurled it again at the rangers. This time the guys were taken by surprise of the second attack but Kaze managed to jump into the air right before the attack came to him and did a full body flipping twist. While the white ninja dodged the attack, the others were thrown into the air flying and landed back onto the ground all sprawled out.
Kaze landed from his jump and rushed at the dark priestess and started to fight her. He swung one of his arms at her and she just blocked it with her own arm and he swings his other arm at her and blocked that too. Ninkana quickly pushed the white ninja's arms away from herself and thrust both of her palms at him and hit him in the chest. The counter attack managed to push the ninja away but Kaze used the counter force and back flipped and kicked the priestess back. The shogun landed once more and both of them rubbed their chest in slight pain. Ninkana went into a ninja stance and then placed her cupped palm hands together and an icy blue colour fire formed out of thin air.
"Ice Fire!" and she thrust her arms out in a fireball throwing position.
Immediately the blue ball of fire in her hands started to shoot out multiple ones in a spray like manner, right at the white ninja. Kaze eyes widen in surprise and quickly started to do back flips dodging the fireball attack as there were explosions all around him. After a dozen back flips, the priestess' attack ended and Kaze was gathered together with the others.
"Your skills are quite impressive white ninja but you are still no match for my powers!" shouted Ninkana as she formed another dark energy ball in her palm.
Seeing this Kaze decided to counter attack, knowing there was no way of them surviving if they got hit since they had no ranger powers and they were tired from the battle with Venusha. Taking his hands and put positioned them with the palms facing one another in front of him, with a head size distance between them. He closed his eyes and started to concentrate and white electricity started to form in the middle, right between his hands.
The others just looked at him and stared as electricity was forming out of nowhere and wondered what was their friend doing.
"Ah, Kaze?" asked Hunter as he stared at his boyfriend.
But the ninja just stayed quiet and concentrated on the attack he was forming and eventually a good amount of white electricity formed about the size of a basketball. He then pulled his hands outwards and in a clockwise circular motion and placed them back together again like doing a fireball technique and opened his eyes. At that time Ninkana quickly launched out the dark energy ball right at the ninjas and Kaze quickly launched the electricity ball right back at her.
"Ninja Thunder Ball!" he called out.
The two attacks collided in midway and resulted in an explosion of energy. The collision of energy created a blinding light that everyone shielded their faces with their arms and a shockwave force threw everyone away and went crashing onto the ground, sliding back a bit. Everyone moaned as they started to recover from the energy reaction and Hunter looked around searching for his boyfriend. He eventually spotted him a small distance away from him still on his back starting to get up slowly with his hand placed upon his chest from injury. The crimson ninja slowly halfway stood up and stumbled over to his love and kneeled beside him.
"Kaze, you okay?" strained Hunter as he helped his love into a sitting position.
Once the older thunder brother got his boyfriend up sitting and was supporting him, Kaze quickly turned his top half of his body to the side and threw up and spitted out some blood. The thunder ninja was horrified and started to worry when he saw his boyfriend throwing up blood.
"Kaze! Kaze!" he started to ramble.
The white ninja turned back over and leaned against the thunder ninja's body and took a deep breath and started to slow down his heavy breathing.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. After using so much of my own energy to use that technique, my body wasn't strong enough to withstand the after shocks." Kaze heaved and painfully smiled up at Hunter.
"Really? Don't scare me like that!" the crimson ninja sighed and he calmed down a bit.
The others started to recover and Blake lifted his head up and looks around and spotted his brother with his boyfriend and continued to look until he spotted Tori. She was still on her back groaning as she shook her head and lifts it up and glances around. The navy ninja crawled over to his girlfriend on all fours and got next to her and help her sit up.
"Time to wake up sleeping beauty." the younger thunder ninja helped his love up.
"Sleeping beauty didn't have this much pain when she woke up." Tori stated as she shook her head a bit to clear it up.
Both of them looked around and spotted nearby was Hunter and Kaze and they slowly and carefully stood up and walked, kind of stumbled over. By the time the two blue ninjas got over to their friends, Hunter and Kaze was up and standing. Right after not long, Shane, Dustin and Cam joined up with them.
"Dude! What was that?" asked Dustin about the technique that Kaze did.
"Hunter and Blake should know." said Kaze.
"We do?" both brother with a confused look.
"Yeah, its one of the techniques of the Thunder Ninja Academy that you should have learned. Don't tell me that Sensei Amano didn't teach you guys that technique."
"Uh..."
"Well..."
"Never mind, I'll teach you guys later." sighed the white ninja.
"But there won't be a later for you!" shouted the voice of Ninkana.
The rangers quickly snapped their head towards the voice and they see the dark ninja priestess up and standing, she wasn't even hurt at all. She started to approach them and the rangers took a step back from her. The priestess lifted her right hand up and formed another dark energy ball and she looked at the group of ninja teens with a smirk look in her eyes. The rangers got ready for the priestess attack and Ninkana launched the energy ball at them. Right before the attack hit them, the rangers disappeared in a flash of light and the dark energy ball hit the ground and exploded. The priestess widens her eyes in surprise at what just happened and then narrowed her eyes.
"You may have gotten lucky this time but eventually everyone's luck runs out." she growled and she disappeared in burst of dark smoke.
Back at Ops...
The rangers reappeared in a flash as they were teleported in and everyone dropped to the floor in a heap and moaned in pain as they started to get up. Everyone groaned as they stood up and rubbed their backs and their butts.
"We need to put pillows on the floor the next time we teleport." stated Cam.
"Are you all alright?" asked sensei who was on the main computer table next to where Cyber Cam was sitting at.
Everyone nodded in a yes and brushed themselves off.
In space...
"You let them get away!" shouted Lothor.
"There is no need of worrying Lothor, they're of no threat anymore. Their ranger powers are gone and there is no way of them getting them back." replied Ninkana.
"And you are sure of this?"
"Yes."
"Well then out of all my generals you actually did get to the stage of getting rid of the rangers of their powers, so I want everyone to learn from her." the space ninja turned to everyone.
"Now lets discuss our next step in taking over Earth."
Back at Ops...
"I've found it." said Kaze.
The guys were all sitting around the table and the white ninja had gone to his room to get his laptop and was walking out now with his laptop open. Walking over to the table, Kaze sat down next to Hunter and set the laptop down.
"Good thing Cam gave me this laptop for my birthday."
"He gave you it for your birthday?" asked Tori.
"Yep and good thing he did or I'll be carrying all my research in folders and stuff. Anyways I remembered when I was looking through the scrolls in the hidden room I found back home, there was one about Ninkana. Good thing I scanned all the scrolls into my laptop so it's much easier to look for something." started Kaze as he was looking at his laptop screen, going through files.
"Here found it. Ninkana. Back in ancient times when Shimazu had his reign as a warlord, he also had a family member who also was well known. His cousin who was named Ninkana, a priestess of dark magic and also having the skills of a warrior was well known across the land with her use of her dark powers. Her reign however was ended when priests and priestesses of the good joined together of stopping her. With their own magic and spells, they managed to trap Ninkana in a magic prison of crystal and placed her in a remote place where she would be trapped until a much greater power then them can release her." the shogun finished as he read off the computer screen.
"So having a good guess, Shimazu decided to use your powers in freeing Ninkana." said sensei.
"I bet that's how Shimazu got his Wolf Blades as well." said Cam.
"So about our powers Cam, is there a way to get them back." asked Shane.
"I'm sorry to say this but no, our powers are gone and there is no way of getting them back and we used up the power boost I gave our morphers as well. Since Shimazu used our powers to free Ninkana and from what Ninkana said before, all of our powers were used up to free her."
"You mean that's it? That's the end of the power rangers!" exclaimed Dustin as he waved his arms about.
"Not really." interrupted Kaze and everyone turned to him.
"You mean there's a way to get our powers back." Hunter turned to him.
"Yes, all we need to do is to restore our powers and there are two way I can think of, to do that. Although both ways have their ups and downs."
"So what are the ways?" asked Cam.
"One way is using the Gem of Souls. Its power should be enough to restore our own but that's out of the question now since if I remember correctly, someone threw them out into the ocean." the white ninja looked over at the samurai and gave him a look.
"What? It not my fault, dad told me to get rid of it." stated the green ninja.
"Anyways, since that option is gone the only other way I could think of to restoring our powers is that we use the original power source that created the ranger powers in the first place."
"The original power source?" Cam questioned.
"You guys remember that I told you that the morphers powers were base on the ten elements right?" Kaze started and everyone nodded.
"The power source that they were created from was actually from the element themselves, well partly. Back in the ancient times the reality of magic was real and back then all sorts of people had various mystical abilities. The morphers themselves were created from what was known to be the Scrolls of Elements."
"The Scrolls of Elements?" questioned Blake.
"The Scrolls of Elements is a set of ten magical scrolls where each one of them contains the power of one of the elements. These ten scrolls themselves are also part of a large set of mystic scrolls too and each one of them has a great power within them as well. These scrolls were created by a great mystic who before they passed away, transferred his life long magic and everything he learned and made them into scrolls.
The mystic was an advisor for one of the royal families in Japan and when he passed away, he gave the scrolls to the family to be kept safe from the forces of darkness. The scrolls were kept in a scroll safe room that was deep within the castle so that no one can easily access it. The family was also the one who started the creation of the ninja academies and as well as creation of the ranger powers."
"So our ranger powers were created from these magic scrolls called the Scrolls of Elements?" said the red ninja trying to understand the story that Kaze told them.
"Yes that's right."
"Alright but how did the ranger powers were made from them?"
"That I don't know. So far in my research I only found out where the powers for our ranger powers came from but not how they were made or how they created such advance technology like our zords and weapons and stuff."
"So now are you saying that in order for us to restore our powers, we have to use these elemental scrolls?"
"Yes that's right but the scrolls were lost a long time ago during a battle that took place and destroyed the entire castle."
Everyone just stared at him when he said that.
"Then why are you telling us this if the scrolls doesn't exist anymore?" asked Dustin.
"Because even if the scrolls doesn't exist now, we can still travel back in time to when the castle wasn't destroyed yet and use the scrolls to restore our powers."
"Going back in time, like Cam when he went back to get his samurai powers?" said the water ninja.
"Exactly but we won't be able to use the Scroll of Time for this."
"Then how are we going to do this then?" asked Cam.
"There is another way but I have to contact my dad first and tell him everything that happened." and Kaze stood up with the help of Hunter and with Cam they headed towards the main computer.
"So what should we do while Kaze calls home?" Blake asked to no one particular.
"You should all rest up, from your battle with Venusha and Ninkana, you all should be rested and ready for anything." suggested sensei and he jumped flipped off the table and walked away.
Dustin stretched a bit and laid his head down on top of his arms and places them upon the table and took a nap. While Shane just lay back onto the floor with his arms behind his head and Blake and Tori cuddled together and started to talk.
Fifteen minutes later...
Kaze, Hunter and Cam walked back over the table where the others were and sat back down and got everyone's attention except for Dustin who was asleep.
"Dustin! Dustin! Wake up!" Shane shook the earth ninja's shoulder.
After a minute of shoulder shaking the yellow ninja started to wake up and lifted his head with a sleepy look on his.
"Wha...what?"
"Have a nice nap." smirked Tori.
Dustin looked around and saw everyone was looking him and he started to get embarrassed and go pink a bit and grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry."
"It's okay Dustin." said Kaze.
"So what did your dad said?" Shane turned to him.
"He told me to get all of us to the Storm Ninja Academy as soon as possible. So it looks like we're heading for Japan, you guys better go home pack." the shogun answered.
"Really? But why do we need to pack for?" Blake asked confused.
"Because I don't know how long we'll be gone so unless you want to wear dirty clothes for the next few days, I suggest you guys go pack."
Everyone nodded and started to get up to go home and pack some clothes and stuff.
"How about we meet back up here in a hour, that will give you guys some time to pack some clothes. Okay?" the white ninja suggested.
"Okay, sure." everyone agreed and started to leave.
"See you in a while." Hunter gave a quick kiss to Kaze and left.
After everyone was gone Cam and Kaze started to head for their own rooms to pack as well.
An hour later...
The guys came back to Ops and they walked in all carrying backpacks on their shoulders, packed with stuff. Cam, sensei and Kaze was waiting for them with their own packs but Kaze had his backpack as well as his sports duffle bag. Behind the two, sitting at the main computer was Cyber Cam.
"So you guys ready to go?" asked the samurai.
"Yeah, we think so." answered Blake.
"Alright then I have inputted the coordinates into the teleportation system so we should arrive near the academy when we get there. I turned on Cyber Cam to look after Ops while we're gone, so if anything happens he will contact us."
"Don't worry dudes! Everything with be A okay while I'm here." the virtual Cam did a thumbs up.
"That's what I'm afraid of." Cam rolled his eyes.
"All right CC, hit it." stated Kaze.
Cyber Cam turned around in the computer seat and typed a few commands on the keyboard and the rangers, along with sensei disappeared in flash.
In space...
"Sir, I have something to report." said Zurgane.
"Alright what is it?" sighed Lothor and he turned to his general, in his chair.
"Sensors indicate that the rangers had left Blue Bay Harbor."
"They left Blue Bay Harbor? Then where did they go then!"
"To Japan sir."
"Japan? Hmmm..." the space ninja went into deep thought and placed his hand on his chin.
"Why are they going there...unless... That's it! They must be going to the secret Storm Ninja Academy for help! This is the great opportunity for capturing the Storm Ninja Academy. Zurgane!" Lothor said with a bit of joy in his voice.
"Yes sir..."
"I want you to keep an eyes on the rangers and when they reach the academy, that's when we strike."
"What an excellent plan sir."
"The Storm Ninja Academy will finally be mine." and the space ninja started to laugh.
Somewhere in Japan...
We come to see a mountain wilderness almost like back at Blue Bay Harbor where the entrance of the Wind Ninja Academy was. There are all sorts of different kind of trees and all sorts of wild animals could be heard in the distance background. To where there was a small clearing within the mountain forest, the rangers appeared in flash. They looked around the environment themselves and all around them they could see trees.
"Come on guys, let's go. The academy is very close from here." said Kaze and started to walk.
Hunter started to follow and walked right up next to him and took hold of his hand and held it. Kaze turned to his boyfriend who in turn, turned to him as well and smiled at one another. Blake and Tori was right behind them who also held hands with one another while the rest followed them. After less then a few minutes of walking through the forest and onto a small path, the guys eventually come near the sounds of a waterfall. They kept on walking until the group reached a waterfall somewhere in the mountains of Japan.
"Is this the entrance to the academy?" asked Cam.
"Yep."
"What is with the ninja academies and waterfalls." commented Blake.
"What? You rather going through something like a lava pit?"
Before Kaze can take the group and go ahead of entering the gateway, a voice stops them.
"So this is where the famous Storm Ninja Academy is placed." Zurgane's voice called out.
The rangers turned around to see not far from them was Zurgane, Shimazu and Ninkana standing there looking at them.
"Thank you for showing us where the Storm Ninja Academy was rangers." said the general.
"And now to capture the last of the ninja schools, Kelzaks!" and three dozen Kelzaks appeared in front of them.
All the rangers quickly got into a fighting stance and looked around them at the Kelzaks surrounding them and they were quite out numbered.
There another chapter to this mini series. Read and review please!"