This is the second to last chapter! Enjoy!

Kindred Spirit

Chapter 6

What's going on? I can see everything that's happening! Kira is a ranger…why didn't I see it? Her friends are rangers too. Why didn't I recognise Tommy Oliver? He's been a ranger about four times! I don't believe this is happening. There's a woman in black fighting Kira, and these strange things trying to attack the others. There's Blake! And Shane, Cam, Dustin and Tori! Why are they here? What's going on here?

I feel so lonely, only everyone's here! Holy god, what's happening?

Blake's shaking me. He keeps saying 'wake up'. Why aren't I awake? I should be! What's happening to me? Oh no, Kira!

Elsa lunged at Kira with her blade and knocked her down. She de-morphed and looked very out of breath. Her brown – blonde hair was windswept. Kira clutched her arm in pain.

"You are too troublesome for your own good!" declared Elsa while wiping the sweat from her brow. Her eyes glanced over to Hunter where he was lying in Blake's arms. "Is this what you do to all your boyfriends, yellow ranger?" She shot forwards to attack again. At the last second Tori appeared to protect her. She was dressed in her ninja attire.

"Back off, lady!" Tori exclaimed. "Hee-ah!" Tori ducked Elsa's blow, then swung her foot around and drove it into Elsa's shoulder.

Elsa jumped up, seething.

"If you know what's good for you, stay out of this, girly!" she screeched. She ran towards Tori and swung her blade at her. Tori managed to catch it between her hands, and with great care she twisted it round, along with Elsa. Defeated again, Elsa struggled to her feet. She looked around. All her Tyrannodrones had been vanquished. Conner, Ethan, Trent and Tommy were closing in on her.

As a last resort, Elsa swung her blade high above her head.

"You may have won the battle rangers, but you haven't won the war!" With those words, she sent out a huge burst of energy, knocking the rangers off their feet. Then she disappeared with a puff of black smoke.

After a few moments, Conner pulled himself up and began to help the others. Tori helped Kira to her feet.

"Hey, are you okay?" she asked, concerned.

"Yeah, I'm alright. Thanks."

"Don't mention it."

The ninja rangers came over to re-group. Blake and Dustin dragged Hunter's unconscious body.

"Right, what do we do now?" Trent asked as they all de-morphed.

Tommy looked thoughtful.

"Shane, you and the others need to find your powers. We may need you next time," he suggested. "Cam, will you lead the expedition to find them?"

"Of course," was Cam's simple reply.

"Okay, the rest of us will work on the cure for Hunter. I don't think he has much time." A dark shadow flickered over Tommy's troubled face as he sighed deeply. "Let's get to it then!"

"Right, first stop for us is the Abyss of Evil," stated Cam. "There have been small energy waves coming from it, and the bad thing is, my father thinks it may be opening again. All our powers are trapped in the Samurai Amulet. If it has opened we can get down to retrieve our powers, but we may set Lothor free in the process. I'll put it to the vote; who thinks we should get our powers back?"

All the Ninja rangers raised their hands in unison.

"We defeated Lothor once, and we can do it again," said Shane.

"But what if he allies with Mesogog?" chipped in Ethan.

"If we can pull all our forces together, we can take them all on," Kira said forcefully, her face determined.

"Okay, let's go!"

Cam and the other Ninja rangers ninja streaked away in wisps if wind, leaving the Dino rangers behind.

"Our plan will be to research Hunter's condition as fast as we can," Tommy continued. "If we can find the cure early enough, we can save him, and with time to spare to fill him in."

Back at Dino HQ, Hunter's limp form lay on an examining table as Hailey passed some sort of beam over his body.

Kira studied his face. He looked so peaceful. The weird thing was he was being drained of every happy memory he'd ever had. Hailey and Tommy turned away, discussing something about the reading of the beam. Kira edged closer to him. She put her hand over his chest and felt his heart beating rhythmically. She ran her fingers through his dirty blonde hair lovingly.

Okay, so I met him less than a week ago. Why the heck am I here then? He ran away from his brother and friends, scaring the living daylights out of them. Come on Kira, get a grip. You can't be telling yourself you've fallen for this guy yet! It's way too soon! The least I can do is get him out of this mess first, then I'll say something.

Kira started to take her hand away from him, but she found that she couldn't. Her hand was practically glued to his head! She began to panic.

"Err, Doctor O, Hailey, we may have a problem!" Kira exclaimed. Tommy and Hailey turned to find Hunter's body floating two feet from the examining table. His body was glowing a pure white light. Kira's hand had finally been freed.

"What the hell is going on?" shouted Conner from the main computer. Him Ethan and Trent all ran over.

"Kira, take hold of his hand!" Hailey said suddenly. "He feels something for you, so he can't possibly be empty while you're near him!"

As if by instinct, Kira grasped Hunter's hand tightly in hers.

For a moment nothing happened, until…

Cam, Shane, Dustin, Blake and Tori arrived at the Abyss of Evil to find there was a small crack in the ground, radiating deep violet light.

"Right, who's going first?" Dustin suggested, folding his arms.

"That'd be you," offered Tori with a wide grin. She pushed him forwards and Cam attacked him with a harness and a helmet.

"Aww, man!" he whined huffily.

"Hey, someone had to do it!" said Shane. "Here's a weird thought; since you and Kira are both yellow rangers, I'm sure you have a lot in common! Maybe you could get together sometime!"

"Trust me, she's a lot smarter than you are, Dustin," Tori muttered.

"And besides, she's already into Hunter," added Blake.

"You really need to get yourself a hobby, Shane," chipped in Cam as he tied some ropes to a thick pole in the ground about a yard away from the crack. "Right Dustin, we'll be seeing you later!"

Dustin was hovering over the crack. Nervously he looked down and shivered. "Hey, you guys? Will you still be here when I get back with the amulet? Guys?" He looked back to where they were standing, except they had gone. "Guys!"

Okay, I've got something big planned for the last chapter…man, you guys are SO going to kill me! Please review! And don't worry, Hunter will be all right in the end!