Disclaimer: Avine is Jenny's. She thought of it for me after I begged her, since I seriously can't make good monsters.
Summary: Aurora is in college, spending only her weekends and vacations in Crystal Springs. After since Andros' reunion with his children, Blaecleah kept quiet, but peace never lasts for long.
Juzblue: smiles
Jenny: WHERE ARE MY FUNNY STORIES! YOU PROMISED YOU'D SEND THEM! I don't believe Rosa's on vacation, but her parents think she plays too much games, so she can't get on the computer too much. Well, if you're wood ever again, you know what you can write now. :P Subconcious is so dead.
DizneeDol: Glad you liked it. Hope you enjoy this chapter too.
TrueRomantic: Yeah, well Ciana is as stubborn as Andros when it comes to that and I'll tell you Andros' stubbornness in his kids will return in Chapter 20.
Ghostwriter: Glad you liked.
Gobball: Jenny thinks you're scary. I like that shirt though. :P
The-power-of-love: YAY!
It Was Just The Beginning
Chapter 18
Days slowly crept by. Ray's kata in the rain had resulted in him getting a fever and he was now confined to bed. Ciana was still being a bother about who fed her, so Andros and Ashley reluctantly went to visit Aurora separately, in case Ciana was hungry and they had to feed her.
An uncomfortable feeling had slowly been creeping up on Kayla. Something was wrong, but she just couldn't identify what it was. It took until Wednesday for the Gemini ranger to find out what it was.
She was walking home from school with Dakota and took a shortcut through the park, enjoying the fresh air. Unfortunately, their free time was destroyed as the sounds of fighting got their attention.
"What's going on?" Dakota demanded, looking at his sister.
"Let's go find out."
Their ranger instincts kicking in, the two dropped their bags and ran in the direction of the noise. They noticed the team had morphed in their armoured modes and were fighting a black ninja. Kayla noticed some civilians close by and the ninja must have noticed too, for it started striking down the rangers and slowly making her way in the direction of the civilian. Catching Dakota's eyes, they both nodded at once.
"Zodiac power up, Gemini armoured mode!" They called in unison.
Once morphed they moved between the ninja and the civilians. Kayla gave the ninja a quick look over and gasped. Her robes were pitch black. A badge was attached to the robes, displaying a four-way symbol - typhoon and vine wrapped around lightning bolt with flames dancing upwards. A cloak that was shrouded in shadow softly waved behind her on a non-existing wind.
"Who are you?" Kayla demanded, but her voice wavered a little.
"Something wrong?" Her brother immediately mentally asked her.
"This is the monster from my nightmare." Kayla's mental voice sounded weak and shaken up.
"My name is Avine, ruler of the four avatars." The ninja replied, approaching them. "And I'm here to destroy you."
A chill ran down Kayla's spine and suddenly a violet light appeared before her and Dakota. A small sigh of relief escaped her lips when Chaitlin appeared, fully armoured. Maybe they could do this.
Angel Grove
Ray tossed and turned in his sleep, sweat droplets slowly crawling down his face.
Dream
Ray looked around. He stood somewhere in a dessert. His eyes widened when a small beaten black truck came his way. He was nailed to the ground in fear as the truck came straight towards him. As it came closer, Ray suddenly noticed the scratches by the smashed right front. The silver streaks clearly stood out against the black of the truck.
Silver. Mack's car was silver before it had been completely totalled by some… some drunk driver. A tear ran down his face.
"Aurora." He whispered.
He glanced at the driver and shock ran through him as he noticed a ninja behind the wheel. Automatically he took a step back. He was too late to close his eyes as the truck hit him.
His eyes widened even further when it drove right through him and started to fall. The ninja that had been behind the wheel now stood right in front of him, looking down, not even noticing he was there.
He too looked down and almost screamed. There was no ground beneath his feet, only a two-mile drop plummeting to a rocky death. As he watched the truck hit the ground in a big explosion and suddenly it all made sense to him. He was hovering above Angel's bluff and that truck had just crashed into Mack's car. This was the past.
"Good job, Avine. With Cancer out of the way, the rangers are weak." A voice spoke, making Ray's head to snap up.
A cloaked figure had now joined the ninja.
"It was nothing master- like playing with babies… weak, defenceless babies." Avine sneered, curling her fingers in a tight fist.
Suddenly the scene changed and he was standing in the park of Crystal Springs, Avine was fighting two groups of rangers. Pure white-hot anger flowed through him and he knew he had to make her pay for what she had done to his sister.
End Dream
Ray shot up in bed, breathing hard.
"Calm down, Ray. It was only a dream." He heard his mom's voice tried to calm him down, but he didn't hear it.
Quickly he pushed the covers aside and got out of bed.
"What do you think you're doing?" Ashley demanded.
He ignored his mother.
"Zodiac power up, Libra, armoured mode!" He cried before teleporting out to the cries of dismay from his mother.
Crystal Springs
Kayla watched in horror as Ray was stuck down by Avine. Her dream was coming true after all. She had done everything in her power to get to Ray, but when she finally managed to break free, it was too late and Ray was down on the ground, but there was no blood this time.
Avine slowly raised her sword to deliver the killing blow.
Kayla let out a scream when the sword swept down…
A/N: Told you I loved cliffies! Hope you liked it. REVIEW!