A/N: Alright… found a new word... sorry… I watched the final episode of SPD on Monday night. I was very sad, Jack left SPD… so they made Sky the new red ranger… and then Bridge became the blue ranger… so now they don't have a green ranger… they totally messed up the whole color scheme. Sorry again, I'm done complaining. This will be the last chapter; hopefully it will tie off any loose ends, and now the final chapter.
Chapter 8
"Princess Shayla," Alyssa called as Shayla appeared out of the water.
"What is it Alyssa… is everything alright?"
"Umm, have you seen Cole anywhere? I've looked all around and I can't find him anywhere."
"No the last time I've seen was right after I left Merrick," Princess Shayla looked down at the ground as she recalled two nights ago, when Merrick and Cole had told her that they loved each other.
"Princess are you-," Alyssa started to say but the other rangers came in. "Hey did you find him?"
"We looked over every inch of this place and we still haven't found him. It's like he just disappeared."
"Did you see Merrick?"
"He's missing too," all the rangers looked at each other with a look on their faces that just screamed 'Gee I wonder what their doing!"
"Maybe we should go back out and look for them," Taylor said.
"Don't bother," a voice came up from behind them as they all turned around in shock to see Merrick standing there covered in blood.
"Merrick, what happened," Princess Shayla asked rushing over to Merrick. "And don't you dare tell me nothing." She glared at Merrick as he turned his head away.
"Cole's dead," Merrick said, as the only response he got was from Alyssa.
"How do you know he's dead," Taylor asked. "I mean how do you know."
"I saw it happen," Merrick said looking into Taylor's tearing eyes.
"Who did it?" Princess Shayla said as she made her way over to Alyssa.
"Travis."
"Merrick, that's impossible," Shayla said as she looked up at him.
"Yeah well, apparently it's not, because he's the one who killed Merrick."
"Who's Travis?" The rangers looked from Shayla to Merrick, who was holding back the tears.
"He blames me for my sister's death."
"Why?"
"I don't have time to tell you I need to find Travis."
"Merrick, what are you planning on doing kill him."
"HE KILLED COLE… IM NOT JUST GONNA SIT HERE AND DO NOTHING!"
"Merrick let us help you we will help you kill-"
"No this is my battle… He killed the man I love and now he will pay," Merrick turned around and walked away.
"Did he just say what I think he said?" Max said as the others just stood there with the shock of Cole's death and Merrick admitting his love for him.
Merrick's POV
"TRAVIS!" I've been calling his name for an hour now where the hell is he. "DAMN IT TRAVIS, SHOW YOURSELF!"
"You called," I turned around to see him standing there with my father's sword in his hand, the sword that killed my sister and Cole.
"You'll pay for what you did," I said as I charged at Travis, letting out a warrior yell. I fell to the ground where he once stood, and before I knew it I had a sword at my throat.
"Merrick…Merrick, you never learn. You can't kill what's not there."
"What are you talking about?"
"You can't kill me, you can't do anything to me. I'm a ghost."
"If you a ghost then how could you kill Cole?" I asked with a confused look on my face.
"You're a fool, you can't hurt me, which means I can't hurt you, but I can hurt the ones you love. But you see there's a little twist in there, no matter what you do you can't hurt me because I have no one left on this planet that I love. You on the other hand, did. So you see Merrick, every time you find someone you love, I will come, and I will destroy them with this sword. You will be alone forever; the people you love will be killed. That is you punishment for what you have done to your sister."
"You're right about one thing Travis," I said rolling away form the point of the sword.
"Oh really, and what would that be?"
"I will be alone forever because you killed the one person I truly cared about. I have no one left!" I yelled at him as I started to cry, but he only smiled and disappeared. I fell to my knees and screamed as loud as I could.
'Cole, god I'm so sorry that I wasn't able to save you. I wasn't able to get to you in time and because of that you were killed. I'm sorry Cole.'
'Stop feeling sorry for yourself Merrick. It wasn't your fault; it was my fate to die. You did everything in your power to try and save me. We will be together once again, you have my word. Merrick, I love you and I always will, I want you to know that.'
"I love you too Cole," I said as I looked up into the cloudless sky.
A/N: Yeah yeah I know its sappy at the end but was it good. That is the end of Memories I hope you guys enjoyed my story, till next my story, bye byez.