DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Power Rangers. I do, however, own the characters of Mor, Adona, and Zuna.
Writing like this indicates dreams, daydreams, or a dreamlike state of mind.
Day 4
My dreams last night were filled with him and more people who are very fuzzy, but they are still there, trying to break through and let me know who they really are. They seem to be happy as well, but I do not know how my family will deal with this. My mother seems to think all of this is right, that this is supposed to happen this way, but will he stay here? Will I be taken away? Will I still love him the way I did only two years ago?
Yes I think I will love him. Love obviously does find a way to cross time and family changes and everything else that has happened to us, but do I want to leave here? Can I leave here? Can I go back to America with him or will he stay here with me? Can I bear to stay here without him if he has to go back? I don't think so, but telling my mother that I have to leave will be extremely hard because if I leave here, I doubt I will ever come back.
"Dear, Aisha, why do you worry over me?" Zuna asked as Aisha shook herself out of her trance and looked over at her.
"What will happen to you when I leave?" Aisha asked as Zuna put an arm around her.
"Nothing, Mor will be here and you will be with the one you love. I cannot ask for anymore for you or anyone else," Zuna said as Aisha just nodded her head.
"Then why am I so sad?" Aisha asked as Zuna just looked at her.
"Because you will be leaving here, but you will be going to a far better place. You just have to trust that he will not steer you wrong. He loves you just as much as you love him," Zuna said as Aisha just nodded.
"I want him to be here soon. These dreams are becoming more confusing and maybe he can explain them. He knows what they are truly about," Aisha said as Zuna smiled and Aisha stood up. "How many more hours must I wait for you?"
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"How many more hours must I wait for you?" Aisha's voice rang as Rocky jerked awake towards the end of the day and looked around. It sounded like she had been right next to him and why hadn't she said days, instead of hours? What was going on that he didn't know about?
"What's wrong?" Mor asked as he had been walking around, gathering what they needed for the night.
"I keep hearing her and it's only getting worse," Rocky said, miserably, as Mor only nodded. He had expected that their communication would become more frequent as they came closer to her, but he had not thought it would make his companion completely miserable.
"We shall hurry, but you must keep your hopes up. We've only made good time so far because of how your spirits have been," Mor said, as Rocky nodded.
"I know, but now I have the added worry of problems with the rangers. If Kim was talking to me then the others were out in the field. Billy must be in great trouble for them to contact me. They wouldn't worry me about it if it wasn't a problem," Rocky said as he glowed bright blue and then it faded away. Mor had no clue what that might mean and Rocky didn't even notice it, so he thought it much better not to even raise a question.
"Your friend, Billy, was he well when you left?" Mor asked as Rocky nodded his head yes.
"He was fine. He didn't have any real problems that I know of and he was happy with Kat. Everything seemed perfectly fine," Rocky said as he stood up and sighed. "You know they let me come here, knowing that I might never come back to them, that they might be losing a ranger. I don't know how I can repay them for that. They knew what they could be losing and they still let me come here, to do what my heart wanted."
"Your friends seem to be much more than heroes," Mor said as he passed Rocky a knapsack. "Come, we will begin early tonight."
"Is there any way to skip a check point?" Rocky asked as Mor smiled and then shook his head no.
"That could only be done by constant walking and neither of us could stand that for long, even you as a ranger are human to some extent," Mor said as Rocky nodded that that was very true. He, however, couldn't help but want to get there as fast as possible and he thought that maybe there was some way to try. "My sister will be happy to see you."
"I'm glad you think so," Rocky said, as he looked up at the pale night sky and sighed. He hadn't been able to enjoy the night's sky out here in the middle of nowhere and he realized that he would not be able to do that because of the worries he had. "I can't be sure of anything right now, other than I have to get there quickly."
"Those dreams aren't telling you anything?" Mor asked as Rocky's eyes widened. How did he know that he was having dreams? He hadn't said anything about it to him. "You are very obvious, Rocky and you talk in your sleep. That helps a lot."
"She's waiting and in the last one she said something about how many more hours could she wait for me to get there. I just don't know how long someone can wait for something like this to happen before they find another alternative," Rocky said, as Mor nodded.
"Rocky, she's waited all her life. Ever since she could talk she asked of you and for you. Little did we know what this would bring on all of us. Although our mother is with Aisha, the rest of the family has been strung out in preparation for this journey. Adona will meet us at Zuna's, as well as everyone else whom we have imposed upon. You are bringing this family back together, as surely as everything else you will do," Mor said as Rocky could only shake his head in denial.
"If I had known, I would have come sooner," Rocky said, as Mor nodded.
"That is why you didn't know of any of it. The plan had to be made and numbers of things fulfilled before you came. Your ranger friends did the best thing they could by keeping you where you were. If you had come too soon, none of us would have been ready, you came when you were needed the most," Mor said as Rocky continued to walk forward, in a thoughtful silence.
"So, what will I have to do to release you from your counterparts?" Rocky asked as Mor smiled. It had taken Rocky long enough to get around to that point, but he couldn't blame him for that, other things had been on his mind.
"You will only have to release Aisha. Once the princess is released we will all be free. They can no longer hold us," Mor said as Rocky now saw there might be a second meaning to this mission that had previously not crossed his mind.
"Is there someone else to worry about?" Rocky asked, as Mor simply nodded his head yes. "Who?"
"The ruler of her tribe wishes to allow her to marry a man from a neighboring tribe as a peace offering," Mor said, as Rocky' eyes flickered red and he watched Rocky clench his fists in anger. He could now imagine why his dreams were becoming more vivid and worried. Aisha was afraid he would't make it in time. "It is to be held the day we enter that city. You will stop the marriage."
"How? I came for her and I thought…well I thought it would be a hell of a lot easier to get her," Rocky said as Mor smiled.
"Up for a run? We can possibly get extra sleep if we do," Mor said as Rocky nodded his head yes, but realized that Mor had not answered his question.
"I don't want extra sleep, I want extra miles," Rocky said as Mor heard the communicator go off and continued to run this time.
"Yeah," Rocky said, casually, as they ran on.
"Hey, Rocko. Look, I know that you have to do this in a certain way, but we need you man. Billy's been sent back to Aquitar," Tommy said as Rocky stopped dead in his tracks and could only stare at his wrist. What could have possibly happened to force them to send Billy back?
"Tommy, what's going on?" Rocky asked as he heard a sigh and realized that Tommy probably didn't want to say this to him over a communicator.
"It's really a long story, Rocky. You don't want to hear it with everything else you have to do," Tommy said as Rocky sent a violent shock wave to Tommy, who got the drift of its meaning very quickly. He knew that he did not want to piss Rocky off anymore. "Okay, I'll explain. Jeez, I never knew you had such a bad temper."
"Well, what happened?" Rocky prodded as Tommy sighed again.
"They came after him and it was all we could do to get him back to the Command Center alive. It's not pretty around here right now, Rocky," Tommy said as Rocky now knew what they were going to ask of him in a few mere seconds.
They needed him to come back to help them and that might mean that he was never able to find Aisha. They hated themselves for doing this, but he understood that Jason and Tommy couldn't risk Trini or Kim. It would leave too much guilt if something happened to one of them.
"Tommy, how long do I have?" Rocky managed to choke out, as Tommy looked around at the other rangers. They knew he was going to hate them for their answer, but there was nothing more that they could do.
"A day is the most that we can give you. I'm sorry about that Rocky," Tommy said, as Rocky then pulled out the map that he had folded up in his pocket and forgotten over the last few days.
"You have my current position, right?" Rocky asked.
"Yeah," Tommy said, rather confused as to why that was important in their conversation.
"Hold on for a little while and I'm going to give you the coordinates to send us to," Rocky said, abruptly ending the transmission, leaving the other rangers to look around at each other in confusion. "What region?"
"What do you mean?" Mor asked, as Rocky shoved the map at him.
"Where on this map is she?" Rocky asked as Mor studied the map and then pointed to a section. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, why is this important?" Mor asked as an idea suddenly dawned on him. He was going to get help from outside of them. "We are not going to go there in one day are we?"
"More like a couple of seconds," Rocky said as Mor stared at him, wondering how in the world that could be humanly possible to do. "I'm calling in a favor."
"Everything will be blotched if we do this," Mor said as Rocky turned around and glared at him.
"This is our only option. You heard them, I have one more day here to find her. If you won't do this, I might as well go back now and not even try to get to Aisha. They need me there much more than I need to be here," Rocky said as he pressed his communicator, with a tiny bit of anger. "Tommy, come in."
"I got you Rocky, what coordinates?" Tommy asked as Rocky studied the map again.
"40 degrees south, 15 degrees east," Rocky said as Tommy scribbled that down on a piece of scrap paper that Kat had handed him.
"Grab hold of your companion, it's going to be a bumpy ride," Tommy said as Rocky grabbed Mor's arm and felt them being teleported away.
AN: A new twist added to the tale. I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter and let me know what you think of it, the good and the bad. Toodles!