A/N: Hey ya's! Sorry this took so long. My muses gave me an idea fro an origanal story and I've been preoccupied with that. If you want to read it, go to my homepage, the link is on my Profile. I should tell you now though, it isn't for kiddies.

And I know it's spelled Poppa, but they way she's pronouncing it, its Pappa (Pa pa) that, and I spelled it like that since the first chapters and I don't feel like changing it now.

Anyways, Here's the latest chapter! I tried my best to work in a certain reviewers idea. It isn't completely the same as she suggested, but the idea came from her idea. So kudo's to you, SPDgirl!

Disclaimer: I don't own, so you can't sue!

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Chapter Four

Kat Manx watched her old friend as he was lost in his thoughts. She could tell he was torn. He wanted to believe that his wife came back to him, that she wasn't the Empress that the woman a told them about. But he had to face the facts that all that Syrea said had valid points.

"You know what was in that locket Kat?" He asked as she came to sit across from him. "A hologram, of her and her family. You, Me, and a smaller her. And that isn't a replica of the Shadow saber, or of the Shadow Ranger morpher. I tried them, they're the real things."

"How could she use the morpher? It's programed so only you can use it."

"She didn't. She doesn't. She took both of them of the dead body of her 'Pappa'. She said she would have gotten her mothers morpher as well, but it was destroyed beyond recognition."

They sat in silence, for a moment. "What am I going to do Kat?"

She sighed and decided to be truthful, even it hurt him. "You have to look at all the evidence, and decide for yourself. I can't decide for you, but no matter what, I'll stand by your decision. And I know the others will to." She leaned over and gave him a small kiss on his snout.

"So, are you going to ignore all the evidence, or are you going to admit you might be wrong?"

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Syrea stared shocked as she watched her father and Mother struck down by The Empress and Grumm. To shocked to move she sat behind a piece of rubble that concealed her from view. Soon, however, her shock turned into fury. "Pappa! Mom!" She screamed as she ran out from behind the rubble. And ran towards their dead bodies.

She grabbed her Fathers sword and held it like she was taught towards her parents murders. "I'll kill you!" She snarled at them.

Grumm didn't say a word but Isinia laughed in her face. "You, a pathetic hybrid?"

Syrea growled and swung the sword clumsily. "Stop laughing! I'm not pathetic!"

"Yes you are, "She taunted as she easily dodged Syrea's strikes, "You didn't even come out to save your parents! I'd say your pathetic and evil."

"Take that back! I'm good, And I'll prove it by getting my revenge!" She said, a light gleaming in her eyes.

"You could have saved them, you know?" Isinia said in a calm voice that chilled Syrea to the bone. "It would have been simple. You just needed to run out and distract us so your Father and Mother could have struck us down. But you didn't. You sat there and watched as they died."

That was to much for the hybrid and she stumbled. "No, that isn't true.. I could have saved them?" She mumbled to herself.

"Yes, but you didn't so it's all your fault... You Killed your parents." Isinia said in an almost gleeful voice.

"I killed mom and Pappa? I killed them... its my fault..."

Isinia smiled as tears rolled down Syrea's cheeks. Isinia motioned to Grumm who was standing, ready to strike Syrea down. "Leave her, this will be much worse than death for her. To be on the brink and racked with so much guilt."

The two turned from the hybrid crying on her knees beside her parents dead bodies.

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Syrea looked up to see Kat. "Hi..."

Kat nodded to her. "Hello, You've caused quite a ruckus within th academy during your short stay."

Syrea blushed and looked down at her hands. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Kat sat down across the table "So, how old are you? You don't look like your fully matured yet.."

Syrea smiled, but kept her head bowed. "I'm eighteen years old, in human years. But.. my parents always said I was as old as I felt."

"It must be still be hard. According to my species, 18 is a young child, barely out of infancy. But to others, you're on the verge of being an adult."

"Yeah.."Syrea said quietly to herself.

"Doggie told me your story, and I came to see your pendent for myself." Kat said in a gentle voice.

Syrea hesitated before taking it out of a pocket in her jeans and handed it to the Feline. "... Be careful with it, please?"

Not that Syrea could see it, but Kat smiled. "Of course." Kat took the pendent from the girl's hands, noting the black sharp nails of Syrea's hand. That confused her, neither Feline or Syrians had black nails.

"You're nails, why are they black?"

Syrea blinked and looked up, then to her nails. "Mom said that like the Rangers that beat Grumm the first time, my aunts and uncles, I have a power. Actually, I have two, this one is just a sideeffect of the first.

Syrea flexed her fingers and her nails lengthen into the size of swords. "Don't touch the tips," Syrea said as she looked at them with grim fascination. "They secrete an acid powerful enough to burn through anything."

"A child, yet an adult, whose on or beyond the verge of insanity, with powers like the Rangers." Kat thought. "No wonder Doggie is having such a hard time. On one hand, if he decides to believe this girl, He might end up ruining his relationship with his wife and unleash an insane killing machine. But If he decides to trust Isinia, he might let free the true force behind the Troobian empire and we could face Syrea's future."

Kat was drawn out from her thoughts when Syrea retracted her nails. "What's the other power?" Kat asked, trying to get as much information out of the girl as she could.

"It started after this one time," She said instead of answering the question out right. " When I was little, so I can't remember it well. But I was told I got to emotional and something bad happened. They would never tell me what happened, but I still made sure to keep from getting to emotional again." Syrea said, no emotion in her voice. "But I failed, and..."

Something snapped in Syrea as she sat crying by her parents bodies. She stood up calmly, keeping her head to the ground. "Stop." She said quietly, no hint of tears in her voice.

Isinia's ears picked up the small command and she turned around. "What was that?" She growled, sensing something different from the girl.

Syrea's head snapped up and her eyes were glowing, literally. "I said, STOP!"

Both grumm and Isinia was horrified when the scale patches on Syrea grew till they covered her. Her black cord like hair thinned till it was normal hair and covered the Hybrids body, her body made odd noises as Syrea fell down to the ground.

Her hair turned blue and her body grew while changing, her legs and arms repositioned themselves and her feet and hands became paws with long black nails and her face grew and contorted till it was the shape of a dogs, while her body became slender like a cats. Her tail, normally small and curly, grew and straitened till it looked like a wolf's.

When the transformation was complete, she looked like a large, as in gigantic, cat with a dogs head and a wolf's tail. The being pointed her head to the heavens and let out a sound between a cat's yowl and a dogs howl, before looking back at the now tiny Emperor and Empress.