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Power Rangers Literati
"Spirited Beginnings"
'Part One, A Walk In The Woods'
By J.T. Magnus, "Turbo"

It was an ordinary day... They usually are until something happens. We've all known each other for years... I barely even remember how most of us met. I don't even remember why we were all out in the woods that day, I just remember that being the last ordinary day we had...

"Come on, you two, if we can't seperate from the group to have time alone, neither can you!"

"Shut up, J.T."

J.T. ran a hand through his dark hair, "Amanda, you should know by now that there's only three times I shut up and this isn't one of them."

Setting her long blonde hair swaying, Amanda turned her head to face one of the other girls in the group, "Jessica, do something about your boyfriend."

Under her own head of fire red hair, Jessica smiled, "And if I do, in two minutes you'll be complaining about how I do it."

Jon groaned, "Do you all mind? I wanna get this hike done with and get back home; I got things to do..."

J.T. leaned over and whispered to Amanda, "You actually wanted to go out with him at one time?"

"Do I have to bring up your past?"

"You fight dirty."

"Learned it from you."

From ahead of the five, two other people looked back.

"Come on, you guys," the guy said, "We're almost there."

"On our way, Justin," Jessica answered.

The other one, a girl, added, "It's just over the next hill."

"We're coming, Yolanda," the last member of the group, Daniel, replied.

That's us as we were. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, we weren't exactly the 'normal' demographic, but we got along ok... well, Jon Maxwell had always been a bit of an outsider, but the rest of us did.

I'm the one in the black jeans and jacket, with the hair to match, J.T., short for John Thomas, and yes, I have heard all the comments about my names. Even though I was one of the younger ones in the group, I was usually the leader because of my personality.

The girl in blue jeans and a denim jacket with the red hair is Jessica, my girlfriend. The three times I shut up I mentioned that day are when I'm eating, when I'm sleeping, and when Jessica and I are kissing... and the first two aren't set in stone.

The blonde girl is Amanda, and if it looks like she does most of her shopping in a new-age catalog... well, that's because she does, she's a wiccan. That doesn't bother me... it's more the unstoppable flow of Lord of The Rings comments that does that.

Her boyfriend is Daniel, and no, that's not grease on his face, he's black. One of the most enjoyable days in my life was when I got to see the look on Amanda's parents' faces when they met Daniel. Dan's either certifiably insane or has a serious problem with 'real life', and not even Amanda knows which it is.

The last girl in the group is Yolanda. In a way she's Amanda without the temper, unfortunately she's just as scary in her own way. Where Amanda's the overt scary, Yolanda is the hidden scary.

Justin is the 'normal' one of the bunch, but he's an okay guy anyway. He puts up with the rest of us, which means he has patience to put saints to the test.

The last member of the group is Jon, who like I said didn't always fit in with the rest of us. We never knew why, just that there was always something about him that seperated him from us... then we found out what it was...

"Woah..."

"Yep, that about sums it up," J.T. commented.

'It' was a large stone circle in the middle of the woods, divided into seven parts, that seemed to be untouched by man or nature. On each of the sections was a symbol of some kind.

Justin looked at them, "Amanda, Yolanda, you're the wiccans... what do you make of it all?"

Yolanda shrugged, "Like I said before, I don't recognize any of it."

Amanda shook her head, "Nothing I've ever seen before."

While they had been speaking, J.T. had knelt to get a closer look at the circle.

"This... is so... cool," he muttered

Amanda groaned, "Is that your professional opinion, Captain Kirk?"

"Nope... Professionally, my opinion is 'I don't have a clue what it is either'."

"So..." Jon began, "What do we do?"

"Well," J.T. answered, "We could try touching it..."

As he was saying that, he was reaching out. When his hand made contact with the circle, it caved in and a beam of light shot up, blinding the seven of them before they passed out. After they finally regained consciousness, hours later, Daniel shook his head...

"I've heard of nightmares... but in the middle of the day?"

J.T. groaned and put a hand to his forehead, "What in the name of Stan Lee happened?"

"I think some kind of gases or something knocked us out when that thing caved in," Jon answered.

"I don't know about you guys," Amanda said as she and the others made their way to their feet, "But I'm ready to go home and rinse this dirt and stuff off..."

"Yeah," Yolanda added, "Good idea."

The others had started walking, so they didn't see Jon hanging back, nor did they see his eyes flash a dark purple...