DEADLY DREAMS
Authors Note: Well, here it is...the final chapter of Deadly Dreams...the one that determines the final ranger's fate. but first...
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Blue Eyed Dragon Girl: Thanks for your review. And I'm not revealing anything about the girl, but she will be revealed in this chapter...maybe. BTW, I understand your insight...I only wrote it like I did because I wanted to make this chapter as detailed as possible. If people find it too graphic and complain, then I shall replace it with a less-bloody version. I just wanted to put across the impression of Dustin in a lot of pain and torture. I wanted the reader to feel it. But thank you for your comments, and I shall keep your review in mind for this chapter and future stories. (bows politely)
Mimi2: How is it confusing...I'm trying to use a different writing technique for each chapter. Also, you are the first person to mention the connection to the pink ribbon (gives you and award) Thank you for noticing, and most of your answers shall be answered in this chappie.
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garnetred: The storyline itself is meant to be a little confusing. Blake did fall off the cliff and that little bit at the end was him at the end of his life. I know I didn't write that in, but that is what the POV was meant to entail. But as I said, the storyline itself is meant to be confusing, but it keeps the reader wondering if all this is real, or if it is just a dream. Thanks for your comments and I hope what I've said makes at least some sense to you and the others reading this.
pikachucranstongirl: No, there's no sequel (well not yet at least) but all answers and loose ends are in this book. Thanks for the review!
BOOK VI
Red Spirit
"The body of a 19 year old man was found in his home with an arrow through the front of his head. The identity of the individual is unknown, but police believe that the attacker wiped the victims identity from the face of the eath so as to cover his tracks.
'Suspects are limited at this time,' the police commissioner said in a statement to the press today..."
Shane turned off the TV and looked at his Sensei.
"That was Dustin, wasn't it?" he asked, a saddened look in his eyes. Sensei Watanabe nodded slowly.
"You are the only Wind Ranger left Shane," replied the old man. "and only you can defeat this evil force." At that moment, there was an explosion and the door to Ninja Ops was blown open and there she stood. The girl that had caused this trouble.
"Finally I have found you red ranger!" she growled, Shane leaping to his feet and taking on a defensive stance. "Time for you to die now!" Here she paused for a moment whilst gazing at Sensei. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, Kanoi. I thought you would've known better. Whilst I was alive you were young and full of life. Now you're just a feeble old man who can't even protect his rangers."
Sensei Watanabe was just staring in shock at the girl, before he finally spoke to her.
"We can't all be like you Miko," he said quietly.
"No, we can't," she sneered. "And I'm glad that memory of yours hasn't lost it's edge." Suddenly, young Miko began to glow an eerie green and she began to grow. After a few moments, she had turned herself into the form that she loved most...the form of her 24 year old self, the age she was when she met Kanoi all those years ago. "When I died, Vexacus was able to capture my soul and he showed me true power. Now I can walk the earth freely, but if I kill all the rangers, he will make the change from spirit to human permanent!"
"Miko, this is not you!" Kanoi said. "What happened to the Miko I knew and loved all those years ago when Kiya tried to steal the Samurai Amulet? What happened to the memories of our son whom, I'm assuming, you killed along with the others?"
"They are gone now, you senile old fool!" she answered, waving her hand and sending him flying into a table. At this, she turned her attention back to the red ranger. "Now...it's your turn...but I won't be the one to kill you." She smirked. Reaching into the black leather suit she wore, she pulled out five pink ribbons, and each one was glowing a different colour. "Shadow Rangers!" she yelled and threw the ribbons into the air. Instantly, the five ribbons began to glow even brighter, then begin to change form.
One was Tori.
One was Blake.
Another was Hunter.
The fourth was Cam.
The last was Dustin.
The five Shadow Rangers now stood before the real Shane, their eyes blank.
"What did you do to them?" Shane demanded.
"The same thing as was done to me," Miko answered. "They have been...persuaded to join the other side. Now Shadow Rangers! Get him!" The five Rangers nodded and then charged for Shane.
"Agh!" he yelped in surprise before fighting back. Although he didn't want to, he knew that it was the only way. Dodging a punch from Shadow Hunter, Shane jumped up and hit Shadow Dustin and Shadow Cam with a blast of energy, making them stagger backwards before charging at him again. Shadow Tori and Shadow Blake leapt up and hit Shane in the back and he fell into a table.
"Ok, this is getting annoying!" he growled, pulling himself to his feet. The five Shadow Rangers surrounded him. "I guess I have no choice..." At that moment, he flipped over their heads and raced for the computer.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" shrieked Miko, her face twitching with anger. Shane continued to press buttons before saying anything to her.
"Taking us to a place where you can do no more harm!" he said, and slammed his hand down on the red activation button in the centre of the keypoard. Instantly, the seven of them were transported to the beach.
"You think this will stop us from destroying you or harming anyone else?" she sneered, her cold voice revealing hints of humour. Shane just walked up to her and looked her in the eye, the Shadow Rangers staying behind him.
"You are the mother of one of my best friends," he whispered to her. "And I will try to save you...for him." Shane then powered up to his ranger form and struck out at Miko. The Shadow Rangers grabbed him and threw him into the water. The next thing he knew, he was seeing five beams of light being shot at him. The five beams intersected his ranger suit, instantly powering him down, and he flew through the air and landed in the water, all his energy drained. As he floated underwater, everything seemed to go in slow motion. The current of the water...the hands reaching down to grab him...the voices in his head...
"Shane...listen to our voices..." said Tori.
"You must defeat Miko..." Blake called.
"To save us..." whispered Hunter.
"Strike her with our power...use us..." Dustinadded.
"Save my mother by destroying her Shane..." finished Cam.
As the hands of the Shadow Rangers lifted the red ranger out of the water and dragged him back to shore where Miko stood, he remembered the voices and he felt new life flow through him, but he pretended to be weak as before.
"Pitiful ranger," spat Miko. "Look at you! You are weak! Pathetic! I could destroy you now, but that would be immoral...I want to see you suffer!"
"I won't be...the one suffering..." Shane managed to say. "You will!" Suddenly, he screamed and threw the five Shadow Rangers off of him. Then he just stood there screaming, flames beginning to surround his body in a multitude of colour...blues, navys, crimsons, yellows and greens...the five colours of his friends. Then, he stopped yelling and looked at Miko, fire and lightning in his eyes.
"I am using the power my friends have given me," he growled in a voice not his own. "Unified, we are unstoppable and not even you can destroy this power Miko!" As he said this, the crimson, navy and green flames began to spirial around his right arm whilst the yellow and blue ones entered his morpher on his left wrist. On his other arm a new morpher had appeared and the two of them were glowing.
"Now it's time to show you a new power!" he said, stretching both his arms out to his sides. "DELTA STORM! RANGER FORM! HA!" As he said this, he locked the two morphers together over his chest. Intantly, he began to transform as fire, water, wind, earth and thunder surged around him, locking a black suit to his body. The Battlizer that Shane used to use locked on the suit as an armour, but it was in Lightning Mode like what the Storm Megazord transformed into for 60 seconds, but this change was permanent.
"Your new outfit doesn'r scare me Shane," sneered Miko, scoffing at the new dudds.
"My name is not Shane, Miko." replied the new ranger in a voice that was not just Shane's, but that of the other Wind Rangers as well. "I am known as Delta."
"Does not matter if you are Delta or Dipstick," Miko replied sarcastically. "I will destroy you!"
"Hah! Right!" said Delta smugly. "Gimme your best shot!" At this, Miko waved her hand at the Shadow Rangers, telliong them that this was her fight, and she leapt into the air and kicked Delta in the chest, but she went straight through him and crashed into the ground.
"Um...Miko?" asked Delta. "I thought you were meant to hit me?" Furious at this mockery, She got up and charged again, but not only did Delta avoid this one also, but he struck her on the back and sent her flying into the cliff. The Shadow Rangers charged at Delta at this, but he just knocked them away like they were nothing.
"You...are still...pathetic..." gasped Miko.
"You have hurt us Miko," replied Delta, although his voice was prominent with the voices of the six rangers. "And for that, we must banish your dark side to the depths of the Abyss, whilst your light shall be restored to its rightful place upon the Mountain of Lost Ninjas." At this, Delta drew his weapon, the Delta Rod, and held it over Miko's head. "Now you shall know the power of the ancient ones." Then, holding the Rod above his head, he began to chant...
"We call upon the songs of thee
Oh ancient ones, bring power to me
Through me and thine, may our light shine
Your powers to restore the light
Your song it's heard beyond and high
It's healing melody from thee and thy
And its power great, remove thine hate
And heal the soul's might"
Whilst a strange, haunting yet alluring melody emanated from the Rod, the Shadow Rangers slowly disappeared and a dark mist began to radiate from Miko's body, putting her into a spirit form, all the while shrieking in pain.
"Now Miko, may your light shine strong and your demon's begone!" As he said this, he stabbed the spirit Miko with the Rod and as he did so, a bright white light flew out of the contact point, covering everyone and everything...
When she awoke, Tori was laying in the ditch beside the highway.
"Ugh," she groaned, sitting up and rubbing her head. "What happened?" she asked no one in particular. Getting up, she shook her head, got her bearings and began to head home to call Blake.
Blake awoke on the beach, covered in sand.
"That was one freaky dream," he said, and wandered off towards Hunter's.
Hunter sat bolt upright, his head covered in sweat.
"No way..." he muttered, and he got up to make a call.
Cam snored loudly on his lawn when Blake came over to wake him up.
"Huh...wha...?" he asked, putting on his glasses.
"Dude, you were sleeping on your lawn!" Blake told him, trying hard not to laugh.
"Oh great!" Cam replied, thanked Blake and went with him to Hunter's after locking up the house.
Dustin woke up to him hanging half out of his window with Cam and Blake down on the footpath yelling at him.
"Oi! Keep it down!" he yelled back at them and pulled himself inside. "Some people..."
Shane awoke in Ninja Ops.
"What's going on?" he asked, wondering why he was there.
"You have saved everyone Shane," said Sensei Watanabe. "You are all back to how you were before Miko attacked."
"Good," said Shane, found that everyone was at Hunters and headed there himself.
On the beach, a small fragment of a crystal glowed, and a shrill, cold, evillaugh could be heard coming from it...
"Soon rangers," it said. "Soon..."
Khion: Well, there it is! The final chappie! Hope you enjoyed. Please R&R!