Summary: As the fight continues, the rangers try to keep their lives as normal as possible while learning about their full powers.
The-power-of-love: Glad you liked it. :D I'll check out that fic when I find the time to.
Phantom Rogue: You don't know this. Ciana is the cutest! I'll update soon now, for a few days, don't worry about too much. :P
Juzblue: Not soon, but I will with the next 2 or 3 chapters. Glad you like the little 'moment', it just seemed to have sneaked into the chapter.
DizneeDol: I'm torturing myself by planning two more parts after this one is finished and then making a sequel to the series with the Element rangers, so yeah, I'm in for a tough ride.
Mz. Daydream: I love Ciana too, that's why she's getting her own series when this one is finished.
Jenny: You know… to think this series started while I was in class and the sun was shining into the room, but the trees were still bare… Like the first chapter. Who could've known it would turn out like this? When I was scribbling away I never dreamed of making a new ranger team in the process, two actually.
Ghostwriter: No need to wait any longer.
Mel: Yeah, I saw King Kong, but I thought it was rather funny. :P
Icefox35: Glad you like it.
As The Battle Rages
Chapter 3
"Hey Aurora!" A voice called out to her from behind. Aurora turned around and smiled at Collin. As he got closer, he asked, "Had a nice holiday?"
"My holiday was fantastic." She replied with a brilliant smile. "I got all my assignments done and I still had time left to spend with my family." She declared.
"Lucky you; I barely had time to spend a homework free Christmas with mine." Collin laughed. "Oh, before I forget, me and some friends are going to the movies Friday, want to come?"
"Well…" Aurora replied thoughtfully, a little hesitantly.
"Oh come on, I'm sure your friend Mack would want you to have fun. Life goes on you know." He persuaded with adequate puppy dog eyes.
"Alright, I'll come." Aurora sighed with a faint smile.
"Great!" Collin exclaimed a little too enthusiastically. "We'll meet you at the theatre – eight-o-clock, Friday; don't forget!" Collin informed her and ran off, leaving Aurora to stare after him, mind clouded with mixed feelings
That evening
"I know, Gen, but… I don't know."
"You're just going to a movie with some friends, that's not cheating on Mack." Genesis laughed through the phone, lazing on her bed casually.
"I know." Aurora replied half-heartedly.
"Then what's the problem?"
"Like I said, I don't know." Aurora almost cried in frustration.
"Okay, take it easy, I get it. Let's talk about something else. How's your roommate doing?"
"Oh god! I just realised. I am SO stupid!" Aurora exclaimed, totally ignoring Genesis's question.
"What's wrong?" Gen sighed, giving up in trying to distract her friend.
"I… I didn't correct him when he called Mack my friend."
"… So?" Gen asked blankly
"He'll think I'm free!" Aurora groaned.
"If he does, he's stupid and anyway, Rora, if you were it doesn't mean you're interested in him! How many times did we go to the movies with a bunch of friend as just friends? It doesn't have to mean anything. Quit worrying over it. If he was to try something you could always just slap him and leave. Teleport out for all I care! I mean, you yourself told me you weren't going to keep your identities as rangers from the world."
"That doesn't mean I'm going to teleport out of a movie theatre just because a guy made a move on me…"
"Would be fun. Just imagine the look on his face…"
Genesis listened to her friend laugh and smiled. That was one thing taken care of, but she prayed Friday evening wasn't about turn out as a disaster.
"Thanks, Gen. You really helped make me feel better. Hey, how about when the weather let's us, we take Ray, Gwyn and Ciana to the park Sunday?"
"Sounds great. Hey, I got to go, my mom's calling to get of the phone. I think she's wants to call Kelly."
"Alright, I'll talk to you later." Aurora sighed.
After she hung up, Aurora flopped down on her bed, looking around her room. Posters of movies, bands, half-naked movie stars and past ranger teams decorated the dull dirty white walls. On either side of the room stood a bed. At the end of her bed stood a desk and at the end of the other bed was a shared closet. It wasn't very convenient, but luckily Aurora got along with her roommate and her roommate liked making her homework on her bed rather than at a desk, so it didn't pose any trouble.
Both beds also had a nightstand beside them. Aurora smiled a little as she watched her roommate's nightstand. The small surface looked like a battlefield where a huge battle had raged before a rather large bomb had exploded and it had been shook like a snow globe. How Claire could ever find anything in that mess remained a mystery to Aurora.
Aurora's nightstand, on the other hand, was perfectly clean. On it were a few pictures, one of her and her parents taking just before Andros had disappeared. One of her, her mother and Ray, one of her and Mack at graduation and one from her whole family, taken just after Ciana had been born. Her mother was holding Ciana and smiling brightly in the camera, her father was sitting behind them, his arms wrapped around her mother's waist and his head resting on Ashley's shoulder and of course on either side of them, she and Ray. The perfect little family, Claire always teased.
In front of the pictures stood a digital alarm clock, though she never used it, it came in handy when she needed to know the time. Her cell phone lay next to it. Other than that, there lay a few jewellery items and her wallet.
A sigh escaped Aurora's lips as she stared at the stuff on her nightstand and that on Claire's. A few things on hers moved every once in a while, before the telekinesis ball on the desk at the end of her bed rose into the air and came to hover over Aurora's head, suddenly spinning wildly.
A smile appeared on Aurora's face as she watched the bright colours swirls and blend together in front of her eyes. She remembered her father using the same trick when she was younger and couldn't sleep. Back then she always tried to stop it from turning because it made her dizzy, but since her father was the stronger telepath back then, it only served to wear her out.
As she watched the wild swirl of colours, her eyelids slowly drooped and soon she was fast asleep, the telekinesis ball falling on the bed between her pillow and the wall. All cares were forgotten for the moment as her dreams carried her back through time to before her life had been messed up. Back to what she believed had been the perfect world.
A/N: Told you it would take some time to get this finished. Hope you liked it anyway. Please Review.
