Summary: As the fight continues, the rangers try to keep their lives as normal as possible while learning about their full powers.

Star Fata: Nah… I like getting reviews too much to run. And I really wanna know how your story ends… and how SU ends up looking like. :D

DizneeDol: This soon enough?

Phantom Rogue: Anlon likes Dymphna lots :D Yeah.. you got it all figured out.. not that hard when I told you… but still.

SweetSas: Well, Rora's here. :D

Jenny: Yeah… that was over a year ago… darn :sighs: Anyway, looks like this story is finally running to it's end quickly. I wanna update SU!

The-power-of-love: Soon enough?

As The Battle Rages

Chapter 32

The moment they entered Aurora's illusion, Ray dragged Dymphna over to his sister.

"Can you locate him from here?" He asked as he kneeled down next Aurora and indicated to the hospital bed, ignoring her shocked gasp. "She needs to know he's not real."

"How? I found him, but how does that help her?" Dymphna asked confused.

Ray grabbed her hand and laid the other on Aurora's arms. He closed his eyes and Dymphna felt a strange rush flow through her, feeling slightly dizzy and light-headed, as if her powers were being drained a little.

Moments later Aurora's head shot up, looking between Dymphna, Ray and the person in the hospital bed in disbelief. At her questioning gaze, Dymphna took a deep breath, knowing Ray wouldn't answer.

"That's him, the real him. Over there in that hospital bed… That's an illusion." She started, but Aurora shook her head.

"We saw him just before coming here." Ray reminded her quietly. "Remember? He was perfectly fine, pretending to let Ciana pilot the shuttle with it on Autopilot."

A small smile appeared on Aurora's face at the memory.

"Yeah." She answered slowly, but then her gaze swung back to hospital bed.

"Please, Rora, believe us. I'm telling you, this is not real. Dad is just fine and he's not going to die any time soon. Gwyn pretty much assured us that."

"She never mentioned she had a younger sibling though." Aurora muttered, though her protest was weaker and she found herself starting to give in.

"So the future has changed a little." Ray protested. "That doesn't mean we'll be losing dad again. Please?"

Carefully Aurora reached out and caught her baby brother in a tight hug.

"Always." She whispered softly, looking past Dymphna to the other rangers assembled.

They looked rather horrified to watch Andros lay in the hospital bed, dying over and over again. Kagan was the first to notice her watching them and the rather suspicious look on her face.

"Well, do we get out leader back or what?" He opted, the other rangers nodding in agreement.

With a firm nod, Aurora released Ray and got to her feet. With a smile she offered him her hand and pulled him back to his feet too. She didn't let go of his hand when he stood though and shot one last look at the illusion of Andros in the hospital bed as the heart-monitor flat-lined yet again.

"Let's get out of here." Aurora grinned, turning back to the other rangers and giving Ray's hand a squeezed.

This time the room didn't brighten, Ray pulled back out of the illusion himself, keeping a firm grip on Aurora's hand. His vision turned dark yet again, but Aurora didn't disappear like the others did. He felt her mental presence struggle to stay with him, close to him.

He was aware of his eyes still being closed, yet he could see Aurora. Just as he opened his eyes, her eyes blinked open too. Ignoring the effects of the mist, she sat up with a grin and hugged Ray tightly.

"Thank you." She whispered, before turning to the other rangers. "Thank you all."

"Just doing our job." Dakota replied with a wink. "Now can we get our sister back too?"

Aurora laughed and nodded, scrambling to her feet. Beside her, Ray turned just enough to grab ahold of Chaitlin. Then he slipped his hand into Aurora's with a smile. Kayla took her other hand while taking a hold of her twin. Hand in hand the Zodiac rangers formed a line, all siblings holding ending up holding each other's hands, drawing silent support.

"Whenever you're ready, Ray." Kagan said from the end of the line.

Ray nodded and moments later they all invaded Chaitlin's fear together.

"Duck!" Was the next thing that was heard and the rangers found themselves fighting an evil Ray, Aurora, Kayla and Dakota.

Because they were the evil versions, nothing was holding them back from using the full potential of their powers and the rangers were struggling to keep them a bay.

"It's me, you idiot!" Ray exclaimed, ducking a punch aimed to him by one of his teammates. "Aurora! Get to Chaitlin and talk some sense into her."

"How!" Aurora yelled back, but broke free from the fight anyway, wincing slightly to see her evil-self start pummelling Anlon.

"Whatever feels right!" Ray replied, sweeping the legs from out under Dakota, only to find his cousin glaring at him – though not with red eyes. "Sorry, Kota."

"This isn't going to be pretty." Dakota replied with a groan while Ray helped him back to his feet.

Ray nodded in silent agreement before plunging himself back into the fight. There had to be some way to keep good and evil apart… but how?

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