Hey, fellow Ranger Fans! I'm glad to bring you Chapter 15! This is actually earlier than I planned to have it finished, but things just worked out enough for this to be early. I want to thank JTWAS1994 for his continued support and reviews, as well as infused-with-madness for his following of my story and SIr Perfluous (who inspired my story in the first place with his Power Ranger stories, check them out!) for his review. Anyway, on with the story!

Myth 15: Family Matters

"I need more time…" Hades growled as he looked at the flame screen showing his Spartoi army as it continued to grow. "I need to keep the Rangers distracted!"

Hades was about to continue his monologue when the doors to his throne room flew open and a strange creature walked through. She had three heads on long necks, 2 arms that looked like heads and a head design on her chest, giving her six heads total.

"It's been almost 2 months! When am I getting revenge on the Blue Ranger that slaughtered my sister, Charybdis?" she asked. "Do you expect me to wait forever?"

"No, Scylla," Hades said as he clasped his hands together. "I've just been waiting for the right time to use you, and I think now is that time!"

Hades dipped his hand into the brazier and pulled out a blue fireball that he threw at the wall. The fire formed into a ring that quickly became a portal.

"Thank you, my lord," Scylla said. "The Blue Ranger will soon be dead at my feet!" With that, she walked through the portal.

"I look forward to seeing it," Hades said.


"Man, it's been a quiet week," Jay said as he sat down at the lunch table. "No monsters. No Spartoi. Just boring old normal stuff."

"Are you really complaining?" Valerie asked as she sat down beside him. "I think it's kind of nice to get a break."

"Besides, Thanksgiving is this week," Mera said as she joined the conversation. "It is the perfect time for family and rest."

Victor nodded in agreement.

"Speaking of families, I guess we don't know much about yours," Jay said as he looked over at Nate. "Care to share more about them?"

"Not really," Nate said before he started devouring his burger.

"Ok then…" Valerie said as they all looked at each other. The conversation had hit a dead point, and the teens decided to just enjoy their lunches instead.


It was after training for the day, and the sun was slowly setting.

Nate sighed as he crossed the street to his house.

The others just wouldn't understand, he thought as he unlocked the front door and walked in.

"I'm home!" he shouted through the house and up the stairs.

"Nathaniel, is that you?" a woman shouted back down the stairs.

"No, it's some stranger who just happens to sound exactly like me," Nate said to himself as he climbed up the stairs. He walked into the first room, and was met by a wall of sound. There was screaming and crying and yelling from every corner of the room.

Nate was about to step forward before two young children rolled right in front of him. They were in a wrestling match, and neither was giving an inch.

Nate stepped around them and found his mother in the middle of 4 children. She was a 40ish year old African-American woman with her hair tied up in a bun. She was holding one child in her arm, holding the hand of another one, and stopping two from fighting with the rest of her body.

"Hello, Nathaniel," Mrs. Seymor said. "How was your day?"

"Not as crazy as yours, apparently," Nate said as he grabbed the child from his mother's arm and put him in the crib before grabbing the other one's hand from his mother's and leading him to the play area.

"It's been one of those days," his mother said as she put the four fighting children in time-out.

"I can tell," Nate replied.

"Well, I wouldn't have had this many children if I couldn't handle them," his mother said as she sat down next to the playing child.

"I just wish we could afford a nanny or something," Nate said. "You really need the help."

"Your father's doing the best he can, but there's only so much he can do," his mother explained. "Being a journalist for a newspaper doesn't pay as much as it used to."

"I keep telling you that he needs to go digital," Nate said. "Online news sites could use a man like him."

"Eventually, we'll be able to afford a computer, and then he can start making some real money," Mrs. Seymor said as she stood up. "Now watch the kids for a minute so I can freshen up."

"Mm hm," Nate said as he watched the child play. "I'll make sure nothing goes wrong until you get back."

As soon as his mother left the room, the children in time-out stood up and ran to hug their brother.

"Hey, guys," Nate said. "You know Mom's gonna throw a fit if she finds out you're breaking time-out rules."

"We know," the four children chorused.

"We just wanted to see you!" one said.

"Yeah!" the others agreed.

"Alright, you saw me, now back in those seats," Nate said as he herded the four children back into their chairs. Mrs Seymor came back into the room, and found all of the children where she left them.

"I've got homework to do," Nate said as he stood up and walked to the door. "Just call if you need help."

"You do your homework," Mrs. Seymor said. "I'll manage."


"Nathaniel! Time for dinner!" Mrs Seymor shouted up the stairs.

Nate walked downstairs and found the dining room to be as much of a mess as the play room had been. The children were everywhere, knocking things over and trying to find something to do.

"Alright," Nate said as he grabbed the smallest of the kids and put him in a high chair. "Time for dinner, guys. You know the drill."

The kids, excluding the baby, all climbed into their chairs as Mrs Seymor walked in with a steaming hot large bowl. She set it down on the table and then went back for bowls.

"Vegetable soup," she said as she came back in with mix-matched bowls. "Dig in!"

Nate helped pour the soup into the bowls and then filled his own.

"Where's Dad?" Nate asked as he sat down.

"He called and told me the newspaper has him looking into some sort of monster in the lake in the park," his mother said. "It's apparently like Nessie or something like that."

Might need to look into that tomorrow, Nate thought to himself.

"I was actually going to bring the family to the park tonight and surprise him," Mrs Seymor said.

Or tonight, Nate thought before speaking out. "Sure, sounds great!"

"Now dig in before it gets cold," Mrs Seymor said, and Nate could only agree with his mother and his grumbling stomach.


"I know I said Tuesday was 'date night' for us, but I didn't really mean every Tuesday!" Valerie argued playfully as she and Jay sat down in the booth across from each other.

"Hey, I thought you'd at least appreciate the variety," Jay playfully argued back. "I could have picked the same place over and over."

Valerie looked around. It was a small diner on the west side of town. While it wasn't the fanciest place in the world, it wasn't a total dive either.

Valerie was about to respond when her and Jay's morphers went off. Jay looked around quickly before pulling it out of his pocket and putting it on.
"This is Jay," he said.

"Hey, fearless leader," Nate said through the morpher. "I know it's date night and all, but have you heard the rumors around the lake?"
Jay looked up at Valerie, who shook her head.

"Nope, what about it?" he asked.

"Apparently there's some kind of monster in the lake. My family and I were about to go, and I wanted to make sure someone was aware. You know, in case we get attacked or something," Nate explained.

Jay blinked a few times in surprise before answering.

"That's...actually good planning," Jay said, a little taken aback by his teammate's forethought.

"Yeah, yeah," Nate said, shrugging it off. "Whatever. Nate out."

Jay put his morpher back in his pocket and looked at Valerie.

"What just happened?" he asked. "Nate seemed a little...different."

"Maybe he's just becoming more responsible due to his family dynamic," Valerie said before taking a sip of her water.

"So being with his family makes him more responsible?" Jay asked.

"Exactly," Valerie said. "It's a good change for him."

"Ok…" Jay said, not convinced. "Now where did that waiter go?"


Nate and his family walked down the path in the park. The baby was in a stroller, and all of the other kids were walking around Nate and his mother, who was pushing the stroller.

"I can't see anything!" one of the kids shouted. Nate knelt down and put him on his shoulders.

"Can you see now?" he asked.

The other kids started to complain about how they wanted a turn as the family finally reached the lake. Nate put the kid on his shoulders down, and tried to find his father. Eventually, he saw him by the side of the lake.

"Hey! I found Dad!" he announced.

All of the children ran up to their father at once. He was a man in his fifties, with black hair but graying temples. He knelt down and was tackled by all 5 kids at once.

"Glad to see you too, kids, but Daddy needs to breathe now," Mr Seymor said as he rolled the kids off of him.

"Hey, Dad," Nate said as he reached out a hand to help his father stand up. His father took it and Nate pulled his father up.

"Hey," his father said as he brushed the dirt off his pants. "How are you doing?"

"Fine, I guess," Nate said. "Find any monsters yet?"

"Nothing," Nate's father said with a shake of his head as he turned his back to the lake.

Nate looked over his father's shoulder and saw a dark mass fastly approaching.

"Dad! Move!" he shouted as he shoved his father out of the way. A head on a long neck came flying at Nate and sent him flying into the air before hitting a tree. He groaned as he quickly got up.

"Get out of here! Now!" Nate shouted. His mother and the children ran away, but Nate's father got up from the ground and stood frozen in fear as a large, scaly creature rose from the water.

"Dad, you gotta get out of here!" Nate said as he ran towards the two.

A head attached to a long neck wrapped around Nate's father's waist and dragged him into the water.

"Blue Olympian Power!" Nate shouted as he crossed his morphers over his chest. In a flash of blue light, Nate morphed in the Blue Olympian Ranger.

"This is Nate, I need back-up now!" he shouted before diving headfirst into the lake.

Luckily, the lake wasn't very murky, and Nate could see well enough to know which direction to go: forward. Nate summoned his Ocean Trident as he swam forward. Ahead of him, he could see his now unconscious father being dragged by Scylla towards the bottom.

Nate surged forward and tried to stab the head with his trident, but pulled back when the head moved away, using his father as a shield. Nate growled. He couldn't hit his father with his trident, but he couldn't just let Scylla get away.

Nate sent his trident to the pocket dimension and tried karate chopping the neck. This proved ineffective, as the chop just bounced off Scylla's hard scales.

Finally, Nate just used his strength to try prying his father from Scylla's grip. As he pulled on the neck, he felt Scylla's hold weaken just enough for Mr Seymor to be freed. Nate let go of the neck and pulled his father up to the surface.

As they broke the surface, Mr Seymor coughed as he could finally breathe. He opened his eyes and looked around.

"Where am I? Where's the monster?" he asked frantically.

"You're safe, sir," Nate said as he tried to disguise his voice, "but I need to get you onto dry land."

"My family…" Mr Seymor said as he and the Blue Ranger swam towards the edge of the lake. "Did they get away?"

"They did," Nate said. "One young man ran one way to get help, and the rest ran the other way."

The two reached land and stepped back onto the grass.

"Now, sir," Nate said. "I need you to run. It's not safe for you here."

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Mr Seymor said as he ran off in the same direction the rest of the family had run off to.

Scylla climbed out of the lake and glared at the Blue Ranger with her six heads.

"I wanted you to feel the pain of losing a family member like I did!" she shouted. "I'll just make you feel the pain of death instead!"

"What the hell do you mean by 'lose a family member'?" Nate said. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"My sister Charybdis!" Scylla said. "You killed her! You and the Red Ranger!"

"She was trying to kill us first!" Nate argued.

Scylla was about to argue further when Jay, Victor, Mera, Valerie, Adrian and Diana, already morphed, flipped through the air and landed next to Nate.

"We came as soon as we could," Mera said.

"Are you ok?" Valerie asked.

"Fine," Nate said, "but this monster threatened my family! Let's take her down!"

"Right!" Jay said, "let's go!"

The Rangers charged, summoning their weapons as they did. Jay came in with a strong horizontal slash that was deflected by Scylla's scales. Nate was next and struck with a powerful stab with his trident that had the exact same effect. Victor swung his hammer down in a bone-crushing attack that once again bounced off. Mera stabbed with her spear and, once again, the weapon bounced off. Valerie and Adrian launched several glowing arrows that bounced off, causing the other Rangers to have to dodge their own teammate's attack. Diana ducked and weaved past the arrows and Scylla's heads to come in for a double stab with her daggers which bounced off, just like all of the other attacks.

The Rangers regrouped in front of Scylla again.

"This doesn't seem to be working," Adrian said.

"Our attempts are proving ineffective," Mera agreed.

"Her scales are deflecting all of our attacks," Valerie said.

"Well, fearless leader?" Nate asked Jay. "Any ideas?"

"Maybe...It might just work…" Jay said to himself before looking up at the team. "OK, here's the plan…"

A few moments later, the team broke their huddle and turned towards Scylla.

"Let's go!" Jay shouted as he, Nate, Victor, Mera and Diana charged at Scylla. Scylla lashed out with her heads, attempting to bite the attackers in half. The Rangers rolled out of the way and each one grabbed a head and put it in a headlock.

"Valerie! Adrian! Do it now!" Jay ordered as he struggled to hold onto the head. He put his hands in her mouth and started to force it open.

Valerie took aim and fired an energy arrow into Scylla's mouth before heading to the next head being held open by Nate. She and Adrian did this for each of the five heads the other Rangers were holding.

The Rangers let go and backed up as Scylla started thrashing around in pain. They backflipped away as the heads got closer and closer.

Finally, Scylla stopped and collapsed, finally defeated. She exploded in a cloud of fire and ash as the Rangers posed in front of it.

"A job well done," Mera commented as the Rangers walked away.

"Yup," Victor agreed.

"Now I gotta find my family and…" Nate said before looking behind him. "Aw, come on!"

The Rangers turned around to find Scylla's remains reforming in a blue light before growing many stories above them.

"This is more like it!" Scylla laughed as she slammed one of her head-arms on the ground near the Rangers, shaking them up.

"Alright, send the Zords!" Jay ordered into his morpher.

The Eagle, Owl, and Raven Zords swooped in, with the Eagle Zord carrying the Fish Zord in its claws. The Deer Zord, Bull Zord and Horse Zord ran into the park, stopping on the grass.

The Rangers leapt into their cockpits and put their Olympian Gems in the slots.

"Let's form Centaur Mode!" Jay ordered as the Rangers turned their dials to the correct mode.

The Horse Zord was first, as it ran forward and had the head move into a chest cavity before closing up.

The Bull Zord was next, as its head came off before the legs folded into the body. The entire Bull Zord then landed on the horse as the bodies clicked into place

Next came the Owl Zord. As its head detached from the body and the body detached from the wings, the wings clipped onto the sides of the Eagle Zord and expanded, forming the arms.

The Eagle Zord was next. As its wings clipped off together in one long arc-shaped piece and its legs slid into its body before it connected to the Horse Zord and Owl Zord, it was now forming the entire body of the combination. The Eagle Zord head screeched and opened up its mouth to fit the other side of the Owl Zord's head into it, revealing a different robotic face.

The Fish Zord clipped onto the back after folding a bit to form the quiver, with the dorsal fin splitting into "arrows". The Eagle Zord's wings went into the Megazord's left hand to create a bow.

"Olympian Megazord: Centaur Mode! Ready!" the Rangers shouted as they met up in the central cockpit. Jay was in the front with Nate diagonally to his right, Victor diagonally on his left, Valerie diagonally behind Nate and Mera diagonally behind Victor.

"Alright, Sis," Adrian said to Diana through his morpher, "let's form Silver Mode!"

The twins flipped the switch to SILVER MODE and the Zords began to transform.

The Deer Zord leapt into the air as its body began to transform. The front half of the body slid into the back half as the front legs popped off. The Raven Zord flapped its wings once more before they bent in the center. They folded down, covering the body with the entire body splitting in two, with the wings forming a covering over the legs. The Deer Zord came down and connected to the now split Raven Zord body forming the legs The front legs of the Deer Zord reattached by connecting to the back legs, now arms, forming thicker arms. The Deer Zord mouth opened, revealing a face hidden inside the head. It now looked like a robot in an animal pelt of some kind.

"Gemini Megazord: Silver Mode, ready!" the twins shouted as they joined together in a single cockpit, with Adrian on the left and Diana on the right.

The Olympian Megazord: Centaur Mode galloped forward, pulling an arrow out of its quiver and firing it at one of Scylla's open mouths. Scylla snapped her teeth down on it, splitting it in half and causing little to no damage.

The Gemini Megazord: Silver Mode stomped up to Scylla and tried to wrestle one of its heads into the ground but was quickly thrown off.

"What do we do now?" Valerie asked.

"We keep fighting!" Jay ordered as he pushed his controls forward.

The Olympian Force Megazord: Centaur Mode galloped forward, charging at Scylla and rammed into her, causing both the Megazord and Scylla to be damaged. Scylla responded by biting down on the Megazord with three of her heads, with one biting the head and two biting the arms.

The Rangers cried out as sparks flew from the controls.

The Megazord galloped back, away from Scylla.

"Our Megazord can't take another hit like that!" Victor warned.

"If anyone has any suggestions, I'm open to them," Jay said as the Megazord continued to back away from Scylla.

"I hate to be the voice of reason," Nate said, "but what if we put our Megazords together? The Zords are like family, right? And family sticks together!"

"Sounds good to me!" Jay said. "Adrian? Diana? Want to give it a try?"
"We've got nothing better," Adrian admitted. "So let's do it!"

"Hermes, is there a way to combine the Megazords?" Jay asked through his morpher.

"There is," Hermes said. "I'm sending the data to your Zords now."

A new button popped out of the console for each Ranger with a "P" on it. One by one, the Rangers pressed it and the Zords quickly responded by splitting apart before coming together in a new combination.

The Bull Zord was the first to change, as the head came off, the body split apart and the legs flipped around 180ᣞ and the front and back legs combined.

The Horse Zord was next, as its head went into a chest cavity while the front and back legs combined together and connected to the Bull Zord legs, forming a complete waist, legs and feet.

The Eagle Zord was next. As its wings clipped off together in one long arc-shaped piece and its legs slid into its body before it connected to the Horse Zord, it was now forming the entire body of the combination.

Next came the Owl Zord. As its head detached from the body and the body detached from the wings, the wings clipped onto the sides of the Eagle Zord and expanded, forming the arms.

Fifth was the Fish Zord. As the entire dorsal fin and tail came off, it popped open completely in half before coming onto the Eagle Zord's body as a chestplate and combining together again. The tail folded into a plume that went onto the Eagle Zord's head to complete the helmet look. The horns from the Bull Zord head attached together and became a straight point before combining with the dorsal fin to create a large spear that went onto the Megazord's back. The Owl Zord body lengthened itself a bit before the head slid into a hole in the center, finishing the shield, which went on the right arm.

The Raven Zord's legs came off before the main body and head of the Raven Zord clipped onto the front of the Megazord's chestplate, forming a gentle u-shape with its wings. The legs attached to the Megazord's arms to form small wristbands/ gauntlets.

The Deer Zord split in half vertically before both halves slid out and the center rose out from between them, revealing a gladius hidden in there. The Deer Zord reattached at the waist, forming the bottom of an armored tunic resembling the one a Roman soldier would wear. The gladius went into the Megazord's left hand.

The Rangers met up in a single cockpit. Jay was in the front row in the center with Nate and Victor on his left and right respectively. Diana, Mera, Valerie and Adrian were sitting in that order in the back row.

"Pantheon Megazord, ready!" all seven Rangers announced.

The cockpit began to glow with all of the power this combination was putting out.

The Pantheon Megazord marched forward, shield in front to block Scylla's first head. The Megazord pushed the head aside with its shield before slashing the head with its gladius. The head came clean off as the blade cut through her once impenetrable scales like a hot knife through butter.

Scylla screamed out of her remaining heads in pain before the Pantheon Megazord cut another one off, leaving three. One by one the heads came flying at the Megazord in a blind rage, and one by one the Megazord cleaved right through them.

Scylla roared through the head on her chest as the necks lashed out like tentacles to wrap up the Megazord's limbs. The final head launched an energy beam out of its mouth that the Megazord absorbed with its Raven Emblem/Armor and launched back at her with double the power. Scylla's necks let go of the Megazord as she weakly began to back away from her enemies.

"Begin final attack!" Jay ordered as the Megazord leapt into the air. The Eagle Zord's wings popped out of the Megazord's back to lift it higher and closer to the sun. The sun's rays reflected off of the Raven Emblem/Armor and struck the gladius that began to glow with the same light energy.

"Light of the Olympians!" the Rangers announced as the Pantheon Megazord came down in a large two-handed slash with the sword.

"My sister! I have failed you!" Scylla roared as she collapsed and exploded in fire and ash.

"You may have failed your family, but I'll never fail mine," Nate said. "Biological or self-created."

"That's the spirit!" Valerie cheered.

"Speaking of my family, I should probably go see if they're ok," Nate said as he tried to push Jay and Victor out of the way. "So scootch, or you will be scootched."


"Dad!" Nate said as he ran into his father's arms. "I ran for help, but couldn't find anybody...Sorry."

"It's fine. The Blue Ranger saved me!" Mr Seymor said. "He was amazing! I'm writing to the newspaper to get me on the Ranger story!"

"Sounds great, Dad," Nate said. "Say, what was the name of the paper you work for again?"

"The Olympia Hills Sun," his father said, "why?"

"No reason," Nate said as he smiled while walking away. "No reason at all."

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