Chapter 5 Pure of Heart

At Terra Falls High School, dressed in yellow shorts, a white t shirt and white tennis shoes, Nakia walks into the building and towards her locker located on the first floor. She missed walking with Ryan due to her over sleeping, and Ryan never really waits. Anyway, as she goes to her locker she finds her friend Zelda, who's wearing a pink tank top, a white jean skirt and black and white tennis shoes standing next to her locker holding her book bag. Nakia asks her as she starts working on her locker combination.

Nakia-Hey, what's up?

Zelda-I need your help.

Nakia-Again?

Zelda-Yeah, I forgot the combination to my locker.

Nakia chuckles.

Nakia-You are something you know that.

Zelda-Its not funny, people forget things all the time.

Nakia-Well what did you want?

Zelda-Can I put my books in your locker for the day?

Nakia-You know all you have to do is go to the counselors office and ask for your locker combination, they do have those stored in their records.

Zelda-I don't want to, and class is about to start.

Nakia-Yeah, okay. Don't worry about it, just put your books in my locker.

Zelda thanks Nakia. Nakia then places her books in her locker, then takes ones she'll need for the morning out, Zelda puts her books into Nakia's locker afterwards.

When things get settled, Nakia closes her locker, then she and Zelda start walking into the crowd of students to get to the other side of the hallway, Nakia says nothing for almost 2 minutes, and Zelda starts to wonder if anything is bothering her, so she asks.

Zelda-Is anything bothering you Nakia?

Nakia looks at Zelda and says.

Nakia-Well yeah, I guess.

Zelda-What is it?

Nakia-Its Ryan.

Zelda-What about him?

Nakia-I want to ask him to go with me to the dance on Friday, but I guess I'm afraid he'll say no.

Zelda-Hey I thought you two were just friends?

Nakia-Well we are, but I'd like to go with him, and I'd like to show him how I feel about him. I really care for him, a lot.

Zelda-Why don't you just tell him?

Nakia-No no, I'd like something different, a message sort of, something that'll prove how much I care for him.

Zelda-Hmm, what about pretending to save his life?

Nakia-Pretending to save his life? What?

Zelda-Yeah, cook something for him, and say you undercooked it and there might be some dangerous bacteria lurking around in what you cooked for him, you get rid of it and say you saved his life, and uh.

She stops speaking when she notices Nakia's disapproving look.

Zelda-Well I was just trying to help.

Nakia-Thanks but no thanks. Maybe you're right though.

Zelda-About?

Nakia-Maybe I should just tell him how I really feel and hope someday he and I will get together and stay together.

Zelda-Only one way to find out.

Nakia-Yeah, but if he rejects me I'll be crushed forever.

Nakia sighs, they both hear the late bell and quickly rush into their first hour class.

The day continues on and soon lunch arrives. Zelda meets up with Nakia and Jesse to see if they're going to stay at school for lunch or go home. Nakia says she wants to see Ryan and Jesse says she'll eat with Zelda in the cafeteria.

Ryan is wearing a semi long red shirt, black jeans, tennis shoes and sunglasses. He's found at his locker, and when he closes it he jumps from being startled at Nakia, who's just standing there smiling at him. He smiles and gives her a hug.

Nakia-How are you today?

Ryan-I'm all right, sorry I didn't wait for you earlier this morning.

Nakia-That's okay. I deserved it, I overslept.

Ryan-Talkin to other guys on the phone huh?

Nakia exclaims playfully.

Nakia-What?! Me? No!

Ryan chuckles. Nakia wonders if she should tell Ryan that the years she has known him have been very special to her, very special and she feels that they would be happy together, and she would feel relieved if she manages to get it off her chest.

Nakia-Where do you want to go for lunch?

Ryan-Doesn't matter, we can go wherever.

Nakia-How about go to my place, I fix us lunch and we can go eat it in the park?

Ryan-Sure, that sounds fine with me.

Nakia smiles, and so does Ryan.

Sinistar, watching through her cauldron, says to herself.

Sinistar-The Yellow Ranger seems to be in love, ohh how that sickens me but perhaps I could use this to my evil advantage.

After thinking for a few minutes, she comes up with an idea.

Sinistar-I'VE GOT IT! Yes! The Yellow Ranger's love energy will supply everything I need for a new monster, they'll all be destroyed!

She summons her three minions Dragonlord, Skylark and Elephantytan to her chambers, they appear bowing. She quickly gives them their orders.

Sinistar-Go and confront the Red and Yellow Rangers, distract them so that I may drain the Yellow Ranger's love energy and transform it into a monster that will surely destroy them! Understand?!

Dragonlord speaks.

Dragonlord-Yes, as you command.

Sinistar-Don't mess this one up, it's a simple order, for simple fools.

They all look at each other but really don't pay any mind to say anything, they all just disappear.

Ryan and Nakia start walking away from the high school to get to the parking lot, as soon as they make it to his car, the three evil minions appear behind them. Nakia turns around and yells out.

Nakia-RYAN! TROUBLE!

Ryan looks behind him and see's the evil beings, they start laughing as Dragonlord says.

Dragonlord-Prepare for your demise!

Nakia sighs.

Nakia-Aren't you tired of singing the same ol tired song?

Dragonlord-SHUT UP!

Dragonlord removes some of his scales and throws them onto the cemented parking lot next to Ryan's car, he then yells out.

Dragonlord-DRAGON WARRIORS ARISE!

The scales quickly glow and transform into many reptilian dragon creatures ready to fight.

Ryan and Nakia stand their ground, Nakia does a flip up onto the hood of the car, she lands perfectly on her feet. Ryan looks at her amazingly and she says.

Nakia-What?

He comes back to his senses and the battle begins. Nakia does a side flip off of the car and lands on her feet and in the middle of a band of dragon warriors, she does a back kick, a front kick, and a side kick, unfortunately one of the dragon warriors catches her foot as she does a left side kick but she just turns around and manages to flip the dragon warrior with her foot, and before it has the chance to land on its back she does a powerful tornado kick and sends the dragon warrior flying into the ground where it turns into goo.

Ryan starts doing back flips and as he lands on his feet, he gets up and takes two dragon warriors who were about to attack him by the heads, he butts them together and see's one behind him, he then does a powerful back kick and knocks it down, he then knocks down the other two dragon warriors he was holding.

Sinistar watches through her cauldron and says.

Sinistar-Yes, now's the time.

She holds up her staff and points it towards her cauldron, the staff begins to light up and extract a powerful energy blast through itself and into the cauldron, a few seconds later the ground under Nakia begins to glow as she fights off more dragon warriors, they leave her be and disappear, she stands up and notices the ground under her glowing heavily.

Nakia-Huh? What's going on?!

The glowing surrounds her entire body, and a few seconds later she groans and faints. All of the dragon warriors disappear and so does Dragonlord, Skylark and Elephantytan. Ryan notices Nakia not moving, so he quickly rushes over to her, leans down and holds her up a bit, he then says frantically.

Ryan-NAKIA!? NAKIA! WAKE UP! IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE!?

He shakes her slightly and continues to yell out.

Ryan-NAKIA, WAKE UP, PLEASE!

She doesn't respond. Suddenly, students and teachers hear Ryan and start running out of the school, they see him holding Nakia, and before they have a chance to ask, her body begins to glow brightly yellow. Ryan asks frantically.

Ryan-What's this?!

The yellow energy breaks from Nakia's body and moves towards the large crowd of people, they all move away from it as it slowly moves towards the ground. Ryan watches and wonders what in the world it could be. The bright yellow energy lands on the ground and begins to let off another powerful glow, this time everyone covers their eyes, and when they uncover them they see a monster in the shape of a large yellow heart with eyes, arms, legs, and a red arrow going through its body.

The people start screaming and running away from the area, the monster yells out.

Heartstruck-Hey I'm heart struck, but you're making me feel heart broken! Why run away?! I just wanna destroy you!

Ryan contacts Myndor through his mind, and soon Nakia's body starts to glow again, but this time its Myndor's doing, he teleports her back to Stonehenge. The monster turns around and see's Ryan looking angrily at it, she laughs and says.

Heartstruck-Ryan!

His face turns slightly puzzled as the monster says in Nakia's voice.

Heartstruck-You wouldn't hurt me now would you?

Ryan-Nakia?

Heartstruck-No, but I am a part of her, what you do to me, you do to her.

Ryan-This can't be happening!

Heartstruck-Oh but it is happening, and you're going to sit back and watch me destroy this city, and then I'm going to destroy you!

Ryan-NEVER!

Heartstruck-Ah, don't get temper mental, you wouldn't want to destroy the girl who loves you.

The monster starts blasting the school building and cars in the parking lot, and soon large explosions are both seen and heard but only to reveal harsh destruction. Zelda rushes outside of the school and see's Ryan standing away from the monster as it continues to destroy everything in sight.

She rushes over to him and asks.

Zelda-Why aren't you transformed?! Why are you letting that monster destroy everything around here?

Ryan looks at Zelda with heavy teary eyes.

Zelda-What is it?

She asks again but frantically.

Zelda-What is it Ryan?!

Ryan says in a serious choked up tone.

Ryan-We can't attack that monster, its.. Its..

He stops and falls to his knees. Zelda leans down and asks him.

Zelda-Its what? Tell me please!

Ryan-That monster is Nakia.

Zelda-WHAT?!

Ryan-It's her.

Zelda-No! If it was her, she wouldn't be causing destruction, I know she wouldn't.

Ryan-The monster said it was a part of her.

Zelda-But that doesn't mean its her. Its only a part.

She stops and asks.

Zelda-How did this happen?

Ryan-Sinistar, that witch!

The monster growls and turns towards Ryan and Zelda, she begins her attack, she starts firing many red heated arrows towards them, they scream out in pain as the arrows cause a huge explosion and sends them flying a few feet away from the terrible being.

Zelda stands up slightly and asks Ryan weakly.

Zelda-What are we going to do?!

Ryan-I don't know!

Zelda-We can't just let it do what it wants, it wants to destroy, we've got to stop it.

Nakia rests inside of a energy healing casing, she wakes up after resting for only a few minutes. Myndor opens the casing and asks her.

Myndor-How are you feeling?

Nakia-I'm okay. I just feel really light headed.

Myndor-There is trouble. Ryan and Zelda refuse to fight the new menace.

Nakia-But why?

Myndor-Because the monster is connected to you.

Nakia-Connected to me?

Myndor-Yes, I have figured it out. Sinistar has created a monster out of your love energy.

Nakia-Is there any way to break the connection?

Myndor-I don't know.

Nakia-I'm not going to lay around here and let my friends get hurt.

Myndor-Your heart is pure goodness.

Nakia jumps out of the casing, she quickly teleports out of stone henge and reappears in front of her friends, who are being badly whipped by the monster. They are both flung by Nakia. She leans down and says sympathetically.

Nakia-Don't worry, I won't let this monster hurt you again!

Ryan looks up and says weakly.

Ryan-Nakia..

Nakia stands back up and materializes her star morpher, she looks at the monster very seriously and begins her transformation sequence, once the morpher is powered it, the next phase begins as she shouts out.

Nakia-STAR FORCE, POWER UP, YELLOW!

Nakia touches the yellow star in the center of her morpher, it lights up and begins to activate, placing Nakia within a yellow beam of power, the morpher releases the yellow star and it attaches itself to Nakia's body, then it begins to spread its magnificent energy all throughout her body, when finally complete, Nakia becomes the Yellow Star Force Power Ranger.

The monster laughs as the Yellow Ranger takes off from the ground, she lands next to it and starts fighting, the monster ducks as the Yellow Ranger does a swirling front kick, she misses again with her back kick but she manages to punch the monster in the stomach and send her flying a few feet away, the monster groans out in pain and a few seconds later, the Yellow Ranger feels a strong hard hit right to her stomach, she groans out as she holds her stomach and falls onto her back.

Ryan and Zelda stand up and rush over to her, Zelda looks and see's the monster on the other side of the large parking lot in pain as well. She then says to Ryan.

Zelda-You were right, they are connected.

The Yellow Ranger says in pain.

Yellow Ranger-You've got to destroy…. Ugh! That,…mon…st…er!

Ryan looks down at her and says.

Ryan-No! We'd lose you!

Zelda-And we're not going to risk it!

The monster stands up after the pain disappears. And the Yellow Ranger does the same since the pain in her stomach leaves as well. She says to Ryan and Zelda.

Yellow Ranger-If you're not going to fight that monster, then I'll destroy it myself!

Zelda-You can't! You'll be destroyed too!

Yellow Ranger-I don't care! I won't let anyone get hurt again from this beast!

The Yellow Ranger materializes her star daggers, she rushes over to the monster and starts attacking it with a vengeance, only problem is that when she strikes the monster she feels the effect from her it as well. Ryan and Zelda scream out as they watch their friend fight the monster and end up being just as badly hurt as the monster. The Yellow Ranger sustains herself as she continues to feel immense pain, she strikes the monster continuously and says.

Yellow Ranger-YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME, YOU HAVE NO HEART, YOU HAVE NOTHING BUT AN EVIL SEED!

The monster sends out a heavy blast in an attempt to strike the Yellow Ranger, but she proves that her anger has given her more energy, so she leaps out of the way and lands on her feet on the opposite side of the monster, there she strikes it again with her daggers, the monster falls onto its stomach as the Yellow Ranger forms her daggers into the Hydra stunner. The monster moves over onto her back and says in a weakened tone.

Heart Struck-Go ahead, destroy me, you'll destroy yourself as well.

She aims her weapon at the monster as Ryan and Zelda both yell out together.

Ryan and Zelda-NOOOOO!

Myndor watches through the wizards pool and says.

Myndor-She has a pure heart, knowing that destroying that monster could destroy her to save her friends is noble.

Sinistar watches through her cauldron and smiles.

Sinistar-Yes, destroy heart struck, and then there'll be one less Ranger to worry about! Hahahahaha!

The Yellow Ranger starts to pull the trigger on her Hydra Stunner. Ryan and Zelda start running over to her, she looks up at them and says to Ryan.

Yellow Ranger-RYAN.. I LOVE YOU, I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU!

She then fires a powerful energy blast right into the monster's body, a few seconds later a very large fiery explosion erupts from the blast which not only affects the monster, but the Yellow Ranger as well. Ryan yells out as he covers his eyes.

Ryan-NOOOOO! NAKIA!

They stop running and Zelda falls to her knees in astonishment.

Zelda-Why?! Why did she do it!?

Her eyes start filling with tears.

Zelda-My friend, Nakia! No! Why did she..

Ryan drops to his knees as well in shock.

Ryan-Nakia..

Sinistar laughs as she watches and says in an extremely happily ecstatic tone.

Sinistar-EXCELLENT! HAHAHA! EXCELLENT! ONE RANGER DOWN! HAHAHA!

Sinistar has spoken too soon. For as the explosion turns into heavy smoke and as that smoke diminishes into the air, Zelda and Ryan hear coughing, they look up and see their friend lying there on her stomach, alive but feeling very much in pain, they both stand up and rush over to her. Ryan leans down and holds her up slightly, she continues to cough until he removes her Ranger helmet. She looks up at him and says weakly.

Yellow Ranger-Are you two.. Ok?

Ryan says happily.

Ryan-We're fine, we're fine!

He kisses her on her lips. Zelda smiles at this. They soon break apart as Zelda leans down and says to her friend as she gives her a hug.

Zelda-Please don't do that again.

When they break apart from hugging, the Yellow Ranger says.

Yellow Ranger-I did it to save you and Ryan and everyone else.

Ryan-I'm so glad you're alive.

Yellow Ranger-Me too.

She moves up and hugs Ryan tightly, she then says to Zelda.

Yellow Ranger-Hell of a way to tell a guy how you really feel about him isn't it?

Zelda's eyes start getting teary eyed again as she nods in agreement.

When they stop hugging each other, Ryan says to her.

Ryan-Nakia, we've got to get you back to Stonehenge.

Yellow Ranger-Okay.

They stand up and quickly teleport away from the scene. Soon everyone walks outside and notice some destruction but nothing way too bad for repair.

The three return to Stonehenge. Myndor says happily to Nakia as she rests in the energy casing.

Myndor-The power of your heart destroyed the connection between you and that monster, knowing you could of died along with the monster didn't stop you from thinking of the safety of your friends. You truly are a Power Ranger.

Nakia smiles weakly. They all sit by her side and wait till she gets totally better.

Meanwhile Sinistar starts throwing things around in her temple, releasing bolts of lightning in the heat of her anger.

Sinistar-I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS! THERE MUST BE A WAY TO DEFEAT THOSE POWER RANGERS! I WILL NOT ACCEPT DEFEAT! ONE DAY I WILL FINISH THEM!

Her eyes start to glow brightly as thunderous crashes are heard.