Eda, Lilith, King and Luz stood near Amity, all with worried expressions on their faces. After her girlfriend had woken up screaming in terror, Luz didn't know what to do, and so she got Eda, telling her what had occurred. Soon after Lilith and King had came running too.
Amity sat in a chair near Luz's bed, a blanket wrapped around her. A small table sat in front of her; on it lay a cup of tea and a small plate with some chocolates on it. Amity's eyes were still red from all the crying she had only just finished minutes ago. Aside from uttering Luz's name when she woke from her ghastly dream, she had not spoken since that point, instead only continuing to sob until she sat down in the chair and had some time to compose herself.
Seeing an opportunity, Eda moved forward and gently placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Amity...what happened? It's not like you to have nightmares..."
Amity just sat there, continuing to absent-mindedly, she used one hand to keep the blanket wrapped around her.
Eda was confused at the girl's silence. Amity was usually much more talkative.
"Please, Amity. Tell me what happened. If we don't know, we can't help you at all."
Amity shut her eyes. She breathed deeply.
"...Luz...could We stay im my room the rest of the night? I just...I don't think I can go back to your room right now..."
"Well, all right, Amity. But you have to promise that you'll tell me everything when you wake up." Eda said
Anna moved to her room
Eda watched, and soon, both were back to their usual snoring. She couldn't help but smile a bit as she watched the couple sleep.
Lilith moved to her bookshelf and removed a book; it was a collection of recently-published short stories. As she sat down on her bed, she turned to page 147; the story was entitled "The Man of the Crowd". Lilith began to read, as Amity and Luz snored the night away.
While she slept, Amity didn't encounter those creatures again. But she did have another vision.
She found herself floating over an entire land coated in ice. Beyond the mountains was a vast city. Weird structures of unknown origin covered the landscape. Some structures were spherical, some cubed, some conical. None of them had any visible entrances, and every building was coated in those same odd patterns and lines that composed the unidentified language that Amity had studied.
She stayed over the city for a few more minutes, taking in its strangeness. Then, suddenly, Amity stood on the a field in her hexside uniform. She recognized the spot by the charred remains. It was the spot of their last battle with the Emperor. "How'd I get here," she said to herself.
" I brought you, here," a familiar voice said making her turn around
"Who or what are you?" Amity said shocked to see a grey floating head. "What's going on why have you brought me here," Amity asked.
"I am Zordon," Zordon said.
"Ok? Why am i here?" Amity asked.
"Bad things are coming Amity. storms of evil like you've never seen things that you've never seen before and you must be ready. Because youve chosen redemption you will face a hard path and a path that will question the future you and the rangers," Zordon said.
"Effect the future? What do you mean? What's going to happen?," Amity asked. Her mind began to rush through all that had transpired just months earlier and wondered would she be ready to face those types of obstacles again.
"You will know when the time comes," Zordon said.
When the first faint rays of light from the sun began to peek over the horizon, Luz awoke from her slumber and looked at Amity. She was still fast asleep, and she hadn't let go of her girlfriend's hand.
Carefully, Luz removed her hand from her own, then slipped out from under her. She soon found Lilith; she had her nose buried in her book, still wide awake.
Without looking up from what she was doing, Eda said "Take care on your morning deliveries, Luz."
"Uh...thanks," she replied.
She moved the blanket back over Amity, kissed her forehead, then nodded to Eda as she quietly opened the door and left.
Only seconds after Luz had left the room, Amity woke up with a start.
Amity finished the last of her drawing for Eda and Lilith, then tossed the pen aside, putting her head in her hands as she began to weep. She thought she was done crying from her ordeal, but seeing her nightmares on paper made the tears well up within her again.
Eda looked at the drawing, mystified. It depicted the six mysterious beings from Anna's dream, looking down at her while a spidery mechanism poised above her, ready to perform some macabre experiment on her body.
On another part of the paper, Amity had illustrated herself floating above the weird city of cubes and cones, then the floating head.
Eda put her arm around Amity, letting her cry into her shoulder. Amity's tears fell onto her dress, giving it some watery stains. At the moment, Eda didn't care; she only cared about helping her young ward.
"Amity...it'll all be okay. You're safe now.." said Eda, rubbing Amity's shoulder.
"No...no, it won't be okay. What if they come back? What if they take me again?"
"It was just a dream-"
"It wasn't, Eda. I know it, they let me see those things on purpose."
Eda looked from Amity to Lilith then to the sheet of paper. Lilith picked it up in her hands and focused on the six creatures with the almond-shaped eyes.
"Is this 'they'?" said Lilith.
Amity nodded, without looking at her drawing. She shut her eyes.
"This is all because of that pictogram?, the Emperor doesnt like us?," she said.
"They're going to come back for me, I know it. What do we do, Elsa? What can we do?"
" Amity we won't let them take you " Lilith said, " Yea" King added.
It was nighttime once again, what happened next was terrifying.
A massive, black, saucer-like object suddenly materialized in the sky. It floated only a few hundred feet above the rooftops of Boneborough, blotting out the moonand casting a large shadow over the entire town, the shouts and horrified screams could be heard coming from both men and woman alike.
Had the saucer been there this entire time, cloaked and hidden?
Eda watched from her window, astounded, as the old conformatorium exploded. As it blew apart in a shower of brick and rock, something large began to emerge from the hole in the ground. And that was when it hit Eda; it had been hollow, all along.
The large object coming out of the mountain was a dodecahedron, and like the flying craft it was getting drawn towards, it was also black. Etched onto the numerous sides of the object were those same symbols Lilith had seen in the angled lines and circles from the field.
The dodecahedron floated over to the much larger saucer, and it passed through the underside of it, disappearing inside. And then, the entire sky quickly flashed blood-red before the saucer turned into a ball of energy, rapidly shooting up into the sky, leaving the planet altogether.
Eda and Lilith, shocked; she stared out the window at what had just happened, trying to make sense of it all. But she couldn't, because none of it made any sense.
Eventually, Boneborough went back to normal. There were no more disappearing farms, no more mutilations of animals or people, and no more bizarre symbols in Gozerian text.
Amity never had any more nightmares of "them", and she went back to her usual cheerful, optimistic self in no time.
There was only one last strange thing to happen in Boneborough: the old finance minister of Emperor Belos was found dead inside the basement of his home. He had slashed open his left wrist with a knife, and drawn something with his own blood. However, what he had drawn wasn't in Gozerian. Instead, the symbol was something entirely different; it was a pyramid with a top hat. And on the inside of it, the finance minister had drawn an eye.
In the end, everyone was safe. And those unwelcome visitors were never encountered again.
As far as everyone knew, everything was fine.
As far as they knew.
