Zurgane stumbled into Lothor's ship, still feeling the effects of Toxica's attack.
"Cursed witch!" He growled under his breath as he kneeled before Lothor.
"I'm surprised at you, Zurgane, you let a witch get the better of you." Lothor said tauntingly.
The samurai alien leapt to his feet with a growl.
"She is strong, my Lord!" He replied in his defense.
Lothor sat back thoughtfully, then, an idea came to him.
"And I know just the alien to help deal with her." He said.
Capri swallowed audibly as she nervously glanced at her sister.
"Uncle you're not talking about ... Villyana ... Are you?"
"Oh no! NOT Villyana!" Maura whined as she and Capri clutches one a other in fear.
He grinned at them.
"She's EXACTLY who we need."
Toxica's eyes slowly fluttered open and the face of her soulmate slowly came into focus.
"Oh, thank goodness! I thought you were never gonna wake up!" He said.
She suddenly sat up, her face mere inches from him, their noses were almost touching.
Jindrax cleared his throat nervously as his face turned bright red.
A sly grin crossed her face as she leaned across him, bracing her weight on her hand beside his legs. She loved the fact that even after all their eons together, she could still effect him this way.
"Toxica ... We shouldn't ... You might not have all your strength back yet." He said, however, the tone of his words didn't even sound convincing to his own ears.
Her grin widened.
"Your mouth says one thing, but your THOUGHTS are telling me something else." She quipped with a raised eyebrow.
Jindrax let out a frustrated growl as he pulled her against him.
"You know damn good and well that I can NEVER resist you!" He said emphatically.
"Yes, I DO know that. " she quipped in reply.
He clasped her hands and gasped as her magic surged through him, filling him with that feeling of indescribable pleasure that he was now very well addicted to.
"Oh, baby I love you so much! Every other female pales in comparison to you!" He blurted out.
This beautiful, enchanting dark sorceress owned his heart, his body, and his mind.
With a purring growl, she yanked him into one of those searing kisses of hers.
This time, instead of keeping ahold of his hands, she let go and thrust her hand around his horn just as the surge of magic hit them.
Jindrax swore he saw stars as he clutched her against him until the pleasurable feeling of their melding magic finally ebbed and subsided.
He sat back in a sitting position on the cave floor, his hands resting behind him, supporting his weight, a euphoric grin on his face.
"How is it that no matter how many time we do that, every time feels like the first time, and I can never get enough!" He said, wording his sentence more like a statement than a question.
She grinned coyly at him as she leaned across him.
"I don't know, but I LOVE it." She purred.
Maura and Capri stood nervously in the corner, Maura was actually shaking.
"I still don't get why WE have to be here." Capri whined.
Lothor rounded on her.
"Because! It's rude not to greet our guest!" He said.
Maura and Capri looked at one another peculiarly.
"But ... we're evil space ninjas, since when did we care about being rude?"
Lothor didn't get a chance to reply, because at that moment, black lightning- like magic crackled around the ship and a form materialized before Lothor.
She wore a long, flowing black dress that rippled around her like a black waterfall, her long hair fell in wild curls around her face and it was so black that it had a bluesh sheen to it, like a raven's wing. Her skin was the color of fine porcelain, and her eyes were a deep purple with black pupils that seemed to be able to burn through a creature's very being.
Lothor spread his arms wide, a huge grin on his face.
"Ah, Villyana! It's been a long time!" He declared as to the surprise of everyone, they shared a hug.
"Lothor! How's my favorite evil space ninja!" She said, her voice was raspy and sharp, like the crack of a whip.
She turned sharply to see Maura and Capri cowering in the corner.
"Are these your nieces?! They're grown! My MY have that many years gone by?!" She said as she as she walked slowly up to them, her gait was smooth and fluid, like a snake.
"H ... Hi ... Villyana." Maura said in a small voice.
Villyana drew back and eyed the two sisters thoughtfully.
"I see that maturity hasn't given them any bravery, has it?" She said sneeringly.
Lothor sighed.
"No, but family is family." He said begrudgingly.
"Yes, yes, duty and honor to family and all that shite." She said with a dismissive wave of her hand with its long black nails.
"Now, onto business, I hear there is something you need me to take care of?" She said.
"Yes, a powerful witch that bested one of my best generals."
"Yes, Zurgane, he should've known better, brute force is no match for magic. No worry, I'll take CARE of her for you." She said with a evil grin as she disappeared in a crackle of black magic.
Toxica suddenly stood and walked to the mouth of the cave.
"What? What is it?" Jindrax said as he also got to his feet.
Her horn suddenly started to glow a bright blue.
"Whoa!" He exclaimed.
"I sense powerful magic. But not Org magic ... Something else ... But it's powerful." She said.
"Can you locate it?" He asked as he came to stand beside her.
"Since it's not Org magic it will be more difficult, but I can try." She said.
"Wha ... What's going on?" Dustin said sleepily as he and his fellow ninjas trudged into the command center of ninja OPS.
"My scanners are picking up a strong energy disturbance deep in the forest."
"It's not our new allies? Those two Orgs?" Tori asked.
"No, I know their signatures, this is something else, something powerful and dark." Cam said as Sensei summersaulted onto his shoulder.
"I too felt a disturbance while I was meditating, there is only one being is strong enough to cause this kind of disturbance, and her name is Villyana. Be careful, rangers."
The group of rangers nodded as they morphed and disappeared in a flash of ninja power.
"Try not to worry, my son, we need to have faith in the rangers." Sensei said.
Cam blew out a breath.
"I know, dad, but if it is Villyana, they've never faced anything like her before. Even you and sensei Omono were no match for her."
"Still, we must have faith." He replied.
The rangers materialized in the forest, which was eerily silent, so silent that it seemed to press in on them like a sentient force.
"I don't like this, something seems off." Shane said.
Suddenly, a ball of black magic hurtled towards them, and they were only just able to jump out of the way.
Disembodied laughter could be heard echoing around the forest.
A dark figure came into view, silhouetted by the darkness.
"So THESE are the famous power rangers... Not who I'm after, but I guess you'll do." Villyana said as she shot another ball of energy at them.
This time they didn't have time to dodge and suffered a direct hit that was strong enough to demorph them all.
"Whoever it is, they're too strong!" Hunter ground out as he clutched his chest.
The creature stepped fully into view of the full moon, still laughing.
"This is TOO easy, I was hoping for a real challenge, no matter, I'll just finish you here and now and be done with it." She said as she summoned another ball of black energy and shot it at the helpless rangers who could do nothing but watch in horror as their destruction seemed imminent.
But, instead of destroying them, the ball of energy seemed to richochet an invisible wall into a grove of trees, instantly turning them to dust.
"Yikes! That could've been us!" Dustin said.
Toxica and Jindrax materialized between the rangers and Villyana.
Villyana's mouth spread into a grin that could only be described as insane as her dark eyes glittered with excitement.
"Now HERE is the one who I was looking for!" She said as she summoned her weapon, a long black staff that resembled a scepter Two large Black jewels were embedded at the top, they glittered oddly in the light of the moon.
She pointed the scepter at Toxica.
"YOU'RE the one that I was summoned here to deal with. FINALLY, a worthy opponent." She said.
Toxica smirked at the fellow witch as she twirled her staff around and assumed a battle stance.
"Well, as the humans say, bring it on!" She replied.
Villyana shot forward as Toxica did the same, they moved so fast that to the eye they became mere flashes of black, and bright blue light, streaking around the forest and occasionally clashing into one another with explosive results.
Jindrax winced, feeling every hit, but he struggled to keep his expression neutral, they couldn't afford for their enemies to find out their secret.
Unfortunately for them, Villyana landed a particularly nasty hit, viciously slicing into Toxica's shoulder with the horned ends of her scepter.
Both she and Jindrax simultaneously screamed out in pain. Toxica landed heavily on her haunches, breathing hard and clutching her right shoulder.
Jindrax's actions mirrored hers, his face contorted in agony.
Villyana slowly looked from one Org to the other and a look of malicious realization spread over her face.
"Ohhh I see NOW." She said as she walked fluidly toward Jindrax, who struggled to his feet, still clutching his shoulder.
"You two are connected." She said as she pointed the tip of her scepter first at Toxica, then at Jindrax.
"A blades master is NO MATCH for magic, I can just destroy YOU and have this deal done a lot easier." She said, her tone like ice.
She whipped her scepter around in a circle, summoning its magic and shot a spell of powerful black energy at Jindrax, who knew he had no chance of dodging.
'At least we'll be together in the afterlife.' he thought, knowing Toxica would hear it.
Toxica surged forward, ignoring the sharp pain in her shoulder. If she could just get there in time ...
The next series of events happened so fast that no one could say for sure what had transpired.
Toxica intercepted the blast with her own spell, the two spells collided in a massive explosion, followed by a blinding white light that engulfed everything and made it impossible to see.
When it finally ebbed away, there was a smoking hole in the ground where Villyana once stood, Toxica was gone too.
Jindrax's eyes flew open, he sat bolt upright and looked around.
"Huh? What? He sputtered as the rangers surrounded him.
"Toxica! Where is she! She might be hurt! We have to find her!" He said as he got shakily to his feet.
"Don't worry man, well help you look." Hunter said empathetically as he put a hand on Jindrax's shoulder.
"Wait ... Don't you two have some kind of connection thing? Like if one of you were to get destroyed then the other would too?" Tori said.
"Yeah ... I don't know what happened ... Just help me find her!" He said, his tone desperate as they spread out to look.
Something was really wrong, he could feel it, if she had died, then he would have too, but he was still here, so that meant she was still alive too. But where was she?
Toxica came to and slowly sat up, wincing at the pain in her shoulder where that cursed witch had managed to strike her.
She squinted against the harsh brightness of her surroundings, everything was a blinding white and it hurt her eyes.
"Where the hell am I?" She said to herself, her voice echoing through the vast white expanse.
Was this the afterlife? No it couldn't be, if it was then Jindrax would be with her.
She felt a presence behind her and she bolted unsteadily to her feet, she looked around for her staff and couldn't find it anywhere. Even without it, it wasn't like she was powerless, despite being weakened and in pain, she vowed not to go down without a fight.
"Show yourself!" She demanded.
A figure slowly appeared, walking towards her.
"Greetings, I am the Snow Prince. Now come, she awaits." He said as he backoned her to follow him.
"Who awaits?" She asked suspiciously as she hung back.
He turned once again to face her.
"The Mystic Mother." Was his simple reply.