Seal Beach.

Nick Starr relaxed on the rocks of the shore, feeling the cold breeze of the ocean blowing behind him, ruffling his red hair and taking a moment to looking pensively at his surfboard lying right next to him. He had decided to come out here to see if the waves would help calm this ominous feeling that was gnawing at his stomach. Whatever was bothering him just kept him from going into the ocean and instead look at the Downtown skyline. He felt like there was something not right and he could not explain his feeling even if he wanted to, how could he explain to someone that he was having strange dreams about something that looked like the end of the world, and a young woman calling out for him. Even to him it sounded a little bizarre to believe; silently Nick collapsed and continued to look out at the waves crashing against the shore just wondering what was going on inside his head.

"You still are having trouble sleeping?" A young woman said from behind Nick. She stood there silently, dressed in a hooded sweatshirt that covered her face and said 'Lakewood High School Class of 1993' on the front and a pair of faded denim jeans, her did little to hide how attractive she was. In her left hand was a surfboard with the Japanese Kanji for 'heaven' written on the bottom. Slowly she walked over towards him and he immediately turned around to greet her.

"Amika!" Nick cried out looking at the young woman standing in front of him.

Amika Hayase was a friend of Nick's going back to his childhood when they used to live next door to each other. After high school, she moved out of the neighborhood and onto the dorms at Cal State Long Beach, but she still talked to him very frequently. She grabbed onto him tightly after she dropped her board while he felt the air slowly coming out of his lungs.

"I am surprised to see you here Ami." Nick said, "I thought you were doing something with your friends at the college?"

Amika released Nick from her hug and answered, "Yeah, but I was just looking to catch some waves instead."

"Bull…" Nick smiled, "You heard I was out here."

"Yeah, your mother told me that you were." She smiled, "I wanted to see you."

"What's going on?" Nick asked.

Amika walked over towards the rocks where Nick was originally sitting and sat down looking out towards Downtown Long Beach in the distance and sighed softly to herself. She took a look back towards her friend and wondered where she should really start with this conversation. Also she did noticed that it looked like there was something on his mind as well before she came over here to talk to him, she felt her heart beating underneath her sweatshirt and looked back out towards the city and took a deep breath.

"I don't really want to bother you with my problems." Amika half heartedly answered, "Especially when I see there is something bothering you."

"You can tell?" Nick asked as he saw Amika nod back in response, "Well if there was anyone besides my own mother who could tell something was wrong with me, it would be you."

Amika put her hand on Nick's shoulder and said, "Why don't you tell me."

"I don't even know where to begin." Nick sighed and looked back out towards the city.

"The beginning is always a nice place, you know." Amika sat down beside Nick, the expression on her face showed that she was more than ready to listen.

"I've been having these strange dreams lately and I have a hard time shaking them off." Nick started after taking a deep breath; his eyes still focused at Downtown and the Queen Mary, "A lot of times it is about death and destruction, almost like there is something bad about to begin."

Amika waited a moment to make sure Nick was finished before she answered, "It could be that you are dreading change, you are a senior this year and you will be graduating in a few months."

"I wish it was that simple." Nick continued, "There is a lot more to it, these dreams feel like they are some kind of foreboding; a preview of things to come."

"What do you mean?"

Nick's body stiffened the more he looked back into his dreams, "They started a few months ago, I had this bad dream that there was some kind of horrific accident that happened in this school on the other side of the world, I just thought it was because of some movie I saw that night. Until a couple of days later I heard about that big massacre at that school in Japan was all over the news."

"The Shin-Ju Massacre?" Amika asked when she saw that Nick closed his eyes to confirm her question.

"I continued to have even more weird dreams after that. I still shrugged it off until a few days ago when people were claiming to be attacked by some weird looking creature. That was when I knew my dreams were not dreams."

Amika took in what Nick had to say and that was when she felt a weird sensation envelope her body, it was not that she didn't believe him or rather she did. There was a lot more to it, something that she wanted to tell him and that was the reason she was here to see him in the first place.

"You are not the only one who has had these visions, Nick." Amika said softly, "I've been having dreams like this for a while now and I don't know why or what they mean, but they're almost like memories or something else."

"Memories?" Nick asked.

"I don't exactly how, but it's like I am someone else and I keep calling for someone to help me, but I know that there is no one around."

Nick prepared to open his mouth when he heard a little boy singing a song. At first he could not make out what was being sung, but he noticed that it had Amika's full attention and immediately she perked up and looked around to see where the song was coming from, she had recognized it as a famous Japanese song known as "Jun Renka or 'The Starting Over Love Song'". Yet the way that the boy was singing it gave her chills down her back while he took a look around, sensing something was not right about the situation at all.

Suki Desu Suki Desu Kokoro kara, aishite imasuyoto, amai kotoba no urani ha hitori garashino samishisa ga atta….

Nick's eyes narrowed knowing that something was not right about this whole situation. He turned around to see if he could spot anything out of the unusual and maybe hone in on where the singing was coming from, but he could not see anyone except him, Amika, and the other beachcombers that were walking along the shore; until he felt a sensation that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up on end. From the corner of his eye he could see what appeared to be a brown and white tentacle heading towards the two of them; without much time to react he grabbed her and pushed her down to the sand with him as the tentacle went past them and crashed into a nearby restaurant.

"The fuck!" Amika screamed noticing the damage that just ensued in front of them.

Nick picked himself up and looked around to see if he could see where it went, but instead he saw a brownish blur heading towards him and sent him flying a couple of feet into the air and straight into a garbage dumpster. Slowly he picked himself up moaning in pain, but was immediately brought back to his senses as he heard Amika screaming for help; his heart raced knowing that he would never be able to forgive himself if something happened to her.

He looked down at his wrists and revealed two devices, on the right was a gray capsule shaped device with a small circle at the upper end of it, yet there was writing on the center of the device that said the phrase "Aurachanger" in bold print. On the left was a gold and black device that had a small slot on the left side which resembled a key hole of sorts. Immediately he pulled out the small circle which extended to a key shape and moved it into position of the second device.

"KIRYOKU TENSHIN AURACHANGER!" Nick screamed quickly moving the device into the slot, which immediately was followed by a green surge of light that engulfed his body and covered him in a suit of green type material, which was immediately followed by a pair of gloves, boots, and a white vest with a small circle with five distinct colors (Red in the center, with blue and green on the top and yellow and pink below) on one side and on the other side was all gold with a small line in the center which made it look like the letter 'D'. His face was immediately covered with a helmet which had a visor in the center and a design which resembled a Lion; at this moment he was known as the Shi-Shi Ranger.

Quickly, he jumped out of the dumpster and rushed back towards where Amika was being cornered by a group of people dressed in black tuxedo like clothing with white faces that had no eyes, but only red lips where the mouth was located. Underneath his helmet, Nick's eyes narrowed as he recognized the people immediately as a group of soldiers known only as Copotros; Foot soldiers that worked for the Gorma. Without even thinking about his next move, he rammed himself into the group of Copotros and pushed them back.

Three of the soldiers moved back and immediately began to charge forth towards Nick while he swung his left arm forward with all the strength he could muster at that moment into one hard hit. The punch impacted against the first Copotros and sent the creature reeling back towards a nearby railing while the other two continued to charge towards him. Immediately he moved out of the way and grabbed the one closest towards him and threw him into the furthest soldier. In the situation he saw that it was best to just keep the whole thing quick and painless as possible.

Shi-Shi Ranger turned back around towards Amika and asked, "Are you all right?"

Amika just smiled lightly and said, "This was not how I expected to spend my day."

"Neither was I…." Shi-Shi Ranger said but was interrupted by an object hitting him square in the chest and causing him to fall down to the ground limp like a ragdoll.

Amika rushed over towards the injured Shi-Shi Ranger and kneeled beside him trying to help him up, but he slowly struggled up from the ground and immediately collapsed again. She grabbed him again and felt a surge of information rush through her mind like someone changing the channel at super speed. Her eyes suddenly began to glow a light blue and she moved away from the injured warrior until she felt something grab her by the waist, and pull her away from him. She looked down and saw the tentacle was wrapped securely around her, without hesitation she curled her fists together and tried to knock herself free from her captor but there was no effect as she continued to be taken away from her green protector and into the large maw of another tentacle waiting for her.

The Shi-Shi Ranger stood up and looked around to see that Amika was gone, and immediately powered down to his normal clothing. He could hear the blood curdling scream of his friend being taken away by whatever had attacked them and clenched his fists tight until he could feel the blood trickle down his hand. Something was going on, and it looked like this was just the beginning of something big.