Mia

It's been two months since Serena passed away and today is Emily's 17th birthday. We've all discussed it with Mentor and because we want to make special for her (since it's her first birthday without Serena) he's allowing us to throw Emily a surprise party. Right now, like most mornings, she is outside playing her flute while the rest of us discuss the plans for this afternoon

"So decorations?" I ask, Mike gives a thumbs up.

"Presents?" Kevin nods

"Distraction?" I can see the excitement of being alone with Emily in Jayden's eyes as he raises his hand. I thought they would be a couple by now, especially after Antonio arrived and became good friends with Em so quick, Jayden was so jealous he was almost green. But they still go on, not knowing that the other is crazy about them.

"Alright all that's left is for me to do is bake the cake." I finish our secret little meeting with a smile.

"NO!" The boys look horrified. I look at them, questioning with my eyes.

"It's just that I already ordered a cake from the bakery so Emily can't walk in on you making it" Antonio explains.

"Ok" I start walking towards the dojo when I swear I hear the guys breathe a collective sigh of relief. Just as I start to turn around to be sure, the gap sensor goes off and another day of power ranger duties begin. The map shows a nighlok at the warehouses in the industrial area. We look at each other now Emily has joined us and run towards the new danger.

Splitface is a tough opponent. Just as we go land a strike on him he dissipates and re-emerges somewhere else, his special attack which he calls Body Form. I'm getting beyond frustrated with this nighlok, he stole the souls of several people before we arrived and the only way to save them is to defeat him.

We can see Splitface is drying up and try to get in one last strike when he turns to Emily. As he strikes Jayden and I watch in horror as a white ball leaves her mouth and she falls to the ground unconscious and demorphed.

"Mmmmm her spirit was delicious! You pesky rangers have until sunset to save her and the others but it doesn't matter. I'm going to the Sanzu River for the rest of the day!" And with that Splitface escaped through a gap.

I immediately run over to Emily while the guys try to chase Splitface. I hold my breath while checking her pulse, fearing the worse. I almost cry in joy when I feel a steady beat. Resting her head in my lap I stroke her hair while the boys rush over.

"We need to get her back to the Shiba house." I don't have to look up to see it's Jayden who picks Emily up and holds her close to his chest. Kevin, Mike and I follow closely behind, from the corner of my eye I see Antonio go in another direction.

Mentor Ji

My fears of losing a samurai ranger seemed all too real when Jayden walked through the door yelling for me. To hear such fear in his voice was unsettling. To see a lifeless Emily in his arms was unnerving.

"The nighlok stole her spirit. She's been unconscious ever since." His voice sounded like it usually does but his eyes held a lot of fear for the young girl in his arms.

"Take her to the recovery room. I'll be there in a moment." Jayden nodded to my request and left with the others, I went to my study and quickly found the Journal of Nighloks. For centuries the mentors of the samurai rangers would write down any information they had about the different nighloks so future generations were prepared. I flipped through the pages until I found the one for Splitface.

There was no way to save her unless Splitface comes back to our world and the others defeat him. With a deep sigh and a heavy heart I put away the book and went to check on the rangers. I didn't have to look very far.

Emily was lying in bed, still unconscious with Mia and Mike sitting beside her and Jayden and Kevin against the walls. Once Jayden saw my entry into the room I knew I had to tell him there was nothing I could do.

"Mentor is there any way of saving her if the nighlok doesn't return?" He asked as a leader but his eyes gave away his fear and concern. Unfortunately he was right to be both.

"No there is not. We must hope that he changes his mind about returning so you can defeat him. I can only make her comfortable until then."

Without another word Jayden walked out the room with Kevin not far behind him, Mia starts fussing over Emily and Mike begins to get angry.

"Don't worry Mike. We will find a way to bring him back." I'm not sure if I convinced him entirely but he nods, looks at Emily one more time and also leaves the room.

Jayden

Hours have passed since Splitface stole Emily's spirit, now it's about an hour and a half until sunset. I have been staring at the map waiting for any indication that he's come back but so far nothing. I'm starting to wonder if this nighlok was serious when he said he wasn't coming back. They always come back. He has to come back, for Emily.

A world without Emily isn't much of a world to be living in. Her smile can brighten up any day, her laugh can lighten any mood, her hair, her eyes ugh She's perfection on earth, and I let her down. I let the nighlok steal her soul. After everything that has happened to her, after I promised to protect her. I love her and I can't get the courage to tell her how I feel or even protect her from the nighloks. How do you get the one you love to forgive you for something like this?

Then we hear Mia yell "Emily's awake." I've never run this fast before in my life but I am not missing a second of any time with Emily. Entering the room I see Mia removing a damp cloth from her forehead and Emily blinking her eyes, adjusting to the light. I kneel near her head and hold her hand, hopefully giving her some strength.

"Hey guys" it's barely a whisper. I help her to sit up, she doesn't let go of my hand once.

"I'm sorry I let him get to me."

"Don't be silly Em, you didn't do anything wrong" Mia smiles gently at her, typical Emily to blame herself. "You're going to be fine."

She looks at all of us then something changes in Emily's eyes. Defeat? Regret?

"Thanks guys but I now that's not true. I feel so empty inside" She sounds weak now. Her eyes are drooping and her smile faltered.

"We're going to save you Em. I promise, just hang on til then." A tiny smile graces her lips as her eyes close and her hand falls limply from mine. Mike storms out of the room with Kevin and Mia chasing after him while I continue to stare at Emily's sleeping figure. Standing up I place a gentle kiss on her forehead, hopefully not the last one between us, and leave to follow them.

"Look after her Ji.'

The last image I have of my angel is her sleeping peacefully, if this is the last one I have I will cherish it for the rest of my life.

Running out of the house I find Mia and Kevin watching Mike attacking the pillar that Splitface used to escape into the netherworld. There's no point stopping him from getting his anger out. In a way I'm jealous. The others are able to freely express their emotions with no fear of judgement, whereas I have to stay calm and steady for them. It's becoming harder every second that Emily is closer to death.

"What do we do Jayden? There's only an hour until sunset." Mia asked me.

"I don't know Mia" I really don't. I don't want to start losing hope but I don't see another option at this point.

"There is a way to enter the netherworld rangers." Came from a strange voice behind us.

We turned around to face Deker, a half nighlok being that always shows up at the worse time.

"What do you want Deker?"

"I came for the ultimate duel that you will give me, but I see that you are now otherwise occupied." He really sounds disappointed that we can't right now. He starts walking towards the city

"What do you mean there is a way to enter the netherworld?" I run after him until he turned around.

"Give up your humanity and willingly walk through the gap." He answers. Mia and the guys start arguing about who should, if any of us, enter the netherworld.

He turns to walk into the city but he hesitates, turns to face me and walks up to me. In a voice so low the others can't hear he says "Don't think I am only one who knows of your love for the yellow ranger, and will use them against you." My face hardens as he smirks and walks away.

How does he know that I love Emily? What does he mean when he won't be the only one to use them against me? I swear if he or any nighlok hurts Emily to get to me, forget the sealing symbol I'll destroy them with my bare hands.

"Jayden what do we do?" Kevin brings me back to reality, a reality were if we don't act fast I won't have the chance to protect Emily from nighlok.

"I'll do it. I'll be become a nighlok." Anything to protect her.

As expected the others start protesting and arguing why they should be the one to do it.

"Oh amigos! Thank god that I found you all here. I found a way to bring the nighlok back." Antonio comes yelling through the trees and stops in front of us with one hand on his leg, the other pulling his fishing cart.

"Antonio what are you talking about?" Antonio's proclamation hasn't done much too calm Mike's frustration.

"I fixed the Clawzord but I need everyone's symbol power to reactivate him. I marked Splitface with the Clawzord symbol so when's he reactivated it should draw Splitface out of the Netherworld." Antonio explained.

We place clawzord on the ground and we stand around it in a circle. We each draw our elemental symbol and aim it towards the Clawzord. Each of us thinking of Emily and our time together to strengthen our symbol power we managed to reactivate the Clawzord and drag Splitface from the netherworld.

"What? What am I doing back here? I'm supposed to be in the netherworld." Splitface yells, it worked we managed to get him back to our world.

"Not today nighlok. You're going to give back all those spirits you stole." Mike threatens as we start moving into our formation, though it doesn't feel the same without Emily.

"Hmmm I don't think so rangers." He starts to perform Body Form but something is stopping him from separating.

"Whats going on?' Splitface sounds angry now

"The mark I put one you to bring you back also prevents you from doing your special attack" Antonia explains which just makes Splitface growl loudly.

"So let's make this quick. Go Go Samurai." The others follow and morph with me then we attack Splitface as a team.

We destroy his first life as the sun starts to disappear behind the horizon. But then he turns into a mega monster.

"What are we going to do? We can't form the megazord without Emily." Mike asks.

"We can form the Battle Wing." Kevin answers

"And I can join you with the Claw Battle Zord" Antonio adds. With my nod we enter megamode and combine the Tiger Zord, Swordfish Zord and Beetle Zord. Antonio stands next to us in the Claw Battle Zord. Together we defeat Splitface just as the sun disappears completely. Racing back to the Shiba house I just hope we were able to save Emily in time.


Hey everyone,

So I feel like my last chapter was pretty substandard so hopefully this one is better.

I probably wont be able to update next weekend as I have a two day shooting event but I'm going to try.

I'm getting excited as we are getting close to where the story starts deviating from the tv series and going towards my original idea.

Just because I'm curious, please comment where in the world you live. I'll start, I live in Kalgoorlie Boulder Western Australia, about 6 hour drive inland from the capital city.

Thanks guys

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