Mike
I was sitting in the lounge room with Mia, Kevin and Antonio. Antonio left to try and comfort Jayden after his anger subsided. Kevin was trying to prevent Mia from hyperventilating again and I just stared into space. The happiness that we should be feeling from defeating Xandred is nowhere to be found.
When Mentor Ji left Emily's room and went to his study I got off the couch and numbly walked into her room. I stood in the doorway looking at her.
She was so small and vulnerable, she didn't deserve this. She wasn't supposed to be the yellow ranger. God, she had been through so much already with the death of her sister, losing her spirit and being kidnapped by two nighloks as bait.
The one question I would never have an answer for kept running through my head. Why? Why her? What did she ever do to deserve any of this? Mia and Kevin joined me in Emily's room. Mia went to her side while Kevin stayed with me in the door frame.
"You ok man?" Kevin asked me
"No. I don't understand why it was Emily you know?" I answered truthfully.
"We never will understand. She wouldn't want you to focus on that anyway." His voice was thick with concern for me.
To be honest Mia and Jayden were the ones I was worried about. Jayden may have lost the love of his life but we all lost a younger sister. No more so than Mia. The girls had a special bond that we guys could never explain. Mia seemed to fill the void after Serena died. I saw Mia fall into her hands on Emily's bed sobbing.
Mia
My sweet little sister was gone. The light in our lights was extinguished forever. The grief was pushing down on me until I couldn't take it anymore. I let my face fall into my hands and started crying. I could feel a set of arms wrap around me and they began lifting me away from Emily's side. I didn't fight them until I saw something out of the corner of my eye.
"Wait." I asked, Kevin put me down and I walked to her bookshelf where I found a stack of letters in envelopes with our names on them, written in Emily's handwriting. Grabbing them I could feel Kevin and Mike coming up behind me to see what I had found.
When I turned to face them I couldn't read the expressions on their faces.
"We need to get the others." I said
Kevin nodded and left to get Jayden and Antonio.
"Can you get Mentor Ji as well?" I asked Mike, showing him the envelope with Mentors name on it
"Sure. See you in the lounge room." He responded.
I nodded gratefully at him and watched as he left the room. Then it was just me and Emily.
I had a feeling that she wouldn't have been mad with me for finding these letters. More like she wanted us to find them. With that knowledge I smiled and went to wait for the others on the living room.
Antonio
When I saw Jayden running from Emily's room I knew he was in a bad state. I followed him but waited outside the door to let him get his anger out. Pressed against the door I could hear him crying so I went inside to find Jayden on his knees clutching a photo frame to his chest.
The room was trashed but I wouldn't have expected anything less from Jayden. I made a promise to myself to tidy up when he went to sleep.
I knelt beside him quietly and wrapped my arm around his shoulder.
"I'm so sorry man." I honestly didn't know what else to say. He turned into my shoulder and continued crying. I watched him come to grips with losing another loved one to Master Xandred while I had a few tears running down my face for him and for Emily.
We sat there like that for a while until his breathing started going back to normal. Neither one of us said anything; we just sat there in silence looking at the photo in his hands, coming to terms with the situation.
Then we heard a soft knock on the door. As it opened Kevin cautiously stuck his head into the room.
"Mia found letters in Emily's room with our names on them. We're going to read them in the meeting room." He spoke softly, not sure if what he was saying would upset Jayden again.
Jayden lifted his head off my shoulder, wiped his face and nodded. Kevin and I followed him to the lounge room where we found Mike, Mentor and Mia waiting for us.
It's been about three hours since our battle with Xandred and Emily's death. There is still a sense of sadness around but it's not as heavy as it was before we read the letters from Emily. Even in death she is still the only one who can brighten up the team. Mentor has explained that there was nothing we could have done to save her. Her death was an accident. She needed more help than Mentor could have provided by himself.
By some wordless decision we have all moved to Emily's room. Jayden is sitting by her head holding her hand, Mia is sitting at foot of the bed while the rest of us are standing around the room. We're all looking at Emily when I notice something different about her so I start looking closer.
"Antonio what is it?" I looked up to see everybody looking at me.
"Um, I know this is going to sound totally crazy but there is something off about Emily. I just can't put my finger on it." I explained.
I waited for them to tell me I was all in my head, that it was my grief, when Jayden started laughing softly.
"Good. I thought it was just me." Now it was my turn to laugh. The others were confused.
"I've been seeing a yellow glow around her since she died." He explained.
"You're not crazy. There is a yellow glow around her." Mentor confirmed. Now it was our turn to look at him in shock.
"What does it mean?" Kevin asked the question that we were all thinking.
"She's in a state called Kaifuku. Essentially her symbol power has sent her body into a death like coma to heal."
"S..She..She's a..alive?" Mike sputtered.
"Barely. Her symbol power is slowly repairing her body and protecting her mind. It's a very slow process. The last time it happened was with the 8th yellow ranger. As she died the tears of her loved one fell on her and initiated the Kaifuku state. She was in the state for 3 months before awakening. I have no way of knowing when Emily is going to wake up." Mentor explained
"But she will alright when she does?" Jayden asked. He sounded a bit scared of being hopeful.
"Like nothing ever happened." Mentor smiled. At this Jayden started smiling and whispered in Emily's ear 'Hurry back to me'.
HOLY CATFISH! Emily is alive! She's in a coma but she's alive. She didn't die. We saved the world and Emily survived. Again there is a heartbeat of silence until we all break into smiles and laughter. Mia flung herself into Kevin's arms and kissed him square on the lips.
"She's gonna mad that she missed that." Jayden says laughing. This causes Mia and Kevin to pull away from each other with bright red faces with everyone laughing.
"Yeah you two are never going to hear the end of it." Mike agreed while Mentor and I nodded.
