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"I'm off to practice mom! I'll be back soon." Sora says to her mom Rena and walked out. Rena waves to her daughter.

Rena was still recovering after the accident a month earlier, and while she would still go to her shop she mainly left her few employees in charge.

Rena was about to leave and pick up a few things when the phone rang and she picks it up "Daniels resident. Rena speaking." Rena said.

"Hello Rena. I see that you are doing well despite your injury." A female voice said on the other end.

Rena smiles "Hello Stella. Nice to be hearing from you. Though why exactly are you calling me right now?" Rena said to Stella Winchester.

"Well actually today is Avalon's birthday, and I need some help with getting a few things ready for later tonight. I was wondering if you and Zane can help." Stella says on her end.

Rena put a finer to her chin in thought "Well I don't see why not. How about you and Mike come over here and we can discuss what to do for this party." Rena tells her.

"Thank you Rena. Me and Mike will see you both soon." Stella said before hanging up as did Rena. It was then that Zane came out of the master bedroom yawning.

"So what exactly was that about?" Zane asked referring to Stella's call.

"It was Stella. She needs some help with her daughter's birthday, and we are going to be helping." Rena tells him.

Zane nods "Well at least today won't be boring." He said and noticed that Rena was a bit uneasy.

"Rena is there something on your mind? Something other than this party?" he then asked walking up to his wife and putting a hand on her shoulder.

"I-It's about Sora. Lately she's being rather secretive, and has been coming home late from these 'practices'." Rena says to him.

"She's just being a hormonal teenager Rena. We both know what she's going through." Zane said in an attempt to cheer her up.

"Yes, but what worries more is her friends." Rena said as Zane shakes his head.

"I don't see whatever the problem is with…" Zane started as Rena looks to him.

"They're color coded Zane. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black, and Pink." Rena interrupts and he stops.

Zane sighs knowing what she was thinking "I know how you're feeling Rena. She's my daughter to, but if she is one we can't get involved in their fight. Our only responsibility now is to raise our children." Zane says as Rena blushed putting a hand to her stomach.

"Speaking of which that is something we are going to have to tell her sooner or later." He then adds and Rena chuckles and nods in agreement to her husband.

It was then that the sounds of the door being knocked on was heard and both went and opened it greeting Mike and Stella and welcomed them in.

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"So today is your birthday?" Sara asked sitting at the same table as the rangers at A&C whom she has befriended. AV had only just told them that it was her birthday, but she wasn't exactly enthused about it.

"Yes, but it's not really and big deal. Just going to be a small celebration with my family." AV said to them all as she rubbed her head.

"Oh come on AV it can't be that small of a celebration." Adam says putting a hand on her shoulder.

"It is actually. Since well…what happened with my eyes the only ones who celebrated it have been my parents, my cousins Jason and Francesca and there family." AV says with a sigh.

Cassie was about to say something when Sora's morpher went off all at the same time and Sara looked around confused "Just my phone Sara. Umm…Looks like my mom needs me for something. Later guys." Sora said walking off, and slowly one by one the rest of the group left Sara.

"Why does it feel like I'm out of the loop about something?" Sara thought as then another thought occurred to her.

"Poor AV. Hasn't had a proper birthday in years…well can't really set up a party for her, but maybe I can get something for her." She thought with a grin before walking out of A&C

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"Okay how did we get stuck with cake finding duty?" Zane asked as he and Mike were hiding behind a care. They had been going to different places to try and find a cake for the party that would be held later. Yet that hadn't counted on one particular thing happening at all that day…a monster attack, and they were caught right in the middle of it.

"What I want to know is how we managed to get ourselves into this kind of problem." Mike says glancing over the top of the car. The six rangers were fighting against what could only be described as a giant mutated queen bee that was shooting fire at them.

Mike ducks as a stray shot of concentrated fire came there way "Perhaps we can make it past without being seen if we crawl." Zane suggested as Mike sweatdrops at the suggestion.

Mike was about to say something when a fireball came and melted through the car and shot out right between them before hitting the wall of the nearest building and vanishing.

The two looked at each other before both dropped to the ground and rather quickly began to crawl as their lives might actually depend on it.

"Let's just hope that Stella and Rena are having a better time with setting the party up, and getting the gifts." Mike thought.

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"I know it took some convincing, but at least we got this place for the party." Rena thought standing inside A&C. She had talked to the owner and after paying a good amount of money she had convinced him to allow the party to be held there.

She was now setting a few things up as requested by Stella who had left minutes earlier to go and by a few last minute gifts for AV.

"Okay everything looks to be set up…" She thought looking around before the sound of crashing was heard and the owner screaming before someone rushed passed heading out.

Rena ran back to check on the owner who was in his office "What happened? I heard screaming." Rena asked and saw the owner on the ground groaning. He got up and looked to Rena.

"Former employee. I fired him for stealing money from the place. Easy to say that he is rather mad." The owner said to Rena who frowns.

"I'll go get him. You call the cops in the meantime." Rena says turning around and ran off following after the person who had rushed.

"Setting up should be easy right? Well so much for being easy." Rena thought.

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Stella was in the local mall and had actually run into Sara who was searching as well for a gift to get AV, but she was having much more trouble than Stella.

"How do you manage to do it Mrs. Winchester? Shopping for another person is just way to difficult." Sara asked Stella as they walked out of a shop with a few bags.

"It isn't that hard. I know my daughter well to know what she like." Stella said to the younger girl who lets out a sigh at this.

"Well what would you recommend that I get here then?" Sara asked Stella stopping to think a moment, and then took note of the book shop across the way.

"Why don't you grab her a good book. She loves to read, and I bet while you're in there you will find something for yourself as well." Stella tells her.

Sara thinks this over and recalls the constant times she has seen AV reading during free period or any time that wasn't class. She had even seen her often reading when she was hanging around with her friends and they seemed in a rather complicated conversation.

"Thank you for your suggestion Mrs. Winchester." Sara said and sprints off towards the book store. Stella chuckles shaking her head at this and walks off herself.

Sara walked on into the bookstore and began to look around at the various books on the shelves "Let's see…nope. No. Already seen her reading that. Likely owns it. Ugh…Don't know if she will even like that series" Sara said as she looked.

"Are you looking for something in particular?" A woman asked slightly scaring Sara and glances to who it was. It was Abbinus in her human form, and slung in her arms was a small stack of books

"Well not exactly. I'm actually looking for some books for a friend of mine." Sara tells her and Abbinus nods.

"Sounds like you are looking for something special for this person." Abbinus says rubbing her chin before taking a book out of the small stack and handing it to her.

Sara takes the book and takes a look at it noting what genre it was "A mystery story? Hmm…well I guess she might like this particular book. Thanks." Sara said to her.

"Not a problem. Always will to assist someone who wants to learn more." Abbinus said walking out of the bookstore.

Sara watched her walk off and had actually found a few books for herself before walking up to the counter and buying the books and left.

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Mike and Zane continued to crawl and eventually made it to the cake shop and rushed in quickly and jumped behind the counter before one of the rangers were thrown through the large glass window.

"Uhh…Nice to see that I have some customers, but this is actually some rather bad timing." The bakery owner says to Mike and Zane.

"Yeah we know that." Mike says to the owner as the three peeked up from behind the counter and noticed it was the pink ranger that got thrown in and was recovering.

"Ugh…sheesh, and people wonder what I hate bees." Lore Pink said and noticed the three older men looking at her.

"Don't just stay there staring. You should get to someplace safe. Now!" She tells them before rushing back out into the fight." She said and ran on out.

Mike looks to Zane "Well what do we do now? Getting a cake for her is going to be near impossible now." He says as Zane glances to the owner.

"Not entirely true." Zane tells Mike who looked at him confused.

"Hey buddy think we can talk a moment?" Zane asked the owner who looked at him wondering what it would be that he would want with the current situation going on.

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Rena was running through a back alley way and kept up her pace seeing the bald headed man whom she recognized as the guy that had rushed out of A&C earlier and was probably the one who had robbed the place as well.

"You're not getting away from me!" Rena shouts to the man who looked back before turning back around and made a sharp turn Rena following, but what she didn't expect was to run straight into metal pipe, and fell to the ground gripping her nose which may have just been dislocated by the blow.

"Still want to chase me lady?" The man taunted holding the metal pipe in hand and was preparing to swing it at her if need be as Rena began to get up.

"I would recommend not swinging that pipe at me. I guarantee you won't like what will happen if you do." Rena warned.

The man smirks thinking she was bluffing before swinging at her, and Rena caught the pipe. It was in this instant not seen to the man, but Rena's other hand had turned to match the same type of metal as the pipe. She swung at the man making solid contact and knocking the man out cold.

Rena kneeled down to check the man over and grabbed a small bag containing all the money that he had stolen form A&C "Sheesh. You try and warn someone, but they never listen. The guy should just be glad it was me and not Carson if he was here." Rena says mostly to herself.

She then grabbed the man and began to drag him back towards A&C where the cops were likely waiting as well as the owner.

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"Well I'm glad you and Ester will be able to make it." Stella said over the phone talking to her sister Luna and then chuckles as she walked about the mall.

"Yes it will be different this time Luna. Avalon has made some rather interesting friends, and I'm sure that they will be surprised by her unique relatives." Stella said.

She was about to continue when she saw someone that made her take in a sharp breath and thought she was hallucinating. Walking right out of an antique store and looking rather annoyed was Abby Jones who as far as she and many others thought was dead after the incident at the mental institution she had been taken to.

"Luna sorry, but I've got to go. I will see you at the party tonight." Stella said hanging up and ran in the direction the Abby look alike had gone, but it just turned out to be a dead end in the mall and the look alike seemed to be gone.

Puzzled by this Stella looked around and coming across nothing she turned back around and started to leave the mall. Little did Stella know from the shadows she was being watched by the same person she thought she had seen and was glaring at her.

"Don't get comfortable Stella Scott. I will have your daughter one day, and then I will have Mike as well." Abbinus says under her breath before teleporting away.

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Meanwhile Sara had left the mall and was making the walk home to change and get ready for the party that would happen soon as the sun was starting to set. Sara looked at the books that she had got, but still felt uncomfortable as this was the only thing she could find, but it was mainly suggested by Mrs. Winchester.

"There's got to be something…something…" Sara says to herself thinking for a moment about what she could get the girl she knew so little about and had only recently become friends with, and then recalled a few days earlier.

"Ugh…well so much for my bike helmet." AV said one day during lunch letting out a sigh.

"You're into biking?" Cassie asked and she nods.

"Yeah I know a bit surprising that a girl can be into Motor Cross." AV said rolling her eyes.

"I wasn't meaning it like that AV. Just well we barely know anything about each other." Cassie said as Sara raised an eyebrow at this.

"And yet you guys seem to be rather close friends. How exactly does that work?" Sara asked.

"It just seems to Sara. Besides can say the same about each other." Sora said to them.

Sara's eyes snapped opened and she dashed off in a hurry to get home quicker than ever. She had just the thing to give AV, and as she actually had rarely ever used that particular thing it would make the perfect gift to AV.

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Meanwhile at the Daniels residence Zane, Mike, and the cake shop owner had just arrived and had instantly begun working on a cake.

"Now you remember our deal. Since I'm doing this as a special order, and at least second, and since my shop was attacked during a ranger attack its triple the normal rate." The owner says to Zane as the two pulled out what the owner would need to make the cake.

"Yeah we know. Let's just get to it." Mike says to the owner, and after almost a half hour a large three layered cake composed of many different flavors had been made, and the frosting on the top was varying in colors and seemed to slowing blend into each other. It was put in a large box the owner had brought with him and he gave the bill to Mike.

"Here's the payment." He says as Mike sweatdrops seeing the price, but sighs and starts to pay the man as Zane picked up the box which was slightly heavy.

"Here you go. Thanks for the help." Mike said and the cake shop owner left. Mike grumbles and then takes note of the time.

"Gah! We got to get going Zane!" he says running out Zane right behind him as they rush to his car. Carefully placing the cake in with him they took off, but instantly stopped as Sara had run out of her house and in front of Zane's car.

"Hey watch where you're going!" Sara said holding a package in her hand as she glares at the two older man.

"You should do the same young lady. Where are you going in such a hurry?" Mike said to her.

"Party. I'm heading to Arcade and Crave." Sara said as the two looked to each other as they realized she must have been invited by either AV or Stella.

"Hop on in. Your heading for the Winchester party right?" Zane asked as Mike opens one of the back doors to let her in.

Sara got on in "Yes how did you…" Sara started to ask then noticed Mr. Winchester in the car and stopped herself.

Zane peeled on out of the drive and took off headed for A&C. As they got farther into town they noticed Stella and Rena walking supporting a man between them and Rena holding a small bag in her hand. They screeched to a stop.

"Need a ride, and should I even ask?" Zane asks them as Sara opens the door and Rena goes to the trunk opening it up throwing the man into it before closing in and getting in herself and closing the door.

"Don't ask. Let's just say this problem should be taken care of when we get to A&C." Rena said and he drove off towards the where the party would be held.

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"Okay how did that battle manage to go on for almost six hours?" Sora asked rubbing her sore back as she had taken various hits from the latest monsters more physical attacks.

"Perhaps it was the fact that she could fly and we don't exactly have access to the full powers of the team that could fly for their second forms." Alvin says actually a bit annoyed from the latest attack.

"Let's just get to A&C. After today I just want to relax." Cassie says with a sigh as they arrived and walked in to utter darkness.

"Uhh…did the owner forget to pay the electric bill?" Adam asked as the lights then lite up and it was revealed that there was many people in there from school as well as AV's family and even Sora's was in attendance.

AV looked around in surprise as her mom came walking up to her "You deserve this. After all you been through you deserve at least one good birthday." Stella said and her daughter hugs her.

After that the party went on and gifts were given. AV had got a new helmet from Sara as well as books. The others had also gotten her other small things that they thought she would need. Overall it ended up being a good party for them all.


And that's another episode done with. I hope you all enjoyed and only a few episodes are left before this arc ends. Until next time this has been decode9.