The truth

The rest of the rangers spent the saturday morning at the academy with Cam and Sensei.

Around 2 pm when Hunter and Raine entered the Ops again, dirty, sweaty, tired and hungry, they found nobody in the dining room, nobody at ops, and finally decided to go to Raine's room. What they found there surprised them. Cam was there with Dustin, Shane, Tori and Blake. Their serious faces told her that something was wrong.

"Hi, guys, Hi, Cam" she greeted smiling. "I thought you were having lunch".

"When were you going to tell me, tell us?" Cam retorted, with an angry look in his face.

"Tell you what, Cam?" asked Hunter, looking to the Samurai and back to Raine.

"I thought you trusted us" Cam continued. "Tori told me, told us". Raine felt her legs weak.

"Tori, I trusted you" she could only say. "I know, Raine, I'm so sorry" the water ninja replied. "But I had to tell them. Cybercam told us that the lycans are about 2 miles from here".

"Can someone explain me what is going on?" asked Hunter getting nervous.

"Maybe you're more lucky and can hear it from her" Cam said sadly.

"Hunter, sorry, guys, please understand. When I came here transformed into a lamia, Sensei made me promise that I would never hurt you and that after the battle I had to ... well, go away" she started. "You have to die, Raine, please tell him the truth" Cam blurted.

"What?" Hunter asked looking at her. "Die? how?"

"She made Tori to promise that after defeating the lycans she would stab a stake in her heart" Cam continued. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"Because I promised your father that I would never tell you" she said with her look lost in the floor. "I knew that I wouldn't be able to kill myself, so I told Tori because I knew she would do it. She would never risk you, guys"

"Why Sensei made you promise that?" asked Hunter looking at Cam.

"I don't know" Cam answered, "but that will be a conversation I must have with him sooner or later".

"Please Cam, don't" Raine begged. "It's supposed that you would never know. Your father knew that being a lamia was a risk for the academy, for the students and for you. I told him that after the battle I could leave the academy, the country. But he told me that wherever I could go, I would be a risk for people and he is right. Please forgive me, guys, but I couldn't tell you".

"We won't let you die" said Shane. "And that's my last word".

"Yes, Sensei must understand that we need you here, I mean you're part of us now" said Dustin.

Cam understood Raine's explanation and walked towards her to hug her, with tears in his eyes. The same did Hunter, and after him the rest of the rangers. The moment was abruptly interrupted by their morphers sounding all at the same time.

"Go for Shane" he said promptly.

"Shane, gather the rangers. They're here..." was the voice of the Sensei.

All of them exchanged looks and streaked out to the Ops.