Love is Blue-Chapter 3-Dream Girl
Kai tried to sleep as he was once again haunted with the image of a young woman with auburn hair and green eyes. Who was she? And why did she look so familiar.
"Help me, Kai. Help me defeat the Evil," a feminine voice pleaded, though the young woman's lips did not move.
"Who are you? What's the Evil?" he asked as his dream self attempted to approach the woman.
"Help me," the voice repeated as the woman floated backwards, away from him.
Kai awoke with a start and saw that the sun had just started to rise. Hurriedly, he showered and changed before running out of his house, quickly grabbing a cereal bar and munching on it as he hurried to the healer's house. He was greeted by Maya coming out with a wooden bucket; she was heading for the communal well for water to heat.
"Hello, Kai! Have you come to check on our visitor?" Kai nodded. "She is still unconscious, but if Gana allows it, you may sit with her." Kai thanked his friend before hurrying into the house and, upon Gaiana's permission, sat on the stool next to the bed the woman had been moved to.
"You know, you can talk to her. Dr. Sawyer says that it might help," Maya commented as she came back into the house with a full bucket of water. Dr. Sawyer had been the Chief Medical Officer on board Terra Venture and, while also helping set up a larger clinic with all of the medical equipment they had managed to scavenge, helped Gaiana with her practice.
Kai nodded and began to softly talk to her. "Hey, I'm Kai. You kind of landed on me yesterday in the forest. No hard feelings, I'm just wondering where you came from. Damon is looking for you in the Terra Venture personal database. We're in Maya's village on Mirinoi. Do you know where that is? Probably, since you must live here; unless, of course, you came from another planet or dimension by way of a portal or something. I noticed you wear a lot of blue. Me, too; actually, I was they Blue Galaxy Ranger, so blue kind of came with the territory. This is so stupid; me talking to someone who might not speak the same language. Actually, you kind of look like someone I know. Well, I only know her from my dreams, but-" Kai looked at the woman's face and noticed that she was awake. "Gaiana, Maya! She's awake!" he called and was immediately shooed out of the room and told to get Dr. Sawyer.
"Hey, there," Kai greeted the young woman lying in the bed at Gaiana's house. He hadn't been allowed anywhere near her for the last two hours and, for some reason unknown to him, was anxious to see her again.
She stared at him for a moment, her green eyes seeming to bore into his, before speaking. "Hello. Are you Kai?"
Kai was startled at her voice. Not only did she look like the woman from his dreams, but she was the voice from them as well. "Y-yes and you are?"
"Anima Mackenzie. Maya told me that you're the one that brought me here. Thank you."
"You're welcome, Anima," Kai, still a bit shocked, answered.
As he was about to leave, Anima stopped him. "Please, stay. I haven't had a chance to talk to anyone in a long time."
Acquiescing to her request, Kai sat down again and the two talked for hours. Little did they know, they were the subject of conversation amongst many people in the village, including his former Ranger teammates.
"So, she just landed on him?" Mike asked his girlfriend as they and the other former rangers gathered in Kendrix and Leo's house.
"Well, fell on him would be a much better explanation, but yes, that is what happened."
"And Kai mentioned something about strange dreams he's been having," Kendrix added.
"Did he say what kind of dreams?" Leo asked his wife.
"Only that there was a girl or woman with dark auburn hair and green eyes and that she's in some kind of trouble. He said that she, or another woman, is asking for his help."
"Hmm," Maya said, a thoughtful look on her face.
"Maya, what is it?" Damon asked the former yellow ranger.
"Nothing, it's just that this dream sounds similar to a story I heard when I was growing up."
"Well, don't keep us in suspense. What was the story?" Leo asked.
"Oh, it said that the keeper of the Power of the Ape would meet a woman with the spirit of light and help her rescue her kingdom's heir."
The five former rangers looked at each other in a shocked silence. Kai had been paired with the Gorilla Galactabeast/zord. Finally, Mike spoke, "Well, could it be that they're the people from the story?"
"It's possible. The story about the Quasar Sabers was true." The others nodded. "But," Maya started, "we should ask Tyge. He would know more about the story than I do."
The rangers agreed that they should ask Tyge and went to the older man's house to inquire about the story. When they got there, however, they found that he only knew as much as Maya did about the story. They thanked him and Maya went back to Gaiana's house while the others headed back to Corbett Residence where they once again went through their options in order to find out who the mysterious woman was.
"Hey, Damon," Leo asked, "did you find her in the database?"
"No, I couldn't find anything without a name," the mechanic answered.
"Her name is Anima Mackenzie," Kai told them as he entered the house.
Anima means "soul, spirit" in Latin.