More Than Evil
Chapter Eight: The Quest of the Ninjetti
The rangers landed softly in the middle of the beach of Phaedos.
"Wonderful! We have to find a new power source in the middle of a jungle!" Zach yelled summing up everyone's feelings.
"It's got to be around here somewhere so start looking!" Jason said as a tengu came out of the sky and attacked him.
Jason ducked causing the tengu to fly over Kat and grab her with its feet.
Katherine started screaming and tried to fight her way out of its grasp until a cloaked figure appeared on the cliff above them and scarred away the tengu causing it to drop her.
The stranger appeared next to Zach, scarring him, and attacked the tengu, which flew from the beach rapidly.
The female warrior pulled Zach to his feet but then quickly changed their tune as she started to leave.
"Wait!" Jason yelled as she was ready to jump back up onto the cliff she had jumped off of.
"What do you want?" she asked impatiently.
"We where sent here to find a power source that would help us defend our planet, can you help us?" Catherine asked.
"You are after the Great Power? You will not succeed. This jungle is scattered with the bones of those who have tried and failed. Yours will soon join them if you try to obtain the Great Power." She said as she looked at each of them.
"Failure is not an option. If we don't get the Great Power Earth will die and we will not let Zordon down!" Trini exclaimed.
"You know of Zordon?" she asked, her tone lighter than before.
"Yes. He is our mentor. We are the Power Rangers. Two of our friends have been turned evil and our powers we have now are to weak to fight them. Zordon told us to find the Great Power and we might have enough strength to defeat the evil that is within them." Billy said.
Dulcea looked at each of them in turn, searching their hearts and minds as she did so.
"You speak the truth. You will not be able to get to the Great Power on your own, follow me." She said as she picked her cloak and staff up off the ground and walked into the jungle.
The rangers shared a look and then began to follow her into the jungle.
They walked for hours until they came to some ruins hidden well in the Jungle.
"I am the last of the Nathadians charged with guarding the great power. The rest of my people are dead. Before the others died we placed the power within a monolith which is hidden within the Neola Jungle, your task will not be easy, but Zordon deemed you all worthy so you will do fine." Dulcea said as they finally made it to the ruins, just as the sun was setting.
"I will help you all unlock the Ninjetti that resides within each of you." She said as she motioned them to line up on one side of the burning fire as she pulled a powder out of the bag at her side. "Close your eyes and look inside your self for the Power Animal that is within you all."
As the rangers closed their eyes Dulcea blew the dust that was in her hand over the fire that separated her and the teens.
"Open your eyes, rangers." Dulcea said a smile sounding in her voice as she walked around the fire to stand in front of Jason.
"Jason, strong and true, you are the Red Ape."
"Trini, cunning and wise you are the Yellow Eagle"
"Billy swift and cunning you are the Blue Wolf."
"Zach small yet quick you are the Black Frog."
"Katherine, it was a sad turn of events that led to you becoming a ranger. It was your destiny though; never doubt that you are capable of anything if you put your mind to it. Swift and limber you are the Pink Crane. Rangers may the Ninjetti guard you well as you journey to find the Great Power. I cannot follow you for if I step off this plateau I will age more rapidly than Zordon. May the Power Protect You." She finished and then transformed into an owl and flew away.
The rangers watched her fly away and then began to make their way into Neola Jungle.
"So, how do we know we are going the right way?" Zach asked after about twenty minutes of walking.
"We don't." Jason said as he continued to lead them deeper into the jungle.
"So we've been wandering around lost?!" Trini yelled.
"We aren't lost." Jason said back just as a bone crunched under his foot.
"I'd say if we're standing in the middle of a bone graveyard, we're lost!" Zach yelled, sweeping his arms around towards the ground pointing out the bones.
"We are not lost Zach!" Jason yelled his temper flaring.
"Guys, hate to interrupt but we have a problem!" Katherine yelled over their bickering voices, pointing at the mass of bones that had started moving on its own accord reveling it to be a tyrannosaurs skeleton.
The skeleton charged the group of five teens causing them to scatter in different directions to avoid the mass of bones.
"How do we defeat something that is already dead?!!" Jason yelled at no one in particular.
A chorus of 'I don't know' went up as they kept dodging the monster's tail.
The skeleton kept randomly attachking until it saw Jason's red outfit. It charged.
Katherine saw this and she had had enough. She ran head first into the dinosaur, jumping over its head and pulling out it's neck bone in the process causing it to fall apart the bones going everywhere.
"Good job Kat!" Jason said as he gave her a quick hug.
"Let's get going before bag of bones here decides to pull himself together." Trini said nodding her head at the pile of bones.
Everyone murmured their agreements as they walked deeper into the forest.
Jason noticed Kat was lagging behind and slowed down so he was walking next to her.
"That was wonderful Kat. You truly do catch on fast." Jason said. "and you saved my life. Thank you." He said as he stopped walking and turned to face Katherine who stopped walking also.
"Kat, you truly are an amazing person." Jason said his face getting closer to hers. Katherine moved to meet him.
Their faces where inches apart.
"Guys, get over here I think we found the monolith!" Zach yelled, causing the two teens to pull back quickly.
"We're coming!" Jason yelled back as they began to walk over to where the others stood.
In front of them was the monolith that they had spent hours searching for.
"We found it." Trini whispered the others where just as moved as her. They had found the Great Power and where still alive.
Jason moved forward the others right behind him, when the stone warriors guarding the monolith stepped out of the stone, the teens fell into fighting stances.
The guardians formed a line in between the rangers and the Great Power.
AN: Cliff hangers! Don't you love them! I know I'm evil. Anything marked with a star can be found on this page:
of it is what actually happened/mentioned in the movie. Some I took from the early scripts before revision. Also if you create AMV's and would like to create another trailer for this story for me PM me or email me. I want another trailer made but my WMM is not working. Also this fic is about to come to a close in a few more chapters….I can tell but that doesn't mean it's the end of this series….maybe if you asked nicely I'll do a sequel (even if you don't I'm doing one! Your going to kill me on how I end it though!)
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