Hi everyone! Here are another chapter of this amazing (or not) fanfic :D
A little warning for some blood at near of the end.
Disclaimer: I don't own Super Sentai, but if I do, I would leave Gai alive in Jetman, and make Ryu marry with him instead of Kaori.
The atmosphere in GokaiGalleon was really tense. When the others appeared where Luka was they learned that two strangers took Gai and the only thing they had is his Gokai Cellular and Ranger Key.
"They are very strong. To hurt Luka-san like this…" Ahim said while put some bandages in Luka's wounds.
"And they take Gai to anywhere and we don't even know their names." Don said, sitting in the couch where Luka and Ahim was. "It will be very hard to find them."
"How this happened?" Marvelous asked, approaching Luka and looking at her eyes.
"I… got a call from someone saying they had a jewel for me. It obviously a trap, so I encountered them aware. I fought them all but…" She lowered her head and voice tone. "…they are stronger than I thought, but when one of those idiots were about to hit me Gai appeared in front of me and got hit instead. He followed me and I didn't notice."
"Why you didn't warned us?" Don asked clearly worried.
"I didn't wanted to bother anyone with this, you all are tired of fights and want a break. But I will take the responsibility of this."
"You won't. We all will take the responsibility." Marvelous said with his usual calm and cold voice tone. All of her teammates nodded in agreement.
She felt very bad for have done that alone, and promised herself that she will rescue Gai with her teammates.
The crew spent the whole day trying to find Gai. His Gokai Cellular with them, because of this is even harder to Don to localize him with his computer. So they wandered around the city to try to find at least a clue to where he is, but without any success.
When the night fell everyone was tired and went sleep early. Even though they hid, they were actually very worried with Gai, especially Luka, who still couldn't understand why he sacrificed himself to save her. For the first time in years, she found herself unable to sleep, so she went to the room.
She remembered how the room was usually bright when Gai was around. She never thought she would miss his enthusiasm one day. Sitting in the couch, with hands in her forehead, she was wondering what is wrong with her.
"Can't sleep?" Luka heard Ahim's words coming from the dining table. She was sitting with her usual cup of tea. "Come here, have some tea with me."
Luka just nodded while approached her friend. Ahim put some tea in the cup and give to Luka with her usual smile.
"You are really worried about Gai-san, aren't you?" Ahim gave a sip of tea while looked at her friend.
"He is just so reckless, why he protected me in that way?" Luka also gave a sip of tea and lowered her heard. "He said… he said he wanted everyone to fight together, I can't understand."
"Gai-san is someone who cares a lot about people's safety. If he did that you were probably in real danger."
"Wow… You know him very well. You two are really close."
"Yes, he is one of my best friends. Why do you said that? Are you jealous?" Ahim's lovely look turned into a malicious one.
"Me? Jealous? No way! Me and... Gai? You must be kidding." She got up and started to talk in an awkward way. "Even if I'd feel jealous or love or anything else it'd be useless. I'm usually mean with him, he'd never love me…"
Ahim could only laugh at her friend. Even though it was intentional, she had practically confessed! She approached Luka, placed her hand at her friend's shoulder and give her usual polite look. "If you think the way you treat him is moving him away from you then when we rescue him try to be a little nicer."
"Mou! For the fuck's sake I'm not in love with him!" Luka shouted while Ahim left laughing.
Luka wasn't the only who couldn't sleep though, in one of the bedrooms Marvelous was rolling over the bed trying to sleep, but without success. He looked at the clock in his nightstand just to see that it was already 2 pm, so he decided he won't sleep anymore.
He left the Galleon to train a little bit, he knew if he wants to rescue Gai he needs to be very strong. Luka is one of the strongest members and the enemy easily injured her with only two punches. He used his Gokai Sabre to slash the air, trying to be as fast as possible. Maybe the enemy isn't just strong, but fast as well and he needs to be prepared.
Joe heard the training's noise and went to see. He knew Marvelous is the only one who would train in this time of the night but he wanted to be sure about it.
"You are more worried than I thought." Joe smiled, seeing Marvelous pant after slashing many times.
"I'm not." He walked toward Joe. "The enemy just seems to be interesting."
"Then why were you rolling over the bed all night?" Navi asked, flying into Marvelous.
"Shut up bird! You should not be here and you should not had watch me." He held Navi, blushing.
Joe hide his laugh seeing Marvelous blushing. He probably won't admit, but all the things he is doing is because he is really worried. He is the kind of the person who will do anything who make his crew safe.
"Do you want me to help you train a little bit?" Joe suggested, picking his Gokai Sabre.
Marvelous didn't say nothing, just smiled while picked his own Gokai Sabre.
In the other day, aside from Don, everyone woke up late than the usual. The breakfast was prepared, so they just started to eat.
But someone appeared on the crew's monitor…
"You didn't found us yet? You are horrible in searching… I'm surprised that you managed to find the Greatest Treasure of The Universe." The man taunted. Luka could recognize the man, he was the same who hit her and took Gai.
"Ken… it was you…" Joe said, surprised.
"Hi Joe! It's been a while. I didn't expect to see you with them, I need to say I'm a little upset…"
"What do you want with us?" His voice tone angered a little.
"Since you all don't seem to find us I want you to give your Ranger Keys tomorrow on the marked place."
"What if I don't want to give you?" Marvelous asked, with a taunting tone.
"Then I think you probably don't care about this guy's life."
Ken's sword pointed to Gai's neck. He was kneeling, his writs was chained, he was full of wounds and his jacket – as well his face – was covered with blood.
"Gai!" Luka shouted, horrified by what she saw. How much Gai suffered in all the time they tried to find him?
"Gai-san, please hold on! We are going to save you." Ahim said, although she said comforting words, she was also horrified.
"Ahim-san… everyone… don't worry about… me. Don't… give him the Ranger… Keys…" Gai's weak voice tried to say, before being kicked in the stomach by Ken.
"This is just a warning. Give me your Ranger Keys tomorrow or I'll kill your friend."
Ken disappeared of the monitor before any of the Gokaigers could say anything.
I hope you all had like the Marv/Joe little scene in this chapter, and also Navi's appearance. I'm having a little trouble to write its scenes :/
Well, see you next time!
