GinaStar - Of course! That's Hunter for you. LOL. I'm actually going to try working on a (hopefully) cute scene between the three dragons.
Purple SPD Ranger - Well, I hope to, if my computer stays with me. :) I'm glad you like it so far.
pinklen98 - It would've been so adorable. If I won the lottery, I'd probably make all kinds of movies, if I could get the same actors to take up their roles once again.
Mrs.Quincy25 - Oh well, you were right, anyway. LOL. I didn't realize it until after I had the scene written, how much ice and snow... (Shakes head) I think winter's getting to me... LOL
dragons in our midst - That's a very good description, but I won't be able to use her. If you'd like to, you could make a side story that focuses on Cam and her. It's just that I'm having a fun time keeping track of my two OCs and the current relationships as it is. Blake and Tori's is developing, but I still have Dustin/Taelin and Hunter/Angie to work on.
Plus, my top three favorite Rangers are Hunter, Dustin and Blake, in that order, and because Cam doesn't fall under my top favorites (Though he is hot and I love the attitude), I don't write that well for him.
No, I was looking more for a plotline, but I have a bit of an idea forming.
Thank you anyway for sending the description in. I might make more Dragon Ranger fics, but I'm going to work on finishing this one, first.
star-dreamer09 - Yeah, Dustin's easy going and such a goof. Ticking him just seemed to come out of nowhere. LOL I'm glad you're liking it so far. :)
JuseaPeterson - I'm glad you enjoyed that. Yeah, since Hunter can't talk, he needs to find other ways to communicate. I'm trying to focus a litte more on the battles, and on the pairings, so...
Much more sappy fluff and cute moments ahead! Yay! Oh, oh, OH! I got an ADORABLE idea in my head, that I reaaaallly want to write down... Hmmm... (Runs off to post most recent chapters and begin writing the next)
Thank you everyone who reviewed. (Looks around) Now, where'd I put my Crimson teddy bear? (Pulls out a stuffed golden teddy bear with a Crimson Ranger uniform on, holding a blaster.) Enjoy the next chapter!
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(Next Day, at the Park, Hunter's POV)
"Man, I never wanna go through that again!" I groaned, rubbing my arms and looking around the almost deserted park. "I'm so glad to be back to normal."
"Or, as normal as a Dragon Clan, Ninja Ranger can get." Angie quipped quietly.
Blake snickered a moment and shook his head. "Bro, I think it's safe to say our lives are about as far from normal as humanly possible." he stated, patting me on the shoulder. Then he turned to the other side and poked Tori in the side, resulting in a yelp and mock glare before she poked him back.
"Children, chilren..." Angie grinned. "Be nice or you don't get any ice cream!"
His jaw dropped and Blake folded his hands neatly in his lap. "I'm sorry." he stated with a chuckle. "I'll be good, I promise!"
Tori busted up laughing and poked him in the side again, causing him to turn and pout at her before he leaned in and stole a kiss, tickling her viscously when she was distracted.
"Oh, come on!" I called with a fake glare in their direction, biting my lip to keep from laughing. "Get a room, you two!"
Blake turned and swatted my arm, and Tori lashed out with her foot, kicking me in the shin.
"Ouch! Hey!" I cried, rubbing my shin and leaning against the tree.
To be honest, this was kind of nice. Taelin was learning a little martial arts from Dustin and Shane, Cam was working on some new upgrade for the zords, and we were here, relaxing in the park. It was a clear, sunny day out, and Blake was on one side of me, with Tori on his other side, and Angie was on my other side, surrounding a tree.
It was definitely nice to be back in human form, and to be allowed out of Ops.
"Serves you right." Tori grumbled with a blush, biting her lip as she looked at the ground.
"I'm surrounded by kids." Angie groaned with a grin.
Raising my eyebrow, I reached over and poked her. "Hey! Be nice!" I scolded. "Or, you don't get any ice cream!"
Suddenly, Angie jerked and squealed loudly as she squirmed. Looking over in confusion, and I reluctantly admitted, a little worry, I relaxed when I realized it was Tori and Blake, having snuck up on her and were poking and tickling her sides.
"Stop!" she cried as she giggled violently, leaning forward and holding her side. "I'm sorry!' she giggled out.
I couldn't help but grin as she squirmed under their tickles. Then she fell over sideways, into my lap, and I felt my face heat up as she curled up in a ball, taking a deep breath and relaxing as Blake and Tori stopped poking at her.
"You guys are so mean!" she cried in mock hurt as she laid panting on my leg.
Angie's eyes suddenly flew open, wide, and she shot up into a standing position. For a moment, I thought it was from her figuring out that her face was in my lap, but then I noted how her eyes were narrowed and she was looking around the park wildly.
With a frown, I hopped up beside her and touched her arm lightly, looking around and feeling the hair on the back of my neck stand up as I sensed a dark presence nearby. Something's...
I know.came Blake's grim thought as he pulled Tori closer to him, his eyes glowing a little. Something dark is coming.
Dark. A good way to explain it. If I had to relate a color to the dark aura I was sensing, I'd say black. But what was weird was that it also seemed...cold.
"We have to run." Angie said quietly, her eyes open wide in unconcealed terror. "It's an ice monster!"
"Ice monster?" I repeated in confusion.
All of a sudden, the temperature seemed to drop, and it began to snow. I immediately felt the difference and shivered violently as I stepped closer to the others. It only hit me then that I could sense the heat from Blake, Tori and Angie, and I guessed that this was the dragon's senses picking up, since they were drawn to heat.
ColdBlake's mind grumbled almost predatorily.
I looked at him and watched as he pulled Tori closer, almost burying his face in her neck.
I don't like the cold.
Me, either, bro. I thought with a shiver. I briefly wondered why he was feeling it more than me, but then it hit me that I was wearing a long sleeved shirt and he was wearing a t-shirt. That explains it.
Blake shot me a raised eyebrow and I made a face at him before turning to Angie. "Yeah, ok, getting outta here sounds good about now."
We turned to run and I felt my eyes go wide to find a solid wall of ice behind us. Then my eyes narrowed as I looked up, only to widen again when I saw that the wall was at least 10 feet high and wide, and too thick to break through.
"Guys...?" came Angie's shaky voice, and I turned immediately, noticing her shivering a little.
Then again, shorts and a t-shirt aren't usually very warm.
I followed her gaze to find there was another ice wall behind us. My ears picked up the sound of tinkling, like snow makes when it brushes against buildings, and looked to our left to find another wall quickly freezing and blocking our path out, that way.
"Run!" I yelled as panic set in. I could feel my dragon senses picking up, and turned to our right, only to find that we were blocked in that way, too. "Where'd these walls come from?" My breathing was becoming shorter as I looked around, trying to find a way out. They just appeared outta nowhere!
Blake ran to one of the walls and pounded on it, only to pull back with a hiss. "Cold." he groaned a little, his eyes glowing brighter.
Cold? No, it's more like freezing! I thought as I shivered. I sensed a minor energy pulse and frowned as I turned, blinking a moment as I watched Angie spread her newly visible wings and lifted off. She flew up quite a ways, but out of seemingly nowhere, a blast of snow hit her and she fell, landing on her feet, but quickly falling to her knees.
"Angie!"
I raced to her side, only to find her shivering uncontrollably, and her eyes were glowing white.
"We have to..." She looked around in clear panic. "We have to get outta here before we freeze!"
"Hah! You're not going anywhere!"
We all spun to find a giant snow man-looking monster with really sharp looking fangs as he raised it's arms and blasted the top of the closed in area, immediately forming a thick wall of ice as the ceiling.
"Three little Dragon Clans, and a regular Water Ranger, too. Nothing you can do to escape." he taunted.
Elements...
I turned to Blake who seemed to be thinking about it. "What about elements?"
He frowned. Tori's water. Me, I'm thunder and ice... "Hunter, you're fire!" he cried as his eyes lit up. "You can melt the ice!"
"Try it, Ranger, and you'll cause the whole ice box to cave in on all of you!" the snow man monster gloated. "Well, I'm off to 'chill'. I'll be back to check up on my Ranger-cicles later." Vanishing in a poof of snow, he left us, slowly freezing.
And if it wasn't bad enough, it began to snow in the box, making it even colder.
"Stupid monster." Angie grumbled. She sat down abruptly and frowned as she folded her arms around her stomach and shivered.
Looking around again, I watched as Blake tried to get a hold of the others via his morpher, but the signal was jammed. Wait.. "Blake, Tori, let's try morphing!"
They nodded and we got into position.
"Ninja Storm!" Tori called, raising her hand to the sky.
"Thunder Storm!" Blake and I called, throwing our hands towards the ground.
"Ranger Form! Ha!" we finished together, hitting the buttons on our morphers.
Nothing happened.
"They must be jamming our powers from working." Tori stated as she shivered slightly.
I turned back to Angie, and walked over to her, sitting behind her and wrapping my arms around her waist. "Then we gotta find a way to stay warm until the others come and get us outta here." I felt Angie tense up for a few moments and was about to question what was wrong, but I caught a glance of her face and noticed that her cheeks were red. Then, she relaxed and settled back into my hold. Is she embarrassed or something?
Blake copied me with Tori, but pulled her more into his lap and held her even tighter as he shivered. He winked and grinned at me from behind the said water Ninja. Probably. It's pretty obvious she likes you.
I felt my own face heating up and was about to deny it when I recalled what she said to me in dragon form, about me being 'cute'.
He seemed to pick up on that as well and his grin grew. See?
Shut it. I though to him with a glare, raising my own eyebrow. And get outta my head!
Shaking a bit, from with-held laughter, Blake stuck his tongue out behind Tori's head. Make me.
"Blake!" I yelled, wincing as Angie jumped and spun to glare at me. "Sorry." I muttered sheepishly. Now's not the time for this. I grumbled mentally to my brother.
He just shrugged. Got your mind off the cold, for a little while. he stated indifferently, nuzzling his face into Tori's neck, making her blush deeply. Warm...
I bet. I thought with a grin, carefully blocking off my end of the link to keep Blake from commenting. Shivering again, I tightened my hold on Angie's waist as I looked around. Already, I could feel like my energy was draining, and I could see Blake's eyes drooping. Looking at Angie, I noticed her eyes were barely open and realized she was colder than all of us, probably due to the shorts and getting hit by a blast of ice energy. Come on guys...
(Back at Ops, Taelin's POV)
Punch, block, kick, block. Not a hard combination to remember, and at least they were taking it easy on me.
Shane and Dustin were teaching me to defend myself. Apparently, I could use magic, but Cam left the choice of learning it up to me and I kind of liked being somewhat normal, so that wasn't at the top of my list of priorities. So instead, he asked them to teach me basic self-defense.
Block. I thought in concentration as Shane sent a punch towards me. And counter, kick! I kicked up high and he had to move quickly to block my leg from hitting him in the hip.
Ok, so I'm not that flexible and can't kick at head height yet. At least I'm making some progress, right?
"Great job, Tae!" Dustin called from the sidelines.
I felt my face heating up as I blocked one of Shane's kicks and countered with a punch. "Thanks!" I called lightly, ducking under another punch. Wait... "Stop!"
Freezing in mid-step to aim a punch at me, Shane frowned in confusion and Dustin jogged over, as I remained crouched down low and closed my eyes.
Why do I feel so cold? I thought in confusion. It was weird, but I had this foreboding sense that Hunter, Blake and the others were in trouble. I was actually about to open my mouth and say it when I heard Shane's morpher beep and opened my eyes as he answered it.
"Go for Shane."
"Shane, it's Cam. Listen, the others are in serious danger in the park. Get there now!" he ordered in a clearly worried voice.
"Got it!" Shane called. "Sorry Tae, but-"
"I know." I cut him off. "Hurry." Was all I said as I turned and stared at Dustin for a moment. Giving a small smile, I turned past him and towards Ops. I couldn't ninja streak, but Cam made sure the guys kept away from the woods for a while, so we were nearby.
As I found the opening to Ops, I turned and saw that the guys were gone. With a frown, I turned back and hurried down the steps. Good luck, guys.
When I reachd the room, I stopped a moment and stared in horror at the screen. There, in a large, fairly unstable-looking ice box, were Hunter, Blake, Angie and Tori. They were sitting in a close circle in the center of the box, in about three inches of snow.
"That explains why I felt cold." I muttered as I walked closer.
Angie was shivering violently and was leaning in Hunter's embrace, her eyes closed tightly and her wings constantly shuffling, glowing slightly to show how weak she was. Hunter was shivering as well, but not as bad, and his eyes were half open, glowing a bright crimson, along with his own wings, which were wrapped around himself and Angie, to provide some warmth.
Tori seemed the least affected of them all, but in her grasp, she held a small navy dragon that seemed to be unconscious.
"That's really not good." I stated with a worried frown as I stood behind Cam. "The cold drains them. If they transform, it's that much worse on them, and they're really weak by that point."
Turning his head, Cam frowned a moment. Then he turned back to the computer and narrowed his eyes as he typed on the keyboard. "Their communicators are jammed." Hitting a button, he stared intently at the screen. "Shane, if you can hear me, you better hurry! I don't know how much longer they can last!"
The screen changed to show him and Dustin facing off against a large white snowman with a gaping hole with jagged teeth for it's mouth and haunting black eyes. Looking into his morpher, Shane's irritation was clear. "We're a little busy at the moment. Any help you can give would be appreciated." he stated pointedly.
"Got it. I'm on my way." Cam stood quickly, hitting another button that activated Cyber Cam. "Take over for me." He ordered his computerized clone. Turning his back to us, he pulled off the amulet he wore around his neck, pausing as it grew to the size of a softball in his hand.
"Samurai Storm! Ranger Form! HA!" he called, morphing into the Green Samurai Ranger.
With a final nod to us, he turned and streaked out of Ops, leaving me behind with Cy, watching worriedly over the others.
"Come on..." I chanted quietly as i watched Angie transform into a tiny white dragon in Hunter's arms. "Hurry, guys."
He held her tighter, curling up against Tori as he shivered even more violently, already noticing the lack of warmth in front of him, where she'd been sitting. In response, Tori wrapped an arm losely around his shoulder, with a look of worry etched into her face. She hoisted Blake higher against her chest, so that his face was buried against her neck, and Hunter rested his head on her shoulder.
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Yeah, I definitely think winter is getting to me. LOL. Everything is coming out cold or reminding me of how cold I am. LOL.
Just a note, chances are I won't have a girl for Shane or Cam. They are not my most favorite characters, so I won't likely focus too much on them, and if I do, I'm not good with their characters, so writing in pairings would be fun. If anyone else has ideas and wants to use the dragon forms and such for fics, with pairing ideas and such, feel more than free to do as you like. Just let me know so I can read them:) LOL
Hope you like it.
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Tenshi.