The third installment hope it's as good as the others! Thank you to Ghostwriter for my firt review! please keep the reviews coming! :)x
Rain was falling down hard in the city of Angel Grove. Cassie was now walking around the park thinking about everything that had happened. Blood shot eyes were still producing tears that were still trickling down her rosie pink cheeks. Her long black hair, so wet that it was starting to stick closely around the side of her face.
"He's never going to forgive me for this, none of them are" the former pink ranger muttered to herself before quickly taking shelter underneath the tallest tree she could find.
Zhane had picked up Cassie's morpher from on the other side of his door and was now staring at it as if trying to examine it for evidence of where she might have gone. Eventually Zhane stopped and started walking across the bridge once again.
" D.E.C.A. Can you locate Cassie?"
"She is on the Bridge."
Zhane turned around but could only see TJ walking towards him.
"D.E.C.A She isn't on the bridge. Now can you locate her?" Zhane demanded determined not to give up.
"Unless she has her morpher on her. I can no longer locate her."
"Thanks anyway D.E.C.A." Turning around he found himself face to face with TJ.
"What's wrong with you Zhane?" TJ asked concerned by Zhane's determination with D.E.C.A.
"She's gone and it's all my fault."
"What are you on about? Who's gone?"
"C... Cassie."
And with that Zhane walked back into his room and pulled the letter out of his pocket and re-read it over and over trying to make more sense of it.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the little pink power freak." Cassie turned her head to the side, to see Astronema walking towards her.
"Astronema, What do you want?"
"I want to destroy you. Without your friends you will be an easy target."
"Bring it on" and with that the two females started their fight.
Cassie launched several punches at Astronema but she managed to block everyone of them, before kicking Cassie in the chest, which sent her flying into the tree she was originally sat underneath. Cassie got straight back up to her feet and carried on throwing punches. Astronema blocked one of her punches and managed to send Cassie into the tree once again but with even more force than the first time.
"Cassie" The yellow and silver space rangers yelled as they came running to help her.
"This isn't your fight." Cassie forced out of her lips while she clutched her stomach in pain.
"Cassie, are you alright?" Zhane asked as the other rangers rushed off to take her place fighting Astronema.
"I'm fine. Shouldn't you be helping the others?" She asked trying to get him to leave her alone.
"Okay but only if your sure your fine?"
"I'm fine now go."
And with that Zhane ran over to the others but as he did Astronema beamed herself away. Zhane turned to look and see if Cassie was alright but there was no trace of her.
"Where did Cassie go?" Ashley asked worried for her friend.
"She just vanished."
Cassie was walking down an abandoned alley in the town, still clutching her stomach.
"It hurts more now than when your a ranger" She chuckled to herself.
She found an area where a couple of ripped blankets had been thrown away and tucked herself underneath them. She fell asleep thinking about what would everyone's reaction to her be if she ever saw them all again.
Zhane had been tossing and turning all night long. He couldn't help but wonder where Cassie was, for all he knew Astronema could have kidnapped her while she was in her most vulnerable state. He picked up her morpher one more time and layed on his side looking at them, praying that she would be alright.
The sun was rising and Zhane had got up and was on his way to find TJ. He knocked on the door so TJ knew he was there, before steadily opening the door. Upon walking in, he found the blue ranger staring at the ceiling a look of guilt and worry across his face.
"TJ what do you think has happened to her?" Zhane asked cautiously, trying not to anger the man by saying the pink space rangers name.
"I don't know, but as soon as we get back, we'll find her and bring her back. Thats a promise."
Nodding his head in agreement, Zhane exited the room to leave his friend to get ready for school.
Lunchtime dawned on the three teenage rangers who were in the Cafferteria, sitting at their table trying to dig into their food but not managing to as their mind kept drifting towards a certain female who was still missing. Ashley, TJ and Carlos had all been so occupied with thiking about their missing friend in their lessons, that all three had managed to get themselves detention.
"Thats so not fair. We didn't do anything to deserve that." Ashley protested.
"Exactly, we did nothing in our exams." Carlos added sarcastically.
"Haha ... Hey look, is that Cass?" Ashley questioned.
And sure as, Cassie had strolled into the caffiteria. She didn't look herself. She wasn't wearing any pink what so ever, just the colour black. A black hoodie covered her body and arms, as well as that a pair of ripped deniem jeans were covering her legs. Not only that but she had not make up on, her eyes looked like panda eyes, her skin was paler than usual and her mouth stayed pursed in a frowning position. Upon seeing their friend, the three rangers immediatly got up and headed towards the frail figure. Cassie spotting what was coming her way, made towards the doors she had just entered through but Ashley caught hold of her arm before she had the chance to walk any further let alone run anywhere.
"Cass, where did you go to Yesterday? You've had us all worried sick. You've got to come bak, It's not the same without you and whats worse is we don't even know the reason why you left in the first place." Ashley announced hoping that her best friend would talk.
"Zhane knows" Was all Cassie could manage to say.
"Zhane knows what?" Carlos pressed hoping for a more discriptive answer.
"Why I left. Would have thought he might have told you, guess I should give him more credit."
"Cass please just come back with us and let us know whats going on." TJ pleaded.
"I can't" Cassie said before pullig her hand free from Ashley's grip and walked off down one of the corridors.
School had ended and Cassie quickly made exitted her classroom before heading for the nearest exit and stormed out through it. She had her head hung low so she didn't notice anyone around her. Cassie felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Andros standing right behind her.
"A... Andros. What are you doing here?" Cassie stuttered.
"Trying to find you. You have to come back, if not for us then for Zhane. He's taken this even harder than the rest of us. Please don't break his heart even more than his whole thing has already done."
"I would but I have alot of things to sort out before I can even think about returning. Tell Zhane that I'm sorry and I will try to come back."
"Why don't you tell him yourself?" A voice came from behind her. Cassie turned around to find herself face to face with Zhane, A tear trickling down her pale face.
"Zhane. I have to finish it. I can't let anyone find out about it." By this time Andros had walked off to join the other rangers leaving the two, to themselves.
"Why did you bother telling me if you were just going to run?"
"I don't know but for me running is best." Tears fell fast from Cassie's eyes as she suck down to her knees. "I have ruined everything for myself and I don't want you to pay for all of my mistakes. I'm sorry."
Zhane put his hand out to pull Cassie up but she pushed it away and stayed where she was. "Listen Cass, If you just let me help, I can pull you through this. Please Cass."
Cassie slowly got up onto her feet again "It's my problem not your".
Zhane's morpher began to flash intrupting their conversation.
"You better go. And next time please don't try and find me. I'll find you when it's over." Cassie explained.
"Promise?" Zhane asked hoping that she meant it.
"I promise." Cassie said as she watched Zhane fly off with the other rangers to fight another monster.
Cassie walked back down the alley where she had spent the previous night. As she was walking, she found a broken glass bottle. She picked up the bottle and sat down once again on the pile of blankets. Holding the bottle firmly in her right hand, she scrapped it down her arm. Cassie watched as the vibrant red liquid oozed out of the the open cut before too long she wrapped it up in a bandage she had stolen from the Megaship. As she bandaged it up, she felt the pain surge through her body. She gently pulled the sleeve of her hoodie over the bandage so no one would be any the wiser. Slowly as the pain started to stop, Cassie started to fall into unconciousness.