A/N: I don't like the way this chapter came out. Its also not beta'd again.
"You Hag!" shouted Koragg at Necrolai, "you let the boy escape!"
"The boy was here against his will, and you weren't there when he awoke!" Necrolai shouted back.
Leelee sat on the rocky chair that she had always favored, watching the exchange between her mother and Koragg. It was something that her mother helped Bowen escape, Leelee never would have thought it possible that her dark, vampiric mother, would actually help someone. Maybe her mother wasn't as dark as she made herself out to be?
Shaking her head at the argument that was going nowhere, she got up and began to head into the direction of the gate that she uses to get in and out of the Underworld. All of the sudden, something made no sense to her. The boy, Bowen had gotten out by using a spell that Leelee had heard Koragg use and luckily remembered it enough so Bowen could use it to escape. The only thing he had to do was go through the magical barrier/gate and it would have put him in the forest, very close to town. It wasn't making any sense, the connection between Bowen and Koragg. She remembered when she was eight, sneaking out of bed and hearing a conversation between Koragg and Morticon about how Koragg was the only one who could use certain spells and the teleportation spell was one of them. Maybe it was because Bowen looked so much like Koragg that he was able to use it. It made no sense, and the answer was most likely staring her in the face. She was determined to figure out what was going on, as she passed through the barrier, as her clothes changed to something more her.
"You know, this could be worse!" Madison yelled in her to her sister as they both were taking on a monster that Vida had literally run into on their way to work.
Vida's jeep wouldn't start that morning, and both girls were running late, so they had to hoof it to work. When they were a block away Vida was slightly ahead of her sister, and wasn't watching where she was going, and had run straight smack into the back of a monster that was turning people to stone. Both Rocca's morphed right away when they realized that they couldn't fight the monster on their own strength and that any witnesses were stone.
"Yea, how?" Vida yelled back, as she jumped out of the way to avoid the monster's attack.
"It could be bigger," she said cracking a joke for the first time in a long time.
If she had time, Vida would have laughed or at least acknowledged her sister's newly revealed sense of humor, but the monster was getting fiercer, as they ended up side-by-side, trapped against a wall.
"You had to say something?" Vida said, realizing that the tides had turned.
Madison was about to respond, when two giant vines appeared from the right of the monster, capturing it within their grasp, and lifting the monster high into the air, then lightning bolts and fire hit the monster. The sisters nodded towards each other, when they both realized what had just happened, rescued by the men of the group. Madison took out her magi staff which had turned into a mini-trident, and took off running to where the monster was still being held by Xander's vines. She aimed the trident at the monster, and a beam of water came out of it, but it did more harm than good, as just as Vida was about to use her tornado power on it, Xander's vines broke, and the monster jumped down to the ground, with his back turned to the Rocca's, giving them an opening to join the guys.
"Nice of you to join the party," Vida said as she got close enough to them.
"Nice to be here," Chip said, jumping out towards Vida, and pushing her to the ground as one of the monster's rock beams sailed safely over his head as he landed ontop of Vida.
"Get off me, Chip!" Vida yelled, pushing Chip off as she got up.
"Not even a thanks," Chip said getting up as well.
This is ridiculous, thought Bowen as it was his turn to dodge a beam. There's got to be something we can do instead of playing tag with it all day.
"Try attacking it all at once," a male voice that wasn't Xander's or Chip's said out of nowhere.
He looked around for the speaker, but the only thing he saw was Madison and Xander jump out of the way in opposite directions, Madison into a store window, Xander towards Chip who was picking up a child statute that someone had accidentally knocked over in the chaos, as a beam hit the ground just where they were standing just a moment before.
"Did you hear a voice, V?" Bowen asked as Vida rolled towards him dodging another beam.
"Besides us? No. Everyone is solid rock, there's no one to say anything. You hearing things, Bowen?" she said teasingly.
Bowen didn't have time to answer as a beam came straight towards him. Bowen jumped out of the way, giving Vida a clear shot of the monster. She was about to attack it, when Bowen yelled at her, figuring that he should listen to the voice.
"No, V! Everyone!" Bowen yelled, "all of us attack at once, we're more powerful that way."
Chip turned around to look at Xander who nodded at him. Madison, who had jumped through a store window earlier, came out the way she went in, hearing what Bowen said. Dodging another beam, she ran to the others.
"On three, everyone give it your best shot," Bowen said, drawing nods and uh-hmms from the others.
"1," he said as they all raised their magi staffs.
"2," said Bowen, as the monster prepared to fire.
"3!" he said, as they all used their most powerful attacks, drowning the monster in rainbow of colors.
The monster exploded in a poof of smoke.
"Did we do it?" asked Madison.
"I think so, its not there anymore," replied Xander.
All of the sudden there were cheers everywhere, as the stone people began to animate once more. The Mystic Force was quickly surrounded by the people of Briarwood, all who were cheering. A sudden spell came to Bowen, Uthra Norqua Ozarro, and the five of them were teleported to just outside of Rootcore.
"How did we get here?" asked Madison powering out of morph.
"Yea, how did we, there were cute girls there," Xander said.
"They adored us!" said Chip, appearing as Chip.
Vida said nothing, but powered down, and crossed her arms.
"I don't like large crowds," Bowen said powering down, "never did. It's not my thing."
"Your afraid of people?" asked Madison, taking a small step towards Bowen.
There was a moment's pause. "It's not that I'm afraid, I just don't do well in crowds. That's why I don't have friends, magical or human. That's why I was so afraid to approach you. I've seen you from a far, but never got enough strength to say hi," replied Bowen, looking around at the group.
Xander and Chip looked down at the forest floor, going on the guilt trip. Vida and Madison could only gape at Bowen. No one said a word.
"Every time I go into a large crowd, I always get nervous and usually end up starting a fight over nothingness," Bowen whispered to no one in particular, though Madison thought for sure that it was directed at her.
Madison led Bowen into Rootcore and the others followed suit, still feeling dejected. There was no one in the common room when they arrived, just the tv/video screen that Bowen installed a few years back was currently showing the people celebrating being free. No one paid attention to it though, as the five all sat around the table, Bowen put his head on the table, Xander just stared blankly at the never ending roof, and Chip was playing with the end of his cape. Vida was looking at her sister whose hand had never left Bowen's shoulder. It was a solemn mood, even though they knew they should be out with the people celebrating.
"Thanks for coming to the rescue before, boys," said Vida breaking the mood, "without you, Maddie and I would have been stone."
"You have Bowen to thank for that, Veed," Chip said, "he notified me and Xand over there that you ladies were in trouble, and the three of us came to the rescue."
At the sound of his name, Bowen lifted his head up, causing Madison's arm to slide off his shoulder. "It was nothing, Chip, I…"
"Bowen, it was something," Xander said butting into the conversation, "we showed a lot of teamwork, and if it wasn't for you, we would be short two team members right now."
Both Roccas smiled at that, everything Xander said was true, and nothing could change that.
"Ow!" Bowen said suddenly, pulling his father's wedding ring out of his shirt.
"What's wrong?" asked Madison.
"It burns. That's how I knew before you girls were in trouble. It burned, then the crystal ball showed you girls cornered," said Bowen.
Bowen stood up and ran over to the crystal ball. He saw Koragg appear next to the remains of the fallen monster. He saw Koragg utter a spell, and the monster resurrected itself and grew to the same size that the toilet bowl monster did.
Bowen gasped as he saw the monster begin to destroy a building in Briarwood. It wasn't looking good at all. Bowen pulled out his morpher.
"Bowen, mate what's going on?" Xander said from behind Bowen, causing him to jump back.
"Our monster from before decided to grow," he replied, not mentioning Koragg's part in it.
"Here we go again," Madison said, standing up.
"But this time were doing it together," said Vida, meaning it, and the others all agreed.
The others joined Bowen and Xander near the crystal ball. "Magical Source, Mystic Force!" they all said together.
Before they had a chance to grab their brooms, a familiar tune sounded from the morphers of Xander, Chip, Vida, and Madison.
"All right, a new spell code!" Chip said, watching as the numbers 1-0-6 lit up on their morphers.
"I wonder why I didn't get it," Bowen wondered aloud.
No one had an answer as the crystal ball showed the monster about to step on a mother and a child. The rangers ran as fast as they could to their brooms, converted them to racers, and then rode quickly to where the monster was terrorizing Briarwood. All five jumped off the racers.
"We need the titans, we can't defeat him if were this size," Madison said.
The five of them all punched in 1-2-5 into their morphers and quickily became the Mystic Titans. Vida turned into a giant pepper shaker and shook pepper surprisingly enough onto the top of the monster. The only thing it did was cause the monster to sneeze. Bowen attacked next with his sword, but the monster turned away at the last second. Bowen, not expecting it, fell to the ground. It was Chip's turn next, as he flew over the monster and attempted to attack with lightening, but he missed, and accidentally gave Bowen the shock of his life.
"Thanks Chip!" Bowen said attempting to get up.
"Sorry!" Chip replied as he flew back to where Xander and Madison were waiting.
Madison tried next, as she aimed her trident at the monster, and water came out of the tip of it, hitting the monster, but getting Bowen wet at the same time, as he finally got up. To avoid getting hit with anymore unintentional attacks, Bowen jumped up over the monster and landed back near his team. Xander didn't even want to try to attack the monster, as there were people running all along the street, and he didn't want to trample anyone due to his size.
"Maybe now would be a good time to try the new spell code," said Vida seeing the monster step on a truck.
"Uh, V, one small problem. How? I can't get to my morpher, I'm not even sure where it went in this from," Xander joked.
"Good question," said Chip wondering the same thing.
"Just imagine yourself entering in the numbers on the morpher, that's how I usually do magic," said Bowen answering everyone's questions.
The titan forms of the minotaur, garuda, mermaid, and sprite began to glow and the light got brighter and brighter till it drew the monster's attention. The light recessed, and revealed a metallic dragon.
"Cool!" thought Bowen.
The dragon swooped down, and Bowen jumped on its back. He held out his sword, as the dragon went up real high, almost too high for Bowen's liking. The dragon made a graceful u-turn up in the air and began to build up speed and headed straight for the monster's head. Bowen had a clear shot, held out his sword, and it went straight through the monster. The dragon turned around just in time to see the monster vanish for good. The dragon roared in celebration as Bowen lifted his sword high up into the air, as the dragon flew towards the forest and Rootcore.
"That was totally awesome!" exclaimed Vida as she walked with the others through the forest looking for Udonna and Clare who had went off before dawn to collect potion ingredients.
"Yea, that was pretty cool sis," Madison agreed.
"I can't believe the four of you combined like that, it was like riding a very graceful horse," Bowen joked, drawing a smack on the back of his head from Madison, a smile from Vida, a groan from Xander and nothing from Chip.
They were currently in some sort of clearing that was now full of undergrowth and such. There was a log strategically placed on the side. It looked like once upon a time it was used for some sort of training facility or something. Chip suddenly found himself on the ground as he tripped over something. Xander and Bowen stood over him giggling like school children over the site. Vida walked over to Chip's feet to see what he tripped over. It was a hump in the ground. She cleared it off a little; sticking out from it was a gold handle of some sort. It was decorated with blue trim that jutted out from various parts of the handle. She picked it up out of the ground, it appeared to be a genie's lamp, but what the most interesting part about it was that on the top of it , was the symbol that the five of them had come to adopt as the symbol of the Mystic Force, the golden 'M' like character that was on their suits. Xander helped Chip up, as Vida sat down on the log holding the lamp, Madison stood behind her, as Bowen sat down next to her.
"Can I take a look?" Bowen asked holding out his hand.
"Sure, its really odd," Vida said.
"Why does this look familiar to me? I know I should know this, but I don't," said Bowen, as he rubbed it, trying to remove some of the dirt that was caked on it.
All of the sudden the lamp began to shake. Startled, Bowen dropped it, as smoke began to come out of the spout of the lamp, followed by a cat like genie, which Bowen knew he had seen before.
"Wahhh!" six-month old Bowen cried. He wanted his mommy or his daddy, but neither of them were coming. A white face appeared over his crib, followed by two paws.
"Don't cry, Bowen, I have you!" the figure said rocking him back and forth.
"I'll take it from here, Jenji," another voice said out of Bowen's line of sight.
He was handed from Jenji to the other figure. He calmed down a little as he recognized the man holding him. It wasn't his mother or father, but it was the next best person, who began to rock him. The person holding him sat down in a rocking chair placed in the room and began to rock on the chair while holding Bowen.
"Shhh, Bowen, it's okay. Your uncle Daggeron has you. There's nothing to cry about," the man said.
The white figure, Jenji placed his cold paw on Bowen's arm starling him causing him to scream…
"Jenji!" Bowen exclaimed, causing the other four Mystic Rangers mouths to drop.
"Huh?" the cat asked gazing into Bowen's green eyes.
"Is it really you, or am I imagining things?" Bowen asked.
The cat just looked at Bowen. It couldn't be, could it? Was he really trapped in the lamp that long? "Bowen?" Jenji asked disbelievingly.
"Yea," Bowen said with a smile.
"It's really you! You've gotten so big!" Jenji said, "how long have I been in that lamp? Where's Daggeron, your father, your mother?"
Bowen looked at the others. Vida was trying hard to decide whether she should laugh, scream, cry or what. He couldn't see Madison, but he could hear her holding back something. Chip was in awe, as that genies were part of his fantasy would, and Xander was shaking his head in disbelief.
Bowen answered, "19 years. Dead. Dead. Around somewhere."
"Daggeron and Leanbow are both dead?" Jenji asked.
Bowen nodded his head, nudging Vida to do the same. "I'm sorry, Bowen," Jenji said putting his paw on Bowen's cheek.
Bowen didn't say anything, however Vida did. "Since you two are obviously old friends, can you cue the rest of us in onto what's going on? she asked.
"I don't remember much, I was too little, I just remember Jenji here," Bowen said.
"I used to be Solaris Knight's partner," Jenji said.
"Solaris Knight? Whose Solaris Knight?" asked Chip suddenly very interested coming up from behind Jenji.
"It would be was, if what Bowen tells me is true. Who are you? Who is everyone?" Jenji asked, noticing Chip and Xander for the first time.
"Jenji, these are my friends and were the new Mystic Force. This is Vida," he said gesturing to her. "Madison is behind me, Chip was the one who asked the question. And Xander is the other one over there who looks very puzzled," Bowen finished.
"That's good, I am Jenji the Genie," Jenji said to everyone.
A crash of thunder sounded in the distance and it began to rain. "Does anyone else besides me not want to get wet?" Madison asked.
"I'm for that!" Xander said finally saying something.
Jenji went back into his lamp. Bowen picked it up and stood up. "I guess he belongs to me now," Bowen whispered to himself.
A bolt of lightning flashed above their heads, "Let's get to Rootcore!" Chip said running back towards Rootcore.
They reached the entrance just as it began to pour. Bowen saw that his mother and cousin were back. He sat Jenji's lamp down on the table.
"Mom, look what I have," Bowen said, winking back at his friends.
Udonna noticed the lamp sitting on the table, "Bowen, it can't be," she gasped.
Bowen nodded, as his mother walked over to the table. Clare looked on from the other side of the room. She picked up the lamp, and out came a very familiar looking cat-genie.
"Jenji!" Udonna cried, pulling the cat into a hug. "Where have you been?"
"In a hole in the ground," Jenji said, getting laughs from the Mystic Force.
Bowen felt dizzy all of the sudden. He sat down in his chair and held his head. The room began to spin around and around.
"Bowen, are you okay?" Madison asked noticing him.
Udonna broke the hug up and rushed over to her son who was squirming in his seat. "Get him out! Get him out!" he screamed.
Udonna looked puzzled. "Who, Bowen?" she asked.
"Koragg, he's in my head!" he yelled.
"Hello son," Koragg said in his head.
Bowen's only conscious thought before he fainted was, He knows.
Next chapter: Titan Megazord, and Bowen and Leelee go to the Rock Porium for the first time. I know I left Leelee in the dark early in the chapter. More of her next.
A/N Which ranger should I devote a chapter to first? After the next chapter, I'm going to do a special chapter on each ranger. Who should be first?