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Chapter Thirteen: Finally Found You

Mike, Mia, and Kevin were still searching the forest for Emily. They had been walking for hours, but still no luck. They had found some footprints, and followed them until they could no longer be seen. Now they were guessing where the footprints would be headed if they were still visible.

The three samurai were walking slowly, mainly because of Mike, but partly because they were tired. They had been walking the forest, and calling Emily's name. Few words were spoken besides Emily's name. Mike was beginning to grow impatient.

"If I was a crazy, psycho, Nighlock killing machine with an overly powerful sword and a terrified and injured girl, where would I go?" Mike asked himself out loud.

"You would go to the arcade." Kevin replied.

Mike turned around and glared at Kevin for a moment before he continued walking. Kevin ignored the stare and continued talking.

"Now if I was a crazy Nighlock and I had Emily, I would go somewhere secretive. But I would also go somewhere we know fairly well. If we assume Dekker's motive of kidnapping Emily was to draw Jayden out for the 'ultimate duel', then we can assume he would go some place that we know, but no one else would think of." Kevin rambled.

"And why do you say that?" Mike asked quizzically.

"Well," Kevin began, "I certainly wouldn't go somewhere filled with people. If he took Emily his goal is to keep her away from people. People are in the city. So my guess is they are still somewhere in this forest." Kevin finished.

"Good job, Kev. You have now narrowed it down to miles and miles, and miles of land." Mike said sarcastically.

"He has a point." Mia defended Kevin, "If I was Dekker I would stay in the forest. We can atleast eliminate the possibility of her being in the Netherworld, the city, or half way across the world. We know he has to be close, since he wants Jayden." Mia concluded.

"But still, even eliminating those places they could still be extremely hard to find." Mike said.

Kevin sighed. He knew Mike had a point. No matter if they narrowed it down to a single forest, they could still be anywhere. For all they knew they could be hiding in the trees and they could have already passed them.

As if reading his thoughts Mia replied, "He's right. But we need to keep looking anyway, no matter how hard we have to search."

"Then let's keep looking." Kevin said.

***Taken***

Dekker continued on the walk with Emily, still silent after Dekker revealed he wanted both the red and yellow rangers dead. Emily was terrified for her life, and decided staying quiet was the best option. If she spoke she ran the risk of upsetting the cursed warrior, possibly ending her life sooner.

As the walk continued Emily looked at her surroundings, desperately trying to figure out where she was. Much to Emily's dismay all she saw were trees, trees, grass, and some more trees.

Emily felt like she wanted to cry. She had been kidnapped, brutally beaten, severely inured, then returned home and asked out, only to be kidnapped again and been told she was going to die along with her leader and possibly her friends, all because of a stupid duel. At this point Emily didn't want to cry because she was sad or scared, she was pissed off.

When Emily was pissed off it was never a pretty sight. She was rarely upset enough to hurt someone, but when she was upset she was furious. She mainly got upset because of Nighlock, and would take her anger out on them. But the few people who had the pleasure of upsetting the youngest ranger had lived to regret it.

Right now all Emily wanted to do was beat Dekker, and go home with her friends so they could all relax before another Nighlock returned. But because of her current position, she was too scared and hurt to do anything besides follow Dekker and hope that he would decide against killing her, Jayden, and the rest of the team.

Soon though her thoughts were interrupted by Dekker, "We are almost there."

"Almost where exactly?" Emily asked.

"You will see when we get there. But trust me, your friends will find you soon enough and this will all be over." Dekker assured her.

"How do you know they'll find me?" Emily asked.

"They know the place we are going. Now come, we're getting closer." Dekker said.

Emily and Dekker soon after arrived in small clearing. Emily looked around and saw they were in a small grass patch surrounded by trees. She couldn't remember where she had seen the place before, but she knew she had been there.

"Where are we?" Emily asked.

"We are at the place you first saw your gold ranger. Do you not remember?" Dekker asked.

As soon as he said it Emily remembered. She remembered how they were seemingly loosing the fight until Antonio came and saved the day. He used his speed to wipe out almost all of the Moogers, and then defeated the Nighlock. She knew why Dekker would pick this place.

The clearing was close enough to the Shiba house that occasionally the rangers would all sit in the clearing and hang out when they became too sick of being locked in the house. They had come to this place only days before herself and the other rangers were taken by Dekker.

"I remember now. But how do you know about this place?" Emily asked.

"I did some 'research' before I took you and your friends." Dekker replied.

"Why?" Emily asked.

"I have my reasons. Now, I want you to turn your samuraizer on. The others will find you and I can finally get my ultimate duel." Dekker said with a smirk.

***Taken***

Mike, Mia, and Kevin were still wandering the forest. Unknowingly they were wandering in the direction Dekker and Emily were at.

"Hey guys!" Kevin said to his friends.

"What?" Mike said as he turned around and looked at Kevin.

"Emily's samuraizer is on! We can get her location! She's just up ahead!" Kevin said happily.

"Let's go! Hurry up guys!" Mia said as she raced off in the direction Emily's samuraizer was in.

After a few minutes of racing through the forest they approached the small clearing. Mike, Mia, and Kevin stepped out from behind the trees to see Emily tied to a tree, and a smirking Dekker standing in front of her.

"Well, it seems it took you long enough." Dekker taunted.

"You are so gonna regret hurting my friends." Mia said as she charged Dekker with Kevin helping her.

Mike ran over to Emily while Mia and Kevin were distracting Dekker. He kneeled next to her and began to work on the ropes tying her to the tree.

"Are you okay Em?" Mike asked her as he struggled with the knots.

"I'm okay now. But we can't let Jayden come here, Dekker still wants to battle him." Emily said worriedly.

"I have a feeling Jayden won't be here for awhile Em." Mike said as he finally untied the first rope tying her legs to the tree.

Emily said nothing else as Mike continued working on the knots. Mia and Kevin were distracting Dekker, barely. He clearly saw Mike and Emily, but he was unable to stop him from untying her because of the blue and pink rangers.

After a few more seconds Mike finally untied the last knot keeping Emily on the tree. She fell into his arms and hugged him.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you Mike!" Emily said as she continued hugging him.

"Mike! Emily! Both of you get outta here! Mia and I will hold him off! Go!" Kevin yelled to the two youngest rangers.

Mike released Emily from the hug, but because of the extreme exhaustion and the injuries, Emily was limping and unable to run as fast as she needed to. Mike saw this and picked Emily up bridal style and began running out of the forest. Emily was clinging to Mike's neck, terrified he would drop her or that she might slip.

As Emily and Mike ran away from Dekker, they heard a pain filled scream coming from behind them.

Almost immediately after they heard another yell coming from Antonio screaming, "JAYDEN!"