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Volcano Storm ch 5
When Alexis woke up, she noticed two things immediately. One, it was warm. Two, it was dark. She turned her head and saw a very small fire a few feet away. She smiled. "Danny." she murmeerd. Lifting her hand up a bit, a large blaze lifted from the small flame.. Light immediately filled the small room. She discovered Danny sitting a few yards to her right. He looked up at her.
"So you finally woke up, huh Scarlet." He said as he gave her a smile. Alexis rolled her eyes at her friends restart of calling her by her ranger color. But then Danny turned serious. "Hey, you alright?"
Alexis was about to answer that she was fine, but then she noticed something. Her hand gently touched her right lower side, and a new wave of pain shot through her. She turned to Danny.
"I'll live, but my side hurts like hell. Guess you were right, I should devote more energy to defense."
Danny gave a slight smile at Alexis's attempt to make light of the situation.
"The Navy Ranger hit you pretty hard. Look, 'Lexis did you,.."
"I know what your thinking," Alexis said, "and know, I didn't know that the Thunder Ninjas were going to be here. Tori kept me in the dark as much as you."
Danny let out a sigh. " I can't believe Tori would trick us like that, bringing us to Thunder Ninjas."
"I don't know, Danny." Alexis said thoughtfully. " If Tori planned to attack us, she would try and bring us somewhere specific. I was the one who decided on the beach.
Danny went over all the information is his head. "Wait a minute, you think,"
"Maybe. Tori could of tried to keep us away from the Thunder Ninjas but somehow, they found out, and since they think were psycho, killer evil ninjas, they came to 'save' Tori." Alexis finished. She began to chew on the side of her mouth. The Thunder Ninjas had always made her nervous, and the thought of being anywhere near them for something other than a tournament flat out scared her.
"Danny?", she asked, " Why do you think we didn't know about the Thunder rangers? We heard about the Wind Rangers."
"Because Alexis", Danny answered. "The Volcano Academy is all the way in Hawaii. Sensei Haruno heard about the fall of the Wind Academy, the rise of the Power Rangers, but then we were attacked. With Sensei gone, and neither of us keeping up with the news, we just didn't know." He sighed as he finished. He hated not being informed. Alexis turned back to the fire. For a while, it was silent
"Uncle!" Two female voices pierced the air. Lothor groaned.
"I was just starting to enjoy the piece and quiet." He grumbled. "What do you want?" He demanded to his nieces.
Marah and Kapri looked at each other nervously before continuing.
"Alright Uncle, you know how we defeated a ninja academy called the Volcano Academy?" Marah asked.
"How could I forgot, the little brats were more trouble then they were worth. Though I must say, the end result was quite rewarding?"
Marah and Kapri shared another nervous look before Kapri answered. "Well, we discovered, the two ninjas that actually survived our attack have their morphers back."
"What!" Lothor yelled. "We destroyed that power, they should be useless."
Marah and Kapri reeled back at their uncle's anger.
"You see, apparently the Amber one found a power strong enough to re-energize them." Kapri said. Lothor started to calm down. Then he started to think and soon a perfectly evil plan had formed.
"We could use this to our advantage." he stated.
"Huh?" Marah and Kapri asked confusedly.
"Think you pea-brains. We can make them go through the same thing that happened last time. We can even get the power rangers involved. It's perfect. Zurgane! He commanded his general. "Take an alien and go down to capture those ninjas.
"As you wish sir." the alien obeyed. He transported down to earth.
"This will be a most interesting ninja battle." Lothor said.
"Hey Danny, I have a question." Alexis said. Her wound didn't hurt as much, she had regained her strength and her energy had returned. "How did you get our powers back?"
"Oh", Danny replied."Well we couldn't find the scroll of power in the schools ruins, and since we had searched basically everywhere, I guessed that maybe it wasn't there. Since two core Ninja academies are here, I searched for a place where large energies were. I found a place called the Cavern of Lost Souls, streaked there, and boom, there it was. To think, we've been searching in the wrong place all along. That's what you call ironic." He laughed.
Alexis laughed with him. For the first time in a long time, she was completely relaxed. That didn't last long though. Two monsters and a group of kelzacks teleported down, and stood in front of the Volcano Ninjas.
"Who in the world are you?" Alexis got up demanded.
"My name is General Zurgane, and this is Ash-a-Trops." The black monster said. Next to him, a red monster with flames and a stream of lava flowing down his body stood.
"What do you want with us?" Danny asked.
"My master wants your power. You might remember him. His name is Lothor."
Alexis gasped. Danny could only blink in shock. When he turned to Alexis, he saw the girl who had always been so strong, go weak. Her hand covered her mouth, her knees wobbled, and tears had begun to form. No doubt she was remembering the man who practically ruined her life.
"Attack!" Zurgane commanded. The kelzaks leaped into action. Luckily, Alexis regained her senses just in time to stop there attack. She went onto the offense and charged Ash-a-Trops. He met her attack with equal fury, which is saying a lot. Danny on the other hand, stood and let the kelzaks come to him, deflecting there attacks with ease. He didn't notice Zurgane come up behind him. He didn't notice him preparing to strike. But before he knew it, he was flat on the ground and the kelzaks had him firm in their grasp.
"Danny!" Alexis screamed. She tried to push past Ash-a-Trops, but he grabbed her too. Before he could move though, Alexis had called upon her Lave Sword and jabbed it into the monsters arm. He let out and agonized wail. He was obviously incapable of speech. He let go of Alexis, who stumbled to the ground. She got up and started running towards Danny.
"One will have to do." Zurgane said. He teleported away. Ash-a-Trops, and the kelzaks with Danny quickly followed suit. Alexis was left alone in an empty cave.
"Danny!" she screamed again. She let the tears that had gathered fall down her face. Images, memories of the first battle, the first time Danny had been taken by Lothor flashed to the front of her mind. She felt alone. So she did the only thing she could think of. She headed towards Tori.
"What were you thinking out there?" Tori questioned as soon as they had returned to Ninja Ops. Her voice sounded questioning, but if you were paying attention, you could hear the slight bit of accusation in her voice. Hunter didn't seem fazed though.
"We were saving you." Hunter said. "Alexis isn't someone you want to fight, she's really powerful."
"You think I don't know that?" Tori said. This caught all the boys by surprise. "Alexis is my cousin, I know she's a fire ninja. I also know she would never hurt me."
"Wait, your cousin?" Blake asked.
"You know she's a ninja?" Shane asked.
"And you didn't tell us?" Hunter asked.
Tori answered " Yes she's my cousin, of course I knew she's a ninja, and she knows I'm one too, FYI. and I was gonna tell you, but you came and attacked Alexis before I got the chance.
"Wait, wait." Dustin said. "If she would never hurt you, why were you fighting?"
"We weren't fighting, just sparing." Tori said. "And now she's probably never going to be allowed to talk to me again. Danny thinks I betrayed them."
"Danny would of betrayed you!" Hunter cried. He knew the Volcano Ninja's for so long, he wasn't going to accept they wouldn't hurt someone.
Tori just shook her head. "Danny cares about me. A lot. He wouldn't hurt me." Her words were sincere.
She didn't notice that Blake had cast his eyes down.
' She sounded so sure, like even the spell Hunter and I were under wouldn't make him hurt her.' Blake thought to himself. 'But I did hurt her. A Volcano Ninja can't care about her like I do, it's not possible. Is it?' But he came back to reality when he heard someone come down into Ninja Ops. All heads turned to the new comer.
"No way." Dustin said.
"Tori." The new comer said.
"Alexis." Tori asked.
"Dude," Shane said as he turned to Dustin. "Way."
A/N 2- So slightly different, now the question is, what's going to happen with Danny.