Chapter 4: Whispering voices.
Chelbell2016:
Well next chapter for you please tell me what you think and I will try to update quicker.
*Keeper of the powers*
Courtney's POV:
I am just getting into work as I had gone to meet Bowen who was also due into work. He splits to do his duties and I am reading a magazine. I can hear music playing as I go in to the shop but I don't look up to interested in my magazine. All of a sudden I jump as Chip jumps up from beside some boxes with some sort of box on his head and a plunger in his hand which he was pointing at me like it was a sword.
"I say there most incredulous lady," he says and I pretend to be scared to amuse him. "You're standing in my moat. You will most likely be devoured by a crocodile."
I want to laugh but I decide to play along.
"Saltwater or freshwater croc?" I ask him sounding interested.
He begins to look confused.
"Uh.." he hesitates as he thinks about it. "Freshwater I think."
"Oh then it is my lucky day," I say and I can hear Bowen laughing from behind the counter at me as I flip the plunger out of chips hand and point it at him raising my eyebrows at him. "For I know first hand that it's the saltwater croc that is more dangerous to man. So I'll just swim on through!"
I pass him the plunger and wink at him as I pass through his pretend moat. He looks really confused and Bowen is still laughing.
"Is that actually true?" He asks still laughing.
I shrug. "Who knows?" I smile looking back at Chip. "But it will keep him busy for a few hours while he thinks about it."
Bowen just laughs louder.
Me and Bowen are sorting through the different jobs that need doing.
A few minutes later and I have my magazine back in hand and I am walking towards the back when I bash into someone. Xander.
He drops something out of a box and I bend down to pick it up for him and see that it's a cash load.
"Looks like you already dropped it and not even at the bank," I tell him and I check the amount quickly. "$1,00? Sure could use that kind of cash."
"We all could," Xander agreed before he walked off with the deposit.
"Courtney," Vida called to me from the DJ booth and I turn to look at her. "Come check this out!"
I walk over to her and take the headphones to listen. I love the beat of the music.
"Nice," I tell my two female ranger friends. "Cool beat."
I continue to listen and begin to dance.
"It makes you wanna-"
I cut off as a sharp pain in my head occurs and then I hear a voice.
"You're not wanted Courtney! You're not wanted anywhere! Leave before it's too late!"
I am shocked and look around before taking the head phones off and looking at the other two girls.
"Real funny guys," I say chuckling and I pass the headphones back to Vida. Both girls give me confused looks. "I got work to do!"
I grab my magazine and walk off not feeling really good right now.
I go outside to unload the van when the pain begins to get worse.
"Nobody wants you here Courtney! Leave now!"
I look around in confusion wondering what is happening.
"Who is saying that?" I wonder out loud.
"Saying what?" A voice says from behind me. I turn to see that it's LeeLee.
"Nothing," I say as politely as I can right now. "It's nothing."
"Well I've got something to show your friend Bowen," she says and I roll my eyes when she isn't looking. "I want him to check out my new leather jacket. 500 bucks. I hope he thinks that it suits me."
"Yeah he probably will," I say hoping she will go away.
"Hey I know," she says and I sigh. "I'll let you and Bowen take me for a ride on your bike so he can show me off. Oh I mean so I can show off my jacket. So Bowen and me have a date."
"LeeLee," I say turning to look at her. "Even if me and Bowen had that kind of time on our hands. I wouldn't let anyone use my bike. So the answer is no."
*Keeper of the powers*
I am in the woods rubbing my temples trying to get rid of the headache that keeps coming with these voices. I turn quickly when I hear a noise behind me to see Phineas.
"That's my rock you know," he tells me.
I move off of the rock. "Oh it's you."
"'Oh it's you'," Phineas mocks. "Love the way you say it. Makes me feel almost wanted."
"Sorry I'm just..." I pause to take a deep breath. "I'm just having a bad day,"
"Excellent let's compare bad days," Phineas suggests. "I'll go first. Well, woke up and was immediately attacked by a mouse. It won. Then when I was washing my rather ample nose in the river, a fish bit it. So I swam after it and bit him back. But and here's your important lesson of the day, did you know a fish can swim away from a giant waterfall and a Troblin can't? To my surprise I survived, but I got a crab in my pants. Why-"
I start to hear him say something else but the pain becomes unbearable and I cry out.
"Why should they trust you? You don't even trust yourself. You don't even know me!"
"Quiet... quiet," I say trying to stop the voices. "QUIET!"
A sudden vision shocks me.
Vision:
A man carrying a baby wrapped in an orange and red blanket and with a necklace with a necklace on. The baby is crying as the man is running along with her.
Vision ended:
As the vision ends I fall to the ground in pain and cry out. It feels like someone is taking a hammer to my head.
"Ok we have a winner," I just hear Phineas say from behind me.
I am outside the rock porium making a few adjustments to my bike before University. The pain has finally stopped.
"Hey Courtney," I look up when I hear Xanders voice and I see all four of my friends standing there looking a little troubled.
"Hey man," I say to Xander trying to ignore the tension.
"Look Courtney," Maddison says as I use a tool to try and fix my bike. "There's a $1,000 missing from the store."
I look round at her and the others and I finally realise what they are implying. I get back to my feet, bat my clothes down and stare at my so called friends and teammates.
They all look accusing especially Vida. The others look a little unsure but Vida just looks accusing.
"Oh I get it," I said placing my tool back. "I'm the new girl. I must've stolen it right. I charm my way into your lives just so I can rip you off right."
I shake my head at them and climb on my bike sorting my helmet out.
"Well yeah," Chip says rubbing the back of his neck. "That just about covers what we were thinking."
I scoff and nod my head at him.
"Great," I say feeling really hurt. "And I thought you guys were my friends. I can't believe I actually thought... never mind."
I look around at them all one more time.
"Nice knowing you," I said.
I place my helmet back on my head and take off on my bike feeling upset. What kind of team has no trust not just in a teammate but in their leader.
I go speeding down the road wanting to hurry up and get to the university to hand in my coursework I have been doing in the last two days and to now stay for a few days. Then the voice started again.
"You see you don't have any friends. Everyone always lies to you."
"Who are you?" I demand to know having had enough. I have lifter my visor up on my helmet and I am waiting for the voice to reply. "What do you want?"
"Meet me at the beach and find out!"
I push the Visor down again on my helmet and take off to the beach.
*Keeper of the powers*
I arrive at the beach.
"I am here red ranger!" A voice said but I didn't know where it was coming from at first. Then I hear a growl behind me and I turn to see Koragg there.
"You," I say realising that it is his voice that I have been hearing. "I should've known."
"I spoke the truth," He said to me. "No one trusts you. No one wants you. Except me!"
I was starting to get really angry.
"I want you for your powers!" He said.
He opens up his shield and my eyes widen. I raise my own shield and the force of the blast knocks me back. Unfourtanetly I hit the rocks when I go back.
"Fight me!" Koragg tells me.
"Well if it will get you out of my head," I say. "Let's do it!"
I get back to my feet. I call for my shield of triumph. I then pull out my morpher and press 1-2-3!
"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!"
I then hold my shield in one hand and the sword in the other and it glows red and orange.
I jump at him and attempt to strike him with the sword. He blocks it with his shield and I end up blocking his strike with my own shield. I then have to duck under a kick and roll across the ground and roll away from Koragg. I quickly jump to my feet and strike with my sword. He groans and stumbles back but he recovers quickly. I skid across the ground as he comes at me trying to strike me again. I dodge and block every one and he is clearly getting angry at my skills with a sword and shield. I flip away from him and we clash swords. I then aim a strike at him which he blocks with his shield and causes sparks to fly. He then takes the opportunity to strike me three times across the chest. As I fight to get up he strikes me again but this time lightning strikes and sparks fly across the chest.
"Your not a formidable opponent as I thought," Koragg says as I struggle to get to my feet.
"I aint finished yet Koragg," I remind him growling.
"You're powers are weak!" Koragg says to me. "You have not learned to harness your magic. Your defeat will be swift."
I push myself to my feet with the Triassic sword in hand.
"Not as weak as you think pal," I tell him angrily. "WATCH THIS!"
I say to him and I grip my sword and shield hard.
"POWER OF THE PHOENIX!"
My whole body goes up in flames.
"What?" Koragg says shocked.
I then wave my sword in Koraggs direction and flames go flying at him powered up by my Triassic sword. Koragg goes flying back into some rocks. The rocks crumbles from the impact.
"It's on now!" I tell him.
I run forward.
"You're more powerful than I expected," Koragg sounds shocked as he moves away from the rocks as I move closer to him.
"WOLF ATTACK!"
"FLAME ATTACK!"
We both send our attacks at each other and they clash. The impact of the explosion caused by the attacks hitting each other sends us both flying backwards. I groan and he growls.
He then laughs as we both get back to our feet. We end up under a bridge and he jumps at me with his sword in hand about to strike me again. I block him with my shield and move away as he tries again. We clash swords and I drop to the ground and roll away from him. I then do a ninja sign in the air and aim flames at him which he blocks with his shield but the impact sends him skidding backwards. He jumps up and we clash swords.
"You will be defeated today," Koragg vows.
He then strikes me across the chest before I have a chance to defend myself and I cry out from the pain. We continue to fight but from all the injuries my powers are weak and I am not fighting as well as I should. I land on the ground again and I know that my body isn't healing properly.
"And now young ranger you will meet your defeat," He said raising his sword and preparing to strike me.
"NOO!" I yell.
Suddenly Koragg is hit by a bright light. I look around and see my four teammates heading towards me.
"Hang on Courtney," Xander says.
I roll away as Xander strikes the ground with his axe and Koragg groans as he is hit.
I stop and Maddison, Chip and Vida appear around me and the girls kneel down beside me.
"Courtney!" Maddie says worried.
"You all right?" Vida asks.
Xander then turns around to look at me.
"We know you didn't steal the money Courtney," he says sounding guilty.
"We're sorry we jumped to conclusions," Vida says.
"Actually it was Xanders fault," Chip says trying to break the tension.
I smile a little.
"We let our imaginations run away with us," Maddie says. "It was all of our faults."
"Yeah," I say getting back to my feet slowly. "It was. Maybe you should've thought of that-"
Before I can finish Koragg appears behind us.
"Now that you're all here," Koragg says looking around at all of us. "I will finish this."
A spell seal appears and cotastros appears and Koragg combines with him into centaur mode.
We all looked up in horror as he finished combining.
"Oh no," Maddison says. "That's what he used to defeat Udonna."
"Looks like it's time to zord up," Xander says.
We all pull out our morphers and go to Titan mode.
"MYSTIC TITANS DRAGON FORMATION!"
I jump on the dragon modes back and we begin to fire at Koragg. He then jumps at us and me and him clash swords. He gets close to my face.
"You will never defeat me!" He informed me.
"I'd like to test that theory Koragg!" I tell him challengingly.
I push him away from us while we stay in the air. He drops to the ground and begins firing at us with his wolf attack. We dodge them and they cause explosions in the air.
"Full power!" I yell and we fly towards Koragg.
I send flames to the dragon and they fire them at Koraggs zord.
At the same time he begins firing at us again. Both us and Koragg end up dodging the attacks thrown at us. We go high into the air and do a flip. I ready my sword as we fly back towards Koragg.
"We've got you right were we want you," I tell him.
"Now I have a new power," He said and I stare worried.
He says a spell and he and Cotastros form a megazord that he slots into.
"CENTAURUS WOLF MEGAZORD!" He yells as the transformation is complete.
"NO!" I say seeing what he has accomplished.
"Time to take this fight to the next level," Koragg says as he stares at us.
I watch as he touches his chest.
"DARK SOURCE EVIL FORCE!"
He sends some sort of ripples at us. The ripple takes some sort of light from the five of us and we all land on the ground. I feel some sort of change.
"What happened?" I asked as I felt drained and then I realised. "Guys we can't combine!"
"Now I will use your own megazord powers against you," Koragg says holding the ball of light that was our megazord powers in his hand. "As I summon the evil Morticon from the underworld."
"Who?" I question in horror.
I watch as dark purple energy appears.
"Rise Morticon!" He throws a ball of energy. "Rise!"
A dark magic spell seal appears on the ground and an arm comes out of it. I look down as a monster man-like with some sort of horn on top of his head appears and stands up.
Morticon laughs. "Free at last!"
"No way," I say in shock.
"Now that I am free from that evil cell," he says. "I will destroy this dimension as the most powerful warrior of all time."
"This is bad!" I tell my team.
"Let's finish this," Morticon says as Koragg steps up next to him. "Destroy them!"
Morticon comes running at all of us. I clash swords with him but he knocks the sword right out of my hand and I grunt as it goes flying away from me. Morticon then whacks me in the chest. He grabs the dragon formation around the head. He flips us over and I go flying off and fall to the ground away from my friends. We land right in between Koragg and Morticon. Morticon laughs and Koragg decides to get involved. He raises the spear he has in his hand and creates a dark seal.
"DARK MAGIC SPELL SEAL!"
He strikes us and I roll away but the others are injured.
Morticon grabs me from behind.
"How does it feel Mystic ranger?" Morticon asks as he strikes me across the chest and stomach.
He then whacks me and grabs me again holding me in place.
"This will be my finest hour!" Morticon says as I struggle to get free. "The day I destroy the mystic rangers! Join me in final strike."
Koragg looks unsure.
"My work is done!" He tells Morticon. "The master will be pleased."
"Have it your way Koragg!" Morticon says.
He goes to strike me across the back but I feel a sudden rush of magic and I begin to glow.
"RED MYSTIC RANGER!" I yell as I power up. I jump high into the air.
"What?" Koragg says.
"What's happening?" Morticon growled.
I make my way down to Morticon again and hold out my hand and summon my magic.
"COUNTER SPELL!" I yell and a red spell seal appears around Morticon and I was completely on fire now.
Morticon groans as he can no longer move.
"Koragg do something!" He tells the knight as he struggles to get free.
"That's impossible!" I hear Koragg say but I am concentrating on my spell seal and what I want to do. "How could she counter my spell!"
"I've had a lot of practise Koragg!" I yell as Morticon disappears through a spell seal.
I land on my feet again.
"I don't know how you did that Mystic ranger," Koragg says as I drop to the floor my magic depleted and I am still injured. "But I have your megazord power now!"
I try to stop him. I hold my hand out.
"NOO!"
Koragg laughs and leaves.
*Keeper of the powers*
I finish at college and go to the rock porium. When I arrive the four other rangers are there waiting for me. They all greet me as I take my helmet off.
"Look we just wanted to," Xander began but then paused. "No I just wanted to say that I'm sorry... I am really am."
"You're our friend Courtney," Maddison says smiling at me. "And you deserve better!"
"No more jumping to conclusions," Vida vows. "Promise."
"It was Xanders fault," Chip says and we all laugh even Xander.
"Thanks guys," I say also feeling that I have kept too much from my team as well. "And I owe you guys an apology to. I should have come to you when I started hearing Koraggs voice. So I guess we've all learned our lesson about trust and friendship."
"No more secrets," Xander says smiling and I high five him.
"No more secrets," I agree.
"Well this is nice," Maddison says. "But we're late for work and Bowen is going to kill us if we don't relieve him soon."
We all laugh as Vida groans.
The others leave but first I pull out what I had flamed to dad to look for a orange and red blanket. It is the exact same blanket I seen in the vision today and my dad had kept it for me. Whoever the person was carrying me.. could be either my mum or dad or someone who knows who they are.
*Keeper of the powers*
Chelbell2016:
Ok next chapter for you and I should have the next one for you by tomorrow afternoon at latest. Please tell me what you think and spell seals are going to be something that will be a big part of Courtney's powers in the future.
