Chapter 5: Legendary Catastros

Chelbell2016:

I couldn't wait to write this episode. Courtney and Catastros together. Please tell me what you think.

*Keeper of the powers*

Courtney's POV:

We were all gathered at Rootcore with Bowen and Udonna for another lesson from her.

"Gather around rangers," Udonna says motioning to the crystal ball. "And hear the story of the beast stallion. Who's strength was known across the land. The legendary Catastros!"

We all gasp as a horse drawing comes to life and gallops into the crystal ball from the Xenetome. We begin to watch the story of the horse that works with Koragg.

"Many have tried in vain to break the mightiest creature of them all," We all watched as many tried to catch the horse but none succeeded. "But Catastros was stronger then a hundred men. No one was able to harness his fearsome power! Catastros fled into the forest, during the great battle of good and evil. But before the seal was closed, evil reached up and dragged Catastros down into the lowest depths of the pit!"

"That was the scariest story I have ever heard," Chip says. "Tell it again!"

I roll my eyes.

"Even I'm a little freaked out," Vida says. "Just a little."

Xander scoffs.

"Well I'm not scared," He says.

Lightning flashes and suddenly the whole of Rootcore goes dark. I fight the urge to laugh as when the lights come back on Xander has jumped into Vida's arms petrified.

"Just making sure your safe 'V'," he tells her patting her shoulder.

"Fine thanks," Vida replies with a mischievous smile. She then releases him and he falls onto the floor. Bowen laughs at Xanders expense.

I sit on top of the table with the crystal ball on top of it.

"You guys can't possibly be afraid of a horse," I say even though the story frightened me a little.

"Make no mistake Courtney," Udonna says walking towards us while Bowen goes to do other things. "Catastros is a force to be reckoned with."

"But Koragg must've tamed him," Maddison points out. "Since he has control over him."

"Yes," Udonna agrees with the blue ranger. "But Catastros remains loyal to Koragg to this day."

I watch as Udonna walks away.

"Don't you just love a good rainstorm," I hear Clare say and I look up and have to fight the urge to laugh at her as she is covered in what looks like whipped cream. "Washes away the stress of the day."

We cannot help ourselves any longer and we all burst out laughing.

"Uh Clare," Maddison says taking a step towards the young sorceress as we giggled. "You're steaming."

Udonna turns back around and stares at her apprentice.

"Oh yeah," she said probably not realising what she looks like. "I crossed a hot coco spell with the spell of protection keeps me warm on those stormy nights."

"Clare that's not what they mean," Bowen tells his friend laughing as loudly as we are.

"Your hair," Vida says as we all laugh more.

"Huh?" She says finally realising that we are laughing at her.

"Your hair!" Vida repeats.

Clare puts her hand to her head and freaks when she sees the cream.

"Aww I forgot to emit the part about the toppings," she said sounding nervous. "I'm allergic to whipped cream!"

Vida and Maddison both back up as Clare is about to sneeze. She turns and sneezes and it goes all over Udonna who looks shocked and then she walks off to clean up.

"Quick Courtney," Clare says and I jump off the table. "Point your wand at me and say finishio."

I grab my wand and point it at her.

"Finishio!" I say.

The whipped cream is gone and Clare's blonde hair is back.

"Thanks Courtney," Clare says sounding relieved. "I better go."

*Keeper of the powers*

Dream:

I am on my bike riding down the road that I use to travel from work to university and back. Suddenly the sky goes dark and I look around in surprise.

"What's that?" I question from inside my helmet.

I suddenly hear not the roar of a motorbike but the sound of hooves beating across the ground. I look down and I am completely shocked to see not my motorbike but the pure black body of the horse Catastros.

"WHOA!" I yell with my helmet no longer on I am freaking out.

I struggle to hold onto the wild horse and I am suddenly bucked off of him.

I go flying into the air. I go falling back to the ground about to hit my kneck. When...

Dream ended:

I quickly sit up in bed and I am sweating and scared out of my mind.

The next day I drag myself into work after having a long night where I couldn't get back to sleep. Bowen met me on the way in.

"You look terrible," he says sounding a little concerned. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah just a long night," I reply yawning a little.

"Nice of you to join us," Xander says smiling as I pass him.

"Didn't sleep much," I tell my team as I put my work t-shirt on and Vida smirks.

"Aww did the scary thunder keep you up," she mocks. "Oh I forgot you're not afraid of anything right?"

"Very funny," I say doing up the buttons on my shirt.

Our morphers go off and the others reach for them in their pockets but I pause.

The others begin to leave and Bowen turns to me.

"No rest for the weary," he says.

I take off after the others so we can go and fight. We race off into town.

"Look," Maddie says pointing into the sky.

We all look up and see Koragg jumping through a spell seal and then Cotastros appears.

"Let's ranger up!" I tell the others.

We pull out our morphers and press the code: 1-2-3.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!"

We all morph. We look up again just in time to see Cotastros and Koragg become the Centaurus wolf megazord.

"CENTAURUS WOLF MEGAZORD!" He called. "Prepare to be defeated."

"Whoa!" Vida cries out.

"Get back!" I say.

"How can we fight him without our megazord power?" Vida asks sounding concerned.

"Good question!" Maddie points out as she lowers her head.

I turn to look at all four of them.

"Come on guys," I encourage all four. "We can do this! We don't have a choice!"

"Yeah!" Xander agreed. "Let's Titan up!"

We pull out our morphers and spin around.

"DRAGON FORMATION!"

The others combine into the dragon and I jump on it's back ready to face Koragg. We fly towards him.

"FIRE!" The dragon opens it's jaws and blasts flames at Koragg.

Koragg groans as sparks and smoke surrounds him and we fly by and then turn to come back towards him.

"Yeah!" I yell as we prepare to attack the knight again.

"Come on!" Koragg challenges as we land back on the ground facing him.

"You don't have all of our powers Koragg!" I remind him.

"That was nothing!" He says and the spear in his hand turns purple with dark energy.

He creates a dark spell seal and then strikes us. We cry out and all five of us fall to the ground as the dragon mode is forced apart. I land on my back and the others are on either side of me. We groan from the pain of the hit.

"Get up and fight!" Koragg orders as we all struggle to get up.

All of a sudden Cotastros neighs in pain as something was shot at him and it hit as Koragg wasn't looking at the time.

"That will teach you to lie to Morticon!" Necrolai says holding a crossbow in her hands. She is standing on top of a building not too far away and she chuckles as Koragg turns to see what hit him.

"What?" He questions as he sees who it is. "I'll crush you hag!"

Necrolai scoffs.

"You'll have to catch me first!" She challenges. She then flies off screeching as she goes.

"My own allies are turning against me," he realised as we all continued to lay on the ground. "I must deal with this!"

"BASILICHI INFREDO!"

A spell seal appears and Koragg and Cotastros are about to disappear. I wont let them leave while they still have our megazord power so I jump up and run to the two of them. I grab the Centaurus wolf megazord and Koragg struggles to pull me off as he stumbles around the dark spell seal. All of a sudden Koragg goes flying away from us and Cotastros cries out as both he and I are pulled down into the dark seal.

I land on some sort of sand and de-morph. I look up.

"What happened?" I wonder as I have no clue as to where I am. What's worse is I don't know wether this is a good place or a bad. It is very dark and I cannot see anyone or anything. "Where am I?"

I look around hoping for some sort of clue or sign to tell me where I am.

"Talk about lost!" I say.

*Keeper of the powers*

I pull out my morpher and open it to try and contact my friends.

"Guys!" I call into it. "Can you hear me?!"

I hear a rush of wind and I continue to look around as I keep my morpher to my ear hoping beyond hope that someone will answer me and tell me where I am.

"Can you hear me?" I ask again as the loud rushing sound seems to get louder and I spin around wondering where it is coming from. "Oh man, one minute I was fighting and the next... this is crazy!"

I try to sense my friends but nothing is working I cannot trace them anywhere and that worries me. The only explanation I have is that I am in another dimension and that I can only sense people in the same dimension as me. I then hear the last thing in the world that I want to hear right now. A loud neighing sound. I close my eyes and take a slow steadying breath before opening them again.

"I hope that is an oversized pelican," I say.

I turn around and to my utter disappointment I see Catastros in his natural horse form standing behind me. He raises his head and neighs at me as I swallow loudly. I try to flame but I cant so I begin to try and run to get some distance between me and that horse. It's not that I am enjoying it but this horse is known as the most 'fearsome creature of all time' for a reason and I don't know wether he wants to attack me. And I aint taking the chance at all. I run through the river hoping that the horse will tire out. He continues to neigh as he chases after me.

"STOP!" I hear someone say but I don't listen even though it makes me wonder who said that.

Cotastros continues to neigh and that stupid voice continues to call out to me and it is really beginning to bug me as I wonder who is calling to me and why they won't show themselves so I can ask for help to stop this deranged animal from following me. I reach some purple woods and I realise I will have a better chance of getting away from Cotastros in there so I jump over a branch and continue to run. I am beginning to get out of breath but I cannot stop otherwise Cotastros will catch up with me.

I trip and roll under a branch which is there and I watch as Catastros jumps straight over it. Cotastros then turns around when he realises I am on the ground.

"Stop I wont hurt you!" I hear the voice again and I look around but no one is here.

I back up and run through the woods before I trip again and land on my back. I look up and worry as I don't see Cotastros anywhere and I know he must be close by.

"Where did she go?" The voice sounded confused and I was wondering wether this voice belonged to good or evil. "There she is!"

I hear neighing and hooves and don't see anything at first. But then I have to dive aside as Cotastros comes at me and I go rolling down a hill. I hit a tree and I am in pain but I am not healing for some reason and I know it must have something to do with this dimension. 'Whats good about having powers if they only work in my dimension' is my first thought. I get back to my feet breathing heavily and holding my ribs trying to soothe the dull ache. I continue to move but with the pain I'm in and the fact that I can no longer see Cotastros I decide to slow down. I grab onto some purple branches and spin around hoping that I don't see Cotastros. I don't.

I stop again and decide to sit down on a tree roots as I need to take a breather. I pull out my morpher and decide to try again.

"Guys!" I say into the morpher. "Help! I can't flame or sense you! Where are you?"

All I hear is beeping like there is no signal. I glance around at the purple ferns and other wildlife that surrounds me.

"More importantly," I say staring up at the sky. "Where am I?"

I get up again deciding that I couldn't stay in one place too long right now.

"Not as smart as you thought you were huh?" I said thinking about Cotastros and where he could be.

I then turn around again and see the black stallion that is Catastros right behind me and I cry out in shock raising my arms. I fall to the ground as I quickly try to back away.

He raises to his hind legs and I worry that he will step on me if I'm not careful.

He suddenly drops back to all fours and lays down on his side. He continues to shake his head and looks at me with one eye.

"Easy boy," I say to him. "Are you hurt?"

"What do you think?"

I hear the voice again and I get to my feet not knowing what to do. I begin to walk away when I hear the voice again.

"Wait! Please don't leave me!"

I am shocked when the voice says me and it occurs to me that this voice isn't coming from out loud. Rather in my head. Like with the snow leopard. I look back to Catastros.

"Why me?" I ask realising that like the snow leopard I have some sort of mental connection to Catastros. "OK!"

I turn back around to see the horse is still staring at me.

"Where are you hurt Cotastros?" I try to communicate with him and it works.

"Right hind leg," He replies.

"Okay," I say out loud as the mind link is still freaking me out a little. "Okay I can do this. I want to be a vet."

He lays down fully so I can check him out on his leg. I begin to walk forwards slowly.

I look at where he says and I see a glowing mark that looks like it really hurts on his leg.

"OOH," I say as I move to take a closer look.

"I am going to get a closer look Cotastros. I wont hurt you!"

"That's fine just hurry," I nod and move forward again.

I then see the arrow that I remember being shot at Cotastros by Necrolai. He had even cried out from the impact.

"I don't know wether I can do this," I say realising this is no normal injury.

I back up again and pull out my wand.

"I am going to try and help you. I will stand over here!"

He struggled a little but I could tell that was from the pain and not from how close to him I was.

"I have a magic wand. Hopefully this will work," I say hopefully. "I can usually do whatever I want!"

I open it up and try to think of a spell to use.

"Okay where's Clare when I need her?" I ask to myself.

I then remember the spell Clare had me use yesterday for her hair. 'FINISHIO!'

I decide that this should work.

"That's it, that's it," I say hopeful. "Okay. FINISHIO!"

It doesn't work.

"FINISHIO! COTASTROS FINISHIO COTASTROS!" I sigh when it wont work. "What's wrong with my morpher!"

I wonder why it isn't working.

"Come on work," I say getting a little annoyed. "COTASTROS FINISHIO! FINISHIO COASTROS! Whats wrong with this thing?!"

I am getting angry and upset that I cannot help.

I try again but I have the same result.

"Cotastros I am so sorry! It wont work!"

Cotastros jus gives me a piercing gaze and I feel even more guilty.

"I'm sorry!" I tell the horse as I drop to one knee besides his head. "I can't help you!"

"Well at least you tried!" he tells me.

I kneel down beside him and put my hand to his head and stroke his main.

"But I'm not afraid of you anymore!" I tell him knowing that this is true.

All of a sudden my hands glow orange and I know my healing powers are working again.

I walk towards Cotastros' leg and put my hands above his wound. "FINISHIO."

This time it works and Cotastros gets to his feet. He neighs as he does.

"Thank you red ranger I owe you one!"

I nod my head at him.

"Your welcome Cotastros."

He shakes his head and walks forward towards me and I begin to stroke him again.

"I cannot believe I did it," I say to myself.

I heal my own injuries and I feel much better.

He then walks a little closer.

"What do you want me to get on?" I ask him as he nudges me.

"Yes I will help you until we find a way out of here," He says nodding his head.

I nod and place my morpher back into it's holster. I climb onto his back. He takes off when I have a good grip on his mane and I notice that he is returning to the beach. We are riding axross the beach and I realise that this reminds me of my dream.

"I hope you know where you're going." I say not having a clue where he is taking me.

"Someone has to activate the spell seal around here for us to return to your dimension I hope they do this soon!"

I nod my head although personally I hope it's not Koragg.

A dark seal suddenly appears right in front of us and Cotastros heads towards it.

"That's our ticket home," I say.

We go through it together and I realise that we have both returned to zord mode. I grab a hold of the reigns. We appear and I see a monster ahead of us and my friends behind us.

"GO COTASTROS!"

"How about a combination?"

"Really?!"

"I said I owe you one and I will help you to win this battle!"

"All right let's do it!"

"Hey guys," I call to my friends as they all look happy to see me. "Need a little help!"

"CENTAURUS PHOENIX MEGAZORD!"

"CENTAURUS PHOENIX MEGAZORD!"

We both yell at the same time and then I jump off of Cotastros and as he goes into megazord mode I combine with him slotting into the place that Koragg usually does.

"WHOA!" I hear Xander say from behind me. "She combined with Cotastros!"

"This is nuts!" Vida says.

"No way!" Chip says shocked.

"Look!" I hear Maddie say pointing at us.

"This is how it's done!" I say firing up the weapon which is a spear. The ends now have flames. "Red ranger style!"

The monster growls and begins to come towards me. "I'm not afraid of you!"

"COME ON!" I challenge as I wave the spear around.

I block his club which like him was made of rocks.

"I'm all fired up!" I say as the tail on top of my head turns into a whip.

He blasts the boulders at me but I manage to destroy them with the tail whip.

I then strike him and he sparks and then blows up destroyed.

"Time to rock out!" I say.

I go back to my titan mode and I am on Cotastros' back. A bright light comes out of the smoke of the monster and splits into five before coming to each of us.

"Our combining powers!" Xander realises.

"We got them back!" Chip happily says.

"Now we can kick some evil butt!" Vida suggests.

"Thanks Cotastros!" I say but notice he's cut off our connection and I can no longer hear his thoughts.

He suddenly rears up and I go falling to the ground.

"COURTNEY!" Maddie says leaning down next to me.

"NO WAIT!" I yell wondering what he is doing.

I realise what when he returns to Koragg and they combine into Centaur mode. Koragg turns to me.

"Cotastros rides with me!" He informs me.

"NO!" I say getting back to my feet. "But I thought he had changed!"

Koragg stares at me.

"I don't know how you are able to combine with my mighty Cotastros," he says. "But I promise you I will find out! Something about you is troubling."

"I don't understand!" I say confused. "What are you talking about?"

"We will meet again red ranger!" He vows and then he disappears through a dark seal.

"I don't understand!" I repeat quietly staring at the place that they had disappeared.

*Keeper of the powers*

I am outside of Rootcore walking with Udonna. I've just finished telling her all that happened.

"Not many can say that they've ridden Cotastros," she says to me. "That's quite impressive!"

"Yeah it was pretty amazing especially with the telepathy," I say to her with my arms folded. "Even though he probably only let me ride him because I helped him out. That what it sounded like anyway."

"Yes," she agrees. "Unfourtanetly the next time you meet Cotastros you will be enemies again!"

I sigh but I know it's true.

"But you conquered your fear and were rewarded," she continued smiling proudly and I couldn't help but smile in return. "I'm proud of you!"

"Thanks," I say gratefully. "Don't forget about the others. Together with Bowen they really came through for me when it counted."

She smiles wider.

"Apparently they had a little help from a Troblin friend of yours," she said.

I smirked.

"Phineas," I say amused. "Man if you would've told me that I would be hanging out with a magical sorceress and a half troll- half goblin I never would've believed you as I have seen many thigs as a ranger. But this is the craziest one so far!"

she smiles.

"Your journey is just beginning Courtney," she tells me. "There are many adventures left! For all of us!"

"Seeing as this is my third ranger team," I said turning as I am about to enter Rootcore. "That I can believe!"

We both head in.

*Keeper of the powers*

Chelbell2016:

Sorry it took me so long to update I had to go to some meetings today. I am going to update one more chapter and then one each day for either this story or Jessica Lee Scott. Please review and tell me what you think.