Chapter 6: Fire heart

Chelbell2016:

Ok this chapter then I am going to update my Jessica Lee Scott story and then continue to do one chapter a time of each a day. If you guys can give me any ideas on how Bowen becomes the Kitsune warrior I would appreciate it should it come on the same time Clare gains the gate keeper powers or perhaps after Daggeron comes into it plus I am on about bringing Leanne in as Daggeron's daughter as that was what her character was originally for. Please give me your ideas. thanks.

*Keeper of the powers*

Courtney's POV:

We are all at the rock porium and everyone but Xander as usual is doing something. Xander is sitting down relaxing on a chair giving the rest of us orders.

"All righty," he says wheeling down the aisle in the desk chair as we all stood organising the records. Bowen ls at the till and he rolls his eyes at Xander. Bowen having been raised by a sorceress does not understand Xander at times. Then again neither do I and I was not raised by Udonna. "Work the beat! work the beat! stocking doesn't have to be boring!"

He was smiling until he turned around in the chair and came face to face with a cardboard cut out and he cried out. The cut out was of a man in punk clothes and really long hair. He also had a moustache. Toby popped his head around to see what everyone is doing and Xander looks a little relieved.

"Oh it's you boss," he says.

"Nice work Xander," he says to the green ranger looking around at all of us. "I love the way you've got everyone working!"

We all give him a look as he says this.

"Yeah," I said as I walked over to Bowen to pass him something. "Everyone but himself!"

Bowen has to duck his head as he fights the urge to laugh out loud. You can see his shoulders shaking as he looses the battle.

"You are a born leader," Toby says pointing at him and I roll my eyes at how Xanders eyes light up.

"You hear that guys," Xander says and we all just give him a look. "Born leader!"

He then turns back to toby who was sorting out the cardboard cut out.

"Who's the old guy boss?" He asks and Toby looks a little insulted as he looks around at all of us.

"Who's the old guy?" He repeats in shock and I glance up at him to see his mouth wide open and him staring at Xander and then at the rest of us who look a little bored. "Guys, Jake Bonebreaker! The man who put metal in metalhead. Lead guitar and vocal metal mega classic Harry hatchet!"

I just looked around at Bowen who looked just as confused as I did. Toby realising we still didn't have a clue spoke again.

"Your lesson: play it, like it," he says nodding his head at all of us. "Class dismissed!"

I roll my eyes at him as he walks away but he doesn't see.

"Guys," Xander calls out to all of us as Toby returns to his office. "Who wants to take care of the king of metal?"

"Not me!" Bowen says from the counter.

"Me neither," Maddison says next. "He's older then my dad."

"I've got things to do," Vida tells him.

"Sorry heavy metal makes my nose bleed," Chip tells him.

"And I have to begin getting ready for Uni," I tell him as I finish my section and begin to walk away.

"Fine I'll do it myself," I hear Xander yell as I begin to take my work top off.

I look up when I hear someone yell to see the cardboard cut out had been turned into a real life Jake Bonebreaker. Mine and Bowens eyes widen as he had just seen it too.

"Oops," Xander says as the rest of us all glance at each other. "There's a slight magical malfunction!"

Jake looks a little confused but then our morphers go off.

"Rangers," Udonna says to us as we all pull out our morphers. "There's a very strong dark magic presence in your area!"

"We cannot all split on Toby," I tell the others glancing at the rockstar. "'V' and I will check it out. You guys help with uh heavy metal boy. And Bowen can you help them?"

He nodded.

Me and Vida take off to go and find the disturbance and to stop it.

We arrive at a car park and our clothes change into our mystic uniforms. But all we see is an empty car park except for a taxi. This confuses me.

"Nothing down here but a taxi," Vida confirmed as we wondered where the disturbance was.

The taxi suddenly turned to face us and I knew that this is what had caused the alert.

The hood lifts up to show teeth and we cry out as it turns into a taxi monster.

The monster runs at us and we prepare to fight. He manages to flip me over and then he does the same thing to Vida and unfourtanetly she lands on me causing pain to shoot down my spine. Vida flips to her feet and then she holds her hand out to help me to my feet and I gratefully take her hand.

We both get up and I move to one side to keep out of sight of the camera. Unfourtanetly Vida doesn't.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!"

We morph and begin to fight again.

After a few mishits I manage to land a kick to it's side and he stumbles backwards and lands on the floor. I regroup with Vida. We then run forwards again but before we even get close enough to hit the monster we are fired at and sparks fly as we cry out. Necrolai appears.

"Necrolai!" Vida says as we both look up.

"Who else?" She mocks and the monster growls at us. "And I believe you've met my friend."

As the monster goes to go after us our three ranger friends appear to help us fight this monster.

"Time to end this party," Necrolai says as she turns to see the other three who are also morphed.

She whistles and the monster turns back into a taxi.

"Deliver the map!" She tells it as it finishes turning. As the taxi begins to drive off we begin to chase it.

"I've got it!" I tell my team but before we even get close we are blasted by Necrolai. All five of us hit the ground groaning out.

"Ok hitting us from behind so I can't raise a shield," I say as we fight to get back to our feet. "Now that's low!"

"Well that's nothing compared to the power I'll soon have," Necrolai tells us.

She then screeches and flies off.

I begin to move forward.

"Let's go after her!" I say to my team.

Xander grips me by the shoulders.

"Wait!" Xander tells me pulling me back to my feet. "We've got another problem."

He points to the camera I had seen earlier.

"Smile," Maddison says as she spots what Xander is looking at. "We're on camera."

*Keeper of the powers*

Udonna is not happy to see that Vida had been caught on camera as she morphed.

"You need to protect your identities at all cost," she tells us. "This tape can put us all in danger."

Maddie frowns as she watches and then grabs her morpher.

"Wait what was that?" she asked opening her morpher. Both her and I step forward and she casts a zoom in spell and we get a closer look at some sort of parchment that Necrolai is holding.

"Looks like some sort of map," I say to everyone.

"Yes but there's more to it then that," Udonna says walking forwards as well. "It's a map written by the ancients."

Maddie makes a thoughtful noise and then casts a spell again that makes a copy of the map appear in front of us so we can see it properly.

"Let's take a closer look," she says as it appears.

Udonna picks it up and she looks shocked as she reads it.

"Oh my," Udonna says in shock. "I thought this was lost!"

Bowen walked over to her.

"What is it mum?" He asked her and she glanced at him and then back at the map.

"It's the map to the Fire heart!" Udonna tells him.

"The fire heart wow!" Chip says but then pauses. "Whats the Fireheart?"

Udonna glanced back at the map.

"The ancients believed it to be the source of great power!" She tells us.

"Which means we need to find it," I tell my team. "Before Necrolai gets her scaly hands on it!"

"Oh that won't be easy," Udonna tells me still studying the map. "It says that must travel through the Cimmerian forest."

"That's not so bad," Xander says daringly. "We like forests don't we guys."

"This ones not like any you know," she tells us. "Imagine your worst nightmare!"

"That's easy," Chip says. "My mom puts my cell phone in the dryer and the next time we morph my uniform is really tiny."

The others including Bowen all laugh but I just smile.

"Enough!" Udonna says turning around to face us. "You are about to begin the most dangerous journey you've ever taken. Your path will be filled with unmanageable danger. Evil creatures, ravenous demons. Now go!"

I took the map from her and then she spoke again.

"Remember," she said and we all looked at her again. "Returning with the fire heart will not be your success. Your success will be to return at all."

*Keeper of the powers*

We are on our way through the forest and I am using my skills as a ninja and the map to find the right way to where we need to go as I still don't read ancient stuff well.

"This isn't so bad," Chip says even though his tone of voice says something else.

We see a sign that says 'Cimmerian forest go back!'.

"I am not looking forward to this," Maddison says.

I sigh. "Me neither."

Xander steps in front of me.

"I am," he says to me. "I'll take the lead on this one!"

I frown.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea Xander," I tell him.

"I'm fine," he says frowning. "I'm a born leader!"

I decide to give him the benefit of the doubt.

"If at any point I decide to take it I will," I warn.

he nods.

"Don't worry," he assures me. "I know how to read a map very well."

"All right," I say as I hand over the map. "It's all yours. But please remember Xander a leader should know when to follow."

He frowns as he thinks about my warning.

"Okay," he says when he has recovered. "Team Xander onward."

Me and Maddie share a look as we go on. We pass a skeleton and I shiver a little.

"This is my kind of place," Chip says.

"Sure isn't mine," Maddie says and I nod my head in agreement and then we hear a noise. "Okay, what was that?"

We continue to travel and then we all bash into each other when Xander suddenly calls out to us.

"Whoa," he says and then he turns while we glare at him.

"Next time just say stop," Vida who is right behind him says. " 'Whoa' is for horses. I don't see any horses here do you?"

"Okay I got it," he says realising that he had annoyed all of us.

A few minutes later and we stop again and I feel the presence of someone else. Someone I know so I look up. No he isn't here so why can I sense him.

"Did you hear that?" Maddie asked.

"I've got a feeling something's been following us since we started," Chip says. "But I didn't want to say anything cause I always think someone's following us."

We all jumped when a low growling was heard and Phineas popped out of nowhere but something tells me it wasn't him that was growling.

"It's only Phineas," I assure the others even though I am sure it aint true.

"It's only the rangers," he replied sarcastically.

"Sorry Phineas," Xander says to the Troblin. "We're on an important mission, We don't have time for a visit."

"Well I suggest you make time," A very familiar voice said and I gasped.

The others all looked around and then looked like they wanted to run as a snow leopard came through the trees.

"Snow leopard! But how?"

"This is my true form. You have only ever seen me in titan form!"

I nodded and turned to the others.

"It's ok he's a friend," I tell them and they all frown. "I've known him since my first ranger team!"

They all nodded and relaxed. Phineas jumped down and patted the snow leopard on the head.

"Yep Azantys an old buddy and I asked him to assist me in keeping a track on you guys," Phineas says.

"Azantys is that your name?" I ask.

"Yes it means warrior, now that you know about magic I can also turn into my original form and protect you that way!"

"Ok!"

I smiled and the others stared.

"Anyways seeing as you asked so nicely," Phineas says. "Me ad Azantys we'll take you through the forest."

"Maybe we should let these two lead," I suggest to Xander who still has the map. "Sounds like they know the place and I definitely trust Azantys."

The others agreed with me. Except of course for Xander.

"I like her," Phineas says to us and Azantys. "She knows what she's talking about! I know the forest like the back of my- oh lucky me new wart!"

We all glance back at Xander.

"look I don't need any help," he tells us and I sigh. "I know exactly where I am going."

"Are you sure?" I ask a little unsure.

"Yeah," he says and then he points in the opposite direction. "This way team."

"Okay well no problem," Phineas says as the others take off. "Have a nice day."

"Azantys stay close, we may need your help!"

"I wont be far and I'll keep the connection open between the two of us!"

I slightly nod and take off after the others.

*Keeper of the powers*

We keep on going and I am beginning to get annoyed with Xander when I notice the pattern.

"Hey hold up," I tell the green ranger who is at the front of the group. "Excuse me leader, we're going in circles. We passed that tree stump like three times. Admit it we're lost."

Xander looks nervous as he turns to me when I step towards him.

"We are not," Xander defends.

"We are too," I tell him.

"We are not," he says again.

"We are sinking," Chip says urgently.

We all look down and see that Chip is telling the truth.

"Swamp sand," Maddie confirms worriedly.

"Everybody ranger up!" I tell them and we all manage to reach our morphers.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!"

Nothing happens.

"Oh great the morphers don't work out here!" Chip says.

"Ok guys everyone hold hands," I say and we all do. "Hold on!"

I then concentrate and manage to flame us to just a little bit away from the swamp. We are covered in mud.

"Thanks Courtney," Maddie says and I nod.

"Okay I've had enough," I say to Xander. "My turn where's the map?"

Xander glances around and then back at the swamp sand. We just see the map going beneath the surface.

We all groaned.

"Oh no," Xander says.

"Just great," I tell everyone.

"A map," Xander says as we all recover. "Who needs a map? I've looked at that thing a million times. It's all up here."

"And that's supposed to make us feel better," Vida says.

We all carry on a little dishevelled and a lot dirty.

Xander ducks under a tree trunk and then looks around. We all grunt as we follow.

"Now where?" I ask the so called leader.

Xander hesitates and I know he is lost.

after a few seconds pause he finally speaks.

"That way," he tells us going in the direction that he is pointing.

Suddenly I sense Azantys and he appears underneath Phineas who is hanging from a tree.

"You ok young one?"

"Yeah thanks!"

"Hello," Phineas says and then folds his arms as I walk over to azantys and pat his head. "I wouldn't go that way!"

Everyone except for Xander is happy to see the two.

Phineas flips off of the tree branch and does an impressive landing.

"It only took me a couple of years to realise that landing on my feet," Phineas says making us all smile. "Was easier than landing on my head!"

We all laughed a little.

Maddie steps towards Xander.

"Maybe now would be a good time to ask Phineas and Azantys for help," she suggested to the green ranger.

"We don't need anything," Xander tells us and I sigh. "We are fine!"

"Ah he's right you don't need anything," Phineas tells us. "Because very soon you're going to be eaten by a borebeast. But hey once again have a nice day!"

Having had enough of Xander not listening and at the others encouraging looks I decide we might need help.

"He's just trying to scare us," Xander says realising that we all want to go with Phineas. "Come on guys!"

"Wait a minute," I say turning to Azantys and then glancing at Phineas. "I'm going with Phineas and Azantys!"

I shake my head and walk forward with my animal and we head towards Phineas.

"Me too," Vida says also having had enough. "Guys!"

Maddie and Chip both glance back at Xander and then begin to move towards us.

"Guys," Xander says and the two pause as he looks desperate. "I know where I'm going. Ok then ok I'll cover your shifts for two weekends at the rock porium if you stick with me!"

Maddie glances back at the two of us and we shake our heads.

"Make it three," she tells Xander.

"Deal!" He agrees. "Chip?"

"Deal!" Chip agrees. and they begin to walk off. "I always wanted to see a borebeast anyway!"

Me and Vida glance worriedly after our friends.

"Come on," Phineas says. and we take off.

I use my telepathy to speak to Azantys.

"Will you be able to find them after?"

"Yes! After me and Phineas have led you two out of the forest we will go and find them!"

"Thanks Azantys!"

"You're welcome."

"I've been thinking, if you have a titan mode does that mean I can combine with you like I did Cotastros?"

"Yes, me and you can combine to make the phoenix leoparzord! The spell to summon me and to take me titan mode is. UTHE MEJOR AZANTYS! And then one to combine together is UTHE MEJOR ULTIMAS which means to combine the same spell Koragg uses with Cotastros! But you may need the spell code. I don't know."

"Cool!"

I glanced at Vida and I could tell she was worried about her sister as the two led us on. I gave her a comforting smile.

A few minutes later and we have finally reached the end of the forest.

"After you," Phineas says. " There you go. Congratulations, you have officially made it out of the Cimmerian forest!"

"Thanks you two," I say to them.

"Now if you'll excuse me," Phineas says beginning to back away. "I've got things to do!"

"We'll find them! I promise."

"Thanks."

I turned to Vida and she gives me a strange look.

"Me and Azantys have a telepathic connection," I explained. "At first he was just a zord but the zord is his titan mode. He's like Cotastros!"

She nods in understanding.

"Time to find the Fireheart!" I tell her. "And I hope Phineas has a bath!"

She nods again this time smiling and we go on alone.

We stop when we see a rock Quarry but we are at the highest point.

"Long way down," she says.

"Come on," I tell her. "Let's find the Fireheart and get out of here!"

We climb down and begin to look around. I spot something glowing and point it out.

"Over there," I tell them.

We run over to see that it's a group of rocks that are surrounded by a light glow.

"You think that's it?" I ask.

"It's worth a shot," she tells me. "Let's see if we got our powers back!"

She pulls out her morpher and turns into a tornado.

"Tornado power!" She called.

She blasts through the rocks and then stops the tornado. We seen something embedded in a gold rock.

"YES!" She says as she sees it.

She moves forward and attempts to grab the object.

"I'll take it from here!" I tell her and she steps back.

I pull out my morpher and blast the gold with fire making it turn to liquid so we can easily grab it.

"Hot stuff!" Vida says as she bends down again and takes the object. "The secret of the Fireheart!"

We are suddenly blasted with dark energy and we go flying. The scroll goes flying out of Vida's hand.

"Oh no!" Vida says as we fall to the ground.

"I'll take that!" A voice says and we look up to see Necrolai taking the scroll and landing on the ground in front of us. "Fireheart is mine! Hidiacs!"

Her foot soldiers appear and me and Vida get back to our feet.

We run forward and begin to fight the hidiacs.

I kick one hidiac but have to quickly dodge out of the way of an attack from another. I move one far away with my telekinesis and turn to fight some more. I jump into the air and kick the sword away that was aimed at me and land back on my feet. Unfourtanetly one trips me and I land on my back. I quickly jump back to my feet and begin to fight again. We continue to fight but then we turn to Necrolai. She is laughing at the way we are outnumbered. She goes to blast us again but I raise a shield and she growls when the blasts dissolve before they reach us.

"Nice try Necrolai," I say tauntingly.

Then we hear the beeping of a car and we turn to see the cab monster.

"Right on time," Necrolai tells it.

The monster turns to face us and I look at Vida.

"Let's ranger up!" I tell her.

We run forward and without speaking we morph and continue to move towards the monster.

Vida jumps at Necrolai and they begin to fight. I call for my mystic moto and turn to ride against the monster. I race forward. He goes to go around me but I turn so we are racing towards each other.

"Going somewhere?!" I ask sarcastically. "FIRE!"

I begin to fire at the cab and red blasts go flying at it. It is forced to turn to avoid the blasts. I race up a hill with the cab not far behind me.

"I'm over you!" I yell as I turn and jump over the top of the cab. "Magi staff!"

I turn and blast the monster with my wand while my other hand controls the bike.

Electricity goes all over it and explosions appear behind it.

"Young one we have your three friends and we are on our way to you!"

"All right Phineas and Azantys!"

I punch the air glad my team mates are ok.

As I land the cab turns back into it's monster form. I turn to look at it and bring the bike to a stop.

"That got him!" I say.

I get off and turn again to see Vida go rolling away from Necrolai.

"'V'!" I call to her running over.

I help her to her feet.

Necrolai laughs.

The other three suddenly appears behind us and I can sense Azantys near behind.

The monster growls at us.

"Now let's show this overgrown bat what were made of!" Vida says to me and I nod.

We do a back flip and land on higher ground.

"POWER RANGERS MYSTIC FORCE!"

The monster fired at us but I managed to jump over them why the others dodged out of the way.

I run at him and pull out my magi staff as I go.

I continue to strike the monster while the others fight Necrolai. The monster kicks me and I go flying back. Vida jumps in front of me to help me. She pulls out her staff.

"MAGI STAFF TORNADO POWER!" She turns into a tornado and goes spinning towards the monster. "Round and round I go!"

She does a spinning kick and knocks the monster back. Having got back to my feet I grab my own staff again and jump forward.

"FIRE POWER!" I strike the monster with my powered up weapon.

The monster goes flying backwards and lands on the ground.

"That cabs busted!" Vida says putting her hand on my shoulder as the monster blows up.

A purple seal appears and the monster comes back whole.

"No way!" Vida says shocked.

He suddenly grows to an enormous size.

The others pull out their morphers but I look at a new spell code I just received and at Azantys who nodded.

"Wait guys!" I tell them and Azantys came forward. "Why not let me and Azantys handle this?"

"Huh!" They said.

I press the code 4-6-3 and point my wand at Azantys.

"UTHE MEJOR AZANTYS!" A seal appears and Azantys jumps through it turning to Titan mode.

"GALWIT MYSTIC PRIFIOR!" I call and I go to titan mode through a spell seal of my own.

I then turn to Azantys as he had just roared a sonic blast that knocked the cab of it's feet.

"UTHE MEJOR ULTIMAS!"

Azantys stands on his hind legs and his front legs turn to show wrist. His head moves to his chest and he opens up so there is a slot for me. I jump in and our megazord is complete.

"PHOENIX LEOPARZORD!"

I hear the others cry out in amazement.

I hold the leopard spear in my hand and face the cab.

"Your driving without a license!" I tell it. "I'm here to take you out!"

I power up the spear in my hand and begin to spin it.

"LEOPARD SPEAR FIRE POWER!" I yell and strike the monster. He blows up.

"All right!" I yell. "Way to go Azantys!"

We power down me to ranger and him to snow leopard and we run to the others I was hoping they had the clue that Necrolai stole from us.

I run over to see that Vida had half a scroll. And Necrolai had the other half.

"Oh no!" I say.

"Look what you've done!" Necrolai says angrily.

She flies off before we can stop her.

"Well at least we got half of it!" Madison says.

"Yeah whatever it is!" Xander agrees.

Vida opens it and we see half of a picture but we cant tell what it is.

"By the way," Chip says to me. "That combination was awesome!"

I smiled and turned to Azantys.

"Go to Rootcore, I cant take a snow leopard to town but Udonna will look after you. I'll be there later!"

"Yes I could do with some food!"

"I'm sure Udonna can help with that!"

Azantys gave a roar and he teleported.

"I didn't know he could do that!" I said shocked.

*Keeper of the powers*

We went back to work where Xander was playing with the cardboard cut-out that he had by accident brought to life and had been returned to card before the others had joined us to fight the monster the first time. Bowen had congratulated me on combining with Azantys and he says Udonna wont mind keeping him there as he was once a good friend until the mystic mother called him away for a mission.

"I'm sorry everyone," Xander says to all of us. "Like Courtney said. A part of being a good leader is knowing when to follow."

Maddie looked glad.

"Well it's not a total loss," She tells him. "You learned from this day!"

Xander nods his head in agreement.

"Hello mates," A voice says behind us and we are shocked to see the real Jake bonebreaker. "Tour bus broke down so I thought I'd kill some time in here."

We all look shocked and then he spots the cardboard version and impersonates it.

"Jake you have got to meet our boss," Vida tells him. "He is your biggest fan!"

Jake looks happy to hear it.

"Toby guess who's here," I call and he comes out. "Jake bonebreaker!"

Jake posed as Toby glances at him and we all smiled.

"I'm not falling for that again," he says and our smiles drop. "Got work to do!"

He goes back into his office leaving us all shocked.

*Keeper of the powers*

Chelbell2016:

Sorry guys I am not really well I was in hospital yesterday so I couldn't update I will update Jessica Lee Scott story and then I will hopefully update this by tomorrow Saturday at the latest. Sorry again.