Chapter 9: The gatekeeper and the kitsune warrior

Chelbell2016:

Ok so the Kitsune warrior is apart of Clare's dad but as he had no son he left the power to his nephew as he died before the war. I wanted Bowen to be some sort of warrior so I needed to come up with something. Please review and I will update again as soon as possible.

*Keeper of the powers*

Courtney's POV:

I am on my way back from the university. I have just found out that I have done really well on one of my coursework's so I am really happy right now. I am just getting on my motorbike when I hear my morpher go off. Looking around and seeing no one around right now, I pull it out and open it.

It's Chip.

"Necrolai has taken off with Toby," he says and my eyes widen. "We need to find him."

"Right," I tell him. "I'll go looking on my bike."

I press 1-2-3 on my morpher and raise it to the sky.

"MAGICAL SOURCE MYSTIC FORCE!"

"GALWIT MYSTO RANGER!"

I morph and take off on my mystic moto. I find Necrolai trying to get to Toby who is frightened and trying to run. I jump in between them on my bike and knock her away from him. She screeches as she hits some planks of wood. I stop my bike and turn to Toby.

"Hey!" I say to him pointing behind me. "Get to safety."

He nods.

"Yes mam! Mrs ranger mam," he says and begins to walk away.

"Okay," I speak getting off of my bike.

The others appear at that moment on their racers. They jump off of them and appear at my sides.

"Back off rangers!" Necrolai commands as she finally gets back her bearings.

We run at her. I aim a punch but she moves me out of the way, aiming for Chip she strikes him and he hits the ground hard. Maddie and Xander also hit the ground after trying to hit her. She then goes for Tony again so I jump in between them and stick my arms out.

"STOP!" I yell at her.

"Out of my way!" She yells.

"What do you want with him?" I demand from him.

"The gatekeeper will be mine," she growls. "And you will give me the Kitsune warrior!"

"Gatekeeper and Kitsune warrior?" I question in confusion.

"He and the Kitsune warrior possess more power than all of you put together," she says and I look at the others to see they are just as confused as I am. "I'll be back!"

She then takes off and I feel even more like I am missing something. We all yell out to Necrolai but she doesn't even look at us.

"What was she talking about?" I wonder out loud.

We all return to Rootcore to speak to Udonna.

"Udonna," Maddie calls to her as she is standing on the balcony.

"Something weird is going on! We just had a close encounter with Necrolai," Xander tells her as we all reach the balcony. She is facing the other way.

"She was looking for someone named the gatekeeper," Chip tells her. "And the Kitsune warrior!"

Bowen's eyes widened and he looks around at his mother who raises her head.

"Do you two have any clue who she's talking about?" I ask them.

Udonna finally looks around at us and she looks a little worried.

"The gatekeeper was a powerful sorceress named Niella. And the Kitsune warrior was her husband Cronos," she tells us and I felt relieved that she knew who it was that we were looking for, Udonna walked forwards and then turned back to us with a grave look on her face. "Niella was my sister."

She goes on to tell us how Cronos had been destroyed trying to save Niella.

"Cronos was a powerful warrior blessed with the Kitsune power of fox fire," she said and my eyes widened. "He was Leanbow's brother. When fighting the great battle, he was so busy trying to protect Niella from harm, that Cronos did not see Morticon approaching from behind. Morticon struck Cronos down with a powerful strike of dark magic. Niella watched as he took his last breath."

Then she starts to tell us about Niella.

" Not long after Cronos died Niella cast a spell that sealed the gate," she explains. "And banished Morticon and his armies to the underworld. The spell was so strong that it depleted all of her life force. When the gate was lowered to the depths Niella was gone. But her spirit and her husbands lives on in my heart and through the legacy of their heir."

"She had a child?" Maddie asked.

"Yes and I fear that is who Necrolai is seeking," she says and then glances at Bowen like their is something that she doesn't want to say. "And Cronos, having no son of his own left the power of the Kitsune warrior to his nephew."

"Well we must find the child first," Vida says concerned for the daughter of the gatekeeper. "And the nephew so we can protect them."

I just realised something and I look around at Bowen who sighs and then nods his head.

"You wont have to look far," Udonna says and she goes to stand beside Bowen. "Niella's daughter and the heir to the gatekeepers power... is Clare."

We all stare at her in shock until Bowen steps forward.

"And I am the next Kitsune warrior!" We all look back at him and the others are shocked.

We hear a noise behind us and we watch as Clare reappears. Having heard everything she looks terrified. Udonna looks a little distraught that her niece had found out who she is.

*Keeper of the powers*

I am walking to the rock porium with Bowen and we are discussing his uncle and the power he has received.

"Bowen I have just one question," I tell him. "If you have the ring to transform you into the Kitsune warrior... Why haven't you used it before?"

"My mum doesn't want me too," He explained with a sigh. "She thinks that it is too much for me to handle."

I put my hand on his shoulder.

"When I first find out about my magic," I tell him whispering so I am not overheard. "I was too scared to even try and use them. One in particular was so powerful that it drained me emotionally and physically to use it. That was the shield. But you know what, I learned that my magic, my shield and my ranger powers were all apart of my destiny."

He nodded in thought.

"I think I am going to go and find her and try and convince her that I should take the ring," he tells me and then motions to himself. "Can you flame me there."

I nodded and waved my hand in front of him sending him to Rootcore. I then walk into the rock porium.

I see that the others are still shocked by the revelation of Clare and Bowen's power.

"I still can't believe it," Maddie says as she goes about her daily work. "Clare has legendary powers strong enough to lock up the forces of evil. And Bowen has a powerful ring that can turn him into a strong warrior."

"Yeah but Clare can also unlock the forces of evil," I remind her.

Toby suddenly walks in.

"Guys you won't believe what happened to me today," he says to all of us. "I actually met..."

Our morphers go off saving us from this conversation.

"Sorry boss I got to take this," Xander says pulling his out.

He walks away and checks his morpher, before turning back to us.

"Oh no," He says frowning. "It's Necrolai, she's shown up in the city plaza."

"Let's go," I tell my team and we take off.

We arrive at the Plaza to face off with Necrolai.

"Hold it right there!" I order her.

"I'm glad you could make it rangers," Necrolai says with her back towards us.

"You're never gonna find the gatekeeper or the Kitsune warrior," Vida says pointing at her. "So give it up!"

Necrolai finally turns to us.

"Oh I have a new plan," she explains to us. "I'll let the gatekeeper find me and the Kitsune warrior! Someone so noble would never stand by while the rangers are being destroyed."

While she spoke she grew upgrades.

"What?" I shout in horror.

The others all cry out in surprise as well.

"Do you like my new powers?!" She asks mockingly.

"Like this!" I growl at her and pull out my staff. "Magi-staff!"

I jump at her and prepare to strike her but she blasts me. I cry out as I hit the ground and the others surround me.

"Courtney," Vida says helping me to my feet. "Are you all right?"

Necrolai then fires at the five of us and we all cry out as our ranger suits spark, and we all hit the ground. Necrolai cackles.

We all run forward and attempt to fight her. She screeches and laughs as we are no longer able to phase her with these new powers that she has acquired. She blocks all of out attacks. Finally, as Vida goes to sweep her feet out from under her she jumps away from us. She then manages to send Chip flying into a table, strikes me and sends me to the floor as well as injuring the other two girls as well.

Chip and Xander both run forward to fight Necrolai. After no luck she jumps on a table right next to where I am standing. As I go to strike her she keeps moving from table to table trying to keep out of the line of fire and making sure that we cannot injure her. After a few more seconds she finally moves to attack and strikes Vida and then both me and Maddie making all tree of us cry out as we hit the ground once more. Vida jumped to her feet and fought along side both Chip and Xander as they tried to no avail to bring Necrolai down. Me and Maddie jump back to our feet and move forward to fight again. Necrolai strikes the ground in front of us and we are forced to jump into the air to avoid getting hit.

We jump on top of a building ledge and watch from where we stand. She sends the others all to the ground. She fires at me and Maddie again but we jump off the ledge. As we jump to the ground Necrolai jumps into the air to meet us. We begin to fight in the air me with my staff in sword mode. She knocks Maddie away and I am on my own to try and stop her. She sweeps my leg and I go flying. I land on the ground again in front of my friends. Chip and Xander get back to their feet and prepare to fight once more. They jump at Necrolai and try to kick her but she grabs their feet that they had prepared to kick her with. She then sends them spinning back to the ground.

I force myself back to my feet and use my sword and prepare to attack. Having had enough I pull out my Triassic shield and begin to fight her with this. I do a little better with this but she still wont go down and she uses the weapons on her arms to strike me and I go stumbling back. She then sends dark purple energy at me and I block it with my shield but the force sends me flying backwards. I hit the ground again, and my friends are behind me.

"Courtney!" Vida calls worried.

We all groan.

"You're beat!" Necrolai says stating the obvious. "And no one has come to save you. Maybe there is no other gatekeeper and Kitsune warrior after all."

I groaned again as I try to sit up.

Necrolai is suddenly blasted by energy and fire. We all turn to see Clare and Bowen running towards us.

"What?!" Necrolai groans.

"Wrong Necrolai!" Clare says as both she and Bowen lower there hands from where they had fired at the vampire. "My mothers spirit lives inside of me."

I look round at the others in shock.

"And I now have my uncles power," Bowen said raising the ring that holds the power to the Kitsune power. "And it is time we used it."

"Clare! Bowen!" I yell out to the two.

Clare and Bowen glance at each other and then at the objects that they hold in their hands that will give them their powers.

Clare goes first putting the head band on. The middle glows purple and a purple headdress appears, her clothes turn to the purple and white dress of the gatekeeper and her eyes glow blue.

"POWER OF THE SHINING MOON!" She yells. "BEHOLD THE GATEKEEPER!"

It was Bowen's turn. He places the ring on his finger. Bright orange flames surround his body and Armour appears. An orange helmet appears on his face in the shape of a fox. He holds a spear in one hand and a orange and black shield in the other. The shield is round and looks like it is made of a bunch of fox tails. His eyes glow a fiery orange.

"POWER OF THE FLAMING MARS!" He yells and his spear ignites. "I SUMMON THE POWER OF THE KITSUNE WARRIOR!"

"Incredible!" I say really impressed.

"The oracle was right!" Necrolai says as The two turn to face her. "So there is another two and my plan to draw you out has worked perfectly."

"You're going to regret ever meeting us witch," Clare says and Bowen nods his head in agreement.

Clare summons her weapon and Bowen raises his. Necrolai fires at the two but Clare raises her staff and blocks it.

"No!" Necrolai cries.

Bowen raises his spear and his eyes glow orange as he wraps flames around her like a rope that constrict her movements. Necrolai screeches.

Now it was Clare's turn. She raises her staff and her eyes glow again. She waves it around and then points it at Necrolai. A ball of energy encases her and when it comes back to the staff it takes Necrolai's new abilities with it.

"My new powers!" Necrolai says dropping to one knee. "They've gone!"

We all call out and praise Clare and Bowen as we approach and they both nod their heads at us. We then turn to face Necrolai.

"Let's give them a hand rangers!" I tell my team.

We all jump into the air and in a line we all kick her sending her to the ground.

Necrolai got back to her feet and turned to us.

"You will still loose rangers," she promised and then she screeches and takes off. "I'll return!"

"YEAH!" I yell running over to Clare and Bowen.

We all praise our two friends.

"There's no time for that," Clare says to us and we pause.

"Mom's been captured," Bowen says clearly worried.

My head suddenly feels like it's been split open and I hear Koraggs voice.

"Hear me red ranger, hear me," he says and I hold my head in pain. "You will tell the gatekeeper to battle me alone and that means the Kitsune warrior stays behind. If she does not come alone your sorceress will perish."

"Courtney what is it?" Vida asked as Bowen places a hand on my shoulder to steady me.

I walk towards Clare.

"He wants to fight you alone," I tell her. "And without you Bowen!"

"I accept!" she says and I can see that Bowen isn't happy.

"We will return to Rootcore, but..." I pause and look around at my friends and then back at Clare. "If things get too bad all five of us will come to your aid."

She nods and so does Bowen although reluctantly.

*Keeper of the powers*

Me and the other rangers return with Bowen to Rootcore. For now Bowen has come out of his warrior mode and we are unmorphed. We watch the battle from the crystal ball.

"We shouldn't have let Clare go on her own," Maddie tells me.

"You saw how she sent Necrolai running," Vida defended.

"Yeah," I agreed turning to the crystal ball just as worried as my friends. "But Koragg is a whole different story!"

We watched as she turned up to fight the knight wolf. She raises her staff and begins to fire at Koragg. He stands there as they hit the ground all around him he was not phased. Koragg laughs and Clare's eyes widen. We watch as they exchange some words. Clare then runs forward to fight him. Koragg fires at her and the shots miss Clare, who continues to run towards her enemy. They begin to fight and Clare holds her own as she kicks him and he jumps high into the air. They both land on the side of a cliff. She uses her staff to fight him but he blocks all of her blows with his shield. They both then go back to the ground. Koragg flies forward to meet her and she tries again to attack him, but he dodges all of her moves.

He raises his shield but she places her foot on it, kicks off into the air and then strikes him sending him backwards groaning. He lands back on his feet and Clare jumps high into the at and extends her staff towards him striking him with it. He goes flying back again. Her eyes glow purple and she sends the same energy blast that she did at Necrolai towards him he manages to stop it and explosions appear all around him. He notes on how powerful she is and I know that he is impressed. Clare then sends a moon shockwave at him and it hits him. Unfourtanetly when the explosion dies down you see that Koragg has absorbed the energy.

"This isn't good," Bowen says worried for his cousin. "I should have gone with her. It's the kitsune warriors job to protect the gatekeeper."

"And then Koragg would have killed your mum," I remind him placing a hand on his shoulder. "If she needs us I can flame us there in a heartbeat ok?"

He nodded and I turned back to the crystal ball.

As I turn back I see Koragg using his wolf attack on Clare. Clare raises a shield with her staff which stops the attack on her. Koragg powers it up more and Clare goes flying. Clare gets back to her feet and says that she is done playing. She raises her staff to the air. She turns into the shining moon warrior which is her ancient mystic mode.

"I am the burning mars Kitsune warrior," Bowen says as we all look at him curiously. "That's my ancient mystic mode."

Clare grows. Koragg takes to his own megazord. They both fire at each other and an explosion is caused when they hit. Clare then goes to attack him with her staff. She calls for a laser rope which wraps itself around the warrior. Clare then spins her staff creating a moon blaze. She fires it like a spinning disk at Koragg. The bad thing is that Koragg uses his shield to destroy the rope and stops the disc with his weapon. He destroys it making Clare question how he did that. Koragg speaks a little before striking Clare with dark magic which causes explosions all around her. Clare is forced out of her ancient mystic mode and she shrinks to human size injured.

I sigh and turn to my friends.

"OK," I say. "Time to suit up and get out there."

We all morph and Bowen turns into his warrior mode. We arrive just as Koragg is about to strike Clare.

"Koragg!" Chip yells firing his crossbow at the knight.

"What?" Koragg growls before he is hit with magic from Vida.

Both of them regroup with Xander and Maddie and I wait behind them with Bowen.

"Rangers!" Clare says relieved.

"Do not interfere!" Koragg orders.

Me and Bowen call out as we both jump into the air. Bowen fires at Koragg sending him back and then stands in front of Clare defensively.

My turn.

"Mystic force fighters!" I call my boxing gloves onto my wrists. "Spin attack!"

Bowen sends his own brand of fire and I use my own to cocoon my body in two types of flames and I spin around as I go forwards towards Koragg. I hit him and he goes flying backwards and falls to the ground. I land back on my feet.

"Now," I say. "Pick on someone your own size!"

I hear a yell from behind me and I see Bowen get flung away by a surprise attack from Necrolai. Said vampire grabs Clare and pulls her to her feet. She grabs the injured girl who fights to get free.

"CLARE!" I yell as the others help Bowen to his feet.

We all try to move forwards but Koragg steps into our path.

"Stop!" He commands.

"Let her go!" Both me and Bowen yell.

"By the power of the gatekeeper, let the gate rise up!" Necrolai says and Clare cries out as her headband glows purple sending a bolt of power into the sky.

Thunder crashes and the world suddenly goes dark.

"What's going on?" I wonder.

"Oh no," Maddie cries.

Bowen runs over to Clare and helps her to her feet. We all watch in terror as the gates to the underworld rise up.

"Oh man!" I say horrified.

"Oh no!" Vida cries.

"Oh boy!" Chip says.

"Look!" Xander speaks as we can now see all of the gate.

"WHOA!" Maddie says in shock.

We all run over to Clare and Bowen.

"Oh man now what?" I wonder.

Clare looks angry at herself and Bowen looks a little worried.

*Keeper of the powers*

Chelbell2016:

I love this chapter and I hope you guys do. The Kitsune warrior will be here throughout the rest of the series. Please review and tell me what you think and I will update as soon as possible.

Update information:

This chapter posted on he 10/02/2017 at 20:37

Next chapter should be on the 12/02/2017