Chapter 21: The light

Chelbell2016:
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*Keeper of the powers*

Courtney's POV:

We've all been called to Rootcore. I wonder why.

"Oh come on Daggeron," Chip says being impatient. "You can tell us. What's this meeting about?"

"I'm in the dark as much as you guys about this meeting," Daggeron says and I wonder why mum would want us all here. Daggeron walks over to the entrance with the sack he has. "Come on Fireheart! Come and get your oats!"

He throws the bag of oats outside to where the dragon is waiting. Flames come from the direction making us all jump a little.

"He likes his oats toasted," Daggeron says pointing behind him at Fireheart. We all chuckle.

Mom begins to walk down the stairs and addresses us.

"I'm glad you all could make it," she says and I decide to voice my worries.

"Is everything all right?" I ask and I see that Bowen also looks a little concerned for our mother.

"Yes... and no," I frown at the way she says this. "Clare you have been a wonderful apprentice. You'll make an amazing sorceress. Daggeron, I am so happy you have come back into my life. Vida, Chip, Xander, Maddison, You have far exceeded any expectation I had of you when we began this Journey."

Me and Bowen share a glance as she walks over to the both of us.

"Bowen, my son, you are the man I always wanted you to be," she says and then she walks over to me and I am beginning to guess why she called us here. "Athena, Courtney, my daughter. You have grown into the woman I always hoped you would be."

I cannot keep quite any longer so I speak up.

"What's going on?" I ask her as she takes my hands. "You're leaving?"

She nods her head.

"I am," she says and my frown deepens. "Somewhere out there is my husband, Leanbow. I'm going to find him and bring him home."

"We'll go with you," Vida says as me and Bowen both stare at her.

"No, you're needed here," she says to Vida in a no nonsense tone. "This is something I must do alone."

Udonna smiled one last time at me and Bowen and then began to walk away. I don't care what she says there is two people I can send with her without causing any problems to my team.

"Azantys, meet me and Clare outside in five minutes."

"Yes Courtney."

I go outside with the two.

"Clare, Azantys I need you two to go with mum," I say and Clare looks a little shocked. "I cannot loose her Clare. Like she said we need the others with the team. You two are the only ones I can trust with this type of job please."

They both nod and me and Clare cast a spell so that her and Azantys can communicate.

*Keeper of the powers*

We are back at work and me and Bowen are both in a very worried mood. What if something happens to mum? I have only just found her. Bowen comes over.

"You ok?" He asks gently.

"Just worried," I answer and he pulls me in for a side hug.

"Mum can take care of herself," he says and then smiles. "Don't worry... little sister."

"HEY!" I say and he laughs as his plan works. "You aren't that much older than me."

I realise what he was doing and punch him in the arm. He flinches and whispers something about little sisters punching hard. I laugh.

My laugh stops when our morphers go off. All six of us run into the city and their is nothing wrong.

"Nothing unusual," Xander says.

"That's strange," Bowen says from beside me. "The reading on the morpher said the dark energy here was off the chart."

We suddenly gasp when everything goes dark. Obviously what the crystal ball was alerting us to.

"You were saying?" Chip says to Bowen and Xander.

Suddenly it is like the sky is split apart.

"Now this is a wild guess," Chip continues and I want to slap him around the ear right now. "But could it be referring to that?"

We all stare in shock. Some sort of steps rise up and ten sort of monsters appear. My sensing powers are off the chart right now.

Everyone is screaming and running away from the area. I am getting a little lightheaded from the amount of dark energy that my powers are picking up on. Bowen keeps me upright.

"Now this... this could really be the end of the world," Chip says and I roll my eyes.

"You know how many times I have had to see the world nearly end," I say. "And to quote Vida. The worlds still here."

Daggeron appears behind us.

"In all my years of magic, I've never seen anything like this," Daggeron says from behind me and I frown.

"I didn't want to hear that," Xander says to my godfather.

"Who are they?" Maddie asks.

I am really shocked with how much dark magic seems to be coming off of them in waves.

The fish faced one begins to speak.

"People of the surface," it says. "Let me introduce to you the destroyers of your world. Black lance, Megahorn, Iron sculpin, Itassis, Serpentina, Heckatoid, Oculus, Magmavore, Matoomba, Gekkor. We are the ten terrors of the underworld. We have come to punish you. Give us what you hold most sacred. Give us the light! Also known as the keeper of the powers and her guardian."

I notice both Daggeron and Bowen share a look at that.

"We gotta stop them!" I tell my team.

We morph, go into legend warrior mode, go into our zords, and combine into our megazord.

"MANTICORE MEGAZORD!" We all yell.

"We're gonna give you a one way ticket back to the underworld," Xander tells the ten terrors as we approach them.

We power up our weapon. "LEGEND STRIKER SPIN ATTACK!"

Black lance blocks the fire that is aimed at him.

"That was nothing!" He taunts and then raises his own weapon.

He blasts us, our megazord splits,and we return to our civilian form as we hit the ground. I cry out in pain before my healing powers finally begin to kick in.

"We will have the light!" Sculpin says to us.

We get back to our feet just as Bowen and Daggeron arrive.

"The light?" I say in confusion as they begin to disappear. "What was he talking about?"

They finally disappear and the world goes light again.

*Keeper of the powers*

I am back at rootcore, playing fetch with Fireheart, and trying to figure out who the light is. I throw the stick and then hold my hand up.

"Stay," I tell the dragon and he bounces around wanting to go. "Stay. Stay. Get it boy! Whoa!"

As soon as I give him permission he takes off and nearly knocking me flying as he takes to the sky. I decide to sit down. I turn to my left and scream as I spot Phineas hanging upside down besides me. Phineas then jumps off of the tree branch that he was clinging to and lands beside me.

"It's only you Phineas," I say sighing as he sits down besides me.

"Something on your mind?" He asks me.

I chuckle a little before answering his question. "No there's not!"

He has a laugh saying there is a bug on my mind. He goes on with a story but I am not listening much as I cannot help but wonder if my mum, Clare and Azantys are ok. And maybe my dad too.

"Is there anything other than a flea story you want to tell me about?" I ask wanting to get off of this conversation.

"Gee," he says. "I don't know. Is there anything other than 'I'm not thinking about anything' that you want to tell me."

I don't answer wanting to keep these thoughts to myself. Then I realise what he is thinking.

"It's not about my father, okay?" I say to him patting him on the shoulder.

"Got it," he says and then begins to talk again. "Not about dad. Yeah, the dad you never knew. The dad who saved the magical world not once, but twice. You don't want to talk about him because you're not thinking about him."

"Phineas!" I raise my voice having had enough.

"Better go," Phineas says realising that I am mad. "I think I hear the lake dwarf calling."

I then remember something that I did want to know.

"Wait. Wait, wait, wait," I tell him. "There is one thing. The terrors referred to looking for the light. What is the light?"

I am hoping that he knows.

"Ah. 'The light' let me see," Phineas says. "That would be uh you."

I give him a confusing look. "Me?"

"Yeah," Phineas says smiling and I am a little annoyed. Another bunch of people that want me dead. "Your.. uh.. I hate to have to mention his name again.. father was the greatest of all warriors, and Udonna was once a very powerful sorceress. They... uh... they had two children. One was born as a future guardian. The second baby... a daughter. You. You have the potential to be the most powerful sorceress of all time. That's why the dark side fears you. You are the light that can destroy the darkness."

"And I can really do that?" I ask in complete shock. I knew I had powers but this is ridiculous.

"Well, gee I hope so," Phineas says. "Otherwise I sewed that hole in my underpants for nothing. Well have a nice day, miss. Light. Oh come on, get in here."

He then pulls me towards him for a hug.

"There you go," he says after he lets me go. As he goes to walk away a giant tree branch drops down in front of me and I jump backwards. Phineas turns back around to speak to me again. "Ah, playing fetch with Fireheart. I'd wear a helmet."

I look up to see Fireheart flying away.

*Keeper of the powers*

Us five rangers and Bowen arrive at the scene where Daggeron is fighting the terror named Magmavore.

"Yo lava boy," Xander says as we run over. "Try and take us all on."

We all make a noise as we pull out our magi-staffs and Bowen his kitsune sword. We all move forwards. Me, Xander and Bowen go to knock hit him with our weapons but he knocks us all out of the air.

The other three moved forwards and began to try and fire at him as one. It hits him but has no effect. He blasts them and they all cry out. Daggeron then grabs his club and points it downwards.

"Now Courtney, Bowen!" He says.

Me and Bowen both strike him in the same spot. He knocks us both away and I quickly raise a shield to protect us. I send a few fireballs at Magmavore but they do no damage. Chip and Vida soon join us on the ground and it is just Xander, Daggeron and Maddie left.

The monster knocked Maddie and Xander over.

"Have a ball!" He taunted.

I drop my morphing mode and go into ancient mystic mode. Pulling out my bow I begin to fire quick arrows at the monster. They hit but he manages to send me flying with his ball again. This time I hit the ground and I am in pain as I didn't have time to raise a shield. He then knocks Daggeron down and the others help the two of us to our feet.

"Weak rangers!" Magmavore says.

"Okay he seems just a little more tougher than the other we battled," Xander points out.

"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet," Magmavore informs us before sending a huge fireball at us that sends us flying backwards. "You have lost your will to fight so I no longer have business with you. I will go and plan for the destruction."

He laughs before disappearing.

We return to rootcore.

"I cannot believe we got blasted like that," Bowen says to the others.

"Maybe there was something I could have done, or I should have done.." Maddie begins but Vida cuts her off as Daggeron and I begin to walk over to the Xenetone.

"Give it a rest sis," Vida tells her sister. "We got our butts handed to us plain and simple."

"Guys," Bowen says trying to stop the fight before it happens.

"Hey you don't have to be so hard on Maddie," Chip says sticking up for Maddie.

"Hey, hey guys," Bowen tries again and I am about to loose my temper myself.

The others began to speak.

Then Xander walked in. "Has anyone seen Clare?"

I am about to tell him when the others all yell at him as one. "NO!"

I have had about enough of my team now.

"I asked a simple question you don't have to bite my head off," Xander defends himself.

"Well go look for her yourself," Vida commands him.

"Hey!" I yell having had enough. "You sound like a bunch of spoiled children. We lost. We got our butts kicked. We are up against an enemy the likes we have never faced before. If we cannot be a unified force, we stand no chance at all."

Daggeron nods his head and then continues.

"We do not blame each other," he says looking around at all of us. "We do not take it out on each other. We wait for our next opportunity and then we..."

Before he can continue the crystal ball goes off.

We look to see flames around a building. We take off.

*Keeper of the powers*

We arrive to fight Magmavore once again.

"The hills will erupt in lava!" He vows as we arrive.

"We'll see about that!" We all yell drawing our attention to him.

We blast him and the big ball of lava that he was going to use to cause destruction disappears.

"Who dares?" The monster growls.

"We do!" Daggeron says as we move to stand in front of the terror. "It's your turn to feel the heat."

"All right, we fight. But to make this interesting, what say we play a little game?" Magmavore requests.

I wonder what he is up to. "Game?"

He lights his club up. And then sends flames which light up a radio tower.

"Here's the rules!" Magmavore tells us. "If I defeat all of you before the flame goes out on that radio tower, I win. But if even one of you is left standing when the flame goes out. You win."

I don't like this.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Chip questions.

"You don't," Magmavore points out. "But that's what makes this game fun. Shall we begin? Or maybe you don't feel like playing now?"

"Count me in!" I tell him raising my lion staff. "CODE 1! FIRESTORM!"

I use my lion staff to send fire in his direction. It has no effect because he is made of fire. Xander does his rock slide next. They dissolve as they get close to him.

"No way!" Xander says shocked.

"Way!" The monster says once more sending a fireball at us.

I use my shield but it is so powerful that the force knocks us all to the ground. Once more my head is ringing.

"This game is a little one-sided, wouldn't you say?" The monster mocks.

I try to get up but I can not stop the ringing in my head. My magic is drained badly.

"I have to do something!" Maddie says from besides me before getting to her feet. "I am not giving up."

"Maddie?" Bowen questions as he tries to move towards me- the only one who is seriously damaged right now.

"This game we're playing isn't just about us loosing!" Maddison says. "If we loose, everyone looses. The world looses, and I'm not gonna let that happen! CODE 1! TIDAL WAVE!"

She sends a wave of water at the monster. It hits him and as he is made of water he screams out in pain.

"It burns! It burns!" Magmavore cries.

The others get back to their feet and Bowen quickly runs over to help me up. I wince at the pain in my head.

"Good job Maddison," Daggeron says.

"No big deal," Maddie replies.

"Yes.. it.. was," I say slowly. "Yo... you saved everyone!"

"Good job, sis!" Vida cheers.

Daggeron turns her towards him and praises her again. "Well done!"

Magmavore gets to his feet again. "Don't think you've won," he says and then begins to grow. "All you've done is turn me back to my gigantic form."

I step away from Bowen and then press code 3 on my lion staff.

"LEGEND OF THE SKY! MYSTIC FIREBIRD!"

"LEGEND OF THE JUNGLE! MYSTIC LION!"

We turn into our zords and then combine into our megazord. "MANTICORE MEGAZORD!"

"Now I can finish you all!" Magmavore informs us.

"SPIN ATTACK!" All of us yell hoping to put a dent in this terror.

It doesn't work.

"Check it out!" Maddie says.

"You should know by now your attacks don't work on me," Magmavore reminds us.

"Come on!" I say wanting to get home and lye down.

"What? My heat! It's fading!" Magmavore suddenly cries and when I look around I see why.

The flame has gone out in the tower. We had won.

Suddenly a spear comes out of nowhere and hits Magmavore in the chest.

"What's going on?" I say not believing that he would follow the rules of his game.

"I made the rules of the game and I lost," Magmavore says as he is being electrocuted.

"I can't believe it!" I say shocked. "They destroyed one of their own!"

"The rules of darkness show no mercy!" Magmavore informs us. "But you have nine other terrors to defeat. This is just the beginning!"

He is then distinguished of all his powers and is destroyed.

*Keeper of the powers*

After taking some painkillers I am feeling a lot better and we are on ur way to work.

"Well I wasn't just gonna stand there and watch him destroy the city without putting up a fight," Maddie explains.

"Well I've never seen such a big ball of water," Xander tells her. "I think I'd like to try and surf that."

"You were great Maddie," Chip says. "I hope you feel like you've made a contribution to the team."

"Contribution? hmm," Maddie says with a thoughtful look. "Actually, I felt like the whole team."

We all turn, look at her and then begin to chase her through the woods.

We arrive at work.

"Hey, Toby," Xander says as we see Toby at the cash register.

We begin to help him.

"So nice of you to show up," Toby says sarcastically. "Are you sure you wouldn't rather be out doing whatever it is you do, do when your out doing what you do, do?"

I give him a look of confusion.

"Sorry, boss," Xander says.

"Well, apology not accepted," Toby informs us. "That's why I've decided to hire a new employee."

A door is opened and I have to practically restrain my big brother when LeeLee walks out.

"LEELEE!" We all yell.

"Yep," Toby agreed. "And she promised not to go running off all the time. Like some other people whose names I- Bowen, Courtney, Vida, Xander, Chip, Maddison- am not gonna mention."

"Toby, you cannot hire her. Her mom is," I have to step on Bowens foot as the others and LeeLee shake their heads at him.

I clear my throat. "Welcome on board LeeLee."

"Thanks," she says and for some reason I feel that she means it. I don't sense evil from her. Should I give her a chance. Toby walks off. "Love to stay and chat, but I have work to do."

The others glare and I just nod my head. She steps forward and speaks to us again. "You keep my secret I keep yours."

"Deal," I say and she walks off.

Bowen gives me a raged look.

*Keeper of the powers*

Chelbell2016:

Ok so another chapter. I have work tomorrow but then not till Friday so I will try to update by then. hope yu enoy please review.

This chapter was posted on the 09/04/2017 at 22:25