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WARNING: The following chapter has mentions of blood and possible gore. You have been warned.
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"And that is all for today class. Now please hand in your homework on your way out." Zoe says as the bell rang signaling the end of class for the period.
As they did so Zoe noticed some particular students were distracted and signals to them "Did something happen?" Zoe asked Jason and Chris.
"It's well...Some of the girls were attacked." Chris said and Zoe nods having felt an intense pain some time back as well as an angel crying out in pain.
"One of them is AV isn't it, and another must be Jazz." Zoe says somberly surprising them that she knew.
"It's something you should know about. I should probably go and check up on Little Angel." she then said.
"I think she would like that. Adam has told her that she could have visited you at any time, but..." Jason starts.
"She doesn't want to disturb me when I'm possibly busy with something else right?" Zoe finished with a knowing smile and both guys nod.
"Well you two should be off." Zoe then says and the two left the room. Zoe looked at the clock glad to have a free period, and took out the communicator that Maya had given her about to teleport when her phone rang.
Zoe sighs putting the communicator away and picks up her phone "This is Zoe." she greets.
"Hey little sis. How are you doing?" The voice of Zoe's twin sister Iris greeted her and Zoe smiled.
"Fine actually. I have a free period right now, but shouldn't you be busy?" Zoe asked. It was a known fact around the school that Iris was a cop with the local precient, and many agreed that with her work ethic that she would probably be running the place in no time.
"Yeah about that...you see sis there's this...strange case I'm handling. I was hoping that you could call up some old friends." Iris started as Zoe raised an eyebrow at this.
"Strange case. Old friends. Iris what kind of case are you handling?" Zoe asked her free hand on her hip. It was then that Iris began to explain her case in detail, and Zoe's eyes widen as she listened.
"But nothing human could have done that Iris! The only thing that could have would be..." Zoe starts.
"Yes, and that's why I called you Zoe. We need the hunters." Iris said and Zoe nods.
"Alright Iris. I can actually get in touch with a few of them. I'll ask them to get here ASAP." Zoe said to her.
"Thanks. I'll be there to help support you." Iris says then hangs up.
As soon as she hung up Zoe began making calls to particular individuals hoping that they might pick up. By the time she was finished her next class came in, and it would be till after the school day would be done that they would arrive.
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At LKHQ the rangers were all sparring as Abby was looking over the timeline after she woke up, and had seen the video for herself of what happened to Noelle.
"The other five drones that went after AV, Jazz, Cassie, RJ, and myself weren't operated. Yet this final one...the one that went after Noelle was." Abby thought and hums to herself.
Whoever went after Noelle had some kind of bad blood with her family, and the kind of powers that she displayed reminded Abby to much of herself when she was Abbinus. In fact this kind of plan seemed like something she would cook up alongside Xolicernic.
"Doesn't help that he is actually the one who made the drones, and probably sent them through time. He must have copied my Time Window design to do that." she thought.
She then recalled something else "Whoever did that to Noelle has connections to Musicola...or they will have connections." She states then thinks over the footage that she had seen.
It then hit her "No...No that can't possibly be right, but it might just be the only explanation." She muttered as Maya and Kira came down from The Great Library.
"Any progress on finding out who branded Noelle?" Maya asked and Abby gives a grim look.
"Perhaps, but...I'm not sure your going to want to hear this." Abby says as Maya sighs.
Kira nods ready herself "We can handle it Abby." Kira says to her.
Abby paces "Well from what I can tell this girl who might only be Noelle's age if not older has connections to Musicola in the future." Abby said to her.
The two mentors nod listening "Yet this girl talked about how her ancestor was denied something she deserved, and how Noelle dared to help someone unworthy." She adds on.
Maya winces "Whoever this girl's ancestor is she sounds a lot like..." She started then trailed off.
"No no...no no no...no nope nopity no. You aren't saying what I think your saying?!" Maya exclaimed.
Kira cringes, but understood where she was going "While not as loud I have to say that I'm with Maya on this one. If your saying this girl's ancestor is 'her' then how did she get on Musicola?" Kira asked her.
"Good question, but I was able to pinpoint where this girl came from in the timeline." She says going to the computer and typing in time and dimensional coordinates.
Maya sighs "Of course our timeline, but this date and location. Isn't that the Neo Defenders time and hometown?" Maya asked and Abby nods.
"Sounds like the Neo Defenders have more enemies that they may not know about." Kira says, and then in a flash of light a few people appear and the mentors turn seeing Zoe along with a few others.
"Oh hello Zoe." Abby greets them and Maya looks to the other that came. Kira took this opportunity to leave the room and let them talk as Kira decided to pick up Raine's training.
With Leo's latest visit he had asked Maya to teach Raine some self defense, but that is when Maya told him that she already was training Raine, and that she was also taking Raine on as an assistant to herself and Abby.
"Hi Drew. It's been a long time since I last saw you, and this must be your wife. Lily right?" Maya asked the two.
The two that had showed up with Zoe were both friends of said girl from her ranger days. The first was a man standing a little over 6'0", and while he was skinny he had a muscular build to him. He had shaggy blond hair and hazel colored eyes. He wore a purple muscle shirt with workout pants and shoes. He is Andrew Sanders, but most of the time he still goes by his childhood nickname Drew.
Next to him was a woman named Lily Sanders who he has been married to now for three years. She stood at 5'11" and her chestnut brown hair went to her shoulders with a single dyed thick tip up white up front. She was wearing a white floral sundress and low heeled shoes. On both of them was a tattoo of a black angel wing which Drew's was on his right forearm , and Lily's was on her right shoulder blade.
"Hello Maya. It's good to see you." Drew greets and then nods as his wife nods to her.
"It's great to meet you. Now you said you needed us for something?" She asked, but Maya looked confused as Zoe rubs her neck.
"I'm sorry Maya, but this was the only safe place I figured I could talk with them in private." Zoe said, and she nods.
"Alright, but I think I'll stick around in case it involves what I think it does." Maya said Abby nodding in agreement.
Zoe looks at them before starting "Well earlier today my sister Iris called me. She's been handling an...odd case." Zoe said.
"Odd?" The rest asked.
"Yes odd." Zoe said to them and took out some pictures showing them to everyone to which they all cringe.
"So...So much blood." Lily muttered as Drew held her close. Even though he was a police detective now in Mystic Hollow he was still occasionally was uncomfortable at any crime scene that the body was still at, and pictures weren't any better.
"So what's odd about this?" Abby asked.
"Those marks on the body? Those aren't from any kind of blade, and the bodies are torn apart." Zoe says plainly going over the notes that her sister passed on to her.
Drew grit his teeth knowing exactly what it is "I thought we were done with this, but being hunters looks like were going to get involved." He said as Lily takes out her phone.
"I'm going to call JT and go get the colt from him." Lily says.
Maya good looked over the pictures and bit her lip in worry "All these victims. Their females in their teens, all wearing red, blue, and silver." She thought gaining an uneasy feeling as she looked over to the one box she has had for years.
"Does this have something to do with the new Underdog Triad?" She then thought.
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After the previous day the rest of the college rangers had returned to their college's, and Cassie was staying with Cynthia and her dad for a few days in order to gather herself and recover.
The rest of the team was hanging out as they walked around the town.
"You know am I the only one who's happened to notice a few strange things go on?" Logan asked.
"The only thing strange is your sudden change of subject." Sara says to him.
Logan rolls his eyes "I'm serious. I mean am I the only one that noticed the mythical beasts that seem to help us sometimes?" Logan asked
"Logan...I can change into something that looks like a phoenix priestess, and AV a angel princess. Ghostly mystical beasts helping us out isn't exactly weird anymore." Sora points out to him.
Marcus nods "Perhaps it's also linked to a ranger team or perhaps something we have." Marcus says to them all.
AV thought this over and recalled the ring that Adam had showed her some time back "Hey umm...did any of you guys happen to find something four years ago? Say after the Star Legends ranger final battle?" AV asked as each of them thought a moment.
"Actually yes." Chris said to them as Sara, Jazz, and Logan nod as well.
Sara and Jazz brought out pendants that looked like shields, Chris brought out a ring, and Logan brought out a bracelet. Set in each one was different stones In Sara's shield pendant was a Peridot gemstone while in Jazz's was a Fluoriot gem. Chris's ring had a Scapoliot and in Logan's bracelet was a Smoky Quartz.
"Four of those, and Adam had a ring as well." AV said and Sora nods.
"Yeah, and Cassie had a similar ring to both of those." Sora said and they all considered this.
"Each one of them has a gemstone...Wait!" Eva said recalling years back when she was younger.
"Oh yeah I forgot about that. When me, Eva, and Sora were younger we were each deafened by one of the Underdog Squad rangers." AV recalled.
Sara hums recalling that team "They were around at the same time as the Monster Hunter rangers, and the Underdog Squad rangers had these special gemstones called the Underdog Gemstones." Sara said.
Logan nods "Yeah, but didn't they go missing some time ago?" Logan asked them.
"Yep. About four years ago after the final battle in Angel Grove." Jason said as they all look at each other.
AV and Sora nods looking at each other "Yeah we know a lot about that." AV said.
Sora thought about it "Wait...The gemstones went missing four years ago. You all got those items four years ago." She says to them.
"I don't think that's just a coincidence. According to three of the Underdog Squad ranger books they were protecting the next to inherit the Underdog Gemstones which would change." Jazz said having done some reading herself.
Each then stopped when she said that "Wait...You don't think?" Sara asked.
"Maybe, but...who is on who's Triad?" AV asked them all as each was unsure on this. They all knew that the Underdog Squad had three distinct Triad's, but who belonged on who's and as what was what troubled some of them.
"Well...I think the Lovers are already know." Chris pointed out.
They all nodded know that Cassie and Sora were together, Adam and AV, and finally Chris and Eva. All that meant was that six other people were chosen, and three would be their protectors while the other three would be their confidants.
As they walked they noticed that Eva was surprisingly quite, and when they turned to look she was gone.
"Eva?" Chris asked nervous.
"Okay girl this is no time for hide and seek." Marcus says.
Logan grits his teeth "I don't think she is hiding guys. Something is telling me that she was taken." He said getting an uneasy feeling.
Their morphors went off "You all might need to get back here." Raine's voice said from the other end her tone worried.
When the communication cut off they all glanced at each other knowing that if Raine was calling them then something was going on.
Doing as they were told the rangers returned to the HQ and were met Maya along with Drew and Zoe as well as Kira.
"How long do you think it will take to get the colt?" Maya asked referring to Lily leaving to go and get it from a friend.
"I know your impatient Maya, but..." Drew started and Sara clears her throat getting their attention.
Maya turned "Oh. Hello everyone. Glad you could make it back here." Maya said and Drew nodded.
"Yeah yeah, but Maya we got a serious problem!" Logan said.
Maya nods slowly "I know. In fact I think it has something to do with the case that Zoe was telling us about." Maya said to them.
AV looks at her old babysitter "What's going on Big Angel?" She asked using the nickname she used for her.
Zoe then went on to explain what was happening, and then Maya inputs what she had noticed as they came to a conclusion.
"The thing that is tearing apart these people is not human. It's almost like a werewolf, but it's also not. Whatever it is seems to be consumed by it's more primal hunting urges." Drew said.
Chris flinched "W-Werewolf? You just said werewolf." Chris said.
Sara huffs "Werewolf's aren't real." She said.
Maya hands the rangers the photos "Tell that to these people." Maya said and they take the pictures each having different reactions.
Logan, Sara, and Marcus were shocked while Chris paled looking like he was about to throw up. Jason and AV were stunned into silence, and Sora looked about ready to fall over.
The pictures displayed bloody bodies on the ground of teen girls, and most of the time their limbs were torn off and there was large gashes on there bodies.
Maya takes them back "That's not what's disturbing to me though. It's he pattern of how the girls were killed." Maya muttered.
"The first was a girl in red, and then one in blue, finally one in silver." Maya continued as she showed each picture again placing them in the order they were killed.
Zoe noticed this "The last girl killed...she was in blue." She says as the rangers paled.
"Eva." They all said fearful now of what was going to happen to their fellow friend and ranger.
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Eva groans slowly waking up and noticed she was in some kind of cell and when she tried to move her arms she heard chains rattle and she looked up and saw that she was chained to a wall.
"Glad to see your awake." A male voice spoke and Eva looked up recognizing the voice instantly as it belonged to the Cursed Trinity member Sirius, but what she saw scared her. Sirius wasn't wearing his cloak which normally covered his appearance.
Sirius was easily over six feet tall and was had a body built better than that of any athlete. There was also the fact his body was covered in silver and grey wolf fur, and he had a wolf like head with soul piercing yellow eyes. The claws on his paws were long and sharp, and he had long fangs that looked like they could easily rip through flesh.
Eva was frozen stiff scared as Sirius smirked "Soon the game will begin my little silver cats eye child." He says and Eva began to shake in fear.
And that is the end of Episode 21, and is part one of the Monster Hunter/Underdog Squad double tribute chapter. Now I originally had intended to make this two tributes separate, but with how well the two teams worked together I decided why not go ahead and just put them together? Anyways yep Eva is kidnapped, Sirius is fully revealed, and the time is drawing close for the new Underdog Triad to form. For those who are curious what that is it will be explained next chapter. Anyways until next time this has been decode9!
