Chapter Two: Telling The Others

Mike didn't know what to say. He went from happy to sad in an instant. Serena was healthy now, but she would be taking back her place on the samurai team. That meant that Emily had to leave. Mike was in shock.

"A-Are you sure you have to leave?" Mike asked.

"There can only be one yellow ranger. Serena trained for this her whole life, well up until she got sick. But she was born first anyways, this is her destiny. I was just standing in until she got better." Emily said with a sigh.

"But can't she just-" Mike was interrupted when Jayden, Antonio, and Kevin walked through the front door.

"Hola amigos, how was your day off?" Antonio asked cheerfully.

"Uhmm.." Mike didn't know what to say. He didn't know if Emily was ready to tell them yet. She hadn't given Mike permission to tell anyone, so he thought it best to keep his mouth shut. If Emily wanted them to know she would tell them herself when she was ready.

"Jay, do you think we can have a meeting in the common room?" Emily asked quietly.

"Sure. Let me go get Mia and Ji." Jayden said. He didn't know why Emily wanted a meeting, but it had to be important. Emily wouldn't have asked unless it was really important.

A few minutes later, the whole team was waiting in the common room. Everyone was sitting in their stools except Emily. Emily was nervously standing in front of everyone. She didn't know how to start the meeting. She didn't know how to tell them that she was leaving.

Thankfully Ji helped her out, "Is this about that letter you got today?"

"Yes." Emily replied.

"What letter?" Mia asked.

Emily took a deep breath as she started, "I got a letter from Serena today. Before you say anything, she's still alive. In fact, she's actually recovering. Some doctors tried a new medicine on her and it's working. Her body is recovering. She said that she should be fully healed within this next week."

"That's great news!" Mia said happily.

The rest of the team, excluding Mike, nodded their heads in agreement. Mike just sat there with his head down.

"It is great," Emily agreed, "but she told me something else. She told me she's coming to take her place back. I'm going home."

"What?" They all said in unison.

"When Serena gets here, I'm going back to the farm." Emily replied sadly.

"But you can't! You're the yellow ranger!" Mike said. He was getting angry now. As happy as he was that Serena was healed, he didn't want Emily to leave.

"This was originally supposed to be Serena, I was just replacing her." Emily said.

"She's right." Jayden agreed, "This is Serena's birthright. If she's healed and as good as Emily says she is, then Emily can go home."

"But Jayden!" Antonio argued. Even he was starting to get upset now. Emily was the first person to welcome him to the team when he came. She hadn't been anything but nice to him since. She was originally the only one who believed in him. He wouldn't let her leave.

"But nothing Antonio." Jayden said sternly.

"I agree with Jayden. I'm going to hate to see Emily go too, but this is Serena's place. This is her destiny, she trained all her life to be here." Kevin argued back.

"You can't be serious here." Mike said. He didn't want to see her leave either. Like Antonio, Emily was the first person to really believe in him outside of his parents. Emily and him had also grown fairly close since first arriving. He wouldn't deny that he had a crush on the yellow ranger. But she saw them as friends, best friends even, and that was good enough for Mike.

"Jayden is being totally serious." now even Mentor Ji was joining the argument, "If Serena is healed completely then she can finally fulfill her duties as yellow ranger. I know we've all come to love Emily, but if Serena wants to come take her place she has the right to do so."

"Guys," Mia said gesturing to Mike and Antonio, she sounded disappointed, "I'm going to miss Emily too. But you need to realize that this is for the best. Serena was originally supposed to be here, this is her place. Not Emily's."

"She's right guys," Emily said. "Plus, Serena is an awesome fighter! I'm sure with her, you guys will defeat Master Xandred in no time! Then when he's gone, maybe we can all hang out. It's not like I'll never see all of you again."

"I guess you're right.." Antonio said with a glum look on his face.

"Well. Serena said she would be here Friday, and it's Thursday. I better go start packing." Emily said sadly as she walked off towards her room.

"I'll come help you." Mike said as he walked to join her.

"Thanks." Emily said.

"Ya know, I'm really going to miss you when you leave." Mike said sadly as he helped her pull a large suitcase out from under her bed.

"I'll miss you guys too. But we can still talk." Emily said, trying to lift Mike's and her own spirits. They put the extremely large suitcase on Emily's bed and opened it up.

"How? You'll be at your farm and Mentor doesn't like us using his phone." Mike asked.

"You have a laptop right?" Emily asked.

Mike nodded.

"We can video call each other. That's better than a phone anyways. We can just video call each other whenever I'm not doing homework and you aren't fighting nighlock or training." Emily said, happy she thought of a solution.

"Okay. Sounds like a plan." Mike said with a half smile, as he started to help Emily place all her clothes and personal items into the suitcase.

"Too bad you have to leave tomorrow though.." Mike said sadly.

"Yeah.." Emily agreed.

"We can do something tonight? If you want I mean, cause it is your last night here and all." Mike said nervously as he placed her favorite sweater in the case.

"Like what?" Emily asked curiously. She stopped packing and looked up at Mike for a clue what he was talking about.

"Just meet me in the kitchen tonight at midnight. It'll be a surprise." Mike said with a smirk on his face. He wanted to make her last night memorable. He was going to pull out all the stops so that Emily could have the best time.

Emily looked up at him with a smile and then continued packing her things away.