Power Rangers: Beasts of Myth
Five Versus Five: New Power to Don
BERMUDA BAY PLAZA
Tobias smirked underneath his helmet as he slashed a Bloodspawn in the stomach, releasing sparks. The red ranger then turned to see the grunts regroup.
"Why am I the only one having fun here?" Tobias asked himself as he rushed in again.
Suddenly, a whip wrapped around one of the Bloodspawn's waist causing it to flip. Tobias turned again to see his teammates, fully morphed, run up.
"Sorry we're late," Sean apologized, then turned his gaze to Skyler, "Skyler demanded we stop and get an iced coffee."
The green ranger shrugged with a chuckle. "It was totally worth it to see you guys facepalm!"
Tobias laughed and shook his head. "Why did you listen to him? And why didn't you just teleport here?"
Skyler laughed as Sean, Clarice, and Xue facepalmed for the second time of the day. With that aside, the five faced the Bloodspawn.
"How long has it been since we've fought Bloodspawn?" Sean asked Clarice, unraveling his whip.
The yellow ranger shrugged, drawing her sickles. "I dunno. Weeks."
Xue drew her shield, holding it in front of her. Likewise, Skyler drew his staff, but, being more lax than Xue, rested it on his shoulders casually.
Skyler let out a loud groan, followed by a sharp inhale. "A meatball marinara sub says I'll take out the most Bloodspawn."
Tobias laughed, the point of his lance touching the ground. "I'll take that challenge."
Sean let out an "Ooh!" at Skyler while Clarice shook her head and said, "Boys."
"Then let's get started!" Skyler said, a cocky smile underneath his helmet. The green ranger threw his Tolroc Staff into the air and leapt into the air.
"Hey, I thought we were going on my mark!" Tobias yelled playfully.
"Your mark's too slow!" Skyler yelled back, whacking a Bloodspawn in the head with his staff.
Tobias shook his head as he let out a chuckle and rushed into the fray.
Clarice shook her head and said, "When will those two ever learn?" The yellow ranger then rushed in with her sickles, quickly followed by Xue and Sean.
Skyler flipped over two Bloodspawn and struck at each's side, causing them to collapse. Without turning around, the green ranger jabbed another footsoldier in the stomach, twirled his staff to disorient the surrounding Bloodspawn, and smashed his staff into the ground before tripping six surrounding mooks.
"That's nine, Tobias!" the green ranger shouted as he leapt to his right.
Tobias swung his lance across three Bloodspawns' chests, causing them to spark and collapse. The red ranger then thrusted his lance at another grunt, sending it flying into two other Bloodspawn, knocking them over. Invoking the power of the dragon, the red ranger made a vortex of flames around his lance and shot it off at nine Bloodspawn, causing an explosion.
"Ahead by three!" the red ranger informed his competitor.
Sean whipped around his whip, causing the space between him and the Bloodspawn to grow. Suddenly, Skyler and Tobias swooped in, striking away with their weapons.
"What are you guys doing?" Sean asked, drawing his Serpent Dagger and playing a long note, causing the Bloodspawn in front of him to spark and spasm before falling over.
"C'mon, it's just some friendly competition," Skyler said, striking down a Bloodspawn, creating a domino effect. "That's... one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I'm up by four!"
"No, you're down by two," Tobias said, pointing to six Bloodspawn lying on the ground.
Skyler sighed and rolled his eyes underneath his helmet. "So much for an easy meatball marinara sub."
"Giving up?" Tobias asked, using his lance to prop himself up.
A Bloodspawn tried to sneak up on him, but the red ranger clotheslined the mook, causing it to flip and faceplant.
"And now you're down three," the red ranger added.
The green ranger shook his head. "You win. I give up."
Tobias held out his hand. "Shake on it. I know how you like to resume the challenge after you know you're going to win."
Skyler nodded and shook his best bud's hand. "Agreed."
Content, Tobias nodded.
"Unh, guys?" Xue asked, voice strained.
The guys turned to see Xue and Clarice hacking away at the grunts, but soon noticed that another battalion coming.
"Xue, Clarice, fall back!" Tobias ordered, which they obeyed straight away, "Everyone, daggers!"
With one swift motion, the five drew their daggers and played B7 chord, causing a spurt of electricity of electricity from the Bloodspawn, followed by a huge explosion.
Skyler looked at his dagger while the others sheathed theirs on their belts. "How come we didn't do that in the first place?"
"Because you wanted to rush in," Clarice replied, putting her hands on her hips.
"Which reminds me," Tobias said as the five demorphed, "You owe me a meatball marinara sub."
Skyler smiled and did a low bow. "Yes, oh fearless leader."
The five exchanged a laugh and walked over to a local sub shop, known as Mural City, a brick building with a dull red roof, the old paint peeling extensively. The inside, when contrasted with the outside, was quite nice. The new paint job was obvious; every color in the store's mural was bright. However, you couldn't smell paint, just the fresh bread that made the shop renowned in the county. The shop was void of customers, who had all run away because of the Bloodspawn attack. The clatters of pans and other utensils echoed from the kitchen as an olive-skinned man with a thick black mustache yelled something in Greek to the workers before stepping up to the cash register.
"May I take your order?" the man said, his Greek accent ringing out.
Skyler slapped a ten dollar bill on the counter and said, "One meatball marinara sub, please."
The man took the money, examined it, and put it in the cash register.
Then, the man shouted into the kitchen, "Parangelía epáno! Éna sántouits me keftédes ypovrýchio marinara kai kathistoún grígora!"
He then turned to the five teens and said, "It shouldn't be long. Take a seat." The man motioned to his empty restaurant.
Skyler smiled. "Hey, we're in no hurry."
The five chose a booth, Sean and Clarice on one side, Tobias and Xue on the other, the girls near the windows. Skyler pulled up a chair and sat with its back in front of him.
"So, is there a certain reason a Greek man runs an Italian restaurant?" Clarice asked Skyler.
Skyler shrugged. "To be fair, the Romans did copy the Greek."
Tobias looked at his best friend, surprised. "I didn't know you paid attention in World History."
Skyler laughed. "I didn't."
Xue looked at him, perplexed. "Then how'd you know that?"
The Portuguese teen pointed to a sign on the table that read "Greek: The Original Italian!"
Clarice looked at the sign, sighed and said, "It'd be you who never has time to pay attention in class, but has time to read random signs."
Suddenly, Skyler's face perked up. "Hey, do you know what today is?"
Tobias shrugged while Sean shook his head and the girls exchanged confused glances.
Skyler stood up and said softly, "Today, it has been one month since we met Sasquatch and became rangers!"
"Oh," Tobias said in realization, drawing the word out.
Sean facepalmed for the third time of the day and Clarice and Xue exchanged an "oh yeah" and a giggle.
"We've got to do something special for him," Clarice said as the cash register worker came over with a bag and set it in front of Skyler.
There was an odd moment of silence as he walked back to the counter and waited for another customer.
"Yeah, but what?" Xue asked in a whisper. "It's not like we can parade him around town. Someone would notice and yell 'Bigfoot' or something like that."
The American teens looked at the Chinese girl, confused to why she knew what a bigfoot was.
Xue looked at her friends. "What?"
"How do you know about Bigfoot?" Clarice asked.
"Well, when I'm home alone, I watch some Syfy Channel," Xue replied with a shrug.
Skyler tried to hold back a laugh, but found it harder than he thought. The green ranger ended up falling out of his chair and laughing his butt off. Tobias, Sean, and Clarice looked at Skyler, then at Xue, who responded, "What?"
BLOODWING'S CASTLE
Bloodwing sipped on a golden goblet filled with a blood-red liquid, not caring much about the battle that just took place.
"My lord," Lillith said, looking at her master in a concerned manner, "Are you not upset at the failure of the Bloodspawn?"
Bloodwing looked at his goblet. "No." The vampire king got up and looked at Koibat, who was in the corner fiddling with something that looked like a Mythic Morpher. "It's been enough time. Where's Inferpire?"
Suddenly, the doors to the room opened and Inferpire stomped in. His body was literally on fire, the heat permeating off his shoulders. Koibat, being an aquatic creature, gathered his Mythic Morpher device and shuffled deeper into his corner, a little bit of sweat coming off his brow.
"I've never felt better in my life!" Inferpire roared, looking at his hands that were curled into a claw-like position.
Bloodwing stood and walked over to his warrior. "I expected nothing less from the Blood Lotus's power. Now go and do not fail me." Inferpire bowed and walked out. "That was the last Blood Lotus in existence. I hope I haven't used it at the wrong time."
CAVE OPS
Sasquatch flipped through his book of prophecies when he flipped to a page that read:
When five versus five begins,
Five mysteries will shortly end.
Earth shall fall to fire,
And wind shall be ceased by earthen wall.
A siren's song, a poet's lyre
Shall break the curse and water shall fall
To one whose wings are in the wind
Shall do this deed with his own hand
With remorse, remorse, and
Remorse; revenge is a dish best served cold
But water shall surely break the mold
When fire falls, the beasts will have won
Armor of great power to don.
The bigfoot looked up and blinked twice. "I've never seen this part before."
Just as the word left his lips, the rangers walked in laughing at something Skyler had said, but Sasquatch's words had made them forget what.
"What part?" Tobias asked, confused.
Sean looked at Skyler, who shrugged and hummed an "I dunno". Clarice shook her head at the green ranger, who didn't notice. Xue, who did, giggled softly.
Tobias read over the page, then let out a "huh". "I've read this before."
Sasquatch raised his hairy eyebrows in surprise, as did the others.
"Yeah, I read this and realized I needed the Lyre of Orpheus to free everyone from Vampiren's song," Tobias said, motioning to the Lyre, which was stood on a nearby table.
"Then, how come you didn't tell anyone?" Sasquatch asked.
The red ranger shrugged, an "I'm sorry" look on his face.
(A/N: Chekhov's Gun!)
Suddenly, the room froze around Clarice as she heard the voice from before.
"I-it was real?" the yellow ranger asked, knees quivering a little.
(A/N: Of course. I wrote it. Duh.)
Clarice calmed down. If there was one thing that annoyed her more than Skyler, it was someone saying 'duh' to her. The yellow ranger squinted her eyes, annoyed. "Do not 'duh' me."
(A/N: Too late. I did. Anyway, not why I'm here.)
Clarice took a deep breath and relaxed. "So, why are you here? And why me?"
(A/N: Well, Clarey, I wanted to tell you about "Armor of Great Power to Don." And I chose you because Tobias and I would have an entirely Spanish conversation which would make the audience go "What?", Sean would adopt a "Holier than thou" attitude, Skyler would complain as to why he isn't cooler, and Xue would pass out.)
Clarice snerked.
(A/N: Anyway, this new power is an upgrade a la Jungle Master Mode, Super Dino Mode, et cetera, et cetera.)
Clarice looked up, confused. "Am I supposed to know what that is?"
(A/N: ...Oops. Oh well, you'll figure it out. Anyway, this is unlocked after you guys beat Inferpire.)
Clarice nodded. "So we won't be using it too soon?"
(A/N: Err, didn't say that. After all, it's not going to be easy.)
Clarice frowned in confusion. "What?"
(A/N: Well, if I just handed everything to you, there'd be no conflict and no story.)
Clarice nodded and said, "True."
(A/N: I've kept you long enough. Resume time.)
Time unfroze and three very angry rangers began to chew out Tobias.
"I can't believe you kept this from us," Xue said, a bit hurt.
"Why, Tobias, why?" Sean questioned angrily.
"Seriously? You could have told us!" Skyler said with an angry shove.
Tobias fell on the cave floor and got up off the ground. "Because I have no idea what it means!" the red ranger finally roared.
Tobias huffed and puffed, trying to get his air back while the rest of the rangers and Sasquatch remained silently. A few minutes passed.
"Sasquatch, can I see the book for a sec?" Clarice finally piped up.
The bigfoot nodded and gave the book in question to the yellow ranger.
"Hm... Well, it's definitely about us versus the Elementals, but I don't get the first part. 'Five mysteries will shortly end?' What mysteries? 'Earth will fall to fire.' Tobias finished off the Earth Elemental and I finished off the second."
"Which is why it says 'earthen wall'!" Tobias chirped in excitedly.
Sean, Skyler, and Xue stared at Clarice, who was still scanning the poem.
"So, this is all of what has happened while fighting the Elementals?"
Clarice nodded. "Vampiren is a siren. 'Siren's song... poet's lyre.'" She pointed to the Lyre of Orpheus without looking up. "'Revenge is a dish best served cold.' IcePhoenox, according to Skyler, loved Vampiren. 'Water shall surely break the mold.' Sean destroyed him. 'When fire falls, the beasts will have won/ New armor to don.' When we beat Inferpire, we'll get some kind of new power. What it might be, I don't know."
Sasquatch's face lit up. "The Armor of the Elements!"
The five rangers looked at their mentor, confused. The ape typed on the computer, pulling up a picture of a map.
"There were once five powerful beings that guarded powerful armor, the Armor of the Elements. These were an Inferti, a Siren, a Wind Being, a Minotaur, and an Ice Phoenix. It was rumored that upon their defeat, they would give their destroyers very powerful armor.
"The one that almost did it, but didn't succeed because his heart was full of darkness, was Bloodwing himself. In his anger, he transformed the five into his vampire slaves. He figured that that was the next best thing to having the Armor."
"Then our ancestors silenced him for a while," Tobias said, eyes wide in awe.
"I had no idea," Clarice said to herself in an awestruck voice.
The other three nodded in agreement, dumbstruck by wonder, Skyler gaping as Sean had a more thoughtful look and Xue wore the ghost of a smile.
"So, beating Inferpire is all we have to do?" Skyler said, his gaping mouth becoming a cocky smirk.
Sasquatch nodded and smiled. The five rangers exchanged smiles and excited chatter. Their excitedness soon turned to panic as the alarm went off and the cave rumbled.
"What's going on?" Tobias said, trying to get a grip of the situation.
Sasquatch typed feverishly on the computer, pulling up a picture of Inferpire hovering at the barrier and launching gigantic fireballs at the invisible wall.
"How are we able to feel him doing that?" Xue asked loudly as another rumble came across the cavern and everyone fell.
"The generators for the force field are embedded into Cave Ops's walls," Sasquatch replied just as loudly.
The rangers struggled to their feet.
Tobias exhaled and said, "It's time to end five versus five. Ready?"
"Ready!" the others replied.
"Mythic Beasts, Awaken!" the five cried, their armor flashing on.
OUTSIDE THE FORCE FIELD
Inferpire launched another fireball at the force field. "Oh, rangers. Come out and play."
Suddenly, a gigant wave crashed into Inferpire, knocking him back.
"Guess who?" Skyler teased in a singsong voice.
The green ranger flew into the Vampiric Beast's field of vision, wielding his staff. Behind him were Sean and Xue surfing on a wave of Sean's creation on top of an ice surfboard and Clarice and Tobias running on a small strip of ground.
"So, you've come to challenge me," Inferpire proclaimed, a smirk on his face.
Skyler suddenly formed a tornado around the inferti/vampire causing some of the flames from his shoulders become caught in the wind. Working quickly, Sean and Xue, working together created an icy spiral around the tornado that allowed them to climb up to the top.
The blue and white rangers exchanged a nod before the Irish boy leapt into the midst of the tornado and grabbed Inferpire by his waist, using his whip to keep his grip. Gravity drew the two into the water, Sean's suit protecting him from the shock. As the blue ranger swam away at a breakneck speeds, the Vampiric Beast surfaced to a team attack from Clarice and Tobias. But before the hit could land, Inferpire teleported away.
Skyler snapped. "Crud, we almost had him."
All of a sudden, the rangers' Mythic Morphers beeped.
"Rangers, Inferpire's downtown and he's created fire monsters that are destroying the town," Sasquatch reported, concern in his voice.
"Right," Tobias replied into his morpher.
With that, the five spun the compass rose part of the morpher and teleported downtown.
DOWNTOWN BERMUDA BAY
Inferpire summoned yet another fire monster, which basically was a humanoid ten-foot flame. The monster joined its four brethren in flipping cars and causing other sorts of mayhem.
Inferpire went into a fit of laughter. "I may have fail to penetrate the Beast Ranger's force field, but at least now I can flush them out with my creations! Now is the time for Bermuda Bay to end in fire!"
"Yeah, not today," a voice said as the Vampiric Beast was hit with two streams of water.
The monster turned to the rangers. Sean was using his powers to shoot water from two fire hydrants that Skyler and Clarice had broken open. Xue then used her powers to freeze Inferpire in place, and Tobias slashed the fire Elemental's chest, shattering the ice and throwing the monster back. As Inferpire began to get up, the rangers' morphers beeped again.
"Rangers, I've just discovered the reason that you can share each other's powers," Sasquatch announced.
"Well, tell us quick. Inferpire is getting back up," Tobias said, talking directly into the morpher, keeping an eye on his enemy.
"With the defeat of each of the Elementals, a little bit of their power has transferred to each of you. But there's a catch: you have to have a beast or demi-beast of that element around to use it," the bigfoot explained.
"So that's how Skyler and Clarice pulled off the Dust Storm attack from when we fought Aopire," Xue said thoughtfully.
"And how Sean used Tsunami Tolroc Torrent against IcePhoenox," Clarice added excitedly.
Tobias smirked underneath his helmet and said, "Well, as of now, I can use four elements to power up my own."
Suddenly, the red ranger became surrounded by red, blue, green, yellow, and white energy.
Tobias is in the midst of a volcano that is capped with ice. He raises his lance to the sky and cries, "Five Element Slash!" He then puts his lance's tip into the lava, causing it to catch fire. The red ranger then runs to the edge of the volcano and began to drag his lance down the mountain. When reaching the end of the snow, the flames begin to glow white. When reaching the bottom of the volcano, the flames become surrounded by a yellow ring. Tobias then hoists his lance into the air, causing a blue and green ring to form around the yellow ring. The ranger then sliced through the monster causing a huge explosion.
With that, Inferpire collapsed and exploded, the fire monster dissipating.
BLOODWING'S CASTLE
Bloodwing roared in frustration. "Lillith, activate a steam pellet!"
But before the vampiress could reach the control, Koibat tackled her to the ground.
Surprised, Bloodwing stood up from his throne. "What is the meaning of this?"
Koibat turned up a half-smile as he stood up. "Well, I'm definitely not Koibat."
With a spin, the koi fish/vampire became a Japanese girl with dyed red hair and brown eyes. Her gold skirt brushed against her knees. Without any time wasted, the girl pulled out a Mythic Morpher and placed it around her wrist.
"Mythic Beasts, Awaken!" she said as she spun the compass rose.
The girl is in a golden room. Suddenly, a screen dragged by a kitsune goes by, concealing the girl. When the screen goes away, she is in golden ranger armor. The kitsune then jumps on her, the body vanishing and the head becomes the helmet. She then strikes a pose.
The new ranger waved at Bloodwing. "Allow me to introduce myself."
She gets into a low stance and holds out her hands gracefully with the back facing Bloodwing. "Lady of Illusions! Golden Kitsune!"
Bloodwing growled and said, "Lillith, get her."
"At once, my liege," Lillith replied, running at the female gold ranger.
"Although I'd love to stay and chat, I think I've overstayed my welcome," the girl said before spinning her morpher and teleported away in gold light.
Lillith stopped, then looked at her master.
"There is another ranger?" Bloodwing roared.
Lillith bit her lip and said, "Well, I don't think the rangers know yet."
The vampire king nodded and sat down. "You may be right, Lillith."
The female vampire smiled and chuckled nervously.
Bloodwing scratched his chin. "Let's just hope the rangers don't." He then glared at his minion, to which she flinched. "You more than me."
MURAL CITY
"As promised, Sasquatch, an XXL pizza," Skyler said as the cashier laid the pizza on the table.
Sasquatch, whose face was concealed by the hood of his robe, nodded and replied, "Thanks."
"It's the least we could do. You stay in the Ops all day and help us," Xue said with a smile.
Sasquatch wolfed a slice down and smiled, a string of cheese attached to his beard.
The ranger settled into their seats. Then, Xue saw someone walk in.
"Izumi?" Xue asked in pleasant surprise.
"Xue-chan!" an Asian girl with dyed red hair and brown eyes. Her gold skirt swished as she ran to hug her Chinese friend, the two Asian embracing briefly.
The other four rangers and their hairy mentor looked at the two, confused.
"Guys, this is my pen pal, Izumi, from Kyoto," Xue said, offering her a seat beside Skyler.
Tobias smiled and waved to the new girl, Sean shot her a friendly "Hi", Skyler smirked and patted her on the shoulder, and Clarice smiled and said, "Hello." Sasquatch, however, pulled his hood even further over his face.
"Let me introduce you," Xue offered, "This is Tobias, Sean, Skyler, and Clarice." As she said her friends' names, she gestured to them.
"It is so nice to meet you all," the Japanese girl said with a smile.
Sasquatch cleared his throat and said, "Can we get this to go? I kinda wanna get back home."
Skyler nodded. "Of course, buddy." The green ranger motioned to the cashier and asked for a doggie box.
"So, I'll see you guys around, huh?" Izumi asked with a smile.
Xue nodded with a smile. "Definitely."
With that, the six exitted the restaurant, Sasquatch more hastily than the others.
"Sasquatch!" Xue said, "What's the matter?"
The bigfoot stopped and spun around slowly, taking a deep breath. "She smells like Mythic Beast."
Trivia: Mural City is slightly based off of a well known Italian restaurant in my town as well as Subway.