Chapter 30

It happened to be a pleasant morning at the Shiba household; Mike had just woken up and made his way to the kitchen for some breakfast. Upon entering the green ranger found Nariko sitting at the counter drinking some tea.

The princess smiled at Mike as he entered the kitchen, "Good morning Mike."

He yawned first before answering, "Morning Nariko."

Just before Mike could fix him a bowl of cereal, he ceased in his movements once hearing the pleasant sound of a guitar playing. Nariko happened to notice this and asked, "Mike what's wrong?"

"Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Shh…Listen."

And the princess did, her ears picked up the pleasant sound of the guitar, "Is that what I think it is?"

Mike then left out of the kitchen with Nariko closely following after him. They happened to stop in front of the living room where Ji was in, along with the dojo where Jayden and Emily were practicing. The samurai mentor looked up from his book as he took notice of Mike and Nariko, "Is something wrong?"

"It's nothing…But where is that guitar music coming from?" wondered Mike

This made Jayden and Emily stop practicing once hearing the guitar music, Nariko looked to the front door and made her way towards it with Ji and the three rangers following her. The princess opened the door and looked out, there on the bench she spotted a teenage boy sitting there playing a guitar.

She stepped outside and made her way over to the boy, standing in front of him along with Jayden. The couple watched the boy for a bit before the red ranger cleared his throat, "Hi…Can I help you?"

The boy ceased his strumming and smiled at them while getting up, "Hi guys…The name is Terry…I'm Mia's brother…"

Soon Mia's young brother was escorted into the Shiba household by Mike, the ranger gave a firm squeeze to Terry's shoulders "So you're Mia's brother."

"Yeah…All my life!"

The green ranger then let go of the boy's shoulder as he began to admire the living room and dojo.

"Welcome to the Shiba house." Told Nariko

Terry couldn't help but look at everything in awe "Whoa…This is cool!"

His awe soon went away and he asked the others, "So…Where is my Sis anyway?"

"Oh she went with Kevin to get some groceries." Told Emily

"You're not going to let her cook are you?"

Mike lightly chuckled at this, "No…We've learned that lesson."

Terry lightly chuckled too, "Sis is good with a blade…As long as it's not a kitchen knife."

"So what brings you to town, Terry?" asked Jayden

"I'm volunteering at the children's hospital over summer break. My parents think it'll get me to med school down the road."

"Is there a big demand for guitar playing doctors?" joked Mike

Terry looked at his instrument, "Oh this? No…I'm also trying to put together a band together for a concert gig…I was hoping Mia would sing?"

Surprised and happy to hear this, Emily excitedly asked, "Mia sings?"

"Oh she was awesome! When we were kids we were going to be the world's greatest band! But…You know the whole power rangers thing." Said Terry

At that moment the gap sensor went off, causing Mike to say "Speaking of which." While he and Jayden quickly left out of the household Emily said to Terry "Uh…We'd love to stay but…"

"Oh don't sweat it! Go save the world I'll just hang with Mentor, he seems cool and Nariko too!"

"We'll be right back!"

"I'll be right here!"

With the rangers, minutes passed when Jayden, Antonio, Emily, Mike and Kevin got rid of the moogers that happened to be trashing a children's school. Mia showed up at the last minute once the battle was over with, "Sorry I'm late guys! But it looks like you handled it."

The group then powered down and began making their leave from the school grounds, while walking Jayden looked to his childhood friend, "Thanks for the assist Antonio, I'm glad that you were nearby."

The gold ranger pretended to cry a little and wipe a fake tear from his eye, "Oh…It's nice to feel needed."

Jayden smiled while shaking his head, he playfully pushed his childhood friend before they continued on walking. Once hearing their little exchange, Emily turned to the pink ranger, "Speaking of being needed, we're needed back at the Shiba house."

Kevin who heard this asked, "Why? What's going on?"

"Mia's brother! Dude you have to meet him, he's like this Zen guitar player!" told Mike

"My brother with his guitar?" wondered Mia

Emily nodded, "Yeah! And he wants you to sing in his band!"

"Uh…He does?"

Antonio who had heard all of this quickly approached the pink ranger, "Whoa! Your brother has a rock band? Oh sweet! I have got to meet him! I'm gonna go grab my guitar and I'll meet you there in a few, don't let him leave!"

And with that the gold ranger ran off, with the other rangers staring after him.

20 minutes later back at the Shiba household, Mike was in the hallway sitting in a chair playing a video game when Terry walked through the front door. The green ranger looked up from his game and smiled at the boy "Hey Terry!"

At this time Mia had walked out of the kitchen carrying a tray of food in hand, she stopped in her tracks once seeing her brother and brightly smiled at him, "Terry!"

The pink ranger handed the tray to Emily who was behind her and quickly went over to her younger brother, enveloping him in a hug.

"Hey Sis! It's been a long time!" told Terry

Mia quickly broke the embrace, "Oh Terry you haven't met Kevin!"

The siblings turn towards the living room to find Kevin, Jayden and Nariko coming over to them.

"You're blue right?" asked Terry

Kevin nodded at this, "Yeah!"

Terry shook hands with the blue ranger, "Well I'm glad that you've got my sister's back!"

Once they let go, Kevin took notice of the instrument in Terry's hand "That's a great guitar you got there, can I see it?"

The teenage boy handed the instrument to him, "Go for it!"

While Kevin began to admire the guitar, Mia looked to her brother and asked, "So what are you doing here?"

"I'm getting the band back together…We have a concert on Friday and I was kind of hoping you'd sing with us."

"Oh…No…"

"Oh come on Mia! We want to see you rock out on stage!" said Emily

"Come on Mia!" urged Mike

"You can sing?" wondered Mike

Mia gave a small smile to her friends then turned to her brother, grabbing him by the shoulder and pulled him close lowly saying, "Can I talk to you outside for a minute?"

Before he could give a reply, the pink ranger quickly dragged him out to the front. Once reaching outside Mia let go of Terry's shoulder, who wondered out loud, "Hey…What gives?"

"Terry…You're supposed to be thinking about your future this summer, not playing gigs!"

"It's just one show Mia, it's not like I'm going on a world tour."

"Be realistic! You've got a better shot going to med school than becoming a rock star!"

"You just sound like Mom and Dad!"

"Well…Maybe they're right…We're just trying to look out for you…"

"Well thanks, but I can look out for myself…I'm sorry for even coming here, I'll get my stuff…"

Thus the young sibling made his way back into the household with Mia closely following after him, "Terry!"

The teenage boy stepped into the living room where the rangers excluding Nariko who went off somewhere else, were sitting there playing a card game. Terry picked up his guitar from the seat, "You don't want to help me I get it…I'll find somebody else to sing."

With that being said Terry walked out of the household with his sister staring after him in concern. Just as the guitarist walked outside, Antonio showed up at this time and approached the teenager, "Hey! You must be the musician brother!"

"Yeah…That's me…"

"So…Do you play as well as Mia cooks?"

"Dude I hope not."

Antonio laughed a bit and lightly patted Terry's shoulder "Dude I'm just messing with you. Hey I'm Antonio, you're not leaving are you? Because I was hoping to jam with you."

"Umm…I don't know if I'm really up for…"

Terry trailed off once spotting the electric guitar strapped to Antonio's back, "Wait…Do you sing?"

"I sing a little when I'm down at the pier…The fish never complain…But I do know someone else that can sing."

"Really, who?"

"You've already met Nariko, haven't you?"

"Yeah…But I had no clue she could sing."

"Oh but she can! It's rare that she sings in front of others but often does it when she's alone…Is Nariko alone right now?"

"Uh…I think so…I didn't see any signs of her in the household."

"Then that means she's in the garden, come on!"

The two musicians quickly made their way to the garden and found the Yamada princess sitting by herself on the bench. The two immediately hid behind a bush and listened to Nariko who had begun singing.

Terry was completely blown away by how beautiful the princess sings, he looked to Antonio whispering, "Incredible! Nariko has an amazing voice!"

"See? What did I tell you?"

The two soon heard Nariko finishing up her song and once she did, Antonio and Terry came out from behind the bush clapping. The sound made Nariko jump a bit and looked to find the two musicians standing there, "Antonio, Terry! How long have you been there?"

"Long enough for us to hear your wonderful voice." Told Antonio

"You heard that?"

"Yeah! Nariko if you don't mind…I would very much like to have you and Antonio as my singers for tonight's gig." Said Terry

"Oh…Well I-I'm not sure…" said the princess

"Oh come on Nariko, it'll be fun!" said Antonio

"W-Well….I suppose…"

"Fantastico! Well come on then we need to get going and start practicing!"

The gold ranger ran over to the Yamada princess, gently grabbing her by the arm and dragging her away.

"W-Wait a minute! What about Jayden? If I don't tell him where I'm going he'll immediately get worried." Said Nariko

"Don't worry we'll be back right before he notices you're gone!"

"But Antonio!"

The gold ranger simply ignored the rest of the princess' protests and continued dragging her away with Terry closely following them.

The three of them soon reached the place where the gig was going to be held at. Immediately Nariko, Antonio and Terry started practicing with the band. Currently Antonio and Terry were practicing the song they were going to perform on their guitars while Nariko was looking over the lyrics.

While strumming his guitar Antonio began to lowly sing the song "~Everyday …All we want to have is…" he stopped to adjust some things and turned to Nariko.

"Hey you ready Nariko?"

"Yeah I'm ready."

"Let me hear you sing a little bit." Said Terry

"Ok…~Everyday all we want to have is fun, fun, fun~…"

"Excellent! You guys ready?"

The whole band nodded and got ready with their instruments while Nariko stood in front of the microphone. Thus music filled the air as the band began to play and the Yamada princess began to sing with Antonio joining in.

"~Everyday! All we want to have is fun, fun, fun! Fun anyway so just come and join us one by one…Let's just make this party last! ~"

The band ceased playing their music and Terry looked at his band members smiling at them, "Man we are definitely tight!"

"You said it! Oh man I can't wait!" said Antonio

20 minutes later back at the household Terry returned and knocked upon the door. It opened to reveal Emily who brightly smiled at the teenager, "Hey Terry! Uh…Mia is not in right now but you're welcome to come in and wait."

"No thanks…I've got a lot of these to pass out."

He handed the yellow ranger some flyers who nodded at this, "Cool thanks!"

"Hope to see you there!"

Terry then took his leave and Emily closed the door, as she did the ranger looked over the flyer and was surprise to find Antonio and Nariko's name on it, "Featuring Antonio and Nariko?"

Meanwhile with Mia, she had ventured out into the city alone in order to think. Currently she was sitting on the bench thinking over what happened earlier at the household, "Why can't Terry just focus on his future and not his rock band? Wait…Oh…I do sound like Mom…We did use to have some fun…"

She thought back to the times when she and Terry were little, always having fun with their band singing together. The pink ranger giggled at the thought of this, "The world's greatest band…"

"Hey, hey pretty girl!"

Mia looked to find a tall skinny guy quickly approaching her with something in his hand. Her samuraizer soon beeped to which she quickly brought out and looked at, "Nighlok attack!"

The pink ranger stood up from the bench and turned to the skinny guy as he stopped in front of her, "I'm sorry but I'm kind of in a hurry!"

Completely out of breath the skinny guy tried to talk and at the same time handed her a flyer. Mia immediately took the flyer out of his hands, "For me? Ok thanks but I really have to go, thanks again!" with that said the pink ranger quickly ran off to join up with the others.

Meanwhile with Jayden, Antonio, Kevin, Mike and Emily they quickly arrived at the area of the nighlok appearance only to be caught off guard from an attack by Serrator. The rangers were then surrounded by a group of moogers to which they easily defended themselves from.

Jayden turned towards Serrator with his spin sword at the ready, "I'd go back to the Netherworld if I were you!"

"But you're not!"

The evil nighlok sent a power attack at the rangers that immediately sent the group falling to the ground in pain.

Serrator evilly chuckled at this and slowly approached his enemies, "This is much better! With you rangers out of the way I can finally put my plan into action, it's a nightmare come true!"

A crackling sound filled the air and Serrator turned to find a lightning sphere quickly coming towards him, before he could move out of the way the nighlok was hit by the sphere. He let out a pained cry as electricity flow through his body.

Serrator feel down on one knee and looked around growling, "Who in the world did that?"

His gaze soon landed on the cloaked form of Nariko who had her sais out, "Ah…So we finally meet…"

"Look it's that cloaked figure again!" exclaimed Emily

"I'm actually glad that this person showed up." Admitted Mike

"But it's dangerous for them to face Serrator alone!" told Jayden

"And they won't have to!"

Mia showed up at this time in her ranger form and stood by Nariko's side, "Serrator whatever your plan is I'm here to stop it!"

"Ha! The two of you stopping me?"

Serrator got to his feet and charged the two girls who quickly dodge the nighlok. Together they began attacking Serrator who was a bit surprised by this, "You both got spirit I'll grant you that but I hate spirit!"

He went in to attack Mia straight on but Nariko quickly got in front of her. In turn she got hit in the gut hard by Serrator and flew back a few feet. The princess tumbled to the ground letting out a painful grunt.

Mia quickly went to her side, "Oh no! Are you all right?"

Serrator took this time to approach the two girls with his weapon in hand. Jayden saw this and quickly pulled out the black box, "Mia you need this!"

She immediately caught the box and placed it upon her spin sword, "Thanks that will help!"

And with the power of the black box, Mia successfully landed an attack on Serrator which wounded him. Greatly angered by this the nighlok glared at the pink ranger "Now that hurt!"

"Good! That's what you get for hurting an ally of ours!"

Jayden and the others got up at this time to join Mia and help her protect Nariko from Serrator.

Though he was wounded Serrator managed to get back on his feet, "You think you've won? This party is just getting started!"

The nighlok pulled out a drawing and threw it into the air, using his evil magic Serrator summoned his large minion Papyrox to take care of the rangers.

Mia turned and kneeled by Nariko's cloaked form, "Are you going to be all right?"

Still in pain from Serrator's attack Nariko managed to say in a low voice, "Yes I'll be fine…Don't worry about me…Just take care of that nighlok."

"You can count on us, just stay here and we'll be right back!"

And with that the rangers left to deal with Serrator's minion along with some moogers and spitfangs. The evil minions didn't stand a chance against the rangers' megazords and were immediately defeated. Once obtaining their victory in battle the rangers quickly made their way back to the place where they left Nariko by herself.

To their dismay they found no signs of her in the area, Emily looked around, "They're gone!"

"What surprises me the most is how a person can leave this place after receiving a serious injury in battle?" wondered Kevin

"I agree…But hopefully that person will be ok…Come on let's head back to the household." Said Jayden

Later that night Kevin, Mike, Jayden and Emily got ready for the concert. Currently the four rangers were in the kitchen when Mia strolled in and went over to the refrigerator, grabbing a drink.

Surprised by how she looked right now Emily asked, "Mia aren't you coming to the concert?"

"I think I'm just going to turn in…"

"Mia…Is there a problem between you and your brother?" asked Kevin

The pink ranger sighed at this, "He's supposed to be volunteering at the hospital, not playing some gig."

Emily nodded at her answer, "Oh…Ok…But after that long battle we're kind of going to blow off some steam."

With that being said Emily took her leave from the kitchen with the guys following. Once they were gone Mia let out another sigh and pulled out the flyer that was handed to her earlier.

"A flyer for Terry's concert, great…"

Her eyes soon caught the rest of the words on the bottom and couldn't help but wonder out loud, "It's a concert for charity?"

At the concert hall just as a pair had finished up their singing, Antonio peeked from behind the curtain to get a good look at the audience. He then made his way over to Terry, Nariko and the rest of the bad.

"We're up next…Is Mia out there?" asked Terry

"I don't see any of our friends." Told Antonio

"Oh…"

Seeing the look on the boy's face caused Nariko to pat his back, "Hey…I'm pretty sure that they'll be here."

"Nariko is right, so come on let's rock the house!" said Antonio

Thus the band made their way on stage and quickly got ready for their performance. Once they were ready the MC proudly announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome The Rebel Rockers!"

Everyone cheered as the band began to play and Nariko began singing with Antonio joining in. During their performance Jayden and the other rangers showed up, they took their seats and began to enjoy the band's performance.

Little did they know Mia had showed up at the concert and was watching from the side. She smiled once setting eyes upon her little brother and quickly made her way backstage. As the song progressed on and coming to one part of the lyrics Antonio and Nariko immediately took notice of the third voice joining in.

The two and Terry looked, much to their delight saw Mia coming out from backstage with a microphone in her hand singing along. She smiled at her brother and two friends, Mia gave Nariko a hug as the girls and Antonio continued singing together.

The pink ranger then motioned her brother to come over and stand beside them, to which he happily did and continued on with their performance. Their song soon ended and the whole audience loudly cheered for the band who took their bows.

15 minutes later the concert finally ended and everyone began making their way home. Currently backstage Antonio was putting up his instrument with Nariko by his side, drinking some water.

"Nariko, Antonio!"

The two looked to find Jayden, Emily, Mike and Kevin making their way backstage. Mike smiled at the two, "You guys were awesome, thanks for inviting us!"

Emily ran over enveloping Antonio and Nariko in a tight hug, "Yeah! Look at you two being rockstars!"

Once the yellow ranger let go, Antonio happily sighed, "It was an incredible experience but…It can't beat fishing."

They laughed at this and the group playfully push the gold ranger for his silliness, Jayden then went over to his fiance cupping her face, "You sang beautifully out there and you looked amazing."

"Oh you're sweet and thanks Jayden."

The couple shared a sweet kiss before enveloping each other in a hug, but as Jayden wrapped his arms a bit tightly around Nariko's waist she winced in pain and lightly pushed her red ranger away while gently gripping her stomach.

He immediately became concerned by this, "Nariko are you ok?"

"Uh…Yeah just a little stomach ache…I'll be fine…"

"Are you sure it's just that?"

"Yes I'm sure Jayden…"

Not at all convinced by this Jayden simply nodded, "Ok…If you say so…"

The red ranger then thought, "Somehow I have a feeling it's not a stomach ache at all…Nariko is holding the same spot that the cloaked figure got hit by Serrator and was in serious pain…I have this feeling that the cloaked figure and Nariko are the same person…I don't like this feeling one bit…"

"Well come on you guys let's get out of here and grab something to eat, I'm starving!" said Mike

The others nodded at this and began to leave the stage area, as the rangers went on ahead Nariko looked to her fiance and noticed the thoughtful look on his face, "Jayden?"

Brought out of his thoughts, the red ranger looked at her, "Yeah?"

"You coming? Kevin and the others went ahead of us."

"Yeah I am…Come on we don't want to be left behind."

Jayden grabbed Nariko's hand and the couple quickly left to catch up with their friends, though the red ranger couldn't help but thought, "One way or another I'm gonna find out that cloaked figure's identity and if it is Nariko…She and I are going to have a serious talk with each other…"