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Chapter Seven: Blood Work

A/N: konichiwa! (99% sure I spelled that wrong.) Here's the next chapter. Please read and review! Pretty please!

"We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we chose to act on, that's who we really are." -Sirius Black

Dayu watched the gold ranger through a gap. She had been doing this for days now, and quite frankly found it was more boring than just sitting on the junk. All he did was fish if he wasn't in the Shiba House where she couldn't watch him.

The gold ranger got up and went into the Shiba House. Dayu sighed and returned to the junk.

"Are you ready to attack him yet?" Dayu asked Octoroo.

"Oo aa oo," Octoroo replied. "Have you found the perfect time to attack him?"

"Pick a time," Dayu said. "He's always alone"

"Oo aa oo, excellent. Now we're going to start the next phase of my plan."

"Which is?"

"Oo aa oo, I want you to attack him and fill this with his blood." He handed Dayu a slim vial.

"Why?"

"Oo aa oo, don't ask questions. Just do it."

"Fine," Dayu said. "What about the other rangers?"

"Oo aa oo, I'll send moogers to attack them. You take some with you. Wait until I say to go, so that the rangers won't be alarmed of you going through."

"Got it," Dayu said.

-Light and Dark-

Antonio looked around again. He couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching him. He'd been feeling like this for the past few days, but he couldn't see anyone every time he tried to check. He shook himself. "Being stupid," he muttered. "Everything is fine."

He heard a noise behind him. One he only knew too well. He turned around and saw Dayu with a bunch of moogers behind him. Dayu smiled. "Get him."

Antonio grabbed his morpher.

"SAMURAI MORPHER, GOLD POWER!"

"Barraccuda blade!"

He swung his sword at the moogers that attacked him. His morpher went off. "Yeah?"

"Antonio there's a nighlock attack," Jayden said.

"You don't say?" Antonio asked sarcastically. He blocked a mooger sword and defeated it. He stumbled forward as a mooger hit him from behind. He landed on the ground. Another mooger slashed its sword across his back. He rolled away in an attempt to protect himself, not noticing he'd dropped his morpher.

Antonio managed to protect himself with his sword again. A mooger kicked Antonio in the wrist, causing him to drop it. The moogers punched on him and he tried to defend himself.

"Enough," Dayu said. "Just hold him down."

The moogers stopped beating Antonio and grabbed his arms and legs, pinning them down. He tried to throw them off, but to no avail. Dayu came over and pulled out a knife. She made a deep gash in Antonio's arm. The gold ranger whimpered in pain. She held the vial up to the blood flow and let it fill. Antonio tried to free himself again, but it was no use. All he could do was watch as Dayu took his blood.

-Light and Dark-

"Guys," Jayden said. "I think Antonio is in trouble."

"Why?" Mike asked defeating the last mooger.

"There's something wrong."

"How do you know?"

"I can't explain it," Jayden said thinking of the strange sounds he'd heard when he'd called his best friend. "He just really needs our help."

"Let's go then," Lauren said.

"Does anyone even know where he is?" Emily asked as the followed Jayden at a sprint.

"Yeah," the red ranger said. "He's fishing at a river not far from here."

He let the team through the woods to the spot where he knew Antonio would be. He gasped when he saw Antonio pinned to the ground by moogers.

"Let him go!" Lauren said swinging her spin sword. Dayu jumped away and disappeared through a gap, but no one paid her any mind. They focused on destroying the moogers. Once free, Antonio was able to sit up and scoot away from the fight. The rangers de-morphed when the last mooger was beaten. Lauren ran over to Antonio and hugged him. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah," he said, burying his face in her shoulder. He winced as gasped as the cut on his arm hit her.

Lauren jerked back instinctively and saw the gash. "I'm sorry," she said.

"Its ok," he said. She helped him to his feet.

"What did Dayu want?" Kevin asked, both confused and concerned at the same time.

"My blood," Antonio replied pulling his scarf off his neck and holding it against his arm.

"Your- Why?!" Emily asked.

Antonio shrugged. "Who knows."

"Let's get you home, before smooth by else happens," Jaydne said.

Kevin and Mike hung near the back of the group. "This is bad," Kevin said.

"Tell me about it," Mike said. "This is weird."

"What use could they probably have for Antonio's blood?!"

Mike shrugged. "Voodoo?"

"Not even funny," Kevin said smacking him on the back of the head.

"Black magic?" Mike suggested, ready to swat the blue ranger's hand away.

"Could be. But black magic for what?"

"I dunno. Maybe we should keep an eye on Antonio."

Kevin nodded in agreement. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're right."

"I am?!"

"Yes. We need to watch Antonio. The nighlocks up to something, and it's not good."

"Got that right," Mike muttered, still taken aback that they formed a plan using his idea. "Should we tell Jayden or Lauren?"

Kevin shook his head. "Not right now. They've both looked way tired lately. They don't need something else to worry about."

"Good idea," Mike said. "But Jayden and Lauren will be furious if something's going on and they don't know about. Especially if it involves Antonio."

"But if we can help him without worrying them, or even save him of need be, I think they'll understand."

"They'd better, because if Jaydne goes all crazy-samurai again, I'm blaming you."

"Don't worry," Kevin said. "I'll blame you too. Except he'll believe me."

"Hey!"