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Chapter Seventeen: One on One
A/N: Hello! I hope all your minds were blown! Here's another chapter! Please review! Pretty please 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
Light trained in the yard while he waited for his friends. He had a small, nagging voice in the back of his head telling him that something was wrong.
"Antonio," Ji said coining out of the Shiba House. "I'm getting worried. The other rangers should've been back hours ago."
"Have you called them?"
"Yes. None of them are answering."
"I can go look for them."
"I'm afraid that we need you too. Just be careful. Jayden's going to be mad enough that I'm letting you leave."
"Don't worry, Ji. I will," Light said. He left the yard for the first time in days and went off looking for his friends. He felt something inside of guiding him towards the woods. At one pint he stopped and knelt down. He found a samuraizer laying in the grass. He picked it up and continued following his gut. He knew he was getting closer.
He felt the darkness coming closer. Dark had gotten them.
He emerged in a large clearing and saw the other rangers were tied to poles. "Guys!" he said running over to them.
"Antonio, run!" Jayden said.
Light didn't see Dark until his twin was pinning him to the ground. "You came."
"You didn't give me much of a choice." Dark let him up and Light climbed to his feet.
"Perhaps you can help me. These rangers are having a hard time believing you're not Antonio."
"But I am Antonio," Light argued. "I'm his love for Lauren. The first time they kissed. I'm his friendship with Jayden. I'm the day he became a samurai. I'm the love of fishing and the goofy optimism."
"Thank you for proving my point," Dark replied. "You've been acting like you're the complete Antonio this whole time."
"You tricked us!?" Emily asked. "Aren't you supposed to be the good one?"
"You never asked if I was the whole instead of a half," Light replied smoothly. "I was hoping to remain the only one in his body." He looked back at the black ranger. "He always tortured Antonio and made him doubt the world."
"I was created because the world tortured Antonio! You were the stupid, naive voice telling him that he should let go of his anger. Why he ever listened to you I'll never know!"
"Because he was supposd to! He knew I was right."
"It's doesn't matter anymore. When we're done here I'll be the only one remaining. I just have to kill you and take the body fast before I get pulled into the afterlife."
"I can't let you do that."
-Light and Dark-
Jayden could say without a doubt this was the strangest thing he'd ever seen. Two Antonio's stood facing each other, talking about a third Antonio that was apparently his best friend. He shook his head. To was certainly weird. He was shocked at the malice in the black ranger's voice. Jayden had never dreamed he'd hear Antonio's voice sound like that. Both Antonio's pulled out their morphers.
"GOLD POWER!"
"BLACK POWER!"
They morphed and pulled out their identical barraccuda blades. The began circling each other, waiting for the other to make the first move.
"Jayden!" Lauren said. "We have to stop them!"
"Why?" Mike asked. "With dark-Antonio gone we can just have good-Antonio around."
"And dark-Antonio did kidnap us," Mia said.
"He's a nighlock, he can't live!" Kevin insisted.
"No!" Jayden snapped. "Both of them are the gold ranger we love. Antonio wouldn't be himself without all of his memories and emotions. The black ranger isn't a nighlock, he's Antonio. The Antonio we don't know about. We can't kill him."
"He's right," Lauren said. "We have to stop this before we lose Antonio forever."
"Hey!" Mike shouted to the two rangers. "Antonio don't do it!"
"Stay out of it Mike!" They said in unison never taking their eyes off of each other.
Kevin felt on the ground for anything he could use to free himself. He smiled when he found a sharp rock. This'll work! "Keep them distracted," he said.
"Too late," Mia said as they attacked each other. The gold ranger kicked the black ranger in the chest, then winced himself. The black ranger hit him with his sword, then cried out in pain.
"Almost," Kevin whispered. He kept sawing away at the ropes. "Come on."
"Stop!" Emily shouted. "You're going to kill each other!"
"There!" Kevin declared as the ropes frayed. He managed to break them and set to work untying Jayden and Mike. As soon as they were free they ran to stop the fight.
"Stop!" Jayden said grabbing the gold ranger's arm. Soon Lauren joined them helped pull the two apart. Jayden winced as a barraccuda blade nicked his arm. He held the gold ranger's arm behind his back. Kevin helped Mike hold the black ranger. The two de-morphed.
"Let me go!" Dark said. "Let go!"
"He'll destroy the world!" Light insisted.
"What do we do?" Emily asked.
Lauren thought about it. "Call Ji," she said getting her samuraizer. "Maybe he'll know what to do."
"Lauren," he said relieved. "I sent Antonio to find you."
"We know. Ji listen, we have a problem." She explained the situation with the two Antonio's to him.
"That would certainly explain the strange activity."
"Well now they're trying to kill each other. Ji if one dies the other does too, and we'll never get Antonio back."
"Hmm," Ji said. "We need to combine them back into one Antonio again."
"How?"
"Try using a symbol sequence. You need three people. Use the symbol for light on the dark-Antonio, and the darkness symbol on light-Antonio. This should neutrize them. Then use the symbol for combine on them and it should force the together again."
"Are you sure?"
"No. This particular sitiation has never happened before, but it's the best I can come up with."
"Ok. Thanks Ji."
"Good luck," he said as she hung up.
"Well?" Jayden asked, holding the squirming gold ranger.
"Emily, Mia, come here. Get them next to each other."
"Come on you," Mike said as he and Kevin dragged the black ranger so he stood next to the gold.
Lauren finished explaining the plan to the others two girls and they took their stances.
Emily went first. "Syombol power, light!" She drew the symbol and used it on the black ranger. He hissed as his bond with the gold ranger strengthened, creating a tougher bridge between them.
Mia was next. "Symbol power, darkness!" She used the dark symbol on the gold ranger who cringed as the dark rangers thoughts became his own.
Lauren blinked as they began to blur. Her turn. "Symbol power, combine!"
The effect of the symbol was immediate. The thoughts of the two became intertwined. Soon they couldn't distinguish them.
Must destroy the rangers- but they're my friends!
I don't remember my dad- that traitor!
I will show the world- people are good!
Light will- no darkness- light- dark- light!
The boys jumped back and released the two rangers as they screamed. They put their hands to their heads and tried to regain control.
The rangers watched as the dark ranger dissapeared. The light one seemed to become grimmer as he stood up, then fainted. They rushed over to him knelt down next to him.
"Well?" Mike asked. "Did it work?"