A special thanks to zackattack1, TimmyIsAwesome, Gadget, bammybell, StarWriter0303, CrazyTimesAMillion, Thewhatzupwriter26, decode9, and anyone else who has created characters or villains for this series!

SUMMARY: Everything in the nature lived together in harmony, until it and the world was threaten by an evil force. Now teenagers are recruited with the power of the legendary beast will team up with there new powers to save the world.

Rangers:

Red: Zack Calvin
Blue: Jacob Young
Pink: Allison/Ally Verde
Black: Rory O'Callahan
White: Nathaniel/Nathan/Nate Winchester
Gold: Sean Verde
Yellow: Terra Sloane
Purple: Joshua Young
Orange: Roxanne Dennis

-AWAKENTHEBEAST-

The rangers were called out for another attack, this time both Sean and Nathaniel were able to use their new found abilities in combat. However, the Blue Ranger had to stay at HQ due to his injures still recovering from the last fight. All rangers were suited up and fighting against the Rageir that were called into the town. Terra slashed at them with her daggers, she did a cartwheel and side kicked the Rageir. Terra avoided their axe hands almost forgetting what these monsters were like.

"I am so sick of this." She muttered under her yellow helmet.

Zack and Rory were back to back, slashing their blades at the Rageir. Rory jumped off Zack's back to slash at one Rageir coming nearby Ally, then he rejoin Zack. The Red and Black Rangers glanced at each other before nodding. Zack tossed his sword to Rory, while Rory fought with both blades and Zack grabbed the arm of a Rageir and turned it to the others, slashing the axe hand at the Rageir before them. When Zack was done with that Rageir, he kicked it in the back and slashed him with his sword.

"Nice one, mate." Rory said.

Zack grins, "Thanks."

Sean and Nathaniel were nearby each other, Sean's gauntlets had the claws of a bear while Nathaniel had the wings of a hawk. Nathaniel flew in the air to take out the Rageir, while on the ground Sean was slamming her clawed fists into the faces of the Rageir. Thanks to her gauntlets now having claws on them, she was able to protect herself from the axe hands of the Rageir. Nathaniel was able to take out a lot of the Rageir with his knives in hands slashing across their bodies.

"I enjoy flying," Nathaniel says.

Sean chuckles as she claws a Rageir, "And I love these claws."

Ally and Roxanne were back to back, the two female rangers were ready for anything. Roxanne held her large fan and swings it fast, causing a large gust of wind. The powerful wind caused the Rageir to be thrown back, while this happened Roxanne dropped her fan and ran in to fight them with hand to hand combat. Meanwhile, Ally was firing her arrows from her bow. Ally leaped into the air and did a back flip to avoid those sharp axe hands from the Rageir. Ally fired her arrow directly at the center of the Rageir face.

"Nice shot!" Roxanne shouts.

Ally nods, "Thanks!"

Joshua held his kama and swung it at the Rageir, his kama had a chain connected to the weapon. So Joshua wrapped the chain around the neck of a Rageir and kicked its back, Joshua noticed another Rageir coming closer and slashed it with his kama. He ducked avoiding the axe hand like a Matrix kind of move and kicked the Rageir in the jaw. Joshua swung the kama at the remaining Rageir and grins to himself.

"Damn, I'm good." Joshua said.

The rangers all met up and Zack says, "Looks like that is it. We should head back to HQ."

The rangers powered down and began to head back in the direction of HQ. However, Terra remembered she had left her skateboard at the battle so she ran back to go get it. The others were told by her to head on without her so she can go get it and meet them there. Zack didn't feel one bit worried about leaving their little tiger alone. Terra was looking around the damage and then found her board, picking it up and then turned around to be faced by Ruko.

"You!" Terra yells.

Ruko lifts his hands with a smug look, "I mean no harm."

"That's a pile of horse shit!" Terra shouts.

"My did your father raise you to have a sailors mouth?" Ruko taunts.

Terra drops her board and holds up her fists, "What do you want?" She asks.

Ruko grins, "Like I said I mean no harm but here for a word of advice."

"Advice, from the mutated rat who nearly messed up Jacob and basically helped kidnap me? Thanks but no thanks, I'm leaving." Terra said and picked up her board.

Terra walks pass Ruko and hears, "Don't you wonder why it wasn't you who unlocked her powers?"

Terra stopped in her tracks. Ruko grinned, he had her exactly where he wanted her.

"The others have someone who loves them. A loving family, a boyfriend or even a girlfriend, but you. You are the interesting one. You are the only daughter to a family of males, males who have their own life beyond you. Have their own lives and love to give besides to just little Terra. You are so alone, no boyfriend. No one to truly love you." Ruko said.

Terra gritted her teeth and a knife appeared in her hands, she turned and threw it only to see it hit the tree trunk and Ruko to be gone. Tears slide down Terra's cheek and she shook her head as she ran off in the direction as the HQ.

-AWAKENTHEBEAST-

When Terra arrived at HQ, she found the others training well besides Jacob. He was given direct orders by both Anya and Lucas to take it easy, so he was just watching and feeling left out. Jacob noticed Terra enter, he saw something was off with her but didn't quite think it was his business to ask or get involved. Joshua was spotting Nathaniel as he lifted weights, Rory was holding the punching bag steady for Zack to hit. Sean and Ally were sparring while Roxanne was monitoring it keeping an eye out for the two girls strength in combat and also to spar against winner.

Zack glanced up, "Hey there you are. We were about to send out a search squad." Zack said.

Terra rolls her eyes, "Well I'm fine." She said and pushed passed him.

Zack groans, "Why are you being so rude!"

"Why don't you mind your own damn business!" Terra yells back.

That got everyone to stop what they were doing, "There you go starting something." Rory said.

Zack points to Terra, "I did nothing wrong! Terra snapped!"

Jacob eyes Terra, he gets up and winced still feeling pain from the previous battle. He walks over to the others, Terra was glaring directly at Zack and then shakes her head to go off on the other side of the training hall. Sean and Ally exchanged worry glances, Roxanne seemed to have held her breathe during this moment, Joshua and Nathaniel shake their heads, Rory glanced at Zack, Zack looked pissed, and Jacob seemed to be puzzled by this.

-AWAKENTHEBEAST-

At school the rangers hear Terra slam her locker shut. All of the rangers minus Jacob glanced at Zack, Zack gives them a "what did I do look". Though Jacob had another thought on the whole situation.

"I did nothing wrong. Guys, seriously." Zack said.

Nathaniel shrugs his shoulders, "Dunno man. You're the king of making Terra angry."

Joshua nods, "Yeah and you two live to yell at each other." He said.

Zack groans, "But I did nothing wrong!"

Sean slaps Zack upside the head, "Will you keep it down! You'll track the whole school over here."

Ally nods, "Sean is right."

Roxanne sighs, "Whether Zack did something wrong or not aside, we have to worry about what is bothering Terra." Roxanne said.

Jacob was pondering over it, "I might have an idea."

The rangers were cut off by the bell ringing dismissing them to the next class. Jacob and Sean headed off to chemistry, Joshua and Nathaniel went off to English, Roxanne went to Spanish, Zack headed off to gym, and Ally and Rory went off to Current Events. Terra was stopped by a classmate of hers. Charlie her friend from her history class and also the guy who took her to homecoming.

"Come on, Terra. We wouldn't want to miss Mr. Hanks lame history lesson." Charlie said.

Terra nods, "Yeah."

In history class, their teacher had given them a worksheet to work on instead of long notes. So the kids were able to finish the worksheet quick enough to talk for the rest of class. Charlie noticed the silence that is Terra, he nudged her and she snapped out of whatever she was zoned into. She turned to him to see a gentle smile on his face. She forces a smile on her face.

"You okay, tiger?" Charlie asks.

Terra nods, "Yeah. Why you ask?" Terra asks back.

Charlie shrugs in his seat, "You seem distant. Did something happen between you and Zack again?"

Terra shakes her head, "No. Nothing happened."

Charlie nods, "Okay so nothing happens between you two then?"

Terra looks at him, "Besides always fighting? No nothing happens." She was confused at his sudden interest.

Charlie nods, "Good. I mean- I hear he has a girlfriend, and I'd hate for him to cheat on a girl."

Terra nods, "Zack may be an idiot but he is no cheater."

"I see." Charlie said.

-AWAKENTHEBEAST-

As Terra was leaving the school she felt someone grab her arm, she turns around to see Jacob. He is usually accompanied by Sean wrapped around his arm, but it was only him. Which was odd and strange. Terra turns to face him fully in the empty hallway. All the students, including the rangers cleared out when the bell rang and the clock stroke 2:20pm. Terra crosses her arms on her chest and frowns.

"What?"

"What's going on, Terra?" Jacob asks.

"I don't know what you're talking about?" Terra spoke.

Jacob chuckles to himself, "You think I don't see what's up. You're hiding something, and take it from me. I know you're keeping something to yourself." Jacob said.

Terra rolls her eyes, "Like I'm hiding anything from the others. I'm not like you."

Jacob frowns, "Is that so?"

Terra nods, "I don't abandon our team because some monster messes with his head. I take a stand, I get in their faces and prove them wrong." Terra said.

Jacob kept his frown, "I don't believe you. Something happened today after that fight."

Terra cocks her head to the side, "What do you know clone number 1? You were sidelined, you weren't even there." Terra said.

Jacob sighs, "Fine. Pretend everything is okay, pretend there isn't anything in your head creating doubt. I don't care, I was trying to help but I guess I should just walk away since I'm so good at it." Jacob said.

Terra felt bad for saying as Jacob walked pass her. She turned around to saw something but froze up to apologize. She shakes her head, why was she acting like this?

-AWAKENTHEBEAST-

As Terra managed to catch up to Jacob, they were surrounded by Furi-Rageir. The two rangers morphed and decided to hold off until their team showed up. Terra held her knives in her hands and slashed at the Furi-Rageir, she dove and rolled on the ground to avoid their blasters. She stood up and kicked them in the face, she did a back flip to avoid another one coming near her. Terra noticed one sneaking from behind her and then it was blasted in its back by Jacob and his blaster. Terra saw Jacob nod at her so she nodded back.

Jacob blasted the Furi-Rageir, and then he had to quickly duck to avoid the Furi-Rageir blasters. He rolled on the ground and then sniped the Furi-Rageir with his blaster, he turned around and shot at a few Furi-Rageir coming near him. However, when the Furi-Rageir went away that did not lower Jacob's guard as Terra came over. Jacob turned around to face a familiar foe with his blaster in hands.

"Ruko," Jacob said firmly.

Ruko grins, "Jacob my boy. How is that back of yours. Last I saw you were, well you on the ground."

Jacob points the blaster at Ruko this time a different feeling in Jacob took over, "Give me one good reason not to blast you for good."

Ruko shrugs, "I don't have a real reason Jake my boy. But let's see if you'll go that far. If you'll actually fire on a disarmed rat mutant." Ruko said.

"Why should I care?" Jacob asks.

"Where is the honor in that?" Ruko asks.

"Honor? Since when did you care about honor, Ruko?" Jacob asks.

Ruko chuckles, "You know me too well my boy. I guess that's why I know you won't pull the trigger. Just like, Terra over there, won't stab me with her knife. You both lack confidence, that is the reason why you need the help of your worthless team. Without them, you'd be dead." Ruko said.

Terra took a sudden charge over and punch Ruko in the face, "I don't need a team! I can handle things alone!"

"Oh, then why haven't you unlocked your power?" Ruko asks.

The two rangers remained quiet.

Ruko chuckles, "It's because Terra you are not loved. You will never be loved."

"Shut up!" Terra yells.

Ruko turns to Jacob, "And you. You're just a burden, you know your parents only wanted a child but having two made their lives difficult. You are just a remainder that they can never have what they use to have because they are stuck feeding into what you want. You piece of crap!" Ruko yells.

"Enough!" Jacob yells and then fires at Ruko.

The two rangers stood there in awe on what happened, Ruko laid on the ground and then was chuckling. He was slowly sitting up, and grinned an evil grin. Ruko held his hand out and his saber appeared, Terra held onto her knives and then felt Jacob push her back to protect her. Terra looked up at Jacob, she never saw him as a stoic kind of guy but here he was protecting her.

"Looks like I was wrong, Jacob. You had it in you, good for you." Ruko said.

With that said Ruko vanished, it was at that moment the others showed up all morphed in their suits looking for a battle to only see Jacob and Terra. The others ran over to check on them, Sean was more protective like Joshua on Jacob.

"You okay?" Joshua asks.

Jacob nods, "Yeah."

"What happened?" Roxanne asks.

"There was an attack, what do you think?" Terra spoke.

Ally turns to Terra, "We kinda got that. But what happened?"

"Did any of you unlock your spirit?" Nathaniel asks.

Jacob glanced at Terra, "No. It wasn't a big attack, just your typical Rageir invasion."

Zack sighs, "Then this was a waste of time. Let's head back to HQ." Zack said.

The rangers, all of them, powered down. They begin to head back to HQ but Terra stopped Jacob. He turned to face her, she had this sad look on her face and this got his attention more.

"I'm sorry, for before." Terra said.

Jacob nods, "It's cool."

The two begin to walk, "I mean it. You were right, I was keeping something from everyone."

"What?" He asks.

"Ruko, he had came to me and said the same thing he just said to me. About being unloved." She said.

Jacob sighs, "That damn rat."

"Jake?" Terra spoke.

Jacob glanced at her, "Ruko has this serious plan to mess with people's minds. That's how he got into my head, its his way of destroying us. By getting into our heads and getting us to second guess our reason." Jacob said.

"He was the reason you quit," Terra said, "What did he say?"

Jacob looks at her, "How I don't belong with you guys. How I just put myself in groups to be surrounded by people, that I am some lone wolf. Apparently Dr. Zigernot had wanted me to join their side, Ruko said his master wanted me. But he wasn't completely wrong about me." Jacob said.

Terra looks up at him with a sadden look, "What?"

Jacob sighs, "Listen you're the only one I ever told this but- I never wanted to be on the football team. I joined because Josh was trying out and my parents said it would be good for me, I didn't belong on the team at first. I use to just be the geek with Marvin. But- after being surrounded by those guys long enough I felt a small feeling of belonging there." He said.

"So what about this team? Did you feel the same about it like football?" She asks.

He nods, "At first because I wasn't sure if it was my choice. I mean, how do you know if you want to be a superhero in tights?"

Terra giggles, "True."

"But he is wrong about you, you are loved in more ways than you can understand." Jacob said.

"You think so?" Terra asks.

Jacob nods, "Yes I do. Mr. Burrows said the key to unlocking these powers is that love conquers all. It doesn't mean its the love between a boy and a girl, heck it can be the love between father and son for all we know. It's just that love conquers all." Jacob said.

Terra forms a smile, "Thanks Jacob, I really needed that."

Jacob messes with her hair, "No problem little tiger."

From ahead they head, "Hurry up!" Which was Zack.

CHAPTER FORTY EVERYONE! I cannot believe this series has made it to chapter forty! Now this chapter is a bit step back from the last two, no one gained their spirit beast in this chapter. If I had everyone getting their power in every chapter it would be too predictable and I'm not predictable. I wanted a chapter where Jacob and Terra actually kinda bonded, the two more opposite characters in the entire series to have more than a sentence of dialogue even said to each other. Also, I wanted to slow things down but don't worry it'll speed up.

NEXT TIME: The rangers need to find the power from within.

In the next chapter: Finding The Power Part 4