Chapter Thirty – Six
RJ managed to make it to his room. He had to separate from the others to think. Did Amaya know what happened to him, if so how did she know? Would she tell any of the others?
The Wolf Master was worried that Amaya, knowing that she was Catholic, she would be likely to tell the others. He took some deep breaths to try and keep himself together. He just had to. For the sake of his family and friends.
"You okay, RJ?" startled, RJ turned around to see Dustin.
"Oh, me?" RJ replied quickly, "I'm fine. Just need to sleep."
"Uh huh," Dustin nodded, unconvinced, "sure."
"Going to sleep huh?" Master Finn replied as he arrived at the scene.
"Yeah," RJ nodded, not wanting to go into details about Amaya knowing about what happened to him, otherwise he would have to tell his father and eldest brother about what happened, "I'm going to get some sleep."
The purple/violet wolf ranger knew this wasn't the end of it as he made his way to his bed. He knew that he would have to tell the others sooner or later, but he wasn't sure how he was going to do that just yet.
However, the Wolf Master knew that if he doesn't tell, the secret was going to be revealed sooner rather than later. If he didn't say anything, then this secret could tear his team apart, let alone tear apart his family and allies.
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Conner sighed as he looked over at Dustin and Master Finn, "Well?"
"RJ is in his room sleeping, or trying to be," Dustin answered, "he's keeping something from us and I have no idea what it could be."
"Well, Kelly was your ex," Master Finn chimed in, "and she was RJ's ex too while hiding her identity."
"That was sick," Conner stated, "terrible."
"You got that right," Kira walked into the room, "I hate how Kelly treated you guys, especially RJ."
"I hope I never have to deal with anything like that," Mack said as he held Rose's hands.
Suddenly, the alarms went off. Everyone, including RJ gathered around the loft.
"There's danger, ladies and gentlemen!" Flit declared.
The group watched and saw Jarrod and Camille being over powered by not only rinshi, but also the griffin, dragon, blue dragon and python warriors at the main entrance of the Fotress of Despair.
"That's Jarrod and Camille!" Lily exclaimed.
"Those two love birds," Rekino scoffed, crossing her arms.
"As if they want to admit that," Hana added.
"This is serious!" Casey told the two guardians, "Our friends are in trouble! We need to take action!"
"He's right," Ryo nodded in agreement, "we need to get moving."
"What about Amaya?" Mia asked.
"I'll send her a telepathic message," Rekino answered.
"Sounds like a plan," Sage replied.
"Let's do it!" James exclaimed as the he and the rest of the Ronin Warriors and the Lady Ronin Guardians geared up into their sub armors.
The Ronin Warriors, Lady Ronin Guardians and Power Rangers left the loft, with the exception of Casey, Master Finn, Jillian, RJ, and Dustin. The Wolf Master was frozen in place while the others in the room stayed put in concern for him.
Fran, Flit, Twyla and Hartford were with them as well.
"RJ?" Twyla looked at the Wolf Ranger with concern as did the others in the room.
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Amaya sighed as she surfaced out of the ocean. She found herself lucky that she was able to find a body of river.
Master Finn had mentioned this location before, where he trained Casey to get his new weapon at the time.
The Torrent guardian looked around the shore, and then the cliff which she dived from to swim in this body of ocean.
Amaya, there's trouble with our allies.
What do you mean, Rekino?
Meet us at the Fortress of Despair front gates. That's where we'll be at.
Sure thing.
What happened earlier?
I think it's best if we wait until after the battle. Then, I'll tell you.
All right, fine.
Amaya nodded before preparing for action, "Armor of Torrent! Dao Shin!"
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RJ paced around the room, not knowing what to do. He saw an angle of Kelly's blue dragon armor on the screen, which made him nervous. The Wolf Master wasn't sure if he could face her so soon after what she did to him, but he couldn't let the others catch on.
"Are you okay, RJ?" Fran asked.
"I...I will be," RJ nodded.
"Did you see Kelly?" Dustin asked.
Slowly, the Wolf Ranger nodded, "Her...armor."
"I think you need to sit out this one," Dustin grasped his baby brother's arm.
"I think it should be his choice," Casey interjected.
"Casey is right, Dustin," Master Finn glanced at his oldest son before looking at his youngest, "RJ, are you able to join us in this fight?"
This was a little too tempting. RJ was tempted to sideline himself from this battle so that he wouldn't have to face Kelly. Then again, he needed to keep it together and join this fight. This was foolish to delay the inevitable but he was sure if he didn't join the fight, the others would suspect something, "I'll join."
"Are you sure?" Dustin asked, concerned. The Wolf Master nodded in response.
"If she does hurt you again," Jillian essentially promised, "you can be sure Kelly will live to regret it!"
"Thanks," RJ nodded quietly.
"Well, let's go," Casey nodded before the group left the loft, leaving Flit, Fran, Hartford and Twyla at the loft.
"What was all that about?" Hartford asked.
"I'm not sure," Fran shook her head, "but RJ isn't acting like himself."
"Whatever it may be," Flit chimed in, "I'm sure we will find out sooner or later."
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Jarrod was over powered by the rinshi and Kelly and was defeated in the process; Keith and the rinshi would end up defeating Camille the same way.
"You are defeated!" Keith declared, preparing to make a finishing blow to both the lion and chameleon warriors.
"Flare Up Now!" Ryo's attack caused the dragon warrior to back away from his targets.
"Tornado Fire Flare!" Rekino would follow suit seconds later.
The Ronin Warriors, Lady Ronin Guardians (including Amaya), the Operation Overdrive Rangers, Adam, Tanya, Rocky, Aisha in her Ninjetti suit, Minh, Billy, Kimberly, Tommy, Master Swoop, Dominic, Lily, Theo, Conner and Kira all arrived at the scene.
"Oh look," Geneva retorted, "it's a bunch of Power Rangers with the Ronin Warriors and Lady Ronin Guardians, and one ninja looking chick."
"This ninja looking chick has a trick up her sleeve!" Aisha exclaimed.
"What do you mean by that?" Nathan asked.
"Just because I'm Trini Kwan's daughter," Minh chimed in, "that doesn't mean I'm the only Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger. Show them!"
"It's Morphin Time!" Aisha powered up, "Yellow Ranger Power!"
Aisha was in her yellow ranger suit, "I am also a Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger!"
"She can do that?" Kento asked.
"Cool!" Hana exclaimed with delight.
"Don't forget about us!" Casey exclaimed as he, RJ, Jillian, Master Finn and Dustin arrived at the scene.
"Let's power back up," Jarrod told his lover.
"Good idea," Camille nodded in agreement.
"Spirit of the Mighty Lion!" Jarrod called upon his lion spirit, forming his lion armor.
"Spirit of the Chameleon!" Camille called upon her chameleon spirit, forming her chameleon armor.
The rangers, Ronins, Guardians and Masters fought the rinshi while dealing with Keith, Geneva, Kelly and Nathan each in four different groups.
Mack, Conner, Tommy, Theo, Dominic, Master Swoop, James, Kento and Josephine all took on Nathan and a group of rinshi. The heroes each used their martial arts abilities to fight their opponents in their own rights. Conner used his super speed to take on his opponents. Master Swoop used levitation to take down his opponents as well.
"Iron Rock Crusher!"
"Iron Stone Kinesis!"
The attack from the cousins took out their opponents with ease.
"Power Sword Strike!"
James used his attack to wipe out the rinshi that were in his path.
"Spirit of the Bat!"
"Spirit of the Rhino!"
"Call to the beast inside – unleash the jaguar!"
The animal spirits from Master Swoop, Dominic, and Theo took out each of their opponents, and there were no more rinshi after that was said and done.
Tommy was fighting Nathan. He first used his Red Zeo Ranger powers and then Black Dino Thunder Ranger powers.
"You sure are legendary," Nathan chuckled, "it'll be an honor to take out the Legendary Tommy Oliver."
"That's not gonna happen!" Tommy exclaimed before powering up to another ranger form, "It's morphin time! Dragonzord!"
He transformed into his green ranger form, "Time for some green ranger power!"
The legendary ranger fought the griffin warrior to wear him down.
"I won't go down that easy," Nathan stated before unleashing his animal spirit, "Spirit of the Griffin!"
The griffin spirit knocked down the green ranger. Tommy leaped in the air, preparing to power to another ranger form, "Tigerzord! White Ranger power!"
Tommy eventually overpowered Nathan with his white ranger power and defeated the griffin warrior, "That's how it's done!"
Kira, Will, Kimberly, Jarrod, Aisha, Rocky, Adam, Tanya, Sage and Hana all took on Keith and a group of rinshi. The heroes used their martial arts skills to beat down their opponents in their own right.
Will used his abilities to detect his enemies and then take out the rinshi in his path. Kira used her sonic scream attack against her opponents before placing the helmet back on her head.
"Thunderbolt Cut!"
"Sunspot Fury!"
The attacks from Sage and Hana wiped out all of the opponents in their paths.
Kimberly used her power bo against her opponents. Tanya helped out as well.
"Thanks for your help, Tanya," said the original pink ranger.
"Glad to be of help," Tanya replied.
"Spirit of the Mighty Lion!" Jarrod used his lion spirit to take out the opponents in his path.
Rocky, Adam and Aisha fought against Keith.
"I am the powerful dragon warrior!" Keith declared, "You mere fools will not defeat me!"
"We'll see about that!" Aisha replied.
"Triple team?" Rocky looked at his old friends from Stone Canyon.
"Just like old times!" Aisha exclaimed with delight.
The three managed to pull their own against the dragon warrior, who was unable to unleash his dragon spirit. The second red ranger, second black ranger and yellow ranger overpowered the dragon warrior and defeated him.
"We showed him we can defeat him," Aisha quipped.
"That's right!" Rocky exclaimed.
"We're no mere fools," Adam crossed his arms.
Dax, Billy, Minh, Lily, Jillian, Camille, Rowen and Mia all took on Geneva and a group of rinshi.
The group used their martial arts skills to beat their opponents down in their own right.
"Spirit of the Chameleon!" Camille used her chameleon spirit to take out her opponents that crossed her path.
"Call to the beast inside – bring out the cheetah!" Lily used her cheetah spirit to successfully take out her opponents.
"Spirit of the panther!" Jillian unleashed her panther spirit to successfully take out her opponents.
Dax used his high jump ability to subdue his opponents before taking them out subsequently.
"Double team?" Billy asked Minh.
"Sounds like a plan!" Minh answered happily.
The original blue and yellow rangers used their abilities and weapons, lance and dagger respectively, to take out their opponents.
"Bring it on, Rowen of Strata and Lady Strata!" Geneva glanced at the two Strata warriors.
"That we shall, snake lady!" Mia exclaimed.
"Arrow Shock Wave!"
"Eight Way Storm!"
Both armor bearers' attacks overpowered and defeated the python warrior.
Tyzonn, Rose, Ronny, Casey, RJ, Master Finn, Dustin, Cye, Amaya, Ryo and Rekino all took on Kelly and a group of rinshi. The group used their martial arts skills to take on their opponents in their own right.
Tyzonn used his mercury power against his opponents and Rose did the same with her invisibility power. They managed to use their respective abilities to take out their group of rinshi.
Master Finn used his swords to take out his opponents with ease. He walked over to his sons with Casey nearby.
"Are you okay, RJ?" the shark master asked.
"Just keep Kelly away from me," RJ answered, "and I'll manage."
"Request granted!" Rekino exclaimed, "it'll be a cold day in hell before I let that firey bitch go near you again!"
"Don't worry," Casey replied, "we'll try our best."
The fight resumed.
"Flare Up Now!"
"Tornado Fire Flare!"
The attack from the two Wildfire bearers took out their rinshi that were in their paths.
"Super Wave Smasher!"
"Deep Fathom Sphere!"
The attack from the two Torrent bearers took out their opponents as well.
Kelly smirked as she walked her way towards RJ.
"Spirit of the shark!"
"Call to the beast inside – free the Tiger!"
The shark and tiger spirits took out their opponents being rinshi that Kelly sent to distract them.
RJ didn't unleash his wolf spirit, frozen in fear. He couldn't tell why. Was it fear from what she done to him?
"RJ, unleash your wolf spirit!" Casey called out.
"Back away from him, Kelly!" Dustin yelled before unleashing his Earth powers on her. Kelly only yawned and used blue energy to deflect the attack and then knocked the Yellow Ninja Storm Ranger to the ground.
Then, she grabbed the wolf ranger by the arms, "Now for you, wolfy."
"Leave me alone!" RJ yelled, using the strength he had to try to break out of her grasp.
"Why should I?" Kelly replied, "after last time, we..."
"Back away from him you sicko!" Ronny shouted, using her hyper speed to knock the blue dragon warrior to a nearby wall.
"I thought I told you to fuck off!" Rekino glanced at Kelly.
"Not a chance," Kelly stood up, annoyed, "especially with all the fun we had last time."
"What do you mean?" Dustin asked, confused.
"No!" RJ yelled, as he knew his ex was boasting about what happened.
Amaya glanced at the Wolf Master in shock, It's worst than I thought. She hurt him. Raped him and she was about to gloat about it. Sickening.
"What you trying to deny what happened while you were captured?" Kelly asked.
"This has gone on long enough!" Master Finn exclaimed before unleashing his animal spirit again, "Spirit of the Shark!"
"Spirit of the Bat!" Master Swoop unleashed his animal spirit.
This forced Kelly and the other warriors to flee from the area.
"We'll meet again!" Kelly replied before leaving the scene.
The rangers, Ronins, guardians, masters and warriors all glared around the area.
"What was that all about?" Mack asked, breaking the silence.
"I'm not sure," Dominic answered, "all I know Kelly was trying to pull some twist to distract RJ or something."
"RJ," Casey asked his best friend, "what did Kelly mean?"
"I...I can't...I..." RJ stammered before hurrying away from the scene.
"RJ!" the Tiger Master called to his fellow master. Jillian looked over at her parents. Some of the others were wanting to check up on RJ as well.
"Go," Tommy told the worried party.
Casey nodded before hurrying to where RJ fled to. Jillian, Amaya, Master Finn, Dustin, Lily, Theo and Dominic all followed suit. Rekino tried to, but Ryo stopped her.
"Let go, Ryo!" Rekino demanded, "RJ's my friend! Amaya is going too!"
"Rekino, listen..." Ryo started to say before she kicked him in the leg and then taking off.
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RJ sighed as he was taking deep breaths again. Kelly was so close to exposing his secret in front of everyone, it was terrifying.
"Kelly came close to exposing the fun time she had with you, huh?" Nathan asked as he appeared in dark energy.
"You know too?" RJ asked.
"Yeah," Nathan answered, "I witnessed some of it although you don't remember it. What she did was quite interesting to say the least, when Kelly raped you while you were her prisoner. Boy did she make things interesting."
"What?!" a first voice exclaimed.
"No!" cried a second voice.
RJ paled upon hearing the familiar voices as the group arrived from behind. The wolf master's world came crashing down. It was not only Master Finn and Dustin, but Casey, Lily, Theo, Dominic, Jillian and even Amaya.
"Casey," RJ muttered, "Jillian. Dad. Guys!"