March 13-14th, 2011

Hi,

We had some interesting visitors today, some new nighloks took the stage and the team may or may not be aware of my relations with Kevin. But, but, but, I think I threw them off...possibly, it's honestly up in the air right now.

Anyway, I was at a wedding today, it was for Mia and Jayden, lovely ceremony no reception though, so not so great. Don't worry though it was a sting operation meant to catch this nighlok that's been abducting brides lately and on their wedding day. It didn't work though, but Ji and Kevin were really into the ceremony they were tearing up which would have totally helped to convince the nighloks if they had been there, but at least they were prepared. That's Kevin for you always with that out of the box thinking.

After the operation failed we went back to the Shiba house to come up with a new plan, we all sat in a circle on the seats in the common room. Kevin and Mike were in discussion about the map showing where the abductions had taken place

"I feel sorry for those poor brides, this is supposed to be the happiest day of their lives", Mia lamented

"Well that's why we need to come up with a foolproof plan", Jayden said, sharing Mia's sentiment for protecting the lives of others, not brides especially but everyone, because that's just how Jayden is.

"How do we get the nighloks to come to just our wedding though?", I asked and not illogically, which made everyone think again.

"Well I got a list of all the weddings that are supposed to take place around here", Ji said, bringing out a list of wedding ceremonies about two pages long, I couldn't help but groan at the sheer number of people who seemed to be having weddings at this time.

"I have an idea", Jayden said, a look of certainty in his eyes, and we all went along with it. And it wasn't a bad idea, he just told all the brides about the kidnappings and they canceled their weddings, "With only one left, we know exactly which wedding the nighlok will hit," Jayden replied.

"Guess I'll have to be blushing bride bait again!", Mia said a little too excited,

"Yeah, something tells me you're happy to wear that dress again", Mike teased a giddy Mia.

"Mike! every girl wants to wear a wedding dress, Maybe Mia more than others" Emily supported her fellow female, I agreed with a slight nod and chuckle.

"Oh, you got something against weddings Chelsea?", Mia sassed

"Been there, done that and it's not worth it", I countered before the other shoe dropped.

"You've been married!", Emily and Ji screamed.

"No! no, no, no, I've been in a relationship...yeesh...not married! I mean sure I phrased that badly but, you really think I'm married!" I exclaimed, promptly jumping out of my seat.

"Well, you don't really talk about yourself", Emily said slowly pressing her index fingers together, the others nodding with her, I looked at Jayden glad he was keeping his mouth shut.

"Wait I thought to live the samurai life, we had to distance our loved ones, so what happened with them?", Mike asked, everyone apart from Jayden's interest peaked. I was really surprised he wasn't jumping in to make this go away, but I did ask him not to mention it, so maybe my fault, nah, nope not my fault.

"Well, I...they...we...brok...I...I don't know," I finally answered after some highly embarrassing stammers which may have been directed in the area that Kevin was seated, so...it might have looked like I was trying to explain the situation to him. After my "explanation" the others looked between myself and Kevin, and after all the raised eyebrows and silence, I insisted we get back to the abducted brides.

"There are lives at stake people!" I flushed, desperately hoping for a subject change.

"Okay, once we get a fix on the location of the brides, I'll send back the coordinates," Mia announced.

"And we'll be ready to come save them," Jayden added, his confidence sent a sort of silent agreement to us all.

We waited for the next day, which was the day of the wedding to enact the plan, it was in the morning, and we got to the venue, Mia and Emily were dressed up for the plan. They were wearing wedding dresses and both Mia and myself snuck into the brides room, the bride was shocked at our arrival but it could also be the fact that Mia may have been wearing a close to the identical wedding dress, I mean any bride would hate that.

"I'm so sorry to ruin your big day, but we need your help," Mia assured the bride, she then grabbed her just as Mike and Kevin came with the groom, "trust me we're with the bride", Mike told the confused groom, then Kevin regretfully warded the couple into a closet promising them an explanation later. Mia went down the isle with Jayden enacting phase one of the plan, and Emily dressed up in another yet ultimately the same wedding dress took her position in the closet. Hopefully, if the plan worked, the moogers would take Mia and Emily.

So I sat with the other wedding guests watching the ceremony in a nice dress I'd found when Mia, Emily and I went shopping, it was a short, white floral print dress that reached just above my knees, I had my hair done back in a bun so my white tips were peaking out, wearing white high heels. I sat waiting for the moogers, but somewhere in the middle of the officiators recitations I just started to tune everything out from boredom.

"Nice dress", Kevin complimented successfully bringing me back to reality.

"Well yeah I got good taste", I agreed with him, bringing a smile out of him, and despite my effort not to care, I could see Kevin's eyes looking, well staring would be more accurate at my dress. What! It was pleasing to know I still got it. Not anything to do with feelings, this isn't my Kevin after all...despite their similarities. Somewhere in my daydreaming, I forgot to keep an eye out for the moogers that when they finally arrived, sometime during the 'in sickness and in health' bit, I was alarmed by a guests shriek of terror. We turned to see the moogers crashing the wedding which was rude and kidnap Mia, which was also bad but a good bad that meant the plan was working. Then another different group of moogers went into the brides changing room and grabbed Emily.

With the other two girls taken, this meant we could start with the next phase we waited for Mia's call on the location of the brides, she called and told us to go to some warehouse.

"Ok, you know what we have to do", Jayden told the rest of us. Mike, Kevin, I and Jayden brought out our samuraizers and made doubles of our morphed selves using our symbol powers. I stretched out the hand holding my samuraizer as well as the one not holding it and scrawled the double symbol power, producing replicates of myself and Emily.

"Woah! Ok that is still cool", Mike praised, I acknowledged him with a smirk. We sent the duplicates off to the warehouse to set off the trap while we originals got the real location from Emily and raced off to save the brides. I clapped Jayden on the shoulder, as a sort of a good job sentiment.

We found the place where the brides were being taken and immediately confronted the captor, which was Dayuu, one of Master Xandred's closer nighlok. Once we arrived Emily sliced out of the cake freeing herself and the brides and we helped Mia.

"But the warehouse, who went there?", Dayuu asked perplexed, her hands were in fists no doubt from shock and anger.

"Oh I think you mean our doubles," I answered Dayuu, raising my eyebrows in victory. Once the brides ran away, we surrounded Dayuu and her moogers and left the tiny building, we created a distraction and Dayuu and her moogers followed us out, we all split to better attack them from all angles.

"Samurai Ranger Ready!", saying it simultaneously while circling Dayuu

"Dearly beloved we are gathered here for one thing", Mia started, I couldn't help but smile at the time, "Rangers Together! Samurai Forever!",

"I have but one thing to say...Moogers attack", Dayuu said her weapon drawn, while she sicced her moogers on us, Mike, Emily, and Jayden were still taking care of some nighloks while I, Kevin and Mia fought Dayuu. I and Kevin summoned our respective weapons, "hydro bow!", Kevin said. "Glacial sickle and chain!", I'd called.

I threw my weapon hoping to get a hold of Dayuu while Kevin shot at her, but she just dodged both our attacks. She ran at us weapon in hand, while we tried to overpower her with our numbers and skill, she was easily parrying and countering us and she was faster and when she saw her chance got us right in the chest.

"I must admit it pains me to know that you two won't be around to hear my encore," Dayuu said making her way towards us to strike the finishing blow, but was succesfully blocked by Jayden who took her on no problem. We got back up to help Jayden and when she tried to surprise us with fire blasts, Mike and Emily were there to block it. Kevin and Mia brought out their zord disks and attacked Dayuu with their finishers, she was only barely able to block it.

"Finish her!", Mia yelled, Jayden immediately summoned his fie smasher, and when they all put disks in it they shot it at Dayuu, it was a sure-fire move that would take her out, and it might have if another nighlok hadn't jumped in to protect her, slashing away our final attack with his sword. The surprise was more in him having been powerful enough to slash our most powerful attack.

The nighlok took Dayuu away and as we were about to follow, he summoned giant moogers to keep us busy, "You're running away?", Kevin stated. "Cowards!" Mia yelled.

"Wait I can follow them, while you guys keep them busy", I offered glad not having a zord was finally paying off

"What no! You saw how he slashed away our combined attack like it was nothing", Kevin stated like it was obvious there was a definite difference in strength between us, but there was no time so I took off after the two, better to ask for forgiveness than permission. The others saw they couldn't stop me and got in their zords to defeat the rampaging moogers.

the two hadn't gone too far and I was catching up to them, "Hey! Stop!" I yelled from where I was brandishing my weapon, I threw my chain but just as it was going to reach the duo, they disappeared through a gap. I yelled in frustration and when I got back the others had defeated the moogers, I'm sure the could tell from my face and my general lack of nighloks I wasn't able to catch them, so no one asked what happened. We celebrated by going for donuts but it might have been to cheer me up too, which was kind of them. Mia despite the role she played today seemed distracted too so Emily went to talk to her, I later found out from asking Emily, that she was wondering why Dayuu was obsessed with the wedding dress.

Jayden saw that I was bothered too, and came to talk to me, "You ok?".

"I am, sorry, I just...today was a win I know that, but every day has been feeling like a reminder that I'm not pulling my weight, I thought I could change that by getting Dayuu and that nighlok, but I didn't as you can tell and I just feel so useless,", I confessed to Jayden the heaviness in my heart.

"Look, you're really aren't, you just as much helped save those brides as the rest of us, and that wasn't useless. Now I believe you can effect the change you want to, but that starts from believing you can and not allowing your circumstances to stop you," Jayden said sincerely.

"Huh, now I see why Kevin looks up to you, you make some good points", I joked but really felt his words, and we both went in for some cupcakes. So Jayden isn't such a bad guy and who knows maybe I'll find my zord or get stronger and pull my weight, ha, no not maybe, I will.