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CHAPTER 20

Legacies Continue

A few weeks passed and the entire physical mess of the Lightning Academy had been cleaned up. Cam, Hayley, Sensei Watanabe, and Sensei Omano came in to help the students who had been manipulated into helping. Tommy and Anton were asked to attend a meeting of all the Ninja Academy Sensei's to determine what would happen to the Lightning Academy.

"By all accounts, Chloe is the next in line to take over the school," the Tsunami Academy Sensei said.

"Yes, but she was born into the Thunder Academy," Sensei Watanabe added.

"As it stands, the decision of the fate of the school lies with Chloe and Chloe alone. What would you like to happen?" asked the head of the council. Chloe stood in the center of the circle and bowed respectfully.

"It has been one of my longest standing dreams to run the Lightning Academy. However, that was before many things happened. I found my biological family, had my sight restored, helped in yet another fight for the universe, and I fell in love with a fellow ranger. I'll be getting married soon. So, my decision is that I will gratefully accept the responsibility of running the Lightning Academy but only on a light basis. I would like to leave the grunt work to my cousins, Brian and Scott. They deserve it more," Chloe said, turning around and smiling at her surprised cousins. The rangers were all standing in the back and beamed themselves, happy for their new friends. Brian and Scott stood up and joined Chloe in the center of the floor.

"Then the decision is made. All three of you are the Sensei's of the Lightning Academy with the majority of the work falling on Brian and Scott. Chloe, I wish you luck in the path you have chosen," announced the head council. Everyone bowed respectfully. The rangers ran down the stairs to join their friends. Chloe and Leila enveloped each other in a hug before hugging their father, mother, grandfather and aunt. Afterwards, Leila and Hunter embraced and kissed passionately while Chloe walked over to Conner, smirking.

"Now what is that smirk for?" Conner asked.

"No reason. I just see the future being a lot better from now on," Chloe said. Conner smiled and brought his fiancée in for the most passionate kiss he could lay on her.

A FEW MONTHS LATER..............................................

Anton, Hayley, Tori, Blake, Leila, Hunter, Conner, Chloe, Ethan, and Devin all sat patiently but bored in the hospital waiting room. Leila rubbed her now expanded belly and sighed. Only a few short hours ago, they had all gotten calls that Tommy, Kim, Kira, and Trent were eating lunch together when the girls had gone into labor at the exact same time. Hunter and Blake had called Shane, Dustin, and Cam about it. The guys were thrilled and had plans to come up the following weekend the visit. Hunter bounced his now 18 month old nephew, Kai, on his knee.

"Hey buddy, you're going to have a couple of new playmates aren't you?" Hunter asked playfully. Chloe held Trini as she napped.

"Let's just hope he doesn't go chasing after whichever one of them is a girl," she said playfully. Trent came running out, completely out of breath but with a smile across his face.

"We...Kira...had a boy," he said, grinning from ear to ear.

"How about a name dear brother?" Leila asked sarcastically.

"Luke Anton Fernandez...named after both of my fathers," Trent said, looking over at his father who smiled and enveloped him in a hug.

"How does it feel dad...oh, I mean, GRANDPA?" Chloe asked sarcastically. Anton responded by just playfully grabbing his heart and groaning. Tommy came out just as the group was laughing.

"Did I miss something?" he asked.

"Trent and Kira had a boy. Luke Anton Fernandez," Tori explained to the dino ranger's mentor. Tommy gave Trent a playful look.

"Well just keep Luke away from my little girl, Zoe Katrina Oliver," Tommy said.

"Ha! Good luck man," Blake said, jokingly. Tori punched him in his arm and he grimaced as if it had really hurt. Ethan and Devin broke out laughing. Conner himself laughed as Blake tackled the two. Chloe scooted closer to him as he put his arm around her and his soon to be niece.

"We'll have this," Chloe said.

"Soon enough," Conner finished before kissing her. Time must have passed like a bullet for them because soon enough, months passed and their kiss in the hospital was soon the kiss they exchanged at the alter, declaring them husband and wife.

"Ladies and gentleman, I present to you for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Conner McKnight," the pastor declared. Before they took their run down the aisle, the two took in their friends and family. Anton, Hayley, Laura, LeeAnn, and Sensei Omano were all sitting with Conner's parents and brother, with the rest of the family sitting behind them. Trent, Tommy, Ethan, and Hunter stood at Conner's side while Leila, Tori, Kim, and Kira stood at Chloe's side. Blake, Devin, Ethan, Cam, Shane, and Dustin were sitting with Anton watching the now over two year old toddler twins Kai, and Trini, the six month olds Luke and Zoe, and Anton was holding his new born granddaughter, Elana Caitlin Bradley. They glanced at each other and smiled.

"Life is good," they said at the same time before flying down the aisle. The doors were opened for them and the light shined bright as a new life began for them.

ONE YEAR LATER....................

"Okay, baby, push!" Conner coached of Chloe as he held her tightly in the delivery room. It had been one year since their wedding and they had wasted no time in starting their family. All of their friends and family were waiting outside. Anton and Hayley had finally gotten married a few months earlier. LeeAnn and Laura were still helping their father run the Thunder Academy. Brian and Scott had called to say they would visit as soon as they could. Devin was engaged to Cassidy while Ethan was planning his wedding to his long time girlfriend, whom he had dated before Conner met Chloe. Tori and Blake held their now three year old twins, Kai and Trini. Hunter played with his now eighteen-month-old daughter, Elana, while Tommy chased after two-year-old Zoe, who kept running all over the place. Kira laughed as she rubbed her now, slightly expanded yet again, belly. Trent played 'airplane' with two-year-old Luke.

"Mommy, baby, mommy, baby," Luke said as he pointed to Kira's belly.

"Yea, sweetie. Mommy has another baby," she said. Luke laughed excitedly before running over to play with Zoe.

"Where Spot?" Trini asked.

"Daisy?" Kai asked. The twins were referring to their four-legged guardians who had watched over them since they were babies.

"They're at Uncle Anton's house. You'll see them when we leave here, okay?" Tori asked before looking up to see Conner, smiling from ear to ear. Kira and Ethan both smirked at the red ranger's trademark smile.

"So, spill it man," Ethan said.

"What did you have?" Tommy asked.

"A little boy, Shawn James McKnight," Conner said.

"The legacies continue," Kim said, glancing at her husband and smiling. Tommy smiled back at his wife. The rangers were settling into new lives beyond the ones where they had worn spandex. Their children would grow up together knowing the ways of being good in a world full of so much corruption and evil. They prayed that it would not come to it, but if it did, the current rangers all knew that when the time could, their children could take their places as the legendary, the brave, the heroic...POWER RANGERS.

THE END: Continued in the DINO STORM sequel...DINO STORM 2: REIGN OF THE NEXT GENERATION.

A/N: Yeah, yeah, a know, the endings a little cheesy, but what did you think? Take note that I still have the Hunter/Leila prequel and Tori/Blake prequel to do before I hit you with Dino Storm 2. But the sooner I see some reviews, the sooner you will see my stories. Peace Out! –Storm2003