A/N As earlier promised I said I would post chapter two today or tomorrow so here it is. I finished the final edit so enjoy!
Jayden's pov
I get home and the others immediately start to interrogate me. "What was that about?" Emily asked me. I was about to answer when Ji stepped in asking, "What happened out there?" Mike said to Ji, "Some girl came up and used my spin sword and hit the nighlok. Then when Jayden showed up she dropped it and ran off to hide somewhere. Once we defeated the nighlok we started talking, and apparently she overheard us then she jumped out of a tree. We chased her down, and Jayden caught up to her first. When we asked her name she said that Jayden already knew and that she knew who he was. She said she would've outed him then and there but we were being watched by another nighlok. We turned around and saw it, so then we started fighting. When he started drying out he returned to the netherworld. We turned around to finish the conversation but she was gone." This had mentor confused. It was completely silent, and I broke the silence by saying, "Ji can we talk in private?" He said, "I think that's a good idea." I then told him, "Her name is Brynn and I think she might be the silver ranger." He was even more confused by this. I then ask, "Should we tell the team about it now?" He just said, "Now isn't the right time. We need to find her she might be in danger now that she's helped us fight the nighlok." With that we head back to the meeting room and tell them the plan. I say to them, "We need to find that girl. I don't know who she is but she might be in danger now that she helped us against nighlok." Mia said, "We need to make sure she's safe but is she going to stay here? If she does, how are we going to keep our identity's a secret?" I tell them, "We'll tell her that we help the rangers because if something happens to them we have to take their place." Once that was decided the team agreed to go look for her and we went back to where we last saw her in the forest. We used Mike to track her since the forest was his domain. We followed the trial to a cave. We went inside it, and found a small hut. We went up to it cautiously since we didn't know what to expect, that's when a big lab came out and started barking like crazy. I hear from inside a voice yell, "Dakota silence!" Then she comes out in a tank top and leggings surprised to see us. She says, "Dakota sit." I tell her, "You need to come with us. Your safety has been compromised since you helped us with nighlok." She asked where she would be staying and I told her, "You will be staying at my house for some time." She agreed but wanted to talk to me alone about something. I told the team to go wait outside so they did. She said, "Jayden are you the red ranger?" The question shocked me and it threw me off. Luckily I didn't show it. I told her, "No but I work with the rangers along with my friends." She packs her stuff since she isn't sure how long she was going to be gone and brought her dogs. With that we went outside and I told the team to head home and that we would meet them there. That's when they caught on to my plan. On the way back we got ambushed. I morphed and started to fight them back, but not before Brynn got pushed down a hill and fell unconscious. I fought the nighlok back to the netherworld. I ran to check on Brynn and found her surrounded by her dogs. I summoned my horse and put her over my shoulder to get on with her. I then laid her on my lap once I was on the horse and I raced home.
~ Time skip back at house~
I rush her inside and the others see that she's unconscious and follow me. I laid her on the bed and demorphed. The others went to get supplies to help her. Her dogs came running in, lying next to her trying to be with her and make sure she was okay. I took her hand in mine and said to her, "Wake up Bree please. I'm sorry this happened. I should have done better protecting you." In my head I say it's all my fault I shouldn't have let them get that close.
~ A couple hours later~
I wake up with my hand still in Bree's. (Bree is Brynn, that's his nickname for her) I noticed that she started to stir right as the gap sensor went off. I reluctantly leave to go help my team.
~At the end of the battle~
"Samurai rangers victory is ours," I say as usual. Then I rush home to check on Bree. She's awake when I get there as if knowing what I'm about to say she says, "I'm fine." She is clearly in pain but doesn't want to admit it. I can see it in her eyes. Then she says something that surprises me, "I woke up while you were asleep next to me holding my hand it was... Really sweet and cute." That makes me blush bright red. "...Well I was worried about you when you got here you were unconscious and I didn't know what happened to you," I stated flustered. That made her laugh.
Brynn's pov
Little did Jayden know I woke up as soon as he got off the horse and ran me inside. I didn't tell him that though I just let him think I was still out cold cause I know that his identity couldn't be revealed to protect those he cared about. "Jay I need to talk to you about something," I say and he nods to let me know I can keep going. I pulled the chest out of my bag and showed it to him. He looks at me shocked then leaves to go get someone, and comes back with an older looking guy. "She's the Silver ranger!" Jayden whisper yells. Confused, I ask,"Who's this?" Jayden says, "This is my mentor Ji." I decide not to ask anymore. Instead I try to open the box and it doesn't open. Jay sees I can't get it open and he takes it and examines it. He notices a puzzle written next to a pass lock. Grabbing the box back I see what the puzzle says, "I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?" I read aloud Ji and Jay looked confused but I figured it out. "A map!" I exclaim. Ji and Jay look shocked. "I used to do riddles with my dad when I was young," I explained. I put the answer in and it clicks open. Inside is a scroll and a little bag. I unroll the scroll and see that it's a map. I open the bag to find another smaller scroll that reads, "Nyla if you're reading this it means I'm dead. I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth and I'm sure you have a lot of questions. It's not safe to answer them on paper. The map I provided will guide you to your power disc and samuraizer. When you find this, go to our old house, that's where the map starts. Whatever you do, don't let this power fall into the wrong hands. Love, dad." I read it aloud and start crying once I finish reading it. Jayden gets concerned and runs over to me grabbing my hand saying, "I'm sorry about your dad, but who's Nyla?" I decide it's time to tell him the "truth". I ask Ji to leave so I can talk to Jay in private. Once he leaves I tell Jay, "That's my sister's name. I don't like people knowing about her. It reminds me too much of my past, and how alone I was when my parents died. Since then she's decided she was better off without me. So don't tell anyone please." He tells me, "I won't. I promise." He grabs the note to read it and makes sure we didn't miss anything. "Wait there's more written here." He starts reading it, "P.s. when you find this go to the Shiba house and find Jayden and Ji." I was surprised that he knew them, but I was glad that I had found them.
I looked at the map and said, "I need to go to my old house, but I don't know what's still there. It burned down when I was little." I stood up out of the bed to start heading there, but I started to collapse. Luckily Jayden was still right there and he caught me. He said, "You need to rest first. We will go first thing in the morning after breakfast." I started to argue when he picked me up and put me back in bed. "I'm not giving you a choice. It's getting late you need to get some sleep," he tells me. I tell him, "Fine but I'm not happy about this." He replied, "I know but you need to rest so we can go search tomorrow. Goodnight Bree." "Goodnight Jay," I say.
With that the dogs snuggle up next to me, and I start thinking, he's so nice to me I couldn't ask for a better person to be by my side in times like these and on the plus side he is really cute. With that thought I fall asleep.
Jayden's pov
She gives in and lays down to go to sleep and I head out to the meeting room. I told the team, "I'm going with Brynn to her old house tomorrow. She told me that was her name." I knew I was lying but I was doing what she asked of me. Mike asked, "Why are you going back there? I thought she grabbed everything." I tell him, "We're not going back to the forest. It's the house she lived in with her parents before it burned down." Emily asked, "Is that why she was living alone in the forest?" I respond, "Yes she got lost in the forest when she went looking for help and hasn't seen her family since. She thought there might be clues to where her family went there." I tell them another lie. Kevin said, "We're going with you." "No your staying here in case a nighlok attacks. We can't risk us all being gone," I tell him. He starts to rebuttal but I cut him off, " I said no. It's getting late. I'm headed to bed. Night." "Night," they say. I go in and go to bed. I can't stop thinking about Bree and how crazy it has been seeing her again, but I also can't get the thought out of my head of her knowing that I held her hand. She thought I was Cute! Man the more I think of her the more beautiful she gets. I fall asleep thinking about her.
~The next morning~
I wake up at 5:30 am and head to the kitchen. I go in and see Bree cooking. I say, "Good morning. How did you sleep last night?" "Okay I had a bad dream. What about you?" She asked. I answered, "I slept pretty well. Do you wanna talk about your dream?" "Maybe on the way to my old house. For now do you want pancakes with bacon and Eggs?" She offered. "Sure I didn't know you could cook it smells amazing," I say to her. "It's my mom's recipe. It's one of the few things I saved before the house was too damaged to go back inside." I grab a cup and some orange juice. "Do you want some orange juice?" I ask her while I grab another cup. "Yeah thanks, breakfast is ready," she tells me as I put the glasses with orange juice on the counter and walk around and sit down. She puts two plates on the counter, one in front of me and the other next to me. Then she comes and sits next to me. "I hope we can find some answers about what really happened that night," she said. "What do you mean what really happened?" I asked in confusion. "Something had to have happened to make the house randomly burst up in flames. Both my parents were dead within seconds of the house catching on fire. Neither of them were on the side of the house that caught on fire first. My mom had no burns on her, and my dad was out front dead. He had no char on him and was bruised up pretty bad," She told me. "That makes no sense. If he went into the house there's no way that he didn't get char on him," I tell her.
We sat in silence over the rest of breakfast. We finished eating right as the others were coming in. "We're heading out be back later," I told them. They said, "Alright see you later." We left and went to a stable and grabbed a horse named Chance. I assumed that was her horse. She took him and saddled him up. I got on first and helped her up onto him in front me. Then we rode into the forest on a path that clearly hasn't been used in a long time. It led up to a hill and Chance started freaking out. She tried to calm him down by yelling, "Settle boy, it's okay." It didn't work, he just bucks us off. She gets up quickly and grabs his lead and ties him to a fence pole. Once she had him tied up she came and helped me up. We walked up the hill and it was eerily quiet. That's when I heard the snapping twigs and it came running at us and hit her and knocked her down the hill. I morphed and started fighting but he was too strong. The last thing I remember was him tying me up in his tentacles.