Chapter Fifty-Nine: Transformation

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"What the hell?" says Dean. "That's not how the bite works!"

"It looks like it's stripping away Mark's humanity," says Colby. "The only time it's able to do that is if a spell is being recited along with the werewolf," While the rangers were trying to figure out what to do, Morgana and Lucifer had been watching from the glass ball. Morgana's plan seemed to be working and she was thankful of that.

"What's your plan here Morgana," asks Lucifer.

"Simple," she says. "I had Lycanthrope bite Mark so that his werewolf curse is passed down to Mark," she continued. "The only difference is that each time the rangers strike Lycanthrope, it burns away a piece of Mark's humanity," she kept going. "Before I sent Lycanthrope into battle, I recited a spell. The said spell will continue to burn Mark's humanity until there's nothing left,"

"With the red ranger out of the picture," said Lucifer. "The rangers won't have a leader to follow and would go down," he continued. "This is brilliant! Keep it up Morgana, and I will check on you later," Morgana nodded her head as she turned back to the ball and looked at Mark's limp body.

"Pretty soon," says Morgana. "Your humanity will be gone Mark and there's nothing you or your ranger buddies can do to stop it," with an evil laugh she waved her hand over the glass ball making it go static. Back at the bunker, the rangers were trying to figure out what to do, when an idea struck Tara.

"Why don't we consult the mirror of destiny?" she questioned. "Maybe that could give us an idea about what we could possibly do,"

"That's brilliant Tara!" says Sam. "Maybe that mirror can help us!"

"I'll go and get it," said Tara who walked away from the team and entered the safe. It had been a while since she last used the mirror, last time she used it was the day she had retrieved it. Grabbing the small mirror, she walked out of the safe and got back to her team. "Shall we?"

"Let's do it," says Sean as the team gathered around the mirror.

"Mirror of destiny, is there a way we can save Mark?" Tara asked the mirror. Suddenly, the mirror started to fog up, inside it started to smoke purple until it revealed a cave. Inside the cave, were a bunch of quartz crystals and she could see the rangers standing around Mark and reciting some sort of spell. Sam and Colby took a look at it and realized what the mirror was suggesting.

"That's it!" says Sam in excitement. "I know where that is,"

"You do?" asks Sean surprised. "How?"

"We went there on one of our explorations," says Colby. "They're called the ritual caves it's located here in California,"

"Please tell me you idiots did not try to do a séance there," says Dean. Sam and Colby looked at each other sheepishly knowing fair well what had happened that night. It was a horrifying experience and Sam promised that he would never go back, but now that place seemed more important than it did before. "You have got to be kidding me,"

"Hey, we were curious," says Sam defensively. "If that ritual cave is important, then it's important," Mark cried out in pain as he bolted awake and looked at his arm. He looked at his friends as they had been looking at the mirror.

"Guys?" says Mark weakly. "What are you doing?"

"Your awake?" asks Sean as he walked over to his best friend quickly.

"Yes, what happened?" questioned Mark.

"You were bitten by Lycanthrope and it seems that we have to go to the ritual caves to save you," says Sam. Before the rangers could say anything else the alarm in the bunker had gone off. Racing to the computer, they saw that the monster was back; they were stuck, the rangers couldn't be in two places at once. Suddenly a thought occurred to Dean as he turned toward the rangers.

"Sammy and I will deal with Lycanthrope," said Dean. "Get Mark to the ritual caves before his humanity is stripped away!"

"Right," says the rangers as they walked over to Mark and helped him off the couch. Sammy and Dean morphed into their battle suits and took off into battle. Mark weakly stood up and looked at his friends he was thankful that they were there for him when he needed them the most only the situation was dyer and they had to work together as a team. Without their help, then the monster would win.

"Colby," says Sam. "Can you teleport us to the ritual caves,"

"Let me come," says Colby he had been wanting to get out of the bunker for a few months now and desperately needed fresh air. "Sam you and I make a good team and I know for a fact that to get the spell to work you'll need one other person," the rangers hesitated, even Sam seemed slightly hesitant wondering if he should let Colby go or not. Colby's blue eyes shown with determination as he wanted to get out badly.

"Alright fine," says Sam. "Your right we need all the help we can get," as Colby made his way toward the button, Mark yelled in pain as the bite seemed to glow. Mark felt like he was struck with some sort of weapon, smoke came from his skin as his eyes turned yellow and stayed that way for a good ten minutes before it turned back to the normal brown color he had. Katrina had noticed which made her worried for him.

"Guys, we should hurry it up, if Sammy and Dean are attacking Lycanthrope, then Mark can feel the same pain," Colby nodded and pressed the button which sent them near the entrance of the ritual caves. They had landed right in the middle of an open field, Katrina, Tara, and Sean looked around wondering which way the ritual caves were.

"Do you have any idea where that place is?" asks Sean.

"That's where we have a long hike ahead of us," says Colby. "We have to find cave thirteen,"

"Cave thirteen?" says Tara. "Where is that?"

"Let's just say along the way we'll see signs we're heading in the right path," responds Sam.

"And what exactly are they?" asks Katrina.

"We'll see bits of manikins strewn along the path," Said Sam.

"Wait, did you say manikins?!" exclaims Mark. "You know I have a fear of those things don't you?"

"You are afraid of manikins?" questioned Colby.

"Don't judge me," says Mark with a glare. Without arguing the rangers began their long trek through the forest hoping to find cave thirteen. Meanwhile, Sammy and Dean were fighting a losing battle. The monster had been strong enough to knock them over like flies, Dean was unsure about how the rest of the team were and he worried that the rangers weren't going to get to the cave on time. Sammy used his saber and struck at that monster who yowled in pain, it stepped back and knew what it had to do. Tilting his head to the sky he howled a strong alpha howl that Mark could hear from a mile away as the bite was already transforming him. When Mark heard the howl his eyes glowed yellow at the same time he started to growl.

"Mark?" asked Sean as he saw his friend looking at the ground.

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