Power Rangers: Lightning Strikes ✔️

Chapter Sixty: Wolfing Out

Sean reached over to touch Mark on the shoulder only this time, Mark looked up with sharp teeth and yellow eyes. The rangers gasped and stepped back. "Whoa Mark,"

"The alpha," says Mark like he was in a trance. "He needs me," another howl at the sky from Lycanthrope, made Mark turn toward his friends.

"No, this isn't you talking," says Tara as he approached Mark. A growl escaped from his lips as he tried to attack Tara. This time his hands turned into claws; Mark sliced at the rangers nearly striking at Sam who ducked out of the way before Mark cut him. Sean and Colby raced over and tried to hold onto Mark's arms. But because of his wolf strength, Mark tossed Sean and Colby to the side like flies and took off in a different direction.

"This isn't good," says Sam.

"Ya think?!" exclaims Sean as the rangers and Colby went to go and find Mark. Things had already started to get worse because Mark was starting to turn into a werewolf, Sean worried that if he didn't save Mark soon, then his best friend would be gone forever, and he couldn't let that happen. Sam turned his ring and called Dean while they were on the battlefield when Dean's morpher went off he allowed Sammy to continue fighting and moved to the side, Dean twisted his wrist morpher as a holograph of Sam appeared before him.

"Sam? What's the deal? We're in the middle of a fight," said Dean.

"Dean, there's been a situation," Sam responds. "Whatever you're doing to Lycanthrope is happening to Mark,"

"What are you talking about?" questioned Dean.

"Lycanthrope must have howled which activated Mark's wolf side," he continued. "By doing that, it's burning away Mark's humanity even faster,"

"Right," says Dean. "That means we have to retreat to avoid sending anymore pain to Mark," he continued. "Thanks Sam now find Mark and get that ritual done before it's too late!"

"As soon as we find him that's the first thing we'll need to do," with that being said, Sam and Dean hung up on each other. Dean ran toward his brother as Lycanthrope was distracted, he growled. Dean turned toward his brother, Sammy, looked at Dean with confusion.

"Sammy, we have to retreat," Says Dean. "Anything that we do to the monster, Mark will feel it,"

"We can't just let it roam around freely like this Dean," says Sammy trying to get his brother to understand. Dean summoned his weapon and pressed a button on his eagle gun where it turned into a net launcher. Aiming at the monster, Dean pulled the trigger, and a net flew through the air and latched onto Lycanthrope who growled and tried to break free.

Meanwhile, back at the location the rangers and Colby searched far and wide trying to find Mark. They split up hoping to cover more ground, while they were doing that, Morgana appeared before Katrina who wasn't expecting a sneak attack. Katrina turned toward Morgana who laughed evilly, a magical orb appeared in her hands as she glared at the silver ranger.

"Morgana," says Katrina. "You again?! What are you doing here?!"

"Stopping you and your friends for spoiling my plans," responds Morgana. "You may have almost beaten me the first time but this time, Silver ranger, I'm going to fight you,"

"Fine by me but know this nothing will stop me or my friends from saving Mark," Said Katrina who twisted her ring and summoned her powers. "Lightning Strike, Ranger up!" Katrina morphed into the silver ranger as she called on her bow. Morgana made the first move as she started to fight against Katrina, Katrina who did not expect to be challenged fought back with stronger agility and strength. She had been shooting arrows at Morgana who had blocked each attack while at the same time throwing the magical orb at her opponent. Katrina flew back but landed on her feet ready for the next attack.

While that battle went on, Sean had been getting closer to the caves. He wondered where his best friend was and worried that all his humanity was gone. As he was about to step away, Sean heard a low growl coming from behind him. Stopping in his tracks, Sean slowly turned around only to see Mark launch himself toward him. Sean's eyes grew wide as Mark tackled Sean to the ground, Mark's canines had sharpened themselves to a point and his ears were no longer human they were more animalistic. Mark rose his hand into the air and tried to take a swipe at Sean who rolled out of the way, worry flashed on his face as he did not want to take the chance to fight his friend.

"Mark," says Sean. "Snap out of it, this isn't you!" no luck, Mark growled at his friend and as he was about to strike, Sam showed up and hit Mark over the head with a tree branch. Mark collapsed on the ground unconscious as Sean sighed in relief. "Thank you Sam,"

"Are you okay man?" asked Sam.

"Yeah, I'm fine, let's just get Mark to that cave," responds Sean. Sam nodded his head as he and Sean started dragging Mark to the ritual cave. Colby and Tara had arrived next to them and helped get Mark to the caves. However, Katrina had still been fighting against Morgana who was slowly losing ground.

"Silver bow! Crossbow mode!" exclaimed Katrina as her bow turned into a crossbow with an arrow already lodged into the bow. "You know Morgana, I enjoyed our little tango, but I've got business to attend to," Katrina charged her bow and pointed it directly at Morgana. "Crossbow charge!"

"You know you can't defeat me!" yells Morgana.

"Crossbow final attack!" exclaimed Katrina where the arrow flew toward Morgana and began to engulf itself into a bright silvery light. Morgana tried to block it, but she was out smarted, and the arrow struck at the ground around her allowing her enough time to flee from the scene. Powering down, Katrina went to join with her friends. "Sorry I'm late!"

"You're okay," says Sam. "I was starting to worry about you,"

"Morgana decided it was a good idea to try and fight me," responds Katrina. "But she ran off," before Katrina continued her sentence she noticed that Mark had been knocked unconscious. "Um...What did you guys do?"

"We had to knock him out," says Sean. "I nearly got killed by him,"

"Either way, we need to get in now," says Colby as he led the rangers into the cave. They started to walk through the caves as Sean looked around, candles were lit in different places. What was scary was that it reminded him a lot of Amnesia, The Dark Descent. The rest of the rangers followed Colby down the well-lit tunnel until they arrived at a ritual table with old candles sitting on the corners.

"Let's lay him down here," says Colby, Sean and Sam nodded as they laid Mark down on the table. "We'll have to chain him down," he continued. "He will feel a lot of pain,"