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Inside the living of the ranger's house, Aimi sits on the couch watching her friends walk around both the room, and the house as a whole, tidying the place up and bringing in more items.

"So exactly where did you get all of this from?" She asks curiously.

"We told you, with just a simple thought we can make anything we wish appear." Keiji replies.

"So you didn't buy any of this? You just clicked your heels wiggled your nose and it appeared?"

"Precisely, but without all of that movement you suggested." Syuri answers.

Aimi rolls her eyes, mouthing the word okay as she does so.

The moving around the house went on for some time, finally stopping at around by Aimi's phone threeish. After the bustling around ceased, the four sat in the living room. Keiji tinkering with a device that Aimi couldn't recognize. Paige sat in a chair reading a book which Aimi identified as a volume of K-On, Paige looking at each page puzzlelingly. As for Syuri, she was just sitting against a wall, head bowed, falling in and out of consciousness and sleep. As these actions went on, Aimi suddenly recalled one of their earliest conversations, and decided to ask something that came up in it.

"You guys said you're fighting against the Nightmare Realm correct?"

Syuri looked up a little, brushing her dark red hair out of her face some. "Yeah."

"And you said the Dream Kingdom is ruled by the king of dreams Morpheus right?"

"Yes." Syuri replies again.

"Then who rules the Nightmare Realm?" Aimi asks.

The three warriors of their kingdom slowly stopped what they were doing. Keiji looking over at Syuri, Paige looking back and forth between all of them. After a period of silence, Syuri began to speak.

"Her name is Jung Moroi. She was once a servant under Morpheus. But when the Nightmares splitted into their own realm, she followed them, and almost instantly appointed herself leader. She is a very cruel and cold creature." Syuri finishes, her words hanging in the air like the fog of someone's breath in winter.

The Nightmare Realm would be completely dark, only being lit by flashes of lightning in colors of purple and red. The realm's appearance is nothing more then a ruined wasteland mixed with what comes off as a traditional village. And in the middle of this world, stands a castle very tall, it covered in decaying vines, it's stones cracked and crumbling.

Inside the throne room of this castle, there is a chair, it's back turned towards the door. The room lit only be a few solitary candles. Inside the chair sits Jung Moroi, shadows covering her form. She sits there in silence, only stirring some when she hears the door to her room opening. In walks a man like creature dressed in a mix full samurai and European knight armor. His head and face shifted and formed to make out that of the helmet, a demonic looking space open for his mouth.

"My queen." This being speaks, kneeling against the floor in a show of respect and honor.

"Yes Raison?" The woman in the chair speaks out. Her voice slow and icey. It's soft spoken power and sharpness being able to send a young child's ears into deafness.

"Our intelligence from the human world has returned. And you were correct, the three warriors are there." Raison responds.

A slight chuckle can be heard from the chair. Slowly the chair turns around, until it is facing front first directly at this loyal nightmarish night. Raison looks up at his queen, her body slender but plump. Her form shrouded in a cloak made of shadows. Her skin pale white. Her hair jet black, hanging on one side in her face, the rest tied up in a bun like ponytail. He eyes, black as a skull's, gleaming with a touch of gold.

"Perfect." She spoke.

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In a world in which dreams reign supreme and bring joy to many, a dimension filled with all the world's nightmares look to take over the dream world, and are doing so by attacking civilians within the real world. To combat this, the ruler of this kingdom of dreams to combat the evils of the nightmares. These three will fight for the future of both their kingdom, and of Earth. These warriors are....

Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger!

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Third Dream: Darkness And Beginnings!

Jung Moroi looks down at her loyal knight. She smirking at him, taking in his form. His armored body perfect and glistening black. His misshapen and molded head and face being a definition of ugliness. She always found this ironic since she met him, and was her reasoning for calling him Raison D'eTre. What better name for a creature that is both perfect and ugly then a phrase used to question one's own meaning of life?

"So, my suspicions was correct you say eh? Morpheus has sent three of his little warriors down to Earth?" She questions almost lazily, she placing a hand up against her cheek, her black semi long nails brushing against her skin.

Raison then rises to his feet. "Indeed my queen. The three have been reported to be neutralizing all wraiths we send down."

"Hmph. Pesky old bastard." This queen of nightmares spits out.

She sits there for a moment thinking. Eventually, she speaks again.

"Raison, I want you to increase our little...coming overs."

"As you wish." The knight responds.

"I plan on taking over that precious world called The Dreaming. And you can't destroy a dream without a couple of nightmares. That, and slaying a few heroes." She says in a smooth almost seductive way, she laughing a little as she does so.

Raison released the sound of a chuckle as well before exiting from the queen's room.

In the realm of the humans, the four sit in the living room still. After Aimi's question about who the ruler of there enemies are, everything returned to it's silence. Everyone returned to what they were doing, Aimi even texting some of her friends, and look at some videos. Eventually, she thought of something else she had been pondering and decided to ask.

"Hey guys, I've been wondering something." Aimi says.

"Hm?" Syuri says back, she once again half asleep.

"Well, how did you three become Dreamrangers in the first place?"

The three chuckle a little at Aimi's question. Aimi tilting her head in response to their laughter.

"How does one become a police officer, or a soldier, or anything in this world Aimi?" Keiji questions sarcastically.

"They go to school and get trained." Aimi responds, her voice hinting at annoyance from Keiji's sarcasm.

"Exactly, and that's what we did to become Dreamrangers." He finishes up.

"Well no duh." She shoots back.

Paige smiles as she reads her book. She then begins to remember back to the time of their training.

It was in the mode of Spring time within The Dreaming. All of the world's creations roaming around. Mingling, living, expanding. The world within this kingdom expanded daily, and with every new addition, it seemed to get only better. The palace in which Lord Morpheus lived shining as white as the clearest sky.

In the training grounds, Paige stood with the rest of her fellow trainees. She listening intently as their teacher shouted lessons and teachings at them for their task this morning. The assignment was simple: There was a barrier surrounding an orb. Around this barrier were armed guards. The assignment, break through the guard's fire and break through the barrier and retrieve the orb.

The hours passed, and each student attempted to break through. A good chunk of the students, including Paige laid or sat on the ground, tired and hurt by the guard's firing at them, and constantly slamming against the barrier wall without being able to break through. Only two students did so on the first attempt. She didn't know the first one who did it, but she knew that the second one's name was Keiji. She remembered in awe as both men bounced through the grounds avoiding every shot the guards took, and how they easily busted into the barrier and got the orb.

Remembering how they did it lit a fire in Paige. She slowly brought herself up to her feet, staggering around a little as she does so. The instructor looked over at her, and waved to the guards to prepare to fire for this attempt. Paige then gave a small smile to both her peers, and teacher before she burst forward. And after minutes of her being shot down and dodging fire, she stood within the shield, tossing the orb up into the air. The instructor smiling at this strong willed student of his.

As she continued to read from her K-ON volume, she continued to think about her schooling. She remembered back to studying up on different fighting styles and how they could be used in different situations. She remembered learning how to conjure up objects from thin air. She even remembered being bested in a class on sword fighting by a very serious but lazical student with dark, but fiery red hair who later identified herself as Syuri.

She recalled when she was first teamed up with the two. Her thoughts flooding with the memories of all three of them not getting along, but slowly getting along. Hours of training, studying, missions, and time spent hanging out with these two . Al of those hours and days leading up to her and the rest of her gang and classmates being designated warrior of the Dream Kingdom by Lord Morpheus himself.

Her reminiscing though soon came to an end. Syuri grabbed her volume of manga, and threw it against the wall.

"Paige, Dreaming to Paige." Syuri spoke loudly into her face.

"Huh? What is it Miss Syuri?" Paige stammered out.

"Stop day dreaming and get your ass up. I just got a call saying that a wraith has been spotted out in Osaka."

"Oh." Paige replied.

"Yeah oh. Come on, let's dispatch of the little bugger." Keiji remarked he snapping his fingers to instantly vanish into thin air. Aimi jumping out of her seat some by this feat of magic.

"Damn! You guys really can do anything out of thin air!" She shouted.

Syuri rolled her eyes some before crossing her arms. She disappearing as well. Paige then slowly stood up and fixed her glasses some. She looked at Aimi who stared back.

"So long for now Miss Aimi." Paige stated, giving Aimi a slight bow before vanishing in pursuit of her comrades.

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In a construction site in Osaka, workers scream in panic as they run away from a wraith in the form of a humanoid Cerberus made up of multiple vehicles from the site. This machine pursues the workers, shooting out beams of electricity from it's funnel like hand, the lightning smacking into some of the workers, dropping them like flies immediately on impact. This cybernoid nightmare puts out a mechanical sounding laugh while doing so.

As it pursues it's prey, the three warriors suddenly appear out of the air, they standing a few feet away in front of the robot horror. As they stare at their newest opponent, Syuri loses he usually calm composure and begins to laugh almost hystericaly.

"R really? A damned three headed construction monster? Geez, who dreamt up this pathetic nightmare?" She gets out between her laughs, Keiji and Paige joining in with the laughing.

"PATHETIC?! THE ONLY PATHETIC ONES HERE ARE YOU THREE!" The machine sputters out, pointing one of it's hands, this one shaped like a crane but sharper at the group.

"Us? Pathetic? At least we're not some messed up kid's model project, or whatever you are." Keiji snorts out.

"OH REALLY? WELL LET ME SHOW YOU HOW PATHETIC I AM!"

The robot menace then holds out it's funnel arm, and blasts out a good sized wave of lightning. The rangers react quickly, but aren't able to escape all of the burst, as some of the lightning connects with them, shocking their bodies all the through. This burst gives them enough pain to send them to the ground. The mechanical monster lets out a high pitched robotic laugh as it hits the warriors, it beginning to move towards them.

Keiji then jumps up to his feet, and rushes towards the opponent. Once he reaches out, the blue hero pulls his arm back before throwing it forward, looking to deliver a punch straight to the center of the machine. However, this construction Cerberus uses it's crane hand to grab hold of Keiji's arm before it can reach it's target. As Keiji looks at the robot's defense, he is tossed behind the machine, landing roughly into a pile of metal and bricks. As he lands back first against them, he squirms and arches upwards, letting out a cry of pain.

Syuri and Paige in shock of the easy dispatching of their comrade look at each other. They each nod to the other before then rush forward. Each one then ventures to one side, Paige to the right, Syuri to the left. Once they get in range, they go for a double kick combo, with Syuri looking to hit the head and Paige the feet. However once again, the machine wraith is able to counter. Instead of catching and latching onto her, it swings it's claw hand directly at Paige's head. The blow connects, and sends Paige flying into a half constructed wall of cement, the force causing it to crumble around, and a for a little, on top of her. Syuri is greeted with the funnel, being shot full of electricity, she crying out in immense pain before falling to the ground, landing on her side. To add insult to injury, the robot arches it's foot back before slamming the tip of it into her stomach, sending her spiraling away into some barrels.

The evil wraith robot laughs and begins to walk away from the three. In the realm of nightmares, Jung Moroi sits in her chair watching the action through a window into the human realm. As she watches her minion easily countering and hurting her main threats, she let's out an evil laugh.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I HOPE YOU'RE WATCHING THIS MORPEHUS! WATCH AS YOU BELOVED HEROES FALL BEFORE ONE OF MY SOLDIERS! WATCH THEM DIE YOU OLD MISERABLE BASTARD! WATCH!" She cries out at the window.

As the mechanical menace continues to wreak havoc against the still remaining workers in the area, the three dream warriors slowly crawl over to one another, laying in a circle on the ground in pain.

"D damn that fucker is tough..." Keiji mutters out, anger in his voice from being taken down easily.

"I know. It's like he didn't even try.." Paige chimes in depressingly.

"He is pretty tough." Syuri adds as she and her comrades lay there. Syuri's jacket featuring a burnt in hole from her blast, and Paige's head busted open and bleeding quite heavily from her blow to the head. Keiji then looks at Paige then, she slowly returning the glance back.

"But we're tougher." He tells them, the focus and main power of his words being directed to Paige.

Paige slowly catches on and smiles a little, nodding her head in understanding what he was referring to. "Yeah, we are."

"And we're not going to let some messed up toy beat us right?" He adds on.

"Right!" Paige replies firmly.

"Well glad to see you two of you have some sort of fire in you. I guess you're right. Let's beat this bugger." Syuri says calmly as always.

The three then slowly and carefully stand up as to not injure themselves without fighting. Once they finally get up to their feet, they walk forward some, watching the robot smash it's hands into the back of a construction worker. They then slowly, with their dirtied and bleeding hands pull out their cellulars.

"HEY! SCREW HEAD!" Paige shouts out towards the adversary.

The wraith machine then turns around to look at the beatened up rangers.

"DIDN'T I TERMINATE YOU THREE?" It stammers out.

"Sorry to tell you this, but you failed." Paige barks out at it.

"You may have banged us up to all hell." Keiji adds in.

"But it'll take a lot more then a little electricity to keep us down." Syuri finishes, the three flipping open the phones.

"I GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO PUT YOU DOWN A LITTLE MORE! AND MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GET UP!"

"Hmph, try all you want bucket heads, but you'll fail like the pathetic pile of crap you are." Syuri states boldly.

The three then punch in their henshin code of "4-18-5-1-13." The phones transitions into it's changing mode as the three pull their arms back.

"DREAMSCAPE! OPEN!" They shout in unison, throwing their arms up into the air so the phone's screen is pointed right at the creature.

A bright light shoots out of the phones, blinding the mechanical nightmare. From the light comes the three tubes. The tubes then speedily shoots backwards into the group, forming their suits instantly, the usual explosion of light and dust forming their helmets. Once fully formed, the robot's vision returns, it staring now at it's newly formed opponents.

"Fighting like with the spirit of a mighty warrior. Keiji Ito, Dream Blue!" Keiji shouts out cross his arms in the air multiple times before launching a fist forward, the other flying into the air.

Syuri then spins around, once facing the enemy again throwing her arm down out to the side, placing her other hand against her hip lazily. "Serving the light to defeat the darkness. Syuri Miyamoto, Dream White!"

"Protecting dreams like the angels of lore. Paige Williams, Dream Pink!" Paige cries out holding her fist upwards in a fierce manner.

The three then spin around, stopping as they stand in line with their sides out. They then jolt their heads to the side to stare down the opponent, pointing their arms directly at it.

"Providing a shield from all nightmares to let dreams flourish. Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger!"

The three then vanish into the air. The robot confused begins to look around, all of it's heard ready to pick up any movements.

"WHERE ARE YOU!?" It shouts out.

Syuri then appears to the robot's side, repeatedly slamming both her knees and feet into the creature's sides. She ends the combo by jumping up, and delivers a powerful knee into one of the robot's heads, denting it in some causing the robot to stagger back some. For good measure, she then pulls out her Dream Blade in gun mode, and delivers a volley of blasts into it's side, blasting some parts way. This generating a mechanical cry from the nightmare.

Paige then appears as well, sliding along the ground. Once she reaches the machine, she spins around thrusting her right foot into one of it's legs. She then pulls it out in one fast motion, causing sparks to shoot out of it, as well as some wires. Once again, the mechanical wraith cries out in anguish.

Keiji once again then goes to rush right at the enemy. But the robot has enough mind to counter. It shoots out a wave of electricity out at Keiji. The connecting blow causing him to stumble forward a little. This gives the opponent the opening, and it uses it. The robot then tossing Dream Blue over it's head. However this time, instead of slamming against the ground, Keiji lands on his feet and slides away to stand next to Paige. As he does so, he glances the enemy's back, and grins inside his helmet.

Once he is standing next to Paige, he speaks out to her.

"Paige, I noticed a power source on the back of our little friend here." He explains to her.

"Really now?" Paige asks

"Yep."

The two look at each other as Syuri dodges a blow from the machine and vanishes again. They both smirk within their helmets and nod their heads in understanding.

"Ready?" Paige asks her comrade.

"You know it." Keiji replies, summoning his Dream Trident.

Keiji then rushes forward again, going straight towards the power supply he spotted. As he does so, he holds his trident fiercely. But right as he would get close to push the weapon forward, the robot menace turns around.

"DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD GET ME THERE YOU PATHETIC MEAT BAG!?" It questions, grabbing onto Keiji by the neck, squeezing tightly enough to make him drop the Dream Trident.

"Nahh I knew I wouldn't." He starts. " But she will."

"WHAT?" The opponent asks.

It then slowly turns it's head around, it making a mechanical gasping noise as it sees Paige crouched a few feet away, she aiming the Dream Shooter right at the power supply. Before it can react, or even scream, she fires off a round of bursts. While the energy bursts work their way to the energy source, Keiji takes the opportunity to slam his feet into the stomach of the the enemy robot, causing it to fly backwards directly into the shots Paige fired off. The contact instantly destroys the power source, causing the wraith to start short circuiting and stuttering out robotic noises. And for a final addition of salt to the wound, Syuri flashes into vision again, sliding her way over to Paige, her Dream Blade in hand in sword mode. As she turns to look at the opponent, it falls into two pieces before exploding. Syuri makes a puffing noise and pats Paige on the shoulder. Paige looks at Syuri's gloved hand and smiles behind her helmet.

Later, at their house, Aimi shakes her head as she sits in a chair, sewing Syuri's jacket. As she does so, she stares at the three, each one sporting bandages around their hands, a burn mark on Syuri's black undershirt, and a bandage wrapped around Paige's head.

"Explain to me how three mighty warriors who can appear and disappear at will get so banged up?." She says in a tone that suggest she is annoyed and talking down to them.

"By not being perfect you little annoyance of a girl." Keiji replies in his sarcastic tone.

"Pffstt." Aimi responds.

After finishing sewing up the whole, she tosses the jacket to Syuri. She grabs it, and bows her head in gratitude to her host of sorts. They then stand up, looking to head back into their individual rooms. However, right before Aimi departs, she speaks up.

"Hey guys"

"Yes Miss Aimi?" Paiges says back.

"You guys went through training in The Dreaming right?" Aimi asks.

"Yeah." Keiji responds.

"Well that made me think, how exactly did you all get into The Dreaming?"

The three beaten up heroes who were beginning to walk down the hallway stop in the tracks. They stand there in silence, Aimi staring directly at their backs.

"I mean, I find it weird that humans could even get access to a another dimension. How exactly does that work? I mean wouldn't something like that kill a guy?" Aimi questions again slowly.

"Who says we're human...or living?" Syuri says before the three go into their rooms, leaving Aimi alone in the living room.

...To be continued

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