(A/N: This is my first fanfic EVER! Inspiration from thunderyoshi. please NO HATE, reviews/critiques welcome. I DO NOT OWN POWER RANGERS! ONLY ARIA BRADLEY!)

Darkness Within

By: XxMissElxX

Prologue

-Woods of Reefside-

A lone figure was sitting in front of what appeared to be a normal boulder with her black and purple dirt bike deep within the woods of Reefside, California. Her grey-green eyes were closed, long, curly jet-black hair gently blowing in the light breeze. She seemed as if she was waiting for someone as one hand subconsciously clasped onto her silver chained necklace. Suddenly, the sound of two bike engines roared making her jolt in surprise.

"Took you two long enough!" she said. The riders of the two bikes, one in navy the other in crimson, took their helmets off.

"Calm down Aria, we're not late" said Crimson as he rolled his eyes

"Can we please just go in now?" Aria said in response. The three ripped off their civilian clothes and were left in their thunder ninja uniforms; the two guys had navy and crimson on their uniforms whereas Aria's was all black. They walked through the boulder with ease and were now at the entrance of the Thunder Ninja Academy. They were immediately greeted by Sensei Omino.

"Aria, Blake, Hunter," he greeted sternly, "I was wondering when you three would get here" the three bowed, Aria was the first to respond.

"Sorry Sensei, my brothers and I lost track of time" she felt bad for lying but she didn't want to throw her two older brothers under the bus. After receiving a lecture by their sensei about time management and punctuality, the three siblings went off to train.

The Bradley siblings didn't train with the other students, just with each other, after the untimely death of their adopted parents the three stuck together building their walls so high for anyone to climb over; especially Aria. At 17 she is the youngest of the three but also the strongest, the power she possesses is incredible. 18 year old Blake was very close to Aria, but the bond he shared with 19 year old Hunter was unbreakable. The three always had each other's back and back at the academy you would never see one Bradley without the other two.

While the two younger Bradley's were sparring Hunter looked up to the sky and saw a giant black cloud.

"Hey guys look!" he shouted, as the two looked a giant blast was heard at the temple of their school, they were being attacked. Running down, dodging explosions as they did, they saw Sensei Omino running towards them, he seemed to be injured. Before they could even say anything their sensei forced an open box in their hands, holding the three thunder ranger morphers. Their eyes widened, Sensei Omino told them they would know what to do when the time came "GO!" he yelled, the three took off running, putting on their morphers in the process; but they weren't fast enough they had been caught in bubble by the evil space ninja Lothor.

-Lothor's Ship-

When they got to his ship a black alien with no face and two swords coming out of their shoulders came up to the three and released them they immediately started to fight the alien, Blake and Hunter using hand-to-hand combat and Aria using her strong control over lightning, but were forced to surrender, they were still mentally and physically exhausted from the attack on their school. The Bradleys were brought into what appeared to be the throne room where they were greeted by Lothor,

"Well hello thunder rangers!" a fake smile plastered on his face.

"What do you want with us?" asked Hunter

"Oh right to the point then!" Lothor exclaimed, "I like you. Anyway, I want your help."

It was Aria's turn to speak up "Why the fuck would we help you? You just blew up our home!" a snarl coming upon her tan face.

"My, what language from a young lady like yourself," with that Blake and Hunter both inched closer to their sister.

"I need your help getting revenge on Sensei Watanabe of the Wind Academy down in Blue Bay Harbor"

"Um, why?" Blake said.

"Because," Lothor continued, getting a little annoyed "it will help us both out"

"Why would destroying an innocent man help us?" Aria questioned.

With a sick grin coming onto his face Lothor said "Oh I assure you he isn't an innocent man," knowing just where to hit them he said "did you ever know what really happened to your parents?" the three siblings didn't know what to say. Sensei Watanabe killed them?

"How do you know?" Aria demanded her eyes slowly darkening to black as her emotions took a hold of her. Blake grabbed her hand to try and calm her down.

"I saw the whole thing! And I can help you get revenge on the person who orphaned you again" Lothor said, the three all looked at each other and came to a silent agreement, their parents would be avenged no matter what

Finally Hunter looked to Lothor, "We're in".