The city of Reefside was worse than they imagined. Tall sky scraper buildings were in an exact grid blind pattern. But, they appeared to empty for a long time. Windows appeared to be knocked out and shards of glass were laying on the ground in tiny shattered pieces. Buildings with one or two stories had lights on, but it appeared if they in bad shape. Circular holes were in the windows and it looked like a baseball went through the windows. Some of the windows were boarded up. The sidewalks in Reefside looked as if someone had taken a sledge hammer to it, diligently hitting every cement rectangle with enough force to make tons of cracks, many of them appeared to be colonized by weeds. Lampposts were twisted like pretzels and they flickered on and off every few minutes. When the lampposts flickered on, it's bright orange glow made everything worse than they already were. Kimberly and Tommy could see the sky was covered with a thick cloud of smoke.

"Do you think this cloud is always here?" Kimberly whispered as they walked through down town Reefside.

"I wouldn't be surprised either way," Tommy answered as they turned a corner.

Cars were sitting along the sidewalks. These cars appeared to be abandoned for a long time. The back windows had the glass knocked out of them. Sharp shards of glass were sitting in the back seats. The cloth on the back seats appeared to be cut by the sharp pieces of glass. Dents were in the front and back of each car. There were areas on the cars were paint had been chipped. Some of the cars had flat tires, some were missing a tire. And there was one car that was sitting on the ground because someone had taken all four tires of the car.

"Even the streets signs have been removed from their places," Kimberly pointed out when she saw all the street signs laying on the ground.

They walked over to the street signs. Zig-zags of spray paint were sprayed all over the signs making it impossible to see what was written on the signs.

"Kim, look at these posters," Tommy whispered leading her over to the poster. On the post there was a picture of him in a combination of the white ranger and green rangers' suits.

"This is a wanted posted!" Kimberly gasped squeezing Tommy's hand, when she saw the word wanted in all capital letters. "It's Lord Drakkon!"

"He is wanted for striking down the original yellow and red rangers, terrorizing Angel Grove, Terraventure, Marnier Bay, Sliver Hills, Turtle Cove, Blue Bay Harbor and Reefside. He is responsible for the disappearance James Oliver, Jan Oliver, Caroline Dumas, and Pierre Dumas. On the streets he goes by the name of Tommy Oliver. He seen wearing green sweat pants, a white tee shirt, and he wears his hair loose or in a pony tail," Tommy said as he started to tremble as he was staring down at his clothes. He was wearing the exact same outfit that Lord Drakkon wore on the street.

"I think we had better find a place to hide," Kimberly warned when she heard footsteps.

"Skull, I have found Lord Drakkon!"

"Bulk, he has Kimberly with him!" shouted Skull. "We have to save her. Maybe she will know what happened to the real Tommy!

"I think we better run!" Tommy suggested lifting Kimberly into his arms and broke out in a run.

"How do they know us?" Kimberly questioned as Tommy was running and panting. "they've been chasing us all the way into the forest.

"No idea," Tommy answered in a tired voice. "They probably knew us as humans."

Tommy tripped over a branch and they rolled down a hill landing face first in the mud. "Are you okay?" Kimberly asked spitting out mud.

"I am okay," Tommy replied removing his white tee shirt. He tore it and walked over to a spring. next to the spring was a small opening. "I think I have found our hiding place."

He removed Billy's invention from his next and returned to his dragon form. His muddy clothes were in a pile next to him. "Tommy, someone is coming," Kimberly warned walking over to entrance and removing her necklace too. Within seconds she was the back in her human form. She kicked her muddy clothes into the entrance along with Tommy's. "Now is our chance!"

They crawled through the entrance and got as far as they could get away from the entrance. "We will have to stay dragons," Kimberly declared when she noticed a pool of water in the cave. Even as a dragon she hated being dirty and falling in the mud. She jumped into the water and splashed Tommy.

Tommy jumped into the pool and landed on her, dunking her into the water. "I still think you are beautiful as a dragon," he assured her when she came back up to the surface.

"I still think you are still cute and handsome," Kimberly blushed when she started nuzzling Tommy. She rested her head on the edge of the pool. Suddenly, she felt Tommy grab her tail and pull her back under the water. "What are you doing?"

Tommy didn't answer. He kept swimming towards something sparkly. As he got closer he realized it was the two crowns that they learned about. The crowns were both gold. One had a yin yang pendant in the center with white and green gems. The other crown had a pink heart shaped pendant in the center with pink gems all the way around the heart.

"I think we found the crowns," Tommy beamed looking straight at the crowns. Maybe they are for us."

"Don't you remember that only the chosen ones are able to lift them?"

"I think we are the chosen ones," Tommy informed. He lifted the crown with green and white gems off the stone. He saw a message on the stone where his crown once was.

"Only your true love can lift the other crown."

"Kim, the other is yours according to the message," Tommy smiled watching Kimberly stare at the queen's crown. "Don't be afraid, lift it."

Kimberly lifted the crown and both were instantly sent back to the world of dragons.

Author's note:

Next chapters will deal with the realm of dragons and getting their special powers.