Deker

**Deker** was a human/Nighlok and husband of Dahlia (now known as Dayu), cursed as a Nighlok with the desire to find a worthy opponent for the "Ultimate Duel". He was portrayed by Rick Medina, who also played Cole Evans in Power Rangers Wild Force.

## History

Very little of Deker's past is known, but at some point in time he proposed to and married a woman named Dahlia. On their wedding night, he carried her back to their home and gave her a guitar as a wedding present. Dahlia presented Deker the white Katana "Uramasa", calling him "brave Samurai", implying that he is a warrior trained in the way of the Bushido. During the night their house caught fire. Deker was nowhere to be found when Dahlia woke to find the bedroom burning, but she managed to find and rescue him from the burning building.

When she called for help, she summoned the King of the Nighloks (later revealed to be Serrator) who offered to save Deker's life. When she agreed to the demon's terms, he did indeed save Deker's life, but robbed him of all his memories and turned Deker into a Human/Nighlok hybrid and Dahlia into the Nighlok Dayu in the process. Revived from near death, Deker transformed into his Nighlok half and vanished into the night, leaving Dahlia behind. The events of that night was eventually made into a folktale told in the form of a painting at the Tengen Gate.

He remained oblivious to his connection to Dayu despite rescuing her from the Red Ranger's Fire Smasher in a battle against the Rangers and interacting with her in general.

When she asked about his life, he told her he remembered nothing beyond needing to fight and that nothing else was important. Dayu is later seen to regret her decision to make the deal with the Nighlok King to save his life, heartbroken over what it has done to her husband.

Like Dayu, Deker's unique position as a human/Nighlok allows him to leave the Netherworld whenever he wishes without needing to return to the Sanzu River like the other Nighloks and Master Xandred. As he is not a part of Master Xandred's group, the two are bitter enemies. Xandred dislikes him for his half-human state and constant meddling in his plans to destroy the Samurai Rangers, including the Galaxy Rangers and the Wind Rangers, once misunderstanding his intervention as "helping" the humans despite Deker's protests to otherwise.

As a cursed man with an unquenchable desire to fight, Deker roamed the world for a worthy opponent to battle. Uramasa eventually leads him to Jayden, the Red Samurai Ranger, Hunter Bradley, the Crimson Wind Ranger, Shane Clarke, the Red Wind Ranger, and Leo Corbett, the Red Galaxy Ranger. Deker is determined to fight the Ranger one-on-one to the point of single-mindedness, often appearing at inopportune times or being halted by the other Rangers and monsters when the opportunity strikes him as right.

When Jayden, Shane, and Leo were poisoned by Octoroo, Deker kidnaps the three of them and dumps them into the holy springs to cure them as a means to prepare them for the fight. The Tengen Gate While Jayden, Hunter, Leo, and Share are recovering, Deker tells them that they had little choice in the matter against their needs for fighting, though Jayden, Shane, and Leo argues that "there's always a choice". Antonio, Hunter, and Blake eventually arrives to rescues Jayden, Hunter, Leo, and Shane from Deker, who promises there would be nothing to stop their fight the next time they meet.

When they finally meet again, he gave Jayden, Hunter, Leo, and Shane the choice of fighting him or being forced to watch as he harmed innocent people if they refused. It's later revealed that his desire for battling Jayden, Hunter, Leo, and Shane is fueled by the belief that it will free him of his Nighlok half. He finally battled Jayden, Hunter, Leo, and Shane, and appeared to have the upper hand in the fight when he stabbed the three Red Rangers in the right side of his chest. Though he was stunned, Jayden, Hunter, Shane, and Leo allowed the warrior to run him through and proceeded to strike Deker down in one slash. Uramasa was shattered, broken in two. Surprised by the three Red Rangers's audacity, Deker complimented Jayden, Hunter, Shane, and Leo on their victories and stumbling towards the edge of the cliff, he fell over the edge and disappeared in a puff of purple flames. Before vanishing he declared himself freed from his Nighlok/human curse.

Deker later discovered that he wasn't freed from his curse at all. He thought that he must fight the Ultimate Duel without Uramasa being broken in the process regardless of who wins. When Dayu walked to the forest, she talked with Deker that Serrator has the power to fix their respective items, but they must work for him in order for him to do so, which they did. When Serrator arrived to the forest, he gave Dayu a dagger as a temporary replacement and Deker a mooger's sword as his temporary replacement too.

Later Serrator finally fixed Uramasa and returned it to Deker. However, before returning it, Serrator asked that Deker do him the favor of cracking open the seal to both Earth and the Netherworld, saying that only Deker has the power to do this, due to Deker being both human and Nighlok while belonging to neither, adding the promise that he'd also be freed from his curse forever. When Deker arrived to the weakest point between Earth and the Netherworld, he finally reclaimed Uramasa from Serrator who then waited for Deker to crack the seal. However, instead of doing this, Deker betrayed Serrator by slashing him and revealed that unlike other Nighloks, he has no desire to wipe out humanity but only wanted Uramasa back. He then left, confident that the Samurai Rangers, the Wind Rangers, and the Galaxy Rangers had the power to finish Serrator off, coming to the conclusion that he should end his Nighlok curse on his own terms.

After Jayden's older sister Lauren Shiba returned, Jayden and his three friends Shane, Hunter, and Leo left the Shiba House, only to bump into Deker again, who is eager for one final duel. With nothing to lose, Jayden, Hunter, Leo, and Shane automatically accepted the duel by pulling out his their swords while Deker pulled out Uramasa. In the middle of the duel, Mentor Ji interfered to halt the battle only for him to relent when Jayden said he must defeat Deker. After that, the two warriors resumed their duel until the night when Jayden, Hunter, Leo and Shane finally gained the upper hand by slashing Deker, making him explode in the process, leaving a ring of fire. In the ring of fire, Deker got up to resume the duel, but Dayu tried to stop him, and failed to do so. Deker transformed into his Nighlok form, but he got struck down by Kevin, Kai, Tori Hanson, and Blake Bradley this time, finally destroying Deker for real. By Kevin, Kai, Tori, and Blake being one of the four killers, it proved that all Deker needed to do to free himself was death, not his delusions of the ultimate duel. After that, Mike, Kevin, Mia, Maya, Kai, Damon Henderson, Karone, Kendrix, Leo, Shane, Dustin, Cameron, Hunter, Blake, and Emily helped Jayden out of the ring of fire. As with Deker's death, he is finally freed from his curse, and Uramasa faded away.