Kari Kamiya stood in the middle of a clearing, holding a broken camera in her hands as she's covered in dirt and scratches. She ducks as an explosion happens behind her and she looks to see a silver and blue helmet resembling a tiger rolling beside her with the front shattered. She looks up to see a barrage of missiles being fired only to be destroyed mid-air and their source being destroyed by black and navy fire. An army of humanoid Gazelle like monsters jumped past her and into the sky only to be destroyed. She stands up and watches as two figures landed and walked towards her with golden feathers surrounding them. Her vision began to fade but the gold phoenix and black dragon like helmet with glowing red-eyes was enough for her.

"Odin...Ryuga..."

-Kari-

"Odin...Ryuga..." Kari muttered before waking up in her room hearing her alarm. Today was the girl's 18th birthday and she was excited remembering what day it was. She happily jumped out of bed humming to herself as she got dressed to go out and get some breakfast as her parents and brother went early to work that morning. Before she left she saw a sketch of a black dragon and what looked like a golden bird making her sigh and shake her head. "I had that freaky dream again." She muttered to herself before walking out the door of her apartment and locked it thinking about what was going to happen that day. Her boyfriend of three years T.K. was going to take her out for lunch and then they were going to go out to dinner with her entire family and today was going to be PERFECT.

-Yuto-

"Aw man! That hurt!" Yuto Hojo said as finished up in his gym and felt an odd pop in his wrist as he put his weights down. He sighed and finished his water before wiping his face with the hand towel he had in his backpack. He ran his hand through his raven hair looking in the mirror somewhat pleased with himself. This week was tough, his mother was in the hospital with his father while his brother and his sister-in-law had their first child so that left him in charge of the family restaurant all week. Plus he was hit with test after test before he went to the restaurant so while he was in charge of the restaurant he was studying until two every morning. But today was his first day off all week since his dad promised to take over the restaurant while his mom stayed with his brother and the new baby. So he woke up earlier that morning to blow off steam and get rid of his frustration in the gym and he was going to go ride his motorcycle around later. But then his cellphone began to ring in his bag so he pulled it out and looked to see his partner-in-crime and best friend Davis Motomiya calling. "Daisuke Motomiya up before noon? What's the special occasion brother?" Yuto asked.

"I'm so bummed out man, it's the girl I told you about's birthday." Davis replied.

"You know if you could tell me her name that'd be nice." Yuto remarked. It was true, the two had been best friends all year and Davis had told him about the girl he had liked since Junior High who was happily in love with another guy he'd known as long.

"And why would I do that? I wanted to see her today but she's gonna be with him all day I know it." Davis sighed making Yuto look up, clearly bothered by the conversation.

"Look man, I'm gonna go for a ride in a while. You wanna come along?" Yuto asked walking out of the gym and walked outside and towards his house. His family was never big on possessions but the house they owned had enough space for it in the backyard so Yuto's father had a small building built for them to turn into a home gym to keep in shape. He walked in through the back to see his grandmother on the phone and he planted a kiss on her cheek making her smile.

"I...I dunno. I don't think me riding a motorcycle with the way I'm thinking is safe." Davis said making Yuto slam his head on his bedroom door before opening it.

"Alright I'll just stop by later. And if you say anything to that I'm gonna show up but it's gonna be to punch you in the stomach." Yuto said making Davis sigh and mutter a "yes" before hanging up. Yuto took off his shirt and looked in the mirror to see a sticker of a red dragon and green bull on his mirror. "I had that freaky dream again."

The sounds of a motorcycle tore through the streets of the typically quiet Odaiba as Yuto rode his red and silver motorcycle around until he reached the waterfront where he parked his motorcycle smiling at the clear blue sky and thinking about how good everything was bound to become...that was until he saw a man in a brown trenchcoat looking at him, standing in the middle of the water. He closed his eyes and shook his head thinking he was crazy but the man was still there.

"Hey! Are you okay there man?" Yuto asked calling out to the man who took a step forward reaching into his pocket.

"Your dreams..." The man said confusing Yuto.

"My dreams?"

"You're bound by the strings of fate...Kamen Rider Ryuki..." The man said as he suddenly appeared behind Yuto. But right as Yuto turned to see him, he was gone.

"Ryuki...how did he know that name?" Yuto asked himself before he noticed his jacket pocket weighed more than it did before. He reached in and pulled out a rectangular black box that had a golden dragon symbol in the middle with a red ruby above it.

"So how are you enjoying your birthday baby?" Takeru Takaishi asked as Kari sat in front of him at an Italian Restaurant waiting for their food to arrive.

"It's been so nice so far." Kari replied smiling at her boyfriend.

"Good because my gift's gonna be even better." T.K. said reaching to his side to grab a pink bag as Kari looked out the window hearing the sound of an engine. She watched as Yuto parked his motorcycle in front and walked inside right as the two's food arrived.

"Here you go, enjoy your mea-Yuto! I told you you didn't have to come in today." The raven haired older man said before noticing Yuto walking in.

"Yeah dad I know I just came to get something from the office." Yuto said running to the back as Kari's attention stayed on him. Less than a minute later Yuto walked back with a red backpack and went to the door.

"I told you not to leave your stuff here Yuto! What if you went to school and forgot it here?" Yuto's father said scolding him making him nod and nod sheepishly before leaving and drove off. "Forgive me, that's my son he's just about your age and he's always leaving something in the office in the back." Yuto's father said making Kari nod understandingly. She looked forward to see T.K. holding a rose gold heart necklace making her gasp in surprise.

"Wow that's so beautiful." Kari said grabbing the gift making T.K. smile.

"Not as beautiful as you are." T.K. said making Kari smile before looking back out the window in the direction Yuto went.

'He looked so familiar...' Kari thought to herself.

"Yuto? When you said later I figured-" Davis said as Yuto was at his door and walked in dragging Davis by the arm closing the door behind them. "What is it?" Davis asked clearly confused by what was happening.

"Remember that dream I keep having?" Yuto asked making Davis nod as the two sat down on the couch.

"How could I forget?" Davis said rolling his eyes.

"Well look, I kept having everything so often that I drew what kept showing up. This red dragon, this green mechanical bull, and this blue bat." Yuto said taking out a notebook from his backpack showing the sketches he made making Davis nod. "And then I wrote what I kept saying in my sleep: Ryuki, Zolda, Knight. And I drew these gold symbols that would occasionally appear on these weird silver belts." Yuto said showing three gold drawings resembling the one on the box he had received earlier, along with two more that resembled a bull and a bat respectively.

"What's the point?" Davis asked hearing this conversation again.

"I went to the waterfront and this guy was STANDING in the middle of the water...and next thing I know he calls me "Kamen Rider Ryuki" and gives me this." Yuto said taking out the box showing it to Davis who picked it up examining it.

"Ah...so you're so damn obsessed with this dream that you're making up stories to lie about making this yourself." Davis scoffed throwing the box on the table.

"No! Davis I'm not lying that actually happened!" Yuto yelled in shock that his own best friend didn't believe him.

"Yuto, you said you saw a guy STANDING ON WATER! Where on earth are you gonna see that?!" Davis yelled making Yuto sigh and put his back on the balcony door.

"I dunno man, I just wish there was a way for you to know I'm not-" Yuto said picking up the box that then began to glow and all of a sudden, Yuto vanished as he went into the door leaving Davis dumbfounded.

"Yeah you're not lying..." Davis gulped not seeing a trace of his best friend anywhere.

"Where am I?" Yuto said opening his eyes to see himself in Davis's apartment but there was no one around. Not even Davis who was just on the couch. "Davis? Come on man you better not be pranking me." Yuto said until he noticed that everything was on the other side of where they originally were. He walked to the door and noticed that everything looked to be flipped as he'd seen that entire area before and knew it looked different than it should. He went to where the stairs would usually be and noticed they weren't there so he walked the other way and sure enough he found them and went downstairs confused as to where he was.

Meanwhile Kari was in her room relaxing after a nice lunch with her boyfriend and she heard an odd ringing sound. Then she suddenly saw the man who approached Yuto sitting where she was in the reflection of her mirror.

"What the? Am I dreaming?" Kari asked getting closer to the mirror as the man did the same.

"Kari Kamiya...you're bound by the strings of fate...but not in the way you'd think." The man said to Kari confusing her making her shake her head. And when she looked at the mirror again, it was her reflection instead. But she did hear the man's voice in her head.

'Follow the ringing...you're bound by destiny to be a part of this...but you're not meant to fight.' Kari suddenly began following the ringing leaving her apartment and running in the streets until she made it to a store window where instead of her reflection, she saw something completely different: Yuto.

"You're the boy from before." Kari said turning to see where Yuto would be but he wasn't there as he was still visible in the reflection of the window.

-Mirror-

Yuto would've turned to see Kari as well but he heard an odd sound and turned to see a giant gold and white Spider walking towards him. Yuto looked at it in fear before it shot a web at him catching the boy and pulling him towards it making Yuto yell.

"What do I do?!" He was answered by the man from before appearing and answering it from him.

"Transform Ryuki...you already know how...remember your dreams..." The man vanished as Yuto closed his eyes and remembered his dream that was similar to Kari's but instead there were three shadowed figures extending their arms with boxes just like Yuto's but two of them had the other two symbols and the one with the bull's was green instead of black. Yuto opened his eyes and pulled the box out from his pocket and extended his arm forward making a silver belt with an open slot in the front. He pulled his arm down and slid the box into the slot making the red gem on the top of the belt and the gold symbol on the box shine as white silhouettes surrounded him and combined on his body and in Yuto's place stood a man in silver and black armor with a red jumpsuit under, he had a red and silver dragon head-shaped gauntlet on his left arm with two yellow eyes with a helmet that had the gold symbol from the belt on the top with the front resembling a dragon with a silver grille covering the red bug-eyes under. He had become what the man had called him, Kamen Rider Ryuki.

"I feel...different." Ryuki said before breaking free from the webs making the spider pounce at him. He rolled out of the way and got a better look at the rest of his body surprised by it. "If I remember my dreams...then I should do this." Ryuki said as he put his thumb on the edge of the front of the belt and slid it pulling out a card from the box. He pushed the top of his gauntlet down and slid the card inside, pushing the top back up making a voice come from the gauntlet.

ADVENT

The Spider pounced once again but suddenly a red and silver serpent dragon resembling Ryuki's gauntlet and his color scheme appeared and tackled the spider in mid-air sending it on its back. The dragon then flew around him and looked at Ryuki making him put his hand on its head.

"I know you...you're Dragreder." Ryuki said making the dragon growl, acknowledging its name. But then the two turned their attention back to the spider that flipped back onto its legs firing several spear like spines at the two making Dragreder spin around Ryuki and deflect the attacks. "Ready pal?" Ryuki asked making Dragreder roar as he pulled out a card from his deck activating it.

FINAL VENT

Ryuki got ready before jumping up in the air followed by Dragreder. He spun before extending his leg and being shot by one of Dragreder's fireballs sending him covered in fire at the spider destroying it. Ryuki stood up breathing heavily from the realization that all of what just happened was real. He looked at Dragreder who was currently in the air looking at him.

"Partner! You wouldn't happen to know how to send me home would you?" Ryuki asked making Dragreder fly at him and tackle him into a window making him go through it like he did at Davis's apartment and reappear in the normal world again but as Yuto. He looked in his pocket to see the black box was still there and smiled. "That was...so awesome..." Yuto said remembering the way to Davis's apartment and went to it as Kari looked at him in shock.

"Ryuki? He looked just like Ryuga..." Kari said to herself shaking from what she had just witnessed before going back home.

Kari was back where she was in her dream, continuing where it had left off which was a first as it had never passed Odin and Ryuga walking towards her.

"Odin...Ryuga..." Kari said holding the broken camera until all of a sudden three figures jumped in front of her, one of them clearly a beaten and bloodied Yuto. "Yuto stop! You'll die!" Kari's words fell to deaf ears as the three extended their arms revealing their personal decks and the belts forming on their waists.

"HENSHIN!" The three slid their decks in as Yuto became Ryuki. The figure to his left with the Bat deck became a man with bat-like armor with a blue jumpsuit under, a helmet resembling a bat with a grille covering two bat-like blue eyes, and a black rapier resembling a bat at the hilt with his symbol in the middle. And the one to the right with the Bull deck became a man with silver and black cybernetic armor resembling SWAT police armor with a green jumpsuit under and a green gun on the side resembling his helmet. The five Kamen Riders ran at each other with Ryuga and Ryuki especially running at each other with their fists on fire.