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Chapter 1: Raising
A blonde hair young man, who was of average height a built, stepped out of a car with a young woman, who was almost as tall as him stepped out of the driver's side of the car. "Are you sure you want to come here Nate?" she asked.
"Come on Kassie," Nate replied as the truck opened up and Nate grabbed a box and suitcase, "This will be good for me."
Kassie grabbed the other box, "You know that Mom want you to go to a better school," she said.
The two walked through the lobby were other people around Nate's age. "Mom should know if I went to another school, I wouldn't be in driving distance of Eastwood Shores," Nate explained.
Kassie giggled as they waited for an elevator, "You are mommy's little baby boy."
"Shut up!" Nate retorted. The elevator arrived and adults young and old walked out and the two took their spot.
"You know dad will kill you once he knows that you are going for an Art Major," Kassie told Nate.
"Don't remind me," Nate replied.
Once they reached the floor they wanted, they wondered down the hall, passing other young adults settling in, until they reached the room 520 with the door slightly opened, "This is my dorm room," Nate said as he pushed the door open.
Inside the room, they saw another young man, who was already settled in the room. He saw Nate and stood up. "Hi…," he greeted with a nervous smile, "You m-must be my roommate." He was a little hesitant but he reached out his hand and said, "I'm Ashton Rehm."
Nate placed his stuff on the bed and shook Ashton's hand, "I'm Nathan Darnell," he introduced himself. Then he turn to Kassie, "And this is my sister Kassie."
"Ni-nice to meet you," Ashton replied as he reached into his pocket and pulled out glasses and put them on.
Nate took a quick look at his roommate. He was taller than him, possibly over 6 feet tall. He was skinny and he kept his light brunette hair neat and clean, just like his clothes and stuff in the room. But the odd thing about him was he had a scar that go over his right eye and the iris right eye is red, while the other was blue.
"Nate we need to get the rest of your stuff," Kassie told her brother.
"Alright," Nate turned to Ashton, "Can you look…"
Ashton was already nodding his head and said, "Sure."
Nate left with his sister to get the rest of his stuff. On the way to the car Kassie grabbed Nate's shoulder. "Are you sure you want to stay here with someone like him?" she asked.
"What do you mean?" he said with a raised eyebrow.
"That guy is so odd," Kassie replied, "He possibly socially awkward, he did know the Darnell name. Are you sure you don't want to just stay at home."
Nate sighed as rubbed his temples. "Just because he isn't from a wealthy family like us, doesn't mean he should be treated differently. Plus I want to interact with people other than our family and other rich boys from boarding schools." Nate grabbed the last box from the car, "Stop judging people," he told his sister.
After an hour of setting thing up, Kassie said her goodbyes and left Nate with his roommate. There was an awkward silence between them. "So what is your Major?" Nate asked.
"Anthropology," Ashton replied quickly.
"Interesting," Nate replied, "Have you been interested in the past?" Ashton nodded in response. "I'm an Art Major. I was always into being creative and create masterpieces. My dad wanted me to go into business like him, but…"
Nate was interrupted by a beeping noise and Ashton pulled out his cellphone and checked something. "I'll be right back." He said as he left the room, leaving Nate by himself. The rest of the day was uneventful as Ashton came back an hour later.
The next day, Nate was checking out some of the collage campus. Seeing the building where his classes will be at. He likes the park-like campus. "I'm so happy to choose to come here." He continued to wonder around and ended up in the rec center that was on campus. He had an overhead view of students and athletes working out or getting a simple exercise.
"What do you call this?!" Nate saw a few guys near the weights, "You three need to work harder before the tryouts!"
Nate shook his head and muttered, "Jocks."
Nate exit the rec center, where he passed a man in a grey trench coat, fedora, and had a pair of sunglasses. Nate had and weird feeling about the man, but it passed as he heard his cellphone ring. He pulled out the phone and answered, "Hello,"
"Nathan, are you there?" a woman said on the other line of the phone.
Nate regretted answering the phone, "Yeah mom, I'm here."
"Is everything alright?" she asked.
"Yes mom, everything is fine," Nate replied.
"Because we can bring you home and…"
"Mom," Nate interrupted, "I haven't been gone for 24 hours yet. I'll be fine." Nate soon spotted Ashton sitting at a table drinking something. "I'll call you back. Love you."
Nate hung up the phone and walked to the table where Ashton was at. "Hey Ashton," he greeted.
Ashton looked up with a look of surprise, "Um… hi," he said back. The two were in another awkward silence. "Can I…help you?"
"Well I thought since we are roommates we should hang out," Nate explained as he sat from across Ashton, "What are you drinking?"
"Smoothie," Ashton replied. Ashton just sat there and drank his smoothie just not saying anything else.
"Hi Ash!" a female voice called out. They both turned to see a red headed girl with long hair in a ponytail, who looked like she was about 5'2" and had a side bag. She sat in the empty chair.
"Hey Lucy," Ashton greeted. Nate was surprised to see Ashton comfortable with someone.
'Then again she might know him for a long time,' Nate thought.
"So how do you think of this school?" Lucy asked.
"It's nice," Ashton replied.
"Are you going to introduce me to him?" Lucy asked nudging towards Nate.
Ashton started to stutter as he tried to introduce Nate. "I'm Nathan Darnell," he introduced himself, "But you can call me Nate."
"You're roommates?" Lucy asked. Ashton nodded in reliance. Lucy turned to Nate. "Darnell? As in the son of Mabuz Darnell?"
Nate sighed and replied, "Yeah, the same. Even have the family name on the business building here."
"Must be rough," Lucy said.
Just then Ashton got up, "Sorry, I need to head to work." As he started to walk, he tripped and spilled the smoothie, where he landed in it.
"You okay?" Lucy asked.
Ashton quickly got up and turned to Lucy, "I'm fine," he quickly replied as he left.
"He's always an oddball," Lucy said, "I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Lucy Holt."
"Is he always like that?" Nate asked.
"Ever since we were in elementary school," Lucy replied. "So, you noticed his eye?"
"Yeah," Nate said, "I wanted to ask him about it, but I knew it isn't in my place to ask."
"Good," Lucy said, "A lot of people just see his 'unnatural' eyes and they judge him without seeing that he is a kind young man."
"Something bad?" Nate asked.
"He will tell you when you earn his trust," Lucy said.
Nate smiled at the comment and said, "He looks like a great guy. Can't believe people would judge him."
"He needs friends like you," Lucy told him.
"Well, I'm going to check out where my classes will be at, so I'll see you around," Nate said as he got up.
"See ya!" Lucy said with a smile as Nate left.
Nate walked around the building to see more of the campus, but as he was walking he can hear someone talking. "I have what you want," a man said.
"And these will give us the strength we need?" another man said.
"Of course," the first man replied.
Against Nate's better judgment, he decided to see what was going. He crouched down and got closer. He saw the three jocks from the rec center and the man in the grey coat.
"Take these," the man handed three small flat object to the jocks. As they touched the objects, multicolored energy that looked like wires engulfed them. When the energy was gone, there stood three figures in copper plating, with wires underneath. Their heads were replaced with sickly pale skin with a mask over their mouth and nose. There look like they were wearing googles over their eyes.
"What did you do!?" one shouted with an electronic voice.
"Don't worry, this is normal," the man said, "You can change back with a simple thought, but just remember that you now have a debt with me now."
Nate couldn't understand what he was seeing, but he knows that he needs to get out of there. Unknowingly to him, he stepped on a stick and it snapped under his weight.
"Someone saw us!" the man shouted, "Find them!"
The three did what they were told and went to look for the intruder. Nate got up and tried to run, only to trip on his own feet. "There you are!" one of the monsters grabbed Nate and dragged him to the man.
"What do you think you are doing here boy?!" the man asked.
"I swear, I will not tell anyone!" Nate pleaded on the verge of crying.
"You won't, because you will die," the man said.
"What!?" the three monsters shouted.
"You're in debt to me!" the man shouted, "And claiming lives will pay off the debt!"
Ashton was in his dorm room, changing his shirt. He heard his phone beeping. Ashton picked up the phone and looked at it. He then grabbed a side bag from under the bed and ran out of the dorm room.
The man place his hand on Nate's face, "Such an innocent boy," he said, "But we need to leave no witnesses."
"Hey!"
The all turned to see Ashton. "Ashton, run!"
"Just look at you," Ashton said with a stern of confidence, "Three became Mech Alphas, I'm guessing for power."
"Just who are you!?" the man asked.
Ashton reached into the bag and pulled out a belt. With a swift motion, he put the belt on around his waist. Then he pulled out a dark blue object that looks like a crystal of an angular head. He inserted it into the belt and used something on the side of the crystal to spin it on the belt. "Henshin!" Blue energy came from the belt and wrapped him around him. When the energy stopped, he was in a navy armor, with a black spandex like outfit underneath the armor. There was a dragon's head on the right shoulder, small claws on the wrist and ankles, and wings engraved on his back. On the side of his of his belt is a small blade. He had a helmet with white visor over his eyes and a silver piece over his mouth.
"The Kamen Rider!" the man said.
"That's what you call me, but I am the Dragoon," Ashton replied.
"You'll all pay you off your debts with the death of that man!" the man shouted as he wanted the other to attack.
"Sending Alphas, typical," Ashton said as the Alphas dropped Nate and surrounded Ashton.
The first Alpha charged in and Ashton got out of the way and tripped it up. The next Alpha charged in and Ashton punched the Alpha on its ass. The last Alpha was hesitant so Ashton kicked it down. Ashton grabbed the blade and it grew into larger and it became a lance. He swung the lace around and it hit all the Alphas. Energy charged through the lance and with one last swing, he hit the Alphas again and they exploded, leaving unconscious young men.
"Pathetic Alphas!" the man shouted as energy surrounded him and took a new shape. He was a blue robot with what looked like a large circular fan with a face in the center of it. Its right hand was replaced with a fan. "This is a job for an Omega!"
"A Fan Mech, that's the first," Ashton said.
The Fan Mech release a large gust of wind, blowing the unconscious men away. Ashton jabbed the lance into the ground to keep himself in place. "No one escapes my gusts!" the Fan Mech shouted.
Ashton held out his hand and something was forming in it. When it was the size of a baseball, he tossed it behind the Fan Mech and it got sucked in damaging the Mech. "What did you do?!" it shouted.
"Fireballs," Ashton replied as he charged in and swung his lance around hitting the Fan Mech multiple times.
The Fan Mech used the fan it had for a hand to blow Ashton away. He used it to his advantage, as he landed on a wall and lunched himself at the Mech with his lance out and pierced the Arm of the Fan Mech, tearing it off.
The Fan Mech screamed in pain. "Foolish Kamen Rider," it started, "There are more of us out there and our leader will make sure you meet your demise."
"I'm ready for all of you," Ashton said as the lance's pole shrunk and he attached it to the end of his leg. The lance and the bottom part of his leg started to glow with energy. He jumped into the air with his foot out in front and kicked the Mech. Energy surged though the Mech and it exploded.
Nate was surprised to see what he just saw. He stared at the figure Ashton became, who stared back at him. "A Kamen Rider?"
A/N: Here is the first chapter to introduce some of the characters and the enemies. I hope you all enjoyed it.