KKD: Kamen Rider Wizard has been out for a while now, so I figured I'd write my own story with him. Seems like it's early? Yes, I know, but I like it, and he deserves a x-over up here. So, with permission from Gammatron (GT), I decided to do a side story of his Count the Medals story where Sonic was OOO, to which, his Side Story, Blade Brave contains my OC Alpha as a side character. However, my story will contain more of my OCs, including my story debuts of three OCs from my RP forum. I hope you enjoy the story.
DISCLAIMERS: Kamen Keyblade Duelist does NOT own Kamen Rider Wizard, Sonic the Hedgehog, or other related franchises, characters, and such used in this story. They belong to their respective owners including Toei, Bandai, SEGA, and Archie Comics. Count the Medals (Sonic/KR OOO X-Over) and Blade Brave (Sonic/KR Blade X-Over) belong to Gammatron, as originally wrote them. Kamen Keyblade Duelist, however, DOES own the following OCs which will appear: Takeshi Narumi the Hedgehog, his twin sister Hana, Luna Hashimoto the Cat, and Alpha the Hedgehog (who will only make noted spoken appearances unless otherwise noted).
KKD: I hope you enjoy this tale, and I hope that GT updates Count the Medals and Brave Blade soon; those stories are great, and I'd like to see more of them. Anyway, please continue to read and review my stories, and if you like this one, please let me now in a review, and tell me how I can improve. I'll see you at the end.
Magic is Showtime
Chapter 1: The Ringed Magician
Once, magic was studied as science, but as civilizations advanced, magic was forgotten.
Time passes and we reach the modern day. There is one man who will use magic to clear away a terror that science cannot solve. People call that mage "Wizard."
This is where we turn our attention to a young Mobian hedgehog. This young Mobian of 20 had cobalt blue quills, and peach colored skin. His head quills were spiked up slightly, but still had a slightly wind-swept look to them. These head quills also displayed bright red highlights in them. If he didn't have his red shirt on, you'd easily see a tuft of white fur on his chest as well as more easily see his white mane around his neck. On top of his torso was a red and white tye-die(ish) shirt which was mostly covered by his black leather jacket. His hands were adorned with white gloves with golden rings at the wrists, and on his right hand was a large silver ring with an orange amber gemstone in it (trust me, this was larger than your average Jewelry store ring). He was also wearing red jean-like pants with a regular belt that had a strange black hand design with a gold trim for some reason. On his feet were some strange sneakers; they were red with a white stripe going across the top from side to side, where the socks would lie, also lay golden rings around his ankles, the bottoms of the shoes also contained jets that could allow the wearer to travel faster than most people, and the toes had a strange turquoise color to it, otherwise, they looked like most sneakers.
This hedgehog was known as Takeshi Narumi, who sometimes went by the alias of Haruto Souma. His current location of sitting atop a city streetlight in Japan could be of concern, but he could care less as he chomped down on one of many doughnuts that were simply covered in plain sugar.
"Umai," he chuckled as took a bite and a small silver and red bird flew up to him.
This bird could've been easily mistaken for a plastic toy/model if it weren't for the red jewel pieces, the strange silver circle for it's chest with a ruby bird imprinted on it, and the fact that it was flapping and squawking at Takeshi, all signs that the bird was a living creature.
"You found it, Garuda?" Takeshi asked, getting a nod and confirmed screech from the little bird. "Oh well. Guess I'll hold off on these."
With that, he stored his bitten-into doughnut back into the bag as he held up his silver and amber ring, which, upon closer inspection, held the design of a dragon coming out of a portal. He then placed this ring on the strange hand design on his belt before the ring began to glow.
=CONNECT, PLEASE=
Takeshi then held up this ringed hand to the space behind him, which created a large red portal with intricate magical designs on it. Once the ring's glow subsided, he reached through the portal, and pulled out a strange looking motorcycle.
The motorcycle itself had strange silver and gold designs in the frame as the front of the bike looked like a strange large ruby ring.
Takeshi quickly boarded this bike from his perch on the streetlight, leaving his bag of doughnuts up there, landing safely on the bike before readying himself to drive off.
"Show me the way, please," Takeshi requested as Garuda nodded and flew off with the biked hedgehog behind him.
Not that far away, a police squadron made mostly of human males, and Mobian canines readied themselves outside a door to an old warehouse as one human stepped forward with a female yellow feline Mobian.
"What's the situation?" the man asked a Mobian Doberman.
"There are still workers inside," the canine reported as the feline checked her revolver, ready to fire when needed to as the man, assumedly her commanding officer, turned to her.
"Think you can handle this, Hashimoto?" he asked as the feline with golden yellow fur (and hair done in a ponytail), white muzzle and blue eyes checks her gun with her surprisingly clean white gloves before locking it in place.
"I'll be fine," she assured him as they stepped closer to the door of the warehouse. "Protecting people is a cop's duty after all."
With the door open, the cops awaited their orders.
"Yosh. Then we're going in," the higher-ranking officer told the others as they all entered the building, waiting for everyone as they gathered in the hallway.
Once they all reached the hallway, they barged into the main building, guns ready when they saw something unexpected.
The workers of the warehouse were being attacked by some strange humanoid creatures that were neither human nor Mobian.
"What… are those?" officer Hashimoto gasped.
What the humanoid creatures were were strange rock-like creatures with strange golden-red "veins" on their bodies along with two red horns on their heads.
When they saw the police, instead of running in fear, they slowly walked towards them like some kind of strange zombies.
The officers just open fired at the strange creatures, but their shots only sent off smoke from their rock hard (or harder than rock) skin.
"I don't believe it!" Hashimoto gasped as the creatures got close enough and attacked the cops, terrifying them.
There was enough for each of the "golems" to take on each of the nine cops. One of these creatures knocked Officer Hashimoto to the ground as another humanoid creature walked in. This one had the appearance of a cyan Minotaur with gold, white, and red designs.
This Minotaur just kicked one officer aside before staring intently at Hashimoto with his sinister red eyes. This freaked the officer enough for her to pull out her pistol and fire at the creature, only for a few sparks and smoke to fly off as it simply walked closer to her, causing her to gasp when she ran out of ammo. The Minotaur just knelt down and grasped her wrist examining her form for some reason before getting right in her face (seems he never heard of personal space).
"Anything you try is useless!" the Minotaur scoffed, picking up the Mobian feline, tossing her gun to the ground, and gripping her neck tight as if to choke her while she was gasping for air and careful not to drop a silver locket she had around her neck.
Just then, Takeshi arrived on his bike by charging through the wall in epic fashion, surprising the strange golems and forcing the Minotaur to look in his direction as they all soon stared at him with the other officers and workers being knocked unconscious. Takeshi soon screeched his bike to a halt as he spun twice, knocking some of the strange humanoids onto their backsides as Takeshi gave off a calm smirk to the Minotaur as if he'd done stuff like this his whole life.
=CONNECT, PLEASE=
With that, another red magic circle appeared in the air as Takeshi reached into it with a spin, pulling out a large and strange looking gun with a black and gold hand where the hammer would supposedly be before aiming it towards the Minotaur, who attempted to use Hashimoto as a shield.
"What?!" the Minotaur gasped as Takeshi, showing off, spun around firing several silver bullets with red trails towards the golem creatures and the Minotaur.
Some of these bullets hit the other creatures, but just as a bullet moved just past Hashimoto's face as she gasped… that bullet and another hit the Minotaur in the horn, cutting it off near the base. All of this happened in a few seconds as Hashimoto was released and the Minotaur gawked at what happened.
"Silver bullets? You're… a mage!" the Minotaur realized as officer Hashimoto struggled to her knees.
"A mage?" she repeated as Takeshi smirked with the Minotaur holding up his hand.
"Onore~!"
Suddenly a fireball formed in the Minotaur's hand before he threw it, engulfing Takeshi in flames and forcing Hashimoto to shield her eyes until a strange sound was heard. Then, the flames were being swallowed up by another of those strange magical circles, but it was being used by a new being in Takeshi's place.
This being, compared to the average 3 ft Mobian hedgehog, was a human male about 6'4" wearing a black bodysuit that had silver trimmed red bands on his wrists and ankles. He had noticeable shoulder pads that were black, but had a big silver spot with the design of a dragon trying to bite it's tail etched into them; his collared suit made itself a kind of trenchcoat look with a red interior, and on his chest, red rounded ruby designs adorned it while his waist held the hand from Takeshi's normal belt on top of a larger silver buckle with a grey strap, and the hand was a left… er… handed one, still being black with the gold trim. Finally, his helmet was black, but mostly silver with and oval ruby red faceplate that had silver lines to show the eyes as well as silver antennae with a yellow "pointer" on his forehead. On his fingers were two rings, his right having the design of the black and gold hand from his buckle and on his left was a ruby red ring with a design similar to his helmet, this being the hand that held the magical circle sucking in the flames.
Soon, this warrior sucked all the flames into the magical circle before it vanished, causing the Minotaur to gasp in even more shock as Hashimoto remained amazed in silence as the light from the hole Takeshi made earlier made this warrior look more like a hero than expected.
"You're Wizard?" the Minotaur gasped as Wizard brought his left hand closer to his face, showing off the red ring on it.
"Saa… Showtime da!" this being, Wizard, said in a slightly distorted version of Takeshi's voice, giving the impression that it IS Takeshi.
(Cue Opening Music: Life is SHOW TIME)
Wizard, who was apparently Takeshi, walked closer to the monsters, his gun in hand, ready to fire.
"GO!" the Minotaur ordered, causing the rock creatures to charge towards Wizard, only for the mage to blast each one away with his magical silver bullets.
When he was forced to dodge, though, it was proven that his martial arts skills weren't something to trifle with either as he fought the ghouls with ease. He was also able to quickly switch back from hand-to-hand combat to long range (sort of) with his gun, even stopping a strike from one of the creatures wielding a staff before firing at his gut before kicking it outside, forcing the others out as well with a few well aimed shots.
As the creatures charged toward him again, Wizard shifted something on his gun, changing it into a short sword before charging and slashing the creatures, sending sparks flying, and the rock creatures back in retaliation before Wizard jumped into the air a few yards away and continued to slash the creatures, even deflecting one attack and using the creature to block another's attack before pushing it aside.
It was then the Minotaur jumped in and slashed his large axe at Wizard, but the mage was able to dodge the attacks with ease and jump over the bull-man yards away to stare him and the rock creatures down before the Minotaur walked away and the other creatures charged once more, yet, Wizard as able to deflect the staves easily with his silver blade.
"Please don't get in the way," he requested as he moved one staff away and kicked its respective ghoul aside, quickly shifting his sword back into the gun mode we saw it in earlier.
Then, he held up the gun, the strange hand closed finger side facing the "camera" as he moved the thumb, opening said hand, revealing another magical circle that flashed with color.
=COME AND SHOOT! SHAKE HANDS!=
Wizard quickly placed his left hand in this hand, causing a flash of red light, and burst of fire energy at the weapon's muzzle, readying the thing to be fired..
=FLAME … SHOOTING STRIKE!=
=HI HI HI! HI HI HI!=
With the first triple Hi, Wizard spun and began firing off blasts of fire, which easily destroyed the rock goons with a large explosion, leaving Wizard unharmed.
(Title appears as the Music ends, then Title disappears)
It was at this point that Hashimoto, who recovered from that little fiasco earlier, walked outside to see what all the fuss was about and saw Wizard dialing a number on a flip cell phone, and held it up like he's able to hear through his helmet, and due to the fact that he's a Mobian under that human suit, he probably could, as Garuda flew over to Wizard as someone picked up the phone.
"Oh, Hana-nee-chan? I took care of the Ghuls but the Phantom got away," Wizard said, speaking to the person on the other end as he looked up at Garuda. "Do you know where it went?
"Garu-chan can't do this alone, Takeshi-nii-chan," a girl told Takeshi. "You need to summon more familiars."
This girl was his actual sister, and she was currently speaking to him on a cell phone from an old antique store. Her appearance was identical to Takeshi's (considering they're identical twins), but she had her red highlighted cobalt blue head quills styled into a ponytail held in place thanks to a turquoise headband. Her gloves were like her brother's, but made for girls, and still had the golden rings on the wrists. Her clothes now comprise of wearing a large dress with long fluffy sleeves, her shoes that peeked out from under the skirt looked similar to Silver the Hedgehog's boots, but in a high-heel form.
At the moment, Hana Narumi, saw her brother in Wizard form through a magic crystal ball, which showed Garuda's point of view, which made sense if Takeshi knew that's how she was watching him.
"Listen, sis, using magic is pretty tiring," Wizard said in a reminding tone of voice.
"I know that, but we don't have any other options."
Nearby on a bench was an older male hedgehog with graying orange quills and wrinkling skin while wearing a simple shirt, pants, and vest outfit. He took a quick glance at Hana and smiled with a silent chuckle seeing she was still talking to her brother before continuing to file down a piece of amber as the silver frame for some of Wizard's rings sat next to it.
"Geez," Wizard sighed, hanging up the phone back at the warehouse. "That's easy for Hana-nee-chan to say."
With that, he flipped a switch on his buckle, making the left hand design rotate into the right hand from before as it flashed with a beep.
=LEPATCH MAGIC TOUCH GO!=
The voice continued to say this from the belt as Wizard swapped the ring on his right hand for a sapphire ring with a unicorn designed into it before flashing it in front of his belt, stopping the repeating of the above phrase.
=UNICORN, PLEASE=
This caused a plastic tray with sapphire blue and silver pieces to appear as the pieces configured themselves into the shape of a Unicorn with a large horn, and a rectangular hole on it's chest. With another ring swap, this time with a topaz ring with the picture of a kraken on it, he flippled the hand design twice before flashing this ring in front of the buckle.
=KRAKEN, PLEASE=
Another tray appeared as the topaz yellow and silver parts connected into a squid/octopus creature, the rectangular hole in its forehead. Wizard then took the rings he used to summon these creatures, and inserted the rings into the rectangular slots, making their trays vanish as Unicorn dropped to the ground and Kraken hovered in the air with Garuda, the two bickering for a moment.
"It should be nearby, if you'd please," Wizard replied as the three Plastic model monsters, or Plamonsters, nodded and flew/ran off with Wizard watching before his armor magically vanished, leaving the normal 3 ft Takeshi out of the armor, but still keeping the hand design from his buckle on his normal belt.
Hashimoto was there to witness the entire thing, and she was simply amazed at what she saw.
"Are you really a mage?" Hashimoto asked, getting Takeshi's attention.
"I suppose," he responded before walking off.
However, the officer wasn't going to let her quarry get away that easily, as she ran in front of him with a speed far too familiar to him before pulling out her badge.
'That speed… it reminds me of mine, Hana-chan's, and that of my ol' pal Sonic,' Takeshi noted mentally. 'I wonder how that Hino Eiji's doing anyway? Probably having a better time with his little girl than I am with these Phantoms.'
"I'm with the Toriizaka Police Department; I'm Hashimoto Luna," the feline introduced herself showing her badge before putting it away. "It sounds like you know something about those monster."
"You mean Phantoms?"
"'Phantoms'?"
"People, whether they are Human, Mobian, or mixes with high levels of magic are known as Gates. If a Gate is killed, a mass of magic is born. That's what those Phantom's are."
At another, undisclosed location, the Minotaur, revealed to be a Phantom, was walking into the abandoned building and felt a familiar and expected presence. He turned and bowed to the being he knew was there.
"Phoenix-sama," the Minotaur replied to another Phantom.
However, it was obvious this one was more of the higher rankings. This Phantom was mostly red with golden beak shoulder pads, and the bird theme was pretty obvious. His head had three wing-like decorations that made up his forehead-spike/horn and the tips of his "eyebrows" over his blue eyes as his mouth area was silver, divided by a red line.
It seemed this guy was bored for a bit as he jumped down casually and turned to the Minotaur Phantom.
"How can you fail after using all those Ghuls?" the Phoenix asked as he transformed into a human form with black hair, goatee, eyes, and red clothes. "Well?"
"A mage appeared and got in my way."
"You mean… Wizard?" a female voice asked as a strange, snake themed female Phantom appeared.
This Phantom was mostly black, white, and pink, with a golden "belt," shoulder pads, as well as a green spot in her cleavage, a pink snake scale head piece with a thick black trim the covered her eyes and nose, leaving only her pink lips visible on her white face. The most notable feature of her would be the currently stiff hairs that happened to be snakes, making it easier to identify her theme.
"Medusa-sama," the Minotaur Phantom said turning and bowing to the female Phantom, now identified as the Medusa Phantom.
"Our job as Phantoms is to drive the Gates to the depths of despair… thus giving birth to new Phantoms," Medusa reminded Minotaur as she transformed into her human form, which was a woman with back length black hair, dark blue eyes, and a long dress that covered most of her skin except for her arms. "All so Wiseman can once again open a Sabbath."
"I understand."
"Then forget about the mage and drive the Gate to despair already," Phoenix insisted of the Minotaur Phantom.
"Yes, sir."
"So if Phantoms attack Gates, does that mean that one of those workers was a Gate?" Luna asked Takeshi while they were still at the warehouse.
"Probably," Takeshi figured, not wanting to jump to conclusions.
"Wait a moment! How can you even use magic in the first place?"
"It's because I'm keeping a Phantom in my body."
With that, Luna gave Takeshi a looked of confusion and suspicion at the same time as the hedgehog was starting to walk off before… Luna grabbed the Hedgehog's wrist. The next thing Takeshi knew, the feline officer slapped handcuffs on his wrists, surprising him after a quick shake to confirm that they were real.
"But why?"
As Hana witnessed this from her crystal ball, she sighed as the old orange Hedgehog walked over to the entrance to the room she was in with a mug of water.
"What's the matter, Hana?" the old hedgehog asked before taking a sip of his beverage.
"Takeshi-nii-chan was arrested," she answered bluntly, causing the older Mobian to do a spit-take as a chime was heard and the old man coughed a little bit, the shock of what Hana said making his beverage enter the wrong tube.
"Eh? What? By the Police?!"
At the police station, Luna had already placed Takeshi behind bars.
"Hey… Luna-chan. Isn't suddenly detaining me a bit extreme?" the hedgehog in the cell asked the feline officer outside it.
"It's because you have the stench of danger about you," Luna answered.
"Eh?! Really?! …As a man, that doesn't sound too bad."
"So, Souma Haruto-san, or is it Narumi Takeshi-kun?"
"The latter."
In case you're wondering, after one incident, Takeshi decided to go by the alias Haruto Souma, but still let's those he trust call him by his real name.
"Then, Narumi Takeshi-kun, let me ask you again about the Phantoms," Luna started again.
"Hey, Luna-chan~"
"Don't address me like we're friends."
"It seems like you insist on dealing with the Phantoms."
"Of course! Protecting people is a cop's job."
"But only mages can fight them."
This was a real shocker to Luna.
"So are you saying… that I should just give up?!" Luna gawked, getting Takeshi's attention more than before. "I have to go through the despair of doing nothing while people are in danger?!"
After getting a quick breather, Luna regained her composure.
"I envy mages," she stated. "You can do anything with your magic. I'm sure you never feel any despair."
Boy is Luna dead wrong on that. With her choice of words, Takeshi thought back to a day in the past. He didn't want to remember much due the pain, but he did remember the eclipse, the ground crack with red light, feeling despair, people around him giving into despair as they crack with purple energy, screaming in pain before their exteriors shed into kaijin… more of the Phantoms he spoke of. There was even the pain and despair he felt in himself, nearly giving birth to a dragon Phantom as dragon wings burst from his back. Then, the was a sudden hint of hope in the despair as he got up, reached for the sun, and acted like he grasped it before he glowed a bright light.
That was the worst moment in his life; he remembered hearing his pal Eiji went through something similar in emotions when he couldn't save this one little girl. However, Sonic had managed to move on from that moment somehow, and so should Takeshi.
"I don't give in to despair because of my magic," Takeshi told Luna.
"Eh?" Luna gawked.
"It's because I didn't give in to despair that I obtained my magic."
"What are you saying? That doesn't make sense. …Never mind. I'll handle this case even without magic. I can't give in to despair that easily!"
This caused Takeshi to snicker a bit before standing up from his sitting pose.
"That's good. But… if you really do give in to despair…" he started as he held his right fist towards Luna, with the ring that had the hand design on it, before her, causing the feline to look confused. "…then I'll be your hope."
"Eh? Eh?! What's that supposed to mean?!" Luna gawked just as…
"Hashimoto," a voice called out revealing the officer with Luna earlier, but now with a bandage on his head. "A moment?"
After a moment of silence, she turned to Takeshi.
"Stop saying such weird stuff! Just stay here!" Luna instructed as she left with her superior, leaving Takeshi to sit in his cell and think.
"Now then... what should I do?" he pondered to himself.
"We're dropping the investigation?! Are we just going to ignore this case?!" Luna gawked at what was told of her by an elderly Mobian canine, who was also the chief of police that Luna's superior took her to.
"That's right. This case isn't something the police can handle," the chief told her, causing the feline to lower her head in defeat… almost.
"It's true that they're monsters beyond our wildest imaginations… but…"
"At any rate, stay away from this case."
The chief simply walked to his desk to sit down as Luna followed him, insisting on staying on the case.
"But why?! Are you letting those things do whatever they want?! Isn't it a cop's job to protect the people?!"
"Those are irrefutable orders from above!"
"Eh?!"
At about that time, Hana was holding the Unicorn Plamonster in her hands as it led her toward her brother. So it shouldn't be a surprise that she stopped at the Toriizaka Police Department. Hana, however, looked like she was about to get second thoughts before deciding to walk up to the building, and hopefully inside it. However, those plans changed as she saw Luna storm out the building and away from the location, not immediately noticing her superior in pursuit.
"She's the one who arrested Onii-chan…" Hana started before she suddenly heard…
"Matte, Hashimoto!" Luna's superior, Amino, shouted as he ran past, Luna noticing something about the man for some reason (A/N: Matte is one of the ways Japanese say wait; it all depends on the moment).
Takeshi was soon distracted by a growl from his stomach.
"Ah? …Oh right, I was in the middle of eating," Takeshi said calmly as he switched the ring on his right middle finger, with his Connect Ring before flashing it in front of his buckle.
=CONNECT, PLEASE=
Creating a portal to where he left his bag of doughnuts, he reached in and grabbed the bag, unaware of a noise in front of him. It turned out to be Unicorn's horn digging through the floor as the small Plamonster burst through, getting Takeshi's attention before he took another bite of his doughnut.
"Oh! Unicorn! Good timing. You want some," Takeshi offered before he saw a small piece of paper in Unicorn's mouth.
"I understand how you feel," Amino told Luna as he caught up with her at a nearby park as the Mobian feline took a seat. "But… you know we can't do anything about those monsters. …Give up."
This shocked Luna almost to no end.
"Sempai, you're saying that too?!" Luna gawked (A/N: Sempai is a way of referring to a superior; I accidentally misspelled it in other stories of mine as "senpai"). "I joined the police because I want to protect people. If I don't do that job, then how can I be a cop?"
"Why are you so interested in being a detective?"
This caused Luna to go silent for a while before reaching for the pendant around her neck and showing it to Amino.
"I became a detective because of my father," she answered as she opened it to reveal a picture of a Mobian feline with red fur wearing an officer's uniform. "My father was a resident cop out in the country.
In a flashback, we can see this same Mobian cop helping out an elderly woman, acting much like a good Samaritan for many people who passed by.
"My father did everything he could to protect the town," Luna of the present described as we witness the elderly woman give Luna's father many gifts for him and his family from her garden before leaving as a young Luna returning from school called out to her father, getting his attention before they got into a typical father-daughter loving hug. "I want to be like my father and protect people."
"That's why I became a detective," Luna finished, as Amino seemed to nod in understanding.
"I see. So that's what's supporting your heart," the human nodded before a sick grin crossed his face as he… grabbed Luna's pendant before ripping it from her neck, launching the feline to her knees, much to her surprise.
"What are you doing?!"
However, despite Luna's protests, she was once again tossed to the ground by Amino as she turned to see his sick grin turn neutral as the face of the Minotaur Phantom could be seen through his face, causing Luna to gasp in shock.
At the same time, Takeshi read the note that Unicorn had, which happened to be from Luna saying "Detective with wounded head is the Phantom." With that, Takeshi knew what this meant.
"So that means…" he started, remembering when he shot the Minotaur Phantom's horn and compared it to seeing Amino smirking at him earlier. "Luna-chan's the Gate?! …Guess I'll have to hold off on these again."
Takeshi had to place his doughnuts down again as he pulled out another amber ring, this having a depiction of a dragon, only it was shrinking. He then flashed this ring like he did his other magic rings.
=SMALL, PLEASE=
With four of the magic circles forming around him, Takeshi shrunk with the rings forcing his height down until, to him, the Unicorn Plamonster was the same height as a normal horse. Then, boarding Unicorn like one, he rode off out of a "doggie door" of the cell before running off to find the Phantom again.
Said Phantom just so happened to be shedding his human disguise in a magical mist right in front of Luna, much to her shock.
"Amino-sempai is… a Phantom?!" she gasped getting up. "But why?!"
"Amino gave into despair and died. Giving birth to me, a Phantom," the Minotaur Phantom answered.
"I can't believe it…"
"You're all helpless before us Phantoms."
With that, the Minotaur Phantom that was created from Amino dropped the pendant of Luna's before stomping on it, smashing it before her eyes. When he removed it, she was in shock; it was the only thing she had left from her father apparently, so she felt like she was losing hope.
If one looked in her mind, that memory we saw in the flashback suddenly grew purple cracks between the young Luna and her father, freezing the image in time.
In the present, Luna gasped as she felt like she nearly had a heart attack before slowly falling to her knees, barely able to breathe as the Phantom looked on with pleasure nearby.
"Give in to despair and give birth to a new Phantom!" he chuckled, not noticing a familiar silver bullet until it hit his shoulder, launching him aside before turning back to see… none other than a normal sized Takeshi holding the gun he used earlier with his sister at his side, much to the Phantom's chagrin. "The mage with the rings!"
"So you were after Luna-chan?" he asked sarcastically before turning to Hana. "Take care of her."
With a nod, Hana went over to Luna to do so as the hedgehog mage and Minotaur Phantom stared each other down.
"I don't have time to deal with you," the Phantom growled.
"Same for me," Takeshi replied, placing his right hand, wielding the ring with the same design as his buckle, over it.
=DRIVER ON, PLEASE=
With that and a flash, the silver belt emerged from the buckle, forming the belt Wizard wore earlier in the chapter. He then readied the oval red ruby ring with the face of his rider form, only with out the eyes, as they appeared to look like goggles, onto his left hand.
"That's why I'm going to finish you quickly."
Takeshi then reached his hands to the levers on both sides of the belt buckle, and flipped them so the hand design was that of a left hand before a glow emerged from the belt.
=SHA BA DO BE TOUCH HENSHIN=
As this repeated, Takeshi reach his right hand of his left.
"Henshin!" he said as he flipped the 'goggles' down on the ring as he showed it off a second before holding it in front of his buckle like his other rings.
=FLAME, PLEASE=
Takeshi quickly held out his left hand, creating a magic circle his height, before it got closer to him.
=HII! HII! HII HII HII!=
As this played, the circle passed over him, increasing Takeshi's height, and covering him in Wizard's armor at the same time. A short time later for those to observe his form as the Phantom stupidly stood still, Takeshi, as Wizard, moved his left hand closer to his face before he showed off his ring.
"Saa… showtime da," he stated calmly walking closer to the Phantom.
With that, the Minotaur Phantom pulled out his axe and charged as Wizard did the same. With each slash the Minotaur made, Wizard dodged with ease, maneuvering the weapon out of his way so he could kick and damage the Phantom. Then, Wizard made one quick flip of the buckle as he already set up another ring.
=CONNECT, PLEASE=
Reaching into the created portal, Wizard pulled out his weapon of choice, the gun/sword weapon known as the WizarSwordGun (the weapon he used multiple times this chapter). Quickly dodging more axe swipes, Wizard pulled out the gun mode and fired, knocking the Minotaur Phantom back before switching his weapon to its sword mode.
Now they were somewhat equal in terms of weapons, but Wizard was obviously the better fighter as he dodged and deflected the Phantom's strikes with ease, even to the point of flipping over one attack before countering. This went on until Wizard destroyed the axe with one thrust, stabbing the Phantom and launching him back a distance.
Just when Wizard calmed his form, the Minotaur suddenly charged like a raging bull. Wizard prevented serious damage by using his blade to hold against the horn, but… the force of the Phantom still running forced Wizard back a distance still.
"OH! CHOTTO! CHOTTO! CHOTTO! OI! OI! OI! OI!" he shouted before the Phantom finally stopped, and launched Wizard into the air, who only did a flip and landed safely on his feet before removing his ruby ring and replacing it with a similar square topaz yellow ring. "Geez, what a troublesome rampager you are."
As he stood up, he flipped the buckle to the left hand, flashing the new ring in front of him.
=LAND, PLEASE=
=DODODO DODODON! DON DODODON!=
As this was chanted, a circle/ring similar to the other magic circle before rose from the ground as chunks of earth surrounded him and the red aspects of his costume turned yellow and square.
"Kisama! You can change elements too?!" the Phantom gawked before charging again.
"I suppose," Wizard chuckled, arming his right hand with another amber ring that featured a dragon with a shield before making the buckle flip.
=DEFEND, PLEASE=
The next thing that happened was a stone barrier appeared from one of the magical rings as the Minotaur charged on all fours, barging through the barrier, but got stuck so that his upper torso, minus his arms, were sticking out before Wizard, getting him to chuckle before kicking the Phantom into the air. This was all before he flipped the hand on the buckle again, and pulled out another form ring with a triangular green emerald on it as the henshin tune played.
"I've also got this," Wizard said before flashing the ring in front of his buckle.
=HURRICANE, PLEASE=
=FUU FUU FUU! FUU FUU FUU FUU!=
With that, Wizard jumped through the green ring above him, changing his armor so it had the emerald green in triangles on his armor before using the magic ring like a trampoline, launching into the air and slashing the Phantom with his sword multiple times before knocking the Minotaur to the ground. Then, he grabbed his Flame Style ring, and flipped the hand twice, back to the "henshin hand."
=FLAME, PLEASE=
=HII! HII! HII HII HII!=
Wizard quickly switched it to the "magic hand" and slipped on another amber ring that featured a dragon in flames followed by a foot.
"The Finale!" he exclaimed as the belt sang it's standby jingle before…
=VERY NICE, KICK STRIKE. SAIKO~!=
As a magical ring appeared, Wizard did a twirl, a swish of the trench coat over his legs, and kneeled as his right foot charged with fire magic. When he felt the charge was enough, Wizard did some slips before flip jumping into the air, reorienting himself to kick the rising Minotaur Phantom, who just stood in fear as the Rider executed a flying drop kick, and, after making contact, landed on the other side of the impacted Phantom. The same magical ring appeared behind the Minotaur as he collapsed before they both vanished in an explosion as Wizard admired his work.
"Takeshi-nii-chan!" Hana called out, getting the Rider's attention in time for him to see… purple energy cracking Luna's body as she fell further into despair. "At this rate, a Phantom will be born."
"I will never let that happen before my eyes again!" Wizard reminded Hana before kneeling down to Luna. "Luna-chan."
While she felt hopeless and knew what her assumed fate was, she managed to turn to the Rider Takeshi had become.
"The mage?" she asked in a slight whimper before looking at his masked face. "Looks like… it's hopeless."
"Don't give in to despair. Leave it to me."
With that, Wizard pulled out an amber ring with his magical seal etched in it, showing it to Luna. It was here that Luna remembered what Takeshi said earlier back in his cell.
"I will be your hope," the hedgehog told her with his fist held toward the feline.
Luna could only slightly smile at remembering this, the cracks slowly spreading.
"You're a strange… mage, are you?" she noted.
"I promise you, I'll be your final hope."
With that, Wizard slipped the ring he held onto Luna's outstretched hand and slipped it onto her middle finger and flipping his buckle twice before holding her hand to the buckle.
=ENGAGE, PLEASE=
With that, Luna fainted as a magical portal appeared above her still form. Wizard then levitated over it as Hana watched him before he dove in, plunging into the depths of, what is to us so far, an unknown world.
After flying through a tunnel of his red portals in a purple space, Wizard landed in a slightly grayed out area that was near the countryside. He turned to see a young Luna running over to her father, calling out to him.
"This is the world of her mind… Underworld," Wizard noted as the young Luna and her father froze before they reached each other for a hug as a purple crack appeared between them, which Wizard noticed.
Eventually, the cracks spread wide enough that the image before burst completely as a strange creature resembling the Jabberwock emerged from the purple hole left behind with a screech before flying over Wizard who ducked just in time.
"What a large mass of magic," he noted as Present Luna's body continued to crack much to Hana's worry.
"Nii-chan," she muttered to herself as Wizard, within Luna's Underworld, flipped his buckle twice back to "Magic mode."
=LEPATCH MAGIC TOUCH GO=
"I made a promise! I have to do this," Wizard reminded himself as he slipped on and amber ring with a dragon similar in design to the dragon marks on his shoulders as the magic standby jingle kept playing before…
=DRAGORISE, PLEASE=
As a magic ring appeared in the air, Wizard began to glow with fire magic before launching it with his right hand at the ring before a silver and gold dragon Phantom (unreleased like the Jabberwock) emerged with its small black and gold wings and the red jewels that adorned its body. With a roar, said dragon flew towards the Jabberwock as the ring vanished.
It gave a quick tackle at the Jabberwock into what was apparently the wall to the Underworld, but then, the Dragon did an unexpected move: it made a u-turn and flew out of control like it would've done in it's own host, knocking Wizard to his feet, or rather, his butt.
"DRAGON! Obey me!" the mage roared slipping on his connect ring.
=CONNECT, PLEASE=
With that, Wizard pulled his motorcycle, the Machine Winger, from another portal before driving after his dragon.
Said dragon was flying out of control, smashing the walls of the Underworld, making more cracks like crazy as Wizard drove in the direction of the beast. As both were going towards each other on a bridge, Wizard jumped the bike into the air, causing it to change into something similar to larger wings with black and silver circles where the wheels once were. The bike then attached to the dragon's back, giving Wizard more control over the dragon as he directed the beast back into the sky for an aerial brawl with the Jabberwock Phantom.
However, as they flew closer, they were forced to dodge blasts from the Jabberwock Phantom before the dragon breathed fire at the beast. This battle went on for quite some time, breaking the Underworld's walls quite a bit, even to the point where the Dragon grabbed the Jabberwock and they dove straight to the ground like eagles diving, but they actually caused some damage to occur until they flew back into the air and flew a great distance away before charging towards each other.
Wizard then pulled out his WizarSwordGun in sword mode before pulling the thumb of the hand, making it open and set to do a handshake.
=C'MON SLASH, SHAKE HANDS=
Wizard stood up as it started before "shaking" the hand with his left hand.
=FLAME SLASH STRIKE=
=HII HII HII! HII HII HII!=
With that, his sword charged with fire as the dragon flew closer and Wizard readied himself to slash his sword.
When the Jabberwock and Dragon were about to pass each other, though, Wizard slashed the oncoming Phantom, creating a ring around the kaijin before it exploded with the Dragon's roar and the purple cracks disappearing as if nothing happened.
Back in the present, Luna's body returns to normal, allowing Hana a sigh of relief before Wizard appeared on his normal bike through a portal with a flash of Luna's Engage Ring. Then, Wizard's armor dissipated like before returning the hedgehog to his normal form as he hopped off the bike.
"Is it over?" Hana asked.
"Yeah. Now she's no longer a Gate," Takeshi confirmed. "She won't be attacked again."
Hana smiled in relief at this.
Later, Luna awoke lying on the bench she was on earlier before she noticed the Engage Ring Wizard left behind on her finger. It left her in thought until a smile spread across her face.
"Hope, eh?" was all she could say.
At the same time, Takeshi and Hana were on the Machine Winger, helmets on both of their heads, as Takeshi drove them home, ready to take on the next Phantom.
JIKAI KAMEN RIDER WIZARD!
Luna: Hunting Phantoms again?
?: This case is under our jurisdiction.
?: You have obtained the right to become a mage.
?: I want to be a mage too!
Takeshi/Wizard: Saa… Showtime da!
Chapter 2: I Want to Be a Mage
KKD: I hope you guys liked that because I'm gonna be out at Pismo Beach for the weekend. Let's just hope I don't miss that left turn at Albuquerque. Anyway, as I said, this is my side story to GT's Count the Medals, and, hopefully, we'll get to see some cameos from here in his story. Also, this is the first actual fiction appearance of my OCs Takeshi, Hana, and Luna. So, I'd like to thank the guys on my forum for helping me come up with the ideas for these Mobians, and to GT for allowing me to write this side story. I hope it meets your standards.
Until next time, this is KKD requesting you all fav and review this story so I can keep the updates coming when I can. Jaa ne!