Disclaimer: Neither Takeshi Yamato nor Xamusel own Kamen Rider Wizard or Persona 3. We only own the idea from the plot, and some of the OCs.
Takeshi Yamato: Hello, everyone!
About a month or so ago, I started getting into the Kamen Rider Franchise - specifically the two most recent entries, Wizard and Gaim. I haven't seen much of either show, but what I have seen on YouTube and read from the Wiki has made me want to try writing fanfic about it. Going to start with crossovers, blending it in with stuff I know better until such time as I can write a good KR Fanfic standalone.
Also, I do have a co-writer: Xamusel is also intrigued by the concept, and has agreed to help.
Now, let's get this party started! :D
A Wizard in Iwatodai
Story by Takeshi Yamato, written by Takeshi Yamato and Xamusel
Prologue: The Night of the Wizard
Iwatodai, Outskirts - 11:59 PM, April 6, 2009
The sound of an engine running accompanied a motorcycle and its rider driving into the outskirts of Iwatodai. It was clearly based on a Honda CRF250R off-road bike, but was customized a fair bit, with a white and gold-trimmed paint job and what looked like a glowing red crystal just below the forward windscreen.
The rider on the motorcycle was a young woman, though one could easily mistake her for someone older than 16, given the massive size of her bust compared to her height. Her hair was currently in her auburn red helmet, while her eyes were hidden behind the visor of her helmet, which was a sleek black in contrast. Her outfit was a red and black jumpsuit, with red gloves and black boots, completed by a backpack that essentially held… well, that would be telling, at this point.
As she made her way into town, and towards the hotel she had booked for the first few days while she looked for a more permanent place of residence, the world around her seemed to take on a greenish tinge, as any people who were out as late as she was turned into coffins, all artificial lights shut off, and any puddles of water on the ground seemed to turn into blood.
"Geez," the woman muttered to herself. "After everything I've been through involving the Phantoms and both Sabbaths, something like this isn't all that creepy, but it's still really weird…" she then looked down at her bike, which was still running. "At least Machine Winger is still running, unlike most things that run on electricity… then again, Machine Winger doesn't really run on electricity."
It was while she was riding out in the town that she noticed a young man walking as if nothing wrong had occurred. Figuring that she could get an idea if this was something normal in the world that she managed to miss out on, she decided to pull over and see for herself, mainly by talking to the guy and finding out what he knew. If he needed a ride, she'd provide it, as long as it was on the way to her hotel.
Minato Arisato was calmly walking down the road, making his way to the Iwatodai Dorms. The environment around him was nothing new, given that he'd been experiencing it for the past 10 years. He supposed that practically the entire world experienced this phenomenon, though most people didn't know about it because they were stuck inside those coffins-
"Hey!"
Minato turned around to face a woman that seemed to be in her twenties, if her bust was any indication… he shook his head to focus on the person's face, which was now unmasked to reveal her ice blue hair and violet eyes. Oddly enough, she had a faint bit of baby fat on her face, which meant she was probably younger than 21. "Yes, ma'am? How may I help you?" he asked, unsure of what to do in this situation.
"Don't 'ma'am', me," she remarked. "I'm only 16 years old!" She chuckled a bit. "Anyway, just wondering if you knew anything about this," she said, her arms gesturing to indicate the environment around them. "I've encountered it once or twice when needing to work late, but don't really know that much about it."
"Wait… you're 16? I thought you were older than me by at least five years, not my age!" Minato declared in shock. Shaking his head again after a few seconds, he said, "Anyway, I don't really know all that much about it, either, despite living in it for the past 10 years."
She looked a bit shocked, but nodded after a moment. "I see," she remarked. "Well, do you need a lift anywhere? As long as it's on the way to my hotel, I can ferry you where you need to go on my bike." It was then that Minato noticed the bike, which looked to be a customized Honda CRF250R off-road bike, and unlike most electrically-powered devices in this phenomenon, it was still running.
Minato put on his stoic poker face mask and handed the woman the directions to the Iwatodai Dorms, before saying, "Minato Arisato. You?"
"Nayuki Kinomoto," she replied as she took a look at the directions. "Well, looks like it is on my way to the hotel." She gestured behind her, where there was extra room on the seat. "Hop on… and no groping, please."
Minato nodded, before his mind fully registered what she said, making him realize something. 'They're real!' With that, he got onto the motorcycle behind her, putting on the spare helmet before he wrapped his arms around her waist, thankfully remembering the warning about not to grope her.
As Nayuki drove Minato to the dorm he'd given her directions to, doing her best to maintain a speed he'd consider comfortable, she mainly focused on the road, and not her passenger pressed up against her - not that difficult, honestly, considering she didn't swing that way.
As they drove, though, she did occasionally look in another direction as she sensed things off on other paths - things that felt… well, not exactly like Phantoms or Ghouls, but they were still somewhat similar.
'Great,' she thought sarcastically. 'So much for a peaceful school year. I'm going to have to patrol at night to make sure these things don't cause any damage, if they are like Phantoms.'
It took her a few minutes before she made it to the dorm in question, only… it had its lights on? "Is this… normal?" she asked Minato, only to see him shake his head. "Great… a load of fun awaits you," she said sarcastically. "Well, I'll go in with you if only for a moment - might as well make sure you get settled in alright, if that's alright with you."
"Might as well," Minato said, before they put away the helmets and moved on up the stairs to the entrance of the building. Upon entering the building, they looked around a short bit, Minato taking his earbuds off his ears. Just when he was about to speak up again—
"You're late. I've been waiting a long time for you."
—a boy spoke up from his left, causing both Minato and Nayuki to look in that direction.
"Oh? Another one can see me? Intriguing… most intriguing," the boy said, spooking both the older people. He then turned to gaze at Nayuki in the eyes. "I see that you have something akin to the 'Potential', but not the exact ability… indeed, a female Wizard is most impressive if one can see me."
Nayuki's eyes narrowed. This… boy… could tell what she was? She didn't think he was a Phantom - they normally called her 'Mahoutsukai', which meant something very similar to Wizard - but she didn't really want to take chances, as she slipped a rather large ring with the image of a black hand trimmed in gold onto her right hand.
The boy vanished into thin air, the sign that he had moved at all to a different location being the snapping of his fingers as he moved in front of Minato's torso. "Now, if you want to proceed, sir," he said, before extending his right hand to the counter. "Please sign your name there, in the red binder."
Minato walked over to the counter, seeing the red binder with what looked like a simple document. "What is this?" he asked.
"It's a contract," the boy said, and was all that he got out before Nayuki pulled out her WizarSwordGun in gun mode… aimed at the boy.
"What kind of 'Contract'?" she asked, warily. "Those don't normally end well for the one signing them… especially with nonhuman beings."
"Relax," the boy said, as if to assure her. "His contract only says that he'll abide by the choices and consequences of said choices he makes. It has to do with his reason for being here… and I was asked to relay it to him if he were to proceed. Your contract, on the other hand, is a bit different."
Her eyebrow rose, before her eyes narrowed. "And just how 'different' is it?" she asked.
The boy simply walked over to her contract, which was in a blue binder, before walking back to her with it in his hands. "Well, you can see for yourself, miss," he said, handing the contract to her.
Upon putting away the WizarSwordGun and opening the binder, Nayuki saw the contract for what it was worth, a document with immense magical power that was able to bind itself to her soul. The document itself said, "I promise to hold myself responsible to the choices I make and the consequences thereof. I also promise to return my powers until such time as they are needed, spend time with those that fight Shadows in this town, and not to run off from the activities of the group without good reason."
Nayuki rose an eyebrow. "What do some of the terms on this thing mean?" she asked.
The boy answered, "In effect, you will need to return your ability to use much of your powers until later on, when necessary. You will also need to fight Shadows, monsters of the human Psyche, with the people of this dorm. As for the running off part? A good reason would include what you're already used to."
She frowned. What she was 'already used to' hopefully wasn't around here, so basically she would have to rely on her old comrades to fight them in other locations. The returning of much of her powers basically meant she couldn't use her stronger Rings, unless an opponent came up that required their use. And these 'Shadows' must have been what she was sensing earlier… monsters of the human Psyche, huh? She wondered how different that was from what she was used to…
She paused a few moments. "I doubt this thing could be ripped up, if it's as powerful as I can sense," she muttered to herself. "Well… no helping it, I guess…" she took a pen and signed her name on the paper.
Minato signed his contract as well, handing it to the boy at the same time that Nayuki did as well. "By the way," the boy said, "Your contract, miss, was given to you through me by a man in a strange butterfly mask. He'll be able to explain it better than I can. Now… no one can escape time. It delivers all equally to the same end. You can't close your eyes and cover your ears." With that, he waved a hand over the contracts, making them vanish into thin air.
Minato's eyes widened at seeing that happen, and would've asked what that was about, but the darkness of the outside started to apply to in the building. With the shadows encroaching on the boy, he said, "And so it begins…"
And the boy disappeared as the lights fully cut out, plunging the room into the same eerie green darkness as the outside.
"O-kay…" Nayuki remarked as she slipped the Ring on her finger back into her backpack. "That was… definitely not normal…"
"Who's there?!" a young woman's voice cried out from near the staircase, causing the two newcomers to turn and face a teenage girl in a pink cardigan with a red bow on her shirt and… was that a gun in a holster on her right leg, fer cryin' out loud?!
"Umm… hi…?" Nayuki asked. "This isn't really what it looks like, I mean, the door was unlocked when we got here…"
"Do you really expect me to believe that?!" the teen demanded of Nayuki, before—
"Takeba, wait!"
—an older teen in a white cardigan interrupted the situation.
The magic rings, the Wizard Rings.
(A red magic circle appears over a black background. Four lights appear at the main corners of the Circle, from which appear the Flame, Water, Hurricane, and Land Style Rings.)
They shine on both hands of the modern mage.
(The Rings float in different directions, Water, Hurricane, and Land going off the screen as Flame lands on Nayuki's left middle finger as she appears silhouetted in front of the magic circle, Driver On Ring on her right middle finger)
As she changes despair into hope.
(A close-up image of Nayuki's head and shoulders, still silhouetted, as the helmet and upper outfit of Wizard Flame Style super-impose themselves over her form.)
(BGM: Life is SHOW TIME [TV Version])
Maji ka? Maji de? Maji da! Showtime! (Seriously [it's magic]!? Really!? I'm serious! Show Time!)
(Wizard Flame Style does a few spins in various positions relative to a red magic circle on a white background, before appearing on Winger WizarDragon, which flies off the screen before WizarDragon flies back onto the screen, lobbing a fireball from its mouth before the flash resolves into the title logo.)
Maru de tsuki to taiyou (It's like the shock)
(Nayuki is seen standing atop the Iwatodai Dorms building, overlooking the whole town, before the scene shifts to a solar eclipse, then to Wizard Flame Style spinning to face her right, and finally to Nayuki spinning to face her left.)
Kasanaru toki no shougeki (When the moon and the sun collide!)
(Nayuki stands in the middle of a crowded street, head down, before raising it somewhat to look at a boy in a style similar to that of a jailbird, who looks up to reveal Pharos.)
Dare datte kiseki shinjite mitai (Everyone wants to believe in a miracle)
(Pharos lifts his right hand up, the back of it facing Nayuki, and the screen shifts to show them reaching for each other's hand, before it shows them walking across the street to each other, Mitsuru appearing on Pharos' side, Minato showing up on Nayuki's side.)
Kitto hitotsu you fukaketsu no ENAJI kokoro no da ne (The indispensable energy that people need comes from the heart)
(The background shatters, before Mitsuru drives up on her own motorcycle, pulling off her helmet before brandishing her rapier and Evoker. Minato then appears, a silhouetted image of Thanatos behind him. Pharos and Nayuki appear in front of a Velvet Doorway.)
Yume to yosou ii imi de uragitte kureru mono (Dreams and expectations will betray you in a good way)
(Yukari Takeba is seen looking through a tome of magic, while a magic ball shows Nayuki transforming into Kamen Rider Wizard, the ball being held by Pharos.)
3! 21! 1! Showtime!
(The scene shows Pharos' immediate area glowing in light.)
Magic Time!
(Wizard Flame Style is seen in front of a building, jumping and spinning in place.)
TRICK ja nai! (It's no trick!)
(Wizard Flame Style lands on the ground, lifting her right hand to her mask, before lowering her arm.)
Mahou HIIRO hanpa nee ze (The Magic Hero is no pushover!)
(A red magic circle appears under her feet, with three separate magic circles, red, blue, and yellow, underneath the Red Garuda, Blue Unicorn, and Yellow Kraken PlaMonsters respectively, before Wizard Flame Style spins around and sends her familiars out.)
Mo-to halelujah
(Three red magic circles appear around Wizard Flame Style as fire appears behind her.)
Kioku no roots moguri-konde kibou sukui-dase (Dig into the roots of memory and save that hope!)
(Wizard Flame Style leaps through a blue magic circle to her right, becoming Wizard Water Style, then leaps up through a green magic circle to become Hurricane Style, then drops down through a yellow magic circle to become Land Style.)
Show Time!
(Nayuki and Pharos reach for each other's hands and grab them.)
Life is showtime! Tobikiri no (Life is Showtime! It's exhilerating!)
(Wizard Flame Style is seen falling through magic circles.)
Unmei to RAIFU mucha shite mo (Even if you're reckless with fate and life!)
(Wizard Flame Style is riding Machine Winger down a road, as WizarDragon flies up alongside. Machine Winger and WizarDragon combine to form Winger WizarDragon, with Nayuki still riding.)
Mo-to halelujah
(Back with the close up on Nayuki and Pharos' hands, as Nayuki moves the Hope Ring towards Pharos' finger.)
Kinou, kyou, ashita, mirai (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and in the future…)
(Nayuki, Minato, Yukari, and Mitsuru are in the Iwatodai dorm, each doing various things. Their positions switch two times, with each switch showing a new set of activities.)
Subete no namida wo (…all those tears…)
(Nayuki is riding Machine Winger, Mitsuru riding behind her.)
Show Time!
(Nayuki finishes sliding the Hope Ring onto Pharos' finger, the ring beginning to light up.)
Kouseki ni kaette yaruze (…I will change them into jewels!)
(Wizard's four main Styles come into view, Flame in the center, Water from the right, Hurricane from above, and Land from the left. The four pose identically as Water, Hurricane, and Land turn into light and merge with Flame.)
Maji ka? Maji de? Maji da! Showtime! (Seriously [it's magic]!? Really!? I'm serious! Show Time!)
(Brief shot of Nayuki holding up her left hand with the Flame Style Ring on it, followed by Wizard Flame Style doing a brief spin and posing in front of Machine Winger, the story logo once again flaming into existence in the foreground.)
Xamusel: Well… this was a new experience for me. For one thing, I've never seen much in the way of Kamen Rider or Super Sentai (Power Rangers kinda count in regards to Super Sentai), until I started watching Kamen Rider Wizard recently. That, well, got me hooked on Kamen Rider in general.
Anyway, I'm helping Takeshi write this story, so expect this on his profile instead of mine. I hope that the story is well received by you guys… who knows? It might even be a TVTropes worthy story.
Well, now, later!