here's a story of a new Kamen Rider I thought of. hope you like it.
It was an early morning in Japan. A bus was driving through the country, having left town not too long ago and heading towards a particular area of Kanto. Plenty of conversations were going on, as the many students inside the bus had their own thoughts on the trip. One conversation, in particular...
"Awesome, our first paleontology expedition! This is so exciting!"
"Calm down, Russell. Don't embarrass us like that."
"Oh, come on. Back home, the college never took us on a dig."
"Whatever. Just keep your cool."
"Oh, come on. You can't honestly tell me you aren't excited to be doing this."
"I'm keeping my excitement under control. Pfft, American."
"And who got a higher score on the test? Oh, right. Me."
"Don't push your luck."
The two people talking were Saul Russell and Chigusa Hakuba. Saul was a tall, 20-year-old American with a fascination of pre-recorded history, specifically dinosaurs. He was 6'2" with brown hair, green eyes and knew how to have fun. Chigusa was only a couple months older than him, 5'11" with long black hair, brown eyes and a serious attitude.
Saul transferred to a college in Japan so he could go on real paleontology digs. He and Chigusa were the top students in the school, which annoyed many of them due to Saul being American. The two of them participated in a school contest among paleontology majors to go on an all-expenses paid expedition for extra credit, or in Saul's case, living a life-long dream. It was no surprise to anyone that they won - what was a surprise was that they weren't the only ones to go.
The dig site was near the coast, within a small valley. Each group member had received individual gear to help explore the dig site, and were taken to different lockers to put them on. Saul had just left his locker when he thought he heard something.
"Help us!" a strange voice had said, somewhere nearby. Saul looked around, searching for the source of the voice, but couldn't see anywhere it could've come from; his eyes passed by a small cave, ignoring it at first.
"You guys, did you hear anything?" he asked the others, but only got negative answers. That was weird; only he was hearing voices now?
"Make sure you're not going crazy, American," Chigusa mocked him. "It wouldn't do for you to go to the hospital so soon, right?"
Saul was frustrated by that, but didn't try to start anything; instead, he just decided to push it to the back of his mind... just before seeing small figures, near that cave. Before he could tell what they were, however, he blinked, and they were gone.
He was still staring at it when he heard Chigusa call to him. "Come on, Russell, or we might leave your ass behind!"
Hearing that, he snapped back to her. "Okay, I'm coming!" he said, following them.
Elsewhere, within the shadows, some strange creatures could barely be seen. Their forms were not clear to the sight of anyone, even as one of them held a strange device to its 'head'.
"My lord, I am at the location where we found that barrier," it said. "There are a group of humans here, and one of them appears to have heard the voice of the Dino Soul in the cave."
"Keep an eye on that one," their lord said. "He or she may be able to lead us to the rest of the Dino Hearts."
"As you wish."
The creatures moved back into the shadows, even as they began to conceive a plan for their next step.
I know what you're asking. what are those creatures? what are Dino Souls? what are Dino Hearts? well, those questions and more will be answered in time.
