A/N: An attempt at a Kamen Rider original. This Rider's story takes place in the fictional suburb of Millowbrookville, NY. I really can't explain what the summary hasn't already explained. Nightmares taking over, a High School Sophomore becoming a Kamen Rider, and a T rating. I think the theme song would be either "Asterisk" by Orange Range, "Here Comes The End Again" by Eyeshine, or "Dreams" by The Cranberries.

So, let's begin with Chapter 1!

A boy lies on the ground. He looks no older than 12. He is looking up at the sky. Looking at the clouds. He is in a field. Very peaceful. The boy wears a white T-Shirt and black shorts. He wears wristbands on his wrists and tattered, old sneakers. He's Asian in appearance. Stupid bowl cut.

A fly buzzes past him. He smirks. Two more people arrive. A girl and another boy. The girl looks about 13 while the other boy looks about 15. The girl is short, long brown hair, and a mix of ethnicity. She wears a purple T-Shirt, Capris, and white sneakers.

The other boy seems to be the tallest. He has short hair and a big nose. He wears a dark gray shirt and even darker gray shorts. His shoes are silver-colored. Ethnicity unknown. Seems to be Semitic. Don't know for sure.

Either way, the two lie down next to the first boy. Sort of. They lie down in opposite directions; their heads forming a triangle. The first boy gets up. He walks off into the distance. He arrives in a kitchen and eats a sandwich.

Back in the field, a giant bed bug attacks the other boy while Vivaldi's Spring plays in the background. The girl, on the other hand, has fallen into a hole. While Other Boy is fighting the bed bug, the girl screams as she plummets to the ground. Or, at least, is about to. Something stops her from falling to her death. Something or someone has saved her.

She doesn't look up. All she can see of the thing that has saved her is a belt. It has a happy face buckle with a button to serve as a "nose." He drops her off at a cliff in a cave. The cave was where she was going to plummet to her death. There are two cliffs on two sides of the cave. Each has an exit/entrance. Between these cliffs is a bridge. Under the bridge is the ground. On the ground is a lake.

The man with the smiley face buckle signals her to follow him. All he is a silhouette. The only thing we can really see is the smiley face belt buckle. First boy appears on the other cliff. He is confused as to where his sandwich has gone and where he is. "Lannie!" The girl shouts. She signals him to follow her and smiley face belt buckle.

He nods and rushes across the bridge. He is almost at the end when Other Boy and the giant Bed Bug fall through and break the bridge. The girl catches Lannie. A huge cockroach creeps up on her, and she drops Lannie after screaming. He grabs a rope. The rope becomes loose and he falls off.

The girl tries to find the smiley face buckle belt guy, but he is nowhere to be seen. Lannie falls into the lake with the giant Bed Bug and Other Boy. Lannie screams then punches the Bed Bug. He and Other Boy look down. Then they look ahead of them where they see the girl being attacked by the huge cockroach. The three of them kick the cockroach off the cliff. They are about to walk into the exit/entrance, but something stops them.

The giant Bed Bug grows to an even large size. The same happens to the huge cockroach. The Bed Bug is about to eat all of them, but...

Lannie wakes up screaming. He checks the time. 5:45 AM. He gets out of bed and rubs his eyes. He stretches, grabs his clothes, and goes to the shower. He tries not to think of the nightmare he just had.

He arrives at Millowbrookville High. It is the first day of school. The time is now 7:20 AM. Lannie locates his locker and begins to open it. Other Boy arrives and greets Lannie. "Yo, Langaw." "Hey, Barry." "What's wrong? Drop your phone in a puddle again?" "Dude, it hasn't rained for 3 days now." Thunder rumbles, and lightning strikes. "Then what's that?"

"A storm that's about to start."

"Then why are you so gloomy?"

"I had this freaky dream. I was eating a sandwich."

"That's freaky?"

"No, the freaky stuff happened after that. I ended up in a cave area. There was a bridge. I was on a cliff, and on the other cliff, Katie and some guy with a smiley face belt buckle was there. I ran across the bridge. I almost made it to the other cliff, but you and a giant bed bug fell through the ceiling and broke the bridge. I fell down with you. Then after a few events, we were almost-"

"Eaten by the giant bed bug?"

"Yeah. How did you know?"

"Same dream."

"That's very strange."

"Indeed." The bell rings. "We're gonna be late for homeroom. Who do you have?"

"Kiefer."

"Me too! We're in the same homeroom!"

"Awesome. Barry my friend, this year will be different. We'll fight for a great year! Even if it kills us!"

"You said that last year when we started freshman year."

"I know. But I mean it this time!"

"You said that too."

"Shut up."

They walk into class and sit down next to each other. "The best thing to do is just not think about the dream. It's probably just a coincidence that we both had the same dream." Barry says. "No kidding. Messed up dream. Even by my standards." Lannie agrees.

A girl walks into class."You must be the new transfer student." Kiefer notes. "Everyone, this is-" "Hi Katie." Everyone greets the girl. "She's not much of a transfer student if she transfered from the school just two miles away." One student states.

Lannie and Barry, who had been listening to music, take off their headphones and look at the new kid. They are shocked. She looks at the two boys. She approaches them. "Don't leave me alone with a 6 foot cockroach." She tells them. "You know I hate them so much."

"You too?" Lannie asks. "We'll talk about this at lunch. Period 9." Katie answers. "We have 9th period lunch too. So, we'll be good."Barry assures her. "Good." She walks away and sits down next to one of her friends.

"I think she had the same dream too." Barry whispers. "Me too." Lannie agrees.

The storm grows stronger as luncthtime approaches. While waiting in line, Lannie starts daydreaming. He hears a voice. "Prove that you are worthy." It says. "Huh?" He asks. He shrugs it off and gets his food. He sits down next to Barry. The thunder rumbles a bit more. "Powerful storm." Barry says. "Wonder if there's gonna be a black out." Katie arrives and sits down across from them.

"Alright, missy, what's your angle?" Lannie asks. "You had the same dream or not?" "Yes. I overheard you guys talking about it when I was looking for homeroom." She explains. "Maybe it wasn't just a coincidence." Barry theorizes. "Yeah," Lannie agrees, "maybe we all had the same dream for a reason." The lights go out. "There's your black out."

"If this is a black out, why are the lights in the hallway still on?" Barry asks. "Selective power outage?" Lannie theorizes. "Or maybe something or someone is trying to scare us." Katie thinks aloud.

"Hey, what's that?" A female student asks. The other students look at the window. Creatures are approaching. "Everyone please exit the building walking in an orderly manner." The Principal over the loudspeaker orders. "You expect us to walk outside of the building where all the monsters are in the pouring rain?" Lannie yells with his voice cracking.

"You expect everyone to run in an orderly manner?" Barry asks. "Yes! They can stampede over the monsters!" Lannie flails his arms. The monsters break through the windows. Well, they at least try. The glass isn't breakable. So, they just walk in through the door.

"Practical." Lannie observes. The monsters start attacking some students. Lannie, Barry, and Katie hide. They watch as one of the monsters attacks a student. It exhales a mist, and she faints.

"They don't seem that harmless when not using physical violence." Lannie observes. The girl then grogily stands up. She emits a dark aura. She stretches her arms and legs out and fades away. "Maybe not." They see another monster trying to do the same to another student. Lannie leaps into action. He shields the boy from the mist. "Run!" Lannie yells. The boy runs away. Nothing happens to Lannie. Except pain.

Lannie kicks the monster in the groin and punches its gut. His two friends join in the fight. After a few minutes of fighting, they huddle up together. A monster sneaks up on Lannie and exhales the mist. Lannie faints. "I feel sleepy." He says before he faints. "Lannie!" Barry and Katie shout.

Lannie wakes up in the field from his dream turned nightmare. "Here again?" He asks. "Yes. The same place." A voice answers. Lannie looks up to see a figure with a black helmet. A white trim goes down the middle of it. The mouth plate is a 2D version of a fly. There are two compound eyes in the color of green. There are two antennae sticking out from the top. It wears a white scarf as well. Its outfit had a black triangle with a sun in the middle. Under the triangle was the rest of the shirt. Dark gray with an even darker gray 6 pack plate. Its boots were white, and its pants were black.

"Ka-Kamen Rider!" Lannie stammers. He notices the belt. A smiley face belt buckle. "You!" "Yes. Me." "Who are you?"

"I am Kamen Rider Dreams. The original."

"Can you answer some questions for me?"

"Sure."

"What were those things? Why did that girl fade away? Why were you in my friends' and my dream last night? And what is with the outfit? You look like a freakin' fly!"

"Those things are called Nightmares. They are the physical embodiment of one of your worst nightmares. The reason that the girl disappeared was because her specific nightmare engulfed her into darkness by exhaling that mist. That's why you didn't disappear when saving that boy. Once you inhale the mist, you faint. Your mind and heart falls into the abyss of the darkness, located in the Nightmare Realm. To get out, you must think of a happy thought to snap you out of it before you get killed."

"So, I thought of you?"

"Actually, no, like everyone else, you were kicking and screaming for days. Time doesn't matter in the Nightmare Realm, nor in here, the Dream Realm."

"What do you mean?"

"You know how when you dream about something and it feels like 5 minutes but it's really many hours?"

"Yeah."

"That's exactly how here works. If you're in here for a short time, it's actually a pretty long time. If you're in here a long time, it's actually a pretty short time."

"Really?"

"No. Like I said, time doesn't matter."

"So, that monster was one of my worst nightmares?"

"Yep. Then I had to get you out of the abyss."

"Why?"

"Because you had proved that you are worthy."

"So you're the voice! But worthy of what? And what about you in the dream?"

"I was in the dream to see if you were ready enough to take on a battle if one happened in the Dream Realm. Your friends and you were having, what is called, a shared dream. That shared dream turned into a shared nightmare once those nightmares went in. I went in to both save you and your friends and to test you guys. You aren't ready for a Dream Realm battle. That's going to take some training."

"Training? For what?"

"You will take on the mantle. You will become the new Kamen Rider Dreams."

"Great, a Kamen Rider in high school. Next thing you know, I'm gonna be in space!"

"That's already happened."

"I know. But you said I'm not ready for a Dream Realm battle."

"But you are capable of a real world battle."

"Oh. Why are you passing down the mantle to me?"

"Because I'm getting old. I needed someone new to take on the mantle. It was just a random choice. I could have chose anyone, but the slots chose you."

"So I was gambled. But what do my friends have to do with anything?"

"There is a prophecy that I stumbled across after the slots chose you. I will tell you later." Dreams hands Lannie the Rider Belt. This causes Dreams to dematerialize out of his costume. He wears sunglasses. "Just wear this at all times. When the Nightmares attack, press the button on the buckle. Then, place both pairs of your index and middle finger on both sides of your head and shout, 'Henshin!' That will transform you into Kamen Rider Dreams."

"Um. Okay."

"Now that you have the power, you can enter and exit the Dream Realm at will."

"I won't let you down, I guess."

Dreams disappears. "Now how do I get out of here?" Lannie asks himself while putting the belt on. He snaps to think and wakes up.

Lannie wakes up in Katie's arms. "Lannie! You're awake!" She smiles. "Yeah I am. I think." Lannie checks to see if he is. "I am. Where's Barry?" "Those monsters took him." "Like, he faded away?" "No, they actually took him. Kidnapping." "Oh."

Lannie quickly stands up. "Those monsters are called Nightmares."

"How do you know?"

"The smiley belt buckle dude told me." He sees a crocodile cornering a teacher. He presses the button on the belt buckle, puts both pairs of index and middle fingers on both sides of his head, and houts, "Henshin!" The Kamen Rider Dreams suit materializes onto his body. He poses and introduces himself as, "Kamen Rider Dreams!" "Oh, so you're the one original Dreams chose?" A crocodile asks. "Time to do what I should've done to him!"

The crocodile charges at Lannie, who punches him. They end up in a hand-to-hand combat fight with Lannie ultimately winning. He holds his hand out to the teacher, who grabs it and is pulled up. "Run." Lannie tells the teacher. The teacher runs away. Katie gets up and walks to Lannie.

"Come on," She says, "we have to save Barry." "Which way did they go?" Lannie asks. "That way." She points ahead. They run outside to find where the Nightmares might have taken Barry.

A/N: Now how's that for a first episode/chapter? Next chapter, Lannie and Katie go save Barry. Barry starts acting weirder than usual, but regains his old self after a while.

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