I do not own the Kamen Rider Franchise, but I do own Kamen Rider Shade, though he is based a little on Kiva and Ryuki. I would like some opinions on the characters, please, with a cherry on top (yeah I know, that whole cherry bit seemed weird).
Kamen Rider Shade
Chapter 2: SONG REVEAL!
Ark was working in the attic. He wore a white dress shirt, with the sleeves rolled up, and brown jeans. The whole room was filled with materials for making violins and numerous violins were hanging around the place. Ark was scraping a piece of wood, the shape of a violin he is trying to create. Somewhere in there, there was a black piano, covered by a scarlet cover. Hikari came in carrying a tray of tea for Ark. She wore a pink vest, with black sleeveless top, and a white skirt. She set the tea on a table. "Arigato, Kari-chan." Ark said to Hikari.
"You're welcome." Hikari replied. Hikari looked around. This was the first time that she stood in the room. Or course, that was because she was new to the house, and the whole fact that earlier, Ark had fainted from loss of blood, because of Hikari's bite. Yep, she's part vampire. She stared at all the violins that were in there. "Do you make violins for a living?"
Ark nodded. He continued scraping. Then put a few clamps around the violin he was working on. Ark blew some of the scrapings away. "It's my dream." He told Hikari. "My dream to become a great violinist." Ark took a look at a case that was resting on a desk. Inside that case, was a picture of a man. Hikari looked at the picture. "My father." The man in the picture wore a formal suit, and was playing the violin. "He was praised as the greatest violinist to ever exist in the world. Ever since I was little, he taught me how to play the violin. It's my dream to become as great as my father, to follow in his footsteps."
"That's really cool, must be nice to have dreams like that." Hikari remarked.
"You never had a dream before?" Ark asked in surprise. Hikari shook her head.
"It's just, at least I don't think I have." Hikari replied. "I don't really remember anything about myself, and I never felt like I had a dream."
"Didn't you have one last night?" Ark asked, twitching his eyes as he remembered what happened last night. Hikari had asked if she could sleep with him. 'Yami' Ark told Hikari she could. Result: massive nosebleed in the morning.
"I really don't know." Hikari pondered and finally replied. Ark nodded. Hikari then remembered something. Ark thought that he would finally know who Hikari was exactly, but it turned out, "That white thing that has two doors in the kitchen is almost empty." Hikari said. Ark fell down with a thud. All she told him was that the refrigerator was empty.
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Inside a ramen shop, Yumi, Tenshi No Yaiba member, was about to eat a bowl of ramen. She had her hands together. "Itadakimasu!" She shouted cheerfully, then started eating after she broke her chopsticks in two. The mood she had now was quite different than when she was fighting the Spider Shadow. Most likely because she didn't need to be serious to eat ramen. She had a big appetite. Today she wore a red jacket, black mini skirt, and a white top. She wore black ankle strap shoes. She was done. "Ah, so delightful!" She took her purse and walked out. She was happily skipping around, though her thoughts weren't exactly happy. "Shadow number zero." She said gravely. "His power, a power that excels all shadows. He's dangerous." She stopped skipping and stood still. "Kumori-kun wants nothing but to kill Shade." Kumori, who is that? "But Shade, last night, he was fighting a Shadow, and saving a girl at that point. Just, is he even a threat?" Yumi was quite confused. Then she saw Ark, not his face, being surrounded by a few men.
"Just who do you think you are!" The biggest of the men shouted. "Standing in the way like that. Do you not have any manners!?" Ark, wearing a red jacket with a white t-shirt under and brown jeans, didn't speak, rather, he looked away from the man and stammered. "LOOK AT ME!"
"HEY!" Yumi shouted. "Just who do you think you are for shouting at him?"
"What do you want to know, wench." That same man shouted.
"Yeah!" A skinny one sneered.
"Who are you to talk to our boss like that?" Another skinny one sneered as well.
"YEAH!" A third skinny one sneered. Seriously, it's like those guys could only sneer.
"Just what happened?" Yumi asked.
"This guy, he was walking and bumped into me!" The big one shouted. Yumi got annoyed, something as small as that.
Then Ark spoke. "Um, it was you who pushed me then made a big deal about it." The four thugs looked at Ark and Ark covered his mouth.
"Shrimp!" The three skinny ones sneered, ironic as they were smaller than Ark.
"Let's just see about that!" The big one prepared a fist, about to punch Ark. Ark covered his head with his hands, hoping to block some of the impact of the fist, like that would work.
Then Yumi ran up and grabbed the big man's fist, twisted it a bit, and karate chopped the man's neck. The big man fell unconscious.
"BOSS!" The three skinny guys sneered. Again, they could only sneer. "You'll pay for that." Then Yumi growled, and the three shrimps got scared, then pulled their unconscious boss away. "Man he's heavy."
"I hate people like that." Yumi said after the four were out of sight. "It's because of those types of people that those things even exist." Referring to a Shadow. Then Yumi saw Ark, who was still covering his face. "Why are you covering your face like that?" Yumi asked with a smile, then Ark turned around to face away from Yumi. Yumi tried to get a good look at Ark's face. But, Ark wouldn't let her. Then Yumi got frustrated. She grabbed his arm. "Come on." Yumi said, pulling Ark's arm away from his face, but Ark was resilient. Yumi finally won. She gasped. "Oh my, you have a pretty cute face." Yumi said with a smile. Before she couldn't see because the big man was covering her sight of Ark. Ark bit his lips and blushed.
Yumi took Ark to a café. "Hey Ko-san." Yumi said to the owner, who was making coffee at the moment.
"Mizuki-chan." Ko greeted Yumi. "So nice to see you. Who's the boy?" Ark waved at Ko.
Yumi and Ark sat at a table. Ko brought a cup of coffee for Ark. Ark just stared at the coffee, without making eye contact with Yumi. Yumi smiled a teasing smile. "Oh, are you just shy because you're in a presence of such a pretty Onee-san." Yumi's age was closed to Ark's, but she's still older.
Ark didn't speak, but Yumi kept making references to that. Then Ark spoke. "I'm sorry, but it's not that." Ark then covered his mouth again. Yumi just stared at Ark. "I'm really shy." Ark remarked, then covered his mouth again. Then Ark blushed and looked away again.
Yumi got annoyed. "Come on, you expect me to believe a man of your age is that shy?" She walked up to face Ark, he turned around. Again, and again. Every time Yumi walked to face Ark, Ark would turn the other way. Then Yumi finally did what she did, she grabbed Ark's face and turned him to face her. "There, now is it that hard for you to at least look at someone." She smiled, then Ark's eye started twitching.
"Can you please let go?" Ark asked, seeing as how he couldn't handle looking into someone's eyes for more than a few seconds. Then he stopped twitching, and he finally looked at Yumi's eyes.
"There, now that wasn't hard." Yumi said with a smile. Ark couldn't exactly handle it though.
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After a bit, and finding out that he could at least stared into the eyes, though he still couldn't handle looking at a person's eyes without feeling the urge to, who knows what. Sometimes Ark wishes he was more like 'Yami' Ark. He could do it. (Now if only Ark could stop referring to his other personality as if it was a different person)
Ark finally finished his grocery shopping, and got back home. Hikari was staring at the piano when Ark got up. "Yo Kari-chan." Ark said to Kari-chan. Yeah, the only way that Ark could be able to talk to someone without any awkwardness, would be if they were inside his house.
"Hello Shade-kun." Hikari greeted Ark. Ark noticed she was staring at the piano intensely.
"Do you, like music?" Ark asked. Hikari nodded. "That's good to know." Ark continued on his violin making.
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Inside a stadium, a woman with dark black hair wearing a white dress, walked up to the bleachers. On the field, a man was running on the field for practice. The woman smiled. "That girl will be attracted to my song, and that man there will be the meal that I will have as well." She started vocalizing a strange song, something like that of a siren's. The man on the field perked up his ears, and started walking up to the bleachers.
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Inside the mansion, Hikari's ears perked up, then her eyes started to look faint, but she stood up. Ark noticed. "Kari-chan, what's wrong?" He asked as Hikari walked past him, ignoring him. "Okay, I guess you can ignore me if you want." Ark continued to work on his violin, then, in an instant, he held his head with his right hand as if in pain. There was a growl, a demonic growl. Ark grunted in pain. This was it, the voice that tells Ark that he must fight. Ark set the violin that he was working on down. He walked up to a violin that was resting on a stand, that was next to the case of his father's picture. Ark took up a bow, and started playing.
The music was calm, and smooth. Hikari stopped moving and listened to Ark's song.
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The woman heard something other than her voice. "What is this sound?" She asked, and not stopping on her own song. She kept singing, hoping to beat Ark's song.
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Ark kept playing. Like I will let you take Kari-chan. He thought as he played. Finally Hikari turned around and her eyes showed consciousness again.
Hikari shook her head. Then looked at Ark. She continued to listen. "Shade-kun." She said, loving his song.
Ark eventually stopped, with a pluck at the strings with his finger. Hikari was moved, then Ark set the violin down. "Kari-chan, I'm going to be out for a bit, is that okay?" Hikari nodded. Before Ark walked out, Hikari stopped him.
"Shade-san, could you play for me again at night?" Hikari asked, knowing full well that Ark had two different personalities, thus calling him Shade-san, as that was how she called night Ark.
Ark turned around to face Hikari, and nodded. Ark ran down the stairs. He ran inside to his garage. Inside his garage, was something being covered by a red cover. Ark grabbed the cover, and threw it to the side, revealing a motorcycle. It had a dragon theme as the front, with a large dragon head, white fangs, red eyes with golden outlines, and a red flaming head design. There was a green crystal embedded to the top of the dragon head. The back tail of the motorcycle looked like red demonic wings. The rest of the bike was black. Ark opened up the garage. "Here I go." Ark got on his bike, and rode off, after putting on a red helmet of course.
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The woman growled in frustration. "Damn it!" She then turned to face the man that was entranced by her song. She got control of his shadow. The shadow started moving up the man's legs. "I will feed on him at least."
Then Yumi came running over. "Shadows!" She shouted, and took out her pistol, which was inside her purse. She fired at the woman. This distracted the woman as the man was able to get free. The man regain his own consciousness and screamed in terror after seeing the woman's face take on a pink, green, and yellow color. "Run!" Yumi commanded the man. The man nodded frantically and ran.
The woman growled at Yumi. She transformed into a Moth Shadow. She had an orange and brown moth head. She had a pink, green, and yellow moth shape on her chest. She had white moth wings, and gray claws on her hands. The rest of her body was brown and black. Yumi fired at the Moth Shadow. The Moth Shadow swung an arm and batted the bullets away. The Moth Shadow flew at Yumi, and smashed Yumi with a fist. Yumi went flying out of the bleachers into the field. Yumi landed fine, and the Moth Shadow flew at Yumi. Yumi reached into her jacket and took out her golden weapon handle, then extended out her blade weapon. Yumi slashed at the Moth Shadow as it flew above her. The Moth Shadow rolled on the ground, and Yumi fired at the Moth Shadow. The Moth Shadow blocked the bullets with a hand, then flew at Yumi. Yumi tried to slash the Moth Shadow, but the Moth Shadow made a sudden movement, dodging Yumi's blade. The Moth Shadow fisted Yumi's gut. Yumi flinched to the pain, and the Moth Shadow grabbed Yumi's neck. Moth Shadow then threw Yumi. Yumi rolled on the ground. Yumi's shadow started moving. The Moth Shadow was in control.
Ark came riding into the stadium. Yumi didn't see him, and saw the Moth Shadow nearing her. Ark took off his helmet. "It's her." He remarked. Ark reached into his jacket, and took out his blaster. "Have to hurry." Ark said to himself, as he closed the mouth of the blaster. A sonic sound sounded. Ark's eyes took on a menacing angry look. His eyes turned red. Flames engulfed his waist, and formed into the Shade Henshin Belt. Ark then held the blaster in front of himself. "Henshin!" Ark swiped the Blaster over the buckle. The green jewel coming into the sight of the belt buckle's eyes. The belt buckle's eyes started to glow red, as flames engulfed Ark's body, forming the Shade suit. The flames scattered away, with Ark attaching his blaster to the left side of his belt. "Here I go." Ark ran to the Moth Shadow, and kicked her with a regular flying side kick. Ark landed in front of Yumi.
Yumi looked up. "Shade." Yumi said. Ark didn't look at Yumi.
The Moth Shadow got up. Her human face was visible on her chest. "Lord Shade?" She said in surprise. Ark ran at the Moth Shadow. Ark rapid punched her intensively. Then Ark swung a kick at the Moth Shadow. Ark grabbed the Moth Shadow and threw her back into the bleachers. He jumped after the Moth Shadow.
Yumi watched in surprise. Shade had just saved her. But she noticed something strange about Shade. (Anybody know what it is?)
Ark was punching rapidly and kicking hard. The Moth Shadow tried to run from Ark by jumping into a Shadow of a large stadium light pole. Ark drew his blaster and fired a light. The Moth Shadow had to jump out. Ark ran to beat the Moth Shadow. The Moth Shadow then grabbed Ark's neck. Ark choked, then used his blaster as a gun. Burning projectiles shot out of the eyes of his blaster. Ark connected the attacks to the Moth Shadow's stomach. Ark then back roundhoused kicked the Moth Shadow. Ark attached his blaster back to the side of his belt. Ark jumped and tried to punch the Moth Shadow, who was floored, with a really hard punch. The Moth Shadow rolled away. Ark punched the floor hard. The Moth Shadow then jumped up, and flew. She flew at Ark. Ark jumped up and tried a jumping tornado kick at the Moth Shadow. The Moth Shadow grabbed Ark's leg, and threw Ark back to the field. Before Ark landed, the Moth Shadow fired some black slime at Ark from her mouth. Ark was hit and he shouted in pain. Sparks flew off his suit. The Moth Shadow then gathered energy into her mouth, and fired colorful orbs at Ark.
"SHADE!" Yumi shouted, almost worryingly. Why wouldn't she? Shade just saved her. Another thing, Shade before never got hit by the Spider Shadow's attacks, but with the Moth Shadow, it seemed different. The orbs were nearing Ark.
Ark looked up. "Uh oh." Ark tried to dodge the orbs. They were hitting the ground, creating explosions. One almost hit Ark, and landed in front of him. Ark stepped back, but an orb struck the ground behind him. The force of the explosion blasted Ark. Ark ended up rolling on the ground. The Moth Shadow flew up into the air. She gathered energy for one more orb. Ark was on the ground. "Shoot!" The Moth Shadow fired at Ark. The attack connected and the field was ablaze. The Moth Shadow landed and laughed.
"Well, what do you know?" She asked herself. "Lord Shade isn't that strong after all." She looked towards Yumi, and Yumi fired a bullet at the Moth Shadow.
"Shadows, they are the sins of humans." Yumi said pointing her pistol at the Moth Shadow. "If Shade can't defeat you, then I will." Yumi fired at the Moth Shadow. The Moth Shadow jumped into a shadow of a stadium light pole, and started moving as a Shadowy blob. She got behind Yumi. Yumi turned her blade backwards, and tried to stab the Moth Shadow, but the Moth Shadow grappled Yumi, and threw Yumi to the side. The Moth Shadow got control of Yumi's shadow, as Yumi didn't have the strength to get up.
Then both of them heard the roaring of motorcycle. Moth Shadow turned to face the flames of the field. They were slowly dying out, and Shade rode out of the flames on his motorcycle. "What?" Shade rammed the Moth Shadow.
Yumi gasped as Shade had saved her again. The Moth Shadow got frustrated, and decided to flee to fight again another day, by flying. But Ark wasn't going to just give up like that. Ark revved his Motorcycle and rode past Yumi, chasing the Moth Shadow.
The Two, Ark and the Moth Shadow, were side by side with each other. The Moth Shadow swung a clawed hand at Ark. Ark blocked with the arm bands of his hand, and fisted the Moth Shadow back. The Moth Shadow growled, and tried to kick Ark. Ark lifted his body up, and the kick completely missed. Ark's legs got back onto the bike. Then the Moth Shadow rammed Ark's bike. Ark flinched, then drew his blaster. Ark fired at the Moth Shadow, but the Moth Shadow just dodged, but that was only a distraction as Ark rammed the Moth Shadow back.
Ark pulled the handle of his blaster, revealing a black sword handle. The golden blade flipped up and extended. The Moth Shadow flew at Ark, but Ark just slashed the Moth Shadow. Eventually, the two were out of the stadium, and a small ramp was in front of Ark. The Moth Shadow flew up. Ark noticed the ramp and revved his motorcycle and charged at the ramp. The Moth Shadow was above Ark, and in front of him, if Ark was at the same height as the Moth Shadow. Ark rode up the ramp, and Ark finally got up to the same height as the Moth Shadow. The Moth Shadow turned to face Ark. The Moth Shadow gasped in horror. The Motorcycle's mouth opened up. Red energy was gathering up inside the mouth. Ark switched his blaster back to its gun like mode. Ark fired a fiery projectile from both his blaster, and the motorcycle's dragon head. The projectiles smashed into the Moth Shadow, thus causing the Moth Shadow to fall to the ground. Ark's Motorcycle dived at the ground, and landed safely. Ark's motorcycle spun and skid to a stop. Ark then jumped off his Motorcycle, then switched his blaster to sword mode. Ark ran towards the Moth Shadow. Ark slashed feverishly. Ark kept cutting the Moth Shadow. Eventually, Ark stabbed through the Moth Shadow's gut, then kicked her away. The Moth Shadow was floored, but the stab to the gut didn't do anything but hurt her.
This was going to end. "Here I go!" Ark then grabbed the handle of his sword with his right hand, and the blade with his left hand. He placed the blaster's green jewel over the eyes of his buckle. "BLAZE!" The belt sounded. "Hah." Ark said softly, as he held the sword with both his hands. Flames surrounded him and the sword.
The Moth Shadow got up. "No, this can't be my end." The Moth Shadow said frantically.
Ark ran towards the Moth Shadow. "HAH!" Ark slashed the Moth Shadow, his blade ablaze, three times. Then Ark retracted the blade, and swung once more with a large horizontal flaming slash. The Moth Shadow was burned, and Ark's belt buckle flame mark was formed. It disappeared shortly. Ark turned around, and walked away. The Moth Shadow started glowing random colors, and shattered, the pieces disappearing as they hit the ground. A white aura floated and flew to Ark's mansion's attic.
Ark sighed. "Oh well, that's that." He said.
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Inside the attic, a special door was visible. Inside that door, was another room. When one enters it, one would have to wonder how something so large could be inside such a small room. The white orb flew into a jar. Inside, there were three people inside, two men, and one boy. They all wore black suits. The strong looking one's suit looked like a butler's. The serious one wore his jacket in an informal way. He and the strong one were playing cards. The boy wore a black suit, and it seemed like he was a waiter, as he was serving the two tea.
The strong one placed his cards down, it was a full house. Three aces, and two kings. The serious one smirked, and placed his cards down. "Royal Flush." It was a royal flush of hearts. Then he looked at the jar. "Another one, purified." He said, smirking. Then he closed his eyes, as did the other two. The three of them opened them. The serious one had blue demonic eyes, the boy had green demonic eyes, and the strong one had golden demonic eyes.
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At night, Ark, now night Ark, played his violin for Hikari. Hikari listened. Then she yawned, and fell asleep, resting her head on a table. It was very late at night. Ark smiled. "Go ahead and rest." Ark set his violin down, rubbed Hikari's head once, and carried Hikari. "Sleep tight, and don't worry, I will be here to protect you." Something that night Ark knows, just what is it that he knows that day Ark doesn't know.
Ark went to his room. He took off his jacket and sat on the bed. "Time to sleep, I guess." Ark laid on the bed, then Hikari opened the door and entered. "Oh, Hikari-chan, what's up?"
Hikari had a finger to her lips. "Um, Shade-san, can I sleep with you again tonight?"
Ark looked at Hikari and noticed that she was quite shy. Hikari treats Night Ark really different from Day Ark. "Sure." Hikari crawled in.
"Um, can I also suck your blood?" Hikari asked.
Ark nodded, then prepared his neck for Hikari. "Here you go." Hikari embraced Ark and bit. Night Ark took the draining a lot better than Day Ark. Night Ark didn't even scream or flail his arms. He didn't even faint either!
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Inside Tenshi No Yaiba's office, Yumi was talking to the gray bearded man. "Sir, I don't really think Shade could be a threat." She said.
The bearded man frowned. "I know what you mean, but we can't let our guard down." He turned his chair around and faced the wall. His face was still hidden, well not to Yumi.
Then a man barged into the room. He had a handsome face, a serious one too. He wore a black jacket, blue jeans, and a black tie with a white shirt under it. He had messy hair. (think Keisuke Nago) He had anger present in his eyes. He seemed older than Ark. "Kumori-kun." Yumi said in surprise.
"You," Kumori said to the bearded man. "Why didn't you tell me that Zero has revealed himself!?"
The beared man frowned, then turned his chair to face Kumori. "Well, Hikaru-Kun." Kumori, his full name, Kumori Hikaru. "I know what you want to do, but I didn't really think it would be good to tell you."
Kumori growled. Then started to walk out. "Just know this, Zero, will die by my hands." Kumori slammed the door closed.
"Kumori-kun." Yumi said, with worry in her tone.
Finally, chapter two end! I hope you like this fic. I'm really enjoying writing about my own rider. I hope you like him, and the characters in this fic. Please give me opinions, and please review.