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Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I don't own Kamen Rider at all! It belongs to Ishinomori Shotarou and Toei!

AN: Here's chapter two folks. I hope you enjoy it and please leave a review.

Oh yeah, sorry! I forgot to mention last chapter that this story is 1st person POV, alternating between Arca and Sage. Thought you should know that.

Now with that out of the way, onto chapter 2!

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(Sage's POV)

Greetings. If you know of Arca, then you know about him being the unconscious of the kid. Well, I'm his polar opposite. I'm the representation of the kid's conscious. My name is Sage.

Since we are polar opposites, Arca and I try to outwit each other. Most of the time, Arca would challenge me to prove he was better. I accept and we fight, but it usually ends up in a tie to prove the balance that sustains us. Why am I saying all of this? Well, today Arca gave me another challenge and let's just say it caused a couple of events that I never wanted to happen...

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The void of the empty blackness was my home as Arca's. We both inhabit the kid's mind, protecting it from harm's way. However, the means that Arca uses are quite... strange (which I believe to be an understatement). Right now, the kid's mind wasn't in any danger, so it was alright for me to relax. However, I began to feel somewhat... bored. Yes, bored.

For quite a while, I've constantly had to deal with people who came to this realm. Some were lost and I helped them to get out, but others were pretty much threats to the kid, so I had to deal with them. Arca, on the other hand, hasn't really done anything, except for remaining in the kid's head. He just goes around to see if he can pick a fight with anyone (I sometimes wonder why Arca exists in the first place!). Still, nothing has happened within the past few months and it's starting to get boring.

Anyway, I was searching and searching through the kid's head for something of value to me. I needed to find it as soon as possible! I had it with me a second ago and then, it was gone, just like that! I've tried looking almost everywhere in this vast void of emptiness, but I haven't had any luck! I sometimes wished I was more alert.

My form remained the same as I wore a white bodysuit underneath the black armor. I had round, white shoulder guards, and black trimmings on my gauntlets and boots. My round helmet had a silver mouth guard and two red eye pieces. Around my waist was my white belt that had a white gem in the center of my silver, square buckle. The only missing was my hat... yes I wear a hat, the object that I'm looking for.

I kept on searching, but to no avail for I couldn't find my hat. I was close to giving up the search until I heard a voice ask, "Looking for this?"

I turned around to see who said that. Apparently, it was one person who kept on coming here... "Lock," I nodded to him.

For a while, Lock, here, has been trying to get me to join his "little group" (really, he's got enough Riders as it is in his organization!). Despite his attempts to compromise with me, I've always refused his offer. Why? Let's just say it would be for the best if the kid's mind had some protection.

Anyway, in Lock's hand was my black hat. He tossed towards me and I caught it, looking suspiciously at Lock. It was obvious why he was here. "What are you doing here?" I asked, placing my hat on my armored head.

"You know what we're here for," another voice said.

I turned around to see who it was. It came from a boy, about seventeen, who looked lot like the kid (well, so did Lock, but you get the point), since he was of Indian descent with black hair and glasses over his brown eyes. The boy wore a green sweater and black pants on his body. I knew who he was immediately. This kid was Adam, or, as I like to call him, Kamen Rider Arch.

Arch was another Rider that the kid came up with. He looked more like the kid than Lock did, since Arch didn't have Lock's L-shaped scar. However, he did had a healthy physique like, Lock. Then again, they were going around different universes, trying to fight organizations and monsters, so it would by obvious they would be gaining some muscle.

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Then, you know I'll say no for my to join your group."

"I think this time you won't say no," Arch said, placing his hands in his pockets.

"What could possibly make me join you?" I asked.

With that, I turned around and began walking away. For a while he said nothing as I continued to walk. When he finally answered, I thought his went insane. "Lock recruited Arca," was what Arch said.

I froze and turned around to walk up to Lock. I couldn't believe it! "You what!" I shouted at him. "Are you insane! Don't you realize what you've done!"

"If you're talking about the bit of Arca trying to spread his own imaginative chaos throughout all the Multiverses, then yeah," Lock responded.

I could only just stare at him before looking at Arch. "And you approve of this?" I asked him. I've told these two everything about Arca and what they should do to stay away from him. I didn't expect them to recruit him!

Arch merely nodded. "The more we have the better."

I looked at them. Obviously something was up and it had to do with my unconscious counterpart. "What happened to Arca?"

Lock answered that. "Some hours ago, we detected some weird distortions going on in the kid's head. About an hour later, Arca called us, saying that he was in another universe."

"We told him to get out of there as soon as possible, but we think his communicator was destroyed," Arch stepped in. "We think he might do something stupid."

'Doesn't he always?' I rhetorically asked myself.

I looked at the two Riders before me. "So, you want me to stop Arca from doing whatever he's doing, since I'm his polar opposite," I summed up. They both nodded. My first thought was to let the two Riders take care of Arca. They're both powerful enough to take care of him. Then I remembered of how Arca does things. With Arca loose, he could be messing with a lot of stories. I sighed in defeat. "What do you want me to do?"

"You're joining us?" Arch asked with a hint of joy in his throat.

"No!" I defiantly stated. "I'm just going to bring Arca back here! That's all!" I looked at Lock. "Where is he?"

"Right here," a voice answered. It was Arca's.

We all turned around to see Arca standing a couple of yards away from us. I usually wouldn't be surprise to see him, but what caught me off was that surrounding Arca were dozens of blue, dragonfly humanoid monsters. I recognized them as Mirror Monsters from the Kamen Rider Ryuki show, but what were they doing here?

It immediately hit. "You didn't," I told Arca.

Though he wore a I helmet, I knew he was grinning as he nodded. "I did."

I immediately grabbed my Sage Saber, or saber for short, that hung on my belt and activated its black blade. "Why did you bring Mirror Monsters in the kid's head!" I demanded.

Much to my annoyance, Arca let out a chuckle. "Simple I'm bored and I need something to occupy me."

If I had human eyes, would roll them as I let out a groan. "Its always because you're bored," I muttered as I looked at him.

"What are you planning, Arca?" Lock demanded as I noticed he and Arch wore their belts.

"Well, these guys and hungry and wants to eat some Riders," Arca explained as he gestured to the dragonfly Mirror Monsters, "and I'm giving them what they want."

"What's it in for you?" Arch asked.

I knew the answer to that. "Easy," I answered for Arca. "Rule the kid's mind."

Arch's and Lock's eyes widen at that. "Rule the kid's mind?" Arch repeated as he looked at Arca. "Why?"

"Well, I've always been a guardian of this realm here," Arca explained, while I tried to withhold a snort. "I keep on finding myself bored here and I thought if I could rule the kid's mind I could actually have some fun."

I wanted to bang my head against something right now. Arca was doing all of this because he was bored, like he said. The reason was easy to explain but connection between boredom to ruling a dimension was definitely insane. Then again, Arca is the unconscious of the kid, so he would obviously contain some elements of insanity. It also shouldn't surprise me that Arca would do this.

Ignoring my rant there, I stared at Arca. "Whatever it is, it won't work," I stated. "I'll just stop you."

Arca simply let out a laugh. "Well, you're first gong to have get through my friends first." He then pointed at us and shouted to the Mirror Monsters, "Get them!"

The dragonfly Mirror Monsters, or RayDragoons, charged towards us. Arch and Lock held out their respective cards. "Henshin!" they said in unison as they slid their cards into the buckles.

Silver, rectangular projections shot out their buckles and swept over them, transforming Arch and Lock into their Riders forms. Arch's form looked like Lock's, save for the fact that the L's were replaced with A's and Arch's red visor was a simple strip. They both drew their swords that hung from their belts. We all stood there, waiting for the advancing forces of the RayDragoons.

The first RayDragoon that lunged at me, I quickly swung my at it, sending back into a couple more. As I swung my saber at another one, I quickly found myself surrounded by these things, like Lock and Arch. I swung my saber at the one in front of me and turned around to see another one charging at me. I sidestepped it before I slashed my black blade against its back as more sparks flew into the air. "Sage, where are you!" I heard a voice call out to me. It belonged to Lock's 'cause his was a little deeper than Arch's.

I dodged a swipe from one of the RayDragoons before forcing it back with a kick. "I'm over here!" I answered.

"Can you get over here!" Lock asked.

"I'm a little busy here!" I replied as I found myself dealing with two more RayDragoons.

I slashed my saber downward at them, but the two moved to their sides before coming around behind me. I turned around to see the RayDragoon on the left lash out with a punch, sparks flying as I staggered back a bit. However, I held out my saber to hold the other RayDragoon, while I kicked the one of the left back. I then thrust my saber forward at the other RayDragoon, striking on the chest. The other RayDragoons I was fighting before were regrouping with the two in front of me. I only had one shot at this, so I quickly sheathed my saber and crouched down, saying, "Rider Kick!"

"Rider Kick-Initiating!" my buckle announced as black energy covered my right foot.

I charged forward at the RayDragoons and leaped into the air into a flying-side kick. My foot hit the lead RayDragoon head on, sending it flying into the others, destroying them as well. I landed both my feet onto the ground, glad that those nuisances were gone. "Final Attack!"

After hearing the announcements of "Sealing Crash!" and "Portal Smash!", I turned around to two two more explosions, meaning Arch and Lock destroyed the other Mirror Monsters. But before any one of us could say or do anything, we all heard a rippling noise and we turned to see another rift appearing. I could only sigh as I saw more RayDragoons exiting the rift.

This was going to take a while.

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AN: That's chapter two! I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any comments or constructive criticism, please leave a review. Sorry if it's short and I'm also sorry if this is all going too fast, but it's the first two chapters of the story!

As for the Riders, I originally planned for the story to be just about Arca, who was at the time called Verus (which is Latin for real, according to FreeDict), whose story is about a Rider traveling different worlds to kill monsters called Prisms. Then Verus changed into a mental representation of my mind, but after seeing Kamen Rider Skull in Movie Taisen 2010, I made another Rider, who would become the fedora-wearing Rider named Sage. I wasn't sure which one to chose, so I decided for Verus, who I renamed Arca, to be my unconscious and Sage to be my conscious. Hope that explains everything!

Raika out!

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