Kamen Rider Terra Firma
Chapter Two: The Burning Passion Within
Key
"normal with quotations" Spoken words
'Italicized with apostrophes' Thoughts
Italicized text with spoken words "Italicized with quotations" Flashbacks
Flashback
I punched the monster in the gut and a mark was placed on its stomach. The visor highlighted this emblem and labeled it "target" I leapt into the air and performed a flying side kick into the monsters gut as I yelled out "EARTHEN KICK!" When the kick contacted, the monster exploded. When the smoke cleared, a normal man lay in the street, perfectly unharmed. I stood up and my armor shattered away. "Whew…what a rush"
End flashback
My name is Kevin Carlile, otherwise known as Kamen Rider Terra Firma, the protector of the earth. I was recruited by Gaia, Mother Nature herself, to defend the world from an evil organization known as NANO. They have allied themselves with an alien race, which I know virtually nothing about, except that they are purely robotic and are planning to work with NANO to turn the human race into their cyborg slaves. Like I'm going to let that happen. But I have only just begun my duties as a Rider…I still have a lot to learn…and many enemies to triumph over.
2 weeks after the first attack
'I'm surprised that its taken so long for NANO to attack again…they have to be planning something. But why would they? For all they know I'm still only a minor threat…I'll have to ask Gaia about this later' I thought to myself.
"MISTER CARLILE!" yelled my Geometry teacher
"HUH?"
"Since you seem to be so intent at staring at the bored, maybe you wouldn't mind telling me the answer to the problem on the board?" she said somewhat smugly.
"…X=3.75 Y=2.2 Z=3.44" I said bluntly
"Correct…sit down" She growled
(A/N: Zatch Bell reference!")
I sat down and resumed my thoughts with a smirk. I loved it when I proved a teacher wrong.
After School.
I walked into a vacant space at the park and glanced around. No one. I held up my right hand. On it was a fingerless glove, which was my henshin gauntlet in disguise. I pressed the logo on the back and slapped my palm to the ground. A giant doorway made of rocks appeared and I walked through, and then it disappeared. I was standing in the Grand Forest, where Gaia lived. She then appeared before me with a smile.
"Hello, Kevin. Is there something I can help you with?" She said to me.
"Yeah there is, Gaia. I may be new to this Guardian business, but NANO seems waaaay to quiet" I said. "For an evil organization, they haven't been very active considering someone stopped one of their supposedly "unstoppable" creatures."
"Hmmmm….you have a point. I'll look into it. If anything pops up, I will summon you." She said. She patted my head reassuringly, but I growled kind of embarrassed.
I nodded and summon the gateway again, then walked through it. Suddenly I felt a rush of heat, but it faded and I resumed my walk home as if nothing happened.
At home
I sat in my room, researching anything I could about NANO and their actions, finding nothing. After hours of research I gave up and decided to make myself some pizza for dinner. My parents were at work so I was home alone. I unwrapped the pizza and grabbed the frozen Italian dish so I could place it on the plate, but it seemed to warm up considerably before I even put it in the microwave, but I shrugged this off, thinking the heater was on. I ate my dinner and then walked outside to practice with the abilities I had discovered since the initial battle. I had found that I had extraordinary strength and terrakinesis, or the ability to manipulate the element of earth at will. I began to practice and as I continued to strain myself I felt my temperature rising, and my head felt like it was going to burst. Suddenly my arm burst into flames and I started to scream in pain. I grabbed the hose and doused my arm, extinguishing the flames. I looked at my arm, and there was no damage. I gasped for air in my panic and when I regained my composure, I had a glare on my face. I summoned the gate once again, and when Gaia appeared to greet me in the Grand Forest, she suddenly found herself trapped in a pillar of stone.
"WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED TO ME GAIA? MY ARM BURST INTO FLAMES." I shouted angrily.
"Hmm…I didn't expect it to take effect in such a short period of time." She said
"For what to take effect?" I asked
"I only choose two guardians, but one of them is the leader. That's you. I give each of them one element initially, but once they have developed their initial element enough through training, I unlock their potential with the second element." She said. "Your second element, Kevin, is fire. I have unlocked your abilities with flames so you can combat whatever threat that NANO is going to throw at you. Because you see, I have found that they are sending another cyborg to combat you that you cannot hope to defeat without the power of fire"
I absorbed this information then released her, even though I knew she could have released herself, regardless. I summoned the gate and left.
Saturday
"I can't even train without those flames consuming me. I've tried to train with them but it's not helping…things are just getting worse. At this rate I'll never be able to transform again" I thought to myself as I sat in my room listening to my iPod. Indestructible by Disturbed, specifically. Suddenly I heard Gaia in my head, telling me the location of another cyborg. I thought about what might go wrong but I knew I still had to try in order to protect those I cared about. I grabbed my glove and ran out the door.
Later at the local botanical garden
"What the hell is a cyborg doing here? Ah well. HENSHIN!" I said. The rocks covered me and shattered, just as they had the previous time. I walked through the garden cautiously, and suddenly I heard a plant growing behind me. I did a roundhouse kick behind me, and something was flung from the tree. It was a horrid monster, just like the last one, except it had vines for fingers and moss covered its metallic arms. It had been enhanced with botanical science. I growled and started unleashing punches and kicks like a monster. I felt the flames start to absorb my body. I groaned in pain and dropped to the ground.
Suddenly, I saw my sister Carly walk through the door. The creature turned and roared. It grabbed her and slammed her to the ground, unconscious. It started to walk towards her, but suddenly it saw three fingers over its eyes. I had its head grasped in my hand. I threw it against the wall and growled. The flames fly up my arms and I but I decided to grit my teeth and bear it. Suddenly I noticed something. The dial on my hand was glowing. I turned it so that instead of the arrows pointing towards the center vertically, they were pointing at it horizontally. The pattern within the dial changed and I suddenly got an image of a wildfire instead of the image of a mountain. I roared and the fires started to grow.
"PYRO HENSHIN!" I yelled in my fury. The flames engulfed my armor but then I swept my arm, Hibiki style, and they dispersed. I was suddenly covered in shining white armor, with spikes with the appearance of flames going up my forearms past my elbows, up my shins and past my knees, and off of my shoulders, similar to the way that the rocks had formed spikes. The eyes of my armor were now a brilliant golden color and were surrounded by a flaming pattern. Just like on the previous armor, the symbol from the dial was engraved on the torso armor and the dial was on the back of my hand.
I clenched my fist and struck a pose again. "I AM KAMEN RIDER TERRA FIRMA! PYRO FORM!"
The cyborg roared and charged at me, and I proceeded to punch it in the chest while my fist was ablaze. It roared in pain and charged again, only to be met by a kick to the head. I lit both of my fists into a roaring inferno then proceeded to punch the monstrosity in the stomach, leaving a burning mark just as I had done with the first monstrosity I had fought. All of the flaming patterns on my armor came alive as actual flame and I proceeded to kick the monster into the air. "FLAMING GUARDIAN'S BARRAGE!" I yelled as I jumped up and assaulted it with rapid fire punches, before kicking it back down to the ground. When the smoke of the flames cleared, the monster had returned to its (or HER I should say) human state, the owner of the botanical garden. "Heh…looks like I overdid it." I said as I walked out of the crater I had made and collapsed from exhaustion. As I slipped into unconsciousness I knew that I needed to hold back next time I used pyro form.