(Entering… the World of Shana)
(Alexia's Point of View)
As both Martin-san and I are entering in the first world that we're travelled, (well, it was actually my first world that I've travelled, considering the fact that I'm still a newbie with the Lever Driver, but still, it was soo... AWESOME!), it landed us near a dark alleyway as both of us steps out from it and I was surprised to see that the mirror that brought us here shattered right after that. Talk about bad landing, face first even...
"Say, Martin-san… does that Mirror Portal does it all the time?"
"Yeah, you little kid… it does that a LOT… and not to mention that it has also a mind of its own wherever it wanted us to land. You know, there was one time that the portal opens up and we were ended up in the falling 1000 feet in the air. Luckily for us, our costume has saved us from our fall as it was already provided us a parachute."
Just listening to what Martin-san has to say with a straight, stern face really makes my skin crawl. That's because I don't think that he's playing around on what he just said. Then again, I might even think that he enjoys it. As I looked at my current clothing, I don't see any changes on me at all, and so does Martin-san.
"Hey, Martin-san… you said that once we've entered a new world like Decade does it, our costumes will change as well according to the surroundings!" I said while stomping my foot on the ground and he just turns around and replied back to me with a nonchalant tone. Sounds like he doesn't seem to bothered about it. Where's the fashion police cop when you need one?
"If you don't like it, then just stop complaining. Maybe this world is like one of yours, after all. Once we've done a little bit of scouting, maybe I can tell more about this place and see where the path leads us to our first foe. So, be on your guard…" Martin-san warned me about it as we stepped out from the alley, a bright light shines upon us as we are now entered within the society of the city people. As I looked around for a bit, I was looking some sort of a sign to know where we are, until I saw a signboard right above the tall building which writes something on it.
"Misaki… City? Is this what the city is called?" I asked him but it seems like Martin-san is in deep thought about something. "Martin-san, what's wrong?" I asked him since I'm worried if he's some sort of a pain... well, kinda as he glared at me with his serious eyes right to my eyes and let me tell you this, it's quite creepy when you had a stranger glaring at you.
"Will you be quiet for a minute? I'm trying to think for a moment here!" Martin-san said to me with a high voice, nearly attracting many people to watch at us. Ah mou~, I was just worried, he doesn't have to shout loudly to me like that! Geez, I'm not a kid, y'know?
"Misaki City… so this must be the World of Shana, I presume…" he said after he has made up his mind, which leaves me confused for a bit.
"World of Shana? How did you know?"
"It's because I'm smarter than you, peabrain." He mocked me with his nonchalant tone, just wanted to piss me off for a bit before he gets to the point. "Seriously, didn't you feel some sort of a wave coming at you once you've entered this world?"
"A wave? No, I haven't felt it…" I still don't have any idea what he meant by that...
"Geez, you can be so slow at times…" he teased me again, just to get my nerves up and one of my fist is already curled up to hit him hard but I better let it slide and let him continuing his speech, "Basically, every time we've entered a new world, a Wanderer like us should get a knowledge about any world that we visit and we should utilize it to use it to our advantage." Martin-san explained to me, even though I don't understand much of it. And with that information, a light bulb suddenly lights up with a ding as I looked at him with full of hope and my eyes are sparkled brightly.
"So~, does that mean that you're kinda like Kamen Rider Decade or Neo Decade or something?"
"Don't you DARE comparing me with those guys…" Gee, rude much? "All I can tell you is that those guys knew nothing about fantasy worlds, more than I do…" he said to me as he crossed his arms and all of the sudden, the once colourful city that we're standing at turns red and most of the people around us, objects, dogs and birds, are simply stopped within the motion, as if we hit the pause button on a remote control and to our surprise, only me and Martin-san can move within this… red area. Oh please let it be a solar eclipse...
"S-say, Martin-san… what's happening around here?" I asked him with a panic look on my face as he turns around to look at something until he pointed out the obvious.
"Why don't you try to ask that floating balloon over there?" he told me as he pointed at a direction where that "floating balloon" he mentioned is actually consists of a thousand faces in a shape of sphere which to make it more creepy as it sounds, it began to absorb the life of the people which was in its surroundings and having such a good time.
"Hehehehe! The human existence tastes very good~!" That floating thing said as his eyes… well, LOTS of them, are now shifting to us and it was surprised and having a smirk on its face at the same time. "…what do we have here~? There are some Torches that can move around within the Fuzetsu as well~? Are you that stupid Denizen that was so called Fangire?" that thing questions us with an angry tone of its…
"Fangire?" I asked in confusion before I understand what it tried to say. "Martin-san, that thing thinks that we are Fangires in human form of some sort…"
"No kiddin'..." he said with a sigh, which it triggers the Denizen's anger for we were ignoring its presence just now.
"If that's the case, I will not share their lives of existence to things like you!" the Denizen shouted at us as it began to deployed a lot of heads from its body, completed with little hands and feet that attaches on them, and that's without a body… gross…
"Well, we better suit up, 'cause I don't think that thing comes to play house with us…" Martin-san states the obvious as he took out one of the gadgets from his bag and all I can do for now is just fight with it with my new profound powers.
"Then we got no time to waste!" I shouted as I placed my belt onto my waist and took out the Mirage GaiaMemory and Martin-san took out one of the belts from his bag and placed it on his waist and does a pose where the original Blade would do.
= MIRAGE! =
"HENSHIN!" both of us shouted in unison as this is the only thing we can do in this kind of situation, which leaves the floating head in confusion, along with its troops.
= AXESS… MIRAGE! =
= TURN UP =
(Insert song: Round Zero – Blade Brave from Nanase Aikawa)
(Full Instrument) A tear appears on the screen before it shatters up as 9 different female mirages in different colours, running at the black background towards from right to left, entering a mirror as each of them spells out "MIRAGE!" as the other two changes into "KAMEN RIDER" words respectively before the mirror rotates to the right.
(tatta hitorikiri kimi no sonzai ga) Alexia was walking to one side of the building as it was sunset, as the mirror rotates to the left, Martin was walking along the Mirror Dimension.
(itsuka sekai no subete kaeru darou) As both of them came to a stop, both of them tried to touch the 'barrier' at the middle of the screen and as they touch, the middle 'barrier' shatters up.
(koko ni aru mono ha kibou? zetsubou?) 9 different couples are surrounding them as both of them look around and saw each of the couples has a Mirror Portal.
(Round Zero hajimatteru) All nine worlds in the form of Mirrors raises high above them and tried to fuse as one, only to be crack and shattered into pieces.
(shiranai to iu tsumi to shirisugiru wana) The screen shifts to the group known as EXPOSURE, sending out Kaijins from different world, as the two flashes shows Alexia and Martin turns around to see for the incoming enemy.
(ugokenaku naru mae ni ugokidasou) The enemy advances as Alexia transforms into Mirage and Martin transforms into Kamen Rider Illusion.
(kaze ni mekurareta KAADO) She runs toward the lone standing mirror and went through it, making 9 different images of anime girls appears out from it, wearing the Lever Driver.
(uranau you ni warau) Illusion dashes forward with 9 different images of boys appear next to him.
(mayowanai HAZU mo nai) She slashes the enemy with her Boomerang Slasher as Martin does the kick to the enemy's face.
(sore de mo ashita wo sagase) Mirage throws her boomerang onto the enemy as it makes its way back, the scene shifts to a place where it has a lot of Sakura Trees
(kono sekai no Mystery) Alexia walks happily to the front as Martin just walks casually with both of his hands in his pants' pockets.
(tokiakasareru toki) Alexia looks at him with a smile as Martin completely ignores it and looks up to see the petal falls.
(dare datte taisetsu na...) Both of them saw one of the Mirror Portals is opened up.
(kotae wo mitsukeru tame no MESSEEJI) Both Alexia and Martin runs towards the Mirror that was began to crack.
(BLADE~ BRAVE~) As both of them enter, the screen suddenly shines up and fades to white.
(Full Instrument) 4 flashes are appeared in sequence: Mirage and Illusion is in their fighting stance, 9 different anime girls with their poses, 9 different anime boys with their poses and finishes it up with Alexia does Storm's hand trademark with a smile and her glasses on her right hand.
Round 3: Shattered Souls
(Insert Song: Unleashed Force from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds OST 2)
That Denizen, which Martin stated, attacks both of us with its minions of infinite number of moving heads that's marching towards us with its spear but luckily for me, my Boomerang Slasher easily sliced through them as I also delivers one of my kicks and punches of my own towards it. Martin, or should I say… Blade in one of his rider form due to the toys that he gets from dad, slashes them off with the Blay Rouser with ease. Talk about a handy device...
"What are you Mystes supposed to be? I've never seen such a thing before!" the Thousand Face Denizen said in surprise as it kept sending more of the heads towards us. Ah mou~, can things get any weirder than this? And what the heck is a Mystes supposed to be? A ghost or something? Brr, just thinking about it makes my skin crawls for a moment there...
"Martin-san! There's too many of these things to handle!" I said while grabbing my Boomerang Slasher that was returning back to me and does a horizontal slash onto their enemies while making them disarmed their spears.
"Hmph, with these kinds of stuff, they sure aren't bring too much of a challenge to me…" he stated with a bored tone as he turns the Blay Rouser upside down and opens the fan to reveal a fan of cards from it as he took out four of the cards from the Rouser and looks at it in with full of curiosity. I wonder if he wanted to do some sort of a combo that Blade usually does? Y'know, Lightning Slash, Lightning Blast or even Lightning Sonic?
"Hm, despite having the memories of the user from somewhere, I think that I haven't seen this kind of combo before… time to make good use of it…" Blade stated as he roused the 4 cards on it and the Blay Rouser began to announce it.
= THUNDER = FIRE = TORNADO = BLIZZARD =
As the four cards stated from the Blay Rouser, 4 images came out from the cards and absorbed into his armor and the Blay Rouser declares the combo name.
= EXTREME SHOT =
And with that, the Blay Rouser is now covered with 4 different elements and as Blade rushes forward towards the Thousand Head Denizen while slashing some of the minions along the way. Wait a minute, Extreme Shot has never been used in a series before but how in the world did Martin-san does it as the show that I've used to watch never performs it at all, even at some of the Tokusatsu roadshow that they held once in a while. As I kept pondering about this stuff, I snapped out from my thoughts and saw the Denizen tried to get away, Blade quickens the pace and manages to stop it from running away. Just with that determination alone coming from Blade is enough to make it back off for a little distance, I guess it's time to make a finishing touch on that thing as well.
= MIRAGE, MAXIMUM IMPACT! =
With that declaration, I began to run and jumps high to the sky, which makes the Denizen confused for a moment and with that distraction, Blade was able to slashes it 6 times, to form a 6 pointed star before I dived down for a kick of my own.
"Shattered Kick!" was connected right on its face and it explodes within contact and not only that, thanks to my Shattered Rider Kick, the minions that it was summoned out was also shattered to pieces, which leaves me confused on what just happened. This doesn't happen before, like the one in my place. But, why does this happen just now?
(End of Insert Song)
"Um, Martin-san…"
"Let's just say that it's one of your true powers of Mirage. The reason that the Megalo that you've faced before didn't shattered is because of your world has nothing to do with fantasy worlds. And not to mention that your world is also protected by Elemental Riders as well in the past. That's the reason why the monster didn't shattered at all," he explains to me while I'm still don't get it. Is this what they called fantasy meets reality?
"So… does that mean that we just defy the law of reality?"
"Seems like it… that's what I can sum it up to this point…" he said while crossing his arms. Sweet, now that's what you don't hear everyday.
Before I could ask him what should we do with the place and some of the missing peoples due to being absorbed by the Denizen just now, a figure was flying above the sky, carrying a teen with her, followed by a maid flying around next to her as the three of them lands a few meters away from us. Wow, looks like we're not the only one that can move around in this red place… whatever it is called.
"Shana, what's wrong?" the teen asked the red haired girl wielding katana on her hand as she scans around her surroundings. I guess they didn't notice us for a moment there.
"I thought that the strong presence of a Denizen was here a moment ago but all of the sudden, that threat was already disappeared." the girl with red long hair while embers still appears out from her hair named… Shana, I think, stated with a serious look on her face.
"It could be another Flame Haze just appeared in this area and defeated it before we have arrived ~de arimasu." the maid noted.
"Pre-emptive strike."
"Whoa, where did that voice come from?" I shouted in surprised and it seems like we've got their attention as well and judging by the looks of it, I think that they are in a defensive state, ready to attack us at any moment…
"Who are you two? And how did you guys are able to move within the Fuzetsu?" the teen asked us as he wielding a LARGE looking sword on his hands. I gotta give him credit for trying to wield such a weapon. Even the rest of the Elemental Riders back at home had a hard time trying to lift that thing up.
"Are you two a Mystes or an enemy?" Shana stated as she grips her sword tightly and I waved my hand in defense to avoid the misunderstanding that it was about to arise.
"N-no! We aren't Mystes OR even an enemy! We were just passing through riders, that's all!" I told her but they seems to not to take up the words that I've stated just now.
"Riders?" the maid said as the teen began to ponder a bit.
"Isn't that what the Denizen or a Fangire said on the other day?" the teen questioned as Martin-san advanced forward without his Rider Form as I also de-henshined back to normal.
"Mind telling me if you guys know something that we would like to know, three stooges? I ain't got all day, y'know? " Martin said while looking at them, which leaves them confused for a bit before I intervene.
"Um, I kinda apologized for my partner said just now… but you mentioned a Fangire was in this world?" I asked them, gaining their attention. If it wasn't for what I did, we might ended up in the minefield and more misunderstandings will occur, which it usually happens to me ALL the time...
"So, do you know the situation that we're talking about ~de arimasuka?" the maid asked me with her expressionless look before I found out that it was her tiara that does the talking earlier.
"Identification received"
Okay, an object just replied to what the maid just said... I think that I've began to hallucinate or something like that...
"I guess so…" I said while looking around my surroundings. "I think we should do something about this mess right now…"
"Don't worry about this mess. We can handle it with my Reiji Maigo." the teen stated with a confident tone as all of them lowers their guard, knowing that we're on their good side. Don't ask me, I have no idea what the teen is talking about… and Martin-san doesn't seem to bother to ask about it.
"Since that you two aren't a threat, and you knew something that we don't know, we should discuss this matter after we cleared up the mess…" Shana said but still kept her serious look on her face. Geez, is she this serious all the time? She really need to cut some slack. Whoever became her boyfriend might have a hard time trying to soften her up... literally.
(An hour later, inside a café)
(Insert song: M110 (I don't have a specific title for this since I found it just the way it is) from Shakugan no Shana 3 OST 2)
After we have introduced ourselves, clears out the mess that Denizen just made in the city, returned back the normal lives of the citizens, clears out our misunderstandings and switching information among each other (man, that's a lot of things to do in an hour… that's a new record in my book), the 5 of us are now discussing about this matter after we had our drinks. And of course Shana-san is not in her Flame Haze form as she has long black hair and eyes and in her school clothing.
"Rider World? So, does that mean that the ones that one that causes comes from your world?" Shana asked. It seems obvious that they didn't know about other worlds that exists. I think I should keep a low profile for the time being.
"To be more precise, a group of organization that sends out those Kaijins to this world, just to create chaos. We're here to stop them for good." Martin-san said as he takes a sip from his cup of coffee.
"This is interesting. Another hero from another world. This is what humans called fate." Shana's necklace, Alastor-san, said with interest. Really, I can't get used to this kind of stuff...
"So, let's get to the point. Ever since last week, this Fangire that claims to be 'the Howl under the Moonlight' sucks the people's life energy and leaves their body in a glass state. Even if we tried to restore it back to the way it is, it was suddenly shatters before their power of existence can even entered their body." Sakai-kun explains some more.
"*nod* No matter how much we tried to kill this Fangire, that thing is very agile, it always escape before we could even kill it." Shana added.
"Even with the binds that I've applied to it, the enemy is still able to break through it with pure strength and still able to escape ~de arimasu."
"Unexpected outcome"
"And because of that, more people have turned into this glass body and caused some of the panic among the city. One of the Flame Haze has also fallen for the victim of his fangs as well." Shana said as she clenches her fist, knowing that she was annoyed by it as she fought the Fangire a few times but didn't managed to land the final blow on it.
"And to top it all off, it seems like it has begun to recruit some of the Denizens in order to turn this world fall onto their hands." Alastor-san added in as Martin-san and I got the gist of it.
"Sounds like fun… it seems like they have begun their move…" Martin-san said with a smirk on his face. Something tells me that he has something up on his sleeve and I don't think I'm gonna like it.
"Daijobu, we'll help you guys out when it comes to this mess. But we need to work on this together." I said to them with an assured tone and a smile.
(End of Insert Song)
As we were talking about this matter further, a news report appears on the TV at the wall and it seems like it was something that was very important.
"Breaking News! The number of victims that has changed into glass has been increasing more recently as the police still don't have any clues on the situation. Just 30 minutes ago, 10 more people have collapsed and turned into glass and no one was allowed to touch the evidence due to the sudden shatter, which leaves them back to square one. However, the police manages to find an evidence that might related to the mess…" the screen shows what the Fangire looks like and it was a purple wolf that was sucking out another victim which a person was able to record it with a cellphone before the Fangire shifts attention to the person that recorded it and becomes a meal. "…The police advised to the citizens to stay in home until the culprit of this mess will be apprehended and brought to justice. That would be all from the news."
"Looks like we got a job to do… any idea where that location is?" Martin-san said as he stood up from his seat and placed his hands inside his pocket, ready to go. His actions though leaves me sweatdropped and leaving the rest of the group with a confused look.
(At the pier)
"Freeze, you beast! Put that body down before somebody gets hurt!" One of the cops stated while aiming at their guns at it as the Wolf Fangire turns around with its hands behind his head. This is when the cops began to step forward slowly to apprehended the beast... bad move.
"Yeah… you guys are…" it said with a sinister tone and chuckles for a bit before fangs appears above them, stabs on the cops' shoulder and began to suck their lives out. The more it sucks it out, the more the victim struggles out and before they knew it, they were slowly to become stained glass. As it was enjoying this moment, it has been cut short because of the Fuzetsu was applied on that area and the fangs were cut away by Shana's katana in order to stopped it from drinking their lives out. At that time, the Fangire knew about this Fuzetsu and her appearance.
"That's as far as you can go, Fangire!" Shana, in her Flame Haze form, said in an angry tone, which makes the Fangire chuckles for a bit while looking at her and Sakai-kun next to her after holding onto her, while Wilhelmina landed next to her and glares at the enemy in front of her as she was ready to make a move.
"It seems like you're coming here to defeat me again… how pathetic…" the Wolf Fangire stated as it placed its hands on his hips with a sigh.
"That's because we got ourselves reinforcement, the Howl under the Moonlight. And this time, you should familiar with them, considering the fact that you are originally their enemies of some sort…" Alastor-san stated as the sound of a motorcycle can be heard from afar and as it turns out, Martin-san rides on black Ducati's Multistrada 1200 S Sport, which he named it the Illusion Ride and I'm riding the same ride, only in white, speeds away to the designation location and parked next to them. As we mounted off from our rides, the Fangire just laughs its butt out from what it sees before it regains its composure. What, never seen a girl riding such a cool bike before?
"Let's see what happens to that thing's expression when we do a little trick such as this…" Martin-san said as he took out the Blade Buckle and slots the card in to activate the belt as I equipped my Lever Driver and took out a Mirage GaiaMemory on my hand and pressed it down.
= MIRAGE! =
As Martin-san does a pose with the belt makes a faint tone while I slots in the GaiaMemory and pushes the lever to the right and does Shotaro's pose, making the Fangire noticed the situation that he's facing.
"No way… you are…?" man, I just love these kinds of moments.
"HENSHIN!"
= AXESS, MIRAGE! =
= TURN UP =
And with that, a blue frame appears out from the belt and Martin-san walks casually towards it, and his armor changes into Blade as the mirror appears above me and went through in order to reveal my Rider Form.
(Insert song: Ummei no Joker from Kamen Rider W OST)
"N-no way! It can't be?" Fangire said as it began to step back. "There's a rider in this world?"
"What you've just see here is only an illusion… now, reflect your actions!" I shouted with my dad's hand trademark as the Fangire began to summon the low level Denizens and began to attack us in a hasty manner.
"Minna… let's do this!" I shouted as Shana wields her katana and Sakai-kun armed with his Blutslinger. Wilhelmina's face is now covered with a mask that was called "Crown-and-Sash of Fantasies" and began to unleash the number of ribbons towards the enemy.
"Allow me to handle with these kind of enemies ~de arimasu."
"Defeat their leader"
With that in hand, the four of us began our assault towards that Fangire, not without another strong Denizen to help it out. As Blade and Sakai-kun is handling a Denizen to keep them busy, Shana and I tried to attack it with everything we got using her Nientono no Shana and my Boomerang Slasher and unfortunately, because of the Fangire has sucked so many people's lives and a Flame Haze, it was not a surprise to see that it became stronger as it manages to parry out both of our attacks.
"Hmph, I was actually scared for nothing… I thought that you two would give me some sort of a challenge after that threat that you've applied to me. Now I'm bored…" the Fangire stated as it began to take a big step back as if it tried to make an escape.
"I'm not letting you get away this time!" Shana said as she spread her flaming wings on her back and went for a horizontal slash with her flaming sword, only to be blocked with its own sword that was came out of nowhere with ease.
"If you think that you wanted to defeat me that easily, wait until I'll unleashed my grand plan with these Denizens under a full moon… then you shall feel my wrath, Flame Haze!" it shouted right in front of her face, as it delivers one of a strong kick right at Shana's stomach, which she flew towards me and pinned on top of me, which she was in pain.
"Shana!" Wilhelmina was aware of the situation, which she makes short work out of the Denizens with her ribbons.
= THUNDER = KICK = MACH =
= LIGHTNING SONIC =
As the selected cards have been roused and the images of three cards enters Blade's armor, he stabbed the Blay Rouser on the ground and immediately jumps high as he landed the Rider Kick which the kicking foot is engulfed with lighting onto the chest of the strong Denizen and Sakai-kun lands the finishing blow with a vertical cut, destroying it in the process.
(End of Insert Song)
As the rest of the gang came to us and Shana has came to, I looked at her with a concern after I de-henshined back to normal.
"Shana, are you okay?" when I asked her that, she was a little bit silent as she looks at where the Fangire was before it retreats.
"The grand plan under a full moon… what could that it mean?" Alastor-san asked with a confusion.
"I don't know, Alastor-san… I just don't know…" Shana said as I looked down which we didn't manage to defeat it and it manages to escape once again.
"It seems like he's planning something good..." Martin-san said as I just looked at him with a slight concern look on my face. How long does this mission is going to be, only time will tell.
TO BE CONTINUED
Alexia: Minna~! *waves happily* How are you today! It looks like we've reached our first world to travel and it was the World Of Shakugan No Shana!
Martin: *crossed arms* Hmph... it's the first world for you, of course. I've been through many worlds before I met you...
Alexia: Ah mou~! Just let me have my moment, okay? *pouts*
Martin: So... what's with this part of the story anyways?
Alexia: Oh? Well, we have some sort of announcement that we have to make...
Martin: And that would be...?
Alexia: The author has some of the worlds that have been selected and there is still some worlds that it haven't been decided yet.
Martin: *points my finger at the viewers* And this is where you come in... so, which anime world would you want us to visit? Here's how the format goes:
Fill in the blanks for each of the following:
World of: (Any world other than the ones that I mentioned)
Pairings: (It could be anyone from that chosen world, just as long as there have the specific skills that can help Mirage and Illusion out)
Rider World's Kaijin that was involved in that mess: (Pick one. It doesn't matter if it's from the show or the ones from your own stories, just as long as you guys can give in some of the details of the enemy Kaijin and its special powers)
Situation: (I'm giving you guys a chance to lay out the situation. If I don't know how to make one, maybe I'll contact with you guys via PM?)
Rules of the worlds that you want KR Mirage to travel:
- NO mecha themes or card games anime related show. Leave those kinds of things to Super Sentai and Duelists of their respective worlds...
- Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail and Bleach is a no go. Those guys know how to fend off with their own powers.
Alexia: I know that this was kind of demanding but everyone has their own limits when it comes to this kind of stuff. We'll be seeing you guys in the next chapter!
Martin: Maybe we'll gain your first Reflection Cards.
Alexia: Reflection Cards? *looks at him in a confused look* What's that, Martin-san?
Martin: *smirks* You'll see... later... *salute Daimonji Shun's style with a ding*