Chapter 4:
John was able to get home from school without further incident. Crashing on his bed from the exhausting day he had he let out a huge sigh.
"Damn it why did I jump in like that? Now those girls know that I change into a Kamen Rider." He complained
"Why's that bad?" Disembowelled Tiger asked, not really seeing what the problem.
"Duh, monster invasion followed shortly after a large fight in the school library, that's going to attract lots of unwanted attention, what about the local authorities, did you think these fights would remain secret forever cause they won't." John replied to the Tiger like it was obvious.
"The moderators can keep it a secret, the library was fixed as though nothing had happened right, and they'll be able to keep the police and such from interfering." The Tiger commented in a carefree manner.
"Of course they can." He sighed shaking his head at the ridiculousness of it all. "Who are these moderators anyway you mentioned them before?"
"We don't know who they are exactly, we just know they existed and they tell us what to tell you."
"You're just a font of knowledge aren't you?" He said with sarcasm flooding out of his mouth. "Anyway I'm going to sleep I need to sleep that dragon really hurt, he may not have got many hits in, but the ones it did hurt, so night. If I'm really lucky nothing will have happened, reference the inves attack and those girls seeing me." He said pulling the covers over him after changing into his pyjamas
In the weeks to come he would look back on that comment and think 'you idiot'.
The next day
Upon arriving at the school gates john was once again greeted by Akane, and she didn't exactly look happy.
"Come on the student council president wants to see you." She said with an edge of fear in her voice (no surprise considering yesterday).
"Great, just what I need this morning."
At the student council room (female side)
A newspaper was thrown at John faces, upon picking it up and reading it he realised it was the school newspaper and then he read the head line and his jaw dropped and started to sweat bullets.
Kamen Rider Gaim saves girls from dragon monster
Yesterday sources confirmed that a group of girls were attacked by grey monsters, as the creatures were about to strike and most likely kill the girls, help came in the form of a young man who jumped in between the creatures and their targets. Upon saving them he transformed in to 'Kamen Rider Gaim' – an orange armoured warrior- and then fought the monster, then a dragon like creature came through a weird zip opening and attacked Gaim, Gaim changed in to pineapple armour and beat the dragon. Who is this armoured warrior, well with showing the girls the boys school roster they were able to identify their saviour. So we would like to say thank you to John Roberts for saving our fellow students.
After reading the paper he went over to the nearest wall and started to slow hit his head against it.
"Stupid, Stupid, Stupid" He moaned "So much for keeping a lid on it."
"So john what are you going to do now?" Akane asked watching him bashing his head against the wall.
"What can I do, nothing that's what, arrrgggh why did this happen to me? All I wanted was a normal quite life." He continued to complain as he was now rolling around on the floor, for what reason? No one knew.
The student council president had started to chuckle at John misfortune drawing the attention of both John and Akane. "Well I have one suggestion." Shizuku said with a sly smile on her face.
"What it is? And why do I not like that look you have on your face?" He asked slightly afraid of what the suggestion was.
"Well since yesterday a student council meeting was called to discuss what happened yesterday, a request was put forward."
"What request?" John asked 'I'm getting a bad feeling about this' he thought.
"Simple, you will become the protector of the girls' side of the school to make sure that all of them are safe from further attack." She answered the smile still on her face as she spoke.
"Oh no way what happened to the whole secret fights with Kampfer, I can't be in the spotlight." He said putting his arms up in an X fashion as if to say 'Request Denied'.
"Oh it's a little too late for that, but remember your armour hides the bracelet so no one will be any the wiser." Shizuku said happily.
"You can't do this, I'm a boy and we have to be on our side."
"Already taken care of, you will be given special permission to go between the boys' and girls' side freely however if the girls need you they are allowed to 'request' your services, even during classes."
"Y- you can't be serious 'request' my ass, you may as well put me in their classes- don't even think about it- no way am I doing that!" He exclaimed "Akane tell her she can't do this please cause I don't seem to be getting through to her". She just looked away as Shizuku continued to talk to John.
"An entertaining idea but no, I'm not cruel – 'Bullshit' thought John- you may now return to your classes, however I want to see John back here for lunch I will probably have more question for you about the inves."
"Seriously just Google it, what do you need me for?" He asked
"No, I want you here at lunch don't be late or I'll drag you here myself." She said her lips forming a smile that just screamed 'this is fun'.
"Fine."
"Good boy."
John just narrowed his eyes as he walked back to his classroom with Akane heading to hers.
Upon reaching his class room john opened the door and walked in and sat down at his desk by the window as he took a look in his desk to find his books for the lesson ahead he closed it and found himself with Higashida in his face.
"Dude personal space, have you heard of the concept?" John asked and he moved himself backwards from Higashida's face.
"You seem to be getting friendly with the girls' side." He said as with an edge to his voice he slammed the days school newspaper onto John's desk.
"Really that's the first thing you say, no questions what so ever?" John replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Not important, what is important is that now you've become popular with the girls' side of the school and from what I've heard you've been spending time the student council president." He said the edge in his voice becoming threating.
'One track mind, why do I associate with these people?' John thought to himself as he said to Higashida.
"She was asking question about the attack yesterday I wouldn't call that 'spending time' with her. Also just cause I saved a few girls doesn't mean I'm going to be treated that much different from the rest of us"
"Bullshit!" said Higashida and the rest of the class who had been listening in to the conversation.
Time Skip
With the lesson before lunch coming to a close, the teacher was giving the male students their homework assignments. When the class heard a sound of shoes hitting floor but it didn't sound like a few students it sounded like a large group of people were marching in their direction. The student closest to the door opened it and looked outside to see what it was and his faced change from confusion to fear and shut the door quickly.
"What's wrong?" asked one of the other students.
"Girls"
"How many?" Asked another
"At least a whole class"
"But why would they come…. Here?" Higashida wondered aloud as he realised the answer he turned to look at John. "You." He said as his eyes narrowed.
"Me?"
"Won't treat you differently my ass, they're here for you."
"If it was an emergency they would have ran here so that means they are not here for me." He reasoned having been told that they could come to him if it's an emergency.
"Clueless." the whole class –teacher included- replied while shaking their heads. As the footsteps grew louder as they neared the classroom John was hoping they would eventually fade signalling them walking away. They didn't, they just suddenly stopped outside the classroom door and then said door was slammed open and in stepped a group of girls, as John looked at the group he realised it was the same group of girls he had saved from the inves attack. As the girls search the room for the person they were looking for one the boys walked up to them to greet them.
"Can I help you ladies?" he asked try to appear friendly, the girls just looked at him-more like through him- and walked by him ignoring him completely as the girls finally found who they looking for and rush towards him.
"Oh John we've been looking all over for you." The first girl said learning close to him.
"Erm, is there an emergency I can help with?" He asked backing up once more to gain some personal space.
"We just wanted to thank you for saving us from those monsters yesterday." The second girl answered in a happy tone.
"It's ok, there's nothing to thank me for, so please don't feel like you owe me." He tried in vain to downplay the event. However at that moment some the boys in the class were starting to get aggravated that John was at the centre of the girls' attention.
"Hey we would have done the same." One boy cried out.
"What makes him so special?" another challenged.
As John watched the girls in front of him react to these comments he saw that they weren't reacting to them, 'probably ignoring them or just don't care what they say' he thought to himself. However one boy decided to say one of the worst things possible.
"I bet it was faked!"
The atmosphere in the classroom did a 180 turn; all the girls seem to freeze, as though trying to compute what was just said. Faked? Why would there be a fake attack on students, a movie being filmed? There were no camera crews anyway near the courtyard let alone the school. Anyway as the girls realised what was said the entire group slowly turned their heads towards the random boy who – stupidly – made his opinion known at a time when the people who were attacked were in the room. The boy realised his mistake too late as he saw the look of the girls and almost wet himself with the sight that greeted him. Rage, there was no other word to describe it as the girls eye bore into their target's, if looks could kill he would have died multiple times over. However the group of girls that had been saved by John settled for this to defend said boy's honour.
SQUISH
SMACK
SMACK
THUMP
The head of the group move quickly delivering a powerful kick to the boy's crown jewels that was felt by every male in the room shown by a collective moan from said males. The next two followed at a more leisurely pace while the boy held his jewels in pain –though he was still standing – and slapped him on either side of his face. For the finale the final two girls in an amazing display of a combo attack launched a flying kick at his stomach than land on the floor in a heap still holding his crotch and sporting two red hand marks on either cheek. As the girls continued to shout at him for even suggesting it was a fake attack. John used this as the perfect opportunity to head to the council as he was supposed to when the bell had rung a few minutes ago during this fiasco. However as he was sneaking past the rest of the girls that made up the group he realised someone was standing in his way as he looked up he saw that it was Akane.
"The president sent me to get you." She said drawing attention from the girls who were near the door.
"Fine let's go see her." John replied getting to his feet and heading to in towards the student council room with Akane in tow.
Upon reaching the council's room John opened up the door letting Akane in then shutting the door as he walked in. He saw Shizuku seating in the same seat as before as he walked up to her.
"Alright I'm here, what now?" he asked
"Why are you late?" She asked him
"Your handy work that's why" He replied slightly pissed off.
"Oh, what do you mean?" she replied in an 'innocent' voice.
"The girls have already caused a scene in my classroom." He answered angrily at first and then spoke in a calmer tone. "Now, what questions do you want answered this time?"
"I have two requests I would like to ask of you." She said as she rose from her chair and walked around the table. "The first is a truce."
"A truce?" John asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes these fight are pointless, I want to find out why we are fighting and who's making us. I'm asking if you will both help me in this endeavour."
"Good call why fight for no reason, Akane what do you think?" John then looked at Akane
"I think that it will be a good idea" she said as she turned to look at John.
"Agreed" John said as he then turned to look at the council president and extended his hand out offering to shake hands. "Ok president I'm on board for this idea let's work together to get to the bottom of this problem."
"Please call me Shizuku, both of you, and thank you." She said accepting the offered hand.
"Now, what was the second request?" he asked after finishing shaking hands.
"I want to see Helheim forest." She deadpanned.
"Sorry, what?" He asked thinking he misheard or something.
"I want to go and see Helheim." She repeated.
"No, it's too dangerous they are more powerful on their home turf for a start." He explained. Shizuku just stared at him.
"You're not taking no for an answer are you?" He sighed, she just nodded her head in return. "Fine. But you need to do exactly as I tell you cause I'm don't know if your Kampfer weapons will work against inves."
"That's agreeable, it is unknown whether we can harm the inves, we shall meet up after school and then we shall go to the forest."
"Okay, do we meet up here or somewhere else?" John asked.
"We shall meet up at your house after school." Shizuku answered.
"Wait why my place?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Because we want to see where you live, isn't that right Akane?" Akane just blushed in return.
"Fine I'll meet you later." John sighed in defeat as he got up and heading off to get some lunch.
Time skip
Upon school finishing John rode his bike home and upon arriving and home went upstairs putting all his school stuff away. Changing into his after school clothes consisting of grey trainers, blue loose fitting jeans, white short sleeve t-shirt and a long sleeve chequered shirt, that had it sleeves folded back to mid arm length. With his lockseed on his person and driver in his over shirt, he heard the doorbell ring not soon after and headed down stair to open the door to find the girls had arrived.
"Would you like to come in first or shall we head straight to the forest." He asked.
"May we come in there are a few more thing I wish to discuss with you first." Shizuku said.
"Come in then." He replied as he then led them into the living room and sat down in a chair while the girls sat on the sofa. "By the way what is it you want to see when in Helheim anyway." He asked once they were all seated.
"I would like to see what it's like, is there anything in particular that we can see while we are there?" she asked.
"Some ruins and lots inves really." He answered.
"Ruins?" Akane questioned.
"Yeah, it's hard to explain, Helheim was invaded, and the civilisation was basically destroyed after being overrun by the flora." He explained to them both.
"That answers my first question, how are we going to get to this forest?" Shizuku then asked.
"There are two ways, one is to go through a crack, however those are rare to find just anywhere, the second option is to use my bike, it's able to transport us there, problem is I can only have one passenger at a time." John explained.
"Then let's go I shall be the first to go through with you and then you can pick up Akane after." Shizuku said as she rose from her seat and headed towards the door.
"Alright let's go." John said as he followed Shizuku with Akane in tow. Upon locking his front door John pulled at the Sakura lockseed and opened it up materialising the bike in front of them. Climbing on to the bike he motion for Shizuku to get on the back of the bike.
"Put the helmet on and hang on tight I need to be able reach a certain speed before the portal will open." John said. Upon placing their helmets on Shizuku wrapped her arms around John chest and held on to him as she leaned forward to gain a tighter hold of him, however John then felt something being pressed up against his back and gulped as he felt Shizuku's breast against him.
"Is there something wrong John?" Shizuku asked in an amused tone.
"Nope, nothing at all." He responded in a higher pitch than his usually voice, clearing his throat he then said "Okay let's go." Revving the engine he then accelerated picking up speed, as the motorbike reach the speed need the bike started to spin and a crack opened up which they then travelled through. Upon exiting the portal John brought the bike to a stop and Shizuku dismounted.
"Now stay right here and make no sound, I don't what inves swarming here ok." John told her to which she nodded. He then spun the bike round and set off in the direction they had come and repeated the process and then disappeared through the crack.
John exited the portal and brought the bike to a stop in front of Akane.
"Same detail, helmet and hold tight." Akane then climbed on and placed the helmet on her head and wrapped her arms around john chest, like before he felt Akane breasts pressed against his back. 'Bloody hell do they need to hold this tight, I mean come on!' he shouted in his mind as he gunned the bike forward. The portal opened once more and they sped through it.
John brought the bike to a halt a short distance from Shizuku. Akane dismounted the bike first and went to meet up with Shizuku. With the bike now in lockseed form he pocketed it and walked over to the girls. John looked at around him, seeing it in real life was a weird feeling, all the trees and strange flora everywhere and also the sort distorted look that thicker areas of the forest had, was something that he was going to have to get used to. 'Probably will be coming here again, for what reason? Well I cross that bridge when I get to it.' He thought himself.
"Welcome to Helheim Forest, home to monsters that wanna kill you, please enjoy your stay." John said jokingly as he walked towards the girls, they shook their heads in response, "Oh, so it's ok for you to make jokes at others expense. But I do it and suddenly it's in bad taste, typical" He complained.
"I wonder what these taste like?" Akane said as she had walked to the closest tree, and then picked one of the leafy looking fruit off the tree, taking off the leaf cover a small round purple fruit was revealed and she raised it to her open mouth.
"NOOOO!" John shouted as he sprinted towards Akane, upon reaching Akane he rugby tackled her to the ground, the fruit flying from her hand. "Are you stupid? What if that was poisoness?" he yelled angrily as Akane turned her head away blushing.
"Oh John, I had no idea you like doing it in front of others." Shizuku said slyly.
"What are you on abou…..!" He trailed off as he realised he was on top of Akane propped up by his hand only. "So-Sorry" He said as he got off her rather quickly. She followed shortly after still blushing.
"Why did you attack me like that?" She asked as she dusted herself.
"Rule number one: DO NOT EAT THE FRUIT!" He yelled at the girl who then stared cowering behind Shizuku who just smiled in return.
"Bu-but it looks and smells so tasty and I'm hungry." Akane replied as she stayed behind Shizuku, hiding from the raging John.
"Is the fruit poisoness in this forest?" Shizuku asked, speaking up for the first time since arriving.
"Worse, much worse." John said seriously as he turned to look at Shizuku.
"How?" The older girl asked.
"Eating the fruit as an inves makes them stronger." He then turned to look at Akane "When a human eats it, they turn into an inves." He said as he walked towards Akane, and smacked her upside the head." "Don't ever do that again, you nearly gave me a heart attack." He said as his angry look faded from his face, replaced with a look of relief that Akane wouldn't be turning into a monster.
"Tu-turn into an inves." Akane said, the colour drained from her face as realisation dawned on her. "Thank you for saving me." She said as she bowed in front of him.
"Calm down, it's no problem really, I'm your friend so I'm not going to let you turn into a monster." He told her as she stood back up from her bow. Looking around John walked towards a tree as he placed his driver on his waist. "Watch this." He said, the girls looked over his shoulder as he reached out a picked one of the fruits off of the tree, as they watched the fruit shifted into another lockseed. "Well that's a good one, lucky me." He said as he took two more off the tree each with a different design. "Sunflower seed lockseed ah well, on the upside another bike could be helpful." He said throwing the sunflower away but stowing the rose lockseed away.
"Shall we go look for these ruins now?" Shizuku asked.
"Er sure, let's try this way." He said walking off in a direction.
Time Skip
"You don't know which way to go do you." Akane deadpanned.
"Look, there wasn't an exact direction when trying to find the ruins, my only clue is find an open area so we're walking away from the dense forest. If you have a better suggestion I'd love to hear it." John sighed as he continued to lead them towards a more open area. As they came to an area that was wide open they all came to a halt.
"Wow" John breathed as he looked at the sight before him. Large greyish buildings that had partly crumbled revealing jagged diagonal lines dotted the wide open area. "Seeing it in person is a whole different experience."
"So this is what happens when the forest takes over is it?" Shizuku ask as she observed the ruins with no hint of emotion on her face.
"Yeah, but luckily I didn't see any of the forest seep through the crack the other day, so maybe we'll get lucky." John replied.
"Wait there's someone down there heading to the ruins." Akane pointed towards the ruins where the back of a person could barely be seen walking towards the buildings.
"Your right, maybe they somehow came through a crack, well we better go help them." John said and was about to set off to the ruins when he head movement from behind him.
GRRRRRR
An inves emerged from the forest, the bottom half was black while the top half was mostly red, white accents in the shape of horns adorned the body with the chest design looking like teeth being bared, on its head were two twisted horns , this is the Yagi inves or goat inves.
"Had to happen sometime." John moaned as he slapped the driver onto his waist as he withdrew the orange lockseed.
"Henshin!"
ORANGE!
LOCK ON!
SEIYA! ORANGE ARMS! THE PATH OF BLOSSOMS ON STAGE!
Now sporting Orange arms Gaim withdrew his Musou Saber from his waist and charged at the inves, slashing it in the chest, the inves roared in anger and punched Gaim in response knocking him to the floor, groaning Gaim tried to climb to his feet but the goat inves had already closed the distance and rammed him with his horns knocking him into a tree, as it advanced on him once more the girls decided to take action.
BANG BANG BANG
CLANG
Upon transforming the girls drew there weapons and attacked the inves distracting it from Gaim, Akane had her gun drawn and Shizuku's weapon was back in her hands. The goat inves roared once more and charged towards the girls who quickly dodged. Shizuku launched her weapon towards the inves, it connected but didn't do much to it – barely dented it – while Akane fired her pistol at the inves which just caused sparks to fly of the creature.
As the goat inves turned to engage its new opponents Shizuku's chain weapon wrapped around its arm and she tried to pull it off balance, it worked, the inves stumbled forward a few steps but was then able to right itself, grabbing hold of the chain the inves pulled Shizuku towards itself, as it prepared to strike its prey more bullets hit it distracting it.
Shizuku jumped back, her weapon back in hand and turned to Akane about to thank her but she just pointed to her side.
"Hey goat boy you're fight's with me!" Gaim declared as he brought out the pineapple lockseed. "My friends are off limits, now you're going down!"
PINEAPPLE!
LOCK ON!
SEIYA! PINEAPPPLE ARMS! PULVERISE & DESTROY!
Gaim now in pineapple arms started to swing the Pine Iron around his head and launched it towards the inves causing to smash it in the stomach, sending it backs a good distance and falling on its back, the inves got to its feet and prepared to charge, as it did Gaim swung the Pine Iron once more and brought the weapon down on its head causing it to come crashing down to the ground kicking leaves and dirt up the horns broken from the sheer force of the strike.
"Let's finish this." Gaim declared as he used the blade on the driver once.
PINEAPPLE SQUASH!
Throwing the Pine Iron into the air Gaim jumped after it and kicked towards the slowing rising inves and its head was encased in the weapon. With that done Gaim with his leading foot gather energy launched towards the target hitting it dead centre a pineapple ring appearing around the gaping hole the inves now sported as it dropped to the ground for the last time and exploded. Gaim got up from his attack and cancelled the transformation and turned to the girls who had also cancelled their transformations.
"You girls alright?" He asked them worriedly.
"Just fine thank you." Akane answered. "What about you? You got knocked out for a bit there."
John Cringed. "Yeah I'm alright, thanks by the way, for stopping him from killing me."
Hearing more movement within the forest John withdrew the Sakura and Rose Lockseeds activating them the bikes appearing in front of him.
"We need to go, now, more are coming and I sure as hell can't beat all of em." He said "Use the other bike; it should get you out of here, stick close." He told them as he climbed on to his bike, Shizuku climbed on to the Rose Attacker as Akane climbed on the back of it and followed after John who gunned the engine the second Akane was ready. As they reached the necessary speed they left the forest through the portal.
Hi guys, sorry for the wait, Wolfenstien and the Destiny beta have occupied my time massively. Anyway now that chapters done things should progress easier. Any ideas who the figure was in the forest? What did you think of the Destiny Beta if you played it? Anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review. Also I started a new fic, a Kamen Rider x Fire Emblem Awakening crossover so please and review that, till next time. Spartan243