4: The Battle Resumes
"Start!" The drago timer spoke as Haruto pressed the thumb part on it with his left hand as then all 6 of them charged at each other with blades and arms clashing while the girls all looked on.
Mayu attacked Fueki with her claw as he would bock using his arms and strike back at her with a few kicks that knocked her back allowing him to run across the ground to recover his weapon from the ground nearby only for Mayu to open fire on him with her gun. He took the hits in his back and then turned to face her and charged forwards striking out with the blade of his flute weapon causing Mayu to switch her gun into a sword mode like Haruto can on his.
"Yes...Special...Understand!" Her driver spoke as he waved her right hand over it having flicked it around to use a new right hand ring, one with a red inside rather than orange and showed a dragon breathing fire. Bur rather than the image implies the tail on the back of her rider form grew longer and struck out at Fueki as they battled causing him to have to block attacks from it, her sword and her giant claw, something that he seemed very calm and relaxed in doing.
Kouske charged up against Gremlin who had a pair of small blades appear in his hands clashing with Kouske's sword as they each tries to strike each other. As they battled he switched the ring on his right hand from a back hexagonal ring with a crimson buffalo head on it to a matching one but with a dark blue dolphin on it and pressed it into the right pillar of his driver. "Dolphi! Go, Do-Do-Do-Do-Dolphi" It chanted as a dark blue spell ring appeared next to him and passed over changing his right shoulder pad to a dark blue dolphin head and the cape to dark blue as well. He then spun around and gave gremlin a hard kick before spinning the wheel on his sword as he passed it to his left hand and then pressed in the ring.
"3...Dolphi, Sabre Strike!" It called as he took the sword back into his right hand as a large dark blue spell ring appeared before him and he struck it like he had done previously and in the shatter 3 dark blue dolphins flew out and leaped in and out of the ground as they went over to Gremlin and struck him a few times until he managed to recover enough from the attacks and struck them back shattering them and he then charged back in and fought Kouske.
"Connect...Now!" Came from Will's driver as she reached into a spell ring with her right hand after using a connect ring on it and pulled out a sword that matched the one Mayu was using and used it to block attacks from Haruto's sword before she then struck his helmet with her large claw knocking him back a little.
"Will, snap out of it" Haruto called to her as he charged back at her and they locked swords while then seeing the dial on the timer reach the blue segment and the stature turn blue, he reached across with his left hand as she struck him again with the claw to which he was braced for now and he pressed the thumb on the timer.
"Water Dragon!" It called out as by Mayu a large blue spell ring appeared and a copy of Haruto's current rider form charged out but with all the red replaced with blue and the circles with egg shapes. It tagged in its attacks with Mayu's, to which Fueki still didn't seem bothered with as he switched his right ring back to the last one he used and activated his driver again.
"Explosion...Now!" It spoke as he took his flute in his left hand while the orb formed in his right. But before he had a chance to throw it both Mayu and the summoned rider form of Haruto struck that arm knocking it upwards sending the orb up into the sky. Fueki gave off a angry grunt as he then struck back at both as he took his flute back in his right hand and swung it knocking both of them back a couple of steps before they recovered and returned the attacks.
"I will not disobey Wiseman" Will spoke back causing Haruto to know she was clearly under Fueki's spell by the tone of her voice. They then continued to use their swords to strike each other with the occasional small volley of sparks exploding off their armour when they directly hit each other.
"You think he can get Will back?" Gali asked the girls as they all looked on.
"We just have to hope" Cornelia smiled. "Haruto was on about never giving up on hope."
They watched the fighting go on as Irma thought of something. "Blunk, go find Matt, he may be able to help" He told him.
"Blunk on it, if it means Blunk out of scary place" He happily informed her before he leaped up to a ledge above a nearby restaurant entrance and climbed up a drain pipe to get out of the area as he headed off to do his task.
"That is a good idea Irma, but what about us?" Hay Lin commented as then near them 5 Ghouls appeared as they grew out from the ground and started towards them.
"Without transforming we are effectively sitting ducks, and I used up most of my energy fighting off the group that attacked me and Gali" Taranee sighed as Gali charged into the group of Ghouls and started to fight them.
Back at Haruto he spun Will around causing him to miss her changing her right hand ring to a spell ring with a green inside instead with a dragon above lightning. She re-set the right hand side of her driver as she turned back to face him as his timer reached the green segment and the stature turned green, she then waved her right hand over her driver as she passed the sword into her left hand.
"Yes...Thunder...Understand!" Her driver spoke as he saw what she was doing and inside his helmet he ended up with a look of shock on his face as in her right hand a orb of pick lightning formed and then she thrust her had at his chest armour and he was then thrown back by a blast of pink lightning bolts, but while he was being thrown back he quickly pressed the thumb again on the timer.
"Hurricane Dragon!" It called as next to Kouske a green spell ring appeared and once again a copy of the current form Haruto was using came out but with the red swapped with green and the circles with triangles. It also held the sword in a back-hand stance as it aided Kouske in fighting Gremlin as Kouske changed his right ring to a similar one with a green chameleon on it and he then pressed it into the right pillar of his driver.
"Chameleo! Go, Cha-Cha-Cha-Cha-Chameleo!" His driver called out as a green spell ring changed his right shoulder armour and cape to a green chameleon head and green cape. As he charged back at Gremlin who had been pushed back a little by the Hurricane Dragon copy of Haruto he became invisible and use the opportunity to get behind Gremlin without him seeing, re-appearing just before he struck Gremlin in the back.
Haruto ended up on his back on the ground from the lightning strike from Will who then charged at him striking downwards with her sword causing Haruto to roll to His right to dodge. She then responded by striking out with her claw to which he placed the sword in the way to block as he stood back up and their weapons then clashed again.
Back with the girls they stood watching on all the fights happening, not certain what they can do without themselves transforming against two rider-class opponents or a full type phantom. With the Ghouls they felt a little better taking on but Taranee had told them that her fireballs hadn't effected them much so they held on and occasionally launched a fireball, jet of water or a gust of air at any Ghouls that Gali had knocked back to help her while Cornelia got bits of table they were lying around and had them fly into the Ghouls. After a few moments of this the Ghouls seemed to wise up as 4 of them then surrounded Gali tightly as she attacked back with her pincers and summoning jets of water around her, but they didn't seem to want to budge while the last one came straight at the girls who intensified their attacks against it, but it just kept coming.
"Will remember who I am, who you are" Haruto called to will as he pushed her back up against a wall in their fight only to then be distracted by a girls scream causing him to look over and see the Ghoul right upon the girls, he then looked at the timer in time to see it enter the yellow section and the statue turn yellow. He was then kicked by a few steps by Will because he wasn't paying full attention to her but recovered quickly enough to block a sword attack by her with his sword and he then reached across with his left hand to press the thumb on the timer again.
"Land Dragon!" It then called out creating a yellow spell ring on the ground between the girls and the Ghoul when then another copy of the dragon rider form appeared but with yellow instead of red and the circles replaced with squares. As it rose out of the ground it swung the sword upwards throwing the Ghoul back next to the ones attacking Gali. He then charged forwards striking 2 of the Ghouls that were surrounding Gali allowing her to strike down the remaining 2, she then looked over the summoned rider and gave a nod to him as the Ghouls stood back up and the 2 of them stood back to back as the 5 Ghouls charged at the pair of them.
Haruto kept dodging and blocking Will's attacks and struck back trying to disarm her. They traded more blows as Haruto gave a quick glace around the area seeing the water dragon summon and Mayu were pushing Fueki back and Kouske with the hurricane dragon were nearly finished with Gremlin while land dragon struck down the Ghouls which exploded into dust.
"I am bringing them in!" Haruto called out to everyone as he looked back at Will. "You are coming out of this, and I know what I must do." He softly told her as the dial reached the end.
"Final Time!" the timer called out to which caused the stature to flash red, blue, green and yellow in cycle. Which this going on Fueki tried to strike out at the water dragon but Haruto was acting faster, he flicked the driver around to re-set the right hand and then held the statue over it and it gave of a white flash.
"All Dragon...Please!" Both the driver and timer called out together as the 3 summoned dragon forms all turned into a blue, green or yellow energy version of the same dragon that appeared when Haruto become flame dragon form, the colour of the energy dragon they became was based on the form they were. Then from Haruto a red version flew out and flew around him as the other 3 flew over and joined in before they all dived into him sending a wave of energy over his form and then he had over his hand a pair of silver armoured gauntlets with 3 large dark bronze claws each the length of his lower arm on the end, from his back there was a pair of large silver framed wings with a gold claw on the end of each and black panels inside it, while from the base of his spine extended out a silver tail with a gold blade at the end of it at a length of just longer then his legs, while finally from his chest armour a dragon's head with a silver top, black underside, silver horns on the side and a red jewel in the top.
Will reacted to the form Haruto took on by switching her sword into its gun mode and fired off 5 shots at Haruto who responded by the wings flapping away lifting him up into the air and then spun around using the tail to knock the bullets that come from the gun down into the ground. Haruto faced back at her and then got the dragon head to fire some fireballs down at her, to which she flipped to her left to jump out of the way as the fireballs hit the ground.
Over at Kouske he had got the attachment on his right arm to disengage as he gave Gremlin a hard slash with his sword knocking him back before he stuck the tip of the sword in the ground to hold it there as he then pushed his left ring into the left pillar. "Kick Strike...Go!" It called out as he pulled the ring out and a gold energy ring appeared before him to which he charged forwards and jumped through tucking his left foot back while keeping his right foot stretched out as a gold energy lion head formed around it with the mouth wide open as he flew down into Gremlin as he stood up and the lion's head bit down on it causing the phantom to explode leaving Kouske standing just behind where Gremlin had been.
Mayu grabbed onto Fueki as he tried to get towards Haruto and gave him a kick into the stomach area before tossing him back a little as she then switched her right ring to one with a yellow centre with a dragon holding a stone. "Yes...Gravity...Understand!" Her driver called out as she activated the ring then pointing that hand towards Fueki and a orange spell ring appeared on the ground around him and he was then pulled down on his knees as the gravity inside the ring was increased.
Haruto slammed down onto the ground strike Will back with the claws as then a large dark red spell ring appeared around him with a smaller red, blue, green and yellow spell rings inside it. He then leaped up into the air using the wings to get some height with the rings following him up before he kicked the rings down and they landed around Will, the energy from them trapping her in place.
"Will, come back now!" he then called out before tucking his legs into the same way Kouske had as the then shot down at her with red energy forming around his outstretched foot.
Will struggled against the energy holding her in place re-setting her driver and then using the ring she was wearing again. "Yes...Thunder...Understand!" It called as he shot her right arm upwards at the incoming Haruto and launched another lightning bolt at him.
The bolt and kick made contact, slowing Haruto down for a moment before he flicked himself a little forcing him down more, pushing through the bolt before eventually reaching Will with a explosion engulfing the both of them.
"Will!" The girls screamed out seeing what happened while both Kouske and Mayu turned around to look and ran together, and Fueki slowly stood up as the gravity effect stopped when Mayu turned away.
A few moments past before they could see something in the flames, and as they cleared they saw Haruto back in the normal flame dragon form with a red energy shield around him as he was bent over something and once the flames where gone they could see he was over Will. He then stood up holding her in both arms and started to carry her towards the girls as they ran over to him.
"Is she?" Irma nervously asked.
Haruto stood there while Will's left arm fell to hand down before a pink spell ring passed over her from foot to head returning her to her normal appearance as then the driver fell from her having had the belt that held it disappear, it hit the ground before the centre of the hand cracked and then shattered followed by the ring on her left hand falling off and hitting the ground and the pink gem in it shattering. Will's eyes started to open.
"She will be fine" Haruto calmly told them as he helped her to stand slowly.
"What is going on?" Will spoke a little disorientated.
"I will not be denied!" Fueki angrily yelled as he aimed the blade of his flute at Haruto as he quickly told Will of what had gone on.
"Fueki!" Haruto then angrily yelled back as he turned to face him and walked up to Mayu and Kouske. "You made a mistake in going after them, and you will be stopped." As he spoke her changed his left hand ring to the diamond one while Kouske placed on a blue framed ring on his right hand with a gold lion's face on it.
"You will have to deal with us too" Will then called at him, not completely back but she looked annoyed.
"You certain you are up for this right now?" Hay Lin asked her a little concerned.
"Yea, no-one messes with my mind and gets away with it" She stubbornly replied as she took out a pink stone with a metal frame around it on a necklace that she put on.
"Plus he did send his Ghouls after all of us so I think we all owe him payback" Cornelia grinned.
"I'm up for that" Taranee smiled.
"Count me in too" Gali spoke as she stood there too.
"Right then, heart of Kandrakar, lets rock" Will spoke as the necklace as it floated up before her and glowed brightly sending out 5 bolts of energy in pink, blue, red, green and pale grey. "Guardians, new power unite!" She then called as the energy then each flew straight at one of them, pink at Will, blue at Irma, red at Taranee, green at Cornelia and the pale grey at Hay Lin. Each bolt of energy wrapped around them leaving a silhouette of them inside as on their chests a glowing mark then appeared before the glow over them faded away revealing they had changed all into the same pale blue and pale green striped leggings and black framed wings on their backs, as long as her arms that had 4 large sections that each got a little smaller but reached down from her back to her knees at their longest part these segments were a dark blue at the top and got paler as they went down into a pale green.
Will had a purple top that had wide sleeves on it that came down to her elbows, on the front of it was a curved equals symbol that was standing in a vertical direction, continuing from under her sleeves on her arms was a pair of black fingerless gloves, she also had a pair of turquoise tight shorts start at the bottom of her top and covered the top half of her upper legs, tho reached down to near her knees on the outside. She finally had dark purple below the knee boots on, they had a silver buckle attached to a dark purple strap around her ankles, then at the top of them each had 2 straps around the outside edge of them.
Irma had a turquoise tank top that had a wave marked on the front. She had the same sort of fingerless gloves that Will had, they came almost all the way up to her shoulders. She also had a purple half length skirt that split on both sides just below the top of her thighs and dark purple boots that came half way up her lower legs.
Taranee had a purple crop top that covered her shoulders and had a triangle marked on it but the bottom left corner didn't have the lines touching. She also had black fingerless gloves that stopped after her wrists. Over the leggings she had turquoise shorts and some dark purple ankle boots.
Cornelia was in a turquoise top completely covered her arms and hands and had a circle on it with a dot in the middle. A long purple skirt that was split on both sides like Irma's she also had and finally dark purple below the knee boots.
Finally Hay Lin had a turquoise tank top that hand a more curved version of the symbol Irma had but this one stood upwards. She also had a purple skirt that was split the entire length and it came down to her feet which had dark purple slip on shoes. At the top of the skirt it had a dark purple cord wrapped around it. She also had fingerless gloves that came up to below her elbows and then some straps that continues wrapped around her arms to just above her elbows.
"Since when did you all get a new form?" Haruto asked as he prepared to use his driver.
"Only a few months" Taranee smiled to him.
"Do what you wish, it will not change the outcome" Fueki interrupted.
"Infinity...Please!" Haruto got his driver to call out from left hand mode as a reply creating a cyan spell ring around him and a cyan version of the dragon he had appeared before flew up over him from the ring before it passed over him forming diamonds over his armour which shattered after a couple of moments while the driver chanted "Hi-Sui-Fu-Do! Bou-Jaba-Byu-Dogon!" Once all the diamonds had shattered he now had a pale silver bodysuit with silver boots that came up to the knees and had little diamonds making up knee guards and around the base of his lower legs just above the ankles. His long-tailed coat was silver with a darker silver boarder on them, There was also 2 diamond plates on each side of his hips on the coat. His arms had the diamonds formed like wrist cuffs on them. There was small dark grey shoulder pads that could be seen under a large diamond body armour that was on his upper torso looking like spread dragon wings, it went around over his shoulders but not linked to his shoulder pads and then was the same on the back, but at the base of the neck was a small red oval and gold markings around it making it look like his dragons head and little claws holding on next to it. His helmet was a large version of his ring, but had 6 horns formed around the top on it.
As Haruto stood there he opened his hand ad called out "Come...Dragon!" Then the dragon flew into his right hand turning into diamonds that shattered revealing a sword. It had a black hilt with silver plates on it, from the bottom was a gold arm plate linking to a upside down dragon-wing shaped axe blade. The axe part was outlined in red on the outside edge and black on the inside of it. There was a silver dragon heat at what would be the top of it but currently was at the bottom, the inside was a clear-ish pale silver. The Sword blade had a black base with a silver panel on it then silver from halfway up with a black inside, while the top and a gold inside surrounding a red diamond. On the right side of the hilt was a small upside down left hand while above the hand on the base of the sword blade in the silver pate was a marking that matched his helmet.
Kouske then used the ring on his right hand causing his driver to call out "Hyper!...Go...Hy-Hy-Hy-Hyper!" As a large gold ring appeared before him then a large gold-energy chimera flew out then round behind him as the ring passed around him and hovered behind him as the chimera flew into it, causing the ring to break apart into a blue-energy that engulfed him, after a couple of seconds it then exploded away changing his form to now be in a blue outfit with re-shaped gold armour on the fore arms with some tassels on it and armour on the lower legs. He also had now got a gold lion face on his chest with the mane forming shoulder armour, the eyes were red with a open mouth that was red inside that came most the way down his torso. The helmet now had become blue with a gold area where his face would have been and the eyes were red. In his right hand he now held a large pistol gun that was the same blue as his outfit, there were 2 short pillars that were gold on top of it, 1 had a hole in it, the other which was further forwards had a mirror on it, along both sides was a gold leaping lion, the barrel was also gold.
"You got anything to change to?" Gali asked Mayu as the girls all walked up and stood alongside the 3 riders.
"No, this is it for me for my forms" Mayu replied to her.
"Don't worry too much, I have had this form for about 6 earth years" Gali gave a little smile to her.
"You all think that all of you can deal with me right now" Fueki was angry as he looked at all 9 standing before him as he changed his right hand ring to one he had used before. "Then I think you should deal with a old friend of yours." He then used the ring.
"Phantom Rise...Now!" His driver called as then from the purple ring a phantom appeared that scared the girls. It was a yellow humanoid creature with 5 small snake-like heads with red eyes, his hands and feet only had 3 digits on them, all with black claws.
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