Kamen Rider Wild

by Kuro no okami 23

In the city of Prometheus Falls, eBeasts are a must have. But when a mysterious dealer goes around distributing Link Bands which infect both eBeast and owner, something must be done. Luke Anders, a young chef in training, must use the technology given to him by his brother and fight to stop this dealer and save his city as Kamen Rider Wild.

4. Chapter 4

Kamen Rider Wild Episode 4

A Mother's Love

It was a beautiful Friday morning in the bustling city of Prometheus Falls as the people of the fair city began to get their morning started. In one part of the city which held one of the most prominent banks, Fortuna Bank, a young man was literally hopping with excitement. Inside Fortuna Bank a young boy around eleven stood in line with an older woman who, given the similar facial features, looked like his mother. The young boy named James Sullivan had tanned skin and dirty blonde hair that was neatly combed back but had a few bangs falling into his bright blue eyes that shined with excitement, he wore a black shorts that fell just below his knees with black and blue sneakers and a grey hoodie over a black shirt that had a picture of a familiar armored hero that the city now knew very well.

The woman standing beside him looked like she was in her late forties but kept herself in very good shape, she shared the same tanned skin as her son but had a head full of dark chestnut hair that was tied into a tight ponytail to be kept away from the blue eyes that she shared with her son. She wore a silk cyan top and black skirt that went down to her ankles underneath a black and white trench coat and matching black heels. As the line began to shorten Connie Sullivan, James' mother, urged her son forward so that he could get to the counter and open his very first savings account. James and Connie approached the counter so that they could speak to the black haired teller lady.

The teller gave the two a warm smile as they approached her booth, "Welcome to Fortuna Bank, what can I do for you today?" she asked. James reached inside his hoodie pocket and pulled out a check for the lady to see, to any other person it may not seem like much but for a young man who had been working very hard to get this money for the first time it meant the world to him.

"This is my very first check, I'm here to open a savings account." he said happily as he pushed the check forward so the teller could see.

The teller smiled, "Well good for you, let's get you set up." she said as she typed a few things on her computer and asked James a few basic questions so that he could get his account all set up and ready for him to use.

"Excuse me, could I have everyone's attention?" a deep male voice said from the middle of the bank. Connie, James, and everyone else in the bank turned their heads to find the source of the voice to find a man in his late thirties dressed in a black muscle shirt, torn blue jeans, heavy black boots, and black tribal tattoos going from his neck down to his wrists. Everyone in the bank looked at the man like he was crazy but when a black and yellow toad eBeast appeared on his shoulder he broke out into a sadistic grin.

"This is a robbery." he said as he brought his wrist up to reveal a silver high tech-looking bracelet with three block on it, he pressed the center block which caused his toad eBeast to jump into the air and produce a set of wire-like tendrils that pierced into the man's spine as a cloud of black smoke surrounded his body. When the smoke cleared a new creature took the man's place, standing where the robber once stood was now a humanoid toad like creature that had scaly skin that seemed to be a mixture of black and green with yellow lines running across it in some kind of tribal style. His hands were large with tube-like fingers while his feet were flat but thick with large muscles and three grey toes on each foot and an additional appendage on the heel that was circular and grey like his toes. He seemed to have black and grey armor covering his shoulders, forearms, shins, the outside of his thighs, and covering his upper chest. His head was in the shape of a toad with large yellow eyes that had black slits that seemed to be moving from person to person that was in the bank, his mouth appeared closed but was stretched into a large smile and with every breath he made the extra skin on his throat expand like a balloon.

The monstrous image of the Toad Beastman made everyone in the bank scream with terror, while most of the people were able to get away from the Beastman many were not so lucky.

The Beastman turned to the people who were still in the bank and grinned, "I think that you people need to stick around." he said with a slight laugh. His large mouth opened up and shot out a green slime that stuck the people in the bank to the walls and the floors, when the people were all out of the way the security guards finally got over their initial shock from seeing the monster and took out their weapons and began shooting at the Beastman. Despite the number of bullets that the guards had fired they did no damage at all due to the Beastman's thick skin.

The Beastman rolled his large eyes and turned toward the guards, "Oh, please." he said before shooting out his long pink tongue and wrapped around one of the guard's waist. The Beastman then flicked his entire head around and threw him around so that he would hit the other guards and knock them onto the ground, once they were all taken care of the Beastman released his grip on the guard he was holding.

He then spat out more green slime to keep the guards stuck to the bank floor, with the guards taken care of and the customers all stuck to the walls the Toad Beastman simply waked past the tellers and the other employees that weren't immobilized but too scared to move against the Beastman just stood off cowering in the corners that were behind the counters, the Beastman just smirked and walked towards the back of the bank which held the safe and a few safety deposit boxes. The Beastman used his immense strength to rip the door of the vault and walked inside so he could just take what he wanted. After the Beastman grabbed all the cash and boxed he wanted he began to make his out of the bank, on his way out he saw a small check on the teller counter. Just out of spite, he shot out his tongue and it stuck to the check letting it come back to him.

"Hey, that's mine! Give it back!" James yelled as he struggled to get out of the slime that kept him to the wall.

The Beastman turned towards the young man and grinned, "Sorry kid, every little bit helps." he said laughing as he began to leave the bank. As he reached the entrance his face was met with a blue armored boot that delivered a strong front kick. The Beastman went flying back into the center of the bank, all the money and boxes went scattering all over the floor causing all the people in the bank to turn their heads in curiosity. Once James saw who the blue boot belonged to he immediately broke out into a grin.

"Wild, It's Kamen Rider Wild!" he said happily as Wild stepped further into the bank.

KRW

Showing up at Fortuna Bank I already knew that a Beastman was robbing it but did it really have to rob it right now?

I rubbed the back of my head and glared at the Beastman from behind my helmet, "Mou, seriously you Beastmen have some of the worst timing I have ever seen. I was having a great morning too." I said to myself. Despite how early it was, Namiko had called me up asking if I could come over. When I asked her if everything was okay, she told me she was lonely and missed me. That was all I needed to hear before I jumped onto my motorcycle and headed over to her place. Luckily neither of her parents were there so we had as much time as we wanted. When I got there we didn't even make it to her bedroom because we were so heated so we stuck with the couch.

After about 30 minutes of having our lips, tongues, and hands all over each other we slowly began to work on out clothes until Luna became one big mood-block when she told me a Beastman was attacking a bank. At first I was thinking of ignoring it but both Luna and Namiko had strongly advised against that so I had no choice but to head over and take care of the Beastman since it was what I did. But before I left I promised Namiko that I would make it up to her.

But now I had to get my head in the game and focus on getting this Beastman taken care of and making sure that the people got free.

The Beastman got back to his feet but looked like he was scared to death of me, "What the hell are you doing here?!" he asked with a scared tone in his voice.

I glared at him, "I'm here to do what I do best, take down a Beastman," I said moving my hands together forming thunder and wind before flattening it out to make the shape of a flat circle, "But first, a few people need my help." I said as the wind and thunder turned into a spinning disk.

"Chou ninpo, arashi no shuriken (Storm Shuriken)." I shouted before I threw the shuriken at the slime that was keeping the people stuck to the wall as well as the slime that was holding the security guards to the floor. The combination of high voltage thunder and savage cutting winds caused the slime to slowly crumble and break away, letting the people free.

Once the people were free from its trap the Beastman really started to get scared and afraid, looked to me like he had this whole plan figured out but he didn't plan on me showing up to stop his robbery and kick his ass.

I looked at him and cracked my neck, "Now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Your choice." I said.

The Beastman looked at me with an angry look in his yellow eyes, "Damn you, you son of a bitch!" he said as he spat out green slime at me which I quickly dodged.

"Looks like it's gonna be the hard way." I said before charging at the Beastman who fired more slime at me. Really, I had had enough of these dang reptilian Beastman. All they did was fire slime at me but right now I had no time to complain. I quickly evaded all the slime that was shot at me and did a few quick cartwheels to get in range of the Beastman faster before side flipping over him to get behind him, his view followed me and once he was in my range I attacked with my all. I gave the Beastman a few quick kicks to the body followed by a few rapid punches to his mid section which he retaliated against by throwing a few wild strikes at me with his large hands but I was able to easily evade them and was even able to grab one of his wrists which I used to my advantage.

I lifted his arm up and out of the way and delivered a mean elbow to his ribs followed by a few mean punches and a hit to the top of his left thigh bringing him down to one knee, I followed up with an uppercut to his jaw and a side kick to his chest. As the kick knocked the Beastman back a few feet I kept up my assault by charging at him and landing three flying side kicks to its chest knocking it onto its back.

As the Beastman got back to its feet he began to back away in fear, "Screw this, I am out of here!" he said as he quickly ran out of the bank.

"Oi matte!" I said as I chased after the Beastman out of the bank. Once I was out of the bank I caught sight of the Beastman trying to get away by using his enhanced leg muscles to try and get away from me.

"Teme!" I shouted as I ran after him. Since I knew I wouldn't be able to catch up to him on foot I was going to have to rely on the powers that Wild provided me. As I ran to try and catch up to the Beastman and brought my hands together and moved the wind around me before pushing it forward to form a type of spring board. I jumped up and landed on the wind I made and it propelled me into the air right in front of the Beastman who became very surprised at the sight of me.

"What the hell?!" he shouted out. The Beastman didn't even have time to register what was happening I gave him a hard bicycle kick to his face and knocked back down to the ground. The Beastman hit the ground with a thud and I landed a few feet away from him on my feet.

The Beastman got back to his feet and glared at me, "How the hell did you catch up to me?!" he asked angrily.

I smiled underneath my helmet, "When I am my Wild form, the elements of the mighty storm are under my control,"I said getting back into my fighting stance, "And now the powers of the storm will be your downfall." I said with all seriousness in my voice. The Beastman roared in anger before he charged at me, it was as if he had finally had enough of me putting such a beating on him but he was in for a sore surprise. Once the Beastman got in range of me he threw a wild hook but I quickly parried that and landed a strong elbow to his face and followed up with a chop and a side kick to knock him back a few feet, I kept up my assault by hitting him with a few rapid punches to his midsection and his head before I grabbed his head and used it as leverage to knee him in the head which knocked him back a few feet.

I kept up my assault by charging after the Beastman but he retaliated by shooting out his long, pink tongue at me to try and catch me off guard but I had some experience with reptilian Beastman so I was able to avoid the tongue attack by quickly flipping over it and moving out if its way. Once I got in range of of the Beastman I quickly flipped over the last swipe of his tongue and landed a strong axe kick to the top of the Beastman's head causing his tongue to shoot back into his head and make his vision daze as he staggered back.

While his vision got back to normal, I crouched down and spun on my heels to get close to him while I charged my clawed hands up with electricity. While the Beastman was able to back away and avoid each of my strikes he got surprised when I rose to my feet and switched up my hands with my elbows in a rotating motion with each strike hitting the top of his head. I then charged the electricity to my feet and gave the Beastman multiple crescent kicks to his head.

"Chou ninpou, arashi no kaiten (Heavenly spin of the storm)!" I shouted as I gave the Beastman a few more crescent kicks which ended with a mean tornado kick to knock him onto his back which caused him to slowly get back up.

I looked at the Beastman as he got back to feet albeit a bit wobbly, "Now it's time to end your rampage." I said as I un-clipped the head off of Luna's body and slipped it into the notch on the right side of my belt and twisted it till her head was facing downwards.

"Initiate: Rider Kick." The mechanical voice from my driver stated as I pulled my hand back as the wind around me swirled into a cone shaped which I pushed forward towards the Beastman causing the wind to pierce through his body and become immobile. As the Beastman struggled against the wind that was holding him in place, the winds around me swirled into a large wolf form before encircling my leg. I entered my Muay Thai stance and used the leg that was covered in wind to propel me into the air, I twisted in the air and aimed my leg towards the Beastman and fell down to Earth like a meteorite.

"Howling Tempest Crash!" I shouted as the wind turned into a open wolf mouth that bit its jaws down on the Beastman as it connected and went up in an explosion. I came out of the other side of the explosion sliding on my knee and coming back up to my feet, while the explosion died out the man who tried to rob the bank came out of the flame exhausted, bruised, and a busted up eBeast next to him that looked like it would need some serious repair. When I was sure that the robber was down for the count I gave the okay to the local authorities to come in and arrest him and get his eBeast to the proper repair man.

I gave off a sigh and stretched out my arms, "Well another Beastman put on ice, now I just have to figure out how I'm going to make this up to Namiko." I said to myself. As I started walking back towards my bike, amid the slight cheers and thanks from the people that I helped get out of the bank, something got swept up by the wind and hit my helmet visor. I took it off and gave it a quick glance, when I saw the header of the check I immediately broke out into a smile.

I chuckled lightly, "Natsukashi na, this certainly brings back some memories," I said before turning towards the group of people I had saved as they were exiting the bank and being checked on by the on scene paramedics, "Excuse me, is there a James Sullivan anywhere?" I asked out loud. Almost immediately a young boy with dirty blonde hair came out of the crowd and walked up to me with an older woman who appeared to be in her fourties following behind him.

"Um, that's me . I'm James Sullivan." he said with a nervous sounding tone in his voice. I smiled down at the young boy who reminded a little bit of myself when I was his age. I re-attached Luna's head back to her body and closed it so my transformation would close off, as my armor disappeared I crouched down and looked the young boy in the eyes and gave him a smile.

"I believe this belongs to you." I said handing him the check. The young boy took the check in his hand and broke out into a huge smile, not that I could blame him. I remember having that same smile and that same feeling when I was his age and I got my first check, it made me feel like I was an actual man and could make my own money since I was able. Now I'm just glad that there are others in the city, especially young kids, that can have this feeling.

James smiled at me,"Thank you , thank you so much. This is my first check, it was exhausting getting it but I'm glad I was able to earn it by myself." he said happily. I couldn't help but smile at the young boy as the memories of my first job came into my head.

"So you're one of Carly's runners huh?" I asked the young boy.

He nodded but then looked at me curiously," You know ?" he asked me.

I chuckled and nodded, "Yeah, believe it or not I used to have the same job that you have now. I worked for the exact same newspaper company that you do when I was about your age." I told him causing his eyes to go wide which wasn't really a surprise. When I was younger my family didn't always have the money that we did now so I would help out anyway I could so when the opportunity arose for me to work and make my own money I was extremely happy. The newspaper that James works for, Sunset Paper, had been really good to me and my family. That place helped me get a good feel for what the job industry was like and the current manager, Carly, had become a close family friend.

I ruffled James' hair and stood back up, "Work hard for Carly James, that place will serve you well in the future. And teach you a few good lessons on what it's like to work," I said as I walked over to my motorcycle and swung my leg over it and put my helmet on before looking back over to James, "Hey James, work hard. It will make me look good if my kouhai does good work." I said before flipping the visor down and revved the engine before speeding off.

As Wild drove off, James stood in shock over what had just happened. Not only had he and his mother been saved by Kamen Rider Wild but he also found out that he was working at the same job that Wild had when he was younger. All the information that he had been given today along with the fact that he was about to open his first account made him feel like he was on cloud nine. But there was one thing that Wild had said that made him curious.

James looked toward his mother who was standing in front of him and making sure he was still in one piece, " Hey mom, called me his kouhai. What does that mean?" he asked her. James' mom worked as a translator for one of the local courthouses so she spoke a lot of languages.

Connie smiled at her son, "Kouhai basically means an junior. Someone who has gone through or who is going through similar experiences that another person has. Wild is basically calling you his apprentice so that you can do well with what's coming for you next." she said. James smiled at what his mother had said, knowing that Wild had put so much trust in him to keep going with what he was doing made him feel like he was doing something worth while. He promised himself that he would do Wild proud.

(Opening theme: Crossing Fields by LiSA)

After the battle with the Toad Beastman I decided to head home and take a nice long shower, I could not tell you how good it felt to clean my body after a long day of fighting Beastmen. Not to mention cleaning off the last bit of slime that was left in my hair and on my clothes. After getting out out of the shower I put on a fresh set of clothes which consisted of a black shirt with a long sleeve storm blue shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans. After throwing on my boots and my jacket I headed out of my house and left on my bike to go and meet up with a few of my friends at one of our favorite hang out spots, Sanctuary. Sanctuary was actually designed as a bar and grill but since the owners, Shane and Katherine Leona, actually had a few kids of their own they wanted to create a place where kids, teens , adults, and all manner of people can come and feel welcome in a wholesome environment. Plus the owners also had a very strict no fight rule, they didn't want their children to be around any type of violence when it was around and if you didn't feel like following any of those rules you could just answer to one of the many enormous bouncers that protected the place who just so happened to be some of the owner's relatives and not all of the bouncers were male.

Sanctuary was a pretty cool place it was built like an old school red brick house with a blue steel roof and a number of Harley and Crotch Rockets that were parked out front since the place also had a bit of a biker bar feel to it, I walked up to the front door to see an enormous wall of a man that dwarfed me by at least four feet. Dressed in a pair of blue torn up jeans and a black long sleeve short that had a tight red t-shirt underneath that outlined the man's well muscled six pack and rippling chest, he also had on a pair of black biker boots and black sunglasses. His skin was deeply tanned since before coming to Prometheus Falls he lived in Southern Arizona. His hair was a deep blonde with a few black streaks in it and while his eyes were covered I knew they were a deep emerald green. This was Zane Madden, one of Sanctuary's bouncers and most likely the biggest badass in this part of the city. If not the whole city.

As I walked up to the door's of Sanctuary Zane turned his head in my direction and gave me a friendly smile, "Yo wassup Luke, your crew is already inside." he said to me with a small Irish accent.

I nodded at the Irishman, "Thanks Z, how's the crowd looking tonight?" I asked him.

Zane shrugged, "Pretty slow just your crew and a few bikers. Just tell your boy Davion to stop ordering so much food before he closes down the kitchen. Seriously, that boy has a bigger stomach than all my brothers combined." he said with an annoyed tone in his voice.

I gave a laugh as I tried to imagine Davion out-eating any of Zane's siblings who were either as big or even bigger than him, "Don't sweat it Z, I'll be sure to bring him down from his all expense eating." I said as Zane gave me a nod and I entered Sanctuary. The interior was pretty much what you would expect from a biker bar/resturaunt, a couple of red vinyl lined booths, a few tables, a fully stocked bar, and a pretty huge stage that was mainly used by the house band known as Howling Riot. There was also a staircase that led to the upper levels of Sanctuary as well as the neighboring building that was used by the owner's family as well as a few close friends that were okay'd by the owner and his wife.

I looked around the interior of the place until I spotted Davion, Chris, John, Whisper, and Namiko all sitting in a large booth with a few platters of empty food and drink classes with them while the chatted away and Davion and John dug into a large plate of pulled pork nachos, I smiled at my group of friends and walked over to them. The minute they saw me they all smiled and greeted me, Namiko stood up and gave me a small kiss before she and the girls made some room for me to sit down.

Davion popped another chip in his mouth before looking at me, " 'Sup Luke, what took you so long?" he asked taking a swig of his drink.

I shrugged, "Give me a break bro, do you have any idea how hard it is to clean off the smell of toad slime from my body? I'm just glad none of the crap stuck to me." I said as I popped a chip into my mouth.

Namiko pouted and rested her chin on my shoulder and wrapped her arms around my waist, "Well I'm just glad that you came back without any injuries on you." she said before giving me a kiss on my cheek.

I smiled at my girlfriend, "Thanks Namiko and don't worry I promise to plan on making up for this morning in any way I can." I said.

Namiko giggled, "Oh I plan on making good on that promise." she said before giving me a slow kiss on the lips. That one kiss made my heart skip a beat, I swear this woman made me feel like I was the luckiest guy on the planet. I don't know what it was but when I'm with Namiko I feel like I can do anything.

Davion and the Guys just groaned as they saw me and Namiko kiss but we quickly stopped since we were still in public. As Namiko and I broke our kiss a young girl approached our table, she was around my age with long blonde hair that was tied in a single braid that hung over her right shoulder. She had light green eyes and white skin that had a healthy tan to it, she was dressed in a simple black T-shirt that had the word Sanctuary written in blue on the front and a pair of tight blue jeans and white sneakers. When she smiled at us the girl still had braces on which gave her normal cute looks a slight adorableness look to them.

This was Sara Dimas, she was a waitress here at Sanctuary and was also a close friend of me and the gang since we all went to high school together.

Sara giggled, "You know, I'm glad Luke finally found a girlfriend but I'm pretty sure Shane has a strict no PDA rule in place." she said before she sat down a mug of cold root beer in front of me, since I was a regular here at Sanctuary most of the wait staff knew my usual order.

I smiled at the girl, "Sorry bout that Sara, I'll keep it PG." I told her before she nodded and walked away. I took a sip of my drink and talked with others about nothing in particular for a while before John brought up what my mom had thought of my escapades of being Wild.

I immediately froze as all eyes at the table turned to me, "Well she doesn't exactly know about me being Wild surprisingly." I said causing everyone to go wide eyed and I couldn't blame them. If there was one person that you could not keep secrets from it was my mother, that woman could get any information out of anyone so as her son I try not to keep secrets from her.

"It's not like I don't want her to know I'm Wild it's just that I haven't really figured out the best moment when to tell her but don't worry, I have a plan." I said smiling which made everyone curious.

"I'm going to tell her on Sunday, that is the day that we planned to spend the day together since it is her only day off. We'll do some shopping, grab a bite to eat, relax then I will ever so carefully bring up the fact of me being Wild." I said.

Everyone went silent but then Davion nodded, "Well sounds stable enough but just in case, I have twenty bucks that this will go terribly wrong." he said which John immediately took advantage off and threw his own hat into the ring.

"Fuck you both." I said thinking that this plan could go well or end terribly but we would just have to wait and see.

KRW

Soon enough Sunday came around and just as I thought the day my mom and I had planned had finally happened. We started off the day with breakfast at our favorite pancake house and then headed over to the Prometheus Shopping Center which soon turned into me becoming my mother's personal pack mule. Seriously the woman could shop her ass off, she basically went into every single store that she saw and bought whatever she set her eyes on and since I was her loving son I was left to carry everything. And so as of now I am my mother's dedicated pack mule, lucky for me she got hungry and decided to stop off at Perkins, one of our favorites restaurant's to grab a bite to eat.

The hostess showed us to our booth and we ordered a few drinks, once she was gone I rested my head on the table and let out a long sigh.

"You know mom, I can be of much more use then just being your personal pack mule." I said raising my head up from the table to see look my mom in the face who already had a smug grin on her face.

"Oh I know bubby, but it is one of the many things that I love you for. Plus you don't really expect a lady to carry her own bags do you?" she said with a slight giggle causing me to groan and place my head back on the table. As the waitress came over and gave us our drinks as well as take our lunch order, my mother and I just began talking about no thing in particular. Mainly with her trying to find out all the little details about how things were going between me and Namiko which caused me to feel like I should die from embarrassment. As our food came and we began to eat my attention was drawn to the sound of play fighting and laughing, when I turned my head I saw two boys around the age of ten who were dressed in black and blue with some foam swords that looked exactly like my Abaremaru. While the mother's of the two boys tried to get them under control I couldn't help but smile. Both at the fact that some people saw my actions as Wild as good and the fact that someone was making toy product based off of me.

My mom scoffed a bit, "I remember when you were young like that, you never once got loud when we were in a public place." she said.

I rolled my eyes and looked at her, " That's because if I did you would bend me over your knee and spank me in front of everyone. No matter where we were." I said causing her to giggle. She took a bite of her food and I quietly watched her, looking for an opening to tell her about me being Wild.

I cleared my throat, "Well it looks like The Kamen Rider has been getting a lot of fans." I said trying to start the conversation off an easy foot.

Mom nodded, "Yeah, I've heard of this Kamen Rider. All the things that he has been doing for the for the city has been pretty amazing. Albeit a little dangerous." she said. I nodded. So it looks like mom doesn't have any ill feelings toward Wild, that's a good sign." I thought. Okay, this is going to be a huge leap of faith but I need to go for it and just tell her before it get's worse and she get's really mad at me.

I let out a breath, "Well I'm glad you think that mom because...," before I could continue Luna began beeping a t an alarming rate while her eyes flashed with an odd urgency.

I brought Luna up to my face and spoke to her, "Luna, what's going on?" I asked her while my mom gave me a strange look.

"Ruku-sama, I picked up an enclosing signal." she said. I cursed at my bad luck, just as I was about to come clean to my mom a Beastman just had to show up.

My mom gave me a questioning look, "Luke, what's wrong?" she asked me with a slight worry tone in her voice.

I looked at her, 'Uh well mom..., the thing is well, uhh...," that was all that I could get out before I looked out the window that was by the booth we were in to see a giant shadow coming towards where we were sitting. Once it got closer it turns out it was an enormous boulder that was heading out way.

My instincts immediately took over, "Mom, look out!" I shouted before reaching over and pulling my mom down onto the floor just in time to hear the boulder crash through the glass window, sending out bits and pieces of glass all over the place. Luckily I was able to cover my mom with my body so I took the brunt of the damage which was just a few scrapes and bruises but I didn't care about any of that as long as my mom was okay.

After a few seconds I lifted my head to try and get my bearings, while the area around us appeared to be partially intact the owners would have to spring for a new window. And maybe a few booths too.

I looked down at the sound of coughing as my mother began to stir from recent events, "Mom, you okay?" I asked as I rolled off from covering her and helping her up.

My mom coughed a bit more before nodding her head, "Yeah, I'm okay. You?" she asked me like the caring mother she was.

I rolled my shoulders and cracked my neck, "Other than a few scrapes and bruises I'll live." I told her dusting off my clothes.

Mom did the same before looking around her, "What the hell was that? Some kind of bomb?" she said nervously. Normally my mother did not cuss around me but given the events that just happened I can imagine that she didn't really care at the moment.

I looked towards the gaping hole in the wall where we were one sitting to see a figure step through the smoke of the impact, "Oh damn." I whispered in a hushed tone as I immediately recognized the creature. Given the curves and prominent chest the Beastman was obviously female and given the course brown hair that covered its body I assumed some kind of mammal. Her feet were long and thin and slightly stubby and covered with course brown hair with five black claws jutting out from the tips, her legs were slim yet strong and covering her waist and thighs was a skirt-like piece of leather wrapped around her waist that covers her all the way to her thighs. Her chest was covered by a golden brown breastplate that had an image of an eye inside of a circle in the center of her chest while several leather-like straps were wrapped around her mid-section and adorned with golden brown chains.

Her arms were slim yet muscular like her legs while golden brown gauntlets covered her forearms as well as her shins and coming out of each of her hands were five sharp black claws, her shoulders were covered in golden brown armor that formed protective domes over her shoulders that also protected her neck. Her head was in the shape of a vicious brown bear with deep brown eyes and razor sharp ivory white teeth that looked like they could bite through metal. Her head held two pointed bear ears as well as a golden brown metal headband around her forehead. This was the Bear Beastman.

I groaned to myself, "Great, a bear Beastman. Just my luck," I said before I turned to my mom who was standing in shock at the sight of the Beastman before her, "Come on mom we need to get out of here." I said getting her to nod. I quickly urged her toward a safer area out of the restaurant before the Beastman could see us but my luck wasn't that great at the moment.

The Beastman locked her eyes on us and growled low, "You bitch!" she shouted in a deep grunting voice. The Beastman chased after us till we were out of the restaurant and cornered us by blocking off our escape route in front of us.

The Beastman pointed her clawed hand at us, "You selfish, bitch! I'm going to rip you to pieces!" she said before she rushed at us. My instincts quickly took over and I pushed my mom out of the way of her attack and rolled out of the way myself. While the action confused the Beastman a bit she still went after my mother but I wasn't having any of that, while her back was turned I ran at her and wrapped my arms around her neck to pull her away from my mom. Despite the clawing and insults she was throwing at me I was able to pull her away far enough before I let her go. The Beastman turned on me and tried to slash at me with her claws but I nimbly dodged away from them before I back-flipped away from the Beastman also giving her a quick heel kick to the jaw to stun her.

The Beastman held her jaw and glared at me before she roared, "What the hell is your problem?! You aren't the one I want, it's that bitch I want to kill!" she said yelling towards my mother who had taken cover behind one of the other stores.

I cracked my neck, "Sorry but I can't have you doing that, no matter who you are or what you did I won't let you harm my mother." I said grabbing the corner of my shirt and pulling causing my Clothing Change Jutsu to take effect and reveal me in my Wild Uniform. I pulled the WildDriver from my coat pocket and placed against my waist setting it in place. Luna then jumped from my wrist and turned into her transformation form before I caught her in my hand, I crossed my arms over each other and glared at the Beastman not seeing the shocked look on my mother's face.

"Henshin!" I shouted before sliding Luna onto the Driver's surface causing the storm wolf to appear and cover me in my armor.

Not being able to see behind me I did not see my mother's shocked look as a result of my transformation, she was in both shock and denial.

The Beastman was shocked as well, "You, you're the Kamen Rider?" she said before backing up a few steps most likely due to the rumors she had heard of Kamen Rider Wild taking down Beastman in the city.

I nodded, "Damn right I am and it's time to show you what happens when you mess with a member of my family. Abaremaru!" I shouted and from the sky a bolt of blue thunder struck my hand and formed into my personal weapon. I twirled the weapon in my hand and charged at the Beastman who countered by growing her claws till they were like miniature swords coming out of her hands. We clashed with each other with our bladed weapons, sparks flying from each time we connected. Our strikes were so fast that anybody watching from the sidelines would have thought either side was moving at light speed. I switched to a back-handed grip with my sword and jabbed the Beastman in the stomach with butt end of my sword backing her away giving me the space I needed to unleash a flurry of slashes to her mid-section causing her to let loose loud sounds of pain.

I switched back to normal style and gave her a mean slash across her stomach and an upward diagonal slash across her chest cracking the breast plate she wore and causing her some more pain. When she backed up from the force of the blow I rushed in and mean flying dragon kick to her chest knocking her onto her back.

I backed back a few feet and entered a defense stance, "Look, this doesn't have to continue. Just take off your Link Band and walk away, no one else has to get hurt." I said watching the Beastman get back to her feet.

She growled when she looked at me, "Like hell I will! That bitch prevented something that should have happened and I am not going to stop till she pays for what she did. And no one is going to get in my way, not even a Kamen Rider!" she yelled before she dug her claws into the hard earth beneath her and threw her claws up flinging giant razor sharp stones my way.

"Yabbei!" I shouted before I used my sword to deflect the stones that came near me, luckily while I was fast enough to cut down the stones that came near me I was unable to notice the Beastman rushing towards me with speed I could not have imagined and raised her claw at me to try and slice me in half. Just in the nick of time I raised my blade to keep the claw from making contact with me but the added force of the attack brought me down to one knee. The Beastman kept adding pressure to her claw trying to bring her claw towards my face as well as continuing to strike my mid-section with her other hand, this was bad. If this kept going she would pierce her way through my helmet and armor and claw my face off or worse so I had to something drastic and incredibly stupid. With my left hand supporting my blade and the Beastman, I tried to bring my right hand down and across to try and reach Luna's head to do a Rider Slash but I just couldn't reach it, it was dangerous to do a Full Rider Attack when I was this close to Beastman but I had no choice. Since I couldn't reach Luna's head I needed to make some space between the Beastman and me, I reached up and landed a palm strike to the Beastman's throat taking her by surprise and caused her to step back to try and catch her breath.

That gave me the opening I needed to strike her with all I had, I quickly un-clipped Luna's head from her body and attached it to the end of my sword, when the wolf mouth on the hilt opened I quickly went to a back-handed grip while wind and thunder began to cover the blade of my sword I quickly ran at the Beastman with my blade fully charged and prepared to strike, "Savage Storm Edge!" I shouted as my sword came in contact with the Beastman but as it did she raised her claws in order to try and protect herself in a guard. When my sword came in contact with her claw guard the immense force of it was able to launch her off the ground and send her flying back across the pavement. When she landed she slowly got back up, she was prepared to come at me again but she appeared to have no energy left not to mention her claws seemed to have been ripped off from the force of the blow.

She growled at me, "This isn't over, I'll be back for that bitch's head!" she said before running off. I tried to follow but that last rider attack seemed to have taken a lot out of me, not to mention I think that blow dislocated my shoulder since I couldn't even move it to undo my transformation. I used my left hand to place Luna's head back onto her body and close it. My transformation cancelled and I quickly scanned the surrounding people to look for my mom. I went over to her and knelt down to look her in the eye and make sure she was okay.

"Mom you okay?" I asked her gritting my teeth slightly at the pain that was quickly spreading throughout my arm. My mom still sat there with a open mouth as she was trying to find the words to describe what she just saw but soon she came back into reality and began to pull on my ear so she could look me in the eye with that motherly look that she always had.

"You have some explaining to do young man." she said as she continued to pull on my ear.

KRW

"Ah, ah, ahhhhhh! Grrrrrr!" those were the only sounds that came out of my mouth as I sat down on a chair in the middle of the Brain Room while Reina and Ken tried to hold me down and set my arm back into place. Luckily for me all I ended up with was a broken arm and no other injuries at least for now, not only did I go back to the Brain Room my mom also came back with me and let's just say it was a tense moment to say the least. While I was getting repaired my mom was ripping into Adam about how she was the last one to find out about me being Wild, while she was yelling at him Ken had finally been able to set my arm back into place with a sickening snap that made me groan in pain but thankfully it was only a minor pain much less than what it was like earlier.

I let out a strained breath and made sure to get my breath back into my lungs, "Arigato Ken-san, Rei-Rei-san." I said throwing my jacket back on and heading out into the main room to save my brother from our mother's wrath.

"I just can't believe you, you have all this money and all these resources and yet you have your little brother fight a bunch of monsters in the city with no regards as to what would actually happen to him. I mean honestly Adam!" mom said as she continued to rant on about how incompetent and reckless my big brother was but true to his nature he just stood there and stayed calm. Damn he was badass.

Adam sighed, "Mom you know I would never put Luke in any danger that wasn't warranted. These monsters, like the kind you saw today, have been plaguing the city for months now and the only one who can stop them is Luke. And do you honestly think that I would entrust this to Luke without any other option?" he said being rational.

My mom tried to fight him on it but couldn't, she never really could when he was being the CEO type he could be.

I sighed as I approached them, "You know he's right mom, Adam and his crew looked for any other person to try and use the Wild System but they couldn't find anyone else who could be compatible with its power. I'm the only one who can use it and I don't intend to stop." I told her as she looked at me with crazy eyes.

She shook her head and looked at me, "Are you incredibly insane? This is one of the most dangerous things that anyone can do and I can't even believe that you would do something like this without even talking to me first." She said still steaming about what she learned.

I gave her a small smile, "Mom I understand that you have issues with me doing this without you knowing but in my defense, I hardly ever see you. You have your life and I have mine and a lot of times they never overlap. I became Wild so that I could fight to make sure that all the people in this city, including you and the rest of our family, can stay safe. These Beastmen are coming and they aren't going to stop until I find the root of where they are all coming from and make sure the people I love have a safe future. I will continue to fight as Wild and I just hope that you can understand why and support me." I said surprising everyone in the room and even myself. My mother just stood there with her mouth open, I never disobeyed my mother when it came to me doing crazy stuff like this.

My mom just shook her and gaped at what she had heard, "You know what I can't deal with this right now, I need to get out of here." She said as she walked out of the Brain Room.

Mika looked at the door as my mom left, "Will Okaa-san be okay?" she asked with a pout before she turned to me and Adam.

I sighed and raked my hand through my hair, "All we can do know is let okuro cool off for now, that's the best thing that we can do for her. For now we need to focus on finding that Bear Beastman so that okuro can be safe. Rei-Rei-San, Ken-San have you been able to find anything as to the Beastman's location?" I asked them.

Ken shook his head, "Unfortunately no, after you struck she with your Full Rider Attack she just ran off and undid her metamorphosis. And since it seems that she hasn't been in her Beastman form for that long I can't track any residual energy that her Link Band released. As of now she could be anywhere but after you hit her with that attack it seems that she may have to take some time to heal her injuries." He said getting me to groan in frustration. Tracking a Beastman is difficult enough as it is when I didn't know what it's purpose was for getting a Link Band but now that I have one that is trying to kill my mother that just makes things even more difficult.

Rei-Rei gave me a small glare, "You know it was a really risky gamble doing a Full Rider Attack at that close of a range Ruku-chan." She scolded me like the older sister she acted like.

I nodded, "Yeah it was but at the time I had no choice, that Beastman boasted some serious stamina and if I didn't think quick then I'd probably end up with much more than a dislocated shoulder." I said as I clutched my shoulder which was still sore from getting ripped out of its socket earlier. Hopefully I won't have to fight anytime soon which would give it a chance to heal but I would have to see if Lady Luck would be on my side. I glanced over at the main screen which had an image of the Bear Beastman displayed on it, for now the main issue at hand was to figure out who the Beastman was and why it was trying to kill my mother. And to find that out I had to ask around.

I grabbed my jacket and headed for the door, "Luke, where are you going?" Adam asked me as I walked out.

"Okuro may not know who is trying to kill her but I think know someone who knows something so I'm heading to the hospital and talk to obaa-san-tachi and see if they know anything. If not, then make sure we have eyes on okuro so that we know where she'll be in case anything happens." I said as I boarded the elevator to try and get some answers on who was trying to kill my mother.

Gene walked along the crowded streets that lined the place she called home, nearly everything in this city was made possible by her older son's accomplishments. Now her youngest son is fighting against monsters trying to wreak havoc in the same place that they all lived and neither of them had the gall to tell her? The whole thing just made her angry even if she hardly ever saw her son's given their busy schedules that doesn't mean they had to keep secrets from her or even do something that could possibly get him killed, did it? She kept mulling to herself so much that she didn't even know that she was passing her favorite coffee shop; Cafe Eros. The same one that her son used to work at, nor did she hear someone call her name at first.

"Hey Gene!" the loud familiar voice brought her out of her funk and made her smile as she recognized the voice and looked over to see one of her closets and oldest friends. At 49 years-old Veronica Nelson or Ronnie as she was more commonly called was a very lovely woman who could have easily passed as someone in her late twenties or early thirties, the young African-American woman have a lovely smile on her face as she headed over to Gene. She stood about two inches taller than Gene and was dressed in a long black and white dress that stopped just beneath her knees with black high-heels, a black trench-coat, and a turquoise gem necklace around her neck. Ronnie had been Gene's friend since they were in high school and had continued being friends to this day as well as a very close member of her family.

Gene smiled as her friend came over and gave her a big hug, "Ronnie, oh it is so good to see you, how have you been?" she said greeting her friend.

Ronnie just shrugged, "You know just getting people employed, same old same old." She said. Ronnie was an Administrative Assistant that worked for one of the most highly recommended employment agencies in the city. And she was its star.

Gene nodded, "Yeah well at least your life still makes sense." She said as she remembered what had just happened with her son.

Ronnie looked at Gene with a concerned look, "What's going on Gene, is everything okay?" she asked her friend.

Gene sighed, "In a way no, don't suppose you got some time to hear me talk?" she asked.

Ronnie smiled, "For you Gene always."

KRW

After leaving the Brain Room I headed over to my mother's hospital where she worked. Heaven's Light Medical Center was the most prominent hospital in the entire city due to its low cost of attending and the high quality of doctors and nurses it was a popular place for all that needed medical care, not to mention due to my mother's influence and her ties to the medical world she had everything she ever needed to make the city happy and healthy. My mother never really had a medical degree, in fact she was an English major, but she always loved being involved in the medical field so she took a gamble and joined a friend and made an invest in a medical center which paid off in the long run. Now my mother was known as one of the most influential people in the medical world. After I headed over to the center and parked my bike I entered the immaculate looking wing of the center, I could see doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals moving around looking at charts, taking care of patients, and doing various duties and tasks to keep the hospital moving.

I approached the front desk and asked the lady that was attending the booth if I could find my mother's friends. She said that the two of them would most likely be in the break room having lunch. I thanked the lady and headed over; since I had been to the medical center more times than I can count I knew my way around the whole building, I went up two floors and entered the break room which also served as a cafeteria for the people who were visiting the hospital. I looked around the room and saw who I was looking for. My mother's close friends were together eating lunch and talking the day away like they had all the time in the world. Lisa Rimby was a woman who was around the same age as my mother but looked much younger than that since she had to keep herself in shape to keep up with her number of grandchildren she had. Lisa was a few inches taller than my mother with white skin, red hair that reached down to her shoulders, and brown eyes that shined with the kindness of a mother. She was dressed in a pair of black high heels and a teal and dark green dress that reached just below her ankles. Next to her was a black and orange Kangaroo eBeast.

Deana Gonzalez on the other hand was in her late thirties but was as kind and wise as anyone who could be in the medical field. She was around the same height as my mother with the same kind of curves my mother had as well, she had white skin with short blond hair that went down to her ears, bright green eyes, and wearing a pair of blue jeans with a black and red blouse, and a jean jacket. Unlike Lisa she wore brown boots instead of heels, resting next to her wrist was a brown and yellow stallion eBeast.

I smiled when I saw them and headed over to where they were, "Lisa-basan, Deana-basan!" I called as I neared them. They both looked at me in surprise but gave me a smile that was reserved for family and they practically were since they were okay with the Japanese phrases that I call them. They both stood up and gave me hugs while our eBeast's mingled with each other.

Deana smiled at me, "Well Luke this is a surprise, you know your mom is off, today right?" she said to me.

Lisa nodded, "Yeah, you two should be having your Mother and Son day." She said.

I sighed and gave a small smile, "Yeah we should but something unfortunately put an end to our day early." I said before they gave me worried looks and I told them about the events of the day; the Beastman, me being Wild, and how my mother reacted.

Lisa was shocked, "Wow, I can't believe that you're that hero that's been going around the city fighting those monsters Luke." She said and I nodded.

Deana crossed her arms and pouted slightly, "Well it actually makes sense. I mean, if anyone would be a monster fighting hero protecting the city I'm pretty sure that it would be Luke." She said.

I blushed slightly, "Uh thanks Obasan but with that aside I need your help. The Beastman that attacked Mom said that she wouldn't get away with what she did, now mom doesn't like to bring work home with her so she won't tell me anything about the stuff that happens here so I was wondering; has mom had any issues with anyone here? A disgruntled employee, an angry patient, maybe a stuck-up doctor? Anything would help at this point." I told them which got them thinking.

Lisa put her finger to her chin as she thought, "Well there was this one girl that was an intern here for a few weeks."

Deana nodded, "Yeah I think her name was Nicole something… uh… Graham that's it." She said.

I nodded, "Okay so what was her deal?" I asked.

Deana scoffed, "Oh my god she was terrible, she kept getting charts mixed up, she almost gave a ten-year-old Hydrocodone, she would spend all her time sketching or drawing, she even mixed up a patient's soup and their bedpan." She said causing me to shiver, no wonder my mother had to fire her.

Lisa nodded, "Turns out she didn't even want to be a doctor, her real passion was art. The only reason she was an intern here was because her mother made her come here and got her in with the right credentials." She said causing me to growl slightly, I always found it annoying and stupid when a parent would push a dream or career on their child.

"So, what happened to her?" I asked.

Lisa took a sip of her drink, "Well your mom sat her down and talked to her, turns out her passion is for drawing and art so she gave some of her drawings to a local art dealer and he loved her work. He loved it so much he decided to give her an internship and Gene also gave her the money she needed to get into art school. She was so happy and thankful that a few weeks after she entered art school the man who gave the internship gave her a full-time job with great pay." She said.

I smiled, my mom could be give some serious tough love to her employees but when it came down to it she really did care about those that were around her. Especially when it came to young people in college because they reminded her of me when I first got into college. But there was one thing that kind of nagged at the back of my mind.

"Well that's all well and good for Nicole but how did her mother take it?" I asked.

Deana grimaced, "Well when her mother found out she went on a rampage, she blamed Gene for ruining her daughter's dream. Even though Gene tried to reason with the woman and tell her that it wasn't Nicole's dream to be a doctor but she was stuck in her ways about her daughter being a doctor. We had to get the med center security to take her out of the place before she could do anything dangerous but as she left she said that Gene would pay for what she did."

I let out a long sigh, right now the obvious suspect of being the Bear Beastman would most likely be Nicole's mother but I needed to be sure before I made any big-time decisions that could possibly be dangerous.

I looked at the two women, "I don't suppose either of you know what happened to Nicole after she left do you?" I asked.

"From what I remember after she got the art job she moved out of her mother's place and into a studio apartment in the center of the city. Nice place from what I hear." Deana said.

I nodded and looked at Luna, "Luna, do me a favor and look up Nicole Graham's address, I think I need to have a little talk with her about her mother."

Luna beeped in response, "Hai Ruku-sama." She said before she jumped up and attached herself to my wrist as I stood up.

I leaned over to Deana and Lisa and gave them a quick kiss on the cheek, "Thanks Obasan I think I got everything I needed." Before I headed out to the center of the city.

KRW

Gene and Ronnie were at Café Eros having some coffee while Gene told her old friend every that had just happened over the past few hours.

Ronnie nodded, "Wow, I can't believe that Little Luke is that Kamen Rider person." She said.

Gene nodded, "Yeah, tell me about it. I can't believe that my own sons could keep something like this from me or even consider how I might feel. Luke could die from doing all this fighting and so could Adam for being involved with this as well." Gene said taking a drink from her cup.

Ronnie smiled, "Gene, I understand that you're both upset and shocked about what just happened but don't you think you may be overreacting just a bit?" she asked.

Gene looked at her like she was crazy, "How can you say that; my baby boy is putting on a strange armor and fighting against monsters that could eventually get him killed. I don't want my son to die just so he can fight."

Ronnie smiled and patted her friend's hand, "Gene, I love the fact that you are caring for your son's safety but you need to look at this from his point of view," she said with Gene giving her a questioning look, "Look for as long as I've known Luke, which has been most of his life, he never does anything dangerous unless it has to do with someone he cares about being in danger. Remember when he was young and he jumped into that lake by your old house?"

"Yeah, he was twelve and he ended up getting pneumonia for two weeks." Gene said.

"Because he jumped into a river to save a drowning dog that belonged to his neighbor." Ronnie said.

Gene rolled her eyes, "What's your point?" she asked.

Ronnie sighed, "My point is, Luke is not the type of person to just do things just because of a thrill or a whim. He will only do things that are dangerous if there is no alternative or if someone he cares about is in danger; he even got his arm dislocated trying to protect you today. I think that is why he is doing this whole Wild thing. Maybe you should just try and see things the way he does."

Gene thought about what her friend had said and maybe she had a point. Maybe she was trying to think that what he was doing was dangerous because she didn't want her baby boy to be put in any danger but maybe she was missing something for why he was fighting in the first place. She just didn't understand.

While the two women were talking, they had no idea that another person was looking at Gene with a murderous intent.

"Time to die you bitch." The figure growled before she reached for the familiar bracelet on her right arm.

KRW

I followed Luna's directions and wound up in a part of the city that I knew well; this area was popular among college students and young adults who are trying to start living on their own due to the number of cheap apartments and studios. I drove up to one of the buildings and parked my bike on the outside. I walked to the door and Luna opened it up, most buildings in this area could only open with either a key card or by having your eBeast send a signal to open the door. I asked Luna and she said that Nicole was located on the second floor of the building so I headed up there. And thanks to my partners amazing hacking ability's she was also able to find out what her apartment number was.

I reached her door and knocked; it only took a few seconds for the girl to come to the door and open it. Nicole Graham was a very lovely girl, she was about my age around 5'6 with long strawberry blonde hair that was tied up into a ponytail with deep green eyes that were behind a pair of square black rimmed glasses. Her skin was white with a slight tan and a few freckles that were scattered across her cheeks. She was dressed in a pair of black sweat pants and a long sleeved red shirt with a grey apron over it all that had a few paint stains on it.

She looked at me with a curious eye, "Can I help you?" she asked me.

I gave her a smile, "Yes hi, my name is Luke Anders. I believe you know my mother Gene Anders." I said.

Once I mentioned my mother's name she broke out into a smile, "Oh you're Ms. Gene's son! Please come in." she said. I nodded and entered her apartment. I smiled then went inside the apartment and my breath caught in my throat. Inside were multiple easels and portraits of various paintings and sketches of some of the most beautiful landscapes and other images that I couldn't even begin to comprehend what they were only the fact that they were incredibly stunning. But the one piece of art that caught my attention was the enormous mural that covered her main wall, it was the image of an immense Italian style garden that looked like it came straight out of art museum. I can honestly see why my mother put so much faith in this girl's skills, she was incredible.

"Did you do these?" I asked Nicole as she closed the door behind us. She walked in front of me towards her kitchen.

She smiled, "Yeah I did, after I got my job I just haven't been able to stop painting and sketching. I guess it's a part of me now." She said heading to the kitchen, she offered me a drink but I declined.

I nodded as I looked at her art again, "Well you are really amazing." I told her causing her to blush.

She cleared her throat and tried to hide her blush, "Well thank you, so what can I do for you? Is Ms. Gene okay?" she asked.

I looked away, "Well in a way yeah there was actually something I wanted to ask you," I said and she looked at me with questioning look, "I was told that you were originally an intern at my mother's hospital but you left because you didn't actually want to be in the medical business?" I asked her.

Nicole gave a sigh but nodded, "Yeah, I mean the medical industry is very interesting but it wasn't really something I wanted to do with my life. The only reason that I even did the internship was because my mother was a very famous surgeon in her day." She told me causing me to nod. Looks like the information that Oba-san-tachi told me was correct.

I nodded, "And when you left the internship I bet your mother wasn't very happy about that?" I asked her, causing her to roll her eyes.

"She was furious, she kept blaming Ms. Gene for destroying my dream and not giving me the chance that I deserved. I tried telling her that I didn't want to be a doctor or even in the medical field at all but she didn't believe me. She thought that Ms. Gene was trying to turn me against her and my dream. And when I told her I was moving out to go into art school she was livid, I had never seen her so furious. I think she might do something dangerous but she isn't an angry person." She said.

I nodded and looked around her apartment again looking at her paintings again, "Well you never know, a mother would do pretty insane things if her child is in danger or threatened." I said as my eyes landed on a certain picture of what appeared to have a younger version of Nicole along with what appeared to be her mother which looked like an older version of Nicole but with blue eyes instead of green and an older handsome man in his late thirties with black hair, green eyes, and tanned skin. They were all wearing fall clothes in a large park looking like they were having the time of their lives. It was a hand painting but it was so well done that it looked like a photograph.

I pointed at the picture, "Did you make this painting as well?" I asked. Nicole looked at the painting and nodded but she had a sad look in her eyes.

"Yeah, I did. It was when my father was still living at home and my mom was still happy that was my tenth birthday and we all went out to my favorite park to celebrate. It was my favorite day and that painting was going to be a gift for my mom but then we had a falling out and I never had a chance." She said sadly.

At that moment, Luna beeped on my wrist, "What's up Luna?" I asked her.

"Ruku-sama, the Beastman is back and it's attacking Okaa-sama. It's at Eros right now." She told me, causing my eyes to widen.

I quickly turned to Nicole and put my hands on her shoulders, "Nicole I need your help, right now your mother has gotten herself into a dangerous deal and is trying to kill my mother," I said causing her to gasp in surprise, "But I think we can help them both and I need you to come with me right now." I said. Nicole looked like she didn't believe me but she nodded and followed me but before we left I had Luna scan the painting of Nicole and her family. I had a plan that I think would work out.

KRW

"Die, die, die!" The Bear Beastman shouted as she slashed and tore apart benches and cars as she tried to get near Gene who was quickly backing away from her slashes with a fearful look on her face.

Gene looked up at the Beastman before her with a terrified look in her eyes, "Why are you doing this to me? What did I ever do to you?" she asked trying to reason with the Beastman.

The Bear growled, "You took away my daughter's dream, she was going to be the world's greatest surgeon but you took that away from her by sending her to art school!" she yelled with immense anger as she slashed at Gene again only for her to dodge.

Gene had no idea what this monster was talking about only for her to realize what she was talking about, "You're Nicole Graham's mother, Helen, aren't you?" she asked.

The Beastman nodded, "That's right, you took away my daughter's dream and turned her to a life she didn't want. Now I'm going to make you pay for that, by ripping you into pieces!" she said as she rushed at Gene again. All Gene could do was move away from her violent strikes but there was only so much that she could do to keep herself alive. If she didn't get away from the Beastman then there was no telling what could happen. Gene was backing away from the Beastman's strikes when she found herself backed against a wall with the Beastman grinning like a sadistic murderer while raising her razor-sharp claws back ready to skewer her through.

The Beastman grinned, showing her spike-like teeth all Gene could do was close her eyes and wait for the end to come but before the Beastman could land a final strike the sound of a motorcycle engine roared through the air. Gene opened her eyes and saw Luke riding towards them on his motorcycle with a girl riding on the back of it. Luke rode forward at high speed and hit the bear monster with the front tire of his bike before stopping. The bear monster got knocked off its feet and into a wall stunning it for a moment.

KRW

I got off my bike and tossed my helmet off along with Nicole and we both went over to make sure that my mother was okay.

After making sure that she wasn't seriously injured I turned my attention back to the Beastman who was getting back to her feet.

My mother quickly ran over to me and pulled on my arm away from the Beastman, "Luke don't just stand there, we need to get out of here!" she shouted as she tried to pull me away with her.

I sighed and pulled my arm out of her grasp before turning to her, "I can't mom, you asked how I could fight against these monsters that were threatening the city well this is how. I'm going to protect you and get Mrs. Graham back to her senses." I said before turning back to the Beastman who was on her feet again.

She growled at me, "You again?! Stay out of my way or you'll end up torn to pieces!" she yelled at me before growing her claws.

I put my hands up to show her that I wasn't a threat, "Mrs. Graham please, before you do anything rash that you might regret I think you need to talk to your daughter first." I tried to reason with the woman but it seemed that her rage was being amplified by the Link Band's power.

The Bear roared, "I don't want to hear any more of your lies, I'm going to kill you and that bitch so my daughter can have her dream come true!" she yelled before charging at me. I cursed under my breath, since I wasn't in my armor I was slower than I normally would be in my Wild armor but that didn't mean my skills were dulled. The Bear Beastman grew her claws into the longer, blade-like versions and was slashing at me at various angles trying to quickly finish me off but I wasn't that easy. One of my very first teachers told me that an angry mind is a narrow mind and this woman was very angry. Each one of her strikes was only trying to do one thing, strike me but she wasn't paying any attention to what could happen to her.

She threw a wild right hook to try and slash my face but I evaded and grabbed her wrist so I could turn into the motion that she was making by turning my body and grabbing underneath her other arm to throw her on the ground. Once she was on her back, I spun my body and grabbed her arm to pin it on the ground while I had one knee planted on her chest and my right foot pinning her other arm to the ground. The Bear Beastman struggled hard to try and release herself from my grip but my hold on her was too strong, I held her in place and reached into my back pocket to pull out the picture I saw in Nicole's apartment and pushed it into the Beastman's eyes.

"Look at this photo, does this look like the work of someone who only draws for fun?" I said making sure the Beastman could look at the picture. Once she stopped struggling she finally looked and was stunned by what she saw.

"This is…, this is one of the last times that all of us were together." She said with a hint of pain in her voice.

I released my grip on her and let her up while giving her the picture so she could see it better, I then looked over to Nicole and motioned for her to come over and talk to her mother.

Once Nicole was in range she knelt and looked her mother in the eye, "This was one of the happiest moments of my life, all of us were together and we were all happy. You used to be so happy and loved what you were doing, then that man lost his life and you changed. You couldn't be a doctor anymore so you decided to push all that you knew onto me to try and be what you couldn't even after I told you I wanted to seriously be an artist." She said getting through to her mother slightly.

The Bear Beastman was looking conflicted and it looked as if the virus inside her was subsiding, "But I remember when you were younger you said you wanted to be just like me and become a doctor. I thought it was what you really wanted, that's why I taught you everything I knew." She said.

This time I weighed in, "All children want to be like their parents when they are at an early age. All we want is to do the things that our parents do so we can make them happy and say that they are proud of us but we don't stay young forever, as we grow and mature we end up finding our own passions and desires that we want to fulfill on our own. But it's only due to the lessons and advice from our parents that we can be what we want to be, your daughter wants to make you proud but doing it by pursuing her own dreams with your help." I said getting both the mother and daughter to see what I was saying.

Gene looked at her son with a surprised look on her face, no longer did she see the young boy who was reckless and thoughtless towards his actions and what could come from them. Now she saw the kind of man that he had become a strong, independent, and strong-willed man that was doing what he thought was the best way to make the people around him happy and safe.

I knelt down and took the Beastman's paw in my hand to look at her, "You have the chance to be something great again and become and even bigger part in your daughter's life but you can't do it like this. Take the Link Band off and start your life anew." The Beastman looked at me and then to her daughter before nodding she reached for the arm that had her Band on it but before she could deactivate it a large gust of wind hit us all, knocking us all away from each other. I was the first one back on my feet and after adjusting my eyes to I could see what the cause was. It was another Beastman but given the muscular look of the body this one was male and based off a bird. Its body was a dusty yellow in color with a humanoid shape, along with the yellow color there were highlights of deep brown and gold along its arms, legs and neck where various feathers were placed. Attached to its arms were two large dusty yellow wings that were tinged with deep brown that looked as though they served the purpose of flying and as weapons.

Golden brown armor adorned its shins, pectorals, and from its left shoulder all they to its wrist which were all decorated with avian themed decorations. Deep brown and dusty yellow feathers covered the Beastman's entire body except for its belly and pectoral areas which were white that outlined toned chest and abs, its neck area was black but had brown feathers that were folded up on the outside to look like a protective layer. The Beastman's face had no features but had horizontal gold lines that ran down its face and ended on its neck while the top of its head bore a headdress-like object that resembled a proud Garuda that had accents of red, gold, and yellow.

The Garuda Beastman looked towards me and scoffed, "Wari na Ruku-ni, but I can't have you ruining another one of aniki's plans." He said in a voice that sounded strangely familiar.

That's when it donned on me, "Masaka, omae wa.." I didn't get to finish what I was going to say when the Garuda raised his arms and fired off a feather at Nicole's mother who was still in her Beastman form. The feather then attached to her body and entered her, the feather seemed to influence somehow because she suddenly screamed in pain as black electrical energy sparked off her. Her eyes glazed over and became more feral and savage while her teeth seemed to become permanently bared and her claws grew to their saber-like state.

Nicole gasped, "Mom, no!" she shouted trying to get through to her mother but she had no such luck. The feather that the Garuda fired off seemed to cause Helen to lose all control of what she was doing, she began slashing around at anything that was moving. In her fit of rage the Bear Beastman looked towards her daughter but could only see her as an enemy, she raised her claws to slash her as she neared her but before she could strike Nicole I ran at her and tackled her out of the way but the Beastman was able to get a grazing hit on my arm. It stung like a bitch but it wasn't anything that I wouldn't heal from.

I glared at the Garuda as he looked towards me, "Looks like you have your hands full Ruku-nii, ja ne." he said before he swung his arm around himself and disappeared in a burst of wind.

"Oi matte!" I shouted but the Garuda was already gone. I growled loudly, that damn Garuda was going to be a problem in the future but right now I had a bigger problem. I had to figure out how I was going to take care of turning Nicole's mother back into her old self.

I took Nicole's hand and brought her over to my mom, "Mom take care of her, I'm going to do what I have to do to make her family whole again." I said before handing Nicole over to my mom. I then took off my jacket and ripped a little part of my shirt off to turn it into a makeshift tourniquet to wrap around the wound on my arm.

I took out my Wild Driver and strapped it too my waist, Luna then jumped up and turn into her transformation form. I caught her in my hand and got into my stance, "Henshin!" I shouted before sliding her onto the Driver's surface. Once she split open, the wind around me transformed and turned me into Kamen Rider Wild.

"Arashi ga ite iru, abareru ze!" I shouted as I ran towards the Beastman. The Beastman roared in anger as she rushed me, while she ran she stabbed her bladed claw into the ground and brought it back out; throwing razor sharp stones at me in the process.

"Oh shit!" I shouted before dropping to my knees and sliding underneath the assault of stones. After the stones had passed overhead I got back to my feet just as The Beastman was nearing me and hit her with a jumping side kick to the head which stunned her. While she was trying to get her bearings back I took this opportunity to land a flurry of punches and kicks to her body. These were effective until she broke through my attacks and landed a few of her own powerful strikes with her claws, after he last strike she tried to skewer me with her claws but I managed to grab her wrist and land a mean uppercut to her jaw followed by an axe kick to her head. This worked to the extent that I needed because due to her fits of rage and the attacks that I was hitting her with she seemed to be in a weakened state that I need her to be in.

I looked at her, "Helen, you believed that you were doing the right thing to make your daughter's dream come true but in truth you let your own grief and anger over losing the job that you had fought for take make you take control of your daughter's path. But by doing this you took things way too far and let yourself become a monster that thought by killing my mother that you could make your daughter's wish come true but this isn't the way. Now you see the error of your ways by seeing that there are times when a mother just needs to let go and let her child find their own way in life, even if it may not be what you want." I couldn't see my mom but I hope she understood what I was saying, "Now your heart has been seized by the darkness that tried to use your grief against you but do not fear, for I shall end your rampage." I said as I unclipped Luna's head from her body.

"Alright Luna, it's time for something different." I said before attaching her to the notch on the side of my belt but instead of turning it down for my Rider Kick I turned her head upwards. Electrical energy surged from my Driver into my arms as the wind around me swirled into miniature tornados that surrounded my arms. I reared my arms back and banged my fists together causing the wind and thunder to combine and focus into my fists, as the Beastman slowly got back to her feet I ran at her with my energized fists. When I got in range I unleashed a torrent of furious, storm-charged punches into her body. Each hit was infused with the power of a storm.

"Whacha, Whacha, Whacha, Whacha, Whacha, Whacha!" I added as I landed each punch, just as a little homage to Namiko's dad and my sempai Meteor.

As I landed another punch I reared my fist back and collected as much storm energy as I could muster, as I did a large wolf head with a furious look on its face next to me. I then took a step forward and landed a mean punch into the Beastman's chest as the wolf head next to me bit down on her.

"Cosmic Tempest Impact!" I shouted as the Beastman went up in a large explosion. As the explosion died down, I exited from the flames it caused carrying Helen bridal style with her brown bear eBeast was resting on top of her chest. The remains of her Link Band were on the ground in pieces. I walked over to where my mom and Nicole were hiding and laid Helen down gently in front of her daughter and deactivated my armor.

I gave them both an encouraging smile, "Don't worry she'll be okay but she'll need a while to recover." I told Nicole.

She nodded, "Thank you, for everything." She said.

I gave her a slight nod, "I'm a Kamen Rider, it's what I do." I said getting back to my feet.

My mother walked towards me, "There's an ambulance on its way, the medical center will take care of everything you two may need." She said smiling down at Nicole and her mother before looking back at me.

"So, this is who you are huh?" she asked me.

I nodded, "Yeah mom, I'm a Kamen Rider and I will continue to be one till my mission is finished." I told her.

She gave me a look like she was going to lecture me but it then turned into one of love and pride, "Well, just take care of yourself. And bring an end to whoever is causing harm to the people of this city." She said before kissing me on my cheek.

I smiled at my mother's reaction, "Thanks mom." I said happily as we saw the ambulance coming towards us.

KRW

"Kuso, another one has bit the dust." Garuda said angrily. After leaving The Bear Beastman to finish off Luke with the hopes that it would succeed, he perched himself on top of a building near the battle so he could finally see Luke die but his hopes were dashed as he was Luke finish the bear off.

Garuda growled, "Dammit, Ryuu-nii-chan is going to be pissed." He said as he walked away but the minute he turned his head he was met with a spear to his throat. The spear was a white long spear with silver highlights that had a thick base that was meant for bludgeoning while the spear head itself was in the shape of a unicorn head with a long golden horn. The person holding the spear was a Beastman like Garuda but was slender and had curves along with a female chest showing its gender. The Beastman had pure white skin that was unblemished that had midnight blue armor covering her forearms, shins, and thighs all trimmed with silver. The backs of her hands and knuckles were covered in sliver armor while her shoulders were protected by midnight blue pauldrons that were curved and overlapping with a long golden spike sticking out in the center. Her chest armor was like that of a knight with her chest armor having the added feature that resembled an armored brazier while her mid-section was covered by a corset-like piece of armor, both were a primarily midnight blue with white trim on the outside and silver trim inside. Her face had a human mouth that was white with dark pink lips while her eyes were covered by a curved blue visor that was connected to a helmet that was equestrian-shaped with the horse head being curved onto the sides of the helmet and the signature golden horn of the mythical unicorn was present in the middle of her forehead. Cascading down from the back of the Beastwoman's helmet was long flowing midnight blue hair with snow white highlights that reached her shoulders. The Unicorn Beastwoman was a combination of deadliness and beauty and with her Uni-Spear pointing right at Garuda she seemed like she was ready to kill.

"What the hell do you think you are doing Garuda?!" Unicorn said as she glared at the younger Garuda.

Garuda smirked, "I'm doing what Ryuu-nii-chan asked me to do, Unicorn." He said moving the spear away from his throat with his fingers. The Unicorn and Garuda Beastmen relaxed a bit before they both pressed their fingers to their wrists, concealing their bodies in yellow and blue glows respectively. When the glows died down they revealed the human forms of Rin and Retsu Ikegami, attached to each of their wrists was a high tech looking gauntlet which looked like a Link Band but it covered their entire forearm and instead of the three blocks on top there was a blank space that was used for sliding their eBeasts onto.

Rin glared at her younger brother, "That Beastman could have killed Ruku, what the hell were you thinking attaching one of your Mind Feathers to it?!" she announced angrily.

Retsu just scoffed and shrugged his shoulders, "Ryuu-nii-chan told me to use whatever methods I had to keep that Beastman going so I did. I still didn't think that Ruku would have taken it down like he did, seems like he's gotten stronger," he said glancing over to where Luke was getting his would looked at by a paramedic, "Besides, I still don't see why you're so hung up on him Nee-chan. He has a girlfriend and it looks pretty serious to me." He said smirking.

Rin began to fume, "That tramp has nothing compared to me, I'm the only one who can bring Ruku happiness and that's the truth. He will see," she said as she looked over to where Luke was in the ambulance, "He will see just how much he needs me." She said with a sinister look in her eyes.

KRW

After making sure Nicole and her mother would be taken care of and clearing things up with mom, I headed back to the Brain Room to piece everything together with Adam and the other members of my team. Namiko was there along with Davion, Jacob, and the other members of my extended family. I had told them all the events that had happened along with the appearance of the Garuda Beastman.

Namiko gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before sitting across my lap, "I'm glad that you weren't hurt Ruku. And that you were able to clear things up with your mother." She said giving me another kiss.

I smiled, "Thanks Namiko, it looks like all in all it was a good week." I said getting nods from everyone.

Nate looked to me, "But what about that bird Beastman you met, you think we should be worried about that dude?" he asked me.

I sighed and had Namiko get off my lap, "It wasn't a bird, it was a Garuda." I said. Adam and the other guys in the room minus Ken and Apollo looked at me with wide eyes like I was crazy.

Adam looked at me, "Luke, are you absolutely sure about that?" he asked me.

I nodded grimly, "He called me Ruku-nii, combine that with the avian sight and the color scheme there is no doubt that it was him." I said. All the guys all cursed while Adam looked worried. I leaned up against one of the consoles and had Luna bring up and image of the Garuda to confirm everyone's fear.

Davion cursed, "Shit, this little prick is still pissed at you cause if what happened?" he asked.

I nodded, as the guys and I were having our little worry moment the girls looked completely out of the loop.

Namiko gripped my arm, "Ruku, who exactly is this Garuda?" she asked me while the people who didn't know about him looked at me with concerned and confused looks.

I addressed everyone in the room, "This Garuda is Retsu Ikegami, the youngest son of the Ikegami family and the younger brother of Ryuuichi Ikegami." I said causing the girls to gasp in surprise.

"Whoa whoa, you mean that was The Retsu Ikegami, the up and coming MMA fighter?" she asked causing me to nod.

Whisper blinked, "Why the hell does one of the top MMA fighters in the city have it out for you?" she asked me

I looked up at the picture of Garuda, "We used to be close, he calls me Ruku-nii because when we both started taking martial arts classes we were always right next to each other. We spared together, trained together, even got into a few fights together which was always a surprise to most other people because he was younger than I was but then." I stopped as I remembered one of the worst days in my life.

Flashback five years ago

It was a day that Retsu and I had been looking forward to for such a long time, we had been training for a spot on the International Open Martial Arts Tournament that was going to be held on Tokyo. The both of us had been training for months and the moment came when we would have to fight against each other for the final spot in the tournament to see who was going to go. The two of fought against each other with everything we had, when the two of us fought we didn't hold anything back to make sure that neither of us regretted it when we finished. As the match was reaching its finish I could clock Retus in the jaw with a well-placed uppercut that knocked him on his back, I assumed he had been knocked out since he didn't get back up but that was my mistake. Retsu had always been a stubborn dude but when he saw that he was going to lose something inside him snapped at he lost all reasoning. The next thing I knew he was charging at me with so many wild swings it was like fighting a wild animal. Retsu threw a wild hook which I spun out of the way of and landed a mean spinning back kick on him. I then finished with a jumping roundhouse to his face that threw him off the mat and he landed on the floor.

People quickly crowded around Retsu and the medics came over to check his condition but he quickly pushed everyone back and looked straight at me. Right below his right eye was a deep cut that was leaking blood. Retsu just looked at me with eyes that were filled with anger, hatred, and sadness before he left the arena.

End Flashback

I sighed, "After that Retsu never forgave me for what I did, he felt as though I had betrayed him. He never spoke to me again and we lost all touch with each other, I'm not really surprised he became a Beastman. He always did look for more power." I said.

Namiko came over and gave me a hug, "You did the right thing, anger can never bring happiness especially in battle. It never works out, this Retsu made his choice and he chose to be the one thing you vowed to stop." She told me. I looked to her then the picture of Garuda, Namiko was right. Retsu made his choice and now he had to live with it.

I nodded, "Retsu is a Beastman and not an ordinary one. He's strong and I have to find a way to stop him before him or any other member of his family brings this city more harm." I said causing everyone to agree.

"Ne Ruku, you have a package." Ken said. I turned around to see him holding a large square item in his hands that was wrapped in brown package paper, when that came I had no idea but whatever.

I went over to him and took the package from his hands, I took the paper off and was astounded by what I saw. It seemed to be a picture of me in my Wild form holding my Abaremaru in a back-handed grip in a battle stance. It looked like something that should belong in a comic book or a museum. Attached to the paining was a small card that said, "For Luke".

"This is a small token of my appreciation for all that you did for me and my family. Thank you for bringing my mother back to me and helping to piece my family back together." I read and along with the note there was a photo of Nicole along with both her mother and father looking like the happy family they deserved to be. This made it all worthwhile, making sure that families like Nicole's could stay happy and together. This also confirmed my resolve, whether it was Retsu, Ryuuichi, or even Rin I was going to protect everyone in this city till my last breath with everything I had. No matter what.

Next time on Kamen Rider Wild: Adam's girlfriend stops by for a visit along with a few of her friends and meets Namiko for the first time. At the same time Rin and Luke have their reunion but it isn't what they saw coming, as Rin comes to realize that Luke won't be hers she decides to make him hers by force and with the help of her loving Swan Beastman servant she may just do that. Can Luke stay alive to protect his girl or will he need some Super help in order to do it?

Hi everyone Kuro no Okami 23 here, thank you so much for your patience and loyalty for this next chapter. I promise the next post I make won't be so long. I also would like to give a shout out to my boy Drago Pirate who has been loyal to the very beginning as well as Sir Perfluous who has been a great friend and loyal reader in both my Fanfics. The next post will be for Wild Hunters so stay tuned.

Also I plan on making a Food Wars fanfic and I need some of your guy's help. I will be setting up a poll of which Food Wars characters you would want to see together and have kids because this fic will take place years after the current class graduates. Send me a PM and let me know.

Till next time Ja ne.