Author's Note: Hey Guys! It's been rough writing since my last upload and these next few Wizard Chapters are going to be pretty long because they are Character Building Chapters. This is going to be a two part story arc of Robin and Beast. There is a thing at the last part of this chapter that deals with Beast's backstory and I will be getting to that in a couple of chapters from now so don't worry about that. Next chapter is going to be more Robin focused since I wasn't able to give this one chapter entirely to her. I will be working on Chapter 10 of Wizard and not Deadman Wonderland. That's going to be put on hold for a bit because I feel like I'm not doing a good job at writing Deadman. I'm hoping to get the next chapter up in the next 3-4 weeks since these chapters are going to be huge and I'm working like 40 hours a week as well. Enjoy this chapter!

(Robin's Viewpoint)

It was January 10th 2015 about seven in the morning. I had just stopped at Starbucks to get some coffee for me and my mother since it was going to be a long day at work…Again. I normally get a French vanilla latte with two espresso shots and my mom normally gets something black with two creamers. I was wearing a tan suit with a white undershirt and matching pants with black shoes and my badge attached to my hip. I was just pulling into the police station in the downtown area and got out of my car as I carried the drinks up the steps. I took out my badge and swiped it in the card reader as the door on the side of the building beeped and I walked inside. I took the elevator up to the second floor as I walked to the dispatch room. I walked out into a grey floor and wall hallway and in just a few feet was a wooden door with a keypad on it that I punched the codes in and walked in. Inside were a few police officers in their blue uniforms that greet me every time they see me.

"Hey there Robin! You buy me coffee?" Officer Blake said. He was white with bald head and a muscular build with brown eyes.

"Ha! No! This is for mo—Ah the boss." I said catching myself. I always seemed to have a hard time calling mom my boss and I would think that I would get over it by now having worked together for five years.

"You should be glad she didn't hear you say that, haha. She would've slapped you upside your head." Blake said jokingly. I walked up behind him and shoved his head a bit.

"I'm working on it Blake. It's a bit difficult for me." I said. I then walked over to the shelf next to the door I came in looking for the log in book so I could clock in for work. I was having a bit of a hard time finding it.

"Blake you know where the log book is? It never seems to be anywhere around here." I said to him. I was looking in the small room we were in and how there were binders everywhere, papers not organized, and a bunch of junk thrown all over the place. "We really need to clean up here. Who the hell lets it get this messy?" I said getting irritated. I then looked over by the computer on the other side of the room and found the binder. Blake during this entire time was talking to a customer about Parking Ticket information. He then hung the phone up and started to talk to me.

"I'm so sorry about the mess. Michael was supposed to clean it up before he left his shift an hour ago and I guess he didn't do it. I'll clean it up since I have nothing to do. Oh hey I have that report for you on the missing ten children last year. I've got to say that it's great that the boy Travis is okay as well as Karina. It's a nasty thing about what happened to them out in those woods. To be honest I've been a resident here for twenty five years and never knew we had an underground cave." He said as he handed me a folder. I opened it up to see something about Amber Wild, aka Medusa.

"Thanks so much for the file. I'm going to take this upstairs and give mo—shit, boss her coffee. Were you able to find anything else on the other missing people from the cave exploration?" I asked Blake. He then remembered something as he pulled another file out of the drawer.

"Oh yes I did. This file has everything you'll need to know on a specific girl named Elizabeth Woodruff. This one a lot of people are kind of hoping stays cold. Her arrest record, crimes, behavior, a lot of stuff just screams in a megaphone psycho." He said with a worried look on his face. I took the file and coffees and walked out of the room after signing the log in book.

I went to the elevator and rode it upstairs. Once upstairs the hallway was designed just like the floor below but at the end of it was temporary holding cells one that Travis was in during the bank heist with Arachnid. "It's been a bit under a year since then huh?" I thought to myself. Remembering what Travis had done for me and my mother was something we would never forget. I've kept Travis's identity a secret from mom so that he wouldn't have to have the whole world know his secret. Mom loves to speak highly of people and if she knew that the Ring Bearing Wizard was Travis and someone I had been visiting a lot over the year, the paparazzi will be all over him.

I finally had gotten up to the door that had my mother's name on it. "Chief Sarah Meade." I said. Mom normally has me call her Sally, but after the Arachnid Phantom fight it went back to its original name which was Sarah. I then knocked as she allowed me to enter into the room. Mom was running all over the room trying to get files and stuff together. "Hey Chief, I got you some coffee for the day." I said as I placed the drink down on her desk. Her office was a bit bigger than Dispatch and it was all for her.

"I'm sorry Officer Robin I have to show up to the court house and I totally forgot that I needed to be at the meeting today. Thank God the courthouse is three blocks from here. You can use my office to do whatever you need. Thanks for the coffee." She said as she picked up the coffee and dashed out the door. I was kind of hoping to talk to her about the cold cases I had received to gather some insight, but good luck on that happening.

I walked over to the desk on the other end of the room and placed my files down as I started to look at them. On the corner of this brown desk was a picture of me in high school when I started writing the school newspaper. I had brought home a trophy for County School Best Paper. "I wish I never became a cop. I never wanted this job. I wanted to be a news anchor or a journalist. I think the only thing keeping me here is so you can be happy." I said looking at my mother in the photo with her arms around me and this giant smile on her face. The photo was taken after my dad had died of pancreas cancer. At the time I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I had thoughts of journalism because of Dad. But after he passed and I won the award, I gave up on that dream.

Straight out of high school I trained to work with law enforcement, my mom forced me into it. I never told her I was against it because I knew she wouldn't listen. "It was just so easy for us to live together when dad was around. Now it feels like when dad died, so did you mom." I said looking at the photo. I had a tear fall down my face as I wiped it away and looked back at the files in front of me. I started to flip through Elizabeth Woodruff, "I'll look through the Amber Wild file with Travis later. I think he might want to know what's in here." I said as I put the file to the side.

I opened the Woodruff file and saw the basic information page that had the photo of a black girl's face with this messed up crazy hair. The girl looked like she did a lot of drugs and was a bit hideous to look at. I looked at her bio. "5'4, 122 pounds, parent's gave up custody, vanished during the cave exploration, has three charges for petty theft, five charges for theft, eight charges for assault, ten charges for drug use/paraphernalia, three charges for breaking and entering, four charges of prostitution, two of them caught by a police officer that was undercover, and is labeled clinically insane in the state of Ohio by Magistrate Bland as of July 2010." I then kept flipping through pages of her file that was more than 25 pages. I then realized that she looked a bit familiar.

"I think I remember her from somewhere. Oh yea she was the one Travis had found back when he got Hurricane Dragon. She was terrorizing Manuela and DJ when Travis was with me running around town patrolling." I said remembering that scene. I then looked at her entire record spending most of my time trying to study her and find out what I needed to know. "She said her name was Gremlin. But she didn't want to fight Travis? I wonder what she has planned for him." I said shifting through the papers. Suddenly I heard the door open and when I looked up I saw my mother and she wasn't happy for some reason.

"Chief? What's up you don't look so good. Did something happen down at the courthouse?" I asked. She stormed over and grabbed the files out of my hands.

"I need you to stop looking into the missing cave exploration people. We just had three new cases come up and I need you to spend time on this." She said sternly.

"Um…Yea sure. Oh I was looking into the missing people and I can tell you for sure that two of them Amber Wild and Elizabeth Woodruff might be alive. I've seen both of them in the past month and I was-." I was interrupted as the folders were tossed into the trash next to her.

"You won't need to look into this anymore. This case has now become closed. The missing people have returned home and are fine. I need you to get onto these three cases. Also get out of my office I need some alone time." She demanded.

"Um yea chief I can give you some time. Did the coffee help? Should I get more?" I asked feeling like I was being backed into a corner.

"The coffee? Oh yes it helped. Now get out of my office." She said rudely. I just bowed my head and walked out and when the door closed I looked back at the trash can with the files as I grabbed the files on the desk near the door.

"What happened at the courthouse?" I wondered. I looked down at the files as I began to study them and look them over.

(Travis's Viewpoint)

I was sitting in the living room playing a chess game with Mark, we had spent an entire hour in this one game. "Check bitch." Mark said as he put his bishop in line with my king. He then hit the clock that we used to keep time. He had ten minutes left on his and I had thirteen.

"Ooh that's kind of daring move you got going there buddy. Thanks for the bishop though!" I said as I slid my Queen over and captured his piece. "Check." I said to him. He then looked to see if he could get out of the check but realized he had cornered himself in without any way to stop the check. "…Mate!" I said to him. He put his hands on top of his head and threw it back.

"Nooooo! I almost had you!" He said and then began laughing. We shook hands as he got up. "Well I'm hungry time to go fishing." He said.

"Fishing? The water here is not safe to eat the fish? Where are you going to go fishing?" I asked him as he walked up to the door and then quickly stopped.

"WAIT? What?! I can't fish here?!" He said surprised.

"The closest is probably Grand Rapids at least that's where I hear a lot of people go to fish." I said to him.

"I don't have a lot of mana to fly. Maybe I'll go look for some Phantoms or Ghouls." He said as he walked out the door a bit sad.

I then heard a noise like something met a circulating saw in DJ's little office where he makes rings. I got up to check on how things were going. I walked up to the door to see Shawn finally taking off his safety goggle and DJ sitting next to him. "So I just use sandpaper to make the edges smooth so it can fit into the ring holder?" He asked DJ. I stood there with a bright smile on my face.

"Yep. You're getting better at making rings. Oh hey Travis how was the game?" DJ said looking at me.

"I beat him…Again. I don't think out of the fifteen games we've played he's ever come close to beating me. How's the ring making thing going Shawn?" I asked him.

Shawn looked at me with a huge smile on his face," I'm really excited about this one! The dragon on this is wearing a tie! Oh have you tried the last one I made? It's the one with a dragon yelling with lines coming out of his mouth." He asked me. I then walked over to the Wizard Chest and picked up the light blue ring with the description he was talking about.

"Actually I haven't. I should give it a shot." I said as I slid it on my finger and scanned the ring.

"Voice, please."

I then for the first time scanning a new ring noticed that I could do multiple different things with this. But the moment I released the ring I felt something swelling up my mouth and when I opened I began sending out a loud concentrated noise at the glass coffee table and when the sound hit the table, all of the glass shattered and the chess board fell onto the ground. I quickly closed my mouth cancelling the spell. "Oh shit. I let out a supersonic sound wave. That could be useful in a fight. But I also noticed that I could do other things with this spell than that." I said to Shawn.

"Well since you got the Drago-Timer I've noticed that you can do a wide variety of things that you couldn't do before, even in your base forms. Like you couldn't manipulate fire, gravity, wind, or water the way you normally would. So maybe with all of the power you have, the more you are able to do." Shawn said to me. I looked down at the ring thinking about what he said.

"Maybe your right. This Voice Ring is pretty sweet. I think you did a great job making it." I said to him with a smile. He then tossed me the new one. It was a hinted orange with a dragon wearing a tie.

"Let's try this one." I said putting the Voice Ring in the chest and sliding the new one on.

"Dress Up, please."

A red spell circle appeared in front of me and then turned sideways through me as a black suit and pants appeared on me with a red tie and white button down undershirt replaced my normal attire. I then tugged on the collar, "Ooh fancy." I said. Shawn was a bit sad.

"I was hoping it would do something as good as the Voice Ring." He said. I walked up to him and put my hand on his shoulder.

"This thing will do great at helping me. Don't feel sad I will put this to great use." I said to him. Shawn then gave me a hug and then I heard a phone ring.

"Oh shoot the new movie I wanted to see is in two hours. I have to head out!" Shawn said as he ran out of the house leaving me with DJ.

"Where's Manuela?" DJ asked me.

"I don't know she wasn't sleeping next to me when I woke up this morning. I think she is out and about in the town. Shawn has been doing a great job with ring making, I think it helps that he has a good tutor like you." I said back.

DJ briefly smiled, "Well shucks you're going to make me blush." He chuckled. I then noticed a purple ring in the corner of his work area.

"What's that ring over there?" I asked. DJ grabbed it and shoved it in his shirt pocket.

"You don't need to worry about this one. It was a dud." He said as he kept his hand over his shirt pocket.

"A dud? He seems a bit off with how he is keeping his hand over his pocket." I thought. I then heard a knock on our door. "Come in!" I called out. I then saw Robin walk through the door with three folders in her arms and she was pissed.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS CRAP! She seriously wants me to work on these DAMN things!" Robin said furiously as she slammed the folders on the shattered glass. "Huh? What happened to the coffee table?" She said quickly dropping her negative emotion she was in. She then looked up at us, "Holy crap Travis you look ho-uh…Ahem…Good. You look really good… In that…Um…Suit. I'll just stop talking now." She said a bit flushed. I grabbed the broom and dustpan from the work area and began sweeping up the glass. Robin then helped me move the wooden frame of the table outside and DJ replaced the table with a black collapsible table from the closet. Robin then put her folders on that.

"So what happened to that other table?" She asked me.

"I tried out a new spell ring and I didn't know it would destroy the glass." I answered back.

"I'm going to miss that table." DJ said sadly.

"So what is going on with you?" I said. As I used the Dress Up Ring to go back to my normal attire which consisted of a red marbled shirt and blue jeans with my cross necklace.

"Ugh! My mother is being a pain in my ass! She told me to drop the Missing People from the cave exploration and then took the folders from me. I don't know what got into her. She then threw three other cases on me and they are all on getting evidence for a damn trial that is happening next week on these kids who broke into the In and Out Gas Station over there on South Main street! That's not even my department, that's for the other officers not someone of my ranking." She said as she sat down and put her hands over her face.

DJ brought a glass of water to her. "Thanks DJ." She said trying to calm down.

I sat next to her, "That does suck. Maybe I can help you with it?" I offered.

"No I already have someone working on gathering the evidence." Robin said taking a sip of water. I then heard DJ turn on the TV and the news was on, and this made Robin flip.

"Um Travis, Robin, you two might want to come look at this." DJ said worried. The two of us turned around and faced the giant TV in the corner and there were ten people standing in front of the courthouse that were all the missing people from the cave exploration, and Sarah Meade was standing at a podium in front of them all. Chief Sarah then spoke.

"Hello everyone. Thank you all for gathering here today. About sometime 10-11 months ago we had ten people from the ages of 14 and up go missing during a cave exploration. It is my civic duty as your Chief of Police to let you know that not more than ten minutes ago most of the people you see here before you today turned themselves in and had escaped the clutches of the people who made them go missing. A few of these people have been living amongst us during the past year with their fellow escapees. One of them which is this girl Elizabeth Woodruff, was able to tip off Travis Edge where they were held captive earlier this morning. Let's give a warm applause for these people as we are glad to have them back."

The moment the Chief stopped talking everyone erupted in a delightful roar and ran up to the people as they shook their hands and swarmed around them. The ten people acted like normal humans but all three of us knew something was up. "This isn't right. Amber Wild is dead; Manuela told me that Casey took care of that. Karina is out doing stuff and the outfit she is wearing is different from this one on screen. As well as I'm right here." I said confused.

"This doesn't make any sense. Mom is taking all of the glory?! I'm the one who put all the hard work and effort into that case!" Robin said pissed.

"There is definitely something fishy going on here. It has to be the work of a Phantom. But that would mean that one of the 11 people there has to be the Phantom, but we don't know what kind of Phantom nor what its abilities are." DJ said. We then heard a cellphone ring and the ring came from Robin's phone. Robin had a more pissed off look on her face.

"If you answer that phone put it on speaker." I said to her as I saw on her giant touch phone saying "Mother."

She then answered the phone.

"Mom what the hell is wrong with you! You just took all of the credit of that case on your own! Plus how can Travis be there if he is standing right in front of me?!" She yelled.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Travis is standing right here. You need to calm down." Sarah said sternly.

"I'm not going to calm down mother! That was a dirty thing you just did! Plus the person there you're calling Travis has to be an impostor! It has to be! I know because the REAL Travis is right here and you can talk to him!" She screamed back.

"I have had enough of your disrespect young lady. If I have to hear about this one more time I will have your badge and gun. You need to stop with all of this foolishness. You're obviously stressed out from overworking this week. Maybe you need to take a break from work for a few days." She said arguing back. Then Sarah hung up the phone. When I looked back up at Robin her entire face went from angry to emotionless. She then stood up and stormed out the door.

"ROBIN WAIT!" I called out to her.

She stopped at the door, "Don't Travis. I'm going to go deal with my mother. I'll be right back." She said as she slammed the door. I then looked at DJ.

"I have to go after her she's not thinking straight." I said. As soon as I started moving DJ grabbed my shoulder.

"Travis I understand how you feel, but this isn't your problem. This is not only a police work issue, but a family issue as well. Besides what could you do in this situation? The supposedly real you is already with Chief Sarah, you showing up could cause more harm than good. We just need to trust in them that things will turn out for the better." DJ said. I was a little frustrated as I had a bad feeling that something was going to happen. I then went over to the Wizard Chest and grabbed one of my Plamonsters.

"In case anything goes wrong Garuda will let me know. Something is going on and I know it has to be a Phantom." I said as I scanned the ring.

"Garuda, please."

I watched as my red familiar put itself together once it was done I put my spell ring in the slot on its chest, "I need you to follow Robin. If anything of a Phantom shows up I'll be there. I'll be watching you through Karina's mystic ball. Now go!" I said as I ran to the front door and opened it as it flew off into town.

-Six Hours Later-

(Mark's Viewpoint)

I was walking in the downtown area hungry as hell. A lot of people were giving me weird looks whenever I asked for food. I saw this old couple walking down the street in front of one of the tattoo parlors, "Oh hey oldies! I'm hungry can you help me? I'm looking for these grey stone like creatures with yellow or purple lines all over their body! Do you know where I can find some?" I asked with a hopeful expression. The man looked at me confused to hell.

"Umm I don't know what you're talking about but there is a small restaurant down the street here with some grey on the building. It's called Corner Grill." He said unsure of what to tell me. I put my hands on my head in an irritated fashion as I thanked the couple and started stumbling away.

"This isn't good. If I don't get any mana into me soon I'll become a Phantom! I can feel Chimera getting hungrier." I said under my breath. I finally got up to the alley that was next to Finder's Music Store and I laid up against the wall and slowly fell to the ground. "Am I going to die today?" I said looking at the ground.

"Hey Mark is that you?" I heard a familiar voice. I looked up to see Manuela running up to me. She was wearing these tight navy blue jeans with a white dress shirt that had ruffles around the wrists and a gold chain necklace on with a pair of normal looking black tennis shoes. Her wardrobe since she started living with us was some really expensive and beautiful clothes. Mostly because her income was her winning at these contests for singing that happened in town weekly. People pay a lot of money to just come and see her and it's caused one of the bars to make enough money to get a bigger place where they put a stage inside to have singing competitions for the people in the city. One where Manuela tops first all the time and she normally brings home about five hundred a week. The bar owner said when she turned 18 he would have her work for him, it's a shame he's going to have to wait for about two years.

"Oh hey Manuela. Have you seen any Ghouls around or Phantoms? I'm fricking starving!" I said complaining to her. She sat up against the wall next to me.

"No. Why are you hungry? I thought Phantoms and Ghouls could keep you satisfied for two weeks if you didn't use up your mana for fighting?" She asked concerned.

"Well when we saved Shawn during the Zombie Phantom fight, I poured a lot of mana into healing Shawn. He was hanging onto his life by a thread because of that virus. The only way we were going to save him is if I pushed myself over the limit and I wasn't going to see one of my close friends die. I never told him what I did because I didn't want him to worry plus I thought that I would be in another fight real soon, but there haven't been any Phantom sightings or Ghouls since then. This is bad for me because I will despair and give rise to Chimera if I don't get food in the next twelve hours." I said to her. Manuela then grabbed my arm and started tugging me up off the ground.

"We need to go now! Travis can probably do something about that. He gives Karina mana; maybe if we borrow the ring she is wearing we can transfer some of Travis's mana to you." She said as I got up off the ground. I hadn't thought of that idea so we started moving but when we did and got to the corner of Wooster and Main, we saw Robin. "Let's go ask Robin for a ride. We can get there quicker that way." Manuela suggested. We started moving to Robin's position but then saw her looking around frantically like she was scared while holding her arm.

"Something's wrong here." I stated. "Manuela stay here, I'm going to go check things out." I said to her. But she had other plans.

"No I'm going with you." Manuela said.

"Are you crazy? If there is a something like Phantom's or Ghouls you could get hurt." I told her.

"Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean you have to protect me. Travis has been teaching me how to fight these past six months in case I should run into danger. He saw that potential in me when I fought off the Incubus Phantom. I can take care of myself just like you guys." She said being persistent. I ended up just letting her win.

"Okay but if it gets to hectic I need you to run got it?" I said to her.

"Sure." She said with a smile. We then ran across the street as we headed to the alleyway and when we got there I saw Robin limping down the end of the alley. "Mark look at the ground." Manuela said as we saw a trail of blood that was clearly Robin's.

"Oh no this isn't good." I said as we looked up to see a woman other than Robin standing at the end of the alley. This person was Robin's mother, Sarah, also known as Chief of Police. She raised her gun up at Robin. "ROBIN GET OUT OF THER-." But before I had chance to finish my sentence a couple of bullets left the gun and landed themselves inside Robin who after reacting to the bullets hitting her, slowly fell to the ground and landed face first. "RUN NOW!" I said to Manuela as I started to shove her from the scene and just in time for us to barely get shot at by Sarah.

We quickly began to run down the street and immediately took a right as we ran into the first building we saw and it had a staircase that led upstairs and we got inside as we hid underneath the staircase and I kept an eye out for Sarah in case she was tracking us. After about a minute we saw Sarah standing in front of the door and I put my hand over Manuela's mouth as we stay covered from the Chief's sight and she started to look around inside the building but couldn't see us and then began walking down the street. "Stay right here Manuela. I'm going to see if the coast is clear." I said as she kept her hands over her mouth. I could see tears like a waterfall roll down her face as we watched our friend get shot to death by her own mother.

I sidled around the staircase and peeked my head from the corner to see if there was anyone around. I then walked up to the door and locked it from the inside and then went back to Manuela. "We are going to stay here for about thirty minutes and then we'll leave." I said to her as we stayed huddled under the staircase. My heart felt so heavy and my eyes watery as Manuela put her face into my chest and began crying as quietly as she could but we both knew that wasn't going to be possible at all.

"W-W-Why…? Why…Why did sh-s-sh-she k-k-kill Robin? It doesn't make sense! That's her own daughter…AHHHH!" Manuela sobbed and I just couldn't keep my tears quiet any longer. I then had to let Travis know.

"We need to tell Travis." I said as I tried to hold back my tears and took out my phone and started texting him. I sent the text to Travis. He quickly texted me back.

"I know. Garuda was watching the surrounding area. DJ and I as well as Karina and Shawn are a bit broken down right now. But are you okay? Is Manuela with you? Wherever you guys are stay there." Travis texted.

I texted him back that we were on the corner of Wooster and Main underneath the building with the glass door where you can see the stairs that lead upstairs and into the Bridal Shop that was closed. We had locked the door so Sarah couldn't get in and hurt us. Travis then texted back,

"Okay stay there. I'll be there in a second. I'm going to teleport outside the door be ready for me." I told him okay and in just a flash of light Travis used the Teleport Ring and showed up at the door. He knocked on the door and we emerged from our hiding space. Manuela quickly ran to the door and hugged Travis as she kept started to dry her tears onto his shirt.

"We need to see if we can save Robin. I can teleport her to the hospital, she might still be able to live." Travis said. We quickly ran back to the scene of the crime and when we got there, the body and all evidence of the murder was gone.

"How can this be? We just saw Robin get shot eight minutes ago. How is it that a stream of blood and a body are gone that fast?" Manuela said surprised. We then ran up to where Robin was shot at to see if there might be anything that was left behind but there was nothing.

We then heard a girl chuckle up at the end of the alley but before I had a chance to see the person she turned and left. But Travis had an idea of who it could be. "…Amber?" He said. He then quickly ran to the end of the alley.

"Travis wait! It's too dangerous!" I said to him. But when he got up there he looked around and then came running back to us. "Did you see anything?" I asked him.

"No the person who was there vanished. But it looked like Amber…I mean Medusa." He said back.

"That's not possible Travis. Medusa died getting an entire factory plummeting on her body. I doubt anyone or anything could survive that." Manuela said to him. Travis then looked around as he got ready to scan his Teleport Ring.

"I'm getting us out of here. We are going back to DJ's to plan something but I don't think we should be here much longer." He said. But then I heard a zip noise come from behind me and a small dart hit Travis in the chest and one hit Manuela in the back. I looked back to see who fired it but before I moved my head I felt a dart hit my shoulder and when I looked over I saw a group of people standing at the end of the alley but I had blacked out before I could get a good look at them.

"…Was this all a trap?" I thought as I as passed out.

-Seven Hours Later-

I gently awoke to the sound of dripping water. I was suspended off the ground and hanging on a wall like some portrait with metal cuffs and chains. I looked around my environment to see nothing but a cellar. It was dark so it was hard for me to properly tell what was around me. "Where am I?" I said trying to wake up. I then heard a door swing open. A light illuminated the room with torches that surrounded the entire room and I had a better look at what was actually a cellar. The walls were running with streams of water and the floor was about four inches high with it. I then looked at the door to see Travis standing there and in his arms was a piece of Manuela's shirt covered in blood. Travis also had a huge smile on his face.

"Ha…Ha…Ha. It's so easy to harm people who think they feel safe around you. It's great to watch that expression they give when the last thing they see is their greatest friend becoming their most dangerous enemy. The thought of it all makes me all giddy on the inside, and now the last person left to be killed is you, my childhood friend. Maybe I'll burn your body with all these torches hanging on the wall. Or maybe I'll bash the back of your head in that wall so if should anyone find you they will think you went mad and committed suicide. You're my best friend so I should give you an appropriate ending of your life." Travis said to me.

I started to chuckle, "Oh God. Chimera must be hungry as hell because I almost thought you were the REAL Travis for a second there. So why don't you show me who you really are…Phantom." I said quickly dropping my comedic act and turned into something more serious.

"Heh. How did you know I wasn't Travis? I'm quite curious to know." The Phantom said as a purple mist formed around it.

The Phantom had a white furry face and white furry chest, with black arms, gold nails, a red left leg, a blue right leg with black nails on its feet. In the middle of the furry face was a yellow line in the form of a smile and eyes with a white question mark in the middle of the eyes. The creature had yellow spikes running down its back as well.

"I am the Phantom of Disguise and Deceit. My name is Doppel. As you can guess I'm a Doppelganger who's powers are to turn objects into living entities. For instance, when I disguised as Chief of Police Sarah Meade and had that press conference live, the ten people who went missing were Ghouls disguised as the missing people." Doppel said to me with a cracky voice.

"I knew it wasn't Travis because I know that Travis hates it when people do monotone things like laughing the way you did. Also Travis would never even if he had to act it out, would pull off an acting performance of killing people he considers close. He would never be able to harm his friends with such a serious expression. Just the thought of doing so would tear him up on the inside." I said back to him. I then made another comment. "Also when you walked inside here, you messed up on his appearance in a big way." I said sounding snarky. This put Doppel in an awkward spot.

"I don't know what you mean everything was perfect on his disguise. Wait?! You knew the moment I walked into the room this entire TIME?!" Doppel said a bit fearful.

"Yea and this is how I knew. Your neck when you impersonated him. Travis wears a Christian Cross necklace that was given to his parents before they died. That necklace was given to him to remember his infinite potential he has inside. It's become the hope that was leftover by his parents which is why he is able to fight through the hell he's been thrown in since he became Wizard. I should know because the REAL Travis told me. Now if you don't mind I'm quite hungry and I don't feel like dying today." I said back to him with a huge cocky smile on my face.

Doppel was thinking I was bluffing. "Your hilarious you know that. You're handcuffed to that wall. I know all about you Mark Boger. You're Masked Rider Beast, the Primordial Mage, and if you don't consume mana you'll despair and give rise to Chimera that lives inside your belt. Seven hours have passed and you only have five more. It would be extremely dangerous for you to transform at the hunger stage you're in that you just might turn into a Phantom before you even transform. So don't make threats that you can't back up. I also was given permission to kill you. Your Phantom requires consuming our kind in order to thrive. So if we kill you now, Chimera will go back to his forever long slumber. But I'm not going to kill you that's what mooks like Ghouls are for." He said as he snapped his fingers and five Ghouls entered the giant drippy cellar. Each one had spears and when Doppel was at the door he talked with his back behind me. "Oh thanks for the tip on making me be able to impersonate people better. I wonder how Travis who is caring for his wounded girlfriend would react to seeing you kill the thing that he loves. I know she will be happy to know that the bitch is removed from his side." Doppel said laughing evilly as he walked out the room.

I heard the door close and lock and then I saw the Ghouls slowly approach me. I started squirming violently from the shackles. "Come on just a little bit more and I can get free." I said. During the entire time Doppel was talking to me I was having the streaming water coming down the walls and onto my hands so I could slip them out easier. I then looked at the Ghouls who were getting closer to me.

"Okay guys look I know it's bad that I've killed about over five dozen worth of your comrades but hey I'm willing to let bygones be bygones if you just spare my life. I mean come on a hungry boy has to eat am I right?" I said to them. The Ghouls then stopped moving as the Ghoul in the far back began walking to the front slowly and he had green scars on his body instead of the orange or yellow ones. "Jeffrey is that you? Ah boy I swear you've lost that body fat really well. Uhh why are you raising that spear? I'm a bit afraid of pointy things." I said in a joking tone as the Ghoul lifted a spear up and before thrusting it into me I slipped my hand out of one cuff and wrapped my legs around the neck of the spear a couple inches under the blade. I had locked the spear from moving and used my legs to yank it out of his hands which I quickly grabbed it and stabbed it into the chains that held my last hand on the wall. I then fell to the ground on my butt. The green scarred Ghoul began resonating a glow and these thin cords shot out of its scars and grabbed the other Ghoul's around it and bring it in. The other Ghouls started to get consumed by this one which then got bigger by about two feet and muscular, mostly around its arms.

"Oh shit. That's disturbing to look at." I said as I took the spear and tried to stab it. The enhanced Ghoul grabbed the blade and yanked it out of my hand. When it did I watched it break the pole in half and throw them to the side. "Since when could Ghouls consume others to become something more hideous?" I wondered. The Ghoul then breathed loudly as it punched me sending me flying across the room. I then after falling to the ground saw green air like Travis's Hurricane Style gives off when it's about to fly in the air emanate off its body. I then had a quick flashback.

"MARK RUN! IT'S A MONSTER! RUN BABY RUN!" I heard my mother say after I awoke from the hospital after being sent there thanks to Travis's beating. I then had another quick flashback to my Dad getting me out of the hospital.

"MOM! DAD WE NEED TO GET MOM! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! SHE'S BACK IN THERE WITH THAT THING! WE NEED TO SAVE HER! MOM!" I said pounding on my dad's back and when I looked up I saw a Ghoul that looked just like this one walking towards the door and then turning into a green mist and flying away. It wasn't until moments later did the thing catch up to us and strike down my dad in front of my very eyes. I remembered hiding until the thing finally left and went back to my dad's body as he gave me a black square ring with the grey door on it that my Driver's On Ring.

"Go son…Be safe…Run Ma-r-r-k…" My dad said as his head fell backwards and died. I then snapped back to my current situation.

"So we finally meet again. I've waited eight years for this moment and was wondering when I would find you. I don't care if I die today. Today at this exact moment I will avenge my parents for what you did to them." I said to the creature that slowly started walking towards me. I reached into my pocket and raised my hand in a diagonal position over my chest as I put on my ring.

"DRIVER ON!"

I then slid on my Transformation Ring and Chimera began to talk in my head. "MARK DON'T! You might not have enough mana to summon me." He said warning me. I then raised my hand up in the air.

"I'm asking you to let me do this Chimera. If I don't I can never move on from my parent's death. But don't worry if you can hold on just for two minutes you will have the biggest meal you ever had." I said with a serious tone. "Transform." I said as I did my pose and put the ring in my belt.

"SET!"

I then quickly fell to the ground as I felt a writhing pain. "MARK! You won't be able to use any of your Mantle Rings. You only have enough power to do one Saber Strike at best. This is suicide. You need to sto-." Chimera said to me.

"WOULD YOU FUCKING SHUT UP? I'm doing this and I know how much power I have left! This fight is everything to me so you can either help me one shot kill this thing or shut the hell up and let me fight!" I said as I turned the levers on my belt sideways.

"OPEN! L-I-O-N! LION!"

A yellow spell circle appeared on the ground and surrounded me as my Lion form appeared and just in time as the monster raised its fist and came to sucker punch me again. I caught it with one hand and had a power struggle to keep it from moving me. I then stood up and used my free hand to summon out my Dice Saber. I then dodged under its arm and raised my sword to cut at its upper area of the arm. I then kept slashing down its arm as it was extremely sensitive to my attacks. "You might be a very beefy Ghoul but you're just a little bitch on the inside. Let us see how much mana you're packing!" I said as I took my Lion Ring and placed it in the Transformation side of my belt.

"GO! KICK STRIKE!"

Gold mana began to light up my feet as I did a roundhouse kick into the Ghoul's stomach and I sent it flying across the room and into the wall. The Ghoul then fell onto the ground on its face and I was immediately reverted back to my human form with my sword in my hand still. I started to see cracks form slowly on my body. The Ghoul was still breathing and I began walking towards it. "Still breathing huh? Well thankfully striking you down with my sword will still give me your mana. I'll consume your mana before Chimera consumes me." I said as I stood over its head and raised my sword up. I then felt the pain of the cracks hurting me all over. I then was frozen in place without a lot of strength to deliver the final blow. I then heard the door open and when I looked to see who entered I saw Robin. She was all bruised up and quickly ran up to me as she grabbed my hands.

"Don't give up Mark! Travis needs you right now so you're not dying on us!" She said. She then helped guide my hand down as hard as she could and my sword went right through the back of the Ghoul's neck and the Ghoul exploded into a bunch of green mana that formed my spell circle and hovered right into my belt where a very loud gulp was made and the cracks on my body immediately vanished and my life was back to being mine. "I did it mom and dad. I finally avenged you." I said as I fell to the ground on my knees glad that I was going to keep on living.