"AMBER!" I yelled as the creature sped away. I tried to get back up but fell back onto the ground as the pain in my chest was unbearable. I was looking around as everyone was gone from the fight. "I'm all alone…Again." I said to myself. I reached for my phone but couldn't find it, "I must've left it back at my home." I said getting upset. I also knew I didn't have my Connect ring on me so I was unable to retrieve my phone that way. I heard sirens blaring in the distance and I began to crawl and hunker down underneath some bushes that weren't too far from my location. Once I got there I saw one police car pull into the parking lot and a man in a blue uniform with dark brown hair get out of the car. The man was brown skin and looked to be a couple inches taller than me. He bent down at the scratch marks on the ground and then went over to inspect the broken tree near me.
He looked around in circles as if he was checking around his surroundings. He then took out a radio and his English accent was terrible but I was able to make out what he said with his Japanese accent, "Officer Kadoya reporting in. Whatever happened here we just missed it. I'm going to stay to investigate the crime scene a bit. We have a tree ripped and knocked over and some marks on the ground." Once he was done on the radio he just stood there in front of the bush and began whistling. A couple minutes had passed, "Well I guess it gets kind of boring when you're the only one here. It's a sad shame that no one is here to hang out with me. Makes me feel how you say? KIND OF LONELY!" The man said as he quickly turned around, grabbed me by my neck and threw my forward through the bush until I was on the ground lying right in front of him.
"You mind telling me what happened here Wizard or am I going to have to be rude." I somehow thought this guy would be a threat to me so I found the energy to stand up.
"Driver On, please."
My belt said as it extended out. The officer came up to me and used his foot to push me back to the ground and then he took that one foot and stood on my chest while using his other foot to keep my right arm on the ground, "GET OFF ME!" I yelled at him but having no energy to even throw his foot off me. "I think we got off on the wrong foot here my name is Tsukasa Kadoya. I'm like you, a Kamen Rider." I looked at him confused.
"What's a Kamen Rider? I'm a Masked Rider." I said to him. Tsukasa took his feet off me, "Wow you're not intelligent are you? Kamen Rider and Masked Rider is the same thing. You just translated Kamen into Masked." He started to walk towards the tree and placed his hands on the claw marks, "So did you get the Phantom or did he get away?" He asked.
"Cait Sith got away. He took someone I know hostage and I have to go free her." I said as I began stumbling towards my bike but kept falling onto the ground.
"Wow they don't name these monsters of the week like they used to. I think Fangire sounds a lot better than Phantom, and those guys are monsters from years ago." I didn't know what he was talking about but he finally stood in front of me and stuck his hand out, "Come with me, I'll take you home and you can rest up." He offered.
"Why are you helping me?" I asked. He looked at me with this cocky expression, "Well us Masked Riders have to stick together right? As well as help each other in need. I mean you should know that better than anyone Mr. I'll Bring Hope to Everyone." He made a fair point and I reached out and grabbed his hand. When I did I saw a wall that was a tinted green with lines moving all over the place envelope us and once it moved through us I was outside DJ's place.
"What the?! How did you do this?" I said surprised. Tsukasa just smile as he helped me to the door and when I walked in Karina was the only one in the house. She was busy playing this game called Dance Dance Revolution and she paused it as she turned around to greet us. When she saw me all torn up she was over in a flash, "Travis what happened to you?! Here lay down on the couch I'll go get the first aid kit." She said as she hurried into DJ's work space and grabbed his kit. Tsukasa helped me lay down on the couch.
"Can you tell me where the kitchen is in this place?" He asked Karina. She directed him to it and he left the room. Karina took out some wipes and was wiping away the blood on my chest.
She put some band aides on the small wounds and when Tsukasa came back with a bowl of water and some paper towels she started using that to wipe up the dried blood stains off my body, "What happened to you bro? Who were you fighting this time?" She asked. I was having a bit hard of a time moving while my body was taking this moment to heal up.
"Karina…One of the members of the cave exploration survived. Amber Wild survived, maybe just like we did. She got taken by a Phantom and is a Gate. I need to get to Victory Lanes Bowling Alley before tonight otherwise I'll lose her…AGH!" I screamed on the last part as Tsukasa dumped some of the hydrogen peroxide on my chest, "I felt like doing that." He said with a smile. I looked at him with anger on my face, "I don't know why I want to say you're the fricking devil but I really want to right now." Tsukasa looked at me with an annoyed face, "Oh please not this crap again."
I watched Tsukasa walk over to my Ring Chest and shuffle through it, "Wow you have a lot of gimmick items you use. How do you even fight with something like this when all you can carry is maybe six at a time while transformed?" He asked. "While I'm transformed if I need a ring, it will appear on my ring holder replacing the ring that was there to begin with." I said sitting up as Karina was wrapping bandages around my chest. I tried to get up but I felt a hand grab mine and twist it to my back as I felt a ring being slid on my finger. When I looked at it was the one I found in Shawn's Underworld, "You haven't used this ring yet? Why?" Tsukasa asked.
I don't know how he knew which ring I've used but I didn't question him on that, "I'm not sure. I don't think it will be all that useful." I said. I tried to get back up and Tsukasa took my hand with the ring on it and placed it over my belt.
"Sleep, please."
A snoring sound came out of the belt and I watched as my eyes quickly closed and I fell into a deep sleep. Before I fell asleep I heard Tsukasa say, "Huh seems useful to me."
A few hours have passed and I woke up from my sleep to see that I was in my bed I looked at my spell ring seeing the Sleep Ring still on my finger. "I might make use of you when I have a hard time sleeping." I said to it. I looked at my clock and saw that it was 7:55 PM. I quickly hopped out of bed and ran to put on my shirt and then I felt the pain in my chest, "My wounds still hurt but I have to get to the bowling alley. I'm not going to let Amber die." I kept running around the room grabbing my clothes and putting them on and when I went to grab my black coat I saw one new transformation ring and one new spell ring. The transformation ring was a green weird cut stone and the spell one was a blue stone that had the picture of a dragon falling in a hole. I picked up the spell ring and scanned it.
"Fall, please."
My belt said as a red spell circle appeared beneath my feet. I fell through the floor and landed safely on the floor, "I have some interesting ideas for this ring." I said.
I needed to leave without attracting attention. I walked up to the kitchen door to hear Tsukasa and Karina talking, "I'll take the back door." I said. I checked my pockets to see what rings I had, "Okay so I have Connect, Driver On, Defend, and my new transformation ring as well as Flame Style." Knowing what I had I ran out the back door and used my Connect Ring to grab my bike. I put on my black helmet and revved up my bike as I went down the street towards the abandoned bowling alley.
It didn't take me long to get to the alley, I parked behind back as I began looking for a way in. I found ladders leading up to the roof and decided to use my new spell to get in that way. I began climbing the ladder and right before I got up to the top, the bars that were holding the ladder to the building began to break apart and I watched as the ladder started to get farther from the building. I quickly jumped off the ladder and grabbed on the side of the building with one hand, "Maybe next time I'll break a window or something." I thought to myself. I used that one hand to pull myself up far enough so I can reach the end of the roof and hoist myself up onto the building. I rolled over and began breathing heavily. I looked at my phone to see it was ten minutes after, "I need to hurry up." I said. I took out my ring and scanned it.
"Fall, please."
The red circle appeared beneath my feet and I fell through the roof and landed safely at the front door inside the building.
I looked around the room to see all of the lights off and I walked over to the doors to find a light switch, "There has to be a light switch around here somewhere." I said. I was having a hard time finding one and then all of the lights quickly turned on. I turned around to see Amber lying in the middle of the building with blood running down her arms and legs. Her eyes were closed and her body looked like it was thrown into the room, "AMBER!" I yelled out as I began running towards her. I came to a quick stop as I heard something zooming through the air. I looked to my left and saw a bowling ball coming towards me. I leaned back a few inches as the ball zoomed past me just missing me by mere inches.
"Oooh I guess that's what I would call a foul ball." A man said stepping out of the dark area of the building. It was the black man that was being hunted by the ghouls the other night.
I watched as he kept taking a few more steps towards me, "Hello Travis. We didn't introduce ourselves. My name is Leonard Wells. You may not know me but I'm the man you tried to save the other night by Ghouls. You fancy a game? They may have abandoned this building but everything still runs just fine. How about this, if you can beat me in a game of bowling I will let you have that girl. Don't worry she's still breathing but I kind of ruffed her up a bit. She has a tough body for someone so small." I felt something was off by this guy but I was able to piece everything together.
"Your Cait Sith aren't you?" I asked. I watched as the man crossed his arms and then uncrossed them.
"Your smart aren't you? Yes I am Cait Sith. I've been Cait Sith for the past eight months now. You see I was going to catch you unexpected that night but as you can see another Phantom wanted you alive and kind of put a damper on my plans. But that's okay because nothing is going to save you tonight, especially since I have a hostage." He said as he leered at Amber.
"She's a cute thing, with that little body. Kind of petite she is. Do you know what my Gate Leonard was famous for here in Bowling Green?" He asked me as I prepared myself to fight. I blinked and he was immediately gone and when I looked around the room I saw him standing over Amber's body. He picked her up and wrapped one hand around her neck for support and took his other hand and started rubbing her chest, "I was known as a child molester. I just loved having my ways with girls in high school. Something about taking the virginity from a young girl was just pleasurable to me." I felt anger beginning to form inside me.
"YOU DROP HER THIS INSTANT! IF YOU TOUCH HER I'LL KILL YOU!" I yelled at him. Cait Sith let go of her throat as she fell to the ground.
"You'll kill me? That's hilarious since I can outrun you for days. This girl put up a fight to protect her virginity to the point it caused me to lash out on her until she ended up like this." Anger kept building and then in an instant Cait Sith was standing right in front of me, "If you think you can stop me then let's see you do it." He said. I watched as he transformed in front of me and then open palmed me sending me fly backwards until I hit the wall.
After hitting the wall I fell onto the ground in pain as this monster hit directly on my wounds. I watched as the cat like creature walked over to me and grabbed my leg and shoulder, did a spin, and threw me onto the bowling lanes where I kept rolling until I was right next to Amber. I looked at her as I saw all the blood covering her ripped clothes and her skin that looked a bit pale, "Amber…Wake up."
I said stretching my hand out and tapping her cheeks. She wasn't waking up, "Do you know another way to create a Phantom from Gates? You kill them. Once a Gates heart stops beating the Phantom inside will take full control. So here's what we are going to do Travis. We are going to play a game. If you think you can beat me then we shall play keep away. You can transform right where you are and you are to keep me from touching Amber. If I get one touch on her I will cut off her head. If you beat me then you are free to leave of course the only way you are leaving here is if you kill me."
I began to ignore the pain that Cait Sith had left on me as I stood up.
"Driver On, please."
I slid my Flame Style ring on my finger, "Like I said earlier you touch her and I'll kill you. Unlike other Phantoms where I just kick them till they explode, I'll slash your entire body to little pieces. If I can't do that then I'll unload a lot of bullets into your fricking skull. You won't get away with what you've done here and I'll be going after you with everything I got." I flipped the levers on my belt, "Transform." I said as I scanned my ring over my belt.
"Flame, please. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!"
A red circle began to move through my body and I had my swordgun at the ready. I put my sword in gun mode and began firing bullets towards Cait Sith. I watched as he began dodging each bullet using his fast speed then sped towards me. I quickly put my gun in sword mode and slashed in front of me where I thought he would've gone but instead he was behind me and kicked my back leg causing me to fall forward then grabbed the end of my cape where he threw me upward where I hit the ceiling. While falling I saw his claws begin to glow and when I was falling he spun around and smacked me with his glowing claws and I was sent flying to the other side of the bowling alley. Once I hit the wall and before I landed on the ground, Cait Sith was already there and grabbed me by my throat and slammed my body onto the ground.
I almost blacked out from the pain and then he released his hold on my throat. Cait Sith then put his foot under my body and flipped me up into the air. I watched as he punched me in the gut and that sent me flying until I hit some chairs. I wrapped my arms around the chairs trying to keep myself from falling to the ground and trying to deal with the pain coursing through my entire body. Cait Sith was once again standing in front of me and began slashing at my chest multiple times and then grabbed my face, "You're a poor excuse of a hero. I don't know how you were able to beat Minotauros, Arachnid, and Hellhound. It's almost like you don't know how to fight. Especially in close combat. I'm a lot weaker than the three you battled yet I already have you on your knees. How do you expect to save anyone if you can't even save yourself?" He said. He tightened his grip on my head piece and threw me over his head and slammed me hard onto the ground.
When I landed on the ground he stomped on my chest multiple times and then I reverted back to my human form, "I guess you lose Ring Bearing Magician." I was having a hard time even moving my arms and then Cait Sith picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. He began walking over to Amber's body and a few feet from her body he threw me on the ground. Blood was streaming down my face, my clothes ripped and deep bruises all over my body. Some areas on my body were swollen as well as the entire body being extremely sore. He reverted back to his human form and walked over to Amber's collapsed body, "Get…Away from her…Now…" I said watching him creep closer to her. He sat on top of her stomach and began rubbing his hands down her face.
"You know what I always wanted to experience Travis? Watching a girl completely helpless wake up to see a random stranger penetrating her and being absolutely helpless to do anything about it."
I watched as Cait Sith ripped her shirt off exposing her bra, "STOP IT! LEAVE HER ALONE! DON'T TOUCH HER!" I yelled. I began swearing at him as I felt powerless to do anything. I couldn't stop this monster from having his way with Amber and I watched as he started to remove the jeans she was wearing and right before he removed her underwear a bullet went flying and Cait Sith quickly transformed in order to take the bullet. He rolled backwards away from Amber and when I looked at the direction of where the sound came from I saw Tsukasa pointing his gun towards the Phantom and he wasn't alone.
"Bro!" I heard Karina say as she began running towards me. Cait Sith tried to move but Tsukasa kept firing bullets at him as if he knew where he'd be moving to and his bullets didn't miss their mark, "I think you've done enough damage here. You guys go get Travis and the girl, I'm going to take care of the monster until Travis gets back on his feet to fight." He said. This time it wasn't just Karina who came to my aid, but DJ, Robin, and Shawn. All of them ran to me and Amber. Robin and DJ went to grab Amber as Shawn and Karina came to help me, "Master are you okay?" Shawn asked me.
I couldn't believe my friends came to help me, "Why are you guys here? How did you find me?" I asked.
"Tsukasa found out you weren't in your room so we called Robin and Shawn to help look for you. While all of us were looking for you Robin found your bike parked at the bowling alley and all of us grouped here. You're going to be okay Tsukasa will handle the monster." Karina said.
I was placed onto one of the booths and Amber was put on the booth next to me, "I didn't think you guys would help me. Thanks so much." I said happy to see my friends here. Robin and Shawn as well as Karina held their rings up for me to see, "When we had no one to save us you came for us. A complete stranger saved our lives. You became my first friend." Karina said. "You saved my life and because of you my mom and I can live to see another day." Robin said. "You saved my life from that TV host, you gave me a home when I lost mine, and you became my first friend I had in a long time. You inspired me to better myself as a person. Without you our lives would have not gotten any better." Shawn said. DJ stood in front of me as he handed me two new spell rings, "Travis you put your life on the line for everyone present here. You fight to keep people's hopes alive, I think it's time we paid you back for all the hard work you do." He said as he put the rings down in front of me. For once in my life I felt crying.
I grabbed the new rings and got up out of the booth, "Bro let Tsukasa handle this. You're too injured to fight." Karina said worried. I felt my adrenaline run throughout my body that I had a hard time feeling the pain. I began walking till I was standing right next to Tsukasa, "Cait Sith, it's time you see what I can actually do." I said to him. "Let's do this Travis." Tsukasa said. I watched as he lifted a belt buckle that was white with some weird symbols surrounding a red dot in the middle of the belt. He placed the belt on his stomach and the belt straps formed. He then pulled the sides of the buckle as a sound was made. He then pulled a card out with the picture of a pink mask with black bars in his face along with green bug eyes, "Who do you think you are pretty boy?" Cait sith asked.
"I'm just a passing through Kamen…Masked Rider. Remember that. Henshin." He flipped his card over and put it inside his belt and then pushed the sides of his belt back to their original position.
"Kamen Ride: Decade."
Then it was my turn.
"Driver On, please."
I pulled out my green ring, "It's over for you. I'll make your death as painful as possible. Transform." I pushed the face guard down and scanned my ring.
"Sha Ba Doobi Touch to Transform, Hurricane, please. Air! Air! Air! Air!"
My belt said. A green circle formed above my head and then moved through my body. All of my armor was replaced with a green stone and my head piece shape was different as well as it being green. Nothing else had really changed as much.
Tsukasa had these images of his Rider form surrounded him and then they came together. His body was mostly pink with a black slanted cross on his chest that went over his left shoulder and down his chest was black armor. His right leg was black on the front and white on the side, and his left leg was black on the front and pink on the side. His left arm white while the other side was black. At his hip was something like a white book with a black stripe across it. He pulled it out and turned it into a sword.
"It's showtime Cait Sith." I said. I took a step forward and Cait Sith was already gone. He came up behind me and Tsukasa as he kicked my back causing me to fall on the ground and kicked Tsukasa down the bowling lane. I watched as Cait Sith's hands began glowing and I jumped in the air. When I did green aura began swirling around me and I was floating off the ground, "Holy crap I'm floating! This could be useful." I thought. I summoned out my swordgun and pulled back on the hand.
"Hurricane, Slash Strike! Air! Air! Air!"
I flew down as quick as I could up to Cait Sith and went to slice him but he used his claws to stop my blade from cutting through him. I kept pushing as hard as I could and he wasn't moving from his spot, "I can't keep this up! Tsukasa!" I called out. I watched as he got back up and took out another card and pulled open his belt buckle.
"Attack Ride: Blast."
I watched as his sword went into gun mode and he shot at the Phantom's legs but our enemy was smarter and jumped high up over my head.
When he was over my head he grabbed me my arm and threw me hard onto the ground. My attack went into the floor leaving a mark on the lane. Once I hit the ground he landed on top of me. Tsukasa ran towards him to get him off of me but the cat only sped over to him and slashed him across the chest then came back to me and lifted me off the ground. When my ally got off the ground I was immediately thrown at him knocking him back onto the ground. "Quick question, do you always get owned by your enemies like this? Because if you do, you're by far the worst rider I've ever seen." Tsukasa said to me as we stood back up. "Normally the monsters I fight don't have super speed and I'm able to keep up with them. If I could slow down his movements I could get a clean shot in." I said getting upset at how this fight was going.
"Travis I gave you new rings so use them!" I heard DJ call out to me. I then had an idea. "Tsukasa can you keep him busy I got some new spells to test out." I asked. He quickly ran towards him to fight and was doing a lot better than I was at keeping up with his pace. I finally grabbed my Light ring, "Can't move as fast if you can't see." I thought. I went to flip my levers to use my spell when I heard something from where my friends were, "TRAVIS HURRY AMBER'S WOUNDS OPEN AND SHE'S LOSING TO MUCH BLOOD." I heard Karina yell out. I couldn't waste any more time now, "Tsukasa keep your back to me, everyone else cover your eyes!" I demanded. I flipped the levers.
"Light, please."
My belt said. I flicked my wrist and light began to illuminate everything around us and Cait Sith became blind.
I then took out another ring that had the picture of a dragon face with what looked like chains on it. I watched as Cait Sith tried to run around while being blind and I flipped my levers again.
"Lupacchi Magic Touch to Go!
Bind, please."
Sounds of chains echoed and I raised my hand towards Cait Sith as he stood and got over from being blinded by the light. When he did six green spell circles surrounded him and green chains erupted out of them and wrapped themselves around his entire body making him unable to move. "Tsukasa he's mine to take down." I took out another spell ring that had a silver dragon face on it with three others like shadows. I flipped my levers again and scanned the ring,
"Copy, please."
I had a green spell circle appear around my hand and I placed it on my left shoulder and moved my hand in a straight line to my right shoulder.
I now had three exact replicas of me standing with their swordguns out. I commanded all of us to pull back on the thumb and scan our Hurricane rings as we began walking closer to Cait Sith. "I can't move! Damn these chains!" He said. All four of us got closer to him and the third replica went up and did an uppercut slash, the second did a mid-slash, the first one did a hip to opposite shoulder slash sending Cait Sith to fly up in the air. He hit the ceiling.
"Hurricane Slash Strike!"
"I almost killed you! I almost had you!" Cait Sith yelled as fell towards me. "The finale." I said. I raised my blade that had the green aura wrapping itself around my sword and thrust upwards as Cait Sith's throat fell on the tip of my blade. When it did the wind in my blade went through his entire body and I swung my sword down as I sent his body soaring to the wall and an explosion was made.
I reverted back to my human form and began stumbling towards Amber. I took out a phone and started dialing 911 to get an ambulance, "Amber just hold on. Just…Hold…" I no longer could stand as my adrenaline finally gave out and I fell onto the ground. I could hear all of my friends running towards me and once again my vision was fading to black.