(Aqua's Point of View)
(Insert song: Past History from 5Ds OST)
As I was sitting inside a bathtub filled with hot water at my home, rinsing in it to relaxed my muscles from the today's battle, I always think of a certain someone. Someone who is closed to me before she moves on to a better place. No matter how many times I tried to forget about it and move on, the past still haunts me. That certain someone is my sister, Anette Myer. She's the person that I love the most. Her smile, her charisma, everything about her made my life at was as if she'll always be there for me, no matter what happens. But, that incident 5 years ago… I was there, having my beloved sister in my hands, powerless on what should I do.
"…you don't want to end up like your sister, aren't you? I know everything about you… Aquariu Myer."
Why? Why are you making me remember about this, you beast? This is all that your fault, Dark Void! If you haven't appeared to this world, maybe my Anette-nee-chan would still be here and we would lead a normal life! Not only that, maybe this whole Rider system thing shouldn't exist in the first place. Now, I'm at lost, and there's no one can help me as I can feel my tears flowing out from my eyes, trying to forget about it…
"…when there is a time you want to say it, I'm all ears."
What's this…? Oh yes, that idiot did tell me about it but… even though that he's truly an airhead, but when he said it with a soft tone and a gentle smile, unlike his childish smile, he was there as if he wants to help me.
W-what is this feeling? I felt a little blush from those words. And it hurts inside of me… maybe I should try to relax for once in the while.
"What should I do now… Anette-nee-chan…?" I said while laid back, and looking up the ceiling with a sigh.
(End of Insert Song)
(Insert song: Ma-ka-se-te Tonight from Iori Nozimu)
(Electric guitar solo at the beginning and the 4 drum beats before saying the words) The city is at sunset, focussing on Storm standing at the top of the highest building, running towards to the edge of the building.
("ma-ka-se-te Tonight Knight") The flashing sequences: Storm without his Rider form, showing his lower part of the Rider form, Flight has activated at his back, he jumps and fly over the city in his Rider Form.
(Instruments) Kamen Rider Kaze flys over the city, above the other riders on their bike and the fanfiction title appears.
(donna ashita ni obieteiru no) Aquariu walks alone towards the university, followed by Melissa patting her shoulder from behind and both of them smiling at each other.
(nemurenu kodou wo click shichae!) Both Akira and Akane saw the two girls and waving at them happily, which they replied back and both look at the clock at the top of the building.
(kiwameta tekinikku [te wo nobashite]) Kazuma punching the sandbag with his one-two punch, making the sandbag leaks out of sand.
(jitsu wa puratonikku [kakugo kimete]) The instructor punches it with one hit, making it flying away from its place, and Kazuma shocked from that punch, leaving the students of the dojo having a sweatdrop.
(suki wo tsuku massugu) Storm is laying on the ground under the tree, watching the sky
(mirai wo hitorijime) Thinking about something, which shows a few minor characters.
(mou anata wa ugokenai)The rest of the Riders lend him a hand, making Storm raise his right arm, trying to grab their hand and a flash of light appears.
(tsunaida te wo te wa) The entire Riders are rushed forward towards the enemy, fighing out the Infected.
(eien no (monshou) akashi) 6 Dark Elements look at them from the top, charging at them as well.
(chikara awasete dare yorimo takaku toberu) All of the Riders changing their forms except Gaia which activates a new power and a spark of power collide in the middle.
(rekishi ga kizamu shinjitsu wa hitotsu) Dark Void arises from the ashes, showing his true form and raises his own army.
(kono nukumori de jikuu he to supiido agete...) Kaze changing forms to dash towards the Dark Void with his ultimate form with a charge-up gunblade aiming at it.
(kokyuu wo awasete) At night, Storm just sitting at a bench, his headphone slips off from his neck, as he looks up at the sky.
(me wo sorasanaide) He opens his eyes and saw Aquariu standing behind him while he stills looking up, watching at his eyes, and he ended up smiling like a kid.
(onegai watashi ni) She placed her hands on his cheeks and gets her face closer to his face, surprised him and he blushes a little.
("ma-ka-se-te Tonight Knight") Saying the words "ma-ka-se-te tonight" and the last word zooms at his headphone and her long ribbon entwined on it to end the music and scene.
Chapter 12: Farewell – Departure
(Storm's Point of View, still about his past)
Since that day, I go out and play with her on the playground. Even though that I had a hard time trying to smile despite my serious face and a little harsh voice due to that I don't know how to make a good impression, she still accepts me for who I am. Whenever I tried to smile, let me tell you, it was an ugly impression at first. All she could do back then was a sweatdrop on her head and keep smiling at it.
A month went by, and she gets to enter the same elementary school and same class as I was there. She can tell that I was isolated among the kids but she did not care and just went towards me and sits next to me. Most of the students and the teacher in there were surprised by her actions as they began to spread rumours about it.
"Ne, Mi-kun, why are you still not making friends with the classmates? You know that you can make friends by just talking to them… I even made some of them even the rumours spreading in this kindergarden." She said during the class break as she was eating her bento made from her parents.
"How should I know? I only came to protect the weak but still being treated as a bad boy because I always ended up getting a fight. Even their parents think of me as one of them because of the face that I made on those guys…" I said while taking a bite from the yakisoba bread.
"Well, you do need to improve the way you speak to others. And even your expressions as well. Even though that you tried to speak normally, your expressions doesn't seem to match up, ne?"
"Is that so? Hm…" I said while thinking about it. Before I know it, the boys that was on the playground on that other day came to us and one of them seems to hide something behind his back.
"Hey, little girly? Remember me?" said that boy with a rude voice. Both of us just glare at him while didn't budge a single step, because of his "friends" that was behind him.
"You know, your friend here really pisses me off back then. So, I decided that I might forgive him if… you become my girlfriend," the other boys behind him just laugh at it. "If not…" one of them held A-chan while the other one just sucker punched me in the face and hold my arms and legs, not making me move. "I think I just leave my mark on his face," he said it where behind him reveals a pocket knife and just like that, I screamed in pain… twice
"Let him go! He's got nothing to do with this! No matter what kind of things that you tried to do to me, I will never be your friend at all!" shouted A-chan as the rest of his gang lets me go after making an "X" mark right between my eyes and I was covering my bloody face with my hands for the pain that he gives it to me. And those words just now make him a little angry. Wow, kids nowadays sure have a violent side of them, huh?
"Since you've put it that way, might as well I leave a mark on your pretty face too, so that no boys will ever going on a date or even marrying you in the future!" before he could even reached his knife on her, I delivered a straight punch to his face and makes him dropped his pocket knife as well. The rage inside of me back then, the feeling of protecting someone… no, it's far than that.
"I won't pulled back my punches on creeps like you… if you try to hurt my first and best friend that I've made!" with those words alone, I finally understand what it feels like to have a friend and to protect your friendship that you've made. His goons took a step back from her and carried his "boss" away from us and thus, leaving A-chan standing there, shocked for a reason.
"Mi-kun… your face…" she said while pointing out the obvious.
"Don't worry about it… if it's for a friend, I don't mind get this kind of wound…" and for the first time, I was able to smile properly at her, with the right tone, of course.
"Mi-kun, you're smiling just right! I'm glad!" said A-chan as she hands me her napkin to wipe the blood off from my face.
"T-thanks, I think…" I said while looking at her cheerful face. What can I say, if she's happy about it, I'm happy for her as well.
Well, when it comes to trouble, you'll know how it will end up. But since that this time is quite different, not only that A-chan is here as well, but there is a sensei that was looking the whole thing during the recess, which causes the boy's parents angry at him for trying to put the blame at me. I was hoping that this would last like I wanted too.
During that time, she began to introducing me to her friends. At first, it felt awkward because of how I acted around people since they don't want to talk to me, but thanks to A-chan's explaination, I managed to get more friends as well. The more that I met and befriend with others, the more happy I am and the more I opened up to others, and the next thing I knew, I was no longer the kid with a foul mood but a cheerful person that knows the true meaning of friendship.
But destiny can be cruel at times, where my previous wish that I wanted to leave this city came true after all, which is the only thing that I was hoping I can avoid. My parents have gained a new job at another city a few months later and they decided to move there within a week. And that time, A-chan is the first person to find out about it during that time. On the last day before I move out, she invited me to a place where there is a field of flowers and we spoke under the big tree.
(Insert song: Chanto tsukandemasu kara wa from Densha Otoko OST)
"Hey, Mi-kun," said A-chan in her white dress, with a white flower hat, looking at the view from a big tree at the field of flowers.
"What is it, A-chan?" I said while sitting on the grassy ground and wears white T-shirt and brown short pants with sneakers looking at A-chan, who is looking at the view with a smile, making me to blush a little.
"Um… hey, you do know that it'll be hard to see each other again since that you're moving tomorrow to another city, right?"
"Yeah, you told me that like a million times already, A-chan. My parents just got a new job there, so I guess I have to follow them since I'm the only child in it."
"Aren't you going to miss me, then?" said A-chan as that was about to cry.
"O-of course I'm gonna miss you! You're the first friend that I met and it's kinda sad to let you go…" I said as I look away with a blush on his face, making A-chan giggles at my reaction. I continued," but don't worry! As long as there's the heart of the wind is within us, no matter how far we are, we'll always be connected by the whisper in the wind! That's what my dad used to tell me."
"Heart… of the wind?" she said with a confused tone.
"Yeah! That's what I'm gonna believe in it! This way, we'll always be together for each other!" I said who make A-chan blushes as I got the blush of my own.
"Um… then, let's make a pinky swear… when you returned back here and we meet again… I want you…" she said as she began to look at me with a little blush.
"Okay, I'm listening…" I said as I look at her, waiting for an answer.
"Um, the next time we met again… I want you to always be a cheerful person and after that… maybe… um…"she suddenly gives me a peck to the cheek, making my blush even red than ever. "…maybe we could even be together again… forever and ever," she added.
"Okay then! It's a promise! I'm sure that we'll always be together!" I responded to her but at that time, I have no idea what that means, until when I reached my teen years, by then I can completely understand what she was telling me, and you have no idea how red my face really is.
"Oh, A-chan! Since that your birthday is next week, I wanted to give this to you!" I handed her the wraped gift to her and she just accepts it with an open heart.
(End of Insert song)
That day has arrived and the truck was fully loaded, ready to go.
"Storm, come on, let's go. I'm sure that you've say goodbyes to your friends," my mom said.
"But my, you've changed a lot, young man. I'm proud of you. Maybe with this kind of attitude, I'm sure that you have no problem making friends out there and even there shouldn't be any trouble like the past," my dad said as he pats on my head.
"Thanks, dad. I'll try to keep out from trouble." I said with a smile at him.
Before I entered the car, I saw A-chan running towards me and it seems that she wears the long, red and white triangular striped ribbon as she ties her hair with it and she seems to carry a box.
"Mi-kun, wait!" said A-chan as I look at her. My parents and even Nee-san told me to meet her since it'll be rude to not to talk to a friend like her.
"A-chan, what is it?" I said while she was taking some deep breath after that running.
"Here, it's for you," she handed me the small box and as I opened it up, it was a black and green headphone.
"Why did you buy me this, A-chan? It's too big for me to put on my head," I said while hanging it around my neck , "…but since it's your gift, I appreciate it. Thanks, A-chan."
*back to the present* (Normal Point of View)
"And since then, I always wear this headphone around my neck, to remind me that A-chan will always be the friend that I'll be remembered. My parents even took the picture of us and gave her a copy of it from the instant processing camera and that's how my story goes. So, what do you think?" Storm asked them but all of them were already asleep on the desk as he looks onto the alarm clock that it was 1:30 am. For a childhood story, that sure takes a long time for telling them.
"Well… goodnight then…" said Storm as he turns off the light and just go to bed.
"I don't want to tell them that she also gives me a kiss on my cheek before my departure. It's a good thing that they have already asleep. If not, that would be embarassing," Storm thought as he looks at the picture with a little blush before closing his eyes and goes to sleep.
(The next day, after the test…)
(Aqua's Point of View)
(Insert song: Hungry Kitten from Black Cat OST)
"I can't believe how it easy it was that was. Good thing I studied there overnight at Storm-kun's place," said Melissa-san as she was happy about it.
"I can't believe how hard that test was…" said both of the karate chop blockheads where both of them have a tired face since the beginning of the test.
"But we did our best after all. I bet that most of us will passed, thanks to our hardwork, right, Storm-nii-sama?" Akane-chan said while clinging on his arms happily. Gee, I wonder what's on Storm's mind already… must be thinking about Kamen Riders and such… or even an egg burger. Wait, why would I bother what he thinks? It's his own problems after all.
"Anyhow, wanna go somewhere? We should take a breather from this stress after all…" Akira-kun proposed. Before I could even respond to his answer, all of our phones were ringing and all of us turn on our cellphone.
"Riders~ there's been an attack at the open concert at the Elemental Park~! Hurry or it will get ugly in any moment!" said Professor Kagaku before we turned off our cellphones.
"You heard him, let's move out!" I said as everyone nodded.
(End of Insert Song)
(Normal Point of View)
At the open park of the Elemental City, a Wind Cheetah creating rampage all over the place as well as killing some people that was running away from him and eating the food from the people's picnic basket.
"Ha~ now this is what I called a picnic!" said the Wind Cheetah with a sharp claws with black fur with white spots all over his body as he kept attacking the people.
The riders are appeared to the designated place and immediately went to the scene, detected by the Wind Cheetah as it looks at them with interest.
"Oh, a human that isn't afraid of an Infected? Well then, why don't you guys start running already and I'll hunt you down, one by one?" said the Cheetah as it is in his position to pounce onto the Riders.
"I think it was the other way around… we're the ones that will hunt you instead!" said Kazuma as everyone prepared themselves to transform.
(Insert song: Trembling City of Aris from Namco X Capcom OST)
"HENSHIN!" the six Riders shouted in unison.
"SCANNED, TRANSFORM!" shouted Storm and Aqua's belts.
"SLOT IN, TRANSFORM!" shouted Kazuma's T-Scanner.
Both the twins slotted in their cartridges on their belts and and covered in their smokes and Melissa stabbed the ground with the Gaia Staff and make a cocoon out of it until she cast off her her cocoon and appears out her Rider form and the twins walks out from the smoke.
"GAIA!"
"RAITO!"
"YAMI!"
"RYUU!" shouted Kazuma's belt as his transformation is complete.
"MIZU!" and "KAZE!" shouted from their respective belts as both Mizu and Kaze have their transformation complete.
"What the… you guys are…?"
"Saa, arashi ga kuru no… junbi wa ii?" said Kaze with his trademark pointing at the Wind Cheetah.
"You all are Riders? Good, this will be a good time for me to level up and become a Master, like that beauty lady said!" he said as roars out to call his minions that looks like a little cubs as they start running towards the riders.
Yami and Raito perform a double combination attack with their bow-sword and spears as they they keep changing offense and defense from reaching towards them. Mizu and Ryuu tried to approach the Wind Cheetah and corner it, but saying it is much easier than to do it as it keeps running around those riders with no trouble at all.
"Great, there are times that cuteness can be lethal," said Gaia as she spins one of the stars and stabs it onto the ground.
"Earth Attack Form" the staff anounced it as literally unlimited number of spikes shooting out from the earth, stabbing those minions and makes it disappear while the Cheetah easily dodges it in an incredible speed, that it even slashes nearly all of the riders before they could even see it coming.
"Hah, what do you think? Too fast to catch up with me?" the Cheetah mocks them as all of the riders are standing up but being attack again with the speed, that they were being played by the cheetah.
"He really gets on my nerves…" said Kaze as he slots out from his cartridge and scanned it to activate one of his favorites.
"SCANNED, SPEEDSTER!"
"Hm? What are you doing, Green Rider? There's no way that shoes of yours can keep up with me," said the Wind Cheetah as he sprints out again but at the greater speed.
"Gaia, I leave you prepared for a trap. Make sure that he's being trapped in it so that we can finish it in one shot," said Kaze. And Gaia just nods at his request while the other 4 keep fighting the cute little minions of the cubs.
Kaze kneels down and slots in his cartridge onto his Speedster slot.
"SPEEDSTER, ON!" the booster behind his boots began to revved up as he is now running as the same speed with the Wind Cheetah, making it surprised.
"What? I thought I was faster than you riders! Nothing can go faster than me!" the Wind Cheetah shouted as the high speed battle rages on.
"Wait for it…" Gaia waits patiently for the moment that she's waiting for as she still can't see the rider and the Cheetah battle… until…
"Now!" she immediately stabs the staff onto the ground and…
"Earth Defense Form" the dome-shaped earth was created from the ground as she managed to catch the Wind Cheetah inside the trap and Kaze was standing near the dome as his Speedster stops on its track. He slots in his cartridge back onto his belt and lets the cartridge charging for a while.
"This is the chance! Do it while he's trapped in there!" Kaze added.
"I guess we can go all out on him. Give it to him with no mercy, everyone!" Mizu shouted as Ryuu pressed both the left and the middle button on his T-Scanner with the flaming saber on his hand, Raito takes out her cartridge from her belt and slots in onto the middle part of her spear which has a slot on it, Yami slots out his cartridge and places it onto the holder slot at this bow-sword and Mizu scanned out her gun and charge up her shot for a natural disaster.
"NATURAL DISASTER!"
"SCANNED, NATURAL DISASTER!"
Yami's sword has become a bow as he pulls back a dark arrow, aiming at the Cheetah, while both Raito and Ryuu running towards the cheetah where their weapon has charged up to the max and ready to shoot it.
(End of Insert Song)
"He,he… I won't let you little riders have it your way~" the White Wolf appears out of nowhere as she immediately kicks away both of them, leaving Yami hestitated for a moment and Mizu suddenly felt the urge of killing the Wolf as she shifts her attention from the Cheetah onto the Wolf, but she was quick as she takes out the rest of the Riders, other than Kaze which he was also surprised at the moment of her sudden appearance, making the Cheetah free from his trap.
"You appeared again! This time, I won't let it have your way!" shouted Kaze as he pressed down his belt.
"COMPRESS, CHARGING~"
"Oh my~ you want to play with me, Kaze? Sure, try make me then~" said the White Wolf as she just standing there, while the Wind Cheetah took this opportunity to run away from the scene.
"BREAK OUT!" his belt shouted as he immediately scanned it for his compressed form.
"SCANNED, UPGRADE!" and with that, the green rider is now inside the heavy storm as the wind picks up and decreasing after that high pressure.
"ARASHI!"
"Okay~ let's get this battle on the way then!" she immediately appears right in front of him as she gives him a strong punch at his face, but due to Arashi's strong defense and offense increases while his speed and agility went down, he returns the blow harder than her own as he began to give the combo after combo and he managed to take her down but only for momentarily.
"Well, at least that you've getting stronger. I'll be seeing you all later then~ gotta do some hunting~~" the wolf stated as she ran away from the battle scene as well, leaving the other riders struggling to get up.
"Hunting? What does she means by that?" Ryuu asked to Kaze as even he has no idea what she said as well.
"Anyhow, at least that we managed to stop that Cheetah from rampaging on this park. It's good enough that we stops his path of destruction…" Raito said as she helps her brother to stands up.
"… but that doesn't mean that he'll be stop doing from what he is doing best. Might as well return back to the HQ and tried to find the whereabout of that Infected's location." Gaia said while walks back to her bike, followed by Ryuu, Raito and Yami, only leaving the other 2 riders as Arashi walks towards Mizu, who was sitting on the ground.
"I will get you for this, White Wolf. This isn't over between us and I'll make sure of it!" she thought while looking down as she didn't notice his presence from her thoughts.
"Ne, Aqua-chan. Let's get back to the HQ. Our job here is done for now… we didn't get a lot of EXP from what we were expected from it but it's better than nothing at all," Arashi said as he lends out his hand to her, and she was a little hestitate for a moment before grabbing his hand to pull her up.
(Miyuki's Point of View)
"Man, if it wasn't for her, I might as well as dead meat right about now…" said the Cheetah as he took a breather from his sprint and I entered the dark alley where he was hiding.
"Oh my~ this is where you are. I've been looking for you, little cat you~" I said while approaching to him as he just walking towards me. "Ara~ come here and give me a hug, kitty cat!"
"Thank goodness that you're there. Otherwise I mi—" he suddenly went quiet all of the sudden... I wonder why would he do that?
"Oh, sorry about this, kitty cat~ I just don't want to stay at this level, you know?" I said while shoving my arm through his stomach, killing him in the process as finally, I can feel the pain inside of me, urging to cast off from my shell as I have finally become a Master of Light.
"Yay~ I have done it! Looks like I don't have to kill my own creations anymore. Now that I'm happy, I can resume to what I was doing before, spreading this card for chaos~" I said with my new transformation which consists of having a wolf face but with larger fangs, my whole body is covered with pure white fur as well as equipped with flashing claws and as well as I have got a tail! Looks like I've grown into a full adult wolf! I'm so happy, I could just skips back to the lab happily while teaching the kids in the school with my most happiest expression ever! Oh well, time to go back to VOID Organization, to show my beloved Kurai-kun of my form~!
TO BE CONTINUED
(Before we go to the KR Kaze fun fact, I noticed that I've made a mistake. On Chapter 10, I didn't realized that I've make him the only child, where in Chapter 11, he has a big sister following him. And so, I've fixed that part of the story where Storm actually has a big sister and fixed some parts on Chapter 10. I guess that's it for now.)
NOW IT'S TIME FOR KAMEN RIDER KAZE FUN FACT!
Akira: Hi there, fellow viewers, this is Akira speaking, joining along with my twin sister, Akane-nee-sama.
Akane: *waves happily* Hi, everyone!
Akira: Ne, Akane-nee-sama, what is up with that Wolf just now? Is that thing tried to prevent us from leveling up or something?
Akane: I don't know, Akira-nii-sama. All I know is that if we're encountering with her again, I'll be sure that Storm-nii-sama won't be alone as I will be at his side, trying to payback for stealing our prey!
Akira: Wow, you sure are full of determination. Well, ready for the Question of the Day?
Akane: *nod and picks up a random letter from a bag* Here it is... hmm...
Akira: What does it say?
Akane: It says... how can you tell from Infected and Lost Elements?
Akira: Oh, that's easy! Lost Elements are coming from the power that was created by the Dark Void as they don't need a host as they can live on their own. Infected are those victims that was being used by some sort of Dark Cards that was spreading throughout the city and since it requires a person's desire to feed on, the Dark Cards will attached to its host's darkest desire and take control of their body.
Akane: Hm, does those 6 Dark Elements count as Lost Elements?
Akira: I don't know. Maybe among them is already a Lost Element. But we don't know who it was...
Akane: Hm, sounds like a mystery to me. Oh, here's another letter from the author.
Akira: Okay, let's see it!
From the author,
Hi there, I would like to thank an author named Kamen Keyblade Duelist as he helped me out giving me an enemy that would help me create a situation for this kind of stuff. And I must say that trying to create what kind of Infected for the Element Riders trying to fight is a little hard, though. Thanks again, yo!
Both: ...*cricket sound*
Akane: That's a weird letter.
Akira: Yeah... *burns it with a lighter and drops it on the ground* Well, I guess I'll be seeing you guys in the next chapter!
Akane: *suddenly went panic* N-Nii-sama! The studio caught on fire!
Akira: *shocked* Quick, find the fire extinguisher before it spreads out even further!
(Let's leave those two for now... ^^" See you guys in the next chapter.)