Welcome back to Prophecy of Masks! Last time, the Albino Joker's scheme s were bested, freeing everyone from his vile game. And just as the story ended, Kamen Rider Gaim chose to leap into this reality to escape his pursuers. So, where is this going to go? Read on to discover...

(Our story resumes back at the Temple, where Cynder, Decade, and Ignitus are seated in what appears to be the Temple kitchen, where Spyro is standing at some kind of a fire pit, where what looks like game hens are being roasted on a spit, before turning to and opening a stone pot, revealing some sort of boiling broth with what appears to be potatoes, other root vegetables, and what appear to be chicken bones in there. After a few minutes of waiting, Spyro takes the game hens off the spit, dices the meat up, places the diced game hen into a series of bowls, and adds some of the broth to the game hens, and brings the bowls to his comrades)

Spyro: There we go. Soup's on!

Cynder: (After tasting the soup) Okay, this has to be your best batch yet.

Ignitus: Indeed. You clearly have a gift for culinary arts, young dragon. How'd you come up with it?

Spyro: Its not my recipe. Its my mother's, modified a bit. She always made it when Sparx or I were sick or depressed. I figured I may as well learn it as my first foray into cooking. Still don't have all of the recipe adapted for dragon tastes. Unless you guys want to eat Frogweed and a metric ton of mushrooms.

Decade: I think I'll pass on that.

Spyro: Wouldn't blame you, Tsukasa. Frogweed is really an acquired taste.

(Just as everything seems calm, Woz enters the room, almost busting down tne door)

Woz: Lord Spyro! Lady Cynder!

Cynder: What's going on, Woz?

Woz: We've got a situation. One you're going to need to get involved in.

Spyro: Still pretty vague, Woz.

Woz: You'll understand when you see it!

(With that, Woz literally grabs Spyro and Cynder by the arm and pulls them out of the room, but within seconds they get the message and are just running at his side. Seeing this, Decade just puts down his soup and picks up his camera)

Decade: Looks like things may be ramping up.

(As Decade makes his comment, we transition to Twilight Forest, where Spyro and Cynder are continuing to follow Woz, to figure out what the situation is)

Cynder: Woz, you've got to tell us what's going on here.

Woz: We're almost there. I'm sure of it. He should be right around this... (Seeing nothing is there) Where the hell did he go?!

(As the three progress, a figure is seen leaping through the trees before landing in front of the team, a very familiar cheetah in a cloak)

Hunter: No need to worry about your friend. He's safe.

Woz: (Ready to kill) Who the hell are you?

Spyro: Woz, relax. He's a friend of ours. (To Hunter) Good to see you again, Hunter.

Hunter: And good to see you both have not only survived thus far, given all the madness of recent months, but finally ended up together. Congratulations on your engagement by the by.

Cynder: Thanks, Hunter.

Hunter: Anyways, the person I'm assuming Woz here is looking for is safe, we found him out here and brought him back to our village.

Woz: Then we're going to need to see him. He holds a key to finishing off the madness you just mentioned.

Hunter: Then we haven't a moment to lose! Follow me!

(With that, Hunter starts leaping between the trees with Spyro, Cynder, and Woz following behind him)

Woz: Does this guy always go parkouring through everywhere?

Spyro: Yes, but you get used to it.

(Within a few minutes, the quartet arrive at Hunter's village, still rebuilding from the destruction and subsequent reconstruction of the world. As the team enters, we focus in on one of the structures, which upon entering we see a familiar silver clad, blond haired figure laying stretched out on a makeshift gurney.)

Hunter: That your guy?

Woz: That's him alright!

Hunter: He just appeared from nowhere. Though I swear I saw some brief flash of light shortly before we found him.

Woz: He came from somewhere specific, I can tell you that.

Cynder: Okay Woz, enough mystery. Just tell us who this guy is!

Woz: Lord Spyro, Lady Cynder, meet Kouta Kazuaba, Kamen Rider Gaim.

Spyro: Wait, this guy's a Kamen Rider?

Woz: Not just any Kamen Rider, one of the most powerful, being essentially a god.

Cynder: A god?

(At this point, Gaim finally starts to wake up, seemingly in response to Cynder's question, where we see his hair is slowly turning from blond to black and his silver armor has turned into a blue shirt and blue jeans with an orange life-jacket looking thing.)

Gaim: (Weakly) It's a really long story. One we don't have time to tell.

Spyro: What happened to you?

Gaim: (Trying to get up from the gurney) I have no idea entirely. Somehow the world I came from turned against me. I called in an old friend and his brother to try and help me out, but they've been captured by the one behind it all. I barely managed to escape when I saw the way to you world.

Cynder: What about your friend and his brother?

Gaim: As far as I know they're still alive. I was panicking, because if they caught me, they'd know where it is.

Spyro: Where what is?

Gaim: I really don't have time to explain. I have to get back and save my friends.

Cynder: In the state you're in? Like hell you're going back alone.

Spyro: Cynder and I are going with you.

Gaim: Not sure I'd advise that. Helheim is not a place to be messed with.

Woz: I can speak to that. If you do go there, beware of eating anything. The fruits are toxic to just about every lifeform I've seen.

Cynder: Thanks for the warning, but we'll risk it.

Woz: Just be careful in there, my lieges.

Gaim: It's settled then. Just need to get my gear and then we'll get moving.

(With that, Gaim uses his almost godly power to summon forth a strange blue belt with a latch on the top and what looks like a knife on the right, and a lock with an orange on it labeled "LS-07". Standing up slowly, Gaim places the belt on his waist, generating what looks like a side-image of a samurai warrior on the far left of the belt, then holds the lock out in front of him.)

Gaim: Henshin!

(With his battle cry known, Gaim presses a black button on the side of the lock, causing it to unlock)

Orange Lockseed: Orange!

(After unlocking the Lockseed, Gaim places it in the belt, below the latch, and closes the Lockseed again, looping it through the latch)

Sengoku Driver: Lock On!

(With the Lockseed secured, a zipper in reality opens up over Gaim, revealing a giant orange. With the fruit in place, Gaim pulls the knife-like portion of his belt down, causing the orange on the Lockseed to fall, revealing a design of an orange-slice looking sword on it, and showing the interior of an orange on the rest of it as the knife-looking portion restores to it's normal position)

Sengoku Driver: Suiya! Orange Arms! Hanamichi, On Stage!

(As the Sengoku Driver makes it's announcement, the giant orange lands on Gaim's head, generating blue and gold armor around his body before the orange unfolds to create chest and shoulder armor, while revealing a blue head with a large gold crest resembling a long crescent of some sort with a red front portion, with the back of the helmet being orange with a green dot on top of it with a silver mouthpiece an a visor resembling an orange slice, as a long sword with a gun barrel materializes on his hip, and the orange slice looking sword from the Lockseed appearing in his hand)

Gaim: There we go. Let's get moving.

(With that, Gaim channels his power and creates a zipper in reality opening up into Helheim.)

Woz: Be careful in there.

(With Woz's warning in mind, Gaim, Spyro, and Cynder enter the zipper in reality, and as it closes, our tale ends for today)

And that sounds like a good spot to end for today. You may not be able to see it through the text, but I am probably more excited for this than I have been for any other Arc. I love Kamen Rider Gaim. The series starts with an absolutely ridiculous premise and matures into an existential crisis for the characters. It matures over time like a fine wine. I love it. Wizard still holds a sentimental place to me, being the first series I watched front to back, and Drive was an experiment in success, but Gaim is just one of those series I love. But anyways, my gushing about the series aside. What awaits as the Gaim Arc continues? Tune in next time to find out! Same time... same channel!