Hello there ! How do you do? I am Breker of Twilight, or as I was trying to put originally, Twilight Breaker! This here is a new story I've cooked, but to those who've read my previous story I'm sorry to say I've put that story on hiatus . 'll eventually update A Raven's Squall, but in the current year, perhaps next year. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this new story! And just so you all know, this story will be cross posted on The Kamen Rider Amino
Disclaimer: I do not own Kamen Rider or any properties mentioned. If I did I would've played up Daisuke's drama with the Rena even more tragically
Chapter 1: The Wanderer
Wind blows through the trees lined sporadically along a road. The sun shines high in the sky as cars come and go in long intervals on the road. On the left side of the road a man walked along it, his black hair swayed lightly as the wind pushed. He was whistling a soft tune as he kept walking, pausing his voice to make a new rhythm.
As he walks he spots a sign on the side he was walking on. Farther up than the sign was a village. With a slight tilt of the head he goes over to the sign "Sasayaki" he says aloud, a small smile curls up on his lips "Quite the name for a simple town" he says he walks past the sign and continues on his way.
He enters the town passing a few people chatting nearby. "So have ya heard bout that weird guy?" one of the men asks his group "Which one? Old Man Hopper or that guy in the hills?" Another chuckles at this "Everyone here knows Hopper, I think he means that weird vagabond"
The man walking passed the group raises a brow "Interesting, a man in the hills?" he says to himself. He continues into the town, some children run past him laughing in delight. He comes by to stand in front of what appears to be a cafe, he enters the establishment. The ring of a bell alerts a girl who was cleaning some tables to the presence of the man who's entered this shop
"Oh hello there!" she says in greeting to the man, who simply waves in greeting. "Greetings" he says with a curt smile, he looks at one of the many empty tables "May I?" The girl nods with a smile "Go ahead, I'll take your order in a moment" The girl goes over to the counter as the man takes a seat at one of the lone tables.
"Today's your day Woz…" The man, Woz says with a smile "I think I found my candidate" He leans back in his chair and takes out a circular object from a pocket, it displayed a symbol on the top of it's center with "?" written on the bottom. The girl from earlier brings a menu and sees the object Woz was holding "Nice Ridewatch, that a custom?"
Her question makes Woz jolt as he was too concentrated on the object, and was taken aback by the question. The object, a Ridewatch, jumps out of his hands and he stumbles to catch it. The watch lands onto the ground with a thud "Ah!" Woz exclaims, the girl crouches down and picks up the Ridewatch. She stands back and gives him the watch that fell, along with a menu. She gives him an awkward smile "Sorry about that"
He waves her off "No no, it's fine. You took me by surprise is all." He picks up the Ridewatch from the table "I guess you could call this a custom" The girl nods as she walks away. Woz takes a look at the menu he was given "Hmm, I should get something light, but something to fill me right up!" he says to himself
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Elsewhere, trees sway under the wind that blows. Leaves fall onto the ground softly as others are swept away by the soft howls. A sort of camp lays in a clearing between trees that from a circle.
In the center of this camp was a young man wearing black who was meditating. He has his eyes closed as the wind whips around him. He slowly starts opening his eyes until he immediately winces in pain. He breaks his position and starts rubbing his eyes. He opens his red eyes and blinks a few times "Is it morning already?" he asks aloud.
He looks above and sees the sun, he stares at it for a few seconds. He looks back down "Man, it's the afternoon already?" He stands up and stretches his body. As he stretches he looks around at the trees surrounding his camp
"No attacks today?' He lets out a big sigh of relief. He stops stretching and opens up a tent and enters it. Inside of it were blankets, pillows and what appeared to be a minifridge.
"You deserve it, Kaari" He says to himself as he opens up the minifridge, he takes out a water bottle. He unscrews it and downs it in seconds. He sits down on the mess of blankets and pillows once he finished the bottle.
The man, Kaari, looks out of the tent and into the brush of the forest that surrounded his camp. He sighs and puts a hand to his head, a sad feeling fills him. He shakes his head "Don't lie to yourself Kaari, you'll eventually get attacked" he falls onto the mess of softness and closes his crimson eyes.
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Woz was currently eating a sandwich, a happy expression on his face. By the counter the girl from before was talking to older man who appeared to be in his late 60's. The girl twirled the loose strands of her brown hair, she looks at the old man "Say Gramps, I was wondering 'bout something" she says
The older man smiles "Oh? And what would that be my sweet Suwa?" He asks. The girl's face goes red and she covers it with her hands "Grandpa! I thought you said you wouldn't say that while we're working!" She says embarrassed
Her Grandpa laughs at her flustered act "Oh come now! There's not been many customers as of late, what's the harm?" He asks with a smile, Suwa just grumbles as she puffs her cheeks.
She sighs "Actually, what I wanted to ask kinda concerns our customer frequency as of late" Suya says with a sheepish smile "I Wanted to ask if could take a break for a while, a few days while I mean" she clarifies
The older man smiles "Well, you have helped me plenty, so why not?"
Suwa beams as she puts her hands together "Can I take it now?" a sly tone was in her voice
Her grandpa smiles "You can take it tomorrow" he says, at this Suwa hangs her head "Damnit…." she says hopelessly
Over across at the table Woz was chuckling at the sight he was seeing. He stands up and places some money at the table 'Hope this isn't too much, lest I crash the economy like the last few times' he waves at the two and leaves the cafe, the simple jingle of the bell signifying his leave
Suwa lifts her head up and sees that Woz is gone 'Oh no!' she thinks in alarm.
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Kaari was laying on the grass near his tent, a fire was burning in the small campfire and hearing something placed over it. He stands up and walks over to where a few logs were scattered about. He picks a medium sized one "Think this'll work" he looks over to the fire, low flames burn with leftover wood.
He goes up to the fire, holding the log in one hand. He sets the log down near the fire, he glanced at it once more. With a breath he raises his hand high into the air, and with a quick motion he strikes the log in it's center.
The log breaks, splintering into smaller pieces. Kaari smiles slightly and nudges the wooden pieces to fall apart. He bends down and starts to throw some of the pieces into the fire, fueling the flames into a calmed storm.
He pushes the remaining pieces off to the side away from the stoked flames. He goes back to the flames and looks at the object the fire has been heating, a stew. He grabs the laddie that was left untouched in the pot and begins to stir it's contents
Kaari looks upon the sky as he stirs, the afternoon sky has started it's early descent of dusk. His body relaxes slightly as he continues stirring, to which he slows and ends it. He goes over into his tent and comes back out with a small assortment of meats and greens
He puts in a few of the vegetables in, most either chopped or diced prior. He holds out a chunk of meat and takes a knee, he thrusts his hand and the meat into the fire. Half a minute passes and he pulls out, the meat lightly cooked and his hand unharmed
"Now we're getting something" he says to himself. He tears the meat into pieces and throws it into the pot. He smiles again as he continues adding more items
A few minutes pass, Kaari was humming to himself as he ate a bowl of his stew. He looked up into the sky once more and saw the faint outline of stars "Wonder what constellations'll be out today" he smiles slightly as he spoke
His smile is cut short as he hears footsteps approaching, he sets down the bowl on the ground. He looks around at the darkness that wasn't illuminated by the fire "Who's there!?" he yells with an authoritative voice.
"My, you're a bit initiative" Woz steps into the light of the flames "My name is Woz if you wonder" Kaari looks at Woz dubiously, he raises his fists. Woz steps back "Hey hey! I'm not wishing to fight you" he says in alarm
"Then why are you here!?" Kaari barks. Woz jumps to the tone "Well, I came looking for you to-" Kaari was in front of Woz in an instant, he grabs his neck and lifts him off the ground
"You one of them !? Huh!? What the hell's so interesting about me!?" Kaari demands, though the only response was Woz choking. Woz grabs Kaari's arm "I-I-I'm no-not o-one of th-the-m" he croaks. At that Kaari let's go of Woz and he falls to the ground with a gasp
Woz touches his neck and winces "Dear Christ your grip is terribly strong! Almost popped me there!" He complains. Kaari scoffs "So what in the world did you come find me for? And how come you know of me?" He asks
Woz stands up and it's himself, he clears his throat "In short I need your help" he states. Kaari looks at him confused "In what you may ask? Well to liberate timelines of Kamen Riders that have gone to hell" Kaari stares at Woz, blinks, and then walks closer to the campfire and sits down facing away from him "Think I'll pass on that"
"May I ask why?
Kaari rolls his eyes "One, I don't even know you. Two, what the HELL is a Kamen Rider? And three, why should I help?"
Woz puts his hand together "Well a Kamen Rider is a person who fights for justice and to protect everyone around them. As for why, it's a tad bit harder to explain. But in short it's a matter of-" a shrill scream is heard from the forest cuts Woz off, who pouts "Really? A second time?" He says unamused
Many footsteps can be heard approaching the camp, Kaari stands up "Friends of yours?" Woz shakes his head "I came alone. What could those footsteps be?" He ponders
"Let me go! Let me go!" The voice of a girl comes out from the forest. Woz recognizes it "That woman…" Kaari glances at him "So you do know who it is"
Woz shakes his head "Not entirely, and it's one voice who's pleading to be let go and what only be an army surrounding us!"
Kaari smirks "An army huh?" From the shadows emerge several cloaked figures, one of which held a trident. Behind it was Suwa, dressed in more casual clothing with her hands bound behind her back her mouth covered. Fear was in her eyes
The one holding the trident raises it and points it at Kaari and Woz "So the Traitor and Escapee are forming a partnership here? Pitiful" Kaari grits his teeth "As I've said thousands of times already, I'm not a part of whatever you are doing!" He says angrily
"Tsk tsk tsk, why do you keep denying it? Surely you would have remembered by now!" Kaari shrugs and shakes his head, an angered expression on his face "Time and time again you keep trying to kill me! How am I supposed to know who I am if you guys keep trying to kill me!?" he yells
A gunshot is heard and Kaari tilts his head, a bullet whizzes past. He moves his head to see one of the many cloaks holding a gun, "Guess time's up" he grins as the person holding the trident readies himself. Suwa simply looks on at this display with wide eyes
In a split second Kaari stood in front of the person who shot at him, Woz jumps in surprise and looks at where he was 'By God he's fast!' Kaari punches the cloaked figure in the head, the sickening sound of metal breaking and bending is heard aloud as the figure's head is torn clean off. The metal head impacts a tree and breaks it, the body it stood on collapses onto the ground
Kaari looks at the sparks coming out of the body's exposed neck "Robots huh?" He turns to the trident "Guess your one huh?" One of the cloaked robots rushes at Kaari holding a sword, it swings it upwards. Kaari kicks the blade down without looking, the robot stumbles and is kicked the shoulder. The arm is torn off by the force, it's then stabbed through the chest by its own blade, which was picked up by Kaari
He drags the blade upwards, slicing the robot from chest to head. Oil and other liquids ooze out from the mechanical mess. He looks at the other cloaked robots, each one takes a step back. Woz and Suwa look at the scene with pure shock 'God he's brutal!' Woz thinks. He looks at Suwa and then at the one holding the trident, he sees a glimmer of gold like armor under the cloak 'A Kasshine! Then those must be lesser Kasshine, but still a bother' he sighs as he resigns himself and he rushes at Suwa
Suwa's eyes widen as Woz tackles into her, Woz raises his arm and cloth shoots out and wraps around a tree branch. He pulls himself and Suwa up to it, he lands and puts Suwa down. The Kasshine holding the trident whips around sees the two in the tree "You-" he's interrupted by a dropkick to his right courtesy of Kaari. He's thrown a few meters away with a thud as he hits a tree, Kaari cracks his knuckles "Forgot about me did ya?"
The Kasshine throws off his cloak to reveal a golden armor underneath, the others throw their cloaks off to reveal to be similar to the golden one, except they're colored silver. Each one of the silver ones held a magnitude of varying weapons, axes, swords, guns, clubs, lances. The golden Kasshine stands up and points the trident at Kaari "Get him!" he barks out, all the silver Kasshine rush forward
Woz removes the mouth covering on Suwa, who gasps in relief "Oh thank god…" Woz chuckles slightly "You were quite scared weren't you?" She shakes her head, "You have no idea" she pauses and looks at Woz "Are you?..." He smiles "Well it's too late to keep secret, but I am indeed Woz." Suwa gets a dreamy look on her face 'I just got saved by a Kamen Rider!' Woz turns her around and unties her hands
Suwa looks at Woz dreamily until she snaps out of it "Oh! My name's Suwa Ichinose, sorry for not introducing myself earlier!" Woz lifts a hand up "No need for apologies you know" Suwa just nods slowly. Below them Kaari slammed two silver Kasshine's heads into each other, crushing them both. A bullet is fired, he catches it and throws it at random silver Kasshine's arms causing it to tear off
"Man, that guy's freakishly strong" she comments, to which Woz nods to. "He certainly is the beast, guess my decision was well founded" he takes out a blue and silver Ridewatch "Though he doesn't seem to need this" Suwa looks at the Ridewatch amazed, then she turns her attention back to the "Battle", as Kaari was impaling three Kasshine with a spear through the chest.
A sliver Kasshine rushes at him and throws a punch, only for Kaari's to collide with it's fist to which tears away. Kaari's fist continues forward until he's ripped a large chunk of the Kasshine's arm off. He delivers a spin kick to its chest, the torso shreds apart. Kaari looks at the remaining Kasshine "WHO'S NEXT!?" he exclaims. Both Suwa and Woz recoil slight 'They have no chance, at this point it shouldn't even be a battle' they think
The remaining Kasshine fire at him, to which Kaari runs towards. He dodges and weaves between the bulletstorm, he jumps high and slams his palm into a poor Kasshine's face. He slams into the ground and then uses it as a shield once the others start firing again. The firing stops and Kaari throws the lifeless body at the other two, causing them to fall down.
The two that fell over try to get up, but their heads are stomped in by Kaari's foot. He looks around and sees the remains of scrap metal that belonged to the silver Kasshines, oil and other liquids were spilt all over the clearing, the only thing left standing was the golden Kasshine. It looks around the mess "Your strength certainly hasn't lacked ever since you left" it comments
Kaari simply grits his teeth "As I've said countless times, I don't know the HELL you're talking about!" He charges at the Kasshine, who jabs at him with the trident. The trident scrapes his shoulder as he delivers a punch to it's chest. The Kasshine staggers back, it swings the trident upwards which strikes Kaari in the face. Blood flies outward as the Kasshine falls down onto the ground.
Kaari stood there still, motionless. Woz and Suwa look on with their breaths held. The Kasshine looks at him in fear. Kaari looks at the sky as blood falls from his face. He then looks down at the golden Kasshine with crimson eyes as the scar that it left was healing inhumanely fast.
The Kasshine starts to crawl "Wh-what ARE you!?" Kaari just gives a demonic smirk as his eyes seem to glow in the dying flames "It should be who I am" he appears right in front of the Kasshine and kicks it in chest, denting it severely. It flies back and drops the trident it was holding.
"You should've really gotten this drilled in already. But, as I've always said, my name is Kaari" he says in a barely audible tone. He walks forward and picks up the Kasshine "Y-your p-p-power certainly hasn't been tarnished" he just grins and throws it up in the air. He punches it's chest before it lands, then the face, then the arms, he rapidly devolves into a furry of pummeling fists. He delivers one last blow which sends the Kasshine past the trees and far beyond the darkness
Kaari sighs as he lets his shoulders drop, he massages them as he moves them up and down. He puts a hand to his face and touches the fresh blood, he looks at his bloody hand and shakes it off. He looks around and sees Woz and Suwa getting off the tree they were on. Woz notices Kaari looking at them and lets out a squealing sound as he falls to the ground with a thud.
Suwa giggled as Woz stood back up and dusted himself off. Kaari approached Woz with a blank expression "So, still want my help for that weird request from earlier?" Woz speaks hesitantly "Well, after that very violent display, I want your help even moreso!" his eyes gleam in excitement "Your strength could be more than enough to aid me!"
Kaari looks at Woz disinterested, he turns around and walks away "Yeah, no thanks" Woz's expression saddens "Why not? Is it because of those Kasshine? You handled those things with ease" Kaari looks back "So that's what they're called. Still, not joining your dumb crusade"
Suwa lands next to Woz as she heard the last part "Crusade?" she asks confused, she snickers "You're not taking back the "Holy Land" are ya?" Woz shakes his head "If only it was that simple…" He sighs and walks to Kaari and grabs his shoulder. Kaari looks back at Woz with deadly eyes "Let. Go" venom drips out.
Woz slowly lets go "Please, help me. Not just me, but for millions of people and the Kamen Riders. We all need your help" Kaari scoffs "I said no already, the hell's in it for me anyway? Nothing, that's what"
Woz smirks "Guess your little title does reflect you somewhat, "Kaari The Unrepentant." Certainly an odd title if I say so myself" Suwa just looks onto this conversation. Kaari lets out another sigh for the umpteenth time, Woz scratches his head "From what I can gather about what I've been told of you, and of your interactions with that Kasshine, you're missing your memories yes?"
Kaari just nods "I barely remember a damn thing, just my name and survival skills and fighting are all I remember" Suwa mutters "Kinda like Shouichi and Sento" Woz turns to her "Precisely like them" he turns to face Kaari "and I do think this journey may help to regain your memories" He gives a downward glance and puts a hand to his head "Just, give some time alright? I might, MIGHT, reconsider this for tomorrow alright?" He gives a light glare as he says that
Woz puts a hand up "Very well, I shall leave you to reconsider. It has become far too dark to speak comfortably" he looks up to the sky to see it painted by the dots that are the stars "Yeah, it's pretty late now" Suwa comments, Woz simply chuckles as Kaari tilts his head as he looks over Suwa "Who are you?"
Suwa jumps slightly at the question "U-um, I'm Suwa Ichinose!" she gives a nervous smile as she responds. He just shrugs "Alright" he turns and walks off to his little camp. Suwa tries to speak but no words come out, just some noise
Woz turns to face Suwa and walks past, not before nudging her to follow him "Come, it is night. We don't want more of those robots to come do we?" Suwa gives a nod and follows Woz
Kaari sat right in front of the fire that now was dying, it's sick orange painted the trees in a glow. Kaari chucks a small piece of wood that paints a new hue in the flame. He stands up and goes over to a large lid, picks it up, and cover the still intact pot with it
"Why, of all the times I've been attacked, a weirdo like him came too?" He opens the tent and throws himself onto the makeshift bed "Wonder what that girl does for a living, for that matter what does that Woz guy do? Scout people to join a cult?" He chuckles "Probably"
Kaari has a soft smile as he drifts off to sleep
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Deep within the forest lay the golden Kasshine, it's circuits showing and sparking. Various oils and liquids spilled out from differing parts of it damaged body. It's body was twitching and spasming.
"Oh man this won't do!" A woman's voice cries out, the Kasshine tries to turn it's head to the direction of the voice, but sparks soon fly out as it does so.
A woman with pink hair wearing mechanical clothing enters it's vision "Man, all the upgrades and stuff the higher up gave you didn't do much up huh?" She shrugs "Well you're one lucky Kasshine!" The Kasshine somehow manages to give a confused expression
The woman crouched down and moves in front of the Kasshine "The higher up gave me clearance that if you survived, I have free reign to upgrade you to the max!" She jumps in joy, she puts her hands together and gives a sly smile "With your input, of course"
"I-I-It-t-t mr-ma-matt-t-tt-eeeee-rrs nnnnnn-no-ooooo-tttttt." It moves it's limo hand and slams it's chest "I simply wish to drag that man dead to the ground"
The woman just grins "I was hoping you'd say that!" She pulls what appears to be a myriad of tools
CHAPTER END
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1.5 START
Woz was sitting on a chair in the middle of the cafe, reading a script. He looks up and sees that the camera was rolling, he closes the script and gets up "Ah hello there fellow readers! How do you do?"
Kaari appears and slaps the back of Woz's head, who falls to the ground while saying "OOF" Kaari just glares at him "Don't break the fourth wall, we barely have time to fix considering the author's still in school"
Suwa appears from behind and hits Kaari in the back of the head with a slipper "That's the point of the .5 chapters you dummy!" She hits him again "And you also aren't supposed to say that!"
Kaari rolls his eyes "Whatever, if you say that we can break the fourth wall here, why can't we talk about the author?" He asks dubiously
Suwa fumes "Because stuff like that is private! Anonymity y'know!?" Kaari shrugs "Meh, don't care" she hits him again "Would you stop that!?"
Woz was now standing up, a soft smile was on his face. He puts a hand in either's shoulder "Now now, calm down. No need to be so violent. This section is to be lighthearted and informative"
Suwa's eyes light up, "Are we going to steal scripts of Zero One's future episodes and reveal then all!?" She asks, Kaari scoffs "Were probably gonna kidnap the producers and actors to interrogate them over what they all know"
Woz sighs and pushes them apart "It is none of that!" He pulls out what appears to be a bag "Behold! The bag of Infinite Questions! With this we shall answer questions from our dear readers!"
"So the .5 stuff will be Q&As after each chapter?" Suwa asks
"Precisely! Though I do think we'll only answer 5 per chapter, 10 if we're lucky. Chapter writing and all that y'know?"
"I see, well I guess that'll be fun. Wonder what questions we'll get" Kaari ponders. Suwa Juno's in joy "I hope we get a lot!"
Woz sets the bag down and gives a wide smirk "This marks the end of the chapter, hope you enjoyed it. As they say; Read, Review, Favourite! And make sure to send in any good questions you might have, who knows? Maybe the author might pick it!" Woz waves off