A/N: HI READER
Another Saber, so soon I know, but I'm feeling on a roll with this, I'm like a loose shopping trolly going down a hill, I'M JUST GOING BABY.
Anyway, last time we had the second part conclusion of the Buster debut. I'm not gonna steal Brooke and her parents' job of narrating, so let me cut to the chase.
READER BATTOU!
Fifth Page: Of Green Winds and Wonderful Hearts
Welcome back one and all, to our next piece in the story of our band of knights. Where previously the Swordsman of Land Ivan had proven himself worthy to Alexie and taken true claim to Gekido.
And now we can finally get to the funny green guy! With school starting for the new knights I'm excited to show off all the hijinks!
You're certainly excited for this Brooke, maybe a little too excited.
I can't help it mom, I mean reading ahead a little bit I saw some of his jokes and I gotta say I especially like the one where-
Brooke, spoiling plot is one thing, but spoiling a joke's punchline? I thought we taught you better.
Oh come on dad I'm not actually gonna do it. Come on come on let's get this going already, to the library!
"Aaaaw, look at you all." Leona cooed as she looked at the six knights standing in front of Logos Library. "First day of school, this should really call for a picture!"
"Lady Leona, while it is rather nice how ecstatic you are for this, it's not really that big of a deal." Oliver said, making their guardian huff.
"Oh, so I'm not allowed to feel happy about sending you all off into the world? Kids these days." She crossed her arms.
"Oh come on guys, this is a big moment for her, it's like she's sending her own kids off to school." Riley said to the others. "A team photo to commemorate the moment wouldn't hurt would it?"
"That's the spirit Sir Riley!" Leona smiled and set a timer on the camera before making her way to stand behind the six. "Smile and say 'Wonder~~~!'"
"Wonder~~~!" The six swordsmen said as the camera flashed, Leona eagerly going to it and checking the picture.
"OH! It's perfect, I'm getting this framed as soon as possible." She giggled and looked back at the teens. "I wish you all luck on your first day, and I want to hear about every little detail when you get back. Your horses are waiting for you at the stable, all saddled up for you." She giggled again and pulled them into a big hug. "Have fun!" With another smile she waved the six knights away as they turned the corner to the stable.
"So….I'm not the only who's greatly weirded out when she acts like that?" Skylar mumbled.
"No, you're just pessimistic Sky." Jess said back. "She's only being nice, I for one like how motherly she's been to a bunch of strangers."
"We've only known her for like….two weeks at best. I'm only being realistic when it comes to these kinda things." Skylar huffed.
"Well, I don't know about you guys…..but I think we're in, 'stable' hands." Ethan beamed out a cheesy smile and threw the stable's door open. "There we are folks, that's another zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzinger from Ethan Dagos!" The others groaned as they went towards their respected horses. "Oh come on, that one was actually good. You guys just seem to have a boring sense of humour compared to me."
"There's a difference between a sense of humour, and just telling your terrible jokes." Oliver shook his head.
"More like you're just BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" He replied. "Now come on peeps, it's time that we Once Upon a Timed ourselves some learning!" He was yet again, met with an assortment of groans.
Calibur sat down with pained groan, clutching his ribs as he rested on the broken mess that was his bed. His room within the Megid's base had simply a bed, wardrobe, and desk, it's all he's ever needed, and it's all he ever got.
"Master Zooous is still rather annoyed at my failure, that harsh training session practically proved that." He hissed and relaxed. Reaching into his coat pocket, he drew out the purple WRB with the evil dragon on the cover and opened the page, staring at the inner pages with a hum. "I will not disappoint again, this time I will win. I have to…."
Just outside the room, lingering in the hallway, Desast overheard the swordsman's plight and huffed quietly. He gently knocked on the doorframe and waltzed in, prompting the swordsman to spring up.
"The big three want you, time for your next job. It's gonna be a big one, we're actually going for the school this time."
"We? I assume that means you'll be accompanying me?"
"Well I'm not gonna miss out on going against those new kids on the block. The red and blue ones bore me so I'm…window shopping I suppose." Calibur just hummed in response and went to leave the room, only for Desast to stop him by holding his shoulder. "So, when are you gonna use it?" He motioned down to the Dragon Book in his hand. "I didn't waste all those years training you just for you to chicken out did I?"
He pushed the Megid away and stepped out of the room. "I'm under strict orders from Master Storious, not to use my armour unless deemed truly essential. It's not my time to fight the new swordsmen yet, I must wait still."
Desast scoffed. "Such a boot licker, all you ever do is listen to orders. When's the last time you lived a little? Stared into the eyes of the enemy as you fought? Did something for yourself?"
"Just move, I don't need a lecture from you." He pushed past the hybrid Megid and made his way down the hallway. Leaving Desast to sigh to himself and crossing his arms.
And so our band of Knights started their first day as students at Ever After High. After collecting their timetables from the reception area, the six agreed to meet up in the Castleteria for lunch after their first couple classes. The different classes seemed easy to adapt to, they were mostly just name changes of regular lesson they'd have back home with little Fairy Tale twists.
One knight, a certain loud mouthed jokester, was leaning back in his chair at the very back of the classroom listening to Jack B Nimble lecture on about math. Well not listening exactly, Ethan was in a world of his own at the moment, day dreaming or humming to himself as he doodled all over his math book.
"And we'll just give this guy a scarf instead of a cape, cause everyone knows super heroes with scarfs are cooler than with capes." He mumbled to himself and continued his sketching.
"Mr Dagos!" The sudden yell of his name caused the jokester to sit straight in his chair and slam his book shut. "I do hope you are paying attention during my lectures young man, I don't wish to give you detention on your first day."
"Y-y-yes sir of course! I'm just noting all the important stuff." He played off his lack of attention paying. "So let's not…jump the candle or anything, eh, eh?" He heard one or two other students stifle their laughs, while the rest kept straight faces as Jack just grumbled and turned back to the board, continuing his lesson. 'Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, seems I got my work cut out for me.'
"Man, tough crowd." Ethan huffed as he left the Crownculus room, he had to stay a few more minutes for a talk about behaviour. "I got maybe two or three to snicker but damn it's gonna take some of my best jokes to get these people to bust a gut."
He heard a little ribbit come from his jacket pocket. "I know right, these people wouldn't know good comedy if it slapped em in the face." He said aloud, causing the other students around him to look at him questionably. "What, you people don't talk to yourself at random times, tsk y'all boring." He continued to wander around. "I gotta find my people, my audience, where all the other crazies at?" He said as a pair of girls in outlandishly strange clothing walked by, muttering strange words and giggling to each other. "Like them, they seem like my kinda people, the style, the chatter, I must become one with them." He said dramatically right as the class bell rang. "Ah dammit."
Ethan groaned as he pulled out the timetable and read over what he had next. "Wooing Maidens 101? Maidens aye~~~~~? Well that'll be easier than baking a cake in a bakery, what kinda lady doesn't love a good joke or two?" Ethan clapped his hands together and smirked. "I'm sure I'll fit just right in."
[Ever After High Rose Gardens]
"I may have underestimated my place here….." Ethan hummed as he looked at the line up of his fellow prince classmates. "Gawd I think my nose's gonna fall off from smelling all this cologne."
"Alright Princes!" The class teacher, King Charming himself, spoke as he addressed his students. He was a dashing gentleman with an elegantly trimmed beard and moustache wearing an all-white royal looking suit. He even had a crown adorned on his head, albeit similar to that of one of his classmates, a guy Oliver said was named Daring or something. "It's time we put all that learning to use, we're being graciously partnered up with Maid Marion's Damsel in Distress class, where you'll be paired up with a Princess and fight through an obstacle course to rescue her from distress."
"Hey uh, Mr King Guy sir," Ethan raised up his hand. "On a scale of one to ten how distressfully distressing would you say these distresses are? I don't wanna be too distressed ya know."
"Um…" King Charming had to collect his thoughts for a second from such an odd combination of words. "Oh I believe you're asking just how difficult the challenges will be. Well no need to worry Mr…?"
"Dagos sir, Ethan Dagos."
"Ah right Mr Dagos. Well no need to worry, the challenges will be different for every pairing, and they won't be anything too dangerous." King Charming assured him.
Ethan smacked his lips and rocked back and forth on his feet. "Good to know…" He rubbed his arm, feeling a tad bit nervous. This being his first ever class in maiden wooing and no prior experience kinda put him at a disadvantage.
"Ah King Charming, I do hope we did not keep you waiting." A voice spoke gently, followed by a collection of giggles as leading the class of princesses was a woman in a blue medieval gown, Maid Maron.
"Oh not all madam." The king waved off. "I was just simply explaining to the boys the nature of the exercise."
"Ah, splendid." She turned back to her students. "Now ladies, put on your best distressed damsel, it's almost time." The girls nodded and began chatting amongst themselves.
Ethan sighed, he stuck out like a sore thumb among all the nicely dressed princes. "Maybe I should use it…." He looked behind him at the green sword hanging in its sheath. "I mean, the suit would definitely get the girl's attention, but I wanted my debut to be a great show…." He hummed, his hand resting on the sword's handle. "Nah! I'm sure this handsome face will be better than any stupid helmet, I've got this in the bag!"
"Uh dude." Ethan looked to his side seeing a few of the princes looking at him weirdly. "Why are you talking to yourself?"
"Um, it's called Monologuing. You should try it sometime, it really helps build confidence." Ethan said with a hand on his hip.
"Uh sure….whatever."
"Alright then, let's begin!" King Charming declared.
As time went on, Ethan was slowly understanding just how hard maiden wooing could be, if anything he could say defusing a bomb was easier than this. Watching all these princess trying to keep the princess calm was a little nerve racking to him. Though watching how each prince did it was certainly a learning experience, taking down some mental notes as he watched. Being somewhere near the bottom on the list was finally a good thing.
"Man, who'd of thought how strict this wooing business would be?" The boy in green huffed, watching the next pair get ready.
"Yeah, we've gotta put our best face forward, the princesses work so hard for this so we gotta work just as hard." One boy said.
"Well if you put your face first forward you'll just crash into everything."
"I…what?"
"If you go face first you'll just-does no one have a good sense of humour in this damn school sheesh." He groaned, watching as the second to last prince before him was picked his princess and prepared to go. Looking at the last of the Princess lined up he noticed how one girl in particular was being blatantly ignored, despite her attempts at making herself more pickable. She wore a red and gold checker skirt and matching blouse with quite a bit of gold woven in and a frilled decoration around her neck. She also had black stockings with pump shoes as well as black and red hair tucked into a small crown. What really stood her our from the rest was the large red heart painted on his face over her left eye.
"Hey, hey, hey…" He tapped one of his classmate's shoulder repeatedly. "Why's everyone ignoring the red head, she's pretty cute."
"That's Lizzie Hearts dude." The prince said pushing his hand away. "The next Queen of Hearts, the Queen of Wonderland. She's practically terrifying, always yelling about taking people's heads off."
"Wonderland? There's people from Wonderland here?"
"Uh, duh. They're the ones always dressed so weirdly and talking in ways no one can understand. They're crazy." The prince huffed.
Meanwhile, it was like fireworks were going off inside Ethan, rubbing his hands together with a big smile. "Now THAT, sounds like my kinda crazy…..just what I was looking for…"
"Sir Ethan Dagos!" King Charming suddenly spoke up, snapping Ethan from his loony smile and back to reality. "Choose your princess."
Ethan stepped forward and looked at his choices, pursing his lips and rubbing his chin. "I'm gonna piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick…Miss Lizzie Hearts, if you'd be so kind as to accept the offer Milady?" He asked with a bow. "Be my ace in this challenge won't you?"
This would be the kinda challenge he'd need to find his audience, if he couldn't make a citizen of Wonderland laugh then he might as well hang up his comedian coat. For her own part, Lizzie was at first taken by surprise she was chosen, this boy before her didn't seem all too princely, but maybe that's why she seemed so intrigued.
"Very well then Sir Ethan, I shall await you within the maze." She smiled and headed within the maze.
Ethan stood by the maze's entrance, stretching his arms and legs to get himself ready. With a crack of his knuckles and a quick jog on the spot, he knelt down in a runner's starting position, waiting for the countdown to begin.
"Start…..your…..engines!" He beamed as the timer reached zero and darted into the maze, running past twists and bends with no reason for stopping.
"Oh help, oh help!" He heard Lizzie's voice cry, making him stop in his place. "Oh where are you my noble knight, please hurry!"
"There we go." He smirked and started to quickly follow the sound of her voice. "Not to worry my crimson clad dear, your emerald hero is on the way!" He called back to her.
"Oh no, my lovely roses! What a shame!"
"Eh? Roses?" He wondered just before a thorn covered vine shot out from the maze's wall targeted straight for Ethan. The teen saw this and quickly cart wheeled out of the way, making the vine miss as it slipped back into the walls. "Hmm, roses, thorns, vines, lovely." He turned back to the path he was taking, as more and more throned rose vines shot out and wiggled around the passage. "Well, this just got all the more fun…" He smirked and ruffled his hair, raising his arms up before dashing towards the field of thorns, dodging each and every one with leaps, flips and twirls through the air.
"Backflip!"
"Cart Wheel!"
"Barrel Roll!"
"Side Flip!"
"Rolly Polly!"
After one jump, he pushed off the ground with his hands and spun around through multiple vines trying to grab him at once, causing them all to become tangled together.
"Mid Air Corkscrew!" He yelled as he spun before gracefully landing on the ground, proudly chuckling to himself. "Still got it."
He continued his trek through the maze before finally coming upon a large water garden with a gazebo where Lizzie sat on a bench posed in the iconic damsel position.
"Oh my hero!" She put her hand on her head as if feinting. "Oh thank you, I've been so afraid!"
"Never fear never fear, for the comically hero Sir Ethan is here!" He proclaimed with a smirk, making his way across the bridge, not noticing as one last vine sneaked out of the wall and shot towards him.
The same ribbit came from Ethan's pocket as he fell down to his knees and unsheathed his sword from behind his back, leaning back as the vine shot over him and sliced the stem, causing it to fly back into the wall. He twirled around and stood up, firmly holding his sword as he looked around in case of another surprise attack.
"Man, these vines….they're really being a thorn in my side, amirite?" He side glanced to Lizzie, and nearly screamed in excitement when he saw her giggle at his joke. 'SUCCESS! I FOUND MY CRAZY!' He quickly sheathed his sword and spun around back to Lizzie, picking a few random flowers and holding them in a bundle as he took a knee and gently held her hand. "Dearest Lizzie, some of these flowers are red, one of my friends wears blue, would you do me the honour of allowing me to woo you?"
"How obnoxious can this guy be?!" A few of the princes laughed as the class watched over a large Mirrorpad screen, a few of them scoffing with a roll of their eyes while many of the princess looked unamused.
"This guy clearly hasn't wooed a maiden before, he's gonna fail this hard." One princess said to another. "He's gotta be insane."
The teachers, however.
"Remarkable." King Charming complimented with his hand on his chin. "He must know a little Riddlish."
"That will work just splendidly on a Wonderland damsel for sure, he's struck gold." Maid Marion added.
Lizzie was at a loss of words, taken aback from the boy's words as she took the bundle of flowers in her hands. When the moment passes she came back to her sense and regained her composure. "Oh please Sir Knight, I miss my family dearly, return me to them won't you."
"Say no more my dear." He stood up gently helping her down the gazebo's stairs. "Now then, you might wanna hold on a little." She did as he said and wrapped her arms around him as he picked her up bridal style. "Alright bud, do your thing." He whispered before spinning around, gusts of wind swirling around him as he made a small tornado that flew the two to the outsides of the maze and back to the classes.
"Hold on, how can you use magic? Is he allowed to do that?" One prince complained.
Ethan gently set Lizzie down and rested his hands behind his head. "Oh well, you know, being a knight of the Swords of Logos does have its perks after all." He boasted twirling the sword in his hand.
"Amazing run Sir Ethan." King Charming complimented and applauded. "Excellent movements, such grace in the way you dodged between the tendrils, you certainly have the skills. And the wooing, my word I would never have believed you if you had said this was your first class, extraordinary. Although had I known you had such abilities I would have forbidden you from using them, I won't deduct points however."
"Sounds good to me." He nodded and slotted his sword back into its sheath. "And well, nearly ten years of gymnastics will do to a guy~~~~ *AHEM* six medals *AHEM*."
"And while Ethan was able to navigate through the maze Lizzie, your cries in turn were supposed to hint him on how to do it." Maiden Marion said to the princess. "Even as a damsel, you must help your rescuer however you can."
"Yes ma'am." Lizzie said.
With the last few runs finished and the bell rang the students collected their bags and began heading back to the main building.
"Rescued in a tornado? I'd hardly believe it if I didn't see it." One girl said to the Wonderland princess. "I'm a little jealous."
"I was certainly startled at first, but it was rather fun." She giggled.
"He's pretty weird though, like what was all that mumbo jumbo he was saying?" Another girl said.
"I think it was….rather charming actually. And pretty funny." Lizzie said as the girls continued to walk. Not that far behind, Ethan had heard everything the girl in red had said, and he had the widest smile plastered on his face.
"She thinks….I'm funny…." He inwardly cheered with a small tint of red on him and strutted back to the school with a pep in his step.
[Ever After High Castleteria]
"Holy hell this tastes way better than the school meals back home!" Jess beamed as she took another bite into her food.
"The chef in that kitchen must be magical." Skylar hummed before coming to some kinda realisation. "Oh wait…."
"Does anyone know where Ethan could be? We did all agree to meet here for lunch after all." Oliver said and set his knife and fork down.
"GUYS!"
"There he is." Riley sighed.
"GUYS!" The Castleteria doors flung open with a grinning Ethan running through. "GUYS! GUYS! GUYS!" He jumped over a set of chairs and landed on the seat next to Skylar, startling them and making them spill their drink down their jeans. "Guys I've done it! I found it!"
"Found what, some actual good jokes?" Ivan asked.
"No, even better. I found my audience, my people and get this….a girl thinks I'm funny." He said full of excitement, only for his fellow swordsmen to burst out laughing. "W-what's so funny?"
"Oh, oh Ethan that's probably the best joke you've ever told." Riley wheezed and wiped a tear from his eye. "But seriously, what's up?"
"I'm not kidding guys, during Wooing Maiden 101 this girl Lizzie, she really thought I was kinda charming, AND FUNNY." He emphasised. "Now I just gotta find more people like her, and SCORE!"
"Lizzie, like Lizzie Heart?" Oliver asked. "I hear she's on the rather unstable side."
"I whole heartedly disagree!" Ethan crossed his arms like an X. "She was amazing, electrical, and she's just so pretty!" He rested his chin on his hand. "I'm telling you guys, the way she smiled during that class, I've found my kinda crazy. Wonderlandians….how wonderful."
"Sir Ethan?" A voice said behind Ethan, causing the six to look behind him where a smiling Lizzie stood.
"Lizzie?!" Ethan stumbled around before leaning onto Skylar's shoulder to look cool. "What's up Liz?"
"The roof, the sky, and the bright shining sun of course! That's not what I wish to speak of though, I wanted to enquire if you'd like to join me for lunch?" She asked, easy to say the other knights at the table were astounded.
"I would love to, I'm happy that outta this deck of a school my card's the one you played." He quipped, making Lizzie burst into a fit of giggles.
"Oh you," She waved off and stopped her fit. "My friends are eager to meet the boy I told them about, come-come." She offered gesturing to the table where it seemed other Wonderland students were seated.
Ethan looked back to the swordsmen seated around him, the biggest smirk on his face as he stood up and gave them all finger guns. "I told y'all….my kinda craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy." He chuckled and followed Lizzie to the other table.
"Huh, I guess everyone can fit in somewhere." Jess hummed.
"SO, there I was, deep within the maze's grassy depths, thousands of thorn covered tendrils snaking around me as they kept me from the oh so lovely Princess awaiting her rescue. I had but given up on all hope, until, finally, there she was. A maiden of crimson beauty sat basking in the sunlight…" It had been a few hours since Ethan's grand rescue, the last class of the day had come to an end and Lizzie had brought Ethan to a secluded spot on the roof where she introduced him to many of her Wonderlandian friends including Maddie and a few others. Immediately he went straight to telling his brand of humorous jokes and seemed to get a genuinely positive response from the Wonderlandians. One of them even asked how he and Lizzie had met which led to him telling an over exaggerated version of his Wooing Maiden lesson. "I was immediately captivated, and in my delirious state I almost had not seen the final accursed vine strike out to me from the hedged walls. Luckily my swordsman's instinct struck just right, as I sliced that measly piece of grass to bits!" He laughed cheerfully, to which the other Wonderlandians applauded. "Twas a great first day of school."
"Excellent! Simply excellent!" Lizzie giggled. "Sir Ethan you are a true gem."
"A thousand thank you's Lady Lizzie." Ethan smirked with a bow.
"ETHAN! COME ON MAN!" Riley's voice shouted down from below. Ethan groaned and went over to the railing. "Ethan I know you're up there, I can hear your laughter a mile away!"
"ETHAN'S NOT HERE, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!" He yelled back.
"ETHAN I SWEAR! LEONA SAID SHE WANTED US BACK BY FIVE, SO GET YOUR BUT BACK DOWN HERE!" He crossed his arms.
"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH, FINE!" Ethan huffed and turned back to his new Wonderlandian friends. "I am so, so very sorry about this. But my current guardian calls me back to my abode. I'll see y'all party people next time!"
Back down on the ground floor Riley was tapping his foot impatiently with a sigh. "This guy, one day at this place and he's already acting the clown." As he waited for his friend to say goodbye he barely noticed the figure in purple walk past him, brushing his shoulder against the Swordsman of Flame briefly getting his attention as he turned around, only seeing the stranger was gone, yet still had a quick glance of the familiar purple coat. "Wait a minute, was that….?"
PIRANHA NO LUNCH!
A loud snarl rang out behind Riley as he ducked under an attempted slash from an unknown monster. Rolling across the ground, Riley saw a Megid with bronze fish like skin, a large knife attached to it's right arm and fish tail styled shoulder pads. On its head were pitch black eyes and sharp yellow teeth.
"Holy shoot you are ugly…the Megid never look good but wow you're….ugh…." Riley shivered and took out his Driver, only to backstep away as another Piranha Megid jumped in and slashed at him. "Two of you, great." One more growl prompted him to turn around where he saw a third Piranha skulking towards him. "Three…..three of you guys….great…." Without giving him a chance to even slap his belt on, the Piranha trio started to relentlessly slash and strike at him. "UH ETHAN, A LITTLE HELP PLEEEEEEEASE!" He yelled just as one blade nearly cut his eye. Back rolling away from the three, he quickly slapped the SworDriver on and flipped open his book.
BRAVE DRAGON!
REKKA BATTOU!
"Henshin!" Riley called out, sending the crossed slash and pushing the three monsters away.
BRAVE DRAGO~~~N!
"Eh?" Ethan looked back over the edge, shouting in surprise when he saw the three fish monsters fighting against his fellow knight. "Oh! OH FISHSTICKS! GIANT FISH?!" He turned back towards the Wonderlandians waving his arms to grab their attention. "Emergency! Emergency! I'm gonna have to ask everyone's gotta go back inside! Scary monsters scary monster wee woo wee woo!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. "TIME FOR PEOPLE TO RUN!"
As he was waving his arms, he finally noticed the bracelet with shuriken on his wrist glowing green. "Oh fish sticks….." He quickly turned around seeing one of the Piranhas had noticed his screaming and sent some kind of high pressured water slash towards the teen.
"Ethan hurry!" Lizzie cried out, just as the attack hit the side of the building. Ethan tried to keep his balance straight just as the bit he was standing on started to crumble, causing the teen in green to fall. "ETHAN!"
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ethan yelled as he fell frantically, only to calm himself down and cross his arms. "Well it appears I am falling a great distance, my oh my." He said as he spun around so he was facing the ground. "Whelp Eth, show time. Here's to not dying…" He reached behind him and unsheathed his green sword, his other hand reaching into his pocket pulling out a green Wonder Ride Book. "Don't let me down."
SARUTOBI NINJADEN!
Toaru kage ni shinobu wa shippu! Arayuru jutsu de iza sourou...
He slammed the book into his sword and pulled it into two, splitting into a large dark green blade and a smaller lime green blade.
SARUTOBI NINJADEN! SOU TOU BUNDAN!
"Henshin!" He said before spinning around making a green tornado form around him as it slashed the rest of the debris.
ICHI NO TE SHURIKEN! NI NO TE NIROUTYUU! FUUSOUKEN HAYATE~~~~!
The tornado landed on the ground, the wind blowing away and destroying any other falling debris. As it cleared, it now showed Ethan adorned in a black body suit with green armour on his chest, forearms and legs, a green flowing scarf attached to his neck. His helmet was black with a green and yellow visor as well as a silver mouth plate, there was also two smaller versions of Hayate stuck out of his forehead.
HAYATE NO MAKI! KOUGA FUUTON NO SOUKEN GA SHINSOKU NO NINJUTSU DE TEKI O UTSU!
"YO-YO-YO! It's the Swordsman of Wind, Knight of Ninjutsu making his big first appearance, Kamen Rider Kenzan's in the house baby!" In a matter of seconds Kenzan dashed towards the Piranha Megid that attacked him. He dropped down and skidded on his knees and slashing the Megid against the stomach as he spung around standing and cross slashing it on the back. "You good over there Ri-Man?"
Saber kicked away the Piranha in front of him and readied his sword in a stance. "Peachy, these ones don't seem so smart, just a couple mindless fish."
"Oooh shouldn't be hard then, let's fillet em and get it over with!" Kenzan laughed spinning his swords in his hands. The two Piranhas fighting against Saber growled to each other before making haste running towards the dormitories.
"Dammit, I'll chase those two down, you get rid of this guy!" Saber ordered as he sprinted after the other two Megid.
"Okie dokie, looks like it's just you and me Nemo, and you just took the bait." He charged forth with a yell as did the Megid, the lesser armour on his body gave Kenzan a speedy advantage. As the Megid slashed at him, the rider jumped and flipped over it slashing its back as he landed. Spinning around gracefully as he became a whirlwind of attacks striking the Piranha Megid before kicking it under the chin.
The Megid roared and started relentlessly slashing and stabbing at Kenzan. The rider in green in return made a distance away from the monster by backflipping away with excessive speed.
"Come on lil guppy, can't you do any better than that?" He started running again, this time jumping and running along a wall as the Megid sent another watered slash at him. "Getting a bit windy in here ain't it?" He quipped and threw the smaller blade directly at the Megid, lodging it into its shoulder. He then closed the Sarutobi book and pressed it into the finisher slot on his sword.
SARUTOBI NINJADEN! NINNIN!
He leapt off from the wall, ripping his sword from the Piranha's shoulder. He snickered to himself as both blades glowed a soft green.
"Shuriken Sword Dace: Second Technique! Two Blade Typhoon!" He called out pressing the trigger on Hayate.
HAYATE! SOKUDOKU GEKI! NINNIN!
"Yahoo!" Kenzan performed an x shaped slash before slashing it twice with each sword, turning his back to it posing dramatically as it fell down and exploded. "Aaaaaaaaaand a picture perfect moment. I'd probably best go help Ri-Man with the other two, wind always makes fire BLOW up after all." He stood there, waiting for a barrel of laughter. "Dammit that's one of my best and no one's around to hear it….." He skipped on the spot and was just about to run after the red Rider and fishy monster, before a Wonder World barrier surrounded the area he and the Wonderlandian students were in. "Well that just isn't dandy whatsoever, anyone else here making a big appearance?" He shouted out.
"Hnnng, Hayate….that fresh minty scent…" Kenzan looked up seeing Desast leaning against a railing on one of the balconies. The hybrid Megid jump down slashing at Kenzan, who rolled out of he way and assumed a combat stance. "Well, well, well….and I thought the new Saber and Blades were disappointing, but you…..you really take the cake."
"Ah you know, I probably ate it too." Kenzan snorted to himself.
"This is really your whole thing? In the heat of battle you just make these ridiculous jokes, think you're funny or something?" Desast pointed his sword at Kenzan.
"No, of course I don't think that…..I know I'm funny. Wait a minute I know you, you're the guy that Ri-Man and Ollie fought a couple days ago right? What was the name…..De….de…..oh that's right Desmond!"
"Des….mond….?" Desast started trembling in anger. "MY NAME'S DESAST!" He yelled and rushed towards Kenzan, the two parrying their swords off each other's as Desast relentlessly attacked him.
"Damn I must have touched a nerve huh Desmond?" Kenzan bounced one attack away and cart wheeled away. "You were talking all that good shoot earlier, what happened to that smug buddy boy?"
"Grrr, Armageddon Force!" Desast growled and sent a dark every projectile slash towards Kenzan. The Rider flipped away from it, but the impact of the attack caused a shockwave sending Kenzan flopping onto the ground. "What's the matter, run outta jokes?!"
"Nah….I'm just starting." Kenzan shrugged, holding his smaller blade in a reverse grip and run forward with a war cry. The two sent fast precise slashes against each other, their equal speeds matching their attacks one for one. At point locking weapons, silver eyes glaring into green visors. "Not bad Dessy…..not bad at all…."
"I had hope for you at first…..now I'm even more disappointed then the other two….you're no Swordsman, you're just a clown!" Desast broke the lock and downward slashed against his chest, sending him sprawling and tumbling to the ground. "Cracking stupid wise jokes….what are you, sick in the head?"
"Well, you're half right…." Desast tilted his head as Kenzan just laid on his back. "The jokes well, I won't lie Imma bit of an attention seeker, but also a lil bit of a people pleaser I guess. I don't know what it is but, even if it's just the littlest chuckle or the tiniest giggle, just knowing my jokes can tickle anyone's heart gives me butterflies."
"Wha….that's not what I-!"
"But a clown good sir?! Clowns get laughed at! I, get laughed with." He laid side wides looking directly at Desast. "I know I'm not some big protagonist hero and all that, if anything that award kinda goes to Ri-Man or Ollie, maybe Jessy I dunno. Lemme tell ya though, comic relief now that gets ya places in life, just gotta make the right decisions." He flipped himself up, landing on one knee. "And I have decided! Desmond my friend I got myself a new purpose! I'm gonna make you laugh, even if it kills me!"
Desast was flabbergasted at Kenzan's declaration, gripping onto Grudge Dent tightly and sneered. 'Purpose…..what would he know about purpose….' He huffed and looking back at Kenzan. "Maybe I was wrong about you….you aren't a clown…..you're some kind of demented Jester."
"Aye, that's a plus I guess. Jesters are kinda cool." Kenzan shrugged, twirling his swords again.
Desast huffed again and readied another projectile attack. "Armageddon…."
"Not this time jack but." He quickly tapped the open page of his book.
SARUTOBI NINJADEN!
"Sarutobi Wonder!" Kenzan called out as he threw the smaller green play straight towards Desast. The Megid flinched and ducked backwards, the sword merely skimming him as he bent back up.
"You missed!"
"But ask yourself this, did I really?!" Desast heard a soft ribbit behind him and turned out just in time to parry another slash. The new wielder of the smaller sword was a strange humanoid frog in ninja like garbs, wrapped around his neck was in fact his tongue acting like a scar. Red eyes peering out of a mask.
"Oh, your familiar huh? Lemme guess, he's got a dumb nickname as well?"
"Well duh. Croaker, get em buddy!" Croaker ribbited in response as the two dashed around Desast like blurs before both leapt into the air and slashing him as they landed, pushing Desast back. "Cheers for the help pal." Croaker threw the smaller blade back to him and disappeared in a haze of wind. "Now then, ladies and gentlemen, for my next trick I'm going hog wild!" He joined the two swords together back into one.
ITTOURYU!
He reached into his belt and brought out a bright green Wonder Ride Book with an image of three pigs on it, slamming it into the finisher slot.
KOBUTA 3KYOUDAI! NINNIN!
Kenzan held Hayate in a reverse grip and raised up his free hand in the classic ninja pose. "Shuriken Sword Dance: First Technique! Singular Cyclone Slash!"
A bluster of wind passed around the two, carrying straw, wood and bricks as the three materials made rotating walls around Desast. Kenzan dashed around between each wall, the Megid tried to follow the best he could before Kenzan leapt out from behind the straw wall.
HAYATE! SOKUDOKU GEKI! NINNIN!
He struck against Desast's back and rolled away.
"You annoying brat….they're pigs not hogs!"
"Yeah but pig wild wouldn't have worked for the joke, damn you're gonna be my hardest audience yet. Whelp, last one." Kenzan grabbed onto Hayate with both hands and shifted the blades so it now resembled a large ninja star. He closed the Ninjaden book and slotted it once more into the finisher slot.
SARUTOBI NINJADEN! NINNINN!
Kenzan grabbed Hayate by both its handles and spun around, a small gale surrounding him as the wind imbued into the blades.
"Shuriken Sword Dance: Third Technique! Hostile Hurricane Hussle!"
Kenzan yelled as he threw Hayate forward, the ninja star sword split into smaller energy shuriken that flew straight towards Desast. The Megid reacted in time as he parried and blocked the smaller stars before they formed back together into the regular sized energy star, grinding against Grudge Dent as he held it at stalemate.
"Damn brat….where did he…?" A shimmer caught his attention as he saw Kenzan now standing on the side of a building, conveniently in the perfect position for the Wonderlandians to see him.
"This was a lot of fun Desmond! We outta do this again sometime! Thanks a bunch!" Kenzan yelled from his position.
HAYATE! SOKUDOKU GEKI! NINNIN!
"This kid…..perfect…." Desast grinned. Kenzan bounced off the side of the building and tucked himself in, the energy from Hayate spinning rapidly enough that he soon became a large ninja star of green energy that came slicing down. Desast threw away the current star grinding against him, but couldn't turn in time to stop the freight train of Kenzan's attack as he sawed and cleaved through him, causing an explosion as he landed on the other side, breathing heavily. "I changed my mind…I think I'm gonna like you…..Kenzan…." Desast muttered as he sunk into shadows.
"Huh? Wonder what he meant by that?" Kenzan tilted his head. In the distance, an explosion rang out, making him snap his head in its direction and running in a full dash. "Oh cruddy, Ri-Man! I completely forget! DON'T WORRY RED HOOD I'M ON MY WAY!"
"Well….I'm impressed…" Desast groaned, leaning against a railing as he watched Kenzan run away. "Maybe, just maybe, he'll be the best choice."
That Desast, he gets stranger and stranger every time.
I don't like this, he was acting WAY too weird around Ethan, like SUPER WEIRD, even if he is a creepy monster.
I'm sure it's all nothing Brooke, he's just taunting the new swordsmen, a test of warriorship maybe.
I guess….still weird though….
HISSATSU DOKUHA!
"HAH! Saber jumped into the air, Braver flying behind him as fire poured from his mouth, the rider getting into a kick position.
DRAGON ISSATSU GEKI! FIRE!
"Flaming Dragon Kick!" Saber yelled as Braver blasted him forward in a burst of flames. The added power from his familiar sending him like a rocket towards the closest Piranha Megid, the kick landing and destroying Piranha No2. "Alright, one more, let's get this over with!" He narrowed his eyes at the final Piranha Megid, taking Rekka back out of his Driver.
The Piranha Megid, seeing itself stuck between a rock and a hard place, let out a gurgled roar as the book on its thorax glowed a murky green. With a scream it released a whole swarm of cartoonish little piranha fish scattered around the area, beginning to devour anything and everything around them.
"Oh….oh that's a lot of fish…" Saber looked around at the legion of piranhas. Some of the cartoony piranhas then rushed towards Saber, prompting the red Rider to run in the opposite direction. Some of the little fish managed to catch up to him and latched their teeth onto his armour. "OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW! OW!" He started batting them off his person, throwing one fish onto the ground and stomping on it. "Ok, they're not real, they're monsters, I'm hurting monster cartoon fish not real fish." Saber looked around at the hundreds maybe thousands of piranhas gnawing at anything they could get their teeth on. "So many….maybe this'll work!" He sheathed Rekka and reached for his WRB holder, pulling out the Storm Eagle book.
STORM EAGLE!
Kono owashi ga arawareshi toki, mouretsuna tatsumaki okoru to itsutae rarete iru...
Saber quickly slammed the book shut and slotted it into the middle section of his Driver, wrapping his fingers around the handle of his sword he yanked it out. "Wonder Read!"
REKKA BATTOU!
TATSUMAKI DRAGO~~~~N EAGEL~~~~!
From seemingly nowhere a mechanical red eagle flew from the sky and started flying around him as the fire it produced new more armour. In the middle section of Saber's suit was now a dull red armour on his lower legs and on his chest was an eagle head with blue eyes.
REKKA NISATSU! ARABURU SORA NO YOKURYUU GA GOKUEN WO MATOI ARAYURU MOMO YAKITSUKUSU!
"Whoa….now I'm burning up!" Saber rolled his shoulder and took a running start towards the Megid and swarm of fish before mechanical red wings sprouted from his back taking him into the air, a trail of fire following him as he soared burning any near by Piranhas. He dive bombed towards the Megid slashing with his wings and assaulting it with a barrage of fire fuelled kicks, the last kick followed with an in air backflip landing on the ground.
"Man, Oliver was right. It's like the books are working in tangent with each other, connecting to both me and Rekka…." Saber said to himself, looking at the steely silver blade of his sword. "I can really do some damage now!"
HISATSU DOKUHA!
REKKA BATTOU!
Bursts of fire flared up on Rekka's blade. Saber held onto the sword with both hands and started whirling it around his head over and over, the flames flaring up bigger and bigger.
DRAGON! EAGLE! NISATSU GIRI! F-F-FIRE!
"Flame Tornado Slash!" Saber yelled and threw the fire forward, the flames began to swirl around and soon enough formed into massive tornado of flames. As it travelled the swarm of piranhas were sucked into the flaming vortex. Saber's wings sprouted on his back again as he flew into the tornado, making the flames stronger before it headed straight for the Megid. Saber flew out the tornado, causing it to explode and knocking the Megid into the air. Using the explosion to propel himself forward, Saber delt one last slash against the Megid, making it explode mid air and tumbling the swordsman onto the ground groaning.
"Agh…ok….note to self, don't use that in enclosed spaces…." He hissed sitting up, looking around at the scattered flames. "Yikes….maybe a little too much damage…"
"Holy Molly!" Kenzan yelled as he came to a stop from his sprinting, catching his breath. "Damn son, that explosion was….booming….eh? Eeeeeeeeeh?" Saber just groaned and facepalmed. "There we are folks, that's another zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzinger from Ethan Dagos!"
"IT WASN'T EVEN FUNNY!"
"Well kids, how was school?" Leona asked as the six came through the library's front door. She was sat behind the main desk typing away at a computer.
"Enjoyable I'd say, there wasn't too much to over encumber us on a first day." Oliver said as he hung his coat up.
"Yeah sure, that's totally not you being biased cause of that royal crush of yours." Skylar huffed and sat on the desk. "You were tryna follow her around like a lil puppy dog." They snorted.
"Oh, I'm the only one acting like that am I?" The blonde said defensively. "If I recall, Riley was the one who got side-tracked on his way to class getting introduced to all of Raven's friends."
"They were nice people and I'm too awkward to just walk away, what if I looked rude?!"
"Well I dunno bout you guys, BUT I LOVED IT!" Ethan cheered stretching his arms out. "Studying here is definitely gonna be fun."
"It's wonderful to know you've all had a great day." Leona smiled. "By the way, Sir Ethan, I caught a glimpse at your battle against Desast, tremendous work out there."
"Oh Desmond? Yeah you guys really hyped him up more than you should have. I mean, looks cool and all bu~~~~t all talk really." He smirked. "Wait my fight got recorded?"
"Well of course, by Ms Blondie, just like the rest." Leona flipped the computer screen around showing the end of the fight between him and Desast. "You used Hayate and the Sarutobi book quite well."
"Oh I look so cool!"
"Hello, this is Blondie Locks with another exciting report of our newest gallant knights!" Blondie began to report on her Mirror Cast. "This afternoon, another group of vile monsters attacked our school yet again. And yet, the day was saved once again by another member of our very own order of knights, the swordsman dressed in green Kenzan, as well as everyone's favourite dragon master Saber."
"Ah, recognition~~~." Ethan sighed happily.
"As the fight came to an end I couldn't get a chance to interview the knights, just my luck, but I did get a little something from those who witnessed the Swordsman of Wind!"
"He acts like nothing but a fool." Daring huffed leaning against a wall. "The way he bounced and fought was like some kind of harlequin."
"I recorded the whole thing what do I have to-!"
"Just, do it Dexter."
"Well….his fighting was a bit dramatic honestly, like he was having a bit too much fun ya know?" Dexter summarised.
"He was truly wonderful!" Lizzie interjected. "He fought with such vigour and dynasty, it was quite a sight to see! It only would have been better if he had taken the head off those monsters. A true comedy genius as well!"
Everyone had to cover their ears as Ethan let out the happiest of all squeals. "SHE LOVES MY JOKES! SHE PRAISED ME! I'M WINNING LIFE!"
"Shut up! It's not that big of a deal!" Jess shouted.
"Silence tomboy! The cute girl said I'm funny! Nothing can bring me down now, NOTHING!" Ethan started laughing manically as he ran to where their rooms were.
"That boy's got some kinda issues…." Ivan shuddered.
"Gotta love that everlasting energy he's got though." Riley chuckled weakly.
Back within the Megid's home base, Desast hummed as he merely stared at the glass case that once contained his Alter Book. "They only kept my book…..out of all three of us, only me." He gripped his fist. "I'll find you, one day we'll all be free from the Majin. I promise."
In a turn of events, this time Calibur was the one hiding behind a door listening to him. The teen watched the Tri Megid for a few more seconds before leaving him as he walked down the wall. 'Three books? Were there other experiments? What else is Master Storious hiding?'
And so the green ninja of the wind finds his place in the school.
Amazing how he was able to get through Lizzie's heart, that boy already understands how the Wonderlandians work it would seem.
OH! I just saw the next title, go on Jess girl power!
Brooke you're spoiling!
Ah whoops!
A/N: Done and done, Kenzan's made his grand appearance. I definitely had a blast writing all those bad jokes and just Ethan's comedic character in general.
Also as you've probably guess, I have switched around the fights of some Megid, so instead of Espada first fighting against the Piranhas it was Kenzan, I got a special choice for her first fight anyways.
But now for reviews!
James Reed: With the Trio Deep Sin movie the only thing I'd really be adapting is the new forms, nothing story wise really. I've already got a lot of Calibur's backstory thought out, the idea you have is pretty good but I'm just gonna stick with that I have, same for the Solomon and Grimoire Book ideas, they're good but they won't fit for what I have planned.
Austin: It's funny you mention that Kamen Rider Arbiter idea, cause I got something like that lined up for way later down the line.
Anyways thanks a bunch for reading yet another of my jumble of random words that I call chapters, and I'll see you next time.
BYE, BYE.
