Hello all you Boils and Ghouls! Quick notice that I'll be taking a short hiatus once this chapter comes up, so please don't worry if I suddenly drop out of existence.

That being said, let's get on with the reviews before going straight into the chapter.

Raidentenshou, I'm glad you enjoy the Grimm that debuted in the last chapter; sadly, it won't just be Greek or Norse mythology that will be used in the future. I'm delving further into the rabbit hole to see just how far I can go before I get the next idea. As it stands, I already have an Aztec lore idea to use, but was planning on THAT one being in the last chapter along with the chimera until my pseudo beta suggested not to use it just yet. Hence why the raptors came in.

Oh, and to anyone wondering, the names of the Grimm will be revealed either in this or the next chapter.

For now, though, let's get on with the story.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the OC's mentioned in the story. RWBY and Kamen Rider are the intellectual properties of their respective owners; please support the official release.

)-Legend-(

"Yo!" - Speaking

'Is he an idiot?' - Thinking

"Dearest love," - Reading

"Kaishin no Ippatsu!" - Specials

)-Unknown Location-(

)-Third Person PoV-(

Salem breathed softly as she laid upon her 'throne' at the head of a long table; the effects of exhaustion from earlier that day still lingered on her lithe frame. Despite this, she gladly held a cruel smile as she clutched at the arm of her chair and started to chuckle to herself when she sensed her new children were facing their respective targets. To her, it was the beginning of the end of the Kamen Rider; to her, things were going according to plan. 'With that meddlesome "Rider" being dealt with by my most beautiful creation to date,' she mused to herself wickedly as she looked down at her left hand, 'He will be unable to defend his 'bondmate' from the pincer attack my more stubborn children have launched... Once they've been dealt with, no one will stand in my way...' Indeed, she had learned of the soulbond over the course of the month from her new... Dare she say... 'Partner'... Who had eventually shown her the results of his 'experiments'... 'Creatures so small and adorable that do not belong with the Grimm...' she criticized internally, 'They have no place in the new world, and neither does that despicable 'thing'.' So involved with her internal monologue, she hadn't noticed the swirl of orange pixels forming behind her and coming together to the familiar face she so despised; the man had regained most of his former image with the loss of the "ERROR" messages all over his clothes, his legs were once more whole, and his face no longer had any pixels blocking it from view save for his left eye.

The man grinned in a creep-ish fashion as he leaned forward and asked her, "You're thinking about those Grimm you made the other day, aren't you?"

The action caught her by surprise, but her only reaction was the widening of her eyes and glancing at his direction before warning him, "Don't ever try to catch me off guard like that again if you value your life..."

"Kage..." she muttered the man's name venomously, causing his grin to only widen.

"Now now," he tutted her, "If you continue to sour your face like that, you will develop wrinkles... And we wouldn't want someone like you to actually look your age, now do we?" Early on, she had learned the man refused to go by his birth name and instead gave her one he felt suited him perfectly. In his home's language, Kage meant Shadow - a befitting name for one so unknown to her in Salem's opinion. "To answer your question, however... Yes, it does involve them..." she reluctantly stated. Kage's smile had left his face as he sighed lightly and turned to look out the windows before asking her if she knew that they would fail in their objective.

"Preposterous!" Salem cried out in objection, "My children will succeed one way or the other; even if they cannot defeat the Kamen Rider himself, they will still hinder him by destroying his bondmate..."

"Believe me, Salem, a Kamen Rider is NOT to be underestimated," Kage interjected as he turned back towards her, "Don't forget that I've fought them longer than you have as well as the fact that I was the one who MADE that device. No one knows more about what Para-DX is capable of than me." Salem had to confide in his words; afterall, she did learn he was not of the same realm of reality as her own, but she could not help but feel trepidatious about what her 'ally' had in store. She decided, however, to also challenge his words by asking where 'his' minions were and what they were doing.

"Oh, have no fear, Salem," he said coolly as his smile once again returned, "They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do..."

"And they will strike when they feel they are ready to strike."

)-In the Forever Fall Forest-(

A short ways away from the start of the fight between the strange amalgamation of Grimm and the dichromatic warrior, several bushes began to rustle as something small moved within them. Eventually, a pair of small, bone-white hands with black fur covering the backs of them pushed some of the leaves aside, revealing a pair of glowing, icy-blue eyes with white sclera peeked out; gazing at the combatants analytically as it watched them fight. It could tell that this being...

This 'Kamen Rider'...

Was the objective that its father wanted it to seek out and destroy, but it also knew it stood no chance against him as it was... As if it were a scientist observing an experiment, it watched on with intense interest to see who would win, why the outcome will be what it will be, and how to combat the winner's style.

It knew it had a long way to go, but with its father backing it up and access to positive emotional energy, it knew it could grow powerful.

Just how powerful, though, was anyone's guess.

)-With Dichro-(

The creature once again unleashed a plethora of fireballs at its opponent; frustration blinding its sense of intellect as the silvery blob dodged them all in rapid succession as it shot out tendrils of silvery liquid pointed at the tips. The creature narrowly avoids most of them with a few scraping its limbs as it speeds around to the other side to try and gain a better advantage over the Kamen Rider as he reforms his body into a large, buff shape before it ducked under a slashing tendril from him. The monstrosity unleashed a bleating sound from its springbok head, a roar from its lion head and a moaning roar from its serpentine head; the roar, itself, was recognizable to Dichro as the one that he had heard earlier.

'There's no doubt about it, now,' he mused as he morphed his body around the claws that had threatened to slice him open, 'This was the thing we heard earlier.' He soon stretched several tendrils from his back and launched them in rapid bursts at the monster in an attempt at doing damage. Like before, only some had managed to graze the creature as it leapt over him and launched itself straight for him; forcing him to dive onto the ground and stretch around its legs just as it passed. Along the way, he stretched out several spines to try and cut one of the creature's legs off, but it retracted the closest leg to the spines, its right leg, just as they passed each other. As they landed, the monster soon turned back and launched another volley of fireballs at the armored warrior who had to shrink quite a bit in order to avoid most of them by slinking around them. 'Its aim's getting better... I need to hurry,' Dichro deduced as the lion head unleashed the moaning roar this time, catching him off guard just enough for the beast to run into him with its springbok head; causing him to splatter on contact. It looked around to see what was left of its prey in shattered pieces. Thinking it had won, the creature unleashed a roar from its lion head, a hiss from its serpentine head, and another moaning roar from its springbok head this time around.

If it had been paying attention, it would have noticed all the splattered pieces of its opponent stretching out towards it. It didn't, though, which allowed the pieces to impale the beast and reform behind it into its opponent with tendrils shooting out of where his arms were. 'Alright, bastard,' he cursed at the creature internally, 'Let's see you survive this!' And with that, he forced the tendrils impaled into the monster to shoot out even more spikes that poked out of random parts of the creature's body before pulling the tendrils out entirely, ripping out small chunks of its body in the process. Just as he retracted the tendrils into his body to form his arms, the creature lumbered forward lightly before suddenly lashing its tail-head at him; forcing him to slink away from the creature and reforming a good distance away just in time to see it turn around and spit out another volley of fireballs.

'Holy crapbaskets, it survived!' he exclaimed internally as he squished his body under the volley and stretched away from the beast as it charged at him once more. 'Just how the hell do I kill it... Real-world logic dictates that should have killed it, but...' His thoughts were interrupted as the creature resorted to slashing and swatting at him. Dichro had managed to dodge a side-swipe from its left claw by backing away when its right one started to come up from below. He managed to avoid it by warping his body just under the claw as it climbed up to try and hit him until he was fully underneath it. The creature brought its left claw down from above in an attempt to squash him; to which he responded by warping his body around the claw and flinging himself backwards as it recovered its claw and swiped at its arm with a sharpened tendril. He continued dodging its attacks in this way while lashing out at it with his own blade-shaped tendrils in this way until he noticed the creatures' eyes on the lion head; they weren't slitted, and instead were the same glowing red and orange eyes that the other heads had. He also noticed that the serpent head's eyes were now slitted, instead, as it perpetually stared at him instead of trailing behind the body. The sight brought an idea to him as he dodged the attacks and squeezed his body between the creature's hind legs and thought, '... But video game logic dictates a win-condition hasn't been met yet... If my guess is right, then all I have to do is... THIS!' As he brought himself past the creature's serpent head, one of his tendrils shifted into a blade and lashed out at the tail; the action itself cut it clean off, causing the head to dissolve into a black mist and then into nothing.

"HOT DAMN! BINGO!" Dichro cried out as he launched himself away from a now berserk monstrosity as it tried to backhand him with its left claw. 'That's it - I just have to kill the heads!' he deduced as he reformed himself just in time for the power-ups to wear off. 'Ah great... At least I know what to do now...' he mused to himself, 'But actually doing so... That's gonna be a little bit tricky...'

As he thought this, however, a powerful rage overcame him briefly before an overwhelming sense of fear and dread washed over him; and it wasn't his.

)-Meanwhile-(

"These things just won't stop appearing!" Coco had called out as she continued to open fire on the strange creatures that now attacked her and her allies almost from all sides. Nora was barely able to bat a few of the ones she was fighting away before she ended up getting a tail slammed into her left side and flung into Yang's back just as the blonde brawler had jumped back to avoid a vicious bite. The creatures that were in the girls' path jumped away in time for them to crash into the ground. Nora was the first to recover as she rolled off of Yang before kicking both feet into the neck of another of the creatures that had chased her in an attempt to get off the ground. Yang, on the other hand, had simply stood on one knee and punched the ground with both fists, causing her weapons to fire off explosive rounds, before being sent airborne several feet into the air. As she fell back down, the creatures ran to where she would land and watched in anticipation; that was when they realized a mistake had been made. The blonde brawler had pulled her right fist back and punched the closest creature in the left side of its torso which had resulted in two things happening; the first was the creature instantly disolving into a black mist, and the second was that her fist collided with the ground which sent a shockwave out and knocked several of the creatures back.

Glynda wasn't doing much better as she had used her telekinesis to lift chunks of the ground up and launched them into the creatures and even took larger chunks of it as crushing instruments in order to try and even the odds out a bit. Yet it was all for naught as the creatures simultaneously learned to avoid anything she threw as well as responding fast enough to jump out of the way of her wider attacks. The strain of using her Semblance so much was starting to take its tole on her as she used it to lift some straggling creatures that tried to go in for a quick strike to her sides before sending them flying into the main group. After this, none of them tried to even approach her and were instead constantly avoiding her attacks by jumping, running to the sides, and even ducking. 'Whatever these Grimm are, they are learning at an extraordinary rate...' she observed before calling out to her students, "Be careful! These things are dangerous learners!"

"More like 'Fangerous' learners!" Yang had tried to joke as she landed a left hook on the neck of one of the creatures before having to jump back to avoid being bitten on the face by another one. As she landed, she began to fire off rounds from Ember Celica that caused the few creatures to be hit to fly back into the trees behind them. The others, however, saw this new attack and started to avoid it like the plague by ducking and running. "Hold still so I can shoot you, stinking bird wanna-bes!" she threatened them as she continued to shoot them.

Nora, in a single horizontal swing, had managed to knock six of the creatures away from her which prompted her to turn Magnhild into its grenade launcher form and fire a few rounds at the group. The first one that exploded caught a few of the creatures and ended up blowing limbs off of them, but the sub-sequential grenades weren't so lucky. The moment the creatures saw the explosion, they had begun to jump away from the grenades just before they exploded. "Wow, you were right, teach," Nora commented as she returned Magnhild to its hammer form, "These things really do learn fast!" She brought her hammer over her left shoulder and started to charge at the group, but was stopped after a single step as she felt her weapon get heavier all of a sudden. She looked back to see one of the creatures had its jaw clamped onto the hilt of the weapon while its talon feet clasped the head firmly in a vice grip. Nora's eyes widened in surprise before narrowing in agitation as she tried to pull the weapon away from the creature to no avail, even going so far as to tell it to get off Magnhild. The other creatures saw the opportunity to strike, but refused to do so out of caution; instead resorting to sending a few of them to latch onto either what was visible of the weapon or onto their fellow creature to keep her weapon weighed down.

Coco, however, had a different problem... She was starting to run out of things to shoot, or so she thought. As she shot down the last few creatures she could see in front of her, she looked back to notice that even more were around her allies. As she hoisted her weapon up to fire it, some of the creatures spotted her and jumped in between her and the people she was fighting alongside. She hesitated at the sight of this. 'Damnit...' she cursed internally, 'They're using their own bodies as bait so I can hurt the others by mistake...' She never opened fire, but she also refused to drop her weapon; the longer she could keep these things busy with her, the more time her friends had to finish them off. The creatures, however, had other plans as some had charged straight for her. Still not wanting to risk firing on the others, she brought her minigun back and flung it upward, nailing one of the chargers in the underbelly with the barrel as she brought it over her head; sending the creature flying into a tree behind her. Another pair approached from either side of her field of view as she started to pull her weapon back down. Eventually, she brought it down on the left creature's head, crushing it in one go with a sickening cracking sound, as she lifted her right leg into a sideways kick into the other creature's neck, sending it reeling towards the group Nora was still struggling against. Spinning herself on her heel, she quickly took aim at the creatures holding Magnhild down and warned Nora to duck. The pink-loving hammer wielder obliged, but, unfortunately, so did the creatures she was aiming for as they jumped away. "Damnit!" she cursed as she brought her weapon behind her right leg, "Just how damn smart are these things?!"

"LEMME GO, YOU FEATHERED FREAKS!" Coco could hear Yang cry out in frustration.

Looking over to her, the fashionista could see that two of the creatures had latched their jaws onto her blond-haired friend's gauntlets and were pulling full force in opposing directions. As the blonde brawler continued to vainly pry herself free, two more of the creatures latched onto her elbows with their jaws. The pressure wasn't enough to break through her aura, but it was more than enough to cause her to cry out in pain as they, too, started to tug on her arms. For Yang, it felt like they were ripping her arms apart. In truth, they may as well have because in a few final pulls they had managed to pry Yang's weapons from her wrists; their mangled forms cutting into the cloth of the gloves she wore under them and eventually ripping them apart as the force sent her and her captors holding her arms flying backwards a few feet. Recovering from her fall, she became furious as she pulled herself up onto her arms and knees and yelled out in anger, "GIMME THOSE BACK, YOU MONS-". Her words were caught in her throat as she witnessed the creatures each swallowing the remains of her Ember Celica whole. While it was nowhere near the same level Ruby had with Crescent Rose, Yang still was damn proud of her own weapons; Signal didn't have the kind of forging systems that Beacon had, so to her it was an accomplishment right up there with becoming a professor. Her heart fell at seeing them devoured, but that feeling was soon replaced with disgust as she saw the creatures retching and heaving.

Each one eventually coughed out black balls of slimy flesh that pulsated briefly before they started to grow the moment they hit the ground. They grew and morphed legs, claws, a tail and a head that all became defined and covered with feathers until they became exact copies of the 'parents' that puked them out. 'Oh dear Oum...' she mentally pleaded as fear washed over her. Coco and Nora witnessed this as well, each one thinking of how they were supposed to defeat the creatures if they could just multiply that easily. They knew this much, though; these creatures were the single most dangerous Grimm they had ever encountered.

)-With Dichro-(

Hopping backwards to avoid another swipe from the creature's left claw, Dichro's only concern now was finishing this fight as he considered his options. 'I know that there's two heads left, but how can I kill them in time?' he mused as he ducked under a diagonal upward swipe from it's right claw and tried to deliver a right jab into the creature's gut with all his strength, but found its skin to be hard as it didn't even give way. Looking at the springbok head, he noticed its eyes were horizontally slitted and jumped away to try and gain space. It was by dumb luck that he had avoided a downward slam of the creature's left claw once more. 'Damnit, there's gotta be something that can help out...' the dichromatic warrior cursed as he looked around. The only thing he could see was a bright light green medal depicting a Rider surrounded by bookshelves. Confused, he tried to ponder on what the power-up would do, but didn't get too much time in doing so as he rolled under the creature as it tried to leap at him. 'No time to think about it,' he thought as he held a hand out to the power-up and flung it to himself, 'I have to figure it out on the fly!'

The medal followed his hand's motion as it flew into and shattered upon him.

"MEMORY!"

'What the - Memory?!' he asked himself. A halo formed around his body with rectangular images spinning around him as he looked around. He tried to keep up to see what these images were, but eventually gave up due to the speed at which they orbited around him. Deciding to press his luck, he pulled a fist back and threw a punch at random; hoping he would get something to help. The images all stopped moving; revealing themselves to be images of what appeared to be USB drives with light green borders. The one his fist was connected to, though, caught him off guard. It was a black USB drive with purple markings along the lower front of the drive. The only discernable letter he could tell off the bat was the white "S" with a purple outline shaped like a skull. As he retracted his hand, the border around the image turned golden as a new voice called out the name of the "memory" he had selected which followed with a quick guitar riff.

"SKULL!"

With that, the images all faded as a purple energy wrapped around his body. Though he didn't notice at first, Dichro's armor had changed colors; the gold was now silver with the blue and red becoming black. The normal puzzle patterns on his chest was now replaced with the same skull mark the USB drive had. Looking to the power-up slots, he could see the same symbol in place of his usual medals, but instead of a timer, it had a "2" on the bottom right corner. 'So I'm technically Kamen Rider Skull, now,' he surmised as he turned his attention back to the creature, 'Also looks like I only have two shots... More than enough, I say...' As he charged the creature, which had recovered and turned around from its own charge, it unleashed a moaning roar from its springbok head and ran straight for him as he pulled his right fist back to throw a powerful haymaker. The punch connects with the right horn of the springbok head and the shoulder of the creature itself; shattering the former as it tumbled to its left side and rolled some ways before it got back up. "Wow... Guess it's like a mini-Muscular, too..." Dichro said to himself as he inspected his fist before turning to the creature, "Now let's see what ELSE this baby has in store..." As he declared his intentions, the now monochromatic warrior reached for the GGD and pulled it out briefly before quickly turning the dial to its default position and back to Perfect Puzzle as he slammed it back into its holster. As he did so, the announcement voice for the insertion was unchanged, but what changed was the voice announcing the actual attack as well as the attack's name itself.

"DUAL GASHAT! SKULL MAXIMUM DRIVE!"

"Wait, what?!" he cried out in surprise.

Purple energy once more wrapped around his body before it focused around his torso; allowing itself to take on the shape of a skull. 'Holy crapbaskets, I can use Skull's finisher?!' he exclaimed in his head as he stared at the skull in shock before remembering why he was using it as the creature once more charged at him. 'Sorry for stealing your move, Sokichi,' Dichro apologized as he raised his right fist out to the creature, 'But I kinda need it at the moment!' Once the creature was within striking distance, the monochromatic warrior flung his right arm behind him and protruded his chest a little which caused the skull to fly forward into the creature; specifically, into the creature's lion head which resulted in the head being vaporized and the rest of the creature to be sent flying backwards into a roll, but the energy skull did not dissipate. Instead, it floated into the air several feet above the ground. Dichro saw this and had jumped as high as his suited body could allow; just enough to be behind the skull. On the way, he had pulled the GGD out just enough to once again trigger the finishing move as he turned the dial to its default position and back to Perfect Puzzle.

"DUAL GASHAT! SKULL MAXIMUM DRIVE!"

With that, he unleashed a kick onto the skull that sent the projectile towards the creature; opening its jaw as it flew towards its target. The beast unleashed one final moaning roar as its body was consumed in the purple energy and vaporized into black dust upon Dichro's landing.

"All clear!"

Upon the GGD's finisher announcement, Dichro's color scheme returned to normal as the dust gathered into his chest; allowing his suit to absorb the essence of the Grimm. The young man watched as Perfect Puzzle's level continued to climb until it stopped at level 28 with only a pinky-nail's thickness away from level 29, and watched as the announcement sound for his level up play before panic once more began to set in; this time his own as he felt Yang's desperation and anger. 'Crap! I gotta get over to her, fast!' he cursed at himself as he looked around before running straight into the direction he could feel Yang was. He eventually found a speed power-up after a few feet and triggered it to try and reach her as fast as he could. He simply hoped and prayed that he wasn't too late.

)-With Yang and the others-(

She couldn't believe what she had witnessed...

Yang was at an absolute loss for words...

She just lost her weapons...

And what's more, those... things... multiplied right after consuming Ember Celica.

'They have to be stopped...' she thought as she closed her eyes in frustration and desperation; her aura flaring to life as her hair waved like flames in the wind. 'Someone has to stop these monsters... Before ANYONE else gets hurt... Before RUBY gets hurt!' Her fists clenched hard, grinding her nails into the balls of her palms, as she stood up shakily before opening her now fierce crimson eyes and shouting at the top of her lungs, "I'LL KILL YOU, YOU MONSTERS!" As the creatures turned their heads to the source of the shout, she had already launched head-first into a group of them and landed a right punch into the jaw of the nearest one and shattered its head on impact. Another creature leapt at her from the left side and attempted to swipe at her with its feet, but she unleashed an uppercut with her left fist into the creature's torso before it could use the attack opportunity; causing it to disintegrate upon contact. Three more from behind her ran up to try and clamp down onto her, only for the fastest one to meet an elbow to the snout that sent its corpse reeling into the other two. The creatures that were attacking Glynda and Nora soon turned their attention onto the blonde brawler and started to charge at her as well.

Yang turned to face the oncoming forces with an angry glare as she held her fists up; ready for whatever may come. Several of the creatures leapt up and brought their talons down trying to nail her, yet she avoided them by rolling forward; launching herself towards the rest of her attackers as she got back on her feet. The one that came dangerously close to biting her head received a rather painful gut-check as her right fist dug into its undercarriage before knocking it away with a left hook to the face. Another two came up on her left flank with their mouths wide open as she flung her arm towards them. One of them had managed to bite down on her wrist, but the other got knocked away as the former's body crashed into it. The creature didn't stay latched on long, though, as Yang brought her right fist down in between the eyes; crushing the skull in that singular hit. Several of the creatures soon made a strange barking caw as the charged to surround the blonde brawler. They all tried to jump onto her formidable form as she batted them away, but eventually one of them successfully grabbed a mouthful of golden hair; tugging hard at it to make the poor girl fall flat on her back. This allowed the others to jump onto and latch down onto her with whatever they could get onto her body to restrain her. Yang struggled to break free of her captors yet their sheer numbers were soon becoming too much even for her Semblance-empowered strength. Coco had seen enough and yelled out, "NORA! PROFESSOR! DUCK!" as she held her weapon aloft and opened fire. Most of the creatures that were on top of the pile on the blonde brawler had jumped away to avoid the machinegun fire, but the rest weren't so lucky as they were mowed down and pelted away by the bullets. Glynda had used her telekinesis to quickly push the creatures further away as she and Nora ran to Yang's side.

'The poor girl's a mess,' the professor noticed as she inspected Yang's bruised and bloodied form as she breathed sharply; some parts the creatures' fangs and claws had actually sunk into her skin deep enough to see the bone which was a sign that her aura had been all but spent, 'If we can get her out of here, she may survive...'

Nora's mind was wracked with anger as she gripped Magnhild and looked back at the creatures with a ferocious glare. 'I don't care HOW smart these things think they are,' she stated internally, 'NO ONE hurts my friends and gets away with it!'

Coco was the only one actively trying to fight the creatures as she kept her back to the group and resumed firing into the forests where they had started to retreat; only to notice their numbers had somehow doubled in that timespan. 'How in the hell do we kill something that just keeps coming back?' she questioned herself as she hears clicking with no gunfire going off; signaling that she was out of ammo.

No one noticed, however, that a new visitor had come up to the clearing they were in until they heard them shout out in raw, unbridled rage.

)-Meanwhile-(

)-With Dichro-(

"I can't believe how many of these things there are..." the dichromatic warrior muttered to himself as he ran through a rather heavily infested part of the forest; noticing the creatures which reminded him of raptors that consumed leaves, rocks, broken branches, and anything they could get their jaws on. On his approach, his speed-boost ran out which forced him to use his own two feet to try and reach the others; the odd thing was that the creatures made no attempts to stop him. Something didn't seem quite right about them to him as they blatantly ignored him and some even ran alongside him a short ways, emitting a barking caw sound every so often if they were close enough before breaking off in different directions. 'These things... aren't normal...' he noted as he looked around to see even more of them coming out of the woodworks. That's when he noticed the ones that were eating suddenly started to vomit black balls of flesh that became even more of the creatures. 'That explains that; guess I found my farming spots,' he thought to himself as he charged further towards where he thought the rest of the group was.

Eventually, he reached the clearing but stood in shock as he watched Coco practically demolish an entire pile of the creatures with her minigun, even though only a few of them actually died in the process. That's when he saw it. Lying on the ground, beaten and injured, was his bondmate - the very last person he expected to be brought down so quickly. The two of them had grown closer over the month; even he could tell that much. To see her so vulnerable when he wasn't there... It struck him hard in his heart; as if he had failed to be the protector he had sworn to be for his family, but, to him, this hurt much worse. As he took in her prone form, almost completely ignoring the other three, his horror and shock slowly drained away as anger began to boil in his blood. It eventually reached a point where he couldn't hold it in any longer.

With a warcry of pure rage, he ran for the ones he believed responsible for the mess that Yang was in - the very creatures that avoided him. He charged into the closest group of the creatures before he brought his right fist back and punched one of them in the back of its head; causing it to disintegrate instantly and its essence to be absorbed into his armor. The creatures finally noticed this and tried desperately to run away from him, but even they were taken by surprise at his speed as he ran straight towards another two, grabbed their tails, and tossed them to either side of him; the very force of the throw caused them both to vaporize upon hitting the trees. Running almost on instinct, he took out the GGD and quickly turned the dial to Knockout Fighter before slamming it back into the holster without even giving it a chance to acknowledge that he had selected it nor without calling out his usual transformation phrase. His armor's head, chest design, and dial all spun completely around as his pauldrons floated from his shoulders onto his fists.

"EXPLOSION HIT! KNOCKOUT FIGHTER!"

Once transformed, his entire body soon became enveloped in bright red flames of energy as his speed and reflexes sharpened - almost to the point of him vanishing as he began to destroy every last creature in his sight with a flurry of punches. The creatures tried desperately to run, yet they could not escape. One had been caught by the throat which had been crushed in Dichro's hand as another was thrown into another group of four that were running; all five had vaporized on contact. Two of the creatures even became so desperate that they ran to him and latched their jaws onto his fist weapons, yet they met their end as he slammed his fists together; crushing their skulls instantly as a result. As his rampage continued, a searing pain began to shoot through his body as red and blue bolts of electricity began to form around his body. The pain soon became too much as he gripped his head and cried out in agony; forcing him onto his knees as he suddenly loses his transformation. 'Crap! I screwed up!' he cursed himself as he felt the pain intensify at a rapid pace. He only had time to yell out "RUN!" before his pain became unbearable.

Dichro Spectrum had blacked out at that moment as he unconsciously arched his back, flung his arms to his sides, and let out a blood-curdling scream of pain as his body became enveloped and devoured in a mass of purple, goo-like substance. The substance soon started to grow to massive proportions as it took on a quadrupedal form. Though it lacked any fine details, the form was clearly animalistic in nature as its legs each took the shape of draconic claws. Its size continued to grow as a pair of whip-like tails formed on the mass' backside; each ending with what appeared to be wrecking balls at the tips. It soon stopped growing as it reached the size of a mountain before its front started to divide into three separate protrusions. Each one began to grow into a lengthened neck as they started to take shape; each one growing what appeared to be a draconic head with different styled horns on their heads. The right head had what appeared to be three long, slender horns that were rather wobbly as it shook on either side of its head. The left head held a pair of odd, rounded horns with two prongs resting behind it. The middle, however, held the most draconic looking pair of horns that curved down at the middle and then straight up at the tips. Each head had on it a pair of angry, glowing crimson eyes that took in their surroundings until they set their sights upon the distant city of Vale.

With its target in sight, the three-headed creature let loose a powerful crackling roar that shook the very earth it stood on.

)-xXx-(

Oh dear... It looks like things took a rather dark turn, haven't they? What will happen now? Stay tuned to find out, and remember; until next time...

See you next game!