Incep: "I'd like to start this chapter off with an 'Oops', as some of you pointed out, the last chapter was OVERLY dramatic… admittedly that wasn't even how the chapter was supposed to go, but I kinda wanted to do something different as opposed to the regular thing, I suppose the sneaking thing would was a good concept, and it didn't need ALL of that senseless killing, so I do apologize, but that's kinda how I write, I go with the flow then suffer the consequences later, I won't lie, I'm tempted to go back and edit the last chapter(And I did, a bit), but it's my mistake and I must roll with the punches, with that, I sincerely hope you all enjoy this chapter!"
"Si-esta…" I mutter; her eyes go wide as she realizes what she just did
"E-Elliot?!" Siesta backs into the closet in shock, I stumble forward into the closet next to Siesta, as I turn my back crashes against a shelf and I slip into a slouch "E-Elliot, are you-" I cut her off
"-I'm ok… ugh" I close and remove the Himawari Lockseed and my armor disappears, Siesta looks away as I lift up my shirt and see the cut, I open my other Lockseed
ORANGE, LOCK ON!
Then the Sengoku Driver works it magic, Now that I focus on it, i begin to feel the nutrients of the Lockseed fuel into me, I also notice a citrusy tang in the back of my mouth, looking down at my wound I see skin returning and blood stops flowing out of it, however, I notice something else…
The Orange Lockseed is now a deep grey, just like when the Suika(Watermelon) Lockseed is used extensively; Which means I can't use it to transform for a period of time, I remove my driver and return all of my belongings to my jacket pocket
"Siesta, are you ok?" she looks back at me
"Yes… But why are you here Elliot?" Siesta asks me
"I came to, well, rescue you I suppose" I scratch the back of my head "It's just that I heard that Count Mott is a man of 'unflattering' qualities…" I look at Siesta's outfit "…and I can see that it's true" Siesta blushes lightly
"Thank you; I was actually kind of worried what he was going to do to me…" I grab Siesta by the wrist
"Let's leave, hopefully the guards will be too preoccupied to notice us "As I turn to move, Siesta pulls her hand back "What's wrong?"
"Could I, could I change back into my regular clothes?" I nod and she leads us to her quarters
8:01pm~
A man with short brown hair and green eyes in Victorian attire stands up from a red velvet and gold rimmed chair, two guards at his door stand to attention as he opens it
"Count, you should stay put!" a guard says to him
"Silence! I will find this scoundrel myself!"
"But sir-" the other guard begins
"I am Mott the Wave, I can do this with ease!" the Count leaves the room, his guards follow after him
I sit in a chair with my back turned to Siesta as she changes, after a bit a conversation starts
"You really must have come from a different world"
"What makes you say that?" I ask
"You broke into the estate of a Count, who in their sane mind would do that?" Wait, did she hear me break in or something?
"Oi, It was rather risky of you" Derf chimes in, weren't you enthusiastic to the point you were upset that there were no horses this morning Derf?
"Well, where I come from... it's hard to say actually, only living in a portion of it, I can't make an accurate claim about it, but forcefully usurping and going against the flow is rather common"
"But you said earlier that it was a world where your power was necessary"
"I was being poetic; actually, my powers don't even work in my world" My revelation earns a gasp from Siesta
"So, you don't have magic?"
"Nope, none at all"
*SLAM!*
"Then dealing with you should be no problem!" The door blasts open as a regal man walks in with two guards in tow, Siesta runs over and hides behind me…
Half-naked…
"You're the Count I assume" as I stand and address the man, he flourishes
"Yes, I am Count Mott the Wave, and you're going to be imprisoned for a long time! GUARDS!" I grab the Himawari Lockseed and summon forth a Elementary Inves, a human size creature that looks like a grey cocoon with legs with rather short and elbow-less arms, it has an underlying blue layer, though that can also be red or green
BATTLE START!
It charges at the guards, if weaponry from Modern Japanese Police can't harm these things, I doubt swords will, I turn around to Siesta, which I immediately look at my feet remembering her situation
"Grab your clothes and run!" I hear footsteps and a door closing…
Did she just lock herself the in the closet of the room? Looking back to my Inves I see it's already disarmed and knocked the guards unconscious, I attach my driver, equip the lock seed, and close it…
LOCK ON! A crack opens which the Inves leaves, it then closes
"HENSHIN!" I pull up from the handle
SOIYA~
My Pre-arms forms and Derf transforms, I scan the room to see Mott fiddling with keys near the closet, I charge at him and jump and cut diagonally across his back only to slash through an ice replica
"Oi-Oi! This guy's a powerful mage" I huff at Derfsou's remark
"Yeah, and I'm a powerful Kam… Warrior!" I turn only to have a large stream of water smash into me, sending me flying into the next room onto my ass, Siesta runs out, changed back into her maid outfit, Mott isn't far behind her, she runs and hides a couple feet behind me
"Listen boy, just give me back my property and turn yourself in quietly, I might just be benevolent and get you an early release for the murder charges" I get to my feet
"Sorry, she's coming with me, and…" I pull back on Derfsou's hammer "…How dare you call another human your property!" pulling the trigger at the hilt I fire off all four shots, the blasts catch him off guard causing his robes to burn at the blasts heat
"You said you couldn't use magic! What is…" the Count shouts
"You really weren't paying attention, were you?" I remark, he smirks in response and draws water from the flower vases nearby
"Then I won't hold back!" …Crap, a powerful combined stream of water comes flying towards me, pulling back the hammer again, I manage to fend off the Mystic Liquid with a rapid burst of shots, a very moderate splash of water collides against my suit, the strength weakened by reduced size, Derf groans
"Hey… Partner, could not do that anymore… I-I feel a little Light-Hilted" Hilt? Was the anatomy correction needed?
"Right, I'll think of something else" I look at my orange lock; it has a bit of its color back, but should I risk it? "It's all I got, even if it's a bluff" I whisper to myself, I lift the Orange Lockseed up in a flashy manner, the Count blasts it with a pulse of water sending it flying towards Siesta, I dash in cutting across his mid-section, he cuts at my armor with a thin, string-like torrent of water several times making me stagger backwards
"Elliot, catch!" I look behind me and see Siesta throwing the Orange Lock, I barely catch it before having to roll out of the way of an ice shard…!
The lock is rusting? …No, it's too bright orange to be-!
I smirk, not that anyone can see it, sheathing Derf I loop my middle finger through the lock I charge at the Count with it, with a confused look the Count blasts my hand with a stream of water, I give the lock a death grip, even using my other hand for support, after a while a large orange flash blinds the room and the Count looks at me with disbelief
"W-What was that? You must of lied when you said you couldn't use magic, otherwise this is Witchcraft!" I hold up the new Lockseed, while removing the Himawari
LOCK OFF~
"I guess my Home Ec teacher was right, you should wash fruits and vegetables before you eat them…" I hit the button
FRESH ORANGE!
I attach it to the driver…
LOCK ON!
…And pull up from the handle throwing my hand into the air
SOIYA~
The Orange armor based on a Japanese Samurai forms, however, unlike the regular armor, this one is a dark orange in color with parts in gold, and another difference is the twin Daidaimaru's, Swords which blades look like orange slices, one dark orange the other light orange
FRESH ORANGE ARMS, HANAMICHI ON STAGE!
"Oi, talk about eye candy!" I suddenly leap forward and slash at the Count furiously, caught off guard he stumbles backwards through the hole in the wall, twirling I cut into his robes again, he throws a glass of water from a nearby nightstand to the ground and forms an ice wall from it, causing me stop
"C-Cease your advances! I-I-I demand it!" he says hurriedly, I scoff
"I'm sorry, you clearly don't what I am, I am a warrior of justice! Kurokage!" I push down on the Cutting Blade once
FRESH ORANGE SQUASH!
The Daidaimaru's glow with energy, I slash an 'X' through the ice wall, causing it to shatter into the pieces that slowly begin to melt into magical dust, I run towards him
"H-H-Hero of justice?! Y-Y-You're nothing more than a murderer! A Villain!" points at me with an accusing finger, the phrase causing me to impulsively go wide and cleave off his forearm, he screams in pain
"S-SHUT UP!" I slash towards his neck
"OI, PARTNER, WAKE UP!" my body freezes, The blade of my Daidaimaru just millimeters away from his neck, I pull back and bash him in the side of the head with the handle, the impact causing him to go unconscious and slump to the floor, I look down to the holstered sword on my hip
"Thanks Derf"
"Oi-Oi, just be more careful, got it?" I nod
"Right, it's just… this has been a stressful trip, I suppose" I close the lock, as the armor disappears and Derf turns back to normal, the orange color from the lock floods into the Orange part of the Lockseed, returning to its normal coloring fully, I remove the lock and driver, returning them to my pocket, Siesta walks over to me unassuredly
"Elliot, did you…" Siesta asks
"No, he's just unconscious, I lightly tapped him" Of course the suit amplifies the power of the wearer so it MIGHT of killed him, but if my full force killed with little to no fracture, then assumedly a tap would just KO him "Though, we should escape now, I have the sinking feeling the guards'll report back only to find a missing count and start searching the premises"
"But how? The horse stables are protected and locked with a key"
"I have a steed of my own" Drawing Derf I smash a window and brush away all the remaining glass before sheathing him, I take out the Sakura Lockseed and open it, I toss it out the window and it transforms into the Sakura Hurricane, I grab Siesta by the wrist and assist her out the window, she looks at the Motorcycle with a curious glance
"What is this thing?" I walk past her and hop on it, observing the gauges
"It's a like a horse where I come from" I look to her "Get on, it won't bite, literally, it has no teeth" She gets on "It just roars… loudly, also you might want to hold on to something" she wraps her arms around my mid-section, revving the Sakura Hurricane it lets out a solid 'Wrrrm' sound, Siesta pulls herself closer…
I wonder, should I rev it more, or just get going…
"There he is!" a group of guards yell, revving again I drive forward towards them, they leap out of the way as I make my escape, after a few minutes I find myself driving down a moonlight mountain side, now more brilliantly lit due to the moons having risen since I drove there
"We're this far already?" Siesta asks
"It's fast, very fast" a brief silence follows, all heard is the light purring of the engine, after a bit however I speak up again "Hey, Siesta?"
"Yes?"
"Could, could you not tell anyone about this?"
"Why…" she pauses for a moment "...Oh"
"Yeah, I'm not proud of what I did, after tonight, I'm not even sure I can call myself a Kamen Rider ever again…" I sigh, thinking back to much earlier
"Say, what is a Kamen Rider, if you don't mind?"
"Hmm? Well, they're heroes of justice that fight the forces that are evil and unjust, though some riders themselves are evil, but that's where the drama and tension comes from; Kamen Rider's powers are the same parts good as they are evil, sometimes Kamen Riders are either people who should of became evil because of the circumstance, what they went through, or what they became…" Like Ichigou, Faiz, or Wizard
"…and some are just average guys with a heart filled with good intentions and the powers were thrown onto them…" Like Kuuga, Den-o, or Fourze
"...then, there are the Dark Riders, who abuse their power…" Like Ouja, Kabuki, or Poseidon
"…And then there's me, a little bit of B and C, I abused my powers even though I had good intentions… and I ended up killing people…"
"Then, you're a Kamen Rider aren't you" Siesta's comment catches me off guard "Like you said, your power isn't solely good or bad, you had good intentions and isn't that all that matters?" I sigh
"I wish life where that simple, good intentions only get you so far, I'm a murderer, hell I could have been saving a princess from a mad warlock, sure to get the title 'Mad Warlock' he probably did some bad things, but if I kill him, even though I saved the princess, does that not still make me a murder?"
"You're over-thinking things; I believe there is a saying that goes 'The ends justify the means', right?"
"Yeah… thanks Siesta" Though I'm not entirely convinced…
Atleast I know she has my back, or at the very least looking out for my well-being…
Or maybe she's just a really nice girl, either way…
"No problem, you saved me, cheering you up is the least I could do… Ah!" Siesta says, ending on a gasp
"What is it? Did you leave something behind?"
"One of your artifacts! The Count had one of your artifacts and he was going to send it to the Royal Magicians to have it studied!" I sigh with relief, which confuses her
"That's good, at least if they study it they may be able to fight against Inves"
"But what about you're magic?" Didn't I say it wasn't… then again, magic is still a rather accurate term for it, other than super power, which I suspect isn't a thing in this universe
"It's fine, I can get a replacement" I never really liked Ichigo to be honest, but if I need it I can always traverse Hel-actually, maybe I could go home through Helheim…
After a while, I insisted we take a scenic route… which got us a bit lost, we eventually reach Tristain Academy, we bid each other farewell and head to our respective quarters
12:03 am~
I look into Louise's room to see her fast asleep in her school outfit with a riding crop still firm in her hand, on top of the covers and legs dangling off the side of the bed
"How… Leave without my… stupid dog…" I chuckle a bit at sleep talking, gently moving her to a more comfortable position; I lay to rest on my 'bed', resting Derf against the wall
"Night Derf"
"Goodnight, Kamen Rider" I smile a bit
"Oh shut up, you…" I fall into a peaceful, but somewhat troubled sleep
Back at the Estate, a silhouetted figure stands atop the roof looking down at officers talking with guards as mages in white garb tend to the injured count
"Hmm, so things are getting interesting" the figure holds up half of a bronze plate "I already have a fourth of what I need to get what I'm looking for…" holding up a gun shaped object, and slipping a card into the barrel
ATTACK RIDE~
"This just might be my funniest treasure hunt yet" pulling the barrel forward the figure pulls the trigger
INVISIBLE!
The figure disappears from the roof top
*ZIP*
A Zipper drags across the screen, a Fourze Kaban appears, it pops open showing all the new lockseeds displayed in this Chapter
{Fresh Orange}
Incep:"I'd like to say, this was uploaded earlier than usual because i have a thing i have to do today, but that aside i have gotten a few reviews asking about the more technical side of the Gaim half of this fic, everything i use in this fic can be found on the Kamen Rider Wikia page, so if you're every confused about something, go to the Wikia first and foremost"