Wow, that was quite the Premier impression. I've already got five reviews, not to mention a few follows and favorites. With this reaction I guess I have to update a little sooner. Well, to start off, I'd like to set some guide lines for this fic so as to deter some questions. My wish is to base this story within a combination of both the CCS manga and anime, including the movies. I want to fully intergrate my original Kamen Rider wizard into the Cardcaptor Universe while also utilizing the themes and traditions of his original series. However for those who came here mainly for Wizard don't expect to see any original characters from the show, I also might not use some phantoms, for instance as far as I have planned I may not use Gremlin. So apologies ahead of time for any Sora fans. So with that, let's begin!
Chapter 1: Sakura, the Wizard and a mother's love.
"Gather round! Gather round!" The jolly call resounded through the park as children lead their parents toward an already growing mob of onlookers. The focus of their attention gleefully waved the over, revealing his empty black top hat for all to see. "Look closely. Do you see anything in it?" The foreign man asked as several kids shook their heads in anticipation.
"Now then. Say the magic words:" He called reaching his hand in side and motioning for the children.
"ALAKAZAM!" They all called.
"Whoa!" He pretended to struggle as he fished out a long green stem. He tugged harder, seemingly unable to remove what was at the end of the stem. "Can I get some help?" He asked trying for a volunteer.
"Momma, can I try?" A small girl at the front of the line asked her mother. The young woman smiled and nodded. The child happily stepped forward as the magician offered her his hat. The girl grabbed a hold of the green stem (keep ur dirty jokes to ur self) and tugged with all her might.
Pop!
Without any resistance at all the girl freed her prize from the hat marveling over the beautiful bouquet of colorful flowers she had gotten. "She's done it! A round of applause for my lovely volunteer!" The magician clapped for the young girl prompting everyone else to join in. The girl blushed and returned to her mother's side who also clapped for her.
"Sugei!" Near the back of the gathering stood the awestruck Sakura Kinimoto who marveled at the foreigners display. "That was incredible."
"What's so incredible about it?" Struggling to hold up the latch to Sakura's school bag the tiny clow guardian watched the simple trick unimpressed. "Sakura can do that too. And without the hat." He muttered.
"It's the man's showmanship and ability to please the crowd that everyone's cheering for, that's half of the trick." Tomoyo explained happily giggling at her cousin's childish wonder. Kero however still remained unconvinced. He apparently wasn't the only one.
"Such foolishness being so awed by such a simple trick." A very blunt voice said from the back of the group near Sakura and Tomoyo. The speaker was a tall, stern looking elderly man wearing a pair of thin rimmed glasses. The crowd turned their attention to the man who made his way to the front of the line. He stood face to face with the magician. "A fake bouquet in a hat with a false bottom. A trick only a child would be fooled by." The gathered parents stared at the man in outrage but the magician raised his hand to get their attention and looked at the older man full in the eye.
"Now see here sir." The magician started, he then reached back into his hat and pulled out a single flower. "If you wanted a flower of your own so badly you didn't need to make such a fuss." He offered the flower to the perplexed man who couldn't fathom how there was enough room in the hat for another flower.
"Hmph! Foolish clown." The man snarled as he snatched the flower preparing to throw it away.
"Funny you should mention clowns." The magician grinned. The spectacled man paused mid toss when he noticed a rubber tube coming from the bottom of his flower and running back into the magician's sleeve.
"Gahh!" The man was too late to throw the flower away as a jet of water sprayed from the open bud of the flower hitting him full in the face. The children started laughing at the once arrogant man now having to wipe his face dry and his eyes clean.
"Thank you! You've been a beautiful audience!" The magician placed the hat back on his head and waved goodbye to his audience retreating down a side path. The children were disappointed that the show was already over but glad for the fun of the whole show. Humiliated, the man stalked away with his fists clenched.
"Ok, now that was entertainment." Kero tried as hard as he could to hold in his laughter, the edges of a wide grin appearing behind a mouth he was struggling to keep sealed. He soon noticed that both his friends were silent to the show. "I guess that guy did overdo it abit." Kero scratched the back of his head in slight embarrassment when he realized his friends probably didn't like the cruel joke as much as he did. But Sakura and Tomoyo didn't seem to show any sign that they were paying attention to him. In fact their eyes were glued firmly to the retreating back of the humiliated man.
"Tomoyo-chan, isn't that?" Sakura started.
"It did look like him." Tomoyo agreed.
"Huh? What's going on?" Kero looked back and forth between Sakura and Tomoyo, clueless to what they were talking about. "Whoa where are we going!?" He called out as Sakura broke into a run for the side path the man had taken.
"That was definitely Kurikara-sensei." Sakura said aloud.
"But he was acting really different to his usual self." Tomoyo added in.
"Who are you two talking about?" Kero said just as the two came to a halt on an open street, their mark nowhere in sight.
"Did we lose him?" Tomoyo asked not seeing any side streets close enough that he could of turned into.
"Ok you two need to calm down and explain. Who is this guy?" Kero, having escaped Sakura's bag and was now flying in front of the two with an annoyed look, demanded.
"That was our classes English Literature teacher." Tomoyo explained. "Although he wasn't acting like how we know him to."
"The Kurikara-sensei we knew was always really nice. He loved teaching more than anything. So that was why it was really sad when he was forced to retire a few months ago." Sakura explained sadly. "Some of our classmates tried to stay in touch with him but soon we were hearing less and less of him before finally he just seemed to of disappeared."
"Hmm. Ok but that guy was a complete jerk. Doesn't sound anything like the guy you described." Kero pondered.
"That's why we want to find him and ask what happened to him." Sakura explained.
"Ok. Got it. Leave it to me!" Kero put a paw to his chest and he floated a little higher into the air. "I'll fly over head and see if I spot him."
"Please do." Tomoyo agreed.
"Ok, I'll be bac-." Before Kero could finish a loud scream was heard back in the direction of the park.
"What was that?" Sakura looked back to the direction of the park, it was then that she sensed it. A dark, dangerous presence was emanating from the park and immediately she broke back into a run.
"Sakura?!" Tomoyo called after her friend with Kero in hot pursuit.
"Hey wait up!"
'This presence, the people in the park are in danger!' Sakura thought herself. She slid to a halt as she rounded the bend and was able to look into the area. What she saw caused her eyes to widen.
Throughout the park, lanky horned creatures were chasing after a small pack of terrified people. The creatures stood as tall as the average person. Their grayish skin gave the impression like they were made of stone and they had orange, fissure like marks across their bodies. Many of them were armed with various weapons, some with long pikes and others with thin swords.
"What- what are they?" Tomoyo and Kero had finally managed to catch up with Sakura and they too were shocked by what they saw.
"With the small amount of magic that these things are giving off, they must be some type of familiar but why so many and who would order them to do this?" Kero hissed preparing to transform into his true, fully grown form.
"What do we do?" Sakura gripped the key hanging from her necklace, hoping it would give her some kind of answer. "We need to help, but there's so many people around." Just as Sakura was fighting with this conundrum a young girl had tripped and fell behind the group, her mother ran back to save her but the stone monsters were closing in too fast. "No choice!" Sakura finally pulled the pink key from around her neck when…
Vroom!
The monsters were just within grabbing distance of the little girl when the loud roar of an engine and a silver and red blur ran through them, knocking the beasts aside giving the mother time to reach her daughter.
"Who is that?" Kero stared wide mouthed as the silver, dragon designed motor cycle came to a stop. Its rider kicked the stand down and pushed off the bike, his helmet covering his face.
"Nigero!" He commanded the woman pointing toward the nearest exit, which happened to be where Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero were.
"Over here!" Tomoyo called as the mother picked up her daughter and dashed toward them. Kero hid back inside Sakura's bag as Sakura and Tomoyo waved the mother over. Sakura turned back to see the lone biker standing defiant before the recovered horde. He turned back toward their direction and as the two's eyes met a strange sensation filled Sakura's mind, she could not place it but she felt sure of one thing.
'Everything will definitely be alright.' She thought, her magic phrase encouraging her. She saw the man smile as if he knew what she was thinking. He gestured that she should get moving and she complied.
"Now then." The rider removed his helmet revealing messy brown hair and blue eyes as he tossed it aside. The horde was closing in on him as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a pair of rings. One, a black hand-print designed ring he placed on his belt buckle that matched it perfectly.
Driver On!
Bright light filtered from the buckle as his belt changed shape to that of a silvery metallic belt, the buckle remained but it was now framed by a metal plate with a switch that was built beside it. The rider pushed the switch down, inverting the hand prints position from 4-o'clock to 7-o'clock. An electronic beep sounded as flashing light appeared in the center of the belt. He then placed a new ring on his finger and held it to the buckle.
Connect, please!
The rider lifted his ring hand to the air beside him as a red magic circle appeared in the air from his hand. He reached into the sigil filled circle, pulling out a silver long barreled gun that also had the hand shaped symbol but now it was closed resembling a fist. The rider swung wide as he fully removed his weapon, clamping down on the trigger as he did. Silver bullets exploded from the barrel of his weapon as they redirected their wide paths, smashing into the stone horde and send many of them to the ground instantly.
"Saa…" The rider spun the gun around his finger cowboy style. "Showtime daa."
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"I think we got far enough away." Sakura gasped for air as she, Tomoyo and the mother holding her child and escaped to a more secluded area away from the park.
"Those things they just came out of nowhere." The mother gasped. "Thankyou, you really helped us."
"It's no problem at all." Tomoyo said and Sakura nodded in agreement. She then blinked. "If I'm not mistaken I think we saw you two at that show earlier."
"Ah! You were the little girl who volunteered." Sakura finally noticed.
"Ehmm!" The little girl nodded. "That nice magician even let me keep these pretty flowers." She was still holding onto the bouquet she pulled from the magician's hat. The little girl then seemed to notice something behind Sakura and Tomoyo and pointed. "Ah! It's that mean ogi-san!" Sakura and Tomoyo turned and stared wide eyed as the man they had been looking for was now standing before them.
"Kinimoto-kun. Daidouji-kun." He nodded in recognition.
"Kurikara-sensei!" Sakura called in shock.
"Why are you here?" Tomoyo inquired.
"I heard the commotion and saw you all running away. I couldn't let a woman and child along with two of my former students to just fend for themselves. I may be old but I'm not so old that I can't help."
"Sensei." Sakura's eyes glazed with respect, her teacher hadn't changed after all.
"Thank you for your assistance. I just want to get my daughter to safety as quick as possible." The mother nodded in gratitude.
"You cherish you're daughter a lot it seems." Tomoyo stated with a glad smile on her face.
"My little Ruka-chan is the best part of my life." The mother said cradling her daughter close.
"Mama daisuki!" Ruka hugged her mother close. The display warmed the two girl's hearts but for the other person present a sly grin appeared on his face.
"I see, so that is what keeps you going." Sakura and Tomoyo turned to ask what he meant by that but they noticed he had disappeared once again.
"Mama!" They around just in time to see the now reappeared Kurikara having snatched Ruka from her mother's arms and jumping away with speed and grace unbefitting his age.
"Kurikara-sensei! What are you doing!?"
"Ruka!" The mother called in fear vainly reaching for her daughter as Ruka reached toward her in turn.
"Hahahahaha!" Kurikara laughed at the top of his lungs and with his free hand he removed his glasses and tossed them aside. His aged eyes now had an unnatural red glow behind them as he smiled wickedly. "The man known as Kurikara no longer exist." He declared.
"What?" Sakura asked dumbfounded.
"He devoted his entire life to teaching and when he was forced to retire, it destroyed him, literally!" The creature that resembled Kurikara then began to morph and change as red smoke rose up from its body. "And from his remains I was born! HELL HOUND!"
"M-monster!" Sakura reeled back in shock as her teacher had been utterly transformed. His body was covered in a molten almost burning skin and his face was utterly void save for twin pits blazing hell fire.
"Now, I will make this woman fall in to despair by getting rid of this brat!" A thin metal sword appeared in his hands as he pointed it toward the frightened little girl.
"Ruka!" The mother called out in despair.
"Stop!" Sakura yelled pulling the key from her neck once again.
Bam!
"Gahh!" Hell Hound reeled forward as something struck him in the back, forcing him to drop the little girl.
"Ojou-chan. I suggest you run."
"Bastard! Who the hell do you think you are?!" Hell Hound turned to crush the person who shot him in the back he was surprised to recognize the one who attacked him. "The clown from the park." He scoffed. "Any more tricks you want to show me." He mocked as he lifted his blade to charge.
"Treeku janai." The magician stated back as he slipped a ring with a red gem onto his finger. "From here on out its real magic."
"He's...a sorcerer too?!" Tomoyo gasped in disbelief, Sakura remained silent but stared focus on the ring on his finger. From its depth she felt it, a warm draft emanated from it. A draft that could have only come from a mighty blaze.
"Henshin!" The magician called out as he placed the ring onto the hand print on his buckle.
Flame! Please!
Hi,hi! Hi,hi,hi! (fire)
A red magic circle appeared in the air beside him. The circle glided over him, covering his body in red flames. With a wave of his hand the flames flew away revealing the magician in all his armored splendor.
"Sugei!" Sakura, Tomoyo and even Kero called out in awe. The magician's new armor was black with red, crystal like pads on his chest and red lenses on his helmet that was designed similar to that of a bug with a pair of anttenae like horns. Twin tassels hung from the armor giving the impressions of a magicians coat. And a chain of rings of different colors and shapes hung from his belt. The magician sweeped his coat tails back and raised his ring hand in a sign of challenge.
"Saa, showtime daa."
"It can't be!" Hell Hound cried out in disbelief. "A wizard here!?"
The magician chuckled to himself as he held his silver gun in both his hands. He then pushed up on the barrel prompting the barrel to align with its grip and causing a silver blade to spring forth. "Let's go, puppy dog." The magician charged his newly formed sword poised to attack. Not willing to back down, Hell Hound charged with his own weapon.
Their blades clashed sending sparks flying as Hell Hound went for a stab and the wizard parried, catching the blade on his own. Wizard then elbowed the beast in the side of the head forcing their clash to break apart. Angrily the monster went for another swipe, stabbing with abandon. The Wizard ducked and parried against the assault, not showing any sign of fear. Then Hell Hound went for a low swipe, however the Wizard anticipated this, cartwheeling over the slash and slamming his foot down atop his enemies head, forcing Hell Hound down again.
"Damn you!" Hell Hound slammed his fist to the ground angrily but then he suddenly vanished, almost as if he had sunk into the ground. The wizard redoubled his guard, not knowing what his opponent was up to.
"Where are you looking?"
"Gotcha!" The magician swiped backwards but he hit only empty air. "What the hell?" He dropped his guard in confusion only long enough for Hell Hound to slash him across the back sending him reeling.
"The shadows, he's using the shadows!" Tomoyo called prompting the magician to look at his feet where sure enough he saw the detestable face of his foe.
"How very observant Daidouji-kun. Indeed I have the ability to sink and travel through the shadows." He then receded back into the darkness and reappeared away from his adversary. "And no place is safe from me." His eyes were focused on a line of trees, where, having followed the advice of her savior, young Ruka hid behind the trunk of a large oak.
"Oh no. Kid get out of there!" The wizard warned.
"Disappear." Hell Hound lifted his claw to his mouth as flames built in his maw. "Graaahhh!" A line of fire shot forth from Hell Hound's mouth blasting against the line of trees.
"RUKA!" The young mother fell to her knees as she watched her loving daughters sanctuary go up in flames. "My…little…baby."
Crack!
"Hahahaha! Yes fall into despair!" Hell Hound cackled as purple fissures began to spread across the sorrow filled face of the mother.
"Damn you!" The wizard slashed with his blade, the monster just barely avoiding it by hiding back in the shadows.
"With this I just have to get rid of you and those two-wait where'd the other one go!?" Hell Hound demanded noticing that one certain Card Mistress was missing.
"Key that holds the power of the stars show your true form before me. I Sakura command you under our contract. Release!"
"What's this light?!" Hell Hound cried as he was forced out of his dark hiding spot by the intense light given off by Sakura's magic circle.
"Gotcha!" The wizard pulled another ring from his chain and held it in front of the buckle. Meanwhile, Sakura pulled a card from her pocket as it spun in mid air in front of her.
Cho-ine! Kick Strike! Saikoooooo!
Watery!
"Haaaaaa!" The red magic circle appeared beneath the wizards boot as flames began to generate around it. "Finale!" He called as he broke into a run, cartwheeled and then back flipped into the air with his boot ablaze.
Sakura waved her Star Wand (wow, I can feel my masculinity receding already) against the card with the image of a water nymph on it. The nymph rose up from the card in a stream of clear blue water and soared toward the blazing trees.
"Impossible!" Hell Hound cried out once more as the burning kick blasted him in the chest sending him flying back before he finally exploded.
Watery had done her job, having doused the flames with jets of water leaving only wisp rising from the charred wood. "Is she okay?" Sakura called into the smoke as a pair of huge wings were revealed amidst the ruined woods.
"She fainted from the heat but she seems ok." Kero, having taken his true form and used his wing barrier to shield the child from the flames just as they hit.
"Nice! Kinimoto Sakura-chan!" The wizard gave the confused Sakura a congratulatory thumbs-up and then turned his attention back to the slowly shattering mother. He pulled yet another ring from his chain and went to the mother's side.
"Ruka..Ruka…" She muttered sadly as she seemed to get weaker and weaker.
"Don't worry. That girl saved your daughter. Now leave it to me…" He slipped the new ring onto the mother's finger. "to save your hope." He lifted her hand up to his buckle as the scanner resounded once again.
Engage,please!
A red circle now appeared over the dying woman as the wizard levitated over it and then slowly receded into it. Sakura, Tomoyo and Kero rushed to see what was going on. "What just happened?" Sakura asked her guardian.
"Your guess is as good as mine. Let's just hope it works out. For her sake." Kero motioned to the still girl resting on his back."
"Mama." Ruka muttered sadly as a tear ran down her cheek.
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"So, this is that woman's under world." The portal dropped the armored wizard into what looked like a hospital except, save for him, everything was black and white. Everything except the purple fissures smashed into the ground and walls like rips in space, and the colossal thing ripping more fissures in the wall in a desperate attempt to escape.
"There you are." The wizard said as the multi headed serpent turned on him. He slipped another ring on his finger and lifted it to the scanner as the beast charged. It crashed into another, larger magic circle that suddenly appeared in front of the Wizard and a mighty roar resonated from its surface.
Dragorise! Please!
A golden horned, red gem tipped headed exploded from the circle, blasting the hydra with a gout of flames that sent it flying out the hospital doors. The dragon fully escaped its portal as it gave chase to its foe, the wizard chuckled as he slipped the connect ring back on his finger summoning another portal. "You're as rowdy as ever, Dragon." The magician's motorcycle wheeled out of the portal and like a loyal dog stopped at his side. The rider mounted his bike, revving the engine. "Ikou, Winger." The bike roared to life as the wizard gave chase to his overzealous partner.
"Whoa, he's really going at it." He quipped having caught up, watching as the dragon was at a standoff with the hydra, its many heads biting into the beast's thick hide while dragon slashed and bit at his hated foes underbelly.
"Dragon! Lend me your power!" Wizard called as his bike leaped into the air and its wheels split, latching onto the dragons wings and giving the wizard a seat on the dragon's back.
"Finale!" He called as he readied his sword and pulled down the thumb part of its hand scanner.
C'mon slash, shake hands!
The rider placed his red ringed hand onto the scanner causing it to flash with light.
Flame! Slash Strike! Hi hi hi!
A torrent of flame erupted from the base of the blade and up to its tip as the wizard pulled back to slash.
"Haa!" With a mighty horizontal stroke the wizard cut through each of the hydra's heads with a line of fire. Dragon then finished the beast off by blasting the center of its chest with a massive fire ball, causing it to explode as a giant sized hole appeared in its center.
"Fui." The wizard sighed in content as the world around him began to repair itself. The dragon roared in triumphant and flew off back into the portal from whence it came.
"That should do it." The wizard dusted himself off preparing to leave. But then he heard it, low in the distance.
"Whaa! Whaa!"
"Hmm?" Curious, the wizard followed the sound back into the hospital till he found the origin to be in one of the rooms.
"Whaa! Whaa! Whaa!
"There, there Ruka-chan!" A new mother sat up in her hospital bed, cradling her newborn child in her arms and doting lovingly. "It's ok, mama's here." The tiny baby blinked as it ceased to cry, reaching up to her mother. Her small fingers wrapped around her mother's larger one and she cooed gleefully.
"Ahh." The wizard leaned in the door way knowing that the occupants of the room couldn't see him. Still, with a flick of his wrist a single flower appeared in his hand. He placed it at the foot of the bed and offered a small prayer. "Even a tiny hope, I will protect it no matter what."
And done! Man was this long. But I hope its suitable as the first official chapter. Next chapter: we learn a little more about our mysterious magician, who sent him and what's happening in Tomoeda. Till next time.
Ps. there I fixed any errors I may have first made. sorry about that Wizard probably has the most henshin noises of any kamen rider I've seen so its hard to keep track of what to put in.
