Chapter 4 : Starting point
Disclaimer : I do not own Kamen Rider and RWBY as they belonged to their respective owners, except for my OC(s).
Blake Belladonna wasn't the one to open up herself to the others.
All she ever wanted was a peaceful environment for her book-reading routine. It was also how she had gained an extensive knowledge towards the world. She was glad that she could finally earned it after blewing up the candle and went back to sleep. But something was preventing her from her peace of mind.
Looking back, she always shove anyone away from her, not wanting to be known or noticed all the time. It was as if she was keeping something from anyone, either for the good or bad. But seeing how Yang, Ruby and Kyle acted towars her, she could feel that they won't let her slip away that easy. It was actually fun if she said it herself.
However, Kyle had a different sensation the moment when she looked at him. Unlike most men, she recognized some similar vibes from the young man. Loneliness, anger and sadness towards his past, something that she used to had long time ago. Which is why he could confront her firmly, unlike the others who mostly went away easily for failing to woo her. He never had such means and moreover, she even felt that he was really out of this world.
Curious, Blake decided to go to the Rider's place. She changed her clothes first before she went to observe him from the window. There, she saw him practicing his weapon's swings, albeit looked a bit sloppy. She wondered how he managed to survive with that kind of fighting skill. Finally, Blake made her way to the outside.
Kyle, who was already in the courtyard, tried to process more of his thoughts, especially from his last fight with the Beowolves and the Spider Kaijin. He even wondered how he had such prowess and skills on fighting such creatures which he never did before. Curious, he decided to test it there by himself.
He placed his Decadriver on his waist as it formed the Ride Booker, which he took out from its strap and changed it to the sword mode. He then practiced his swings by memorizing some of the moves from any sources he could remember well. There was also a point where he did a jumping swing and failed as he fell to the ground. He laughed it off as he remarked that he'll need to spend a couple of years, maybe even ages to reach the performance he needed.
After he went back on his feet, he swung his sword again for a couple of times until he saw a figure closing by to him when he turned around, causing him to fall backwards in surprise. It was the girl in black that he met recently, Blake Belladonna.
"Oh… It's you… If I was an old man here, I don't think I'd survive that 'heart attack' of yours…" Kyle said as he panted from the shock.
"Not every boy that I knew would sneak out for a fresh air tonight." Blake remarked as she offered the Rider her hand.
"Yeah… hehehe… what brings you here anyway?" he wondered as he was being helped by her.
"You're… not from here aren't you?"
"No, I'm not. Why bother?"
"Then…what do you do if you get bullied?"
"Eh?"
"Even in this time of peace, oppression still exists in the society. Not even equality could describe this world. That's why I came here." Blake explained.
"I see. You want to set things right for your life. I take it that you had those bullies before?" Kyle asked.
"Most of the time."
"And why is that?"
"Because… I'm different… from any other people here." She explained begrudgingly, feeling bitter just by saying it. This was noticed by Kyle himself.
"Blake, there's nothing wrong in being different. Back home, I was bullied just because they don't like my achievements and my quirks. That's what made me different from most of my friends." Kyle replied.
"Really?" Blake's eyes widened upon hearing it.
"You see, I was some sort of a bookworm or nerd when I was little, spent most of my times in the library. But whenever I came outside, they were always expecting me. They either dropped my book or took my money by force. That time, I couldn't do anything but crying all the way home…"
"But my parents and a good friend of mine always taught me to stand proud and ignore their insults, regardless of who I am and what could I become. So, by the time I got fed up from those bullies, I threw my fists to them until they gave up. But it's not without consequences. I got suspended for three days. My parents weren't proud of it, but they do understand my conditions. So they just told me to take things calmly onwards and that they'll keep supporting me as a family, a place where I can go back to anytime."
"I see…" Blake muttered.
"Bullies exist because of jealousy and arrogance. They always wanted to be on the top all the time by any means necessary, even if it's a dirty solution. They won't hesitate to tear us apart when they had the chance." He explained.
"And that's why you're here too, isn't it?" she wondered with a little smile on her face.
"Well, I also had the same reason with Ruby back there." He chuckled, agreeing her guess.
"We all do, Kyle."
"Hehe… yeah, we-" his words were soon interrupted by a beeping noise from his belt, followed by a blinking red light from its glass orb.
"What is it?" Blake wondered.
Kyle took a second to realize what it was. He said, "Something's coming."
"Mind if I tag along?" Blake offered.
"Please do." Kyle agreed.
The Rider and the black Huntress soon followed the trail of the said presence to Beacon's main building. There, they found the presence of a humanoid bat creature. It had a white mask like the previous Kaijin from before, albeit looked thinner with a pair of red eyes and a pair of visible fangs. Its body was slimmer with white and red tribal markings. It also had white claws in its hands and feet, along with a pair of folded wings underneath its arms.
The Bat Kaijin was seen setting up some kind of a device, which couldn't be seen due to the distance. The two got no choice but to get a closer look, and that means showing themselves to the monster. What was more important, was that they still had the element of surprise.
"You sure you're up to this?" Kyle asked as he readied his weapon in gun mode.
"I'm a Huntress. This doesn't make any difference to me." Blake said as she was also ready to unsheathe her Gambol Shroud.
"Just be prepared if it does."
"Right."
Kyle took his aim and shot the ground nearby the monster's right foot,causing it to flinch in surprise and turned its attention to its assailant.
"Whatever you do, this place doesn't accept sleepover parties, for the time being." Kyle said to the creature.
The creature chuckled darkly in a light-masculine sinister voice, "I'm the only one who conduct every parties that I hold. You two have no right to shut it down."
"Says the one who came here uninvited." Blake added, pointing her weapon at the creature.
"The ones who were uninvited here are both of you!" The creature roared as he charged at the Rider and the Huntress.
Blake stepped up first by swinging her jet black cleaver to the Kaijin. The slash was blocked by the Bat Kaijin's razor-sharp wings and struck her with his claws, which Blake managed to either dodged out or blocked. After trading a few slashes, the Bat Kaijin managed to shove the Kunoichi out of his way, but it was Kyle who attacked next. He shot a few rounds before turning the Ride Booker to its sword mode, trading hits with the monster.
However, the Kaijin also managed to saw through his attacks by striking down his sword and kicked him in the gut, causing the Rider to cringe in pain. As the monster was about to stroke him down, Blake quickly removed the hilt of her blade, which revealed a black thin Katana. She managed to block the Bat Kaijin's attack using her Katana and her razor-sharp cleaver scabbard, dual-wielding both of them.
Kyle, who was close enough to the device, went to look at it. His eyes were widened as it turned out to be a time bomb loaded with explosive dust vials, enough to blow up an entire building. He then proceeded to warn Blake.
"Blake! we have to hurry! He was trying to set off a time bomb!"
"What!?" Blake exclaimed as she pushed the Kaijin away and went to Kyle.
"Don't worry, the timer isn't moving. We just need to keep him away from it." The rider then took out his Kamen ride card. He inserted the card to his driver and it announced,
KAMEN RIDE :
"So the rumors were true. You're the Armored Huntsmen." Blake said.
"I'm a Kamen Rider. Remember that." Kyle remarked.
"HENSHIN!"
He closed his driver as it announced,
DECADE!
The Decade armor soon enveloped Kyle and his helmet visors glowed brightly, activating its systems. Powered by the armor, Decade traded slashes the Kaijin. He managed to graze the monster's body as sparks flew out from it. Next, was Blake changing her weapon into a Kusarigama sickle, which she threw to the monster's back. She pulled herself using the black ribbon attached in the weapons hilt to the monster and kicked him away a few meters ahead.
"Had enough?" Blake taunted.
"Actually…"the Bat Kaijin retracted his hands, revealing a remote button in his right hand,"I still have my own tricks here."
The Bat pressed the button, resulting in a beeping sound from the device and activating its timer, waiting for its explosion.
"Great…" Decade sarcasticly sighed.
"In the meantime, go play with these." The Kaijin retracted his right hand, causing a black dust to cover himself.
As the dust dissipated, the Bat Kaijin was nowhere tobe found, only to be replaced by several black humanoid figures appeared. They had black light armors with silver skeleton motives, each wore a black hazmat mask. The Combatants chanted "EEEE!" as they marched towards the Rider and the Kunoichi.
"What are those?" Blake panted.
"Minions, I guess?" Decade then ordered, "Blake, you get rid of the bomb. I'll hold them off."
Blake nodded as she rushed to the bomb while Decade was dealing with the Combatants. He slashed the Combatants, causing sparks flew from their bodies, some still stood while others were destroyed into black dusts. He then shifted the Ride Booker into its gun mode and shot laser rounds to the remaining Combatants, until nothing left on the field.
The magenta Rider turned to Blake, "How's the bomb?"
"I can't find the wires! It's not an ordinary bomb!" She shouted.
"How much time do we have left?"
"30 seconds!"
The timer kept moving as the tension rose. He studied the bomb to find out that Blake was right. Desperate times calls for desperate measures, and as the timer reached 20 seconds, he finally came with an idea in his mind.
"Then we have to destroy it."
"But the explosion will hit the building too!" Blake objected.
"How about taking it for a flight?" he suggested as he took the bomb.
"What are you-"
The Kunoichi's words were cut off as Decade threw the bomb upwards to the air.
"It's all yours."
Blake, who finally realized the Rider's intention, prepared her Gambol Shroud's gun mode and aimed precisely at the thrown bomb. She fired a few rounds and managed to shoot the bomb, as it exploded upon in contact with the Dust rounds. Decade saw the explosion with his mouth agape, then he oooh-ed the explosion as if he was seeing an action movie.
"Done." Blake simply remarked.
"Looks like we're the bomb, here..." He said exhaustedly.
"Wha-?" Blake suddenly heard a thud behind her. She turned to see Decade lumping in the ground. He was seemingly exhausted from the fight, especially from the tension of ridding away a bomb in night time. The Kunoichi judged that this whole battle experience was rather new to him.
Blake, unsure of what had befallen the magenta warrior, approached him, "Umm… are you ok?"
Her only reply was a soft snore came out from his mouth. He was also detransformed as his armor dematerialized itself. All that was left on the courtyard were Blake Belladonna and the slumbering Kyle Morgan, victors of the raging battle.
Blake sighed, "How does he even sleep at times like this?" she then proceeded to carry him back to the ballroom.
She wasn't bothered by his weight. When she looked at Kyle's slumbering face, she felt some peace for a moment and some that she couldn't even describe. However, she shrugged it off, stating that it was nothing to be thought about as the two proceeded to the Ballroom.
Later…
Kyle found himself lying in an empty void. All around him was pitch black. He was also unsure about his recent condition.
"Hello? Anybody here?"
He shouted to nobody in particular until the place was bathed in a bright light. The Rider covered his eyes until the place was revealed to be a projection of numerous earths, each looked alike one another. Except the earth that was in front of him. It was much different than his own earth map. He saw some unlikely islands and also a land that resembled a dragon. The earths were circling around him as a bright light dimmed right behind him.
The light died out and revealed a male figure. He was wearing a brown one-sleeved cloth which left his right hand only covered with his black long-sleeved shirt underneath. He was also wearing grey pants and black shoes. His face was somewhat familiar to Kyle before.
Until the Rider came in realization.
"You're… Tsukasa?"
"It's been a pleasure, Kyle Morgan."
Kyle knew that he still couldn't process what was going on there. The last time he checked, Tsukasa was the store manager he had met earlier during his job application. If he remembered it correctly, it was just a day ago after he got accepted and then the whole Kamen Rider thing happened. Even so, he still needed to keep himself calm as he didn't want to look like a spoiled brat who always got easily panicked.
He took a deep breath and asked, "So... you're the one who brought me here, then?"
"Why yes, I'm the one who sent you the Decadriver." The man non-chalantly explained
"You mean this thingymajigy?" he held his Driver up, replied by Tsukasa's "Exactly."
"Then I guess Yusuke and Natsumi were with you in this whole… thing, is it?"
"That too, is never a farce."
"Then why me? of all people?"
"Well, first of all, yes, I'm the reason why you're in Remnant, and no, I'm technically NOT the one who sent you here."
"What do you mean?"
"It was the belt itself that chose you. It showed us a picture of a young man who would wield its power and use it for good purposes. It's you, all on its own decision."
Kyle was also surprised by the revelation. Somehow, the device that he held chose him as its wielder from the very beginning. He kept trying to keep himself calm. He then continued to Tsukasa's explanation.
"But on my behalf, I chose you because you have the right to use it. Remember our last meeting in the market's office? It was never just a sweetener. You're willing to help those around you and fight your way out for it. That's what I admire from you. And so, I deem you worthy of being the next Decade."
"The next Decade? Who was the first?"
"You're seeing him." Tsukasa said.
"Oooh… I see. So why am I here, in Remnant?"
"We have detected an ominous presence in Remnant. They might have their own warriors; The Huntsmen and Huntresses, but I'm afraid those won't be enough for this time. Which is why, us Kamen Riders are needed to provide them our assistance, as well as the reason of the new Decadriver's creation."
"Great danger? Oh right, the Kaijin I fought earlier mentioned something about Dai-Shocker."
Tsukasa's eyes widened upon hearing it. He confirmed, "Then it's true, Dai-Shocker was setting their plans to conquer Remnant."
"Just who are they, anyway?"
"Dai-Shocker is the sworn enemy of us Kamen Riders. They used to kidnap humans and turned them to brainwashed cyborgs through inhumane experiments. However, one the cyborgs broke out of their control and fought them to ensure mankind's safety. The rogue cyborg was the first Kamen Rider to exist, Kamen Rider Ichigo. And thus, he paved a way for many to come. That includes us here too."
"Wow, that's the most badass way to start a history." Kyle remarked as he smirked in amusement.
Tsukasa chuckled before he continued, "While that may be true, we managed to track their presence on Remnant after they hadn't revealed themselves for years. We found them working with something. They had been working with… Grimms."
Another hint of the Kaijins' existence was shown. Kyle widened his eyes upon hearing it. First, Dai-Shocker had conducted experiments with humans, and now they did it to native monsters of Remnant.
"Then that explains why the Kaijins are here. They're experimental Grimms. Just what really are those Dai-Shocker, anyway? Mad scientists?"
"Some say that the Dai-Shocker was originated from Nazi remnants who survived World War II." Tsukasa explained.
"What?!"
"That's why they won't stop until they achieved total world domination. All this mess for a single purpose. They won't hesitate to kill many innocents for it."
"Now those Nazi remnants are in Remnant. Horrifying." He stated as he started to sweat. Despite this playful remark, his heart started beating fast as the story continued.
"However, there's also another presence that we assume as the source of Grimm's existence. I couldn't tell you who, but its power is among the great darkness of Remnant. That being said, we should never turn a blind eye over this matter. There's no telling what they could do if they managed to overtake Remnant. Even the other worlds. "
Kyle could tell that his words were never a lie. He was chosen to be a warrior defending a world from its downfall. It had been something that he dreamt about since he was a kid, being a hero to save the day. He had been helping those in need and beat up punks who disturbed peace, but he never had been in such serious matter of saving the world, unlike what he experienced in watching movies.
But on the other hand, he was trembling out of fear that he might fail, although unseen to many, but noticeable by the world-traveling Rider. He was unsure upon hearing the matter. It was no dream after all as he didn't wake up from his apartment's bed. There might never be a second chance for this. Even worse, he might die from it, litterally. Leaving Remnant, even the whole world, to their inevitable destruction.
"Tsukasa… I-I uhh…" Kyle said as he lowered his head, unsure of what to do.
Tsukasa placed his hand at the young rider, "I know you're afraid, Kyle. All of us do. In fact, I don't believe in those who are not. But know this, you will never be alone in your quest. Even heroes like us will need help too, like what you did with those Huntresses that you met. They will be your valuable allies and friends".
"As long as you cherish and protect them, you can pass through every obstacles and learn everything you need to become a true Kamen Rider. It's the only way for you to become stronger. Remnant needs you, and we Riders need you too, now."
Kyle was brightened up a bit after he heard it. He knew that he was the one who was entrusted by the duty. He couldn't even imagine if it was left to someone other than him. This is what he wanted. This is what he dreamt of.
He finally raised his head, looking at Tsukasa in determination, "Alright, I'm in."
"That's the spirit, Kyle." Tsukasa smiled, "Now go out there and face the day, and remember, greatness awaits."
Kyle nodded at him as the room was filled with a bright light, returning him to where he was before.
Kyle woke up as the sunlight shone on his face. he felt that his head was on top of some kind of a pillow, which turned out to be a travelling bag packed with his needs. There was also a note written with, "Your needs are all packed here. Take care. Tsukasa." he sighed with a smile as he got himself up to prepare for the initiation.
After he cleant himself up, he made his way through the corridors, carrying his bag. He also heard some murmurs from the other students about the ruckus that happened last night. He also heard someone talking about gunshots and an explosion being heard during their sleep time. As he walked further, he was suddenly got hit on the left by someone who was running through. He fell down to the floor after what felt like being hit by a light-speed bullet train.
The person who hit him was an orange-haired girl who was wearing a uniquely colored clothing. She had a pale skin complexion with a pair of emerald eyes. She was clad in collared black vest and a white sleeveless top underneath, sporting a tiny heart shape. An emblem of a pink-colored lightning with a hammer can be found on her back.
On both of her arms were a pair of white detached sleeves and pink fingerless gloves. On her bottom were pink skirt that started waist and ended mid-thigh, with a pair of pink and white shoes. She was also seen wearing pieces of armor that covered some parts of her torso.
The audible thud from the impact was heard to almost anyone, including the boy who followed him. He had a pale skin complexion and a pair of pale pink eyes along with a long black hair tied in a ponytail on his back with a magenta streak on his hair's left side. He was wearing a Chinese dark green, diagonally-buttoned, long-sleeved tailcoat with black and gold trimming along with light-tan pants and a pair of black shoes.
"Nora." The boy called the girl out.
"Oh no! Are you okay?" Nora, the girl worried about the impact.
"I told you to look at your way when you're running."
"I'm sorry, Ren." She murmured down.
"I believe he deserves the apology more." Ren said.
"Okay-umm... I-"
Her words were suddenly cut by Kyle screaming, "Dwaaaah!" which surprised both of them, but leaving Nora to be the only one who gasped.
"I became a zombie 'cause you hit me like a wrecking ball." Kyle said in a somewhat monstrous manner mixed by his cringe over his recent pain.
"I'm... sorry?" the girl apologized in a nervous smile.
"No biggie. I know that everyone must be in high spirits for this... initiation, isn't it?" Kyle said as he was being helped by Ren to got up on his feet. He also smiled to Nora as a sign that he was fine.
"It's the most decisive factor for Beacon's acceptance. Whether we're in or not, this is how they qualify their students." Ren stated.
"And may I ask for both of your names? I could really use more new friends for my first day here."
"Ren. Lie Ren." The boy introduced as he shook hands with Kyle...
"Nora Valkyrie at your service!" With Nora being the next to shook both of her hands enthusiasticly which caused Kyle to almost lost his composure.
"I'm Kyle Morgan. Pleasured to meet you both." He introduced with a smile.
"We're about to go to the locker room. You're coming?" Nora offered, replied by Kyle's "Sure" as the three of them went to the said location.
As they finally made their way to the locker room, the Rider soon noticed a certain red-haired girl he saw before, the one who was observing Jaune back at the hall.
"You guys happened to know her before?" Kyle asked the two, mentioning the girl.
"Who? Her?" Nora wondered.
"That's Pyrrha Nikos. A professional Huntress, that is. She's a 4-time olympic medal winner, even at 13 years old." Ren explained.
"Wow, even this place has superstars too." Kyle mused.
"Oooh? you like her, don't you?" Nora playfully cooed.
"Nah, it's just that she's been watching a friend of mine since yesterday. Just curious." He said.
"Maybe she liked him?" Nora wondered.
"Beats me." Kyle said as he decided to go to his locker, " 'kay, so i'm gonna leave you guys be here. See you guys around."
"Good luck for the test!" Nora shouted, with Ren simply smiling.
"Yeah, you both too." Kyle waved at them as he was on his way to his designated locker, number "555". Before he opened his locker, he went to check his bag's containings. He found some Lien moneys in an enough amount for his needs along with other numerous stuffs and a white device resembling a smartphone from his own world.
He turned his device on when he spotted a button on it and the screen displayed the name 'Scroll', that he assumed as the device's name. He checked on its contents. The screen then displayed a note from Tsukasa again, saying, "Every battle defines who you are." He sled the message out to unlock his Scroll and found some applications almost similar to his own back home.
He pressed his finger to the 'Rider Database' app and looked at some of its contens, which are the databases of the other Kamen Riders, even some that also came to his earlier visions. Various names also came out from it. Ghost, OOO, Drive, Agito, Kuuga, Ichigo and some others. He was left with curiosity as he looked at more datas before he decided to look at his own armor, Decade.
As he was about to proceed to the said armor's details, Glynda Goodwitch's voice was suddenly heard from the nearby PA, "Would all first-year students please report to Beacon Cliff for initiation? Again, all first-year students report to Beacon Cliff immediately."
Hearing the announcement, Kyle turned his scroll off and put it inside his pocket. He proceeded to the room's exit and encountered three of his earlier friends; Ruby was seen carrying Jaune had seemingly lost his self esteem with Yang following behind.
"Having some trouble there, lady-killer?" Yang said as she and her sister approached the currently slumping Jaune.
"I don't understand. My dad said all women look for is confidence! Where did I go wrong?" the male blonde mumbled as he accepted Ruby's help to pick himself up.
" 'Snow Angel' probably wasn't the best start." Yang said.
"Come on, Jaune, let's go." Ruby said as she carried Jaune to the exit.
Kyle approached the female blonde and asked, "Something happened?"
"Nah, it''s just Jaune being… Jaune." Yang smirked.
"Okay… shall we carry on, then?" Kyle pointed at the exit.
"Right on." Yang complied as they both headed to the academy's cliff.
The students finally arrived in the cliff, where they lined up and standing over silver tiles as they had been instructed before, with Ozpin holding his mug and Glynda holding her scroll tablet.
"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Ozpin said.
"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of "teams." Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today." Glynda explained.
"What? Ohhh..." Ruby said in acknowledgment.
"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well." Ozpin continued, followed by the red reaper's groan.
"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."
Ruby's world was torn apart after she heard Ozpin's explanation with a loud wail, "Whaaaat?!" shocked by the revelation and a bit panicked in what her teammate would be, while Kyle just simply made a poker face, along with some mixed feelings inside his head. He wondered if he would met the skilled teammate or maybe dealing with the unskilled ones. However, he tried to put his thoughts aside and wished for luck along the way.
" See? I told you-!" Nora said to Ren.
" After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die." Jaune,who heard Ozpin's words, laughed nervously and then gulped loudly.
"Yeah, now that's really inspirational." Kyle mumbled, reacted almost as terrified as Jaune was.
" You will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. You will guard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?"
" Yeah, um, sir?" Jaune asked as he raised his hand.
" Good! Now, take your positions." Ozpin instructed, ignoring Jaune's question.
Hearing it, everyone striked a pose on their tile. Nora crouched low, Ren wielded his weapons, a pair of green submachine guns with a sickle blade attached on each of it, Yang raised her fists, Ruby readied her body, Kyle took a deep breath, readied his Decadriver and crouched low, while Jaune still had his hand raised.
The blonde knight then asked, " Uh, sir? I've got, um... a question. So, this landing... strategy thing... Uh, wha-what is it? You're, like, dropping us off or something?"
"No. You will be falling."
Ozpin answered as the tile under Weiss propelled her to the air. Kyle, who witnessed it, widened his eyes and jaw-dropped, not knowing that the tiles everyone stepped on were actually jump-jacks from the start.
"What the hell…?!" the Rider exclaimed.
Jaune kept asking the headmaster as he missed more students jumping off, "Oh, uh, I see... So, like, did you hand out parachutes for us?"
"No. You will be using your own 'landing strategy'."
Kyle's heartbeat kept beating fast as his turn was about to start. He kept seeing the students being propelled to the air. Some looked ready and steady, while some who weren't screamed in agony and spinning abruptly in mid-air. At her turn, Yang winked at her younger sister, put on a pair of aviator sunglasses, and flied off with a "Woo-hoooooooo!" a second before Ruby joined her in the air.
It was finally Kyle's turn. He gripped his hands while making a jumping stance, hoping that he could figure out his own 'landing strategy'. This was the first and very FIRST time that he had to jump off a cliff as an initiation. Even student's orientation he had before felt like a child's play compared to this. He took a deep breath as he could feel the tile ready to propel him.
"Here we goOOO! WOOOOO!" Kyle wailed as he jumped off to the air with the tile's help. He could feel the air and the adrenaline that kept building up the further he flew.
" So, what exactly is a landing strategYYY!..." Jaune wailed as he joined the flight, spinning abruptly in the air, with Ozpin and Glynda apathetically witnessing their students' departure.
The students finally began their initiation in the Emerald Forest, where the ravenous creatures of Grimm lurked deep. As Huntsmen and Huntresses, they must prepare for the unexpected and the unpredictable of the forest's depth. As for the Rider, he must prepare to participate in a much bigger plot, starting from there.
The adrenaline rush kept building itself up the higher Kyle flew. He could see gushes of trees closing some parts of the forest, standing feet and inches below him. He even managed to strike some poses mid-air, including the most iconic flying side kick. He had to admit that it was actually fun to do that, being able to relieve some of his childhood fantasies that most children did have, flying.
However, he soon realized that he was also going down to the grassy ground. He was so excited that he forgot about his situation, which was technically a verge of life and death, as mortal humans like him could probably not being able to sustain the impact of the fall.
"Oh right, Gotta change now!" he pulled his card out and inserted it to the Decadriver.
KAMEN RIDE :
"Henshin!"
DECADE!
The Driver formed his armor as a bright magenta light appeared, materializing itself to the Machine Decader. He jumped on to the bike and managed to slow his fall thanks to the small thrusters installed below his bike's body kit. The thrusters' propulsion might be unfit for a flight, but at least it could make him jump inches higher or glide further while on the bike.
Although he managed to land safely, the grass field was very slippery that it made the Rider had a hard time braking his vehicle. He fell off the bike and rolled a few meters before hitting a tree on the back and made a small crater upon the impact.
"Ow…" he grunted, "I could really use his training for this kind of… landing strategy, later."
He woke up on his feet as his bike dematerialized itself. Using his HUD's radar, his armor's sensors did a remote sensing on the forest's topography as a replacement for the satellite scanning that he usually knew. He managed to spot a ruin not too far from his position, probably where the said relics were placed.
"The closer the better…" He said as he headed to the location on foot, preparing for what will come upon him.
Meanwhile, Ruby was seen rushing through the other part of the forest, hoping that she could find the best and suitable student for her to be partnered with.
"Gotta find Yang! Gotta find Yang, gotta find Yang…" She muttered her thoughts in hoping for stumbling upon her sister.
Several thoughts came to her mind as she kept rushing through. She was also worried if she didn't met her expectations. First, he thought about having Kyle as her teammate other than her sister should she not managed to get her first. Because she witnessed his sheer power and abilities as a Kamen Rider firsthand, she knew that he could be one of her most valuable asset for her team. She then thought about having Jaune because he was nice to her before, then Blake with her mysterious vibe and her fondness of books.
She kept thinking about it until she finally skidded to a stop as she stumbled upon the last person that she expected to join her. The one and only heiress and the Ice Queen of Beacon, Weiss Schnee.
There was a pregnant pause following the unexpected encounter between them as their eyes met, only to be ended with the Schnee walking away from her.
"Wait! Where are you going?! We're supposed to be teammates…" Ruby's words fell on deaf ears of the walking away Weiss, followed by a kick to the ground as she was being dejected.
Weiss was seen struggling through the forests as she pushed the plants away from her, only to find Jaune hanging over a tree with a red and gold spear embedded through his hoodie and the tree behind him. The blonde knight gave the heiress an embarrassed wave, only to be replied with Weiss' displeasure as she simply walked back to where she came from. This caused Jaune to groan in dejection.
"By no means does this make us friends." She said as she pulled Ruby's hood.
"You came back!" Ruby said in glee and overjoy.
However, this still left Jaune hanging in the tree, with no one to bring him down.
"Wait! Come back! Who's going to get me down here?!" Jaune wailed.
Suddenly, someone came out to him, who was the owner of the spear and his savior. Pyrrha then asked, "Jaune? Do you… have any spots left for your team?"
Jaune, who looked down to her, crossed his ams and said, "Very funny." Which he added with a smile that the red-haired champion returned.
Back with Decade, he kept walking and finally reached his destination. It was an open area with the deep forest area surrounding the temple ruins . There were only a few parts of the ruins left in the location, along with a round table-like structure on the middle. On the table was a clear diamond king chesspiece, which he suspected as the mentioned relic by Ozpin.
"Fancy..." he muttered, inspecting the relic as he took it with him.
Unaware to him, the Bat Kaijin from last night was hiding under the trees, further cloaking his appearance. He was whispering something to no one in particular, only for it to be some figures, each with a pair of glowing red eyes that were only owned by one kind of a creature. They appeared behind him, waiting for his orders.
"I got a bad feeling about this." The Rider muttered again, with his words were proven true. He heard a primal growl from his right before something lunged at him. He was struggling to break himself free from the creature that attacked him, which he almost had a hard time with.
He finally managed to broke free and inspecting his assailant. It was a Grimm in a form of a bear, along with its white tribal mask and white spikes protruding on its back, armed with white sharp claws. The HUD on Decade's helmet showed the name of the Grimm, Ursa and marked it as the target.
Without a second thought, the Rider charged at the now lunging Ursa. They were now locked in combat, determining which one will survive. He may had scratches from the Grimm's claws, but he still fought back with his Ride Booker sword. After he stabbed the Ursa's head and killing it, two more came out of the bushes, baring their claws and teeth at the Rider.
"Ursa, eh? And I thought it could be much weirder with Ursula." He remarked before he let out a roar to defeat his opponents.
A single strand of a golden hair fell to the ground, which was the brawler, Yang Xiao Long's hair. She was looking around for any signs of life until she was stumbling upon two Ursas. Her fought with them caused her hair to be cut off from her own.
"You... YOU MONSTERS!"
She screamed as inferno surrounded her for a moment. Her hair flowed in bright gold and her lavender eyes turned wild red. The brawler was engulfed with rage. It was the final warning to anyone not to cut even her single hair strand. She unleashed several devastating combos to the Grimms and even sent one flying through burning trees. The other one ran over to her, only to be stopped by the angry brawler's gaze while a tree fell down behind her.
"What?! You want some, too?!"
She roared at the Grimm that was about to strike her, right when a whirling noise was heard. The Ursa made a befuddled noise, falling down to reveal the Kunoichi, Blake Belladonna with her Gambol Shroud embedded on the beast's back. She recalled her weapon back as she smiled to her acquired partner.
"I could've taken him." Yang retorted as her eyes turned back to lavender.
Kyle was detransformed after his exhausting fight with the Ursas as they turned to black dusts, panting and walking before he decided to rest by reclining himself to a nearby tree. Three Ursas were enough to deplete his energy, not to mention dozens more from different kinds. He also began to think about more Grimm varieties out there, as it could be birds, dragons, ghosts or even an evil copy of himself? Only his journey would tell.
Looking back on his discussion with Tsukasa, he had to admit that he was scared. He knew that every average people of his world would just ran away for their lives without a second thought. Now that he thought about it, why he didn't run?
That's right. He had no time of being scared and complaining about what just happened to him. He didn't want himself to look weak in front of the others. Otherwise, he would be the fragile kid like he was before. He had to be strong. He had his enemies in front of him and the whole ocean behind him. One step forward, Million steps back.
When he looked at his left, he saw an odd plant grew an even odder fruit. He wondered how a plant like that grew out of nowhere.
"Okay… am I supposed to eat that?" he asked himself.
"I wouldn't do it if I were you."
Kyle turned to see where the voice came from, which turned out to be a man. He had a short black hair and wearing a blue long sleeved shirt underneath an orange vest. He was also wearing blue jeans and black sneakers. Kyle paused a bit as he was processing his thoughts about a man came out of nowhere. Whether the man was a huntsman or not, Kyle believed that it won't do any harm just by asking who he is.
"So, you must be my partner now." Kyle said.
"What? Oh no, no, no, I'm just here to check on you. After I heard Tsukasa saying about the new Decade, I was really intrigued. So, I asked his permission to pay you a visit. Though as much as I want to be your teammate, he warned me not to interfere too much." The man shrugged.
"Wait, you're a Kamen Rider, too?" Kyle wondered.
"Why, yes I am. My name is Kouta Kazuraba. I go by the name 'Gaim'." He introduced as he presented a silver lock with an orange ornament on the middle with a text 'LS-07'. It has a button on its left.
"Whoa, Kamen Rider Gaim. The Rider who possessed the power of... Helheim, right? And also the might of Sengoku warrior, and mastered the arts of weapon and war." Kyle said, reminiscing some of his vision fragments.
"In a flesh." Kouta said, "Now, I'd like to have a few words for you."
"Fire away."
"You see, Tsukasa said before that the belt chose you right?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, the belt that you have now holds the power that I must say... even beyond our thoughts. When we finished creating it, its power source, the Orb of Space and Time, we called it, reacted itself even before it was activated, not to mention guiding us to its wielder."
"I see. So you're with Tsukasa and the others in this."
"True, you are. We considered the belt as some sort of an enigma. It's stable and balanced, yet an unpredictable one. We never know what the new Decadriver has to offer, but we're hoping for the best, of course."
"Okay…"
"We also theorized that like every Kamen Rider Systems, yours is capable of evolving. So, any developments you made will affect its reaction in giving you necessary power ups."
"No other choice but to train, then." Kyle sighed.
"Hey, training makes perfect. No powers or skills were attained in an instant. Try to work it on and you'll find a way. I bet you already saw what these Huntsmen and Huntresses can do, so I suggest you to train with them, seeing that they had more experience in fighting those Grimms. Who knows if you could take down more Grimms by yourself." Kouta explained.
"Point taken, man." Kyle saluted.
"Now, about the fruit, it's inedible because non-driver users who were tempted to eat it will turn into a monster and run amok permanently. I see you still have your driver on, so you're off the hook."
"A forbidden fruit. Heheh..." He chuckled nervously, scared by the revealed fact.
"Hence the name, Kyle. Now, try take that one and see what happens."
The young Rider complied as he took the fruit off the plant, causing it to suddenly change into a similar lock device that Kouta held.
"This is..."
"Interesting. I guess the belt wasn't wrong at all. I suggest you to keep it."
"Umm… okay."
"Then, I shall take my leave." Kouta said as he rose his hand to make a zipper-like portal appear. This made Kyle muttered "whoa" with his mouth agape in wonder.
As the other Rider walked to the portal, his appearance changed into him having a white hair, wearing a silver armor set which left his hands and head uncovered and sported a white cape. He bid his farewell by saying, "Until next time, Kyle Morgan."
The crack closed itself after Kouta walked through it, leaving Kyle still had his mouth open agape while holding his newly acquired Orange Lockseed. He started to feel that some of his vision fragments came to him.
He knew from it that the Kouta he met wasn't actually a normal man. After his showdown against his rival, the red Europian knight who was also a Kamen Rider, he acquired a power that came from a golden fruit. Since that day, he had become a semi-omnipotent human ruling over the monsters that invaded his world before. He was currently watching over them in a distant planet of Helheim.
He had become a space God.
"WHAAAAT!?"
Meanwhile, Ozpin and Glynda inspected the pairs that had been formed, which revealed Nora and Ren as the last to be formed, although Glynda had doubts on the other pair, Jaune and Pyrrha, as she viewed their footage. The red Amazon might be undoubtedly a professional, but on the other hand, Jaune wasn't the one with combat skills despite what his transcript said. However, Ozpin simply shrugged it off.
"I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat." She said as she deactivated her tablet. "I guess we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes." She continued with Ozpin's acknowledgement, while he was watching Ruby and Weiss' footage.
"However, I picked up readings from the special relic that you mentioned before. It appears Kyle Morgan is the one who picked it up, although he has yet to have a partner." Glynda informed.
Ozpin grew a smile upon hearing it, Complying, "Well then."
Yang and Blake managed to reach the temple ruins from the forest, located in the other part of the forest unlike where Kyle went. The broken and decrepit temple also held several black and gold objects, which they were going to inspect.
"Think this is it?" Yang asked, only to be replied by Blake's incredulous look as they went down the hill. They observed the items on the pedestal, which turned out to be…
"Chess pieces?" Blake said while looking at the black king piece, "Some of them are missing. Looks like we weren't the first ones here." Yang suspected.
"Well, I guess we should pick one." Blake remarked.
It was kind of surprisingly easy to locate the temple aside from the Grimms that they encountered. The blonde brawler studied the golden horse chess piece. She was interested in it and she picked it up, finding it to be the cute one, much to the kunoichi's agreement as they walked to the temple's center.
" That wasn't too hard!"
" Well, it's not like this place is very difficult to find." Blake said as they both shared a smile.
Meanwhile, Jaune and Pyrrha were standing at the mouth of a dark cave, where drawings were seen to the side involving armed men against giant beasts, probably a depiction of earlier fights against the Grimms.
" Think this is it?" Jaune wondered as the two walked into the cave, with Jaune holding a torch, "I'm not sure this is it." Pyrrha replied.
The tensions kept rising as they walked deeper, knowing that there could be something Oum-knows-what that awaited them, for better or worse, "Pyrrha, I made the torch. Could you at least humor me for, like, five more feet?"Jaune asked.
Suddenly, Jaune tripped on the ground causing the torch to fall on a small puddle, extinguishing the flame as the visions they had turned dark and leaving them without any alternatives.
As Jaune got up from his fall, Pyrrha asked, "Do you... feel that?"
"Soul-crushing regret?" Jaune guessed.
"No, it's... warm." Pyrrha answered.
They walked further and deeper until a glowing golden object appeared in front of them, much to Jaune's excitement. He tried to swipe it, but the object mysteriously moved away, avoiding it.
"Hey! Bad relic!" Jaune tried more to reach it until he jumped forward and hung onto it, only for the object to lift itself up above the ground. Pyrrha was worried as her fears came true. Jaune was actually holding a tail of a creature that illuminated its ominous red eyes, which was owned by none other than a Grimm. Furthermore, it was a gigantic scorpion.
The Death Stalker.
A loud scream from Jaune was heard from afar. It was in a very high pitch that made the scream almost distinguishable and it reached to Kyle who was even farther from the source.
"Is that a girl? creepy…" he was reminded by some girl screams that usually came from horror movies. He never really liked such scary movies because he always had a hard time trying to sleep after he watched some. What was more is that he was also in a forest with creatures lurking from the unknown, giving him the said vibe. However, he knew that he needed to muster his guts knowing his status as a Huntsman and Kamen Rider in training. Anyone wouldn't find it funny if he peed out of fear.
"Guess that's my cue then." The rider's driver belt blinked its light and made the fuschia light from before appeared again, forming the Machine Decader. The belt responded Kyle's thoughts on making his ride to appear beside him, revved up and ready to go. He hopped on his bike and proceeded to the source of the sound.
"Heads uuuuuuuup!"
A familiar scream was heard from above the skies where Yang and Blake were, the sound of the red reaper, Ruby. She jumped off a bird Grimm after she hitchhiked it with Weiss, leaving only the heiress in the Nevermore's back. As she fell, she was hit by a flying body of Jaune who was thrown by the Death Stalker's flailing tail. The impact caused them to hit a tree, with Ruby dazed out by the rough landing.
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake wondered to Yang.
"I…"
"YEEEE-HAAAAW!"
Yang was interrupted by Nora, who was literally riding an Ursa as the creature lumped down to the ground. The Grimm was probably got beaten up by the girl before they arrived at the scene.
"Aww… it's broken." She stated.
Her arrival was soon followed by Ren who was huffing and panting due to the chase he had with the riding Nora.
"Nora! Please… don't ever do that again."
The girl glanced at the relics as she rushed to the temple and took one of them, singing "I'm Queen of the castle" joyfully before she was told by Ren to come to him.
" Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?"
"I…"
The brawler was interrupted, again, by a screeching sound of a Death Stalker, chasing the Amazon champion Pyrrha Nikos as she narrowly dodged the creature's strike, rushing to the group.
"Jaune!"
"Pyrrha! Ruby!"
"Ruby!"
"Yang!"
"Nora!"
"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?"
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! CAN ANYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN!?"
The more Blake wondered and the more things that happened made the brawler furious. there was a pause for exactly 2 seconds as Yang cooled down, only to be interrupted by Ruby tugging on her sister's sleeve and pointed up to the sky.
"Umm… Yang?" She pointed at the Nevermore hitchhiked by the hanging Weiss on the creature's talon.
"How could you leave me?!" Weiss shouted to Ruby.
"I said Jump!"
"She's gonna fall." Blake said.
"She'll be fine." Ruby assured.
"She's falling." Ren confirmed.
Jaune, who was finally out from the tree, saw the heiress' fall as his golden opportunity to become the hero of the year. He jumped off the branch and managed to caught Weiss, which seemingly a successful attempt for the blonde knight.
"Just... dropping in?"
However, his joy was shortlived as he realized that they were still in mid-air, slowing their fall for a while until Jaune faceplanted to the ground first to serve Weiss a perfect landing spot in her seated position above the slumping Jaune.
"My hero." Weiss mockingly congratulated.
"My back..." he groaned.
The Machine Decader kept revving its engines up the further Kyle go, followed by a strange sensation that came from his strapped Decadriver, telling its user that he was closing in. This was signed by its blinking pink light.
"I can't tell for sure, but I can feel that this thing knows where I should go." He uttered his thoughts as he sped up his bike, building up his own adrenaline to see who would be his partners, comrades and the adversary that he was about to face.
He glared forward in determination while turning his bike's direction here and there, avoiding walls and ramming some passing-by Grimms to dust. However, the Bat Kaijin followed him from behind the trees and gushes, preparing for his next ambush as he had prepared an unpleasant surprise for the rider in a form of a dark aura emanating from his body and his red eyes glowing ominously.
The heroes had gathered in their fateful arena. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren all faced Remnant's most common enemy, the Grimms, only this time, two of them were oversized from the eight's own, seemingly making it impossible for one to defeat them. However, they were Huntsmen and Huntresses, trained and armed in teeth to face such adversary. It was a necessity for them to do such duty and carrying the burdens of their, and even humanity's fate.
"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang blurted.
"Not if I can help it!"
Ruby let out a battle cry and charged towards the Death Stalker, with Yang calling out to her in vain. The red reaper fired her weapon towards the Grimm, only to be swiped away by its tail.
"Don't worry, Totally fine." She assured, still groaning from her pain.
She fired her Crescent Rose again, catching the Death Stalker attention to chase her. She ran towards her sister, only to be halted by the Nevermore's caw, firing its razor-sharp feathers to the sisters. This caused Ruby's cape to be stucked by the black feather.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang shouted.
"I'm trying!"
She struggled to release her cape as the Death Stalker approached her, raising it stinger to the helpless girl.
"RUBY!"
It was all dead set. Her sister couldn't reach her and the stinger would fall upon her soon. She closed her eyes in acceptance of her inevitable fate.
Until...
"RIDER BREAK!"
Ruby opened her eyes to see the oversized scorpion Grimm being rammed by the person she knew well, the magenta knight who was with her before, Kyle Morgan. What was more surprising, he was on his bike.
She smiled. She knew that she was confused on how Kyle got his bike, but she didn't care. She was glad and that was all.
The Death Stalker was thrown a few feets away, weakening it. He then braked his bike, took out his Attackride card as he pulled off his Ride Booker in gun mode with his left hand, aiming at the Nevermore.
"Try this on for size." He uttered as he inserted his card.
ATTACK RIDE : BLAST!
The Ride Booker was charging a pink energy surge. The charge was so powerful that it made the weapon and his left hand trembled from it. He fired his weapon successfully, but he was thrown out of his bike because of the recoil, with his blast only managed to hit the tip of the Nevermore's left wing, causing it to fall beside the Death Stalker.
Kyle skidded back to the group of Huntsmen and Huntresses in the temple ruins. He slowly adjusted his position, still wincing.
"Urgh... worst idea ever." He groaned.
"Did he just..."
"Okay-okay, you know what? I'm done. Let's just call it a day." Yang halted Blake.
"Yeah, right." Blake agreed.
Everyone was surely left gawked by the scene. A Huntsman who was riding on a bike rammed a Death Stalker and Shot down a Nevermore, all in a single strike. This was never an act that most people saw these days in Remnant. The only way it could only happen was by a professional Huntsman, but what just happened that time was told otherwise.
"Hey guys, fancy meeting you all here." Kyle nonchalantly greeted, only to be replied by speechless glances.
"What?"
"KYLE!" The freed Ruby dashed with her super speed semblance, leaving rose petals in her wake to give the Rider a hug, only to cause both of them rolled ended with Kyle lying in the ground and Ruby above him.
"That was awesome! How did you do that? Where have you been? Ooh... Do you want to be my teammate?"
"Ruby, one moment, please?" he groaned as he adjusted himself again, which Ruby complied by moving away from him for a bit.
He let out a sigh before replying in smile, "I'm just passing by. Does that answer everything?"
"Well..." Ruby was interrupted by a glomp from the upcoming Yang.
"Ruby! Kyle! Oh, it's so good to see you, too!"
"Yeah, likewise, Yang." Kyle greeted back as he struggled for air due to the tight hug.
"Oh, right! Sorry..." the brawler sheepishly apologized, "Wait, how did you..."
"How did you bring a bike to an initiation!?" Weiss' shouted at the Rider.
"Huh?"
"We are only allowed to bring our weapons! How come did you hide a bike in this forest? Our only accommodations to here are the tiles!"
"I didn't hide it. This thing brought it here." He pointed at his Driver.
"Very funny." Indeed what the heiress said, but her words were proven truer as Kyle snapped his hand, causing his belt to emanate a pink light, followed by the dematerializing bike. This caused Weiss to gawk at the scene, "You're gonna owe us an explanation for this. A lot."
"Come on! We have to finish them off!" Ruby ordered the group as they readied their weapons and marched towards the fallen Grimms, but they were pushed back by a dark energy pulse came from the Bat Kaijin who was following Kyle the entire time.
"You…" Kyle growled at the monster.
"In a flesh." The Kaijin greeted. He then raised his hand a bit to emanate a dark energy from it and surprisingly, it healed both of the two Grimms' wounds. This shocked the whole group.
"Oh? Did I forgot to mention that we Kaijins cooperate with the Grimms?" He lowered his hands and continued, "Negativity was born alongside the creations of this world and humanity. Whereas you produce them, we consume them."
"And thus, the Grimms are also drawn by negativity. We are bonded by such feats, so we can use our powers to heal them…" The Death Stalker and the Nevermore suddenly gathered behind the Bat Kaijin, "And make them our allies."
Dark auras soon emanated from the three, surrounding the area within the Huntsmen and Huntresses in training. Some of them were noticeably trembled by their ferocious and ominous killing intent. Two oversized Grimms were healed and controlled by one intelligent being, thus making them the deadliest adversary. Even Ruby and Jaune could barely hold their stand.
"I was right. You're an experimental Grimm." Kyle said.
"Mark my words, vermins! Dai-Shocker will reign supreme over humanity! And we will make sure that our victory is the last thing you all will ever see!" The creature roared maniacally before he noticed an audible sigh.
"Really? Vermin? Oh, you have no idea how I missed that word since I came here." The group turned to see Kyle somewhat not hindered by the pressure. They noticed that he was in his calm demeanor, but inside, he was far beyond pissed off.
"Oh?"
"Then I'm gonna tell you this from the start. I'm sick of being oppressed, I'm sick of being bullied for the entirety of my childhood, and most of all, I'm sick of people like you." Kyle growled.
"Wasn't your clumsiness enough to tell you who you are? You are destined to be ruled by Dai-Shocker."
"We decide our own destiny. We decide our own future. That's why you will always lose, and I'll make sure it always does." He threatened as he pointed at the monster.
"Kyle…" Ruby muttered.
"Guys, we're all Huntsmen and Huntresses. This is what we trained for, isn't it? To fight monsters, to defend humanity and to ensure our future? Even if we're afraid, we absolutely have no reason to back down. Am I right?"
The group complied to what Kyle said. They grunted to suppress their fears and glanced towards their adversaries. They gripped their weapons tight as they readied it again.
"He's right." Blake said, "This just gave me nothing but some old vibes."
"We face them head-on. That's what we do." Nora chanted.
"And just how are you all going to do that?"
"This." Kyle presented his Kamenride card to the Kaijin, angered him.
"Kamen Rider…" the bat Kaijin growled.
"Turns out I'm happened to pass through here. So I… no, we might as well finish you off here. Henshin!"
KAMEN RIDE : DECADE!
The Decade armor covered his body as his visors emanated a shining green light upon activation. This caused some reactions among the group.
"Wow, I never knew he could be that fancy at times like this." Yang cooed.
"Wow…" Ren uttered.
"Ooh… shiny!" Nora cooed.
"So, this is the armored Huntsmen I've heard of." Weiss remarked.
"Awesome…" Jaune muttered.
"I know, right? I know, right!?" Ruby gawked to Jaune, with Blake simply huffed at them in amusement.
"Get ready, guys. This might get hairy." Decade stated as he readied his weapon in sword mode and got into his fighting stance. His eyes were glaring at the enemy. Locked in combat, the nine were facing the combined forces of evil, two titan Grimms and an intelligent experimental Grimm.
(A/N)
There we go. Chapter 4 is out and another cliffhanger furnished it.
Now, Tsukasa had explained the dire situation to Kyle and there's also our space semi-omnipotent ruler of Helheim, Kouta, who also explained the belt's origins. There had been fights here and there as the Beacon initiation test began. Also, there's the demonstration of a Kaijin's ability on the field, Which I think as a suitable feature that complies to their origin.
How will our heroes face such threat? What does the second Orange Lockseed has to do with Kyle?
Oh, and it's been a very busy week for me. I had just finished my national exam and now I have to prepare for my university acceptance tests. There'll be another studying drills and try outs from here on. So, if you notice any delays onward, please understand that it's the condition that i'm currently dealing with. Regardless, I'll keep trying to deliver the best for this story.
Don't forget to leave your comments for this story and I remind you again, BE CONSTRUCTIVE.
Until next time.