Hey guys and gals, welcome to my newest story Armoured Rider of Zero, a crossover between Kamen Rider Gaim and The Familiar of Zero.

As some of you may know this was one of my first stories, so I decided to try and rewrite some of the earlier chapters just to improve my standard of writing.

I may change a few details of the story, like maybe changing some of the crossover elements but we'll have to see.

But with that said, let's get this start

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my Oc's

Opening: Hands from Ultraman R/B


Dreamscape

Louise P.O.V.

My name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. The youngest daughter of the Vallière family and a student of the prestigious Tristan Academy.

I may be short but I have beautiful long, curly, pink hair that reaches my back and complementary pink eyes. As a student in the Academy, my uniform consists of a white long-sleeved blouse underneath a long, black cloak that reaches my feet, pinned into a spherical, bronze clasp like the rest of the Academy students. I also wear a short, black, pleated skirt and a pair of black thigh stockings with black, low-heeled shoes.

and for the last few nights I have been having some very strange dreams.

In the dream… I was walking through a mysterious forest, a forest that looked completely different from any forest I've seen before.

The forest had strange plants and animals, as well as strange yet alluring fruits that I have never seen before.

They looked so delicious, I tried picking one of them but every time I tried my hand just phased right through as if I was a ghost.

"Where…. am I?" I asked myself, while walking through the forest looking at the dense mass of trees above my head.

When I got deeper into the forest I started to hear footsteps and screaming from deeper within the forest.

"AH! Are there people here!" I blinked, before quickening my pace while following the sound

As I moved I soon noticed someone standing in front of me that looked almost see-through.

In front of me was a woman a bit older than me with a beautiful white dress, long blonde hair and two different eyes colours one eye red and one blue.

"Who are you?" I asked only to be met with no response from her but instead she just motioned me to follow her.

I was reluctant to do so at first but I decided that this was the best course of action for me.

We were walking through the forest for awhile, I couldn't tell for how long but it felt like hours.

I was beginning to get tired but then I noticed a bright light through an opening in the forest.

The girl I was with walked right through the opening and I hesitantly followed her and when I made it through the opening I was shocked at what I saw.

It was a large valley in between some mountains and in the valley there was a large clash between two armies composed of different monsters of varying sizes, among them were Armoured warriors also battling out, in the middle of the conflict was a glowing gold orb and standing in front of the orb I could see two armoured warriors battling to the death.

One was wearing a blue bodysuit made out of blue leather and gold trimmings on the arms and legs, he had a belt holding a long black sword and he was holding a smaller oranger sword, he had a large orange-like armour protecting his chest and shoulders and his helmet was covering his entire face, It was a blue helmet with a silver mouth-Guard, a dark orange visor that looked a bit like an orange slice and a sword-like decoration on his forehead.

The other one had a red and silver bodysuit, a large yellow and white spear that looks like it can extend with a button on the side, he had a yellow banana? Shaped armour that also protected his chest and shoulders except this one was much bigger, and his helmet was red and silver like his bodysuit and his visors was yellow-coloured and he had large yellow horns at the side of his helmet.

"ORA!" The blue warrior yelled, dashing towards the red warrior before swinging his sword several times which the red warrior blocked with his large spear

"RAAH!" The red warrior screamed, as he thrust his spear towards the blue warrior who caught the attack with his two swords.

The two then leapt back as the red warrior took a stance and readied his spear while the blue warrior connected his two swords together to make a naginata

"HAH!" The red warrior yelled, thrusting his spear forward and creating an energy Banana which reached towards the blue warrior who slashed it into pieces with his naginata.

"Incredible." I said, watching the battle with awe when the girl who accompanied me finally said. "Unite them."

I blinked as I turned to her confused about what she meant. "Unite them?"

"Unite them, bring them together and prevent this future, protect your world from the Helheim invasion."

I was completely confused at what she said, what did she mean? What invasion?

"What do you mean? What is this Helheim forest-!" Before I could finish I noticed something going on in the battle.

The two warriors jumped back and then threw their weapons away and proceeded to pull the yellow knife on their belts three times

Energy then coursed into their legs before the two of them ran towards each other while jumping into the air.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAA!" "HAAAAAAAAAA!" They screamed, throwing energy charged kicks towards each other and when they collided it created a large explosion that blinded me.

"G-Gah!" I grimaced, covering my eyes to protect them from the light, but as I did I noticed the girl fading away.

"Wait… no… not… yet…" Was all I could say before everything went black.

"WAIT!" I yelled out loud but when I woke up I found myself in my room on my bed.

"What a weird dream," I said while opening my curtains to reveal the large courtyard of Tristan Academy.

"Oh right today we're partaking in the summoning ritual, heh I'm certain I'll get an amazing familiar like a dragon or a phoenix," I said to myself while walking to my class after getting dressed.


Earth

Japan

Third person P.O.V.

We find ourselves in Japan in front of a school. We see several students walking out after finishing their classes, or heading to their clubs and among these students we're following two in particular and one of our protagonists is leaving the school right now.

Daichi Higara is in his third year, he is 18 years old and one of the top students in the school.

He has brown curly hair and brown eyes and was wearing school uniform, which consisted of a white shirt with a red tie underneath a grey blazer, navy coloured trousers and finally a pair of black shoes

As he is walking back home to study, he begins to hear the sound of someone he knows and tolerates.

"Hey, Daichi!" The person who is calling to him is our other protagonist Shiro Higara, in his first year in the school.

He is 16 years old and a more average student compared to his brother. He has Dark Black spiky hair with bright orange eyes and the same uniform as his brother except with a hoodie over the white shirt.

Daichi turned to Shiro with a tired expression on his face.

"What are you doing here Shiro? I thought you had that Nerd Club thing you're a part of." He asked with a confused look on his face.

"Hey man, larping is not a nerd thing besides the others had a very important job to do," Shiro said, with a pout while crossing his arms but Daichi just raised an eyebrow at that.

"Really?"

"Fine, they were cramming for an exam and couldn't come over today ."

Daichi just rolled his eyes until he noticed the bag his brother had.

"Hey what's that," He said while pointing to the bag, Shiro smiled and pulled out the contents.

"This is my Hand-made Sengoku Driver and Orange Lockseed," He said while taking out a large black belt buckle with a yellow knife and a picture of a rider on the side.

"You made that?" Daichi had to admit he was a bit impressed by it but not that much.

"Well, yup. Made it for a cosplay event we're going to in a few weeks." He said while sheepishly rubbing his head.

"Sengoku Driver? Like those beat riders from your old city, Zawame was it?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yup mine is the one of Armored Rider Gaim!" Shiro said, while raising his driver to the air.

"Gaim? That name sounds familiar, " Daichi said, while going into a thinking position.

"Yeah! Yeah, he was one of the riders that fought during that invasion in Zawame!..and was where Dad died…" Shiro muttered quietly, which Daichi didn't hear.

"Anyway he saved my life once, and ever since I've wanted to be just like him and the other Kamen Riders!" Shiro grinned, punching the air a few times.

"Well I can't lie about that, those Kamen Riders are definitely impressive but you shouldn't admire them, that'd just be dangerous." Daichi said, but Shiro crossed his arms.

"Ah what do you know" Shiro said, sticking his tongue out while walking ahead.

"God damn it, wait up!" Daichi said, running up ahead only to see Shiro standing there. "What are you doing?"

"Hey… Daichi?" He heard, as Daichi looked over at his Step-Brother. "What?"

"What's that," Shiro asked while pointing to a mysterious green portal. "What the?"

They both took a closer look at it, it seemed normal but the strange thing was no one else noticed it, it was almost like only they could see it.

"Wait, don't-" Daichi yelled, as Shiro attempted to touch the portal.

"What the?" He shouted, when the portal started to eat him and drag him inside it.

"AAH DAICHI HELP ME!" He shouted while freaking out, Daichi grabbed his hand but he was just being pulled in as well.

"What the fuck!" He shouted and kept struggling until they were both pulled in.

"AAAAH!" They both screamed as they were falling through an endless void but unnoticed by them an orange light went into Shiro's driver and lockseed.


Tristain Academy

Louise P.O.V.

Today was ritual summoning day, the day where young sorcerers like myself would summon and contract with our familiar, our destined servants.

We were currently situated outside the front with everyone else having already summoned their familiars while just stood in the back awkwardly.

"Now class has everyone done the summoning ritual?" Our teacher Prof. Colbert asked.

He was an older man in his mid thirties, with a bald head and a pair of glasses over his brown eyes, he was wearing a black robe and holding a large staff.

As I looked at everyone interacting with their familiar I couldn't help but freak out.

'Oh Brimer, what have I done to deserve this punishment?' I said while moving left and right whilst sweating heavily trying to figure out what to do 'And after I bragged so much before…'

'I mean, of course I would get a Powerful and Beautiful familiar but looking at everyone else's I might have some trouble here' I thought, while freaking out.

"Prof. Colbert~ I believe Louise hasn't summoned her familiar yet!" I jumped a bit, as a looked over at my worst rival Kirche who had a sly smirk on her face and at that very moment, my heart stopped 'Uh oh'

Kirche was a tall, young woman with long, red hair, obnoxiously large breasts, and brownish-gold eyes. On her neck lies a gold necklace-like ring and wears a black cloak pinned into a pin with the symbol of the academy. She wears a white, fitted, long-sleeved blouse, which leaves her large bust exposed for all to see. She wore black, short skirt and a pair of long, gold boots which reached her skirt.

"Ah yes, Ms Valliere, will you please come up and perform the ritual." Colbert asked, as I tried sneaking away only for Kirche to push me to the front of the class.

"Now, now, trying to sneak away isn't very nice Louise-chan~!" She smirked, making me growl.

"Zero, just go home and save yourself the embarrassment!" Said a certain flamboyant student

"C'mon Zero there's no way you can summon anything!" Yelled a random student.

At this point, almost everyone in the class was laughing at me and I just couldn't keep it anymore.

"WILL YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP AND LET ME DO THE DAMNED RITUAL!" I yelled at the top of my lungs and they all went quiet out of fear.

I then closed my eyes and took a deep breath as I raised my wand.

"Oh my familiars deep within the universe, here my call to arms and come forth to my side."

After a few seconds of waiting nothing happened. "See what I tell ya, she is just a-"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!

Switch to the Third Person P.O.V

After Louise created that huge explosion everyone was blown back, currently dazed and covered in dirt

"Is everyone alright?" Professor Colbet asked while checking on everyone and their familiars.

"See It's just like I said that Zero can't do anything," The flamboyant student said while getting up.

"Uh Guiche you might want to look again." A student noted, confusing the now named Guiche at first until he saw what was in the crater.

"Ow ow ow, where are we?" Said a voice from inside the crater, in a language they couldn't understand.

"I don't know, let's just try to get out of here." Daichi said, as Louise walked up to them with an angry expression on her face.

"Who are you two! How dare commoners break into this place." Louise yelled, but Shiro was confused and did not understand what she was saying so he turned to his brother.

"What did she say?" Shiro asked, rubbing his head as Daichi crossed his arms. "It sounds French, here let me try."

Daichi stood up and decided to answer Louise's question. "My name is Daichi and this is my brother Shiro," He said a bit roughly not fully knowing the language but Louise only got more annoyed.

"I meant how did you get here… unless… oh no!" Louise's face turned into one of horror and soon everyone else started laughing.

"Hahahaha The zero summoned not one but two commoners." "What a joke! Typical for a Zero like her!" "Why the heck did she even come here!"

"EVERYONE!" Professor Colbert yelled, silencing everyone. "Will you please stop making fun of Ms Vallière,."

The Professor turned to Louise and the two boys. "Now Louise, it is quite impressive that you have managed to summon not only one but two familiars, but you know what you must do to complete the ritual."

Louise turned bright red at the thought while Daichi was confused at this, "Um excuse me sir what going on?"

The Professor was about to answer but Louise sighed as she walked up to him. "Let's just get this embarrassment over with…"

"Hey what are you doing- huh?" Daichi said, before Louise kissed him on the cheek.

"E-Eh?! You already got a girl all over you dude?!" Shiro jokes, pointing at them.

When Daichi separated from her, he was about to question her actions when he suddenly felt a burning feeling on his hand and fell to the ground.

"Daichi, are you okay?" Shiro said, running up to his brother.

"That's just the familiar runes, etching into your body." Louise said with her arms crossed as Louise turned to Shiro. "Now it's your turn!"

Shiro just looked confused at what he meant. "What are you talking about? Why did you kiss her? Where are we? What's going on?"?

"This is a great honour for you commoner, so be grateful!" Louise yelled, running up to him.

"WOAH!" Shiro said, moving out of the way causing her to fall to the ground.

"How dare you! You dog!" Louise yelled, chasing after him as Shiro moved away. "Leave me alone you weirdo!"

"BAHAHAHAHA! Not even commoners want to be the Zero's familiar!" The other student laughed, until Louise tripped and fell on top of Shiro.

"MMMMMMPH?!" The two yelled, as they accidentally kissed right on the lips before Louise moved back.

"What was that for- AAAAAAHHHH!" Shiro screamed, in pain, his body heating up before he fell down unconscious.

"Guess he couldn't handle the pain…" She sighed at the two unconscious boys.

"I'll get some servants to help bring them to your room, for now everyone else's class has ended, please spend the rest of the day getting to know your familiars." Colbert said, as the students began walking away with their familiars.

As servants came in to help Louise, Colbert couldn't help but notice something on their hands.

'Hmmm those familiar runes, I've never seen those before,' The Professor thought, while examining Shiro and Daichi's bodies.

"I should check," He said, before making his way towards the school's library.


Dreamscape

Shiro P.O.V.

'This dream again huh?' I thought, as I watched a dream that I've been having for a while now.

It was back when I was a kid, about 12 years old running from monsters in a destroyed city.

My dad was next to me in a soldier uniform. He had my curly black hair but he had light blue eyes instead of my orange eyes.

While we were running we heard the crying of a child in a nearby building.

"Go hide over there, I'm gonna go look for the child." I nodded and went to hide under some rubble but I could still see my dad.

When my dad made it to the building he found a small girl about 11 years old hiding in the corner of the room crying.

"Don't worry I'm here to help you." The girl was hesitant at first but then ran to my dad and hugged him which he responded by picking her up.

My dad came back with the girl and brought her down to me, letting me get a good look at her.

She looked to have brown hair going down her back with yellow coloured eyes, wearing a red long sleeve shirt underneath a white dress and black shoes.

"DAD!" I called out, running towards my Dad which he noticed "SHIRO! DON'T!".

"Huh?" I blinked, before turning my head before my eyes widened when I saw 4 monsters behind me ready to kill.

"NO!" My dad shouted putting the girl down as he got his gun out and fired at the monster catching the monsters attention/

"You two! Run! Now!" He yelled, before running towards the monster while me and the girl began to run away.

'Dad! Please be okay' I thought, holding the girls hand as we ran until eventually we were met with a deadend.

We tried to go the other way, but when we turned around we were with the four monsters who were walking towards us, with one of them having a bloodied hand.

I began to look around trying to find a way out but we were trapped with nowhere to go. I closed both my and the girl's eyes awaiting the end but instead, we heard a sound.

Fruit Basket!

Lock Open! Kiwami Arms! Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai, Dai Shogun!

I opened my eyes to see a warrior wearing a set of silver samurai armour with black lining with a breast plate containing the image of several types of fruits along with a red cape hanging from the shoulders. The helmet looked very samurai like being done in the same silver as the armour with a gold sword shaped horn with a circle in the part of the forehead and a multi coloured visor going from green to orange from the ends through the middle. On his arm is a mix between a katana and a gun done in navy blue with yellow parts and a silver blade. On his waist was a belt with a yellow knife on the right side and two plates showing the faces of two warrior looking at each other with some various fruit slices bellow them

He took out the Orange lockseed from his side and placed it on his bow, charging the weapon with energy before shooting several blasts at the monsters killing them instantly.

With a bright flash he returned to normal, revealing it was a man in his late teens. He had black clean hair like mine but he had brown eyes. He was wearing a red shirt underneath a black leather coat and grey trousers and black shoes.

"You two Alright," He asked, looking at the two of us as we both nodded. "Good my name is Kouta Kazuraba, what's your name?"

"I-I'm Aki Ryoko," The girl said, while hiding behind me a bit.

The man laughed, giving up a smile as he turned to me. "And your name?"

I looked down before turning to him reluctantly. "I'm… Shiro Takame."

"Alright, Shiro-kun, Aki-chan, come on, I'll take you somewhere safe," He said and we reluctantly followed him before the scene shined.


Louise's room

Third person P.O.V.

"Ugh, huh?" Shiro yawned, rubbing his eyes before stretching. "Man, good thing me and Daichi getting brought to that courtyard with all those other people was just a dream, that would have been Cra-."

Shiro blinked when he saw Louise in bed wear and Daichi leaning against the wall looking down at him. "Ah…crap baskets."

"Good, you're finally awake." She said, picking up and tossing him her uniform. "Now as your master I want you to wash those clothes your brother already did the other chores."

"Hey what the heck?! Don't just throw your clothes at me! Why are we here! What did you do to us! Tell me!" Shiro yelled, as Louise sighed.

"Right we don't speak the same language but he should understand my command, this is annoying, you go and tell him!" Louise commanded, as Daichi rolled his eyes and walked up to his brother.

"Daichi, what the heck is going on?!" Shiro said, as Daichi sighed. "It looks like we were summoned to another world."

"Eh?" Shiro blinked, as Daichi crossed his arms. "Yeah I didn't believe it either until I saw that."

Shiro followed where Daichi was pointing and saw two moons in the sky.

"No way…" Shiro said, before looking over at Louise. "But what about her?"

"Apparently she's meant to be our master, and we're her Familiar, her servants." Daichi said, making Shiro blink.

"You gotta be joking." Shiro said, turning to Louise and walking up to her. "Hey! What's the meaning of this! Tell me!"

"Will you shut up! I don't understand you!" Louise said, before getting an idea and grabbing her wand.

"Now let's see, what were the words again?" She said, pointing her wand at them.

"I command you, as you master: Silence!" She stated, her wand beginning to shine a bit confusing the two brothers before there was a smoke explosion knocking the two of them back.

"Not again…" Louise sighed, as the smoke cleared revealing the two brothers on the ground.

"W-What was that?" Daichi said, rubbing his head as Shiro's head spun. "Everythings dizzy."

"Ah! I could hear that!" Louise said, making the two brothers blink. "Say something again."

"Wait, you're right, we can understand each other." Shrio said, holding his throat as Daichi sighed with relief. "Good, I don't need to constantly translate."

"This is perfect, now you can actually know what your commands are." She said before pointing to him.

"My name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, you're new master Familiar." She said, making Shiro sweat drop. "I want you to go and clean my uniform, have them done by morning."

"Eh?! Wait what! Why should I?!" Shiro said, as Louise turned around. "It's a punishment for you embarrassing me earlier."

Shiro growled but Daichi patted his shoulder. "Just do it, there's no fighting her."

"Ugh, fine," Shiro said, taking the clothes before leaving the room.

When Shiro left the room, there was an awkward silence between Daichi and Louise for a few minutes.

Daichi was going to say something but was interrupted when Louise screamed her lungs out.

"AAARGH! Today was meant to be the day when I finally show every one of them what I'm really made of! How did it go so wrong?!" She shouted, acting like a child having a temper tantrum.

Louise jumped onto her bed and started screaming into her pillow, Daichi was about to say something but Louise just looked at him with a glare.

"You make me some tea now!" She yelled, causing Daichi to sigh and get up to make some tea.

Five minutes later Louise had calmed down and drank her tea that Daichi made for her.

"Not bad, at least I didn't summon one useless familiar." She commented while putting down the tea.

She turned to her familiar as she saw him reading a book he got from his bag, she looked at him as a thought came through her head 'They don't look like brothers do they' she thought.

Daichi noticed this and sighed. "If you don't know why we look different we're not blood-related, Shiro's my stepbrother, his mother married my father."

Louise didn't understand what he meant at first until she realised. "Oh I-I see."

"Mind if I ask you something?" Daichi asked, making Louise blink before nodding. "Why were the other students laughing at you, and even calling you Zero, what's up with that."

"Hah, it's because so far I'm no good at magic." Louise said, looking at her wand. "Everytime I try to perform a spell, it only ends up with an explosion like you saw before, that's why they call me Zero because I have Zero potential with magic."

"You must find it funny right? A royal who's no good at magic, one that gets ridiculed by everyone else?" Louise said, but Daichi shook his head. "I don't.

"Huh?" Louise blinked, looking at him as Daichi leaned back.

An image of an older woman hidden in shadows with a smirk on her face as she loomed over a younger Daichi with a few wounds around his body flashed through his mind.

"I don't like weak people, who would manipulate and hurt other people to make themselves feel strong, simple as that." Daichi said, making Louise turn her head in confusion.

"I'm gonna go look for Shiro, he's taking a while now." Daichi said, getting up with Louise doing the same. "I suppose I'll come with you."


Library

Third person P.O.V.

In the Academy Library, we see Colbert on one of the desks reading one of the many books with a candle next to him.

However as he flipped the page of the book in his possession, a concerned look came to his face.

"This…These are definitely the runes Miss Vallerie's familiar had…" He said, looking at the book's depiction of the same runes that Shiro and Daichi had on their hands.

"But…that's not possible…no ones ever heard of two Gandalfrs before…not since…the legend." He grimaced, looking over at another book which had a painting inside.

This painting depicted three people, the first was a Gold and Crimson knight wielding a Sword and a Red shield, the second as a Azure and Silver mage wielding a staff and finally a snake like Demon sitting on a throne above them.

"As a precaution, I will need to inform the principal about this," He said, getting up and walking off to put back some of the other books he took.

However as he did, in the shadow we see two yellows looking down and staring at the rune depicted in the book.


Hallway

Shiro P.O.V

"Man, what am I even meant to do with these?" I said, as I walked through the castle trying to find where to wash clothes after I had no idea where I was going.

As I walked through the halls, the other students around were whispering and looking at me.

"If you wanna tell me something just tell me, jerks." Shiro sighed, shaking his head as he looked around before finding what looked like a maid.

"Um excuse me, do you know where I can wash these clothes?" I asked, making the maid turn to me and I couldn't help but blush when I got a good look at her. She had short black and black eyes and was wearing the usual maid attire.

When she turned around and saw me a surprised look came onto her face. "Oh! You're one of the commoner's Miss Valliere had summoned, right?"

"Uh yeah I guess, I'm still a bit confused about what's going on, anyway I'm Shiro Higara, what's your name?"

"My name is Siesta, it's nice to meet you," She said, with a bow making me blush while rubbing my head.

"So uh, Siesta, do you know where the washroom is so I can wash these clothes," I asked, showing off the dirty clothes Louise gave me which made Siesta smile.

"It's right over that way, I'll help you wash them and dry them if you would like."

"Really! Thank you," I said with a smile and she smiled back as we walked to the washroom.

A while later after Me and Siesta finished washing Louise's clothes a couple of minutes ago and right now they were just drying up.

We decided to sit down and talk while we waited for them to dry. We were having a nice chat about her maid duties but suddenly Siesta asked me a question.

"Shiro, what are those things," She asked me pointing to my handmade driver and lockseed that I guess I forgot to put away and a nostalgic smile came to my face as I showed them to her.

"These are the Sengoku Driver and Orange lockseed used by my hero Kouta Kazuraba, or at least fake ones." I smiled, as Siesta turned her head in confusion.

"Who is this Coata you speak of," She said, while having difficulty pronouncing Kouta's name.

"He was one of several heroes from my hometown Zawame that protected the town from monsters called Inves," I said. while holding the driver and lockseed in front of me.

"He saved my life one day during the invasion that almost destroyed the city, before Me and my mom moved away to live with my half brother and his dad," I said, with a nostalgic smile only growing.

"May I hold them? " Siesta asked while looking at my gear with curiosity in her eyes.

"Sure, I used the best, uh wood! Yes, the finest wood I could find." I said, making up an excuse for what it was made of as I handed her the Driver and Lockseed but a confused look came to her face.

"But Shiro, these aren't made out of wood, this is metal," She said, which made me blink as I looked at her with a confused look.

"Huh let me see'' she handed me back the Driver and Lockseed and as I felt them my eyes widened.

'She's right! This isn't what they felt like before… These are made of metal and not only that but the faceplate doesn't have Gaim anymore it's just black' I thought, while examining the driver and lockseed before an idea came to my head.

'Maybe they've become real' I thought. while slowly placing the Driver on my waist and when it touched my waist a yellow belt wrapped around my waist and the faceplate changed from black to the Gaim faceplate again.

"What the hell!" I yelled, jumping up in surprise. "I-It's real!"

"Could Miss Vallière's magic have made them real?" Siesta asked, as I looked at her.

"No way…" I mumbled, before looking down at the Orange Lockseed as the day Dad died flashed through my mind. "Then…could I transform too…."

I was about to unlock the Lockseed so I could try and transform when suddenly we heard a crash from around the lockseed.

"AAAAHH!" A voice screamed that we could hear from around the corner as we stood up in surprise.

"What was that," Siesta asked, a bit scared and I have to admit I was scared too.

"L-Let's go check it out." I said, with Siesta nodding as we slowly walked to where we heard the scream.

When we made it there, what I saw made me freeze with my eyes open wide. It was a maid crawling away in fear of a monster I thought I would never see again.

"Inves…" I mumbled in fear.

It looked like a mix between a tiger and a turtle with its Upper half having a hard green shell and a green tiger face while its bottom half was made out of a bony shell and it had sharp green claws. Around his body was scrapped clothing.

This was the Byakko Inves. It was coming out of a large portal leading into a dark although colourful forest.

"Matilda! Are you okay!" Siesta gasped, helping her fellow maid up. "What happened! What is that thing?"

"It all happened so fast! Me and Jeremie were heading to bed when we found this crack appearing out of nowhere." She said, still shaken up. "Jeremie went to take a closer look, and noticed one of those fruits and when he took a bite he suddenly transformed…transformed into that…Beast!"

"RAAAAHHHH!" The Inves roared, before lunging towards them.

"Look out!" Shiro yelled, grabbing them and jumping out of the way of its attack.

"You two need to get out of here and get help! That thing is dangerous!" Shiro yelled, fear clearly on his face.

"Mr. Shiro, that monster is one of the ones that invaded your home right! Do you know how to bring Jeramie back?" Siesta asked, as Shiro looked back at them

"There isn't, he's been corrupted by the Helheim Fruit, those who eat them are stuck like that left as nothing but a mindless beast." Shiro explained, making their eyes widen. "What! No!" "Jeramie…."

"Shiro!" We heard, as we followed the sound to see Daichi and Louise from far away

"Daichi!" I called out, but this caught the Inves attention, turning its attention to me.

The beast roared and started dashing towards me much to my surprise.

"Oh crap!" I yelled, before moving out of the way as the Byakko Inves began chasing me around.

"Woah!" I yelled, tripping off one of the vines coming from the crack and I would have been killed by the Inves until Louise stepped in.

"Leave him alone,FIREBALL!" She chanted with her wand, but instead of a fireball, there was a small and weak explosion that barely grazed the monster and just annoyed it.

"GRAAAAAAHHHH!" It roared and made its way over to Louise but Daichi stood in front of her.

"Get away from here now!" He yelled loudly and tried to punch or kick it, to no avail.

'I have to do something! They don't know about those things! Louise and Daichi will be killed at this rate!' I thought, while sweating and watching the Inves get closer and closer to the two of them.

Then an Idea came to my mind as I looked at the Lockseed in my hand 'The Inves love to eat this stuff so maybe?'.

"HEY! BIG GUY!" I yelled, raising the Orange Lockseed and this got Inves' attention. "You're looking for this right?,"

The Inves growled in hunger before lunging towards me once again but this time I moved out of the way before leading the monster straight into the Helheim crack.

"SHIRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Daichi yelled and Louise and Siesta could only stare in shock.

"S-Shiro?" Siesta mumbled in fear, Louise was confused at what was going on until Daichi started running toward the crack as well.

Running into the forest, I found that it was just what I remembered hearing about. It was a dark creepy forest with large trees, endless grass fields with different plants coming out of the ground and Helheim fruit coming from the trees.

"Gotta lead it away!" I said, to myself running deeper into the forest only for the Inves to catch up to me and slap me away.

"Ow, that hurt…Huh?" I said, looking up to see several insect looking infant Inves moving towards me. "Yeah, this may have been a bad idea."

"No shit!" I heard that the Byakko Inves was hit upside the head by a stick as I looked over to see Daichi.

"Daichi!" I said, getting up as he grabbed my shoulder. "What were you thinking! Why did you risk your neck running into the first like that without a plan!"

"I had a plan!" I said, making him growl. "Oh yeah? What is it!"

"Well- huh?" I blinked, before we looked over to see the Infant Inves moving towards us.

"Daichi! Get behind me!" I said, as he looked at me like I was crazy. "Are you stupid! We need to run!"

"NO! I'm not gonna run away or hide anymore!" I yelled, before lifting up the Sengoku Driver and slapped on my waist causing the belt to wrap around it.

SENGOKU DRIVER!

"I'm going to…I'm going to stand and fight!" I yelled, as I pulled out the Orange lockseed and unlocked it.

Orange!

"What the fuck?!" Daichi gawked, as this caused energy to form above me creating a giant metallic orange above my head.

"HENSHIN!" I yelled, lifting the lackseed before spinning my arm as I locked it into the driver before pulling the yellow knife open the Lockseed and when it did the orange dropped on top of me, wrapping me in a blue liquid until it became a blue bodysuit with gold trimmings on it.

Soiya! Orange arms! Hanamichi on Stage!

The Orange folded up turning into orange armour revealing that I was now wearing a Gaims helmet.

I was holding two swords, one was black with a holster and a gun holster on it, the other sword was smaller and looked like an orange slice, these were the Musou Saber and the DaiDaimaru.

"Shiro…What is this?" Daichi asked, as I smirked before turning to the Inves and striking a fighting position.

"Just sit and watch, cause this is my stage now!" I yelled, before dashing towards the Inves.

(Play Just Live More)

When I dashed towards the monsters with my DaiDaiMaru, I suddenly got this strange feeling before looking at a Infant Inves as it lunged towards me.

"HAH!" I yelled, slashing at the same waist with my DaiDaiMaru before following the attack with a kick to the face.

I then looked over at another Inves moving towards me so I quickly pulled out the Musou Saber before slashing at him, knocking the monster back.

I followed this by pulling the holster on my Saber before firing several times, causing it to stagger.

"Yosha! Come at me!" I yelled, as the Inves moved towards me I slashed at them several times with my two swords, keeping them at bay but they were starting to out number me.

"Looks like I'll need to finish this!" I said, before I ran up and jumped off an Inves's head into the air and followed the attack by pulling the yellow knife on my driver once.

Orange Squash!

"DaiDai Ittou!" I yelled, as this charged my DaiDaimaru with energy before I proceeded to unleash a series of slashes on the Inves's causing them to explode.

"Phew, now that was cool… huh?" I blinked, looking over to see the Byakko Inves making its way towards me.

"Oh yeah, forgot about you." I said, before I attached my blades together to make a Naganita.

The Byakko Inves started the attack by trying to Bear Hug me with his claws but I was able to catch them with the Naganita.

As this happened, my hand started to heat up as I got that strange feeling again.

"This again? Huh, weird must have something to do with the driver." I mumbled to myself while trying to push the Inves arms away.

I then proceeded to kick the Inves away to break the clash, following this by pulling the holster on the Musou Saber to fill it with bullets.

I then proceeded to shoot the Inves point-blank making the Inves stagger and stumble back a bit.

"Now my chance," He said, as I then unlocked the Lockseed and locked the device onto the Musou Saber, making the Saber start to charge up with energy.

LOCK-ON

1!

10!

100!

1000!

10000!

ORANGE CHARGE

Inves got back and started aiming vines at Shiro but he just spun his naginata around, chopping up the vines while charging the sword.

"Time to end this!" He yelled before swinging his sword at the Inves sending an energy wave that created an energy Orange trapping the Inves inside.

"Ikuze!" Shiro shouted before dashing at the Inves and cutting it in half causing a large explosion behind him.

(End song)

"W-Wow…" Daichi said, as I spun the Naganita around before splitting the blade back into two.

"Hehe, pretty cool right?" I grinned, as Daichi looked at me. "How did you get that power? I thought that Driver was fake?"

"It was, my best guess is that Louise's magic made it real when we were brought here." I guessed, removing my Lockseed and closing it which returned me to normal as Daichi looked at it.

"That's a bit convenient, but I guess I'll buy it." Daichi said, before crossing his arms. "Anyway, we should head back. This place is too dangerous."

"Yeah good idea, besides this place gives me the creeps." I said, rubbing my head as we turned around only to see the crack is no longer there.

"Did it close up when I went inside?" Daichi blink with a worried tone in his voice.

There was an awkward silence between the two of us for a bit until finally,

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"What are we meant to do?!" " Where are we meant to go?!" "What are we meant to eat?!"

"Heh, don't worry I'll open up a way out in a few minutes." A third voice came out of nowhere catching our attention.

We then turned our heads to see someone that shocked me when I saw who it was.

It was a man with pure white hair, with one eye blue and the other orange. He wore an all white rob that went all the way past his waist except for one arm that was exposed, as well white trousers and white shoes. But the face was of someone I would never forget.

"Kouta-san…?"


The screen was zipped up revealing the Orange lockseed over a symbol that looked similar to Gaims helmet.

Phew okay, finally finished the first rewrite chapter of Armoured Rider of Zero.

I honestly really liked a lot of the rewrites I managed to do, and I'm starting to see why this story didn't really get a lot of reviews since the pacing was just bad.

But now with this new start hopefully things will be a bit better.

But with that said, don't forget to review and favourite this story, and of course.

See you next chapter.