"Yes! A perfect place to practice our powers!"
The ten teens had decided to hang out underneath Heatherfield's main bridge. It seemed like a good spot for them to practice their newfound powers, and no one else was around, so they wouldn't risk exposing any secrets as well.
"You know, I still don't believe any of this stuff," Cornelia said skeptically as she turned to Hay Lin. "No offense to your Grandma or anything, but she's like completely deluded. Probably not enough Vitamin D."
She was instantly regretting saying that and buckling under the glare of the largest boy in their group.
"Yan Lin is wiser than us all." Fraost sternly said. "I won't have anyone disrespecting her."
"Fraost." Hay Lin glared, getting in between him and Cornelia. Fraost's glare diminished and he let out a sigh before turning to join his friends.
"Thanks." Cornelia managed.
"Don't say anything else, okay?" Hay Lin demanded, getting a nod.
"Besides, what about the flower that grew when you just LOOKED at it." Taranee pointed out. "And the water in Irma's glass? And that picture Mrs. Lin drew in the air?"
"Magic tricks. Ten bucks on the Internet." Cornelia said dismissively.
Will put the Heart of Kandrakar around her neck and closed her eyes, trying to figure out how to make it work. Suddenly, the Heart seemed to glow brightly and float itself up to her face, making everyone let out awes of interest.
"Awwwww."
I wrote 'awes!' A. W. E. S!
"Oooooo!"
That's better.
Suddenly, Will and the girls floated into the air, Will turning around slowly in the center as the girls ended up spinning around her, Irma letting out a cry of alarm. The boys all took a step back, watching in amazement as pink ripples of energy emitted from the Heart.
"GUARDIANS UNITE!"
Will didn't know why she said that, but it was almost like instinct to her for some reason as the pink energy swirled around her and encased her in a sphere of pink energy.
Four other streams of elemental magic suddenly flowed out to the other girls surrounding her. A white stream of energy shaped like the wind, encircled Hay Lin before her body was engulfed in a white magic sphere. A stream of magic fire flowed around Taranee before she was also engulfed in an orange magic sphere. Energized magic water flowed around Irma before her body was entrapped in a bright blue magic sphere. Finally, Cornelia was surrounded by a stream of green energy, which had leaves flowing around it, before her body was encompassed in a green energy sphere.
The five colored spheres however in the air as ancient elemental magic symbols formed on the spheres while the boys looked in awe but had to quickly cover their eyes from a bright flash of light.
When the light subsided, the five Guardians stood fully transformed. Each of them had similar outfits, but also different in a way.
Will had a pink long-sleeved shirt with loose sleeves, a green skirt, blue and green striped tights, and dark purple boots.
Taranee had a pink sleeveless shirt, exposing her midriff with pink wristbands; dark green shorts with blue and green striped tights, and dark purple tennis shoes.
Irma had a dark green long-sleeved shirt with an exposed midriff, a purple skirt, blue and green striped tights, along with purple boots.
Hay Lin wore a dark green sleeveless shirt, with an exposed midriff, along with a purple dress and blue and green striped tights with purple shoes.
Finally; Cornelia had a dark green long-sleeved shirt as well, with a long purple dress stretching down to her heels, green and blue tights, and dark purple boots. But what really stood out were the butterfly-like wings that grew out of each of the girls' backs.
Nagare turned to hide his blush; Will was cute, but in that kind of get up?
Fraost
Karma
"Can your science explain that?" Apollo smirked at Edgar
"Like Cornelia said, smoke and mirrors! Of nanomachines activated by sound!"
Everyone looked at Edgar like he was a moron
"What? Its feasible!"
"Holy cow..." Will whispered in shock.
"You know… somehow I cannot imagine your Grandma wearing that," Irma said to Hay Lin who looked at her wings in excitement.
"What have we got behind us?"
"What have we got in front of us?" Cornelia looked at her chest and how much it had grown with a shallow laugh.
"I think I just got something in front of me..." Karma snickered before being elbowed in the gut by Apollo.
Hay Lin gasped. "They're wings! We've got wings!"
"They can't be wings. If they were wings, when we went like this we'd…" Will then gave a startled scream as her wings flapped rapidly and she actually took to the sky. Hay Lin followed suit and shot straight into the air.
"Oh man, I hate heights." Taranee groaned as she saw this. "I get woozy in high-heeled shoes."
"Alright, I guess it's time for us to do our thing," Nagare said, trying to keep his blushing voice under wraps as he took out the Moon Dragon Amulet.
"So how do we do this? Do we press the button in the middle?" Karma asked as he put his finger on the Yin-Yang Symbol but nothing happened...
...At least at first. Suddenly, five streams of divine magical energy burst out of the amulet and surrounded the five boys, who all cried in shock.
"KARMA!" The other boys roared.
"I DIDN'T MEAN TOO!"
The energy surrounded each of the boys, briefly shaping itself into a humanoid shape of various colors before charging towards, onto and into them. Despite this, the boys felt no pain, and when the lights ceased in volume, new forms stood in their place:]
Nagare was in mostly black armor, except for two round, bug like eyes that still showed his own. The top of his helmet was like a pink and white crown.
Karma's armor was orange with silver, bug like eyes like his brother's, but slitted, like older knight's visors. His helmet had fin like horns and his wrists silver heads of a dragon gauntlets.
Edgar's armor was possibly the most eye-catching: A cone like helmet of silver with a blue center and yellow eye shields. His armor was mostly white and looked soft, like it was made of a cushion like material, save for the blue highlights of pure metal.
Apollo's silver helmet looked like that of a cricket, antennae and all. His armor was a mix of green and silver, with a stainless, pure white scarf wrapped around his neck.
And finally, Fraost was in a purple, gold and bat like set of armor. Almost like a vampire knight…But much cooler than that manga of that name.
The light died down, allowing them to look upon their armored forms.
"Okay...when did this become Ninja Gaiden mixed with Kamen Rider?" Edgar said, looking at his outfit curiously.
Fraost was just squealing like a kid in a candy shop and Apollo was admiring himself in some metal.
"BEST. DAY. EVER!" The giant screamed, backflipping in delight.
"I like the scarf." Apollo said. "I'm keeping the scarf."
The girls were all staring at the boys' transformed states, all of them blushing at how, despite the armor, they were all well-muscled and their physiques easily showing through their outfits.
"Ooooh, I feel faint...!" Irma swooned as she fell back, only for Karma to rush over and catch her at speeds he didn't even realize he had.
"Just…dropping down?" Karma wiggled his eyebrows under his mask, his voice smooth. He and Irma's faces then burst into blushes and they leapt away, wiping where their hands and waist 'clean.'
Hay Lin, the only girl who hadn't noticed the boys' transformation, was too busy flying around in every way.
"Oh does anyone have a camera, or one of those cell phones or-!" She was interrupted when she crashed straight into Fraost, who quickly flew backward and skidded across the ground as he held Hay Lin close.
"Hay Lin, are you alright?!"
"Yeah, I'm-" Hay Lin paused when she saw Fraost's transformed state and blushed at just how good he looked in that armor yet still was able to gaze into his bright purple eyes.
"This totally rocks!" Irma flapped her wings excitedly before pointing at Taranee. "You do something!"
Taranee tried to point her finger again like in the restaurant only to shoot a stronger flame that knocked her on her butt as the fire shot upward and fell back down to create a small blaze on the ground that Cornelia jumped out of the way from.
"See? That's exactly why I don't like fire!"
"Irma, you're Water, put it out!" Cornelia snapped, the other girl thrusting her hands out and firing a glob of water that spiraled in the air before splashing on the fire...and Cornelia.
"Alright, that's Taranee and Irma taken care of...now it's your turn," Edgar said as he turned to Cornelia.
"There's no soil or plants here, I can't do my thing." The blonde huffed. "Like, you know, rise toward me or whatever."
"Cornelia, Earth means ground and what are you standing on?" Apollo asked rhetorically, hoping his friend would get it.
However, the ground suddenly rumbled before a large cactus-like plant shot out from underneath Cornelia, knocking her on her butt. She then noticed an earthworm squirming out of the ground and onto her hand, resulting in her screaming and running away, only for the struggling Will to fall and land on top of her.
"I could watch that all day," Karma smirked behind his mask, only to get elbowed by Apollo.
"Well, the girls are certainly taking to it," Nagare noted. "Now we need to figure out what we can do."
"Perhaps we can try flying like the girls?" Fraost suggested before closing his eyes and concentrating. Suddenly, dragon-like wings burst out of his back.
"Whoa!" Apollo gasped before trying the same thing, getting a similar result.
"Of course, since this is a Dragon Amulet, we have dragon powers..." Edgar sighed as he grew his wings unconsciously and just looked at them dejectedly before sighing.
Karma excitedly took flight with his wings, flying around before crashing headfirst into Hay Lin, who had resumed flying around earlier. The two then fell and crashed into a nearby garbage pile as the others winced.
Will had taken to try and fly again but was still rather disoriented. Suddenly, she lost her balance and began falling, which Nagare noticed as he ran to catch her...but moved at blurring speeds faster than any normal human eye could track, appearing at Will's side and catching her in a bridal carry.
"Whoa...We're super fast too! Like The Flash!" Apollo grinned. "Now let's see if we have strength too!"
Apollo then dug his hands into the ground and grunted before yelling with full might as he pulled up a giant chunk of the ground the size of a pick-up truck...which he was holding as if it was as light as a party balloon.
"I AM THE STRONGEST IN THE WORLD!" Apollo roared.
"I guess that answers your question," Edgar said before putting a finger to his chin. "But what about our Elemental Phase powers? Surely we can use them as well."
Suddenly, the five boys' eyes all glowed different colors. Nagare's glowed gold, Karma's glowed red, Edgar's glowed blue, Apollo's glowed silver, and Fraost's glowed purple. The girls all looked at their friends in concern as the dragon amulet reappeared in a spectral form and showed eight different branches based on the eight phases of the moon, each with different elements connected to them.
The Full Moon depicted the Phase of Heaven, which had symbols of a sparkling star representing Light and a diamond representing Crystal. From Light came the elements of Healing, Teleportation, and Radiation, and from Crystal came Glass, Amber, and Pearl.
The Waning Gibbous depicted the Phase of the Sky, which had symbols of a spiral of wind representing Air and a beautiful tree representing Wood. From Air came the elements of Vaccum, Dust, and Gas, and from Wood came Fungi, Paper, and Mana.
The Third Quarter depicted the Phase of the Beast, which had symbols of a poisonous skull representing Poison and a pulsating ripple representing Sound. From Poison came the elements of Plague, Acid, and Mutagen, and from Sound came Song, Pressure, and Silence.
The Waning Crescent depicted the Phase of the Sea, which had symbols of an ocean wave representing Water and a snowflake representing Ice. From Water came the elements of Bubble, Steam, and Ink, and from Ice came Mist, Cold, and Sealing.
The New Moon depicted the Phase of Spirit, which had symbols of a ghostly eye representing Phantom and a dark claw representing Shadow. From Phantom came the elements of Bone, Reanimation, and Astral Projection, and from Shadow came Blindness, Pitch, and Twilight.
The Waxing Crescent depicted the Phase of the Land, which had the symbols of a mountain representing Earth and a metallic cube representing Metal. From Earth came the elements of Sand, Clay, and Lava, and from Metal came Rust, Magma, and Transmutation.
The First Quarter depicted the Phase of the Mind, which had the symbols of an all-seeing eye representing Psionics and a demonic eye representing Fear. From Psionics came the elements of Foresight, Time, and Gravity, and from Fear came Illusion, Mania, and Courage.
Finally, the Waxing Gibbous depicted the Phase of Energy, which had the symbols of a blazing bonfire representing Fire and a thunderbolt representing Lightning. From Fire came the elements of Smoke, Heat, and Explosion, and from Lightning came Plasma, Magnetism, and Entropy.
Soon, the specteral amulet disappeared and so did the branches, turning into a mist that separated into five that went into each of the boys. For a moment, they slumped over, almost dead, before slowly rising up and rubbing their scalps.
"Ugh, I think my head's ready to burst..." Karma groaned. "No...No more studying!"
"I've seen things...I've seen the creation of the universe! I've seen the truth behind quantum mechanics!" Edgar gasped in elation. "Nobody will believe me but I've seen it all! AND SO MANY WHERE WRONG! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Okay...let's pray to god that's just a one-time thing." Nagare awkwardly patted his genius friend on the head, before whispering to the others. "Keep far away."
"Whoa...you boys can do all that?" Irma asked before putting her hands on her hips. "Something tells me we girls got a raw deal."
"No, that's not true..." Fraost said. "Girls...your elements are the five primary ones. These are just the minor elements that were birthed from them."
"I mean, we can use Fire, Water, Earth, and Air just like you and all those other things..." Nagare said, nursing a headache. "But you girls...you didn't see what we saw."
"Yeah, from what we saw...with the right training, you girls could become OMNIPOTENT. As for us...even if some of the elements we can use seem OP...we can't reach the potential you can." Apollo added.
"Okay, that's enough lore dumping for now," Will said as she saw the sun setting. "Besides, it's getting late. I think we've destroyed enough of Heatherfield for today."
She took out the Heart again and was quick to transform everyone back. The boys all glowed and turned back to normal as well, the Moon Dragon Amulet reappearing and landing in Nagare's hand.
"Where did Hay Lin go?" Irma asked.
Fraost happened to look up at the sound of a girl screaming and opened up his arms to catch the falling Hay Lin bridal style.
"Found her."
"PUT ME DOWN, YOU OVERGROWN MUSCLEHEAD!"
"No."
WITCH
Meanwhile, back in Meridian...
Caleb continued to tumble down the hillside with Cedric chasing down after him. But Caleb was quick to get himself back on his feet and use the momentum to push himself to run farther and gain some distance from Cedric. He happened to spot a blue swirling portal just at the bottom of the hill and smiled as he made his way toward it but Cedric was hot on his trail...
WITCH
The kids had packed up and made some notes on what the could do, when Hay Lin to noticed something...
"Um, guys..."
"Come on, Hay Lin. We can learn more about what we can do tomorrow." Irma said.
"I really think you outta check this out."
"Check what out?" Cornelia asked before noticing the bright blue glow behind the group causing them all to turn around and see a portal had manifested just like the one in Yan Lin's images.
"Holy crap, it's one of those portals!" Karma exclaimed before Nagare pulled him back.
"Don't touch it, stupid!"
Suddenly, Caleb fell out of the portal in a crackle of electricity, crashing into some nearby garbage. However, he wasn't the only one coming out of it.
"Look!" Irma shouted as the form of Lord Cedric came out of the portal halfway.
"SNAKE MAN!" Apollo cried. "WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE A SNAKE MAN?!"
"Everyone, stand back!" Nagare said as he and the rest of the boys got in front of the girls protectively.
Cedric loomed over everyone with a snarl before turning toward where Caleb had landed and went to pick him up. However, Nagare jumped up and punched the brute in the jaw with an uppercut.
"SHORYUKEN!"
Cedric was disoriented briefly before shaking his head and glaring angrily at Nagare, only for Edgar to point his finger and fire a small bolt of electricity at him, which didn't hurt him but it did surprise him.
"Will! The necklace! Change us back!" Taranee shook Will who seemed paralyzed with fear.
"Hey, tall, dark, and slimey! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?!" Apollo said as he tried mimicking the movements of Toph Beifong from Avatar: The Last Airbender, which actually seemed to work as he erected a stone wall that he punched and sent multiple rock bullets at Cedric, who blocked with his arm.
"HOLY MOLY! THAT ACTUALLY WORKED! THANK YOU, TV!"
Karma wanted to get a hit in as he tried to run and jump to deliver a kick to Cedric, but he saw it coming and grabbed Karma by the foot before throwing him at Edgar and Apollo to knock them down.
Nagare tried to hit Cedric again, but the snake-man blocked the attack with his large arm before throwing him out towards Fraost to knock him back a bit. Cedric used this opportunity to grab Caleb who had just finished pulling himself out of the trash.
Will tried to shake off her fear just as the boys each recovered, and Cedric grabbed Caleb. She quickly activated the Heart's power and Cedric looked in surprise to see the girls transform into their Guardian forms.
"Uh…Fire!" Will exclaimed.
"Me?" Taranee questioned, considering it was her element.
"Everybody!" Will shouted. All five of them looked like they were about to shoot off their magics, but it ended up causing chaos as their respective magics actually seemed to pour into the Heart of Kandrakar, causing pink lightning-like bolts to shoot everywhere.
"Girls, you're going all wrong! You're putting too much power into it!" Edgar cried.
"Hey! If the girls are transforming, why aren't we?!" Karma asked but sadly went ignored in the commotion.
Deciding retreat was the best option, Cedric began to pull himself back through the portal along with the struggling Caleb.
"Close it! Close the portal!" Caleb exclaimed as he was about to be dragged through, but Nagare quickly ran toward him and grabbed his hand before trying to pull him back.
"I got you!"
Unfortunately, Nagare wasn't strong enough and was about to be pulled in along with Caleb.
"BRO!" Karma was quick to grab his brother and try to pull him back down along with Caleb. Fraost grabbed Karma by the waist and tried to pull them out too, but it seemed Cedric was just as strong himself and pulled as hard as he could with Karma and Fraost trying to pull Nagare back with Nagare himself trying hard not to let go of Caleb.
"Will! Close it! Close it!" Hay Lin shouted out of fear as they stopped using their magic.
"But… the guys…!"
"Close it now!" Edgar exclaimed as he shot another weak lightning blast at Cedric through the portal, hitting the snake-man in the face to disorient him long enough for Karma and Fraost to pull Nagare out.
However, he ended up losing his grip over Caleb and he fell back into the portal with Cedric just as Will shot a beam of pink energy from the Heart at the Portal to close it, but it was already too late.
"You lost him!" Cornelia exclaimed to Will. "That thing got him!"
"Not even our first day on the job and we just lost..." Apollo weakly said
WITCH
"I see…. What exactly did you see?" Yan Lin asked as the ten shaken teens returned to the Silver Dragon to tell her what happened.
"He was pretty tall. Not as tall as Fraost, but pretty tall." Edgar described. "And he had brown hair and a jacket."
"He was just a boy, the same age as the rest of us." Will sighed. "It all happened so fast."
Yan Lin put a reassuring hand on Will's shoulder. "Don't blame yourselves."
"I don't. I blame her!" Cornelia pointed to Will. "She totally blew it!"
"Oy, I didn't see you trying to help!" Apollo said, elbowing Cornelia in the stomach. "So take it easy, why don't ya!"
"Guys!" Taranee snapped, slamming her hands on the table.
"I'm just wondering who the heck that big snake guy was..." Nagare frowned.
"It looked like this." Hay Lin said as she showed Yan Lin a sketch of the snake man in question, causing her to frown as she recognized him.
"Lord Cedric..."
"Lord?" Irma questioned. "They got pretty low standards for knighthood over there."
"I shudder to think what the Archduke is like," Edgar muttered.
"Cedric is not always in this form." Yan Lin explained.
"Well, that's good news for his wife." Fraost dryly noted, causing Irma to snort in amusement.
"Guys, this is serious!" Hay Lin said.
"Hey, you think we don't know that?" Nagare said defensively. "We literally saw a giant snake man drag a guy who was trying to escape to who knows where to do who knows what to him!"
"Don't fight." Yan Lin gently said. "You only have each other. And you've begun an adventure which I'm afraid you will need all of your talents and strengths just to survive."
"Yeah, no pressure..." Karma grumbled.
Knightmare Lord A/N:
And so, we finish Episode 1: It Begins! Next, we will move on to Episode 2! What new skills will our young heroes learn as they try to figure out what to do next in these shocking revelations?
Also, the boys' elements, while powerful and versatile, won't overshadow the girls and their elements. In fact, the boys' elements draw power from the girls' elements in a sort of balance, like Yin and Yang. We'll find a way to work that into the lore later.
Anyway, the boys' elements are based on a fanart on DeviantArt called Elemental Calendar 3.1 by Bysthedragon. Look it up if you will to get a grasp on their capabilities.
One more thing, here are the boys' voice actors if they were actually in the cartoon:
Nagare: Yuri Lowenthal (Ben Tennyson from Ben 10 and Spider-Man from PS4 Spider-Man)
Karma: Ben Schwartz (Leonardo from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sonic from the Sonic the Hedgehog Movies)
Edgar: Todd Haberkorn (Death the Kid from Soul Eater and Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail)
Apollo: Vic Mignogna (Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and Tamaki Suoh from Ouran Highschool Host Club)
Fraost: Travis Willingham (Takashi Morinozuka from Ouran Highschool Host Club and Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist)
What do you think, Mrotrax?
Mrotrax A/N:
Great work as usual, my good man!
Going into this, we had planned to base the boy's armor off either GARO of Kamen Rider. I ended up going with Kamen Rider due to most variety in looks and finding an appropriate Makai armor for each of the boys. That and Makai Armors look a wee bit too scary for the W.I.T.C.H setting, in my opinion.
Nagare's armor is based off Kamen Rider Decade, to tie into Will's Quintessence being a mix of the others' elements and his own role as leader of the group.
Karma's amor is based off Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, due to the colors and being the one most Westerners would be familiar with.
Edgar's armor is based off Kamen Rider Fourze, the most 'scientific' based Rider, atlough his personality couldn't be any more different than Gentaro's, me thinks?
Froast's armor is based off Kamen Rider Kiva, the first KR show I watched from beginning to end and my fave.
Finally, Apollo's armor is based off the original Kamen Rider to showcase his atheletism, since aside from his belt, the OG Riders were fairly normal people.
How did I do on the choices/
See you when we see you!