The half black & white monster glared at the costumed woman before her.  The gems that made up the masked woman’s outfit shining in the light as she leveled the gun like object at its face.

Wizard snickered, “So I think it’s safe to say you should say your prayers now,” the masked woman advanced slowly, “unless you ca magically stop silver bullets.”

Wizard paused for a moment then glanced at her gun, “Actually….now that I think about it, where did this thing and the bike even come from?  Hammerspace?”

The creature roared and pointed at Wizard, “Butt out sister, you don’t know who you are messing with!”

“Shut it,” Wizard shot the creature a few more times causing it to fall on its back, “Can’t you see I’m trying to figure stuff out here without completely turning into a jabbering mess?”

The purple haired girl quickly scrambled over to Wizard and ducked behind her, “Thank you ever so much!  I am truly grateful to you and might I say,” The girl looked Wizard up and down, “you must send me your personal designer.”

Wizard glanced at the girl, “Huh?  Oh…right….I forgot you were here.”

The girl was both taken aback and shocked, “You’re telling me you forgot..,” she sputtered, at a loss for words.

Wizard waved a hand, “Calm down, I got this.”

Wizard pushed slightly on the guns barrel causing it to unfold and transition into a short sword-like weapon.  Smirking under her helmet, Wizard rushed the creature as it stood up.  The creature whirled around as black and white tentacles sprouted from its body in a massive sweeping motion.  The surge of tentacles plowed into Wizard and lifted her off her feet.  Wizard, taking the direct method, slashed down hard and severed the tentacles.  Wizard yelled out as she smashed into an outdoor fountain.  Grumbling in annoyance, she converted her sword back into a gun and heaved her arm in a diagonal arc.  As she did so, a mass of curving bullets were sent flying at the creature.

“ARGH!”

The creature dropped hard to the ground as Wizard slipped the only other ring that she had on her right hand.  The symbol depicted a foot with a dragon surrounding it in a fire like aura.  Flicking her driver a few times another jingle rang out.

“LUPACCHI MAGIC, TOUCH GO!”

Bringing the new ring over the belt buckle, the same voice then belted out, “VERY NICE!  KICK STRIKE!  FABULOUS!”

Wizard spun in place as the red runic circle appeared at her feet.  Putting her right foot forward, a mass of magical flames began to swirl and churn around her right foot almost to her knee.  Wizard then did a cartwheel which transitioned into a powerful back flip.  Gaining some air, she flipped around and aimed her foot at the creature.

“Time for your daily dose of filet o foot!”

After yelling her impromptu battle cry, Wizard shot toward the creature….only to be snatched out of the sky.  Yelling in fear and surprise, Wizard was carried through the air at speeds compared to a speeding car.  The shape which held her, dive bombed the ground and released her on the fly by.  Wizard crashed hard into the ground as sparks flew from her with each hard roll.  Shaking the stars from her eyes, she shakily rose.  Debris surrounded her as she glared up at the creature above her.  The creature was lean in build and sported a pair of massive draconic wings which flapped steadily.  The creature itself was indeed a sight to behold.  Its whole body was covered in form fitting dark plum colored armor.  Each individual plate resembling a massive dragon scale that fit together perfectly and bent like they were flesh, in between the gaps in the plating was black membrane like skin.  The trim of the armor plates were frosted white and razor sharp looking.

The shoulder pads curved up ever so slightly at the tips and looked far sharper than the other plates.  Its head was composed of much smaller individual scales that interlock so well that it looked like one complete piece.  Its eyes were emerald green and it had no visible mouth or nose, yet there was a subtle bump meaning there might be a nose under the armor, it that it gave a good illusion of one.  Wizard could visibly perceive that the feet of the thing looked like a cross between talons and regular human feet.

The creature landed as its wings retraced into its back, Wizard readied for a fight but received an annoyed sigh from the new creature.

“So you’re the one who has troubled my master so,” the creature gazed at Wizard and spoke in a slightly distorted female voice, “I’m not impressed.”

Wizard pointed at her, “Oh yeah!  Well….your ugly!”

The creature slow clapped, “Wow, impressive.”

Wizard growled, “Alright, who are you!”

“Well since you asked,” the creature bowed in a mock fashion, “I am known as Wyvern, The Dragon Queen.”

Wizard pointed a thumb back toward the mall, “And that…THING…back there?  What was that?”

Wyvern thought for a moment as it tapped it’s frosted white claw like finger against its chin, “That thing is known as Hel, a Vessel that took form from the sin of Envy,” Wyvern snickered, “I have to say it looks quite magnificent.”

Wizard titled her head, “Then I guess beauty must really be in the eyes of the beholder.”

Wyvern straightened her stance, “Regardless.  I am giving you fair warning,” Wyvern pointed at Wizard, “Do not meddle in my affairs again.  If you do, I will burn the flesh from your bones.”

Wizard leveled her gun, “Yeah, not scared.”

Wyvern raised her hand as a ball of black fire appeared, in a flash, it launched like a rocket from an RPG and the ground erupted in a massive explosion.  Wizard was hurled from her stance, her outfit vanishing.  Elisa smacked onto the ground and gazed at the cackling dragon queen.

“Understand now where our strengths differ,” Wyvern’s wings shot out from her back as the black membrane within them flexed, “now begone.”

Wyvern lifted off and shot into the sky.

Elisa coughed as she stood up and noticed she had crashed onto the front lawn of the school she had arrived at previously…in plain view of many students.  Elisa scrambled to her feet and ran away to retrieve her bike.

*

Wyvern landed beside Hel who jumped slightly, “Well done pet.”

Hel glanced around and growled in frustration, “She got away!”

Wyvern patted the Vessel on the shoulder, “Patience Hel, you will have her, but in the meantime.  Drain any life force you can find, so commands the Shadow Lord.”

Hel nodded as she was engulfed in a black and white aura.  In a minute, the creature shrunk down and revealed it’s true self.

“You can count on me,” Sweetie Belle stated, “After I’m done with the grunt work, I’ll drain my ugly sister dry until she looks like a raisin!”

*

Present Day

Elisa thrashed as the leather jacketed girl held her firmly, “LET ME GO DAMN IT!  I AM SO OUT OF HERE!”

The girl grunted as Elisa booted her in the shin, “No way!  You’re gonna answer some questions I have!”

Elisa forcibly brought her right hand down toward her belt buckle.  The moment it hovered close enough, a familiar voice rang out.

“DRIVER ON!”

The sudden change of the belt caused the jacketed girl to release Elisa.  Thinking quickly, Elisa flicked on her Driver and fitted the first ring she grabbed onto her left hand.

“SHABADOOBIE TOUCH, HENSHIN!”

“HENSHIN!”

Elisa then touched the green ring she had hastily donned to her Driver.  

A green runic circle appeared below her as she flung her hand down.  As the circle passed over her, she donned the same costume she had previously.  The only difference was that the gems were emeralds and triangular.

Wizard glanced at her new form, “Okay, this is pretty damn cool,” a gust of swirling green wind lit up beneath her feet propelling the female wizard into the air as she floated, “Sorry, but no questions for you.”

Wizard flew off behind the school.

Sunset grit her teeth, “Damn it.”

Rarity glanced at her friend, “Don’t worry Sunset, we'll get her.”

Applejack nodded, “Exactly!  Come on!”

As the group rounded a corner, they gawked at what they saw.  Sweetie Belle, Rarity’s little sister, was currently restraining a student in a head lock.  Worse yet, an odd mist was coming out of the student’s chest and going into Sweetie’s.

Looking up, the freshman dropped the student to the ground who groaned, “Heya sis.”

Rarity let out a scream as the black and white aura consumed the freshman.  When it faded, Hel stood and cackled.

“Now,” the Vessel stated coldly, “where were we.”

*

Wizard was getting some good distance between her and the school when she heard the scream.  Halting in mid-air, she glanced to the unknown horizon, then back toward the school.

Tsking in annoyance she muttered, “Damn it."

*

Applejack rushed up to Hel and attempted to restrain the thrashing creature, “Run ya’ll!”

The girls turned to run only to have Applejack knock them all down like bowling pins.  A tentacle shot out and ensnared Rarity’s ankle, yanking her from the pile.  Hel hung the girl upside down as Rarity attempted to plead with the creature.

“Sweetie Belle please, don’t do this!  This isn’t you!”

Hel growled, “Shut up!  I’m tired of living in your shadow!  Once I drain you of your life force, I can be the pretty one of the family!”

A white mist then started to come out of Rarity’s ankle and run up through Hel’s tentacle.  As Hel held the slowly paling Rarity, a bolt of green hit Hel square in the spine.  The Vessel dropped Rarity and whirled around to behold the floating Wizard who slowly descended.

“You didn’t forget about little old me did you,” Wizard taunted, “that hurts my feelings.”

Hel raised her arms, “Well this will hurt a lot more!”

White and black shrapnel erupted from Hel’s palms and rained toward Wizard.  Thinking quickly, Wizard dodged a good portion of the projectiles while shooting the rest out of the sky.  Folding her gun into a sword, Wizard flew toward Hel on the wind she currently rode and dragged her blade across the monsters body.  Green sparks flew from the point of impact as Wizard repeated her fly by slashes in a much more rapid succession. On her seventh pass however….

“ENOUGH!”

A tentacle clotheslined the windy Wizard and knocked her onto the ground.  Cursing her luck, Wizard rolled away from a crushing blow aimed at her head.  Quickly getting into the crouching position she aimed her sword, which she converted back to its gun mode, and fired more shots.  Hel stumbled but quickly regained herself before following through with various whips of her tentacles.  Wizard flipped over one then ducked the other before rising, and converting her weapon, to deliver a strong horizontal slash across Hel’s stomach.

“I think it’s time to take your medicine,” she then slipped on her kick strike ring.

“LUPACCHI MAGIC, TOUCH GO!”

She then placed the kick strike ring on her belt, “VERY NICE!  KICK STRIKE!  FABULOUS!”

A green runic circle appeared this time as Wizard placed her right foot forward.  Green swirling wind engulfed her foot in the same fashion as the flames did.  Wizard then spun on the spot as she rose in the air.

“KIYAH!”

She then delivered a devastating round house to Hel’s head.  The Vessel was sent flying, sparking with green electricity as she did.  Then with a final cry, Hel exploded in green fire, as everyone present stared on in awe.

Wizard landed as she switched back to normal.  Elisa glanced down as she noticed an odd black rock like object.  She picked it up and examined it closer.  The object was a rough slim rhombus shape and made of obsidian colored rock.  Cracks of red pulsed on it, though from the cracks, a faint white mist slithered out.  Throwing the object up, Elisa brought her weapon around and shattered the rock into dust.  White mist erupted from the destroyed thing.  The mist separated in various directions, but a large portion went back into the unconscious student.  A small amount went into Rarity, who coughed and regained consciousness.

The other girls stood up as a stumbling and soot covered Sweetie Belle stumbled forward, “Rarity...my head hurts.”

Rarity rushed forward and embraced her sister, “Oh Sweetie!  Never scare me like that again!”

Elisa nodded but then felt a head rush, “Whoa.”

The leather jacketed girl turned her head, “Hey, you okay?”

Elisa raised an ‘okay’ hand signal, “Peachy….”

Elisa Keep then fainted on the spot.

*

The Underworld

Wyvern trembled as The Shadow Lord’s gaze bore down upon her with much ire.

“You failed me Wyvern,” though the tone was not one of anger, Wyvern felt the force of each world like a blow.

“Forgive me master,” Wyvern pleaded, “I-I did not think that the girl would prove to be a thre-“

“SILENCE!”

Wyvern backed down and flinched as The Shadow Lord sighed, “You wasted a Shadow Seed…but no matter, this is but a minor setback.  You are a loyal general Wyvern and I see no reason to…rid myself of you as of yet.”

Wyvern bowed low, “I thank you my lord, I do not deserve your kindness.”

“No you do not,” The Shadow Lord leaned back in his seat, “this girl…what’s her name?”

Wyvern glanced up, “She is known as Elisa Keep.  She also calls herself Kamen Rider Wizard.”

“Kamen Rider eh,” The Shadow Lord leaned back as his eyes gleamed in recollection, “I have not heard that term since….no matter.  Basilisk.”

Another shape stepped forward, “Yes my lord,” spoke the distorted man-like voice.

“You are to go above immediately and make another Vessel,” The Shadow Lord then narrowed his golden eyes, “and try to make this one last long enough so that the seed takes full root in the soul.”

“As you will it my lord,” a pair of reptilian eyes glowed in the darkness.