//------------------------------// // S1E3 Home Truths Part 2 // Story: Sunset's Journey // by Alphajeager1 //------------------------------// Symbol mock glared at Dante, having not forgotten the strange look she had gotten for talking to the house earlier, which he was doing now. She slid the Active Ring onto her left middle finger, the placed the Ice and Bind Rings onto her right index and ring fingers. She pressed the left Shift Lever making the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author turn to the left. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then Symbol scanned her left hand across it. [ACTIVE PLEASE!] Symbol held out her left hand, the active magic circle appeared to her left and moved through her. [LET’S GO!] Transforming her into the Active Style. Symbol then pressed the Wizard Driver’s right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] Making the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author turn to the right before she scanned the Ice and Bind Rings across it. [ICE BIND PLEASE!] She held her right hand out to the side, the ice and bind magic circles appeared and moved over her, transforming Symbol into the Active Ice Bind Style. “You're not the only one that’s getting curious about that,” muttered Symbol. They ran through the door and dropped down through a hole in the floor, into a room that was full of black Phantom crystals. Paying the crystal’s no mind the two Kamen Rider’s ran through a door on the left side of the room. Suddenly, the Slip Dimension blew out all of the windows and part of the floor. “If this had happened before that dream then we would have been stuck,” Dante used the Demon Pull to yank a platform from the wall, which he and Symbol jumped off to clear the gap. They landed in a corner and Symbol used a bind chain to pull another platform from another part of the wall. It hovered in the air, despite having nothing to hold it up as Dante and Symbol jumped on it. Dante then used the Demon Pull to yank on a wall, making the platform they were on zoom forwards and impact a corner, this time they had both been able to brace and neither were thrown off. Symbol used another bind chain to pull another platform from a wall which the two Kamen Rider’s used to jump across the gap. Dante grabbed the handle of the Demon Pull and gave it a turn. [AXE MODE!] Making it transform back into Arbiter which he used to smash down a door that was covered in a barrier of red crisscrossing energy. The two of them ran forwards and into an intersection. A ghostly woman ran across their path. “SPARDA! They’re here! THEY'RE HERE! We’ve got to get out of here! NOW! Hurry, come on, quickly!” she screamed as the ran down the right corridor. “What the hell happened here?” muttered Dante. “I’m not sure that I want to know,” whispered Symbol. They ran through a door and found themselves right back in the entrance hall! “Oh come on!” shouted Symbol. Suddenly, the entrance hall started to break apart and turned into several floating islands and floating platforms. “Here we go again,” muttered Dante. All of a sudden a Valkyrie Phantom appeared only to was armed with a crossbow instead of a bomb and a shield instead of crossbow bolts. This is the not the Valkyrie Phantom but the Icarus Phantom. “Mine!” shouted Symbol as she pressed the right Shift Lever twice. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanned her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BIND MAGIC PLEASE!] A chain of orange energy shot from the Grapple Gauntlet, but instead of grabbing the Phantom it grabbed the shield and tore it from the Icarus Phantom’s grasp. Symbol started at it for several moments, if her helmet was in its human head form then she would be grinning. “I am so going to enjoy using this on the Death Knight Phantoms!” she cheered. Symbol pulled open the Active Blade’s Hand Author. [COME ON A SLASH SHAKE HANDS!] Then she scanned her right hand across it. [ICE BIND SLASH STRIKE!] The blade then segmented into a long whip. “Snake Form!” it wrapped around the Icarus Phantom before Symbol gave it a mighty pull, freezing the Phantom over and causing it to shatter. Dante turned Arbiter’s handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] Making the axe transform into the Demon Pull. He used it to tear away the shield of another Icarus Phantom. Then he switched the Demon Ring for the Nephilim Ring and punched it into the left slot of his Driver. [SET!] He turned his wrist back, making the Driver’s gate close and then turned it forwards making the gate open. [OPEN!] The Nephilim Glyph appeared in front of him. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Then moved back through Dante, transforming him into the Nephilim Style. He drew his sword and held down the trigger, making the eyes shine as red and blue energy covered it. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Dante slashed down. “Drive!” sending a wave of red and blue energy at the Phantom. The second the wave made contact the Phantom exploded. Symbol jumped back as she fought a Lesser Blade Phantom, switching the Active Ring for the Burst Ring and pressing the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Burst Ring. [BURST PLEASE!] The burst magic circle appeared behind her and moved through Symbol. [CAST THE SPELL!] Transforming her into her Burst Style. Symbol then pressed down on the left Shift Lever three times. [MAGICAL TOUCH GO!] Then she scanned the Burst Ring. [BURST! A RANK SPELL!] She held her left hand to the ground. “Earth Wall!” the Lesser Blade Phantom was badly damaged by the giant wall of rock that appeared above it and was dropped on it in an effect to crush it flat. It didn’t work but the rock wall did a lot of damage when it shattered. “Not quite enough, let's try this!” Symbol pulled open the Burst Wand’s Hand Author. [COME ON A CAST SHAKE HANDS!] Then she scanned the Burst Ring across it. [BURST! CAST STRIKE!] A ball of purple magical energy appeared at the tip of the Burst Wand. “Burst Beam!” before it was fired forwards and slammed into the Lesser Blade Phantom causing it to explode. Dante fought against another Lesser Blade Phantom. He punched the Nephilim Ring into the back of his sword’s handle. [FIVE!] The mouth snapped open to reveal five red and blue circles. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Red and blue energy covered the tip of the sword as Dante ran forwards. “Stinger!” he stabbed the Lesser Blade Phantom, making sparks come from the impact point as it was sent skidding backwards. Keeping up the pressure Dante punched the Nephilim Ring into the base of his sword’s hilt again. [SIX!] The mouth snapped open to reveal six red and blue circles. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Red and blue energy covered the tip of the sword to the point it could not be seen. “Trillion Stabs!” Dante ran forwards at full speed and started stabbing the Lesser Blade Phantom at high speed, his arm was nothing but a blur as a continuous amount of sparks came from the Lesser Blade Phantom. Dante swapped the Nephilim Ring for the Demon Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned his hand back, then forwards making the gate on the Driver close and open. [OPEN!] The demon magic circle emerged from the Driver. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Then it moved back through him, transforming him into the Demon Style. Dante then punched the Demon Ring into the left slot on his Driver a second time. [GO! KICK STRIKE!] Red energy raged around his body before getting focused into his left boot as he jumped into the air. “Falling Axe!” shouted Dante as he came down with a dropkick which made the Lesser Blade Phantom go up in a massive explosion the force of which sent Dante spinning through the air before landing on his boots. Dante and Symbol looked back at the main building and saw the woman. “No, no, NO! Come on! How did they find us!” she ran through a door and it was then covered in a barrier or red crisscrossing energy. “I know that voice!” Dante realized. “I sort of recognize it,” added Symbol. They jumped to one platform and then jumped to the next one that looked like a flight of stairs. They ran up it and had to hop over a gap to reach the main building. Dante was just about to smash down the door with Arbiter when Symbol stopped him. “I want to try something,” she explained. Dante shrugged and stepped back. Symbol swapped the Burst Ring for the Giga Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Giga Ring. [GIGA PLEASE!] The giga magic circle appeared under her boots and rose up through her. [BREAK THROUGH!] Transforming Symbol into the Giga Style. She raised up the Giga Axe and brought it down, smashing through the barrier like glass and then shattering the door into wood chips. At Dante’s questioning look, don’t ask how she could tell that when his face looked like a mask, Symbol explained. “I wanted to see if my theory that the Giga Axe could break down the red force fields like Arbiter was correct.” They followed the hall around to the right and cut left into a room. It was bare of anything except for a portrait on the left side. It was of a red-haired woman with pale skin a green-blue eyes. She wore a black gothic dress and held a blue rose, around her neck was three pendants, each was coloured one of the three basic colours: Yellow, blue and red. “Is that, Mom?” asked Dante aloud. They both remembered a red hair woman. “I love you, Dante, Sunset,” she said as she gave both of them a necklace. The tender moment was destroyed when the Phantom’s burst out of the ground. “Fucking Phantom’s,” Dante growled out. For once, Symbol agreed with how he expressed it. Dante ran towards one of the Lesser Blade Phantoms as he switched the Demon Ring for the Nephilim Ring and punched it into his Driver’s left slot. [SET!] Two twists caused the gate to close and then open. [OPEN!] The Nephilim magic circle appeared from the Driver. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] It shot out and then back through him, transforming Dante into the Nephilim Style. Dante punched the Nephilim Ring into the slot at the bottom of his sword’s handle. [THREE!] The mouth opened to reveal three red and blue circles. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Red and blue energy ran up and down both sides of the blade. “Hacker!” Dante slashed the Lesser Blade Phantom three times. Then he punched the Nephilim Ring into the sword once more. [ONE!] The mouth opened and revealed a single red and blue circle. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Red and blue energy covered the sword. Dante then reached down and punched the Nephilim Ring into his Driver’s left slot. [GO! KICK STRIKE!] The energy was then pulled into his left boot as Dante ran forwards and kicked the Phantom in the chin. “High Time!” his kick unleashed a shockwave of red and blue energy that sent the Phantom shooting into the air where it exploded. At that moment a Death Knight Phantom burst from the ground. “That one is mine!” shouted Symbol as she pressed the Left Shift Lever twice [MAGICAL TOUCH SPELL!] Then she scanned the Giga Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [GIGA B RANK SPELL!] Her left glove was covered in green magical energy. “Seismic Smash!” Symbol brought her glove down in an overhead chop that made cracks spread through the Death Knight Phantom’s shield before with a loud cracking sound it shattered into pieces. Then Symbol pulled open the Giga Axe’s Hand Author. [COME ON A SMASH SHAKE HANDS!] Before scanning the Giga Ring across it. [GIGA SMASH STRIKE!] Green magical energy gathered around the blade as Symbol slammed it down, making the Death Knight Phantom explode. Dante jumped into the air and started to spin as he punched the Nephilim Ring into the back of Ebony’s hammer. [NEPHILIM] He turned upside down as the gun started to charge with black energy. [IVORY STRIKE!] Before pulling the trigger. “Rainstorm!” a barrage of bullets shot out of the gun and damaged several Lesser Blade Phantom’s very badly, making sparks come off their bodies. Dante landed back on the ground as he switched the Nephilim Ring for the Demon Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned it back and then turned it forwards. [OPEN!] The demon magic circle appeared. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Before moving back through Dante, transforming him into the Demon Style. Dante punched the Demon Ring into the back of Arbiter’s blade. [TWO!] Which then opened. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Red energy started to charge around Arbiter. “Tremor!” Dante brought the axe back and slammed it into the ground. Out of which came two waves of red mana that catapulted a Lesser Blade Phantom into the air. Dante was about to jump after it but realised that he’d never be able to reach that high in the Demon Style. He swapped Rings. [SET!] Then twisted his wrist twice. [OPEN!] [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Switching into his more balanced form and jumped into the air, reaching the same height as the Lesser Blade Phantom. [TWO!] His blade was charged with red and blue energy. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Then he spun around slashing the Lesser Blade Phantom several times before finishing with a single hard upwards slash that sent the Phantom into the air where it exploded. Seeing several more Lesser Blade Phantoms under him, Dante punched the Nephilim Ring into the base of his sword. [ONE!] He went shooting down. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Before hitting one of them with an overhead slash destroying all of the Phantoms. With the Phantom’s destroyed the two of them approached the portrait. Dante noticed that the bottom of it had an engraved that was identical to his tattoo and it was glowing light blue. He looked at Symbol. Who shrugged. “You know what’s going to happen.” Dante slumped as he placed his hand against the part of the engraving that was glowing. Light blue energy travelled into the Nephilim Ring, up his arm and into his Driver. A beam of blue energy shot into the Wizard Driver. [SWIFT PLEASE!] A new magic circle appeared above Symbol. It was a yellow S, inside a yellow triangle, inside a yellow eight-pointed star inside a second triangle that had two layers, between which was yellow runic text. [DASH AWAY!] It fell down through Symbol as the Wizard Driver played an upbeat jazz tune transforming her into her new style. Her helmet turned bright yellow and the faceplate became a purple inverted triangle shaped gem with silver outline that had runic text engraved into them. The circles over her ears turned into silver upside-down triangles that had runic text engraved around the edges of them. In the centre of her forehead, there was a bronze inverted triangle with a pair of silver antenna sticking out of the top of it, forming a V. The sides of her suit’s torso turned dark yellow while the outsides of the arms and legs became bright yellow. The rest of her suit stayed the same. Symbol’s wristlets and anklets turned bright yellow while retaining their silver framework. Her chest plate turned into a yellow inverted triangle shaped gem with a bronze upside down triangle in the centre of it. The inside of her robe turned bright yellow, on each side of the robe’s chest was a yellow upside down triangle in silver framework and at the bottom of the robe’s chest, on level with the Wizard Driver was half a yellow inverted triangle with silver framework on either side of the robe. On her middle left finger was a yellow ring with a purple inverted triangle shaped gem in the centre of it that had a silver framework. [OPEN!] Symbol, now in her Swift Style, looked to the side. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Just in time to see a light blue magic circle pass through him, turning all of his armour light blue and removing all of the red armour. This was his Angel Style. His sword transformed into a light blue scythe. The blade was long and curved, coming off the tip of the snaith at its heel. The snaith itself looked to be made out of wood, and it had two grips protruding from opposite ends that resemble whittled branches. “So, Osiris huh?” she asked. “I’m never going to understand how you are so good at naming weapons!” shouted Dante as he ran at one Lesser Blade Phantom, punching the Angel Ring into the back of Osiris’ blade. [ONE!] Which opened to reveal a single angelic blue circle. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Dante then spun around with Osiris, cutting the Lesser Blade Phantom as the scythe moved at near light speed. “Karma!” shouted Dante as he finished his first attack with his new weapon. Dante then punched the Angel Ring into the back of Osiris’ blade. [TWO!] Making it open to reveal a pair of angelic blue circles. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Angelic blue energy gathered around the blade of Osiris. “Prop!” he started spinning the scythe like a propeller, cutting the Lesser Blade Phantom down the middle and making it explode. Symbol pulled out her Swift Style’s weapon. It was a yellow hand cannon with a silver barrel and a Hand Author that was curled into a fist with the thumb sticking out for a hammer. She fired several shots of yellow energy bullets before dodging out of the way of a slash from the Lesser Blade Phantom, suddenly she found herself on the other side of the room! “Woah!” shouted Symbol. She was shocked by how fast she had moved! “This armour’s much lighter and faster than my other three. But it has nowhere near the amount of power that the Active, Giga and Burst style’s do,’ she elbowed another Lesser Blade Phantom in the ribs before pressing down on the left Shift Lever once. [MAGICAL TOUCH GO!] Then she scanned the Swift Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [SWIFT! C RANK SPELL!] Five orbs of yellow light appeared around Symbol, she pulled the Swift Blaster’s trigger and they all shot forwards. This caused one of the Lesser Blade Phantoms to explode. “Let’s try this!” Symbol pulled the Swift Blaster’s handle so that it was parallel with the barrel, out of which came a spike of yellow magical energy which was sharp at the bottom edged. Then a loop of yellow mana came from the back of the handle and connected to the bottom of the barrel, just behind the spike. This is the Swift Dagger. Symbol ran forwards and slashed at the Phantom rapidly, she stepped to the side dodging a blow and cut the Phantom across the arm. “Time to end this!” she pulled open the Swift Dagger’s Hand Author. [COME ON A HIT SHAKE HANDS!] Then she scanned the Swift Ring across it. [SWIFT! STAB STRIKE!] The Swift Dagger blazed with magical energy as Symbol ran forwards. “Swift Stabs!” She unleashed a barrage of stabs that were fast enough to make her arm blur. The Phantom had sparks going off around its body constantly as it fell to its knees and exploded. Dante switched the Angel Ring for the Demon Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned his wrist back and then forwards. [OPEN!] The demon magic circle appeared and passed through him. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Dante drew Arbiter and punched the Demon Ring into the back of its blade. [TWO!] Red energy started to gather around the axe. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante pulled it back and slammed it into the ground. “Tremor!” Two waves of demonic energy exploded out of Arbiter and tore through the ground, sending the Lesser Blade Phantom into the air. [SET!] [OPEN!] [O-S-I-R-I-S!] The angel magic circle appeared and passed over Date, transforming him back into his Angel Style as he jumped into the air. [ONE!] Light blue energy started to gather around Osiris. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] He slashed at Lesser Blade Phantom several times making sparks fly from it with each swing. “Hanger!” shouted Dante as he finished his attack. [SET!] [OPEN!] [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Dante transformed back into the Demon Style. He pulled out Arbiter and punched the Demon Ring into the back of its blade. [FIVE!] Red energy gathered around Arbiter’s blade. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante came shooting back down looking like a demonic red meteor as he slammed the axe down, making the Lesser Blade Phantom explode. Dante turned Arbiter’s handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] It transformed into the Demon Pull and was used to pull a Lesser Blade Phantom into axe range, Dante turned the handle once more. [ONE!] Dante swung Arbiter down as red energy gathered around the blade. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] A spinning red construct of the axe head smashed into the Lesser Blade Phantom from point blank range and made it explode. Dante jumped backwards, a slash from another Lesser Blade Phantom missing his faceplate by inches. He switched the Demon Ring for the Nephilim Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned his wrist back, making the Driver’s gate close before turning it forwards to open the gate. [OPEN!] The nephilim magic circle appeared in front of Dante and moved back through him. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] He drew his blade and punched the Nephilim Ring into the slot at the bottom of the blade’s handle. [ONE!] Red and blue energy were charged into the blade. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Dante slashed upwards, sending the Lesser Blade Phantom shooting into the air. It fell back down and landed on the floor painfully. He punched his Nephilim Ring into the back of his sword again. [FIVE!] Red and blue energy gathered around the tip of the blade. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Dante stabbed the Lesser Blade Phantom. “Stinger!” a thin beam of red and blue energy exploded out of its back making sparks come from the entrance and exit points as it the Phantom was bleeding before it exploded. Dante swapped the Nephilim Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into his Driver’s left slot. [SET!] Two turns made the gate open and close. [OPEN!] The angel magic circle was projected out. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Then it backed into him, transforming Dante into the Angel Style. He punched his Angel Ring into the back of Osiris’ blade. [THREE!] Which opened to reveal three blue circles. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Dante jumped into the air. “Rake!” then used Osiris to pull a Lesser Blade Phantom into the air. [SET!] [OPEN!] [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Dante switched back into the Nephilim Style. Then punched the Nephilim Ring into the back of his sword’s handle. [FOUR!] The mouth opened to reveal four red and blue circles. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] The eyes of the blade flashed. “Aerial Rave!” Dante started slashing at the Phantom until it exploded. [SET!] [OPEN!] [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Dante transformed back into his Demon Style and turned Arbiter’s handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] The axe transformed into the Demon Pull and Dante used it to yank another Lesser Blade Phantom into the air even as he turned the grapple back into Arbiter. [AXE MODE!] He punched his Demon Ring into the back of Arbiter’s blade. [FIVE!] [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante swung the axe down as he dropped through the air making sparks fly from the Lesser Blade Phantom. [SET!] [OPEN!] [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Then Dante drew Osiris and punched the Angel Ring into the back of the scythe’s blade. [TWO!] [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] He started to spin it like a vertical propeller. “Prop!” cutting into the injured Lesser Blade Phantom repeatedly until it shattered and then exploded. [SET!] [OPEN!] [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Dante then turned back into the Nephilim Style, before drawing Ebony and Ivory. He punched the Nephilim Ring into both of their hammers. [EBONY AND IVORY STRIKE!] Black energy gathered around the barrel of Ebony while white energy gathered around the barrel of Ivory. “Ricoshot!” Dante pulled the triggers, firing a pair of bullets that spiralled around each other and slammed into a Lesser Blade Phantom making sparks come from it. [SET!] [OPEN!] [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Dante then turned back into the Demon Style and turned Arbiter’s handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] The axe transformed into the grapple claw and he used it to pull the Lesser Blade Phantom into axe range. [AXE MODE!] The Demon Pull turned back into Arbiter as it powered up. [FOUR!] [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante struck the Lesser Blade Phantom three times. “Trinity Smash!” making it explode. Dante then switched the Demon Ring for the Nephilim Ring and punched it into the left slot of his Driver. [SET!] He turned it back making the Driver’s gate close then turned it forwards making the Driver’s gate spring open. [OPEN!] The nephilim magic circle appeared. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Then moved through him, transforming Dante back into the Nephilim style. He punched the Nephilim Ring into the bottom of his sword. [ONE!] Making the mouth open to reveal a single red and blue circle. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] The eyes flashed as Dante slashed upwards. “High Time!” sending a Lesser Blade Phantom shooting into the air. Dante switched the Nephilim Ring for the Demon Ring and punched it into the left slot of his Driver. [SET!] He turned his hand back and then forwards. [OPEN!] The demon magic circle appeared. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Before moving through him, transforming Dante into the Demon Style. He turned Arbiter’s handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] Then used the Demon Pull to slam the Lesser Blade Phantom into the ground. [AXE MODE!] The Demon Pull transformed back into Arbiter as Dante punched the Demon Ring into the back of his sword’s handle. [THREE!] The blade opened to reveal three red circles. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Red energy gathered around Arbiter as Dante slammed it down. “Judgement!” making the Lesser Blade Phantom explode. Symbol removed the Swift Ring and replaced it with the Active Ring before pressing the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Active Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author [ACTIVE PLEASE!] She held her left hand out to the left. [LET’S GO!] The active magic circle appeared and passed through her, transforming her into the Active Style. Symbol ran forwards and slashed at one of the Lesser Blade Phantoms several times with the Active Blade. She ended the combo by slamming the hilt of the Active Blade into the Phantom’s face. Then Symbol replaced the Active Ring with the Giga Ring and pressed the Left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] She scanned the Giga Ring. [GIGA PLEASE!] Before holding her left hand down to the ground. [BREAK THROUGH!] The giga magic circle appeared and rose up through her, transforming Symbol into the Giga Style. Symbol then pressed the left Shift Lever three times. [MAGICAL TOUCH SPELL!] Before scanning the Giga Ring. [GIGA A RANK SPELL!] Her body glowed with green mana. “Giga Embodiment!” shouted Symbol as she used her right arm to block a blow from a Lesser Blade Phantom. The transformation and use of the spell had taken less than five seconds, she was that fast even in her slowest form. Then Symbol pressed the left Shift Lever twice. [MAGICAL TOUCH SPELL!] Before scanning the Giga Ring. [GIGA B RANK SPELL!] Green magical energy covered her fists. “Seismic Smash!” shouted Symbol as she punched a Lesser Blade Phantom, sending it flying backwards and giving her a bit of breathing room. Which she used to change the Giga Ring for the Swift Ring and press down on the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Swift Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [SWIFT PLEASE!] Symbol threw her left hand into the air and swift magic circle appeared. [DASH AWAY!] Even as it fell through her Symbol pressed the left Shift Lever three times. [MAGICAL TOUCH GO!] Before scanning the Swift Ring. [SWIFT! A RANK SPELL!] Symbol pulled out the Swift Dagger and vanished in a yellow blur that struck the Lesser Blade Phantom ten times. Symbol reappeared as she slowed to a stop and flicked the Swift Dagger, lifting the delay on the damage and making the Lesser Blade Phantom explode. Symbol gazed at the final four Lesser Blade Phantom. “Time to end this!” she swapped the Swift Ring for the Burst Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Before scanning the Burst Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BURST PLEASE!] She held her hand out behind her and the burst magic circle appeared. [CAST THE SPELL!] Transforming her into the Burst Style. She grabbed the Burst Wand and pulled on the end of it, making the weapon lengthen and turn thicker as it transformed into a staff called the Burst Staff. Symbol pulled on the Hand Author’s thumb making it open. [COME ON A SPELL SHAKE HANDS] Then she scanned the Burst Ring across it. [BURST! SPELL STRIKE!] Four lances of solid purple mana appeared around her, making it look like Symbol was in the centre of a cross. They shot forwards and speared through the Phantom’s making each of them explode. “Let’s get going,” Symbol said to Dante. They ran through a door and down at an angle. The ghostly woman ran past them and through another hall that met their’s. “You! Get after her! Down there! Cover the doors! Move!” shouted a voice that sounded like a police or SWAT officer. They followed the woman, bearing left and arrived right back in the entrance hall. “You have got TO BE KIDDING ME!” screamed Symbol. Right as the entrance hall broke into even more pieces. The woman ran through a door that was then sealed with a barrier of red crisscrossing energy. “Uh! Get away from me! Get away from me!” she shouted. Dante and Symbol jumped down three platforms, all of which looked like they were once part of a staircase. Dante turned Arbiter’s handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] Transforming it into the Demon Pull which Dante used to yank a piece of the floor from the main building towards them. Symbol changed the Burst Ring for the Active Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Active Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [ACTIVE PLEASE!] She held her left hand out to the side and the active magic circle appeared and passed through her. [LET’S GO!] Even as it was doing that she slide the Ice and Bind Rings into her right hand’s index and ring fingers then pressed the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] The ice and bind glyphs appeared to her right and passed through her. [ICE BIND PLEASE!] Symbol then pressed the right Shift Lever twice. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then swiped her right hand across the Wizard Driver. [BIND MAGIC PLEASE!] An orange chain shot out of the Grapple Gauntlet and pulled the platform towards the main door. Letting the two jump the now shorter gap. “Leave it to me!” Symbol switch the Active Ring for the Giga Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Giga Ring. [GIGA PLEASE!] Symbol held her left hand down to the ground and the giga magic circle appeared. [BREAK THROUGH!] It rose up through her, transforming Symbol into her Giga Style. She grabbed the Giga Axe and smashed down the door that was covered in a red barrier of crisscrossing energy. After running down a hallway the two Kamen Rider’s came to a door frame that was missing its door and covered in glowing light blue vines. “What now?” asked Dante. “Arbiter and the Giga Axe broke down the red energy barriers. So following that trail in logic the Swift Blaster, Swift Dagger and Osiris should be able to cut through these vines with the same amount of ease,” replied Symbol after a moment of thinking. “Worth a shot,” Dante swapped the Demon Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He twisted his wrist back making then Driver’s gate close before turning it forwards making the gate open. [OPEN!] The angel glyph appeared from the Driver. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] It flew backwards, passing through Dante and transforming him into the Angel Style. He drew Osiris and with several slashes he hacked the vines to pieces. “You were right!” “When have I ever been wrong?!” demanded Symbol when she heard the doubt in his voice. “You don’t want me to answer that!” replied Dante. They ran to the left, only to find some rubble blocking their path. A problem which Symbol solved by breaking it apart with the Giga Axe. They took a right turn and found themselves in another room that had been trashed. Symbol noticed something on the floor. “What’s that?” asked Symbol. She ran over and picked it up. Dante followed her. “A blue rose?” he asked. “Didn’t the picture have one?” asked Symbol. Dante thought for a second. “Yeah, it did.” All of a sudden they were back in the place with the statute, standing on what looked like the side of a building which curved around to the left. “This again?!” demanded Symbol. “Come on,” ordered Dante. “Destroying the chain got us out of this place the last time. It should do so again.” They ran down the side of the building and so a gap. Only it was too long to jump and the other side was out of reach to the Demon Pull or a bind chain. Suddenly, Osiris started to glow. The handle turned, making the blade move so that it was pointing down and then started spinning. The blade left three copies of itself before they moved so that they were back in their original positions. The blades then glowed blinding blue and merged into what looked like the skull of a snakehead which then snapped twice. [HOOK MODE!] This is the Angel Lift. [ACTIVE PLEASE!] [LET’S GO!] All of a sudden, Symbol transformed back into the Active Style, without changing rings or touching the Wizard Driver. “What the-?!” suddenly, in a flash purple and grey light a new pair of rings appeared on her right index and ring fingers. The ring on her index finger was coloured red, with the gem being purple and having a golden boot engraved into the centre of it. The ring on Symbol’s ring finger was also coloured red with the gem being grey and having a silver kite shield engraved into the centre of it. “Let’s give these a go!” Symbol pressed the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the two rings on her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BOOST DEFEND PLEASE!] Symbol threw her right arm out to the side and a pair of new magic circles appeared. The first was a purple boot logo inside a purple circle inside a purple eight-pointed star that was inside a two-layered purple circle within which was purple coloured runic text. The second magical circle was a grey kite shield inside a grey circle within a grey eight pointed-star that was inside a second grey circle which had two layers and between the two layers was grey coloured runic text. The two circles moved over Symbol, transforming her into the new Active substyle that she needed. The coin in the centre of her chest plate turned into a grey kite shield logo and a purple boot logo. Her right shoulder pauldron turned grey and now pointed outwards the pauldron also gain a pair of silver vertical rings around it. Her shins gained purple armour, coming out of her heels was a pair of golden spikes that curved upwards. Her boots turned purple and now had dark gold armour on top of them. Finally, a grey kite shield with silver outlines and a silver line running through it appeared in her right hand. Dante hooked the Angel Lift onto a rock that was just above the next and in front of the next island like he would normally do with the Demon Pull. Unlike said weapon, the Angel Lift pulled him and not the rock. He was lifted up to the rock and dropped down onto the island with ease. Symbol pressed the right Shift Lever once. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then she scanned her right hand cross the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BOOST MAGIC PLEASE!] She jumped, the Boost Grieves slamming down on the ground and propelling her over to the island. Which was far further than any of her other forms could have reached by jumping. Dante used the Angel Lift to get to the next island. This time Symbol jumped onto the rock that Dante had hooked the Angel Lift onto. She turned in mid-air and her boots stuck to the rock like glue before she jumped off it and landed on the island next to Dante. They ran along the island, which was shaped like a cobblestone road and then jumped down from it onto an L shaped piece of rock. Dante used the Angel Lift to get to the next platform. Symbol jumped up after him but she wasn’t able to jump high enough! “SUNSET!” shouted Dante as she started to fall. “I’m not going to die like this!” Symbol pressed the right Shift Lever four times. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] The Wizard Driver’s Hand Author turned to the right. [VERY NICE!] She scanned her right hand across it. [BOOST DEFEND MAGIC!] Purple energy gathered in the Boost Grieves. [THE BEST!] Symbol jumped. “Air Step!” strangely physics acted as if she had jumped off a solid surface and not off thin air. She was sent shooting through the air towards Dante. He grabbed her arm and pulled her up. “That was close!” “Tell me about it!” panted Symbol. Dante got back to his boots. “Let’s keep moving,” he used the Angel Lift four times in quick succession to get to the next island. Symbol pressed the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanned her right hand. [BOOST MAGIC PLEASE!] She jumped into the air and onto the first rock that Dante had hooked onto before jumping to the next rock, quickly catching up with Dante and landing on the island with him. “Nice,” completed Dante as he flipped onto the next island and Symbol landed right next to him. Dante ran up a flight of stairs and used the Angel Lift to swing to the next island, kicking a Lesser Blade Phantom off said island and into the water. Dante then used the Angel Lift three more times and hooked onto a Lesser Blade Phantom that was on the island. Symbol had been keeping pace and used a Valkyrie Phantom as a jump pad to reach the island. Dante switched the Angel Ring for the Nephilim Ring and punched it into his Driver’s left slot. [SET!] He turned his wrist back and then forwards, making the gate of the Driver close before it opened. [OPEN!] The nephilim magic circle appeared and moved back through him. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Transforming Dante into the Nephilim Style. He punched the Nephilim Ring into the base of his sword. [ONE!] Making the mouth open to reveal a single red and blue circle. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] The eyes of the sword flashed. “High Time!” Dante slashed upwards, catapulting one of the Lesser Blade Phantom high into the air. While the Phantom was in the air, Dante swapped the Nephilim Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned it back and then forwards. [OPEN!] The angel magic circle appeared from Dante’s Driver. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Then it moved back into him, transform him into the Angel Style. Dante pulled out Osiris and turned its handle. [HOOK MODE!] Transform it into the Angel Lift which Dante used to get level with the Lesser Blade Phantom. Dante switched the Angel Ring for its darker counterpart. [SET!] [OPEN!] [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] He transformed into the Demon Style and drew Arbiter. [FIVE!] [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante swung Arbiter over his head, smashing the Lesser Blade Phantom into the ground. [SET!] [OPEN!] [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Dante switched back into the Nephilim Style and pressed the Nephilim Ring into the Hammer of Ivory. [NEPHILIM] White energy started to charge around the barrel of the gun. [IVORY STRIKE!] As Dante dropped from the air he started spinning around. “Rainstorm!” Dante flipped upside down and fired a barrage of white bullets from Ivory that made a Lesser Blade Phantom explode. Symbol switched the Active Ring for the Swift Ring and pressed the Left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Swift Ring. [SWIFT PLEASE!] Symbol threw her left hand into the air and the swift magic circle appeared. [DASH AWAY!] Even as it fell through her, transforming Symbol into the Swift Style she pressed the left Shift Lever twice. [MAGICAL TOUCH GO!] Scanning the Swift Ring. [SWIFT! B RANK SPELL!] Then she pressed the left Shift Lever four more times. [MAGICAL TOUCH GO!] The Wizard Drive’s Hand Author flipped to the right and then to the left. [VERY NICE!] Symbol scanned the Swift Ring across it. [SWIFT! S RANK SPELL!] Making time start to slow down as her perception speed up. [THE BEST!] Symbol clapped her hands and pulled them apart revealing a ball of yellow magical energy. “Time Attacker!” shouted Symbol as she thrust her hands forwards and the ball collapsed into a huge beam of yellow magic that tore through two of the Valkyrie Phantoms. The beam completely disintegrated them so that there was not enough left to explode. [SET!] [OPEN!] [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Dante transformed back into the Angel Style and drew Osiris. [THREE!] [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] He jumped into the air. “Rake!” using the scythe to pull a Lesser Blade Phantom into the air. [ONE!] [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Then Dante slashed at the Phantom several times until it exploded. Dante turned the handle of Osiris. [HOOK MODE!] Transforming the scythe into the Angel Lift and using it to pull himself down towards a Lesser Blade Phantom. [SET!] [OPEN!] [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Halfway down he cancelled the lift by transforming into his Demon Style and punched the Demon Ring into the back of Arbiter’s blade. [TWO!] [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante hit the ground and slammed Arbiter down, sending out two waves of red energy that flung the Lesser Blade Phantom into the air. Symbol switched the Swift Ring for the Active Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] [ACTIVE PLEASE!] [LET’S GO!] She transformed into the Active Style before sliding the Boost and Defend Rings onto her right index and middle fingers. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] [BOOST DEFEND PLEASE!] Symbol transformed into her Active Boost Defend Style and jumped up, kicking a Lesser Blade Phantom in the face as she came back down. She pressed the right Shift Lever three times and scanned her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] [BOOST DEFEND MAGIC PLEASE!] Her legs then blurred as she rapidly kicked the Lesser Blade Phantom until it exploded. Dante transformed from the Nephilim Style into the Angel Style. [SET!] [OPEN!] [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Then he punched the Angel Ring into the back of Osiris’ blade. [FOUR!] Which then opened to reveal four light blue circles. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Energy was charged into the scythe as Dante jumped into the air while spinning. “Raze!” hooking the scythe around a Lesser Blade Phantom as he did so, pulling it upwards and into the air with him. [SET!] [OPEN!] [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] He shifted into the Demon Style. [FIVE!] [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Then he came down with an overhead swing. “Drop!” Arbiter was covered in red energy as he slammed it down, making the Lesser Blade Phantom go up in an explosion. Then Dante punched the Demon Ring into the back of Arbiter’s blade. [TWO!] Red energy gathered around the axe’s blade. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante slammed Arbiter into the ground. “Tremor!” two streams of red energy tore through the ground and converged on a Lesser Blade Phantom, shooting it skywards. Symbol swapped the Boost and Defend Rings for the Slasher and Aqua Rings before pressing the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] She scanned her right hand over the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [SLASHER AQUA PLEASE!] As the two magic circles moved over her Symbol pressed the right Shift Lever three times. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanned the rings again. [SLASHER AQUA MAGIC PLEASE!] Red lightning covered the Slasher Tidal Claws as Symbol placed them together and shot the lightning downwards, slamming the Lesser Blade Phantom back into the ground, making sparks come from its body. Symbol swapped the Slasher and Aqua Rings for the Ice and Bind Rings as she pressed the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] Then scanned her right hand. [ICE BIND PLEASE!] The ice and bind magic circles appeared to her right and moved through her, transforming Symbol into the Active Ice Bind Style. She pressed the right Shift Lever twice. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanner her right hand. [BIND MAGIC PLEASE!] This summoned an orange chain that she used to spear the Lesser Blade Phantom and pull it back into the air. [SET!] [OPEN!] [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Dante transformed into the Angel Style. [HOOK MODE!] Then transformed the scythe into the Angel Lift and used it to reach the Lesser Blade Phantom. He switched the Angel Ring for the Nephilim Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] Dante turned his wrist backwards and then forwards. [OPEN!] This made the nephilim magic circle appear in front of him and then move back through him. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Dante drew his sword and punched the Nephilim Ring into the base of it. [ONE!] The mouth opened revealing a single red and blue circle. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Red and blue energy was charged into the sword. Symbol pulled open the Active Blade’s Hand Author. [COME ON A SLASH SHAKE HANDS!] Then she scanned the Active Ring across it. [ACTIVE! SLASH STRIKE!] Red lightning burst into being around the sword. “Cross Breaker!” shouted both of the Kamen Rider’s as they slashed an X through the centre of the Lesser Blade Phantom making it explode. “Let’s keep moving!” ordered Symbol as she replaced the Ice and Bind Rings with the Boost and Defend Rings before pressing down on the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] Then she scanned her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BOOST DEFEND PLEASE!] The two magic circles appeared to her right and moved through her. She pressed the right Shift Lever once. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanned her right hand. [BOOST MAGIC PLEASE!] Symbol ran towards the edge of the island and jumped towards the next one. But halfway across the gap, she realised that she had misjudged the distance and wouldn't make it! “Oh no, you don’t!” [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] The ice and bind magic circles appeared in front of her. [ICE BIND PLEASE!] As she passed through them Symbol hit the right Shift Lever twice. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Orange energy gathered around the Grapple Gauntlet. [BIND MAGIC PLEASE!] It formed into a chain that Symbol shot into a rock. Symbol yanked on the chain, pulling the rock under her, which she then jumped from and onto the island. Dante swapped the Nephilim Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned his wrist back making the Driver’s gate close and then turned his wrist forwards making the Driver’s gate open. [OPEN!] The angel glyph appeared and then moved backwards. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Transforming Dante into the Angel Style. He pulled out Osiris and turned the handle. [HOOK MODE!] Transforming it into the Angel Lift which he hooked onto a rock and used to get to the rock that Symbol had pulled before jumping to the island landing next to Symbol. “Nice move,” he commented as he landed beside the female Kamen Rider. “Thanks,” Symbol ran up a short flight of stairs with Dante following, they quickly reached the rock that held the chain. Symbol switched the Active Ring for the Giga Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] She scanned the Giga Ring across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [GIGA PLEASE!] Before holding her left hand to the ground. [BREAK THROUGH!] The giga magical circle appeared and rose up through Symbol. She grabbed the Giga Axe and brought it down, smashing the rock to pieces. The rock practically exploded from the force of the attack causing the arms to drop the chain into the water and the statue's eyes to start glowing as it turned its head towards them. “What are we unleashing?” muttered Dante. They were blinded by the light from the statue's eyes and when they could both see again they were back in the Slip Dimension. “That gets more and more unnerving every time,” stated Symbol. “We’ve only had that done to us twice,” Dante pointed out. “My point exactly,” replied Symbol dully. Suddenly, Dante turned the handle of the Angel Lift. [SCYTHE MODE!] Transforming it back into Osiris. He punched the Angel Ring into the back of its blade. [TWO!] Making the blade flash with light blue energy. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Dante then started spinning the scythe. “Prop!” he used it as an impromptu shield to throw a bomb back at the Shielded Valkyrie Phantom which had just thrown it. “Thanks!” shouted Symbol as she turned the Giga Axe into the Giga Spear and pulled open its Hand Author. [COME ON A STAB SHAKE HANDS!] Then scanned the Giga Ring across it. [GIGA! STAB STRIKE!] Green mana gathered around the tip of the Giga Spear. “Piercing Giga!” Symbol stabbed it forwards, firing a beam of green magical energy which smashed through the Shielded Valkyrie Phantom’s shield and into the Phantom itself making it explode. Dante removed the Angel Ring and donned the Demon Ring before punching it into his Driver’s left slot. [SET!] He turned his wrist back and then forwards. [OPEN!] The demon magic circle appeared. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Transforming him into the Demon Style. He punched the Demon Ring into the back of Arbiter’s blade. [FOUR!] Three waves of red energy gathered around the axe’s blade. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante slammed the axe down into the chest of a Lesser Blade Phantom. “Trinity Smash!” it unleashed three pulses of red energy that caused the Lesser Blade Phantom to explode. Dante then had to roll away from two bombs, he pulled out Ebony and Ivory, opening fire on one of the Shielded Valkyrie Phantom’s only for the bullets to bounce off. “That does it!” Dante grabbed Arbiter and turned the handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] The axe transformed into the Demon Pull and he used it to rip the shield from the Shielded Valkyrie’s grip. Dante swapped the Demon Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into his Driver. [SET!] He made two turns. [OPEN!] The angel magic circle appeared blocking another bomb. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Then the circle transformed Dante into his Angel Style. Dante turned Osiris’ handle. [HOOK MODE!] Transforming it into the Angel Lift, which he used to get up to the Valkyrie Phantom. He turned the handle once more. [SCYTHE MODE!] The Angel Lift transformed back into Osiris. Dante slammed the Angel Ring into the back of the scythe. [ONE!] Causing light blue energy to gather around it. [ANGEL SCYTHE STRIKE!] Dante swung. “Hanger!” he used the scythe to rip the Valkyrie Phantom to pieces until it exploded. Symbol charged at a Lesser Blade Phantom which was able to hit her in the shoulder pauldron thanks to Giga Style’s slower speed. But thanks to Giga Style’s thicker armour she barely even felt the blow as she gave it a right hook to the jaw and hit the left Shift Lever once. [MAGICAL TOUCH SPELL!] Green energy covered her left fist. [GIGA C RANK SPELL!] Symbol punched. “Giga Fist!” hitting the Phantom in the jaw with enough force that it went shooting backwards and exploded. The magical Kamen Rider swapped the Giga Ring for the Active Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] She scanned her left hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [ACTIVE PLEASE!] Then held her left hand out to the side. [LET’S GO!] The active magical circle appeared to her left and moved through her transforming Symbol into the Active Style. Not wasting a second she slid the Ice and Bind Rings onto her index and ring fingers before pressing down on the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] She scanned her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [ICE BIND PLEASE!] Then she held her hand out to the side, the bind and ice magic circles appeared before passing through her, transforming Symbol into the Active Ice Bind Style. Symbol then pressed the right Shift Lever once. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanned her right hand. [ICE MAGIC PLEASE!] Before pressing down on the right Shift Lever four times. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] The Wizard Driver’s Hand Author reset. [VERY NICE!] Symbol scanned her right hand across it. [ICE BIND MAGIC!] The bind ring started to glow as ice blue mana covered her right boot. [THE BEST!] Orange energy chains shot out of the Bind Ring and pulled the Lesser Blade Phantom towards Symbol. “Freezing Bind Kick!” she lashed out with a side kick that caused the Lesser Blade Phantom to get covered in ice which spread from the point her boot made contact. After a few seconds, the Lesser Blade Phantom exploded. Dante swapped the Angel Ring for its Demon counterpart and punched it into his Driver’s left slot. [SET!] Then turned it back and forwards. [OPEN!] He fell through the demon magic circle. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Then punched the Demon Ring into the back of Arbiter’s blade. [FIVE!] Red energy covered the blade. [DEMON AXE STRIKE!] Dante raised Arbiter over his head as he neared the ground. “Drop!” Then slammed it into the head of another Lesser Blade Phantom. He jumped back from the retaliatory swing and punched the Nephilim Ring into his Driver’s left slot. [SET!] He turned it twice. [OPEN!] The ran through the nephilim magic circle. [N-E-P-H-I-L-I-M!] Dante pulled out his blade and punched the Nephilim Ring into the bottom of its handle. [FIVE!] The mouth opened to reveal fire red and blue circles. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Red and blue energy covered the tip as Dante stabbed the Lesser Blade Phantom. Dante moved to finish it off by punching the Nephilim Ring into the bottom of the sword’s handle again. [SIX!] Red and blue energy cloaked the tip of the blade. [NEPHILIM SABER STRIKE!] Dante started stabbing forwards with such speed that it looked like he had several arms before the Lesser Blade Phantom exploded. With all of the Phantom’s beaten the barrier that was keeping them in the room dropped and Dante ran through a door. Only to come back when he realised that Symbol was not following. “Sunset?” no answer, she was just staring at something on the floor. “What’s wrong?” asked Dante in concern. Still no answer. Dante reached down and picked up the picture that Symbol was staring at. It was of himself as a child still on Eva’s lap, a boy who was clearly Vergil sitting on a man’s lap next to the woman. Sunset was in the photo, but she looked about seventeen, one year younger than she looked now and stood between the man and the woman. Symbol was standing behind her, but looked see through and was in a form that Dante had never seen before. ‘I remember,’ thought Dante. ‘I remember my Mother, her name was Eva,’ Dante’s mind pulled up the memories of his amulet. ‘She gave this to me,’ the memories showed Dante and Vergil as ten-year old’s mock sparring with a seventeen-year-old Sunset who was in her human form and wearing a few bandages. ‘I had a brother and a sister too,’ both boys were being helped up by Sunset after being soundly beaten. ‘We were a family,’ the revealed siblings are shown with their parents on a cliff. ‘We had no idea of the danger we were in,’ the clouds formed into a demonic face. ‘The Phantom’s found us,’ a bald man was seen in a doorway. ‘When they broke in I saw him,’ the man was seen tearing Eva’s heart out while a Phantom held Dante back. ‘She gave her life so we could escape. I will never forget what he did to her,’ young Dante was seen holding his Mother’s corpse while Angel like creatures dressed completely in white armour gathered around him. ‘Our Father, Sparda took my brother and me away,’ Dante was seen holding the now named Sparda’s hand outside an orphanage. Neither Vergil or Sunset where anywhere to be seen. ‘He separated us, hide us safely among the humans, wiped out memories to protect us. That’s why it all went black until now.’ ‘I remember now,' thought Symbol. ‘I came shooting out of an energy vortex with no memories,’ a blue swirling vortex was seen as Symbol came flying out of it, smashing into the ground and being forced back into her human form. ‘I looked like I had just been in a war,’ Sunset was seen lying in a crater, both of her arms and legs were broken and her body bruised, her body was almost made of cuts by this point. A puddle of her own blood was filling up the crater. ‘I would have died if Sparda hadn’t found me,’ Sparda was seen picking up the then sixteen-year-old. ‘Eva nursed me back to health,’ Sunset was seen lying on a bed wrapped in bandages with Eva sitting nearby. ‘When they found out I had no family the two adopted me,’ a crying Sunset was seen hugging the two. ‘Dante and Vergil, Sparda and Eva’s twin sons, were just as happy to have a sister,’ the three were seen play fighting. ‘Then the Phantom’s came. Sparda took us to safety but I couldn't let Eva die, not after everything she and Sparda had done for me. She had saved my life, now it was my turn to save her’s,’ Sunset was seen running back towards the house. ‘I was too late,’ a horrified Sunset watched as the man tore Eva’s heart out. ‘I attacked their leader!’ Sunset transformed into Kamen Rider Symbol and attacked. ‘But was effortlessly beaten back,’ she was backhanded away. ‘So I attacked with everything that I had!’ Symbol transformed into a much more powerful form and a dragon made of energy appeared behind her as she went for a Rider Kick with the dragon following her. ‘The attack clashed with one of the Phantom King’s and ripped open a space-time vortex, just like the one I came out of two years before, back when I was sixteen and sucked me in,’ Symbol was seen being pulled into the vortex as her Swift, Giga and Burst Rings along with three other rings shattered. ‘It transported me over ten years into the future and surviving drained all of the power I had gotten from my training with Eva and Sparda,’ Sunset was seen lying on the floor in the Slip Dimension. ‘That’s why all my style rings were missing and it all went black, until now.’ They were both snapped back to reality when Dante dropped the picture. Symbol was able to catch the thing before it could hit the floor and shatter. “Watch it!” she scolded. Dante walked away robotically. Symbol looked concerned as she followed him. They ran out of the room and turned to the right, sliding down a hall that had been effectively transformed into a slide. Dante swapped the Nephilim Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into the left slot on his Driver. [SET!] He turned his wrist backwards making the Driver’s gate close. Then he turned the Angel Ring forwards, making the Driver’s gate spring open. [OPEN!] The angel magic circle shot out of the gate then back into Dante transforming him into the Angel Style. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Dante then drew Osiris from his back and turned the handle. [HOOK MODE!] Making the scythe transform into the Angel Lift. Dante used the grapple to hook onto a chandler and swing around a corner. Symbol switched the Ice and Bind Rings for the Boost and Defend Rings then pressed the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] The boost and defend magic circles appeared to her right and moved through her. [BOOST DEFEND PLEASE!] She took up a running start as she pressed the right Shift Lever once. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then she scanned the rings on her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BOOST MAGIC PLEASE!] Purple energy ran into the Boost Grieves as Symbol jumped to the first chandler then jumped off a wall. The two of them turned a corner and down another slide, they both had to jump onto a floating island as the slide suddenly ended. That instantly started moving! “Woah!” Symbol flapped her arms right before she fell over the edge after overbalancing badly. “Watch out!” Dante switched the Angel Ring for the Demon Ring and punched it into the left slot of his Driver. [SET!] He turned his hand back then turned it forwards. [OPEN!] the demon magic circle appeared and then moved back through him. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Transforming into the Demon Style he drew Arbiter from his back and turned the handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] Transforming it into the Demon Pull which he fired down. It grabbed Symbol’s leg by the anklet and pulled her back up. “You ok?” asked Dante in concern for his revealed sibling. “I’m also glad that you haven’t gone hyper-focused and basically turned into a magic zombie from seeing those memories, but yeah, I’m fine,” replied Symbol as she pulled herself up the rest of the way which was easy once she had gotten a glove back on the island. “Good to know you care!” replied Dante as he swapped the Demon Ring for the Angel Ring and punched it into his Driver’s Left Slot. [SET!] He turned his wrist backwards, making the Driver’s gate close before twisting it forwards making the Driver’s gate spring open again. [OPEN!] The angel magic circle shot out of the Driver and then moved back through him. [O-S-I-R-I-S!] Dante transformed into the Angel Style and drew Osiris from his back then he turned the handle. [HOOK MODE!] Osiris transformed into the Angel Lift and Dante used it to swing over to another island. Symbol pressed the right Shift Lever once. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Before scanning her right hand over the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [BOOST MAGIC PLEASE!] Purple light ran through the Boost Grieves as Symbol crotched down and jumped to the island, landing next to Dante. Symbol then switched the Boost and Defend Rings for the Ice and Bind Rings before pressing the right Shift Lever. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] Then she scanned her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author. [ICE BIND PLEASE!] The ice and bind magic circles appeared to Symbol’s right and passed through her, transforming her into the Active Ice Bind Style. She pressed the right Shift Lever twice. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Then scanned her right hand across the Wizard Driver’s Hand Author again. [BIND MAGIC PLEASE!] She threw her arm back and then forwards, firing a chain of orange mana that pulled the next island close enough for the two of them to jump too with a simple normal leap. Then the Slip Dimension decided to be a jerk and moved a giant rock into the path of the two Kamen Riders. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] [BIND MAGIC PLEASE!] Symbol fired off another chain and pulled on it, making the rock turn around. Dante used the Angel Lift to get to the top of the rock. [MAGIC TOUCHIE HENSHIN!] [BOOST DEFEND PLEASE!] Symbol transformed back into her Active Boost Defend Style. [MAGIC TOUCHIE GO!] Purple energy ran through the Boost Grieves. [BOOST MAGIC PLEASE!] Then Symbol jumped to the top of the rock. Dante switched the Angel Ring for the Demon Ring and punched it into the left side of his Driver. [SET!] He turned his hand twice. [OPEN!] The demon magic circle appeared. [A-R-B-I-T-E-R!] Then it passed through him. He grabbed Arbiter and turned its handle. [GRAPPLE MODE!] Transforming it into the Demon Pull. “We’re getting out of here!” he pulled the rock they were on back to the main building. The two of them jumped off. Now that they were back in the main building and nearing the rift, the Slip Dimension started to become desperate in trying to stop them. The windows were blown out and the ground started to break apart. Dante and Symbol broke into a desperate sprint as they could see Kate and Vergil in the real world at the end of the hall. Symbol glanced over her shoulder and saw that they weren’t going to make it especially with Dante in his Demon Style. She replaced the Active Ring with the Swift Ring and pressed the left Shift Lever. [MAGICAL TOUCH HENSHIN!] Then she scanned the Swift Ring. [SWIFT PLEASE!] Symbol held her left hand up to the sky. [DASH AWAY!] The Swift magic circle appeared above her and fell through her, transforming her into the Swift Style. She pressed the left Shift Lever down twice. [MAGICAL TOUCH GO!] Then she scanned the Swift Ring. [SWIFT! B RANK SPELL!] Her body glowed with yellow mana as her speed shot up. Symbol grabbed her now know brother and they rocketed to the rift, vanishing from the Slip Dimension and appearing in the real world. Dante closed the gate of his Driver, making the demon magic circle appear and return him to his human form. Symbol pressed down on both of the Shift Levers making the swift magic circle appear over her helmet and fall through her, transforming her back into her human form of Sunset Shimmer. Both of them were staring at Vergil in a different light. “Your our brother?” asked Dante. Vergil pressed down on both of his Driver’s Shift Levers and a magic circle appear in front of him before passing through him, transforming him back into his human form. He had blue-grey eyes and the same facial structure as Dante. While Dante’s hair was black Vergil’s was white. He wore a black coat with a long tail on the right side and a collar with a larger left side. There was a brassard on the left bicep of the coat, which also had blue ornate scrollwork sewn onto the left side of the upper back and blue lining. His hands were covered by light blue gloves and he wore blue dress slacks with black leather shoes. He was beaming. “Your twin brother,” he explained. “And Sunset’s our sister?” asked Dante. “Yes, former older sister in all but blood, currently little sister in all but blood,” replied Vergil. “Hey!” shouted Sunset. Vergil ignored her as he continued. “I’ve been looking for you for a long time Dante. The only reason that I was not looking for Sunset as well was that I thought she was dead,” stepping forwards Vergil reached into his coat and pulled out a pendant identical to Dante’s, only it was blue instead of red. Dante fingered his own pendant. Sunset reached into her top and pulled out a third identical pendant, only it was yellow. “Our mother gave these to us,” explained Vergil. “I think she knew this moment would come. That the three of us would find each other.” “And our father, Sparda?” asked Dante hopefully. Vergil looked sad, he didn’t want to but he had to crush that hope. “Banished forever, a fate worse than death they say. He’s never coming back.” Sunset dealt with her frustration by knocking down a wall. “I wanna know more. Where we come from, what happened to us, what we are and above all; I want to know who is responsible for this and how painful we are going to make their death!” she nearly snarled. “Ditto,” agreed Dante. Vergil nodded. “Of course.” Dante and Sunset walked off with Vergil following, but not before he gave Kate a looked that said: “I told you so!”