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~Johan/Venus Fly-trap Orphenoch~
"Liberating?" Johan childishly asked, cocking his head to one side. "What does he mean?" asked this turning to Gon. Obvious that he hadn't quite understood or just wasn't paying attention. Though it did seem apparent he didn't quite comprehend what he'd just done.



~Kamen Rider Fang&DestrOy~
For the past few days now, Ryan had been trying to figure out Sen's cryptic clue. He was sure it was referring to Ahnk somehow, but Ryan wasn't sure exactly how yet. Couldn't be something greeed related, he thought. Maybe an aspect of his?

Lost in thought, Ryan nearly bumped into a black coated man, who had suddenly stopped in front of him. It didn't take long for Ryan to recognize who it was. "You." he said, his eyes narrowing/focusing on the untransformed, dark rider who didn't say anything. It was clear from his body language what he wanted. Time seemed slow as two faced off, what was mere seconds feeling like an eternity.

Still fixed on DestrOy, Ryan cocked his head and noted the townspeople that were walking on either side of them. "Let's take this somewhere where we'll have more room." DestrOy suggested. Ryan nodded, despite him wanting to believe his mentors were alive, a part of him however had sunk at the possibility that they were gone. And DestrOy was the last one to see them.

The pair soon made it to a mall that Ryan recognized as the one that had been "cordoned off" due to high levels of toxic gas. Though as the two walked through the taped off main entrance and squared off once more in the main area, Ryan noted that this was no "gas leak" as the news had said. It was obvious that some tragedy had happened here. Turning his head back to DestrOy, Ryan realized he was asking him something.

"I asked if this satisfies you?" the man asked, who had taken the opportunity to put his DestroyDriver on. "Yeah" Ryan answered, putting on his Lost Driver. As much as he wanted to "avenge" his precious mentors, he was glad that no one innocent would get hurt. If only save himself the trouble of worrying about them. It was then that the man added, "Try to make it more of a fight then that Double."

Fang The memory announced as Ryan slammed in the Memory Slot flicking his wrist. He jumped into the air and tried to came down hard with the tips of his Arm Fang's pointed at the top of the unhenshined man's head. Kamen Ride: DestrOy the DestrOyDriver announced as the man quickly slotted a card into the device. Now transformed, he raised his arms, which went under Ryan's deadly tips from coming any further.

Pushing his arms outward with great force and speed, DestrOy broke off one of Fang's Arm Fangs. As the rider cried out in pain, he sent the stunned, enraged rider flying backward with a powerful kick, the man said. "Oh? Looks like I hit a nerve. Let's try something out then." He pressed one of the three flat buttons on the Driver. Taking out a card from his card holder, he showed the front to Ryan before he quickly flipped it over and slotted it. Kamen Ride Double

As Ryan got up from his crouched defensive stance, holding his smoking arm he looked on to notice that DestrOy had assumed the green and black CycloneJoker form of his mentors' rider form. Making a tight fist with his damaged arm, Ryan tried to prevent himself from going out of control. It was one thing to taunt him about the apparent death mentors but then to assume their most iconic form? It was obviously a taunt and normally Ryan wouldn't have fell for it, but this time was different. Kamen Rider Double, no Shoutaro and Philip, were older brothers/family to him. This was crossing a line. A dangerous (however wise) one.

"You" Fang said. He tried to redeploy his broken off Arm Fang, but couldn't as he released his still working one and charged in to face the impostor who stole Double's image. The two engaged in hand-to-hand combat with them trading and evading a flurry of swift blows, and powerful kicks. Strangely to Ryan however, DestrOy wasn't only mimicking Double's form and powers, but also the fighting style that was used by Shoutoro and Philip in the form. Finally a reverse kick sent him spiraling to the ground.

Form Ride HeatMetal the Driver declared as DestrOy now assumed the red and metallic silver form of Double's 9 original forms. "Hmph" DestrOy said as pointed the Metal Rod at Ryan before taking it with both hands and charged in, not waiting for Fang to get up.

"Dammit!" Ryan cursed and rolled out of the way as the staff weapon came hard where he was moments before. Fang deployed his left undamaged left Arm Fang. Getting back to his feet he brought up his weapon to block a slash from Metal Rod. Grabbing it with his free hand, Fang pulled the the weapon down and "punched" across "Double's" chest with Arm Fang several times, causing a a small eruption of a shower of sparks. However DestrOy quickly stopped the onslaught by hitting Fang's exposed head with one of the ends of the shaft before stabbing and throwing him away and through a concrete pillar. "Is that all you got?" DestrOy asked, seemingly bored.

Fang coughed he struggled to get up. "Alright." he said. "I'll show you with Saber!" He threw his arm out with his palm up, but nothing happened. Confused, he threw out his palm out one more time. Still nothing. "What the... hell?"

"Seems like you've don't have anything else. How... disappointing. Let's end this." DestrOy said, clearly disappointed. He took out and slotting yet another card. Form Ride HeatTrigger Putting the Trigger Magnum at Ryan, he pulled the trigger. Flames erupted from the gun and quickly found the mark. Several small explosions happened, as the a shower of sparks came from Fang's chest. Ryan fell to his knees and then to his stomach, seemingly unconscious while still in rider form.

Ryan watched on through blurry eyes as DestrOy began to leave. "I'm... sor..rrry. Sho...tarou. Phil-san." Ryan said, realizing instantly why had lost and Saber hadn't come. It was obvious, Revenge. Anger. The exact opposite of what he'd been taught four years ago and how Saber worked. However just as things went dark, Ryan's eyes snapped open as he heard a scream. Apparently, some girl had followed to two in here and was now in danger from falling debris that had been caused from the battle. It wasn't just any girl however. It was the same girl from the battle with Fury.

"NO!!!" Ryan yelled, his protective desires manifesting again. As before, his rider eyes flashed as he found the strength in him to race over and shield her. Saber instantly appeared seemingly out of nowhere and blocked all the debris that could harm the young girl.

"Are you okay?" Fang asked. "Mmm" the girl nodded. "Alright. Get to safety, okay?" Ryan suggested. Obliging, the girl ran out the main entrance. However she secretly turned around, peeking around the corner of the one glass doors.

"Interesting." DestrOy said behind Fang who turned around to face him. "Now," Ryan said to DestrOy, "it starts." With that he threw up his hand and the Saber Memory jumped onto his upright palm.

Saber The Memory announced as Ryan converted to its Memory Mode and replaced the Fang Memory with it. Once more, He was as FangSaber.

DestrOy softly laughed as he took out another card. Form Ride LunaTrigger the Destroy Driver announced, making DestrOy take on the form long range, homing form. Once more, he aimed the blue Trigger Magnum and fired. Yellow homing shots came out arched around before looping back towards FangSaber.

However, Fang took off at high speed and punched DestrOyDouble in the gut. Noticing the homing shots right behind him, Ryan used Saber's speed to dodge roll out of the way before they hit. The yellow shots found their mark on DestrOy's chest, creating a shower of sparks and forcing him to back-peddle a little. DestrOy quickly switched forms. Form Ride LunaMetal

In response, Ryan got up from his kneeling position out of the doge-roll and tapped the tail of the Saber Memory once, summoning Saber Shaft, the naginata-like weapon once more. DestrOy flung the Metal Shaft, now behaving more like a whip, which wrapped around the Saber Shaft. However Ryan said "You'll have to try better then that" as pulled his weapon closer to him and pressed tail this time two times.

As FangSaber seemingly started to disappear, a surprised DestrOy pulled back on the Metal Shaft and returned it to its poll position and looked around the abandoned building. "Where did you go?" Nothing happened until suddenly he dropped his guard and a huge shower of sparks erupted from his chest once more. "I see" he said as FangSaber shimmered back into existence. "So you'll remain invisible as long as you don't or aren't attacked."

"Why?" the question from FangSaber came out of nowhere, surprising the dark rider. "What?" he asked, baffled by what the other rider meant.

"I asked "why?" Why did you do it?"

"You mean take out your precious mentors? You idiot! We're in the middle of a fight! But," DestrOy paused. "Perhaps if you beat me I'll tell you what you want." he finished, returning to his base form. He took out a card from his card holder and without showing it, placed it into the driver.
Final Attack Ride Destroy it loudly announced.

Ryan watched on before spinning the Saber Shaft with one hand and thrusting it hard into the marbled floor. This time instead of tapping the tail he pulled it. Saber Maximum Drive! the Saber Memory announced.

"Hmm" DestrOy nodded as the two prepared for their final attacks. They both jumped up and energy was diverted from their respective belts to their legs. Both of their kicks meet causing a huge explosion, with multiple side explosions. In the midst of it all, both of them were thrown back into opposite sides, however while DestrOy maintained his transformation, Ryan didn't. However as he clenched his teeth got propped himself up with his elbows, DestrOy looked behind him and after turning around to face Ryan fully, canceled his own tranformation.

"It isn't over." he explained as saw Ryan's raised eyebrow before waiting for Ryan to get up. The two circled each other for a second before once again trading blows in a fury of martial arts prowess. Ryan dived under a roundhouse, he felt something familiar and grabbed it. Swinging it around, he pointed it the man's throat, but stopped it just centimeters from delivering a killing blow. "I've lost." the man admitted.

Ryan got up, still with the broken off Arm Saber in hand, he looked at the untransformed DestrOy. "To answer your question, I did it... I did it because I felt compelled to do it." Something didn't seem right to Ryan as his mind had by now calmed down from his rage and was now starting to think of everything. This man before him, didn't quite seem like the man who used his an alteration of his sister before to land a blow to him. He was different somehow. "Who are you?" he asked.

"I don't know." the man said flatly "All I can remember is walking to some kind of ring then... waking up on a hard metal table with a bright light blinding me."

Is it possible? Ryan thought. "Are you saying that someone did something to you?" he asked, starting to feel his heart go out to this man. "I don't remember" the man replied. "Do you remember your name? I'm Nagano. Nagano Ryan."

"Hiro....Hirotsugu?" The man asked himself, seemingly fighting to remember something. He appeared to be fighting some other battle before returning his more serious demeanor. "Kamen Rider Fang," he said. "You are indeed a worthy opponent. Next time we meet, we'll be opponents once more." with that he started to walk off.

He paused just long enough to say, "I'll give you this since you've won this bout. The only way for you and the others to return (to your worlds) is kill me." He said walking past the girl who had just gotten herself up from the explosion of their finishers. Upon seeing DestrOy, who looked at her, she started to run away. However as he said "kill me" it felt as though part of him struggled to say that. As if there was a part of him that was scared.

Ryan collapsed to the cold marble floor, which felt good after such a hard fight. As he watched DestrOy walk off, and caught himself thinking of weird was it that girl had appeared again. It was then he'd realized that it felt like it wasn't the first time he'd been followed by her.

Rio raised a brow and stiffled a laugh. "The world can not survive with humans? Sounds like someone has an Napoleon complex. You dont want to help "evolution" along. You simply want an army under your control. I can see that clearly. Dont preach to me about humans and evolution. If it were not for a human...i would not be here. Thanks to that human...i am one of the strongest of my kind."

Kivat fluttered a little, a bit annoyed by the orphanoc. But Rio was calm. He had confidence now thanks to the one he loved. "Thanks to being part human...i am able to become a strong fighter...to protect the music in everyone's heart, human and non-human alike. But all i hear in you...is silence. You have no music...therefor no heart. You are just a beast..killing while preaching its for the good of the earth. All you can do is just end up getting yourself killed in the end."

Rio looked to Miki and smiled. "But you..i hear a song in your heart..sweet and gentle. You wouldn't hurt anyone intentionally. Dont let him tell you what's in your heart. Listen to it yourself. Only YOU can know what is good for you."

Meanwhile Johan a tightly refolded his arms as he had before. He had heard what had heard everything that Gon had said to him. While he didn't really understand what was going on, he did know that he'd been hurt before for simply being "different." And honestly, he felt safe with Gon now.

Johan then looked up and spotted the bat creature that was fluttering about the narrow area. His childlike personality started to kick in.

I've met a great many humans in my time. Some weren't half bad. They were easily corrupted however. *Gon simply replied with that, listening and allowing the "mans" words to sink in. He didn't know what a fangire was, but questioned why one would vouch so far for humans. Surely his people suffered the same cruel hand of fear that he had. Listening to the music, he stood where he was firmly. Miki tilted her head up a bit, not letting it hang as low. It was a wonderful melody to her, a great song using the violin.

Gon clapped about four times, halting and then responding to the rest of what was made mention.* You say I don't have a heart, but then try to reason with it through your music. I'll admit, that was a well composed song. It doesn't help your case any, however. Your melody won't repair the pain in the hearts of those hurt by the majority of people. It can't bring back those I've seen brutally killed by humans. Only change can begin bridging that feeling.

*Shifting the case on his back, Gon turned and began to casually walk off. Miki looked over to Johan, then to Rio and the Kivat, before looking to Gon and following behind him.* If you feel more strongly with my cause, orphnoch brother, then let us depart from this place. *As he walked away from Rio and the location where the dust was, he tossed a higher-value coin from his pocket over to the feet of the violinist.* Stick to your music, it can resonate stronger than the morality speeches. Those don't suit you.

*Usually not one to venture out in public, or risk being around humans, Eiji strolled in through the back of the area. In the front were lines of people eager to try the new beverage, as well as cameras and media coverage. At most, all he had to deal with was easily knocking a guard or two out, phasing through a wall, or scrambling the security feeds to not appear to be there at all. Making his way through the area and to a storage area, he grabbed two large cases of the drink and began leaving the way he returned. While he only needed the one drink, Eiji decided to take the opportunity and seize the two cases.

Disguising the packaging as he walked out the back of the place, shifting it to look like another type of soda, he walked out and began to leave without having drawn up any extra suspicion. Making it a block away, Eiji was prepared to disappear completely with his haul of new drink to try, just needing to cross another street to a much more low-key area. As he went across the street, a motorcycle came flying by nearly hitting him. Dropping the cases of the soda, the glass bottles smashed and broke apart.

Quickly digging into the cases, he shifted around to see if any of the bottles had survived the process, they did not. A car pulled up in front of him, stopping to honk their horn and complain. Their kids screamed in the backseat for the new drink, and the father having had a long day didn't need some well-dressed moron in the middle of the street with two cases of inferior soda. Ignoring their slur of poorly-ported PG-13 profanity, Eiji finished his assessment of the box. All of the bottles had been broken. Agitated on top of a bad mood that had been lingering, he stood up and glared towards the motorcyclist from under his hat.*

*Another car pulled up behind the first one, honking their horn and complaining too. The man was ready to get out of his car when suddenly the two cars flew up in the air, flipping through it before crashing down more than 20 feet away. The people in the cars all fled, scared but unharmed by the launching of their vehicles through the air. Eiji, having flicked his wrist to put this into motion, brought the hand up and raised the hat he had on up. His eyes were fueled with anger.*

My problem is that you ruined what I just took. Now I'll have to go through the hassle of getting more of this drink. *Eiji was about to attack, when he realized who it was in front of him. He didn't want to kill the person, but it was a chance to let off some steam and motivate Hiraku into coming out of his hiding. Snapping his finger, the two were suddenly in a desert area far from the city, possibly Japan even. The wind was harsh and the temperature even worse.* Your problem has just begun however, kamen rider.

I'm the one who will be taking your life today! *Flicking his wrist again, an immense amount of wind and energy hurled for Ryan. It was wide and kicked up a large amount of sand in the short distance between the two. It would knock Ryan into the air if he couldn't make the large distance to avoid the wave and land him in the sand, both displaying power and a taunt to make the rider transform.*

*Flicking his hands several times towards Fang after he had transformed, he let off cutting-waves of energy which grew in size every second it was in the air. By the time it reached the rider they turned from thin, nearly invisible blades of energy to massive and clearly visible walls of cutting energy. The waves cut the fine sand apart, causing some of the terrain to kick up then get broken away by the blasts. Eiji continued to launch them towards Fang for a moment, before raising both his arms in the air. Bringing them down, multiple razor thin lines of energy flew out from the sky. These ones not growing in size, but gaining sharpness to them as they came raining down towards the overly distracted rider.*