Some hours had gone by as I felt someone's hand touched my shoulder. I opened my eyes to see Casey and Ashley all geared up. "It's time to go Travis." Ashley said quietly. My body was extremely tired but I forced myself to get up as I maneuvered around Karina as to not wake her. We all walked out into the living room as I saw Robin and Shawn passed out on the sofa's and right when we got to the door I heard DJ's voice. I turned around to see him in his grey sweater and blue jeans walking up to me. He was holding a para-cord bracelet.

"Years ago I had gotten involved in something really dangerous. My friends and I had almost died and everything fell on me to get them out. I lost a good friend that day protecting them but the morning of the tragic incident, that same good friend gave me this bracelet as if she knew what was going to happen. This bracelet I held onto all these years to remind myself to be strong and move forward. I am going to give it to you because I feel like you need this. No matter what happens when you walk out that door, I want you to know that everyone here will support you in your decisions and will have your back. You are not alone in this fight, you have these two and us backing you everywhere you go. Remember Travis, you. Are. Never. Alone" DJ said as he hugged me and I hugged back.

"Thank you so much DJ. I couldn't have done everything without you and everyone else." I said as a tear ran down my face.

"You come back to us you hear? Don't make this old man whup your butt." DJ said jokingly. I could tell that he too was crying. DJ put the bracelet on my wrist. It was a red and blue string with a spell circle insignia on it that resembles my spells. I let go of him as I walked out the door. When I did Casey held out his hands. I looked up to see the sun just starting to rise.

"Are you ready for this? I can understand if you aren't." Casey said to me. Ashley grabbed his hand and he kept his held out to me. I then reached for it.

"I will be this city's hope." I said as I grabbed his hand.

Suddenly a bunch of sand started forming around us and deconstructing our bodies and then I noticed that we were running through the ground until we got to Wooster Street and emerged from the ground. Ashley and Casey erupted out of the ground fine, I on the other hand was thrown some feet away and I had to roll on my shoulder to avoid any injury. "What the hell was that?!" I said surprised at how fast we traveled.

Casey began laughing, "Hahaha. It's your first time I can understand. You see where I'm from I have a friend who was mage and his specialty was manipulating the earth to his will. He learned how to decompose his body into sand and travel wherever he needed to underground. He then taught me how to do it and it is a very effective form of transportation. The only problem is you have to have a feel of the ground to know where you're going. Me and him call it, Tunneling." He explained. I started brushing the dirt off of my clothes.

"Explosion, now"

I heard this and saw a spell circle surround me. It was a purple one and then it exploded as I got sent flying off down the street about a block away from Casey and Ashley. I rolled on my side and when I looked up I saw my allies already fighting against my dark self. Casey was grabbed by the throat and thrown into the college building and Ashley was slammed onto the ground. I started running up to my dark self, "HEY! Let her go! You want to fight someone you can come fight me!" I said to him. Dark Wizard raised his face slowly as his eclipse eyes pierced right into me.

"I've been looking for you actually. Now you can watch as I make this girl number eight on the people killed already, and then you will be number nine. I think I'll start by breaking this arm by raising it up slowly up her back until I hear something snap. Something like this." He said as forced her arm on her back and slowly started lifting it up while keeping her head on the street. Ashley began screaming and then I heard something zip in the air as a deep red colored Chakram came flying out from the building and it caused my dark side to jump up in the air and freeing Ashley in the process. Casey then quickly zoomed to her side. Ashley was slowly adjusting her arm as Casey was helping her up. Dark Wizard was still above them and grabbed Casey by the hair and slammed him on his back onto the ground. He raised his fist to punch his face in but I ran towards him and lept. I grabbed my dark self by the shoulders and when I fell onto the ground I had taken him with me. We rolled until I was sitting on top of him and I raised my fist to hit him but he kneed me in the crotch and then brought his legs up to his chest and kicked me away from him. I was now standing on his right, Ashley in front, and Casey on the left.

"I see you had to go bring friends and some powerful ones at that too. I would've thought you would get rid of your friends after what Manuela did to you." He said as he looked at all of us with this cocky smile. All three of us came at him. Ashley lunged at his neck which he just grabbed her hand and twisted it sideways causing her to kneel in pain. Casey had his Chakram back in his hand as he went to go slice at his side but he took a step backwards and grabbed his wrist. He then slammed Casey's head into Ashley's causing them to fall backwards.

I jumped over them as I came in with a straight right punch but my dark self took his left hand in a sweeping motion and pushed it to the side. I reached out and grabbed his jacked with my left and pulled him in to where I cocked my right hand back and punched him across the face at least three times. I then grabbed another part of his jacket and spun us around a couple of times before I put my foot in between his causing him to fall on the ground. I then got on top of him and raised my fist but before I did I heard something from the belt.

"Spark, now"

I looked at him with a smile on his face and suddenly a bright light enveloped the entire block and I was temporarily blind. But it wasn't just being blind that got me my body felt numb as if I was just electrocuted. In a few seconds I was able to see but this time I didn't see Dark Wizard on the ground. I turned around as the spell started working off and I saw him standing right in front of me. He did a right hook to me but I raised my right arm to block and I went to throw a punch at his chest but he grabbed it with his free hand and raised it until it was leveled with my arm that I was using to stop his first punch. He then wrapped his right arm around my shoulder and took a step until he was right in my face, "You can't fight me like this. I'm not like the other Phantoms, I'm more intelligent when it comes to fighting and also remember I was a part of you, I know exactly how to counter your attacks. So you better start doing something new otherwise you will start to not like the decisions of your actions. Like this for instance." He said. He took my left hand and raised it up in the air as he ducked under it and came up behind me and violently jerked my arm to my back.

I was screaming in pain as he kicked the back of my leg which caused me to stumble and then before I could stand back up he used his foot to shove me onto the ground. I fell on the ground while he was still holding my arm behind which caused my tendons to start ripping. I was screaming loud as I was wishing the pain to stop, "Allow me to teach you what happens when you make a bad decision in this fight." He said. I looked over to see him raise his other hand and was going to open palm my elbow but then I ignored the pain as I raised my right foot and kicked him off of me causing him to be surprised as he let go of my arm and I finally fell on the ground as a result of losing my balance. I started to bring my arm to the front of me as the pain was still there. I looked around to see Casey and Ashley still having a hard time seeing from the spell, "It's going to be a bit before they can fight. I used more mana to blind them than I did with you." He said with that same cheeky smile.

I watched him pull out a light purple spell ring that had circles all around it and an arrow going towards the middle. "How about you and I fight somewhere more suited for us?" He said. He then slid the ring on and I noticed that he had taken it out of his left pocket.

"That left pocket has to have my Driver On ring. If I can reach my hand inside that I should be able to pull it out." I said as I ran at him. I leaned my right arm back and came at him with a powerful punch but he just grabbed my fist and then twisted it sideways causing me to kneel. He then scanned his ring over the black hand belt buckle.

"Teleport, now."

A bright light started forming around us and I heard Casey yell out my name. When I turned around to see him finally getting over the spell I was whisked away and then noticed that we were on top of the Jerome Library on the Bowling Green State University campus. Looking around I could see the entire city from here. Dark Wizard was still holding onto my arm, "I think this will be a lot better for us to fight now without anyone getting in the way." He said. He then raised his foot and kicked me under my jaw and then roundhouse kicked me causing me to be sent flying back a few feet. He then picked me up by my jacket which I went to kick him in his side but he caught my leg and then I countered with punching him right across the face. He dropped my leg in response and I swung my left arm to punch him again and then followed up with my right. I kept this up as I started pushing him towards the end of the building. We were about ten feet when I jumped over him and wrapped my right arm around his neck and forced him to lean backwards as I drove my left fist into his back and then pinned him on the ground. "How's that for something new?" I said gritting my teeth.

He smiled before rolling to the left and breaking free from my grasp, "Not bad me. But I think I'm going to step up my game a bit more." He said. He came at me with a rising high kick which I swept my body under and then when he put his foot down the belt made another noise.

"Teleport, now."

He then vanished from in front of me and then reappeared next to me as he punched me in my jaw and then vanished again. He reappeared to my other side as he grabbed my hair and pulled me towards him as he kicked me in my nose and then vanished again. The next area where he showed up was in front of me as he grabbed my jacked and pulled me into a headbutt and then vanished once more as he popped up behind me and used his feet to sweep at my legs causing me to fall backwards. Then he stood over me as he brought his fist into my chest while I was still in mid-air slamming me into the ground. Once I was put on the ground the pain that I should've received from his attacks all started coursing through my body at once and then he stomped his foot at the base of my throat.

"Connect, now."

A red spell circle appeared as he put his hand through it and pulled out my swordgun. He put the weapon into gun mode and put the chamber right at my face, "Don't you see how powerless you are? I hold onto the rings that were once yours and you can't even reach for them. You may be able to fight but all I've been doing is holding back showing how weak and pathetic you really are. Right now you're just a human fighting a hopeless battle. You can't save anyone, not Maria, not Manuela, not the eight people I've killed, and not even yourself. How are you to protect others when you can't protect yourself?" He said to me. I looked at him realizing he made a point.

"You know what maybe your right for once. How can I protect the people I care about if I can't even protect myself? Thanks for the lesson." I said. My dark self just smiled at me as he put a finger on the trigger and I immediately took my right hand and grabbed the chamber and quickly moved the gun above me as a bullet fired off the roof. My hand was starting to bleed because of the tip of the sword was under the chamber and I tugged the weapon at me as I lifted my left elbow and elbowed him in the face. I then let go of the weapon as he was stumbling back and reached inside his pocket hoping to grab my Driver On ring. He recovered from my attack and grabbed my throat and started putting pressure on it. I then clasped my fists together and slammed it on his wrist as hard as I could breaking free from his grasp and lifted my left leg as I kicked him in the stomach to get some distance from me. I looked at the ring to see that it wasn't my Driver On ring, but my Blizzard Ring.

"This is not what I wanted. He must have multiple rings buried in that pocket." I thought as I was disappointed.

"That was a very interesting move." He said to me. I watched as he ran up to me and jumped a bit into the air as he kicked me in my chest causing me to fall and slide backwards until I was just an inch from the side of the building. I slid the Blizzard Ring on my finger to keep it from losing it. I quickly jumped up from the ground to see Dark Wizard right in front of me lifting his leg up to kick me in my face and I quickly dropped my body under his foot and when I lifted my body up I uppercut him with my right palm. He took a step back and I took one huge step as I was now in his face and throat punched him with my right hand. I then followed up with an open palm punch with my left hand and then did the same with my right hand. I bent my body down low and jumped into the air spinning sideways as I brought my right foot down on the back of his head sending him face first on the ground. I went to go grab him by his hair but he rolled to his side and picked up the swordgun that was lying on the ground. He had blood coming out of his nose.

"IMPRESSIVE! This is what I've been wanting to see! To see if you have what it takes to actually get back up and fight even if the odds are against you!" He said in a really happy tone.

I looked at him confused, "It's over for you. I'm showing you that I can fight to meet up with you and I can do it on my own. This entire time we have been fighting I've been reading your movements and looking for openings to exploit so that I can land in some solid strikes." I said to him with confidence. He started to laugh as if I had said the most funniest thing he's ever heard. When he stopped he scanned his ring again.

"Connect, now."

"You think you have some sort of advantage? Let's not forget that less than twenty four hours ago you were a broken human being with no hopes for recovering. Let's just see how broken you are." He said as he walked over to the side of the building. He then released his hand and a spell circle appeared as he reached inside and pulled out someone that I care about really much. He then held the swordgun up to her back as she looked at me and was terrified of what was going on.

"How the hell did I get here?! What's going on?!" Rachel said. She saw me running towards her and then she turned around to see my dark self cock a smile and placed the gun at her right chest area and pulled the trigger. The bullet went right through her and when her body fell backwards, it fell off the giant building and started heading down to the ground. I was embroiled with rage and sadness and I ran straight up at my dark side who then fired a bullet at me and it went right through my lower left side and then I stopped to hold my hand over the wound and he walked over to me and grabbed my throat.

"I'm done with our fight. You can go die along with that woman." He said and then I watched as the gun turned back into sword mode and he rammed it through my left shoulder, then hoisted me up in the air with the sword causing me to fall closer to the handle, and then flung me off the same side of the building as Rachel. Once I started falling my mind replayed back to when Rachel found me at the park the other day and her words she had said to me kept replaying in my mind.

"I was so close….Rachel…" I said as tears ran down my face and then I heard water being shot out like a geyser and in just a few seconds my body splashed into a giant ball of water. I looked around as the water was slowly landing on the ground and in front of me was Rachel's body. I started swimming against the pain in my body as I grabbed her body and brought it close to me. The water hit the ground and then dispersed across the walkway to the Jerome Library.

"Oh no." I heard Casey say as he ran up to me. He was pulling me away from Rachel's corpse but I was fighting to stay by her side.

"NO! DON'T PULL ME AWAY FROM HER! RACHEL!" I said fighting against the pain in my wounds as I broke free from Casey's grip and began crawling to Rachel's body. I started patting her face, "Come on, don't die on me! Please wake up! Rachel wake up! COME ON DAMN IT WAKE UP!" I said as my vision started to get blurry. I watched as the water around us started to move inside her wounds and I watched as it began to heal her wounds. When the water was done with her body, it came over to me and I went through the same process. The pain of my body being re-stitched together hurt and I screamed through my teeth in pain. My vision started coming back to me but my body was a bit heavy from the stress it went through. I watched as Casey put his fingers on the base of Rachel's neck and was waiting for a pulse.

"She is just barely alive. I need to get her to a hospital." Casey said as he wrapped her arms around his neck and teleported and then a few seconds later came back. "Okay she'll be fine but we need to finish this fight before anyone else gets hurt." Casey suggested. I tried to stand up but felt like the entire world was spinning rapidly. I had to fall back down in order to have it all stopped.

"You need to rest a bit. You were wounded and went flying from the top of a building. Your body needs to rest before it can get back up again." Ashley said as she kept me on the ground. I was now getting upset as I felt helpless and then I saw a light behind Ashley.

"WATCH OUT!" I yelled as I tried to sit up. Dark Wizard had teleported behind her and raised his blade pointed at the back of her head. He began to thrust down and then I saw Casey teleported and put himself between him and Ashley as the sword went right through his left hand. While the blade was through his hand I watched him clench his hand into a fist as he grabbed the blade. The look on Casey's face was extremely calm as if he never took that blow to begin with.

"Normally people scream in pain when something pierces right through their hand. Yet you keep your composure and then add salt to the wound by holding onto my blade. What's your story young man?" Dark Wizard asked Casey. I watched as his book bag slowly started unzipping with no noise being made whatsoever from the right side and I saw a dark blue Chakram appear.

"Anyone who tries to kill my family will not get any mercy from me. That's my fiancé with my daughter." He said in a deep tone. I looked at Ashley who had an expressionless look on her face. I then looked at her stomach and saw nothing to show that she was pregnant.

"How does he know what child they are going to have?" I thought surprised.

My attention was then immediately switched back to Casey as the dark blue chakram shot out along with a dark red and a dark grey colored one. The three circular blades began attacking in different directions at Dark Wizard who ended up letting go of the swordgun that was still in Casey's hand and began dodging each blade. The blue one went to strike at him and missed, but when it hit the ground the surrounding area started forming ice. The red one went to slice at Dark Wizard while he was still in mid air but he was able to roll over just barely missing the blade and it hit the pavement as it started melting away as if lava was splattered on the ground. Casey ripped the sword out of his hand and tossed it up in the air sideways a few feet away from his body. He then spun sideways in the air and kicked the hilt sending it straight at Dark Wizard who had just landed on the ground. The sword went zooming really fast after being kicked and when my dark self looked up he had to bend backwards just to miss being hit squared in the face. Casey then teleported and appeared in the air with his dark grey Chakram in his hand. The blade split into two and I watched as metal wires started shooting out of of the blades in random areas. The wires shot out to form a weird webbing around Dark Wizard and Casey threw one of his blades that barely knicked my dark side in the shoulder. Casey then pulled back on the blade in his hand and he was sent propelling forward at Dark Wizard with his left fist raised. He punched Dark Wizard in the chest so hard it caused him to fall backwards and on his back. I watched as my dark self coughed up a bit of blood from his mouth.

"What the hell is going on? Just who is your fiancé Ashley?" I asked her surprised at what had just occurred. The wires that kept Dark Wizard from moving around retracted back into the blades and then they formed back into one. Casey began to walk over to the in pain foe and reached out to grab the pocket that held my rings. Before he did Dark Wizard grabbed his wrist.

"I love the little beating you got going on there. Kind of makes me want to step up my game to the next level." He said. In just a flash we watched Dark Wizard move very quickly off the ground and behind Casey with his arm stretched out. Casey tried to turn his body but my dark self put his hands on his shoulder and applied force on his pressure point causing Casey to not move for a bit. "You know I've noticed that this right arm of yours has some destructive force behind it. Would be a real shame if it were to break." He said staring at the right arm that he had stretched out.

I heard one of Casey's Chakrams begin to move from where they were positioned and as soon as they moved up I heard Casey scream in pain. We looked over to Casey's elbow broken and bone sticking out from the other end. Blood was spitting everywhere and then Dark Wizard released his grip on Casey as he fell on his knees and the Chakram's that were levitating had fallen. Casey was screaming through his teeth and the sight of his right arm was horrid to look at. Ashley stood up in front of me and ran towards the Chakram that was the cause for the ice to appear on the road. She looked like she was pissed as she ran towards the blade and pulled it out. I watched as the ice thawed and turned into a giant mass of water as it started to wrap and stick around her body. I looked back at Casey and Dark Wizard who had not noticed Ashley.

"You might be pretty powerful but I'm pretty sure you need limbs to fight with. I guess you are out of this fight Casey." He said as he scanned another ring.

"Big, now."

A spell circle appeared in front of Casey as Dark Wizard swung his right foot through it causing his feet to get extremely big and made impact with Casey's chest. Casey was immediately sent flying all the way into the building that was next to the library. A giant noise was made that echoed through the school grounds and Dark Wizard dispelled his attack as his right foot returned to normal. He then saw Ashley standing with the dark blue Chakram in hand.

"The next one to get broken is the Water Bitch over here. I can tell that you are strong, but not as strong as your broken man over there." He said to her. I tried to move but was still unable to stand fully up. I was pissed at how powerless I was and then I noticed a bottle of water that was lying on the ground.

"Ashley must've left this behind for me." I thought as I grabbed the bottle and started drinking the contents. I could feel myself getting my strength back a lot quicker and I stood up to go help Ashley in the fight. As soon as I stood up I heard a familiar spell.

"Driver on, now"

I looked over to see Dark Wizard getting ready to transform. "Allow me to step up my game. Transform." He said as he pulled out from his left pocket my Flame Style Ring. He hit the levers and a different voice was made from the belt that was a bit eerie sounding.

"Sha Ba Doobi Touch to Transform. Inferno, now. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!"

A purple spell circle appeared and began moving across Dark Wizard's body showing off a new form I've never seen before. It was my normal black attire but where there would be red gemstones was replaced with a dark purple. After his transformation Dark Wizard copied my stance, "I will bring about your despair." He said.

"Oh why the hell does he get a catchphrase?!" I thought as he assumed a fighting stance. Just by looking at his transformed state I could tell this fight just got a lot more difficult. I stood back up and started running to Ashley's side to help in the fight but she casted a bunch of ice to come towards me and form a wall that prevented me from getting involved.

"I'll get your ring back, but until then you need to stay where you are at." She instructed. I had another thought of going to check up on Casey but I felt like staying where I was at to keep an eye on Ashley.

Ashley formed a wall of ice behind her and when she turned around I saw her eyes turn into a deep black color as well as the Chakram she was holding began emanating a glow. Ashley jumped and planted her feet on the wall of ice as she used it to push off against and in just a second was in front of Dark Wizard's face. She swung the Chakram trying to sever his head but he dodged and then lifted his leg and kicked her in the stomach sending her flying up in the air. Once she started falling I watched as a sheet of ice formed behind her and then quickly thawed into raindrops. The raindrops started to multiply quickly and then fell around and on Dark Wizard. The raindrops upon hitting the ground, formed into pillars of ice and attached themselves around the different limbs of Dark Wizard and as Ashley came falling down she lifted the Chakram and sliced at his chest plate. Once she hit the ground she raised the blade in her hand and began slashing left and right, up and down as fast as she could on his chest plate causing a bunch of sparks to fly off from his armor. She then stopped and reeled back her arm with the blade and punched him in the face causing him to break from the restraints and flying backwards.

The ice that was used as a restraint started to form around Ashley's body. She had ice spiraling from her chest down her entire left and right legs, and then had ice forming into sleeves from her shoulders up to her palms. The sleeves were attached to a sheet of ice that wrapped around her neck like a scarf. "It's been a long time since I fought in this form." Ashley said with a deeper voice. Dark Wizard then stood back up from the attack.

"Oh so you guys can transform too? Well it would make for an exciting battle, I almost thought I was being a bit unfair being the only one who can transform." He said with a cocky expression. I watched as he took out a ring and slid it on his finger. He then flipped the levers and scanned a ring I never heard of before.

"Amazing! Dark Strike!"

I watched as purple mana shot out of the ring and in just a flash a bunch of black swords appeared surrounding Dark Wizard. "Let's just see how much you can fight when you have an endless amount of swords flying in every direction at you." He said as he sent them soaring through the air towards Ashley. Ashley stomped her foot on the ground at the last second as a wall of ice formed around her as the swords got stuck in the ice. I watched as my dark self grabbed a sword and stabbed it into the ground. The sword then vanished into the ground and then emerged from the ground where Ashley was standing.

"Oh no Ashley!" I yelled.

I watched as the wall of ice shattered into chunks of ice and fell on the ground. When the wall fell onto the ground there was a giant black sword sticking out of the side of Ashley's neck from her left leg. I wanted to look away from the corpse that was there and I watched as the body fell onto the ground. Dark Wizard shifted his view to me. The ice that was surrounding me fell to the ground and rapidly thawed.

"Well that didn't take long. Of course I now have you to fight. I hope you are ready to scream more than you did when Phoenix and Medusa tortured you." He said to me with a wicked smile on his face. I got myself ready to fight but I knew it was going to be hard for me. Dark Wizard was creeping up to me and I began running towards him as I thought up a plan to get my Driver On ring back from him. When I did he had slid on a new spell ring and flipped the levers and launched the spell immediately as I punched the circle.

"Barrier, now."

Right after the circle appeared I was having a hard time pushing it back and when I spun around the circle to punch him in the side, the circle moved over to that spot and blocked my attack. "Now I know how my enemies feel when I use this against them." I thought to myself. Dark Wizard then grabbed my throat and single handedly threw me across the battlefield until I rolled over next to Ashley's corpse. The sword was gone and a hole was made at her throat, "I swear to you that I'm going to win this fight to avenge you." I said to the body. I then noticed that there wasn't any blood coming from her wounds.

"I think it's time I ended your suffering." Dark Wizard said as I averted my attention back to him. He put on a new spell ring and scanned it over the belt.

"Very nice! Kick Strike! Now."

I watched as he jumped in the air and a black flame formed around his right foot. A black spell circle was also wrapped around his foot and he came striking down towards me. I was going to dodge but once he was halfway to me I watched as a stream of water surrounded him in a sphere like shape. Then the whole thing froze over and then a small drop of water fell onto the pavement and quickly started becoming bigger and then the water froze and quickly shattered to reveal Ashley. She had shook her head and body as the rest of the ice fell to the ground. The giant ice sphere was still hanging in the air.

"I think you are going to want this Travis." Ashley said as she threw a ring at me. I caught it and saw it was my Driver On ring. "Casey dear! You can smash this thing now." She said as Casey teleported on top of the ice sphere. He had raised his left hand that was glowing a dim bright light and then punched it into the sphere as everything began to shatter. Dark Wizard fell hard onto the ground and was just slowly getting up.

"Wait! I saw your body impaled by his weapon how did you survi—" I said as I looked back at Ashley's corpse to see the corpse was still there but the ice chunks had disappeared. I looked back at Ashley to notice that she had reverted back to looking like her normal self and Casey was holding the dark blue Chakram.

"Ashley take a break, you know how much she will absorb your energy when you transform." Casey said to her. Ashley had looked like she was about to collapse and sat on the ground. Casey then walked up next to me as Dark Wizard began to get ready for his next assault.

"In this Chakram lies a demon that I couldn't kill. That demon used to be an entity Ashley would transform into in order to fight. So when she wields this Chakram she has the ability to transform into the being again. As for her corpse, well Ashley, back when she transformed into this demon called Frozen, was very cunning and sneaking when it came into combat and over time learned how to put all of her body into anything water or ice as a way to lower her opponent's guard and then strike without them knowing. It's very effective as you can see."

I just couldn't believe everything that was going on, "These guys are crazy." I thought as I looked back at Dark Wizard who began yelling at the top of his lungs. Casey then had the dark blue blade go into the side of his bag.

"It would seem that this fight is coming to an end. That attack we did left a nice enough crack at his chest plate." Casey said as I looked to see cracks all over his armor. There was a bright light coming out of it, "We have done everything we can at this point to break that armor. I'm almost out of energy to keep fighting and my arm is slowly starting to heal." When he said that I saw that his arm was starting to fix itself and was almost done with being fully healed. It was disgusting to watch the bones fix themselves and go back inside his body. "Here is what we are going to do. I am going to create an opening for you to get in close and you need to rip the gauntlet that is in his chest. Rip it out and use it, because right now you can't beat him in any of your forms and the gauntlet inside him is the only way to beat him." He instructed.

"Okay I got it! How are we going to keep him down? He's going to fight to the death with us." I asked seeking some advice. Ashley then walked up to us.

"That's when I encase him in ice. If we can immobilize his ability to move then we will have a chance. I'm going to fight to create that opening and here is how we are going to do it. Casey I need you to teleport and land a barrage of attacks while Travis and I come in to do a follow up attack. Your ability to fight and confuse your opponents is something you excel at. I need you to get his back turned to me and then when his back is turned I need you to throw a Chakram at that fire hydrant at the point I'll manipulate the water and freeze his body. When that happens Travis you need to get the gauntlet in his chest." Ashley said. Casey agreed with the plan and we all stood in a line together as Dark Wizard finally stopped raging.

"I'M DONE PLAYING GAMES WITH YOU! I'VE ONLY BEEN PLAYING AROUND BUT NOW I'LL START KILLING EVERYONE AND EVERTHING!" He roared. He reached for a ring and I commanded Casey to move. Casey nodded as the left side of his book bag unzipped and shot out another yellow Chakram and he pulled out his dark red from his holder. He stretched out his arms and quickly teleported before Dark Wizard could flip the levers. He began slicing at every gem armor on his causing a lot of pain on him and anytime Dark Wizard tried to stop Casey from attacking, he would teleport which forced our enemy to move his body around. Ashley began running towards the fire hydrant and had a bit of water on her arms that started swirling around her wrist. I saw Ghouls appear into the battlefield and had there spears coming down and I quickly scanned my ring I had.

"Special! Blizzard! The Best!"

I quickly bent to my knees and slammed my hand on the ground as ice started forming towards Ashley and when it did I made the ice form a sphere around her that stopped the attacks. I went to dispel my attack but I watched as spikes shot out from the sphere piercing through the monsters causing them to explode and when we looked over to see how Casey was doing we saw Dark Wizard had stopped Casey in his track and had him in a headlock. Casey was fighting to break free and that's when I saw Ashley get extremely pissed. She started walking towards him and when she did the ice that I casted began following her and she stopped walking as she stood sideways and lifted her left hand as the ice began rapidly thawing and made six streams of water that started flowing around Ashley and begin forming a ball the size of a tennis ball at the tip of her fingers.

"Let's keep in mind that if you shoot that at me you will kill your beloved fiancé. Hope you know that right?" Dark Wizard said. Ashley mouthed words towards Casey as he reached out his hand towards her. I watched as she fired the big ball of water and I watched it hit Casey's hand and when it did, his entire body became frozen and then shattered like glass. I looked back at Ashley and when I did her body was gone. I looked back at Casey to see his body was still shards of frozen glass as the pieces began to rain down on Dark Wizard who was getting extremely owned from not being able to counter Casey's attack and then I watched as the attacks stopped and I took this moment to run at him. I then noticed him trying to fight back against the pain to fight me off.

"I don't think so asshole!" I said as I scanned my Blizzard Ring. I casted the spell circle in front of me and it stayed a few feet ahead of me as I was running towards him. I then punched my circle and sent it flying towards Dark Wizard which it went right through him and when it did, his entire body was completely immobilized. I then ran up to him and used my same hand I punched my spell circle and hit right in his chest and pulled out the device. The device had a colored dial on top of a black hand with the fingers down besides the thumb, and a silver plate connected to a ring with a white dragon rising out of it. I looked at the silver slab as it said, "Drago Timer." "Well that's a lot better than Machine Winger which is still a terrible name for a bike." I said. I looked at Dark Wizard while sliding the ring to get me fully into this fight.

"Driver on, please."

My belt appeared and the red outline on my ring went back to gold. I watched as the frozen shards floated in the air and formed next to me to see Ashley and Casey's bodies to re-appear. "I had a feeling you guys were going to use that same attack again." I said to them. I looked at Casey, "Ready to finish this?" I asked him.

He looked back with a cocky expression, "Yes I am. I think I might even do that what you guys call? A Rider Kick?" He said. I then proceeded to flip the levers on my belt. Then I grabbed my Flame Dragon Ring and scanned it.

"Flame DRAGON! Burn! Burn! Burn! Burn!"

A red fiery dragon erupted from my belt as it circled around me and hit my back revealing my neon red dragon form and then I attached the Drago Timer on my right hand. I watched as Dark Wizard was trying to break free and then Ghouls started to swarm him. I started to notice that Dark Wizard was slowly being able to move again. "Ashley and Casey can you fight off the Ghouls?" I asked. Ashley ended up running into battle and began fighting off the horde as Casey stayed near me and threw his Chakrams to provide back up. I then had Dragon begin talking to me.

"With this you can use all of my power at will. Let's show your dark self the power when we are at our strongest! Turn the dial and hit the thumb as the pointer hits the colored squares." Dragon said. I turned the dial and pressed the black thumb ready to end this fight.

"Set Up….Start!"

The noise was a bit irritating to hear and I pushed the button as it hit the blue square.

"WATER DRAGON!"

I saw a Ghoul throw a spear that would hit Ashley in the back of her head and then a water spell circle appeared as my neon blue form jumped out and landed on top of the spear dropping it to the ground. "Thanks!" Ashley said. I then was waiting for it to go to the green and noticed that more and more Ghouls were starting to show up.

"Casey, we need to give Ashley more cover otherwise she is going to get overwhelmed and right now its taking some time for me to get through the dial." I said to him. Casey then tapped a button that was on his left strap of his bookbag.

"Manual override. Give me every Chakram." Casey said. Then his book bag began unzipping as three yellow Chakrams shot out of the left side and two shot out of the right and the bright red Chakram that created lava all formed in a giant circle behind him. "Protect Ashley and the colored Wizards." He said as his Chakrams turned sideways with their blades facing the Ghouls and zoomed towards them I then hit the thumb to get another clone of me in that fight.

"Hurricane Dragon!"

A green spell circle appeared over the battlefield and out came my neon green form with his own swordgun as well as another in his hands. My green form gave my blue one a weapon as they started fighting the horde. I then noticed that my dial was now over the yellow bar.

"Land Dragon!"

A yellow spell circle appeared on the ground and out came my neon yellow form. The Ghouls were starting to die down now and I had an idea. "Casey get Ashley back here. I have an idea but I need everyone and everything out of the battlefield." I said to him. Casey heard and summoned his blades back and had Ashley return. My copies were standing in front of us and I punched the thumb for the final time.

"Dragon Formation!"

I watched as all of my copies got parts of a Dragon's body part to appear on them and they all took out their special attack rings and scanned it over their sword.

"Blizzard Slash Strike!"

"Gravity Slash Strike!"

"Thunder Slash Strike!"

The swords began emanating a huge glow and then I watched them send their attacks to the giant horde. The blizzard one froze every Ghoul, as the gravity sent them up off the ground by about five feet, and the thunder formed a dragon as it ran around killing every Ghoul. Then the three replica's disappeared and I could now tell my mana was rapidly draining. "For some reason this Drago Timer is sucking up my mana quicker than any of my forms. I have to finish this now." I thought. I took off the gauntlet and handed it to Ashley to hold as I grabbed one of my spells. "Are you ready to do this Casey?" I asked him.

"Yea I'll lead and you follow up behind. Ashley keep our enemy still." He said. Ashley lifted one hand and the ice that was thawing on Dark Wizard hardened. Casey then put back all of his blades into his bag except the dark red one. That one sliced Casey's right leg and I watched as his red blood went black and something like black fire started to form around his entire feet. I then scanned my attack ring.

"Very Nice! Kick Strike! The Best!"

"The finale." I said as flames started erupting around my left foot and I ran at Dark Wizard. Casey jumped up in the air and then came zooming down. He kicked right through Dark Wizard and then before hitting the ground, teleported and came kicking him from behind. Dark Wizard broke from the ice that was holding him as he rolled on the ground and when he got up he saw me coming down from the sky with my rider kick. He grabbed my foot as he tried to hold me in the air.

"I'M NOT GOING TO DIE HERE! I'LL KILL YOU! EVIL WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL!" He said holding his ground. I saw an arrow made of ice zoom past me and hit Dark Wizard at his transformation belt. I watched as my dark self let go of my foot screaming in pain and my attack hit him. I watched as he got pushed hard into the ground. I caused a giant crater to form and the last thing anyone saw was Dark Wizard screaming.

Once my attack was done I reverted back to my human self and looked over to see Ashley holding a bow made of water. The water bow then splashed onto the ground and Ashley ran up to me. I turned to see Casey standing next to me as we watched Dark Wizard revert back to his human form. Blood pouring out of his mouth non-stop. "How the hell did I lose to you? I was stronger in every aspect. I was the perfect fighter and proven it so many times yet I still lost." He said weakly.

"I had friends. You only had Ghouls. You only had yourself. Now go back where you belong, inside me." I said as I watched him give a simple smile and then turned into dust. Amongst the dust was a couple of rings. I bent down and picked them up. One was purple with some flames on it and the other was something that looked like a purple monster, "This one must be a new Plamonster. But what is this other ring?" I wondered. I then started to feel my knees get extremely weak as well as the rest of my body. Ashley quickly grabbed me.

"Whoa there now. We need to get you back home. Casey dear do you have enough power to get us back?" She asked him. Casey looked exhausted as well.

"I can but I'm not going to like it. Everyone grab on to me, don't expect me to be awake at the end of it." He said. I reached and grabbed his shoulder as Ashley grabbed his hand. Then we began that thing Casey called tunneling and in just seconds we erupted out of the ground to see ourselves in front of DJ's place. Shawn and Robin came running out of the house as they tried to help us inside and once we all got inside, we found the nearest thing to lay in and quickly fell asleep.

(Stranger's Viewpoint)

I had just flown on top of a roof in the downtown district of Bowling Green Ohio. I was a bit exhausted from my fight with a Phantom that led me on a giant chase, "Oh my God if I have to hunt down my food one more time I swear to—Oh what happened here?" I said aloud as I saw traffic backed up all the way to the campus. Police cars began zooming from every direction as well as fire trucks and rescue vehicles. I got myself down from the building and quickly got up to the campus as I saw a lot of destruction. "Wow Travis you really have gone and gotten yourself in quite a fight. Well I guess I shouldn't have to complain about my fight because you look like you just fought for your life here. Well Chimera, let's go pay an old friend a visit." I said as I started to walk away from what was a huge battlefield. I looked at my yellow and black Lion ring while holding my giant hiking bag on my back.

Next Time On Masked Rider Wizard:

"Where's Manuela?"

There is a story of a werewolf that haunts this lake out on the northern parts of Ohio."

"The name is Masked Rider Beast!"

"It's lunchtime!"

"How does he know who I am?"

"Rachel is dying and I don't know how to save her."

"We have a situation that requires you to help us Wizard. If you want to save the ones your care about"

"A Phantom that goes rogue on it's own kind?"

"Why is Travis fighting with Medusa and Phoenix?"

"After what happened with Amber I don't think I could ever love again."

"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"How can I save someone's life when I can't even save myself?"

"DJ...You've always been a good friend..."

"I will kill you Travis, slowly but surely I'll force you into a despair where you will be begging to die."

"Hyper!"

"Travis is my best friend, and I'll never let someone like you break him anymore!"

"Travis...I love you."

"This Phantom has the power to extract the hope from people."

"EXCITING!"

"I've lost my powers..."

"If I can't be the hope for people I'm as good as dead..."

"Mom...Dad...I'll be joining you soon..."

"I've fought and lived my ENTIRE LIFE to make up for the wrong I did to him!"

"Karina want's to die with the person who mattered in her life."

"Leave Karina Alone!"

"You may not see yourself as a superhero, but know that in my eyes you were always one."

"Even without powers I can still stop you."

"INFINITY, PLEASE!"

The Masked Rider Wizard Book 2: The Primordial Mage. Chapter 1 Coming Soon.