Kamen Rider EqG Chapter 7 Preview · 9:22pm Jan 13th, 2018
Because I feel sorry for leaving you all out in the cold for so long, here's a preview of Chapter 7, "Chromatic Dispersion", to be released after the Decade crossover wraps up hopefully this month. I apologize for blog posts seemingly losing the ability to be viewed in Indented mode, the format my story is meant to be read in. I consider this a personal attack on my freedom of expression (not really, but it's still a bad move that should be reverted, tell me where I can start a petition).
It was a dark and stormy night, the sound of rain pounding hard everywhere but not a raindrop in sight. That wasn’t her concern, though.
Sunset hit the ground, her Kamen Rider Leona armor clanking against the asphalt. Sword in hand, she pushed herself up to look upon the mass of obscure shadowy shapes gathered before her. Sonora Boomer stood at the front, glowing green eyes on a dark silhouette, each monster past it growing nastier and blurrier. A demonic chorus of snarls and hisses writhed through the air.
Getting up to a knee, Sunset pulled a card out of her Advent Deck, but as she caught a glimpse of it, she hesitated. She’d been trying not to use this one, it was too risky, but it looked like she had no choice. She slid it into the slot and pushed the slotter’s lion mane back.
Attack Vent
A mirror surface appeared on the ground in front of her and a red humanoid figure with a lion’s head leapt out, roaring at the monsters. Pantheraleo, her Advent Beast. The mob of shadows shrieked at him, but he roared back louder, jets of flames slipping through the transparent red vents between the golden stripes of his mane.
Sunset took her chance to get back to her feet, but as she looked down to push off from the ground, a realization struck her. The chorus of growls and snarls continued as before, but though she knew that Pantheraleo was among the cacophony, she couldn’t tell which roar was his. The lion blended perfectly into the dissonance. Too perfectly.
As Sunset stood up and raised her sword to fight, Pantheraleo let his roar fade silent against the monsters’ hissing whispers. “Let’s go!” she called.
For a second, Pantheraleo didn’t move. Suddenly he spun and raked his claws across her torso, splintering the blade of her sword and sending her falling back again in a shower of sparks.
Pain and shock vied for her focus as she lay on the ground, her sword’s blade reduced to a five-inch severed stub with a smoking tip. She looked up at the towering Pantheraleo, the roiling wall of silhouettes seemingly chittering in amusement.
“Wh…what?” Sunset muttered. “Why are you doing this?”
“Why?” came a reply she knew was from Pantheraleo. Sunset held back a gasp as she recognized the new voice as her own, and yet…not. She knew who it was from.
Pantheraleo’s body suddenly erupted into flames. “Because you think I will,” continued the voice. The flames turned blue and burst away as a pair of wings flared open, and standing there now was Sunset’s red-skinned demon form from when she’d corrupted Twilight’s crown. The demon stared at her with her black pit eyes and gave a sly grin. “Now, what could have given you that idea?”
No, Sunset thought. What’s she doing here? Why again?
Demon Sunset raised her hands and quickly charged a large blue fireball, throwing it at Sunset, who quickly raised her arms to—
This is looking to be worth the wait!