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Kamen Rider Jackal

Episode 1: Debut of a Rider

There exists a plain of existence called the Nether Realm which was filled of dark and dangerous creatures. They were ruled by the Abyss Empire a large faction of the best warriors and warlocks of the Nether Realm.

Centuries ago they contacted someone from our world – a magic student who was shunned and banished from his village for practicing the dark arts. They made a deal with him – he opens up a portal between their worlds so they can conquer ours and in return the student would gain a high ranking position in their empire.

However a brave warrior from a Japanese village of samurai discovered and was possessed by the Blue Jackal – a spirit capable of bestowing great power and whoever possessed it would wear the armour design to his or her taste. The warrior became the first Kamen Rider Jackal who rode from village to village on his horse.

The student was defeated before he could finish the spell but he managed to make it so a portal could open up on the hundredth anniversary of the student's defeat.

Since then the Blue Jackal was put into a black box and passed from father to son so that the latest in the warrior's line could use its power to stop the Oni Empire when they come through.

Present Day

Denver, Colorado

At Clover High School students were in their seats as their teacher Mr Matthews a balding man in glasses and a brown suit faced the class. "Before you go for the weekend i have managed to have the time to mark all of your homework assignments."

He got to Eric Stewart a brown haired boy in a dark blue shirt, "Mr Stewart, I really enjoyed and loved reading your assignment." The man said with a smile "it was one of the greatest works of fiction I have ever read in my entire life..."

He then passed him his assignment and Eric's eyes widened when he saw the F- with a circle around it written in red marker, "however it was a history assignment on Japan so I can't reflect how much I liked reading it in the final grade." He responded as he got to the final student Aaron Michaels for short who was a blonde boy in a red shirt and black jacket.

"Despite what you're foster brother handed in Mr Michaels, you have shown to actually understand the subject of what you were writing about." Mr Matthews said with a smile as he handed Aaron his work which was graded with an A+.

"Thanks Mr Matthews, I think it has something to do with the fact my ancestors once came from Japan which was what my birth dad told me when I was younger, or the fact that I have a photographic memory." Aaron said with a smile causing Eric to grunt when he saw this.

"I am sure if he was still with us your birth day would be very proud Mr Michaels." Mr Matthews responded and Eric gave Aaron an envious glare to which Aaron just shrugged.

Outside Eric and Aaron were outside riding on their BMX bikes, "Why did you have to have the photographic memory while I have to read through the long textbooks?" Eric moaned to his foster brother while Aaron just laughed.

"I think you actually need to read the textbooks properly instead of glancing at the pages and calling it a night." Aaron responded with a shake of his head.

"Because of your memory that is all you have to do!" Eric moaned angrily as he just narrowly avoided a bump "I will have to do something to make sure I don't have to do summer school, not that you will have that problem!"

"I think I will spend this weekend looking at a book or two or maybe find something on the TV." Aaron said as they reached their house and put their bikes in the garage. Despite being able to memorise his books and the frames of his films and TV he still liked to read and watch reruns on TV and his DVDS for the fun of it.

"Hi mum, hi dad!" Eric said to his parents and Aaron's step-parents Emily who worked as a nurse and Derek Stewart who worked at the bank. "Hope you two boys have a nice weekend!" Emily said to them as Derek waved to them and went back to the report he had brought back from his job. Emily was a brown haired woman with glasses and Derek was a black haired man with a goatee.

Aaron went up to his room to find a small girl with brown hair in a ponytail trying to get at the top of his cupboard by standing on a chair. "Rebecca what are you doing here in my room?" Aaron screamed annoy as he got the girl off the chair.

The girl was Rebecca Jameson a middle school girl who lived next door, "I wanted to see what was in your special box." Rebecca said before looking at Aaron dreamily "maybe you are keeping a necklace in there for when we get married!"

Aaron did not look amused and shouted out of the door "Mum, Rebecca was in my room again trying to get at my box!"

Emily went up to his room and told Rebecca "Rebecca I have warned you about coming here without permission and trying to look at Aaron's stuff, that box is very special to Aaron as it came from his birth dad. I will have to bring you back to your house and tell your mum."

"But mum will not let me do anything fun this weekend if you tell her!" moaned Rebecca but Emily remained stoic, "You should have thought of that before sneaking into other people's houses and rooms." She said pointing to the door and Rebecca walked out with her head down.

"Sorry about that Aaron." Emily told Aaron with a smile and Aaron just gave her a thankful smile before closing the door, since his mother died in childbirth Emily was the only mum he had had ever known.

He went and picked up the black box from the top of his cupboard, it had a picture of a blue jackal's head on the lid, he then remembered something his dad had told him when he was son his death bed:

Nine year old Aaron was tearfully talking to his dad as he was in the hospital bed, "stay strong my boy..." Aaron's dad managed to tell him "remember the family heirloom – the Jackal Box!"

"The story you told me every night about the demons coming back." Aaron asked and his dad nodded, "You will be seventeen when the anniversary comes and it will be up to you to stop them..." he managed to say before coughing and continued speaking "don't worry I know you will be able to save the world like our ancestor did..."

After his dad died he spent a week in an orphanage run by a kind old woman before he was adopted by the Matthews family, the box never left his possession and he always had to exact date when the anniversary came in mind so he would be ready for when it happened:

The date was set – which would be the next day.

In the Nether Realm in a dark gloomy castle were the high leaders of the Abyss Empire. Standing with high enthusiasm was a figure wearing dark red knight armour with spikes coming out of the shoulder pads. He had an eagle's head with a lion's mane, a lion's claws for his hands and feet and eagle wings coming out of the back. He also had a dark red axe with a golden blade which he was holding up to the air.

He was Emperor Gryphon the leader of the Abyss Empire and ruler of the Nether Realm, "Only a short time left to go until the portal that was made all those centuries ago will be weak enough for our forces to break through!" he shouted bombastically looking like he could go into a fight at any second "This will be the time our ancestors have always talked about! Once we break through I will lead our army to destroy everything and raze all of their citadels to the ground so we can rule!"

"I can't wait! It will be so much fun!" said a humanoid hyena in a roman centurion's armour holding a bow and arrow; he was Commander G'Noll the second in command of the Abyss Empire. There was tutting sounds coming from a humanoid dear creature in a red robe and a bird's wings. She was Lady Perri Ton the empress of the Nether Realm and Gryphon's wife.

"Typical of you Gryphon, your love of fighting clouds any common sense that might exist in you; sometimes I wonder how my father talked me into marrying a stupid brute like you!" Perri scolded lightly as she slowly walked up to Gryphon "think for a second you stupid creature, if you raze everything to the ground there will be no humans to use as slaves and no buildings means that the time and resources used in conquering the human's world will be wasted since when we are done there would be no human realm left to rule over!"

Gryphon snarled and responded "okay then Perri, how do you think we should proceed when the portal is opened up?"

"Simple we send that stupid hyena you have as your commander along with a small legion of our soldiers to make our presence known to the future slaves." Perri answered in a scolding tone of voice "they make them surrender to us and if they fight back only then will we will have to bring out more of our army!"

"Fine then..." muttered Gryphon angrily as he put his axe down for a second "when that portal opens up we will show the humans the might of the Abyss Empire and there will be nothing that the humans can do but be crushed by our might!"

*KRJ*

The next day outside of a mall Eric was walking about, "This will be a great start to a great weekend." Eric said happily looking around "Aaron is out with his bike and I wonder what I can do first..."

Then suddenly the ground looked like it was opening up, people were stepping back in fear. "What the..." Eric shouted and his eyes widening as several creatures that looked like humanoid bats wearing roman armour came out and were carrying spears.

"What is going on?" Eric panicked as more and more of these creatures came out of the hole in the ground, finally before the hole in the ground closed out came G'Noll.

"Your time on this planet has come to an end you weak pathetic humans!" G'Noll shouted to the frightened humans running away before the hyena like monster bursted out into laughter, after coming down he shouted out again "I will claim this measly world in the name of the unstoppable great Abyss Empire, surrender now or else my Batrack Legion will destroy you all!"

"Wait is this a Power Rangers season coming to life?" Eric asked as he went to hide where these creatures could not get to him...hopefully. If he was right he hoped the Power Rangers would hurry up and arrive.

"I wonder if Aaron will believe me if I called him?" Eric asked from his hiding spot as he pulled out his mobile phone.

*KRJ*

"Are you saying there is a hyena monster leading an army of bats near the mall?" Aaron asked Eric on his mobile phone as he was standing in a field next to his BMX bike "sorry bro but unless I see the footage on the internet or on the news today I don't think I can believe you, see you later bye! Hope the bats don't hurt you!"

He then pulled his black box out of his pocket, "It is time for me to fullfill my family's destiny." Aaron said as he opened it and out came a floating ball of light. It formed a silver belt around his waist and the center of the belt was a dark blue metallic jackal head.

"Let me try the new Jackal Driver..." Aaron said as he pressed a button on top of his Jackal Driver belt and shouted out "Jackal Activate!"

A dark blue sphere formed around him and when it disappeared he had now transformed, he was now wearing a dark blue jackal shaped helmet with a black visor, a red scarf, a dark blue spandex suit, black bands around his wrists on both of his arms, dark blue gloves, black boots, his belt was still there and a black vest with a silver bit of armour in front of it.

"It is now time for Kamen Rider Jackal to make his debut to the modern world!" Aaron said excitedly looking over his new form, he went to his bike and it transformed into a dark blue motocross bike with a dark blue jackal head at the front of it.

"Wow my new Jackal Cycle, looks like this power does work to my taste just like the story said!" Aaron said as he began riding to were Eric said the monsters were.

*KRJ*

"Stop trying to resist humans, the Abyss Empire will rule your world!" G'Noll said before bursting out into laughter, "Sorry Hyena face but we humans know how to fight back!" Aaron said as he rode into the area on his Jackal Cycle and jumped off and stood there while the civilians were looking on in awe.

"So the stories of the Jackal Warrior are true, no matter you will be destroyed for i am G'Noll leader of the Abyss Empire's military forces!" G'Noll said with a sneer "attack my Batracks!"

The Batracks then began going after Aaron and he was managing to punch and kick his way through them, "Is this the best your army can do?" Aaron taunted as he was throwing the Batracks about.

He also began pushing people who were around out of the way of the Batracks, "Looks like your army is done!" Aaron smirked as soon most of the Batracks were defeated.

"I will take you on myself!"G'Noll sneered as he jumped at Aaron, Aaron tried to fight back but G'Noll seemed to be faster and a better fighter.

"Let's see you try sword fight!" Aaron as he summoned his Jackal Blade a silver bladed sword with a dark blue handle that had the Jackal symbol on it, he then used it to knock G'Noll's spear away and knock him to the ground.

G'Noll sneered as he got up shouting "I will be back!" before his disappeared into the ground, Aaron smirked behind his helmet as now he saw G'Noll's fighting style he will be ready for the next time he fights him.

The civilians looked on in awe and one asked "who are you, some sort of Power Ranger?"

Aaron laughed and got back on his Jackal Cycle, he said "you can call me Kamen Rider Jackal!" before he rode off.

"Kamen what?" at least one person asked as they looked confused, Eric came out of his hiding spot and his face was full of awe.

*KRJ*

"You retreated, you worthless coward!" Gryphon furiously thundered at G'Noll who was cowering behind his emperor, "Please your majesty it was a tactical retreat, I will be ready next time!" G'Noll said terrified for his life and Perri took her husband's arm and stopped him from cutting G'Noll to pieces with his axe.

"Spare his life for now; it was just one unforeseen element that was his defeat." Perri said and Gryphon relucantly complied.

"Oh thank you my lady!" G'Noll said in a grateful tone as he was on his knees, "Well what do you think we should do if you are so smart?"

"I suggest that Jackal be taken care off before we proceed with any of our plans to send the entire army to invade, otherwise he may keep disrupting our efforts, I have a plan to take care of him..."

*KRJ*

"You should have seen it! He was some awesome!" Eric said at the Stewart family living room as they were tucking into their dinner in front of the television where the news report of Jackal stopping the attack was the top story.

"He sounds like a character..." Derek laughed as Aaron smirked, with the Jackal Driver safely in a secure place in his room he will be ready for whatever attack the Abyss Empire throws at him.

For Kamen Rider Jackal is here to stay!

The Jackal Driver design is my own invention, the helmet is basically like the Violet Wolf Ranger helmet from Power Rangers Jungle fury, the idea of the scarf came from Kamen Rider W and the original Kamen Rider, except for the belt and minus the card reader the lower part of the costume is of the Blank Knight from of Kamen Rider Ryuki (or Dragon Knight if you are a fan of the US adaptation that was done by 4Kids like I am) and the Jackal Blade is basically the sword of Kamen Rider Knight (or to Americans Wing Knight) from Ryuki only replacing the symbol on it with the Jackal symbol. Also truth be told in the original version Gryphon would have been a general in the army with G'Noll his lieutenant and the emperor would have been this skeleton guy who Gryphon would have betrayed half way through the story (becoming the new Big Bad) and became the new emperor but I decided to get rid of him. I am planning on writing a basic character sheet that I will post on Deviantart. I would also like to thank guncannon109 author of Kamen Rider Xtreme who gave me advice that I used.