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Afternoon Explorations

Characters: Ryo Ashihara and YOU!
Open? Yep!
Where: Outside the White Forest, possibly going a bit deeper inside.
When: The afternoon of the 4th of Great Heat's Beginning.
What: Ryo gets bored and goes exploring in the hopes of finding something interesting.
Warnings: Crazy bug-man stabbytimes if something sets him off into transforming into Gills? Otherwise, I can't think of much.

Ryo was bored. And when he got bored, he tended to get a bit restless. He hadn't been spending much time in town at all as of late, instead choosing to explore as much as he could. He'd started to get the hang of riding his weirdly-armored horse, and it wasn't at all unusual for him to go out riding, searching for something of any interest.

Most of the time, he went looking for monsters. They were out there, he knew it, and if there was one thing he knew how to do, it was fight a monster. That wasn't exactly rocket science for a Kamen Rider, after all...

Today, he'd found himself at the edge of the White Forest. It was different from some of the other areas he'd been exploring, and, for whatever reason, his horse had decided it didn't really have any interest in going in very deep. It would walk a few steps, and then it would just balk at going in any further.

"Tch. Getting lazy, are you?" Ryo dismounted from the horse and walked it over to a nearby tree, tying the reins to said tree. It looked like from there, he'd be exploring the forest a bit deeper on foot.

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Kay was out exploring, too. Well, exploring wasn't exactly right. "Looking for a fight" was more like it. He heard there were monsters in the forests, monsters he'd be thanked for beating up, and that sounded like no-strings-attached guilt-free fun. There was nothing quite like the adrenaline rush he got from fighting.

He was already in the forest when Ryo got there, about a quarter of a mile from the edge. Kay looked like quite the monster himself: eight feet of brown-furred muscle, fangs, and claws. He wasn't one of those noble wolves, sleek and cool and graceful. Kay was ugly as sin.

When Ryo got closer, Kay would pick up on the scent. What was a person doing all the way out here? The werewolf dithered, unsure if he wanted to run into anyone while he was in this shape and still had gore from the last monster on his claws. They'd probably get the wrong idea. He spent so long wondering what to do that Ryo would be able to spot him without trouble.

Well, Ryo had been out looking for monsters, and he certainly seemed to have found one. He spotted Kay, and if he'd known the other was a werewolf, he probably would have been more sympathetic than anything else--his own transformations into Gills weren't always easy.

But as things stood now, he'd spotted Kay and drawn all the wrong conclusions. Where he came from, monsters called Unknown roamed around killing humans, and the Unknown generally took on the form of a humanoid animal of some sort. That wolflike figure definitely brought back more than a few memories of getting up close and personal with all sorts of Unknown, and there could be only one proper response.

He crossed his arms over his chest, hands at his shoulders. For a brief moment, it looked as though he might possibly be trying to shield himself, at least until he spoke. "Henshin!" Abruptly, Ryo's form shifted into that of Gills. He was still humanoid for the most part, but there was definitely something insectoid about him as well. He was covered in green and black armored chitin plating, and this armor was adorned with wicked-looking spikes at his wrists and heels. The segmented horns on Gills's head and his large red eyes likely did nothing to soften his appearance.

Gills assumed a bit of a guard stance, curious to see what the other creature would do.

Aw, hell. He'd been spotted. That left Kay with a choice: did he fight, talk, or run?

The clear choice was talk. Even if they turned into some kind of weird green bug, this person was human, and Kay could clear up this misunderstanding any time he liked.

Well, the choice would have been clear if Kay hadn't just been fighting other monsters. Adrenaline was still rushing through his body, and animal instincts were very much at the forefront of his consciousness. The animal in him wanted to fight.

Kay didn't attack yet, still too torn, but he did turn to face Gills. He crouched down, paws forward, and growled.

Talking would have been an excellent idea if Gills were like other Kamen Riders! But Ryo's powers were...corrupted. Incomplete. For whatever reason, they hadn't developed as they should, and as a result, transforming into Gills tended to render him a bit unstable, a bit more aggressive. He had a better handle on himself now than when he'd started, but when presented with something that was bringing back memories of the Unknown? Gills was a little wound up. There was a very good reason the townpeople referred to him as a berserker...

He met Kay's growl with one of his own, and without waiting for any further action on the werewolf's part, rushed at the other with his arms outstretched. It seemed he was angling for some sort of tackle or grapple.

Human reason was thrown aside in the face of an immediate fight. Kay leapt at Gills, intending to tackle and pin the other to the ground. They met in midair, and who pinned whom would come down to the one that was stronger. Kay was strong enough in human form, but as a wolf? Well, he'd ripped off the doors of police cars.

He had no way of knowing how strong Gills would be, though. It was reckless, a stupid risk, but he couldn't help the rising excitement in his blood. How would this new opponent measure up?

Gills was quite likely of a comparable level of strength, but he was also smaller than Kay was. The size advantage gave Kay a chance to pin Gills, but Gills had no intention of staying pinned for long. The short claws on his wrists elongated into blades, and he began trying to slash at the werewolf as he bellowed in rage. His back legs were working too, trying to kick the other off of him, but he had yet to make use of his heel claws.

He succeeded in making Kay back off -- he didn't want to be on the business ends of those wrist-blades.

But he had to admit it.

"Cool," he breathed. "What kind of monster are you?"

Kay was backed away for the moment, circling Gills, waiting for an opening.

Ryo was glad for the chance to back off and get a bit of distance. He reached over and pulled on one of those wrist claws, stretching it out into a whip-like bladed tentacle, which he was now casually swinging around.

He was, however, quite surprised when his opponent spoke. "Just a monster." His voice came out in a low growl. Speaking wasn't something he did a lot as Gills. "And you?"

Gills continued warily swinging that tentacle around, waiting for the other to strike.

"Werewolf," he replied, voice as matter-of-fact as a growl could be. "Isn't it obvious?"

He didn't strike yet, wary of the ranged weapon Gills had apparently produced from nowhere.

"Never fought a werewolf before," came the reply. "Thought you were an Unknown."

Gills kept casually swinging that tentacle around a bit more. He was watching the other closely, and if he thought he had an opening, he'd try to ensnare Kay.

Kay shook his head. "Never heard of it" He didn't entirely miss the irony that he didn't know what an Unknown was. "But I've never fought anything like you, either. What are you, some kind of bug?"

And Kay was waiting for Gills to get that tentacle within range. He'd get hold of the ranged weapon first, then attack when he didn't have to worry about some kind of weird buggy tentacle blade.

"If that's what you want to call it when things go very wrong on the evolutionary ladder, sure."

With that, Gills tossed out that tentacle in an attempt to snare Kay.

The tentacle did ensnare him, wrapping around his chest and pinning one of his arms to his body.

With his free arm, Kay grabbed the tentacle and yanked, intending to draw Gills closer, into clawing range. "Do I look like I give a fuck about evolution?" he growled. "Save the science for someone who cares."

"Hey, you asked." Gills gave a little growl of his own and allowed Kay to reel him in, though he tightened his grip on the other. Kay wasn't the only one interested in getting the other within clawing range. Gills took a swipe at the other once he was close enough.

"I didn't ask--"

Rather than dodging, Kay took a firmer hold of the tentacle as close to Gills' body as he could manage and tried to use it to -- well -- to pull Gills off his feet and fling him around so that his body would hit a nearby tree. He didn't manage to avoid Gills' blow completely; the claws did graze him.

"--for a biology lesson," he grunted.

Gills hit that tree, and he snarled viciously. Ryo had a hard enough time holding onto himself when he was in this form, and now he was getting just a bit more ticked off. Abruptly, the tentacle unwound itself from around Kay. Gills growled as he tried to withdraw the appendage.

Kay let go of the tentacle, but bounded up to Ryo and tried to pin him down with a great big clawed hand-paw to the chest. He bared his teeth and growled.

The pinning attempt was successful, and Gills wasn't happy at all. In response to the growl, he offered an incoherent war-bellow of rage. Conversing with him would be rather difficult at this point, and he tried taking a swipe at Kay's midsection with one of his wrist claws.

The attack connected, and blood began to drip down Kay's stomach. Kay snarled, and in the snarl were the words, "Give up!"

Once upon a time, Ryo had attempted to axe kick a god. He'd been knocked flat. Yet he'd gotten up to try again. And again. Give up?

"No." Snarling, he took another swing at Kay.

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Afternoon Explorations

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lol so late herp derp

It's cool! ^^

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