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"A Man Without Fate, Enangled In The Fates Of Many"

I'm working on Kamen Rider Scarv and it's still going to take a bit, but given he's my personal Anniversary rider, I think he deserves a bit more than JUST his design images. So here's a preview of sorts!

(Sorry about the re-upload, there was a major error on one picture and I couldn't let that stand)

Kamen Rider MakeYou (Meikyū, literally Labyrinth)

“Truth and Falsehood, Memory and Identity.”

Lore: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D3ucTeC4OCcd2IctMUtXF7mPE3ojjmjEkIK27u63-ZI/edit?usp=sharing

Intro Song: https://youtu.be/waFzcHcN3oY?is=y047amDYkFu96IwD

Final Form Insert: https://youtu.be/\_qV8WgCR6Ao?is=S5jqSRIqzCr0j71L 

Kamen Rider Cutie

Themes: Childhood; Hearts; Lingering Feelings; Toys

“What remains in peoples’ hearts when they grow up?”

-PROLOGUE ARC

Bratty, immature adult Fukyū Yuka (19) and her stern, but loving older brother Chico (24) run the Castle Moat toy store together. Well, Chico runs it. Yuka plays with the kids who come in, plays with toys, and does the bare minimum register work and cleaning. While it keeps the place popular with how peppy she is, there’s a misbalance of work going on.

12 years ago, Yuka and Chico’s parents both died while seeking out last minute Christmas presents for their kids, ending up in an accident. And all that was left at the crash site was a couple of stuffed animals, the presents their parents had sought out. Chico raised his sister, trying to make her life happy, even if he suffered because of it. And now, here they were, with her dream of a toy shop to make other kids happy.

However, one particular day, a man stumbles into the plaza outside of their store, before grabbing his head, holding out a ninja action figure, and screaming. He seems to break apart as a monster comes out, a huge, monstrous ninja-like being that begins to laugh and run, trying to hit people with a large sword or throwing oversized shuriken. That is before, however, a mysterious armored fighter arrives, attacking it in a battle before it is defeated, the man being released from the monster as the hero grabs something from beside him and disappears.

Fascinated, Yuka really wants to meet that hero that saved them, but when another monster appears the next day, Chico drags her back inside when she rushes out to try to meet the hero. But the hero doesn’t appear this time. As they wait for the attack to subside, inside their home on the second floor, Yuka’s Beary Bear plush, the one her parents had died for, shifts. And jostles. And falls off of her bedroom shelf. And she finds something is inside it. Opening its back stitching, she finds the Toy Driver. 

She notes it’s the belt the hero was wearing, including a small top-like device that fits into it. Excited to fight monsters and sneaking out of their home, she puts it on and inserts the top. She can’t figure out what to do next, but the hero arrives behind her, a bat-themed armored warrior who just tells her, “Pull the ripcord. And press the trigger.”

She’s pushed into the plaza proper, the soldier-like monster staring at her and demanding she play with it. Chico attempts to run out to stop her, only for the other hero to block him from doing so. 

She activates the Driver properly.

“Cutie Rider! HOP! SKIP! PLAY! What a Beary CUTIE Bear!”

Donning teddy bear themed armor, she finds herself awkwardly fighting the monster, ending up defeating it somehow with her Cutie Bear Finish. And discovers her new hobby: Fighting monsters.

With the hero saying they have someone new to help in the fight against ‘Voidlings’, they leave this area to Yuka, Kamen Rider Cutie, giving her the top device that dropped from the soldier monster.

-SCARIE ARC

Fighting off monsters one after another, she eventually ends up running into a mysterious, dark-armored Rider fashioned after a wolf. Calling himself Scarie, he tells her that she ‘stole everything from him’ and begins to attack her. Not understanding, she gets attacked and overpowered by him, but escapes. During their next meeting, she asks what she did to him. And he responds simply that ‘she took it all from him’ and ‘she needs to pay for it all’. Being forced to run from him time and time again, Chico becomes worried that she’s going to get killed by this guy. She assures him she can win, but he wants her to take this more seriously. Or, more importantly, to stop this Rider stuff and help him with the store, since her being gone has made it harder for him to keep their place running.

A couple more battles occur until he corners her and tells her she has to face the truth: ‘It’s because of you that I lost everything’ and he removes the helmet of his suit, revealing Chico’s face.

He tells her in no uncertain terms that a 7 year old Yuka begged their parents for the ‘Beasty Beast’ plushies: The Beary Bear and Wolfy Wolf that the two of them own. She wanted them to have one each. And their parents went out that night, where they died on the way home. That she couldn’t just be happy with being his sister like he was to be her brother. And that because they lost their parents, he lost his childhood caring for her. He had to grow up quick to protect her. While SHE gets to just play and laugh and have fun because she never has to grow up as long as he’s there.

She manages to flee and hides in their home. Chico finds her cowering and asks if she’s okay, if she encountered a monster she finally couldn’t beat? She obviously doesn’t respond and he tells her he’s just glad she’s safe and hopes she’s done with fighting, as she’s had him worried sick.

She steeps in his words, the Beary Bear top beginning to crack. It’s a rainy night when Scarie arrives outside their home, screaming at her to fight him and face what she did to his life. The top finally cracks, revealing a crimson top beneath it.

She grabs it and inserts it, her will to hide and ignore it finally cracked apart.

She steps outside, activating the Driver and the new top:

“Cutie Rider! RIP! TEAR! PLAY ROUGH! ROAR! What a BEARY GRIZZLY play date!”

Her normal armor appears, cracking apart to reveal a vicious new form: Beary Grizzly.

She screams back at him now, asking if this is what he wants from her, to be an ‘adult’ like him: Hateful, dangerous, serious? So they battle, with the two of them fighting until he takes a huge hit from her and flees.

The next day, Yuka seems to take work more seriously, until she sees her brother and tells him they’ll finally settle it tonight, because if he wants her to be more mature, she’ll make sure to see it through to the end. He seems genuinely confused, just wanting to thank her for doing a good job.

It’s that night when the two of them clash again. When he takes a massive hit to the head from her gauntlets, he gets knocked unconscious…. only to wake up surprised. Because he has no idea what’s going on. It’s revealed that Scarie isn’t Chico: Scarie is Chico’s body being puppeted by the Wolfy Wolf plush’s will to eek out the source of his perceived problems: His sister. When he tries to resist fighting her, still confused, he’s rejected by the armor, which is intent on killing Yuka.

He gets between them as they fight again, to protect Yuka from Scarie. Neither understand why as a set of claws hits him from the front and the back. He tells her that he does, in fact, feel resentment towards her for her never working hard, always being childish and bratty, and had once or twice thought about how she’d been the one to beg for those toys.

But that he loved her and wanted her to be a child for as long as possible, as long as he could protect her and keep her happy. He had done all he could to shelter her from the harshness of the world.

Scarie is then smashed apart and destroyed by a kick from another Rider. The hero who had appeared earlier. She announces herself as Kamen Rider Sleepie… and she has some information for the two of them.

-DEADLIE ARC

Sleepie, a 30-something homeless woman, reveals to them that the defunct Jozart Toy Company is behind the origins of ‘Voidlings’. Once a megacorporation, they had pushed their toys onto everyone. They’d eventually messed up when their latest CEO had gone for true illegal tactics: A small toy shop in town had refused their latest toys and, in-fact, had never carried any Jozard toys. But refusing the new Beasty Beast plush line, the CEO decided to just have their shop ‘accidentally’ bulldozed, paying off many people to get it done.

But unfortunately, the old couple who owned it and lived there with their child’s family, were inside. The family died except for one member and the company ended up being torn down in a secretive and sudden judicial action, which few people know the reasons behind. But a grudge was left behind: The Beasty Beasts had been cursed. Every single one, but one of each variety, would meet a terrible fate. And as a void had been left in that one family member’s heart from their missing family, a void would be left in the hearts of those kids whose Beasty Beasts were destroyed.

This caused them to never truly grow up and to latch onto other toys as a crutch in their life. And upon the adult world finally breaking them, they too would break, fusing with the toy that filled the hole in their heart and becoming a monstrous creature with the attitude of a child, amplifying how they feel. The monster only wishes to play forever and never grow up, no matter what kind of damage they cause.

Sleepie decides to join them and aid the two Riders, as Chico decides to take up the mantle of Scarie to fight all of this and keep the city safe, as he can’t let Yuka do all the work. Surprisingly, Yuka starts to actually do a bit more work around Castle Moat at this time.

They soon learn of a man who is going around and trying to ruin the lives of people. He’s always described as a ‘childish man in a garish suit’ who seeks out seemingly random people… who always also seem to be turning into Voidlings soon after he’s seen around them.

Eventually, while Cutie and Sleepie are fighting the Say It-Do It Voidling, this same man shows up, laughing and asking why they’re ruining the fun. Saying that kids should be allowed to play, break their toys, and never have to stop. He pulls out a Toy Driver, telling them he’ll stop them himself.

Chico arrives and draws his own Driver out, saying he’ll handle this new guy.

“Scarie Rider! RUN! HOWL! PLAY! What a Wolfy SCARIE Wolf!"

“Deadlie Rider! PLAY! PLAY! PLAY DEAD! What a Crowy DEADLIE Crow!”

And the two clash, Kamen Rider Scarie vs Deadlie, while the other two handle the Voidling he created. With them defeating the Voidling and joining Scarie, Deadlie manages to still defeat all three of them, telling them that he will make the world his playground, where kids never have to stop playing, even when they grow up. Society deserves it, he says, to fall and be replaced by endless playtime.

They continue to clash with him after repeated cases of him forcing Voidlings out by ruining the lives of those cursed.

Sleepie finally talks about the Drivers during this time:

The Drivers are meant to separate the toy from the human and fill that void, allowing the freed human to finally grow up in spirit. But the Heartops, made from that toy’s love, work in a similar manner as the voids themselves: They amplify small feelings, which is why Scarie took Chico’s small feelings and created an antagonist or why Beary Grizzly was born from Yuka’s sudden thought that she didn’t want to be an adult like her (controlled) brother showed her, but that’s what HE wanted her to be.

So she theorizes that it’s something similar here, where Deadlie’s Crowy Crow may have inherited some kind of feelings from him and is forcing him to do these things through the Crowy Crow Heartop.

Chico soon discovers Deadlie’s most likely next targets: A pair of famous brothers coming to town, a snowboarder and surfer, who are coming together in their hometown to celebrate their world records recently set. And both jokingly attribute their successes to novelty matching teddy bears given to each other when they were kids, both saying that they’re precious toys neither could do without as a reminder of their sibling always having their back. And saying they’ve felt majorly overworked in the last year or so and hope to take a vacation during their time in town.

Yuka is starting to feel her own pressure, telling Chico that their constant losses against Deadlie have made her wish she’d never done this. That being a Rider is changing too much about their lives. Even Chico agrees that their shop is starting to fail because they’re out trying to keep things safe so often.

The siblings are both transformed into Voidlings thanks to Deadlie, becoming a perfect pair who fight using fire and ice powers, the two of them desiring only to play with each other and never having to split up again.

Despite working together, Cutie, Scarie, and Sleepie can’t keep up with the teamwork of the two, who become temporary continuous antagonists, working with Deadlie who promised them they’d never have to work again. Their powers allow them to grant the other brother a small portion of their elemental energy and can even fight both at once when doing this, which they attribute to being the best of siblings, unlike Cutie and Scarie who can’t work together well.

During a later fight, Chico gets taken out of the fight, knocked unconscious. Yuka is terrified to fight alone, but she realizes something about them: They may be great siblings, but they’re also extremely competitive, having been shooting verbal barbs at each other during a press conference. Using this and the voids’ aspect of magnifying even small feelings, she says that the ice bear brother couldn’t handle his brother’s full fire power, while she was sure the fire brother could totally take all of that ice power.

The two laugh and trade powers 100%, but tell her she could never handle her brother’s power, so she takes on Wolfy Wolf form. The fight is quickly resolved after this, as she’s both fought him and fought alongside him, learning how his Wolfy Wolf works from both sides, while they can barely handle using each other’s powers at full blast. From this, she frees their hearts and collects their combined Heartop: the SolPol Ball, allowing her to split it into two separate Heartops and access the Beary Polar and Beary Solar forms.

Deadlie shows up to fight them, surprised to find them defeated, Sleepie having been defeated. He attacks, but Cutie, to protect her brother, inserts the Beary Solar Heartop.

“Cutie Rider! BURNING! HEATING UP! SOLAR BLASTING! What a BEARY SOLAR Day!”

But she begins to swiftly overheat as she fights, despite dominating him. She swaps for the Beary Polar Heartop mid-fight.

“Cutie Rider! FREEZING! COOLING DOWN! POLAR BURNING! What a BEARY POLAR Day!”

And while she defeats him, she nearly succumbs to frostbite from the Heartop, barely dragging her friends to a safe place until they wake up.

-TOYBOX ARC

Deadlie seems to be in hiding after the loss of the brothers. Sleepie decides she needs to try to find some kind of information on the curse while they have time, asking Yuka and Chico to keep an eye on things with regular Voidlings.

It seems that the Beary Polar and Beary Solar Heartops contain too much energy to be used in the Toy Driver, overheating or freezing the user over time, meaning she can’t use them except in extreme circumstances.

With the slowed action, Chico decides to take a break and let Yuka fight alone, proud of her for holding her ground, but their shop needs to be watched over. Sleepie tells them eventually that she can’t find what she’s looking for: The location of the old toy shop that had been demolished. 

Yuka decides to help her and they both search the general location it was supposed to be in, only for a Voidling to appear: A wooden doll Voidling that keeps trying to ‘get back’ to where it ‘belongs’. Upon defeating it, the woman who appears out of it tells them that she had gotten the doll from a small toy shop that was near there when she was younger, called Enya’s Toy Shelf. And looking around, the woman says that the empty lot they’re in, in fact, used to be where that store was.

Leaving them alone, Yuka and Sleepie investigate the spot, with Sleepie eventually finding an outside basement door buried beneath trash in the corner of the lot. She tells Yuka, as they descend into the buried basement, that her sister, brother-in-law, and parents died here. She’d lived apart from her family and they’d moved their store and home only months after she’d moved to Tokyo for a career that failed eventually. By the time she’d come back, records of the shop’s location had been erased by the corrupt local government and she’d spent the last 12 years searching for the place.

Her nephew, the only survivor, had been heavily traumatized and was stuck in therapy for months before being sent to live with his father’s parents in another city, who could care for him, as she had denied to do so  long-term due to her monetary issues, which finally caught up to her shortly after he left, leaving her homeless. The only thing she got from it was her nephew’s Batty Bat plush, which he gave to her before he left. And she believes his grief and trauma is what gave birth to this grudge, this curse that lingered in the 'heart' of this lot.

Here, they find dozens of broken, unfinished, hand-crafted toys in the ruined basement workshop. Sleepie gathers up anything she can find that might be useful in her investigation into the curse, while Yuka ends up finding a room of unfinished toys and such. And here she finds something half buried and covered by wrapping paper. What catches her eye specifically is that a tag seen attached read out ‘FOR YUKA’. 

She gets vague memories that her parents had told her that they might have trouble with Christmas presents that year. And that’s why she’d begged them for the plushies, she was so distraught. Sleepie, meanwhile, found nothing specific, now sure that as long as her nephew lives, the curse will continue until something can fill the void left in this place.

Taking it home with her, she opens it with Chico to find a toybox inside and Chico himself remembers the same thing. He believes it’s possible that they’d had this toy box commissioned for her, as their home at the time hadn’t been terribly far from that toy shop’s location and the destruction of the toy store had forced them to do something last minute. Opening it, she finds inside it a hand-carved wolf mask with a tag for Chico, something they'd commissioned for him.

The two of them take this new information in stride, only for Sleepie to arrive, with Deadlie having arrived in the plaza outside to fight them, having powered himself up with a new, strange Heartop called Crowy Murder.

The Beary Bear plush shakes again, producing a new Driver this time: The Toybox Driver, with two slots. Yuka equips it, with both Polar/Solar Tops, and realizes their power holds off the flame/frost effects on her own body, giving her full access to its power and fighting Deadlie to a standstill, forcing him to flee when Scarie and Sleepie join in.

-LOSS ARC-

Chico is having trouble with the fact that he can’t defend Yuka anymore. He’s so far behind in power that he can’t do much. He decides to try to get in touch with his feelings in the same way his sister did when she created Beary Grizzly, hoping to create his own new form, but it fails, as he doesn’t have extreme feelings of the same type.

Deadlie mocks him over it and uses his power to boost a Voidling into a stronger form, just to spite his weakness. With Yuka and Sleepie protecting him, he feels worse than ever. It’s revealed here that Deadlie has some sort of plan to break open the voids in all the hearts craving fulfillment: His Playground Edict will come to fruition soon.

He explains to his sister, when talking to her, that his life was spent caring for her. He’s been worn down to a dull stone whose only job, he feels, is to work and keep them afloat. So that he can be a good big brother. He has love, but that love is already in the Heartop, as he puts his all into fighting for her when he’s helping her out.

Spending one night looking at the wolf mask they found in the toy box, he comes to the conclusion that he’s just weak now and he should just watch the shop. So he tells them he’s retiring as a Rider, so he won’t be a liability.

Soon after, an attack occurs by an overpowered Voidlind near the plaza of their store. He calls his sister and Sleepie, who are away fighting in another location, and she says HE has to handle it. He attempts it, but gets beaten down constantly, with the monstrous train Voidling just continuing to destroy and ‘play’. When he calls again, in tears at his weakness, Yuka tells him that he’s always been dependable to her. Even if she was a brat, he would always do whatever she asked.

So she asks what HE wants. And he realizes that that’s the thing: He’s TOO reserved. He’s never gotten what he wanted, not for 12 years. He couldn’t even be a manga nerd like his classmates in middle school and high school, even though he wanted to because heroes and warriors were so cool to him, as every cent he made at part-time jobs went to her and eventually their business.

So she tells him, “If you’ll still do what I want, I want you to be a kid for once, Chico.”

And like a floodgate is opened, the Wolfy Wolf plush begins to shake and shudder, the back stitching ripping open, violently this time, to reveal a new item: The Werewolfy Biter, a mask-like item which attaches to his Driver.

Using this on his Driver, he feels a rush of that dumb, edgelord, dark and dramatic hero vibes he’d always gotten from the cool manga his friends read that he could never do the same with.

“Scarie Rider! TAG! CHASE! HIDE AND SEEK!? BE VERY WARY OF THE VERY SCARIE WEREWOLFY WOLF!”

With this new form in-hand, he rips apart the Voidling in a rush of claws and roars, having a weird amount of fun doing so, like a beast unleashed.

With him in tow, they begin to hunt down Deadlie, his tracking skill becoming superhuman, allowing them to eventually find Deadlie’s hideout, surprised to find it’s the old Jozart Toy Building, a huge factory and office building that’s been derelict for more than half a decade since they were shut down. Here, they find that he’s been gathering up humans with ‘voids’ keeping them docile with badly stitched mockeries of the Beasty Beast plushes, which he makes himself from old materials.

He greets them, welcoming them to his kingdom: The last son of Jozard Toys, the son of the CEO who died in prison, a boy who had everything because his father gave him everything. And he plans to use these new Beasty Beasts, which he’s infused with the power of the Crowy Murder Heartop, which was given birth to when he came up with his plan. With them, he will be able to transfer the Void curse to other toys by having his new followers take their new toys into toy stores, infecting the toys there. There are already followers out there, plushies in hand, seeking out toy stores local to their homes. He intends to turn everyone into Voidlings and make a world where nobody has to grow up.

They are all attacked by new Beasty Voidlings, the plushes they hold actively sucking out their hearts and making a total void that completely removes their adulthood. They are only play, destruction, and brattiness, the ultimate eternal playmates. No goals except to play forever.

Forced out of the factory and office, they now seek to stop him and his army of followers. But things go terribly after several events of stopping the followers, when Crowy Murder Deadlie shows up again, in-person, his power having grown thanks to creating so many total void hearts, which powers this form.

Despite putting up a good fight, they eventually lose the battle, where Chico rushes in front of a blade attack meant for his sister… his entire left leg lopped off below the knee. Deadlie leaves, having ruined one of the Riders entirely.

She’s worried about him not being able to back her up now. And Chico, despite now being useless in battle totally, tells her he can still try to fight. He can’t just abandon her like this. And that’s what HE wants. But she realizes at this moment that that’s the problem. He’s always been like that. And she’s always been like this.

He’s done whatever she wanted, all the time. And even when he’s done what he wanted, in the end, it was just to help her. She’s never really done anything for herself, not to the level that she could survive without him. Even in the fight against the brothers, she’d used HIS power to fight them, because it was the only way they’d agree to her challenge: She needed him.

And she has a deeper realization: She’s like this because they’d lost their parents. And she figured out that if she was helpless forever, a kid forever, never growing up, needing him, she wouldn’t have to lose him too when they eventually drifted apart, like adults do.

And he agrees, admitting that he was just enabling her because of a similar reason. But he never wants to abandon her and wouldn’t have. Because she’s his bratty sister.

They hug and their plushes react, each one producing a new item, forming into a pair called the Heartoy, a beating heart toy infused with the power of a sister who has reached a new level of emotional maturity and a brother who will always watch over her, even when she’s finally an adult.

-VOIDLING ARC (END)

Sleepie has set out to find something, while Deadlie arrives in the city to begin his plan to convert the whole city into Voidlings and spread from there. Yuka shows up, Heartoy in hand, ready to fight him alone.

“LOVELY RIDER! JUMPING! RUNNING! SKIPPING! HOWLING! PLAYING WITH YOUR INNER CHILD! WHAT A PAIR-Y OF BEARY SCARIE RIDERS!”

Transforming into Beary Scarie form, her final form, she fights him and beats him down while Sleepie seeks out something at the factory. And she finds it: The Crowy Crow plush. This thing, siphoning off his feelings, must be the source of his insanity. As he’s defeated by Cutie, she, in-turn, rips apart the Crowy Crow plush and burns it.

And Deadlie falls, his armor bursting into flames. He begins to bulge and grow, the void in his heart created by the destruction of the last Crowy Crow immense, becoming something beyond a total void. And he laughs, becoming the Crowy Voidling, escaping from the battle.

Sleepie and Yuka continue to fight the monsters as they appear, their attacks becoming more frequent. During this time, Yuka and Chico’s shop is destroyed by a group of Plush Voidlings, who are now under Deadlie’s direct, almost hive-mind control. Chico is saved by his sister, being taken to Sleepie’s new home in the basement of the lot.

Cutie manages to defeat the Crowy Voidling, only to have another Voidling take his place, becoming a new one through the total void in their hearts, connected to what he calls the 'blackhold void' in his own.

During a specific confrontation, Cutie’s Heartoy is revealed to be the antithesis to Crowy Murder’s power, as she realizes the ability to fill the void of even total voided hearts with the well of the never-ending hearts of her and her brother. And as long as even one total void exists, the Crowy Voidling can never be defeated.

So she uses her realized power in the basement of the demolished toy shop lot, filling that void finally and cutting the curse off at the roots. She then takes it directly to the Crowy Voidling during the final confrontation, using his connection with the other currently cursed total void hearts, filling in the entire web of Plush Voidlings, erasing the infections they’ve caused, and leaving the Crowy Voidling without the power to revive. 

She uses one last attack to finish him off, filling his heart and eliminating the blackhole void in his heart. As he becomes human again, she asks if he's back to normal, if the control was gone. And he laughs and reveals that he never was controlled by Crowy Crow. He was just a guy who hated growing up. His void wasn’t born by the destruction of the plush, it was enhanced. Nothing was ever enough. Nothing would EVER be enough. His father had told him that he should never accept less than everything he could take, and he wanted to take the world and be a kid forever.

But the plush, the last thing he’d ever gotten from his father, had been keeping the void in his heart from totally collapsing with the realization that that kind fo world wasn't feasible. And now that she’d destroyed even the lingering feelings he had for it, the Crowy Voidling form he’d worn… he had nothing because he couldn't have everything. And his entire body collapses into nothing.

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Intro Song: https://youtu.be/VipdU\_ojZjI?is=\_gHKin7aY2mpO2wr 

Final Form Insert (Cutie): https://youtu.be/N6P52F6tPYM?is=3St5IdeQsqs99mz7

Final Form Insert (Scarie): https://youtu.be/ArYuvaJuDIM?is=ljo0Q-N6v9quvtg7 

Kobolds, Imps, Sprites, and Goblins.

These four races, under the leadership of the Dragon, the Demon, the Fairie, and the Ogre, lived peacefully with the humans of a broad plains. The 5 races interacted, traded, and exchanged knowledge.

However, upon the deaths of the Dragon, the Demon, the Sprite, and the Ogre, their bodies turned to stone and their followers, saddened, went to live within the remains of their leaders, which became known as Shijū no Tani.

That’s the legend, anyway, of how the Valley of Four Beasts came to be.

The Four Beasts Corporation has been mining the four mountains for nearly 50 years, producing some of the highest quality jewelry at amazingly low prices, with their HQ located in Nikkō City.

Tokage Shiro is a photojournalist who seeks to investigate the Four Beasts Corporation. Upon sneaking into a recently closed and ‘dead’ mine in one of the mountains, he discovers a massive cavern containing what seemed to be the rotting remains of a village. And it’s here that he meets…

A.

A is a lizard-like creature covered in scales and scars. A confides in Shiro, the only human he’s met other than ‘the ones in black’, that he is a Kobold. The only one here. He works happily, hunting for gems in the huge remains of the mountain. He does it so that his fellow Kobolds, who live far away, can live peacefully. He was only hatched 2 years ago as the very last Kobold to be born in the mines, cleaning up the last things so he can join his fellows one day.

Shiro returns day after day to talk to A, learning that he is barely fed, has never been outside of the mines, and has never met another Kobold. However, they’re discovered by ‘one in black’, a human in a suit who has been stalking Shiro’s illegal entry. The Corporation has determined that this mine is empty, as they haven’t found new gems in 4 months. Shiro is shot in the leg and, as the man aims at Shiro’s head, A jumps in the way.

A wants to protect the only human who’s been kind to him in this way.

“Room for one more gem,” says the man in black as he shoots, killing both A and Shiro.

A’s determined soul is reborn as his body turns to stone, bonding to Shiro’s body, forming a belt around his waist. And as the open mouth clicks into place, it lets out a shout-

“STARVING! KO-KO-KOBOLD!”

\-transforming him into a Rider, the birth of a hero fused with the stubborn soul of the last Kobold. Escaping with his new power, he heads home, finding he now has a patch of scales on the back of one hand, marking him.

Following this event, there begins a rise of what are known as ‘Revenant Gems’. The gems sold by The Corporation have begun to randomly fuse with their wearers, turning them into monsters representing either an Imp, a Sprite, a Goblin, or a Kobold, along with some other theme, usually a method of death or execution. With this happening, he has an instinct that he needs to help. His first fight, against the Firing Ruby Imp, ends with the human being saved and him gaining a red gem that fits into the mouth of his Driver.

During his next fight, against the Poisoned Ruby Sprite, he inserts this red gem, closing the mouth as he transforms into Burning Ruby Kobold.

"BURNING! \*\*CRUNCH! MUNCH!\*\* KO-KO-KOBOLD! BURNING RUBY, BURN US ALL!"

After several more fights, gaining the Drowning Sapphire, Shocking Topaz, and Strangling Emerald forms, he ends up meeting Kamen Rider Imp, a fellow ‘marked human’ chosen by the last of the Imps from the mountain opposite the Kobold mountain. Imp informs him that the gems are, in fact, the lost souls of those four races, slowly killed over the years to harvest them as beautiful gems, through executions or just working them to death. And due to Kobold, the literal last of the four races, coming to fruition, the gems have begun their rebellion against humanity.

And it is Kobold’s place as a Marked Human to aid them, not destroy them.

Shiro remarks that he doesn’t think that’s right, but Imp questions whether his Kobold soul has been talking to him, like Imp’s Imp has. Following a fight, the two separate with Imp leaving Kobold alive to ‘learn his lesson’.

Shiro eventually meets Sprite, a Marked Human. She agrees with him that humans who had nothing to do with it shouldn’t be targeted by the Revenant Gems, but those who wear the jewelry should pay for their vanity and happily sacrifice their humanity to aid those who died in destroying the Corporation.

And finally, he meets Goblin, the final Marked Human who believes that they should all pay and intends to not only aid the Four Races get their revenge, but she intends to kill the other Riders and herself afterwards.

All three decide that he is a failure as a Marked Human, unable to hear his Kobold’s soul and unwilling to do what needs to be done. They agree to all fight him at once and take him out, with Imp pulling out his secret weapon, a device of Imp origin that allows him to bring out the true power of the wearer's racial leader (the Dragon, the Demon, the Fairie, or the Ogre), intent on using it to destroy Kobold: The Breakout Biter, an attachment for their Drivers.

During the fight, Imp reveals it can only be used for a few moments, as the strain on his and Imp’s soul makes it incredibly painful. The three trade it off during the fight, transforming in order to dish out more damage while making the pain more tolerable. 

Kobold is beaten down by the force of Breakout Emerald Sprite, Breakout Topaz Goblin, and Breakout Sapphire Imp. But Kobold manages to wrestle the device from Imp when he becomes distracted by the pain of his transformation. Attaching it to his own Kobold Driver, he activates it and blasts back all three with the heat of his new form: Breakout Ruby Kobold, harnessing the power of the ancient Dragon.

"BURNING! \*\*CRUNCH! MUNCH! ROAR!\*\* DRA-DRA-DRAGON! BREAKOUT BURNING: BURN IT ALL DOWN!"

Defeating them all quite easily, they’re shocked: The Breakout Biter didn’t harm him at all. He moved swiftly and smoothly, defeating them as if he was using it at 100% efficiency. Having lost their advantage, they leave, but afterwards it’s revealed that the usage of this device has, for some reason, made the mark of scales on him grow, covering more of his arm. Deciding he can’t use it too much, he decides to save it for emergencies.

At the end, The Corporation is shown to be blaming the Riders for the sudden monster creation, calling them ‘traitors to humanity’, but that The Corporation will be handling them…

During the next arc, The Corporation begins to hunt down the monsters themselves, their equipment made to kill them and take back the gems upon discovering that if killed, they produce \*more\* gems than what was originally put into it. Kobold decides to try to stop them, fighting the Corporation and Revenant Gems, intent on protecting as many people as possible, with the Corporation soldiers beginning to fight the Riders as well.

Sprite comes to him, telling him that she’s actually a widow whose husband went missing while mining out the South Mountain. The reason she met Sprite was because she went to find him… and learned the truth that no humans had ever been there. The Sprites had been used as mining slaves, like the Kobolds had been. She at first suspected he’d been killed, which was the reason for her hatred, but she learned that it’s possible he’s been held prisoner by The Corporation. Thus, she wants him, the only person who doesn’t explicitly want to destroy The Corporation, to help her investigate and possibly free him without destroying the place and putting possibly more innocents in danger.

This arc eventually ends with the two discovering that a massive facility holding hundreds of humans lies beneath the Corporation HQ, being used to create new Revenant Gems that would be under Corporation control: False Revenants. They manage to rescue many humans from the program, including her husband, but have made direct enemies of the Corporation. They are both attacked by a new enemy, calling himself Director Nuiawaseru, an in-control False Revenant made from all four types of gems and artificially bearing the power of all four leader Beasts.

The next arc features Kobold and Sprite being hunted down by Nuiawaseru. Imp is also targeted when Nuiawaseru spots him as he tries to fight Kobold and Sprite himself, calling Sprite a traitor to their cause. Nuiawaseru manages to keep them on their toes, using his False Revenants to fight off Revenant Gems while targeting the Riders as well, calling them monsters.

Without the ability to separate him from the gems granting him the power (albeit weaker) of Dragon, Ogre, Fairie, and Demon, he’s basically invincible.

Sprite is eventually lead by the Sprite Soul to the South Mountain, where she unburies another item: The Breakthrough Biter, a device of Sprite origin, made to harness heavenly power that made Fairie so powerful. Paired with a diamond that was crafted by Fairie herself, it focuses this power into a single being, rather than into her followers as her normal power did, making it much stronger.

Nuiawaseru comes after them again, with Sprite showing up to give Kobold the Breakthrough Biter. Imp and Sprite decide to ally themselves with Kobold to protect themselves as he attaches the device and inserts the diamond.

"SMITING! \*\*CRUNCH! MUNCH! HALT!\*\* BE-BE-BEYOND! HEAVENLY BREAKTHROUGH!  SMITE THOSE WHO WOULD DISTURB THE WORLD!"

Defeating Nuiawaseru via using his heavenly power to rip the gems from his body, creating solid-light arms and weaponry that let him attack from multiple angles. This forces Nuiawaseru  into a weakened, mutated state, Kobold allows him to flee. Imp takes the gems, contemplating his place in this and revealing his theory on why Kobold could use the Breakout Biter without pain and why he can’t hear his Kobold’s voice: Whatever events transpired, Kobold’s soul was bound to his Kobold. He isn’t just partnered with a Kobold like Imp, Sprite, and Goblin. He, for all intents, IS the Kobold in soul. He’s slowly becoming inhuman.

The next arc has Imp reveal that he’s working with his Imp soul to recreate the Breakout Biter for himself and Sprite. But in order to use it efficiently, they’ll need to abandon their humanity like Kobold did. He has decided that the Corporation are the ones at fault. No humans should die for this. He talks about how he found Imp when he, a former Corporation worker, was sent to kill the last Imp, as the mines had run dry in the East Mountain. The Imp cursed him and cursed humans for their crimes against his people as he died. And Imp decided to take on the Imp’s feelings, but has since decided that Imp’s extreme view was founded on hatred for a people he didn’t know. And the Imp’s soul had since also changed his mind after existing around humans.

Imp and Sprite decide to let the souls within them finally move on, taking on the same sort of advanced Mark that Kobold bears, enabling them to use the Breakout Biters permanently, but causing their Marks to begin to mutate and spread, as Shiro’s did.

Goblin comes along after having been missing, and asks that she be allowed to do the same, as she’s also seen the error of her ways, that her Goblin’s soul had been a weak child who was hatched into the world surrounded by the hatred of her people, who hated humans, and grew into a being full of hate. She discovered the dying Goblin and cradled her in her arms. And she wishes to let her pass on and be at peace. Being given Kobold’s Breakout Biter, they become a full team who seeks to fight the Revenant Gems and False Revenants.

Goblin inform them that they need to reach a new level of power, however, via taking the unique gems collected from Nuiawaseru and taking each one to the four Mountains: Ruby for Demon, Sapphire for Dragon, Emerald for Fairie, Topaz for Ogre. Through this, they receive a power boost to their base forms, which translates to stronger abilities for their Breakout Biter forms when used in their Drivers.

…Until a point where the collected gems from Nuiawaseru go missing. Goblin appears before them to reveal her actual purpose: She had gone to the North Mountain to kill herself, tired of the capitalist hellscape, and there discovered the ruined Goblin village. She’d killed the last Goblin and herself to spare them both the pain, but became an advanced Marked Human like Kobold was. She had no intention of helping them: She instead whips out the Umbrage Biter, the creation of Goblin-kind, the force of their hatred for humankind. Using the four gems, which now contain the fuller powers of the Four Beasts, their very souls, and she forces it onto Kobold’s Driver, the Four Beasts Intergrowth appearing in its mouth as it slams shut.

"UMBRAGE! \*\*\*DEVOUR! RUIN!\*\*\* KOBOLD! IMP! SPRITE! GOBLIN! WE ARE- WE ARE- WE ARE UMBRAGE! BITE THROUGH IT ALL!"

Thus begins a nightmare as Umbrage Chimera kills Goblin immediately and roars, turning his new, uncontrollable power onto the enemies of the Four Beasts: Humanity. Able to use massive attacks borne by the followers of the Four Beasts giving shape and form to their ancient genetic memories of their masters, he easily defeats Imp and Sprite, but doesn’t kill them.

Two weeks later, the attacks by ‘The Beast’ have been taking the news by storm. Imp and Fairie can barely fight back to protect people. The Corporation contacts them to elicit their help in stopping Kobold, who has been targeting humans seemingly without pattern. In exchange, they will recall and return all gems to their proper burial sites and take the blame for the events that lead to this.

With False Revenants assisting them, they manage to actually somewhat hold him down, forcibly removing the Umbrage Biter from him. But they are betrayed, taken captive by the False Revenants.

With the Umbrage Biter in their possession, the Corporation uses it to craft the Ultima Revenant, a fully empowered beast under their control.

Shiro talks about how he was connected to such rage, such hatred, and he lost himself in it. The Four Races don’t want to make peace. They’re angry, they want revenge. They want to live again and the Gem Revenants are a result of them trying to take back physical bodies that they were robbed of and not allowed to rest. The Umbrage Biter harnesses the souls of their leaders to draw that hatred to one place, ‘leading’ all of that rage, but keeping the actual leaders sealed behind all of those negative emotions.

The ‘mutations’ of their Marks have halted at a certain point, being a perfect fusion of human and one of the races. And the ‘spark’ of that realization was left in Umbrage’s power, he knows.

The Ultima Revenant goes out of control, being a creation of such rage that even The Corporation couldn’t keep it under their heel. The three Riders escape during this, intent on stopping it and saving the city. They eventually manage to forcibly remove the Umbrage Biter from the Ultima Revenant’s body, Kobold using it again, finding that he has to fight down the rage and hatred, explaining to those thousands of souls that he and Imp and Sprite are living proof that they don’t have to die and they don’t have to steal:

They can live on in some way, be reborn, like A was.

The voices of the Four Beasts rise up from the din, with Shiro’s distraction, their own souls overshadowing those of their followers for the first time in a long time: They only ever wanted peace. Without them, their followers became lost, and thus they followed the Corporation when they were offered leadership long after their original leaders had died. A’s voice pipes up, the last dredges of his soul asking his fellow Kobolds, who he never met, to take on a new leader: Shiro.

The voices of the Imp Soul and the Sprite Soul also speak up, asking the same of their own people: Follow Shiro. The Goblin Soul, lost without her human, asks for the Goblins to do the same.

With this, Umbrage Chimera becomes Shiro’s controlled Final Form, granting him the power of all four races, all four Beasts. Using it, he destroys the Ultima Revenant and, upon finishing it, bids the souls of the lost four Races to take up root in the humans of Nikkō City, while the Four Beast souls, and A’s soul, take up root in his own body, keeping such power out of the reach of the Corporation and others like them. The Corporation is soon dismantled, peace returning to the Valley of the Four Beasts.

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Misc Details:

Each Rider has different forms, based on forms of execution or death:

Kobold is based on 'elemental' deaths with his weapon type being a pickaxe.

Imp Gem Forms ('execution' deaths), with a pitchfork

-Shot Ruby (gun form pitchfork)

-Quartered Sapphire (blade form pitchfork)

-Beheaded Topaz (heavy sword pitchfork)

-Hung Emerald (whip pitchfork)

Sprite Gem Forms ('chemical' deaths), with a staff

-Poisoned Ruby (poison staff)

-Frozen Sapphire ('nitrogen' staff)

-Bleached Topaz (acidic staff)

-Tarred Emerald (tar spreading staff)

Goblin Gem Forms ('brutal' deaths), with a club

-Blasted Ruby (explosion-creating club)

-Smashed Sapphire (hammer club)

-Roadkilled Topaz (engine club)

-Devoured Emerald ('monster maw' club)

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Intro Song: https://youtu.be/kY3rxIYkKiY?is=Dl5-tZ-YCrzUkrcL

Final Form Insert: https://youtu.be/RZBHAjojJhg?is=UhOEBRHaMmOqsw8W

Kobolds, Imps, Sprites, and Goblins.

These four races, under the leadership of the Dragon, the Demon, the Fairie, and the Ogre, lived peacefully with the humans of a broad plains. The 5 races interacted, traded, and exchanged knowledge.

However, upon the deaths of the Dragon, the Demon, the Sprite, and the Ogre, their bodies turned to stone and their followers, saddened, went to live within the remains of their leaders, which became known as Shijū no Tani.

That’s the legend, anyway, of how the Valley of Four Beasts came to be.

The Four Beasts Corporation has been mining the four mountains for nearly 50 years, producing some of the highest quality jewelry at amazingly low prices, with their HQ located in Nikkō City.

Tokage Shiro is a photojournalist who seeks to investigate the Four Beasts Corporation. Upon sneaking into a recently closed and ‘dead’ mine in one of the mountains, he discovers a massive cavern containing what seemed to be the rotting remains of a village. And it’s here that he meets…

A.

A is a lizard-like creature covered in scales and scars. A confides in Shiro, the only human he’s met other than ‘the ones in black’, that he is a Kobold. The only one here. He works happily, hunting for gems in the huge remains of the mountain. He does it so that his fellow Kobolds, who live far away, can live peacefully. He was only hatched 2 years ago as the very last Kobold to be born in the mines, cleaning up the last things so he can join his fellows one day.

Shiro returns day after day to talk to A, learning that he is barely fed, has never been outside of the mines, and has never met another Kobold. However, they’re discovered by ‘one in black’, a human in a suit who has been stalking Shiro’s illegal entry. The Corporation has determined that this mine is empty, as they haven’t found new gems in 4 months. Shiro is shot in the leg and, as the man aims at Shiro’s head, A jumps in the way.

A wants to protect the only human who’s been kind to him in this way.

“Room for one more gem,” says the man in black as he shoots, killing both A and Shiro.

A’s determined soul is reborn as his body turns to stone, bonding to Shiro’s body, forming a belt around his waist. And as the open mouth clicks into place, it lets out a shout-

“STARVING! KO-KO-KOBOLD!”

-transforming him into a Rider, the birth of a hero fused with the stubborn soul of the last Kobold. Escaping with his new power, he heads home, finding he now has a patch of scales on the back of one hand, marking him.

Following this event, there begins a rise of what are known as ‘Revenant Gems’. The gems sold by The Corporation have begun to randomly fuse with their wearers, turning them into monsters representing either an Imp, a Sprite, a Goblin, or a Kobold, along with some other theme, usually a method of death or execution. With this happening, he has an instinct that he needs to help. His first fight, against the Firing Ruby Imp, ends with the human being saved and him gaining a red gem that fits into the mouth of his Driver.

During his next fight, against the Poisoned Ruby Sprite, he inserts this red gem, closing the mouth as he transforms into Burning Ruby Kobold.

"BURNING! **CRUNCH! MUNCH!** KO-KO-KOBOLD! BURNING RUBY, BURN US ALL!"

After several more fights, gaining the Drowning Sapphire, Shocking Topaz, and Strangling Emerald forms, he ends up meeting Kamen Rider Imp, a fellow ‘marked human’ chosen by the last of the Imps from the mountain opposite the Kobold mountain. Imp informs him that the gems are, in fact, the lost souls of those four races, slowly killed over the years to harvest them as beautiful gems, through executions or just working them to death. And due to Kobold, the literal last of the four races, coming to fruition, the gems have begun their rebellion against humanity.

And it is Kobold’s place as a Marked Human to aid them, not destroy them.

Shiro remarks that he doesn’t think that’s right, but Imp questions whether his Kobold soul has been talking to him, like Imp’s Imp has. Following a fight, the two separate with Imp leaving Kobold alive to ‘learn his lesson’.

Shiro eventually meets Sprite, a Marked Human. She agrees with him that humans who had nothing to do with it shouldn’t be targeted by the Revenant Gems, but those who wear the jewelry should pay for their vanity and happily sacrifice their humanity to aid those who died in destroying the Corporation.

And finally, he meets Goblin, the final Marked Human who believes that they should all pay and intends to not only aid the Four Races get their revenge, but she intends to kill the other Riders and herself afterwards.

All three decide that he is a failure as a Marked Human, unable to hear his Kobold’s soul and unwilling to do what needs to be done. They agree to all fight him at once and take him out, with Imp pulling out his secret weapon, a device of Imp origin that allows him to bring out the true power of the wearer's racial leader (the Dragon, the Demon, the Fairie, or the Ogre), intent on using it to destroy Kobold: The Breakout Biter, an attachment for their Drivers.

During the fight, Imp reveals it can only be used for a few moments, as the strain on his and Imp’s soul makes it incredibly painful. The three trade it off during the fight, transforming in order to dish out more damage while making the pain more tolerable. 

Kobold is beaten down by the force of Breakout Emerald Sprite, Breakout Topaz Goblin, and Breakout Sapphire Imp. But Kobold manages to wrestle the device from Imp when he becomes distracted by the pain of his transformation. Attaching it to his own Kobold Driver, he activates it and blasts back all three with the heat of his new form: Breakout Ruby Kobold, harnessing the power of the ancient Dragon.

"BURNING! **CRUNCH! MUNCH! ROAR!** DRA-DRA-DRAGON! BREAKOUT BURNING: BURN IT ALL DOWN!"

Defeating them all quite easily, they’re shocked: The Breakout Biter didn’t harm him at all. He moved swiftly and smoothly, defeating them as if he was using it at 100% efficiency. Having lost their advantage, they leave, but afterwards it’s revealed that the usage of this device has, for some reason, made the mark of scales on him grow, covering more of his arm. Deciding he can’t use it too much, he decides to save it for emergencies.

At the end, The Corporation is shown to be blaming the Riders for the sudden monster creation, calling them ‘traitors to humanity’, but that The Corporation will be handling them…

During the next arc, The Corporation begins to hunt down the monsters themselves, their equipment made to kill them and take back the gems upon discovering that if killed, they produce *more* gems than what was originally put into it. Kobold decides to try to stop them, fighting the Corporation and Revenant Gems, intent on protecting as many people as possible, with the Corporation soldiers beginning to fight the Riders as well.

Sprite comes to him, telling him that she’s actually a widow whose husband went missing while mining out the South Mountain. The reason she met Sprite was because she went to find him… and learned the truth that no humans had ever been there. The Sprites had been used as mining slaves, like the Kobolds had been. She at first suspected he’d been killed, which was the reason for her hatred, but she learned that it’s possible he’s been held prisoner by The Corporation. Thus, she wants him, the only person who doesn’t explicitly want to destroy The Corporation, to help her investigate and possibly free him without destroying the place and putting possibly more innocents in danger.

This arc eventually ends with the two discovering that a massive facility holding hundreds of humans lies beneath the Corporation HQ, being used to create new Revenant Gems that would be under Corporation control: False Revenants. They manage to rescue many humans from the program, including her husband, but have made direct enemies of the Corporation. They are both attacked by a new enemy, calling himself Director Nuiawaseru, an in-control False Revenant made from all four types of gems and artificially bearing the power of all four leader Beasts.

The next arc features Kobold and Sprite being hunted down by Nuiawaseru. Imp is also targeted when Nuiawaseru spots him as he tries to fight Kobold and Sprite himself, calling Sprite a traitor to their cause. Nuiawaseru manages to keep them on their toes, using his False Revenants to fight off Revenant Gems while targeting the Riders as well, calling them monsters.

Without the ability to separate him from the gems granting him the power (albeit weaker) of Dragon, Ogre, Fairie, and Demon, he’s basically invincible.

Sprite is eventually lead by the Sprite Soul to the South Mountain, where she unburies another item: The Breakthrough Biter, a device of Sprite origin, made to harness heavenly power that made Fairie so powerful. Paired with a diamond that was crafted by Fairie herself, it focuses this power into a single being, rather than into her followers as her normal power did, making it much stronger.

Nuiawaseru comes after them again, with Sprite showing up to give Kobold the Breakthrough Biter. Imp and Sprite decide to ally themselves with Kobold to protect themselves as he attaches the device and inserts the diamond.

"SMITING! **CRUNCH! MUNCH! HALT!** BE-BE-BEYOND! HEAVENLY BREAKTHROUGH!  SMITE THOSE WHO WOULD DISTURB THE WORLD!"

Defeating Nuiawaseru via using his heavenly power to rip the gems from his body, creating solid-light arms and weaponry that let him attack from multiple angles. This forces Nuiawaseru  into a weakened, mutated state, Kobold allows him to flee. Imp takes the gems, contemplating his place in this and revealing his theory on why Kobold could use the Breakout Biter without pain and why he can’t hear his Kobold’s voice: Whatever events transpired, Kobold’s soul was bound to his Kobold. He isn’t just partnered with a Kobold like Imp, Sprite, and Goblin. He, for all intents, IS the Kobold in soul. He’s slowly becoming inhuman.

The next arc has Imp reveal that he’s working with his Imp soul to recreate the Breakout Biter for himself and Sprite. But in order to use it efficiently, they’ll need to abandon their humanity like Kobold did. He has decided that the Corporation are the ones at fault. No humans should die for this. He talks about how he found Imp when he, a former Corporation worker, was sent to kill the last Imp, as the mines had run dry in the East Mountain. The Imp cursed him and cursed humans for their crimes against his people as he died. And Imp decided to take on the Imp’s feelings, but has since decided that Imp’s extreme view was founded on hatred for a people he didn’t know. And the Imp’s soul had since also changed his mind after existing around humans.

Imp and Sprite decide to let the souls within them finally move on, taking on the same sort of advanced Mark that Kobold bears, enabling them to use the Breakout Biters permanently, but causing their Marks to begin to mutate and spread, as Shiro’s did.

Goblin comes along after having been missing, and asks that she be allowed to do the same, as she’s also seen the error of her ways, that her Goblin’s soul had been a weak child who was hatched into the world surrounded by the hatred of her people, who hated humans, and grew into a being full of hate. She discovered the dying Goblin and cradled her in her arms. And she wishes to let her pass on and be at peace. Being given Kobold’s Breakout Biter, they become a full team who seeks to fight the Revenant Gems and False Revenants.

Goblin inform them that they need to reach a new level of power, however, via taking the unique gems collected from Nuiawaseru and taking each one to the four Mountains: Ruby for Demon, Sapphire for Dragon, Emerald for Fairie, Topaz for Ogre. Through this, they receive a power boost to their base forms, which translates to stronger abilities for their Breakout Biter forms when used in their Drivers.

…Until a point where the collected gems from Nuiawaseru go missing. Goblin appears before them to reveal her actual purpose: She had gone to the North Mountain to kill herself, tired of the capitalist hellscape, and there discovered the ruined Goblin village. She’d killed the last Goblin and herself to spare them both the pain, but became an advanced Marked Human like Kobold was. She had no intention of helping them: She instead whips out the Umbrage Biter, the creation of Goblin-kind, the force of their hatred for humankind. Using the four gems, which now contain the fuller powers of the Four Beasts, their very souls, and she forces it onto Kobold’s Driver, the Four Beasts Intergrowth appearing in its mouth as it slams shut.

"UMBRAGE! ***DEVOUR! RUIN!*** KOBOLD! IMP! SPRITE! GOBLIN! WE ARE- WE ARE- WE ARE UMBRAGE! BITE THROUGH IT ALL!"

Thus begins a nightmare as Umbrage Chimera kills Goblin immediately and roars, turning his new, uncontrollable power onto the enemies of the Four Beasts: Humanity. Able to use massive attacks borne by the followers of the Four Beasts giving shape and form to their ancient genetic memories of their masters, he easily defeats Imp and Sprite, but doesn’t kill them.

Two weeks later, the attacks by ‘The Beast’ have been taking the news by storm. Imp and Fairie can barely fight back to protect people. The Corporation contacts them to elicit their help in stopping Kobold, who has been targeting humans seemingly without pattern. In exchange, they will recall and return all gems to their proper burial sites and take the blame for the events that lead to this.

With False Revenants assisting them, they manage to actually somewhat hold him down, forcibly removing the Umbrage Biter from him. But they are betrayed, taken captive by the False Revenants.

With the Umbrage Biter in their possession, the Corporation uses it to craft the Ultima Revenant, a fully empowered beast under their control.

Shiro talks about how he was connected to such rage, such hatred, and he lost himself in it. The Four Races don’t want to make peace. They’re angry, they want revenge. They want to live again and the Gem Revenants are a result of them trying to take back physical bodies that they were robbed of and not allowed to rest. The Umbrage Biter harnesses the souls of their leaders to draw that hatred to one place, ‘leading’ all of that rage, but keeping the actual leaders sealed behind all of those negative emotions.

The ‘mutations’ of their Marks have halted at a certain point, being a perfect fusion of human and one of the races. And the ‘spark’ of that realization was left in Umbrage’s power, he knows.

The Ultima Revenant goes out of control, being a creation of such rage that even The Corporation couldn’t keep it under their heel. The three Riders escape during this, intent on stopping it and saving the city. They eventually manage to forcibly remove the Umbrage Biter from the Ultima Revenant’s body, Kobold using it again, finding that he has to fight down the rage and hatred, explaining to those thousands of souls that he and Imp and Sprite are living proof that they don’t have to die and they don’t have to steal:

They can live on in some way, be reborn, like A was.

The voices of the Four Beasts rise up from the din, with Shiro’s distraction, their own souls overshadowing those of their followers for the first time in a long time: They only ever wanted peace. Without them, their followers became lost, and thus they followed the Corporation when they were offered leadership long after their original leaders had died. A’s voice pipes up, the last dredges of his soul asking his fellow Kobolds, who he never met, to take on a new leader: Shiro.

The voices of the Imp Soul and the Sprite Soul also speak up, asking the same of their own people: Follow Shiro. The Goblin Soul, lost without her human, asks for the Goblins to do the same.

With this, Umbrage Chimera becomes Shiro’s controlled Final Form, granting him the power of all four races, all four Beasts. Using it, he destroys the Ultima Revenant and, upon finishing it, bids the souls of the lost four Races to take up root in the humans of Nikkō City, while the Four Beast souls, and A’s soul, take up root in his own body, keeping such power out of the reach of the Corporation and others like them. The Corporation is soon dismantled, peace returning to the Valley of the Four Beasts.

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Misc Details:

Each Rider has different forms, based on forms of execution or death: Kobold is based on 'elemental' deaths with his weapon type being a pickaxe.

Imp Gem Forms ('execution' deaths), with a pitchfork

-Shot Ruby (gun form pitchfork)

-Quartered Sapphire (blade form pitchfork)

-Beheaded Topaz (heavy sword pitchfork)

-Hung Emerald (whip pitchfork)

Sprite Gem Forms ('chemical' deaths), with a staff

-Poisoned Ruby (poison staff)

-Frozen Sapphire ('nitrogen' staff)

-Bleached Topaz (acidic staff)

-Tarred Emerald (tar spreading staff)

Goblin Gem Forms ('brutal' deaths), with a club

-Blasted Ruby (explosion-creating club)

-Smashed Sapphire (hammer club)

-Roadkilled Topaz (engine club)

-Devoured Emerald ('monster maw' club)

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Intro Song: https://youtu.be/kY3rxIYkKiY?is=Dl5-tZ-YCrzUkrcL Final Form Insert: https://youtu.be/RZBHAjojJhg?is=UhOEBRHaMmOqsw8W