"Haha, well done you three, talk about a first mission" said Yami with a smile as he was sitting on the couch in the headquarters. Next to him was Rosa while Magna, Asta and Noelle stood in front of them after they had gottne back and reproted what had happenned at the village.
"We're glad you made it back, I'm impressed that given the conditions and that it was your first mission you were successful" said Rosa happily.
"Yeah I know but should we really be happy now, I mean" said Asta with a sad look on his face.
"Why because of what happened to Seggey, moping around ain't gonna bring the old guy back, he wouldn't want that" said Yami siriosuly.
"Your right captain Yami sir, Seggey was a cheerful man, so let's have a laugh for the man" said Magna as he laughed while looking up the ceiling, "Cmon Asta and you to Noelle" he said before laughing again while Asta and Noelle laughed slowly.
"There's some good news, the wizard king himself awarded us a star" said Yami holding up a golden star.
"A star, go us" cheered Magna.
"Whoa a Star that's so cool, wait what is that" said Asta cheering without knowing what the star meant.
"Why are you excited when you don't even know what it is" said Magna looking annoyed.
"It's an award for when the wizard king recognises the good deeds we've done while we're out on missions, it's also a competition between the magic knight squads to see who has the most" said Charlotte.
"The one who's ranked the highest at the moment is the golden dawn" said Yami.
"Wait so many do we have, we can't be that far behind from them" asked Asta looking determined.
Yami smiled as he turned around looking up the wall where there was wooden board with Black Stars on it, he held the golden star up where it flew to one of the Black Stars on the board and the two of them vanished, "With this were at negative ten, eighty away from catching up to the golden dawn" he said laughing.
"What" Asta said his eyes opened wide in shock.
"How do you even get negative stars" though Noelle looking confused.
A magic portal then opened up in the middle of the room, "Hey everyone we're back" said final walking out of the portal with Vanessa who was now wearing a red dress with an opening in the middle showing some of her chest. She was wearing a red gloves that went to her elbows, red socks that went up to her knees and a red witch hat.
"We heard what happenned in Saussy village great work you two" she said looking at Asta and Noelle. She then looked over at Magna, "We also heard about who died, you doing alright Magna" she asked looking concerned?
"Nun I'm alright, Seggey wouldn't want me feeling down, a real man would keep on fighting" he said smiling before his look turned sirious, "Were you able to find out anything" he asked?
"No without the mages themselves we cant really tell what they're real objective was" said Finral.
"The watch the one left in charge left behind didn't look cheap, so whoever was the one who got them to do the job was really high up" said Vanessa.
"Like a noble" said Magna looking annoyed as a fire ball appeared in his right hand, "Damnit" he said angrily throwing the fire ball into the wall making a dent.
"Thought I told you stop breaking everything" said Yami angrily as he slammed his right fist into the wall making a large hole.
The anti bird from the village then poked out of Astas hair, "Well who's this little cutie" said Vanessa looking at the bird.
"Only the most adorable thing ever" said Noelle happily when the bird pecked Asta on the head.
"It's real annoying is what it is" said Asta waving his hand at the bird making it fly away.
"Come here little one, you can rest on my head" said Noelle holding out her hands for the bird who only just flew away.
"That's it, I'm gonna fry him up for dinner" said Asta pulling out his big anti magic sword.
"Cmon Asta he isn't causing that much harm, can't you leave him alone" Noelle asked him hopefully?
Asta looked at the hopeful look on her face before sighing, "Fine but he better stop pecking me" he said as his anti magic sword went back into his grimoire.
"Well some other news here" said Yami handing Asta and Noelle a small bag filled with coins,"Here's your pay for the week".
"Whoa, there's like over a 100 Yule here" said Asta as he looked at the coins in his hand while Noelle just looked at her own bag.
"Yes, I can get some yummy food with this" said Charmy who was holding her pay aswell.
"Captain I would like to leave so I can get some new clothes for my little sister" Gauche asked with blood coming out of his right nostril?
"Yeah sure" said Yami.
"Alright I'm gonna go on as many dates as I can" cheered Finral.
Grey blew out smoke in front Yami, "Yeah I don't know what you mean" said Yami.
"Well I have to be going now" said Rosa getting up from where she was sitting.
"Here I'll come with you, Hey Finral make us a portal to the capital" said Yami walking outside with Rosa.
"Yes sir" said Finral as he walked outside.
"This is just pocket change" said Noelle looking bored at her pay for the week.
"What are you talking about, this could get a weeks of worth of hot potatoes" said Asta.
"Was that the only food you had growing up, well I guess this is more to you then it is to me, sorry Asta" she said apologizing remembering the two of them grew up in different areas of the kingdom.
"Hey don't worry about it" said Asta smiling.
"So what are you gonna do with your money kiddo" asked Vanessa?
"I'm just gonna send it back to my home village" answered Asta.
"Hey that's good choice Asta, that's what a real man would do" said Magna who was sitting at the bar.
"Hey Magna you gonna send some back to your village to" he asked?
"Yeah, right after I double my earnings" said Magna giving a thumbs up.
"Sending some back to your home village is a good thing to do, but make sure to have some to spend for yourself, we can even get something to help control your magic Noelle" said Vanessa looking at Nolle who looked embarrassed, "I'll take the two of you to castle town tommorrow".
That night Asta wrote a letter to sister Lily and the others at the church. He told them of how he earned a star from the wizard king for doing well on a mission and is sending them some Yule. A good part of the letter he wrote about was he wrote about how he had regained his memory's and wrote about what kind of person Noelle was. He had a smile on his face as he wrote about her and looked confused when he felt his headtbeat increase.
The next morning Vanessa had Asta and Noelle on her broom as they flew towards castle town, "Castle towns a big place so we're sure to find something there, even commoners are come to this part of the capital" said Vanessa as she flew the broom.
"I've actually been there a few times" said Noelle.
"Wow royalty in the common realm, people must have been surprised to see you there" said Vanessa.
"What's it like" said Asta who had his hands on Noelles shoulders so he wouldn't fall off the broom.
"It was really nice, meeting you really changed my opinion of how I see commoners, some of them were really nice and they didn't treat me differently just because I was royalty" said Noelle looking back at Asta with a smile on her face which made him blush.
"Maybe after we find a way to control your magic you could take him flying Noelle" said Vanessa teasing the two young magic knights which made both of them blush. After landing the two of them were walking through the town.
"Whoa this is place is huge" said Asta looking around smiling.
The three of them looked confused when some of the people were looking up into the sky, they looked up to see Gauche standing on his broom carrying a pile of clothes in his hands. Asta then looked behind him to see a women with short blue hair and wearing what looked like a black bulls rhobe, she looked like she was trying to hide as she walked into a building. Finral was talking with women trying to get them to go on a date with him but he was failing.
"Hey isn't that Charmy" said Noelle getting his attention. Sure enough the two of them saw Charmy crushing into a restaurant. The two of them looked through the window to see Charmy sitting at the counter in front of the restaurants shef, the two of them had sirious looks on their faces.
"So back again are we, I wont lose this time" said the shef.
"Oh yeah, well I won't lose" said Charmy.
"Well here you go, an extra large deluxe with everything on it" said the shef holding up a plate which was filled with multiple kinds of food mixed together.
"Give me" said Charmy as she started eating the food.
"I think I'm going to throw up" said Asta holding his right hand over his mouth.
"How can she eat all that" said Noelle looking disgusted.
They continued walking through the town and Asta continued to look around cheerfully, some of the citizens were talking as they passed the three members of the black bulls, "Those rhobes,mtheyre magic knights, Yeah but look at their symbol, their black bulls the lowest rank".
"Just goes to show you, we may be magic kngiths but we're still treated differently since were the lowest rank" said Vanessa while Noelle looked annoyed, "Things have gotten a little better after Rosa joined, who knows maybe will change more now that you and Asta are now members" she said smiling, "Are you sure there's nothing you want to buy here" she asked?
"There's so much stuff here I don't know what to pick" said Asta smiling.
"I don't really see anything that could help me" said Noelle looking around at the stores.
"Well I might know just the place" said Vanessa smiling while Asta and Noelle looked confused. She lead the two of them to an alleyway that lead to a wall.
"Uh why are we here, this just looks like a regular allway" asked Asta looking confused?
Vanessa then walked up to the wall, but instead of hitting it she walked through it making the other two look confused, "Cmon in" she said poking her head out of the wall and then back in. Asta walked through the wall first noticing there were steps when he walked in, he waited at the end of the steps for Noelle who he held a hand out to help her. She smiled taking his hand as she walked down. The area looked like as if they were underground. There were stalls with people wearing cloaks that hid their faces standing behind them. There were lanterns on the wall as a light source.
"This is the underground market, it's a little dangerous but you can find some great magic items here" said Vanessa as they passed a path that lead to an area that looked like a casino.
"Alright here we go" said Magna walking in from the other side of the path that Vanessa, Asta and Noelle were on.
"Something tells me that's not going to go well" thought Asta and Noelle lookiong worried.
Asta decided to go exploring where he found himself at a stall with weird items, he looked to see some kind of round stuffed head with weird eyes and antennas coming out of its. He pulled on one of the antennas and when it went back in a voice said, "Take me to your leader".
"Wow this is cool" he said smiling only to put the head down, "But I should probably be looking for something that could help Noelle with her magic" he said looking around but a woman with orange hair tied into a pony tail heard him.
"Hey your looking for something that will help with magic" she said getting Astas attention.
"Uh Yeah, a friend of mine is having trouble controlling it" said Asta walking over to the stall.
"A friend huh, could it be your girlfriend" she said smirking which made Asta blush.
"Uh no she's just a fiend, it's just she feels disappointed with herself when she doesn't get it right, I wann get her something that could help her" said Asta remembering the day he saw Noelle shooting water spheres at the tree outside the headquarters.
"Oh I'm sorry, well I might just have the thing for her" said the woman reaching under the counters to pull out a black wand with round jewel at the bottom of it, "This wand will help concentrate magic power so it should be easier to aim".
"Great that's just what she needs" said Asta cheerfully taking out his money bag to pay for the wand. He was low on funds after paying for it.
The woman handed Asta the wand that was put in a bag, "Here you go, your friends lucky to have someone like you" she said handing Asta the bag who went off to find Noelle and Vanessa.
At a table in an opening in the wall, Sekke who was now wearing the green mantis rhobe was playing cards with an old woman, "Uh Damnit" he said complaining as he threw down his cards.
"Sorry but you can't win against someone who can tell the future" said the old woman pulling all the money towards her as Sekke walked away angrily.
"Damnit, I thought joining the magic knights would make life easy for me, but the first time I go out on a mission I'm used as bate and now I'm stuck here catching low level thugs" he thought looking annoyed when he looked to see two women standing in front of a stand, "Oh who are these lovely lady's" he thought smirking not knowing it was Noelle and Vanessa.
"Here how about this" said Vanessa pointing at the table where a necklace with small blue beads were attached.
"I don't know, it's not really stylish" said Noelle.
"Cmon you want to control your magic right" said Vanessa trying to cheer her up.
Noelle put on the necklace, she pointed her right hand forward forming a small water bubble, she then pushed it forward. It went the right direction for a few seconds befrore flying another direction, hitting Sekke and making him fall over.
"You shouldn't have been standing there" said Noelle brushing one of her pony tails back.
Sekke ignored the comment as he stood back up smiling, "Haha, the underground market is no place for such delicate flowes such as yourselves, I'm a magic knight so please allow me to lead you out of here" he said.
"No thanks, be gone insect" said Noelle looking annoyed while Vanessa yawned.
"Hey Noelle, Vanessa" said Asta walking over making Sekke look surpsied.
"Hey Asta, looks like you did some shopping" said Vanessa noticing the bag in Astas right hand.
"Asta, what is he doing here and he's with two of the best looking women here" thought Sekke looking annoyed.
"Oh it's you, haha right" said Asta noticing Sekke.
"It's Sekke" he said looking annoyed, "I had heard you had joined the black bulls, it must be tough for you" he said smiling.
"Yeah it can be tough, but on our first mission the wizard king awarded me and Nolle a Star" he said smiling.
"And it was well earned" said Vanessa placing a hand on both Asta and Noelles shoudler while they smiled.
"WHAT" yelled Sekkei in his head, he then smiled nervously, "Well I'm actually on my third star" he said lying trying to sound better then Asta.
The old lady who was playing cards with Sekke earlier was carrying her bag of winnings, she was walking out of the market when a man wearing a hood took the bag from the old woman and pushed her down to the ground as he started running away, "Hey stop those are my winnings" she said getting the magic knights attention.
"Noelle hold onto this" said Asta handing Noelle the bag before he started chasing the theif out of the Market.
"Here let me help you" said Vanessa helping the old woman up, "Leave the thief to Asta he can handle this" she said looking at Noelle.
"Right" said Noelle holding the bag close, "I wonder what's in here" she thought looking at the bag.
"I'm not gonna let him catch all the credit" thought Sekke as his grimoire opened, "Sekke shooting star" he said and a floating green vehicle in the shape of a bike appeared. Accept where the wheels would be there were two green Orbs surrounded by magic power and there was a statue of Sekkeis upper half with wings at the front. He got on the magic vehicle, "You lovely lady's wait here" he said blowing them a kiss.
"Eww" said Noelle dodging like Vanessa who said, "Gross". Sekkei then took off out of the market.
Outside Asta was chasing the man on the rooftops, the thief was flying on a cloud made of magic, "Your not getting away" said Asta as his grimoire opened and took out his big anti magic sword. He then threw the sword at the cloud.
"Huh, there's no way your attack will destroy my magic" said the thief smirking when the sword cut through this cloud destroying it and surprising the theief as he fell to ground. Asta landed back on the ground with his anti magic sword as the man started to run. He was about to chase him when Sekkei on his magic vehicle flew by.
"Haha, try to keep up Asta" he said smirking while looking back Asta,
"Wow that things cool" said Asta looking amazed.
Sekekei then reached the thief and hit him with the front of his magic vehicle making the theif dropping the bag of money before he fell to the ground.
"Haha, I've caught you, now I'll get all the" Sekkei began to say when the thief stabbed him in the left foot with a knife that had a purple magic circle surrounding the blade, "Wait what" he said looking surpsied.
"If I'm going down, I'll at least take you with me" said the theif before he collapsed.
Sekkei thn fell on his back, "So this it, I'm about to die" he said looking up into the sky with his eyes about to close.
"Haha, are you alright" said Asta rushing over to him.
"Well if I'm about to die, maybe he can reach the top since I wasn't able to do" he thought grabbing Astas black bulls rhobe, "Listen Asta, you gotta keep going, you can succeed where I failed" he said before his head laid on the ground with his eyes closed.
"Haha, Cmon wake up" said Asta shaking his shoudlers.
"Wait, how am I not dead" thought Sekke confused before Asta chopped h m on the head where his eyes were.
"Don't you die, you have to achieve your dreams yourself" said Asta siriously.
"Wait, I'm not dead" said Sekke.
"Don't be worried" said Vanessa. Sekke looked to see Vanessa rubbing an ointment on the area of his foot where he was stabbed, "It was only a poison paralysis knife, you'll be fine a few seconds" she said while Sekke looked shocked and embarrassed.
A few minutes later Sekkei had the theif tied up on the back of his magic vehicle, "I'll take this guy in, goodbye, the next time you'll hear from me I'll have gotten better" said Sekkei taking off.
"Goodbye haha" said Asta. Then Asta, Noelle and Vanessa returned to the entrance of the underground market where the old woman was waiting, "Here you go ma'am, make sure to keep an eye on your winnings" he said handing her the bag before walking away with Vanessa and Noelle.
"Thanks for your help" said the old woman. When the three of them were far away balls of light started to come off the old woman, "So that was anti magic, I wonder if it can be even considered magic" the old woman said as more lights came off her body. After the light came off her body it was revealed to be a man in red and white cape, he wore a necklace where there was medals attached to it. One on each side of his chest, "Yami sure has made a good choice with this one, this is why my secret trips into the city are important so I can see what kind fo magic is out there" he said when a blue magic circle appeared in front of him showing the image of man with short hair.
"Sir where have you been, there is a lot of work to do" said the man in the circle.
"Oh hi Marx, a sotuation was happenning and couldnt respond to you transmission magic for a while" said the man.
"Sir you cant keep exploring when you have a lot to work to do as the wizard king" said Marx, "Theres been a development that requires your attention" he said urgently.
"I'm well aware of that" said the wizard king making Marx look surprised that he already knew, "I also have the pefecf idea of who to send" he said looking sirious.
That night Asta and Noelle had gotten off Vanessa's broom after returning to headquarters, Vanessa walked into the headquarters first. Noelle and Asta we're outside about go in when Noelle realised she was still holding Astas bag, "Hey Asta don't forget about this" she said handing him the bag.
Asta looked back at her only to smile, "Actually why don't you see what's inside" he said making her look confused.
Noelle reached in the back taking out the wand, "Asta is this a wand" she asked looking surprised?
"It's your wand" he said rubbing the back of his head, "A nice lady overheard me when I was looking for something that could help control magic, when she told me about this wand".
Noelle looked at the wand surprised, "He got this for me" she thought. She pointed the wand at a tree in the forest, a water bubble started to from at the end of the wand and shot form the end of it hitting the tree exacltly where she wanted to hit it , "I did it" she said smiling at the wand. She then looked at Asta with tears of joy in her eyes, "Thank you Asta" she said hugging him.
Asta blushed before he smiled and hugged her back, "Your welcome Noelle".
Noelle then realized the position they were in, she blushed as she backed away, "Well I'll see you tommorrow morning, goodnight" she said trying not to run into the headquarters so he wouldn't see her blush.
"Uh Yeah goodnight" said Asta as he put his right hand over his fast beating heart.
When Noelle reached her room she rested her back against the door as she put her right hand that was holding her wand over her fast beating heart, "This feeling, could I be falling for Asta" she thought.
Authors note: Hope you like how Asta was the one who got Noelles wand. For those who are wondering Asta did get the wand from the same person who made it in the anime. Thank you everyone whos been showing their support and is the major reason why I write storys, its to make people happy.