In the capital things were starting to calm down a little as the capitals magic knights went around to go heal the people who had been injured. Not far from Astas location there was group of people gathered. The little girl Asta rescued was there with Nero resting on her head.
"I hope the two magic knights are okay" she said looking worried while Nero moved his wing on the little girls head to comfort her.
Meanwhile in the kitchen of the magic knight headquarters, "Excuse me, shouldn't we go help the others" Mimosa asked Charmy who was still eating from the large plate of food.
"But all of this food will go bad if I just leave it here" said Charmy before going back to eating.
"Then will have to go ourselves" said Yuno as he began to slowly stand back up.
"Both your not fully recovered yet" said Mimosa looking worried.
"Don't worry, I've regained a little energy thanks to your healing magic" said Yuno before leaving the room.
Mimosa was about top of follow him when she thought of an idea, "Charmy right, you know if we don't stop the enemy more of them might come here to take away your food" she said smiling.
Charmy then had a look of fear on her face, "Then let's get going already" she said quickly running out of the room.
"Well I guess that's one way to get her to go" said Mimosa laughing a little before following the other two out of the magic knights headquarters.
Over with Asta, "Let me tell you something, I've been fighting a battle for about as long as I can remember, there's people in this world I care about and there's no way I'm going to let them down" said Asta which made Noelle smile, "So no matter what you throw me at I'll keep cutting it down" he said readying his swords.
"How ridiculous" said the enemy mage with a scar on his left eye raising his right hand where magic power started to surround it.
"Luckily I can still disect crazy" said the girl with black hair and glasses as all of the mages surrounding Asta started firing magic bullets at him. But Asta started spinning at an incredible speed with his swords, destroying each of the magic bullets that were meant to hit him. Surprising the enemy mages.
"Wait I think I've heard of this kid" she said.
"He must be the anti magic boy the master told us about" said the one with a scar as Asta rushed over to one of the enemy mages who blasted magic at Asta. But Asta destroyed the spell with his big anti magic sword, he was about to hit the mage when he jumped out of the way.
"Flame magic, flame exploding ball" said Leopold jumping into the battle. He sent a fire ball at the enemy mage with a scar on his left eye. But the mage jumped out of the way from the attack, "If you think I'm gonna let you all get away after what you've done to my brother, then you've got another thing coming" he said with an angry look on his face, "How you doing over there Asta".
"I'm all good, thanks for the help" said Asta as he continued to attack the enemy mages who had to keep dodging the magic knights attacks.
"What are you waiting for, kill them already" said Rades looking annoyed the man with a scar on his left eye.
"What do you think were trying to do" he said looking annoyed when all the enemy mages surrounded Asta and Leopold. They then fired multiple magic blasts again. But before they could reach their target a water dome went over Asta and Leopold, protecting them from the attack.
"Thanks Noelle" said Asta looking back to see she was holding up her wand.
"If they think I'm gonna let them kill the two of you then their mistaken" said Noelle looking angry.
"That much magic and her appearance, she must be from the royal Silva house" said the mage with the scar on his left eye.
"If she's royalty then we should use more powerful magic out of respect" said one of the enemy mages who's face was hidden by his hood. His girmoire opened, "Plant creation magic, draining roots" he said as large roots grew out from the ground under him and started attaching themselves to the water dome.
"What are these things" said Leopold looking confused when the roots started to drain the water from the dome.
"It's draining the magic" said Noelle looking surprised when eventually the water dome fell apart.
Asta and Leopold then went to go attack the mage with the scar on his left eye when his grimoire opened, "You've fought well, so this death should suit you, wind creation magic, wind death needles" he said multiple wind needles shot out from in front of him towards Asta and Leopold who had jumped into the air. The two of them were pierced with two wind needles making them looked surprised before they fell to the ground.
"No" said Noelle looking surprised that both Asta and Leopold has been taken down by the same attack.
"Oh this is great, can I have him for dissection" said the girl enemy mage pointing at Asta.
"No, this time they will meet their end" said the wind magic user about to unleash the attack again.
"PLEASE DON'T" yelled Noelle before the wind needles were fired at Asta and Leopold. But was then blocked by a large silver substance.
"Wait what's that" said Rades when the silver substance fell apart, revealing all of the magic knights that been teleported away from the capital.
"I don't understand you were all sent away" said the spacial magic user looking surprised when Aleedora landed on the rooftop next to him.
"It wasn't easy but we were able to combine our magic powers together to make our way back here, if I had to think of a name for it, I would call it super compound magic" he said looking serious.
"Guess we can rely on men for something's huh Char" said Sol rubbing the back of her head.
"What's important is that it looks like we made it back here in time" said Charlotte looking clam.
"But I gotta say teaming up with the others has left a bad taste in my mouth" said Solid looking annoyed.
"Hey is everyone alright" said Mimosa rushing into the area with Yuno and Charmy.
"Mimosa quickly he's injured" said Noelle getting her cousins attention. Mimosa rushed over to Feugoleon and packed her hands over the wound. Her hands started to shine with her magic power and her healing flower robe appeared.
"Theses injury's, who could have done this" said Mimosa before noticing Leopold and Asta, "Someone please go check on the two of them" she said.
"Asta come on, wake up" said Klaus holding up Asta. Asta looked like he was in pain but seemed to be awake, "He's alright".
Nozel stepped forward facing the enemy mages, "We May be from different squads, but our job is the same, we are the magic knights who protect this kingdom from any enemy who threatens it" he said.
The spacial magic user looked annoyed before he jumped into one of his dark magic portals. He appeared through a second one that was behind the other enemy mages, "We need to leave now, with this amount of forces we will take too many losses" he said looking at the mage who had scar on his left eye.
"I know" he said looking annoyed.
"Sorry but you won't be leaving yet" said Nozel as his grimoire opened up, "Mercury magic, rain of silver" he said as multiple parts of mercury appeared above the enemy mages.
"Gel magic, sticky salamander" said the girl enemy mage. Behind her a big salamander made out of gel appeared over the enemy mages to protect them from Nozels attack.
"You think that spell will stop my silver" said Nozel as the mercury started raining down on the salamander when the girl who cast the spell pulled out a giant syringe from somewhere in her rhobe, stuck into the gel salamander and injecting it with whatever was in the syringe.
"Dark magic item, enhancement absorption" she said as the pieces of mercury hit the gel salamander that changed colour and absorbed the attack surprising the silver eagles captain.
"Just what was that item" he thought.
"Yoink" said the gel mage as the salamander took Asta away from Klaus. Then Asta was trapped inside a gel bubble that was floating next to her.
"Wait what do you plan on doing with him" said Klaus when a dark magic portal started to appear under the enemy mages feet.
"Make sure you remember this magic knights, we are the eye of the midnight sun" said the mage with the scar on his left eye as he closed his grimoire, "and we will be the ones to destroy the clover kingdom".
Noelle could only stare in shock as the enemy mages now known as the eye of the midnight sun vanished in the magic portal, "ASTA" she yelled.
She then stood up, "They took him, we have to" but before she could finish her sentence Klaus interrupted her.
"I'm sorry but we can't" said Klaus pushing up his glasses, but he looked worried as well for Astas safety.
"But" Noelle began to say but it was her older brother Nozel who interrupted her this time.
"Enough, we still don't know if there's still any more enemy's in the capital, we don't have the time or the resources to find someone like him" said Nozel as he walked over to where Mimosa was using her healing magic on Feugoleon, "How is he" he asked?
"Not good, he needs to be taken to the medical ward for more advance healing spells" said Mimosa looking worried.
"How ridiculous, a one armed magic knight captain, how house vermilion sure has fallen" said Solid smirking.
"How could you say something like that" said Noelle.
"I mean how is he supposed to" Solid began to say when he was surprised Nozel interrupted him.
"That's enough Solid, remember we were away while the capital was being attacked, so we are the ones who should be ashamed" he said.
"Alright" said Solid looking down and so did Nebra.
"The chain of command is a mess, we must hurry and make sure the capital is safe" said Aleedora getting everyone's attention. Charlotte and Sol were on an earth golem that started to move.
Noelle looked up at the sky, "Asta" she thought looking worried when Yuno stood next to her.
"Don't worry, he's too stubborn to let the enemy take him to easily" he said smiling.
"I hope your right" said Noelle still looking worried.
Far away from the capital in a forest a dark magic portal opened revealing members of the eye of the midnight sun. Ahead of them was a cave with stairs that lead underground. Asta was trapped in a gel bubble with his grimoire trapped in one next to him.
"Well that could have been better, your actions almost cost us the mission Rades" said the mage with a scar on his left eye.
Rades looked annoyed, "Why are you complaining to me for, if anything my corpses were the ones who really suffered" he said.
"Yeah Catherine was captured to" said the gel mage as they all headed towards the staircase.
"Like I care what happens to that old hag" said Rades smiling.
"By the way Sally, I hope you don't plan on bringing him with us, kill him" said the spacial magic user looking at the gel mage.
"What I can't do that, I need to dissect him, this isn't just any kind of weakening magic, this kid uses true anti magic" she said waving her arms around. When she talked Asta slowly opened his eyes.
"What is this stuff I'm in, it feels kind of nice" he said before looking up seeing the enemy mages, "Oh no, I've been captured".
"Oh your awake" said Sally pulling down her hood revealing her red eyes as she stared up at Asta with an excited look on her face, "Cmon tell them, you want to be part of my experiments don't you and be my subject so we can have so much fun".
"This girls crazy" thought Asta with a shocked look on his face.
"I know let me kill him, then I can turn him into one of my corpses and have him kill his royal girlfriend" said Rades laughing.
"No way" said Sally waving her arms again.
"Cmon, the master will be waiting for us if we're late" said the mage with the scar on his left eye as they all walked down the steps.
"Oh cmon don't make me beg" said Sally when they reached the bottom of thd staircase. There was then the sound of footsteps and the wizard king himself appeared from the darkness.
"Hello everyone, did you enjoy your enjoy your trip to the capital" said Julius with a smile on his face while the midnight sun Members looked surprised by his appearance.
"It's the wizard king, Julius Navakrono" said the spacial magic user.
"Well let's take him down" said one of the mages who's face was hidden by a hood. But before they could blink Julius appeared in the the middle of two mages with his arms stretched out. Two blue orbs appeared in his hands before he fired them at the mages. Blasting them into nothing and leaving behind nothing but smoke.
"What was that" said Rades.
"Such power, then again I shouldn't be surprised since this is the wizard king" thought the spacial magic user while the wizard king had a calm look on his face.
"Oh I'm sorry, were you not prepared to be killed yourselves when you went to kill people in the capital, why don't you make this easy and surrender so we can go back to the capital to talk" he said.
"No way" said the enemy mages blasting Magic attacks at the wizard king who moved so fast while dodging them that he left behind after images.
"How are we not hitting him" said the mage with the scar on his left eye when the wizard king stood behind all of them.
"Let's try a test shall we, time binding magic, chrono stasis" he said as a small blue orb formed in his hands and spread out. The enemy mages were then trapped in round spheres that was surrounded by a silver ring with magic symbols on it. The mages had surprised looks on their faces and were frozen, "There that should hold you" he said when the gel bubble holding Asta and his grimoire burst making the two of them fall to the ground.
"Oh there you are Asta, we seem to be running into each other a lot today" said Julius as he began to walk over to him.
"So that was the power of the wizard king" thought Asta as he had a surprised look on his face when Julius stood in front of him.
"I hope you learned something from this, this is only a little of the power you'll need to surpass to become the wizard king" he said reaching out his hand to help Asta up.
But Asta didn't need it as he slowly began to stand back up but was shaking a little, "Cmon, stop shaking, I can't look weak, not now" he thought before completely standing up with a determined look on his face.
"Seems you didn't need my help after all, okay then" said Julius as he went to go stand in front of large stone tablet that had jewels in it, "Would any of you care to tell me what this stone tablet is" he said looking at the enemy mages that were trapped by his magic.
"I can't move" thought Rades.
"Well I guess you can't say anything in that state, so will return to the capital to" Julius began to say before he looked back with a serious look on his face, "Be ready, someone's coming" he said when a bright light shined from behind the stone tablet.
"So bright" said Asta shielding his eyes.
Juilius didn't shield his eyes and was able to see a man fly above the stone tablet. The man was in a similar robe to other eye of the midnight sun members. Accept his had a red outline. He had braids and there were red markings on each sides of his eyes.
When the light cleared Asta moved his hands away from his eyes to see it was only him, the wizard king and one enemy mage still trapped by his magic were in the room. The mage that was still trapped was the one with a scar on his left eye. The stone tablet was gone as-well.
"What was that" asked Asta?
"A light magic user, one better then me, very fascinating" said Julius smiling before his look turned serious, "Though it also makes me feel nervous" he said before an image of the man with short blue hair appeared in front of him.
"About time I got through to you" he said looking worried.
"Oh hey Marx, sorry I was out of the capital on an errand so I suspended our transmission magic for a while" said Juilius smiling.
"You can explain later sir, right now your needed at the medical ward" said Marx making Juillius look serious again.
Back in the capital outside the medical ward, most of the magic knights involved in the battle were waiting. Leopold and Feugoleon were being treated for their injury's. Then two golden dawn members walked into the area, "The capital is secure now, the capitals mages are going around to make sure there's no more enemy's around" said one of them.
"We also have the capital shields back up" said the sand magic user.
"We also have the word out for that loud, I mean black bull boy" said the other member. Noelle looked down worried and Mimosa put her hand on her shoulder to comfort her.
"Hey I'm sure he's alright" said Mimosa.
"They haven't had him for long, though when he gets back I'm going to have serious talk with him and slap him to make sure he doesn't forget about it" said Klaus.
"Wait" said Nozel looking back.
"Where's this amount of magic power from" said Aleedora when the wizard king, Asta and the prisoner trapped in the time magic appeared.
"Hello everyone" said Julius removing his hand from Astas shoulder. He had his hand there so he could bring Asta back with him using his magic.
"Hey everyone, great to see your alright" said Asta smiling when someone quickly ran into him giving him a hug.
"Do you have any idea how worried I was about you" said Noelle as she rested her head on his left shoulder.
Asta smiled before he hugged her back, "Sorry about that, but I'm back now" he said.
"Asta" said Klaus rushing over to him, but standing a bit away since Noelle hadn't let go of him yet, "Thank goodness your alright, I really thought you were a goner, you should be more careful when you have someone that worries about you" he said.
"Thanks for worrying about me four eyes but I'm alright" said Asta calmly.
"So much for slapping him around" thought Yuno before walking over with Mimosa, "Good to see they didn't take you down" he said.
"I'm glad to see your not hurt Asta" said Mimosa smiling.
"Thanks" said Asta when Noelle removed her read from his shoulder but still held his hand.
Then Nero started pecking him on the forehead, "Ow Nero" he said.
"Nero please stop he's injured" said Noelle grabbing the anti bird so he would stop pecking her boyfriend.
The wizard king stood at the entrance to the medical ward after being told what happened, "I see, losing Feugoleon would be a big hit to the magic knights" he said looking serious.
"There's something else sir, when we took a closer look we noticed the jewel Feugoleon wore around his neck was gone" said Charlotte.
"Missing, that jewel might have been their real objective or they wanted to take him out so he wouldn't be able to interfere with their plans" said Julius.
"Have you heard of these people before sir" asked Yuno?
"There have been a few rumors, but one thing that's important is that they hold a personal hatred towards the clover kingdom" said Julius before looking at the magic knights, "You've all done well today, I ask only one thing of you, continue to hold the peace within the kingdom".
"Yes sir" said Asta saluting.
"Excuse us wizard king" said Nozel as he began to walk away with Solid and Nebra following him.
"Hmm, I thought we were going to the whole group salute thing" said Asta looking confused.
"There's an old saying" said Julius getting Astas attention, "I think it went, do not wake a sleeping lion, but it seems the enemy has woken an eagle instead".
As Nozel walked away he had annoyed look on his face as he thought about the state the crimson lions captain is in, "I'm gonna find the people who did this to you Feugoleon and then I'm gonna make them answer for what they've done" he thought.
Back at the medical ward the door was quickly opened by an exhausted Leopold, "Asta" he said getting his rivals attention, "I'm glad to see your alright, I would expect nothing less from my rival, but I'm going to be the one who's going to be next wizard king and I'll become even stronger then my brother" he said as a flame started appearing on his left thumb and he then pressed it onto his forehead.
When he moved his thumb away there was the symbol, similar to the one on his brothers forehead, "This symbol represents my word, I will win" he said.
Asta then smiled, "Bring it on" he said.
The next day the wizard king gave a speech to the people of the capital saying that they were safe and the magic knights would continue on in their work to defend the people of the kingdom. The speech made the people feel better. But while the wizard king stood in his office that morning he had worried thought, "I fear there might be a traitor among the kingdoms mages" he thought. It turns out the reason why the capital shield went down was because one of the mages responsible for keeping it up was gone and the reason for it was unknown.
They tried to interrogate the midnight sun members they captured but there was some kind of magic that prevented them from getting the information. The wizard king decided that they would continue on while waiting for the crimson lions captain to wake up.
In city Asta and Noelle stood in front of the little girl they had saved during the attack, "I wanted to thank you two for saving me, here I made these for you" she said handing Asta a basket filled with cupcakes.
"Wow thanks" said Asta.
"I hope you enjoy them" said the little girl smiling beofre leaving.
But then Asta felt the basket taken out of his hands and he looked down to see Charmy kneeling in front of it drooling.
"Oh these look good" she said.
"Oh hey Charmy, you know those are ours right" said Asta.
"Oh you two want some, here I don't mind sharing" said Charmy holding out two cupcakes.
"Uh thanks I guess" said Asta taking one while Noelle took the other.
"They were ours to begin with anyway" said Noelle as the two of them took a bite.
"Wow this is good" said Asta smiling.
"I will admit it is nice" said Noelle smiling as-well, "By the way Charmy I've been wondering how you got here after I saw you yesterday" she asked while Charmy ate one of the cupcakes.
"Oh like this" said Charmy as cotton started to surround her. The cotton ball started to shrink with her in it and she flew into Astas hood surprising the two of them. Charmy then got out of Astas hood when they saw across the street Yuno, Mimosa and Klaus.
"Hey you three" said Asta waving.
"I'd know that voice anywhere, hello Asta are your injury's healed" said Klaus.
"Yeah I'm all good now, hey Yuno I heard you took down an enemy like it was nothing, what's up with that" said Asta pointing at his rival who walked to the edge of his side of the street opening his grimoire. A wind eagle formed in front of him and shot towards the black bulls members surprising Asta and Noelle. Asta quickly destroyed it with his big anti magic sword.
Mimosa and Klaus looked surprised by the amount of magic power Yuno used, "I guess I put to much power into it" said Yuno.
"All I wanted was to say hi" said Asta who was siting on the ground next to Noelle. The two of them still looking surprised when the wind left over formed words in front of Asta. They said, "See you later, short Asta".
"Hey who are you calling short" said Asta quickly standing back up while Yuno began to walk away, "What are you to cool to say hello, Cmon" he said.
"Asta, Noelle the next time we meet I will have gotten stronger" thought Mimosa looking determined before she went to go catch up with Yuno who smiled at her and she smiled back, "Thanks for the advice by the way Noelle" she thought when she noticed the wind spirit on Yunos right shoulder giving her a thumbs up.
"Those two do look cute together" said Charmy finishing her cupcake.
That night the three of them returned to the black bulls headquarters, Magna and Luck had also returned from their mission, "Hey Magna, Luck how did the mission go" asked Asta?
"It went great, in fact we done so well we got a star for our success" said Magna.
"Hey tell him about the combo move we came up with" said Luck looking excited, "The electric Magna typhoon" he said.
"Never use that move again" said Magna looking annoyed, "Anyway it looks like I'll be leading this squad one day, so be ready" he said rubbing his nose.
"I was also worried about you" Gordon muttered silently while Grey breathed out smoke.
"Oh by the way Magna, after the attack at the capital there was an awards ceremony, they promoted me and Noelle to junior magic knight third class" said Asta looking excited while Noelle smiled pushing one of her pony tails back. Meanwhile Magna looked shocked.
"Wait so that means" said Magna.
"Yep" said Yami getting up from the couch he was sitting on, "You two haven't gone up since you joined, so you better start giving Asta some respect since he's your superior" he said before laughing, "Charmy was also brought up to junior magic knight first class after she captured one of the enemy mages".
"That's right, two of you are now way behind me" said Charmy smiling while Magna looked down.
"Anyway great work at the capital kid" said Yami looking at Asta.
"Yeah, but what about captain Feugoleon" said Asta looking worried for the man who had respected his dream of becoming the wizard king.
"I wouldn't worry to much about him, if anything when he wakes up he'll probably be a whole lot stronger than before" said Yami.
"Alright then, I'm going to go train to get even more stronger" said Asta looking excited about to walk out when his captain stopped him.
"No way, you need to take some time off and heal from your injury's" said Yami looking serious.
"He's got a point Asta, please" said Noelle.
"Yeah alright then, oh wait that's right" said Asta grabbing her hands making her look surprised, "I know the perfect thing to" he began to say when Finral appeared out of a magic portal.
"Hey Asta I heard you have some time off, how about going to a mixer" said Finral giving a thumbs up.
"I can't do that" said Asta making Finral looked confused, "I'm gonna take Noelle out on a date since we haven't gone on one since we got together" he said making most of the people and Finral look surprised.
"Oh you the man Asta" said Magna patting his right shoulder, "You got yourself a girlfriend, remember a real man always looks after his girl" he said.
"Well she's always the one looking out for me" said Asta rubbing the back of his head.
"Hey way to go Noelle" said Vanessa raising her bottle in the air. But Noelle didn't answer, she had a blush on her face.
"A date with Asta, YES" she thought while trying to hold in her excitement.
"Oh that's great" said Finral while he cried tears of jealousy, "I don't suppose you want to go captain".
"No I got the same reason as the kid, I have a girlfriend myself" he said calmly while most of the black bulls looked surprised.
"Wait your dating someone captain" said Charmy.
"Strange I thought you would know given how much time I spend with her, Asta and Noelle met her the day they went to Saussy village" he said looking calm.
"Wait does he mean" though Asta and Noelle when the door to the headquarters opened revealing the person the two of them were just thinking about.
"Is there something wrong" said Rosa walking into the main room not knowing what Yami had just told everyone else in the squad.