Outside the black bulls headquarters Sekke was flying towards it before he jumped down from his broom, "haha" he said striking a pose after his feet touched the ground before he started walking to the entrance, "I don't understand, the black bulls are the closest to Nean village, so why is it taking them so long to respond to the back up request" he said.
He then opened the door, "The black bulls squad, the worst of the worst, just what are they like" he thought looking scared to see the main area was covered in darkness. There were bottles scattered all over the floor, "Hello, I'm from magic knight HQ, theres been a request for back up at Nean village, is there anyone here" he said looking around seeing no one.
"Well looks like theres no one here" said Sekke before smiling, "I know, ill go to the blue rose knights, I'm sure ill get a warm welcome" he thought imagining Sol and Charlotte greeting him with a smile. But when he turned around, Gordon was standing behind him.
"Hello" he muttered silently while Sekke screamed in terror as he fell to ground and started to back away away as Gordon followed him, "Aren't you Sekke from the green praying mantis, my names Gordon" he muttered silently while Sekkke continued to scream.
"Who is this guy, that look on his face is the one of some who wants to kill me" thought Sekke looking afraid as Gordon was now smiling so much that his teeth were showing.
"I haven't seen you since the magic knights entrance exam" he muttered silently still smiling when Sekke quickly stood up and ran over to a doorway that was covered by a curtain.
"You stay away from me" said Sekke before he tripped over some large feet and landed behind a couch. He looked up to see Grey poking his head out ad blowing out smoke. He screamed before hiding behind the couch.
"Just what is going on out here" said Yami walking into the main area, "Can't a man sleep in peace" he said.
"It's the captain of the black bulls" said Sekke before getting off the floor and walked over to the black bulls captain looking relieved, "Sir I'm here to" he said before Yami grabbed his head.
"Who are you, you better not be the guy who picks up the bar tabs, i had mine all payed for a long time ago" he said looking annoyed.
"No its not that, I from magic knights HQ about the back request for Nean" said Sekke and before he could say anything else.
"Nope, tab there is payed for there aswell, that place was the closest so I payed the bar tab for there first" the black bulls captain said still squeezing Sekkes head while the green praying mantis magic knight screamed.
Sekke then noticed the other black bulls members were asleep on the ground, Vanessa was passed out on one of the couches with bottles surrounding her and surprisingly Magna was lying down on the floor next to her with less bottles then her surrounding him, "I should have gone to the blue rose knights instead" Sekke thought.
Back inside the mountain caves outside Nean village, Asta stood in front of one of the mages responsible for kidnapping the kids, "What are you doing you fool, do something" the mage said looking at his brother.
"uh right, go snow soldiers" Neas said as more snow soldiers appeared in front of him.
"That wont work, mirror magic, reflect refrain" Gauche said as his mirror fired multiple rays and destroyed the snow soldiers.
Neas looked afraid before he put his hands in front of his grimoire, "Snow binding magic" he said and what looked like a tree made out of snow shot up from under Gauche. The tree trappped him and only from his shoulders up to his head was exposed.
"Big brother" said Marie looking worried.
"Don't worry Gauche Ill get you out of there" said Asta readying his anti magic sword when Gauche interrupted him.
"Don't even think about it, you'll only do it just to show off for Marie" said Gauche looking annoyed while Asta look surprised.
"This is no time for your stubbornness Gauche" the scarred nun said looking annoyed by Gauches attitude.
"Don't worry I got this" said Gauche calmly as he stared down at the snow mage.
"What is he thinking, his grimoires silenced os theres no way he can use any spells" the other mage thought smiling before a mirror beam shot into Neas back surprising the both of them. After Neas fell to ground another Gauche was revealed, but this ones hair was covering his right eye.
The snow tree fell apart and Gauche fell to the ground, "Mirror magic, my real double, I cast it before your magic could complete trap me" said Gauche.
"Brother what are we going to do" said Neas looking towards his brother.
"First stop being useless and let me think of something" the mage thought before Asta grabbed the front of his shirt. The young magic knight glared down at the man.
"How could you do this to kids, how would you feel if someone took away your own magic" Asta asked him still glaring at him?
The man however just smiled, "Why should I care about what happens to some snot nosed brats who have so much magic they don't even know how to use, I'm doing these kids a favour" the man said laughing.
Asta however glared grew even more intense as he remembered when Noelle was upset about not being able to control her own magic. "AHHHH" he yelled brining his right fist back.
"Asta don't" said the scarred nun but Astas fist already went forward. His fist however hit the wall behind the man, he hit the wall with so much strength that there was a now a small crater behind the man.
Asta then looked at the man who was now sweating and shaking from fear, "Your going to tell us how to give their magic back, then your going to answer for what you've done" he said backing away.
"Uh yeah you got it" said the man when the scarred nun walked over to him and opened her girmoire. Then flame ropes surrounded him and kept him from moving.
"Here this should hold you, Asta I want you to use your sword to remove the spell from the rest of the children" said the nun.
"You got it" said Asta.
"I better do something quick, mud magic, mud man" the mage thought as a small mud man grew out from the ground behind him. The mud man then started quickly running over to the lab area.
Asta used his sword handle on each of the kids heads, after they all sounded confused wondering where they were and started calling out for their parents. "Don't worry children everything's going to be alright" the nun said trying to calm the children.
"Asta" said Luca rushing over to hm.
"Hey I'm glad to see your alright" said Asta smiling.
"Hey you old cow, can you hurry up and heal Marie's injury's already" said Gauche.
"Still as rude as ever" The nun said smiling as her grimoire opened, "Flame recovery magic, healing flame light" she said as multiple flying candles appeared above the children.
"Hey you two in the middle, Marie should be in the spot with the most light" said Gauche.
"No its alright brother, I'm not even that hurt" said Marie smiling to let him know she was alright.
Gauche looked surprised by his little sisters attitude, "Oh Marie, you have both the kindness and the look of an angel" he said before falling on his back.
"Asta am I right in thinking you are from the church in Hage Village" the nun asked Asta who looked surprised that she knew that.
"Yeah, how do you know that" said Asta.
"Well sister Lily would sometimes come to my church to train and she would always tell me story's about this boy from Hage" said the nun smiling.
"Wait you know sister Lily, wait what did she say about me" he said looking nervous.
"Well she told me you would sometimes be annoying and loud" the nun said smiling while Asta looked down, "But she also told me you were a hard worker, who trained every day even though you had no magic to join the magic knights" she before looking confused, "But I have to ask, why did you ask her to hit you in the head over and over again with her magic".
"Well I had amnesia for a long time and water magic was the only hint I had about them for a while before I got the memories back" said Asta rubbing the back of his head when there was the sound of Neas screaming. The two of them and Marie looked to see Gauche pushing his right foot into his back where the beam had hit him earlier.
"You're the one who hert Marie earlier, she told me it was you" said Gauche glaring down at the snow mage.
"Hey that's a bit much don't you think" said Asta.
"You've done enough Gauche" said the nun looking annoyed.
"Stay out of this" said Gauche looking annoyed. While they were talking the mud man had walked onto a table near the lab area where it pressed down on a button on a small round device. The button then started blinking red.
"Brother I'm not even that hurt" said Marie trying to get her brother to stop.
"She's right, we should focus on why they were doing this in the first place" the nun said before looking towards the mud magic user, "Why would you do this to these children when someday in the future they could be the hope for the kingdom" she asked looking serious as she stood in front of the children.
"I took this job because the money was good" the mud mage thought as he remembered the girl in the white cloak and had black hair. Then everyone heard something and looked at one of the caves in the wall to see a dark magic portal appear.
"Well its about time, I thought someone with spacial magic would be quick" said the mud mage looking annoyed as a woman with black hair, with a white robe over a short purple top and shorts jumped out of the portal. She also had red eyes and glasses.
"Oh be quiet, I gave you this job because it was supposed to be easy, but I'll forgive your failure since you brought me a gift" said Sally smiling as she stared down at Asta.
Back at the black bulls headquarters, "Theres a back up request at Nean village, why didn't you say something" said Yami who was sitting down on a couch with Gordon and Gauche while Sekke kneeled in front of them.
"That's what I was trying to say" said Sekke still looking down.
"Well I guess I'll go, you wouldn't know what these guys would be saying sometimes" said Yami pointing at Gauche who was muttering someone silently and Grey was blowing out smoke.
In Nean village inside the restaurant where Rebecca works. Rebecca was looking out the window with Pam asleep on her back. Two of her siblings were sitting at a table with Noelle.
"You think Marco and Luca are going to be okay" asked Rebeccas brother?
"Don't worry I'm sure they're going to be fine, Asta and Gauche are really strong and theres back up on the way too" said Noelle smiling trying to reassure them.
"She's right, so how about we get some food ready for them for when they get back" said Rebecca as she went to get food ready and her siblings went to go help her.
Noelle then sighed, "I hope we are getting back up, I wasn't able to find out how much magic I put into his sword" thought Noelle looking worried before getting up, "Well I cant just sit here being worried, maybe Rebecca can give me some tips on cooking".
In the mountains outside Nean village, "Its you" said Asta looking angry up at one of the people who had attacked the capital.
"Hey Asta, its good to see you again, maybe this time I can dissect you" said Sally licking her lips.
"Hey you're the one responsible for this aren't you" said Gauche stepping forward and glared up at the mage, "Your dead, reflect refrain" he said firing a beam up at Sally as her grimoire opened.
"Gel magic, sticky salamander" she said as a big salamander made out of gel appeared. The beam went into the salamander and went into the ceiling.
"What" said Gauche looking surprised that his spell was stopped.
"Your kind of ruining a touching reunion so stay out of my way" said Sally calmly as she jumped into the salamanders middle and started moving towards them.
Asta jumped towards the gel salamander and swiped his sword at it. But it moved out of the way before the sword could hit it, "I'm not done yet" he said as he jumped against the caves wall and started flying towards the gel salamander again. This time he ended up cutting off its head.
"You know it doesn't work if your attacks connect" said Sallly smiling.
"Let's try this one" said Gauche as multiple mirrors appeared in front of him, "Mirror magic reflect refrain" he said as all the mirrors shot beams at the gel salamander. But it had the same result like when he fired one beam, the beams shot into the gel missing Sally and were re directed to the ceiling.
Then some gel shot at Gauche from the salamander and sent him into the wall. Another blast of gel shot towards Asta who cut the gel in two with his anti magic sword. But his cut didn't destroy the gel and the remains ended up sticking to him and pulling him onto the back of the salamander.
"Oh I got you now" said Sally standing over him as the gel trapped his arms and legs onto the gel salamander, "You know your anti magic is really interesting, but I wonder what would happen if I combined it with water magic" she said smiling while Asta look surprised.
"Wait what" he said.
"Rades told me about your relationship with that royal and how you combined your powers, maybe I should disect the two of you at the same time to see how it works" she said leaning in close to him when she was surprised when Astas right arm got free. His grimoire then opened up and he grabbed his small anti magic sword that was glowing blue in the middle. Sally barely dodged the slash he sent at her, but ended up with a cut on her right side, "Oh this doesn't look good, well Im not leaving without a sample" she said smiling as the gel try to restrain Astas right arm as he glared at the gel mage.
"Get away from him, flame magic, fire cross" said the nun as the gel salamander started to heat up making Sally jump away as the gel exploded and the fire formed into a cross. Fire started to surround her fist as she jumped up towards Sally. But the gel mage dodged her attack and the nun landed back on the ground.
Asta then landed behind the nun, "Wow sister, how can you do stuff like that" he said looking amazed.
"Why because I'm a former magic knight, don't underestimate Theresa, the she lion of the crimson lions" she said.
"Wait you were a magic knight and if you were from the crimson lions, did you know captain Feugoleon" he asked standing back up.
"Who little Feugo" Theresea said smiling while Asta look surprised that the crimson lions captain had such a nickname, "Yes I thought him how to use his magic when he was just a boy".
"Well, I'm sure you heard about what happened to him" said Asta looking down remembering the condition the crimson lions captain was in.
"Yes I heard, tell me Asta is this girl from the group that attacked the capital" she asked as the two of them faced Sally and Asta picked his big anti magic sword back up and his small one went back into his grimoire.
"Hey old hag you mind getting me out of this" said Gauche looking annoyed since the gel was still keeping him stuck to the wall.
"You could try asking a little nicer" said Theresea before using her magic to destroy to burn te gel.
"You're really annoying" said Sally looking bored.
"Hey Sally get me out of this" said the mud mage.
"Hmm that binding spell looks difficult to get out of" said Sally.
"Please theres gotta be something you can do, anything" said the mud mage.
"Anything, are you sure" said Sally smiling.
"Yes anything then ill help you beat these people" said the mud mage before smiling, "The jokes on you, once I'm out of these I'm gonna take the money and make a run for it" he thought before Sally injected a needle into his ear.
"Sorry but you did say anything" said Sally as she removed the needle and blood came out of his ear. Mud then started to come out from all over his body.
"Brother" said Neas looking worried as more mud came out of his brothers body. The mud covered him entirely and started to turn into a mud giant.
"Your free of the bonds now, the only thing is your no longer human" said Sally.
"What is that thing" said Astra holding his anti magic sword up.
"His magic powers gone completely out of control" said Theresa when the mud giant punched the caves wall, making some rubble fall down and the kid scream from being afraid, "Asta, Gauche you two stay back and look after the children" she said when Gauche got on his broom and picked up Marie.
"Big brother what are you doing, what about the others" Marie asked her brother looking worried as they flew into a passageway that would lead to the outside.
"They don't matter, the only person I care about protecting is you" said Gauche as he continued to fly forward.
"Are you kidding me" said Asta looking surprised.
"That fool" said Theresa looking annoyed while releasing it was up to her and Asta to defend the children from the mud monster and Sally, a member of the eye of the midnight sun.