Blank Clover
Life was never easy for Colt Blane despite being of noble birth. Despite almost looking like the perfect noble with pitch black short hair and piercing blue eyes, he was always looked at with distrust due his peculiar form of magic, even his own parents kept a close eye on his movements afraid that the temptation to use it on others would be to great. But that wasn't even the worst part because of the distrust of the people of the noble realm he rarely had any one to talk to and when ever they were they would tense up and he could clearly see they were being very careful with their choice of words almost like if they said the wrong thing he would use his magic on them.
Colt could never understand why people were so tense around him, to him his magic wasn't any thing magnificent or powerful like the legendary Spirit magic, in fact he felt his magic was completely pointless cause of the simple fact that his magic was so weak unless he was in the presence of other people which made his situation so much worse he struggled just to practice his magic.
He hated it feeling the contempt from people, hearing their muttering behind his back all about him, making assumptions all about how he would use his magic for evil purposes and most of all the horrible assumptions that he was a dark young man that would one day grow up to be a horrible villain to the entire Clover Kingdom, but the thing that only he knew better than any was that, he wasn't and he aimed to prove that to everyone.
On the day he could finally accept his grimoire he thought his life could change, that maybe somewhere hidden in his book their maybe a spell that could get people to trust him, that could prove to people that he wasn't that bad of a guy, but sadly it had the opposite effect. His grimoire was the most bizarre thing he had ever seen. When peoples grimoire normally have a decorated cover his only had the clover symbol and nothing else, it's biding was completely blank, normally a grimoire as thick as his would have at least a few spells in it but there were only three at the very front and after reading the third spell he realised exactly what the blank pages were for and it made him sick to his stomach.
After seeing how mortified people were with his grimoire Colt isolated himself from everyone and locked himself in his room and refused to come out. He figured that no one would ever come near him especially with his creepy grimoire until one day after two months of isolation he heard an explosion outside his room. He looked out of his window and could an attack on the mansion that belong to the Romolium family. It happened from time to time that someone with a grudge against a noble family will try getting even with the head of the family but that wasn't what caught his attention. What caught his attention was the two men that were wearing robes, one red the other silver.
Colt never really had any interest in the magic knight, he didn't even know who the current captains were, just the Wizard King Fuegoleon, but watching the two knights work in tandem despite being from different squads was really peaking his interest, for the moments watching the battle he had forgotten why he even locked himself in his room. Colt watched the battle unfold un able to take his eyes off the action, as soon as the battle concluded only one word came to mind. "Wow." And just like that Colt Blane got a new lease on life and knew exactly what to do with it. He was going to join the Magic Knights.
The Exam was in four months and during that time Colt vowed he would train harder than ever to join a Squad, though that was easier said than done, because of his magics reliance on others and peoples unease around Colt the best he could do was practice his Reinforcement Magic and Mana Skin hoping that it would be enough. He also practiced flying and releasing magical energy, but it always had an odd effect on what ever he shot at. During his training he kept watching the Magic Knights noticing that even different squads would work together and adapt from each other in almost a blink of an eye and how they just accepted one another despite it all. Colt could only hope that someone would accept him and his magic. Little did he know that he was going to meet that someone at his exams.
4 months went by and Colt was as ready as he was going to be, he was so excited until he told his parents where he was going that day and all they had to say was. "Please son, don't get your hopes to high." But Colt wouldn't be discouraged for the first time in his life he felt like he was on the right path. He knew he had to pass because he knew for a fact, he wasn't going to find any acceptance here at home, so the Magic Knights were his only chance, there were people with magic just as bizarre as his and he refused to be discouraged.
Colt arrived at the arena and almost immediately all the noble applicants began to slink away from him, the feeling that he has had all his life continued even here. Colt looked around and saw some familiar faces a few caught his attention such as some former friends and children of his fathers' partners. Colt was so busy looking around that he wasn't watching where he was going and ran into a rather large man wearing a black full length hooded coat that went down to his ankles that he wore open with a white shirt underneath though his more distinguishing features were three things, his black headband with a bull on the front, his pointy hair that almost resembled horns, and his grotesquely large muscles. One more thing stood out to Colt, he couldn't sense a single drop of magic from this man but some how there was this dark aura coming from this man that somehow terrified Colt under his piercing gaze and he could only figure one this to say. "Sorry sir I just wasn't looking where I was going hehehe." It was bizarre Colt didn't feel like he didn't do anything wrong but if he didn't beg for his life this man would kill.
"If you want to be a magic knight, boy, you should learn to be more alert. Hopefully you can be more impressive during the exams." This man looked at Colt with a look that he has never seen before in his life. It wasn't disdain or lack of trust, it was utter disinterest, this man didn't care at all at what Colt was capable of, and for some cruel reason this made colt a little happy. "Well good luck or what ever kid." The man walked off into the crowd though colt knew exactly where he was due to the bizarre amount of anti-birds that started flocking in area. "GOD DAMNIT WHY ARE THESE THINGS ALWAYS TRYING KILL ME.?"
"Wow I can't believe you managed to stand under the gaze of the Black Devil himself not many he people he looks at and claim that feat." Colt looked behind him and noticed a rather tall man well kept red hair in a pony tail that was roughly around Colts age, though one look Colt could tell this man was a commoner despite what felt like a high and mighty attitude. Though Colt was never able to turn down a conversation. "How rude of me, I'm Arron Blockmire." He held out his hand and Colt took it for a shake.
"Colt Blane. Pleasure, what do you mean by Black Devil?" Colt asked rather confused.
"Oh, you don't know, if we wait a few minuets I'll show you so remain patient. Anyway, I'm a user of Iron Magic how about you?"
"I think for now I should keep that to myself Aaron."
"Ah a man of mystery, I like that." Just then a trumpet sounded. "Well how about that the exam is about to start." Just then a group of nine people appeared high at the viewing area of the arena and Colt only knew one of them, the large man from before.
"Who are they?" Colt asked
"You don't know haven't you ever been to the star festival?"
"I don't normally attend public events, they tend to make me uncomfortable."
"Oh well in that case they're the Magic Knight Captains." Colt stared at them in awe these were the most powerful men and women in the entire kingdom. "Seeing as you don't know them, we should go through and introduce them."
Arron pointed to a rather large woman with dark skin. "Sol Maron, Captain of the Blue Rose Knights an almost all female squad, Sol uses Earth magic to create powerful golems, rumour has it she once created one the size of the royal palace."
He then pointed to a rather portly elder captain. "Kaiser Granvorka, Captain of the Purple Orcas the most senior captain he has had the job for the past 12 years since the attacks from the eye of the midnight sun, his Vortex Magic makes the most perfect defence magic."
Next, he pointed to man that oddly sparkles wearing pink. "Kirche Vermillion, Captain of the Coral Peacocks, a bit of a narcissist that's difficult to deny but his Cherry Blossom Magic is something to behold filled with illusion and offensive capabilities, along with the fact that he's also a decent teacher especially after he got hit in his face a couple of time a few years back." Colt raised an eyebrow.
He pointed to a young man with glowing blue hair "Rill Boismortier, Captain of the Aqua Deer he was once the youngest captain, made the rank at only 19 his Picture Magic is nothing short of astounding and is only limited by his imagination."
"Okay then next up are the royals." Arron pointed to a spikey haired man in a red cloak. "Leopold Vermillion, Captain of the Crimson Lion Kings, he's the wizard kings' younger brother and he's just as skilled as Fuegoleon minus the advantage of the spirit magic of coarse and apparently his Flame Magic once punched a hole in a mountain."
Next was a young woman with purple eyes and a silver ponytail. "Wow Noell Silva, Captain of the Silver Sea Dragons."
"Sea Dragons? I thought it was the silver eagles."
"It was until she took over from her older brother. Apparently it left a bad taste in her mouth after some mistreatment in her childhood because of her struggle to control her powers, hell at the time she wasn't even placed in the eagles but the worst knight squad, since then she worked hard earning the admiration of those that looked down on her, earning the name the Sea Goddess with her mighty Water Magic that people could flood the entire Upper Realm. Her power and skills even got her a captaincy of a squad she wasn't in that and to her brother vouching for her."
Aaron was about to introduce the guy in gold until Colt interrupted. "What about those two?" Colt asked pointing at the man he saw, and another dressed in green.
"oh, I guess I should tell you about them they're not that interesting but alright." Aaron pointed to the man in green with slicked back hair and two large curved swords leaning on his chair. "Sekke Bronzanza Captain of the Green Paying Mantis, rumour has it he was a bigger and far weaker narcissist than Kirche until an attack by the midnight sun and went to the former mantis squad for personal training, now he's an expert swordsman with his Mantis Machetes and his Bronze Magic to create various armours enhanced by all kinds of reinforcement magic talk about an underdog."
Colt followed Aarons attention to the man in the black jacket and bizarrely an anti-bird sleeping on his head. "Asta the Black Devil, Captain of the Black Bulls and wielder of the incredibly rare Five Leaf Clover and Anti-Magic weaponry from the grimoires devil."
"Wait, what? Five Leaf Clover? Anti-Magic? Grimoirs Devil? What does the hell does that even mean? What is up with that guy?"
"He is a bit of a mystery, he doesn't even have a last name. Much like the next captain." Colt followed Aarons gaze to a tall, good looking man with shaggy long dark hair with a golden robe. "Yuno the Holy Spirit, Captain of the Golden Dawn, wielder of the legendary Four-Leaf clover, Spirit Magic and a front runner to the next Wizard King. He has been a prodigy since the day he appeared in the capital and all members of his squad are destined for greatness."
"Wow." Though despite the grand words about Yuno, Colt couldn't seem to take his eyes of Asta, something about him was bizarre to Colt like he was meant to meet Asta today. Before he could ponder any further another trumpet sounded.
"Well I guess the exams are about to start, good luck Colt."
Colt proceeded with the various exams like any other noble with the knight captains watching intently with Kaiser breaking their silence. "Any of you kids spot any potentials yet."
Kirche responded. "Not really, too many unsightly candidates to look past but the day is still young."
"Some of them seem to have some potential." Said Rill "Hey Asta what do you think." Asta was half asleep on his chair.
"Eh, nothing to interesting right now."
"As critical as ever aren't you Dorksta." Noell teased. "You used to get so excited about a stuffed alien, but your squad has the lowest recruitment out of all of us. Even Yami wasn't that critical."
"It's not because he's critical it's because lil' Rasta has the attention span of a goldfish." Yuno remarked. That sparked Asta.
"OH YEAH YUNO WELL… RGH… SHUT UP." Asta brain still can't form decent comebacks.
"I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't yell in my ear you loud muscle freak." Complained Sekke.
"Sorry Haw Haw."
"FOR THE LAST TIME MY NAME IS SEKKE." Noell just shook her head.
Sol leaned towards Noell. "The more things change the more they stay the same right Noell." Noell couldn't help but laugh until she noticed Leo standing up. Here comes the good part.
Leo spoke with the authority that could rival Fuegoloeon "Candidates it's time for you all to pair up and duel any way you wish using your magic. This is a crucial moment to stand out as a fighter and a potential Knight."
Colt began to look around looking for a partner but as always people just avoided him along with some accidental demonstrations more people have seen his magic so he just couldn't find a partner, until. "How about you and I hash it out Colt." Colt turned around and saw Aaron "I'm still very curious about that magic of yours."
Colt was on the verge of crying for once someone was interested in his magic "Really Aaron you're not to freaked out to fight me." They began to walk onto the battlefield.
"Of coarse why wouldn't want to fight a pathetic loser who is to afraid of his own magic to even fight back."
Colt was shocked. "What?"
"I know all about you Colt, the shunned noble too creeped out of his own magic to even use it or fight back, this way I can use all kinds of magic to beat you while showing off to the captains and even be a member of the Golden Dawn."
Colt was mortified the first time he thought someone was interested was using him the entire time. The announcer then begun the battle. "Iron Creation Magic: Heavy Iron Gauntlets." Two large gauntlets appeared above Aaron and suddenly charged at Colt.
Colt begun using reinforcement magic to strengthen his muscles and it oddly made hi very quick and light footed which made it rather easy to evade the slow attacks from the gauntlet. "Impressive you can move rather quickly well then let's change it up a bit. Iron Creation Magic Iron Needle Hail." A group of small needles were launched at Colt who did his bet to evade but a few managed to hit his leg which caused him to collapse to his knees, hurt not out Colt tried his best to stand his ground. "Well looks like you still have a little fight in you well let's snuff that out shall we. Iron Creation Magic: Great Iron Gavel." A large iron hammer appeared at Aarons side and it began to swing at Colt.
"I can't let this be it. I refuse to let this be as far as a I go. I won't let them continue to look at me like I'm a criminal. Even if it cost me the captains favour, I have to use my magic to win this." While ignorant of the fact Colt had caught Astas' attention, he pulled out his grimoire, despite his disdain towards the spells in his grimoire his curiosity got the better of him and he couldn't help but study them and he knew which one would be perfect for this. Dark circles appeared at his fingertips. "Thievery Magic: Thieving Strings." Strings appeared from the circles and wrapped around the hammer which reduced it to a black ball which was pulled to Colt. "Stolen Spell: Great Iron Gavel." The hammer reappeared on Colts side and went straight at Aaron who couldn't even fathom what had just happen which led to getting directly hit from the giant hammer which launched him into the wall of the arena.
All the Captains stood to attention, completely shocked, in all their years they had never seen anything like it. All the crowd were freaked out and were backing even further away from Colt. Despite all of this, every terrified face, for once Colt didn't care he stood tall even on his injured leg feeling proud for the first time in his life. "Let me tell you something Aaron. From this day forth I AM DONE DEALING WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU. People can talk about me or be creeped out by my magic all they want I don't care anymore and I'll prove to you all that just cause my magic steals other magic I'm not some escaped criminal EVEN IF I HAVE TO BECOME THE WIZARD KING!"