Part 12: The second sword

After their battle with the diamond kingdom mage, who was now in a special cage, made by Klaus steel creation magic while Klaus himself was holding his grimoire, "Are you sure that's going to hold him" said Asta stepping forward with Nero on his head.

"Are you doubting my magic, he is uncouncious and I have his grimoire" said Klaus looking annoyed.

"Well I'm just happy that none of us were siriously injured" said Mimosa smiling who was now out of the flower healing cage.

"Are you sure you should be moving now, you were hit badly" said Noelle looking concerned.

"Oh no I'm fine, I'm mostly healed now and thank you for defending me back there" said Mimosa thanking Noelle.

"Well someone had to look out for you" she said looking embarrassed from the praise.

"Well thank you anyway" said Mimosa.

Noelle then blushed as she looked at Asta, "Asta would you do something about your shirt already" she said.

"I didn't bring anything with me" said Asta, "And look what happenned to my rhobe" he said looking upset at his Magic Knights rhobe that had been damaged, "Magnas gonna kill me when I get back".

"Hey Don't worry about it, Vanessa will fix it as good as new when we get back" said Luck.

"Wait really" asked Asta hopefully?

Klaus then coughed getting their attention, "Anyway it looks like we were the ones to reach the treasure hall first, so we won the competition, but I guess just this once will allow you to walk in with us" he said.

"Oh you allow, why are you acting so high and mighty sir spectacles, you wouldn't have been able to enter the treasure hall in the first place if we hadn't of shown up to save you" said Asta looking annoyed.

"How dare you call me that, we had everything under complete control and would have succeeded without you" said Klaus trying to stay calm but was still annoyed.

"No you wouldn't have" said Asta as the two of them started to argue.

"We're defineltey involved now" thought Yuno looking looking not impressed with the situation.

"Perhaps we should go to the treasure hall now" said Noelle pointing at the treasure hall door and stopping the argument.

"Alright were going to go in there and claim what's in there for the clover kingdom, YEAHH" yelled Asta holding up his anti magic sword in the air.

"Would you stop that yelling" said Klaus looking annoyed.

The six of them walked up to the large door, "So does anyone have any idea of how to get inside" said Asta.

"Obviously there most be somehting in this room that will open it" said Klaus.

Luck walked up to the door and placed his hand on it, "Actually this door was made with magic power, hey Asta try cutting through it" he said pointing at the door.

"Alright you got it" said Asta smiling as he raised his anit magic sword into the air.

"Please, you cant possibly be able to cut through such magic" said Klaus when Asta cut a big triangle hole in the door with his anti magic sword. The piece of the door that was cut off vanished and a bright light started to shine from the hole.

Asta covered his eyes from the bright light and when he put his arm down he looked to see a giant room covered with mountians of gold, treasure chests, swords and multiple kinds of jewelry.

"Whoa there's so much treasure" said Asta looking surpsied as he walked into the treasure hall with the others.

"How lovely" said Mimosa holding up a red cloak.

Yuno picked up a book and when he opened it a small light geeen orb flew out of the book and started moving further into the room. He decided to follow it when Asta picked up a small round gold item. When it opened an illusion of Luck appeared on it, "Hi Asta" said the illusion of Luck while the real Luck was waving at Asta from a mountain of gold behind him.

"How did he get in there" said Asta looking surprised at the magical item.

"I wonder what this is" said Noelle poking at a small bubble that was glowing with some kind of power inside it. When she poked it didn't pop.

Klaus just stood there and was starting to look annoyed, "Would you all stop messing around, there could be some dangerous magical artifacts in this room" he said getting Astas attention .

"Oh cmon sir spectacles why do you have to take the fun out of everything" said Asta calmly making Klaus looking annoyed.

"What did I tell you about callling me that" he said.

Yuno continued to walk through the treasure hall when he saw a small table surrounded by wind. The only thing on the table was a scroll which he went to pick up, when he unrolled it there was some kind of writing on it, "This writing, I haven't seen anything like it before" he thought looking confused when his grimoire started to glow and the same happened to the scroll. The light was so bright it got everyone else's attention.

When the light stopped shining, "Just what was that" asked Klaus?

"I'm not sure" said Yuno looking at the scroll only to be surpsied when he noticed the writing on it was now gone.

"Cmon Nero knock it off" said Asta who's hair was being pulled by Nero who was trying to lead him somewhere. When Nero stoped pulling at Asta, he noticed the anti bird was now flying next to a circle orange jewel that was on the wall. Asta loook confused not knowing what it meant, "Okay whats it suppose to be" he asked only to start getting pecked on the forhead by Nero.

"Strange, we have someone with a four leave clover grimoire, meanwhile another one with a grimoire that looks old but has the power to dispel magic, how is it possible a commoner got such a power" thought Klaus looking at Yuno and Asta before looking at the diamond mages grimoire, "This grimoire doesn't look like a single grimoire" he thought before looking surprised when the grimoire started glowing.

Then it flew quickly towards the treasure halls entrance that was then destroyed by diamond kingdom mage, inside the his crystal golem and was glaring at the clover kingdom Magic Knights. More images appeared on in his head of the girl he saw in his head earlier.

Flashback:

It was a time after a tough training session and he was trying not to cry,"Whats wrong Mars, are you having trouble with the training their giving us, I'm here to talk to if you need to" she said.

Flashback end

The second image that played through his head was the two of them standing together.

Flashback:

The two of them were looking out a window, "You ever what your going to do after you leave here" she said making Mars look surpsied, "I know you can do it, after all you're the strongest out of all of us" she said looking down.

"Then I'll wait for you until you get out Fana" said Mars looking determined.

Fana looked surpsied at first before she smiled, "Yeah, will go see the world together" she said.

Flashback end

"The weak must be destroyed" said Mars trying to ignore the images playing in his head as flames surrounded his body.

"How his be back up again and those flames" thought Klaus looking surprised, "Is that flame recovery magic, how is he using more then one magic attribute" he thought when crystals shot up from the ground trapping himself, Yuno and Luck.

A blast of water hit Mars but it did not put out the flames, "If I can put out those flames, it will make be easier to beat him" said Noelle pointing her wand at the diamond kingdom mage. But she was then hit by the golems right hand sending her flying.

"Noelles been hit" said Mimosa as she watched her cousin fall to the ground. The middle of her dress had been cut open down the middle where she was bleeding. She had a pained look on her face as she tried to move.

"NOELLE" yelled Asta with a complete look of anger on his face as his gimoire opened quickly and taking out his anit magic sword as he started running towards the crystal golem, "HOW DARE YOU, YOURE GONNA PAY FOR HURTING MY FIREND" he yelled.

"You know I've finally been able to figure out your power, you can dispel magic but I wonder what would happen if the magic is faster then you" said Mars smirking as multiple crystal daggers appeared in front of him and started spinning towards Asta who destroyed a few of them but was being pushed back.

Then the crystal golem hit Asta with its right fist sending him flying through a wall, which was where the jewel Nero had shown Asta earlier used to be. The crystal golem started moving towards Asta as Mars spoke, "Only the strong can live, the weak must die, only the strong can live, the weak must die" he repeated.

"Noelle" said Mimosa rushing over to her, "This wound is very bad, healing flower rhobe" she said as her grimoire opened. She was then covered in a rhobe with flowers on it and there were even wings made of flowers on it. Her hands started shining a green light over Noelles wound, "I'm not going to let you die" she said looking determined as she thought back to when ever she fell Noelle would help her up. She even worried about Noelle when she heard about her having difficulty with her controlling her magic.

"I'm not going to let you die" said Mimosa. Mars overheard this and looked to see Mimosa trying to heal Noelle. Another image then flashed through his head.

Flashback:

"This will be your final test, a fight to the death and the winner will be this kingdoms new warrior" said one of the men in charge as they looked down at the children in the room who were part of the program.

One of the boys went running towards Mars, but he shot up a crystal from the ground killing him. Multiple fights broke out in the room as the children screamed as they all fought to the death. Mars started breathing in and out as mostly everyone around him was dead, "Mars" said Fana getting his attention.

He looked to see Fana with flames surrounding her right hand, "Fana, what are you doing" he said looking worried.

"Sorry Mars, but you have to die" she said running at him. Mars held up his hand waiting to be hit, but after waiting a few moments nothing happened. He then looked up to see Fana in the air with crystal spike stabbed into her.

"What" he said looking shocked as her blood dripped on his face and he then screamed.

"It's look like Mars was the only one to survive" said one of the people in charge walking into the room after the fight.

"But it looks like Fanas power might still be useful" said another person looking at Mars who was uncouncious on the ground next to Fana. But their grimoires were next to each other.

Flashback end

"The weak must die" said Mars as he made the crystal golem start moving towards to where Mimosa was healing Noelle.

Inside a dark room that was pass the wall, Asta was laying on the ground with his anti magic sword stabbed into the ground, "He adjusted his power so he could fight me, I have to do the same thing, but how am I supposed to do that" he said looking annoyed when Nero flew over him. Asta turned around to see Nero land on the handle of a sword. It was like his anti magic sword but smaller. There was line going down the middle of the blade with 3 small lines going across the blade near the handle.

"Mimosa" said Klaus who was still trapped in the crystals.

"If only I can reach my grimoire" Yuno, Klaus and Luck thought looking annoyed that they weren't able to do anything.

"Be gone" said Mars as multiple crystal daggers shot towards Mimosa and Noelle. But before they could reach them Asta destroyed them with his new anti magic sword surprising, Mimosa, Klaus, Yuno and Luck.

"I'm your opponent" said Asta looking sirious.

"Back for more are you" said Mars as more crystal daggers shot towards Asta who rushed forward and quickly destroying each of the daggers as he rushed up to crystal golem. He cut into Mars shoudler who looked annoyed as he tried to hit Asta with the golems right arm. But Asta blocked it with his sword that sent him back.

"This guy is tough" said Asta looking annoyed when he heard Noelle speak behind him, "What do you think your doing".

"Noelle" he said relieved to see her trying to sit up.

"You shouldn't be trying to move" said Mimosa looking concerned.

"Asta, you're the one who gave me hope when I was having trouble with my magic, your someone who never gives up and I'm lucky to have someone like you in my life" she said smiling, "Now don't lose to him, the wizard king always protects his people" she said making Asta look surprised as he stared into her eyes. Then the line in his sword started to glow blue making him look surpsied as he turned to face the crystal golem.

"You got it, I'll get some hits in for you to while I'm at it" he said smiling when more crystal daggers shot towards him. He swung his sword sending out a blue slash destroying the daggers. He sent another slash at the golem itself who tried to block the attack with its left arm, but the slash went though it hitting Mars in the chest making the golem fall back.

"That attack, did he borrow some of Noelles magic" thought Luck looking surprised like the others in the room.

"Just what is that sword" said Klaus.

The glowing on Astas sword stopped, "Huh, looks like I did it" he said before looking surpsied as he saw a piece of crystal stabbed into his stomach, he coughed up blood before he dropped his sword and began to fall.

"I'm done for" he said falling face first onto the ground.

"ASTA" yelled Noelle before looking at Mimosa, "Mimosa you have to go heal him, please I'll be fine" she said desperately looking worried.

"Of course" said Mimosa rushing over to Asta and held her hands over him, "This wound is bad, can I even heal it with the magic power I have left" she thought looking worried when the crystal golem got back up.

"He's still able to move after that attack" said Klaus looking annoyed.

"I'm almost free" said Luck as lighting surrounded the crystals trapping him.

A big crystal sword appeared in the golems right hand and raised it above to where Mimosa was trying to heal Asta, "Be gone" said Mars.

"ASTA"yelled Yuno as he burst through the crystals that had trapped him, "I can't let him die here, but no matter what spell I pick it will be too late" he thought as the pages in his grimoire quickly turned. But then just as the sword was about to hit them, time suddnely stopped for everyone accept Yuno.

Yuno looked confused wondering what was happenning until he looked to his right to see a small fairy wearing a green dress. The little fairy yawned before opening her eyes and looked at its surrounding. She then blew some kind of magic at the crystal sword. Then everything started moving forward again as the wind destroyed the sword and the golem completely. Mars was sent flying into a wall with a complete look of shock on his face before he fell onto the ground.

Klaus and Luck were freed as the crystals that had trapped them were now gone, "Yuno was that your magic" asked Klaus?

"No there was this little person, she used the magic" said Yuno looking confused as the little fairy was now gone.

"Little person, Well we can worry about that later" said Klaus.

Yuno then looked at his grimoire to a surprising sight, there was new writing in it, "This writing, its like the one from the scroll" he thought.

The small anit magic sword was next Astas gimoire. The grimoire opened and the sword flew into blank pages. After the sword was in, new writing appeared in the grimoire. Then the dungeon began to shake as parts of the ceiling started to fall down.

"This isn't good" said Klaus looking worried.

"Celestial wing" said Yuno as wind formed underneath him creating a cloud big enough to carry all of them, "Everyone get on" he said looking sirious.

Lucks arms and legs were covered in his lighting armour as he quickly grabbed Asta and jumped onto the cloud.

"Mimosa take care of Asta" said Yuno after everyone else got onto the cloud.

"Got it" said Mimosa as she went back to healing Asta who opened his eyes a little, "Wait" he said.

"You shouldn't be trying to move" said Mimosa.

"We can't leave him here" said Asta in pain as he look towards Mars.

"What are you saying, are you forgetting he tried to kill us all" said Klaus looking surpsied.

"Our mission, was to protect what was in the dungeon, not to kill people" he said making the others go silent before the cloud started moving towards Mars.

"I guess you have a point" said Klaus.

"Yeah, it would be a waste for a guy that strong to die" said Luck when the cloud got close enough parts of the ceiling started fall near Mars blocking their view of him.

"There isn't enough time to save him, we have to go now" said Klaus looking at Yuno who nodded in understanding as he moved the cloud out of the treasure hall.

"Where's the exit, Mimosa can't heal Asta and lead us out of here at the same time" thought Yuno looking annoyed.

"Take a right up here" said Luck with a sirious look on his face as he stood next to Yuno, "I can lead us out of here" he said.

"Got it" said Yuno as he followed Lucks directions. As they moved threw the dungeon more rubble began to fall from the ceiling making Yuno have to dodge it. Some rubble was destroyed by Klaus steel magic and Lucks lighting magic. One piece of rubble got close until Noelle destroyed it with a blast of water.

"I actually hit it" said Noelle staring at her wand before looking at Asta, "I won't let you die here Asta ,because after we get out of this I'm going to tell you how I feel about you" she thought looking determined before going back to destroying rubble.

"We won't let him die here" thought Klaus and Luck as the two of them thought back to when they saw Asta fight in the dungeon.

"There's our exit" thought Yuno as they went through another passage, then with his magic, Luck and Klaus magic they burst through wall in the dungeon and made it outside.

Outside the mage who had fought Luck, Asta and Noelle earlier noticed them fly by as he stood next to his magic vehicle with the other mages, with a pile of treasure in the magic vehicle itself, "Looks like they made it out, gotta say that it was the perfect distraction, they didn't even notice me, my smoke magic really is something" he said thinking back to while Asta was fighting Mars he was taking some the treasure with the other mages. He then looked to the top of his magic vehicle where Mars was uncouncious, "I guess it was a good thing you survived" he said.

Mars was actually dreaming of a past memory.

Flashback:

Mars screamed as he looked up at his friend that he had killed with his own magic. Her body fell to the ground and he felll to his knees next to her, "Why did you this Fana" he said as tears fell from his eyes.

He then felt her hands on his cheeks as flames went from her arms to around his body, "Your flames, but what about your wounds" he said looking at Fana to see her smiling.

"It's like I said, you're the strongest out of all of us, now make sure to live for both of us" she said as a tear fell from her right eye before she fell back onto the ground as her flames healed her friends injury's.

Flashback end

Mars opened his eyes to see the sun setting as the magic vehicle he was on was now flying, "Well looks like your awake" said the mage getting his attention.

"Lotus" said Mars.

"You got lucky back there, but if it wasn't for you we wouldn't have gotten all this treasure, my daughters will be eating well after we get back" said Lotus looking forward as he smiled.

Mars looked towards the setting sun, "Fana, my memories have returned" he thought, "Lotus" he said getting his fellow diamond kingdom mages attention, "You saved my life, thank you" he said with a calm look on his face.

Lotus smiled, "Well it looks like you can say thank you after all" he said as the magic vehicle continued to take them back to the diamond kingdom.

In the forest outside of the dungeon, Asta woke up seeing the others with smiles of relief on their faces, "Hey everyone" he said smiling.

"Thank goodness your alright" said Mimosa.

"You had me worried back there" said Noelle.

Asta began to sit up, "Ow" he said still feeling some pain.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't able to heal you completely" said Mimosa.

"No it's nothing, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be here now, so thanks" said Asta smiling. Mimosa looked embarrassed before she got up and hid behind Noelle who looked confused by the girls actions.

"Asta you cant die until we have our fight" said Luck punching his fists forward.

"Don't worry I'm not going anywhere" said Asta smiling before looking at Yuno, "Not until after I become the wizard king" he said looking determined.

"Poor naieve Asta, I'm the one who's going to become the wizard king" said Yuno smiling.

"Yuno, Asta" said Klaus getting their attention. Then surprising both of them he hugged the two young Magic Knights, "I'm so sorry, I looked down on both of you because you were both commoners, but now I see I was wrong, the Magic Knights are lucky to have you two" he said looking like he regretted what he thought of them.

"Uh sir" said Yuno, "Your to close".

"Yeah kind of in pain here sir spectacles" said Asta looking like he was in pain.

Klaus quickly backed away before he pushed up his glasses, "Right and I thought I told you not to call me that" he said.

"Hey Yuno, you and me should spar" said Luck smiling.

"I think I'll pass" said Yuno not looking impressed.

Asta looked towards Noelle, but he then blushed when he realized somehting, "Uh Noelle your clothes" he said.

Noelle looked confused before she looked down to see some of her chest was exposed, "Ahh" she said bringing her hands up to cover herself when she felt someone put something over head. She looked to see Asta had put his own black bulls rhobe over her to help her cover up.

"Here this should help until we get back" he said smiling at her.

Noelle smiled back, "I reallly have fallen for you Asta" she thought before kissing him on the cheek making him blush while Mimosa looked surpsied. Noelle then whispered in his ear, "Will talk when we get back". She then rested her head on his left shoudler with a smile on her face.

Asta blushed before he smiled as he put his left arm around her, "Yeah you got it" he said, "I have an idea of what it might be" he thought before looking over at Yuno. The two of them smiled feeling happy that they had gotten through their mission in the dungeon.