Part 40: Kiten Village attacked
After completing their mission in the underwater temple and retrieving the magic stone the black bulls had returned to their headquarters, "Alright good job everybody" Asta said cheerfully from where he sat on top of a couch in the living area.
Noelle was siting on the couch itself as she looked up at her boyfriend with an annoyed look on her face, "Will you take it easy already, you were the one who was injured the most' she said.
"Oh Marie, Ive finally returned to the service" said Gauche smiling at a picture of his sister and from being in the underwater temple for so long blood was coming out of both of his nostrils.
Charmy was eating food at a table and Vanessa was drinking, "Uh theres nothing like a cold drink after a mission, or three haha" Vanessa said smiling as there was two empty bottles next to her.
"Oh thank god that's over" said Firnal lying back one of the couches looking exhausted.
"Man fighting those guys was really exciting, makes me want to fight more like them" said Luck punching his fists forward.
"Haha that wasn't so bad for the lowest of the magic knights" said Magna excitedly, he was sitting next to Grey who was in her true form and had her eyes covered.
"Yeah but even after all that were still in last place when it comes to the rankings and by the way" said Finral before looking at the corner of the room where Gordon was sitting. He was sitting on the ground hugging his knees.
"Wait has been there the entire time we were gone" said Gauche.
"I don't remember seeing him there" said Magna looking confused while Gordon muttered.
"Hello everyone I'm so glad you all made it back safely, how was your time in the underwater temple" he muttered looking depressed.
"I feel like we should say something, he looks kind of depressed" said Finral noticing the downed look on Gordons face.
"I'm surprised he can even act this way" said Gauche looking confused as Gordon continued to mutter silently.
"I had a parasol for us all the share but you all left without me, I thought going to different places is what friends do" he muttered silently while the people paying attention to him watched him looking creeped out.
"Alright everyone I gotta go give my report, Finral your on portal duty" said Yami walking into the room with Charlotte who wasn't wearing her mask.
"Do I have to, we just got back" said Finral getting up from where he was sitting.
"Yes and also Charlotte needs to get back to her other squad" said Yami making the spacial magic user look down.
"Are you going to be alright walking around without the mask" asked Noelle?
"Don't worry my mask was damaged a few times in the past so I came up with a solution if I wasn't able to wear it ill just have to pull my hood over my face up when I'm walking around the capital" said Charlotte.
"Oh and Charmy your coming to with those prisoners we were able to capture" said Yami looking over at Charmy who suddenly stopped eating.
"Oh will there be tasty food there" asked Charmy looking excited?
"I wouldn't count on it" Yami said making another one of his squad members looking down when Asta walked over to him.
"Please sir let me go too" said Asta.
"No way, your arms are broken so you should be staying here" said Yami.
"Hes right you should be focused on recovering, you were hurt badly" said Noelle as her mind flashed back to when Asta screamed when Veto grabbed him.
"Hey I'm okay to move around" said Asta smiling trying to reassure her.
"Well normally I would have you stay put but since you and Noelle were there when this mission was assigned to us it makes sense for the two of you to come along as well" said Yami.
"Alright" said Asta cheerfully.
The six of them along with the prisoners Charmy was carrying in small cotton balls walked outside of the headquarters. Nero then flew down from above and landed on Astas head, "Oh hey Nero are you tagging along as well" he said looking up at the anti bird who just had a blank expression on its face.
"There's something ive been wondering, that magic stone is a lot like the thing you were pecking me with back in saussy village" he said.
"Did you ever get it" asked Noelle?
Asta sighed, "No the bird just wouldn't let go if it no matter how hard I tried and I have no idea where it ended up" he said looking down.
Noelle then thought back to the mission in saussy village, "What if Nero did end up finding a magic stone and we just didn't know what it was at the time" she thought when she was brought out of her thoughts by Finral.
"Hey were all ready to go" he said and the two of them quickly walked forward to catch up with them where Yami grabbed the top of Astas head.
"Quit your lazing around already we got things to, or are you trying to make us wait around" the black bulls captain said looking annoyed and Asta looked frightened as Finral opened up a portal to the capital.
After walking through Charlotte pulled up the hood of her black bulls robe so no one could see her face, "Alright I best be heading back now, good luck on your report" she said smiling back at her squad-mates.
"Thank you Charlo, ah I mean Rosa" said Noelle looking embarrassed since people were walking by.
"Don't get all embarrassed, I made that mistake a good few times back when she first joined" said Yami calmly, "Make sure to rest now okay" he said looking serious which made Charlotte smile.
"I will captain, until next time" said she said waving back at them before walking away and heading to the blue rose knights headquarters.
"Well we better go make our report, so you can take off now Finral" said Yami surprising the spacial magic user.
"Wait what I wanted to meet the wizard king, I thought I proved myself on the mission that I could be more then just your transport" said Finral before he thought of something, "Wait if I had to choose between meeting the wizard king or taking the opportunity to get a date then" he thought before walking away happily.
"Okay ill see you all later" he said.
"Well he changed his mind quickly" said Noelle with a bored look on her face.
The four of them then went to the wizard kings office and Yami gave him the report on the mission, "I see so the eye of the midnight sun sent one of their own to retrieve the magic stone after all, Veto of despair from the third eye" Julius said.
"Yeah that was him alright" said Yami.
"He was named right, I'm sure some of you are aware of this by now that there were some casualties in the magic knights that were guarding the beach, at least now they can Rest In Peace" he said before getting up from his chair and walking to the front of his desk, "Will inspect Vetos body and find out what we can from the mages that you captured".
"Well here you go, one magic stone as requested" said Yami picking up the small blue gem from his pocket and dropping it into Julius right hand.
"Thank you, the black bulls have done well on this mission" said Julius before noticing Charmy, "And who is this, your cotton binding magic really is impressive" he said picking her up thanks to her height and she didn't seem to care but smiled.
"Yami I wasn't aware you and Charlotte had a chid already, but isn't she a little old" said Julius looking confused while Charmy said, "Feed me Yummy treats".
"Shes not mine so just drop the subject" the black bulls captain said while rubbing the back of his head while Julius dropped Charmy, but luckily the young woman had soft fall thanks to her magic.
"Well either way you've done well Yami, you've also gotten stronger as well" said Julius as he thought back how other people doubted him for making Yami a magic knight captain, but he didn't care, "You really have come far" he said.
"Quit it with the praise will you, I'm twenty eight years old now not twelve" said Yami before giving the magic knights salute, "When you gave me this mission I told you I was going to prove that you werent wrong about me and I did just that" he said.
"Oh and Asta you did really well, you have fought a tough battle but I believe you are now much stronger because of it" Julius said before looking over at Noelle, "Same goes for you Noelle, it seemed you were able to learn a new spell thanks to the experience".
"Thank you sir" said Noelle looking embarrassed from the praise as she gave the magic knights salute.
"Uh sir I was wondering" said Asta getting the wizard kings attention, "I was wondering if it isnt to much trouble, would you please give me your autograph" he said which made Julius almost fall over with what Asta asked him.
Yami grabbed the anti magic boys head as he held up a quill, "Tell you what how about I give you my own autograph, on your face" he said looking threatening which frightened Asta.
"Oh no thanks I'm all good" said Asta nervously.
"Oh come on, why don't you act nervous around me sometimes" said Yami. Noelle smiled nervously while Julius smiled when an image of Marx appeared in a white circle above his desk.
"Sir I'm sorry for the intrusion but its urgent" said Marx getting everyone's attention.
"Oh hows it going mushroom head" said Yami calmly.
"My names not mushroom head and this is serious" said Marx looking worried which made Julius look serious as he spoke up.
"Whats the problem" he asked?
"Kiten village that's located near the border to the diamond kingdom is under attack by the diamond kingdom" said Marx which made Yami turn serious aswell as the mood in the room had quickly turned.
"Of course it is" said Julius as another image appeared in front of the window of the office. It showed a village surrounded by large wall and members of the propel orcas squad were standing at top of it as a large group of diamond kingdom mages flew towards the village. There were three people leading the mages on brooms, one of them wearing a magicians hat with jewels attached too it and riding on a small cloud. The second riding on top of some kind of animal made out of red clay, he had red puffy hair and jewels on a headband that went around his hair. The last one was riding on top a bird made out of lightning and he had a headband going around his head with jewels on it.
"Theres like a whole army of them" said Asta .
"The people at the front look different then the rest" said Noelle.
"They're Ragus" said Julius as the image zoomed in on the man on the lighting eagle, "Broccos" the image zoomed in on the man riding the red clay animal, "And Yagos" he said as the image focused on the man riding on the cloud.
"Three of the eight shining generals".
"The eight shining generals, who are they" asked Asta and Yami answered him.
"Their the strongest people in the diamond kingdom, think of them as if their like our magic knight captains" he said looking serious.
"Their really that strong" said Asta looking surprised.
"This is really bad, if they take over Kiten they'll be able to launch an invasion on the clover kingdom" said Marx looking worried.
Outside the walls of Kiten village the shining generals were having conversation, "Looks like were here now" said Yagos smiling.
"Alright lets get this started already" said Broccos smiling in anticipation for the battle.
"The magic knights have been busy dealing with the threat of the eye of the midnight sun, so their defenses are currently weak at this time and so now is the perfect opportunity to attack" said Ragus calmly while on the wall the magic kngiths got ready for battle.
"Put up the magic barrier" ordered one of the members from the purple orca. From another part of the wall magic knights were pouring their magic into magic spheres and the result was magic shield forming over the village.
"I got fifty defense mages pouring their power into this spell, so your not going to get through" the purple orcas member said and Ragus just smiled as his grimoire floated in front of him.
"Lightning creation magic, lightning bow" he said as large bow made of lightning formed in front of him. The bow was side ways as it shot multiple lightings arrows at the villages. The arrows went through hitting multiple magic knights and from the damage the shield went down.
"Alright now time for our plan, attack mages take down the ones who survived the attack, defensive mages make sure were protected and long range attack mages focus on keeping their defenses busy" said Yagos but while he was speaking Broccos landed his animal on the ground as he starred running towards the wall.
"I aint got time for this, Red clay creartion magic, raging boar charge" he said as the animal underneath him formed into a large boar that punched straight through the villages wall.
"That idiot Broccos he never listens" said Yagos looking annoyed by the mans attitude.
"Don't worry he's always been like that, now on with our mission" Ragus said smiling as he began to fire more lighting arrows from his bow.
Back in the capital in the wizard kings office, "This doesn't look good" said Yami.
"Theyre not gonna last much longer, no wait" said Marx looking surprised as the image changed showing a certain magic knights squad, "Its them, the strongest magic knights squad in the clover kingdom, the golden dawn" he said looking relieved.
"Yuno" thought Asta seeing his rival now wearing a similar outfit to the other members of the golden dawn besides the magic knights robe.
"Mimosa" thought Noelle seeing her cousin in a flying carriage above the other members of the golden dawn along with Klaus.
Back at Kiten village, the captain of the golden dawn William Vangeance was walking on the roof tops, "Lets get started shall we" he said smiling.
"They only sent one magic knight squad, their stupider then I thought" said Broccos smiling as his big red boar charged forward threw the town. He then noticed Yuno land not far way with the power of his wind magic, "This scrawny kid, this will be easy" he said.
Yunos grimoire floated in front of him as he pointed his right arm forward, "Wind magic, tornado fang" he said as three small tornados formed in from of him before merging into one big wind blast that was sent at Broccos and his men. Completely destroying the red clay boar and sending the enemy mages flying.
"Yeah that will show him" said the wind spirit who had been flying next to Yuno, she had been given the name Bell, "Why didn't you use some of my power, it would have been over much quicker" she said but Yuno looked away with a bored look on his face.
"Hey don't look away from me, I'm one of the four great element spirits so will you just say something already" she said looking annoyed.
"Fine then, something" he said calmly.
"Your going to end up friendless with an attitude like that and I'm sure Mimosa wants you have to have friends to" said Bell shaking her small arms, "Fine then lets get back to it and after youll have to take her out on a date" she said smiling. After seeing Mimosa with Yuno back during the battle of the capital she noticed that she liked seeing the two of them together.
"We tend to go on dates when were not on a mission or mostly when we have time off so its up to us to decide when we go on one" said Yuno calmly not effected by the wind spirits words.
Through out the village the battle continued, Klaus was sending steel drills at enemy mages and Mimosa was healing the people that had been injured. The smoke mage that had battled against Luck, Asta and Noelle in the dungeon was also in the village.
"So they have someone strong like that huh, this is great" Broccos who had survived Yunos attack, said with a smirk on his face.
Back in the wizard kings office they had all witnessed Yunos attack, "Wow that was amazing" said Charmy.
"The wind spirit has finally appeared, I cant wait to see it in person" said Julius looking excited.
"Looks like you got stronger to, you jerk" thought Asta smirking.
"Sir" said Marx getting the wizard kings attention.
"Right, while the golden dawn is strong I wish we could send reinforcements, but the bad thing is I don't Which Squads are available" said Julius now looking serious.
"That's true sir, the crimson lions are somewhere in the mountains and the silver eagles are dealing with a problem with the spade kingdom" said Marx.
"Well I guess the answers very obvious, send me" said Yami calmly.
"Are you sure, the black bulls had only just gotten back form a mission" Julius asked?
"No its oaky, I really wish I didn't send Firnal off on his own earlier" said Yami as an image of the golden dawn captain flashed through his mind, "Plus I got my own reasons for going" he thought when Asta spoke up.
"Captain let me go to" he said looking determined.
"No chance your going back to base, you wont be able to swing a sword with the state your arms are in" said Yami.
"Even if I cant fight I can still evacuate the people" said Asta not backing down.
"Ill go to sir, I'm still able to fight" said Noelle standing to as she looked determiend to go as well.
"As their superior ill keep an eye on them" said Charmy standing next to the young couple.
"Alright then, where is Finral now anyway, that good for nothing" said Yami starting to sound annoyed while in another part of the capital Finral sneezed.
"Hmm, someone must be talking about me, it's probably something good" he said before noticing two women who were talking to each other, "Alright here we go" he said smiling before he went to go attempt to get a date.
Back in Kiten village a man was watching the battles from above the rooftops, this was Langris. Finrals brother and vice captain of the golden dawn and he was watching Yuno who was easily taking down his opponents with blasts of wind, "The new guys doing really well and it hasn't even been a year yet" he said.
"Then it's a good thing I chose him, shall we join the battle ourselves Langris" asked William walking over to his vice captain?
"Yes sir" said Langris with a smile on his own face.
Williams grimoire floated in front of him, the girmoire glowed with his magic power as plants seemed to grow out from the pages, "Let us show our enemies what happens when they attack the clover kingdom" he said as the battle in Kiten village against the diamond kingdom continued.