Part 45: Domina
During the time after Asta and Noelle had gotten together after their mission in the dungeon with Luck. Noelle was searching the forest for medicinal herbs that would help Asta heal from his injury's, "Lets see, oh here it is," she said as she moved her wand along the plants on the ground while she held a small book in her left hand.
When she crouched down to get it she heard a male voice speak up from behind her, "Uh excuse me Ms," he said. Noelle looked back only to look shocked by the sight behind her, which was a man with red hair and was was only wearing his pouch that held his grimoire, "I was wondering if I could take a look at something of yours, it will only take a," he said before noticing the annoyed look on her face.
"What exactly do you mean by that you pervert," she screamed sending a blast of water at him from her wand as she began to run back to the hideout while Fanzell chased after her.
"Wait miss hang its not what you think," he said before a blast of water hit him as Noelle continued to run back.
"Stay away you creep," she said while inside the black bulls hide out, the other magic knights could hear Noelle screaming.
"Whats going on out there," said Magna who was sitting back in a chair with an annoyed look on his face.
"What is she running from," said Rosa getting up from where she was sitting as she put her right hand onto her grimoire as Yami entered the room with a tired look on his face.
"Can't a man take a dump in peace," he said rubbing the back of his head as Noelle rushed into the building with a frightened look on her face.
"Asta," she said looking around for her boyfriend when Finral spoke up.
"Sorry I think he went out to train earlier," said Finral looking confused until Fanzells hands grabbed the door to the entrance.
"Please I just need a peak, ill even give you money," he said peaking his head inside only to see all the magic knights in the room glaring at him and in Rosas case she grabbed the green thorns coming out of her sword handle.
A few moments later Fanzell was tied up and on his knees with his face beaten up, Charmy hit him in the back of head with a frying pan, "Alright hes all good," she said smiling at their victory.
"What were you thinking she came in here scared out of her mind," said Yami looking annoyed while sitting on a couch Noelle was looking down with her face in a tissue as Vanessa and Rosa were trying to calm her down.
"There there, you mustn't have known what to think when you saw him out there," said Vanessa before smiling, "He probably wasn't the first man you wanted to see naked right," she said Noelle blushed realizing who she was talking about.
"We only just got together recently this is no time to be thinking about that," she said looking at the witch while still blushing.
"Please this is all just a big misunderstanding," said Fanzell looking down.
"Oh will show you a misunderstanding," said Magna with a fire ball in his hand.
"I say we let him escape so we can capture him again," said Luck smiling as sparks of lighting surrounded his hands.
"You don't deserve to live in the same world as Marie," said Gauche holding up one of his mirrors.
"Yes hello headquarters, we got a pervert here and we will bringing him in soon," said Finral speaking into a magic item that displayed the image of someone in magic knights robe who had their hood up.
"No wait hold on you don't need to do that," said Fanzell before someone familiar to him spoke up from the entrance, "Zell is that you," he said.
Fanzell looked towards the entrance to see Asta standing there holding his big anti magic sword against his shoulder. He was shirtless with bandages wrapped around his stomach and Nero perched on his head.
"Hey what are you doing all the way out," said Asta before noticing the way Noelle was looking down, "Noelle what happened," he said rushing over to her which made Nero fly off his head.
"She just saw something she didn't want to see," said Rosa looking towards Fanzell who Asta looked up and down.
"Again old man," said Asta while Fanzell just smiled nervously.
A while after Fanzell explained what happened to him in the forest, he was now dressed in pants and a white vest, "Oh so you were robbed and that's why you were naked, you should have told us that before we beat you up," said Yami.
"Well you really weren't really paying attention," said Fanzell rubbing the back of his head.
"So what are you doing here anyway old man, weren't you looking for your fiancée?" Asked Asta who was now dressed fully. He was sitting on the couch next to Noelle who was sitting at his left side and holding his arm.
"Yeah I was and seems things have changed for you, you ended up joining a magic knights squad after all," said Fanzell.
"Yeah and some other things," said Asta smiling at Noelle who smiled back at him.
"So your got your memories back and that means this girl is that important person to you," said Fanzell smiling at his student who looked embarrassed that he brought that up.
"By the way Zell you look awfully familiar, have we met before," said Yami with a curious look on his face.
"Uh no sir," said Fanzell as he started avoiding eye contact with the black bulls captain while Rosa crossed her arms.
"Zell, I could almost remember Yami telling me he fought someone with a name like that before," she thought until the man in question spoke up.
"Anyway I was wondering if I could take a look at your wand," said Fanzell making Noelle look confused as she took out her wand.
"This, Asta got it for me when we went to the castle towns black market," she said.
"Why are you so interested in it?" Asta asked him only to see Fanzell now looked serious.
"Because I think I might know its creator, did they happen to tell you their name?" He asked.
"Yeah when I was leaving she told me her name was Code, but isnt your fiancés name Domina," said Asta only to see his teacher smile.
"Its really her then, her full name is Dominante Code, she must be using that name to hide out," he said before putting his hand over his eyes, "Shes really alive," he said as a few tears of relief slipped from under his hand.
"Asta its thanks to you that Im going to be reunited with the woman I love," said Fanzell before getting up from the couch, "Would it be okay if I leave now sir?" He asked looking at Yami who just sat back.
"Yeah sure just don't say anything about us falsely imprisoning you," he answered.
"Uh you're the only one bringing up false imprisonment sir," said Finral.
"Whatever just make a portal so this guy can be on his way," said Yami.
Fanzell and Asta then knocked their arms together, "Well looks like this is goodbye Asta, sorry that I have to take off like this, just make sure you become the wizard king," he said.
"It's alright were just the kind of guys that like to get things done, you just make sure to live happy ever after with your fiancé okay," said Asta smiling.
"Yeah you got it," said Fanzell when blasts of magic hit the ground outside making the ground under them shake.
"What is going on," said Charmy looking confused.
"Just who is attacking us," said Magna looking annoyed wondering who was attacking the headquarters for the black bulls.
In one of the the tall trees in the forest that surrounded the building, standing on one of its branches was a man wearing the robes of the diamond kingdom. He had a beard and scar that went down his left eye. Crouch next to him on the branch was Mariella, "They haven't moved at all, this isnt something master Fanzell would do," she said.
"Well sooner or later he will have to come out, all teams be ready for anything that comes out," he said speaking into a magic item.
"If that is all may I take my leave," said Mariella standing up with a bored look on her face.
"Very well, but please remember to show more gratitude for the one who let you live after your last failure," the man said opening a portal in front of the the branch they were standing on. Unlike Finrals portals this one was red.
"I'm very well aware of that Galleo," she said before jumping through the red spacial portal before it closed.
"Sir were getting close to the building," said a voice from his magic item.
"Good wait for my," Galleo began to say before a large water dome formed over the entire building, before the man could speak Fanzell jumped through the water dome, "There he is, all teams move in and capture him," he said when Magna and Luck jumped through the water as the diamond kingdom mages jumped out from the forest.
"How do you like this, Lightning magic thunderbolt execution," said Luck firing a blast of lighting at multiple diamond kingdom mages.
"Flame magic, fire exploding scatter shot," said Magna throwing out a fireball that turned into multiple fire balls before hitting their targets.
Luck and Magna landed on the ground, "These guys don't look like they're playing around," said Magna.
"Then its okay if we break some of their legs right," said Luck smirking before the two of them went into battle.
"Just who are these people," said Galleo looking surprised not expecting anyone else besides Fanzell to show up. He then looked up seeing Gauche standing on a broom.
"Lets get this over quick so I can go see Marie, Mirror magic reflect refrain," he said as multiple mirrors appeared around him and a beam of light reflected off against them before hitting Galleo.
Back on the ground Noelle was holding up her wand to keep the spell protecting the base going as she jumped out of it and she was followed by Yami, Rosa, Finral and Charmy when multiple diamond kingdom mages flew toward them, all of them with spells about to fire.
"Dark magic," Yami said as he grabbed the handle for his katana, "Dark cloaked lightless slash," he said sending out a slash of darkness that took down all the mages that were flying towards them when more ran out of the forest.
"Briar magic, briar hunting corpses," said Rosa as green thorns shot up from the ground taking down the mages that were running towards them.
"I don't care who you all are, but your not touching my food," said Charmy sending two sheep made out of her cotton magic at the enemy which made them fall.
"I don't Understand, they not only have a spell that stops our spells from hitting the building but their own as well," said Galleo who was hiding in the bushes as he watched spells hit off against the water dome that was over the building. Then someone grabbed him from behind by his neck.
"So you're the guy in charge right," said Fanzell.
"Fanzell you traitor, you'll let me go if you don't want us to hurt our prisoner," said Galleo looking annoyed that he had been caught.
"What prisoner?" Asked Fanzell.
"Dominante, we know where shes hiding," said Galleo before Fanzell spoke up with a smile on his face.
"Wow the captains plan is working great, everything is going as he said it would," he said which confused Galleo.
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
"You see my squad mates are already getting a portal to her so I think everything's going to be just fine," said Fanzell.
"Wait who are you," said Galleo when there was a puff of smoke revealing a big person blowing out smoke, it was Grey.
Meanwhile in the castle towns black market the real Fanzell was currently getting punched in the face repeatedly by Domina, "What took you so long do you have any idea how long I have been waiting for you and with all those people out there wanting to kill me," she said as she continued to punch him while Asta, Noelle and Finral watched them looking confused, "Do you realize how dangerous it was for me," she said.
"I'm sorry," said Fanzel before she stopped punching him and rested her head on his chest as tears appeared in her eyes.
"But I'm really glad to see you," she said smiling before walking over to Asta.
"Thank you so much for bringing him here and I hope the wand is working for you okay," said Domina looking at Noelle.
"Yes its been a great help," said Noelle smiling at her wand before Domina spoke up again.
"Looks like she was right that I could put my trust in you," she said looking at Asta.
"Wait who are you talking about?" He asked before noticing someone familiar standing behind Fanzell, "Mariella," he said.
Fanzell instantly turned around and stood in front of Domina protectively, "What are you doing here?" He asked looking at his former student.
"Wait hang on shes the one who told me you would be coming," said Domina.
"Why should we trust her, you beat up your own teacher and tried to kidnap him," said Asta pointing a finger at Mariella who sighed.
"Let me explain and ill tell you what happened," said Mariella. Back at the outside the black bulls hideout Galleo had realized the people they had attacked were the magic knights squad the black bulls.
"You set us up," said Asta sounding surprised after hearing Mariellas story.
"Yes, I lead the assassination team to the black bulls with a hopeful chance that you would be able to defeat them," she said calmly while Finral looked down.
"Well thanks for letting us know in advance," he said while sweating.
"But why do something like this now?" Fanzell asked only for her to look down at the table they were all sitting around.
"It's because like my teacher I'm tired of the things they've had me do, when I learned where Domina was staying I started planing escape routes for the two of you," she said before placing a piece of paper on the table, "It was also something you said back then," she said smiling at Asta who looked confused.
"What do you mean," he said.
"We have to fight for the things we live for," she said remembering what Asta had told Fanzell back in that house in the forest, "It was very uplifting and inspiring," she said blushing from embarrassment.
"Uh thanks," said Asta looking surprised while Noelle noticed the look on Mariella face and she then stared at the former diamond kingdom assassin with an annoyed look on her face.
"After this I'm going to turn myself over the magic knights," said Mariella.
"Are you sure about that Mariella, the magic knights may not forgive you for what you've done in the past but someone from the diamond kingdom might get to you if you end up in prison," said Fanzell taking the piece of paper off the table.
"I'm sure," she said when a red spacial portal opened from behind her, Galleo stepping out of it.
"So you turned traitor to Mariella," he said with a smirk on his face.
"Galleo you would leave your own troops behind, how disgraceful," Mariella said looking annoyed that he had escaped from the battle against the other black bulls.
"Well if your so desperate to get capture allow me to help you, Spacial creation magic, un opening red room," he said sending slamming his hands into the ground and sending a blast of red magic energy towards Mariella.
"Look out," said Asta as he and Fanzell stood in front of her as the spell hit the three of them, making them vanish along with Galleo.
"Zell," said Domina.
"Asta," said Noelle.
The three of them ended up appearing in a red cubed shaped room, "What is this place," said Asta.
"We must be careful, this is a place was created by Galleo himself and he can make things appear," she said when the diamond kingdom assassin appeared at the end of the room as he slammed his hands into the ground.
"Red sculptures," he said as red figures started to grow from the ground, each one of them wielding a different weapon and red glowing eyes.
"Looks like this is what were up against," said Asta as his grimoire floated in front of him.
"Wait you ran in to protect me without knowing what kind of spell he was using, what if it was an attack spell, you could have died," she said looking confused.
"Some things have changed since the last time you saw me, I'm a member of the black bulls and Ive got someone waiting for me to get back, ahh," he said taking out his big anti magic sword and began to easily cut down each red figure, "So your going to get my help whether you like it or not," he said making her look surprised.
"Well it wouldn't feel right to me if I didn't help out one of my students," Fanzell said as he took out a small handle as a wind blade formed at the end of it. He then began to help Asta take down the figures while Mariella just watched looking amazed that they were fighting to save her.
Meanwhile back at the black bulls hideout, "Yeah headquarters we got a bunch of bad guys tied up back here, so could you come get them," said Yami speaking into a magic item as he Grey, Rosa and Gauche stood in front of the diamond kingdom mages that were all tied up together in groups by rope.
"Sure is a lot of guys to go after just one person, wonder what Fanzell could have done," said Gauche.
"Wait don't you mean Zell?" Yami asked looking confused.
"No I heard from Grey, his full names actually Fanzell," said Gauche.
There was a few moments of silence before Yami put his right fist into his left palm, "Oh yeah I remember now, he was a commander in the diamond kingdom army and I even met him on the battlefield once," he said, "But I heard he went on to teach their soldiers instead,".
"He must have been good if they wanted him back so badly," said Rosa.
"Sir does that mean we just let an important enemy escape," said Gauche looking towards his captain.
"I'm not going to report so make sure you don't either," said Yami,
"In that case may I have a week off so I can go see Marie?" Gauche asked.
"I thought you were only allowed to see her once a month," said Yami looking confused.
"Yes but I'll be so quiet no one will even know I'm watching," said Gauche calmly while Yami just sighed.
"How about you Rosa?" He asked.
"I knew from the way he acted that he was only focused on finding his fiancé, if he was our enemy he would have fought with the mages that were outside," said Rosa.
Meanwhile back in the castle downs black market Asta had restrained Galleo after they had defeated him. A while later the three black bulls stood in front of Fanzell, Domina and Mariella who were carrying backpacks, all set to leave outside the city's wall.
"Looks like this is goodbye for real this time," said Fanzell.
"Are you sure its okay to take off like this," said Domina.
"Captain Yami was okay with it so I don't see the problem," said Asta smiling.
"Just make sure not to cause to much trouble," said Finral.
"Yes we do have other things to worry about," said Noelle brushing pack some of her hair.
"Someone has a flipped personality," said Domina.
"Hey you were the one who manipulated us into helping you," said Asta looking annoyed.
"Yes and while I was watching you all I was wondering why you didn't make a move sooner," she said calmly when Noelle spoke up looking serious.
"Yes and I'm sure you're the kind of person who only looks after themselves and thinks that as long as your alone everything will turn out fine," said Noelle making Mariella looking annoyed, "But now everything's changed now that you have them," she said looking towards Fanzelll and Domina.
"You have to think about them to now," said Noelle.
"I will and perhaps one day you can explain how you ended up dating my fellow pupil," said Mariella making Noelle look embarrassed.
"Well this is goodbye for now Asta, make sure to go and become the wizard king," said Fanzell.
"Yeah, you make sure you and Dominas live happy ever after," said Asta.
"Well ill be rooting the same for you and Noelle then, make sure he stays out of trouble will you," said Fanzell looking towards Noelle who smiled, "But don't worry, me Domina and Mariella are going to make sure we live life to the fullest and if its not to much trouble," he said rubbing the back of his head while the three magic knights looked confused.
"Whats up," said Asta.
"Since I was robbed I really don't have any money at the moment, so could I borrow some," he said smiling nervously while the three black bulls looked annoyed.
Back to the present
"Fanzell, Domina i need to talk to the two of you," said Noelle looking at the two people in question as Domina punched Fanzell repeatedly in the face.
"Will you quit with the naked thing already, your embarrassing us," she said while Mariella looked towards Noelle.
"The house is already in a sorry state so please try not to damage it more," she said while her teacher continued to be punched by the woman he loves.
"I'm sorry it just happens," said Fanzell.
A few moments later after Fanzell had gotten dressed, he sat at a table with Domina and Noelle. Finral stood behind Noelle while Mariella stood near one of the windows.
"I see, poor Asta," said Fanzell after Noelle finished the story about what happened to Astas arms.
"His luck is about as bad as his height," said Mariella.
"I was hoping you would know some way we could heal his arms?" She asked.
"Ancient hex magic," said Fanzell as he began to think until Domina spoke up.
"There is one place that could help, my homeland the forest of witches," said Mariella looking down at the table.
"You think they'd help," said Noelle.
"I know the queens magic would help, but," said Domina while far away from their location in a forest. Vanessa stood in front of two large wooden doors that were part of a large wall.
"Hey, the smartest witch ever to grace these land of witches has come to say hello, open up ive got business," she said looking serious. After a few moments the doors opened revealing a large amount of crows that covered the entire doorway. They stretched out like smoke covering Vanessa entirely. Then they both vanished as the two doors closed.