Part 49: Former students

After Asta had used his new special move against Fana and the fire spirit Salamander, it looked like the members from the black bulls had won. Back deep in the witches forest the queen herself watched the events happen from one of the two big glowing orbs in the room.

"That imperfect boy was able to win, it looks like he wasn't all talk after all," she said watching as the black bulls cheered, before looking towards the other large orb that displayed an image of the diamond kingdom forces, "As for them," she said as the image moved revealing Fanzell was flying on his broom in front of them as wind surrounded the front of his broom.

"Oh so what do we have here, you know theres something about him that seems familiar," Ladros said looking excited.

"Mars, you remember me right?" Fanzell asked looking at the spikey haired mage who didn't respond, but instead stared at the wind mage with a calm look on his face when Ladros spoke up.

"Oh wait I remember you now you are old teacher now aren't you," he said still smiling, "This just got a whole lot more interesting," he said spreading his arms wide and a blue laser shot at Fanzell.

Fanzell took out his wind sword blocking the the laser but it still made him shake from where he stood on his broom, "Oh you still got some skills don't you teach," said Ladros while Mars continued to watch, the expression on his face not changing.

"I'm going to ask this only once, will you please leave this place?" He asked looking serious as he held his sword by his side.

"Sorry no can do, you see our king isn't feeling the best these days," said Ladros, "So we heard the queen of witches has been alive for a long time and so we members of the eight shining generals were sent here to capture her so we can find out how she does it," he said while gesturing to himself and Mars making Fanzell look surprised.

"I knew their power increased since the last time I saw them, but to think they had come that far," he thought while holding his sword back ready to fight as he remembered when he taught both Ladros and Mars back when they were younger, "This is the only way I can make up for what Ive done,".

In another part of the forest Mariella was still leading a group of witches, while in another part Domina was modifying the small security golems, after finishing working on the parts for one of them, the back of it closed up, "Alright its all set now," she said smiling.

Fanzell then flew his broom towards Mars and Ladros, "Oh look here he comes now," Ladros said, but look surprised when his old teacher flew above him and started attacking the other mages.

"Wind creation magic, emperor of slashing wind, wind shot," he said pointing his sword forward as a small wind swords shot out out of the wind blade. The small wind swords hit their targets making the mages fall of their brooms.

"Just who is this guy?" Asked one of them before Fanzell struck him down.

"Wait I recognize him, hes the traitor Fanzell Kruger, he was a General in the army and a combat instructor," one mage said recognizing Fanzells face, "Hes also got a large bounty on his head, so lets take him down," he said before Fanzel took him down as well.

As Fanzell flew through the air he noticed Mars and Ladros hadn't moved from the spot at the head of their forces, "With all their power it wouldn't be easy for them to hit me without hitting their own guys," he thought before going back to fighting.

"Theres only one of them so just enter formation six and we can take them down," a red haired mage said. But as the mages around him readied their spells to fire they were all hit by spells from below them, "What the," said looking down only to see Mariella along with the witches she had been leading through the forest.

"When you face your opponent make sure you come with three times their forces, that's what my master taught me," she said smiling before stretching her left arm out, "Don't stop, keep on firing," she said as the witches followed her instructions and started shooting down more of the diamond kingdom mages.

"All teams take formation fifteen, we can still win," he said before the mages he pointed at were blasted out of the sky as well, "How is this happening," he said before Mariella appeared behind him.

"Easy, its because its what I would have done," she said as her mind flashed back to when she was still an assassin for the diamond kingdoms army, "I took so many life's back then just because I did what I was ordered to do, I'm not even sure if I'm trying to make up for what ive done," she thought when the red haired diamond kingdom mage turned to look back at her.

"Your on their side to, you traitor," he said before Mariella trapped him in ice.

"Sorry but if I didn't live the person who helped saved me," she said as an image of Astas face flashed through her mind, "He wouldn't be happy with me," she said smiling.

Mariella who had been standing next to one of the witches had been watching what happened, "She took them down so easily," the witch said looking surprised.

"Yeah well that's Mariella for you shes really something, now its our turn," she said pressing a button a remote she had been holding and a few moments later the golems she had modified flew over to different groups of diamond kingdom mages.

"Hey whats that thing," one of them said before it exploded making them fall of their brooms and the same happened with the other diamond kingdom mages that were near a golem.

"Yes, with just a few changes these security golems could be changed into flying bombs," said Mariella smiling like when she had took out the vanish all earlier when they were sneaking into the forest.

"But the ingredients must have cost you a lot of Yule," the witch standing next to her said with a confused look on her face while Domina continued to smile.

"Actually the ingredients for it only cost me three thousand Yule so it wasn't that much," she said before pointing her wand forward along with the large group of witches behind her doing the same.

"Alright lets show them how determined we witches can be and we won't let them take it away," she said looking serious and the other witches yelled in agreement before they fired their own spells at the enemy.

Back up in the sky, "Hey teach I hope you didn't forget about me," said Ladros as another blue laser fired at Fanzell who dodged it before flying in front of him.

"Wind binding magic, emperor of slashing wind, whirlwind," he said pointing his sword at Ladros where four small tornadoes trapped his arms and legs. But Ladros just smiled while his grimoire floated in front of him.

"Ladros always had strong protection magic, so I needed something strong to stop him," thought Fanzell before swinging his sword across Ladros chest, but as he landed the strike his mind flashed back to when he was a combat instructor.

Flashback:

Somewhere in the diamond kingdom, inside what looked like an arena, Fanzell was training his students and the one he was teaching how to use a sword was a younger Mars. Ladros whose eyes looked normal back then, was training with his magic.

"Here you just need to concentrate," Fanzell instructed him and sure enough his magic power started shining brighter.

After the training he stood in front of his students, "Now make sure you all remember this, your to only use the stuff I thought you to protect people," Fanzell said looking serious.

"Yes," all the students said. While most of them smiled, Mars just calmly looked up at his teacher.

FLashback end

"I'm going to ask you this one more time, will you leave and its people alone?" Fanzell asked Ladros only to see he was still smiling.

"Sorry teach no can do, you know we diamond kingdom work we take what we want no matter how much force we have to use," he said laughing.

"Yeah that's one of the reasons why I left," said Ladros holding up his sword when Mars spoke up as he flew his piece of crystal towards them.

"Stop, if you do anything youll die," he said looking serious.

"Mars, out of all the students I thought he was the most skilled," thought Fanzell, before pointing his left hand at his other former student, "Wind creation magic, emperors whip," he said as wind formed into the form whip from his left hand, grabbing Mars with it and throwing him away from the battle.

"Now," said Fanzell as he flew his broom above Ladros, "Wind magic, emperor of slashing wind, gale," he said pushing the sword into Ladros chest as he began to scream with the force of the wind hitting him.

"No please stop, I just can't take anymore," he said before smiling which made Fanzell look surprised, "No I seriously cant take much more," he said as his body began to absorb the wind near his chest where a large red jewel was in the middle of it.

"Whats going on," said Fanzell as he made his broom fly away from Ladros as he was now free from his binding magic.

"Yeah you see teach after you left they did one of those upgrade surgery's on me and it worked great," said Ladros, "Because I gained the ability to both absorb and imitation and teach I have to ask, you didn't happen to bring anyone important with you into the forest did you, like someone you love perhaps," he said making Fanzell look shocked while he grinned.

"Because if I were you, I would go check on them now," he said as Fanzell quickly turned his broom around and began to fly away towards Dominas location, but as that happened more blues laser shot out from around Ladros.

"Million lasers," he said as multiple lasers started hitting all over the forest and when some diamond kingdom mages got too close they ended up being hit by the attack as well.

When the dust cleared multiple trees had fallen, along with both witches and diamond kingdom mages, "Oops, looks like I accidentally hit some of my own forces oh and what do you know," he said looking toward Fanzell who lied on the ground and was holding his right hand up. It was pointing toward Domina who was being protected by a dome made out of his wind magic.

"Domina," said Fanzell before his hand dropped and the spell protecting Domina vanished.

"Zell," she said looking worried before Ladros landed next to her and picked her up from the ground by the front of her cloak.

"Well who do we have here, you look familiar too, oh wait your that little minx he had tried to run away with aren't you," said Ladros smirking.

"Ladros, please don't do this, use your power for good," said Fanzell trying too move but could only push himself up from the ground.

"Oh would you give it a rest already with that crap, theres only one thing that matters and that's getting stronger, how else did you think I was able to get his far to the point I was made one of eight," said Ladros smiling, "Your ideas of how we should use our power bugged me, the only thing that matters is destroying our enemies, that's why you lost that power struggle so long ago and ran away all scared," he said before Domina hit him across the face with her wand, her magic power shining at the end of it.

"How dare you, Zell is no coward," said Domina with angered look on her face while Ladros continued to smile despite being hit across the face.

"You know what teach, I'm gonna kill her before I kill you," he said before tossing Domina into the air.

Domina while in the air tried to reach out to Fanzell as Ladros made a blue sphere appeared in his hand before firing it towards her, Fanzell could only watched with a frightened look on his face. But before the large blue sphere hit his fiancé it was cut in half by a large crystal sword.

"Huh," said Ladros while Mars landed on the ground while carrying Domina.

"Mars," Fanzell said looking confused.

"This isnt our mission, we are to only retrieve the queen of witches lets just leave them here," said Mars as his sword flew behind him and began to vanish since it had completed its mission.

"What are you talking about Mars, these people are traitors so why shouldn't we took care of them, you're a traitor to the kingdom if your trying to protect them," said Ladros.

"Well then I guess I'm a traitor," said Mars calmly while Fanzell and Domina looked surprised by what he said.

Ladros looked annoyed for a second before he began to laugh, "Haha, this is perfect, you know I always knew when I began my climb my way to the top that you would get in my way," he said as blue lights appeared around him, "But now I can kill you legally," he said as blue lasers fried at Mars who dodged them as he dropped both Domina and Fanzell onto a piece of crystal as he pointed his left hand at them.

"Now Flame recovery magic, phoenix robe," he said as flames surrounded the two of them and began to heal their injuries.

"Why are you doing this Mars, hes right you know we are traitors," Fanzell said looking confused.

"Lets just say what you said really hit home, that's why I'm going to use my power to protect people," he said making his old teacher look surprised before he had to dodge another one of Ladros attacks.

"This is perfect, I get to kill my teacher and the guy I hate in just one day," Ladros said happily before two ice daggers stabbed into his back making him look annoyed.

"Mariella," said Fanzell and Domina noticing the black haired girl standing next to a tree , she was covered in a few injury's from being caught up in Ladros attack from earlier.

"My master maybe old but he deserves more respect then what your giving him," she said looking annoyed while Ladros just smiled as the ice daggers began to vanish.

"Well if your going to use magic can you make it stronger then that, its not even good enough to snack on," he said before firing a blue laser in her direction, only for Mars to pick her up from the ground and jump onto another piece of crystal as he began to fly away with the other piece carrying Fanzell and Domina following him.

"This is looking bad, how do we even stop him," said Fanzell looking back to see Ladros get onto his flying carpet.

"His powers basically unstoppable, but I do know a few ways we can defeat him," said Mars as he continued flying forward, "The first is we hit him with enough magic power until he can no longer absorb it and it explodes, we can use sprit magic or the queen of witches to help with that, the other way is the power of anti magic," he said making Fanzell look surprised.

"Anti magic, how does he know about something like that, Asta," he thought before smiling, "Great I know just the guy that can help us with that one and hes just on the other side of this forest," he said as they flew towards the direction the black bulls were in as Ladros began to catch up with them.

"Did you all really think you can get away from me like that," he said before looking confused when he only noticed one piece of flying crystal ahead of him.

He then flew next to a tree where Fanzell and Mars had been waiting for him, "That uncontrollable power of yours," said Fanzell as he and Mars jumped into the air and he brought his right arm back covering it with his magic power.

"Is why its so easy to sneak up on you," said Mars doing the same with his left arm before the two of them punched Ladros with their magic enhanced fists, sending him flying into the air.

Over with the four black bulls, "Alright lady don't make a move we have you completely surrounded," Asta said holding up his two swords. Noelle, Finral and Vanessa standing behind him. But in front of him the forest was on fire and in the middle of it was Fana with the top of half of Slamander next to her as it stared at the black bulls.

"Come on you cant die yet, don't you have family that will be worried if something bad happened to you," said Asta, "These flames are really starting to get bad," he thought looking at the flames around the area.

Fana looked up with an angry look on her face as she held a hand next to her third eye that was glowing with magic power, "You vile humans, you dare speak like you understand my family," she said as magic power surrounded her body and what was left of Salamander making the four black bulls look surprised.

"Guess were not done with her yet," thought Noelle before holding her wand up, getting ready to continue the fight against Fana the hateful. None of the black bulls knowing that they had more company and a new threat on its way toward them.