Part 76: Hideout under attack
While the Royal knights were currently attacking the eye of the midnight suns hideout, back at the headquarters of the black bulls everyone was relaxing with no missions to do at the moment. Then a spacial portal opened revealing an owl carrying an envelope with the symbol of the golden dawn on it.
Yami got the envelope and opened it, "Whats the message about captain?" Gauche asked while he seemed to be working on a small statue of someone.
"Just a message from Vangeance, saids he wants to apologize for the whole Langris situation but wants me to go to him," said Yami before sighing, "I don't see why I have to be the one to go to him though," he said before standing up.
"If your going then may I go see my sister Marie," said Gauche.
"Of course not, someone has to be here in case a mission comes in," said Yami while Gauche looked down.
"I'm going to check on Finral in the capital, maybe if I tell him theres a date waiting for him he will wake up sooner," Vanessa said walking into the room with Magna who was wearing a green cloak.
"I'm off to get started on my training, I'm going to get real strong before the others get back so be ready," Magna said looking excited.
"Just try not to hurt yourself okay flame head," Vanessa said smiling.
"You got it Vanessa," Magna said smiling.
"I'm going to get some food so we can have a nice feast for when they get back," Charmy said looking determined as one of her sheep cooks stood next to her.
Outside Charmy was carried away on chair made from her cotton magic by her sheep cooks while Yami, Vanessa and Magna were taking off into the air on their brooms, "This is going to take a while, hey while your seeing Finral ask the doc how hes holding up," Yami said.
"Will do captain, ill see you later Magna," said Vanessa.
"Alright I'm off, yeah," Magna said as all three of them took off. Leaving Gauche, Grey and Gordon at the hideout.
The three of them sat the the table and while Gauche was working on his little statue he noticed Gordon was muttering to himself and Grey who was in her normal form looked embarrassed as she covered her face.
"Really quiet around here today, guess I shouldn't be surprised since the usual loud mouths are not here," Gauche thought, "Hey," he said getting their attention.
"If a mission comes up Ill handle it alone," he said.
"Oh please don't go," Grey said.
"Of course I would go since were friends," Gordon mutters silently while Gauche sighed.
"I'm to embarrassed to use my transformation magic to hide myself," Grey thought looking nervous, "I thought it would be easier with Gauche, but Gordon is kind of scary," she thought when Gauche stood up from his chair.
"I'm going to my room, if something comes up just call," he said when Gordon and Grey quickly stood in front of him.
"Oh no please don't leave us alone," Grey said while Gordon offered to go with him since they went to the library together.
"Wait, why don't you tell us about what your working on there," Grey said pointing at the little statue in his hand.
"Oh I'm glad you asked," Gauche said smiling as he held up the statue revealing it was little figure that looked like Marie, "Ever since I became a nerd I got really into the idea of figurines and ive been working on this ever since, isn't it great," he said while Grey looked confused.
"That's not surprising," she thought.
"Since your showing your dolls, its time I show you my collection," Gordon muttered opening his jacket making Grey look surprised. Hanging from his jacket were creepy doll versions of the other black bulls.
"You know your creepy right," said Gauche looking annoyed while Gordon looked down, "If you want to try being nice, try smiling," he said.
Gordon then looked up smiling, "That's even worse," Gauche said while Grey covered her eyes.
"Alright I need the bathroom, do you know where it is today," Gauche said looking at Gordon who was on the ground.
"On the second floor to the left," he muttered.
"I don't get why this place has to change around all the time, is it some kind of spell," Gauche said.
"I don't know but it's always been like that," said Grey.
"You know I remember Vanessa and Charmy saying they saw something, maybe this isn't a spell," he said.
"Oh don't say anything else, I don't want to hear it," Grey said before looking at the window to see a man whos face was falling apart and his mouth was open, "Ah," she said looking shocked as the doors to the hideout began to be hit.
Then multiple corpses like the one from the battle in the capital broke in through the windows and took down the door, "What are these things, their breaking in," Gauche said while Gordon muttered about them being friends.
"This is not the time, now we need to focus," Gauche said when one of the corpses knocked over the table, which his figurine of Marie was on. The figure fell to the ground and the head came off making him look shocked.
"Your dead," he said.
Outside Valtos, Sally and Rades who now had a scar on his right cheek watched as the corpses attacked the black bulls hideout, "Man this is getting good," Rades said.
"Its too bad Asta isn't here today, I was really looking forward to disecting him," Sally said while Rades looked annoyed.
"Sally how many times I have told you, hes not one of your experiments because I'm going to take him out," he said.
"Both of you enough, were here on a mission remember," said Valtos when multiple mirrors appeared outside the hideout and sent rays of light at the corpses. Sending them flying and making them look surprised.
"Alright you idiots, you better have good excuse for attacking our hideout," said Gauche as the dust cleared revealing him with a mirror in front of him, Grey in her big form and Gordon.
"Great theres someone here this should be fun," said Rades smiling.
"Given these body's your Rades right," Gauche said.
"Who are they," Gordon muttered.
"Their from the eye of the midnight sun, ran into them before," Gauche said looking annoyed remembering the battle in the cave.
"We were assigned by master Licht to retrieve an item here and were not leaving without it," Valtos said calmly.
"Well if you need the reason cant be good, Mirror magic, reflect ray," Gauche said sending a blast of light from the mirror.
"Gel magic, sticky salamander," said Sally as she stood on a salamander made of pink gel. The beam changed direction in the gel and missed all three of them.
"Damn, I forgot that my magic wont work on her," Gauche thought looking annoyed.
"Don't worry I wont hurt you, Master Licht gave us specific instructions not to kill you," she said.
"Oh yeah, he did say something to me back in the cave," Gauche thought remembering when Licht said he didn't want to hurt him.
"Now magic item, enhance," Sally said stabbing a big syringe into one of the corpses. It got back up and its muscles grew with its skin turning green.
Gauche fired a beam at it, but it did no damage, "Gordon I'm going to need your help with this one," he said.
Gordon muttered before pointing his hands forward, "Poison magic, bite of the wolf," he thought as two purple wolfs shot forward and bit into the corpse. Its skin turning purple before falling apart.
"Oh that didn't work, good thing I still have this," Sally said smiling as the sticky salamander jumped into the air.
Greys transformation vanished as she ran forward, "Hold on Gauche, I actually learned a new spell that should help you," she said before pointing her hands at the gel salamander, "Transformation magic, magic conversion," she said. The salamander glowed before turning into glass, making Sally look surprised.
Gauche smiled, "Yes, now I can destroy it," he thought before sending a blast at the glass salamander. Destroy it as Sally landed back on the ground.
"She can use transformation magic to change attributes, oh you gotta let me experiment on you," Sally said looking excited while Grey hid her face.
"Uh no thank you," she said.
"Well I guess its my turn now," said Rades smiling as a spacial portal opened and large body came out of it. Both sides looking different and wearing a mask.
"What is that thing," said Gauche.
"Say hello the mr zero, my most powerful corpse," Rades said smiling.
"Yeah but you wouldn't have it working if it wasn't for me," said Sally when the corpse sent a blast of wind and thorns at the three black bulls.
"It can use two attributes," Gauche said looking annoyed as he put his arm up.
"Yeah that's right, this corpse was made from two magic knight captains," Rades said making the black bulls look shocked. The corpse was then surrounded by a tornado of wind and thorns before blasting at the three black bulls.
The three of them looked injured as they fell to the ground, "Yes, now go destroy their hideout," Rades said.
"Attack," Valtos said as the other corpses ran into the black bulls base, stuff being broken could be heard from outside.
"No this cant be happening," Grey thought.
"This is my home," Gordon thought as the two of them remembered their past before they joined the black bulls. Because of the magic his family researched Gordon didn't have chances to make friends. Then people just avoided him. For Grey she was to embarrassed for people to see her real face and used transformation magic. People thought she looked weird because of the form she used.
But captain Yami welcomed them both. The two of them remembered the fun's they've had with their squadmates. "We cant give up," Gauche said clenching his fist.
"Don't worry Gauche," Gordon said making him look surprised as he and Grey stood back up.
"This isn't over," said Grey.
"Will protect our hideout," they both said looking determined.
Gauche then smiled, "So now you two finally decide to speak up," he said standing back up, "Its not just my sister anymore, I need to protect my other squad mates too," he thought.
"Lets get this done, or else captain Yami is going to be mad at us if he sees the hideout like this," he said smiling when a ringing sound came from the hideout.
"Emergency, emergency," a female voice said from a speaker as the building began to shake.
"Whats going on," Rades said looking annoyed.
"The buildings shaking," Gauche said looking confused.
Inside Valtos looked around, "Whats happening," he said.
Parts of the building shot forward, one of the corpses shooting out of a door. Then the shaking stopped, revealing a door and it opened. When the dust cleared a man with long blue hair dressed in a white shirt and pants, stood there.
"Whats going on here," he said slowly.
