Part 114: Not over yet
After Asta had cut through the creatures heart, its body began to vanish, "Not this cant be happening, its not possible," the creature thought before it heard someone.
"You got a problem there, comrade," the dark being said. The creature was looking at the same dark being Asta had seen back when he first used his dark form in the forest of witches.
"Dont look at me like that, who are you," the creature said.
"What does it matter, your about to disappear for good," the dark being said, "All that power and you still lost,".
"Goodbye," it said. Then the creatures body vanished completely and there was silence as everyone looked at the scene in front of them.
"We won," Lumiere said breaking the silence. Patry and Nero looked at the scene surprised as the thought about all the things they've been through until now. Nero then looked at Asta who was being held up by Yuno.
"Thank you," she said looking relieved.
Back with Yami and Charlotte, "That evil mana, its gone," Charlotte said looking surprised.
"Looks like somebody else finished him off before I could," Yami said looking like he was about to fall over. But Charllote kept him up by putting her hand on his back.
"You did well human," she said.
"Actually the names Yami Sukihero," Yami said before the purple substance around them began to move faster. The same was happening where the battle had ended.
"Somethings not right, his magic isn't completely gone," Patry said looking worried.
"I want to keep this spell going, but I don't have much magic power left," Lumiere said noticing more cracks appearing on his body.
"We need to get out of here, but everyones still below," Yuno thought looking annoyed.
Fuegleon noticed the light surrounding the elfs getting smaller, "The light is getting dimmer," he said.
"Just what is this creepy stuff," Charmy said as she tried to escape while carrying Rill.
"I can tell through my connection with Licht that the only way out is through the top of the shadow palace, we must hurry," Fana said with the rest of the group.
"We need to get up there," Charlotte said.
"We gotta do something quick or else," Yami thought before looking at the one of the passages, "This Ki," he thought.
Back with Licht and Lumiere, one of the magic stones in Lumieres eyes fell out, "Lumiere," Licht said before the light around Yuno vanished.
"The light, its gone," Yuno thought looking surprised while Asta looked at the substance.
"EVERYONE," he yelled before a dark spacial portal appeared above him. Then most of the magic knights that were in the shadow palace fell out. Noelle ended up falling into Asta.
"Asta," she said looking surprised to see him.
"Noelle, you all made it back," Asta said looking relieved.
"It seems the one I believe in was almost tricked," Valtos said as he and Rades came out of another portal, "But now I must make up for all ive done," he said.
"Oh its you two," Asta said.
"Hey don't include me with him I haven't done a bad thing in my life," Rades said.
"You jerk, if you were here you could have helped us," Asta said looking annoyed.
"Shut up, I can do what I want when I feel like it," said Rades. Then Asta looked down as something shot through the substance. It was revealed to be Yami and Charlotte. Yami carrying Gueldre and Revchy.
"Well look who showed up when we needed him, a boneless ham," Yami said looking at Gueldre, "That magic may make you invisible but I can sense your ki clearly," he said smiling.
"It captain Yami and Charlotte and the former purple orcas captain," Asta said before noticing Revchy, "Hey your that guy who tried to steal Yunos grimoire long ago, what are you doing in a place like this," he said.
"We should be asking you that you magicless brat," Revchy said.
"So many mages, all with different magic, the clover kingdom really is in good hands," Lumiere said smiling while Patry was thinking of William.
"Right now, theres still something I must do," he thought.
"Alright lets get out of the shadow palace," Asta said as they all exited through the large door. Then they were all in the same passage they had came in earlier.
"Hey Asta," Charmy said from behind.
"Charmy your okay, wait your back to normal," Asta said noticing Charmy was shorter again.
"What do you mean," she said.
"You grew like really tall and your magic was totally awesome," Asta said.
"I don't know what your talking about, Ive always been awesome," Charmy said smiling making Asta look confused.
"Wait does she not remember what happened," Mimosa said.
"How did Charmy get here in the first place," Noelle said.
"I came in here to make sure you all werent getting hungry," she said smiling.
"Well thanks for the help anyway Charmy," Asta said.
"You there, don't forget that I'm still going to cut you up," Jack said looking at Fana.
"What is with this guy, hes so creepy," she said when Nozel interrupted them.
"This is no time for chatter, this isn't over yet," he said as they exited shadow palace and were now back at clover castle. There were explosions going off in the distance, "There are still elves who are lost to hatred destroying the kingdom," he said.
"But how do we stop so many," Noelle said looking worried.
"Ill knocked them all out with one blow," Mereoleona said smiling.
"Shes being serious," Yami thought while Asta looked at the demon destroyer sword.
"I cant reach that many and I'm low on power," he thought looking annoyed.
"There is a way, now that Licht is here," Patry said getting their attention, "William is still dormant in me, we can use his world tree magic to gather all the mana and life force in the kingdom," he said.
"But I will need his grimoire," he said and after a few moments Valtos came out of one of his portals holding Williams grimoire.
"Thank you Valtos," Patry said.
"No matter who you are, your still the one who saved me that day," he said.
"Wait are you saying," Asta said.
"Yes Asta, use the demon destroyer sword and undo my reincarnation for good," Patry said.
"Are you sure," Asta said holding up the sword and Patry grabbed the front of it and pointed it at himself.
"Yes, ive already lived twice and I do have some regrets, but I'm not afraid," Patry said, "Even disappearing I wont be able to make up for what ive done," he said.
"Patry," Rhya said.
"Ill be going on ahead first," Patry said before looking at Licht, "Please finish the rest for me Licht,".
"Of course," Licht said.
Asta put the sword on Patry and then a red magic circle appeared behind him, "In the end, I was able to fight alongside Licht and the others," Patry thought as the red magic circle vanished. Then his hair grew short and scars appeared on his head. His eyes then opened revealing the captain of the golden dawn, was back.
Yami had serious look on his face when he saw him.
"Its captain Vangeance," Yuno said.
"Patry," William said grabbing the front of his robe, "Soul that's been with me since I was a child, your anger has finally come to an end," he thought as his grimoire opened and a seed appeared in his hand.
"This mark was put on me and I was never told why, people discriminated me because of it and then there was the hatred Patry had for the humans," he thought as large roots stretched out towards the kingdom.
"I couldn't believe in the future Julius saw and this fight was because of me, but at least I can make things right," he thought before Licht put his hand on his back.
"I will link their souls and tell them the truth," Licht thought looking determined.
"And I will link their souls to the tree," William thought. Lights shot out all over the kingdom and hitting the magic knights that had been taken over. They all looked surprised.
"Combo spell, demon dweller sword spirit light tree," they both said as the large tree glowed green making everyone look surprised.
"Now anti magic boy, use the demon destroyer sword on the tree," Licht said. Asta nodded before putting the sword into the tree. Anti magic then started spreading into the tree.
"The power of anti magic is reaching all the elfs," Nozel thought.
Then one by one the elfs began to leave the bodys of the magic knights. But there were three elfs who werent being effected. The three standing in front of Licht, Rhya, Veto and Fana.
"Yeah should have known this was going to happen, weve already been reincarnated twice and our souls are now attached to these bodys," Rhya said.
"Perhaps there is something to this, please make sure to live for all of us," Licht said.
"Goodbye," Veto said.
"Take care," Fana said looking sad.
Rhya sighed, "What a pain so we missed each other again, but if you say so Licht it looks like ill have too," he said smiling.
"I may not have been able to see my brother, but I was glad to fight alongside you, Yami Sukihero," Charlotte said as the marks on her face began to vanish.
"Well look at you Charla turning all nice in the end," Yami said smiling.
"Well make sure to take care, she cares a great deal about you," she said before the marks completely vanished and Charlotte fell against Yami who caught her.
"Yami," she said waking up.
"Welcome back," Yami said smiling before the two of them looked at the sight in front of them.
"I think its time I go, Ive kept Tetia waiting for to long," Licht said looking at Lumiere, "So ill be going first," he said.
"Right," Lumiere said.
"I was glad to see our ideals still live on this era," Licht said and Lumiere smiled.
"The elf in my body, isnt he," Yuno said getting his attention as the marks on his face vanished and his ears went back to normal.
Licht smiled, "Thanks to you, I got to feel like what it was like to fight alongside my son, thank you, wielder of the four leaf grimoire, I hope you continue to find good luck," he said.
Asta looked surprised but then held out his grimoire to Licht, "This is yours right, take it," he said.
Licht however didn't move, "That grimoire no longer belongs to me, its yours now so keep using it to achieve your dreams," Licht said as his marks were almost completely gone, "Thank you for everything, mages of the clover kingdom," he said before the marks completely vanished.
Then the tree vanished and the mages watched the lights vanish. Then Rades looked up the sky annoyed, "No this isnt how its going to end," he thought before his grimoire opened.
"Wraith magic, soul abduction," he said before light shot up towards the sky and grabbed something, "This magic only works on someone that's been a part of my life for a long time, somehow you fall into this category," he thought before the light pulled into Lichts body. Then magic surrounded as it moved.
"The body has magic again, but wait this is," Rhya said before noticing the body now had a black eye, "Patry," he said.
"I'm reborn, no this is something else," Patry said.
"That body was made to look like your original, so you should feel like right at home," Rades said.
"Hey what are you doing," Asta said.
"Shut up, I don't get it but Licht, or Patry or whatever," Rades said looking angry, "I'm not going to let you have your happy ending, I wont ever forgive you and I want you to think about all those humans you've hurt," he said looking angry while Patry looked surprised.
"Hey I think that's going to come back to bite you," Asta said.
"Shut up," Rades said.
"Thank you Rades, now I can make up for what ive done," Patry said.
"Well whatever, I will kill you someday so you better watch out and I wont make it easy," Rades said, "I want you to live your life in constant fear, lets go Valtos," he said.
Valtos looked at Patry before he began walking away.
"So even after all that you didn't get to go with Licht, what a pain," Rhya said walking over with Fana and Veto. Rhays hair was almost completley black again.
"Rhya, I," Patry said almost falling over, but then someone caught him.
"To think there would come day when I could actually see you," William said.
"William," Patry said.
"My closest friend who shares my sin, while there is much I want to say to you there is something I must do first," William said, "Though I wont be forgiven, there is someone I must apologize to," he said before looking at Yami who was standing with Charlotte.
"Yami I know this is a selfish request, but please take me to Julius," he said.
"Of course," Yami said looking serious as Astas face turned sad.
"The wizard king," he thought.
"The final battle is over," Nozel said.
Much later the kingdom was beginning the clean up. Yuno had gone to help the civilians and Charmy was handing out food to people to recover their mana. Augustus had actually survived falling and Sekke was with him.
As the sun began to rise, in a destroyed part of the castle Asta was being healed by Mimosa, "Ow this hurts so much more then last time," Asta said looking like he was in pain.
"Well that's what you get for being reckless," Noelle said from sitting next to him, "But I'm still happy hes okay," she thought.
"Sorry ill be done as soon as I can," Mimosa said.
"I cant thank you all enough, that devils spells has been around since our time and you broke it," Lumiere said, "And with another devils power," he thought.
"Hey Asta Ive been meaning to ask but who are these people," Noelle said.
"That man kind of looks like the statue of the first wizard king," Mimosa said.
"That's because it is him, you came back with the magic stones right, I cant wait to be an awesome wizard king like you some day," Asta said.
"What," Noelle and Mimosa said looking surprised.
"Then whos the woman with him," Noelle said.
"Actually that's Nero," Asta said making them looked surprised again.
"Mimosa heal his head now," Noelle said looking worried.
"Actually Iam," Nero said calmly.
"Wow I always knew you were an awesome bird, but now you can turn into a human and that's amazing," Asta said.
"Actually Ive always been human," Nero said looking calm.
"Then why didn't you say something sooner," Asta said.
"Because I couldn't speak until the shadow palace was opened," Nero said before grabbing his cheek and pulling, "Now what makes you think you could be anything like the prince," she said while Asta looked like he was in pain.
"Nero," Noelle said and Nero looked worried when a wand was pointed in her face, "I would really appreciate if you didn't hurt my boyfriend after he was hurt in a big battle," she said.
"Alright," Nero said backing away.
"Wait so the two of you are romantically involved?" Lumiere asked.
"Uh yes sir, I love her very much," Asta said making Noelle blush.
"He was the one who believed I could do great with my magic," she said.
"I see, I'm glad," Lumiere said, "While the title of wizard king is just a phrase to me, I glad to see the ideals we fought for are still alive today and now I wonder if you or your friend will become the next one," he said.
"Oh its going to be me sir," Asta said.
"You'll be nothing like the prince Asta," Nero said.
"Well I'm going to make sure he gets there," Noelle said.
"Not If Yuno wins first," Mimosa said smiling when they all notified cracks on Lumieres body. His body starting to fall apart.
"It lookss like I dont have enough magic to keep together any longer," Lumiere said.
"My magic cant do anything for this," Mimosa thought.
"Secre, or I guess Nero now, will you make sure to watch out for their futures," Lumiere said looking at Nero who looked sad.
"My princes, Ive always," she said before stopping, "Please let me go with you,".
"I gave everything I had long ago, I should have died back then but thanks to you I was able to fight to protect the future," Lumiere said, "I cant let you cut off your own potential,".
"I'm looking forward to the future, for both the kingdom and the magic knights," he said, "I even got to meet my descendants," he said looking at Mimosa and Noelle.
"Serving you, was an honor," Nero said with tears in her eyes as she held his hand.
"I was happy as well, thank you for everything," Lumiere said before his body fell apart completely. Then he was gone, leaving the three of them.
Far away with Yami, William and Charlotte, "You sure your okay to move around," Yami said looking at Charlotte.
"Ill be fine, I need to see this," Charlotte said.
"I'm sorry Charlotte, for what you've been through," William said.
"I saw everything that happened so I understand, but its not up to me to decided your punishment," Charlotte said before they reached the black sphere in the ground.
"Wait somethings not right, Julius body isnt here," Yami said looking surprised before they all felt something. They then looked behind them to see a young boy walking over.
"This magic, it cant be," Charlotte said. They young boy had a smile on his face and was wearing Julius clothes. A page fell in front of him.
"Are you Julius," Yami said looking surprised like the others.
