'Thoughts' - thoughts / "" - speech
** - actions / [ ] - flashbacks/dreams
() - Writers info
As Syrus was looking up at the magic knight captains the people around him started talking.
"That's Nozel Silva, the captain of the Silver Eagles"
"And there's Fuegoleon Vermilion, captain of the Crimson Lions" The examinee referred to the man with orange hair and a mark on his forehead.
"What about Jack the ripper, captain of the Green Praying Mantises" Referring to a scrawny man with black hair and a thin red mark going down the right side of his face.
"Oh, Charlotte Roselei, captain of the Blue Rose Knights, she's so beautiful" the examinee was staring at the female knight captain. She has blonde hair and a small braid coming from her helmet next to her face.
"Gueldre Poizot, captain of the Purple Orcas", He was big and wore an eye mask made from metal.
"That's Dorothy Unsworth, captain of the Coral Peacocks" She wore a fancy pink hat and had purple long hair and was also asleep.
"Rill Boismortier, captain of the Aqua Deers" He was the youngest of the magic knights and had scruffy light blue hair.
'So that's the Aqua Deers Arlo was on about, oh look, the guy that tried to kill me is a magic knight captain as well' Syrus thought to himself whilst glancing at Yami Sukehiro.
Everyone started an uproar as the last magic knight captain came out.
"That's the captain of the Golden Dawn, William Vangeance, he's the top magic knight captain". He had a mask that covered the top half of his head. The mask matched the colours of the golden dawn cloak he was wearing.
"They're certainly popular aren't they?" Syrus said.
The captain of the Golden Dawn started speaking. "Attention examinee's thank you for waiting. I will be administering this year's entrance exam". The captain pulled out his grimoire and flipped its pages before speaking up again. "Magic tree's descent" A green glow emanated from the grimoire of the captain.
The clouds above covered the sky and a strong wind descended.
"What the?" Syrus looked up and saw roots of a tree growing from the clouds, as the roots got closer they started to create brooms for each examinee. "Why a broom?".
As the captain closed his grimoire the roots disappeared and every examinee had a broom in their hands. "You've waited long enough. Let the entrance exam begin!".
The crowd of examinees cheered.
"We will be testing you on a variety of tests, us 9 captains will overlook what each of you are doing and when all is said and done we'll choose who we want for our respective squads. And any of you who was not chosen please understand it means that you have failed" the captain of the golden dawn said.
"That's simple enough, this should be easy" Syrus gave Boe a smile.
"Your first test will be to use that broom to fly".
Syrus's smile quickly disappeared as he remembered something very important… 'I'm afraid of flying!' Syrus is alright with heights as long as he can grab onto something, but flying with a broom there's nothing but a thin stick to keep him safe. It's basic fight or flight instincts.
As Syrus looked around to the other examinees he saw some that had trouble controlling the broom, one had gone straight forward into a wall and crashed, another one kept slamming into the floor and another spun uncontrollably.
Boe gave Syrus a face that said "I believe in you".
Syrus gave a frightened nod and placed the broom on the floor and stood on it. "Here we go…" Syrus tried going slowly and poured a small amount of his magic into the broom. The broom floated slightly above the ground. "This isn't so bad" Syrus started to gain a little confidence.
Boe gestured for Syrus to go a little higher.
"Alright" Syrus poured more magic into the broom he slowly started going higher and higher until he shot into the sky at breakneck speeds making some of the magic knights look up.
Boe made an innocent looking face that said "My bad".
As Syrus was sent flying into the sky he fell off the broom and accidentally kicked it away. "No!" Syrus started falling back to the ground, he tried reaching for the broom but it kept getting further and further away from him. Syrus pulled out his grimoire and looked for any kind of spell that could help.
His grimoire's pages had small pictures of different kinds of monsters and a small description about the monster with its name at the top. Syrus flipped through the pages. "It would help if I could read!" He began looking only at the pictures. "Doesn't have wings! No wings! No wings again! That's a fish! That one looks like it can fly!" Syus took a closer look at the page. "Te- Pte- Ah screw it just work!" Syrus faced his grimoire towards the ground below and poured magic into it.
His grimoire lit up and a ball of pure golden magic shot out and flew upwards past him. Syrus turned to watch it, The ball of magic began to slow down as it went up and it started to unfold as wings and a beak grew from it, it came rushing back down and the magic cover wore off showing the featherless body and featherless wings as it came rushing down towards Syrus. It folded its wing back in to fly straight down faster and reach Syrus in time, when it reached Syrus it put its back against him and slowly levelled out as to not hurt Syrus or itself.
Syrus held on to the monster, he kept himself close and took deep breaths to regain his senses. The monster had its head turned to look at Syrus with a worried look. "Thank you for saving me". The monster gave what seemed like a smile and flew in a slight spiral downwards towards the ground.
Boe kept his eyes on the sky above and saw a monster flying towards the exam grounds.
"What's that?" An examinee asked as they looked at a shadow on the floor.
"Is it a bird?" another examinee asked.
The captains caught wind of what they examinees were looking at and looked up.
"I've never seen that monster before," Fuegoleon said.
"Should we get rid of it?" Asked the captain of the Purple Orcas.
"No, it shouldn't be a bother" Nozel said.
"What makes you so sure?" asked Vangeance.
"Because that monster is someones magic" Nozel said.
"It is? I presume you know who's".
As the monster reached the ground the examinees moved out of the way and it created a dust screen with the flap of its wings and Syrus' and Boe's silhouette could be seen within it, the dust cloud dissipated as Nozel said his name. "Syrus Cindred". Syrus stood in front of the monster and Boe by his side.
'I think I'm going to puke!' Syrus thought to himself while keeping a straight face.
"Cindred?" Vangeance said.
"Huh, so I nearly killed Kenny's kid…" Yami said with no remorse in his voice.
"He isn't blood related but he certainly takes after his father in some places, like the needless over the top ways to get noticed without trying" Nozel said.
"Still what is that monster?" Vangeance asked.
"Something not from this world that's for sure" Nozel said catching the attention of the magic knight captains.
The other examinees were talking behind his back again.
"Show off"
"Honestly, who does that kid think he is?"
"That was so cool, Syrus, what is that monster?" Asta ran up to him.
"I'm not sure, it says what it's called in my grimoire but I can't read" Syrus said.
"I can read it out for you if you can't," Asta said.
"Sure" Syrus opened his grimoire and opened it to the page with the bird creature on it.
"Lets see… Ptero… Pteerodactyle" Asta tried reading it. "Yuno come here!" Asta shouted to a tall skinny guy with black hair and a fancy pendant around his neck.
"What?" The guy said in a serious tone.
"Can you read this for us?" Asta handed Yuno the grimoire.
"Which page?" Yuno asked.
"That one, that page says what this creature is" Asta pointed to the page then to the creature.
"It's apparently called a… Pterodactyl… It also says next to it that the P is silent, so it's pronounced as "Terodactyl" There's more pages with different creatures on them" Yuno flipped through the pages before closing the book and giving it back to Syrus.
Asta noticed that Syrus' book had no leaves as Yuno handed it back. "Hey look"
"What now?" Yuno asked.
"His grimoire doesn't have any leaves".
"What?" Yuno looked at the grimoire that he just gave back.
"Must be rarer than a four leaf," Asta said, nudging Yuno's arm.
The captain of the Golden Dawns spoke up again. "Alright we've seen enough and will be moving onto our next test now".
The next test was a simple test all Syrus had to do was destroy the wall in front of him with magic. Syrus copied what the people next to him were doing but while their magic came out Syru's didn't. "I've never been able to shoot out magic like Kenny and the others could, it's not because I don't have magic but because my magic doesn't leave my body except through things like my grimoire or things I'm touching like the broom from earlier. But I just can't shoot it for an attack of any kind" Syrus looked at his hands.
The next test was a magic control test and once again it required Syrus to shoot magic from his body, making him utterly useless.
The next test was a magic creation test in which Syrus just created the Pterodactyl from before. "At least all the tests don't need me to shoot out my magic".
The second to last test was a slightly weird one, every examinees was given a seed and was asked to pour magic into it. Syria looked around and saw that some examinees had roots growing from theirs and decided to try it too.
So he poured his magic into the seed and low and behold a small flower not some roots, it confused Syrus but he went with it.
The captain of the Golden Dawn stood up. "Onto the next test, the final and most difficult, a display of combat skill" The examinees started talking amongst themselves.
"Prepare to duel!" Fuegoleon stood up. "You will break into pairs and fight each other, use your grimoire to attack and defend!".
"I bet losing will tank your chances of being chosen" An examiner said.
"Better to choose an easy partner, someone weak" another examinee said.
Syrus already showed what he can do and everyone turned the other way, except for one person. "You will be my opponent!" a voice Syrus recognized said behind him.
Before Syrus turned around he said. "I was hoping we'd meet again after you ran away last time" He turned around and the noble that attacked Mila was there.
"Last time was just a fluke, this time I'll win!" The noble shouted with an angry face.
The silver haired girl looked from behind the pillar. "That noble doesn't know what Syrus can really do. The best I've ever seen Syrus was back when we were 8".
[Syrus, Kenny who had Syrus' grimoire on his hip as well with his own and a pregnant Eve attended a small party hosted by the Silva family.
"Thanks for having us, '' Kenny said to Nozel.
"I know I invited you, but did you have to bring the whole family?" Nozel said.
"Oh quit being a sour puss, you said I could bring three extras" Kenny said.
"I expected you to bring the three magic knights that follow you around".
"Nah, they're busy today, plus Noelle would've gotten lonely without Syrus here". Nozel took Kenny to go walk around and meet some other guests.
An 8 year old Noelle saw Syrus from across the room and waved.
Syrus was wearing clothes that were the polar opposite to caveman fashion and had his long hair in a ponytail.
"Why don't you go say hi to her?" Eve said.
Syrus looked at Eve and nodded and walked to Noelle.
Noelle and Syrus walked to the balcony to hang out. "So how far has your speaking come?" Noelle asked.
"A little better," Syrus said in a quiet voice.
"That's great" Noelle smiled at being able to hold some kind of conversation with Syrus.
"These clothes… their heavy" Syrus rested his chin on the railing of the balcony.
"What do you usually wear?"
"Hmm no shirt, no shoes and my bone necklace".
"Did they make you take it off?"
Syrus turned around and showed her the necklace with a grin. "They tried".
Noelle laughed then looked around. "Is Boe not here?"
"I wasn't allowed to bring him" Syrus said, remembering trying to convince Kenny to bring Boe.
"That's a shame, he's so soft" Noelle loved to hug boe's fur.
"He's even softer now".
"No fair".
They both looked at each other then laughed.
Syrus looked up to the wall of the building.
"I know that face, you're staying on the ground today!" Noelle stopped Syrus from climbing by grabbing both of his shoulders and shaking him back and forth.
"Alright, I won't climb" Syrus continued to look up and saw a flock of birds fly overhead. "What kind of birds are they?"
"I'm not sure I've never seen birds like that before?"
The birds were full black and made a "Caw" sound.
"I think it would be great to be a bird," Syrus said.
"Why?" Noelle asked.
"You're free to do anything and go anywhere anytime you want".
"Won't you be able to do that if you're a magic knight and use a broom to fly".
"Maybe you're right?" Syrus watched the birds fly away.
"Hey are you thirsty?" Noelle asked.
"A little why?"
"I'll get you a drink, hold on" Noelle went inside and left Syrus on the balcony.
Syrus looked out to the view again. "I wish Boe could've come".
Suddenly a loud crash came from inside the room and Syrus walked into the room and saw Kenny get hit with a flying table to protect Eve.
"Kenny!" Syrus ran over to Kenny who was on the floor.
"I'll be alright, but more importantly get behind me" Kenny got up onto one knee.
"Why?" Syrus looked over to the commotion to see a man holding a knife to Noelle's neck as she squirmed.
"Noelle?" Syrus looked to Nozel who was stuck in some kind of black ooze. In fact most of the residents of the room were, along with their grimoires, stopping them from using spells.
"Noelle! Hold on!" Nozel squirmed trying to escape the ooze.
"Now are you going to listen to my demands "captain" Nozel?" The man holding Noelle said in a cocky voice as he stood on top of a table.
At this moment Syrus was asking so many questions and trying to gather so many answers in such a short time his brain completely shut off and his survival instincts took over.
Syrus didn't move except for his eyes as he gave the man holding Noelle a death stare that could send shivers down the spine of the devil himself. To Syrus in this room the only people were himself, the man and Noelle.
"Why is that kid looking at me like that!?" The man shouted as he stared right back at Syrus, the knife he held up to Noelle's neck got closer and drew a tiny bit of blood.
Syrus stood up and turned to face the man, his eyes got angrier and his hands clenched into fists.
As the man stared into Syrus' eyes the room went completely black the only people still visible to him were Syrus, Noelle and himself; everything else was an empty void. "What!? Where did everybody go?" The man frantically looked around.
Kenny was watching the man look around. "What does he mean where did everyone go?... What is Syrus doing to him". Kenny looked over to Syrus.
"Dear, his grimoire" Eve pointed to Syrus' grimoire.
"Huh?" Kenny held Syrus' grimoire and saw that the jaws surrounding the no leaf clover had two small fangs protruding from them and they glowed light blue and so did a single page in the grimoire. Kenny opened the book to the page, it had light blue writing on it and he read the name of the spell. "Tyrant's Lair… What exactly is going on?"
"Kid! What did you do!?" The man asked.
Syrus ignored him and took one step.
"Stay back, I'm warning you!" The man said.
Syrus took another step.
"What!? What is that thing!?" The man watched as a giant bi-pedal lizard slowly walked from behind the darkness into the light and walked in sync with Syrus. "Sta- Stay back!" The man pointed the knife out towards the lizard and the same black ooze that stopped the adults from getting up and fighting, shot out in front of him aiming at the lizard.
"What is he shooting at?" Kenny asked.
Syrus kept taking steps closer and closer.
"Why? Why? Why!?" The man didn't stop his assault on the lizard and each black ooze he shot out just fazed through the lizard.
Syrus stopped just in front of the table and the Lizard's head was right in front of the man. The lizard gave its signature roar right in the man's face causing him to drop Noelle.
Syrus' body moved on its own to catch Noelle.
"Don't! Stay away!" The man took a step back and fell off the table and fell to the floor.
The lizard bent down to the man but didn't go to eat him. Instead it went to eat his grimoire.
"No! Give it back!" The man watched the lizard swallowed his grimoire and give him one last look before walking away into the darkness, when the lizard disappeared the whole room came back to him.
"Noelle" The black ooze trapping everyone disappeared and Nozel and Kenny ran over to Noelle and Syrus.
"You two alright?" Kenny asked.
Noelle stood up, Syrus tried but fell to the floor.
"Syrus!" Kenny quickly bent down and picked him up to find him only asleep. "He's just asleep?"
"What did he just do?" Nozel asked.
"I'm not sure" Kenny checked Syrus' grimoire and saw the two small fangs disappeared and the page that was glowing was blank.
"Someone restrain him" Nozel pointed to the man that was lying on the floor staring up at the ceiling in a daze.
A few magic knights that guarded the room ran over to the man and cuffed him. "Huh? That's weird," one of the knights said.
"What is?" another magic knight asked.
"I thought he had a three leaf clover, not a two leaf".
"Maybe you just saw wrong?, anyway just lock it up".]
The silver haired girl took another peek round the pillar. "After all that happened I heard that Syrus doesn't remember a single moment of it".
The captain of the Golden Dawns spoke up again. "Judging from the shouting it seems we have our first bout, the test will end when either a combatant surrenders or is unable to continue, we have mages wielding recovery magic standing by for the injured".
"So don't hold anything back!" The captain of the Crimson Lions shouted.
Syrus walked to the platform and the noble followed him.
As Syrus and his opponent stood face to face the noble spoke up. "I will show you where you stand".
"I look forward to it," Syrus said, giving a small grin.
The referee lifted his hand up. "Now… Begin!"
If you see any problems or inconsistencies with the story don't be afraid to say. Thanks for reading.