'ASTA!' I strained against my chains only for them to tighten more, before a loud crack snapped in my chest as a rib broke. I bit through the gag and screamed in pain.

"ASTA! GET UP! YOU ARE MY RIVAL!" He shouted. "YOU NEVER STEPPED DOWN FROM ANY CHALLANGE!"

"Oh, your rival, how precious." He said as Asta grabbed in leg, a look of pure malice on his face.

"No one hurts or takes from my family." Asta brought a fist up between Revchi's legs before he could act. The man stumbled back cursing words I had never heard before. "And you have done both... no, you tried to take my family." Asta stood up, a black and red aura shrouding him as out of the air a book blackened with age and a faded cover of a... five leave clover.

"A-a grimoire?" I asked through the pain.

Asta reached out to the book as reality seemed to shift around him making him appear as a devil for split seconds, from within the pages of the book he pulled a massive sword.

"I knew he would be chosen." Yuno said as Asta stabbed the tip of the massive balde into the ground, the weapon covered in a black rust.

"I'll break you." Asta said to Revchi, his kind green eyes filled with anger.


Chapter 4: Magic Power

"How, you don't have any Magic?" Revchi backed away from Asta.

"DO IT ASTA!" I shouted to my brother as he stood up taking the weapon's hilt in his hands. His glare unblinking as he gritted his teeth.

"HAAA!" Asta swung the sword with all his might slicing through chains that flew at him, dispersing the magic in a white glow, He lunged at Revchi swinging the weapon over his head and down onto the ground shattering the stones. Revchi rolled out of the way, now Asta was between me and him as he held my Grimoire.

"Cut me down!' I yelled as Asta swung the blade behind him breaking me free from the prison. I landed on my feet holding my side as I snarled, I clenched my fist as flames and lightning flared up around my hand.

"Damn it." He growled as he looked for a way out.

Asta and I charged him, I went left and he went right. I leaped over the chains the thief threw at me hitting the ground in a roll and coming up with a upper cut to his chin as I held in the pain. The power of the flames and lightning threw him up Into the sky where Asta leaped to intercept him. Blade slashing through chains Asta struck him down to me where I changed my magic to wind and water encasing my arm in a small hurricane, as he fell to the ground I stuck him to the wall sending stones flying around me and massive cracks to crumble the ruins. My Grimoire fell to me feet and I picked it up flipping through the pages until I came to a spell.

"Elemental Enchantment: Zeus's Fury." My fists were encased in more magic then I had ever summoned before, lightning arcing off of me vaporizing the mans chains as I lunged at him, he barely duck under my first attack before I came round with my right into his stomach, the magic lightning ran through his body, his bones showing through his skin as he was thrown back. He landed flat on his back before Asta landed on his stomach creating a small crater under him and the man as his blade sunk half way through the stone next to the mans head.

We breathed hard as I held onto my side. The broken rib throbbed as I sat down Yuno walking over to me. "Come on you." He pulled me to my feet and I yelped in pain.

"Helen!" Asta ran over to me and took my other arm. "Let's go home."

"You don't have to help me." I said.

"We want to." Yuno responded.

"Guys, I know you are rivals, but your still brothers. Please, just remember that. No matter which of you become the wizard king, everyone cares for you." I said.

"Your right. What do you say Yuno?" Asta smiled.

"Alright. If it makes you happy." He had a small smile.

We walked home in silence, smiles on our faces.


It has been two months since we got our Grimoires, and the three of us were training in our own ways, Yuno was splitting massive amounts of wood in the surrounding forests, Asta was training in the skull of the giant demon that the first Wizard King Defeated. And I was working the black smiths shop using my flame enchantments to heat the metal, wind to stoke the fires, lightning to weld billets of metal and heated water to quench my works. The soot blackened apron tied tight around my body as I struck metal with the hammer, my strength molding the metal on the anvil as it glowed yellow in my hands.

My hair tied back as the rhythm of the hammer strikes filled the air. Using a cutting tool I folded the metal on it's self brushing the forge scale from the sides I would forge weld. I was humming to the beat of my hammer as the days went by. "If the Magic knights don't work, you could always come back and become my apprentice Helen." The village black smith Eric said as he cleaned his tools. "You are a natural at the craft."

Ever since I was a child I would always eat more then anyone in the village so to help the church I would work in the black smith shop, carrying tools and materials around to help pay for food. My unnatural strength aiding me greatly. I had grown quite fond of forging Damascus steel, folding two metals on each other for a pattern. Normally I would be fixing wagons or making horse shoes, but today, I was making armor. I hammered the steel out into a wide bar then brought it to a sheet roller still hot and cranked it through a few times to flatten it bit by bit.

"Small steel plates held together by studs on a fabric?" He read the plans I had my for my armor. "Brigandine armor, not very common with full plate as a option." He said.

"Yes, but I don't have the time to make full plate, or the materials to do so, this is lighter and more flexible." I said as I placed the metal back in the forge, the coals burning hot as I washed them with flames and wind to heat the metal.

"Four more months, I don't think I'll be able to replace you." Eric chuckled. "You've basically able to run the shop on your own."

"I was only able to do that thanks to you." I smiled back.

He laughed. as he pushed his greying hair out of his face. "Any woman would be lucky to have you." He laughed.

"I slipped up while talking one time five years ago! Are you still going on about that!?" I shouted at him.

"Oh, I will until it stops bugging you Helen." He laughed.

I shook my head as I took the metal out of the fire bringing it to flatten out the curve in the metal.


If you want to know what a Brigandine is, look up Shadiversity's video on it. It's one of the armors the branched the gap between mail and plate.