Chapter 16

"What the hell? What is this?! "Asuna shouted, looking at the specters that had suddenly appeared.

"Specters." Chachazero affirmed.

"I already know that! I mean, why are they here?! "

"They must have been invoked by someone." Negi said with a serious look.

"Ojou-sama, get behind me."

"I have detected several of them all over the island." Chachamaru warned them to be careful.

"Let's hurry to find Leona." Negi looked at them.

"I don't think they are going to let us do it so easily." Setsuna said, watching the specters go towards them. "Zanmaken!" Setsuna said, releasing a cutting wave of energy from the sword to eliminate the specter.

"Sagitta Magica Series Ignis!" Negi said, attacking the specters.

"I've located Leona, Negi-sensei, however, it will take us a few minutes to get where she is."

"It's okay, Chachamaru, you go to look for her, you will go faster if you walk alone, we will go later." Negi looked at her seriously, Chachamaru nodded and left quickly.

"Ah."

"What's wrong, Ojou-sama?" Setsuna asked, looking at her seriously.

"Someone just sent me a text message to the mobile phone." Konoka replied, looking at the message.

"A message? Now? Has something happened? "Asuna asked, looking at the specters while holding her sword.

"It's from Haruna, she says that if we want to go see a horror movie later." Konoka replied, blinking several times.

"Right now... It's not something I want to do..." Asuna whispered.

Meanwhile, Leona was fighting with Takeshiro.

"Well, how much longer will you be able to hold on?" Akuro looked at Leona who had body injuries.

"Tsk, Ice arrow!" Leona said, sending several ice arrows to Takeshiro, then she went quickly towards Takeshiro and began to exchange blows, in one of the blows, Takeshiro caught her leg and threw it against one of the trees, then he went quickly towards her.

"Nivis Tempestas Gelu!" Leona shouted, casting the spell, Takeshiro went through it, he hit Leona in the stomach hard, and she went flying through the air and crashed into several trees until finally stopped in the ruins.

"Dammit." Leona thought, trying to get up, resting her knee on the ground, she looked up and she saw Takeshiro going towards her.

"Give me a break." Leona whispered, looking at him, then, Takeshiro disappeared and appeared in front of her, hitting her chin, lifting her a few inches from the ground and grabbed her by the neck.

"Leona!" Kamo shouted as Leona grabbed Takeshiro's hand and kicked him hitting him on the stomach several times to try to break free, suddenly, something fired at Takeshiro, he realized, and released his hold on her, then he jumped up to dodge it, Leona fell to the ground, trying to take a breath.

"Are you okay?" Chachamaru asked, bending down to her height.

"Chachamaru..."

"Hey!" Chachazero said, raising her arm and getting off Chachamaru.

"Why are you here?" Leona asked, looking at her.

"Mistress told me to come here, I found Negi-sensei and the others, but they will take a while to arrive."

"You should not have come." Leona said, Chachamaru, who was on her knees got up and looked at Takeshiro, then, a small sword appeared in each hand.

"Stay here, Leona." Chachamaru said, going quickly towards Takeshiro.

"Wait!" Leona shouted, Chachamaru began to hit him quickly, making several cuts on his body and one of the blows, kicked him, crashing him against a tree, Takeshiro got up and the injuries that Chachamaru had done to him, completely healed.

"Can he also heal himself?" Leona thought, Chachamaru started attacking Takeshiro again, but he dodged one of her attacks and hit her on the ground, causing a small hole.

"Chachamaru! You! Your rival is me! Not her!" Leona shouted, making an ice sword in her hand, she went towards Takeshiro to attack him, but he split the sword into two with his arm, fired black flames from his mouth and sent Leona away from the place until she reached the shoreline.

"Leona!" Kamo shouted worried.

"My whole body hurts..." Leona thought as she spit some blood out, pitting her arms on the ground, looking at it, she had wounds all over her body and her clothes were torn. "Again someone had to come to my aid, I always end up being saved by someone... If I don't do anything... She..." Leona thought as she dug her fingers into the sand with force. "Because I'm so weak! I wasn't able to do anything for Rachel! I wasn't able to do anything for the others! Everyone dies because of my weakness and the only thing I can do is see how they try to save me! What is the use of training so much if I can't do anything when I have to face someone?! I hate being this way!"

"She's still alive, ke, ke, ke." Chachazero said, she had gone teleporting away with Kamo, Leona got up with difficulty and tried to walk, but after a few steps, she fell to the ground.

"Tsk." Leona growled as she tried to get up again.

"Leona!" Kamo said, going towards her. "You should stay here until aniki and the others get back, Konoka will be able to heal your injuries." Kamo looked at her worried, however, Leona kept walking as she could, suddenly, some specters appeared in front of her.

"Ah! They have found us!" Kamo cried out.

"We are screwed, ke, ke, ke." Chachazero added.

"Get out!" Leona whispered, looking at them coldly, then the specters went towards her.

"Ice Ball!" Leona whispered, sending the spell on them, however, it didn't affect the specters and hit Leona by throwing her to the ground and before she could react, one of the specters was going to pierce her with the hand.

"Leona!" Kamo shouted.

"Burst Flare." a voice said, a sphere of light appeared around the specters and a blue flame explosion made them disappear.

"What-" Leona said confused.

"Now you owe me one." the same voice said, landing on the ground.

"E-Eva?!" Kamo shouted surprised, looking at her, surprised, she was in her adult form. "How are you here and in your adult form?! I thought you couldn't leave Mahora because of the curse."

"The old man has given me permission."

"Eh?"

"We were observing you for a while and when things got complicated, he decided that I would come to help you."

"Is he signing documents again?" Kamo asked with a drop behind his head.

"That's right."

"Poor man..." Kamo murmured. "By the way, how did you use that spell? I thought you only used ice spells."

"Do you think I can only use ice spells, ermine?" Evangeline put her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow. "I can also use fire spells if I want, and this time, it was better to use a fire spell."

"Anyway... Now you can help us with those guys, Leona, you'd better stay here until Konoka comes back, Leona?" Kamo looked at Leona who had risen from the ground.

"I'm going to look for that guy..."

"Eh!"

"Do you think you are going to be able to do something?" Evangeline asked, looked at her while crossing her arms under her chest, raising an eyebrow.

"I don't care." Leona said with a shadow covering her eyes.

"In your state, you will not be able to do anything, you already saw how he hit you!" Kamo raised his voice, looking at her. "The best would be-"

"Shut up! I prefer to try it than stay here waiting without doing anything!" Leona shouted with a look of frustration.

"She is very stubborn, ke, ke, ke." Chachazero said.

"Then you can go and let him hit you until you die." Evangeline said with arms folded.

"Eva! Don't listen to her, it's better that you stay here!"

"I... All this has been my fault." Leona said, downcast. "They took Konoka away and now that dude transformed into something and everything became more complicated, so then Chachamaru came to help me, just like the others didn't want me to come here on my own... I'm tired of being saved, even though you've been training me." Leona said with a shadow covering her eyes. "I don't know what I'm supposed to do to make myself stronger!" Leona said in a louder voice.

"Why do you want that so much?" Evangeline asked, taking a few steps toward her, staring at her.

"What?" Leona looked at her.

"Why do you want more power? Is it to make yourself superior those who face you? Is it to prove that you aren't weak? For revenge? Or maybe is it because of ambition? It's something I've been wondering about."

"Because… I… I don't want to lose someone again in front of me without being able to do anything." Leona said with a sad and deep gaze. "I want to protect what is dear to me."

"Leona..." Kamo whispered, Evangeline's eyes sparkled.

"That's why? Even if you say that, right now you don't have the level necessary to face that dude." Evangeline crossed her arms under her chest while Leona clenched her fists hard.

"I know." Leona said with a shadow covering her eyes as she looked down.

"If aniki were here maybe he could help you." Kamo looked at her.

"Eh?" Leona looked up at him.

"You could make a pactio, that would help you, but if he isn't present, it doesn't work." Kamo explained, Leona looked away.

"I can help you if that's what you want." Evangeline said out of the blue, staring at Leona.

"Eh?" Leona looked at her confused. "How?"

"I can give you what you want, of course, in return you have to swear allegiance to me."

"What?" Leona surprised.

"Of course, if you don't want to, you do not have to do it." Evangeline shrugged, a few seconds passed and Leona looked up at her.

"It's okay," Leona looked at her seriously. "Help me."

"Are you sure about that! Think about it! "Kamo shouted, warning her.

"I've already decided, what do I have to do?"

"Ermine, make the circle you usually do."

"What? You mean- "Kamo said surprised.

"Yes."

"Huh, it's okay," Kamo said, going towards where they were, he immediately started drawing a pactio circle around them. "Done!" Kamo said as the magic circle began to glow and from it came a blue light that surrounded Leona and Evangeline.

"What is this?" Leona asked, looking at the circle.

"It's called pactio, I guess you know how it works." Evangeline looked at her, Leona blushed suddenly and nodded.

"Well, then say it, say you swear allegiance to me and I will give you what you want."

"I... I..." Leona stuttered, then took a deep breath. "I swear allegiance to you, Evangeline." She stared at her, Evangeline smiled slightly and put one hand on Leona's cheek and one around her waist, Leona blushed as Evangeline brought her face close to hers, then, without removing the trickle of blood that Leona had on her lower lip, Evangeline kissed her on the lips.

"Pactio!" Kamo shouted.


End of chapter 16.

Evangeline intervened thanks to Konoemon (Let's hope he doesn't get too tired) Leona will have a pact with Evangeline… What will happen?

Note:

In my profile I have the link of the drawing of Leona's pactio card and others I made of her.

Thanks for reading and sorry for the delay, I would like to know your opinion about the story so far in the reviews, it encourages me to keep writing. Also, thanks to Miz-KTakase for helping me with grammar and thanks for the reviews I received! :)