Chapter 17

"Pactio!" Kamo shouted, suddenly, there appeared a brilliant flash of light and magic energy that reached the sky and heavy wind arose around them.

"What's up with this huge concentration of mana!" Kamo said, covering himself with his paw. "It's not something that usually happens, is it because of Eva's magical power?"

"Mmm!" Leona moaned while Evangeline was kissing her, once the light began to diminish, Evangeline pulled her lips away from her, then two cards materialized in mid air before them, Evangeline took one of the cards and handed the copy to Leona, who was quite flushed, the other card was for her.

"Here you are." Evangeline said, Leona looked at the card, it showed an image of her in the middle of the hexagram, she wore a dark gray shirt, black pants and black boots, also, she held a sword in one hand, the sword had the Pommel, the Grip and the Cross-Guard of dark color, also, the blade was of the same color, but also it had a thin red line in the Fuller, also, in the Rain Guard, it had a red orb which in the middle there was a thin black line, but what caught Leona's attention was that she had two black wings in which seemed to be like those of a bat or something similar, one of her eyes was red, and both her face and neck had a black mark.

"Is something wrong, Leona?" Kamo asked, looking at her.

"Eh? No... What do I have to do now? I don't notice any change."

"All you have to say is 'Adeat', then the card will be activated." Kamo said, Leona looked at the card.

"Adeat!" Leona said, suddenly the card began to glow with a dark aura and transformed into a sword like the one in the card, Leona hold it in the air, although it was difficult to hold her because it weighed more than she thought.

"Apparently, you'll have to get used to it, although it's a weird sword." Kamo said, looking at it closely.

"Do you have any complaint of the sword that she has obtained from my pactio?" Evangeline asked coldly and staring at him.

"Eh! No! I didn't mean that! "Kamo said nervously.

"I felt strange when I made the pactio."

"It's because of magic, when a pactio is made, it's normal to feel like a warm feeling," Kamo explained, looking at Leona. "By the way, Leona, I'm going to explain the basics of how the pactio card works; the cards allow for telepathic communication between the Magister and Ministra, it also allows the Magister to summon the Ministra at any time, that is, Eva can summon you at a distance of around 10Km, and as I said before, the minister who has entered into this contract is powered up to double or triple their normal strength through the magical energy provided by the wizard, oh, and to talk with Eva via telepathy just place the card on your forehead and say 'telepathy'".

"Here he comes." Evangeline interrupted, looking away into the woods, Leona and Kamo looked in the same direction as Evangeline and saw Takeshiro coming quickly towards them.

"Eh!" Kamo shouted. "He must have noticed we were here because of the pactio!"

"Tsk." Leona growled, preparing to attack him, Takeshiro went towards Leona so quickly that he grabbed her face and dragged her into the sea, letting her go a second before.

"Leona!" Kamo shouted, putting his paws on his face in shock.

"I'm getting tired of flying constantly." Leona thought, stepping out of the water with an expression of annoyance, darted toward Takeshiro and started attacking him with her sword, but he dodged the blows easily.

"But what happens? It is supposed to be different, she should be stronger, skillful or something! Instead she seems to be slower than before!" Kamo looked at her. "Maybe it's because she's too tired or hurt, but still..."

"I would say that the sword weighs her, ke, ke, ke."

"Mistress," Chachamaru said going towards them as she had followed a few paces behind Takeshiro. "You have been able to come at the end."

"Yes." Evangeline said, looking at Leona with an expression of disappointment and anger. "Tsk, is that all?"

"Mistress?" Chachamaru merely blinked in confusion.

"It's long to explain, ke, ke, ke."

"Why can't I hit him? Was not it enough? "Leona thought as she tried to hit him, Takeshiro stopped Leona's sword with his arm and with the other hand punched her in the face, throwing her to the ground and immediately kicked her away from him, she went flying through the air and crashed into several trees of the forest until finally stopped at one of them.

"Very good, this is enough for me." Evangeline uncrossed her arms. "Crystallitatio Tellustris!" Evangeline shouted, causing irregular ice pillars come out from the ground where Takeshiro was, and freezing him.

"Is it done? It's over?" Kamo said, suddenly, Takeshiro broke the block of ice where he was trapped and went towards them.

"It's never going to end?!" Kamo shouted, worried.

"Apparently, you have more endurance than I thought, Nivis Tempestas Obscurans!" Evangeline shouted, casting a spell, similar to a tornado in horizontal of ice and darkness, the spell hit Takeshiro and created an explosion, when the smoke that the spell had created was gone, Takeshiro was lying on the ground.

"Mistress, be careful, he can heal his injuries." Chachamaru warned softly.

"Tsk, it's true, I had forgotten." Kamo said in an annoyed tone.

"What is he exactly?" Evangeline asked, raising an eyebrow.

"He's something I don't know, mistress." Chachamaru replied, looking at Takeshiro who got up once again and his injuries healed.

"Here we go again..." Kamo thought.

"Dammit, my body barely responds to me." Leona thought, lying on the ground. "There must be some way... I don't know if it's because I still don't know how to use it or because I wasn't the right person to make the pactio with her and that's why my strength hasn't increased or anything like Kamo said before." Leona murmured, dragging herself with difficulty to grasp the sword, when she took it, she leaned on her sword with her hand, resting her knee on the ground and stared at the sword, saw that from the injury in her hand, blood was falling down to the orb of the sword, then it began to glow intensely.

"Eh? Maybe is it wanting to say something to me?" Leona asked herself out loud, immediately, she felt a pain in her chest. "Not here!" Leona said, falling to the ground, clutching her chest. "I feel like I'm going to lose consciousness at any moment, this pain is suffocating me." Leona thought, she was complaining of the pain for a few seconds, until an image of a smiling girl appeared on her mind, like a flash. "Leona."

"Rachel..." Leona whispered with lifeless eyes. "It's true... It was worse that time..." Leona murmured, getting up with difficulty. "Who cares what happens to me, I have nowhere to go anyway, I could just die here... And stop suffering... But I'm still alive... isn't it, Rachel? I'm not going to die here," Leona grabbed the sword from the ground. "Because I'm going to survive, I'm not going to let that dude get away with it ... Even if I have to put up with all this pain! I will not give way! "Leona looked at the sword." I have the feeling that it wants my blood for a while... And if that's so, then take it, lend me your power in exchange for my blood," Leona said as she grasped it tightly. "Sword, take my blood! I refuse to give up!" Leona shouted, suddenly, a dark aura appeared around the sword and the orb began to glow as a strong wind began blowing around her, Leona felt she was losing more and more blood and the chest pain was increasing, then, a black mark appeared on one of her eyes and on her neck, fangs came out, and the eye where the black mark was, it turned red, then a dark aura enveloped her.

"He is very persistent." Chachamaru said looking at Takeshiro.

"Not for long, let's see what he does with this," Evangeline said, preparing to cast another spell. "Kosmike Kata-" before it was over, a dark burst hit Takeshiro, sending him crashing into the sea, leaving a trail of earth behind it.

"What was that?" Kamo looked around, confused. "It's... Leona...?" Kamo looked at her worried about how she looked now, quickly Leona went towards Takeshiro, grasped him by the neck and dragged him away from where they were, crashing into several trees, until he crashed into some rocks, she let him go and jumped back, seconds later, Takeshiro got up and went towards her and started attacking her while she dodged and blocked the blows, in one of them, Takeshiro kicked her in the stomach, crashing her against a nearby mountain side, Leona immediately rose and made appear wings on her back like those that appeared in the pactio card and quickly went towards Takeshiro, he noticed and shot a black flame from his mouth, when it reached Leona, she began to cut the attack off with her sword while advancing towards Takeshiro, when she reached him, she hit him with a punch in the chin, throwing him towards the sky , she jumped quickly to get behind him, then she grasped his head and quickly slammed him into the ground, making a hole and dragging him at several meters underground, when she let go him, she jumped out of the hole, landing on the ground, seconds later, Takeshiro jumped out of the hole and remained in the air, at a fairly high altitude, then he began to cast a spell, Leona stared at him, doing nothing, waiting for him to finish, when he finished the spell, Takeshiro threw towards her, a large red sphere with intense flames around, Leona made a small cut on her arm with the sword and let the blood fall on the sword, she placed the sword behind her back, keeping it parallel to the ground and began to concentrate magic on the sword.

"Release Incantation..." Leona whispered, a dark red aura formed around the sword as a strong wind formed around her. "Endless..." immediately, she jerked the sword up in the air and sent a great wave of dark energy towards the sphere of Takeshiro, creating a great explosion.

"What was that explosion?" Kamo asked from up top of Chachamaru's shoulder while they were going there.

"I can perceive Leona and the boy from before over there." Chachamaru said calmly.

"I hope she's okay, anyway, what was that, it seems as if she weren't herself at all." Kamo added, remembering Leona.

"Wasn't it because of the pactio?" Chachazero asked.

"Eh? It shouldn't be like that... It doesn't usually have that kind of reaction," Kamo replied thinking about it. "Anyway, we'd better hurry."

Akuro appeared where Leona and Takeshiro were, they returned as they were before and were lying on the ground, unconscious, the attack had caused a large hole to appear in the ground, several meters deep, and made everything in that area disappear.

"Tsk, and to think she had such power, at least Takeshiro was useful and left her unconscious," Akuro said as he approached Leona. "Now I should take her away with me, but I don't know if it would be better to kill her, maybe in the future she could be a problem." Akuro kicked her in the ribs and turned her around, grabbed her by the neck of her shirt and lifted her to his height. "I can always say that she didn't survive Takeshiro's spell," Akuro stared at her. "Yes, it's the best option." Akuro said, raising his other hand to throw an electro ball in her chest, but when he was about to throw it at her, suddenly, a projectile of ice was throwing towards him, when he noticed it, he jumped back and dodged it, dropping Leona on the ground.

"Look at the state you've left her in." Evangeline sighed, next to Leona, looking at her.

"Is she dead?" Chachazero asked, looking at Leona, from up top of Chachamaru's head.

"No, not yet, but we should hurry." Chachamaru replied.

"Can I know who you are? If you have come to interfere with my affairs, you will regret it, so if I were you, I would leave right now before I decide to kill you, although I am not in my best conditions, I don't think it will take me any effort to get rid of you and those who have come with you." Akuro looked at her with a grimace, after a few seconds, a malicious smile formed on Evangeline's lips.

"Who I am? I'm somebody you wish you hadn't met at this moment, but you know, I'm going to tell you something as a warning, most people who know me know how foolish it is to try and take what is mine, what is more, they end up regretting it... I'll explain it to you in another way, if you try to get your hand on my disciple... I. Will. Kill. You,have I made myself clear?" Evangeline said with venom in her voice and a cold glare.

"Since when does Leona belong to her?" Kamo whispered in Chachazero's ear.

"Since she swore allegiance to the mistress, 20 minutes and 30 seconds ago, ke, ke, ke." Chachazero replied.

"Do you think you scare me? Who do you think you are? You're nothing but someone stupid who thinks can beat me, and since you put warnings, I will tell you one thing, I belong to the elite of the organization so I'm recognized by one of the strongest, therefore, if you want to keep your life, beg me for forgiveness and maybe I'll forgive you."

"Can I kill him, mistress?" Chachazero asked.

"No." Evangeline replied, looking at Akuro. "Apparently, you still don't understand it," Evangeline shook her head. "You say you are recognized by one of the strongest, I'm just seeing someone who is stupid enough to believe it, I'll give you another chance, leaves this place, you are too young to throw away your life, you don't waste it."

"How dare you... I'll show you if I'm strong or not stupid human! Even if you beg me, I won't forgive you! When I've got rid of you, the next one will be that girl and I'll kill her in front of your own eyes! "Akuro yelled with an angry expression, looking at Evangeline." Thunder- Ahg?!" Akuro cried out as Evangeline had pierced him in the chest with the Ensis Exsequens, a magical energy sword, in a few seconds, she had appeared before him.

"I gave you two chances, one of them was warning you that I would kill you," Evangeline said, lifting him off the ground with her sword. "But since you have that stubbornness like a child, you haven't listened to me." Evangeline continued in a cold voice, narrowing her eyes as she stabbed her sword deeper into his chest.

"You..." Akuro whispered, coughing up blood. "Don't think this ends here..."

"No, this ends here, why do you know what will happen when I move the sword on this side? That I'll cut your heart out in two before you give yourself time to say another spell."

"Let… Let go of me, damn it...!" Akuro yelled, then lifted one of his arms and shot Evangeline with an energy ball into her stomach, piercing her." Did you think I couldn't perform spells without saying a word...? Stupid woman... "Akuro laughed uncontrollably, suddenly, saw that the injury he had done to Evangeline, was regenerated quickly.

"You... Aren't you… a human...?!"

"When did I say it was?" Evangeline said with an evil smirk, baring her fangs.

"Tsk, are you a... Vampire?" Akuro said nervously, trying to break free of her grip, Evangeline's smirk dropped when she finally decided to speak.

"What happen? Didn't you say that I wasn't a match for you? What was all that talk about kicking me? Well, it doesn't matter, because this ends now. "

"Mistress, if you allow me to say, I don't think Professor Negi will like you to kill him." Chachamaru advised.

"Oh? I gave him the chance to escape, but his decision was to confront me, regardless of the consequences." Evangeline raised an eyebrow as she looked at Akuro.

"Even so…"

"No, mistress, remember that he has called you stupid three times, he must die." Chachazero retorted.

"Master!" a voice said.

"Speaking of the devil." Evangeline said, undeterred.

"Aniki! Are you okay?" Kamo said, seeing as he approached them with Asuna and the others.

"Yes, we are sorry that it took us so long to arrive, there were quite a few specters along the way, although suddenly, there was an explosion and they disappeared, we came here as fast as we could." Setsuna explained, looking at them.

"Leona?!" Asuna shouted, looking at her worriedly. "What have you done!"

"I'm going to heal her now." Konoka said quickly, approaching Leona.

"Isn't that Akuro?" Negi asked, looking at him.

"Don't worry, I'm going to finish him off right away."

"Master, I don't think it's necessary to kill him." Negi looked at her seriously.

"Why? He didn't think the same way." Evangeline tilted her head to the side slightly, looking at Akuro.

"But…"

"I don't need your compassion... Brat..."

"You see, he's asking me to kill him."

"Master, please!"

"You are always so kind bouya ..." Evangeline sighed. "You are lucky that he has appeared at the right moment, you should thank my disciple for his generosity of forgiving people even without knowing them." Evangeline said, making the sword disappear, then Akuro fell to the ground. "Now go away, you can tell your friend to help you, he has been seeing us for a while."

"Oh… Come on!" Chachazero said, rolling her eyes with a tone of annoyance, suddenly, Hoshi appeared with the other companions at his side, unconscious.

"You!" Asuna looked at Hoshi seriously.

"Surely he was waiting for the opportunity to take him away too." Evangeline said, looking at Hoshi.

"Did you know I was here and didn't attack me?" Hoshi asked, raising an eyebrow as he looked at her.

"I was waiting to see if you would do anything to save him." Evangeline replied, Hoshi went towards Akuro and helped him up, supporting him with his left arm over his shoulder.

"Don't think that this is over... We will return and I assure you that none of you will survive! ..."

"You think that in the condition that you are in, can tell us that! You should thank Aniki!" Kamo shouted with a vein of anger on the top of his head.

"Let's go Hoshi." Akuro whispered.

"All right." Hoshi nodded, made the teleportation spell and with that he disappeared with the others.

"He said they would come back." Asuna said with a serious expression on her face.

"If that guy was one of the strongest that his leader has, you don't have to worry." Evangeline crossed her arms under her chest.

"Well, at least it's over." Asuna sighed.

"Is something wrong, Konoka?" Negi asked looking at her worried, since he saw Konoka restless.

"I can't heal her..." Konoka murmured.

"What?" Negi blinked a few times.

"I don't know the reason, but I can't heal her injuries." Konoka replied, looking at Leona worried.

"Huh?!" Kamo surprised.

"Ojou-sama has been trying for a while, but her injuries aren't healing." Setsuna said with a serious look on her face.

"It can only mean one thing." Chachazero added.

"What?" Asuna looked at her seriously.

"She is going to die."

"Because you always have to say those things! She isn't going to die! "Asuna frowned with an expression of annoyance.

"Don't you see the blood she has already lost?" Chachazero asked.

"Eva..." Asuna looked at her worried. "Can't you do anything?

"I already told you I'm not good at those things... And I don't have anything here either." Evangeline said with a tone, trying to pretend she wasn't worried.

"Then let's go to a hospital." Negi replied.

"You are right," Setsuna nodded. "There's one near the school."

"I can use teleportation via shadow to get there as soon as possible." Evangeline added.

"Okay, then you take Leona and go with ne-san, Aniki and Chachamaru will take us there." Kamo exclaimed.

"All right." Asuna nodded. "Come on, Eva-chan."

"I already told you not to call me 'Eva-chan'." Evangeline said with an annoyed tone as she grabbed Leona, then she left the place with Asuna using the teleportation via shadow.

"Now it's our turn to leave and come back Mahora." Kamo said, Negi nodded, and everyone left that place.


End of chapter 17.

And here the fighting ended, they managed to defeat Airon's henchmen and return to Mahora, Leona had her Pactio with Evangeline although it seems that Konoka could not heal her wounds... lt will be explained, what will happen in the next chapter?

Thanks for reading, 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! :)