Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. I hope you all liked that Noelle is able to understand Nero now just like Asta.

I don't own Fairy Tail or Black Clover.

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'...' Character thought

"..." Spells

"..." Animal P.O.V.

'...' Animal thought

[...] Over-voice

Now then on with the new chapter.

Chapter 20: One Instant

The slash of water Asta released from his new Anti-Magic weapon continued making its way towards Mars destroying the Harpes in the process.

'What…the heck?! Water?' Asta thought in shock knowing that wasn't one of his elements.

'What is this?! I thought his elements were Iron, Ice, and Lightning!' Klaus thought in disbelief.

'A slashing water magic attack!' Luck thought wide-eyed. 'Did he…did he borrow…Noelle's magic?!' He wonders.

'What in the world is that sword?!' Klaus wonders in complete shock.

"Think that's enough to defeat me?!" Mars asks as he raises his Heavy Armored Titans arms to try and block the incoming attack, however, it did no good as it breaks apart the crystals but somehow Mars manages to hold it together.

Yuno watches in shock at his older brother's achievement as the glow from Asta's new sword dies out as it returns to normal while he pants heavily.

"Heh heh…I don't really know how but…I did it…" Asta says smiling. "!" His smile however soon faded from his face.

As Asta looks down he notices a crystal blade from Mars' previous attack had pierced his stomach. Asta is in complete shock as he hacks up a good bit of blood and begins falling forward.

"Damn it, I let my guard down." Asta says weakly.

"What's happening?!" Noelle asks in horror as she watches her crush hit the floor losing consciousness. "ASTAAA!" She screams. "I'm fine." She tells her cousin. "Forget about me. I can heal myself with my new magic, so go look after him." She says.

"Oh right, sure." Mimosa says halting Noelle's healing and rushes over to Asta and begins trying to heal his wound. 'This wound…can I even heal it with the magic power I have left?' She wonders.

"Asta!" Yuno yells to his unconscious brother.

"Open up your eyes brat! Where did all that arrogance go?" Klaus asks.

"You can't die before we fight." Luck says.

"Asta." Noelle says with worry dripping from her voice as her grimoire flips to a different page. "Sea Dragon's Healing Tears." She says as she begins to heal herself.

"Asta." Nero says still perched beside Noelle.

"Try to hold on, you can do it." Mimosa says. "You hear me? You're not alone." She says unaware that Mars was regaining consciousness.

"I…I don't need anyone. As powerful as I am, I will never need anyone. Those who don't have power are weak. And the weak die." Mars says gaining everyone's attention.

"Impossible." Klaus says.

"He can still move even after taking two high powered attacks from Noelle and Asta?" Luck asks.

"Give up! You're pathetic, helpless little child! You never stood a chance of defeating me! Crystal Creation Magic: Laevateinn!" Mars yells creating another enormous crystal sword.

"No, Asta!" Yuno shouts activating his magic trying to break free from his restraints.

'This is our chance. Noelle's attack dispelled his Fire Recovery Magic and Asta managed to weaken him even further with that last slash! We could finish him off right now…!' Klaus thought.

'Almost there!' Luck thought surrounded by black sparks. 'Just a little longer and I'll break through this binding…!' He thought.

"Now die!" Mars shouts as he brings the Laevateinn down towards Asta and Mimosa.

'I won't make it in time

Yuno witnesses the attack getting closer and it triggers a sudden spike in his magic power as his Wind Magic breaks him free of the crystal binding.

"ASTAAA!" Yuno screams as his grimoire begins flipping through its pages violently. 'No matter which spell I pull from my grimoire…it'll be too late.' He thought as he looks towards his unconscious brother. 'I can't let him die…not like this!' He screams as the four-leaf clover on his grimoire glows and suddenly time and everyone were frozen except for himself.

Yuno looks around him with wide eyes as he is unsure of what just happened. Yuno the looks to his right and notices a small creature floating beside him. The creature had the appearance of a young female with a pair of incest-like wings and wearing what appeared to be a very long green dress. The young female yawns as she rubs eyes before taking in the situation and releases a gently breath that she blows towards the Laevateinn. As soon as the breath touches the crystal it begins cracking before bursting into pieces and time was unfrozen as the gently breath turned out to be a huge raging whirlwind that destroys Mars' Heavy Armored Titan sending him flying into the walls leaving a huge create from the impact. Mars groans in pain as everyone is shock by Yuno's accomplishment as they watch the Diamond Mage fall to the floor.

"What happened? Is it over? Did Yuno finish him?" Klaus asks in confusion but then the crystals that were binding him and Luck disintegrate. "The binding spell…it's broken!" He says. "Yuno! What did you do?" He asks rushing over to his squad mate.

"Yeah, really, what magic was that?" Luck asks rushing over as well.

"I don't know." Yuno simply says.

"Don't know? What?" Klaus asks in confusion.

"There was this tiny person." Yuno says looking around for any sign of the young female.

"A tiny person?" Klaus asks even more confused.

"I think." Yuno says.

"You must be tired. We can discuss this later." Klaus says placing his hand on Yuno's shoulder. "There will be time. He's down now…for good." He says.

Yuno then relaxes as he looks towards his grimoire and notices the writing on the open page.

'Isn't this…the writing from that scroll?!' Yuno wonders as Klaus looks over his shoulder and also notices the writing.

Mimosa continues to heal Asta's stomach wound as Noelle makes her way over to them with Nero perched on her shoulder.

'Asta.' Noelle and Mimosa thought at the same time.

Suddenly Asta's new Anti-Magic weapon floats in the air above his Anti-Magic grimoire and disappears inside it as new, unknown writing presents itself on the two blank pages. In the next instant the chamber where Asta found his sword, the pedestal where Yuno found the scroll, the corner where Noelle found the two scrolls, and the treasure pile where Luck found his scroll suddenly begin rumbling as creaks appear all across the treasure room and larges chunks of debris fall from the ceiling.

"Well…that's just great." Klaus says as a large debris barely misses him and Luck. "A trap spell?" He wonders.

"The dungeon…it's collapsing!" Yuno yells.

Author's Note: Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, even though it was shorter than the other chapters. The next one with be the end of Dungeon Exploration Arc. After that will be the Royal Capital Arc and I will be doing a few things different in that arc just like I did in this one.

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