(And here's my latest installment readers. Hope you're ready for some surprises.)
Last time, Alistair and Yue were on their way to Evangeline's to meet up with the others, until they were ambushed by Voltaire, Fangtom, and the Fangpyres. With Alistair short of backup and Yue caught in the middle, he was determined to protect her.
"Fangpyres attack!" Fangtom ordered as his snake army charged for alistair who concentrated his dark energy.
"Shadow Buster!" he summoned his shadow weapon. He used it to strike the Fangpyres away, but they kept getting up and charging at him.
Yue gasped and had to get somewhere safe and call for help, "Alistair needs help, and help is what he's going to get." she reached for her phone only for her arm to be grabbed by Voltaire.
"Clever plan, but whose going to be here to help you?" he smirked as Yue started feeling his grip getting hotter on her arm.
"OW!" she cried, grabbing Alistair's attention.
"Hey let her go!" he fired a shockwave of dark energy from his shadow buster at Voltaire, who released his hold on Yue to dodge the attack, "Yue, are you ok?" he asked while dodging more of the snakes.
"I'll be fine." Yue groaned seeing the third degree burns left on her arm.
"You got to get out of here!" he ordered.
"But what about you?" Yue asked in worry.
"I'll be fine!" he called as he dodged another strike from one of the snakes.
Fangtom slinked up behind and called, "Surprise!" he sank one of his heads fangs into his shoulder.
"GAH!" Alistair cried in pain.
"Alistair!" Yue cried in worry. Fangtom removed his fangs from Alistair who dropped to his knees, "What've you done to him?!" she demanded.
"I have turned him, into one of us." the snake explained.
"One of you?" Yue asked as Alistair groaned as he got back up revealing that his skin was turning green and scaly like a snakes.
"Yue!" Alistair hissed while showing her he not hang snake fangs, and a fork tongue.
Voltaire at the sight of Alistair started laughing hysterically, "Oh there's a good look for you, Alistair!"
"I may be snake like now, but I still have my power!" he called as he fought Fangtom, his army, and Voltaire again.
Voltaire sent blasts of fire at Alistaire who kept dodging but was slowing down due to the venom in the snake bite making him more snake like by the minute. Suddenly he was knocked back by a dark fireball and fell to the ground. The pyromancer dark warrior stood before his former comrade with another dark fireball in hand, "Hope you're ready to have burned scales."
"Shadow shot!" a voice called as a shadow shot attack nailed Voltaire in the back sending him flying across the ground.
Alistair looked up and saw Xever and Baliton brothers, "Bro!" he gasped.
"What would you do without me, Alistair?" Xever joked as he helped his younger brother to his feet.
"Whoa you don't look so good." Belmont noticed Alistair's condition.
"Fangpyre bite." he explained.
"I thought as much." Valmont noted.
"How's Yue?" Xever noticed her.
"She's all right, save for the third degree burns." Alistair explained.
Voltaire and Fangtom saw the newcomers, "Looks like our troubles has increased." Voltaire told the snake general.
"No matter, we'll eliminate them one at a time." Fangtom replied as he and his army were ready to strike until a blast of magic nailed them.
They looked and saw entering the scene was Negi, Kotaro, Dustin, Rin, Fate, Evangeline, Zyphon, Chachamaru, Haruna, Ayaka, Natsumi, Chizuru, Setsuna, Kazumi, Sayo, and Konoka, "Alistair, Yue!" Negi called as they stopped.
"Yue, are you all right?" Haruna asked in worry.
"I'm fine, Haruna. Alistair, he protected me." she explained.
Eva noticed Alistair, "The snake bit him."
"He' needs to be cured before the affects overtake him." Chachamaru warned them.
"I'll try something." Konoka offered.
"So will I." Rin added.
"One problem," Kotaro noted, "I don't think they're gonna give you the chance." he motioned to Voltaire and the snakes fighting through Xever and the Balitons to get to them.
"Chachamaru." Eva ordered.
"Yes mistress." the gynoid nodded as she converted her arms into blades.
"Zyphon!" Dustin ordered.
"On it master!" Zyphon activated his blasters.
"Fate." Rin ordered.
Fate drew his sword, "I'm at your command, princess."
"And I will fight too." Setsuna added drawing her own sword.
"Then go and buy us as much time as you can!" Negi ordered as they took off to help the three as Alistair went over to them.
"How're you holding up, Alistair?" Dustin asked his comrade.
"Not good, my vision is looking very strange right now." he explained showing them his snake like eyes.
"Yikes." Kotaro gasped.
"Come over here and we'll remove that venom." Konoka called him over as he stood before her and Rin.
"Just relax and let us do the rest." Rin instructed as Alistair did as he was told.
So Rin and Konoka were using their healing magic on Alistair. Slowly but surely his snake like features were fading away until his body was normal again, "Alistair how do you feel?" Negi asked in concern.
"Well I feel fine, here check my tongue," he stuck his tongue out revealing it was normal, "Is it forked?"
"No it's normal." Kotaro confirmed.
"Now put that away." Eva ordered as Alistair pulled his tongue back into his mouth.
"Now fix Yue, those burns look nasty." Alistair ordered.
"Oh my, that does look painful." Chizuru gasped at Yue's third degree burns.
"Painful is an understatement." Yue replied.
"Here, Yue." Konoka said as he used her magic to heal the girls arm.
"Oh arigato, Konoka." she thanked her.
"We better get in there and help the others." Ayaka suggested as they saw the others weren't looking like they could hold out for much longer.
"Right, let's get in the game." Kotaro said pumping his fists.
"But what about, Yue?" Natsumi asked.
"Yeah, Yue's still vulnerable unlike most of us." Sayo added.
"Chizuru, you better take her to safety." Dustin ordered.
"Hai. Come on, Yue." Chizuru said ready to lead her off, only for Yue to pull her arm back.
"No," she answered, "I want to fight."
"What?" they asked in shock.
"But Yue, against them you won't stand a chance." Negi reminded her.
"Alistair protected me, and now I want to help protect him and all of you." Yue answered.
"Very noble, but still your level of magic fails in comparison to Voltaire's power and the craftiness of the Fangpyre's." Eva warned her.
"Then she'll need a power up," Chamo spoke up, "I think it's pactio time."
"A pactio?" Negi and Yue gasped.
"Yeah, I mean she's been practicing with us for awhile now and she hasn't made a pactio." Chamo noted.
"Well you have a point." Negi admitted while Yue blushed.
"So then let's get to work." Chamo whipped out his chalk.
"Hold it!" Alistair spoke up.
"Alistair?" Dustin asked.
"Sorry to suddenly be blunt, but I want to make a pactio with Yue." he declared.
"Huh?" the girls gasped as Yue blushed some more.
"You, Alistair?" Kotaro asked.
"What brought this up?" Rin asked curiously.
"It's my fault for getting Yue caught up in the middle of this fight, and for that I want to make her stronger by forging a pactio with her," Alistair explained and held a hand out to the girl, "Yue, will you accept my offer?"
Yue blushed as she looked around seeing all the girls were waiting for her answer, while Haruna smirked and nodded for her to accept it. Finding the answer she took Alistair's hand, "Yes Alistair, I will."
"Fievel!" Alistair ordered as Fievel jumped out of his pocket and whipped out his own chalk.
"One pactio circle coming up." Fievel started drawing the pactio circle below Alistair and Yue.
"Ok you two get to it." Eva instructed as Alistair and Yue stood ready as the others watched.
"Before we do this, I have something to say," Alistair began catching Yue's curiosity, "I love you, Yue." he declared putting shocks on the girls and Negi's faces. Yue was surprised as Alistair smiled at her, "I mean it. These feelings I have in my heart for you are real and genuine. Yue Ayase, I love you."
Yue blushed at Alistair's confession, until her own feelings started bubbling to the surface and she spoke up with a smile, "I love you too, Alistair."
Haruna and the girls gasped at Yue returning Alistair's affections, until Chamo spoke up, "Yeah we're all happy for ya really. Now make with the magic!"
Yue and Alistair nodded as the dark warrior cupped the girls face and pulled her into a kiss, 'Wow my first kiss. It feels magical.' Yue thought.
'So this is what a kiss feels like,' Alistair thought, 'I should've done this a long time ago.'
"Pactio!" Fievel called as Alistairs dark energy started flowing into Yue.
The dark energy in Yue started manifesting and transformed her outfit into black sexy armor that left her midriff exposed, "Yue, how do you feel?" Haruna asked.
"I feel great," she began, "In fact I feel stronger now."
"Well here's your card, Yue." Fievel presented her a black pactio card with her image on it.
Yue nodded and concentrated her dark energy that took the form of a dark scepter, "Now then, let's get in the game!" Dustin called as they went into battle.
Negi and Kotaro led Ayaka, Rin, Fate, Chachamaru, Natsumi, Evangeline, Sayo, and Konoka against Fangtom and the Fangpyres, while Dustin and Alistair led Xever, Valmont, Belmont, Zyphon, Haruna, Yue, Chizuru, Setsuna, and Kazumi against Voltaire. As Yue fought along side Alistair, she was still getting used to her her dark warrior powers, "Yue, try a shadow gun." Alistair suggested.
"How?" she asked as she jumped away from a dark fireball launched by Voltaire.
"Concentrate your dark energy in your index finger and blast!" Alistair instructed.
"I'll try!" Yue said as he focused on her right index finger and could feel her dark energy building up in the tip, "Ok here it goes. Shadow gun!" she fired it at Voltaire, who jumped away, but the blast managed to knock him onto the ground.
"Not a bad shot!" Alistair admitted.
"Thanks, but I guess I need work on it." Yue replied.
"We'll have plenty of time after this." Alistair assured her as she fought along side her dark warrior master.
"Let me try something else." Yue muttered an incantation and sent a blast of dark magic at Voltaire knocking him off his feet.
"Little brat!" he fired a blast of dark fire at Yue, only for Alistair to project a shadow barrier to shield them.
Yue looked down and saw her friends were fending off against the Fangpyre's, "We got to put an end to those snakes." she used her dark magic blasts on some of the snakes throwing them off their guard giving Negi's group a change to subdue them.
"Thanks, Yue. I'll take it from here." Negi pulled out the bottle he used to catch the Constrictai tribe, "All right Fangpyre's. It's all over!" he popped the cork and uttered an incantation before the snakes were being sucked in.
"No! They can't do this to me!" Fangtom cried as he tried slinking away, but the pull of the suction was overtaking him, "Voltaire, help!" he cried before being assimilated into the bottle.
Voltaire watched as his allies were assimilated and saw he was really outmatched now, "Time to retreat." he was about to flee until he felt a dark aura increase. He spun and saw Alistair's dark energy increasing rapidly while surrounded by a darker aura.
"You're not going anywhere." he warned him.
"Shadow force." Xever and Valmont gasped.
"What, he can't!" Voltaire gasped seeing Alistair was able to use Spirit force when it took him over a year to learn how to control it.
"Shadow force!" Alistair fired the blast of dark energy at Voltaire who was already worn out from so much fighting and attacks. The pyromancer dark warrior took the blow and was sent flying backwards until he used what energy he could to open a portal and vanish.
Alistair started powering down and fell to his knees panting, "Alistair!" Xever called as he, Negi, Kotaro, Dustin, and Fate ran over to him, "Are you ok?"
"Yeah. I'll be fine." Alistair answered as he panted.
"You and Yue rocked today!" Haruna pumped a fist.
"Yeah, and here's a little something for each of you." Kazumi said as she gave them each a commemorative photo of their first kiss.
Both of them blushed as Xever ruffled his brother's head, "Congratulations, Alistair you made your first pactio."
"We're so proud of you." Belmont added.
"Thanks guys." Alistair smiled.
"So how was it?" Kotaro asked.
"What?"
"The feeling?" Dustin asked eager to know.
"I felt as if my whole body was on fire, even hotter than the sun." he explained.
"Well I suppose that's one way of putting it." Negi admitted.
Konoka spoke, "So Yue what's it like now that you're part dark warrior?"
"Well it feels strange having this new power flowing through me, but I could get used to it." she admitted.
"That's good, now then how're we going to explain to Nodoka about you're new love life?" Haruna grinned slyly.
"Haruna, if you say anything Nodoka will take it in a deeper meaning!" Yue warned her.
"Well you like Alistair, don't you? You just admitted you loved him." Haruna teased her.
"Well yeah I do, but... Hey Haruna you get back here!" Yue chased after Haruna who took off with the intent to tell Nodoka about Yue confessing to Alistair and vice versa, while the boys roll their eyes in amusement.
"Yue should be glad making a pactio with a dark warrior doesn't give her the dark warrior look." Belmont said noting it would be a pain if she had to forever use camouflage magic to hide her appearance. The boys nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile at Ragnarok's lair, Voltaire who was roughed up from the Shadow Force blast had told everything to Ragnarok, Diabound, and the others, "What?! Blasts those boys! Well no matter tomorrow we'll strike harder!"
"Tomorrow?!" Skales shouted, grabbing their attention. Skales stood with Pythor and Acidicus and continued, "You just sacrificed another of our fellow tribes, and you just say we'll do better tomorrow so bluntly?!"
Ragnarok turned to Pythor, "Pythor keep your fellow general in check."
Pythor frowned before answering, "He's right."
"What?" Ragnarok and the others gasped at Pythor's defiance.
"I held my tongue long enough against you, Ragnarok. But after losing both Skalidor, Fangtom, the Constrictai, and the Fangpyre tribes, I can no longer sit idly by and let you use my kind as sacrificial lambs!"
"You dare defy me?" Ragnarok growled, "Have you forgotten who it was that released you from your tomb? Who granted you the powers of dark energy making you into this dark warrior serpentine you are now?"
"For that I am a thousand times grateful, but I feel now's the time I went my own my with my true kind." Pythor explained as the tribes of Skales and Acidicus stood at their sides.
"Seize those traitors!" The shadow master ordered as Voltaire and Thorn attempted to subdue Pythor, only for him to open a shadow portal and flee with the other two generals and their tribes.
"What an interesting turn of events." Diabound noted as Ragnarok growled.
"If Pythor and his gaggle of snakes think they can outdo me and destroy Negi and Dustin, they got another thing coming!" Ragnarok declared.
(And that's the chapter. Alistair has made a pactio with Yue and now she's the minister of a dark warrior. With her truly part of the group now, and Pythor and the snakes severing all ties with Ragnarok, will the Shadow Master be in for more complications? Stay tuned.)