The kidnapping of the Magic Knights
The person that came walking out of the archway is a male with short, golden brown hair, a handlebar moustache and brown eyes. He's wearing a stripped doublet with dark and light purple colours, the two types of purple also being present on his trunk hose and a fur-lined, green mantle and yellow cravat. In his hand is long thin staff that has a dark green tip.
"So that's the ruling king of the Clover Kingdom." Saber and Yuno thought, them having never seen a picture of the Royal King before.
"All right, citizens, glorify me!" The king thought, a small smirk appearing on his face as he stopped next to Julius.
"Don't stand directly beside me. You'll overshadowing me." The king said, a slight look of annoyance appearing on his face.
"Oh. Uh-huh." Julius said as he took a few steps to the side.
"Erm, ahem. Good day to you people. I am Augustus Kira Clover XII, royal king of the Clover Kingdom." Augustus introduce himself.
"Yaaaaaay. Long live the king….." Someone cheered just as the crowd began to clap…...in a half-hearted manner.
"…..Glorify me more, would you?! I am the king! The king! The most important person in this country! Look! Look at this subline Mana, which has passed down for generations! My thoughts! My looks! Everything about me is correct! I'm greater than the Wizard King himself!" Augustus exclaimed, annoyance appearing on his face.
"I wish the Wizard King was king." The crowd thought at the same time.
"This is the guy that I will working with when I become the Wizard King?" Saber and Yuno thought in a blank tone of voice.
"Julius! That little…..hogging all the popularity for himself! On top of that, the Sword Of Logos have took first place, what does that Magic Knight squad even do!? Why couldn't it be one of the squads captained by royals? At least it's not the Golden Dawn again, I can't abide the colour gold!" Augutus thought in annoyance as he glanced towards Sophia and William.
"Your majesty. Please calm down." Julius whispered to the Royal King, noticing how Augustus is becoming stressed out.
"I'll give them one of the chin and earn the people's support!" Augustus thought, seemingly ignoring Julius's advice.
"Ahem...Citizens. I have an announcement to make. The hideout of the Eye Of The Midnight Sun….has been located." Augustus said, causing the crowd to become shock before starting to murmur amongst themselves.
"Until now, we have been subjected to many of their attacks, and held the initiative in every battle. However, this time things are different! We're launching an all-out attack on the enemy at last! To that end….I have decided to gather an even more select group among the Magic Knights and form the ultimate hand-picked unit. They will be called the Royal Knights!" Augutus announced, causing the present Magic Knights to gain surprise expressions on their faces.
"One week from now, a test will be held for all Magic Knights! Only those who past this test will be allowed to join the Royal Knights! And...my Royal Knights will annihilate the Eye Of The Midnight Sun! My Magic Knights! Offer up your Grimoires in service to this country!" Augutus announced, casing the crowd to cheer loudly.
"And our swords." The Magic Knights from the Sword Logos thought at the same time, feeling offended.
"Hehehe. I nailed it. Julius performed that investigation and this was his idea, but now it's mine!" Augutus thought, a smirk appearing on his face.
"The entire thing was your idea, wasn't it?" Asta asked in a blunt tone of voice.
Right, now Asta and Yuno are speaking to Julius in private.
"That's correct. I'm the one that came up with the idea of the Royal Knights. His majesty doesn't those who are more popular than him." The Wizard King responded with a sheepish smile on his face before it disappeared and replaced with a serious one.
"However, the Royal Knights will be a chance for you two to achieve even greater things. Do you feel like taking a shot at it?" Julius asked, causing both Asta and Yuno to nod their heads.
"Yes, Sir!" Both responded at the same time.
"You two may be amazing, but you're still rookies. Crowds of tough veterans are bound to show for the selection test. Go forward, but don't get full of yourselves. I'll be waiting for you." Julius explained, making both Asta and Yuno to nod their heads.
"The Royal Knights, huh? I don't know what kind of test it's going to be, but I'm totally doing this!" Asta exclaimed as he and Yuno walked down a spiral staircase.
"Don't cry if I'm the only one who gets in, Asta." Yuno said in a blank tone of voice.
"What's that suppose to mean?! I'm absolutely going pass, and then I'll flatten the Eye Of The Midnight Sun." Asta said whilst feeling annoyed at Yuno's comment.
"My Crimson Dragon form and "King Of Arthur" Wonder-Ride book will definitely be useful in the upcoming battles." Asta thought, a determined expression appearing on his face.
"Leooooo!" A voice suddenly shouted, causing both the swordsman of flame and the Golden Dawn wind Mage to jump, which then followed by the sound someone getting punched very hard.
Asta and Yuno quicken their pace until reaching the bottom of the staircase where they found the entire Crimson Lion squad kneeling in front of Mereleone and from the looks of things, the person who got punched was Leopold.
"You utter imbecile!" Mereleone shouted in an angry tone of voice.
"The Crimson Lions rank fourth! What sort of travesty is that! Do you want me to kill you all here before you die on a mission!" Mereoleone shouted to the entire squad who shaken in fear.
"What the hell did we stumble upon?!" Asta exclaimed in his head.
"For generations, the Crimson Lions have never placed worse than second place! never! And you fools went placed a ludicrous fourth! If the Sword Of Logos haven't been involved with the rankings, then we would have been in third place! To think that dropping down two ranks is caused by my younger brother getting his arm cut off and leave the Magic Knights until he recovered. Are you people infants!" The captain of the Crimson Lions shouted, flames starting to dance around him.
"This new captain is super scary! This is supposed to be the elder sibling of leo and Fuegoleon?!" Asta shouted in his head, starting to sweat.
"I swear. That idiot Fuegoleon. What a spineless bunch he raised. Leaving useless louts like you behind. That moron isn't fit to be a captain!" Mereleone explained and Asta notice how Leo's hands are gripping his knees tightly, him having sat up during Mereoleone's speech.
"That's not true! Fuegoleon is a better captain than anybody else!" Leopold interjected, an angry expression appearing on his face.
"He's right! Captain Fuegoleon taught us exactly how Knights should be." A Crimson Lion Magic Knight said, finding the courage to voice his thoughts.
"He treated us more strictly, and more warmly than anyone else. He's the ultimate Magic Knight! He has this country's best interest at heart!" Another Crimson Lion Magic Knight voiced his thoughts.
"Even if you are my sister, I won't forgive anyone who talks about Fuegoleon like tha-!" Leopold began to say but was cut off as Mereoleone punched him again.
"Then do more than talk! Prove it with your own power! Show me that you are the strongest squad led by the ultimate captain. That imbecile won't die and abandon you or this country! Until he returns, show me the strength of the proud Crimson Lion!" Mereoleon shouted as she retracted her fist away from Leopold's face.
This cause all the Crimson Lions Magic Knights to start sweating.
"There's no help for it. While my idiot brother is away, I'll put you through the mill personally." Mereoleon explained, her anger receding away.
"What do you say?!" Mereoleone shouted as she stare down at the Crimson Lions.
"Yes, Ma'am!" Came the response.
"That's some enthusiasm right there. I wonder what sort of training Captain Mereoleone has in store?" Asta thought, becoming curious.
"All right. Then it's time for a hot spring training camp." Mereoleone said in a calm tone of voice, causing the Crimson Lions to glance at each other confusedly.
"Hot spring?" Asta said in a confused tone of voice, glancing towards Yuno.
"I read about them in a book. They're natural bodies of water that are heated by volcanoes and bathing in them is supposedly feels good." Yuno explained, causing Asta to gain a confused expression on his face.
"What's so of training is that supposed to be then?" Asta asked, causing Yuno to shrug his shoulders.
"Don't worry. You'll be coming along." The voice of Mereoleone is heard before something grabbed Asta's head and forced it around.
The ash-white hair teen saw that that the thing that grabbed his head is a lion's paw made out of fire.
"S-she caught me!" Asta exclaimed in his head, starting to become scared.
As if sensing Asta's distressed, the "Brave Dragon" Wonder-Ride book started to glow from with Asta's pocket.
"Huh?" Asta said in a confused tone of voice as he glanced down at his pocket.
Suddenly, the red mechanical dragon materialized, hovering of Asta.
Before any sort of reaction can be made, Brave Dragon lunged towards Mereoleone, jaws opened.
"Brave Dragon! Stop! She's a captain!" Asta shouted, attempting to stop the red mechanical dragon.
Whilst everyone became startled and began to scatter, Mereoleon remained calm and stay where she stood.
When Brave Dragon got close to Mereoleone, the captain of the Crimson Lions punched Brave Dragon with a fire-coated fist, causing the mechanical dragon to crash into a wall.
"B-Brave…...Dragon….?" Asta asked, becoming shock along with everyone else.
A slight growl is head as a sign of response.
"Heh. I see that "Brave" part in your name isn't just for show." Mereleone said, a small smirk appearing on her face.
Brave Dragon lifted himself off the ground, but remained where he is.
"But….it has been a while though." Mereleone commented, causing Brave Dragon to nod its head.
"Huh? Brave Dragon knows Captain Mereoleone?" Asta thought, becoming confuse.
However, the confusion disappeared as Mereoleone turned her attention back onto him.
"C….can at least tell my Captain where I'm going. She and everyone else will be worried about where I am….." Asta said in a weak tone of voice, becoming slightly more scared as Mereoleone stared down at him.
"Is Captain Sophia your mother or something?" Mereoleone asked in a blunt tone of voice.
"Eh…..Actually, now that you said it, maybe I could tell Miss Ogami if I met her instead. She's basically my aunt." Asta said in a slight causal tone of voice.
However, this earned him a punch to the face by Mereoleone.
"Just shut up." The captain of the Crimson Lions said in an annoyed tone of voice.
"Yes, Ma'am." Asta responded weakly.
"Bye, Asta. I see at the test." Yuno said as he began to walk away.
However, another fire-created lion paw grabbed him on the head.
"You coming to." Mereoleone said in a simply tone of voice.
"Y-you're kidding!" Yuno exclaimed in his head, breaking away from how he usually acts.
"Once she catches you, there's no escape. She has no interest in war or politics, so she stay out of the public eye. The hidden and yet terrifying Mage. Once she stars fighting, she's probably stronger than my brother! The uncrowned, undefeated lioness, Mereoleone Vermillion." Leopold explained just as as a smirk appeared on Mereoleone's face.
"Let's see what the first and second rookies are made of." Mereoleone commented just as an intimidating aura surround her.
"We've been caught up in some serious trouble." Asta thought as he and Yuno began to sweat.
With Brave Dragon, the red mechanical dragon sent out a silent pray.
"Congratulations on your squad getting first place, Miss Sophia." Kaiser said, causing a slight smile to appear on her face.
"It feels strange though, the Sword Of Logos haven't took part in the rankings before. But the first year that we took part, we got first place." Sophia said as she stared down at her drink.
Currently, the other captains are celebrating within a bar.
"Kekekeke. Don't let this victory get into your head, the Green Mantis will take first place next year." Jack said, a wide grin appearing on his face.
"No. The Silver Eagles will be first next year." Nozel said in a calm tone of voice.
"Huh?! Do you want to get cut up into little pieces?" Jack asked, activating his magic.
"Please start a fight, we're in a public place after all." William said with a small smile on his face.
Despite saying this, the captains are the only ones who are present within the bar, alone with the bartender.
"Are all the captains get competitive after the rankings are shown?" Rill asked, gaining a question look on his face.
"The men, yes." Charlotte responded simply whilst Dorothy nodded her head, she being asleep.
"HAHAHAHA! The lot of you better hold onto your robes then. Who knows what the Black Bull will take next year." Yami said, a wide smile being on his face.
This cause Jack and Nozel to become angry.
"You just moved up from one place, Yami. Don't get a big head." A voice suddenly said, causing everyone to turn their heads in the direction of the voice to see Mereoleone standing in front of the doorway.
"Oh. Sisgoleon. Decided to come for a drink?" Yami asked, not intimidated by the hard glare that is present on Mereoleone's face.
"Sisgoleon?" Sophia asked in confused tone of voice.
"Yeah. Since she's Fuegoleon's older sister, she's called "Sisgoleon". The rest of the Vermillion family just have "goleon" added to their names such as "Grampsgoleon", "Gramsgoleon", "Daddygoleon", "Mummygoleon", "Fuegoleon", "Li'l Brogoleon" and "Li'l Sisgoleon"." Yami explained, causing Sophia to raise an eye-brow whilst Jack snorted.
"Don't be an idiot." Mereoleone said as she walked further into the bar.
The captains started to become confuse when they start to hear the sounds of two people in pain and after a few seconds, Asta and Yuno came bursting through the doorway.
"Can't you open the door a little more wider?" Asta asked whilst having a pained expression on his face.
"Lady Mereoleone? What are you doing with Asta and his friend?" Charlotte asked, raising an eye-brow.
"I'm taking them for some training." Mereoleone responded simply.
"And why are you carrying them in that manner?" William asked, becoming curious.
"No reason." Mereoleone said, causing the captain of the Golden Dawn to sweat-drop slightly.
"I see…." William said in a low tone of voice.
It was at that moment that footsteps can be heard from the doorway, causing everyone to turn their attention back onto the door just in time to see Ryo and Sora appearing.
"Hi, is Charlotte he-what's going on?" Ryo asked whilst becoming confused, cutting off from his original question as he and Sora saw the scene in front of them.
"They're been taking away for some sort of training." Charlotte said, making Ryo more confused whilst Sora became scared because of Mereoleone.
"And you are?" Mereoleone asked, staring at Ryo.
"I'm Ryo Ogami, the Vice-Captain of the Sword Of Logos and this is my son, Sora." Ryo said, introducing himself and Sora.
"So that's your husband and son." Kaiser commented with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Yes, yes there are." Charlotte commented, a slight blush appearing on her face.
"Hmm….." Mereoleone hummed slightly as she glance between Ryo and Charlotte.
"What's she doing now?" Everyone thought at the same time, starting to become nervous.
"…...I'm taking the both of you." Mereoleone said as she grab Ryo and Charlotte by fire-made lion paws.
"What?!" Asta and Sophia exclaimed in shock tone of voices.
"W-what are you doing with Mama, Papa, big brother a-and the other p-person?" Sora asked, attempting to sound brave in front of Mereoleone.
"Why I'm a referred as the "other person"?" Yuno thought in a confused tone of voice.
"Please don't do anything to our son….." Ryo muttered in a hopeful tone of voice whilst Charlotte started to become very worried.
However, a smirk appeared on Mereoleone's face.
"You don't have to worry. I'm just taking them for some training." Mereoleone responded, causing Sora to nod his head slightly whilst Charlotte and Ryo sighed in relief.
"What sort of training does Captain Mereoleone has in mind?" Ryo asked, starting to become nervous.
"I'm no/There you are, Asta!" A voice suddenly said from the doorway, causing everyone to turn their attention back to the door once again to see Noelle.
"Kahono and Kaito are going to leave soon, so you better say goodbye to them. And just so you know, the reason why we got first place isn't because of you or anything!" Noelle explained before gaining a nervous expression on her face.
"L-lady Mereoleone! It's been too long. Have a pleasant evening." Noelle said before quickly spinning around.
"Don't just leave your fellow squad members behind!" Asta exclaimed in his head.
In a split of a second, a fire-made lion paw found it self on Noelle's head.
"Geh." Noelle said with a blank expression on her face as she got dragged into the bar.
"Noelle." Mereoleone said as she stare at her new captive.
"Y-yes?" Noelle asked in a weak tone of voice.
"You coming too. I hope that's okay with you?" Mereoleone asked as she turned her attention towards Nozel, making Noelle pale slightly.
"Is there any need? You just do whatever you want regardless of what others think." Nozel responded in a simply tone of voice.
This cause Mereoleone to smirk again and was about to speak again before noticing something.
"That's the robes for the Sword Of Logos? Why is Noelle wearing it?" Mereoleone thought before shaking her head.
"There's someone else I want to collect before we go to the hot spring training." Mereoleone said before heading towards the door.
The remaining captains winced at how Mereoleone's prisoners exclaimed in pain as they became trapped within the narrow entrance of the doorway.
Fortunately, after a few seconds, the group of prisoners managed to get through the doorway.
"Are they going to be okay?" Kaiser asked, glancing towards Nozel.
"Despite Mereoleone's extreme methods, she can produce results…..that's if they don't die." Nozel responded in a calm manner.
"Hey! There's a kid here." Yami pointed out, glancing towards Sora who is getting talked to by Rill.
This caused Nozel to close his eyes.
"All right! Time to start the training, imbeciles!" Mereoleone said to the group of Magic Knights.
The captain of the Crimson Lions have taking the Magic Knights to a volcanic region where it's very much active, lava spewing everywhere.
"This is the Yultim Volcano, a strong magic region. There's a volcanic belt laced with powerful Mana deep underground, and it spews lava constantly. As a rule, it isn't the sort of place people can get close to. However! At the summit, there's a magnificent, revitalizing hot spring! Well? I bet you're all excited, aren't you?! Let's head to the summit!" Mereoleone explained, a wide smile appearing on her face.
"I have a ques/I'm not taking questions!" Mereoleone said, cutting off Rintaro.
"O-okay….." Rintaro said in a weak tone of voice, lowering his hand.
Apparently, the wielder of Nagara is the other person that the captain of the Crimson Lions wanted to bring along.
"There's no need to come along, Sol." Charlotte said, glancing over to her fellow Blue Rose Magic Knight.
Sol decided to come along when she saw that Charlotte is going for the unexpected hot spring training.
"No way! I'm going wherever you go, Char!" Sol said in a determined tone of voice.
"Hey, Asta. You wanna have a race to see who gets to the top first?" Leopold asked, looking over to the wielder of Rekka.
"Hell yeah!" Asta responded, before looking at Yuno.
"Do you want to join in?" Asta asked, causing Yuno to shake his head.
"No thank you. I'll just tire myself out before even reaching the top." Yuno responded simply.
"I have a feeling that you and Rintaro are going to an easier time here, considering your magic attribute." Ryo commented, crossing his arms.
"Hmph! Of course. I'm royalty after all." Noelle said in a confident tone of voice.
"Why are you not including Rintaro?" Ryo thought whilst sweat-dropping.
"Don't just stand there! Get moving!" Mereoleone shouted in an annoyed tone of voice, causing everyone to scramble and jump down the ledge that they are standing on.
And there we go, King Augustus making his apperance within the story and took Julius's work as his own. So some members of the Sword Of Logos, Yuno, Charlotte and Sol have been taken, I mean kidnapped, by Mereoleone for the hot spring training along with rest of the Crimson Lions. During the part when Brave Dragon attacked Mereoleone in order to free Asta, I was originally planning on having Storm Eagle joining in the "rescue" and when Mereoleone one-punched it, I imagine she would say "Nice try, but there's only one eagle who can defeat me", a reference to Acier, the only person who managed to defeat her despite having the disadvantage in terms of magic attribute, but that would put into question her title of "uncrowned, undefeated lioness".
I spotted this post on "Reddit" which reveals the moment when Undine transferred herself into Noelle's Grimoire. It was during the first fight against Vanica on the panel before she asked Noelle's name. One of the pages of Noelle's Grimoire was glowing which was noted by Vanica and when Undine showed herself next to Noelle during the Spade Kingdom invasion, Vanica said "Aha! I knew it!".
So in Revice, Giff has decided to give Hideo another chance by transforming into a Demon known as Gigademos, granting him immense power but at the cost of his immortality. So the Riders battled Giff and the transformed Hideo with Revice fighting Giff whilst the other three fought Gifademos which lead to Over Demons using his Condor Genomix and Full Genemix. So things made a complete turn when Daiji killed Hideo (Yeah!) and asked Giff to make a contract with him (WTF!). Giff's background has been expanded upon which he originally wished to co-exist along with humanity, but with the passing of time, many people start to see him as an evil entity. One of opposers that Giff wiped out was the civilization that Hideo ruled who managed to convince Giff to make him a mediator between the humans and the Demon. Giff then went into a dormant state after he made a pact with Hideo and made arrangements to be discovered many years later.
With the Revice movie, it is shown that Daimon's further motifs are a rhinoceros and a centipede along with being a octopus and Chimera's armor is a mix of a crab and a crocodile. In one the trailers for "Battle Famila", I saw Revi placing a unknown Vistamp into the Revice Driver, meaning that it is likely that he will gain a movie-exclusive form.
Please review and until next time.
Dragon Rider 66:
1) Thanks for being supportive of my decision. Like in canon, Asta and Yuno, along with Noelle, Ryo, Charlotte and Rintaro whilst Sol tagged along, got kidnapped by Mereoleone, but at least Brave Dragon attempted to rescue Asta.
2) Things sure are escalating with how Daiji is requesting a contract with Giff.
3) Okay, but to make things more sense, within the world of SMTV, "Nahobino" is another word for god, thus explaining the protagonist's large amount of Mana.
4) Yes, I'll keep that in mind about when the festive Wonder-Ride books make their reappearance.
5) I'm just glad that Sophia didn't cause Asta to receive a second wave of memory loss.
6) From the looks of things, I think we have to wait until Genta's recovers from his fight before he can transform into Destream again.
7) The next episode shows that Hiromi will transform into Kamen Rider Demons again and since the Demons Driver isn't possessed by Vail anymore, it will be likely that Hiromi won't be losing anymore of his life force.
8) An idea could be Yukimi attempting to use a Vistamp...but this will purely be a joke since everyone else in the Igarashi family can transform into a Kamen Rider and wanted to try a Vistamp herself.
9) I'd imagine it will take all of Mimosa's Mana to properly heal a wound caused by the powers of the "Jaou Dragon" Wonder-Ride book.
10) I see, sorry about that.
11) Good news, time to say bye-bye to Hideo.
12) That will likely happen...much to the amusement to everyone else.
13)
A) With Sally, I can see her kidnapping both Asta and Noelle during the Royal Capital invasion, if Noelle has become Jeanne at that point in the story that is, and when she's studying their DNA, Sally would discover that they are half siblings and for the rest of the Eye Of The Midnight arc, she will attempt to speak about her discovery, but gets interrupted. I imagine that if Kahono discovers Asta's half-Silva status, then she could use him in order to increase her status as an idol...if it wasn't for Evil's/Live's and Noelle's interference by taking one of Kahono's arms and dragging her away from Asta.
B) That's a good idea for the Black Clover versions of the Kamen Riders, Magic Knight inspired stories. I'd imagine that Zi-O will be inspired by/based around Julius, because of the time magic and status as Wizard King...not realizing that Julius/Lucius is pretty much a Demon King of time himself.
C) I can imagine that Vice and Lovekov can sense the curse that is surrounding Nozel's neck and when Lovekov and Nozel first meet each other, due to her pretty much being a toddler, Lovekov can only interpret the curse as a sore throat and even present a glass of water to Nozel.
Guest: That sounds like a cool idea, the citizens of Wonder World having more potential with Mana than the four kingdoms. I'd imagine that there would be some greedy Nobles wanting to take the Mana of Wonder World for themselves, like the ones who stole the elves Mana.
Itspowertime: It's not the Royal Knights exam just yet. Everyone needs to survive Mereoleone's training first.
Farhan Nugarha:
1) I see, I did kind of thought that you mean just a Bleach and Black Clover crossover, but I wasn't sure.
2) Those sounds suitable command names.
3) I see can Mimosa being hesitate about fighting Noelle whilst Noelle herself could act in an aggressive manner due to her treatment by the hands of her siblings and nobody helped her. Lets just hope that Nozel, Nebra and Solid won't appear during that confrontation otherwise Noelle will start attacking:
Mimosa: Please, Noelle. I don't want to hurst you.
Arrancar Noelle in an aggressive tone of voice: Then stand down, Mimosa, otherwise I'll cut you down.
Mimosa flinched at this, but kept a firm grip on her bow.
Noelle: But then again, everybody in nobility and royalty will die anyway. That would teach them about what happens when you treat those of lower and imperfect status for so long.
Mimosa widened her eyes at this before starting to become angry herself.
Mimosa (within her head): This is your fault, Silvas. You shouldn't have acted in a immature manner over something that Noelle doesn't have control over.
4) Yep, along with a few others, and let hope that they manage to survive.