SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 7 out, this is Chapter 8 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and my OC.
Chapter 8: Adversity
Catherine crashed into the tower where Charmy and Chef Jamo were after being blown off by Yuno's large whirlwind. I need mana...the now aged witch realized. I need to steal some. She's overflowing with mana. She spotted Charmy. It's glistening on her skin. I need to steal it. Standing up, she stalked towards the half dwarf. "Give it to me..."
"You mean...?" Charmy gasped. "My food? No!"
"Give it to me!" Catherine ordered, unleashing her curse magic.
This mana... Yuno had also followed after Catherine. That woman must be alive. I'm reaching my limit. He realized, his posture faltering. What is this overflowing magic? His eyes widened at the out-surge of mana flow.
"I told you..." Charmy composed herself, opening her Grimoire. "I told you no. Cotton Creation Magic: Sleeping Sheep Strike." she then summoned the cotton ram and had it absorb Catherine's curse magic, before letting it punch the witch out of the tower. "None shall lay a finger on my food."
On the streets, the gathered citizens watched as the defeated Catherine was taken into custody, the stolen youth returning back to their owners.
"My food!" Charmy chased after the falling main course Chef Jamo made as her cotton ram dispelled. Her grief was short-lived when Yuno appeared, balancing the plate with his wind magic.
In the North District...
"You bastard!" Leopold glared at Rades. "What have you done to my brother?"
"Leopold, he's not the spatial magic user." Noelle informed. "That spell pinpointed him, so there's no way the spellcaster could've cast it from far away. Asta?" she blinked when the Anti-Magic user dashed towards a pile of defeated zombies.
"You're right there!" Asta swung the Demon-Slayer Sword and forced Valtos out of hiding.
"I'm impressed you found me." Valtos had to use a portal to dodge the attack. "I figured I'll be found if I used magic to transform, so i went to the trouble of making this filthy disguise." he removed his mask. "It appears it's over now." summoning a second portal, he dropped the armless Fuegoleon to the ground.
"Captain Fuegoleon's Grimoire." Noelle noticed the fallen Grimoire. "It's still intact, that means he's still alive. We have to stop the bleeding." she tore off a piece of her cloak to bandage the gaping wound. "If only Mimosa was here... his Grimoire is breaking apart..." she gasped, seeing Fuegoleon's Grimoire was starting to disappear. "Leopold, help me."
"That's what you get for talking down to me earlier." Rades grinned and struck the shell-shocked Leopold back. "A righteous heart?" he stalked towards Noelle. "I've always been true to myself. Keep yapping in the next world, Fuegoleon Vermillion."
"We've completed out mission." Valtos reminded. "We've leaving before the other Magic Knights come back, Rades." he summoned a portal beneath Rades' feet.
"Hold it right there..." Asta growled. Dashing forward, he pulled out the Demon-Dweller Sword and tossed it at the portal, nullifying the magic.
"Not good." Valtos muttered, Asta slashing Rades' cheek with the Demon-Slayer Sword. He summoned another portal, only to have Asta erase it as well.
"This is pain." Asta hammered a punch across Rades' face. "That is what you did to innocent people as you laughed about it."
"Getting hurt and bleeding are signs of being weak." Rades retorted. "Those who lack magic should get their asses beat by those who are more powerful, especially pieces of trash like you who don't have any magic." he threw a curse magic bullet at Asta who just dispelled it with a slash of the Demon-Dweller Sword.
"I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen." Asta slammed a headbutt on Rades' nose. "And even those without magic can become the best."
"Valtos, do something." Rades knew he was in a losing battle.
"If I could, I would've by now." Valtos replied. "That anti-magic is more troublesome than I'd imagined. Looks like we're going to have to take care of him first." he summoned another portal and had it creep behind Asta.
"Asta, look out." Noelle shouted a warning.
"Too late." Valtos grinned, about to throw his charged-up curse magic shot at Asta when Leopold's fire blast forced him to dodge. "This isn't good. We can't afford to lose Rades, too."
"Pathetic." George rebuked. "You're struggling against this lot. How pathetic."
"No one asked for your help." Rades snorted as another five mages arrived in a wall of wind.
"You should be thanking us." Sally whined. "If we hadn't arrived, you definitely would've been captured and dissected alive."
"It looks like the tables have turned." Rades remarked and turned to the grinning Asta who then used the Demon-Dweller Sword to remove the curse on him.
"All I've ever faced since i was born was adversity." Asta stated, the five mages charged up their magic blasts. "No matter how many come at me, no matter what happens, I'll blast them all away."
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