Finsternis's plan
"So a Magic Knight of yours have gone missing as well." Julius stated as he stare at a screen showing an image of William.
Currently, the Wizard King is having an online meeting with Nozel, Charlotte, Jack, Kaiser, Fuegoleon and William.
Marx and Owen are also standing next to him.
"Yes. When asked about his whereabouts, I was told that he'd went to visit his parents." William explained, making Julius nod his head slightly.
"Considering the current events and the theory that Miss Shindai came up with, I think that all of us have a good idea where our respective Magic Knights have gone." Kaiser pointed out, making everyone nod their heads in agreement.
Julius positioned the screens so that the five Magic Knight captains can properly see each other.
"When Rubica returns, I'm going to have a serious talk to her." Charlotte muttered with an angry expression on her face.
"A "talk"? That sounds like a mother scolding a badly behave child. Kekekeke." Jack commented with a smirk on his face.
"What? Everyone in the Blue Rose knows that Asta is my nephew. And anyway, you have your own Magic Knight to be concerned about." Charlotte pointed out whilst crossing her arms and giving the Green Mantis Magic Knight captain a look.
"I think that you two have forgotten about the crucial factor which is if Damnatio and the Magic Knights are able to locate Asta in the first place. The only person who knows about Asta's current location is the new Calibur, from the time of our meeting with her that is." Fuegoleon pointed out, causing frowns to appear on Charlotte's and Jack's faces.
"I wouldn't be surprised if Damnatio did managed to find the means of locating the boy." Nozel commented with a thinking expression on his face.
"Do you have ideas about this?" Julius asked, becoming curious.
"….I have a few ideas." Nozel responded, yet not liking the ideas himself.
"I think that what we need to be concerned the most is what happens if Damnatio and our missing Magic Knights do managed to locate Asta, what will happen? I think that everyone here knows that whilst Asta is well protected, but the sight of Damnatio may cause a reaction to occur." William explained, causing the captains and Julius to become silent for a few seconds until Kaiser spoke.
"What will happen then?" Kaiser asked as he stroked his beard.
"It all depends when Sir Kira and the others get back." Julius responded, not wanting to use his limited foresight ability.
It was at that moment that a knock from the door can be heard.
This cause Julius and Marx to become tense.
"Sir Julius?" Fuegoleon asked, him and the others become concerned.
"There's someone at the door." Julius responded, causing the captains to become tense.
Marx walked towards the door and opened it slightly.
"Miss Shindai? What are you doing here…..?" Marx asked, becoming perplexed at the presence of the wielder of Noroshi before noticing four of the five the missing Magic knights.
"I've managed to locate your missing Magic Knights." Reika responded in a calm tone of voice, her body language being the opposite of the four Magic Knights.
"Oh! Well done. We are actually talking about that subject." Marx said, being slightly surprised.
With the Magic Knights, they began to sweat at the mention of "we", having a good idea at what that implies.
Marx glanced over his shoulder and saw that Julius has disappeared and the screens have been turned around.
"Come on in." Marx said before stepping to the side, allowing Reika to enter the office and the four Magic Knights marched behind her with a few having slight disgruntled expressions on their faces.
"So, care to explain about what happened during your unofficial mission?" Nozel asked in a calm tone of voice, asking the question that the rest of the captains, "Wizard King", Julius, who is hiding, and Marx have on their minds.
The Silver Eagle Magic Knight explained to the room about what happened from their part of the "mission" which involves fighting the swords-woman of darkness.
"What sort of magic Calibur used?" Fuegoleon asked becoming curious.
"She didn't use her magic or Grimoire, just using her sword to fight." The Crimson Lion Magic Knight responded, causing the captains, "Wizard King" and Marx to become surprise.
"Someone's feeling overconfident with just using the sword of shadows." Jack commented, scoffing slightly.
"That's not true. It could be that she wants to better hide her identity….." Charlotte stated which cause everyone to come up with the same thought.
"Is she known to the Clover Kingdom?" The captains and "Wizard King" thought at the same time.
"What about the boy? Do you know what happened to him?" William asked, a concerned expression appearing on his face.
"Let me explain that part." Reika said before any of the Magic Knights could say anything.
"Whilst Calibur's attention was on these four, Lord Kira and that Golden Dawn Magic Knight chased after Asta and the wielder of Saikou where….." Reika began to explain before a small smirk appeared on her face.
"let's just say that they became overconfident about capturing Asta, leading to both of them servilely suffering from Primitive Dragon's rage." Reika further explained, causing the listeners to become tense.
"So…..I suppose that they are in the infirmary?" Fuegoleon asked, making the wielder of Noroshi to nod her head.
"Of course, but for some reason, Mr Owen wasn't present." Reika said, saying the last part in a "perplexed" tone of voice.
Owen moved slightly, but managed to recover his composure.
Nozel sighed deeply.
"This will certainly cause the entire Magic Parliament to demand the boy's immediate execution." The captain of the Silver Eagles commented in a tired tone of voice.
"Even though it was partially them that started these events in the first place?" Jack pointed out, causing Nozel to shrug his shoulders.
"How did you six managed to locate Asta in the first place?" Kaiser asked, a small frown appearing on his face, knowing that the possible means of entering Wonder World without a Holy Sword is through a "Gate Book".
"Lord Kira said that he received this book-like object which automatically took us to the beast's location." The Purple Orca Magic Knight responded before suddenly flinching as Charlotte glared at him.
"And did he say who gave him the "Gate book"?" "Julius" asked through Marx.
"No he didn't say who gave him the object." The Purple Orca Magic Knight responded, which cause "Julius" and the others to glance at each other, becoming slightly worried.
"Could it be….." Reika thought, a small thought appearing on her face.
"Anyway. What happened once the boy…..attacked Kira and my squad member, Miss Shindai?" William asked, moving on with the conversation.
"Whilst Asta was still being controlled by Primitive Dragon, he was held down by Saikou and Kris who then took him to an unknown location, followed by Calibur." Reika responded, causing the captain of the Golden Dawn to gain a slight frown on his face, which is copied onto the others.
"That is concerning, especially with how we have no knowledge about what Cailbur is planning on doing with Asta." Charlotte explained, causing the others to nod their heads.
"I suggest that you allow the Sword of Logos to find Asta and stop Calibur if need be." Reika offered, causing "Julius" to gain a thinking expression on his face before whispering something into Marx's ear.
The assistant turned his attention towards his attention onto Reika.
"Sir Julius says that's okay." Marx relayed the response, making the wielder of Noroshi to nod her head in response.
"I'd already informed Master Logos about the events that have occurred, so we can act immediately." Reika added, making "Julius" to nod his head.
"…..Why do I have the feeling that she's hiding something?" Charlotte thought, starting to gain a bad feeling from the wielder of Noroshi.
"…" Asta laid motionless on the ground on the ground for a few seconds before his eyes slowly blinked happened.
"Ugh…" Asta groaned as he slowly sat up.
"What ha-?!" Asta began to mutter before noticing his surroundings.
The ash-white hair teen saw that he's sitting on a forest ground which is covered in leaves along with it also raining.
"Whe…?!" Asta began to thought but stopped when he noticed his hands.
Before, only one of his arms have started to transform into a dragon, but now it's both of them.
"T-that's right! I lost control and allowed Primitive Dragon to take over me!" Asta thought his eyes widened as his body began to shake.
It was then that the ash-white hair teen noticed a presence standing next to him, causing Asta to spin around and came face-to-face with a boy with short black hair and wearing black clothes which include a black coat.
"W-who…..?" Asta asked, becoming confused at first before slowly realizing something.
"I….know you. I saw you the first time I got consumed by Primitive Dragon." Asta said, attempting to keep his voice calm.
"You're hurt, aren't you." The boy stated, staring at the ash-white hair teen with a sad expression on his face.
"Who are you?" Asta asked, becoming slightly curious.
"…..You know me." The boy said as he placed a hand over a leather pouch, one that Asta recognized.
"Aren't you a bit young to carry a Gr-!" Asta began to ask, but stop when he saw the Grimoire itself as the boy held it up.
"Y-you're Primitive D-Dragon!?" Asta asked, glancing between the pitch-black Grimoire and the human form of Primitive Dragon.
"What…..what are you doing to me?" Asta asked Primitive Dragon, referring to all of his actions.
"You're getting hurt. I want to erase your pain." Primitive Dragon responded, causing Asta's eyes to widened.
"But this isn't how you solve the problem." Asta said, making Primitive Dragon tilt his head to the side.
"And what about this?" Asta asked, referring to his transformation.
"I…..don't want to be alone." Primitive Dragon responded before turning around and started to walk.
"H-hey! We're you going?!" Asta called as he attempted to chase after Primitive Dragon, but was met with resistance in the form of a wave of chaotic-Mana, causing Asta to be blown back…...resulting him waking up.
"Gha!" Asta exclaimed as he suddenly sat up.
"W-where….." The ash-white hair teen muttered, his breathing quickened as he examined his surroundings.
The wielder of Rekka finds himself in a bedroom of some sorts.
"Where have I been taken to now?" Asta thought as he slowly got out of bed, the aura of the bedroom being familiar for some reason.
It was then that the ash-white hair teen noticed a mirror on the wall and he jumped slightly as he saw that his entire face is that of a dragon.
"….." A sad expression appeared on Asta's face, remembering what Primitive Dragon said.
"What are you…?" Asta muttered to himself, becoming confused at the behaviour of Primitive Dragon.
After a few seconds, Asta took breath before scratching the his scaly head.
"That's something that needs to get use to." Asta thought, shuddering slightly at the thought before turning his attention towards the door.
"I should find the others." Asta muttered to himself before walking to the door and opening it, revealing a corridor.
As Asta walked down the corridor, he came across a window, showing a dark sky that seemed to have a swirling effect to it.
"Yeah…..I do have the feeling that I've been here before." The ash-white hair teen thought, becoming slightly on edge before continuing to walk down the corridor.
After a few minutes, Asta started to hear voices.
"Are they here?" Asta thought as he poked his head through an open doorway, revealing a common room of sorts where Yuri, Sayo, Finsternis are sitting with Blanc resting on Yuri's shoulder.
"Er….." Asta said, catching the adult's attention as they immediately turned towards him.
"H/Asta!" Sayo exclaimed, cutting off the ash-white hair teen as the wielder of Shinkiro lunched herself at him, causing the both of them to crash onto the ground.
"How are you feeling, Asta?!" Sayo asked as she looked down at the ash-white hair teen.
"O-ow." Asta grunted in response.
"Maybe you shouldn't have thrown yourself at Asta if you were going to ash him that." Yuri pointed out whilst sweat dropping and Finsternis giggled slightly.
"Oh, yeah. Good point." Sayo said as she got off Asta and held out a hand. A
sta grabbed Sayo's hand with his own scaly one and the wielder of Shinkiro helped him up.
"But still, how are you feeling with…..your new body?" Sayo asked, becoming worried.
"It….feels strange…..." Asta responded has he clench and unclench a clawed hand.
"Do you feel anything that's different?" Finsternis asked, becoming serious.
This cause a thinking expression to appear on Asta's face before starting to smell something.
"Have you been drinking?" Asta asked, causing the other three to blink their eyes in confusion whilst Blanc titled her head to the side.
"Yes. We've been drinking." Yuri responded holding up a cup slightly.
A slight stunned expression appeared on Asta's face.
"I think it's safe to say that your senses have heightened." Finsternis commented, causing the other two to nod their heads in agreement.
"So….where actually are we?" Asta asked as he and Sayo sat down.
"Don't you recognized the sky? We're in Avalon." Yuri responded, causing Asta's eyes to widened.
"A-Avalon?!" Asta asked, becoming stunned.
"Yes. I think that you would agree that this is the most safest place, a world set within the rift of time." Yuri explained in a simple tone of voice.
"We'd have to fulfil certain requirements to reach Avalon, yet you have a "backdoor" key to the place." Asta commented in a blank tone of voice.
"I'm the swordsman of light after all, nothing is impossible for me." Yuri stated in a confident tone of voice.
"And what about your counterpart?" Finsternis asked in a questioning tone of voice.
"…" Yuri didn't say anything, avoiding eye-contact.
This cause a tick-mark to appear on Finsternis's forehead.
"Anyway. What happened to you after you and Yuri got separated during the battle? Yuri said that you got knocked down by one of the wax-made soldiers." Sayo asked, focusing the conversation onto more important matters.
"After Mr Yuri got sent away, that judge guy was about to take me back to the Magic Parliament for a proper execution, but was prevented when Miss Shindai appeared." Asta explained, causing Sayo's eyes to widened.
"The messenger of the Sword of Logos?! She was present?!" Sayo asked, becoming surprised.
"Yes, she then reject the judge's request of handing me over before transforming into Kamen Rider Sebela, the swords-woman of smoke." Asta explained, causing the adults to become surprise.
"So that who we saw when we arrived." Finsternis commented, causing Sayo and Yuri to nod their heads in agreement.
"She'd then fought that Golden Dawn Magic Knight, even managing to land a fatal blow onto him, before focusing her attention onto the judge." Asta continued his explanation before his face darkened.
"But the Golden Dawn Magic Knight managed to throw a sneak attack on me…..resulting in Primitive Dragon taking control over me." Asta said in a grim tone of voice.
"Which led you to go completely savage on Lord Kira and the Golden Dawn Magic Knight." Finsternis commented, remembering the state that she saw the two in.
This cause Asta to nod his head slowly.
"I don't see why you're sad, they deserved it, especially him." Yuri pointed out, making Asta snort slightly.
"What happened next, did you started to attack Sebela?" Yuri asked, he and the other remembering how Sebela was standing above Saber, preparing to perform a finishing move on him.
"Well, I think that Sebela was keen on enlimnating me." Asta responded, causing Sayo to sigh.
"It would seem that we're getting more enemies by the day." The wielder of Shinkiro commented, making Yuri and Finsternis to nod their heads in agreement.
"So….what's happening now?" Asta asked, becoming curious.
This cause Yuri and Sayo to turn their attention towards Finsternis.
"I think that this is a good opportunity to tell us this plan of yours." Sayo stated, starting to become protective of Asta.
This cause Finsternis to clasp her hands together, preparing for their reactions.
"The idea that I have come up with, based on a future I saw, is for Asta to…...tame Primitive Dragon." Finsternis explained, causing shock expressions to appear.
"What?! Tame Primitive Dragon?! That's the opposite of what we're trying to do!" Sayo shouted, becoming more protective of Asta.
"I know that you dislike my idea, it's dangerous, but I'm trying to set up the best course for the upcoming future events." Finsternis explained whilst holding up her hands.
"And what sort of future events are these?" Sayo asked in a suspicious tone of voice.
"….Ones that required early planning if we have a remote chance of passing in our favour." Finsternis responded, causing Sayo to raise an eye-brow.
"…..I don't think "taming" is the right word to use." Asta said, causing everyone to look at him.
"What do you mean by that?" Sayo asked, becoming curious, her anger towards the wielder of Kurayami receding slightly.
The wielder of Rekka explained the conversation he had with the human form of Primitive Dragon.
"Primitive Dragon…..is a sad child?" Sayo asked, becoming confuse…..and a bit concerned.
"That what it looks like." Asta responded whilst shrugging his shoulders slightly.
"….." Yuri becoming silent as he gained a small frown on his face.
"So how exactlly are you planning on...calming Primitive Dragon?" Sayo asked, being careful of the wording.
"It involves heading to a location within a strong magic region that, with added information from Mr Yuri's friend, is closely linked to dragons. What I have in mind is for us to use the Mana within the strong magic region to "wash" away the Chaotic-Mana, thus being able to calm Primitive Dragon down along with healing the damage the Chaotic-Mana has already done to your body, hopefully." Finsternis explained, causing both Asta and Sayo to sweat-drop at the last part.
"A strong magic region...linked to dragons?" Asta asked whilst starting become confuse whilst glancing towards Sayo who shook her head, seemingly knowing what Asta is going to say.
"We better rest up and make preparations first before heading to strong magic region as soon as possible." Yuri suggested, making Asta and Finsternis to nod their heads.
However, Sayo has an unsure expression on her face.
"Its been a while since I was last here." Asta thought as he sat on the stoned earth.
Currently, the wielder of Rekka is in the underground tomb of Avalon, the only companion being Blanc sitting on his shoulder.
"Do you remember, Blanc, this the place that we first meet each other." Asta said with a small smile on his face.
This cause the white-feathered bird to chirp in response.
Apart from the two of them, they are completely alone, not even a soul of one of a previous Holy Sword wielder haven't appeared.
However, despite this and being in the underground graveyard, Asta felt a sense of comfort.
"You know, it won't sound good if people find out that you have been sitting in a graveyard." A voice commented, causing Asta and Blanc to glance towards the direction of the voice to see Yuri leaning against a tombstone.
"Yeah, good point….but what about you? Is it rude for you to be leaning on a tombstone?" Asta pointed out, causing the wielder of saikou to freeze slightly before quickly straightening up.
"Anyway, how are you feeling about the trip ahead?" Yuri asked as he recovered his composure.
"…..I bit nervous….." Asta responded after a few seconds of being quiet, yet sounding nervous.
This cause Yuri to hum in response.
"But, if this means better understanding Primitive Dragon, then this is the best chance we have." Asta explained, causing Yuri to snort slightly.
"Your aunt has different thoughts on the matter." Yuri commented, making Asta nod his head slightly.
"Yeah, she certainly have different thoughts on the matter." Asta thought, starting to be concerned for some reason.
"But if this plan of Miss Finsternis works, then the next question is what will happen next? Are you still going to be charged by the Magic Parliament?" Yuri commented in a questioning tone of voice.
"Are you seriously asking that question?" Asta asked whilst sweat-dropping.
Blanc stared at the wielder of Saikou with a questioning expression on her own face.
And there we have it, the Magic Knight captains and Wizard King are informed about what their missing Magic Knights have been up to whilst Asta encounters the human version of Primitive Dragon before being informed about needing to head to a specific location for Finsternis's plan to work.
In Gotchard:
1) Renge visted her home village where she enountered something whilst the others, minus Sabimaru, returned to the Alchemy Academy where they recieved a message from the Alchemy Association, congratulating them on defeating Geryon. Renge contacted Houtarou, Rin and Minato about what she experienced, but was suddenly approuched by someone called Starshine Hoshino, an exorcist. Houtarou and Rin head to the village before they and Renge encountered two Yokai creatures which frightened them, apart from Rin who enjoyed the experience. Starshine appeared "exorised" the two Yokai, whose actions attracted the attention of (5)Fire-Mars.
2) The next day, Houtarou, Rin and Renge talked about the idenities of the two Yokai, revealing them to be (1)Carery and (2)Berosol and the "exorist" powers that Starshine possess are actually from four Cosmic category Chemies, plus (5)Fire-Mars before being told about how Starshine gained the powers of the Chemies. Just then, the gathered people are then attacked by the Karakasobake Malgam and the Fairy Malgam where Houtarou fought them and won, yet (1)Carery and (2)Berosol are seemingly trying to tell Houtarou something just as one of the villagers got attacked by something.
Please review and until next time.
Raidentensho:
1) Noelle and Mimosa will certianly start to panic when Asta almost got "kissed" and if they discover that it was Reika who "kissed" Asta, then the two of them will want answers, much to the confusion of Reika.
2) I do suppose that the use of Ki/Zetten will make a change to a Wonder-Ride book's wielder's fighting style.
howard576:
1) From the looks of things, Damnatio may get healed whilst the Magic Knights will be punished.
2) As you can see, Asta has managed to interact with the human version of Primitive Dragon, learning about the sadness that the dragon possess.
3) Yes, I did expect for Gotchard's Final Form to allow him to use the Chemy Cards in new ways than he would normally, but this was shifted to the Super Form instead. So this begs the question of what Gotchard's Final Form id capable of.
3) That is something I can see, the three-eyed being using Geryon's body as some sort of avatar to interact with the outside world in order to open the Door of Darkness again and break out.
4) It would have been interesting if the Reiwa-era Kamen Riders had a different aspect to them. For example, when the franchise entered the Heisei era, it introduced the concept of the Riders being able to alter their forms, so Toei could have introduced a new concept to the Reiwa-era Kamen Riders, or at least swapped the form-changing concept with something new.