Happy new years everyone!
Even with New Year's day, trouble is still brewing with Primitive Dragon
"So, what do you think?" Olivia said in a pleased tone of voice.
As of right now, the chief witch, Sayo and Mereoleone are standing in front of a large origami-made house.
"Why?" Mereoleone asked in a confused tone of voice, making Olivia fall onto the ground, anime-style.
"S-since Asta isn't able to return to Wonder World, possibly due to the chaotic Mana running through him, plus waiting for results from the current wielder of Sezume, I decided to create this instead camping in the open air for a long period of time." Olivia explained whilst slowly getting up off the ground.
"Is it durable?" Mereoleone asked, examining the walls.
"Chief Olivia use this spell for when she travels about in Wonder World with me acting as her guard." Sayo explained, causing Olivia to gain a smile on her face, feeling happy that someone is coming to her defence.
"See. There's nothing to-What are you doing?!" Olivia exclaimed in a shock tone of voice as she Sayo notice Mereoleone placing a fire-covered hand on the walls of the origami-made house.
"Just making sure that it is durable." Mereoleone responded in a simple tone of voice.
"I...I….just put your hand away from the wall." Olivia said after a few failed attempts to say something at first, but Mereoleone didn't seemed interested in listening to the chief witch and continued to "test" the durability of the origami-made house.
"Stop!" Olivia exclaimed as she walked up to the Vermillion hair woman and attempted to pull her hand away from the wall of the origami-made house.
"So what sort of inner-structure you made to the building?" Sayo asked, causing Mereoleone to freeze, making Olivia loose her footing.
"Is the insides of the house that important?" Mereoleone asked, becoming slightly curious.
"Well….considering that Primitive Dragon may become active at any moment….." Sayo began to say but her voice died in her throat, starting to become awkward.
"I decided to create a room which is separate from the rest of the house." Olivia explained as she, once again, got up off the ground.
"You basically making a confinement room." Mereoleone pointed out, making the chief witch to nod her head.
"Yes, that's about right." Olivia said, gaining a sheepish expression on her face.
Mereoleone sighed.
"Everyone have their own methods." The Vermillion hair woman said in a simply tone of voice, making Olivia to nod her head.
"By the way, Lady Mereoleone…." Sayo began to say, causing Mereoleone to glance at the wielder of Shinkiro.
"Do you think that you may get contacted by your bother?" Sayo asked, causing Mereoleone to raise an eye-brow.
"For whatever for?" The Vermillion hair woman asked, becoming curious, which is copied by Olivia.
"I was just thinking that the Magic Knights may want your aid to deal with Primitive Dragon." Sayo explained, something that cause Mereoleone to scoff.
"I'm already getting involved, but I supposed that I may get contacted." Mereoleone commented whilst crossing her arms.
"We have to be careful when that comes though." Olivia pointed out, making the other two to nod their heads.
"Hmm. Everything seems okay with this village." Bahadur commented as he and Yuri stood on the outskirts of a village whilst making sure to keep their presence a secret.
The reason for this is because the area that they are currently staying is a mile away from a village and thus may cause problems for them.
The location where Olivia's Origami-made house is hidden amounts a rocky area and trees, but they couldn't take any chances.
"I don't expect that this village will have any Magic Knights stationed he-" Yuri began to say but atop when he and Bahadur spotted a Magic Knight wearing the robes of the Crimson Lion Magic Knights seemingly talking to the residence of the village.
"Y-you were saying?" Bahadur asked, attempting to sound calm, but started to concerned on the inside as he glanced towards Yuri and his eyes widened when he saw that the "wielder" of Saikou has started to sweat.
"M-Mr Yuri?!" Bahadur exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.
"T-that's no ordinary Magic Knight, that's Fuegoleon Vermillion, the captain of the Crimson Lions." Yuri explained, making Bahadur to widen his eyes.
"What's a captain doing here, especially one of royalty?!" Bahadur asked, starting to become more worried.
"I don't know, but the Clover Kingdom is in a state of rebuilding ever since the attack from the elves, so I suppose that this is some sort of moral boost. Plus this village is within the same Realm where Primitive Dragon was released, so Captain Fuegoleon is most likely reassuring the residence, as well as the other villages." Yuri suggested, keeping low against the wall.
"I wonder how the others will react, even though he is Lady Mereoleone's brother." Bahadur thought, a thinking expression appearing on his face.
"Its been a while since I was last in the Clover Kingdom." Ekrixi commented as he and Asta sat on a raised piece of earth whilst staring at the Royal Capital which can be seen due to the lower altitude that the two of them, and the others, are currently at.
"A "while"? I would have expected to be a "long" time ago." Asta said, causing Ekrixi to scoff slightly.
"I may be old, but that doesn't mean I can just sit at home all of the time." Ekrixi explained, making Asta nod his head slightly.
"The last time I was here was like….six years ago, I believe." Ekrixi said with a thinking expression on his face.
"Six years ago? What were you doing in the Clover Kingdom back then?" Asta asked, although having a small idea as to the reason.
"I…..did managed to locate you six years ago at Hage village." Ekrixi responded, making Asta widened his eyes.
"You did?! Why didn't you approached me or anything?" The ash-white hair teen asked, jumping onto his feet whilst becoming confused, causing a slight uncomfortable expression to appear on Ekrixi's face.
"When I arrived at Hage village back then, I subtly asked about you since you and that other boy possess large quantities of Mana, something that would be some source of gossip in a village of the Forsaken Realm. I was planning on taking you with me, but I discovered that your were suffering from memory lost, so I decided to leave you be." Ekrixi explained, making Asta nod his head, yet feeling slightly upset.
"However, I did decided to observe you for a bit, it was on the day that you and that friend of yours made that vow of becoming the Wizard King." Ekrixi said, a small smirk appearing on his face.
"Oh…" Asta said, starting to become embarrassed for some reason.
"One of the people that I talked to were that priest that run the orphanage." Ekrixi said, causing Asta's to widen his eyes.
"Father Orsi?" Asta asked in a surprised tone of voice, making Ekrixi nod his head.
"Yes. Despite being weary of me, he did told me a few things about you...although he had more faith in Yuno more than." Ekrixi said, causing Asta to sweat-drop.
"Yeah, that's something Father Orsi would d-!" Asta began to say, but was interrupted as ropes made of sort of blue energy suddenly wrap themselves around him and Ekrixi, whilst making Asta fall onto the ground.
"Huh?!" Ekrixi and Asta exclaimed at the same before hearing a dark chuckling, causing the both of them to look in the direction of the chuckling to see a group of three people, wearing ragged brown clothes.
"Well, well, well. I didn't expect to run into you, Asta Staria." One of the men, seemingly the leader of the group, commented with a smirk on his face.
"You know me?" Asta asked whilst feeling the soul of Primitive Dragon "raising it's head" slightly.
"Of course! You're wanted man after all." The man responded, causing Asta to become tense slightly.
"Who are you three?" Ekrixi asked whilst shuffling slightly.
"Just a simple group of bandits…..who just happened to be in the need of money." The bandit leader responded before the smirk started to gain an evil tint to it has he return his attention back onto Asta.
"And since you're a wanted man, I bet that we can get a hefty award if we hand you over to the Magic Knights." The bandit leader explained, making the other two to start grinning.
"….." Asta began to become uncomfortable.
"You will regret ever saying that when I get out of these bindings." Ekrixi said before beginning to build up Mana to cast a spell, but felt that something is wrong.
"Don't bother, old man. Those bindings blocks the flow of Mana, so you won't be able to cast any sort of spells." The bandit leader explained, causing Ekrixi to make a "Tch" sound.
"Now then…." The bandit leader said as he returned his attention back onto Asta.
"Time to hand you over and there's, by luck, just so happened to be a Magic Knight located within a village not so far from here." The bandit leader explained, making Asta and Ekrixi widen their eyes.
"They're must be talking about the village that Bahadur and Mr Yuri went to investigate." Asta thought, inwardly smirking, but a part of him started to become worried at what sort of Magic knight would be at the village…..something that Primitive Dragon reacted on.
"Calm down." Asta told Primitive Dragon, feeling his entire body reacting to the chaotic Mana.
"Come on now, Asta Staria. The Magic Knight will be thrilled to see you." The bandit leader said as he began to approach Asta.
"S-stay back." The ash-white hair teen said in a panicking tone of voice.
"Why is Asta panicking…..!" Ekrixi thought, becoming confused at first before his eyes widened as he realize what is about to happen.
With the bandit leader, he began to laugh, which is joined by the other two.
"Aren't you supposed to be a former Magic Knights, people who supposed to keep a cool head in any situations?" The bandit leader asked in a mocking tone of voice.
"That's….not…..what I'm….. concerned...wit-!" Asta responded, trying to hold the chaotic Mana back, but failed as it exploded.
"After taking at least a day for the analysis of this Wonder-Ride book to be completed, nothing!" Tetsuo thought in frustration.
Whilst the wielder of Sezume did consider the possibility that analyzing "Primitive Dragon" will take time, he did thought that he would get some sort of results, but ended up with nothing.
Tetsou was taking a big risk of analyzing "Primitive Dragon", resulting in him being suspicious in front of the others.
"If Asta was here, then maybe I would have gotten different results." Tetsuo mused the thought, although he knew that the idea was literally impossible with the current line of events.
"How should I respond?" Tetsuo thought as he glance towards the second piece of paper that he was provided with that he was expected to respond on.
"Well, better start writing something." Tetsuo muttered in defeat before reaching for a pen.
However, before the wielder of Sezume could fully pick up the pen, "Primitive Dragon" started to glow.
"Huh? It's reacting to something….?" Tetsuo thought, starting to become excited whilst a little confused.
The aura around Wonder-Ride book glowed brightly before disappearing.
"….." Tetsuo became stunned at what just happened.
"W-what the?!" The bandit leader exclaimed as he and the other two protected themselves from the explosive Mana which is soon followed by a light that appeared within the air.
When the light died down, everyone saw that the bindings surrounding Asta has disappeared whilst the ash-white hair teen himself is standing up, but has gone limp.
Hovering in front of him is the "Primitive Dragon" Wonder-Ride book.
Silently, Asta raised one of his arms and took hold of the Wonder-Ride book whilst using his other hand to take out the Seiken Sword-Driver.
"Hey! What are you planning?!" The bandit leader demanded, but Asta didn't say anything as he opened the cover of "Primitive Dragon" before taking out "Brave Dragon" and placed it within the open slot.
Brave Dragon! Get!
The voice announced, causing the standby sound to start playing whilst Saber placed "Primitive Dragon" into the Seiken Sword-Driver and unsheathe Rekka in a reverse grip.
Unsheathe the flames!
Crack! Crunch! Bone!
Crush Chomp! Bone!
Primitive Dragon!
The voice announced and everyone watched as Asta transformed into his Primitive Dragon form, releasing a wave of chaotic Mana.
"W-what the hell is that armor?!" The bandit leader exclaimed in his head, a bead of sweat trickling down his forehead.
Saber become still and silent, probably getting use to the sudden burst of Chaotic Mana.
"B-boss. Maybe we should l-leave." One of the two bandits suggested, starting to panic.
"Like hell we're going to do that! We can still hand him to the Magic Knights, we just have to be careful." The bandit leader explained in a reassuring tone of voice whilst creating more of the blue rope-like construct.
"This is bad! Whilst this will alert the others, who knows what may happen if that Magic Knight gets involved." Ekrixi thought, started to become worried.
Saber suddenly started to growl whilst getting into a crouching position and focus his attention onto the three bandits, causing them to become tense.
"Hah…..hah….HAAAA!" The third bandit screamed whilst charging forwards, taking out a dagger.
"You fool!" the bandit leader exclaimed and tried to pull the bandit back with his rope, but Saber moved, lunging towards the charging bandit and swinging Rekka, drawing blood.
Everyone's eyes widened as they watched the bandit falling onto the ground, a deep wound being present on his chest.
"D…..Damn you!" The bandit leader shouted as he himself charged forwards whilst throwing his rope and successfully wrap it around Saber's sword arm.
"Yes! Now he can't use any spells." The bandit leader thought in a pleased tone of voice.
However, that was short lived as the swordsman of flames(?) yanked the bandit leader forwards and ignite his sword-free arm in cyan coloured flames.
"T-that should be impossible! Is that chaotic-like Mana over-riding my spell?!" The bandit leader exclaimed in his head before repeatedly getting punched by Saber.
The bandit leader eventually let go of the rope and was beginning to fall onto the ground, but was prevented as Saber quickly grabbed him by the neck and slammed him onto the ground where the bandit leader could have sworn he could feel his bones breaking.
The last remaining bandit began to shake as Saber turned his attention towards him.
"I-I'm out of here!" The bandit exclaimed as he spun and began to run, prompting the swordsman of flames(?) to chase after him.
However, Saber was tackled to the ground.
Tilting his head, Saber saw Mereoleone grinning down at him.
"Someone's angry." Mereoleone commented and in response, Saber growled before managing to kick Mereoleone off him.
Luckily, Mereoleone managed to land on her feet.
"So me what sort of power that forms of yours possess." Mereoleone commented in a confident tone of voice.
Saber tilted his head to the side, seemingly studying the Vermillion hair woman before sensing a presence approaching him, causing the swordsman of flames(?) to spin around just in time to see Sayo drawing Shinkiro out of the Illusional Sword-Driver.
Unsheathe the Illusions!
Three powers synchronise!
Unsheathe the Wonder Synchro!
Wonder Rider!
Trickster of trinity of foxes!
When three books are connected, a new power is unleashed!
The illusional Sword-Driver announced and when Sayo emerged as Kris's Wonder Synchro form, she jab Shinkiro forwards.
In response, Saber raised Rekka to block attack.
"Asta! Can you hear me!" Kris shouted in a pleading tone of voice.
"…..." The voice of Primitive Dragon growled in response before pushing the swords-woman of mirages back and attempted to attack her.
However, the blade of Rekka struck nothing as Kris seemingly disappeared.
"Fire Magic+Mana-Zone: Calidus Brachium Barrage!" Mereoleone announced and the swordsman of flames(?) was pelted by a barrage of fire fists.
"Mereoleone!" Kris exclaimed in a shock tone of voice as she appeared next to the Vermillion hair woman.
"What? Aren't we supposed to knock Asta out?" Mereoleone asked in a casual tone of voice as her attack disappeared, leaving black smoke to rise into the air.
"Well…...yes, but….." Kris attempted to respond, but can't find the right words to say.
It was at that moment that someone came bursting out of the smoke.
Mereoleone reacted faster, raising an arm to block the sword attack from Rekka with the aid of Mana-Skin whilst Kris jumped back.
"My. You certainly skilled at using Mana-Skin." Mereoleone commented as she felt the layer of Mana on top of Saber's armor.
However, this cause the Vermillion Hair woman to become curious.
"Mirage Magic: Illusional Fox's Jaws." Kris announced, causing three fox heads to head straight towards Saber, making the swordsman of flames(?) to turn his attention towards Kris's attack.
With Ekrixi, the previous wielder of Rekka began to get up off the ground.
"Ekrixi!" A voice called, causing Ekrixi to turn his head towards the source of the voice to see Olivia quickly approaching him.
"What happened?!" The chief witch asked as she help Ekrixi stand up.
"We got ambushed by some bandits who were eager on handing Asta over to the Magic Knights, resulting in Primitive Dragon reacting before taking over him." Ekrixi explained just as a grim expression appeared on Olivia's face.
"Primitive Dragon seems to be very jumpy when it comes to Asta's emotions." Olivia muttered in a troubled tone of voice as she spotted the two attacked bandits laying on the ground.
The chief witch stared at the battle for a few seconds before her Grimoire floated into the air and opened onto a page.
"Origami Creation Magic: Water Vellumental." The chief witch announced, summoning blue paper which began to fold until taking on the shape of a dragon.
"Go and help them." Olivia commanded, causing Water Vellumental to nod it's head before moving forwards whilst seemingly starting to inhale air.
Back with the fight, Mereoleone has just punched Saber in the stomach, to which she feel that did no damaged to him what so ever, before noticing Water Vellumental approaching.
"Hm? Is that one of chief witch's spells?" The Vermillion hair woman thought, recognizing the paper theme, before noticing the slightly bloated stomach.
"Get out of the way!" Kris called as she began to move back, making Mereoleone to do the same whilst kicking Saber at the same to make sure that he won't be able to dodge the upcoming attack.
A few seconds later, Water Vellumental released a torrent of water which cascaded onto Saber.
The origami-made dragon then did a twisting motion with it's wings, causing the water to start swirling around the swordsman of flames(?), trapping him in a cocoon of water.
"Mereoleone! Attack Primitive Dragon with as much power as possible, we need to knock them out!" Olivia commanded, causing a grin to appear on Mereoleone's face whilst shock expressions appeared on Kris's and Ekrixi's face.
"What!?" Kris exclaimed in a shock tone of voice just as Mereoleone prepared to cast a spell.
However, it was at that moment that the water surrounding the swordsman of flames(?) exploded, sending water flying everywhere.
"I figure that Primitive Dragon would be able to break out with ease." Olivia thought as she observe how cyan-coloured flames are flickering around Saber's armor.
With the swordsman of flames(?), he glanced around with his main attention being on Kris and Olivia, causing him to growl aggressively which in turn cause Water Vellumental to prepare for another attack.
However, it was at that moment a presence appeared from behind the swordsman of flames.
Saber spun around and used Rekka to block an attack from Endless Dash.
The swordsman(?) of flames kicked Shamshir off him.
"Sand Trap Magic: Sand Cat's Yarn." Shamshir announced, making sand-made rope to burst out of the ground, attempting to trap Saber.
However, Saber easily burn through the rope and charged at Shamshir, who just had time to avoid getting struck by Rekka by raising Endless Dash.
Unfortunately, the swordsman of the sand was pushed back.
"The others are back." Olivia thought, becoming relieved that help has came.
"Who made Asta upset?" Saikou asked as he appeared next to the the chief witch and the former wielder of Rekka.
"Me and Asta were having a conversation until we were ambushed by some bandits who saw an opportunity to capture Asta and bring him to the Magic Parliament." Ekrixi explained, making Saikou sighed slightly.
"And we so close to a village..." The "swordsman" of light muttered, gaining a troubled expression underneath his helmet.
"How was your and Shamshir's observation?" Olivia asked, despite knowing that the results will have little meaning now.
"Well, Captain Fuegoleon of the Crimson Lions is in the town." Saikou responded, causing both Olivia's and Ekrixi's eyes to widen.
"Who?!" Both exclaimed at the same time, catching everyone's attention.
"W-what's happening?" Kris asked, becoming a bit jumpy.
"The captain of the Crimson Lions is in the village." Olivia responded, causing Kris's eyes to widen also.
"Huh. I guess that's better than any other Magic Knight." Mereoleone commented in a calm tone of voice.
"I suppose..." Kris muttered, yet being unsure with how Fuegoleon will react to the situation.
It was at that moment that Saber managed to break from Shamshir and lunged towards the others.
Responding quickly, Saikou moved and swing the sword of light which was blocked by Rekka.
Saber started to repeatedly swing Rekka, forcing Saikou back.
"We need to lower Saber's power and chain him up." The swordsman of light thought as the pages of his Grimoire began to glow.
"Light Mag-." Saikou began to announce, but was abruptly cut interrupted as Saber swiped Saikou's Grimoire away from him before throwing a fiery punch.
"Ghu!" Saikou grunted as the punch connected with his "jaw" and Saber was about to throw another punch, but was interrupted as Mereoleone suddenly appeared and punched him.
"Hah! that's the first time I saw someone swiping another person's Grimoire away from them!" Mereoleone said with grin on her face before jumping back to avoid a slash from Rekka.
"Thanks for the comment." The swordsman of light responded dryly as he retook Mereoleone's place and throw swords jabs towards Saber, but the swordsman(?) of flames violently battered the attacks before throwing a kick.
Saikou managed to jump back, avoid getting kicked.
Saber noticed movement from the conre of his vision, making Saber glance over his shoulder and saw Shamshir, Endless Dash prepared to attack.
"Shoot!" The swordsman of sand thought, seeing how his sneak attack has failed.
The swordsman(?) of flames spun around whilst releasing dark blue flames, causing Shamshir, Mereoleone and Saikou to immediately back away.
"It would probably be best if we avoid touching those flames." Mereoleone thought, a part of her becoming cautious about the dark blue flames that Saber's Primitive Dragon is capable of producing.
It was at that moment that Water Vellametal release a breath of water, hitting Saber straight on.
When the stream of water had ended, everyone saw that Saber has crouched down and gripped the ground to prevent himself from getting washed away.
Saber glanced up at the blue origami-made dragon and snarled at it.
However, before the swordsman(?) of flames could attack Water Vellametal, Kris tackled Saber.
"I need to remove, "Primitive Dragon", now!" Kris thought as she attempted to get the Wonder-Ride book out of the Seiken Sword-Driver.
Unfortunately, Saber managed to push Kris off him before the blade of Rekka became covered in dark blue flames.
The swordsman(?) of flames then began to swing Rekka, attempting to strike Kris.
However, it was at that moment that a orange glow appeared from the side of of Saber's and Kris's visors, causing the two Kamen Riders, plus everyone else, to turn their heads towards the direction of the glow and saw a ball of fire heading straight towards the swordsman(?) of flames.
Forcing to switch targets, Saber swing Rekka at the incoming attack, causing an explosion to occur.
"Someone new has joined the battle!" Olivia thought as she covered her face to protect herself from the blast of wind that the explosion produced, becoming concerned at who the newcomer is.
Everyone looked in the direction of where the attack came from and their eyes widened.
"Fuegoleon?! What are you doing here?" Mereoleone said as she watch as the captain of the Crimson Lions and Salamander descended onto the ground.
"I was about to head back to the Crimson Lion's headquarters when I sensed spikes of Mana occurring. All of you must be fighting a dangerous opponent." Fuegoleon explained as he looked at everyone, perking up slightly when he realize that three of them are Holy Sword wielders.
"You can say that..." Everyone thought just as the smoke began to disappear.
Once the spoke has disappeared, everyone saw that Saber has taken a defensive stance to protect himself.
"That's..." Fuegoleon thought as he slowly recognize the armor's design.
"Did I burn Saber?!" The Crimson Lion captain asked, starting to become worried.
"No. You didn't burn Saber..." Kris, who managed to escape the explosion, responded, attempting to remain calm despite someone throwing a powerful attack at her nephew.
"What is-" Fuegoleon began to ask, but was prevented as growling can be heard, causing him to look back at Saber and saw that he's staring at him and Salamander.
"Why is Asta acting like that...why is everyone fighting him?" Fuegoleon thought, remembering the main situation.
It was at that moment that Saber lunged towards him and Salamander.
Salamander prepared to attack the incoming swordsman(?) of flames, but wasn't able to as Kris moved at intercepted Saber.
The sight of the swords-woman of mirages caused Saber to glare at her behind his helmet and began to swing Rekka in an aggressive manner.
Kris attempted to defend herself, but was slowly getting overwhelmed.
Luckily, help came in the form of Salamander grabbing Saber with one of it's claws and pinning onto the ground.
"What is going on?!" Fuegoleon asked as he watched as Salamander hold the swordsman(?) of flames down whilst Saber himself is trying to get the spirit of fire's claw of him.
"Asta isn't in control. he's being "controlled" by the existence known as Primitive Dragon." Saikou explained as he kept his eyes on Saber and raised the sword of light.
Fuegoleon's eyes widened at this.
"Primitive Dragon!? That's the creature that was released from the pitch-black Grimoire! Why is it "controlling" Asta?!" The captain of the Crimson Lions thought before calming himself down.
"Why does "Saber" seemed angry towards you?" The captain of the Crimson Lions asked glancing towards Kris.
"From what I remember, it was a previous Kris who lead the charge of the final phase of the battle against Primitive Dragon. I suppose that it thinks that I'm the same "Kris"." The swords-woman of mirages explained, making Fuegoleon frown.
"We should get Asta back to normal." Shamshir said, starting to become worried about how long Salamander can hold Saber down.
"Just remember that it will act more aggressive towards you then." Fuegoleon commented, making Kris gain a blank expression underneath her helmet.
"Thanks for pointing out the obvious." Kris said blankly, making Fuegoleon sweat-drop whilst Mereoleone snigger slightly.
"Miss Olivia, what are you doing?" Saikou asked, the swordsman of light noticing the pages of chief witch's Grimoire turning.
"Since a one of the four great spirits has entered the battle, I'm going to alter the battlefield so that Saber won't make any attempts to flee the battle." Olivia responded just as the turning pages stopped.
"Origami Creation Magic: Earth Vellamental." Olivia announced, creating a piece of paper which started to fold until taking on the shape of a tortoise.
"She's able to create "living" creatures through paper?" The captain of the Crimson Lions thought, becoming curious, him having notice Water Vellamental's presence, just as Earth Vellamental slammed a foot into the ground and earth-made walls started to appear out of the ground, forming a box-shape.
"Impressive, being able to control the earth through an origami-made creation…..but is the creation itself durable?" Furgoleon commented, becoming curious at the last part.
"Don't you start." Olivia muttered, gaining an annoyed expression on her face.
It was at that moment that Saber managed to move his arm, striking Salamander on the neck with the end-point of Rekka.
This cause the spirit of flames to flitch, allowing the swordsman(?) of flames the opportunity to free his arm.
However, it was at that moment Mereoleone appeared in front of Saber and punch him, making him stagger back.
"Mana-Skin still strong even at this point in the battle." Mereoleone thought, becoming slightly impressed….whilst causing her to become more curious.
As Saber managed to regain his balance, Kris appeared.
"I'm sorry, Asta." Kris thought in a saddened tone of voice before swinging Shinkiro.
Saber raised Rekka and blocked the sword of mirages.
The swordsman(?) of flames quickly ducked down whilst doing a sweeping motion of one of his legs, knocking the swords-woman of mirages off her feet.
However, Kris managed to recover and moved back before grabbing Mereoleone's hand who pulled her up.
"Shadow Magic: Sacred Sword's Shadow Chains/Sand Trap Magic: Sand Cat's Yarn/Fire Restraining Magic: Leo Palma." Three voices announced, causing Saber to become covered in shadow-made chains, that burst out of his shadow, a sand-made rope and fire-made lion paws, along with pinning his tail onto the ground.
"Now! Time to get that Wonder-Ride book off Saber!" Shamshir said before charging forwards, joined by Water Vellamental who is lunging from behind.
Saber growled as he struggled against his bindings just as the swordsman of sand and spirit of fire closed in.
A violent burst of chaotic Mana suddenly exploded out Saber.
"Gah!" Shamshir exclaimed as he got knocked back, along with everyone else.
The burst of chaotic Mana also destroyed the bindings that were holding the swordsman(?) of flames.
"S-seriously!? Just how powerful is Primitive Dragon?!" Fuegoleon thought, his attention focused on the destroyed bindings.
"I'm sorry about this, Asta." Fuegoleon thought just as the pages of his Grimoire turned before stopping.
"Spirit Magic: Salamander's Claws." The captain of the Crimson Lions announced, causing the front claws of Salamander to glow brightly in a fiery red before the spirit of fire lunged forwards towards Saber who was beginning to charge forwards.
The swordsman(?) of flames noticed the approaching Salamander, causing him to change directions.
However, Salamander chased after the swordsman(?) of flames.
This caused Salamander to growl in anger before opening the claw piece of the open cover of "Primitive Dragon" and closing it again.
Everyone watched as a dark cyan coloured aura surround the "clutched" "Brave Dragon" Wonder-Ride book before it glowed brightly.
When the light disappeared, everyone saw Brave Dragon hovering over Saber, yet this time being covered in cyan-coloured bones.
"Primitive Dragon got to Brave Dragon as well!" Everyone thought just as Brave Dragon roared before lunging towards Salamander and bit down on its neck, making the spirit of fire to howl in pain.
"Salamander!" Fuegoleon exclaimed, his eyes widening as Salamander and Brave Dragon start to fight each other.
Saber turned his attention back to his(?) opponents and started to dash forwards again.
"Earth Vellamental!" Olivia shouted, causing the origami-made green shelled tortoise to slam a foot onto the ground, causing pieces of the earth to raise into the air before reshaping into hexagon-shaped slabs which then shot towards Saber.
The swordsman(?) of flames moved about, dodging the incoming slabs of rocks just as Saikou began to move.
"Light Magic: Sacred Sword's Piercing Light." The swordsman of light announced, causing the blade of his sword to glow brightly before thrusting it forwards, sending out a beam of light.
Saber noticed the attack heading straight towards him, but couldn't move out of the way due to the speed of the attack.
Saber's head jerked backwards as the beam of light struck him, causing Kris's eyes to widen in fear.
"No, don't let yourself waver." Kris thought, shaking her head slightly.
With Saikou, the swordsman of light blocked a sword attack from Rekka before standing his ground as Saber put his weight behind Rekka.
"Asta! Snap out of it already!" Saikou called as he struggled to hold his ground, but only received an aggressive growl in return before violently getting shove back.
It was at that moment that sand-made lances appeared and attempted to strike Saber.
However, the swordsman(?) of flames swing Rekka, releasing dark blue slashes, managing to destroy the incoming lances.
"Whoa!" The swordsman of sand exclaimed as he jumped to the side to avoid getting hit by some of the slashes before raising Endless Dash and swinging it downwards.
Saber placed Rekka in a horizontal position to block the sword of sand.
Saber pushed Endless Dash to the side before repeatedly punching the swordsman of sand in the stomach before grabbing him by his helmet and then igniting his hand with dark blue-coloured flames.
Even though Shamshir is protecting himself from the flames through Mana-Skin, he still could imagine getting burn by the flames.
"Mirage Magic: Illusional Fox's Jaws." a voice announced, creating three fox faces which flew straight towards Saber, aiming to avoid hitting Shamshir.
However, The swordsman(?) of flames used the swordsman of sand to as shield to avoid getting hit before dropping him to the side.
"I'm sorry!" Kris shouted as she dash forwards.
Realizing who is approaching him, Saber growled aggressively before swinging Rekka in a chaotic manner.
Whilst Kris managed to raise Shinkiro just in time to block the attacks, each sword from Saber shook her entire body, eventually resulting in her getting stumbling back.
Saber glared at Kris before preparing to attack, but Saikou suddenly grabbed him from behind.
"Now!" Saikou shouted as he struggled to keep a strong hold on the swordsman(?) of flames.
Acting quickly, the swordsman of mirages grabbed Saber's Seiken Sword-Driver and wrenched it off him.
Almost immediately, Saber's armor disappeared and Asta's body went limp in Saikou's arms.
"Fweh. Glad that's over." Saikou said in a relieved tone of voice.
However, the swordsman of light spoke too soon as Brave Dragon turned it's attention towards it's falling companion(?), he having put Salamander in submission, before lunging forwards.
Kris immediately got in front of Saikou and Asta.
"Fire Magic: Calidus Brachium Purgatory!" A voice shouted and Mereoleone appeared and punched Brave Dragon, releasing a blast of blue flames, consuming the red mechanical dragon.
When the fire died down, Brave Dragon has disappeared.
"What happened to Brave Dragon?" Shamshir asked, becoming worried as his hand lowered from the open cover of "Feline Cat".
"It most likely returned into it's Wonder-Ride book." Fugoleon guessed before turning his attention towards Mereoleone.
"You're okay, Sister?" The captain of the Crimson Lions asked, looking at his sister who was breathing heavily.
"Do...you need…..to ask?" Mereoleone asked back through deep breaths.
Fuegoleon just smirked in response.
"We should leave. The battle would have cause the townsfolk to become worried." Olivia explained whilst glancing at the town.
"….." Asta's eyes flicker open.
"Where…..I'm I?" The ash-white hair teen thought whilst sitting up.
Asta looked around and saw that he's in a box-shaped room.
The fact that it seems to be made from origami paper allowed the ash-white hair teen to figure out where he is.
"I succumb to Primitive Dragon's power again….." Asta muttered as faint snippets of being controlled by Primitive Dragon entered his head, causing a depress expression to appear on his face.
It was then that a chirping sound is head, causing the ash-white hair teen to glance in the direction of the chirping and saw Blanc sitting on the bedside table.
"Oh! I didn't saw you there." Asta spoke, causing the white-feathered bird to gain a slight annoyed look on her face.
"Hehehe, sorry." Asta said, a small smile appearing on his face.
"You're…...not afraid to be next to me?" Asta questioned as he began to stroke Blanc.
The white-feathered bird simply chirped in response.
The ash-white hair teen snorted slightly before gaining a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.
"What was the trigger for be to be controlled by Primitive Dragon? Was it due to me getting distressed from those bandits?" Asta thought before sensing how the presence of the soul of Primitive Dragon seemed to be….closer to his(?).
This made Asta to shudder before calming down, causing Blanc to perk up.
"Sorry, I was just thinking of something." Asta said, thinking that the white-feathered bird is becoming worried over him.
"I wonder what the others are doing?" Asta thought, glancing towards the door to his room.
"You're Asta's grandfather?" Fuegoleon asked, becoming stunned.
"That's correct. I was also a member of the Sword of Logos who possess Rekka until passing it down to my daughter, Richita Staria, Asta's mother." Ekrixi explained whilst introducing himself.
"And you are, young man?" Fuegoleon asked whilst turning his attention towards Bahadur.
"I am Bahadur Kasper, known as Kamen Rider Shamshir, the swordsman of sand. I'm also Asta's cousin through my great-aunt whilst Grandma was Granduncle's partner during their time as Sword of Logos Magic Knights." Bahadur introduce himself, making Fuegoleon blink his eyes.
"Asta's family sure is rooted into the Sword of Logos." The captain of the Crimson Lions thought before clearing his throat.
As of right now, everyone else is in a living room of some sorts within Olivia's origami-made house with Bahadur placing Asta within the box-shaped room.
"So….can you explain what happened with Asta being in the possession of Primitive Dragon's powers. I thought that it was in the possession of the Megids?" Fuegoleon asked, causing Olivia to cross her arms whist closing her eyes.
"I don't fully trust the Clover Kingdom in regards to the current events." The chief witch replied, making Fuegoleon blink his eyes.
"In what way?" The captain of the Crimson Lions asked, becoming confused.
"She's referring to the actions of the Magic Parliament in regards to the boy." Mereoleone replied in a simply tone of voice, causing Fuegoleon to widen his eyes slightly.
"You can't just place the blame on an entire Kingdom just because of the actions of a group of people." Fuegoleon explained, feeling offended.
"The Magic Parliament managed to persuade the Clover branch of the Sword of Logos to turn their backs on Asta. What's to say that they managed to persuade the other Magic Knight squads to do the same." Olivia explained in a calm tone of voice whilst opening her eyes.
The captain of the Crimson Lions attempted to say something, but Mereoleone spoke first.
"Please don't turn this into an argument. They not even fully trust me, even though knowing that I'm not interested in politics and such." The Vermillion hair woman explained, causing Fuegoleon to stare at her for a few seconds before taking a deep breath and sighing.
"I may be the captain of a Magic Knight squad, but I am royalty, so I'm not so easily swayed by the Magic Parliament, and I know that Asta isn't the dragon-themed swordsman that has been terrorizing the Clover Kingdom, I even fought Kamen Rider Calibur/Daichi Kamijo, so please trust me." Fuegoleon explained in a firm tone of voice.
The chief witch stared at the captain of the Crimson Lions for a few seconds before sighing.
"Very well." Olivia said in a reluctant tone of voice yet Sayo still has a distrustful expression on her face.
Ekrixi, Bahadur and Yuri have neutral expressions on their faces, yet still remaining tense.
"During Miss Shindai's report on about the attacks on the main branch of the Sword of Logos and the Penyihir Mountain, she said that there was a Mage that chased after Storious when he made his escape when he stole the pitch-black Grimoire. I suppose that Mage was Asta." Fuegoleon guessed, making Olivia nod her head.
"Yes, that's correct. When Asta reclaimed the pitch-black Grimoire, Storious took the opportunity to transform Asta into the vessel of Primitive Dragon's power, recalling the negative emotions that was stored up in him…...thanks to the Magic Parliament." Olivia explained before giving the captain of the Crimson Lions a glare.
"Stop with the emotional damage." Fuegoleon thought, sweat-dropping slightly.
"I'm not sure why he did this though, but Storious was likely wanted to capture Asta and bring him back to the Megid's base, but that plan ended with Asta easily overpowering them before collapsing. Luckily, Mereoleone was in the area and took Asta before any Magic Knights could arrive and likely bring him back to the Magic Parliament, adding another "crime" to the list." Olivia explained, making Fuegoleon widen his eyes and turning towards his sister.
"You knew about what was happening?" Fuegoleon asked, making Mereoleone to nod her head.
"Yes, but I can't just inform the Magic Knights, can I?" Mereoleone pointed out, making the captain of the Crimson Lions to nod his head slightly.
"I further insured her silence by blackmailing her." Sayo commented, making the Vermillion hair woman to widen her eyes and glared at the wielder of Shinkiro.
"Don't you dare…." Mereoleone said in a menacing tone of voice.
"Sister was blackmailed into further insuring her silence?" Fuegoleon thought, becoming confused, along with becoming curious.
"W/Don't. Ask." Mereoleone said, interrupting her brother along with glaring at him.
"Okay…." Fuegoleon said, backing away. "Moving on." Olivia said, causing Fuegoleon to turn his attention back to the chief witch.
"Afterwards when we manage to locate Asta and Mereoleone, we decide to sent the "Primitive Dragon" Wonder-Ride book to the current wielder of Sezume in the hopes of analyzing it and learn more about Primitive Dragon's powers, but before we can get an answer, it somehow transported itself to Saber's side during that scuffle with those bandits." Olivia explained, making Fuegoloen to widen his eyes.
"Does that mean that Asta still has trust in Mr Daishinji or just have faith in his ability of analyzing Magic Items?" The captain of the Crimson Lions thought, becoming hopeful.
"So what are you doing now then? Have you informed the Sword of Logos that Asta is hosting Primitive dragon's powers?" Fuegoleon asked, becoming serious.
"I haven't informed the Sword of Logos just yet. I left a witch to take charge back at the Penyihir Mountain in my place whilst I was away, saying that I'll personally look for the pitch-black Grimoire. But now that we've found it…" Olivia explained before her voice trailed.
"That is hard decision to make." Fuegoleon commented, having a good idea what is going through the chief witch's head.
It was at that moment that a thought appeared in Fuegoleon's head.
"You know…..I do need to report about what has happened." The captain of the Crimson Lions spoke and immediately everyone became tense.
"Let me explain, let me explain!" Fuegoleon said whilst raising his arms just as Sayo point Shinkiro at him.
Bahadur also has Endless Dash out, but keeping it to the side.
"I will make sure to just inform Sir Julius, the Wizard King, and even then I will report that some bandits made a foolish decision of agitating a powerful beast, which is not Primitive Dragon." Fuegoleon explained in a firm tone of voice.
"…...What do you think, Ekrixi?" Olivia asked, glancing towards the previous wielder of Rekka.
Ekrixi closed his eyes for a few seconds before opening them.
"I suppose Captain Fuegoleon should give his report, in his duty as a Magic Knight….." Ekrixi began to reply, making a small smile appear on Fuegoleon's face.
"But if you reveal Asta's location or say anything else that would put him in danger, then you wraith of the man that was once known as the volcanic swordsman." Ekrixi finished in a serious tone of voice.
This cause Fuegoleon and Mereoleone to shudder, images of their former instructor appearing in their head.
It was at that moment that a humming sound is heard, causing everyone to perk up just as Olivia took out a circular communication device and turned it on, causing a holographic version of Blair to appear.
"Blair? Has something happened?" Olivia asked, becoming curious.
"Chief Olivia, may I ask is your, including the other's, search for the pitch-black Grimoire is going?" Blair asked, causing Olivia to raise an eye-brow.
"I'm…..getting close to finding it. Is there something wrong?" Olivia asked, starting to become concerned.
The question cause Blair to bit her lips slightly.
"I've received a message from the Sword of Logos who are keen from getting an update about the search of the pitch-black Grimoire…..in person." Blair explained and Olivia's eyes widened at the last part.
"In person?" Olivia repeated, making Blair nod her in response.
Olivia became silent for a few seconds, causing the others to become nervous.
"I'll return to the village and th-" The chief witch began to say but was interrupted as another humming sound is heard.
"It's mine!" Fuegoleon said, becoming surprise as he took out his own communication device, with this one only providing audio.
"Chief-" Blair began to ask, but stop as Olivia placed a finger to her lips.
"Captain Fuegoleon here..." Fuegoleon said whilst noticing the blade of Shinkiro pointing at him, making Mereoleone snicker slightly.
"Captain Fuegoleon! This is vice-captain Randall speaking." The person on the other side responded.
"Randall? Is there something wrong?" Fuegoleon asked, starting to become concerned.
"We've received a report that a battle occurred close by to the town that you were visiting." Randall said, causing Fuegoleon to become confuse.
"Did someone observed the battle and decided to report to Headquarters, thinking that I may need aid?" Fuegoleon questioned himself before speaking.
"Yes, a creature was angered by a group of bandits." Fuegoleon said and sensed that Randall is becoming surprise on the other side.
"Really? What for?" Randall asked, becoming curious just as the blade of Shinkiro inched closer.
"I'm not sure on the actual reason, it was a foolish decision in the first place." Fuegoleon said in a reassuring tone of voice.
"…...The person who contacted Headquarters said that you, Lady Mereoleone and some others fought a sword-wielding person who is capable of summoning the same dragon that the swordsman of flames, Saber, is capable of summoning." Randall said, causing the room to become silent.
And there we have it, everyone attempting to keep a low profile whilst they wait for Tetsuo's analyze on the "Primitive Dragon" to be completed...Although that was ruined when a group of bandits managed to catch Asta and Ekrixi off guard, causing Primitive Dragon to go berserk and the resulting battle caused Fuegoleon to take part.
With the long awaited chapter of Black Clover, it revolves around the Black Bulls using the anti-magic that Asta gave them, with the main focus being the battle between Luck and Magna verse one of Lucius's clones, even managing to destroy the clone. Since Asta doesn't possess anti-magic within this story, he will need to come up with another method of defeating Lucius.
In Gotchard:
1) Whilst Clotho recovers from her battle with Gotchard, Atropos approached her and Lachesis and informed them that Geryon has began to move with him deciding to possess Lachesis. Elsewhere, Spanner collected the fixed Valvarusher from his mentor, Kyoka, he noticed what seemed to be blueprints for a new Driver to which Kyoka explained how the Alchemy Association are pulling all their resources into the creation of the Driver since Valvarusher is only capable of transforming one category of Chemies into armor any one time.
2) Meanwhile, Houtarou spotted Ryo whilst shopping, who believed that Santa Claus is appearing due to hearing bell, but instead saw the apperance of a large snake head and when he attempted to get a picture of the Malgam, it turned Ryo into stone. Whilst fighting the snake-themed Malgam, he commented how Gotchard is the Kamen Rider that he's been hearing about before disappearing. Mr Minato informed everyone that large numbers of people are getting transformed into stone. With the reappearance of the snake-themed Malgam, Valavard attempted to fight it, but struggled before receiving help from Gotchard and Rin. Houtarou realizes that the Malgam is created from the (8)Jyamatanoorochi Chemy.
3) Using (7)The-Sun, Rin revealed the Orochi Malgam who explained how Houtarou is a great asset to his experiment. Gotchard then fought the Orochi Malgam, but was defeated when trying to protect Rin and Spanner. When the Orochi Malgam was about to deal the finishing blow to Houtarou, he was saved by another Gotchard don in orange armor and a slightly altered Gotchard-Driver who then went on to fight the Orochi Malgam, reverting him to a humanoid body. The orange-armored Gotchard gave Houtarou the option of leaving the fighting to him or take control.
4) Houtarou transformed back into Gotchard and joined the fight and managed to beat the Orochi Malgam, revealing the host to be Lachesis who retreated. Atropos questioned Geryon about the identity of the orange-wearing Gotchard, but didn't a clear answer. With the orange-wearing Gotchard, he is seen holding what seemed to be a attachment piece for the Gotchard-Driver.
So the mysterious Geryon has made his appearance along with a surprise apperance of a Kamen Rider called Kamen Rider Gotchard-Daybreak who I believe is somehow connected to the alchemist of the dawn that was mentioned back in episode 2, since one of his aliases is "Gotchard of the Dawn". He could very much be the Dawn Alchemist himself who have attained immortality through alchemy, knowing that their would be people who will want to perform the Door of Darkness.
Two more Kamen Riders are soon about to make their appearance within the series, Rin will be using the (3)Unicorn Chemy Card and (7)The-Sun within the Alchemis-Driver to transform into Kamen Rider Majade whilst Spanner uses the (6)Machwheel Chemy Card and (6)Daiohni Chemy Card within the Valvard-Driver to transform into Kamen Rider Valvard. Both Drivers are basically the Gotchard-Driver with additional attachments. With Rin, her first transforms into Majade within the Gotchard X Geats crossover movie which noted within the episode with her possessing the two Chemy Cards, her father's Alchemist ring and her powers having been drained.
Please review and until next time.
howard576:
1) Yes, things sure are picking up with the Primitive Dragon case and with Reika not telling the Magic Knights about Asta's presence during the theft of the pitch-black Grimoire...I suppose that Master Logos has his reasons.
2) I'm not sure if time travel is involved with alchemy, but since (1)Hooper-1 has a energetic personality, I can see it somehow breaking free from its card and running about before encountering the younger Houtorou and when the Alchemy Association managed to locate (1)Hopper-1 and Houtarou, they erased their memories.
3) I suppose that the Dread-Driver may evolve to point where it obtains it's conscience, or even a being similar to that of a Chemy.
4) Kyoka stated that the Alchemy Association used all their resources to create Valvard-Driver, so I'd imagine the Gotchard-Driver itself is complex to recreate. With the Alchemist-Driver, I'd imagine that Fuga has some hand in the creation of the Driver since Rin said that she gained the High Alchemist Ring from her father. With Gotchard-Daybreak's version of the Gotchard-Driver...we just have to wait to see his real identity.
5) Yes, a bit of a short chapter, yet longer than usual, showing Magna's and Luck's usage of anti-magic.
brave Kid: Thank you.
TheOkWriter: As you can see, even though everyone is keen on dealing with the Primitive Dragon problem quickly, there are those who do like to throw a spanner in the works.