Unleash the fury, Primitive Dragon

Unsheathe the Flames!

The Sieken Sword-Driver announced, causing the newly appeared larger version of "Primitive Dragon" to spring open, resulting in a skeletal dragon with cyan-coloured bones to burst out.

Crack! Crunch! Bone!

Crush! Chomp! Bone!

Primitive Dragon!

The Sieken Sword-Driver announced again just as the skeletal dragon roared before merging itself with Asta, donning him with an armor that involves a black under-suit and then cyan-coloured armor that has a skeletal design to them. The right shoulder pad is in the shape of the skeletal dragon whilst the left side has the image of the "Brave Dragon" Wonder-Ride book, but it's mostly covered up by a skeletal claw. The face-piece of Saber's helmet is done in cyan as well with a wilder-feeling to it as the mouth-piece has pointing bits that resemble fangs.

Saber then let out a roar, resulting in a wave of chaotic Mana to be released.

Both Storious and Leigel braced them as the chaotic Mana washed over them, yet still shook.

"S-so, this is the power of the forbidden power when it's fully released." Storious commented in an interested tone of voice.

"Yeah, but what are we going to do now?" Liegel questioned as he stare at Saber who has gone into a crouching position and seemed to be staring at them.

"We'll capture him and then bring him back to base." Storious responded, making Liegel stare at him.

"Really? You want to bring him back to our base, in that state?" Liegel asked in a blank tone of voice.

"Of course. I thought you will be thrilled at the thought of being able to fight Saber." Storious commented, causing Liegel to freeze slightly before a smirk appeared on his face.

"Hehehe. If you put it like tha-" Liegel began to say, but was cut off as Saber suddenly appeared in front of the two Megid Generals.

"What?!" Liegel exclaimed in a shock tone of voice before raising his sword in order to block the incoming sword attack.

Whilst Liegel was successful in blocking the attack from Rekka, the impact caused him to stagger back.

"He must have reacted to Liegel's bloodlust. Did Saber coated the sword of flames with Mana-Skin?" Storious questioned in his head, noting the cyan-coloured Mana covering the blade of Rekka.

It was at that moment that Saber suddenly turned his attention towards Storious.

This instinctively caused Storious to back away whilst raising his sword.

However, it was Liegel who swing his sword, but Saber deflected the attack with a fist covered in cyan coloured flames as a side punch before thrusting the same arm forwards and grabbing Liegel by his scarf.

The swordsman(?) of flames then did a series of sword attacks before releasing the Megid General and then did a low round-house kick, effectively knocking Liegel off his feet and fall onto the ground.

"What the hell! The swordsman of flames is like a completely different person-!" Liegel thought before seeing Sabe jumping into the air.

Quickly rolling across the ground, Liegel just managed to avoid getting stabbed by Rekka with the resulting the attack causing cracks to spread across the ground.

It was at that moment that Storious acted, jabbing his sword forwards.

However, Saber caught the blade of Storious.

"Such quick reactions!" Storious thought before Saber pushed the Megid General's blade to the side before swinging Rekka is a wide manner, releasing slashes of cyan-coloured flames.

"Gah!" Storious exclaimed as he staggered back whilst getting hit multiple times.

Saber stopped his attack when he sensed an attack coming from Liegel in the form of multiple elemental-based attacks.

Luckily for Liegel, all of his attacks struck the swordsman(?) of flames, causing dust and smoke to raise into the air.

"This is more troublesome…...then I thought." Storious muttered as he slowly recover.

"Yes. Giving a destructive power to a weakling is one of your most brilliant idea so far." Liegel retorted in a mocking tone of voice.

Storious was about to respond, but is prevented as a growling can be heard from the dust and smoke which are slowly disappearing.

"You…..got to be kidding me!" Liegel exclaimed in a shock tone of voice as he and Storious stare at Saber who seems to be in good condition.

"What's wrong with this guy? Is he even the swordsman of flames any more?" Liegel questioned in a stun tone of voice.

"Due to Saber's berserk nature, it's possible that Primitive Dragon is using Saber's Mana in a chaotic way, draining it at a rapid pace." Storious thought as he study Saber.

It was at that moment that the swordsman of flames sheathed Rekka into the Seiken Sword-Driver and tapping the open page of "Primitive Dragon".

Grap Finishing Passage!

The voice announced before dark cyan Mana started to draw into the swordsman(?) of flames.

"This is bad. We need to retreat, now!" Storious said in an urgent tone of voice.

"Like hell I will! You said yourself that you planned on bringing back to base. I can overwhelm him easily." Leigel responded before charging up his own Mana.

The Legend-beast themed Megid General released the same attack he did earlier, but put more Mana into the attack.

It was at that moment that Saber removed Rekka from the Seiken Sword-Driver.

Unsheathe the flames!

Crush finishing slash!


"Uh…" A groan came out of Asta's mouth as the ash-white hair teen felt uncomfortable for some reason.

"What….I'm I laying on?" Asta thought as his eyes slowly blinked open.

The ash-white hair teen found himself in a dark cave where small amounts of light seep through cracks in the rocky ceiling.

"Where I'm I…..?" Asta muttered in a dazed tone of voice.

"You're finally awake." A voice suddenly spoke, causing the ash-white hair teen to jump and spin around to see…..

"Captain Mereoleone?" Asta asked in a stunned tone of voice.

"I'm not a captain any more, I left the Magic Knights." Mereoleone responded whilst having an amused expression in her eyes.

"Where are we? What happened?" Asta asked, causing Mereoleone to raise an eye-brow.

"You don't remember?" Mereoleone asked, causing Asta to blink for a few seconds before his eyes widened.

"I remembering fighting Storious before being aided by Liegel and then…" Asta began to explain before trailing off.

"You don a new armor and then beat the living stuffing out of those two." Mereoleone reminded Asta whilst holding up the "Primitive Dragon" Wonder-Ride book.

"I...I suppose so. I can't remember the rest." Asta said before gaining a frown on his face.

"I can tell you what happens next." Mereoleone offered, making Asta nod his head slightly.

Flashback (start)

"What the heck is this Mana?!" Mereoleone thought as she dash through the trees.

After the Vermillion hair woman officially left the Magic Knights as the acting-captain of the Crimson Lions, she returned to her usual residence, in the wild.

For some odd reason, Fuegoleon and even Julius, didn't object since they would have been keen on her staying within the capital and helping with the rebuilding.

It didn't took Mereoleone long to gain the idea that the Wizard king, or is it Wizard Prince(?), decided to let her leave to act as some sort of early warning in case Mages from the other kingdoms decided attack.

Back to the present, Mereoleone was doing her usual routine until she felt a new source of Mana suddenly appearing, causing the Vermillion hair woman to stop what she was doing and dash towards the source of the Mana.

After a few minutes, Mereoleone burst out of the trees and into a rocky area.

"Oh? Is a battle happening?" Mereoleone questioned in her head as she heard the sound of battling.

Deciding to investigate, Mereoleone marched forwards until reaching the edge of the battlefield before hiding herself behind some rocks.

Her eyes widened when she saw the fighters.

"Is that Saber?!" Mereoleone thought in her head as she stared at the swordsman of flames fighting in a berserk manner against Storious and Liegel.

"I was informed that Saber gained a new form from Nozel, but he said that it was silver, not cyan, and certainly doesn't have skeletal apperance." Mereoleone thought, gaining a frown on her face.

"But what's with that fighting style? That's not like Saber at all." Mereoleone thought again, starting to become concerned.

After a few minutes of watching, Mereoleone watched Saber placing Rekka into the Seiken Sword-Driver and the preparing his finishing attack.

Unsheathe the flames!

Crush finishing slash!

Mereoleone heard the voice announced and a skeletal tail with a clawed end materialized from Saber which first destroyed the incoming projectiles of Liegel before shooting towards the Megid General and grabbing him.

Liegel was then got pulled towards Saber who then swing Rekka once the Megid General got closer, releasing a powerful shock-wave when Liegel got struck by the sword of flames.

Liegel was then flung back and landed on the ground, being joined by Storious who was also got knocked off his feet.

"What…..amazing power." Mereoleone thought in a stunned tone voice, still questioning if that's really Saber.

It was that moment that Saber's armor suddenly disappeared, revealing an extremely exhausted Asta who collapsed onto the ground.

Mereolone watched as Storious slowly got back onto his feet and observe Asta.

"Is he going to take Asta?" Mereoleone thought, having a good idea that the Megid General would kidnapped Asta for that power he just shown.

The Vermillion hair woman dash out of her hiding place and stopped in front of Storious.

"O-oh? I didn't realized that we've been watched." Storious commented, becoming surprised.

"What the hell just happened?!" Mereoleone demanded, glaring at the Megid General.

"I let the swordsman of flames explain…..that's if you decided to hand him over to the Magic Parliament. But if you do, then you'll have a calamity on your hands." Storious responded before chuckling darkly.

Mereoleone watched as Storious's Grimoire opened.

"Writing: Spatial Magic." Storious announced, creating a portal which he then walked through…...dragging Liegel whilst doing so before it closed.

Mereoleone stared at the spot for a few seconds before turning her attention towards Asta.

"Better take you somewhere far from here." Mereoleone muttered, her knowing that the chaotic Mana she felt earlier will be detected by the Magic Knights.

Flashback (End)

"And that's sums it up." Mereoleone finished her side of the events.

"Right….thanks." Asta said with a grim expression on his face, yet feel pleased that he'd managed to overwhelm two Megid Generals.

"So, care to explain to me what you've been up to every since managing to escape from the Magic Parliament and obtain a form that caused you to go into a berserk state." Mereoleone said whilst giving the wielder of Rekka a glare.

"W-why are you giving me an aggressive look?!" Asta thought in a shock tone of voice before telling his story.

It took Asta a while to fully tell his story, but Mereoleone remained silent, yet become surprise at the fact that the ash-white hair teen has been living with his grandfather.

"So Storious took advantage of your injured mental state and allowed the powers of Primitive Dragon to consume you." Mereleone commented as she glanced down that the "Primitive Dragon" Wonder-Ride book that she's still holding.

"Can you….sense the presence of Primitive Dragon within you?" Mereoleone asked, turning her attention back onto Asta.

"…...Yes..." Asta responded, feeling the existence of a secondary presence within him.

"How active is it?" Mereoleone asked, causing Asta to gain a frown on his face.

"Its…..seems calm, but…." Asta responded before trailing off whilst sensing how Primitive Dragon's Mana is mixed with his, making him feel stronger, yet in a foreboding way.

"A simply wave of negative emotions is enough to trigger it into a berserk state." Mereoleone guessed, making Asta nod his head in response.

Mereoleone then sighed.

"You're basically back to when you were possessed by that elf." The Vermillion hair woman commented, making Asta snort slightly.

"Yeah, although the malice coming from Primitive Dragon is more….natural than being amplified by forbidden magic." The ash-white hair teen said before feeling dread at the mere thought of Primitive Dragon's natural malice being amplified by forbidden magic.

Asta actually shuddered as the second presence within him reacted.

Asta's mind turned towards other matters.

"I need to get back to the Penyihir Mountains. Everyone will be worried about me….." Asta said before a thought entered his head.

"What are you doing?" Mereoleone asked as Asta started to pat himself.

"I just remembered the communication device that Aunt Sayo gave me. Here it is." Asta said as he took out the circular communication device.

However, Asta's eyes widened when he saw that the communication device is damaged.

"Fiddle sticks." The ash-white hair teen muttered in an annoyed tone of voice.

"Can you even communication between worlds?" Mereoleone asked, raising an eye-brow.

"….." Asta became up with a response as he became silent.

"That never occurred to you?" Mereoleone asked, becoming confused.

"….I suppose that's the reason why the Sword of Logos has a messenger…." Asta responded in a weak tone of voice.

"Idiot!" Mereoleone shouted before punching Asta on the head, slamming his head onto the ground.

"I-I guess that I'll…...just stay here until I'm….recovered…..." Asta responded in a weak tone of voice.

"Hmm….Should I do something?" Mereoleone thought, gaining a frown on her face, thinking that she should do something.

"Asta!" A voice suddenly shouted, causing both the ash-white hair teen and Vermillion hair woman to jump.


"What the hell happened to you two?" Zoous asked just as Storious exited the spatial portal.

"Did you had an easy time escaping." Storious asked as he prop the still unconscious Liegel onto a chair.

"Hmph, it was easy enough, apart from that messenger attempting to turn me into kebab…..Don't change the subject!" Zoous responded, saying the last part in annoyed tone of voice.

Storious told his fellow Megid General about what happened at the Penyihir Mountains and then fighting Saber who reclaimed the pitch-black Grimoire whilst becoming confused about the "Kebab" part.

It was safe to say that Zoous was angry.

"We did all of that and the result is that Saber has became consumed by the forbidden power!" Zoous shouted in anger.

"Not all is lost, we just have to alter the plan slightly." Storious responded in a calm tone of voice.

This cause Zoous to become curious, but still remained angry.


Back at the main branch of the Sword of Logos, a portal opened and the Magic Knight that went to the Penyihir Mountains walked out of it.

The Sword of Logos Magic Knight approached the throne and sat down.

Master Logos then gained a smirk on his face.


And there we have it, Saber first battle in his Primitive Dragon form, quickly burning through his Mana before falling unconscious. I bet that everyone is surprised that Asta is being watched by Mereoleone.

In Gotchard:

1) Rin talked to Houtarou and told him about her encounters with Atropos and wondered if the events surrounding Sabimaru transforming into Dread is her fault. The two then heard a roar where the informed Mr Minato told them that it is most likely the level 10 Chemy (10)X-Rex just as Houtarou and Rin arrived at a lake where they encounter a girl. Spanner is communicating with someone who has taken an interest with Dread's Repli-Cards and Dread-Driver whilst showing the location of the Dark Sisters to Spanner and requesting that he keep an eye on Rin.

2) With Houtarou and Rin, the girl, who goes by the name of Sawa, revealed that she heard about sightings of an dinsaur and planned on taking a photo of it before the three of them heard the roar of (10)X-Rex. With Spanner, he arrived at base of the Dark Sisters where he demanded that they hand over the Repli-Cards and Dread-Driver, but Lachises transformed into Dread and fought him instead, easily defeating Valvarad. Back to Houtarou, Rin and Sawa, the three of them spotted (10)X-Rex and Sawa prepared to take a photo of the Chemy, yet (10)X-Rex acted aggressively, causing Houtarou to take action...but was eventually eaten where he met Sawa's father who revealed that (10)X-Rex is capable of seeing people's memories.

3) Houtarou realize that (10)X-Rex wants to understand people through their memories and asked it to look through his memories, whilst discovering a memory that confused him. With Rin and Sawa, the two of them encounter the Dark Sisters where Lachesis attacked Rin, yet was blocked by Gotchard in his Super:UFO-X form where Clotho transformed into Dread in response. (10)X-Rex appeared and decided to grant Gotchard it's power allowing him to transform into his Super:X-Rex form.

For some reason, I found the events of this episode a bit rushed like even though Sawa's father got eaten by (10)X-Rex, there was no report of him going missing or anything. From the looks of things, it would seem that Level 10 Chemies are able to interact with people's memories since (10)UFO-X showed Houtarou Super Gochard:UFO-X to him and then (10)X-Rex can view people's memories. The episode also revealed that Houtarou somehow encountered (1)Hopper-1 in the past as a child.

Please review and until next time.

TheOkWriter:

1) I'll make changes to most of the stuff I have planned for the story.

2) Since we're now entering the Primitive Dragon arc, the rest of the Saber cast will get their moments.

Howard576:

1) I can just see Storious mocking Damnatio, saying how he and the Magic Parliament basically created the perfect vassal for Primitive Dragon to inhabit, which in turn cause internal conflict to occur.

2) The Gotchard-Driver would have been created roughly shortly after the creation of the 101 Chemies, plus the EX-Gotcharlibur in the likely attempt to wield the power of level 10 Chemy Cards, yet it fell into the possession of (1)UFO-X, so I don't believe Fuga created the Gotchard-Driver, only stole it.

3) That is strange, the Alchemy Association are a bit overconfident that the students are able to collect the released Chemies by themselves whilst fighting the Dark Sisters.