Ambush

Within his quarters, Damnation was pacing about.

"Why is Sir Julius and the Magic Knight captains are letting those people handling the situation that is happening within our kingdom?" Damnatio questioned for the umpteenth time.

"And that woman. How dare she tells me what to do!" The judge thought, a scowl appearing on his face at the thought of the swords-woman of darkness.

"…" Damnatio stopped pacing as he began to think.

"Maybe I should get involved." Damnatio mused the thought.

Even though he isn't a Magic Knight, Asta is still a threat in the eyes of the Magic Parliament.

Whilst the judge finally saw the physical evidence that there is a second dragon-themed swords-wielder, the fact that the ash-white teen is a threat of the Clover Kingdom is more enough for him to act, even if it's going behind the back of the Magic Knights.

"Plus the Sword of Logos and those witches aren't going to be very helpful. They even admitted that they they have no knowledge on the identity of that that swords-woman." Damnatio thought before a thinking expression appeared on his face.

"But how to locate that beast? Only that woman knows his location?" Damnatio thought, feeling troubled by that part.

"Is there a Magic Knight possessing Clairvoyance or something?" Damnatio thought, attempting to think of any Magic Knights that possess such magic.

However, nothing comes to mind.

It was at that moment that a knock can be heard from the door, causing the judge to perk up.

"Who wants to see me at this time?" Damnatio thought, glancing towards the clock that is on the mantlepiece.

"Come in." Damnatio responded…..yet the door didn't opened.

This cause a frown to appear on Damnatio's face before walking towards the door and opened it himself.

The judge saw that the corridor was empty.

"Must be my imagination…?" Damnatio thought before his foot brushed against something.

Damnatio glanced down and become confuse as he stared at the rectangle-shaped object.

Becoming curious, along with becoming cautious, the judge picked up the object, where a folded piece of paper is also present.

"Is this one of those book-like object that the Sword of Logos Magic Knights use?" Damnatio thought as he stared at the "Gate Book".

"But why would one be here?" Damnatio thought before opening the piece of paper, which is in fact is a note.

"If you desire of handling the situation yourself, then this "Gate Book" will help you find the swordsman of flames. I cast a spell on this Wonder-Ride book which will help you find the boy easier. However, are you brave enough to face the fury of the ancient dragon?" The note read, causing a slight surprise expression to appear on Damnatio's face.

"Can this book help me?" The judge thought as he glanced at the "Gate Book", yet becoming suspicious at the unknown sender.

"….." Damnatio became silent, muling over the opportunity that he's been given.


The sound of crackling filled the air as Asta and Blanc sat in front of bonfire.

"Ahhh. Such a nice fire." Asta said with a small smile on his face.

"This reminds me of the times that me and the others back at a Hage village would camp outside." The ash-white hair teen thought before his smiled wavered slightly, remembering the nightmare he had earlier.

"Chirp?" Blanc "said", tilting her head to the side, gaining a worried expression on her face.

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Asta said, attempting to sound reassuring.

Even though the ash-white hair teen had a, thankfully, peaceful sleep, he still felt on edge about the prospect that another Primitive Dragon-based nightmare would suddenly spring upon him.

It was at that moment that the sound of crunching leaves can be heard, causing Asta and the white-feathered bird to become tense whilst the ash-white hair teen grab the handle of Rekka.

After a few seconds, a shadowy figure appeared from the trees and it was only thanks to the light of the fire that Asta has a good guess as to who the person is.

"Miss Finsternis, that is you, right?" the ash-white hair teen asked, being on the safe side.

"Yes, it's me." Finsternis responded as she sat down on the ground, unsheathing Kurayami from her belt whilst doing so.

"Where did you go?" Asta asked, becoming curious.

"I was just simply introducing myself to the Wizard King, the Magic Knight captains, the acting captain of the Sword of Logos, the Clover branch that is, and the three witches that were present during Primitive Dragon's last rampage." Finsternis explained, causing Asta to blink his eyes slightly.

"Were they having an emergency meeting?" Asta asked, causing Finsternis to nod her head.

"Yes. And since the topic was revolving around you, he was present." The wielder of Kurayami responded, which cause the wielder of Rekka to become tense, knowing who Finsternis is referring to.

"So what's happening now?" Asta asked, becoming curious.

However, the question cause Finsternis's mouth to twitch slightly.

"Miss Finsternis?" Asta asked, starting to become concerned.

"…...First, we will attempt to meet up with the others before we talk about the next step…." Finsternis said in a tense tone of voice.

"Should I be worried…?" Asta thought before realizing something.

"Attempt?" Asta asked, causing Lady Calibur to flinch slightly.

"I…...don't have full control over Kurayami's abilities….." Finsternis explained in a sheepish tone of voice.

This cause Asta to blink his eyes for a few times before starting to snicker.

"Is that why we're in a random location? Your just opening random portals?" Asta asked whilst starting to laugh.

"I-I only just got Kurayami and stop laughing, cheeky brat!" Finsternis exclaimed, attempting to cover up her flaw.

However, Asta kept on laughing.

This cause Finsternis to sigh before shaking her head, yet feeling happy that Asta is starting to feel positive.


"…...ta….Asta. It time to wake up….." A voice spoke whilst a hand gently shook the ash-white hair teen.

"H…..Huh….?" Asta said in a sleepy tone of voice as his eyes blinked open.

After a few seconds of his vision being blurry, a face starts to appear.

"….Ghaaaaaa!" Asta shouted in fright, making Sayo jump in fright and in a flash, the gold blade of Kurayami found itself being pressed against Sayo's throat.

"A-Aunt?!" Asta exclaimed as he stare at the wielder of Shinkiro.

"Hi Asta. You frightened me." Sayo as she took deep breaths to calm herself down.

"I frightened you?! You frighted me!" Asta responded with a mad expression on his face.

"Sorry." Sayo said before turning her head to look at Finsternis.

"Would you mind releasing me?" The wielder of Shinkiro asked, even though Sayo can feel that Finsternis's grip on Kurayami is loose, she still feel a bit cautious.

"Of course. I just jumped into action when Asta screamed." Finsternis explained whilst releasing her hold on the wielder of Shinkiro.

"Thanks." Sayo said quickly before immediately hugging Asta.

"Do you know how worried I was when Chief Olivia and the others told me what happened to you?! First starting to gain dragon-like features and then get kidnapped by Calibur!" Sayo explained whilst giving Finsternis a glare.

"I didn't called it "kidnapping", I was simply taking Asta to a safer place away from the battlefield…..plus the Clover Kingdon." Finsternis responded, avoiding eye-contact.

"Really? This practically in the middle of nowhere." Sayo stated in a blank tone of voice, causing Finsternis to start pouting.

"How did you found us?" Asta asked just as Sayo released him.

"Yuri managed to locate the activate Mana of Kurayami and managed to followed it…...although it did popped up in random places." Sayo explained, giving the wielder of Kurayami a look.

"…" Finsternis became quiet.

"Where is Yuri?" Asta asked, becoming confused.

"I'm here." A voice responded, causing Asta and the two female Holy Sword wielders to look up and saw that the "wielder" of Saikou is gripping a tree-branch whilst hanging upside down.

"…..What are you doing up there?" The wielder of Rekka asked, tilting his head to the side, becoming confused.

"What do you think?" Yuri asked in a sarcastic tone of voice.

"…...Oh." Asta said just as Blanc began to chirp, seemingly attempting to laugh.

"Quiet you." Yuri grumbled as he got himself onto the ground.

"So what's next? Going back to the others and tell them your idea?" Asta asked, saying the last whilst glancing towards Finsternis.

"Idea?" Sayo asked, giving the wielder of Kurayami a raised eye-brow.

"…" Finsternis remained silent.

Sayo was about to speak, but decided to save it until later.

"You're not taking that beast anywhere." A voice spoke, causing everyone to become alert and spun towards the direction of the voice to see Damnatio and a handful of Magic Knights, five in total, from different squads appearing from behind the trees.

"What are you doing here?!" Sayo exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.

"It would seem that there is someone with the same thoughts about getting rid of the beast, so I decided to take control of the situation." Damnatio responded whilst holding up the "Gate Book" Wonder-Ride book, making the Holy Sword wielders to become wide eyed.

"H-how did you got your hands on that?!" Yuri exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.

"Like I said, someone's keen on the elimination on that beast and decided to give me this." Damnatio responded before glancing towards Asta who has started to breath heavily.

"Calm down!" Asta thought as he sense how the Primitive Dragon is becoming agitated, wanting to unleash it's fury.

"Sayo! Yuri! Take Asta as far away as possible, I'll handle them!" Finsternis said as she got Kurayami and "Jakku Dragon" at the ready.

"So she's Calibur…." Damnatio mused as he glance at the golden blade of Kuryami.

The comment caused one of the Magic Knights, a Green Mantis, to scoff.

"You, fighting all of by yourself? You're out of your league if you can fight all of us and expect to win." The Green Matis commented in an arrogant tone of voice.

"Maybe, maybe not. But Asta has a vital role to play, and I won't let him get capture." Finsternis responded before scanning "Jakku Dragon" on the flat side of Kurayami's blade.

Jakku Read!

The voice announced, making the standby sound to start playing just as Finsternis placed the Wonder-Ride book into the belt buckle.

"Henshin" The black-clothed woman said before using the hilt of Kuryami to press the button on the belt buckle, causing "Jakku Dragon" to open.

Kurayami, the sword of shadows!

Moonlight! Darkness! Slash! Get go under conquer than get keen!

Jakku Dragon!

Kurayami Deciphered: The sword of darkness expunges the light, ruling over the twilight dragon in cold blood.

The voice announced and Lady Calibur is now donning the armour of the Holy Sword wielder of darkness.

The Magic Knights became tense as they stare at the swords-woman of darkness.

Calibur glanced over to the others.

"Go!" Calibur said and Yuri moved, grabbing Asta and began to run.

"Don't let the beast escape!" Damnatio ordered, causing the Magic Knights to start moving.

With Calibur, the swords-woman of darkness pressed the open page of "Jakku Dragon" causing the purple mechanical dragon to suddenly appear.

The Magic Knights froze as Jakku Dragon stared down at them, fangs bared.

"You're not going anywhere." Calibur stated in a firm tone of voice.

"It's your funeral then." A Blue Rose Magic Knight said as she and the others, plus Damnatio, got out their Grimoires.

Silence filled the air for a few seconds until Calibur dashed forwards.

"Lighting Magic: Electro Bullets." A second Purple Orca Magic Knight announced, creating lighting-shaped bullets which she then sent towards the quickly approaching swords-woman of darkness.

However, Calibur easily moved out of the attack's path, but allowed Kuryami to absorb the lighting-based attack.

"The sword can absorb magic-based attacks?!" The Magic Knights thought, their eyes widening.

With Calibur, the swords-woman of darkness got close to the female Purple Orca Magic Knight and swing Kurayami.

"Gah!" The female Purple Orca Magic Knight exclaimed as she got struck by the sword of darkness whose blade is covered by a purple aura.

However, the swords-woman of darkness wasn't finished as she grab the Magic Knight's Grimoire, closing it shut and placed the flat side of Kurayami against the cover.

"Hey! Let go of my-?!" The female Purple Orca Magic Knight began to say, but was cut of as she and the others watched as the cover of her Grimoire gained dark purple chains which glowed brightly before dying down.

"Huh?" The female Purple Orca Magic Knight said just as Calibur gave her Grimoire back to her roughly.

"W-what did you do to my Grimoire?" The female Purple Orca Magic Knight demanded as she attempted to open her Grimoire, but found out that she couldn't.

"Kurayami possess the ability to seal ones Grimoire." Calibur responded in a simple tone of voice.

This cause the Magic Knights and Damnatio to become wide eyed.

"S-sealed?!" The female Purple Magic Knight said in a stunned tone of voice.

"So that statement during the captain's meeting was true." Damnatio thought, thinking that was an empty threat.

"Hey. Wasn't it reported that a group of Magic Knights got their Grimoires sealed?" A Silver Eagle Magic Knight questioned, faintly remembering how one of his fellow squad members had gone to the Sword of Logos a while back.

"That scenario happened. But unfortunately for all of you, Kurayami's sealing ability is much more advanced than the one that the other Magic Knights got hit with." Calibur explained, making the Magic Knights to become tense whilst the female Purple Orca Magic Knight whimpered slightly.

"So. Still have the courage to face me?" The swords-woman of darkness questioned whilst pointing the gold blade of Kurayami forwards.

"What sort of question is that?! We've been specifically been chosen by Lord Damnatio Kira for this mission." The Silver Eagle Magic Knight said just as his Grimoire began to glow.

"Smoke Magic: Billowing Fog!" The Silver Eagle Magic Knight announced and a large amount of smoke burst out of his Grimoire obscuring Calibur's vision.

The swords-woman of darkness became guard as he glanced around, getting ready for a sneak attack.

"Considering what that Silver Eagle Magic Knight just said, Kira would have chosen them with the idea of capturing Asta." Calibur thought, seeing how the female Purple Orca Magic Knights possess lighting magic with the idea of paralysing the wielder of Rekka.

It was at that moment that something came flying from behind Calibur.

Luckily, the swords-woman of darkness was quick, spinning around and cutting the projectiles with Kurayami, which happened to be rings made from sharp pieces of glass.

However, the shattered pieces of glass didn't fall to the ground, yet started to surround Calibur.

"Hm?" The swords-woman of darkness said before immediately ducking just as the pieces of glass moved with the attempt of striking Calibur.

However, the pieces of glass struck Kurayami instead and the sword of darkness absorb the attack.

"Likewise, they will likely keep their distance away from me unless they want their Grimoires sealed." Calibur thought before the gold blade of Kurayami started to glow.

Outside of the mass of fog, the Green Magic Knight circled around the mass of fog, preparing to cast the same attack again.

"Hurry up, would you. We don't have all day!" The Silver Eagle Magic Knight shouted in an annoyed tone of voice.

"Okay! Okay! I get it!" The Green Magic Knight shouted back.

With the Blue Rose Magic Knight, she has an unease expression on her face.

"I know that I've been ordered to take part in this mission by my father, but I don't want to face the wraith of my captain!" The Blue Rose Magic Knight thought, knowing that Charlotte seems to have a soft spot for the wielder of Rekka.

It was at that moment that Calibur came running ou of the smoke.

The Green Magic Knight dashed forwards in response, creating two glass daggers in his hands.

As the swords-woman of darkness easily avoid getting hit by the glass-made daggers, she took a glance towards Damnatio, who has his own Grimoire out.

"As far I'm aware, Lord Kira specialize in reducing the Mana of ones spell through his scale magic." Calibur thought, but isn't feeling threatened by this.

"Forcus on your enemy woman!" The Green Mantis Magic Knight exclaimed as he attempted to strike the swords-woman of darkness.

Calibur blocked one of the daggers with the flat side of Kurayami.

"Oh? I thought that a Magic Knight needs to be aware of their surrounding during battle." Calibur pointed out, a small smirk appearing underneath her helmet.

This cause a tick-mark to appear on the Green Mantis Magic Knight's forehead.

"Don't tell me how to do my job!" The Green Magic Knight shouted before taking a big swing with his other dagger.

This time Calibur hopped back to avoid the attack.

"Hmm? She must be aware of what I'm capable of in combat." Damnatio thought, him noticing how Calibur glanced towards him.

"So she will heavily rely on that sword then….." Damnatio thought, but became concerned about what sort of magic the swords-woman of darkness actually possess.

"But still, the beast getting further away." Damnatio thought, a scowl appearing on his face as he glanced towards Jakku Dragon, the only thing that prevents them from chasing after Asta and Yuri.

"That swords-woman is also still here..." Damnatio thought, noting Sayo's presence whose focus is on Calibur.

It was at that moment that Calibur manage to land a heavy blow on the Green Mantis Magic Knight with kurayami, causing the Magic Knight to fall onto the ground.

"One has her Grimoire and the other fallen. Do you still wished to keep fighting?" Calibur questioned, turning her attention towards the Silver Eagle Magic Knight, Blue Rose Magic Knight and the fifth Magic Knight, one from the Golden Dawn.

"Don't be ridiculous! We're Magic Knights, we're not going to back down just because someone like you says so!" The Silver Eagle Magic Knight responded, causing Jakku Dragon to growl angrily.

"Someone like me? What's that supposed to mean?" Calibur asked in a dangerous tone of voice as she removed "Jakku Dragon" from her belt buckle.

"Uh." The Silver Eagle Magic Knight muttered, gulping slightly at the dangerous aura that Calibur is producing.

Before the swords-woman of darkness could start the finisher move, she got consumed in water.


And there we go, Sayo and Yuri managing to locate Asta and Finsternis, but then getting confronted by Damnatio and some Magic Knights. So someone decided to help(?) Damnatio by giving him a "Gate Book", but by whom?

In Gotchard:

1) Using his newly gained form, Iron Gotchard easily defeat the Pteranodon Malgam, but soon started to feel the side effect of the forbidden Alchemy-created form, but instead of him crashing onto the ground, Fuga Kudo appeared and caught Houtarou before taking everyone away, leaving Dread by himself. Back at Kitchen Ichinose, whilst Houtarou rests, Fuga and Kyoka explained to everyone the reason as to why Minato decided to work with Geryon, involving the events of ten years ago where Minato managed to restrained Geryon who cruely responded by killing a close friend of his and brainwashing other students into killing each other.

2) With information about an entrance to the Alchemy Academy giving to them by Fuga, everyone attempted to sneak in, but were quickly caught by Minato who transformed into Dread and fought them, being joined by Clotho who transformed into her Rafflesia Matrix form. Houtarou appeared and once again transformed into Iron Gotchard and fought Dread, even managing to overpower him. Once the battle have finshed, the defeated Clotho delivered the Dread-Driver back to Geryon who then commented that Minato has reached his usefullness and ordered his enlimination.

And there we have it, Fuga Kudo is revealed to be alive and was the one who aided Houtarou with the forbidden alchemy and discovered the reasoning as to why Minato decided to work for Geryon and "expelled" the students due to him believing that they aren't capable of defeating Geryon...Although that plan didn't worked out during Gotchard-Daybreak's timeline.

Please review and until next time.

Guest: Yeah, the show didn't very much elaborate the blackhole that Primitive Dragon is shown holding in its picture, although it could represent the destructive nature that it possess.

TheOkWriter: I'm keeping Fiona just as a maid of the Sword of Logos, I'd have no plans for her to become a fighter.

Howard576:

1) That would certainly satifaction to everyone when they hear that Finsternis/Calibur has sealed Damnatio's Grimoire...that unless Primitive Dragon decided to get to him first.

2) Yes, Asta will certainly need therapy when this entire ordeal is done.

3) Lachesis would have been a good candidate since she and the others have been involved with forbidden alchemy.

4) The Chemies sure does have a weird power system in contrast with the level.

5) I suppose that does make sense since platium is another type of metal, a theme that Iron Gotchard revolves around and it is true that we haven't seen all the Chemies, so the 101th Chemy could be linked to Gotchard's real Final Form.

Lorddarkvile:

1) It will be a while until Calibur 2nd's idenity is revealed and for the possibily of Asta's father appearing within the story...I'm holding back on that since we don't know anything on canon Asta's father and how he was born in the first place.

2) The Devil Banishers will make their apperance within the story at some point.

NameEntry25: Those sound interesting ideas and with Luna, it could be that Finsternis is an avatar that Luna created in order to interact with the phyical world whilst her real body rests within the space between worlds. With Richita being Finsternis, that would certainly be shocking for Asta, Sayo and Ekrixi.

mastergamer14:

1) I'm having difficulties of giving Rider names to them, but for Chemy partners.

Asta: Possibly (6)Daiohni due to the Oni motif

Yuno: Possibly (3)Gokigenmeteon in connection with his star magic since meteors can be called shooting stars.

Noelle: It can be either (9)Don-poseidon due to her water magic and epithat as "Sea Goddess" or (7)Haodin due to her Valkyrie armour.

Leopold: (10)Lixion due to belonging to the Crimson Lion Magic Knights.

Mimosa:(1)Happy-clover due to belonging to the Clover Kingdom royal family.

2) I'll consider the idea for a Super Sentai crossover in the future.