The starting skrimishes
Within a town on the boarder of the Spade Kingdom, a military based is occupying it.
"Hey. Have people been taken away for that movable fortress?" A Spade Kingdom Mage asked another Spade Kingdom Mage, the two of them being on stationary duty.
"I believe so, why?" The second Spade Kingdom Mage asked with a raised eye-brow.
"I thought that I was imaging the lack of people in the town, but I missed their fearful expressions." The first Spade Kingdom Mage responded with an evil smirk on his face, causing the second Spade Kingdom Mage to laugh darkly.
"Yeah, it's going to become boring real soon around here, but I did heard something that the Dark Triad are planning on doing something very soon." the second Spade Kingdom Mage commented, causing the first Spade Kingdom to become curious.
"What are they going to do?" The first Spade Kingdom asked and the second Spade Kingdom Mage was about to respond, but was prevented as a loud explosion is head, causing the two of them to become alert.
Within the military base, the Spade Kingdom Mages have started to fight the intruders.
"Gah!" A Spade Kingdom Mage exclaimed as they got kicked in the stomach by a Volume 3 Blades.
As the attacked Spade Kingdom Mage stumbled onto the ground, the swordsman of water's Grimoire began to glow and Runes started to swirl around him.
"Water Magic+Mana-Method: Aqua Bullets." Blades announced before firing the water-based attacks at some approaching Spade Kingdom Mages, sending some of them flying backwards.
"Huh. They sure are durably, Mana-Skin perhaps." Blades thought as he observe how the knocked down Spade Kingdom Mages have received less damage as expected and are slowly getting back onto their feet.
"Lets try this!" Blades said just as the pages of his Grimoire began to turn and Runes started to appear around his legs.
"Water Creation Magic+Mana-Method: Water Lion's paws." The swordsman of water announced and water appeared around his legs.
As it would seem that the Spade Kingdom Mages would pounce on Blades, the swordsman of water seemingly disappeared.
"What the-!?" One of the Spade Kingdom Mages exclaimed in a shock tone of voice before they and the others suddenly got attacked by a blue blur.
"Is that it? Is that all you got!?" Luck exclaimed as he dodged a Spade Kingdom Mage's attack before striking back with a leg covered in lightning.
"I heard that the strongest guys here were, at most, tier-2. If that's the case, then…..You're no match for us! Fire Magic+Mana-Method: Surging Spiralling Flame!" Leopold announced before launching three streams of fire, all enhanced by Mana-Method.
"Gah!" A Spade Kingdom Mage exclaimed as they and the others got defeated.
"Well. It would seem that this is it for this area." Blades commented as he glanced around, seeing if any Spade Kingdom Mages are still able to fight.
"Hey, Blades. Why are you fighting in your Volume 3 form rather than in your Daisenki King form? You would have destroyed the enemy in seconds." Leopold explained as he approached the swordsman of water.
"Well…..I don't think I'm ready to apply Mana-Method to Daisenki King just yet…." Blades responded in a sheepish tone of voice.
This cause Leopold to laugh.
"Really? We had six months of training for the upcoming battle." Leopold pointed out with no mockery in his voice.
"Yeah….sorry…." Blades responded in a sheepish tone of voice.
"Speaking about the enemy, can we fight some more?" Luck asked, an excited grin on his face.
"No. let the others do their part." Blades responded, causing Luck to become disappointment.
"Darn you, Holy Sword wielders." A Spade Kingdom Mage commented in annoyed tone of voice just as Joyeues turn towards their direction.
"So they are aware who we are….." The swords-woman of steel thought just at the Spade Kingdom Mage began to prepare an attack.
"Although that won't make any difference!" Joyeues exclaimed in her head as she lunged forwards and thrust Argent-Couronne, striking the Spade Kingdom Mage in the stomach.
"Water Creation Magic+Mana-Method: Sea Dragon's Roar!" Joyeues then announced, firing a water-made dragon which struck down more Spade Kingdom Mages and with he use of Mana-Method, the swords-woman of steel is capable of moving the water-made dragon around rather than letting it go in a straight line.
"Seriously? Are the troops in this town so weak?" Joyeues questioned herself with a small frown underneath her helmet.
Final Reading: Fenrir!
A voice announced, causing Joyeues to glance over shoulder to see Gram scanning a Wonder-Ride book on Aerkurufuyu before drawing his arm back and pressing the trigger.
Aerkurufuyu: Breaking Finish!
The voice announced just as a large amount of snow started to swirl around the existing blade on Aerkurufuyu.
The swordsman of snow then jumped into the air, avoiding getting attacked by the Spade Kingdom Mages that attempted to ambush him from all sides.
"Isbrytare." Gram announced before throwing Aerkurufuyu like a javelin downwards with the snow taking the form of an open wolf's head.
Luckily, the thrown Holy Sword didn't fully hit any of the opponents that Gram is currently fighting, but when Aerkurufuyu struck the ground and the wolf's head closed it's jaw, hardened ice quickly started to spread across the ground and then onto the Spade Kingdom Mages.
"C-can't move." A Spade Kingdom Mage grunted as the cold started to quickly spread through his body.
Gram landed on the ground and took Aerkurufuyu out of the ground…...before scanning the Wonder-Ride book known as "Magical Chained Fenrir" again, twice this time.
"What?!" Joyeues shouted in her head as she and the other Spade Kingdom Mages, who for some reason decided to stop fighting and watched as the swordsman of snow performed his second finishing move by spinning in a circle, releasing snow-shaped wolf heads which struck the Spade Kingdom Mages that Gram has been fighting, dealing a good among of damage to them.
"W-what the hell is that guy?!" One of the Spade Kingdom Mages exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.
"I've been wondering the same thing…." Joyeues thought just the pages of her Grimoire began to turn.
"Water Creation Magic:+Mana-Method Sea Dragon's Spikes." The swords-woman of steel announced, creating water-made spikes which she see then sent flying towards her lot of Spade Kingdom Mages and due to the cold air, the water-made spikes started to become frozen as they struck the Spade Kingdom Mages, causing them to collapse onto the ground.
"Finished?" Gram asked as he approach Joyeues.
"Of course! This is a simply task for someone like me, royalty." The swords-woman of steel responded in a confident tone of voice.
"…..Do you know that status has little meaning when in combat?" The swordsman of snow questioned whilst raising an eye-brow underneath his helmet.
This cause Joyeues to gain a tick-mark on her forehead.
"Don't you dare lecture me, brute!" Joyeues shouted in annoyance.
"….." Gram didn't say anything, causing Joyeues to gain another tick-mark.
"Mr Kamijo made the same comment back then…." The swords-woman of steel thought, remembering the battle which involves opening the doorway to Avalon.
Gram started to walk in a direction.
"Where are you going?" Joyeues asked, making Gram glance over his shoulder.
"Meeting up with the others. We're pretty much done here." Gram responded before turning his head back around.
"Egh! He's so annoying!" Joyeues shouted in her head as she began to follow Gram.
"Anyone who needs healing, get close." Mimosa instructed as she heal the trapped and abused people of the town with a spell that she has learned during the six month training, "Plant Healing Magic: Soothing Flower Paradise".
The citizens have unsure expressions on their faces at the presence of the Clover Kingdom Magic Knight, but did what they were told.
"I hope that this everyone in the town….." Mimosa thought, gaining a worried expression on her face.
The Vermillion hair girl then turned towards the direction where the sound of battling can be heard.
"Forest Magic+Mana-Method: Bark Serpents." Cortana announced as she slammed a hand onto the ground, causing tree barks, which took on the form of serpents to burst out of the ground with the bows-woman of the forest jumped onto one of them.
"What the hell is this?!" A Spade Kingdom Mage exclaimed in a shock tone of voice as they are the others stared at the bark-made serpents who are glaring down at them.
"Go." the bows-woman of the forest commanded, causing the bark-made serpents to lunge towards the Spade Kingdom Mages.
From on top of her own bark-made serpent, Cortana fired arrows towards those who got too distracted.
"This spell should prevent any Spade Kingdom Mages from breaking away and attacking the citizens that Mimosa is healing…." Domi's voice spoke, although there is a hint of worry.
"Just focus on the battle, Domi." Fillon commented just as she fired an arrow.
"That's your job, isn't it?" Domi's voice responded, causing a small smirk to appear underneath Cortana's helmet.
It was at that moment that the bows-woman of the forest smelt burning before an impact shook the bark-made serpent, causing it to twist it's body and saw a magma-made golem with a rock-covered fist having punched the Cortana's creation.
"Time to abandon ship!" Fillon shouted in her head before jumping off the bark-made serpent just as it began to burn.
"Hah! That's what you get for just focusing on the battle in front of you rather than all around you!" A Spade Kingdom Mage said with a smirk on his, causing Cortana to gain a tick-mark.
It was at that moment that more magma-made golems appeared, which are more smaller than the first one.
"Our magic is useless against this guy." Domi thought, causing Fillon to nod her head in agreement before taking out a Wonder-Ride book, done in colours of light brown and green, which has an image of a Bake-Danuki above the title of "Unnamed Name".
The bows-woman of the forest then opened the cover.
"There once was a Tanuki that uses it's transforming abilities to fool people."
The voice announced before Cortana placed "Unnamed Name" into Eien No Midori, causing the standby sound to start playing before Cortana released an arrow, causing the Spade Kingdom Mage to become confuse as they saw how it looks different.
Release the Arrow!
Unnamed Name!
The voice announced and the brown and green mechanical Bake-Dankui spun around Cortana before fusing with her, cladding her right side in armour which takes on the form of a racoon-dog has a shoulder-pad, which itself is equipped with a straw-hat and a gauntlet shaped as a leaf.
"Oh? And what does changing your armour supposed to do?" The Spade Kingdom Mage asked, becoming curious.
"Would you like to know?" Cortana responded, causing the Spade Kingdom Mage to become angry before ordering the larger magma-made golem to attack the bows-woman of the forest and successfully landed a hit, causing lava to consume Cortana.
The Spade Kingdom Mage blinked their eyes in confuse.
"Is that…..it…..?" The Spade Kingdom Mage muttered, feeling disappointed at how quickly it ended.
However, it was at that moment that the Spade Kingdom Mage noticed how the bark-made serpents haven't disappeared.
"You must be wondering why "my" haven't disappeared yet." A voice commented, causing the Spade Kingdom Mage to widen their eyes before spinning towards the source of the voice and became surprise at the numerous Cortanas.
"This Wonder-Ride book allows me to create illusions of myself." One of the Cortana's explained, causing a frown to appear on the Spade Kingdom Mage's face.
"What good does making illusions of yourself do? I can just destroy you and your illusions." The Spade Kingdom Mage commented just as the as the magma-made golems started to attack, releasing magma-made rocks.
The multiple Cortanas charged forwards, making their way towards the Spade Kingdom Mage whilst avoiding getting hit by the magma-golem's attacks.
"Trying to prevent me from knowing who is the real one, eh? Well, it won't you good when you get close to me." The Spade Kingdom Mage thought whilst covering his arms in magma-made gauntlets.
Just as the Cortanas got closer to the Spade Kingdom Mage, one of them released an arrow to which the Spade Kingdom Mage took a defensive stance and a smile appeared on his face when he saw that the attack was solid.
"Hah! So there you are!" The Spade Kingdom Mage said before throwing an attack at the Cortana that attacked them.
However, his eyes widened when he saw that the Cortana that he struck disappeared.
"Huh?" The Spade Kingdom Mage said in a confused tone of voice before getting struck from a different angel with the bladed pieces of Eien no Midori.
"Ghe." The Spade Kingdom Mage grunted as he backed away.
"What the hell was that?!" The Spade Kingdom Mage shouted just as the magma-made golems prepare to attack.
"This Wonder-Ride book allows me to switch between the illusions that I have created." Cortana explained with a smirk underneath her helmet.
"What sort ability is that?!" The Spade Kingdom Mage questioned in his head before preparing to fight the bows-woman of the forest and her illusions.
"Well done, everyone!" Lolopechika said to everyone, them now standing within the palace of the Heart Kingdom.
"Thanks to your efforts, we were able to occupy the village of Toron. With Noelle's water magic aiding Undine's clones, we were able to set up a barrier in Toron similar to the barrier we have on the Heart Kingdom, and it's because I'm afflicted by the Devil's curse that I can sense and react to the Devil's power very quickly. If we keep this up the pace and increase our territory, we will be able to corner the Spade Kingdom's Devil." Lolopechika explained in a serious tone of voice.
"Right!" Everyone responded at the same time.
Surprisingly, Sebastian somehow knows about the curse that has been inflicted onto the queen of the Heart Kingdom, causing everyone to become shock.
The wielder of Aerkurufuyu explained how the resistance group within the Spade Kingdom have been keeping track of the movements of the three ruling Mages of the Spade Kingdom, thus discovering the battle between the queen of the Heart Kingdom and the Devil of the Spade Kingdom.
Although, everyone became confuse as to how Sebastian himself knows this information since he prefer to work alone.
"Mimosa? Is there something wrong?" Noelle asked, the silver hair girl noticing a worried expression on her face.
"I'm just worried about the people that have already been taken from Toron, causing a small frown to appear on Noelle's face.
"You should be more focus on the battles ahead rather than the well being of the citizens of the Spade Kingdom, lady Mimosa." Gadjah suggested, causing the Vermillion hair girl's worried expression to deepen.
"Don't worry. Through Undine's clones, I'm able to see what is happening within the Strong Magic Region of the nutral zone." Lolopechika explained in a reassuring tone of voice.
However, this cause Mimosa and everyone else to become confuse.
Within the Strong Magic Region between the four Kingdoms, a large fortress-like construct walked across the rocky ground.
"Gh….Ake." A male said in a weak tone of voice before falling onto the ground, dying.
"This giant moving fortress Candero, created for travelling across the Strong Magic Region, is the best thing ever!" A Spade Kingdom commented as he and some others watched as people die within a glass chamber.
"But Jeez, these lower-tier people run out of people Mana too fast! Even though we're passing through the Strong Magic Region, all we really need is half of them to live." Another commented with a small smile on his face.
"The power of life itself carries Mana, we must wring out that Mana from them all, even the children." A third commented in an uncaring tone of voice.
Before long, the people currently residing inside the glass chamber are all dead.
"Aaaand done! Well, then! Will the next ones please go inside, and carry out the falling people out while you're at it." A Spade Kingdom Mage explained to a group of prisoners just as door to the glass chamber opened.
"I-I beg you….! Th-this child….ever since she was little….has barely had any Mana….I beg y-you, please spare her…." A prisoner begged in a scared tone of voice.
However, the Spade Kingdom Mage posses a "cheerful" smile on his face as he approached the female prisoner.
"What makes you think some low-tier trash like you can talk to us so causally, hm? We're part of the military for crying out loud!" The Spade Kingdom Mage explained as he grab the female prisoner by the face.
"You guys can't even use any decent offensive Magic! So, to make up for it, you trash just need to give us what little magic you have! It's all you're good for!" The Spade Kingdom Mage explained to the rest of the group before returning his attention back to the female prisoner.
"But you….I'll give you a special role….just for you…." The Spade Kingdom Mage said in a creepy tone of voice before starting to rip the female prisoner's clothes off.
As the female prisoner started to freak out, movement suddenly flickered from the glass that separated the inside of the fortress to the outside world which caught the attention from another Spade Kingdom Mage.
"What was that?" The Spade Kingdom Mage thought, raising an eye-brow before shaking his head slightly.
"Must be the snow, nothing to be concerned about." The Spade Kingdom Mage thought as he returned his attention to the task of escorting the prisoners into the glass chamber.
However, that was a mistake as a powerful attack struck the side of the moving fortress, shaking it.
"W-what the!?" The Spade Kingdom Mage exclaimed in shock as he and the others turned towards the shattered glass where smoke raise into the air.
It was also because of the smoke that the two Spade Kingdom Mage couldn't properly see the attacker entering through the cracked glass, just only seeing their silhouette.
"Who are you?! Identify yourself!" One of the Spade Kingdom Mages shouted just as the prisoners backed away as much as they could.
However, the silhouetted figure remained silent as they glanced towards the frightened prisoners before returning their attention back to the Spade Kingdom Mages where their eyes suddenly glowed in a flame-like style.
And there we have it, the Clover Kingdom and Heart Kingdom, plus Sebastian, starting their assult on the Spade Kingdom whilst showing their use of Mana-Method, along with Cortana using a new Wonder Ride book. Meanwhile, the Spade Kingdon's moving fortress gets attacked by someone...although some may know who that person is.
In Gavv:
1) Shoma is found by Sachika Amane who took him to her home where she let him clean himself up. Meanwhile, Stomach Inc is having a business meeting where the twins Shita and Jeehb left out some information. Back at Handyman Happy Parade, Sachika noted about Shoma's love for sweets, and made a comment that Shoma belongs to a strict family or something, whilst himself trying his best to hide the newly created Gochizo.
2) Sachika then recieved a phone call about a friend needing help to move house where Shoma offered to help, where Shoma's super strength is put to good use. During the time, the friend is captured by a human-disguised Granute, compressing her into a smaller form. This was noticed by two ZakuZaku Chips Gochizos who called Shoma, who was writing in his tasty dairy, to investigate.
3) Shoma is then lead to a warehouse where he found the Stomach Inc worker where a fight ensured with the Granute Whiple where he transformed into his ZakuZaku Chips form where he managed to win, whilst learning how to wield the two swords properly without them breaking. Hanto, who has been spending the day attempting to find any leads on Gavv, spotted him leaving the area on his bike. The next day, Shita was shown a photo about a missing part-time worker and Gavv.
So the main villian group of the series have made their apperance, Stomach Inc run by the Stomach family, whilst showing how they make the Dark Sweets with the kidnapped humans. I think that the Stomach family will quickly realize that Gavv is Shoma due to his red-Gavv(belt), something that is completely unknown due to Shoma's human/Granute nature or at least rare since Hanto's drawing of the wolf-based Granute has a red coloured Gavv, but that could possibly due to the younger Hanto deciding to colour it red. If the Stomach family recapture Shoma, I can imagine a posible senario where they would force feed him a Dark Sweet, resulting in a dark Gochizo to be created. This will likely cause Shoma to become tramatized due to how Dark Sweets are created. With Hanto's past of his mother getting kidnapped by a Granute, he will likely show some distance between him and Shoma/Gavv. I can't see him being too hostile towards Shoma/Gavv due to his personailty.
Please review and until next time.
Howard576:
1) Yep, things are certainly starting to pick up from now on.
2) The show certainly has a strong start, let's see how the rest of the series will play out.