40713MM: Hey guys! I welcome you chapter of my Black Clover: Magic of the Future fic! In this chapter, we start off the 2nd and final round of Dark Triad fights. This time, our Light Triad (Asta, Yuno, and Noelle) have far greater assistance this time around there Dark Triad enemies (Dante, Zeno, and Vanica). I do not own Black Clover, nor its characters. However, I do own any custom spells I make up for the fights ahead. Chapter start!
Chapter 6
"Come on! Move it!" Vanessa, Mimosa, Secre, Grey, and Lolopechka were pushed forward and into the massive throne room, where Captains Yami and WIlliam, along with Dante, Zeno, and Vanica awaited them.
"Ahhh! Here they are!~" Vanica clasped her hands excitedly. "Goodie! Time to officially start!~" Zeno waved the guards away, who leave the throne room. Once that was done, Zeno slashed the chains binding the 5. Grey and Lolopechka would have said something, but they were scared/frozen to say a word. Dante grabbed Grey and Vanessa, Vanica grabbed Lolopechka, and Zeno grabbed Secre and Mimosa.
"Royal, make sure Yami and William here don't run out of mana." Zeno told her. "If they do, you'll have to share your mana with them. Refuse…." He got out his Bone Sword and slashed Mimosa's cheek, spewing blood. "That will happen to your back. Understand?" Mimosa shakily nodded.
"Y-Yes!" Mimosa stuttered; intimidated by Zeno's words and magic aura.
"Awww! What about Lolopechka?" Vanica asked.
"Feed her to the first Devil that comes out of the portal once it's opened." Dante shrugged.
"Ooooh! Feeding to the wolves!~ Or in this case, Devils!~" Vanica giggled sadistically. "I love it!"
"Y-You w-won g-g-get away with th-this!" Grey stuttered, trying to sound as brave as possible, but of course, to no avail.
"Oh, but I'm afraid we've already did." Dante told her, a wicked smile on his lips as the procedure to open the portal to the Underworld began.
Meanwhile, at the Clover and Spade Kingdom borders…
Nozel, Nebra, Solid, Noelle, Mereoleona, Vetto, Elf Fana, Rhya, Asta, Yuno, Patri, Fanzell, Mariella, Mars, and Fana all blasted there way through the many devil powered soldiers like butter.
"This is far too easy." Nozel frowned deeply.
"I agree." Noelle frowned. "And I think I know why."
"They want us to tire." Mereoleona scowled.
"So when we do end up facing them, we'll be too low on mana to defend ourselves." Fanzell finished.
"Sneaky bastards." Mariella frowned deeply.
"*yawn* Least we're at the castle now." Rhya pointed out.
"In that case," Mereoleona spoke as she led Asta, Rhya, Fana, Elf Fana, Fanzell, Mariella, and Mars towards the lower portion of the castle. "We'll enter through lower floors and work our way up."
"Then my and Yuno's team shall go through the sides." Nozel told Mereoleona.
"Then hop to it." Mereoleona retorted sternly as she leapt down, followed by the rest of her group.
Asta's group reached the entrance they were looking for. Mereoleona stepped forward and punched the door repeatedly until it caved in and fell forward, making Elf Fana, Vetto, Fanzell, Mariella, Mars, Fana, and Asta to sweatdrop.
"Really? Was that necessary?" Mariella deadpanned.
"They already know we're here." Mereoleona reminded the former Diamond Kingdom assassin. "Might as well make as much destruction as possible."
This lady is crazy! Fana and Mars thought at the same time.
"Fufufufu! So…..you made it here unscathed…." Dante laughed as he approached the 8 from the shadows of the corridor.
"Humph. So you're Dante." Mereoleona remarked, a sly smirk on her face as she surrounded herself with mana. "I look forward to burning you to ash."
"Here to rescue Yami Sukihiero and William Vangenance?" Dante taunted. "Well sorry, but in order to do that, you defeat me." He pointed at Asta. "If the Anti-Magic boy, even with the assistance of his devil couldn't kill me, what hope do all 8 of you have against me?"
"You're one to talk to considering it's 8 vs 1!" Vetto cracked his knuckles, and he too, activated his mana around him. Asta got out his Demon Dweller Sword and Demon Destroyer Sword from his grimoire, as well going into his Black Asta form. Mars, Mariella, and Fanzell all got out their respective blades/swords. Like Mereoleona, both Fana and Elf Fana flared there mana; all 8 of them prepared to fight.
"Devil Power…..80%!" Dante declared; his body instantly morphing to look more like Lucifero's.
80% right off the bat?! Asta thought, shocked.
"This should be fun!" Mereoleona grinned.
"I couldn't agree more Miss Vermillion!" Vetto laughed.
"Our only hope is to combine Asta's Anti-Magic with Mereoleona, and both Fana's Fire Magic!" Fanzell told them.
"Easier said than done Master!" Mariella called to him.
"Gravity Magic: Evil God's Pressure Craft!" Dante spoke as the walls/floor around him crumbled and transformed into a sword, which he moved with his hand. "Time to kill you off one by one! Fufufufufu!" Dante thrusted his right hand forward to launch his sword towards Fanzell, only for Mariella to appear right in front of him and chop his hand off with her ice dagger; thus stopping his attack.
"Nice try." Mariella remarked bluntly. Dante grinned at Mariella as his right hand reformed, surprising Fana, Mars, Fanzell, and Mariella. "But how….?!"
"Dante's original Magic is Body Magic!" Asta revealed. "And with the help of Lucifero, the regeneration from his Body Magic is a lot faster!"
"So in order to kill this bastard permanently is by doing what Master suggested." Fana noted.
"Sure." Elf Fana nodded. "It all depends on what Miss Vermillion has planned." Mars did a chopping motion with his right hand and his Laevateinn swung down towards Dante.
"Fufufufu! You'll have to do better than that!" Dante mocked as he moved his own right hand to move his sword to black Mars strike.
"Wind Creation Magic: Slicing Wind Emperor: Gale!" Fanzell declared. The massive gale of wind from his sword blew around Mars's Laevateinn and gave it enough speed to cut through Dante's own sword. However…
"Demon Gravity Magic: Presence of the Demon King!" Dante declared as he avoided Mars's attack. Suddenly, the gravity around his 8 opponents increased and they were slammed into the floor. "Fufufuhahaha! You 8 are no match for me! Soon! Soon the portal to the Underworld will be open! Once that happens, I'll be free!" Dante, using his Gravity Magic lifted them up and slammed them into the wall.
"I'm not….giving up….!" Asta declared as he stood back up. Followed by Mars, both Fanas, Vetto and Mereoleona. Dante's expression changed from sadistic to blank.
"Seriously?" Dante deadpanned. "Just accept that you can't win! Accept who and what you really are, boy! In fact, all of you should accept that you're evil! All of you!"
"I will not show any mercy!" Vetto cracked his knuckles. "Go Bear Claw!" He launched himself at Dante and slashed Dante's face. But just like before Mariella, his wound healed instantaneously. In that second of Vetto standing there, Dante created another Pressure Craft and slammed it into Vetto's chest; thus making the small, yet muscular beast-man cough up blood and fall to the ground.
"VETTO!" Elf Fana cried out as she ran to him, but she was stopped by Dante creating an invisible wall of Gravity between her and the injured Vetto.
"Fufufu! You think I'll let you heal him with your Fire Recovery Magic: Phoenix Robe?" Dante mocked gleefully/sadistically.
"Why you…!" Elf Fana snarled.
"Focus on attacking him non-stop!" Mereoleona ordered. "We'll heal the wounded after this monster is dead!"
"Right!" Elf Fana nodded, then glanced at her human counterpart. Her human counterpart glanced at her and nodded before turning back to face Dante. Mereoloeona and Asta beside the 2 Fanas.
"Fufufufufufufufu!" Dante laughed as he raised his right hand before doing a chopping motion and slamming his Pressure Craft sword into the slowly awakening Fanzell, which pierced right through his chest. Mariella and Mars both regained consciousness just in time to see blood spew out of Fanzell' chest wound and onto the ground.
"MASTER!" Mariella and Mars cried out in agony. Even Asta gnashed his teeth in anger at what Dante just did.
"I can see that muscular Beast Magic user surviving that attack." Dante noted. "But an ordinary human? No way. Fufufufufu!"
"You…!" Asta growled, almost demonic sounding. Dante turned to Asta and laughed.
"Fufufufufufufu! Yes! That's it! Embrace your true nature!" Dante mocked. "Embrace the evil you possess! Use it to strike me down!"
"I'm not evil!" Asta retorted as his left arm became embedded with Anti-Magic like his right arm. "Nor am I a devil!"
"And yet, you're using the power from yours." Dante deadpanned.
"You say that evil is the true nature of humans, but that's not true!" Asta retorted as he and Mereoleona in sync leapt at Dante with full force. "Becoming evil is a choice! And it's what we do with those choices that determine who we are and who we become!"
"Fufufufufufufufu! Is that-" Dante began, only to gnash his teeth in anger as Asta slashed Dante's face in a horizontal fashion just as Mereoleona landed a Calidos Brachium to his face; making him stagger backwards.
"...I will NOT be bested by some low class Devil user!" Dante roared. "Gravity Magic: Heavy Infighting!" Dante began punching rapidly at Asta and Mereoleona. The both of them felt gravity around them beginning to close in on them. However… Asta managed to raise his right arm, which held the Demon Dweller Sword and absorbed the Heavy Infighting spell into the sword. Causing Mereoleona to grin while Dante gaped. "You can't!"
"I just did!" Asta retorted. "Now feel the wrath of your own spell!" Asta did a horizontal slashing motion; thus sending Dante's spell right back at him. So now he was being punched multiple times by his own spell. Dante roared in anger as he went flying and landed on the ground several feet away from them. He slowly got up, healing any wounds he received from his own spell.
"Amazing…..!" Fana and Mars whispered. Dante snarled as he raised his right hand up.
"Gravity Magic: Gravity Singularity!" Dante declared as a small black hole appeared in his hand before launching it off towards his opponents. Mereoleona, Asta, and both Fanas managed to leap out of the way. However, the black hole came around, aiming to swallow the 4 whole. Or so they thought. Dante waved his hand and the black hole flew towards Vetto. Unfortunately for Dante, his black hole didn't absorb all of Vetto; due to him lying on his side. So the black hole only got a fraction of Vetto's body. But that was enough to increase its size and begin to affect the entire corridor.
"What a coward!" Mereoleona snapped. "You'd rather destroy this entire castle then lose properly?!"
"I can fix that!" Asta remarked as he raised his left arm up, which held the Demon Destroyer Sword. "Anti-Magic Demon Destroyer Sword: Fate Release!" Suddenly, Dante's Gravity Singularity spell vanished; thus reverting everything it had affected to normal.
He cancelled my spell?! Dante thought in shock.
"You done playing around?" Mereoleona grinned as she cracked her knuckles. "Because if you are, it's my turn! Mana Zone: Calidos Brachium Barrage!" Several copies of Mereoleona's fists appeared around Dante. The second that occurred, Mereoleona began to punch rapidly. Flaming engulfing Dante. "What's wrong Mr. Dark Triad?! Run out of spells to cast?!" Dante just released a demonic growl in response as his body began to burn away. Despite his Body Magic being able to regenerate him, Mereoleona's spell was burning his body away faster then he could regenerate it.
Dammit dammit dammit! Dante thought. I should hope that the portal is opened soon! Otherwise I'm going to be nothing but ash!
"If 80% Devil Power is the best you have, then I'll continue to punch you until you're nothing but ash!" Mereoleona vowed. "Now burn!"
"I'll add in to that mix!" Asta added as he leapt towards the burning body of Dante.
I have to hit Dante directly, otherwise I'll accidentally cancel out Mereoleona's Calidos Brachium Barrage. Asta swung his Demon Dweller Sword towards Dante's head, however…. Dante's burned lips formed a dark smile. Before Asta's slash could hit Dante, Dante's body turned to ash and fell to the ground in a black pile. Asta landing on his feet behind said pile. He turned around to look at the ashen mess that was Dante's body.
"Is he...dead?" Fana asked softly. Mereoleona stopped her spell, but kept her mana around her up, just in case. Suddenly, a black aura surrounded the ashen body of Dante. It began to reform, much to the shock/horror of Mariella, both Fanas, the barely conscious Vetto, and Mars.
"Captain Mereoleona burned him to ash…...but that wasn't enough?!" Fana gaped.
"These guys…..! Are far stronger than us elves…!" Elf Fana gnashed her teeth.
"Of course we are." Lucifero remarked, his body completely reformed. "We are Devils after all."
"Oh man!" Asta grunted. "Captain Mereoleona's Calidos Brachium Barrage burned away his body, but Lucifero took over at the last second!"
"That's because the second Dante's body turned to ash, he had telepathically called on 100% of my Devil Power." Lucifero explained.
"Gah! And killing Dante was hard enough!" Asta complained. "Now we have to deal with you?!"
"Got a problem with that, magicless brat?" Lucifero snarled. Soon after, Lucifero regained his composure. "Regardless of what you do now, the portal has already been opened. Soon my brethren shall come into this world. And us Devils shall destroy this world. Then rebuild it with myself as the one and only Supreme Ruler. Any humans that do remain after this war shall succumb to my will."
"Yeah right!" Asta shot back. "No one is going to be dumb enough to follow your orders!"
"I beg to differ boy." Lucifero remarked as his mana around him intensified and expanded outwards, causing Mereoleona and Asta to grunt and prepare themselves for an attack.
"You ready, Asta?" Mereoleona grinned.
"Yes ma'am!" Asta retorted, a grin on his face. Lucifero unleashed a battle cry before unleashing several waves of mana at the 2. Both Asta and Mereoleona leapt into the air in sync, avoiding his mana wave attacks.
"Demon Gravity Magic: Heavy Infighting!" Lucifero declared as he punched with both of his demonic fists at the 2. Unlike when Dante did it, this variant Asta and Mereoleona felt hard. The 2 were launched backwards, but regained their footing in the middle of the air.
"Calidos Brachium!" Mereoleona declared as she unleashed her flaming fists upon Lucifero, who seemed to shrug it off.
"Pathetic" Lucifero retorted coldly as he unleashed more gravity oriented punches via Heavy Infighting. While Lucifero was doing that to keep Asta away, he allowed himself to be burned by Mereoleona's magic, which he healed quickly from via his human host's Body Magic.
Tch…..! With Lucifero keeping me away from the fight, it's going to be hard to kill him! Asta thought as he came back to Mereoleona's side.
"Huff….. How are you holding up?" Asta asked.
"No time for questions!" Mereleona shot back. "We need to kill this devil in order to weaken the others! At least the smaller devils. While the portal to the Underworld is open now, it'll have to be so massive so that every Devil can come through all at once."
"Yeah." Asta nodded, holding up his 2 swords. "Hey Mereoleona. Do your strongest spell."
"Hoh? Calidos Brachium Purgatory?" Mereoleona replied before laughing. "What do you plan to do with it should I cast it? Absorb it with the Demon Dweller Sword, then fire it at Lucifero? Are you stupid? Even if that does work, I'll become vunerable to one of Lucifero's attacks." She chuckled. "But considering this is you, I'll do it."
"Useless." Lucifero remarked as he manifested a large sword via his magic.
"Mana Zone… FULL RELEASE!" Mereoleona roared, a grin most would consider sinister, but Asta was not fazed by it. "Calidos Brachium Purgatory!" Several flames bursted out of Mereoleona and spread outwards. Burning everything between her and Lucifero. Lucifero just stared in disappointment as the flames began to lick at his body.
"You seriously think that's going to work on me?" Lucifero scowled and launched his large sword towards Mereoleona, who was now vunerable from casting her most powerful spell. What Lucifero failed to notice that Asta had gone behind him during Mereoleona's assault on him. Lucifero finished healing himself from Mereoleona's Calidos Brachium Purgatory, only to gape and look down to see Asta's Demon Dweller Sword piercing him through the chest. Black blood spewed out of his mouth. "Y-You….!"
"Eh heh heh heh! Hey there "Ruler"." The Anti-Magic Devil grinned maliciously.
"You….! You dare do this to me?!..." Lucifero gnashed his teeth as more black blood spewed out of his mouth.
"No matter how powerful you are, anyone can be slain by Anti-Magic." The Anti-Magic Devil explained, a dark smile on his lips. "Even you, "Ruler". Eh heh heh heh heh heh heh! Now take your last breath before you vanish forever."
"This isn't the end…!" Lucifero hissed. "I swear it…!"
"Heh heh heh heh! It doesn't matter. You've lost to not just me, but the boy that uses my devil power. See you later, you filthy disgrace." Lucifero began to disappear after the Anti-Magic Devil's insults towards him. The injured Vetto, Mariella, Mars, and both Fanas looked up in awe.
"Good work, Asta." Mars gave him a thumbs up, despite his weakened state.
"Hahahaha!" Mereoleona laughed. "Nice work boy!"
"I told ya I had a plan!" Asta grinned back.
"Now that Dante and Lucifero have been dealt with, we need to keep moving." Mereoleona ordered. "Diamond Kingdom mages, can you stand?"
"I can." Mariella replied.
"What of your friends?" Mereoleona questioned. Mariella glanced at Mars and Fana, then back at Mereoleona.
"You know what, you 2 go on ahead." Mariella told Asta and Mereleona. "I'll stay here to protect the others."
"Good idea." Mereoleona nodded.
"Oh, before you go." Fana spoke up as she tossed Mereoleona a vial that she got out of her pocket. "Use that to replenish your mana. Waiting around will not do you much good. Especially in a war zone."
"Thanks." Mereoloeona retorted as she stored the vial away. "However, just because you won't be following me and Asta, doesn't mean you should sit here and do nothing either. Head back outside to assist the others if you wish."
"Right." Fana nodded as she helped Mars up, while Elf Fana helped Vetto up. Soon after, the 5 left. Mereoleona turned to Asta.
"Let's head deeper into the castle." Mereoleona told Asta as she began to run. "You better keep up boy! Or I'll leave you behind!"
"Right!" Asta shot back as he ran after her. Deeper into the castle they went. "Hopefully when we reach the throne room, Yuno and Noelle's groups will already be there!"
Deeper in the castle, Yuno, Patri, Letoile, Klaus, and Rhya were striding in the castle, defeating any devil powered soldiers they came across.
"We're getting close to the throne room." Patri pointed out. "The mana down here is even more malicious and cruel than it was on the outside."
"*yawn* You got that right Patri." Rhya replied. Eventually, Yuno stopped, as did everyone else.
"What's wrong Yuno?" Klaus asked his Vice-Captain.
"The mana…" Yuno spoke softly. "It's circulating here the most." He raised his hand up and did a Tornado Fang to blow the double doors off its hinges. Upon doing so, they see Zeno slashing Mimosa with a bone sword. Mimosa cried out in pain as she tried to keep the mana going between Captains Yami and Vangenance so the portal could be opened fully.
"It's the Captains!" Klaus gaped. Zeno stopped his slashing on Mimosa's back and turned his attention to the group before him. His lips formed a malicious smile.
"I see you 3 survived." Zeno remarked coldly. "But it doesn't matter. I'll just kill you all myself." His malicious mana flared to life around him. His malicious smile not vanishing from his lips. Yuno clenched his hands into fists.
"You….!" Yuno began, anger in his voice.
"Calm down, Vice-Captain!" Letoile spoke.
"The pretty lady is right." Rhya yawned as he got out his grimoire. "We must work as a team if we are to take this psychopath down."
"I was about to say that." Patri laughed as he too got out his (new) grimoire. Klaus, Letoile and Yuno followed suit. Zeno just laughed darkly as he got out his spade grimoire.
"It makes no difference if you beat me or not." Zeno told the 5 coldly. "Princess Lolopechka has already been sacrificed. A devil has claimed her empty body for its own. Who knows where it has gone now."
"There will be casualties in a war, but it's our duty as Magic Knights to ensure that the casualty number doesn't spike!" Klaus retorted.
"We will rescue the Black Bull squad members, our own squad member, and the Black Bulls and Golden Dawn Captains!" Letoile vowed.
"Go ahead and try, you worthless magic spawn." Zeno sneered.
0713MM: So we get through Dante/Lucifero's fight first and get introduced to the 2nd fight, which will be in Chapter 7. I know that Dante/Lucifero probably won't lose like this in the Black Clover series, but considering where I start my fic, I believe this to be appropriate. However, if you guys wants the Zogratis siblings to survive this war, then let me know. Either in a review or a PM.
