𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 || ʸᵘⁿᵒ

VII

"yuno! i watched you and belle fight in the sky! you were so cool! you used a new spell! can we spar when we get back? please? i want to see the spell again!" elle babbled excitedly. yuno looked uninterested, though she really had his undivided attention.

"you have a new spell too don't you? i'll only show you mine if you show me yours." yuno replied, looking from where klaus was scolding asta about his broken arms to where elle was stood next to him, smiling at him hopefully.

"yuno, elle, stay nearby to asta! i'm sure he can't fight like that." klaus sayid as he and mimosa boarded his steel chariot.

"please take care asta!" mimosa waved as they took off.

"where are they going? i wasn't listening..." elle admitted rubbing the back of her neck bashfully.

"allow me to explain, your royal highness," finral cleared his throat, getting down on one knee with flushed cheeks and taking her hand.

but he didn't even get to open his mouth.

yuno blew the older boy over with his wind and softly pulled elle over to him by the waist, keeping his arm around her as he spoke. "they went to heal the citizens. elle stay away from gaudy guys like that. they're nothing but trouble."

yuno looked at finral coldly, causing him to panic and apologise before scrambling to his feet and taking his place behind asta.

"asta, the fact that you're so beaten up means you've gotten stronger again, havent you?" yuno smiled. and oh my god it was a beautiful smile.

elle found her heart beating faster the longer she looked at it, so like any sane person, she looked away.

"you've gotten stronger too you bastard! i'm not going to lose to you!"

"are your arms okay?" yuno asked, the smile still hadn't left. belle was blushing, as was charmy. elle was better at hiding it but she was a mess internally.

"of course they are! see!" asta laughed, moving his arms around in their slings.

"you're still as reckless as ever" yuno laughed too.

'oh my god, he laughed...'

elle couldn't take it anymore. she turned around to face the diamond mages that were trapped in time whilst yuno introduced belle and yuno, only to find that one had escaped. not only that, but it was the shining general with the red clay magic that she had defeated earlier. she felt around for his mana and it seemed he had gone to the top of william's world tree.

'ah it's okay. william will defeat him'

just to be sure, she tightened her spell around the current mages she was holding. she couldn't be responsible for anyone else escaping.

she turned back around just in time to see charmy and belle fighting... with their foreheads. they were shouting about winning yuno's love or something. yuno, asta, elle and finral stood watching them, sweatdropping.

it was then when langris showed up, dragging the last of the three generals behind him.

"well look what the cat dragged in...my older brother!" langris chimed, a sarcastic smile on his face as he walked across the roof of a building, hopping down to be level with them.

"what's a black sheep that can't even fight doing here?" langris provoked, leaning forward with a smirk.

"finral, who's that rude little twerp?!" asta questioned.

"he's my little brother, langris vaude, vice captain of the golden dawn."

"so you're still the pack mule of the black bulls i see." langris belittled, looking down on his older brother despite being shorter, "looks like i'll have to be head of the vaude family, since you're such a loser!"

"get over yourself! finral's awesome! at the underwater temple, it was only because of finral's help that i could defeat the third eye! how can you talk to your big brother like that you punk?!" asta shouted, he was getting worked up again.

"it's fine asta, he's right." finral chuckled awkwardly, stopping asta from walking towards langris.

"the enemies have all been taken care of so we don't need the bulls here. more importantly, when did the black bulls become a day care?" langris joked. who knows if he expected people to laugh with him but he didn't seem bothered to be the only one laughing.

the guy on the cloud had woken up amidst the bickering, sending an attack towards langris which he easily avoided. elle prepared her grimoire, readying a restraint spell.

"oh dear... you're still alive? not only that but at this rate my spatial magic is going to hit those civilians you managed to gather..." langris raised his grimoire "oh well, you'll just have to be noble sacrifices to the clover kingdom."

before anyone could react, elle was in front of langris, the sound of a slap resonating in the air as she stared at him coldly.

"you dare kill my people because you're too lazy to think of a plan? your behaviour makes me question your worthiness to be the vice captain of the top squad." elle chuckled m dryly and langris glared at her angrily, a hand raised to hold his red cheek.

"how could you even think of abandoning citizens?! we're magic knights!" asta agreed with the princess, his eyes were narrowed as he yelled at the vice captain, the bird on his shoulder seemed as if it were glaring too. "i'm not abandoning anyone! finral, charmy! back me up!"

"roger that!" the two bulls shouted.

"just you watch, yuno!"

"let's see what you can do then."

asta charged backwards, forcing himself against the cotton charmy had created, and he was sent flying towards the slime-covered enemy. he disappeared into finral's portal just before the enemy attacked him, reappearing above him with his anti magic sword clenched between his teeth. just one touch with that sword and the enemy's magic disappeared, the citizens falling to the floor as the enemy attacked  again.

asta went through a portal once more, emerging right in from of the general and slamming him into the wall. knocked out clean. asta was caught by yuno's wind.

"the black bulls will beat the golden dawn!" finral shouted at his younger brother.

elle smiled approvingly at the black bulls' attack method, skipping back to yuno and belle.

"well now that's over, let's clean up and head back. there's no need to pursue those who are fleeing." elle clapped her hands together, smiling from ear to ear. "langris, make sure you restrain that guy this time."

elle bid them a goodbye and walked towards the big tree where her brothers were at, yuno followed after her after telling asta not to eat things off the ground for some reason that elle didn't know.

there was no way they could climb something that big so they just waited at the bottom, the mages elle had captured still floating behind her. she didn't know if she was to release them of if they were taking them as captives.

"i wonder what they're talking about up there..." she spoke to herself, sitting on some rubble.

"aren't you two embarrassed to be seen with the black bulls?" langris asked, approaching them with that same smirk on his face.

"why?" yuno asks "i've never thought that once. asta is my rival and i'm proud of him."

langris laughed. "that guy is your rival? seriously? what are you even competing for?"

"we're both working to become the wizard king"

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