Queen of the Knights (Black Clover)

Mission Completed!

A dark underground labyrinth being held up by pillars, but red liquid was being slashed across them one by one. Screams and cries echoed loudly while the sound of metal slicing through flesh. "... Cap...tain..."

Anderea's eyes had opened wide, she had found herself on the couch in the main hall of the Black Bulls. "Did you have a nice nap?" She had sat up to see Yami sitting across from her.
"How long was I asleep?" She asked, looking outside seeing it was pitch black. Anderea had ended up placing her hand over her face rubbing her eye to wake up.
"About a few hours... Did you have a bad dream?" Yami had asked her, noticing her face being extremely pale and confused.
"Huh... Oh, no... it's fine. I was just caught off guard, that's all." She had stated to him, swinging her legs around.
"We're back." Magna came through the doors all beaten up, followed by Noelle who was completely fine, but Asta was a completely different story.
"What happened?"Anderea had asked them. It had turned out that Saussy Village had been attacked by an unknown group of people. One of them had escaped while the leader had killed himself and the other two. No one but the mayor had been killed thanks to Magna, Asta and Noelle, however, the newbies were upset about that.
"Sounds like you guys went through hell!" While Yami was now laughing after hearing all that. Noelle was asking herself why he sounded so happy about hearing someone died.
"Hey, Captain, I don't think this is a laughing matter." Asta had said right out.
"Being depressed isn't going to bring old man Seyhe back. Right?" Yami had asked to look over to Magna.
"Yes, sir! It's just as you say, sir. Old Man Seyhe likes to see everyone happy and energetic." He had stepped forwards saying with confidence. "Come on. You guys should be laughing, too." Magna had laughed, but noticed the others weren't laughing, "Come on!" Asta had then done it, but of course it was fake. "Louder! You, too, Lady Noe!" Noelle had joined in as well but she was completely awkward about it.
"That's how it should be." Yami was smiling and pleased.
"It's true that Seyhe's death is terrible, however, you all protected the villagers. And it's for that fact you all should be proud as Magic Knights." Anderea had smiled at all of them gently as she spoke.
"Well done. Great job, you idiots." Yami had told them all.
"Yes, sir! Yes, Ma'am!" Asta and Magna had shouted, as the punk had thrown his arm across his chest with three fingers sticking out.
"Thanks." Noelle was all shy, making Yami bursted into laughter again.
"What's that?" Asta had asked Magna, seeing what he was doing,
"You moron! You don't even know the Magic Knights' salute!?" Causing the guy to lose it at him. "Take a good look! These fingers symbolize the clover. Go on, give it a try." He had explained.
"Yes, sir!" Asta had done the same and saluted.
"Well done!" That was when a gate had opened up from behind them.
"We're back." Finral came out with Vanessa.
"Great job, you three." She had told them upon exiting.
"Vanessa! Finral!"
"Captain, Vice captain, we went to the Magic Investigation Department." Finral had explained as he looked at the captain and vice Captain.
"How did it go? Find anything out?" Anderea had asked the pair.
"Who the heck's behind all this!? I'll find their hideout and raid it! I'll beat the crap out of the guy who got away, too!" Magna was asking furiously.
"Well, you see, they investigated the item he left behind, but still don't have a clue." Vanessa had explained to them all.
"How useless can they be?" Magna's hand was on fire as he had asked, before throwing it at the wall which had exploded.
"You fools! Stop breaking stuff!" Yami had shouted smashing his fist, that was enhanced by magic, into the wall causing it to come crashing down,
"Sorry!"
"But that pocket watch is pretty nice." Finral had gone back on topic, as if that never happened.
"That's right, not to mention the manner of speech that they were speaking in, it means that they were high in status." Anderea had stated after hearing what the others had to say during the report.
"So they're royalty or nobles." Magna had stated, of course the two Royals in the room couldn't say anything because that was how almost all nobles and royalty were.
"Oh, who's this little guy? He's adorable." The tension had broken as an anti-bird appeared out of nowhere in Asta's head.
"How's it adorable?!" Asta had asked them all.
"I-It is adorable!" Noelle had shouted at him.
"Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, ow!" He was then shouting in pain as the bird was pecking at him. "Why, you little!" He had tried to grab it but it flew away,
"Hey, come here." Noelle was saying, holding out her arms to it. She looked like a child Happily looking at the bird but it had flown right past her. She felt completely rejected,
"You ugly little bird! I'll turn you into fried chicken!" Asta had pulled out his anti-Magic sword.
"I won't let you turn him into feuded chicken!" Noelle had thrown her hand out, where water began to form in front of her.
"Say your prayers!" The boy had headed right for the bird but missed, destroying parts of the base as he ran after it.
"Don't you dare!" Which only had the girl set off after him, sending water hurtling out of control.
"Are you two trying to break the building!?" Yami had once again completely destroyed a wall to make them stop.
"We're sorry!" They had lowered their heads.
"You should also apologize." Anderea had told him, seeing the destroyed wall.
"Why?" Yami didn't understand why she would say that.
"Because you're destroying more than them." She was completely calm as she spoke, which most people wouldn't be.
"All right, listen up." He had ignored her, completely clapping his hands together. "It doesn't matter if the ones behind this are royalty or nobility. We're going to let the Investigation Department take care of this, and we'll wait for their report. More importantly, we've got some good news." Yami was now smiling looking over to Anderea who had then sighed before smiling.
"Good news?"
"Wanna hear?"
"Of course!" Asta had shouted.
"Because of your actions today the Wizard King, himself has awarded us." Anderea had explained to them happily as she had pulled something out and held it up high for them to see. "You have been given a star for all your hard work."
"Whoa, seriously!? All right!" Magna was celebrating after hearing that. Noelle had flipped her hair acting unimpressed but of course reality was different.
"Yeah!" Asta was completely freaking out alongside him. As all that was happening both Finral and Vanessa were congratulating them from the side line until... "So, What are stars?" Asta had asked after being so excited about it only seconds before.
"Don't get so excited if you don't know what they are!" Magna had snapped at him.
"The stars are rewards that are given out by the wizard king to those that have performed well." Anderea had explained to the boy.
"What are they good for?" He had asked her all excitedly.
"Hmm... I guess they're an honor..." She answered not completely sure herself.
"Honour!?" But he was still excited at hearing that.
"That's right, Asta! Honor!" Magna had thrown his arm over Asta's shoulders leaning on him. "It's a badge of honor for a man!"
"There's a lady here, too." Noelle had stepped forwards saying.
"It's a badge of honor for a man and a woman!" Magna had corrected himself by shouting loudly.
"That makes no sense." She ended up saying as she sighed.
"The various Magic Knights squads compete to get the most stars." Vanessa had cut in explaining.
"The number of stars indicates how much work a squad has done." Finral had explained more to them.
"I see!"
"Usually the squad that comes in first is the Golden Dawns, that hasn't changed at all since they are still at the top with seventy stars." Anderea had explained, with her index finger pointing up and her head slightly tilted to the side as she spoke.
"Seventy!?" Asta was completely shocked at hearing the number. "What about us? How many do the Black Bulls have?" He ran over to Yami asking. "We can't lose to the Golden Dawn!" At that, Yami had smirked.
"We..." There was a silent pause as the star in Anderea's hand had begun to flout up to a board covered in black stars. "...finally have a nice, even negative thirty." Yami was all impressed as the star disappeared with a black one.
"Negative!?" Asta was completely shocked.
"We're finally only a hundred away from the Golden Dawn." Yami was saying as if it was something to be proud of.
"A hundred!?" Asta was still completely shocked, thinking it was going to take forever to catch up to them. He was even cursing his childhood friend, Yuno, as he pictured his smug face.
"Although we complete our missions, we end up destroying quite a bit of the surrounding areas that includes towns." Anderea admitted being a bit embarrassed thinking about it. This had caused Noelle to once again be in the Black Bulls.
"One other thing." Yami had changed topic, as Anderea's hand began to glow a pinky colour as she pointed in the direction of the squad members. "Here's your pay for this month." He had stated, when a group of small brown, cloth bags came falling from above in front of them all. In seconds, Asta had completely poured out the contents, which were coins.
"It's money! There's at least 200,000 yuls here!" He was freaking out with sparkles in his eyes.
"Thanks!" Magna was on his knees alone with Luck, however, he had then lowered his back even lower as he held his money above his head.
"Thanks, Captain! Vice-captain! I'm going to eat lots of yummy things with this!" Charmy was drowning over the thought of spending her money, which was a lot more than the others, for food.
"Yeah, eat up." Yami was telling her
"That's right, you earned it so spend how you wish." Anderea had smiled.
"Hey, Captain! How much would it take for you to fight me?" Luck had gone up to him, Lightning pouring out of his hand. "Well? Well?"
"I won't." Yami only turned his head to him. The reason Luck didn't ask Anderea because she was royalty so she had a lot of money somewhere. And she would always refuse.
"I was thinking about buying new clothes for my goddess, my little sister, Marie. What do you think will look best on her." Gauche was holding his little sister's picture again with blood running out of his nose while asking Anderea.
"Well, if you ask me, something that would make even her cuter but she's already cute, so it would be hard." She had told him.
"You're right, she is the most cutest thing in the world." He told that and was completely engulfed in looking at his sister's picture. That was when Grey came up to them and breathed out,
"No idea." Yami seemed to understand him and told him that.
"Since you all got your pay today, tomorrow is a day off, make sure that you don't waste it all." Anderea had told the whole squad.
"I'm gonna go in tons of dates!" Finral was shouting with delight.
"Do whatever you want." Yami had told him, not even caring and laughed before leaving.
"Thank you very much!" Everyone but Anderea and Noelle had bowed to him in gratitude as he left
"Thank you for everything, Captain, Vice Captain." Gordon was muttering. "We should all go out somewhere and have fun. What do you guys think?" He was asking of course no one could hear him as they all began to walk off in their own directions.
"Maybe try and speak up next time, Gordon." Anderea had told him, patting his head before leaving for her office, however, before that she had come to a stop in the corridor with no one around and looked out the window in the direction to where the devil's skull was. "Don't think that you will get what you want, you bastards."