Into the World of Twisted Wonderland Pt 2

👑 The Beautiful Tyrant: Chapter 45 👑

During the skirmish, the five traded blows, each of them getting their share of hits and bruises. With Deuce, he's been dodging and blocking when necessary, trying his best not to magically attack the man. He did try to move in close to land a few attacks on him and it worked for a while, until the man watched his every movements, sending spells at him to keep him away. For Epel, he was going against two of them, each overpowering him in some aspects, but was able to land more hits to them, mainly due to his small stature, throwing them off. He looked over to Deuce, seeing that he was struggling against the man. The other men see that as their means of attack, and one of them send a spell towards him, making him stagger back in shock and barely dodge it, joining Deuce as they corner them.

"Gah..." Deuce grunts as a spell hits him, making him stop moving. He pants, seeing that he barely landed an attack on him, only dodging, and exhaustion was starting to catch up to him.

"What's the matter?" The man says with a smirk. "Where's your precious magic, huh? All you're doin' is blockin'!"

"So much for your fancy-schmancy schooling!" The other one smirks.

"Have you learned not to mouth off yet, you preppie wimp?" The other one taunts only to see them sending a glare at them. "No? Here, have another lesson! HRAGH!" He sends a spell to Deuce, who summon a brief shield to block it, only for the shield to instantly break upon contact, stagging him back.

"Gh..." He grunts.

"Deuce!" Epel says as he glares at the men in front of them, smirking at them. Seeing how they are keeping the two away from them didn't allow any way to attack them physically, making Epel grit his teeth and take out his pen. "I can't stand watching this!"

"No!" Deuce quickly says to him. "Don't use your magic against them!"

"But-!"

Deuce looked at the men. We can't use magic against the general public. But it's all I can do defend against this. I have to do something....But what?!

"You're finished now!" The man says as light start to gather around him and Epel looked at him in shock. "Try this on for size!" He shoots off the spell, hitting Epel in the arm.

"Hrk..." He grunts in pain from the spell, holding his arm in an attempt to numb the pain.

"EPEL!" Deuce shouts as he looked at Epel. Suddenly, light start to gather around him, surprising him. "What...? What's this?" He asks as he starts to feel something coming in as he look at the light. "Magic is welling up inside me..." He looked to the group in front of them and suddenly, the light flashes around them, for something to shake around the two.

"Agh!" The men grunt as they fall over, shocking Deuce and Epel.

"...Huh? What?" Deuce asks in confusion, seeing that the men that were standing right in front of them with a smirk was currently grunting in pain from some sort of impact. "What just happened? Why did they all fall over?"

"Was that...what I think it was?" Epel says in thought as he process the attack.

Back at the dorm, Vil look at the two with a glare. "You think you can just waltz back here?" He says as he glares at Deuce and Epel, flinching at his words. "Not only did you skip your rehearsal, but you left campus without permission AND got into a fight? You're lucky it was written off as self-defense. But what if you'd gotten barred from competing in the SDC because of it? Does your irresponsibility know no bounds?!" He shouts at the two.

"Vil, I am so, SO sorry!" Deuce says with a bow. "I was the one who took Epel off campus without permission. I accept whatever punishment you deem fit, sir!"