A Rose Between the Thorns

Chapter 7

"I come here after receiving word from the master, only to arrive and find you fighting this, pitiful indeed."

The surrounding area of the square began to be incased in a circle of wind magic, in the magic appeared several silhouettes. Noelle, Asta and Leo all looked on in shock and fear for what was coming next.

As the wind began to disperse the silhouettes turned into mages clad in white cloaks, all of which appeared the same. "Uh, I don't remember putting out the call for any extra help." Rades complained as he realised that some of the other members of the eye of the midnight sun had arrived to help.

"Oh really you might want to try thanking us. You know what would have happened to you if we hadn't shown up to bail you out. You would have been captured, cut open, gutted and skinned alive." A woman in one of the white cloaks spoke. Her words only caused Rades to grow more aggravated at their arrival.

"Uhh, will you shut up!" He shouted towards the woman, but then his focused returned to the others. "Well it seems that the tables have turned you brats." At his words Asta began to laugh and a knowing look appeared on his face, then he suddenly sliced at his wounds with his two anti-magic swords, dispelling the curses.

"Asta!" Noelle shouted in concern for her squad mate. "What was that?" Leo asked his rival, confused. "Small surgery, now I'm ready to fight again. Watch I'll prove it to you." Asta spoke, his last words directed towards Fuegoleon and Rose's unconscious bodies.

"Haha, this kids funny. Can I pretty please dissect him later?" The woman asked looking towards one of her comrades. "Be quite and focus." The male comrade answered, his tone stern and annoyed. "Booy, your no fun." She began to focus her manna readying for an attack and the rest of the new enemies began to follow suite.

"Here's the thing I've been fighting an uphill battle since I was born. No matter how many guys you've got and no matter what you do to me, I'll cut right through every last one of you." Asta stood, his swords at the ready. "You hear me, let's see what you've got!"

They all fired up their attacks and aimed straight for Asta, but he was ready. Widening his arms, his swords in hand he began to spin turning into a small scale tornado. As he went his swords were able to deflect the enemies attacks leaving him unharmed as he slowed and stood ready for another attack.

Realisation then dawned on the enemy. "This must the anti-magic boy the master mentioned." Asta ignored their words instead remembering the words of Fuegoleon, about how to keep calm in situations such as these. "You got it Captain I can do calm. I'm gonna calmly tare you to pieces."

One of the enemies looked at Asta his expression seemed aggravated. "Not likely." He was about to send another attack Asta's way, but then flames began to surround the area. "Flame magic: exploding flames." The flames went straight for each member of the enemy, some having doged as they tried to fire their own attacks.

"You think I'm going to let you get away with what you did to my brother and rival. One of us is going down today and it's not gonna be me." Leopold began directly attacking at the enemy, sending them hurtling back as they did. "How you doing Asta, got room for one more?"

Leopold shouted over to Asta who was dealing with his own fight, slicing at any enemy that got in his way. "Sure thing, feel free to jump in whenever you want to." They both now attacked shouting and grunting as they went, sending the enemy back as far as they could in the square.

Standing back to back as they were now surrounded by the enemy, ready to fire on the two boys. Noelle still at Fuegoleon and Rose's sides. "What are you doing just get rid of these idiots already!" Rades screamed at the comrade closest to him. "What do you think we're doing?"