Flames Ignite (Magna x OC)

A Reassuring Victory

Muffled voices surrounded me drawing me from the darkness that had overtaken me. Slight pain emanated from my shoulder, leg and head, but honestly it didn't seem too bad. My squad is so damn noisey though. Can't a girl get some sleep?

"You're the one that needs to show some modesty, you slutty witch!" Magna's voice boomed from beside me.

I grabbed my pillow throwing it full force in his direction. "Can't you be a bit more quiet you damn delinquent?!" It hit the back of his head sending his sunglasses flying onto Luck's bed on the other side of him. A second later it hit me. "Where..?"

Laughter filled the room as Vanessa spoke up. "Karma's a bitch virgin punk."

Staring blankly I noticed the medical equipment hooked up to some of my beaten comrades. Everyone seemed to be doing pretty well, but there were a few of us missing. There were enough beds in the room for all of us, but the other beds were still nicely made.

Magna could see the confusion in my eyes as he stared blankly from the bed beside me. "Man, you must have gotten hit in the head pretty hard. You doing alright Scarlet?"

My recollection of the battle flooded my mind bringing tears to my eyes. I lifted my sheet to see my leg wrapped in a cast that went halfway up my thigh. "Where's Asta? Is he ok? Noelle is missing too." I muttered glancing back up at Magna.

His face went soft seeing a tear run down my cheek. He quickly got up to sit next to me on the bed pulling me into his chest. "Hey, none of that now. Everyone is fine. We all got pretty beat up, but we're all alive." Clenching his shirt I looked up at him letting him brush a stray tear away with his thumb as he cupped my face. "You really think they can kill us Black Bulls that easily?" A small smile spread across my lips seeing his reassuring look in his eye.

"Who knew the delinquent could be such a sweetheart." Vanessa cooed making me realize all eyes were on us.

Luck leaned in beside us wearing Magna's sunglasses imitating his raspy voice. "Yeah, I'm Yami's right hand man. No one can kill me."

"I'll end you lightning boy." Magna threatened summoning a fireball.

Snickering, Luck took off Magna's sunglasses handing them back to him. Of course he zapped Magna through the metal frames of his glasses to get a rise out of him. As Magna tried to get up and attack I grabbed the back of his jacket pulling him back down. We all laughed seeing how lively these two were right after a fight like that. Hell, they're still hooked up to their IV drips.

As our laughter cleared we heard cheering coming from the large window Charmy had been laying in. We all sat up trying to see what the commotion was about. "Thank you Black Bulls!" The water temple citizens cheered giving us praise.

"You guys were awesome!"

"You're the saviors of the water temple!"

"That was so cool!"

We all stared in awe not knowing how to process being praised. I mean, Who would have thought that the day would come where we're being thanked? The Black Bulls is considered the worst squad after all.

"I wanna get more powerful than I am right now!" Luck spoke up swaying in his bed.

"What? Then I'm going to get even more powerful than you!" Magna snapped making Luck and I snicker.

"Well, we have a lot of training ahead of us when we get back then." Running my fingers across the cast I let out a dry laugh. "I mean, after I'm healed I guess."

Laying back in my bed I tuned out the cheering and my squad mate's banter. Compared to everyone else I seemed to be in such a sorry state. Even Noelle and Asta are up and moving around, but I'm stuck here with a broken leg. I mean, I'm glad they're ok, but I can't help but feel weak. They're both younger than me and they seemed to surpass me pretty quickly. With Noelle being a royal it's really no surprise she'd be more powerful than me, but Asta has made so much progress since we met. He's earned more stars than I have and gone on more missions.