Right where we left off

"Ack! Hah, couldn't wait until I said; I was ready?" Azul groaned, looking at the white spear currently sticking out of his chest.

"Oh? I am sorry about that, but when you said; you wouldn't be paying her Ladyship Angelica's dues, so my hand slipped." Weiss apologized, twisting his spear around as if trying to get at something. "My this poison has worked its way in good, Basilisk Ore was it?" He turned to Blake for an answer.

"Yea?" Blake reluctantly answered, looking on in disbelief with his guild after seeing Weiss jab his spear into the downed Azul but weirder still was that the blue knight while not 'okay' per se didn't look like he was dying, in fact, it seems like the green rash on him was getting removed. "What about that spear of yours?" He asked, pointing at the pearly white spear.

"Ah, one moment please..." Weiss held up a hand finally done with whatever he was doing to Azul. "...White Wash." He slowly pulled his spear out of Azul, and as he did a large glob of green was forming around its tip. "That is a lot more than I thought." He mused before swiping his spear at the ground, splashing the green glob to the earth where it disappeared.

"You really can't let a guy go out on his own terms, can you?" Azul sat up, throwing his hood back to show a mostly bald head with a small brown ponytail at the back of his head but more importantly, he seemed no longer poisoned and even stranger there wasn't a hole in his chest from Weiss' spear.

"Your terms are Lady Angelica's terms, and she decides when you are allowed to leave..." Weiss answered, holding a hand to the blue knight and helped him stand. "...also, you owe me quite a bit, Blue Knight..." He leaned in on Azul, making the blue knight step back. "...as for my spear!" He wheeled around to Blake, pointing his spear at the smith which was glowing with a blinding light.

"Sir Blake..." At the sight of the light, Risabeel hid behind Black, clinging to his back to hide from the light and was visibly pained by it.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot there was a Demon among your ranks." Weiss pulled his spear back with its light dispelling then held a hand to it. "Its name is Aofie, and it was made using the Ore of an Angel..." He stated as a halo of light appeared around Aofie's spearhead. "...not a pretty lady mind you an actual Angel, although the first part counts too."

"An Angel?" Blake asked arms crossed, looking at Weiss doubtfully and got a nod from the white knight. "White wings, halo, holier than thou and all that?" Blake questioned further and got another nod from Weiss. "Gwyn?" He turned to Gwyn, still feeling some doubt.

"Don't look at me? He had that thing when I met 'em." Gwyn shrugged not sure herself if Weiss was telling the truth or not then she pointed at Risabeel peeking out from behind Blake. "And Black-horns there looks like a cat that saw its bath water."

"I would not exactly say I disagree with you, Madam Gwyndolin," Risabeel whispered still somewhat wary of Weiss' weapon.

"You don't have to believe me, you know?" Weiss declared, trying to act like he wasn't bothered by their suspicions. "Just know that my Aofie can banish that which I deem evil, such as the poison once inside of Azul here." He padded Azul on the back as if trying to get him to add something.

"..." Azul looked at his captain then at Blake and co. "...It's also good at getting rid of stains too, I guess." He muttered, walking over to Geel. "More importantly I lost and put us in a draw, which means it's time for a tiebreaker to put these guys out, right? Ge-AHHH!" He tried leaning on the yellow giant but said giant moved out of the way, leaving him to fall. "What's that for!?"

"..." Geel's head turned to Azul, looking as if they were about to say something to him. "..." But turned right back around as they stepped on to the battlefield.

"Well, I just wanted to have FUN! You know? That thing people have unlike you!" Azul yelled at the yellow giant before turning his back to them. "!" Then shot his arm out to catch something thrown at him. "Huh?" In his hand was his copper coin. "..." He turned around to see Mordecai.

"You dropped it when I slashed at you," Mordecai pointed out, returning Dantwen to his chest straps then shook his filled coin pouch at the knight. "I wouldn't mind playing you for this instead of doing the whole fight thing."

"Heh! Sure, first to three." Azul agreed, flicking his coin into the air.

"Well, now? It seems friendship is blooming between our guilds, smith?" Weiss commented on, turning to Blake. "Now, then shall you throw out your next member?"

"Finally! It is my time to shine!" Nathan confidently stepped forward for Blake's side with his Irons Call and The Sparkling Stikes of Boa spellbooks floating to the left and right of him respectively. "Hmm, hmm, hmm!"

"Oh? The one Loved By Mana is coming up? Honestly speaking other than you he was the one I was most worried about." Weiss admitted to Blake, watching Geel and Nathan standoff against eachother. "However, a battle between mages is decided only by who know their magic the best."

"Wait? That guy's a mage?" Blake asked as he held up his arm to start the fight, but Weiss turned away, smiling. "Gw-huh?" He was about to ask Gwyn about it, but she looked as focused as ever about this match. "What's up with her?" Now there were even more things going on in his head, but for now, it was time to see if they could earn another win. "Fight!"

"Snarling Chain!" The chain around Nathan's waist rattled before shooting forward, morphing its end into a spiked spearhead that went right through Geel's helmet.

"Goddess dammit! Geel! Can't you move any faster!" Azul screamed, seeing Geel getting taken out with only one move. "Alright, let's move on to the main event!" He waved a hand at Blake and Gwyn.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm! Hollow, eh?" Nathan chuckled then swiped his finger around, causing his chain to shoot upward then down into Geel's body coming out near the left hip. "Missed." With another swipe, Nathan sent his chain at Geel's right arm. "Oh?"

"..." Geel had caught the chain inches away from going into their right shoulder.

"Not yet, magic boy!" Azul yelled in place of Geel, causing the others to look at him strangely. "What? Geel takes too long to say anything! So, I ha-"

"NO! You don't you!" Popping out of the right shoulder pad of Geel's armor was a giant mane of golden hair belonging to young Beastman boy around 13 with cat-like figures; long whiskers, sharp fangs, a long fuzzy tail and large round ears on top of his head. He was dressed in a yellow tunic with a lion sewn in front kept on by a black belt and brown wrappings around his clawed hands and feet, finally held in his left hand was yellow spellbook with what looked like sound waves on it. "You had your chance to show off! So! Shut! UUUUUUPPPPP!" He literally roared at Azul, blasting him with a violent shockwave of sound.

"AHHH!" Azul screamed, getting put from a window. "Stupid lion..." He groaned from inside of the inn the knights were staying at.

"Annoying idiot!" Geel growled, rubbing his neck while he stood on the shoulder of his oversized armor. "Aggggh!" Only to scream out as a current of lightning was sent up, Nathan's chain still held by his armor. "Grrrr! STOP THAT!" He roared again snuffing out the electricity. "That was unfair!" He yelled at Nathan, flinging the mage's chain back at him.

"Hmph! I was curious to see what such high magical power belonged to, but I'm disappointed that it's nothing but a child...no a kitten," Nathan mused, thinking light of Geel's appearance and age even closing his The Sparkling Stikes of Boa spellbook and tapped it to his head with closed eyes as his chain circled him. "I was hoping to meet a Sylph but oh well."

"Tck!" Geel clicked his tongue, and a window around them shattered, causing Nathan to looked up at him. "Keep your eyes open, or you might miss your own defeat! RAHHH!!" Roaring into the air, Geel rattled the buildings and those close enough to their cores.

"Ngh!" Which put Nathan on the defensive as he put a Mana Barrier around himself to lessen the effects.

"Made you flinch!" Geel's voice mocked from behind Nathan's ears.

"!" And made the mage snap his head to find nothing there.

"Made you hear!" And the lion boy cheered with his voice coming above Nathan's head. "Now to make you hurt!" He snapped his claws and inside Nathan's barrier were small apple sized balls of air. "Shatter Snap!" From there a series of small explosions went off around Nathan. "Did it hurt!? Aha-!" Geel's laughter was cut short as a Thunder Javelin flew out of the barrier. "No, you don't!" He raised his arm, giving off a magical glow and his armor moved to dodge the spell. "Heh! Not done yet, huh?"

"Why would I be?" Nathan asked in return, stepping out of the aftermath of Geel's Shatter Snap with a grey tone to him. "Granted I must say your magical power is greater than I thought, even with my Skin Of Steel on I took some damage. I suppose I should take you on more seriously now," He admitted with his Skin Of Steel wearing off.

"Well, I'm not gonna!" Geel went back in his armor as it went for the shield on its back.

"Okay, let's see, that brat has a Mimic, monk, kitten, idiot, and you all under her thumb, huh?" Blake muttered to Weiss after seeing what Geel looked like under his armor.

"Who are you calling an idiot, idiot!?!" Gwyn snapped at Blake but was held back by Weiss. "Weiss! Out of my way!"

"Why yes, her ladyship has her ways, granted, they are not the most humane..." Weiss calmly answered while keeping a raging Gwyn at bay. "...and I must say, Du, if you wanted to fight him so much you should have asked to be the first up?"

"I had my reasons..." Gwyn backed off, turning back to the fight in time to see Geel stomping over to Nathan who was trying to fend him off with Thunder Javelins each one getting blocked by Geel's massive shield.

"Heh! Here I come!" Once Geel got close enough, his armor punched down at Nathan.

"Grasping Chain!" The tip of Nathan's chain changed into a three-fingered claw, catching the armored hand before it came down on him. "Someone should put a muzzle on you!" He swiped a hand, and the other end of his chain went after Geel.

"AH!" But Geel's armor brought up its shield tp ping Nathan's chain away. "Thanks for the sound! Violent Reverb!" Geel amplified the sound of Nathan's chain, hitting his shield, sending a vibrating blast right at the mage.

"Skin of Steel!" Nathan quickly armored himself as his Mana Barrier got wreck by Geel's spell. "Ngh!" Then he felt his entire body get rattled and lost his focus as parts of his metal body were getting chipped away.

"Better keep that spell up! It's gonna hurt a lot more! Hah!" Geel went for a kick wanting to send Nathan's flying.

"Grasping Chain!" Nathan shot his chain at a building to pull himself out of the way. "Thunder Chains!" Placing his hands on the ground pillars of lightning shot out from around him before turning into chains to blind Geel's armor.

"RAAAH!" But a roar from Geel stopped it flat but left him panting. "You *pant* can't *pant* beat me!" He yelled, and his armor bashed a fist to its chest piece sending a shockwave at Nathan.

"Mana Barrier!" Nathan threw his hands up to bring up a barrier. "Gah!" He deflected the blast as best he could, allowing it to crumb a wall behind him. "Well now, I believe this game has gone on long enough..." He declared after putting his barrier down and heard Geel's frantic panting. "...I would suggest you surrender at this point." Nathan added, closing both his Iron's Call and Sparkling Stikes of Boa spellbooks then chained them to his person.

"Where *pant* do you get off talking so high and mighty!?" Geel stopped his panting, and his armor stood tall as Nathan got away from any nearby buildings and faced the yellow knight. "Last I checked you've just been getting knocked around by me!"

"Yes, yes, and you've done a great job at that little, one..." Nathan applauded the young mage by clapping a hand to his Advance Mana Control spellbook. "...however, as far as I can see you wouldn't be able to do a thing to me even with your strongest spell at this point." He stated, tapping his spellbook to his head much like the start of their fight.

"Tck!" And like the first time around, Geel clicked his tongue which was followed by a rumbling growl that came from his giant suit of armor.

"Oh dear, the damages are going to be high," The ever-smiling Weiss actually put on a bit of frown at hearing Geel's growling. "You may want to cover your ears." He warned Blake's guild as all of his members covered their ears.

"Ok?" Blake did as he and the others were told, especially when the sound of Geel's growling kept getting higher and higher until it sounded like a pack of beasts were about to rip something apart.

"Oh? Well, then I should defend myself." Nathan opened his Advance Mana Control spellbook then made it float in front of him as he clasped his hand together. "I call on you in my time of need, a wall that stops all force, a wall that protects the weak, impermeable, impassable, indestructible..." As Nathan was speaking out, his chant mana began forming around him that rose into the air.

"I'll break any wall you make with my voice!" Geel came out of the helmet of his armor with yellow mana building up into a small ball inside his neck. "Roar to the heavens! And shatter the earth! Grand Boom!" With the literal sound of thunder escaping his lips the entire town of Pirman fell victim to a blooming, ear bleeding, stone shattering roar that shook the town as if it was in the middle of a powerful earthquake.

"Bastion of Protection!" Which was all focus into a small castle of mana that Nathan summoned around himself and the area around him. "Raaaah!" But even with it entirely chanted the castle still shook and crumbled under the thunderous onslaught being pushed back a fair distance, losing more and more of it until the only thing left of the caste was a tiny wall of mana in front of its caster. "I am happy I went with a full cast." He thanked the Goddess for her protection as he dropped his spell. "Hmm, hmm, hmm! And it all went as planned!" However, that didn't mean he was going to act like it.

"Ugh!" Geel was left grasping at his throat as what looked like smoke or mist was escaping his mouth. "!" And once he saw Nathan still standing all he could do was scowl at the older mage.

"Oh come, now? I told you even your strongest spell wouldn't do a thing to me!" Nathan ran a hand through his blown back hair, returning it to its usual look as he made his way up to the seemingly muted Geel who was trying to making any kind of sound.

"What happened to the kitten!?" Blake yelled at Weiss, having lost some of his hearing after Geel's last attack.

"Allow me, smith!" Nathan offered, standing in front of Geel as the young lion's armor was losing its footing with its master out of mana. "You see, while this child does have high magical power on par with even my own, I noticed that he had no formal knowledge from the amount of mana he put in every spell he cast. Meaning he has no sense of mana management a basic skill in magical combat, knowing that fact I simply goaded him into using stronger and stronger spells until as you can see..." He paused to bring a hand to Geel's sitting with his legs and arms crossed. "...he burnt himself out! Hmm, hmm, hmm! The Genius that is I!" He bowed to the onlookers, hoping to hear some kind of grand applaud from them. "..." But after some time of nothing, he looked up.

"What was that, smith!?" Weiss yelled at Blake with a hand to an ear.

"I asked what's up with the kitten!" Blake yelled back at the white knight.

"Kettle? What are you on about?!" Weiss asked, looking confused.

"..." With a hand to his face, Nathan turned to Geel looking up at him. "Do you give up?" He asked with a ball of mana on his fingertip and got a nod from the lion Beastman who was holding up his spellbook in defeat. "1 to 2..."

Chapter End