Chapter 24: The Key to Mentorship

Before we begin, there is great big SPOILER WARNING in effect. This chapter, while being set directly after the previous chapter, is also set several chapters down the line for The Equestrian Anti-Magic Knight. If you don’t want spoilers, please be patient and wait for The Equestrian Anti-Magic Knight to update to this point. If you don’t care, please enjoy this chapter!

I rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the massive spear wielded by Iudex Gundyr. Ever since learning about Tash, his Voidsent, and Sin Eaters, I’ve realized that my normal training simply won’t cut it. That being said, I decided that a more… punishing game would make for better training, hence why I’m in a Dark Souls 3 simulation. I ran forward, taking a swipe at it with my Keyblade, rolling away as the black ooze marking the second phase of the battle made itself known. I continued with my hit and run strategy, slowly whittling away Gundyr’s health, until…

“Big sis!” Luna’s voice yelled over the PA. “We’ve got a bit of a problem!”

My focus slipped, allowing Gundyr to nail me with a claw swipe, throwing me against the doors that lead to Firelink Shrine. Cursing under my breath, I stagger back to my feet, yelling out “Computer, pause simulation!” just in time for the tip of Gundyr’s spear to freeze an inch from my chest. I carefully edged my way out before pressing a button on the wall. “What sort of problem, Luna? I’m kinda in the middle of something.”

“The Displaced kind of problem,” came her calmer reply.

“Alright,” I sighed. “I’ll make a quick trip to Melissa’s vault, then I’ll be right there.” I pressed the button again, cutting the link and resuming the simulation, before throwing multiple fireballs at Gundyr, exploiting his weakness to fire, and allowing the bonfire to spawn as he died. “Computer, save progress and end simulation.”

After a quick detour to Melissa’s Token Vault, I was standing with Luna just outside her room.

“So, she just appeared behind you in your room?” I asked.

She nodded. “Yeah, with a bright flash as well.”

“And what did she look like?”

“Tall with red hair, a black mask with silver highlights, black leotard, a chain belt with two silver roses, and a black jacket with gold buttons, ruffled sleeves, and three floor-length coattails.”

I froze at that description. There was no way it was who I thought it was. I quickly grabbed the door handle and threw the door open, revealing Violet, AKA Sumire Yoshizawa, unconscious on Luna’s bed. Or, rather, she was unconscious. The commotion in the hallway must have woken her, as her eyelids were starting to flutter open, revealing red irises, her expression morphing from confusion, to fear. Knowing what was coming, I quickly made my way over to her side, kneeling beside the bed so that we were at eye level with each other. “Hey, hey, keep calm now. It’ll all be OK, just stay calm, and we’ll try to explain what’s going on.”

The girl nodded shakily. “O…OK.”

I nodded, before taking out the token I had grabbed from the Vault. “If you seek truth and aid in helping the weak and in need, call forth the Anti-Magic Knight” rang in my head as I spoke softly, “Come forth Anti-Magic Knight, hopefully, you can help me explain things.”

Everyone looked around expecting to see a portal open up somewhere. After about two minutes everything was still quiet and still thoroughly confusing me. Just as I started to think that he must have just ignored the summons she heard a low rumble in the distance outside the tower and then music that was gradually growing louder.

I frowned, moving over to the open window, and looking outside.

I saw someone on a flying motorcycle coming straight for us. The rider and machine got closer and then the rider jumps from the bike and it turns into blue sparkling material and goes into what I can guess was a storage device on his belt as he lands on the wind ledge.

The man was wearing what looked like a black uniform with a haori over it. He had spiky ash blonde hair and on his ear was a strange gold earring and on either side of his belt were two satchels that looked like they held books while he also had two odd devices on his waist. Around his neck was a blue necklace with a wing-shaped tag on it. He also had a substitute soul reaper badge hanging off one of his belt loops on his left side.

“Yeawwwwwww!” He yawns, “So, who was it who summoned me?” He says pulling off his sunglasses to reveal his fluorescent green eyes.

I slowly raised my hand. “Uh, I did. Kinda need some help explaining things to Sumire over there,” I explained, pointing over to the still rather distressed red head.

“Hmmm….” Asta turns to look at the girl. “Ah, newborn?” he asked turning back to me.

“From what I can tell, yes,” I nodded. “You can’t fake that level of fear and confusion.”

“True,” he says, “First introductions are in order,” he pulls out a black book and opens it to throw his glasses into it before putting it back in its satchel. “My name is Asta, Asta Ferris. King of the Black Clover Kingdom, former captain of the Black Bulls Magic Knights. Nice to meet all of you.” He bows.

“I’m Kairi,” I replied. “Guardian of Light, and protector of Equestria. The blue alicorn filly hiding back in the corridor is Luna, and the redhead on the bed is… You know, I never actually asked if you’re OK with being called Sumire.”

The girl hesitated a moment before softly replying. “I don’t really remember any other name, so sure.”

I nodded. “Right, her name is Sumire.”

“Let me ask you this first and you don’t have to answer if it makes you uncomfortable or if it hurts your mind,” Asta says softly as he walks over to Sumire, “What do you remember before waking up here in this room?”

Sumire’s eyes cloud over for a moment as she delves into her memories. “I… I remember… Being in Tokyo. I-it was a busy day, h-heavy traffic. My brother and I w-were on our way home from school and… Oh gods… that truck…” The girl burst into tears, unable to keep going.

Asta placed a hand on her head and a white glow irradiated from his hand around Sumire’s head, “Calm your mind girl. It's over now,” her eyes steadily closed as she fell over in the bed sleeping. “She’s a reincarnation.”

“So, not just a Displaced then…” I mused, gathering the girl in my arms.

“I felt her pain in her last moments and managed to glean some of her memories thanks to reading her Qi as I put her under. She did manage to save her brother so you can tell her that good news at least,” Asta sighs as he crossed his arms, “You realize as a reincarnation she’ll never be able to return to her world right?” He looked at me with a stern stare.

I nodded. “It's not like any of the Displaced are able to return to our own worlds anyway. Nevertheless, we’ll need to break it to her gently.” With a sigh, I picked Sumire up, and carried her out of Luna’s room, and into the adjacent room, settling her in the bed. “Can you wake her back up? I’d rather not have the first thing she sees when waking up be my Keyblade. She might get the wrong idea.”

“I just eased her into it. I didn't really put her under,” Asta held up a hand. “She was that tired and in shock from the experience. Instead of just allowing it to hit her all at once I just let it take her. I also gave her some of my own Qi to help her when she wakes up.” he rubs the back of his head, “Sorry, I can heal and fight outside that, I have other skills for normal means but waking people up easily isn’t one of them. I’m even still new to the whole king thing,” he snickers.

“Well, its a good thing I’m here then,” Melissa called from the door, as she walked in, uncorking a jar of what I assumed were smelling salts. “This should have her up in no time.” She shoved the open jar under Sumire’s nose, whose eyes immediately shot open.

“ACK! Hey!” She coughed. “What’s the big idea?”

“You know of a better way to wake someone up?” the blonde techie asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Better than farting in their face at least,” Asta snickers and then looked up, “You've met Edward Elric the Crimson Sage. I can sense a faint trace of his Qi in this place, though it's pretty old.”

I nodded. “That’s right. He helped me and The Doctor create the Stargate system; a means to travel between the various different Equestrias in the multiverse, and beyond.”

“Good to know,” Asta looks at me unsurprised, “He’s my older brother, and not in the adopted way but by blood. I take it’s been a hot minute since the last time you two saw each other though.”

“It’s been about three months since he was last here, and two months since we met in person,” I confirmed.

“Um, I hate to interrupt,” Sumire cut in softly. “But, what exactly is going on? And why don’t I look like myself?”

I glanced over to Asta. “You want to tell her, or should I?”

“I got this,” Asta placed his hand on his chest. “First, Sumire, your brother survived the accident with the truck thanks to you, sadly though, you did not,” He says with a sympathetic tone, “You are a Displaced now. A Dimensionally Misplaced person, Displaced for short. Not the best idiom I know but more specifically you fall under the category of reincarnations. The way you look now means you must have had some sort of emotional tie to the character you became, or some other form of connection. I’m not too familiar with the specific on it myself,” e rubs the back of his head, “In short, you now have the powers and look of the person you look like. You can also gain more power by crossing over to other displaced worlds and vice versa by summoning with what’s known as a token. Mine is my headband,” he points to his headband. “In this instance, I was the one summoned. Are you gonna be okay? I know this is a lot to take in?”

Sumire shakily nodded, blue flames surrounding her for a moment before she was in what I recognized as the Shujin Academy uniform. “Um, how did I do that?”

“Instinct,” I replied with a shrug. “Happened to me when I first showed up here. In battle no less.” I offered her my hand, which she hesitantly took. “Luckily for you, you’ve got an instinctive grasp of your abilities, unlike my friend Haley. She’s… Well, let’s just say she’s still trying to figure her magic out.”

“Better than falling from the sky and having a damn bunny rabbit try and take a chunk out of your leg within the first hour of trying to make sense of everything,” Asta grumbles. “Then fight Celestia and Luna the next freaking day!” He shouts while raising his hands, causing everyone to look at him with raised eyebrows and Sumire to hide behind me, “Sorry, personal shit. Don’t mind me. Have a much better standing with them now after I beat another Celestia in a Sasuke's world,” he held out his hands while we all looked at each other then back to him. “What? It's true?! I’m even Married to Fluttershy, Aj, and Twilight! Flutters and I have a kid! Trust me I’m over it.” He wines.

A distant explosion snapped us out of our confusion from this whole situation, just as a chime is heard from Melissa’s pocket. The techie pulls out her tablet. “We’ve got Sin Eaters in the town!”

“CRAP!” I yelled. “Why now? Luna, you’re staying here. I trust you to fight Heartless, but not Sin Eaters. Sumire-”

“I’m coming,” the red head cuts me off, clothes switching back to her battle gear, complete with rapier and revolver this time. “I can learn by fighting the smaller enemies, while you and Asta take out the leader.”

I hesitated, before nodding. “Alright then. Melissa, you stay here and be our eyes in the sky.”

The techie grinned. “Oh, I think I can manage that. I’ll also stay on standby in case someone needs to pull your butts out of the fire.”

“Hmmm….” Asta smiles evilly as he cracked his knuckles and his black book flies up and he pulls a massive claymore and smaller but still massive sword from the book, “I don’t know what a Sin Eater is but it sounds like a tasty fight,” his irises narrowed to slits and teeth sharpened slightly, “Do they use magic?”

I nodded. “Yes, yes they do. Also, if you’re about to take a hit that would be considered fatal, don’t. They have a tendency to make more of themselves that way. Not even quote, unquote, healing factors like Wolverine in the X-Men comics would save you from becoming one of them.”

“Fatal for normal people or enhanced is nothing for me,” Asta snickers as black power flowed from his sword onto his body coalescing into tattered black wings, horns, gauntlets, boots, and an arrow-tipped tail. “My skin is harder than magi-steel without my anti-magic. But enough talk, science girl, where is the meat?”

Melissa paled a little, before shaking herself and pushing up her glasses. “On the outskirts of Ponyville. Its a giant angel-looking monster, you can’t miss it.”

“Hmmm…” Asta looks at his sword then back at me then back at his swords then back at me,

“You said something about the heartless, I know my sword could theoretically work against them but I do have another weapon that would be much more effective against them,” he says as he returned his sword back into the black book before a long handle pops out with a three-pointed white star as the pommel. “Haven’t used this in a while but as it comes from the Kingdom Hearts’ franchise it’s perfect to use here,” Asta grabbed the handle and pulls out another sword similar in size to his previous large claymore but in overall aesthetic to his smaller one as this one was a bit more outlandish with a red blade and hollowisc design with a solid white rod as a core that was connected to the blade as via three inner triangular facets from the inner blade.

‘I feel as if I should know that weapon…’ I thought to myself.

“Ahhh… This will work much better,” Asta snickers.

I shook my head, getting back on track. “Yeah, that should work on heartless… theoretically. But we’re not fighting any heartless. These are Sin Eaters. Any weapon should work. Just don’t get stabbed or sliced by it.”

“Cool,” Asta propped the sword against his shoulder. “But I’ve never heard of sin eaters before. How exactly do they differ from normal heartless? From the way you spoke just now, it seems they’re above even pure heartless in terms of rank and power.”

“They’re not heartless at all,” I called over my shoulder, running down the stairs. “I’ll explain later, for now, we need to save the town! Sumire, once we get there, follow your instincts when it comes to fighting, they won’t lead you wrong!” The red head nodded, following close behind. “Asta, try to keep it off us while we evacuate, you won’t miss it, since it looks like a giant angelic being of some sort!”

“If this thing is really that bad I think I should shift my sword into battle mode then,” he tapped his sword against his shoulder as he followed us. “But yeah, you can count on me. I haven’t had a chance to really test my strength since my return from the other side of the mirror. This will let me see what all my training has amassed to. HEHEHEHE!”

“Great!” I reply absentmindedly, skidding to a halt in front of one of Melissa’s experiments. “Melissa, does this thing work yet?”

The techie skidded to a halt next to me with a grin. “I like the way you think. Everyone, get on the platform!”

A loud crack of displaced air, followed by a bright flash of light heralded our arrival to a town in chaos. Ponies were running, this way and that, minor Sin Eaters were wandering the streets, and a number of white feathered cocoons were strewn about the streets. The greater Sin Eater had been busy.

“What just happened?” asked Asta while looking around. “That was… different…”

“Teleport,” was Melissa’s simple reply with a shrug. “Based it off of how apparition works in Harry Potter. Most people vomit after their first trip though, so be careful.”

“I’ve been flung through time and space a couple of times back home,” Asta says, “being squashed and stretched through a pinhole is not fun!” he yelled. “It’s a good thing Twi isn’t here or I’d never hear the end of the complexities of that bullshit.”

“Guys,” I yelled back to them. “If you haven’t noticed, we’ve got a bit of a problem here! Sin Eaters all over the place!”

“Oh yea the feather things,” Asta looked around as he raised his sword and the blade turns jet black., “Black Wave!” He says as he sends a black wave of energy from his sword throughout the entire two dispelling any and all magic. Several of the cocoons start to turn into the black energy and flow into Asta’s sword. “Just as I thought. The fresher ones are coming undone. You focus on freeing the ones that aren’t.”

“You may want to look again,” I reply, pointing at the half formed Sin Eaters stumbling where the cocoons once were, bodies splotchy and white with fur missing, and their faces seemingly in a perpetual state of half melted. “Once the transformation begins, it can’t be stopped. Only delayed.”

Asta held his sword out to the side and it expanded into a sword I knew well. “The only thing we can do is destroy them and put them out of their misery. Are you alright with that Kairi?”

With a sigh, I summoned Fairy’s Flow. “We have no other choice. And on top of that, its what Faust asked me to do. You handle the lesser ones with Sumire and Melissa while I find the greater one. I’ll call you guys when I find it.”

“There’s a massive Qi in the center of town,” Asta points. He pulled out his digivice, “Transport Behemoth, “Asat motorcycle shot out of the machine. “B, take Kairi where she needs to go.”

The living machine roared to life.

“He’ll listen to you,” Asta motioned. “If need be, just let B do the driving while you focus on fighting. Go on now! We got this,” he slashed three Sin eaters. “You ready for a party ladies?!” He held up his sword.

I nodded as I jumped aboard B. As we roared through Ponyville, I took out several of the angelic monsters as we passed, until we came to the main square, where I found a most unpleasant scene.

“Vauthry,” I growled under my breath.

What was before me, was a morbidly obese pale-skinned man who towered above me. He had long blond hair and blue eyes. A second face could be seen on his chest, peering out at me from beneath his black and purple gold-accented robes. He was grinning at the chaos his Sin Eaters had wrought upon Ponyville.

“I should have known that a Lightwarden had invaded,” I yelled at him.

“So, you know my true nature,” the man spoke with an oily tone. “Submit to me, and I’ll spare everyone who hasn’t been turned.”

“Not a chance,” I yelled, leaping at him while hefting Fairy’s Flow. “I won’t let you leave here alive!”

I stopped unexpectedly mid-swing. Looking down, I saw that a large crystal spear had blocked my blade. Vauthry laughed as I jumped back. “Very well, behold my true form!” he cried, as I was blinded by a brilliant flash of light. Once the light faded, a much different form stood before me. Vauthry’s appearance had drastically changed into a slim beautiful figure adorned in purple robes, with longer flowing hair and a pair of large golden, metallic wings. “Fade into oblivion!”

I jumped back with a yelp. “B! Get Asta and the others!” The bike rumbled briefly before speeding back to its master, leaving me to buy some time while everyone else got here. Or so I thought.

“Come, Cendrillon!” I heard as a blue, crystalline leg smashed into Vauthry, or rather, Innocence’s face, knocking it into a building. A moment later, Sumire landed beside me, her mask restoring itself on her face as her Persona faded from view. “I’m not sure how I was able to keep up with that bike of Asta’s, but I’m really glad I was able to.”

“Thanks for the save,” I grinned at her. “Ready for your first real fight?”

“EAT ANTI-MAGIC HAND CANONS SHIT HEAD! AHAHAHAA!” Asta laughs as he rides his bike through the air and shot several blasts from large handguns at Innocence, forcing him back, “That dude has some serious defense,” he remarked as he skidded in next to us. “I even used Alucard's guns and they barely made a crack after several shots in the same spot.”

“Yeah, this is gonna be REALLY annoying,” I agree with a wince as I start channeling my Music Magic. “This should even the odds though, and Sumire, if you know Heat Riser, use it on us!”

I grin as the distorted guitars begin, and Sumire casts Heat Riser on us, further increasing our strength and speed.

“*Tsk* I guess I really should’ve taken the time to readjust to my adult body before jumping head first into another world’s problems,” Asta remarked as he tossed his guns into his black grimoire and redrew his sword from the book, swiftly ending several of the incoming enemies. “Yo red,” He looked at Sumire, “Do you have a weapon of some kind cause it really looked like you shouldn’t touch these creeps?”

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So misfortune lies before us, standing in our way
Can we escape this calamity and take what's ours
We'll go”

“Persona!” On the redhead’s command, Cendrillon cast Vorpal Blade on the Sin Eater, causing numerous cuts to appear on the false angel, before pulling out her revolver and taking a few shots. “That answer your question?”

Asta shrugs, “I didn’t really get Persona when I was back home and I never heard of your character's origin. Sorry to ask a stupid question,” he held his right hand out and blast several incoming Sin Eaters with fire. “These things are annoying!” he remarks as he pointed up with his middle and pointer finger and several earth spears erupt from the ground to impale several more without mercy.

“(Hey!) If you wanna win, you gotta play it smart (Yeah!)
Nothing left to chance, the wise will take it all
(Can you help me? Help me give it a try)
(We'll be ready before we even know)
(Hey!) I am overwhelmed by these negative thoughts (Yeah!)
My mood is taken over by these deep dark clouds
(We'll be ready with all of our answers)
(We'll be ready if we have a new fate)”

I quickly switch my blade to Destiny’s Embrace, activating Spell Weaver in the process, as I start firing off blasts of magic. “Keep your head in the battle!” I mentally shout, opening a mental communication channel with them. “We really need to kill this thing before my song ends!”

“We've endured this bad luck
And now we've had enough”

As if in response to that, Melissa drops on top of Innocence, smashing it into the ground and leaving a sizable crater. “We’d best get to work then!” she yelled, leaping away from the giant spear coming for her.

I nodded as I started casting the higher tier spells on it.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So now is the time to take back what is mine
Solidify all of our efforts
We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So we'll focus on the glory, change is sure to come
We'll take in stride what fate will decide, keep marching on
We'll go”

“Yo, gamer girl!” Asta calls out to Melissa, “Are the civies all clear out yet?”

“Wouldn’t be here if they weren’t,” the techie grunted in reply. “I left Luna to keep the Sin Eater’s off of them until we took care of this one!”

“Good,” I mentally replied. “They won’t be able to get past her very easily.”

“Plus it keeps her out of harm’s way.”

“Exactly.”

“HMPH! Pay attention to what’s in front of you,” Innocence growled out. “I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!” he screams, unleashing a torrent of beam attacks.

“(Hey!) I know I'm not alone 'cause anybody knows (Yeah!)
Patience is the key for those who will prevail
(Are you happy? Now is it your time)
(Are you ready? Your time is running out)
(Hey!) The tides are getting harder, wave the white flat (Yeah!)
Souls raging together to stay afloat
(We'll be ready with all of our answers)
(We'll be ready if we have a new fate)”

“Touchy much!” Asta threw up a hand as his other grimoire floated up next to him and a spinning yin-yang symbol appeared on his forehead, “Light/dark magic,” he says as swords and light with black-edged blades appeared overhead and pointed at Innocence, “Swords of the Damned!” he yells with slitted eyes and a fanged smile as the blades all shot at the Sin Eater at once.

“We'll keep fighting
'Til we pierce the heavens above”

The demon was trapped in a sphere of light and darkness as Asta slightly staggered back a bit, “I bet that didn’t do too much to him but it should buy at least a little time to cull the little ones,” his breathing had become slightly labored.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So now is the time to manifest what we want
Our passion burns stronger to fight on
We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So no more interrupting the true path
We'll find the answers, claim our future and take what's ours”

A loud crash is heard from the sphere, followed by a roar, as a small crack forms. “I’d say we don’t have very long at all,” I observe. “Sumire, care to dance?”

The redhead looks confused for a moment, before grinning. “It would be my pleasure!”

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!”

We both run up the walls of the building on either side, at the top of which, I shoot out a beam of light that acts like a grappling hook and catch Sumire. As we swing around the square, we both pepper the Sin Eaters below with bullets (Sumire) and blasts of fire and ice (me). We then dance around the square, slashing with our blades.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!

“Our Grand Finale!” we shout together as I spin Sumire and lower her into a dip, the Sin Eaters falling and dissolving around us.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!”

“Nice one,” Asta smiles as he pulls the cellphone from his belt, “My turn,” he threw his arm out, “Magical Source, Mystic Force!” and flip the phone open and it extended as Asta punched in a code and extend his arm up. A beam shot for the phone and turned into a magic circle that covered Asta, transforming him into his ranger knight form.

“White Wolf Knight!” He shouts, “Eye of Raava!” he roars as his shield opens to reveal a sky-blue crystal eye before shooting out several large white wolves to devour the sin eaters.

Behemoth then drove itself down the street through the monsters. As it did a magic circle appeared in front of it. The machine drove through the circle transforming into a mechanical thestral of sorts.

Asta immediately jumped onto the mechanical beast before it took to the skies.

“Are you listening, we won't stop
(We have waited for too long)
Hear the voices, time has come
(Can you see how the tables turn)
Are you listening, we won't stop
(We can accomplish anything we put our minds to)
Hear the voices, time has come
We gotta go”

Melissa whistles in appreciation, punching another Sin Eater into oblivion. “Reminds me of the Eidolons of Final Fantasy XIII.”

A sound like shattering glass is suddenly heard from Innocence’s sphere. “I WILL NOT BE CONTAINED!” the enraged Sin Eater screamed, launching a God Ray at us, forcing us on the ground to scatter.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So now is the time to take back what is mine
Solidify all of our efforts
We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
For the glory OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!
So we'll focus on the glory, change is sure to come
We'll take in stride what fate will decide, keep marching on
We'll go”

“Yo asshole, on your left!” Asta shouts as he drew his sword from his shield. The duo crashed, sending out a thunderous shockwave with a clash of their weapons. “I gotta say, your one hell of a strong son of a bitch!”

The Sin Eater sneered as it pulled out a dagger, and attempted to stab him, missing the stab, but still managing to cut through Asta’s armor. Innocence grinned as it watched the cut sparkle slightly.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!”

“DOORS OF HADES!” I yelled, forming the familiar black doors behind the Sin Eater.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!”

“Manehatten… SMASH!!” Melissa shouts as she unleashes One For All on it.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!”

Innocence manages to dig its spear into the ground, halting its flight into my spell.

Asta held his sword up and light began to pour off his form. Behemoth charged forward at the Sin eater.

“We are shouting OH YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAH!”

“Blinding Slash!” Asta cried out as he sent a slash of his light at Innocence’s spear, cutting it in two and sending the monster into the gate. “And that’s all she wrote,” he says, sheathing his sword as the gates closed.

“I don’t know about you girls but I need a bath,” Asta chuckled as he powered down, “And a good meal,” and started to walk over to us before falling onto his back silent.

“Kuso!” I growled, racing to his side as I saw a faint glow on his side. “It managed to cut him!”

“What do we do?” Sumire yelled, sliding down beside me.

I shook my head. “The corruption is minor enough that we can reverse it, but we need to hurry. Once he starts to physically transform, there’s nothing we can do…”

And that's a cliffhanger! Ain't I a stinker?

In any case, thank you for your patience as alvasa and I worked on this, and I hope you enjoyed! Stay tuned for the conclusion of this crossover, next time on Dragonba --- wait a sec...

Songs used in this chapter:

Wolf Totem by The HU

Tit For Tat by Shawn Christmas