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Chapter 4 - The 'Personal' Knight

They entered the huge Ballroom, the lights in the room made the Ballroom beautiful. People who are dressed nicely are chatting and greeting each other, on the other side of the Ballroom where Yami is being blocked by two guards and kept away from the people, he looks down at the ground and has a blink expression on his face. He wears a black suit. Kenji spots him, "Guys, look!" Kenji pointed out at Yami. Eiko, Lucy, Kei, and Kenji all nod at each other and start to walk over towards Yami, a kid with blond hair and brown eyes steps in front of them. "Ugh..." Eiko let out a groan in annoyance. "You guys must be the Heroes Party children, and the Princess of the Hope Kingdom. Kei Akeno, the most impressive one. You can use holy and destruction magic, your mother and father are pretty popular people. Kenji Genichi, your father being the best blacksmith in the world and tank, your mother is pretty sneaky when it comes to it, making you the best tank/thief. Little Lucy Hatsuyo, you may be small but you definitely pack a punch. You were trained by your mother, you can use your mana to lift swords! I'll even say the Sakura's don't stand a chance against you. And finally Eiko Furusawa, I heard your mother was cursed or blessed with a questionable ability. Being a Princess means you must get a lot of attention. I am-" Eiko pushed him out of the way. "Shut up, and mind your own business, Kisho Hiruma, no one cares." Lucy, Kei, and Kenji follow behind Eiko, Lucy sticks out her tongue at him and he gets angry. "No worries, I'll show all of you just how useless that 'Boy' is." Eiko and the group walk up to Yami, who was being guarded by two guards nowhere near any of the rest of the guests. "Go back to the party you brats." Lucy noticed a vein on Eiko's forehead, "Brats?! Let me show you something, you must want to die!" Eiko's eyes glowed and she steps on the guards foot then she uppercuts him, he falls on the ground with his eyes rolled back. The other guard looks at her then the guy on the ground. "Now move, or you'll 'fall asleep'." She smiles as the guard runs away but comes back to drag the other guy away. "Lucy, put the swords away.." Eiko ordered her and the swords that were circling around behind her vanished. Kenji looked at Kei and he looked back at him.

When Eiko walks up to Yami shaking him back and forth, she raises her hand about to smack him. Yami looked up at her hand with his eyes lost of its color grabbing her hand, he looked at Eiko who was shocked. Yami snapped out of it and let go of Eiko's hand. "S-sorry.." Eiko looks at him pissed off. "Princess?" Lucy called Eiko but she didn't answer. She turns away from Yami and she steps in the middle of the crowd and they all surround her because she's the Princess of Hope Kingdom. "Everyone!" The King noticed her, he looked at her with a worried look. She looked around for someone, Lucy was trying to calm her down but she couldn't. "I just wanted to say, all of you, I hate with a passion. But my hate for this person is more.. SHIROO!" Eiko stomps her foot releasing ice, fire, water, and another element ability that was... purple. Eiko is standing in the middle of the Ballroom with ice and many other elements, the smoke clears and the whole Heroes Party are protecting the people. Daiki, swiped the ice spikes away unbothered while eating cake, Araki uses her shadow to cover people and Ayako, Kyoya blocked everyone with his huge barrier, the whole attack avoids Konami. "Told you to call me big sis, Ayako~" Araki said to Ayako who turned away from her. "What's the meaning of this!?" The Queen came down the stairs pissed off, the Princess is behind her, matching her mother's dress and look, Shiro is at the top of the stairs looking down at Eiko unbothered. "YOU!" Eiko covers her fist in mana attacking Shiro. "You must be a fool to attack me.." Shiro covers his body with his aura, he catches her fist and throws her back with ease, she lands on her feet. "Eiko! That's enough!" The King came up from behind her telling her to shouting for her to stop. "Tsk." She smacks her teeth walking out the Ballroom, Lucy follows her. "I'm Sorry for her.." The King apologized. "It's fine, but this will never happen again.. Now everyone if you'll please! This is my daughter Futaba Asai!" The crowd became relaxed and one by one clapped as her daughter walked by her and walked down the stairs waving to all of them. Araki dusted herself off while looking towards Daiki. "Is everyone good on your side?" Daiki while eating cake, places the fork down. "All good here." Kyoya fixes his sleeves, "Konami, everything okay?" Konami stands there with other noble children behind her. "Of course. Do any of you know where the kids are?" She asked with a gentle tone. "We're okay, Mom." Kei small barrier covering him and Kenji dissipates. "Yo, Kei, can everyone use different elements?" Kei shakes his head. "I want to say yes, but all of the elements we saw I'd have to say no. Now if she had two or three then she'll be a genius, but this is beyond that. Now if I have to explain, it'll be long but you have to stay awake.." Kei turns around and Kenji fell asleep while standing.

On the balcony, where the beautiful open flower field in the back. Eiko leaned over the balcony looking at the beautiful moonlight. "Princess, why did you snap? I thought you said we shouldn't cause any trouble." Lucy asked. "Just go back inside, Lucy." Ayako walks out into the balcony leaning on the railing as well. "Do you want to tell me or do you not feel like it? You used all of your elements so you must've been mad, and you attacked Shiro. I have to say, you did something no one ever could." Eiko turned around with her head down. "I could care less." Ayako still looking forward to the beautiful garden. "You're more like your mother than you realize." Lucy stands next to Eiko tugging at her dress. "Why do you think that?", "Your mother hated Shiro, and this whole Kingdom, she only dealt with because the person who saved her was summoned here. You know who I'm talking about, right?" Eiko looks at the party in the ballroom, she stared by them all looking at Yami, who was with the Princess. "No, I'm nothing like my mother... she was strong enough to stand up for anyone, standing up for all types of races in the Kingdom Of Hope, she was the strongest person I knew.. She didn't care about what others said, and what can I do?! I'm just so mad!" Tears fell on the floor, Eiko never cried but something snapped within her. Ayako sighs, she rubs the back of her head not knowing what to do, Lucy's eyes start to water up. "Listen, I'm not good with dealing with things like this, but I know she wouldn't be mad at you Eiko. Your mother was strong in front of people but the day she found out about the Hero's death she... broke down, and the day of every Kingdom came together to bury him she was the one who almost snapped on the Queen in there, she almost declared war on her. I say almost because she found out that she was pregnant, so she stopped." Ayako moved in front of Eiko and held Eiko's hands. Eiko looked up at Ayako, then she looked at Lucy whose eyes were watery. "Why are you about to cry Lucy?", "I... I... I don't want to see you cry so I'll cry for you.." Eiko pats Lucy's head smiling at her. "You don't have too, but thank you." Ayako stared at Eiko, seeing Asuka in her face, Ayako smiled. "I don't know why I was so worried, your mother was always stronger than me. Keep an eye on her, Lucy." She walked by Lucy rubbing her head before walking back into the Ballroom. Lucy looks at Eiko, and she turns to look at the garden. "Let's go back in, Lucy." Eiko wipes her face and they walk out into the Ballroom to see someone pointing a sword at Yami, who is standing there looking into the person's eyes.

"I! Kisho Hiruma, challenge you Yami Akuma! To a duel, to see who will be the Princess Futaba real personal knight!" The room falls silent and only Yami and Kisho stand out. Futaba has a smile on her face and so does the Queen, Shiro looks at Yami waiting for him to react. "Thank you for the offer... but I'll have to decline.." Yami said looking down like he was told to say something else. "Back off Kisho, or you'll get your "beautiful" face hurt." Eiko said stepping into view. "Are you always this annoying, Eiko?" Futaba replied with anger in her voice. "If there's a problem Futaba, please feel free to step up, or forever remain silent." Futaba bites her nail in annoyance. "It doesn't matter to me." Kisho throws a broken sword at Yami's feet with a grin. "You can't say no to a noble, you're just a knight with no power. You have no mana, you have no mother, and you're just a puppet, a monster who doesn't belong..", "Hey! That's too far!" Eiko was about to slap him but Yami spoke. "Fine…" Yami agrees, but he doesn't pick up the sword, the crowd whispers about Yami. "This boy must be a fool or ready to die.", "Kisho is a genius, one of the next heir to his family.", "I heard his power is comparable to most masted swordsmen and a top tier with magic.", "That boy never stood a chance." As the voices of the crowd spoke Yami was looking at the ground. "You're going to fight me, without a weapon? Don't blame me if I kill you-" Yami pulls his arm back and sends it towards Kisho, punching him so hard goes crashing to the left wall and he flies out the side of the castle into the training yard.

Everyone looks at him in shock, Daiki drops his cake, Araki watches closely, Kyoya watches in shock, and Konami watches her emotions unknown. "What... was that?" Kei was in shock. "That was raw strength... and he's holding back, you can tell just from his movement he didn't even touch him.", "What do you mean?" Kenji points at his arm, "It's something like magic but it's all strength, what Yami just did was punch him but he used the wind, it was so strong it threw him back. You can use this on any part of your body, you'll have to train your body how fast/hard to swing to actually land the attack." Kenji explained. "I'm still confused.." Yami walks by the crowd going towards the hole in the wall. "Yami!" Eiko calls to him, he turns around locking eyes with her and his friends. "I got this." He said with a smile before jumping out the hole he made with Kisho. As he was about to fall a magic symbol appeared below him, a huge fireball shoots out hitting Yami, BOOM it exploded on impact Kyoya steps forward protecting the castle with his magic. Yami still lands on the ground, parts of his suit are burnt. He dusted off his shoulders then he dusted off his pants, Yami looked at Kisho with his eyes slowly changing into a cyan color. Yami inhaled and then exhaled. "You dare hit me?! How did you even tank that attack!", "Shut up.." Yami appeared next to Kisho, as he turned to face him Yami grabbed his face and ran towards the closest wall, slamming him into it. Yami pulls back his fist ready to attack again, he jumps back quickly as a dagger stabs the ground in where he was standing and a group of five people in suits step up to protect Kisho, whose nose is bleeding, he struggles to stand up. "K-Kill him!" Kisho said, holding his nose. Kyoya drops the shield, as he did four people jump out landing next to Yami. Futaba looked at them annoyed, The Queen looked at them in disgust, and Araki had a smile. "It's a shame, those idiots don't know what they're getting themselves into." Kyoya looked at Konami, and they both stared at Kei who is standing proud next to Yami. "That's my boy!" Daiki shouted with a smile. Shiro looked at his old party members with that stoic expression. "Don't push yourself, Lucy." Ayako whispered to herself. Sosuke was sweating but he stayed put. "You're not alone Yami.", "Yeah!", "We got your back!", "I always wanted to punch his pretty face!" Kenji, Kei, Lucy, and Eiko stood next to Yami ready to fight. Eiko looks at her dress and rips the bottom so she can move without the dress being in the way. Kenji takes off his tie and lets it go in the wind. Kei pushes his glasses up as yellow magic symbols appear around him. Lucy's face changes into a serious look with many swords floating around her and one in each of her hands. Yami smiles at them before looking back at the guards. "I guess we're the new Heroes Party..." Kenji places his arm on Yami's shoulder. "Yeah! I like the sound of that!" Kei pushes his glasses up while, sighing. "Can you two ever take things seriously?" Lucy's swords circle around her as she jumps around, around them. "This is so much fun!" Eiko sighs, "Lucy stop jumping around when your swords are circling you like that." The lady guard speaks. "Can't believe we're fighting kids.." One with a sword replies in a calm tone, "Don't judge them too quickly, three of them are from the Heroes Party, and Princess Eiko is there as well." The guy who has rings on his fingers speaks up, "And? I bet, none of them ever fought an actual threat before. So I say this is already an easy win.", "Even if we do win, we'll have to deal with the Heroes Party." A buff guy steps forward. "Enough talking, all of you, if they do jump in we have our... Ace. split them up, I'll take on the strongest one from them and you guys deal with the others, can you manage that? Good, now let's go!" They all listen and get ready to fight.

"I hope all of you can fight." Eiko said to them, Yami just laughed. "This is my fight, you guys should try not to get hurt." Yami rushed at the two heading for him, one went in front of the other swinging at Yami and he swung back, their fist clashes. The one with the sword goes for Eiko, Lucy blocks him and pushes him back. "Can you deal with him, Lucy?", "Yes! Leave it to me Princess." Lucy pulls her swords back, they float behind her, the swordsmen stand there while staring at Lucy. "Tsk, to think I'll be fighting a little girl.. Let's hurry this up." Lucy runs at the man with her swords, she swings at him and the floating swords behind her follow up with the attack, the man blocks it but the attack makes him slide back. "Tch! (What's with this girl's strength?)" Lucy sends her swords at the man, swipes the swords away with his own. "I must say, your skill is really something. I wonder what else a small girl like you can do.." He points his blade at Lucy as an aura covers his blade and his body. Lucy points her blade at the man as a pinkish aura covers her body and sword. "I'm not here to talk, you attacked the Princess so that means I can take your life." She stares into his eyes with an unbothered expression, they clash swords and Lucy keeps up with the man as they clash over and over again. They jump back from each other, the man getting into a stance, Lucy runs her hand over her sword cloning the sword, she grabs it with her other hand bringing the sword close to her face. She looks at the two swords with a happy grin. "(Did she just... clone her sword? She must be a Transformation Mage, but she can make her sword float.. So what is she?)" She blimps out attacking the man from the side, he whips to the side blocking it but the force from the attack makes his arms shake. "(Damn it!)" He pushes her back, quickly moves to the side as the swords he swiped away before come flying by him, cutting him on the cheek and a small cut on his arm. The swords stops in front of Lucy and rotates, pointing at the man as he readies himself. "What type of freak are you?" Lucy just stares at him blinking, Lucy rushes at him sending the five swords, the man blocks three, Lucy appears behind him with killing intent as the two swords close in from both sides of him. The man covers his entire body in mana. "I won't lie, you're good... but not good enough! Behemoth Cut!" He whips sending a huge slash, Lucy blocks it and the two swords shatter and the attack leaves a circular cut in the ground around him. "Now, I understand. I misjudged you, Lucy Hatsuyo. I will treat this fight like any other. My name is Jorneak Adgolor." He opens his eyes as his aura flows out, his sword changes into a black blade and a shadow of a demon fox is behind him. As she recovers, she locks eyes with the man whose aura is flowing like water. "Hm.." She drops her two swords into a portal. "I, Lucy Hatsuyo, made a promise to protect my Princess. Rise Soulblade, Hope of Broken Dream." A white sword with markings on it slowly rises up from the portal, she grabs the sword pointing her blade as her pinkish aura surrounds her and sword. "That sword.." Sosuke looked at Lucy, while Ayako turns away from Araki who was staring daggers into her back.

Jorneak uses a body enhancement to quickly get close to Lucy, he spins around about to kick her, she blocks the attack her arm, she pushes his leg away then attacks him with a punch, he slides back, he blocked the attack with his sword as steam comes off of it. "(That was just her punch?! It felt like I was being attacked by an orc! Was she holding back..?)" Lucy appears in front of Jorneak swinging her sword, his eyes widened as he ducks back dodging the swing, the force from the swing just missed Jorneak, and the attack flew by him missing, and cutting off some hair of Kisho, as he wet his pants... Jorneak swings at Lucy as she blocks it with her sword, the aura's of the two clash.

Kenji watched the slash from Lucy and stared at the fight in awe. "Keep your eyes on the fight, kid!" A tall man with huge muscle attacks, Kenji, he took a step back dodging the punch, his fist slams into the ground creating a small crater. "Who said I wasn't paying attention?" Kenji's fist covers in a red aura and he punches the buff man in the gut sending him flying back. "About time! I always wanted to fight someone in the same weight class as me!" Kenji cracked his knuckles, the buff man stands tall with a smile doing the same. "Make this a good fight. I hate fighting weaklings." They start off by punching each other in the face with the biggest smile on their face. Kenji slides to the side out of the buff man's fist and punches him in the side, breaking some ribs. The buff man grabs Kenji's arm and throws him over his shoulder then kicks him making him roll on the ground. Kenji jumps up with ease cracking his neck, he smiles as gets into a fighting stance. "This is going to be a loonng fight, and I like it!" Kei brings both of his magic symbols together creating a large symbol and shoots a huge yellow beam towards a lady, she moves to the side, dodging the beam. While it explodes behind her she moves towards Kei, he puts up a barrier blocking her attack then Kei punches it sending shards as sharp as glass out, she blocks the attack but the magical shards left marks on her arms and they're bleeding. "I won't lie, for someone your age using magic this good. That's impressive but not enough." Her arms heal, as she looks down at him. "That means you should know what I can do, but I expect nothing less from Arcane Sorcerer." Kei steps back ready to fight. "So, you know? Good, that means I don't have to hold back.."

Yami, blocked one of the attacks from the guards. "So you're the one who everyone hates? I see why." He slashes at Yami with his dagger, he quickly stepped to the side avoiding the attack, then he countered with a punch to the gut and followed it up with his other fist punching him in the face. "Don't you lose to that freak." He stands up wiping the blood off his mouth. "He caught me off guard, that's all." He runs at Yami, turning his dagger, he attacks Yami swiftly and quickly. The dagger reaches his neck, Yami grabs it before it could pierce his neck, he grabs his neck and slams him into the ground. The one in the back jumped into the air, Yami locks eyes with the one who jumped into the air. As he did, the other is charging up a fireball, he tries to back up but the guy he slammed into the ground grabs his arm and he can't move. "Look out!" Eiko shouted with anger, throwing something into the air. The man looks at it but it was too late, it hits him exploding and he falls to the ground leaving a small crater. "What the!" Yami looks down at the man, using his leg he stomps him into the ground. "Are you okay?" Eiko asked Yami who was looking down at the man, he removed his foot. "If you're fine, we should go and help the others if we can, they can manage themselves but still." Eiko turned her back to help the others, Yami with a shadow over his face he pulled back his fist punching his face into the ground over and over and over again. His face was beaten up and bleeding and Yami's fist was covered in blood and his face had blood on his cheek, he turned around looking at Eiko, as blood dripped off his fists and he looks at her blankly. The crowd looks at him in horror, Araki crosses her arms, "Any kid his age would freak out after seeing blood but that anger in his eyes..." Daiki and Kyoya look at each other in worry. Konami stares at Shiro who is just smiling. "About time.."

Yami walks past to Eiko. "Yami..?" His eyes are lost of the light it once had gone, and she sees the look on his face. With quick speeds he takes one step vanishing from his place. Kei, using his magic, creates a barrier over her. She laughs as she shatters the barrier with ease with her Arcane Magic. "Is this all you got! And I thought being the offspring of two powerful figures would've been a blessing!" Konami was about to jump down but Araki held her back. "Release me, Araki.." Konami looks at Araki as her eyes glow and a bright aura slowly overs her body. "Look over there." Araki points at Yami who has that same aura from before around his body, every step he took left small craters in the ground and the lady saw him. "Hm? Oh it's the monster, what's with that look? Mad?" The lady was about to laugh, Yami appeared in front of her, he raised his hand at her as something sparked in his hand and a small ball of something appeared in his hand. "Don't ever talk about his family.." Before she could say anything the ball in his hand became brighter and he shot a beam-wave at her, sending her flying into a wall. She looks forward but as Yami walks towards her, she creates a magic symbol. "Biting Fang of Bright Sun-" Yami knees her in the gut, she grits her teeth from the pain, she grabs Yami's leg. "..." She smiles as a magical symbol appears below them. "That hurt... YOU DAMN BRAT!" The symbol glows as it explodes, Kei blocks his eyes from the explosion.

Kei looks ahead at the smoke from the explosion. Someone walks out the smoke, it was the lady holding her arm as walks out breathing heavily. "(No way he survived that attack.. I hate using that..)" The crowd stares at the whole interaction, she walks out as a green hue covers her body. "That hits the spot. I need to thank that idiot later.. Anyway, where were we, little mage." She had a smug smile on her face. She readies herself to rush at Kei, who is still in shock. "Get ready to die!" She uses her magic, boosting herself, she flies towards Kei as he covers himself with his arms. A shadow quickly moves in front of Kei, the lady swings her fist with magic symbols appearing all around Kei, the shadow with their beaming blue eyes swings at her, they're fist collided sending out a huge shock-wave as the ground cracked under the shadow and raising smoke. A figure flies out the smoke slamming into a wall. Konami looks at the figure who flew out, nervous and in fear hoping it isn't who she thinks it is. The smoke clears as the lady is buried in the wall, her eyes rolled back as blood drips down her head. Eiko slowly walks over to smoke in the middle of the training ground, where Kei was. As it cleared Kei was sitting on the ground, his glasses broken and blood drips on the ground, Yami's arm is bloody and bruised his whole look is different, you could see the scars and slashes on his arms and legs. He stands in a crater as Kei is safe behind Yami. Eiko is facing Yami's back as Kei picks up his glasses putting it back on his face, he turns to look at Eiko then back at Yami. "Next..." Yami walks to the side going towards another fight, Eiko helps Kei as they stare at Yami as he walks away. "Isn't that aura... from before..?" Eiko looks at Yami as a lightly deep black aura surrounding Yami's body. "Yeah..."

The fight between Lucy and Jorneak raged on, they leap back from each other, Jorneak sweating while holding his sword. "(That girl can still stand?! Just what is this girl...?)" Lucy stands tall unbothered and her expression unwavering. Jorneak rushes at Lucy swinging his sword, Lucy parries the attack, he grinds as a copy of himself attacks Lucy from the side. She locks eyes with the copy cutting the shadow. "Got you!" Jorneak covers his leg with mana, he kicks her in the side sending her flying to the side. She rolls on the ground, but she quickly recovers, Jorneak stands above her, she quickly blocks Jorneak's attack and it throws her back as he follows. "It's done.." He attacks Lucy's sword, knocking it out of her hand, he points his sword at her neck. "You really gave me trouble but this... is where it ends." He swings his sword downward, Lucy's eyes glow as she quickly dodges the swing and punches him in the face, she pulls back her other fist punching him in the gut before kicking him rolling back. "(So fast!)" He coughs up blood into his hand. "(BLOOD?! No way that little girl managed to make me bleed! You... I'll kill you!)" He stands up gripping his sword so hard the veins on his hand show. He rushed at Lucy with quick speed, she tries to block it but he was too fast, he swings his leg as it hits Lucy on the side, she rolls on the ground and Jorneak follows it up with a hard kick in the gut making her kneel on the ground while holding her stomach. He towers over Lucy with anger in his eyes. "You're nothing... dirt at the bottom of my shoe.. You deserve something more than death." He looks down at Lucy with a disgusted stare, he spits at her, as it gets closer Yami appears in front of her and his spit falls on his forehead, Yami looks up at Jorneak with an angry look. "You? Aren't you-" Yami punches him in the face, breaking his nose and knocking out some teeth. "!!!!-" Yami punches him in the gut then in the face quickly, Jorneak struggles to stand and breathe. Jorneak looks at Yami in rage swinging his fist upward hitting Yami on the chin, lifting him up, as he's in the air Jorneak attempts to pull out his sword but something stops him, he looks down at his sword and sees Yami's foot on the hilt stopping him. "What the-" Yami uses his other leg doing a quick flurry of kicks, Jorneak stumbles back, Yami picks up Lucy's sword. "Tch, you damn bastard!"Jorneak, yells at Yami, he stands there in silence, the sword he was holding slowly covers in a black aura, the blade changing from white to blade; he moves quickly, appearing behind the man. "URGH!!" Slashes appeared all over his body and blood gushes out his slashes, he stands there but his pupils are gone. "If I can't kill you… I'll kill her!" Jorneak turns around as his sword shines, he swings at Lucy. With a quick motion of his hand Yami cuts Jorneak's arm clean off. Before the blood could get on Lucy he grabbed her moving her out the way as the blood got on him. Jorneak falls over as some of the blood is on the right side of Yami's face, Eiko and Kei run over to Lucy. Yami throws the sword into the ground, the blood on the sword drips off the sword as the blade of the sword returns back to normal. "Yami!" Eiko calls out to him but he vanishes.

Kenji is still fighting the big guy, matching up with him but it feels like something is pulling him back. Kenji ducks under the punch, and turns his whole body hitting the man on the chin. The big guy swings towards Kenji and he tries to swing but he can't move. "(Black magic?!)" Kenji covers his face with his arms, Yami pushes him and gets hit in the face, his whole head turned to the side but he just stands there in silence. "Didn't number 5 deal with you?" Yami slowly turned his head towards the big guy, he removed his fist jumping back shocked. He looks around seeing all his teammates on the ground, he looks back at Yami, annoyed. "No way you defeated my team. A kid with no mana and only trained in swordsmanship.. but you have no sword.. Tsk, doesn't matter. You'll die either way." He rushed at Yami with his fist covered in black magic, he punched him in the face again but Yami didn't move, Yami swiped his hand away and he quickly moved forward elbowing the big guy in the stomach. "(What was that hit! It... hurt?!)" Yami backed up holding an orb in his hand, the big guy noticed it and rushed at him. "(I don't know what that orb is but that's not mana so what the hell?!)" Yami swung at him but the big guy with the number 1 on his neck dodged it and punched Yami in the stomach with a lot of force sending him flying back into a wall, he fell onto the ground. As Yami got up Number 1 was there kneeing him in the face then throwing him into a bunch of training dummies. "Can we do anything Eiko?" Kei asked Eiko, Lucy looked at her worried, Kenji walked over out of breath and was sweating a lot. "I won't lie, that big guy can take a hit. But the bad thing is, he uses black magic and it holds you in place. Kei, do you know anything about this?" A voice speaks from behind them. "You'll… pay for that!" Eiko whipped around and saw the one she shot out of the sky get up and with a green hue. "We won't die that easily!" The others who were defeated had a green hue covering them, all the damage they took was healed quickly. "Oh no.." Kenji said out loud, Number 1 swiped the sweat from his forehead and sighed in relief. "About time you got up, Number 3." The lady that was inside the wall got up and the blood on her head vanished, on her neck was the number 4. Jorneak's arm grew back, and on the back of his neck was the number 2. "What happened?.." The guy who was smashed into the ground sat up fully healed, on his arm was the number 5. "That magic... it's bond magic. We have to intervene!" Kyoya jumped out the hole and so did everyone else (The Heroes Party). "I can't let you intervene.." Shiro landed in front of them with a sword pointing at them. "You can't be serious right now! Our kids are out there with trained killers!" Araki shouted at him, Shiro didn't even look her way. "Knight Shiro, move out of the way. The Princess of the Hope Kingdom is out there!" Shiro looked at Ayako, a grins slowly crept on his face while holding in his laughter. "Didn't she jump out here by herself? So she put herself in this situation, so she can see it through. She can't always expect someone to save her, she's a Princess so she has to learn how to protect herself." He replies in a nonchalant tone.