Capítulo 69: Part 7: Noelle(Black Clover)
(Note: No Smut in this chapter...
You can skip this if you don't care about the plot...)
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The attack was, in word, absurd. An endless army of zombies came from seemingly every direction.
The only thing crazier was the Captain of the Crimson Lions.
"Flame Creation Magic: Leo Rugiens!"
The flaming lion they were riding roared, a blast of fire shooting from its mouth at everything in its way, incinerating all the zombies.
Noelle looked around before she caught sight of something that made her heart stop.
Asta was bleeding, swinging wildly to block a hail of attacks from his opponent and protecting a little girl from being attacked.
As if on instinct, she raised her wand. "Naga's Nest!"
A dome of water appeared over the two of them blocking the attacks.
I can't let him get hurt, Noelle thought. If I do I…
Wait. Is my reason for saving him really so selfish?
She had no time to dwell on the thought as a horde of zombies jumped at her from the side. And then they were immediately burnt to a crisp.
She looked to the side where Fuegoleon nodded. "Good job, but don't let yourself get endangered like that."
Noelle blinked before looking at Asta who looked back at her and nodded. She lowered her wand letting Naga's Nest fall before recasting it on just the girl.
"Stay safe Bakasta!" She ordered. "And take him down."
"Will do!" He yelled back before charging at the horde of zombies rising from the ground. A horde that was immediately burnt to bits by Leopold.
"I've come to your aid rival!" He yelled. "Give that Slimeball a taste of your sword! Show him what you're made of!"
"Right! Thanks for the assist!" Asta yelled, wondering who he was.
The extra-large zombie he was fighting began firing more attacks.
Asta pulled out both of his swords and spun, deflecting them all as he rushed forward. With a mighty swing, he cut the zombie down before looking up at the man who had caused all the damage.
"What. Jimmy! Why did you go down from such an attack?"
"Stop Bitching!" Asta yelled. "Stop hiding behind these things and step up to the plate yourself!"
Yeah, Noelle thought. We can win this.
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The fight was going horribly.
Fuegoleon was dying and they were surrounded.
This couldn't get worse, she thought as she focused on patching up the captain.
"Is that…?" a female voice asked.
Noelle turned to see that one of the robed enemies was pointing at her. "It is." She said sounding shocked.
It took Noelle a second to realize that she wasn't pointing at her, but at the barrel on her hip attached to her belt.
"You recognize it?" Noelle asked. That should have been impossible. She had had painted it silver with the Black Bull logo and added several pieces of trim to make it unrecognizable.
"Of course I recognize it. I invented it."
Noelle blinked.
"It was a little thing I invented to gather some funds. Water magic that can be shrunk and kept for later consumption. I wasn't exactly pleased by the use, but people buy it. But to carry it around so brazenly. You're a lot freakier than you look."
Noelle blushed wildly. Before she could respond, there was an explosion of magic power as all of the magic knights that had been at the castle appeared.
"We'll continue this conversation later." The robed woman said. "I might even have some more things for you."
Noelle had no words to respond with.
She found her words a minute later.
"Asta!" She screamed as the dark portal disappeared taking her squad mate with it. She turned to everyone. "We have to rescue him!"
"We can't." Klaus said. "We don't have the means to track them."
"But… but…"
"Forget it Noelle."
She looked at her brother.
"We need to strengthen the kingdom's defenses. There may be more enemies. We have neither the time nor power to save one slum rat."
Noelle wanted to complain but stopped herself. "Mimosa." She said. "Heal Fuegoleon."
As Mimosa healed the Captain of the Crimson Lion's, Noelle fidgeted. They needed to save Asta.
But why did she want him saved? Was it because she cared about him, or because she didn't want to go hungry? He was her teammate. He didn't deserve whatever the enemy would do with him as their prisoner.
"This is beyond pathetic for a Magic Knight Captain." Solid said. "To be injured so badly by the enemy. House Vermillion has really fallen. As someone who's also of royal blood, I'm totally ashamed."
Maybe it was her rising panic, maybe it was her missing teammate, maybe it was the earlier fight or maybe she was just tired of her family after meekly taking so much from them while she was hungry, but at that moment, Noelle snapped.
"Shut up!" She yelled gathering everyone's attention.
"How dare you?" She asked, shaking. "He protected me and was injured to near death fighting the people who invaded this kingdom and you dare call him pathetic? Where the hell were you if you think you're do great?"
Her siblings stared at her.
"Noelle." Nozel warned, building magic.
"You shut up too!" She yelled. "I don't care if what you said makes sense! How dare you call Asta a slum rat? He was here protecting the kingdom and its people that you pretend to care about. He took down the man who attacked everyone! And you insult and dismiss him? You all got so disturbed that he was being rewarded by the kingdom for serving it?" She glared at Alecdora who looked away from her.
"He was right." She took a breath said. "I don't have to listen to a bunch of losers like you. If you claim to care about the kingdom but deride its people for not being of your status and people who protect it for being injured doing so, I'm glad I'm not accepted by a bunch of hypocrites like you!"
With that, she turned around and began marching away. She didn't have a destination; she just couldn't be near her family.
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"That little…" Nebra began.
"She's right," Nozel said.
"What?" Solid yelled.
"She's right." Nozel repeated. "We shouldn't be so quick to insult the people who saved the kingdom." He stared at the back of his youngest sibling.
What had happened to his meek little sister? She'd always lookd so depressed and down. But not anymore. He'd been shocked at how much more like their mother she looked when he saw her. And she'd gotten so bold too.
What had changed?
He focused on the black robe on her shoulders. He looked down at the silver robe on his. He looked back at the girl he didn't recognize and yet, who reminded him so much of his mother.
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"The Wizard King? And he brought a captive?"
Noelle blinked. "Asta?"
"I'm back?" He said with a wave.
Noelle barely restrained herself from running to hug him. "You made me so worried!"
"Yeah," he said rubbing the back of his head. "I didn't think I'd make it out alive."
"Well don't get caught again Bakasta."
At that moment Noelle was pushed out of the way.
"Asta!" Klaus yelled.
Noelle blinked in confusion before looking back in time to see Mimosa knock Klaus out of the way.
"I have a lot of competition." She muttered under her breath. "But at least there are only two."
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Finral popped out of a portal looking at Asta. "Come clubbing with me. We'll meet some cute girls."
"Shit." Noelle said.
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(A/N: Short chapter, one arc covered, no smut, but I feel a lot happened, at least for Noelle's character.
And with this chapter, I've realized exactly how different Noelle is from canon, especially her character arcs. Just goes to show how a little change can cause wild variations. This started out as an excuse to write porn and now it's getting serious.
I really went off on the Silva siblings, but good God, they were worse than I remember. You know you have a problem if the necromancing terrorist and mad scientist come across as more likeable. Some of my reaction may have leaked into Noelle, but I felt it would be in character for this version to yell at them.
People have asked over PMs, so I'd like to clarify that I do write commissions, but you have to PM me on Fanfiction dot net. If you have any stories you want me to write, talk to me there.)
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