Under Water Temple Part 3

3rd Person POV

As the Black Bull knights take in their surroundings they soon are meet with their oppenents who make their appearance. Meanwhile, in another room a certain old geezer is sitting watching the magic knights from a room along with a certain Magic Captain. There the two the men sit down and converse while drinking.

"Man old man, you sure do know how to play games." A certain smoker comments to the old man. The geezer replys with "This old geezer knows thing or too!" Followed along with laughter from two useless men at the moment.

While our protagonist walks around trying to find her fellow magic knights only to be wandering looking for someone.

Hikaru POV

I walk around the underwater temple wringing my clothes from the water that I was soaked with earlier. I sigh out being cold and wet. I continue walking around for at least 15 minutes taking in my surroundings and taking note if I have to walk back. "Man, how big is this place?" I say to myself.

"This temple is pretty big if I do say so myself." I hear a voice speak up and turn to look at them. I cock my eyebrow. "Oh are you going to challenge me and take me on?" I ask almost teasingly wanting to beat somebody in place of that perverted old man. I smile at my opponent innocently.

This person laughs "Oh cocky are we? We'll see how cocky you are when I'm through with yah princess." this fish person says smuggling. I smirk, "Yes we shall see." I say looking up to where I know they are watching.

With that they open up their grimoire and cast a spell sending it in my direction. I easily evade it and take out my grimoire saying "Hey underwater priest! You see he attacked me first, so I shall make my move!" With that I cast a spell "Wind spirit magic: Wind cyclone!" I tend multiple cyclones in his direction following him.

He sadly was not able to evade any of them and getting sucked and spit out sending him unconscious. I look down at my opponent. "Well I guess someone underestimated me~ I guess I wasn't very cocky at all~" I say teasingly looking up.

I soon left that area and moved on. 'I wonder how the rest are doing?' My mind drifts off and I smile 'They'll be just fine.'

I soon feel stronger mana than the one I just fought. I turn my head in that direction and slowly feel similar mana as well. 'They're in that direction!' I change my course of direction and turn the other way sprinting in the direction where I felt stronger magic.

I make my way through another room seeing a defeated temple fighter. I speed my way through and come to the end of the hall where I see flashing magic spells of blue and red. Once I get a good look at the fighter I yell "Luck! Magma!"

I rush forward as the two catch up on their breathes. I look forward at the underwater mage and speak up "You wouldn't mind letting me fight as well?" I say while getting into a stance. He looks at me from behind his mask. "I couldn't care less. I'll fight you when I'm done with these two, putting them out of their misery." He says.

He flips through his grimoire "Water creation magic: Poseidon's Hammer!" the spell starts to emerge then a stronger magic bursts though. Hitting the underwater temple mage sending him flying into the wall. My eyes widen and my body trembles a bit and I smile just a bit. 'The hell...Is this the eye of midnight sun?!' I think to myself.

Just as the impact occurred the entire underwater temple shook and stopped the fights that were currently happening with Asta and Noelle. They and their opponents looked up and stopped their fighting with one thing on their minds "What was that?!"

The new incomers wearing white cloaks stand there as the smoke and debris flies around in the air. A voice speaks out "Well it looks like you folks are having quite some fun here." I take out my grimoire reading myself. The voice continues "How about you let me in the mix?" the debris stops stirring around displaying a man with medium length blonde hair and sharp raiser teeth smiling at us, with a notable red mark across his nose.

I gulp and focus on those in front of us.

Magna speaks up "What's this guy trying to do messing up our battle? And why's he so hairy?" clearly not noticing the power difference. "Yeah no fair, the shark head definitely belonged to me." Luck soon says after.

I sweatdrop and grab their shoulders whispering "This isn't some opponent that you should be taking light hear. Listen to me you two, you will follow my orders and listen." I take a glance at the two tightening my grip and continue "I believe you Luck, from what I was told from Yami you have great mana sense. So listen to me."

Soon another voice speaks up. "You made it through the ocean currents and broke your way through the underwater temple. Your magic must be formidable in deed." His mask breaks apart displaying an older man with blue facial hair and a ponytail. "Oh you can still move" I hear the invader say.

"Well that surely hurt." the underwater temple mage says brushing his clothes off. "You and your buddies there surely don't look like magic knights and I know why their here. But what about you people want with the underwater temple?"

The beast looking man looks at him and smirks "The same thing they do." My eyes widen 'So they really are the midnight eye and they really were after the magic stone...' I think to myself and clench my teeth thinking about what they did to Fuegoleon. "Well that's too bad, we can't simply hand it over you know."

"I'm sure, I wouldn't ever want it that way either. I rather put you all in despair and destroy this place and take the stone myself!" the beast says. "The rest of you, spread out to the rest of the temple." he commands the rest of the cloaked figures behind him. With that they jump and leave the room spreading out into different rooms.

"It's rude to drop in like this. I'm afraid I'm going to ask you to leave. " the mage says. The beast soon replys with "Silence!" The underwater mage looks sternly at the said man "You really do need to learn some manners."

"It will take far more powerful magic than you possess than to make me leave this place without that stone!" The beast replys with looking smugly at the man.

The haired man speaks up "oh dear, you clearly don't understand who you're dealing with. Of all of the underwater temple's mages I am the strongest by far." I sweatdrop 'Underwater temple mage do you even know how much mana this guy has! YOU clearly don't understand how dangerous this situation is." I think to myself wondering how to solve this issue.

I continue to watch cautiously at the two's conversation. I pull Magna and Luck back a bit. "I need you two to be rational, don't jump in." I tell them.

"Enough chit chat let us have out magic do the talking!" the midnight eye member states releasing his magic. The mage releases his spell "NOW Water creation: Poseidon's Hammer!" sending it to the man. Magna and Luck awe behind me as I don't let me guard down watching the battle before me.

The dust dies down showing the beast unfazed stopping the spell not even touching him. He chuckles at the mages reaction. My eyes glance worriedly at the underwater mage and the beast chuckles.

The beast goes on talking about a prize heading in the man's direction, using magic to make him faster. "Beast magic: Bear claw!" he yells making the mage go flying. I open my grimoire "Earth Spirit magic: Cradle of Spring!" I say sending it to catch the mage and see the beast flying in our direction.

My eyes widen as I see three of him, one of each coming in our direction. "Earth spirit magic: Shield of Life!" I say and a wall of plants and earth block the attack only to be broken down but slowing down the attack. The attack still sends them flying back but protecting them from major damage. I had a majority of that spell protect the other two while I jump back away from the attack.

"You weaklings you very well see our difference in out power! You are insects and should not be allowed to attain that shred of hope!" he yells at me.

I glance and see that the two were injured but just knocked unconscious from hitting a rock, I sigh out in relief that they weren't to injured. I look back at the man and stare at him. He speaks up and says "Dark swordsman, I call tell you are here from the mana. Just watch from the sidelines for a little longer. Your going to be my main dish as this lady in front will be my appetizer." I raise my brow as I felt the slight change of mana around barely feeling Yami's magic.

He continues on "You'll be the best when you see the death of all your friends." I grit my teeth as I get into a ready position. Next I hear Yami's voice making an announcement "Uh testing one two three. All right you morons listen up you all. One of the midnight eye's high ranking members a real while ago who is a strong as a magic knight captain. Plus he's got four minions with him but things have happened with their schedule. You guys will have to handle it. Now look it's time to get serious...Push past your limits. Die and I'll kill you!"

He continue but instead he adresses me "Hikaru! You better hold out and beat him. If you die then I'll be coming after you to kill you myself!" With that I smile and speak out "Yes well Yami, you better hurry."

"Now for some changes in the rules, Knights and mages in order to win the game you must defeat those of the midnight sun and those who participate and win should have all thier wishes granted! Using my authority as High Priest allows." the old priest says.

The beast now looks at me "Now you'll be my next prey." he smiles at me and I send one back. Soon I hear two voices speak up "Oh what do you think you're doing? We're not dead yet." Magna and Luck say.

I smile a little bit more and say out "Well you two it'll be us fighting till our body drops. You guys heard Yami right, you better listen to what I have to say. I won't be letting any fellow knights die on my watch."

"That's right. If our senpai and our captain orders us to then we follow and our orders were to take you down." Magna says huffing. "We're not done! We won't be broken!" They both say. I smirk

We open our grimoires and release our mana. "Go and push past our limits!" I say.

"Then that's it, I shall enjoy bringing you much despair. The longer the hunt continues the higher the anticipation to kill." he smiles evilly.

Luck speaks up "Hey big guy give us that same attack like last time, the really fast one." he says and I glance at him, he has a smile on his face. While I look at Magna seeing him exhausted clearly seeing his thoughts 'We are so dead if he lands another hit on us.' to 'What the hell Luck you trying to get us killed!' I smirk slightly.

"Well well a feisty one, very well then I shall continue giving you despair." he says lunging at Luck and Luck moving back to send his own attack. The two converse for a while. Luck continues to evade the beast man and attacking.

I flip through my grimoire to find a spell I smile finding the perfect one to deal with him. I slowly start to release my mana slowly using their mana to cover it up and I hear Magna yell "Hey you better not think about leaving me behind you jerk!" He then summons a spell sending it at them.

The beast comes at Luck sending him flying into Magna "Well if you guys are done playing I would like to move on." Luck and Magna respond back to him.

Meanwhile Asta and an underwater temple mage run to the location where the three are at. "I sense magic, a fire, lightning, and like thousands of beasts! Wait...I feel another mana, you can barely feel it. It's a fix of water and wind? But not quite?" the other boy says. Asta looks at him "Fire and Lightning, that must be Luck and Magna! Beasts...That's Veltos!" Asta then thinks "Water and wind?? I don't think I know anyone that has two, I know Noelle has water? Hikaru-senpai?!" Asta says confused. They continue running to their location while continuing "We'll get out of this alive, I have them to count on and strong senpai's to reply on."

Luck and Magna get tossed to the ground. Veltos walks forward towards them and starts spouting some words of "Feeling despair."

I see the two of the get up. "Now we can't give up that easily. We feel nothing but despair right now. If we did we couldn't even call ourselves superior to him anymore!" With that they lunge forward and attack.

They do a combo attack combining their magic. A bright light encloses the room and they get sent flying back. In that second I unleash my spell now that it is ready "Water and wind spirit magic: Knight of Mariah of the Wind and Water gods!" I say.

Water and wind pick up and surround me, blowing Veltos back. A large burst of my mana releases sending others aware of my mana and magic. I mix of water and wind armor surrounds my body as I hold one sword that's water and the other that's wind. I float above the ground slightly as the wind blows. I send the two boys back with Asta now that they have arrived. "Asta take care of them for a bit. I had them give me some time for this." I put them down nicely on the ground sending a healing spell of plants above them.

With that I stand waiting for Veltos "Now come." I say staring straight into the cloud of smoke seeing his figure walk forwards.

"Yes, now I can get my appetizer."