Book 2 - The Usurper from the Wilds: Chapter 26; Ambitions Aired

The screen turns on as the chapter title plays "Chapter - 26; Ambitions Aired".

Just after the main part of their fight Riddle shouts at Leona "If you have that much power, why do this?!" Leona scoffs as he asks "'why?' What do you care, kid? You gonna scold me? Try to talk me down? Don't you get it?"

He lightly growls as he tells them "Power alone ain't enough to make waves in this world. Look at Ruggie here. He's like a muzzled dog. Pathetic, ain't it? Hard not to pity him."

Ruggie is then heard struggling to make more of his pained sounds.

Jack shouts "That's enough!" As he shouts a spell "Unleash the Beast!" and he turns into a giant wolf. His eyes are still the same golden-yellow and his coat is white just like his hair with only the tips of his ears and tail being black as they fade out into the white.

Seeing this Riddle shouts "What just–" As Jack bares his teeth, as he loudly and angrily growls at him.

As Yuu has never seen this before, she thinks 'Is that…a giant wolf?!' As she drops her shirt down to shout "He…transformed?!" This also surprised Leona as he shouts "Whoa, what just–" but then chokes on some of the sand in the air.

Riddle, seeing an opportunity, shouts "He broke Leona's concentration!" before firing his signature spell/unique magic at him "Off With Your Head!" And with his concentration broken the spell actually lands on him as he shouts "GAAAAAH!" in surprise.

Having him no longer able to use magic allows all the sand and dust to fall back down to the ground. He also lets go of Ruggie as he falls to the ground gasping for air and coughing out mass amounts of sand and dust.

Cater shouts Riddle the compliment "That was beautiful, Riddle! You stopped Leona's magic cold!"

But Deuce focuses more on the person he was holding prisoner as he shouts "And he let go of Ruggie!" As he then shouted to Ruggie "This way, quickly!"

But Jack is the one that actually takes the opportunity to actually run up and grab Ruggie, so that he's farther away and is in less danger.

The silver haired Diasomnia member says to the other taller and neon-pastel green haired one "Sebek, let's get the wounded somewhere safe." Which causes him to shout back "Do not presume to order me around, Silver!"

Which allows the learning that the silver haired one is actually named Silver and the tall neon-pastel green haired boy is named Sebek.

But now bringing the focus back to Leona as he screams "No… NO! You can't collar a lion!"

Before he then turns his attention to Jack as he shouts at "And Jack! How did you…" his voice trails off before he continues shouting at him "Transformation potions are forbidden! Where did you get that?"

But Jack answers Leona telling him "I didn't use a potion – that's my signature spell/unique magic. With it I can transform myself into a wolf." Leona scoffs and then laughs at the answer he got before saying to Jack "What's that saying? Every dog has his day? Well I guess you had yours!"

But Jack still wants to get Leona's mojo back as he shouts towards him "Housewarden Leona, I want you to know… I only came to this school because of how much I admired you! What happened to the man you used to be?!" Leona scoffs again as he shouts back at Jack "Shut up… Your dreams got nothin' to do with me!"

But Riddle starts to see some signs as he tells Leona "I understand the irony of me being the one to say it, but it pains me to see you like this. You'd be wise to confine yourself to your room and try to calm down!" Leona then snaps his head over to Riddle as he shouts at him "What do you know about how I feel?!"

Just then Lilia speaks up as he says "Would that the lion king of the savanna could witness this absolute farce. No, if you ask me, the collar suits you far better than a crown ever could."

This makes Leona's attention now snap over to Lila as he shouts "...Huh?!" with his fangs bared.

Lila states "You may bemoan the fact that you're not higher in line to be king. But with that sensitive ego of yours? That so quickly directs all your petty anger at your retainers… Well, the idea of you ever contending with a REAL king like our Malleus – is absolutely laughable. Even if you COULD defeat Malleus, so long as that's how you choose to conduct yourself? You would never be fit to rule!"

Leona bursts out into insane laughter as he says "Yeah, you're probably right. No, you're EXACTLY right…!" before more insane laughter comes out of him. As he shouts with pain lacing his voice "I will never be king! No matter how hard I try!"

Just after that Grim exclaims "Myah?! All my fur's standin' on end!" As the sand and dust has started to rise up again.

Riddle says "The magic power within Leona is surging…" his voice trails off for a second as he blocks another wave of dust before shouting "I don't think my collar can hold it!"

Lilia says "No. That isn't magic power. That's negative energy, which means…" his voice trails off as he gets into a panic the more he says and realizes by what he was saying.

Cater then shouts to everyone "Everybody, get down!" Everyone follows his instructions in a panic.

Leona is even angrier as Riddle's collar also stops working on him as the sky turns a dark muddy color, mostly over the stadium but it went at least a little farther than that. But it was the darkest right above and around Leona.

Cater who managed to see what happened to Riddle's spell on Leona shouts "Riddle's collar flew off?!"

Leona then goes on his own little monologue, as his voice is absolutely dripping with venom "I've been loathed since the day I was born. I've never had a place, never had a future! None of my hard work is ever rewarded! How could any of YOU possibly understand? My disappointment?! My pain?!" as he then screeches. Before a deep growl forces its way out of his throat.

Just then Yuu saw the same thing as before Riddle overblotted with the flat yellow shadowy background. More and more drops fell until it was entirely covered with the black inky blot. Then it showed a close up of a magical pen, although this one had a yellow gemstone instead of a red one. The blot fell all around and on the pen but left the gemstone to be the last thing covered again then after everything was covered with blot and ink over it washed down to show the previously yellow gemstone to now be pitch black instead.

Yuu then opened her eyes to see Leona, after he had overblotted.

Although this time the first thing she paid attention to was the creature or thing behind him that was connected to him. It was a lion, but it had a ton of stitches all over it, almost making it look like a Frankenstein monster lion. Its head was a glass jar shaped to be that of a lion's head. It was filled with blot or at least some kind of inky black substance.

Now onto Leona. He ended up floating a little bit off the ground. Yuu assumed that perhaps all overblots were able to do that as Riddle also had been levitating a little bit as well.

He had no shoes on and around his ankles were golden bracelets with little golden things hanging down from them. He looked to kinda be wearing pants but they looked more like armor scales going up his legs for protection against attacks. He was wearing a bit of a cape skirt. Although it was all stitched together and dirty, like it had been torn apart many a times and never had any proper opportunity to wash it. There was also a piece of orange fabric hanging down from his waist with a random black pattern on it. He seemed to have a golden belt with a charm of some kind hanging off of it. Then on the left side there was black tuft of random fur. Then there was around his lower body what almost looked like a corset, and there seemed to be nothing underneath, but around his neck was a long batch of black fur that went all the way down and met the black corset thing. The fur seemed to be attached to a golden necklace of some kind. Although there were no jewels some pieces of it went farther out and made an interesting almost zig-zag pattern. Then his hands were covered with blot as it went all the way up his arm although becoming less intense and more broken up the farther up his arm it was. He also had a bunch of golden bracelets on both of his arms on top of the blot gloves. His loose hair was floating up slightly but two braids stayed the exact same as normal hair. He also had a black pattern on his face similar to Riddle's although his pattern looked like it was more like an eye-patch. The pattern was the most intense around his left eye and that was where the magic flame was, although Leona's was orange instead of red.

After his transformation he let out an absolutely animalistic roar.

Jack is surprised and slightly horrified by what happened as he shouts "What's happening?! Some kinda giant shadow is comin' outta him!" Deuce shouts "That's the incarnation of his blot!" Grim shouts panicked "Is he goin' into evil darkness berserker mode like Riddle did?!"

Riddle is having an even harder time with the dust as now the ground itself was floating up and around similar to what happened with Riddle but now some of them were turning into more sand due to his signature spell/unique magic and the area.

Riddle shouted at everyone "If you can move, seek shelter!" Before shouting to Ace and Deuce "Ace, Deuce, help me take the wounded outside!" Before shouting to Lilia "Lilia, please get help from the faculty!" Ace and Deuce shout back "On it!" Before going to work helping the injured students. Lilia states "Understood. Stay strong until I return!" before using a teleportation spell.

Leona lets out another animalistic roar.

At that Cater complained in an absolute panic "Why does this keep happening to us? This is sooooo not my #brand!" Riddle tells Cater rather rudely "If you're afraid, feel free to run." Cater says back "Trey wouldn't let me hear the end of that. We do this together, Housewarden!"

Jack shouts "I dunno what's going on, but if we hit Leona hard enough, maybe we can snap him outta it?" Ruggie speaks up "I…" before having to cough "I'll help too…" before being forced to cough again. But then manages to shout out "No way am I taking what he said lying down!"

Leona's voice also seems to have some kinda filter on it as he says "So even the lowly hyena turns against me?" As some more insane laughter comes out of him. Before he shouts "What a total joke!"

Grim gets closer to Yuu as he tells her "Yuu, if we take this guy down, they'll let us play in the tournament! Give it everything ya got!" Yuu knows that now there's no chance to run away so she shouts to all that are going to fight "Let's go get him, guys!"

As the fighting starts. But most of it isn't seen as the screen turns blurry, both naturally and from the sand. As Leona is eventually defeated and falls down to the ground with the last words his overblot says being "I wanted…to be king…"

But the aftermath isn't seen yet as the screen fades to black as "To be continued" plays before it fully turns off.