8 The Arcane Angel, Julian

They were standing next to each other with the two other duos that were second and third. The announcer began praising the third place team as the same figure that he had seen appeared in the sky, but this time, more people noticed as the announcer stopped talking. Simeon saw the defense mages start to move around and talking on communicators, something was wrong. They then ordered everyone to stand from their seats and head out of the arena and that the ceremony would be pushed back to a later date. Simeon saw the figure dive towards the arena once more. Landing with a cloud of sand and dust, the figure was taller than Simeon, "Long time no see, Simeon," He recognized the voice, "I came here to finish the job."

"Crayne is too lazy to do it himself?"

"You will die, that is all he wants," He created blades in his hands and launched then at John and Roger and at the other duo, making them fall to the ground unconscious, "Shall we begin?" More bird figure landed and picked up the four downed mages before leaving the arena.

"Simeon," Julia whispered, "Who are they?"

"Arcane Angels."

"Is this about, that thing?"

"Yes, it is," Simeon said as he glared at Julian, "Julian, you remember my magic, right? Well forget everything about it."

"Oh really?" He laughed, "Air Tome, Hail of Arrows."

"Air Tome, Reflecting Winds!" The arrows scattered around the arena, "You will never touch him."

"And you are?"

"Julia Smith, Simeon Dusk's partner in magic!"

"Silence," He snapped his fingers and two bird figures appeared in the arena, "Let me handle a one on one with him, deal with her, angels," Simeon snarled at him, "Yes, please, use that Gloom spell, it was fun to fight you with that, and you don't have to think about that girl."

"No one, and I say, no one touches, no one, touches MY GIRL! Pain Tome, Arcane Shield!" He moved in front of Julia and swung his sword, sending the same energy wave, paralyzing both of the angels, "If you want to fight me, you don't touch her, if you don't want to die in the fight."

"You are going to die, that is all," Simeon blocked an ultimate bolt with his shield as he moved back in front of Julia. Julian launched himself at Simeon, who slammed him to the ground by countering him with his shield. He was sent to the floor as Simeon stared him down. He was stunned by the hit and stumbled to get up, "You think you are better than me?" He created two spells, "Air Tome, Dual Storm," Simeon swung his blade as the spells cast. The two fronts of energy collided before shattering, with no resulting spell. Simeon spun and slashed at the air creating a massive wave that Julian countered with the same spell. Simeon moved towards Julian, swinging the magic blade, "Why won't you just die?"

"Because I have another reason to live."

"Fine, then I'll take that away from you," He snapped his fingers and Simeon, instantly swung behind him, stopping the two new angels, "You little punk."

"You are too predictable," Simeon said as he lunged as if to create an energy wave but instead used the blade to piece through Julian's stomach. Julian gasped and looked down at his stomach as the blade continued to force itself through him. Blood spilled onto the floor as Simeon glared at Julian, "As I said, you touch my girl, you die, and you tried, so you die as well," He withdrew the blade, "You'll die, or maybe your angels will save you, but I am not."

"Simeon, don't!" Simeon lowered the blade he had ready to swing at Julian, "Don't be a killer."

"Why not? He tried to hurt you."

"You hurt him, that is enough, please, listen to me, Simeon," She begged for him to listen, "You have hurt him enough, right? He might have killed your brother, but that won't bring him back, he needs to be judged, if you kill him, it will be your fault, he will win," Simeon shoved him to the floor with his foot as he bled from his stomach, before sheathing his blade and turning his back on Julian, "Thank you."

"I, I, I hate him, I wanted to slay him, to cull him and then all the angels," He shivered with anger, anger that he couldn't expel, "I hate this."

"Leave him, don't kill him, he deserves justice, he will be judged, nothing else," Defense mages swarmed into the arena and arrested Julian with paramedics attending to his open wound. Julia encouraged him to move out of the arena with her arm, "Simeon, do you love me?" She changed the topic, "You called me, your girl."

"Yeah, I guess I did."

"Do you mean it?"

"Maybe, well, I don't know, I even used my ultimate spell," He changed the topic again.

"That is your ultimate spell?"

"I found it 2 days ago, didn't want to tell you, to surprise you, and apparently, I did, if just a little," She smiled at him and hugged him, "I guess it did."

"How did you find it?"

"When I was up at night, it was because I was woken up by a voice that drew me to the ultimate spell, so I tried it, and saw its power."

"You have an offensive spell, that is so cool, already that you don't get affected by spells, now you don't even have to defend only you can attack."