Mahouka Koukou No Rettousei: Apocalypse

A/N: New chapter for this one! The anime has been very good lately, very much a great animation of the LN and it sticks to the story quite well, even though it is not yet finished, I'll give it a 10/10 rating. Mahouka is simply too good to dislike, especially the great and mighty Tatsuya, badass MC of all time to my opinion and also because of Miyuki, biggest Bro-con of all time! :D

Anyway have finished drafting a first arc for Mahouka: Apocalypse and am now currently working on the second arc, I was planning to follow the 9SC plot of volume 13 but in the last minute I changed my mind and decided to give it a new twist, but still it will follow through a similar flow of the volume 13.

That's all I gotta say for now!

Disclaimer: I don't own Mahouka (except my plot and OCs), it belongs to Satou Tsutomu.

Chapter 4: Greeting

After being chased by demonic beings in the highway, Tatsuya and Mayumi are currently speeding in a freeway that leads to the east side of the Saegusa estate.

But still the road that these two took was no less dark than the highway where they were forced to play a life and death game of tag with those black hunching creatures.

"Tatsuya-kun… what were those?"

Mayumi, who first experience such a terrifying chase, couldn't help but hug Tatsuya's back like a lifeline.

Earlier she was calm and was even able to fight off their eldritch pursuers, but that was just her mind being stuck in its battle mode but now that she has calmed down, her just realized that what chased them moments ago were nothing like what she has seen before.

Mayumi of course was a powerful magician and has constantly flung herself to various situations involving violent, sometimes bloody struggles and she is no strange to the extraordinary. The vampire incident months ago were proof of that, but what happened now was something that took the top spot in Mayumi's list of scary things.

Unlike the vampire or the parasites, the monsters that appeared and chased her was absolutely terrifying to Mayumi's eyes. Even though she hasn't seen the full appearance, she glowing red eyes and the flensing claws were enough to almost scare the hell out of her.

Mayumi can only describe herself in one word, scared.

Tatsuya, who was feigning his ignorance on Mayumi, kept his silence and drove his motorcycle on.

If he answered, Mayumi would end up getting more agitated if she were to know the truth behind those monsters. Staying silent was the best way to keep Mayumi from panicking.

But it may seem that Mayumi had no intention in going along with Tatsuya' consideration.

"Tatsuya-kun!"

Being ignored by Tatsuya certainly taxed Mayumi's patience and the eldest daughter of the Saegusa tugged Tatsuya's coat to get his attention.

But still Tatsuya ignored her and kept his attention on the road, only to make Mayumi pushier.

"Tatsuya-kun! You're at it again! You're keeping secrets!"

Mayumi hugged Tatsuya tighter, hoping that it will make Tatsuya focus some of his attention towards her. Still Tatsuya kept his eyes on the road and not even bother to around to entertain Mayumi.

"Here you are again! I thought we have moved past this already!"

Mayumi irritated screams on the back began to nag Tatsuya but not enough to make him reconsider his decision to keep quiet. However there was one thing that he would like to stop.

"Senpai… I think it is inappropriate for you to wildly rub your body on my back especially when what you're wearing is a blouse made of thin cloth."

Pointing that out, Tatsuya managed to make Mayumi cease her childish raging behind, but even though she quieted down she was not set to abandon her interrogation just yet.

"Never mind that, just tell me the truth." Mayumi's voice certainly decreased its volume and intensity, today she sounded like a small mouse making a cute voice.

"Senpai I think it would be best if we avert any commenting on this matter, especially since we have absolutely no idea what they are."

That almost sounded like a reprimand coming from Tatsuya.

Mayumi swallowed whatever complaint she has up on her tongue, she was a little scared when she heard Tatsuya scary voice.

"I know that you're very confused of what's happening, believe me I am too. But speculating on things we aren't even sure of will just further the confusion."

Mayumi couldn't refute what Tatsuya just said and was thoroughly forced to stop her incessant demanding for answers. But still she is curious of what was happening today, but she can only broadcast that thorough her eyes now and not her mouth.

"Well sorry for being too pushy, I was just really curious…"

"I don't blame you senpai, if things happen like this in one fell swoop I would be blindly groping for answers too. But–"

Tatsuya suddenly stopped halfway in his sentence and abruptly stopped to bike. Just in time to avoid a flaming spear that landed right in front of them.

The spear created a small crater on the ground when it suddenly landed out of nowhere.

Luckily Tatsuya was able to stop the bike before he and Mayumi passed right on the trajectory of the spear.

"Spear?"

Again Mayumi was struck by unmatched confusion.

"Tch! Senpai be ready, another enemy group has found us."

"Uhm, um, sure!" Mayumi readied her CAD and used her Multi-scope to view the surroundings. However she couldn't spot anything, just the dark silhouettes of trees and the barely visible road was the only thing present here.

Mayumi's Multi-scope is a long-ranged Visual Systematic Sensory Magic that is used to observe a physical object from multiple angles like visual radar. It also enables Mayumi to expand her vision beyond obstructions like walls.

But the enemies that she is trying to locate are somewhat a null in her special vision. So it was up to Tatsuya who also possesses an extremely special pair of eyes.

And Tatsuya was able to find their new set of pursuers with his eyes or his Elemental Eyes.

30 kms from their position, right on the coast, is a group of ten horsemen.

The horsemen part was peculiar enough but the strangest is their appearance.

The ten horsemen are overflowing with massive amounts of psions clumped together by spirits than register in Tatsuya's Elemental Eyes as thick glowing coatings around their frame.

(Now this is interesting…)

Though threatened, Tatsuya was actually more interested at such complex yet beautiful layers of psions and spirits.

But he has no time to marvel here, Tatsuya started his bike sped away in an instant.

"Waah! Tatsuya-kun!"

Unprepared, Mayumi almost fell off when Tatsuya suddenly sped away.

"Hang on to me."

Mayumi of course did as Tatsuya said and clung to him as if he was a lifeline.

Tatsuya increased their speed even more and then suddenly turned to his left, away from the freeway and into the bumpy road of the forest.

"WHERE ARE WE GOING THIS TIME!?"

Mayumi can't really see where she and Tatsuya really are in right now because she sealed her eyes shut but the very bumpy ride that she is experiencing right now tipped her off that they are not in a conventional road anymore.

"Just hold on to me!"

"Alright!"

Soon the attacks started to rain down on the two of them.

Flaming spears land and explode and the forest ground, starting a fire. But some of the spear did not pass down because they were being blocked by the trees.

This was Tatsuya's plan; he deliberately took the hard road for the protection it has to offer.

But this was not a permanent solution to their little predicament. The spear burned the trees they hit and in turn burning anything else, starting a large forest fire.

"Why are we in the forest!?" Mayumi finally opened her eyes and saw that they are currently trekking in a dark forest or rather a burning forest because behind the two of them are burning trees and grass littered with long spears stabbed to the ground.

"Who are those attacking us?"

Mayumi felt a little fazed by yet again another weird event but this time she has better grip on herself. Mayumi set her CAD and activated another one of her offensive magic.

Condensing air particles into small Ice bullets, Mayumi applied sub-sonic speed on those Ice bullets, directing them towards another group of spears crashing down on them from above.

Mayumi had invoked her magic Hale Particles to lessen the amount of strafe raining down on them.

"What kind of magic are they using; they never seem to run out of flaming spears to throw at us!"

Mayumi who was keeping up the fire on the rain of spears, started to feel anxious that the barrage isn't stopping and it seemed to be gaining more and more in number.

Then they heard it, the hellish whinnying of stallions.

Mayumi saw no horse near them but those sounds were so loud they echoed the surroundings.

"Senpai, brace yourself, we'll take an extreme route."

"O-Okay!"

Mayumi hung her tightest on Tatsuya's back.

Tatsuya saw a clearing. A narrow pathway leading to a bridge.

"That can be enough."

Tatsuya mumbled as he set their direction right there.

But then, their attackers finally made their appearance. Crashing through fully grown trees with ease is armored knights mounting stallions that spout flames from their nose and mouth.

The knights are wielding a Mantlet on their right hand while holding flaming spears in their left hand.

Tatsuya viewed them and piece by piece he is starting to uncover what they really are.

(Summoned beings. Psion mass, designed in a shape of a humanoid knight, however the armor is another level entirely. Psions compressed and formed by earth spirit, turning those psion into a metal-like armor. Lastly the outward psion mass vibrating out of their frame. Composed of fire spirits pushing inward to keep the whole thing together.)

Tatsuya summarized the make of their pursuers.

"Then…"

Tatsuya pointed his right hand at the cavalry of hellish knight chasing them from behind. A mass of unruly psion shot out in an invisible wave to dismantle the psion layers of their pursuers, it was Gram Dispersion.

When the Gram Dispersion reached the knights, the damage it did was only partial, some were stopped in their tracks but other were only fazed by a little and still chased after him and Mayumi.

(Only the outer psion layers were affected and they weren't even dismantled. Such strong and dense psion grade, whoever summoned them must have a very dense amount of psion and a terrifying mastery of spirit magic.)

Tatsuya marveled at the potency of this summon beings rather than fear it.

After taking on a hit from Tatsuya it was the knights' turn to retaliate. The six knights brandished their long spears and threw it at Tatsuya and Mayumi.

Tatsuya did not evade but rather sped up to the clearing, some of the spears only missed him by a narrow margin, one even dangerously passed Tatsuya's face.

After overcoming the close call, Tatsuya is now homefree in the clearing and he pressed on full speed towards the bridge where he will draw in and trap their pursuers.

"Tatsuya-kun! What's happening."

Mayumi open her eyes and looked back, there she saw the greatest shock of her life.

She saw medieval knights covered in flaming armor and riding hellish armored stallions. These exceedingly strange and time misplaced beings are the ones chasing her and Tatsuya.

"K-KNIGHTS!"

Mayumi's grip on Tatsuya suddenly tightened like a death hug of a Boa.

"Senpai it would help if you would loosen your embrace over my back."

Tatsuya's words fell on deaf ears and Mayumi who was struck by fear and confusion clung to Tatsuya as tight as she can.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Senpai calm down!"

Again Mayumi did not even hear Tatsuya; she was busy screaming to even hear her own thoughts.

With the trouble concerning the panicking Mayumi who was very much shocked at the strange beings chasing them and the fact that their pursuers are gaining, Tatsuya was force into a corner. But still he managed to evade the spear throwing from the knights, but he is slowly losing options because the knights are already just a few meters from him and Mayumi.

A few more and then are at hands reach.

Luckily though, Tatsuya reached the bridge.

Cranking the speed up of his bike Tatsuya made one last push, enough to clear half of the 17 km bridge.

When the half was reached, Tatsuya drew his CAD and pointed it down on the bridge, however it was not the floor of the bridge it was the pillars that support the bridge from below were the targets.

Tatsuya's Elemental Eyes allowed Tatsuya to see through the concrete floor and clearly visualize the target he is aiming at.

Tatsuya pulled the trigger of his Silver Horn CAD, activating Mist Dispersion.

The power of the A-rank decomposition magic destroyed the pillar supporting the bridge, all eight pillars cut off from their foundations and thus the inevitable outcome happened.

The bridge collapsed from the point Tatsuya and Mayumi entered and quickly advanced towards the other side.

Tatsuya and Mayumi are already across the bridge so they were safe, but their pursuers where caught in the collapse.

They were all flushed down into a 27 feet fall accompanied by heavy debris of rock and metal.

But in the Tokyo Metropolitan, the one summoned the knights saw what just became of her reagent but she has the perfect way to counterattack this retaliation from her target.

"Converte Fata."

The girl holding a thick grimiore mumbled as she touched the page of her book.

A wide burst of flame spirit burst out of that page and all surged forward into a certain direction.

Back to Tatsuya, he saw a fast moving mass of reddish yellow flames. The stream of flames went down on the cliff below the collapsed bridge where the knights are buried under the rubble.

Then a tower of flames spurned out of the cliff, it raised so high it nearly reached the skies.

"Wahhh!?"

Mayumi was struck of what she has seen.

Tatsuya took no chances in trying to see what will happen next; he sped away, putting as much distance from the cliff as possible.

"Tatsuya-kun! You're going to fast!"

"It's better than being surrounded by those knights."

Calmly retorting to Mayumi, Tatsuya continued on with his driving.

Behind the two, the mounted knights leaped off from the bottom of the cliff, now they are cloaked in blazing flames.

The whinnying of their hellish horses echoed throughout the area.

"We back on the clock senpai, hang on."

Once again the chase restarted.

(Scene Change)

Chiba Household.

The powerful magical families surrounding Tokyo finally have caught wind of what is happening in the outskirts and has finally move to find out what is happening.

One such group is the Chiba Family.

Chiba Erika ran out the door carry her precious sword with her, the Orochimaru.

Outside the courtyard of the Chiba main house is a group of the family's swordsmen, including the prodigy of the clan, Chiba Naotsugu and Chiba Toshikazu as the leaders.

"Erika you're coming?"

"Of course, no way that I'm letting this pass!"

Erika answered immediately to the question of her Naotsugu-nii.

"Give it up, save your energy for the battle not on Erika."

The eldest Toshikazu dismissed the issue and focused everyone's attention to the matter at hand.

However, little did they know that a shadow is creeping close to them.

Oddly, the shadow is without a body, it was a shadow on its own.

"A swordsman clan huh? It has been centuries since the Senguko period."

The shadow mumbled that with a wicked tone.