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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Frozen Hell of the North
Age: 41
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So, let's find out about Arisa now, hmm?
Shine 1-40
Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Shine 41:
Lina blinked at the person who walked into the restaurant. "Aren't you Arisa's butler?"
The older man nodded to her. "Yes. As you were there when Miss Bannings was hurt, I thought you should know..."
"Huh?" Lina blinked before turning her head and sighing as she saw Luna trying to work the radio and being about as successful as she had been with a calculator when she first arrived. "Luna..."
"I think I figured it out already... Yes, this rolling thing here turns it off." She rolled her thumb over the dial and let out a scream while everyone else winced at the sudden increase of static that filled the restaurant.
"Miss..." One of the cooks came out and made Luna leave the radio as another one quickly dropped the volume and get some real music on. "Please, you may be the boss's sister, but you really don't know much, do you?"
Luna twitched heavily and Lina fought back a laugh. "...Why can't I fry them?"
"Because then insurance premiums would go up, I'd have to pay for court fees, I'd have trouble hiring replacements and I'd have to pay off the hospital stay." Lina said flatly as the cook started sweating heavily. "Look, just go back and cook, okay?"
He nodded at her. "Sure boss!"
"And, Luna, you really don't know anything about this world, so, please, don't try anything with the technology, you might accidentally do what I did once."
"What?" She blinked in confusion as she sat down next to Lina.
"I put a metal pan in the microwave, nearly destroyed the kitchen by accident." Lina sweat-dropped at the looks she was getting from her employees. "Hey, I'll have you know I never used a microwave until that point, okay?"
"Aren't you from Europe?"
Lina rolled her eyes. "Very poor section of Europe, they don't even have running water, okay?" She turned back to the butler. "Sorry about that, so, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Ah, yes..." He sat down at the table and looked at Lina seriously. "After Miss Bannings spent time in the hospital, I took a look into her past. I found something interesting just before she moved here to Japan."
"Wait, you haven't been her butler forever?"
He shook his head. "No, I only became her butler after she and her parents moved here to Japan."
"So, what did you find out?" Luna asked, curious.
"It seems, that just before coming to Japan, her parents spent a lot of money on something, but I can't get all the details without them around." He looked apologetic and Lina sighed softly.
"Don't worry about it, if it comes down to it, we'll need to..." She trailed off and frowned softly. "I think we may need to continue this conversation at the school." Both Luna and the butler blinked and Lina turned to look in the kitchen just as Shiro came out. "Honey, I need to head to the school, seems that our problem just got worse."
Shiro nodded to her. "Do you want me to drive you, or..."
"I can take them." The butler said as he stood up. "I have the limo outside."
"Well, it is getting close to the end of the school day." Lina stood up slowly, before grinning softly. "A limo? Haven't rode in one of those since our wedding."
Shiro chuckled and waved them off. "Just don't go picking up weird people."
Lina smirked at him. "I only did that once, dear, though, that reminds me, we need to send the pope a letter."
Shiro sweat-dropped, he remembered when Nanoha was about born, the Pope had given them a personal visit and had given Nanoha a blessing. When he asked why, the Pope said that he felt that the child would have a long, hard life ahead of her and she would need all the help she could get.
Who knew that old guy was right?
As they got to the car, Luna looked at it in slight confusion before the butler opened the door for her. "Thank you." She nodded as she got inside. "Woah..."
Lina chuckled as she was helped into the limo as well. "Yeah, it's comfy." She sighed as she relaxed into the seat. "Surprised you didn't ask to fly to the school."
"Even if you pointed me in the right direction, I'd likely miss it." Luna chuckled softly. "I need to know, Lina... How do you put up with all this weird stuff?"
"Technology?" Lina sighed and looked up, gently patting her belly. "I got used to it, really. But there's still things I don't know how to use properly." She laughed softly. "Kyouya still teases me about not being able to use a computer for more than Solitaire." Seeing Luna's confused face, she shook her head. "Don't worry about it. I'm not even legal to drive."
"You're not?" Luna blinked a few times as Lina shook her head and tapped her chin.
"Not at all, I do fine on a bike though." When Luna gave her a confused look, she laughed softly. "I can travel on a bike so fast that I've had flying machines chase me down and try to stop me." She never knew why Shiro wanted to her wear cat ears when she went biking though.
Luna's eyes were swirling in confusion and she nodded slowly. "I'll... Take your word for it."
Lina sighed softly. "How are mom and dad doing?"
"They miss you." Luna was grateful for the change of topic. Thinking about machines that could fly was hurting her head. "They want to be around for their grandson's birth."
Lina sighed softly. "I don't know if they could handle the technology. Luna, I nearly had a freak-out when I saw the stuff originally, I'm surprised..." She trailed off as Luna started twitching. "Well, that's pretty much how I was when I was around the technology at first." She sighed softly. "I don't want mom and dad to freak out when they see this stuff." Seeing her sister's look, she slumped. "Alright, but please, try to prepare them for what they're going to see, this stuff's not on that world yet."
"Yet?" Luna blinked and Lina laughed at her.
"Trust me, that world will catch up in a few hundred years." Lina sighed as she closed her eyes. "Just sit back and relax, sis."
Luna just blinked and nodded slowly.
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"Momma? Daddy?" She looked around, whimpering. "Where are you?" Her eyes widened as she saw some men she had never met before just grinning at her. "Who... Who... No, stay... Stay away... STAY AWAY!" She screamed before everything went to white.
Arisa jolted awake with a scream. "That was..." She panted and shivered. "What was..." She looked at her hands and her face turned green as she saw it.
Blood. So much blood on her hands.
She started swiping at her hands, but she couldn't get it to go away. "Get off, get off..." She whimpered, before getting out of the bed and stumbling for the sink. Turning on the water to full blast, she ran her hands under it, scrubbing hard. "Get off, go away!" She pulled her hands away from the water and trembled. "Why..?" She suddenly felt ill and lurched her head into the sink, expelling the contents of her lunch as her head got soaked in the warm water. "Why won't it..." Closing her eyes after finally being unable to throw up anymore, she slumped to the ground and curled into a ball. "Go away... Go away..." Why wouldn't it go away?
"She's right in... Arisa!" Suzuka gasped as she saw her friend trembling on the floor. "Come on, Arisa..."
"Blood, won't go away, why won't..."
Suzuka blinked and looked at Arisa's hands and touched them, which caused Arisa to scream and start scooting away. "Arisa!"
"No more... Stop, no more..."
"Sleep." Luna's voice carried through the room and Arisa suddenly slumped over, out cold. "Shee..." She grabbed the girl and put her back on the bed. "What the heck is she talking about, blood? There wasn't any that I saw." Nor smelled, but she didn't need to mention the rather repugnant smell from the sink. Though the sight of running water without someone to work a pump was interesting. Clearing her mind, Luna touched Arisa in the middle of the forehead and closed her eyes.
"What is she doing?" Arisa's butler asked Lina, who shrugged slightly.
"Not sure exactly." Luna suddenly lit up like a sun and the occupants in the room had to shield their eyes.
"Interesting." Luna said as the glow faded. Turning to the others, most of whom were blinking the spots out of their eyes. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that she's got a fragment of Cephied inside of her... Except that Cephied's dead and from my world, so..."
"The Blue Dragon then." Lina supplied, getting a nod from Luna.
"Okay, then the Blue Dragon. Heck, if I didn't know any better, I'd swear that what happened here was the opposite of our world."
"You mean, Chaotic Blue either died or was completely sealed away, but as a last act of revenge managed to slice the Blue Dragon up into several fragments and then both made servants afterwords?" Luna nodded to Lina's question. "Then maybe Death Bringer was right..." Lina muttered to herself, getting a shrug from Luna.
"Anyway, the point is, apparently the power was waking up, but someone put an additional seal on top of the one that's already on her soul, so it wouldn't wake up."
"Um..." Suzuka spoke up as she raised her hand. "What do you mean? Is Arisa not human?"
"She is." Luna nodded to the young girl. "She just has part of the soul of a powerful god inside of her. Heck, if I wasn't Cephied's Knight I wouldn't know that it was the Blue Dragon."
Lina frowned softly as she looked at the girl on the bed. "Hmm... Can you remove the seal?"
"The second one, easy enough, but if the power wakes up fully, well... We both know what will happen." Lina sighed softly and nodded.
"What will happen?" Arisa's butler asked in confusion.
Lina gave him a serious look. "Arisa will cease to exist if the Blue Dragon fully manifests itself." Suzuka, Arf and the butler all stared at her in horror.
"Bu, but..." Suzuka whimpered and Lina shook her head.
"It may not happen, we'll have to be careful when helping Arisa out, okay? I'm pretty sure that Luna can talk the Blue Dragon's soul down a bit so that it doesn't consume her completely."
Luna chuckled and nodded. "Won't be too hard, so you won't need to worry about that, it might take some time though."
Suzuka nodded and closed her eyes, praying to anything that would listen to her, to help Arisa out.
"Heh heh heh! I knew it!" Riksfalto materialized in the room, laughing at the group. "I KNEW that there was something unusual about her!" When Luna stood up and started to glow, she held up her hands. "Hold it there, Knight of Cephied, I'm not here to fight you, I was just checking in on my new pet project."
"You..." Suzuka growled at her. "This is your fault!"
Riksfalto shrugged. "Yeah, well, whatever kiddo, she's like Lei Magnus then, if you want her to not turn into the Blue Dragon, you just gotta keep her from giving into complete despair like Lei did."
Lina frowned at the Mazoku. "Why are you telling us this?"
Riksfalto smirked at her. "Because, it's more fun to fight a human who draws on the power of a god, rather than the god itself. Besides, I wanna see what someone can do with that much Holy power running through them." The grin on her face was threatening to split it apart. "Maybe she'll be like Yuuno? I don't know, but I can't wait to find out." She laughed as she disappeared.
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