[Kurush]

Seeing no one else seem to bother, I'll keep going with the Negi vs. Aris fight.

Spoiler for Negi vs. Aris pt 3:

“Alicia-chan...” Asuna inquired of the little blond girl. “Why are you on our side? Since he's your dad, shouldn't you be helping Oyaji?”

“...I know he's my father, Asuna-san.” Alicia started off, with confidence now to speak. “But I have my own reasons for doing battle against him alongside you. Mainly because he's lost his way as a leader, and I don't want him to fall down too far.”

“Ah got a piece of me mind ta give tha' rot'en basterd as well...” Her axe, Lochaber spoke as well. “Plus, Ah think tha' mah Liegfch also has taken a shine ta ye, ye little red-hedded runt.” The axe's words got Alicia sent panicking slightly and blushing like Nodoka used to do. “I say, mah Liegfch tends to tell me tales that she can't sleep properly wifout thinkin' of ye evry niht and make pretty draving's of ye from time ta time and-” He was interrupted by Alicia's great left armor hand grabbed his head and held it tight. “...Ah guess this be me time to shut up, ain't it?” Lochaber said in the end, his voice muffled because of the great hand.

“...Negi, you know how to handle them.” Asuna said quietly, lowering her greatsword.

Negi just sighed. “...Alright.... Alicia-san, you and I can spend some time together some other day, but not now. I hope you'll understand.”

“Yes.” Alicia answered him briefly before the sound of rock scraping against one another reached their ears.

“...Oof. Ow.” Aris said as he crawled out of the big hole, now really roughed up. “That really smart....” He stopped moving when he saw the whole group of kids in front of him. A few brief seconds of staring at each other, the Spartan finally sighed. “...I guess I'll need to use a few things now...”

“Huh?” Asuna was confused at what Aris had said just then.

“I'm not willing to face off against these kinds of odds without some form of items to have for myself. I may be immortal and all, but I can't rush into something without weapons and armor, can I?” He said as he drew out several cards of a particular form they recognized.

“What the-?!” Kotarou exclaimed, seeing the cards.

“Those are-” Asuna continued, whilst Negi seemed to almost shiver in dread at the number the Spartan had pulled out.

“Fear not. These are not Pactio cards.” Aris stated for them whilst plucking a few out of the great amount he had in his hand. “I simply had transferred the artifacts I intend to use into cards, allowing greater mobility and access to them. Don't worry, I won't use all of them, just the ones I need for this moment.” The first card he drew summoned a form of plate armor onto him. What was most notable, was its direct similarity to a Hoplite suit of armor. There were few outer weak spots that could be grabbed by an exterior hand. The breastplate had no such weakness, being a massively thick cuirass of seemingly silver like metal, but undoubtedly stronger. The shoulder pads was like two bowls covering his shoulders, and the arms were covered by chain-mail of the same metal. A bracer was put on each forearm, with the left one seeming more gold-copper colored like than the right one which was made the same like the rest of the armor. The battle skirt as it seemed to be, consisted of two metal plates on his sides of the hips that molded to them down the thighs. The front and back had studded leather, the leather set into small sections with rivets to connect them. They covered most of his thighs as well, apart from the hips. His legs had plating there as well to, with chain-mail underneath.

Finally, he drew another card and summoned forth a helmet that reminded them of the ancient Greek battle helmets, at least the Chalcidian ones. It retained its nose guards and fixed cheek pieces. It finally had a transverse horsehair crest on the top, making them recall that he was still an officer and still in charge of this operation.

“...Oh, boy. This is gonna hurt like I don't know what.” Kotarou said as the Spartan put on his helmet, and as he finished, some black aura covered his entire face, and revealed a pair of glowing white eyes instead. “That's not good.”

“Oh, I almost forgot my best party piece.” Aris said, stretching out his right arm, to have a certain glow to it. A second later, he was swinging his arm concentrated, with an apparent whip of metal in hand, deliberately missing Negi's group, and then immediately stopping, returning the hand to his side. “...I did say that I had myself one of those swords too, didn't I?” The Spartan inquired as the whip molded its liquid metal into the Silver Sword he had for himself.

“Figures. Seems almost fitting that you would bring that along.” Asuna said, reassuring her stance. Alicia let go of Lochaber with her right hand, to have the great mask that comes with the suit emerge from the back of her armor, caught it with the right hand and asserted it on to the suit, covering her own face.

“Now then... Shall we?” Aris asked as he took his stance with his silver blade, it changing into a kind of greatsword for his usage.

Spoiler for Notes:

-- Me, I find Lochaber... to be awesome. Not only as a Device (Nanoha series for that matter), but also because of his speech. I wanted him to be a whole lot different from other devices that speak, so I went ahead and gave him two different things: A heavy Scottish Highlander accent, and access to some of, okay, all of Earth's more unpleasant words. He is able to curse and swear, and if you think lightly of the accent, try speaking it, and you'll se my point.

--Aris is built as a man who has seen a lot of things, if not everything. Therefore, along with a large amount of theoretical knowledge of magic, he has a vast deposit of artifacts. The armor and the helmet could be seen as a reflection to his past as a Spartan warrior in his roots. The Sword, long story, you need to read from chapter 4, skip from 8 till 10, and keep reading from there about the blade.

-- The materials used, (so far, unnamed) were Adamantium for the main armor and Orichalcum for that left bracer. To me, Orichalcum is... basically crap. Its origins mean "gold copper", therefore it is soft metal, not one for weapon smithing, at all. It is Not a suitable alloy for usage in the practical field. However, to keep some readers happy, and I know for a fact that there is at least 1 Kingdom Hearts player out there, I decided to give Orichalcum a small chance: It has magic energy of its own. It is however, unrefined and raw, making it dangerous to work with if you don't know what you're doing. The upside to it, is that once you know how to handle it, and have a spot of luck, you can refine that magic energy to do whatever you want for the metal to react to.

That's it for now. Hoe you don't mind the large amount of notes.