[Nanya01]

So, apparently, while I was out, there was a big argument over Blood That Flows or something?

Oh, and I never said Suzuka could beat Signum. I said she could beat Vita. But I never disclosed the context of that. It could have been at arm wrestling for all we know.

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Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 10:

"Deal with the hammer knight," the one with short purple hair said to the woman with long pink hair, "I'll handle the one in white."

"Vita, be careful, something," Nanoha never got to finish her statement as the one with short hair suddenly accelerated at a speed that was closer to what Fate could do and slammed into Nanoha, forcing the two into the train before going upwards and ending up against the side of the mountain.

"Nanoha!" Vita yelled, before flying back as the pink haired one slammed some sort of large bladed weapon into the ground where she was a moment ago. "Eisen!"

"Gigant Form!"

When the hammer popped up and dropped back down with a clack, the small metal ends of the hammer became much larger and yellow in color.

"Slaughter Arms..." The pink haired woman said as she threw her weapons at Vita before reaching behind her and pulling out two more.

"Well, this could be interesting." Vita muttered as she batted the blades away. "Is that all?"

The woman flew up into the air to meet her. "Shattering Slaughter."

Vita felt like her stomach dropped out of her stomach as the woman threw her third blade and she watched as it and the other two suddenly shatter and turn into much smaller blades that started to spin in mid air. "...This could be a pain."

"Yes." The woman squeezed her hand together and the blades suddenly shot towards Vita, who shot straight up, causing the wave to follow her. "Is that all you can do?"

"Nope!" Vita shot up before flipping around and rushing back down, slamming Graf Eisen into the blades, scattering them. "Can't let you just..." Vita trailed off as she saw the scattered blades start moving back towards her while spinning around her slowly. "...I want to say that this is cheating."

"It is." The woman nodded and squeezed her left hand into a fist, the blades shot forward and slammed into Vita, somehow creating an explosion in mid-air.

"Vita-san!" Erio called out, his eyes wide at what he just saw. "How..?" Vita was so strong, even Fate-san couldn't drop her so easily.

"Now then," the woman turned back to look down. "I suggest that you..."

"Schwalbefliegen."

The pinkette turned and grunted as she was slammed with a large metal ball in the stomach, sending her flying into the forest below.

Vita panted softly as her barrier was able to hold, just barely, under the assault. "Ngh... Eisen, full limit release!"

"Voll Freisetzung!"

Vita closed her eyes as her body was covered in a red glow and the limiter was fully released. "Alright, now let's see how you handle me with nothing holding me back."

The only response Vita got was a giant metal ball flying right back at her. Growling, she swung Eisen at her own attack, knocking it away and into the ground below.

Vita could only blink as the pinkette flew up at a high speed to meet her in mid air. "You're very strong." Her opponent had her eyes narrowed and Vita blinked in shock.

Those eyes were reptilian in nature.

(---)

Nanoha was never more grateful that she sparred against Signum quite often than she was now. Her opponent's purple blade were sharp as hell, and the woman's strength was even higher than Vita's was. "What do you want the Lost Logia for? If it's for something reasonable, we could help you!"

The woman narrowed her eyes at Nanoha as the redhead's barrier and staff were able to hold her attack off. "Even if I was to tell you, you would refuse to help us out, after all, why would you want someone to have a Lost Logia?"

"You're right," Nanoha agreed before propping her feet against the woman's stomach and pushing her back hard. "I wouldn't want someone who has an attitude like yours to have any sort of Lost Logia!" She held her hand out and watched dispassionately as she let loose a Val Flare at close range. Floating away from the rock, Nanoha frowned as her attack actually missed and continued on. "...Where did you..?"

"Too slow." She heard a whisper from above and behind. Spinning around, her eyes widened as the woman's wing blades managed to sever her shoulder padding like it was tissue paper.

Then the woman got fancy as she seemed to curl into a ball before lashing out with her feet, striking Nanoha in the stomach, forcing her away from her. "You're," the woman seemed to disappear before slamming a knee into Nanoha's stomach, causing the redhead to gasp out in pain as the air was driven out of her lungs, "too WEAK!"

"Raising Heart," Nanoha whispered as her opponent rushed at her, "Limiter Release."

"Alright, full Limit Release."

The woman let out a yell as she punched forward, only to stare as Nanoha caught it open handed.

"Let's see you say that again." Nanoha narrowed her eyes while squeezing the fist and pulling down before slamming her head against the other woman's. "Tell me that I'm weak again."

"Axel Bolt."

Several pink bolts shot out of Raising Heart, spun around and slammed into the woman from behind.

"Now then," Nanoha let go of the woman's hand and grabbed her by the scuff of her neck, "just what do you want the..." She stopped talking as she saw the woman suddenly grin at her.

"Heh," a loose line of blood was coming out of her mouth, "good, good, I needed a challenge!"

"MASTER!"

The next thing Nanoha knew, those purple blades turned white and tore through her shields, barrier jacket and into her stomach with ease.

Flying back, Nanoha put her hand over her stomach and gasped heavily as she felt her blood flowing out of her body. 'What the?' That was almost like Fate's dimensional blade, but Nanoha hadn't felt any magic with that.

"Don't worry, it was a shallow cut, so long as you get it healed, you'll be fine." Smirking the woman held her arms out, pointing downwards, "but," those blades started to flash white, "I wonder how well you can fight with your body bleeding like that."

Nanoha twitched, this wasn't going to be easy.

(---)

Vita had thought that the pink-haired woman was going to be a problem, especially after revealing that she had reptilian eyes.

She never imagined that her opponent would start generating electricity over her sword-like object and start swinging something so awkwardly so fast and hard that she was hard-pressed to keep up. "Gah, it's like I'm fighting Signum or something." Gritting her teeth, Vita rushed back towards her opponent, only to stare as she caught Graf Eisen with her open hand with ease. "...Okay, this is just cheating."

"You forgot something."

Vita's eyes widened as pain lashed out against her back and legs as those blades tore into her back, cutting her dress open and exposing her bloodied backside. 'How? Even if it's weaker, my automatic barrier should have at least parried them.'

"Surprised? My blades are designed to cut through weaker barriers." She said while pulling her sword back. "Goodbye."

Before she could strike, the pink-haired opponent had to fly backwards as a blue-white beam cut through where she was a moment ago. Looking down, she saw Erio holding his spear, except that the metal blade had been replaced by an energy one.

"Leave her alone!" Erio yelled at her.

Vita gritted her teeth as she saw the smaller blades heading towards the four rookies. "Hey," her opponent looked at her just in time to get hit by Graf Eisen in the side of the head, "bleeding as I am, I'm still going to kick your big ass!"

The woman twitched and shook her head before looking at Vita, and for the first time, Vita noticed some anger in her eyes. "However large my rear is, it is no concern of yours."

Despite bleeding and her back, legs and rear all feeling like they were on fire, Vita actually grinned at her opponent. "I could get to like you." Still, she only had a little bit more time before the limiter kicked back in, she couldn't afford to waste time like this.

(---)

Nanoha did find it interesting that even with a small hole in her stomach she was still able to fight against her extremely fast, strong and outright lethal opponent. "Strike Flame!" She snapped her hand out in the direction that she was certain her opponent was heading and launched a gout of fire towards her. A grim smile came to her face as the woman was forced to cut it in half, but still had some burn marks on her face and arms from the attack.

"You think you can beat me with that?"

Nanoha shook her head and grinned as a magic circle appeared under her and expanded around her. "I doubt I could hit you with any of my stronger spells, you'd likely dodge them and anything that would hit you would do too much damage, so..." She winced as her stomach protested. Putting her bloodied hand over her wound, she held Raising Heart up. "If you survive, you can thank my sister for teaching me this spell."

Several tornadoes spun into life around Nanoha and her opponent as lightning started to crash around them. "What is this?"

Nanoha grinned darkly at her opponent. "Do it, Raising Heart."

"Alright, Thunder Digger Rage."

The next thing that the woman knew was that she was blasted from several angles at once by several power lightning bolts of a combined Digger Bolt and Thunder Rage crashed into her at once.

Nanoha could only watch as the woman cried out in sheer pain from the attack. Not that she blamed her, Fate's lightning magic attacks hurt like hell. Nanoha might not have been as good at lightning as Fate was, but she could still cast them.

When the attack ended, Nanoha was rather shocked to see the woman still floating in mid-air, panting hard and trembling, but not out. "What the..?"

She looked at Nanoha, her amber eyes full of anger as she continued to pant while lightning danced over her suit and skin. "You..." She turned to Nanoha and growled as her outfit fell apart, leaving her completely naked in mid-air. "...I hate you."

Nanoha was blushing and scratching her cheek. "Um... Hate to sound rude, but how did you..."

"Those suits were insulated against things like that, it still hurt, you know." She blinked as Nanoha pointed Raising Heart at her slightly shakily.

"I suggest surrendering now. I can get you some cover to reclaim what little dignity you have left, but, I..."

She smirked at Nanoha. "I'm naked and having a hard time moving, and you're about to pass out from blood loss, I'd say that I'll recover before you do."

(---)

Down below, Teana might have been blushing as she looked up at the naked woman, but she figured one good shot. "Freeze..."

"Teana-san!" Caro cried out as she saw a hand reach through the ground and grab Teana's ankle.

"What the?" Teana looked down and paled, she knew this hand. "GAH!" The next thing she knew, a second hand joined the first and twisted her ankle hard enough to break it, causing her to fall over in pain. "S...Sein..." She groaned as the petite girl in question, also wearing a skin-tight body suit, though this one was black in nature, jumped through the ground and grabbed the lost logia from a shocked Subaru.

"Sein?!" Subaru's eyes widened as she held that glove up to her. "Wh..Why?"

"I'm sorry." Sein whispered before firing a strong concussive force at Subaru, knocking her into the train, destroying another section of it. Turning to look at Erio, who narrowed his eyes and gripped his glowing spear, and Caro, who was by Fried's full form, she shook her head. "I'm not here to fight you." Six wings appeared on her back as she jumped into the air and flew away at a high speed.

Teana could only stare in shock. Sein was an enemy? But the girl had been such a good friend, why would she do something like this?

(---)

Looking down below, the short-haired woman nodded to Nanoha. "Our mission is done, get healed up, I look forward to any future fights."

Before Nanoha could reply, she had turned into a burst of purple light and shot off in the direction that the newest interloper had disappeared. "...What the..?" Groaning, Nanoha slowly lowered herself to the platform and noticed that Vita's opponent had left as well, though not quite as fast as the first two had, it was still faster than any of them could go at the moment. "...This was a complete failure." Nanoha said as she touched down and looked at the others. "...We were too overconfident."

Vita groaned as she knelt down. "This is going to be one hell of a report." She looked at Caro, who was helping Teana out and looked to see Erio as he helped Subaru back to the group. "Are you four okay?"

"My ankle's broken." Teana groaned in pain as Caro worked some healing magic into it. "You okay, Subaru?"

"I landed on my head, so, yeah, I'm okay. What was that?"

"Very dangerous enemies." Nanoha muttered softly and winced as she felt rather cold throughout her body. "...I... Don't..."

"Nanoha-san!" Erio and Subaru cried out at the same time as Nanoha fell over to her side, passed out.

Caro quickly left Teana's side and moved Nanoha's arm out of the way so she could work what healing magic she had into Nanoha's wound to try and stop the bleeding.

Vita shook her head and shivered as the blood loss was starting to get to her as well. "Rein, Yuuno, Arisa, you three better get your butts over to where we are, Nanoha and I are down and need healing."

That wasn't something she ever thought she'd need to say, ever.

Even if they were taken by surprise by their opponent's strength and there was some sort of anti-magic field that had been in play at the time, it was still an inexcusable loss.

"...Wait, where are those..?" Vita looked up and blinked at not seeing any of the Gadget Drones anymore.

"They exploded." Caro explained to her, looking confused. "When Erio-kun tried to save you, they all just exploded for some reason."

Vita nodded and fought the urge to fall asleep, she didn't know how much blood she had lost, but she didn't think it was a good idea to pass out at that moment. A flash of movement had her looking and she smiled as she saw Yuuno, Rein and Arisa, the latter carrying Suzuka, fly over the mountain. "Well... At least we'll be okay now."

The rookies could only watch in mute horror as Vita passed out and joined Nanoha on the dock, their blood slowly pooling out of their bodies.