[QUOTE=DezoPenguin;2196789]All kinds of stuff from me today:
First off, some wedding crack!
Spoiler for Here Comes the Bride:
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Woo, love the crack :P
Spoiler for Follow up speculation:
And then Raising Heart says 'yes, my master'. It's going to be a looong honey moon.
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For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
Fear Anxiety Doubt is but a fad. The life of a fad depends entirely on the willingness to support it. Difficulty is a choice. Determination is a path. Your next great idea after your destination is the true goal.
"Is it time yet, Nanoha-mama?" Vivio asked excitedly. A lot of six-year-olds would have been prone to misbehave or let their attention wander, but Vivio knew that she had a Very Important Job to for her mamas and was dedicated to doing it right.
"Almost, sweetie," Nanoha assured her. The white dress felt light and free around her, the color broken up only by Raising Heart's bright red glitter at her chest.
In the next moment, the organ music started. Midchilda had its own wedding traditions and themes, but in this case the bride had selected to use the traditional music from Earth.
"Okay, Vivio, this is it. When they open the door, you start down the aisle just like we did in rehearsal."
"Mmn!"
Precisely on cue, the porters swung the door wide, and Vivio started down the red-lined path into the sanctuary. The look of fierce determination on her face as she made sure to scatter the flower petals from her basket just right was unbearably cute, Nanoha decided. Her daughter really reminded her of herself when she'd been that age.
Nanoha took a deep breath and adjusted her grip on the bridal bouquet. Don't trip, she warned herself, then began to walk down the aisle in slow, measured paces.
Fate smiled warmly at her from before the altar, lightening Nanoha's heart. The blonde had protested being made to wear the tuxedo, but she'd finally given in out of love, and she looked absolutely stunning. Next to her Chrono, Arf, Signum, and Shari all looked radiant in gold, while over on the bride's side Yuuno, Vita, Hayate, and Subaru looked equally attractive in blue. Hayate had done the designs, and she gave Nanoha a wink, pleased with her friend's reactions. Every one of their friends and family who'd been able to make it packed the pews. Nanoha was so eager that she wanted to run up the aisle and take her place at once, but she restrained herself for the sake of the moment. Even at the stately pace, she soon found herself standing next to Fate before Carim. Bardiche glittered from Fate's lapel as the blonde reached out to take Nanoha's hand. The music fell still. Carim smiled gently at them, dispelling some of their nervousness.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join together these two before us in holy matrimony..."
Even through her white glove, Nanoha could feel the warmth of Fate's hand, and she couldn't help but think back over all the things that had led to this day, from her first meeting with Yuuno and her discovery of magic right up to the day of the proposal. They'd been wonderful times, even the hard ones, and she was sure that they'd continue in the future.
A squeeze of Fate's fingers warned her that the preamble was closing and they were coming to the important part. It wouldn't do to let her mind wander during the "I dos"!
Carim turned to Fate.
"Do you, Bardiche, take Raising Heart to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to interface with, for richer or for poorer, in malfunction and in health, for as long as you both shall function?"
"Yes, sir!"
LOL
It was tagged as crack so I was expecting you to play your trap card wisely, and you surely did! Even if I knew it was coming, what you did took me by surprise xD
This reminds me of a short were Bardiche and RH had chibi-human forms (like Rein) and were living in a box or something like that besides Nanoha's and Fate's bed. I don't remember who wrote it, but besides of this I remember that they were doing it like bunnies, faithfully following the steps of their masters xD (well, considering this, there are good odds for Satashi and her bunny couples xD)
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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
Spoiler for Following Her Lead:
Fate T. Harlaown smiled warmly as she watched her daughter Vivio lead Lutecia Alphine off by the hand. The two of them made such a cute couple. Lutecia was four years older, which might cause a few rough patches for the next half-decade or so, but given how Vivio had been so dead-set on the violet-haired summoner since their first meeting it wasn't at all surprising that they'd ended up where they were,
She acts more like Nanoha, Fate thought, but her feelings are just like mine. Fate had fallen in love with Nanoha from the very start. Nanoha had been her first and best friend, but the intensity of those feelings had gone far beyond "friendship." Then when after a few years she'd grown up enough to appreciate that love had a physical as well as emotional side, it hadn't particularly surprised her that she felt those kind of things for Nanoha as well. Vivio had been just the same, only since she was more assertive than Fate she'd taken the lead and gone right after what she wanted without hesitation.
Standing next to her, Nanoha let out a little sigh.
"I take it things went well?" Fate asked. Her wife had been a bundle of nerves about the relationship, so Fate had advised that she needed to talk it out with Lutecia, woman to woman.
"She's a straightforward girl."
Fate agreed, "The quiet ones tend to be, once they come out from behind their silence."
Nanoha grinned.
"You would know."
"Yes, I would," Fate said, grinning back. "You nearly scared Vivio out of her shoes, though. She was afraid your chat was going to mostly consist of words like 'Divine Buster Extension' and 'Starlight Breaker.'"
"Mou, her too?"
"Too?" Fate barely suppressed a chuckle.
"There was a moment, right at first, when Lutecia almost panicked and started summoning on me."
"Really? Cia did? She knows you better than that."
"Vivio knows me better than Lutecia and you weren't surprised about her."
"Vivio was worried about a loved one. That messes up your judgment."
"Oh, yeah, like your Enforcer test."
Fate blushed. When Nanoha had been critically injured on a mission, Fate's worry about her had caused her to fail to Enforcer qualification exam twice.
"I thought we'd agreed not to mention that again."
"I don't recall any such agreement. You were probably laughing at my scary reputation too loudly to hear my answer."
"Tease."
"Oh I am, am I?" She caught Fate around the waist and pulled her up against herself.
"Nanoha, we're in the middle of the hall!"
"So?" she said huskily, her face so close to Fate's the blonde could feel Nanoha's breath tickling her skin. She kissed Fate warmly, tugging gently at her wife's lower lip with her own mouth.
"It's embarrassing! Anyone might walk by." Fate noted distantly that her hands didn't seem to be listening to her any more than Nanoha was; one was cupping the back of Nanoha's head while the other pressed against the small of her back, pulling them even more tightly together.
"I have to prove to my wife that I'm not a tease." Her tongue flicked at Fate's lips, seeking entry. Fate moaned softly, letting her mouth flower open under Nanoha's. The brunette flailed with one hand towards the nearby door, connecting with the panel that opened Hayate's office on the third try. They staggered through, more or less dragging each other out of the hall. The door slid shut behind them, and a minute later the panel's green "open" light turned to red.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"So, why did Lutecia think you were about to blast her?" Fate asked.
Nanoha groaned.
"Do you know where my shirt wandered off to?"
"Hanging off the corner of that file cabinet," Fate said. "About Cia...?"
Nanoha shifted her weight off her wife and went in search of her missing clothes.
"She'd come to give her latest mission report and she hadn't bothered to report to Medical yet. Pain and post-mission stress had her jumpy to begin with, and having me surprise her didn't help."
Fate decided that Hayate's desk blotter wasn't quite as comfortable as it had seemed five minutes ago and stood up. This was one sore back she definitely wasn't taking to Shamal!
"So what did she say?"
"She was mature about it, which is kind of a relief and kind of not, since the age thing is my main problem with the entire concept. But I am sure that it's not just a crush on her side. Where's my skirt?"
"Coat rack." Fate paused. "So...are you okay with this now?"
Nanoha sighed.
"No, not really," she admitted.
"No?"
She gave Fate a game smile.
"What can I say? I'm not comfortable with the idea that our little girl is growing up. I guess in my heart she'll always be the five-year-old who looked up and called me 'mama.' I really don't want to imagine that some day she'll be the one..."
"Trying to figure out where all her clothes ended up after a quickie in her boss's office?"
"Y-yeah, that," Nanoha flushed. "But...I'm okay with the fact that it's me who has the problem, not Cia or Vivio, and I trust that Lutecia won't let Vivio do anything that she's not ready for, even if she thinks she is."
"Why do you think that?" Fate asked, not disagreeing but curious, since Lutecia definitely was the follower of that pair.
"Because she loves Vivio," Nanoha said simply. "Just like my Fate-chan loves me and knows when to put her foot down when she has to. Such as when I'm worrying myself sick about our daughter's relationship." She gave a heavy sigh. "Thank you, darling, so much."
Fate smiled back at her.
"You're welcome." Just because I'll always follow after you doesn't mean that I can't point out the best way to go, after all. "I love you, Nanoha."
"I love you too." The warmth in her expression held for a couple of seconds, then changed to curiosity. "Fate-chan, is that my hair ribbon tied around your wrist?"
"Half of it. It broke, so the other half is still tied to the desk leg."
And following up on that...
Spoiler for Hayate's reaction.:
"Hey, Vivio-chan!"
Vivio spun around, surprised.
"Oh, Aunt Hayate! How are you?"
"Mostly okay. I was looking for you, though. Can you give this to Nanoha?" She extended a wrapped package decorated with a big red bow.
"Sure. What's the occasion?"
Hayate grinned evilly. "Just tell her it's for Guess What I Found In My Ficus Day. She'll understand."
Thanks a lot for continuing your previous short with such a precious second part. As always your dynamics between the mothers are pretty enjoyable to read, and this time we even saw a new face of them: The Bunny side! (I wonder what they forgot at Hayate's office... they are shameless xD)
It would be great if RadiantBeam makes you write more of this
I keep seeing rabbits and reading about rabbits and watching the legion propagate like rabbits both legions hehe.
I don't know why I wrote this. I wanted it to be crack, but it almost became serious. I need a new term. Srack? Crakerious? I need sleep.
Spoiler for Rabbits:
"Subaru, get down from there at once!" Nanoha shouted. She had her best angry face on and her hands were at her hips.
"Aw, c'mon!" Subaru whined. She had climbed a tree in the middle of a talk from her favorite teacher. Needless to say, her teacher was not happy. "There is a rabbit in the tree!"
Nanoha was perplexed. Her anger wasn't serious but she had to figure this mystery out. Rabbits weren't common on Midchilda after all, much less common in trees. "Are you sure its a rabbit?"
"Sure!" Subaru was happy Nanoha wasn't angry anymore. Maybe she could save the critter after all. She loved rabbits. "Long ears, it's white and grey with a fluffy button tail. Hold on." Subaru climbed higher and managed to pick up the shivering rabbit from its perch. She then slid down the tree and winced as a branch scraped her leg.
"Subaru!" Nanoha shouted and tried to catch her, but she landed in an instant and then fell on her butt.
"Sorry, ehehe." She laughed uneasily. "I climb trees a lot, you know."
"I'm sure you do." Nanoha tried not to laugh. The girl was so foolish, but to her credit, the rabbit was cute. "That is an odd sight indeed." She knelt over and patted the rabbit on the head gently. She glanced to her right and thought she saw a second one. "Hmm, well, let it go. We have work today."
"Yes, Ma'am!" Subaru saluted. She was just glad not to be in trouble over that stunt. She had no idea what they had been talking about earlier.
The rabbit scuried through the grass and into some bushes. Another one jumped out of the bush and ran across the field. "Ooh, look a it run!" Subaru pointed. Nanoha laughed. Youth was good indeed.
--
Hayate was laughing. She could not believe what she was seeing, "Who did this? Seriously?" She called for her secretary, "Hello, Miss Civic? Did you leave a critter on my chair?"
"A what?" She was confused.
"I think its a bunny." Hayate held it up. "Its so cute."
"No, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe one of your friends?" She ventured a guess.
Hayate nodded, "I'll ask around, thank you." She dusted off the fur on her chair and sat down on it. She called up Shamal, "Hello Shamal-sensei."
Shamal's happy face appeared on a floating screen, "Oh, what do you have there?"
Hayate sat the rabbit on her desk. "Its a bunny. I found it on my chair, but I have no idea how it got there."
"Very strange indeed. I heard some officers talking about seeing rabbits this morning. They were quite amused by them." Shamal was thinking about it. "There might be a nest nearby."
"Oh, we should go find it, I bet there's a bunch of little bunnies." Hayate was giggling like a school girl. She stopped when the rabbit bounced off her desk. "Oh, wait!" She ran after it, but the door opened and Rein floated in. The bunny escaped down the hallway. "Rein!"
"Yes!?" Rein was shocked to see Hayate's face so suddenly close to hers.
"Do you know anything about a rabbit in my office?"
"OOH BUNNIES!" Rein's eyes were wide open. Hayate blinked and looked around. Two more bunnies were in her office. One was grey, while the other was mostly black.
Hayate dropped her head in defeat, "How'd those get in here?"
--
Teana was grumbling as she removed a bunny from her desk. "Subaru will pay for this travesty" She shook her fist, but relented when she realized she was petting the rabbit with her other hand.
Minutes later, an alarm sounded. "Eh?"
--
Hayate walked to her chair in the Section Six war room. She rubbed her face and removed the bunny resting there. She had already washed her hands and now she had to do it again. Nanoha walked in with a rabbit in her arms.
"Look what I found outside the door!" She laughed.
"This isn't as funny as I'd like it to be, Nanoha."
Vita ran intot he room with a basket full of bunnies. "HAYATE!"
"Vita... Please set that down and have a seat." Hayate frowned.
Vita blinked and looked down at her basket of bunnies. She then looked at the table and then to Nanoha. Nanoha smiled and took her seat. Fate and the others filed in next.
Hayate almost smacked her face into the table, "Why do you all have bunnies? No, why are there so many rabbits everywhere! MOU!"
"Is this a problem?" Fate asked and sat down. She set the bunny on the table. Hers was smaller and white with a spotted face. It twitched his ears and ran towards Vita. "You called us here, right?"
"Sort of. I was ordered to call an emergency meeting by my superiors. They seem to think there's some hare raising problem with all of these rabbits."
Nanoha nodded, "They do have sex a lot." That got some eyes on her. "What?"
Hayate thought about it, "Are those rabbits having sex over there?"
"ACK!" Vita shot out of her chair. "They are!"
"That's it, no rabbits allowed in my war room. Out, out!" Hayate grabbed a couple and headed for the door.
Vita's eyes grew with concern, "Where do we put them?"
"Vita-chan, just outide the door for now. If there are thousands of these things on base, it makes little difference. I'm afraid this might turn into a bio hazard." She opened the door and a dozen more ran into the room. "WHAT THE!?"
"Fuzzy!" Subaru grabbed a bunny from the horde. "I saved this one from a tree earlier!"
"It was in a tree!?" Hayate was shocked. "Rabbits don't climb trees!" A thought occurred to her. It scared her more than the thought of a bio hazard. "Yuuno."
The main monitor turned on. She had placed him on standby, but at the time he had no idea what to do about rabbits, understandably. "Yes? Oh my, get out of the room. There must be 40 rabbits in there!"
"Damn it, more ran in. OK, Yuuno, meet us in the court yard at once! There's nothing secret about this crisis anyways!" She trudged through the bunnies at her feet and left the room.
She heard shouts in the distance, "WHAT ARE THESE THINGS!?"
"THEY AREN'T CUTE ANYMORE!" a woman shouted.
"Oh for crying out loud." Hayate fumed. "My people need to behave better in a crisis." She turned to Nanoha, "You and Fate take to the skies, I want information on their movements. This is turning into war."
"War!?" Nanoha was shocked, but not surprised. "OK, Subaru, Teana get on the airwaves and see if anyone needs help escaping this horde. We do not help anyone who just wants them removed. Erio, Caro, join us in the skies. We'll scout as far as we can."
"Yes!" They saluted.
"Good." Hayate pushed a door open and waited for the bunnies to run aside. "HOLY"
"Wow, they are everywhere." Subaru gasped.
--
"Hayate-chan, I know what's going on." He shooed a rabbit off his shoe for the third time. The grass was all eaten by now. The base was turning into a desert and it wasn't pretty.
"I hope you have an answer, rabbits only live so many months." Hayate was serious.
Yuuno nodded, "There was a flux in the dimensional fabric. Not unlike how the jewel seeds caused minor distortions, but this gave us bunnies... everywhere."
"So its not just having sex and multiplying?" Hayate was curious, but she had a feeling it might have been akin to an invasion.
"Yes, they are being pulled in from another dimension."
"So we fix this by closing that hole and...."
"I'm hoping to reverse the process." Yuuno nodded, "But I don't know what that means. I also don't even know how bad of a biological hazard this is."
"Reporting." Nanoha interrupted.
"Go ahead."
"Its not good."
"I see." Hayate nodded. "Yuuno, do whatever you think is best. Everyone, here are your orders, push them to the water. We'll isolate them there, for now. This is now classified as an invasion."
--
Months later, the grass was still brown.
"What the heck is this thing?" Hayate poked the small, round, calico furball on her desk. It squeaked back.
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For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
Fear Anxiety Doubt is but a fad. The life of a fad depends entirely on the willingness to support it. Difficulty is a choice. Determination is a path. Your next great idea after your destination is the true goal.
I keep seeing rabbits and reading about rabbits and watching the legion propagate like rabbits both legions hehe.
I don't know why I wrote this. I wanted it to be crack, but it almost became serious. I need a new term. Srack? Crakerious? I need sleep.
Spoiler for Rabbits:
"Subaru, get down from there at once!" Nanoha shouted. She had her best angry face on and her hands were at her hips.
"Aw, c'mon!" Subaru whined. She had climbed a tree in the middle of a talk from her favorite teacher. Needless to say, her teacher was not happy. "There is a rabbit in the tree!"
Nanoha was perplexed. Her anger wasn't serious but she had to figure this mystery out. Rabbits weren't common on Midchilda after all, much less common in trees. "Are you sure its a rabbit?"
"Sure!" Subaru was happy Nanoha wasn't angry anymore. Maybe she could save the critter after all. She loved rabbits. "Long ears, it's white and grey with a fluffy button tail. Hold on." Subaru climbed higher and managed to pick up the shivering rabbit from its perch. She then slid down the tree and winced as a branch scraped her leg.
"Subaru!" Nanoha shouted and tried to catch her, but she landed in an instant and then fell on her butt.
"Sorry, ehehe." She laughed uneasily. "I climb trees a lot, you know."
"I'm sure you do." Nanoha tried not to laugh. The girl was so foolish, but to her credit, the rabbit was cute. "That is an odd sight indeed." She knelt over and patted the rabbit on the head gently. She glanced to her right and thought she saw a second one. "Hmm, well, let it go. We have work today."
"Yes, Ma'am!" Subaru saluted. She was just glad not to be in trouble over that stunt. She had no idea what they had been talking about earlier.
The rabbit scuried through the grass and into some bushes. Another one jumped out of the bush and ran across the field. "Ooh, look a it run!" Subaru pointed. Nanoha laughed. Youth was good indeed.
--
Hayate was laughing. She could not believe what she was seeing, "Who did this? Seriously?" She called for her secretary, "Hello, Miss Civic? Did you leave a critter on my chair?"
"A what?" She was confused.
"I think its a bunny." Hayate held it up. "Its so cute."
"No, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe one of your friends?" She ventured a guess.
Hayate nodded, "I'll ask around, thank you." She dusted off the fur on her chair and sat down on it. She called up Shamal, "Hello Shamal-sensei."
Shamal's happy face appeared on a floating screen, "Oh, what do you have there?"
Hayate sat the rabbit on her desk. "Its a bunny. I found it on my chair, but I have no idea how it got there."
"Very strange indeed. I heard some officers talking about seeing rabbits this morning. They were quite amused by them." Shamal was thinking about it. "There might be a nest nearby."
"Oh, we should go find it, I bet there's a bunch of little bunnies." Hayate was giggling like a school girl. She stopped when the rabbit bounced off her desk. "Oh, wait!" She ran after it, but the door opened and Rein floated in. The bunny escaped down the hallway. "Rein!"
"Yes!?" Rein was shocked to see Hayate's face so suddenly close to hers.
"Do you know anything about a rabbit in my office?"
"OOH BUNNIES!" Rein's eyes were wide open. Hayate blinked and looked around. Two more bunnies were in her office. One was grey, while the other was mostly black.
Hayate dropped her head in defeat, "How'd those get in here?"
--
Teana was grumbling as she removed a bunny from her desk. "Subaru will pay for this travesty" She shook her fist, but relented when she realized she was petting the rabbit with her other hand.
Minutes later, an alarm sounded. "Eh?"
--
Hayate walked to her chair in the Section Six war room. She rubbed her face and removed the bunny resting there. She had already washed her hands and now she had to do it again. Nanoha walked in with a rabbit in her arms.
"Look what I found outside the door!" She laughed.
"This isn't as funny as I'd like it to be, Nanoha."
Vita ran intot he room with a basket full of bunnies. "HAYATE!"
"Vita... Please set that down and have a seat." Hayate frowned.
Vita blinked and looked down at her basket of bunnies. She then looked at the table and then to Nanoha. Nanoha smiled and took her seat. Fate and the others filed in next.
Hayate almost smacked her face into the table, "Why do you all have bunnies? No, why are there so many rabbits everywhere! MOU!"
"Is this a problem?" Fate asked and sat down. She set the bunny on the table. Hers was smaller and white with a spotted face. It twitched his ears and ran towards Vita. "You called us here, right?"
"Sort of. I was ordered to call an emergency meeting by my superiors. They seem to think there's some hare raising problem with all of these rabbits."
Nanoha nodded, "They do have sex a lot." That got some eyes on her. "What?"
Hayate thought about it, "Are those rabbits having sex over there?"
"ACK!" Vita shot out of her chair. "They are!"
"That's it, no rabbits allowed in my war room. Out, out!" Hayate grabbed a couple and headed for the door.
Vita's eyes grew with concern, "Where do we put them?"
"Vita-chan, just outide the door for now. If there are thousands of these things on base, it makes little difference. I'm afraid this might turn into a bio hazard." She opened the door and a dozen more ran into the room. "WHAT THE!?"
"Fuzzy!" Subaru grabbed a bunny from the horde. "I saved this one from a tree earlier!"
"It was in a tree!?" Hayate was shocked. "Rabbits don't climb trees!" A thought occurred to her. It scared her more than the thought of a bio hazard. "Yuuno."
The main monitor turned on. She had placed him on standby, but at the time he had no idea what to do about rabbits, understandably. "Yes? Oh my, get out of the room. There must be 40 rabbits in there!"
"Damn it, more ran in. OK, Yuuno, meet us in the court yard at once! There's nothing secret about this crisis anyways!" She trudged through the bunnies at her feet and left the room.
She heard shouts in the distance, "WHAT ARE THESE THINGS!?"
"THEY AREN'T CUTE ANYMORE!" a woman shouted.
"Oh for crying out loud." Hayate fumed. "My people need to behave better in a crisis." She turned to Nanoha, "You and Fate take to the skies, I want information on their movements. This is turning into war."
"War!?" Nanoha was shocked, but not surprised. "OK, Subaru, Teana get on the airwaves and see if anyone needs help escaping this horde. We do not help anyone who just wants them removed. Erio, Caro, join us in the skies. We'll scout as far as we can."
"Yes!" They saluted.
"Good." Hayate pushed a door open and waited for the bunnies to run aside. "HOLY"
"Wow, they are everywhere." Subaru gasped.
--
"Hayate-chan, I know what's going on." He shooed a rabbit off his shoe for the third time. The grass was all eaten by now. The base was turning into a desert and it wasn't pretty.
"I hope you have an answer, rabbits only live so many months." Hayate was serious.
Yuuno nodded, "There was a flux in the dimensional fabric. Not unlike how the jewel seeds caused minor distortions, but this gave us bunnies... everywhere."
"So its not just having sex and multiplying?" Hayate was curious, but she had a feeling it might have been akin to an invasion.
"Yes, they are being pulled in from another dimension."
"So we fix this by closing that hole and...."
"I'm hoping to reverse the process." Yuuno nodded, "But I don't know what that means. I also don't even know how bad of a biological hazard this is."
"Reporting." Nanoha interrupted.
"Go ahead."
"Its not good."
"I see." Hayate nodded. "Yuuno, do whatever you think is best. Everyone, here are your orders, push them to the water. We'll isolate them there, for now. This is now classified as an invasion."
--
Months later, the grass was still brown.
"What the heck is this thing?" Hayate poked the small, round, calico furball on her desk. It squeaked back.
ROFL!!! Reminds me of an episode of Ed, Edd, n' Eddy!
My English isn't very good, so I'll suggest requesting someone with an higher level in the language to proofread your fic if you want to, but there aren't any misleading mistakes in this prologue so this shouldn't be a serious issue I think.
With my level in this language there are many lines I'm not sure about, like
“A bad tell, danger to your life.”, which is oddly worded for me, but it may be correct, I have no idea. There are only few of them were I can certainly guarantee that there is a mistake, like “It’s mean death.” that is supposed to be “It means death.”, so I don't think I can be of much help to you in this.
It may be a good thing that your readers haven't seen the movie, that way it wouldn't be a spoiler for them, while you will be having a good guidance for your plot.
Cuídense y sigan sonriendo
thanks haru-san, gonna fix it, and i was thinking of rewrite it so that prologue will be delete soon
So, here's my side of my fic exchange with DezoPenguin. He requested a scene where Nanoha deals with having her limiter placed back on her. Here's hoping he likes it.
As one of the key medics in the TSAB and one of the few who could claim to know the three Aces best, Shamal had long ago learned not to be frightened by much of anything. After being destroyed by the very thing that had created her and shot at numerous times by mages and things she didn’t even care to name, she liked to think she’d developed a will of steel.
At least, that was the conclusion she came to when she found herself gazing into the eyes of one very annoyed Takamachi Nanoha and realized she wasn’t the least bit afraid of the younger woman. Judging from the flare in her eyes and the way her hands were clenched, Shamal guessed the Ace of Aces had just left her most recent medical check after rescuing Vivio.
Ah, so THAT’S why she’s so mad…
“Why did you put my limiter back in place?”
It was rare for Nanoha to raise her voice, even when she was dangerously close to losing her temper. Her voice was always even, calm, that one step away from snapping out and yelling. It was a trait she’d inherited from Momoko, and she was pretty damn proud of it. Shamal slowly swept her eyes over the brunette’s profile and judged that it wouldn’t take much more for her to snap and lose it completely. She leaned back in her chair, resting her hands calmly in her lap, and spoke. “I put it back in place because if I hadn’t, you wouldn’t be standing in front of me right now.” Her eyes narrowed. “You sustained critical damage to your Linker Core because of those Starlight Breakers you used to save Vivio. Your pulse, heart, and breathing were off the charts when you got back to headquarters. It’s a miracle you could still stand after that attack you launched at her.”
“Which proves I don’t need it!”
“Which proves,” Shamal shot back, “that you’re just as stubborn as you’ve always been. In fact, you shouldn’t even be here right now. You should be resting and giving your body a chance to recover.”
Nanoha’s eyes darkened dangerously. She slammed her hands on the desk, but Shamal barely even flinched. “You placed that limiter back on me without my permission,” she said, her voice shaking with a fury that threatened to engulf her whole body. “You had no right to—“
“I had every right, and you know it as well as I do.” Shamal met Nanoha’s gaze evenly. “I’m in such a position to make that call if I see fit, seeing as I was appointed the head medic by Hayate-chan. I wouldn’t have placed the limiter back on you if you hadn’t put yourself in a situation where your life depended on having it.”
“You can’t expect me to think of myself when I’m trying to save someone!”
For a few minutes Shamal studied Nanoha quietly, taking in her rigid posture and furious gaze. When at last she spoke, her voice was soft, but her words drove home like a bullet. “I respect the fact that you will always try to save people, Nanoha-chan,” she said. “Please respect the fact that I love you just as much as I love Hayate-chan and will always try to do what I believe is best for your wellbeing.” She rested her hands on her desk as Nanoha’s eyes widened. “You might be willing to return to the sky when it calls you, but I can name several people who would be perfectly happy to see you permanently grounded for the next ten or twenty years.”
Nanoha said nothing, her whole body taut as a bowstring; she whirled on her heel and stalked out of the room, the door whooshing shut behind her silently. With a groan of exhaustion Shamal slumped back in her chair, closing her eyes. “That could have gone better,” she murmured in the silence.
Knowing this whole incident was far from over, Shamal reached out and punched in a few keys on her keyboard. The screen popped up and the connection got through instantly, much to the blonde’s relief. “Fate-chan.”
“Shamal-san?” On the screen, Fate frowned in confusion. “What’s going on? I was just about to drop off Vivio…”
“I know, I know, but I need some help.” Shamal rubbed her temples. “Nanoha-chan just found out about the limiter being placed back on her.”
“I take it she wasn’t happy.” Fate looked away for a moment to soothe Vivio as the younger girl expressed an interest in something off-screen.
“No, I’m afraid she wasn’t. Hayate-chan already pulled rank and gave her a few days off, but she’s still got that anger bottled up inside and I don’t think she completely understood what I said to her…”
Shamal trailed off here, but the message got through. Fate frowned.
“I’ll talk to her. Just give me a few minutes to—hey, Vivio, wait a minute.”
“What’s going on?”
“She saw Megane Alphine’s daughter.” Fate sighed. “Megane-san came in to speak to Genya-san and Hayate-chan today about getting back into the TSAB, and she must have left Lutecia out by the office. Vivio’s completely entranced by her.”
Shamal smiled. “Sounds like love at first sight.”
“Ha, ha. Funny.” The smile faded quickly from Fate’s face. “I’ll talk to Nanoha, Shamal-san.”
Shamal sighed.
“Yes. Thank you, Fate-chan. You’re probably the only one she’ll listen to.”
Fate clicked her phone shut and then spent a few minutes looking around blankly as she realized Vivio was no longer by her side. She didn’t have to look far; the six-year-old had made a beeline for her object of interest, and as Fate approached she saw Lutecia lean in, responding to whatever Vivio was speaking about. Amused, not sure what to make of Vivio’s apparent fascination with the older girl, Fate walked up to them, smiling as Lutecia glanced up at her. “Hello, Lutecia.”
“Um… hello.”
It was funny; while talking to Vivio Lutecia had seemed completely relaxed, confused by the younger girl’s approach but taking it in stride with an ease that had most likely been born from her friendship with Caro and Erio. Her newfound confidence only went so far, though, as she stiffened up the minute she saw Fate. Seeing some of her old self in the girl, Fate didn’t take it personally. “I’m sorry. Is Vivio bothering you?” She laid a hand on the little girl’s shoulder, who immediately pouted. “Fate-mama, I wasn’t—“
“Not at all.” Lutecia cut in smoothly, her voice sure even though her eyes gleamed uncertainly. Her lips twitched upward slightly. “I kind of enjoyed the company, actually.”
Why, was that almost a smile? Fate couldn’t help it as her lips curved in response. It seemed Vivio had Nanoha’s talent for drawing people out of their shells. Vivio glanced up at Fate. “Mama, can I stay with Lutecia?”
“Vivio—“
“I wouldn’t mind it.” Lutecia glanced nervously at Fate. “Really.”
Amused, sensing that her daughter’s first attempt at befriending had been a success, Fate briefly knelt and stroked Vivio’s hair. “Okay, then I’ll leave you here with Lutecia for awhile.” She smiled, though it was slightly strained at the edges. “Nanoha-mama and I need to talk, anyway.”
Vivio frowned, tilting her head to the side. “About what?”
Fate gently ruffled Vivio’s hair. “I’ll explain it to you when you’re older. It’s grown-up stuff.”
The door was closed, which managed to annoy Fate without totally taking her by surprise. Nanoha had a bad habit of withdrawing whenever she was angry or depressed, and she showed no sign of outgrowing it anytime soon. Knowing it was useless if Nanoha was truly as angry as Shamal claimed she was, Fate nonetheless followed old instinct and knocked on the door. “Nanoha? Are you in there?”
A muffled movement from inside, but no response. Fate sighed and rested her hand on the door. “Open up, Nanoha,” she urged. “Shamal-san called me and told me what happened. We need to talk.” She paused for a moment, listened.
Still nothing.
“Nanoha, come on. Hayate-chan gave me the code for this door. I can open it at anytime, and you know it. Please don’t make me do that.”
For a moment there was still no response; just as Fate was preparing to enter the code onto the lock-pad, the door opened. Relived, she stepped inside and started towards the bedroom, knowing Nanoha would be there. Thankfully that door had been left open, and she entered without any hassle.
Nanoha glanced briefly at her before turning her gaze back to the window; Fate saw the tension in her shoulders and winced. “Where’s Vivio?” the brunette asked. “You said you were dropping her off.”
“She got attached to Lutecia. She’s with her right now. Lutecia’s a good kid; she’ll take care of Vivio.”
There was no verbal response, but the subtle relaxing of Nanoha’s shoulders alerted Fate to the fact that her mood had lightened slightly. Taking it as a good sign, the blonde cautiously settled on the bed. “I spoke to Shamal-san earlier.”
“I heard you say that, yes.”
“You’re angry.”
It was a statement, not a question, and the neutral tone of it had Nanoha turning, her eyes narrow. “Yes, I’m angry,” she hissed. “Shamal-san placed that limiter back on me without my consent. I had no say in the choice.”
“You were unconscious and in critical condition. I doubt you could have said anything even if you wanted to.” Fate met Nanoha’s gaze evenly. “As soon as you got Vivio to safety you collapsed. It was nearly a repeat of your incident.”
“So I was told.” The fire in her eyes never dimmed. “It doesn’t change the fact that I don’t want it.”
“It also doesn’t change the fact that you need it.” Fate struggled to keep her voice calm as she stood, even as her eyes narrowed to match Nanoha’s. “At this rate you’ll die, Nanoha.”
Nanoha’s jaw locked and she jerked her chin up, her eyes flashing like a brilliant pair of sapphires. “I’m not afraid of death,” she said coldly. “I never have been. I fully expect to be shot down one of these days. With or without this limiter—“
Something inside Fate snapped.
Her speed hadn’t become legendary for nothing; Nanoha had barely started to finish her sentence when she found herself slammed hard against the window, and all she had time to see was a pair of blazing burgundy eyes before Fate’s mouth crushed against hers, ignoring her yelp of surprise and protest. Indeed, the Enforcer was letting her have no say in the matter; her hands tightly gripped her shoulders, keeping her locked firmly in place, locking Nanoha between the glass of the window and her body. In some hazy corner of her mind, Nanoha was amazed that the window was still intact.
It was a kiss born of fury, of desperate anguish and a driving urge to show what she couldn’t say; Fate’s tongue left no part of Nanoha’s mouth untouched, and after a few seconds the Ace of Aces ceased trying to resist and retaliated. After a few minutes Fate broke the kiss and rested her forehead against Nanoha’s shoulder, her breathing ragged; Nanoha realized she was shaking, and she swallowed. “F-Fate-chan?” she squeaked.
“I told myself I wasn’t going to do this.” Fate’s grip on her shoulders loosened, though her hands didn’t fall away. “I was going to stay calm and talk you into seeing the good side of this. I told myself that.”
“Well, ah… I’m not exactly complaining about your method.” Her laugh breathless, Nanoha gently wound her arms around Fate’s waist, and was amazed to discover the blonde was trembling just as she was—but for an entirely different reason. “Fate-chan?”
“I know you don’t want it.” Fate blew out a long breath. “Believe me when I say that, Nanoha. But please… try and understand. If you don’t have this limiter, next time… next time you might not come back.”
Because she had nothing to say, Nanoha simply shifted her grip on Fate and hugged the blonde close, so her cheek was resting against her shoulder. Keeping one arm around Fate’s waist, she gently laid a hand on her head and stroked her hair.
“I watched you almost die once, Nanoha.” Fate’s voice was soft, barely above a whisper. “Please don’t make me watch it again.”
Nanoha gently rested her cheek against Fate’s hair. “Okay.” Her voice was gentle. “I’m sorry, Fate-chan. You won’t have to watch that again.”
Nanoha still hated the limiter.
But if it soothed the minds of the ones she loved most, then she’d endure it. If only for their sakes.
Shamal sighed and gently clicked the screen off, switching back to hallway cameras as Hayate smiled at her. “You didn’t see her when she came in,” she murmured. “She was ready to spill blood over it.”
“I knew Fate-chan could calm her down. She’s always been able to.” Hayate’s eyes lit up as she watched the screen. “… And what have we got here?”
Curious at the change of her mistress’s tone, Shamal looked back at the screen. The image was crystal clear, and there was no mistaking what she saw: six-year-old Vivio Takamachi, leading ten-year-old Lutecia Alphine through the hallway. The little girl seemed to be having the time of her life, while her older companion appeared to be the calmest she’d been since Erio and Caro had left for the sanctuary.
“Well, well, well,” Hayate murmured, and a gleam entered her eyes. “And here I thought Lutecia-chan was hung up on Erio-kun.” She smirked. “Is it possible that we’ll be seeing a repeat of Nanoha-chan and Fate-chan?”
“They’re only children, Mistress.” Shamal laughed before studying the moment. “But give them a few years, you never know… where are you going?”
Hayate paused, grinning over her shoulder.
“What? Just because we have to wait a few years for them to mature doesn’t mean I can’t get the betting pool started.”
The End
And I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist the Lu/Vi scenes.
Sorry I'm so late to the party... the Hand was willing, Time was not.
Pain to Pain Omake: Physical Attraction
Spoiler for Physical Attraction:
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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
All kinds of stuff from me today:
Spoiler for Following Her Lead:
Fate T. Harlaown smiled warmly as she watched her daughter Vivio lead Lutecia Alphine off by the hand. The two of them made such a cute couple. Lutecia was four years older, which might cause a few rough patches for the next half-decade or so, but given how Vivio had been so dead-set on the violet-haired summoner since their first meeting it wasn't at all surprising that they'd ended up where they were,
She acts more like Nanoha, Fate thought, but her feelings are just like mine. Fate had fallen in love with Nanoha from the very start. Nanoha had been her first and best friend, but the intensity of those feelings had gone far beyond "friendship." Then when after a few years she'd grown up enough to appreciate that love had a physical as well as emotional side, it hadn't particularly surprised her that she felt those kind of things for Nanoha as well. Vivio had been just the same, only since she was more assertive than Fate she'd taken the lead and gone right after what she wanted without hesitation.
Standing next to her, Nanoha let out a little sigh.
"I take it things went well?" Fate asked. Her wife had been a bundle of nerves about the relationship, so Fate had advised that she needed to talk it out with Lutecia, woman to woman.
"She's a straightforward girl."
Fate agreed, "The quiet ones tend to be, once they come out from behind their silence."
Nanoha grinned.
"You would know."
"Yes, I would," Fate said, grinning back. "You nearly scared Vivio out of her shoes, though. She was afraid your chat was going to mostly consist of words like 'Divine Buster Extension' and 'Starlight Breaker.'"
"Mou, her too?"
"Too?" Fate barely suppressed a chuckle.
"There was a moment, right at first, when Lutecia almost panicked and started summoning on me."
"Really? Cia did? She knows you better than that."
"Vivio knows me better than Lutecia and you weren't surprised about her."
"Vivio was worried about a loved one. That messes up your judgment."
"Oh, yeah, like your Enforcer test."
Fate blushed. When Nanoha had been critically injured on a mission, Fate's worry about her had caused her to fail to Enforcer qualification exam twice.
"I thought we'd agreed not to mention that again."
"I don't recall any such agreement. You were probably laughing at my scary reputation too loudly to hear my answer."
"Tease."
"Oh I am, am I?" She caught Fate around the waist and pulled her up against herself.
"Nanoha, we're in the middle of the hall!"
"So?" she said huskily, her face so close to Fate's the blonde could feel Nanoha's breath tickling her skin. She kissed Fate warmly, tugging gently at her wife's lower lip with her own mouth.
"It's embarrassing! Anyone might walk by." Fate noted distantly that her hands didn't seem to be listening to her any more than Nanoha was; one was cupping the back of Nanoha's head while the other pressed against the small of her back, pulling them even more tightly together.
"I have to prove to my wife that I'm not a tease." Her tongue flicked at Fate's lips, seeking entry. Fate moaned softly, letting her mouth flower open under Nanoha's. The brunette flailed with one hand towards the nearby door, connecting with the panel that opened Hayate's office on the third try. They staggered through, more or less dragging each other out of the hall. The door slid shut behind them, and a minute later the panel's green "open" light turned to red.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"So, why did Lutecia think you were about to blast her?" Fate asked.
Nanoha groaned.
"Do you know where my shirt wandered off to?"
"Hanging off the corner of that file cabinet," Fate said. "About Cia...?"
Nanoha shifted her weight off her wife and went in search of her missing clothes.
"She'd come to give her latest mission report and she hadn't bothered to report to Medical yet. Pain and post-mission stress had her jumpy to begin with, and having me surprise her didn't help."
Fate decided that Hayate's desk blotter wasn't quite as comfortable as it had seemed five minutes ago and stood up. This was one sore back she definitely wasn't taking to Shamal!
"So what did she say?"
"She was mature about it, which is kind of a relief and kind of not, since the age thing is my main problem with the entire concept. But I am sure that it's not just a crush on her side. Where's my skirt?"
"Coat rack." Fate paused. "So...are you okay with this now?"
Nanoha sighed.
"No, not really," she admitted.
"No?"
She gave Fate a game smile.
"What can I say? I'm not comfortable with the idea that our little girl is growing up. I guess in my heart she'll always be the five-year-old who looked up and called me 'mama.' I really don't want to imagine that some day she'll be the one..."
"Trying to figure out where all her clothes ended up after a quickie in her boss's office?"
"Y-yeah, that," Nanoha flushed. "But...I'm okay with the fact that it's me who has the problem, not Cia or Vivio, and I trust that Lutecia won't let Vivio do anything that she's not ready for, even if she thinks she is."
"Why do you think that?" Fate asked, not disagreeing but curious, since Lutecia definitely was the follower of that pair.
"Because she loves Vivio," Nanoha said simply. "Just like my Fate-chan loves me and knows when to put her foot down when she has to. Such as when I'm worrying myself sick about our daughter's relationship." She gave a heavy sigh. "Thank you, darling, so much."
Fate smiled back at her.
"You're welcome." Just because I'll always follow after you doesn't mean that I can't point out the best way to go, after all. "I love you, Nanoha."
"I love you too." The warmth in her expression held for a couple of seconds, then changed to curiosity. "Fate-chan, is that my hair ribbon tied around your wrist?"
"Half of it. It broke, so the other half is still tied to the desk leg."
Loool... loved the way Fate pinpoints Nanoha's clothing for her in the middle of their conversation.
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Originally Posted by TheShinySword
hmm.... this thread hasn't shown with the crack of shine lately.... this must be corrected.
Spoiler for Number nine:
“Gentlemen, we have tried time and time again to learn the secret,” Vice stood up at his shiny new podium looking down at the forced members of his boys only club. “We've tried spying, stealing and even turning into girls ourself. Nothing has worked. Nothing has got us the ladies!” He smacked the podium dramatically.
His audience sighed. “Honestly Vice,” Griffith pushed up his glasses, “Why don't you just give up?”
“Why am I even here?” Chrono groaned, “I'm married.”
“We must go to the source!” Vice punched the air, “We have to ask Hayate herself!”
Zafira shook his head, “this is ridiculous Vice.”
“Only say that after we each have our own Harems!”
~~~
“So you boys want to know about that?” Hayate's back was to them. Her voice was dark as if she was about to reveal an evil secret indeed. “Well... I suppose I might.”
“R-really?” Yuuno didn't think she'd tell the deal so fast, though he had been hoping she'd tell them some sort of tip. He hadn't had a girlfriend since Nanoha had dumped him... 3 years ago. It was time for him to get his groove back.
Griffith pushed his glasses up, “I suppose from a completely curious point of view it couldn't hurt.”
“Please tell us!” Vice smacked his hands against the desk. “I'm begging you!”
“Heh,” the room suddenly went dark, only a spotlight from seemingly no where shining down on Hayate who had turned around. “I took my troubles down to Miss Carim.” Hayate was accompanied by the sound of a guitar drifting in from no where. “You know that sister with the gold-capped tooth.”
“Carim has a gold tooth?” Zafira raised an eyebrow.
Hayate winked, “It's in the back. She's got a pad down on Thirty-Forth and Vine.”
Yuuno cleared his throat, “I don't believe that's her addr-
Hayate put a finger to the now red man's lips, “Sellin' little bottles of...”
Fate, Nanoha, Shari, Tia, Subaru Alto, Lucino, Signum and Shamal rose from the floor where Hayate apparently had been keeping them. The scantily clad women joined Hayate in singing the last line, “Harem potion number 9~”
“It's just a potion!” Vice's jaw hung open in shock.
"H-Harem potion," Yuuno swayed but managed not to pass out.
“Carim could make a fortune selling that,” Griffith's eyes lit up at the thought of profits.
Vice thumped Griffith's head, “Come on we don't know how it works yet.”
Hayate merely grinned and continued her song as her harem played with their Hayate. “I told her that I was a flop with chicks.” Hayate sighed dramatically as her women comforted her. “I've been this way since 2006.” The brunette leaned across the desk taking Vice's hand in hers, “She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign.” She pushed the now dreamy eyed man away, “She said, “What you need is...”
The whole group sang again, “Harem potion number nine.”
“She bent down and gave me a wink~” Hayate slid onto the desk, crossing her legs. “She said, “I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink.” The harem master opened up her desk, taking out a bottle of black liquid, she popped the cork and the stench flowed out.
The men gagged. “What is that?” Zafira buried his face into his paws.
“It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink,” Hayate pinched her nose, “I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink.” She downed the bottle in one gulp.
“I didn't know if it were day or night. I started kissin' every girl in sight,” a smirk was aimed at the gentlemen in the room. “But when I kissed Vita down on thirty forth and Vine. She broke my little bottle of...”
“Harem Potion number nine.” “Wait,” Vice deflated, “So there's no more?”
Hayate shrugged, “Carim might whip up some more if you're nice.”
The four men (and dog) looked at one another then all scrambled to the door. As soon as they were gone the girls cracked up.
“Do you think they bought it?” Nanoha giggled.
“Did you see their faces?” Shamal laughed so hard tears formed in her eyes. “They're headed right there.”
“Does Harem Potion number nine really work Hayate?” Fate examined the little bottle.
Hayate smiled mischievously, “Of course not I use number eight.”
hmm.... this thread hasn't shown with the crack of shine lately.... this must be corrected.
Spoiler for Number nine:
The four men (and dog) looked at one another then all scrambled to the door. As soon as they were gone the girls cracked up.
Zafira: ...I'm a wolf.
Sing it, Shiny; that was great!
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Originally Posted by itanshi1
I keep seeing rabbits and reading about rabbits and watching the legion propagate like rabbits both legions hehe.
I don't know why I wrote this. I wanted it to be crack, but it almost became serious. I need a new term. Srack? Crakerious? I need sleep.
Spoiler for Rabbits:
"Subaru, get down from there at once!" Nanoha shouted. She had her best angry face on and her hands were at her hips.
"Aw, c'mon!" Subaru whined. She had climbed a tree in the middle of a talk from her favorite teacher. Needless to say, her teacher was not happy. "There is a rabbit in the tree!"
Nanoha was perplexed. Her anger wasn't serious but she had to figure this mystery out. Rabbits weren't common on Midchilda after all, much less common in trees. "Are you sure its a rabbit?"
"Sure!" Subaru was happy Nanoha wasn't angry anymore. Maybe she could save the critter after all. She loved rabbits. "Long ears, it's white and grey with a fluffy button tail. Hold on." Subaru climbed higher and managed to pick up the shivering rabbit from its perch. She then slid down the tree and winced as a branch scraped her leg.
"Subaru!" Nanoha shouted and tried to catch her, but she landed in an instant and then fell on her butt.
"Sorry, ehehe." She laughed uneasily. "I climb trees a lot, you know."
"I'm sure you do." Nanoha tried not to laugh. The girl was so foolish, but to her credit, the rabbit was cute. "That is an odd sight indeed." She knelt over and patted the rabbit on the head gently. She glanced to her right and thought she saw a second one. "Hmm, well, let it go. We have work today."
"Yes, Ma'am!" Subaru saluted. She was just glad not to be in trouble over that stunt. She had no idea what they had been talking about earlier.
The rabbit scuried through the grass and into some bushes. Another one jumped out of the bush and ran across the field. "Ooh, look a it run!" Subaru pointed. Nanoha laughed. Youth was good indeed.
--
Hayate was laughing. She could not believe what she was seeing, "Who did this? Seriously?" She called for her secretary, "Hello, Miss Civic? Did you leave a critter on my chair?"
"A what?" She was confused.
"I think its a bunny." Hayate held it up. "Its so cute."
"No, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe one of your friends?" She ventured a guess.
Hayate nodded, "I'll ask around, thank you." She dusted off the fur on her chair and sat down on it. She called up Shamal, "Hello Shamal-sensei."
Shamal's happy face appeared on a floating screen, "Oh, what do you have there?"
Hayate sat the rabbit on her desk. "Its a bunny. I found it on my chair, but I have no idea how it got there."
"Very strange indeed. I heard some officers talking about seeing rabbits this morning. They were quite amused by them." Shamal was thinking about it. "There might be a nest nearby."
"Oh, we should go find it, I bet there's a bunch of little bunnies." Hayate was giggling like a school girl. She stopped when the rabbit bounced off her desk. "Oh, wait!" She ran after it, but the door opened and Rein floated in. The bunny escaped down the hallway. "Rein!"
"Yes!?" Rein was shocked to see Hayate's face so suddenly close to hers.
"Do you know anything about a rabbit in my office?"
"OOH BUNNIES!" Rein's eyes were wide open. Hayate blinked and looked around. Two more bunnies were in her office. One was grey, while the other was mostly black.
Hayate dropped her head in defeat, "How'd those get in here?"
--
Teana was grumbling as she removed a bunny from her desk. "Subaru will pay for this travesty" She shook her fist, but relented when she realized she was petting the rabbit with her other hand.
Minutes later, an alarm sounded. "Eh?"
--
Hayate walked to her chair in the Section Six war room. She rubbed her face and removed the bunny resting there. She had already washed her hands and now she had to do it again. Nanoha walked in with a rabbit in her arms.
"Look what I found outside the door!" She laughed.
"This isn't as funny as I'd like it to be, Nanoha."
Vita ran intot he room with a basket full of bunnies. "HAYATE!"
"Vita... Please set that down and have a seat." Hayate frowned.
Vita blinked and looked down at her basket of bunnies. She then looked at the table and then to Nanoha. Nanoha smiled and took her seat. Fate and the others filed in next.
Hayate almost smacked her face into the table, "Why do you all have bunnies? No, why are there so many rabbits everywhere! MOU!"
"Is this a problem?" Fate asked and sat down. She set the bunny on the table. Hers was smaller and white with a spotted face. It twitched his ears and ran towards Vita. "You called us here, right?"
"Sort of. I was ordered to call an emergency meeting by my superiors. They seem to think there's some hare raising problem with all of these rabbits."
Nanoha nodded, "They do have sex a lot." That got some eyes on her. "What?"
Hayate thought about it, "Are those rabbits having sex over there?"
"ACK!" Vita shot out of her chair. "They are!"
"That's it, no rabbits allowed in my war room. Out, out!" Hayate grabbed a couple and headed for the door.
Vita's eyes grew with concern, "Where do we put them?"
"Vita-chan, just outide the door for now. If there are thousands of these things on base, it makes little difference. I'm afraid this might turn into a bio hazard." She opened the door and a dozen more ran into the room. "WHAT THE!?"
"Fuzzy!" Subaru grabbed a bunny from the horde. "I saved this one from a tree earlier!"
"It was in a tree!?" Hayate was shocked. "Rabbits don't climb trees!" A thought occurred to her. It scared her more than the thought of a bio hazard. "Yuuno."
The main monitor turned on. She had placed him on standby, but at the time he had no idea what to do about rabbits, understandably. "Yes? Oh my, get out of the room. There must be 40 rabbits in there!"
"Damn it, more ran in. OK, Yuuno, meet us in the court yard at once! There's nothing secret about this crisis anyways!" She trudged through the bunnies at her feet and left the room.
She heard shouts in the distance, "WHAT ARE THESE THINGS!?"
"THEY AREN'T CUTE ANYMORE!" a woman shouted.
"Oh for crying out loud." Hayate fumed. "My people need to behave better in a crisis." She turned to Nanoha, "You and Fate take to the skies, I want information on their movements. This is turning into war."
"War!?" Nanoha was shocked, but not surprised. "OK, Subaru, Teana get on the airwaves and see if anyone needs help escaping this horde. We do not help anyone who just wants them removed. Erio, Caro, join us in the skies. We'll scout as far as we can."
"Yes!" They saluted.
"Good." Hayate pushed a door open and waited for the bunnies to run aside. "HOLY"
"Wow, they are everywhere." Subaru gasped.
--
"Hayate-chan, I know what's going on." He shooed a rabbit off his shoe for the third time. The grass was all eaten by now. The base was turning into a desert and it wasn't pretty.
"I hope you have an answer, rabbits only live so many months." Hayate was serious.
Yuuno nodded, "There was a flux in the dimensional fabric. Not unlike how the jewel seeds caused minor distortions, but this gave us bunnies... everywhere."
"So its not just having sex and multiplying?" Hayate was curious, but she had a feeling it might have been akin to an invasion.
"Yes, they are being pulled in from another dimension."
"So we fix this by closing that hole and...."
"I'm hoping to reverse the process." Yuuno nodded, "But I don't know what that means. I also don't even know how bad of a biological hazard this is."
"Reporting." Nanoha interrupted.
"Go ahead."
"Its not good."
"I see." Hayate nodded. "Yuuno, do whatever you think is best. Everyone, here are your orders, push them to the water. We'll isolate them there, for now. This is now classified as an invasion."
--
Months later, the grass was still brown.
"What the heck is this thing?" Hayate poked the small, round, calico furball on her desk. It squeaked back.
Definitely crack. Just long crack. And Nanoha meets "The Trouble With Tribbles"! I love it!
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Originally Posted by yuiseppe
Sorry I'm so late to the party... the Hand was willing, Time was not.
Now, if the NanoFate fans haven't killed me yet, now I have my half of the writing exchange I did with RadiantBeam. She wrote "Pain to Pain" for me, and in return she asked for a continuation of her story, "Daddy's Little Girl," specifically the post-Nanoha/Lutecia discussion between Nanoha and Fate.
Spoiler for Following Her Lead:
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Re: Here Comes the Bride: I approve.
Re: Following Her Lead: Nice. I'm interested to know how Hayate knew whose ____s those were...
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheShinySword
hmm.... this thread hasn't shown with the crack of shine lately.... this must be corrected.
Spoiler for Number nine:
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Desperation can cause you to do things you may not have thought you would ever do...
Best part: "Why am I here? I'm married."
Lastly, @Yuri-hime: I wasn't the newest newbie for very long
Last night (why always night?), a thought began to form in my head, for another short. Partially inspired by:
-EVE
-This song: Beauty Never Fades
-Ulver music
-Sci-fi in general
I give you There Is No Hope
Spoiler for There Is No Hope:
A world in degeneration. A city in flames. A civilization falling apart. Such were the situation right now. Destruction and death as far as the eye could reach.
The enemy had come quickly and without forewarning. The first strike were always the most important and the enemy had gotten it first. And they had made it hard.
Nuclear weaponry, or something even more destructive was what everyone thought what had hit them. No wonder, considering Cranagan was now a smoldering ruin, lightening the nightsky with its flames. Such weapons had been unheard of and banned for centuries, which made them the perfect weapon.
But, despite all the talk about the use of such weaponry, that wasn't what had hit them. Only terrans were known to own them, and they had not made a move against them. The terrans didn't even know what was going on and they couldn't be warned either.
Another pillar of light struck a few miles away. Another smoking hole containing fire and debris was visible after the light went away. They had no details of the weapon, only the result of its destructive nature was their lead. The dimensional fleet had been overtaken and no intel could be gathered from them.
Against the dark sky, small dots of ships, massive in size, could be seen with the naked eyes. Hundreds, thousands of them orbiting the planet, laying waste to anything they could.
No ransom, no ground force, no communication. Just destruction without warning from outer orbit.
A few telescopes had managed to get a few photos of the alien vessels, before succumbing and collapsing where they stood. Those who managed to get a hold of the data were partially fascinated, partially stunned of the images. The ships in orbit had a number of appearances, but most of them had a theme. Slender shapes, large spike-like constructs on their back. No visible compartments containing anything like a crew. From this far away, they only seemed like ghost ships, delivering demise, destruction and despair without orders, without purpose.
One ship in particular stood out in the sky and could be seen clearly without magnification. It hovered, seemingly effortless, below the atmosphere. Its size was immense and dwarfed any ship the planet could come up with. How it held together was a mystery. It had the same theme as all the others, but with a golden surface.
Movement rustled the beast, a single gate opening beneath its massive belly. Emerging from it was an object, easily the size of an ordinary building and shaped like an orb. It descended, being held out by a mechanical arm.
When it reached a certain point, the movement stopped and it was held into the air for a few seconds before it began it activity again. Slowly it began to crack in straight lines, opening holes into itself.
When it had fully opened it got still and silent again. Then, what came next was a black inconsistent mass from within the orb itself. First, it looked like one single object, similar to a cloud. But the closer it got to any observers, the more apparent it became that the cloud consisted of tiny organisms, absorbing anything metallic or organic they came to touch. Their horrifying ability became clear when they swept an area directly below the ship and only left dirt, metal constructs and mauled corpses removed in the blink of an eye.
Then, as silently as it had come, the massive vessel obstructing the sky retrieved the orb and began to ascend to join its brethren. Probably, it didn't want to be near its own weapon. Or, even worse, they had just decided to wait, because at that moment the bombardment seized, only leaving the black cloud to consume what was left.
A slow death waited for those on the surface. All vessels capable of space flight destroyed, cities in ruins, their security in chaos. There was nothing that could be done.
Last night (why always night?), a thought began to form in my head, for another short. Partially inspired by:
-EVE
-This song: Beauty Never Fades
-Ulver music
-Sci-fi in general
I give you There Is No Hope
Spoiler for There Is No Hope:
A world in degeneration. A city in flames. A civilization falling apart. Such were the situation right now. Destruction and death as far as the eye could reach.
The enemy had come quickly and without forewarning. The first strike were always the most important and the enemy had gotten it first. And they had made it hard.
Nuclear weaponry, or something even more destructive was what everyone thought what had hit them. No wonder, considering Cranagan was now a smoldering ruin, lightening the nightsky with its flames. Such weapons had been unheard of and banned for centuries, which made them the perfect weapon.
But, despite all the talk about the use of such weaponry, that wasn't what had hit them. Only terrans were known to own them, and they had not made a move against them. The terrans didn't even know what was going on and they couldn't be warned either.
Another pillar of light struck a few miles away. Another smoking hole containing fire and debris was visible after the light went away. They had no details of the weapon, only the result of its destructive nature was their lead. The dimensional fleet had been overtaken and no intel could be gathered from them.
Against the dark sky, small dots of ships, massive in size, could be seen with the naked eyes. Hundreds, thousands of them orbiting the planet, laying waste to anything they could.
No ransom, no ground force, no communication. Just destruction without warning from outer orbit.
A few telescopes had managed to get a few photos of the alien vessels, before succumbing and collapsing where they stood. Those who managed to get a hold of the data were partially fascinated, partially stunned of the images. The ships in orbit had a number of appearances, but most of them had a theme. Slender shapes, large spike-like constructs on their back. No visible compartments containing anything like a crew. From this far away, they only seemed like ghost ships, delivering demise, destruction and despair without orders, without purpose.
One ship in particular stood out in the sky and could be seen clearly without magnification. It hovered, seemingly effortless, below the atmosphere. Its size was immense and dwarfed any ship the planet could come up with. How it held together was a mystery. It had the same theme as all the others, but with a golden surface.
Movement rustled the beast, a single gate opening beneath its massive belly. Emerging from it was an object, easily the size of an ordinary building and shaped like an orb. It descended, being held out by a mechanical arm.
When it reached a certain point, the movement stopped and it was held into the air for a few seconds before it began it activity again. Slowly it began to crack in straight lines, opening holes into itself.
When it had fully opened it got still and silent again. Then, what came next was a black inconsistent mass from within the orb itself. First, it looked like one single object, similar to a cloud. But the closer it got to any observers, the more apparent it became that the cloud consisted of tiny organisms, absorbing anything metallic or organic they came to touch. Their horrifying ability became clear when they swept an area directly below the ship and only left dirt, metal constructs and mauled corpses removed in the blink of an eye.
Then, as silently as it had come, the massive vessel obstructing the sky retrieved the orb and began to ascend to join its brethren. Probably, it didn't want to be near its own weapon. Or, even worse, they had just decided to wait, because at that moment the bombardment seized, only leaving the black cloud to consume what was left.
A slow death waited for those on the surface. All vessels capable of space flight destroyed, cities in ruins, their security in chaos. There was nothing that could be done.
There was no hope left.
Regius would never have expected this. There Is (No) Hope.
The Angels have arrived. The Third Impact has begun....
Last night (why always night?), a thought began to form in my head, for another short. Partially inspired by:
-EVE
-This song: Beauty Never Fades
-Ulver music
-Sci-fi in general
I give you There Is No Hope
Spoiler for There Is No Hope:
A world in degeneration. A city in flames. A civilization falling apart. Such were the situation right now. Destruction and death as far as the eye could reach.
The enemy had come quickly and without forewarning. The first strike were always the most important and the enemy had gotten it first. And they had made it hard.
Nuclear weaponry, or something even more destructive was what everyone thought what had hit them. No wonder, considering Cranagan was now a smoldering ruin, lightening the nightsky with its flames. Such weapons had been unheard of and banned for centuries, which made them the perfect weapon.
But, despite all the talk about the use of such weaponry, that wasn't what had hit them. Only terrans were known to own them, and they had not made a move against them. The terrans didn't even know what was going on and they couldn't be warned either.
Another pillar of light struck a few miles away. Another smoking hole containing fire and debris was visible after the light went away. They had no details of the weapon, only the result of its destructive nature was their lead. The dimensional fleet had been overtaken and no intel could be gathered from them.
Against the dark sky, small dots of ships, massive in size, could be seen with the naked eyes. Hundreds, thousands of them orbiting the planet, laying waste to anything they could.
No ransom, no ground force, no communication. Just destruction without warning from outer orbit.
A few telescopes had managed to get a few photos of the alien vessels, before succumbing and collapsing where they stood. Those who managed to get a hold of the data were partially fascinated, partially stunned of the images. The ships in orbit had a number of appearances, but most of them had a theme. Slender shapes, large spike-like constructs on their back. No visible compartments containing anything like a crew. From this far away, they only seemed like ghost ships, delivering demise, destruction and despair without orders, without purpose.
One ship in particular stood out in the sky and could be seen clearly without magnification. It hovered, seemingly effortless, below the atmosphere. Its size was immense and dwarfed any ship the planet could come up with. How it held together was a mystery. It had the same theme as all the others, but with a golden surface.
Movement rustled the beast, a single gate opening beneath its massive belly. Emerging from it was an object, easily the size of an ordinary building and shaped like an orb. It descended, being held out by a mechanical arm.
When it reached a certain point, the movement stopped and it was held into the air for a few seconds before it began it activity again. Slowly it began to crack in straight lines, opening holes into itself.
When it had fully opened it got still and silent again. Then, what came next was a black inconsistent mass from within the orb itself. First, it looked like one single object, similar to a cloud. But the closer it got to any observers, the more apparent it became that the cloud consisted of tiny organisms, absorbing anything metallic or organic they came to touch. Their horrifying ability became clear when they swept an area directly below the ship and only left dirt, metal constructs and mauled corpses removed in the blink of an eye.
Then, as silently as it had come, the massive vessel obstructing the sky retrieved the orb and began to ascend to join its brethren. Probably, it didn't want to be near its own weapon. Or, even worse, they had just decided to wait, because at that moment the bombardment seized, only leaving the black cloud to consume what was left.
A slow death waited for those on the surface. All vessels capable of space flight destroyed, cities in ruins, their security in chaos. There was nothing that could be done.
There was no hope left.
To think I can respond to this with a bit of my humor
Spoiler for the humor (horror?):
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For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
Fear Anxiety Doubt is but a fad. The life of a fad depends entirely on the willingness to support it. Difficulty is a choice. Determination is a path. Your next great idea after your destination is the true goal.
Last night (why always night?), a thought began to form in my head, for another short. Partially inspired by:
-EVE
-This song: Beauty Never Fades
-Ulver music
-Sci-fi in general
I keep seeing rabbits and reading about rabbits and watching the legion propagate like rabbits both legions hehe.
I don't know why I wrote this. I wanted it to be crack, but it almost became serious. I need a new term. Srack? Crakerious? I need sleep.
Spoiler for Rabbits:
"Subaru, get down from there at once!" Nanoha shouted. She had her best angry face on and her hands were at her hips.
"Aw, c'mon!" Subaru whined. She had climbed a tree in the middle of a talk from her favorite teacher. Needless to say, her teacher was not happy. "There is a rabbit in the tree!"
Nanoha was perplexed. Her anger wasn't serious but she had to figure this mystery out. Rabbits weren't common on Midchilda after all, much less common in trees. "Are you sure its a rabbit?"
"Sure!" Subaru was happy Nanoha wasn't angry anymore. Maybe she could save the critter after all. She loved rabbits. "Long ears, it's white and grey with a fluffy button tail. Hold on." Subaru climbed higher and managed to pick up the shivering rabbit from its perch. She then slid down the tree and winced as a branch scraped her leg.
"Subaru!" Nanoha shouted and tried to catch her, but she landed in an instant and then fell on her butt.
"Sorry, ehehe." She laughed uneasily. "I climb trees a lot, you know."
"I'm sure you do." Nanoha tried not to laugh. The girl was so foolish, but to her credit, the rabbit was cute. "That is an odd sight indeed." She knelt over and patted the rabbit on the head gently. She glanced to her right and thought she saw a second one. "Hmm, well, let it go. We have work today."
"Yes, Ma'am!" Subaru saluted. She was just glad not to be in trouble over that stunt. She had no idea what they had been talking about earlier.
The rabbit scuried through the grass and into some bushes. Another one jumped out of the bush and ran across the field. "Ooh, look a it run!" Subaru pointed. Nanoha laughed. Youth was good indeed.
--
Hayate was laughing. She could not believe what she was seeing, "Who did this? Seriously?" She called for her secretary, "Hello, Miss Civic? Did you leave a critter on my chair?"
"A what?" She was confused.
"I think its a bunny." Hayate held it up. "Its so cute."
"No, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe one of your friends?" She ventured a guess.
Hayate nodded, "I'll ask around, thank you." She dusted off the fur on her chair and sat down on it. She called up Shamal, "Hello Shamal-sensei."
Shamal's happy face appeared on a floating screen, "Oh, what do you have there?"
Hayate sat the rabbit on her desk. "Its a bunny. I found it on my chair, but I have no idea how it got there."
"Very strange indeed. I heard some officers talking about seeing rabbits this morning. They were quite amused by them." Shamal was thinking about it. "There might be a nest nearby."
"Oh, we should go find it, I bet there's a bunch of little bunnies." Hayate was giggling like a school girl. She stopped when the rabbit bounced off her desk. "Oh, wait!" She ran after it, but the door opened and Rein floated in. The bunny escaped down the hallway. "Rein!"
"Yes!?" Rein was shocked to see Hayate's face so suddenly close to hers.
"Do you know anything about a rabbit in my office?"
"OOH BUNNIES!" Rein's eyes were wide open. Hayate blinked and looked around. Two more bunnies were in her office. One was grey, while the other was mostly black.
Hayate dropped her head in defeat, "How'd those get in here?"
--
Teana was grumbling as she removed a bunny from her desk. "Subaru will pay for this travesty" She shook her fist, but relented when she realized she was petting the rabbit with her other hand.
Minutes later, an alarm sounded. "Eh?"
--
Hayate walked to her chair in the Section Six war room. She rubbed her face and removed the bunny resting there. She had already washed her hands and now she had to do it again. Nanoha walked in with a rabbit in her arms.
"Look what I found outside the door!" She laughed.
"This isn't as funny as I'd like it to be, Nanoha."
Vita ran intot he room with a basket full of bunnies. "HAYATE!"
"Vita... Please set that down and have a seat." Hayate frowned.
Vita blinked and looked down at her basket of bunnies. She then looked at the table and then to Nanoha. Nanoha smiled and took her seat. Fate and the others filed in next.
Hayate almost smacked her face into the table, "Why do you all have bunnies? No, why are there so many rabbits everywhere! MOU!"
"Is this a problem?" Fate asked and sat down. She set the bunny on the table. Hers was smaller and white with a spotted face. It twitched his ears and ran towards Vita. "You called us here, right?"
"Sort of. I was ordered to call an emergency meeting by my superiors. They seem to think there's some hare raising problem with all of these rabbits."
Nanoha nodded, "They do have sex a lot." That got some eyes on her. "What?"
Hayate thought about it, "Are those rabbits having sex over there?"
"ACK!" Vita shot out of her chair. "They are!"
"That's it, no rabbits allowed in my war room. Out, out!" Hayate grabbed a couple and headed for the door.
Vita's eyes grew with concern, "Where do we put them?"
"Vita-chan, just outide the door for now. If there are thousands of these things on base, it makes little difference. I'm afraid this might turn into a bio hazard." She opened the door and a dozen more ran into the room. "WHAT THE!?"
"Fuzzy!" Subaru grabbed a bunny from the horde. "I saved this one from a tree earlier!"
"It was in a tree!?" Hayate was shocked. "Rabbits don't climb trees!" A thought occurred to her. It scared her more than the thought of a bio hazard. "Yuuno."
The main monitor turned on. She had placed him on standby, but at the time he had no idea what to do about rabbits, understandably. "Yes? Oh my, get out of the room. There must be 40 rabbits in there!"
"Damn it, more ran in. OK, Yuuno, meet us in the court yard at once! There's nothing secret about this crisis anyways!" She trudged through the bunnies at her feet and left the room.
She heard shouts in the distance, "WHAT ARE THESE THINGS!?"
"THEY AREN'T CUTE ANYMORE!" a woman shouted.
"Oh for crying out loud." Hayate fumed. "My people need to behave better in a crisis." She turned to Nanoha, "You and Fate take to the skies, I want information on their movements. This is turning into war."
"War!?" Nanoha was shocked, but not surprised. "OK, Subaru, Teana get on the airwaves and see if anyone needs help escaping this horde. We do not help anyone who just wants them removed. Erio, Caro, join us in the skies. We'll scout as far as we can."
"Yes!" They saluted.
"Good." Hayate pushed a door open and waited for the bunnies to run aside. "HOLY"
"Wow, they are everywhere." Subaru gasped.
--
"Hayate-chan, I know what's going on." He shooed a rabbit off his shoe for the third time. The grass was all eaten by now. The base was turning into a desert and it wasn't pretty.
"I hope you have an answer, rabbits only live so many months." Hayate was serious.
Yuuno nodded, "There was a flux in the dimensional fabric. Not unlike how the jewel seeds caused minor distortions, but this gave us bunnies... everywhere."
"So its not just having sex and multiplying?" Hayate was curious, but she had a feeling it might have been akin to an invasion.
"Yes, they are being pulled in from another dimension."
"So we fix this by closing that hole and...."
"I'm hoping to reverse the process." Yuuno nodded, "But I don't know what that means. I also don't even know how bad of a biological hazard this is."
"Reporting." Nanoha interrupted.
"Go ahead."
"Its not good."
"I see." Hayate nodded. "Yuuno, do whatever you think is best. Everyone, here are your orders, push them to the water. We'll isolate them there, for now. This is now classified as an invasion."
--
Months later, the grass was still brown.
"What the heck is this thing?" Hayate poked the small, round, calico furball on her desk. It squeaked back.
My dear this is crack no matter how you look at it :3.
Oh boy...Tribbles. They're gonna have wished they stuck with the rabbits >_>
The mor ei thought about it, the more i thought of their entire eco system being fragged. the flea infestation alone might kill everyone.
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For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
Fear Anxiety Doubt is but a fad. The life of a fad depends entirely on the willingness to support it. Difficulty is a choice. Determination is a path. Your next great idea after your destination is the true goal.
KOTR 28
Nanoha took a seat under a dead tree and gulped down a whole bottle of water. Her team had been walking for nearly a day now and they were not even a fraction of a mile close to Hayate’s supposed position. Unknown to them, Hayate already took flight to somewhere even further but her signal transmitter died out. So, the team marked on their map the most likely place Hayate might still be. “We’ve been walking for hours now. I suggest we find somewhere safe and set up camp,” Signum said while massaging her aching leg. They were told not to fly so they wouldn’t attract much attention. Another reason is that Yukihara wanted to train their legs. She thinks that the mages rely too much on flying.
“We’re still in Cranagan and there are no safe places to stay in these ruins. Maybe we should walk further and out of Cranagan. There used to be an open field not far from the city,” Nanoha said. She looked towards the north and back to Signum again. “We can camp there,” she continued. Signum followed Nanoha’s gaze and nodded. “Very well, since you’re the boss, we’ll go with your suggestion. Teana, keep up or be left behind!” she yelled out. Teana was slow as she carried a lot of supplies under the strain of her power armor. “I’m trying to catch up! Why not help me carry some of these things?!” she cried out to Signum. Signum did not hear it as she was too far away. “I swear that she makes me look like a pack mule,” Teana mumbled angrily.
One of the Terran escorts passed by a ruined tower of what used to be the Capital Defense Force HQ. He stopped to look at it and let out a sigh. “Such a magnificent building. It’s really a waste to see it in ruins,” he said. Fate placed her hand on his shoulder and patted it. “I know we all like that thing but we can’t do much about it now. C’mon, we have much more ground to cover,” she said to the escort. He nodded and adjusted his helmet. “You’re right, we have to get out of here,” he said. Before he did that, someone leapt out and held a knife near his throat. “Who are you and what are you doing here,” the girl asked. Another man came out with a device and pointed towards Fate. “I think they’re the anarchists. C’mon, let’s deal with them before more of them arrive,” the man said.
“Anarchists you say? Are you daft, do I look like an anarchist to you? I’m with the Terran Army for Pete’s sake. If you knife me, you’re making a big mistake,” the escort said without showing any signs of fear. The girl moved her knife closer towards his neck. “You’re pretty brave for an anarchist. Let’s see how brave you are when I introduce my knife to your neck,” she said dangerously. “Cinque wait, it’s us! We’re not the anarchists!” Fate cried out. She took off her helmet to reveal her face. Cinque got a surprise and quickly reeled back. “I’m so terribly sorry, I wasn’t convinced because your armor design looks almost like the anarchist armor,” she said with a red face while giving a nervous laugh. The escort had a pistol pointed at point-blank range towards Cinque’s stomach. “You, one-eyed girl, came this close to getting shot for trying to assault a superior officer,” he said.
Cinque saw the escort’s rank emblem and quickly apologized. She didn’t know she tried to kill a Colonel. Cinque herself was only Private 2nd class so that makes the escort way senior than her. The escort kept his gun and walked ahead of Cinque. “Don’t ever try that again,” he said as he passed by Cinque. The other man who pointed his device at Fate quickly lowered it. “Sorry about that ma’am, we were a bit jumpy since there was an increased hostile presence in the city ruins. It’s been a while,” he said. Fate smiled at him. “Yes, it has been a while, Private Langren. Sorry we did not respond to your distress call after the Nuclear Armageddon,” Fate said apologetically. Langren waved his hand dismissively and kept his device. “It’s okay, I was getting used to it here. Life has been a bit bleak but I and Cinque lived through together,” he said with a smile. Fate smiled back and crossed her arms. “So I see your relationship with her went quite well. I guess Nanoha was right to pair you and Cinque together,” she said. Cinque went red and gave a huff. “Don’t embarrass me, Fate,” she said. At the same time, Nanoha and the others caught up. They were glad to see each other and after some negotiations, Cinque and Langren agreed to join the team.
By the time they exited Cranagan, it was close to midnight. They had enough tents for everyone and so, they set them up behind some hills. Some of them hit the sacks quickly but Nanoha, Teana and some of the escorts stayed awake. “Tequila, Nanoha?” an escort said and offered her a bottle. Nanoha politely declined. “Thanks but I have very low tolerance to these types of beverages,” she said. Someone lit a cigarette and took a puff. “Nanoha, do you know that there are three types of aces? One seeks strength, one seeks pride and the other can read the tide of battle. What type of ace are you?” he asked. Nanoha turned to look at the escort but his face was hidden in the shadow save for his body. Nanoha rubbed her chin and thought about it.
“Well, I’m not sure what type of ace I belong to. I seek neither strength nor pride but I can read some of the tide of battle,” she said. The escort puffed on his cigarette and chucked the butt into the campfire. He got up and walked towards the light and this time, she could see his face. He was a middle-aged man with a scar lining down his face towards his jaw. He had a blind eye and walrus moustache. The man was quite muscular and his looks suggest that he is a hardened battle veteran. “If you are soldier ace, tell me, why can’t you even defend your world from the enemy when you know that the tide of battle is changing towards the enemy’s side?” he asked. Nanoha broke cold sweat. “There were too many…infiltrators within our ranks. We should have rooted them out earlier,” she said.
“Tch, you are no ace, Takamachi. An ace is able to do anything including solving certain matters that can turn the tide of battle,” the man said. “Why are you asking me this?” Nanoha asked darkly. The man just gave a dry laugh. “My friend, that is what ES-5 used to tell me. It meant a lot and it did help me read what will happen next. I already predicted something like this to happen,” he said. Nanoha crossed her arms and scowled at him. “If you have predicted that this will happen, why didn’t you do anything about it?” she asked angrily. “This is not my world, neither is it yours. I don’t expect you to do much,” he said. The man then sat down under a dead tree and lit another cigarette.
“Don’t bother about him, he is just depressed and has been like that since the start of the war,” another younger escort said. Nanoha nodded and said nothing more. The night was getting colder and the cold wind howled like the wolf calling towards the full moon. Dirty snow fell heavily and everything was blurring. It seems like a blizzard is coming. “Everyone inside the tents now. I sense a blizzard coming,” she said. Everyone went into their respective tents and tried to rest for the night. However, the blizzard just gave them the creeps.
At the desert hideout where the high rankers have been living, everyone was hungry and their food supplies were running low. “This is worse than being in the middle of the Afghan War,” a commander complained and he banged his fist against the wall of the troop carrier. Caro was bandaging an officer after treating his wounds for gangrene. “Hush, he needs rest so don’t cause a racket,” she said. “She’s right, Krukov. You should just shut that big mouth of yours and get some rest,” another commander said. The former looked out the window and sighed. “How much ammunition do we have left?” he asked. Someone looked into the ammunition storage and shook his head. “We only have a few clips for the assault rifle and perhaps about a dozen shells left for the shotgun. Good for hunting…if only there were animals,” the man said.
The Russian commander shook his head. “Not good, if we are under attack, we can all die like the rest of them,” he said while pointing at a pile of dead bodies. He picked up his hazard gear and slipped into it. Wielding an assault rifle, he exited the troop ship. “Wait, where are you going?” Erio asked. “Isn’t it obvious? I’m gonna get me some equipments and maybe some food so we can continue surviving in this shit place. You’re not gonna stop me because I’m not taking orders from you,” he said. Erio wanted to call him back but an English commander stopped him. “Let him go, lad. Krukov is a war veteran and he is used to fighting alone. That Lone Wolf is someone dangerous and I think it is unwise to cross his path,” the commander said with a British accent.
Erio looked at the commander and nodded his head. “Okay, I won’t go after him,” he said. The English commander looked out the troop carrier and sighed. “Foolish bloke,” he muttered.
*Shakes head and simply marvels at the lengths of some of these 'spoiler' stories/drabbles/'crack' shots, much less the full-length written chapters/stories themselves* =O
I am simply in awe of how much story some of you can put into one chapter, and have it all be such an enjoyable read =3
2009-02-03, 23:19
Author
And Nanoha meets "The Trouble With Tribbles"! I love it!
For those that belittle their favorite characters, complain about pairings, complain about oversexed images. Stop, thank you.
