...And that is why you do not print out stories to shred them up and consume them, nor do you put flutes in places where flutes to do not belong. From an aesthetic distance, it's fine tho.
Only if you like Vivio enough to believe that she should have someone like her Mamas have each other, aka someone just for her. Debatably, if either Nanoha or Fate were not in the lives of the other, this opens up a realm of secondary pairings... but that's beside the point. Vivio/Syn is popular simply because there is no resistance. Like how Chie/Aoi is popular simply (ok, maybe not simply) because there is no one else seriously considered worth putting in the running.
I mean, you could make Chie straight but that... >.>
There's also cuz Vivio was only there for half a season, so its fun to speculate. But its almost impossible to be "official" when Syn doesn't exist in Canon.
----
In other news, I'm suddenly in the mood for Quack!Fate. Wheet! Come on, namesake, show the world what yer made of!
Spoiler for Quack!Fate pt 10- End:
Part 10: Quack Fate
The doors swung open, slowly, excruciatingly, not because time slowed to a crawl when Fate was impatient, nor because Signum was any less excited to have another “practice spar” with her rival, but because… well… to be quite honest…
Demons are too friggin’ lazy to keep their doors well-oiled. And it was rusty to boot.
Luckily, Signum was skilled enough in the art of ghost demon jitsu and teleported from one side of the door to the other, so she was unhampered from running straight for Fate, who was similarly running towards her.
They met in a clash of teeth and nails.
Nails, clawing at sides, soft when in control, hard when desperate, rough, unrehearsed sounds being ripped from each other’s throats.
And all the lesser demons watched in horror, wondering and revering their future Devil Maiden for putting up with such torment- and in public no less.
Signum and Fate eventually fell against each other, the last tendrils of their laughter dying off as they called a truce on their tickle-fest.
Which gave Nanoha and Hayate plenty of time to stop their quick, rushed conversation to join them. Hayate grinned and said, “Let’s go eat, hm? Then you two can go off and play some more.”
At this, Fate held her breath to gather her wits about her, just long enough to frown while smiling. “Nano…Hayate will play too, right?”
“Mm… maybe a bit later, okay? Business first.”
Signum looked between Nanoha and Hayate and saw the seriousness in their eyes, but knew that if she remarked on it, Fate would not appreciate their coming.
So she poked Fate and then ran off, shouting, “Tag, you’re it!”
“Mou! That’s so childish!” Fate puffed even as she got off the floor and chased Signum down the corridor to the dining hall. She could only assume Nanoha and Hayate were following at a leisurely paced.
Halfway through her sweet potatoes and bewitched eggs, Fate realized that Nanoha and Hayate still hadn’t arrived. But then Signum flung some peas up her nose, starting a full-fledged food fight.
By the time Lilith had swept her and Signum up for a much needed bath, a couple of hours had passed before Fate had time to seek out the missing persons.
She checked in the North, West, South, and East corridors, with no luck. So she turned around and tried the NE, NW, SW, and SE hidden passages. Still nothing. Well, she did find an old potato, but she thought nothing of it.
At that point, she traded in her devil pride for necessity of the moment and started calling out their names. It wasn’t like Nanoha or Hayate to not answer her.
If they were within range.
It occurred to Fate then that they might have flown the coop. They could do that, having flying magic and all. It was entirely possible.
“But she promised!” Fate puffed her cheeks out at no one in particular before hurrying off down a random corridor that would likely lead outdoors do the floating labyrinth maze of doom. “Nanoha-chan! Where are you?! Hayate!”
Finally, she stopped at the foot of the attic stairwell. Signum was already there, like a sentry. Arf was there too. That was when Fate knew this was the answer.
But she hated the attic. It was high up and really scary and there were ghosts and ghouls and other things worse than any Devil she had ever known.
It struck her then that Nanoha might need help. That she had been overwhelmed by the baddies and needed brave Fate to conquer them and beat them into submission with mind-rapping Barney reruns. She had to go.
… She ran to the bathroom, hopping from one foot to the other along the way.
After relieving herself, she came back, nice and content, with her game face on. Don’t be mistaken, this is not the face that she used when playing poker (which was always some shade of red as it involved stripping and her always losing), nor was it the face she put on when hunting game (because those dagnab Monopoly pieces kept getting eaten or lost).
No, she had on the Face of Fate. Which would be pretty gosh darn scary if she weren’t so darn cute.
Signum tried to stop her. “Fate. Don’t go up there.”
Fate went up anyway, leaving Signum to play Old Maid with Arf.
What she found was and was not what she expected to find. There was magic circles, and Nanoha was in one of them. Hayate was in another one, doing an incantation.
Fate raced forward when she realized that Nanoha was unconscious, but the presence of the other magical circle stopped her.
It was glowing.
It was yellow.
It was… Quack!
“Quack!”
Hayate opened her eyes and probably would have cursed if she wasn’t in the middle of an incantation.
Fate crossed the room, tripped over some stray clump of air, got up, and ran again. She wrapped her arms over the now 7 foot tall duck and squeezed the living daylights out of him.
Fate started to feel strange.
“Quack?”
By all rights, Hayate should have stopped the incantation right there and then.
Fate fell into a dead faint as an eerie swoosh and whoosh consumed her.
When she came to, Nanoha’s body was nowhere to be seen, and neither, for that matter, was Hayate.
But the duck. Her duck was still there.
And as Fate looked up into his- no, her shining blue eyes, she realized she had never been happier.
Fate hugged her and whispered, “Can I still call you ‘Quack’, Nanoha?”
The duck nipped at her hair but fondly nuzzled her hair with its cheek. “Quack.”
Eventually, Fate and her duck made it down the narrow steps, to where only Arf was waiting for her.
Arf took one look at the duck and bowed in reverence.
“At ease.” Fate smiled first at Arf and then up at Quack. “This is the beginning of a new era. There will be demons… and devils… but there will be respect and peace too.”
And it was indeed a new era. No longer was it the era of the White Devil, but rather, after the rumors had spread that Fate had defeated Nanoha and taken her place as reigning Devil, it became a rather ironically named era.
The Era of Quack Fate, the Quack Devil that wasn’t a quack at all- she was a legit Teletubbie lover with a oversized duck companion with a menacing glare.
But they expected no less of She who Beat the White Devil
~As things end, they should be as they began, an endless cycle, yet ever changing~
~Not TBC~
The End.
Edit: Page claim for Loving Stories for being well-told stories! :O
On the Martian surface, Belkans wore oxygen suits to breath in that hostile environment. The battle was taking place on a flat surface with no mountains and the reactors were an easy thing to spot. The power-producing part of the reactor was deep underground though. “There it is, the damned thing that has powered Terra’s orbital cannons,” said a knight leader to the invasion force. They were all flying in the air and Terran attack jets have came out to intercept them. Not from the ground though, they came from the sky, taking off from manta ray-like titanic sky aircraft carriers. “Everyone break formation and spread! Destroy the reactors before help from Earth arrives!” the leader yelled.
In space was a battle going on between the Martian Naval Fleet and Belkan Naval Fleet. Both were equally numbered. Magic bolts and missiles filled the space and it looked like a spectacular fireworks display in space. On the ground, anti-aircraft guns tracked the Belkans and fired up a storm of tungsten bullets and high-powered lasers. Nanoha, Fate and the Wolkenritters were part of the airborne invasion team.
“It’s a shooting gallery out here. Nanoha, don’t hold any compassion for these Terrans. They won’t show any to you all. Trust me,” said Signum. Nanoha and Fate were surprised she said that and she said it without any regret. “Signum, are you okay? You suddenly seem to despise the Terrans,” said Fate. Signum just shook her head. At that moment, hails of missiles streaked past them. Some knights got hit while most of them dodged the attack from the diving attack planes. “Nanoha, I’m gonna go deal with those planes. You concentrate on attacking the reactor,” said Fate and she broke from her formation. Nanoha nodded but in reality, she’d rather follow Fate but with so many others in the air battling the aircrafts…there shouldn’t be any problem. Hopefully.
On the ground, soldiers and marines hid in trenches and pillboxes brilliantly camouflaged with the surrounding Martian terrain. One marine freshman was nervous and he trembled so badly that his aim was bad. His sergeant came by and patted his shoulder. “Stay focused, marine. If the flyboys in the air can’t get them, we will and so will the hundreds of anti-air guns. This reactor is a fortress and I am confident that it will hold. Besides, we have one final trick up our sleeves should everything go wrong,” the sergeant said coolly.
The marine nodded but trembled slightly less. He pulled the charging lever of his rifle. “Just remember this, they hit you hard, you make sure you hit those Belkans back ten folds harder. This will certainly hurt the hell out of them,” the sergeant smiled. Right on time, the Belkans flew into the anti-air gun fire zone. The guns cranked up and began firing up a storm. The marines and soldiers fired as well. Signum dodged the attacks as if they were nothing and she dodged them gracefully. She went close to a gun emplacement and slashed it once. The gun exploded into bits.
The Belkans began their attacking run and attacked with magic attacks that ranged from fire attacks similar to Signum’s to attacks that explode when they come upon contact with something. Nanoha landed on the ground and used Raging Heart to snipe out the guns. She wasn’t a Belkan like Signum and she certainly don’t like the go-front-and-rip-them-to-pieces concept the Belkans love to apply, including Signum.
“Now, this won’t hurt a bit. Divine Buster!” yelled Nanoha.
Back on Mid-Childa, the stranded soldiers took Hayate to a secluded spot and hid there until help from Earth can come. They took off their battle armor and put on normal civilian clothes they stole, mostly from military families. Hayate’s injured arm throbbed and ached. Luckily for her, there was a medic among the soldiers. “How did you hurt your arm, ma’am? The bones have been fractured into multiple pieces,” said the astonished soldier. Hayate shrugged of the pain and said, “Well, I was flying and suddenly, I fell due to the lost of my flight abilities. I slammed into one of your damaged tanks and that is why my arm is hurt.” The medic nodded and removed the sling, carefully examining the arm by pressing it and running his fingers over her hand. “We can fix that…but we require a medical facility. I don’t have the equipments required to heal broken bones,” said the medic.
The leader was a Major and he had a stern look on his face. “Those swabbies left us in enemy territory with our objective. It’s impossible to steal a Belkan craft and return back to Earth unless someone is suicidal enough to go through all the defenses, brave enemy fire, steal a craft, brave more enemy fire and get back here in one piece. Even if the Belkan civilians are innocent, they do report to the military should we show ourselves,” the Major said. He sat on the floor of the abandoned building they were hiding in.
“I’m very much intrigued by your loss of flight ability, Hayate. Can you share with us the account of your experience and what you think about it? I like to know why,” said the Major. So Hayate accounted everything she remembered to the soldiers. When she was done, the Major nodded his head and stroked his chin. “Intriguing indeed. So you said you lost your Book of Darkness eh. If what the historians say is true, the book is everything and whoever controls that controls the Wolkenritters. Hayate, have you noticed anything strange about the Wolkenritters? Are they like ignoring you or perhaps they’re loyal to someone instead of you? Anything like that?” asked the Major.
Hayate thought about it and shook her head. “I didn’t even see Vita, Signum and Shamal for a while now. All I met was Rein, you know, that little girl with white hair. Until now, she’s not back yet,” said Hayate. “This is suspicious indeed. I tell you what, we will stay here but you must return to the Belkan military and your friends lest they get suspicious. We will attach this listening device on you and make sure we can hear what you hear. This can help us gather more intel on the Belkans. Can you cooperate with us?” the Major asked.
Hayate nodded. “I don’t trust the Belkans when I first met them. I have a nagging feeling they were up to something and it seems like my guess was only half correct as I still don’t know why they attacked you. Anyway, I’ll help in anyway I can,” said Hayate. The Major nodded and set his rifle on the floor. “Good, just don’t reveal our intentions and most importantly, our location. In return, we’ll try to contact Command and Control so they can come and extract us from this forsaken place.”
Hayate walked down the streets casually and returned to the Central Tower. Chrono was there in the lobby with Teana and Subaru. Shari was at the receptionist’s desk while Vivio was playing with a group of children. “There you are Hayate. We were looking for you and almost asked for military help when you came back. Nanoha and Fate were looking for you earlier but were called to attack a Terran base in a place they won’t reveal. What happened to your arm?” asked Chrono. “I accidentally broke it. Have you seen Rein or any of my Wolkenritters?” asked Hayate. They all shook their heads. “Then have you at least seen my Book of Darkness?” she asked again. Subaru raised her hand and said, “Well, I did notice a hooded guy carrying something that resembles the Book of Darkness when I was walking down the streets not far from here,” she said.
“How did this guy look like?” asked Hayate, now sounding slightly angry. “Can’t really see his facial features but I do notice a scar on his face. That is all I know,” Subaru said with a shrug. “Well then, that’s all I need to know. Teana and Subaru, I want you to follow me and catch this guy. Even if that thing he’s carrying looks like the Book of Darkness, I want to make sure if it is or not,” said Hayate. She stormed out of the building with Subaru and Teana following. “Wow, she’s pretty pissed off,” mused Shari. Chrono nodded but said nothing. Something was bothering him too. He noticed that Vivio was very well treated by the Saint King and his ministers.
They gave her everything she wanted, everything she desired and everything that even Nanoha and Fate couldn’t afford. They treated the rest of them like pawns and insects though. They treated Chrono slightly better but they treated Nanoha, Subaru and the others as if they were meant only for battle.
“Now I’m starting to feel that we’re only instruments to them rather than part of their society. What interests me now is the way they treat Vivio like a…Queen. Wait one second, Shari, what was Vivio’s origin?” asked Chrono.
“She originated from an ancient Saint King, a reincarnated. Is that why she is being treated like a royal?” asked Shari with a frown. Chrono nodded. “I have every reason to suspect the Belkans are up to something and they want Vivio involved as well. Humph, we’ll see about that.”
Spoiler for Random image:
Think about it. I'd like to hear your opinions on what they want with Vivio. If only that lady in that image was Vivio........
...And that is why you do not print out stories to shred them up and consume them, nor do you put flutes in places where flutes to do not belong. From an aesthetic distance, it's fine tho.
Only if you like Vivio enough to believe that she should have someone like her Mamas have each other, aka someone just for her. Debatably, if either Nanoha or Fate were not in the lives of the other, this opens up a realm of secondary pairings... but that's beside the point. Vivio/Syn is popular simply because there is no resistance. Like how Chie/Aoi is popular simply (ok, maybe not simply) because there is no one else seriously considered worth putting in the running.
I mean, you could make Chie straight but that... >.>
There's also cuz Vivio was only there for half a season, so its fun to speculate. But its almost impossible to be "official" when Syn doesn't exist in Canon.
----
In other news, I'm suddenly in the mood for Quack!Fate. Wheet! Come on, namesake, show the world what yer made of!
Spoiler for Quack!Fate pt 10- End:
Part 10: Quack Fate
The doors swung open, slowly, excruciatingly, not because time slowed to a crawl when Fate was impatient, nor because Signum was any less excited to have another “practice spar” with her rival, but because… well… to be quite honest…
Demons are too friggin’ lazy to keep their doors well-oiled. And it was rusty to boot.
Luckily, Signum was skilled enough in the art of ghost demon jitsu and teleported from one side of the door to the other, so she was unhampered from running straight for Fate, who was similarly running towards her.
They met in a clash of teeth and nails.
Nails, clawing at sides, soft when in control, hard when desperate, rough, unrehearsed sounds being ripped from each other’s throats.
And all the lesser demons watched in horror, wondering and revering their future Devil Maiden for putting up with such torment- and in public no less.
Signum and Fate eventually fell against each other, the last tendrils of their laughter dying off as they called a truce on their tickle-fest.
Which gave Nanoha and Hayate plenty of time to stop their quick, rushed conversation to join them. Hayate grinned and said, “Let’s go eat, hm? Then you two can go off and play some more.”
At this, Fate held her breath to gather her wits about her, just long enough to frown while smiling. “Nano…Hayate will play too, right?”
“Mm… maybe a bit later, okay? Business first.”
Signum looked between Nanoha and Hayate and saw the seriousness in their eyes, but knew that if she remarked on it, Fate would not appreciate their coming.
So she poked Fate and then ran off, shouting, “Tag, you’re it!”
“Mou! That’s so childish!” Fate puffed even as she got off the floor and chased Signum down the corridor to the dining hall. She could only assume Nanoha and Hayate were following at a leisurely paced.
Halfway through her sweet potatoes and bewitched eggs, Fate realized that Nanoha and Hayate still hadn’t arrived. But then Signum flung some peas up her nose, starting a full-fledged food fight.
By the time Lilith had swept her and Signum up for a much needed bath, a couple of hours had passed before Fate had time to seek out the missing persons.
She checked in the North, West, South, and East corridors, with no luck. So she turned around and tried the NE, NW, SW, and SE hidden passages. Still nothing. Well, she did find an old potato, but she thought nothing of it.
At that point, she traded in her devil pride for necessity of the moment and started calling out their names. It wasn’t like Nanoha or Hayate to not answer her.
If they were within range.
It occurred to Fate then that they might have flown the coop. They could do that, having flying magic and all. It was entirely possible.
“But she promised!” Fate puffed her cheeks out at no one in particular before hurrying off down a random corridor that would likely lead outdoors do the floating labyrinth maze of doom. “Nanoha-chan! Where are you?! Hayate!”
Finally, she stopped at the foot of the attic stairwell. Signum was already there, like a sentry. Arf was there too. That was when Fate knew this was the answer.
But she hated the attic. It was high up and really scary and there were ghosts and ghouls and other things worse than any Devil she had ever known.
It struck her then that Nanoha might need help. That she had been overwhelmed by the baddies and needed brave Fate to conquer them and beat them into submission with mind-rapping Barney reruns. She had to go.
… She ran to the bathroom, hopping from one foot to the other along the way.
After relieving herself, she came back, nice and content, with her game face on. Don’t be mistaken, this is not the face that she used when playing poker (which was always some shade of red as it involved stripping and her always losing), nor was it the face she put on when hunting game (because those dagnab Monopoly pieces kept getting eaten or lost).
No, she had on the Face of Fate. Which would be pretty gosh darn scary if she weren’t so darn cute.
Signum tried to stop her. “Fate. Don’t go up there.”
Fate went up anyway, leaving Signum to play Old Maid with Arf.
What she found was and was not what she expected to find. There was magic circles, and Nanoha was in one of them. Hayate was in another one, doing an incantation.
Fate raced forward when she realized that Nanoha was unconscious, but the presence of the other magical circle stopped her.
It was glowing.
It was yellow.
It was… Quack!
“Quack!”
Hayate opened her eyes and probably would have cursed if she wasn’t in the middle of an incantation.
Fate crossed the room, tripped over some stray clump of air, got up, and ran again. She wrapped her arms over the now 7 foot tall duck and squeezed the living daylights out of him.
Fate started to feel strange.
“Quack?”
By all rights, Hayate should have stopped the incantation right there and then.
Fate fell into a dead faint as an eerie swoosh and whoosh consumed her.
When she came to, Nanoha’s body was nowhere to be seen, and neither, for that matter, was Hayate.
But the duck. Her duck was still there.
And as Fate looked up into his- no, her shining blue eyes, she realized she had never been happier.
Fate hugged her and whispered, “Can I still call you ‘Quack’, Nanoha?”
The duck nipped at her hair but fondly nuzzled her hair with its cheek. “Quack.”
Eventually, Fate and her duck made it down the narrow steps, to where only Arf was waiting for her.
Arf took one look at the duck and bowed in reverence.
“At ease.” Fate smiled first at Arf and then up at Quack. “This is the beginning of a new era. There will be demons… and devils… but there will be respect and peace too.”
And it was indeed a new era. No longer was it the era of the White Devil, but rather, after the rumors had spread that Fate had defeated Nanoha and taken her place as reigning Devil, it became a rather ironically named era.
The Era of Quack Fate, the Quack Devil that wasn’t a quack at all- she was a legit Teletubbie lover with a oversized duck companion with a menacing glare.
But they expected no less of She who Beat the White Devil
~As things end, they should be as they began, an endless cycle, yet ever changing~
~Not TBC~
The End.
Edit: Page claim for Loving Stories for being well-told stories! :O
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Originally Posted by Vivio Testarossa
****, Bad end! Fate doesn't get either girl...
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Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama
She did! She got Quack! ... too metaphorically crack-silly?
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Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki
She got a giant duck! How can that be a bad end? I mean, it's a duck!
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Originally Posted by Tempest Dynasty
Cry some mooooore!
Also, ducks are awesome.
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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
Sooo...the story stopped being Quack!Fate and turned into QuackXFate?
This entire segment is just Fowl
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....sorry
but on another note ducks are awesome, they're Delicious
kind of sad that it came to an end
but all good stories (and crack) must come to an end.
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"For Life is experience, and longevity is, in the end, measured by memory, and those with a thousand tales to tell have indeed lived longer then any who embrace the mundane."
...And that is why you do not print out stories to shred them up and consume them, nor do you put flutes in places where flutes to do not belong. From an aesthetic distance, it's fine tho.
Only if you like Vivio enough to believe that she should have someone like her Mamas have each other, aka someone just for her. Debatably, if either Nanoha or Fate were not in the lives of the other, this opens up a realm of secondary pairings... but that's beside the point. Vivio/Syn is popular simply because there is no resistance. Like how Chie/Aoi is popular simply (ok, maybe not simply) because there is no one else seriously considered worth putting in the running.
I mean, you could make Chie straight but that... >.>
There's also cuz Vivio was only there for half a season, so its fun to speculate. But its almost impossible to be "official" when Syn doesn't exist in Canon.
----
In other news, I'm suddenly in the mood for Quack!Fate. Wheet! Come on, namesake, show the world what yer made of!
Spoiler for Quack!Fate pt 10- End:
Part 10: Quack Fate
The doors swung open, slowly, excruciatingly, not because time slowed to a crawl when Fate was impatient, nor because Signum was any less excited to have another “practice spar” with her rival, but because… well… to be quite honest…
Demons are too friggin’ lazy to keep their doors well-oiled. And it was rusty to boot.
Luckily, Signum was skilled enough in the art of ghost demon jitsu and teleported from one side of the door to the other, so she was unhampered from running straight for Fate, who was similarly running towards her.
They met in a clash of teeth and nails.
Nails, clawing at sides, soft when in control, hard when desperate, rough, unrehearsed sounds being ripped from each other’s throats.
And all the lesser demons watched in horror, wondering and revering their future Devil Maiden for putting up with such torment- and in public no less.
Signum and Fate eventually fell against each other, the last tendrils of their laughter dying off as they called a truce on their tickle-fest.
Which gave Nanoha and Hayate plenty of time to stop their quick, rushed conversation to join them. Hayate grinned and said, “Let’s go eat, hm? Then you two can go off and play some more.”
At this, Fate held her breath to gather her wits about her, just long enough to frown while smiling. “Nano…Hayate will play too, right?”
“Mm… maybe a bit later, okay? Business first.”
Signum looked between Nanoha and Hayate and saw the seriousness in their eyes, but knew that if she remarked on it, Fate would not appreciate their coming.
So she poked Fate and then ran off, shouting, “Tag, you’re it!”
“Mou! That’s so childish!” Fate puffed even as she got off the floor and chased Signum down the corridor to the dining hall. She could only assume Nanoha and Hayate were following at a leisurely paced.
Halfway through her sweet potatoes and bewitched eggs, Fate realized that Nanoha and Hayate still hadn’t arrived. But then Signum flung some peas up her nose, starting a full-fledged food fight.
By the time Lilith had swept her and Signum up for a much needed bath, a couple of hours had passed before Fate had time to seek out the missing persons.
She checked in the North, West, South, and East corridors, with no luck. So she turned around and tried the NE, NW, SW, and SE hidden passages. Still nothing. Well, she did find an old potato, but she thought nothing of it.
At that point, she traded in her devil pride for necessity of the moment and started calling out their names. It wasn’t like Nanoha or Hayate to not answer her.
If they were within range.
It occurred to Fate then that they might have flown the coop. They could do that, having flying magic and all. It was entirely possible.
“But she promised!” Fate puffed her cheeks out at no one in particular before hurrying off down a random corridor that would likely lead outdoors do the floating labyrinth maze of doom. “Nanoha-chan! Where are you?! Hayate!”
Finally, she stopped at the foot of the attic stairwell. Signum was already there, like a sentry. Arf was there too. That was when Fate knew this was the answer.
But she hated the attic. It was high up and really scary and there were ghosts and ghouls and other things worse than any Devil she had ever known.
It struck her then that Nanoha might need help. That she had been overwhelmed by the baddies and needed brave Fate to conquer them and beat them into submission with mind-rapping Barney reruns. She had to go.
… She ran to the bathroom, hopping from one foot to the other along the way.
After relieving herself, she came back, nice and content, with her game face on. Don’t be mistaken, this is not the face that she used when playing poker (which was always some shade of red as it involved stripping and her always losing), nor was it the face she put on when hunting game (because those dagnab Monopoly pieces kept getting eaten or lost).
No, she had on the Face of Fate. Which would be pretty gosh darn scary if she weren’t so darn cute.
Signum tried to stop her. “Fate. Don’t go up there.”
Fate went up anyway, leaving Signum to play Old Maid with Arf.
What she found was and was not what she expected to find. There was magic circles, and Nanoha was in one of them. Hayate was in another one, doing an incantation.
Fate raced forward when she realized that Nanoha was unconscious, but the presence of the other magical circle stopped her.
It was glowing.
It was yellow.
It was… Quack!
“Quack!”
Hayate opened her eyes and probably would have cursed if she wasn’t in the middle of an incantation.
Fate crossed the room, tripped over some stray clump of air, got up, and ran again. She wrapped her arms over the now 7 foot tall duck and squeezed the living daylights out of him.
Fate started to feel strange.
“Quack?”
By all rights, Hayate should have stopped the incantation right there and then.
Fate fell into a dead faint as an eerie swoosh and whoosh consumed her.
When she came to, Nanoha’s body was nowhere to be seen, and neither, for that matter, was Hayate.
But the duck. Her duck was still there.
And as Fate looked up into his- no, her shining blue eyes, she realized she had never been happier.
Fate hugged her and whispered, “Can I still call you ‘Quack’, Nanoha?”
The duck nipped at her hair but fondly nuzzled her hair with its cheek. “Quack.”
Eventually, Fate and her duck made it down the narrow steps, to where only Arf was waiting for her.
Arf took one look at the duck and bowed in reverence.
“At ease.” Fate smiled first at Arf and then up at Quack. “This is the beginning of a new era. There will be demons… and devils… but there will be respect and peace too.”
And it was indeed a new era. No longer was it the era of the White Devil, but rather, after the rumors had spread that Fate had defeated Nanoha and taken her place as reigning Devil, it became a rather ironically named era.
The Era of Quack Fate, the Quack Devil that wasn’t a quack at all- she was a legit Teletubbie lover with a oversized duck companion with a menacing glare.
But they expected no less of She who Beat the White Devil
~As things end, they should be as they began, an endless cycle, yet ever changing~
~Not TBC~
The End.
Edit: Page claim for Loving Stories for being well-told stories! :O
True end (not bad end as many think) is good. And she did got a duck as a prize~
but on another note ducks are awesome, they're Delicious
kind of sad that it came to an end
but all good stories (and crack) must come to an end.
But with the ending it got was...
Ducks are not awesome... all they do is... Quack Quack Quack! The duck doesn't talk, can't cuddle with Fate, and has no emotions.
Like I said above, bad end!
But with the ending it got was...
Ducks are not awesome... all they do is... Quack Quack Quack! The duck doesn't talk, can't cuddle with Fate, and has no emotions.
Like I said above, bad end!
Boo hoo? Really, it's not a bad end. The entire story was one giant comedy -- there is absolutely no obligation or requirement to have Fate paired with Nanoha or Hayate. Hell, this "bad end" you're crying about is a fine end for a silly fic like that.
You can complain and cry, or you can deal with it. Not all stories will end the way you want, and not all stories will have "happy" endings.
But with the ending it got was...
Ducks are not awesome... all they do is... Quack Quack Quack! The duck doesn't talk, can't cuddle with Fate, and has no emotions.
Like I said above, bad end!
Spoiler for My answer:
... I guessed you missed the forgotten footnoted explanation that Nanoha's soul was purified by being reborn within the vessel of a duck, which had to grow to accommodate the size of Nanoha's inner-heart, and where when Fate touched the duck mid-spell, the part of her soul that was literally in Nanoha was restored to her...
...But I guess that's a bit much to read into the lines:
And as Fate looked up into his- no, her shining blue eyes, she realized she had never been happier.
Fate hugged her and whispered, “Can I still call you ‘Quack’, Nanoha?”
... Of course, you are perfectly entitled to believe "The duck doesn't talk, can't cuddle with Fate, and has no emotions."
... Cuz I'm the sort of writer that lives to mess with your mind with my stories. :3 Wheet!
... I guessed you missed the forgotten footnoted explanation that Nanoha's soul was purified by being reborn within the vessel of a duck, which had to grow to accommodate the size of Nanoha's inner-heart, and where when Fate touched the duck mid-spell, the part of her soul that was literally in Nanoha was restored to her...
...But I guess that's a bit much to read into the lines:
And as Fate looked up into his- no, her shining blue eyes, she realized she had never been happier.
Fate hugged her and whispered, “Can I still call you ‘Quack’, Nanoha?”
... Of course, you are perfectly entitled to believe "The duck doesn't talk, can't cuddle with Fate, and has no emotions."
... Cuz I'm the sort of writer that lives to mess with your mind with my stories. :3 Wheet!
*Wipes tears off eyes* A nice ending... thanks Knight of L-sama ...
Spoiler for OffTopic!:
Vivio Testarossa kidnaps Keroko (both of them), while no one is watching!
Vivio Testarossa laughs, and says "I win!"
Spoiler for Something I've been thinking (OFF TOPIC):
Since Vivio has one red eye and one green eye, she can play "Red light-Green light", by opening and closing her eyes.
I hit the text limit O.< So I'll have to do another compile for 21-29. Here's part 29!
By the way, who said this was over? We still have lots to go. :3
Spoiler for PornStar!Vivio pt.29:
Elena Virage looked up from her novel when her device decided to interrupt her reading. The tone told her that it was her favorite, and only, daughter giving one of her late night calls. A small tap made a monitor appear in front of her with the words 'voice only' displayed across it. "Hello, Syn," she greeted cheerfully.
"Hey mom." The voice made the mother sit down her book at once. "I kind of have an issue."
"What is it honey?" Light blue hair was moved over her shoulder to try and get it out of the way as she leaned back.
"Lots of things, really..." Syn paced her apartment floor while trying to decide how to start. "You know Vivio?"
"Your girlfriend?"
"Ex." Syn almost spat the word. "She's a whore."
"Excuse me?"
"She works in pornography." Syn stopped pacing and sighed out in annoyance. "She slept with... She had sex with others while we were dating!"
Elena had to think about this information before continuing. "That sweet girl you were telling me about?"
"Yes, her! She cheated on me! Several times! While being filmed and paid for it!" Syn fell onto her bed and stared at the ceiling. "I just got back from being checked for STDs..."
Elena felt her heart almost miss a beat at hearing that. "Are you-"
"I'm think I'm fine," Syn's words lost their angry tone briefly, slipping how scared she was about it. "I have two test that have to be sent off... I won't know about those until day after tomorrow."
"Oh my..."
"Mom, I trusted her!" Syn continued where she had left off. "I can't believe this, she's a porn star! Not just an actor, a STAR! She had almost ten magazines on the table and who knows what she wasn't showing!?"
The mother rubbed the bridge of her nose. "I'm still having trouble seeing that girl doing something like that..."
"Well she did. While we were dating. While lieing to me about it!" Syn hit her bed. "She lied to me! I trusted her! She blew someone then kissed me!"
"Syn, honey, calm don't, don't cry-"
"I'm not crying!" Syn screamed loudly, throat throbbing from the abuse of the sobs. Her hand rubbed her eyes furiously, voice breaking from the hard breathing. "Mom, she cheated on me!"
Once again Elena shifted, thinking hard on what to say. "Honey, take a breath." She heard a hiccup and hard gasping mixed with pauses where her daughter had to swallow.
Syn pressed her pillow against her face and wiped it. "She should have told me. She should have just said 'hey, I'm a slut' when we met." Her eyes closed.
"Would you have still hit on her?" Elena asked after a small moment of silence.
"I was drunk and lonely! I - I don't know, what kind of question is that!?"
"The kind makes you look at yourself a little closer," The older woman spoke gently. "If she had told you earlier, and still taken you home and fed you so you wouldn't be alone, would you have still been her friend?"
Syn stared at the phone in disbelief. "Why are you defending her!?"
"Isn't that what you wanted me to do?"
Growling, Syn closed her phone and tossed it across the room, landing on her couch. As she fell to lay face first on her bed, she pulled a pillow closer and ignored her mother's ring tone. 'How could she?' Her mind thought as her body buried her face harder into the cushion. 'After everything, after I fell in love with her, after... God.' The music from her phone finally stopped. 'Every time... She couldn't come over, she was working... I couldn't meet her for lunch, she was updating her web page... What was it to her? She could screw anyone she wanted, why did she have to play me?' Rolling onto her back, she looked at the ceiling with an arm across her forehead. 'My first time...
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Originally Posted by Satashi
Spoiler for PornStar!Vivio pt.30:
Vivio slowly climbed out of her bed and stumbled across her apartment. The world blurred around her but the hope that Syn was behind the knocking on her door gave her the energy to make it the rest of the way. Once she managed to reach the door, she leaned against the frame and unlocked it. Instead of a young blue haired girl waiting to talk to her, she instead found a more mature woman looking at her with a mix of shock and pity. "Hey Allquall," Vivio mumbled, eyes closing and letting her head fall against the frame.
"Eyes, you look like hell, what happened!?" The woman quickly helped the blond walk back to her bed, where she slowly crawled into it and laid face first. "Are you okay? you never came back for your checkup and when I asked I was told you haven't even come to work all week or updated your webpage! I was worried!"
"Ah." Vivio stayed silent after the short mumble but reluctantly allowed herself to be rolled over and sat up on the bed. "I want to lay down..."
"You need me to check on you." The woman sat down on the bed and started giving her a one-over. "How do you feel?"
"Dead."
"Be more specific please."
"Throwing up, my throat hurts, my eyes sting, my chest s tight, I don't care about anything."
Allquall looked at the girl a little closer. The normally shining gold hair was dull and lifeless, and instead of the faint sweet smell of perfume, she smelt sweat and neglect. "Eyes, why didn't you come in? Your cold got worse, I'm certain you have the flu now. Didn't you get pills to prevent that?" Vivio looked away. "Are you eating okay?"
"I'd just throw it up."
"Are you taking care of yourself? When did you last shower and change your sheets? You need to stay clean, you will feel better."
Vivio shrugged. "I dunno..." The hands keeping her up left and she laid back down on the bed, cheek on her pillow. "I don't really care."
"What's wrong with you?" The woman asked softly. "I've never once seen you not smiling and bouncing off the walls."
Staying quiet a moment, Vivio finally opened her eyes again and looked up at the woman. "Syn left me... After that I... I just got sick." She once again looked away and faced her pillow, fighting back the urge to cry again.
"You can't not take care of yourself because your girlfriend left you. If you don't get better you'll be in trouble."
"I know but...I don't know..."
Allquall stood up and tucked the girl in. "I'm going to prescribe you something and get your pharmacist to deliver it. She's your friend right?" She got a small nod. "Okay, I'll do that... Vivio, take a shower, you smell like ten kinda of ass." She got a small smile, but it was enough for her. "Really. I'll be back tomorrow to check up on you. May I leave your door unlocked for a few hours?"
"Yes."
"Okay, Angel will be by shortly. If she can't, I'll take it to you."
"...Thank you." For the first time in a few days, Vivio felt as if laying in bed and dieing wasn't the only solution to how she felt at that moment.
Both girls seemed to be quite depressed over there breakup. I hope that they can will make up and get back together soon. But what will Vivio's new job be? A Waitress? A Teacher? Something else? I can't wait to see!
Both girls seemed to be quite depressed over there breakup. I hope that they can will make up and get back together soon. But what will Vivio's new job be? A Waitress? A Teacher? Something else? I can't wait to see!
She doesn´t need to change jobs. she just needs the power of Lov*gunned down*
Nah, its more likely that she wants to keep her job, after all she is "good" at it and the pay is good. She just needs for Syn to understand i guess. Now if Syn will accept it or not is another thing.
...great and i am starting to get in the discussion. My (hopefully only) two cents there.
@Quack!Fate
I think it was a good fic in general, probably not the best ending, but it was fine.
Also, what is the problem with ducks? Ducks are great!
Spoiler for Duck:
Also, you should watch Princess Tutu to know how great ducks are:
It may seem childish at first sigh, but don't be fooled! It's a great anime, one of the best of its genres in my opinion.