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MGLN "Befriending" shows love thru superior firepower (Zenryokou Zenkai!) Gundams are your worst nightmare in the battlefield. SRW beats all foes. JAM Project pwns all!!! And I can't still make fanfic without restarting from the start when new ideas comes in... |
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*looks at the background with the muse feeding machine* NAH!!! we kept his muse full with other's muse... XD
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Posted Chapter 2 of "Prerogative of the Brave" on FF.net
 . I made a few changes to better reflect the discussion that went on over Nanoha's seeming enthusiasm in pushing Vivio and Hayate together. Hopefully, despite the POV staying with just Hayate, some of Nanoha's inner motivations may come through a little better  .
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It probably never would have happened if Takamachi Vivio hadn't had her nose in a book. It was a perfectly natural thing for her to do, of course. She loved to read; ever since she was a child she'd loved nothing better than to devour something new, usually history but extending across a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction. It wasn't for nothing that she'd decided when she was sixteen to join the staff of the Time-Space Administration Bureau's Infinity Library as her full-time career rather than follow her mother into the military.
So when she walked down the sidewalk with most of her attention on the text on the open holoscreen in front of her, what little was left concentrating on not crashing into people or wandering out in front of a car, it was not at all unexpected that she'd miss her turn and wander three blocks out of her way before she came back from the era of the Garean conquests to realize where she was. Rather than backtrack to the corner she was supposed to turn at, she decided to cut diagonally through the alleys and side streets to keep from losing more time. Vivio didn't give a second thought to the fact that she was in one of the rougher parts of Cranagan, the fringes near the abandoned sections of the city. She wasn't field-experienced, but she was a combat-trained mage with an Intelligent Device and a legitimately earned AA- ranking. Local criminals weren't exactly something she had to worry about. Which was a good thing, because that's what she ran into. There were four of them, two men and two women, with hair dyed in black and yellow stripes as if they were some kind of mutant bumblebees. The woman laying on the ground surrounded by them probably didn't consider them laughable, though. Her face was bruised and cut, and as Vivio watched one of the girls delivered what was likely the latest of several hard kicks to the abdomen. "Get away from her!" Vivio shouted. The four gang members turned in surprise, but any fear they might have felt at being spotted vanished from their faces when they saw they were faced with one teenaged girl in a tidy-looking, button-down white shirt and blue skirt. "You'd better be worried about getting away from us, chickie-bird," sneered one of the boys. The girl who'd done the kicking stepped over her victim and started towards Vivio. "Burning Glory, set up!" "Barrier Jacket: Royal Mode." In the next instant, rainbow light swirled around Vivio and her clothing was replaced by a close-fitting blue-gray bodysuit, a short white jacket, and blued-steel gauntlets. One of those gauntlets gripped the shaft of a staff capped by a Belka Kreuz, the blue jewel that was Burning Glory's core set in the cross's center. "Hell, she's a mage!" one of the boys yelped. "In the name of the Time-Space Administration Bureau, I'm placing you under arrest for assault," she announced. "Surrender now, and you'll be given—" The rest of her speech was cut off when she had to duck out of the way of the short, broad-bladed sword slicing at her head. The ganger girl was a mage, too—or, more accurately, a Belkan-style knight with an Armed Device of her own. The fancy blue-and-yellow Knight Clothing she suddenly wore was her own protective gear. "No stupid little clerk is coming onto our territory to push us around!" she shouted, chopping out again. "Protection." Her attack rebounded from Vivio's defensive barrier and she was knocked a step back. Vivio immediately took the opportunity to have her Device take his Revolver Form, similar to an old-style gun but with a heavily built-up barrel that had no hole in the end. The next stroke she parried, blocking the sword with the armored head of the revolver, and she lashed out quickly, bringing Burning Glory down and around in a hammering blow to the ribs. Revolver Form was actually Burning Glory's close-combat and defensive form, optimized for use with the Ancient Belkan side of Vivio's hybrid magic style. Vivio punched the ganger in the face, knocking her back, but she swept her swordpoint down. "Flash Dart," the Armed Device incanted in a vaguely feminine voice reminiscent of rusty gears grinding together. The girl launched towards Vivio in a straight thrust propelled by her magic, but she was blocked by a hastily-raised Round Shield. Vivio pulled the trigger and Burning Glory loaded a cartridge, releasing a sudden jolt of stored mana to add to that which her Linker Core was able to pull. "Burning Cross!" "Protection," the ganger hastily cast, but Vivio chopped Burning Glory down vertically, then horizontally in macelike blows. The cartridge-enhanced attack blew through the barrier spell, shattering it, sending the sword flying out of the girl's hand while knocking her flat. The other ganger's bolted. One of the boys scooped up the fallen woman's purse and they took off for the other end of the alley, but Vivio wasn't having any of that. "Radiant Shooter." A half-dozen rainbow orbs shimmered into existence and launched themselves down the alley towards the fleeing gang members. One of them was hit in the back of the leg and sent sprawling by the blast of magic damage, but the other two were unharmed as the shots crashed, unguided, into walls and ground, sending dust and shards of concrete spraying. Ordinarily, Vivio could control the shooting magic mentally, but Revolver Form enhanced and assisted her close-combat and defensive magic by rechanneling the processing power that went into her shooting and scrying magic, actually making her worse in those areas than she was without it. Vivio at once changed Burning Glory back to Kreuz Form, but it was too late; the two gangers had ducked down a side street and out of line-of-sight. She could give chase and probably catch them by flying, but there was a bigger problem at hand. "Burning Glory, contact emergency medical services. This woman's been hurt." "Yes, mistress." She sighed heavily even as the communications screen opened up. Either of her mothers, she was sure, would have found a way to protect the woman and capture all of the thugs. ~X X X~ The smell of oregano, garlic, onions, and tomatoes wafted out into the living room, making Vivio's mouth water. Fate was going away on a month-long field deployment starting the next day, and so had volunteered to make her homemade ravioli as a kind of apology for leaving her family. Nanoha kept glazing over whenever a new wave of scent drifted out of the kitchen, but she was doing her best to listen to Vivio recount the day's events. "So what did I do wrong, mama?" Vivio asked. "Hmm..." For a moment Vivio hoped that she was just making happy noises on account of the ravioli scent, but the Air Force's lead combat instructor proved that wasn't the case. "Let's take things in order, I guess." Vivio felt herself tense up, as if she were in battle anticipating a blow to fall. "First, there's the question of the advantage of surprise." Vivio started to protest that, but Nanoha held up her hand, cutting her off. "I know, you couldn't have just shot them down while their backs were turned; while the situation seemed clear there were all sorts of possibilities and as a Bureau officer you couldn't have pressed any charges if you hadn't at least attempted to make a formal arrest. Is that more or less what you were going to say?" "Yes, mama." Nanoha smiled. "Good! You should always be aware of circumstances like that. When you fight, you always need to keep in mind why you're fighting and choose your tactics so to best accomplish those goals. So you couldn't just fire off a Sacred Cluster and take them all down." Vivio nodded. "Is there any reason why you couldn't have readied your Barrier Jacket and Burning Glory?" The good feeling drained right out of her. "I..." Nanoha nodded back. "That's what I mean. You weren't really thinking tactically at that point at all, you saw a woman in trouble and reacted reflexively. I'm very glad that you're the kind of person who'd do that; it makes me very proud of you." She beamed at Vivio, making sure the teenager knew she was being sincere. "But, you didn't start thinking right away about how best to save her. Honestly, that's mostly a question of practice." "How do you mean?" "You think like a civilian, not a soldier. You see battle as something separate from everyday life. If a fiendish villain that couldn't stand seeing innocent wives and daughters eating homemade Italian food made as a pledge of family love"—the odor of oregano had her glaze over for a moment—"attacked, Fate-chan would have Bardiche out and a Trident Smasher prepared before she so much as got through the door. You develop those subconscious reflexes by training, and you haven't trained or spent enough time in the field to develop them." "Oh." "It's not a bad thing, Vivio. One of the reasons your Fate-mama and I work so hard at our jobs is to make a world where our daughter doesn't have to fight, but that you and everyone else can lead a peaceful, happy life. Besides, Hayate-chan is just as bad." "Aunt Hayate is?" "Sure. Her magic is so overpowered that she can't process it fast enough on her own to effectively use it in battle. Without Reinforce Zwei's Unison to help her out, she's really only effective as an artillery piece. So despite being one of the most powerful mages of the past few generations, Hayate-chan never really got to have the same kind of combat training the rest of us did. I think that's part of why she focused on command and investigations in her career." Nanoha paused. "Though she'd have remembered her Barrier Jacket in your place, because she's fine at tactical thinking when a situation appears in front of her." "So if I'd prepared myself, I could have had a Radiant Shooter ready to fire instantly when they made the first move at me, and possibly taken them all down before the fight even started." "Right. It isn't the time that was the problem, but the moment of concentration. Yes, your Barrier Jacket came on instantly, but you then had to refocus on spellcasting, which gave the girl with the sword the chance to attack you in close quarters. Your delay let her recapture the initiative and choose the course of the fight." "Yes, mama. Is that all?" Nanoha shook her head. "You forgot to fly." Vivio stared at her mother for a second, then groaned, smacking her palm against her forehead in disgust. Of course she could have flown. If she'd jumped into the air—even after the lead ganger had come at her with the sword—she could have bombarded them from the air and found them to try and respond in kind. "The fact that the one came at me in close combat suggested that that's her strength, and shooting magic is better for confronting a group of enemies." "Exactly—and that last statement was your third tactical error. The Mid-style side of your magic is more versatile for dealing with multiple enemies. You fought sequentially, as if your enemies would come at you one at a time like in a tournament. Now, as it turned out the other three did not attack you, but they could have, and you had to deal with a changing situation. You needed to be prepared for a variety of situations." Vivio sighed. "So I goofed pretty badly." Nanoha pursed her lips. "That's not quite the same question, dear." "Oh?" "From a tactical perspective, yes, you 'goofed.' A mage of your strength should have been able to defeat one low-ranking Belkan-user and three apparent Rank Fs without letting any escape. If you were one of my Air Force students, I'd be very disappointed with your performance." Vivio's heart sank, and she wasn't able to stop herself from visibly drooping. "Vivio, I said if you were one of my students. But you're not. When I get them, they're already skilled mages whom I'm attempting to show how to integrate air combat into their repertoire and develop their battle skills to become part of the Bureau's elite fighting force. That isn't who you are. What happened today was that a librarian stumbled into a violent crime in progress, captured two members of a street gang for the police, scared others away, and saved an innocent woman from serious injury or worse. You should be proud of yourself, Vivio, not worrying about whether you did or didn't properly execute battle tactics that nobody expects you to excel at, anyway. I'd bet that woman definitely isn't complaining about minor flaws in your battle technique." She beamed at her daughter. Vivio still didn't feel quite right about how things had gone, but Nanoha's obvious approval definitely raised her spirits. "I don't know, Nanoha-mama. I still feels like there ought to have been something else I could do." Nanoha grinned at her. "That's because you're my daughter." She learned forward and ruffled Vivio's hair. "Mama!" she protested. "Geez, I'm not six anymore." "And how many caramel milks did you drink today?" Two...so far. Nanoha stood up. "Come on. I smell garlic bread; maybe we can steal a couple of slices while Fate-chan's back is turned." "You distract her while I grab the loot," Vivio said, grinning. "Why am I the distraction?" "Have you ever seen her turn her back on you in the kitchen?" ~X X X~ Vivio's talk with her mother had gone a long way towards reassuring her about the gang members' escape, but it was still bothering her a little bit the next day while she was on a lunch date with her girlfriend Lutecia Alphine. Lutecia had a different reaction to the story than Nanoha had. She took a sip of her cherry Coke, set the drink aside, and propped her chin up on the heels of her hands, elbows braced on the table. "There's something I've never quite figured out." "What's that?" "Burning Glory's Revolver Form...it's a gun, but it doesn't shoot. In fact, it actively inhibits your shooting magic." "It's like wearing a lifejacket, Cia," Vivio said. "I can dive into the water by myself, but the jacket takes that away in exchange for making it easier to float." "I know that, Vivio." Being a loving girlfriend, she didn't even add, because I'm a Device Meister and thoroughly understand the principles behind how different Device Forms modify and enhance magic types. Vivio blushed anyway. "It's just that, it's a gun. It's like if you had a battle-axe and you didn't hit people with it but used that form for shooting magic." "Um...it runs in the family?" she replied, grinning—since Fate more or less had exactly that. Bardiche's axe-like Assault Form was primarily for spellcasting, with Haken, Zanber, Riot Blade, and Riot Zanber forms all mainly though not exclusively for close combat. "What I'm getting at is, you're not using his design to your advantage. Take Radiant Shooter. That's a pretty standard shooting spell, where magic projectiles appear around you, launch in the general direction of the target, and you trust to your aiming to hit what you want them to. But if all they do is shoot forward, it's hard to point them in their right direction. I mean, there's really no way to know where something launching from three inches wide of your left shoulder is really going to hit. With a gun, you can at least point the barrel and aim properly. Especially since magical projectiles don't have to worry about wind, gravity, or other things that affect mass-weapon bullets. If you could have pointed and fired, you could have cut them down, one, two, three"—she mimed shooting with her thumb and forefinger—"even without being able to guide your shots." Vivio considered that Lutecia did have a point. "So, you think that I should design a new shooting spell for use with Revolver Form? One that launches from the gun barrel?" "Well...not quite." "Cia, you're being mysterious again," Vivio pouted. Lutecia had her little "I've got a secret!" smile on her lips. Lutecia just laughed. "Sorry; it's nothing strange or special, really. But could you let me have Burning Glory for a couple of days?" "What are you going to do to him?" Vivio was suspicious. "Don't you trust me?" "Not when you're smiling like Aunt Hayate." Lutecia broke out laughing. "Vivio, I'm not going to hurt him or paint him purple or something, although he would look nice as an amethyst, if it came to that?" "I'm not sure this is a good idea..." Burning Glory didn't quite yelp, but it was close. "It's like you all think that I'm some kind of sneaky person!" ~X X X~ Two days later, Vivio stood on the training field, Burning Glory in hand, watching as six orb-shaped targeting drones rapidly closed on her position. Ordinarily, she'd have put Burning Glory into Kreuz Form and shot them down, but that was forbidden for the purposes of this exercise. Instead, she gripped Revolver Form's butt, wondering how she was supposed to deal with the small, mobile targets that would try to stay at medium-to-long range and fire at her. "Why do I feel like I'm part of a comedy act and someone's standing behind me with a giant paper fan?" "Don't worry, mistress. We can do this!" Burning Glory sounded almost excited to show off whatever it was Lutecia had done to him. "Okay, how?" "There's a safety catch along the top of the grip, within range of your left thumb. It toggles Burning Glory's trigger function. Switched on, it loads a cartridge as usual," Lutecia said over the training ground's communication system. "And if I switch it off?" Vivio asked, doing exactly that. "I can be shot," Burning Glory announced. "Has Raising Heart been giving you lessons?" Still, Vivio lifted the pistol, sighted down the barrel, and pulled the trigger. She yelped in surprise as a pulse of rainbow magic spat like a streak from the end of the barrel, barely missing one of the target drones. "Keep trying, mistress!" he said eagerly. "You sound excited," Vivio muttered, diving aside as the nearest drone returned fire. She rolled, aimed, and fired again, this time hitting. The drone froze, inert. "Good work, Vivio," Lutecia cheered. "But keep going; there's five more drones!" "You're enjoying this a little too much, Cia." "Let's do it, mistress!" "Didn't you test this with Cia already?" "It's not the same. I want to fight alongside you!" "Awww, so cute!" Vivio, who was dodging and firing throughout the conversation, growled as she took hits in the right hip and just under the left ribs. She fired several times quickly, without aiming between each shot, and was pleasantly surprised that there was no delay. She was breathing hard by the end of the routine, but the drones were all inert and she'd taken only one more hit. Lutecia applauded when Vivio returned to the control room. "Nice work! Although I don't think you're supposed to dodge so much as a gunner. Dieci always used to say that it made it hard for her to keep track of the battlefield." "Is this a side effect of the medication from the last time you were injured on a mission, or is this really your true sense of humor, Cia?" Lutecia laughed like an ojousama on one of Hayate's animated programs from Earth, then stopped and looked around sheepishly. "Um, could we agree to blame the painkillers that I'm not on? Dr. Bonneville would probably agree that there's some kind of cumulative effect..." "You get hurt way too much. You should have Uncle Yuuno teach you some shielding magic like he did me, or maybe just reinforce your Barrier Jacket for stronger defense. Your focus should be summoning and support magic, so a strong defense is probably more important." "It's fine, Vivio, really. I just do a lot of difficult jobs—it's what happens when you're a high-ranking mage." It was a conversation they'd had a couple of times before, with pretty much the same results. Vivio wished she could get her girlfriend to face the point directly, especially as the trend for Lutecia to get hurt had definitely gotten worse over the eight years she'd been working with the Bureau. The older girl just brushed everything off, though, and Vivio didn't know how to press the topic without offending Lutecia or sounding like a nag. "Anyway, what did you do to Burning Glory?" "Oh, I just installed a standard SVR-211 part." "It required considerable work," Burning Glory didn't let Lutecia downplay what she'd done. "So what's an SVR-211, and what made it tricky?" "It's an automated link part, that streamlines the casting of stun bullets. They're standard issue for D and C-rank Bureau clerks, so they can fire on enemies without having to cast an attack spell each time. Since it isn't a proper spell, the bullets are unguided, so it isn't really effective for bombardment mages of high rank, but gunner types also use them." "Oh, like Tea?" Lutecia nodded. "Exactly. She knows and uses a lot of proper shooting magic, but she can also aim and fire quickly that way, and she's trained in accuracy until shooting is second nature. It will actually work for you in Kreuz Form as well as Revolver Form, but for you, Kreuz Form will likely have better options and also is harder to aim." "That's a great idea, though, Cia! What was so tricky about installing that part, though?" "It wasn't, really." "Cia..." Vivio warned. Lutecia sighed. "It's a Mid-style part, not designed to link up with Belkan-style Devices or function. I had to tinker a bit with the interface to get it to work properly. It helps that you use a hybrid style, so that Burning Glory is set up to cast a number of Mid-style spells although the rite is Ancient Belkan." She shrugged. "Honestly, it wasn't that big a deal. It took some doing, but any Device Meister worth the name could have done it. Mariel or Shari could have handled it in their sleep." "But they didn't handle it; you did, Cia. And you did it especially for me. I really do appreciate it, you know. Just because I'm not a combat mage doesn't mean that I don't want to find the flaws in my technique and correct them." Especially since I keep finding myself in situations where I have to use my magic to fight. "Thank you very, very much." She clasped Lutecia's hand warmly between hers, then leaned in to give her a thank-you kiss. Lutecia blushed. "Vivio." "No false modesty allowed!" Vivio barked, wagging a finger under Lutecia's nose. "I'm going to go shower and change, and then I'm going to go treat you to ice cream at your favorite parfait shop as a thank-you." The young woman lightly brushed her fingertips over her lips. "I think I've already been thanked." Vivio giggled. "Don't be silly, Cia; I'd be kissing you even if you painted him chartreuse with polka dots." "I think I'll resist that urge, just in case." "Probably a wise decision." "Well, all this maturity from my extra years has to be good for something, right?" Spoiler for Author's Notes:
This story is the kind of thing that happens when a shared universe of stories gets written over three years by...five authors, I believe (RadiantBeam, me, spawnofthejudge, synaesthetic, and Moczo have, I believe, canon Shadowverse stories? Am I missing anyone?). Back when RadiantBeam first invented Revolver Form in "Burning Glory" (Shadowfire chapter 8, for anyone who needs a quick refresher!), it was a close-combat and defensive weapon only. Indeed, I teased her about that for a good six months...before she introduced me to Black Cat and I came to understand that Revolver Form is based on Hades from that manga series, where in addition to shooting, Train uses its orichalcum barrel to deflect bullets and attacks and in addition has a number of blunt-instrument attacks with it (which, incidentally, I went and adapted for some of Vivio's attacks spells with Revolver Form).
Fast-forward a couple of years, though, and in subsequent conversations about Vivio's powerset between RB and synaesthetic, it's decided that Burning Glory needs to be able to fire...something, and they settled on the basic stun-bullet firing ability. So, I decided to write a story that will plug the gap and explain where that ability came from, to clear up any differences or confusion in the canon...just in case. Hopefully it was sufficiently entertaining... I further note that the term "stun bullet" is actually taken from canon; it's from StrikerS Sound Stage X, in which Teana fires one to incapacitate the mastermind; it's further explained in the dictionary of terms in the booklet that accompanies that CD (thanks are due Nagumo, who translated both the Drama CDs as well as the booklet, or else I'd be clueless about that!). Lutecia's comment about shooters not dodging so much is a StrikerS reference (where Tea was given the same advice), and the Nanoha-loves-Italian-food is my personal fanon, which I finally explained in my short, "Romance Studies" (itself a Shadowverse story). Spoiler for VMOT!:
"Burning Glory, we need to talk." "Yes, mistress?" "I know you really like the new upgrade that Cia gave you..." "Very much so!" "And I know that you're eager to try it out in combat..." "Yes, I am!" "But you have to stop saying 'Draw, pardner,' every time we pass someone with a gun-type Device!" Last edited by DezoPenguin; 2011-07-06 at 20:07. |
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Anyway, onwards! I like this a lot, obviously. I was curious with what you would do ever since you mentioned the idea, and I love how you worked it all and put it together from my original concept of Burning Glory having a Revolver Form. As always, the focus and development on Vivio is much loved and appreciated, and I still maintain that you handle her much better than I ever could! Also a nice little touch and shout-out to canon, having Lutecia being good with tinkering with Devices (I'm now imagining her messing around with Victor's Device just to screw with him....), and as always, it's a cool little callback to see Vivio so worried about Lutecia's job and what she's been doing to herself before her breakdown, since it reminds you even in a little way that all is not right for her. (... I am assuming this takes place before "Shadow", obviously, but please correct me if I'm wrong. )And the omake is just perfect. It was cute to see Burning Glory get so much focus, and damn if he doesn't sound like Raising Heart's kid a few times in the fic. And the thought of him going "Draw, partner" every time he sees a gun-shaped Device makes me snicker. Someone is very proud of his upgrade!
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 (Not that I'm complaining  --ficcage!).This is definitely a "Kid" vs "Parent" difference : when I'm leaving for a trip, my mom makes me the delicious food!  But I suppose that Fate as a mom would be making the meal for her family .It's neat for me to read your fics where Nanoha is breaking down Vivio's technique and giving her commentary, just like she would for her students . It's always so interesting to read! I actually didn't think that this was a Shadowverse story when you mentioned Lutecia being a Device Meister, since that was in ViVid....but then the comment about her many injuries had me nodding and going "Yup, must be Shadowverse" .Cute ViCia moments there , and Burning Glory practically has his own personality now! And the omake made me grin, and imagine Vivio in a spaghetti western ....Quote:
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The wrap-up begins.
Red 1-55 Spoiler for Blood That Flows - 56:
Gourry shook his head as he looked at the destruction. "Damn, that's..." He trailed off as he saw a body next to his. What surprised him was that the woman looked a bit like Lina, but her chest was a bit larger. "This is..."
"The Knight of Cephied." A male voice spoke up and Gourry spun to see a tall being in a robe of some sort, a funny hat on his head and a miniature palm tree in his fingers. Behind him was a woman with short blonde hair and a traveling outfit as she held a lit cigarette between her fingers. "...I see..." "It really was to be expected." The woman spoke up as she looked at the body. "Lord Shabranigdo wasn't going to let her live if he could help it. Though, to use a psychic attack..." "When did this happen?" The man turned to the woman, who shrugged at him. "Zelas, you know, don't you?" "Of course I know." She rolled her eyes. "Not all the Mazoku that were in that crowd were fighting, you know. Some of them were my spies." Zelas took a deep breath as she looked at the downed body of the Knight of Cephied. "After Gaav left her and she took off into the air, one of my spies noted that she fell to the ground rather fast and grabbed her head, screaming in pain..." "So, Shabranigdo attacked her mind?" The man crossed his arms and sighed heavily. "I thought you Mazoku wouldn't attack humans like that, it's beneath you to attack weaker creatures after all." "Valwin, if you wanted to break the truce because of this, I could understand, though, I'm not sure that..." "Zelas, as angry as I am for losing another Knight of Cephied, I'm not going to break the truce over this." He turned to look at her. "Unless you, Dolphin or Dynast were responsible." "Uh..." Gourry spoke up to the two. "Excuse me, but, who are you?" "Beastmaster Zelas Metallium and this is the Air Dragon Lord Valwin." Zelas spoke up to him. "The dead woman is Luna Inverse, the Knight of Cephied." Gourry's eyes widened. "Wait, Inverse?" He looked at her in confusion, frowning. "But, is she..." "I believe that Miss Luna is Miss Lina's older sister." A familiar male voice spoke up as a purple-haired, closed eyed priest appeared in front of Zelas. "As for the power of Cephied, that will be reborn into someone else on this staff soon enough." Gourry looked at Xellos and then back at Luna. "...Can't any of you bring her back? I mean, she is Lina's sister..." "Even if Lina has done all of us great favors in the past," Valwin spoke up as he walked up to the downed body of Luna and took her sword from her, "we cannot just break the rules of reality all the time." "Speak for yourself, we do it all the time." Zelas piped up, smirking at the Shinzoku. "But, he is right. We can't bring her back as a human. She'd be a Mazoku if I did it, or a Shinzoku if Valwin did it... And, to be honest, we don't like turning humans into Mazoku, they tend to be very rebellious." Gourry frowned at them. "Oh, come on! Gaav's as strong as any one of you and look what he did! You're telling me that you can't bring her back to life?!" He pointed at Xellos. "You, especially, you owe Lina at least a couple of favors by now." Xellos grimaced at that. "I do hate to owe people favors, though bringing her back just as she was, I doubt that I can pull that off completely..." "Can't you just bring her back without the power of Celphide or whatever his name is?" Zelas raised an eyebrow at him. "I'm surprised, I thought you didn't know her?" "I don't. But it's for Lina's sake." Xellos shrugged and looked at Valwin, who was looking the body over. "Well?" "It's not too cold, perhaps we could. But I don't give any promises." Valwin spoke softly. "A god's soul quickly reincarnates, whether that god is Cephied or Shabranigdo." The human's soul that it's attached to generally cannot be brought back to life." Wind gathered around Valwin as he put his hands on Luna's body. "But, this goes against the natural cycle of life. All that lives must eventually die." Gourry nodded. "I know that, but, Lina doesn't live anywhere near here anymore, yet she came to fight against Shabranigdo, can't you give her this one favor?" "We'll see." Valwin muttered softly. (---) "Miss Miyuki!" Amelia gasped as she looked at the limping swords woman. "Are you okay?" Miyuki gave her a flat look as she limped towards the healers. "I've got a broken left femur, my right ankle is badly bruised, my right hand feels like crap, I might have a concussion and I think that I've got some internal injuries from when Gaav punched me. So yeah, I'm just fine." Amelia blushed softly. "I'm sorry. Here, I'll heal you." Miyuki sighed as Amelia put her hands to good use, concentrating healing magic onto her injuries. "You know, you never answered my question." "What question?" "How come you weren't affected by the miasma?" Amelia blinked and sweat-dropped heavily. "Well, when going against Mazoku, it's a good idea to cast a quick spell so that you can recover from the effects quickly." "That's it?" Miyuki blinked as Amelia nodded. "That's... Kind of a lame explanation." Amelia just shrugged at her. (---) Meanwhile... Chrono rubbed his forehead as a healer worked on Zest at a nearby table. The man was more-or-less okay, just extremely exhausted from having his Blast Mode on for so long. "Yes, Admiral Leti, call off the strike. Shabranigdo's dead." "You're sure?" "Yes, I'm sure. You can call them and tell them that we don't need the Arc En Ciel to blow the planet up. But..." Chrono looked at the destroyed ground and shook his head. "But, this is going to be a problem, we're going to need some crews to help with reconstruction down here." "But, they aren't..." "We did kind of help destroy this castle and city, Admiral, the least we can do is clean it up for them." Chrono smirked slightly as Leti sighed and conceded the point. "How is Nanoha?" "Finally resting, I think..." "You think?" "The security cameras can barely get a feed, but it looks like Nanoha's stopped screaming and she's not... Um, sorry, Chrono, I'll call you back." Chrono just blinked as Leti cut the conversation off. "What the?" (---) On the ship... Leti stared as Lina practically floated out of the sick bay. "Lina?" "Call... Your people and tell them to stop coming, I need to... Bleed this off properly." Lina's hair was completely golden at that moment, as were both of her eyes and there was a powerful golden aura surrounding her. When Lina held up a hand, the whole ship was rocked as powerful energy formed just outside of the hull. "What the hell?!" Leti gasped as Lina dropped her arm down and the ship shook again, this time tilting in the direction that Lina had dropped her hand. "Chaos Orb. I tossed it into deep space where it will continue on until it explodes on its own. It's safer than sending it to the planet below." Lina took a deep breath as the aura disappeared and she was speaking in her normal tone of voice again. "As for Nanoha, she's alive..." "And..?" Leti blinked as Lina's hair was closer to a golden sunset than the firey red it was before. Lina looked at her, tears welling up in her eyes, they were at least normal, one red and one gold. "I don't know, okay?!" Lina turned to look back at the hospital room. "The only thing that kept her alive was the Chaos magic, but it was killing her at the same time, trying to rip her apart. You know how hard it was to keep her from turning into a fine red mist?!" Lina blinked as Leti squeezed her shoulder. "What?" "She's alive, that's all you can ask for right now. Let her rest and we'll try to heal her more fully." Leti was a mother as well, she understood Lina's problem at that moment. "Go and rest. They beat Shabranigdo." Lina smiled softly and nodded. "I need a little rest... Ten minutes..." Leti wasn't surprised as Lina walked back into the medical bay to sleep. If their positions were reversed, she would have done the same. "You two, contact the fleet and let them know that we have the situation under control now." The two hands nodded and went to work at sending the good word out. Leti shook her head. 'Man, if people ever hear about this...' Her thoughts trailed off and she frowned. 'No... If they knew everything that happened..." Looking at the room where Nanoha and Lina were, she shook her head. 'Man, I must be getting soft. Lindy would never let me hear the end of it if something bad happened to them...' It was always such a pain to hide stuff from the official reports after all. (---) "Mommy! Daddy!" Rein flew over to her parents and gave Hayate a kiss on the cheek, before flying up to Reinforce and kissing her cheek too. "You're alive!" She smiled, tears welling up in her eyes. "I was worried!" Vita chuckled as she looked at Zwei, before frowning at the way Reinforce was holding Hayate. "...What's wrong?" Hayate sighed softly. "Reinforce... To heal me so that I could help... Had to force my magic to overextend itself for healing... Right now... Um..." "Hayate's as weak as she was when you came into her life." Reinforce said sadly as Vita's eyes widened. "But..." Hayate shook her head. "Hayate!!" "I'll be fine, Vita-chan." Hayate smiled at her. "It's like a really, really bad muscle tear. I'll recover, it'll just take a long time." Hayate chuckled softly. "Though... I have to admit, I wasn't expecting my muscles to feel so weak..." "I told you, Hayate..." Reinforce sighed as she looked at the girl in her arms. "The magic was flooding your body at such a rate that when it left, most of your voluntary muscles shut down. You'll get your ability to walk back before your magic returns though." Hayate sighed and nodded. "It's okay. At least it happened so I could protect my family from someone like that." Reinforce sighed softly. At least Hayate was taking it better than she thought. Then again, they both knew that there was a possibility that Hayate would never walk nor use magic ever again, having burned her magic out like she did. Reinforce just hoped Hayate's positive outlook was correct and that she would be back sooner than expected. Vita sighed softly. "Signum's out cold from blood loss, but she's getting treatment right now." She wouldn't say what Shamal had to do to make sure that Signum wouldn't try getting up again. "Zafira's fine, just tired. Everyone else is getting treated for injuries and exhaustion right now." Hayate nodded and closed her eyes as Reinforce hugged her while carrying her bridal style. "Reinforce, can we find some place to relax?" "Sure." Reinforce nodded to her. Vita sighed as she went to find a place to sit down. She needed to digest all that happened in her mind before something else happened. |
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I'd remark for those of us who aren't parents could just as easily draw examples from our own parents, but then I remember that as far as I know, I'm the only person I know didn't have parent issues of single parents or divorce or the like. :k
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