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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Frozen Hell of the North
Age: 41
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Just a reminder, I did go back and edit the last part, so if you're confused about things in this part, that's why.
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Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Peek - Playdate 2:
On board the Bureau ship...
"Zelgadis!" Lina smiled as she saw her old friend come to greet her and the children. "How are you?"
Zelgadis nodded to Arf and smiled at Lina. "I'm doing fine actually. Other than having to teach people how to draw upon various spirits for elemental magic, it's been pretty good so far. I'm just glad that most people on Mid-Childa don't have your aptitude for Black magic."
Lina narrowed her eyes and smirked at him. "What do you mean by that?" When Zelgadis chuckled, she just rolled her eyes and scoffed at him. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up."
"Well, you did tend to go a bit overboard when you used your magic." Zelgadis smirked at her. "Anyway, I know Yuuno requested this trip, and since I was feeling the need to visit home again, I took some time off, what about you?"
"I wanna get in touch with Gourry and Sylphiel, not to mention my parents, Arashi needs to meet his grandparents and I can't just leave Erio and Caro at home alone."
"Ku!"
"Or Fried and Arf." Lina smirked and found it interesting when Friend landed on her shoulder, wanting a chin scratch.
As Lina scratched the baby Dragon's chin, Zelgadis shook his head in amusement. "Never thought I'd ever see the infamous Dragon Spooker being able to pet a Dragon freely." He chuckled when Lina shot him a dour look and stuck her tongue out at him.
"Ku ku!" Fried chirped up and spat a fireball at Zelgadis. The small Dragon blinked in shock as Zelgadis held up a hand and the fire dissipated against his hand. "Ku?"
"Now now..." Lina lightly bopped Fried on the head. "Zelgadis is a little rough, but he's still a friend, you don't try to light friends on fire."
"Ku..." The Dragon slumped before sliding off and flying back to Caro, who hugged Fried to her.
"Come on, Fried, he's not mean..." Caro wasn't sure, but if he was one of Lina's friends, then he couldn't be bad. At least Caro didn't think so.
Zelgadis shook his head. "Well, I'm heading back to talk to some people I know and..."
"You mean Amelia?" Lina smirked as he blushed hard. "Hey, don't worry, I'm not judging you."
"Well, that and I want to let her and King Phil know about what the Bureau is like." Zelgadis looked at Yuuno and smirked at the boy. "I have to admit, the thought of children being able to join an active military isn't something that I really enjoy."
Lina nodded at that. "Why do you think I kept Nanoha, Fate and Yuuno on Earth and out of the Bureau for so long?"
Yuuno stared at Lina, his eyes wide. "But..."
Lina gave him a sharp look, cutting off his words. "Despite how the Bureau portrays itself, Yuuno, the fact that they're willing to use children in an active military bothers me. Even on my world, adventurers need to either be really skilled with magic or swords to bother going anywhere on their own. I didn't even set out to explore the world until I graduated the magic academy."
Yuuno scratched his head in confusion. "But, considering your world, I thought that people in your world could join the royal armies when they were young."
"Yeah, if you were born into a noble family or trained under a noble." Lina rolled her eyes. "Most don't start until they're at least fourteen though."
"But, if it's a medieval style world..." Arisa spoke up, getting a raised eyebrow from Lina. "European medieval, sorry, anyway, if it's a world that's like that, I thought that it wasn't uncommon or unheard of for people younger than myself to join the army or even end up married."
"Only if you're among the nobility." Zelgadis cut in. "Most people never bother to find someone until they're at least in their twenties, outside of arranged marriages or unexpected children."
"Most people just want a peaceful lifestyle actually." Lina continued speaking. "Very few people actively become adventurers. Most that do are either mercenaries, bandits or sorcerers who experiment in stuff too dangerous to be around any sort of civilization."
"Don't be fooled kids," Zelgadis smirked at Lina, "she might not have been a mercenary like I was at times, but Lina was as greedy as any bandit, and had a tendency to blow entire villages up."
Lina shot him a dirty look as the younger kids stared at Lina in awe.
"We'll be crossing the dimensional boundaries soon, expect turbulence."
"You blew villages up?!" Erio's eyes were sparkling as he looked at the woman in awe. "That's so cool!"
Caro looked at Lina and trembled. "You wouldn't... Blow me up, would you?" She sniffled and hugged Fried to her chest tightly.
Lina rubbed her forehead and sighed. "Caro, I might have blown up villages, bandits, Dragons, the occasional Demon and my friends when I was younger, I never tried to harm kids that didn't ask for it, so, no, i wouldn't have blown you up." Sighing when Caro ran behind Yuuno and hugged his leg tightly, sandwiching Fried between the two of them, she turned to Zelgadis and gave him a flat look. "Look what you did! One of the kids are afraid of me now."
Erio tugged on Lina's pant leg and grinned up at her. "Can you show me how to blow stuff up?!"
Zelgadis laughed just as the ride started to shake while the Bureau ship phased out of the Blue Staff and towards the Red Staff.
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Later...
"You sure?" Lina looked at Zelgadis, who nodded to her.
"Yeah, Gourry and Sylphiel settled down in Sellentia. Makes sense for Sylphiel, considering she *is* a shrine priestess and there's five shrines there."
One of the crew smiled at Lina. "Just give us a call when you want to go, we'll be able to pick you up anywhere in the world in a matter of moments."
Lina grinned at him. "Good, while you're out, get me an extra large pizza while you're at it." When Zelgadis grimaced and the crew member started looking nervous, Lina laughed at him. "I'm joking! Anyway, just drop us off about half a kilometer from the town, okay?"
Zelgadis watched as Lina and the kids disappeared in a flash of light. "Well, onto Seiryuun."
"Yes sir!"
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On the planet's surface...
Looking around, Suzuka took a deep breath of the air. "Wow... It's so clean!" She then grimaced and waved her hand in front of her nose. "Ugh... Not behind those bushes it's not."
Lina nodded and smiled as Arf decided to help Caro, Erio and Arashi get more motivated to walk by playing tag with them. "Caro," the girl looked at her in confusion, "keep Fried close to you, okay? People get nervous if a Dragon's walking around freely." The little girl nodded and yelled at Erio as he tagged her.
"Nya nya! Not my fault!" The boy stuck his tongue out at her.
"Ooooh!" Caro ran after Erio, swinging her arms up and down. "Just wait till I get you!"
Lina chuckled and started walking after them. "What about you two?"
"Gunna see Vrabazard." Yuuno spoke up as Arisa walked up next to him. "Tell Gourry hi for me, if he remembers me at all." Lina laughed and nodded as the two disappeared in a ball of flame. "Well then, Suzuka..." The rich girl nodded and the two jogged after the kids, making sure to keep an eye out for things that might cause a problem.
Said problem happened twenty seconds later as the group was surrounded by a large gang of unkempt, unruly men surrounded the group. "Listen up! Just give us all your money and you won't get hurt!" The man who spoke looked at Fried and grinned. "Well, maybe the Dragon will, a new pet is always nice."
"KU!" Fried growled as he landed on Caro's head, hissing at the bandit leader.
"You know, boss... Something about this feels familiar to me." One of the bandits, this one was tall, had graying hair and one eye, spoke up and looked at the group. "I swear, that woman looks familiar."
"Bah!" The boss shook his head, but gave Lina a closer look. "I have to admit, she's very good looking, but still, we just want your money."
"But, really, boss, I swear she looks like Lina Inverse."
"Don't say that name, you fool!" The bandit boss hissed as he turned away from the group.
Lina just blinked, confused. "Excuse me?"
"That Lina Inverse... She was the most vile sorceress ever!" The boss shuddered horribly. "She was a short, flat-chested, Dragon killing, evil tempered brat who killed innocent bandit gangs for fun! And then, when we thought she was dead, she came back from the dead with a bunch of little hell-spawn that nearly killed me and my partner six years ago!"
Lina's eye was twitching slightly. 'Shee, grow your breasts to a modest size and everyone thinks that you're someone different.' It might have also been the fact that she was wearing different clothing and didn't have any visible weapons on her. "Yeah, yeah, look..." Lina's eyes widened and she pointed behind the bandit. "Is that a bag of gold coins?!"
"WHERE?!" The bandits all looked to where Lina was pointing, before turning back to her. "You lying..." The boss started, before blinking at the orange barrier around their prey. "What the?"
"You really should have better memories of who Lina Inverse was... And what she looks like now." Lina grinned as she held her hands above her head and began to chant. "And don't forget, Mr. bandit, women don't like it when you call them flat-chested."
All of the bandits paled and started to tremble as a red sphere formed in her hands. "You... You, you... You... YOU'RE LINA INVERSE?!"
"That's ME!" Lina grinned as she began to chant.
"Darkness beyond twilight
Crimson beyond blood that flows
Buried in the stream of time
Is where your power grows
I pledge myself to conquer
All the foes that stand
Against the mighty gift bestowed
In my unworthy hand
Let the fools who stand before me
Be destroyed by
The power you and I possess!"
Lina grinned as she watched the bandits running as fast and as far as they could. "Why the running, boys? You'll only die tired."
"DRAGON SLAVE!"
Arf dropped her barrier the instant that Lina was done chanting and everyone watched as a red beam of energy lanced out at a terrific speed before slamming into the retreating bandits and engulfing them with a massive red explosion.
"That was fun." Lina chuckled softly and blinked as Erio suddenly glomped her left leg.
"Grandma! Teach me that!"
"G...GRANDMA?!" Lina's eyes widened before tears started to flow out of them. "I'm getting old..." She lamented while lightly patting Erio on the head. "Maybe... But you need to learn other stuff too, okay?"
Erio nodded vigorously. He couldn't wait to know something like that!
Caro pouted and suddenly glomped onto Lina's right leg. "Grandma! I wanna call you that too!" Plus she wanted to learn magic like that too. Then she could help Fried and both of them could set Erio's butt on fire. Val thought it was funny when Erio ran around trying to get away from Fried's fire breath.
"You can..." Lina patted Caro on the head while mentally crying about how old she was getting. "You want to learn to do that?" Caro nodded rapidly and Lina sighed. "Kids... Alright, I'll teach you some stuff."
"YAY!" The two of them yelled and hugged Lina's legs tighter.
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