Nanoha FanFiction Discussion

[BPHaru]

Originally Posted by Allquall

Blue, you made me laugh hard on this one. This idea and the execution are pure gold. My sides hurt from taking in that much Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrack!

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

Momoko gasped as she sat up quickly in the warm bed, and Lindy’s arm fell harmlessly onto her lap. She leaned against one arm and gently disentangled herself from the sleeping green-haired woman. However, the bed shook when she went to stand on the cold floor.

“What’s wrong?” Lindy yawned scrunching her eyes while Momoko threw on her thick robe.

“I forgot to tell Nanoha’s teacher about her getting bullied,” Momoko explained frantically, “I need to tell her before lunch!”

“I took care of that already,” mumbled Lindy, and she rolled onto her side to see the clock.

“When?”

“I talked to the headmaster after I dropped the kids off. I had to address Chrono getting into a fight on his first day of school anyway, so I explained Nanoha’s situation as well,” Lindy said as she put on her glasses to read the clock's face. The green-haired woman frowned at the time. “Momoko, it’s only nine. Let’s get a few more hours of sleep. The store’s closed, the kids are in school, and you’re exhausted. This a very rare time.”

Momoko hesitated while Lindy’s long green hair touched the bed as she sat up.

“What?” asked Lindy with a slight blush as Momoko stared hard at her with her arms folded. The brunette’s quick glance at the empty space on the bed made Lindy smile. “Haven’t you ever shared a bed with a friend before?”

Momoko’s face turned a bright red to Lindy’s amusement.

“Of course I have!” she replied and sat on the bed again, “But stay on your side this time.”

Lindy grinned and brushed her hair out of her face while placing her glasses back near the clock. She buried her face in the pillow and could feel Momoko shifting her weight by the mattress rocking slightly.

An odd feeling gripped Lindy in a way that she hadn’t experienced in years. She wanted to be close to the woman a few feet from her, but at the same time it seemed as if a part of her warned her against it. The battle between the two urges kept her still and away from sleep. She could only relax when she heard the deep, even breaths from behind her. The peaceful slumber then seemed to envelope even Lindy’s conflicted mind in a comforting warmth.

-- -- --

“And who are my clean-up helpers today?” said the cheerful Kindergarten teacher to the children at various centers around the room.

The group of twenty five-year-olds eagerly raised their hands at the request.

“Group Three,” she said to the four girls sorting counting bears by color and then adding them, “will you be in charge of the activity centers being put away nicely?”

“Yes, Ma’am!” they answered in unison.

Suzuka picked up the small plastic bears on her side of the activity carpet and dumped them into the large bucket that Fate was holding. Arisa and Nanoha visited the other four activities centers and helped them pick up the blocks and cars scattered around the classroom. After the classroom was clear of various small objects, the teacher raised her hand in the air.

“One, two, three! Eyes on me!” the teacher said sweetly, and the bundle of Kindergarten students stumbled over each other as they stood up with two fingers over their lips and other hand raised in the air. “If you have a lunch, go get it now. If you are buying lunch, line up in front of me.”

Nanoha walked with her three friends to their backpacks hanging on hooks.

“Aren’t you buying lunch today, Nanoha?” asked Arisa while pulling the small box from her backpack.

Nanoha shook her head with a smile and pulled the bento from her bookbag.

“My mom made it,” said Fate proudly, “Nanoha spent the night.”

“Why didn’t you invite me to your party?” pouted Arisa.

Nanoha cast a silencing glance at Fate. “Fate lives across my street,” she explained to Arisa while Suzuka joined the conversation with her lunchbox, “I didn’t mean to stay over, but it just happened. Next time we have a slumber party, you and Sazuka can come too.”

Arisa tried to hide the smile creeping up on her face, but the corners of her serious frown twitched which made the rest of the girls giggle.

“Group Three!” called their teacher by the door, “We’re waiting on you.”

The girls gasped and stumbled to the line of their classmates.

-- -- --

The click of the air conditioner over her head woke Lindy from her sound slumber, and immediately her bladder reminded her of the large glass of water she had during breakfast. However, the strange warmth on her back held her in her place. Momoko had shifted in her sleep so that she was curled around Lindy’s back. She could feel the tip of Momoko’s nose on the base of her neck while her bent knees touched the back side of the green-haired woman’s knees. The brunette’s forearms laid on the skin of Lindy’s back as her arms curled under the old nightshirt.

Lindy begged her bladder for five more minutes, but her full organ would not accept her pleas for negotiation. Thus, with great reluctance, Lindy pried herself away from the sleeping woman and walked to the bathroom down the hall cursing her impatient bladder.

-- -- --

“Fate,” Nanoha whispered into the blond’s ear as they walked in line to the courtyard, “don’t forget that we can’t tell anyone about our magical girl powers.”

“Sorry,” Fate blushed, “but what should we do about Yuuno and the rest of the big kids?”

Nanoha frowned as she thought, “I don’t know.”

The class of Kindergarteners rounded the corner of the building and broke into two groups: those who had their lunch went to the picnic tables in the middle of the courtyard and those who bought their lunch stood at the back of the line leading to the cafeteria. The children in the cafeteria line seemed to tremble in fear as they looked around anxiously waiting for Yuuno and his group of thugs to arrive and deprive them of their lunches.

Arisa and Suzuka already had their lunches out by the time Nanoha and Fate sat at the picnic table. Nanoha started to pull the cloth knot when she stopped abruptly.

“What’s wrong?” asked Arisa with her mouth full of the octopus-shaped hotdog.

“I don’t want her to eat alone,” replied Nanoha.

“Who?” asked Arisa while looking to Suzuka for clarification.

Suzuka smiled at her friend across the table and nodded as she looked past her to the girl sitting alone in her wheelchair.

“Why do you what to be friends with her?” asked Arisa, “She’s crazy!”

“Arisa!” scolded Suzuka, “Nanoha made friends with Fate, and now we’re all friends with Fate. We have a new friend over there, but we need to learn her name.”

“Did you not want to be my friend?” asked Fate sadly.

Nanoha giggled, “Arisa doesn’t share well.”

Arisa huffed her disapproval and took a large bite out of her lunch to disguise the blush on her cheeks.

Suzuka smiled and waved to Nanoha, “I’ll stay here with Miss Crankypants. Go greet our new friend, Nanoha.”

Nanoha nodded with a grin and picked up her lunch that she had yet to open. Fate followed the brunette pigtails that bounced closer and closer to the girl in the wheelchair.

“Hi! I’m Nanoha!” greeted Nanoha to the girl with short brown hair in the wheelchair.

The wheelchair was placed at the end of the picnic table, and Nanoha and Fate sat on either side of the girl. The girl's eyes widened in confusion as she saw the two girls open their bento boxes next to her.

“What’s your name?” asked Nanoha happily as she chomped merrily on the lunch that Lindy made. Fate gave a tiny smile in her shyness.

“H-Hayate…” the girl in the wheelchair said.

“Nice to meet you, Hayate!” grinned Nanoha who then pointed at the blond across the table, “This is Fate.”

Fate waved and smiled while picking at her lunch.

“Nice to meet you too,” stammered Hayate as her hands trembled nervously while wringing the blanket on her lap.

“Aww,” gasped Fate forgetting about her shyness while she pointed at the objects poking out from Hayate’s blanket, “Those are so cute! May I see them?”

“What?” asked Nanoha who then peered at Hayate’s lap.

“They’re…they’re my friends,” replied Hayate softly without meeting their eyes, “You’re here to make fun of me, aren’t you?”

A tear slid down Hayate’s cheek.

“No!” shouted Nanoha with all the authority the small girl could muster, “We’re here to be friends with you! Can I meet your other friends?”

Hayate’s teary eyes stared into Nanoha’s determined face, “Do you promise not to make fun of me?”

“I promise,” said Nanoha.

“Me too,” joined Fate.

Hayate pulled back the blanket on her lap to show four very old and very worn plush dolls and placed them on the table next to her barely touched lunch.

“This is Zafira,” she said while pointing to the stuffed plush dog with blue fur before holding up the three rag dolls, “The one with red hair’s name is Vita, the one with pink hair I call Signum, and the yellow and green one is Shamal.”

Hayate patted the plush dolls lovingly and placed them back on her lap.

“Wow,” said Nanoha, “They look really old.”

Hayate nodded, “My mommy made them for me before she and my daddy went to heaven.”

The smile grew on Hayate’s face, but more tears flowed from the young girl’s eyes. Hayate choked when a pair of arms tightly embraced her neck.

“She left you with very kind friends,” croaked Nanoha hugging Hayate.

-- -- --

“Lindy?”

Momoko felt the other side of the bed to find it cold and deserted. Her heart skipped a beat in an unknown fear as she forced herself awake. She grabbed her robe from the back of the chair and threw it around her as she walked out of the bedroom.

“Lindy?” she called out again with her voice lined with fear.

Her heart eased its rapid palpitations when she heard the shower running from the bathroom door in the hallway. Momoko rushed to the door and lightly knocked.

“It’s me,” Momoko called.

“Do you want to join?” Lindy answered with a laugh.

Momoko felt a hot blush rush to her cheeks, “N-n-no!”

“Just give me a few more minutes, and you can have the shower. You can use the kids’ bathroom, but Chrono still has trouble with his aim in the morning,” said the voice from behind the door.

“That’s all right,” smiled Momoko, “I’m going to run home for a bit to shower and change.”

The shower stopped.

“Are you coming back?” Lindy asked.

Momoko’s fingers traced the grooves in the wooden door while she laughed to herself, “Why? Do you have plans?”

“Well, no,” replied Lindy whose voice reflected her embarrassment, “but I thought we could go into town for a few hours. Maybe shop a bit? Grab something to eat?”

“Sounds like a date,” teased Momoko feeling playful.

No reply came from the other side of the door.

“I’ll be back in twenty minutes,” said Momoko finally breaking the silence, which was followed by the return of the sounds from the restarted shower.

Inside the spacious bathroom, Lindy sat on the floor of her shower hugging her knees. The word “date” from Momoko’s lips finally reminded her of when she had felt this feeling before, and it scared her. Behind her closed, stinging eyes, she conjured an old memory from a forgotten time. She was seventeen, and he was eighteen.

“C’mon, just one date!” said the young man in her memory to her younger self.

“I’d go on a date with a frog before I’d go anywhere with you, Clyde Harlaown!”

-- -- --

The three girls laughed loudly as they ate their lunches at the end of the picnic table.

“Hayate, tomorrow, can you sit at our table with Suzuka and Arisa?” asked Nanoha.

“They won’t make fun of me or my friends?” gulped Hayate.

“No,” replied Fate, “I just came to this school the other day, and they were very nice to me.”

“Ok,” said Hayate while twisting the edge of her blanket again.

“Hello, losers!” growled a voice behind them.

Fate and Nanoha looked at the big kid standing behind Hayate’s wheelchair with long blond hair tied back with a rubber band.

“Leave us alone, Yuuno,” yelled Fate bravely jumping from the bench, “you big…you big…MEANIE!”

“And what's a pipsqueak like you going to do about it?” sneered Yuuno before focusing on Hayate, “You know the drill, retard. Cough up your lunch, or I’ll push your cripple-wagon down the hill and into the fence.”

Hayate whimpered.

“Stop bullying her, Yunno!” yelled Nanoha angrily.

Fate’s rage at the big kid could be seen in her narrowed red eyes and clenched teeth and fists.

“Don’t you dare threaten my friends, you stupid poo-poo head!” snarled Fate.

Nanoha gasped at Fate using “stupid” and “poo-poo head” in the same sentence. She would get a time-out for sure if the teacher heard her use such language. However, the encounter was cut short by tiny drops of water falling from the black clouds in the sky.

Yuuno felt the rain and saw two other girls talking to the teacher while pointing at him. “You idiot five-year-old babies!” he yelled and quickly grabbed Hayate’s lunch and stuffed blue wolf.

“Zafira!” cried Hayate.

“This is what you get for messing with me!” he yelled and threw the old doll against the wall. The threadbare doll burst at the seams and lay in pieces on the ground while the fluff blew away in the wind.

Hayate’s sobs verge on hysterics, and it was more than Fate could stand as she lunged at the big kid with her little fists flying in fury. Yuuno easily knocked Fate to the ground, but he did not expect a hard slap across his face from a tiny hand.

“Stop being mean, Yuuno!” yelled Nanoha, “If you want something, ask nicely!”

Before Yuuno could fire off a shot at the tiny kindergartener, two teachers ran to the picnic table. They took Yuuno to the office and tried to comfort the crying Hayate but to no avail. Fate walked over the broken doll and picked up the pieces.

“Zafira,” sobbed Hayate, “I’m sorry, mommy. I broke Zafira!”

The crying girl bound to the cumbersome chair once again felt two small arms wrapped around her neck, “You didn’t break him.”

“But he’s broken!” cried Hayate.

“But my mama can fix him. She can fix everything,” said Nanoha.

-- -- --

“Thanks for walking with me,” Momoko smiled to the woman next to her.

They had stopped at one of her favorite cafes for lunch and were currently walking leisurely around the small town circle.

“Hey, Momoko,” Lindy chuckled with her eyes flickering with delight.

“What?”

“Let’s go grab a cup of coffee from Starbucks and then talk loudly about how much better your coffee is.”

Momoko burst into laughter, “You’re horrible!”

“Yes, but you can’t deny that it would be funny,” Lindy said in a teasing voice while nudging Momoko.

“No!” yelled Momoko through her laughter.

“Oh, come on. Please?”

“No!”

Lindy leaned over to Momoko till her lips brushed the brunette’s ears as she whispered into them, “I don’t see you turning around.”

Momoko’s face flushed a deep red shade, and they walked a few blocks in silence. However, the quiet tension was broken by Momoko giggling.

“What?” asked Lindy self-consciously while checking her fly and wiping her face, “Do I have something in my teeth?”

“No,” Momoko said laughing harder at Lindy’s panicked reactions. “Sometimes you just remind me of…”

“Who?”

“Never mind,” Momoko said as sadness replaced her mirth.

“Momoko,” asked Lindy cutting the woman off from her thoughts, “You left your open sign on the window.”

“I thought I flipped it before I left,” said Momoko while seeing the open sign on the large window of her shop, which was on the other side of the block from Starbucks. “Wait a minute!”

They watched as an old woman waved to someone while exiting with a travel mug in her hand.

“Is someone working?” gasped Momoko.

“I’m guessing that it’s not an elf!” grunted Lindy as she grabbed Momoko’s hand and ran toward the large window.

Momoko peered into the window and nearly collapsed at the sight. Kyoya was working the register all by himself.

Very nice chapter, probably my favorite so far

It's good that this time you dedicated half of the chapter to the girls, so you don't rush the things with their moms. You really know how to write both to write both adults and kids characters, the moments at the school were nicely done and pretty enjoyable. The scene with Hayate and the girls, and then Yuuno breaking Zafira while Fate and Nanoha tried to face him, transmitted a lot of emotions, even if they are just kids their feelings are strong... seeing the little Zafira broken almost moved me to tears ;_;

Good job, Allquall. I'll be looking forward to your next update. You need to upload this to ff.net, the people can't be missing this wonderful fic.

Cuídense y sigan sonriendo

[markesellus]

D: Lots of backlog!

Originally Posted by Laith

Spoiler for Random thing:

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I like it. You should write some more, it seems like it has potential.

Originally Posted by Laith

Spoiler for Waiting:

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Aww cute! Waiting is usually worth it.

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Hmm...crack...crack... >_>

Spoiler:

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Kekekeke

*RUNZ*

Lol, nice crack. Poor Nanoha stunted growth from now on.

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

Karil Lightstar

Spoiler for Chapter 13:

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I doubt this draws >.<

Spoiler for Alphonse:

Spoiler for Gary Love:

Note: Mr. Long is from TSS

Not Burger King but McDonalds! Lol, jk. It seems like Karil and Vivio are becoming friends.

Originally Posted by Dusk_

Well, ending to Life Goes On is going to have to wait a little bit, because I ended up writing the first chapter to Moving On instead (I just realized how similar the two names are...completely unintentional). A few parts feel a little jumpy, so I'll probably edit it later when I can look at it with a fresh eye...

Spoiler for Moving On-ch.1:

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EDIT:

"Mou" means "Geez". It just sounds infinitely cuter as "Mou".

Aww, this is great. I love reinforce (I). A cute scene at lunchtime. I can't wait for either Moving on or Life goes on.

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

This is for Keroko cause it's all his fault this crack came about

Spoiler for To Meet Again:

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Ahh yes, I remember seeing this in the image thread. I like it. Continue please?

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

Spoiler for Coffee Shop:

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Also, upload ch.4 of SC2, and I've made up my mind that other than ignoring/pretending-it-never-happened SakuTomo, it is pretty much a direct continuation from SC1. But it is also fairly readable on its own. *links*

SC2: Hayate's Magical "What If"

Stop Not TBC-ing things! Because I want a continuation you little teaser! I want to go kill the guy on the bus.

Originally Posted by Evil Rick

Maligno

Spoiler for Chapter 14:

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The famous red or blue wire question. Yay, Gary saves his girlfriend and Maligno is dead. But what happened to Vita at the end!?

Originally Posted by Satashi

So I've had lots of interesting things happen today ^^ Ranging from my aunt calling and singing happy bday to me, to several text messages and emails. My favourite, by far, is below (thanks angel~)

Also, thanks a bunch to all the people who sent me PMs and visitor messages! @_@ I didn't even know you guys KNEW what today was! I am really really happy ^_^

Spoiler for Vivio's Birthday~:

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Spoiler for Angel's text message to me that inspired all of this :P:

Angel is the best ever.

Aww cute. Happy B'day! Even though it just turned 12:00 (in my timezone)

Originally Posted by Blue-Phoenix

This is exciting! The first part, of the primer of The Chat Device! With letters from such known members: EvaXGouki, Satashi, Black_Wolf, Vivio Testarossa. And one person who wished to remain 'secert...'

Lots of Khrack! Lots of Laughs! Lots of Oddities!

Hello and welcome to The Chat Device!

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Lol! I love the khrack. I like Vita and the futa pills. Nice commercial at the end. Poor Subaru.

Originally Posted by TheShinySword

Spoiler for CRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCKKK NSFW:

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Lol, yours is so much better than mine of this song. I really do love Electric six though. Milly and Yuuna! Alright!

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

I was bored so...

Spoiler for Snapple, Grackle, Pop:

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Highly metaphoric, not at all sensical. Ah well.

Wow....WTF? It's cute, in a confusing, weird way.

Originally Posted by Allquall

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

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Aww Momoko and Lindy in the bed! Hayate is the epitome of cute sad child! Her dolls of the Wolkenritter! So cute. But what was with Kyoya working all by himself?

Originally Posted by Laith

Crossroads

Adding "desu" at the end of Rein speaking its optional but highly recomendable

Spoiler for part 9:

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Spoiler for decision 9:

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Spoiler for Zwei corner:

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I told you the R/S was important. Big and green.

~Desu power! Make up! If you know what reference that is you'll get a cookie. I read all the other parts and since I can't vote on them I'll just vote on this. C

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

First part of Snapple, Grackle, Pop

>.>_<.< Continuing cuz I said TBC... And I only said TBC cuz I knew it was short and nonsensical, esp the end...

Spoiler for Nanoha/Vita ness:

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Aww NanoVita! So cute and random at the same time.

@TSS: SA is getting really exciting, I still want my Fate points. I can't remember if voting is closed or not so I'll wait for next chapter. I love it!

[Hiria]

Originally Posted by Satashi

So I've had lots of interesting things happen today ^^ Ranging from my aunt calling and singing happy bday to me, to several text messages and emails. My favourite, by far, is below (thanks angel~)

Also, thanks a bunch to all the people who sent me PMs and visitor messages! @_@ I didn't even know you guys KNEW what today was! I am really really happy ^_^

Spoiler for Vivio's Birthday~:

Vivio smiled and waved to her parents once more, blushing as both yelled out a happy birthday to her. As she turned around to walk to her training mates, she covered her face as many of them grinned at her teasingly. The blond felt her cheeks burn as she was poked and prodded by her friends, each of them wishing her a happy birthday and making fun of the fact that both her mothers walked with her today.

As the day trailed on for her, she received many gifts. Her training instructor gave her an extra lap around the training field while running, a cupcake with a candle from the nice ladies in the cafeteria, and even a few small boxes from male admirers that she was a little afraid to open.

Hayate called her during lunch and, quite loudly, sang happy birthday to her over the M2D that everyone around her could see. After that particularly embarrassing situation, she retreated to the hallways of the base and lose herself in the free time that she had on her hands thanks to being exempted from the afternoon training.

Zafira had found her a little later, giving the girl a pat on the head and a set of simple gold earrings that housed an emerald in one and a ruby in the other. Her hair was ruffled and the familiar continued along his way. Vivio put them in as soon as she found a mirror and smiled at them before going outside again and laying on her back under a tree near a corner of their base.

Looking up through the leaves, she smiled longingly to herself. There was still something missing for her, and she knew what it was. Her best friend and partner was away on a mission, out of the range of real-time communication. A long intake through her nose later, Vivio sighed out in a bittersweet smile.

Falling Soul beeped at her, making the girl hold up her hand to check the memo that had just been sent to her. A monitor appeared before her, displaying the name of Syn Virage as the sender with the subject of "Happy Birthday!"

Vivio sat up fully, ignoring the leaves from the tree that stuck into her hair, and touched the screen, getting a simple picture of her friend holding a sign with the same words as the subject written on it. A small blush came to her cheeks and she reached up to make the screen a little larger. "Falling Soul?"

"Yes?"

"Save picture for me, please."

" 'kay." A small beep came and the girl smiled once again.

"Viviooooooo!" The sound of Nanoha-mama made the teen look to the side, seeing her family and friends all gathered together. "Come on!"

Standing, she dusted off her pants before running to her loved ones. "Okay!"

Spoiler for Angel's text message to me that inspired all of this :P:

Angel is the best ever.

aww. it's cute. ^^

Originally Posted by TheShinySword

Spoiler for :uhoh: crack:

Yuuno: Nanoha... I can't go out with you because... I'm gay
Nanoha: ... um... good for you? But I wasn't asking you ou-
Fate: *Throws open door* I am too!
Nanoha: EH? Fate-chan... well... alright then
Hayate: *Bursts from the ground* I love breasts!
Nanoha: Well I knew that
Wolkenritter: *Pop up behind her* So do we!
Nanoha: ... I'm really not surprised but that's not much of a revelation Zafira
Zafira: ... >.> oh
Chrono: *flies in* I'M GAY TOO! SUPAH GAY!
Nanoha: .... But what about Amy?
Amy: I'm a man! *rips off fake bewbs*
Nanoha: D: is everyone gay?
Everyone: Yes What about you?
Nanoha: ... I'm... worksexual...
Everyone: *facepalm*

worksexual huh...

Originally Posted by Allquall

Blue, you made me laugh hard on this one. This idea and the execution are pure gold. My sides hurt from taking in that much Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrack!

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

Momoko gasped as she sat up quickly in the warm bed, and Lindy’s arm fell harmlessly onto her lap. She leaned against one arm and gently disentangled herself from the sleeping green-haired woman. However, the bed shook when she went to stand on the cold floor.

“What’s wrong?” Lindy yawned scrunching her eyes while Momoko threw on her thick robe.

“I forgot to tell Nanoha’s teacher about her getting bullied,” Momoko explained frantically, “I need to tell her before lunch!”

“I took care of that already,” mumbled Lindy, and she rolled onto her side to see the clock.

“When?”

“I talked to the headmaster after I dropped the kids off. I had to address Chrono getting into a fight on his first day of school anyway, so I explained Nanoha’s situation as well,” Lindy said as she put on her glasses to read the clock's face. The green-haired woman frowned at the time. “Momoko, it’s only nine. Let’s get a few more hours of sleep. The store’s closed, the kids are in school, and you’re exhausted. This a very rare time.”

Momoko hesitated while Lindy’s long green hair touched the bed as she sat up.

“What?” asked Lindy with a slight blush as Momoko stared hard at her with her arms folded. The brunette’s quick glance at the empty space on the bed made Lindy smile. “Haven’t you ever shared a bed with a friend before?”

Momoko’s face turned a bright red to Lindy’s amusement.

“Of course I have!” she replied and sat on the bed again, “But stay on your side this time.”

Lindy grinned and brushed her hair out of her face while placing her glasses back near the clock. She buried her face in the pillow and could feel Momoko shifting her weight by the mattress rocking slightly.

An odd feeling gripped Lindy in a way that she hadn’t experienced in years. She wanted to be close to the woman a few feet from her, but at the same time it seemed as if a part of her warned her against it. The battle between the two urges kept her still and away from sleep. She could only relax when she heard the deep, even breaths from behind her. The peaceful slumber then seemed to envelope even Lindy’s conflicted mind in a comforting warmth.

-- -- --

“And who are my clean-up helpers today?” said the cheerful Kindergarten teacher to the children at various centers around the room.

The group of twenty five-year-olds eagerly raised their hands at the request.

“Group Three,” she said to the four girls sorting counting bears by color and then adding them, “will you be in charge of the activity centers being put away nicely?”

“Yes, Ma’am!” they answered in unison.

Suzuka picked up the small plastic bears on her side of the activity carpet and dumped them into the large bucket that Fate was holding. Arisa and Nanoha visited the other four activities centers and helped them pick up the blocks and cars scattered around the classroom. After the classroom was clear of various small objects, the teacher raised her hand in the air.

“One, two, three! Eyes on me!” the teacher said sweetly, and the bundle of Kindergarten students stumbled over each other as they stood up with two fingers over their lips and other hand raised in the air. “If you have a lunch, go get it now. If you are buying lunch, line up in front of me.”

Nanoha walked with her three friends to their backpacks hanging on hooks.

“Aren’t you buying lunch today, Nanoha?” asked Arisa while pulling the small box from her backpack.

Nanoha shook her head with a smile and pulled the bento from her bookbag.

“My mom made it,” said Fate proudly, “Nanoha spent the night.”

“Why didn’t you invite me to your party?” pouted Arisa.

Nanoha cast a silencing glance at Fate. “Fate lives across my street,” she explained to Arisa while Suzuka joined the conversation with her lunchbox, “I didn’t mean to stay over, but it just happened. Next time we have a slumber party, you and Sazuka can come too.”

Arisa tried to hide the smile creeping up on her face, but the corners of her serious frown twitched which made the rest of the girls giggle.

“Group Three!” called their teacher by the door, “We’re waiting on you.”

The girls gasped and stumbled to the line of their classmates.

-- -- --

The click of the air conditioner over her head woke Lindy from her sound slumber, and immediately her bladder reminded her of the large glass of water she had during breakfast. However, the strange warmth on her back held her in her place. Momoko had shifted in her sleep so that she was curled around Lindy’s back. She could feel the tip of Momoko’s nose on the base of her neck while her bent knees touched the back side of the green-haired woman’s knees. The brunette’s forearms laid on the skin of Lindy’s back as her arms curled under the old nightshirt.

Lindy begged her bladder for five more minutes, but her full organ would not accept her pleas for negotiation. Thus, with great reluctance, Lindy pried herself away from the sleeping woman and walked to the bathroom down the hall cursing her impatient bladder.

-- -- --

“Fate,” Nanoha whispered into the blond’s ear as they walked in line to the courtyard, “don’t forget that we can’t tell anyone about our magical girl powers.”

“Sorry,” Fate blushed, “but what should we do about Yuuno and the rest of the big kids?”

Nanoha frowned as she thought, “I don’t know.”

The class of Kindergarteners rounded the corner of the building and broke into two groups: those who had their lunch went to the picnic tables in the middle of the courtyard and those who bought their lunch stood at the back of the line leading to the cafeteria. The children in the cafeteria line seemed to tremble in fear as they looked around anxiously waiting for Yuuno and his group of thugs to arrive and deprive them of their lunches.

Arisa and Suzuka already had their lunches out by the time Nanoha and Fate sat at the picnic table. Nanoha started to pull the cloth knot when she stopped abruptly.

“What’s wrong?” asked Arisa with her mouth full of the octopus-shaped hotdog.

“I don’t want her to eat alone,” replied Nanoha.

“Who?” asked Arisa while looking to Suzuka for clarification.

Suzuka smiled at her friend across the table and nodded as she looked past her to the girl sitting alone in her wheelchair.

“Why do you what to be friends with her?” asked Arisa, “She’s crazy!”

“Arisa!” scolded Suzuka, “Nanoha made friends with Fate, and now we’re all friends with Fate. We have a new friend over there, but we need to learn her name.”

“Did you not want to be my friend?” asked Fate sadly.

Nanoha giggled, “Arisa doesn’t share well.”

Arisa huffed her disapproval and took a large bite out of her lunch to disguise the blush on her cheeks.

Suzuka smiled and waved to Nanoha, “I’ll stay here with Miss Crankypants. Go greet our new friend, Nanoha.”

Nanoha nodded with a grin and picked up her lunch that she had yet to open. Fate followed the brunette pigtails that bounced closer and closer to the girl in the wheelchair.

“Hi! I’m Nanoha!” greeted Nanoha to the girl with short brown hair in the wheelchair.

The wheelchair was placed at the end of the picnic table, and Nanoha and Fate sat on either side of the girl. The girl's eyes widened in confusion as she saw the two girls open their bento boxes next to her.

“What’s your name?” asked Nanoha happily as she chomped merrily on the lunch that Lindy made. Fate gave a tiny smile in her shyness.

“H-Hayate…” the girl in the wheelchair said.

“Nice to meet you, Hayate!” grinned Nanoha who then pointed at the blond across the table, “This is Fate.”

Fate waved and smiled while picking at her lunch.

“Nice to meet you too,” stammered Hayate as her hands trembled nervously while wringing the blanket on her lap.

“Aww,” gasped Fate forgetting about her shyness while she pointed at the objects poking out from Hayate’s blanket, “Those are so cute! May I see them?”

“What?” asked Nanoha who then peered at Hayate’s lap.

“They’re…they’re my friends,” replied Hayate softly without meeting their eyes, “You’re here to make fun of me, aren’t you?”

A tear slid down Hayate’s cheek.

“No!” shouted Nanoha with all the authority the small girl could muster, “We’re here to be friends with you! Can I meet your other friends?”

Hayate’s teary eyes stared into Nanoha’s determined face, “Do you promise not to make fun of me?”

“I promise,” said Nanoha.

“Me too,” joined Fate.

Hayate pulled back the blanket on her lap to show four very old and very worn plush dolls and placed them on the table next to her barely touched lunch.

“This is Zafira,” she said while pointing to the stuffed plush dog with blue fur before holding up the three rag dolls, “The one with red hair’s name is Vita, the one with pink hair I call Signum, and the yellow and green one is Shamal.”

Hayate patted the plush dolls lovingly and placed them back on her lap.

“Wow,” said Nanoha, “They look really old.”

Hayate nodded, “My mommy made them for me before she and my daddy went to heaven.”

The smile grew on Hayate’s face, but more tears flowed from the young girl’s eyes. Hayate choked when a pair of arms tightly embraced her neck.

“She left you with very kind friends,” croaked Nanoha hugging Hayate.

-- -- --

“Lindy?”

Momoko felt the other side of the bed to find it cold and deserted. Her heart skipped a beat in an unknown fear as she forced herself awake. She grabbed her robe from the back of the chair and threw it around her as she walked out of the bedroom.

“Lindy?” she called out again with her voice lined with fear.

Her heart eased its rapid palpitations when she heard the shower running from the bathroom door in the hallway. Momoko rushed to the door and lightly knocked.

“It’s me,” Momoko called.

“Do you want to join?” Lindy answered with a laugh.

Momoko felt a hot blush rush to her cheeks, “N-n-no!”

“Just give me a few more minutes, and you can have the shower. You can use the kids’ bathroom, but Chrono still has trouble with his aim in the morning,” said the voice from behind the door.

“That’s all right,” smiled Momoko, “I’m going to run home for a bit to shower and change.”

The shower stopped.

“Are you coming back?” Lindy asked.

Momoko’s fingers traced the grooves in the wooden door while she laughed to herself, “Why? Do you have plans?”

“Well, no,” replied Lindy whose voice reflected her embarrassment, “but I thought we could go into town for a few hours. Maybe shop a bit? Grab something to eat?”

“Sounds like a date,” teased Momoko feeling playful.

No reply came from the other side of the door.

“I’ll be back in twenty minutes,” said Momoko finally breaking the silence, which was followed by the return of the sounds from the restarted shower.

Inside the spacious bathroom, Lindy sat on the floor of her shower hugging her knees. The word “date” from Momoko’s lips finally reminded her of when she had felt this feeling before, and it scared her. Behind her closed, stinging eyes, she conjured an old memory from a forgotten time. She was seventeen, and he was eighteen.

“C’mon, just one date!” said the young man in her memory to her younger self.

“I’d go on a date with a frog before I’d go anywhere with you, Clyde Harlaown!”

-- -- --

The three girls laughed loudly as they ate their lunches at the end of the picnic table.

“Hayate, tomorrow, can you sit at our table with Suzuka and Arisa?” asked Nanoha.

“They won’t make fun of me or my friends?” gulped Hayate.

“No,” replied Fate, “I just came to this school the other day, and they were very nice to me.”

“Ok,” said Hayate while twisting the edge of her blanket again.

“Hello, losers!” growled a voice behind them.

Fate and Nanoha looked at the big kid standing behind Hayate’s wheelchair with long blond hair tied back with a rubber band.

“Leave us alone, Yuuno,” yelled Fate bravely jumping from the bench, “you big…you big…MEANIE!”

“And what's a pipsqueak like you going to do about it?” sneered Yuuno before focusing on Hayate, “You know the drill, retard. Cough up your lunch, or I’ll push your cripple-wagon down the hill and into the fence.”

Hayate whimpered.

“Stop bullying her, Yunno!” yelled Nanoha angrily.

Fate’s rage at the big kid could be seen in her narrowed red eyes and clenched teeth and fists.

“Don’t you dare threaten my friends, you stupid poo-poo head!” snarled Fate.

Nanoha gasped at Fate using “stupid” and “poo-poo head” in the same sentence. She would get a time-out for sure if the teacher heard her use such language. However, the encounter was cut short by tiny drops of water falling from the black clouds in the sky.

Yuuno felt the rain and saw two other girls talking to the teacher while pointing at him. “You idiot five-year-old babies!” he yelled and quickly grabbed Hayate’s lunch and stuffed blue wolf.

“Zafira!” cried Hayate.

“This is what you get for messing with me!” he yelled and threw the old doll against the wall. The threadbare doll burst at the seams and lay in pieces on the ground while the fluff blew away in the wind.

Hayate’s sobs verge on hysterics, and it was more than Fate could stand as she lunged at the big kid with her little fists flying in fury. Yuuno easily knocked Fate to the ground, but he did not expect a hard slap across his face from a tiny hand.

“Stop being mean, Yuuno!” yelled Nanoha, “If you want something, ask nicely!”

Before Yuuno could fire off a shot at the tiny kindergartener, two teachers ran to the picnic table. They took Yuuno to the office and tried to comfort the crying Hayate but to no avail. Fate walked over the broken doll and picked up the pieces.

“Zafira,” sobbed Hayate, “I’m sorry, mommy. I broke Zafira!”

The crying girl bound to the cumbersome chair once again felt two small arms wrapped around her neck, “You didn’t break him.”

“But he’s broken!” cried Hayate.

“But my mama can fix him. She can fix everything,” said Nanoha.

-- -- --

“Thanks for walking with me,” Momoko smiled to the woman next to her.

They had stopped at one of her favorite cafes for lunch and were currently walking leisurely around the small town circle.

“Hey, Momoko,” Lindy chuckled with her eyes flickering with delight.

“What?”

“Let’s go grab a cup of coffee from Starbucks and then talk loudly about how much better your coffee is.”

Momoko burst into laughter, “You’re horrible!”

“Yes, but you can’t deny that it would be funny,” Lindy said in a teasing voice while nudging Momoko.

“No!” yelled Momoko through her laughter.

“Oh, come on. Please?”

“No!”

Lindy leaned over to Momoko till her lips brushed the brunette’s ears as she whispered into them, “I don’t see you turning around.”

Momoko’s face flushed a deep red shade, and they walked a few blocks in silence. However, the quiet tension was broken by Momoko giggling.

“What?” asked Lindy self-consciously while checking her fly and wiping her face, “Do I have something in my teeth?”

“No,” Momoko said laughing harder at Lindy’s panicked reactions. “Sometimes you just remind me of…”

“Who?”

“Never mind,” Momoko said as sadness replaced her mirth.

“Momoko,” asked Lindy cutting the woman off from her thoughts, “You left your open sign on the window.”

“I thought I flipped it before I left,” said Momoko while seeing the open sign on the large window of her shop, which was on the other side of the block from Starbucks. “Wait a minute!”

They watched as an old woman waved to someone while exiting with a travel mug in her hand.

“Is someone working?” gasped Momoko.

“I’m guessing that it’s not an elf!” grunted Lindy as she grabbed Momoko’s hand and ran toward the large window.

Momoko peered into the window and nearly collapsed at the sight. Kyoya was working the register all by himself.

aww.. sweet.

Originally Posted by Laith

Crossroads

Adding "desu" at the end of Rein speaking its optional but highly recomendable

Spoiler for part 9:

“Umm… Hi?” the brunette said hesitantly to the little female in front of her. She was completely surprised at the sudden appearance of the little humanoid.

“Yo,” Zwei replied. She was smiling as she stared at the brunette.

“What… who are you?” the princess asked surprised as well.

“I am the Tome of the Night Sky of course,” she said as she looked interestingly at the princes, “Are you my mistress’s lover? Nice to meet you” she said innocently making the princess and the knight blush.

“Wait… I… she… not…” Nanoha stuttered at the insinuation of Zwei. Her face seemed like a cherry, thanks to blush she currently had.

“We are not in a relationship,” the princess remarked, blushing too.

“Really? But you have a close R link.”

R link?

“Yes an R link,” she said as she hadn’t read Nanoha´s mind, “eh? You don’t know?” she asked as she saw the confused faces of the girls, “Well an R link is-“

“The link which connects us to the others, although is invisible to the human eye. There is only one race capable of seeing them and that are mana made beings, or pixies as someone calls them,” Fate Testarossa was staring at them at the end of the aisle, “which is why I needed her. I know where the entrance to the underground passage is, but I don’t know how to leave the caves, which is why I needed her.”

So she is a pixie?

“Zwei is not a pixie” again she had read her mind “I am the Tome of the Night Sky” she said angrily to the knight.

You can read my mind?

“Yes, yes! Zwei can read your mind as if you were talking to Zwe,i” the little one cheerily said as she looked at her master.”Its one of Zwei´s special abilities.”

And there goes my privacy.

“You alright? We saw a light and-” the two myrmidons arrived. The spear and staff of the two were readied to attack. But instead of watching a fighting scene, as they expected, they saw the princess kneeling down with the knight. At the other side of the aisle, there was a seemingly pissed Fate and, perhaps the most impressive of all, a little girl on top of a book.

“Yo Caro and Erio,” the silver haired say, “pleased to meet you,” the girl bowed to them. The kids wondered how she knew their names.

“Long story short,” Nanoha said. “She is what we were searching for. Her name is Zwei”

“Oh, you have a strong link with her too,” Zwei said happily while looking at Caro.

“Li…Link?” the pink haired asked surprised.

“We`ll explain later,” the valkyrie said “we must continue. I ask for your help Tome of the Night Sky” she turned to Zwei.

“Zwei is fine,” the silver haired said happily ,“What can I do for you, Lord Fate,”
Zwei asked like Nanoha would.

So she acts like I would sometimes. Maybe it’s because I am her master.

Yes Zwei acts like master acts.

You can speak to me like this too? Not surprising though.

If master doesn’t like it I’ll stop it.

Don’t worry about it.

“Can you follow a link to the outside?” Fate asked.

“Yup, yup,” Zwei said and looked around the room. “Found it. It’s the strongest one”

That would be Yuuno.

“Please guide us.” The valkyrie said.

Spoiler for decision 9:

A) Ask more information to Rein

B)Talk with Alicia about this

C) Lord Fate seems to know more

Spoiler for Zwei corner:

Yo Zwei here. I am the new one here, pleased to meet you. I am the Tome of the Night Sky humanoid form.

Why I am here? Well as you can see the R links are here. I will be saying the link that everyone has to master. Yay

Yuuno 5 - When was the last time I talked to her?/ He has the strongest one!
Fate 3 - At least she knows how to fight/ She is so kewl
Alicia 4 - Nanoha...cute name/ She is starting to like my master
Erio 2 - Lady Takamachi.../ Bad kid, you dont like my master. Zwei doesnt like you
Caro 4 - Old Sis Nanoha/ I like her a lot

Well I´ll see ya next time. You can ask me anything. Cya

I told you the R/S was important. Big and green.

B

[Raging Heart]

Originally Posted by Allquall

Blue, you made me laugh hard on this one. This idea and the execution are pure gold. My sides hurt from taking in that much Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrack!

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

Momoko gasped as she sat up quickly in the warm bed, and Lindy’s arm fell harmlessly onto her lap. She leaned against one arm and gently disentangled herself from the sleeping green-haired woman. However, the bed shook when she went to stand on the cold floor.

“What’s wrong?” Lindy yawned scrunching her eyes while Momoko threw on her thick robe.

“I forgot to tell Nanoha’s teacher about her getting bullied,” Momoko explained frantically, “I need to tell her before lunch!”

“I took care of that already,” mumbled Lindy, and she rolled onto her side to see the clock.

“When?”

“I talked to the headmaster after I dropped the kids off. I had to address Chrono getting into a fight on his first day of school anyway, so I explained Nanoha’s situation as well,” Lindy said as she put on her glasses to read the clock's face. The green-haired woman frowned at the time. “Momoko, it’s only nine. Let’s get a few more hours of sleep. The store’s closed, the kids are in school, and you’re exhausted. This a very rare time.”

Momoko hesitated while Lindy’s long green hair touched the bed as she sat up.

“What?” asked Lindy with a slight blush as Momoko stared hard at her with her arms folded. The brunette’s quick glance at the empty space on the bed made Lindy smile. “Haven’t you ever shared a bed with a friend before?”

Momoko’s face turned a bright red to Lindy’s amusement.

“Of course I have!” she replied and sat on the bed again, “But stay on your side this time.”

Lindy grinned and brushed her hair out of her face while placing her glasses back near the clock. She buried her face in the pillow and could feel Momoko shifting her weight by the mattress rocking slightly.

An odd feeling gripped Lindy in a way that she hadn’t experienced in years. She wanted to be close to the woman a few feet from her, but at the same time it seemed as if a part of her warned her against it. The battle between the two urges kept her still and away from sleep. She could only relax when she heard the deep, even breaths from behind her. The peaceful slumber then seemed to envelope even Lindy’s conflicted mind in a comforting warmth.

-- -- --

“And who are my clean-up helpers today?” said the cheerful Kindergarten teacher to the children at various centers around the room.

The group of twenty five-year-olds eagerly raised their hands at the request.

“Group Three,” she said to the four girls sorting counting bears by color and then adding them, “will you be in charge of the activity centers being put away nicely?”

“Yes, Ma’am!” they answered in unison.

Suzuka picked up the small plastic bears on her side of the activity carpet and dumped them into the large bucket that Fate was holding. Arisa and Nanoha visited the other four activities centers and helped them pick up the blocks and cars scattered around the classroom. After the classroom was clear of various small objects, the teacher raised her hand in the air.

“One, two, three! Eyes on me!” the teacher said sweetly, and the bundle of Kindergarten students stumbled over each other as they stood up with two fingers over their lips and other hand raised in the air. “If you have a lunch, go get it now. If you are buying lunch, line up in front of me.”

Nanoha walked with her three friends to their backpacks hanging on hooks.

“Aren’t you buying lunch today, Nanoha?” asked Arisa while pulling the small box from her backpack.

Nanoha shook her head with a smile and pulled the bento from her bookbag.

“My mom made it,” said Fate proudly, “Nanoha spent the night.”

“Why didn’t you invite me to your party?” pouted Arisa.

Nanoha cast a silencing glance at Fate. “Fate lives across my street,” she explained to Arisa while Suzuka joined the conversation with her lunchbox, “I didn’t mean to stay over, but it just happened. Next time we have a slumber party, you and Sazuka can come too.”

Arisa tried to hide the smile creeping up on her face, but the corners of her serious frown twitched which made the rest of the girls giggle.

“Group Three!” called their teacher by the door, “We’re waiting on you.”

The girls gasped and stumbled to the line of their classmates.

-- -- --

The click of the air conditioner over her head woke Lindy from her sound slumber, and immediately her bladder reminded her of the large glass of water she had during breakfast. However, the strange warmth on her back held her in her place. Momoko had shifted in her sleep so that she was curled around Lindy’s back. She could feel the tip of Momoko’s nose on the base of her neck while her bent knees touched the back side of the green-haired woman’s knees. The brunette’s forearms laid on the skin of Lindy’s back as her arms curled under the old nightshirt.

Lindy begged her bladder for five more minutes, but her full organ would not accept her pleas for negotiation. Thus, with great reluctance, Lindy pried herself away from the sleeping woman and walked to the bathroom down the hall cursing her impatient bladder.

-- -- --

“Fate,” Nanoha whispered into the blond’s ear as they walked in line to the courtyard, “don’t forget that we can’t tell anyone about our magical girl powers.”

“Sorry,” Fate blushed, “but what should we do about Yuuno and the rest of the big kids?”

Nanoha frowned as she thought, “I don’t know.”

The class of Kindergarteners rounded the corner of the building and broke into two groups: those who had their lunch went to the picnic tables in the middle of the courtyard and those who bought their lunch stood at the back of the line leading to the cafeteria. The children in the cafeteria line seemed to tremble in fear as they looked around anxiously waiting for Yuuno and his group of thugs to arrive and deprive them of their lunches.

Arisa and Suzuka already had their lunches out by the time Nanoha and Fate sat at the picnic table. Nanoha started to pull the cloth knot when she stopped abruptly.

“What’s wrong?” asked Arisa with her mouth full of the octopus-shaped hotdog.

“I don’t want her to eat alone,” replied Nanoha.

“Who?” asked Arisa while looking to Suzuka for clarification.

Suzuka smiled at her friend across the table and nodded as she looked past her to the girl sitting alone in her wheelchair.

“Why do you what to be friends with her?” asked Arisa, “She’s crazy!”

“Arisa!” scolded Suzuka, “Nanoha made friends with Fate, and now we’re all friends with Fate. We have a new friend over there, but we need to learn her name.”

“Did you not want to be my friend?” asked Fate sadly.

Nanoha giggled, “Arisa doesn’t share well.”

Arisa huffed her disapproval and took a large bite out of her lunch to disguise the blush on her cheeks.

Suzuka smiled and waved to Nanoha, “I’ll stay here with Miss Crankypants. Go greet our new friend, Nanoha.”

Nanoha nodded with a grin and picked up her lunch that she had yet to open. Fate followed the brunette pigtails that bounced closer and closer to the girl in the wheelchair.

“Hi! I’m Nanoha!” greeted Nanoha to the girl with short brown hair in the wheelchair.

The wheelchair was placed at the end of the picnic table, and Nanoha and Fate sat on either side of the girl. The girl's eyes widened in confusion as she saw the two girls open their bento boxes next to her.

“What’s your name?” asked Nanoha happily as she chomped merrily on the lunch that Lindy made. Fate gave a tiny smile in her shyness.

“H-Hayate…” the girl in the wheelchair said.

“Nice to meet you, Hayate!” grinned Nanoha who then pointed at the blond across the table, “This is Fate.”

Fate waved and smiled while picking at her lunch.

“Nice to meet you too,” stammered Hayate as her hands trembled nervously while wringing the blanket on her lap.

“Aww,” gasped Fate forgetting about her shyness while she pointed at the objects poking out from Hayate’s blanket, “Those are so cute! May I see them?”

“What?” asked Nanoha who then peered at Hayate’s lap.

“They’re…they’re my friends,” replied Hayate softly without meeting their eyes, “You’re here to make fun of me, aren’t you?”

A tear slid down Hayate’s cheek.

“No!” shouted Nanoha with all the authority the small girl could muster, “We’re here to be friends with you! Can I meet your other friends?”

Hayate’s teary eyes stared into Nanoha’s determined face, “Do you promise not to make fun of me?”

“I promise,” said Nanoha.

“Me too,” joined Fate.

Hayate pulled back the blanket on her lap to show four very old and very worn plush dolls and placed them on the table next to her barely touched lunch.

“This is Zafira,” she said while pointing to the stuffed plush dog with blue fur before holding up the three rag dolls, “The one with red hair’s name is Vita, the one with pink hair I call Signum, and the yellow and green one is Shamal.”

Hayate patted the plush dolls lovingly and placed them back on her lap.

“Wow,” said Nanoha, “They look really old.”

Hayate nodded, “My mommy made them for me before she and my daddy went to heaven.”

The smile grew on Hayate’s face, but more tears flowed from the young girl’s eyes. Hayate choked when a pair of arms tightly embraced her neck.

“She left you with very kind friends,” croaked Nanoha hugging Hayate.

-- -- --

“Lindy?”

Momoko felt the other side of the bed to find it cold and deserted. Her heart skipped a beat in an unknown fear as she forced herself awake. She grabbed her robe from the back of the chair and threw it around her as she walked out of the bedroom.

“Lindy?” she called out again with her voice lined with fear.

Her heart eased its rapid palpitations when she heard the shower running from the bathroom door in the hallway. Momoko rushed to the door and lightly knocked.

“It’s me,” Momoko called.

“Do you want to join?” Lindy answered with a laugh.

Momoko felt a hot blush rush to her cheeks, “N-n-no!”

“Just give me a few more minutes, and you can have the shower. You can use the kids’ bathroom, but Chrono still has trouble with his aim in the morning,” said the voice from behind the door.

“That’s all right,” smiled Momoko, “I’m going to run home for a bit to shower and change.”

The shower stopped.

“Are you coming back?” Lindy asked.

Momoko’s fingers traced the grooves in the wooden door while she laughed to herself, “Why? Do you have plans?”

“Well, no,” replied Lindy whose voice reflected her embarrassment, “but I thought we could go into town for a few hours. Maybe shop a bit? Grab something to eat?”

“Sounds like a date,” teased Momoko feeling playful.

No reply came from the other side of the door.

“I’ll be back in twenty minutes,” said Momoko finally breaking the silence, which was followed by the return of the sounds from the restarted shower.

Inside the spacious bathroom, Lindy sat on the floor of her shower hugging her knees. The word “date” from Momoko’s lips finally reminded her of when she had felt this feeling before, and it scared her. Behind her closed, stinging eyes, she conjured an old memory from a forgotten time. She was seventeen, and he was eighteen.

“C’mon, just one date!” said the young man in her memory to her younger self.

“I’d go on a date with a frog before I’d go anywhere with you, Clyde Harlaown!”

-- -- --

The three girls laughed loudly as they ate their lunches at the end of the picnic table.

“Hayate, tomorrow, can you sit at our table with Suzuka and Arisa?” asked Nanoha.

“They won’t make fun of me or my friends?” gulped Hayate.

“No,” replied Fate, “I just came to this school the other day, and they were very nice to me.”

“Ok,” said Hayate while twisting the edge of her blanket again.

“Hello, losers!” growled a voice behind them.

Fate and Nanoha looked at the big kid standing behind Hayate’s wheelchair with long blond hair tied back with a rubber band.

“Leave us alone, Yuuno,” yelled Fate bravely jumping from the bench, “you big…you big…MEANIE!”

“And what's a pipsqueak like you going to do about it?” sneered Yuuno before focusing on Hayate, “You know the drill, retard. Cough up your lunch, or I’ll push your cripple-wagon down the hill and into the fence.”

Hayate whimpered.

“Stop bullying her, Yunno!” yelled Nanoha angrily.

Fate’s rage at the big kid could be seen in her narrowed red eyes and clenched teeth and fists.

“Don’t you dare threaten my friends, you stupid poo-poo head!” snarled Fate.

Nanoha gasped at Fate using “stupid” and “poo-poo head” in the same sentence. She would get a time-out for sure if the teacher heard her use such language. However, the encounter was cut short by tiny drops of water falling from the black clouds in the sky.

Yuuno felt the rain and saw two other girls talking to the teacher while pointing at him. “You idiot five-year-old babies!” he yelled and quickly grabbed Hayate’s lunch and stuffed blue wolf.

“Zafira!” cried Hayate.

“This is what you get for messing with me!” he yelled and threw the old doll against the wall. The threadbare doll burst at the seams and lay in pieces on the ground while the fluff blew away in the wind.

Hayate’s sobs verge on hysterics, and it was more than Fate could stand as she lunged at the big kid with her little fists flying in fury. Yuuno easily knocked Fate to the ground, but he did not expect a hard slap across his face from a tiny hand.

“Stop being mean, Yuuno!” yelled Nanoha, “If you want something, ask nicely!”

Before Yuuno could fire off a shot at the tiny kindergartener, two teachers ran to the picnic table. They took Yuuno to the office and tried to comfort the crying Hayate but to no avail. Fate walked over the broken doll and picked up the pieces.

“Zafira,” sobbed Hayate, “I’m sorry, mommy. I broke Zafira!”

The crying girl bound to the cumbersome chair once again felt two small arms wrapped around her neck, “You didn’t break him.”

“But he’s broken!” cried Hayate.

“But my mama can fix him. She can fix everything,” said Nanoha.

-- -- --

“Thanks for walking with me,” Momoko smiled to the woman next to her.

They had stopped at one of her favorite cafes for lunch and were currently walking leisurely around the small town circle.

“Hey, Momoko,” Lindy chuckled with her eyes flickering with delight.

“What?”

“Let’s go grab a cup of coffee from Starbucks and then talk loudly about how much better your coffee is.”

Momoko burst into laughter, “You’re horrible!”

“Yes, but you can’t deny that it would be funny,” Lindy said in a teasing voice while nudging Momoko.

“No!” yelled Momoko through her laughter.

“Oh, come on. Please?”

“No!”

Lindy leaned over to Momoko till her lips brushed the brunette’s ears as she whispered into them, “I don’t see you turning around.”

Momoko’s face flushed a deep red shade, and they walked a few blocks in silence. However, the quiet tension was broken by Momoko giggling.

“What?” asked Lindy self-consciously while checking her fly and wiping her face, “Do I have something in my teeth?”

“No,” Momoko said laughing harder at Lindy’s panicked reactions. “Sometimes you just remind me of…”

“Who?”

“Never mind,” Momoko said as sadness replaced her mirth.

“Momoko,” asked Lindy cutting the woman off from her thoughts, “You left your open sign on the window.”

“I thought I flipped it before I left,” said Momoko while seeing the open sign on the large window of her shop, which was on the other side of the block from Starbucks. “Wait a minute!”

They watched as an old woman waved to someone while exiting with a travel mug in her hand.

“Is someone working?” gasped Momoko.

“I’m guessing that it’s not an elf!” grunted Lindy as she grabbed Momoko’s hand and ran toward the large window.

Momoko peered into the window and nearly collapsed at the sight. Kyoya was working the register all by himself.

I love it, i can't wait for more update.

I wonder what will happen next, well i guess i have to wait.

[TheShinySword]

Originally Posted by Sassy_Bread

Oh LOL. Everyone is gay except for asexual Nanoha. XD Actually, I think asexual!Nanoha is probably canon so far. >_>

Yes another Nanoha is asexual person *Highfives Sassy_beard*

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

First part of Snapple, Grackle, Pop

>.>_<.< Continuing cuz I said TBC... And I only said TBC cuz I knew it was short and nonsensical, esp the end...

Spoiler for Nanoha/Vita ness:

*snap*

ewww snapple (>.> that's all they sell here and I don't like the taste ) but Yay Vita~

Originally Posted by Allquall

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

*snip*

NO! ZAFFY! TT-TT Don't worry Hayate we'll get him fixed up. *glares at Allquall for letting Bully!Yuuno (laughs at the sheer absurdity of Yuuno being a bully) break Zaffy*

oh and B

[Knight of L-sama]

Originally Posted by Allquall

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

-snip-

:O Why is Kyoya working? Does he not want to hang out with his girly-friend like a normal HS boy? And why do I get this odd sensation that Bully!Yuuno is going to do a 360 and fall into the category of "I only teased you cuz I like you. I'll play nice, I promise!"

And the poo-poo head part was a nice touch. :3 Fate is the best dirty talker ever. <3

And.... more LindyxMomoko ftw~~~~ please?

<.<
>.>
Backwards Non-TBC breaker!

Spoiler for Coffee Shop Revisited (pt 2):

“W-What is it?”

Nanoha leaned in close and then stopped, suddenly suspicious. She whirled around, her eyes darting around at every bush, every alley that could be hiding stalkers. No, this would not do at all.

“Come on, let’s go.” Nanoha snatched Fate’s hand and started running, disregarding that Fate was clumsily trying to keep hold of everything they had just bought.

“N-Nanoha! Hold on! Where are we-“

Nanoha didn’t stop running. Couldn’t stop running. Not until she was sure their privacy was secured. She had to go somewhere no one else would go. She had to find somewhere…

“There!” Nanoha declared triumphantly as she stopped at her apartment. She had just finished furnishing it too; this was a good opportunity.

“Mou, don’t…” Fate was still catching her breath as Nanoha unlocked the door. “Don’t… run so… much. I’m not as… fast as you… When you’re hyped on coffee.”

“Nyahaha… just come in, come in, make yourself comfortable.”

“Don’t mind if I do.” Fate sighed as she placed their now cold breakfast on the counter on her way to flopping down on Nanoha’s bed. “God, you tire me out…”

Nanoha giggled as she sat down at the foot of the bed and watched Fate catch her breath.

Fate eventually looked up and saw her looking without saying anything. “What? Why are you smiling?”

Nanoha could feel her breath hitch and then quicken and then slow and quicken again. This was it. No big fat guys or skinny librarians or privacy concerns or anything to get in the way now… “Fate...”

Fate slowly sat up, as if sensing that Nanoha was about to drop some big news. “Oh my god, Nanoha, are you pregnant?”

“What?! No!” The shock and surprise hit her system in such a way that her anxiety was swept away in a single blow. She blurted out, “I wanted to tell you I’m in love with you!”

Only then did it occur to Nanoha that that was not how she had wanted to confess. But the bullet had been bitten, and now it was in Fate’s hands.

“Nanoha… Na…noha…” Fate opened and closed her mouth several times, trying to decide how to respond. “I don’t know what to say…”

“How about ‘I love you, too’? That’s always a good one.” Nanoha’s invisible tail wagged hopefully.

“Ah…” Fate flushed and looked away. “That’s… I mean… it’s not that I don’t… I mean… Nanoha is… Nanoha is very… very…”

“Loveable?” It came out almost as a whimper, the hope dying.

“Ah… Loveable yes…” Nanoha perked up excitedly, before Fate continued, “But… no… well… that is… Actually, I’ve been thinking about you… about us a lot recently…”

“You have?” Nanoha was getting impatient, but it sounded favorable so far, so she wasn’t about to ruin that.

“Yes… that is to say… Nanoha…” Fate took hold of Nanoha’s hands and looked up into her eyes, struggling to get the words out. “I think… no… Nanoha, I’ve always loved you like a best friend and I don’t want to ever lose that.”

Nanoha faltered, her voice shaky as she responded, “Y-you won’t… never. I promise.”

Fate smiled then and finished, “Then, since you already did, maybe it’s okay to admit… Nanoha… I am… I have been… in love with you too. For a really long time.”

Nanoha’s chapped lips cracked and bled from the breadth of her smile. Sucking on her own blood, she closed the distance between them and…

They shared a hug.

Actually, rather than really continuing, it's more like providing the other half of a one-shot ^.^;;

[Laith]

Votes so far

A= 1
B= 2
C= 3

Vote closes in two hours... i know i normally dont do this, but i posted the chapter late so...

[ThEJeDI6911]

C Dee dee dur.

[yuiseppe]

Originally Posted by Allquall

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

-stupid poopy head

*snorts and rolls*

Adorable as always Ow...those cavities...

[Sheba]

A shiny freudian substitute for the manly snake told me to vote


B

[NorthernFallout]

Short update: Since I got the net back, writing has taken a step back for school work and ...*cough* chatting.
FotR's idea is worked out and contains a long dialog between two key characters...MOAHAHA.
Death Rage I have ideas to too. Just a matter of writing them down.

@ Laith: B

[Laith]

Final results

BW and Tempest voted

A=1
B=5
C=5

Still is my choice.

[markesellus]

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

:O Why is Kyoya working? Does he not want to hang out with his girly-friend like a normal HS boy? And why do I get this odd sensation that Bully!Yuuno is going to do a 360 and fall into the category of "I only teased you cuz I like you. I'll play nice, I promise!"

And the poo-poo head part was a nice touch. :3 Fate is the best dirty talker ever. <3

And.... more LindyxMomoko ftw~~~~ please?

<.<
>.>
Backwards Non-TBC breaker!

Spoiler for Coffee Shop Revisited (pt 2):

“W-What is it?”

Nanoha leaned in close and then stopped, suddenly suspicious. She whirled around, her eyes darting around at every bush, every alley that could be hiding stalkers. No, this would not do at all.

“Come on, let’s go.” Nanoha snatched Fate’s hand and started running, disregarding that Fate was clumsily trying to keep hold of everything they had just bought.

“N-Nanoha! Hold on! Where are we-“

Nanoha didn’t stop running. Couldn’t stop running. Not until she was sure their privacy was secured. She had to go somewhere no one else would go. She had to find somewhere…

“There!” Nanoha declared triumphantly as she stopped at her apartment. She had just finished furnishing it too; this was a good opportunity.

“Mou, don’t…” Fate was still catching her breath as Nanoha unlocked the door. “Don’t… run so… much. I’m not as… fast as you… When you’re hyped on coffee.”

“Nyahaha… just come in, come in, make yourself comfortable.”

“Don’t mind if I do.” Fate sighed as she placed their now cold breakfast on the counter on her way to flopping down on Nanoha’s bed. “God, you tire me out…”

Nanoha giggled as she sat down at the foot of the bed and watched Fate catch her breath.

Fate eventually looked up and saw her looking without saying anything. “What? Why are you smiling?”

Nanoha could feel her breath hitch and then quicken and then slow and quicken again. This was it. No big fat guys or skinny librarians or privacy concerns or anything to get in the way now… “Fate...”

Fate slowly sat up, as if sensing that Nanoha was about to drop some big news. “Oh my god, Nanoha, are you pregnant?”

“What?! No!” The shock and surprise hit her system in such a way that her anxiety was swept away in a single blow. She blurted out, “I wanted to tell you I’m in love with you!”

Only then did it occur to Nanoha that that was not how she had wanted to confess. But the bullet had been bitten, and now it was in Fate’s hands.

“Nanoha… Na…noha…” Fate opened and closed her mouth several times, trying to decide how to respond. “I don’t know what to say…”

“How about ‘I love you, too’? That’s always a good one.” Nanoha’s invisible tail wagged hopefully.

“Ah…” Fate flushed and looked away. “That’s… I mean… it’s not that I don’t… I mean… Nanoha is… Nanoha is very… very…”

“Loveable?” It came out almost as a whimper, the hope dying.

“Ah… Loveable yes…” Nanoha perked up excitedly, before Fate continued, “But… no… well… that is… Actually, I’ve been thinking about you… about us a lot recently…”

“You have?” Nanoha was getting impatient, but it sounded favorable so far, so she wasn’t about to ruin that.

“Yes… that is to say… Nanoha…” Fate took hold of Nanoha’s hands and looked up into her eyes, struggling to get the words out. “I think… no… Nanoha, I’ve always loved you like a best friend and I don’t want to ever lose that.”

Nanoha faltered, her voice shaky as she responded, “Y-you won’t… never. I promise.”

Fate smiled then and finished, “Then, since you already did, maybe it’s okay to admit… Nanoha… I am… I have been… in love with you too. For a really long time.”

Nanoha’s chapped lips cracked and bled from the breadth of her smile. Sucking on her own blood, she closed the distance between them and…

They shared a hug.

Actually, rather than really continuing, it's more like providing the other half of a one-shot ^.^;;

Lol, Nanoha hyped up on caffeine. Makes me wonder what Vivio could do on a caffeine high. Yay for hugs! and confessions! Though I still wanted more. >.>

[NorthernFallout]

Hijacking this thread for a promo of a coming stalker fic featuring some forum members active in this thread. Will be posted in my Fan Creations thread but I will link to it from here so you don't miss anything.

Spoiler for Text:

As I got closer to the bunker I noticed a figure standing outside it. It was a woman, covered in a thick, large jacket with something colored around the neck. When I came closer, I noticed it was real fur, obvious by the visual quality. She also had a green cap on her head and her hair flowing freely out of it. Judging from the rest of her equipment, it told me she was prepared for the Zone. Whatever she had read beforehand, she had taken notice of it.

“Saharet, I presume?” I said and approached her.

“Yeah, you assume correctly,” she said and looked me over. “And you are?”

I offered her my hand. “My name is irrelevant, but to make it easier you can call me AX. Stalker, mercenary, guide or whatever you want if you can pay.”

Into the Zone - Introduction
More characters coming soon~

=======

Also a small preview of FotR Chapter 9. This excerpt almost spoils but...meh

Spoiler for Text:

The voice didn’t respond for several seconds. Fate was beginning to wonder if she had asked a question the voice couldn’t handle.
She was wrong.

“Resist? I don’t think you understand your situation. You don’t have a choice. You are one of the few chosen, one of the few worthy ones who have been offered one of the greatest gifts possible.”

Which is?

“Immortality. Godhood. Whatever you want to call it.”

[BPHaru]

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

<.<
>.>
Backwards Non-TBC breaker!

Spoiler for Coffee Shop Revisited (pt 2):

“W-What is it?”

Nanoha leaned in close and then stopped, suddenly suspicious. She whirled around, her eyes darting around at every bush, every alley that could be hiding stalkers. No, this would not do at all.

“Come on, let’s go.” Nanoha snatched Fate’s hand and started running, disregarding that Fate was clumsily trying to keep hold of everything they had just bought.

“N-Nanoha! Hold on! Where are we-“

Nanoha didn’t stop running. Couldn’t stop running. Not until she was sure their privacy was secured. She had to go somewhere no one else would go. She had to find somewhere…

“There!” Nanoha declared triumphantly as she stopped at her apartment. She had just finished furnishing it too; this was a good opportunity.

“Mou, don’t…” Fate was still catching her breath as Nanoha unlocked the door. “Don’t… run so… much. I’m not as… fast as you… When you’re hyped on coffee.”

“Nyahaha… just come in, come in, make yourself comfortable.”

“Don’t mind if I do.” Fate sighed as she placed their now cold breakfast on the counter on her way to flopping down on Nanoha’s bed. “God, you tire me out…”

Nanoha giggled as she sat down at the foot of the bed and watched Fate catch her breath.

Fate eventually looked up and saw her looking without saying anything. “What? Why are you smiling?”

Nanoha could feel her breath hitch and then quicken and then slow and quicken again. This was it. No big fat guys or skinny librarians or privacy concerns or anything to get in the way now… “Fate...”

Fate slowly sat up, as if sensing that Nanoha was about to drop some big news. “Oh my god, Nanoha, are you pregnant?”

“What?! No!” The shock and surprise hit her system in such a way that her anxiety was swept away in a single blow. She blurted out, “I wanted to tell you I’m in love with you!”

Only then did it occur to Nanoha that that was not how she had wanted to confess. But the bullet had been bitten, and now it was in Fate’s hands.

“Nanoha… Na…noha…” Fate opened and closed her mouth several times, trying to decide how to respond. “I don’t know what to say…”

“How about ‘I love you, too’? That’s always a good one.” Nanoha’s invisible tail wagged hopefully.

“Ah…” Fate flushed and looked away. “That’s… I mean… it’s not that I don’t… I mean… Nanoha is… Nanoha is very… very…”

“Loveable?” It came out almost as a whimper, the hope dying.

“Ah… Loveable yes…” Nanoha perked up excitedly, before Fate continued, “But… no… well… that is… Actually, I’ve been thinking about you… about us a lot recently…”

“You have?” Nanoha was getting impatient, but it sounded favorable so far, so she wasn’t about to ruin that.

“Yes… that is to say… Nanoha…” Fate took hold of Nanoha’s hands and looked up into her eyes, struggling to get the words out. “I think… no… Nanoha, I’ve always loved you like a best friend and I don’t want to ever lose that.”

Nanoha faltered, her voice shaky as she responded, “Y-you won’t… never. I promise.”

Fate smiled then and finished, “Then, since you already did, maybe it’s okay to admit… Nanoha… I am… I have been… in love with you too. For a really long time.”

Nanoha’s chapped lips cracked and bled from the breadth of her smile. Sucking on her own blood, she closed the distance between them and…

They shared a hug.

Actually, rather than really continuing, it's more like providing the other half of a one-shot ^.^;;

Nice way to end this story, I lol'd at how Nanoha confessed, and the hug was unexpected xD
Thanks a lot for deciding finishing this fic, Knight of L-sama-sama ^^

Originally Posted by Vivio Testarossa

This message has been deleted by Vivio Testarossa. Reason: Too late

Let me guess... we just missed our chance to get a C?
;_;

Cuídense y sigan sonriendo

[Laith]

Originally Posted by Allquall

Spoiler for I'll Take the Kids, and You Take My Heart: part 7:

Momoko gasped as she sat up quickly in the warm bed, and Lindy’s arm fell harmlessly onto her lap. She leaned against one arm and gently disentangled herself from the sleeping green-haired woman. However, the bed shook when she went to stand on the cold floor.

“What’s wrong?” Lindy yawned scrunching her eyes while Momoko threw on her thick robe.

“I forgot to tell Nanoha’s teacher about her getting bullied,” Momoko explained frantically, “I need to tell her before lunch!”

“I took care of that already,” mumbled Lindy, and she rolled onto her side to see the clock.

“When?”

“I talked to the headmaster after I dropped the kids off. I had to address Chrono getting into a fight on his first day of school anyway, so I explained Nanoha’s situation as well,” Lindy said as she put on her glasses to read the clock's face. The green-haired woman frowned at the time. “Momoko, it’s only nine. Let’s get a few more hours of sleep. The store’s closed, the kids are in school, and you’re exhausted. This a very rare time.”

Momoko hesitated while Lindy’s long green hair touched the bed as she sat up.

“What?” asked Lindy with a slight blush as Momoko stared hard at her with her arms folded. The brunette’s quick glance at the empty space on the bed made Lindy smile. “Haven’t you ever shared a bed with a friend before?”

Momoko’s face turned a bright red to Lindy’s amusement.

“Of course I have!” she replied and sat on the bed again, “But stay on your side this time.”

Lindy grinned and brushed her hair out of her face while placing her glasses back near the clock. She buried her face in the pillow and could feel Momoko shifting her weight by the mattress rocking slightly.

An odd feeling gripped Lindy in a way that she hadn’t experienced in years. She wanted to be close to the woman a few feet from her, but at the same time it seemed as if a part of her warned her against it. The battle between the two urges kept her still and away from sleep. She could only relax when she heard the deep, even breaths from behind her. The peaceful slumber then seemed to envelope even Lindy’s conflicted mind in a comforting warmth.

-- -- --

“And who are my clean-up helpers today?” said the cheerful Kindergarten teacher to the children at various centers around the room.

The group of twenty five-year-olds eagerly raised their hands at the request.

“Group Three,” she said to the four girls sorting counting bears by color and then adding them, “will you be in charge of the activity centers being put away nicely?”

“Yes, Ma’am!” they answered in unison.

Suzuka picked up the small plastic bears on her side of the activity carpet and dumped them into the large bucket that Fate was holding. Arisa and Nanoha visited the other four activities centers and helped them pick up the blocks and cars scattered around the classroom. After the classroom was clear of various small objects, the teacher raised her hand in the air.

“One, two, three! Eyes on me!” the teacher said sweetly, and the bundle of Kindergarten students stumbled over each other as they stood up with two fingers over their lips and other hand raised in the air. “If you have a lunch, go get it now. If you are buying lunch, line up in front of me.”

Nanoha walked with her three friends to their backpacks hanging on hooks.

“Aren’t you buying lunch today, Nanoha?” asked Arisa while pulling the small box from her backpack.

Nanoha shook her head with a smile and pulled the bento from her bookbag.

“My mom made it,” said Fate proudly, “Nanoha spent the night.”

“Why didn’t you invite me to your party?” pouted Arisa.

Nanoha cast a silencing glance at Fate. “Fate lives across my street,” she explained to Arisa while Suzuka joined the conversation with her lunchbox, “I didn’t mean to stay over, but it just happened. Next time we have a slumber party, you and Sazuka can come too.”

Arisa tried to hide the smile creeping up on her face, but the corners of her serious frown twitched which made the rest of the girls giggle.

“Group Three!” called their teacher by the door, “We’re waiting on you.”

The girls gasped and stumbled to the line of their classmates.

-- -- --

The click of the air conditioner over her head woke Lindy from her sound slumber, and immediately her bladder reminded her of the large glass of water she had during breakfast. However, the strange warmth on her back held her in her place. Momoko had shifted in her sleep so that she was curled around Lindy’s back. She could feel the tip of Momoko’s nose on the base of her neck while her bent knees touched the back side of the green-haired woman’s knees. The brunette’s forearms laid on the skin of Lindy’s back as her arms curled under the old nightshirt.

Lindy begged her bladder for five more minutes, but her full organ would not accept her pleas for negotiation. Thus, with great reluctance, Lindy pried herself away from the sleeping woman and walked to the bathroom down the hall cursing her impatient bladder.

-- -- --

“Fate,” Nanoha whispered into the blond’s ear as they walked in line to the courtyard, “don’t forget that we can’t tell anyone about our magical girl powers.”

“Sorry,” Fate blushed, “but what should we do about Yuuno and the rest of the big kids?”

Nanoha frowned as she thought, “I don’t know.”

The class of Kindergarteners rounded the corner of the building and broke into two groups: those who had their lunch went to the picnic tables in the middle of the courtyard and those who bought their lunch stood at the back of the line leading to the cafeteria. The children in the cafeteria line seemed to tremble in fear as they looked around anxiously waiting for Yuuno and his group of thugs to arrive and deprive them of their lunches.

Arisa and Suzuka already had their lunches out by the time Nanoha and Fate sat at the picnic table. Nanoha started to pull the cloth knot when she stopped abruptly.

“What’s wrong?” asked Arisa with her mouth full of the octopus-shaped hotdog.

“I don’t want her to eat alone,” replied Nanoha.

“Who?” asked Arisa while looking to Suzuka for clarification.

Suzuka smiled at her friend across the table and nodded as she looked past her to the girl sitting alone in her wheelchair.

“Why do you what to be friends with her?” asked Arisa, “She’s crazy!”

“Arisa!” scolded Suzuka, “Nanoha made friends with Fate, and now we’re all friends with Fate. We have a new friend over there, but we need to learn her name.”

“Did you not want to be my friend?” asked Fate sadly.

Nanoha giggled, “Arisa doesn’t share well.”

Arisa huffed her disapproval and took a large bite out of her lunch to disguise the blush on her cheeks.

Suzuka smiled and waved to Nanoha, “I’ll stay here with Miss Crankypants. Go greet our new friend, Nanoha.”

Nanoha nodded with a grin and picked up her lunch that she had yet to open. Fate followed the brunette pigtails that bounced closer and closer to the girl in the wheelchair.

“Hi! I’m Nanoha!” greeted Nanoha to the girl with short brown hair in the wheelchair.

The wheelchair was placed at the end of the picnic table, and Nanoha and Fate sat on either side of the girl. The girl's eyes widened in confusion as she saw the two girls open their bento boxes next to her.

“What’s your name?” asked Nanoha happily as she chomped merrily on the lunch that Lindy made. Fate gave a tiny smile in her shyness.

“H-Hayate…” the girl in the wheelchair said.

“Nice to meet you, Hayate!” grinned Nanoha who then pointed at the blond across the table, “This is Fate.”

Fate waved and smiled while picking at her lunch.

“Nice to meet you too,” stammered Hayate as her hands trembled nervously while wringing the blanket on her lap.

“Aww,” gasped Fate forgetting about her shyness while she pointed at the objects poking out from Hayate’s blanket, “Those are so cute! May I see them?”

“What?” asked Nanoha who then peered at Hayate’s lap.

“They’re…they’re my friends,” replied Hayate softly without meeting their eyes, “You’re here to make fun of me, aren’t you?”

A tear slid down Hayate’s cheek.

“No!” shouted Nanoha with all the authority the small girl could muster, “We’re here to be friends with you! Can I meet your other friends?”

Hayate’s teary eyes stared into Nanoha’s determined face, “Do you promise not to make fun of me?”

“I promise,” said Nanoha.

“Me too,” joined Fate.

Hayate pulled back the blanket on her lap to show four very old and very worn plush dolls and placed them on the table next to her barely touched lunch.

“This is Zafira,” she said while pointing to the stuffed plush dog with blue fur before holding up the three rag dolls, “The one with red hair’s name is Vita, the one with pink hair I call Signum, and the yellow and green one is Shamal.”

Hayate patted the plush dolls lovingly and placed them back on her lap.

“Wow,” said Nanoha, “They look really old.”

Hayate nodded, “My mommy made them for me before she and my daddy went to heaven.”

The smile grew on Hayate’s face, but more tears flowed from the young girl’s eyes. Hayate choked when a pair of arms tightly embraced her neck.

“She left you with very kind friends,” croaked Nanoha hugging Hayate.

-- -- --

“Lindy?”

Momoko felt the other side of the bed to find it cold and deserted. Her heart skipped a beat in an unknown fear as she forced herself awake. She grabbed her robe from the back of the chair and threw it around her as she walked out of the bedroom.

“Lindy?” she called out again with her voice lined with fear.

Her heart eased its rapid palpitations when she heard the shower running from the bathroom door in the hallway. Momoko rushed to the door and lightly knocked.

“It’s me,” Momoko called.

“Do you want to join?” Lindy answered with a laugh.

Momoko felt a hot blush rush to her cheeks, “N-n-no!”

“Just give me a few more minutes, and you can have the shower. You can use the kids’ bathroom, but Chrono still has trouble with his aim in the morning,” said the voice from behind the door.

“That’s all right,” smiled Momoko, “I’m going to run home for a bit to shower and change.”

The shower stopped.

“Are you coming back?” Lindy asked.

Momoko’s fingers traced the grooves in the wooden door while she laughed to herself, “Why? Do you have plans?”

“Well, no,” replied Lindy whose voice reflected her embarrassment, “but I thought we could go into town for a few hours. Maybe shop a bit? Grab something to eat?”

“Sounds like a date,” teased Momoko feeling playful.

No reply came from the other side of the door.

“I’ll be back in twenty minutes,” said Momoko finally breaking the silence, which was followed by the return of the sounds from the restarted shower.

Inside the spacious bathroom, Lindy sat on the floor of her shower hugging her knees. The word “date” from Momoko’s lips finally reminded her of when she had felt this feeling before, and it scared her. Behind her closed, stinging eyes, she conjured an old memory from a forgotten time. She was seventeen, and he was eighteen.

“C’mon, just one date!” said the young man in her memory to her younger self.

“I’d go on a date with a frog before I’d go anywhere with you, Clyde Harlaown!”

-- -- --

The three girls laughed loudly as they ate their lunches at the end of the picnic table.

“Hayate, tomorrow, can you sit at our table with Suzuka and Arisa?” asked Nanoha.

“They won’t make fun of me or my friends?” gulped Hayate.

“No,” replied Fate, “I just came to this school the other day, and they were very nice to me.”

“Ok,” said Hayate while twisting the edge of her blanket again.

“Hello, losers!” growled a voice behind them.

Fate and Nanoha looked at the big kid standing behind Hayate’s wheelchair with long blond hair tied back with a rubber band.

“Leave us alone, Yuuno,” yelled Fate bravely jumping from the bench, “you big…you big…MEANIE!”

“And what's a pipsqueak like you going to do about it?” sneered Yuuno before focusing on Hayate, “You know the drill, retard. Cough up your lunch, or I’ll push your cripple-wagon down the hill and into the fence.”

Hayate whimpered.

“Stop bullying her, Yunno!” yelled Nanoha angrily.

Fate’s rage at the big kid could be seen in her narrowed red eyes and clenched teeth and fists.

“Don’t you dare threaten my friends, you stupid poo-poo head!” snarled Fate.

Nanoha gasped at Fate using “stupid” and “poo-poo head” in the same sentence. She would get a time-out for sure if the teacher heard her use such language. However, the encounter was cut short by tiny drops of water falling from the black clouds in the sky.

Yuuno felt the rain and saw two other girls talking to the teacher while pointing at him. “You idiot five-year-old babies!” he yelled and quickly grabbed Hayate’s lunch and stuffed blue wolf.

“Zafira!” cried Hayate.

“This is what you get for messing with me!” he yelled and threw the old doll against the wall. The threadbare doll burst at the seams and lay in pieces on the ground while the fluff blew away in the wind.

Hayate’s sobs verge on hysterics, and it was more than Fate could stand as she lunged at the big kid with her little fists flying in fury. Yuuno easily knocked Fate to the ground, but he did not expect a hard slap across his face from a tiny hand.

“Stop being mean, Yuuno!” yelled Nanoha, “If you want something, ask nicely!”

Before Yuuno could fire off a shot at the tiny kindergartener, two teachers ran to the picnic table. They took Yuuno to the office and tried to comfort the crying Hayate but to no avail. Fate walked over the broken doll and picked up the pieces.

“Zafira,” sobbed Hayate, “I’m sorry, mommy. I broke Zafira!”

The crying girl bound to the cumbersome chair once again felt two small arms wrapped around her neck, “You didn’t break him.”

“But he’s broken!” cried Hayate.

“But my mama can fix him. She can fix everything,” said Nanoha.

-- -- --

“Thanks for walking with me,” Momoko smiled to the woman next to her.

They had stopped at one of her favorite cafes for lunch and were currently walking leisurely around the small town circle.

“Hey, Momoko,” Lindy chuckled with her eyes flickering with delight.

“What?”

“Let’s go grab a cup of coffee from Starbucks and then talk loudly about how much better your coffee is.”

Momoko burst into laughter, “You’re horrible!”

“Yes, but you can’t deny that it would be funny,” Lindy said in a teasing voice while nudging Momoko.

“No!” yelled Momoko through her laughter.

“Oh, come on. Please?”

“No!”

Lindy leaned over to Momoko till her lips brushed the brunette’s ears as she whispered into them, “I don’t see you turning around.”

Momoko’s face flushed a deep red shade, and they walked a few blocks in silence. However, the quiet tension was broken by Momoko giggling.

“What?” asked Lindy self-consciously while checking her fly and wiping her face, “Do I have something in my teeth?”

“No,” Momoko said laughing harder at Lindy’s panicked reactions. “Sometimes you just remind me of…”

“Who?”

“Never mind,” Momoko said as sadness replaced her mirth.

“Momoko,” asked Lindy cutting the woman off from her thoughts, “You left your open sign on the window.”

“I thought I flipped it before I left,” said Momoko while seeing the open sign on the large window of her shop, which was on the other side of the block from Starbucks. “Wait a minute!”

They watched as an old woman waved to someone while exiting with a travel mug in her hand.

“Is someone working?” gasped Momoko.

“I’m guessing that it’s not an elf!” grunted Lindy as she grabbed Momoko’s hand and ran toward the large window.

Momoko peered into the window and nearly collapsed at the sight. Kyoya was working the register all by himself.

... (subject cant respond, the cuteness has made him die)

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

First part of Snapple, Grackle, Pop

>.>_<.< Continuing cuz I said TBC... And I only said TBC cuz I knew it was short and nonsensical, esp the end...

Spoiler for Nanoha/Vita ness:

It would embarrass her to no end, but if anyone knew how to interpret a love letter, it would be her. Heck, Vita wasn’t even sure if it really was a love letter or not. Since when was she codenamed “Snapple”? There was nothing about her that was anything like that Earth drink that came in that funny glass bottle that made a similarly funny pop when you opened it.

There was nothing funny about a 3’11” short girl with a fat Pippi Longstocking hairstyle wielding a deadly giant cricket hammer.

Absolutely nothing. And Graf Eisen did not make that funny popping sound when it hit one of energy bullet-balls.

Vita crept down the hall, making sure that no one was suspect to who she was going to see at this hour of day. Actually, at this hour, she should already be home, so if she had to drag the person home on the way back, then so be it. In fact, that could be her excuse if she was stopped along the way.

But no one stopped her. Everyone seemed to sense that she was a woman with a mission.

She stopped at the door, hearing talking within. When the voices stopped, she knocked and received an invitation for entry.

“Ha- Commander Yagami?”

Hayate’s gentle laughter floated to her ears as Hayate beckoned her over. “Come in, come in. And Vita-chan, you can drop the formalities; it’s just Nanoha.”
And all at once, Vita /understood/.

Nanoha was the Grackle the flew overhead and liked to make a lot of noise with her air shattering SLBs.

Fate was the Pop, the most common choice for a youngster to ask for in a restaurant. Vita was the Snapple, the healthier(?) choice that didn’t fizzle like Pop.

The question was simple: Did Nanoha like Vita? Or Fate?

Vita was so sure she knew the answer, that, like everyone else, Nanoha preferred Pop over the not-so-well-favored Snapple. It was something akin to a fact of life.

“Hayate… let’s go home.” Vita tugged on Hayate’s sleeve, not daring to look at Nanoha.

Nanoha chuckled and Vita glanced over just as Nanoha leaned forward. “I haven’t seen you around, Vita-chan. I miss having you as my second-in-command. I bet if we worked together we could whip those new recruits into shape in less than a week. Nyahaha don’t look at me like that, Hayate-chan. You know I didn’t mean that literally.”

Hayate didn’t buy it, but she let it go. “All right, Vita-chan. I’ll just close things down here and we can go. Nanoha-chan, do you want to come over for dinner?”
Nanoha stood up as Hayate did, politely declining. “No, that’s all right. Vivio’s at a friend’s house and Fate should be coming home soon, so I should be getting back too.”

Vita’s heart sunk. Sometimes, it hurt to be right. Weakly, she suggested, “You… and Fate could… both come… I wouldn’t mind…”

Hayate and Nanoha both looked at her in surprise at this, prompting Vita to burn a hole into the ground with the intensity of her stare. Nanoha glanced at Hayate, who smiled back.

Nanoha then answered. “Well then, I’ll see what Fate-chan thinks. I think she’d love to come over, so you might be seeing us. Though… it’s already kind of late… you don’t think it would…?”

Hayate smiled and shook her head. “No, no, come on over. We’ll save you two spots.”

“Thanks, Hayate-chan.” Almost as an afterthought, Nanoha leaned towards Vita a little and added, “And thank you, Vita-chan.”

“Wha… I didn’t do anything.” Vita huffed and looked away. She could feel her cheeks burn crimson.

As Hayate and Vita joined Nanoha during the trek to the door, Nanoha patted Vita’s shoulder, not like an adult to a child, but more as equals. In her soft voice, Nanoha replied, “You do plenty, Vita-chan. And I thank you for doing all the things that make you, you.”

“Wha…?” Vita stopped as they reached a fork in the paths.

Nanoha waved. “Well, I’m going this way. I’ll catch you later if I can, all right? Good night, Hayate-chan, Vita-chan.”

Vita watched as Nanoha walked farther and farther away… and the shout was ripped from her lungs before she realized what she was doing. “N-Nanoha!”

Nanoha turned around, as Vita should have expected, startling the shorter redhead. “Hm? What is it, Vita-chan?”

“D-Do you…” Vita flushed as she stumbled over the simple question. Finally she squeezed her eyes shut and blurted out, “Do you prefer Snapple or Pop?!”
In the immediate silence that followed, Vita could feel her heartbeat thrumming in her ears. Carefully, she chanced a glance up, and saw that Nanoha was actually considering it seriously.

Nanoha eventually laughed and said, “Well, I think I’m more of a Snapple fan actually. Pop makes my nose feel fizzy sometimes. You can always trust Snapple and it tastes good too.”

Goodbyes were exchanged again, and this time, Nanoha really left. On their way home, Hayate asked Vita, “Does her answer make you happy?”

It wasn’t until then that Vita realized she had a huge grin plastered on her face. Try as she might, she couldn’t make her customary frown reappear. Folding her arms, she looked away and answered,

“I’m not /un/happy.”

You spoiled the ending at the beginning, otherwise its goods

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

:O Why is Kyoya working? Does he not want to hang out with his girly-friend like a normal HS boy? And why do I get this odd sensation that Bully!Yuuno is going to do a 360 and fall into the category of "I only teased you cuz I like you. I'll play nice, I promise!"

And the poo-poo head part was a nice touch. :3 Fate is the best dirty talker ever. <3

And.... more LindyxMomoko ftw~~~~ please?

<.<
>.>
Backwards Non-TBC breaker!

Spoiler for Coffee Shop Revisited (pt 2):

“W-What is it?”

Nanoha leaned in close and then stopped, suddenly suspicious. She whirled around, her eyes darting around at every bush, every alley that could be hiding stalkers. No, this would not do at all.

“Come on, let’s go.” Nanoha snatched Fate’s hand and started running, disregarding that Fate was clumsily trying to keep hold of everything they had just bought.

“N-Nanoha! Hold on! Where are we-“

Nanoha didn’t stop running. Couldn’t stop running. Not until she was sure their privacy was secured. She had to go somewhere no one else would go. She had to find somewhere…

“There!” Nanoha declared triumphantly as she stopped at her apartment. She had just finished furnishing it too; this was a good opportunity.

“Mou, don’t…” Fate was still catching her breath as Nanoha unlocked the door. “Don’t… run so… much. I’m not as… fast as you… When you’re hyped on coffee.”

“Nyahaha… just come in, come in, make yourself comfortable.”

“Don’t mind if I do.” Fate sighed as she placed their now cold breakfast on the counter on her way to flopping down on Nanoha’s bed. “God, you tire me out…”

Nanoha giggled as she sat down at the foot of the bed and watched Fate catch her breath.

Fate eventually looked up and saw her looking without saying anything. “What? Why are you smiling?”

Nanoha could feel her breath hitch and then quicken and then slow and quicken again. This was it. No big fat guys or skinny librarians or privacy concerns or anything to get in the way now… “Fate...”

Fate slowly sat up, as if sensing that Nanoha was about to drop some big news. “Oh my god, Nanoha, are you pregnant?”

“What?! No!” The shock and surprise hit her system in such a way that her anxiety was swept away in a single blow. She blurted out, “I wanted to tell you I’m in love with you!”

Only then did it occur to Nanoha that that was not how she had wanted to confess. But the bullet had been bitten, and now it was in Fate’s hands.

“Nanoha… Na…noha…” Fate opened and closed her mouth several times, trying to decide how to respond. “I don’t know what to say…”

“How about ‘I love you, too’? That’s always a good one.” Nanoha’s invisible tail wagged hopefully.

“Ah…” Fate flushed and looked away. “That’s… I mean… it’s not that I don’t… I mean… Nanoha is… Nanoha is very… very…”

“Loveable?” It came out almost as a whimper, the hope dying.

“Ah… Loveable yes…” Nanoha perked up excitedly, before Fate continued, “But… no… well… that is… Actually, I’ve been thinking about you… about us a lot recently…”

“You have?” Nanoha was getting impatient, but it sounded favorable so far, so she wasn’t about to ruin that.

“Yes… that is to say… Nanoha…” Fate took hold of Nanoha’s hands and looked up into her eyes, struggling to get the words out. “I think… no… Nanoha, I’ve always loved you like a best friend and I don’t want to ever lose that.”

Nanoha faltered, her voice shaky as she responded, “Y-you won’t… never. I promise.”

Fate smiled then and finished, “Then, since you already did, maybe it’s okay to admit… Nanoha… I am… I have been… in love with you too. For a really long time.”

Nanoha’s chapped lips cracked and bled from the breadth of her smile. Sucking on her own blood, she closed the distance between them and…

They shared a hug.

Actually, rather than really continuing, it's more like providing the other half of a one-shot ^.^;;

...I might steal your hyperactive nanoha. Just saying

Originally Posted by AtomicoX

Hijacking this thread for a promo of a coming stalker fic featuring some forum members active in this thread. Will be posted in my Fan Creations thread but I will link to it from here so you don't miss anything.

Spoiler for Text:

As I got closer to the bunker I noticed a figure standing outside it. It was a woman, covered in a thick, large jacket with something colored around the neck. When I came closer, I noticed it was real fur, obvious by the visual quality. She also had a green cap on her head and her hair flowing freely out of it. Judging from the rest of her equipment, it told me she was prepared for the Zone. Whatever she had read beforehand, she had taken notice of it.

“Saharet, I presume?” I said and approached her.

“Yeah, you assume correctly,” she said and looked me over. “And you are?”

I offered her my hand. “My name is irrelevant, but to make it easier you can call me AX. Stalker, mercenary, guide or whatever you want if you can pay.”

Into the Zone - Introduction
More characters coming soon~

=======

Also a small preview of FotR Chapter 9. This excerpt almost spoils but...meh

Spoiler for Text:

The voice didn’t respond for several seconds. Fate was beginning to wonder if she had asked a question the voice couldn’t handle.
She was wrong.

“Resist? I don’t think you understand your situation. You don’t have a choice. You are one of the few chosen, one of the few worthy ones who have been offered one of the greatest gifts possible.”

Which is?

“Immortality. Godhood. Whatever you want to call it.”

...And the inmortality motivation strikes again

Originally Posted by BPHaru

Let me guess... we just missed our chance to get a C?
;_;

Cuídense y sigan sonriendo

Depends on what i decide

Though i am writting a NanoFate short in apology to VT

[Vivio Testarossa]

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

First part of Snapple, Grackle, Pop

>.>_<.< Continuing cuz I said TBC... And I only said TBC cuz I knew it was short and nonsensical, esp the end...

Spoiler for Nanoha/Vita ness:

It would embarrass her to no end, but if anyone knew how to interpret a love letter, it would be her. Heck, Vita wasn’t even sure if it really was a love letter or not. Since when was she codenamed “Snapple”? There was nothing about her that was anything like that Earth drink that came in that funny glass bottle that made a similarly funny pop when you opened it.

There was nothing funny about a 3’11” short girl with a fat Pippi Longstocking hairstyle wielding a deadly giant cricket hammer.

Absolutely nothing. And Graf Eisen did not make that funny popping sound when it hit one of energy bullet-balls.

Vita crept down the hall, making sure that no one was suspect to who she was going to see at this hour of day. Actually, at this hour, she should already be home, so if she had to drag the person home on the way back, then so be it. In fact, that could be her excuse if she was stopped along the way.

But no one stopped her. Everyone seemed to sense that she was a woman with a mission.

She stopped at the door, hearing talking within. When the voices stopped, she knocked and received an invitation for entry.

“Ha- Commander Yagami?”

Hayate’s gentle laughter floated to her ears as Hayate beckoned her over. “Come in, come in. And Vita-chan, you can drop the formalities; it’s just Nanoha.”
And all at once, Vita /understood/.

Nanoha was the Grackle the flew overhead and liked to make a lot of noise with her air shattering SLBs.

Fate was the Pop, the most common choice for a youngster to ask for in a restaurant. Vita was the Snapple, the healthier(?) choice that didn’t fizzle like Pop.

The question was simple: Did Nanoha like Vita? Or Fate?

Vita was so sure she knew the answer, that, like everyone else, Nanoha preferred Pop over the not-so-well-favored Snapple. It was something akin to a fact of life.

“Hayate… let’s go home.” Vita tugged on Hayate’s sleeve, not daring to look at Nanoha.

Nanoha chuckled and Vita glanced over just as Nanoha leaned forward. “I haven’t seen you around, Vita-chan. I miss having you as my second-in-command. I bet if we worked together we could whip those new recruits into shape in less than a week. Nyahaha don’t look at me like that, Hayate-chan. You know I didn’t mean that literally.”

Hayate didn’t buy it, but she let it go. “All right, Vita-chan. I’ll just close things down here and we can go. Nanoha-chan, do you want to come over for dinner?”
Nanoha stood up as Hayate did, politely declining. “No, that’s all right. Vivio’s at a friend’s house and Fate should be coming home soon, so I should be getting back too.”

Vita’s heart sunk. Sometimes, it hurt to be right. Weakly, she suggested, “You… and Fate could… both come… I wouldn’t mind…”

Hayate and Nanoha both looked at her in surprise at this, prompting Vita to burn a hole into the ground with the intensity of her stare. Nanoha glanced at Hayate, who smiled back.

Nanoha then answered. “Well then, I’ll see what Fate-chan thinks. I think she’d love to come over, so you might be seeing us. Though… it’s already kind of late… you don’t think it would…?”

Hayate smiled and shook her head. “No, no, come on over. We’ll save you two spots.”

“Thanks, Hayate-chan.” Almost as an afterthought, Nanoha leaned towards Vita a little and added, “And thank you, Vita-chan.”

“Wha… I didn’t do anything.” Vita huffed and looked away. She could feel her cheeks burn crimson.

As Hayate and Vita joined Nanoha during the trek to the door, Nanoha patted Vita’s shoulder, not like an adult to a child, but more as equals. In her soft voice, Nanoha replied, “You do plenty, Vita-chan. And I thank you for doing all the things that make you, you.”

“Wha…?” Vita stopped as they reached a fork in the paths.

Nanoha waved. “Well, I’m going this way. I’ll catch you later if I can, all right? Good night, Hayate-chan, Vita-chan.”

Vita watched as Nanoha walked farther and farther away… and the shout was ripped from her lungs before she realized what she was doing. “N-Nanoha!”

Nanoha turned around, as Vita should have expected, startling the shorter redhead. “Hm? What is it, Vita-chan?”

“D-Do you…” Vita flushed as she stumbled over the simple question. Finally she squeezed her eyes shut and blurted out, “Do you prefer Snapple or Pop?!”
In the immediate silence that followed, Vita could feel her heartbeat thrumming in her ears. Carefully, she chanced a glance up, and saw that Nanoha was actually considering it seriously.

Nanoha eventually laughed and said, “Well, I think I’m more of a Snapple fan actually. Pop makes my nose feel fizzy sometimes. You can always trust Snapple and it tastes good too.”

Goodbyes were exchanged again, and this time, Nanoha really left. On their way home, Hayate asked Vita, “Does her answer make you happy?”

It wasn’t until then that Vita realized she had a huge grin plastered on her face. Try as she might, she couldn’t make her customary frown reappear. Folding her arms, she looked away and answered,

“I’m not /un/happy.”

That was a cute and funny story.

[Sassy_Bread]

Originally Posted by Laith

Crossroads

Adding "desu" at the end of Rein speaking its optional but highly recomendable

Spoiler for part 9:

“Umm… Hi?” the brunette said hesitantly to the little female in front of her. She was completely surprised at the sudden appearance of the little humanoid.

“Yo,” Zwei replied. She was smiling as she stared at the brunette.

“What… who are you?” the princess asked surprised as well.

“I am the Tome of the Night Sky of course,” she said as she looked interestingly at the princes, “Are you my mistress’s lover? Nice to meet you” she said innocently making the princess and the knight blush.

“Wait… I… she… not…” Nanoha stuttered at the insinuation of Zwei. Her face seemed like a cherry, thanks to blush she currently had.

“We are not in a relationship,” the princess remarked, blushing too.

“Really? But you have a close R link.”

R link?

“Yes an R link,” she said as she hadn’t read Nanoha´s mind, “eh? You don’t know?” she asked as she saw the confused faces of the girls, “Well an R link is-“

“The link which connects us to the others, although is invisible to the human eye. There is only one race capable of seeing them and that are mana made beings, or pixies as someone calls them,” Fate Testarossa was staring at them at the end of the aisle, “which is why I needed her. I know where the entrance to the underground passage is, but I don’t know how to leave the caves, which is why I needed her.”

So she is a pixie?

“Zwei is not a pixie” again she had read her mind “I am the Tome of the Night Sky” she said angrily to the knight.

You can read my mind?

“Yes, yes! Zwei can read your mind as if you were talking to Zwe,i” the little one cheerily said as she looked at her master.”Its one of Zwei´s special abilities.”

And there goes my privacy.

“You alright? We saw a light and-” the two myrmidons arrived. The spear and staff of the two were readied to attack. But instead of watching a fighting scene, as they expected, they saw the princess kneeling down with the knight. At the other side of the aisle, there was a seemingly pissed Fate and, perhaps the most impressive of all, a little girl on top of a book.

“Yo Caro and Erio,” the silver haired say, “pleased to meet you,” the girl bowed to them. The kids wondered how she knew their names.

“Long story short,” Nanoha said. “She is what we were searching for. Her name is Zwei”

“Oh, you have a strong link with her too,” Zwei said happily while looking at Caro.

“Li…Link?” the pink haired asked surprised.

“We`ll explain later,” the valkyrie said “we must continue. I ask for your help Tome of the Night Sky” she turned to Zwei.

“Zwei is fine,” the silver haired said happily ,“What can I do for you, Lord Fate,”
Zwei asked like Nanoha would.

So she acts like I would sometimes. Maybe it’s because I am her master.

Yes Zwei acts like master acts.

You can speak to me like this too? Not surprising though.

If master doesn’t like it I’ll stop it.

Don’t worry about it.

“Can you follow a link to the outside?” Fate asked.

“Yup, yup,” Zwei said and looked around the room. “Found it. It’s the strongest one”

That would be Yuuno.

“Please guide us.” The valkyrie said.

Spoiler for decision 9:

A) Ask more information to Rein

B)Talk with Alicia about this

C) Lord Fate seems to know more

Spoiler for Zwei corner:

Yo Zwei here. I am the new one here, pleased to meet you. I am the Tome of the Night Sky humanoid form.

Why I am here? Well as you can see the R links are here. I will be saying the link that everyone has to master. Yay

Yuuno 5 - When was the last time I talked to her?/ He has the strongest one!
Fate 3 - At least she knows how to fight/ She is so kewl
Alicia 4 - Nanoha...cute name/ She is starting to like my master
Erio 2 - Lady Takamachi.../ Bad kid, you dont like my master. Zwei doesnt like you
Caro 4 - Old Sis Nanoha/ I like her a lot

Well I´ll see ya next time. You can ask me anything. Cya

I told you the R/S was important. Big and green.

Aww, why won't anyone give Rein some love? A.

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

First part of Snapple, Grackle, Pop

>.>_<.< Continuing cuz I said TBC... And I only said TBC cuz I knew it was short and nonsensical, esp the end...

Spoiler for Nanoha/Vita ness:

It would embarrass her to no end, but if anyone knew how to interpret a love letter, it would be her. Heck, Vita wasn’t even sure if it really was a love letter or not. Since when was she codenamed “Snapple”? There was nothing about her that was anything like that Earth drink that came in that funny glass bottle that made a similarly funny pop when you opened it.

There was nothing funny about a 3’11” short girl with a fat Pippi Longstocking hairstyle wielding a deadly giant cricket hammer.

Absolutely nothing. And Graf Eisen did not make that funny popping sound when it hit one of energy bullet-balls.

Vita crept down the hall, making sure that no one was suspect to who she was going to see at this hour of day. Actually, at this hour, she should already be home, so if she had to drag the person home on the way back, then so be it. In fact, that could be her excuse if she was stopped along the way.

But no one stopped her. Everyone seemed to sense that she was a woman with a mission.

She stopped at the door, hearing talking within. When the voices stopped, she knocked and received an invitation for entry.

“Ha- Commander Yagami?”

Hayate’s gentle laughter floated to her ears as Hayate beckoned her over. “Come in, come in. And Vita-chan, you can drop the formalities; it’s just Nanoha.”
And all at once, Vita /understood/.

Nanoha was the Grackle the flew overhead and liked to make a lot of noise with her air shattering SLBs.

Fate was the Pop, the most common choice for a youngster to ask for in a restaurant. Vita was the Snapple, the healthier(?) choice that didn’t fizzle like Pop.

The question was simple: Did Nanoha like Vita? Or Fate?

Vita was so sure she knew the answer, that, like everyone else, Nanoha preferred Pop over the not-so-well-favored Snapple. It was something akin to a fact of life.

“Hayate… let’s go home.” Vita tugged on Hayate’s sleeve, not daring to look at Nanoha.

Nanoha chuckled and Vita glanced over just as Nanoha leaned forward. “I haven’t seen you around, Vita-chan. I miss having you as my second-in-command. I bet if we worked together we could whip those new recruits into shape in less than a week. Nyahaha don’t look at me like that, Hayate-chan. You know I didn’t mean that literally.”

Hayate didn’t buy it, but she let it go. “All right, Vita-chan. I’ll just close things down here and we can go. Nanoha-chan, do you want to come over for dinner?”
Nanoha stood up as Hayate did, politely declining. “No, that’s all right. Vivio’s at a friend’s house and Fate should be coming home soon, so I should be getting back too.”

Vita’s heart sunk. Sometimes, it hurt to be right. Weakly, she suggested, “You… and Fate could… both come… I wouldn’t mind…”

Hayate and Nanoha both looked at her in surprise at this, prompting Vita to burn a hole into the ground with the intensity of her stare. Nanoha glanced at Hayate, who smiled back.

Nanoha then answered. “Well then, I’ll see what Fate-chan thinks. I think she’d love to come over, so you might be seeing us. Though… it’s already kind of late… you don’t think it would…?”

Hayate smiled and shook her head. “No, no, come on over. We’ll save you two spots.”

“Thanks, Hayate-chan.” Almost as an afterthought, Nanoha leaned towards Vita a little and added, “And thank you, Vita-chan.”

“Wha… I didn’t do anything.” Vita huffed and looked away. She could feel her cheeks burn crimson.

As Hayate and Vita joined Nanoha during the trek to the door, Nanoha patted Vita’s shoulder, not like an adult to a child, but more as equals. In her soft voice, Nanoha replied, “You do plenty, Vita-chan. And I thank you for doing all the things that make you, you.”

“Wha…?” Vita stopped as they reached a fork in the paths.

Nanoha waved. “Well, I’m going this way. I’ll catch you later if I can, all right? Good night, Hayate-chan, Vita-chan.”

Vita watched as Nanoha walked farther and farther away… and the shout was ripped from her lungs before she realized what she was doing. “N-Nanoha!”

Nanoha turned around, as Vita should have expected, startling the shorter redhead. “Hm? What is it, Vita-chan?”

“D-Do you…” Vita flushed as she stumbled over the simple question. Finally she squeezed her eyes shut and blurted out, “Do you prefer Snapple or Pop?!”
In the immediate silence that followed, Vita could feel her heartbeat thrumming in her ears. Carefully, she chanced a glance up, and saw that Nanoha was actually considering it seriously.

Nanoha eventually laughed and said, “Well, I think I’m more of a Snapple fan actually. Pop makes my nose feel fizzy sometimes. You can always trust Snapple and it tastes good too.”

Goodbyes were exchanged again, and this time, Nanoha really left. On their way home, Hayate asked Vita, “Does her answer make you happy?”

It wasn’t until then that Vita realized she had a huge grin plastered on her face. Try as she might, she couldn’t make her customary frown reappear. Folding her arms, she looked away and answered,

“I’m not /un/happy.”

Awww....that's very cute. I was kinda confuzzled about who was Grazzle and Pop, so thanks to clarifying. But...(I hope I don't sound stupid in asking about this)...but...what's a Grazzle? Is it actually a sound effect?

[Knight of L-sama]

Originally Posted by Sassy_Bread

Aww, why won't anyone give Rein some love? A.

Awww....that's very cute. I was kinda confuzzled about who was Grazzle and Pop, so thanks to clarifying. But...(I hope I don't sound stupid in asking about this)...but...what's a Grazzle? Is it actually a sound effect?

A grackle is a type of bird really common where I live. It's about the equivalent of a crow (color and size and shape wise) and a pigeon (in prevalence and annoyingwise)

Not that that's why I paired it with Nanoha... I was just going for a variation pun of "Snap, Crackle, Pop" or whatever that slogan is for Pops cereal I think...

[Sassy_Bread]

Originally Posted by Knight of L-sama

Not that that's why I paired it with Nanoha... I was just going for a variation pun of "Snap, Crackle, Pop" or whatever that slogan is for Pops cereal I think...

Actually, it's for that Rice Krispies cereal.

EDIT: Wait a minute...did I just start a page? Do I do a page claim or something? >.<;;;

EDIT AGAIN: Late page claim for...

Spoiler for The most unloved pairing in Nanoha...:

Bitch, yeah! XD