A/N: As promised, my new story, which may just be the final one I write for Nanoha. This story is the result of an awesome dream, and hours of intensive research. I literally downloaded the entire Nanoha wikia, pretty much all 414 pages of data about the Nanohaverse. For hours at home I read, studied every character, magical term, world, device, spell, faction, everything. With my research complete, I believe I am ready to tackle this.

The story itself, will be structured in 8 parts. The prologue, 6 chapters which compose the main story, and the epilogue. I have completely planned out the entire story, and know every detail about how I want things to progress and end. To say the least, this is the hardest I've ever worked when writing a fanfiction.

Last but not least, I want to explain the timeline a little. This story takes place about a year before the events of Nanoha Force, though its running sort of parallel universe, so even after this story, those events wont come to pass, you'll understand why when the story ends. Anyway, enjoy this new story, the fruits of all my labor.

- Kode-Dekka

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Corruption

By Kode-Dekka

Prologue: The Birth of Darkness And The Ruined World

A long time ago, there existed a beautiful world. The land of Al-Hazard. It was seen as magical, it was a place where the greatest miracles were possible.

During its early years, when the citizens first discovered magic, a powerful family arose who possessed the greatest level of mana. With the advent of magic, they slowly by surely took over the world, and became its rulers for the next thousand years.

During those years, the bloodline of the royal family became thinner, and their magical energies, weaker. They feared that they would eventually lose their power and be removed as the world's leader. At the same time, the magic they discovered grew, and more advanced technologies became possible. So as the current king and his family worried about growing weaker, the citizens and the land as a whole continued to get stronger.

And then a miracle happened. The queen gave birth to a pair of males. Unlike previous generations, the two of them had more magical potential than any other before them. The two sons, Raius and Raios, were then trained since birth to take over the throne.

During the course of their childhood, Raius' magical ability increased even more, and it soon became clear that he was superior to his brother. By the time he was ten, it was already decided that Raius would succeed the aging king. Raios, who had always lived in the shadow of his brother, found his heart being consumed by rage and jealousy. However he never said a word, and quietly kept his feelings inside, they grew and grew over the years.

When the king finally died, Raius succeeded him as planned, becoming the new ruler of Al-Hazard. This made the darkness in Raios' heart overload, and pushed him over the edge. On the night of a new moon, He finally let his anger consume him. He took a sword, he skulked into his brother's room, attempting to take the new king's life. His plan was foiled by a servant who had spotted him. It didn't take long before he was captured and put on trial, to which he was punished harshly. Openly in the streets, the king declared that Raios, his own twin brother, be banished from the main city, and forced to live in the desert for the remainder of his days.

For a week, Raios wandered that desert. With no food and hardly any water, he found himself withering away. In just a few days time, it was clear that he would die.

That's when he heard a voice. It was weak, as weak as he was. It spoke to his heart, the tone of the voice slithered, as if it was a snake talking. Compelled by its calling, he headed toward the mysterious voice. At the end of his journey, he came across a black stone. It had several markings on it, and it was very strange, considering its location. The voice whispered to him from the stone, and called again to him. The moment that Raios touched the black stone, he felt overwhelming energy flow into him. It was so much at one time, that he found his consciousness fading.

When Raios awoke again, he found himself in an unfamiliar bed. As it turns out, a woman had wandered into the desert, straying away from her village. She found him collapsed on the sand, holding the rock.

For a week, she nursed him back to health, Raios immediately fell in love with her kindness and beauty. The feelings became mutual, and they started to live together not long after. The magical stone, had remained quiet during that time, though it had left a dark burn mark on his palm.

With a new happiness, Raios was able to forget his hatred of the king. His beautiful woman, Kirye, became pregnant with his child. His life was complete, and he needed nothing else.

But then, on a dark day with no sunlight visible, soldiers of the king invaded his new home. The village was overrun by Raius' men, who were there to take supplies from the hardworking people. Raios refused to let this stand, and convinced those around him to turn away the soldiers. A bloody battle occurred, and many lives on both sides were lost, including Kirye, who was slain in the confusion.

When Raios discovered the dead woman, his rage exploded once again, and his old hate of the king resurfaced. The voice returned to him as well, calling to him, telling him to destroy everything. With the help of the unknown and ancient magic that the stone possessed, he killed all the invading soldiers, and saved the village, though it had suffered heavy losses. The people were angry, and pushed the blame onto him, as he was the one that goaded them into conflict. Raios, having lost everything dear to him, was ready to take responsibility through death. The stone refused to allow that, and filled his heart with even more darkness and even more power.

With his strength, and with startling magic, Raios proclaimed that he would atone by killing the king who destroyed their village, and would take over as the new ruler. Quickly gaining followers in the village, he spread his message across the land to the other cities and towns. In time, he amassed an army, and was ready to wage war.

On the day the war began, countless lives were lost. Both sides relentlessly attacked each other, using both magic and mass-based weaponry. This war, which prolonged itself, stretched to a year. King Raius, with his superior technology, was able to create stronger weapons for use, and soon turned the tides in his favor. In desperation, the stone granted Raios even more power. Soon he became swallowed by it, and used the dark magic to cause mass devastation.

There was no end to the war in sight. As the forces and weapons became more powerful and dangerous, the more ruined and barren the world of Al-Hazard became. Eventually, the world began to self-destruct. Earthquakes and violent weather ravaged the planet.

At this time, Raius decided that he had enough, and couldn't allow his brother to live any further. With the world being ruined by war, Raios seemed to only become more powerful, as if the darkness of the world was being consumed by him and turned into energy. The magic stone explained that it was the true "power of darkness".

The war came to an end soon. Raios, who had become a being of immeasurable power, destroyed the capital city of Al-Hazard. In no time, the war would be won, and a new rule of darkness would begin.

Raius, knowing that he couldn't let that happen, forged a new and dangerous magical technique. Giving up his own life in exchange, he managed to seal away his brother and the darkness of the stone within a dagger that had been passed down throughout the generations.

The war had come to an end, but both the king and his brother had died; leaving the planet in disarray and misery. And yet, things only got worse. Because of the excessive use of magic and weapons, and the king's final spell, Al-Hazard was finally dismantled from the inside out. A large dimensional rip tore up the night's sky in the aftermath of the battle.

On that day, both Al-Hazard and the dagger which contained the sealed Raios and the power of darkness, disappeared into the disturbance. The lost world would never be seen again, and would eventually be regarded as a myth among mages far and wide.

However, the sealed dagger, containing a powerful darkness with no equal, would eventually surface on the cursed world of Belka. And one day, far into the future, the horrible events that destroyed Al-Hazard, would threaten to occur again.