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Chapter 1: Roommate
Nanoha POV
All I see are gray walls around me. I don't know why I'm kept here. The only thing that I can remember is the bombings and my family disappearing. Then I wake up with soldiers around me. Wearing these uniforms like they rule the world now. They were afraid of me when they found me. Saying that I'm the one that brought destruction to this world. Like all that matters now when I don't even have a family that I can go back to.
I only know that I've been here for about 3 years. If that's so then I guess I'm about 16 or 17 years old, who knows. The only way I keep time is by how many meals I get and the marks beside my bed. I have a journal too that I write in. Writing away my sorrows and sadness. Trying to forget this hell and die. That's what I wish I could do, die. Die so that I can leave this place, so that I can live in peace. But I also know that I don't want to die, because deep inside me I'm afraid to die.
I hear the guards talking about how I'll get a roommate soon. Really, I think that they just want to crush my hopes of meting someone who is human. Someone who I can talk to, but I know that I'm lying. I know that I'm not human, the way the guards treat me. I look up to the sound of my food coming through my slot at the door. I don't touch it. If I do that I'll get burned, I learned that the hard way. After about three minutes of counting in my head I headed over to my food. I was plain and stale as always but I ate it to keep me alive.
Then the guards walked in carrying a bed and some blankets. I guess they were telling the truth about me getting a new roommate. I wonder who it will be male, female. I stayed out of the guard's way not letting them touch me. The reason I won't let anyone touch me was because I was a monster. Anything living that I touched would be destroyed by my own hands. It was like a devil was hiding deep inside of me. Not letting anyone touch me because I was their property. The only people I've meet who are able to hold me were my family.
When one of the guards were escorting me to the vehicle they brushed by me with their bare skin. After that all I saw was red. Not only in my vision but when my world returned to normal. There was blood everywhere; nothing could be done to the bodies that had fallen by my hands. I couldn't even believe that I did that. The only thing I did was stare at the bodies until another set of soldiers fully covered took me and pushed me into the vehicle that I had been assigned to. After that I woke up in my gray cell. Calling out to the people to ask why I was here but they never answered me. So I remain here in this cell, spending my day's day dreaming and trying to remember my loving family.
I looked over my room trying to shake out the thoughts of my happiness out of my head. Seeing that I had already one other metal plate that I used for food in here I guess that meant that it was time for bed. I lay in the bed I would have to call mine's now since I remember that I'm getting a new roommate. I stared at the celling asleep think of the person who was going to be in my cell. Did I remember how to speak? It has been years since I have last spoken. Did I even remember my name? I practiced my speech, saying my name and a couple of phrase to practice. I kept practicing until I fell asleep down into darkness that I always see.
xX*Xx
When I woke up the next day there was banging at my door. I got up and walked over to the wall so that if they came in they wouldn't have to go through me.
"Hey it looks like you really did get a new roommate." One of the guards said. I just stared at him while he threw in a girl with long blond hair. She was beautiful I don't know why a person would through in a girl that beautiful in here. That's when it hit me, I know this girl. I can remember her vaguely when I was in elementary school. Then she turned towards me, staring me up and down until she finally spoke to me.
"Hey my name's Fate, what's yours." Yes, that's her name Fate, the girl who sat three rows behind me in Mr. Clyde's class. Even though I knew how to say my name I just couldn't form the words. This was my first contact with a human in 3 years after all.
"What's your name." she asked me again. All I could do was stare into those eyes of hers they were beautiful. Burgundy eyes like that just didn't come out of now where. "If you aren't going to talk I won't know what bed is yours." She said again.
"Nanoha." I said in barley a whisper. I didn't even know if that was my voice that I heard project all over the room. But she seemed to have caught it.
"Ok Nanoha which-"Then the doors opened. It signaled for us to take a shower.
"Why are the doors opened?" Fate asked again. I just went to the door to start getting ready. I only had 7 minutes to take a shower. "Hey where are you going." She tried to grab me but I moved out of her way. I didn't want her to be dead at me feet.
"Just hold on to my shirt, were going to take a shower." I held out a piece of my shirt for her to grab on. She hesitated at first but then grabbed on. I started walking down the dark path making turns that would lead us to the showers. When we got there I handed her a bar of soap.
"Don't get all of yourself wet just wash yourself so that you will be clean." I said as I got into my shower and started washing. I had taken off some of my clothes but not all of them or else I would lose them in the dark. After about two minutes I got out and dried myself and put my clothes back on. I heard Fate turn off her shower also and start to get dressed.
"Grab on." I said. She knew what I meant, so she grabbed on to my shirt and I guided us back to our cell. After we got back I grabbed my blanket and sat down on the hard cold floor. I pulled out my journal and started writing.
"What are you writing?" she asked, looking at me strangely. I didn't answer. I just kept writing. I guess she took that as a sign to stop asking questions, because she got in her bed and laid there.
xX*Xx
Later that day, if it was the same day, out food came. Fate went to the door to get it but I grabbed her by the shirt pulling her back.
"Wait three minutes." I said
"How do you know when three minutes is, there's no clock in here."
"Count." Was all I said. So she sat with me while I counted in my head. When it was three minutes I walked up to the slot and pulled our food out. I gave Fate hers and I sat in the corner and ate mine's. It appeared that she didn't learn fast because she started talking with me again.
"So how did you end up here?" I just stared at my metal plate. It wasn't like I wanted to answer the question; it was that I didn't know the answer to it. Then she asked me another question. "How old are you?"
"Sixteen." I just took a guess at the age.
"I'm seventeen." She replied. "How long have you been here?"
"3 years." I scooped up some gray liquid into my mouth. I learned to get over the fact that the food here tasted horrible, but it did provide nutrients.
"Have you ever tried to breakout?" All these question, I wish they would stop.
"No." I replied. I pulled my blanket up beside me more when I noticed that it was time for me to sleep. I think Fate just stared at me and kept asking me questions. I guess she finally came to a conclusion that I wasn't going to answer any of her questions so she went to her lay in her bed
"Aren't you going to sleep in your bed?" It was too late for me to answer, because I was already pulled into the land of dreams.
xX*Xx
I noticed that it's been almost a week since Fate's been with me. I know this because every three days they let us take a shower, and since we've only taken a shower twice it's been a week. I don't know how to respond to this. I've never been with somebody this long before. I think this is a test or a gift at least. They must be getting ready to kill me so they sent a little good bye gift. Human contact.
Me and Fate talk little. When words are needed I only say a few, not like I need a lot for her to understand. She still asks me questions though. About my family and how I got here. She might as well ask me my phone number, only if I had a number, or a phone.
"Hey Nanoha." I looked up from my journal that I was writing in. "What are you writing in there?" She always asks me this question, and I always reply the same way.
"Words."
"What kind of words." I guess I should answer this because she's going to keep bugging me.
"About the future, sometimes the past."
"Do you ever write anything other than that?" Again with the questions. Can't this girl tell when someone wants to live in peace. Or at least try to.
"Sometimes a story if I feel like it."
"Really! Can I hear one of these stories?" Her eyes looked like a puppy sparkling with happiness.
"Maybe." I replied.
"Come on Nanoha we never really do anything in here other than sleep. Just a summary of a story." I debated a little. My stories weren't that good to me but I guess to get an opinion of another person would be nice.
"Fine." Fate sat down on the cold ground next to me and waited for me to start. "This story is about a Lord and how he falls in love with a peasant. The Lord never found anything more beautiful than the woman in front of him. She worked so hard in his fields and then had enough energy to take care of everybody with a smile. The Lord wanted her, but could not have her, for she was already married to one of his knights. But one day the Lord caught the woman behind the manor with her clothes tattered and bruised. He rushed over to the woman, asking what happened. She told him that her husband did this when she did not give birth to a son. So her husband had killed his new born daughter and tried to beat the woman to death, but she escaped."
My eyes shifted over to Fate to see her expression. She had a look of interest, eager for me to continue the story.
"What happened next?"
"The Lord took the woman back to his manor and had his servants clean her up and give her new clothes. The Lord went out to look for the man after the woman was being taken care of. When he found the man he found him talking with his friends. The Lord went up and slapped the man telling him to leave his property if he ever wanted to live. When the man asked why the Lord only told him that it was because he killed an innocent child. The man asked how he heard about it. The Lord only told him to leave before he got one of his guns. The man quickly left the manor; then the Lord went back to his manor to see the woman. What surprised him was how beautiful she looked coming down the stairs to see him. After a few weeks or her living in the manor with him they grew closer together, soon after twins were born. One boy the other a girl, they each were given a golden pendent the day of their birth. The girl was named Tenku, and the boy was named Yochi. Meaning heaven and earth. They were both lovely. They grew up to be wonderful children as all the servants and serfs on the manor loved them. Until one day a battle broke out on the manor."
"Chaos erupted, there was blood everywhere, and the Lord was shocked to see that his parents were leading the battle that took place on his manor. The Lord was able to get to his brother on the field and ask him what was happening. The Lord's brother told him that their parents were outraged that he had fallen in love with a peasant and had heirs that were unworthy to their family. The Lord's brother told him to leave with his lover and children now, if they did then he would get the land and the Lord would be thrown from the family. The Lord did as his brother said and took his lover and children far from the battle."
"And what happened?"
"I'm getting to it be quite." I snapped
"Fine."
"The Lord and his family arrived at an open field with nothing there. The Lord decided that they would start their new life here, away from all the fighting. It was a wide piece of land with a lake and food before them. There were also some wild horses around to catch if they wished to have one. The Lord and his six year old son Yochi set to work on building their home. The Lord, doing all the work and the son caring things and giving them to his father. After a month the house was built and there was also a small barn to keep animals in. Later other families came and settled into their little space, asking to buy some of the land off of them first before getting to build their house of course. Soon over the years the Lord had a town, which he was named Lord of. This had gone past his expectations. The Lord had an army and some servants to call his own. He asked the town's carpenters to build him a manor. The men went to work and did as the Lord asked. They finished within three years; the manor was grand, almost as big as a castle. The Lord went to the carpenters to ask why the built it so big. They said it was pay for the land that they still owned. The Lord and his family soon moved into the castle."
"Is that all?"
"Yes, I never finished the story."
"Why?"
"I thought it was stupid. What type of story goes from being happy and loving to being torn apart from the other family members then back to being happy with much bigger land than what they had before? So I stopped it."
"You should continue the story."
"Why?"
"Because everything always has to have an ending." I turned to look at her. She was staring at me with those eyes of hers. "Tell it to me again when you finish it, ok." I paused for a minute thinking.
"Ok." Then Fate went to lay back into her bed. I felt my eyes slowly dropping. I think I spoke more today than I did in three years. I didn't bother to get into my bed, because I was already falling asleep.
xX*Xx
"Nanoha! Nanoha can you hear me!" I woke up to screaming and Fate shaking my shoulder. I made sure it was covered with my blanket before I relaxed. I looked over to Fate; she was staring at me with concern. Nobody has ever looked at me like that for three years. But I shrugged it off. It wasn't anything important.
"Are you ok Nanoha?" I stared into her eyes.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Are you sure, you were screaming in your sleep."
"Yes." I said sharply. "I'm fine."
"Could you at least sleep in the bed, it would make me feel better." I looked at her again. "Please." She said
"Ok." I said quietly. She moved out of my way so that I could get up. I walked over to my bed and laid there. Just before she got into her bed she grabbed her blanket and put it over me. I stared at her. Did she know how cold it could get in here? When she saw me looking at here she answered my silent question.
"You need it more than I do." Was all she said. Then she got back into her bed and faced the wall away from me. I turned away from her as well pulling both blankets around me. This girl was weird, I never knew anybody to act so kind after the bombings. That was the kind of attitude to get her killed out here.
xX*Xx
"Wake up you two, it's time to go." I felt rough hands pull me from my sleep. My face was pushed against the wall. My hands were being tied behind my back. I could see Fate out of the corner of my eye being treated the same way. Then they pulled her a different way than I was going. I guess it was time for me to die, maybe that's way they let me have this last bit of human contact. I guess I should thank these people; I was finally going to be killed. Away from this hell whole, I could finally live a different life some were I didn't have to live this way. At that thought I almost smiled, and I haven't smiled in years.
"Put her there." I heard a hard voice echo throughout the room. I guess this guy was the leading officer of the soldiers because they stopped. I stood standing, like I could kneel to this guy. He wasn't anything important to me just an ordinary person with a stupid looking uniform on. Apparently the other soldiers saw this and one of them hit me with the butt of his gun making me kneel and cry out in pain. I looked up to the guy who was commanding the soldiers. The guy only looked about as old as me but he was commanding an army this size. He had long blonde hair, but not as pretty as Fate's. He was wearing the black and red uniform for the army only that he had a white cape flowing behind him. He almost looked like an animal, but that animal I don't remember the name of it.
"Are you here to finally kill me?" I just had to ask to get it out my system.
"My dear Nanoha, why would I kill you when you're so valuable." Valuable, why would he think of me of such. I was a monster something that could kill anything that I wanted.
"Why do you think of me as valuable?"
"Why you can help me win this war and you and I can have the whole country to ourselves."
"The country?"
"Yes." He walked toward me. "This country is tearing each other apart, with the right help and a little blood this country would be ours."
"Who are you?"
"Me, oh I'm sorry that I didn't say so earlier, my name is Yuuno Scrya. This army's commander and soon to be king of this country, and if you're willing to join me you can be my queen." He said with a smile. He took my hand which was now untied and kissed it. He smelled of roses, I didn't like him being so close to me for some reason. "Now I'm sure you're tired after my guards treated you that way, I'll let someone you know bring you to your new quarters. Testarossa!"
Testarossa isn't that Fate's last name. When I turned my head there she was, in the black and red uniform of the army. I couldn't believe that she was in the army. Why did they put her in my cell, was it to trick me.
"Take her to her room; make sure the cooks bring her food."
"Yes sir." Then she grabbed my arm gently and we started walking. I stared at her face, trying to get anything from it. She didn't look at me the whole time we walked to my new room. When we got there she finally turned to me.
"There are cameras all over your room except your bathroom, have a good night's rest." Then she opened the door and let me walk in. Closing it behind me I could hear her boats stomp away from the door. After about standing there for five minutes I crawled into the huge bed in the middle of the room. I stared at the celling for a few minutes until I fell asleep. In the new room that I was supposed to call my own. I didn't know what they had planned for me but I knew one thing. I needed to escape.
xX*Xx
I woke up to the curtains being pulled and the sun shining in my eyes. I couldn't remember the last time I saw the sun. It brought heat and warmth to me. I almost forgot all the troubles. Then I saw the sky, it was still blue, with its white clouds floating by every day.
"Good morning." I saw Fate face me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked
"I'm your retainer; I'll take care of you until you are able to handle yourself." I shifted under the blanket. "How about you take a shower and then by the time you get out your food will be here." I got out of the bed and did as she said. I grabbed a towel and some clothes from on the counter. I guess she had placed them there. When I got in the shower I felt so happy. It was hot, I haven't had a hot shower in… you know years. I washed all the dirt and grind from my body. I even shaved my legs and shampooed my hair; it felt so good to get clean. By the time I got out of the shower at least 45 minutes had passed. I dried my hair and put on my new clothes. They were different than the ones I had in the cell. I was given a pair of blue jeans, black converses, and a blue and black spaghetti strapped shirt. I decided to put my hair in my usually side pony tail that I haven't done since I was in that cell.
When I walked out it was just as promised. There was food on the table. Every type of food that you could imagine. Some of the foods I had never seen before.
"Commander Yuuno didn't know what type of food that you liked so he ordered the cooks to cook everything that they could think of." Fate said when I was staring at the food. I took a seat and grabbed a piece of bread and some butter and started eating. It felt so good to eat food with flavor in it I almost didn't hear Fate ask me a question.
"Do you remember me?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know, have you seen my face some where before." I stared into her eyes before I answered her.
"Yes I have seen you before; you were in my third and fourth grade class in elementary school. You always sat three rows behind me."
"So you do remember me." We sat in silence as I ate my food. Fate stood by the window waiting for me to finish. I wonder what that was all about, why she asked me that question when she could have just stayed silent. I finished my bread and ate a few grapes. I didn't want to have a grand fest when my stomach wasn't use to it yet. When Fate saw that I was done she opened the door for me, signaling me to go out. When we got out the door she led the way.
"Ah my dear Nanoha I hope you had a good night's sleep." Said Yuuno. I really didn't like him calling me 'dear Nanoha' it bothers me. I nodded; I didn't feel like talking today. "Why don't we take a stroll around the compound huh, I'm sure you'll love it." He grabbed my arm and pulled me along with him. The first thing that I wanted to do was rip my arm from my grip and grab Fate's hand…..why do I want to take Fate's hand?
"And look there are the soldiers there training down there, their practicing their battle formations." I hadn't even realized that he was talking to me, not that I cared. He stopped at the edge of the balcony, enough to see the soldiers. They were training, at least that's what I could see. When one of the officers saw him he stopped all the movement and they got into single filled lines. Yuuno looked out in the crowd of soldiers, as if he was debating on talking or not. One of the commanding officers came up to him and whispered into his ear about something that I couldn't hear. Yuuno nodded his head and turned back to face his soldiers.
"Men I have heard from one of my generals that someone has been stealing extra rotations. You all know that it is wrong to take things that don't belong to you. So I'd like to ask the person who has done this action to step forward and face your charges. Be brave about it because if you don't do it now then you die like a coward."
Yuuno's speech was really intimidating but I still wouldn't come out of line to be made fun of. Who would be stupid enough to step out of line and admit to the crime? I looked over the crowd of soldiers who stood stock still at attention. Then I shifted my eyes over to the movement that I could see out of the corner of my eye. The soldier stepped out strong, as if he had a purpose for what he did. It better have been worthwhile if he was willing to be beaten to a pulp.
I turned to Yuuno to hear what punishment was going to take place. But all I heard were two deadly words.
"Kill him." Yuuno whispered to one of his officers. The man nodded and pulled out a gun.
"You have done a crime that cannot be paid back by lashings. Death is the only price." Yuuno's voice boomed over the soldiers. Then the officer who had his gun out and shot the man. The blast ringing in my ears. I couldn't believe it; he killed that man for taking extra food from the kitchen. I looked out the corner of my eye to see Fate's reaction. She looked calm as if this happens many times over her life.
"I'm sorry you had to see that my love." I cringed at the sound of how he said that. I didn't want any part of his love, no matter how much he paid for it. "Let's get you back to your room, it's almost lunch and I want you to try something else that fits you more. Testarossa!" Fate came up from behind me. "Take her to her room."
"Yes sir." With that she took my arm gently and led me back to my room. "The cooks will be back with food in a few minutes. If you need anything else I will be outside."
"Why are you doing this?" Fate turned around to face me. "What's the point of trying to create a new world when it's already gone?" I asked my voice shacking
"Because I have no other choice." I think that's what I heard unless I was wrong. Before I had a chance to ask her again she was out the door. I couldn't follow her because they had a look on my door that only let people with a card come in. The only people who had that card had to be Fate, the cook, and Yuuno. I don't know what these people want from me and I don't ever want to find out. But the one thing that I wanted to find out was why Fate was making me feel weird.
~Chapter 1 End~
Hey people, I know some of you are like why I'm not updating this fic or that but I wrote this fanfic long before I joined and I wanted to read the responses out of this. This was the first fanfic that I wrote but I had to make a lot of changes to it so that's why it didn't go out first. So give me some comments and I'll see if I want to continue with this story.
~Haru-chi out :p