AUTHOR'S NOTES: I was reading through the Nanoha section of and found some very interesting titles that got me a bit motivated. I've been itching to use this OC I've
had in mind for quite some time now.
It was a snowy November as a blonde woman with green eyes, white dress and coat stood along the produce aisles of a grocery store. I'm quite sure the people of this fandom would know that this woman is one of the Wolkenritter serving the tome of the night sky under the name Shamal. She was usually the one taking care of the other three members of the Wolkenritter, patching up wounds, cleaning the house, cooking meals and doing the shopping so this should be no big issue but the store was a tadbit foreign to her. Even after six years of living with their mistress Hayate, she had not seemed to be able to adapt well to the world she was now in, at least she was trying. The others seemed as comfortable as could be but she knew they were still unused to the peace. For all the blonde woman knew, they're time hear may as well be a dream.
"Still, we can at least enjoy this time", Shamal smiled. It wasn't long till her smile faded though. "Oh which one should I get?", she asked herself. "I should have remembered how Hayate could tell the good from the bad", the knight of the lake was currently trying to figure how to tell good vegetables from bad. As stated above, Shamal was the one usually handling the shopping but besides cases of emergencies, Hayate had avoided letting the blonde knight pick produce as it had something to do with her cooking skills. She kept one hand on her shopping basket while the other one touched her face, it gave her a somewhat worried thinking look. "I think these look good", she plucked up a couple of cucumbers, carrots, a pumpkin, some potatoes, bakchoy, onions and garlic.
"You should be more careful with what you pick miss", a voice came from behind and startled the blonde knight.
It was a boy, clearly younger than her but he towered over her by about three or five inches. He wore huge spectacles which glared with light so she couldn't see his eyes. He was wearing a roughed up jacket with patches sawn on here and there. Underneath those were a dirty white sweater, denim pants and a multi-colored scarf of red, black and yellow. It was topped off with brown boots and the most untidy mop of black she had ever seen for hair.
"What?", she exclaimed mildly in surprise at his sudden intervention and the height difference.
"Picking vegetables is a very troublesome business. Sometimes it's like looking for gold.", he said reaching into the blonde's shopping basket.
"Uh um", Shamal flushed a bit as the stranger got awkwardly close for comfort in an attempt to reach her basket. She stepped back but almost as soon as she did, the stranger would step forward to keep the basket in reach.
"Nope, not this", he put back the cucumber in its proper place. "Nor this", he took out the pumpkin and put it back. "Cucumber is sometimes hard to deal with and seeing as I've never seen you in this store before I'm sure you don't frequent this place often enough to know their cucumbers usually turn out bitter. The pumpkin on the other hand was a good choice but looking through the pre-chopped ones might be a better idea seeing as you can more or less figure the quality from the inside's color, not to mention they have a sale on that right now", he began rambling to the blonde. "What were you trying to make anyway miss?", the tall boy asked the confused woman.
"Um uh... I wasn't sure myself but I think a nice warm soup would be great for the cold weather.", Shamal explained to the stranger without really thinking that it was none of his business.
"Well, I guess the pumpkin would be quite alright in that case.", the boy picked three of the pumpkins cut in half, as oppossed to Shamal's choice of one whole, and placed it in her basket. "How many are you?", he asked her again.
"Um six?", she almost stuttered. 'Who was this kid?', the knight wondered.
"Those pumpkins should be enough to make soup. Here take these", he placed a carton of milk and a block of quickmelt cheese into the woman's basket before she could protest.
"You should try boiling the pumpkin with water and a bit of sugar until the pumpkin softens, then puree it in a food processor, after that you should let it cook in a cualdron or something. while it's cooking, add some milk, preferably a in a two to one ratio. Grate the cheese and add some, its mostly personal preference but I rather like it cheesy so I put a fifth of that block you got there with that amount of pumpkins then let it cook for about another hour. Oh and don't forget to add salt for flavor as well as shrimps if you like", the boy instructed her.
Even though the instructions came at an understandable rate, Shamal still found herself dazed by this boy who had just come up to her, replaced her grocery basket's contents and was teaching her recipes. 'Seriously, someone tell me who this guy is', Shamal thought to herself. She then noticed the boy was talking still.
"-atoes are wonderful for broth soups while the bakchoy is quite nice for stir fry with salt and garlic for flavor. I hope I was able to help", he began to walk away from her with intent to continue his shopping.
"Uh wait!", Shamal called out to him but he didn't seem to hear.
He turned by an aisle and when she followed him at the turn he was nowhere in sight. She looked at her watch and was surprised at the time. "It's half-past six! Everyone must be hungry by now".
When Shamal had reached home, everyone else was indeed hungry. She made dinner since Hayate was still out for the TSAB, much to everyone's dismay. In an hour and a half later.
"Ah I'm sorry for the delay everyone, dinner is served", Shamal sunily smiled.
Vita almost couldn't contain her grimace. "When will Hayate get home?", she whined for the others but not Shamal to hear.
"Oh don't worry I'm sure it's just this once", Reinforce II chirped, though not quite as enthusiastic as usual. Yes, Shamal's cooking had that effect on people.
The sound of keys turning opening a lock and the closing of the door seconds later could be heard. "Everyone I'm home", the voice of their mistress, Yagami Hayate came from the living room.
Signum looked at the immature red-head we know as Vita and said, "Well she's here".
In five minutes they were all sitting at the dinner table, ready to partake of the poison- erm... I mean food, Shamal had made for them. "Please eat", she gestured.
It took everyone a few seconds to eat. They had somehow made up a system whenever Shamal made dinner. Each one of them had to take a turn and eat the dinner. Needless to say this would be very unpleasant and would most likely cause harm to the one eating, but sacrifices had to be made for the greater good.
This time it was Vita's turn. She steeled herself as she took a spoonful of the odd yellow goop like soup Shamal had made. She steeled her nerves and plunged the spoon of yellow soup to her mouth. For a few seconds nothing happened. Those few seconds extended to minutes.
Finally Signum, who was sitting beside the miniature knight took action and shook her by the shoulder asking, "Vita, are you alright?".
The response was not quite expected. Vita's chair tipped backwards and she fell with it stiff as a board with spoon still in her mouth and all.
Right after dinner Shamal was still washing the dishes. "Oh I messed up again", she hung her head. She had thrown out the dinner when the others skipped and took care of Vita. She couldn't believe it, she had full faith that the dinner she made then would taste alright. She even followed that strange boy's recipe.
Back in Hayate's room where ther rest of the wolkenritter and Hayate took refuge- again I meant, to look after Vita.
"Vita-chan! Vita-chan! Come back to us!", Reinforce II cried into the unconscious little knight.
"Will she be okay?", Signum asked Hayate.
"She'll be alright. She's the iron knight after all", Hayate smiled.
"It's a bit cramped.", Zafira mentioned as they were all standing by Hayate's bed where Vita was lying down.
"Bear with it", Signum told him with her naturally commanding tone, yeah it must've been nice to be the leader.
"Gwaaagh!", Vita awoke with a start.
Hayate immediately embraced Vita and started cooing along with running her hands down the little red head's braids to calm her down. "It's alright Vita. We're here for you", she calmed the little red head.
"That... was... the... first... time... ever... in... all... of... my... existence... to... taste... something... like... that...", Vita panted between each word.
"Oh come Vita, it couldn't have been that bad", Signum told the little red head.
"You're right, it wasn't", Vita looked away from them.
"See?", Signum put a hand to the little knight's shoulder to comfort her. She did look like she needed it.
"It was actually good", Vita murmered.
The room went dead for around twenty seconds. Another five seconds one mage, one knight, one unison device and one guardian beast could be found unconscious on Hayate's carpeted room floor.
POST NOTES: This might earn me flames or reviews, either way is fine by me as long as its helpful. Thanks to all who read this through.(waves) Anyway I don't own
Nanoha in case you guys are looking for the disclaimer. I am but a fan, maybe. I did watch the whole series, oh well. Whatever works.
