FORGOTTEN LYRICS

Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story.

Thanks to Vampwriter for being my Beta Reader.

Notes: This is a crossover between "Magical Lyrical Nanoha" and "Forgotten Realms". This story has been largely inspired by "Realms" by Jeffrey Vasquez. I'm just sending only Nanoha in the world of Toril and converting the other main characters into their Realms counterparts with many adjustments.

Due to some reviews (thank you Holyknight5) I have revised this chapter.

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Prologue

"Good morning everyone!"

"My name is Nanoha Takamichi. I am a ten years old Japanese girl living in the coastal city of Uminari. I have long light-brown hair and blue eyes. I generally combed my hair into two sided pony-tails."

"I live in my family house above Midori-Ya, the café owned by my family. My mother is called Momoko and is very gentle. My father Shiro recently came back to health after a griveous accident. I missed him during his convalescence and I am very happy that he is back."

"I have also two older siblings. My big brother Kyoya and his younger sister Miyuki. My big sister is training hard in our family dojo under the supervision of my brother to inherited the Kenjutsu Family Martial School. I have received a little instruction in the style but I'm still young and undecided."

"During the day, I take the bus to my school where I find my two best friends and multimillionaire Alisa Bannings and Suzuka Tsukimura. After that we go back together and help each other through our homework."

"I simply like everybody around me!"

"However, I always feel like a third wheel to my precious loved ones. My parents have each other, so did my siblings, and so did my best friends, while I must confess, I do not have such a close companion. Additionally, I feel my life has no true direction, as I have no plans for now for what I want to do with myself…"

"But don't worry! Something tell me that the future hold bright expectations from me…"

"And now! My story begins…"

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The young girl with a golden heart clad in her white school uniform was smiling and humming a song as she walked the path through a park with her two best friends Alisa and Suzuka. The first was vocally defaming an obnoxious boy that dared to accost her during lunch. The shy Suzuka was giggling as she listened with one ear all the improbable tortures the blonde girl would soon heap upon the damned pervert. The three were also talking about their respective pets: Dogs for Alisa and cats for Suzuka.

Alisa was doing her best to convince Nanoha to adopt something, even a Koi fish, but the blue-eyed girl argued that she was living in a café and that any pets would be a drain in the family resources and time and she wasn't mentioning the hygienic aspect.

Under the needling of her friend, she confessed that she dreamed of having a little pet sometimes, but she was undecided on the genre. She suddenly stopped walking and talking as ice formed in her bloodstream and a heavy premonition of doom seized her.

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The Asura was a dimensional ship, a vessel able to navigate between the infinite dimensions of the Multiverse. The Time-Space Administration Bureau or TSAB was an organisation dedicted to protect the balance among the worlds that the techno-magical realm of Mid-Childa had discovered since dimensional travel became a reality.

Numerous realms before has fallen to their greed as the blend of science and magic reached its apex. The TSAB was doing its best to prevent such a fate for their interdimensional sector. Among the various threats was the "Lost Logia". Remnants and relics of those fallen realms, those artefacts contained tremendous, mysterious and generally uncontrolled powers that defy the imagination. Misuse of even the smallest one could destroy an entire planet, but what the TSAB tried to prevent was the creation of a Dimensional Rift that could spell the end of an entire dimension and severely damaged the realms around it.

Green-haired Admiral Lindy Harlaown, her young son and mage of A class Chrono and her crew were tracking a Lost Logia known as a "Jewel Seed". It was rumored to be a tremendous source of power and was known as able to blend with matter upon activation, creating a powerful creature only animated by basic urges and instincts. Unfortunately, legend say that it could be controlled to obtain your heart desire since the Jewel reacted to your most profound wish.

The sensors of the ship have just detected an active Jewel Seed on the "Non-Administrated Planet 97" also known as "Earth" where magical talent was extremly rare and thus extremly potent.

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"ALISA! SUZUKA! ATTENTION!"

With all her might, amplified by desperation, Nanoha pulled her two friends out of the path of a tornado. She didn't know what pushed her to stop her friends from walking on the park path and to urge them to run inside the woods, but the howling maelstrom of energy that suddenly materialized was surely the main culprit.

She has seen a glowing blue jewel-like thing on the floor just before the tornado appeared. And after that she has begun to run around the trees, holding the hands of her friends and pulling them along. She was reasonably enduring and she dearly hoped that the obstacles of the forest were slowing the phenomena pursuing them.

She barely managed to master her panic at that thought. She didn't know why, but the tornado was following them. For one instant of eternity, time seemed to stop for her and she suddenly had the intuition… No! It wasn't intuition, it was the certainty that this maelstrom was specifically after her. The next thought was logical: Her friends were in danger as long as they were with her therefore…

She advised a possible safe place. It was nothing more than some big rocks with barely enough space for an adult between them, or for two children…

Alisa and Suzuka screamed in surprise, then in pain and finally in dread as they were violently pushed in a small alcove of rocks. They bumped their heads and limbs on the ground and walls, but it was nothing compared to the vision of their best friend running in another direction, still pursued by the tornado which completely ignored them.

"NANOHA!!!"

The tornado reached the running Japanese schoolgirl and ripped her from the ground into the air. The maelstrom stopped its forward movement and seemed to amplify its currents after it caught its rightful prey. The two girls screamed as the winds gained in strength around them despite the small protection of the rock formation.

"Durandal!"

"Yes, Boss! Defenser Plus!"

At the computerized-like masculine voice, an energy dome materialized around the two schoolgirls and completely blocked the effects of the winds. Chrono internally swore. He didn't reach in time the Lost Logia and already his magical senses could perceive the terrible stress of the structure of this reality at the emplacement of the tornado. The Jewel Seed didn't merge with matter, but seemed to be tapping into a high-level magical source. A very high-level.

He ignored for now the two terrified girls inside his protective shield and focused on the scene. His eyes widened as he saw the source of magical energy: Another young girl, perhaps ten or twelve years old, being sucked inside the funnel of air, dirt and energy. He pointed his intelligent techno-magical weapon Durandal. "Struggle Bind!"

Chains of energy materialized and snared Nanoha before she was absorbed into the tornado. The shock and the unfamiliar tingle of an unused and until now unknown sense brought back her faculties. Nanoha didn't understand fully her situation, but she knew she was in mortal danger.

Chrono gritted his teeth. Despite the dampening effect of the Struggle Bind, the tornado continued to gain in intensity. He focused on the girl caught in his spell and was awed then dismayed as he detected a magical potential from her "Linker Core" at the very least equal to his own. It was unfocused and untrained, but he could now see the bright beacon of her power and that damned Jewel Seed was tapping into it. He gasped in dismay as one chain broke under the duress of the forces unleashed.

"Bridge! I need an analysis on the rift in formation! Quickly!"

The answer sounded rapidly from the radio-telepathic channel from the Asura. "I'm sorry Chrono, the Jewel Seed has already reached critical mass. The energy is bleeding across the dimensional fabric. You must seal immediately the fissure!"

"I can't! There's a civilian caught right in the middle of the interface! If I close the rift, she'll be stuck wherever this rift is opening if she survives the passage!"

"Chrono! This is Admiral Harlaown."

"Admiral. I need a complete team here on the double! We still…"

"Son…" The voice of Lindi Harlaown was very soft and yet cut off the reply of her son very easily. "We don't have any choice at this stage in order to preserve this world… I'm ordering you to close the rift… Now… Do you read me, Lieutenant…?"

Chrono gulped something heavy and sticky. "Affirmative, Admiral…" His voice was very, very neutral.

He readied Durandal and his eyes searched for the blue eyes of the young girl. Despite the distance and the elements, it was as if she was standing right in front of him. He instinctively opened a magical telepathic channel between them. "I'm…I'm sorry, Miss. I can't save you without destroying your very world."

Nanoha gasped at the telepathic contact and her eyes blinked and widened as she realized what was going to happen. Her gaze turned to her scared friends, holding themselves inside the protective dome and she softly smiled.

She turned back to the young boy in a strange uniform and holding a sophisticated staff and tried to answer back at him in her mind. "That's okay… Please call me Nanoha… I understand… Do it…! Just… Just tell my family that I love them…"

Chrono bit his lower lip. "I am Chrono… I will, Nanoha… You can count on me!" One instant he searched for something inside the eyes of the so-young girl that still managed to maintain her composure in front of her fate. His eyes narrowed and he took his decision. He reached in his uniform, threw something at the schoolgirl and used his voice. "Nanoha! Catch!"

A bloodred spark flew to the japanese that managed to catch it. It was a simple ruby-coloured big marble affixed to a simple leather cord.

"Its name is "Raging Heart"! It can help you! Be courageous and believe in yourself!" Chrono gathered his power. He did what he could and now he had to hold his part of the bargain. "Durandal! Jewel Seed Seal!"

"Sealing Mode! Good luck, Miss Nanoha!"

A beam shoot from Durandal, passed Nanoha and reached the Jewel Seed inside the tornado. The power of Chrono struggled against the energy accumulated by the Jewel and won. The sudden feedback due to the sealing of the Jewel proved too much for the spell anchoring Nanoha. The last energy chain broke and Nanoha was sucked inside the tear in the dimensional fabric and disapeared as the terrible wound closed behind her.

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In his office on the world of Mid-Childa, Admiral Gil Graham and his two daughters Lotte and Aria were receiving grim-faced Admiral Lindi and Lieutenant Chrono Harlaown. The twin cat-girls were dismayed that Chrono was purely and simply ignoring their teasing and tentatives to uplift the atmosphere.

The old admiral finished to serve tea for his hosts. "And then…?"

For once, Lindi didn't add sugar and milk to her tea. "I personally visit Nanoha's family. I gave the order, it was my duty to tell them I…killed their daughter and face their retribution…" She absently took a sip and found the bitterness appropriate.

Chrono nodded. "The reaction was perfectly normal: Denial, anger and despair. The sister almost attacked us on the spot and was stopped by her brother. Curiously, the only one who conserved hope was the father."

Aria consulted a datapad. "I read the report. So you really think that because of his latent Linker Core of D class, his intuition could be right?"

"Nanoha's power come from the father's bloodline. If the father is persuaded she's alive, I want to believe it. Beside, there's a real chance that she has survived the dimensional shift."

Lotte leaned to the young boy. "That what puzzle me, Chrono. Why did you throw Raging Heart to her? It was a precious memento of your late father."

"I have seen it in her eyes. She has the power and the will. If someone can bond with Raging Heart, it's this girl."

Gil Graham wanted to believe, but… "You know that despite Raging Heart is a very helpful Device, it has been unable to bond with anybody since the death of your father. And even if she can activate it, we don't know where she ended and it will take a long time before she can use Raging Heart to open dimensional wormholes."

Chrono winced then straigthened up and looked squarely in the eyes of the old admiral. "Young, untrained and ignorant, and yet she's at the very least an A class mage. Before she disapeared into the rift, I could only read that she was worried about her friends and family, not about herself. She'll make it."

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Notes: Well, what do you think?

I plan to bring in the rest of the cast from Nanoha. But I will alter them into a Dungeons & Dragons format. For example, Vita will be a dwarf maiden. The cast will form an Adventurer group. I will simply take the plotline of the anime and alter it in the D&D setting.

The main enemy of Nanoha will be the goddess Shar since the young girl will be close to Mystra. I also project to use some scenarios from the RPG Forgotten Realms like "Cormyr, the tearing of the Weave" and make her encounter the main characters of the novel series such as Drizzt Do'Urden, the Seven Sisters and, of course, Elminster.

It should be noted that I fully intent to introduce Fate and the whole Wolkenritter. However, I won't use Chrono and his family again, or anyone from the TSAB. The rest are going to be modified for Forgotten Realms although I will definitively conserve a Nanoha-flavour. So, of course, expect intelligent-talking artefacts and new approaches to magic.

If you have any ideas on how to alter the characters, don't hesitate and Review or PM me.

Read & review, thanks.