To Start with...

Be forewarned: This is an AU fic. If you've come here to see the great adventures of Nanoha and co to start with, please turn around. This is a fanfic I started when I first fell in love with Nanoha by combining a story I wrote in High School with the Nanoha Universe. I apologize in advance if it's nothing like what you might be expecting. While I do welcome critiques, please refrain from pointing out the lack of the Nanoha cast :)

Introductions

The story Elemental Dragons takes place roughly in the same time (2008), but has technology that far out-eclipses the technology we have in the real life.

The main focus is the City of Summerside, located on Prince Edward Island. Since the world is so advanced, people started looking for the cleaner places to live, since most places started to get taken over by smog and such. PEI is one of these places. Unfortunately, with this sudden rush to populate the few places they weren't over-crowded and smoggy already, came the distinct differences of classes in Summerside. To the north of the city, a walled in, newer and "Wealthier" part of the city was built, classically dubbed as Neo Summerside. Most of the people moving to PEI were the richer class, and rightfully claimed Neo Sside as theirs, making it nearly impossible for anyone not of proper background or wealth to enter.

Not as if this was a bad thing, as Neo Summerside looked like a city out of a fairy tale, with a pristine lake, water fountains, grand parks and modern buildings. It's sort of like a second city, all on it's own.

But as mentioned, there is great tension between Summerside and Neo Summerside. The 2 classes of people don't mingle together well at all, as most of Summerside considers these people either trespassers, or stuck up celebrities.

Also, with the recent crunch to find clean land, the Earth has gained new satellites traveling around it. Space Colonies. 2 and a partially destroyed one that is in the process of being rebuilt. They aren't nothing to marvel over, just simple designs that can sustain life and gravity. SC-XX001-EPSILON, SC-XX002-GAMMA, SC-XX003-DEP, the three colonies that float in the heavens, with Epsilon being the partly damaged one when a stray satellite crashed into it, creating a hole in the outer half of it and ripping a chunk out of the rotation ring.

Either way, that's not the only worries people have to live with. With the recent discovery of Nanoha Takamachi, the talented young Japanese girl who shocked the world when she introduced that some people are capable of using magic, people now have to worry about the consequences of this. With this new thing coming to light, not all people who are stepping out of the shadows are "Good" magic users. And because of this, a good portion of the "Good" ones are alienated from society, as people are scared of them. Most people now just tend to keep it a secret that they have even the smallest amount of magic power in them. And the ones that don't usually end up joining a police force or the TSAB to keep track of the bad mages. Nanoha is no longer on earth but instead is taking up residence on Mid-Childa where she works. Having magic isn't uncommon on the planet, so most of the more prominent mages tend to move to Mid-Childa to join the TSAB or a branch of it. The odd TSAB ship travels between Earth and Mid-Childa, but no other planets.

Chapter 0 ~ Preludes

"Freeze..."

"«...Lance!»"

A girl burst from the edge of the trees into the moonlight as several ice spears shot behind her into the darkness. Her long light blue hair whipped behind her as she spun mid air, landing on the soft grass. She braced herself, waiting on a response from within the woods. The scarf around her neck rippled lightly in the wind.

"«Target Hit.»" a young sounding female voice chimed.

"Should be almost dead."

"«Yes, my lady.»"

An otherworldly scream wailed from inside the trees, growing closer to the waiting girl. She grinned slightly as the creature came into view. It lunged at her, jaws dripping as it snarled.

"«Mist Step.»"

The girl disappeared suddenly, causing the creature to hit the ground instead.

"Frost Bite..." the girls voice called out from behind the creature.

4 pillars of ice shot from the ground, impaling the creature. It cried out, turning it's head to face the girl.

"...BREAK!" the pillars exploded in a rain of ice shards, vaporizing the creature. A light blue gem landed on the ground, rolling softly. The girl walked over to it and picked it up, staring at it.

"Still not it. Here." she held the gem up to the shinobi-gatana she was holding.

"«Gem Received. Collection Complete. Good night, my lady Myst~!»" the weapon chimed and disappeared, and instead was replaced by a necklace adorned with a kunai charm.

"Thank you, Tsumetai." the girl looked up at the sound of sirens wailing. "They're slow."

"Over this way!" "Where is it?" "Did they get to it again before us?" "Men, spread out and check the area for clues!"

The girl chuckled a bit from inside the trees and turned around, leaving the confused troops to themselves.