"Heroas mori ... saeculum legendas Et hodie, novum est ut virago sua fode historia."

"Heroes die, but legends live forever… And today, a new heroine is about to carve her own legend."

In the magical world of Mid-Childa, there live two powerful mages by the names of Fate T. Harlaown and Nanoha Takamachi. Together, they solved many cases and assisted in the rise of many great mages. While today they live their everyday lives as members of the instructor and investigation staff respectively, Fate in particular is also the mother of a little girl named Alicia Harlaown. With a mother of such legendary status, Alicia strives to be the best in all she does, especially to prove herself to her elder sister figure, Vivio Takamachi. What she didn't realize however was that today, her chance to shine had finally come; whether she was ready for it or not. Her magical incantation is "soaring" and this is her story.

Chapter 1: The Shooting Star

Today was an average day in the Takamachi-Harlaown household, Fate had already left for work, Nanoha was cooking breakfast and young Alicia had woken up late for school yet again. "Ugh, I'm going to be late again!" Nanoha smiled.

"You wouldn't be late if you had just gone to bed early like we told you to Alicia-chan." She chastised teasingly.

"Mouuu," Alicia whined. "I'm not like Vivio-Onee mama! I just can't wake up this early; it's impossible!" Nanoha smiled nervously.

'I don't know where she gets this from. Fate-chan is and never was this lazy.' Sighing to herself and placing Alicia's bento in a quickly made bag, she handed it to the running in place girl before waving to her goodbye.

"Be home before dinner!" She yelled to the scurrying little girl. She heard Alicia yell,

"Okay! Thanks mama!" As she sped out the door without even closing it; leaving Nanoha alone in the house like every other morning. Eying a photo placed on their home's fireplace, one of herself standing next to Fate; the two mages behind Vivio who held a younger Alicia in her arms, she smiled to herself and said,

"What a lively family I have." Giggling, she added, "And I wouldn't have it any other way!"

(-Music begins-)

Up in the sky, unbeknownst to the average civilian as of yet, a shooting star was soaring across the sky.

(Ame no hi mo kaze no hi mo gokkan no fubuki mo shakunetsu no taiyō mo!)

Alicia ran through the streets, gracefully and yet at the same time very quickly shuffling through the crowds of people.

(Subete hibi wo irodoru zairyō hekotarenai de ishi to ai wo!)

As she ran through the crowded streets of her suburban neighborhood, she came across a large metal pipe laid out in the middle of the road, obviously some prankster's idea of a barricade to the people living in her area.

(Kimi ga kureta yasashisa wa kibishisa butsukaru koto de shitta modokashisa!)

Quickly looking around for no other way around, she found none. Seeing the time on a local clock she backed up a bit and after a moment, she began her charge toward it.

(Chigai wo mitomeru koto de hajimaru jūōmu jin odore tenchikaibyaku!)

Finally having picked up momentum at a speed that would have made her mother proud, people yelled,

"She won't make it!"

"Hey kid are you crazy?"

"Isn't that the Takamachi-Harlaown kid?" She leapt and successfully cleared the obstacle with a panicked and yet at the same time relatively relieved face; the sun shining upon her golden hair.

Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha: Photon

(Hontō wa sabishikatta kimi ni au made wa!)

Running with a panicked scream, Alicia made her way through the streets. Noting an old woman sweeping outside of what appeared to be a bakery, the golden haired girl waved as she yelled, "Good morning Mrs. Rose!" The elderly woman smiled and shouted back,

(Hitori de iru hō ga kiraku nan datte usotsu iteita!)

(Suki na hon mo shumi mo maru de awanai kedo.)

"Good morning Alicia! Late again?"

"Yeah! I'll be back for break later! See ya!" The girl yelled before dashing further into the distance. Smiling to herself, the old lady asked herself,

"Given that she's the Takamachi-Harlaown child, you'd really think she'd have teleportation magic." Not hearing the comment Alicia continued on, seeing the school at last within the distance. Her eyes lit up with hope. Perhaps just this once, she wouldn't be late!

(Kimi dake da yo unazuite kureta no wa…)

(Yoroko bito kanashimi to ikari to do to re to mi to fa to so to ra to shi to do)

As she ran and came closer to her destination, a shadow appeared before her. She paled as the shadow stepped out of the light; it was Vita-sensei, one of her mother's friends and probably here to scold her for missing her combat training yesterday.

"Hey, Alicia-chan! You didn't come to practice yesterday! What? Forgot again?" Alicia gulped and despite her fear of the temperamental red-head, continued her dash forward. Laughing nervously she yelled,

(Chigawanakya dekinai HARMONY to SCENARIO!)

"Sorry Vita-sensei! I'll come today I promise! I'll even bring you bread!" Vita was surprised by being ignored, especially with her trusty partner, Graf Eisen out with her. The surprise was so great in fact that Alicia had managed to run past her. Soon realizing what had happened, Vita scoffed to herself with a chuckle as she muttered,

"Hmph, kids these days. What a pain!"

(Dare mo onaji janai!)

(Sore koso ga ikiteru imi dakara!)

Alicia had finally entered the building, kindly greeting all those she had managed to run past with the brightest of smiles she could muster.

Still continuing past people she stared at the clock and blanched.

(Toki to shite dashita oto ga fukyōwaon demo!)

"Wh-Wha? Only four minutes left! Awww man!" Continuing her mad dash she didn't notice all of the people looking outside the window yelling,

"Whoa what's that!"

"Looks like a shooting star!"

(Dakara akiramenai shinjinukeru tsuyo sa de,)

As she made her way up the stairs, only one floor left and only three minutes remaining she almost sighed in relief when she saw that she just might make it! Running through the pristine white hallways, sapphire blue tiles in every single hallway, she finally made her way towards her destination, the fourth floor!

(Tadori tsukeru sekai no hate de)

(Kimi to miru keshiki ga shinjitsu nanda)

Looking at her little black and white watch once again, she almost screamed in panic as she read the time. "O-Only one more minute left!"

(Ame no hi mo kaze no hi mo gokkan no fubuki mo shakunetsu no taiyō mo!)

(Subete hibi wo irodoru zairyō hekotarenai de ishi to ai wo!)

Running even faster, still not noticing that there was indeed a shooting star in the sky as claimed earlier, she failed to miss a mysterious white "X" appearing on her left palm as she dashed past the past the final window. Suddenly she slowed down, now completely exhausted towards that last final distance, only thirteen seconds left on the clock she could hear the teacher reading off the names on the attendance sheet, her name hadn't been called yet and they were still early on in taking role.

(Kimi ga kureta yasashisa wa kibishisa butsukaru koto de shitta modokashisa!)

With only six seconds left to get in her seat and five names left on the roster before her's she finally grabbed the door handle. "Aw man, cutting it close!" Still unaware of the white "X" on her palm she dashed into the room, quietly shutting the door behind her and entering with the stealth of a master thief.

(Chigai wo mitomeru koto de hajimaru jūōmu jin odore tenchikaibyaku!)

At last, she cleared one side of the room to the seat closest to the window at the end of the large row of chairs. As she seated herself the mark disappeared, never having been noticed by Alicia or any of her classmates. Finally, the teacher called, "Takamachi-Harlaown Alicia?" Smiling she raised her hand and rasped in a tired voice,

"Here!" The teacher snickered. She was a woman roughly about her biological mother's age with short black hair and deep, amethyst eyes.

"While I admit that you are on time with two seconds to spare and an entrance that would have made your parents proud, do try to come to class on time Ms. T-Harlaown. Perhaps then you would not require such an entrance." Alicia smiled sheepishly and nodded in acceptance…

While Alicia was busy with her everyday school life, Fate had just returned to the main office to report her findings. She was shocked however to find Nanoha already back. Raising an eyebrow, noticing no trainee in sight, she asked,

"Did I miss a day on your calendar Nanoha? I thought you were teaching today." Nanoha shook her head smiling.

"Vita-chan wanted to take them on a field trip today and I was asked to leave it to her." Fate nodded with an "Oh" shape forming on her lips. Sitting down and making herself at home, she asked,

"So did Alicia-chan wake up in time for school?" Nanoha giggled.

"I think she was late this morning but who knows? Her mommy is quite the speed demon." Fate smiled.

"Well you know, tomorrow's her birthday. Is it ready?" Nanoha nodded.

"Yeah. The R & D crew finished it just this morning. They claim it to be their finest work since their most recent upgrades on Bardiche Assault and Raising Heart Excelion!" Fate snickered.

"That's quite a claim! Let's hope she takes more after me! We don't want anyone getting blown away by a Starlight Breaker!" The two laughed hysterically before sipping down two cups of coffee that were apparently brought by a server bot that had passed by unnoticed a moment ago. Just as the two were about to catch up on the morning events, the warning signs went off. Nanoha was the first to stand. "An emergency this early?" Fate too, stood up.

"I wonder what's happened. We should go now, Nanoha." Nanoha smiled.

"Yeah, let's go!"


Author's Notes:

Hi. Sorry for the random story creation everyone. I just felt like writing something a little random to spice up the Nanoha fandom. Why is Alicia only Fate's child? I'll be getting to that soon enough. This is roughly six years after FORCE so some events have been slightly altered. Fate's about 31 in this story as is Nanoha. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it and I hope none of you want to kill me for making an OC as of yet anyway. See ya next update ~

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