Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Mentor and Student
I watch from the balcony as the smoke rise and I saw the result of today's mock battle.
The background has pockets of craters with some of the students in them, about half the class is in one of the three while the other half are laying sprawled around them.
Moving rapidly amongst the students is a girl age about ten in white uniform, she just recently changed her hair style from two brown pig tails to a lopsided pony tail, I said it's kind of cute and she told me her friend said the same thing.
Right now the girl is running around in panic as she checks up on the students, she look up to me with tears in her eyes for silent help, I gave a long sigh knowing, "not again," I muttered.
Once on the ground I organised the medical team that took the students away, I march over to the girl who looks ready to burst into tears, I'm not angry at all just a little annoyed, "Nanoha, this is your fifth class in a week you manage to send to the infirmary," I watch her look up to me with those tear filled eyes that she's really sorry.
I sigh inwardly, "I'm not mad Nanoha, so cheer up a little" I reassure her, I couldn't really shout at her for what she did, I like her because she has a cheerful personality, she even manage to make friends easily when she came into the training corps.
Even the commander of the training corps has spoken fondly of her after just one visit to his office, Nanoha can make you smile whenever you talk with her, I first thought she was perfect in everyway, unfortunately I found out about her only flaw all too quickly, her control over her overwhelming magical power, I already heard the rumour of her been called, "the White Devil" from a few students, thankfully none has dare to mention this to the little girl under my care.
The name probably came about after she wasted the third class, a Devil for her overwhelming power and white for her barrier jacket, "come on, let's sit down and talk for a bit," I held out my hand and she took it, I walk with her in tow to elevator that brought us quickly to the observation platform.
Once there I gesture for her to sit down on the chair while I sat on the one facing her, once settle I gave her a tissue, she took it and wipe her eyes before blowing her nose, once she finished she faces me but adverted her eyes from making contact with mine, probably afraid she might see disappointment in my eyes," now, could you tell me the reason why you lost control today?"
I'm doing this for a lot a reasons, one for her career she mention to me which I'm willing to help her with, another is that she's one of the best I've seen, she's quick in picking up some of the techniques that other instructors uses and has a good amount of knowledge displayed in the shooting arts, despite having no one to tutor her in the beginning.
Another reason is that I'm been given the honour of teaching her, she's been called the "Ace of Aces" in headquarters after reports of her action during the Jewel seed and Book of Darkness, she's quite literally attained fame at such a young age, and not notice it at times either.
The next reason is quite simple, Lindy sees a lot of promises in her and I have to agree with her so I took the offer of training her and overseeing her as she becomes a full fledge instructor, the last reason is to do with my husband, he's been given the honour of teaching Fate T. Harlaown, Lindy's adopted daughter and best friend of Nanoha.
I smile at the last thought, to think those two are so close at times I mistaken them to be a couple, when I ask them that they both blush and said they're just friends, my husband told me that they'll know when they grow older, I'm looking forward to that if those two do starting dating together.
Shaking my head to clear my thoughts I look to Nanoha, she remain silent for a moment as she gather her thoughts before speaking, "I was excited," she simply replies, I mentally sigh, this is the problem she has, "have you try those mental exercise I taught you?" she nods but looks glum still, "I tried it during the mock battle, I was nervous at first so I used the mental exercises and manage to calm myself down but when I thought I was under control I began to battle them and felt really excited, I kind of lost it after that."
I can understand her meaning, the feeling of having your magical power been used to it's fullest is quite an adrenalin rush, unfortunately considering her overwhelming magical power she's lay wasted to five classes already, I thought about having my husband come over here with my young charge but thought against it.
This will only cause problems between the two, especially for Nanoha who do not want Fate knowing about her lack of control of herself, "should I attend the next mock battle as well if it helps?" I suggest, I've already battled her one on one and nearly lost, if it wasn't the lack of experience she has I would have lost, the same goes for my husband who manage to win ten matches against her.
I watch her shake her head, "no, I want to try and control my own power, if that's OK with you?" she asked the last part softly, afraid I might be angry with her refusal for help, but really I'm glad she's trying her best to control herself.
An idea popped into my head, "how about you try imagining something else this time," she looks to me wondering what do I mean.
The idea began to form in my mind, "imagine the students are like you when you were first started using magic," she nods, "with the teachings and experience you have what would you tell your younger self if she was battling you?" she thinks for a moment for a long time.
Finally she gave an angelic smile to me, "I would tell her what's wrong with her forms," I smile, "what would you do if your past self was to take off but veered off a little before straightening?" she instantly gave me a reply with a happy tone, "I'll tell her off then teach her how to properly take off," she pauses for a moment, "if she don't listen I'll shoot her down to prove the point," we laugh together at her suggestion.
After we finally calmed ourselves down I asked her a different question, "are you worried about Fate?" the girl in front of me shook her head, "Fate-chan won't be beaten by anyone," her confidence in her friend isn't misplaced by all means.
Fate is strong, my husband has beaten her three times, but that's because he's had a lot of experience to help him, but he tells me that she'll surpass him within the year, I have to agree that Nanoha will surpass me in a year's time as well, their potential keeps growing day by day.
I've heard that Nanoha, Fate and Hayate will have limiters placed upon them soon, the higher ups wants some way to control them, it's understandable as people wielding great power could become dangerous should they turn against the TSAB.
Nanoha looks through a list of the students she manage to put into the infirmary, as she scrolls down the list her face turns gloomier, "the first time you took a class you waked off the platform and fell on your butt, that was funny," she instantly looks up to me turning scarlet.
On her first day she walked onto the raised platform and introduce herself and stammers during her speech as she tells them that she'll be teaching them, some of them gave disapproving looks, Nanoha became so nervous that when she was walking off the platform she walked off to the side where there was no stairs and simply fell off and landed on her back side.
Everyone laughed at her as she sat there turning blood red with embarrassment with tears in her eyes as she looks ready to cry, I helped her up and tell all of the students to move to the dome where the mock battle will begin, after they left I comforted her.
She sniff as she tries not to cry, so I told her how on my first day when I was giving a speech to my class in a confident voice as they all listen to me as I manage not to stammer once, but when I walked off the platform I manage to walk side where there isn't any stares and landed on my back side, to make it worse I landed on the man who would become my husband, this is how we first met as I sat up while rubbing my head while he remain on the floor with his head between my mini skirt.
That incident is still been retold, but now I simply laugh at that incident as been the day I met my husband, everyone said that it must have been the most strangest way to meet the love or your life, by nearly getting your neck broken by your future wife and nearly dying from a nose bleed while staring up her skirt.
I gave a long sigh as I brought my mind back to the present, my young student smiles, "I can still remember what you told me about how you met your husband," despite it been a long time I still blush at the mentioning of the incident, "would you rather if you landed on poor Fate while she looked up your skirt?" I snicker.
Her entire face turns red as she mutters something under her breath, I love teasing her about her and Fate, even my husband is probably teasing her right now.
A call came through to me, I accept the call and watch as the screen has the words, "sound only", after a few minutes I heard someone speaking, "is this Mrs Sommerland?" I confirmed that I'am and waited for a few moments, "I'm sorry but your husband has been lost during the mission," I didn't blink at the news, "can you tell me how was he lost?" the voice on the other end remain even, "during the operation he and his charge investigated an old catacomb that was rumoured to be a smuggling hide out."
This brought Nanoha's attention as she listens to the voice continues, "the smugglers were alerted to their precense and has captured them," this made my young student speak in an urgent voice, "are they OK, how long have they been absent, do you need assistance, do…" I smile as the voice on the other end laugh mid way through Nanoha's bombardment of questions.
It took a full minute for her to realize who the speaker is, the screen changes to show a man staring at us with the biggest grin possible, behind him are officers rushing back and forth, a few of them escorting some people with binds, "gotcha," the man tells Nanoha.
I watch her puff her cheek cutely, "that wasn't funny!" I have to admit that it wasn't, but then again she should have notice who the speaker was, "I have to agree, it's a rather cruel joke Ken," he wince as I reprimand him, a few moments late he calls off screen to someone.
After a few more moments I saw a blonde girl come into view and began to report to Ken before he took her by the shoulders and turn her to face the screen, when she did she broke into a smile, "Nanoha, how are you doing?" I glance across to my young charge to see her smiling.
She nods to Fate, "he was telling me you got caught by smugglers, we really thought you were in trouble for a moment," the blonde on screen gave a nod while adverting her eyes from us, "how long did it took you to get out?" I ask having guessing that what my husband said is true.
He gave a long sigh then rolls his shoulder, "four hours, we manage to get caught then they said they'll sell us off, they didn't bothered to search me after they took my device away, if they did they would have found I hid a plasma blade in the heel of my shoe."
This set off Nanoha on a rampage of question for her friend, I listen as the blonde tries her best to answer each question as quickly as possible, but as it drag on a little longer she still manage to answer the questions quickly but Nanoha is now repeating the same questions.
Finally I place my hand on her shoulder, "you can ask all the question you want when they return," I smile as she blushes as she realize that they'll be returning home soon, I said my goodbyes to my other half while Nanoha tells Fate stuff that makes it seem they're married.
Fate face is now scarlet, Ken kept a hand on her shoulder as they both listen to Nanoha before she finally said goodbye, judging from the quick reply the blonde gave and the way she kept moving from left to right made it clear she wants to leave as quickly as possible before someone overhears their call.
It won't be any better with my husband there, he'll more than likely tease her to the point where she might try to find the largest rock she can find and crawl under it, I laugh at the thought that it would be very true too.
A bell chimed, "think you can handle them without blowing them up?" Nanoha blushes as she nods and tells me she'll be fine, I gave her a smile as she leaves the observation platform.
Fifteen minutes later she returns with the students, the mock battle went underway quickly, I watch as one student hid behind cover try to snipe the little girl and fail miserably as the ground beside him is blasted, his fellow students took pot shots at the white mage in the sky, but she evaded them easily and reply with her own barrage.
Behind her one mage flew towards her, wobbling from left to right, I watch with interest as he aims and charge up the attack, before he could finish Nanoha turns and points her own device at the man, for a brief moment I wonder will she shoot the man with a overpowered shot.
Instead a small pink ball slams into the man's chest and sent him tumbling in the air, before he hit the ground binds appear briefly round his legs and arms, he lands on the ground softly, "if you're going to get close use close combat than range!" I heard her mentally berets the man she just shot down.
I smile as she continues to pick each of the student one at a time with controlled burst of magical bullets, the student she took out are winded, as the fight wore on I thought she finally manage to get control herself.
One shot from a student nearly hit her as she evaded it, only to have another shot tore off the ribbon on her barrier jacket as the shot missed it's target, I felt a shiver run down my spine as she watch the ribbon floats down to the ground before pointing Raising Heart with a pink ball of magical engery focused at the end of it.
The blast that came later sent all the students flying, ten seconds later Nanoha lands and began to run to each student making sure they're OK, I rub my temples as she looks up to me, "I'll call the medics," I tell her as I sent a telepathic message to them.
Watching her running in panic made me smile, "back to the drawing board," I told myself.
