So this is my first story...kinda...it' Nano/Fate with them being at an academy for magic...and Nanoha being a crazy bad ass and Fate being a more regal-refined bad ass I didn't get all the characters in this chapter but the normal ones will be back as I go along.
Anything other than normal writing means the the weapons are talking or the familiars and their master are talking mentally.
Pain unlike anything Fate had ever felt before erupted in her body..as her mother threw her through a cliff face. She had displeased her for the last time. Her mother would never take her back again. The scars that Fate accumulated over the years were roughly torn open, and new blood seeped down through the crevices in the rock below her.
Her blood didn't matter. It never did. The pain never ceased. It only got worse over time.
The woman whose love she had longed for all these years gave a cruel sneer, and raised her hand in order to deliver one last attack...One final burst of pain and she would never be accused of being less...Of being incompetent...Of being a disposable copy to replace the daughter that died...
Fate stared dully ahead as she felt the power behind the attack build...Than to her surprise she felt a nudge at her consciousness as her canine familiar rushed her attacker...
Arf in all her furry glory lunged at her oppressor -roughly throwing her from the sky and plowing her into the ground, her fanged jaws clamping down on Precia's exposed shoulder, and lifting her from the ground before throwing her a good distance away from Fate.
Fate blinked as Arf swerved away from the battle she had just started by turning and heading swiftly in her direction...
The copper colored wolf stopped in front of her panting...
"Get on my back..."
"...Why?"
Arf snarled viciously before taking Fate's wrist and pulling her bodily to her feet...
Fate stumbled-suffering slightly from motion sickness...or maybe from slipping in a river of red and getting woozy at seeing the large puddle of blood her wounds had created.
Arf used her moment of imbalance to encircle a soft orange tail around her waist to lift her carefully onto her back. The wolf gave one final look backwards glaring at the pathetic, grey-haired female that would haunt her for years to come. Fate grasped a handful of fur to keep herself steady, as the familiar turned and ran at break neck speed away from the cliff..and away from her mother...
(A week later)
"Nanoha you do realize Miyuki threatened to strangle you with a belt and hang you upside down from the academy roof while letting all your fan girls sexually harrass you if you broke the curfew for the dorms again."
"I know fur-face, but we haven't patrolled in a long time..."
"It's been five days..."
"That's a long frickin time...Some unlucky bystander could be lying dead somewhere around here and we wouldn't know...because we didn't patrol."
"It's not our job to patrol."
"Shut up fuzz ball. We're patrolling deal with it."
"I'm you're familiar, and my name Kaze."
"You're my partner and your name is fuzz ball."
Nanoha snickered at the pained groan her wolf gave at the highly unwanted nick name. Her partner in question was a large raven colored wolf, with silky fur, and a low tolerance level for affection which was exactly what her nicknames were; terms of affection and endearment...At least that's the lie she was telling about them...
She blinked as she heard another pained groan, and rolled her eyes disbelievingly.
"The nick name wasn't that bad. No need to be dramatic...please don't cry..."
Kaze gave her a incredulous look. "That wasn't me."
Nanoha froze before she started fingering the blood colored orb she always wore around her neck.
"Raising Heart."
Nanoha didn't have to look to know that the orb was glowing slightly.
"Master there are two unidentified people beyond the enclave in front of you..both possessing magic...and one possessing a machine similar to myself."
Nanoha sighed..levitatating Raising heart into the palm of her hand. The orb glowed a fluroscent red before extending-the orb lengthened into a long ivory colored rod with a luminescent orb of red hovering at the top.
Nanoha slid into a crouch-Kaze following her lead...They both silently crept over towards the enclave. Nanoha smoothly slid to one knee and her canine familiar slid belly first to the ground. They carefully peeked over.
Nanoha blinked ...It was a girl...An extremely blonde girl with curves...and bleeding wounds...and oh look a wolf familiar...Nanoha hopped over the enclave landing a couple feet away from where the enigmatic looking blonde was laying with her familiar curved protectively around her.
They looked horrendous. They were covered with wounds from head to toe...tore up from the floor up...
Nanoha took a step forward when the unknown familiar seemingly forced open one emerald eye. The copper wolf's one eye slanted and a small growl came out.
"Who the hell are you two?"
"Um, My name's Nanoha Takamichi...and this is my partner Kaze...I'm a student from Gurenki high."
The copper wolf gave a morbid chuckle. "You're from the academy that teaches you how to control magic. What's a student from that elite school like that doing all the way out here?"
Kaze gave a derisive snort beside her. "Patrolling...breaking school rules..being an all around delinquent..."
Nanoha gave the wolf beside her a bland look.
"Somehow whenever you start talking about me I end up sounding bad in a not cool way ..."
"Was anything I said untrue?"
"You could have at least made the effort to make me sound less like a potential drop out."
Nanoha rolled her eyes before turning back to look at the still nameless wolf.
"Look the academy's a couple of miles away. They have healers there that can get you both back on your feet without expecting anything in return...The most they'll do is force you to stay until you're fully healed...Then you can leave and do what you want...Or if you ask they might take you guys in as students...if you want to do that..."
The copper wolf snorted disparagingly, but looked to be considering...
"I can't move...and neither can she..."
Nanoha beamed at the wolf. "It's fine. Kaze can carry you, and I'll carry you're partner..whose name I still don't know...What are your names anyways"
"I'm Arf.." Nanoha followed Arf's gaze as she looked down at the encompassitated blonde at her side. "This is Fate- my master."
"Fate..."
Nanoha repeated the name and it tasted delicious on her lips.
The flight back to the academy was uneventful...until they arrived at the academy.
"NAAAAANNNNOOOHHHAAAAA!"
Nanoha gulped as she landed lightly on her feet, sweat beading down her forehead as she was filled with unparalleled fear. She laid Fate out on Kaze's side as he landed next to her with Arf still sitting on his back with a wide eyed expression. Arf had probably heard the scream for Nanoha's blood too.
Nanoha panicked as she saw a blur of brown hurtlling towards her, and had barely braced herself before she was thrown roughly to the ground. The blur of brown disappeared to reveal her sister Miyuki in all her terrifying glory...and Miyuki was straddling her while holding a butcher knife to her neck..with bits of green from the lettuce she had no doubt been chopping before she felt Nanoha show up...
"Where the hell have you been? You broke curfew again!"
Nanoha was gonna die...Miyuki was scaring the living shit out of her... "But, see there was patrol...A-a-and..." Nanoha was the frickin White Devil for the frickin love of gum drops...She didn't friggin stutter...
"Na-no-ha..."
Her sister was so fucking scary...
"Miyuki it looks like Nanoha brought a friend for medical help...If you scare you're sister into a coma and I'm forced to take care of her and her friend...and their familiars...you die..."
Hayate was scarier though...
Nanoha blinked and the force of nature that was her sister was no longer above her threatening her with a butcher knife. She had never loved Hayate so much.
"Hayate thanks she was about to-"
Her short haired friend fixed her with an evil glare.
"If I found out that you or Kaze have done anything stupid I'm going to murder you."
Nanoha rubbed the back of her head sheepishly
Why was every person she knew a sadistic psychopath?
Next day...
Fate woke with a start clutching her white sheets to her chest...Sheets...hadn't she been half dead on a rock last time she checked? Fate looked down at her hands covered in bandages and reached up to touch her cheek which also had a large bandage on it. She felt Arf laying across her legs which were probably also layered in bandages...and she also felt eyes on her back...
Fate's eyes darkened and she turned to glare at the offending person only to find a dark wolf with chocolate eyes staring quizzically at her...
Fate- confused and more than a little annoyed at this point reached for her pendant at her neck which was surprisingly still there and was completely sidetracked from taking out her weapon when a nudge at her leg distracted her...
"Don't attack him...He's a good guy..."
"Who is he?"
"Him and his master found us yesterday. They brought us here for some R and R. His master is busy during the day so she asked him to protect us while we're healing..."
Fate sighed leaning back against the head board...
"And where are we?"
The dark wolf that had been silent up till then answered...
"You're at Gurenki academy and-"
The black wolf stopped abruptly and stood up- ears pricked forward and tails swishing agitatingly behind him. The door slammed open and five men walked in, all wearing unkempt academy uniforms, glowing pendants, and followed by extremely feral looking familiars.
"We heard there was a new visitor here and we decided to give them a..proper welcome..."
The supposed leader of wheezed.
Every last one of them was leering at Fate, and she could feel Arf struggling to rise to defend her at her feet.
A deep menacing snarl, filled with rage and the promise of pain stopped all movement in the room. The dark wolf had the attention of the whole room as he leapt off the bed he had been sitting casually on less than a minute ago.
The nameless familiar lunged forward so he was crouching protectively between Fate and the academy idiots...Fate blinked as the wolf gave a challenging snarl...flexing his paws experimently into the hard tiled floor as if he was ripping into the morons in front of him.
"Oh how cute the puppy wants to play..."
The lead scumbag was grandstanding...He flashed a condescending smirk at the enraged wolf and he wrenched the pendant from his neck. It glowed red, and formed a long jagged looking blade...
One of the followers of said scumbag trembled as he squinted at the dark wolf...
"Uh Tetsu...I think that's her familiar... I think it's the white devil's familiar..."
Fate blinked as Tetsu blanched, and turned pale..The boy looked scared...A mask of false bravado overtook the terrfied expression on his face though...and any thoughts of him leaving peacefully were destroyed.
A look of undisguised hatred warped his face.
"I don't care who he belongs too. Familiars can't perform without their masters and she isn't here..." He turned to the familiars in animal forms behind him... "I want that mutt out of my way...move him."
A mangy cheetach, a malnourished gorilla, a feral tiger, a withering hawk, and a scarred husky all stepped forward after their masters' nodded their agreement. As one unit they circled their prey. Fate noticed the dark wolf standing stiffly never moving only following the familiars with his eyes...
When he decided to move Fate or Arf was going to get hit...
No sooner had the thought crossed Fate's mind then the Tiger lunged aiming for a spot right between the wolf's eyes. The dark wolf swerved his massive head forcing the Tiger to latch on to his shoulder instead-in turn the wolf clamped down on the tigers neck...roughly lifting him into the air and swiftly throwing him across the room into the humans...
It went straight to hell from there...
All the familiars attacked at once-the gorilla ended up behind the dark wolf strangling him in a choke hold while the hawk attempted to take his eyes and the husky went for his exposed throat, with the cheetah aiming quick strikes against his vulnerable stomach...
The wolf snapped letting out a long howl filled with all the current unfulfilled and unsatisfied rage he felt for the men before him before...attacking any and eveything within striking distance...to no avail...The gorilla threw him to the ground after some time had passed and stomped on his head-forcing his snout directly into the tiled floor...
The leader in all his gayness sauntered over to the dominated wolf and slid jerkishly to one knee so he was almost eye level with him.
"I've heard stories about you and your master...about how she's always getting into fights for one reason or another whether it be here at the academy or in the villages near by...Bad guys don't mess with her...crime lords who have done some of the most ballsy shit steer clear...She's called the White Devil...and you were known as her hound from hell...a beast of the darkest fucking kind...You're nothing but a puppy with a big bark and a lot of fucking fur..."
Sir Gayness kicked the dark wolf's ribs in contempt, making him huff in pain and indignation.
Fate reached for her pendant. She was in no condition to take on these guys, but she couldn't watch this anymore.
"Hey fur-face why aren't you fighting these asses seriously?"
Fate froze in reaching for her weapon...who was that?...A pretty brunette with piercing blue eyes was sitting on the window sill behind her staring at the dark wolf and the familiars crushing him with an irritated scowl.
"Damn it Nanoha!Why can't you ever show up on time ?"
Was the wolf's muffled reply-seeing as his face was being forcefully introduced to the ground by a overgrown monkey paws...literally
"Excuse me for going to class every once in awhile...I'll restrain myself from getting edumacated."
The brunette jumped lightly off the window sill and Fate blinked as the degrees in the room dropped suddenly. The girl reached for the orb at her neck..
"Raising Heart..."
Nanoha was surrounded by a gentle blue glow while her typical academy clothes consisting of a white collared blouse with blue and gold cuffed sleeves and a blue and gold mini skirt melted away into white shorts with looped belts encompassing her waist...with a long sleeved black shirt becoming the top and wisps of white armor hovered around her shoulders and down the length of her arms...A long staff with red glowing orb hovering at the top glowed impressively in her hand...
The piercing blue eyes became cold as she gazed at the terrified brats in the room.
"You hurt my partner...Give me one reason why I shouldn't utterly destroy you and hide your ashes somewhere on campus..."
One of the scrubs stepped forward too scared too breathe... "W-w-we wer-r-re o-o-rdered too." He pointed an accusing finger at Tetsu. "He made us! A-a-a-nd we c-o-ouldn't s-say no b-b-becau-"
"You have no spine whatsoever..." The white devil dead panned.
Nanoha rolled her eyes and knelt on the ground. Fate watched as she placed one palm on the tile...and her eyes widened as she saw Nanoha send a blue tendril of power shooting through the floor...It curbed spastically and exploded when it reached the dark wolf...circling him than being absorbed by him...
"Fur ball stop messing around..."
Everyone watched in awe as the wolf who had been dominated minutes before threw the gorilla on top of him across the room with a push of his shoulders...and the rest of the familiars holding him were thrown off by spin that blurred his form due to how fast he moved. The wolf gave a rough shake and with a flick of his tail ambled over to Nanoha's side.
She put one hand on his massive shoulders and with the other pointed Raising Heart at the peanut gallery.
"People like you disgust me..." They boys were almost crying. "Leave. Now."
The snots were gone in a flash.
"And you? What was that crap? I said protect them not go get the crap beaten out of you."
"Well what was I suppose to do? We promised Miyuki we'd fight less, and without you there to temper me I would've seriously crippled one of them."
"They were going to seriously cripple you as the alternative...and that option is so much more appealing..."
"Um guys..." Fate was a little surprised Arf intervened. She typically loved drama...
The two soon to be combatants looked at her familiar expectantly.
"No...Kaze...I'm sorry you had to watch out for us...You got hurt and we couldn't help"
The wolf dubbed Kaze snorted incredulously. "Help she says... you guys were diagnosed with exhaustion.. .coupled with dehydration from traveling and multiple gashes, bruises and lacerations from who knows where ...If you would've found the strength to help me...You probably would have died right afterwards which would've made saving you redundant if you were just gonna take a dirt nap to save me from a few scratches..."
Nanoha flicked Kaze's forehead... and turned to look at the temporary cripples... " We're always fighting...we promised my sister to cause less trouble... but we've already built a reputation...and now so have you guys...You're healing time won't be that peaceful...so maybe it would be better for Kaze to stay here while I'm at classes."
"Or maybe you should ask before you make decisions that you're not allowed to make as a minor...eh Nanoha."
Nanoha jerked turned to look at new voice as did Fate.
A kind looking woman in a dark blue uniform with light green eyes and equally light green hair stared down at the scene in front of her.
"I hope Nanoha didn't do anything too offensive or explosive. Her heart's in the right place...her head is somewhere else entirely. My name is Lindy Haralowan. I'm the principal of Gurenki academy."
"I resent that Miss Lindy."
"Hmm...Nanoha you blew up my library once...and set half of my priceless tomes on fire...while running from Hayate."
"I helped you rebuild it and got you better-less heavy books..." The brunette whined.
"Nanoha, Hayate wants to check you for wounds she says if you're not there in the next couple of minutes she's increasing your work load and selling you to your fan girls..." Nanoha paled and raced out of the room. Lindy called lightly after her. "and since you were protecting our guest I'll ignore the damage you did to the window lock in here."
Fate turned to look at the window behind her to see the bottom charred beyond repair...
"Miss...?"
Fate blinked at the pause. "Fate..my name's Fate."
"Well Miss Fate...seeing as you're wounds are healing...and all you really need is rest you have two choices you can choose to stay in my room where you won't be bothered to recover...or you can stay with Nanoha's sister Miyuki where you also won't be bothered ... However your life will become extremely eventful..."
Arf whimpered at the name and Fate turned to look at her trembling familiar.
"Choose the principal Nanoha's sister is crazy...She went after Nanoha with a butcher knife..."
Arf whined mentally.
Fate gawked.
"Aren't they siblings?"
"Crazy homicidal siblings...Pick the principal...She at least looks somewhat sane..."
Fate broke out of her mental conversation and gave the principal a nervous look.
"I'd like to stay with you if that's alright."
A very serene smile was the only answer to her question.
R and R please