[ ] = Device Talking
Italic = Telepathy, Thoughts
Bold = Spells
I intentionally make Shu 7 years old because it will help the later plot.
Chapter 2:
Beep Beep! Beep Beep! Beep Be- Smack!
"Ugh.." Shu moaned as he smacks his alarm clock.
[Master, good morning.] Granzon blinked.
"Un, good morning." Shu slowly climbed out of the bed.
Shu picked up his device which is in its standby form and place on his desk near the bathroom.
[Master, you will feel a little sore from yesterday's training. It should get better during the day because of the healing spell.] Granzon explained.
"Healing? Who?" Shu asked while sleepily brushing his teeth.
[Minori Shirakawa] Granzon replied.
"… Can you give me a short analysis of my mother's abilities?" Shu asked curiously.
Granzon put up the data terminal screen on Shu's mirror.
Requested Information
Name: Minori Shirakawa
Device: None
Magic System: Midchildan
Linker Core: C
Notable Spells: Basic Shooting, Basic Healing
End of Analysis
"So she can use a little bit of healing spell huh?" Shu mumbled.
[Since her Linker Core's reserves are low, her control is remarkable.] Granzon said.
"Haah~ I see" Shu walked out of the bathroom and prepares his school uniform.
Downstairs Minori is making a bento for her son. She's humming in her usual tune as she wrapped the bento with a purple cloth.
"Good morning, mother." Shu said as he limped downstairs.
"Good morning, Shu-chan. Here, take your bento." Minori handed over the bento with a smile.
Shu nodded drowsily and put the bento in his backpack.
"Take care Shu-chan, I have some business with TSAB officials today." Minori sighed as she took off her apron.
"Don't worry mother, I will be fine. Ittekimasu! (I'm off) " Shu said as he slowly limping towards the front door.
"Itterasshai! (Have a safe trip!)" Minori waved.
Shu is slowly walking to school, in his pocket is Granzon in a form of a deep blue card with purple gem in the middle.
"I really need to get strong fast… but how.." Shu thought.
[Sparring with experienced people will increase your experience exponentially.] Granzon mentally suggested.
"Sure, but I still lack some controls and varieties of spells." Shu responded.
[Training on specialized spells can be done in a short time Master. As you fight or train the combat analysis program will give you some sort of reflexes and controls suggestion in real-time by brainwaves if you desire. You can always use it as guidelines until you get used to combat or that specific spells.] Granzon explained expertly.
"So, it's like fighting with special instincts?" Shu questioned.
[Yes, one of the original purpose of my creation is to train and make my master stronger as fast as possible. In the time of combat, usually master will fight using instincts and strategies, my part is to reinforce those instincts and strategies.]
"… I don't really like the idea of using you as just tools or training coach you know…"
[Pardon my ignorance master, I do not understand.] Granzon replied.
"I hate it when someone is using me or controlling me, so the idea of using you as a tool or expendable objects is disgusting to me." Shu thought in disgust.
[What do you propose master?]
"Let's become partners. I promise that I will take care of you like one." Shu replied excitedly.
[…]
"No can't do huh?" Shu thought sadly.
[… I'll think about it master.]
"Eh? Alright." Shu's face lightens up a bit.
Location: Unknown
"That's the last one." Signum sheathes her sword.
"We must be careful from now on, I can sense that the Administration Bureau is scouting us." Shamal said as she is healing Signum.
"We will have to deal with it. Besides, we all sense that they are busy training that new trainee no?" Signum said as she collected the Linker Core from a dead monster.
"Yes, the boy that Vita encountered." Shamal said.
"Next time I see him, I will have my rematch. He will go down for sure!" Vita cut in telepathically.
"Don't underestimate the boy Vita, from the surveillance we got yesterday, he is getting strong fast." Signum warned her friend.
"Bleh, it won't be a problem. He has no battle experience and he just can't get too strong in such a short time." Vita dismissed Signum with a snort.
"…. Do whatever you want, but I warned you." Signum sighed loudly.
"Yeah whatever, let's go back for now. How many pages we got today?" Vita asked.
"24 Pages, right now we are missing just 65 pages or so." Signum said as she closes the so-called Book of Darkness.
"We are getting closer, we can save Hayate." Vita said as she prepares to dimensional jump back to Hayate's house.
"Ha.." Signum retort in agreement as Shamal teleported both of them back.
Location: Hayate's House
Hayate is currently cooking breakfast for her family. When she woke up she doesn't know why Vita, Signum, and Shamal are gone, well they always said that they have some business with mage officials or something so she doesn't say anything about it. Zafira is keeping his eye on Hayate in case something happen to her.
Clunk. Click!
"We're back." Signum opened the door and enter the house along with other 2 knights.
"Ah! Signum, Shamal, Vita, welcome back!" Hayate greeted the three.
"Hayate! Want to get some fresh air?" Vita suggested as she pushes Hayate's wheelchair.
"Let's eat some breakfast first, and then we can go take a walk in the park." Hayate said as she positioned herself at the table.
Shamal sets down the plates that are full of food on the table. They all offered their prayers and dig in. Most of them are very hungry because of the non-stop fighting for the linker cores.
"You all woke up very early, what have you all been doing?" Hayate asked curiously.
"It is nothing, we just have some appointments with the officials." Signum lied with a polite tone.
The three other knights are looking at Signum, but they understand that this has to be done. Even they have to defile their own honor as a knight to save their master, then so be it.
"You all look so tired, did all of you stay up late yesterday?" Hayate asked.
"Ah, yes. We kind of have to finish some report." Shamal lied. The truth is that they haven't even sleep yesterday. Shamal and Signum went on hunting monsters all night long, Vita joined in at the half of the hunt so she isn't that tired compared to Signum and Shamal.
"That's not good you know? When you finish breakfast, you should take a rest." Hayate lightly scolded them.
"Hai." The two knights replied with a smile.
"I'm not that tired, so let's still go to the park!" Vita said excitedly.
"Ahahaha, all right!" Hayate smiled.
"We will do everything to protect that smile. We promised." All of them thought.
Location: Earth's orbit, Arthra
"We can't just let them do what they pleased anymore." Chrono sighed loudly as he looks at the replay of Signum's battle.
"They are getting really close to completing all the 666 pages of the book." Amy said.
"If it is completed, the master will die and it will surely go on a rampage like the last time." Lindy joined in while thinking of alternatives.
"If they decided to make a move, then we'll intercept them. We have no choice, if things goes really bad then we might have to call in the boy as well." Chrono said with a serious expression.
"You mean Shu-kun? Do we really need to resort to that? I don't think he is ready for the real combat…" Lindy said with a worry expression.
"Don't underestimate him mother. I watched his training yesterday, and his skills are incredible for a boy his age." Chrono said as he brings up the Shu's video surveillance.
"He moves naturally against Lotte, and he successfully cast a shooting spells for the first time without any problems. Even though he does not successfully complete Aria's training, this is still very impressive." Chrono analyzed.
"It's like he has a natural instinct for combat, maybe it's his natural talent." Amy said.
"Or his device." Chrono ended the statement.
"Well, if we really are in need of reinforcements, then we will call him. But Minori will not be happy about this." Lindy sighed as she remembered today's meetings.
Some High-Ranking TSAB officers heard about the Lost Logia device, and they demanded that the boy will be recruited into their division for "inspection and training." Minori knew that they will more than likely, use her son as one of the test subjects for their own benefits. It took Chrono's and Lindy's to hold her back from completely disintegrate those officers with a pure bombardment spell despite the lack of a device despite her low mana capacity. Looks of fear and terror crept upon their faces so quickly that they almost wet their pants. The quote "hell hath no fury like a mother's wrath" becomes real this morning.
"She will not be happy, but she will understand that we needed reinforcements now more than ever." Chrono sighed.
"Especially when TSAB refuses to send anymore help because they consider this a "minor issue." Amy nurtured her forehead.
"I will talk to Minori about this." Lindy said as she gets ready to visit Minori.
"Lotte and Aria is not available too, they have orders to teach new trainees for the Ground Forces HQ." Chrono thought about what Graham told him.
"Things will get much worse, I can feel it." Chrono sighed.
Location: Seishou Elementary School
"Granzon." Shu called.
[Master?]
"You said that it is possible to manipulate wormholes and dimensions right?"
[Affirmative Master. Your mana will be converted into energy particles that will allow time-space manipulation. Even generate black holes but it requires extreme precision.] Granzon explained expertly.
"Is it possible to master wormholes manipulation in a day or two?" Shu asked with all seriousness.
[… It is possible, but extreme mana control and instinctive focus are required.]
"Can you help me with it?" Shu asked. He really need to get stronger as soon as possible, even it is by a tiny amount.
[I am able to aid you on your instincts and concentrations, but for mana controls it is up to your training Master.] Granzon answered.
"Shu Shirakawa! Come up on the board and write the answer to the question." The teacher said as he pointed at a math question.
"I am really tempted to just send you to a dimension full of monsters that will tear you to pieces right now." Shu thought as he walked up to the board.
[The action is not recommended master. Doing that might cause certain disturbance with space and time because you have yet to fully control the dimensional manipulation.] Granzon scolded with a monotone.
"Granzon… that is a joke.." Shu deadpanned.
[Oh, I see] Granzon replied.
"This'll be a long day… Hopefully I'll run into Takamachi-sempai and Testarossa-sempai. I really want to have some mock battles." Shu thought as he wrote down the answer.
Hours and hours passed by, to Shu the classes seem endless. Luckily, he can talk to Granzon whenever he wants or he might just die because of boredom. He answers every question correctly whenever the teacher call him out, so right now he's laying face first on the desk because the teacher won't even bother calling him out anymore. The good thing from this is that he could practice mana control while sitting in the class. Granzon gives some mana control exercises such as converting mana into particles that are undetectable by normal eyes, or manipulate gravity in a very small amount which is not detectable by normal humans. It is almost noon, that means the bells are about to ring right about-
Ring Ring!
"Thank god for the bells." Shu said as he hastily packed up everything.
After the purple haired boy finished packing up, he disappears from the classroom like a ghost. His classmates can only wonder how the hell can he left the class with such speed.
"I am very tempted to skip the afternoon class so I can train." Shu thought.
[Ms. Minori will not be please about it master.] Granzon warned.
"Well, she will not… but we can say that the situation forces us to do such thing." Shu said while trying to think of an excuse.
[Is this what humans called as lying master?]
"No, I would never lie to her. It's called an excuse." Shu answered in all honesty.
[Understood master] Granzon replied as Shu is approaching the school's rooftop.
Clank! Clunk!
Shu arrived at the rooftop and immediately sit down and lean his back towards the metal railing. He took out the bento, chopsticks, and his stainless water bottle which is filled with tea.
"Mhhhm~ mother's cooking is so good." Shu actually blushes a little as he put the fried shrimps in his mouth.
Shu spends the next 10 minutes slowly savoring his lunch until..
[Master, Takamachi Nanoha and Testarossa Fate is approaching your location.] Granzon blinked.
The door to the rooftop opened. Nanoha, Fate, Arisa, and Suzuka is holding their own bento as they arrived.
"Y-You!" Arisa pointed at Shu.
"Uh, me?" Shu said confusedly
"You are the one who rudely run passed us 2 days ago!" Arisa said furiously as she's stomping her way to the boy.
"Eh? What?" Shu is now legitimately confused right now. What in the world that this girl is talking about?
"Don't what me! You know what you had done!" Arisa said as Suzuka is holding her waist to prevent her from hurting the poor boy.
"Ehehe… Arisa-chan, calm down." Suzuka said while sweatdropping hard. Nanoha and Fate also look at their furious friend with a deadpanned look.
"I can't believe you are holding your grudges on such a small thing Arisa-chan." Nanoha sighed deeply.
"Arisa, you need to let things go sometimes you know." Fate facepalmed.
"G-Geez! I'm just a little mad okay?" Arisa pouted with a blush.
"Uh, sempai.. I did not remember that I had done such thing, but if you really insist then I'm sorry." Shu bowed down a little.
"Ugh.. Just stop, it's also my bad too." Arisa said to get her friends to stop teasing her.
"So, what are you doing up here Shu?" Fate asked.
Shu pointed down at the floor. All the eyes are focusing on his bento which is lying on the floor with its cover slightly open.
"Ah! So Minori-san made it?" Nanoha asked as she took out her own bento.
Shu nodded lightly as he continues to savor his meal happily.
"Do you mind if we join you?" Suzuka asked politely.
"Please do sempai." Shu muttered lightly.
The four girls sat down next to the boy and take out their bento, well except for Nanoha who already took it out. They are eating and chatting lightly to each other, which Shu doesn't really mind. He's not really that close with them yet, so he doesn't really want to cut into their conversation.
"So, Shu-san, how did you get into year 4?" Suzuka asked politely.
"… Oh, I beg your pardon sempai?" Shu said. He doesn't expect the conversation to involve him.
"Um, how did you get into year 4?" Suzuka repeated her question. The other three also turned their head to the said boy, clearly wanted to know more about him.
"I took the elementary entrance test and the headmaster decided to place me here." Shu explained.
"So, you are some kind of a genius?" Arisa asked with raised eyebrows.
"I wouldn't go that far sempai. Without any teachings from my mother, then I wouldn't be here." Shu mentioned his mother.
"There is no need to be humble you know? You also have to take credits sometimes." Nanoha scolded softly.
"If you say so sempai." Shu smiled faintly.
"Why are you up here alone though? Don't you and your friends hang out?" Fate asked.
"Unfortunately, I am considered as a Pariah." Shu said sadly.
The four look at him with some-what surprise expressions.
"I am the youngest student in my level, so people tended to avoid me. Most of them are respectful to me, but they seem to think of me as some kind of a freak." Shu sighed.
"That's horrible…" Fate muttered sadly.
"I got used to it for some time now sempai so it is fine." Shu smiled, even though Arisa and Suzuka does not notice anything behind the smile, but Fate and especially Nanoha can see it.
Nanoha can almost see her own replica, the forced smile that she always uses when she doesn't want to worry other people.
"Shu-kun, do you want to be our friend?" Nanoha asked with a smile.
"Are you really okay with that?" Shu asked.
"Absolutely! What do you think? Fate-chan, Suzuka-chan, Arisa-chan?" Nanoha smiled brightly as she asks her friends.
"I would love to be your friend." Fate said.
"Yes, I will be your friend." Suzuka joined in.
"Nanoha's friend is my friend." Arisa said while looking away, but they can see a faint smile on her face.
"Thank you sempais….. this means so much to me…" Shu said smiling, a real smile.
"Nanoha…" Nanoha muttered.
"Hm? Pardon?" Shu said.
"Call me Nanoha, we are friends now. There is no need for honorifics is it?" Nanoha smiled back.
"That goes for us as well y'know!" Arisa said with a smirk. Fate and Suzuka also nodded in agreement.
"Arigatou… Nanoha, Fate, Suzuka, Arisa." The boy has one of his brightest smile on his face.
The conversations continued for about half an hour until…
Ding Ding!
"Haah.. why recesses has to be so short?" Arisa complained.
"They say if you are having fun, time sure flies quickly." Suzuka answered as she gets ready to go back to class.
"Ahaha~ well we can always hang out after school." Nanoha said.
"Not today… My family says that I have to be home for some "business" stuff." Arisa said tiredly.
"I have to meet my friend today too, she's currently in the hospital so…sorry Nanoha." Suzuka said sadly.
"Don't worry about it! Maybe next time we can visit your friend too Suzuka-chan!" Nanoha suggested.
"That's a very good idea! Perhaps on Christmas Eve, because I'm planning to surprise her with Christmas presents!" Suzuka giggled.
The girls walked to the door, but then realize that their new friend isn't moving from his spot. Instead, he is staring at the sky with a blank expression.
"Shu-san, what's wrong? You are going to be late for your class." Suzuka warned softly.
"It's nothing Sem- Suzuka… You guys go on ahead, I'll return to my class soon." Shu said.
The group is a little bit concern about him, but they accept his words nonetheless.
"Nanoha… Fate…" Shu telepathically contacted the two.
"Hm?" "What's wrong?" The two asked simultaneously.
"If you have some free time after school, I would like to have some mock battles against you guys." Shu said.
"Sure! I'll be at the park!" "Me too, I'll see you there." The two answered.
"Thank you, I'll see you guys later." Shu cut off the telepathy.
The girls are walking back to their classroom.
"Do you think he is pushing himself too hard?" Fate asked Nanoha.
"Maybe… Chrono-kun and Yuuno-kun said that he unconsciously got traumatized by that event." Nanoha replied with a slight pity tone.
"When Vita attacked him?" Fate asked.
"Yeah, it gave him the experience of helplessness. That's why he is doing the things he's doing I think." Nanoha explained.
"I hope he'll be okay…" Fate said with a concern.
"We'll look out for him, so he'll be fine." Nanoha convinced her friend.
"Yeah…" Fate smiled.
Location: Park
Shu decided to stick to his plan and skipped the class. He arrived at the park early to train on Granzon's abilities.
"Let's start with the wormhole manipulation first, how's that sounds?" Shu deployed his device.
[Yes sir.] Granzon blinked.
[Before we start the training, I will explain. Wormhole manipulation is the same as short-range teleportation but indefinitely more useful. It acts like a portable portal that can transport anything in that specific dimension.] Granzon explained.
"So, it is possible to incorporate attacks with the wormhole." Shu speculated.
[Correct, it is possible to fire attacks or spells through the wormhole then deploy it close to the enemy regardless of their position to take advantage of their blind spots. It is also possible to stack multiple wormholes in front of each other to empower certain attacks.]
"I wonder if you have a PhD in physics." Shu deadpanned.
[I have no idea what you are talking about master.] Granzon replied innocently.
Shu's eyes twitched but he decided not to say anything.
"Let's start the training." Shu said as he is conjuring mana in his hand.
[Temporal Force Field. Deploy.] The grayish-dark force-field engulfed the entire area.
[Master, let's start with…]
Location: Hayate's House
"!" Shamal suddenly felt something. Zafira also perked his ears up.
"What is it, Shamal?" Signum asked with a concern expression.
"Signum, concentrate! Do you feel that?!" Shamal said with panic.
"Hm… Strong magical presence." Signum said as she closed her eyes.
"That's his presence!" Vita suddenly barge into the living room.
"You mean the boy you fought?" Signum raised her eyebrows.
"Yea! I can remember it clearly! I think it's time for some payback." Vita cracked her knuckles.
"His linker core will easily fill all the leftover pages… but fighting the Bureau's mages aren't easy." Signum is comparing pros and cons.
"It will save us the trouble, and the faster we collect all the pages the better it is for Hayate!" Vita argued.
"Fine… We'll go and observe, if the situation is right we'll grab his linker core." Signum said as she readies to go out.
"Hayate-chan will be with her friend today, so it will be fine." Shamal said while grabbing the cartridges.
"I'll write down a note for Hayate that we'll be out." Vita said as she grabbed a pen and a paper.
The paper says: Hayate, we'll be out for some business! We'll return as fast as we can, have fun with your friend!
Vita put the paper on the table and grabbed Graf Eisen in its standby form.
"Let's move out." Signum said.
"Alright!" "Yes!" "Roger!" Zafira, Shamal, and Vita said simultaneously.
Location: Park
4 hours passed, Shu is taking a break from the training. His controls are awful and that causes him to use too much unnecessary mana, but he successfully mastered the wormhole manipulation nonetheless. It can still be even more refined and perfected, but Granzon said it is stable enough for real combat.
"I wonder who my real parents are… Who can possibly have this much mana reserves." Shu complained.
[I'll be frank master, it is better to have enormous mana reserves and terrible controls than little mana reserves with excellent controls.] Granzon reminded its master.
"Yes, you are right about that." The boy answered as he wipes his sweat off his forehead.
Shu waved up his data terminal to look at the time. It is 3:35 pm right now, so it'll be a while before Nanoha and Fate arrives.
"Granzon, let's do the shooting practice again." Shu said as he stands up and prepares his new unique shooting spell.
[Understood. Targets deployed.] Granzon deployed several fast moving orbs. The objective is to destroy every orbs, the catch is that every orbs are unpredictable and very fast.
"Graviton Smasher." Two dozens of gravity-compressed magic bolts appeared in the air. The bolts are basically magic energy which is manipulated by gravitational forces to make it sturdier and much more effective than normal shooting spells. Unlike other spells, it has a lot of weight because of the compressed mass and mana energy inside it.
"Fire!" The bolts scurried off to chase down every targets.
Four graviton bolts successfully surrounded the two targets and destroy it.
"Six left, two north, one southwest, one east, two northeast." Shu concentrated to locate all the orbs.
"Control… is the key…" Shu control his magical bolts to form a strategic pattern.
"If something is unpredictable… then make it predictable!" The graviton bolts surrounded the area and hastily chase around the orbs and force all of them to head towards each other.
Six orbs head towards the center and tried to escape by heading up or down.
"It's over now!" The bolts suddenly appeared and trapped all the orbs from every direction. Huge explosions go off along with some considerable size mushroom clouds.
"Cough Cough, I got to lessen the mana compression during training." Shu waved his hands in front of his face to get rid of the smoke.
[It is normal for the compressed matter to cause such explosions when struck against each other with that speed master.]
"I see… but I have to find a way to lessen the smoke somehow. It's only training after all." Shu coughed a bit.
Suddenly, Granzon blinked rapidly as it discovered that someone or something entered Shu's temporal force-field.
[Master, there are 4 unknown magical signatures inbound. Be on your guard.] Granzon warned.
"Hm…" Shu calm himself down and begin to form strategies.
"So, we meet again… Shu Shirakawa." The same feminine voice echoed in the area.
"Vita…" Shu muttered.
"Glad that you remember my name, time to settle the score!" Vita swing Graf Eisen over her shoulder.
"… May I have the name of your colleagues?" Shu asked.
"Ho? So you can sense us… very well." A pink haired girl jumped into the view along with a blond hair girl in green clothes along with a muscular guy with… dog ears what?
"…" Shu didn't say anything as he glared lightly at every single one of them.
"I am the sword knight, Signum. This is my fiery demonic sword "Laevatein." Laevatiein's core which is near its hilt shine slightly.
"I am Shamal, the knight of the lake. This is the ring of breezes, "Klarwind." Shamal said while frowning lightly.
"I am the Guardian Beast, Zafira." Zafira said softly but with power.
"May I ask why all of you are doing this?" Shu asked without any expression.
Signum stepped forward slightly. "We will complete the Book of Darkness for our master."
"What will your master gain when the book is completed? Power? Is that why your master ordered all of you to do these things?"
"Don't you dare accuse our master like that!" Vita gritted her teeth and glare at the boy.
"I did no such thing, I just wanted to know the true reason why all of you committed such things. Every actions have the reason behind it." Shu explained.
"It is none of your business! Why would a Bureau member like you even care?!" Vita shouted as she prepares to strike him with her iron mallet.
"Technically, I am not a member of the TSAB yet. If your cause is just, then I might be able to help you." Shu tried to reason with the Wolkenritter.
"There is nothing left to talk about. We will do anything for our current master, even we have to die for it." Signum said as she unsheathes Laevatein.
"So, it has come to this. Well, it is within my expectations." Shu closed his eyes, he doesn't want to fight, but he has no choice.
"Signum, Zafira, leave this to me." Vita said.
"… Do as you wish." Signum sighed softly.
Vita dashed upward and deploys her signature shooting spell.
"Let's go Eisen!"
[Jawohl!] (Yes sir!) Vita conjured six metallic balls in the air, it glows bright red when it is fully formed.
[Schwalbefliegen!] (Flying Swallow!) The balls glow even redder and rush towards the boy.
[Protection. Warp Field System Activated] Granzon blinked.
Three of the Vita's Flying Swallow vanished instantly when come into contact with an invisible wall, the other three are successfully blocked by protection.
"What!?"
"Vita, there is some kind of force field surrounding him! Be careful!" Shamal shouted.
"She must be utility mage, how troublesome." Shu thought as he prepares his own counterattack.
"Graviton Smasher… Fire!" Dozens of Shu's magical bolts headed towards Vita.
"Tch! YAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Vita smacked some of the bolts away with Eisen.
"Uof!" One of the bolts hit Vita on her blind spot.
"Ugh, it hits harder than that Takamachi-something girl shooting spell…" Vita mentally groaned.
"Eisen!" Vita shouted.
[Panzerhindernis!] (Tank Barrier!) Red barrier-like armor surrounded Vita.
"Impressive, a complete defense… but against me, it might not be enough." Shu said as he directed all the leftover bolts at Vita.
Vita's barrier is holding on, but the impact from the pure weight and magic energy from the bolts are slowly eating away at her defenses.
Crack!
"You…" Vita growled as her barriers are cracking, slowly but surely. The impacts are getting stronger, small size explosions can be seen when the bolts impacted with her shield.
"TAEE-YAHHH!" Vita quickly disengages her barrier and rushes towards Shu with her mallet raised up above her head.
"TODLICHSCHALG!" (Deadly Blow!) Vita swung Eisen down as hard as she could.
[Shadow Claw] Shu's claw gloves glowed darkish purple as the magic is successfully enchanted on his claw.
Clank!
Shu blocked Vita's attack with his two of his claw gloves. The two weapons gritted against one another and created some sparks. Luckily, the warp field blocked some initial force from the swing.
"Grrrr!"
"Hnnn…"
The two glared at each other while trying to overpower one another with pure force.
"Her strength is impressive, a direct fight like this is not a good idea. I need to break off." Shu thought
"Haaah!" Shu broke off and try to gain distance between them.
"You are strong… Looks like I have no choice." Shu pumped out a lot of mana energy.
"W-What?!" Vita is looking at the boy with a large aura engulfing his own body.
"I-I can't move!" Vita panicked as the magical pressure is rooting her in place.
"Vita! Move!" Signum shouted as she prepares to intercept.
"This will be the first time that I'll cast a bombardment spell. Granzon, help me out."
[Affirmative, Giga Blaster standing by.]
Sparks are flying randomly as a huge sphere of energy is manifested in front of Shu. The nearby areas are turning dark from the aura of the boy and the energy. The sphere is growing larger and larger while getting more and more unstable.
"I won't be able to intercept Shirakawa in time!" Signum panicked.
"Zafira! Shamal!" Signum shouted. The three nodded and rushed towards Vita.
"PANZERSCHILD!" (Tank Shield!) The three shouted simultaneously as a giant Belkan shield manifested in front while Vita is standing behind them.
"Giga…." The huge mana sphere expanded twice in size as the energy becomes very unstable.
"BLASTERRRRRRRRRRR!"
A large pillar of purple beam fired towards the Wolkenritter. The nearby trees, and everything underneath the beam got blown away by its sheer force.
Boom BWOOM
The explosions are so powerful that the park is almost annihilated.
Shu collapsed on the ground. He spent almost everything he had on that attack. It consumes most of his mana, because it is very unstable and he still hasn't even practice it yet.
"Ughh…" Shu is on his knees panting.
The smoke cleared and the area is seen to have some kind of vapor rising from it. There stands the Wolkenritter, their clothes shredded. Their injuries are not fatal, but they clearly receive some good damage from the attack.
"How… can a boy… be this strong…" Signum panted as smoke rises from her friends and herself.
"Ugh… his attack is pretty good." Zafira winced at the pain his body receives.
"Kuuh.. It's been a long time since I got hurt like this." Shamal has to close one of her eyes in pain
Vita just stands there leaning on Eisen, she is more than ready to be unconscious.
"Shu Shirakawa… You… Damn You…." Vita thought.
"Huff Huff, You guys are tough." Shu panted.
"That should be our word…" Zafira muttered.
"I can't even imagine that a boy like you will be this strong." Signum said as she straightens up.
"But, you are too young and too inexperience. Shamal!" Signum shouted.
"Hai! Klarwind!" Shamal raised both of her arms up.
[Yes.] Klarwind blinked
"Tranquil breeze, carry forth a blessing of healing!" The greenish aura engulfs the Wolkenritter. Seconds later, they walked out of the healing aura and all their injuries are healed.
"This is bad… I don't have any much mana left…" Shu panic a little.
"You have done well… More impressive than any foes we've fought." Signum said as they slowly approach the boy.
"But you cannot win against four of us. I'm sorry, but this must be done." Signum signaled Shamal to prepare the extraction of the boy's linker core.
But before Shamal has the chance to-
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" A feminine warcry can be heard. The Wolkenritter hastily back off from the boy as a black scythe almost got their heads.
"Testarossa…" Signum muttered.
Fate is holding Shu with her left arm, she is currently pointing Bardiche which is in his Haken Form at the Wolkenritter.
"You will not harm him…" Fate said.
"We need his linker core Testarossa, and I will go through you to get it if need be." Signum took her usual sword stance.
"Then, you have to go through me as well." The new voice appears.
"You! Takamachi-something!" Vita pointed.
"W-Wha!? It's NANOHA! NA-NO-HA! Mouuuu~" Nanoha shouted.
"Can't we just talk this out? I just want to help you." Nanoha said as she helps Fate set down Shu on the ground.
"There is nothing left to talk!" Vita said as she readies Eisen.
"Haaa… If you don't listen.. then I'll make you!" Nanoha pointed Raising Heart at Vita.
[Divine Buster] Raising Heart blinked as a sphere of pink energy is forming at the tip.
[Haken Saber] Bardiche blinked as Fate is preparing to swing mana blade at the Wolkenritter.
"Let's go Nanoha."
"Yes, Fate-chan!"
"Divine…"
"Haken…."
"BUSTERRRRRRRRRR!" "SABERRRRRRR!"
Fate's energy blade spins forward along with Nanoha's Divine Buster. The two attacks incorporated into one and went straight to the Wolkenritter. A direct hit…. Or so they thought.
The smoke settled down slowly, there is a person protecting the Wolkenritter from the previous attack.
The Masked Man.
"Y-You again?!" Vita said warily.
"What do you-" Before Signum can ask her question, the masked man cut her off.
"Go…. All of you cannot fight right now don't you?" He said in a low voice.
"Tch, he knows that even though Shamal healed us, the mana that we used will not be rejuvenated…" Signum thought.
"Everyone, we're pulling out for now. Let's go!" Signum told her friends telepathically.
"Pff, Roger." "Yes" "Alright" The three responded. Underneath the Wolkenritter is a Belkan magic circle, which is Shamal's who is casting a teleportation spell.
"I will not let you escape!" Nanoha shouted as she prepares to fire another one.
"Haaaaaaah!" Fate is collecting mana and transforms it into lightning energy.
"Futile…" Masked man muttered.
[Master!]
[Sir!]
"Ugh! Bind?!" Nanoha exclaimed.
"Grkkk…" Fate tried to struggle out of the bind, but failed miserably.
For what it seems like forever, finally the Wolkenritter teleported out of the scene.
"Hmph, looks like my job is done." The masked man said and disappeared.
"Guah!" Nanoha successfully shrug off the binds.
"Hah!" Fate used the tip of her energy blade to cut the binds.
Both of them tried to look for the Wolkenritter or the masked man, but they are all gone.
"They got away…" Nanoha sighed as she revert Raising Heart into the standby mode.
"Let's get Shu to his house. He needs a lot of rest." Fate said as she lifted Shu's right arm with her left.
"Okay, Fate-chan." Nanoha said as she lifted Shu's left and both of them slowly walk towards the boy's house.
Done Chapter 2.
