THE HARUNO Chronicles
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If you did jump chapters to read this one first, I think it would be better if you read the other two chapters as well, but if you didn't, here is some help.
Lance is sort of like a more aggressive Yuuno and also changes into a ferret.
Nanoha is as she always is, though she is 14 and she has all the powers from the first, A's and Strikers series as I thought it would be cool to have them all at once.
Lee is a personal creation and becomes a main character.
This story is loosely based off of MGLN but it sort of becomes my own in a way.
Disclaimer: All rights for names, themes, story, character style and all else belong to their respective owners.
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Chapter 3 – A new Friend
Lee Cross is 14 years old. He lives in downtown Tokyo with his mom named Mary. He has a little sister, a big brother, and a father but they are all away most of the time. He goes to Great Triumph Junior High School. He's in 8th grade. Lee was walking to school when he heard someone call his name. "Hey, Lee, wait up for me would ya!" said Chrono. Chrono is one of Lee's 2 best friends. "Hey Lee. Sakura says she will meet up with us at school. She woke up early and got to school early. By the way, did you get the notice about career day? Many specialists from many fields of work are going to be at our school today so we can start thinking about what we want to do when we grow up." Lee was only half listening as he just looked at his watch and realized that they were 7 minutes away from being late for school. "Hey Chrono, we need to book it. Were going to be late if we keep going this speed. We have less than 6 minutes to get there." Lee and Chrono started to run towards the school.
They barely make it before their teacher entered the room. "Hey, you need to be careful. You were that close to being late," said Sakura. "Come on Sakura," said Chrono, "we can't help it if they don't put enough hours in the night to get a good nights sleep." "Well not everyone sleeps for half their life Chrono. I'm surprised you get up at all," said Sakura in retaliation. Lee was used to this bickering by now. Every morning they would continuously argue non-stop and in the afternoon they would act as if they never argued ever.
"Okay class," said their teacher, "quiet down. Today as you all know is career day. We will be going to different classrooms that have been set up each with its own career specialist and some activities and information on the career. Okay we are going to start with the engineering classroom. Follow me."
Later during an afternoon break they got after the career presentations, Lee and his friends were on the roof discussing what jobs they would want. Chrono's family owned a company so it was likely that he would succeed his parents and take over the company. Sakura had expressed an Interest in the engineering careers and even stayed behind in the engineering classroom to ask the specialist some questions. "So what career do you want when you grow up Lee," Sakura said. Lee really didn't know what he wanted to do. He felt like there was something he was meant to do with his life but it was not one of the careers shown during career day. "I don't know yet. Lets see where the wind blows me," said Lee to answer Sakura's question. "That's what you always say. You need to start thinking about it Lee," Sakura said.
After school was over, they walked together part of the way home when Chrono and Sakura split away for cram school. They said goodbye to each other and Lee continued on his way home. He didn't know why but for some reason he wanted to take the long way home so he took a left and started walking the long way to his house when he heard a scream. Then he felt a chill and closed his eyes for a second. When he opened them, there was no one around. Everyone had just vanished. He could still hear screams and other noises so he went to see what was happening. He was shocked to see what was happening. There was a girl about his age flying in mid-air fighting a giant black wolf-like creature with bright red eyes. They were reminiscent of the color of blood.
He just stood there and watched as the girl fought the monster with what looked like blasts of energy he saw in anime. It was an intense battle. Finally the girl looked like she could take no more of this and ended up getting trapped in a corner by the beast. The beast looked like he was charging up his final attack. He did not know what made him do it but just as the monster began to attack, he jumped in between the girl and the beast and shielded her as the beast fired a large black magic attack. Suddenly a glowing golden shield put itself in between Lee and the monsters attack. Lee did not know what was going on but he began to glow intensely. Then a ball of light left straight from Lee's body and formed a small blue marble and flew into his hand. Lee without knowing how shot a blast of magic from his hand at the beast and shot it back a long distance. "Hello I'm Nanoha," said Nanoha, "thank you for saving me, you must be a very powerful mage to deflect that monsters attack like that." "Hi my name is Lee. To be honest, I have no idea what you are talking about or how I just did that. I don't even know why I came to protect you. I didn't even know that I could do that," said Lee. Nanoha then said "wait, your telling me you didn't know you could use magic and you just released such a powerful defense and attack combo that most elite could not handle?" "Yeah that is pretty much it," said Lee. "Well you can use magic now so could you help me." Lee then said "But I still don't know how to use it yet." "Don't worry," said Nanoha, "just look inside yourself and you'll know what to do."
The monster was back up and Nanoha wished him good luck and went to resume the fight again. Lee thought to himself how could he just abandon her so he decided to try what she said and look within himself for the answer. Something came to him. "HARUNO" he said. As he said it, the blue marble in his hand responded, "SAY SET UP, MY MASTER," said the marble. "What are you" said Lee to the marble. "I AM HARUNO, A MAGICAL DEVICE MADE BY AND FOR YOU TO HELP YOU IN ANY WAY," said HARUNO. Okay, my gut is telling me to go with you so here we go. "HARUNO SET UP!" A gold magic circle appeared below Lee's feet and in a flash of light, many things happened. One he was no longer in his regular clothes but in a navy blue and silver robe and a matching blazer. Also a blue and white staff appeared before him. It had a gold head that was a circle with the blue marble in the middle.
"Whoa, what's with these clothes and this staff?" said Lee not expecting a reply. To his amazement, HARUNO said, "THE CLOTHES ARE YOUR BARRIER JACKET AS YOUR SUBCONCIOUS INVISIONED THEM. THE STAFF IS THE SAME. IT IS YOU MAGICAL WEAPON. READY?" "Well I can't leave that girl alone to fight that monster. Okay lets go," said Lee. Without knowing how he did it, he started to fly into the air. It was time for action. Lee flew over to the monster but didn't know what to do. "TRY USING GLOWING SHOOTER," said HARUNO. Okay said Lee. He pointed his staff at the monster and then a golden circle appeared under his feet. "Okay HARUNO, lets do this," said Lee. "GLOWING SHOOTER," and a small blast of shinning golden energy shot straight at the monster. It hit the monster but didn't do much damage.
"HARUNO, do I have a stronger attack that I can use?" said Lee hopefully. "LETS DO IT, SHINNING BUSTER" said HARUNO. "Okay HARUNO, lets do it, shooting mode," said Lee. As an extra large magic circle appeared under his feet, the head of his staff became a vertical "U" shape. "Ready, HARUNO. SHINNING, BUSTER!" A super powerful ray of shinning gold magical energy shot straight at it and made a direct hit. The beast was down but not out. "LETS SEAL IT, MY MASTER" said HARUNO. "Okay HARUNO. Lets do it," said Lee. "SEALING MODE, SET UP," said HARUNO. The head of the staff changed back to it device mode but this time 3 silver wings appeared out of the top of the handle. "Okay ready" Lee said hoping this would work, "Saren sealing, number 25, SEAL." A burst of magic came from HARUNO and shot a flash of light at the monster, which turned back into a Saren Stone in its original state. It floated to HARUNO and was absorbed by the blue marble. "NUMBER 25, SEALED," said HARUNO. Lee was ultra relived when it was over.
"That was excellent work Lee. Good job," said Nanoha as she flew over, obviously exhausted but happy. "Not bad for your first time, not bad at all." "Well thank you. If you had told me this morning that I would defeat a giant monster, I would have thought you were crazy. Who knew I could do that." Nanoha then said, "Well not many people on this world can do what you did. It is very rare for someone on this world to be able to use magic and good at it at that. You are a natural." Lance comes running over to Nanoha and sees this new guy. "Hey I saw you battle that monster," said Lance, "that was amazing. You must be a powerful and experienced mage to do that." Lee looks at him and says, "That was actually the first time I had ever used magic. I didn't even know I had any magic until today." Lance looks at him shocked and then asked, "So than where did you get the device. It is obviously a custom device." "Well," said Lee, "It just appeared in front of me and said its name was Haruno." Lance says surprised, "Well I guess it was made subconsciously by your magic, just like Nanoha's Raging Heart." "Now I have a question for you," said Lee, "how do I go back to normal." Haruno butted in and said, "Say MODE RELEASE, MY MASTER," and Lee did just that. "Okay, Mode Release." His barrier jacket and staff just disappeared and were replaced by the blue marble Lee knew was called Haruno and it floated towards him and put itself around his neck as a necklace appeared. He looked at the blue marble around his neck inquiringly, as if he half-expected something to happen. "So now that I can use magic, what can I do with it." "The answer will come in time. Everyone's magic is unique," said Lance, "you could end up having the ability to heal and teleport like me. I will say for now that you have exceptional combat skills as a mage. Not just anyone could do what you just did. Not to mention you do have a lot of magical talent. That is very rare."