Eternal Memories
MXKM Productions
Chapter 3: Deathly Wind
Alyxx and Nanoha released from each from each other. "Nanoha, with you back, I'm sure whatever the hell were up against has no chance." Alyxx said, grinning, feline fangs showed and just crept Sakura out a little.
"Alyxx, why do you have fangs?" Sakura asked voice a little shaky.
"You'll find out, and no I'm not a vampire, nor am I a ghost" Alyxx said, watching the color return to Sakura's face. A blare in hall-way brought the mages and alchemist out of their conversation.
"Med-staff on full-drive, wonder what happened?" Crono said, scratching his head. Alyxx on the other hand got a glimpse of who was on the cart, an orange haired girl, being wheeled alongside a tall and dark man.
"That was Leo, and Kasumi. They were on a mission with Sam and Mina" Alyxx said; worries tinting her voice just a little. She pushed out of the office towards the medical facilities, the others following after her. In the hallway, Alyxx bumped into a tall, tan, and blonde haired doctor. "Andrew, tell me what in the hell is going on now, and no fancy medical bullshit, I want it straight." Alyxx said, digging her finger into his shoulder.
"You mean regarding Kasumi and Leo." He sighed, and looked toward the medical room they were pushed to. "They've both sustained critical injury to their skeletal and muscular systems. Kasumi has more blood loss from open injury, and Leo has mostly internal injury." He said, watching the intense expression lessen just a little.
"That's all? Or is there more?" She questioned.
"Yes, there is something that bothers me." Andrew said, looking over a chart, "It seems that both Kasumi and Leo have sustained substantial damage to their Linker cores, and what remains of their magic energy is tainted with shadow." Worry now crossed his as Alyxx thought. "I haven't seen something like this since the Book of Darkness reared its ugly head into our lives, and even then it wasn't as bad as this."
"I need to talk to them." Alyxx declared, walking past Andrew and into the room. The girl with orange hair sat on a bed, and focused her aqua eyes on Alyxx, and tried to smile. "Kasumi, what happened to Sam and Mina?" She questioned the girl, whose face became downcast.
"I don't know, the four of us found our way into Lupelas' castle, and a maze sprung up. We were separated, then me and Leo, we had to fight our way through, and someone came out of nowhere, soon enough we found ourselves in Kieru city, with Tsukasa looming over us, then Signum showed up and brought us here." She said recollecting the events as they happened.
"Lupelas! They sent you to his castle to take him down!" Alyxx shrieked in exasperation.
"Correction" The man grunted as her rolled over to look at Alyxx. "It was Linden, madam bitch sent us there, we had no chance, apparently three years of off-radar activities brought fifty-years of change." He growled as he said it, mostly from the pain though.
"I guess I'll to go chew her out now. She knows it's not her area to assign missions." Alyxx growled shaking a fist. "Where the hell is Xross, when you need him" She asked rhetorically, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Sparx" Kasumi said, earning a look from Alyxx. "Xross is in Sparx on a mission, apparently the Amphia people are pulling some kind of black magic shtick."
"And what happened to Xronos, isn't he around" Another exasperated question escaped the brunette mage.
"He is currently working something in Maigran, very hush-hush." Leo said another growl of pain.
"I'm still gonna chew that woman out. She had no right" Alyxx stomped out of the room, another destination in sight. Yuuno and the others passed her as she grumbled loudly. Footsteps causing tremors the floor as she stomped.
"That's not good." Sakura pointed out the obvious.
"How much you wanna bet it has to do with Linden?" Crono asked toward Yuuno.
"Let's just hurry before Alyxx spills blood, even if Linden is an unbearable curse." Nanoha said, the last part to the side, because it out of character. Five minutes later the found Alyxx, not in the place they expected, instead of attempting to kill a so-called superior, she was furiously swimming laps in a pool, located under the bridge they were crossing. When she got out of the water, Crono and Yuuno turned abruptly to hide their reddening faces, this was caused by Alyxx's choice of swim-wear, a purple, Hawaiian bikini that was maybe a size too small.
"What's up with them?" Alyxx thought as she spotted them on the bridge. "Yo!" she called up to them. "Meet me in my office in five, there we'll discuss what to do next!" she sighed and went into the locker room to change back into her clothes. Five minutes she was in her office when her friends walked in.
"So what's up Alyxx?" Nanoha asked, giving a questioning look.
"Sam might be dead." Her voice cracked and a tear escaped, before she regained her composure.
"And were going to do what?" Crono asked.
"Crono, you don't have to take part if you don't want to." Alyxx said, taking a breath.
"I'm coming, not staying 'round here with Linden all psycho-bitch at the moment." He said, shuddering a little.
"Okay then." Alyxx collected her thoughts. "First we'll go to Kieru city; we know both Tsukasa and Signum are there. Once we've gotten them to come with us, we'll go to the resistance encampment in the Eilief district, and hopefully both a Zero and Lacey are there, along with Fate and Aruf. From the camp we'll make our way into the heart of the range and that's were Lupelas has his base set up, and that's were Sam and Mina were when they were separated from Leo and Kasumi" She went through the plan, slowly to make sure every person got it.
"And I have news from Bleus; apparently he and that trainee Madison Taylor are there for training." Yuuno said holding up a post card he picked up before entering the office.
"Madison Taylor?" Sakura questioned, receiving a nod from Yuuno. "So this is where she's disappeared to?" She questioned seemingly herself. "Madison is my best friend you see. So this is a surprise she didn't tell me." She explained.
"Taylor, she came a few weeks ago when she disrupted a case using a strange psychic power, the way she disrupted was much like the way you did. And seeing her power and the only other mage in our sector who has it is Bleus, it was a natural choice for her to become his apprentice." Crono said toward her.
"In any case, we'll give that mangy bastard the ass whoopin' of the century" Alyxx slammed down her fist in excitement. The drone of a phone out in the distance was heard in the silence that followed. A few moments later, a woman appeared with the phone, and handed it to Alyxx. "Heart speaking" She said into the receiver.
"Heart, this is Signum." The woman on the other announced. A look of wonder spread on Alyxx's face.
"Is there something wrong?" She questioned, 'Signum seems distraught.' She thought then a confused look spread on her face 'since when do I know what distraught means?' still waiting for a reply.
"Tsukasa has gone missing, she didn't return to the base after she left two days ago to scout an area giving off strange signals." Signum said.
"We were heading your way anyway, hold tight." She said hanging up.
"We have a big problem." Alyxx declared, standing up. Crono shot her questioning look. "Apparently Tsukasa has disappeared, Signum thinks something happened."
"It'll have to wait" A voice said, the one the voice belonged to was Andrew, the doctor. "A strange creature that we haven't been able identify has appeared near the Juuban-Cho shopping district." His look was serious, despite Sakura's looks of 'what a cutie' she was sending him.
"I know that's not all you have to say" Yuuno said, arms crossed.
"It also seems we've identified an energy similar to Fate's." Andrew said, watching dismay taint the faces in the room.
"Could Precia have survived?" Nanoha questioned thinking back to what happened.
"Impossible!" Crono blurted out.
"Not true Crono." Alyxx said, beginning to pace. "Although Precia should have been destroyed by the convergence Nanoha and I performed, she could have survived." Alyxx stated, eyes focused on the sable-brown carpet.
"What are you trying to say Alyxx, that Precia is alive?" Nanoha looked at her.
"Precia was trying to travel to the "mythical" world of Al-Hazard" Alyxx said, air-quoting "mythical". "Al-Hazard exists, but it isn't a paradise, it's a Hell, one of the seven. And it's possible that in power-converging and supposedly killing Precia, we actually helped her realize her goal." Alyxx let out a sigh of depression and exasperation in one.
"So we could be dealing with her again" Yuuno stated, ignoring the fact that Sakura was lost.
"It's possible" Alyxx said, and then looked at Andrew. "Thank-you, we'll handle this from here" and dismissed him.
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