A/N: Chapter 9 of Magical Lyrical Nanoha: Fates Collide. Enjoy!
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Chapter 9: The Feeling of Friendship?
In the Garden of Time...
"Ah Fate." Alicia smiled and rose up from her seat as her sister walked into her chamber, Arf right behind her. "Good of you to show up. I have an assignment for you."
"Yes sis." Fate replied, monotonously. Her eyes weren't even on Alicia, instead she was staring off into space or thinking about something. She was technically ignoring the person in front. Arf noticed and gently nudged her.
"Fate, listen to your assignment. It's really important."
"Oh? Sorry." She looked at Alicia, who was tapping her foot with annoyance.
"Honestly Fate, this won't take an hour. It'll be quick." Alicia cleared her throat and proceeded with the assignment.
"I detected a bunch of Jewel Seeds, 6 to be exactly. Your job is to acquire them and bring them to me. Right now you have obtained...8. The other girl...what was her name?" She pondered a bit. "Nanoha? That's right, she has 7 right now...hmmm." Alicia strokes her chin, then smiles. "Get those 6 immediately. That's your top priority, secure those 6 Jewel Seeds before anyone else. Once you have them all, only then can you steal the rest. Failure is not an option."
"Whatever you say, it is my command." Fate answered before leaving. Alicia smiled as she sat back down.
"Once those Jewel Seeds are within my grasp, the entire world will be mine!"
In outer space...
"Welcome to the amazing place on the ship...the cockpit." Lindy turned as Amy led the three kids over. Nanoha smiled as she looked around, Yūuno was riding on her shoulder. Claire hobbled behind them on three legs, one of her paws was in a little kitty sling. Amy thought it was cute and she drew a little heart plus a get well soon message. Lindy gave Amy a look and held out her hand. Smiling mischievously, Amy gave her captain a sharpie. Lindy squatted down and scribbled her own message on the little kitty sling, causing Claire to sigh. Soon the whole crew would love to scribble their own little messages.
" Glad you three could make it. I want to know a little more on what happened." Lindy sat in her commander chair. Nanoha, Yūuno and Claire sat around and recalled the encounter. Once they were done, Lindy was pondering a thought. The kids waited for her opinion or some kind of words.
"Hmm...a mage your age and you say that she's really skilled?" Nodding of the heads. "Ok and she wanted the Jewel Seed as well. This spells trouble in all direction."
"Lindy-san, we have to secure the Jewel Seeds before she does." Yūuno said, his tail twitching.
"I know. I know. It just worries me a little bit."
"Admiral Lindy! I found the information." Amy called out, her fingers rapidly pushing buttons. "Everyone, gather around." The whole group huddled around as the information appeared on the innovation screen.
"Fate Testarossa, 9 years old and a mage like Nanoha. She lives in the Garden of Time with her mother Precia and older sister Alicia. Her familiar is Arf, nothing is known about her. Apparently her skill level with magic is on par with Yūuno. Claire-chan is the only one who can stand on par with Fate and Arf together, winning percentage is about 50%."
"So your saying...!" Nanoha shockingly stared at Claire and picked her up.
"What?" The cat gave her a plain look.
"Amy-san, is Claire-chan that strong?" Amy nodded. "If you make her mad, you better watch out."
"That's amazing." Nanoha cuddled the cat who is enjoying the affection.
"Ok you two, do that in your own free time. We have a situation." The emergency lights flashed. Amy propped up the screens and they saw a mage flying over the ocean.
"It's her!" Nanoha exclaimed.
"What's she doing out there?" Lindy shouted.
"Apparently she is trying to seal 6 Jewel Seeds at once, they are too hard to handle because they are already in rampage mood." Amy replied.
"We'll arrest her then, she'll be too tired to attack us." Nanoha's ears perk up and she whirled around. She dashed off to the teleportation module.
"Nanoha, get back here!" Lindy cried out, wide-eyed and shocked at the girl's behavior.
"I'm sorry but, I'll have to go against your order Lindy-san." Nanoha said firmly. "I need to help her!"
"Count me in too!" Claire meows and she hobbled over. Nanoha smiled and scooped the cat up. "I can't leave my friend alone, I need to make up for the lost time we once had!"
"Don't forget about me!" Yūuno scurried over and leaped onto her shoulder.
"Get back here you three!" Lindy was fuming.
"We're sorry! We'll accept your punishment no matter how severe it will be when we get back!" The three said in unison before teleporting to the site.
Over the ocean...
"Raging Heart, Set up!" Nanoha commanded as the three friends tumbled down into the clouds.
Stand by. Ready. Set up.
"Huh?" Fate's shocked face looked up at the shinning light and watched as Nanoha descended from the heavens.
"You...Don't Interfere!" Arf became hostile and started to attack but Yūuno blocked her way.
"Stop, you got it wrong. We came to help."
"What?" Arf's face was that of shock.
"That's right." Claire floated down, giving the familiar a steel look. "Now's not the time to argue so either you help us or get out of the way and let us handle it." Arf looked at her, furiously but flinched back when she saw the mark on the cat's face. She guiltily looked away as Claire left to get into position. Yūuno looked at her sympathetically, he knew she blamed herself for attacking but now's not the time for any sulking.
"Let's support them as they seal the Jewel Seeds, before it becomes even more dangerous." He told her before joining Claire and the two of them released their magic. They used Magical Binds to hold the Jewel Seeds in place, their swirling vortex of power was unyielding.
"Fate-chan, let's stop these Jewel Seeds together!" Nanoha address the girl. Raging Heart sent a little bit of her power to Bardiche.
Power Charge.
Supplying Complete.
"We'll each take care of half of them!" Nanoha said, smiling. Fate was speechless at the girl's kindness. Arf joined Claire and Yūuno, her mind set on the action she was about to do. After thinking about Claire's words, she realized what was the point of having help, what it was like to reach out to others. She used her own magic to hold the Jewel Seeds and was determined to assist Fate in any way she can. So now there were 3 sets of binds holding and stopping the destruction of the Seeds.
" Yūuno-kun, Claire-chan and Arf-san are stopping them for us! Now's our chance! On the count of three, we'll seal them all at the same time!" Nanoha flew into position.
Shooting Mode.
She looked back at Fate in encouragement.
Sealing form. Set up. Bardiche beeped.
"Bardiche..." Fate stared in amazement at her device. She looked at Nanoha, who responded with a wink.
"Divine Buster...Full Power." Nanoha commanded for Raging Heart. "You can do it, right?"
All right, my master.
Both girls began charging up power for their attacks.
"One, two...!" Nanoha shouted over the roar of power.
"Thunder...!" Fate was more than ready. Intense lightning strikes came crashing down.
"Divine...!" Nanoha took careful aim.
"RAGE!" Fate completed her attack, the lightning strikes sizzled with enormous power.
"BUSTER!" Nanoha let the power rip through. Combined with Fate's Thunder Rage, both attacks managed to seal all of the Jewel Seeds.
"The remaining 6 Jewel Seeds have been confirmed as sealed!" Amy proclaimed back in the ship.
"W-What an unsystematic..." Chrono was beyond disbelief. Lindy was just speechless with her mouth wide open. The only sentence she said was, "But that was amazing."
Back at the site, the 6 Jewel Seeds rose from the ocean to where Nanoha and Fate were. The girls were silent for a moment and Nanoha finally realized something. Placing her hand over her heart, she said one sentence.
"I want us to be friends." Fate's eyes widened in surprise. Arf, Yūuno and Claire watched the touching gesture.
Back on the ship...
Alarms and sirens went off. The red Alert signs were everywhere.
"Dimensional interference?" Amy was scared. "A wide-area magical attack from another dimension is heading straight for them and us! Ah! Only six seconds until impact!" Purple lightning came crashing down and interfered with the controls. The ship was in turbulence.
At the ocean, the lightning sparked all over the place. It was dangerous.
"Sister?" Fate looked frightened.
"Fate-chan!" Nanoha reached over and pulled Fate out of the way as lightning came crashing down, missing the Jewel Seeds by an inch.
"This is bad!" Claire quickly grabbed the Jewel Seeds and flew over to the girls, Arf and Yūuno right behind her.
"Here." Claire extended her paws, three Jewel Seeds in each. "This is Fate's half and the other is Nanoha's half." Everyone looked at her, Arf's expression was unreadable. It looked as though all of it should have been Fate's but, she didn't say a word.
"Now's not the time to argue, take them NOW! Bardiche! Raging Heart!" Claire commanded.
Sealing.
Sealing.
Each device took their fair share.
"NOOOOOOOO!" A screech could be heard. Every single person, no matter where they were, could hear. It sounded like a child's. "THOSE JEWELS SEEDS BELONG TO ME!"
"Look out!" Claire used her power to shove everyone aside as multiple lightning strikes rained down. It enclosed around her and all they could see is a huge round lightning cage. It was so bright, nothing could be seen within.
"Claire-chan!" Nanoha reached out but Yūuno held her back.
"Stop Nanoha. It's dangerous!" Nanoha wrestled out of his grip and gave him a wicked glance.
" Yūuno-kun. Is that anyway to treat your friend? Your partner?" Yūuno looked like he was ashamed of himself. Nanoha continued,"So many times has Claire risked her life for me and I have never once repaid her. Now is the time!" Giving the group one last glance, Nanoha flew into the round cage and disappeared.
A/N: Done. Hope you love it! :D Please review and give this story some love and attention, it's really appreciated.
Oh and the cage, picture it as a bright, bright sun with electrical charge from the lightning. The thing is really hot and shocking, sparks do fly.