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Self edited and re-post: 9/2/12
Nanoha POV
"Ne, ...-chan," I turned the girl laying on the ground next to me, "is there anything you ever wished for, but it seemed so impossible to get?"
"Hmm? Umm, not that I could tell right now," the golden-haired girl responded as she looked at the clouds. "How about you?"
"I already have what I want." She looked at me, confused. "I have you with me now," I grinned at her.
"B-but w-we just met a week ago," she stuttered.
"It doesn't matter, I still happy to be with you. I'm the baby of the family, so no one really expects me to help around." I rolled right next to her, "when I met you, even if it was just a week, it felt like I belonged with you."
I felt her body heat up, "u-u-uh i-i-is that s-so."
"Mmmhmm," I hummed.
"Nanoha! You there? It's time to go," I heard my brother's voice from afar.
"Awww, I got to go now ...-chan," I got up on my feet.
She sat up and said, "ah, okay, Nanoha." Her saddened expression made me want to cry.
"It's okay we'll meet again very soon!" I kissed her forehead.
She nodded in her shocked state, weakly let out a, "see you later Nanoha."
"Nyahaha," I gave her another kiss, on the cheek this time and walked away saying, "see you later ...-chan..."
"I will meet her today!" I sprang my head up and collided it with a familiar miko's forehead.
"Owowow," we both clutched our heads.
"You're pretty lively this morning," Reimu rubbed her forehead.
"Sorry Reimu," I gave her an apologetic smile. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, Remilia sent Sakuya, telling me that you and your friends wanted to go to Youkai Mountain. That vampire somehow knew I was going to go there later and told me to take you."
"Milady got the information from the black-white magician," the silver-haired maid walked in with a tray of food and handed it to me.
"Ah, thank you Sakuya," I accepted the tray.
"That Marisa," Reimu slightly shook in anger. "Anyways, get ready soon, your friends are all set to go."
"Y-yes," I wolfed down my food and handed the tray back to the maid, who them left with the miko.
"Why do I keep waking up late?" I mumbled to myself as I put on my blue skirt and white top. I made sure Raising Heart was around my neck and that Bardiche was in my pocket. I'll meet her today for sure. I put on my backpack, seeing that Teana's and Hayate's were gone, and walked out the door.
I headed to the front where my friends were waiting. "Took you long enough Nanoha," Teana-chan said with her arms crossed.
"Aw, let it go," Hayate-chan giggled and swung her arm behind my neck, "after all, from what we heard from Reimu, Nanoha-chan energetically shouted, 'I will meet her today!'"
"Reimu," I said with a bit of a pout, "why did you have to tell her, of all people."
"Was I not suppose to?" the red-white questioned. "I would like to hurry up. Youkai Mountain is filled with youkai who hate humans. Only some are okay with humans, but still, be careful."
I heard a, "keep up with your running!" from the master of the mansion as we left.
Teana POV
Reimu flew up towards the large mountains behind the mansion and we followed. We came across a forest with a river flowing through. "This is where-"
"Reimu!" A girl with blue eyes popped out of the trees. Her short light blue hair was tied in twin pigtails with and elastic hair tie with two red beads on each side. The dress she wore matched her eyes and had many pockets around the hem. She clutched the crossed straps of her dark sea green backpack, that had a golden key hanging from the intersecting straps, and asked the miko, "Have you seen a girl about your age," she pointed to us, "with short purple hair and green eyes?"
"No," Reimu replied.
"Dammit," she snapped her fingers, "she woke up and left right after you guys arrived." She looked at us outsiders, "ah, they must be Nanoha, Teana, and Hayate. Aya wrote about you guys in her newspaper. I'm Kawashiro Nitori, pleased to meet you."
Wow, found her sooner than expected. "Are you the engineer?" I asked to make sure.
"Yup that me, the kappa youkai that likes to build stuff."
"Then can you modify this for me?" I took out Anchor Gun.
The kappa gasped and took the gun from my hand, "this is the same thing that one human asked me to make."
"Yeah, that must have been my brother Tiida."
"Oooh, yes I can modify it," Nitori said with glimmer in her eyes, "what do you want it to look like?"
"Hmm, make the barrels a bit more rectangular, and this piece," I pointed to the silver circular pieces on the sides, "to be red and have another diameter piece to make an X."
"Hm, I see where you are going with this," the youkai nodded her head. "Yes, yes, I think this design will be perfect for you," she mumbled to herself as she drew a diagram in her head. "Come by in two days, it should be ready by then."
I looked at her with a thankful expression, "thanks Nitori."
"No problem, but if you see the girl I mentioned, please tell me or better yet, bring her back." The kappa fidgeted, "she's actually from somewhere in the outside world like you guys are, and this place is youkai territory..."
"Nitori!" A girl with long aquamarine hair tied underneath her chin with a red frilly ribbon, came out of the forest. "Why did you take your eyes off of her?"
"I didn't," Nitori clutched the green hat atop of her blue hair. "Around the time when I felt their presence," she pointed at us humans, "she jolted up and rolled off in her shoes with wheels."
"Yeah, I can't believe you somehow got that android to work again."
"It's because I'm a genius at fixing things."
"That's Kagiyama Hina, the Goddess of Misfortune," Reimu whispered to us. "She collects misfortune around Youkai Mountain," she pointed to Hina's red and black dress with and aquamarine spiral that looked like the kanji for misfortune. "We're going now," the miko told the two friends.
"Don't forget about the girl," they shouted.
Normal POV
The trio followed the red-white through the ominous forest, up a roaring waterfall, following a river to a lake. "This is the Wind God's Lake, it transferred over here with the Moriya Shrine from the outside world."
"Moriya Shrine?" the outsiders simultaneously questioned.
"Yeah," the miko looked at them, "why do you sound so surprised?"
"Hmmm, there was a shrine by that name, but it-" Nanoha started.
"Reimuuu!" A girl with long green hair with a frog clip tackled the red-white.
She looks familiar, the three thought when they saw the green strains on the left side of her face coiled with a snake hair accessory with a frog clip at the top. "Sanae?" they shouted in surprise.
She turned around, "eh? Nanoha? Hayate? Teana?" her indigo eyes widen.
"Whao we haven't seen you since junior year," the three outsider stared at the green haired girl. "We didn't know you were a shrine maiden." They stared at Sanae who was wearing a miko outfit that was blue with light blue polka dots and white.
"Yup, I've been one since birth," she grinned. "I'm a wind priestess of the Moriya Shrine."
"What are you doing here?" Hayate asked.
"Some things happened and we moved the shrine over here to Gensokyo to collect faith."
"Tch, caused me a lot of trouble," Reimu sighed.
"I did apologize Reimu. Anyway, what are all of you doing here?" She looked at the trio, "especially you three. I never expected to see anyone from the outside to be here."
"They have some personal business to take care of," Reimu said. "I wanted to talk to you about somethings."
"Ah, I see. You all can stay here for as long as you like."
Nanoha turned her head, "did you hear that? Do you smell lilacs?"
Two pairs of blue eyes stared at her. "Nanoha, are you just imagining things again?" Her orange-haired friend asked.
"It's Nanoha-chan we're talking about," Hayate smirked, "her dream girl sensor is on."
"Dream girl?" Sanae whispered to Reimu.
"I don't know much," the red-white whispered back, "but this morning, she jolted up saying, 'I will meet her today!' I'm assuming it's the person she's looking for."
"Ah, I see," the blue-white miko nodded her head. "I wonder if it's because of that incident," she whispered.
"Incident?"
"Um, I don't really remember it, but it was eleven years ago when we were nine. Nanoha had this friend that she would often visit," the wind priestess smiled. "Her friend also had a twin sister. All there of them were very close, but then one day an incident happened that took away one of the twin's life. Nanoha and the other twin disappeared," she sighed and looked at Nanoha, who was being teased by her friends. "When Nanoha came back, she was like a broken doll. She didn't remember anything from that day let alone anything that was related to the twins."
"Hmm, so there really was a legit reason for her to come here," the red-white miko tapped her chin.
"Yeah. Hey, you three," Sanae shouted, "go ahead and look around for a bit. Reimu and I are going to chat. The shrine is right up the stairs, so come when you're done."
"Okay!" The trio chimed and the two mikos ascended the stairs.
Teana POV
We decided to head to the forest where Nanoha thought she heard her mystery girl. "Ne Nanoha-chan," Hayate started, "what would you do if you found her?"
"Well, I don't know if she would remember me... I don't remember much, I'm just following the dreams I have," Nanoha looked up at the sky.
-rustle rustle- "Okay, who's there?" I said out loud, startling my two friends. "What? There's someone following us, for a while too."
"...what are you talking about Teana?" they both asked.
"Hmm, it might just be my imagina-"
-rustle rustle- "Yahoo!" I turned my head to see a girl with purple hair and green eyes sprang out of the bushes to cling onto my back.
"Uwah!" I fell forward from the sudden impact.
"Nakajima Subaru at your service!" Her arms were wrapped across my chest and her legs around my stomach. I looked down to see that her feet were in black and blue rollerblades. On her right hand, she was wearing a black and blue gauntlet that extended to her elbow and with two large silver gears around the wrist.
"Oi get off," I struggled to get the girl off of me.
"Isn't she the one Nitori wanted us to look for?" Nanoha asked.
"It is Nanoha-chan," I could feel Hayate smirking as she said that, "and it looks as if she's taken a liking to our Teana-chan."
"Get off of me," I tried to loosen her hold.
"So who are you three?" the clingy girl asked.
"Takamachi Nanoha, Yagami Hayate, and Lanster Teana," that brunette introduced.
"Nice to meet you." She turned her head to Nanoha, "hmmm, I think I've heard of you before. When was it," I felt her head tilt on mine. She sighed, "oh well, I'll eventually remember. By the way," she looked around, "where are we? This is obviously not Mid-Childa let alone TSAB."
I jolted, "did you just say 'TSAB'?"
"Yes, I am part of TSAB in Mid-Childa, Nakajima Subaru, part of the Gulf Special Rescue Unit, at your service," she did a salute with her gloved hand. Although still startled about the information she just gave us, I took the opportunity to grab her shoulders and successfully flung her forwards off of my back. "Awww," she whined as she hit a tree, "I wanted to be carried for a bit more."
"Uh huh," I twitched. Looking closely she had a long piece of white cloth that extended to her hips, tied around her head, like a headband. She wore really short blue jeans with something that looked like a white cape with blue border lines was attached to the black belt holding up her shorts. Her white jacket matched that cape thing around her waist, covering the blue outlined black shirt she wore, both cut just above her waist, showing her mid-drift. Does she even get cold at night?
"Hmm, so what is this 'TSAB' you speak of?" Hayate asked.
"Short for 'Time-Space Administration Bureau'," I informed. "It's somewhere in our world." Subaru gave us a confused look. "We're in another dimension called Gensokyo. We come from what the inhabitants here call 'the outside world'. It is connected to Gensokyo by a border."
"Hmmm," the purple haired girl tapped her chin, "what planet?"
"Earth."
"Ah, we call it 'Non-administrated Planet #97'. It's from a different dimension from Mid-Childa. Your brother must have gotten someone to take him to and from Earth using a dimensional transfer."
"So he did use magic before. Then can I?" I mumbled.
"I wonder if we should take you back to Nitori," Hayate was examining Subaru, "she is worried about you since you disappeared from her place."
"Nitori?"
"The kappa who found you when you came here. Wait a moment," the brunette thought deeply, "I remember that misfortune goddess said you are an android."
"Ah, yes," the purple haired girl scratched the back of her head, "I'm actually a combat cyborg according to my registration."
"How did you get here in the first place?"
"No idea, I think I had something to do with that dimensional transfer. It sort of malfunctioned when it started."
"And you were knocked out when you got here because?"
"No clue," she turned to me, "but when I felt Teana-chan's magic signature, I immediately woke up in an unknown environment and started to explore."
I stood dumbfounded at the scene going on between Hayate and Subaru. I turn to a spaced-out Nanoha looking beyond the stretch of trees. "You okay Nanoha?"
"I feel a familiar presence," she barely whispered and closed her eyes. "I know she's here somewhere on this mountain. But where?"
"Should we go down to the base and tell Nitori about Subaru-chan?" Hayate slung an arm over my shoulders.
"I could go there with Teana," the cyborg chirped.
"Eh?"
"I can easily make it down the mountain with these skates."
"Why me?" I looked at her in confusion.
"Because I like you and you're so fun to cling on."
"What kind of reasoning is th-"
I felt Hayate's hands push me toward Subaru as she said, "go Subaru-chan!"
"Gottcha!" She caught and threw me on her back. She crouched down and placed her finger tip on the dirt floor. A sky blue magic circle appeared underneath us as she shouted, "Wing Road!" A long stream of condensed energy extended from the circle and weaved its way around the trees. "Let's go! I'll see you two later!" Hopping on the road she made, she rolled off at a ridiculous speed to the base of the mountain as I tightly clutched her shoulders.
Hayate POV
"I hear rustling noises," I turned to my friend, "right Nanoha-chan?"
"I smell lilacs."
"Uh, Nanoha-chan there are no lilacs here."
"Exactly! There are no lilacs in sight yet I can smell its fragrance."
"Oh, you are such a bloodhound," I chuckled.
"What?! Ugh, never mind," she sighed. "So what this about rustling noise? Actually, where did Teana-chan and Subaru-chan go?"
"They just left to Nitori's place," I said and pointed at the slowly dissipating road.
"...I smell lilacs."
"Uh huh. Anyways, I sense someone hiding and mentally saying, 'ah, crap I'm caught.'"
"Are you sure you can't read minds?" she lifted an eyebrow.
"How rude, I am perfectly human. I could sense whoever it is because of this tome," I took out the Book of Darkness. "And now they went, 'meep.' Over there!" I ran to the direction where I felt a presence, with Nanoha following me.
"Gah!" I saw twin braids bouncing in the air as a the owner ran away from me.
The book floated out of my arms and dashed to the little girl wearing a red dress with black frills at the hem. At full speed, the tome rammed into her red-head, causing her to lose her balance and making the red puffy hat she wore to fly towards me. "Ah, so cute," I looked at the plushy animal head attached to the sides. "You like bunnies."
Nanoha and I walked to the girl sprawled out on the ground muttering, "ugh, why tome, why?"
"Here you go," I cheerfully placed the hat back on her head while Nanoha helped her up. The book floated next to my head, "I never knew you could do that." It did bobbed up and down as if nodding.
"Why is the tome owner here and why did you do that?" She asked the tome and I as she clutched her head.
I noticed a mallet pendent hanging on her neck, "you must be the mallet user, one of the guardian knights."
"Y-yeah, so what about it?" she retorted while crossing her arms and looking the other away. I pulled her into a hug, earning a, "h-hey. What are you- let go of me." The little one flailed in my embrace, but stopped after feeling my tears drop on her face. "O-oi why are you crying?"
"Because," I sniffled, "I don't know actually. But... but you'll never be alone again."
"Eh? What are you talking about?" her sapphire eyes showed confusion with a hint of sadness.
The Book of Darkness floated closer to the redheaded kid, as if telling her, "it's okay now, we don't have to be separate anymore."
"Really?" She softly asked. The book nuzzled against her cheek. "Thanks," she muttered, "I'm Vita."
"Nice to meet you Vita-chan," I smiled at her and wiped my tears, "I'm Yagami Hayate and this is Takamachi Nanoha," I pointed to my friend. "Ah, we are all going to be together for a long time." I lifted Vita up on my shoulders, which caused her to pound on my head, wanting to be put down, and slung my arm around Nanoha. "Right Nanoha?"
"Yeah," she looked at the sky, "we should go back to the shrine. I wonder where Teana-chan and Subaru are."
Just then, we heard an, "AHHHHHHHH!" The three of us turned our heads to see Teana in Subaru's arms who was speeding her way towards us.
"Get out-of-the-way!" the purple haired girl shouted. That was then when we noticed her condensed magic energy was underneath us. We dodged just in time as she uncontrollably sped past us toward the direction of the Moriya Shrine.
"Uh, wow, that was..." Nanoha started.
"Fast," Vita and I finished. She stopped hitting my head and jumped off my shoulders.
"I'll walk," the little redhead mumbled.
By the time we got to the shrine, the sun had already set. "Welcome back you two, and I see you have a new little companion," Sanae grinned from her seat in the front.
"Yeah, we found her not too long ago," I ruffled Vita's head.
"I'm Vita not little," the little one said with a huff.
"Okay, welcome to Moriya Shrine," our old friend greeted as we all walked into the shrine. "Teana and Subaru are already here," we walked through the familiar wooden halls, passing the bedrooms and bathroom.
"Strange, I don't remember going in the shrine before. It looks just like the interior of your house," Nanoha thought out loud.
Sanae nervously laughed, "Kanako-sama wanted the inside of this shrine to look exactly like my house so I would feel more at home, so she asked these two oni and Nitori to rebuild it."
"I see," Nanoha nodded as we entered the living room.
"Hello you guys!" Subaru waved from the table, "I am able to travel with you guys!"
Teana face-palmed herself, muttering, "why me?"
"Oooh, great!" I clapped my hands together, "this is another new member, Vita-chan!" Said person grunted. "Awww Vita-chan, don't be like that," I glomped her from behind. "We're family now," I nuzzled my chin on her hat, "so don't be shy."
"Family?" she whispered.
"Yup! Family," I grinned, "along with the other knights, we'll all live together."
"How would you know that it will work out?" I felt her shaking.
"Because, I wouldn't have it any other way," I said softly. I felt her tears drop on my arm, "there, there," I slowly rocked us back and forth to calm her down.
"Aw, she's like you when we first took you in Sanae," I turned my head to meet a woman with intense poofy blue hair at the base of her neck, and dark red eyes. What stood out the most about her was the large circle shimenawa with shide she carried behind her back.
"T-that's not true!" Sanae flustered.
"It is though," a girl about Vita's height, with medium-length flaxen hair and gray eyes appeared from behind the woman. "So, these must be the people Aya wrote about."
"Yes they are. This is Yasaka Kanako, the Goddess of wind and rain." The miko pointed to the woman wearing a red shirt, with a mirror over the center of her chest, her long sleeves were white. The long skirt she wore was black with red flower patterns along the hem.
"Nice to meet you," Kanako offered a smile. "I am indeed the goddess of this shrine instead of her," she pointed to the kid wearing a beige, wide-brimmed hat with two frog eyes on the top.
"I am Moriya Suwako, the Goddess of mountains," the kid waved her arm completely covered by her the large white sleeves. The sleeves, along with her white collar, were stitched onto the torso of her indigo dress with frog prints. "I lost this shrine during the Great Suwa War to Kanako," she pouted.
Us outsider gaped at the two goddesses. "Wow," the five of us breathed out.
Sometime during the introductions, our old friend went to prepare dinner along with the red-white miko. "So, what do you plan on doing here?" the blue-white miko asked as we started eating.
"I'm looking for my knights, Nanoha-chan is looking for the girl from her dreams, and Teana-chan is just following us," I answered.
Nanoha POV
As I was listening to the conversations around me, something in the back of my mind kept urging me to go back to that lake. I got up and said, "I'm going to go train now."
Subaru spoke up, "let me train with you!"
"O-okay." We left to go outside. "I'm going to run around the lake," I turned to Subaru, "how about you?"
"Maybe the same thing, do you want to spar after?"
"Maybe next time, I'm kind of tired after today's events." I started running to the lake and around it.
"Okay." Subaru was rolling on her skates while asking, "is that the only reason you came to this world? To find the girl from your dream, that is."
"...yeah, and to help out Hayate."
"Hmm, I wonder if there is something here for me," she looked up at the moonlit sky. "I'm kind of worried about my team back at TSAB, but it seems so fun being here in Gensokyo."
That got me to ask, "why did you decide to travel with us?"
She thought for a moment and grinned, "you guys seem fun to hang around. Especially Teana, I can feel that we will get along very well."
I think it was around midnight, by the time we got back to the shrine. Everyone else seemed to be asleep, so we quickly took a bath and followed the familiar paths to the guest room. Four futons were laid out with three bodies sleeping. Teana-chan was silently sleeping away while Hayate was using Vita as a body pillow. Subaru and I slipped into the two empty futons and bid each other goodnight.