A/N: Yes, the title of this story is from Sean Connery's line in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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The gargoyle screeched with rage through its long, cleaving beak and lashed out at Yuuno Scrya. The twelve-year-old archaeologist barely raised a Round Shield in time, but his defensive spell managed to stop the animated stone guardian's claws before they reached his entirely too vulnerable body. Instead of being deflected away, though, the gargoyle continued to push against the bright green disk. A pale blue light began to swirl around its claws, energy the same color as the gargoyle's glowing eyes, and the claws began to dig into the shield.

"Barrier-piercing magic," he muttered. "Whomever set these things wasn't playing games!" Sparks flew from the interactions of the magic, and he realized that his shield wasn't going to hold much longer.

"Barrier Burst!"

Yuuno detonated the shield, turning its protective energies into a forceful blast that sent the gargoyle spinning away. The actual damage was minimal, though, and the stone guardian quickly righted itself to come hurtling back at him.

"Accel Shooter."

Four glowing pink balls like magical bullets pummeled the gargoyle, destroying its animating magic and smashing it into chunks of lifeless rock. Around the room four other gargoyles were similarly treated by Takamachi Nanoha's shooting magic. Though she was only Yuuno's age and came from a non-administered world without widespread knowledge of magic, she was already being celebrated as the TSAB's newest up-and-coming Ace.

Another flight of gargoyles had launched itself from the railing above, a half-dozen stone monsters descending to slaughter the violators of the tomb. Nanoha pointed her device, Raising Heart, in their direction.

"Accel Shooter!"

Her magic called up another swarm of homing missiles that launched at the attackers. The gargoyles banked and turned, but Nanoha's will steered the projectiles towards them, striking them down despite their best efforts.

It took concentration to control the spell, though, particularly so many shots at once. Most mages couldn't manage such a feat at all, so Nanoha could be forgiven for not realizing that the floor behind her was reshaping itself, rearing up in the shape of a thirty-foot colossus. The new guardian had giant spiked mace-heads instead of hands, shining with pale blue fire, and whipped one down towards Nanoha.

"Struggle Bind!"

Glowing green chains sprayed from the rune in front of Yuuno's hand, wrapping around the golem's arms, legs, waist, and head. It pulled, using all its strength against the binding spell, and Yuuno could feel the strain on his entire body as he fought to hold it. Nanoha turned, realizing her danger, and struck at it with the last remaining missiles from her Accel Shooter, but they did no more than chip off tiny pieces of stone.

"Nanoha!"

"Let's shoot it, my master!" Raising Heart encouraged. Nanoha leveled the device at the golem.

"Barrel extension."

Three circles appeared before Raising Heart's tip, forming a channel to build power for the spell to come.

"Divine Buster!"

A brilliant pink holocaust exploded from Raising Heart, consuming the torso, upper arms, and head of the golem, dispelling its magic and reducing the stone to a fine dust, then kept right on going into and through the wall, through a good sixty feet of stone, creating a brand new entrance into the millennia-old-pyramid.

The golem's unsupported forearms and legs crashed heavily to the floor, and then all was still.

"Wow!" Nanoha exclaimed, looking around at the damage. "Those were almost worse than Precia-san's guardians in the Garden of Time. I have new respect for your work, Yuuno-kun!"

"Um, I'm glad to hear you say that, Nanoha, but...would you please listen to me the next time I tell you not to touch something!?"