The Haruno Chronicles

by Bobby8795

This is my first story but it gets better later on. Please do it the courtesy of reading to Ch. 4 or 5 before knocking it off or giving a review. It is not a Wierd remake of MGLN but if you don't read up to chapter 4 or 5, it will look like that. Thanks.

25. Fourway Battle Royal – Good vs Good

The Haruno Chronicles

Ch. 25 Here we get a battle royal. It's good guys versus good guys?What is up with that. Four on four as we fight amongst ourselves, Sort of?

Disclaimer: Everything, material, characters, locations ect… are property of the respective people.

Chapter 25 – Four-Way Battle Royal

During the next week, there wasn't any action. There was another stone response but by the time they were ready to sortie, it had already been confirmed as sealed by Fate. They had just been passing their days by with some intensive training and talking. There wasn't much to do on the ship besides that. They each took turns using on of the two training rooms for a scrimmage. Lee was using the separate simulation room for some Ki training. Though the room wasn't meant for intensive combat like the real training rooms, it could still auto repair from minor damage. Lee was not focusing on his Ki training. According to his father who gave him pointers from time to time, once a swordsman reaches a certain level of physical strength, he will stop growing until the other half, in this case Ki, catches up with it. The two strengths keep each other in check and properly working. One does not exist without the other so you had to keep them near each other if you wanted to grow stronger by any significant portion. Many swordsmen knew this, so they trained on their Ki by meditating. Lee's method of Ki training was different though. He already had a special talent for Ki manipulation, so he practiced with Ki by making as much or it as possible. Though it was not nearly as powerful as his magic, it was still an important asset in any of his battles. It gave him speed and physical strength in a way that magic could not. Also, it was a good back up for situations where magic could not be used.

Sarah decided to join him with Ki training. Her mastery of Ki was, though good, was far below Lee and Sora's. She wanted to be near their level at all costs. She began by watching how Lee did it and copying it. She had a real talent for learning by sight. She was able to get a sword of Ki after only a few hours, while it took Lee a few days. Lee then taught her something for the first time. He taught her how to seal her Ki in levels to hide her strength and release it. Like Lee, it only took her about an hour to get it down. Lee then sparred with her for the rest of the time. Sora also came in sometimes to spar too. Lee and Sora were almost evenly matched. Lee was much faster than Sora but in terms of physical strength and number of techniques, Sora was superior. But that was to be expected, as he was older. But Lee still had Ki techniques. Lee had an amazing talent for using Ki that easily outmatched Sora's.

Lee's father had taught him three new techniques with Ki during that week as well. The first one was simply called KI BLAST. And that was exactly what it was, a small blast of Ki gathered in the right index fingered and shot like a gun. But it was different then a blast of magic. It could not be controlled and when it fired, you had to give it a sort of push with your Ki to launch it, where as Magic shot automatically on it's own without any effort. The second was another simple Ki technique called KI SHIELD. Again, it had an over simplistic nature of just being a shield of condensed Ki. And again, it was different than magic in two ways. One was that it didn't have a form or was constant like a magical barrier; it just was a mass of condensed Ki that you put temporarily in-between you and the opponents attack. The second difference was unlike magic where it just bounced off or disappeared, a shield of Ki was like a normal shield, where the power didn't just disappear. Most of the force rebounded on the attacker but the remaining force just went through the shield as if it was a solid object. If done right, the user could force the power through their body and out the feet so it didn't effect them. The third technique was called RAH KAE. It combined the first two into a physical formed attack in the shape of a spike that could hold an opponent in place. It could not be felt, cause any damage or be used as an attack but it could paralyze anything it touches. It was useful for restraining the opponent. Lee mastered all three techniques easily. Sora had already learned the techniques, but they weren't as good as Lee's. Their father concluded by telling Lee that these three attacks were the founding principles of KI use. They were also the first Ki attacks ever developed and any good martial artist would know them. Lee remembered at one of his dad's tournaments that was an invitational only, that he saw a whole bunch of lights shooting back and forth, at first, he had thought that it was just a light show because he was only 6 at the time but later, his dad explained that it was an attack using energy.

After the week of nothing but training, there was only three days left until they had to go back to school. Also, Sora had to leave the next day because he had to drive back to college in his car. He could just teleport there but he needed his car there for other reasons so he needed the time to drive. They were all both anxious and dreading to get off the ship. On the one hand, they could breath fresh air again. But on the other hand, they would have to start school again. They all felt like it was too short of a vacation.

Over breakfast, the analysis team told them that today had a high chance of a Saren Stone activating. They were able to get non-locatable readings from the stones, even when they weren't active with the magic they are always releasing. They could measure these pulses and tell roughly when a stone had a good chance of activating. Today. There was a stone with a particularly high reading so they were told to be on stand-by level 2. They all were told what each level meant when they agreed to live on the ship. Level 2 stand-by meant that they needed to be battle ready and prepare to launch at anytime in a minute or less. The only thing higher was Level one where they would actually be waiting on the teleport pad waiting for immediate transited to the battle sight. This level also required all personnel leaving the ship to be in battle condition at all times, this included the four selected for the next mission, Chrono, Sakura, Sarah, and Nanoha to all be in their transformed state until sortie or the warning was lifted. Lance would also be going as a Barrier support only. Lee and Sora, who had gotten all the action last time, were going to stay behind and watch.

The time they had to prepare wasn't long. An hour later, they had found positive Saren stone confirmation. All five of them teleported at once and found themselves high in the sky, above the clouds. Chrono flew quickly below the clouds to see where they were. Below him, he saw a huge shrine on top of a mountain. Then he saw that the bottom of the mountain there was a city. He knew exactly where they were. He flew back up to them and said, "Guy's, were over Kanto and that big shrine is below us so try to avoid damage going down. It wouldn't feel right to damage a shrine, even if we could replace it with magic." Everyone knew why Chrono was saying this. Anyone who had ever been to Japan knew that the people of Kanto where very spiritual people who took almost anything as a sign from the gods. They would probably do something drastic if some unknown force came down and blew up a shrine. Lance said he would put extra protection in that area for safety.

As soon as he barrier was up, four black blobs came up from the clouds and appeared before them. Each one then made a mirror in front of them. Each of the four mages not including Lance saw their own reflection in the mirror. Suddenly, the blobs went in the back of the mirror and to their surprise, their reflections came out of the mirror. Now in front of each of them, they saw a black shaded version of themselves. They even copied their barrier jackets and staffs. They all prepared to fight their double gangers. They all launched at once. Sarah was the first to attack. She shot her PIERCING LIGHTS at it. To her surprise, shadow-Sarah also launched a PIERCING LIGHTS attack. She shot down most of Sarah's and got a few through, but Sarah also managed to get some through to the enemy. Just when they were about to hit, Sarah activated Stage two, BLIND DESTRUCTION. And they blew up in the shadows face. Unfortunately, just before the explosion, the shadow also activated stage two and Sarah got caught in a blast of her own. The two explosions created on big dust cloud that each of them could see.

Sakura was also having trouble. She was in a sort of Mind battle with her shadow. She had used her new attack, "PLATNIUM SHIFT, GENOCIDE STYLE." It reminded Lee of Fate's PHOTON LANCER." There were a few differences though. Sarah could create a hell of a lot more. There were easily at least 10,000 tiny baseball sized spheres of magic up in the air all belonging to normal Sakura. The second was that they weren't arrows like Fate's and the third difference was that Sakura could control them all individually, all 10,000 of them. She was in a PLATNIUM SHIFT battle with her other self. They were sending them out all at once, making each on counter another one precisely. No one, even those on the ship could fathom how Sakura was able to control that many attacks at once and do it multiple times in a row no less. The most that John could do was a few hundred, maybe a thousand if he was trying as much as possible in a non stressful environment but 10,000 was ludicrous in the heat of battle. They had to give Sakura credit because after the third wave of 10,000, she started to overwhelm her shadow and were getting some extras through. No matter how good of a replica it was, there wasn't anyway that it could keep up with that type of concentration, especially if it was something without its own brain. Unfortunately, Shadow-Sakura changed her strategy and shot her SCARLET FURY BUSTER, which broke straight through all of Sakura's weaker magic blasts and made a direct hit.

Chrono wasn't fairing that good either. He was in a close combat competition with his shadow. He was using his MWD in the form of a Sword and then he changed it into the handgun. These were two of the three weapons that John told Chrono were best suited for him. Each time being countered by the same weapon from his shadow. Next, he tried something new and original. He made it turn into a giant Shurikin (Japanese throwing stars). He already had this idea in his head but decided to test it. He thought that if he could control his magic, even from a distance, then he should be able to control any of his weapons like that too, as they were mostly made up of his magic. He was right; jut by concentrating, he could make the thing spin wildly. He waited until he got it spinning so fast that a small whirlwind started to form around it. He then threw it hard at the enemy, who made the same weapon and threw it as well. Chrono dodged his by making his veer up, then go down and over the shadows. Then it cut straight through his shadow. Unfortunately, the shadow just regenerated and what was more, his attack was still coming. Chrono blocked it but still received a lot of damage.

Nanoha was probably fairing the best out of all of them. She was in a constant mid-range fight with her shadow. Due to this, their attacks were colliding in mid-air but Nanoha had been able to avoid them all. She even got a hit with her DIVINE BUSTER at close range near the beginning and blew its legs off. Though it just regenerated and they continued the fight. Currently, they were in a battle of AXCEL SHOOTERS. They each had eight sturdy, blindingly fast spheres of magic butting heads. The weird thing with this attack was that unlike a normal attack where they would just disappear after contact, these ones just seemed to smash into each other, then bounce back out and flew around again at their controllers command until they hit another one.

Back on the ARTIMIS, The entire crew seemed to be glued to the nearest screen, watching the four battles, which had been broken up into four windows so that each battle was on its own screen. They were watching it not as a battle for the stone but more like a tournament. It was exciting, like a battle royal on television. Even John was enjoying the battle. Though it did look like their side was losing and thet worried him. He knew he couldn't send Sarah or Lee in for a few reasons. One was that if Lee went, it would probably turn into another overkill situation and John knew better than anybody that a giant explosion in the sky above Kanto was the worst possible thing that could happen in Japan, especially if it damaged the below shrine. Also, He couldn't send them in because he knew none of them would thank him for it, especially after the effort they were putting in. He just hoped that they would figure out what to do quickly.

Back on the battlefield, Chrono's fight had turned into a high-speed bout with long swords. With the different boosts in magic he got for being transformed and using the MWD, he was as fast as Lee in the air. To anyone watching, it was a blur as the ships video cameras couldn't keep up with it. Suddenly, a dodged blast of red magic came hurdling at Chrono. By instinct, he changed his staff into his most powerful mode, FSD mode (which could be used for normal spells), and fired off a super-powered CRASH SHOT at Shadow Sakura, who had fired it. The Shadow had not expected this and got blasted full force with the attack. By moving so suddenly, Chrono dodged a magic bullet fired off by Shadow-Chrono and it went towards Sakura, who retaliated with a CRIMSON SHOOTER that flew straight at Chrono's shadow and caught it off guard as well. It made a solid impact. This sparked an idea in both of their heads.

They opened a telepathic line between all four of them. "Sarah, Nanoha, can you hear me?" said Chrono. "Loud and clear," they both answered. "We have an idea," said Sakura. "What is it," said Nanoha. "Switch opponents to the one your good against," said Chrono. Sakura then said, "We attacked each others shadow and they didn't know what hit them. I think there only good over the person they copy." "That's smart thinking," said Lance, joining the conversation. Lance continued, "I think I can help you. I can hold them in place long enough for you guys to switch so the other one doesn't follow you and you end up in a two on one." They all agreed to the plan.

They started off by firing an attack at their opponents. When the shadows blocked, Lance moved in with a powerful binding spell called STRUGGLE BIND. When they were held in place, all four of them quickly teleported in unison, each taking the spot of the one they decided to fight. Now the new line up was as follows:

Sarah – S. Nanoha: a good decision as the concentrated fire mage Nanoha is weak against wide area attacks.

Nanoha – S. Sakura: A good decision as Sakura has a hard time against single high power attacks, plus out of the remaining, is the best at long range.

Chrono – S. Sarah: A good decision as Chrono can out maneuver Sarah's wide area attacks and go in for the kill.

Sakura – S. Chrono: A good decision as Long range attacks are a close-range mage's worst nightmare and Chrono is weak against Omni-directional attacks.

They all prepared to fight their new opponents. Sarah again was the first one up. She started at the Nanoha Shadow with her BLAZING DESTINY attack. The Nanoha shadow tried to use her DIVINE BUSTER, but the powerful sphere tears right through the cheap imitation and makes a square hit. Unfortunately, the shadow just regenerated and retaliated with another DIVINE BUSTER. Sarah dodged it easily and flew straight up. Then she stopped and a big white magic circle appeared under her. Then she held her staff straight out to her side. HBD standing by," said Blazing Destiny. "Holy Blade Driver, IGNITION START!" Her staff instantly changed into a short sword with blade of pure white and a hilt of silver. Then she aimed the sword straight at her opponent. Then a Giant White cross-appeared perpendicular at the tip of the sword. She aimed it straight at the Shadow Nanoha. She positioned herself to launch. Then a pair of large white magic wings appeared on her shoes. They were glowing brightly. A large white circle appeared behind Sakura. "FLASH CROSS, GO!!!" She launched so fast that she made a sonic boom echo all throughout the inside of the barrier. She launched straight at the shadow, Sword pointed out in front of her with the cross at the head. Sarah drove straight through the shadow, which broke into four pieces and thanks to the HBD's special ability, the shadow could not regenerate. Then Sarah flew back and charged up for one final attack. She changed her staff into shooting mode and made three large white circular spell ribbons appear in front of her staff. Then a huge sphere of white magical energy appeared in front of her, in the middle of the three rings. "DESTINY BREAKER, FIRE!!!" A huge wave of White magical energy shot out and straight at the now quarter-cut shadow Nanoha. It made a direct hit and blew the entire thing out of existence. Then, out of the dust cloud from the explosion, a small blue shard came flying at Sarah, who caught it. She thought it as a Saren Stone but upon closer examination, it was too small to be one. She pocketed it and flew over to help her friends.

At the same time as Sarah was fighting, the other three were still fighting. Their fights had now broken them up so they were a few Kilometers away apiece. Nanoha was fighting S. Sakura, who was firing numerous small attacks at her. She blocked them easily and fired her DIVINE BUSTER multiple times, each one making its mark and easily breaking through the onslaught of mini attacks. Unfortunately, the Shadow just recovered. Nanoha now was getting flustered. She then fired her AXCEL SHOOTER at the shadow Sakura who shot them down with 10 blasts a piece. Nanoha decided it was time to end it. She rarely used this attack at full power but the situation called for it. She flew high up into the air. "EXCELION MODE!" A large pink magic circle appeared under her and her staff changes. The main body became longer and the head became a golden triangular spear point with two points very close to each other with enough space for a thin point in between them. There were two golden wings in the side and two on the center top. "BLASTER SYSTEM, activate BLASTER 1." Raging heart confirmed, "BLASTER 1 Limit, released." Suddenly, everyone in the vicinity felt a surge of power and then they all felt Nanoha's power skyrocket. It was at least twice as powerful as before. "LANCE," Nanoha yelled at Lance mentally. Lance didn't need more then that to know what she was saying. "STEEL BARRIER, LEVEL 3." Now a second barrier appeared inside the first one. "Nanoha, I can only hold this for about 5 minutes. I have already used up most of my magic power withstanding all of your attacks on the first barrier and the one Sarah just did. Don't delay." Nanoha got the message and decided to do this quick. She flew high above the Shadow Sakura. Then she pointed her staff at her and three HUGE magical rings appeared in front of it. Then a Huge city block sized Magical circle appeared under her. Then a gigantic sphere of magic appeared in the three rings. It was huge. It had to be at least 50 meters wide. "STARLIGHT," the sphere started to glow intensely as magic seamed to be collected around it, "BREAKER!!!"It fired a HUGE WAVE OF MAGICAL ENERGY. It shot straight down at the Shadow Sakura and passed through it like it was wet tissue. It disintegrated into nothingness; not even an ash was left. Just before it hit the barrier, Lance placed a triple shield system across where it would hit. It defended against the attack just enough to keep it from breaking the barrier.

During Nanoha's attack, someone on the ship was analyzing it. Then one of the mages analyzing it yelled out, "Holy cow, it spiked 1.5 billion in its power level reading, getting final reading. 1.95 billion. Whoa, another super mage; hope she doesn't destroy the ship." Lee, Sora and John were all shocked. They all knew that Nanoha was strong but not that strong. John made a mental note to ask her about it when she got back onto the ship. They watched on the screen as Nanoha collected a small blue fragment.

During everyone else's battle, Chrono was fighting the Sarah shadow. He was easily avoiding her slower wide range attacks and was able to confront her evenly at close range. Chrono figured out that without all the sword training and the Ki and stuff, the Sarah shadow wasn't in any way more than average with a sword. All it had was the bonus it got from the HBD mode. Chrono could easily counteract that with his MWD mode. For a change of pace, he fired a BLUE INFERNO CANNON.It made a solid hit and blasted the shadow Sakura to smithereens. Unfortunately, those smithereens reformed into Shadow Sakura who tried to hit him with its DESTINY BREAKER. Chrono then remembered the flip mode thing he learned from John. He decided to try it out. "MWD, FLIP MODE, IRON KNUCKLE!" His staff changed into a iron gauntlet on his right hand. Also, something he hadn't noticed before was that he felt a giant boost, at least 3 times stronger and faster than the boost from the regular MWD mode. He felt himself zoom through the air straight at the shadow. "CRASH SHOT V2!" He felt a lot of magic gather in the gauntlet. He punched the gauntlet into Shadow Sakura and he shot the magic inside the gauntlet in one big blast. The result being that he sent the shadow flying on a single blast of magic 50 yards back. Chrono beat the blast to the destination with his new super speed and decided to go for an old fashion punch. He was surprised when he punched it at full force and sent it flying double the distance that it had just traveled on the blast. He wondered if he could pick up a car with his new super strength and resolved to try it out sometime. He then used FLASH MOVE a move Nanoha taught him a while back to help with his used to be lack of speed and rocketed at, if possible, an even faster speed to get behind where the shadow was heading. The shadow regained its composure before it got there though so it stopped a few yards in front of Chrono. Chrono then shot his REVOLVER at it and sent it flying. "Try DRAGON CRASH." BLACK FALCON sent the instructions to his head and Chrono liked the idea and decided to go with it. He started to gather magic in the gauntlet. The gears near the wrist started spinning like crazy. For a second, Chrono thought he heard a roar coming from his wrist. Then two wings appeared on his shoes. He flew at a supersonic speed, creating another sonic boom and stopped a bit above the shadow. He then shot down a strand of Blue magic energy that tied itself around the shadow, restricting its movements. "DRAGON," Chrono pulled up, yanking the now helpless shadow upwards speeding towards him. His right fist was now leaking magic out, like steam out of a dragon's mouth. Then his entire fist was surrounded in a bright blue aura that took the shape of a dragon's head. "CRASH!!!" He did a solid punch right into the shadows stomach so hard; it created a shockwave felt by anyone in the vicinity. At the same time, a bright blue flare of magic energy flared out of the gauntlet while still punching the shadow. The shadow disintegrated before it ever reached the barriers bottom. He then saw a tiny blue shard fly out. It was too small to be a Saren Stone so Chrono caught it and pocketed it instead. He decided to fly over to see how the others were.

Sakura's battle was by far the longest. She was fighting Chrono. Though she was good at aiming and long distance attacks, it was hard for her to contend with Chrono's speed. "RESRICTION CHAINS!" She caught him with some if her magic chains, keeping him in place. "BLOODY SNIPER" She fired a very small thread beam of magic at Chrono from almost a kilometer away, as she was keeping her distance. It hit it straight in and when it made contact, it turned into a large wave of magical energy. The shadow then shot a CRASH SHOT but it never even reached her. It then closed in fast. Sakura could only block as it came in fro a onslaught of close range barrages. Nanoha had taught her a good combo defense-attack for these kinds of cases. "PROTECTION" A barrier shield appeared in front of her to defend her against shadow Chrono's melee attacks. "BARRIER BURST!" The barrier exploded in Chrono's shadows direction, sending it flying backs a distance. This gave her ample time to teleport to a safe distance. Then she remembered her new flip form for her shooting style. "SHOOTING STYLE, FLIP MODE, MAGNUM ASSULT CANNON." Her staff disappeared and turned into a large, oversized assault rifle-like cannon. Two legs from the middle supported it. They were on a magic circle acting as a ground for support. It had a small cannon looking barrel at the end with four spikes coming out perpendicular to the barrel. It had a trigger a quarter of the way down the body to fire with. It also had a zooming accuracy scope. She put her eye to it and rested her head there on the chin support. She put her other hand inside an opening that let her rotate the oversized assault rifle and feed it magic. She aimed the cannon at shadow Chrono. "CRIMSON BIND" the Shadow was stuck in a bind, not able to move. "Try GRAVITY CANNON." Suddenly, magic started gathering in the cannons barrel. The strange thing was, it felt much more potent then normal. She remembered John saying something to her about this mode being able to super compress her magic. She felt the power storing up in the barrel. Another red magic circle appeared at the opening of the Cannon. Then, on the side, two plates opened up and small amounts of magic flared out to not overheat the cannon. Sarah felt like it was ready. Farther away, once again everyone felt a large magic, this time from Sakura. It was skyrocketing like crazy, almost unreal. She aimed her Cannon directly at Lee. It was a long shot, literally as she, according to CERENITY, was about 1.5 Kilometers away from the Shadow but this form was meant for heavy long range. She used the zoom scope to aim it right at the shadow. "GRAVITY CANNON, FIRE!!!" She pulled the trigger and a HUGE wave of Magical energy blasted out of the barrel. It was at least 40 meters across, shooting straight at Shadow-Chrono. It was so powerful that, even with it stationed into the magic circle, Sakura still felt some kick back from firing it. It was a perfect hit. The shadow had broken free and tried to put up a barrier but it just broke to pieces as the blast hit it. The shadow disintegrated as the wave blasted through it. Lance had to use up the last of his magic to make sure the outer barrier didn't break. The inner one he had made was shattered easily. Sakura went and collected a small blue fragment. Then she headed towards her friends to see how they were.

Sarah had to go and catch Lance quickly before he fell. The barrier disappeared right after Sakura's final attack and Lance had fainted from using too much magic. Sarah flew down and dragged him back up. Nanoha was standing on her magic circle she created, to tired to fly along with Chrono. Sarah deposited Lance onto the circle. Sarah, who had finished her fight a bit ago had Nanoha transfer some of her magic into Lance, who then woke up. "Sorry, did something happen, anyone notice?" Nanoha shook her head and said, "Don't worry, you held out long enough so no one would notice a thing, but just barley. You fainted on spot and started falling like a rock. Thank Sarah for saving you." He did and Sarah said it wasn't nearly as big a deal as what Lance had to have been doing. He had to be protecting the barrier and withstanding every single one of their attacks, and there had been quite a few big ones. It really showed them how impenetrable Lance's defense was. "And now you see the reason why I told you I had trouble defeating him in a match. I only managed to once. And then he wasn't supporting a huge 10 km barrier, or withstanding a total of 8 mage attacks, just mine so his barriers were much thicker and pretty much invincible," said Nanoha. Sakura had arrived mid-story. They were all in awe. Not that they didn't appreciate Lance's abilities, it was just that they didn't know how good he was until now.

"Okay," said Sarah, "Now we defeated the monsters the Saren Stone spawned, so where is the Saren Stone. I got this," she took out the minute blue shard, "but it is way too small to be a Saren stone and not the right color. Saren stones were white, not blue. Everyone else took out their blue shard, confirming that they had all gotten one. Lance looked at them for a second, and then said, "Ah, I know. Give me the shards." They all handed him their shards and Lance took them in one hand. He then closed his hand and gathered a bit of magic in it. When he opened his hand again, there weren't four, but one large white Saren Stone. "Nanoha, if you please." Nanoha changed her staff into sealing mode. Lance threw the stone up. "SEALING." Nanoha shot a small pink thread at the Saren stone, which made contact. "Saren Stone, 14, SEALED," said Raging Heart. Now that they had taken care of getting the stone, they told the ship to bring them up "lest they collapse." It was a good thing they did teleport them quickly as all four of them collapsed as soon as they were teleported. Lee, John and Sora, along with two other mages picked them up and brought them to the infirmary.