Try 5

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Well, since there's 3 fights going on, there will be 3 chapters, one for each fight.

And, if you're expecting a curb-stomp battle, please, I don't like those. I might let the heroes have an edge or the villains have an edge that makes it look good or bad for them, but if I wanted to write a fic about characters that won every fight, I'd go read some Naruto fanfiction. =/

You NEED to have tension and drama to have a compelling story.

And sometimes, you need to do things to keep your strongest character out of the story.

But, that's just my opinion.

First fight... Valgaav vs Nanoha and friends

Fight!

Nanoha frowned as Valgaav rushed down at her. "Fate-chan, I'll deal with him, help Filia-san and Amelia-san with those things."

Fate nodded as she flew into the fray.

"Visfarank!" Amelia yelled as her hands glowed with power, before she started punching the various Demons. "Using humans as Demon slaves? I, Amelia Wil Tesla Seiryuun, will not stand for such injustice! In the name of all that is good and just in this world, I shall punish you!" She pointed at Valgaav, who was ignoring her as he held an open palm at Nanoha, firing a powerful magic blast at the young girl.

"Miss Amelia." Fate said softly as she cleaved a Demon in twain with her Zambar, which was now red in color, "we need to concentrate on these creatures."

"Don't worry about Nanoha." Arf yelled as she used binds to tie up more of the Demons. "She can make miracles happen."

Fate smiled softly and nodded. "Yes, she can."

"Flame Bless!" Filia yelled as she set a group of four on fire. "There's so many of them!"

"Then we need to speed this up!" Arf growled, these things were starting to move faster. "How can they!" She gasped as the ones who had been taken out suddenly got back up, looking as though they weren't hurt. In fact, if anything, they seemed to be gaining flesh.

Fate frowned as she slashed down more of the demon-like humans.

"Ra Tilt!"

"Chaotic Disintegrate!"

The spells fired from Amelia and Filia shrouded the arena in white.

"Fate!" Arf growled and looked at her master. "Let's try that out!"

"You sure?" Fate asked, and Arf nodded. "Alright!" She closed her eyes and jumped up, before landing on Arf's back as the wolf started running at a high speed towards the rest of the demon-creatures.

Fate held Bardiche Zambar behind her as it started glowing red with power. She grit her teeth as she swung her weapon forward, slamming into some of the demons and moving them off of their feet in a circular sweeping motion, over and over again, before the creatures were launched into the air, spinning around and around. "Dragon Zambar SLAVE!" Fate yelled, firing an extremely potent Dragon Slave into the funnel, which exploded as the enemies collided with the spell.

Meanwhile, as that fight was going on, another fight was happening.

Nanoha gasped as his power nearly punched through her barrier. "So strong." She yelped as he fired a powerful ball of red energy at her that her barrier barely managed to deflect.

"We can defeat him, if we remain calm."

Nanoha nodded and took aim at him. "Axel Bolt!"

Valgaav's eyes widened as several pink beams, all crackling with lightning shot out from the tip of that spear and straight at him. "What the?" He didn't know what they were, but he didn't care, using Ragudo Mezegis, he slashed through the spell before swinging his weapon down at Nanoha and crashing into her barrier. "So, that weird shield again. Can you really stand up to the lance that pierces?"

Nanoha's eyes widened as the weapon seemed to respond to that and its power increased, the edge became serrated, before easily slashing through her barrier and cutting into her jacket somewhat, before she was launched to the ground at high speeds. "What?" She put her hand to the slash and gasped as she felt a trickle of blood seep out. She knew just how strong her barrier jacket was, and how strong her shields were, for a single attack to slash through so easily, it was terrifying.

And exhilerating at the same time.

Valgaav sneered at her. "Don't you know? Each weapon of light has a basic power, when you call forth the light, and it's true power, when you call it's purpose out. Gorun Nova, the sword that slashes, Ragudo Mezegis, the spear that pierces all, Nezzard, the claw that gouges, Bodigar, the axe that bashes, and Galveira, the arrow that flies. When you call forth their power like that, they're far more dangerous than they are normally." Gripping his weapon, he let loose a scream, even as the area below him was engulfed in white energy. "I'll kill you, and your mother can learn the pain I felt when my master was killed by her!"

"Raising Heart."

"Excellion Buster. Barrel shot."

Valgaav's eyes widened as a near-invisible power washed over him, freezing his body in place. "What?" He growled as his Mazoku power started to flood his body, before a giant pink beam of energy rushed forward and slammed into him, sending him flying backwards, before it exploded.

The pink light contrasted the red ball quite nicely.

"Good job, Raising Heart." Nanoha smiled at her device.

"No problem."

Nanoha smiled as she saw the others. "That was..."

"YOU BITCH!" Everyone looked up and gasped as they saw Valgaav, only his look had changed. He now was sporting feather-like black wings on his back, his arms were covered in the same colored scales and his hands were clawed as he glared at her. His body was smoldering from that last attack. "I'll KILL YOU!" Swinging his weapon, a wave of power crashed down on the group, sending them to their knees. "DIE!" His eyes were glowing with power as he rushed towards Nanoha.

Nanoha looked up and grit her teeth. She didn't know what she could do, she had to do something, but what?

"Call me, Assault Mode, Master."

Nanoha blinked as she looked at Raising Heart. "What?"

"Call me, my master."

Valgaav held Ragudo Mezegis above his head. "Now... DIE!" He was almost within striking distance of the girl and everything to Nanoha seemed to be moving in incredibly slow motion at that moment.

Nanoha's eyes widened. "Assault Mode... ACTIVATE!"

"Drive Ignition."

Valgaav grunted as she was shielded with light that assaulted his physical and astral senses. "WHAT THE HELL?" He had to float back as a surge of power pushed against his body, forcing him back to avoid going blind and deaf.

Nanoha gasped as Raising Heart broke apart a bit, the red gem floating to her chest as the head actually increased in size. She wondered what was going on when her staff started to unravel on her, leaving her with nothing to defend herself if he attacked.

She looked up as the tip of Raising Heart split apart, becoming an "x" shape that came to a rest on her shoulders, latching down to form a protective barrier on her chest. Looking down, she could see metal bands go from the side of her hips upwards until the "x" met right where the gem of Raising Heart was. The gem was then half-covered in the metal that made up the spear head of Excellion Mode.

Her eyes widened as she felt the sides of Excellion Mode strap themselves to her back. The spear edges became wings on her back that pointed downwards. She gasped as she felt her feet, hands, arms and legs get wrapped up in a familiar feeling metal. "The shaft..." So that was why it broke apart like it did.

The metal bands went from her fingers and toes up to her shoulders, where her puffy shoulders were covered in metal. She gasped as her neck was wrapped up as well, before the metal went up the sides of her head, covering her ears, a pink-tinted visor then covered her face. Looking down, she saw that her right wrist gained a flat surface, before a magical chain formed on it, spiraling around the center, before a jagged point stuck out, facing towards her finger tips, before it was covered in a dome-like cover. It looked like some sort of grappling hook. Her eyes widened as she felt wheels form under her feet, as well as the cartridge system forming on the outsides of her legs.

Her left arm gained a rather large cannon. Well, large for her anyway. It seemed connected to her arm, starting at the elbow, the back of it was a box that seemed to have a power cell or something, the barrel of the cannon went so far forward that if she lowered her hand down, it would reach below her feet. A bar extended out for her hand to grab, which she did, and a button, right where her thumb could touch, was there.

"What the?" Nanoha blinked as she looked at herself.

Valgaav shook his head. "I don't know what you're trying, but this won't help you!" He swung Ragudo Mezegis at Nanoha's head.

"Protection Enhanced." Raising Heart and Nanoha said at the same time, as a pink wall appeared between Nanoha and Valgaav, the weapon of light stopping cold in its tracks.

"WHAT?" He couldn't believe this, the power was at maximum, he was using his real power, he couldn't feel any give to her new armored form.

"Divine..." Nanoha said softly as a pink ball appeared at the tip of the cannon. "...No..." Nanoha shook her head. "Supreme... Buster!" Nanoha yelled as a buster beam, far stronger than even Excellion Buster, lashed out, point blank range, and sent Valgaav flying back, screaming as he was bombarded with Holy magic.

"Nanoha?" Fate gasped as she saw her friend, before blinking owlishly. "...I have got to get me one of those!"

"What's going on?" Nanoha asked as an image of Mary popped up in her view screen.

"Ah, I see you activated it. If you're wondering, the cannon is a weapon that can help you channel any of your strongest spells without any problem to your body at all."

"Um, you're not making sense."

"Sorry, it's a mode to help you use your power properly. Raising Heart asked for a mode so you can use that Chaos power of yours." Nanoha gasped slightly, even as Raising Heart, on her chest, pulsed softly. "As you are, you're only slightly stronger than you were before. Concentrate, and let loose the real power."

"You..." Valgaav growled as he got to his feet, his wings stood out as he looked at her, pissed. Blood dripped from his lips. "I'll KILL YOU!" His body was smoldering and trembling in pain. He had never felt such raw pain as he felt at that moment.

Nanoha closed her eyes and concentrated. "Let's go... Raising Heart..."

"Chaos Enhance."

Valgaav flew forward, ignoring the way that Nanoha's body glowed golden, even as she looked at him with black and gold eyes.

"Use the whip to fight him in melee, Nanoha." Mary's image spoke up as the chain suddenly glowed pink and with Nanoha's swings, not only blocked Valgaav's attacks, but pushed him back into the air as she swung upwards, the shock wave of power was enough to cause the others on the ground to have to cover their faces to keep the dirt out of their eyes.

"Listen Nanoha, one last piece of information. You can only maintain that mode for five minutes at most. Any longer and one of three things will happen. One, you'll go berserk again. Two, Raising Heart will be destroyed. Or three, you could die. All of those are bad things, so keep this in mind."

Nanoha nodded. "Alright." She said softly, her voice was the same as it had been when she was crazy before.

Looking up, Nanoha took to the skies after Valgaav and the fight quickly became a duel of pink energy lancing out against white energy, with various technicolor beams of energy thrown in as well.

"HOW!" Valgaav yelled as he took a gold-laced Divine Buster to the side of his body. "How is she so strong!" His body was smoldering with energy from the various near misses. His skin was crawling just from the feel of the aura of that girl.

"By combining my master's power with my own, our ability is many times more powerful than before."

Valgaav panted and looked at the others, before pointing at Filia. "You... Worthless Gold Dragon, your kind... I curse you... For the unjust murder of my people a thousand years ago!" He snarled at her surprised look. Looking at Nanoha, he narrowed his eyes. "We'll meet again." He growled and disappeared.

"Raising Heart..." Nanoha whimpered, time was almost up. "How do we..?"

"Chaos purge."

Nanoha's eyes widened as the wings on her back seemed to rise up and a golden energy washed over the field, returning her to normal, before Raising Heart returned to Excellion mode. "Is everyone okay?"

Fate blinked and nodded as she looked at the others. "Weird, that didn't hurt."

"It was just energy, sir, the Chaos power was shot straight up where it dispelled."

Fate nodded and smiled at Bardiche. "Thank you." She then walked up to Nanoha and gave her a wry smile. "So... Where can I get one of these modes?"

"Nyahahahah..." Nanoha giggled and stuck her tongue out.

What? I bet some of you were curious about Nanoha's new mode that she got back in "New", right? Well, here it is.

So, yeah, I don't like curb-stomp battles...

Unless there's a reason for them, like showing off a new power.

Oh dear, looks like Fate wants an upgrade for herself.