Try 21

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Longest chapter and the climax of the Try arc.

Remember what I said before? About being finding ways to make fights interesting?

Yeah, even I know when to forget that and enjoy a massive beat-down!

So, sit back and enjoy the climax.


Yuuno stood in front of Fate and Lyos, several barriers in place around them, including the one that covered them, healing them and letting them recover. "Wish I had more time."

"Hey..." He blinked as he saw Riksfalto standing next to him. "Huraker's not one to make the first move, but she's not really that good in combat."

"Why are you telling me this?"

Riksfalto smirked as Huraker closed her eyes. "I'm not sure why..." Though, what Huraker said to her, about being like Gaav, had her thinking about something. Of all the Mazoku that existed, Shabranigdo could have chosen any of them to go after Ragradia, Hellmaster was more powerful than anyone else, yet Gaav had been chosen to go against the Shinzoku.

There was more to it, she was sure.

"YOU CAN ALL DIE TOGETHER!" Huraker yelled and lashed out at the closest person to her, which happened to be Erulogos, who could barely hold off that wave of destructive energy.

Huraker held up a hand, energy in the form of water pooling up into it, before lashing out and flooding the platform. Most everyone flew up, except for Jillas, who was swept away with the water, as well as Yuuno, Fate and Lyos, who were behind the barriers, but the barriers thankfully held from the attack.

"Whyyyyyyy!" Jillas screamed as he grabbed the edge of the platform, tears falling out of his eye.

"Yaaaah!" Riksfalto growled as Gorun Nova slashed into Huraker's back, causing the Priest to stumble forward, a large gouge where Riksfalto struck.

"Fool." Riksfalto's eye widened as a funnel of water emerged from Huraker's back, and sending the General crashing into one of the pillars that were circling the platform they were on.

"Ahhhh..." Riksfalto groaned, that hadn't felt good, the mix of Holy and Black felt wrong on so many levels that it wasn't funny.

Yuuno held his hands out, Holy fire escaping from his hands as it rushed at Huraker. The Priest held up a hand and returned the favor, a stream of Holy water crashing against the fire. "You can't win, boy." Huraker's voice was starting to sound wierd. "Our Holy powers cancel each other out, but unlike you..." She suddenly grinned as a red ball appeared in her other hand. "I've got my Black magic as well!" Letting out a scream, she launched the sphere at Yuuno, who's eyes widened, before a yellow barrier went up right in front of him, causing the attack to explode.

"What?" Yuuno blinked in surprise, he hadn't done that.

"I... Can still... Fight this much." Fate panted, her hand dropping to the platform with a heavy thud.

"Fate." Yuuno gasped.

"Oh, how nice, I'll have to kill her again." Huraker grinned, before looking up as she saw a shadow overhead. "Valgaav..." She grinned as he let loose a yell and charged at her, Ragudo Mezegis leading the way. "Don't you know?" She moved away from where he was and laughed when the fire power that Yuuno was using covered his body. "Never attack someone who has the advantage?"

Valgaav just smirked at her when the flames dissipated, revealing that he wasn't hurt in the slightest. "Seems that kid saw through your plan."

"Maybe..." Huraker nodded, before letting out a yell, her aura snapping into life around her, whip tendrils of magic and water forming around her. In her hands red energy was surrounded by water, which she fired, in a funnel shape, at Valgaav, who held up Ragudo Mezegis and grimaced as his body was burning from the energy. "You... Bitch..."

"Ra Tilt!" Zelgadis called out, catching Huraker off guard. The Mazoku grimaced before letting out a yell and the spell broke into magical particles. "Impossible!"

"Heh heh heh!" Huraker's eyes had an insane gleam as she snapped her fingers and Valgaav was encased in ice. "This power... Even Hellmaster didn't have this power!"

She turned her attention as a powerful spell crashed into her water barrier. "Oh yes, Knight of Vrabazard..." She flicked her wrist at him and Yuuno was surprised as he was surrounded by a bubble of water. "I think that you need to learn just what the true power of the gods is like."

Yuuno's eyes widened as he felt his temperature starting to drop dramatically.

"I'll freeze you... I think having a statue like you would be interesting..." Huraker smirked, before frowning as the water shattered around Yuuno, causing him to drop to the platform, panting, behind him, Riksfalto narrowed her eye at the Priest. "Oh really, Riksfalto... There used to be a time where you would have enjoyed doing that."

Riksfalto didn't answer as she rushed forward, Gorun Nova swinging down at Huraker, who grinned and stopped her by wrapping water tentacles around the General's body. "You really are pathetic, aren't you?"

Riksfalto's eye wavered slightly as she stared at Huraker in shock. "Just... What are you going to..."

"Do?" Huraker grinned up at her. "After I'm done playing here, I'm going to take over as the leader of the Mazoku." She smirked at Riksfalto's shocked look. "Lord Dolphin... She just has no ambition, and quite frankly, it annoys me, the way that she's always hanging around Zelas, or going crazy over some chocolate... Maybe I'll do the world a favor and put her out of everyone's misery."

"She created you! And this is how you repay her?" Riksfalto growled.

"Hey..." Huraker turned, still keeping Riksfalto wrapped up, and blinked as Valgaav broke through the ice. "You really are stupid, aren't you?"

"Is that what you think?" Huraker raised an eyebrow at him. "Then you can just die!"

"Why don't you?" Erulogos growled as he thrust Nezzard at Huraker's neck. His eyes widened as the attack was stopped mere millimeters from her. Looking down, he saw that his body was covered in the same binds as Riksfalto was.

"Unlike Riksfalto, I have no connection with you..." Huraker held a hand up and Erulogos' eyes widened at the power that was being gathered. "So... Goodbye."

"Valgaav!" Zelgadis yelled as he cast a spell. "Use this! Ra TILT!" The energy of the Ra Tilt connected with Ragudo Mezegis and the blade's energy increased tremendously.

"Well, this is interesting." Valgaav muttered before swinging the weapon down. His eyes widened as he saw the wave of tremendous power at the shocked Mazoku Priest, who let out a scream as the power engulfed her.

Riksfalto frowned as Huraker disappeared. "That was too easy..."

Erulogos chuckled at the General. "Stupid Mazoku, thinking that she can, ARRRGH!" He screamed as a hand escaped his chest. Behind him, Huraker reappeared and smirked at him.

"Did you really think that would be enough to stop me?" She asked, chuckling, before swinging her arm up and slicing Erulogos' body in half. She watched as the god fell to the ground, dead. "Pathetic... If you had only kept your Astral Body with you, you would have survived that."

Watching that, Yuuno trembled, if she could kill a god so easily, what chance did they have?

Huraker smirked at the remaining survivors. "So..." Her body was glowing blue by now. "Which of you fools will be the next to die?"

Riksfalto grimaced as she was knocked onto her back. "Oww..." The Sword of Light had shut off as she looked up at Huraker, who had Zelgadis by his throat and squeezing hard. Even the Chimera's body wasn't able to keep him from feeling the effects of the attack. Her other hand was bombarding Yuuno with magical power that he was hard-pressed to keep blocking.

She snorted as she saw Huraker use Zelgadis as a battering ram and slap Valgaav out of the air, causing the hybrid to crash down next to her. "We really suck, huh?" Maybe Huraker really did have power that rivaled, if not surpassed, that of Hellmaster Phibrizzo used to have. She looked up and stared, the door was starting to crack. "Hey... What the hell is that?"

"I don't know..." Valgaav said as he got to his feet and looked at Gorun Nova, before grabbing it and lighting both weapons up. "I wonder..."

Zelgadis felt himself starting to black out. "Nnngh..."

"This is the end, for you." Huraker smirked, before gasping as she felt a thin blade pierce her in the chest. "What?" She looked down, before looking up and chuckling as she saw Fate, still in that weird armor, standing up, still in that weird metal-like outfit. "Nice try."

"Bardiche..." Fate snapped her fingers, her armor was starting to dissolve and return to normal, she wanted to get this spell off before she couldn't fight anymore.

"Yes sir, Dragon Slave."

"Wait, what?" Huraker's eyes widened as her body was engulfed in a red sphere that caused her to scream out, throwing Zelgadis away from her, who coughed, but didn't waste that moment and held up his hands.

"RA TILT!"

As Zelgadis cast that, enhancing the destructive power of the Dragon Slave even higher, Yuuno put his hands together, before launching a wave of fire that was taller than he was into the dome, turning it from red-white to red-orange in color.

Riksfalto frowned, that wasn't enough, she was sure of it.

Everyone flinched away as the power was pushed away from Huraker, covering the field for a moment. "You..." Huraker growled, her body was twitching in pain. "You think that's enough to defeat me?"

"Guess I don't have a choice." Valgaav muttered. "Light come forth!" Both weapons lit up and he crossed the blades above his head, gasping as the weapons resonated with each other, the power shooting straight up and into the "door".

He grimaced as it opened up, causing all combat to halt as everyone stared up at the Dark creature that appeared at the door. "You who live on this pillar, prepare for absolution."

Valgaav stared at the creature, before dropping Gorun Nova and Ragudo Mezegis to the platform floor silently. "Yes..." He muttered, floating up. "I understand..."

"Lord Valgaav!" Jillas screamed as he saw his master get absorbed into the cloud-like creature. "What is that?"

Huraker looked on, greed in her eyes. "Yes... Power... Absolute power..."

"Huraker!" Riksfalto yelped as she was forced down onto her butt from the force of energy suddenly released by Huraker. "What..?" Her eye widened, as did everyone else's eyes, as they heard the next words spoken.

"Join with me and you shall be reborn into the new world. Or stand in my way, and face nothingness."

"For some reason..." Zelgadis grumbled while rubbing his neck. "I don't like either option."


"Ah, Miss Lina..." The ship's doctor smiled at her. "Can I speak with you a moment?"

"Ah, sure." Lina nodded as she walked over to him, but not before smiling at Nanoha, who asked if something was wrong. "It's okay, Nanoha. I was feeling a little under the weather while we were at that town, so I came to the ship for an hour and had the doctor do some tests on me, just to make sure that I wasn't coming down with the flu or something." Waving any concerns down, she walked over and talked in low tones to the doctor.

Sylphiel frowned softly and looked at Arf, in puppy form, walked to the group. "Are you okay?"

Arf nodded and sighed softly. "This form consumes less of Fate's magic."

Before anyone could say or do anything else, Sirius suddenly stiffened, his eyes wide. "No... It's too soon!"

"What?" Gourry looked at him in confusion as the Shinzoku held his hand out.

"I need Bodigar, now!"

"Why?"

"Dark Star's been summoned." At that moment, alarms went out all across the ship, causing most of the group to cover their ears. It was so loud and none of them had heard anything like it before.

"Only if you take us with you." Lina spoke up as she walked back to the group. She narrowed her eyes at the Shinzoku. "I don't trust you at all, so, if we're going, all of us are going." She looked at Arf and Sylphiel. "That means you two this time."

"Why?" Arf blinked and Lina rolled her eyes.

"You two are going to be useful for this, and we don't have time to argue." Lina nodded at Sirius as the Shinzoku teleported the whole group to where the door had opened up.


Yuuno, having grabbed Nezzard and Bardiche and finding them remarkably unharmed, was shocked as the remaining group appeared in front of him. "What?"

"Excuse me." Sirius grabbed Nezzard from him and Bodigar from Gourry, before lighting both up and using the combined power to seal the gate. He sighed as he saw Dark Star disappear "Not ready yet." Even with all five weapons, he had no idea how to deal with this. "Erulogos... Almace..." Both were dead and he really hated not knowing what to do at the moment.

"Fate!" Arf ran to the girl, who was back in her normal Barrier Jacket and panting hard. "Are you okay?"

Looking at her familiar, Fate hugged Arf and trembled slightly. "I'm okay. How about you?"

Arf hugged her master back, just happy that Fate was alive.

"Sylphiel, Yuuno, Amelia, Zelgadis, Filia, heal everyone." Lina started directing people as she made sure that Zelgadis was okay. "We're going to need everyone back on their feet and soon."

"I would hope so." Lina blinked as Xellos appeared on the platform. "It was so hard to track you after you disappeared like that, Miss Lina."

"Yeah, well..." Lina gasped as everything started to shake. "What the heck?"

Sirius stared in shock. "The door... It's cracking open!"

"Well, if Dark Star absorbed Vorfeed, Valgaav and Huraker, I'd think he'd be a lot stronger." Riksfalto shook her head as she looked at the door cracking. "I'm surprised that Dark Star merged with them so fast though."

Xellos shrugged and looked at Lina. "Well, Miss Lina, just what are you going to do?"

Lina closed her eyes. "Whatever I have to do." She walked over to Shiro and smiled at him.

"Lina, what, MMMPH?" His eyes widened as she pulled his head down and kissed him on the lips, causing most everyone on the platform to blush and look away.

Interestingly enough, Riksfalto just looked on curiously.

Lina broke the kiss, her face flushed slightly, before she turned and looked at the door. "Just keep healing them, I'm going to try something first." She cupped her hands in front of her and looked up. "And, no matter what, don't interfere."

Filia just finished up making sure that Fate was okay, before blinking at those words. "Wait a second, what are you..?"

She didn't get to say anything more as the door shattered open. She gasped as she saw Valgaav on top of a Dark Cloud, glaring at them.

"Lord Valgaav..." Jillas whimpered as he saw his master. "I thought you were..."

"Golden Dragon of the Fire Dragon King, you, who have slaughtered Valgaav's people in the past, shall face judgment now." It was weird, Valgaav had a mix of four different voices as he looked at Filia.

"What's going on?" Lina whispered to Xellos.

"It's likely... That because this Dark Star is a mix of Dark Star and Vorfeed, that Valgaav was not destroyed, because he is a mix of Dragon and Mazoku..."

"Then Huraker's still alive in there." Riksfalto spoke up. "She had the power of Ragradia in her."

Filia stepped forward, ignoring the way that Sylphiel and Yuuno were healing Lyos on the ground. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw him start moving again. "I am a Gold Dragon with no clan of my own. I was abandoned by my clan and betrayed by the others. So, like you, Valgaav, I am alone." Her eyes widened as she felt her skirt suddenly flip upwards, flashing her naked butt and crotch at everyone on the platform.

"You also have no panties to call your own." Xellos said smugly as Filia screamed in embarrassment, spun around and punched him clear off the platform.

"Well..." Lina dead-panned, "that killed any sort of drama that was being built up."

Xellos reappeared next to Lina. "I was just trying to lighten things up a little."

"NOW'S NOT THE TIME!" Lina yelled and gasped as she heard Valgaav chuckling.

"It is for this reason, that all worlds must be remade. The constant strife that Dark Star and Vorfeed faced was too much for them."

Lina closed her eyes and sighed. "I'm sorry... I can't let you do that." She gulped slightly and held her hands in front of her. "I guess I can't trust even myself to keep a promise..."

"Darkness Beyond Blackest Pitch."

Sylphiel gasped, her eyes wide as she heard that. "Miss Lina, you can't!"

"Ignore me and keep working on healing him!" Lina yelled at her, both of her eyes were glowing gold at this time.

"Deeper than the Deepest Night."

Nanoha's eyes were wide, her body trembling as she felt Chaos in waves that she had never felt before, even when she tapped into her own Chaos powers.

Sirius, Riksfalto and Xellos all took steps back, their eyes wide and then they all fell to their knees and bowed their head as they acknowledged what was happening. It was something that all of them understood, deep in their souls.

"Lord of Darkness who Shines Gold As the Sea of Chaos
I call upon thee and swear myself to thee."

There was a giant black ball of energy above Lina's head, swirling with golden power. Lina herself was gritting her teeth and had to move her right leg a step back to stabilize herself. 'So powerful...' She grimaced and took a deep breath, preparing to finish the incantation.

"I stand ready to bear the strength you give me."

Lina gasped as she looked up, the black ball of energy suddenly shattering into nothingness. "...What?" She fell to her knees, gasping as her body went cold. "What happened..?" She couldn't feel it anymore, the power of the Lord of Nightmares wasn't in her anymore.

"Lina!" Shiro was by her side in an instant and grabbed her. "Are you..." He was startled as he saw Lina's eyes. Both were the same red color.

"What color?" Lina asked as Dark Star seemed to tremble for a moment. "What color?"

"Both are red."

Lina cursed lightly. "Dammit! She's not going to help this time around."

"What?" Xellos looked at her in confusion.

"It seems that the Lady won't allow any use of her power for this fight." Lina muttered, before gasping as Dark Star suddenly let out a roar and crashed through the portal.

The last thing that most of them saw was a large ball of energy heading their way.


"Miss Lindy!" Amy gasped as the scanners were going berserk.

"I know." Lindy nodded to her, before nodding to everyone else. "Let's go everyone, we don't have a choice anymore."

"Right!" Everyone nodded as hands started to fly over the consoles.

Lindy frowned, this wasn't going to be good.


Lina gasped as everyone appeared several miles away from where the platforms were.

"That was a close one." Xellos said as he stood on Filia's back, the Dragon seemed just as surprised as the rest of them were.

"How did.." Zelgadis asked and Xellos just smirked at him. "A secret right?"

"No, I just had help from Riksfalto and that Shinzoku. And, of course, Filia-chan here." He patted the Dragon on the back and she turned her head and growled. "Now, now... You know we're contractually obligated to have some out of place humor every so often."

"Where are the Dark Star weapons?" Sirius looked around, worriedly.

"You mean these?" Riksfalto asked as they spun around her. She grinned at him. "I thought that I'd keep them, but I guess we need them."

"Miss Lina!" Sylphiel yelled at the shocked redhead. "How could you? You know that that spell's forbidden!"

"Well, yeah... But don't you think that you could yell at me for it later?" Lina pointed to the platforms that were exploding. "We kind of have a very dangerous thing right there."

"Oh..." Sylphiel blinked and nodded.

"What about that prophecy, Miss Lina?" Amelia asked, causing Lina to frown.

"Maybe... But..." She looked on as Dark Star raced towards the continent. "Damn! Filia! Catch up to it."

"Right!" Filia yelled as she took off like a rocket. Even at the speeds that everyone was traveling on her back, it just wasn't enough to keep up with Dark Star.

"At this rate, we won't be able to stop him!" Zelgadis said.

"We can though." Lindy was heard speaking to everyone who could hear it. "Pull back, we've got this one."

Chrono's eyes widened as he paled. "FILIA! PULL BACK!" His mother wouldn't... Oh no, she would. "MOVE!"


"Weapon is fully charged and we've got a lock."

Lindy nodded as she turned her key. "Arc En Ciel... FIRE!"


Everyone stared in shock as a white beam of energy crashed into Dark Star's face, before engulfing most of the body, and then spreading out in every direction for miles.

"Woah!" Riksfalto stared. "What the hell is that?"

No one could answer her as they were busy trying to escape the massive explosion.


"Did it work?" Amy asked, silently grateful that Mary had fixed the scanners to get over their problem when a powerful Mazoku was around.

"We'll know in a moment." Lindy said quietly as the explosion finally started to subside.


"Even Lord Ruby-Eyes wouldn't be able to laugh that off." Xellos muttered. He was almost certain of it.

Suddenly a loud roar answered them as a black beam of power raced upwards towards the stars.

"NO!" Chrono gasped as he saw that. "MOM!"


"Incoming!"

"Quick! Avoid it!" Lindy commanded, hoping that they could avoid a direct hit. If not, well, it was going to be a quick flash before they all died.

A moment later, the powerful spell raced right through where they were, causing a massive explosion.


"We need to get ahead of him!" Lina yelled and Xellos just shrugged and looked at Riksfalto and Sirius, both of who nodded, before the group disappeared again.

They reappeared on a rocky out-cropping that was once a mountain range a hundred kilometers from the sea. "This work for you?"

Lina sighed softly as she walked up to Riksfalto and grabbed Galveira. "I'm going to need this." She looked at Xellos. "And I need a lift."

"Miss Lina?" Amelia asked as Lina smirked at her. "What are we going to do?"

"If we're going to do that prophecy thing... I want to make sure that it works. So, we're going to hit him with everything we've got. Our strongest spells, holding nothing back." She looked at Lyos. "You good enough to go?"

Lyos pulled out Banisher and smirked at her. "Yeah, I'm more than good enough."

Lina nodded and grabbed Gorun Nova, tossing it to Gourry, Ragudo Mezegis and tossed it to Zelgadis, Bodigar was tossed to Sylphiel while Nezzard ended up in Amelia's hands.

"Hey!" Riksfalto pouted. "I wanted those."

"You wanna be useful, help Arf and Sirius play defense for us." Lina muttered as she looked at Shiro, before walking to him and giving him a hug. "I'm sorry for what I did, Shiro..."

"It's okay." He said to her as he hugged her back. "Just do what you're best at. Making miracles happen."

Lina smiled and nodded, walking to Xellos and looking at Dark Star. "He's still hurting, we have to move now."

Xellos nodded as he grabbed her and the two teleported up and ended up hanging in mid-air.

"Light come forth!" Lina called out Galveira as the other weapons on the ground lit up. Around her, Nanoha and Fate, holding Raising Heart Excellion and Bardiche Zambar, had floated up to get close to her.

"Filia..."

The Dragoness looked at Dark Star and sighed at Yuuno. "I'll be okay..."

He nodded, before stepping to the side and letting his Holy power flow through him.

"Why not use that Ra Tilt that you did before?" Riksfalto asked and Yuuno chuckled softly.

"I was completely worn out from that, I don't know if I could do it again, I was kind of desperate to stop you, so..." He chuckled slightly at her. "I want to make sure that I can help more." He blushed as she suddenly hugged him.

"Heh... You're cute when you worry about things." She ruffled his hair and let go. "Just make sure to give him a good one for me."

Yuuno blushed heavily, the feel of her chest in his face was... Quite distracting. Shaking his head, he concentrated and let the power flow into him.

"Raising Heart..." Nanoha said softly as she closed her eyes.

"Alright. Starlight Dragon Breaker."

A magic circle appeared under Nanoha's feet as one appeared in front of her, a red ball forming in the center of it.

"STARLIGHT DRAGON..."

"Let's go, Bardiche."

"Yes, sir."

"REND LIGHTNING! PLASMA SLAVE ZAMBAR..!" Fate called out, her Zambar blade turning red even as lightning crashed down onto it.

Xellos raised an eyebrow at the power. "Huh, if four Dragon Slaves can destroy a country, I wonder what will happen when these amplified ones go off."

"Heh..." Lina chuckled as Xellos held her, bridal style, in mid-air. "We'll find out... And stop grabbing my breasts."

"Sorry." He moved his hand. "There's a lot more than there was before."

Lina rolled her eyes as she pulled back on the string of Galveira. "Keep it up and I'll give you a Dragon Slave in your ass, Xellos."

He gulped and nodded, smiling harmlessly. "Okay, you win."

"Good." She smiled at him as she, Fate, Nanoha and Sylphiel, who was holding Bodigar as it started to glow red, all started chanting.

"Darkness Beyond Twilight.
Crimson Beyond Blood that Flows.
Buried in the stream of time
Is where your power grows.
I pledge myself to conquer
All the foes that stand.
Against the mighty gift bestowed
In my unworthy hand.
Let the fools who stand before us
Be destroyed by the power you and I possess!"

As they chanted up their spells, Shiro held the Blast Sword up high, the red energy of the Dragon Slave that the sword had absorbed was spinning around the blade and concentrating to the point.

Gourry held Gorun Nova and was waiting for the right moment to strike. He blinked as Filia grabbed the sword. "Filia?"

"I can help too." She closed her eyes and began chanting in her Draconic language.

Zelgadis, Amelia and Chrono were all chanting their own spells.

"Source of all souls, which dwells in the eternal and infinite! Everlasting flame of blue!
Let the power that's gathered in my soul be called forth from the Infinite!"

It was rather impressive how their weapons were glowing with the power that was coursing through them at that moment.

Yuuno looked at Lyos, who was focusing his power around his weapon. "You ready?" In his hands was a concentrated ball of energy.

Lyos just smirked at him. "When they are."

Nanoha opened her eyes. "Zen Ryyoko Zen Kai! STARLIGHT DRAGON BREAKER!" She swung Raising Heart down towards the red ball of energy in front of her, a pink and red wave of energy that was far wider than even the Amplified Divine Buster had been raced forward towards Dark Star.

"PLASMA SLAVE ZAMBAR... BREAKER!" Fate swung Bardiche forward, a red and yellow wave of power rushed side-by-side with Nanoha's attack.

"DRAGON SLAVE!" Lina and Sylphiel called out at the same time, letting their powerful magics fly forward, the energies colliding and enhancing each other as the beams rushed towards Dark Star.

"Chaotic Disintegrate!" Filia called out as she and Gourry swung Gorun Nova down at the same time, the powerful Draconic Spell lashing out and joining the Dragon Slave from Shiro's Blast Sword.

"Blaze... TILT!" Chrono yelled as he fired his spell.

"RA TILT!" Zelgadis and Amelia both yelled, firing their spells through their Dark Star weapons.

Yuuno snapped his hands forward, the super-heated plasma in his hands snapping forward while Lyos fired a blast of absolute zero.

"Incredible." Xellos actually had his eyes open as he stared in shock at the power that was being displayed as all the attacks connected with the merged being at the same time. "If it was just Dark Star, he'd be dead. Even Vorfeed would be dead, but..."

"I know." Lina panted slightly as she watched the destruction unfold. "Nanoha, Fate, we're going to the ground now."

The two nodded as the four of them descended to the ground.

"Now what?" Filia looked at Lina, who sighed softly.

"Heh... If he survived that, he's going to be hurting... So... That prophecy states we need the power of five points of light around a single star, the power of the Darkness Beyond Twilight and the Brilliance Beyond the Dawn, right?"

"Miss Lina?" Filia blinked in confusion.

"I actually did give thought about that prophecy. I just didn't put much stock into it since Vrabazard didn't give it to the Gold Dragon, at least that's what Yuuno said."

"So, what are you going to do?" Shiro asked as Lina shrugged at him. "You don't know?"

"Not at all. I mean, it almost sounds like we'd have the Dark Star weapons circle around someone who would cast a spell, using the power of Cephied and Shabranigdo and then fire a single arrow that would defeat Dark Star." She blinked at the looks she was getting, before rubbing the back of her head and chuckling. "Guess that's what we have to do, huh?"

"What do you want us to do then?" Nanoha asked and Lina chuckled softly.

"Run interference if he decides to attack." Nanoha nodded and looked at Fate, Chrono, her father and Sirius. "We need the power of Shabranigdo and Cephied..."

"Riksfalto and I will supply you with the power of Shabranigdo. But as for Cephied..." Xellos looked at Yuuno, then Lyos, then Filia. "It would have to be one of them."

Lyos stepped up. "I'll do it."

"You sure?"

Lyos chuckled and nodded. "I haven't done much, I think I can help out here at least."

"I'll help too." Yuuno stepped up beside him. "Um, so what do we do?"

"Just draw out the raw power of Cephied. Since you two can use Holy magic, it should be easy." Xellos said as he and Riksfalto took up positions on the other side of Lina.

"You all ready?" Lina asked as she looked at her friends. They nodded, the Dark Star weapons all glowing brightly.

Lyos and Yuuno nodded and charged up power as Riksfalto and Xellos did the same.

"Power born from the Lord of Nightmares, we now call forth the Darkness Beyond Twilight and the Brilliance Beyond the Dawn, to call forth a single arrow of light that will split the heavens."

"You shall all be destroyed and this world will be purified of all the pain and suffering that it has caused. The eternal strife between the light and dark will come to an end."

Lina closed her eyes for a moment. "That's a nice thought, I admit, but... That's not a world an imperfect being can create. We're all flawed, all of us. Because of that, none of us can make an ideal world. Only a perfect being could." She pulled on the string, before letting loose. "AAAH!"

Amelia, Gourry, Zelgadis and Sylphiel all let out cries as they swung their weapons down, the attacks from them merging with Lina's attack, before it became a single beam of power that struck out against Dark Star's attack, overwhelming it, before the attack consumed the entity that was in front of them.

"The power of light and dark can only be wielded by a human who exists between them." Xellos spoke up as he watched the events unfold. "The chaotic power of the Fusion magic is turning nothingness into creation. Look there."

Seeing the body starting to split apart, Lina sighed as she slumped to the ground as the entity was breaking apart. "It's over..." She sighed softly.


Lina: WOW! What a rush! It's over now. Man, I hope everything's okay. Next time, on Blood That Flows - Try, the Final chapter! Read it, or I'll really cause some trouble.
Sirius: It's time to go home.

Man, what a rush, huh? I FINALLY found my Try DVDs when I got towards the end so I could get the spell that Lina used properly. So, afterwords, I spent a few days re-watching Try. MAN, I messed up on some things.

Still, over-all, I think I did pretty good incorporating Try, the novels and Knight of the Aqua Lord together with Nanoha.

Only one part to go, then this arc is over. See you then!