Yes I know I just released a chapter a few days or even a day ago but I already wrote up what I was planning and I already talked this over with someone on how the chapter was written. So for now relax and enjoy this new chapter:

*Same disclaimer as before*

It has been a few hours since the ambush plan was done and on the hidden lunar base, Saika was pushing buttons on a console attempting to contract Drav. Within a few seconds, the sandy-haired man appeared on screen however by the look in his face he looked a bit angry. Saika knew that this would happen since he still wanted to fight those two but now was not the time for Drav's fighting blood as it were. He looks at the man and began to tell him the information.

"Drav I know that you are very upset at the moment, but you need to understand that fighting them right now is not a good plan of action."

The man in question just glared at Saika with fury and spoke while crossing his arms. "Oh come on Saika. I could easily take on two women from the bureau including one who was protecting a wannabe dog. Whoever they are should not be a big problem."

"Well if you are so sure then fine. The two women are named Nanoha Takamachi and Fate Testarossa Haralown." Saika replied leaving Drav in shock of the news. He steps back and is really in shock about this:Two of the three Aces on Earth? 'The enforcer who was born from Project F and the woman who is called the white devil!? Why are those two on Earth? Must have been very important to bring those two to this planet.' However even while taking the thought into consideration, the fact that they are here still means nothing. He smiles and looks at Saika and spoke to him. "But still so what if the white devil and the mama's girl is here. They were still exhausted thanks to the ambush plan so I could still take them down and take Gaia."

Saika could only sigh as he once again tries to warn his ally. "Drav all I am saying is don't underestimate them for they are dangerous women including the white devil." Sadly, Drav could only grumble a bit in anger, whispering that he would take those two women down until a woman's sulty voice rang in the inner chamber.

"Aww did Drav bit off more then he could chew?"

The door opens to reveal a tall woman with dull black drill like hair by her shoulders and green eyes. On her person was knee high blue heels, a dark red dress with a sliver jacket and finally a ruby red ring on her left index finger. Saika and Ixia both turned to the woman leaving Saika to say. "Anna, did you hear all of that?"

The woman known as Anna plays with her hair and stares at Drav with a playful smirk which pissed Drav off something fierce. "Well of course. I mean it is not everyday where Drav screws up. I mean really, your betrayal to follow orders, your failure right now and the icing on the cake, you lose your prey! It is downright funny!" Anna then starts to laugh at Drav leaving the young man to growl and grab his hair in anger. Then for a few seconds, he stares at Anna and fights back with a rebuttal. "Oh really and what would you do?"

"Oh trust me, I would do way more then you." Anna spoke with a firely smirk leaving the two to argue causing Saika to sigh at his two allies and Ixia to only look ahead. The dull haired woman then crossed her arms and chose to pity the man. "So, how is it being on an under developed planet?"

Drav just played around with his ear and sighed a little amount. "Fine. A little too bored but it is all right for what it is." Just then as he said that, he takes an apple from his pocket and eats it surprising Saika. While pointing at the man, he asks. "Drav, where did you get that apple?"

Still eating the apple, the man spoke with a look at Saika. "I stole it." This leads to Saika telling Drav that they were only on Earth to bring Gaia back, not to steal food but then Drav says that he was hungry since he could not finish his fight from earlier. So with this, the two argued for about a few seconds as Anna giggles a bit and Ixia, in a calm voice decided to end the fight.

"Calm down you two." From there the two stopped their fighting allowing Ixia to continue with his speech. "Regardless of the atfermath in the events that transpired, the fact of the matter is we still have a lot of data from both that man and of Mrs. Takamachi and Mrs. Haralown. With it, we should be more prepared for them in the future. In the meantime Drav, you are to remain on Earth. Understood?"

The sandy haired man upon hearing his orders, only said with a brief grin."Fine I will stay on Earth. However if I see that boy, I will fight him no questions asked. Got it?"

Saika was about to say something until the connection was cut leaving only Ixia, Anna and Saika alone in the main room. Anna could only sigh in disgust leading Saika to look at Ixia's direction. The second in command asks. "Ixia just answer me this."

Ixia raised an eyebrow allowing Saika to ask the professor. "What was the purpose of bringing Drav with us?"

"Yeah I would like to know also." Anna questioned which caused Ixia to cross his arms and closed his eyes. As he was thinking, a brief thought flew pass his head but it slowly turned into a brief memory. The memory in question was of him arguing with someone another person.

"You don't understand. My research can work out if you just would let me..."

"I am sorry Professor Ixia but we can't agree to this."

Shaking his head away at the thought from reaching any closer into his mind, Ixia just stared at his two allies and then began to speak to them. "We need Drav because apart from you two, he is good at what he does. While he is a bit uncontrollable, he does get the work he is assigned done. In either case, for now you two return to your posts. I have some work to do on my own."

Anna and Saika both nodded, bowed and left the room allowing the professor to turn away from the door to start looking through the data from the fight between Shiro and Drav, slowly studying it as he goes.

Meanwhile on Earth, Hitoshi was still in the dorms, now playing his guitar. He had just completed his training on the roof of the dorms and was now just siting on the couch practicing his music. For each string he hit, his focus was not unweavered due to the room being quiet. However, one thing was entering his mind and it was what happened with his friend? A note was played over and over which leads the long haired man to think deeply. 'What was Shiro doing that he did not answer his cell? You would think that he would call back at some point. I mean sure he is an adult after all but...' However just as he was about to finish his thought, his phone started to ring. In response, he picks up the phone and began to talk on it.

"Oh I wonder who would be calling me? Yeah this is Hitoshi."

As if to surprise him, a voice he has not heard in a long time rings from the other line. "Oh Hitoshi, hi. I am so happy to hear from you. This is your mother."

"Wait wait mom? Hey mom." Hitoshi spoke with a smile, happy to hear from his mother at the moment. The woman, Mrs. Ichimoto, was wearing a bright smile on her face as she proceed to talk with her son. "Hitoshi so how are you adjusting in school right now? I mean during your first week?"

The man scratches his hair and while smiling spoke. "Oh I am just fine. And not much. Just getting my classes in order, buying my books, guitar for class. All of that good stuff. And I just got me a roommate so maybe if you were to stop by at some point."

"Maybe? Hitoshi I would love to see your room, hopefully it does not have a lot of weights around it." gigged Mrs. Ichimoto leading Hitoshi to shake his head in dismay. The young man then asked his mother. "So apart from that nothing big happened with me. So what about you mom?"

From there, the lady of the house starts to tell Hitoshi about what was happening with, ranging from still feeding his father, trying to encourage his students and trying to keep the house clean while he was away on training runs. At times, she would even have to tell the students that their master was gone for the day and with that, the students would have to try again the next day. Enjoying this, Hitoshi would laugh and chuckle, pretty much enjoying this small bit of time with his mom. In a few seconds after that, however, Mrs. Ichimoto slowly but surely stopped as Hitoshi also hearing her voice. She told in a soft, small tone.

"Hitoshi, if you can hear me, I want you to listen carefully to what I am about to say." Mrs. Ichimoto spoke to her son and from there, only Hitoshi could very carefully listen to the words his mother said for the next few minutes. After that, his mother had finished speaking with the only sound that was heard in the room was the sound of nothing because then Hitoshi only had a speechless response as his answer to what his mother had told him.

Currently within the deepest reaches of dimensions, housed a ship. The ship in question was silver in design, a bit small but still could house a lot of people and finally it was an investigative spaceship. This was the Arthra, refitted for service once again. Inside the ship, Nanoha was standing on one side of the desk relaying what had happened back on Earth as a report to a woman sitting on the other side of the desk. The woman, Lindy Haralown was dressed in a blue TSAB officer's uniform, had lime green hair along with matching eyes and 3 triangle like markings on her head. She was intently listening to the young brunette's report.

"Within a few hours today, Enforcer Haralown, Shiro Nagase and myself were in a small college town located around the college. However while we were around the area, a barrier was in place at the time and before we knew it, he disappeared and we were ambushed by drones. After we dealt with them, we rushed to Shiro's location only to reveal that he lost to another mage. Fate tried to get more information out of the attacker but he refused and ran off."

After hearing the report, Lindy cups her chin to adopt a thinking pose, deciding on what to do next. She mutters to herself. "Hmm since we still have no information regarding Ixia's location and since no clues are popping up from any of the drones we brought back, we are running this blind."

Then the brought back Admiral stops being in her thinking pose and stares directly at Nanoha with a serious look. She spoke with a leader like tone. "Nanoha, for now all we can do is continue to be on the lookout for Ixia and his men. Even that man who attacked Shiro may still be on Earth. Be sure to relay this news to Enforcer Haralown. Is that understood?"

"Yes Ma'am!" the auburn haired woman replied with a salute and with the briefing done was about to leave the room. Then almost as if the serious tone went away for a few seconds, Lindy then asked in a motherly tone. "By the way, this brings up a good point and now that all of the seriousness is out of the way for now, have you seen Fate around? I did not see her with you when you entered my room."

From that tone alone, Nanoha decided to smirk and in a playful manner to match Lindy's more relaxed tone, replied back to the older woman. "Well we both know how Fate is so knowing her she is waiting by the door at the sick bay wanting for her time to go in the room or she might be sitting with an apple or something in hand waiting at the wings."

Lindy starts to giggles playfully at the act her adopted daughter would do. It definitely would make sense for someone as caring as Fate to go so far for others. Even if the person just starting out using magic. With that said, Nanoha then smiles and told Lindy. "Well then, I will head over to the medical bay to check up on Shiro and relay what we will do to the both of them." and with that, the younger woman left the room to walk the hallway.

After a good while, Nanoha was walking the huge narrow hallway, taking in the sights of being on the ship again. Just then as she was walking, her cell phone rang so she stopped and answered.

"Hello this is Nanoha. Who is this?"

Just then, a hologram appeared to show a familiar face. The man had long light brown hair and green eyes and he was wearing a green suit along with glasses on his face. With a warm smile, the man said. "Hey Nanoha. It is me Yuuno."

Nanoha was very surprised to be hearing from her old friend Yuuno Scrya. After the event with Jail, she did not hear thing one about the librarian at all so to hear from him now was a big surprise. She then asks. "Yuuno hi to what I owe you this call?"

"Oh I was hoping to do some small talk you know like how does it feel to be back at Earth? The case at large and you know things like that." Yuuno spoke from inside the library leaving the instructor to smile and reply in kind. "Thank you Yuuno." While walking, Nanoha started to tell Yuuno how being back at Earth is fine she just wished it was not for work at the moment, the newly dubbed Ixia case is a bit dry but she is currently training someone and overall things are going a bit well and with that, the two enjoyed each other's company. Yuuno nods at the information that Nanoha gave him and spoke to the woman.

"So this Shiro is being trained by you? Well then that must great."

Nanoha smiles a bit and told Yuuno. "Yeah although he is a beginner, he does have potential just like the rest of us. Otherwise I would not train him. Although I would still help him."

"Agreed and I am happy to hear that Fate is doing well also. By the way, how Vivio doing? Since you both had to come back to Earth, I guess she had to tag along." Yuuno asked forcing Nanoha to say with a smile. "Well last time I spoke with her, she was bored. So taking that in account, she may still be bored."

Then on instinct, Yuuno holds his side with his free arm and chuckles a bit which in turn leads Nanoha to ask a question of her own. "So Yuuno since you've heard about how I have been doing, what about you?"

Yuuno is floating around a bookcase, sorting out some books that where on his desk as he tells his friend what he was doing. "Well just the usual:reading, helping some people with books that they may need finding and when I can get some free time, ruin hunting. Just normal things."

"Oh I see I see. That is all well and good, but Yuuno have you been resting lately?" Nanoha asked with her eyes closed causing the young man after he was done with sorting the books, to land back at his desk on his seat. He tries to say yes but unfortunate for him, a yawn was able to escape his lips. Embarrassed by this act, he rubs his head and at that point, the brunette opens her eyes and with her finger out, almost as if she was scolding Yuuno tells him.

"Yuuno please try to get some rest. It does not do you any good to tire yourself out. I already had to deal with one person over tiring himself and I don't want you to do the same. Do you think you can do that?"

Sitting on his chair, Yuuno takes Nanoha's words to heart and sighs while saying to her. "Ok I will get some rest. From time to time I will try. And Nanoha?"

"Yes Yuuno?" Nanoha asked wondering what would Yuuno be asking of her. With a smile from the man, he tells his old friend. "Please be careful. Ok?" And from that, Nanoha replied with a yes and the two hanged up each with a smile on their faces.

Currently at the medical bay, Shiro slowly opens his eyes and finds out that he is looking at a ceiling again. He sighs while thinking to himself. 'Great another ceiling.' as he stares at the ceiling with an small intense look on his face. Then he inwardly laughs as this is the second time he is lying on a bed and looking at a ceiling.

"Must be my luck. Although, for some reason the ceiling looks strange. Maybe I am in a different wing in the hospital?" Shiro questioned as he turns away from the ceiling above him and looks at the equipment to his left. He frowned as he sees that the equipment looks way too advanced to be on a small hospital wing. "Ok that does not seem like anything from Earth. In fact it looks totally different from the equipment back at the hospital. Where am I?"

He wonders this thought until an answer came in the form of a voice. "Oh good you are awake Shiro." The young man turns around to see Fate siting by a chair to the right side of the bed holding an apple and a knife. Very confused by the young woman, Shiro starts by asking her a question. "Ok Fate uhh quick question what are you doing?"

"Oh I was just about to cut you an apple slice. You need to get your strength after what had happened a while ago." Fate spoke with a smile on her face. After she had finished cutting, she hands him the slice to which Shiro grabs, says his thanks and starts to eat the slice. For a while after eating the slice, Shiro then had another question in his mind that he wished to ask. However, he spots a window away from the bed and so he decides to try and move over to the window to see what it was and because he was very curious. Fate, still worried about Shiro's condition from earlier, walks over to him wraps her right arm around his wast and then presides to help him inch his way to the window.

Once they got to the window, Shiro's mind was blown as he saw something akin to stars just flying past them. In addition to that, there were also a mix of colors swirling around with the stars. Almost as if they were dancing in front of him. With the young man now shocked beyond belief, Fate took it upon herself to explain to Shiro what was happening.

"Shiro I know you have a lot of questions so I will answer them as best I can. You are in the medical bay on a ship known as the Arthra, an investigative ship that Nanoha and I are assigned to. We brought you here after your fight with that man due to the wounds on your body needing better care. Because of that, the medical bay was the best bet at the time."

Just from the news, Shiro is most definitely in complete shock about the whole thing and with that, he looks down staring at the floor trying to process what he just heard. Fate could only wait as she sees the sword mage thinking deeply. She sighs and after a few seconds, starts to say something to Shiro however something inside Shiro's heart change. He looks at the blond with not a look of worry but a bright smile on his face. "Fate we are on an actual spaceship! A spaceship! I am on an actual spaceship this is so cool and awesome!" Now Fate is the one taken a back as she thought that Shiro would most likely be very scared about being on a ship but now as she tilts her head.

'His personalty seems to have changed a bit. What is going on with him?'

Before the two could further analyze this change, they both hear the door open and turn to see Nanoha with a grin walking toward the pair. "Great Shiro you are up and about." This allowed Fate to lead Shiro back to the bed where he sits down and Fate returns to her spot. "So apart from me being on a spaceship, what happened?" Shiro asked looking at the two women forcing Nanoha to cross her arms and Fate to look away. The young man was thinking what happened until Nanoha spoke but with a sober tone. "That is why I am here. We were ambushed and split from you. The rest I hope you can figure out."

The young mage starts to lower his head and remembers what had happened. He fought the rouge mage and lost horribly. The fact that even though he trained and practiced with Nanoha a good amount, he still failed. He failed to beat the man like he promised and while he protected his partner, he felt anger. He grips the covers in rage as Nanoha and Fate watches on leaving Shiro to his thoughts. 'I lost to him. I knew that would happen but still no one says that it hurts this much. Is this how Hitoshi feels? No this is different, because I...' Then after finishing his thinking episode, Shiro looks up at Nanoha and Fate and said with a strong look in his eyes. "Nanoha, Fate I want to be stronger then this."

Now the two women did different things in response to this. Fate could only look at Shiro while Nanoha had a smile on her face as she told Shiro. "As long as you keep up with your training, you will get stronger."

Shiro smiles back at her and was about to ask could they start right now. However the blond mage could only sigh heavily as she had a good idea of what the duo was planing. So to stop the nonsense as it were, she looks at the two and said with a firm voice. "No no no. No training at least for right now. Shiro needs his rest after that fight and he needs to recover for at least the rest of the weekend." She stares at the two of them and spoke. "Or have you both forgotten that?" This has made Nanoha laugh while rubbing the back of her head and Shiro to clear his throat and look to the side and spoke. "Sorry."

"In any case Fate is indeed correct. You do need your rest. But once you do recover, we will continue the training ok?"

"Got it Nanoha." Shiro said with a smile leaving the three to at the moment be relaxed and happy. Now that the issue was settled, Fate turns to Nanoha and starts to ask her a question."So Nanoha how did the meeting go?"

"It went by very well. But now that I think about it, there is something I need to do real quick because of what we discussed. Fate, do you think you can keep an eye on Shiro, making sure he does not get away?" Nanoha asks her best friend.

The lighting mage was about respond back but then Nanoha with a wave, told Fate also with a smile. "You will? Great thanks I will be right back." and with that, she left leaving the two behind.

Fate could only look at the door before sitting down, sighing once again. 'At least it was not Hayate. She would have been a lot worse.' Fate thought to herself before going back to watch Shiro. Briefly looking at Gaia, Shiro had an idea and so he says to his partner. "Gaia I have a question. Do you know who made you or at least where your maker is?"

'No. Any information regarding my creator was lost upon initial start up.'

Shiro groaned a bit while still keeping his eyes on Gaia but then has a wearily smile on his face. "Oh well at least I tried." While looking at him, Fate was about to tell Shiro about Ixia so he would at least know who they were dealing with until a vibrating sound was heard. At first Fate thought it was her phone but a quick check revealed that it was not her phone. Upon looking at the bed, she sees another phone on the bed and she tells the young man currently on it. "Uhh Shiro I think your phone is vibrating." Shiro, while he grabbed his phone replied to Fate. "Thank you. I got it." and was about to push the buttons to unlock it. Unfortunately due to the fight as well as his body still feeling weak from possibly being poked by needles while he was knocked out, he could not unlock his phone. He sighs leaving Fate to ask the sword mage. "Shiro do you need any help with unlocking your phone? I could help you if you like."

In response to that, Shiro shook his head and spoke. "No Fate it is fine. But if you could just move my phone by the desk, that would be great." Fate then took the phone away, leaving Shiro to lie down and get some rest. As he did though, he thought to himself. 'I wonder who tried to contact me?' which that lead him to sleep and be unaware of what was to come past the next two days.

And chapter done! Wow that was a long writing session but I pulled it off and again I hope you guys enjoyed besides the fact it was no less then a few days or so since chapter 7 but I think I did a good job, So Shiro wants to become stronger and Fate is acting like his mom lol! First order of things: Next chapter we go back to training but they will be different and something will happen between Shiro and Hitoshi. Next thing:Thank you guys for being patient and as always if you have any suggestions or even any advice that would help me improve, I gladly appreciate the help. Be seeing you guys next time.