Here we go the rest of the rematch between Shiro and Drav. Hope you guys enjoy the fight.
*Same Disclaimer as before *
Within the Arthra currently, Nanoha and Fate are waiting for the young sword mage so they can continue his training just like always. Almost as if the trio were used to the daily routine of class, lunch and training all while with some homework being worked on after the fact. Currently Nanoha was just spinning her pencil around on her fingers while Fate is humming a little tune to pass the time. Then the auburn haired instructor stopped spinning her pencil forcing Fate to turn, wondering what was wrong.
"Nanoha what is it?"
Nanoha narrows her eyes and replied to the blond. "Oh just wondering what is keeping Shiro so long? His class should have ended a long while ago and he should be here. Maybe he got lost again." Not believing that, Fate shook her head and disproved that with narrowed eyes. "Nanoha that s impossible. We gave him directions. If he did get lost, then all he needs to do is follow the directions. Just give him time."
The white mage could only sigh and silently agree with Fate and went on waiting. They did not have to wait as a hologram appeared to reveal the face of Lindy which caused the two to salute. She smiles at the two and told them the reason behind her call.
"Good afternoon you two. I am sorry for interrupting you when you should be training Shiro at the moment."
Fate only waves her hand dismissing the act allowing Nanoha to tell Lindy. "It is fine. We are just waiting on him and he has not appeared yet. There is still time so what is it?
"Well..." Lindy began speaking as she brings up another hologram only this one was of the student area encased in a dome. "we had just found out that a barrier has been made around the area. It might be that man from last time. You two should investigate and if it is him, try to get any more information out of him."
"Yes ma'am!" replied Nanoha and Fate as the two then ran out the room to prepare to see about the barrier. They had both hoped that Shiro, even through he had more training at this point he would not be there at all. But Fate was praying that the young man was ok this time because last time, he was at a huge disadvantage and that almost scared her. Nanoha as if feeling Fate's mother hen worries, holds her left hand and tells her with telepathy calmly.
'Fate if he is attacked, he will be fine. Shiro has gotten a lot better then last time and you know that. Same here with me as I am worried but I never been wrong with the people I train. Trust in him a little bit.' She ends this with a calm smirk leaving Fate to nod, indicating that she understands and the two set off.
Meanwhile at the moon base, things were not going well. With the video feed system on Drav's device, the three were watching the hologram each with very different expressions. Saika was calm on the outside but pissed on the inside as the fighter was suppose to bring in drones just in case Nanoha, Fate or any other bureau officer was around the area and try to stop the fight but he instead did the opposite. He faceplamed while glaring at the screen. "I swear when he is finished with his stupid hunts, I will have a long talk with him about this."
Anna could only giggle as Saika's antics amused her to no end. While that happened, she started to think: if it was fun to fight a mage like Drav was feeling then what about fighting a mage from the bureau? The feeling overwhelmed the drill haired woman as she hugged her body just thinking about it. Then she tried to control herself as hard as she could turning to Ixia's location.
"What are your thoughts on this Ixia?" Anna asked leaving Seika to turn as well so he could hear what Ixia was thinking. Strangely enough, the scientist had not said a word as his eyes would focusing solely on the fight with more data around him. He was staring intently on the battle, on his device and Drav fighting the person using it. The second in command knows that he can't a word out of Ixia when he is like this and turned back with Anna now watching the rest of the fight.
Speaking of the fight, back to it, the two men broke away from the clash leading Shiro to fight back against Drav by using his sword and swinging at certain directions. Each swing in comparison to the last time they fought felt really different. Drav could feel the swings hitting his device, forcing him to try and push back. From there, he would try to punch Shiro only for him to defend with the sword as the two ran. However, unlike before when all he did was defend and run, this time the weight of the swings as well as his slowly better movement and the striking power difference made the other mage ask and question. 'How the hell is he better at using Gaia!?' Then he remembered who was on Earth and who trained him meaning that while he is a newbie, Shiro is learning.
'That is it! I can do this. I can actually fight better now!' the young sword mage thought as the two continue their battle. Now Drav was sending more projectiles at Shiro, allowing him to defend with his shield. When that plan failed, Drav dashes at the young mage to slam into many benches and extra bushes safely not the one Hitoshi was in. Smirking, the mage then flies in the air in order to send even more projectiles only this time with the sole purpose of shooting down Shiro from the ground.
In retaliation of the act, the young mage starts to dodge and move away from each of the shots as many as he could and to even the odds a bit in his favor, he raises his hand leading Gaia to say. 'Shoot Barret.' allowing the shot in question to hit it's target in the stomach making him land on the ground holding his stomach. Inwardly smiling at the plan he made now working, Shiro then decides to attack Drav by raising his sword in the air and trying a vertical slash, hoping to take him down that way.
However Drav decides to take a page from his opponent's book and uses his shield to protect himself against the attack as he grins at Shiro. Behind the tree, Hitoshi looked on and saw the grin wondering that the guy may have something up his sleeve. He turns to Shiro's direction and muttered to himself. "What is that guy going to do now?" To the shock of Hitoshi, Drav punched the ground and a magic circle appeared underneath Shiro's feet and like before, the trap locks on to the sword mage's legs. Shiro winches and is kneeing on the ground but just when things were about to get worse they do as the enemy mage now floats in the air and summons the huge magic circle he used before. Just as Hitoshi was about to ask again, a gigantic red ball appeared which lead to Drav taunting Shiro.
"You know I will give props. I can see in your eyes now that you have been learning just like you said. But that shit still does not mean a damn thing as you are still a wannabe dog!" Drav yells at Shiro and then he throws the Grand Arc at Shiro. The spell was making the long haired man to gawk at the size of it and thought in his mind.
'Ok even dad would call bull shit on what is going on. Why isn't Shiro running and also why would he still fight?'
Judging from the size of the spell, there is no way in hell that Shiro would survive the attack and because of this, Hitoshi was this close to say screw secretly hiding, he was going to push his friend and drag him away. But as he was about to...
Almost as if he felt someone near him, Shiro slowly gets himself up from the trap and raises his left hand again. Hitoshi and Drav both thought that he would use Tri-Shield to which in Drav's case was a stupid move on the sword mage's part. Through to the shock of both,this was not the case as Shiro shouts the words: "Grand Tri-Shield!" and in front of him was an advanced version of his shield and as the Grand Arc clashes with it allowing the sword mage to defend himself more stable like allowing Drav to be inawe as an explosion occurs in the spot where Shiro was standing. After that, a dust cloud was leaving Drav to land and admired the fact that this time, Shiro should be dead. Just as he was about to go to the dust cloud to reap the reward, a familiar face runs through the cloud and goes straight at Drav. Shiro rushes at Drav only now Gaia's blade is coated with the color of Shiro's mana.
As he gets closer to the enemy, the young mage thought back to how this started. After with further from Nanoha, he trained with his sword swings and thought to himself what if I increased my swing's striking power to which Gaia replied.
'You can do that with training. Go for it my Lord.'
And with that, he practiced, thought about how the strike would work and finally the motion to do it. As such, it resulted in the spell he wanted to show Nanoha and Fate. With determined onyx eyes, Shiro screams at his opponent. "This is the end for you. This is the end result of my training with Gaia! Cross Cutter!" Then two vertical slashes caused by Shiro's slashes are now in a x formation and with a push not only caused Drav to grit his teeth in pain due to the attack but it also had enough power to send him soaring in midair and crash on the fountain in the area destroying it. Shiro pants as he puts Gaia down a bit and looking at the jewel. Drav was not moving so the young mage jumped with a happy look on his face and looked back at the jewel housing his partner with the biggest grin he ever had. He was happy that beat Drav like he promised himself when he lost. Hitoshi on the other hand was rubbing his eyes trying his damnedest to figure what happened.
"Did Shiro just do that? My best friend? The same one who would be a drone? THAT Shiro?" the long haired man now at a lost for what was going on with his friend currently.
Now that Shiro was done with the fight, he remembered that Cross Cutter sent Drav to the fountain and recently it was broken. As Shiro notices this, his right eye twitched and in a panic runs around in a circle screaming. "Oh crap crap crap I destroyed a piece of the school! No no no I am so dead. What do I do now?"
At this moment, Nanoha and Fate enter the dome and sees the scars of battle that was caused by Shiro and Drav. There were destroyed spots of dirt, holes and even benches. To top everything off, Drav was knocked out leading Fate to gasp. "It is that man from before."
"He must have been the one who made the barrier but where is..." Nanoha spoke until she heard the sounds of someone screaming. They both turn and see Shiro still running around in circles panicking. Nanoha, Fate and Hitoshi all had a blank look on their faces which causes the two women to land and walk to the panicked sword mage.
"Shiro it is ok. Thanks to the barrier, any real damage caused in a fight will repair itself. It is the same as it is when people disappear. So calm down." Upon hearing that, Shiro stops running, puts his hand on his chest and took a deep breath, happy that the fight did not cause any real damage. "Thank god." Shiro spoke with a sigh leaving Nanoha to question the young man.
"Shiro what happened?"
It was here that the short haired man explained the details ranging from the barrier, Drav attacking, Shiro fighting back and using his new spell to defeat Drav. After that, a groan was heard in the air, making Nanoha, Fate and Shiro to turn to see Drav getting up. In response Nanoha and Fate both point Raising Heart and Bardiche at the weaken mage, ready to take him in. However, Shiro wished to ask his attacker somethings.
"Wait. I want to ask you two things. The first thing is are you with the group after Gaia?"
Drav just growls at the group in front of him and in a mocking tone spoke back. "Well, why don't you just ask the white devil and the mama's girl? I am pretty sure that they would know by now."
Shiro was puzzled as to what did Drav meant by that? White Devil and Mama's girl? For the first, he got his answer in the form of Nanoha glaring at Drav all while saying " I am NOT the White Devil!"
The blond mage could only sigh as Shiro then pieces it together. 'Wait a minute. White Devil is a title. A title that Nanoha has. Then that would mean the mama's girl one is...' He looks over at Fate's direction and believes that maybe that nickname must belong to Fate somehow. Speaking of which, she uses her lighting binds to trap Drav in his tracks as she questions the same thing that Shiro asked only a bit direct.
"Well tell us. Are you with that group or not?" The three including Hitoshi still hiding were waiting to see what he would say until Drav with his hand out of his left pocket, dropped a flash grenade, blinding Nanoha, Fate and Shiro for a few seconds. Then once the light died down, the three rubs their eyes and saw that Drav is free from the binds and was running away. He turned to the two and said.
"Like I said before, you bureau dogs should have the answer by now. In fact the only one who may not have the answer is that wannabe dog you are training. Good bye I got what I wanted!"
Nanoha and Fate were about to bind him again for more info but Shiro ran to Drav telling him to wait. "I still have one question that I want to ask you. What is your name?"
"...Drav. You wannabe dog if you want to be all child like, then I will ask for your name."
Shiro surprised by the guy named Drav tells him his name. "Shiro. Shiro Nagase." And with that Drav leaves with a smile.
Unfortunately, Nanoha and Fate were a little miffed that they did not get everything about Ixia but at least they got his name so it was something. 'We will tell Yuuno about this and he should find out more about Ixia. Maybe about where his base is."
'Right.' Fate spoke which after that was over, the white mage walked over to Shiro and pats his shoulder. "Well besides the aftermath of the fight, you did really well against Drav, Shiro."
The young man looks at Nanoha and replies back. "You mean it?"
"Yes I mean it." told Nanoha with a smile, "the destruction of the area is prove enough. There were no other mages in the area and you were around I can tell that you gave it you're all and you did great. Ain't that right Fate?"
The two turn in Fate's area, waiting for an answer. On the one hand she was worried about the outcome but the other hand, she was happy to see that he won and with a smile she told the young man. "Yes I agree with Nanoha. I am very proud of you for holding your own."
This made Shiro to sheepishly his cheek in embarrassment feeling proud in what he did. For the first time in his life, he did something on his own but it was of what he wanted. The trio then warped away now ready to get back the training time that was lost thanks to Drav. Sadly one person did not leave the battlefield.
Hitoshi stepped out the tree and was quite lost and puzzled over what just happened? The blasts, the flying, the lights, people disappearing, Shiro actually fighting and the two new girls flying and using 'magic' too? Things just were not making any god damn sense and with a heavy sigh, he turns away from the area to walk back to the dorms.
"For now, I should apologize for what I said to Shiro and we should clear all of that nasty air." Hitoshi said to himself deciding that was the best course of action at the moment. After all Shiro would not be back until much later so it was a great plan to talk with him. However, he makes a quick look at the student area now with everything fixed and the students now walking without a care in the world.
Sighing once again, the long haired man narrowed his eyes and whispered softly. "I am definitely asking him about that magic crap also. We need to talk about that." as he walks now with many, many, MANY questions.
And DONE! The fight between the two is over and because of this, Hitoshi wants answers. Not just to rebuild the friendship he has with Shiro but also the 'magic crap' he is involved in. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter along with how things are going so far. As always, feel free to hit me with suggestions and things to help me improve, thank you all for the support and be seeing you guys for the aftermath.