Magischer Kriegers Chapter Seven
Hi there this RedRat8 and this is my first attempt at doing fanfiction so take it easy with me as I attempt to write this story to improve my writing skills in general.
Disclaimer I own neither Masked Rider nor Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, if I did I would be pretty damn happy with my life, let the story begin now.
"UUUUUUgh" Alf moaned as she got up from the couch and then she quickly took note of her surrounding and relaxed immediately knowing they are in their safe house of sorts.
Then as she got up checked on her wounds and nodded at how expertly Fate managed to fix herself up and then stopped. As she remembered how badly Fate hurt to causing her to panic once more.
"FATE! WHERE ARE YOU!" she howled and she rushed to the room where she sensed her link was from and was treated to a horrible sight that caused her to gagged a bit as she calmed herself down so she can assessed the damage.
Fate was laying on the ground almost nude if it wasn't for her underclothes that she wore but that wasn't the worst bit, the worst bit was she was covered in whip marks all over her back and limbs and her wrist were red where the chains holding her to tightly and most horrifically of all. She was curled up in a fetal position whimpering a bit.
Knowing exactly who would do this to her master she turned her head around and saw HER! All looking smug and pleased with herself and she snarled so venomously that if it was anyone else they be backing and running very quickly. But on no, not her because she couldn't her at all for two reasons. One was the fact that she was a powerful mage she stood no chance against, and secondly she knew Fate wouldn't want her to do this no matter what happened.
"Now, now wouldn't want my precious daughter to be sad because you attack me now do you?" she asked so damn smugly and arrogant that Alf had no choice but to back down with Precia looking rather pleased now as she walked towards them.
" I am rather disappointed that you two failed to gather the seeds so far, but you just need to gather them and I will be pleased; so retrieve them and kill whoever gets in your way." She ordered as she kicked Fate in the stomach again as she left; leaving an enraged beyond all belief familiar and a whimpering girl as she then tried her best to comfort and fix up.
'Damn you, damn you, damn you, damn you Precia! Fate I really wish we could leave someone as kind as you do not deserve this.' Alf thought angrily at first then sadly as she set out to fix her master up and as best as she could before she use her own magic to fix herself up.
"(Back at Nanoha's place)
Just as the kids were up to date on what happened with the last fight and what Nitoh could do, the two kids then separated from Nitoh and Yuuno as they went off to describe what Nanoha think when she fought Fate.
"So Nanoha what was Fate like? Why did she do this?" Yu asked as both he and Nanoha at some point believed there was more to Fate than meets the eyes, as Nanoha confessed to feeling that Fate felt so sad and Yu himself noted that Fate seem conflicted at time when they were talking. But more importantly Yu knows that Nanoha had an amazing sense of people and their emotions at times that it made him wonder if that was her main magic focus.
Shaking that thought he listed as Nanoha once again explained that Fate just felt so sad at times and she wondered what happened to her and she felt she was once more coerced into this and didn't want to do this just as much as they do. Which raised Yu's suspicious meter and once again both secretly made a promise to try and reach out to her. For Nanoha it was because she was a nice girl and wanted to help everyone, whereas Yu wanted to help because he too wanted had no desire to see this girl fall into despair as well.
Despite Knight saying that they should ignore that in favor of focusing on the battle but even he wanted to help Fate out underneath when he urged them to "meet again on the fields of battle and hear out their soul." Which was his way of meet the girl again and try to hear her side of the story. But they were rather curious as to how strong one could be when they trained a lot so they went back to Yuuno and Nitoh.
"Wait you want to know how strong you can be?" Yuuno asked as Nanoha and Yu both nodded in response and Yuuno signed a bit before calculating the figures in Nanoha's favor. But Nitoh stayed silent as he was also curious as well so he waited with the kids before Yuuno answered in response.
"Well based on what I've seen so far you have the potential to become very strong, you are a very fast learner and you already outstrip some adults if not fight on par with most of them, so if you continue at the rate you're going at you will be a monster at some point" Yuuno answered which amazed the three of them at Nanoha's potential.
Before then Yu turned to Nitoh as well "So uncle Nitoh as strong could I possibly be?" Yu asked which shocked Nitoh a bit before he thought about his potential and how strong both his parents were before answering as well.
"Well based on your training and how strong you could be at times and the strength of your parents as well you could also be a powerful magician in your own right, already you managed to master the four basic forms of your magic to an even higher degree than what Haruto was capable of and as you grow older and stronger you most likely outclass Haruto when he's using his four basic forms."
"I would also guess that you have a form that could take on Nanoha if what Yuuno said is true about her potential as well but the best person to ask that is your Phantom Knight." Nitoh concluded as Yu then started to talk to Knight about his potential.
'My host even though you are strong and have a lot of potential you are still young and being able to work these powers is a sign your own growth and that is what you will have for now.' Knight answered which led him to question if he can evolve like his father to which Knight wince and said no very quickly.
'But why can't I evolve, I mean I'm already strong enough to handle powerful warriors but why can't I evolve?' Yu asked Knight to which he responded 'because evolving is not a simple task to do Yu, to enter the next stage of your evolution which is the Blood Warrior forms and that name by itself is enough for me to not say anymore but if you are truly insistent on knowing why, it is because you evolve through your emotions your magic is based on the strength of your resolve and emotions, Blood Warrior is access to more power but that means being in contact with you feral side, your primal instincts. It is a power that you cannot wield right now because you have no compatibly with yet, it is too much for you right now.' Yu nodded in sadness but Knight understood why he was upset and sought to comfort him.
'My host you have so much power for any child of your age and not only that you wouldn't be able to handle it because you are not strong emotionally nor are you truly in synch with your rage or feral side if you can accomplish any of that that I would consider it but you might not be able to take it, furthermore the power will not yield to you just yet; so train and be stronger then we can see about it.'
Yu then nodded in understanding and relayed to what Knight told him to everyone and everyone reactions were different. Nanoha was obviously distressed as to how he has to become stronger, while Nitoh nodded in understanding most likely to dealing with his dad and having a thorough understanding of his magic worked. Whereas Yuuno was obviously trying to understand the magic and remembered that Earth magic seems to work on how they feel at times and how they desire it.
"…and so for now I will be using my current forms to fight." Yu concluded as everyone else nodded but Yuuno also understand that when it comes to magic variety Earth magic is extremely adaptable at times while it is true in Yuuno's mind that Nanoha is the superior hitter of the duo, Yu has variety that Nanoha does not and the major reason why she loses more than half her spars against him. But Yuuno understood that they are both monsters in their own way and he shuddered at what they could do into their teen to early adult years. But he put that aside and focused on the mission which is going really well and now they have to confront that girl who they call Fate in order to get the rest of the Jewel Seeds she had, but they couldn't do that as apparently both Yu and Nanoha are going to the Hot Springs to relax and cool down a bit.
Nitoh will also be going and Yuuno knows he'll be going regardless and he might as well relax from the general worries about the battles and secrets they have to hide. He also never been to a hot spring as well so this might be a fun experience for him. Besides this was apparently the Golden Week of Japan and they do need a rest from thinking about the conflict for the Jewel Seeds.
"So Nanoha mind telling us why you keep looking out the window?" Suzuka asked Nanoha as she was looking out the window, to which Alissa immediately responded to the question.
"Most likely because she was looking for her boyfriend am I right Nanoha?" Alissa asked ever so slyly that it caused the poor girl to sputter and blush bright red as she try to explain herself to Alissa. "It's not like that, me and Yu are not together!" she cried out to which her fiends continue to giggle at as she desperately tried to convince with absolute no success; much to her horror.
During that time, Shiro who was in the front driving the car had his knuckles tightened a bit while oozing an aura of killing intent to the one boy his daughter seems interested in; whereas Momoko found the whole scene adorable and giggled at the sight of her daughter being teased like while finding her husband's reaction to the while thing to be more adorable as he's constantly muttering death threats to Yu. Of course the major reason why he's not there right now because there was not enough room in the car and Nitoh is currently riding him there on his motorcycle while Yu is holding onto Yuuno. Most would find it unsafe but Nitoh has a sidecar for these kind of occasions he needs to take Yu somewhere when Haruto and Mayu are far too busy.
(At the Hot springs place owned by Suzuka's family)
Once they finally got to the hot springs Momoko brought the girls with her to the changing room to their side of the hot springs while the males went to their side and Yu and Yuuno were done of sorts and left to go enjoy the hot springs. Meanwhile Nitoh and Shiro stayed back to update each other of the events that has happened and what might happen soon enough as well. But Shiro said something that surprised even him beyond belief.
"What? Are you saying the Kougami himself is coming into the city soon enough!" to which Shiro nodded as Nitoh thought and contemplated such a reason someone as eccentric as him would come before coming to one conclusion. "I'm assuming it has something to do with the Jewel Seeds as they are similar to core and cell medals after all, or he's very happy of the events of space and wants to congratulate your daughter's birthday as a magical girl of sorts, am I right?" to which Shiro nodded once again, this time his face heavily strained and both pinched their noses at how obsessed he is with the "beauty of birth and desire" so to say.
Mind you it is not as if he's bad company, it is the complete opposite as he is so enthusiastic about things he finds amazing that it is almost impossible not to like the guy even if in interests are skewed at times. Shiro and Momoko actually owed a lot to him as he's the reason why they have a good café to begin with as he blesses their union with a free café with everything they needed. While Nitoh himself got the current motorcycle he uses from him as well as he believes that a Masked Rider is not without something to ride in or on; and he planned on getting an awesome bike for Yu when he's old enough to do what is family do. They more worried about the kids being influenced by him, as he is… scary at times with what he believes in.
"Let us hope he doesn't give us too much of a headache but considering how enthusiastic he is at times, he is known for being extraordinary shrewd and most likely have something that would be needed for the kids to adapt to fighting or maybe a welcome reprieve of sorts." Shiro hesitantly said but both have their doubts, he most likely would just bring a bunch cake and some rings to deliver as well.
"Be glad that Gentaro is not here, imagine how he would react to the thought of meeting aliens from outer space." Nitoh pointed out but both could not help but smile fondly at the Astronaut Rider. He's overenthusiastic at times, reckless, impatient, and dumb at times. But when it comes down to it he's the one guy you want watching your back no matter what, and the two them remembered how excited he was to make friends with him and how happy Yu was when he first met him and instantly got a friend from that amazing guy.
"But yeah I'm assuming Nanoha's other friends know about his coming as well?" to which Shiro nodded, both of Nanoha's friend's parents were former members of Kougami foundation as Alissa's parent were one of the many backers behind it founding and later split from the company as Kougami celebrated their birth to walk their own path in life, naturally they know all about the World behind the Veil. Suzuka's parents were involved in refining and designing new models for their motorcycles and can-roids, and assisted with helping maintain some of the Birth's technology and weapons for the user to use. Both of them were well aware of what goes beyond the world and tried really hard to keep it that which was exasperated by the fact that a Masked Rider family was here along with their support, shaking that thought out of their heads they went in to enjoy the hot springs for now.
'Ah this hot spring is so relaxing, no wonder you guys enjoy it so much.' Yuuno spoke telepathically as he is swimming in the hot spring in a bucket. They switched to telepathy to make sure no one heard him speak and convincing the lady in charge to let them bring Yuuno in was rather easy considering that all Yu had to do was doing the one attack that every adult could not resist no matter how strong their will may be; the dreaded puppy dog eyes is powerful force to be reckon with.
'Yes I know this is the best part of being in the hot springs, you just feel all your troubles melt away and it just gets you ready to be refreshed doesn't?' Yu replied as he too was sitting in the hot springs enjoying himself though he did wondered how Nanoha was doing on her side. Yu had heard the relentless teasing from her friends when they got off and knew how Alissa and Suzuka are when they are discussing romance and prayed that Nanoha was okay. Also he felt some killing intent from Shiro when they got off, he had no idea what that was about but hopefully uncle Nitoh can solve it with much difficulties; hopefully.
(At the ladies' side)
'Well that was rather relaxing and comforting' mused a certain she-wolf as she left the hot springs. Despite all that has happened this week, Fate wanted her to be comfortable and they admitted they both need a fresh charge before starting anymore fights with those three. So Fate decided to get some reading done for her pleasure whereas Alf decided to go to the hot springs. She tried to convince Fate to go there but she was kind of a bookwork at times and she was self-conscious about her scars as well, so she did not push very hard; causing her to frown at the rather dark thought just now.
'We will defeat those three and no matter what happened I will protect Fate to the best of my abilities.' Alf once again reminded herself of the reason she fights. Then she noticed some people were walking by and froze as she recognize one of them. But she knew she was not in the best place to fight with those civilians around her. So she left to get ready and saw the adult who defeated the Jewel Seed Monster with little effort with another man glaring at her.
She knew she was screwed but for some reason he was not shifting into his battle stance and surprised her when he said the one thing she never thought she would hear her say. "We wish to talk with you." To which she flared at in responses.
"Oh and why should I talk with you?" she spoke rather venomously at the duo.
"For One, this place is to awesome to destroy just now, two if we had any intention of fighting we would have done so, and three this is place is guarded by many security officers all hidden under our command waiting to stop a fight from occurring." He finished, to which Alf had to admit the reasons he gave out and decided to listen to him before any bad thing could occur at this rather awesome hot springs; gods know that their service is beyond anything she ever had before and she'll be damned if she losses it.
"So what do you two want?" Alf demanded as they sat on the massage chairs, to which Nitoh responded "we want this conflict over and done with, so we will have Nanoha challenge your Fate to a duel, stakes are all Jewel Seeds each person have." Nitoh finished to which Alf was surprised at. Then Nitoh continued "I and Shiro over here want this nightmare over and done with and we both do not want to risk their safety anymore, you are free to accept or deny it, just send us a message to a dueling field of your choosing. But I just want those kids safe all in all." Nitoh finished to which Alf was pretty impressed by how caring these two can be, which made her wish Precia was more like these two men.
In all honesty she didn't care about the Jewel Seeds as much as Fate does. But since she cares she will care about them because it is important to her and she will do anything to help Fate. Not only that this is the quickest way to gather all the remaining Jewel Seeds without much trouble on their part. True they could lose all their Jewel Seeds but Alf is very confident in Fate's abilities and the only reason why that other girl won was because she had help in both conflicts. In a one on one duel she would most likely be able to win against her, but she needed to field to be where they cannot set it up or trap it to their advantage, till she remembered where they first fought.
"… All right, we do this in five days at the field where we first fought each other, not the one with you Beast but the one where we first fought the other two kids." She turned away and started to leave but looked at them and could not help but ask. "You two will keep your promise won't you?" to which the two nodded in confirmation and Nitoh explaining one important thing, "We riders keep our promises." Nitoh confirmed before Alf nodded and left the spring leaving two men to relax in preparation for the coming conflict.
"Wow Nanoha you look amazing in that outfit." Yu commented off-handily causing her to blush and her friends to giggle at her very hard as Momoko had her own serene smile as well. Nanoha has yet to recover from all the teasing her friends have done and continued to do in the hot springs, it did not help her much when her mom decided to join in on the teasing as well, causing her to cover her face in embarrassment. Then as the group settle down and Momoko took the other girls to grab some snacks which left her with Yu as they discussed Fate once again.
"She seems so beautiful, yet her eyes are so sad at times, I wonder why she's so sad when we fight." Nanoha commented on Fate, Yu knowing full well of how Nanoha can be, let her finish what she was describing, "she is sad and yet she's beautiful like you Yu, you both shine so brightly yet whereas Fate's shrouded in sadness, yours is shrouded in hope." Which led to him raising his eyebrows at her description of him, then she finished. " there is more we could do for her, I want to be her friend yet her sadness may drown her, you might be the one to save her from the sea of despair she's in.' Nanoha finished to which Yu looked down very curious as to why he would be the one to save her; Nanoha at times has this unique ability to know people that Yu at times wonder if she was an empath at times with way she talks almost prophetically. But Yu knows just as well as Nanoha does there is more to her, but the real question is who does Fate serve if she doesn't care about the Jewel Seeds?
Later when they left the Hot Springs Yu and Nanoha were surprised to find out that Alf was here and that Nitoh managed to set up a duel between them and Fate. Not only that, but they are now betting all their Jewel Seeds and with the way there are few more undiscovered Seeds and how the search is going it might be a major relief to them. During the Golden Week they managed to get a few more and the Jewel Seeds with excess energy were dealt by Nitoh and they also found out that Knight could do the same as well and when one of Seeds monsters was going active and critical Yu, in a moment of stupidity and bravery, decided to try and seal the thing himself and used an engage ring and had Knight absorbed the energy. But the jewel Seed kind of stuck to Yu from that point on, and vowed never to do something stupid like that again after being lectured form the other three for three straight hours.
Then one day as Yu was assisting Nanoha's parent with the café during the rush hour and having nothing to do due to no Seeds going active. Nor does Nanoha have time to spend considering that duel is coming Nanoha is training with both Nitoh and Yuuno to prepare. Leaving him to help her parents after helping out Hayate a couple more times as well, and confessing a bit of stress with the events going on. He heard the bell form the door ring.
"Sorry we are closed for now." Only to strangely hear some rushing and tripping and a moan. Quickly going out to help and was shocked to see Fate on the floor groaning. Then when she got up and saw him gawking at her, she ran again and tripped hitting her head again while moaning and leaving her skirt upside down. Yu at this point could not help but pity her and helped her up which Fate was understandably cautious relented at how Yu pointed out the duel is coming and they are both under a temporary truce.
After Yu finished treating her cuts, he then heard a large growl from fate which caused the girl to glow red and on her porcelain white skin great contrasted. Which cause him to smile in amusement at her. "So I'm assuming you might be hungry, just wait here and I will get you some food." Yu spoke up in which the girl was once again surprised by him. Then as he left his smile turned into a frown, 'Knight did you notice something off?'
'Unfortunately, yes my host, I noticed some scarring on her arms, they be faded but they look rather recent when we last encountered her. That by itself makes me to believe that whoever it is she's serving has no qualm about hurting children.' Knight snarled rather viciously, in which Yu nodded darkly in agreement. Now they have to save her, no matter what the cost they suffer. 'But for now we will not talk about it, it may be too soon and it may break the truce.' To which Knight nodded very reluctantly, in not wanting Fate hurt any more than Yu does.
'Best we give her some comfort, and hope for the best then my host.' Yu did not want to leave her there but he knew this was beyond his hand and after getting the meal ready and grabbing some sprinkled doughnuts for himself they sat down and ate in peace and quiet for now. Then he noticed Fate staring at him curiously after finishing the meal he had prepped for her. Her eyes seem to be wondering why he had done this for her even though they are enemies in the end. To which he just shrugged, "well it would be bad manners to let a girl to starve and I did say we are under a truce after all." Then Fate immediately nodded and started on her second dish to which he smiled at her messiness and cleaned some crumbs off her which surprised her once more.
Then by some weird coincidence Fate also cleaned off the crumbs from the doughnuts as well causing him to laugh and her to giggle at the weirdness of the situation before them. Which was honestly a relief to Fate as the stress begin to die down and she felt at peace for once here.
"Well that smile looks radiant on you Fate, you should try to smile more often." The compliment caused her to blush red and hide herself from Yu's eyes which confused him but made Knight laughed so hard at his host unexpected Casanova skills at time. It was also during this time that Alf walked in on Fate trying to find her and all she sees is Fate hiding herself and some scratches on her person. Causing her to get ready to fight and charge at the fool who dare harm her master.
"Wait Alf he is not here to harm us." Fate said to calm her down. "He hurt you though master." Pointing to the nasty scratch now bandaged up. "That was my fault when I was rushing and tripped down." Causing her to pout and sit down as both are now eating some sprinkled doughnuts right now. Then the both of them set up to leave before Fate turn around and asked, "Can I have some of those Sprinkled Doughnuts to go please?" At this Yu mentally fist pumped in success of converting another one to the sacredness of sprinkled doughnuts. As Knight just sighed and face-palmed in frustration at his master's obsession with the sprinkled doughnuts.
Again there are very few times in Yu's short life that he truly feels scared, being glared down by both Nanoha and Nitoh is one of those few things that scared him a lot. Being held down by a restrict lock spell and being glared down by Yuuno, Nitoh, and Nanoha made it to the top of his list of being scared completely.
"So not only did you let Fate-san in you also fed her without even bother to notify us and then proceeded to send her off with some doughnuts right?" the ominous tone from her did not make him feel better, considering that he fed her rival of sorts and may have put himself in danger.
"Oh come on I wasn't in any danger from Fate or Alf when they came in." Yu tried to defend himself to which both Yuuno and Nitoh lectured him again.
"Regardless you should have been more careful, and you do not let strangers in the café when it is closed Yu." Nitoh cried out, as he was more concerned about his safety then he being enraged.
"Well at least you're okay and you should have been more cautious Yu!" Nanoha cried out before undoing the spell binding on him letting him stand and stretch now.
"Well at the very least I now have some form of connection with Fate so we could try to use that and try to talk with her." Yu whispered to her as both Nitoh and Yuuno left to get some water to calm their raging headache at Yu's recklessness.
"Well that's a good thing." Nanoha smiled before noticing Yu's frown and worried what he might have learned, before Yu clued Nanoha in on his suspicion of what Fate might being going through. Naturally the girl was horrified to learn what Yu has hypothesized and vows to reach out to Fate in her own way. Which Yu jokingly called it "beating them up violently" much to her embarrassment. But still she vowed to do what it takes to be her friend and help her, to which Yu also nodded in agreement and then both went off to enjoy the rest of their Golden Week.
During that timeframe both kids sparred with each other a lot to see who was stronger with Nitoh and Yuuno acting as judges. Suffice to say both were really impressed with how fast they were advancing at times.
"I swear the amount of mana and accelerated skills that Nanoha has is beyond any prodigy and something more out of a legend!" Yuuno exclaimed at Nanoha's skills before turning to Yu.
"But despite his disadvantage in lack of attack spells Yu's wide variety of spells ranging from attack, detect, distract, bind, and other such spells that he can easily overwhelm Nanoha at times. These kids are something out of stories and myth!" Yuuno finished with Nitoh chuckling a bit remembering how some rider achieve that status most commonly known was Kuuga. The current one last he heard was spending some time in France with his fiancé Jeanne.
"Well Yu does come from two of the strongest and among only mages I know and both were pretty experienced in their own right as well, so it's natural for him to pick up some of his parent's fighting traits and Nanoha however. She's like one of those ancient heroes of awesomeness and she being pushed by Yu to accomplish more so she can stand by his side. Imagine that Yuuno, the Amazing Yu and the Wonderful Nanoha!" Nitoh laughed out catching the other two's attention as they joined the fun as well.
"And joined by the mysterious ancient magic teacher Nitoh!" Yu started out only to be finished by Nanoha. "Alongside our awesome sidekick Yuuno!" as she lifted him up into their all of a sudden much to Yuuno's distress and embarrassment while fake swooning at him. With all of them laughing at the fun they're having, as they eagerly await for the battle with Fate while enjoying their together time.
(Few Days Later)
During those days they have been training Nanoha and sparing and hunting down all the Jewel Seeds that have yet to be recovered with only one left now according their count. Now they walked towards the field to where they first fought her, and soon enough there she is with Alf. Then both Nanoha and Fate walked to each other while equipping their barrier jackets and then the tension rose between them as both of them shouted, "IT's Time to Duel!" before charging at each other.
(END)
Author's notes: Yeah here a long interlude of sorts and yes I will place the fight scene next chapter, and I must thank all those who supported me, and yes a few shout outs if you pay attention and hopefully see you guys next time! BYE