Hey Guys I am back! And here is the first chapter of the Second Arc otherwise known as A's Arc Please read, review, like to help me! Thanks a lot you awesome readers!
It has been about six months since the Jewel Seed incident has occurred, it was now the winter season and in the month of December. And currently Nanoha and her two friends are at Alissa's manor backyard just watching as Nanoha practice her magic control.
The two girls were impressed by how Nanoha was repeatedly shooting the can that they brought out for her to shoot it over and over again practicing her accuracy with her spells. It was also a way of coping without Yu as he made a much better target.
Then the thought of Yu training her in Melee combat brought a cold shiver down Nanoha's spine as she clearly remembers Yu vowing to get back at her for using him as target practice for her Starlight Breaker spell. That caused her to miss and she quickly managed to get it under control.
Even so Alissa cannot help but whistle as she saw just how amazing Nanoha can go right now. "Nanoha has come a very long way since the early days right Suzuka?" to which the purple haired girl nodded.
"That is true, but I do wonder how Yu and the others are doing right now." Alissa just shrugged in response to that.
"Well at the very least we know him and the twins are doing okay in that last video messaging that the TSAB set up, but I am more interested in what is going on with him and the girls you know?" Alissa said with a rather saucy smile on her face.
Suzuka gave a rather thoughtful hum and thinking pose into that. "It is possible those two girls did seem rather clingy to him but I thought Alicia was a bit more happy with Chrono in my opinion. But I still think that she likes Yu better."
Then she took another step and she thought some more till something struck gold in her mind and her eyes widened. "Alissa what if this causes some problem with Nanoha's chances with Yu?"
Alissa was taken aback by it but nodded and took a thinking pose on it. "I don't think so, Yu has always kind of crushed on Nanoha a bit despite her being airheaded at times and she also crushed on him as well. But that attraction increased since the whole incident started. And let's be honest here Suzuka, since they are involved with the Secret World there is going to be very few people that she can date and actually stand."
The she smiled really mischievously now. "Although with the way he stacks up those girl's attraction I think he might be accidentally starting his own harem of sorts. And we know the twins like him and especially Nanoha since she gave him that kiss!"
That rather loud and random statement caused Nanoha to trip up and accidentally sent the can flying into the distance. Then she turned her attention to her other friends right now while she was crying out, "It's not like that, Suzuka, Alissa, those were kisses for good luck and thanks after all!"
Alissa snorted at that. "You can try to deny it all you want Nanoha but Alissa and I were there and we saw you three girls going at it with those kisses. And we also have proof of pictures as well."
Suzuka nodded as well. "That's right Nanoha, you should not deny your affections for Yu at all otherwise you might lose him. Face it Nanoha you like him a lot and you have competition."
Alissa just giggled a bit at that thought while Suzuka just smiled. Nanoha lowered her head then all of a sudden despite it being winter, the temperature suddenly increased highly as it hit above burning temperature all of a sudden.
That caused both girls to stop what they were doing and they slowly turned and much to their horror Nanoha was surrounded in a flaming pink aura around her. And when she lifted her head up her eye, oh god the eyes, were glowing pink with power and fury.
"Alissa, Suzuka." She spoke with deadly calm that only made it much more terrifying and they were now getting flashbacks to that moment of Yu's pure silent fury. They were then more than desperately hoping that it won't turn anything at all like that moment, but that hope was waning over time.
It is absolutely forbidden to make any assumptions about anyone's love life at all." Then the two girls felt an aura of power bring them down to their knees and they were desperately trying to stay calm under her calm fury.
"But since I am a forgiving person I will let you go and in exchange you will have to be my new target practices." And their hopeful smiles turned into pale gasps of horror. "You have ten seconds to get a head start on me right now!"
The two girls immediately turned away and dashed for their lives as Nanoha started to aim Divine Shooter spells at them for the rest of the morning. While the two girls could only be thinking one thing. 'Nanoha and Yu are truly suited to be with each other!' they thought mentally crying as they dodged another one of her spell's powerful attacks.
After that session of trying to ki- I mean shoot down her friends, Nanoha left very satisfied while the two girls were in a fetal position, and they swore to never ever anger Nanoha or Yu ever again or suffer horrifying, traumatizing pain.
"Nanoha you came back later than normal today." Momoko commented as she set up some snacks as her daughter staggered into the seat to eat it. "An extended practice session of sorts with the other girls?" Nanoha nodded as she gleefully took in the terrifying screams of her friends. Ah yes there is nothing like the screams of friends to relieve the stress of being teased like that.
Taking in her positive expression as a good one she decided to tell her some more good news as well. "By the way Nanoha, Haruto called up a while ago, he and everyone else will be coming back soon, and they should be coming back tomorrow."
That really cheered her up as she shot up from her seats with a really excited expression. "Yu, Fate, and Alicia are coming back soon?!"
"Yep and Lindy, Chrono, and Yuuno will be coming as well." that earned another rather cheerful yell from the friendly girl.
That is when her other siblings got back into the house. Kyouya raised an eyebrow ay Nanoha's cheer before looking at his mother. "Yu is coming back Kyouya." That got him to smile as he missed having to train the little kid.
"Is that so? I look forward to seeing Yu again I do hope he's been keeping his skills in swordsmanship up. Because I will be testing him as soon as he gets back." He said with a rather happy grin.
Nanoha then could not help but worry for Yu as her brother will surely put him through the grinder and back again, as soon as he gets back.
"Okay let us go over what is going to happen as soon as you guys get back." Chrono spoke up, and everyone groaned as this is the tenth time he's done it.
Yu spoke up, "we know already Chrono, drop me, Yuuno, and Fate off near Nanoha's home rest there for the night, check up on her and her magic skills, then next thing to do is to rendezvous with you and Lindy to stay there for a while, while my parents continue to check out your guy's magic and to register Alicia officially and update her status, and condition, while staying at the hospital to make sure there are no complications, and then wait for my parents and wait for Fate's probation period to be over. We get it Chrono." Yu ended rather flatly.
Chrono just shrugged indifferently at that. "Hey I don't want you to mess up anything sparkle boy." That caused Yu's eyes to twitch as he hates being called that period. Yuuno and Fate could feel the tension from the two growing now.
"Riiiiiiiiight, let us continue on and make sure we don't mess anything up." Yu said gritting his teeth as he said, that by itself caused Chrono to smirk a bit at his inability to come up with an insult and he was not going to waste this chance.
"Oh? Is your brain under too much from all the jewels you got? Or have you always been slow headed at times? Because I personally believed in both options." That caused Fate and Alf to look at Chrono angrily as they were about to get up and teach him a lesson Yu raised his arms.
Then all of a sudden Yu looked smug as he smirked to Chrono. "No, it is because I am not suicidal enough to insult teammates in front of the good Admiral." Chrono snorted before he was suddenly cut off by the last person he wishes to anger on this ship right now.
"Very much so Yu." And that caused him to start sweating and paling as he turned to see a rather angry looking Lindy with her arms on her hips. "I believe that you Chrono need more disciplining and Nitoh is still in the training hall for CQC still."
And then like that Chrono started paling more at that thought. Nitoh is dangerous among the Enforcers because he is a natural magic eater and the more he eats the stronger and longer he can last. Then they have to put up with him in his fully armored barrier jacket and get their butts beaten. Chrono could only do the one thing was the only option for him, beg for his life.
"Yu! Fate! Yuuno! Alf! Please save me! I am so sorry about the way I insulted you earlier so please save me!" Chrono screeched as he was being dragged off to the sparring arena. Only to get a bunch of prayers in exchange.
Of course one of the major reasons why Chrono hated the arena spars was because his mother started dating Nitoh as she found him fascinating. Chrono was not so happy nor was his thoughts swimming pleasantly at being stuck with his mother's boyfriend, and having to hear his mother's cooing of Nitoh was just too disturbing for him.
As soon as Chrono was dragged out of the cafeteria they were left in silent. Till Yu spoke up, "so anyone's up for some lunch to eat?" that earned a responses of ayes from just about everyone. Yu then asked them, "any preferences you guys want to eat right now?"
Alf eager spoke up as her tail was wagging. "Hamburger Steak!" she spoke up excitedly, Yu was only able to get this far due to training under Momoko, it was a hobby to do when Nanoha and the other went to after class lessons and he was often staying by himself. But since Yu was left with nothing to do he decided to learn cooking from Momoko.
She was glad as someone in the household was finally interested in doing it. So she taught him all she knew and Yu grew to love doing it. After taking everyone's orders he went off to the kitchen, as Fate called out to him. "Yu don't overwork yourself learning new recipes this time!"
Yu could only chuckle as he waved off Fate's concern as he started apprenticing under the chef of the ship and learning new recipes under the chef. He then did what he do best, and that was making darn good food and letting his friends eat.
'Focus Yu, the key to becoming stronger is to always being able to push on through.' Knight spoke telepathically as he helped Yu meditate in series of Chinese Martial Arts katas. Ever since the day that Yu has gained his Blood Warrior Fire mode, he's been practicing on how to push it to its maximum potential.
Even so, he's already considered a prodigy in the magic arts by his parent's standards for being able to access his evolved form as early as he did. According to his mom and dad, there should be about three more Blood Warrior rings that correspond to the remaining elements of his forms.
'Only when you unite all four and be at harmony with each one of them, you can access a pseudo evolved form that combines the unique abilities of each element.' His father told him. Which is why he was focusing on synchronizing with Knight right now, so he can better use his Blood Warrior Fire mode till he gets his new Blood Warrior rings.
He wants to push it to the max limit he could for the Blood Warrior mode right now is his only trump card. That mode was able to allow to fight on par with high ranking mages of Presea's caliber. And Yu knows that the Rider luck demands they meet some kind of new enemy that might be able to push them.
But the most important reason for him to get stronger was so he could protect his important friends and family. And he will do everything he can to protect the ones he loves and treasures without any problem at all. No matter what it takes to do it, he will protect his friends and loved ones.
But right now he was done with his practice and has to do the most important thing in his life right now, and that was getting a good night's sleep before they see Nanoha.
Nanoha was just humming to herself as she was preparing for bed, early on she got a call from the gang that they won't appear till later tonight. While it was rather disappointing at the very least they could see each other soon enough. And she was about to go to bed when she got a warning from Raising Heart.
Then she turned to her device in shock as there hasn't been anything of note since the Jewel Seed Incident that grabbed her Device's attention, then it got from bad to worse as she felt a barrier being erected around her right now.
She quickly got out of her house then projected her Barrier Jacket then displayed her Flyer Fin and tried to make her way to a skyscraper. Keyword being tried. As she then noticed a red orb heading towards her and she quickly displayed a shield which distracted her from the incoming red-clad opponent with the mallet swinging at her.
Which would have worked if it wasn't for the fact that she trained with Nitoh and Yu to improve her sensing abilities and moved herself so that the mallet smashed against her barrier. Then it became a battle for dominance between the red-clad girl and Nanoha.
Then she shouted out "Tödlicher Schlag!" as she swung her mallet once more and broke through the barrier Nanoha has set up. All of which knocked her back and detonated the bullet she fired early on. And now refusing to give her any more time to prepare, the red clad girl got out three metal balls and readied to swing her mallet once more.
The mallet of her called out "Schwalbenflug" before the girl smashed it and send it flying into Nanoha. Then Nanoha quickly raised Raising Heart once more and created a shield before disappearing in a massive puff of smoke.
The hammer wielding girl only clicked her tongue in annoyance before dodging another three pink bullets from the cloud of smoke and she rushed in to smash her. Her target is a lot more skilled than most of the opponents she faced, which is saying a lot since most were adult TSAB Enforcer class mages.
Before she could get any further, she had to dodge a speeding pink mana bolt shot out of the smoke screen, and barely dodged it. She could only think out loud. "An aerial combat mage specialist!?"
Then out of the smokescreen rose Nanoha who looked only a bit perturbed by what has happened so far, but she was also looking at her in confusion and irritation as well. "Why are you doing this? I have never met you before or provoked you, so why are you doing this?"
The girl clad in red just ignored her and continued to attack her by calling out for another volley of metal balls. Nanoha had to dodge many of these attacks and she was getting rather annoyed by the attempted assault on her life right now.
She then fired Divine Shooter spell which the girl in red dodged and then she carefully manipulated it so it hit her in the back which it did. The first bullet hit her red triangle barrier, but the second came up and smashed into her unprotected back.
While the she had a barrier jacket the red clad girl could still feel tremendous amount of pain from it. She then snarled at Nanoha for the pain caused and charged like a raging bull at her.
Then Nanoha let loose several Divine Shooter spells while she set about unleashing her greatest attack. Cannon Mode! Her device then shifted into its winged firing mode with its trigger ready.
"Listen" Divine "to me!" Buster. As the massive concentrated pink beam shot through the sky brightening and destroying everything in its path as it closed in on its mark.
Seeing the massive Winged Zero- I mean Nanoha's Divine Buster spell heading towards her she widened her eyes at the amount of power that was displayed and just barely managed to dodge it while losing her hat in the process. When she took a breather of relief and noticed her hat was missing, something snapped as she readied to retaliate tenfold.
She pulled out her mallet once more before shouting out, "Graf Eisen load cartridge!" Explosion, the exhaust looking part of the valve, rose before slamming down and releasing a wave of smoke.
Raketenform Then to make matters worse the hammer started spinning and then it split off into three parts on one side resembling a rocket booster and on the other side a massive spike appeared on the other side of the hammer ready to destroy Nanoha.
Shifting her grip on the massively upgraded deadly weapon, she aimed her rocket hammer at Nanoha, before shouting out "Raketen!" The rockets then ignited with a roar as it was shooting forward with the red clad girl in tow.
Nanoha tried her best to dodge and on the first one she managed to do and barely succeed. However she cannot dodge so easily and went for using the buildings as an obstacles to slow down the attacks. And she managed to get some distance between her and the red clad girl.
What she didn't expect was the fact that the girl just simply barreling through all of the buildings without much care for them, which naturally destroyed and plowed through anything that could get in her way in this confrontation.
"Hammer!" the red clad girl cried out as her rocket powered hammer broke though the staff that Nanoha hastily raised in her panic. The device held on for a few second till it was shattered allowing the hammer to smash into Nanoha.
Following that blow, the spiker portion smashed into her barrier jacket, and destroying the outer portion of the magically woven clothing which sent her flying and smashing into the ground below her. Nanoha could only groan at the amount of pain she is feeling as the other approached.
With her opponent down for the count and her rage satisfied, the red clad girl approached her target. There was no amount of emotions anywhere on her cold and hard face. As she then looked down on the pitiful form of Nanoha sprawled all over the ground.
Nanoha was completely terrified at this point as she was defenseless and the red clad girl started to raise her hammer like an executioner would before the death row prisoner. She tried to back away but found herself too weak to do so.
'Is this how it is going to end?' Nanoha thought in hysteria as the red clad girl approached closer to her. 'No! Anyone! Help me! Yuuno, Fate Chrono! Yu! Please Help Me!' she shouted in despair and fear then she closed her eyes so she does not have to see her.
Just as the red clad girl was about to swing her hammer at her, something stopped her. It was a bolt of air knocking her back then the red clad girl heard a strange jazz like sound and before she knew someone teleported in front of her while she was blinded. Then she felt her guts being bashed hard by a hammer and she was sent flying off into a building.
Nanoha then opened her eyes and was astonished to see who it was before her face shifted into one of pure joy and relief. It was Yu in his Earth mode holding his Warhammer as he seemed to glare at the cloud of dust right now.
"Yu!" Of course Nanoha could not help but feel much better now knowing her best friend is here to protect her. "I am so glad you are here, it was so terrible there was this one girl she kept on attacking and did not stop and I was." Nanoha was tearing up at her own fear until she felt someone wrapping their arms around her.
"It's okay Nanoha, I am here now, so I will take on the hammer brat and Fate and Yuuno are coming as well so calm down now." Yu told her soothingly which did wonders for Nanoha's nerves and her heart was beating like crazy at the close contact between the two kids.
Now then he stopped hugging her, much to Nanoha's disappointment, he faced the red clad girl coming out of the smoke and boy was Yu angry right now.
"Oy Hammer Midget, you have some guts coming out of nowhere and provoking attacks on innocent bystanders. But it takes some real guts to attack my friend." Yu finished as he pulled out his own Warhammer now.
"So who are you and why are you attacking my friend midget?" He spoke with anger now and that somewhat impressed the red clad girl but not enough to make any difference.
The red clad 'midget 'growled angrily before snorting at him. "Humph I could care less right now but since you seem very interesting, but I won't let you know who I am before you perish now die punk!" As she then dashed to where Yu was but Yu pulled out a barrier made of rock.
While it did not stop her, it slowed her down that he was able to shift towards water mode and his hammer now became a spear which he used to jab her and the red clad girl has a harder time hitting him due to increased speed he had.
Then she was struck all over the place by him and his spear and his last jab forced her to put up a barrier that he still managed to destroy jabbing her barrier jacket and knocking her back for from the two kids. "I will repeat myself once more. Who are you and why are you attacking my friend?"
The red clad girl finally had it with this weird mage. "Fine if you want to know who I am, I am the Knight Vita of the Wolkenritter and its Iron Hammer, and there is nothing that my Graf Eisen can pulp, so prepare yourself!" As the now identified Vita prepared to fight Yu.
Yu only tilted his head at the threat before shaking it confusing Vita. "You see that would normally work except, One I am not that weak, Two. What makes you think I came alone, and Three. My reinforcement should be here now."
Then Vita noticed that there was a blonde haired girl point her device at her, she was also rather quiet as well. "Under the authority of the TSAB you are under arrest, please surrender and drop your device." Vita snarled once more as she refuses to surrender to them.
"Over my dead body morons!" Vita roared as she threw up some more metal balls and used Schwalbenflug to scatter them which succeeded as Yuuno arrive barely in time and evacuated Nanoha from the battlefield.
Then Yu started dashing towards her and he coated his spear in rapidly speeding water form to make a form of a water saw. Vita took note of this and retaliated with her hammer. Both were trying to push each other down but Yu's water form was built for speed not strength so he was pushed back.
But much to Vita's shock, Yu became water and he went all over her body and started to punch her and stab her. But Vita was too strong to simply give up and redirected her metal balls to slam Yu off of her.
Just then as Fate charged in with an Arc Saber spell which she redirected her hammer to take the blow of the force and knocked her away. Vita was annoyed but she was rather curious about the fighting style that Yu was doing. "You fight like us, are you really a Mid-Childa mage?"
Yu could only shrug at that. "I am not a Mid-Childa mage as you say but I am not like you guys exactly either. But I must say I can see how you gave Nanoha a run for her money with your combat skills and magical prowess."
Vita despite being in battle could not help but smirk at the compliment she was getting. Till she could feel the situation changing right now. "That said, you still harmed one of my friends and I am not very pleased with that. So prepare yourself Iron Hammer for you face the Mage of Rings now."
Then Yu pulled out another ring and this one was something that caught Vita off guard as he made a copy of himself and did it another time till there was four of them. Vita was shocked by what Yu did as he has performed magic unlike anything she has ever seen before in her life.
Then to makes thing even more confusing three of them shifted their colors and weapons to something else entirely but from what Vita heard of the transformation. She was able to tell that those four forms that the unknown mage had corresponded to the natural four elements.
Not only have that, but they each had their own unique effects as well. So she had to be careful here as then the four mages charged at her. And she just figured how annoying it was to get teamed up by four different mages, as she had to block blows from the water use, then blinded by the wind user, then get slashed by the fire user, and then get knocked back by the earth user.
This guy was really tough then she heard a command for a bind spell as she was now wrapped in chains of all kinds preventing her from moving. So naturally she used all her strength to weaken it then called out to her hammer which floated and smashed the chains around her freeing her.
That caught Yu by surprise as Vita dashed to slam him with her hammer only to hit his copies which all dispersed once Vita called out her hammer's bigger form and called out "Giganthammer" which slammed and dispersed his copies at once.
Yu could only narrow his eyes as he and Fate prepared to fight Vita once more and disarm her. Which went off course when Fate was suddenly wrapped in some sort of whip before being violently throw into a building.
"FATE! Damn it all!" as he cursed and saw who it was that thrown her. When he saw her, Yu was even more tense than usual as the woman in her pink but practical looking armor stood straight with no slouch with intense eyes and the wind blowing her hair making her look like a dashing female knight of sorts. But the worst part was he did not sense her at all.
'Yu be very careful with this one, she was able to do a lot of damage with no presence at all. Worst of all, she has no combat presence so unlike Vita the Iron Hammer. So she most likely has years upon years of experience that tells us she someone who could easily fight on par with most Veteran Riders. Be very careful with her, despite her power level being lower than Presea, her experience would likely overwhelm her I suggest you use Fire Blood Warrior mode now!'
Yu acknowledged that and got out his Blood Fire ring and shifted into his upgraded mode, the pink haired woman rose an eyebrow at that but ignored it. "Signum?!" 'So that is her name.' Yu thought, as he then thought about the danger she possess.
"Dang it all, Fate! You deal with Vita, I will take on the new interloper got it?" she nodded and went on to deal with Vita as Yu was left to deal with Signum. Then Yu charged at her and his duel sabers clashed with Signum's sword. As they then entered a maelstrom of slashing blades.
However, Yu was being pushed back by Signum's size and skill advantage for every strike Yu gets in, she gets in at least three, till they were in a deadlock as Yu tried to push back her sword with his own blades. But even so, Yu could not help but be impressed with her skills.
"So I am facing a warrior of the blade arts huh? Pleasure to meet you Signum." As Yu raised his eyebrows at the newcomer that appeared alongside Signum. It was a dark skinned man with white hair and dog ears on him like Alf was. Not only that, but he was dressed in a blue sleeveless Chinese shirt with black pants.
"Tis an honor to trade blows with one such as you as well young warrior." Signum spoke up and Yu noticed from Knight that she may have been smiling a bit but it went back to her neutral tone. "I am Signum, leader of the Wolkenritter and the General of Raging Fire. And this is my partner Laevatein. What is thy name boy?"
Yu can only smile at that underneath his helmet at his opponent's politeness, "Me? I am the apprentice mage and warrior Soma Yu, but better known as Kamen Rider Warlock, junior officer of the TSAB, now let the magic begin." As he then pulled out his two sabers away and pointed it at her
Signum could only raise her eyebrow at his declaration. "An apprentice mage you say? If your skills and magic style when you fought me were anything to go by, then you jest, for your skills are quite amazing for one so young."
He was rather grateful for that compliment. "I thank you but I assure you, there are people who are much better than me at this than I am. But still I will face you head on no matter what. So prepare yourself General of the Raging Fire for this is the day you take on a Kamen Rider!"
Then he dashed forward to charge with his blades and once more they entered a calamity of blades swung as both try to keep up with one another. the silent man narrowed his eyes and was about to charge when he got blasted by someone. that said someone is Yuuno, who under the training of many experienced mage enforcers and three Veteran Riders, was able to gain a strong understanding of combat abilities to use, especially using his barriers as a strengthening mod. this allowed Yu to continue his fight with the fearsome sword-woman without much trouble.
Yu then called out the Flame Strike Ring and then send two fiery blows to Signum who blocked it using a Panzer Geist a personal shield spell for her from what Yu was able to deduce. Signum however was impressed that Yu was able to use a strong spell, and it was similar to her own Device's ability to call upon flames as well. so she coated her blade in flames which caused Yu's eyes to narrow at her plan as they dash to meet each other once more in combat.
she slashed her sword at him which he blocked with one saber, but it pushed him back while he used the other saber to slash into her side which she blocked using the guard on her sword then their blades clashed as they enter another maelstrom of blades. Then Signum backed off and assumed a different sword stance. Yu could only gasp at what she was using, "Iado?" this caused her to be amused as she then disappeared in a flash of light, and then reappear in front of Yu within sword's reach.
she then slammed her sword into Yu who barely blocked it and then she kicked him back and released another devastating melee spell attack, Explosion, which caused Yu to be sent flying back into a tree and destroying it. Signum approached him as Yu struggled to get up from the amount of pain he was in while moaning a bit form the damage.
"You fought very well for one so young Warlock, it is a shame I have to end you now." As traces of what appears to be sadness was etched onto her face, she then rose her sword and was about to slash me until I teleported away from her at the last minute. the trick caught her off guard as I then ready a Finale ring and she was so caught up in her surprise that it was too late to dodge my Rider Kick. Which sent her flying back away and then Nanoha decided to do something incredibly stupid.
She used her Starlight Breaker spell and destroyed the barrier around us. that caught all of us off by surprise, as then then their familiar knocked Yuuno away, Vita destroyed part of Fate's device and flew to where the others were while Signum was barely standing up while sizzling from the last attack that I did. "We must retreat now, we do not have the capabilites to take them on." the other two nodded while Vita was more reluctant but they left nevertheless.
The only thing I could see or hear was Fate and Yuuno running to me in panic and shouting my name as I finally fell unconscious, seriously that was irritating me to no end at all.