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Yeah, chapter 3, this would have been up yesterday if I actually remembered I had it, so, sorry. Also, school's starting soon, so if anyone actually waits for these, then it'll be a longer wait than before, okay?
Also, writing this, I realized that I might have to plan farther ahead than I am at the second, so that might take a while too.
The OOC warning from everything else I have here is still in effect, folks.
As the transformation sequence finished, Nanoha was already able to confirm two things. One, Raising Heart did in fact remember her, seeing as it was following all of it's orders, and two, it hadn't been upgraded yet, evidenced by the fact that there was no Belkan cartridge system in place. While Nanoha took a moment to register these moments in her head, and Yuuno was still in shock at Nanoha's ability, clearly shown by how his eyes were just big blank circles at the moment, the Jewel Seed's temporary material form got bored of waiting around and charged at Nanoha. The girl that was targeted, saw the monster approach and quickly put up her hand. Round Shield spoke the device as a circle grew from Nanoha's hand. The monster, who was like an ant compared to the future Ace of Aces, was blown back and shattered in pieces by the strength of the shield. Yuuno was still standing there in shock.
"Alright now… I need to seal it…" Began the only person who resembled a human at the time, when she realized an unforeseen obstacle was in place. 'Wait a minute… What exactly was my magical incantation again? It's been so long I forgot…" As the girl was lost in her thoughts for about 20 seconds, the monster put itself back together and began charging at the ferret, who looked much less capable than the girl. How the monster could realize this without having any idea what intelligence was in the first place, is a mystery unknown to the world.
"Shoot! Yuuno! Look out!" Nanoha shouted as she saw the monster charging towards him. When the ferret didn't respond due to being in shock, Nanoha ran towards him, picked him up, and quickly fired one shot of a Divine Shooter at him. It is most likely unnecessary to point out that Raising Heart said Diving Shooter as the shot was fired. The shot split the monster into pieces once more.
It just so happened that Yuuno snapped out of his shock right before Nanoha fired her shot at the monster. After seeing Nanoha fire her shot at the monster, he went into shock once more after seeing how powerful it was. Nanoha, annoyed that the ferret couldn't stay focused enough for her to ask him anything, just continued running from the monster until she could ask Yuuno how exactly to find her incantation.
As she was running down the road, Nanoha turned and stopped once she realized that Yuuno was in a state of consciousness at the moment.
"Hey, what's my incantation?" The girl inquired of Yuuno, not really remembering any of the nonimportant events that occurred this day last time.
"How do you know how to use all that complex magic but not anything simple like an incantation?" It seemed that the ferret had been confused as to how someone with so much magical skill could not know something so simple. "Oh well, just look inside of yourself! Your heart will tell you the answer!"
'You know, that line sounds so pathetic the second time around… Maybe it's just because I've grown up a bit.' Nanoha thought quickly before remembering to look inside of herself for the key. After a short while, it once again came to her, and Nanoha began the sealing process, something she hadn't done in over 8 years. At least, in her time.
"Raising Heart! Sealing Mode!" Hollered out Nanoha, while the Device responded quickly. All right, Sealing Mode, Set Up. Quickly expanding a bit and letting out those pink wings that signified that the mode had been set up, Nanoha quickly wondered why it looked so much like Raising Heart was loading a cartridge for a second before returning to the task at hand. The pink steams of light flew out from her staff and wrapped themselves around the monsters, holding it in place for the White Devil-to-be to seal it.
"Lyrical Magical! Jewel Seed Serial XXI! Seal!" Nanoha voiced, wondering how exactly she remembered what number the Jewel Seed was before she sealed it. Nevertheless, the monster withered away, leaving only the Jewel Seed, the source of it's power, where it once existed.
Trotting over slowly to the Jewel Seed, or Lost Logia as the more technical would put it, Nanoha extended her arm, purring the core of Raising Heart a few inches about the Jewel, where it was absorbed by the device. Jewel Seed Serial XXI was sealed by Nanoha Takamachi once again.
Later that night, as the two stopped by the bench in the park after running away to the now destroyed scene of the crime to talk.
"Okay, so now… Let's start with introductions. I'm Nanoha Takamachi, who are you?" Nanoha "asked", not realizing that the ferret was suspicious of her for knowing all that stuff.
"Do you even have to ask? I mean, you called me by my name a couple of times and you've shown great skill with your magic, I think you know more about this situation than it seems." The ferret responded, with a bit of a sharp edge in his voice. Nanoha, not realizing that she had acted so suspiciously, stumbled on her words quickly before coming up with an answer.
"Well, it was a dream! I just had this dream a couple days ago that seemed to resemble this, so I decided to do what I did there!" Although Nanoha was just lying to try and cover herself up, the thought remained in the back of her mind that what she had already gone through had been a dream, and this was life. Still, whenever the thought crossed her mind, she just hoped that wasn't the case and moved on.
"I see. Well, many great mages have stated that they have learned some of their most powerful abilities from their dreams." Yuuno stated, really unaware that Nanoha was just lying. "Either way, I must thank you, Miss Takamachi."
"'Miss Takamachi? Geez, Yuuno, you-'" Nanoha mumbled to herself before she realized that she should respond, and did so quickly. "Oh, no need to call me Miss Takamachi, just call me Nanoha, okay?"
"Yes, I will be sure to do that in the future, Mi-Nanoha." Yuuno was able to finish his sentence before he collapsed due to his injuries. Sighing at the ferret for not mentioning this to her earlier, Nanoha picked up the ferret and began to walk home.
As she arrived back and was about to open the door, a familiar voice rang out.
"Hey." Naturally, this voice belonged to Kyoya Takamachi. "You're finally back. It's late, you know, what were you doing out so late?" Nanoha breathed an inward sigh of relief, since she really didn't want to have to deal with any unremembered things right now. She only remembered this part of her story because of her mom's fangirling over Yuuno. While the conversation was a bit off, she was sure it wouldn't be too much of a difference.
That night, as she slept, a familiar hooded figure came to visit Nanoha. Well, in her dreams at least.
Why hello there, little girl. The hooded man spoke as Nanoha awoke. With images flashing to her mind of who this person and voice was and belonged to, Nanoha quickly jumped up and once again reached for Raising Heart, and finding at the same time that she was still a 9 year old.
"What do you want?" She shot out venomously, clearly not amused at how this man had sent her back.
Nothing. Just came to see how you're doing.
"Why!?"
No reason.
"Not that! I wanted to know why you sent me back to this time!" Nanoha shouted, really getting annoyed by this man's lack of helpfulness. Still, she managed to regain her composure and hope he was actually doing this for a good cause.
Heh, if you're thinking I sent you back to destroy some great evil that was actually planning all this time but you didn't notice, you're faaaaaaaaaaaar off the mark. It's all for myself, and you just need to do your part in this.
"Why should I?" Nanoha scoffed, getting disgusted by this man's seemingly no end of nonhelpful answers.
Well, you'd like to go back and see everyone else, wouldn't you? The only way that happens is if you manage to meet a certain set of conditions. Don't worry, you've met them before. Oh, and try not to do things too differently, that's what gets most people killed. By the way, I've undone that Output Lock System that was on your Device, you probably won't need it, but who knows?
"Wait, Output Lock System?" Nanoha inquired, curious as to what it was and if it undoing it really would help her.
Oh, it's what those Cartridges of the Belkans help get past, there's enough energy in them to make up for everything that's locked. I'd go into details, but I have a feeling you don't want me to. To put it simply, it lets you use all that magic that you could only use with the Cartridges by just using so much of your energy that you make up for it. Anyways, now I've really been here long enough, You're phone's about to ring, so I'm gonna send you back now, 'k? Ta ta.
Just as the man had predicted, the tune once again rang out from the invincible phone that could live through any impact that lived up to its name by falling off the bed once again. As Nanoha awoke, she took a quick glance at Yuuno to see that he was still there, confirming that it wasn't just a really long dream she was in. Or was she? Either way, the girl then got out of bed and began to tidy herself up, with the ferret awakening just as she was almost done.
"Oh! Yuuno! Good morning! I'm off to school now, so can you tell me about what happened and why you're here while I'm there?"
"Uuuuu, okay, sure… Just remember to take Raising Heart with you… I'll contact you later…" After finishing his line, the one currently in ferret form fell back asleep. Nanoha just smiled and grabbed her things, including Raising Heart, went downstairs to eat, then got on the bus to head to school.
While she was there, Nanoha decided to make use of the "Keep your thoughts away from someone while you're communicating telepathically to them" ability she had learned/will learn two years after she joined the TSAB for good to ponder some of the possibilities of what was happening.
'Hmmm… All I really know for certain right now is that I somehow wound up back to my first adventure and that stupid hooded guy is responsible. But then… How bad is he? What is that reason he so selfishly sent me back here? Not like it matters, he's going down either way. But, if I do get out of here, what will the "future" be like when I get there. Will it be what would happen from my actions this time, or my first one? There's just so many questions to be answered…'
School had finished uneventfully for the girl once again, and she was walking back home silently before a familiar sensation that had been gone for quite some time struck her. It was the feeling of a Jewel Seed activating. Quickly, Nanoha contacted Yuuno while running towards where the Seed had activated, leaving a businessman surprised at the astonishing change in expression from the girl.
"Hey, Yuuno! Did you feel that? It was a Jewel Seed activating, right?"
"Yes, it was," Yuuno responded quite quickly. "Let's meet up and then head over there."
"No, I'll just head there first. You meet up with me there, okay?" Nanoha offered instead, already more than halfway there. It wasn't that hard, considering she started at the invisible 49/100th mark.
The moment she arrived at the scene of the crime, Nanoha threw Raising Heart in the air, shouting the line she always used to Set Up.
"Raising Heart, please!" The device responded by saying the line it always used to respond to the earlier line. All right. Stand by, Ready. Set Up. Suddenly a flash of bright light shot out and when it ended, Nanoha in her full Barrier Jacket and Device Glory stood at the starting point of the light, ready to seal the monster. As she was about to attack, the man's words from last night rung in her head. 'The Output Lock System is down, eh? Mine as well try it out now!'
"Alright, Raising Heart, want to try it out?" Nanoha asked the Device. All right. Axel Shooter. It was as good a start as any, Nanoha figured, as the more precisely controllable pink balls of energy formed around her. The only visible side effect at the moment was how Nanoha felt more tired than she usually did when using Axel Shooter, although she assumed that it was just because she was supplying all the energy for it.
As the girl shot the beast with the bullets, the ferret just happened to arrive on the scene. After witnessing such powerful magic come from the girl who he thought had shown the extent of her powers the night before, he was shocked to the point where he could barely breathe. Nanoha finished sealing up the beast for the second time, and after gaining the Jewel Seed, proceeded to find the ferret at the bottom of the stairs, still in shock. Sighing, she picked up the ferret and began to walk home after returning to civilian form.
Yeah, the end of this. Review and tell me how I did, please.