Authors note: for the sake of having probablem with the telepathic dialogue I've used this to distinguish when they're using telepathic instead of normal speaking, also please say am I OOC with anyone
Telepathic conversation
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Magical girl Nanoha Lyrical StrikerS.
The Coming Storm
On the bed in the medical wing of section six slept the intruder that had appeared on the training ground two hours ago, a status report of the man gave details of the injury he's sustained listing from all his left side ribs been cracked and other injuries that were too lengthily to remember all at once as the two captains watch Shamal examine the charts of her patient.
The forwards crowd round at another window that looks into the medical room, she ignore the forwards as they watch her closely looking at the information of the surgery reports before heading out of the room, she wipes the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand feeling a little tired from the surgery that took place half an hour ago, "how is he?" Fate asks quietly.
The doctor gave a long sigh, "for a moment I thought we were going to lose him, but somehow we manage to stabilize him, he's now sleeping" the tension in the air drain a little, "can you give any information on him?" Nanoha asks hoping some information was found, Shamal turns to look through the window to her patient for a moment.
She gives them a data pad containing all the information they manage to collect, some information of his injures and some about personal belongings, "his barrier jacket instantly shut itself down once we entered the surgery room, we search through his clothes he wore and found a wallet containing some Japanese Yen and some other country currency as well, no ID card was found or any other pieces of information," she pauses letting the information sink in.
The two captains run the scene through their minds again of what happened this morning at the training field, "Shari has the details regarding the status of his device, you should go and see her" both commanding officers nodded.
Another question made Nanoha asked a rather odd question, "have you manage to identify how powerful is he through his linker core?" the question she ask is to understand how powerful is he and to evaluate how much of a danger he is if he's an enemy.
The doctor didn't answer for a moment, she consider how she should answer, "We're unsure, we've tried to scan his linker core but found a barrier of some kind blocking us from probing it," this caught the two by surprise, "have you try to take the linker core out using Klarer Wind?
Shamal didn't know how to answer them, "with his current injures it would could prove fatal to him," they understood that as a doctor Shamal will put the patients life first, but now they're left with too many unanswered questions about the mysterious man who just suddenly appeared.
Their hope only rests with Shari whose repairing the mans device, "lets head over to the device room and see what Shari manage to uncover," Fate suggested, her friend nods knowing that the device the man has might holds some information about him, if they cannot ask it for the information they can try extracting it from the core itself.
Subaru looks over to the older women discussing the matter in low voices she couldn't hear, once finished Nanoha and Fate left, Shamal came towards them and gave them their orders, "considering the mess the training ground is in, you've been given the day off," they nodded to her words as she left them.
But the question that's buzzing round their heads made them wonder about the man, "who is he, why is he here?" she asks the same questions that's crossing everyone's mind at that moment.
They enter the device room to find Shari focus on the object suspended in a cylinder of light before her, "found anything yet?" the brunette asks, this brought the technician back to her two superiors, "I found some useful information, but unfortunately the AI seems to have been encoded with a difficult protection that's manage to stop me accessing it's memory," they didn't seem surprise at all.
Shari gesture her hand to the device in the cylinder, the two newly arrivals walk up to the cylinder and inspect the device, the device has formed itself into a Japanese sword, the sheath floated beside the damage katana with cracks running along the blade with bits of it chipped off here and there.
The pommel is encased in unadorned gold with a red tassel attach to the pommel, the hilt of handle looks like a traditional katana of a rectangular shape, the handle is smooth with what appears to be rubber surface to help with gripping the hilt that pattern itself with white diamonds formed into a line, and the black grip surrounded the diamonds.
One side of the hilt that faces upwards, when the sharpened side of the blade is facing down, what appears to be a slot of some sort build into the hilt, they would imagine is probably lifted to insert into the blade, the gold cross guard is rounded with letters written in Japanese on all four sides when looking down from the blade.
The words "North", "East", "South" and "West", running from the cross guard to half of the blade on the blunt side of the sword is what appears to be a casing, this seem to function partly to help fit the blade into the scabbard, also adjacent to the slot in the hilt appears to be a small segment that seems to move.
They guess that it uses the Velka knights cartridge system, which are loaded into the hilt and ejects when spent from the top of the moving slide of the sword, beside these small points the blade nearly resemble a katana perfectly, "reminds me of Signums Laevatein," Fate thought grimly.
Despite it been battered the blade looks well crafted and somehow beautiful, "the device has suffered major damage to it's structure with micro fracture appearing throughout it, not to mention that some of it's components have burnt out long ago by the results I've found, frankly I'm surprised it's still in one piece at all," they took in what she said about the device current state.
After finally inputting the last details into the system Shari joins them to marvel the blade, "it's rather odd," she began catching the attention of her two listeners, "what's odd?" the blonde asks, the technician would love to tease her but right now it's a serious matter they're dealing with, "the structure of the device has been heavily reinforced, I'm sure that whoever build it must had an idea of the stress it would be put under, but the technique of reinforcing it's body is a little more advance than ours" she raise her hand and two more screens appeared.
The two woman watch as information appears with a schematic of the device they were looking at appears, "it seems that this device was meant to be used to cut into the space time layer into the dimensional space," both officers consider this.
Why would someone would want to cut a hole into such a space, that place is dangerous not to mention battleships are the only things which can travel through that place, "some of the damage came from entry to our dimension, but a few of the damage was made by Fate-san Photon lancers," Shari inform them.
This brought the blondes attention, "what do you mean?" she asks seriously, the change in her tone made the technician explain quickly, "you see, your photon lancers are the reason why he and his device are in a mess," she taps a few buttons which highlighted a few places on the sword, "from my readings these are where your photon lancers manage to strike and cause some damages," another monitor appears.
Quickly Shari keys in the information she has, on screen appears a model of a human holing the sword, "from the data this is what I can gather what could have happened in that dark sphere when the photon lancers penetrated it," the model is assaulted by triangles which are cut away by the weapon in it's hand before one of the triangles manage to bounce off the blade and chipped it.
More of the triangles damage the sword before some of the triangles hit the model, after this the model disappeared, a chime sounded, the technician smiles, "ah, it's done," neither of her superiors what she meant, Shari taps away at the panel at the base of the cylinder then glances up to the sword.
The red jewel located at between the guard and hilt flash, "rebooting AI," a female computer voice announces, they remain silent when the voice spoke, "rebooting complete," Nanoha looks to the brunette for answers, "OK booting of AI successful," she told herself while continuing to analyze some information on the panel, her attention focused on the panel in front of her, leaving her two friends to wonder what is she trying to do.
Before she could precede any further the voice of the device sounded with alarm sirens sounding, "warning, foreign object trying to access data banks, initiating counter-measures," the panel Shari was working on suddenly flashed the words in bold red, "Denied" she looks in disbelieve at the panel then at the device.
At this point Nanoha voice her question, "what are you doing?" the device reply instead, "she try to forcefully probe into my data banks," Fate look to the technician who nods in acknowledgement to the device statement, "where is my lord?" it asks, both officers consider an answer for a moment.
Seeing no choice they told the device the truth, "your master is currently in our care recovering from his injures while entering this dimension," she left out the part about Fate having caused some of the injuries with her Photon Lancers, the device didn't gave any reply, Shari asks a question, "what is your name and the name of your master," it remain silent.
When it did it didn't gave it's masters name, "My name is Anemoi," at that point the panel below flash the words, "AI deactivating," the red gem turns duller until it's dark red, the technician analyze the device then shook her head, "it's deactivate itself," both the officers consider what little information they have gathered from their brief talk with Anemoi.
The blonde considers what they now know, "we only manage to get the device name, Anemoi" Fate thinks hard wondering why the name seems familiar, "I think that's a Greek word," Nanoha guess, the blonde looks up to her friend then the answer came to her.
Shari listen as well while she examine the frame of the device they were talking to for any more damage, "Anemoi translated roughly to winds in Greek, correct?" she asks while trying and recall the other details regarding the word, unfortunately she couldn't remember any more than that.
Nanoha consider her friends explanation, "either way we're going to wait until he wakes up before we could get any more answer from him," Fate agrees.
Shamal kept a vigilant watch on her patient, the operation was a success not only because of her skills, she didn't tell her them just yet about what else happened in the operating room.
She had some trouble believing it as well, "self-regeneration," she thought, it surprised her that it's even possible, during the operation the damage done to his abdomen was serious and would require a difficult operation to repair it, that was what they intended to do until they found the wound slowly been closed upon itself.
It seem as though the man is subconsciously healing his wounds by himself, maybe part of the reason why his linker core was acting erratic, of course that was only one theory she could think up that links the mysterious healing and the linker core acting strange.
But to use self regeneration would require the user to be conscious to know where the damage is, another possibility is that he has super healing powers which heals any injures he suffered.
The second option was a wishful thought, right now she's analyzing his DNA to find out is there something she's missing, she stare at the screen that show a image of the DNA been analyze, slowly she read information about the blood sample.
The information didn't gave any indication of anything abnormal, she gave a tired groan and resume her watch over the screen, something interesting caught her eye, magnifying the sight she found something moving, zooming in closer on the object moving in the blood sample she found herself unable to believe it.
The image shows what appears to be a small prawn like object, quickly she began to focus an analyzing what is the object she found, after a few minutes of analyzing the still image she went back to see can she track the object in the blood sample.
It took another five minutes for her to finally find it, the object is backed up to a corner of the sample dish, "is it some kind of microscopic creature?" she wondered, it behaved like a corner beast by waving it's arm in a motion that might seem threatening.
The new finding fascinated her very much, questions of how to analyze it went through her mind, but she wondered is the creature she found is living inside the man, what if there a small colony of them inside him?
With the image now saved the doctor considers of sending the sample to the lab to test what they might find, right now she asks herself, why would he come here of all places where laws of unauthorised dimensional travel resulted in an arrest, too many unanswered question linger in her mind when the life readings on her patient change.
She watch carefully the readings as they began to change, the man on the table began to move stiffly, he try to raise his hand up before it dropped a moment later, "Nanoha-san, Fate-san the patient is waking up," a reply is returned as Shamal enters the room to see how he is visibly as he regains conscious.
He groans softly, he slowly opens his eyes, two orb of emerald stare up to the ceiling, next he tries to sit up, "easy, you're hurt pretty badly," she advises him, instantly he ceases moving when he felt the pain in his body spread through him when he moved, "whe…re am I?" he asks weakly, she checks his readings again before giving an answer, "you're in the TSBA section six infirmary, I'm Shamal the doctor," he looks up at the ceiling blankly not comprehending the information she just told him.
The door leading to the infirmary opens allowing Fate and Nanoha to step in, "these two have come here to ask you a few questions," both officers stop beside the bed of the man as he stares at them, "how are you feeling?" Nanoha asks, hoping to make him feel a little more at ease if she shows some concern for his well fair.
He looks at her with tired eyes, "did I reach heaven already?" he asks with a small smile, he seem pretty friendly from first impression, "can you tell us your name?" Fate asks, this drew a blank look from him, as if Fate had asked an impossible question.
No one spoke for a few moments, he looks up at the ceiling unable to answer which drag the silence even further, finally he gave an uneasy answer, "my name… I can't remember," none of them was expecting him to give this kind of answer.
Nanoha consults Fate through telepathy, "what do you think?" she quires her best friend, Fate gave a reassuring look the man, "I'm sure that you'll remember soon enough," she gave a reply to her through by telepathy as well, "he don't seem to be lying, but it's too early to say for sure," Shamal check the monitors for his vitals.
He looks up with feelings of loss as they discuss about him silently, "so, I take if you're not buying that I don't know who I' am?" they look stunned they would think he would lie to them, "you did suffer a head wound, so I'm guessing that could have contribute to your loss of memory," Shamal quickly answers hoping this would make him believe that they don't suspect him lying to them.
He gives a tired sigh, "so where am I?" he finally asks the obvious question that most people would ask, "you're in the sick bay of Section six of the TSBA on planet Midlcha," he stares blankly at the ceiling as the information is processed through his tired mind, "and how did I get here?" he enquires, this question was not given an immediate answer as they consider what to say to him.
The soft beeping of the monitor that displays his data of his hearth rate and blood levels is the only sound in the room for a few tense moments, "we don't know exactly," Nanoha confess, he closes his eyes as if to sleep for a moment then opens them again, "well that makes me one big enigma."
He laughs weakly at his suppose joke, "we'll leave you to rest," he didn't even look at them as they left the room, once outside they discussed matter further, "what do you think?" the brunette asks the two, the doctor thought hard before she answers, "judging from the injury he sustained he probably manage to deflect a few from striking him, but one probably manage to strike at his head."
How he manage to get those wounds do match what happened this morning, "I also spoke to Shari, it's possible that while he was travelling to our world, his device was under so much strain it didn't had the power to stop some of Fate's attack successfully, that would explain the injures around his arms and legs," trying to piece together the situation that might have occurred within that black sphere he was in prove difficult.
The brunette glances through the window to see the man rising again, she watches as he manage to sit up right and leans back against the bed, "it's likely he has amnesia right now and will need time to recover before he could remember clearly what happened
Nightmares plagued his dreams, creatures made of pure shadows chased him as he ran for his life in terror, he heard them speaking from far away, "where are you?" the nameless horrors asks in a slow and grating voice, his footsteps pounding in the darkness match the wild beating of his heart.
In the background he could hear the sound of the shadow that chase him dragging itself slowly after him, the voice of the shadows asks him again, "where are you?" the voice asks again sounding more closer, the man dare not look back, in fear the horror is only behind him.
All of a sudden he felt something cold like a corpse hand grip his ankle causing him to fall, the sound of the dragging feet's made him froze, he didn't need to look to know the monster is behind him holding onto his leg with a cold hand, another cold hand seize his shoulder.
The hand spun him round to gave upon a darkness, a grey hand that looked months old came outreach out from the darkness, the voice spoke while two blood red eyes stare out of the shadows look upon him, "where are you Kaze?"
The man flung the bed covers off and sat up right, he panted heavily and felt his weak body give protest to the sudden action causing pain to flare up in his entire body as punishment, slowly he place his hand on his forehead and felt something wet, pulling his hand away he found it wet, it dawned on him that he must have sweated while he was having the nightmare.
The shadows that chased him in the dream still made him feel a chill run down his spine, yet a part of him thought he knew the voice from somewhere, "where are you Kaze?" the voice echoes in his mind from his dream, he wondered what did it mean, the last part made him wonder, "Kaze… is that my name?" he asks questionably.
He shook his head, "get a hold of yourself, you're injured and probably having delirious dreams," he tells himself, the door leading out of the medical bay opens, "is something wrong?" Shamal asks when she saw her patient sitting upright.
She took his arm and checked his pulse then the monitor for other information before he could even reply to her question, "just a bad dream," he simply replies, she noted the data on a pad, she help him to lie back into the bed, she kept a detached look while looking at his injures when changing the bandages.
The wound on his arm required twenty stitches, when she unwound the bandage she found the wound half healed already, the man didn't notice with eyes closed while he rested to allow his body to calm down from the pain that shot through his body when he sat up.
The doctor made notes of the finding onto the records and sent them to the two captains, the digital time stamp when she sent it read twelve fifteen midnight, "can you tell me where my device is?" he asks, the doctor looks to him wondering should she answer his question.
She sent a telepathic message to both Nanoha and Fate, despite the hour been late she received a reply they will be there shortly, "I haven't been informed, but I hear it's been repaired," he watch her with calculative eyes for a moment trying to gauge is she lying and what actions to take if she is, he broke the eye contact, "I guess I'm just as anxious to find out more about myself as you are."
In truth all of section six wants answers as well, it's not everyday they have someone entering into their dimension as badly injured as he is, already a report from Headquarters had arrived two hours ago after she submit the report regarding a search for the man information on their central system.
The report had been very though of the information regarding possible profiles; unfortunately after an hour of examining the data she found none of them match him.
The door opens allowing the two officers to enter, both of them look rather weary but somehow summoned the energy to keep themselves ready should he suddenly attack them, "how is he?" the brunette asks, her friend watch the man as he push himself to sit upright.
The doctor is scolding him for sitting up again, "he's fine, too fine," she replies worried, the red eyes woman considers her statement, "what do you mean?" the doctor gave them a short report of what she found, "I found something in his blood sample that seem alive, I'm wasn't sure at the time, so I did some research and guessing it could be a nanomachines of some sort."
They walk forward while some medicine is been given to the man when he gave a small coughing fit, "his wounds are closing up at a much accelerated rate than a normal person should be able to, even with magic some of his wounds are healing rapidly, he might be able to walk by tomorrow afternoon," the doctor pats the man on the back when he manage to gag on the liquid medicine that he took.
He gave an annoyed look at them, "awfully quite you two," he declares, his emerald eyes seem to be assessing them as if they might be his enemies, as to whether is he considering attacking them or is he wondering will he be able to defend himself against them is unclear, "it's rather late," Nanoha tells him, she gave a loud yawn as a show she is tired.
Somehow that didn't convince him the slightest, "I wonder does he know about the nanomachines inside him?" Fate asks, the man was staring at his hand that held the cup of glass he drank from, Shamal is checking his readings from the monitor when his eyes suddenly widens.
"I'm beginning to hate people using telepathy!" he telepathically shouts in anger.
It took him a moment for him to register that everyone in the room had heard the wide broadcasting telepathic message he sent without thinking, "I'm sure we have good reason to talking without you knowing the details," Fate reassures him, "after all we don't know your true intentions once you recovered your memory," Nanoha adds, the injured man sighs knowing that their view of the situation is correct, under similar circumstances he would probably adopt the same caution.
Shamal decided to ask them about his device, "we can't permit you to see it yet," Nanoha answers solemnly, Fate explains from the way the man gave her a look of caution, "like your body, your device suffered major amount of damage, currently our technicians are trying to restore it," he nods to her reason, "how long do I have to stay here?"
The question made them wonder as well, "your injures are healing better than expected, so you'll be able to move by tomorrow," this little news made him smile, "but it may take you two weeks before you're back to full health," he shrugs still smiling, "if I can at least stretch my legs without been confined to this bed, I can live with that."
A screen appear next to Fate of an incoming call, accepting the call she found Shari is the caller, "is he awake?" they both wonder how could she know about the man been awake, "yes, why?" Fate asks, weary that somehow the next information might not surprise her, "the device AI has been asking to see it's lord."
They consider the matter, "the man might have something inside him allows his device to monitor his vitals when they're separated," the blonde reasons, her friend agrees, "but should we allow him to see his device?" they ran through what could have happen should they do as the device asks.
Seeing no alternative in getting answers they're permitting him to see his device, "prepare the lock down room, we're bringing him now," Fate orders, an acknowledgement is returned to them before they told of the device wanting to see it's master.
The man watch as the two officers explain the situation, "if my device ask for me, I can't really refuse, the worse case scenario you could have is it causing damage by some unorthodox way or pouting," he jokily points out, they manage a small smile at his obvious attempt to lighten the mood.
Despite that their worries are more aimed at him than his device, "we'll be taking you to see your device," a wheel chair is quickly brought in by Shamal after she heard them taking her patient, slowly he ease himself into the chair finding the effect a little draining before they took him out of the medical bay and off to see his waiting device.
A few minutes later they stood in the device room, the man stare at the beautiful sword that's half repaired now, "so this is my device?" he asks not able to believe with his own eyes, the silence in the room is broken when the AI spoke to him, "so Lord, you are well?" he recoil from the voice of the device for a moment, gathering his wits he gave his answer, "yes, and you?" the device didn't reply for a few moments.
It gave a status report, "structure integrity at fifty percent and rising, power level at twenty percent, data files damaged, AI partly damaged," the last two part made Shari asks, "what data and what areas of the AI are damaged?" the device gave an instant answer, "barrier jacket data at twenty percent, the rest are been reconstructed, estimate time of complete recovery, unknown."
Next it gave a status report of its AI, "damage from entry has caused several problems to occur within my AI in creating the barrier jacket and automatic repair system, repair to these system will take several days before I can resume my duty at top condition."
The information it gave out to all of them told how much of a beating it had taken before coming to their world, "didn't think the damage was extensive enough to have affected the AI as well," Shari mutters angrily to herself, since the AI locked itself down since this after noon she couldn't examine any part of the AI.
She felt herself cursing for not trying to reason with it to see if she could be of any help, the man looks deep in thought while the others talk about the information they have just heard, "do you know my name?" the man asks with longing to know, they wait as the device process the question.
It asks a question, "why my lord would be asking of such information, which you should have known already?" he considers his answer when Nanoha step in, "he's suffering from amnesia, he don't know his name or what he is," the device thought about what she said.
When it spoke it asked her a question, "what is your name?" it asks with no suggestion of any emotion to give her any hint is it asking out of curiosity, or for a much different purpose.
She considers the questions carefully, "if I give it my name it could do something drastic," she thought wondering should she switch to assault form in case that happens, a glance to Shari told the woman that the technician understood what thought is going through her mind.
Fate tense up as well, ready for anything that might happen, finally seeing as getting information out of it she cooperate with it and gave her name, "Nanoha Takamachi," it went silent for a moment, for a brief moment she thought it's going to do something extreme like explode.
Finally it gave an answer, "my name is Anemoi," it pauses allowing them time to remember the name, the man seems to look more confident when he heard the name, "this man is my lord called Kaze," it answers, the name seem strange to them.
Fate voices her thoughts to Nanoha, "Kaze means wind in Japanese," Fate asks to her best friend by telepathy, "yes, but is it his real name as the device claims?" she asks, "could be a code name," Fate replies cautiously considering that the device is also been cautious about the information it gives them.
The man looks at the device with sudden realization, "Kaze," he whispers, the name seem to make him look more attentively at them, something of recognition pass through his eyes for a moment, "yes, Lord of the wind," he consider the information, then smiles, "interesting, but that don't help much with most of my memory gone," they wonder is he telling the truth.
The device jewel began to flash, "returning to hibernation mode until further repairs are made, good night lord," it powers down, the man called Kaze seems tired all of a sudden slumps back into the wheelchair and close his eyes.
Fate watch him will he speak, instead she heard his breathing deepen then a small noise began to emit from him, "he's sleeping?" Shari asks in disbelieve, considering he's still recovering it's not strange he's already exhausted, "for now lets take him back to Shamal," the blonde suggest.
Seeing no other choice they push the wheelchair out of the device room, "do you think we'll be able to get anymore information by tomorrow when he wakes up?" the brunette asks, her friend considers for a moment, "only time will tell," she answers with a sigh .