Author's note: I know this chapter is sort of weird, and that you might not like it. But still. Enjoy! :D
FIVE DAYS AFTER THE MONDAY WHERE YUUNO HAD SERIOUS TRAININGS AT SECTION SIX WITH THE ACES & COMPANY, WHICH MAKES TODAY SATURDAY
Yuuno Scrya, was, as ever, working like a dog in the Infinity Library. He gets lots of work from his "awesome" friend, Chrono. He gets requests for information from literally all the branches of the TSAB. He has to attend auctions regarding Lost Logia, sometimes purchasing artefacts for the Bureau.
He has to go to universities to talk about lectures. He has to attend talks and provide advice. Last but not least, he has to attend a meeting every month, gathering all the heads of the branches of the TSAB, held in the headquarters.
Most of all, he has this new device given to him by his childhood friend, Takamachi Nanoha. And he has absolutely no idea why he could wield it and why he is training so hard. The answer is of course, well, you know.
He really don't want Nanoha's efforts to create him a device to be a failed one, since he knew she was upset the last time he rejected her offer of accepting the device. But still, the librarian found that his device is actually very useful when he is working.
Celestial Heart, his device, helps him to collate the data he found and send it to the people who needed the information. Also, the device helps to keep an eye out on his staffs and on anyone who attempts to steal valuable tomes in the library. All in all, he was glad that he had a device to assist him.
And so it happens, today, while the Head Librarian was training in Section Six by himself, he decided to test out his device's abilities.
"Can you show me all the abilities you have? Including Nanoha's," Yuuno asked.
"All right, load cartridge." The device spat out a spent cartridge and proceeded to demonstrate its abilities.
Celestial Heart displayed all of Nanoha's offensive abilities first: Divine Shooter, Snipe Shot, Axel Shooter, Crossfire Shoot, Divine Buster, Excelion Buster, Force Burst, Barrel Shot, Axel Charge System, Starlight Breaker, Barrier Burst, Strike Flame and Stardust Fall.
Then, the device showed Yuuno Nanoha's defensive abilities: Protection, Round Shield, Flier Fin, Axel Fin, Flash Move, Reactor Purge, Bind Break, Active Guard and Holding Net. Other abilities include: Area Search and Restrict Lock.
By the time Celestial Heart was finished with showing Nanoha's abilities, he was panting heavily and a dozen cartridges were littered all over on the ground.
I wonder how she managed to use this many bombardment attacks. Yuuno thought in awe.
"Yuuno-kun! That was splendid; you've already mastered shooting magic!" Nanoha exclaimed, with Fate, Hayate, Reinforce, the Wolkenritter and the forwards tagging behind.
"Ah… I was just testing Celestial Heart out," Yuuno explained.
"Master, should we continue?" The green device asked.
"Just… restrain yourself," Yuuno sweat dropped.
Celestial Heart's actions shocked the librarian, and surprised the rest of the onlookers. The device began to display its own attacks, deprived from Raising Heart.
Holy Fin, granting more speed and agility; which is the upgraded version of Axel Fin.
Holy Shooter, the enhanced version of Axel Shooter, has up two dozen bullets, which two cartridges are spent.
Star Shower, similar to Fate's Photon Lancer, is six green Divine Busters, using six cartridges for each Divine Buster charged up. The Divine Busters can be guided as individual missiles, or combined together as a large bombardment spell.
Meteor Shower is the improved version of Star Shower; instead of six Divine Busters, there are a dozen, thus using two full magazines.
Moonlight Breaker, a bombardment spell which is the upgraded version of Excelion Buster. There are two variations of this spell: the first variation of the spell can be fired like Force Burst, meaning that all arms of the shot may be fired at once or delay the last one until after the others weakens the target's defences. The second variation is that this spell can be used as a wide-area spatial attack.
Lastly, the most powerful attack of the device: Heaven Asunder, a bombardment spell which combines all the shooting spells, excluding Starlight Breaker: Divine Shooter, Crossfire Shoot, Axel Shooter, Holy Shooter, Divine Buster, Excelion Buster, Force Burst, Star Shower, Meteor Shower and Moonlight Breaker.
"Heaven Asunder 1%," The green device intoned. When the massive bombardment spell was unleashed, the training area was wrecked, leaving everyone else speechless. When the blinding green light ceased, Yuuno was lying flat on the ground, his face pale and panting, his breaths in rasps.
The Head Librarian changed out of his barrier jacket and into his ferret form, curling up in a tight ball. Shamal gave Yuuno a healing session on the spot, scolding him for doing all that ridiculous stuff and straining his Linker Core, surpassing its limits.
The ferret wasn't listening to the doctor's words at all; he had succumbed to the strain of his training. He had overtrained. Shamal brought the tired ferret back to Section Six's ward to allow Yuuno to rest.
TUESDAY MORNING, TWO DAYS AFTER FRIDAY
The ferret finally woke up after resting for two days. He feels rejuvenated, but when he tried to use magic, it hurt a lot and made him feel weak. Just then, Shamal and the others went into the ward to check on the librarian.
"Yuuno-san, you're awake!" Reinforce smiled, and flew to the ferret.
"Yeah, but I can't use much magic. What's wrong with me, Shamal?" He asked.
"While you were resting, I took the chance to conduct a full body check-up and here are the results," Shamal produced several screens in front of the ferret, "your Linker Core has increased considerably; you're reaching SSS rank, Yuuno."
The ferret almost fainted after hearing Shamal.
"Is there absolutely any way to decrease my magic? I don't care by what means, just help me!" Yuuno pleaded, changing into his human form.
"Why? Isn't that a good thing?" Hayate interjected.
"I'm not in combat and stuff; I'm in the library working! There's no need for me to have such power."
"Yes, there is such a need for your vast power." A gravely familiar voice said, and a transmitter popped up. It was the number one cyborg in the JS incident, Uno.
"You, how- what are you doing?" Vita demanded.
"Professor Yuuno Scrya, the doctor has plans to use your power, to help him in his latest creation. Are you interested in rebuilding the lost world, Al Hazard?" The way the cyborg said it sent shivers down everyone's spine.
"I would never do that!" Yuuno retorted, glaring at Uno.
"There's so much knowledge in your mind. Such valuable data would be much appreciated, Mr Scrya. I have a little present for you, enjoy." Jail Scaglietti spoke, he grinned evilly.
The screen changed into a video, playing something which everyone did not expect.
"W-w-why do you have that? She is back, isn't she? That goal of hers, I never thought you would be the one to help her achieve it." Yuuno said, clenching his fists.
"Isn't that a nice present? I taped that pitiful torture of yours, and I purposely left, to see you leave the place, to use your power. But, you've only used it once, such a waste. How you've grown… I suppose that power of yours has been locked away after so long… Never mind that, since I have the key to unlock that sealed part of you. I'll meet you in person someday, Scrya." A woman spoke, with jet black hair all the way down to her waist, with dark purple eyes and fair skin.
She was wearing a dark purple coat that reached to her ankles, a matching black shirt and pants that showed off her body.
Yuuno gritted his teeth in anger and glared at the woman, who was with Jail Scaglietti and his four cyborg numbers. Just then, red lights went off in Section Six.
"All branches of TSAB, the criminal Jail Scaglietti and his cyborg numbers, Uno, Tre, Quattro and Sette have escaped. They're working with another class-one dimensional criminal, Velanor. The Headquarters have already dispatched people to search for them around various planets; please search for the criminals on your positions." Lindy Harlaown informed through a transmitter.
Yuuno sat on the bed, trembling with strong emotions built inside of him. He got up and transformed into his barrier jacket, and headed out to train. If he is going to meet that woman, he would need to get a lot stronger. A lot more.
For the next few days, signs of gadget drones attacking Mid-Childa have been spotted. The three aces and the forwards went to eliminate them, with Yuuno tagging along. The group knows that the archaeologist needs to get stronger, for his own sake; so they let him take most of the fighting.
Every time Yuuno has spare time, he would train and train, often in AMF conditions, in different situations and honing bombardment spells. He also practised using Heaven Asunder in 1%, 2% and so on, but he never got to fire more than 50%, for there was too much magic power involved and the training area can be totally destroyed.
A WEEK LATER, TUEDAY
Yuuno has officially transferred to Section Six and he remained in service for those who need sensitive information. He had started to control his special ability of controlling Lost Logia, using the Jewel Seeds. Since the Tome of the Night Sky is already under its mistress' control, Yuuno never tried to utilise its power. He's standing in the middle of the training ground now, with his friends looking intently at him.
Concentrating every ounce of power he has, he willed the Jewel Seeds around him, and, he eventually had the Jewel Seeds under his complete control. For a few days now, he has been training on utilising the Jewel Seeds that Nanoha and Fate sealed off; twelve of twenty one of them, nine of which were lost to the Jewel Seed incident.
A blue aura of energy swirled around Yuuno, as the twelve Jewel Seeds glowed brightly. They flew to Yuuno, around his barrier jacket's dark green coat. Aligning themselves each on the coat, in a pattern, they formed a new barrier jacket on the green coat: the Jewel Seeds embedded themselves onto the dark green coat, one each on the gloves of Yuuno's palms, the rest of them strewn around randomly.
"Divine Buster," Celestial Heart intoned, in its Excelion Mode. Two cartridges were loaded, and the Jewel Seeds glowed on Yuuno's barrier jacket.
The Divine Buster charged up, as large as the one that Nanoha had when she was in the Cradle a year ago, using her Blaster Three to charge up a Divine Buster which blasted through the walls of the Cradle to reach the number four cyborg, Quattro.
Yuuno released the massive Divine Buster, smashing through ten units of gadget drones with maximum AMF that were set up in the training ground.
"Master, are you all right?" Celestial Heart asked. Yuuno nodded and looked at the Jewel Seeds on his barrier jacket.
The Jewel Seeds must have been a booster to your attacks. Fate said mentally.
This booster of Jewel Seeds is extremely powerful; without even using the Blaster System, the Divine Buster could already be fired at Blaster Three. Yuuno-kun, are you sure it's alright to use it, considering the amount of strain if there are some? Nanoha asked with a worried tone.
No need to worry; there isn't any strain on me at all. Yuuno told his friends.
"Setting up Jewel Seeds as Jewel Mode," Celestial Heart sounded.
"Is it really fine to use that? There would be an insane amount of magic power for you," Agito said, frowning.
"Jewel Mode would be my final trump card; after all, there's still the Blaster Mode. Plus, everyone is with me, so I'll be just fine." Yuuno assured.
With that, the librarian continued to train using Jewel Mode in an extremely heavy AMF condition, preparing for what was about to come.
THE NEXT DAY, WEDNESDAY
Vivio was playing happily with Nanoha and Fate in Section Six that afternoon, with the forwards training with Yuuno. Vita, Hayate, Rein, Vice, Signum and Agito were observing their training via monitors. Suddenly, the cyborg numbers, Tre and Sette, appeared in the sky, with units of gadget drones.
Using her IS, Ride Impulse, Tre dove in and caught Vivio in her arms. Alarmed, Nanoha and Fate immediately transformed and chased after the girl. Fate changed into her Sonic Form, and flew ahead of Nanoha. Hayate, Signum, Rein and Agito performed Unison-In and they proceeded to intercept the numbers, along with the gadget drones. The forwards attacked too, along with Vice.
The Ace of Aces attacked with Axel Shooter from the rear, and, when she missed her target, changed Raising Heart into Excelion Mode. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Sette preparing an attack behind her.
Nanoha fired an Excelion Buster towards Sette, and the number took a direct hit. Having her Boomerang Blades destroyed by Nanoha's Excelion Buster, Sette flew faster and up to Tre, who pulled her along with her.
Fate fired Plasma Lancer towards Tre and Sette, but, Tre was able to outrun them, even when she fired her Trident Smasher. Yuuno intervened the number by teleporting several metres ahead of them, and firing a Star Shower at them. Tre dodged the attack and continued flying, with Nanoha, Fate and Yuuno chasing after her and Sette.
"Holy Fin," The pair of green wings on Yuuno's shoes grew bigger and he flew faster. Yuuno halted abruptly, and a green magic circle appeared underneath him. Using Transporter High, he attempted to teleport the escaping duo to where Nanoha and Fate were flying. But, at that moment, someone was in front of him.
Velanor.
Dressed in the same outfit, holding her device whip in her right hand, she smirked at Yuuno. Waving her whip, she slashed the whip towards Yuuno. The librarian casted a barrier around himself, and the collision of the whip and the barrier created a smokescreen.
Vita attacked with her Schwalbe Fliegen and eight red balls flew towards Velanor. Signum and Agito performed Karyū Issen and the flames struck the woman on the back while she was dodging Vita's Schwalbe Fliegen.
As fast as lightning, Velanor slashed her whip at the three aces, the Wolkenritter, the forwards and Vice. All of them suffered a small whip mark and Yuuno, enraged, casted a Meteor Shower into a bombardment spell and fired it towards Velanor.
Velanor managed to dodge Yuuno's Meteor Shower and she escaped the scene with Vivio and the numbers. The librarian immediately teleported everyone back to the training grounds, using Physical Heal at those whom Velanor attacked.
The whip marks were healed within no time, and Yuuno scolded himself mentally for not being able to save Vivio. He trained even harder, with his friends worried for him while going through intense self-training.
Who knew that those whip marks given to Hayate, the Wolkenritter, Fate, Nanoha, Vice and the forwards was more than an attack. And that Jail Scaglietti had finished creating a new Cradle, wanting to fulfil his dream once again. For that, he sent Tre and Sette to capture Vivio. And he succeeded.
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