"Divine Buster!"
*WHOOSH*
A pink wave of compressed magical power came rushing at the guy who was about to stab Fate.
"W-What?" The guy exclaims as he was taken by surprise- just like what they tried to do. He tries to evade, but the particle beam shot grazed his right extremities.
"Shoot!" The voice shouted as clusters of high-speed magic missiles fired, aimed at the little figure that looked like Fate. The little girl tries to evade, but the clusters of magic missiles follows her trail.
"Fate-chan!" Nanoha rushed by Fate's side, looking worried. "Are you okay?"
"N-Nanoha?" Fate stuttered as she tries to get a hold of everything. "W-What are you doing here?"
"Let's leave that for later. We have to get on with this first." Nanoha replied as the young girl and the tall guy gets back on their feet and makes their stance. Both sides knew this is going to be tough.
"Fate-chan." Nanoha communicated telepathically with Fate. "Let's end this as soon as possible. I don't want you fighting for long after you have just recovered. Buy me a few minutes."
"Nanoha..." Fate lets out a sigh of relief and smiles. "So you're going to use that, huh."
"Yeah."
"Then I guess, I don't have time to be idling here." Fate responded as she held her huge sword down.
"Overdrive, True Sonic Form." Fate's Barrier Jacket dispenses her cloak and instead puts Flier Fin-like wings on Fate's boots and arms, greatly increasing her movement speed.
"Riot Zanber." Bardiche splits into two Riot Blades connected by a cord of energy between the hilts as Fate rushed in to the opponents.
The two opponents rushed in. The little girl rushed at Fate, while the other guy went to Nanoha.
"As if I'd let you." Fate shouted as she rushed towards the direction of the guy. The little girl, now inferior to Fate in terms of speed, tries to follow but fell behind by a distance.
Fate swings her right hand, as the guy evades to the left and swings with his axe. Fate was pushed back a bit as she blocks the axe with a lightning defense on her left arm. The little girl, who finally caught up, swings her scythe. Fate ducks to avoid the hit and evades it by a hairline's width and swings her right hand upwards.
*SLASH*
Blood flew as Fate's sword grazed the little girl's left thigh.
"Get back, Fate-chan!" Nanoha exclaimed as left over magical energy dispersed in the combat airspace were collected , creating a light beam converging effect.
Fate rushes to get back. As Nanoha fires the collected magical energy onto the area where the two opponents were.
"Starlight Breaker!"
The two opponents tried to fall back as soon as they could, but the guy was slower in terms of speed. He rushed as fast as he could, but he still took damage, enough to make him unable to continue the fight. He is bleeding terribly. They had no choice but to retreat.
*CHINK*
The guy pulls out and throws something. It explodes and the area was covered with white smoke.
*POOF*
"W-What?" Fate speaks in surprise. "W-Wait!"
The visibility of the area gets clearer as the smoke clears up. Not a single trace left can be seen. The defeated party was nowhere to be found in the vicinity of the area.
"I've lost them." Fate utters to herself as Nanoha approaches. "Nano-"
*SMACK*
A loud sound echoed out as Nanoha slaps Fate in the cheek.
"N-Nano-"
"How could you!" Nanoha hugs Fate and shouts out as she cries on her shoulders. "How could you just leave like that! You didn't even bid goodbye! I was- I was just worried about you."
"I'm sorry, Nanoha." Fate tries to respond with a sad look on her face.
"No, it's my fault. I'm sorry, Fate. I'm sorry." Nanoha hugs Fate tighter.
Fate shrugs off as she tries to get out Nanoha's hug.
"F-Fate-" Nanoha's eyes narrowed at more tears come out. "I- I-"
Fate puts her hands on Nanoha's cheeks and puts her face close as she wipes out tears on Nanoha's eyes.
"It's okay, Nanoha. I am to blame too." Fate speaks in a gentle voice. "By the way, what about Vivio?"
"Oh, I just left her in Nove's care. I had to rush out. Hee hee."
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*TAK *TAK
The tunnel is dark and eerie, full of old unused pipes as the sound of water droplets can be heard. The figure of a little girl with blonde hair can be seen desperately trying to drag an injured man, three, or probably four times her size.
"Haahh... Haaah..." The little girl, so exhausted, is almost at her limits as she reaches that huge door that gave her a sign of relief. "We're here. Hang on."
A rumbling sound was heard as small debris fall down as the door opens.
"Heey-" The little girl tries to shout but was stopped at the view that was in front her eyes. The once orderly huge dark room is filled with bodies all over, and blood. It was the sight of a massacre. In the middle stood a guy holding a sword with blood dripping down to its tip. His eyes were sparkling like an amethyst on one, and like a sapphire on the other.
"Oh, you're back." As the guy noticed the little blonde girl standing in front of the door.
"W-what happened here?" The little girl asks; her legs were trembling.
"Oh, I have no need for useless people, so I disposed them." The guy grins with an evil smile as he points out to the little girl carrying a huge man on her back. "And I don't have a need for you, too. So there you go-"
The guy was suddenly in front of the little girl, ready to strike. It happened in a blink of an eye. The little girl, exhausted from a fight and from carrying a figure three times bigger than she was, had no time to react. She was taken by surprise, unable to do anything.
As the blade approaches the girl, a body of a man blocked the hit.
*SLASH*
Blood flew all over the place, some even on the little girl's face. It is the body she carried for over a distance, the body of an ally, shielded her from a supposedly fatal blow from someone who is supposedly their ally.
"Run!" The man shouted at the little girl who was trembling out of fear. "Run away from here!"
The man immediately throws away something, and the place was filled with white smoke.
"Get away! NOW! Gahh-" The man tries to tell the little girl, but was interrupted by another slash. More blood flew over the air.
The little girl had no choice but to escape on her own. She knew she won't be able to fight back, and she can't escape carrying someone big on her back. She had no choice but to cry as she desperately tries to run away, to survive.
The man uttered these words as he breaths his final moments.
"R-run-
and live-
A-Alicia-"
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