Lucky StarS Chapter 12: Why?, a lucky star fanfic

A/N - Here's the next chapter!

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Lucky Star or Nanoha StrikerS!

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Why?

"Let's head to the main square after," Nanoha suggested to the rest of the mages as they made their way to the meadows. Even if they were in a city, there was a huge meadow in the middle of it. Everyone agreed, eager to find Takeo and Kagami. The meadow was gray and dull, very different from the usual bright, sunny look it had. It was almost depressing to look at; the flowers were dead, the trees bare. Splitting up briefly, each person went to look for any trace of Takeo or Kagami. Meeting up again at the middle of the meadow, all people returned with a negative; no-one had found anything.

"Well, let's just keep moving," Fate said, trying to boost everyone's confidence.

"My chest hurts," Tsukasa said, clutching her chest as she spoke.

"What's wrong?" Caro asked worriedly.

"Maybe we should take a break…" Fate suggested.

"I know why my chest hurts…" Tsukasa said.

"What is it?" Konata asked.

"I-It's onee-chan, she's in pain, I can feel only but a fraction of her pain," Tsukasa informed.

"How come you know?" Tiana asked. Tsukasa weakly smiled, and said

"I'm her twin."

"I have a bad feeling; something doesn't feel right, my heart says so…" Konata said.

"I have the same feeling as well," Fate agreed.

"But we still need to check out all of the other areas…" Subaru trailed off.

"Sometimes you just have to trust your instinct," Nanoha informed Subaru, teaching her something new. All of the trainees nodded, soaking up the information.

"So what are we going to do?" Erio asked.

"Heading back to the school," Konata replied.

"The school? But didn't we just come from there?"

"Yes but-" Konata was about to continue, but stopped when she heard a voice on the wind. She froze.

'Kagami.'

Konata looked at Tsukasa, who had the same expression on her face.

"What's wrong?" Caro asked.

"Just now I heard Kagami."

"Me too," Tsukasa confirmed.

"Well, should we go back to the school?" Shugo asked, preparing for another flight. Everyone nodded, and got ready for a quick travel.

Takeo lowered his whip, smiling in satisfaction at his work. More than a dozen scars had been left on Kagami's body. Blood ran down from them, slowly dripping off of her and onto the stage. Kagami was panting, exhausted. It was painful to move; painful to breathe, but she had to. She bit back whimpers, not letting one noise escape. She stared into Takeo's eyes, seeing nothing but pure cruelty. Looking around her dizzily, Kagami noticed the audience. Many of the girls were crying, the sight before them too much to bear. Kagami had held back her tears. She had been beaten for almost half an hour. Scanning around the rest of the audience Kagami spotted Sakuya. The girl just stared at Kagami, disbelief written all over her face. Kagami sadly smiled. Sakuya broke the eye contact, guilt filled her. But something was odd, she began to start feeling happy; happy that this was happening to her worst enemy. She didn't quite understand why she felt that way. Looking at Takeo she realised that he was staring right at her.

'Sakuya-san, do you feel happy?' he asked telepathically. Sakuya tensed up,

'Yes,' she replied.

'Come here,' he ordered. Hesitating at first, but standing up, Sakuya made her way over to the stage. People looked up at her in disbelief; was she going to yell at Takeo or something like that? She would obviously get beaten, mush like Kagami, maybe even worse.

"Sakuya-chan, what are you doing?!" one of her friends called out to her.

"Don't worry."

"But Sakuya-chan, can you not see what he did to Hiiragi?!" her friend desperately yelled.

"Ah, I can, and I don't care."

Sakuya stood next to Takeo.

"Do you wish to try?" he asked, holding the whip out to her. Looking up at Takeo, and then at Kagami, she felt a rush of adrenaline when she saw the battered state of her opponent. Lifting the whip up out of Takeo's hands, Sakuya walked up to the floating Kagami.

"Sakuya, why?" Kagami whispered out, seeing the girl appear in front of her.

"Why? Why?! Are you stupid? Because I hate you more than anything else in this world!" Sakuya screamed at Kagami, bringing the whip down. Kagami bit her lip, holding back a scream, her teeth piercing her lip.

"Why do you hate me?" Kagami asked.

"Because you are the worst! You befriended Shugo-kun just to get some attention, and then you go and try and kill him! I hate you so much!" Sakuya screamed again. This time she whipped harder, her anger flowing through. A scream could not be held back from Kagami.

"That's right, scream. I want you to suffer!"

People in the crowd covered their eyes. They couldn't believe that someone who was just in their crowd, was joining in the cruelty.

"Watch out!" Shugo yelled to the rest of the mages as they were heading back to the school. Ahead of him he spotted dozens bodies in the distance.

"What are they?" Erio asked as he too spotted the shapes approaching. Everyone stopped, on guard in case they needed to be ready to fight. Konata set Shugo on the ground, coming down from the air. Friedliche landed on the road, allowing Miyuki, Tsukasa and Erio to jump off.

"Hey, aren't they…onee-chan's?!" Tsukasa exclaimed.

"They must be clones made by Takeo," Miyuki said.

"He's trying to stop us from finding him," Nanoha said.

"We'll just have to defeat them one by one then," Subaru commented. The Kagami's quickly stopped in front of all of the mages, smiling.

"What are you guys doing?" one of them asked. The mages looked at one another confused.

"Konata! Did you mess up their brains with something about your silly games?" another one yelled at the otaku. The girl just glared at the Kagami's.

"What's that look for?" it asked Konata angrily. Konata quickly armed Caelum and shot through the Kagami. It wore an expression of shock, before it disappeared. Suddenly the other Kagami's leapt into action, attacking the group of mages. Everyone was prepared. Shugo reluctantly shot a Kagami, still not wanting to shoot his crush, even if it was a clone. Tsukasa was the same; she had a hard time attacking the clones, but she pushed on, knowing that by getting rid of the clones she could see her real sister again. Friedliche quickly managed to eradicate several of the clones in one dragon breath. Caro worked on powering up Friedliche and Erio. The number of clones reduced to a quarter within 15 minutes. The last clones suddenly retreated, following orders from their master.

"Follow them!" Shugo ordered, racing off after the retreating clones, everyone else following close behind him. Running around a corner, the mages couldn't see the clones. They had disappeared.

"We have to get back to the school as soon as possible," Tiana said as she once again looked around.

"You're right, we have to go back now," Nanoha said, beginning to float in the air.

"Defeat any enemies along the way, don't split up," she finished. Everyone nodded their head, beginning to head to the school.

A/N - I'm sorry that it's such a short chapter and that it took so long to update! I'm sort of struggling to write these chapters because I don't want to rush and put loads of action in one chapter and then that would be the end of the story…which I'm finding kinda hard to do ; I'm not quite sure how the next 2-3 chapters will turn out, so please bear with me!