Great Stories

Nanoha smiled as she watched Fate in the bathroom. As her tall blonde lover busily brushed her teeth, Nanoha herself lay in bed with the sheets pulled up over her. She stretched out and yawned, pleasantly exhausted and thought about turning on the television. As she reached for the remote she stopped.

"Of course! I have that!" She got up out of bed and quickly grabbed a shirt to cover up with then went to her work bag that was sitting in the corner on the floor. After rummaging through it for a few seconds, she found what she was looking for. Clutching it excitedly to her chest, Nanoha hopped back in bed just as Fate walked out of the bathroom.

"What's that babe?" she asked pointing to the book in Nanoha's hands.

"Oh just a book someone at work recommended to me."

"Really?" Fate climbed back in bed with her. "I've never known you to take recommendations from people."

"Well I ended up seeing this one in the bookstore and it was cheap so I thought why not?" She adjusted herself a little and flipped a page. "It's really good Fate. You should read it. After I'm done of course."

"Sure. What is it about?"

"It's a really awesome story involving ninja, devious plots and schemes as well as love, betrayal, and righteous vengeance!" said Nanoha in her best epic narrator voice.

"Wow. Sounds like a wild story."

"It is! I'm just at the part now where the main character Sora Tachibana has found out that her fiancée was killed by the leader of the ninja village that she works for! Now she is trying to kill him in revenge!"

"Now THAT is interesting." Leaning in close to Nanoha, Fate began reading the paragraph that Nanoha pointed out. "This fight scene is really well done! I love the descriptions!"

"Told ya so. Go on keep reading. I'm gonna grab something from the fridge." Nanoha hopped out of bed and headed off to the kitchen while Fate continued to read. By the time Nanoha returned, Fate was already 3 pages past where she had left her.

"Nanoha this is awesome! You've got to get to the part where Sora-,"

"Fate don't spoil it for me! I'm not that far yet!"

"Sorry but you were right. This is a pretty neat story. I mean I just read this little bit but I love this fight scene."

The redhead smiled. "I thought you might."

Fate got up still carrying the book with her. "It's just that the way the battle is written is really interesting. This guy she is fighting is clearly stronger than her with greater abilities and much more fighting experience but despite that she is holding her own."

"She's got good tactics right?"

"Yes! That is exactly what I was going to say! The way the author writes the battle is really interesting. It's much better than a boring one sided battle."

"Exactly! I hate one sided battles. A good fight should be between closely matched opponents showing off their skills not only in physical combat but with their heads too!" said Nanoha punching at the air.

"The savvy warrior uses all their tools right?" responded Fate.

"Yeah!"

"I agree, I agree. Like here, this Sora character is clearly outmatched but she uses her opponent's strength against him. His superior size makes him slower, his temper makes him make mistakes, and his arrogance causes him to underestimate her."

"Arrogance?"

"Sure," said Fate. "Arrogance makes you belittle the abilities of others. You start thinking that you can't possibly lose and you become content and safe within this little bubble you make for yourself."

"So we're getting deep huh?"

"Well sure. It'd be like trying to write a battle between you and me."

Nanoha shot her a devilish grin. "That I would win of course."

"That's a good one. I'll tell them to put that on your tombstone."

"Fate we have been through this numerous times. Now while we are pretty much equally matched in terms of strength and skill, I'm afraid I pack a little more firepower if you know what I mean."

Fate marked the page and closed the book. "You know if I didn't know better I would say I'm being underestimated. How about we settle this right now?"

"You never learn do you?" said Nanoha smiling. "Fine. How shall we start?"

"How about we start with my plasma smasher spell to your face!"

"Which I gracefully dodge because I'm awesome and let loose a few blasts of my own at you." Nanoha said making a gun firing gesture with her hands.

Fate quickly grabs her arm and twists it behind her and wraps her other arm around her neck. "But using my speed I outmaneuver your attacks and get behind you catching you in a hold."

"And then I say that I am stronger than I look and break your hold like so!" Kicking Fate in the shin, Nanoha breaks free and spins around her while holding onto her arm. After a few spins she throws Fate down on the bed and pounces on her pinning her arms down. "Any questions?"

"Just one," said Fate smiling back at her. "When does the fight start?"

"Cocky aren't we?"

"Nope." Managing to get her knee underneath Nanoha, Fate flipped her over and off the bed causing the redhead to yelp in surprise. "How was that?"

There was no response from Nanoha.

"Nanoha? Honey are you ok?" Fate worried looked over the side of the bed but Nanoha was nowhere to be found. "Where in the-,"

Fate yelled out in surprise as she felt an arm around her neck and was pulled back onto the floor. She looked to see Nanoha pointing her finger at her like it was a gun and smiling. "Checkmate."

"You don't play fair.

Nanoha leaned down close to her. "I've got good tactics just like Sora right?"

Fate smiled. "I love you."

"Love you too." Giving her a quick kiss, Nanoha got up and grabbed her book again.

"Well I'm gonna go grab me a snack too," said Fate heading for the bedroom door. "But before I go…,"

"What's up?" asked Nanoha taking her place back on the bed again.

"Sora kills him with a sword through the heart on page 74."

"FATE!" Nanoha screamed out as the blonde ran out of the room laughing.

So finally got a new one up. It's getting harder and harder to find the time to work on these lol. Anyways I thought I'd throw a little homage to another story of mine in this one. Also I noticed that some think I'm giving Fate a little more attention than Nanoha so my next few are going to be a little more focused on our favorite redhead. Well, enjoy and review guys!