The next morning...
Teana rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she, Subaru, Caro, that small Dragon of hers and Erio, all walked out onto the training field. Her eyes widened and the tiredness in her mind cleared in an instant as she saw who was waiting for them. "Instructor Zelgadis!"
The man nodded at her while he had his arms crossed over his chest. "Good to see you this morning as well, Teana Lanster, Subaru Nakajima," he looked at the two shortest people on the field and raised an eyebrow, "and you two are?"
"Erio Mondial," the boy with the bundle strapped to his back saluted Zelgadis.
"Caro Lu Ruche-Scrya," the girl with pink hair and a small Dragon floating next to her saluted him. "This is Fried."
"Ku."
Zelgadis smirked and looked at the woman by his side, "you have anything to say, Nanoha?"
Turning, Nanoha smiled at them. "Well, yesterday, they went up against Yuuno and Vita in training," Nanoha smiled lightly as she saw the four of them look down, "but that was just to get an idea of where they're at."
Zelgadis nodded as a city seemed to materialize over the water. "Well, today's early training will be easy," he smirked at them as they looked up at him, "your mission today... Is to defeat me."
The four stared as Zelgadis jumped upwards and flew into the holographic city.
"Is he serious?" Teana looked at Nanoha, who merely raised an eyebrow at them.
"I think he is, you might want to hurry." Nanoha smiled as the four of them disappeared into the virtual city. "...And now, for the fun part." She chuckled softly and floated upwards above the city. "This might be interesting." Idly she wondered how they would take it, before shrugging it off.
If they couldn't handle this level of training they probably would never be ready for anything truly dangerous.
Like Vita when she was going through PMS.
Zelgadis had his eyes closed while he hovered a few inches off of the ground. His arms were crossed over his chest as he mentally sought out each of the trainees. 'Let's see, Erio is behind me, Subaru just in front of me, both out of sight, that's good, Teana is...' His thoughts trailed off and he grinned before spinning around and pointing right at where Teana was hiding. "Flare Arrow!"
Hearing Teana yelp and jump out of the building, Zelgadis was glad that the holographic city was full of abandoned and decayed buildings.
It made it easier to watch the buildings explode from various spells.
"Fried, Blast Flare!" Zelgadis turned his head to see the small Dragon fire a ball of flame at him.
He merely chuckled as the fire dissipated against his barrier before turning as Erio popped out and zipped right at him. "Diem Wind!" There was no point in ripping out the large spells yet, these kids needed to get a handle on things first.
Zelgadis was surprised that Erio managed to avoid the attack by jumping straight up. "Levitation, huh?"
"Subaru, now!" Erio called out and Zelgadis turned his head to see Subaru rushing right up at him.
"Revolver..." Subaru pulled her arm back to strike at Zelgadis, who was merely smirking at her. Just as Subaru was beginning to wonder what that was about, she was bombarded from above with several pink spheres that crashed down around her, causing her to lose her balance and have to jump to the side to keep from being blown up.
"Even the most simple of tasks can suddenly become difficult if something unexpected happens." Zelgadis turned and suddenly took off running at a speed that left most people astonished. "Like if your enemy decides to target one of your group instead of anyone at random." He jumped off the ground and ran across a wall before flipping and landing on his feet behind Teana, who had been ducking into an alley to get more cover.
Teana could only stare as Zelgadis grabbed her forehead, his hand glowing a soft blue color. "I have one of your teammates, if you all surrender, I won't flash freeze her skull." While holding Teana by her forehead, he walked out into the street to show off his prized catch. "So, tell me, what do you do?"
Subaru growled and clenched her fists. If only she knew what to do she could... Her thoughts trailed off as she got an idea and held up her hands. "Well, I don't think I can..."
Erio was kneeling and chanting softly. "Earth below me, submit to my will..."
Subaru snapped her hand out and Zelgadis found a chain wrapped around his neck tightly, pulling on him. "Chain bind!"
"Dug Haut!" Erio cried out and grinned as the ground under Zelgadis shook and a stone spike shot up, forcing him to let go of Teana and take a step back.
Not wasting any time, Teana took a few steps back before turning and firing at him, what shocked her though was that he kicked the stone spike, causing it to fall and become a shield that blocked her attack with ease. Her eyes widened as the stone spike suddenly levitated upwards and Zelgadis was revealed looking just fine, no chain around his neck at all.
Smirking at them, he nodded, pleased at them. "Very good teamwork there, all of you."
"How come Nanoha-san interfered?!" Subaru yelled as the mage in question descended down and sat on the spike that Zelgadis was levitating.
"Because you're going to have enemies who appear out of nowhere and will strike you down without warning." Nanoha said, her eyes narrowed as memories of what Gaav did to her came back to her mind. "Despite this, you four were still able to function, even with one member in jeopardy of being killed, that's good."
Making the stone spike fly backwards and forcing Nanoha to get off of it, Zelgadis smirked at them. "But, we're not done yet. Let a little praise get to your head and you won't last more than a few minutes here!"
"So, how are they doing?" Signum asked as she walked up behind Reinforce, who merely turned to look at her.
"Could be worse." She nodded at the pinkette. "Don't you have a mission?"
"Yes, a simple one, Testarossa and I shall be back in three days."
Reinforce nodded at her. "Be careful out there, Signum." She knew Signum wouldn't need to be, but she still worried about her family.
"I'll be fine, Reinforce." Signum turned to walk away. "But... Thank you for worrying about me."
As she watched Signum leave, Reinforce called up a screen and looked at who was out. 'Let's see, Vita is meeting up with those two, they'll be here by this afternoon...'
This Riot Force was looking more interesting by the moment.
That afternoon...
"Ugh, more training..." Teana groaned as she stretched her legs out.
"Could be worse," Erio spoke up as he lay his spear, which was unwrapped, to the side, "we could have to clean the kitchen up."
Nodding, Teana sweat-dropped heavily. "I guess so... What is that spear, I never saw anything like it in training."
Erio blinked and looked at it, smiling. "Oh, you wouldn't. Grandma gave me that spear, said that I earned it after I decided to go get some basic training... Plus it likes me."
"Likes you?" Teana blinked at that as Erio nodded and gripped his spear after he was done stretching. "How?"
"I don't know," Erio scratched his head, "but I can tell that it likes me."
"That's weird," a new female voice spoke up and Erio, Teana, Caro and Subaru turned to see two new girls walking towards them, "I always thought that Fried liked you, since he headbutted you so often."
"Arisa-mama!" Caro squealed in joy and ran towards the short-haired blonde, hugging her tightly. "What are you doing here?"
Arisa hugged Caro back tightly. "Well, I'm here to refine my magic abilities, plus I didn't want to miss out on seeing you again." She smiled as Caro blushed and buried her face into Arisa's stomach. "And Suzuka here just wanted to come with and be part of the group."
Suzuka waved at them. "Hello." She smiled at them peacefully.
For some reason, Teana was really starting to wonder about this Riot Force division that she was a part of. "...Why do I have the feeling that things aren't as they appear around here?"
"It's probably a good idea to think that." A female voice said as two people walked up behind Suzuka and Arisa.
"M...Mom?!" Subaru stood up, her eyes wide at the sight of her mother in the same training outfit the rest of them had on.
Quint smirked at Subaru. "Good to see you too, dear, but don't think I'll go easy on you."
"Thankfully the afternoon's easier than the morning for you guys." A familiar and almost unwelcome voice said as Vita came into view.
Whatever Subaru was going to say died on her lips as she practically choked on her tongue. Vita was in a very tight black tank top that seemed molded to her very nice breasts and biker shorts that revealed all of her curves while keeping some places amply covered. The image was made worse due to the fact that every step had Vita's breasts bouncing in just the right way that radiated raw, primal sexual energy.
"Tea..."
"Yeah?" Teana asked as she got Subaru's telepathic message. "What is it?"
"Is it possible to suddenly go from being angry at someone to wanting to make out and do other things with them so fast?"
Teana's face went completely red and her eyes white as she got that message. "...Why do you ask?"
Instead of answering, Subaru just blushed and tried to fight the urge to shiver for some odd reason.
"Usually they wait until I kiss them before creaming their panties." Vita muttered to herself before snapping her fingers. "Subaru, stay here for a moment, the rest of you, follow Quint out to the training field."
"Yes, sir!"
"That's ma'am to you!"
"Yes sir!" Vita twitched as everyone said that in unison before running off to the training field. After they were gone, she walked over to Subaru, who was staring at her, before looking at her right in the eyes.
"Listen and listen well, girl, I don't date jerks, weaklings or my underlings, got it?" Vita grabbed Subaru's chin to keep her looking up instead of at her breasts. "If we're off duty, I don't mind the thought of having some fun, but since we're not, you've got to keep yourself in check, got it?"
"But... You're..."
Vita rolled her eyes before snorting. "I was teasing you, let's just get it straight, Subaru, while I think that you're very good looking, right now, you're a weakling and you're my subordinate. I'm not going to ruin anything for either of us by dating or having fun with you anytime soon, do you understand?" When Subaru didn't react, Vita squeezed Subaru's jaw. "Do you?!"
"Yesh..." Subaru looked like she was about to cry when Vita let go of her jaw.
"Good, just remember that for the future." Vita walked off, leaving a confused Subaru standing there. She crinkled her nose slightly as a certain odor got to her nose. "Oh yeah, go change your panties before they get stained."
Watching Subaru stumble off, Vita rolled her eyes and sighed. She hated to turn the girl down, but it would hurt her future in the long run if they were having fun together at any time in the near future.
The sooner Subaru learned that, the better.
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