As they walked out to Kuma's car, the man looked at Kyrie, or rather, her sword. "I don't suppose you can sheath that somehow, can you?" The girl blinked and pulled her large sword off of her back and Kuma watched as she held it up and the blade seemed to fold into itself before shrinking down and the handles on the hilt folded up, covering the blade and making it look like a normal short staff. She then clipped it to her waist and smiled at him.
"Kyrie," Amitie shook her head, "couldn't you have kept that hidden?"
"Come on, Ami," Kyrie winked at her sister as she walked over to the car, "we're not at home anymore, and from what Kuma-san's reactions, there aren't too many Mazoku in this universe."
"Guess so," Amitie got into the passenger side after Kyrie popped the seat forward to jump into the back. Pushing the seat back into position, Amitie sat down and buckled up as Kuma got in and started the car up. "Oh well, it's no different than back home."
"That bad?" Kuma asked, getting a shrug from Amitie.
"Depends. You're either on the side of the Shinzoku or Mazoku. Very few people last long enough without being aligned to either side." Amitie closed her eyes and leaned back against the seat. "Before you think that we chose our side, I'll have you know that it wasn't by choice. Our father made a deal with the Mazoku and basically made us so we could fight on their side."
"Sins of the father, huh?" Kuma grinned as he punched the gas, making his car take off down the highway at over five times the speed limit. "It's always a pain in the butt whenever the parents make a choice for the children and then when it's time to collect you've got no choice in the matter, even though that's what you want more than anything, am I right?"
In her seat, Kyrie hummed softly. "Nah. We were alive and able to learn, so it wasn't like we lost out on too much. Neither the Mazoku nor Shinzoku seemed to eager to go to war, but having to serve one side or the other for your whole life, well," she shrugged at that, "what's the point of resisting?"
"You two really don't care that you're working for a demon?" Kuma would have looked at them, but he was too busy outracing all the cars on the freeway.
"You didn't care either, until you found out she was a Mazoku." Amitie said, not the least bit concerned with how fast they were going. "She hasn't stabbed us yet."
"Or boiled us alive." Kyrie added. "Course, she could have set us on fire..."
"Or cut into our legs." Amitie shook her head. "Good thing there was always a healer nearby."
"Mazoku are pretty evil, huh?"
"They need our pain and suffering to live, actually," Kyrie chirped up, not sounding the least bit upset about anything, "Could always be worse, we could be subject to a tentacle demon, those girls never survive for more than five years."
"It really doesn't matter. One master or another, we'll always be someone's slave." Amitie took a deep breath and opened her eyes.
"Don't you two have dreams for the future?"
Kyrie gave him an answer that chilled Kuma down to the bones, "what good are dreams? Hope for freedom and the future only leads to misery and pain. Just live with what you have and if you're still alive at the end of the day, be thankful."
Balling her hands into fists, Hayate took several deep breaths to try and control herself. "That's twice now..." She started pacing in her office, back and forth, looking every bit pissed off that she felt.
Reinforce merely watched her as she grumbled about several things at once. "They all came back alive, be thankful for that."
Hayate took several deep breaths and nodded stiffly. "I know... I know." She was so stressed out at that moment that she didn't know what to do.
The next thing Hayate knew, she was picked up by Reinforce, who walked over to her chair, put Hayate down in it and started to rub her shoulders. "Nnnngh..."
"Right now, there's not much we can do, Hayate, just try to relax, things should be getting better now. As soon as we have all reports on what happened, we can make plans to avoid this in the future."
Hayate just sighed and let Reinforce massage her back and neck.
"Yuuno-kun, Fate-chan..." Nanoha said softly as she walked into the hospital room. "Erio-kun and Subaru are both in other rooms right now. Subaru should be fine soon enough, but Erio was hurt pretty badly. If not for Ragudo Mezzagis, he'd be dead right now." She squeezed her hands into fists as she walked in between the beds. "I should have been there. I could have..."
"Shut up, Nanoha." Yuuno said, causing her to gasp as he looked at her. "We all could have done more, we were taken by surprise by a few things that thing could do, okay? Besides," he sat up and groaned as he did so, "next time I'm putting a barrier field up first then healing."
"Yuuno-kun..." Nanoha smiled and hugged him.
"Oww, oww, oww..." Yuuno groaned as she let go of him. "Back's sore."
"Sorry," Nanoha said softly and cupped his face and kissed him on the lips. "Mmmm..."
"Not the sight I wanna see after nearly dying." Fate said as she groaned, both from the pain in her head and her stomach. "My sister kissing her boyfriend." Her voice was laced with annoyance and some jealousy.
Nanoha broke the kiss with Yuuno and turned to look at Fate and grinned at her. "What? Would Fate-chan like a kiss as well?"
Fate blushed heavily and nodded slowly. "Well, I wouldn't..." When Nanoha suddenly grabbed her and picked her up, she started fidgeting. "Um, Nanoha, I don't mind this, but, um... Yuuno's watching and... Hey!" Fate yelped as Nanoha moved so that the blood and IV drips, which were on a wheeled stand, moved with her, "Nanoha, what are you?" Her eyes widened as she was taken over to Yuuno's bed and sat down on it. "Nanoha?"
Nanoha grinned at Fate and Yuuno. "I said that the next time that Fate-chan got a kiss, it would be from Yuuno-kun."
Yuuno started blushing at that. "Um, Nanoha, I don't think Fate would..."
"...If it's Yuuno, I wouldn't mind," Fate squirmed on the bed slightly. "But no other guys."
Nanoha blinked a few times and grinned at that. "Well, that's good, I'd hate to see Fate-chan become a kissing fiend and go after everyone's lips like Hayate-chan goes after our boobs."
Yuuno just groaned as he heard that. Looking at Fate looking at him nervously, he smiled leaned in and gave her a kiss on the lips. His eyes widened as she hugged him and returned the kiss.
"Whoo hoo! Go boss! This is better than when she was drunk, huh?"
Fate broke the kiss and rested her head on Yuuno's chest. "It's not fair..." She pouted, causing Nanoha and Yuuno to blink at her. "I only get to kiss someone I like when I'm either hurt or drunk or feeling down." She looked at Nanoha and sighed heavily. "And you... It's not fair that you're my sister."
Nanoha shrugged and sat down on Fate's bed. "Miyuki-nee was trying to get Kyouya-nii to choose her over others. By the way, Yuuno-kun, I thought you were still with Miyuki-nee."
Yuuno blushed heavily. "Ah, well... She's still on Earth, I'm here, we kind of put our relationship on hold since we can't be together as often as we'd like. If we find someone else, we both agreed it wouldn't be bad."
Fate sighed heavily and groaned as her body throbbed in pain. "That mission sucked. Can't believe that I got stabbed like that." She let out a small yelp as she felt Yuuno's hands touch her butt. "Hey!"
"Sorry!" Yuuno gulped as Fate glared at him while blushing. "Didn't mean to."
"Your ass is awesome, Fate, take it as a compliment."
"Quiet you." Yuuno, Fate and Nanoha all said at the same time.
"I think I could have beaten it if I didn't have to worry about friendly fire." Fate said after a moment. "I had to hold back so that I wouldn't hurt anyone."
Yuuno nodded as he rubbed her back. "I think that way too. Caro's summons were able to over-power the field, so even though those fields are really powerful and against magic, they can be overwhelmed."
None of them noticed Teana, who had been just outside of the room, suddenly turn and leave quickly.
"How did they all do anyway?" Nanoha asked, getting a smile from Yuuno and Fate. "That good?"
"Yeah, better than we expected..." Yuuno trailed off as he remembered something. "What happened to those two that Ginga and Subaru were fighting?"
"Heavily injured, one of them might not make it through the night." Nanoha shook her head. "I hope they'll be okay. If not, it might take a long time to get information from them."
"I don't like getting cut up and stabbed so much." Fate muttered and closed her eyes. "Next time that a mission comes up, I think I'll go into it with my limiter off, Nanoha, you should as well."
"Don't worry." Nanoha smiled at her. "Hayate-chan already told me that she's going to yell at everyone until she can get the limiters removed from us for all missions."
Fate smiled at that. "Good."
See other episodes by Philip Weigel
(Posted Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:33)
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