Jail had to admit, he was rather impressed with what Quattro had found. "How did you find this?" All of his search parties had turned up negative, to see this...
"The cradle? Came across it by accident," Quattro smiled at him as she, Uno and Jail walked through the Cradle, "to think it wasn't too far from our own base... Which is probably why we couldn't find it."
Uno snorted as she looked around. "Pretty coincidental that this place is near our mountain base. Then again, who would look under a bunch of trees for a large space ship?"
Jail chuckled and looked at the place. "Well, I have to admit, this place impresses me. If everything works well..."
"You'll need the Saint Kaiser for power and piloting of this ship." Quattro said as they turned a corner towards the throne room. "Oh, doctor, I hope you don't mind, but those Megah? I've moved the majority of them into the ship itself."
Jail nodded and looked at Uno. "We're still way behind on finding the right Relics."
"Mostly because you were too busy with upgrading everyone's weapons to suit their new powers." Uno rolled her eyes at him. "Still, thanks to some stuff that Cinque found, we've gotten quite a collection. Though, I am surprised that the Bureau never interfered."
Quattro slowed down and smiled darkly. 'Master Levi only need you two for a little while longer, of course, those Brains think that we're on their side.' She nearly laughed at that. The founders of the Bureau were probably the most corrupt beings in the whole Bureau, which was quite interesting to her. "Who knows? Maybe they're too busy having to deal with problems that keep propping up here and there. Then again, that Riot Force did get their hands on that rather large stash of Lost Logia a week ago, didn't they?"
Jail waved it off. "Mostly minor trinkets and some Relics, but they didn't get the few that I needed for this ship."
Quattro didn't care one way or the other, but part of her wondered just what Levi had planned. Her master had gone through a lot of trouble to make sure that her timing on things was just right.
Oh well, it was sure to be interesting at least.
Meanwhile...
"Nanoha!" Miyuki smiled as her sister came out to greet her and Arashi. "How are you?" She hugged the girl before letting go so Arashi could hug his sister tightly.
"Pretty beat actually," Nanoha laughed softly as she rubbed Arashi's head. "Something the matter? You said on the phone that you needed to show me something when you got here, so..." Nanoha blinked as Miyuki pointed at Arashi. "...Arashi?" She stepped back when he let go of her and smiled at him. "Is there something you need to show me?"
What happened next had Nanoha flat on her ass and staring in shock.
Miyuki nodded as they both watched Arashi create a single golden ball of energy that was surrounded by a black corona. "Yeah, shocked mom too... But..." She sweat-dropped as Arashi threw it straight up and the ball exploded into fireworks. "It's pretty, but that's all he can do with it."
"Fireworks pretty!" Arashi giggled and created several more balls of energy that went up and harmlessly exploded into fireworks.
"...Miyuki-nee, what the heck? That's not normal magic, that..." Nanoha stood up, her hair was frazzled as she looked on, wide-eyed as Arashi disappeared in a black flash, only to reappear a few feet away. "...That was mom's teleportation skill..."
Miyuki threw her hands into the air. "I have no clue, I'm not a magic person like you are. Mom can't even figure it out, he can't even cast a simple light spell, but he can use that werid Chaos power like this?! The only thing she can think of is that she used a lot of Chaos magic when she was pregnant with him, but..." Miyuki trailed off as Nanoha paled. "Nanoha, what's going on?"
"I just remembered... Mom tried to use the Giga Slave back then." Nanoha couldn't recall the incantation off the top of her head and wondered if Raising Heart had the information or not, but she did recall a black ball of energy above her mother's head and the sheer terror that came from just looking at it. "And there was all those other Chaos spells she used..." Nanoha gulped and looked at Arashi as he laughed at them. "I guess he was flooded with so much Chaos magic that it's natural for him."
"That's what mom says too..." Miyuki sighed and turned to Arashi. "Stop doing that, you'll scare people."
"Sorry, Miyuki-nee," Arashi pouted, causing Miyuki to walk up to him and rub his head. "You mad at me?"
"No, I'm not." Miyuki knelt down to look at him. "Just that a lot of people will get scared if you throw around your magic like that."
"Okay," Arashi nodded before blinking and looking at Nanoha, "is Erio-nii and Caro-nee here?!"
"I think so," Nanoha scratched her cheek nervously, "but I'm not sure, if you want to hang out with them, I can arrange that." She walked over to Miyuki and whispered to her older sister. "What is mom thinking?"
"She can't take the time to teach him. It's not like when you were younger, sis," Miyuki hissed back, "besides, when you were younger, there were more people around to learn magic with. Arashi doesn't have that advantage."
Nanoha twitched, she could see the logic, but still... "I can't take the time to teach him magic right now."
"You don't need to, actually," Miyuki shook her head and looked up as Arashi ran after a butterfly, "mom just wants him some place where if he uses magic he won't cause problems."
"And the first thing she thought of was sending him here?!"
"Actually, you were the eighteenth option." Miyuki sighed heavily. "Nanoha, you don't need to teach Arashi anything, right now he can only do teleportation and those fireworks. Besides, mom's going to show up in a couple of weeks."
Nanoha blinked at her. "...What?"
"Mom and dad are going to come to Cranagan in a couple of weeks." Miyuki shook her head. "So, I thought I'd come and warn you about it." Nanoha just groaned and Miyuki nodded in sympathy. "Look, Nanoha, if you want, I'll take Arashi back to Earth, so far the Chaos hasn't done anything else but..."
"It's not fair really," Nanoha grumbled to herself, "I can't use Chaos like that, why does he get to?"
"Mom thinks it's because you were already developed as a magic user when your Chaos powers were awakened, so they were more powerful and dangerous than his."
Nanoha gave her sister an annoyed look. "I think mom's pulling this stuff out of her ass now."
Miyuki laughed and put an arm around Nanoha's shoulders as they walked to the building. "You and me both, sis, you and me both. So, you want us to stay or..."
"Stay here..." Nanoha shook her head. "I don't think Hayate will mind too much, there are others who have their families stationed in the building as well."
Still, Nanoha had a bad feeling about all of this. She raised an eyebrow as Arashi ran back towards her while Erio, Caro and Fried came out of the building. "Erio? Caro?"
"What's Arashi and Miyuki doing here?" Erio asked, confused, causing Miyuki to sigh. "...Did something happen to grandma?"
"No, no, no, nothing like that," Miyuki shook her head before pulling her arm off of Nanoha's shoulders to rub the back of her head, "but, ah... Are you two busy right now?" They shook their heads. "Don't suppose Arashi can hang out with you?"
"Nah, he's cool." Erio grinned and Caro nodded, smiling. "Hey, Arashi, bet I can beat you to town!"
"Hey! No fair!" Caro whined as Erio and Arashi took off. "Wait for me!" She yelled, swinging her arms up and down with Fried following them, chirping the whole time.
"...Feels like home." Nanoha laughed softly. The fact that her little brother could use Chaos power was never in doubt in her mind. What really bothered her though, was that he could use it so freely and easily. That sent all sorts of warning bells in head off. "Hey, Miyuki-nee... Has anything weird ever happened because of this?"
"Other than Arashi saying something about an exploding cat and wanting to show you this forever, no, why?" Miyuki blinked at Nanoha, who nodded to her.
"Thanks, but this is going to be a PAIN to explain to everyone." Nanoha hung her head and just hoped that things wouldn't get too crazy too fast.
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