Hmm... I hadn't thought about using Resurrection on Alicia. But, I thought there were limits, even in Slayers, to bringing someone back from the dead.
Hmm... Something to think about.
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"You're not going to stop us from fighting?" Fate asked almost an hour after her small break-down had ended. Her face was washed and cleaned up, so no one other than Lina would know what happened.
After swallowing the coffee, Lina nodded at her. "If you want to fight Nanoha, that's fine, but just make sure that those Jewel Seeds are sealed up first, okay?" When Fate nodded, Lina smiled at her and ruffled her hair, getting a blush from the small girl. "I don't care if you fight her magically, the two of you could use some experience, but I was serious about not fighting until those Jewel Seeds were dealt with."
Fate sighed and looked at her lap. "...I need them."
Sighing, Lina wondered what she needed them for, but kept quiet. "Very well, Fate. Just ask yourself if it's worth it. Is whatever you're dealing with now worth the trouble?" Fate nodded, albeit slightly and Lina sighed softly. "Fate, it's okay to believe in someone, we all need to believe in someone, but it's not worth it if it causes nothing but misery in the end." Standing up, Lina took her glass to the sink as Fate sat there and thought about it. "But, if you think it is, I won't stop you." She looked back and smiled softly as Fate nodded at her. "But, like I said before, if you need help, don't be afraid to ask."
Fate nodded and looked as Arf came into the area. "Um..."
"I'd rather you two stick around for breakfast," Lina sighed as Fate squirmed, "but go ahead."
Fate bowed to her as she and Arf left the hotel room and disappeared into the early morning sky.
Sitting there for awhile as she looked at their retreating forms, Lina blinked as she felt arms wrap around her body.
"Must have been hard to let them go without getting all the information." She hear Shiro's voice as he kissed her on the cheek.
Sighing and leaning into his embrace, Lina shook her head slightly. "Not as hard you think it was." She would have preferred knowing what was going on, but Fate didn't seem like a bad girl, so Lina wasn't too concerned with what she was going to do next. "I'd be more concerned if she was more like me when I was younger."
Shiro chuckled at that. "It could be worse. Nanoha could be just like you."
Lina smirked at that. "Don't worry about that, when we get back, I'm going to spend every morning drilling Nanoha and that ferret."
Shiro sweat-dropped as his wife got a gleam in her eyes. "Um, dear, I don't know if they'd survive..."
"Oh, don't worry, I'm not going to teach them black or chaos magic." Lina rolled her eyes. "Just some elemental stuff, white magic, you know, the basics."
Shiro chuckled at that. "Hmm... We have a couple of hours before everyone wakes up." There was a glint in her eyes that told him that she was thinking the same thing as he was.
"Why, Shiro Takamachi, you're not thinking of taking me to bed, tying me down and doing all sorts of naughty things to my poor defenseless body, now are you?"
Smirking at her, he picked her up and carried her into their bedroom. "And how will you stop me?"
"Oh no! The vile man is going to defile a helpless maiden, whatever shall I do?" Shiro chuckled as he closed the door behind them.
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A few days later...
"Your mother's crazy." Yuuno, now in his human form, panted. It hadn't taken Lina long to figure out that he had been able to shape-shift.
"Don't... Remind... Me..." Nanoha wheezed out between gasps of air.
Lina shook her head as she looked at them. "Come on, it's not that hard. Just climb to the top of these steps while carrying those water buckets on your backs." Really, she had made Amelia do worse, this wasn't anything too bad. "You kids have no stamina." She shook her head again.
"Why... This... Shrine?" Yuuno asked as he and Nanoha finally got to the top of the steps.
"Well, for one, it's not really a shrine, but more like a large open area and two, well..." Lina pointed down behind them and the two kids blanched slightly. "It's also a good three stories straight up, less likely people will bother us while I teach you two magic." She turned and walked to the center of the open area. "So, let's begin." She smiled as they nodded at her.
Later...
Lina looked at Yuuno, who was drawing something in the dirt. "What are you doing?"
"Ack!" He jumped and looked at her. "Um, sorry, I'm just having some trouble doing any of the spells you've taught me." She nodded at that, knowing that he and Nanoha were both having some trouble with it. Anything more difficult to do than a simple barrier was pretty difficult, then again, considering that she couldn't use any of their spells very easily, it made a lot of sense to her. "But, I was thinking, and, that recovery spell you taught me is a lot like my own healing spells and I was just thinking about how the energies worked and I think I've got something."
"Oh?" This was interesting, to say the least.
Yuuno nodded. "Yeah! All magic is pretty similar, even if the styles are completely different. It's just changing how you gather energy and what matrixes you put it through that can determine if you can use a technique or not. I mean, any attack spell Nanoha knows can be done by someone else of a completely different style, it just needs to be modified to fit the user's preference and style of magic, so..."
Lina watched, interested as a green circle appeared under his feet. "I can't use the magic the same way you do, but if I do it like this..." A green wave of healing energies washed over the three of them and Lina blinked a few times before looking at Nanoha, who was standing straighter than before. "Um... I don't think that was recovery."
"No, it was, just a bit different." Lina chuckled softly. "Keep practicing it though, you'll get better at it." Smiling, she ruffled his hair and he blushed softly before she turned to Nanoha and grinned at her daughter. "Hey, Nanoha, I have an idea here."
"Mom?" She blinked as Lina asked for Raising Heart again. "Sure, but you said that you couldn't use it for much."
"Maybe I can't..." Lina chuckled softly. "But I think I know a few spells that will help you out." As she held it up in the air, Lina grinned a bit. "Let's see how this thing handles a Val Flare."
Seeing the shot of pure fire launch from the tip of Raising Heart, Nanoha grinned as if she had found a buffet that would let her eat all the food she wanted. She blinked as Lina tossed it back to her. "Mom?"
"Figure out how to modify that so you can use it more effectively, Nanoha, and I'll teach you some other spells."
Moving out of the way, Lina went over to Yuuno and showed him a few more spells that she knew. What surprised her was that he took to all her white magic fairly easily. The Black Magic she knew wasn't usable in this world, she didn't know Holy Magic, so that just left elemental and White Magic. Oh well, these kids didn't need those spells anyway.
Maybe after things settled down, she would show them a spell she had come up with in the past fifteen years, but until things with Fate had calmed down, she didn't want Nanoha knowing it and accidentally using it.