Fic: [MGL Nanoha] Alicia
Title: Magical Atoner Lyrical Alicia
Series: MGL Nanoha
Type: Continuation
Links: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5852331/10/
Chapter Ten
"Okay, it wasn't as bad as I expected," Subaru conceded as they sat in the hot springs, both luxurating in the soothing heat.
The Hinata Dorms were a odd combination of historic site and pilgrimage site, more or less. It started as a Inn back in the 1900's, then converted to a girl's dorm. During the turn of the century into the 21st it gained several prominent residents, including Lady Mercury and Mars, as well as the legendary Bara no Senshi, soldier of roses.
As the world slowly slid into global war it became a sort of... stronghold in the region. Several powerful residents shielded people both from the corporate forces and the madness of the Beast Evolution. Even when the social order completely failed, the people here fought to keep the locals safe.
"See?" Alicia smiled, "I rather like it here."
"Well, you have to admit the place has a reputation," Subaru said defensively. She sat back, enjoying the bubbles, "I mean, it's supposed to be haunted. Not to mention the cursed sword and the blood thirsty demon trapped in a shrine."
"I've met the demon," Alicia admitted, looking sheepish. "I thought it was a myth, inspired by Ryoko, but there actually is one."
"Seriously?" Subaru looked at her in surprise.
"Yeah, though she's... not what you'd expect," Alicia noted.
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The Hina shrine had been demolished and rebuilt several times over the centuries. The current shrine had been built with rubble recovered from the original as well as other shrines in the region, for various reasons. The place also sat on several powerful ley lines, which generated powerful mystic forces. The young woman who watched the shrine was a descendent of a powerful Shinto priest family, and was a surprisingly earthy woman.
Ayaka Misaki had light brown hair and warm smile. She was also rather embarrassed by her impressive bust, apparently another inheritance from her great grandmother. Dressed in the traditional red and white of a shrine maiden, she was quite striking. "Thank you for visiting our shrine, Miss Testarossa," she smiled.
"You know who I am?" Alicia asked, slightly surprised.
"We're a fairly small community here, really," Ayaka explained mildly, "the presence of new arrivals tends to spread fast."
"I guess that makes sense," Alicia conceded. She walked beside the older woman as she said, "I heard a rumour at the Inn, uhm..."
"The demon," Ayaka nodded understandingly. "Don't worry, she is firmly under control," she reassured her.
"There really is one here?" Alicia asked.
"Would you like to meet her?" Ayaka asked. Not waiting for a answer she called, "Tsukuyomi!"
"Coming!" a woman's voice called. In moments a young woman dressed in western clothes hurried up. She was wearing a skirt that was very ruffly and overdone, a cutsey blouse and a big floppy hat. That, coupled with the ribbons tied onto everything including her hair, gave her a very odd aura of forced adorableness.
That 'cute' impression lasted right until Alicia looked into the girl's odd, inhuman eyes. The irises of her eyes were white, the eyeballs black, giving a deeply creepy feeling. Worse was the dangerous intensity in them, the feeling that this girl would and could kill you, if she wanted to give into a impulse.
"Don't mind her," Ayaka said as she calmly batted the girl on her head.
"Ow!" Tsukuyomi winced, and her eyes seemed to revert to normal. "Don't be so mean, Misaki-sama!" she protested.
"This is Tsukuyomi," Ayaka introduced her, "she was a human swordswoman until she took up the cursed blade Hina and merged with it's evil. After she was defeated a kindly wizard named Springfield bound her to the shrine to make up for her evil deeds."
"I didn't do anything THAT bad," Tsukuyomi batted her eyes sweetly.
Ayaka snorted. "Don't let her trick you," she said dryly, "this woman was a murderer. Part of why she was bound here in the first place was to make up for what she's done."
Tsukuyomi pouted as she complained, "And I've defended the shrine multiple times. So why do I have to do menial labor too?"
"You don't work, you don't eat," Ayaka told her with a sly smile.
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Subaru blinked a few times. "You're kidding me," she said, adjusting the towel that covered her breasts as they lounged in the spring. That that she would have minded doing this naked, but local customs said you had to stay covered. Besides, she wasn't entirely sure how Alicia would react to her being nude. Her mentor seemed quite worldly at times, yet her eductation off world had some very interesting holes in it.
"Nope," Alicia shrugged, the more petite girl smiling faintly. "She's bound to the shrine for a time equal to the number of people she killed." She shuddered faintly, "Which from what I understand pretty much equals forever."
"And you wonder why I worry about you living here?" Subaru asked wryly. "Is there anything else I should be asking about?"
"There's the perverted ghost, but I don't think it attacks girls smaller than a 'C' cup," Alicia noted cheerfully.
"Oh joy," Subaru sighed.
Before she could press Alicia about it two attractive slightly older women emerged from the chaging room, both dressed in just long towels like they were. The taller had long black hair and a serious manner, while the strawberry blonde was quite cheerful.
"Alicia-chan," the cheery woman cried.
"Hello Himeko, Chikane," Alicia smiled back at them. She looked at Subaru, "This is Chikane Kisaragi and Himiko Arashi, they're..."
"I've heard of Ms. Kisaragi," Subaru said respectfully. "You're the archeologist who discovered the temple on the moon."
"More like stumbled over," Chikane said modestly as she settled into the water smoothly. "It wasn't even what we were really looking for."
"Temple?" Alicia asked, not having been around when the news broke.
Himiko beamed proudly as she said, "Chikane and her team discovered a fully preserved Shinto Shrine on the Moon, one that dates back to the earliest shrines on Earth."
Subaru curiously asked, "I thought earlier reports said it predated Earth Shinto?"
"We finally managed to carbon date some of the material," Chikane said, "apparently the shrine dates back to roughly when the first shrines appeared on earth. We're still trying to determine why and how, though."
Listening to her Alicia got the oddest feeling she wasn't telling the whole truth. Still, it wasn't any of her business, anyway. "So did you come back from the Moon recently?" she asked.
Himiko made a face, "Yeah. I'm the administrator of Luna City, so this is a vacation to me, pretty much. Poor Chikane has to appeal for more funding for her dig."
Subaru bliunked, "Even after what you discovered...?"
Chikane shrugged wryly, "Burecrats. I didn't find what I was supposed to, so they're questioning if I should get more funding." She smiled, "Oh well, I could use a few weeks on Earth."
The four women talked a while longer until Alicia and Subaru decided they had soaked enough, then the two younger excused themselves. As they went back to Alicia's room they talked to other residents, Alicia being her usual reserved but friendly self.
'I wonder if Alicia realizes how many of them were flirting with her?' Subaru had to wonder later as she headed home.
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School was a very odd combination of pleasant and irritating for Alicia. On one hand, because of her education in Mid-style magic she had a very advanced knowledge of maths and science, so that was easy. On the other hand she had no experience in Earth's history or society, so she struggled with a lot of more cultural areas in school.
Cooking, why cooking! No one cooked any more. Well, okay, she knw people who did, but still... And why were they studying literature from over a thousand years ago? How exactly was any of it applicable to life in the modern era?
Even more annoying was the club requirement. Students were urged to join a after school club, in order to increase their socialization. It wasn't manditory, exactly, but the teachers put a lot of social pressure on students to join up. Annoyingly, her friend Erica just totally ignored it.
"You shouldn't let them get to you," Erica noted as they gathered for lunch. The cafeteria was enormous, sitting over 2000 people, and was getting near capacity. Luckily they were able to grab a table early, or they'd have to share.
"Easy for you to say," Subaru noted with a wry smile, "you're too famous for the teachers to bully. Or the students too."
Erica frowned as she asked, "They aren't actually bullying you, are they?"
"Nothing that bad," Alicia conceded, "pressuring, maybe."
"I'm lucky I'm a Hard Suit cadet, it's not a problem for me," Catrine admitted. She smiled impishly at Alicia, "I suppose it doesn't help that the sports clubs are all after you?"
"Oh ho," Subaru noted as she and Erica looked at Alicia, who was blushing furiously.
"I did very well at the school track and field events," Alicia admitted sheepishly. She pouted, "I don't even know how to play most of the games they want to recruit me for!"
"Well," Erica took pity on her, "I'm sure you could find a low impact club to join." She touched the tabletop and called up the school directories, then looked up school clubs as she muttered, "Let's see... LARP club?"
"Live Action Role Playing?" Subaru looked skeptical, "That's too much like our real life."
"Point," Catrine conceded as she scrolled down the list, "manga and anime society?"
"Pass," Alicia sighed, "I don't get most of the jokes."
"SOS Brigade?"
"Full of weirdoes," Subaru vetoed that.
"Society for Indoor Kinetic Activity?" Erica puzzled over the name, "Genshiken?"
"Nah. The club president is a real freak," Alicia noted, having met the odd man.
"Well, I;m sure we can find you something," Catrine said after a moment. Indeed after searching a bit they decided the Literary Club might be the best option...
To be continued...
Notes: Tsukuyomi is from Negima, which is arguably part of the same universe as Love Hina. Still working on how to fit it in my timeline of course. Chikane and Himiko are from my one shot Eternal.
Series: MGL Nanoha
Type: Continuation
Links: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5852331/10/
Chapter Ten
"Okay, it wasn't as bad as I expected," Subaru conceded as they sat in the hot springs, both luxurating in the soothing heat.
The Hinata Dorms were a odd combination of historic site and pilgrimage site, more or less. It started as a Inn back in the 1900's, then converted to a girl's dorm. During the turn of the century into the 21st it gained several prominent residents, including Lady Mercury and Mars, as well as the legendary Bara no Senshi, soldier of roses.
As the world slowly slid into global war it became a sort of... stronghold in the region. Several powerful residents shielded people both from the corporate forces and the madness of the Beast Evolution. Even when the social order completely failed, the people here fought to keep the locals safe.
"See?" Alicia smiled, "I rather like it here."
"Well, you have to admit the place has a reputation," Subaru said defensively. She sat back, enjoying the bubbles, "I mean, it's supposed to be haunted. Not to mention the cursed sword and the blood thirsty demon trapped in a shrine."
"I've met the demon," Alicia admitted, looking sheepish. "I thought it was a myth, inspired by Ryoko, but there actually is one."
"Seriously?" Subaru looked at her in surprise.
"Yeah, though she's... not what you'd expect," Alicia noted.
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
The Hina shrine had been demolished and rebuilt several times over the centuries. The current shrine had been built with rubble recovered from the original as well as other shrines in the region, for various reasons. The place also sat on several powerful ley lines, which generated powerful mystic forces. The young woman who watched the shrine was a descendent of a powerful Shinto priest family, and was a surprisingly earthy woman.
Ayaka Misaki had light brown hair and warm smile. She was also rather embarrassed by her impressive bust, apparently another inheritance from her great grandmother. Dressed in the traditional red and white of a shrine maiden, she was quite striking. "Thank you for visiting our shrine, Miss Testarossa," she smiled.
"You know who I am?" Alicia asked, slightly surprised.
"We're a fairly small community here, really," Ayaka explained mildly, "the presence of new arrivals tends to spread fast."
"I guess that makes sense," Alicia conceded. She walked beside the older woman as she said, "I heard a rumour at the Inn, uhm..."
"The demon," Ayaka nodded understandingly. "Don't worry, she is firmly under control," she reassured her.
"There really is one here?" Alicia asked.
"Would you like to meet her?" Ayaka asked. Not waiting for a answer she called, "Tsukuyomi!"
"Coming!" a woman's voice called. In moments a young woman dressed in western clothes hurried up. She was wearing a skirt that was very ruffly and overdone, a cutsey blouse and a big floppy hat. That, coupled with the ribbons tied onto everything including her hair, gave her a very odd aura of forced adorableness.
That 'cute' impression lasted right until Alicia looked into the girl's odd, inhuman eyes. The irises of her eyes were white, the eyeballs black, giving a deeply creepy feeling. Worse was the dangerous intensity in them, the feeling that this girl would and could kill you, if she wanted to give into a impulse.
"Don't mind her," Ayaka said as she calmly batted the girl on her head.
"Ow!" Tsukuyomi winced, and her eyes seemed to revert to normal. "Don't be so mean, Misaki-sama!" she protested.
"This is Tsukuyomi," Ayaka introduced her, "she was a human swordswoman until she took up the cursed blade Hina and merged with it's evil. After she was defeated a kindly wizard named Springfield bound her to the shrine to make up for her evil deeds."
"I didn't do anything THAT bad," Tsukuyomi batted her eyes sweetly.
Ayaka snorted. "Don't let her trick you," she said dryly, "this woman was a murderer. Part of why she was bound here in the first place was to make up for what she's done."
Tsukuyomi pouted as she complained, "And I've defended the shrine multiple times. So why do I have to do menial labor too?"
"You don't work, you don't eat," Ayaka told her with a sly smile.
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
Subaru blinked a few times. "You're kidding me," she said, adjusting the towel that covered her breasts as they lounged in the spring. That that she would have minded doing this naked, but local customs said you had to stay covered. Besides, she wasn't entirely sure how Alicia would react to her being nude. Her mentor seemed quite worldly at times, yet her eductation off world had some very interesting holes in it.
"Nope," Alicia shrugged, the more petite girl smiling faintly. "She's bound to the shrine for a time equal to the number of people she killed." She shuddered faintly, "Which from what I understand pretty much equals forever."
"And you wonder why I worry about you living here?" Subaru asked wryly. "Is there anything else I should be asking about?"
"There's the perverted ghost, but I don't think it attacks girls smaller than a 'C' cup," Alicia noted cheerfully.
"Oh joy," Subaru sighed.
Before she could press Alicia about it two attractive slightly older women emerged from the chaging room, both dressed in just long towels like they were. The taller had long black hair and a serious manner, while the strawberry blonde was quite cheerful.
"Alicia-chan," the cheery woman cried.
"Hello Himeko, Chikane," Alicia smiled back at them. She looked at Subaru, "This is Chikane Kisaragi and Himiko Arashi, they're..."
"I've heard of Ms. Kisaragi," Subaru said respectfully. "You're the archeologist who discovered the temple on the moon."
"More like stumbled over," Chikane said modestly as she settled into the water smoothly. "It wasn't even what we were really looking for."
"Temple?" Alicia asked, not having been around when the news broke.
Himiko beamed proudly as she said, "Chikane and her team discovered a fully preserved Shinto Shrine on the Moon, one that dates back to the earliest shrines on Earth."
Subaru curiously asked, "I thought earlier reports said it predated Earth Shinto?"
"We finally managed to carbon date some of the material," Chikane said, "apparently the shrine dates back to roughly when the first shrines appeared on earth. We're still trying to determine why and how, though."
Listening to her Alicia got the oddest feeling she wasn't telling the whole truth. Still, it wasn't any of her business, anyway. "So did you come back from the Moon recently?" she asked.
Himiko made a face, "Yeah. I'm the administrator of Luna City, so this is a vacation to me, pretty much. Poor Chikane has to appeal for more funding for her dig."
Subaru bliunked, "Even after what you discovered...?"
Chikane shrugged wryly, "Burecrats. I didn't find what I was supposed to, so they're questioning if I should get more funding." She smiled, "Oh well, I could use a few weeks on Earth."
The four women talked a while longer until Alicia and Subaru decided they had soaked enough, then the two younger excused themselves. As they went back to Alicia's room they talked to other residents, Alicia being her usual reserved but friendly self.
'I wonder if Alicia realizes how many of them were flirting with her?' Subaru had to wonder later as she headed home.
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School was a very odd combination of pleasant and irritating for Alicia. On one hand, because of her education in Mid-style magic she had a very advanced knowledge of maths and science, so that was easy. On the other hand she had no experience in Earth's history or society, so she struggled with a lot of more cultural areas in school.
Cooking, why cooking! No one cooked any more. Well, okay, she knw people who did, but still... And why were they studying literature from over a thousand years ago? How exactly was any of it applicable to life in the modern era?
Even more annoying was the club requirement. Students were urged to join a after school club, in order to increase their socialization. It wasn't manditory, exactly, but the teachers put a lot of social pressure on students to join up. Annoyingly, her friend Erica just totally ignored it.
"You shouldn't let them get to you," Erica noted as they gathered for lunch. The cafeteria was enormous, sitting over 2000 people, and was getting near capacity. Luckily they were able to grab a table early, or they'd have to share.
"Easy for you to say," Subaru noted with a wry smile, "you're too famous for the teachers to bully. Or the students too."
Erica frowned as she asked, "They aren't actually bullying you, are they?"
"Nothing that bad," Alicia conceded, "pressuring, maybe."
"I'm lucky I'm a Hard Suit cadet, it's not a problem for me," Catrine admitted. She smiled impishly at Alicia, "I suppose it doesn't help that the sports clubs are all after you?"
"Oh ho," Subaru noted as she and Erica looked at Alicia, who was blushing furiously.
"I did very well at the school track and field events," Alicia admitted sheepishly. She pouted, "I don't even know how to play most of the games they want to recruit me for!"
"Well," Erica took pity on her, "I'm sure you could find a low impact club to join." She touched the tabletop and called up the school directories, then looked up school clubs as she muttered, "Let's see... LARP club?"
"Live Action Role Playing?" Subaru looked skeptical, "That's too much like our real life."
"Point," Catrine conceded as she scrolled down the list, "manga and anime society?"
"Pass," Alicia sighed, "I don't get most of the jokes."
"SOS Brigade?"
"Full of weirdoes," Subaru vetoed that.
"Society for Indoor Kinetic Activity?" Erica puzzled over the name, "Genshiken?"
"Nah. The club president is a real freak," Alicia noted, having met the odd man.
"Well, I;m sure we can find you something," Catrine said after a moment. Indeed after searching a bit they decided the Literary Club might be the best option...
To be continued...
Notes: Tsukuyomi is from Negima, which is arguably part of the same universe as Love Hina. Still working on how to fit it in my timeline of course. Chikane and Himiko are from my one shot Eternal.