Chapter 1: Friends??

Nanoha woke the next morning feeling so tired. She remembered the long briefing she received when she met the dorm head. Zero-kun almost flew out the window after just two minutes of the briefing. She remembered, how she had to hold him with both her hand to stop him from escaping. Two and a half hour later they were finally released from the torturous briefing about school and dorm rules.

Zero-kun keep on scowling at her afterward until the familiar fell asleep on the small basket that was specially customized for his use.

Nanoha slowly stood and wipe her eyes trying to keep the sleepiness away. She looked at the clock on the wall on top of the dashboard, it was only 5 am, but she does not want to be late so she decided to fix her things and check her school supplies to see if she was not missing anything. When she finished, she took a warm bath and got dressed. She woke Zero-kun up after getting dressed and the two headed for the school. Zero-kun was still upset because Nanoha did not let him escape the torturous briefing the other day but he was starting to reply to Nanoha's urges.

"Okay fine, but I swear the next time you keep me while going through something like that hellish briefing again I'm so not gonna talk to you for a month, you hear." Zero-kun scowled as he tried to once more shift his position on the brunettes shoulder.

"Okay, Zero-kun please forgive me. Okay, I won't try to do it again but I was really nervous that if you left I don't know if I could remain sane enough to not pass out while listening to to that till the end."

"Oh, we are so not the listener types are we?" The familiar smirk as he asks.

"Not true. It was just not interesting enough. I'm a good listener you know." The brunette countered.

"So said the girl who accidentally blows up the hair dryer because she wouldn't listen to me read the instruction manual." Zero-kun sarcastically said will trying to hide the smirk that's been forming on his face.

The brunette blushed deeply at this remark.

"Mou, Zero-kun you're not helping at all." The brunette retorted while she looked the other way pouting.

Zero-kun could not help but laugh at the girls pouting face. He never got tired at teasing the girl because the brunette would always give him the reaction his looking for. After a while though Zero-kun stopped and apologized. He knew that the girl is a good listener but sometimes, she'll just act stubborn and that usually end up with something blowing up.

The two reached the classroom where she would take her first course of the day. She entered when she heard the teacher announce her presence. She slowly opens the door and entered. Her head bowed down she meekly introduce herself. The teacher pointed at a chair at the mid of the class near the window. She walked towards the pointed chair and put her bag on the side. When she was settled on the chair the teacher began his lesson. She listened to the teacher intently but then her mind started to stray. She was brought back by Zero-kun telling her to listen or if she's too bored they could try the combat simulation that the two of them had been using to past the time with. When Nanoha gave Zero-kun the okay, Zero-kun mentally activated Raging Heart and told the intelligent device to activate simulation mode. A metallic voice confirmed the request and the two was drown in the simulation instantly. At the outside of the simulation it look like Nanoha was listening and paying close attention to the lecture but inside she was casting protection and some other spell that Zero-kun's been teaching her lately. But after awhile Zero-kun decided to teach her the spells that she was really poor at so that it would be more productive. After awhile of refusing Nanoha finally agreed because she knew that what Zero-kun said was right. Zero-kun was always amaze by Nanoha's ability to cast strong and wide range spells but sometimes he wonder, why the girl always fail the curative individual spell when she could cast a wide area heal spell easily.

Without realizing that the class has ended, she was being flocked by her new classmates asking her about how she was able to enter the academy even though the semester had already started. The only answer she gave them however was that she must have been lucky. When the mystery of her acceptance was over, mostly by her not giving enough details the others started to go do their own thing. Leaving the brunette time to think of what she's going to do next.

All in all she was able to pass the tme with not much incident that day. When the bell rang once more signaling the ending of the day she was slowly fixing her things and putting them away. However when she was about to leave the campus, a girl approached her, telling her to come with her because there was some sort of a welcome party planned for her. She was reluctant at first but Zero-kun told her to go so she decided to go with the girl.

The girl led her to the back of the gym. She was anxious to know how someone could throw a welcome party at the back of the gym none the least she still followed. When they reach the clearing at the back of the gym the girl pushed her on the wall. Out of nowhere other girls came out, they formed a semi-circle around her and started asking her questions.

"You! How did you get a recommendation to enter this school?" One of the girls shouted.

"Are you even strong enough to have a familiar?" Asked another girl.

"Why we're you with Reiko Onee-sama's side yesterday?" Yet another girl asked.

When Nanoha did not answer them, they started pushing her closer to the wall. Not a moment later the other girls were starting to pull on her hair. Then someone pushed her hard causing her to lose her balance. The other saw this as an opportunity and they start kicking her. She immediately crunch in a ball to block the kicks but it was too much. Zero-kun tried to intervene but Nanoha told him to stand down and that it was nothing to worry about. Zero-kun then tried to reason with her but she firmly told him to stand down, all the while keeping him safe from the ongoing assault.

A few minute later she heard someone called out. The attacks suddenly stop and as panic start to hit the attackers they slowly run away toward different direction to avoid being caught in the act of abuse. A little bit later and she felt someone grab a hold of her arms pulling her to a standing position. The girl that helped her has short blonde hair. The girl was staring at her in a mix of pity and anger. Then the girl started shouted at her.

"What the hell is wrong with you!? Are you stupid or something taking those attacks without fighting back? Men! if we didn't happen to past by... You might be hospitalized tomorrow. Why did you not even use a barrier spell stupid!?" The blonde said.

"Shush, Arisa-chan can't you see the girl is hurt. Let's take her to the infirmary first, Okay." The violet haired girl said "Are you okay? Do you feel dizzy?"

"I'm fine. Thank you." The brunette weakly replied.

"What the hell? You are so not fine! You're covered in bruises on your first day and bleeding. How dare you tell us your fine!? Do you thing were blind and stupid?" The blonde shouted toward the brunette.

"Arisa-chan! quite you're frightening the poor girl." The violet haired girl said.

"But Suzuka she's bleeding and bruised all over and she has the nerve to say she's fine." The blonde scowled.

"Okay, enough Arisa-chan and help me take her to the infirmary, she needs help." The violet haired girl then put the brunette's left arm over her shoulder and tried to support the hurt girl as she try to stood up. The blonde then took the right arm over her shoulder and help her friend take the girl to the infirmary.

"You so owe us for this, you know." The blonde retorted.

Nanoha too weak to reply only hummed.

When the three reached the infirmary, the blonde girl slide the door and looked if the appointed school doctor was still in. Hearing the door open the school doctor looked back seeing the three figures come in. When she realize that the girl in the middle needed immediate medical attention, she quickly stood up and pointed the girls who were supporting the poor brunette to a nearby bed. When the two finally put the brunette on the bed the school doctor immediately examined the girl.

"Will she be alright Shamal sensei?" The violet haired girl asked worried that the girl was hit badly.

"Oh come on, Suzuka that girl will be fine after all she had the nerve to say so herself or did you forget already." The blonde girl said putting her arms on her hips.

"Hush, Arisa-chan. Can't you be a little understanding for once? She's hurt you know."

"Fine! but she still owes as for this." The blonde countered while looking at the girl on the bed.

While the two were quarrelling, Zero-kun was talking to Nanoha telepathically asking her what she was thinking to take all the attacks like that and not fight back when she could easily take those girls on.

"Zero-kun, I don't want to hurt anybody and fighting those girls will only attract more attention to me. I just want to pass school in peace." The brunette weakly answered as her injuries took its effects on her mentally and physically.

"What? So just for that you let those weaklings beat you to a pulp. Sometimes I just don't understand what you're thinking you know." Zero-kun's voice replied.

"Fine! Have it your way, but you are so going under my curative spell later. Just to make sure that you can attend tomorrow's class. For now let that doctor look at you and take it easy."

"Thank you Zero-kun. I'll count on you then."

With that the telepathic messaging between the two ended. Just in time for Shamal to finish her examination.

The violet haired girl asked once more as she saw Shamal put away her stethoscope.

"Shamal sensei, will she be alright does she have any broken bone or even internal bleeding." Worry lacing the violet haired girls voice.

"Oh, for the love of god, Suzuka! She only got in a brawl not a car accident, stop making thinking so much more complicated would you." The blonde retorted back to her friend's outburst.

"Miss Bunnings is right. She'll be fine she just got some bruises, she'll be fine if she rest for the rest of the day."

"That girl just transferred and now she's getting bullied on the first day, Man! that girl must have pissed off some people seriously to be bullied on her first day."

"Oh, I see so that's why I've never seen her before. She's the rumored transfer student Nanoha Takamachi." Shamal exclaimed as she look at the laying brunette.

Apparently the girl lost consciousness while being examined.

"Yes Sensei, she is that rumored transfer student." Answered the violet haired girl

"I see, I see, so are you three friends."

The two teen look at each other and seemingly came to a conclusion, answered.

"Not yet, but we hope so, this girl seriously need friends if she wants to stay alive in this academy. Besides we don't plan on always helping strangers. I mean, it's her first day and she almost ended up in the hospital." the blonde retorted.

"What Arisa-chan means, is that we would like her to be our friend, if she wants to or Arisa-chan here would end up being a bodyguard or worst force the poor girl to became our friend for fear of seeing her that bloody again."

"Suzuka! what's that suppose to mean? Huh?"

The violet haired girl just chuckled at the blushing face of her friend. As the two other thought that the blonde girl is such a cute tsundere.

The blonde just pouted some more as the other two chuckled.

~0~

Somewhere on an empty class room, a certain short brown haired girl was musing to herself as she inspects a small black book.

"Nanoha Takamachi eh.. I so have to met her. I wonder what she's like. I wonder if she'll be my frie…" The girls' musing was stop when the door suddenly opened and a pink haired girl called out to her.

"Hayate, hurry up or the student council meeting would be dragged on again." The pink haired girl said looking at her with her stoic face while her eyes tell the other girl that she was not amused at all.

"Okay, Signum. I'll be there in a minute." The brown haired girl called out as she hurriedly gather her belongings.

~0~

Somewhere around the gym the group of attackers has regrouped themselves.

"That bitch is so weak, even her familiar is weak. He doesn't even know how to help her. God! how did that bitch smuggle herself in here." Said a fuming girl.

"Your right and she even has the nerve to involve Arisa and Suzuka onee-sama. God! I'm so gonna make that bitch pay for this." Another girl growled.

Another figure appeared from the shadow. The group of girls we're startled for a minute before they realize that the figure was none other than Silvia.

"So, I see you failed." The figure said.

"We're sorry, Silvia sama but Arisa and Suzuka onee-sama appeared and…."

The girl was stopped in the middle of her speech when Silvia gave her a death glare. The girls cowered on their place as they tried to avoid the death glare.

"You girls disappoint me." And with that the figure left the group of girl.

"That bitch will pay for this now even Silvia sama is disappointed in us." The girl said.

"You'll pay dearly for this Nanoha Takamachi. I swear I'll make your life hell in this academy."