Hello to anyone reading this, this is Ordinarycomet3. This is my first ever Fanfiction, so I apologize for any errors or mistakes I may make. I'll be doing my best to ensure this is an enjoyable story for anyone reading it. In this story a Character I made up called Hiato Higurashi (I just made that name up) replaces Saito as Louise's familiar, he has extra powers alongside the Gandalfr powers he gets later.
"Dialogue" What a character is thinking to themselves, or emphasized words. "Different language"
Please comment and review. I will release the next chapter as soon as I can. Also I will most likely be covering one episode of FOZ per Chapter, so expect long chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own Familiar of Zero.
Chapter 1: The Summoning
Hiato opened his eyes and looked around. He breathed a sigh of relief that he was still alive and alone. He got up and yawned, stretching his arms in the process. The cave was fairly dark as the fire he had lit the night before was now smouldering embers, but Hiato, even with the small amount of light he had, could see the whole interior with almost no difficulty.
He walked to the entrance, checking to see if anyone was lurking around outside. It was early and the sun was only starting to peek over the horizon. Hiato smiled, he always loved watching the sunrise in the mornings, it was one of the reasons he got up so early. After looking around the entrance and finding no-one around, he walked back inside and made his way to the mirror he had hung on the wall. He looked into the mirror and looked himself up and down in the dim light. He wasn't exactly in the best condition. His brown hair was a mess, like it always is, his light green eyes still had the same look in them as always, the look of someone fighting to survive, but he had dark lines under his eyes. It had been a while since he'd had a good, restful sleep, mostly when he slept, it was a very nervous sleep, he could never completely fall asleep and he was always on edge. He could see the effects it was having on him.
He sighed and turned away; thinking about it wouldn't help his situation at all, he needed to find somewhere where everyone wasn't trying to kill him for what he was. He chuckled Fat chance of that he thought to himself. He lay back down on his make-shift bed. Should get a few more hours of sleep while I can, I've got to keep moving. As he closed his eyes a sudden light appeared. Fearing the worst, Hiato jumped onto his feet and looked around. What he saw surprised him. The light was coming from a strange green shape just a few feet in front of him; Hiato wasn't sure where it had come from, but he could tell no one was in the cave with him. He relaxed and walked towards the light slowly. It had a steady glow, it wasn't fading nor getting brighter, and it also seemed to be stationary. He poked it and pulled his hand back as he did, but all that happened was the area where he had poked seem to wobble. Still unsure if it was a trap, he stuck his right hand into it and just as he was about to pull it out, his hand got stuck. Before he knew it he was being sucked into the strange green light, and despite his best efforts, was dragged inside.
There was a large group of students gathered around outside in one of the court yards of the Tristain Academy of Magic, as well as a bald man holding a staff, he was known as Professor Colbert. All of the students were eager and excited for what was happening today and the group was abuzz with conversation. "I hope I get a Salamander." a student said, "I hope I don't get a mouse like my dad did." Another one said. Everyone was talking about what familiar they would get, except for one pink haired girl, by the name of Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere, or rather her more commonly known name, "Louise the Zero".
"Alright that's enough chatting." Professor Colbert said. The students quieted down and as their names were called stepped forward and performed the summoning ritual. The purpose of this ritual was for the students to summon their familiars, beings with powers similar to their masters, as well as be their companions. As each creature was summoned, the student that summoned it would kiss it, causing a rune to appear somewhere on the familiars body and symbolizing it becoming a familiar. Louise kept her composure at seeing some of the familiars that were being summoned; some summoned great, powerful beasts, whereas others summoned strange, unique familiars. She was determined to not be embarrassed today of all days.
"Has everyone had a turn?" Asked Colbert
"Well, not quiet." Kirche said, glancing at Louise. "Miss Valliere still has her familiar to summon."
"Oh yes! Louise, are you ready?" the professor asked the pink haired girl.
"Y-yes sir." She replied, suddenly very nervous
"Very well then, please perform the ritual."
"Yes sir."
She swallowed and walked into the middle of the crowd, she heard whispers from the crowd, they were speculating what kind of familiar she would summon, and one person even said she probably won't be able to summon one at all.
She took a deep breath. OK Louise you can do this, summon a familiar that will make everyone regret ever mocking your magical ability. She raised her wand, closed her eyes and focused wholly on the summoning spell. "My Familiar that exists somewhere in this universe or another, heed my call. My divine, beautiful, wise and powerful familiar, I summon you!"
She opened her eyes and thrust her wand in front of her. As she did, an explosion erupted from her wand, filling the courtyard with smoke. She felt something strange, she felt pain, sadness and anger all at once, and then it disappeared.
As the dust cleared, Louise's eyes went wide when she saw what she had summoned; all the other students froze in shock when they saw it as well. She had summoned a human, worse than that a commoner, he had messy brown hair and was wearing a white shirt with red buttons and simple trousers, with boots.
Hiato stirred, his vision was blurry and his body felt weird, it had felt as if he had been falling. He blinked to clear his vision and saw there was a blue sky above him. Suddenly he remembered, he was in the cave just a moment ago. He bolted upright, and was quiet surprised at what he saw. Directly in front of him was a pink haired girl surrounded by people. He looked around, where am i? Suddenly he noticed everyone was staring at him, and then he saw a red haired girl walk out the crowd and say something in a language he didn't recognise.
"This is more than what I expected from you after all that boasting you did yesterday." Kirche said mockingly. "To think you actually summoned up a peasant, I'm surprised you even summoned anything." All the students burst into laughter at this, and Louise felt her face go red.
"Well I have to say, this is a first, and I've never seen someone summon a human as a familiar before." Colbert said, trying to make it sound like an achievement, Louise however, thought the opposite.
"Professor, C-can I try the summoning spell again?" Louise asked, desperate to avoid having a commoner as her familiar.
"No, I'm afraid not, this is the most sacred spell that a mage can perform, it changes their whole life. You cannot try again, that would be blasphemy to the ritual. Like it or not, that boy is your familiar." Colbert said in a tone that offered no room for arguing.
"Fine..." Louise said, annoyed and upset.
"Now finish the ritual." Colbert said. Louise walked up to Hiato, who hadn't understood a single word that had been said this whole time. "What's going on here?" he asked, but he didn't know if anyone answered him, if he couldn't understand them, they probably couldn't understand him. The pink haired girl walked up to him, and started speaking again. "Oh pentagon of the five powers, bless this individual and make him my familiar." She lowered herself onto her knees and put her hand behind his head and started to pull it closer to her. Hiato wasn't sure how to react and suddenly her lips met his. His eyes went wide in shock. What the hell? Now some random girl is kissing me? Louise pulled out the kiss and stood up, suddenly Hiato's body got really hot, and his right hand started to hurt, he grabbed his right hand as a strange mark was burned into it. Now what's going on? He thought to himself, suddenly the feeling disappeared, and Hiato passed out.
Hiato woke up, feeling groggy for the first time in a few years. He yawned and stretched his arms. Damn that was a good sleep, haven't slept like that in... Suddenly he remembered everything that had happened, the strange people, the girl kissing him, the burning feeling, was it a dream? He shot upright and looked around; he was in a room he didn't recognise. No, this isn't a dream he told himself. Well I guess that means wherever I am, the people here aren't trying to kill me... yet. He then noticed the Pink haired girl from earlier standing next to him, he looked up at her. He could immediately tell from her face that she was angry. Uh-oh. He said to himself, he slowly stood up.
Louise was furious. Why!? Why a commoner, of ALL the things I could have summoned, I just HAD to summon a commoner! Why couldn't I at least have gotten something useful?! She was screaming inside her head, and she walked to her cupboard.
"Where am i? Why am I here? How did I get here?" Hiato asked, but Louise did not understand any of them, she just heard gibberish coming from Hiato's mouth.
"He's so noisy! Can't he just shut up?" she sighed. "Wait I know, I'll use the silence spell!" she turned around and pointed her wand at Hiato, who stopped talking. "Ansur Ver ang" Suddenly Hiato felt like someone had just punched him square in the face really hard; he was blasted backwards into the wall.
"OW." Hiato yelled. "What was that for?"
"I wasn't meaning to- wait, I understood that!" Louise said to him.
"You did?" Hiato asked. Suddenly he could also understand Louise. At least now I can figure out where I am. Louise nodded. "You, what's your name?" she asked. Hiato felt relieved and nervous at the same time. She doesn't recognise me, so where ever I am obviously people don't know about me, but what if they just know my name? Ah who cares, I'll tell her anyway, I can just make a break for it if she recognises my name. He stood up and looked at Louise. "My name is Hiato Higurashi." He said. "Higurashi Hiato?" Louise repeated, sounding confused. Phew, she doesn't recognise my name "anyway, why am I here?" Hiato asked
"Well that's simple, I summoned you to be my familiar."
"Familiar?" Hiato asked, confused.
She sighed "I guess I'll have to explain it to you."
Deep in the academy libraries, Professor Colbert was flicking through pages of books, looking for a page of information he remembered about the strange rune that Louise's familiar had gained when she had completed the summoning ritual; he needed to know what it was. He finally found what he was looking for. "But that's impossible" he said, reading the text. "I'll have to inform the Headmaster of this at once."
There you have it, my first ever chapter of fan fiction, sorry if it's a bit long, not sure how long till I can put the next chapter up. Thanks for reading!
