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Now that that's out the way, hello! So I had this idea floating around in my head for a while and figured I'd try and put it on here. First time I've written anything remotely like this, so imma wing it and see how it goes!

GLOSSARY

"Hi." - Halkegnian language (going to assume it's French)

"Hi." - Thoughts in Halkegnian language

'Hi.' - Kanto language (going to assume it's Japanese)

'Hi.' - Thoughts in Kanto language

'Hi.' - Spell/Pokémon move

-Chapter Start-

"Are we seriously going to let her try!?"

"There'll just be another explosion, it's a waste of time!"

"They should just send her home and have someone else who can actually use magic take her place!"

Professor Colbert sighed and coughed to get his students attention. "I expect this kind of disrespect and rowdiness from uncouth commoners, not nobility such as yourselves," he said without raising his voice. "We made him angry," was the collective thought of the class, and quieted down from the shame of being compared in such a manner. "Ms. Vallière, would you kindly perform your summoning spell?"

Louise nodded, not trusting her voice and stepped out into the clearing. After wiping the sweat from her palms on her skirt, she cleared her throat and drew her wand. "My servant that existed somewhere in this vast universe, my divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call, I wish from very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear!"

As the wind picked up and the smoke cleared from yet another explosion, Louise found herself standing in front of a large mound of mud, rocks and vegetation. After a few moments of stunned silence, the Courtyard burst into commotion. "That's more amazing than Flame!?" Kirche asked, clutching her sides as she roared with laughter. "She's summoned nothing - true to her name!"

As Louise stared blankly ahead, Professor Colbert walked up to her. "It may be that you've summoned your familiar and it's immediate surroundings. Why don't you get a little closer and try calling out to it?" he asked gently, nudging her towards her summon. Louise nodded dumbly and started walking forwards. Hesitant to touch the dirt, she called out out to the debris before her. "Familiar! I demand you come out at once!" After waiting a few seconds for a response, she called out again, desperation creeping into her voice. "Familiar, show yourself!"

Suddenly a pair of arms shot of the rubble, and after flexing their hands a few times, started trying to find purchase on the rubble. Startled, Louise stumbled back as her classmates fell silent, wondering not what, but who she had summoned. After the arms had found a solid hold they tensed and pulled, causing a teenager who only looked a year or two older than her to emerge, battered and bruised. After looking around bewildered, he pinched his cheeks several times before sighing and rubbing them gingerly. 'What the hell was in that explosion? I'm either in a coma or I'm in a completely new region - I don't recognise any of the Pokèmon at all!'

'I swear to Arceus, I'll murder the bastards,' he hissed in pain as he wormed his way out of the rubble. After freeing his feet and pulling his rucksack from the rubble, he slowly started to make his way down towards Louise, muttering all manner of colourful insults and promises of painful recompense under his breath. Louise looked in horror as she realised she had not only summoned a commoner, but one that couldn't even speak their language!

The courtyard was filled with jeers and laughter as they came to same conclusion. Panicking, Louise turned round to face Professor Colbert. "Professor, please let me try the summoning spell again!" she begged, not wanting the shame of a peasant for a familiar. "I'm sorry Ms. Vallière," he replied, shaking his head. "It would be blasphemous to allow you to try again. You must complete the ritual with the ... boy before you," he said, wincing as said boy cried out in surprise as he missed his footing and tumbled down the rubble, landing in a heap at the bottom.

Louise turned back and eyed the boy before her. Although it was hard to see under all the grime, mud and blood, he had similar colour skin to Kirche. His black hair was trying to escape through the holes in his thick woollen hat and as far as commoners went wasn't terribly bad looking either, even with the short beard he was sporting.

'Ahh shit that hurts. Still there?' he asked his shadow quietly, smirking as it moved slightly in response. 'Good, be on guard,' he responded as his brown eyes focused on girl who was approaching him. 'Sounds familiar to the dialect from the Kalos region, let's see if this'll work.' He grimaced in pain as he sat up to address her. "I don't suppose you could tell me where I am?" he asked tentatively, licking his lips as he looked nervously around the courtyard.

"Y-You can speak?" asked Louise tentatively as she approached him. "Yeah, you can hear the words coming out of my mouth, can't you?" he asked as he cricked his neck and let out a sigh. She stormed up to him, angry at his apparent lack of etiquette and his slight of her intelligence. "Stupid commoner, why didn't speak properly in the first place!?" Letting out a frustrated sigh, she knelt down in front of him and put both her hands on his face. "I can't believe this is my divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant ... he's none of these things!"

"Be grateful for this commoner," she muttered as a blush crept onto her face. "Pentagon of the Five Elemental Powers, grant your blessings upon this creature and bind it as my familiar" she announced as she closed her eyes and leant in to kiss him. Before she could complete the ritual however, she felt her arms being knocked aside and a hand on her forehead shoving her backwards. "What the hell do you think you're doing!?" he asked angrily as he struggled to stand up. "Shut up!" she screamed as she righted herself. "How dare you touch a noble! you have the privilege of becoming my familiar, be grateful commoner!"

The boy paused in his efforts, breathing heavily as he looked up at her with a pained expression. "Familiar? A little bit of information here would be nice," he said as he started rummaging around in his bag. Before Louise could reply, Professor Colbert cleared his throat and approached the two. "Allow me to explain, Mr. ...?" he trailed off, gesturing towards the boy. "The name's ORANGE," he replied coolly as he eyed the Professor warily. "And you?"

"Professor Colbert, Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière," he replied pointing to himself and Louise as he stated their names. ORANGE nodded in response and motioned for the Professor to continue. "You are currently in the the country of Halkeginia, and have been called upon by Ms. Vallière via The Summoning Ritual to be her familiar." ORANGE frowned as he put his hand up. "Do you have a map I can look at please? 'I'm afraid I don't recognise the name of the country."

Colbert looked sheepish as ORANGE scowled at the cries of disbelief and comments of his dwellings as he pulled out a map before him. ORANGE cautiously picked up the map and studied it intently for a few moments before looking back at Colbert. "This looks completely different to the land I know," he said as he pulled out his own map and laid it out in front of them for comparison. 'Fascinating, imagine the knowledge this young man possesses!' His eyes soaked up the map the boy had laid out before him, noting all the annotations, drawings and icons on the map.

"What is this Summoning Ritual?" ORANGE asked quietly, resting his head in this hands. "It is a sacred magical ritual since the times of Brimir, and it is where a creature - or in Ms. Vallières' case, a person - most suited for the mage is pulled from their current residence and upon completion of the ritual, are bound by magic for life." ORANGE's head swiftly rose from its resting place, his face in disbelief. "Magic!? You gotta be kidding me," he said flatly.

Colbert's face mirrored that of ORANGE, and with a small wave of his staff, summoned a fireball in front of him. "Yes, Mr. ORANGE, magic. We have five elements; earth, air, fire, water and void. However, void is deemed a lost branch of magic and is barely practised - if at all." He said nothing, nodding vaguely to the explanation that had been given to him. The sheen of sweat that he felt on forehead proved to him that the fireball was very real. 'If there were any Pokèmon behind that TAGSIE would've reacted and I'm damn well sure I can spot a trick or two ...'

"Okay," he said under his breath. "I'll accept your magic," he said as Colbert dismissed the fireball. "So what's your speciality, Ms. Vallière? Seeing as you summoned me in the midst of a landslide, I'm gonna take a swing at earth?" "No," said Louise in a small voice. "Oh? Then what branch do you specialise in?" "I don't," she replied curtly, looking away and balling her fists up. Swede titled his head, confused. "How did you summon me then?" "I don't know," she replied through gritted teeth. He frowned, "how can you not know? Do they not teach you any theory behind the magic? or is it th- "I DON'T KNOW!" she screamed at him, throwing her wand at his face causing him to flinch. "Every time I try to cast a spell, I just get explosions! I was hoping for a dragon, manticore, I'd even settle for a mundane house pet, but instead I get a commoner and a pile of mud! I truly am a Zero," she said bitterly, tears forming in her eyes.

ORANGE examined the wand as she calmed herself down. "Show me," he said quietly as he looked up at Louise, pointed the handle-end towards her. "What?" Louise sniffled as she wiped away her tears. "I want to see your magic." She quickly wiped her cheeks as she accepted her wand back. She cleared her throat and aimed for an empty area of the courtyard. She gave her wand a small flourish as she shouted the spell Fireball. Immediately afterwards the ground shook slightly as a large explosion occurred, leading to smoke filling the area and a crater as a reward for her efforts. Louise's head lowered, her hair covering her eyes as she trembled with anger as jeers and taunts from her classmates reached her ears.

"Amazing," ORANGE whispered to himself. "That's ... Incredible," he said to Louise, looking dumbfounded. "And they call you a failure for that!?" he exclaimed as he pointed to the crater. Louise stared at him, wondering if he had lost all traces of his sanity. "I can't do a simple fireball spell, how is that amazing?" she growled at him. "A mage has their speciality, right? Sure, yours won't be as fancy as someone who can manipulate the elements, but let me tell you this; when it comes down to a fight all you have to do is point, say a word and your opponent will cease to exist," he said, making the accompanying gesture of someone vanishing in a puff of smoke with his hands. "I see that as a much more powerful tool than a simple fireball, especially if it's raining," he smirked at the look on Louise's face. She looked back down at her wand as she thumbed the handle. "Can I really think of it like that?"

"Now that that's out the way, why do you keep referring to me as a 'commoner?'" "A commoner is someone who can't perform any magic - someone like you," she said distractedly, gesturing in his general direction whilst looking at her wand. "And that's the only reason?" he asked, eyebrows raised. "Yes, why?" "I ... was a former Champion. In fact, I was a Champion across several regions for a few years," he said, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. Loiuse looked up at him, hopeful. "A Champion? Were you a knight? soldier?" "Hmmm, not quite," he said squinting as he scratched his beard. "But I am far from common as you and your peers seem to keep suggesting."

ORANGE sighed as he looked back at Colbert. "If a summons refuses to complete the ritual with the summoner, what then? Do you 'persuade' them to do so?" Colbert looked uncomfortable at the question and didn't respond immediately, taking a few moments to compose his answer. "It is the summoner's duty - and the teacher's obligation to help - complete the ritual. If they fail, the summoner is expelled from the Academy." "Would you condemn me to a life of servitude, knowing that I have friends and family just so you don't get expelled?" he asked as he stared intently at her.

Louise flinched and looked away. "No, I can't," she said after a short while, raising her head to meet his gaze. "But I can't get expelled either ... what would you have me do?" she asked him desperately. ORANGE held his gaze and studied Louise before reaching back into his bag. "Professor Colbert, I would like to propose something that would be mutually beneficial for the three of us," he announced as he pulled out strange looking ball; it was the size of a large orange, but had two hemispheres of red and grey colour with a black band bisecting the two and button in the middle. "However, I need a second opinion before I suggest it. EDDIE, your council is required mate," he said to the ball as he depressed button. Suddenly, the ball opened and a red light shot out before taking shape.

As the light took up a shape next to ORANGE and faded away, the temperature of the courtyard shot up. It revealed a large draconian-looking creature, with orange skin, a creamy underbelly that travelled from the bottom of the neck to the end of it's tail and teal undersides of it's large wings. A large flame was burning at the tip of it's tail as it swung it round in front of ORANGE, seemingly sheltering him from the people in front on him after taking note of his injuries. It growled threateningly as it spotted Colbert with his staff raised, spreading his wings and glaring at him. "This guy here is EDDIE, my oldest friend," he said happily as he patted the tail in front of him. EDDIE reluctantly moved his tail away as he inspected the rest of the courtyard, his eyes narrowing as he spotted the other summons in the clearing. "Relax Professor, he perfectly safe - unless you attack him, of course."

Louise stared at him, her mouth agape as she raised a shaky hand at the creature before her. "Y-you have a dragon!?" "Dragon?" he asked, looking confused. "He isn't a dragon; he a fire salamander who just so happens to fly. You never seen one before?" "No, that can't be a fire salamander! That's one there!" she exclaimed, pointing at Kirche's summon. Kirche shrunk under the glare of the creature before her and her words died in her throat as Flame quailed and hid behind her legs. "Well, if that's the case mine's more impressive, no?" Louise nodded dumbly as she continued to stare at it.

"EDDIE, meet Louise," he said pointing at the girl before him. EDDIE brought his gaze from the large blue dragon onto Louise, who was now standing to attention and sweating from the heat. His lip curled upwards into what looked like a smirk, exposing the large teeth that laid behind it. "She needs our help, but I need to know - can we trust her?" EDDIE glanced back at ORANGE for a moment before nodding and lowering himself to study Louise. Louise looked nervously into his blue eye before her gaze was broken when EDDIE inhaled, causing her hair to flap wildly about her face. He slowly circled the poor girl, occasionally nudging her with his snout and sniffing her every so often. After inspecting her for what seemed like hours he rose back onto his hind legs, looking back down at his trainer. "Well?" ORANGE asked expectantly, looking up at him "Has she got your golden seal of approval?" EDDIE grinned as he roared, letting loose a stream of fire into the sky.

ORANGE matched his grin as he turned to Louise. "I won't be your familiar. But, I will help you get something so much more rewarding than one. The caveat is you'll have to study under us. We will all push you hard, but you must also be patient, studious and do what we tell you to do without complaint. Endure the training along with the hardships and I promise you, it will be worth it in the end - more so than this magic that you've come to use as a crutch. My name's ORANGE," he smiling as he extended his hand out to Louise. "Do you accept the terms and conditions?" Louise wiped her hands on her skirt before walking up to Orange, still keeping a wary eye on Eddie as he huffed and attempted to looked disinterested. "My name's Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière and I accept your conditions," she said shaking his hand.

"Great! Now, any chance you could take me to a doctor please? I think I've fractured a few bones and I need to name a few of these bruises."

-Chapter End-

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