Denied Shadow

Chapter 1: Intro

By: Supa Oahu

Disclaimer: I own nothing relating to The Boondocks and The Familiar of Zero. All characters are property of their respective creators.

It was a wonderfully normal summer afternoon in Woodcrest, specifically the home of the Freeman family. Robert "Granddad" Freeman was in the process of enjoying a rather well-earned platter of chitlins and browsing Facebook for some gorgeous young woman to go on a date with while his grandchildren, Huey and Riley...

"Dammit nigga, I thought I told ya usin' that Chinese shit was cheatin'!" Shouted a boy with great annoyance.

"Having some form of discipline and skill isn't cheating, dumbass." Came a more calm and collected voice.

...had found themselves wrapped up in another one of their fights. In short, a normal day. Though the fight had taken a turn for the chaotic with the inclusion of bladed weaponry and illegally modified, high-powered airsoft guns. The eldest had taken cover behind a roughed up brown leather sofa while the younger had taken shelter behind the tan and white island table in the kitchen. Both boys were ready for the fight to resume once again. From his spot, Huey exhaled slowly and shifted his weight to his right foot, the action causing his rather bodacious dark brown afro to sway lightly. Eyes which held the same shade as the hair narrowed as the black child readied himself to put an end to the shenanigans his brother had instigated once more.

Oh, my sacred and powerful familiar who lives out in this vast universe.

"The hell?" a look of confusion appeared on the Huey's face as he nearly dropped his weapons in shock.

"Nigga this ain't no time to be spacing out!" cried out Riley in protest. The boy looking like the elder with the exception of his height being miniscule when compared to Huey and his hair being styled into cornrows.

Heed my call and serve me.

Riley was quickly disarmed by a well aimed blunted kunai to his hand, Huey held another one at the ready. Having caught the intended message the other boy relented from attempting anything else.

"Did you hear a girl's voice just now?"

"Hell no. You're just crazy."

"I'm serious. She sounds desperate."

A void of swirling darkness appeared between the brothers. Riley backed away with the quickness while Huey had found himself strangely drawn to the anomaly, the voice of the girl acted as a siren's song that reached its full strength as a final sentence resounded powerfully in his head.

I beg of you...come to me!

No longer hesitant, Huey stepped into the void, the portal snapping shut as quickly as it appeared once the boy was through.

Being the only witness to what had transpired, Riley gaped for a few moments before shouting with a voice loud enough for the entire block to hear. "GRANDAD, HUEY DONE GOT KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS AN' SHIT!"

While Riley and their grandfather began to panic over what exactly happened to Huey, the boy in question had found himself sprawled out on what he thought was a grassy field covered in a cloud of smoke. Immediately his mind went straight to himself being placed in a burning field but that thought was quickly squashed as he took a whiff of the air and didn't catch the scent of anything burning. Satisfied that he didn't catch a waft of charring ground or flesh coupled with the screams of the terrified or dying, the boy proceeded to question just what sort of situation he found himself wrapped up in. The child remained completely wrapped up with his thoughts that he didn't notice the smoke begin to thin and the crowd of young teens that looked like they were from various European descent staring at him as if we was the oddest thing which they ever seen. Which wouldn't have been too far from the truth.

His focus was broken as he heard the crowd before him speaking in a odd chorus of hushed tones and overly surprised chatter. Taking note of the crowd, Huey crossed his arms as he listened to everyone speaking towards him, though his attention was quickly drawn to a highly animated girl with pink hair and green eyes pointing at him while a rather confused man with a balding brown hair and cloak was attempting to figure out just what had transpired himself. With an unamused snort, Huey closed his eyes and began listening to everyone speak around him, his ears picking up that their language was closely associated with French with some hints of Cajun. He kept his attention focused on the speaking as he attempted to quickly piece together all he could before he would even start to converse with the girl or the authoritative man standing a bit behind her. Within a few moments he had decided that he had figured out enough to actually talk with the crowd.

The boy wasn't too amused at the various insults and other derisive comments which flowed from the mouths of some of the teenagers around him. The worst one he felt had come from a overly foppish boy with blonde hair and a ruffled white shirt and blue slacks. Huey felt as though the standard of silencing detractors would best be done in the most direct way.

"I can't believe it! The Zero summoned a commoner. A goofy looking runt at that!" the boy said with barely contained arrogance. "His hair looks dopey and that blank look on his face, he's probably a retard that Louise paid off."

The boy looked completely and utterly unamused as he simply tilted his head. "Well the phrase 'takes one to know one' should apply to you since you seem so sure of yourself." the blonde boy looked shocked as Huey continued. "Though I believe equating you to a person with lesser mental faculties than myself as an insult towards them."

Insulting the insulter in question in their own tongue served to silence them, though it didn't last too long as laughter rang out due to the child's barbed words.

"Wow, the kid has a sharp tongue." Giggled a busty, brown-skinned girl with long red hair and brown eyes. She was dressed in the same as the pink haired girl and the various other girls around them, with the exception that her shirt was opened up to reveal a decent amount of cleavage or allow the girl to breath easier.

The boy couldn't be too sure about which was the reason.

"Ms. Vallière, you'll need to finish the contract."

"Can't I just redo the summoning, Mr. Colbert?" the pink haired girl asked.

"No, no you can't. He's what you summoned so you'll have to face the facts. It's either you complete the ceremony or it gets listed as another failure amongst all your other ones."

It wasn't lost on Huey as he watched the girl stiffen that whatever he got dragged into was of great importance to Vallière. He quirked an eyebrow and crossed his arms as the girl turned around with her brows furrowed in frustration before she became immediately haughty and pointed a small wand he hadn't noticed directly at him.

"My name is Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière. Pentagon that governs the five powers, give this person your blessing and make it my familiar spirit."

Their lips connected. Highly embarrassed, the child immediately stepped back from the girl he now knew as Louise of the overly long name while putting up his hand to his own lips. Nobody, save Jazmine with her bubbly nature, kissed him. Before he could even respond towards what was dealt out towards him, Huey flinched and held out his left hand, looking upon it as a series of silver symbols began to transcribe themselves upon the back of it.

"Excuse me...hmm strange, I haven't seen anything like this before..."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Your runes, they don't match anything which is recorded in our records."

"And you can tell this by a quick glance at my hand?"

"I would hope so, I've been in charge of the Familiar Ceremony and I've noticed a recurring patterns in the names of familiars that have appeared here."

"So you people make a habit out of snatching up confused black children?"

"Yes, I mean no. No, you're the first...black child...commoner we've come across. Ever."

"Look can you just give me a rundown of what in the world has exactly happened to me here?"

Colbert nodded his head and began to explain the Familiar Summoning Ceremony to Huey and a little bit as to why it was unorthodox for him to even be brought forth as a familiar. As he listened to the information being given to him, the boy could only frown more and more as it became clear that he would be stuck wherever it is that he had found himself in for quite some time.

After being left to their own devices, Huey and Louise had started to become acquainted with one another, or in the case of Louise declare her own superiority while the boy did nothing more but ignore her like every other overly arrogant person he had the displeasure to meet. From what he could tell after spending no more than several hours with the pink-haired girl was that she was ridiculously proud and that common decency towards another human was quite lost to her. This came about mostly due to her constantly calling him a commoner rather than his name, which in itself was rather annoying but apparently the phrases of 'nigga' and 'nigger' were lost to her culture so he figured being called a person of lower social status was a slight step up. Thus their interactions with one another continued this way until the had returned to the girl's room to turn in for the night and the boy saw just what sleeping arrangements Louise had made for him. A small pile of straw. Annoyed and rightfully indignant, Huey left the Louise's room, both of him and the girl trading a variety of insults before he slammed the door shut behind him.

Thus for a better part of an hour Huey had found himself walking the halls of the school taking in everything for later review. Passing by a small corridor he paused to look at the same blonde boy he had insulted earlier in the day flirting with some brunette with a brown cloak draped across her shoulders. The familiar snorted slightly, causing the fop to stop his advances and turn to glare at him. Remaining unfazed, the child tucked his hands into his pockets and strolled away until he had found himself outside of the interior of the castle and out onto the grounds. Noticing the shadows on the ground, Huey looked up into the sky expecting to see a full moon but twin moons of differing colors was what greeted his existing belief. He had seen his fare share of oddities back in Woodcrest, the view of the pink and blue moons caused him to actually stop and stare in wonder at the sight. Rarely was he so whelmed at a sight that he didn't notice a the door opening and closing behind him.

"Ah, can I help you?" a soft voice called out.

"Just lost is all." he said before turning around to see an older girl carrying a basket filled with laundry. The girl was dressed in a old fashioned, at least in the standards of Huey, maid uniform. She had black hair which stopped just a near the middle of her neck and blue eyes.

"Are you a new servant here?"

"Do I even look like I'm from anywhere remotely close to here?" he asked with his trademark sour expression.

"You're the...I'm so sorry, I just thought it was a rumor."

"Unfortunately for myself it's looking like it isn't."

The maid tilted her head. "You seem to be taking this in stride."

"Freaking out isn't going to do much for me."

"That's quite mature of you."

"If you'd like I can give you something to sleep in and clean your clothes you're wearing now."

"I'd appreciate that..."

"Siesta. My name is Siesta."

"Got it. I'm Huey Freeman."

Colbert poured over the tomes as he attempted to find a match towards anything which was recorded since the first ever summoning ceremony of the academy. There was also the fact that nobody even came close to the feat performed by Louise. The renown failure had managed to summon a human being. A strangely dressed one on top of that. The boy's physical looks weren't too much of a stretch for him since he seemed as though he belonged to the family of one of the school's more well known students.

"Scion of Darkness...no that's a more modern translation of these runes." The professor thumbed open another book while looking for the runes and recording their meanings on another piece of parchment. "Old runic...thief...assassin...deity. Shadow of God."

After waking and donning his cleaned and dried clothing, Huey bid farewell to Siesta and began the walk back to the room of the pint-sized hellion he had become acquainted with the previous day. Huey crept into Louise's room stealthily, not wanting to awaken the mage as she slumbered. The boy was glad for the bed and clothing provided to him by Siesta, the older girl seemed a decent enough person. A fact he chalked up to the fact that she didn't have the value of looking down on those deemed lesser than herself like his supposed master and her peers. Sighing the boy plopped down onto the pile of hay which was supposed to serve as he bed the previous night and began to drum his fingers across his knees when he heard the girl begin to wake.

"Where were you last night?" Louise asked as she got out of bed and noticed that she wasn't alone.

"Looking at this place and cementing the fact that I'm really no longer in my own world and more than likely permanently separated from anyone or anything that has value to me." Huey replied in a dry tone.

"...I see but don't try to do that again." Louise said after a somewhat guilty pause and made her way to stand in front boy with her arms out to her side. "Dress me."

"Come again?"

"A noble can't be expected to dress themselves when they have a perfectly capable servant in their presence. Now dress me, familiar."

"First off, I'm a young boy with some semblance of reservation towards seeing an under-dressed girl, even one of your physical build." Louise's face turned a nice shade of red as Huey continued. "I'm sure you have some sense of shame unless you happen to be fond of exposing your assets towards a stranger."

"W-what was that?" The girl screeched as she tried to slap the younger boy.

He lazily blocked the strike, turned around and left the room. The boy didn't pay much attention to the girl as she shouted out various insults and statements relating to her pride as a noble. Huey slid down against the wall and began to digest the information he was able to gain from his late night excursion and discussion with Colbert. His train of thought was thoroughly derailed due to the timely and loud exit of Louise, the girl looking none to pleased at him. Her indignant expression reminded him of one more point that he had wanted to make clear to the girl.

"And one more thing, I won't be sleeping on a bed of straw." He said curtly.

"Don't start making demands of me, you're just a strangely dressed commoner." She retorted.

"I'm not going to allow you to treat me like a damn slave."

"You're a familiar..."

"From how you're speaking I don't see too much of a difference," Huey said as he settled with an unamused glare.

"What's your problem? You talk like you were slave."

"No but I'm the descendent of slaves. I honestly don't feel like stepping back over a hundred years and having to deal with whips and chains, sub-par living conditions, and the possibility of having my foot chopped off for running."

With that one sentence Huey stunned the girl into silence and walked off. Unwilling to concede defeat, the girl quickly strode past Huey and turned aroudn to address him until a group of students discovered the pair and began to whisper to themselves excitedly. He caught some degree of their conversation, mostly due to his presence but what stood out were snide comments towards Louise. The subject matter matching up to everything he had heard some of the students say during the moment it became apparent that he was the pink-haired girl's summoned familiar. Looking at his self-proclaimed master the boy couldn't help but notice how her shoulders began to sag slightly as the jests from the other students reached her ears. Huey knew that Jasmine would have wanted him to console the girl but his irritation towards her at that particular moment stopped him from doing much aside from enjoying the sight.

"Good morning cutey!"

Marshmallow Hell or Heaven, he really didn't know what to feel at that point, greeted him as he heard a muffled playful laugh. Fighting with all of his might, Huey broke free of his captor and whirled around in a hastily put up stance before he saw that the person was none other than the busty red-head from the previous day.

"What's the matter with you?! Don't go around trying to kill my familiar with those over-sized udders." Snapped Louise.

"I wasn't do anything but saying hello to this cutie." The girl leapt at a still shocked Huey and wrapped her arms around the boy. "I feel sorry for you having Zero as your master, sweety."

"Shut up Ardent." Louise grabbed hold of Huey while narrowing her eyes towards the other girl.

"Ardent?" Huey asked.

"That would be my mage name. My real name is Kirche Augusta Frederica von Anhalt Zerbst. Though you can call me anything you want." Kirche said flirtatiously.

"He's a child you hussy!"

"But he looks older than you."

Having noted that Louise was bordering on a hissy fit of epic proportions, Huey quickly placed his hand on the girl's shoulder. Louise wheeled around to how dared to touch her but stopped her tirade as a stone-faced Huey just shook his head while he began to lead her to away from Kirche whom he turned back to see blowing him a kiss. Once more feeling a conflict of thoughts and emotions Huey hurried Louise along all the while shaking his head.

"You honestly need to learn some self-control. It'll do you a lot of good." Huey said with finality.

AN – Things of note before everyone gets on this. No Huey is not Gandalfr nor one of the other two Void Familiars. He's going to be something different. Also unlike all the other crossovers, Saito will be showing up later and will retain the abilities of Gandalfr.

Also before everyone gets up in arms about Huey conversing without too much trouble must remember – the kid is a retired domestic terrorist, kung-fu/martial art prodigy, political activist, and has already demonstrated himself to be wiser/smarter than most adults and having complete mastery of Mandarin. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the kid to know other languages and also pick up on subtle nuances.

Also I do want to do the pairings but I haven't figured out if I want Huey to be monogamous or just harem it up like another underage boss.