Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière found herself stirring as a chill wind swept past parts of her body that they simply shouldn't have any business finding themselves brushing up against. Immediately, a sharp and stinging pain raced a little a bit above the back to the head.
She had never paid much attention to the explanations provided on Wave Theory and other nonsense she had been told before, but Louise vaguely remembered that was the part of the mind that was affected with certain types of Song Magic were invoked.
Not that she paid much heed to those claims before. Really.
The pink haired Noble shakily tried to get to her hands and knees. The loud ringing in her ears suddenly began to fade away as she heard a muffled shout before she was suddenly assisted as she got to her feet.
"Louise!" She blinked her pink eyes as she groggily stared. A dirty and bloodied Guiche was holding her a few inches away from her. Covered with dented and partially shattered armor, he was far from the boy she had first met in the Academy.
Louise's first reaction she had was to shove him away from her, but she held her arm as she glanced past him at the rapidly retreating island of Albion.
"...where are they!" With that, her groggy memory clicked into place as she exceeded the grip Guiche had on her shoulders with her own hands. The blond winced as he shook his head. Louise's nails dug into the open spots in his armor to get at his soft flesh.
"They stayed behind." Guiche muttered. Louise's horror began to mount as she pushed away from the Earth Mage as she raced for the back of the ship. On the way, she passed a weeping Siesta as Louise raced around wounded soldiers and frantic sailors, but she didn't have any time to pay attention to them.
"Louise!" Guiche shouted as he nearly knocked her down.
"No! I'm a Void Mage! I can stop it! Let me go!" Louise squirmed and threw fists at the man. Guiche remained stoic as his body jerked beneath the blows.
"They wanted you to live, dammit!" The blond reached up and lightly slapped her out of her hysteria. Louise gaped at the man.
The crowd around them suddenly gasped. Both Louise and Guiche snapped their attention back towards the island as two thick beams of golden light swept up towards the skies high above. Their ship began to shake as a voice comparable to Gods began to sing.
"Presia vaffa jenge/Let us banish them..
Oter siance/From this pristine land.."
From high above their airship, thick storm clouds began to sweep in from the south and east. The ship's engine rattled as intense turbulence began to cause the ship to shake. The double layering of the singer's voice continued to croon.
"Gaya/I never want this to happen again...
Vega zash murufana^re/This painful feeling..."
Several more beams of light began to lash out into the skies above. The ones that were already there and the new ones began to streak back and forth, almost searching for something.
"Diasee bexm/Child of divinity arrive..."
"Get more power to the engines!" The captain of the ship, dressed in fine regalia, shouted as he desperately took hold of the wildly spinning wheel on the airship with three of his men. The ship below Louise groaned as the back end of the ship began spinning to port side.
"Manac "Void"/I shall name thee "Void"..."
The final word seemingly was a signal as their ship shuddered, causing everyone that wasn't holding onto something to collapse to the ground. There were now eight spotlights wildly streaking upwards from the central island of Albion.
"H.m.m.r./Express through song..."
The clouds grew dark as they wildly swirled high above the island.
"Jenge x.y.n. sphaela dest/Destroy those who would hurt this world..."
"No! Don't do it!" Louise shrieked as she tried to leap to her feet.
"Vega cyuie sarla/This solemn song..."
The singer sounded pained now, breathing heavily as the cloud cover above Albion had turned the skies high above it allowed no starlight to come out.
"Inferiare qLYEjyu/My kin...
Inferiare qYEjyu/My love...
Inferiare qEjyu/My beloved...
Li Infel Granme Dia/I will protect you Master Louise!"
Turning it into an endless void of darkness. The pink haired girl and everyone else desperately attempted to stand, but an overwhelming force kept slamming the fallen ones, pinning them to the deck of the ship.
"Presia vaffa jenge/Let us banish them...
Oter siance/From this pristine land...
H.m.m.r./Express through song..."
Louise roared as she clawed onto the railing of the ship, and through a Herculean effort, managed to fight off the intense waves of gravity.
"It isn't worth your life!"
"Exec_"Void"!/Execute "Void"!"
All eight beams of light focused in the dead center of the absolute darkness above Albion as the singer triumphantly concluded their song. The dark hole in the sky was pierced in that single spot. Thousands of golden arrows fell down from the hole towards the island below.
A moment of silence passed as the intense force pinning everyone down faded.
The airship quaked once, and sharply dipped down, sending everyone into a panic as a massive dome of golden light exploded outwards from Albion. Wave after wave of energy buffeted them, sending the ship wildly bouncing.
Louise felt herself lean forwards and nearly flip over the railing she was clutching onto even as her heart shattered. She was saved at the last moment by Guiche, who grasped onto her and flung both of them back with a shout.
Both of the Nobles scrambled to their feet as they came crashing down in the center of the airship. Pained cries went up all around them as several other people attempted to recover even as the airship finally sharply regained flight with another thud.
"Oh Brimir..." Guiche breathed as he gazed back at the island. Even in the darkness of night and the distance between them and the island, Louise could make out several massive fires on the surface of the island.
The sound of a sobbing woman faintly reached Louise ears, but she continued to stare dully at the island.
"Vega cyuie sarla/This solemn song..." Siesta sang in the background through her tears.
A/N: The working title was going to be Exec_Void. The story is a Ar tonelico/Zero no Tsukaima crossover where Louise summons a reyvateil. The story actually officially starts here with Louise's reyvateil loyally overloading herself and blowing the area around her with a Void empowered Song Spell. From there, Tiffania manages to save the reyvateil, which had her broken body guided to the elf by Derflinger. The story would be about the reyvateil wandering through her broken psyche trying to piece her memories back together of how she and Louise met so she can get back to her.
