My first attempt at Familiar of Zero. This is going to be either good, bad, or just ok. I'll be real people I don't know how good I'll be with this as well, I am starting out again. Anyway, enough of that let's get on to the story. As you can guess its an AU with a fem Saita. I want to stay in character as much as I can.
Disclaimer: I do not own Familiar of Zero. Rest in Peace Noboru Yamaguchi.
A four-year-old Saita looked at her mother as she talked about her favorite bedtime story. It was about the other worlds that her mother talked about. How there was three Terra, Veil, and another one which she hadn't talked about until now. "Mundus?"
"Yes, an ironic name but it's one given to them nonetheless," She went on about how the world had kingdoms, elves, and other magical creatures which continued to make the name of the land ironic. Then she talked about a man who started out nice but slowly turned down a dark path.
Her mother talked about how he kept making choices without realizing the outcomes. Eventually when he was about to attempt to wipe out the elves one of his followers had enough. "What happened did they stop him?"
"They did although you are a bit too young to know how."
Saita opened her eyes as the dream ended. Well, more of a memory. She didn't know but at the time all those stories were actually true, or at least those about the Veil. Getting out of her bed she looked at today's date. "At least I have no school today."
She got out of bed and walked over to her dresser. On top of it was a few things. Pictures of her family, a pair of bracelets from her grandparents, a choker with a small pendant tied to it, and a green stone with what looked like an orange marble inside it.
For a moment she wondered about dropping by her grandparent's place with it. After all the waygate wasn't that far from where she lived. The idea of dropping by to see them was tempting but it would be the middle of the night for them. 'Plus, I rather not cause a panic.'
Taking the choker and necklace she stood in front of her mirror as she was greeted with yellow eyes staring back at her along with two white horns coming out the sides of her head and wrapping around them before ending at her forehead. 'I still feel stupid for freaking out about them.'
Just before her ninth birthday, she had a sudden pain in her head and back. It lasted for a few days and then suddenly she was greeted with a few additional appendages. Besides the two horns, she also had two wings coming from her lower back each covered in dark grey, almost black, feathers.
It was then that her parents had come clean about what she was and about what her mother was. She was a Cambion a child between a Succubus and a human. As for how she came to be her mother explained it. Apparently, she had been rather rebellious and decided to head to Earth from the Veil longer than she should. All the stories about Yokai, fairies and the like were based on old contacts between the two worlds that started to become rarer with each generation.
That was when she finally got to meet her grandparents who surprisingly enough were happy for both her mother and tried to smother her with gifts. A sigh escaped her mouth. 'Sometimes I wish I didn't have to hide what I am all the time.'
As soon as the choker was in place a light glow covered her has her Cambion nature was suppressed. Her horns wings and tail disappearing while her eyes stayed yellow. Unfortunately, due to rules, she couldn't walk around within her true form while in public.
"Saita are you up honey?" The door opened as her mother entered the room. Like her, she wor the same choker but also had an illusion to hide her appearance. It didn't mode everything though as her eyes were still yellow much like her's. "You're father is downstairs I figured we can all have breakfast together."
"Alright, let me get finished." With that, her mother gave her a nod and walked out. As she finished getting dressed in a blue jacket over her white shirt and a medium skirt with blue shorts underneath. She looked at the stone and bracelets before shrugging her shoulders.
Might as well spend pay her grandparents a visit when she was done. Pocketing the stone she took the silvery bracelets with her. She hadn't given them thanks for them anyway.
This was her last chance. If she failed the familiar summoning then she would be kicked out of the academy. Already everyone else had already summoned their familiars with Tabitha summoning a dragon! Professor Colbert, looked to the students as he tried to see just who hadn't gone.
So far it seemed that everyone had but he had to make sure. "Has everyone summoned their familiars?"
"Louise hasn't," One of the students pointed towards the pinkette that didn't have one. Immedentailly all eyes fell on her and just as soon did her fellow students start to laugh at this.
"We all know she's going to fail," One of them commented speaking what most of them were thinking. A few of them even questioned why she hadn't been kicked out already. "It's going to be just an explosion."
Louise turned to them enraged at this. Professor Colbert didn't want to deal with this right now. "Enough!" His voice caused everyone to stop. "Louise if you would."
Louise walked forward as she pulled out her wand. Inside was terrified at the possibility of failing to summon a familiar. She pushed these aside as she pointed her wand forward. 'Rule of Steel.'
"My servant that existed somewhere in this vast universe," She began her chanting. "My divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call, I wish from the very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear!"
An explosion echoed out across the yard like usual. For a few moments, it looked like she had failed. Out of the smoke, however, there was an outline of something with wings before it faded away and revealed what it was.
Saita walked out of the store with a can of soda in her hands. She looked at a clock on the street. It was just about morning for her grandparents. Walking to an alleyway close to her house she pulled out the waystone. "Take me to estate…"
A green portal formed in front of her for some strange reason. Saita looked at it with surprise and curiosity. Travel between Earth and the Veil created a yellow portal, and the opposite made blue portals. As nothing seemed to move out of it Saita reached forward touching the strange magic before being pulled forward.
The next thing she knew she was picking herself up as she found herself looking at an assembly of people and creatures. They were speaking something but she couldn't make it out. It sounded like French. "Ah, hello can someone tell me what's going on?"
No one could understand what she was saying. 'Great,' It seems that she was going to have to find some way to communicate with them. 'Should I try English?' The chances of them knowing that was unlikely. 'What was the spell to translate my language again?'
Magic was something common in the Veil. It was also something she had an above average understanding of. Everything about her grades tend to be just average except for magic. 'Let's see it's…' Before she could recall it the pinkette was in front of her and spoke something before she surprised her by kissing her. 'Wait what?'
Suddenly there was a pain on her arm. Some kind of symbols started to make themselves known on her hand. It was almost like a convent mark. Unknown to her or to her summoner the familiar magic began to try to influence her thoughts while giving her knowledge of how to understand the language. There was however one problem.
Being a Succubus, Saita was resistant to all forms of mental alteration. The runes magic found this out the hard way when it found itself being pushed back by said trait. Because of this she still couldn't be understood by them. "What just happened?"
Everyone still looked at her as Saita remembered that no one could understand her. She turned to Professor Colbert as she felt him trying to cast something on her. Immediately the spell failed as her resistance kicked in.
The Professor was actually surprised to see the spell fail. First, Louise summoned a human familiar and now it seems that said familiar was seemingly immune to his spell. "This might be an issue."
Louise could just hear her classmates mocking words. Not only did she summon a commoner but one that couldn't speak their language. 'Why founder,' She could take anything but this. Even if she had succeeded in summoning a familiar. 'Even a mouse or a tree would be better than this.'
Saita finally remembered the spell. Speaking it under her breath, "Cyfieithu," A slight glow came from her eyes. Finally, she could understand and speak their language. "What's going on?"
In hindsight walking into a green portal that appeared at the site of a waygate was a bad idea. From what Professor Colbert had explained to her that she had been summoned to be a familiar to Louise, the pinkette girl that kissed her. Her first thought was that this was the Veil but that was tossed out the window when no one recognized the name. As for her new 'master', a term that Saita wouldn't ever use, she was a bit of a self-entitled brat.
'Calling me a commoner…' For someone who lived in a modern society that nearly did away with such things, it was a throwback. It was also technically untrue, if one went on her Succubi heritage, although titles had become something of a thing that could be given and had different meanings. 'It's like this whole society is a medieval fantasy setting from a game or an anime.'
The only reason she could put up with this was the fact she still had her waystone. With it, she could return home to Earth or to the Veil. All that Saita had to do was locate a waygate and open a portal. Only problem was that she had no idea where she was going or where here even was. Until she can get a map for reference she was more or less stuck here.
"I don't even know how to do clothes without a washing machine or the equivalent," This was going to be such a pain. Silently she wondered if she could just toss them aside and make a run for it. 'Again I don't know where the nearest city or town is,' Turning down the halls without much thought she ended up bumping into someone. "Oh, sorry I was lost in thought."
"N-no it's alright," The person she had bumped into was a maid girl around her age with black hair and blue eyes. There was something strangely familiar about the girl's appearance but she couldn't place it. "Oh, you won't happen to be the human familiar that was summoned?"
Already it seemed that people were talking about her. Technically, they were incorrect about her being human. "Yeah," Saita looked at the clothes in her hands. "You think they would have a spell to clean their own clothes."
Although that was probably asking for too much. "I don't think they ever have," The maid girl always wondered if they did but chose not to. "I'm Siesta by the way."
"Saita," She introduced herself. "Hiraga-Ayani Saita."
"Hiraga-Ayani?"
Most people she knew didn't comment on the strangeness of her last name even if they heard it. There was a reason for the hyphenation which dealt more with her mother's side of the family. "It's my last name."
Siesta looked at this with a bit of surprise. Commoners tend to not care about last names all that much. The wealthier ones coming from more skilled trades and merchants did have them. Looking at her pendent Siesta wondered if she came from one such background. It was certainly above whatever she could hope to make. "Well, it was nice meeting you Saita."
Saita gave her a nod before remembering the clothes that Louise had left her with. 'Eh, you know what she can do them herself,' Not like she was going to put up with a brat. 'Well, now That's settled maybe I'll take a late night fly?'
Finding her way outside wasn't too difficult. As she looked up at the moonlit night she noticed something off. Looking up she was greeted with two moons. "Wait, what?"
Two moons were in the sky. Not the one moon of Earth, or the one and the ring of the Veil. There was only one place that she knew that had two moons. "I'm on Mundus…" The one world that travel to and from it had been hard and comparably rare. The only reason it wasn't held as a myth was the many similarities to each description given and because of how much was known about it. 'Great things just got needlessly complicated.'
Well, that's the prologue done. I figured that a lot of you have seen the whole beginning of the series and the usual summoning enough times that I can just abridge it. Anyway, I think I have some things to explain then about the changes. Saita (yes sue me for uncreative names) is a Cambion in this and yes she can use magic... although I'm not planning any overpower spells or it being anything great. Overpowered characters are hard to write with unless the series you know has them as standard. For some reason, that's a bit of an issue for me.
I also think I should give some lore at the end of certain chapters. Like this one for instance.
Succubi: One of the inhabitants of the Veil, Succubi are subject to a lot of myths and misunderstandings. Incredibly beautiful, gifted with super strength when compared to a human, and able to heal for wounds this race of Angels (yes they are actually an angelic race mix to the dismay of their cousins) are almost all female race (the male version, Incubi, is a rarity among them). While not overly sex addicts like commonly seen they are known for a more hedonistic lifestyle, being far more laid back, and with natural sadistic instincts. This is, however, not true for all of them as a few examples of conservative (by their standards) Succubi exist. They possess a natural resistance to mental attacks, and to their annoyance translation spells, unless cast themselves.
Cambion: A type of Succubus with a human father. Unlike the common verities Cambion, while not being a true hybrid in the genetic sense, inherent an essence of humanity from their father. This allows them more control over their instincts but also costs a degree of control over their magic It also makes it easier for them to blend in while on earth.
Alright, that's enough for now. If you have any questions be sure to ask and I'll answer them in the next chapter. Until then cya later.
