Zero's Gandalfr
Summary: Zero became Louise's familiar. Let's see what happens.
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters. I only own most of the scenarios. A few things might be 'borrowed' from other fics, however. Here are the references so far: The Blade of the Void, Summoned Sergeant Chronicles, and I, X your Familiar (by far the best of the three crossovers). The summary was a rip off from 'The Left Hand of the Death God'.
Chapter 1: It's Hurt; It's Dead; It's Aliiive - The Arrival of an Uncommon Commoner
"In the name of the great Five Pentagon Powers, I, Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, call upon the universe to grant me the strongest, the most beautiful legendary creature as my fateful servant!"
As the chant continues, the sunny day unexpectedly darkens. The sky seemed to be covered by a deep purple mist. Seconds later, thunders and lightning were beginning to form and the ground began shaking violently. The crowd of students was frantic and started backing away from the summoner. A few were screaming, "We're all gonna die," and ran for cover.
"Summon!" The girl with pink hair, black cloak, white blouse, and gray pleated skirt named Louise finished her spell. Her classmates reacted by running away from where her wand was pointing.
For a few second, nothing happened. The sky appeared to be clearing and the ground stopped shaking: a good sign. Seeing nothing had happened, the crowd breathed a sigh of relieve and walked back to their previous position, most of them laughing. Some among them joked, "Louise the Zero had struck again."
Frustrated over her failure yet again, Louise was ready to lash out at her classmates when a huge explosion occurred where she had just pointed her wand. The unlucky few caught in the blast were sent flying as a thick black smoke engulfed the courtyard. Lucky for them, the explosion was not very strong. Still, they would have a few scratches and bruises to content with.
"Whirlwind!" A strong gust of wind came forth and begins to clear the smoke away. Standing in the middle of the crowd was a middle age man in a black robe holding up a large wooden staff. "Is everyone alright?" the man asked calmly, addressing his students.
"Louise, are you trying to kill us all!"
"It's a miracle we survived."
"I knew this would happen."
The smoke soon cleared and everyone got back to their feet, none seemed seriously injured. Then a young woman with short blue hair pointed to a person laying face down on the epic center of the explosion. "Mr. Colbert, someone is hurt," said the young girl with very little emotion and pointed at the person. Everyone turned their gaze toward that unlucky individual.
Said the person on the ground was fairly tall, about six foot, and had long blond hair that covered the entire body and obscured 'her' face. It appeared 'she' was heavily wounded. Small pieces of red armor plating suffered from many cracks were attached to an equally torn black suit covered in soot. Burn marks were apparent throughout 'her' body along with many gashes. Dried blood stains covered all over 'her' body but no more blood was oozing out, indicating the injuries had happened a while ago.
Colbert immediately rushed to the casualty and tried to access the situation.
"I don't remember anyone looking like her. Who could she be?"
"It must be Louise familiar."
"No way. Seriously, I don't believe it."
"A commoner as a familiar? Ha, that got to be a first."
"She seems to be in bad shape."
"Ha, that is our Louise. Who would have thought she would summon a commoner as her familiar and then blow it up in her own explosion."
"Oh, the poor thing."
Meanwhile, Louise was standing meters away from her familiar, staring in disbelief. Not only was her 'strongest, the most beautiful legendary creature' turns out to be a commoner, but it appeared that her familiar was badly injured due to her own explosive spell. A part of her wanted to belief that this was all a dream, a nightmare that will end soon but a larger part of her knew that this was no dream.
Colbert kneeled beside the injured blond and tried to find a pulse through 'her' neck. After several tries, he confirms his fear: Low body temperature couple with no pulse, Louise's familiar was dead. 'She probably had been dead for some time. Even the blood is dry,' thought Colbert. It maybe harsh but he had to break the news, "I am sorry Miss Vallière, but she's dead."
Silence, then laughter erupted from the crowd.
"Haha, this is certainly a first."
"Louise, our familiar is meant to be our fateful servant through our life. What's the point of killing it before you even take a proper look?"
"Even if you don't want a commoner to be your familiar, killing it after you summoned it here is just too cruel."
"Murderer."
'D-dead? M-murderer? T-this cannot be. This must be a mistake. I must be dreaming. That's right; it must be a nightmare I am having,' Louise was in shock and denial. Her knees have lost their strength, and she slid in a sitting position.
"It's not your fault, Miss Vallière," said Colbert. In trying to clear her name, Colbert explained, "Listen everyone, Miss Vallière did not kill anyone." Colbert pointed at the corpse and continued, "She was dead before she got here. Look, the blood on her had already dried. She must have died from her injuries a while ago."
Louise, after listening to Colbert's explanation, felt a little better. She had not killed anyone at least. She let loose a breath that she didn't know she was holding then observed her classmates reaction. Everyone looked back at the corpse and all was silent for a second. Then more laughter erupted.
"So that means Louise had summoned a corpse as her familiar?"
"Wow that is definitely a new record."
"What do you expect from our Louise the Zero?"
"Louise the Necromancer. Haha."
That made her mad. She was about to unleash her wrath upon her classmates but Mr. Colbert stepped in and defended her, "Silent! You should respect your classmate." Mr. Colbert glared at his students and tried to bring order.
While all the commotions were going on, the 'corpse' stirred followed by a few groans and then some coughs. Soon it got the attention of everyone, and they all looked back at the 'corpse'. They watched in silent and horror as the 'corpse' rise ever slowly just like one of those creepy zombie-corpse does.
Quite a number of students were shocked, especially the girls, and all of them have backed away hastily. Some even held their wands out defensively.
"Ahhh Mr. Colbert, i-iit-iiit's aliiive."
"Ahhh, it's a zo-zombie."
"No way, Louise the Necromancer was for real?"
The 'corpse', through great effort, slowly got itself into a kneeling position, panting and coughing all the while. Long blond hair fell all around it, obscuring its face.
Colbert was astonished and a bit concerned at the turn of event. He had checked pulse of the commoner several times and found none; the body temperature was low as well. The thought of Louise's familiar being a zombie crossed his mind. A closer look at the blond, however, eased his concerns. Zombies normally do not coughs nor pant like that. He decided to approached to the very injured blond slowly and see how 'she' was doing, "Hello Ms. are you feeling alright?"
Zero woke up with a massive headache and a world of pain. His head felt like he had just played a game of 'Whack the Mole' with Omega and was hit multiple times. The rest of his body felt like it had been ran over by Fefnir's tank several dozens times. Getting into a kneeling position took almost all of his strength. In his disoriented state, he vaguely remembered his final battle with Weil. It had taken quite a toll on his body to take out the fusion between Weil and Ragnarok's core. Then, reentry to Earth's atmosphere followed by an epic free fall had brought him to the brinks. It was a miracle that he was still alive. A quick diagnostic confirms that he had suffered a great deal of damage. His helmet was missing, his body armor was in pieces, his black jump suit was torn in many places, and there were many thousands of fractures and micro fractures throughout his body structure. Even with his outlandish auto repair system, it would take him months to fix himself.
He needed to contact Ciel as soon as possible. If he's alive, there's a chance that Weil also survived. Still disoriented, Zero failed to notice he was being surrounded by a group of people as he tries to establish a link to the Resistance base.
It wasn't until a mid-aged man with a wooden staff spoke that Zero realized he was surrounded by a bunch of odd looking human. They all wore some kind of cloak as if they were from an ancient biblical era. Seriously, the mid-age man with his ridiculous staff and cloak looked like Moses leading a bunch of equally weird looking teenagers around. He also noted a few strange looking stuffed animals and a giant blob of 'jello' besides them. 'Maybe they were having a dress up party,' he thought absentmindedly.
Receiving no response, the mid-aged man spoke again. It was then that Zero found he had no idea what the man was saying. That was quite a surprise. He had over six thousands languages/dialects in his database and none matched the man's speech pattern.
Trying hard, Zero pushed himself to stand only to receive a great deal of pain. He opted for a sitting position instead and observed.
Then a young girl with pink hair approaches him. She appeared nervous at first but had gathered courage. She kneeled beside him. With two hands, one on each side, she grabbed his hair and flung it back on both sides. Once she took a look at his face, her expression changed from cautious to callous. She began to talk or more like demanded. 'That was bold of her,' was Zero's initial impression.
Still not understanding a word, he decided to concentrate on finding a working signal instead and paid little attention to the people around him. They were deemed no threat after all.
Louise had watched her familiar early on. 'She' was now in a sitting position and appeared to be breathing heavily. The thought of a zombie crossed her mind. Still, she mustered her courage and marched over to her familiar, ignoring her classmates' remarks. Determined to take a look at 'her' face, she grabbed 'her' hair with both hands and pushed it back. To her relieved, there was no rotten flesh of any kind. And to her surprised, she found a young man in his early to mid-twenties instead. He was a mess. His face had suffered many bruises and scratches. Dried blood from his left temple down to his chin and blood stain on the right corner of his mouth decorated his face. Despite having sustained such injuries, his deep blue eyes still shined fiercely: a sign of life and intelligence.
"Who are you? Where did you came from? And what have you done with my familiar?" Louise demanded, having restored her confidence. The strange man appeared to be ignoring her. That ticked her off. How dare he ignore her, stupid commoner!
"Well, what do you know? It was a man."
"And it's not a zombie too."
"Yeah but he is still a commoner."
"Hahaha. That's so true."
"Mr. Colbert!" Louise shouted.
"What is it, Miss Vallière?"
"Please! Let me try the summoning one more time!"
Mr. Colbert shook his head. "I cannot allow that, Miss Vallière."
"Why not?"
"It is strictly forbidden. When you are promoted to a second year student, you must summon a familiar. Your elemental specialty is decided by the familiar that you summon. It enables you to advance to the appropriate courses. You cannot change the familiar once you have summoned it, because the Springtime Familiar Summoning is a sacred rite. Whether you like it or not, you have to keep him."
"But... I've never heard of having a commoner as a familiar!"
Everyone around laughed. Louise scowled at them, but the laughter continued.
"This is a tradition, Miss Vallière. I cannot allow any exceptions; he," the middle-aged wizard pointed at the hunter, "may be a commoner, but as long as he was summoned by you, he must be your familiar. Never in history has a human been summoned as a familiar, but the Springtime Familiar Summoning takes precedence over every rule. In other words, there is no other way around it: he must become your familiar."
"You have got to be joking..." Louise shoulders slumped in disappointment.
"Well then, please continue with the ceremony. Then, afterward, we need to treat his wounds."
"With him?"
"Yes, with him. Hurry, you have managed to summon him. Hurry and form a contract. Or would you rather be expelled?" Everyone voiced their agreement.
Louise stared at Zero's face and looked doubtful.
"Hey," Louise barked at Zero.
He looked up and suddenly started coughing violently. 'Red liquid' gushed out from his mouth and he spitted it on to the ground.
Louise was mortified and turned back to Mr. Colbert for a final plead but he just urged her on. She looked at Zero in disgust and he appeared once again gone into some kind of a trance and ignored her. 'He must be deaf or don't understand our language. Oh that's just great!' she thought.
Louise took out a handkerchief and wipe the fresh 'blood' off Zero's face none too gently. Finally, she closed her eyes with an air of resignation and waved around her wand. "This must be your lucky day, having a noble doing this to you." Louise mumbled, then began her chant, "I, Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. Pentagon of the Five Elemental Powers; bless this humble being, and make him my familiar." With that, she finished her chant and planted a kiss on Zero's lip.
Zero, who was more worried about connection errors than Louise at the moment, was surprised when she kissed him. He was positive she looked at him in disgust just a moment ago. But then humans can be hard to understand so he didn't look into it too much. What bothered him more at the moment was this itchy sensation that was growing ever stronger on his left hand and the rising temperature across his body.
Shortly after she broke the kissed, Zero left hand began to glow and his body started to heat up fast. Hakai no Kami followed b MKII and some unique Runes were in scripted across the backside of his hand and his body was burning. Three distinct programs were being uploaded into his data core. A unique language program being one of them was analyzed and imported into his language database. The other two programs were left aside for further analysis. With that, the contact was completed.
Chapter End
Attention new readers: as of 9/10/2014, I am banning all profanities from reviews. If you need to know why, just look at the reviews I got from a certain psychopath.
AN: So that is the first chapter. How was it? Well, not that I cared all that much, but if you decided to leave a review, please talk about the story and not my grammars (I know I not am that good). If you find any logic flaw (plot holes) in this fic, tell me.
For example: Why did Colbert let Louise continuing the ritual instead of treating Zero's wounds? I got a cheap excuse for that, but because it was cheap, I am not putting it in officially. In the mean time, give me your view on this. I will reveal my answer the next chapter.
This fic can be seen as a challenge for anyone brave enough to take up the task. For me, it will be base on scenarios rather than the grand schemes of things. That means it will mostly follow the FoZ storyline (meaning Zero will go through what Saito had gone through most of the time hence no major 'meaningful' changes). Saito never deal with grand scale of things and FoZ's storyline is rich enough in itself so I don't see a problem. I have a lot of scenarios and ideas lining up for this crossover. I don't mind sharing. You are welcome to use this chapter as the opening and write your own story or any later chapters you find appropriate. I am a lazy person. I rather read others works than writing my own. If I find a good idea, I might rip it off from yours and stuff it in here though. Also, I am an incredibly slow writer so expect infrequent updates. How slow? A few hundred words for a few hours on a good day…
If you find similarity between this fic and Blade of Void (another MMZ x FoZ crossover) from time to time and wonders why, that's because this fic was inspired by and base off on it. That fic had tremendous potential but unfortunately handled incorrectly so I had to write my own. Hopefully, it will be better.
Finally, Zero's personality was said to be hard to capture. So which Zero am I using? 'Zero: The soul of a Hero' by Archaon. That's the one I am using, arguably the best MM author out there. If you are too lazy to read his works, then think Hatake Kakashi. End of ranting for now so see you next time.