Hello everyone!
Before I start, I dedicate this whole chapter for explanations so that you, fellow reader, will know about the context.
So, after a bit of chatting with one of my favorite fanfiction writers, Mega Trainer, I got his permission to do a fanmade continuation of his fanfiction of ZnT: "Zero no Tsukaima: the world again", a story that he isn't currently updating since february. So yeah technically I'm doing here the fanfiction of a fanfiction.
This alternate continuation will not replace his story. It is meant to continue it and not let it to die, and also to give Mega Trainer some new material and ideas he may work on for his next update.
So before you ask, "is Mega Trainer's fanfiction of ZnT dead?" Well rest assured, the answer, as he wrote it to me, is NO. He plans on continuing the story but can't seem to find the time nor the ideas to do so, as his story took a turn he didn't plan. Even you might notice this by reading his last three chapters.
This fanmade continuation will start right after his chapter 72, and replace his chapters 73, 74 and 75, and continue even further. Why replace his last 3 chapters? Because I consider these chapters to kill the rythm of the story, and that they bring the writer into a bad position to continue the story nicely. But more specifically because these chapters are repetitive in my taste, and that they could be shortened.
So basically, the first chapter here will be my version of Mega Trainer's chapter 73.
You may ask yourself if I will be updating on a regular base. Well, the truth is, I don't know. I don't know how good of a writer I am, as this will be my first attempt for a fanfiction. I only know myself to be good reader. Plus, I have a busy lifestyle. So updates can occur within a month or even just a few days if I feel like I could do it. If I were to be able to update fast however, I'll update once a week at weekends only, even if I technically could update earlier, in order for you to check up for updates with this rythm in mind.
You may also ask yourself if I will stop the story if Mega Trainer updates his story again. Well I don't plan on doing so, so don't worry about that. But I did give him this fanmade story's fate in his hands. So, I will stop or edit the story however he likes if he asks me to do so. But I will inform you however if he decides for any change.
So, fellow reader, before you start reading what has to follow, I invite you, if it is not already done, to read Mega Trainer's "Zero no Tsukaima: the world again" first, as you may not understand anything of what will happen here. Or, if you feel too lazy to read 72 chapters, or over 160k words (wow... that's like 8 average light novels), or if you have already read the story and want to remember about all the details, I wrote a summary of everything that has happened in his fanfiction in this chapter, just for you! So SPOILER ALERT! If you whish to read Mega Trainer's story for yourself, don't read what is down below.
I skipped the summary of a few chapters that I consider to not give any new or interesting information to the story (like lemons) to save you time reading it. This summary will give you all the infos you need to know. I may have skipped some details as well, so please feel free to tell me if there is anything important that I may have missed.
Obviously, the summary of the first chapters will be longer, as they contain most of the information.
But before I start, the tradition of most fanfictions...
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ZERO NO TSUKAIMA
ACT I (yes, the story is divided in acts, in case you didn't know)
Chapter 0: Saito and Louise have arrived at Saito's home and meet his parents, Aki (mother) and Kurata (father). Saito's father had a grandfather who has visited Halkeginia and brought back to Earth a copy of the sword Derflinger, (made by the previous Gandalfr) which Saito used to transfer Derf's soul into it (and have more privacy with Louise ;p)
Chapter 2: The next day (after an intense lemon) they meet with Saito's friends, Toriyama (a goofy looking boy who's parents have died), Hikaru (a genius boy), Sakura (an anime nerd girl dating Hikaru), and Asuna (Saito's ex-girlfriend, a silver-haired girl with generous breasts). They hang out and have fun, but you will only need to remember Toriyama and Asuna.
Chapter 3: Saito, Louise and Asuna get back home to find Saito's sister, Shana, and Shiina, Saito's grandmother. Somewhere else, far from their home, a certain Lord Ivarod hears the report about Saito and Louise of a mysterious figure. He states that it is time to "begin our plans" and orders the mysterious figure to "cotinue to monitor them"
Chapter 4: Shiina tells the whole family during diner that her father went to Halkeginia and came back to Earth with her Halkeginian mother, revealing that Saito has Halkeginian blood in him. She also hands out to him a blank book with golden runes on it (the same runes as Saito's). It is revealed that the book will only form words on its blank pages when the Gandalfr is holding it. It was created by Sasha, the previous Gandalfr and Brimir's familiar, and contains all spells and powers the Gandalfr can use, and how to use them. It appears that Saito can use these powers like muscles, the more he trains them, the more he can use them. After a week of honeymoon on Earth, Saito and Louis head back home to Halkeginia.
Chapter 5: Upon arriving at their mansion in Halkeginia, they get a surprise party. After the party, they get the visit of an elf who reports that the elf council requests them in Rivendell, the capital of Elvenheim. They accept and upon they arrival, they get greeted by Lord Esmail (the council leader if I remember well). Esmail informs them of a secrect room within their council that he belives only Gandalfr can open. It appears that Derflinger was the key to it. In this room, they found a book with mysterious and unidentifiable notes.
Chapter 6 and 7: At night, while sleeping, Louise was awoken by a thunder, it revealed to her a dark figure holding a knife. Surprisingly, it didn't harm them. The next day, Henrietta orders square level mages to put a magical barrier around their mansion to protect the couple. But it has proven itself to be uneffective, as the mysterious figure could attack Saito in his sleep, almost killing him. Lord Ivarod could also sneak into the mansion. There, it is revealed that Ivarod is king of Ereborn, and that he inherited the powers of King Joseph. He also has the power to freeze time excluding whatever he wants and teleport anything in that space once a day with a sword called "Beowulf". He personally didn't harm anyone on that day though. After which Louise orders Siesta to help her bringing Saito to safety into the castle.
Chapter 8: Saito heals after 3 days, Louise reveals to him that she believes the mysterious figure to be Toriyama. They get back to Earth to find him and he doesn't act in mysterious ways, proving to Saito Toriyama's innocence. Saito talks to Agnes about upgrading Tristein's weaponry. It is also revealed that Albion has discovered the succesor of the deceased pope's void mage powers. Both Ivarod and Henrietta go their own way to find the new void mage first.
Chapter 9: Saito and Louise immediately head to Albion to find out that a battle is occuring between Ivarod's forces and Albion's forces to fight for the new void mage. Saito and Louise will figure out that the mysterious figure was indeed Toriyama, who reveals to have always only acted his friendship with Saito. Saito and Louise eventually win the fight, with Toriyama fleeing with Ivarod, and Louise being heavily wounded due to Toriyama piercing her with his sword. They bring Gwendolyn, an 18 year old chestnut-hair colored girl with light freckles on her face who reveals herself to be the new void mage, to safety, who heals Louise from her wounds with her magic.
Chapter 11: The book that Louise and Saito found reveals itself to be written in the Valkyrie language, a race living east of Halkeginia. They get introduced to Stradinir the Third, a Valkyrie, who translates the book for them. He says the book was written by a certain Kovail Steruonkin, a Valkyrie and close friend to Brimir. He says the book contains informations of Brimir and his powers, and is meant for the next generation of void mages. He asks for time and material to translate it completely. Stradinir also reveals that Ivarod is a Valkyrie who has lost his wings in an accident, and that he became king of the Valkyries after stealing this title from Stradinir's brother.
Chapter 12: Stradinir gets murdered in his room by Ivarod, but he could manage to translate the book in its integrity for Saito and Louise. In the translation, they learn that Louise is not a bad mage, as she was just using "the wrong energy" (the void energy) to cast her magic. They also learn more about the powers of the 4 familiars of the void.
Chapter 14: Ivarod accuses the humans for Stradinir's death, lying to his army to justify an imminent attack on human lands.
Chapter 15 and 16: Gwendolyn does the familiar ritual and Asuna is summoned, making her this void mage's familiar. Asuna gains the powers of Vindalfr, and can now control and talk to animals, and even transform into animals and/or gain their abilities. When arriving at Asuna's home to inform her mother about this, they meet Chichi, a capucin monkey who later reveals himself to be Telumflinger, Vindalfr's tool, who can transform into a weapon or an animal.
Chapters 17 to 19: Chain of events which caused Louise, Siesta and Saito to end up having a threesome together, and the aftermath.
Chapter 20: The Leaders meet with Saito to form a strategy against the Valkyrie attack.
Chapter 21 to 25: The combat begins, Lord Ivarod dies in combat after betraying his people, which lead the fight to an end. Other battle events resulted in Saito, Louise, Asuna and Tiffania being badly injured, and Toriyama put into jail with medical assistance.
Chapter 26 to 28: Saito awakes after a 2 day long coma in a hospital. Tabitha was in his room with her familiar Irukuku. After a little chatter, Saito acts like as he fell asleep and Tabitha gently kisses his lips, even though she knew he was acting. She meets with Henrietta to worry about the next void mage. It is revealed that a certain Lord Harold was a close friend to Gwendolyn's father before he died. She uses to call him "uncle" for that reason.
Chapter 29: The events lead to Saito becoming a Duke, and his lands, his Duchy.
ACT II
Chapter 31: The Valkyrie decide to rebuild their government after the war. Saito and Louise decide to spend a vacation in Japan.
Chapter 34 and 35: Toriyama awakes from his coma and confesses about everything he's done, and asks for forgiveness. He is allowed a moment of freedom to visit Saito's home. He will be sent back to Halkeginia afterwards to serve his prison sentence.
Chapter 36 to 38: Asuna tells Gwen about her story and relationship with Saito. Saito and Louise head back to their mansion in Halkeginia after their vacation.
Chapter 39 and 40: Asuna will now be living with Gwen and her mother in Halkeginia. She reveals that her mother is having a relationship with Harold. The Valkyrie reveal to the elves to have found the new void mage, a young, stuttering, and very shy girl named Tenshi Angeal who will be housed in Saito's mansion.
Chapter 43: After Julio has revealed a sealed room beneath the Vatican, the whole group, along with Tenshi, open it up to find Vivlio, a talking book with a very insulting tone and language, that pretends to know everything of and about the entire Universe.
Chapter 44 and 45: Tenshi summons her familiar, who is actually Saito himself. He now gains the powers and runes of Myoznitnirn. Meanwhile in Germania, merchants wanted to travel to Nurmbarg, and realize it has become a sea of flames.
Chapters 46 to 48: A birthday party is organized for Saito to celebrate his 19 years of age. All the guests ended up drunk, and both Saito and Asuna ended up having unintentional intercourse together. As Louise discovers this and wanted to have words with her husband, she noticed Saito couldn't wake up, as it is revealed later that he has a severe case of meningitis, which was healed later on Earth by Japanese doctors.
Chapter 49: Saito and Louise find Asuna in a park, who didn't eat nor drank during days because she blamed herself for what she did. Meanwhile in Halkeginia, the world leaders discuss about the mysterious incidents that have resulted in the entire destruction of 4 cities in 4 different countries. They suspect it to be the Dwarves' doing.
Chapter 50 and 51: Saito and Louise go back to Henrietta's castle. The queen tells them about the Dwarven kingdom's doings, Lukamagiska. It is revealed that they plan to commit genocide and kill all the magic user races of the world. The couple goes back to their mansion. There, they are attacked by a dwarf controling a golem-like machine, that was no match for Saito's powers. They soon realize that a ship of the dwarves was about to drop a bomb on the mansion, but Tenshi manages to cast a powerful force shield to avoid the blast and saved eveyone's life. We learn that the dwarves' king is named Hreidmar, and that he has 3 sons: Reginn, the older one, Fafnir, the second, and Otr, the last of the three.
Chapter 53: Tenshi tells Saito about her past. She reveals him that in her childhood she was the Valkyries' princess, and lived happily with her royal family. But a coup d'état lead her to lose all she ever had and to survive by begging in the streets for food, explaining her shyness that also caused her stuttering. She cries into Saito's arms and accidentally confesses her love to Saito, but he didn't seem to have understood, and thought that her confession was meant friendly, rather than for real love.
Chapter 54: Asuna worries about her previous acts with Saito and how to excuse herself to Louise, whereas Henrietta and Tabitha both think about their relationship with Saito, dreaming of becoming his wife.
Chapter 56: Asuna asks for forgiveness to both Louise and Saito for what she did. Louise says she will forgive her as long as she won't do the same mistake again.
Chapter 60: Julio visits Saito and Louise to discuss about a plan to infiltrate the Dwarves' kingdom.
Chapter 61 to 63: The group meets a dwarf named Gan who will sneak them into the kingdom with hollow carts, appearing to be ordinary miner carts full of rocks. They arrive at a village where they have been discovered. They figured out that they do not approve their king's politics and are willing to help Saito and his group. They meet with Gramma who helps the group in their mission. In the same village, they discover a magic tree, the "Drasil tree", that offers Saito a ring he puts on.
Chapter 64: Saito and Louise manage to sneak into the palace, but Otr takes notice of this. He reveals to have no intention to harm anyone, nor to have any interest in the war. He is ready to help them to do his best to stop it by giving them information in his study, where the couple meets the dwarf's wife Eir. Otr reveals them that Hreidmar is seeking vengeance ever since a group has killed his wife, believing it to be mage users.
Chapter 66: After sneaking out of the castle and seeking shelter into abandoned ruins to escape a rain in the countryside of Lukamagiska, Saito and Louise have been discovered by a metal golem that began attacking them. The fight brought Saito and the golem on the border of a dark ravine that broke underneath their feet, leading both of them to a most certain death.
Chapter 67: The group minus Saito return to Tristein. Otr has a communicaton device Saito has given him, and it began buzzing. Saito was weakly asking for help, and Otr immediately took a mech to help him out of the dark ravine. He discovers that the ring Saito got from the Drasil tree saved his life by creating roots for him while falling, in order to prime his fall.
Chapter 68: Saito awakes after 2 days. He and Otr manage to summon Gwen into their room with Vivlio, and Gwen immediately does her best to heal him with her magic. Saito doesn't want to reassure everyone by showing himself to alive just know, in order for a plan he has to work.
Chapter 70: Saito heals completely from his injuries. He, Otr and Gwen manage to sneak into Hreidmar's room to try to reason him not to begin the war. Their intimidation fails and the group leaves. Reginn then sneaks into the room, revealing to Hreidmar that he was the one responsable for his wife's death, and that it all was part of his plan to become king. At this very same moment, he kills his own father.
Chapter 71: Otr manages to sneak Saito and Gwen out of the city. After which he is being arrested, being accused of murdering Hreidmar. The citizens claimed for his imprisonment, rather than for his execution, saving his life for now. Saito and Gwen use dragons to fly back to les Ornières as fast as possible.
Chapter 72: Saito finally meets Louise again, and saves her from an attempt of suicide when she thought that Saito was dead.
Okay, that's about all you need to know for now, NOW we can begin!