Disclaimer: I do not own Familiar of Zero or the Fire Emblem Series. This is merely a work of fan fiction - for fun only! All characters belong to their respective owners!
The giant monstrosity, known as Grima the Fell Dragon, was now weakened and vulnerable. After doing battle against the heroes who fought to stop him, he was now exhausted, retreat impossible, he was now at the mercy of the ones he once called weaklings.
The heroes, who hailed from various kingdoms, united to stop the Fell Dragon, led by none other than Chrom, the descendant of the one who put him to sleep a thousand years ago, and also the rightful ruler of the kingdom of Ylisse, characterized by striking blue hair and the Mark of the Exalt - an emblem of royalty and proof of his lineage.
Though they may have bested him, Grima laughed at the heroes...
"This isn't over you puny insects! You cannot kill me! I shall return one day and destroy your children! Your victory here is meaningless! AHAHAHAHA!"
The only way for the Fell Dragon to experience a true death was if he would kill himself. Using the artifact known as the Fire Emblem, he would be sealed for another thousand years, after which he would return. However...
"...I don't think so. This ends here and now!"
A young woman with long brown hair with a single braid at the front, dressed in a regal cloak, befitting of her title as royal tactician, confronts the Fell Dragon.
Her name is Robin, the one whose fate is linked with the demon.
"This is the one time I was glad we were linked. Only I can destroy you permanently Grima!"
The woman's resolute declaration strikes fear into the dragon.
"...But CAN you? If you destroy me, you destroy yourself as well!"
Grima mocks the woman, as to shake her resolve.
"As long as I can protect this world from you, I'd gladly lay down my life!"
Casting a spell, the woman is ready to end the battle.
"Robin no! Don't do it! We still need you! Me, Lucina and Morgan still need you!"
Chrom desperately shouts to the woman, trying to convince her to come back to her family.
"I'm sorry Chrom, I cannot entrust our problems to our children's children. If I can finally end this cycle of destruction, then I will, even at the cost of my life."
"NOOOOOO! GRUAAAGHHHHH!"
The woman launches her spell at the Fell Dragon. With a colossal explosion, the Fell Dragon's head is obliterated, it's body scattering to dust as it falls.
Robin turns around to face Chrom, her friend, her exalt and her husband, with a gentle smile on her face. She notices that the Fell Dragon gone, she starts to fade into nothingness as well.
Chrom runs into his wife, embracing her fading body tightly.
"Why did it have to end like this?!"
Chrom could barely control his tears as the love of his life inevitably fades into nothing.
"Chrom, remember what Naga the Divine Dragon said...if you and our friends wish it hard enough, I can return. I did this knowing that, because I believe in all of you...most of all because I believe in you...because I love you.."
The fading woman fights back her tears as she tells her lover.
And in a brief moment that felt like an eternity, the woman known as Robin, the Tactician of Ylisse and the wife of the exalt disappeared from Chrom's arms, now on his knees weeping for the loss of his love.
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"My beautiful and noble familiar who exists somewhere in the universe, heed my call! I beseech you to answer my call and lend me your powers!"
A small young girl with long pink hair chants out loud, as she chants the summon familiar spell.
It is springtime in the kingdom of Tristain in the land of Halkeginia, and the summon familiar ritual was one of the most ancient and sacred rites of a magician and a noble. The ritual was held within the grounds of the Tristain Magic Academy, the most prestigious of all academies in Halkeginia, taking only but the highest ranking and wealthiest noble youths in the land. The summoning ritual had been going on throughout the day, and one Louise Françoise Le Blanc de la Vallière was the last of the students to perform it. All manners of creatures were summoned, from something more common and mundane as frogs and birds to something fantastic and unique like a rhyme dragon which one of the more gifted students summoned.
For Louise, this was a do or die situation. If she were not able to summon a familiar, then she would be considered a failure as a magician and a noble, and also a failure to her family.
This worried her because every attempt of hers at casting a spell always ended up an explosion without fail. She was mockingly called "Louise the Zero"
by her peers as a result. This insulted her greatly, she was a proud Vallière, one of the most renowned families in Tristain.
Jean Colbert, a balding man around his late fourties who wore glasses and carried a staff and wore blue teacher's robes, acted as the supervising teacher of the summoning, secretly prayed for the success of the pinkette. No matter the results of her spellcasting, she was an eager and hardworking student to excelled at theoretical studies. He stood behind the pinkette and watched her perform the ritual.
Meanwhile, a tall busty red-head with dark skin by the name of Kirche Von Zerbst - Louise's classmate and rival, and her friend, a short girl with blue hair and glasses who was half-reading a book watched on.
"Oh I wonder what kind of familiar the zero would summon? A rock? Hahaha! What do you think Tabitha?"
The red-head talks to her small blue haired friend known as Tabitha.
"Don't know"
Tabitha replies. She always talked in short sentences and was always reading books no matter when or where.
The two had already summoned their familiars, Kirche summoned a fire lizard while Tabitha had the most awe inspiring one - a blue rhyme dragon - that is until Louise...
As Louise finishes casting the spell, a massive burst of light covered the area, then an explosion. Louise frantically tries to blow away the smoke and dust with her cape to finally see what kind of familiar she summoned. She would soon experience the shock of her life. Lying on the ground, a young woman around her early twenties with brown hair and an unfamiliar but regal looking cloak lay unconscious on the ground.
"Who in the founder did I summon?..."
She wonders but suddenly goes into a panic.
"Sh...sh...she looks like a noble! I forcefully summoned a noble as my familiar?! Mother would KILL me!"
She falls to her knees, in terror of the repercussions of her actions.
"At the very least I need to make sure I didn't KILL her!" She tells herself as she crawls near the unknown woman, observing her.
The woman was still breathing, and she seems to be unscathed. Louise silently thanks the founder for showing her at least some mercy.
As the smoke clears, Professor Colbert inspects the unconscious woman and his flustered student.
"Miss Vallière...are you fine?"
The Professor asks the pinkette as gentle as his voice could go.
The pinkette merely nods quietly without a word.
"This is...oh founder, a human familiar? I've never seen this kind of summoning in all my life..." Colbert tells himself under his breath, still in deep thought. "What could this mean?..."
Regardless, Colbert wanted to ensure the safety of the woman first.
"You there! Please call the nurse here quickly!" He orders two students, while he takes off his cloak and puts it over the woman like a blanket.
Louise could not handle the shock of her summoning, fearing for the grave consequences of forcefully summoning - no - kidnapping a noble from her home as a familiar? The pinkette blacks out suddenly, beside the woman.
"Miss Vallière!..."
Was all that she could hear from her teacher, worrying for her safety, before she passes out.
Louise suddenly finds herself in a small peasant village.
"Whaaaa...? How did I get here? Professor? And why am I wearing peasant clothes? Yuck!"
She frowns in disgust as she notices she was wearing commoner clothes. She sees a commoner in front of her, strangely staring at the sky.
"Hey you! Commoner! Where am I? What is this place?"
No answer, as if the man just ignored her.
"Commoner! You face me when I address you or I will have you locked up in a dun...geon..."
The pinkette's outrage slowly turns into wonder as she sees what the man was staring at. In the sky, giant magical sigils appeared. She did not recognise these sigils in any of her books or studies.
In the middle of these sigils, much to her and the man's horror, human-like warriors fell through, landing face down on the ground a couple of meters away from her. As the got up, she looked at their eyes and fear possessed her.
Their eyes were glowing dark purple! They were snarling like wild animals! These...things weren't warriors or even human..they looked more like...demons!
"AAAAHHHHH! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
The man in front of her started screaming and running away. Commoners were all panicking, trying to get away from the creatures, but were intercepted and mercilessly cut down.
"Where are the soldiers?! Where are the guards?! You commoners stop panicking and get the town guards!"
Louise tries to order the commoners but none even look at her.
"Tch! Looks like I'll have to teach these creatures to learn their place!"
She reaches for her wand but...nothing.
"Where did my wand go?!"
She frantically searches for her wand in and around her commoner clothing, but it just wasn't there
"NO! Where is it?!"
She starts shouting in frustration, until a big, dark shadow looms over her. She slowly turns her eyes on the source and her eyes start tearing up in horror. One of those...creatures was in front of her, with an axe above it's head, ready to take her life with it.
"No...no...nonono! Founder please save me! Anyone! Professor! Mother!"
The pinkette starts sobbing uncontrollably in front of her impending demise. And in an instant, the creature brings it's axe down, a merciless and uncaring look in it's face.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
Louise starts screaming, but quickly composes herself and looks around. She was in the school's infirmary.
"I remember...I performed the summoning ritual...then I summoned an unknown noble woman!"
She looks to the bed to her left, it was her, still unconscious. The nurses took her regal looking cloak away, and curiously she was wearing what looks like...commoner clothing. She looked at her face, the woman was probably older than her by just around 3 or 4 years, as old as a full graduate of the academy. She had straight long brown hair with a single braid in front of her face. Her skin was milky white, comparable to hers.
She then suddenly remembers her dream, as she feels cold sweat and nausea once more.
"Oh Miss Vallière are you alright?! We heard you scream!"
One of the nurses, a stout one, burst in.
"Oh I'm... fine nurse"
She says, finally being able to calm herself down.
"Thank the founder! Everyone was so worried about you. Tabitha, Miss Zerbst and Professor Colbert came to visit you not long ago."
She was happy that the professor came to visit her. He was her favourite teacher, because he did not judge her for her failings and was very considerate. But why was Kirche here? Probably because if she lost her she'd have no one to make fun of anymore. Tabitha hung around with Kirche all the time but always kept to herself reading books. She also never mocked nor made fun of her, so Louise was thankful to her just for that.
Louise got up from the infirmary bed, sparing a glance at the woman one more time, she got on her feet and was surprised to hear a gasp!
The woman she summoned sat up slowly on her bed, looking around the infirmary until her blue eyes met Louise's.
Robin was confused. How did she end up in an infirmary?
Noticing the peaceful, bright sunlight and the birds chirping softly outside the window, she knows that Grima was gone once and for all.
She slowly sat upright on her bed and scanned the room, until her eyes met a young girl's who had peculiar pink eye colour and long pink hair. She warmly smiled and greeted the girl.
"Hello there, might I know where am I?"
She says in a gentle voice.
The pinkette however, stared at her like she was a ghost.
"Oh uhm, I'm sorry, did I offend you in any way?"
Robin tells the pinkette apologetically, thinking she might have done something to offend her.
The pinkette snaps out of her daze, gets up and curtsies in front of her.
"My name is Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, daughter of Karin de la Vallière, proud noble of Tristain and a student of Tristain Magical Academy. You are inside the infirmary of the Academy. And...I apologise for summoning you here without your permission. Please...tell me what should I do to earn your forgiveness."
The pinkette says as apologetically as she could.
The nurse leaves the room and closes the door, sending that the two women needed some privacy.
"...oh uhm, it's fine, you didn't do anything for you to earn my forgiveness!"
Robin says , as she gives a gentle chuckle at such a polite and earnest young girl.
"But I'm not familiar with Tristain...is it a city or a town?"
Robin inquires about her location. She had been to just about every corner of Ylisse, Ragna Ferox, Plegia, and Valm, but never has she heard of a town called Tristain. How far is it from Ylisstol?
Hoping to finally reunite with Chrom, Lucina, Morgan and all of her friends and comrades, she instead receives a puzzled look from the pinkette.
"The Kingdom of Tristain is a nation, are you sure you're well miss...?"
The pinkette now showing a look of concern.
"Oh my, forgive me, I have not told you my name. My name is Robin, Royal Tactician of Ylisse, and...wife to Chrom the Exalt."
Robin remembers her farewells with Chrom, like it just happened a minute ago.
Louise's jaw dropped. A royal tactician? Most importantly, she was ROYALTY?
But Ylisse was unknown to her. Louise prided herself in her academic knowledge, but this place was unknown to her, let alone it's royalty.
"Ahh it is good to see both of you up and well."
Professor Colbert's timing was perfect. He came to see how they were faring and was glad to see them well enough to converse.
"Pardon my manners, I am Jean Colbert, a professor here in the academy, it is my pleasure to meet you"
"The pleasure is all mine professor, you can just call me Robin. Robin of Ylisse"
The professor warmly smiled at the young woman. But paused to think of "Ylisse". He has been to all the corners of the land and has never heard of a place called Ylisse.
The professor turns to face Louise.
"The Headmaster would like to discuss the events of your summoning Miss Vallière, are you well enough to go?"
"Uhm, yes professor, I shall head there immediately."
"And..."
The professor turns to Robin.
"He would also like to personally greet you to this academy Miss Robin. If you are well enough yourself, that is."
"Yes, I think that would be most prudent Professor Colbert"
Robin stood up and picked her Grandmaster robe up from the nearby chair, wearing it over her. The robe reminded her of the Shepherds, and Ylisse. After Plegia's invasion of Ylisse was thwarted, she had her old robe modified, giving a more regal look, befitting her status.
"Louise, shall we go see the headmaster?"
Robin politely asks the pinkette.
"Yes, let's go Miss Robin"
"You don't have to be so formal Louise, please just call me Robin."
Robin tells the pinkette with a small chuckle.
The three started walking through the hallways of the academy, towards the headmaster's chambers. Reaching the end of a hallway stood a great door. The great imposing door meant this was the headmaster's quarters. As Colbert opens the doors, an old bearded man sat behind a great wooden desk. Beside him was a green-haired woman with glasses who wore a black cloak. The old man was Headmaster Osmond, and the woman was his secretary, Miss Longueville.
"Welcome! Welcome Miss Vallière, please make yourself comfortable."
The old man speaks, directing Louise to a chair in front of him. The old man was patting his familiar, a small white mouse.
"Ahhh welcome to the Tristain Academy of Magic! I Believe we have not met, I am the headmaster of this academy. Please just call me Osmond."He lets his familiar down onto the ground and scurries away.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Sir Osmond. I am Robin, Royal Tactician of Ylisse, wife to Chrom the Exalt."
She repeats her introduction to Louise.
After a lengthy discussion with the headmaster, both sides were shocked of what they learned. Robin and Osmond both deduced that Robin had come from another world, and that Louise had summoned her here somehow.
Louise could not believe it. She summoned someone from another world. Where did she go wrong? And more importantly, how could she send her back?
"Louise, since you summoned me to be your familiar, then I should just honour the pact, at least for now."
Robin tells Louise as she snaps out of deep thought.
"I agree, this is most unusual but the fact still stands that you summoned Miss Robin here as your familiar. You should seal the contract."
The headmaster adds.
"...alright."
Louise replies with a deep sigh. Since Robin had consented to it, she would do it.
"My name is Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière. Pentagon of the five elements, bless this individual who I am to call my familiar."
Louise then kisses Robin on the lips. The act afterwards greatly flusters both of them.
Robin suddenly felt a surge of magic within her, and a sudden searing sensation on her right hand. Looking at it, strange runes burn themselves on the back of her hand.
"Interesting...I have never seen familiar runes like this before..."
Colbert noted as he examines the runes.
Osmond was equally puzzled, with vast amounts of knowledge behind him, he has never before seen these kinds of runes, nor dies he recognise them.
"Well, I think we should leave the question of Miss Robin's familiar runes for another day."
As Osmond stands up from his chair to look out his window.
"And since Miss Robin is now your familiar, she should sleep in your room Louise. It's been a long day for both of you."
The old headmaster added.
Louise at least was thankful that this didn't escalate into an international crisis.
"Please follow me to my room Robin, I'll have the maids prepare dinner for us there."
Louise asks Robin with a smile on her face.
"Alright, after you Louise"
Robin lets the pinkette out the door first.
"Headmaster, I should go look further into the matter of Miss Robin's runes"
Colbert tells the headmaster as he heads out.
"I need to get some paperwork done headmaster, I'll be outside at my desk if you need me"
Longueville tells the headmaster as she too heads for the door, closing it behind her.
Letting out a long heavy sigh, then a chuckle, Osmond picks up his little mouse familiar.
"What do you have for me ChuChu? Ohh little miss Vallière was wearing pink today i see, oh and miss Longueville's was white...oh how about miss Robin's?...Pure white?! Ohohoho!"
Osmond's perversion was unknown to anyone but Longueville, and it seems that the old man got lucky today as she had not noticed.
Back in Louise's room, the two girls had just finished having dinner. Robin noticed that one of the maids looked different with black hair. She merely nodded to the maid as a gesture of thanks and got a smile in return.
"So Louise...how long have you been studying in this academy?"
Robin asks her master, to get along better with her
"I've only started this year, I've been here for 4 months. Although my classmates have already reached dot or line class, I have yet to cast a single successful spell other than explosion..."
Louise sinks slightly into her chair feeling depressed.
Robin sees that she might have tread on a sensitive topic , so she decides to steer the conversation in another direction and to date her curiosity.
"Louise, can you explain the dot and line mage classifications to me?"
"Uhm yes, my pleasure"
As she shoots back up her chair.
"Mages are classified as dot, line, triangle and square. Each mage starts out being a dot mage, being able to cast one element. Line mages are able to channel two at once, it does not necessarily have to be two different elements, a line mage could only be able to channel fire but apply it twice to make it more powerful, so spells that use two fire elements is a line class fire spell. Triangle classes are usually the seniors and the same condition applies to them. The best if the best, such as the headmaster are square mages, who can channel four elements at once, and they are a rarity."
Louise concludes her explanation, but Robin remembers the summoning ritual, that she mentions a pentagon.
"Louise, you mentioned a pentagon in it, is that another class?"
Louise once again prepares to answer.
"Pentagram mages are even rarer than square, they are said to be gifted by Brimir himself with his powers. Pentagram mages have access to the fifth element, void magic, the most mysterious and most powerful element, said to enable someone to defeat entire armies, and also obtain powerful familiars, though not much is known if them as there has not been any in centuries."
Robin tries to classify herself, she could cast fire, water/ice, wind, lightning and all their variations. Based on the facts, she should be a triangle at least and a square at most.
Louise continues on
"All nobility are mages, unless those mages are disowned by their families. Non-magic users are commoners who serve us, and in return we defend them"
Robin was shocked to hear this. Class discrimination against non magic users? She decides to drop it however, she was in a different world, she should not judge their actions, but it was still a farcry to Chrom, who treated both nobles and commoners equally with respect.
"Ah I see, thank you for the explanation Louise, and for the food and the room"
There was only one big bed in the room, enough to fit in around six Louises comfortably so Louise offered Robin to sleep in the same bed with her.
Robin did not mind though.
"I should go to bed, I've still got class tomorrow" she tells Robin as she gets prepared to change into her sleepwear.
"I still feel a bit full, I think I'll go on a walk around the school grounds"
She leaves her majestic looking robe behind on the chair, wearing a brown shirt with dark brown pants, as she gives one more smile to Louise before slipping out the door.
"Good night Louise"
She says as she closes the door.
After changing into her sleepwear, Louise lies down and faces Robin's coat.
"I wonder what kind of life she had before coming here?"
She asks herself.
"Did she have loved ones back home? Did I forcefully take her away from them?"
Louise decided to stop thinking about it, with a frown, and started to sleep.
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Author's notes
I'm still new to fanfic writing and this is my first xover fanfic. I loved both ZnT and FE, and I thought that they'd go well together.
If you've played FE:Awakening, this Robin comes from the sacrifice ending.
I'd appreciate comments and suggestions since I have never wrote fanfic before and I want to improve.