(DISCLAIMER: I do not own Familiar of Zero, alright.)
Looking back at this Anime's Fanfictions, it was always mostly focused on having alternate versions of Saito, an OC with tragic backstory and edgy personality, an OC with godly powers, some characters from there own show, or sometimes summoning a modern day US army to kick some nobles rich asses and declare a new Democratic government to all!
So then came another question: "Why can't Louise accidentally summon an army of her own or have something to make her defend herself?"
Truth be told, there are some of those Fanfics around this part but some may be dead or on Hiatus for a while; I mean hell, there was a Fanfic where Louise summoned the Nano-suit from Crysis or constructing her own forces of NOD from Command & Conquer.
So that is why I want to expand more on this variety instead of having one Familiar being by her side.
This is where I begin.
(Extra notes: This is my first Familiar of Zero Fanfic, so clearly I still have a lot to remember what happened in the main source.)
CHAPTER 1: THE FIRST CONTACT
(SPHEROID CONTROLLED PLANET Codenamed Garza-776)
200 years ago, Planet Garza-776 was just considered a vacant lustrous planet is known for its massive balance of Amazonian level of jungles and mountains including its Pacific-type mega oceans.
It was a really good place to set up a colony for future generations for every traveling multiversal empires, but instead of massive superpowers setting foot on this habitable growing vacant planet...
It was instead founded by, what best described as, the 'Youngest' superpower space empire among four other older multiversal empires.
They were known as the Spheroid Hive, multi-dimensional galactic hoping space colonists of sentient parasites.
After doing major research and observations when it comes to following one of their 'Colony's' journey, it all began in one habitable planet where either a Spheroid Apex-Carrier or a single Spheroid Seeder Titan each carrying an Egg Core.
You see, whenever they found a suitable spot on the empty planet they landed on, it is the job for the crew or the Titan to place that said Egg Core deep underground or deep into underwater's seabeds in order for it grow up while seeping deep into the planet's crust for resources to absorb up.
That once small Egg Core would soon grow into a massive Dome shaped mountain-sized heavily armed multi-purpose fortress called a Spheroid Palace Core that comes equipped with its own Brains, Main Core, and various important network systems... I mean it's like having a human brain, heart, and blood veins.
Your average Spheroid Palace Core has the capabilities to spawn its own Spheroid Symbiotes who are still in their fetus stages until they grew up to their Juvenile stages, then came the part where they began to manufacture the standard human-sized Spheroid Exo-suits in order for them to explore much more efficiently and quickly.
When the time comes when the Palace Core had gained the right amount of materials and resources, it can proceed to raise up whatever type of buildings they needed at once until it is time for building up the Interstellar Shipyards at once so the cycle can continue on and on.
But sadly 100 years later, another major multiversal space empire just had to ruin the process of growth and development of the Spheroid controlled planet of Garza-776.
(Garza-776)
=PRESENT DAY=
They came out of a sudden after we launched the first Seeder Titan out of the planet's atmosphere.
We didn't manage to raise up many ASC (Anti-Space Cruiser) Rail cannons at once due to the fact that we accidentally focused on exploring the planet and building up various important facilities.
They then began to rain devastating barrage after barrages upon our planet and onto my kin below, and we were completely defenseless against their unexpected massive armada.
Even though we managed to destroy dozens of them with only few ASC Rail Cannons until they were blown apart for good.
Then they landed upon the planet and they didn't hesitate to go all out completely as they deployed a massive battalion of every unit they have onto their own transport ships.
My forces shall manage to hold them off for a few good moments until their superior air support has come to clean us all up into nothingness.
But as the Queen of this hereby Colony; I shall not end it this way.
After constructing my artificial Exo-Body to walk around instead of having to coop up as a Palace Core for my entire existence, which is a really beneficial construct fitted for me.
As I looked away from my holo-window, one of my Royal Spheroid Knights came up next to me.
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "My Queen! They are already breaking through our 1st and 2nd line of defenses and at this point, they will pierce through the Palace Core's main entrances! I believe it is time we ready the Heir at once."
I hereby also agreed to his suggestion, and we both exited out of the Main Core's Cerebrum room.
When we both walked down in one of the Palace Core's main hallways, and everywhere we go there are always some extra Spheroid Troopers running outside to help boost up the last line of defense for a while after so we can finally both finish readying p, my emergency heir.
The probability of being attacked at an early stages for a Colony can be sometimes around 40% to 60%, and we are one of the Colonies who were unlucky to be attacked at this stage, which is why I came up with the idea of raising up my own Symbiote Parasite that comes with its own personal hyperspace ship for safe travels.
Which is why-
(KA-BOOM!)
Apparently, the remaining Spheroid communication units were right about a massive orbital ship targeting our Palace Core at the very center at full power after we were both thrown to the ground and thus resulting in the severe damages that are exposed among my Artificial Exo-Body.
After my Royal Knight gains his vision back, he was distraught when he saw how heavily damaged my body was after I sense his feeling to be upset while his mono-eye went wide in shock after he saw how badly damaged I was.
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "ARE YOU ALRIGHT, MY QUEEN?!"
I ease his uneasy feelings when I said that I am still alright, even though the Nano-actuators within in both of my legs were completely destroyed, and thus I can't walk up properly for a long time until further repairs.
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "I am so glad to hear it, my Queen. But I can't say the same to our evacuation ship."
When we looked around to inspect the damages of my personal research lab, there was some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that my Spheroid Knight and Heir are both still alive and well as my Symbiote Heir seems to be crawling up to me to check if I am still ok, which I gladly reply by hugging close to me due to the fact on how happy I was to see him still alive after that devastating orbital strike.
The bad news is...well...his personal hyperspace ship has been completely destroyed permanently and when we both looked into my status of the Palace Core, it is currently at 15% stability...we are going to die.
We all are going to die here without exploring the stars above us, and we can't believe this is how it is going to end for my entire Colony.
If only we had time...time...please give us time...we just-
"My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere."
A voice? We both just heard a voice out of nowhere? Is this what some they called hallucinations? Also, the name sounds a bit mouthful in my opinion.
"My servant that exists in this vast universe and the outside. My beautiful, wise, powerful servant, please heed my call."
Her voice...seems to be filled with worry...yet, she seems to be calling out for someone just to be her servant...if only I could help...
"I call upon you from the bottom of my heart, be my guide and appear before me!"
Before I could say anything else, there was suddenly a huge emerald oval shaped portal that appeared out of thin air just in front of me, my Royal Knight, and my Spheroid Heir, and it kinda surprised us three after knowing it just materialized out of nowhere.
When we both scanned this strange portal between us, it then came back with some positive results that means that it is safe to go through it, even there is that 4% chances of gaining some unknown side effects after going through it.
I would have walked into it before I realized that both of my legs were both busted up real good from that pin-point accurate orbital strike, therefore destroying my chances of escaping...
Until my Heir came up to me and told me something I didn't expect to hear from him.
He wants to go into the strange portal and spread our legacy... I can't... I can't contain...i grabbed him and hugged him with all my love for the last before I inject him with the last of my Nano-Modules into him in order to be upgraded against all types of odds and hostilities.
But I am still completely worried about him going all by himself, which then I had another after I turned to my Royal Knight and asked him to-
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "I shall accept your last request at once, my Queen! I shall protect the Heir Symbiote no matter what happens! I will watch over him no matter the case and odds! I promise you that."
Hearing him say it made me happy on how happy I was to have him by my side, and after we both saluted to each for the last time, he grabbed my Spheroid Heir and attached him to his back for safe keeping.
With one last goodbye hug to my Royal Knight and Heir for good; I then let them both go as I watched them both ran up to the oval emerald portal.
And then they both entered through it.
Before the strange oval portal disappeared out of existence.
It was just in time because the main doors behind me suddenly melted apart as multiple Cyberian Troopers came up to me with their Red Sun plasma rifles pointed at me.
It appears all they want is my existence and resources after all.
(MEANWHILE IN HALKEGINIA AT THE SAME TIME)
Just like how her classmates had expected from the great mighty 'Louise the Zero', after seeing her class bully slash walking fiery beauty with envious 'fun bags' summoned herself a damn rare Fire Salamander with no accidents at all and the school's mister pretty boy Guiche got himself a literally large Mole, but the one thing that made her jealous is the fact that the silent bluenette student is known as Tabitha just got herself a Nature Dragon.
A Nature Dragon for Brimir's sakes!
Now Louise really needs to step her game up if she wants to blow away all competitions after she can successfully summon her familiar with all her might and heart.
When it was finally her turn, she then chanted the speech of summoning a familiar with ease before letting it all out of her mind.
She wishes for at least a responsive loyal servant whether it takes form as a cat, dog, were-beast, a loyal bird like the one Momorency has on her shoulder, Kirche the fat cow having a Fire Salamander, and hell why not a Dragon like the Tabitha has that is just standing all cute by her side!
The spell is working as normal as it began to glow brighter every passing second, and deep within Louise's thoughts is that she wished to not result in another explosion for once in Brimir's sakes.
Also...this entire process of summoning a Familiar seems to be taking a little bit too long...maybe she could just-
(BOOM!)
Ah yes, there's the famous explosion of hers, but she soon takes it all back after she was thrown to the ground harshly due to the powerful shockwave caused by her own explosion.
Since she had endured many of her explosions through the past few months within the Academy, this one seems to be the biggest out of all of them except it did not kill her here and now, just made her vision really dizzy and her ears temporarily deaf for now.
Jean Colbert, a fellow professor Tristain Academy of Magic and a great known teacher according to some of the students nearby, quickly ran up to the fallen strawberry hair young woman and began to heal her up with some of his Healing Magic immediately.
COLBERT: "Miss Louise, are you alright?!"
LOUISE: "I'm...alright, professor. I didn't expect my explosions would be that loud..."
COLBERT: "But at least look on the good side, you performed the summoning just right even though your explosions have caused another scene."
LOUISE: "The Summoning!" (Stands up quickly) "What happened to my summoning, professor?!"
After being reminded about what happened right after the loudest explosion she had created, she then moves through the dusty fog as covered her nose and coughs for inhaling some pieces here and there.
Finally, Colbert gathers some of his Wind Magic and blows away the dust fog out of everyone's sights until the sunny clear skies shine on everything once again, therefore giving everyone including Louise herself to see what she has just summoned.
And it was...the most bizarre familiar that she had ever...no, make that two familiars summoned at the same time!
RANDOM ACADEMY STUDENT: "Is that a man with a strange looking bug attached to his back?"
Well, true to what that student had just said, but almost close enough.
RANDOM FEMALE STUDENT: "His clothing seems to be all blue with a bit silver around there?"
Yes, it was obvious he has the theme of both color Blue and Silver on his entire attire.
RANDOM MALE STUDENT: "He's one tall man. How tall is he? What kind of a Familiar did Louise just summon?"
To answer all of their questions, the strange humanoid man itself seems to be around 2.30 meters tall, his attire seems to be composed of a dark metallic blue helmet that has a bright blue visor in front of it in the form of the letter 'U' while also having a small light blue circle in the middle, on both sides of the helmet were two elf-like ears except they both pointed up to the sky and both were the same color except the tip were also bright blue.
Besides the helmet that it seems to be wearing on, it seems to have two silver shoulder pads on both sides, his strange chest armor seems to don the dark metallic blue texture like his helmet except it is also riddled with bright blue lines that seem to be glowing from time to time.
Down to his armored leggings, it is also colored in dark metallic blue except for his knee-length silver metal boots with strange mechanics attached to them.
Despite Knight looking appearance, he seems to be also wearing a sleeveless knee-length blue coat that seems to act as his cape of some sorts.
Above all else that strikes the most about the strangely humanoid being in front of them is that its entire body seems to be mechanical in nature, and yet it has the clear appearance of a Knight from another world.
KIRCHE: "My, my~! Looks like all the explosions you have caused had finally paid off, Louise. Getting my own Fire Salamander is one thing, but you got yourself an actual Knight, its unbelievable!"
GUICHE: "This is not fair at all!" (Looks at Verdandi) "You are still precious to me, my dear Verdandi. Tabitha may have been so lucky to get herself a Nature Dragon, but the Zero...the same Zero right here...gets to have a Knight!"
Tabitha looks away from the book that she was reading and looks at the strange Knight laying dead on the ground while saying nothing at all at the moment.
Then the rants of the students started to become louder and louder as they couldn't believe that the most embarrassing student that they had ever met or saw gets to have one of the most prestigious beings as her own official Familiar.
Luckily, Louise didn't have time to deal with their loudmouths as she was busy inspecting the strange Knight with a bug attached to his backside at a safe distance just in case it won't accidentally stab her or something when it wakes up
COLBERT: "Everyone, QUIET DOWN!"
Hearing their professors strict loud booming voice made them shut up in an instant, thus returning the silence back to the way it was.
COLBERT: "Now that's much better. With all the ruckus now swept away, shall we proceed now Miss Louise?"
LOUISE: "Huh? Oh, yes...of course, professor Colbert."
COLBERT: "Very well, then. Now please close the contract at once with a kiss to seal the deal. It really is a blessing that you get to have a Knight as a Familiar, heard that having one by your side can be considered as the highest prestige."
Nodding for a yes, Louise slowly grabbed the strange Knight's head close to her face and took an even closer look to his helmeted face, which she then tried to take it off like its still a normal helmet...but its not a normal helmet at all.
She tried to find an opening underneath or behind its 'Helmet' in order to pull it off his head, but no matter how hard she tried to remove it, it still won't budge at all!
LOUISE: "Professor? His Helmet can't be removed at all, no matter hard I tried. It's like it is completely stuck to his head."
COLBERT: "That's strange? Even the hardest helmets have a way of locking themselves."
LOUISE: "So...can I still kiss him in order to complete the summoning?"
KIRCHE: "Oh, Louise~! Are you having some kind of problem with your newly summoned Familiar or should I come over and help him wake up...in my own 'way'."
LOUISE: "Nobody asked you, Kirche the living pair of mammaries!"
COLBERT: "Miss Louise, calm down, please. Perhaps the kiss would still work, once the kiss is settled, then the Magic will do the works along the way."
Hearing the advice from the professor, Louise looked back at the still unmoving Knight's helmet and realize how eerie he looks like when you can't even see the real face behind the helmet that is somehow completely stuck onto his face, but nevertheless she finally got herself a proper Familiar after months of endless humiliations from her own Academic peers around here.
Without further interruptions, she kissed the Knight's helmet on the forehead.
COLBERT: "Thus the contract with your newly summoned Familiar is now officially closed-"
Without even a blink of an eye, the once unmoving strange Knight suddenly moves in the quickest way possible, and this caused Louise to let a terrified yelp when he suddenly woke up after the kiss she just gave him.
The strange Knight himself quickly checks if the thing attached on his back is still there while at the same time summoned some kind of a long single edge dark and light blue sword after what some, including Louise and Colbert themselves, saw bright blue vein-like tentacles snaking around his left arm before it materialized into that intimidating long sword.
This sudden action causes Colbert to quickly ready his staff against whatever this strange Knight is planning next while Louise is still a bit scared out of her soul when her familiar suddenly just jolted away from her face.
The strange Knight then began to point his strange long sword in every direction while at the same time busy analyzing the entire surroundings around him.
COLBERT: "Louise, get back! Your familiar seems to be cautious over something, so please get behind me now!"
LOUISE: "Professor Colbert, please allow me to talk to my familiar! I summoned him, so, therefore, I am the who needs to tame his hostility! Please give me a chance to talk to it!"
GUICHE: "Louise, your Knight familiar's sword seems to be glowing with something!"
When she heard Guiche shout something about her Familiar, she then turned around and, true to what he said, saw that his strange long sword began to cackle with some kind of electricity around the blade, and this probably means that it'll probably attack one of them in a few moments.
Which she must act now before someone gets hurt from her newly summoned Familiar!
LOUISE: "STOP! STOP...WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING...RIGHT NOW!"
The strange Knight seems to be taken back a little bit when this short strawberry colored hair girl in front of him suddenly threw her arms wide and lets out probably the strictest command that he had ever heard of.
Looking around one last time to make sure nobody is around to kill the strange metallic bug attached to his back, he then retracted the strange long sword back into his arms as it de-materialize back where it came from.
LOUISE: "...So...is it okay to talk to you now?"
COLBERT: "I think he seems to be feeling alright right about-"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Where are we?"
LOUISE: "Oh finally, you can actually talk too! I was wondering if you are just gonna-"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Where...are...we?"
The strange Knight asked a second time but with more emphasis and heavier tone when asked his question to Louise.
LOUISE: "...You are...in Halkeginia...and I have summoned you...to be my...Familiar...please don't kill me."
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "...Thanks for the answers, little lady."
COLBERT: "Pardon me, but what do you mean by 'we'?"
LOUISE: "I have only summoned just one Familiar, don't tell me I have summoned more than one Familiar!"
Just as she said it, the strange bug that was attached on the strange Knight's back suddenly began to jiggle around before it began to move on its own as it detached itself from the Knight's back and crawled over to his shoulder before it looked around with its bead-sized glowing blue eyes.
LOUISE: "...Great Brimir, I can't believe it...two...two Familiars!"
COLBERT: "Great lords, even I can't believe you get to summon a Familiar that has a Familiar of its own."
KIRCHE: "Isn't that amazing, Tabitha?! For once, Louise the Zero has managed to achieve something more than just being the queen of unnecessary explosions~."
Tabitha didn't even say anything at all since all she just lets out is a "Hm." and that's pretty much it before she went back to reading her book...even though she needs to take a closer at this strange two Familiars of Louise when the time comes.
As for the other students of the Academy...well, they were either shocked, displeased, pissed off, or jealous at this sort of event after hearing the fact that all of them have at least one Familiar by their sides.
But for Louise, it's a different story!
It's the most absurd thing that they have ever seen, and they all guess this is kinda karma making fun of the Zero when the same Zero herself manages to get herself a pair of two Familiars...TWO FAMILIARS!
This pretty much changed their point of views and opinions about Louise right this instant moment, and now they can't be too sure what can her two new Familiars can do to them if they tried something stupid against her.
COLBERT: "How astonishing! It even looks like a rare metallic elemental bug-looking creature. You should be proud of your successful summoning, Louise."
LOUISE: "You know, Professor Colbert...maybe I am really proud of it!" (Looks back at the strange Knight) "Know then, may I kindly ask for your name, dear Knight?"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "My...name?"
LOUISE: "Yes, your name dear Knight with a strange bug on his back. You do have a name, do you?"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "I...never had a-"
But before the strange Knight could even finish his sentence, an indescribable surge of pain rampaged through his entire left arm as he then strongly grasped his left wrist as hard as he can, and while he's unable to screech out in pain, he still manages to hold on a bit while the internal suffering itself began to grow bigger and bigger.
As this was going on, the strange bug attached on his back suddenly began to wiggle around like its having some kind of seizure before it fell off the Knight's back and landed on the ground on its back before it rolled back on its six metallic light blue insectoid legs, and then it fell to the ground flat on its underbelly while still jolting around a little bit.
LOUISE: "Uhm...professor? What is happening to both of my Familiars?!"
COLBERT: "I...honestly have no idea what is happening to them, Miss Valliere. This is the first time I have seen a Familiar act so out of normalcy after being summoned by their summoners!"
While the strange Knight was grasping hard on his right hand, the next strange thing that happens next was unknown glowing green scribbled words that were beginning to show up on the back of his metallic dark blue left hand.
When the unknown glowing green scribbles are finally done with writing themselves onto the back-palm of the strange Knight, he then suddenly collapse to the ground as the bright blue glowing lines across some parts of his body suddenly gets dimmer and dimmer before blacking out, thus resulting in him falling to the ground completely weaken once again.
As for the strange Knight collapsing head down to the ground, so did the strange Bug with him had also suffered the same way except instead of unknown language carved onto the strange Knight's backhand, it was replaced by an unknown bright emerald symbol instead.
Seeing the Heir that he was supposed to be protected right now, he immediately ran to it and wrapped it around with his arms as if shielding him from all sorts of attack except underground while frantically looking around on who's trying to assassinate the two of them.
COLBERT: "What the? Those symbols..."
Seeing how the strange Knight is being overprotective over the strange Bug, Louise then began to slowly walk towards over to him in order to calm him down, plus she silently prayed within her head that doesn't to get stabbed out of instinct.
LOUISE: "It's...it's alright...nobody around is going to hurt you or your Familiar...nobody is going to hurt you."
The strange Knight looked at her with its still glowing bright blue single cyclops eye, and after a few seconds of secretly scanning her, he then receives certain info's like how she is into sweets, sensitive height due to her short stature, undeveloped mammaries, born in a powerful Nobel family, and something about her unable to manipulate the basic elements of Magic.
Except according to the list he sees by the side of his screen, she has this 1% chance of having a hidden unknown element that remains redacted for the time being.
LOUISE: "As your master, please allow me to state that I, and the others around us, meant you no harm at all."
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "...You mean no harm against me?"
LOUISE: "As a proud Noble and as my first successful Familiar, you have my word."
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "...You promise?"
LOUISE: "I promise to the summoning's rules and contract as your master. Now can you stand up if you are feeling alright?"
Her strange Familiar look around them one more time, still being spectated by the same group of students while still being bewildered by the sight of Louise's two Familiars, and then he stands up while hugging the strange Bug like a huge oblong backpack-sized pillow if it was all metallic and the appearance is Bug-like.
Now that he was standing at full height, Louise was probably at his hip level kind of short and this made her a little bit shocked that she just summoned a literal towering armored Knight figure.
Just as some of the students could even get near the trio, Colbert suspected this and waved his magic Staff around.
COLBERT: "Alright everyone! Now that concludes today summoning ritual, please spend the time to get to know more about your newly summoned Familiars, the stronger the bond, the better."
Hearing their Professor's command, they all began to disperse into their own ways together with their newly summoned Familiars while some of them took one last look behind their backs at Louise and her two Familiars, which still makes some of them Jealous, to be honest.
LOUISE: 'Finally, some peace around here.' "Now...before we could all get to know each other first of all, allow me to introduce myself. I am Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere of the great mighty Valliere Family. It is an honor to have a Knight as my Familiar, which I am completely grateful~!"
The strange Knight looks at her with puzzling expressions on his single mono-eye, he never thought he would meet a certain Terran-like race like her and others around them, just what in the world was that portal he just went through?
Could this be one of her works of dimensional teleportation?
Could this also be used to make their way back home to claim it back?
Probably not, but it could be possible if further research has been put into it.
LOUISE: "Now! Please, come with me. We could talk more about it back into my room."
As he was following her at a normal pace, when he looked up into the skies and gazes through the partially cloudy blue skies, he never thought that both of them would be summoned to a rather peaceful planet...if only it wasn't suddenly being invaded by a multiversal cyborg alien empire, and let's hope it will not happen at all!
(LOUISE'S ROOM)
Upon entering her room within the Academy's dormitory hallways, her dormitory room was...quite simple and spacious for a single person.
A single circular table with two sets of chair on one corner of the room, a mirror set complete with its own drawers, a huge closet just beside the mirror set, a queen sized single bed that comes with its own curtains, and finally a window that has the view of courtyard below and the nightly skies outside.
Also, there seems to be a pile of Hay just beside her bed...for some reasons unknown.
The Strange Knight and the metallic Bug then secretly analyzed her entire room while she took off her cape after a whole day of classes and one successful summoning ritual.
LOUISE: "Now where we left off. Can I begin asking you some questions?"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Yes, you can-"
The strange Bug within his arms suddenly began to move around while it was buzzing with some kind alien-like humming noises before it began swaying its six insectoid metallic legs around as it began to ponder what just happened earlier before his vision went black.
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Good to have you back, my friend. I was worried you lost me for a second. We can't break her promise right after we just entered a new world."
While he was patting the 'head' of the strange Bug, he then looked back at Louise...which both of her eyes went wide as she just remembered what she was supposed to say in the first place.
LOUISE: "First of all, what kind of thing is that?!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Which thing do you mean?"
LOUISE: "The one wiggling around in your arms that also seemed to be attached at your back right after you were summoned in front of me, just what kind of monstrosity is that?!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "I see that as a minor insult. This...'Thing' you are seeing right now is a...how do I say this to you?"
While he was thinking about their fake backstories with little results, the strange Bug took one look at Louise with its two beady light blue eyes curiously and scanned her from up to bottom.
Just as it has finished scanning her, it suddenly jumped out of the strange Knight's grip as he was busy thinking up of their false origins and pounced onto Louise's feet.
Screaming with slight terror at what this 'Thing' is about to do next, this just caused her to jump on top of her bed before scuffling back away from it before accidentally falling off to the side of her bed again, meanwhile the strange Bug jumped on top of the bed and look down on her to see if she was okay.
LOUISE: "Stay away from me! Stay away or I'll-"
She went for wand holder beneath her cloak and realized that it wasn't there as she left it on the table after when they entered her room.
LOUISE: "Damn it! Stay away from me, you freaky insect thingy!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Do not fear much further, miss Louise. He means you no harm at all. He just wants to know you, that's all. Like a friend."
LOUISE: "You know what it is doing?! Please tell your insect Familiar to back away from me!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "I am terribly sorry, but I can't take any orders from you."
Hearing those sudden words from him, Louise was now terribly surprised at what she just heard from her Familiar that she forgot about being scared at the strange Bug in the first place.
LOUISE: "Excuse me? Correct me if I am wrong but...you refuse my commands?"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "That is correct."
LOUISE: "...Why exactly?"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Because you are not officially my superior in any sorts of the way no matter how you put it."
LOUISE: "Well, allow me to say that the summoning ritual earlier is the way to make us prove that we are capable to become Noblemen by having our Familiars be with our sides at all times and heeding our calls every time we need them. A Familiar must follow it's master's heeding commands!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "To be honest with you. I find that entire event of summoning your own Familiars to be...uniquely different."
LOUISE: "Wait, you mean you have your ways of rituals of summoning your own Familiar back where you came from?"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "It kinda feels like it. Except we only had to follow major orders from our King or Queen while we persuade our curiosity of exploration."
LOUISE: "So you do have some kind of Noble diversity back from where you came from?"
Putting his hand underneath his chin, he began to browse through his species recorded branch of Hierarchies, but knowing the fact that she might not understand how things work from where they really came from, he decided to just lay it all out in the simplest ways as possible.
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "We live in a colonial-like type of society where we either follow the orders of one King or Queen, but if one Hierarchy is more than capable of leading multiple Colonies than he or she is considered an Emperor or an Empress, and therefore...you are not our preferred Queen."
LOUISE: "Preferred Queen? PREFERRED QUEEN?! I summoned you and your Familiar to be my own Familiars, and you refused to follow my orders just because I am not your preferred Queen?!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Please, do not take this the wrong way, Miss Louise. We could still uphold standard protocols just-"
LOUISE: "NO! I have finally summoned a perfect Familiar that is also some kind of a strange Knight, and yet here he is! Refusing my orders with absurd reasons!"
Just as the two began to banter against each other, the strange Bug began to come up with a certain idea to ensure this strawberry colored hair young woman is on their side when it comes to entering a new world.
When the strange Bug looks back at the two ongoing arguing duo, it then lets out some kind of a beeping chirping sounds straight to the Knight which in turn suddenly responded by looking back at it.
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Yes? You are suggesting something, my Heir?"
LOUISE: "Hold on! Did you just call that Bug an Heir? Ok, now I demand some clear explanations right here-"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "You want to give her some of your Leadership Modules?"
LOUISE: "-right now-"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Are you sure it won't affect her nervous systems? No, they will not? Are you sure about this?"
LOUISE: "-immediately!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Very well, your highness. Go for it."
LOUISE: "Are you even paying attention to me? I demand to know about me not being your preferred-ah, ahh, AHHHH!"
Why did she scream out all of a sudden?
Well, it turns that the strange Bug instinctively crawled up her back out of a sudden with its metallic insectoid legs even though it crawls upon her back in a rather gentle way to avoid accidentally piercing nor scratching her skin through.
When she realized that a metallic Bug is actually hugging her on the back, she then started screaming as if a Banshee has just gone through a supernatural period, and thank the Brimir that she was not a Banshee.
LOUISE: "W-w-w-what just crawled up my back?! What's on my back? Please tell me, what's on my back?!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Apparently, his Highness has taken up the responsibility to show you that he is not in any state of hostility, for he said and I quote, 'a unique potential host and a brand new line of partnership'."
LOUISE: "If this is his idea of opening up a partnership BY CRAWLING UP MY BACK! I DEMAND HIM TO PLEASE GET OFF MY BACK!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "I am sorry, Miss Louise. His Highness has made up his mind...also please brace yourself as he is about to inject some of his Leadership Modules into your cerebral cortex."
LOUISE: "Cerebral wha-"
Before she could get an explanation out of her familiars, she suddenly felt two small thin needles inserted themselves into the back of her neck.
LOUISE: "EEK! Wha-wha-what is it doing to me?! What is it doing to my neck?!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Please stay calm, Miss Louise."
The Strange Knight walked up to her before he then grabbed both of her hands gently to ease her anxiety all the way down while the process continues behind her back, which in turn causes Louise to squirm with fear as she was being harassed by a mechanical bug from another dimension.
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "The process will be quick and painless, it should be finished right about..."
Louise lets out a relieved gasp when the two thin needles ejected from her neck, and this resulted in her having two small metallic holes on the back of her neck.
Knowing the module injection is complete, the strange bug than jumped off her back and landed back onto the bed and proceed to doze off like some kind of dog who had a very long day.
After all of that charade, Louise then touched the back of her neck to know if something was wrong, and something was wrong about her as she felt two small circular spots behind her neck.
LOUISE: "W-what did it do to my neck? What're this two circles on the back of my neck?! What did it do to me?!"
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Since he took a liking on you and wanted us all on an equal level of partnership. He proceeded to give you some of his Leadership Modules in order to grant you access and title to be my first official superior."
LOUISE: "...So...do you mean...that I can now..."
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "As my first official superior besides his Highness's being top priority. I shall heed your every order with utmost respect and loyalty throughout time and fate."
Then the Strange Knight conjured the same long sword moments ago and kneels down while using his long sword like a stand as he bowed his head down to the ground.
THE STRANGE KNIGHT: "Upholding my duty as a Royal Spheroid Knight Code#45-67-21. The security of your well-being and my Heir's survivability is this new world shall be absolute while I am around. This I shall promise, Madam Louise."
Like a picture out of a fairy tale book that Louise had read when she was little, she never thought that she would actually have an actual Knight from another unknown world that comes with a familiar on his own...even though she realized it's not a familiar but a very important royal figure to him.
She was...happy deep inside like she could actually have a very positive outlook throughout the entire school year.
Nevertheless, at the same time feels really weirded out by the whole ordeal after getting a metallic bug crawl behind you just to inject a pair of needles into the back of your neck.
Oh, great Brimir looks like she just has to make the most of it right now.
LOUISE: "Oh...oh...very well. Despite how weird this day has become, you hereby declare yourself as my familiar, who shall heed my every word and stay by my side no matter what. Please rise up, Royal Knight...45...64-"
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "My Code Number is 45-67-21, in case you forgot."
LOUISE: "Yeah...something tells me calling you by your 'Code Number' is going to be a bit jarring and tiring and let's not forget, repetitive. So...how about I give you a brand new name?"
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "...It will be a great honor, Madam Louise. Even though no one, even my former Queen before you summoned us both here, has ever gotten to get a literal alphabetical name."
LOUISE: "You don't get to have names from you both came from?"
SPHEROID KNIGHT: "We were all born very quickly after a few minutes or days, and we get to be given with randomly generated Code Numbers and specifically chosen duties to serve our Colony. I would be happy to receive an official name from you, Madam Louise."
She never thought an exotic Knight from another world would be this excited to get a name, it must be really that rare to be granted an official name from where he came from.
LOUISE: "From here on now, and for the rest of your service. I hereby name you...uhm...mmm..."
Looking back to find a fitting name for her Knight familiar, she looked far and wide even back from the books she had read as a child together with her second elder sister and a very important royal childhood friend.
Remembering some of her Tristanian languages, she thinks hard and after a few moments began to piece it the words together.
She got it. She found a rather suitable name for the Knight kneeling in front of her.
LOUISE: "I got it! From henceforth, you shall be Sir Chevalier Dau-Dela! That name could be used for formal events, so in public, your name would be...that's it! Garde Loyale! Sir Garde Loyale."
Now being given not one name but two official names by Louise, the now newly named Spheroid Knight felt like he has been given further motivation and purposes for the rest of his and the Heir's life.
SIR GARDE: "I shall accept both of those names, Madam Louise. Thanks..."
LOUISE: "For giving you a name?"
SIR GARDE: "For giving me more reason to protecting you and the Heir. I shall not disappoint you both as much as possible."
Now this feels like an actual fairy tale scene based on what Louise is seeing right now, and she never felt proud of every passing moment.
Speaking of passing moments, it was already getting late at night.
Therefore making Louise suddenly yawn loud and clear as if her body is releasing the stress after a whole day of worrying that she might the Familiar Summoning Exam, but thank Brimir it did not!
LOUISE: "Mwaaaah~! You know...as much as I could ask about where you came from. I could use a good night sleep right now."
SIR GARDE: "Yes, you should get some rest immediately, Madam Louise."
LOUISE: "By the way, is it okay for you to sleep on that pile of hay just beside my bed? Please forgive me for not having an extra bed right now."
SIR GARDE: "That won't be necessary, Madam Louise. I am capable of being tired for an extreme duration of time so therefore I keep an eye out for the entire night no problem at all."
While Sir Garde was explaining his impressive amount of stamina, he didn't seem fazed at the sight of Louise changing into her school uniform into her nightgown in full view due to how irrelevant the entire full view is right now.
LOUISE: "Oh, that is just great to hear about, Sir Garde. I can't wait to see what you and this bug, even though it is still weird that you 'it' a 'him' while also a very important figure for you, are capable of tomorrow morning."
She went to bed, thus causing the metallic bug to wake up slightly and moves to the front edge of the bed and made himself comfortable, but at this point on Louise didn't mind for now on having a metallic bug sleep with on the bed.
As Louise began to dose herself to deep sleep, Sir Garde secretly took the time to scan her overall Health Status.
It gathered the basic stats like how her body systems are holding up, which are all green. Her mental status, which resulted also in green and has a rather bright '+POSITIVE' sign beside it, and it is probably referring to how well the summoning went on.
Yet the weirdest thing about her is the amount of unknown energy stored deep within the veins of her entire body is right now, it could be the 'Magic' that he has seen everyone been using earlier but this one seems to be...collateral.
Somehow the destructive capability of this 'Unknown Energy' is currently at 0.1%, so therefore everything is on the clear right now for everything and everyone.
After finishing up the Overall scanning on Louise, Sir Garde can now silently go out the door and proceed to patrol the area for all sorts of potential danger and threats to him and his two superiors.
This is his duty as a Spheroid Knight, none shall escape his grasp. With or without the boundary of a Colony right now, a duty must be upheld all the time.
(MEANWHILE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF HALKEGINIA, THE GREAT OCEAN)
Out in the middle of this massive sea body is a single Airship as it was drifting along the mighty Great Ocean, making its way to a pinpointed harbor just a hundred miles ahead.
Everything was calm and silent as the only sound that can only be heard is the sound of the waves swaying below them and birds occasionally passing by them.
Suddenly one of the sailors on top of the deck looked up to the sky and saw a Comet up in the sky.
AIRSHIP SAILOR: "Hey fellas, look up above!"
He called the sailors around him and they watched in the spectacle as the Comet above was bright as a brightly lit lantern, and then they all noticed something different about it.
It was getting bigger and bigger.
It was so getting bigger that it was almost that it almost the 1/4th sized of one of the moons!
Seeing this Comet coming to crash down on them, the Airship Captain sounded the alarm.
AIRSHIP CAPTAIN#1: "MAST THE SAILS! MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY! THAT COMET IS COMING DOWN ON US!"
As it was getting closer and closer, the Airship made it in time as the Comet crash-landed on the deepest part of the Great Ocean around them.
It created a massive tidal wave but no explosion of sorts, but the Airship got away in time as it began to rain thanks to the Comet landing below them.
AIRSHIP SAILOR#2: "What in great Brimir was that Comet!?"
AIRSHIP SAILOR#3: "Never seen a Comet land here in this part of Great Ocean, so this is a damn good first one."
AIRSHIP SAILOR#4: "Man, they would not believe when the others hear about this after we land at a Harbor. Too bad that Comet landed in one of the deepest trenches deep down below us. Would be nice if we could take a look at it?"
While the sailors were talking about the Comet just now, their Captain also joined in looking down below.
Then he saw something different like there was...lights?
Lights below the Great Ocean? This has just gotten even stranger than before.
AIRSHIP CAPTAIN: "Everyone, are you all seeing this? Please tell if I am crazy or not but...is seeing lights below those waters?"
True to what he is seeing right now, everyone else on the Airship can see the same thing. Lights are really shining out just below the Great Ocean below them!
AIRSHIP SAILOR#1: "Nope Captain, you are not going crazy! There are lights coming down below!"
AIRSHIP CAPTAIN: "Great, how strange this night can even get right now?"
As if on cue that moment he asked that question, something massive stood up and burst out from the water below them and thus caused another small rain upon them.
Suddenly a sound that can be described as a horn screeching against metal can be heard throughout the entire Airship, and that's the moment everyone on the Airship can't believe on what they are all seeing in front of them right now!
Standing at 290 feet tall, purely humanoid at first sight until realized it has only six fingers, seems to be coated in dark blue metallic armor from head to toes below the Great Ocean.
The head has a single glowing cyclopean sky blue 'eye' that has the same colored lines wrapping around its head plus including the fact that it seems to upright 'Elven' ears pointing up.
The strangest thing about this sudden giant from the depths of the Great Ocean is the massive orb attached on its back, it has the same glowing blue lines all around it.
Now that they all got the clear picture on this metal giant, they all began to panic just by the sight of it except the Captain, who seems to be the calm yet scared deep inside his head.
AIRSHIP SAILOR#2: "GREAT BRIMIR! A METAL GOLEM FROM BELOW!"
AIRSHIP SAILOR#1: "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE IT DOES SOMETHING WORSE!"
AIRSHIP CAPTAIN: "All hands on deck! We make haste immediately!"
The Airship flies away at its maximum speed and away from the Metal Golem, and as they all began to stray away from the idle Metal Golem, the Captain took one last look at the Golem and realized something about it.
It is not chasing them nor firing at them with some magical projectile.
It was just standing there and looking around like everything around him is very new to him for the first time.
What they didn't know was that it was not here to wreak havoc everywhere it goes but seeks to plant a new colony for his kind.
This was a Spheroid Seeder Titan, whose primary duty is to land on specific random planets and deploy its Egg Core behind its back to begin a new branch of Spheroid Colony.
So after scanning the entire large body of water around him, it resulted that the most suitable area to wake the Egg Core up is down below where it can absorb various resources deep within the planet's inner layers.
Making a final decision on where to place it, he detaches the Egg Core off his back and planted it firmly on the sea floor below, and then he waited for the Egg Core to do some calibrations on its location.
A few moments later, the Egg core accepted its location and began to drill down below and began absorbing any valuable resources it could get its tendrils on deep within.
As for the Seeder Titan, it gently sat down on the sea floor as it began to stand guard close to the Egg Core as it also began scanning the entire planet for anything useful.
Then it detected something very unusual...
Despite the natural inhabitants on this very planet that they both landed on, the Egg Core detected 2 similar Spheroid signals and 1 converted Spheroid Organic.
2 similar Spheroids and 1 Converted Spheroid!
The Egg Core felt relieved as it just made the task of giving birth to a new King or Queen much easier since one of the 2 similar Spheroid seems to hold a Royal Gene-Code...wait for a second, the converted organic also has a Royal Gene-Code within it!
So there are now 2 beings who both hold a Royal Gene-Code, oh happy day indeed!
But the problem is, how they would contact all three of them due to them being on the other side of the planet?
Plus setting up the Colony could take months without any sorts of disasters or troubles, and it looks like it would take a long while to let the 3 knows that there is a Colony waiting for their King or Queen.
If all goes well, then the Egg Core and the Seeder Titan can rest assured to wait, lay low, being careful, and most importantly...survive.
TO BE CONTINUED.
