Hello Everyone, hopefully you could spend your time reading this because I have something to say.
I was never been a really good writer and I still am not one, but today I just have this urge to finish what I've started, this story is Re - Rewriten, Yes I've rewrite this story three times, and hopefully there won't be a fourth times, but I just wanna bring the best with my best capability even though my best isn't the best. And besides I've seen... no, we have all seen those stories where Saito our man protagonist in zero no tsukaima (it's a pretty old series by now) are replaced by an OC or someone else to be in the position of Louise's familiar, or there's the story about where Saito's coming into this world not alone but with a friend instead.
The potential of the world of Halkeginia is too much of waste if I just put it the same like to original novel or anime series where the heroes gets the girl or in Saito's case All the girls(or almost, he could get it if he wanted to) and his friend even sometimes fight alonside with the OC along the story, yet I don't want this to be generic story about a new guy that doesn't really does anything asides from a minor changes here and there and even if he wasn't there at the first place the story still could carry on. So I've decided i'm gonna make my own tales based in Halkeginia, my own character in the same timeline as the original story but different way and a different path, they would come across each other once in a while and my story isn't focused on the love story like Saito and Louise, I wanted my story to be a tales about Friendship, Adventure, Brotherhood, Tragedy, Love, Family, and Struggle. So in the end after you've finished this chapter, it would be much appreciated if you would leave a review but please hehe, go easy on me cause I'm still learning like we are all, no one is perfect yet we tried to be one, hopefully you like this story and I'll see you NOW LETS GO!
In the far land of Halkeginia There's this story about a teenage guy who mysteriously disappeared from his home world from a portal that appeared out of nowhere into this mysterious foreign land to become a certain girl familiar and end up as a hero in this world, along with his girl aka master, his friends, his own mansion and his own harem… But I guess you already know about that story… but there is another person. What? What do you mean by who is it? *sigh* Well… I guess there's a reason why he's called "The Forgotten Hero" and since you have no clue about him, let's get into his journey already.
Tokyo, Japan 06/23/2006 (The Original story never validate what years does it take places on so I just assume it must be around 2006 when the Anime series started)
"Oh god…" said this guy, the name is Minatsu Kito, 17 years old, a pretty well looking young man with medium dark hair and two hazel eyes who's also a NEET, yes… aaaand he is in trouble after he broke his PC monitor by accident
*Flashback*
"What!? What do you mean you haven't pay the bills? I got a game with my friends this evening, without internet I couldn't- What? What do you mean since when do I have friends!? OF COURSE I DO well… online friends but- whatever that's not the case!" He said madly on his phone, he called his Sister after he couldn't connect to the internet and found out his big sister hasn't pay the bills.
"TONIGHT? Nonono that's impossible Sis- Sis? SIS?! OH HELL NO" he said madly hitting his desk which cause his desk to fell off along with his Monitor with a crack
"…" Silence "NOOOO!"
*Flashback over*
"…No internet, no game and now… No monitor…I hate my life…" he said while walking like a zombie, well since he broke his monitor now he needs to fix it… or at least try by asking it to the service station.
"Whoaa hey hey hey isn't that Minatsu Kito my old friend…" said a scary looking guy with his spiky blonde hair from an alleyway.
"Ahh shit" whispered Kito while the spiky dude approach slowly in his black leather jacket "where are you going hmm?" he said
Meanwhile Kito is being intimidated, usually he would just comply if he ask anything or ignore if he said anything to avoid any trouble "What do you want Shinji?" Said Kito sharp in both tone and glare
"haa? What's with the look there? Just saying hi to my little pal and my best man whenever I need him" he said but Kito since he's having a bad day already respond with "Listen Shinji I got no money on me right now, I'm having a bad day already so if you'll excuse me" while trying to walk away when a hand grab his shoulder hard enough it shock him to the core
"Why are you talking to me like that? I thought we were friends?" Said Shinji calmly yet intimidating "now hand it over"
Kito having a bad day already is about to get worse from this, he snapped and shout "I SAID I DON'T HAVE ANY!" Smacking his bag onto Shinji's head and making run of it then realize… He's not alone
"Urrrgh… YOU PEACE OF SHIT GET HIM!" Shout Shinji angered telling his gang pals to chase Kito down, and our man Kito's making a run of it "Oh shit, oh shit, OH SHIT" He said he hasn't that realized he dropped his bag along with his monitor but right now he's running with fear out of his life so he doesn't have the time to think about some old broken monitor
Running across the street on to a nearby park with bad guys with killing intentions, or at least that's what in his mind right now. From a field to a places where trees are everywhere suddenly he saw something that he never expected
"What..?" still catching his breath from the running, he come across a weird looking green circle who appears to be a portal or some sort on the ground "KITO YOU'RE DEAD" suddenly Shinji and his gangs was right on his tail not too far from him
Caught off guard by the sudden presence of spiky dude and his pal behind him, he tried to make a run only to get tripped from a nearby rock and got hit by a stone on his head behind him.
"Ack-" he fell into the ground and just spot on fell into the portal as he passed out from the hit on his back earlier and disappear into the abyss without a trail
"…huh…Where did he go?" Shinji wonder while looking around to no avail.
Inside the Abyss
A certain looking young ma- oh wait that's just Kito, well with blood flowing from his back head from his hit earlier, with half consciousness she he tried to open his eye and only seeing darkness around him
Unable to think what happened and losing blood directly from his head, it starts to get harder to keep his eyes open. When suddenly a light appear from a distance and from the light appear a lady with long blonde hair and her white silk smooth skin approaching Kito.
"Forgive me…" she said with sadness "I must take you away from your world, but I need your help to save my world, place where I'm from… place where I belong" she said
With her soft hand, she touch Kito on the back of his head and a light appeared from her hand, magically healing his wound and stopping his blood loss
"huuuh…" Kito mumbled in half consciousness, unable to see the person right in front of him clearly when she said "You're our only hope to bring balance, my only hope… go my hero please save us… thank you and goodbye" she said when suddenly all darkness around turn into a white bright light and he close his eyes.
Halkeginia, Tristania Academy of Magic
Somewhere in a field
Our young guy Kito wakes up from his short slumber, he opened his eyes slowly to see the sun shining bright on him 'what? What's going on?' he thought "Aww… my head hurts!" He felt pain on his head, yet the wound was no more "what did just hit me? Huh? Where am I?" he ask himself try to look around him to see a wide green field and a grey wall
"A wall? What is this-"he stand shocked when he saw a weird looking tower behind him almost old in design "No way… last time I was in a park!" he look around simultaneously to see he was in no park and yet to realize he's not in japan no more.
"Hey you there!" he heard someone shouting in unknown yet familiar language (Imagine this guy speaking in French, since I don't know French I can't help it) he look at the source of the voice to which he found a foreign looking guy in a weird medieval uniform and a sword strapped to his waist
"Who are you what are you doing here?" he asked, Now Kito realized why it sound familiar, it's French and he's in trouble since he speak no French "oh no… Umm hey ano…" he said "do you speak Japanese in some case?" said Kito in Japanese which only give a look of confused in the face of the guard
"What are you talking about? Who are you?" he ask again in french again, Kito trying to find a way to communicate try another attempt with a different language "How about English, do you speak English by any case please tell me you do…" Said Kito desperate
"Oh I-I don't know what you mean by umm… English but I do now Albians" answered the guard
Kito were glad he speak English since he does as well and actually he's pretty fluent at it. But it troubles him that the guard don't know English yet actually speaking English "W-what do you mean you don't know English? You're speaking English" responded Kito
"It's Albians and it doesn't matter, what matters is who are you? And what are you doing here in this Tristain Academy of Magic?" He asked again getting more serious by every word he said
"I-I don't know, I mean I know who I am but I don't know where I am right now and What Is this Tristan- Tristana, Tristania academy of Aagh- whatever and did you say MAGIC?" Asked Kito back at him
"Don't play to be fool at me right now, you have to come with me!" He said about to arrest Kito when suddenly an explosion was heard nearby which cause both to jump
"W-what was that?" Asked Kito having no clue "was that your doing!?" He asked suddenly with threatening expression
"W-what nonono it's not me, I don't even know what is this place!" Responded Kito before he was taken by the guard "No wait please I didn't do anything I SWEAR!"
Kito Try his best to justify himself but the guard only respon is "shut up or I'll shut you down" and that's enough to silence him off, Kito couldn't fight back and even if he tried, the guard is taller, bigger and armed, around 6'2 while he's only 5'9.
While taking Kito away, the guard approach the source of the explosion on the next field where there are a lots of people wearing robe circling around what seems to be a smoke where the explosion was coming from
"You stay with me and don't go anywhere or I'll hunt you myself" he said, and Kito response is? Just three simple nod, no comment.
"What's going on here Professor?" ask the guard to the nearby people who seems to be nowhere near older than Kito himself maybe even younger
"Captain Oliver! there's nothing to worry about, everything is under control, just my students carrying their familiar summoningl" said a bald looking guy with glasses "I see,what about the explosion?" asked the guard who's name are Oliver
"Oh it's just one of my students , she was doing her part of the ritual when an explosion came by after she done her spell and then there's that boy right there appeared wearing that weird clothes" the professor said while pointing his finger toward a certain black haired boy wearing a blue hoodie
'Huh weird clothes… that's a jacket! With a blue hoodie how come- wait magic what is this? Is this some kind of a dream or is this real? What is this Place?' that's what in Kito's mind the whole time student wearing robe, professor who's teaching magic, and somehow they're speaking French and English yet know it as Albians instead.
Then half if not all of the students was laughing at a certain pink haired girl in the middle of the field, she yelled in response to the laughter around her but since she's speaking in foreign language Kito has no idea what she's talking about. But then "Hoy Cotto matte-"the guy in blue jacket stop midway when the pink haired girl yelled at him
'Japanese?! Was he speaking Japanese?' Thought Kito "HEY!" And then Kito yelled at him to get his attention but it got everyone attention instead
"Did you just speak Japanese!?" Said Kito, the guy in blue jacket widen his eyes "Wait, you speak Japanese to?" he responded
"I am! what do you think I'm speaking here, where the hell are- Ackh" Kito stopped midway when Oliver the guard choke him out, not too hard but prevent him from speaking any further and start carrying him away "I'm sorry about him excuse me!" excuse Oliver the guard to the Professor and take his leave dragging Kito on his hand.
Kito tried to break free but his hand are no match to the oliver's muscled hand, once they're away enough he let him go "urghh… What was that for!?" asked Kito
"You're making a commotion!" he responded
"What no I was just talking to that guy back then, he speak the same language as I am, he may know where I am right now!" Said Kito in defense
"Maybe he does but I already told you you're in Tristain Academy of Magic, it's in the Kingdom of Tristain!" he said again
"What… you're saying this is not japan?" Kito said, shocked, about damn he found out.
"Huh… Japan…um what you are talking about?" said Oliver confused
"T-Tell me where am I!? Where am I? Is this earth!?" Kito said freaking out already while grabbing Oliver's collar
"Whoa! C-Calm down what's the matter with you!?" He responded in defense by pushing Kito's hand out from his collar
"What's with the commotion here Captain?" said a certain old voice from an old looking guy, No it's not that Gandalf looking guy, this guy is wearing the same guard uniform but he just look older around his 40-50.
"Chief Sir, it's just this boy, he appeared in the middle of the field right there and asking where he is right now, I told him but he doesn't listen how many times I told him" said Oliver
"At ease Captain, hey there boy you speak Albians?" said Chief
"I don't know any Albians but I know it's English… well for me at least" Responded Kito, Kito was expecting that this chief would call him out crazy yet "I see, well Captain let me handle him from here you just go and return to your post, dismissed! Come with me boy" are the respond that was given by him. "Yes sir" and Oliver the guard leaves the fray and back to his post.
Inside the Chief's office
Our Young boy is currently being interrogated- I mean in question in return for an answer for every question he has, inside the room there's a desk in the middle 3 chairs 1 in front of a window which belong to the Chief and two on the other side of the desk for visitors.
Smells of wooden floors and hot tea that was being prepared by the Chief, and he prepares two cups one for Kito one for himself "Drink up boy, you must be exhausted" he offered
"T-thank you sir" responded Kito taking a sip out of the cup of tea on his hand while trying to calm down after what happened
"It's Marco, I'm the commanding Officer of Tristain 29th Guard division stationed in this academy and people call me Chief, what about you boy? What's your name?" he asked "My name is Minatsu Kito but you can call me Kito, sir"
"So Kito… about what Captain Oliver told me earlier… is that true?" asked the Chief calmly
Kito nodded his head "Yes sir, and I'm being honest, I don't know where I am, and all I can remember was I was being chased by a group of person in a park then everything is black… no wait… I think there's this woman but… I don't know it's all blurry, it could be just my imagination…" he said trying to get his memory back into his head, it was a blurry mess, everything is too incomprehensible.
"hm? What Woman if I may ask? Who is she?" he asked
"I don't know sir, no one that I've met before, she appeared out of nowhere but I can't remember where it was dark but she's so bright… oh she has this very bright blonde hair almost shiny and her skin… was almost as smooth as silk…" Said Kito
"Smooth? How do you know? Did you touch her?" he asked
"N-no sir it's nothing like that, she actually touch me… I think? I don't know I just have this… feeling of her touch but I can't remember…" ended Kito looking at his hand and taking another sip out of his cup of tea.
"And the next thing you know you woke up on the field right here in this Academy. Was that it?" he added
"Y-yes sir… a-are you going to put this into a report and… send me to a hospital or mental asylum?" asked Kito with worried spread all across his face and fear out of his voice.
There's a three seconds of silence and then "Hahaha no boy, It's just out of my curiosity and in fact, in this world where magic are common thing it's not that weird" he responded
"Magic?" Kito asked again
"aah I'll take it that magic is uncommon in your place, is that right?" he asked
"It's nonexistent actually sir but yes very uncommon" said Kito
"Well I don't know what happened to you boy, and I'm afraid I don't know how you end up here either…" he said, Kito frowned in disappointment while looking at his cup of hot tea, now warm.
"…but assuming you're from a different place I might as well help you with all I can, you see you're here in the Tristain Academy of Magic which is located in the kingdom of Tristania, one out of five kingdom in the land of Halkeginia, not the biggest but we're wealthy enough to take care of our own matter" he explained while taking out and giving a look at the map of the continent at Kito
"So I'm not in japan anymore…" Is Kito only response
"Unfortunately yes, you're not" responded the chief back "and since you have a place to stay how about a job?" he said
"Huh a job? I'm away from my home with no exact way to go back and you're offering me a job sir?" said Kito confused
"Not just a job, a new beginning, a place to stay, a place you can learn and decide where to go next but nonetheless a job, here in my division where you can stay boy" he said
"As a guard? In your division? But sir I have no training background, I'm just a normal guy-" said kito only to get respond with
"which is perfect, about training don't worry you'll get train by my men, they'll take care of you, we take care of each other here, so what do you say?" he ended with a smile
'The commander of a guard Division offering me a job to work as one of his men as a new beginning, should I take it or not? Is it the right choice? Will this give me an answer in the end?' Is what in Kito's mind
"Hmm what do you say boy is that yes?" Chief asked once again as Kito deep in his thought looked away at the window 'Maybe I should take it, I mean stranded on a foreign place with no place to live and no knowledge would be bad idea… I guess I'll take it' thought Kito as he looked back at Chief.
"Yes sir I'm in" with the look determination for a new beginning and to find the answer and maybe a way back home written all over his face
"Very well, welcome to the Division young soldier, the name is Marco, Commander of this 29th Guard Division but my men call me Chief" said Marco standing up offering a handshake as a deal sign with a smile.
And Kito stands from his chair and take his hand "Yes Chief!"
And so our young man Kito start his Journey in this land of Magic, a lot of trials and journey await for him, lessons are yet to be learn but in time he will slowly but surely, bonds will be made and broken, people will come and go, yet he must stay strong for what awaits in the end is a mystery yet uncover. And so there's the beginning of our Hero.
Chapter 1 Finished