That is not dead which can eternal lie. This immutable truth rang out across and strangely through the universe, forever etched into the fabric of space. No sane being could truly comprehend its intent or focus, but they all subconsciously knew it was true. And so it held, past the time of mortals, into a time of awakening, when the world lost all semblance of sanity and gave up and died. And it was during this time, as the world fell into decay ever so gradually, that a great calling took place in another dimension. And things woke.
It was spring. That was the first thought that ran through the head of a certain student mage within the first second of her waking. In spring came the ,for her, dreaded Familiar Summoning rite. She dragged herself out of her room and into class, apprehensively awaiting that dread moment when her mentor will call her name. Students began to file past, all looking satisfied, or at least content with their familiars. The pink-haired student was sweating bullets as fewer and fewer students remained in the queue. Finally, it was just her. She ducked a little, hoping to hide behind a taller student and avoid notice, however, her great 'friend', Kirche, called out. "Mr. Colbert, not everyone has gone! The Ze- sorry, 'Louise' has yet to try!", she said with a giggle. Her classmates groaned, ducking behind desks and taking cover as if it was practiced, a thing they had done many times in the past, ever since the now-named Louise had arrived. She glared around her, saving special venom for the red-haired traitor Kirche, then stepped forward. She glanced to the teacher, Mr. Colbert, and continued when he nodded. SHe closed her eyes tight, then began her shaky summoning. And the gaze of a dead god fell on this peaceful world… "Y'AI Look you guys can just imagine she said her BS chant of 'I am an idiot hear me roar'" She closed her eyes as if in prayer, bending her head slightly, towards the ground, begging the powers that be for a powerful and godly familiar. And They answered.
The building rattled. A ground-shaking moan was not heard, but felt. A ghastly aura coupled with a pressure emanated from the abyssal black portal yawning in front of the awe-struck students. One of them even managed to gather up the will to titter. "Well now you've done it, Zero, a portal straight to the bottom of the sea!" How right you are, O doomed one. The moan came again, this time followed by a great stirring, and a cloud of silt, as if spewed from some abyssal horror at the base of the deepest ocean, came floating from the eldritch gateway. "Ch'gnaiih gof'nn…" A great thundering bellow rang out from the portal, and many a familiar shied away in abject terror, some even going so far as to flee the room altogether. The pressure increased, some of the more fragile students' noses bursting into vivid blood flow. And the gate of tortured water and space gave way, ripping wider to admit...something...that had no place in this, or any other world. A gnarled claw, a talon as if that of some great sea-beast or aquatic drake, came thrusting through the portal. And the world shattered as a whole arm came through, followed by a shoulder, then the whole thing or being, whichever any mortal that remained sane could say it was. Minds broke, eyes stared listlessly off into the horizon, and the summoner, no, the Caller smiled in an insane, broken way, She or It grinned, showing all of her teeth, then her gums, then exposing her muscle, then her skull, as the flesh of her face peeled away, leaving a laughing skull in its place.