Zero no Tsukaima: an unFamiliar Story!

by david375

Summoned to this alternate world, this yellow fox struggles to make his way home under three new masters. Will he ever escape Halkeginia? Who will he leave behind to recover the friends he's lost? First Fanfiction, rated M for violence, language, and occasional sexually suggestive content in line with Zero no Tsukaima. Revisions complete!

1. Preface

PREFACE:

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by, even just to read these first few words. I just wanted to give you a quick heads-up about what you'll be getting into if you decide to tackle reading this whole thing. There are no spoilers here, so feel free to read this preface or skip straight to the next chapter if you like to go in blind!

First, this story is FINALLY COMPLETE! Both the AO3 and FFN versions are finally one and the same, and are what I consider to be the finished story. Everything you see here will be how the story remains until god knows when.

Next up, there are some important changes to Tails that aren't mentioned for a ways in, but they are implied if you follow his timeline as consecutively as possible (which is stated somewhat early on); Namely, he's older than the games, TV shows, or comics, at around 15 years old. This isn't stated explicitly until the end of Season 1, but it's useful to know. This also means that he's taller – for the sake of reason, I put him at about 4' 9'', or to put it in contrast with Zero no Tsukaima characters: one inch taller than Tabitha, ten inches shorter than Kirche, eleven inches shorter than Saito, etc etc. While it can be glazed over pretty easily, there are some details and scenes later on that wouldn't quite make sense for Tails to only be 2'8'' as he was when he was 8 in the video games, as well as his lack of aging across his different appearances in different stories. It wouldn't make sense for him to be eight both when Sonic X was going down AND when he was working in Knothole, since I went and put them in some canonical order and they both DEFINITELY took years apiece.

Thirdly, this story is based primarily off of the anime adaptation of The Familiar of Zero, not the manga (otherwise this story would have well beyond breached a thousand pages of 12pt Times New Roman font writing. For reference, the main file is almost 900 pages long as it is). Of course, I take some deviations that story to keep things from being purely a "insert character here" story.

Anyways, that's all I have to talk about for now! I hope you enjoy my first fanfiction as much as I have!

David A.