The darkness of the world known by everyone as nighttime dominated the sky with thousands upon thousands of stars lighting up the universe. The two most obvious features of the night sky are the blue and pink moons that seemed second nature to everyone who lived in the world of Halkeginia.
All except one.
"Ahh… this is wonderful…"
At the Magical Academy of Tristan stayed one of the few commoners allowed in the school. One, if not the most important commoner who went through hell and back in a zero plane with his master, fought off an army and in a sense lived to fight another day, and rescued his blue haired friend just a few days ago, was in a huge cauldron that seemed identical to one he found a long while ago with a fire underneath him.
"Nothing could possibly ruin this…"
Saito said and laid his tired body against the warm iron. With a wooden panel underneath his feet to prevent the fire underneath the iron pot from burning his feet, Saito just let himself go and began relax for the first time in many weeks. Next to the metal pot stood a small tree that held his clothes and also a towel.
Footsteps rung into the ears of the Gandalfr but he just decided to let it lie. His eyes drifted to the two giant moons in the sky in an attempt to distract himself but after looking at them for the last few months, they have lost their one majesty and have been seen as just two color moons to Saito. Again the footstep seemed to grow louder even though they were hitting grass. The man tilted his head to the noise could not believe lightning was hitting twice.
"Siesta!?" Saito exclaimed and sank into the cauldron to hide his dignity. The maid just simply smiled and walked up to the pot of hot as hell water.
"Good evening Saito, I was wondering where you were since Louise is at the capital currently."
Siesta looked at the man and saw only from his nose up from the steaming water. His cheeks were red as roses but neither knew if it was what happened last time between the two or if it is the warm water. Suddenly, an idea hit the woman who smiled which made Saito worried that she was thinking the same thing he was
"Would you mind if I join you?" And with that, Saito knew that things were about to get extremely interesting since Louise was out for the week and everyone else was dead asleep.
"Umm-" Saito began but the very well develop maid decided to begin undressing before he could finish. Saito spun around but every single vibe in his being was yelling at him do these four words.
TURN THE FUCK AROUND!
Saito tilted his head slightly and saw the woman hopped into the cauldron without making a noise. The male turned his body and returned to relaxing on the edge of the pot. He looked at the woman across from him and top half of her womanhood was almost bobbing, like a soft set of pillows floating in water.
"Saito, you seem to be acting strange as of late, are you okay?" Siesta asked and moved in front of the boy and held her right hand on his forehead. By doing this, her chest pressed against his as it took everything in his being to prevent a show downstairs.
"You seem a little warm."
"Well, we are in a hot tub." "This world's version of one anyway, oh how I would love to have an actual bath." Saito threw the thought from his head and redirected it to the here and now. "So, anything interesting happen since saving Tabitha?" He asked as Siesta moved next to Saito.
"The same, serving nobles who believe they are superior to anyone."
"I see, so it really is the same."
"Say, remember when you asked about my family and home the last time we were in one of these?"
"Yes."
"You never did tell me what your home and family is like since Miss Va- I mean Louise interrupted us."
"Now that I remember, she did come in just as soon as I was about to explain home."
"Well now is your chance too." Siesta said to the man with a glimmer in her eyes as Saito smiled at it. He looked from his right and lifted his right hand from the water at the smaller of the two moons.
"Well first off, you see the pink moon?" Saito asked as Siesta nodded. "Well, make it maybe… twenty times smaller and you have the size of what my moon was."
"Moon, you mean there is only one moon on your home planet?"
"Yup." Saito said and sank his hand back into the water. "Now things get a bit complicated so stop me when you're confused."
"Alright."
"Where to start… I got it. First, the country I come from has no system of commoner and nobles."
"What, but that-" Siesta began but Saito stopped her.
"Let me finish, the country I come from is called Japan. It, like just about every other country in the world is free from a class system based on power. There was once a time where feudal lords and emperors lead the country and-" Saito glanced at Siesta who seemed already confused. "Oh ya… you don't know what a feudal lord or emperor is."
"I am sorry, could you please explain?"
"Certainly… I think. You see I feel asleep in history class so I don't really remember everything but the parts I assume is that feudal lords are owners of land. However, that system has long since passed."
"I see, it sounds like the nobles today."
"In a sense. Then there is the Emperor, basically the leader of the country. Before I left, we had one still but his power was limited in favor of the people."
"The people, you mean people like you and me?"
"Yup, you would have a voice in my world like everyone else."
"This Japan sounds like a paradise!" Siesta said but did not see the frown on his face. "What's wrong?"
"Earth is… nothing close to a paradise. Halkeginia is more of one than my home because of home things is in my world… Siesta, Japan is… never mind." Siesta looked into his eyes and saw two emotions, excitement but also the more showing is dread.
"How bad is it?"
"To simplify, if you do not have money, you are nothing but labor to most. Japan is an island country which doesn't have many resources and to make matter worse, the country's economy wasn't that well when I left."
"I am sorry I asked." Siesta said as Saito realized that he was getting pity from the woman.
"It's not all that bad. I mean, you take the good with the bad I suppose. Although, you share one quality that no one else seems to outside your family."
"What is that?"
Saito softly pulled at his jet black hair to tell her what he meant. Siesta looked at her reflection in the water and remembered that both she and Saito shared the same hair color. The thought of her childhood and never now showed that no one outside of her family seemed to have black hair like theirs. There was the rare occasion of black someone might have but it never was as black as the night sky the two were currently under.
"Are you saying that I might have an ancestor from your homeland?"
"If you never showed me the zero fighter a while back, then I couldn't say. But since you did and only my country flew one of those in the past, I believe you might be."
"Then we might be related!"
"Now this is starting to sound like a terrible manga you would find in a store." Saito thought as Siesta grabbed his right hand which also meant his hand was in between her jewels. "S-Siesta, my hand is…"
The maid looked down and saw that indeed her tracks of land had in the center Saito's right arm. She looked at the hand and then at the man who came from another world and released his right arm. Saito slowly pulled his arm back and the two sat there in silence for a few moments. A thought entered the mind of the Gandalfr.
"Say Siesta, you told me once that you had an ancestor who traveled the world for magical objects right?"
"Yes, I have forgotten his name but he did indeed search the world for objects that might bring him home."
"I see…" A strong gust of cold wind hit the two as they sank into the warm water to escape it. "I think we had best head in for the night Siesta."
"Agreed… umm… who is going to get out first?"
"Oh crap…"
Sunlight hit the eyes of the boy wonder who was sleeping in the bed he and his master shared. Saito cracked his eyes open but closed then as the light hit them harshly. He threw the sheets over his head but still the light was so strong that it did not help. He glanced his eyes to the right but did not find the maid he had a bath with yesterday but assumed she was off on her duties.
Saito shifted his body to the left but again found an empty spot on the bed where Louise would sleep. Giving up on the sun being nice on the boy, Saito jumped out of the bed and over to a stand that contained some water. He splashed it on his face, grabbed a nearby towel and cleaned his face up. Saito placed the towel back where he got it and grabbed his jacket and sword and made his way to the outside world.
The familiar began to walk down the hallway as a small messenger was running up to the male. Saito stopped walking and watched the kid fall on his face from sheer exhaustion.
"Hello… I think is the right way to start this conversation. Is there something you need?"
"Headmaster Osmond wishes to see you immediately."
And with that, the kid keeled over and feel asleep. Saito shook his head and casually began walking to the office of the office of the world greatest secret pervert at old age. After a few minutes of walking, he reached the oak door among oak door that actually had importance to the boy right now. Saito knocked on it and waited for a response. Nothing.
"Hello?" Saito said and opened the door. Inside he was what appeared to be a map on the headmaster's desk but he didn't pay no mind to it. He looked around and again no one was in sight.
"Ahh, I thought perhaps you might still be asleep so I went to get myself a glass of tea." Saito turned around and saw the old man standing in the doorway.
"Hello Headmaster, you wanted me?
"Yes, there is something I wish for you to see." Osmond said and walked over to his desk of wood. "What I am about to show you stays here unless her majesty says otherwise."
"Yup, so what is it?"
"First, do you know anything about this map?" Osmond pointed at the map on his table which Saito discarded in his mind. Looking at it, he nearly froze from the shock.
"T-That's!" Saito could not believe what kind of map was in front of him.
"Do speak up boy, what is it?"
"This is a map of my home world. Everything to countries to oceans to the names are on here; although, it appears to be around the 1980's."
"I assume that is a time of year?"
"Yes, reason is because of this red blob on the map." Saito said pointing at the landmass, in the center of it in bold letters read UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS "This is amazing, is there anything else?"
"There was one other thing along with it. Here." Osmond handed the boy an object wrapped in cloth. Saito began to unwrap it and nearly dropped the thing in his hands with what it was.
"SHIELD NOW!" Saito shouted in panic at the old man who placed an emergency protection barrier on the object and Saito dropped it onto the floor. A blast of light engulfed the room that made both males close their eyes.
Half a minute later, both opened their respective eyes and inside of the circular shield contained a cloud the resembled a mushroom. Saito feel onto his back with the adrenaline leaving his body.
"Oh my god… that was WAY too close…" Saito said as he just laid on his back as he began to take in everything so far. "First a map of Earth and a gift being the most destructive weapon they have."
"That was that?"
"A nuke, basically take a normal explosion and make it a million times bigger and poisonous. You definitely woke me up alright Headmaster." Saito said as a three knocks came from the door and in came the maid.
"Saito, Headmaster Osmond, did something happen in here; I heard an explosion in here." Siesta said and walked into the room and noticed the map on the table.
"I am sorry Siesta, but I must ask you to leave." Osmond said.
"Actually, I don't see a problem with her being here. In fact, it's perfect with what we were talking about yesterday."
Saito commented with Siesta stopping at the door and turned to the see the men. Osmond clasped his hands together and began to think about Saito's choice of words, but also what the two teens were doing late at night since he heard some of their conversations. Osmond decided that since the boy knew about this better than everybody on the planet, he accepted the boy's words and motioned for the maid to stay.
"Very well Saito." Osmond spoke as Saito motioned to his friend to come next to him.
"What is this map about?" Siesta questioned as Saito smiled.
"This Siesta is my home planet."
"Then where is Japan you spoke about?"
"The four island chain right there." Saito pointed at the continent of Asia where four large islands are located. He did not touch the map.
"Right here?" Siesta placed her finger on the island chain of Japan.
Suddenly, the map began to levitate with the location of where Siesta pointed to. As the map stopped moving upward, the two teens began to move forward without their knowing. Without delay, a huge gust of wind gave a tremendous force that took Siesta off her feet towards it.
"SIESTA!" Saito shouted and grabbed her hand with his right hand and stabbed Derflinger into the ground to stop himself from whatever the map was trying to do. "Crap… crap, CRAP!" Derflinger began to lost more and more ground until the blade came flying out from the ground and both. "NAAHHHH!" Saito shouted and the two souls flew into the map.
Neither of them opened their eyes with how dark it was for them. Saito chose to open his eyes to see what they had gotten themselves into. The Gandalfr's eyes shot open in shock, not believe what happened and where they were.
"Siesta…"
"Yes?"
"Open your eyes."
Siesta slowly opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was a tree with pink petals. Behind the tree stood skyscrapers in the sea of cement with black roads crossing the giant buildings with people in suits walking the sidewalks. Siesta looked at Saito who had a couple of tears run down his face. The maid rubbed the water from his face.
"Where are we?"
"Japan Siesta… home." Saito said as he realized that they were overlooking one of his home country's cities on a hill.
"Now what?"
"Oh crap… we have no money." Saito panicked in the realization that they were basically in trouble without any money.
"I have a little gold on me." Siesta said and dug into her maid pocket and pull out twenty-four pure gold coins which could save them. Saito looked at Siesta and hugged the woman who blushed.
"You just saved us from the hell on the streets Siesta." Saito said as he threw himself to his feet and sheathed Derflinger. "Well, shall we make for a coin shop to trade them in for some money?" Saito held his hand out to the woman who had a different mindset on what he meant.
"You know best in this world." Siesta responded and took his hand and lifted her to her feet. "Thank you Saito…" Siesta said and kissed the boy on the cheek for trying to save him and wanting to help her when it would be easier for him to leave her and find his family.
"Yup, we are in this together."
Author's Notes – Ehh… this is either a hit or miss chapter for me, even more so with this story since I personally don't like Earth Fics on this achieve. I feel I took elements from stories like "Worlds Connected by Festus Flare" with Tabitha trading her Halkeginia gold for Japanese yen but considering gold is mostly the main currency, it seems like the only option I have. So ya, I can't take credit for it being original about it.
And the most common question I get with a Zero no Tsukaima story I create. LEMON!? Let's be honest here, if I have not done one in Second Chance, Halkeginia's Revolution with Henrietta or Familiar of Who with Tiffania, then do you honestly think I am going to do one with Siesta? … I can hear the people shouting yes right now. Still, despite not doing one for the two lovely ladies I have used in my stories, this is probably the one that has the greatest opportunity to happen so… we will see; and it doesn't help they are on Rule 34 Island which is a name I hate to hear about Japan.
