Chapter 1

I don't own familiar of zero or other anime, manga, game and references thatni used to create the story.

Cedric sat on top of a branch as he watched a blue haired girl fight a poisonous three headed serpent monster.

He is a young man with dark-grey hair and blue eyes. He wore a black sleeveless skin-tight jumpsuit with minor padding and straps toward the sides with daggers on his arm and shin guards, fingerless gloves and tabi boots. Strapped on his back is a sheathed sword with a circular guard and with its handle wrapped in red bandage.

The fight had gone for several minutes with the girl having most of the injuries. The monster wasn't that strong and could be taken down by a small group of highly skilled and trained knights or a single experienced mage but looking at how she fights he could tell that she is a greenhorn.

He raised his hand the moment the serpent opened all of its mouth in preparation to spew out poison at her. "Wind wall".

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Tabitha was taken a back when suddenly a wall made out of wind appeared in front of her and blocked the balls made out of poison that the monster released.

She looked towards where she heard the voice and saw a young man that was probably the same age as her waving at him.

"Who are you?".

"Cedric" he introduced as he jumped down from the tree branch. "Need help?".

Tabitha was about to decline when she remembered that she was having trouble fighting the monster.

She nodded. She doesn't have the luxury to decline his offer seeing that he was able to cast a strong spell.

"So what's your name?" Cedric pulled out four of his daggers.

"Tabitha". She wondered as to what he planned to do with those daggers.

"Nice to meet you". He offered her a smile before explaining the plan. "So this is how it goes, i will hold it down and when i give you the signal cast your strongest spell"

She nodded in agreement. He was either confident of his abilities or just being arrogant.

Cedric turned his attention to the serpent who had already broke through the wall. "Well here i go".

Tabitha's eyes widen when suddenly he vanished. She looked around and found him above the serpent.

Cedric charged his daggers with lightning before throwing them at the serpent, Each dagger hit a head and the tail paralyzing the monster as the lighting coursed through its body.

"Now!" He called out before vanishing once again.

Hearing the signal from cedric, tabitha raised her staff and chanted. "Rakus. Wotale. Isu. Yise. Hagaras"

Her staff glowed before a powerful wind and icicles came to existence. The icicles launched towards the monster, impaling it on several parts of its body.

Cedric reappeared next to tabitha. He drew his sword in a single motion showing a single edge sword. Coating it with wind spell, cedric made a wide arc slash that sent a blade of wind that sliced the serpent in half to make sure that it was dead.

Tabitha stared at cedric. 'He could cast magic without using chants and he can also use daggers and sword as a focus to use magic?'.

Knights use their sword as a focus for casting magic but this was the first time she had seen someone use two different focus to cast a spell.

"Hey, do you need the body of the serpent?". He was planning to harvest its poison to use in creating a weapon.

"I need it as a proof". She still didn't know how she would bring it back to show the king.

Cedric sighed. He was even careful not to damage the organ that was producing the poison.

"Why are you fighting it anyways?". He found it odd that someone the same age as him would be out here hunting a monster.

Tabitha refused to answer his question. The problem that she is currently facing is her own, she didn't want others to know of it.

Noticing her lack of answer cedric decided to just drop his question. "Hey, how about i help you bring this to the castle and i get the poison bladder as a reward for helping you?".

Extracting the bladder wasn't an easy job since it would need delicate handling in order to remove it as a whole.

"Even if i agree with you we still don't have a way to bring that back". The monster was easily 3 or 4 times her size.

"I have a solution for that". Placing his hand on the ground cedric channeled his will power to the earth. From the ground three golem made out of earth arose. "Pick up the monster and be careful with it".

The golem nodded before walking towards the monster and picking it up.

"How did you do that?". Humans were not capable of casting magic without any focus unlike elves. Plus that was the third elemental spell that he had used. 'He's the same age as me but his already a triangle mage'.

"Secret". He said with a wink. He didn't like bringing up his past that much because it still causes him to have nightmares. It was something that no child should ever undergo through.

He was lucky enough to be saved or else he would have been dead or had gone insane from the things that has been done to him.

Tabitha understood, she had neglected to answer his question earlier so it was fair that he did so too, and besides. 'Everyone is entitled to their own secrets'.

The two headed towards the kingdom in order to present to the king the body of the fallen monster that has killed several knights because of its poison.

Tabitha knew that this wouldn't be the end of the deadly missions that the king would send her to in order to eliminate her wothout anyone getting suspicious on the method of her death. She might be using a different name but she is still the princess of the kingdom.

-to be continued-.

A/N :

hi, this is my take on familiar of zero. Hope you guys and girls like the first chapter.

Tabitha and Cedric are both 14 at this so it'll be a year before tabitha enters the academy.

Reviews and suggestion are welcome.