Requiem for a Familiar
This is my first story, so please read and review!
Disclaimer
I do not own Zero No Tsukaima, or its characters, I just love the story and want to share my take on it.
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Chapter 0.1: Prologue
The theory of the multiverse states that instead of one lone universe there are infinite universes, each with their own similarities and differences from one another. Some may differ drastically, while others remain nearly identical, but separated on the temporal plane. In some cases by just a matter of moments, and a matter years in others. Much like the stars in the night sky, new universes are born, while older ones die out, either due to the dwindling strength of any one given universe, or due to the tampering of its internal space and time field.
This is a tale of two such universes, both inhabited by a magical world, known as Halkeginia. One, still very much in the early stages of its development, brimming with life and potential. The second, just a mere 15 years in the future, faces the inevitable fate brought unto it by its inhabitants. Finally realizing their mistake, albeit too late, they arrived on the only logical conclusion. They were to make one last rift in the time space continuum, not for transport, but to send a message, in the form of the consciousness of the sole remaining life form still living in both universes. While they hoped that this plan would lead to the eventual salvation of the earlier universe, they also knew, all too well, of the consequences. Their current universe was clinging to life by a thread, and this would most likely sever that thread, and with it, their current universe would collapse in on itself and ultimately, cease to exist. Even knowing that, they pressed onward, in the hopes of preventing the same mistakes from happening again.
The only man they could trust with this final mission, was not only a very influential character, but had also already saved his own world on several occasions. His name is Hiraga Saito. Although not originally an inhabitant of that world, his fate would prove where he belonged.
-Prologue End-