Summary: Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere wanted to summon the best familiar, instead she got: a lazy black fox with four pointed star eyes, an albino crow, two mice that love to stay with her, a shy large bat that clings to her, a Lacertidae that's perverted, and a energetic cat, SSI (Semi-Self-Insert!) Slight OOC Louise
Chapter I: The Pack
-Halkeginia, Tristain' Academy of Magic-
It was another beautiful morning at the Tristain Academy and all it's students were excited for the today's special event, that is soon taking it's place, it was the day of the traditional sacred ritual of summoning a Familiar for all nobles.
This ritual is said to determine your skill and the potential as a mage, the greater summon, the greater mage, it also shows your main affinity for magic, for example salamanders for fire mages and griffins for wind mages and the list goes on. If one were to fail this sacred pact between mage and their summon, it would be considered a great disgrace for the mage and even his/her family as a Noble.
While it was a great and exciting day for every student in the academy, there was a exception in one, her full name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière or Louise De La Valliere in shorter term. She's a noble from the famous and powerful La Valliere house and a daughter of Dean de La Valliere, the duke of Tristain and Karin de La Valliere the duchess. Dean is more powerful than line-class mage, but not quite triangle-class mage either, Karin on the other hand is a square-class wind mage and the most powerful wind user of Tristain with the moniker 'The Heavy Wind' Karin, she also was the former commander of the Manticore Knights.
Back to Louise, She has small delicate build, height of 4'9" ft with fla- (*cue the Louise' Death Glare towards Doctor Corvus and assistants*) err.. *cough* Slightly smaller than average chest... Anyway she has long pink wavy hair down to her lower back, pink eyes and slightly paler skin complexion, she's wearing now the usual Academy's school uniform the long sleeved white button up blouse, black skirt, black cape reaching to her feet pinned by a circular, gold or brass pin attached to a ribbon, a pair of black shoes and black stocking socks that reaches her middle-thighs.
She was quite famous, no scratch that, infamous would be the correct term for her unique reputation at school, you see she can't use magic, other than blowing the living hell out of everything she waves her wand at. Because of this she's always ridiculed and made fun at, hell she even gained the moniker of her own, which she is NOT happy with 'Louise The Zero'.
That nickname has pretty much haunted her the very moment when she started the school here, she sighed, she was now standing next to her fellow classmates at the yard, where the summon ritual is soon taking it's place. This Familiar summon was going to be her final change to prove herself, if she fails, she would be expelled and sent back home disgracing her family in the process. What would her family think? Would they still love her or... She didn't even want to think about the possible worse case scenarios.
"Alright everyone gather around, today is the day of your summoning!" The voice brought Louise out from her thoughts and payed attention to their teacher, Mr. Colbert
Professor Jean Colbert, he's a tall man around 6 feet in his middle-forties, with bolding dark grayish-brown hair and blue eyes behind the round glasses, wearing blue robes with white lines and a brown backpack strapped from his left shoulder to the right hip. He also held a long magic staff on his right hand with red lines on top.
"This is the first Exam of your second year, as well as the sacred day of your first encounter of your Familiar spirit who you will spend the rest of your life with as a part of an aristocratic family." While their teacher was giving his speech to his students, another voice came from behind her, the usual annoying sultry voice that irked her to no end.
"Well, Well Zero Louise, I'm really looking forward to see how Great of a familiar you're going to summon" She emphasized the word 'Great' with heavy sarcasm. This girl was a Germanian, Kirche Von Zerbst, Louise's supposed rival and a MAJOR pain in her rear from the day one. She has a long red straight hair that fell down to her hips with some bangs covering one of her amber eyes from sight. (the right eye) Her height was 5'7" ft and she had a voluptuous body with big chest and shapely hips, and dark skin, that almost all men seem to drool over for. Kirche is well known by school populace for her habit of playing around with multiple guys during her free time.
She wore the same uniform with few changes, her blouse was opened on the top giving a good view of her bust, slightly shorter skirt and wore a golden ring as a choker on her neck.
She rrreally wanted to use her wand to wipe off that irritating smirk on her face, knowing that it would blow her all the way to sunday, Literally.
"Hmph! Just leave me alone you walking red light district, why don't you go flirt around like you always do?" She barked back.
"My I'd love to, but we're still in the middle of the important ceremony that even I don't really want to skip, so I'll have to wait till class is over, for now!" Kirche responded in cheery tone. Not in the least bothered by Louise's obvious insult.
Louise sweat dropped by Kirche's response 'So she's not really denying the red light part...'
-Timeskip-
Louise watched from the sidelines as student after student, one-by-one, summons their Familiars, Bugbears very weird looking things, Owls, Frogs, Moles, wow... Kirche even managed to summon a salamander! Rare big red lizards that spits fire, that lives around only certain volcanoes. Then there's... wait is... is that a Dragon!? Tabitha managed to summon a big blue colored Wind dragon!
And before she knew it, only she was left to do the summoning... She started to feel very nervous even scared
"So was that all of you now?" She heard Mr. Colbert's voice in the distance among the students
"No, Miss Valliere is still left" That was Kirche, as she pointed at Louise behind the other students
*Gulp!* she swallowed hard and steeled her resolve, forcing her trembling to stop. Then she pulled out her wand and started walking in the middle of the yard's clearing getting ready to summon her familiar.
She could heard the other classmates whispering to each other, "Hey look it's The Zero Louise, man" "I wonder what she's going to summon" "I don't know dude, last time I checked explosives or ashes didn't really count as familiars" Some started chuckling to the boy's joke.
Louise took a deep breath, then she started the summoning...
"My servant..." The wind started to pick up.
"...That existed somewhere in this vast universe..." By each word the magic around Louise gets stronger and air grows heavier.
Even the spectators felt this, they actually started to feel interested on Zero Louise's summon, 'could she actually do it after all?' Was their thought.
"...My divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call..." A Large glowing pentagram started forming below Louise, the energy just keeps gathering towards her by incredible amounts and the winds are starting to get really heavy now. It feels like a storm outside the pentagram.
"N-No way!" "Holy crap! is she actually doing it!?" "Kya! What's with this wind!?" The students shouted, while some had to held on their skirts due the heavy winds.
"...I wish from very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance..." The power of the chant could be felt by anyone nearby, ground started shaking a bit and the gathered energy has reached it's breaking point.
The class were now paying heavy attention on Louise's summon spell. What could she possibly be summoning that requires all that energy, that could be felt by many yards away?!
"...and appear!" Everyone hitched in their breath and watched intently, but... *Silence~~* you could even hear pin needle dropping and the crickets on the background.
The whole class sighed in disappointment then one of the boys decided to comment on it "*Si~gh* Damn it Zero don't get us so overly worked up for no-" he couldn't finish his sentence. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" "I KNEW IIIIIT!" The whole class bellowed, the ever all infamous Zero Explosives made their presence known.
Lets just ignore the livid and panicked students, and get back to our infamous pink haired teen.
Louise narrowed her eyes but there was nothing there, sure there was lots of thick smoke that hinders her ability to see clearly, but there was bound to be at least a silhouette or shadow of some kind. She even saw the forms of all her classmates through the smoke, yet she saw and felt nothing in front of her.
To the surprise of none, an explosion erupted from the summoning circle. Following it was a series of coughs, swears and line class wind spells to clear away the dust and then laughter.
When realization hit her... she was trembling...'Di-Did I just... f-fail.. li-like I always do...' She could feel the tears forming in the corners of her eyes. 'I.. I quess I really am just a failure... Just The Zero Louise...' Louise nearly broke her wand in half as she grit her teeth. All that preparation, all those pep talks from her Godfather and Xeno, all of that waiting with anxiety... pointless. Utterly pointless.
"Children, please, calm down" Professor Colbert said in an attempt to silence the students, but they just ignored him and laughed, the only one who wasn't was a petite and bespectacled bluenette who was reading her book.
Louise turned away from the summoning circle and the students as she began to walk away.
Until she felts something touch her shoe.
Looking down, she came face to face with... seven different animals! all who were on top of each other, there was a fully grown jet black fox with four pointed star pupils, perched on the fox's head were two bright snowy white mice that squeak quietly, on the fox's back were a large sliver bat clung to the fox and a albino crow that looked around in the new environment, and a black and red lizard that was well hidden within the fox's tail and a black and orange cat underneath the fox.
As she bent down to examine all seven of them, the laughter of the other students began to die out as they saw the six animals she summoned, Professor Colbert appeared amazed at the fact that she seemed to have successfully summoned seven familiars.
"Congratulations miss Valliere! You have not only successfully summoned a familiar! But seven! Now all you need to do is finalize the contract!" the bald scholar exclaimed with a smile, Louise frowned thoughtfully as she looked at the seven animals, they all looked at her, as if there waiting for something to happen, the silver bat released its hold on the fox and looked directly at Louise with its dark eyes.
She moved closer to the animals and narrowed her eyes at them, as she did so, they all stopped whatever it was doing and just stared at her
Then the fox opened its mouth and licked her nose,
Yep, perfect,
Perfectly ADORABLE!
Her eyes practically sparkling, Louise resisted the urge to squeal as she looked at her seven very own familiars! Their not big, but their not magical (as far as she could tell) and some of them certainly wasn't any kind of animals she's ever heard of or seen.
But by the Founder, they where cute!
"My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere. Pentagon of the five elemental powers, bless this being and make him my familiar" Louise said before giving the silver bat a small kiss on top of its head, with a spark, suddenly magic runes began to carve into the bat's head, but also on the body of the fox, black runes appeared on the albino crow's right wing, both mice gained runes on their backs, and the lizard got runes on its head, and finally the cat gained runes on sides, before, much to Colbert's shock, the animals runes glowed brighter all of them had archaic runes, glowing with light, once they were carved, the light faded and the runes vanished.
"Splendid! Now then, off you all trot, it's nearly eight and you all need rest so you can enjoy the entire day with your new familiars tomorrow! Off you all go!" Jean Colbert said with a hearty chuckle as the students began to wander off, most of them still shocked that Louise managed to summon a seven familiar'.
Louise herself was cuddling the bat that clung to her chest with gusto, the two mice found themselves on top of Louise's head, the albino crow was on Louise's right shoulder while the lizard was on her left, and the fox stood by her side along with the cat, she was completely oblivious of the fact that all but her, her Godfather and her adopted brother/bodyguard where watching her.
"It seems you pass with flying colors dear Louise, just as I expected"
Louise turned to see a tanned skin teenager wearing a jet black fancy tailed coat and suit with a neon green vest and white shirt underneath with a pair of black sunglasses, he had neon green catlike eyes and hair and stood around 5'9, this boy was Xeno Zeno universal spy master and assistant, he appears both everywhere and nowhere at once and at the most oddest of times, and in this universe he was Louise's adopted brother.
"Ahem, Louise, bed time" The bald teacher said as he cleared his throat loudly, gaining Louise's and Xeno's attention
"A-ah, right, Good night Professor, Xeno"
"Good night/Sleep well" Colbert and Xeno said with a smile as Louise began to jog to the academy, suddenly, she stopped and turned around with a smile.
"Thank you, Uncle Colbert, Nii-San (brother), for believing in me"
"Anytime Louise/Only for you Imōto (little sister)"
After giving the man and teen a beaming smile, Louise went off to her room, leaving behind a chuckling middle aged scholar and (unknown) spymaster/assistant.
#Louise's room#
Completely ignoring the little pile of hay she originally prepared for her familiar, she placed them all on her bed instead before beginning to change into her nightdress, she then crawled under the sheets, her familiars crawling under them with her, much to her delight. Good, that meant that it recognized her as their master and also allows her to cuddle with them some more.
"I have a familiars... seven adorable little familiars... I'm not a failure after all..." Louise muttered happily as she stroked her bat's chin, until she came to a revelation, "Oh, that's right, I need to give you all names"
She paused for a moment, her face scrunching up into a thoughtful expression
Minutes passed and yet she had no idea what to call her familiars,
That's went she noticed a small flash of gold on the fox's neck,
Louise moves closer to the fox and sees that he has a white collar with a name tap that has the words 'Kai' imprinted on it in fancy writing, looking to the other animals, all six of them have a form of collars on them, the albino crow had 'Krow', the two mice had 'Johnathan' and 'Joseph', the bat had 'Silver', the lizard had 'Chara', and finally the cat had 'Vicky'.
"Kai, Krow, Johnathan, Joseph, Silver, Chara, and Vicky" Louise said each name out loud, all seven animals look at the pink haired mage as their names were called, Kai lazily lays at the foot of the bed, Krow had moved to the windowsill, Johnathan and Joseph had climbed back onto Kai's head, Silver had clung to Louise again and gave off a small whimper, Chara had climbed into Kai's tail and slept there, Vicky layer down on the windowsill with Krow.
As she closed her eyes and hugged Silver closer, she failed to notice it show a hint of a worry on Kai's dark face