Dear readers, here's something new from me, a gender swap story. This one was brought about as a request, so to the reader who requested this, I know you've waited for a long time, but it's finally underway as you can see. This is the first time I've tackled something like this, so I hope to do okay and I think I'll update this perhaps once or twice a week depending on what I have going on outside. Enjoy this change of style that I normally do.


A Dawn Of Surprises

The sun rose up to the clear blue sky as it shone across over the land of Tristain Academy. For many students who live and study towards magic as well as other important subjects, this would be their first year. But for others, it is their second year and it is these people that the visions of the story have set their eyes on...well, if you count it from the view of this story writer. Ahem! Excuse me for the fourth wall break there...I will just continue and move on.

Inside the huge tower where the students rest in their separate dorms, one such student awoke to the morning's greeting. This was Louis Françoise le Blanc de La Vallière, a young man with pink short hair who made it his ambition to not only graduate from Tristain Academy with the highest degree possible, but to find the power to unlock his hidden magic that is sealed deep from within his soul. Louis was trying his best to be a perfectionist, but it often blinded him what should be considered important such as friendships and he had a very short temper that he devloped for a while. It was Louis's second year at the academy and suffice to say that although he had passed with a great range in his first year, it wasn't without his stumbles.

Louis sat up, stretching his body and took a deep breath, this would be his chance to have an even better year than before. He changed out of his nightwear and into his academy uniform. The uniform was a white shirt and grey trousers with a cloak that was tied up with laces. He picked up his wand that he learnt to use magic with. He had only mastered the basic spells, but he knew that he had so much more power inside, waiting to be unlocked, but he never found that spark to make it possible. The aim to try hard all the time made it almost impossible for him to even have friends and that drove a huge wedge between him and his classmates, which in turn led to mistakes he made.

He left his dorm and walked down the stairs to the dining floor where after his breakfast, he attended his morning class with a few faces that he knew and to him, most of them were anything but positive towards him. But this time around, he was going to make it work, he was going to get through this, no matter what. But little did he know that fate had other ideas...

"Congratulations everyone on making it through your second year." The class tutor spoke. "I am Mistress Spruce and I have been engaged to teach at Tristain Magical Institute. My element is Earth and my codename is 'Spruce the Red Moon'. For the next two terms, I will be teaching you all about earth based magic. Now what are the main four elements of magic?"

A young man raised his hand with his red rose. "Ah, the four elements are water, fire, air and earth." This person was Guiche, a blonde haired guy who's charm level is unmatched. He was also a student that Louis declared as his rival as throughout the first year, they did not like working with each other and they had remained bitter towards one another since. "And it's a coincidence that my element happens to be Earth. Just like you, madame."

"Showoff..." Louis muttered to himself, looking away.

"My name is Guiche de Gramont at your service, my codename is Brass. Pleased to meet you."

Louis turned away at the sight of his arrogant tone. "Brass? More like ass..." He muttered...

"Nice to meet you, mister Gramont." Mistress Spruce replied. "Earth magic is directly involved in the revitalisation of all things. To help you understand this principle, you will all now memorise a spell of basic alchemy." She placed three pebbles on the desk and took out her wand. She chanted a few words and the pebbles shook and a bright light shone around them before disappearing to show the pebbles now tuned into a golden colour.

"Oh wow! Did you turn those into gold?" A female student asked with eyes open. This was Kirche Augusta Frederica Von Anhalt Zerbst, a long red-haired girl who was also very popular with the boys and would often take advantage of them by using her appearance to get her way. Something that Louis will never want to get involved with.

"No dear, brass." Spruce corrected.

"Oh right." She sat back down. Not caring for one moment that she was sitting among a group of male students, she was used to it.

Spruce placed another three normal pebbles on the desk. "Now let's see if one of you can cast the spell." She looked around before finding a student. "You over there, the one taking notes."

Louis suddenly perked up. "Hm?!"

"What is your name?"

He put the feather down he was writing with. "Louis, mam." He stood up. "My name is Françoise le Blanc de La Vallière."

"Uhh excuse me, mam." Another student interrupted. The nervous person was Malicorne de Grandpré and not much was known about him. "I think it'd be better if you pick someone else."

Almost every other student agreed in unison, they still had memories of the mistakes that Louis had made during the previous year.

"It would be to dangerous for him to try, let me do it." Guiche said.

"Dangerous, that's nonsense." Spruce dismissed. "What kind of alchemy is dangerous?"

Louis couldn't stand being pushed aside by the other students and got mad pretty easily. "No! Mistress Spruce picked me so I will do it!"

"Well said."

The other students moved away as far away as they could as Louis came down to the desk. One such student however got up and left the classroom entirely. That said student was Tabitha Helene Orléans de Galli, a short blue-haired girl who was extremely quiet and always had her head down, reading a book. She also often carried a wooden staff where ever she went. She was at least one person that Louis didn't mind being in the same room with, but the almost total silence would make any conversation between them look awkward.

Louis was at the desk, he lifted his wand and looked at the three pebbles.

"Please Louis, stop this." Kirche said.

Louis turned around. "You're distracting me, so be quiet."

Kirche gasped, sitting back down.

"Really Louis, how rude of you to speak to a lady that way." Guiche remarked.

Louis was beginning to run out of patience. "Unless you want me to shove these pebbles down your throat, you keep quiet too!"

Guiche glared at him before sitting back down."Hmph!"

Things settled down, but the students were still nervous about what could happen.

"Now Louis, think very hard about the metal that you want to turn this into." Spruce said to him.

Louis aimed his wand at the pebbles and chanted the same words, the pebbles shook and bright light shone around them. However they were shining too brightly and the magic was building up to an extreme level. The first day of Louis's second year and already, this wasn't going to end well.

*KA-BOOM*

When the smoke cleared, the classroom was damaged. Fortunately, no one was hurt, despite Louis's clothes being teared slightly.

"What is the matter with you?!" Kirche asked in a demanding tone.

"I guess I screwed up a little bit." Louis replied, wiping his face with a handkerchief.

"What part of this is little?" Malicorne asked.

"Your magical success rate to this day has been zero!" Guiche added.

"Louis the zero!" Kirche chimed as if that would be his nickname from that day onwards.

Mistress Spruce meanwhile was down on the floor and out for the count, Louis knew that he was in trouble.


Sometime later, Louis left the principle's room and walked down the spiralling stairs to see three girls standing by a door.

"So what's the story?" Kirche asked. "Another trip to the detention room, or are they finally expelling you? Just kidding..."

She and the blonde haired girl laughed. The blonde haired girl was Margarita la Fère de Montmorency, but everyone called her Montmorency for short.

Louis sighed and walked past them. "They decided not to punish me."

"What?!" Kriche and Montmorency gasped whilst Tabitha paid no attention.

"They said it was partially the teachers fault in making me doing it even after all other students in the class tried to stop her."

"That is why I chose to leave before it happened." Tabitha said whilst reading her book.

Louis sighed. "I'm just having a bad day, that's all."

"Yeah, well you're always having a bad day." Kirche replied. "You can't even get a real code name, Louis the zero."

Louis felt mad at hearing that nick name again. "Why have you gotta be like Guiche?!"

"Like Guiche? Heavens...I am anything but him." Kirche dismissed his question sarcastically. "Tomorrow should be fun, I can't wait to see what kind of familiar you manage to summon."

"That's if he can actually summon one." Montmorency added quietly.

Louis heard it, however. "Oh yeah? Well I'm confident in one spell and that is the summoning spell and being able to summon servants!" He then glared at them. "Just you watch, I conjure up a familiar that's divine, beautiful, powerful and it'll be better than any of you can cook up with and then we'll see who's laughing!" He walked away down the stairs.

The girls didn't have anything more to say to him.

"So what do you think, Tabitha?" Kirche asked.

"I don't know." Tabitha replied in her quiet voice.


It was the next morning and the students were outside in the academy grounds.

"The day has finally come for the summoning ritual." The male tutor said. Jean Colbert was his name. "This is the first test for you all now that you've advanced to the second year at the academy and the sacred first day where you will finally meet your familiars with who you will spend your life living as a noble."

Louis clutched his wand from the side, determined and hoping to summon a powerful familiar.

"All set, Louis?" Kirche asked from behind. "I'm looking forward to what kind of amazing familiar you summon."

"Leave me alone..." Louis moaned.

One by one, each student stood well back and used their wands to summon their familiar. Louis's attention was caught by a few among the familiars that were summoned. Montomrency summoned a frog making Louis smile that at least someone got a tiny animal, Guiche summoned a mole which made Louis laugh on the inside. Kirche summoned a salamander which seemed to be the perfect fit for her fire element. Louis was concerned that Kirche's familiar could be trouble for him. But then everyone was stunned when Tabitha summoned her familiar, a wind dragon that matched her element of air.

Soon nearly everyone had their familiar, except for one.

"Alright, has everyone had their turn?" Jean asked.

"No, not quite." Kirche replied. "Mister Vallière hasn't done it." She was looking for him.

Louis was eventually tasked to perform the ritual, everyone stood far away back.

"Louis the zero." One of them teased. "What'll he summon?"

"There's no way he can summon anything." Another one replied. "We'll just have another explosion and nothing else."

"With all your boasting, you should be able to summon something more amazing than this." Kirche said, tending to her salamander. "Right, Louis?"

"Well of course." Louis replied as he got into position. "Please work..."

He held out his wand and began the summoning ritual, with his full concentration, his familiar began to appear before a small explosion covered the area in smoke. When the smoke was gone, everyone was in shock, there was a female human with light black hair on the ground by Louis who was sleeping away.

"A human?!" Montmorency exclaimed. "And look how she's dressed, so not lady like."

"Yes, like a peasant." Guiche added.

Louis just could not believe what he had just summoned. "That is supposed to be...divine, beautiful, wise and powerful?" He walked over to her. "Who are you peasant?"

"Huh...what's going on?" the female person asked, waking up and looking around. "Where am I?"

"Don't you understand our language? Where do you come from?"

"Wait, what language is that...strange..."

Louis sighed. "Okay, peasant...seeing that you cannot understand our language, I shall perform this spell only once..." He held out his wand and casted a spell.

"Wait...what are you doing?!" the female person exclaimed. "Dahhh!"

All the students took cover ready for yet another explosion...yet somehow, it didn't happen, the female person was back on the ground.

"What the hell was that?!" She exclaimed at him.

"Finally, we can understand each other now." Louis replied.

The female "Huh...did you change my language?"

"Exactly what I would expect from someone who boasted like you did." Kirche said. "To think that you actually summoned up a peasant." She laughed as the other students joined in.

Louis was not pleased. "I just made a small mistake, that's all."

"Louis the zero, he always seems to live up to his expectations." Malicorne teased.

"Shut up!" He turned his attention to Jean. "Mister Colbert."

"Yes, Louis?" Jean replied.

"Can I try that summoning spell again?"

"I can't allow that."

Louis was stunned. "What, but why?"

"The summoning ritual is sacred and effects a familiar's entire life. Trying it a second time would be a blasphemy against the ritual itself." He looked at the female person. "Whether you like it or not, this girl has been chosen as your familiar and nothing can change that."

"I've...been chosen?" the girl asked as she got up to stand. "Is this...some kind of...weird joke?"

Louis shook his head. "But mister Colbert, I never heard of using a peasant girl as a familiar."

Jean stood his ground. "I'm afraid there are no exceptions, mister Vallière. Peasant girl not withstanding, continue with the ritual."

"What? You mean...I have to kiss her?"

"Wait what?!" The girl exclaimed. "Who said anything about kissing?!"

"Finish the ritual or I will be forced to expel you from this institution." Jean told him.

Louis sighed angrily. "I guess I have no choice." He turned back to the girl. "You should be thankful for this."

"Thankful for what?" The girl asked in shock. "The fact that I'm about to be kissed by a stranger, you're crazy if you think that's gonna happen!"

"Normally, someone of noble birth would never do something like this for a peasant girl."

"Huh?"

"My name is Louis Françoise le Blanc de La Vallière. And who might you be?"

"I'm...Sylvia...Sylvia Hiraga."

"Very well, Sylvia." He walked closer to her. "Oh pentagon that rules the five powers, bless this individual and make her my familiar." He put his hand around her shoulder and moved his head forward towards her.

"Look, I don't even understand what's going on here!" Sylvia exclaimed.

Louis sighed. "Please be still...I have to do this."

"What do you mean...umph!"

Louis pressed his lips on hers into a kiss, Sylvia just could not believe this was happening.

"Very well, the contract has been completed." Jean said. "A bond has been made."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sylvia asked. "Who said anything contracts?"

Suddenly, smoke appeared around Sylvia before an ancient mark of letters were engraved on one of her hands which caught the attention of Jean. The pain of it subsided and Sylvia calmed down before passing out.


It was the late evening when Sylvia finally woke up in Louis's room. "Was that a dream?" she asked herself.

"So you finally decided to wake up." Louis said. Standing by her. "Let's get one thing straight, Sylvia. Just because you're a girl, doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on you."

She stood up. "Huh? Just what is that supposed to mean, buster?"

"You're going to be my familiar...you should be honoured."

"Honoured...just where have you taken me to, I just wanna go home!"

Louis sighed. "Allow me to explain where you are and what you're doing here..."

Sylvia sighed. "Fine whatever..."

Louis began explaining to her about the world and the land they're in and Sylvia began to understand.

"So let me get this straight, this is the magical kingdom of Tristain on the continent of Halkeginia." she said. "And you're a second year student at the magical institute?"

Louis nodded.

"Hmm...likely story!"

"I will not allow a familiar to take an informal tone with me. For I am a noble, known as Louis."

She turned her head away. "Yeah right...so I'm supposed to be this familiar that you summoned that all these mages taught around to help them with their magic. That much, I know from watching movies and reading manga."

Louis just couldn't believe the tone Sylvia was giving off. "Why does my familiar have to be a peasant girl, I wanted something really cool like a dragon or a griffon." He was about to have one of his temper moments.

Sylvia sighed. "You know, you should learn to control that temper of yours."

"Quiet you! I do not need a peasant to tell me what to do."

"Well excuse me for trying to be nice to you for once!" She began to leave.

"Hold it, a familiar cannot leave a master's room at will!"

She smirked back at him. "Just watch me!" She slammed the door open and ran out.

Louis blew a fuse and ran after her in pursuit!


Meanwhile, down in the secret part of the library, Jean studied over a book before finding a page that displayed the hand marking similar to the one on Sylvia's hand.

"This is it, but that's impossible." He said, noting down the marking and what the definition was, next to it. "As a precaution, I will have to inform the principle."


And so it begins! Hope you guys like what I've started with. Apologies if this wasn't quite imaginative, but I wanted to get the beginning summaries out of the way first. So for the second chapter, no idea when I'll get that done as I have a few other commitments to write during next week.