Chapter 1: The Summon;
-Background-
Thekan, the eastern forested plains of the Shigu territory, home to Winter Nachthimmel and his tribe. Winter is a Shigu smith during Rain's campaign, and since the end of the campaign he has become known with Nevrean and even Southern Sergals for his devotion to quality work. Winter having donned his armor for the annual trip to the Gold Ring, Winter is also bring his tool kit so once he is there he can do some smithing. His glaive, The Separator; named for both the efficiency that it could slice through an armored body across the midsection and that it could be broken down for storage; has a 3 foot "katana curved"(the process that curves the katana) blade thats mounted forwards (much like a halberd) of the collapsible 7 foot staff.
The annual trip to the Gold Ring, a city in the center of the Sailzane desert where the civilization meet for mass trade, was going as expected for one who had been there before. This would be Winter's first time working in the city in the many years he has gone. But those years he had been campaigning with Rain, so they had come from the north straight south towards the city, but this year he would have to cross Southern Sergal territory. Though he is known for his work with Southern Sergals, being in full armor and armed wouldn't work out being a Northern Sergal crossing their territory. So he was crossing the Revenk Mountains first and head into the Sailzane Desert from the northern half of the Southern Sergal territory.
-Story Start-
As Winter walked along the mountain pass it almost seemed to him to be too quiet. He was used to the sounds of his village and his forge, with only the sound of the wind blowing through the pass it seemed eerily quiet. Then to his amazement, a voice seemed to being carried by this wind.
"My servant that exists somewhere in the universe," starting out soft and inaudible but slowly growing louder and more understandable.
"Who's there, show yourself."
The voice now noticeably female is heard again, "My divine, beautiful, and powerful familiar," almost pleading.
"Who are you, where are you!" Just then a flash of light and a green disc appeared in front of Winter.
"I wish and assert from the bottom of my heart, answer my guidance" the voice finishes leaving the pass quiet once more besides a low hum coming from the green disc in front of him.
Cautiously Winter takes his glaive and pokes it into the surface of the disc, where it seems to ripple like water. But as Winter begins to remove the glaive the surface opens up and shoots out to encompass both the glaive and his hand. Struggling to break free but unable to move the glaive or his hand as if it were turned to stone. The disc then pulls back against Winter's efforts with such force it throws him off balance and tumbling toward the now open disc.
Entering the disc the world around appears to go dark, while there is enough light to still see himself. He feels like he is floating, no resistance, just nothing but a slight sensation of moving. Then Winter notices a light ahead, in the direction he seems to be moving, feeling that it maybe his hope to escape this place, he attempts to get closer faster. This void seems to know what he wants and propels him towards the light. Hitting the light he feels resistance once again, ground, air, dust and smoke? Why was there smoke, and then the smell of unknown entities nearby, readying himself for the worst he waits for the dust and smoke to settle.
-Just moments before-
Louise a pink haired young mage was about to start what was the Springtime Familiar Summoning that second years at Tristain's Academy of Magic had to do to prove they were mages. She was that last of the class to go having had anxiety over whether or not she would fail like all her spells seemed to. Now having been forced to go last, she steeled her nerves and stepped into the summoning circle drawn in the middle of one of the courtyards at the academy.
Raising her wand she begins, "My servant that exists somewhere in the universe. My divine, beautiful, and powerful familiar. I wish and assert from the bottom of my heart, answer my guidance." Upon finishing her chant she flicks her wand down in front of her.
An explosion, another failure, coughing through the smoke she looks into the dust dreading that there would be nothing there, expecting nothing to be there. But as the dust and the smoke clears a tall figure is standing there with what appears to be a halberd pointed in front of them towards her.
Louise's professor Colbert moves to get between this unknown warrior and her. The warrior points the tip the his polearm down to show that they wish no harm but are still ready if need be.
"Who and what are you!" Colbert commands the warrior while keeping his staff at the ready.
"I could ask the same." The warrior now verified to be male responds.
Louise now gets to look in more detail at this person's appearance. They are wearing some sort of plate armor, though in a low stance for the use of the polearm he still stands taller than Colbert, his face is much like that of an animal, elongated to a point with extremely light blue reptilian eyes on the sides of the head. He has grey coloring along the sides below the top on his head, his hands and his toes from what she can see are also the same grey coloring. The rest is hidden under the heavy plate armor. He even has a tail.
"What is your propose here Knight" Colbert asks the warrior.
"Night? As in the time? But I have no propose here, I was pulled here by some green disc." He responds.
"Then that means you were summoned by this young mage here, Louise" pointing behind him, "You were summoned to become the familiar to her."
"Summoned, Familiar? Not too sure what that means, explain."
"A familiar, is usually a creature magical or non magical that is summoned by a mage to be their partner and to aid them for life. Though intelligent creatures are more rare than others, can you tell me are you magical or not?"
"I'm not magical and I'm not a creature. My kind is known as Sergal, and we have a full society where we exist both peacefully and non peacefully with other races with their own societies."
"You mean to say is that your kind has attacked other races before, and what about being summoned as a familiar?" Colbert going back on the defensive.
"Those years of war have ended we're now in a new age, as for being a familiar," flipping his polearm up and stand straight up like a guard standing at post, "as long as an agreement about what I'd have to do as her familiar then, I Winter Nachthimmel will accept the position."
"You don't really get a choice as to what you will be doing"
"Having only been free from General Rain's command for just under a year, I want to have some sort of guidelines for this familiar position."
"General Rain, was he your commander in the war?"
"She, commanded and united all of the Northern Sergal tribes to what we are now the Shigu Clan. Now about the familiar business"
"Right you and Louise must come up with something, but for now the ritual must be completed"
"And how do that work,"
"Louise you may go and finish the binding contract"
Louise hesitantly moves towards Winter, now up close she really gets the sense of how tall he really is, "So how do we do this little miss," smile down at her she finally sees the sharp teeth in his mouth.
"W-well can you kneel down," Louise stammers out.
Kneeling down Winter then has his face grabbed by her and kisses him. Surprised he falls back, "Why did you do that?" then there was a sharp burning pain in his left hand. Screaming out due to the unexpected pain Winter falls to the ground and then passes out.
Colbert goes to see the runes after jotting them down, calling for someone to bring Winter to the infirmary with Louise in tow.
A/N: done for now, had lots of "life" things going on as well as being "stuck" on how to complete this chapter hope you like it, review and rate if you want.