Prologue: Encounter

The sun shone majestically, from the highest point in the sky, directly to a small forest in Albion. The chill of the morning was still present, although rapidly departing, while the faintest hint of dew was still present on the grass. Still, it was a lovely morning, something unusual for the season, since even in the last days of winter, the climate in Albion tended to be harsh.

Yet, the clarity of the sky above declared that it was only going to get more pleasant, while a young lady started her mourning routine in the small village. After that, she quickly prepared herself to meet with someone, and left the small, desolated house. Her destination was an empty part of the forest, far from the village.

For Tiffania Westwood this was also a good day in another area, unrelated to climate. Her older, sisterly figure, Matilda had decided to teach her the familiar summoning ritual before going back to her work in Tristain. Tiffania did not had any knowledge of magic, the only spell she could use was one passed down to her by her mother years ago.

Even so, she was able to use magic, and thus she was able to perform this ritual, created by Brimir himself and performed by every mage that knew how. From the most powerful or favored royal to the less fortunate noble's bastard scion. While the process itself is simple, the mages are still beginners when they cast it, and because of that a more experienced mage is necessary for supervising the whole procedure.

"Are you ready, Tiffa?" Matilda was a bespectacled woman in her twenties, she possessed the aura of an intellectual, of a woman who's always in deep thought. While her stays with Tiffania were small and far in between, she still regarded her as a valuable friend and trusted confidant.

"Yes! I'm prepared"

"Remember Tiffa, a familiar can become eyes and hands of a mage. This spell will reaches all across Halkegania in search of most compatible familiar and summons it fort to bond it with the caster for life"

Tiffania did not had a strong desire for a magical creature to act as "another pair of eyes and hands" in her name. She desired, for a moment, for something or someone who could take away her solitude and loneliness.

"Alright then! Let's proceed, just focus your mind and magic to call for the unseen familiar in your heart"

Tiffania closed her eyes and raised her wand in front of the magic circle, pointing sightly towards the sky, and started chanting.

" My name is Tiffania Westwood. In the name of the Pentagon of the five elements, carry out my fate and summon my familiar!"

She could feel power being called fort, while the tip of the wand started to glow and a small green portal appeared in the sky.

[-x-]

In the middle of the Hell's Gate, a confused Hei stared at a small green portal, flickering in front of him. It had appeared just after his conversation with Amber, but now neither her nor Ying where there. He had lost sight of them for a brief moment, more than plenty of time in the Hell's Gate. He briefly wondered how this come to happen.

Amber had ranted a little about how the reason Xing didn't tell him about Evening Primrose was because he's a human, an existence different from contractors and how he still was one. He came to understand it, how her sister gave him her powers. About the changes in Contractors and Dolls. Yet, he did not know what to do. In the end he wasn't a contractor, his powers didn't require a compensation nor he had lost his emotions; regardless, he was a dull person, one that could not be classified as 'human', not with his abilities.

Who was he anyway?

BK-201? Lee Hyunsik? Hei? Li Shengshun? Nanashi Kuroda? The black reaper?

A member of the CIA? an assassin for the Syndicate?

…A contractor? A human? Neither? Both?

For less than a second, his will wavered, he desired for the same amount of purpose and self-reassurance that he had when trying to protect his sister, all those years ago. When he reacted to the flickering portal, was already too late and he was engulfed whole by the light.

Alright, this idea was in my mind for some time, then I forgot about it and a couple of days before it somehow resurrected in my head, begging to be written. I hope this is not a crossover already done before, probably it is, since there are thousands of FoZ fic in the internet.
I will be updating this once or twice a week.
Sorry for bad grammar and all that.