He was in heaven wasn't he?
He saw a beautiful angel in front of him, her tea brown eyes watery, eyelids down in worry looking at him. She bit her small pink lips as she scanned his body.
Hiraga Saito blinked. He was lying down on a bed of grass. His body was aching everywhere so he stretched his body. Feeling his joints pop as he got up, he got to look at the angel before him again.
Her hair color was a soft pink that seems to accentuate the velvety strands over her creamy white skin. He felt his heart race just by looking at her.
Then someone laughed.
It started as scattered snickers but slowly grew into a wave of laughter.
He could vaguely make out what they were saying. Their accent of English was strange, like a mixture of French and German.
A dry and annoying female voice rang out, " Louise! Oh Louise the Zero! You summoned a plebeian as your familiar! How very expected of you."
Just then Saito realised that he was not in heaven, but sitting on the ground surrounded by cloaked people. He cocked his eyebrows.
"No I did not! This is some kind of mistake! Mr Gimli, please allow me to do a resummon!" The pink haired girl, Louise had a crystalline voice.
"True, I've never heard of a plebeian being summoned before, Miss de Orneilles. Nevertheless, the Summon Servant spell is sacred and is only done once every spring for the second years. Please proceed with the ceremony. We don't have time to waste after you've failed the last twelve attempts." Mr Gimli seemed the authoritative figure here, Saito figured.
They are strange people, talking about spells and what not. What the heck was that supposed to mean?
Louise was seething. Why was she the one with the strange familiar? She was hoping with something cool, like a hippogriff or a dragon, but what she got was this plebeian. It was so uncool.
A-a-and who said that the summoning must be completed with a k-k-kiss anyway...
Louise's lips trembled in desperation.
"May the Pentagon have mercy on this familiar and complete the bond between it and the master." Louise chanted as she held her arms apart.
She looked at Saito straight in the eye. "Be still. This may be the only chance you're probably going to get from a noble."
Saito cocked his eyebrows.
Louise leaned her face into his.
Saito's eyes widened.
Louise's fists tightened, but she pressed her lips on Saito's.
He was shocked, but he simply couldn't turn away. Her lips was soft as melted butter, with the sweet scent of honey. What great deed did he do to enjoy this moment, he wondered.
She pulled away, her face slightly pink. She was embarrassed. That was her first kiss, though the experience wasn't bad. She looked at his dark brown eyes for a moment, but hastily stood up as she realised again how absurd this was.
Saito could see how red her face was, her delicate features layered with anger.
"Aaargh! What have you done to me!" His face was contorted in pain as his chest was suddenly burning in agony.
"That's just the rune of the familiar being carved into you." Louise dismissed it as nothing important, "It'll pass soon."
Saito opened his black jacket and lifted up his shirt. Sure enough, cursive runes appeared.
Mr Gimli's eyes widened in shock as he saw the runes.
"Alright then, I believe that is the last of the students. Shall we proceed to the next class, noble ladies and gentlemen?" Mr Gimli then turned to Louise.
"Well done, Miss Orneilles. In spite of everything, you pulled this off without a hitch. I'm proud of you." He treated her to a sincere smile and left by flying.
Wait what? Flying?
Saito rubbed his eyes. They weren't wearing any special rocket boots nor did he sensed any anti gravity contraption here.
"Are they actually levitating through the air?!" He exclaimed loudly. Louise sighed and nodded.
"It's just basic magic. But I guess since you're a plebeian it would be strange to you that people can fly."
"It's not that strange, just that they weren't wearing flight tools like rocket boots."
Louise frowned and pouted. She was completely clueless about what nonsense he wad spouting. Saito found himself drowning in her cuteness again but mentally shook himself to wake up.
"Where the heck am I ?"
"That's not the way to talk to a noble you know! Have you any manners at all?" Louise was pretty scary when she was irritated. "We are in Tristania of Halkegenia of course!"
Saito rubbed his face in despair. He hadn't heard of that place before at all. Just a minute ago he was walking to a blind date his mother set up for him. Noticing a shining circle in the air that just popped up suddenly beside him, he poked at it out of curiosity, and here he was, at coo coo land. He sighed and looked around for a way to escape this nightmare.
Louise looked at Saito shyly. That was her first kiss. Her first kiss with a guy.
Shyness turned to anger when she remembered that he was a familiar. Her first kiss was given to a familiar! Moreover, a plebeian! A useless and boring plebeian, she thought. Her petite body began to tremble.
"Why did it have to be a plebeian!" Louise yelled as she punched Saito squarely in the face with all her might.
The last thing he saw before passing out was the twin moons of the Halkegenia winking at him from the starless night of Tristania.
Amidst the dusty tomes of the library, Mr Gimli used the illumination provided by his gem ring to read the ancient text before him. He sighed and closed the book a little too forcefully, causing a dense mist of dust to tickle his nose.
"Achoo!" Shaking the dust away, he sighed deeply. So far, not even the books in the Fenrir Section of the Library, which was restricted to teachers only, provide a clue into the mystery of that familiar's rune.
Normally the runes would simply be gibberish, random lines and dots that would be a familiar's identification. However, the rune on Miss Orneilles' familiar was very similar to a form of ancient text he had a fleeting view of.
He just couldn't find a match among all these books! Levitating down to the ground, he peered into the open books on the table. So far, he only managed to find a connection between the rune and that of the legendary Gandalfr.
Gandalfr was a special familiar to the Founder, Burimir. As the "left hand of god" he shielded the Founder as He chanted long spell runes of the Void.
The last sighting of Gandalfr was during 3000 years ago. While the truth was not clear, it seemed that the last Gandalfr was also summoned as a plebeian, but ended up being the strongest weapons master in Halkegenian history and aided the Void mages in subduing the ancient dragon with the wind spirits' powers along with a priest from Romalia who was the familiar of the Pope.
In spite of all this, Mr Gimli still cannot find any other information about the rune except that the rune bore resemblance to that of Gandalfr.
Sighing again, he decided that perhaps the runes is a figment of his imagination and decided to leave.
As he gathered the books on the table, he accidentally swept a book down off the table. Straightening his horn rimmed glasses, he bent his knees to pick the book up.
The book was 'The Four Familiars of the Void'. As his fingers swept across the edge, a small image illuminated by his ring caught his eye. Shocked and excited by his discovery, he forgot about the table and knocked his bald head onto it.
Rubbing his head in disregard of the pain, he rushed to the principal's office.