Disclaimer: It's pretty much obvious that I DO NOT own Prince of Tennis or Zero no Tsukaima, because if I did, I would be continuing both of the two series instead of making this fic…
Furthermore, if you want to completely enjoy the details of this fic, you must at least know the characteristics of the characters from both Prince of Tennis and Zero no Tsukaima. Although, both of the two series are so good that you can probably enjoy even if you're not really a fan.
Chapter 1: FIRST KISS kara hajimaru (It began with our first kiss)
The courtyard's spacious plane was silent except for a few murmured conversations. From above, the green grass, spanning up until the pentagon formed by the walls of the academy, provided a terrific contrast to the black specks that were people standing around a single girl.
"Please…" she thought as her hand shook. She steadied herself and took a deep breath… She needed to concentrate.
"To my servant that exists somewhere within the ends of the universe!" shouted the petite young lady.
Her long, wavy, strawberry-silk hair swayed ever so slightly as she pointed a thin wooden stick up to the sky with her right hand. She was wearing a long-sleeved, white button-up shirt, a black short skirt, long, black socks that went up to her thighs, plain black leather shoes, and a black cloth for a cape. At the parting of the cape in front, a large brass seal with a pentagram etched on it held the cape.
The other second years who have gathered around to watch her summoning, who were also clad in the same black capes that distinguished them as second year students of the Tristain Magic Academy, including the teacher, all showed signs of confusion.
"What kind of a spell is that?" curiously said a blonde girl whose hair was in big, long locks at the back of her head, with a large red ribbon tied to it.
"Well, at least it has some individuality…" said a blonde male to her, obviously trying to strike a conversation, with a little difficulty.
"To the holy, beautiful, and above most powerful familiar…" the young lady continued, "I appeal to you from my heart as I chant, Answer my guidance!!!"
As the teacher and the other students such as her watched in anticipation, she pointed her wand forward, and then…
PZHOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!
A huge explosion occurred, creating a momentary earthquake and with the magnitude of its force, throwing everyone backwards in a blaze of dark-brown smoke and debris.
There was a lot of screaming and coughing as the impact of the explosion hit the observing crowd of students as well as the teacher. One of them said "So, it will have come to this after all…"
"Are you alright, Montmorency?" the blond boy asked the girl he was talking to earlier. She was on her knees, and he was worried about the blank look she had on her face. "What's the matter?" In reply, the girl, still clutching her tiny frog of a familiar, merely pointed at something as if to say "Guiche, look…"
At where she was pointing, the smoke had already started to clear. There was the young lady who caused the explosion, standing over an unconscious figure.
The other students were apparently also staring at the strange sight.
"A human?!" Montmorency exclaimed.
"No matter how you look at it, he's just a commoner." stated another student.
"Yes, a commoner, no doubt" agreed Guiche.
Clearly in shock and total horror, the strawberry-silk-haired young lady stuttered "Th… This… This… is my holy, beautiful, and above most powerful… ?!" she continued to stare at the total humiliation that was before her.
The sun was blazing hot again today… it was the middle of summer. A lot of people were out and around, cooling themselves with iced drinks and popsicles, lounging around in the shade, or near the fountains. It was just another ordinary day…
"Moeruze, BUUUUURRRNING!" shouted a muscular brown-haired senior student. Brandishing a white and blue sports t-shirt with the name "Seigaku" printed at the back, he was wildly swinging his yellow tennis racket and shouting at the top of his lungs from behind the freshmen that have gathered beside the courts.
Though the war cry was deafening, none of the five other students with him that were all clad in the same outfit seemed surprised. They were all looking amused and relaxed.
It was just another ordinary day at Seishun Gakuen Tennis Club… or was it?
"Kawamura-kun is in burning mode, how energetic of him…" sighed one of the other senior students. This one had red-hair and a bandage on his right cheek. He was doing some jumping exercises and had just jumped up to a humanly impossible height, twisted thrice upside-down in midair, landed on his feet, and acted like it was nothing. "Ne, Ochibi?" he said, and then grabbed the young black-haired freshman next to him, pulling him into a headlock-slash-hug.
"You're one to talk, Eiji-senpai…" the freshman began, but he was quickly interrupted by a second person who also pulled him into a headlock-slash-hug.
"Echizen, after practice, let's go eat at the burger joint. I'm starving…" said the junior student to the annoyed freshman. The senpai's spiky black hair was getting in the freshman's cat-like eyes and it was irritating him. "Get off me, Momo-senpai…"
Another brown-haired senior student was looking at the scene and was grinning slightly (though how he could see was quite a mystery, with his perpetually closed eyes). "Saa -- Oishi, have you seen Tezuka? It's not normal for him to completely miss practice" he addressed to the person next to him.
"Ah, Fuji-san. He's with Ryuzaki-sensei" said the black haired, crew cut senior worriedly. He has been hitting exactly the same spot on the outside wall of the locker room for half an hour already. "But I'm really worried about Inui and Kaidoh. Kaidoh said he would come right after he finished running. He's never late even though he runs a dozen laps around the city. And Inui ran off almost immediately after he came here. Aaaah! What could be the reason?"
"Eto, Inui said something about collecting some weird data near the construction sight downtown…" Eiji interrupted. "He ran off after a dusty piece of green cloth hit him in the face earlier…" he recalled the event earlier that day.
"Mada Mada Dane…" Echizen called out. The others turned and looked at Echizen "Inui-senpai left three of his notebooks behind. He can't be collecting data without these…" and he began scanning the notes. The others looked at what was written as well.
In the first notebook, which was labeled "Matters of Caution", there were dozens of graphs and tables computing the angles, speeds, curvatures, and probabilities of the shots of various players, including Momo's Dunk Smash and Jacknife; Echizen's Twist serve and Drive B; Eiji and Oishi, the Golden Pair's formations; Tsubame Gaeshi, Higuma Otoshi, and Hakugei, Fuji's triple counters. At the last page was an index with a reference to Inui's collection of labeled "data collection" notebooks.
The second notebook was labeled "Tezuka". It was crammed full of data: movement speed, skill shots, dominant hand, graphs and tables of almost insanely infinite scenarios plotted out, and at the last page, in pencil, was written "Predictability: 0", all of which were in preparation for the day when Inui finally defeats the captain of the club.
The third notebook had the label "Kaidoh's Development". More than half the notebook was filled with training regimes, Inui juice recipes, spin magnitudes and directions for the many variations of the buggy-whip shot, angles of incidence per shot, as well as a separate sheet on the Magnus Effect on Kaidoh's "Snake Shots". Even so, this was the least full of the three. The other two were completely filled, but this one had twenty or so blank pages at the back, the last of which was marked with the text "Improvement Rate: 26.67 per month."
As the group was scanning the notebooks, a folded piece of paper fell from one of the data sheets. Eiji picked it up, and curious of what was written on it, read it aloud for the group.
"Ah? New Recipe for Juice: Haiiro (Gray). Look for ingredients…" Eiji read, but then he was shocked! "EEEEEEHHHHH?! NEAR THE CONSTRUCTION SITE DOWNTOWN??!!
At this, the entire group turned blue and a cold, dead breeze flew past them. They were horrified, grimacing at the thought of what sick, contorted, and evil concoction Inui would make all of them drink the next time they meet.
The fear that this thought has brought upon them wiped the group's initial concerns clear out of their heads and replaced it with long moments of psychological trauma…
"There's someone talking…" the figure thought as he opened his eyes. He saw the face of a young lady with strawberry-silk hair coming from his side in front of him, and he figured that he was lying down, based from the background of the sky. "What did she say?" he thought. Then he sat up, looked around and was confused, "What is this place?" he wondered.
The girl said something he couldn't understand and he figured it was in a different language. "English? No it's not… it sounds German or French… and this…" he thought, still looking confused. "This… it feels just like the time I got lost in Germany when we went to see Tezuka-buchou."
"Well, at least it met your big declaration!" said a 'well-endowed' redhead. "Summoning forth a commoner." And she and some other students started snickering.
"I just made a small mistake!" said the girl defensively. "Damn, that Kirche…" she thought.
"It's just like you, Louise the Zero. You always surpass our expectations!" said a plump blonde boy carrying his own owl familiar. At this, all the other students started laughing boisterously.
Seeing this laughter, and noticing the annoyed look on the girl's face, he tried to speak. "Hey, wait!" he started to shout, but…
"SHUT UP!" the girl screamed. "Mr. Colbert!" she addressed the balding, middle-aged teacher carrying a big wooden staff. "What is it?" he replied.
"Please allow me to summon once more!" she requested.
"I cannot allow that." He shook his head.
"Why is that?" she asked desperately.
"This Ceremony is a holy ritual that decides the eternality of a mage's life" he lectured sternly. "Asking to re-do it is a disgrace to the entire ritual. Whether you approve of it or not, it is decided that he is your familiar."
"I have no idea what he's saying…" he looked totally confounded. He then spotted a way that was not too crowded. "This is too creepy…" he thought. So he decided to get away from the conversing foreigners while they were distracted.
The commoner stood and opened his snake-like eyes fully. He ignored the layer of dust that he had on his sleeveless black shirt and white shorts and picked up an oddly shaped bag with him and started rummaging through it. While doing so, the green cloth tied around his head fell to the floor. The reason why it fell was because it was ripped at the knot and had come loose. He bent down to retrieve it and saw that a small piece was missing. Upon seeing this, he let his arms hang limply and started to walk away, bag at his back. He let out a small sound.
Fshuuuuu…
The small sound caught the girl's attention. When she saw that her familiar was walking away, she tugged at the collar of his shirt, and stopped him.
"But I have never heard of using a commoner as a familiar before!" she demanded, and the students all laughed again, annoying the young lady even more.
"Whether he's a commoner, or whatever, I do not accept any exceptions. Continue with the ritual." The teacher said sternly.
"Eeeehhhh??!! … With This?" she said, flustered and hesitant, and she poked the commoner twice at his back with her wand.
"Hurry this up! Or do I really have to expel you?" said the teacher threateningly, much to the glee of the other students.
"I understand…" the young lady said with defeat and hesitation in her voice.
Having been rudely grabbed at the collar and poked twice from behind, the commoner made a small grunt of disapproval. He turned around and glared menacingly at whoever dared to do that to him. But the annoyance in his face was immediately replaced by a startled look when he saw that the strawberry-silk haired girl was approaching him with a wooden stick.
"Go, go Louise!" cheered one student jokingly, "Woohoo!" cooed some boys at the back of the crowd.
"Be grateful" she addressed the commoner, "Normally, no one would get this from a Noble in their lifetime!" she said angrily, and then she started chanting.
"What the hell is this crazy girl doing… some weird chanting? I can't understand… AAAAHHH!" he mentally screamed. She was saying something long again…
"My name is Louise Francois le Bran de la Valier" she chanted, and then pointed her wand at her soon to be official familiar. "To the penchant that holds the five powers, bless this one, and yield this as my familiar." She put her hand on his right cheek and slowly drew her face closer to his. The commoner started moving. "Just sit still" she said, and closed her eyes, getting even closer.
"What the heck are you planning to do?!" he screamed. Her lips were getting closer to his. He turned bright red at the thought, she was only inches away.
"W… w… Wait! W… wait… wha… Oi… I mean… wait…"
And she was kissing him… a long, sweet kiss…
Everything is not as straightforward as it seems, so dont jump to too many conclusions before hand...
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