Chapter 2
"What do you think your doing?" He asked a second time.
"Umm well I... was going to kiss you too.. make you my familiar" Louise offered timidly
"Your familiar?" He asked still confused. "Look where am I, and what is going on?" He said whilst holding one side of his head.
"This is the Tristain academy of magic and you have just been summoned by the summoning ritual performed by miss Valliere here." Colbert quickly explained.
"Well I would prefer not to be forced into servitude without being asked." He said dryly "So if you could send me back that would be marvelous."
"I'm sorry sir but you are to be miss Valliere's familiar." Colbert replied glancing to Louise. "Sending you back just isn't possible."
"You mean to say, you kidnapped someone you don't know from there world without any way of sending them back!" He shouted blazing with anger, he withdrew his pistol once more and pointed it in Colbert's direction.
Colbert took several steps back as he raised his staff again. "I must think of something to calm him down. I might be able to beat him but he may harm one of the students!"
"Look just listen for a moment!" Colbert pleaded. "There may be a way back but I would not know, I could look it up for you. We have a vast library here on magical knowledge and I'm sure we'll be able to find something." He seemed to calm slightly. "Just please lower your weapon. These are all just simple students." Colbert pleaded again, the man looked around at the students and his anger lifted as he lowered his weapon.
"Sorry I didn't realise they were all just children, I shouldn't have raised a weapon near them. My apologies." He nodded his head slightly before continuing. "I'm sure you didn't mean to randomly take me away but you must understand my anger. You'd be scared to if you were suddenly taken from your own world and forced into another."
"Yes, yes I understand." Colbert reassured him. "If you become miss Valliere's familiar then she can give you shelter and food. As you said this is a new world for you so it will be difficult to for you to support yourself."
"Yes I realise that now. But I have one question" Colbert nodded for him to continue. "If I become her familiar, there is a way to break the contract so that I may be free again."
Louise began to answer. "Um well it is unheard of for someone to-"
"Yes, yes it is possible." Colbert butted in. Louise looked shocked at his sudden answer and opened her mouth to retort but he waved her off.
"So if that is all, then I ask that you allow miss Valliere to continue the ritual." Colbert requested, the man nodded and holstered his pistol and placed his sabre in it's scabbard before lowering himself on to one knee in front of Louise.
"Well young lady, do continue." He said. Louise took a deep breath before reciting the contract once again. "Pentagon of the five elemental powers; bless this humble being, and make him my familiar" Then they kissed. As she pulled away the mans face contorted into one of pain as he clenched his left hand. He made no noise but his face showed what he was feeling.
After a minute or so, he returned to normal before rising to his feet and inspecting the back of his hand. Colbert walked to his side and the man offered his hand. Colbert took it and inspected the runes engraved on his hand.
"Now that is extraordinary! If it wasn't strange enough that you're a human but these are runes I've never seen before!" He exclaimed
"Is it unusual to summon a human?" He asked.
"yes very, the only recording of it happening I can think of was six thousand years ago." He elaborated. "If it isn't to much, may I ask your name." Colbert asked trying to remain polite
"I am Brigade Commandant Gerard Wolffe" The man said standing to attention. "But please, call me Gerard" The man requested whilst holding out a hand.
Colbert shook it. "I'm Professor Colbert" They shook hands for a moment. Then Colbert turned to the throng of confused students. "Right that is all. Everyone take the free time you've been given to bond with your new familiars, class dismissed." At this the students and the Professor all levitated away. Well all except for one Gerard noticed.
His new partner just turned and began walking. Gerard just stood confused. "Well are you coming?" She asked turning towards him. He walked up to her.
"Aren't we going to fly like the other students?" He asked, Louise didn't answer but instead turned and began walking again. Gerard just shrugged for a moment and began following.
"This is my room, this is also now yours." Louise said as she unlocked her door and walked in. Gerard followed her in and looked around. It was relatively nice, there was a large double bed, a dresser and wardrobe, a mirror, a table with two chairs and finally a rather conspicuous looking pile of hay in one corner next to the bed.
"You'll be sleeping here" Louise said gesturing to the bed of hay.
"Ah so my partner has a sense of humour" Gerard chuckled slightly. "Although jokes are fun and all I would actually like to know where I will be staying" He asked lightly.
"I wasn't joking.."
"Well you can't expect a person to sleep on hay can you?" He asked frowning slightly.
"Um well your my familiar and I'm your master now. You'll do as I say! What's more as a familiar you don't count as a person anymore! Your more at the level of a dog." She lamented
Gerard began glaring now, if she'd been looking in his direction she'd probably started backing away. He was about to open his mouth to answer her but she cut him off.
"Anyway it's getting dark and I'm tired so undress me so I can sleep familiar" She said, still not facing him.
Gerard was angry enough at the request but she referred to him as familiar. Now he was furious.
"Who do you think you are?" He growled.
"What.. Who do you think you are familiar! I'm a noble and your a dog so do as I say." She screamed at him as she turned towards to him, but she stopped short as she saw his hand on the hilt of his sword.
He glared daggers at her for a moment before turning and swiftly exiting. As he left Louise let out a breath she hadn't realised she was holding. Then she gingerly removed her uniform and pulled on her nightdress before climbing into bed, still feeling the goosebumps on her arms his glare had given her.
"Get it together Gerard! You cannot raise your sword. to. a. child!" He thought angrily to himself at his almost loss of control. He passed between two students on his brisk walk. One of them, a blonde fopp shouted after him but he was too angry to care as he continued on his anger filled journey, not really knowing where he was going. He turned a corner and bashed into a basket of laundry, there was a yelp from the other side as the basket fell to the floor.
On further inspection he realised he just crashed into a poor maid overburdened with laundry. His anger dissipated as he helped the poor young girl to her feet. "My apologies miss I did not see you." He explained as he let go of her hand. "Your not hurt are you?" he asked with genuine worry.
"It's fine my lord, it was my own fault." The girl blushed slightly at their close proximity and pulled away a bit. She went to pick up the basket but Gerard beat her to it. "Please allow me to carry this, it is the least I can do for the trouble I've caused."
He hoisted up the basket and began walking the direction she had been going. "My name is Gerard, and yours miss."
She blushed brighter now at the request for her name. "Umm Siesta sir, I'm just a simple maid."
"Why are you calling me sir?" Gerard asked as they walked.
"Are you not a noble?" She asked genuinely surprised.
"Um well in a way I am, but I am not of this school so I don't believe you need address me as one."
"Oh I just saw your clothes and assumed, um excuse me for asking but are you that strange familiar that miss Valliere summoned?"
"Well I wouldn't call myself strange" Gerard added lighlty and Siesta giggled. "But yes Indeed I am the familiar of that arrogant nobleman's daughter."
Siesta looked shocked at that statement. "Please sir! Not so loud, us commoners can be punished for such talk!" She added in a whisper whilst looking both ways down the hall.
"Commoner?"
"Well I assume you're not a mage so you must be a commoner like myself."
"I'm not a mage? So I'm a commoner? But that's an absurd basis for an aristocracy!" He exclaimed but Siesta kept shushing him.
"Well mister Gerard it's been that way for centuries, anyway this is where I was taking this laundry so you can put it down now." She said as she opened a door.
"Thank you for the assistance mister Gerard, I hope we may speak again" She added with a smile.
"The same to you my dear and please just call me Gerard" He said as she blushed much deeper again he gave her a smile of his own, before turning to a set of large double doors and thrusting them open before walking into the cool night air.
He walked through the academy grounds for a few minutes before stopping beneath a large tree. He led down and looked up at the stars. He took great interest in the two glowing blue and pink moons. "Well that certainly proves it, this is certainly not Farixen"
He looked at the academy around him, most of it was dark as the students were mostly sleeping. But one room was still lit and the balcony was occupied by a young girl with long flowing red hair. She gazed at him from above and gave a small wave. He waved back thinking nothing of it before lying back against the tree and spending his night beneath the stars.
And on that cold night in an new world of unknown his dreams were of home, his mother and father, his sister Caroline. His best friend Willard and all those that he may never see again. Although he didn't know it, a stray tear escaped his eye.
And that is chapter 2 completed
A little story progression and we've met Siesta and already hit it off!
Now comes the inevitable duel with Guiche who will get his ass whooped
or maybe he'll even be killed! I haven't decided yet
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Thanks for reading! :)
