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The idea was in my head for a while. Glad that you like it.

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Yeah, the novel is the first option and the one I like the most but… maybe it's too long for a fic. I'm writing a fic with the novel as a material reference and it has already half a million words (I just began to cover the volume 11). If I extend this fic too much I don't know if I'll be able to maintain it as something decent.

But even if I say all that, I think I'll choose the novel anyway, forty-eight chapters are... well, I could do other things in the time I would invest in watching them. Also, this is a simpler fic than the other one, so I probably won't be that long. Thanks for the comment.

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Uh... the pressure. Yeah, I also hope so. To be honest, I'm in a kind of predicament. I want this to be a simple fic to help me to relax from writing the main one, but I don't want to ruin just for having that thought (don't put enough effort to a chapter, for example).

Fortunately, I'm on vacations right now, so I'll try to maintain a good balance.

Thanks for the comment.

Well, time for chapter two, which could have been merged with the first one but didn't happen because reasons.

Both the characters and the concepts of Zero no Tsukaima and Xiaolin Showdown aren't my property.

"Explain to me one more time how I got here."

Jack had needed about a minute to assimilate what he had heard. He didn't take long to think in a theory, but he needed to ask a couple more questions to confirm it. After Jack took his decision, he closed the window and turned around to ask his first question.

Louise, on the other hand, was already tired. However, both from Jack's responses and his attitude, she concluded that he hadn't accepted her as his master yet. She didn't want to go to sleep until convincing him to accept his position, because she wasn't sure what the young redhead would do if she didn't manage to do it. Therefore, she decided to ignore her fatigue for a few minutes.

"Today we held the Springtime Familiar Summoning, a sacred ritual which we do to obtain a familiar. Once it was my turn, I did the spell and brought you here."

"Tell me, have you ever heard about Europe, America or Asia?"

Louise didn't answer, but her expression was enough for Jack to know that she had never heard about those places. He didn't even bother to name countries, but directly said continents' names that should be known all over the world. Once again, the young genius was completely silent for a few seconds. After that, he let out a small laugh, which soon became a huge and malevolent laugh. Evidently, that took Louise off guard and caused a clear confusion to appear on her face.

"Why are you laughing?"

Jack ignored Louise's question and started talking to himself.

"Finally, the fate smiles to the great Jack Spicer. A new world without any stupid monk who stands in my way. A new world with every Shen Gong Wu only for me"

Louise was immediately annoyed to see that she had been ignored.

"I won't take long to become the ruler of this world and when I achieve my conquest, I'll return and teach those pathetic monks a lesson they will never forget."

He had confidence in himself. Certainly, he used a Shen Gong Wu for it, but he had been able to create a time travel machine. If he could do something like that, he didn't think it was impossible to make a device that would allow him to travel between two worlds. He, after all, considered himself a great genius.

"Jack Spicer! Not the owner of one, but of two worlds! Jack Spicer! Dimensions' conqueror! Jack Spicer! The incomparable...!"

Completely irritated by Jack's attitude, Louise approached him and kicked him in the leg. The self-proclaimed evil young genius fell immediately to the ground while moaning loudly in pain.

"It's enough" Said Louise. "I'm exhausted and I want to go to sleep but I can't do it until you stop those stupid delusions and accept your position."

After some seconds, Jack recovered from the pain. He was able to speak again but wasn't capable to stand up yet.

"Position? What position?"

"I summoned you. You're my familiar and I'm your master."

Jack stood up at the next second he heard that last word. His reaction was that fast because his ego made it impossible for him to ignore the supposed position that Louise had assigned him.

"Master? I already told you, midget, Jack Spicer isn't..."

The red-haired boy couldn't finish that sentence because upon hearing the word midget, Louise's anger increased more and caused her to give him another kick that, to Jack's bad luck, fell in the same place as before. Two huge egos were crashing against each other, but the difference was that one of those egos was backed up by a violent attitude and belonged to a person who was hard to intimidate. The other ego, on the other hand, belonged to a person who regretted his decisions when things seemed bad enough for him, even if he tried to be someone intimidating.

Louise took a couple of steps forward and placed her foot on Jack's back.

"Say it. Say that you're my familiar"

"I-I'm your familiar." Jack answered with a trembling voice.

"Say it again and say that I'm your master."

"Jack Spicer isn't... "

Louise added more strength on her foot.

"I'm your familiar and you're my master."

The student withdrew her foot and walked to her bed.

"And never forget it."

Nobody treats Jack Spicer like this and get away unpunished. Jack thought as Louise sat on her bed. After I conquer this world, you will be the main servant in my evil palace.

"So, could you tell me what does this coin?" She asked.

The red-haired boy stood up slowly and shook off the dust that had remained on his clothes.

"And why should I...?"

Louise looked at him with fury, to which Jack reacted by covering himself with his arms. Completely terrified by the possibility of being kicked again, he answered the question quickly.

"It increases your agility and makes it similar to that of a mantis"

"A mantis?"

"Yeah, basically, you could do very high jumps."

"Really? I had never heard about something like this." Louise commented while inspecting the coin. "By the way, you mentioned earlier that you weren't a commoner, but your name doesn't sound like a one of a noble."

Jack gave a snort of annoyance. He really didn't care in the least to hide his provenance. In fact, he thought it most appropriate to reveal it, to be taken more seriously by Louise.

"I don't like to repeat myself, so I'll say it once and just once. I come from another world."

"Another world?"

"Yeah, a world in which there was only one moon. A world that was in the process of being conquered by me until you summoned me"

Louise began to think that his familiar wasn't right in his head. In a normal case, she might have felt some pity, but Jack's personality caused her to consider that like something funny. Consequently, Louise let out a mocking smile. Seconds later, she started to laugh.

"Again with the world's domination?"

"So you don't believe me." Jack replied as he looked around.

Now that I think about it, this place doesn't look advanced at all. He thought. Well, this will make this much easier.

Jack's didn't waste more time and activated his heli-bot. Right after that, he raised one meter in the air. Obviously, that surprised Louise.

"You are flying. So... Are you really a noble?"

"I already told you that I come from another world, a world much more advanced than this one. And even in that place, I was considered a genius."

"A genius?"

"And not only a genius, the greatest genius of the history. My genius has allowed me to make great inventions to help me in the world domination."

Louise removed the mocking expression from her face. She still didn't believe it completely but her instinct was telling her that there was some truth in what he was saying.

"And ... can you prove it?"

"This is not enough?" He said as he landed. "Well, if you want to see something more impressive, just take me to the place where you summoned me."

If I'm right, in that place are the remains of the machine I was working on and hopefully some Jack-Bots. I just need a couple of days to repair them. This midget may underestimate me now, but there's no way that she won't tremble with fear when she sees what I am capable of.

The pink haired girl stared at her familiar for a moment. Only a minute ago she considered him only as a commoner. However, if only half of what he had said was true, that would mean that she had summoned a much better familiar than the others. In addition to that, a certain idea appeared in her head.

"Not yet"

Louise showed to Jack the Mantis Flip Coin.

"Before that, I want to know some things. These... Shen Gong Wus also come from your world, right?"

"Yes."

"How can I use it?"

According to Jack, the Shen Gong Wus were magical artifacts. In other words, magic from another world. Until that moment, Louise hadn't managed to use magic in a correct way, so she had was interested in trying out that new magic that had appeared before her.

"Give it to me and I'll give you a demonstration."

"No. I want to be the one who uses it."

Louise still didn't believe completely in Jack. Therefore, she refused to give the coin to him until she could confirm some things.

Well, it's just the Mantis Flip Coin. It's not really that important. He thought.

"To activate it, just say its name. Mantis Flip Coin."

After hearing those words, Louise stood up. However, she didn't follow Jack's indications instantly. Magical artifacts, at least those she knew, still required an appropriate use of magic to be used. Therefore, she didn't have much confidence in being able to activate the Shen Gong Wu without causing an explosion. In fact, from her own experience, she feared that she could explode the Shen Gong Wu itself.

No, if what he says is true...

After waiting a few more seconds, she took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

"Mantis Flip Coin!"

After saying those words, she jumped and did a simple acrobatic display. As soon as she had her feet on the ground again, she opened her eyes in amazement.

I did it.

Certainly, she had done it with an artifact help but after years and years of failed attempts, she had used magic. Then, at the next moment, she remembered something.

"You said there were more like these, right? What can they do?"

Jack supposed immediately what Louise had in mind. After that, he smiled.

"What can't they do?" Replied Jack.

The student's eyes began to bright.

It won't be with a wand, but if I can get more of these, then...

Jack took a couple of steps towards Louise.

"My machine to detect Shen Gong Wus is in my world but if you take me to the place where you summoned me, I can build another one. But before that…"

Jack extended his hand with his palm up. It was obvious what he was trying to imply. Louise, seeing that, handed him the Wu.

"It's been a while since I used a Shen Gong Wu."

The monks had successfully guarded the Shen Gong Wus for nearly a year before Jack managed to steal them. And even after that, he put them all in his machine the soon as possible to merge them. He really missed the feeling he felt when using them.

"Mantis Flip Coin!"

Jack tried to do an extremely high jump but unfortunately for him, that remained in a simple attempt. Due to the way he had jumped, he ended up falling face down.

What the...?

Jack got up and yelled again the name of Shen Gong Wu and tried again to do an acrobatic. However, the result was the same. He shook the coin, hit it against the wall, jumped on it and even bit it repeatedly, but there wasn't any change.

What the hell is happening to this thing?

He couldn't find a convincing explanation. There were Shen Gong Wu that required time to be used again and others that had special conditions to be activated, but not the Mantis Flip Coin.

"Is something wrong?" Louise asked.

Jack put the coin in his pocket.

"Yeah. I don't know what is but I'll find out later."

He thought that maybe the explosion had damaged the coin. Shen Gong Wus had been destroyed in the past, so that theory wasn't totally impossible. However, without a way of confirming it, he decided to leave that matter for later. There were things he still had to take care of.

But this could be a problem.

He had planned to use the Shen Gong Wus to facilitate his work, so he feared that the other Wus also had been affected. The fact that he didn't have the slightest knowledge about that world wasn't something to help him either. Especially because, as he had been informed by Louise, there were mages in that world. He had confidence in himself, he was Jack Spicer after all, but he didn't underestimate magic at all. Magic had given him very bad experiences in the past. Then, by mere chance, he glanced at Louise. Instantly, an idea appeared in his mind. A smile with a bit of malice formed on his face.

"So, let's continue with our talk... You know, about OUR search for the Shen Gong Wus."

Louise smiled back, but it was a smile of temptation.

"It's late, so we'll continue with this matter tomorrow morning."

"If you say so."

Jack wasn't that stupid. He had certainly accepted his position as Louise's familiar but that didn't mean he wouldn't make his own decisions. Even if he was the kind of person who could be easily intimidated, he was also capable of betraying someone else right away if the situation inclined in his favor. That wasn't something new to him.

Louise, on the other hand, despite her personality, wasn't that naive. The conversation she had with Jack was enough to know that he wasn't being completely honest when he accepted her as his master. The fact that he called himself evil didn't help him to gain her trust.

For now, I'll follow your little game. Thought Jack.

For now, I'll give you some freedom. Thought Louise.

However, both had their own selfish interests and decided to ignore those problems.

I'll let you think that everything is just like you want, but in the end, I'll be the one who will have the control. They thought at the same time. And when I obtain those Shen Gong Wus...

They knew what the other was thinking but didn't give it the proper importance. Their pride made they consider that a minor problem.

"It will be a pleasure to work with you." Said Jack.

"I also think so." Answered Louise.

Nobody will be able to call me a failure anymore.

Her success rate in the spells she had tried was zero percent. His success rate in his attempts at world domination was zero percent. Certainly, they were considered as two great failures who hadn't manage to approach their objectives in the least. However, after their meeting, they had the confidence that everything would be different. And only the time could confirm if Halkeginia was ready for what would happen.

Yep, a short chapter that's basically a complement of the first one. That's why I said they could be merged in a single one.

1. Basically, I'm aiming to make this fic like that last paragraph, two people with a zero percent success working together, while both of them try to take advantage of the other.

2. I need to see how I don't force too much the Xiaolin Showdowns. I mean, it's going to be Jack the one who needs to start the first ones. And somehow the way to start them will spread around Halkeginia.

3. Finally, about what happened to the Mantis Flip Coin it will be explained in due time eventually. As an advance, I'm planning a kind of bonding between the Wus and Halkeginia's magic. Anyway, I think that would be everything for now. Oh, right, thanks for the favs and follows.

Thanks for reading.