A/N: Woo a second chapter... But I will also should make some apologies and answer some reviews here.
TheShadowBiohazard: I will try my best to keep to cannon as much as I can, accounting for the existence of Warhammer 40K thinks such as the Warp and deamons. Hopefully this chapter will help explain the Runes.
keeper of all lore: I will do what I can to lengthen the chapters, but it is not something that I am good at.
Colbert stood in old Osmond's office after giving a detailed account of Louise Valliere's strange and extremely powerful, Golem like familiar. Osmond himself simply stood behind his desk and lightly stroked his long grey beard, whilst his assistant, Miss Longueville, simply stood there watching and waiting for any sort of instruction to come from the apparently crazy, but powerful old wizard.
"Professor Colbert," Osmond began as he turned around, a small mouse was on his shoulder hiding within the bangs of his long silver hair, "You said that Miss Valliere's Familiar removed its own runes?"
"Yes, he removed them as though they were nothing more than flies on his armour." Colbert answered, a slight concern showing through in his voice.
"Is that even possible?" Miss Longueville asked, trying to at least appear interested in the conversation between the two men.
"I have never heard of it happening before," Osmond paused slightly, as if rethinking what he was about to say, "But that does not mean that it is impossible, there are many things in this world that I have not seen. Does it believe that it is Miss. Valliere's Familiar?"
"I Believe so," Colbert had been sure at the time, but he had a strange feeling ever since he had told it, it had not believed him. "It seemed to accept its role as her Familiar despite having no runes that bound it to her."
"That is some good news. I think it is best that we keep this information between ourselves at this moment. There is no reason to reveal to young Miss Valliere or her 'Familiar' that there is in fact no bond between them."
"We are just going to let them continue as normal then?"
"For now it would appear to be the only choice we have." Osmond once more turned round and looked out of the window and across the skyline to the setting sun in the distance, "Colbert, I want you to research this Golem. See if you can find anything that will point to its origin, then once we have more information we will be able to make a more educated guess on what to do about the strange situation that we have found ourselves in."
"Of Course Sir," With that Colbert bowed slightly and left the room, the questions about the strange Golem that Miss Valliere had summoned still fresh in his mind, there was only one place that he was going to go now, and that was the Academy's rather large Library.
Louise opened the wooden door to her room and walked on in before quickly turning around, determined to let her familiar know that she was boss and that she would not tolerate any disobedience. However the words did not even succed in leaving her mouth, on the other side of the open door her familiar stood, occupying most of the large Hallway, obviously incapable of entering her room, through the rather small entrance. It, on the other hand, did not seem to see a problem with that, it simply sat down at the end of the hall, and crossed its legs. After a few moments of considering what she could do, it became clear to Louise that she could think of nothing to do, so she simple closed the door and proceed to get ready for bed. As she was removing her Uniform, a test for her familiar appeared in her head. Once dressed in her nightgown she opened the door once more and placed her Uniform on the Guide lap, it would have looked up at her in confusion had she been smaller than him.
"I want you to wash and dry them by tomorrow morning." Louise said in the most dominating voice that she could muster.
The Guide simply responded with a nod, before rising to his feet and leaving her all along standing in the middle of the hall in her nightgown. A small smile worked its way on to Louise's face, she had actually summoned a familiar, no one could say that she wasn't a Noble anymore. With this joyous thought she returned to her room, quickly closed the door and jumped into bed, hoping deep in her heart that this wasn't a dream and that she would wake tomorrow and find out more about her awesome, if rather grotesque Familiar.
The Guide proceeded to make his way down the tower that the young girl had lead him up. He had been thinking about this strange world that he had been summoned to, the humans of this world seemed to have developed some sort of magic without any interaction with the Warp. The world was fresh; he could feel the very air was untainted by Chaos or the Imperium. Plans began to form within his twisted mind at how he could turn this entire world to worshiping his Great Lord, he was sure that the Lord of Change would more than welcome a completely virgin world that he could twist to his ever changing image.
Caught up in his own thoughts The Guide did not notice the young brown haired girl who was standing in the middle of the corridor that he had just walked in to, and he walked straight into her knocking her to the ground. The strange looking blond male that she had been talking to quickly knelt down beside her and helped her back onto her feet. The Guide after watching her get back onto her feet began to move away back down the corridor.
"You there, Golem," The Blond boy said an air of arrogance in his voice, the Guide stopped in mid-step and turned to face the boy, who cowered slightly under the Guides piercing glare. "Aren't... aren't you going to apologise to this beautiful young lady, you brutishly knocked over."
The Brown haired girl blushed as the Boy complimented her, the Guide however was not overly impressed and simply ignored him completely, turning around and continued on his way down the corridor and then down the next spiral staircase. Leaving the Boy standing there his mouth wide open like some sort of frog, astounded that someone would ignore him, nevermind a simple, stupid Golem.
The Guide gave a brief thought about how he could use the obviously arrogant young mage and the rather stupid female that seemed to be fawning all over him, but it quickly dismissed the thought. He then emerged from the spiral staircase into the atrium at the bottom of the dorm tower. This room was much larger than the corridors that he had been walking through. In the centre of the room there was a stone grey fountain, with an extravagant decoration that had several spouts of water. Sitting by the fountain was another two students. One of them was the big-breasted red head from earlier and the other, who the red head was getting very close to, seemed to be older and better built than any other of the male mages he had seen at this 'Academy'. Both of the students ignored him as he passed, too wrapped up in their own world of teenaged drama. Seeing the exit, he stepped out into the large courtyard of the Academy.
As soon as he was outside the first thing that the Guide did was look up at the night sky, admiring a sky that was not covered by the smoke of battle, or the tendrils of the Tyranid hordes. It also spotted the two moons that were hanging in the night's sky, the large moon was emitting a slightly blue glow that completely contrasted the second smaller moon that was the colour of blood.
"Pretty aren't they." A sweet voice came from beside him, slowly he turned and looked down to see a young female wearing a black dress with some sort of white apron.
"You are a servant here?" The Guide asked, not removing his glare from the small human female.
"Yes, can I assist you in some way Mr Familiar?" She asked in a sweet voice. It struck him as extremely odd that she was not scared of him in the same way that the others of this world had been.
"Yes, it would appear that I am to wash these, and return them to the young pink haired female by the morning," He said, indicating the crumpled uniform in his hand as he turned his attention back to the sky. "That however is not part of my skill set."
"I can do that," He simply nodded in thanks and handed the uniform over to her, dropping it quite carelessly on the top of her.
"What world am I on?" He asked his eyes still locked on the moons; there was something about the clear sky that seemed to draw him in.
"This is the continent of Halkeginia." She answered politely as she started to walk away, to continue with the chores that she undoubtedly had to get on with, after a few minutes she turned to face him again, Louise's uniform wrapped up in her arms. "You seem slightly lost, you should pray to the Lord of Change and hope he can guide your way."
"Yes, I am sure the Lord of Change already has great plans for this world." And now that he had arrived, those plans could be put straight into action.
The Guide was snapped from his minor thinking session by the sound of another person approaching from behind him, he turned round slowly to face the person. It turned out to be Colbert, the man who had been in charge when he had been summoned into this world. He like the Guide also possessed a staff, even though it was much less impressive.
"The Headmaster would like a word with you." Colbert said, without removing his eyes from the strange symbol on the Guide's staff. In response, the Guide simply nodded his head and directed for Colbert to lead the way, and without another word the both of them started to make their way towards the large tower in the center of the courtyard.