A/N : The same as usual, sorry for being lousy, hope you enjoy the story, thank you for reading. Also since its my first time, I do not really know how it will turn out after uploading it so it might be a mess. It says editing might take at least 30 minutes to show effect, so I will try and edit it when I am able to every 30 minutes until I think it is not too messy. If you think it is still messy, please tell me how to make it better and I will do my best. Oh and just an early note, this would be the "second time" Nanoha received a serious injury. Not really following the actual story. Also noticed the first chapter was kind of short and the others might be too. I was never good at essay writing anyway.
Disclaimer: I do not own Zero no Tsukaima and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.
Chapter 2 : I shall not yield… unless you are really scary.
"…" Saito woke up and yawns quietly. Time to go on the net… or not. Guess it wasn't a dream. What happened again? Hmm… I entered a strange portal, became a familiar, skipped lunch to eat a loaf of bread for dinner, used whatever willpower I had to not look at Louise when she decided to change in front of me with the excuse of me being a familiar and there is nothing to be ashamed of and then I sleep on the floor. I feel like a pet. Stupid nobles.
Saito was grumpy. Yesterday had been horrible, today might be worse. Soon he decided to be optimistic and just wake Louise up for now.
"Rise and shine Master. It is morning already I am quite sure you have classes?"
"Mmm… 10 more minutes." Louise answered sleepily.
"Okay." After 5 minutes, Louise woke up on her own and then she screamed.
"You stupid familiar why didn't you wake me up?" Louise ran to the closet and starts changing her clothes. She didn't want to be late for class and she could have guessed Saito would be too slow.
"But you said 10 more minutes." Saito began to protest.
"When someone tells you they want extra sleep when they are going to be late for class you let them sleep? Class will begin any minute now. We already missed breakfast. As for you, you won't be eating lunch as well."
"That's unfair." Saito protested again.
"That is your punishment, and wash these clothes and undergarments as well unless you prefer to skip dinner as well." Louise said again, throwing all the dirty clothes at Saito.
"Why do I have to wash your clothes?" Saito was getting angry.
"You are my familiar and you probably would be too stupid to obtain proper reagents and too weak protect me in a fight since you are just a commoner. So I gave you a job even you can do. Besides, who do you think is going to feed you and give you shelter from now on?"
"Fine." Saito sighed and then thought Except that you are not going to feed me anytime soon. Saito's stomach growled. So hungry.
Saito was washing clothes outside the castle. His stomach was still growling. As he washed he wondered why Louise is so isolated. Everyone had someone to talk to at the dinner table last night. Everyone except Louise. Even her runic name was Zero. Not a very pleasant runic name if you ask him. His stomach growled again. Saito starts to feel sick.
"Are you alright? You don't look very well." A voice was heard from behind. Saito turn around and saw a maid with black hair and black eyes. She gave him a nostalgic feeling.
"Err I'm fine. I am just hungry. I woke up late and missed breakfast. Louise also woke up late and as a result I am punished to not eat lunch as well. Don't worry about it. Thank you for your concern." Saito complained a bit emphasizing that he was hungry. He wasn't in the best of mood after all.
"That's not good. You must at least eat something. Come to the kitchen in the after lunch. You can at least eat the leftovers of the noble. The staff already ate the breakfast though so you will have to wait until lunch. By the way, are you Miss Valliere's familiar?"
"Ah, yes. I am Louise's familiar. My name is Hiraga Saito. What is your name?"
"My name is Siesta. I am a maid working at this academy. Nice to meet you Saito."
"Nice to meet you. Thank you for the offer Siesta. Now I don't have to starve until dinner. By the way where are you going? I should at least help you as thanks."
"I am going to change the injured person's clothes and wash her clothes. Some people have been complaining about the stench of the blood." Siesta explains. Saito starts to blush making Siesta giggle.
"I guess you can help me next time then."
"I will. Thanks again Siesta."
"You are welcome."
As Siesta walks away, Saito continues washing Louise's clothes. Now that his mood is better, he somehow managed to suppress his hunger and perform his task much better. After finishing his job, an explosion was heard in a room one floor above him. Saito then heard someone shout.
"This is why you are Louise the Zero. Your success rate is always ZERO."
Saito got the answer to his question. Having a grudge against Louise, he thought of a song but decided to keep quiet as he would probably suffer if he decided to sing it to Louise.
Professor Colbert was reading a book. On the book there was a picture that looks exactly like the rune on Saito's hand.
"This… cannot be. How did Miss Valliere summon such a powerful servant. Could it be?" he mumbles to himself with a seemingly shock face. However this is still the first time someone summoned two servants. Having find out the kind of familiar Saito is he could only wonder what kind of familiar the other one would be.
Siesta entered the infirmary. She had the permission to be alone in the room with the injured girl for a while and also borrowed some clothes from the water mage in charge. This is because it wouldn't be nice for guys to walk in on them when she is trying to change the clothes of the injured girl. Siesta took off the clothes of the brunette and saw that she was quite fit despite her frail appearance with her clothes on. She also found a red jewel. Siesta took the red jewel away from the brunette. She wasn't going to steal it despite how poor she is. She made a promise to herself to return it to the brunette when she wakes up. After that she dressed the brunette and then took away the blankets. She carefully carried the injured onto another bed and then she changed the bed sheet. After that she carried the injured back to the bed and gave her a clean blanket. She took the blood stained clothes and left the infirmary.
Lunch came, and as expected, Louise didn't give Saito any food. Saito escaped to the kitchen to be fed by Siesta after lunch. After that he went back to Louise.
"Where did you go?" Louise said to Saito as she glares at him.
"Um... the wash-I mean, outside the academy. I needed to do some private business and the washroom here is only for nobles and students of this academy right?"
"Hmm. Okay, seems like you learned your place as a commoner." Louise impressed that Saito knew the washroom and other places are also mostly for nobles and that he would get into trouble if he went there. "But you still need to fix your speech. If you are rude to a noble you would get into trouble too." Louise added out of concern, hoping Saito wouldn't get himself into trouble.
"Well just for today the rest of the classes are cancelled so that the second years can get to know their familiar but I think we did that last night. So since you told me about your world, I should tell you about this world."
"Wait. You believed me?" Saito asked surprised. Louise certainly didn't look like she believed Saito last night.
"Well, honestly I still have some doubts" Louise replied honestly but that was fine with Saito.
Saito was now feeling quite happy. He would probably be the first person in his world to go on a tour on other worlds. It made him feel special even though he might never be able to brag it to his friends on Earth.
Louise told Saito about the country they are in, Tristain, along with other countries like Germania, Albion and Gallia. She then told Saito about the summons of the other students like the bugbear, the owl and others. While doing that a red lizard came out and breathed fire.
"Whoa. That scared me. What is that?" Saito asks as he looks at the fire lizard.
"Oh you don't know what that is? It is a salamander. The perfect familiar for me, Kirche the Ardent don't you think?" a red haired girl called Kirche replied. "Aren't you that Zero's familiar? How much did she pay for you to be her familiar?"
"I didn't pay him anything. I summoned him properly and don't call me Zero." Louise shouts at Kirche.
"After failing 5 times?" Kirche taunts again.
"Well yes. Unlikely but I really summoned him. Besides where do you think I can get an injured girl from?"
"Oh right. I forgot about her. Is she alright now?"
"She is still asleep. Apparently her body is experiencing "internal injuries" whatever that means and cannot be healed with water magic."
"Sounds like another troublesome familiar. I really pity you Louise." Kirche told Louise honestly. Louise's family and Kirche's family were at odds with each other but they were still friends. It was natural for friends to worry about each other. Louise knows this as well and would accept concern but not pity.
"Don't pity me Kirche. Besides we still don't know if the girl can do magic or not."
Meanwhile Saito was spacing out. What do you do to get your breast that big? "Saito.. Saito? Hey you stupid dog. Stop spacing out."
"Oh what? Oh Louise. Sorry. I was wondering how Kirche got her breast that bi- oops." Louise's wand is out.
"So you were busy wondering about how I managed to stay flat as board? How dare you have such vulgar thoughts against your master!"
"Wait I didn't say that. Even if that part was…. somebody save me~" Saito ran away with Louise chasing him behind. It wasn't long before the sounds 'Boom' and a 'Gyaaaa' were heard.
The next morning came. Saito explained to Louise about how he was too pathetic to was her clothes and received some help from Siesta. Leaving the details of him eating lunch out, he said he promised to help Siesta a bit and asked Louise for some permission. Louise gave Saito that permission but only in the afternoon. Saito needed to go to class with Louise to learn a bit of "General Knowledge" so that he could be slightly more useful in the future. In that class a lot of people began laughing at Louise for summoning a commoner again. Saito wanted to shut them up but Louise beat him to it. Kirche also introduced a quiet blue haired girl called Tabitha to Saito. As Saito introduced himself with the usual "It's nice to meet you." Tabitha only nodded and continues reading her book. The only time she spoke was when Professor Colbert's wig fell off when he was trying to report something to the teacher in the class. She said "Shiny" causing the class to laugh and later get scolded.
In the afternoon, Saito was helping Siesta serving cakes and drinks. He noticed one of the customer dropped a bottle containing some strange liquid.
"Hey, you dropped this." Saito picked up the bottle and gave it to the blonde person.
"That's not mine. You must have mistaken."
"I'm sure it is yours. It fell out of your pocket." Saito insisted.
"Is that true Guiche?" a brown haired girl asked.
"Ah no. I don't know of any perfume like this one. It's a misunderstanding Katie." The guy known as Guiche replied.
"I thought you said it was only the two of us. You liar." Katie shouted and slapped Guiche. Saito then realized what happened. Two timing? He deserved that.
"So it is true you have been going out with that first year." The girl Saito recognize when he was summoned, Montmorency, suddenly said.
"No, Montmorency. Do not make that angry face. Your beautiful face will-" another slap to Guiche face, interrupting his speech. Saito made a face as if saying "ooh that's going to hurt." Then he shrugs and left Guiche alone.
"Wait right there. Familiar of Zero. How dare you walk away after what you have done. Now the names of two ladies are tainted. You shouldn't have picked up that bottle." Guiche told him angrily.
"Well I didn't know at first but you were two timing and you certainly deserved it. A true noble wouldn't be two timing." Saito replied, pretty pissed off himself.
"Oh so you dare to insult a noble? In that case I challenge you to a duel. If you do not accept it that kneel and apologize." Guiche challenged.
"I accept it" Saito accepted it bravely
"Good. I will be waiting in the Vestri Court. Meet me once you finished delivering those cakes."
Siesta starts shivering. "Saito. You are going to die. You should never anger a noble."
"What are you so scared about? Is he really powerful?" Saito asks.
"Hey, you stupid dog. Go and apologize to Guiche. I heard everything." Louise suddenly appeared and told Saito.
"Why should I apologize?"
"Just do it. That is an order."
"I refuse. If I am truly stuck in this world, fine. If I have to wash your clothes, so be it. But I will not surrender to an egoistic two timing person, noble or not, for as long as I am alive." Saito declared.
"So where is the Vestri Court?" Saito asks one student and the student pointed somewhere.
"Thank you."
When Saito approached the Vestri Court.
"Welcome to the Vestri Court commoner. First of all, I commend you for not running away." Guiche remarked with his arrogant tone while holding the rose.
"Who is going to run away?" Saito asked back, slightly disgusted because of the rose wand.
"Right then let us begin." Guiche said as he flicked his rose wand, causing a petal to drop to the floor and turn into an armor thing about the size of a human.
"What the.."
"Well, I am a magician so I fight using magic, no complaints right?" Guiche asked mockingly.
Well no complaints there but I kind of expected a 1 versus 1 where you try and shoot me with rocks or fireballs or something.
"My runic name is 'Bronze'. Guiche the Bronze. My bronze golem "Valkyrie" shall be your opponent." Guiche declared as the bronze golem charged towards Saito as Saito gets into his 'ready to fight' stance.
"Old Osmond. There is a duel occurring at the Vestri Court." Professor Colbert told the Headmaster of the academy, Osmond.
"Who are they?"
"Miss Valliere's familiar and Mister Gramont."
"Ah, ignore them for now. A commoner cannot beat a mage but if your research is true…."
"You mean you are going to test if that boy really is the Gandalfr?"
Sir Osmond nodded. "Remember Professor Colbert. The existence of the Gandalfr must remain a secret at all times. If the secret is revealed, various forces would want its power and a war could start."
"I see. Okay in that case I will try and keep it a secret. For now, we shall see the outcome of the battle."
Somewhere in the infirmary, the brunette woke up. Huh? I'm alive? She then inspected the surroundings without moving much. This isn't Midchilda. Where am I? Last thing I remembered was getting injured by a shard of metal from a self-destructing droid. After that the girl noticed the commotion going on outside. Thinking someone might be in trouble she decided to check it out. However when she tried to get off the bed her body starts aching all over, as if it is telling her to stay in bed. Ouch. This pain means the Blaster System's side effect isn't healed yet. I guess I really need to take up Chrono's offer for a one year vacation. Anyway I need to check out what is going on outside. Using a lot of her strength and willpower, she managed to get off the bed. She looked for something that should at her chest, and then she glanced around the room. This place certainly isn't familiar and Raising Heart is missing too. I guess I will worry about that later. She continues to walk out of the infirmary, each step taking a lot of her strength.
Meanwhile outside the academy at the Vestri Court. Sounds of punches and groans can be heard. Saito was busy. Busy getting his ass handed to him. He managed to land a hit or two on the bronze golem but he was human. When he did hit the golem, his hand felt the pain and the golem didn't even flinched. Obviously, the golem hit him back in the face causing Saito to fly and land in front of the crowd of spectators. Louise then rushed to Saito asking him to stop fighting.
"Saito! Are you okay? You have done enough. Just apologize to Guiche and stop fighting." Louise was crying.
"Haha. Are you worried about me?" Saito laughed a bit causing his stomach to hurt. His face was also swollen and as a result the smile he gave Louise looked ridiculous.
"Of course I am worried. You are just a commoner yet you dared to fight against a noble and also lasted quite long. You have done enough." Louise told Saito. She then turned to Guiche. "Guiche, you too. Stop fighting."
"Unfortunately he has hurt my pride and we both agreed to this duel. Though I will spare him if he yield and apologize. However…" Guiche flicked his rose and a petal drop to the floor in front of Saito. This time, instead of a golem, a sword was formed. "… if you refuse to yield then pick up that sword. The sword is at the very least, a weapon, which is what you commoners need to take revenge on us nobles." Guiche continued.
Saito slowly stood up and limp towards the sword, Louise tried to stop him.
"Saito, that's enough. Just apologize. Otherwise you could die."
Saito pushed Louise away and picked up the sword as the runes on Saito's hand began to shine.
"To someone like Guiche…. I will not yield!" Saito's body feel light and healed, even though his injuries are still visible. Without warning the bronze Valkyrie jumped at him only to get destroyed by Saito. What the… I have never even held a sword before but right now it feels as if it was a part of me. Guiche was shocked. How did Saito cut through his golem like butter ?
"Interesting." Guiche smiles and summon more golems. "Let the real battle begin." The golems attacked Saito together.
"Excuse me, what is going on here?" The injured girl has arrived at the Vestri Court.
"That Zero's familiar is fighting against Guiche." One of the chubby students told the girl while eyeing her. She looked like a commoner and wore fairly simple clothes. Well she certainly isn't wearing their school uniform. The student then asked. "Err… who are you? I don't recall seeing you around here before."
"My name is Takamachi Nanoha." The girl, Nanoha, replied. She then pushed herself in front of the crowd to see what was going on. She saw a blacked haired guy with a sword swiftly cut through bronze golem while the blond haired guy was making more. The golem were now armed with weapons too. Fearing the worst, she forgot about her pain and pushed herself past a few more people in front of her and casted a spell.
Louise was in awe. Saito was much stronger than she had imagined. However he is still badly injured and she certainly wants him to stop. As for Guiche, he was certainly losing but he isn't going to give up. Saito on the other hand was slicing apart scrap metal as if they were butter while pushing his way to Guiche. Suddenly, Saito couldn't move his hands. He noticed the pink colored ring holding his hands in place. What the hell? Guiche was shocked at what happened as well. A pink colored ring appeared from nowhere and held Saito's hand in place. Someone was interrupting their duel. However his mindless golems took the opportunity to attack Saito. Louise almost screamed, for a moment she thought Saito would be dead but then the pink beams of light blew up the golem. Saito, Louise and Guiche looked in that direction. Well, the culprit certainly looks familiar, she had brown hair, her eyes were covered by her hair as she was looking down, as if to hide the angry face that she might have. Wait. She woke up?
Nanoha stopped the fight with her spells and as a result, the pain that she had intensified. It was so painful she subconsciously looked downwards while gritting her teeth. Still, once she had decided to do something, she wasn't going to stop halfway.
"Stop… fighting. It is dangerous. Especially with lethal weapons" The brunette said. She was injured as was trying to hide the pain. Little did she know she looked as if she wanted to kill them. Saito and Guiche looked at each other. They somehow came to an agreement without saying a word, as if they had telepathically communicated at each other. They looked back at the girl.
"We yield."
"Thank goodness…" the girl released her spell. She fainted from exhaustion. Saito wanted to see her condition and dropped the sword. The runes stopped shining as Saito felt his energy drain away and faint. Guiche only sat down. He saw the commoner in a new light. Amazing swordplay. Had someone not intervened he would have certainly lost. As for the girl, she was certainly powerful but somehow her face show signs of fatigue, even after sleeping for so long. Louise ran to Saito, she was more worried about him, she tried to carry him only to fail. Guiche offered to levitate Saito into Louise's room. He then asked her what does she plan to do to the girl. Louise then remembered the girl was supposed to be her familiar as well. While she was thinking, a chubby student approached her.
"Hey, Louise."
"Oh, Malicorne. What's wrong ?"
"Just remembered who she is. Just now she asked me what was going on and I told her that your familiar and Guiche was fighting. Didn't think she actually knew magic and ended up stopping the fight."
"That magic. It wasn't one of the four elements." Could she be from another world with a different form of magic? "Oh yeah, Malicorne, did you know her name?"
"Her name, well she did say it… hmm… what was it… Oh yeah, if my memory does not fail me she said she was Takamachi Nanoha."
Another strange name like Saito's. She is probably from another planet as well."Thank you Malicorne. Now, how do I bring her back to the infirmary. Stupid familiars causing so much trouble."
"Well?" Sir Osmond was waiting for Professor Colbert's report on the duel.
"The fight got interrupted. It was a draw. However, Miss Valliere's familiar was gaining the upper hand. His runes shined when he held a weapon. Just like in the legends."
"I see. So he really is Gandalfr. By the way, who stopped the fight?"
"The injured girl that was supposed to be Miss Valliere's other familiar."
"Other familiar? What do you mean? There has never been a case where two familiars has been summoned."
"That is true, but there are many possible reasons. Like say for example, maybe the two familiars were holding hands and got sucked into the portal together? Or maybe Louise accidentally summoned two times. Anyway, she hasn't made a contract with the other one yet, but the other one managed to stop the Gandalfr from moving and destroyed Mr. Gramont's golem. That and she was still injured. The spell on the other hand isn't one of the four elements. It was… pink." The word pink made Sir Osmond, raise an eyebrow.
"Pink? I would have guessed Void magic earlier but I don't think Void magic is pink. Extinct or not, it would clearly be stated in the history books describing Void magic if it was pink."
"That can only mean it isn't Void. Now I am interested. How did Miss Valliere summon two powerful familiars."
A/N: Thank you very much for the reviews. I hope you enjoy the story, also Nanoha finally made an appearance in well.. blowing things up. As for Nanoha, like I said earlier, I didn't "follow" the storyline. Meaning I killed Nanoha again after Blaster 3, before StrikerS. This "story" might be somewhat slightly different (would be spoilers if I gave an example) as well as the other crossover with a similar storyline (they changed some things in their own way but the start was mostly the same). For example, I made Saito's first visit to the dining hall a dinner while most of the other stories did breakfast. Well that's a not significant example. As for the question on how Louise summoned two, I have the answer in my head already but I won't explain it now. Oh well, I need to start learning somewhere. So here is chapter 2, might take quite a while for chapter 3 though. I already have the idea roughly but this time I have no references. Thank you Filraen for pointing out that I need scene breaks, however i tried double spacing many times. Nothing happened . I hope that line works right. Nanoha fainting in this fiction will stop after a while (mostly soon.) since she is still injured. Also I made the water magic here more potent because in Nanoha's canon the medics barely did anything as for in ZnT, well I will just say Colbert to reduce spoilers. The TSAB will have the technology but not the resources. I don't think they will send search parties to find one missing person that could be dead for all they know. The most they could do would be to keep an eye out for Nanoha during recon missions. With that said, TSAB wouldn't be in this story. (Naturally, the planet isn't discovered yet.) Oh and no sorry, Kirche wouldn't be swinging both ways. I'm not that good at fantasizing and I certainly don't swing the other way to understand it.
If you need a hint, reread chapter 1 on Saito's experience on the portal.