DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything other than my OC, please don't kill me.
In the courtyard, the second year students were performing the Familiar Summoning Ritual. Everyone summoned amazing familiars from owls to snakes and someone even summoned a dragon. Louis stood nervously.
"And last up," her teacher, Mr. Colbert announced "Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere. Please perform your summon."
Louise gulped "Um, yes sir."
Louise pulled out her wand and started chanting "I beg of you! My slave who lives somewhere in the universe! Oh sacred, strong, and beautiful spirit! I desire and plead from my heart! Answer to my guidance!"
At first, nothing happened, but before anyone could comment, the summoning circle exploded.
"Apparently, the fact that there was a convenient way to destroy the facility and all evidence was just a coincidence," Jason thought to himself.
As the room he was in exploded around him, Jason couldn't help but wonder why he was so calm. Maybe it was because he had lost his motivation. What would the afterlife be like? Is there even an afterlife. Eventually, he got bored of waiting to die so he started walking around the room dodging any shrapnel that came his way. Wait, why was he dodging the shrapnel in the first place?
"I beg of you!"
That's strange. Jason could swear he could hear someone talking. Sure it wasn't anything he could understand, but he went to enough French classes in high school to know that it was French. A very distorted version of French. He thought he had shields against this sort of thing.
"My slave who lives somewhere in the universe!"
"Am I going insane?" Jason thought to himself "If so, then it's a little late."
"Oh sacred, beautiful and strong spirit!"
"Oh just shut it already!" Jason shouted angrily.
"I desire and plead from my heart!"
"So when do I get to the part where I see people who aren't there?" Jason wondered "This is starting to get really annoying."
He knew that he should be panicking. Maybe it was the shock. He would never know because at that moment, the big explosions started. It seemed that the destruction of the facility had started in earnest. It took long enough.
"Answer to my guidance!"
"At least the voice will go away," he thought.
As soon as he finished the thought, a green portal appeared in front of him. Having nothing to lose, Jason walked up to it and started poking it. It was like water, without the wetness. That was too bad because Jason was getting thirsty. Suddenly, he started to get sucked in. At first, Jason resisted. Then he saw the wall of fire that was headed towards him. Needless to say, he stopped resisting
After inexplicable events such as floating through empty space and falling out of the sky, Jason found himself laying on grass. Beyond the smoke, he could hear voices. They were speaking in the same language as the voice in his head. Speaking of the voice in his head, he could hear her now. She seemed to be angry and on the verge of crying. Eventually the smoke dissipated and he got to see the voices. The voice in his head was short girl whose hair was a strawberry blond that looked pink. She appeared to be arguing with a dark skinned, red haired genetic impossibility who was... 'endowed'. Jason considered saying something to get their attention and perhaps an explanation. It seemed however that someone beat him to the punch and now everyone's attention was on him. Not one second passed before they started laughing again. What a strange bunch of people.
"She summoned a commoner!"
"What a failure!"
"She can't even summon correctly!"
"Sh-Shut up! It's just a mistake! I just need to try again!" Louise said.
"I'm sorry, I can't let that happen. This is a sacred ritual after all. I can't simply allow do-overs. Continue the ritual." Mr. Colbert told her.
"But-"
"No buts!" said Mr. Colbert. "Continue."
Louise sighed, then walked over to the commoner she summoned. After noticing her, he started speaking in some gibberish.
"Look, the commoner doesn't even know how to talk," someone shouted.
Louise ignored the comment and observed her future familiar. She had to admit, although he wore strange clothes, for a commoner he didn't look bad.
"Get up," she yelled.
When he didn't, she remembered that he didn't understand her. Noticing her plight, Mr. Colbert cast a translation spell.
"Familiar," Louise yelled again "Stand up."
After looking confused for half a second, he stood up.
"You should count yourself lucky," Louise told him "Normally you'd go your whole life without a noble doing this to you."
Louise closed her eyes with an air of resignation. She waved around the wooden stick in her hand.
"My name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. Pentagon of the Five Elemental Powers; bless this humble being, and make him my familiar."
She chanted those words over and over, like a magic spell, and touched her familiar's forehead with the stick. Her lips then slowly drew closer. But, before they could touch his lips, she felt pain on her cheek. The commoner slapped her! Before she could react to this, he disarmed her, then held her in a sleeper hold with a strange knife held to the part of her neck that was not covered by his arm. He was using her body as a shield so no one could help her.
"What the hell is going on!" Jason thought.
This "noble" just tried to kiss him. She was probably just a delusional mutant. He needed to find his way to a town or city, but first he needed some answers.
"Who the hell are you?" he asked angrily "And why the hell am I here?"
Author's Note:
Alright, so the first chapter of Mutant of Zero is finished. I would like to hear your opinions. I would also like you all to know that it might not be that good (this is my first time posting a story for FoZ). This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I just wasn't satisfied with the scenes after Jason walks into the portal (I'm still not). So, you know the drill, now that you are done reading, review and give me your opinions.
This is Ultra signing off.
Update: I have gotten myself a beta reader (chronodekar) and we have just finished revising chapter one. Expect chapter two soon (but not too soon, my laptop crashed and won't start up).
Update 2: School is starting for me soon and I'm in the Planetside 2 beta so I don't know how long it will be until chapter 2.