(DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FAMILIAR OF ZERO, I REALLY DON'T.)
Here comes the second part of this story, and I must say that I am starting to feel like writing again after finishing up College right now.
For some insights, the Spheroids are actually part of my supposedly planned 'SUBZONE UNIVERSE' for years now since 2012.
As for some of those sweet inspirations that made me write this story like some Fanfictions that I have read for years now, Thanks for your efforts and stories no matter how shitty some can be at some point.
Let's get started now, shall we?
CHAPTER 2: THE FIRST LEARNING
After Sir Garde has silently left the room knowing that Louise and the Spheroid Symbiote Heir are both resting easily right now, he was now traversing the torch-lit hallways at a gentle pace.
While he was no elite at studying structural types, he could that this entire foundation seems to bear a similar resemblance to the Ancient Era of Earth back when Monarchy was everywhere...or so his records have stated into his head.
As he was going down a series of spiral staircases, he then heard two people talking which resulted in him hiding around a corner and eavesdrop on them for future references.
He took a look around the corner and saw two certain different young students. A male, and a female.
The female seems to be wearing a brown cape that touches all the way down to the ground and has a shoulder-length dark brown hair, and the male seems to have a neck-length blonde hair, white shirt with poofy chest collars and he seems to be holding a red flower in his right hand, he definitely is best described as the flamboyant type of person according to Earth's Encyclopedia Volume VII inside his head.
Not bearing to be a potential threat based on his scans, Sir Garde increased his hearing sensories for a clear take on what are they talking about.
BROWN CAPED WOMAN: "Believe me, I'm good at baking souffles~."
The Blonde boy sways his open arm to the left side with a dashing smile.
BLONDE BOY: "Oh that indeed sounds good to try. Of course, I would love to try one~."
This caused the Brown caped woman to be happy as she lets out a happy yelp.
BROWN CAPED WOMAN: "Uwah~! Really~?!"
Then the Blonde Boy gave her the most 'Handsome' smile ever that it could catch any young girl's hearts proximately at the close distances.
BLONDE BOY: "Yes of course...Katie~. I wouldn't dare lie to your pure beautiful eyes~."
KATIE: "Oh, Lord Guiche~!"
GUICHE: "I promise you that there is nothing hidden behind my deep feeling for you~."
Sir Garde has finally heard enough from those two but at least he gets to remember names, Katie and Guiche for again...future references.
So now after knowing that they would mean harm if he just passes through casually and began to question his presence, pretty sure no harm can come for now.
After getting out of the corner on where is hiding, Guiche immediately saws him.
GUICHE: "Hey, aren't you the Familiar that Louise has summoned?"
SIR GARDE: "Yes, I am."
When Sir Garde approaches the two love birds, the height difference was...staggering.
They couldn't believe that a failure of a mage like Louise could actually summon herself a high-quality Familiar and it had to look like a Knight out of all the types of Familiars you could really get.
Yet, you gonna give her some respect and credit to how she could pull this off in a one in a million chance of success.
KATIE: "The today's ritual? It's actually impressive that it caused among the first year students as well."
GUICHE: "I must say, for a failure of zero like Louise. I and the others were quite surprised that a failure like could actually be...well, amazing...for a failure."
SIR GARDE: "...I'll take that as a minor insult."
GUICHE: "Now, now, I am not trying to be hostile against a fine Familiar such as yourself. Knowing her success right now, she must be really happy about everything that has happened to her right now, isn't she?"
SIR GARDE: "Definitely happy, she fell asleep with positivity within her mind."
KATIE: "That's kinda sweet. Knowing that she is not a failure after and sleeping with a smile on her face is a good thing! Oh, before you could go, do you mind letting us know your name, dear sir?"
He was about to walk away from the two until Katie asked for his name, and after knowing that they show signs of anything unusual, he decided to give some info about himself.
SIR GARDE: "I...had no name since I was born. I thought my purpose would be limited. That was until Louise gave me a name, and there I must serve her every will and actions no matter what. My name is Garde, Sir Garde."
After ending his introduction with a gentleman bow, both Guiche and Katie were starting to slowly appreciate the fine exhibition the Familiar of Louise the Zero has to offer in front of them.
GUICHE: "Honesty, to be quite frank with you, Sir Garde. If Louise would summon an absurd Familiar that ends being more of a peasant or a lowly pathetic creature, then I suppose her reputation of being a poor Zero Mage would reach higher until it touches the skies above and that would ruin her petite beauty. Now looking at you...I believe the Zero has potential despite being terrible at casting some basic magic spells~."
KATIE: "Well, I couldn't agree more than that, my dear Guiche~. As for you, Sir Garde, I wish you luck."
After knowing the fact that he had gained good trusts from both of them, Sir Garde would need to be sure that everyone is on the good friendly side of specific conversations and interactions.
One of the many lessons he had taken up when he was just a tiny Juvenile Spheroid was that you 'Always give the Inhabitants the friendly impressions in order to build up a healthy partnership', even when you found yourself on a brand new planet.
So he bids the two a farewell wave and moves on forward down the hallways with his footsteps echoing throughout the night.
GUICHE: "It has seemed that our Zero had summoned a rather unique fellow, isn't it?"
KATIE: "I don't know, Guiche. I can't wait to see more what Sir Garde has to offer to us all?"
The Time for that will come soon.
After mapping the entire section down into his Map Databases HUD, he then found himself in an open corridor that has an elegant water fountain in the middle of the area, portraits of unknown people hanged on the wall with luxurious sofas and coffee tables placed underneath them.
Once again, he found two unknown people sitting by the side of the water fountain seemingly talking to each other in a rather romantic way.
One male student and one female student.
The male student seems to be wearing a purple cape and has short brown hair with matching sideburns at the same level as his mouth.
The female student is probably the one that Sir Garde had probably recognized when he and the Heir were first both summoned here, she was donning a black cape and mesmerizing brown skin that comes together with her fiery beautiful waist-length light red hair.
Standing idly by the corner of the entrance he was about to walk out of, he once again increases his hearing sensors on what are they both talking about.
PURPLE CAPED MALE: "You wanna know something sweet? Being with all alone like this feels like a beautiful dream, Kirche the Fever~."
Now named Kirche into his Databases while also including the word 'FEVER' into it before adding it into her own sub-folder for potential nicknames and titles, she then placed herself against the chest of the Purple Caped Male as a sign of hormones kicking in or showing interests.
KIRCHE: (She Sighs) "It looks like tonight won't really end with just a...fever~."
PURPLE CAPED MALE: "Oh, Kirche~."
Sir Garde called it, both of them are just having a romantic night right now so they are showing no signs of hostility for now.
Seeing that nothing is wrong with them both, he then saw an exit outside just in front of the water fountain and gets out of the corner in order to proceed through it.
This also made the two lovebirds saw him walking past by, and this caught their attention like it was a big surprise for them.
PURPLE CAPED MALE: "Wait a second. That thing...he's the same Familiar that Louise the Zero had summoned, right?"
KIRCHE: "Yes apparently so, the same Knight Familiar that she had summoned."
After getting down the stairs, he then found himself in a huge open area and when he was feeling the grass below his feet once again, he then felt the freezing cold night wind brushing up against his Exo-suit's synthetic exterior skin clear as a refined diamond.
If his Colony back home could see how diverse this entire area is right now, then it would have been a really suitable Hive Outpost for basic communications and trading to ensure a friendly economic relationship.
But...after remembering the fact that their Home planet has just been invaded by a fully planned Cyberian fleet that took advantage of their weak defensive placements and making their way into their Main Hive Core where their Queen resides.
There might be a possibility that both of them could be alone all on their own right now.
There might also be a low possibility that a passing Spheroid Scouting Carrier could pick on their signals, but knowing the fact that the Omniverse is just that massively limitless then it could probably take around a million years to pass by them.
Without the required Spheroid technologies to build a Galaxy Reacher Antenna to hone in their signals to nearby Colonies, then they are both going to have to adapt their way around here.
Set up a healthy relationship with the inhabitants around here, study the number of technologies that use around here, take time to research their uses of 'Magical energy' and see if it can benefit him and the Heir, and probably assist in settling conflicts around the world...probably.
Sitting down in a rather casual Terran way, he then took a look upon the stars and began to admire the planet's two moons.
The nearest or the biggest has a mixture of Cyan and Lime Green color into it, while the other one behind seems to be smaller or farther away has a strange pinkish color all over it.
Despite the limit of analyzing satellite moons like them, Sir Garde could tell that there is a very high probability that both of these moons are highly suitable of Colonization, and maybe he should keep these notes on hold deep within his HUD.
When he then looked around the foundation of the entire place, he then spotted his Master's window and the walls seem stable enough to withstand climbing, and with the night not about to get young and the dawn will soon reach over, he then activated his Grapple Claws and began climbing over to the window.
(LOUISE'S ROOM)
Gently opening the window with outmost complete silence, he then found out that both of his superiors sleeping soundly like they both ran a marathon or having to survive a planetary invasion.
When he took the time to scan both of them, both were at their most stable health status so everything is ok right now.
When Sir Garde placed a single foot on the ground, the Symbiote Heir suddenly woke up within a split second.
SIR GARDE: "How was your sleep, my Heir? Please forgive my absence for I was simply taking the time to explore the entire area for further research and references."
The Symbiote Heir chirped with confusion and joy.
SIR GARDE: "My Heir, after knowing the possibility of us being alone on this one planet for a very long time. I have taken the responsibility of gathering every bit of pieces of information on everything around us that can help ensure our survival."
The Symbiote Heir then chirped in a rather authoritative tone for about 15 seconds, but low enough to not wake Louise up.
SIR GARDE: "My Heir, there is a chance that Madam Louise might not be ready for it. Let's not forget you were the one who has to keep an eye for her, not just me. My suggestion is we teach her piece by piece until she gets the hang of it. A forced transformation could end up damaging her internal organs more than ever. We do not want an unnecessary civilian casualty within our Databases, my Heir."
The Symbiote Heir was silent for a moment, and then it chirped at a slow pace with a rather sad tone.
This Sir Garde walk up to it and began to rub its backside gently.
SIR GARDE: "The time will come, my Heir. When she is ready, then there is still a chance."
This caused the Symbiote Heir to chirped happily before going back to sleep.
As for Sir Garde, he then sat at a nearby chair and activated his 'Patrol Sensors' to make sure none shall enter the room without permission, even if they were invisible or cloaked.
With that said, he lets time passes by normally.
(MEANWHILE IN THE GREAT OCEAN, THE LANDED SITE)
The Egg Core had successfully expanded into a MICRO HIVE CORE after absorbing the right amount of resources beneath the landmass beneath the Great Ocean, now it can spawn some Tier-1 Spheroids to do some mining and intel gathering.
Another unique fact about the Spheroids Hive Cores is that they can adapt to whatever environments that they landed on, for example:
1.) Landed on a land-based area = Expect a mountain-sized Sphere Mobile Fortress.
2.) Landed underneath the deepest part of a water-based environment = Expect a massive Termite-like underground network underneath it.
3.) Landed on a specific targeted massive asteroid = Expect to not be that huge, but acts like a mobile space station.
The lists and possibilities can go on and on about what type of environments they can take advantage of, only if the Egg Core finds it suitable to set up the main base.
This is where the Micro Hive Core's Juvenile Symbiotes comes in, due to the fact that they are underwater than their insect-like carapace gets to sprout out fins and aqua propellers to move around more quickly and efficiently.
As the Spheroid Titan that came with it, after having completed its run as an Egg Core Carrier then the Seeder now reverts back to its Guardian Titan state.
For now, it lays dormant as it sat by the edge of the massive Ocean trench beneath it despite how the top of his head is prodding the surface of the Ocean, therefore making it look like a small metallic island.
The Juvenile Symbiotes have begun traversing the deepest parts of the Ocean Trench to mine out some valuable resources or traversing through the Micro Hive Core's tunnel networks as they help it expand the tunnels furthermore.
When the time comes for Juvenile Symbiotes to build the Great Exo-Fabricator in order to create their own Exo-suits to help them walk on land or help build aerial contraptions in order to explore the skies above them.
Then the hunt for the two similar beings with the same Royal Gene-Codes can begin...sooner or later.
They have a feeling this planet might get involved.
TO BE CONTINUED.
