Hi everyone! I told you in the prologue that i would explain a little more about this story so here goes...
This story was inspired by another anime called "Zero no Tsukaima". I've only seen the first season but that was enough to get me thinking what if Rosette was a mage? I'm not completely sure where i'll wind up going with this so it might wind up being completely different then the anime it was inspired from by the end.
Personally im not even sure who the bad guy is going to be at this point...i kinda like the idea of flipping Duffau's and Aion's roles a bit though i'm doing that in my other story "Is This Really my Life?" So i'm not sure what i'll do yet. If you have any opinions please tell me.
"The Familiar of Rosette"
Preparations and Mishaps
Disclaimer I do not own Chrno Crusade or any of its characters they belong to Daisuke Moriyama!
"…ette….Rosette!"
"W-What is it?" yawned a blonde haired azure eyed girl while staring up at the person who woke her
"Rosette Christopher this is the second time I have called you out!"
"P-Professor Kate" squeaked Rosette as she realized the situation at hand
Professor Kate was the defensive spells teacher. She looked to be in her late twenties maybe early thirties no one really knew. She wore a dark long sleeved robe with a pair of dark ankle high boots.
Her dark brown hair was cut short and she had light brown colored eyes.
Professor Kate gave the girl a hard glare before speaking to her again.
"See me after class please Miss Christopher."
Rosette sighed she just couldn't catch a break today. She had already been reprimanded for the mess she made this morning in the dining hall.
It wasn't Rosette's fault that her powers were always going haywire at the wrong time.
"Looks like 'Hurricane Rosette' is at it again" whispered one boy to another. The other just laughed quietly.
Rosette was used to this kind of treatment. Mostly, she just ignored her classmates when they got like this. She was going to show them all tomorrow just how great a mage she really was.
Tomorrow was the 'Familiar Summoning'. This was a very important event in a young mages life because whatever familiar they summoned would be with them for the rest of their lives.
"I'll show every last one of them…my familiar is going to be so awesome that none of them will ever doubt me again." Thought Rosette to herself
The professor droned on with her lesson, no one was really listening at his point.
The chime to leave class sounded and all the students but Rosette poured out of the door.
Rosette was not looking forward to this conversation.
Professor Kate was not always known for her self control when it came to punishing a student. Rosette had already been on the receiving end of her attacks several times.
"Man, my neck just now stopped hurting from the last altercation" thought Rosette
Professor Kate had finally finished packing up all her stuff and she turned to address the last issue in front of her before she could leave.
"Rosette, I know that you have been training well into the night and while diligence is a good trait to have…"
Rosette was pleasantly surprised by now she thought she would be trying to fight her way out of another headlock.
Maybe things were looking up for Rosette.
"…falling asleep in my class is unacceptable. "Finished Kate hardly
Professor Kate paused in her speech seemingly deciding the girl's fate.
"The 'Familiar Summoning' is tomorrow after breakfast…" drawled Professor Kate "I will let your misbehavior slide this time. However make sure you get a good night's rest tonight."
"Y-Yes Ma'am!" said Rosette happily she couldn't believe her good fortune
Rosette had just got to the doorframe when Professor Kate stopped her. "Make sure you help clean up the mess you made in the dining hall." Rosette should have known she wouldn't get off that easily.
Rosette walked through the stone covered hallways without seeing them.
Her thoughts were on tomorrow. Would she actually be able to summon a great familiar or would her powers go haywire on her again?
A familiar could be anything from a common house cat to a flying griffin. Her mother and father had both summoned wonderful familiars. Her mother's was a flame wolf named Keri and her father's was an ice wolf named Kori.
Both were amazing familiars and incredibly loyal to their masters. Rosette being the eldest child in the family was expected to follow in her parent's footsteps.
All of this did not help Rosette, in fact, it made it worse. Not only had she never been able to fully control her powers, but, now she had huge shoes to fill.
Of course as soon as she came, her classmates noticed right away her problem and had tormented her with it ever since.
Her only true friends because of this were her little brother Joshua and a petite albino girl named Azmaria.
Rosette stopped in front of a pair of heavy dark wooden doors. The black cloak she wore over her outfit swished as she stopped.
Her outfit consisted of a deep blue dress that rested above her knees. The dress had spaghetti style straps and dipped down into a 'v' shape. She wore a pair of black boots that came to just above her knees.
Rosette's long blonde hair was tied back in two pig tails at the sides of her head. The rest of her hair hung loosely down to the lower part of her back.
Rosette sighed.
Part of her didn't want to enter this room, this was the very place she had caused such a ruckus in this morning, the dining hall.
If only Satella hadn't been there everything would have been fine. Satella was the one person that Rosette could not ignore.
Rosette wasn't sure why but no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't ignore the snide remarks the 'red-headed Jezebel' Satella made.
Rosette just knew that Satella was going to be in there even before she opened the doors.
Speak of the devil; there she was right now speaking loudly to a group of people about some expensive item she just purchased.
Rosette walked right by them with her head held high. She came from a rich family as well but that didn't mean she was going to flaunt it in everyone's face.
She had spotted her brother and the albino sitting at a dark corner table. They had all decided that with Rosette's reputation being in a dark corner was the only safe place to sit.
Joshua wore a long dark suit coat over a white button up dress shirt and a pair of black slacks. He and Rosette could have been twins except he had baby blue eyes and was a year younger than her.
"Hey Rosette did you get in trouble?" asked Joshua as Rosette sat down. She grabbed a yellow apple from the basket on the table and took a bite before she answered.
"Surprisingly, no she let me off the hook because of tomorrow. I just have to help clean up after supper tonight."
"T-That's not so bad." Replied Azmaria timidly from beside Joshua
Azmaria was the same age as Joshua she wore a pale pink long sleeved dress that rested above her knees with a pair of dark colored boots that came to her knees. She had long pale hair with red eyes.
"You're right perhaps I had her figured wrong." Said Rosette
"R-Rosette a-are you ready for tomorrow?" asked Azmaria
Silence followed Azmaria's question. Azmaria panicked the last thing she wanted was Rosette upset at her. She apologized to Rosette profusely.
"It's alright Azmaria I'm not mad at you." Placated Rosette
This statement calmed Azmaria considerably. Rosette gave Azmaria a confidant smile.
"Of course I'm ready! I'll show everyone that I am a real mage! When they see the amazing familiar I'm going to summon every last one of them is going to regret doubting me!" This is what Rosette said but on the inside she wasn't feeling that confidant.
The afternoon slowly waned on. Rosette had managed not to get into anymore trouble with her teachers.
All of her tormentors were too busy with preparations for tomorrow to bother her also. Maybe things really were looking up for Rosette.
It was now suppertime. When Rosette entered everyone was busy chattering amongst themselves.
As she passed by one table, however, it became silent. Rosette was too busy with her thoughts to notice it though.
She made her way to the table in the back where her small group of friends had taken up refuge.
"So tell me what amazing familiar 'the hurricane' is going to summon tomorrow" scoffed a female voice with a bit of an accent.
Rosette knew this voice very well; it was the voice of the one person whom she couldn't ignore, Satella Harvenheit.
Satella had long red hair and reddish brown colored eyes. She was very well endowed and made sure to where an outfit that accentuated that fact even more.
Her golden dress was long but was very low cut in the front. It was slit all the way up one side to her thigh exposing a pair of black sheer stockings and a pair of dark ankle high heeled boots.
Satella continued to hurl insults at Rosette each one making Rosette madder than the one before.
"…or perhaps I should ask what you're going to blow up tomorrow? Since that seems to be the only thing your good at."
That's when the bowl of fruit on the table, Rosette was at, exploded sending pieces of fruit and basket everywhere.
"My point proven." Said Satella with a smirk all the other students laughed at this
Rosette had enough. She wasn't going to take anymore of Satella's snide remarks.
"Listen you red-headed Jezebel! I will summon a familiar tomorrow and it will be the greatest familiar anyone's ever seen!" yelled Rosette before she stalked off to the kitchen to begin her punishment from Professor Kate
"I can't wait." Replied Satella with a sneer
Rosette had done her work slowly trying to waste as much time as possible so that everyone would be gone to their rooms by the time she finished.
She got lucky no one had waited for her and she made it through the stone corridors to her room undeterred.
Her room like the rest of the magi school had walls made out of stone. The door was a dark oak and there was on opening on the opposite side that led out to a good size balcony.
Her bed, a large canopy top, and her wardrobe were made out of the same wood as the door.
They had given her the bedroom on the top floor of one of the towers. It gave Rosette quite a bit of privacy which she was grateful for.
Rosette cursed. Why had she yelled out that promise in front of everyone when she wasn't sure if it was true.
Rosette got dressed in her silky nightgown but instead of heading right to bed she picked up a book she had borrowed some time ago from the library.
She turned the pages, skipping over the ones she knew weren't going to help her already. She stopped on one page that she had been to too many times.
It contained some very powerful incantations. She had been up late every night trying to perfect this incantation. It was supposed to help summon a very powerful familiar.
However, the exact incantation in the book didn't seem right to Rosette so she tried to re-word it to where it did. The words for an incantation were important if you said the wrong thing it could be very disastrous.
"Now I summon thee no that doesn't sound right maybe if I…" Rosette scratched through another hand written version of the incantation and continued writing furiously
Rosette continued to write different versions each time scratching out an older version.
"I know I can get this…"
She wrote for a couple more minutes before deciding that what she had was probably as good as it was going to get.
Rosette yawned it was getting pretty late outside and Rosette knew she would need to be very well rested for tomorrow.
She collapsed on her bed leaving her re-written incantation and the book lying on the table.
Her last thought before sleep engulfed her was that she would definitely show everyone what she could do tomorrow.
Woot! There's chapter one hope everyone enjoyed it I think things will start picking up a bit more in the next chapter. See ya then. Please R&R!
