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If she'd still had a human body, she would have slumped over and sighed in defeat at the sheer idiocy of the situation she had ended up in. The pinkette was still holding her hilt, though her eyes were wide with surprise and she had already nearly dropped her twice in the span of several seconds as she took several faltering steps back from where she had pulled her out of the ground. Sighing to herself, she spoke to the girl again as she called out, "Oye, buck up girl and steady yourself. I don't want to get dropped and I'd like it if we introduced ourselves."

The call had the desired effect as the girl's eyes narrowed and she nodded in response before speaking in a clear, if annoyingly superior, voice.

"I am Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere, and I am the master who summoned you here as my familiar," she called.

"Charming to meet you," she replied dryly, "Call me Archerko."

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"Call me Archerko"

The name was interesting for sure in Louise's opinion, and it showed in her next question as she asked, "Archer...ko? But you're a sword."

Any response she might have gotten from the blade was lost as Louise was distracted by a sudden hand being set on her shoulder that shocked her enough that as she turned to face the owner she dropped Archerko, hearing a brief shout of complaint that was cut off midway as her hand left the grip of the sword.

"Louise, who are you talking to?" a girl behind her asked.

As she turned back to look at the owner, Louise felt a sudden rush of anger as she stared first into the superfluous bust and then the face as she looked further up of a dark skinned, red headed girl by the name of Kirche Augusta Frederica Von Anhalt Zerbst.

With a huff she turned away as she picked the sword back up from where it had landed point first into the ground, before answering, ignoring the sword as she declared, "If you must know Kirche, I was speaking with my familiar."

"Your familiar...the sword right? You sure you haven't gone nuts from too many explosions, Zero?" Kirche responded, arching an eyebrow as disbelief colored her tone.

"Hardly, you perverse tramp. So shut up, I need to speak with my familiar and figure out how useful she's going to be," Louise replied angrily, ignoring the retort that was shot back by the busty redhead before turning back to the sword.

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"Familiar, what can you do right now?"

The question grated on Archerko's nerves a bit as she listened, taking in the tone her summoner had spoke to her in. With a hearty sigh, she decided to just get the explanations out of the way immediately rather than leaving than for later as she responded. "Not much at the moment other than to just best a good sword, or a substitute for your mystic code right now," she began, "But that's cause I don't have a body at the moment."

"What do you mean you don't have a body?! You're a sword!" shouted her petite master.

The grating tone only wore further on her nerves as she pulled together her patience to answer the irate girl holding her by the hilt. "Look," she began, "Not all of me got summoned. By whatever curse of fate there is, you ended up trying to summon me at the same time someone else did. What you got is the most essential part of me, my soul really. I think whoever else was trying to summon me got...well a corpse most likely cause I'm not there to drive the body around. So the basic fact is if I'm gonna do anything really useful for you, I need a body."

"And where am I gonna get you a body?" Louise demanded.

"Well we can do it two ways. First, if there's anyone you really don't like, you can just stab me into them and I'll overwrite their soul and kill them as I use their body," Archerko responded politely.

"Though there are plenty of people I don't like, I think I'd rather avoid that," her master responded.

"Alright, then option number two, I need a construct. Something human in shape and size like a big clay doll or a suit of armor will do. What you'll do is pour magic into me and then just drive me into the stomach of said construct. It'll take more effort on my part, but I can make a body out of one of them."

"Alright...I...I think I can find something that'll work, just let me go talk to Professor Colbert."

"Yeah, do what you need to, but just keep a hold of my hilt so I can talk to you if I need to," Archerko responded calmly, doing her best to keep her fraying nerves in check.

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"She's gone nuts."

"No kidding, she's been talking to a sword for Founder's sake."

"Now long do you think it will be before she's in a loony bin?"

"Dunno, but you wanna start a pool for it?"

Again Louise found herself shutting out the comments from the crowd, this time by telling herself she clearly was not crazy, and that despite the fact the sword she was holding in her right hand was a valid weapon, and that stabbing people was not an appropriate response to their jeering.

Thankfully, she didn't have to walk far to find Professor Colbert in the disorganized mess of people remaining from her summoning. As she approached the balding professor, she did her best to but on a polite tone expression as she spoke up.

"Professor Colbert, I require some assistance, or rather my familiar does..." She said, trying not to be demanding though she was also having trouble keeping the nervousness out of her voice.

With raised eyebrows and an expression of utter curiosity on his face, Colbert turned to look at Louise immediately though his eyes went directly to the sword she held as she began to explain by saying, "Um...during the summoning professor, my familiar says someone else tried to summon her at the same time so she didn't get a body..."

"Then what is the sword you're holding Louise?" He replied as he cupped his chin in earnest thought.

"She...she says it's her soul professor. And I need a suit of armor or a big doll made of clay for her to inhabit."

"Her soul...that...should be impossible...but if it really is true that would be amazing, something truly new..." Colbert began to mutter.

"Professor! My familiar needs a body!" Louise shouted in anger, not liking the sudden idea that Colbert had been about to try and dissect Archerko.

"Ah, my apologies Miss Valliere. If what you said is true is all she needs, I think one of Guiche's Valkyrie golems might fit the bill for what your familiar is asking for."

From there it was a relatively simple matter of getting the playboy Guiche to summon one of his Valkyries, but it there was the cost of an unnamed favor sometime in the future that Guiche gave up the golem for Louise's use, something that left her particularly irked.

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"Alright, we've got a body ready for you, now how do we do this?"

Archerko didn't respond immediately as she figured out the best method for performing her part of the work, but a sudden shake and shout from her summoner got her attention as she sighed and responded.

"Alright, grab my hilt with both hands. Once you do that, pour as much of your magic into me as possible as if you were casting a spell. When you don't think you can put in anymore energy, stab me into the golem's stomach, I'll take it from there. Sound alright?"

Louise didn't verbally answer her, but she did at least nod in reply which got a sigh again, but Archerko held her tongue as she felt Louise grip her hilt with both hands before beginning to pour prana into her as if for a spell, and boy did she supply plenty.

She wasn't sure how much prana the girl had overall, but the amount she was being fed at that moment was probably enough that she could have powered the full use of Saber's Excalibur for an attack.

Certainly not something to laugh at.

Still, Louise did eventually stop with supply of magic, and Archerko could see the exhaustion on her summoner's face as the girl inhaled slowly before suddenly running forward and driving her tip first into the stomach of the golem.

"My turn now master, so why don't you sit back and rest for a bit," she thought to herself.

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"That...that was really easy...shouldn't there have been resistance?" Louise thought as she looked to the blade she had just buried to the hilt in the chest of Guiche's golem. Her curiosity getting the better of her, she looked around the back only to find that the blade hadn't come out of the rear of the golem. With a sense of trepidation, she let go of the sword's hilt and took a half step back, and seemingly not a moment too soon.

The sword flared with silver light as the remainder of the exposed weapon sank into the Valkyrie's chest before the golem to glowed a brilliant silver, the brightness increasing till Louise was forced to close and shield her eyes lest she be blinded as wind began to whip about the area.

"I am the bone of my sword."

Despite the blinding light, Louise's eyes snapped open as her ears registered the sound of the voice she had heard before in her head speaking as Archerko began some form of chant.

"Steel is my body and fire is my blood."

No, it wasn't a chant Louise realized, it was an aria for a spell. As she listened, she couldn't wonder what sort of spell, having never heard of an incantation like the one she was hearing now.

"I have created over a thousand blades."

The light had faded a little and the wind was dying down a touch, enough that though the gap in her arms and by squinting, Louise could catch the occasional glimpse of what was her familiar was making out of the Valkyrie golem. There was pale, fair skin unmarked like fresh snow in the winter. Silver hair like burnished platinum that stretched down Archerko's back to reach her knees.

"Unaware of loss, Nor aware of gain."

Clothes took shape across her familiar's body before the light dimmed any further. A short black skirt that reached midway down her thighs. A tight fitting black shirt, trimmed in silver that framed the emphasized the chest of her familiar, which though not as large as Kirche's by any means, was still plentiful. A blood colored waistcoat came next, it had a slit in the back and was open in the front as it sat over her original black skirt, though the leading corners dipped nearly to her shins where a silver tassel hung. Black stockings that reached to just below the level of her skirt formed next, followed by red shoes that looked both comfortable and protective. A second set of small black pleats from a small over skirt then settled over the waistcoat before a tight fitting, ember red jacket formed around her body last, a black triangle hanging from the back of the neck as the front went around her familiar's chest as if to draw more attention to it.

Privately Louise wondered why the hell it seemed like her familiar was making a show of this.

"Withstood pain to create weapons, waiting for one's arrival."

The light was intensifying, as she shielded her eyes again, Louise could feel a massive burst of will from her familiar before the light faded. As she looked to her familiar, the long hair that draped down her back began to pull itself together as it suddenly formed into a tight, narrow braid, leaving chest length hair free to form her familiar's face before a small length of red ribbon tied off the braid at the end.

"I have no regrets. This is the only path."

At those words, Louise watched as the light disappeared in a final flash and the wind faded away to a the courtyard's normal gentle breeze. Archerko stood relaxed before before her, calmly breathing, before eyes the color of bloody rubies suddenly opened to lock with her own amber ones as her familiar crouched down on one knee, her right hand going to rest across her heart as she spoke up to Louise.

"A pleasure to finally meet you in the flesh Miss Valliere."

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"And stretch and one and two and there we go..." Archerko thought to herself as she savored the wealth of new feelings coming from having a body again before she knelt down on one knee before Louise and greeted her.

"A pleasure to finally meet you in the flesh Miss Valliere," she greeted her summoner warmly before her attention was suddenly pulled away as the balding professor spoke again.

"Ah, Miss Valliere, now that your familiar has a body, it would be good if you finished the summoning ritual." He said.

"Finish it? I'm here aren't I?" Archerko thought dryly before she suddenly felt a pair of small, soft hands cup her cheeks and turn her face back to look at Louise's.

"Pentagon of the Five Elemental Powers, grant your blessings upon this creature and bind it as my familiar," she heard Louise declare before she suddenly found herself at a lose for words as a pair of dainty lips pressed against her own.

With her eyes wide, she pulled away as she felt a sudden burst of heat fill her body as prana flowed into her. With the hiss of air rushing through clenched teeth, Archerko looked to her left hand as she felt the sensation of a burning piece of metal cutting along her flesh. What she found along the back of her hand were a series of sharp, angular runes that glowed a light blue for several more seconds before they dimmed and went out, turning a pale gray against her skin.

Despite their seeming inactive state, she could feel a wealth of prana flowing into her body from the runes. "Well it looks like I won't be needing to eat to keep this body from breaking down..." She considered before turning her attention back to her summoner who seemed to be having a fit.

"I can't believe I had to kiss a girl! Even if it is part of the ritual that was abhorrent! Absolutely disgusting!" she heard Louise pantomime as she began to chuckle at her master's behavior.

After all, if she could keep getting free kisses from the girls in this world, than maybe it wasn't such a bad place after all.

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So there's chapter 2, all finished and written. I hope you all enjoyed it, do please leave a review, but if you're gonna leave an angry review like d and say the story is shit, do say why please.