And I'm back, chapter 3 here. I got a hair cut today, so there's that... I also watched up to episode 5 of FoZ, so I have some things planned.

Anyway, let's talk reviews.

xxOblivionxxx - Common sense tells me that this is my fanfiction, and so, common sense points to me being able to do whatever I want. But, other than that, I'm probably going to go with the "run" tactic. It is true that he isn't affected by being cold, since he has flames, so it doesn't matter where he sleeps. But please keep in mind that he didn't know much about the world, so he stayed there so he could hit the library or whatever.

Kyudoran - I agree. Louise must die. XD Yeah, but probably not. I mean... who knows what will happen later XD

Aaron Alvin(Guest) - Glad you enjoyed that. Dual wielding Derflinger and Kusanagi? That would be fun XD Two knives, two swords. Plus flames. As for being the "left hand of God" well... I already have something planned for that.

Is that all the reviews? Am I not missing one? Well, whatever.

What will be happening in todays chapter, is Ryusei skydiving from the highest tower(again), Ryusei finding some food in the kitchen, three day time skip, Siesta goes to Mott-what's-his-face, Ryusei decides to rescue her because of soup, he destroys Mott, or Mutt, Ryusei meets his first FAN. Yes, Ryusei now has a FAN. I wonder who It could be XD And, then we'll end it off with Louise bribing Ryusei to appear in the Familiar Contest/show/festival thing. Cause we all know, that Ryusei doesn't care for that shit XD

Anyway, I will be switching to first person, since I am more comfortable with it, but will remain third person when I switch to other characters. Like, I'm with Ryusei, and it's first person, then switch to what Louise is doing, third person. Anyway, let's go.

EDIT:

Hai! Once again, here I am! In a land, far, far away! Here I am! Fighting for survival, in a land, far, far away! Here I fight! Here I live! Here I-what the fudge was I doing? At first, I was simply remembering the lyrics to a song I once heard, I think it was by Queen? Don't remember. And then... other things happen. Maybe I should write a song...? It might get only three buys, one favorite, 0 follows, but hey! It's something! No? Ah, what do I care for your people's opinions? Anyway, on to the main show!

Anyway, I didn't actually change much from this chapter... so... Yeah.


I was bored. I may have said night to Tabitha, like I was going to go to sleep, and that it was actually nighttime, but it was actually in the afternoon. I laid down on top of the highest tower in this magic academy for exactly one hour, before I realized that I was bored and that I was wasting time.

Sighing, I removed the glove on my left hand and glanced over the runes that appeared on it. When I fought Guiche... When I wielded my knives and my sword, I felt... stronger, faster. Maybe they had something to do with it? I put my glove back on in one smooth movement. If I was paying attention more during the fight, I would've noticed that the runes were glowing, but since my glove was covering it, it was much harder to notice.

Rolling over, towards the edge of the tower, I peered down, looking to see if anyone was down there.

After three seconds of lazy observation, I rolled off the tower, and into a skydive. Piercing through the air, I landed on the ground with an audible crash. Dirt and smoke appeared all around me, flying through the air, when I landed. Fixing my clothes slightly, brushing off some dirt here and there, I began walking away, looking for food.

Because, after all, I never had breakfast. I may have been immortal, since I was a Demi-God, but that doesn't mean that I don't need food! Well... it does. But I still liked to eat, after all.

Using my hypersensitive nose to smell for food, I eventually(one minute) found the kitchen.

Taking a few steps through it, I noticed a girl standing, back facing me, cleaning some plates. Walking towards her, I tapped her shoulder, in which she jumped at the touch.

"Ah!" She shrieked. "Who is- Oh!" She said, turning around and noticing who she was talking to. "Sir Ryusei! W-what are you here for?"

"Some food would be great, considering that I never ate." Siesta stared at me for a few seconds, and then smiled.

"Well, we still have some leftover stew! I'll go warm it for you!" She then skipped away, going to fetch the food.

A couple of minutes later, and she returned, with a wooden bowl containing stew. She handed me the bowl and a spoon, and then I began to eat.

"Mhm. Hm." I said, between bites. "This is some great food." I finally said, after I finished eating, which only took twenty seconds. Hey, when you live in the wild, you learn to eat fast. "Can I have some seconds?"

"R-really? You truly liked it? Then hang on a minute, I'll get you some more!"

After about three more bowls of stew, I finally left the kitchen, licking my lips. Siesta stayed behind to clean up. "That was some good stew." I said to myself.

Stopping suddenly, I looked left, then right. Narrowing my eyes, I expanded my aura, and tried to find... There it is!

Looking to my right, I jumped forward, creating a small crater in the ground, where my right foot was. In less than a second, I appeared behind a person wearing a hood over their face. Putting a hand on their shoulder, I got his attention.

"Oi. You know it isn't good manners to watch someone." I said, startling them. He turned around, and I saw green hair.

"Y-you misunderstand!" He- no, she- said.

"About what?" I replied, narrowing my eyes.

"W-well... I was just... Oh, making sure you were fitting in! In fact, I was going to go over to you and see if you were alright! I mean, you were just summoned yesterday as a familiar by, um, Miss Valliere, so..." She said, nervously, but with confidence.

"I see." Releasing her. "Who are you anyway?"

"Oh, pardon my manners! I'm Longueville, the secretary to the headmaster."

"Hm. Well, bye, Ms. Longueville." I turned away from her and walked away, not even bothering pointing out that she didn't tell me her real name.

Ms. Longueville stared back at the boy with white, black, and red hair, with red and green eyes, as he walked away. She, of course, had heard about how he defeated Guiche, so she went to see if he would be strong enough to get in the way of her plans, and what he did, proved it. She would have to change her plan to match him. If they fought... who would win? Ms. Longueville, who was actually Fouquet of the Crumbling Earth, stood back up, shaking slightly, and walked away, a scowl on her face.


THREE DAYS LATER

Louise was pissed. It has been three days since she last saw her familiar. Where did he disappear to? She didn't know! He was supposed to be her familiar, but for starters, he didn't listen to her, he ignored her, and he completely disappeared to who knows where! But she did know one thing. That he was still in the academy, she just didn't know where!

"When I find that familiar, I'm going to..." Louise mumbled, thinking about all the ways to punish him.

"Good morning, Ms. Valliere." Said an annoyingly familiar voice.

"Zerbst." Louise said, turning around and coming face to chest, once again, with Kirche, the tan, red haired, big chested, annoyance.

"Oh where is your familiar this good morning at?" She said, looking around, cupping her hand just above her eyes. "Oh wait. Now I remember!" She said, and moved her hand in front of her mouth and laughed quietly. "He's avoiding you!" At this, her small laughter burst into a booming laughter, that almost the entire school could hear, most likely.

"Shut up!" Louise quickly said, face going red. Louise then glanced at the blue haired girl who was hanging by Kirche's side, reading her book. "Tabitha. Do you know where he is?"

Tabitha didn't even glance up. "No."

"...Oh, is that so?" Louise said, a blank look on her face. Kirche suddenly started to giggle again. "Oh would you shut up! It's not like you know where he is!" This shut her up. But it then caused a smile to appear on her face. "W-what?"

"Oh, dear Louise!" She said, putting a worrying look on her face. "I am just a mere student and noble! How would I know where your familiar is? When he is your responsibility? When it is up to you to provide for him? *sigh* If only he was my familiar, we would all know where he is! He must hate being around you, so he just avoids you like the plague!" Kirche then hugged Louise.

"But just say the word and I, Kirche Zerbst, will locate your familiar! For he wouldn't avoid me, since we all know that he-"

"Gwet oth ov me!" Louise yelled, from Kirche's breasts. She then pushed Kirche away and sucked in some good 'ol fresh air. "Just shut up!" Louise said, after regaining her breathe. "And leave me alone!" She then stormed away, face red from anger and embarrassment, and stomped her way down the stairs.

"Oh my. What do you think has her all mad?" Kirche asked Tabitha, looking down at her, as she wrapped her arms together underneath her chest.

Tabitha still didn't look up, and continued reading her book. "Don't know." Truthfully, Tabitha had zoned out the conversation right after Louise asked her that question about where her familiar, Ryusei, was. And in fact, Tabitha did know where he was. Over the time of three days, she has seen and talked to Ryusei, in two different locations: The library, and on top of the highest tower of the school.

He was in the library when it was day, and slept on the tower at night, of course after he stared up at the stars for a few hours and after Tabitha left.

Tabitha does frequent the tower and library every day to read, after all. As for where he is when he isn't in those two locations... Tabitha guessed it was outside the school, kitchen, or in some secret spot in the school that he found. Or Louise's closest, but he wouldn't hide there, now would he?


"Ah!" I said, stretching my arms and legs. "That was a nice and warm night." I opened a door and stepped into the next room.

Which just so happened to be Louise's bed room. Sleeping in her closet, using fire to stick myself onto the roof, was a smart plan. More than once, did Louise manage to convince a student, namely Guiche, to levitate her up and down the towers to see if I was sleeping on them. One time, I almost had gotten caught, but luckily enough, Tabitha was still there, so I moved to her dragon, who I learned was a female named Sylphid, and hid under her wings.

That reminds me, Sylphid was actually a nice place to sleep. She was warm for starters, and Louise didn't go near her, probably because she was a big, scary dragon. Though I've seen bigger, and killed bigger.

After I finished stretching my limbs, I walked out of Louise's room. And bumped into Tabitha.

"How did you...?" I asked her. Why was she standing in front of Louise's room? Did she know where I found refuge for the last two nights?

"Guessed." She replied. I translated her words as: "I thought about it and guessed. After you stopped appearing on the roof at night, I knew you had found a new place to sleep. Then, as I listened but not really listen to Louise talk to Kirche, I then had a thought: What if, you were to sleep in the most stupidest, but smartest place, which was inside of Louise's room? I knew it was a stupid idea, however, it kept bugging me for exactly one minute before I decided to just go over here and see if you appear, after I gave an excuse to Kirche about needing to get something from my room, so she wouldn't find out that I was actually going here, to see if you were seriously sleeping inside of Louise's room, unbeknownst to her."

"Well, I used my flame to stick myself to the roof inside of her closet. Don't ask how my fire can do that. Long story." Tabitha nodded. Moving back, she let me through and into the hallway.

"Anyway, you wouldn't tell Louise where I was staying, right?" I asked her.

"I won't." She replied, as she went back to reading her book.

"Right..." I scratched my head. Talking to Tabitha was nice and all, it was actually quite relaxing, but as of right now, I needed to find a new place to sleep. Preferably, somewhere not outside where it rains and gets cold. Though the coldness doesn't bother me and I like the rain, but constantly using my flames to dry out my clothes is pretty tiresome, even if it is second-nature of me to use my flames.

After that little awkward exchange, I started to walk down the hallway, heading to the staircase, with Tabitha silently following while she read.

A few minutes later, and I was back in the kitchen, waiting for my daily dose of stew made by Siesta. Tabitha had opted to eat in the cafeteria.

"Ah... Our Flame is here!" Cried out the head chef Marteau. The rest of the staff greeted me, albeit with less energy than normal.

"What's wrong?" I asked, a minute later as I realized that Siesta wasn't here.

"Oh, well, um..." Marteau began with much less energy.

Over my stay here, the kitchen staff has been taking care of me, regarding food. Especially Siesta. Especially after I defeated Guiche, the staff celebrated me, but when Siesta told them that I wasn't a noble, though I could use magic, they celebrated even louder. Apparently they had "something" against nobility, either that, or seeing a "commoner" defeat a noble, even though he could use magic, just made them celebrate even more. And so, I was given a feast.

"Siesta was, uh, bought." He finished, hesitantly.

"Bought?" I asked, tilting my head to the side.

"As in, her servant contract." He clarified.

"Right. And who bought her contract?"

"I believe it was a noble called Count Mott." After hearing those words, I turned on my heels and stepped out of the kitchen in less than two seconds. The rest of the staff blinked a few times, but they quickly got back to work, wondering why I left.

Walking through the halls, I mentally went over everyone I knew.

Louise, my supposed "master."

Tabitha and her dragon Sylphid.

Kirche, Tabitha's friend.

Guiche the Bronze, also known as Guiche the Douche.

Professor Colbert.

...Did I really only know five other people at this school? In total, I knew seven names. One was Siesta, and the other Marteau. The rest... nope. Well, eight if you count dragons.

I sighed. I would ask Louise, but she would snap at me about where I was and master this, familiar that, It was just a big headache. Tabitha would most likely not tell me. Kirche might, but... I don't do well with people who are trying to flirt with me. I get... rather inflamed at it. In other words, I literally light myself on fire and that usually took care of the flirting, making the girl who was doing that, run away screaming. But with Kirche... well, if my memory serves me right, she was an expert in fire magic, so it wouldn't work on her.

Fire, water, earth, air, and void. Those were the five pentagram magics of this land, Halkeginia, though void has been lost for, like, 6,000 years apparently.

Moving on, Guiche would most likely tell me, with a little threatening, but he would also tell Louise what I had asked him... unless I threaten him to not do that! Perfect plan. Oh, and don't ask Colbert, since he is a teacher at this school.

Putting my ear on the ground and letting my breathing calm down, I listened for the sound of Guiche, either his footsteps, voice, heartbeat, or anything really.

It took a couple of seconds, but I found him... to actually be pretty close. In fact, it almost sounds like he was right... behind... me.

Turning around, I saw Guiche staring at me, with a pale face, mouth agape. When he saw me look at him, he quickly turned around and tried to run away, but I instantly appeared in front of him. Letting out a gasp of shock, he fell back, but didn't land on the ground. I easily caught his right wrist, by his sleeve and pulled him back up. I would've gone for the throat, but that would seem too aggressive.

"W-wh-what do you want?" He asked in a panicky voice. He refused to look at me.

"I want to know where this Count Mutt is, and if you don't tell me, I'm going to eviscerate your skull!" I said with a grin. Guiche paled, but answered nevertheless.

"Do you mean Count Mott? Yes, I know where he lives." Seeing my look, he explained. "My family and his has a... history."

"What kind?"

"We hate each other." Guiche was no longer pale, and in fact, he had a grin on his face. "I'll tell you where he lives on one condition: You do something to make him fight you, then beat him! That'll serve him! Then, I can tell my family what happened and they'll laugh." Guiche chuckled silently to himself.

Never in all his years, did he ever expect to get back at Count Mott for what he had done to his family in the past. Though he didn't know what he did, this will make his family happy, and possibly forget about how he was caught two-timing, er, following Father's words of always getting on the good side of women and always helping them!

"Uh, okay. Where does he live?"

"Leave the academy, and follow down the road for quite a bit of ways. After a while, you'll find it split into two paths - turn to the path to the left. After that, you'll come to a crisscross, where the road splits into two more directions, left and right. Ignore it and keep going until you see another left turn. Take it and you'll eventually reach the Count's manor." I nodded at the end of his explanation.

"Now, let me advise you on something: If someone was to ask you where I am, do not tell them. Got that?"

Guiche gulped remembering my threat from earlier. "Of course!"

"Good then." Turning around, I left Guiche to his thoughts.


"ARGH!" Louise said, stomping her foot on the ground. "Where did that damnable familiar go to?"

"Maybe he's just avoiding you like the loser you are?" Kirche sighed, bored. She helped Louise search for her familiar, but after ten minutes, she just followed Louise around, laughing at her whenever she gets the chance. Tabitha walked behind the both of them, uninterested in the conversation. It was almost like she knew where to find Louise's familiar, Ryusei...

"Shut up Zerbst! Why do you keep following me anyway? You aren't looking for my familiar!"

"Because I am interested in him!" Kirche easily replied, almost as if she wasn't interested in another guy before he appeared. Or before he fought Guiche in a dual. In fact, she probably had a few other guys she was slightly curious in.

"..." Tabitha just turned a page. As the argument progressed, the group soon ran into a Guiche, who paled upon seeing Louise.

"Guiche!" Louise yelled, still aggravated by Kirche. "Do you know where my familiar is?"

Immediately, Guiche backed away, paling even more. Nervously, he opened his mouth. "N-no I don't!" He said, and took off in a run.

"He knows where he is!" Kirche shouted, pointing after him. "After him!" And after she said that, she took out her wand and casted a gravity spell and pulled Guiche back to her, who struggled in vain.

"Now. Tell me, Guiche. Where. Is. My. Familiar!"

"He went to Count Mott's manor!' He cried, tears actually appearing in his eyes.

"And how do you know that?" Louise continued, getting more and more pissed off.

"He asked me where he lived and I told him!"

"..." Louise had nothing to say.


"This place is pretty boring." I said, looking at Count Mutt's manor. Frankly, it was just an oversized dog house to me. Looking back at the gate, I saw two guards in armor wielding spears in their right hands. "Well sticky flames, it's time to do your job." Don't ask where I got this ability. Let's just say... That I met a few crazy Gods after I became the Apostle to Kagutsuchi. The horror...

Remembering what had happened, I couldn't help myself as I shivered. It was a painful memory. Running up to the wall, I used my sticky flames and started to scale it. My regular flames were bright orange, but my sticky ones was a dirty yellow. Covering my hands and feet in the flames, I placed my right hand on the wall, then my left hand above my right. I then stepped up with my right foot, then left foot.

After that, I climbed just like any other person, who happened to have "octopus" hands and feet.

When I reached the top of the wall, I looked over the Count's courtyard. Yep. It was boring. Sighing, I jumped off the wall, landing on the other side of the wall from where I started. I then casually strolled through the front doors of his manor...


Siesta was nervous. Not only, was she taken away from where she worked, to work for a noble like Count Mott, or how she had to leave Sir Ryusei, but at night, she had to do... unmentionable things with Count Mott. And so, her orders was to clean up the second floor of the manor, and when that was completed, the go to the baths and freshen up.

Siesta hated Count Mott. It all started when she met the perverted man...

She was just doing one of her duties as a maid and was polishing a vase that was a regular tall pot, with wings extended at the sides. It was of an amazing work, and Siesta took great pride in being the one who always cleaned it until it shone.

Humming a soft tune, Siesta slowly finished her work. In hindsight, she should've finished quickly that day.

"...Well, what do we have here?" Asked an unfamiliar voice. Siesta turned towards the voice, and saw a noble, wearing a fanciful amount of colors on him. He also had weird eyebrows.

"This vase..." He continued, rubbing his chin. "Is pretty beautiful, don't you think Ms...?"

"Siesta." She answered, giving a curt bow. "And yes, this vase is always so beautiful every time I come here to polish it up."

"Really now? You're the one to clean this vase, every day?"

"Well, not every day, but yes. I do polish it every chance I get, um..."

Realizing he had not given his name, the noble bowed. "Ah, please forgive me. My name is Mott, I am of the rank of Count."

"Then, Count Mott. Pleased to meet you."

"And I too, little Miss Siesta." Walking past her, Siesta briefly caught the glance of a smirk. She didn't question it at the time, but she should've known what was going to happen next...

Siesta sighed, and stopped her work. After they met, Headmaster Osmond and came to inform her that she would be transferring to Count Mott's manor to work there. He told her that he had bought her servant contract, so she had to leave with him, so she had to transfer to his manor. She had one day to get ready.

She didn't know what to do, and she only told head chef Marteau, but she couldn't deny a noble.

Looking down at her feet, she wondered if her Knight in Flaming Armor would come to her rescue...


"Who are you brat? Do you not realize whose house you broke into?" Yelled some weird guy, wearing a lot of colors, who also had weird eyebrows. Guards surrounded me, pointing spears and swords at me.

"Me? They call me many names... Uh... Okay, not really. I am Ryusei, the God Slayer, and I request for you, or whoever Count Mutt is, to give back Siesta! I need my stew dammit!" Count Mott stood there, confused and shocked. This boy had invaded his house, for a servant who made good stew? Preposterous!

"Get him!" He yelled, turning around and walking away. After all, a peasant wouldn't be able to win anyway.

Feeling a sudden increase of heat, hearing an explosion, and seeing some of his guards get thrown past him, caused Count Mott to stop. Opening and closing his mouth, he stared at the scene that he saw.

Surrounding the boy, who stared lazily back at him, was a miniature fire tornado. When the flames dissipated, the ground was blackened.

"I am Ryusei, the God Slayer, and I want you to return Siesta so I can have my damn stew!"

Count Mott was speechless. This brat... is going to die! "Brat. I am Count Mott. I am also called Mott of the Waves. I am a triangle class mage, and you! You are just some lowly boy intruding upon my property, asking me for my property! I shall punish you for this. Beware!" He took out a wand, and the fight was on.


Jumping back, I broke through the wall of his manor, leaving it in ruins, as I evaded a surprise water attack. What had happened, was that the pot right next to me exploded, and the water that was in it, shot at me.

"That was interesting." I said, and sat down at the edge of a fountain, not really caring that he could control water. I've fought stronger water users and lived, after all.

"Of course it was! Now, don't move and die!" Waving his wand a few times, the water behind me came to a standstill and blasted at my back, but I did a back flip over it. As I fell back to the ground, the water stopped and froze, turning into ice and launched right back at me, stabbing right through my back and shoulder.

I fell to the ground, blood dripping out of my wounds, dying the clear blue ice, a light red. I heard the flapping of wings, before I laughed to myself.

Standing back up, I put my hand over my eyes. A smile spread across my face.

"W-what's so funny?" Mutt asked, bewildered about why I was laughing when three ice spikes was pierced through my body.

"Well, no reason. Just... the last time I was injured was just so long ago... Well, that just means that I should stop playing around in my fights." Licking my lips, flames appeared all around me, clinging onto my body and clothes, and the ice that was stabbed through me, melted off of me, and the water evaporated away.

Narrowing my red and green eyes, I walked towards Count Mott, completely serious.

Not understanding the sudden shift in me, Count Mott yelled. "Die!" Waving his wand, three ice spikes appeared in the air, then he launched them at me. Before I could move, ice appeared around my feet, stopping my movements.

Not even caring, I simply took a couple of steps forward, and appeared behind Count Mott, at his right shoulder, with a bored look on my face.

"That it?" I asked him, cocking my head to look at him.

"Damn you!" He waved his wand several times, and ice appeared all around me, shooting at me: ice lances stabbed towards me, ice swords slashed at me, ice spikes shot up at me from the ground, but it was for naught. I slipped past the lances and spun around the swords, jumping over the spikes. As my feet hit the ground, he froze it, trapping my feet in the ice. Lifting my feet out of the ice, cracking it in the process I jumped backwards as several ice spikes shot out in front of me, aiming at where my chest was. Before my feet even hit the ground, I flipped backwards, and threw out my hands, slapping the ground, launching me over a new ice icicle, that was aimed at my back, and did a back flip over it.

Sliding across the ground, since it was still frozen, I ducked under a swing of ice, from a sword of ice, then jumped upwards, dodging a plethora of ice spikes jutting out of the ground, that would have skewered me throughout my body. Flipping through the air, I elegantly landed on the tip of the tallest ice spike.

"Okay. My turn."

"No!" He yelled and waved his wand, creating a giant hammer of ice above me. As quickly as he could, he slashed his wand downward, making the hammer fall down towards my head.

Putting up my hand, I easily stopped the hammer.

"I said... my turn!" Flames appeared back on my body, and the hammer was blasted away by my flames. I jumped forward, just as Count Mott started a new ice spell, and landed at his left side. Mott completed his spell, but found that nothing had happened.

Looking at his hand, he noticed that his wand was gone.

"Looking for this?" I asked him, holding his wand up for him to see.

"Give me that back!" He reached for his wand, in a sloppy manner.

"Sure." I said and tossed the wand to my back. Before it hit the ground, flames appeared out of nowhere and destroyed it, not even leaving the dust.

Mott stood there, mouth agape. Then, his eyes went to his left and he ran away.

He leaped off the ground, and his hand hit a pot off its pedestal. When it hit the ground, a new wand appeared in his hands. He must've hidden a wand in the pot. Maybe he had more across his manner.

I sighed. "Don't you realize that you-" An ice spike pierced right through the back of my neck, and to my front. I could see the tip of the spike as I looked forward at Mott. "-can't defeat me?" I continued, regardless. Count Mott stood there, confused and scared. Who was this boy that he could live from an attack like that?

"Well, whatever. You'll keep going until all your willpower is out, so let's speed things along, alright?" Letting flames appeared around my body, I was completely covered in the fire. My flames spread across the ground, melting the ice instantly, and evaporating the water. Count Mott casted ice spell after ice spell, but it melted before it even reached me.

"What is this?" He yelled, backing away. His throat was dry.

"As you can probably guess, I'm removing the water from the surrounding areas. Soon, this place will be as dry as a desert. Oh, wait. Excuse me. Dryer than a desert." I finished with a chuckle at my mistake.

"Wha- how could you-" He said, but stopped. His hands clasped around his throat. He was... very thirsty. So thirsty... his tongue had become swollen from lack of liquid, and he couldn't speak. His body felt weak. He fell to his knees, and eyes wide, he realized what was happening.

He was dying due to dehydration. But how? It was way too quick for this! He didn't even notice that he couldn't sweat anymore.

"Oh, I should also tell you something: I'm not killing you through dehydration." A wicked smile appeared on Ryusei's face. "I'm going to kill you by burning you alive!" A crazy laugh followed soon after.

Flicking his fingers, flames surrounded Count Mott, who stared wide eyed at the flames, as they came closer and closer. Soon, he was covered in flames.

When the flames disappeared, not even ash remained.


Louise watched wide eyed at how her familiar was killed. Three ice spikes had stabbed through his back, and out his other end. One through his left shoulder, a second through his back, right next to his heart, and the third through his stomach.

She then watched with tearing eyes as he stood back up. 'Stupid familiar!' She had thought 'Why are you getting back up? Stay down and you might live!' Tabitha's dragon, Sylphid flew closer, but before she could get close enough, a large amount of heat was blasted away from Ryusei. Nobody but Louise, Tabitha, Kirche, and Sylphid felt it.

Ryusei stood back up, laughing. He said something to Count Mott, and then flames covered his body. After that, a battle of Ryusei dodging ice ensured.

As Ryusei "fought" Count Mott, Louise and co could only watch, mouth agape, except for Tabitha, whose eyes only widened.

After a while of Ryusei dodging, which was actually just five minutes, he stopped and said something to Count Mott, who screamed back, "No!" He summoned an ice hammer and smashed Ryusei with it, but the later easily caught it.

Then Ryusei stole and burned Mott's wand. After that, Count Mott had retrieved a new wand. Ryusei started to say something, but a spike of ice cut right through his throat, killing him instantly. Or so Louise thought. Ryusei had merely continued talking, not even caring, or noticing the ice that was through his throat, or that was what it looked like to Louise.

Then, everything had gotten hot. Not in that way. Flames appeared around Ryusei and they gradually surrounded in by fifteen feet. After that, the entire courtyard of Count Mott, was turned into a miniature desert. Then Ryusei killed Count Mott, by burning away his body, not even leaving his ashes.

Thirty minutes later, and everything was back to normal. Louise doesn't know how her familiar had survived those deadly hits, or how he reversed the desertification of Count Mott's courtyard, but she did know one thing: He was standing right there.


Okay, desertification has been stopped. Now, to get Siesta and then I can go back to that academy. All in all, this was a pretty boring day.

I spun around, when I heard the flapping of wings and then something landing on the ground. I saw three people and one dragon.

The dragon was obviously Sylphid.

The other three... Was Tabitha, Kirche, and...Louise. Dammit Guiche, I'll get you for this!

"FAMILIAR!" Louise screamed at me. I stared back at her lazily. "What the Hell is wrong with you? How are you alive? I saw you get stabbed multiple times by ice spikes! A-and what about Count Mott? Why... why did you kill, no, obliterate him, leaving not even ash behind? A-are you insane?"

"Well, in my world, it would've been perfectly fine killing someone, so I don't really care about why or how I killed Count Mutt." I shrugged, not answering the other questions.

"But what about-"

"Later." I said, and waved the questions off. I then turned to Kirche and Tabitha, who stood a few meters behind Louise. I gave them each a nod and walked towards Count Mutt's manor, to find a Siesta.


Siesta heard an explosion. She heard yells. She heard a lot of things. She found a window, and looked out of it, wondering what was going on. She saw Ryusei get skewered by ice spikes, and saw him live after it, without a care. She saw him fight Count Mott, and saw him destroy him, leaving no ash behind in his flames. Tears fell down her face, and the next thing she knew, she was running through the halls, heading towards him. She didn't care what he had done to Count Mott, the inhumane way of killing him. She was dehydrated, but she kept going. She collapsed after a minute of running, but thirty minutes later, and her strength started to return, as the moisture somehow appeared back in the air. She stood back up, albeit shaking slightly, and took off on a run, once again. She ran down some stairs, nearly tripping, and then saw Ryusei enter the manor. When she was close enough, she jumped at him, hugging him with tears falling down her face, anew. At that moment, she knew. There was no doubts. She...

Loves Ryusei.


THE NEXT DAY

"So... what do you want, Louise?" After that whole episode with Count Mutt, Louise had me cornered. She demanded, yelled, and tried to violently punish me, the enter ride back to the academy, while we flew on Sylphid. Several times, had I contemplate to just jump off. End my poor existence.

Well, I wouldn't die, so I would merely be running away from my problems.

After a while, I promised that I would "stick by her" for some time. I was forced to sleep on that hay pile, once again, and I had to do what Louise said. Well, I didn't listen to her even then, which caused her to become more angry, but I think she's getting used to it, since she stopped trying to murder me!

And now, it was me and Louise, in her room. Louise had wanted to talk to me.

"I want you to appear in the "Familiar Festival" as my familiar." She answered, already adopting an angry look. She crossed her arms around her chest and waited for my answer.

"Why should I go to it?" I answered in kind, polishing one of my daggers.

"Because. If you do it, I will buy you something from town."

"I have no need for anything you can buy." I instantly responded.

"I'll buy you a new sword!"

"You just want mine!" I yelled at her.

"So? I'm your master and-"

"...Okay."

"W-what?" She said, confused.

"I'll go to this festival. Then we'll go shopping for a sword. If and only if, the sword we find is better than mine, I will give you my sword." Which will never happen.

"Really?" She asked, surprise.

"Sure. But first, we need to go over a few ground rules."

"Um, okay?"

"One: Do not treat me like a pet, a servant, a slave, anything that is remotely below you. I am a human being... mostly... so I have the right to all the rights that you have! Two: Do not order me around. I'll let you give suggestions but no commands. Three: We are equals in this relationship. Partners, if you would. And so, I want my own bed, not a pile of hay. And if it is less than yours, then this contract is null and void. If these requests are acceptable, then I will be your familiar... for some time..." I mumbled the last part, so Louise couldn't hear. "If you accept, then you will refer to me as a partner, not a familiar. Of course, you can explain to people who don't know, that I am your familiar, but instead of the servant-master relationship, we opted for a partnership instead. Is this good?" I waited for her answer.

Five minutes, I got it. "Fine. But since you put conditions, then I will add my own! In public, you have to at least try to be my familiar! And I also want to know where you're going! No more running off somewhere like you've been doing since you arrived here!"

"Deal." I said with a nod. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have one last thing to do today before I go to sleep.

"Very well." And with that, I left the room.


HOURS LATER AT NIGHT

Louise prepared herself and went to sleep. She changed into her nightclothes, which was the color of pink, like always, and hopped into bed, pulling the covers over her. Ryusei was silently sleeping in his hay bed, his new bed as yet to arrive.

Louise closed her eyes, and allowed sleep to overtake her.

Rain fell down from the sky, battering against the roof of an old, wooden cottage. Louise stood there, pale and see-through like a ghost. She didn't understand what was happening, or where she was. Was this a dream? And if so, it was pretty boring and weird.

She walked around the cottage, since for some reason, she couldn't leave. Instead of opening doors, she simple phased through them. Behind one such door, was a completely blank room. She didn't know why the room was like that, where the rest of the house had very clear details, whereas this room was blurry and completely white, as if it was being blocked from her.

Leaving the room, and a headache behind, Louise went through another door, which revealed: a baby cradle, a baby in it, and a mom and dad silently watching their baby sleep, smiles on their face.

Louise was touched. To watch their baby, a son, she realized, sleep, making sure he was okay the entire night, forsaking their own bodies to do so, just showed how much they loved their baby.

A smile grew on her face as she walked towards the baby on the cradle and peered down at his sleeping face. He was very cute, especially with his short black hair, that was barely there, with a small patch of red at the bangs. The babies eyes blinked open once and she saw clear green eyes. The baby closed his eyes and went back to a peaceful sleep, almost as if nothing had happened.

Louise glanced over to the parents, whose grins were even wider. They must've saw their baby open his eyes. Louise noticed that the mom had green eyes, whereas the dad had red eyes. The green and red eyes... they reminded her of something, no someone, but she didn't remember who.

All of a sudden, the dad looked up from where he sat, and stared towards Louise. Louise thought that he knew she was there, but on closer observation, realized that he was looking at something behind her.

Turning around, Louise saw...

A figure, wearing black, with white accents around the edges of his clothing. His, because his build was closer to a man.

The dad said something, but she couldn't understand the language. Then, the mom looked up and saw the man in black and her eyes widened in fear. The man in black, who shall be called Shadow, stepped forward, moving his hand towards the father. He stood up and reached behind him, drawing what looked like a bronze saber, and swung the sword at Shadow, but Shadow easily caught and broke the sword.

Shadow then stepped forward, and stabbed his hand through the father's chest. Shadow then retrieved a black dagger from his cloak, and stabbed the father in his head. The babies dad fell down on the ground, dead.

Louise watched all of this, eyes and mouth wide open. She couldn't believe what was happening. This baby... he had just lost his father, right in front of him. When Louise glanced back at the baby, she noticed something different: The baby was crying.

When Louise heard a gasp, she looked towards the mother and saw something despicable: Shadow was stabbing his knife into her belly several times, sending blood all over the room. After a good twenty stabs, Shadow brought the mother over to the baby, and drowned the baby in his mother's blood. After a solid minute, Shadow reached his hand down into the cradle, which was surrounded at all sides, which allowed the blood to form a small "lake", and withdrew the baby, who was, quite surprising, still alive.

Shadow said a few words, and then bowed his head. Louise for some reason, could understand his words. They were:

"I am deeply sorry for doing this,
Please forgive me, for I did not mean to sin like this.

I was only following my God's, The God's, orders,
For this baby will grow to destroy The God.

Please pardon me of this crime of slaughter,
And please send me a quick death, even though I did not allow these two to have that luxury."

Shadow bowed once more and prayed a little longer, then he left the room, baby cupped in his arm with extreme care. Before he left the room, he stopped and looked at a picture of the babies parents. After a second, he took it with him.

Louise could only stare after the man she called Shadow, extreme horror written onto her face. Even though she watched that happen... even though she was revolted by this man... she, for some reason, couldn't hate him.

Looking back at the crime scene, Louise could only silently cry, as the dream, or nightmare, ended.

Shooting up from her bed, Louise gasped for breathe. She ran her hand across her forehead, and felt sweat. 'What was that..?' Wondered Louise. 'Was that a nightmare, or...'

Louise took a quick glance at Ryusei, who was still asleep. She stared at his white hair, with streaks of black in it, and red bangs. She remembered his clear green and red eyes, that matched the parents she saw of that baby with the green eyes, mother and father respectively.

'It couldn't be... could it?' Even though Louise thought it, she couldn't believe it. She refused to. She ran away from the answer that was looming in on her. She couldn't believe that...

Ryusei had lost his parents right in front of him when he was a baby.


Hey guys and girls, are their any girls even reading this? Or guys? Maybe you're all machines...

Anyway, sorry that this chapter took sooo long to upload. I was quite busy.

You know, playing Xenoblade Chronicles X, reading fanfiction, playing Mount and Blade: Warband, love that game, and playing some other games, such as Skyrim.

On that note, who is your favorite character is XBCX? As in Xenoblade Chronicles X? Mine is Lin. I absolutely adore her. She is so cute! Yes, I know she is 13. And no, I am not a pedophile. Why does everyone say that I am? I don't understand!

Anyway... Ryusei is awesome. Louise found out a little bit about him at the end... or was it about someone else? Who knows..? Anyway, look forward to next episode!

Oh, and, Branbran, or Ohata as you are called on this site! If you are reading this, which you probably aren't, since you never followed, so I'll have to go message you about this, WHEN THE FLYING FLIPPING PHOQUE ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE YOUR NARUTO X FOZ FANFICTION? He promised me a chapter of my character in it with Tabitha, when I gave him a slice of pizza last year! Oh, and it HAS been a year since I created this account... man, time sure does fly fast. Anyway, he has yet to do so! Please, everyone, if you love Tabitha, then flame him messages about this! I want justice! I demand it! I implore it! I... question it, but follow it nevertheless! Anyway, if you haven't noticed, Tabitha is my favorite character in FOZ.

And if you haven't noticed, I do like lolis. Not a pedophile. I swear, if someone says that I am, I will DESTROY THEM! Including you, Branbran, Ohata! Whatever you want to call yourself!

Til next time!

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