Author Note: I'm going to make some changes to the writing because I saw the review of Makatsu saying that I should use this two: "" to mark conversations. And it's true, thank you for telling me actually, because I didn't know how to mark dialogues in English. I was using the usual spanish form of marking them (which is far more complicated), and I really appreciate that you told me. Thanks ^^. Now, the scheme of the dialogues is going to be like this:

-Dialogues: ""
-Thoughts: « »

-Signs, letters, messages, etc: [ ]

The rest is still the same, i'm only changing this to make easier the dialogue reading. Enough talking, let's go to the story!

"You two don't look hollowed, far from it!" Solaire observed their faces more accurately, remembering their previous encounter in the battlefield.

"Hollowed?" They looked at each other in confusion, obviously not knowing what this man was talking about. The faces they made, urged Solaire to stand up, with his fists in his hips, and to look through the window. He suddenly realized he could understand them, so he jumped on the spot a little bit, like if he was awakened a second time.

"So, you do speak my language?" The knight felt relieved when he finally was able to communicate to other human beings.

"No, actually Mr. Colbert cast a spell on you to understand ours." Saito replied, with a big smile on his face and his hands doing exaggerated gestures. This made Solaire even more comfortable, knowing that his new companions were friendly. Although he didn't think much about the spell thing, the only thing that mattered at all was he could speak with them. It was more than enough.

"Well, it'll be very kind of yours if you could actually tell me where I am!" It didn't sound rude, most likely because of the natural laugh he put at the end of his sentence, making it see that it didn't worry him at all.

"You're in Tristein now, but if you are like Saito, I don't think that would come in handy for you..." The girl with pink hair poked her index fingers together as she said that, but after a few moments she blushed and sharply mover her head up, saying loudly: "I-I'm sorry! I'm Louise Françoise Le Blanc de la Vallière, nice to meet you!" She nervously bowed as she pushed Saito's head down, "And this is my familiar, Hiraga Saito!"

The knight in shining armor exposed a bit his chest and laughed at the scene he was in front of. After the pinkhead stopped forcing his familiar's head down, he responded properly:

"I am Solaire of Astora, an adherent of the lord of Sunlight. Pleased to meet you!" he shaked hands with Saito, and he noticed a strange writing on his left hand while doing so. He thought about what he'd heard earlier in the morning about the runes saying his name, so he assumed it as normal and continued talking: "I don't know why, but I have a feeling I'll need some hints from now on, because of what I can see right now; this is a land I didn't sign up for!" he laughed in the same tone as always, taking it easy with each new situation. The confidence that characterized his persona, wouldn't go off only because he was located in an unknown place by some kind of fate.

They went out of the room, talking about how Solaire put his sign to help fellow comrades in their battles, as always, and ended up here. Then, they saw a flaming salamander standing before a dorm door, which reached its head towards them with a bored and sleepy look. Solaire inmediately put up his guard, reaching for his sword in the belt separating his chestplate from his greaves. Before reacting, the girl placed both of her small and soft hands over the right arm of the knight, preventing him from unsheating his blade, and let out a giggle: "It's not an enemy, calm down! It's just a familiar of one of the students here!" Though she didn't make a nice face while saying the latter.

The knight settled down his stance and laughed while touching his helmet: "Haha, I thought it was! You know, I come from a land where even the rocks can stab you in the back remorseless if you get too confident!" He laughed again, and continued to walk alongside his companions. But the question came on his mind again, and he couldn't resist to ask: "What exactly is a familiar? Is it like a servant of some sort?"

Louise raised her wand proudly as she began to expose the asnwer to his question, detailing every last bit of information she could contribute. "Familiars are creatures summoned by mages (nobles who can use magic), that serve them as servants after making a contract. Like the kiss I gave you earlier..." Her voice trembled a little bit after she said that, trying to establish it as a normal thing between mage and familiar relationships. "Signs appear after the contract, saying the runic name of the servant, and so, giving hints about what the familiar can do. Have I explained it well?" She closed her eyes in a pedantic expression, waiting for the confirmation of the knight.

"So... I am now your familiar". Solaire marked, trying to retain all the information the girl gave him in his mind. The girl hummed in approval, and called out for a blond figure at the end of the hallway. "Guichee~! " He turned back with a surprised face, helding a red rose in one of his hands. "Now, let's see what those runes mean." A sparkle lit in Louise's eyes, grabbing Solaire by his left forearm.

"Louise... I don't think it's good to make him fight right now, he just recovered from passing out! He must rest before he..." Saito's complaint was interrupted by Guiche's selfish laugh.

"So... Another fool dares to challenge me! Guiche son of Gramont! This time a knight in a real armor unlike that other commoner..." His body twitched a little when he heard a distant «I'm hearing you», but he continued. "I appreciate the consideration of Louise bringing me up a real challenge!""Although I was actually beaten up by the first one...", he muttered. Solaire wasn't paying attention to his pathetic speech, but he was wondering what he was capable of doing being transported to this strange land, and started to make a plan to defeat his opponent.

A petal of the rose Guiche was carrying with him fell down to the floor, letting in a light and brevely after summoning some sort of combat authomaton. "Behold my mighty Bronze Valkyrie!"

Saito smiled softly at the memory, a little nostalgic. «It looks like a silver knight with a spear. It sure has a thrusting attack so I can parry it instead of blocking. Not really much of a challenge», the knight thought, putting on guard. Exactly as he predicted, the living statue charged with its lance horizontally at the sound of his master's voice, and Solaire quickly responded with a forced blocking. «Wow, that was fast». At the sight of the artificial soldier raising its weapon again to strike him vertically, he quickly sidestepped and performed a clean horizontal cut, which broke the thing in half and made it dissapear magically.

"Impressive." Guiche tried hard to hide the fact he was astonished by the agility and swiftness of the knight, despite wearing a metal armor. Louise and Saito, who were watching in the distance, also noticed how fast he was and were amazed by the fact too. It was perfectly comparable with the speed of the moves Saito performed with the sword when he was "possesed" by the Gandálfr's powers. It mainly exhibited the years of training the knight was responsible of, or maybe his natural skills for it...

Rapidly, Guiche summoned three more magical valkyries that attacked him in different angles, two wielding broadswords and one with the same spear as before. He reacted quickly at the three-side attack, rolling beneath the slashing attack of one of the statues cutting in half the next one and blocking the spear of the third. He finished the last authomaton in four more, fast attacks. The skill show-off of the proud knight, really impressed both his companions and his adversary, and Guiche decided to cut off the session before it was too late to save his precious pride. Having enough, Solaire looked at his new friends, removing his helmet with a radiant smile and waving his hand in the air. Louise also noticed he hadn't any sweat drops on his face at all. He just smiled like it was nothing, effortless while greeting them from the distance.

Quickly, a maid went out running from the academy's kitchen, with a worried expression on her face and shouted: "It's all okay, Saito-san? I heard combat noises coming from the courtyard!" She didn't take the time to receive a response, and looked at the handsome helmless knight, impossibly resisting her hard-blushing on her face. "It's okay, Siesta! We were only proving Louise's new familiar!" said Saito, smiling at her.

"New familiar?" she muttered, keeping her eyes set on the knight's figure. She realized she was being unpolite, and ran towards him and bowed, introducing herself. "Eh... I'm Siesta! A pleasure to meet you, new familiar-san! I'm a maid of the noblemen studying in this academy, I hope you enjoy your stay and if I can do anything for you I'll be happy to help!"

The sunlight warrior glanced at the maiden's face. «I think you cannot be more polite than that.», he thought. "I'm Solaire of Astora, Warrior of Sunlight. Nice to meet you too!" he calmly said, while clumsily imitating the bow of the maid, which made her giggle with hands in her cheeks. Solaire put on his helmet again, and realized he was being pulled by Saito's arm, who portraited a jealous look on his face and was stomping the grass each step he took. Siesta was a little confused, but gently waved at her friends, grinning with a bright expression saying goodbye as they reentered the tower where they came from.