Zero no Tsukaima: Abandoned Hero of Zero
After the capture of the criminal Fouquet Louise's Father forces the contract between them to break forever…but this in not the end of our hero Saito as he now strives for not himself but for the people of Tristain as he becomes the sword of the people, the dog of the kingdom and the abandoned hero.
Hello Masseffecttxs here and here is Chapter Three of Abandoned Hero of Zero, now I know a lot of people have been saying not to add modern guns to the story, but I did add a sawn-off shotgun in the previous chapter because its simple and only shoots twice similar to a the longed barreled rifles but shorter and more compact, in this chapter Saito will discover a new power that will help stand on equal level with mages,
I realised that if I used KI like GatsuBerk did, it would not be right. I thought about Chakra but then it would not mix in with magic, so I went with another type of power, also I realized I did not give the guild a name so I decided Dragons Soul.
Chapter III: A New Power and a New Friend
Four weeks had passed since Saito had joined the Hunters guild known as 'Dragons Soul', in that time he had established himself as a famous hunter and as a justice enforcer.
Such an example was two weeks after his victory over the toad demon, the Kingdom had requested him to help track down a rouge criminal that was known for raping and murdering innocent commoners. It took two days to get his trail and another three to track him down.
When he confronted him he discovered that he was a mage formerly known as Jackson Tiberius Ripley or 'Jack The Ripper' as he was known for using the corpses of his victims to resurrect them and turn them into undead like servants.
Saito and a team of trackers were able to locate him in an old castle just on the boarders of Germania. It was lucky that Saito had packed his new Shotgun to his inventory or else he would have had more difficulty dealing with the hoard of Zombies that Jack continued to summon,
The shotgun now rested in a new holster on the back of Saito's Belt.
But something strange had happened during the confrontation with Jack, when the man had sent a large column of earth towards Saito in an attempt to crush him. Saito would have dodged if he was not exhausted from fighting off the hoard of Zombies. In a last ditch effort he swung Derflinger in a vain attempt to stop the Earth Column.
He still could not explain what had actually happened that day, but he could still remember the fight and the event that lead to his confusion.
Flashback
Saito fired his shotgun at the undead hoard blowing away the undead as bits and pieces of them scattered and splattered the walls of the castle. The tracker team behind him consisted of four knights armed with lances and shields, four Archers and two mages, the knights had formed a defensive line to protect the mages and the archers.
The archers fired a volley of arrows at the hoard, while the mages unleashed a barrage of holy fire and purifying flames at the undead. Saito ducked as Lv.2 Zombie armed with a sword slashed as him only for Saito bisect him in half and then stabbing another in the head.
He then jumped over another as he sliced its head clean form its body, he allowed four of them to surround him, before he spun around sliced their heads off in a single stroke. The last Zombie charged at him, before he shoved the shotgun straight into the Zombies mouth and blew its brains out its undead body.
The team sat down to rest when the last of the hoard was taken care of, "I'm impressed Saito, normally only fire and holy magic can kill the undead…how do you do it" the knight commander said as he handed a flask of water to him as he gulped the water down in a moderate amount. He handed it back to the commander.
"Its not that hard…all you have to do is remove the head from the body and they die any kid in Jap- I mean Tarbes knows that" he said as he nearly said Japan, the knight commander nodded his head.
"Makes sense… a body alive or dead can not move without a brain" the commander said when suddenly more of the undead burst into the hall as they attempted to overrun the team.
"I'm going to stop the mage can you handle this?" Saito asked the knights as he noticed that they were now mimicking his technique by removing the heads from the bodies or shooting the heads with their arrows.
"Yes we can just go stop Jack if you stop him the hoard will die" the commander said as he stabbed a Lv.2 Zombie in the head killing it instantly.
Saito nodded as he loaded his shotgun and blasted a clear path for him to charge out of the hoard, as he left a wall of fire rose up behind him stopping the Zombies from following him.
He turned to see the two mages Flare and Blaze giving him a thumbs up as they continued to maintain a magic barrier around the team.
Saito responded with his own before charging down the hall, he had to admit for Mages the two were all right they weren't anything like the nobles he had meet before they actually cared about commoners and liked doing hard work.
"Derf where's the criminal?" he asked his friend as he ran down the hall.
"He is just up ahead partner…but I'm sensing a lot of magical power coming from him, we might be looking at a square level mage here" the sword said as they stopped at a large wooden door, Saito took a deep breath before raising his foot and slamming it against the door.
He busted open the door to find the center of the castle a throne in the back and piles of dead bodies strung up and littering the floor, there was only a straight clear path that lead to the throne made of bones, sitting on the throne was a pale thin man with sleeked back silver hair and blood red eyes, he was dressed in a high tailored suit a top hat on his head an wand made of an human bones, his Name was Jackson Tiberius Ripley also known as...
"Jack the Ripper on the orders of the royal court and her majesty Princess Henrietta and Queen Marianne I'm placing you under arrest for the savage murder and rape of over a dozen women" Saito said as he spotted five women chained to the wall their clothes ripped and missing.
Jack merely chuckled at the boy before rising from his throne "So the court finally figured out it was me huh? And they send a child to bring me in HA! Don't make me laugh boy" he said as he raised his wand and corpses all over the room began to rise up their eyes glowing red.
"I am a square level mage boy…you have no chance against me ATTACK MY PAWNS!" he screamed as he ordered the hoard to attack the hero.
Saito dodge a blade strike and procceded to deliver one of his own, he sliced a head off before twirling the blade and stabbing behind him impaling another behind him and ripping the blade out side ways, effectively bisecting the minion in half.
Saito pulled out two throwing knives and lodged them into two zombies heads, and then charging at another sliced its head down the middle. Seeing no other option he pulled out two of his double barreled flintlocks and fired sending one bullet each into four of the undead head.
Dropping the pistols on the ground, he reached for his last two pistols and killed another four before pulling out his shotgun. He took aim and fired wiping out four with one shot and then ran up to the last one and fired directly in its face.
When all the zombies were dead Saito went to load his gun again, before a large square piece of rock smashed into the side of him sending him spiraling into the floor, pained and dazed he looked up to see Jack grinning madly as he waved his wand.
Two more square columns smashed into him sending him back into the wall, he coughed up some blood as he struggled to stand up. Jack only laughed at the sight of the hero, as he basked in his victory.
"This is the best Tristain has to offer? Pathetic, you are no match for me boy! When I'm done with those pathetic trackers, I shall hunt down everyone you love and…enjoy myself, Now..." he said as a huge Column of earth gathered behind Jack.
"DIE!" he screamed as he sent the column straight at Saito. Time slowed down as the column of earth made its way to Saito, he could feel his energy gone and his bones ache from the pain, but in that split second Saito knew…
He was going to die.
'No…' he thought as he struggled to stand up his blade flashed in the torch light, his body glowing a dark blue colour.
'No…' he thought as he raised his blade in a horizontal position away from his body, the energy now swirling around Derflinger.
But what scared him the most was an image of Siesta being tortured by Jack before he would kill her, knowing that it was his fault.
His eyes snapped open shining bright blue "NOOOOOOOOO!" he screamed as he swung his blade and a blue crescent shaped attack shot out of Derflinger slicing the column in two.
"WHAT!" Jack screamed as he saw his attack be cut in two, only to scream in horror as the blue crescent continued along the column straight towards him, he tried to summon an earth shield to protect him.
But it was too late as the attack hit home and exploded sending Jack rocketing backwards and slamming into the wall painfully as he imprinted into the wall, his eyes rolled into the back of his head as he passed out from the pain.
Saito collapsed onto his knees as he tried to catch his breath, using Derflinger as a prop he looked up to see the damage he had done, he gasped as he saw the Column of earth was cut clean in two and followed it along to see Jack out cold and stuck in the wall.
"Partner that was amazing! What was that?" Derflinger said as Saito gazed at the blade before looking back at the unconscious mage as he groaned out in pain from inside the wall, "I…I don't know" he said as he saw his reflection in the blade.
Flashback End
Ever since then Saito had been trying to access the power he used before, he tried and he tried for days but still he could not call on the power. In the mean time he continued to do quests and missions for the guild and become known famously amongst his fellow hunters and commoners.
He was now known as the 'Sword of The People' because of his brave actions against the necromancer, saving five common girls from becoming his next victims.
As the days passed Saito spent more and more time with Siesta, he eventually asked her to be his girlfriend. When he had asked her, she clung on to him and proceeded to kiss the heck out of him the entire day. It was considered one of the happiest days of the young man's life.
We now find our hero walking home from completing another quest for the guild, the quest was to slay a B-class Cerberus Dog that had been attacking farmers livestock.
When the task was complete the farmers offered to pay him in full, but Saito declined and only took a quarter of the reward and helped to rebuild the destroyed fences that the Cerberus wrecked in the fight. Because of this the commoners looked up to him more, seeing him as a generous, brave and kind swordsman of the people.
"Man that was a tough monster battle, I wonder what I could use Cerberus fangs for?" Saito said as he thought about the six upper fangs of the Cerberus creature.
He had learned that when weapons and armors were combined with fangs, claws, furs, and scales from rare and powerful monsters. It would increase how durable and how powerful a weapon could be.
He found out from a fellow guild member named Isabella the Infernal, who had crafted most of her gear from a fire demons scales, allowing her armor to resist fire spells and deal a certain amount of fire damage,
'So this crafting thing is kind of like Skyrim, except the swords and weapons don't look like default weapons in a different colours...interesting' Saito thought to him self as he walked down the path to the main city. He began to think on his time in Tristain and the past three months since coming to this world.
so far he was in a relationship with Siesta, he was an esteemed member of Dragon's Soul, one of the best and noblest guilds around. And he was a skilled and respected fighter, he began to wonder if he should ever return home at all, he could spend the rest of his life here…
But if he could, he would like to let his parents know that he was all right. And that they don't have to worry about him anymore.
Suddenly he heard a pained howl followed by sinister laughing, "Derf where is it coming from?" he asked as the sword used it ability to sense life forms from a mile away
"Over there partner just beyond those trees!" Derflinger said as Saito sprinted towards the sound, when he reached the sound he hid behind a tree as watched as a group of hunters four in total slaughtering a wolf pack.
"They're just hunters looking for some wolves…I don't think I need to interfere"
"Partner look again" Derflinger said as he looked at one of the kills his eyes widened in shock as he looked at the body of a large wolf.
But this was not any type of wolf…it was an Ebony Wolf, one of the rarest type of wolves that only live in Tristain.
Their fur was colored ebony black like the night and had Ivory white fangs, claws and grew to the size of a horse. They were so rare, the crown had issued a decree labelling them as an endangered species and that hunting them was punishable by law.
The Hunters it seemed did not care about that and continued to slaughter the pack, the hunters wore dark black cloaks with an image of a skull and daggers on their backs, this identified them as…
"Dagger Skull…these guys are known to hunt endangered species despite what the law states…and they just take pleasure in it…those bastard!" Saito said as he gripped his blade handle tight.
He then dashed at the hunters as they were ganging up on a lone pup, the hunters surprised by the attack could not react in time, as Saito planted his foot straight into the first hunters face as he went sailing back into a tree.
The other three hunters shook themselves out of their stupor and attacked Saito, the one with the mace tried to smash Saito across the face only to have the attack deflected and have pommel of Derflinger smash into his face knocking him out.
Another one using daggers threw them at Saito in an attempt to hit him, only for him to roll out of the way while grabbing a dagger implanted in the ground and throwing it straight into the assailants knee crippling him.
The last on fired an arrow at Saito only to have it cut just as it was about to reach him, with little time to spare Saito dashed at the archer grabbed his bow and the smash it into his face breaking the bow in two, he heard a yell as the man with a foot print on his face came charging at him with a claymore sword.
Saito only stood still as he came charging and with little effort swung his sword slicing the claymore in two, leaving the hunter in shock before Saito punched him in the face rendering him unconscious.
When the battle was over Saito took some rope from the hunters and tied them up to a tree after striping them of their armor and weapons, "There that should hold you guys up till the knights get here" he said when suddenly he heard a small pain filled yip as he turned his attention to a tree with a hole at the base.
He walked over and crouched down to see a small Ebony pup with dark blue fur on its belly and on its paws backed itself into the tree with an injured leg as it moaned in pain. Saito sadly looked around as he noticed that all the other wolves and pups were dead.
"Poor little guy…he's all alone" he thought sadly as he reached out to the little pup, the pup scared and afraid instinctively bite Saito's hand thinking he was going to hurt him. Saito only looked sadly at the pup as it tried to bite through his leather glove.
He didn't mind as he knew the pup was just venting its anger and sadness for the death of its pack. The pup soon realised that its bite wasn't working and it slowly looked up to the black haired and blue eyed human that had just saved its life, with sadness and understanding in his eyes.
Slowly but cautiously he approached Saito as he scooped him up and held him close. The pup seemed to relax as Saito gently petted the small animal as the small pup started to make a sound similar to a crying howl. The realisation that its family and pack was dead and he was all alone now.
Just then a group of knights came into the clearing as they approached Saito "Founder…what happened here?" the knight captain said as he saw the slaughtered wolves and the knocked out hunters.
After explaining the situation to the knights they understood and told Saito to got to the bounty office tomorrow to pick up his reward, as it turns out these knights were tracking the rouge hunters for twelve days now but were unable to catch up to them.
They told Saito that the pup would probably die if he was left alone in the forest, so Saito told the knights that he would take care of him to which they agreed and took the rogue hunters away. The night sky became dark as rain started pour down, with little time to spare Saito rushed back to the Charming Fairy if he wanted to save the pup.
Charming Fairy closing Time
The charming fairy was closing up as the last of the occupants walked out of the door into the pouring rain, Siesta smiled softly as she washed the dishes, she was happy because Saito was returning home today from his week long mission with the Cerberus Dog.
Ever since he came home from his first mission, covered in bruises and cuts, but grinning like he always did. She had been worried for his safety and if he was going to die on her. But he just said that he loved her too much to just die on her, to which she was so happy to hear when he said that to her and she hugged him all night long…
But when she found out that the monster was A-class instead of C-class like he told her, she bashed him on the head with a frying pan…leaving a nice imprint of his face. After a long hearted apology, and a week of sleeping on the couch, Siesta finally forgave him. But only if he took her on a date the next day.
She blushed when she remembered the dates they went on afterwards, how he had saved up so much money that it was ridiculous. It turned out that after the cave demon was killed, the treasure in its lair was divided up and distributed amongst the people.
The rest went to the Castle Vault and with Saito getting a quarter of the treasure that was left. It was a thank you from the Royal Court, he would use the money to buy her small gifts like some new dresses and a bouquet of flowers ever once in a while.
She never really cared that much about nice and expensive things but she was gracious to receive them especially if it was from Saito.
He also had used the money to help out the local orphanage and give presents to the children, doing this act had made him even more popular in the eyes of the commoners as he showed his caring fatherly side.
She instantly blushed as she thought about him being a father, which in her mind meant she would be his wife and that they would have a child and to have a child they would have to…
Her train of thought was cut off as the inns door swung open, startling the former maid to reveal he beloved Saito. "S-Saito-san W-Welcome ho-" she stopped herself when she saw him cradling something in his arms.
"Saito-san! What happened?" she said as she approached him to see a small wolf pup in his arms whimpering from the cold and the rain.
"Dagger Skull were hunting Ebony wolves in the forest, they killed all of them. I did managed to beat them and save this Pup. But he's got a broken leg and is cold from the rain" he said as he gently handed the pup over to Siesta she took the pup and sprinted up to their room.
Placing the pup on the bed as she got set to helping the small pup, she took pieces of wood and wrapped them with a piece of string around the pups broken leg, the small pup whimpered a little as Siesta placed the splint on his leg.
After the pups splint was set she placed him in a small bundle of warm blankets. As the pup began to fall asleep, Siesta smiled softly as the pup lay peacefully in its makeshift bed.
"I'll add a little bit of the health potions you brought back from the cave into his food tomorrow, so that he can heal properly in the morning" she said as she petted the now peacefully sleeping pup. She turned to see Saito kneeling next to her as he too petted the pup a sad expression on his face.
"He's all alone now Siesta...no home…no family…I failed him Siesta" he said as he hung his head in shame. Siesta looked at the saddened boy, before placing a gentle hand on his shoulder while petting the pup in the other hand.
"You didn't fail Saito, you saved this one and because of you he will live…and he'll have us" she said as she gazed lovingly into his eyes as he gazed into hers, they leant in slowly as they kissed each savoring the taste of the other. They soon separated to breath as they continued to look at each other, a look of love and devotion evident in their eyes.
"You must be tired Saito-san, go have a shower and get ready for bed I'll be with you shortly" she said as she moved the pups makeshift bed to the foot of the bed away from their feet but still close enough incase the pup called out in the night.
After a warm shower and a change of clothes Saito and Siesta laid together in their bed. After the third week of sleeping in the same bed the two founded it natural to sleep in the same bed.
That's why after sleeping on the couch for a week did Saito and Siesta really appreciated each others presence in the same bed. Siesta held his hand in her own as they stared into each others eyes, she giggled causing Saito to look at her confused.
"What is it Siesta?" he asked curious on what she found funny.
"Its kind of funny but, we almost seem like a married couple, add the pup its like we are a family" she said she looked at the sleeping pup. "By the way what should we name him?" she asked as she gazed at the sleeping pup at the foot of the bed, Saito pondered for a moment
'Spot? no Blake?' Saito thought as he tried to think of a name for the pup. Suddenly he thought of the perfect name as he leaned into Siesta to tell him the name.
"Dusk…his name will be Dusk" he said as the pup suddenly perked up making a small yip in agreement before falling back to sleep, Siesta giggled as she drifted off to sleep.
"Dusk…I love it" she said as they all drifted off into sleep.
Four months later
Saito was in the guilds training yard as he sung his sword and practiced his stances and rolls. Aaron oversaw his training as he watched as Saito swing, thrust and strike his training sword against the wooden post.
He was impressed of the boys progress that he began to wonder if the boy had fighting prowess in his blood.
Saito said that a long time ago his family was once a family of Samurais, that had protected a local feudal lord till the end of the Feudal Era. Which prompted him to tell the blacksmith the truth of his origins.
That he was from another world and that he was originally a Familiar to Louise de Valliére, the guild master swore he would not divulge the truth to anyone else least given permission by Saito.
As Saito was practicing he noticed a few of the guild members were watching the teen train, they were curious because the boy had tied heavy pieces of wood to his forearms and his shins.
Well the men were the women and the teenage girls were more admiring the fact he did it without a shirt, his physique had changed in six months his hair now reached just below his neck. He also grew a few inches taller and he grew a fair amount of lean muscles that fit his frame as a few scars showed on his body.
One scar on his left arm in the form of a burn from the Toad demon, a small scar above his eyebrow from Duke Valliére and a X shaped scar from a rouge bandits daggers on his right chest. Because of them he looked like a seasoned hunter despite his young appearance.
"Saito has gotten stronger hasn't he" Aaron asked Jonathan the bartender as he stood beside the master as his second in command.
The bartender dressed in light leather armor equipped with two short blades in an x formation at the base of his back nodded his head as he watched the boys stance and strikes each one as deadly as the last.
"He has…he also seems to have attracted every female member of the guild not settled down" he said as he pointed to the members who were mesmerized by his form, Aaron chuckled as he noticed the looks of the other members.
"Ok…lets try it again," Saito, said as he closed his eyes and concentrated.
"He's still trying huh?" Jonathan said as he saw him concentrating, Aaron nodded as he watched the boy.
When Saito had completed the Jack the Ripper case a few months back, Saito had said he cut an earth column in half and knocked the mage out could. He was skeptical and didn't fully understand what Saito was on about, but nether the less he allowed him to try and replicate what he claimed to have done.
'This is it…four months of training and meditation and I'm sure to get it right this time' Saito thought as he concentrated and tried to access the power he felt before, he then swung his blade in a forward arch as…
Nothing happened
He sighed in defeat as another attempt had failed. "Back to the drawing board I guess" he said as some of the guild members chuckled at him.
Suddenly everyone heard "Saito!" as they turned to see Siesta walking towards him a basket in her hands and Dusk at her side. The men blushed as the beauty made her way into the training yard.
Siesta had changed as well her hair grew longer that it reached a bit below her upper back and grew slightly taller just under Saito, she had also became even more beautiful that men would ogle at her and women would look on in envy.
Saito turned to Siesta and smiled as she waved at him, he grabbed a bucket of water and doused himself with it so that he would not smell of sweat when he held her.
Siesta blushed as she saw the water running down his body as well as the other women in the area, when he was fresh and clean he walked over to her.
"Hey Siesta" he said as they kissed slightly, cat calls and whistles were heard as the guild responded to the scene. Although some of the unmarried or relationship less members looked on in envy at the couple. Aaron looked on with a sad smile as he remembered him and his wife being like that so long ago…
As the couple sat together on the steps eating their lunch they began to talk about their day, while Dusk was laying at their feet, in the four months since he was rescued the young pup had grown significantly now reaching Saito's shoulder.
It turns out that Ebony wolves mature fast, but age the same as humans. According to Derflinger, three hundred years ago Ebony Wolves were bred by powerful mages to use in battle before the discovery of Familiar summoning. But because of how few were left from wars they were classified as endangered species till their population can regrow.
"Saito how are you going with your training" she asked as she threw a piece of meat to Dusk who happily chewed at the food while Saito only sighed in defeat.
"Physically I'm going great, but trying to unlock that power I used four months ago has proven to be more difficult. I know its there because I can feel it…I just can't seem to access it yet" Saito said as he placed his hand to his chest as he thought about the attack he used.
"You're right about that partner, I felt it back at the castle the sudden surge of power was unlike anything I felt before. I don't think it's a Gandalfr power, because all my partners before you could either use magic or just used their own strength. I think we might be dealing with something new entirely" Derflinger said shocking the guild members that had surrounded the sword as he confirmed that what Saito claimed was true/
"Tell me partner, what was going through your mind when that Earth column was coming at you?" he said as Saito placed a hand to his chin in concentration.
"Well actually the last thing that was going through my mind was…you Siesta" he said as he turned to look at his girlfriend who blushed at the teen.
"W-what what do you mean Saito?" she asked curious but his meaning, Saito looked at the ground as he played the memory back in his mind.
"When I was up against Jack I was tired and nearly out of strength I honestly thought I was going to die…and he threatened to hunt you down and…you know what he does" Saito said as his hair shadowed his eyes, Siesta gasped at the piece of information not knowing about it till now.
"I couldn't let that happen and then next thing I know I slashed that earth column in half" Saito said chopping the air to emphasize his point, which Siesta giggled at.
She thought for a moment before she placed her hand over his heart. "Maybe it was your heart" she said as Saito raised an eyebrow.
"Father always says that a man who fights with his heart, has the power to overcome anything…your conviction, your drive, your reason to live. Maybe to use it you need a reason to fight for" she said as Saito looked into her eyes, Saito nodded before standing up and raising his training blade. Siesta and the rest of the guild members watched as Saito took a meter step back from the wooden post as he raised the blade to preform a horizontal slash.
Saito closed his eyes as he began to think of his reason to fight, an image of Siesta came into his mind as he felt his body react and he felt a surge of power course its way through his body.
The bystanders gasped in shock as Saito glowed a dark blue as the wind picked up blowing small bits of gravel away from Saito. The energy traveled from Saito and encased his blade as the blade glowed a bright white with a blue edge, he opened his eye's to reveal his pupils glowing light blue and swung his sword with all his strength.
And just like at the castle a crescent shaped wave of energy shot out of the blade and traveled to the post slicing it in half…and the stone behind it…and the wall and the ten other tree at the back of the guild before it exploded.
The blade then snapped in half from the strain of the attack and the tip of the blade piece flew through the air as it landed just at Aaron's feet impaling the ground.
No one moved as they tried to understand what they just saw, Aaron was amazed and shocked at what had transpired he had never seen anything like that in his life.
Jonathan's remaining eye was wide as he looked at the destruction caused by the attack. Every other members jaws hit the ground as their eyes bulged out of their heads as they witnessed an amazing feat.
Siesta was stunned before she noticed Saito wobble on his feet before collapsing to his knees "SAITO!" she screamed as she ran other to her beloved.
Saito felt her embrace him as he looked up to her and grinned, "I did it" he said as Siesta looked at him in confusion "S-Siesta I did it!" he said as he began to laugh as he embraced her, she blushed at the contact savoring the moment before Dusk came over and began to lick his masters face.
"Yuck! Dusk! Stop it! Yuck!" he said while Siesta giggled at the sight, Aaron walked over to the couple the broken sword piece in his hand.
"Well done Saito, it looks like you accessed that power you were talking about. But it looks like it caused a strain on your body…and your sword" he said as he looked at the broken blade half in his hand.
Saito looked at his piece as well, "Yeah its weird, when I used Derflinger he didn't snap or break like the training sword…I wonder why" Saito thought as he crossed his arms in concentration, it was then Derflinger decided to speak.
"Because of my abilities to absorb and nullify magic I'm use to the strain of powerful attacks that would break regular weapons…and it looks like if you want to use that…slash attack…you might need some high grade materials and metal. By the way, what are you going to call this new power?" the sword asked as everyone turned his attention to the black-haired swordsman as he sat crossed legged and closed his eyes in concentration.
Finally after a minute of thinking he opened his eyes and said "Aura…I'll call it Aura the power of the human soul" he said as he grinned to everyone, as soon as he said those words the guild members crowded around him asking him if he could train them to use that power as well.
"To be truthful…I don't know if everyone can use that power…but I guess its worth a shot, but not until I get a proper hang of my power and know the full extent of it, I can't train someone in something that could potentially kill yourself" Saito said as he agreed to train some of the members, a cheer went up as the guild raised a glass to the Teen, Saito sighed as he realized he just unloaded on himself more work 'can this get anymore complicated' he asked
Tristain Royal Castle: Princess Henrietta's bedroom
Princess Henrietta stood in her bedroom as her loyal friend Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière stood before her kneeling before the princess, she asked her to come to her because she had an important mission for her.
"Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière, I have called you here because of recent events that have transpired in Albion that have caused myself and the royal court a great deal of concern…a rouge group of nobles called Reconquista has over thrown Albion's ruler King James and has forced his son into hiding" she turned to face the young girl.
"I fear that the nobles had forced the common people to turn against the royal family and I fear the same for my people…"
"My dearest friend I ask this of you, walk among the citizen and learn what you can, how they feel about the royal family and if there are any amongst the court that are abusing their position of power. I can only ask you of this my dear friend" she said to the pink haired girl that kneeled before her.
She was slightly saddened by this as she remembered when she used treated her like a normal person, when they were younger. But as they grew up she started to act more like a servant then a friend.
"Of course your majesty, Silver and I will find out anything that would cause need for concern" she said as she stood up, the princess raised her hand to stop her from leaving.
"Wait Louise I must insist that Silver be left at the academy so no-one knows that you are a mage" she said as the girl nodded, "I'm afraid I must also cast a disguising spell on you as well Louise due to the actions of your father against your former Familiar the commoner Saito-san you would be linked directly back to me due to the country knowing of your incident" she said as she waved her wand and chanted an incantation causing pink sparkles to swirl around Louise.
When the sparkles disappeared Louise now had raven black hair and purple colored eyes. Louise looked in the mirror and slightly gasped at her appearance before bowing to the princess and left the room.
A soon as she left the princess began to think of her beloved Prince Wales, hoping that he was safe…but for some reason while her mind loved him, her heart did not. It was strange, but it almost felt that he was not her true love.
The only time her heart would respond was to Louise's former Familiar Saito Hiraga, when she had first meet him her heart beat increased more then it ever did for Prince Wales. She was confused by this strange phenomenon as she had only meet him once at the Academy, when students were to show off the talents of their Familiars, she had found him funny and enjoyable.
She was sad that because he was a familiar and a commoner he could not gain any recognition for saving the staff of destruction from the thief Fouquet who had escaped only days later during the Duke Valliére's visit to break the contract between them, she had hopes of reuniting the two but could not due to the threat of death placed on Saito's head if he came near Louise.
She sighed in defeat as she walked over to change before going to bed, 'I hope she can find out who has been abusing their powers soon…this situation with Albion is very serious, a wrong move and we are looking at all out war' the princess thought as she drifted off to sleep.
'I still wish I could do something about Saito-san and Louise, but I can't without putting Saito in danger…oh well as long as she stays away from him everything should be fine" she thought as her dreams were focused around the former Familiar.
Charming Fairy two weeks later
"My Fairies I would like to introduce our newest member Louise-Chan" Scarron said as he showed a confused looking girl with black hair and purple eyes, dressed in a white waitress outfit as she was surrounded by the other waitresses calling out
"Welcome Louise-Chan!" Louses only smiled awkwardly as she began to wonder…
'How did this happen?'
End chapter, well there it is Chapter three, I have decided to include the other cast in the next chapter, next chapter will start the Albion trying to take over Tristain from their bribed agents in the court, and then Saito will travel to Tarbes and discover a plot against the throne.
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