Don't own familiar of zero don't own other things but there is a reason why this is game x-overs.
Hope you have fun reading this is all going somewhere.
Candle light and the smell of straw were the first thing that Hiraga Saito knew of when he came too. A decent sized bed of a heavy wooden frame could be seen as his eyes focused. And then he saw the pink haired girl muttering and pacing back and forth at the window.
In the corner in chains lay the man Saito had dragged through to this world with him. The man who had tried to talk their way out of trouble and failed because Saito had opened his mouth at a very bad time.
"The little one has runes, well the big one said he was a candidate, but those marks on the big one. What are they. They keep changing. Why couldn't the big one have gotten the proper runes" the girl spoke quickly.
"He called me a void mage but that is impossible. It has to be I am a failure. Could I dare hope. Those things he said. I am so confused. Dogs, lying dogs. A big liar and a little stupid one", Louise muttered as she paced back and forth.
"He isn't meant to be here, I dragged him through the portal. He was trying to protect me" Saito spoke to the girl. As he sat up and saw that he too had a chain on his ankle leading to a large weight.
She froze in place, her pacing and muttering stopped. The look of shock and confusion on her face evident. She turned away from the boy adjusted her robes and walked to pick up her wand from the night stand.
"Explain, familiar and I may be be kind enough to let you have a meal" the girl said her face shifted to a mask of pride like steel.
"I was walking home, after my afternoon run. When I saw this green portal in the street. I know this story my otaku friends made sure of it with me sharing the name of the hero".
"Explain faster Dog, I want to know why you both tried to decive me" Louise bent forward over the boy wand dangling in hand in what was an attempt at a threat.
"My name is Saito Hiraga. I have the same name as the hero in the story. It is probably why the portal showed up in front of me. I have the same name as the boy you summone in the story Louise Valliere. I don't understand it myself. I though people like him were a urban legend. Strange stories that crazy people tell each other about" Saito blurted out as quickly as he could keeping eye contact with the girl who he knew could make his life hell.
"I still don't understand. He made grand claims and said you were from another world. He called me a void mage. I want the truth. What sort of legend is he", Louise pouted as she tapped Saito lightly on the head with her wand.
"We are from another world. And in our world we don't have magic, or elves or orcs." Saito almost stopped at the look of confusion on Louises face but pressed on.
"Things happen on our world sometimes that can't be explained. Hundreds of people loosing time in the middle of a city, having hours of their lives gone with no clue of what happened" Louise looked surprised at the suggestion of such an occurrence.
"Earthquakes and disasters too small and focused to be natural. Stories of monsters and superhumans who remain hidden. And most of these stories have in common, is that the metaguard are there when these things happen. The rumours say that the metaguard silence the truth of what is happening. Others say they are fighting a war in the shadows to keep the world safe. All he ever did is try to protect me and I don't even know his name", Saito looked at the little lady as she sat at down at a desk.
"Why should I believe any of this. What proof do you have. And what is a superhuman. I need answers so I can know if I should punish the two of you or not" Louise stamped her foot only serving to almost knock her off her chair.
"A superhuman is someone who goes beyond the limits of what the human body can do. Stronger, faster, tougher or with strange abilities that would be considered impossible. But that doesn't matter it is only rumours" Saito said as he thought of ways to convince the girl while she scoffed at him. Looking down at himself and coming to a idea.
"Have you seen clothes like ours before. Look closely. Look at my shoes. Your shoes are made of leather, mine are made of rubber and plastics a substance made from oil. Can you see this" Saito said as he zipped up the front of his jacket.
"Have you seen any clothing like mine before and what about what he is wearing. Take a look at this" Saito reached into his pocket and pulled out a smart phone and a glasses case.
Louise leaned forward taking in the small irregularities of what she was being shown as proof.
Saito held the phone up and hoped that the battery was holding out. Quick fingers pressed against the screen.
"It certainly seems to be a thin little box. What does it hold" and then fell from her chair startled at the camera flash.
"What was that, what did you do" Her pride wounded at her undignified shock Louise had quickly throw a book at Saito splitting open his head causing Saito to yelp.
"My phone takes images of what is put in front of it. See" Saito fought back tears at the blow to his head but smiled at the wonder on the girls face.
"That's me, like a mirror image but still. You said where you come from doesn't have magic" And Louise moved to sit closer to Saito as he manipulated his wondrous device.
"We don't, people dream of it and imagine what it would be like to have power like it. We have science. This is built by great minds learning and building and improving. Always improving. Without magic we have built so much and...I can show you pictures of my world. I have them on this. I even have videos and music" Saito laughed a bit at the look on Louise's face.
"Are you really sure it isn't magic. I oh my" the girls voice caught in her throat as Saito started a video he had taken the previous year at Tokyo airport.
"This is me and my family on our trip to a tropical Island. Those are jet air planes in the background you can cross a ocean is a few hours flight in them. We used to travel allot every year as I grew up. My father speaks many languages and used to work as a translator, he teaches languages now at universities. My Mother is a international corporate lawyer" Saito beaned to Louise.
"This is video of me and my parents taking me to a restaurant in Tokyo. See the city. So many people. Oh look this is when my parents thought I was weird for trying to get the moon in the shot behind the tower but it was full and looked awesome" Saito laughed not even registering the sharp inhalation of breath coming from Louise.
"Your parents, they love you don't they" the girl said realisation setting in.
"Yeah my Mother...ah...my mother. That's strange I can't remember her name" Saito looked and stared blankly ahead.
"Setoh are you all right. Is something wrong" Louise looked as the boy stared ahead blankly before starting to shake and convulse.
"No, please what's wrong. Please stop shaking Setoh. Please. Someone help. Please." Louise gripped the boy and started to cry.
"Why, what is happening. Someone please help", the girl cried. In her panic she looked to the other person chained to her wall. The large man in black and grey. Not having the time to think as to how to wake him she kicked him as hard as she could hoping to wake the large man.
It was Louise clutching her foot on the floor screaming that brought him to consciousness.
"Are my head feels like it has been scrambled, why are you screaming. Why the fuck am I in chains. Ah." taking a moment to try to understand the situation Drake stood feeling the pull of the chains on his wrists against the mounting to the wall.
"Setoh was showing me his thon and we were talking about his parents and then he started shaking" Louise cried out.
"Damn it, the runes are already at it. Trying to make him forget. Probably damaging his brain to do it" Drake growled as he casually tested the strength of the chains once more.
"The familiar runes are doing this, Founder say it isn't so" The girl pleaded.
"Magic that remakes the mind to be more loyal, anything that gets in the way gets wiped. I have an idea and I hope this works." Drake yanked the chains free from the wall and moved over to Saito and knelt down.
He reached under his down the neck of his shirt and pulled out a silver pendant and placed it over Saito's neck.
An ever so slight glow flowed over Saito's body and he stopped convulsing and calmed.
"I didn't know if that would work ha ha," Drake said as the looked down at the boy as he seemed to be dreaming.
Louise hobbled to the man's side and looked on at the resting boy and then to the large man beside her.
"Is he cured. How did you do that, is it more of your science Setoh told me about" Louise looked to the giant of a man beside her.
"Cured no. If that is taken off him the runes will go back to work rewriting his brain. If they try to work to hard he could suffer permanent injury or even die. So Louise, would you mind telling me why I was chained to the wall. Your answer to that is of great importance" his concerned voice shifted to a deadpan tone as he looked to the young girl.
"Well Sir, please call me Miss Valliere until I know you better or even your name. As for why you are here and chained. You were both deemed untrustworthy. And I could only have you both brought to my room as my familiars as long as you were chained for my..." Louise trailed of looking at the broken chains and then continued.
"You were both marked by the bonding so, oh Founder. Setoh told me he dragged you through. How could I have marked you both. I really am a Zero to have dragged two people from another world and given one of them runes that could kill him and bound another who was not meant to be here" Louise downcast hobbled to her bed. Looking for a moment at the boy on the floor before taking one her pillows and placing it under the boys head.
"I am a failure".
"Kid you are no failure, yours is a story of great power hidden in plain sight. Though I have to say I am really surprised I got marked" he said as he started looking over his body. Checking over himself while ignoring the twitching of the girls eye.
"I am sixteen, I am no kid. You can't talk either other then being overgrown and having the hair of a old man you can't be more then twenty" the petulant girl stomped only to yelp as she had stomped her injured foot.
"My name is Drake Hunter kid, and I will just say that I am older then any living person you have ever met. I can't find any marks on me are you sure I got zapped by the binding Miss Valliere" He said as he scratched at his manacles and eyed the remains of the chains.
Louise gestures for Drake to come closer.
"See these markings only become visible when you bring a wand close to them. The are strange runes that don't make sense. Lot's of little lines and circles tightly packed together. You have them on the backs of both hands and on your forehead. And.." Louise gasped. "Your eyes, the little runes are all over your eyes. What did I do you".
Drake sat down on the bed next to the girl despite the look she gave him. Brought a finger to each eye and removed something small and blue that he placed into a small capsule he took from one of the many pockets.
"Can you see the binary better now" He said with a big grin on his face.
"Oh gods you're blind".
"Nope look closer, you'll see tiny little black pupils. I took out my lenses as they were getting itchy. So is there more binary across my eyes" Drake said almost laughing.
"I can see, yes, that is strange. And the benari runes are all over your eyes. Both hands, your forehead and eyes. What could this mean. Professor Colbert said he would look into this" Louise placed her wand at her side.
"Colbert will find plenty on Saito's runes. But mine, it is a language from my world, of course it has to be that language. I have no idea what this means" he said holding up his hand to Louise. "But I have an idea of why it marked me. I have defences against magic found on worlds other then my own. One of them is absorbing magic directed at me".
"Oh. Oh oh ahah. That explains why they couldn't levitate you up to my room and had to have golems carry you. So this isn't my fault. When I tried to bind you...this is my fault isn't it".
Drake Nodded.
"When you blew me up and then tried to bind me. I absorbed some of the magic. Your magic is all mixed up with void power which probably dispelled my defences and reacted weirdly causing me to absorb something. This could be nothing or a big problem" Drake said as he stood and looked down on the unconscious Saito.
"Void power, you were telling the truth. I am of the void" Louise looked stunned.
"Yeah, you are. You possess void element magic. Of the dispel variety. Any magic spell of enchantment your void element comes into contact with gets disrupted or destroyed. Oh shit" Drake said kneeling down to Saito.
"No bad language in the presence of a lady", she huffed.
"Void disrupts enchantments, the thing keeping Saito safe is enchanted" He said reaching out to the boy on the floor.
"Oh shit" Said Louise as the silver pendant around Saito's neck faded a little and he began to shake and sweat.
Drake reached out a hand to the boy check his pulse. And the binary runes hidden on his body flared to life, flooding the room with light.
In a large office fidgeting in his seat sat an old man with a massive beard with his head held in his hands. Opposite him were a bald man with a stack of books on his lap and a woman who had just been let into the room.
"At least tell me that after this eventful day that young Miss Valliere and her companions are well now. If Lady Tabitha had not seen that light and alerted the maid staff things may have gotten much worse. Tell me. How are the three of them fairing" the exasperated old man asked a middle aged woman in a with greying blue hair.
"Well Miss Valliere woke within minutes but could not move well due to breaking her foot. Though she refuses to admit as to how she did it. The two she summoned are unconscious though there is a great irregularity too them making standard water magic treatment difficult" she said as she sat in a chair.
"What sort of irregularity, Madame Maria" asked a clearly interest if tired Colbert as he organised his stacks of books and notes in front of him. Leading the bearded old man to just look on in disbelief at his younger colleagues enthusiasm during this late hour.
"We had to have the first year earth mage teacher carry both of them with golems this time. When my infirmary assistant tried to levitate the grey black soldier and she almost fainted as if her will was drained. And this time the boy was resistant to all attempts at levitation magic. It was only when we got them all to the infirmary that we found the source of the boys irregularity though Miss Valliere insisted we not remove the charmed pendant as it was preventing his familiar runes from damaging his mind. As for the soldier his differences run deeper".
The old man sighed and looked tiredly and the master healer.
"Please go on".
"Water healing divination magic is extremely draining to preform on him and mostly ends in failure. Hands on examination yields oddities. His muscle mass feels dense like that of a earth trolls. He is far heavier than he appears. And well when we removed his armoured coat. We found his body to be covered in scars. But the odd thing was the scars have a odd metallic look to them. As if his skin is reinforced with iron. Osmand it is as if someone had.." The healer looking downcast, not willing to speak the conclusion she had come to.
"And Miss Valliere how is she doing after her eventful day" Osmand asked.
"She sits not far from the two in the infirmary clutching the soldiers helm. She carried it the whole way as she walked with us, refusing to be levitated or carried. Only when we told her that the boy and soldier were stable did she let us even know her foot was injured. But now she should be resting".
"Thank you Madame Marie, you may rest now yourself it is getting late. You may tell Miss Longueville that she can finish for the night as well." Osmand wearily waited for Marie to leave the room.
"So Jean what did you find in the stack of books that you have been eagerly waiting to tell me about".
"The runes on the boy and what the soldier said had me go straight to the library. I have no doubt that the boy bears the runes of the legendary Gandalfr. Thankfully the students took the soldiers words as a lie" Colbert then laid books other the table each marked with the runes the boy bore on his left hand.
"That will make it easier, though we must ensure this does not spread beyond the academies grounds. To think that the Valliere family would produce a child capable of summoning people from another world. Will wonders never cease" Osmond leaned back in his chair, stuffing his pipe as his mouse familiar climbed up onto his shoulder.
"You believe they are from another world Sir. I thought that was a half truth on his part" Colbert said shocked.
"I was watching on the crystal ball. The colour and make of this soldiers clothes may be different but the style and form are too similar to deny a connection to the mystery of a man who saved my life many years ago" Osmand leaning in closer.
"Another world, would that be why the soldiers binding marks are unknown and the boy reacted so badly to the runes".
"Perhaps it is Colbert but we must wait and watch to find out more. The girl and her two summons are now the greatest mystery this academy has ever seen. We need to observe and learn with caution and secrecy" Osmand stood and turned out the window and saw in the distance a dragon flying in the moonlight.
If he had been more alert he would have realised the two girls on it's back had just broken off a wind spell from his window. One used for listening to sounds at a great distance.
"So Tabitha what do you make of all this. Boys from another world brought here by the zero" said the redhead not the least bit upset she had broken off a date to go sneaking around with her subdued friend.
"Interesting mystery" said the blue haired girl as she brought her dragon in to land.
"Two words, oh my Tabi. This must really have you excited" laughed the red head.
This is leading somewhere and as long as I am well enough I hope to keep updating this.
What will Louise be like knowing she ripped two people out from another world. What is Drake and what other worlds has he been too. Who cast the translation spell and will be getting their teeth kicked out. All this in the next so long as the characters don't start taking it in a different direction again.
Hope who so ever read this enjoy this ramble