Chapter 2: The Albion Escapade Part 1

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-BeyondTheOrigin

I do not own Zero no Tsukaima or the other trademarks that will be seen in this fic. I only own my OC ,the Path Maker keyblade, and the Elemental Breaker gauntlet.

Previously…

"Wait, where`s my house?!"

'Oh screw the plot! I`m helping!'

"E-E-ELF!"

"Who are you?"

POV Focus: Ivan

Ok, now I`m literally screwed. I was seen by three of the main characters of Zero no Tsukaima and was branded as an ELF, for crying out loud! I mean, there`s differences between them and Faeries, even if it is very few. Now I was asked 'Who am I' by none other than Princess Henrietta while the tsundere pinkette Louise de la Vallière was secretly preparing to turn me into ash.

"Me? I`m just someone passing by.."

Maybe I turned my Snarkiness up to 9.

"What kind of an answer is that?" Louise ponders, then angrily warns me, wand in hand.

"Answer the princess correctly!"

"Firstly, can you please turn down your Tsundere-ness?" I asked her while smirking.

"W-WHAT?! Grr.." She grumbles, while Saito snickers in the background.

'You probably shouldn't done that.' I thought, because the next second, Louise stomps his head to the floor. Henrietta then fake coughs to get our attention.

"Okay, can you please tell us now the answer?" She asks softly.

"Hmm…. Okay then but first…" I answer, then chants the incantation for Ice Spikes. They stared at me curiously until I propelled it on the door.

"OW!" A voice was heard.

I landed inside Louise`s room, points a finger on the door, and said:

"Someone was listening to us."

*Time Skip, ACTIVATE!*

The next day….

Me, Louise, Saito and Guiche (who is eavesdropping last night) were getting ready to travel. Currently, they are putting saddles on their horses. Me, on the other hand, was stretching and currently getting ready to fly. My Neuro Linker (I found it on the house) was on my neck, while a strange gauntlet named Elemental Breaker (found it in a convenient bush) was on my left hand.

The only things they brought is Derf (in Saito`s back). Louise was now dressed in her academy uniform; the only difference was that she now wore horse riding boots instead of shoes. Judging from that, it looked like a great deal of time would be spent riding the horse.

Just before we get moving, Guiche asked something.

"I have a request..."

"What?" I asked him.

"I wish to bring my familiar along."

"Do you have a familiar in the first place?"

"Of course I do. All magicians have one."

Louise and Saito looked at each other, then looked at Guiche again.

"Where's your familiar now?"

"Here." Guiche replied while pointing to the ground.

"But there's nothing on the ground," Louise said.

Guiche responded by tapping his feet on the ground. Just then, a giant brown creature popped out of the ground.

"Verdandi! Oh, my cute Verdandi!"

Saito, dumbfounded, asked, "What in the world is that creature?"

"What do you mean creature? This is my cute little familiar Verdandi."

"You mean that your familiar is that big thing over there?"

Upon closer inspection, that giant brown creature was actually a mole with a size equivalent to a small bear.

"Yes. Ahh... My Verdandi, you look so cute from any angle I look. Have you eaten your meal of earthworms before you arrived here?"

The gigantic mole hummed happily in response.

"Really? That's wonderful!" Guiche said while rubbing cheek to cheek with his familiar.

We all sweatdropped when we see what is Guiche`s definition of 'cute'.

"Actually... I don't think that you could bring it along with us..." Saito said in disgust.

"But why?" Guiche asked.

"Well, let me get this straight. Verdandi is a mole. A mole moves underground. Albion is a floating continent, so unless he has wings, he cannot join us. Got it?" I explained.

Upon hearing that, he knelt onto the ground and replied, "I cannot bear the separation with my dear Verdandi... Oh! The pain..."

At the same time, the giant mole seemed to pick up some scent from its nose and drew nearer and nearer to Louise.

"What is this stupid mole trying to do!?"

"Like master, like familiar. They both share the same interest – girls." Saito said.

"Stop! Stop this right now!"

The giant mole knocked Louise off her feet and started sniffing all over her.

"Ah! Watch where you're sniffing! Stop it!"

Louise being constantly poked by the giant mole's nose, started to roll all over the ground. All that rolling disheveled her clothes and exposed her underwear. Louise was starting to get very annoyed...

Saito unconsciously started to be immersed in watching Verdandi and Louise just as if he was admiring a beautiful picture...

"Ah... How beautiful is the scene of a giant mole teasing a damsel."

"I totally agree."

Both Saito and Guiche nodded in unison while I sighed.

"Stop blabbering nonsense over there, you oafs! Come over and help me quickly! Ahh!

The giant mole saw the ring at Louise's right hand and started pecking it with its nose.

"You insolent mole! Don't use your nose to sniff at the ring the highness has bestowed to me!."

"I see now. It's the ring. Verdandi loves jewels."

"Such an irritating pest!"

While they are bickering, I spotted something moving on the skies. Quickly activating my Tracking skill, I watched the thing on its top chant something, but I didn`t move to intercept it. Why? Because Wardes aka The Traitor will introduce himself and if I do that, I might be branded as one of the people that he needs to eliminate, and I don`t want to join their ranks, thank you very much.

Now a gust of wind blown Verdandi away from the Water Ruby (that is colored BLUE for a ruby).

"Who is that!?" Guiche shouted agitatedly.

A rather stout looking noble wearing a feathered cap appeared out of the faint daylight behind him. Saito looked rather surprised.

"That...That person is..."

"What have you done to my Verdandi!?"

Guiche hastily took out his rose shaped wand but the noble wearing the feathered cap was faster. Before Guiche could cast any spell, his wand was already out of his hand. I whistled at that.

"I'm not your enemy. I'm under the orders of the highness to accompany you on your journey. The princess is worried about just having you few going to Albion, but then again sending a whole troop of soldiers with you will be too conspicuous. Therefore, I was appointed to accompany you all on this journey." The noble said while taking off his feather cap and bowing.

'Liar.' I thought, thinking what is "good" on him.

"I'm the captain of the Griffin Knights, Viscount Wardes."

He looked at Guiche and spoke apologetically. "Sorry for what I did to your familiar. I couldn't stand watching my fiancée being harassed."

"What!?"

Saito was shocked. I also fake surprised, since I seen it happen on the anime.

"Fiancée?"

"This majestic looking noble is Louise' fiancée?"

"Wardes-sama..." Louise spoke in a trembling voice after standing up.

"It's been such a long time. My Louise, my dear Louise."

'That makes you a pedophile.' I thought, disgusted on him being Louise`s fiancée.

Wardes approached Louise and with a beaming smile on his face, carried Louise up.

"It's really been such a long time." Louise said with her face turning red with embarrassment.

"Still as light as ever. Just like a feather."

"Viscount... please don't be like this... There are people over here..."

Wardes, who placed Louise back down and replaced his hat said, "Care to introduce your companions to me?"

"Erm... That is Guiche de Gramont, my familiar, Saito and that is Ivan." said Louise while pointing at us while she was introducing us to Wardes. Guiche who did not dare look at Wardes directly, lowered his head. Saito followed suit though a bit unwillingly while I did not give a crap about him and instead reading a map.

Wardes said with a rather surprised look on his face on me, "Are you Louise' familiar? This is the first time I've seen a human being a familiar."

"I`m not her familiar. Saito is." I replied while pointing a him. He then came at Saito and said:

"Thank you for taking such good care of my fiancée."

"You're welcome." Saito replied, sighing. Wardes patted him on the shoulders.

"What's wrong? Are you having doubts about this trip? There's nothing to be afraid of! Aren't you the one who caught Fouquet of the Crumbling Earth? With your courage alone, nothing is impossible."

'And then he gives a motivational speech. Dude, you`re not Shia.' I silently deadpanned.

Wardes got to his griffin and invited Louise to join him. She complied, even when hesitating.

With one hand on the reins and his wand in the other, Wardes shouted, "Well everybody, onwards!"

The griffin moved forward. Following behind it were Guiche, looking full of admiration for Wardes; and Saito, feeling very down and dejected.

"Okay, now that`s finished, let`s do this." I murmured, opening a door to my home, and entering it, not noticing that Henrietta has seen me do it. I only heard a simple phrase before I closed my door.

"Who are you really?"