Soft, that was the first sensation that Louise felt when she came back to her senses.

"Master, wake up." a voice called out to her.

She was way too comfortable to do that; so instead she decided to continue hugging her pillow.

"Master, wake up it is dawn." the voice continued.

Wait a minute, if she was sleeping in her room where she was normally alone then who was asking her to wake up?

Her short moment of panic quickly went away when she started to remember what happened yesterday.

She got her own Angel!

She felt so giddy that she started to hug her pillow a really tightly.

"Master?"

Wait a minute, pillows are not supposed to be warm… nor are they supposed to hug you back…

When she opened her eyes the first thing she saw was skin. This confirmed that the thing that she had half her face burrowed into was a well built chest and the pink around her confirmed that this was her familiar.

After about three seconds she realized the implications of this.

"AAAAAAAAAA!" With a scream Louise leaped backwards. The only problem was that gravity is unforgiving and Louise's bed was not that large.

"Master, are you ok?" Ikaros asked approaching Louise grounded form from the bed.

"Yes familiar, I was just a bit startled."

Not letting the uncomfortable silence stretch on, Louise quickly stood up.

Again, Ikaros was giving her these begging eyes, looking at her with a slight tilt of her head holding her top half of her body upwards with her hands, her legs still lying and wings just a bit outstretched, begging to give her something to do.

Louise concluded that a man would have already completely fallen for her.

"Ehm, are my clothes washed?" she asked Ikaros.

"Yes master, they are on the table." Ikaros stood up from the bed.

Louise went to the table and quickly started dressing herself.

Or at least she tried, but the eyes of her familiar buried into her.

"You… could dress me if you want." Louise suggested.

"Yes master." Ikaros when to undressing her master and putting her fresh washed clothes on.

"Anything else master?" she asked after she was finished.

"No, let's head for breakfast now." Louise decided that the moment was already awkward enough.


"Good morning, Zero!"

"What do you want, Zerbst?"

These two sentences had become somewhat of a morning ritual between Kirche and Louise.

"As rude as always, Zero." Kirche was probably the the only one of the two who enjoyed the interaction.

Ikaros chose that moment to follow Louise out of the room. Next to her Tabitha's attention also fully switched over to the familiar.

"And there goes the chance of this being just a dream." Kirche said with a sigh.

"What is that supposed to mean, Zerbst?"

Kirche gave Louise a somewhat harder look before laying both hands on her shoulders. "Listen, Vallière, did you really summon her honestly and without any tricks?"

Louise was a bit taken aback by the sudden seriousness of her enemy. "Of course I did. Why, are you planning to ruin this for me too?"

"I am not planning anything, but your little summon here caused quite a bit of turmoil around the students. I don't know what rumors they will put together but regardless if you did summon her or that was just show, be careful." And with that she left, Tabitha close behind her.


'Well, at least they are not laughing at me. That is something, right?'

That was only positive thing that Louise could get out of the stares she was getting.

Literally every single person was staring at her and Ikaros and only hushed whispers were given to her direction.

In combination with what Kirche had told her that morning, it worried her greatly.

They would never try to hurt her familiar, she told herself. She was, after all, seen as an extension of her master and as such any action taken against Ikaros could be counted as direct assault against her, and while she had been bullied she had never been physically assaulted. They can't just hurt Ikaros, right?

With that said and new found confidence, she walked to the dining hall.

"Familiars normally should stay outside," Louise looked at Ikaros with worry, "And I kind of forgot to go to the headmaster to ask for a permission for you."

"Don't worry Master, Angeloids don't have to eat, we can live purely on breathing and can have air supply cut off for about 720 hours before there is any risk of damage."

Louise stopped in her tracks after hearing that.

"That is a bit…" Insane, unbelievable, unimaginable."well, can you eat and taste things, right?"

"I am capable of categorizing food based on the receptors that are on my tongue."

"So… is that a yes?" Louise asked carefully.

"Yes."

Louise shook her head.

"Just, wait in front of the dining hall for me. I will try to organize something later." For now Louise was just hungry and Ikaros said that she didn't really need food at all for now.

"Yes, Master."

'Confusing angels,' was Louise's thought while walking to her seat.

Only after she had taken her seat did she realize the second wave of stares she was getting. It was really unnerving, and she realized that she preferred the open taunts.

She said her prayer and started eating very quickly.


Tabitha knew that she would normally never do this.

And yet, she was doing it. Charlotte Hélène d'Orléans Charlotte de Gallia alias Tabitha was approaching a pink winged Angel, no book in hand, with the intent to ask her questions.

She stopped in front of her and stared. She was still not very good with words and so she waited for the Angel to make the first move…

and she waited…

and waited…

After five minutes she'd finally had enough.

But the problem was, how would she start the conversation? She had never done that before.

'Yes, the book,' she thought. That was missing. She was always reading when someone tried to speak to her, so she promptly opened her book and started reading; it was 'Advanced Wind Magic Vol.2'.

Now the Angel will surely start a conversation.

'This is not working at all,' she realized after another 5 minutes.

She began to panic slightly, she was Chevalier, Brimir be damned, it shouldn't be so hard to start a conversation.

'Kirche always does it, but how? She normally approaches them, and what, just talks to them? Yes, sounds about right.'

'But what should I say?'

And so, another 5 minutes passed in silence.

Thump.

Sylphid landed next to her. To be exact she landed on the opposite site of the angel and did her best to hide behind her small master.

'Why is she scared of her?'

Well now or never, Tabitha started taking a breath and…

"Ikaros, there you are! Come, let's go to the tables, today there are no classes so we can get to know our familiars better, and that is what I want to do". came Louise's voice from the door.

"Yes, Master."

And just like that, Tabitha's chance was over.

She breathed out again and started to walk away. After all, Louise was right, today the students were supposed to learn more about their familiars and after yesterday's chaos she did not even have time to find out what race her dragon was.

"That was so scary, Kyuu," came a female voice next to her

"Why?" Tabitha asked her dragon perplexed.

"I don't really know, Kyuu, it feels like bad things are going to happen when Illococoo is next to her. Like that one time the earth was shaking really badly. It was the same feeling, but why do you ask big sister, don't you feel it?"

That was interesting, did that mean that this Angel, Ikaros was it?, was comparable to a natural disaster like an earthqua…

Wait, what?

She spun around to meet the face of her familiar.

"Kyuu?"


Louise sat down at the table with two chair and wanting to start her questioning, only to find Ikaros still standing.

"Please sit down" Ikaros did so. "So, where to start… Yesterday, you said that you are a 'pet class'. What does that mean?"

"Pet class Angeloid are designed for the sole purpose of pleasuring our masters with whatever they desire."

"Whatever I want, you can just make it happen?" Louise asked doubtfully.

"I will do whatever you desire, Master." She repeated without missing a beat.

"So, if I want to have... a flying chariot in front of me right now, you can just create it?"

"I can request it from the Synapse." she clarified.

"'Synapse'," The word caught Louise attention. "You said that before. What is that?"

This time there was no instantaneous answers and Ikaros simply stared blankly for a moment before answering."I have no information stored regarding the Synapse."

"Nothing at all?" Louise asked again.

"I was created by the Synapse. I can request items from the Synapse to fulfill the orders of my master," stated Ikaros.

"That's all?"

"Yes." That was surprisingly little. Louise lost a sigh. 'So much for finding out more about her'.

"Would you like some cake, milady?" Louise was not expecting the question from next to her.

"Yes please." While she was sinking deeper into her thoughts thoughts.

"You too, Miss Ikaros?"

Ikaros inspected the desert with a short look before nodding.

Full Stop.

How did that maid know the name of her Angel?

"Maid, how do you know the name of my familiar?"

"We had a conversation in the laundry room last night, milady." Siesta hurriedly explained.

'Ah, right, because I gave Ikaros my clothes yesterday.'

"I have to thank you again for your gift, Miss Ikaros. We managed to get our work done faster than ever before." Now that sounded interesting

"Gift?" Louise asked with interest.

"Yesterday, Miss Ikaros washed your clothes in some kind of box that she made out of nowhere and it really speed up washing. I asked her if it was ok for me and the other maids to use it, milady." That made some kind of sense, but what was that about a strange box?

"Please show me this box later," she said while looking at Ikaros. "And why did you help her?"

"Was it wrong to do so, Master?" Siesta was worried. Did Ikaros go against some orders to help them? Was she now going to get punished for Siesta being so stupid and speaking before her master?

"Not really, I am just wondering why you did it." Siesta silently breathed out in relief.

"It would have made no sense to deny her to use the washing machine when I was not using it."

Logical was the best word to describe Ikaros. She was really good at the rule of steel and the way she was completely emotionless in her voice was a little disconcerting. "It is the duty of the nobles to protect the commoners, so helping them from time to time is ok."

Ikaros thought about the words for a second before asking "Master, what is a noble?"

"Heh?" That question was really unexpected. "Well, nobles are those who are gifted with magic by the founder Brimir to protect and rule over the commoners."

"You said that helping them from time to time is ok with relation to being a noble, why?" what was with all the questions today and did she really not know this?

"Well, you are my familiar and familiars are seen as extensions of their master, As such, everything you do will be viewed as my actions," Louise explained.

"And what is a commoner?"

"Well, the maid here, for example, is a commoner." Louise finally took a look at Ikaros' eyes. Instead of turquoise they were bright green. "Ikaros?" Suddenly her eyes snapped back to the original color.

Both the maid and the noble could only stare until one of them remembered that she still had a job to do."I… will be taking my leave then." Siesta quickly excused herself. This was getting on the level of nobles and their magic, just ignore.

"What is going on with your eyes, they were green just now!?"

"What do you mean, Master," Ikaros asked with a tilt of her head.

"You know what, never mind," Louise said, remembering the cheesecake in front of her.


"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'THE URANUS QUEEN IS GONE'!?" Minos was having a bad time and that in and of itself was a understatement.

"The Angeloid with the designation Alpha, Uranus Queen, has left the sensor range of the Synapse and has since then not been detected."

At that, Minos slapped one of the servant class Angeloids across the face "Angeloids don't just disappear. We have scanners in the whole solar system, and you tell me that she is just gone?!"

"Confirmed," said the still lying Angeloid in a robotic voice.

"GAMMA, BETA," he screamed out.

"Yes, Master," came the synchronized answers.

"Find her! Bring the Uranus Queen back to the Synapse!"

With that, they vanished.


Unaffected by what was happening in the Synapse, Ikaros and Louise were eating their cheesecake.

Twitch, twitch.

"What is with that hair on top of your head?" Ikaros stood up and looked into the direction of the other students.

"Siesta is in danger." And then, she vanished, leaving a very surprised Louise behind.


'Why, why did I find that stupid little bottle and why did I have to give it back?!' This was the only thing that was running through Siesta's head. In front of her, a raging blond Guiche was standing with two red marks in the shape of hands on his cheeks.

"...a disgrace, you should learn your place, commoner," screamed the enraged Guiche as he lifted his hand to slap her.

His hand suddenly stopped in mid air not able to move at all.

He turned to see what was stopping his hand only to have his vision blocked by a set of turquoise eyes that seemed to be completely emotionless, and on top of all that, seemed to not be looking at him.

"What are you doing?" He realized that the supposedly fake angel was talking to him.

"What? I am punishing that worthless commoner for her actions against me, and you, how dare you rise your hand against me? You lunatic pretending to be an angel!" Guiche broke his hand free from the grip. He was now angry with the supposed fake angel.

"It seems you need to learn your place. I shall punish you for your actions with a duel. Meet me at the Vesrti court in fifteen minutes." But before he could go on his way, a slightly panting Louise was next to them..

"What is going on here? Guiche, you know that duels are forbidden."

"Only duels between nobles are forbidden," he returned smugly, "As such, me dueling your familiar breaks no rule."

"Master, I have a question." Ikaros suddenly interrupted.

"Yes Ikaros?"

"If familiars are seen as extensions of their master, does that mean that Guiche challenged you to a duel?" Louise thought about it for a moment, and her familiar was kind of correct.

"That is true, and as such, your duel is invalid because we are not allowed to duel." Louise now had a smug look on her face. She glanced a bit to her left to see the still out of her mind scared maid. "Come maid, I wanted you to show me what you spoke about a few minutes ago."

Siesta, still so shocked from what was happening, only a cough from Louise got her back to her senses. "Yes, this way, Miss Vallière."

And they departed, leaving behind a very angry Guiche, who stomped of after a while.


"Now, please tell me what happened that got that idiot so angry." Louise asked after the trio was not longer in range of the other students.

"I found a bottle of perfume on the grass and wanted to give it back. That ultimately led to Sir Gramont being discovered two timing." Siesta answered.

She did not know what to think right now. First, she has her nightmares come true by accidentally angering a noble, only to be saved by another noble, but why? Why should Lady Vallière help her? She looked to her side seeing the Angel.

In today's conversations, she heard that a familiar is supposed to resemble a master. Then what was miss Vallière? Who is this girl that is supposed to have Zero talent in magic that God gave her this holy being as a familiar?

Louise let out a heavy breath "That was so obvious, I don't even know why I asked." Then, she realized the intense look she was receiving from the maid.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Siesta just realized that she was staring, quickly turned her head way and started stammering.

"I-I'm terribly s-sorry milady, it won't happen again."

"If you have to say something, then speak," Louise said impatiently.

"I-It is j-just that I was t-thinking, today I heard some of the other students say that a familiar is supposed to represent some aspect of their master, and I was thinking what that says about you milady," she said while looking at Ikaros.

That got Louise thinking because the maid was right.

What did that mean for her? She too started looking at Ikaros, who simply tilted her head questioningly.

They continued walking and Louise's mind went through all the things that happened in such a short amount of time. She realized that things could have gone bad very quickly if Ikaros hadn't pointed out that particular aspect the master-familiar relationship.

All in all she was just happy that Ikaros was ok, after all she got a mission: to take care of her Angel. It was her mission and she would make sure that it happened.

With that thought in mind, she could walk with a bit more pride, Ikaros like always right behind her and next to her the maid with the washroom as destination.

After a short silent walk they arrived and Louise was shown the construct that was supposed to have helped the maids so much, two of them were using it right now and stepped away with a bow.

It looked rather unimpressive to Louise. "So, what does it do?"

"Well it cleans the clothes, and the best thing is that it does it by itself, and in such a short time! It just takes a few minutes and they don't even need to be dried," the maid explained joyfully.

"How long does it take to clean the clothes of one student?" Louise was a bit aghast that time was such an important factor. It could not take that long, right?

"About half an hour per student." Louise had to take a double take at the number.

"H-half an hour, we have over three hundred students!" she asked wide-eyed.

"Well yes, that is why it is such a huge relief to us." The two other maids nodded energetically.

The maid sounded a bit strange to Louise just then, it was a completely different posture that the maids normally had and the smile was somehow completely different, the ones they previously gave felt so… stiff compared to those she was getting now.

She wrote it of as her imagination playing tricks on her. "Well, by now enough time must have passed for the agitation to be over." Louise said. "Have fun with that thing."

"Thank you Lady Vallière, and thank you again for saving me back there." Siesta said with a deep bow.

"Think nothing of it." Louise said with a reddened face.

The rest of the day went by relatively eventless, except for Louise trying to find out more about Ikaros and either being given a "I have no information concerning x" or having to answer questions herself that had been a bit strange sometimes.

Questions like what certain titles ment in her society. 'I mean who doesn't know x means x' was her line of thought.

She had to remind herself on multiple occasions that her familiar was not something normal.

But enough of this, she was tired from the eventful day and wanted nothing more than to lay down on her bed and rest.

Thankfully the evening was a lot less awkward for Louise than the morning.

"Good-night, Master."

"Good-night, Ikaros."


It was a good night for Tabitha.

Clear skies, and wind soaring through her hair while she rode on her new companion Sylphid, who she just found out was a Rhyme Dragon.

Her first reaction was to be scared. After all, rhyme dragons were thought to be extinct for a reason. Just about everything on them was in some form useful for mages. That is why they got hunted down to the very last one, or that was what Tabitha thought until that day.

After she found out, the first thing she did was make Sylphid, or Illococoo as she called herself, promise to never speak to anyone except for her, and only when they were alone.

But right now both of them had no worries, flying through the cloudless night.

That was, until they spotted Ikaros standing on the roof of the tower staring into the night sky.

Tabitha remembered her attempted conversation this morning and why she tried to do it in the first place.

With new courage, she steared Sylphid to approach the angel.

This time, the moment she landed Ikaros turned to face her and started staring at her. It was not much but this little acknowledgement was enough for her to start a conversation.

"What is your name?" that should start something.

"Ikaros." She replied. "You are an unidentified individual. Who are you?"

"Tabitha, Louise classmate." she answered hoping for new questions to follow.

Tabitha didn't like silence. that was one of the reasons why she like to spend so much time with Kirche. The girl would talk like a waterfall. That said, the Angel simply staring at her was making her very uncomfortable.

"Why are you here," Tabitha finally asked.

"I am waiting for my Master to wake up." she simply answered.

"Don't you need to sleep?"

"Angeloids don't sleep."

Again the 'Angeloid' was silent just watching the stars."Why Louise?"

"I don't understand the question." Tabitha rarely showed emotions but this Angel was on a completely different level. It was as if there were no emotion to read at all.

"Why is Louise your master?" She clarified.

"Because she holds my chain."

"Why?" Tabitha wanted to know what gave Louise the chain, what made her worth of such a familiar.

"I have no information concerning this subject."

She thought long and hard before asking another question. "Whoever holds the chain is your master?"

"Correct." Her eyes wandered to the collar that was around her neck and to the piece of chain that was hanging from it.

"Why is it broken right now?"

"It is not, I just made it invisible. My master wished for it to not be noticeable and cause problems.." Tabitha stored away that informations for later and was about to ask the next question when suddenly a long strand on the top off Ikaros started twitching oddly.

"Master is in danger." And with a flap of her wings, she vanished leaving, a confused Tabitha.


Louise, upon closing her eyes, found herself on a hill. Green was stretching as far as she could see and she quickly recognized it from the first time she had dreamt of that location.

It didn't take long and again, the Angeloid from the first time appeared before her.

Louise wanted to ask so many questions but she quickly got interrupted.

"You have to tread with caution Louise! Danger is coming your way." she told her in a panicked voice.

"D-Danger what do you mean?" Louise asked back.

"The fallen has send some of his strongest to find Ikaros, they will stop at nothing until they have her!" She was now shaking Louise. "Do not let them find you! I need to leave."

"Wait I..." But it was already too late, Louise outstretched hand reached into nothing but her own rooms ceiling.

Suddenly, her curtains started to flutter and without her noticing, Ikaros was next to her bed. "Are you alright, Master?"

When Louise laid her eyes on Ikaros, her worry shifted from being afraid for herself to being afraid for her Angel. 'Take care of her' was the first message, it was the burden she accepted.

It was the first time in her life that someone had trusted her with something, and by Brimir, she would not fail even if the devil itself would smash through her wall!

Determination, that was what her fear morphed into.

"Master?" Ikaros asked.

"It's… nothing Ikaros, I just had a bad dream." Now that she thought about it, did that mean that actual demons of the devil where after her?

She was back to worrying again.

"Should I keep you company again, master?" Ikaros asked already approaching the bed.

"N-N-No, it's o-o-okay." She told that to herself more then to Ikaros. "G-Good night," and she quickly laid back down and rolled herself into her blanked.

Much to Ikaros disappointment, who backed away again. "Good night mast-"

She was interrupted by a tremendous crash as the wall next to her gave in.

"AHHHHH, DEMON BEGONE." Louise screamed out point her wand wherever she could and as an explosion rang through the school.

The next thing Louise saw, once her vision cleared, was the head of a blue dragon stuck where her bedroom window used to be a few seconds ago, on top of which was a light blue-haired girl standing with her staff at the ready.

Her brain needed a few seconds to understand the situation, and after a couple more she finally decided on the best course of action.

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF BRIMIR ARE YOU DOING IN -AND TO- MY ROOM, TABITHA!?"


"So, just to finalize," Louise started to list, "You were flying outside with your familiar because you wanted to enjoy the night."

Nod.

"And then you met my familiar on the roof and started a conversation."

Nod.

"After that, my familiar rushed to me because she thought that I was in danger."

Nod.

"And in combination with what happened today, you thought someone who wanted to harm me because of my familiar, or someone who was sent by Guiche or Guiche himself, was attacking me in my room."

Nod.

"Whereupon you decided that if that was the case, I would need help and used your familiar by the name of Sylphid", "Kyu!", "as a distraction so that you could surprise my assailant."

Nod.

"Did I miss anything?"

Shake, Shake.

Louise looked at the red faced, slightly bowed, Tabitha in front of her, then to her right to Ikaros who like always, had a blank look, and then, to her left where there was a dragon sized, blue filled, hole where her window once was.

She took a deep breath before she spoke again.

"Thank you." Tabitha looked up to meet Louise's eyes with a questioning look. "I was not expecting that someone would actually care enough to rush to my help."

"That said," She got a bit louder, "I still have no place to sleep for tonight because of the dragon-sized hole in my room that you are responsible for! What are you going to do about that?" she asked while looking sternly at Tabitha.

"What about the teachers?" Tabitha asked after thinking it through.

"Do you really think that anyone in this school is going to care about an explosion in my room?" Louise asked back with a flat look.

Tabitha winced slightly but said nothing.

"So, any idea what to do?" Louise asked again with crossed arms.


"Good-night Tabitha. Good-night Ikaros."

"'Night, Louise and Ikaros."

"Good-night, Master and Tabitha."

Ikaros blew out the candle in Tabitha's room and the two students went to the land of dreams.


Guiche was angry. How dare that maid simply mock him like that, and how dare that Zero and her worthless familiar interfere with his punishment. Damn Zero and her heretic.

At that last thought he stopped moving and got a smile on his face.

'That's it!'