Hello we everyone! Original here and I wan to to wish everyone a very merry Christmas, here's chapter three of A Zero and her Moon Presence, now I would like to point out that me and the other authors are having a hard time with writing this story's and if some one would like to tell us what Writers Block is I would be very happy since well we don't know anything. But your not here for that, your here to read! So here's chapter three!


Chapter III: Rise of The Moon Presence


Headmaster Office

Once Colbert reaches the Office he knocks the door. He got a reply from behind the door. "Who is it?"

"It's me Jean Colbert."

"Ahh, Jean please come in" the Headmaster said from behind the doors

He opened the doors and greeted by the sight of the Headmaster Old Osmond. He is an old mage with a huge catalyst and his Familiar Motsognir white mouse sitting on Old Osmond's Shoulder. His face is mostly covered with long white goatee.

Beside him is his secretary a beautiful woman with a dark green hair strapped in a ponytail. She has a generous amount of mounds with her clothes tightly covering it. She is Ms. Longueville (also known as Fouquet the Crumbling Dirt)

"What is it that you need, Jean?" Old Osmond asked.

Colbert quickly went towards the Old Headmaster side and whisper at his ears. Osmond nodded. "Miss Longueville, could you please leave us for a while?"

Longueville quickly went outside the room leaving Colbert and Osmond alone.

"So what is it about the Familiar of Brimir you talking about?" Osmond asked.

Colbert shows the book. "The Familiar which Miss Valliere summoned has the same rune as the one within Gandalfr Familiar of Brimir long ago" He opened the book as he shows the rune of Gandalfr.

"Hmm I see, and what Familiar are you talking about exactly?"

Colbert cleared his throat and explained. "The problem is that Louise Familiar is the Gandalfr considering he is also non-human"

Ahh...yes Miss Valliere's familiar is an odd one. She is certainly unique if she is able to summon an him and Gandalfr at that" Osmond nodded sagely.

"Indeed she is, however what should we do about this information? Should we tell the Royalty about this?" Colbert asked

Osmond shook his head. "No, we must not. If it is true that Miss Valliere indeed the Void Mages she will be targeted by many parties, and if her Familiar failed to protect her then what should we tell to Karin the Heavy wind?"

Colbert nodded his head off, he really didn't want to dealing with Karin the Heavy Wind.

The door suddenly opened as Miss Longueville came inside. "Headmaster, There is a duel outside at Vestry Court."

Both of them are left dumbfounded however Osmond face become interested. "Oh! Interesting, who will be at the duel?"

Longueville nodded, "It is Gramont Fourth son Guiche de Gramont"

Osmond sighed, "That stubborn last child of Lord Gramont so who is his Opponent?"

"It is Louise Valliere Familiar: Sage"

Vestri Court

"Well what do you know? You actually showed up" Guiche said as the Louise, Siesta and Xino entered the court, "And here I thought you would chicken out"

Xino growled as he began to move forward slowly with his tails swaying behind him.

"Hmph, no matter, you probably don't even understand a word that I am saying" Guiche simply flipped his hair in an overly dramatic fashion before pointing his rose at the creature, "Normally in cases like these I should describe the rules of a duel to you but since you are such a foul and ignorant creature I will skip that and simply skip to the battle"

"Hey! Xino understands Halkeginian!" Louise shouted with a glare.

"If the peanut gallery could be quiet for a moment please!" Guiche exclaimed in annoyance as he held his rose wand aloft, "I will now proceed to introduce myself, be grateful, creature, that you have the honor of facing a noble in battle, not many commoners get such a privilege and even less beasts such as yourself"

Xino said nothing as he stared at the human, had he any pupils then the people there would have been able to see him roll his eyes at Guiche,

He certainly was not expecting the boy to summon a ten foot tall statue made of metal, a brown kind of metal, like copper or bronze, in its hands it wielded a sword and a shield, made out of the same kind of metal.

"I am known as Guiche the Bronze, and as such, my bronze Valkyrie shall face you!"

Ah, bronze it is then!

Xino exhaled slowly before scuttling quickly to the metal woman, the Valkyrie silently stomped up to him and raised a sword before bringing it down, in an amazing show of agility though, the near-human sized familiar simply leapt to the side swiftly before leaping again and ramming it's armored body into the side of the magical construct, to his surprise, the attack only left a small dent in its side, Xino growls tried ram it again, only for it to block with the shield and smack him away but he lands on his feet with his tail anchoring him down.

This small cycle continued on for several minutes, as the students watched and laughed,

"Its like watching a over grown bug try and fight a Manticore!"

"Place your bets people, who will win? The metal maiden or the foul monstrosity!"

"Come on Guiche, stomp that thing like the bug it is!"

Louise growled as she heard the jeers and insults, before a concerned expression came over her face, 'Come on Xino, you can do this... you're strong... you're smart... you are my powerful familiar, you can win this!'

As if responding, Xino backed up a bit after dodging a potentially deadly swing of a sword before leaping forward with far more strength than before as he rammed his body into the chest of the Valkyrie.

And smashed it to pieces!

The metal construct had a very large dent in its chest and much of its armor had shattered from the heavy impact from Xino as it slowly fell over.

"Yes!" Louise cheered, Siesta smiling and cheering with her,

"Hoo, not bad at all, but let's see how you stand up to this!" Guiche exclaimed as he swung his rose again.

And summoned up five Valkyries, each one bearing a different weapon, two held swords, one had a spear, another held dual swords and the last held a spear.

"Oh no..." Siesta muttered, "He was having trouble against ONE of them, how is he going to fight FIVE..?"

"He can do it! He's my familiar, he can do anything!" Louise declared, trying to remain confident,

To her delight, Xino did splendidly against the Valkyries as he dodged and retaliated with every opportunity he found

That was until one of the Valkyries grabbed him by the tail

Louise felt something twist in her heart as she saw the metal warrior woman smash her familiar down into the ground and then stomp on it, the others joining in briefly before kicking the insectoid creature to the side.

"H-how could you! You didn't need to be so brutal!" Louise yelled as she glared at Guiche, who simply smirked condescendingly.

"Sorry, my Valkyries tend to have minds of their own sometimes" The blonde fop laughed lightly before hearing a small and weak growl

Louise and Siesta watched in horror as they saw the beaten and bruised familiar begin to get back up and shake itself before it started waving its tails and tentacles menacingly.

Xino's mind was a bit jumbled up from the beating but he certainly knew one thing.

He wasn't pissed

He was FURIOUS!

He glared at the Valkyries that took advantage of his tail to attack him,

He growled as he berated himself mentally, he should have put his tail into account, While his regeneration will help him heal from his injuries, it still takes up a lot of mana to... wait minute...

Xino froze as he realized something, he had mana. The other humans had mana.

And for some odd reason, so did the Valkyries

Perhaps it's because of the magic keeping them together, when it came to sensing energy, mana and the magical energy the humans had just fell into the same category, frankly, there was almost no difference between the two.

The question that pondered Xino's mind however...

Could he absorb the magic in the Valkyries to render them immobile while boosting his own energy?

The crowd watched in confusion as Xino began to wave its split tail slowly and crawl towards one of the Valkyries, Guiche saw this and frowned a bit before making a gesturing with his rose wand, making his constructs charge at the familiar.

It looked like the same song and dance, attacked and dodged

Only after a few moments, Xino did something new

Once the bipedal squid familiar leapt above one of the Valkyries, specifically the mace wielding one, he jabbed one of his two tails into the neck of it as he grappled it from behind,

The students laughed at how silly it looked, especially Guiche

"Hah, stupid creature! It doesn't matter if you have some kind of poison in your tail! That kind of thing won't... huh..?"

Following Guiche's trailing off into befuddlement, the students stared in shock as the Valkyrie began stumble and slowly degrade in color, the metal returning slowly into soil and dirt, until finally it was no more, and Xino was standing on top of its remains, his bruises and injuries practically gone and he even seemed a little bigger then from before.

Xino was beginning to pant loudly, but not out of exhaustion of battling, but out of pure joy, he could drain the Valkyries, he could drain out all of their energy to increase his power, now THIS evened the playing field drastically!

Leering at the other Valkyries, he leapt off the ground and grappled another before jabbing his tail into its neck and began to absorb its magical energy too, Xino wondered why he didn't do this sooner

Guiche realized what the familiar was doing before conducting his Valkyries to move and attack it, "Stop him, don't let him do it again!"

Unfortunately for the fool, he was quite too late on the orders

Within seconds, Xino drained the second Valkyrie of all its magical energy, there was surprisingly little fueling these constructs, ether they don't need much energy to summon or the summoner was weak,

But for what they lacked in the amount they had individually, it was more than made up by how many of them there were at the moment,

And Xino was counting on their numbers as he continued to drain them dry, one by one, slowly

Guiche panicked and started summoning more Valkyries, sending them all to attack the familiar until the spotted brown creature was being pummeled by no less than twenty Valkyries, seeing this, Guiche began to laugh as Louise watched in horror, seeing the large amount of metal constructs attacking Xino.

What they didn't know is that by know, Xino had so much energy, he was already practically immune to physical attacks of that caliber, the Valkyries hit him and sliced at him, but each attack just bounced off, Instead, all they did was annoying him as hell as he sucked the Valkyries for all they were worth.

It was halfway through absorbing the energy in the seventh Valkyrie that he felt something,

He felt... a change, He felt something about to burst. Like a happy memory he had long forgotten had just been remembered or achieving something he was reaching for, but what could possibly...

'...Must… protect… Mother… must… destroy… enemies… must… PROTECT!'

Suddenly, the students all froze as a loud growl came from the dog pile of Valkyries, slowly, something under the pile began to glow very brightly, and then the light burst out as the ground shook a bit, wind rushing out of the pile of bronze warriors as the students braced themselves against the wind, the girls holding down their skirts to preserve their modesty.

When the light and wind was gone and the earth was silent once more, something shocking happened,

Oh and the Valkyries exploded,

All at once it seemed,

The explosion was quite a large one, and apparently powerful enough to completely erase any trace of the Valkyries, not even a small piece of scrap escaped,

"What the hell was that!?" One of the students exclaimed

"Was that the Zero!? Is she that desperate to win!?" Another shouted,

"Hey! I don't even have my wand out!" Louise exclaimed before feeling something through her bond with her familiar,

It felt... stronger.

And then she saw IT.

The smoke was clearing and the audience was treated to a rather... intimidating sight, standing in the epicenter of what was once a Valkyrie dog pile... was a monster.

It stood upright for a moment due to its massively long spinel cord and razor sharp rib cage before getting on all fours, the body lacked a stomach but the upper portion was covered with a mass of tentacles with the arms coming out of the mass of tentacles. It head had grown larger and longer with a large pear shaped hole in the face where the eyes are supposed to be. The tail now grew much longer and split into four separate tails.

Everybody was frozen as they stared at the being, without a doubt, the creature in front of them was the familiar that Louise had summoned, and just like before lunch, it had evolved.

Only now it was much MUCH more intimidating!

"..X-Xino..?" Louise muttered in shock and some fear

To her surprise, the monstrous being's entire upper slowly turns towards her. The monster twists it's body around and slowly move closer to the pinkette. The students backed away from from the Monster but the pinkette stood her ground, Louise could hear soft humming from it as it picks her up in both clawed hands gently and brings her in closer, Louise looks in the hole within the monsters face and sees a bright violet iris with a blood red pupil. The Monster places it's face on Louise's stomach and brings all it's tentacles around the pinkette's body. A bright flash emits and the Monster lets go of Louise from it's tentacles.

"Hehe~ my little Moon Presence, make momma proud" Louise said drunkly as she places a hand on the Moon Presence head, the Moon Presence places the pink haired Mage on the ground beside Siesta before turning to Guiche. The beast just looked down at the blonde Mage in front of it before unleashing a roar that caused chills to run down the spines of the all who where watching…

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Meanwhile in the Headmaster's office

"This escalated very quickly!" A voice said, a tanned skin teenager wearing a jet black fancy tailed coat and suit with a neon blue vest and white shirt underneath with a pair of black sunglasses, she had neon blue catlike eyes and hair and stood around 5'9, this boy was Xene Zeno universal Spy Mistress and master cook, she appears both everywhere at once and at the most oddest of times like her brother Xeno, and in this universe she was Louise's secret bodyguard.

Xene, Colbert and the Headmaster were watching the battle from afar, the two teachers were taken back by what 'Xino' had transformed into, Xene frowned a bit at the idiot (Guiche) for what he did..

"Sir what do we do?!" Colbert asks fearfully

"Nothing"

"Nothing!?" Both Xene and Colbert exclaimed, they weren't expecting that type of answer.

Old Osmond turns to the two, "Young Guiche brought this onto himself by fighting Young Valliere who was clearly had nothing to do with the situation that the boy put himself in, and didn't you see what it did to Young Valliere?"

Xene nodded, "Are you kidding! I can actually feel the disturbance of pressure from all the way here, I'm literally shivering right now!"

"Exactly Xene, all we can do is let it play out now"

"I'm not telling Gramont if the boy dies" Xene said plainly

Vestri Court

Many of the students watched in total fear as the once small familiar 'Xino' grew into a horrific monster was overcome with blinding fury, a few student were knocked out instantly from the blast of Ki that was radiating off of the Moon Presence like a raging omega level tornado while others grabbed their throats and gasped for air that seemed to vanishes when the aura around the Moon Presence had flared.

The Lunar Great One lifts it's upper body and slams both hand down on the ground that created a shockwave that knocked every one off their feet except Louise, Siesta, and Guiche. The blonde Mage summons a large Valkyrie with a giant claymore sword to attack Moon Presence, the Great One blocks the sword strike with its left forearm and swipes it's other arm upwards to destroy the large Valkyrie.

Guiche started to sweat as he summons around eleven Valkyrie' and sent them to attack the Lunar Great One, if anything, to slow it down long enough to think of something. Moon Presence easily batted away the Valkyrie by swiping them away or just crushed them underneath it's strength alone.

Guiche become terrified at this point and frantically waving his wand erratically while the Valkyrie Increased into eight however their armor and Weapons are Imperfect making them vulnerable to blunt attacks. After seeing the weak power of theses Valkyries, Moon Presence decide to destroy them by his own claws, he swiftly destroy the Valkyrie one by one with incredible speed for everyone to see including the Teacher who observe him from above.

He destroys the last two golem simultaneously, Moon Presence close the distance between him weld and Guiche when…

"Gah!" Two pained screams filled then court.

Both Moon Presence and Guiche immediately stop and slowly turn around (the Lunar Great One turns his hole body around around while Guiche looks through Moon Presence exposed body to see what happen) to see that Louise and Siesta was on the ground, Louise with a large piece of bronze shrapnel lodged in her shoulder and Siesta with a large piece of shrapnel in her right leg. Everyone stop dead in their tracks and look at the two with wide-eyed at what happened, a few first year female students rushed to the Mage n Maid side to help them get the shrapnel out of them. Guiche slowly turns his gaze to the Great One.

Moon Presence body was shivering uncontrollably as he looks at the downed Louise and Siesta, his single eye was glowing blood from the safe confines of his head, the tendril hairs sparked with violent arcs of electricity. A deep animalistic growl escapes and the monstrous familiar slowly turns back around to Guiche.

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The Lunar Great One roars with a wave of murderous intent explodes from Moon Presence's body with a sharp ear piercing screech, surrounding the Great One's body in a azule aura with arc' of electricity shooting off as his entire body and charges forwards like an enraged bull at Guiche. Many of the students watched in absolute fear as the Great One is overcome with blinding red hot rage, a few student were knocked out instantly from the blast of MI that was radiating off of Moon Presence like a raging Tsunami while others grabbed their throats and gasped for air that seemed to vanishes when the azule aura had flared. Guiche in the mist of things paralyzed with fear by merely looking at the enraged Great One, the Moon Presence cocked his arm back swiped at Guiche and send him flying into a tree, nearly snapping it in two.

Guiche groans weakly as he tries to more his bruised body, the swipe nearly shattered his rib cage and the impact from hitting the tree didn't help him ether. When Guiche finally got to his feet a beastly snarl could be heard, slowly turning around, Guiche was face to face with a snarling Moon Presence with a massive vertical glowing red eye glaring right at him. When the blond Mage tried to move the Great One lashed out by slashing him with his claws, leaving five very large gashes on the boy's chest which causes a blood to spray out onto the ground lake a fountain, one of the four split tails shot downward and impaled the blonde flap through the stomach and lifted him off the ground. The Moon Presence snarls lowly as he cocks his arm back with his fingers close and extending outward and thrusted forward with the intent to impale the wounded blond Mage.

"STOP THIS INSTANT!"

Moon Presence's claws stopped a meter away from Guiche's bruised face, the Great One turns around to see Louise standing behind him with Montmorency and Katie accompanying her, her shoulder was bandaged thanks to Siesta (who was currently leaning onto Louise). The Lunar Great One stared into Louise now bright violet iris with a blood red pupil eyes for a moment and finally releases the blond Mage, letting him crash to the ground, coughing up more blood.

The electric azule aura disappears and the air returns to normal, Moon Presence twists his body around and slowly lumbers over to Louise and Siesta.

'Such a lonely child' Louise thought as she moves closer to her familiar with Siesta to Moon Presence's face, the Great One almost sings as he's touched, and gently sweeps one massive clawed hand beneath Louise and Siesta, lifting them from the ground, cradling the two girls like a fragile piece of glass. His other hand then wraps around as well, creating what was almost a bed, from which the Mage n Maid stared up into his face.

It takes the breath from them both, to be handled so delicately by someone with such presence, power so strong Louise couldn't help but tremble when Moon Presence looses a gentle melody. It's one that sounds too harsh to the ears to be music, too discordant, like a hundred murmurs trying to speak over each other, but in her blood plays a perfect pulse.

"Yes… were quite alright Moon Presence, just… stop fighting please"

The Great One nods.

"Right then, lets go" Louise pointed off into the distance for Moon Presence to head into. He marches off while the students make a path for the Great One, possibly to not get harmed.

Headmaster Office

"*Sigh* Shall I call the healers?" Xene asked tiredly, the four (Miss Longueville had entered the room again) had watched the brutal maiming of Guiche and the transformation of Louise's familiar.

"Yes do please Xene" Old Osmond said with a sigh, the headmaster knew it was going to be a pain to explain this to Gramont, Xene bowed and left the room quickly.

"To think that Louise's Familiar would transform into something so… horrifying" Colbert said with a shiver.

"I-I… I think I must be some where else now, quite possibly helping Xene now, if you excuse me!" Miss Longueville quickly rushes out the room after Xene.

Old Osmond looks out the window towards the lumbering form of Moon Presence as it holds Louise and Siesta in its hands. It was making its way the school where it set them down and tried to follow them inside, but it's massive size made it hard to enter.

"I'll have to have someone construct the Familiar a home to live in" Osmond said to himself as he watched from above.