Zero no Tsukaima Alternative 3rd season: Different Familar of Zero

Summary: Three years after Saito's death in Season 2, episode 12, Saito is still dead and Louise cannot go though her studies because of her guilt in her role toward Saito's death. Louise is depressed, even though her schoolmates offered to help her get over her depression. What happens when she summons her second familar when she and her classmates were in danger? Will the second familiar obey Louise or would it run away from her? AU fanfiction after the death of Saito.

Chapter 3: The Battle Against Another Foe...With a Familiar! Unknown Destination!

Someone or something was coming out of the portal...and that someone from the portal landed on Louise with a thud in the floor.

Louise was shocked. She wanted her old familiar, Saito, to come back to her, even though he was dead three years ago because of her foolishness of going to a suicide mission to protect Queen Heneritta, her childhood friend. Instead of seeing Saito, Louise saw a creature that was not a humanoid. Instead, it was a creature that Louise wanted to summon at her first summoning to prove to Zebrst (Kirche) and the others that she was not a Zero.

Saito had transformed himself into a faerie dragon. The faerie dragon was mostly blue, but he also had black and white skin features. A faerie dragon, as legends say, was a dragon that could do all sorts of tricks, whether magical or not. Not only that, a faerie dragon could fly anywhere like Tabitha's dragon, but a faerie dragon was weak in physical combat.

Kirche and Guiche were quite shocked at the summoned dragon. Sheffield was amused and hid his shock by glaring at the dragon.

Kirche said, " I never knew that the Zero could summon a magnicificent creature. First, a human who is now dead, now a dragon is summoned. What is next?"

Sheffield continued to glare at the dragon and said, "What a nice familiar. I would had thought the dead familiar would return for you, but alas, I was wrong. This familiar of yours would be defeated by the likes of me. Wolves, attack this dragon and its master!"

The wolves, at Sheffield's order, tried to attack Louise, but Saito chanted, "Ice Wall!" and a wall of ice protected Louise from harm.

Guiche was impressed by the dragon's spellcasting. "The dragon could use magic, too. T thought they could breathe fire only? Or perhaps by using breath attacks?"

Saito glared at the nerve of Guiche at saying such things during a time of battle. Since he saw Kirche and the annoying Guiche, who were also in danger, Saito chanted, "Shield Up!" and a variety of invisible defenses flew at Kirche and Guiche, protecting them from further harm.

The wolves took advantage of the distraction and attacked Saito with all of their might. Saito knew that he could not beat all of the wolves physically in his faerie dragon form, so he chanted many different types of physical defense spells and power up spells to power up his skills, even though his legs and tail was bleeding from the damage.

"HAHAHAHAHA! The void mage...look at your familar now! It looks weak to me. But I will spare you to witness the death of your second familiar! Wolves, attack!" Sheffield said.

"HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MY FAMILAR? IS IT NOT ENOUGH THAT MY FIRST FAMILAR IS DEAD? MUST YOU KILL MY SECOND FAMILAR, TOO? YOU REALLY ARE HEARTLESS, SHEFFIELD!" Louise yelled against her enemy.

Suddenly, Saito, in his dragon form used a summon spell to distract the wolves while he heals himself. Inspired by Louise's words, he pressed on to continue fighting and summoned six wolves to attack Sheffield's six evil wolves. The twelve wolves attacked each other, hoping to prevail against the other.

Everyone who saw Saito summoned the wolves were shocked. Louise could only shake her head in surprise. Kirche was glarly jealously at Louise. Girche could only stood in shock, wondering how could a familiar had so much power, Sheffield had his eyes wide with shock, but wanted to test the dragon's skills for himself.

Unfortunately for Sheffied, all of his six wolves went down in defeat. His six wolves only defeated four of Saito's summoned wolves. The two surviving wolves glared at Sheffield, daring him to make a move against them or at their master.

"Oh very well, dragon familiar! You won this battle. However, we will meet again. Farewell!" With this said, Sheffield teleported himself out of the woods.

Suddenly, Saito noticed the knocked-out Tabitha. He removed all of the shielding spells he erected and used healing magic Life to revive Tabitha.

Louise, Kirche, and Guiche were shocked by seeing more of Saito's powers. Just how many powers does this dragon have? they wondered.

Louise was happy and sad at the same time. Happy because she got a powerful familiar. She was sad because she wante to see Saito again, and she did not receive her wish.

After healing Tabitha, Saito disappeared into an unknown destination to gather his thoughts and to meditate on his next action: Should he go back to Louise or not as a familar?

While thinking about the dragon, none of the young mages realized the dragon disappeared.

Until a few minutes later, when Tabitha woke up.

Louise complained, "My familiar is gone!"

"What happened?" Tabitha asked.

Meanwhile, Sheffield is reporting the dragon to his Master Joseph...

What do you think? Should Saito come back to Louise or wander around to help others in need beside him? Would Louise and her friends find him or would Saito never be found unless he wanted to be found? Your thoughts please.

A few of Saito's spells are revealed! Here are the skills and their effects:

Ice Skills:

Ice Wall: A mid-level defense spell that summons an icy wall to protect allies. It could also be used as a garrison defense.

Earth Skills:

Shield Up: A high-level defense spell that summons invisible defenses that could fly and protect allies. Shields are very strong and could be made visible if the allies they were supposed to be protecting were harmed by enemies.

Healing Skills:

Life: A mid-level healing spell that revives a knocked out ally. Takes a few minutes to revive allied character. Could be used on only one ally every thirty minutes. The ally must not be dead or become a zombie in order for this spell to work.

Next Chapter: Finding the Familiar! Finding Thyself!

Summary: Saito has teleported himself out of Louise's sight to gather his thoughts. Louise wants to find her familar to make him accept the bond, but what would happen? Would Saito be found or would he continue to run away from Louise and be free from the familiar spell? Stay tuned!