Chapter 13 The Immortals' Request
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I do not own Touhou or Familiar of Zero.
It was midnight when there was a knock on the window. Mokou stood up and looked outside. There was a black, hooded man who was just peering into Louise's window. A stalker.
So, like any ordinary person Mokou invited him in.
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"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" A very feminine scream was heard as Mokou punched the individual and caused him to fall. Or, based off that scream, a her.
"What was that?" Louise asked on her bed.
"Some stalker." Mokou responded. "Black hood, purple hair. Didn't catch anymore than that."
"Okay." Louise laid back down on her bed, and jolted up. "Purple hair?'
"Yup." Mokou than returned back to…sewing. Mokou had picked up a variety of tricks in Halkegenia. One of them was sewing clothes. She had knitted herself a pair of gloves and a scarf, and, just as an insult to Kaguya, a very ugly sweater (originally knitted for herself, but than just realized how ugly it was and gave it to an uglier person).
Louise than ran over to the window, and looked around.
"Owwwww." A faint groan was heard from the bushes below Louise's window, "That huurrrtttss."
"PRINCESS!" Louise yelled, and she than started to run downstairs. Mokou looked up, and looked back down. She was knitting a hat currently. Her ears were getting a bit cold nowadays.
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"I'm very sorry." Said Mokou, "I did not mean to punch you."
Louise was steaming as the mysterious assailment (Princess Henrietta) was being wrapped up with bandages by Mokou.
"Eh, no biggie." Henrietta said, "Louise, who is this girl?'
"Mokou." Louise said, anger filled in voice. "Mokou."
"Yeah?" Mokou said, very unworried. "What? I just saw a stalker outside the window, punched her, and than returned back to business. I mean, at least use the front door when knocking."
"Yeah…but -" Henrietta started, but Mokou wasn't done yet.
"Do you really think an ordinary person would allow a mysterious black hooded person come into the room without any checking? I mean, what happens if that person had a weapon on him? It's best to eliminate the threat before it happens. What happen if he was a friend? One, a friend would have used the front door, not sneak in via window. And two, Louise doesn't have much friends. So it makes – Oh, is this too tight?"
"Just a little." Henrietta winced as Mokou pulled the linen around her hand too hard, "Sorry, you make reasonable points. It's just, well, I need you guys to do something for me?'
"Princess, you do not need to ask." Louise said as she kneeled down, her anger forgotten.
Mokou thumbed the room next to her, with boards all over the hole that Louise blasted open. "Do you want Kaguya in?"
Henrietta nodded, the sudden jerking disrupting Mokou's balance just a tiny bit, but she recovered. "Yeah, would you mind Louise?"
Louise nodded, and rushed over to the adjoining room.
Henrietta and Mokou were left alone in the room. "I'm sorry." Mokou said, with feelings. "I didn't really mean to. It's just that having someone bust in via window brings back some unpleasant memory."
"Memory?" Henrietta asked, and Mokou shuddered.
"It's best not to tell." Yeah, it involved Kaguya, a broom, glass, and a baseball bat. And a hell lot of time cleaning.
"You're pretty nice." Henrietta said, and Mokou blushed.
"I'm not that nice. I'm just doing this as an apology." Mokou responded fiercely, "I always take care of the mess I make." Mokou really dislikes being in other people's debt, so she rather help others than ask others to help her.
"I see." Henrietta said, and door opened with Kaguya in the front, smiling.
"Hello, princess." Kaguya smiled, "How is your evening – Mokou, what did you do?"
"Punched her." Mokou responded, and Kaguya sighed.
"Why?" Kaguya responded back.
"I thought she was a stalker."
Kaguya kept on smiling, whirled around, and slammed her face against the door. "Only you Mokou. Only you would think the Princess as a stalker."
"To be fair, she did actually have a good reason for thinking so." Henrietta smiled, "Can't really argue against that kind of logic. I actually did look like a stalker."
Mokou sent a look of gratitude to Henrietta. At least Henrietta won't make that much fuss of the issue. Unlike a certain somebody who would.
"Are you alright?" Kirche burst into the room, with Louise following in tone, "I'm so sorry for not being here to control my familiar. I take full responsibility for doing so."
"It's nothing, it's nothing!" Henrietta sighed, and motioned everyone to sit down. "My bruises doesn't matter right now. I have a secret mission for you guys."
Kirche stopped staring at Mokou, and instead looked at Henrietta. "I want you guys to go to Albion." Princess Henrietta said, "I need people I could trust and are very under the radar. It will be a warzone there, but I am sure that your familiars could protect you. Mostly Mokou."
Mokou looked at Kaguya, and she had a finger over her mouth. Ah, this was Kaguya's plan. So…don't interfere.
"I'll do it." Mokou muttered, "Just point me at the enemy and I'll wale at them till dead."
Kaguya nodded, and resumed looking at Henrietta who composed her next words. "I need you to go to Prince Wales and retrieve me a letter. Once you have retrieved the letter, leave the two familiars behind while you get back here."
"We're abandoning our familiars?!" Kirche shouted. A reasonable question. A familiar is a symbol of a mage; lose the familiar, and you're essentially no longer a mage. They could summon another familiar, but in theory the first familiar was always stronger than the new familiar.
"Yes." Henrietta stated aptly, "Mokou could fight a triangle-class mage without breaking a sweat, while Kaguya can help coordinate with Prince Wales in the back. From what I heard, Kaguya is proficient in keeping an enemy busy for a minute or two no matter what kind of enemy it is. They will be useful to Prince Wales."
"Than I'll-" Louise started, but Princess Henrietta interjected.
"Oh don't get me wrong. The royalty will fall in Albion, but the two familiars should have no trouble in delaying the enemy back a day or two. They'll give Prince Wales time to reconsider retreating to Tristan rather than fighting this useless fight. However, in any case Prince Wales fall, I want you to ask him when you get there for a letter."
"What kind of letter?" Kaguya asked. Mokou knew Kaguya already know this information, but she's just playing along. Fitting for a manipulator.
"A love letter that I wrote to Wales a long time ago." Henrietta reflected, "I was in love with him when we were children, and even now I still love him. But now my duty beckons and I have to get marry to the Prince of Germania."
"You're getting married?!" Louise said.
"It'll be publicly released next week, but yes, I'm getting married. This will begin an alliance between Tristan and Germania, so it'll be vital to this nation's security. However, if the letter that Prince Wales have fall into Reconquista's hands, it's promised that the marriage will fail."
"So our mission is to retrieve the letter before the Reconquista gets it." Kirche said, "Is there anyone going on the mission with us?"
"Just to make sure that this mission will be successful, I'll be sending Jean-Jacques Wardes." Louise had a spit-take there, one that Mokou witnessed, "He's a square class mage, and leader of the Griffin knights. He knows how to do espionage missions, so he won't draw much attention, but he can still provide a lot of firepower. He'll be protecting the two of you on your way back." Henrietta said, and in a lower tone muttered "Phoenix corps. They would be useful."
Mokou gave Kaguya a quick glance (and saw on Kaguya a face full of pity which spelled trouble), and looked at Henrietta. "Yeah, no can do. I can't control Phoenixes."
"Pity." Henrietta said, "Now, any other questions?"
"I have one." Kaguya raised her hand, and Henrietta looked at her.
"What do we do about this boy?" And with that, Kaguya yanked a familiar blond looking mage out of the doorway into the room. "I think he'll provide us even more security on the way back."
"Um, hi?" Guiche squeaked as Mokou stared him in the face.
"Shout I boot kick him?" Mokou asked, and Guiche started shaking in terror. "Maybe a blow hard enough to the head may make him forget his memories."
"Nah, let's just take him along. It's a much better with more company." Kaguya said, devilishly. "We could use him as a human shield if need be."
"Now, now." Henrietta lightly bumped Kaguya's head, "Guiche de Gramont, will you help them on their mission?"
"Yes mam!" Guiche responded, "Just, just make sure that the scary lady is away from me."
Hey she's not scary! She is just a perfectly, reasonable violent phoenix. Yeah, she's not scary. She's not…
Mokou started breaking down in her head. Both Kaguya and Henrietta looked at her weirdly, before the princess coughed and continued on.
"That is all for this night. Get some rest and get ready; tomorrow morning I'll have my most trusted Musketeer to arrange a transport and some money to travel with. Wardes would join you outside the academy's views, and you shall go to La Rochelle to get to Albion. I wish you best of luck." With that, Princess Henrietta opened the window and jumped out.
"Well, that's settled it." Kaguya smiled, "Tristans, roll out!"
"For some reason that sounds so familiar." Mokou muttered, "Something that have to do with Sanae Kochiya. But as Kaguya said, chop chop. Get ready. We're going to need extensive traveling materials. I expect you by tomorrow night you guys to have all the materials. I'll bring the tents and the cooking materials. Everyone else, pack personal articles and whatever books you want to bring along. Pack lightly."
There was so much stuff to be covered. Alright, she'll start with the most important stuff. "Alright, I expect that everyone bring at least ten pounds worth of food and water. I will be able to –"
"Um, Mokou?" Louise started as she looked at her.
"Yeah?"
"Everyone left."
It was true. No one except Mokou and her master was here.
"Guess that means I'll give a lecture on what to bring." Mokou muttered, and Louise paled. "I will be able to scavenge…." After some time, Louise fell asleep under Mokou's monotonous lecture.
Author's Note
Sorry for updating so late. I was waiting for to fix itself (ahem the reviews). A lot of you are saying that Albion is a floating city, so thus isn't affected by an earthquake. That is...true. However, it wasn't an earthquake; it was two overpowered beings fighting and smashing at each other. So it could be said that the air vibrated so hard along with the earthquake that the floating island started shaking and created a simulation similar to an earthquake.
Did I plan this? Of course not. I'm not superman. But thank you for all reviews for pointing that out! I love reviews!
Reviews: dragon slayer of death 98 Yeah, I'll update it as much as possible. But I already consider this many words at this date a feat, and the publication date being the day I actually thought about the idea. So, don't expect me to release pre-release chapters because I don't have any. Please be a little bit patient with me, alright?
Clone Gueast You are true in which Mokou can wield a wide variety of magic. However, turning stone into gold? I doubt that anyone in Halkegenia have that kind of ability, so it took Mokou several tries to get it right.
Student Thank you for that plot hole. Appreciated it.
RoSeBlooMerS Once again, thank you for that plot hole. And thank you for the support. And by the way, you don't know how much havoc Mokou was going to wreck, heh heh heh.
This is RusselH signing out!
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Kind of sad that nobody commented on the Omake. Sad panda. I'll try thinking better Omakes, but I doubt that anything trumps Kaguya killing Mokou due to love potion. I'll mull over it.