Sorry it took so long, but I've been also trying to work on the next chapter of Beings Of The Void. I've also become addicted to TV Tropes. I've also been thinking about working on another story completely unrelated to The Familiar Of Zero in hopes of gaining my muse. Hope you all enjoy this chapter though and please review!


It was late at night while Grimlock was out. All of the students and teachers were in their dorms, likely asleep, even Louise. The only ones up were some other familiars; which ignored or avoided him, and some guards. It was a little tricky getting past the guards, but Grimlock's beast mode was more then capable of being silent. Eventually Grimlock made it to his target, Starscream's headless body.

Hiding behind one of Starscream's arms to hopefully stay out of the guards' sight. Not that it was overly difficult the guards stayed mostly at the academy. After all their jobs were to protect to students and teachers of the academy, not so curiosity lying outside their walls. In fact that's why Grimlock snuck out, he heard numerous times that Starscream's body was to be moved away to a more secure location for study tomorrow. So Grimlock had to work fast if he wanted to collect anything useful from it, like fuel and ammo, since tomorrow he'll be going with Louise to the capital. All of those were not his primary goal though.

Grasping his sword Grimlock quickly looked around for any guards. Seeing none he quickly had his sword go a flame before again quickly looking to see if he was spotted. The sword was then thrust into Starscream's arm as Grimlock began his work. The work was long and tedious. He had to be careful not to damage anything important that he could use and he had to watch out for the guards. One guard even almost caught him, coming to Starscream's body after seeing the light generated from his sword from the academy.

Eventually though Grimlock finished his work. He quickly hid away the various things he collected away from Starscream's body; to decrease their chances of getting discovered, he knew that he'd be unable to quietly get them into the academy. Grimlock knew that he'd have to get them into the academy some other time, maybe even get some of the commoners do it for him when he's away with Louise in the morning. Now though it was time go back into the magic academy.

Ironically it was much easier sneaking back into the school. Grimlock figured that this was because the guards were very lax in their jobs at this hour, sleeping, playing games, drinking and snacking. Grimlock even saw one sneaking out of a student's room with what he thinks were several pairs of women's underwear. He was; however, caught and stopped by Kirche's familiar Flame. Every time Grimlock tried to walk around the red familiar just walked in his way, blocking him.

"What you Flame want?" Grimlock asked the fire salamander tiredly.

The salamander familiar simply responded by excitably running behind Grimlock. He then began to try to lightly push Grimlock in another direction. The key word being 'try,' since after the first push from Flame Grimlock quickly braced himself for the next one.

"Me Grimlock don't have time for this." Grimlock tiredly said to himself. "Me Grimlock deal with your thingy later." He then directed to Flame.

Lightly pushing Flame aside Grimlock continued on his way to Louise's room. Flame though didn't like being pushed aside and quickly tackled Grimlock, surprising him and knocking him to the ground. Lightly biting the Dinobot the fire familiar began to try and drag him in the direction he originally tried to take Grimlock. This didn't last long as Grimlock was quickly able to free himself and get back up. Flame tried to tackle Grimlock back to the ground after Grimlock got up, but Grimlock caught him. Getting Flame into a headlock, Grimlock rose up his fist and bonked him on the head knocking him out. Dropping the unconscious familiar Grimlock proceeded to drag Flame to what he believed to be Kirche's front door. After that he quickly and quietly left to go to Louise's room.

Morning

"Wake up Grimlock!" A familiar voice yelled.

Suddenly shocked awake from the yell Grimlock jumped from the chair he was sitting at. "Wait what?" Grimlock said in reflex.

"You need to get up." Louise said. "We've got things to do before we go downtown of Tristania and I've already wasted about ten minutes trying to wake you up!"

"Okay." Grimlock simply said, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

"Good, now get up so we can go get some breakfast before we leave." Louise said as she walked out the door with Grimlock right behind her.

"What happened to Flame?" The voice of Kirche could be heard shouting.

"Us need to go now!" Grimlock quickly said before rushing past Louise.

Louise struggling to keep up angrily said. "What did you do?"


Yeah sorry it's not a longer and probably not my best chapter. Please review!