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/An explosion... Again. Did I mess up? Oh I hope not Kirche will never let me live it down... Wait I see something it's a.../ "Wolf?" Louise Françoise de la Bamue le Blanc de la Vallière otherwise known as Louise the Zero, or just Louise or Zero looked on in hope and finally relief. "A black wolf familiar... thank you god." She muttered lower then anyone could hear her.
"Alright whose the one with dynamite and a death wish?" the wolf asked in a young sounding voice as it picked itself up. /What the hell? There're no chemicals in the air... Makes it smell nice and crisp, but still where on earth is there no pollution?/ the wolf thought to himself as he glanced around. /A castle... What the hell?/ "Two moons... I'm not on my world anymore am I?" the wolf asked looking up at the sky.
"No you were summoned to serve as Ms. Vallière's familiar. Although I must say I am impressed with you Louise, summoning a talking wolf is quite an achievement on par with Ms. Kirche's salamander." Mr. Colbert said smiling at her gently and Louise stood up a little straighter.
"Wait one god damned minute. Familiar? As in one of those half baked magical animals that's no better then a slave? You honestly expect me to let myself go through that kind of crap? Well guess what Baldy, Pinko I'm not anyone's pet wolf and you can take your magic sticks and shove them up yourselves sideways!" the wolf spat it's eyes glowing yellow. "And for your information..." The wolf said as it started to stand upright stretching out and clothing appearing over its disappearing fur as its bones muscles and skin resettled. "I am a werewolf!" he announced as he settled in a full human form. (Think Saito from the series but with slitted eyes instead.) A stunned silence followed this revelation.
"What? You can't tell me that you mages know nothing of therianthropes its common lore." Saito said and a few people shook their heads and he sighed. "Alright then... I am a werewolf a type of therianthrope. Therianthrope directly translated from Latin is..."
"Animal Human, directly translated from the language of magic." Mr. Colbert said in awe causing the Saito to blink.
"Exactly, long story short I'm a born and bred shapeshifter with spiritual abilities." Saito said grinning.
"Well in any case you are my familiar now and I order you to take wolf form again." Louise said importantly and Saito gave her the finger.
"Up yours human, give me five good reasons to do anything you say." Saito said sneering at her causing Kirche to laugh at her.
"Hahahahah oh Louise you never cease to amuse. A familiar that won't obey! It's so stupid!" Kirche shouted out and laughed joined by most of the class and their familiars.
"FIRE! ANSWER MY CALL!" Saito shouted out and a rolling ball of fire shot out of his hand and expanded as it rolled towards Kirche, in a matter of seconds it was four stories tall and hot enough to melt steel to slag. Mr. Colbert got over his shock in half a moment and sent a beam of blue fire through the rapidly advancing fireball combining and redirecting them to burst against the castle wall scorching the granite red hot. "Nice shot, making blue fire that easily is nothing to sneeze at, especially without an invocation." Saito said raising an eyebrow to re-examine Mr. Colbert taking into account his fire powers.
"How did you do that? All I could tell was that it wasn't magic." Mr. Colbert said in a deadly tone.
"I already told you, I have spiritual power. For a human they would equal what you call magic, but it comes out differently for my kind, same coin different side." Saito said shrugging.
"Why did you attack my student?"
"All of my kind are taught that an insult equals a challenge, she insulted me and I accepted the challenge and initiated the duel." Saito said calmly. "There are actually two breeds of Therianthrope the Forsaken and the Pure. The Forsaken take insults as challenges. The Pure see them as a reason to kill the offender."
"Forsaken? Pure? What do you mean by that?" Mr. Colbert asked and Saito sighed.
"That's on a need to know basis and no human needs to know." Saito said grinning. "Anyways do you think it would be at all possible for me to return to my home world? Are there any active spirit gates or the like?" Saito asked and Mr. Colbert shook his head. Saito sighed and turned to face Louise. "All right looks like you trapped me here for a while. How can you make me being your guardian worth my while?" Saito asked staring at Louise.
"Uh-um..."
"Will you respect me and treat me as an equal?"
"Um yes?"
"Will you make no foolish demands of me, nor violate my sense of honour?"
"Certainly."
"Then I will gladly stand by your side young magister." Saito said with a slight bow as he shifted back into wolf form. "So if you would be so kind as to show me to where I can sleep it's nearing midnight in my world." Saito asked and Louise nodded. "By the way my name is Hiraga Saito. Just call me Saito." He said as he walked by Louise's side up to her room where he jumped on top of the bed near the foot, spun around once and fell asleep while murmuring a dozy "Thank you."
Headmaster's office
"Hmm quite troubling, such a powerful familiar is incredibly unbalancing. Still this could be a valuable learning experience for many of the students, magic is a powerful tool but relying on it totally is simple foolishness, not to mention the overbearing pride that many students have on the accomplishments of their parents and attributing it to themselves..." The headmaster Osman said as he took a drag from his pipe just for it to be levitated away from him by his secretary. He calmly breathed out the white cloud that had been in his lungs and stroked his long white beard.
"Still we cannot disregard such an obvious finding! Something that powerful, human or not is very dangerous and the law states that all discoveries of highly magical nature are to be reported to the crown, but something like this is... unprecedented." Mr. Colbert said and Osman sighed.
"Which is why we will keep silent about this, we do not need that... boy... being used to fight a war that has nothing to do with him or us. If they discover him on their own... we will claim he is not of this world and by proxy doesn't apply to that law furthermore if his abilities are truly not magic. Then we can claim a simple technicality. If worst comes to worst we hide him as a student or a simple wolf." Osman said and Mr. Colbert nodded. "Ms. Longueville I trust you to inform the staff to keep their lips tight about this."
"Of course Mr. Osman." She said as she wrote it down.
Authors Notes
Alright I think I've found a fanfiction style. Mod the everloving crap out of one character and see what can happen from there. In this Saito is a spiritualist werewolf that doesn't take crap from anyone, he's a freaking Alpha werewolf and isn't taking any shit, but he is smart enough to know when to calm the hell down and take stock of what's going on. His family is atrociously powerful tot he point that Saito's little stunt to Kirche was a low-medium level amount of power. Imagine high level.