Louise clamped her warm forehead while quietly gritting her teeth and clutching her wand in her right hand. Her eyes were nearly shuttered by the mildly tightening sensation in her head. The towering crowds of her fellow classmates surrounded her overall.
"Now has everybody performed their summoning?" Professor Colbert asked.
"Nope." A sultry voice said.
A subsequent gentle shove prompted Louise to whirl around and come face to chest with Kirche von Anhalt Zerbst.
"I believe the Zero hasn't summoned anything yet." Zerbst added.
Louise growled and turned away. Her classmates murmured amongst each other within earshot as she walked to the summoning circle. She cared naught.
"Are you ready?" Colbert asked.
"Yes, sire." She said.
She took her stance at the circle and took long steady breath. It was upon closing her eyes and holding her arms out with her wand that she chanted: "My familiar somewhere in the vast universe! Oh my divine, beautiful wise all mighty servant heed my call! I wish from the bottom of my heart! To my guidance cometh!"
An explosion erupted from the circle thereafter. Smoke and dirt spewed everywhere. Most of the students coughed and groaned whether they were knocked off their feet or disoriented from the blast. Half of those students were shouting every slur or curse in the book towards the pinkette. A moment passed before a magical gust cleared the smoke. Her rightward billowing hair prompted her to the left.
"Tabitha." Louise murmured.
The bespectacled bluette still had her eyes fixated on her book while her right hand grasped her staff. Even her expressionless face remained unchanged overall. Louise couldn't resist sighing softly however and returned to the summoning circle. Gasps and yelps followed as soon as she saw the summoning circle however. A chill ran up her back when she looked up into the sky.
"The Moons!" A female student cried. "They're gone!"
"Except th-th-that one!" Another student stuttered.
"Uh..." Guiche uttered as he stared with an inverted frown. "THAT is no moon."
"No ... no ..." Louise stammered. "No, that is no moon. That's a..."
"That's a planet." Colbert said with a deep frown.
"P-Planet?!"
"Yes." Colbert then turned and ordered. "Everyone, make way to your dorms. You are immediately dismissed!"
Everyone began to file out and so did Louise; however, a firm grip on her right arm stopped her when she turned around.
"No."
"S-Sire?"
"You stay with me. If you wish to cry, it's okay."
"No, I-I'm okay, sire. I'm just ... I'm scared!" Louise whimpered. "I think I just doomed us..."
"That's not for me to judge nor ask. Now, come along, it'll be okay."
"W-W-Where are we going?"
"The Headmaster's Office. You'll be safe there until everyone is evacuated."
"What about me?" Louise asked as the duo trudged along.
They took a dozen more steps before Colbert stopped underneath near a pillar. "I'm sorry, Ms Louise, I'm going to be unapologetically blatant with you. The truth is: You started this mess. Therefore, you are going to take responsibility for what is going to be happening from this point onward. Until we figure everything out, you are not going anywhere until this is over. Do I make myself clear?"
"Y-Yes, sire." Louise nodded with tears almost forming in her eyes.
"Very well, come along."
Meanwhile in Kerbal orbit...
"Uh, Hamhung, we have a problem." Kim Kerman said as she peered outside the viewport.
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"This is Hamhung, say again, please."
"Hamhung, we have a problem." She said again. "Do you have live footage on the cameras?"
"Negative. Standby."
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"Could you explain the nature of your question?" The Flight Director asked.
"Comrade Director?"
"Is there a reason why you should ask about the cameras?"
"We have a problem, but it's not the station. Look outside."
"We're looking into it, standby."
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Then there was a radio crackle. "Gungjeon, Hamhung. Standby. We definitely have a problem."