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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome back to another chapter of The Familiar of Twilight...which will begin once I get this thing fixed up that is.*

*And before you ask no I haven't read anyomore chapters or seen season 2 yet. I was, but decided to work on this chapter first.*

*As I have mentioned this chapter will cover Roxas meeting Siesta and few other things including developing his relationship with Lousie a little due to a few things happening this chapter and him interacting with a few of the characters. Also be including a few surprises that I hope you all will enjoy.*

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Siesta


The sound of crashing thunder in the distance rose Roxas from his sleep. Off towards the mountains he saw a storm passing through them and the slightest edges of the sun starting to rise behind them.

The Nobody stretched himself out before opening a Corridor of Darkness and emerged in a courtyard below.

He had a favor to acomplish after all and he had no clue on how to do laundry after all. So it would be for the best if he sought someone to help him out with it after all.

Roxas was about to go seek someone out, when he was stunned by picking up something on his senses. Something that shouted even exist here at all.

Without even thinkimg the Nobody bolted back into the school, keen on confirming if his senses were playing tricks on him or not. So he rushed past half asleep staff member and the occasional student or two.

After what seemed to be about 10 minutes of searching, he found the person he was looking for.

Someone bearing a heart of pure light.

That someone was a half asleep looking woman with black hair and blue eyes who looked to be a little older then him physically and was around the same height if not a bit shorter. She was dressed in a maid uniform like a number of those that he passed on the way to find her.

That did not detract from the fact that her heart was pure light, like that of the Seven Princesses of Heart. He thought that they were the only ones with hearts of pure light. But during his trips to Beast's Castle with Xaldin the readings of Belle's hearts showed that it wasn't one of pure light and he didn't find out her roll until he reunited with Sora.

"Are you okay?" The maid asked waving her in front of his face.

"I'm fine, I'm still a little tired." Roxas said somewhat truthfully, getting her to nod.

Deciding to push his thoughts away for later, the Nobody decided to focus on the task he was originally going to focus on.

"Tough can I ask you something?" Roxas ask, pulling out Louise's clothes from his bag. "I was asked to wash these clothes, but to tell you the truth I do not know how to wash them. So can you please help me out and teach me?"

"Of course, I would be happy to help." The maid said with a smile before gestering for Roxas to follow her. "So I take it that you are Louise's familiar then?"

"That is correct, though how did you know?" Roxas asked, getting the maid to giggle.

"Your clothes, no one else in the academy has clothes like yours." The maid said, getting Roxas to nod. "So what is it like being a familiar?"

"Honestly I have no clue, never got to interact with her much yesterday. So I won't really know til I take care of these clothes and wake her up." He said, getting the maid to nod. "I do not know that much about Louise, is there anything you can tell me about her..."

"Siesta, it's Siesta and unfortunately I don't know much about her besides rumours. I have served here a few times in the past. What I do know is that I and the other maids usually have to cleaner messes sometimes." Siesta sighed out.

"It's alright." Roxas said while shrugging.

"If you say so, but you seem to be taking your situation rather well." Siesta said, causing the Nobody to sigh.

"Believe me when I say I have been through worst." Roxas said, causing Siesta to stop and to stare at him in an expression that was all but unknown to him.

It was concern, minus the two precences only Naminé and Axel had been truly concerned about him in his lifetime. So he was truly touched to see someone else care about him. He supposed that it was some form of irony that someone with a heart full of light to care for someone devoid of a heart like himself.

Shaking those thoughts out of his head, he turned to Siesta and gave her a smile in order to reassure her.

"If you are going to ask about it, I'm alright. I'm putting everything behind me before being summoned. I'm moving forward from it all and just focusing on my new life." Roxas said with a small smile.

He had decided last night that he would wash his hands clean of it all last night.

The Organization, The Heartless, The Nobodies, DiZ, and Sora.

He was done with them all. Though that wasn't to say that he wouldn't be prepared for when they came for him, which he knew they would one day. But for now he would carve out his own life here on this world. He didn't have anything left after all.

Luxord and Demyx, while they were friends they weren't close and he knew they would be after him if they knew he was still alive.

Naminé, he wasn't sure if she was still alive or not. But it would be worth checking out in the future. She was technically his other half due to the way they were created and last he knew DiZ had her. But as much as he disliked Riku for what he did to him, he knew there was no way he would allow DiZ to do anything to her.

Axel, he wasn't sure if he killed him or not after their last battle. But of he was still alive, he just hoped the best for his best friend. Yet if was truly gone for good, then he would miss him.

Either way, all that had left now was to continue forward with his new life.

Siesta looked him over for a few moments before sighing.

"If you do not wish to talk about it, then that is alright by me. But if you wish to talk to someone else I will always be available." Siesta said with a smile, getting the Nobody to nod with a smile of his own.

It was nice to have someone who was honestly concerned about him.

"Well if you say so, then can you tell me a bit more about this place?" Roxas asked, getting Siesta to nod.

"Certainly." She said as they resumed their walk.

Unaware that they were being observed.

Their watcher let out a little squeak before it disappeared into a nearby crevice in the wall.


Roxas was currently had a small smile on his face as he walked over to Louise's room, her clothes folded under his arm.

He had talked to Siesta while she taught him on how to wash Louise's clothes by hand.

She had told him a bit of the world he was on, Halkeginia and that he was currently in the Tristaniain Academy of Magic located in a country of the same name. She also told him that this world was basically run by mages or as they were also called nobles who governed the commoners or people without magic like Siesta. This was due to the world's goverment being founded by a man that everyone called the Founder, Brimir. His son's and apprentice founded the areas the would later become Tristain, Albion, Gallia, and Romalia thousands of years later.

All in all it was an interesting learn experience for the Nobody.

But the thing that he considered the most was Siesta.

She was nicest person he had ever meet personally besides Naminé. After everything that had happened with him, it was a nice change of pace to talk with someone about anything else then matters of lacking a heart or Sora.

So he could safetly say that she was his first real friend in a long time after this morning alone, something that she seemed happy about.

Sadly once he had finished with the clothes, another maid had come to get her. They needed all staff available for preparations for breakfast.

Still Siesta and him had agreed to see each other around and Roxas hopped that he would the chance to see his new friend soon.

Roxas stopped what he was doing as he the strongest heart that he had sensed in the academy, beating the blue haired girl's by quite a margin coming up behind him.

The source was an old man with the longest beard he had ever seen wearing black robes, had a wooden staff in one hand, and the other...was that a mouse?

Said mouse squeaked once it saw the Nobody and it clambered up to his shoulder.

Taking into account the man's description, the strength of his heart, and the mouse Roxas know who the man was as Siesta hade told him.

Osmand, the headmaster of the academy and a bit of a pervert as Siesta had told him rather flatly.

"What can I do for you headmaster?" Roxas asked with his guard up. He figured the headmaster of such an academy wouldn't be purposely walking up to him for a social visit.

"I am not your headmaster nor you are one of my students, so please call me Osmand or Old Osmand like everyone behind my back." Osmand said with a small chuckle, confusing the Nobody.

He had never seen an authoritative figure so flippant about someone insulting them like that.

Considering that the last authoritative figure he met was Xemnas, Osmand was an improvement. Then again anyone else would be an improvement over him.

"Still as for your answer I was hopping that I would catch up to you before you woke up Mrs. Vallière after you were done talking with the maid, Siesta if I recall." Osmand said before Roxas drew Oblivion from his bag, the Keyblade vibrating softly in return.

He should have known that he would be spied on.

"Calm yourself boy, I had Chuchu keep an eye on you my boy and for good reason." Osmand said sternly while gesturing to the mouse on his shoulder, obviously his familiar. "I had to see of you were a threat to my students or not. You brandished the same sword against Mrs. Vallière who you are now bounded to with movements I have been told is similar to that of a trained soldier. So I had Chuchu keep an eye on you."

"And what did you learn?" Roxas asked cautiously as he put Oblivion away, reluctantly finding the man justified for spying on him.

"That you are a troubled young man with a past that he would move forward from, not unlike some of my students. I won't pry into it if you wish, but I do wish to know what your plans are concerning Mrs. Vallière?" Osmand asked, causing the Nobody to sigh.

"Simple, I owe her for giving me a chance to exist. But if Louise thinks she could treat me like a slave then I am leaving." Roxas said honestly, getting the headmaster to sigh.

"Good luck with that boy. Mrs. Vallière has the pride of at least five nobles, half as much as her eldest sister thank the Founder. I can only handle one Éléonore thank you very much." The headmaster said with a shudder before regaining his composer. "However I believe that you won't have much issues with that. Considering how you handled her last night, I believe that you have nothing to worry about."

"Thank you...I think?" The Nobody asked, honestly not sure on how to respond to that.

"It's no problem, though I believe you should wake Louise up, breakfast should be ready not long from now and I wish to talk to her before then." Osmand said, getting Roxas to nod. Before the Nobody could take another step, the headmaster spoke up again. "Though I have one final question, I can tell that you are trained, but..."

"If you are asking if I had killed anyone, I haven't. I was trained to kill monsters and that is all I have ever killed." Roxas interjected, causing Osmand to study him before nodding as he could tell that the boy in front of him was telling the truth.

Well then again he wasn't 100% sure that he killed Axel and the Heartless were basically monsters, so technically he was telling the truth.

Though he had no idea why he felt a pang in his chest, or why he felt Oblivion vibrate softly through his bag.

Brandishing those thoughts for later, Roxas opened the door to Louise's room and placed the folded clothes on her dresser. He walked over to the still sleeping pinkette and nudged her in the shoulder. She let out a small groan and just rolled onto the side. He nudged her again only to get the same reaction once again.

Sighing, the Nobody nudged her again but with a bit more force this time.

Louise let out a groan as she groggily wiped her eyes and turned to face Roxas.

"Who are you?" She groaned out, causing Roxas to once again sigh.

"I'm the one who you summoned yesterday." Roxas told the groggy pinkette.

"Now I remember." Louise said as she stretched herself out, hiding the fact that she was glad that he was back. He was the only thing that was keeping her from being expelled after all. "I hoped that you at least managed to take care of my clothes last night."

Roxas just pointed to her clothing on her dresser and to her satisfaction it looked clean and properly folded.

"Good." Was all Louise said before spreading her arms. "Now dress me." She ordered.

"Can you please repeat that?" Roxas said, not entirely believing what she was saying.

"I said dress me." Louise said a little more irritably now.

So he wasn't hearing things.

"You need my help to get dressed?" The Nobody asked in disbelief.

"Of course not, but a noble never dresses themselves when they have a serpent around." Louise said, causing Roxas to frown.

He made it quite clear last night what he was, but it seems like that she was still being stubborn about it.

"I said it last night and I will say it again. We are partners, not servant and master." Roxas said, getting Louise to fume in anger.

"You know what, that is it! Let me make clear to you what it is you are. You are my familiar, my servant, my slave, not my partner!" Louise shouted, causing Roxas to frown. Before it turned into a small grin as he saw that Louise was digging her own grave. "I summoned you to this world, making you mine to command as I am your master! Now you will dress me now or no food for you for week!"

Roxas could only shake his head at her, Osmand was right about her pride as a noble and it will be her downfall.

"The answer is no, you are more then capable of dressing yourself." Roxas said, stunning her.

Familiar's weren't supposed to do this, they were supposed to do everything you asked them to do. Hey Roxas was rebelling against her every order.

It seems like a punishment was in order.

"If that is how you honestly feel, then I will have to punish you!" Louise said, reaching for the whip she kept in her dresser.

Only to be surprised by the smell of burnt leather and ashes instead.

"That is quite enough Mrs. Vallière!" Osmand demanded from her doorway, getting Roxas to smile and Louise to look fearfully as him. "I was waiting for you to get changed before we talked, but instead it seems like I have to step in earlier then I expected. Roxas leave us be while I set her straight!"

"Sure thing." Roxas said before sending Louise a quick look before leaving the room.

"Now then, Miss Vallière, do you know why I am here?" Osmand asked sternly.

"Because my Familiar brought you here." Louise said haughtily, only to wither under the headmaster's stern glance before he sighed.

"No, I came here for two reasons. First is that I sent word to your family that you managed to summon a familiar." He said, getting Louise to freeze up. "I have a reply from Cattleya and that she is proud of you and encourages you to continue to pursue your dreams. Though she also asks that you treat you familiar correctly. Something that you have already failed to do so already."

"I suppose I did." Louise said, reluctantly. While secretly praying that she never find out about this.

She loved her second elder sister to death,…but when it came to animals she could be even scarier then mother at times and that was saying something!

She remembered one time Éléonor messed with one of her cats, well it was one of the few times she had the pleasure of seeing her eldest sister being taken down a peg or two.

"So nothing else?" Louise asked, getting the headmaster to shake his head. "I thought so." She sighed out.

"I'm sure you will get replies from the rest of your family soon enough." Osmand shaking with the shake of his head. "Now onto the second matter of hand, your familiar."

"What about him, he is nothing but rebellious towards me!" Louise shouted, only to be silenced by a stern glare from the headmaster.

"He is giving you a chance Louise, far more then anyone else I can say in the same predicament. No human known has ever been summoned as a familiar in the thousands of years the ritual has been around. So my only guess is that the results of the ritual was different from how it usually happens. Tell me Mrs. Vallière, is the connection between familiar and summoner still there?" Osmand asked, getting Chuchu to nod at the question.

Louise thought about it for a moment before nodding.

"It's there, but there is nothing else to it." Louise said, getting Osmand to nod.

"Just as I thought, you should be lucky you summoned Roxas. He is willing to give you a chance, just one so you better listen to me with what I'm about to say and swallow your pride for a few minutes." Osmond said sternly.

Louise wanted to refute what her headmaster was saying and blamed it all on her familiar…but she held her tongue.

For Osmond was right.

No one wanted to be the familiar of someone like her after all. If her familiar was of any indication then any human or someone with the same intellect would have no hesitation bout disobeying there master. He could have left during the night, but instead he kept true to his word.

But he was giving a chance and if she pushed to hard, he would run away. Worst case scenario she would be expelled, stripped from her title of nobility and reduced to a commoner. Next to worse Osmond reports her punishing of her disobedient familiar to Cattleya and facing her wrath.

Neither was a good option, especially the later!

So she was forced to swallow a little bit of her pride for now, but it had better be worth it!

"And what do you have to say headmaster?" Louise asked, through gritted teeth.

Osmand could only sigh at that.

At least she was willing to listen.

With Louise's condition, she could only cause things to explode at the simplest of spells. Earning her no small amount of mockery from a good portion of the student body, having to learn to take care of her own basic necessities like a commoner, and a whole pile of bills for property damage.

She could've been expelled by now for the later two reasons alone, but he refused and had the support of some of the teaching staff behind him to prevent said attempts to expel her.

They all saw one thing in common, Louise had a massive amount of potential to her just like her mother. She had the potential to do great things, but her pride, slight disdain for commoners, and her ability to produce explosions only hindered it.

Maybe her experiences with her familiar will help draw it out. Better in a setting like the academy then in war like he did.

And with the current situation in Albion that might be a reality soon.

Shaking his head of the those thoughts, Osmond began to speak.

"I'm asking to at least treat your familiar with the same kind of decency you would show one of the servants employees at the academy. Roxas might be your familiar, but he is not your slave. He said that he was willing to do some favors for you, so find out what he would be willing to do for you. If it is nothing then you will have the right to punish him. However nothing inhuman like the whip or threatening to starve him or else you will suffer punishment and depending on the cause, suspension." Osmond said, getting Louise to huff.

So it seemed that she would get so leeway if her familiar wasn't willing to do anything, which she saw as something that won't happen.

Still at most she would have to treat her familiar as someone of equal standing as a servant, something she can live with. Though she was a bit upset at losing some of the punishments for dealing with a rowdy familiar, she supposed it was better then facing punishment from the academy.

"Anything else?" Louise asked, her tone portraying slight annoyance.

"Yes there is. Roxas will be provided a few spare uniforms by the academy as well as a seat at the 2nd year table alongside yourself and one in the back row of classes alongside where the familiars are. The rest of the basic necessities I leave to you to look over. Other than that make sure that he follows the academy's rules and do not make up any additional rules just so you could punish him for disobedience." The headmaster said, getting Louise to sigh.

She supposed that she could live with those conditions.

"Finally I wish for you to get to know your familiar a bit better." Osmand said as he began to scratch his familiar between it's ears getting the mouse to squeak in delight. "You are bonded with him for the rest of your life. So it is for the best to get to know one another. It doesn't have to be instant, but I ask that you at least make an effort to in the near future in the near future. So you believe that you can do all of that Miss Vallière?"

Louise pondered his words for a minute before letting out a sigh.

"Fine I will follow your orders headmaster, if only to not be expelled." Louise said with a huff, figuring that this was the best.

This was going to be a little better then what she thought was going to happen. Of course there was some limits on what she could do with her familiar, but she still had some free reign over what she could do to him.

Osmond let out a small smile at that.

It seems he had at least gotten through to her somewhat.

"Miss Vallière I do hope if that is all, I suggest that you get dressed. Breakfast shall be done by now." He said, getting Louise to nod.

Osmond just nodded and began to walk out the door before turning to face her one last time.

"I do hope things work out with Roxas. I would hate to have to expel you Miss Vallière. You have so much potential inside of you that is just waiting to be unlocked. I believe that his presence mean that it should be unlocked soon." He said, stunning her before leaving the room.

Louise snapped herself out of her stupor before she began to dress herself, grumbling about not getting her familiar to do it for her.

She had been dressing herself like a commoner since her first year in order as servants at the academy were forbidden to. All the other students had relied on magic to do so as far as she could tell, so it irked her that she had to dress herself by hand or risk incinerating her clothes again trying to levitate them.

Something she would have to give up on seeing as Osmond had just laid down the rules on what she could do to her familiar for the most part.

But she will listen to his advice for now, not just because of the threat of expulsion if her familiar ran away.

No, it was because Osmond had just announced that she had potential.

Something that she could only count the number of people who acknowledged that with one hand.

Given all here previous attempts at magic had literally blown up in her face it made sense.

Still despite this Osmond was probably right about her familiar.

He didn't explode when she summoned him or when she initiated the bond, so that was a good sign that things might change soon.

Still that didn't really matter in the long run. As long as she proved every single person who doubted her that she was a mage, and not a Zero!


Osmond smiled as he closed the door behind him.

That went better then he thought it would.

"So what happened?" Roxas asked, as he had been waiting across the hall.

"I did what I said would do and set her straight. Knowing her, she will cause fewer problems for you now. But if she treats inhumanly let me know and I will set her straight out again. But I still expect you to follow the rules of this academy even if you are not a student and that you will still have to answer to Louise despite the conditions I have laid out to her." Osmond said, getting the Nobody to nod.

He had already planned on doing so anyways, he owed Louise that much.

"Is there anything else Osmond?" Roxas asked the headmaster.

"Nothing at all my boy, but I will send someone to give you clothes this afternoon. Other then that please do not cause too much trouble for Miss Vallière." Osmond said.

"I won't start anything unless she does first." Roxas said honestly, getting Osmond to sigh.

"I suppose that is for the best, until next time Roxas." Osmond said before walking down the hall.

Once he had reached the stars, Chuchu squeaked to his master.

"I know old friend, we must keep a careful eye on those two, especially after what Colbert told us earlier." Osmond sighed out.

What Colbert had found last night was a shocker.

That Roxas was possibly Gandálfr, the legendary familiar of the Founder. Someone with the strength to combat thousands of warriors at once. Considering he already seemed like a capable warrior in his own right from what he gleamed from the boy already, it would truly frightening to imagine what he was like at full strength.

Thank the Founder he didn't seem like the type to cause or to seek conflict.

But that also raised a good question about Louise as well.

Gandálfr could only have been summon by one type of mage, but there had been no other besides Brimir himself 6,000 years ago. So it was hard to tell if Louise was the same as well, but if it was then he was right about her potential.

Still he needed to investigate it fully before he could draw any conclusions, it has been over 6,000 years since the power of that magic faded into myth after all. So it was going to be difficult to prove anything after all.

Besides there was something else that bothered him, it was the reports of Roxas's sword. The description reminded him of something that happened decades ago, but his memory of those events was a bit hazy.

He would have to check the storage room later to make sure that he was right.

Still that could wait till later, he had to make perpetrations for this year's Familiar Exhibition after all.

It wasn't every year that royalty visits the academy after all.


Roxas had been waiting patiently for Louise to change after Osmond left.

He didn't really understand why that she would take so long to dress.

But then again she could still be processing what Osmond had told her and the only woman he had truly had any experience being around was Larxene and that was something that he wouldn't wish on anyone.

So he just waited for a bit before he felt something brush against his leg.

Looking down he saw a large red lizard like creature with a flaming tail. It out a little croak as it brushed against his leg. The Nobody was unsure of what to do until the creature rub it's head against his leg.

Taking that as a clue, Roxas leaned down and began to scratch the creature's head. Causing it to lean into his hand and croak happily, sparks dancing from its mouth.

"Familiar, what are you doing?" A fully dressed Louise demanded as she stepped out of her room. "Isn't that Zebrst's familiar!"

"It seems that Flame likes you." A flirtatious voice said from behind Roxas. He turned to see that behind him was the same red haired woman from yesterday, Kirche if he remembered correctly. She then turned to face Louise and gave her a broad grin. "Good morning Louise."

"Good morning…Kirche." Louise spat out venomously, causing Roxas to blink.

She wasn't even this upset when he disobeyed her, there must have been some history between the two for her to act like this.

Kirche looked between the two before a wirily grin spread across her face.

"So how much is Louise paying you to act as her familiar?" She asked mockingly surprising Roxas, and angering Louise.

"What did you say?!" Louise demanded angrily.

"I'm asking how much are you paying that commoner to be your familiar. And also for the mage that made it look like he was being somewhere else, I'll admit that was a nice touch." Kirche said as Flame walked over from Roxas and towards his master.

Louise's face was turning a very vibrant shade of red.

Roxas decided to interject before she could erupt.

"Louise didn't pay me anything, she truly did summon me yesterday. As for someone else trying to summoning me…I have no clue about that." The Nobody said, unwilling to at least talk about his previous situation quite yet to anyone.

"You don't have to lie to me handsome." Kirche said with a grin, causing Louise to fume.

"I'm not." Roxas said honestly, causing Kirche to furrow her brow for a moment before she studied him for a few seconds. She found no trace of him lying to her.

"I see, well then do you mind telling me your name handsome." Kirche asked, scratching Flame's head.

"Roxas." The Nobody said, getting Kirche to approach him.

"I see then Roxas, how about you like to be my familiar." Kirche said as she leaned forward, displaying a bit of her cleavage. "You get along great with Flame from what I have seen and I can guarantee that I can be better company then what the Zero could ever be. So what do you say about that handsome?"

Louise was beyond furious.

How dare that cow try to seduce her familiar!

She drew her wand and prepared to cast a spell.

To hell with the orders from the headmaster, if she could teach Zerbst and her familiar a lesson then whatever punishment would be worth it!

"I would have to decline that." Roxas said evenly and as he took a step back, his gaze not leaving her face.

Both Louise and Kirche were shocked, with the former dropping her wand.

It was a wide known fact throughout the school that no male student and on occasion Osmond had been able to resist Kirche's charms, it had been a longstanding fact that had been established since day one of the academy.

Until today that is.

Louise had to keep herself from snickering as her rival lost her composure and a myriad of emotions crossed her face. A moments Kirche managed to regain her composure and sent a confused glare at Roxas.

"Why?" She asked, surprised that someone had resisted her.

"As much as I wish that I wasn't Louise's familiar, but I suppose I owe her that much at the very least. If not more." Roxas said, shocking them both once again.

Although Louise was a bit furious about his remark and Kirche was still a little stunned at Roxas, those feelings were buried by the confusion they both had.

If Roxas had openly said that he would prefer not to be Louise's familiar, then what exactly did he owe her that would cause him stay around then.

Their confusion was broken when Louise's stomach rumbled and her face turned red, this time in embarrassment as her familiar and Kirche were staring at her. The later having a small grin.

"F-Familiar I believe we have wasted enough time with Kirche." Louise said while trying and failing to save face, gesturing for Roxas to follow.

"Alright." Roxas replied before facing Kirche. "Until next time Kirche, and you too Flame."

He turned around and heard Flame croaked behind him.

"You too Roxas." Kirche said as he disappeared further down the hall behind Louise with a smirk and a fire in her eyes.

It had been quite sometime since someone resisted her. Maybe she had grown complacent here with men practically throwing themselves at her here.

So what better way to sharpen her skills then with a challenge like Roxas, and what a interesting challenge that would be.


A while later Louise opened the doors to the Alviss Dining Hall with her familiar trailing not that far behind.

The rest of the trip was in eventful, neither she nor Roxas speaking up about anything.

Nor did they say anything else as the two of them walked towards the middle table and what Louise could guess was there seats.

For Louise it was nothing more then a small feast before her seat, a typical breakfast for a noble.

For Roxas it was nothing then a bowl of stew and a loaf of bread, a commoner's breakfast.

Roxas went a head of her and too her surprise pulled her seat out.

"What, I at least it is rude enough not to pull out a woman's chair." Roxas said bluntly.

He had drilled into his head by Vexen of all people, who had the sense to try to teach him some etiquette in order to help blend indifferent worlds.

Louise stared at him for a second before she huffed and simply sat in her seat, her hunger winning over her desire to chide her familiar for being so blunt about it.

Roxas pushed her in and then took his own seat, getting stares from some of the other mages.

After all the tables and the dining hall was for nobles only, but here was a familiar eating at the same table with them.

Familiars were not allowed to eat in here after last year when someone summoned a beaver as a familiar and it ate all of the chairs, Which was an odd sight as they were thought to have been extinct in Tristain for about a century.

Still no one said anything as the two brought there hands in prayer.

"Oh Great Founder Brimir, and our lady the Queen, we thank you for this humble meal that you have graciously provided us this morning." They prayed together, with a few curious looks thrown towards Roxas afterwards.

He ignored it as the two of them started eating, while Louise keeping a not so subtle eye on her familiar.

She was still curious on what Roxas owed her, but decided to save it for after breakfast.

Speaking of which he was eating his stew without asking for anything else and using the wrong spoon as well, though she could have expected that as he was a commoner. Still thought that he would have begged and asked for more food like most other commoners. But here he was just contempt with his meager portions.

To Roxas it was just enough to last a while, Nobody's didn't need to eat that much anyway. Still this was some of the best food he had ever eaten though.

So they continued to eat in silence, until Louise had finished first and to her surprise her familiar was just finishing up his stew.

"How are you not finished yet?" Louise questioned.

Roxas just held out his hand for a second as he finished the stew before speaking.

"I was just savoring the taste." Roxas said, getting her to nod. Figuring that a commoner like him hadn't had a meal as good as the ones at the academy in Founder knows how long.

Louise took a quick look around and saw that a good portion of the nobles had already left the table. She did feel her blood boil when she saw Kirche down the table wink at Roxas, who had started to eat his bread and did not notice.

"Familiar follow me." Louise stated angrily as she got up, not even caring that Roxas was still eating his bread. They walked out of the dining hall to see that the courtyard outside had been set up with various tables and staff moving through the second year students and their familiars.

"I take it that there is no classes today so that the students could get used to their familiars." Roxas observed while taking another bite of the bread.

"That is correct, so we have an entire day to figure out…you have got to be kidding me!" Louse shouted as midway through her talking, the dragon from yesterday barged between her and Roxas.

The dragon looked between Roxas and the piece of bread before the Nobody thrust what was left of the bread in front of him.

"Go ahead." Roxas said while watch as the dragon looked between the two of them before taking the bread and started to chew it.

"You really shouldn't feed another person's familiar unless you have their permission." Louise commenter with a flat look as the dragon started to rub it's massive head against the Nobody.

"I doubt that it would stop this one from asking for food." Roxas said, getting a look of what he guessed to be mock hurt from the dragon before it continued to rub against him. The Nobody could only chuckle at its reaction before scratching one of the ridges above it's eyes, causing the dragon to purr and coo as it continued to rub against him.

"Slyphid?" A quiet voices questioned, causing the dragon, Louis, and Roxas to turn to face the same blue haired girl from yesterday with Kirche and Flame to her side.

Slyphid looked between its master and the Nobody before rubbing against him one more time before returning to the blue haired girl's side.

"I have to say Roxas I am surprised, Flame is one thing but Slyphid is a whole other story. She will bit anyone who touches her that isn't Tabitha." Kirche said as Tabitha pulled out the book she was carrying and went back to reading.

"Zerbst what are you doing here?" Louise said through gritted teeth.

"Calm down Zero, of I wanted to try anything I would have. I was just with Tabitha to see why Slyphid ran off." Kirche said, as the dragon in question cooed from Tabitha's side. "Though I never expected that she would come after you handsome, you seem to have a way with familiars." She said as Flame walked over to his side.

"It seems so." Roxas said as he scratched the salamander atop it's head.p, causing it to croak happily.

The moment was broken when the sounds of slapping occurred, causing everyone to turn to a table where a brown haired girl and a woman with blond curls slapped a blond haired young man much to the surprise of a nearby maid.

To Roxas's surprise, the same maid turned out to be Siesta.

"It seems like Guiche finally got what was coming to him." Kirche commented.

"Guiche?" Roxas asked, figuring that was the name of the young man who got slapped once again by the blond haired girl.

"Guiche de Gramont, a pertinacious playboy who has been flirting with maids last year while dating Monmon. It seems like he decided to chase a first year this time and it is coming back to bite him." Louise said angrily.

Roxas just nodded at that, not really caring about it as the two girls stormed off.

All that changed a moment later when Guiche got out from his seat and slapped Siesta to the ground and caused her to scream it in pain as he started to yell at her.

If Roxas was capable of feeling anger, then it would be nothing but unbridled rage for what he did to his friend.

The Nobody was about to walk over there and give him a piece of his mind, when with the swish of a rose Siesta started to be covered in earth and she started to panic.

Roxas bolted towards them, creating a cloud of dust that blew into Louise's face.

To hell with a piece of his mind, before the end of the day Guiche will pay dearly for harming his friend!


"Please Lord Guiche, Lady Katie only asked that I deliver the soufflé nothing else!" Siesta begged as the dirt coated over half of her legs and it was starting to hurt.

"Couldn't you see me with someone else!" Guiche demanded as he flicked his rose and two curved outcrops of earth rose to the sides of Siesta. "You are the one who made those two girl's cry, this is all your fault! So you need to be punished!"

"I-I…" She tried to stutter out as tears started to appear in her eyes, but the enraged Noble was hearing none of that.

"Don't bother, I have no plans of killing you. But maybe spending a few hours in a make shift coffin will teach you a lesson." Guiche said as he his rose, causing the dirt to hasten.

"Please reconsider!" Siesta begged, the thought of being buried alive scaring her worst then death.

"Too late." Guiche said coldly as he swung his rose down, causing the earth to swallow her up and a massive dust cloud to erupt.

"That will teach you a lesson." Guiche said as he flicked his rose, expecting to see a small mound of earth as the dust cleared.

He did see a small mound of earth, only it was destroyed underneath the feet of Roxas, hugging Siesta as she cried into his shoulder.

"Fast." Tabitha commented as she lowered her staff.

She was prepared to rescue the maid, but it seems Roxas beat her to it with nothing but sheer speed.

Siesta continued to cry into his shoulder, happy that she wasn't buried into the ground and that her new friend had saved her.

How Roxas didn't really notice that, as he was focusing on making Guiche pay for attempting to harm his friend.

"You dare interfere?!" Guiche demanded furiously.

"I dare." Roxas said coldly, shocking most of the nobles present.

Many of the will admit that Guiche was probably taking things a bit to far, but she was just a common maid and he had planned on freeing her effectually. But here was the Zero's familiar, a commoner openly defying Guiche, a noble. Something that was mostly unheard of.

"Do you need to be taught a lesson as well familiar, you need to learn your place after all." Guiche said while brandishing his rose.

Roxas with his free hand reached into his bag and pulled out Oblivion and brandished it and the noble, the Keyblade angrily vibrating in his hand.

The two stood there for a few moments, waiting for the other to make the first move before Guiche sighed.

"It seems like neither one of us is going to back down from this, are we?" Guiche asked while rubbing his hand through his hair for dramatic effect.

"I know that I am not." Roxas said evenly.

"I see then, well as I am a graceful noble I will give you a chance. If you get on your knees and beg for forgiveness then I will only punish the maid and if you do not, then I will have no choice but to duel you." Guiche said, getting most of the surrounding nobles to mutter to them selves.

"I will not back down from you harming my friend, so name the time and place." Roxas demanded as he let Siesta go.

" Vestri Court, one hour. Be prepared to learn your place familiar." Guiche stated as he turned around and flipped his cloak for dramatic effect.

Only to trip and fall face first in the ground.

Roxas had to keep himself from smirking as his silent Aero made contact with the mage, his Keyblade humming in appreciation.

No one seemed to have noticed that and seemed to have figured that Guiche only tripped, all except one.

A red faced Guiche picked himself off the ground and walked away in a huff.

"Familiar we are going to find Guiche and apologize for you transactions and maybe he will forgive you!" Louise demanded as she stormed up to the Nobody.

"For what, harming my friend? Not a chance!" Roxas stated, causing Louise to grit her teeth as she looked between him and Siesta.

When in the Founder's name did he became friends with a maid?

"She is just a maid and a commoner, she is not worth the trouble." Louise spat out, causing Siesta to tear up again.

Roxas was about to say something, but someone beat him to it.

"She is also an employee of the academy Mrs. Vallière." A voice called out, getting her to pale as everyone turned towards the speaker.

"Professor Colbert!" Louise said as she took a few steps back as he approached.

The professor surveyed the scream before he settled his gaze onto Roxas.

"I hav heard what is going on and needless to say I approve. I suggest that you spend the time before the duel calming her down after such a harrowing experience. I suggest taking her to the kitchens and explain to Marteau what happened." Colbert said, getting the Nobody to nod.

As much as he to beat Guiche to a pulp, helping Siesta was more important.

"Siesta do you mind leading me to the kitchens?" Roxas asked, getting the maid to compose herself.

"Of course." Siesta nodded before she began to lead the Nobody towards the central building.

As Roxas followed, he felt something brush against his foot, a small glass bottle with a purple liquid inside. Figuring that Guiche dropped it, it was probably better to keep it with him for now. As compensation for harming Siesta.

Louise tried to follow him, but Colbert slammed his staff down in front of her.

The professor scanned over the assembled students before noticing Tabitha leading Kirche away. The blue haired girl and him shared a glance before she continued to lead Kirche away.

He would allowed this instance this one time, for she was the only other person besides Roxas willing to do something.

"I am disappointed in you all." Colbert said to all of the students present. "Not a single one of you were willing to stop Mr. Gramont."

A good portion of the students there had to look ashamed at that. Except Louise.

"But she was a maid and commoner professor, that and Guiche was planning on releasing him later." Louise said, her voice a little shaky.

"But she is still a member of the academy's staff and a he was planning on burying her alive, a fate no one deserves if even to punish someone. As punishment Mr. Gramont will have to pay fines to the academy for attempting to harm one of the staff and will be serving two weeks detention with me after this duel. As for the rest of you, I expect this mess to be cleaned up within the hour without magic." Colbert said while gesturing to the pile of earth Guiche had conjured up, getting most of the students to groan. "This is what you get for letting something like this happen, let that be a lesson to you all!"

Louise didn't know who to hit first, her familiar for causing this mess or Guiche for this punishment.

"Miss Vallière your punishment will be to find Mr. Gramont and inform him of his punishment along with tell him that I will inform his parents of his misbehavior before returning here. If you are not back within the hour you will face an hours detention with me." Colbert said, getting Louise to nod and some of the nobles to mutter about her.

"Of course, professor." Louise said before running of, figuring she could wait a few minutes before looking for Guiche.

It seems like she will be targeting Guiche then and with the added bonus of informing him of his punishment she could get the satisfaction of putting some fear into the playboy before knocking some sense into him.

So she would leave her familiar alone on this matter for now, but after this duel they will have choice words about this especially if he lost.

She would admit that she was prideful, what noble wouldn't be after all.

But she saw how fast he moved and how skilled he was with his sword. Guiche on the other hand was just a dot mage, but he did come from a military background so he was bound to have some tricks up his sleeve. So she was unsure on who would win, but she did hope it was her familiar.

After all it would be a blow to her pride if he lost, and she couldn't have that.


The projector died down as the chapter ended and the author was eating some popcorn.

*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Ao let us get down to business shall we.*

*As you can see the bond between Roxas and Louise is still pretty rocky...as it will be for a while. The first step has been established for them by Colbert and Osmond, but they both need to come to an agreement for it to happen. Something that will happen soon at least in the next chapter.*

*Also we got introduced to a bunch of characters this chapter and Tabitha already suspects something of him. That will come up next chapter. Also I hoped I captured that characters correctly, if not there is always next chapter to improve.*

*But let us move onto the main focuse of this chapter, Siesta.*

*Tell me how, many people expected for her to be a Princess of Heart. Just imagine the reactions the nobles will have when they find out that a maid is technically royalty. It would be priceless!*

*Still I have a few plans down the road for here and I hope you all will enjoy them.*

*Anyway before we move onto the harem I have a few things to say.*

*First I have to say I am once again surprised at the success of this story.*

*As of posting this chapter, this story has over 70 favorites and 84 followers! Beating out Twilit Mages with only two chapters!...Speaking of which I need to update that, but I have to admit this story just continues to grow by leaps and bounds per chapter and I hope it continues to do so.*

*Secondly I have some bad news for this story, I will not be updating till the fall.*

*Reason being I have to read the next 5 novels and watch the second season to familiarize my self more and help construct my timeline. That and I have to update from No One To Someone and the previous mentioned Twilit Mages. So I hope you all can wait till the fall.*

*Finally, I know I promised that I would update From No One To Someone this month. But I have to push that back till August.*

*I find myself quite busy this month with some difficulties in real life and planning on watching D-Gray Man and the To Aru series. So I will be going on break until August.*

*Now with that out of the way, there is the matter of the harem.*

The author pulls out a whiteboard and writes on it.

*Many of you have guessed it and you are correct about one of the presences and by popular demand she is in the harem. So there is no need to say who it is.*

The author flips over the board to reveal one word.

Xion

*As for the other precense...still not telling, but anyway I believe we are out of time today.*

*If you have any questions just leave a review of PM and I will get back to later. Next chapter will pretty much being Guiche getting his ass kicked by Roxas, so I hope you will all enjoy that.*

*So until next time, ciao!*

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