So just as a heads up, some things that were one way in the original will be different in this one, for example the Staff of destruction won't be a M72 LAW, rather... something else... same with the Zero fighter.

And please, if you are taking the time to read this, kindly take the time to review, this is as of right now the story with the longest chapters that I have out. And it took me quite some time to get these right... that being said, I'd like to know whether the story is good, or if there are any issues that need addressing.

PS: longest chapter so far, feels good, hah!

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My left eye twitched at the girl's obnoxiousness. I was attempting to wash a pair of stockings in a fountain just outside her dorm tower. "Ugh, this is freezing! Why the hell did she make me do this now!?"

*flashback*

"This is silk! You have to try to be very gentle and careful when you wash it! Go and do it again!" Louise had yelled at me and threw them back in my face.

*End Flashback*

"This is retarded! It's just a pair of freakin' stockings what the big fuckin' deal!?" at this point I was accustomed to talking to myself, as I was the only one who listened or even cared for that matter.

"Mr. Alexander?" said someone from behind

"Whoa!" I jumped, not paying attention... Damnit that has gotten me severally injured before. Thankfully the speaker was a friend. "Ah, sorry Siesta, I didn't realize it was you..."

"No worries, sorry for startling you though... what are you doing?"

"Ack..." I grumbled "Trying to wash silk... pfft, I'm not even cut out for this... I'm a soldier, not a servant... no offence..."

"None taken! Here let me show you..." and she took the stockings from me and washed them in a bucket next to the fountain. "Then you need to let them dry in the shade." She gave the bucket back to me.

"Thanks Siesta, you're a life saver... or at least an ear saver, hah! You know before I came here, we had machines to wash things for us... then again where I came from, I almost never got out of my armor."

"Haha, but you are now!" Well, technically I was still in armor, my marine armor, but considering I meant my MJOLNIR armor I guess she had a point. "That reminds me, what was your home world like?"

"Well Siesta, it was... nothing like it is here... to say the least... back home there is no magic."

"No magic!?" She exclaimed sounding scared

"Nope, we had a different way of doing things... but I'll explain more about that later."

"Um... Mr. Alexander, I-I just wanted to thank you." Siesta bowed to me.

"Thank me? For what?"

"You never give up no matter what! Even when at your last breath! Even against the nobility! Seeing you like that has given me allot of courage, I can continue to do my best all because of you Mr. Alexander"

"Ha! Well, that's very nice of you to say Siesta, you flatter me..." I lowered my voice again "Unlike SOMEONE!" returned it to normal "Well, g'night"

"Good night Mr. Alexander" and she walked away, as I watched her leave I swear she looked depressed... strange considering she had just given me a small speech about her courage...

On the way back to Louise's room I was thinking about what had just happened... I reached the floor and was making my way towards her room when one of the other dorm rooms opened and Kirche was standing there in her lingerie and she seemed to beam when she saw me.

"Y-you know it's late and I've got plans for tomorrow" it was a dead lie "See ya"

"Hey" she called as I speed walked past "Remember that sword I bought you yesterday?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Well, what if I were to give it to you for free?"

I thought about it for a while, then I realized it wasn't my brain that was doing the thinking, more like another appendage... I shook my head clear "Why don't you return it? Or if you can't do that then re-sell it. I don't want it cuz it would break as soon as I struck!"

"Oh c'mon, I just want to talk..."

"Thanks but maybe another time... I'm exhausted right now... I gotta go to sleep..." and that's what I did...

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Louise's POV

"Affirmative... It's the winter contingency."

"May god help us all..."

The dream came back with a vengeance, but slowly this time... we were on falcons again, headed across an icy ocean.

"Be advised Kilo 3-3 and 3-4, your current LZ is too hot." Said the driver

"Roger that, Dot, standby to receive and reply." Said Carter.

"Yes commander coordinates received, initiate immediate course correction." Replied a female but metallic sounding voice. "The office of naval intelligence's Sword Base is under siege from a Corvette class Covenant vessel. Due to other nature of this facility, use of orbital rounds is, for the moment, prohibited. Regrettable my efforts to obtain relevant data on enemy forces have been unsuccessful... however current defensive forces are insignificant, ONI has requested Noble team's direct intervention to help secure Sword Base."

"Alright people, we're stuck with that ship for the time being, lets focus all efforts on hostile infantry, give those troopers a hand." Ordered Carter as we flew over a group of aliens who were attacking some Human soldiers. "Kat, Six, your outta here... Jorge and Emile, your next. Now get prepped."

"Let's move Lieutenant!" said Kat and pulled her gun back and we jumped out of the Falcons and readied for battle...

The dream fast forwarded... it seemed like it only wanted to show me important parts rather than mindless battle. But I as the dream skipped forward I could see blurry battles and bits of conflict. Eventually it stopped and I looked out from a ruined building at a huge airship! It had blue fire coming out the back and it's shape reminded me of a whale... a big, purple, flying whale! Two smaller airships were following it, ships that looked like bats... as the ships got closer the veered off and a meteor going at super speeds pierced right through the giant ship and it crashed into the ocean, all the while exploding in purple and blue flames as it sunk.

"Beautiful 'aint it?" asked Jorge as he approached me from the inside of the building. "Someone should take a picture... nice work by the way" and he clapped me on the back.

"I aim to please" I replied.

Then Carter's voice spoke to us through our helmets "Five, Six, get down here... Dr. Halsey wants to talk to de-brief us and command is saying we're all her's."

"repeat? It sounded like you said Halsey." Asked Jorge

"I did"

"Copy that, on our way..." Jorge turned to me "Don't need command to tell me... been her's all half my life."

I followed Jorge to the bottom of Sword Base and found Kat and Carter standing in front of a blue glass wall with an elder lady in a white coat standing behind it, she looked like a peasant or commoner.

"I requested your assistance commander, and do not need reports of things that happened on my own doorstep. What I do require is a detailed account of your previous engagement with..." the lady looked past Carter. "Jorge... it's been too long."

"Mom" and Jorge nodded

"What have you done to my armor" she said with a bit of humor and seemed mildly impressed

"Just some... additions I've made." Jorge replied.

"Indeed... now then, Visigrad relay, it's data center was home to one of my Zino archeologists, Professor Lazlo Sorvad, perhaps you could shed some light on his death." She nodded at Carter

"If he was a civilian male in mid sixty's, he died with a Covenant Energy Sword through his abdomen."

"Hmm, Elites then?"

"They engaged us as well, it was uhhh... right after we found your scientist's daughter, ma'am, she was hiding in the-" Jorge was cut off

"Irrelevant! The Elites, tell me more about them"

"Three, Zealot class, one got by us, the leader from the looks of it."

"Zealots? Your certain of it?"

"Their armor configuration matched."

"Shield strength too." I added

"I gave the order not to pursue; our primary objective was to get the station's relay back online."

"Your primary objective commander? Are you a puppet or a Spartan!?" She demanded clearly miffed. What I bitch I thought...

"Ma'am?"

"There are those at ONI, myself included, who believe the Covenant send Elite advance teams to scout out and retrieve artifact of value to their religion. Survivor accounts suggest that such teams are small, nimble and almost always, Zealot class. No doubt they came to the station for the abundance of ONI excavations data stored there... and you let them get away..."

"Data retrieval was not a command directive, even if we had known, we had more urgent matters to attend to."

"Like warning the planet" Interjected Kat.

"Professor Sorvad's final entry into his notes was a reference to a latchkey discovery he made... latchkey... not a word he would use lightly... so let's hope the data module your Lt. Commander stole... contains it..."

"Kat..." Carter pointed to the drop box in front of Halsey.

"Before you ask I was alerted the moment you tried to access it's content... as I am with any unauthorised tap..." Kat put the chip we had found earlier into the box. "That data is classified tier one... I could have you sent to the brig for interfering with my work."

"Maybe you'd like to join her!?" snapped Carter, I was impressed, this woman clearly had a high state of authority.

"I'm sorry!?" asked an un-amused Halsey.

"We're currently under emergency planetary defensive directive... Winter Contingency... I'm sure you're familiar with the punishment for civilian interference with Spartan deployment?"

"Are you threatening me commander!?"

"Just makin' a readin' suggestion ma'am... let's move Noble Team."

"Mom?" said Jorge

"That, will be all Jorge..."

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Scorch's POV

We were standing outside her class room, Louise's that it, me and her... anyways... "Hey I think I'll skip out on joining your class today."

"Awwww" She whined "Why?" I was surprised she wasn't yelling at me to attend with her, but I assume she already half knew the answer.

"Well let's see, my mere presence prevents other students from concentrating, I get bored in there so my temper and patience is short... oh! And I almost shot Kirche!"

"Are you kidding that was the best part!" Louise exclaimed

"Even so, I'd rather not dig myself to deep a grave in this school... I'll check in with you at lunch and then wait outside... I'd rather sit in the sun and grass today."

"Alright fine... but you'd better be there or there'll be hell to pay!" Ah... there was the ol' demanding master Louise I knew...

"Yeah, Yeah..." and I walked along one of the arched hallways in the courtyards, looking over my equipment... today I was equipped with my MA5B and M6G as per-usual along with my MJOLNIR armor, my helmet under my arm, and Derflinger at my side in a sheath. Now you're probably wondering why I was so heavily armed... well... it just felt like one of those days...

Then suddenly a big hand clapped me on the back. "Hey there our sword!" Said Marteau.

"Hi Marteau"

"Please Our Sword, why don't you swing by the kitchen again later?"

"Sure thanks!" I replied.

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"Thanks allot Marteau, these meals are better than I deserve." I said

"Hmm, you don't need to modest these are all left over's from the nobility's meals!"

"Hey where's Siesta?" I hadn't seen her all day; normally I'd see her once or twice every day, whether it was passing by her, seeing her in the corner somewhere or whenever we'd talk. "Oh right, her main duty isn't in the kitchen so she's not always hanging around here like you... but have you seen her?"

"What?" said Marteau with shock "You mean you don't know?"

"Know what?"

After Marteau explained what happened I felt a hollowness inside... I don't have anything to compare the pain with, I'd never felt like this before, except when Noble team had died... I think the term was heartbroken. "You mean she's not working here anymore?" Heartbroken, that was defiantly it... Siesta had been my only, sane, friend here... and now she was gone.

"Yeah, it was decided that she be a servant for a nobleman named Count Mott, she was picked up and taken away in a carriage this morning..."

"What!? How come!?" I exclaimed "Why so suddenly?"

"In the end, peasants and commoners can do nothing but obey the whims of the nobility..." he turned to the kitchen staff that were lazing about "Hey you guys! Get back to work!"

'Siesta...' I thought to the night before... 'why didn't you tell me...' I sighed...

I went back to Louise's classroom and the rest of the day went by surprisingly fast without so much as a hitch... uncommon, but not unwelcome... still... I couldn't shake that empty feeling... when I brought it up with Louise who seemed in a more merciful mood at the moment.

"Count Mott is a messenger from the Palace who comes by from time to time, I don't like him cuz he always acts so cocky..."

Normally I would have made a crack about her being a hypocrite but I just wasn't feeling like insulting her right now. "But why would Siesta be sent to work for someone so high in society?"

My sword, Derflinger popped out of the sheath. "When a nobleman make a request for a young girl by name, it usually in order for her to become his mistress... I don't believe this, don't you know anything!?"

"H-his mistress!? That's a violation of human rights! Oh right... we're not in the Sol System anymore..."

"I've heard allot of storied about things like that, involving many of the nobility..."

I gritted my teeth... *BANG*

"AHH!" Louise yelped... the sound had scared her, I hadn't realised I had my magnum out and accidentally shot a round at the floor from gripping the gun so hard.

"Sorry..."

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Louise's POV

I stood in the dining hall waiting for my Familiar to arrive. "Not here for dinner either? Where is that damned familiar of mine!?" I muttered and heard plates clatter behind me. I turned around only to find Kirche there with a push tray of food. "What are you doing?"

"Oh nothing much, but I feel sorry for Alexander for having to eat such crude meals all the time so I thought about giving him some of my food."

"So you're out to capture his heart by bribing him?" I scoffed "Typical... and don't feed someone else's familiar without permission!"

"Yeah well he's not here... where did he go?"

I sighed and thought for a bit, looking around in the meantime... "He went to go wash some dust off and still hasn't come back... I don't know where he is."

"Oh hey Louise" Said Guiche who was sitting nearby, he must have overheard us "Earlier today he asked me how to reach Count Mott's manor."

"He went to see Count Mott!?" I exclaimed

"Maybe he got fed up with you Louise and decided he needed a change... though... I've never heard of a familiar switching masters before" Said Kirche

"But this is Louise's familiar" pointed out Guiche, to which I wanted to blast that stuck up asshole...

"Well you have a point there" Scratch that... now I wanted to blast Kirche and Guiche on the spot...

"Though I can't possibly imagine Count Mott, a person who works for the palace, using him!"

I stormed out of the dining hall... I'd have to go get a horse from the stables and head to Count Mott's before my Familiar got into too much trouble...

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Siesta's POV

I stood next to Count Mott, awaiting his instructions... I had an inkling feeling to what the real reason I was here was... but every fiber in my body and mind was begging for that feeling to be wrong.

"So how are you settling in to your new work?" he asked me

"Fine... sir... for the most part anyways..."

Count Mott stood up and walked towards me "I see, I see... well, don't overexert yourself too much..." he walked behind me and placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Yes sir..." I replied, the fibers in my mind and body I think fainted a long time ago at this point... but I for one was shaking inside.

"Certainly you must realise by now, that I did not hire you to merely perform household chores... my Siesta..." I could feel his breath and I remember only one thought going through my mind at the time... it was either.

'I don't wanna be raped, I don't wanna be raped, I don't wanna be raaaaaped...' or 'please don't let me lose my virginity to this creep, please don't let me lose my virginity to this creep, please don't let me lose my virginity to this creep' maybe they were both going through at the same time and I didn't hear them both.

There was a knock on the door behind me and Count Mott lifted his arm and head, saved by the bell right? ehehe...

"What is it?!" Demanded Mott

"Someone named Alexander is here to see you my lord!" said a guard

'Alexander!' my spirits picked up, but I was worried he might do something stupid... I was forced out of the room but I peeked through a crack to see what was going on.

"You should be thankful, for me to go out of my way to waste time on a ridiculous peasant... and a oddly dressed one too!" Mott shouted at Alexander, I hopped his temper didn't get the better of him.

"Count Mott wait! If you let Siesta come back to the academy, I'll do anything!" he pleaded which was unlike him.

"Oh? And what kind of relationship do you have with Siesta?"

"We're kina co-workers I guess you could say... we work in different areas however..." said Alexander

"Hmmf, a mere servant"

"Well, sir, I heard when a nobleman requests a young girl by name its usually her job to become some sort of mistress for his own personal enjoyment..."

"HA!" Mott laughed "Siesta is an official servant of the Mott Household now, and the master is free to do whatever he wishes to his servants."

"I assumed as much!"

"I don't know what you're getting upset about! A nameless peasant like you providing service to a powerful nobleman like me... ha... there is no greater honor..."

"Don't mock me!" Alexander shouted and stepped forward only to be cut off by Mott's guards. "Your just doing whatever pleases you because you know Siesta can't refuse! That's disrespectful and a violation of my beliefs you bastard!"

"You, a mere peasant! Dare to insult a nobleman!" Mott walked over to a pot holding his staff and retrieved it. "Sit down!"

"Count Mott!" I burst in and knelt at his feet "Please forgive my friend he is just highly protective."

"Siesta! Stay out of this!" Yelled Alexander

"Please Count Mott, I beg of you, I'll accept any punishment you wish to impose, but please don't hurt him!"

"Siesta! No! Don't make that deal!"

"Hmmm..." Count Mott raised his staff and walked over to a bookshelf. "Alexander or whatever your name was, you said you'd do anything, did you mean that?"

"Yeah I did!"

"My hobby is to collect printed matter... in fact there is a book I cannot cease to desire..."

"What kind of book?"

"A very special book that a certain mage once summoned during a failed magic experiment a long time ago... I hear it's the family heirloom of an established family from Germania. The daughter of that family is currently attending classes at the academy.. I'm not sure if a peasant like you knows of her, but it is the daughter of the Zerpes family."

"That would be a description of Kirche... I'll get the book for you" Alexander agreed...

"If you want Siesta back, bring me that book..."

"Deal..." Alexander said, but I noticed his helmet appeared in his hand and he put in on his head, it covered his face and looked real intimidating, especially to Count Mott, a rather short man who stood a whole foot lower than him. "But if I find out you defiled Siesta... in anyway... deal or not, I... Will... Kill you..." and he left without another word at a sprint.

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Scorch's POV

I heard the gallop of a horse as I left the Mott estate... despite the fact I was driving a mongoose... yeah... the teleportation field, worked... I only hopped that the UNSC would notice the missing vehicles I pulled from there and try and figure out where they were going.

I pulled on the handbrakes of the Mongoose ATV as Louise rode past me. "Louise? What are you doing here!?" I demanded. But she was just staring at me, mouth hung open in an O.

"I came to find you... but... H-how!? Your riding that... thing with no... I mean its just so... It... wait..." she said

"Great here comes the punishment..." but it didn't come.

"Is that a Mongoose?" she asked

I was shocked "H-how do you know the name of the UNSC light one-two man transport!? I didn't even tell you!"

Louise blushed. "I'll tell you later..." her attitude returned with a vengeance "now then follow me! We're heading back to the school!"

"Yeah yeah!"

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"You're dealing with one of the higher ups in the palace... you can't possibly begin to make a comparison between him and Guiche." Said Louise

"Don't you feel the least bit sorry for Siesta?"

"Of course I feel bad for her, but there's really nothing you can do about it..." she crawled into her bed. "Now, shut up and go to sleep"

"What!? You can't just brush this off!" I yelled

"AAHH! Don't scream right behind me!"

"Yeah yeah yeah..."

"Well either way you're just going to have to give up on Siesta, ok?"

"Yeah, ok..."

Moments later once she was asleep and the lights were out, I checked to make sure she was really asleep. 'good' I thought 'now I can get to work'. I headed over to Kirche's room, luckily she was still awake.

"You want the family heirloom? Oh.. thaaaat..." she pointed at a chest with her wand and for a moment I thought it was going to explode... *sigh* been around Louise to long if I start thinking everyone is gonna cause an explosion when they use magic... "Unlike Tabitha books don't interest me..."

"You mean you brought it with you?" I asked

"They said it's a tool I'll need for my wedding..."

"Tool...? for your wedding? Hmmf... some book..."

"I heard that it has the effect of stimulating men's desires..." Kirche answered

"Pfft, no wonder that ol' bastard want the book so bad..."

"In any case, I don't think I need anything like that, right Alexander?" she pointed her but at me which she may as well not have been wearing any panties with the way her underwear disappeared into her... never mind...

"W-well... of course not."

"Then I don't mind giving this to you." She held up the book.

"Really? Well... that was easy." I reached for the book but she grabbed me around the head.

"But! In return I get to take you out, is it a deal?"

I pushed away from her "Hey! All you nobility are all damned stuck up bastards! You only care about yourselves!" And I stormed out of the room... I was gonna do this old fashioned style... I ran back down to the main gate of the academy and jumped on the Mongoose. I was glad this thing had a really nice muffler to tone down the sound of the engine. I guess this must have been a covert variant of it... lucky me!

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I made it to the gate of Mott's mansion and entered silently... I made it to the bottom of a set of stairs leading up into the mansion before I spotted a guard... sadly... MJOLNIR armor isn't exactly stealthy... and he saw me.

"Hey you there! Stop!" I put my hands up. Sure I could have easily taken them, or activated Active-Camo but I figured that would only put Siesta in more danger.

I was brought before Count Mott. Who said I was to be released so I could speak better... his mistake in a moment, but I would humor him for the time being...

"What were you planning to do with such a thing on your back" he pointed, indicating my MA5B, apparently he hadn't noticed my Energy Sword or M6G. I removed my helmet...

"The roads are dangerous these days..." I replied.

"No nobility is whimsical enough to simply hand over treasure to a mere peasant... I wanted to enjoy whether or not you would struggle with it... but you gave up much to quickly... how pathetic..."

"I didn't give up... Sir Mott..." he looked back up at me... "I'm going to rescue Siesta! Either way!" and I put my helmet back on and cracked my knuckles... the guards left my side and ran in front of Mott and crossed their spears in front of him... I sparked my energy sword to life... apparently they had never seen a weapon like this before and were taken by surprise.

"I've never seen a peasant show such foolishness as you have today!" said Mott

"Yeah well guess what, I'm just full of surprises aint I?" I slashed and the tips of the guard's pikes were severed and fell to the ground, burning and with the metal parts turning in to a molten liquid.

"What kind of weaponry is this!? A blue sword enchanted with fire! Well I am a triangle class mage, preferring water magic! Fire's opposite and killer! You will be no match for me!" and Mott pointed at a vase with his staff and it fell over spilling the water. He thrust towards me with his staff and the water rushed at me in a jet, slamming into me... knocking me on my back... the water had been hard... it had even damaged my shield a bit.

"I'm impressed you could survive that... but how about this!" the water changed into multiple Razor ice shards and he threw them at me, most missed but two hit me... I was surprised when it actually took down my shields... I guess magic was magic eh? But I didn't want to gamble with its ability to penetrate my armor... my shields hadn't recharged yet as Mott sent more shards at me, I melted several with my Energy Sword... but I missed one.

"ALEXANDER!" Shouted a voice and Louise, Tabitha and Kirche burst in, Louise blasted the last ice shard before it could hit my visor... I breathed a sigh of relief... that was close... whether it would have penetrated or not I was glad I didn't have to take the chance...

"WHAT!?" shouted Count Mott... and as the smoke cleared I noticed my armor was a bit sootier then usual... probably from the explosion Louise caused... well... they call me Scorch for a reason...

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"The level of conduct of the academy's pupils has greatly fallen; I will demand that old Osmond be severely reprehended for this!"

"I apologize for entering without permission, as the situation required me to act swiftly. Also misconduct of a familiar is also considered to be misconduct of its master as well and that would be me... I am willing to accept any form of punishment..."

"Louise don't." I said, this arrogant son of a bitch didn't have the right to punish someone for his OWN misconducts!

"Pointing a sword at an official of the palace is a severe crime of the first degree, be prepared to have your entire family face the consequences..."

"Wha-"

"Pardon me count Mott" Said Kirche and she stepped forward, lifting her shirt "How about we make a deal?" she stuck her hand in her skirt.

"W-what are you doing there?"

She pulled out a book and I sighed, at least she wasn't doing what I thought she was doing... "I heard you desired to posses this book, am I right?"

"Huh?"

"Pardon my belated introduction your Excellency, but my name is Kirche von Zerpes."

"You're a Zerpes!? Then that must be the..."

"Summoned book? Here..." and she handed the book over to Count Mott.

"The famed book is finally in my hands..." said Mott

"Kirche, are you sure about this?" Louise asked

"Meh, I looked inside and it's nothing I'd ever want or need..." Replied Kirche

"Un-necessary" added Tabitha.

"Hey! You said you'd give Siesta back!" I shouted

"Hand Siesta over to them." Said Mott.

"Right!" and a guard went over and unlocked a door to find Siesta.

"It opened!" Exclaimed Mott. Seriously what was so exciting about a book? "Oh, haha... I don't understand any of these letter of the language these are in... But to think such a thing existed in this world!"

"WHAT!" I yelped as I saw what the book really was... "It's an old earth porn magazine... I used to see troopers around base with issues of these all the time..." I could easily read the words, how they couldn't read English was beyond me, I mean... wait... never mind I remembered the translator piece... for a moment there I thought they spoke English... stupid, stupid! Mind you I never read or looked up things like that... heh... no, not cuz I'm a goody-two-shoes or an innocent son of a gun... I just didn't have the time... yeah yeah go and call me a sick fuck for all I care... *sigh*

"A what?" asked Louise.

"Its basically a book of nude women and sex..." Louise's face paled... "Wait you said you got that from a summoned one?"

"Yeah a long time ago my grandfather bought it from a mage who just happened to summon it by mistake..."

"A summoned one huh? That's the same situation as me... but..." I shook my head clear, well... maybe the whole summoning thing took things from other places in the universe... if that was the case, who knows what else I would find here.

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Siesta's POV

"Thank you so much! Really I mean it!" I said as I bowed to Mr. Alexander

"Ha, thanks, but in the end it was really Louise and Kirche who saved the day... I just did the heavy lifting... as usual..."

"Maybe, but it was all because you did your best Mr. Alexander" I noticed a slight blush upon that comment. I wondered if he was always this awkward around girls... military women were probably one thing, but civilian women were most likely another.

"W-well thanks but-" oooooh... I couldn't help it any longer... I stepped up to him and kissed him, I had to stand on my tipee-toes, even then I couldn't reach his cheek... so, I went for the lips. At first he recoiled so I thought I had set him off... but to my surprise he didn't fully pull away, instead I found him returning the kiss, it made me feel so good inside. But whether it was his feelings or emotions that were the drive for this returned kiss I didn't know. I had a feeling in my heart that he was bound for another woman... but hey, he was the one who gave me the courage never to give up. That being said I wasn't going to give up. If he went after another girl, so be it, I'd just have to prove to him that I was better! Or at least make the other woman's life a living hell to some degree...

As the kiss prolonged I realized that I'd still have to work with him, so as to make sure he didn't take things to far... or myself for that matter, I backed off of him and giggled softly. "Well... g'night Mr. Alexander!" I said using his shortened version of Good night and quickly ran off leaving his standing there, blushing and awkward. "Yeah, G-g-g'night Siesta!" he stuttered... It was worth it, hehe!

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