A/N: I'm going to skip the parts where Tabitha/Charlotte and Kirche are at the Gallia royal house, simply cuz I'd have to change POV and it would be exactly the same as in the anime, otherwise you may as well just watch the anime.
PS: To anyone who thinks Scorch's behavior is bad, as in: He is a terrible Spartan, you do need to remember that, if he used force to achieve all his goals, then he'd probably wouldn't get very far in this world, despite his technological advantage. He's not a bad Spartan, he's smart, thinks ahead. You won't get far by shooing your way out of everything huh? (Well... Chief did it but that's another story) anyways this is just something I wanted to get off my chest. Also, (please excuse my rant) if you've read the future OOB and AOL stories, (Though I think that's unlikely), then you'd know that Scorch isn't exactly a full fledged Spartan anymore, he is in a sense, a really OPed soldier, knows when to keep his cool, and talk things down or simply blast some faces! I'd created his character a long time ago, where I had the idea of a user specific OC (similar to some other OCs) and I wanted him to have an interesting background along with some traits of my favorite game characters. (originally Scorch had been based on a Starwars Republic Clone Commando but as his first story went on he developed more Spartan like traits and adopted the background of Noble 6.) hope that clears a few things up. I just needed to get that outta my system...
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We made it back to the institute by horse back without incident after giving our report to the princess. "I'd say it's nice to be back..." I said, and then thought about the chores I'm most likely going to be stuck with "But that would be a lie..."
"Hey!" Louise yelled and I was taken aback. "Stop touching me where you're not supposed to be touching!"
"Ah! Sorry! It's just so flat that I didn't realize where I was holding!" and Louise steamed but then I realized "Hey its awful quiet... where is everyone?" then I got elbowed I the gut and fell off the horse... I probably had that coming.
"It's summer vacation..." Louise explained "There's allot of people who have gone home for the summer, or are just traveling."
I pulled myself off the stone road "Summer vacation?" I asked for clarification. I got up and started walking back towards Louise who had stopped before Kirche and Tabitha who were getting into a carriage.
"Oh Louise, we hadn't seen you around so we thought you'd already gone home for the summer" said Kirche
"I had some errands to run in the town and I'd just completed them now." Said Louise. I walked next to Louise.
"Oh Darling!" Squealed Kirche and ran up to me, shoving my face into her breasts, it wasn't unpleasant, but I could simply sense Louise wasn't too thrilled by this gesture of affection. "I finally got the chance to see you again! Only once will I let us be torn apart please forgive me for this!" Ok, scratch that... the affection was smothering me...
I didn't want to open my mouth to speak as my mouth was... in her bosom... so I just mumbled "Mhm."
"Well in any event, I'm off to Tabitha's place for the vacation." Kirche let go of me and headed for the carriage. "Have a great vacation, my darling!" she waved at me and then entered the carriage, which started to drive away...
And of course with my refreshed adolescent mind currently in bliss I stupidly replied "Y-yeah! A great Vaca-" I dodged a kick from Louise.
"What great vacation huh!?" Louise yelled
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"Clean my laundry and then once your done clean my room! If you don't, NO FOOD!" Louise yelled at me and threw a laundry basket at me.
My eye twitched rapidly 'keep you cool, keep your cool, keep your cool, just keep your mother fucking cool Alexander!' I thought then sighed loud and deep. "I'm sorry after Laundry I'm afraid all I heard was blah blah blah blah blahblahblah!" and I walked out of the room and quickly closed the door, but before I could head down the hall I heard Louise mumbling to herself.
"He's always fawning over anyone and everyone with no discretion at all... huh!? Why do I have to be upset about something completely ridiculous like this..."
'Good question Louise, on I always ask myself when I've got the time...' and I walked away, I reached to stairs when I heard her yell.
"AUGH! Geez it's so irritating!"
I shook my head and continued down the stairs, despite all the stupid labor and unnecessary hardships I'd had to deal with during my time here I felt good... maybe it was due to the success of the mission the princess gave us the other day. A job well done always put me in a good mood... unless said job was trivial... like this fucking laundry! A small part in me wanted to see what would happen if I mixed this clothing with a plasma grenade...
I reached the bottom of the stairs and sighed, I wore my marine armor today with no hat or helmet. I began to hear a commotion from across the field, it was so quiet that you could hear a bird's chirp from the top of the central tower.
"What are you saying, it's all a misunderstanding!" I looked over and saw Guiche talking to Montmorency
"Yeah, well I've heard that line way too many times!" Montmorency shot back "Try to understand Guiche, I really don't feel anything for you anymore, and I'm not sure I even ever did! I'm only seeing you right now because you pleaded with me so much."
"OH!" yelped Guiche which I found... waaaaaaay to feminine sounding... "Montmorency, please calm down and listen to what I have to say!"
"huh!" huffed Montmorency and she walked away, leaving Guiche stuttering. I noticed she muttered something to herself but I didn't quite catch what she said. I realized I hadn't moved while I was watching this scene and she almost ran into me. "Oh you! Didn't Louise go home for the summer?" she asked
"Nope, she's still here..." I replied then Guiche started to catch up Montmorency.
"Please wait! I beg you!" he cried
"Please leave me alone!" she yelped and headed into the dormitory, with Guiche following her, begging for her forgiveness.
I laughed 'those two will never change' I thought. I walked further across the field thinking about what I could do with any spare time I got... I held the basket under one arm and rubbed my shoulder with the other. I'd gone nearly three weeks or more without a shower or a proper break and my muscles ached. I'd gone longer without any sort of hygienic care (though at the time, I guess it didn't really mater) but since I was in a world with no imposing threats and I was surrounded by girls most of the time, I figured a shower wouldn't hurt... unfortunately I doubted they had modern style running water here... so a bath or something similar would have to do, however they didn't let commoners use the baths here... kinda a short-sighted plan if you ask me, unless you want all your servants to smell like shit while they serve your food.
I glanced across the field towards the kitchen, feeling a little peckish... I was running low on energy bars with only maybe a week's worth more left... so for the time being I was more or less, at the mercy of Louise if I wanted food... mind you Marteau was kind enough with the leftovers so I of course had to draw the line somewhere... as with everything about Louise... ugh! It was then I noticed a slightly rusted iron pot leaned up against the wall, it was large, large enough to fit a couple people in it... then I had an idea...
I put the laundry basket down next to a fountain and went over to the kitchen, Marteau was just coming outside with an empty bucket, I guess he was going to fetch some water for cooking.
"Hey Marteau!" I called and ran up to him "do you have any plans for this big ol' pot?"
"This old thing?" he pointed to the pot "I was planning on throwing it out in a bit... why?"
"Do you mind if I have it?" I asked
"Yes of course you can, please our sword, whatever is mine is yours!" he said an slammed a huge arm around my shoulders.
"Erk.." the guy had a hard hit... even for me... "Uh, can you do something about this nickname and these over the top gestures of affection... they're a little much don't you think?"
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I had managed to roll the pot over to a secluded location between a few trees in the courtyard...
Derf popped out of his sheath, I almost always carried him with me these days. "You know if you had any sense you could have brought this thing over here in an instant with magic if you'd asked a noble!"
"Meh" I shrugged "This wasn't so tough, besides I needed the workout... plus this is a bit personal" I hadn't even broke a sweat bringing this thing over here, proves that I still got the brawn to go with the brains. I mean if I was able to flip a full weight M808V Scorpion Main Battle Tank onto its right side up after it's been flipped, then by that logic this pot was child's play... and it was...
"What are you gonna do with a giant pot anyways?" Derf asked
I pulled out my E-tool (Entrenchment tool: A flip out shovel used to dig fox holes, reinforce trenches or as a melee weapon) "Just wait till tonight" I said.
"Tonight?"
Once I'd finished digging a small pit and made ventilation trenches I put some wood into the pit and placed the pot overtop, I would be able to reach into the ventilation trenches to light the fire later, but for now I wanted to talk to Mr. Colbert more about my origins and me being a familiar...
I ran towards his research lab, a small shack in the north-western courtyard, and entered hoping he was here. Luckily he was.
"Hey Mr. Colbert..." I said "Can I ask you something..."
"Ah, Alexander, sure, I don't see why not." Said Colbert, as kind as always... although I knew that he wasn't always like this... when we fought the covenant for the Phantom the other day, he'd shown aggression and ferocity like a killer...
"About those Covenant we fought the other day"
"Covenant?" he asked
"Oh right... I'd never explained... the Covenant are a group of highly religious fanatic aliens who seek to destroy the human race of my world in their version of a holy crusade to make way for their alleged great journey... if that makes any sense..."
The teacher sighed, I guess similar things had happened here... "Well... what about them?"
"Did you manage to perform any sort of research or analysis on any of the bodies of debris from after the battle?"
"Yes I did in fact, on the bodies I found vast amounts of this thing you called Slipspace fuel residue. They must have been trying to repair their ship for quite some time... quite a strange ship if you ask me."
"Mhm... what about the debris?"
"On the debris from the ship you blew up, I found a faint energy reading... it similar to thunder magic... a branch of air magic."
"Slipspace doesn't leave energy readings like that... that means they got here another way besides performing a slipspace jump. Maybe a portal or teleporter?"
"Well whatever the mode they got here by... I had deducted from experimenting with this antenna that I found in one piece near the wreckage." He pointed to an intact Covenant communications array. "That there have been recent energy readings sent through it... sending energy over long distances... Alexander do you know what purpose that serves?"
"It's a communications array... it's used to send information, data and messages over long distances... but judging by the size of the array I'd say this is only a short distance array, meaning no interplanetary transmissions could be sent... which means..."
"If this is true... that would be a remarkable ability! To send information and talk to people on the other side of the world! Amazing!" I regained his composure "But if what you are saying is true, then that indicates that there may be more of these so-called... Covenant, here in this world!"
"Damnit! If that's the case then I need to be on guard... but..." there was a small feeling of hope in me "If the Covies are here... then... why wouldn't the UNSC?"
"UNSC?"
"The Humans in my world are mostly part of an organization called the UNSC, basically it's the main force that is made up of Earth and all its colonies..."
"That sounds like an interesting story Alexander, but I do need to get back to my research... headmaster's orders." He sounded genuinely interested about my world, perhaps we could continue this discussion later, I liked having an intelligent man to speak to, someone who could understand my world to some extend (Or at least comprehend it).
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Later that night I was able to gather enough water to fill the pot... I lit the fire and let the water warm up before removing my clothing and stepping in. I rubbed my shoulder. 'ahhh... there we go, all that weariness and ache pains... gone... I guess I needed this more than I thought' I smirked and thought back to Reach... during the rare times we'd get military leave, some of us, myself included, would actually indulge ourselves in hot water treatments like this... we did this to rid ourselves of the constant pain the racked at us due to the Spartan augmentations... mind you the relief was only temporary and would return in about a week of two... oddly enough I'd also noticed that my augmentations weren't causing me any pain over the time I'd been here, I guess that was a side effect from the cloning process... one I was glad of for sure! If you don't know what I'm talking about, then imagine all your muscles feeling like they are going to tear themselves apart, then suddenly compressing, then twisting even though you're not moving! You muscles never would stay still, they always seize up but not really stop... just hurt like a mother fucker... the pain would be excruciating and any normal human would be liable to pass out from the pain, if you can't imagine this pain, count yourself lucky... the only way we could ignore these pains was by constant adrenaline rushes during combat... which lead to our overly aggressive and anti social behaviours... or at least that's my theory...
I sighed "Reach..." and I submerged for a moment, then poked my head back above and saw Siesta who hadn't noticed me yet... when she did... she jumped back startled and dropped something she was carrying that I hadn't seen due to my angle...
My head rose above the rim to look at Siesta, I was embarrassed but managed to hide it... to some extent... "Siesta?"
"Mr... Alexander?" She asked then looked over at what she'd spilled, a broken tea pot and a few cups lay broken on the ground. "Oh no, I did it again..." she looked at her clothing "and my clothes are all soaked!" which was odd, I don't remember any water splashing her... unless it was tea from the stuff she was carrying which I guessed it was since it had a dark tint to it.
"You alright?" I asked
"Um... yes... but... what are you doing in that big pot of water?"
"Oh this? Um... this is an older way of taking baths back in my home world... a bit rustic mind you but it gets the job done..."
"A bath?" Siesta asked and then looked around for some reason unknown to me "Really?" she asked dumbfounded... ugh... I cant help but think she's freakishly cute... ok... OK!? *Sigh*
'don't get hard, don't get hard, don't get hard' I pleaded to my adolescent brain "I found it thrown out so I brought it here and made this myself." I said
"Wow, it looks great! I'd really like to try it!" she said
I laughed nervously "Oh then care to join me?" I lowered my voice "Just kidding" I mumbled
"It is alright?" Siesta asked to my surprise.
"W-wha!?" I turned around and nearly fled the scene, which was Siesta stripping right in front of me... "W-wait! Siesta I don't think this is a very good idea!" I shielded my eyes.
"No one is here... and it's dark and steamy so I'm sure it'll be alright." The way she said it she sounded so innocent and sure of herself...
"Um... but Siesta, you are aware that I'm a guy right!?" I don't know why I pointed out the obvious but I guess it was just me trying to discourage her from doing this...
"Of course I know that! But I also know that you're not the type to do anything strange Mr. Alexander!" she said and smiled.
'You know 5 years ago I would have believed that statement... now I'm not so sure...' I thought.
Well... what's done is done... by now Siesta had hung her clothes up on the little rack I'd made out of two branches and a stick... she'd gotten into bath as well "I can dry off my clothing while I'm here so it's fine."
"R-really?" I wasn't looking in her direction... I didn't know what she was thinking... don't know if I wanted to...
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Siesta's POV
"Maybe you could try not to blush so much?" I said, noticing Alexander's red face, which I knew wasn't from the heat. "It's making me a little embarrassed... besides it's dark over here so you can't see very well, why not turn around?"
Slowly he turned around, and I noticed his build... I'd never actually seen his bare arms or chest before... his muscularity was... astounding, I didn't know how one could be so... built... without some sort of potion... that being said it wasn't so much a disturbingly meaty and ripped build... but it was one that very attractive yet intimidating.
We shared a nervous laugh "This bath from your home world is nice... I really like it!" I said
"Really? Well, you know how the baths here are all steam right? Well this is the way it's supposed to be done... normally I'd prefer a simple shower, but I guess I gotta treat myself every now and then."
"So... tell me Mr. Alexander, what kind of a place is your home world?"
"Reach? Well, there's only one moon in the sky... there are no mages but you can do almost anything with the help of machines, electricity and-"
"Mr. Alexander!" I exclaimed "Did you say there was only one moon and no mages!? I think your making fun of me... because that sounds similar to the one I came from!"
Alexander shied away "no, no I'm not making fun of you!"
"Ok... then... continue..."
"Ok... then... let's see... we've also got things like cars, airplanes, trains, space ships, most of which are for transportation... there's also allot of other things, but it would take me a life time to go through them all and explain what they did... mind you there is also allot of things I don't know about... being at war nearly my whole life, I didn't have time to go and explore all these items and their usage..."
"It sounds like a story my Great Great... Great Great Great Grandfather used to tell..."
"Wow... that's pretty great... how long ago was this?"
"Well he obviously passed away a long time ago, but his story survived with my family... it was about how he came from another world, and how he fell from the sky!"
"Another world? Fell from the sky? Siesta, that's what happened to- ahh!" he didn't finish what he was saying as I rose out of the water, covering my breasts and vagina. He turned around quickly and blushed.
"I have to go now though... thank you very much" I started to put my clothes back on after I dried off. "It was really fun, and the bath was lovely too" I put my little maid's cap back on. "but... maybe the most enjoyable part... just might have been you!" I blushed and giggled before walking away quickly, giggiling to myself while Alexander blushed fiercely... oh... I loved my job...
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Louise's POV
"W-what was that!" I mumbled to myself "Some sort of triple A secret meeting all naked!?" (A/N: I have no idea if that's actually what she said, but that's what it sounded like...) "He's a familiar and there are limits to how rude a familiar can be!" I stopped myself, realizing how stupid I was sounding. Then it hit me... "Wait just a minute why am I even sneaking around spying on him?" I paused for minute "AUGH GEEZ! THIS IS SO IRRITATING!" I yelled.
I walked through the courtyard, it had been dark for quite a while now and I came across Montmorency and Guiche sitting at a table they must have pulled from the dining hall or something...
"Look a naked woman flying through the sky!" Shouted Montmorency
Guiche's eyes lit up "Where! Where where! Where where! I don't see anything!"
Then Montmorency noticed me "Oh Louise, what are you doing out here this late?"
"Leave me alone..." I snatched the drink from Guiche, "I'll be taking this!" and I drank it back... I don't know whether is was champagne or lemonade but it sure tasted off... I slammed the glass back on the table... "Thanks for the drink!" I noticed Montmorency was in shock... meh... whatever, I didn't really care...
I just headed back up to my room, I'd scold my damned dog when he got back...
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Scorch's POV
I'd gotten back to Louise's room... she glared at me... "You've been out a long time..." she said
"Yeah, I was able to take a bath for the first time in a long while... so I made it count. Aahhh... it felt so nice..." I replied
"Yes... I'm sure it felt very nice indeed..." she growled
"W-what are you getting at?"
"Do you really think you can fool your master about something... like... that..." Louise's face got red all of a sudden
"What are you talking about Louise?" I leaned in closer to her "Hey your face just got super red all of a sudden... are you ok?" I asked and felt her forehead, it was burning up.
"My face doesn't matter..." and Louise started to sway like she was dizzy... "wh-whoa... ahoh... uh..." then her head fell slack.
"Hey Louise! What's wrong!?" I was thinking about going to find a doctor when...
"Alex... Alex... Alexander..." she started murmuring and reaching out to me with both hands... I thought resembled a zombie gesture for a moment... before... "Alexander!" She leapt at me and I nearly fell over.
"What the!?"
"Alexander, you idiot, idiot, idiot!" she lightly punched my chest, making a ping sound due to my metallic armor. "your an idiot, why did you leave me all alone to be with a horribly common girl like her! Alexander you idiot!" She hugged my neck and I was in... some serious shock and awe...
"W-what kind of cruel joke is this!?" I exclaimed
"I could never joke about this, oh I love you so much!" then Louise started crying and I didn't know what to do one bit... other then panic... I wasn't trained for this sort of situation!
Then I heard a knock at the door... "Come in!" I said
The door opened and Montmorency was there, she sighed when she saw the scene and position I was in... "Oh no... I was afraid of that..."
"Afraid of what!?" I demanded...