Chapter 2

Pov Kaito

Morning

Louise's room

"Louise, it's time to get up." I said shaking her gently after I had gotten her outfit ready for the day, "You said we have a lot to do today."

"Five more minutes." She said still half-asleep while turning around to her other side.

'What am I going to do with you?' I asked myself in my head while sighing, "Alright you asked for this." I said aloud before I pulled the blanket off of her hard enough to shift her onto her back.

"What was that for? You jerk." she asked after sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"You were the one that said we have a lot to do today." I answered her before grabbing my coat and walking to the door with Karin following behind me, "I got your clothes ready for you. Call me back in when you're finished getting dressed and I'll help you with your hair."

Once outside the room I saw a girl about Louise's size with blue hair walking down the hall with a book in her left hand. 'She kind of reminds me of Blanc' I thought to myself before she saw me standing by the door leaning against the wall and stopped in front of me.

"You are Louise's familiar?" she asked me quietly.

'Talks like her too' I added to my earlier thought before pushing off the wall slightly, "I am." I answered her, "My names Kaito."

"Tabitha." She said slightly louder than before.

"Well it's nice to meet you, Tabitha." I said giving her a smile.

"Kaito! You can come back in now." Louise called from within her room.

"Well I'll be seeing you around." I said waving at Tabitha before entering the room.

"Who were you talking to out there?" Louise asked from in front of her mirror after I closed the door.

"Tabitha. She saw me standing by the door and started talking to me." I said truthfully while walking over to her and picking up the brush that was sitting in front of the mirror, "She reminds me of someone I know back home."

"Who does she remind you of?" Louise asked me.

"My friend Blanc." I answered before I started brushing her hair, "Blanc is always quiet, but when she gets angry; either watch out or just run. Her twin little sisters always find some way to make her mad."

"She sounds like she has it rough with those two then." Louise said shivering slightly as I brushed out a small knot in her hair, "Why do they always try to make her angry?"

"They do it so Blanc spends time with them." I answered her, "They're just kids that want to play with their big sister."

After I said that I finished brushing her hair in silence, "Thank you." She said as I finished, "Let's go it's almost time for breakfast."

After breakfast

Courtyard

Pov Kaito

"There's no classes for the second years today so we can bond with our newly summoned familiars." Louise informed me as she led me to an empty table in courtyard.

"Makes sense I suppose." I responded looking around the courtyard at the many students and their various familiars after we sat down, "What do you want to know about me?"

"What are your thoughts about commoners?" She asked me while looking around for someone.

"Well considering that I myself was one at one point; I think very highly of them." I answered, "Growing up I didn't know my mother, my father passed away when I was 5, and the person who was assigned to be my caretaker and teacher took ill when I turned 12. Commoners have very hard lives in some cases."

"I guess you're right about that." She said after calling a maid over, "My next question is; how did you meet Karin?"

"That was a year before I met Noire. I found her mauled on an island just off the coast as I was exploring one day." I answered frowning at the memory, "She wanted nothing to do with me at first, but, unable to let suffer, I kept trying to help her and she eventually let me."

"Is this the familiar that you 'summoned' Louise the Zero?" A male voice interrupted our conversation.

Looking over at the voice I saw a blond haired blue eyed male wearing a slightly altered version of the academy's male uniform and holding a rose in one hand.

"Why yes I am, and I can assure you that she did in fact summon me." I answered for Louise.

"I wasn't talking to you commoner." The blond said trying his best to glare at me.

"You couldn't scare a mouse with a glare that weak." I said looking him straight in the eyes, "My little sister can give a better glare than that, and she's not even a year old."

"Kaito! Don't anger him!" Louise tried to command me.

"You should listen to your master." the blond added in, "You don't want to cause a duel do you?"

Still looking at him I said, "I accept your challenge. When and where?"

"Kaito! What are you doing?!" Louise practically yelled getting the attention of everyone present.

"What do you think is going on over there?" I overheard a couple students ask among themselves.

"Vestry court. One hour from now." He said before walking away.

"You need to apologize to him!" Louise yelled at me after the blond was out of sight.

"Quiet down and have some faith in me." I told her, "I'm doing this for you more than myself."

"What do you mean?!" She asked me angrily.

"Think about it this way; the commoner familiar of the 'zero', who's a supposed failure, defeating a noble." I said seriously while looking her in the eyes, "Your reputation here would rise if your familiar is capable of a feat like that."

"Fine I'll believe in you this one time, but you better win." She said looking away from me.

One hour later

Vestry field

"I must commend you for not running away." The blond said flipping his hair slightly, "My name is Guiche de Gramont, son of Marshal Gramont."

"Guess I should let you know who you're about to lose too. My name is Kaito Raglan, son of Rex and Chian Raglan, loving husband to Noire, and familiar to the zero." I said pulling my sword out the ground, with my right hand, from where I placed it ten minutes prior.

"You seem very confident. My runic name is Guiche the brass." The now named Guiche said swinging his rose causing a petal to fly off it and land on the ground, "This shall be your opponent. A brass golem, a valkyrie to be precise."

"You might want to summon more than one." I informed him.

"One is all I need for a commoner like you." He said before sending his spear wielding construct towards me, "Let us begin."

"Too slow." I said sidestepping its heavily telegraphed strike and swinging my sword; bisecting it at the waist, "What was that you were saying about one being all that you needed?"

"I was going to go easy on you. Don't blame me for how bad you get beaten." He said summoning six of his golems.

"Now this is more like it!" I said excitedly before, unknown to me, the runes on my left hand started glowing white with the power symbol glowing a rainbow hue. 'Why do I feel Share Energy all of a sudden?' I asked myself before striking and defeating the first of the six golems. "Might as well try this!" I said aloud before surrounding myself in a thin veil of rainbow colored energy, "Alright it worked!"

"Can he use magic?" the crowd asked surprised by the aura that now surrounded me.

"What did you just do?" Guiche asked astonished at the aura that surrounded me.

"Oh nothing much." I said waving my left hand, "You might want to triple your numbers. Otherwise this will be over before everyone gets a show!"

Taking my advice Guiche summoned as many golems (total of 20) as he could before sending all of them at me. Once the first one reached me it attempted to strike me but was unable to hit me before I moved out of the way. Before the golem could reorient itself I cleaved its head from its shoulders with a sudden, deadly slash.

The second one was successful in making contact with me with its spear, but was unable to pierce me. "Too weak." I said condescendingly while grabbing its spear with my left hand and planting my sword in its chest with my right. Pulling the spear from its grip I flipped it around and threw it through a third golem.

"What is he?" Was heard coming from the crowd of students watching from the sidelines.

As the fourth golem approached me I said, "Have them come at me quicker; Guiche! This won't even be a warm up for me otherwise!" I said loud enough for everyone to hear. Once again heeding my advice Guiche sent three of his golems at me. Slashing through the first one I didn't see the fifth one coming from the right until the last second as it tackled me, but was unable to knock me to the ground. Placing my left hand on its chest and pulsing a small amount of Share Energy into it I yelled, "Share Explosion!" Causing the construct to explode in a rainbow colored explosion sending bits of it in every direction. Before the sixth could even get close I threw my sword into its chest ending its false life. "That makes six!"

"What are you?!" Guiche yelled frightened at how easily I was decimating his golems.

"I'll tell you after this duel is over!" I yelled back excitedly as the glowing from my left hand became noticeable to those who were paying attention. 'The Share Energy is getting stronger. Maybe I can try transforming soon, but he's not worth it.' I thought to myself. No longer waiting for the golems to come to me; I summoned my gauntlet onto my right hand and charged them smashing the first one into the ground. "Seven!" Spinning around and backhanding the one that came up behind me hard enough to cave its helmet in I said, "Eight! Only twelve more!"

"There's no way he's just a commoner!" A female voice was heard coming from the crowd.

"What frightening strength!" A male voice was heard coming from the crowd.

"I'll end this right now!" I yelled leaping into the air above the golems, "Blazing Share Explosion!" I yelled again as my gauntlet lit up with a brilliant rainbow flame. As my fist made contact with the ground a small explosion engulfed both me and the remaining golems while kicking up a dust cloud.

"Your not human!" Guiche yelled swinging his rose wand again causing a single 15 foot tall version of his golems to appear between him and I.

"You're right I'm not human." I said from within the dust cloud before jumping out of the cloud and landing next to my sword and pulling it from the dead golem it had been thrown into earlier, "I was at one point in my life, but not anymore."

"Louise just what did you summon?" I heard someone ask Louise.

"I don't know." I heard Louise try to explain as the giant golem attempted to smash me into the ground by swinging its empty fist at me.

Swinging my sword I cut off the fist that had been swung at me before slowly walking towards Guiche and his golem and saying loud enough for everyone to hear as my sword was covered by black flames, "Take This! My Dark Assault!" After saying the name of my attack I disappeared in a burst of speed only to reappear behind the giant golem, my sword no longer coated in the black flames, as I slowly continued to walk towards Guiche and point my sword at him causing him to fall on his back in fear, "Do. You. Yield?" I asked him as his golem suddenly fell to pieces, with the same black flames that had been covering my sword spouting from some of the smaller pieces, getting him to nod frantically. "Just letting you know now. You never stood a chance." After dismissing my sword I offered Guiche a hand to help him up as a show of sportsmanship.

"What do you mean?" One of the other students, a tall very tan girl with a well-endowed figure, asked as she and the rest of the crowd slowly made their way over to Guiche and I after he yielded.

"Where I'm from I became what's known as an APL, a protector to the people of my world. I have fought countless battles to get to where I am today, and almost lost someone very dear to me in the process." I said loud enough for everyone present to hear, "Ask me questions some other time though."

Louise's room

20 minutes later

"What did you do at the end there?" Louise asked me after she closed the door.

"You mean when I turned that giant construct into scrap?" I asked her getting a nod as my answer after sitting in one of the two chairs in the room, "That was something I learned during my many battles. It's an attack that I created and call the Dark Assault."

"What about that rainbow explosion you used?" Louise continued to interrogate me as she sat down across from me.

"That was explained yesterday. I can create an explosion of sorts at will." I answered leaning back slightly, "The aura was explained yesterday as well."

"Was that everything that you're capable of?" She asked hesitantly.

"What you saw was the extent of my power as you see me now, but not everything that I can do when I'm at full power." I answered her seriously before looking at the back of my left hand only to see that the power symbol mark was still lit up, but wasn't shining, "Right now I'm probably at only around 30-40% of what my human form can do. At one hundred percent I would have decimated those golems with nothing but my gauntlet. My Sacred Drive Divinity, or SDD for short, which is my god form is far stronger than my human form."

"How do you get that form then?" she asked trying to get more out of me.

"Simple." I said while leaning forward and placing my elbows on the table between us, "Faith. The faith people have in us is what powers the CPU's and APL's of my world. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that we rely on it to live, but me being born human allows me to live without it albeit being in an extremely weakened state. It's why I asked you to put your faith in me for that duel, so I could show some of my true strength."

"How were you able to do all of that out there then!" She yelled at me as she stood up violently causing her chair to fall over.

"Calm down." I said leveling her with the same glare I had given Guiche earlier, "I could do that because of the faith that you put in me before the fight, but as the fight went on I kept getting stronger as more of the people watching started believing in me. Simple as that. Nothing more nothing less."

After I said that we heard a knock come from the door gaining our attention, and when we looked at the door we saw a letter get pushed under it. Knowing that I could only speak the same language and not read it; Louise walked over to the letter before picking it up, opened it, and read it. "The headmaster wants to speak with me alone." she said after finishing the letter.

"I'll stay here and take a nap with Karin then." I responded as I moved over to where Karin was laying down, and sat down while leaning back into her while closing my eyes, "Wake me up when you come back; if you would."

White void (dream)

"You just love to greet me with an endless expanse of white; don't you Uzume?" I asked aloud.

"You're no fun." the redhead responded as she appeared in front of me, "Your wife is extremely worried about you."

"Kind of figured she would be." I said letting out a small sigh, "Is she sleeping right now?" I asked Uzume getting a nod as my answer.

"I'll get her here to talk to you in a few minutes. In the meantime; Histoire is trying her best to figure out how to get you back here, but she said that it might take three months." Uzume informed me.

"Sounds about right." I sighed, "Good thing Croire wants to get back as well."

"Kaito! Are you alright?" Noire asked as she appeared the same way that Uzume had.

"I'll give the two of you some privacy." Uzume informed us before she vanished.

"How about a change of scenery first?" I asked my black haired twin-tailed wife, getting a nod as my answer I changed the white void that surrounded us to our room, "That's better. I'm fine by the way. More importantly how are you?"

"You mean besides worrying, having less time to spend with Uni, and not having my husband around?" she asked me.

"You're right; dumb question." I answered her as I layed down on the bed, "I'll try to get home as soon as I can, but it might take Croire a while to gather energy for the portal back."

"She's been behaving inside of your sword right?" Noire asked quickly after I mentioned Croires' name; before joining me on the bed and cuddling up next to me.

"She knows that if she misbehaves that she's never getting out." I answered while wrapping an arm around her and pulling her as close to me as I could, "I really miss you."

"I miss you too." Noire said responding to my statement, "Let's just stay like this until you wake up."

"Works for me." I told her as I relaxed into the warmth she was giving off.

A/N: Sorry about the wait on this one; truly I am!