It was early in the morning at the Academy Of Magic, with the female students being still within their dorms, either sleeping or relaxing, mostly out of the tiredness of the last day's training, as the guards along with the Queen's Musketeers inside and outside of the establishment patrol the place for their proper safety.
Meanwhile, inside a very well known room, Aristidis, Louise, Siesta, Charlotte and Kirche were all lying together on their large bed while currently watching from the Tome-TV an episode from Regular Show, along with a mostly blue and white anthropomorphic and relatively tall bird of the Blue-Jay species, and a brown and much shorter anthropomorphic Raccoon, as Jerry the brown mouse is currently sleeping upon the pink surface that is Kirby's stomach, who is also sleeping with his back upon a small round bed down and next to them, and with the maid Cinderella standing nearby next to them. [The bird and the raccoon are obviously Mordechai and Rigby from the same show, here to re-watch their lives]
The one they watch is specifically of the seventh episode of season three, the Cool Bikes, at the part where the two cool-looking protagonists are at a court in a space station, where the Judge Broseph Chillaxton, who is an invisible man, with white curled judge's wig, white gloves, black sunglasses, black shoes, a metal chain around his neck, and a black robe with a red v-neck, and two golden medals on his robe, just now makes his appearance through the automatic doors upon a levitating, silver throne with four speakers on its upper sides, and ready to judge the two for being TOO cool.
Louise has a bored expression on her face as she watches, with Mordechai and Rigby having the same expression, while the rest of the girls simply sweat drop at the craziness they witness.
"Nothing normal ever happens in that place, does it?" The pink-haired girl asks.
"Nope." The Blue-Jay simply answers, which causes Aristidis to chuckle amused.
{(Storyteller, sir?)} A voice in the Storyteller's head calls for him, making him put two fingers at the side of his head in response.
The scene then cuts outside at the main gate, where it shows that the one communicating with him is an Oblivion Guard who is behind of the wall to the side from the inner part. {(Excuse any interruption I might be causing, but there is a situation outside of the gate. An unknown to us Noblewoman has come with two carriages and demands entry. With emphasis on the demand.)} Tells the last part with a sweat drop as he takes a careful peek from around the corner of the closed gate.
"I demand that you let me through this instant!" The Noblewoman he was talking about yells at the three guards stationed at the outer part of the gate, who remain calm and determined on their post despite her aggressive attitude.
The woman has long, blonde-hair, in a style similar to the one Louise has, and also at least a head taller than her, looks to be around her twenties, wears thin-looking glasses, a soft-red, short scarf around her neck, and white shirt along with a long, purple skirt that reaches till the lower part of her calfs.
The blonde woman continues while looking fiercely at the middle guard. "My little sister is attending here, and I will not have a bunch of unmannered guards forbid me from seeing her, even if you come directly from the palace itself. Now stand aside I say!"
Aristidis in the meantime is watching through the eyes of the Oblivion Guard who is still peeking, and utters with great interest, with the scene moving back to him and the room he is in. {(Quite the situation you are facing down there indeed. Worry not, my good man. I will come handle things personally, and ve~ry appropriately.)} Says the last bit with much of seductive energy.
After that, he ceases telepathic communication, and looks at the rest in the room, who were looking at him curiously after noticing his telepathic posture. "I need to go down take care of a sensitive issue by the gate outside. An arrival I was not informed of from the academy. Supposedly here for her little sister or something. I will judge whether that is the case or not." Says the last parts as he gets off the bed and heading for the door."
"Want to pause it till you're back?" Charlotte asks him while pointing at the TV.
"No, no, keep on watching without me, you know very well that I have already read and seen it more than once before, after all." The Storyteller explains while looking back at them, while the maid Cinderella opens the door for him, before exiting as he raises and waves a hand at them with a kind face. "See you in a moment!"
With that, the orange-haired maid closes the door behind him, and the scene cuts outside at the gate once more, where the guard from the inner part of the gate makes his appearance from the corner, drawing first the attention of his fellow guards from the other side as they turn their heads at him, and soon after of the Noblewoman.
"I informed the Storyteller." He tells them. "He will come assess the situation himself."
Something clicks in the blonde woman's mind almost as soon as he hears that name, and then her expression turns surprised. "Wait, did you just say Storyteller? As in, the one responsible for the miracles of the last days in Tristain, and widely known as the most powerful Noble in all of Halkeginia? THAT Storyteller?"
The guards turn again to her, as the middle one is about to respond. "That is correct, madam. We work under his excellency, Aristidis Aristadis O Ellin Tis Ellas, for the safeguarding of everything, and everyone around and within the main place of his stay."
The Noblewoman could not believe what she has just heard as she puts both hands upon her cheeks in response, showing that she didn't know about that fact.
Not long after a large number of Oblivion guards is seen marching from the main building as they approach the gate, with two of the three guards in front of her opening the said gate, while all three stand aside for them to exit, as they split into two different lines just outside left and right, till eventual at the very middle, Aristidis makes his appearance, his whole being surrounded by a sparkling aura, which prove more than enough to amaze the wide eyed woman with the blonde hair, as he continues walking and coming to a stop at close but proper distance in front of her, with the sparkling ceasing as soon.
He flips elegantly his luxurious, pitch-black and twinkling cape with a hand, before putting the same hand upon his chest as he bows politely with a kind expression. "My warmest greetings to you, my lady."
The Noblewoman is shocked, not for the way he greeted her, he was proper about it, but for his overall appearance upon taking notice of his pitch-black skin, lack of mouth, and lack of clothing, even though she is not so sure about the last one since she doesn't see what would be obvious at one's uncovered body.
(The rumors were all true?!) She yells utterly befuddled in her mind.
The pitch-black Storyteller straightens himself up normally as he proceeds to continue. "You will have to forgive my guards. They take their job rather seriously. But, can you truly blame them knowing what they protect?" Says the last part proudly while opening his arms to the side enough to indicate in a sense everyone standing behind him.
The blonde woman snaps out of her great surprise, and a bit troubled proceeds to bow properly as well. "I-It is an honor to meet an esteemed figure such as yourself, Sir Aristidis."
He chuckles at that slightly amused for a moment. "Aristidis will suffice, dear lady?"
She straightens herself up normally and smiles with a bit of excitement. "I've heard rumors about you staying mainly in Tristain's Academy Of Magic as a student's Familiar, but I thought of it as too much of an outrageous hyperbole to be true."
She then realizes something as she rethinks her words, and her eyes widen with surprise once more. "C-Could it be that even-"
"Yes, that rumor too is a true fact indeed." Aristidis interrupts while immediately answering her incoming and obvious question, before he puts a hand upon his cheek delighted. "And she is such a cute little lady too. You should have been here to see her reaction when she summoned me- Truly a sight."
"I can't believe it..." The Noblewoman trails off, in disbelief that every rumor she knows of is nothing but the truth!
The Storyteller moves closer to her, snapping her once more out of her surprised state, and much to her confusion he takes her hand with his own while raising it close to his mouthless area as he looks at her seductively. "Excuse me if I am being too forward with this, but you are one of the most beautiful ladies I have ever set my eyes upon."
"M-My, you flatter me." The blonde woman responds with a bit of stutter while blushing softly, truly flattered that a man of such importance finds her as much, but then puts her free hand onto her cheek when she comes to an awkward realization. "Oh, I just realized that all this time I have not offered you my name."
She puts a hand upon her chest, while he unhands her, and proceeds to introduce herself. "I am Eleonore Albertine Le Blanc De La Blois De La Valliere."
"Valliere?" Aristidis repeats the part of the name, and quickly makes the connection that somewhat excites him. "Wait, in this case that would definitely make you-"
"Aristidi~s!" The distant voice of Louise is heard behind of the Oblivion Guards, drawing his and Eleonore's attention.
She continues while approaching together with Siesta, Charlotte and Kirche, with the guards somewhat blocking view of them. "We are sorry for not waiting, but we were really curious about what that arrival you said was all ab- Wh-Eh?!" The pink-haired girl exclaims while stopping herself at the end there after lightly pushing aside with a hand one of the guards, while she herself appears to hold on her other Aristidis's Tome, completely caught off guard upon noticing the woman that was in front of him.
"Big sister Eleonore!" She yells in her great surprise, as the rest of the now-confused-with-the-scene girls are let through by the Oblivion Guards.
"Ah! So it was like I speculated." The Storyteller says as he lightly hits/places the under side of his fist upon his palm, pleased with himself for being right, as the rest of the girls appear surprised with the big sister fact.
"Louise." Eleonore responds with a more strict-looking expression now, but then raises a palm forward. "Wait, before anything, how come and such a familiarity with someone as important as the Storyteller Aristidis, no less?"
"W-Well... He is my Familiar." Louise eventually answer, but still awkwardly as he indicates him with a hand.
"... Eh?" The blonde woman utters after a small pause with a sweat drop as she turns her head to him.
Aristidis points at Louise as he looks delighted at the blonde woman. "The cute little lady I was talking to you about."
Eleonore turns back and forth at the two while trying absolutely shocked to form words, but failing completely, till she stays frozen where she is for a moment longer, before falling unconscious from the said shock, with Aristidis catching her with his hands in time before reaching that point onto the ground, much to everybody else's concerning surprise with her losing consciousness suddenly like that.
"Quite the shock your big sister received." He tell the pink-haired girl, and then turns his head at her a bit menacingly, which scares her. "Which makes one wonder, how come and she didn't know about me being yours, dear Louise?"
~Not Long After~Inside Their Room~
The scene shows Eleonore pinching that very moment with one hand Louise's cheek with quite the strict face, much to the latter's aching, stinging pain. "Why was something so important a secret from your loving family all this time, smallish Louise?"
As soon as that was asked, Aristidis is seen with a similar face while proceeding to pinch with his own hand Louise's other cheek, making her case feel worse, he himself appearing rather offended with her. "Having proper communication with your family is always a must. And it is especially easy as well since you can have means of such feat with me around. What is the meaning of this atrociously sinful act, my little strawberry-pie?"
The scene moves back enough to shows that the three are sitting upon the bed as that is going on, while the rest of the group sweat drops at the pink-haired girl's current misfortune as they watch from a proper but still close distance while standing, minus Mordechai, Rigby, Kirby and Jerry who are not present any longer in the room.
"S-Stop calling me names, and p-please stop pinching my face!" The pink-haired girl pleads for, mostly for the last one, to which the two let her cheeks free, as she proceeds to rub them both with her hands to relieve them from the pain she endured, while a tear falls off from one of her eyes due to the pressure she went through.
"Well?" The Storyteller questions, as both he and the blonde woman have their arms folded, expecting a quick answer about what they want to know.
After stopping on rubbing her cheeks, Louise smiles awkwardly and quite troubled as she proceeds to explain. "N-Now as for why, well... M-My days have been so great all this time because of you, Aristidis, that I... Kind of forgot to."
Her big sister raises an eyebrow while feeling incredulous with her little sister's excuse.
"Oh ok, understandable then." Aristidis says with his expression completely softened now.
Eleonore was in even greater disbelief as she looks at him. "W-Wait, what? You believe her? No offence to your good name, but that has to be the most absurd and idiotic excuse I have ever heard!"
The pitch-black Storyteller puts a hand upon his chest while raising his head upward out of pride. "It is because you don't know me well enough that you believe as much, lady Eleonore. I always make sure our days here are filled with nothing but the most appropriately relaxing and entertaining moments to receive. Truly a well-deserved bliss!"
That confuses the blonde woman quite a bit, while also somewhat intriguing her, trying to imagine just what kind of relaxation and entertainment someone as great as the Storyteller could be talking about.
Louise finds somewhat her composure, and with a slightly awkward smile turns to her big sister. "So, big sister Eleonore, what is the reason of this unexpected but welcomed visit?"
That reminds Eleonore about her visit here, before getting herself up while turning with a serious expression toward her little sister. "I am here to take you back home."
"What?" The pink-haired girl utters with wide open eyes of surprise at the unexpected to her reason, with the rest feeling the same way as they look at each other, with the Storyteller himself being mostly curious.
The blonde sister continues. "I've heard about how the Queen's Musketeers have come to enforce military training of all things onto the academy's students, and I could not just leave things as they are. A lady of Valliere won't be allowed to degrade herself like that. So instead, you are to commit to bribal training."
"Eh?" Louise now utters with a sweat drop, with Aristidis feeling rather amused as he turns his head a bit to the side while covering with a hand his nonexistent mouth as if to stop himself from making a sound.
Eleonore folds her arms as she frowns some more. "Honestly the most appropriate choice by my opinion, given your zero magical talent. Mother and Father are bound to agree with my thinking."
The pink-haired girl raises a hand. "Um, actually, the Musketeers do not force me to do that kind of training."
"Hm?" The blonde woman utters while raising an eyebrow.
Louise then shrugs while moving her eyes up to the side. "I mean sure, Aristidis has some of his people giving me lessons in self-defense nowadays, but that is different."
Aristidis with a happy expression moves close to hug her. "Only the best for my dearest Louise."
"H-Hey now." She tells him while blushing and embarrassed, still not used with him showing his love and affection for her in front of other people.
Eleonore narrows her eyes out of confusion, not quite sure what to make of that display of fondness.
The pink-haired girl with an awkward smile looks at her big sister again, as he keeps on hugging her. "A-Also, I already am together with Aristidis here."
The blonde woman's eyes widen from shock upon hearing that. "Excuse me?!"
"You are excused." The Mouthless Storyteller tells her jokingly, and then shows a delighted face. "I have also helped with her magical issue. Show her, honey!" Says the last one at the pink-haired girl while she unhands and prompts her with excitement to do as he said.
"I- Um- R-Right now?" Louise asks while feeling troubled and awkward about as she looks back and forth at him and her big sister, with the latter trying to comprehend everything she was told so far.
Aristidis puts a hand onto his chin, thinking about it. "You are not wrong. Not enough space for a proper demonstration here. Let us show her this video I recorded instead!" Says the last part with excitement and a raised finger, as he begins to walks toward his TV while pulling off with his free hand from the inner side of the cape his Tome, before placing it in its placement right below.
"I'm sorry, vi-what?" Eleonore asks incredibly confused with the strange to her name, while trying to understand what he is trying to do.
Once officially open, it shows a determined Louise in a mostly sand-yellow city of some sort, where she is surrounded by a great number of humanoids that have thin, nimble body structure, dark brown skin and yellow, glowing eyes, which are wear a white balaclava over their heads, orange bracelets, a flat, yellow hat, a yellow-orange cape, baggy pants that are yellow-orange with white lower legs, a red, sash-like belt and black boots with toes that curl upward, with the known Heartless Emblem being upon their chest, and brandishing one crescent-shaped scimitars on each hand, that have silver guards and handles, red inner edges, and black outer ones. [Luna Bandit Heartless from Kingdom Hearts Franchise, with the fight taking place in Agrabah obviously]
Half of the bandit-looking heartless rush at her, while the rest attempt to jump-attack the girl, only for them to be pushed back and away a moment later by a powerful shockwave of pink petals while performing a jump of her own that sends her high into the sky.
While up there and levitating, soon after she dodges by spinning quickly to the side an ice-spike that was launched against her from behind, as she makes that turn, she notices a small team of somewhat feminine-looking humanoids with dark-purple skin, circular, yellow eyes, thin arms, and large, four-fingered hands, dressed in loose, flowing clothing, with their faces almost entirely covered by a large headdress that is lavender with red-violet inner lining, and a curled tip at its top, also wearing a navy blue tank top, baggy, purple and lavender pants, and a violet cloth around its waist, all of which have pale yellow lining. The Fortuneteller also sports a pale yellow wristband on each of its wrists, a small ring of the same color on each of its index fingers, and violet and pale yellow high-heeled shoes, and the Heartless Emblem on the section covering the creatures' forehead, with each of the creatures balancing upon a sparkling, crystal ball as they levitate toward her. [Fortuneteller Heartless also from Kingdom Hearts Franchise]
All of them prepare that moment to launch more ice-spikes like the last one, Louise spins quickly around herself, before stopping to reveal herself wielding with both hands and aiming a bow and arrow made out of golden energy, and then shooting/unleashing with one move the very same number of arrows as the levitating enemies she is facing, hitting and turning them to nothing with ease soon after.
Then, from higher to the sky she notices with wide open eyes something coming, right before she brings her hands up, and the scene shows spinning vertically right above her two large sharp silver crescent-blades that end in gold-trimmed holes on one end and lethal hooks on the other, which are handled by a six-armed and large beast, with each arm ending in three sharp segmented talons, boasting a brown and black segmented body and a golden head that resembles one a cobra has, wearing a white sleeve on each arm which is trimmed in gold, a white tunic with puffy gold sleeves over its oddly-shaped upper torso, white/gold and turquoise trimmed pants on its lower body, around its waist a brightly colored sash in turquoise, decorated with bright orange tassels, and a gold apron bearing the very Emblem the rest of the creatures have shown so far, with its feet being clad in gold and brown shoes, and the toes being curled into fierce hooks that point down towards the ground. [Kurt Zisa from, surprise-surprise, Kingdom Hearts Franchise]
The falling and vertically spinning beast collides violently with the transparent, magical bubble she holds in place around her with some difficulty as it keeps on spinning continuously with its large blades upon it, till she has had enough and expands the bubble with a yell and a wide opening of her hands, pushing that way the big creature away from her, and breaking its attack that way, as it falls down strongly upon the ground with the back, the impact causing a cloud of dust to rise and cover the area around it as a result.
Louise flies slowly close to the ground at an appropriate distance from the cloud of dust, right before it is blown away by the big creature's swords as it gets up with a spin, revealing itself through it while standing there and facing the girl, before a number of more of the bandit along with the fortunetelling-looking creatures appear and move fast to surround her.
While looking at them taking positions all around, she brings her arms into an X in front of her, and large swords of rose-colored energy form around her hands, as she looks determined and ready to defend herself, as the next clash is about to begin.
As the battle in the TV continues, the scene moves to show Eleonore who witnesses much to her shock the whole thing along with everyone, just before she falls unconscious as Aristidis catches her in his arms once again.
"My, she lost consciousness again." He says a bit amused with her case, with the rest feeling all concerned seeing her losing consciousness for a second time and so soon.
~A Few Minutes Later~
The scene shows the blonde woman awakened, and now trembling as she tries to hold in her feelings, not necessarily good ones all of them. "N-Not only you have as your Familiar the most absurdly powerful man ever to exist, not only he turned you from the nonexistent into THE most capable and powerful mage of our world, to top it all off, he is also your l-lover..."
"D-Don't get me wrong, I am happy for you." She continues, but then suddenly proceeds to grabs and pinch with her hands both of Louise's cheeks strongly out of frustration, much to the little sister's utter pain. "But I hate how lucky you are all of a sudden, smallish Louise!"
"B-Big sister Eleono~re!" The pink-haired girl can only exclaim in her understandable pain as she holds with her hands both her big sister's arms, before suddenly vanishing from where she was, much to the blonde woman's surprise, and reappearing next to Aristidis as he has a hand upon the girl's shoulder while she herself is currently rubbing her own cheeks to relieve them from the pain once more.
He looks with a kind expression at the woman. "Come now, no need for such hard feelings. I am sure after all that a beautiful woman like you should have a special somebody by now."
Louise quickly points a finger at her big sister as she is reminded of a certain detail. "That's right! You have that whole engagement with the Count of Burgundy, you can't talk about jealousy with me."
"So she does?" The Storyteller questions with seemingly mild surprise, and a not so apparent disappointment, before turning his attention back to the blonde woman as he wags sidewardly a raised finger in a semi-reprimanding manner. "In this case I will have to agree with her considering that, it is not fair treating your little sister like that, lady Eleonore."
Eleonore is taken aback by the sudden scolding she receives from the two, and then after a moment turns her sight downward while somewhat trembling, as if trying to repress something upsetting her. "My engagement... Has been dissolved."
That surprises everyone in the room, not expecting that at all, with Aristidis being curious about it, and secretly relieved. "Ooh? How come and such thing occurred?"
The blonde woman with a sudden movement raises both her hands up as she proceeds to unleash her great frustration. "I don't know! Something about him saying I cannot take this anymore! I still try to understand the meaning behind those words!"
As all the others sweat drop at that, the pitch-black Storyteller contemplates about it for a moment, till he begins moving a raised hand in a dismissive manner. "He was most likely not man enough to handle the very idea of being with someone as special as you. Maybe not even with any woman at all. Not like me, right, my precious ladies?" He asks his ladies the last one while appearing proud of himself.
"Oh absolutely, love." Kirche answers with a big smile, with Siesta and Charlotte simply nodding in response as Louise sweat drops now for his excessive arrogance.
Eleonore lifts her head with surprise at the sound of his bold and audacious comment against the Count she was once engaged to, before smiling while about to say something out of appreciation to the Storyteller's words of support toward her, but then realizes better the last bits which confuse her. "Love?"
Aristidis with a happy face slides right next to the rest while holding the pink-haired girl from around the with his arm, and extends his other around their own shoulders and backs, with the said arm becoming much longer than normal to achieve this. "Like Louise here, they too are with me. As part of my small, for now, harem."
"H-Harem?!" The blonde woman exclaims, shocked to hear such thing, as his ladies blush about, with the pink-haired girl mostly out of understandable awkwardness.
He continues. "Precisely. And to put the explanation forth, due to the fact I am not human, or animal, rules stating of your kind not being allowed to have multiple, unmarried relationships with ladies and vise-versa do not apply to me. And considering how the Queen of Tristain herself did not show to have any issue with that thinking after learning about it, that makes it officially legal. So in short, no room for worries."
"B-But, for a daughter of the house Valliere to be in a harem i-i-i-it's unheard of!" Eleonore says as she tries to calm her highly troubled self down, and then puts both hands over her head while looking down and groans. "What am I going to tell Mother and Father?"
"Nothing." The mouthless Storyteller tells simply as he is seen walking past her, drawing her confused attention, and stops in front of the window with both hands behind his back. "Because I will do it."
"Eh?" Is all both she and Louise can utter, somehow not understanding what he means.
Aristidis turns his head to look at them with glee. "I do believe it is about time we pay a visit to your home, dearest Louise. And personally, I look quite forward to finally meeting your parents."
As they all realize what they will be doing today, with the pink-haired girl being unsure how to feel about the fact, the window opens on its own for him, while he brings two fingers upon the side of his head as he focuses outside. "Let us send a messenger about our arrival first, and I know of the specific location through certain Tome-Personnel I've sent to ask different commoners and Nobles staying at Tristania some days ago for the case I needed to be ready for an occasion like today, and then we enter our today's flight. And it is going to be a big one to carry us all this time."
After saying that, he removes the hand from his head, finishing with his telepathic communication, before bringing and opening his Tome in front of him with both hands, and deciding among pages.
Louise, and everyone else, walks close to him while curiously trying to take a look at what he looks at, but is unable due to him holding it too close to himself. "If it is big, that means it must need a lot of magic to summon, right?"
"Use of the Alpha Rune?" Charlotte asks him.
Eleonore raises an eyebrow at her. "Alpha Rune?"
"Despite its size, it is not really all that costly to summon, so no need for the Alpha." The mouthless Storyteller tells them, just before closing the Tome.
Then, a gigantic shadow suddenly appears out of nowhere to cover mostly the main building of the academy, as all of them look up through the window to witness something truly to them shocking, while also amazing.
~A Few Hours Later~At The Valliere's Residence~
Some time after, the scene moves at the mansion belonging to the Valliere family, where outside upon the big balcony at the front, Louise's mother, a pink-haired woman around her thirties, with two, very long bangs extending down before her from the forward side of her head, and the rest of her hair tied into a medium-sized bun at the top behind, and wearing a white but mostly dark-cerise-colored dress, is currently seated at a table and enjoying on her own a nice cup of tea, with two of her maids standing behind her by the entrance, awaiting for when their services will be needed.
As she sets the cup down to look at the same beautiful horizon she has seen many times before, after a moment she notices something at the great distance there.
It doesn't take long for her to understand much to her mild shock that it is a flying creature, and one that is much larger than a griffin or a dragon like the ones she knows of.
And it is heading for her mansion.
The woman immediately stands up and runs for the edge of the balcony, while her maids, who noticed nothing, wonder confused about her out of nowhere alarmed state, and begins looking around the place below. "Guards! All of the guards to arms and move at the middle of the courtyard! Something is approaching the mansion fast!"
The guards around the mansion, which number around thirty or more, either who were able to hear the order, or it being passed by the ones who have heard to the rest, do as ordered and move at the middle in a loose formation with their weapons at the ready as they watch the approaching, flying figure at the distance, with the pink-haired woman herself being shown rushing inside the mansion, through the hallways, till reaching her bedroom, where she sets her eyes upon a rapier placed on a frame by the wall, before determinedly grabbing it to rush with it outside.
As soon as she gets out at the courtyard where the guards are, and her taking position behind them, the creature gets close enough to be recognized as a colossal bird of stone and metal-looking armor and/or skin, which is Avion from Shadow Of The Colossus, with all of the guards being surprised by the rare to them sight AND size.
The woman notices that, and her expression turns serious as she looks around at them, about to shout for their lost focus, but while taking another look at the giant bird, she remembers of that one report from the first battle against the State of Reconquista, where one with a very similar description helped Tristain to win.
Before she continues that thought further, strong wind caused by the wings of the dangerously approaching colossal bird of stone and metal interrupts her as the men around yell while covering their eyes from the raising dust, while it makes its strong but proper landing right in front of them.
With the wind's dissipation, they look at it, menacingly towering over them all with its large wingspan barely bended, the guards more or less frightened by the sight as it stays there unmoving, eyeing them in place with those large, dimly-glowing eyes.
The pink-haired woman takes a step back alarmed while looking at it, and instinctively prepares her rapier to cast a spell from the tip, but stops upon noticing something round and relatively small jumping off the creature's back, which lands before them.
Much to everyone's utter confusion and surprise, it is the pink, cute ball that is Kirby who makes his appearance, who is also wearing a blue mailman's hat, together with a small bag that has a rolled parchment sticking its one end out of it.
"Hi!" He exclaims happily with a smile and a raised stubby hand of his, and then walks past guards, who just stand there and look at the small one go, till reaching the pink-haired woman, as she wonders what that oddly, overly cute creature is.
Kirby reaches with a hand the parchment in his little bag, and extends it toward her, with her now understanding/seeing the pink ball as some sort of Familiar messenger belonging to a Noble, before somewhat awkwardly taking the parchment with a hand.
After that, he walks away and toward Avion again, and makes a high jump to grab with his hands the part of the wing close to the head as a bit clumsily he tries to climb over it, before succeeding and turn to wave his raised, pink hand at her while uttering with a big smile his goodbye, before the Colossus with a slow but powerful swing if his wings raises itself up to the sky while flying Kirby all the way back where they came from, leaving there are very dumbfounded crowd.
The pink-haired woman finds her composure quickly, and with a focused expression looks at the parchment, which has a golden seal with the A symbol on its middle, and opens it to see what is this about.
It writes as following. :To the House of Valliere, my most respectful greetings. I, Aristidis Aristadis O Ellin Tis Ellas, also known as the Storyteller, will be making an official visit at your residence together with my summoner, Louise Francoise Le Blanc De La Valliere, along with four more figures of importance. I do hope that does not cause complications to any schedule that might need your utmost attention, and that you will be able to be present and prepared for our arrival. We will be there in a few hours during late midday. With much of respect, and apologies for the inconvenience:
She could hardly believe it.
She has heard about the one who calls himself Storyteller, along with his miraculous achievements, but she never expected to receive a sudden visit from such an important figure, so much hear he is her youngest daughter's Familiar!
"My word..." The woman utters with a hand over her mouth out of the shock she received from that information, as she then proceeds to speculate how did she not know about it.
"Mother?" A voice coming from behind calls for her, before turning to see a very well-known to her woman around her twenties, with long, pink hair the same style like her sisters, but with the two long bangs at the side being tied properly at their base by a yellowish fabric, just as tall as Eleonore, a decently big chest, with a somewhat weak-looking expression, and wears a buttoned, white shirt, along with a long, maroon-colored skirt that reaches till the lower part of her calfs. Her middle daughter.
"I was worried when I've heard you calling for the guards like that." She tells her mother a bit concerned, but now unsure about the situation after seeing the colossal bird flying away without a fight. "Is everything alright?"
The pink-haired woman turns to her. "Everything is fine. But it appears we have an important, and rather special visit we need to prepared our home for." Says as she walks past her, while at the same time handing her the parchment she has just read, with the daughter reading it and having in the end a reaction similar to that of her mother's, but with a bit more of excitement.
What is important right now as the mother proceeds to enter the mansion, and that is for them to prepare for their arrival. There is a lot of explaining to happen later, that's for sure.
If only her husband was here. But, he is currently busy with the military meeting, and be preoccupied till the next day.
After that, the pink-haired mother for the next few hours was busy with instructing her servant personnel with the proper preparations.
When everything was ready, a guard rushes through the room she was currently resting in.
And he seemed to alarmed about. "Lady Karin! There is a gigantic, flying something coming our way!"
Without anything more is spoken, she along with some of the guards and many of the servants soon after step outside of the mansion, and what she witnesses is truly shocking.
It was over two-hundred meters in length, and over forty in width, and looked like some sort of gargantuan, oval balloon, with a rectangular structure stuck right below it, all of it in the color of grey, with its sides having a big image of what they can assume from the rumors being a winking, pitch-black Aristidis with a hand forward which he uses to present a golden A that is as big as his head. [That's right, the flying object is your typical Zeppelin]
In the meantime, the scene moves within the Zeppelin's gondola, where Aristidis, Louise, Siesta, Charlotte, Kirche, and Eleonore are seen watching through the windows the grand residence below with awe, mostly due to the great view the Zeppelin itself is offering.
Siesta also instead of her usual maid uniform, appears to wear this time a dark-blue and white-colored dress, which is most definitely given to her by Aristidis, and luxurious enough to make her appear more important-looking in the eye.
The blonde woman that moment turns her head to Aristidis. "Forgive me if I sound offensive, and for asking this late, but how-"
"Magic." Aristidis interrupts while answering simply.
Eleonore sweat drops. "I-I didn't ask anything yet?"
"Was it about how I can speak/eat/drink?" The mouthless Storyteller interrupts while giving her a mildly bored expression as he asks.
"Um..." She trails off, feeling rather awkward and pretty much making obvious that to be the case indeed.
He extends a hand toward the woman to indicate her. "There you have it, the most common question after meeting the being that is I. Welcome officially to the club, my lady."
"Club?" The blonde questions the word with a raised eyebrow, unsure about the meaning behind it.
"I will explain later, big sister." Louise tell her with an awkward smile, knowing more than well nowadays about strange terms like that one thanks to the stories she hears and sees everyday.
After some minutes, the Zeppelin lands properly and at an appropriate distance in front of the mansion, with the very well-known people within disembarking, as they walk toward the ones expecting them, which are a few guards and Lady Karin, of course.
Lady Karin bows respectfully while raising with both hands her dress slightly. "I humbly welcome you to our residence, and home to the family of Valliere, Aristidis the Storyteller."
She then, with a somewhat serious expression, turns the head as soon as she is finished toward her little daughter who stands next to him. "Louise."
"M-Mother." Louise responds with an awkward smile, wanting to greet her mother properly but not feeling confident about it due to her most likely, just like with Eleonore, not liking she kept, even if accidentally, the whole Storyteller-Familiar-situation a secret from her.
In the meantime, the maid Cinderella along with Brock, from Pokemon, and Kronk, from The Emperor's New Groove, are each seen pushing down the Zeppelin's ramp as the move outside luggage trolleys filled with suitcases, which attract the guard's and the Lady Karin's attention for a moment due to their peculiar appearance, before they stop the said trolleys right behind the Storyteller's group.
Aristidis nods his head in the same respectful manner. "A pleasure meeting you as well, lady...?"
"Duchess Karin Desiree De La Valliere." The woman tells him her full name. "I must admit that I am a bit conflicted about your sudden visit. You did not explain the nature of it in the message you have sent us."
"Depends. Is your husband, the duke of the house, present?" The Storyteller asks.
Lady Karin is somewhat confused with his question, with the rest feeling the same way, before proceeding to answer. "I'm afraid not. But, he is to return the very next day after the military meeting he is attending to is concluded."
"Ah, I see." He says a bit pleased as he understands. "Well, in this case you may see this as a simple, friendly visit, which will play an important part into building a proper trust between me, the one and only Storyteller, and the Valliere family that dear Louise is member of, since without her, I would not be here in your lovely world to begin with, so doing as much, is a must. Eleonore has given me the idea in a sense, after I myself saw with how much care she showed for her little sister upon reaching the Academy Of Magic. Truly inspirational."
Eleonore in response turns her head to the side with a slight blush on her serious-looking face, trying to not make apparent to everyone around how much she actually appreciates those words.
The mother is unsure on how to perceive that secrecy of his, though.
"Worry not, I will explain the full reason of my visit as soon as your husband is back, so everyone important can be present and not neglected of having the chance to meet my OH so great self." Aristidis explains, before at the end he puts a hand upon his chest while raising his head in a pompous manner, causing much of sweat dropping from everyone because of his show of arrogance.
He then looks at her with a kind expression. "May we enter and see your lovely home?"
Lady Karin finds her composure and focuses on what she planned for her guests, with Eleonore at the moment walking next to her. "Of course. Please, this way."
With that, the group follows her along with her eldest daughter inside the mansion, where they are greeted by the expected beauty and proper interior of the building, and by the many servants of the house that were lined up for them, so they may know that there are more than enough present for whatever need they might have.
Once walking upstairs and reaching the upper floor, with Cinderella and the rest who carry their luggage being led by a few of the mansion's servants elsewhere and presumably to where each of the temporary rooms are, they go through the balcony's window, where they see a table ready and prepared with cups of tea for all, along with one more person who is already seated there, before she gets up to greet them with a bow and a kind smile.
"Greetings. I am Cattleya Yvette La Baume Le Blanc De La Fontaine, daughter of Karin and Sandorion De La Valliere, as well as sister to Eleonore and Louise. Pleased to meet you, sir Aristidis. Everyone." Cattleya greets appropriately, with the Storyteller putting a hand on his chin out of interest as he looks at her, before she looks specifically at Louise as she straightens herself normally. "Welcome home, little Louise."
Big sister Cattleya!" The pink-haired girl yells with utter happiness, while not losing the chance to run straight at her and give a big hug, which she gladly returns. "It's been long, my favorite sister."
"Let me have a good look on your face." The pink-haired sister asks of her, with her little sister complying as she looks at her for a moment, before the former smiles even more pleased than before. "My, you have become so beautiful."
"Cattleya..." Louise trails off while turning her sight downward out of slight embarrassment but still smiling.
"Aww, such a precious moment." The mouthless Storyteller whispers truly delighted with both hands pressing his cheeks while crouching a bit as he grows a second pair of long arms to hug a bit tightly Siesta, Charlotte and Kirche at the same time and bringing them closer to him that way, much to their surprise and soon after their own close enough delight, and the much bigger surprise by Lady Karin, and some of her servants who came along, who mostly did not expect the extra set of arms from him at all.
The pink-haired girl sweat drops as he looks at the odd scene he caused because of his excessive delight, with her pink-haired sister being a bit amazed with his interesting magic/ability, and then turns to her with an awkward smile. "S-So anyway, how have you been?"
Cattleya smiles once more at her. "Thank you for worrying. Nothing has changed."
That causes the little sister's smile to falter, not liking the answer, with Aristidis's group being confused with it.
The pink-haired sister puts a hand upon the girl's cheek in a reassuring manner. "Don't worry. It's just the usual."
Aristidis, with the extra set of arms gone now, immediately after moves next to them with a quick movement, startling them, while his eyes back and forth at the two. "Excuse me for stepping between you like that, but what that usual you are talking is about?"
Eleonore steps forward to explain, drawing attention on her. "Our sister is affected by a rare disease. For as long as we remember, she always had a weak body, and could not do much before needing to rest. Even the simplest tasks can make her far more tired than one would normally expect."
"Leaving her without supervision is out of the question as well, since she can feel weak suddenly on the spot at random times." Louise adds, as the mother and all of the three sisters feel bad for the misfortune she has to endure.
"Honestly, my good sister's case is just..." The pink-haired girl trails off and then begins to remember something, before looking at Aristidis, and with wide open eyes a moment later steps right in front of him and grabbing both his arms with her hands, while having a great deal of hope written all over her face. "Aristidis!"
"That is my name, continue." The pitch-black Storyteller simply tells her with a nod.
"You can cure her affliction, can't you? Just like with Char- Just like with that one girl's mother from some time ago." She begins before quickly correcting herself at the part there while reminding herself of Charlotte's secret.
Her mother and sisters get extremely surprised upon hearing that, with the three girls of his group smiling happily excited at each other about the fact.
"You can do that?!" The blonde sister asks him, in complete disbelief with the thought he can do something that the best healers they have visited cannot.
Aristidis removes Louise's hands off him as he approaches Cattleya while taking with a hand from behind him to wear on his head a doctor's head-mirror. "Let me take a proper look first."
With a serious expression he puts a hand on her shoulder to keep her still as he proceeds to look at one of her eyes which he opens a bit wider using two fingers from his free hand, then moves to the side to look through one of her ears, then back in front to open with his free hand her mouth to look inside, with her feeling a bit nervous at the way he performs his check-up in such a fast manner, before he suddenly takes a step back while putting a hand on his chin as if thinking, and at the same time the head-mirror projecting a green yet transparent and wide beam of light which moves through her as it moves up and down unceasingly, startling greatly for a moment everyone, with the exception of his ladies who watch with interest due to having seen something similar into one of his stories.
After a few more seconds of scanning, the beam retreats back into the head-mirror, with the pitch-black Storyteller as soon nodding with seemingly full understanding of the situation before letting his chin. "There is no mistaking it. You have Myasthenia Gravis."
Everyone just looks at him or one another, confused due to not having knowledge of whatever he is that which he named.
Without waiting more for someone to make the expected question, he turns and walks toward the balcony as he removes his head-mirror, and vanishing it behind him between his back and the cape, and puts a hand upon its edge while proceeding with the explanation. "A chronic, autoimmune, neuromuscular disease. More specifically the incurable kind."
When they hear that, their hopes drop immediately as they look down, with his ladies being more that confused and surprised knowing his power.
Aristidis then with a quick spin turns toward her while holding his Tome open in one hand as he winks while showing them a playful expression. "Is what I would say if I was not the one and only Storyteller!"
Before anyone can react properly, in the blink of an eye he wears in Cattleya's arm a grey bracelet of some sort, which has a big, red circle on it.
"Take. Press properly the red part once done. And we will be seeing you then. Enjoy the trip!" The Storyteller explains simply to her, before waving his hand at her while moving the Tome to press it on her face, which results in her being pulled within its pages.
As he closes it, he turns at the confused and shocked family, with our known group as exception. "And now we let my people in that alternative Family Guy story take care of things. Might take them a bit more since it is a more special case than dear Kirche's, so we might as well sit down while your dutiful servants bring us a cup of tea." Says the last part as he proceeds to take a seat at the chair close to the table next to them.
Kirche turns to the two Vallieres, her face filled with wonder. "Trust me, the place is simply wondrous. Both at treatment and looks."
Louise sighs out of relief, but also for her Familiar's previous sense of humor, and with a bright smile turns to her mother and sister. "Don't worry, he has done it more than once before. At the end of this, Cattleya will come out, and be better than ever. I can't wait!"
"Well I am sorry, but you will have to." Aristidis tells her while seemingly annoyed.
That causes her to look at him confused, till he turns his head to wink playfully at her, which makes her understand his little joke as she then proceeds to wag her finger vertically at him with an I-see-what-you-did-there expression. "Ow, you..."
Then she, Aristidis, Siesta, Charlotte and Kirche proceed to laugh amused, while the rest try to understand the whole situation.
Suddenly, he stops while quickly extending his arm and pressing with his finger the pink-haired girl's nose, which makes her raise defensively her hands up as he looks at her with absolute seriousness. "But seriously, I cannot believe you had someone precious in need all this time, and you forgot about the fact that is me! I swear-"
~Five Minutes Later~
"And when I look, I notice that I have been summoned before I even realize it, which was honestly a rather awkward moment for me." The mouthless Storyteller calmly says as he looks at Lady Karin and Eleonore while the scene shows them all, which includes the known group, sitting around the table at the balcony, pretty much telling them his story of how he began, with the previous case more than forgotten now.
"Then-" He continues, but stops after flinching for a slight second, before proceeding to open his Tome, with Cattleya jumping out of it with a spin, and landing with a small stumbling of her feet at the floor safely while giggling happily.
"Cattleya!" Eleonore yells in her surprise and almost getting up, with the mother sharing her surprise.
"Ahh, my good sister, mother!" The pink-haired sister says with enthusiasm as she moves fast to hug each of the two individually, much to their extreme confusion due to her strangely cheerful behavior. "I don't have the words to describe to you how happy I am right now!"
After saying that, she backs away while spinning somewhat fast but carefully, and continuing with the giggling, her happiness seemingly unending.
Her blonde sister concerned extends a hand toward her way while getting up. "S-Sister, moving like that is not-"
"So, lady Cattleya, would you like to share your experience within?" Aristidis interrupts as he asks with some glee the still giggling woman, with her mother and the eldest sister looking for a moment at him confused.
Cattleya stops as she is about to begin, her enthusiasm not leaving her just yet. "The world was like nothing I have ever seen or even read before in my life. The buildings could be as tall as the sky and even floating ones, with unique shapes, and most of the people could fly with objects spitting rapidly flames more intense than a Fire Dragon's breath, and-and there were a lot of different, odd carriages that can move without horse and even fly, more interesting-looking things around too- Ahh, you should have been there to see it all! Anyway, after I first stepped in there, I was more than overwhelmed with the sight, before two people in white robes and masks approached me, used something similar to what Sir Aristidis used to check me, this specifically being handled, and as soon as they have done so, they suddenly grab me by the arms and shoulders, quickly lead me to one of those odd-looking carriages, and before I even realize it, we reach the place they brought me too, escorted me in the same way inside a big building and within a room that had many drawers and a very thin bed or chair where they placed me on, gave me one or two different-colored glasses of something to drink, had idle chat with them for at a minute or so, right before a thin bracelet began making a beeping sound at the wrists of both, with them nodding at each other and then offering me two or more small things called pills to gulp down with some water and... That was it. After that they simply escorted me outside, and told me to run around and generally move in ways that I would normally not stand, before closing the doors as they were saying their goodbyes to me. At first I was hesitant, but after doing as I was told, I could not believe for how long I could without even feeling the slightest fatigue! After a long time of being forced of doing nearly nothing, I was finally cured! I am finally cured!" Says the very last parts while extremely elated and emotional, as even a few tears escape her eyes to run across her face.
Her mother and eldest sister could not believe it as they just stood in place there frozen.
Not that they didn't want to believe it of course, but to hear of Cattleya's disease being cured in mere moments, after all this time that passed enduring it no less, is not the most believable thing to them.
The pink-haired Sister moves close to Louise and hugs her, with her happily returning it. "My dear, little Louise, I can hardly believe it! Thank you!"
"Everything for you, my favorite sister." Louise responds, pleased to see her sister so happy.
Cattleya lets her, and proceeds to go for Aristidis next, but hesitates while stopping halfway, due to remembering her manners, since not only he is not a familiar face like her family, but also the most important Noble in all of Halkeginia from what she has heard, just before the Storyteller opens his arms himself where he sits with a kind expression, and prompting her with a nod of his head to do like she attempted to a moment ago, which causes her to be surprised with the casual and unbothered stance he shows.
Regardless, Louise's middle sister with a smile takes the opportunity she is given and hugs him, showing how thankful she is. "Thank you so much for what you have done for me, Sir Aristidis the Storyteller. I will never forget your kindness, and if there is anything I can-"
"Call me simply Aristidis-" The pitch-black Storyteller interrupts her, pushes her back softly to somewhat break the hug as he looks heartwarmingly at her. "And if you want to do something for me, that is for you to live your life from here on like you deserve, to make up for the lost time all this time."
Cattleya is moved emotionally by his kind words, before giving him the most heartwarming smile she could form. "Yes."
Everyone was happy to see her like that, with her mother and eldest sister eventually showing their own happiness as well about the fact.
Now that she is cured, she can finally live her life like she wants, without anything holding her back. And that alone is more than enough to make the family feel grateful for the Storyteller's miraculous gift.
"Now come on take your seat, so you may hear of my story, before moving on to some from my Tome next." Aristidis tells her as he indicates with a hand at the empty seat by the table, his kind expression unceasing, and with the scene turning black.
~At The Filled With Blackness Location That Still Remains Unknown~
At the known location, and at the known couch, the black-cloaked man with the M-Shaped hood that is Kremant, and the black-cloaked man with the highly expressive, white mask that is Derflinger are both seen watching in a relaxing manner on their TV the whole thing.
"I always forget how nice of a guy he actually is." Derf admits.
Kremant looks at him. "Because of the few sins of his past, and somewhat ulterior at times motives."
The white-masked man turns his head at him with a raised mask-eyebrow. "Can you blame me for it?"
The black-cloaked man shows his sharp-toothed grin out of mild amusement. "Not in the slightest. Anyway, let's continue as our scene turns black."
Derf looks around them at the pitch-black area that is their place, and then back at him with utter confusion written all over his white mask. "It IS black, are you blind or some-"
The scene turns completely black, signing the end of the episode.
{To Be Continued}
[The episode shorter than normal, I know, but I had to cut it short due to the very next episode's also expectedly short duration. So, you will see both the next day with her father's arrival, and the part after that, together.]
[Good patience to you.]