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'What the hell!' was the first thing that came to the two girl's minds.

For Lucy, it was the fact that she had been transported to an unknown area who knows how far away from Earthland. There was also the fact that she was in front of a girl with pink hair (much like Natsu) who was wearing an equally shocked expression.

For Louise, it was because there was a human in front of her. This didn't make any sense. She knew she had done the summoning perfectly (at least in her opinion), so why had this girl appeared? A familiar was usually animal of some sort. An owl, a griffon, a dragon, a toad, even a cat. They weren't supposed to be human, let alone a commoner. At least, Louise assumed she was a commoner, judging from her clothes. Albeit she had never seen commoner clothes like this before.

'Perhaps she's from another country,' Louise thought.

Upon closer inspection, the girl appeared quite beautiful. However, what caught Louise's attention was her chest. It was almost as big as Kirche's, much to her own disgust. Already she had a reason to dislike her familiar.

'No that can't be right. This can't be my familiar,' Louise decided. "Who are you?"

She needed answers. There had to be some sort logical explanation this. Humans couldn't be summoned as familiars, they just couldn't. There was no record of it ever occurring, so why would now be any different?

Lucy didn't answer. It wasn't that she couldn't understand the girl, she could, but for some reason, no sound would come out of her mouth. She didn't entirely understand why, perhaps she was still changing. That person from before said the language was foreign so she would adapt to it. That was the strangest part of all. While the words she was hearing were a different tongue, she could understand them as if they were her own language.

"Where are you from commoner?" Louise demanded impatiently.

'Commoner? Like peasant? Who uses those words anymore?' Lucy thought incredulously.

Sure, in Fiore there was some nobility, but they never spoke down to people like that, and they never used those sorts of words either.

"What were you thinking Zero? Calling a commoner with a summoning spell!" one student taunted, causing laughter to erupt between the students.

It was at this point Lucy noticed they weren't alone. She saw several teenagers, who were about the same age as her (though technically she would be older) all wearing the same outfit.

'Are those uniforms? Does that mean I'm at a school?' Lucy wondered.

With this new revelation, the celestial wizard quickly examined the area. From what she could see, she was in a courtyard, surrounded by three towers (she didn't know what else to call them) and there were these strange creatures alongside the students, whom for reasons Lucy didn't know, looked they'd been hit with one of Natsu's fire dragons roars. Had there been some sort of fire before she arrived?

"I just made a mistake," Louise defended. 'Now of all times when I didn't want to. Why? Just why?'

"Mistake? Nothing unusual here!" Malicorne chirped.

"It is Louise the Zero after all," another student added, causing the others to laugh once more.

Louise gritted her teeth in frustration. She wanted to scream. She really did. Of all the days for her to mess up, it had to be today.

"Enough!" Colbert ordered as the students shut up.

He didn't care if Louise wasn't capable of magic like the others. He would not stand for bullying.

"Professor Colbert, please let me redo the ritual. I summoned a commoner, this can't be right," Louise pleaded desperately.

Lucy felt somewhat offended by that.

"I'm sorry Ms Valliere but this is a sacred ritual that can't be redone. And since you did summon something you must proceed with it," he said sternly.

'Ritual? Summon? What are they talking about?' Lucy wondered.

She wanted to say something. To ask them where she was and what they were talking about, but no sound came out of her lips. It was as if something was preventing her from speaking.

"Whether you like it or not, this girl has been chosen as your familiar," Colbert said firmly.

Louise couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"But I've never heard of a commoner being a familiar," she argued.

That only caused the class to laugh again.

'Neither have I to be honest, but in this case it can't be helped,' Colbert thought. "I will not allow any exceptions, commoner or not. Please proceed with the binding ritual Ms Valliere. If you do not form a contract, you will be expelled."

"With her," Louise despaired.

"With her," Colbert confirmed.

The only thing Louise could do at that moment was sulk. This was meant to the moment when she proved to everyone else that she was a mage, that she was capable of magic. Instead she was humiliated by summoning a commoner. Did the universe hate her or something?

Lucy had no idea what was going on. Familiars, and binding rituals, just what did it all mean?

Louise groaned but proceeded. She moved towards Lucy and knelt down beside her, her face directly across from her. Lucy was slightly nervous about what was about to happen. She tried to move, to stand up, but for some reason her body wouldn't allow it.

"Be grateful. Most commoners would never receive this from a noble," Louise muttered as she moved in closer, much to Lucy's confusion. "My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere. Pentagon of the five elemental powers; bless this humble being and make her my familiar."

Then, without warning, Louise leaned in and kissed Lucy on the lips. Lucy froze at what was happening.

"This is the binding ritual," she thought dumbstruck. "My first kiss, gone, just like that, and with a girl I just met."

Louise retracted from Lucy, and when she did, a burning sensation took place on Lucy's left hand. The pain was so bad she nearly passed out. Fortunately, she had a high level of endurance built up from her previous battles, and she'd felt the heat of flames before (generally from Natsu). When the pain ended a set of ruins were engraved on Lucy's left hand.

Colbert took a step forward to examine the runes himself.

'These are… different,' he realized. 'Different to any familiar runes I've seen before. Perhaps it's because she's a human, although I'll have to investigate more.'

'What on earth was that?' Lucy thought. 'What are these markings on my hand?'

"Congratulations Miss Valliere, you've successfully summoned a familiar," he said before turning to his students. "Classes are done for today. You're free to do whatever you wish."

The students murmured among themselves before going off with their familiars discussing the events of today. There were some comments about Louise and Lucy but, they were mostly ignored.

"Ms Valliere, I know this isn't ideal for you, but this is the way things are. This girl may not seem like much now but give her a chance. She may prove to be much more than you think," Colbert assured.

Louise somehow doubted that. The girl was just a commoner after all.

Lucy, at that point, was fed up with sitting around as they talked about her while pretending she was not even here. It was also at that point, where she managed to find her voice again.

"OKAY WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" she shouted out surprising both Louise and Colbert.

Immediately after that, she started coughing. Once she had calmed down, she spoke again.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't speak before, or move for some reason but, what is going on?" she asked pleadingly. "Where am I? Who are you people? Furthermore, this whole familiar and binding ritual business, what is it?"

Lucy didn't know if she sounded hysterical or not but she didn't care. She needed answers and she needed them now.

Louise was about to snap at Lucy to keep quiet when Colbert intervened.

"Ah, my deepest apologies," he apologised. "We were so wrapped in performing the ritual we didn't bother to explain things first. Furthermore, a human being summoned as a familiar in our society is unheard of so it was a surprise when you appeared. Although I guess the same applies to you. You must have gotten quite a shock when you were brought here."

'You think!' Lucy thought sarcastically.

"That aside, what is your name if I may ask?" Colbert inquired.

Not sensing any hostile intent, Lucy decided to be honest.

"It's Lucy," she murmured softly. "Lucy Heartfilia."

Louise had to admit, it was pretty name.

"Well, Ms Heartfilia, to answer your questions, you are at Tristain Academy of Magic. You were summoned here by Miss Valliere to be her familiar, a servant generally summoned by a mage once in their life, though, you are the first human one to be summoned," Colbert explained.

Lucy furrowed her eyebrows at that. Not that she didn't doubt the man but she had never heard of Tristain before. She had to have been in another country, there was simply no other explanation. The part about familiars however, that caught her attention.

"Wait, you mean I'm supposed to be this girl's servant?" she cried. "Don't I get any say in this?"

Colbert couldn't deny she had a right to be upset. Anyone would be if they found out they had to give up their freedom.

"I'm afraid not," Colbert shook his head. "Once the ritual has been completed the familiar and their master are bound for life. Those runes on your hand are proof of that."

Lucy was in a state of utter disbelief. Not only had she been summoned here against her will, but in one kiss (her first kiss) with a girl she hardly knew she had lost her freedom. She had plenty of bad luck in her life but this by far was the worst. It was as if the universe hated her.

"I think it would be best if you and Ms Valliere talked it over a bit more," Colbert said. "So I'll leave you both to get acquainted with each other."

And with that, Jean Colbert left the courtyard to speak with the headmaster about the days events, and perhaps research those runes he saw.

"Follow me," Louise sighed. "We can talk more in my room."

Not in the mood to argue, Lucy grudgingly followed after her master.

Louise's Room

The pair arrived at Louise's room Lucy briefly marvelled at the luxuriousness of it before being creeped out by the chains hanging on the wall. Louise went to her bed and sat down facing Lucy.

"What's with the chains on the wall?" Lucy asked suddenly.

It was the first question she could think of.

"I was expecting to summon a griffon or a dragon, so I prepared my room just in case," Louise explained.

That didn't exactly make things better in Lucy's opinion.

"This familiar thing, can't you redo it?" Louise asked. "Redo it and send me back that is?"

"I wish," Louise sighed. "But no. Once you've been contracted, you're a familiar for life." Louise groaned. "Ugh, look I'm not any happier about this than you are. I wanted to prove my worth as a mage by summoning a griffon or a dragon, maybe even a manticore. Not by summoning a lowly commoner."

Lucy felt a little offended by that. This girl could act disappointed all she wanted but she didn't know who Lucy was, nor did she know what she was capable of.

Before she could ask any other questions, Louise started to undress much to Lucy's ire. Then without warning she threw her uniform at Lucy and changed into a nightdress.

"Wash those," Louise ordered.

Lucy wasn't sure if she heard her properly.

"I'm sorry, what?" she exclaimed.

"Did I not say it loud enough? Wash those," Louise repeated. "Have it done preferably by tomorrow. Speaking of which, wake up in the morning for breakfast."

Without another word, Louise turned over and went to sleep on her bed.

Lucy wanted to protest and say she didn't have to do this sort of thing. However, the smart rational side of her decided against it. Right now, she didn't know much about the place she was in. It would be impossible to return to Fiore if she didn't know what direction she was in. So, for the moment, she would play along.

Scooping up the laundry she left the room to look for a suitable place to wash them. Walking through the corridors and down the stairs Lucy couldn't help but feel the place was old-fashioned from the way it was designed. That said, she wasn't sure how she was going to find the right place to wash these.

While walking the celestial wizard briefly came across a boy called Guiche and a girl called Katie who were flirting and talking about souffle. However, Lucy didn't pay them much attention and continued onward. It was the same when she came across this girl Kirche flirting with some boy who's name she didn't catch by the fountain.

'Well, the students certainly like to keep their date lives up,' Lucy thought. 'I hope no one tries to hit on me, though from what I've seen from Nobles, that's unlikely.'

While she was wrapped up in her thoughts, she didn't notice someone in front of her. it was the professor from before.

"Agh," he cried out as he dropped several books and scrolls.

"Oh I'm so sorry," Lucy apologised quickly. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

She set the laundry and picked up some of the items that fell.

"It's alright," Colbert assured. "It was just an accident."

Colbert eyed the runes on her left hand. He had only recently discovered what they were and was about to inform the headmaster. His eyes then fell towards Lucy's right hand where there was a pink symbol. He had never seen it before so he had no idea what it meant. He would attempt to ask the girl at some point though.

"Hey, um, Louise wanted me to wash these. Do you know where I might be able to?" Lucy asked.

Colbert thought about it briefly before he gave her directions to the servant's quarters to retrieve some soap and a basin and then to a well outside. Lucy completed the first task with relative ease. The second one, however, that was different.

The minute she stepped outside Lucy took a moment to look up at the sky. She dropped the laundry at what she saw.

Shining bright in the night sky was two, not one, bright moons. One red, the other blue.

Lucy couldn't believe what she was seeing. Earthland didn't have two moons. Earthland didn't, leading her to a shocking realization.

"N-No way," she stammered. "I'm in another world."

Hi there. Well, what did you think of that? Lucy became aware of her status here though she still has a lot more to learn. I was going to do more but I thought the ending where Lucy realized she was in a different world was the best way to go. Also, the reason Lucy didn't argue with Louise like Saito did is because she is a lot smarter than him and is aware she has nowhere else to go for the moment.

Next chapter will focus on the duel with Guiche. And yes, it's just Guiche. Kirche will have a different role in the story than the way I portrayed her in the one-shot. Hope you enjoyed. Please review.