Ah yeah bitches! Here comes a triple crossover!
Familiar of Zero! Fairy Tail! and Kamen Rider Wizard!
Let's see the result!
"Alright, this part goes… here… and this part… over… there…" a young man's voice mumbled as he was slowly working on something on the ground.
He had light brown hair, cut neatly, with brown eyes, and a pair of glasses over them at the moment. He was wearing a red shirt underneath a black zip up short coat, and a pair of light blue jeans with simple black sneakers.
As for what he was working on, the best way to describe it would be as a large magic circle.
"Hey, Marcus, I think I got it this time." he heard a voice say from behind him, making him turn to look at the speaker.
It was a young man, probably a year or two younger than him appearance wise, though he knew better, as they were twins. They had similar facial features and the same eyes, but the other young man's hair was slicked back and was almost blonde in color, a product of bleaching. He was wearing a yellow shirt with black sleeves and a pair of black jeans with blue sneakers, carrying a sheet of paper on top of a large box, and hanging off his back was a backpack.
Marcus rose an eyebrow at his twin brother "Alright, but what's with the box William?"
William grinned as he sat down the box close to the magic circle "You know how I read fanfiction sometimes right?"
"Some of it is horrible, but yes, I know." Marcus said with a nod.
William rolled his eyes "Anyway, it's a trope that when a magic circle happens, you have toys around that you want to turn into the real objects, he said as he opened the box.
Marcus looked into the box curiously, blinking as he saw just about EVERY toy that was released for the show Kamen Rider Wizard, including every ring, the weapons, the belts, and the figures of the Phantoms of the two riders, Wizardragon and Beast Chimera.
Marcus stared at the contents for a few moments, before looking back up at his brother "This is either the stupidest thing that's ever crossed your mind, or the most brilliant plan ever if it actually works."
William laughed at that, before handing him the piece of paper "Here, I think this thing should work."
Marcus grabbed the sheet, looking over the words on it, before nodding "Alright, sounds good, and did you grab the other stuff I asked for?"
William nodded, slinging off his backpack and opening it to show… lots of equipment for cutting stones and jewels, as well as ring making "Kinda funny that if my plan works, you could make your own wizard rings with their own spells."
"And if our initial plan is a bust, I could sell magic rings to mages." Marcus added as he inspected his equipment.
"Personally, I'm sure it'll work… oh, I also remembered to write that your store is closing down and that you won't be coming back." William said to his brother.
Marcus nodded "Right, and did you remember to resign from your post at the restaurant?"
William nodded "Yeahp! I'm officially jobless!" he said with a grin.
"Not really something to be proud of." Marcus mumbled lowly as he nodded, being satisfied with his equipment's condition before he put on the backpack himself, standing up and looking over his magic circle.
It was funny how he ended up going with Kamen Rider Wizard's magic circle considering what his brother had brought.
"Here." William said, standing up and handing Marcus the Wizardriver, while he wrapped the Beast Driver around his waist.
Marcus looked at it for a moment, before shrugging and putting it on, and grabbing a few rings along with an extended ring holder that William had custom made himself.
He slipped the Driver On ring on his right hand, and the Flame Style ring on his left, while putting the Water, Hurricane and Land Style rings on the ring holder, along with Kick Strike, Connect, and Dragorize. He then looked through the other rings, before also grabbing the Big and Extend rings, since they were the classics, and putting them on the last two holes in the ring holder.
As for William, he put the rings with the same purpose on his hands, before putting all of Beast's remaining rings in his ring holder.
For every remaining ring, Marcus just put them in a separate pocket in his backpack, so they wouldn't get mixed up with his equipment.
All that remained in the box now were the weapons and the two Phantom figures, which they grabbed what respectively belonged to them, though Marcus had to chuckle at the small Machine Winger that he put down in his backpack as well, while William had custom painted another one in Beast's colors and even remolded some parts himself.
"So, I do believe we're ready now." Marcus said as he placed Wizard's weapon between his backpack and himself while holding onto Dragon, while William was holding both his sword and gun in one hand, and Chimera in another.
"Seems like it yeah. So, let's get down to it and see if we do end up leaving." William said with a grin.
Marcus nodded as he brought up the sheet of paper again before starting to read off of it.
"Oh great ancients, please hear my plea…"
Meanwhile, in a completely different universe.
A young looking girl with long bubblegum pink hair and eyes was waiting nervously with a large group of other young people.
She was wearing a simple white blouse and a black skirt along with long black stockings, and hanging off a golden broach with a pentagram on her neck was a dark purple cape, while she held a wand in her hands.
Everyone else was wearing something similar, obviously with pants for the boys, as these were the uniforms of their school.
Her name was Louise Francoise Le Blanc de la Valliere, and she was a student at the Tristain Academy of Magic.
Today was the Springtime Familiar Summoning Ritual… and she was nervous.
You see, while she may be a student of magic, Louise had a certain… problem, when it came to casting spells.
No matter what she cast, she'd always end up causing an explosion.
It was frustrating, nerve-wrecking, and above all, worrying.
It sometimes kept her awake throughout the nights, wondering if she was even truly fit to be a mage.
Because… if she wasn't mage… she was nothing.
And if she was nothing, her family might cast her out, and she'd be forced to live on the streets like a commoner, and she'd probably end up dying in an alley while fighting off a cat for some leftover fish.
You can see just how worried she was if she came up with such a specific scenario.
She was so worried, she hadn't even noticed everyone else had gone and summoned their familiars, and that it was now her turn, she only noticed a tanned hand snapped it's fingers in front of her face, making her look up to see the busty, dark skinned and fiery red haired face of Kirche Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst, looking at her with a barely noticeable hint of concern.
"Are you feeling alright Zero?" Kirche asked, using the nickname the school had come up with for Louise, though if you looked closely you could see the small frown on her face.
Louise bristled slightly at the use of the nickname, before taking a deep breath, letting it out slowly "I'm fine, just… thinking."
Kirche nodded, though she wasn't buying it one bit, but she'd let the issue drop "Alright, it's your turn though, the professor's been calling you for a minute and we weren't getting a reaction out of you." she said with a bit of amusement.
Louise blushed a bit in embarrassment before nodding "Right, my turn." she mumbled as she walked out of the crowd of students.
She soon reached the professor, a man in his 40's who was balding, wearing small glasses on his face and dark blue robes, holding a staff in one hand "Miss Valiere, are you well?" the professor asked, concern clearly written on his face.
Louise smiled a bit at him, partially because of his concern, and mostly because he was always looking out for her in the school "I'm fine professor Colbert, I was simply deep in thought."
Colbert looked at her for a moment, before nodding, smiling slightly "Very well, if you'll step up to the spell circle, we can begin the ritual."
Louise nodded, taking a deep breath and walking up to the circle, holding out her wand and closing her eyes.
"Oh Pentagon of the five elements, hear my call…"
At the same time, in yet ANOTHER different universe.
It was another beautiful day in the city of Magnolia, located in Fiore in the world of Earthland.
Well, beautiful, but also rather loud, all because of a certain mage guild.
"Natsu, the answer is no." a short old man with a white moustache and hair on the sides of his head and the back, though none on the top, sighed out as he was holding down a pink haired teen boy wearing a white scale patterned scarf… with his one giant arm.
"Dammit gramps! Come on, I just wanna look at it!" Natsu shouted, trying to free himself from the hand while spewing flames from his mouth at every other word.
"Can someone remind that idiot what happens when you look at an eclipse?" a boy with black hair, wearing nothing but his underwear and a silver necklace asked as he laid his head down on a wooden table.
"Why don't you do it?" asked a girl sitting across from him, wearing a bikini top and a pair of jeans, her long brown hair falling down her back while she drank from a large pitcher of beer.
"Because I'm gonna sleep a bit, that last job I did tired me out." the young man said, yawning a bit as he closed his eyes, with the girl shrugging as she went back to chugging her beer.
Everyone else continued to stare at the spectacle that was Natsu trying to free himself from the guild master's grasp so that he could stare at the eclipse that was starting soon.
The moon was slowly starting to cover more and more of the sun, everyone making sure not to look directly at it.
Though, at the magic council, a man with a blue hair and a strange mark on the side of his face looked at it for a moment as it started, narrowing his eyes.
"Something's going to happen… the question now is… what?" he muttered to himself.
Two pairs of brown eyes slowly blinked opened, before closing again as their owners winced in pain from headaches.
Marcus and William both slowly got up, grabbing their heads as the headaches slowly subsided, looking around the immediate area.
"What the heck happened?" William muttered in confusion as he sat himself down.
"Don't know, but I doubt that it was supposed to happen, I mean, the incantation asked for safe passage, not 'give me a headache'." Marcus said with a groan.
William nodded in agreement, looking around more, and the looking himself over, before pausing as he reached his belt buckle "Huh… bro? I think something happened."
Marcus rose an eyebrow as he looked at his brother's belt buckle, finding that it looked like a plain steel one, but there was something about it that just screamed off.
Based on that, he slowly looked down at his own, and his eyes widened in shock at what he saw.
His belt buckle was shaped like a black hand with a gold outline.
Both brothers looked at each other "You don't think…?" William muttered, too shocked to finish his sentence.
"Only one way to find out." Marcus said as he slipped off the Driver On right while standing up, and grabbed the Connect ring, sliding it onto his finger, and then placing it in front of his buckle.
"CONNECT, PLEASE."
He almost fell back down when the red magic circle appeared in the air in front of him, stumbling back while William looked on with a dropped jaw.
Slowly, Marcus was able to calm himself, and looked closer at the magic circle, before thinking about what he wanted to grab, reaching in, and then taking his hand out, his fist closed as the magic portal disappearing, before he opened his hand to find the Garuda ring in his palm.
"It worked." he murmured in awe at what had just happened.
Slowly, he realised something, turning his head to look at his brother, who looked incredibly smug at the moment, narrowing his eyes "Not a word." apparently all that did was make him even more smug.
Marcus sighed at that, before switching out his rings and putting on the Garuda ring "Let's get some recon done." he said, before scanning the ring "GARUDA, PLEASE." and summoning the Plamonster's tray in front of him, which quickly constructed itself, before he put the ring into it's chest, and the small monster gained life, looking at Marcus expectantly "I want you to fly up and scout the area, report back here if you find a town nearby, and then lead us there." Garuda nodded at the command, before flying up and going to do as he was ordered.
"Well," William started suddenly, getting Marcus's attention "I just had a very interesting conversation."
Marcus looked at him in confusion "What are you… oh." he said in realization, his eyes widening slightly, before he closed them and calmed himself, slowly breathing in and out.
After several seconds, he opened them again, except he wasn't in his previous location, instead he was in some kind of dark void of an area.
He looked up when he heard a roar, seeing exactly what he had expected.
Wizardragon, flying up above and coming down towards him.
When it landed, it rose its head up, looking down at him for a few moments, before it finally spoke.
"Glad to see you're fast to adapt." the beast spoke in a deep male voice.
Marcus nodded at it "So, before this… were you the toy, or are you the same Dragon that was in Haruto?"
"A bit of both to be honest, whatever happened to send us here made both Chimera and I real, sealing us inside of the two of you, and granting us the memories of our originals."
"So, anything the original Dragon knows, you know as well then, that's helpful." Marcus said, his curiosity piqued.
Dragon nodded in agreement "One thing I can tell you, is that Haruto had several rings he rarely made use of due to not truly needing them, except for one time where he went outside of Japan and had to make use of a Translate ring on himself."
Marcus nodded at the information "I see, I suppose I could summon the ring to myself using the Connect ring, and should the place prove to speak a different language, then I'll simply use it to fix that."
Dragon chuckled lightly "Glad to see my host has a head on his shoulders. Should you need me, you need simply talk to me in your mind, and I will answer."
With a nod, Marcus soon opened his eyes back in the real world, looking at William "How long was I out?"
His brother shrugged "Maybe like 10 seconds? I kinda noticed it didn't take long when I was talking to Chimera earlier myself."
Marcus nodded at that, and the two soon made sure they had everything, with Marcus checking inside the bag, only to frown in confusion "Some of the rings are missing."
William blinked in surprise at that as he looked at his brother "Seriously? Which ones?"
Marcus did a mental headcount of all the rings in the bag, before he seemed to understand why the missing rings were gone "The missing ones are my Dragon style rings and the Infinity ring… the Drago Time is also missing."
William blinked at that, before reaching for his ring hoop, going for the last one, only to sigh as he grabbed air "The Hyper ring is gone too."
Marcus nodded "My guess is that Dragon and Chimera are holding onto those rings for now, we'll probably get them when they think we're ready."
William nodded at his brother's explanation "Makes sense, they want to be sure we can use them properly."
Suddenly they heard a mechanical chirping noise grab their attention, seeing Garuda flying back down to them rather urgently.
Marcus looked at his familiar seriously as he slung his backpack on his back "Something urgent?"
The familiar nodded it's head before flying off in a certain direction, turning around to tell them to follow it.
The brothers looked at each other for a moment, before the two broke out into a sprint and started following after Garuda, wondering just what it had found.
After following it through the foliage for about a minute, they got their answer as they reached a dirt road cutting through the woods.
Both of them stared with wide eyes at what they were looking at.
The unconscious form of one Louise Valliere.
Slowly, Marcus pulled off his glasses, blinking, looked at the girl, cleaned his glasses, and then put them back on and staring again.
"Are… are we in Halkegenia or something? Did we get the spell wrong?" William muttered, completely confused.
"I don't think we did… besides, I'm pretty sure Louise never fell unconscious in the middle of a road in the series." Marcus said, walking towards the girl and checking her over for injuries.
"Now that you mention it…" William muttered as he started looking around the area "Where's Saito?"
"My guess? Something went wrong with whatever we were doing, and this happened." Marcus replied, holding out his hand as Garuda landed in it and dissipated, leaving behind it's ring which he pocketed for now.
"I'll try to find a town." William said as he grabbed a ring in the hoop, putting it in front of his buckle "GRIFFON, GO!" and his own Plamonster, the golden and green Griffon, formed in the air in front of him, but at the same time, an object was deposited in his hand, appearing to be a small black mirror with Beast's magic circle on the back.
He quickly realised what it was, and then put his ring into Griffon, the creature coming to life and flying in front of him while waiting.
"I want you to go and find a town or village nearby, there's probably going to be one on either end of the road here, so head in either direction." William said, his familiar nodding before it took off towards the front, and William looked down into the mirror to see that Griffon's sight was relayed into it.
"She seems fine, so, all we really need to do is wait for her to wake up." Marcus said as he picked up the younger girl, William following him into the foliage as they set her down at the base of a tree, sitting down not too far from her as they waited, and at the same time observed some of their gear more closely.
Roughly an hour later, tired pink eyes slowly blinked awake, their owner, getting themselves into a more stable seated position, as they slowly looked around the area.
From what they could see it looked like an impromptu campsite, with a fire pit in the middle, and three half logs used for seating.
Several seconds later, those same eyes snapped fully awake, as Louise finally realised that something was off.
She payed closer attention to the area, finding that one of the trees has been cut down to form the log seats, and that the fire was still strong, which probably meant it was recent.
Wherever she was, because this clearly wasn't her school, she hoped that whoever, or whatever, had found her, would be peaceful.
She then heard the rustling of leaves, turning her head and reaching for her wand at the same time.
Sure, she could only make explosions, but that might end up saving her life.
She stilled when she saw the two men walking out of the foliage, carrying a handful of fruits each, before the two of them stopped and stared at her.
She noticed that the two of them were wearing rather strange clothing, it wasn't like what most commoners wore, as it appeared to be of better quality, but at the same time, they obviously weren't nobles, unless of course they were trying to stay hidden? She really didn't know.
Then one of them, the one with glasses, smiled at her and started to speak, but, she couldn't recognize the language, it sounded like gibberish to her.
She frowned, clearly not understanding them, and they seemed to notice this, before the other one with the strange hair talked as well, but again, she didn't understand him.
The other one seemed to ponder this as he deposited his load of fruits, the one with strange hair mimicking his actions, before he snapped his fingers and reached into his coat, pulling out… a ring.
Said ring had an image on it, showing the head of a dragon, seemingly speaking with what she believes were different kinds of writing next to it's head.
He placed the ring on his right hand, before bringing it down to his belt buckle, which to her shock, made a sound she understood.
"TRANSLATE, PLEASE."
A red magic circle then appeared above the area, before moving down and passing over the three of them.
And then the one with glasses spoke again.
"Can you understand me now, miss?"
She blinked in surprise as she heard him clearly this time, nodding at his question "Yes… I can." she answered, growing even more confused than before.
He sighed in relief at that "Good, I was afraid I'd have to act out everything we say." he said with a chuckle, making the other man laugh a bit.
Louise pictured the thought in her mind, and couldn't help the small twitch of her lips at that.
"Anyway, I do believe we've yet to introduce ourself." the one with glasses said "My name is Marcus Rings, and this is my brother, William Rings."
Louise nodded as she stood, before doing a small curtsey "It's good to meet you, my name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de la Valliere, daughter of Duke Valliere, and a student of the Tristain Academy of magic. Might I ask where am I and how I got here?"
The two brothers looked at each other, silently debating, until William spoke "We're… well, we're not very sure. See, we were experimenting with a magic circle earlier, and then we eventually woke up here after it sucked us in suddenly."
Louise frowned a bit at that "That's similar to what happened to me, I was to summon my familiar, and the magic circle pulled me in suddenly."
The two brothers blinked at that, before turning to each other with raised eyebrows, and then looking back at Louise "Can you excuse us for a minute? We'll try to come up with a theory as to what happened."
Louise looked at them for a few moments, before nodding, as they stepped back into the foliage, away enough that she couldn't easily overhear them.
Meanwhile, the brothers were having a justified panic attack.
"Shit, shit, shit shit shit shit shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit!" William hissed out in a, well, a panicked tone. "Do you realize what we just did? If this is where we wanted to be, then we just took Familiar of Zero's plot, crumpled it up, stepped on it, shredded it, set it on fire, then threw it out the window!"
Meanwhile, Marcus was mumbling under his breath while playing with a necklace he'd pulled out from his shirt, shaped like a dragon's head with a small red jewel in it's mouth to mimic a flame.
"Dammit bro what are we gonna do?!" William hissed out at his brother.
Marcus suddenly stopped mumbling as he looked at his brother "I have… 60% of a plan."
William slumped down "Better than 50% I guess." he then looked back up at his brother "What about the remaining 40%?"
"Improvise." Marcus said quickly.
"That's a shitty plan!" William hissed out.
"You didn't even hear the first 60% of it," Marcus said plainly.
William sighed after a moment "Alright then, what is it?"
"First part of the plan, don't say anything that might invoke the wrath of the tsundere." Marcus said seriously.
"Yeah, that makes sense." William agreed.
"Second part, we get to a town as fast as possible, so how is Griffon doing on that?" Marcus asked his brother with a raised eyebrow.
William brought out the mirror, looking into it, and blinking in surprise "He found one, he's flying above it in a circle."
"Perfect, that makes things easier, now, third part, we're not fully sure where we are, so we don't need to mention the part about other worlds just yet until we can confirm it, or she might think we're messing around and blow us up." Marcus finished with a nod.
William stared at him "That's 60%?"
"75% since Griffon found a town." Marcus added.
William nodded slowly, not knowing what else to say to that, before blinking as he thought of something "What about Kamen Riders?"
Marcus stilled… before going back to mumbling.
William facepalmed as he realised his brother hadn't counted on them possibly assuming their new rider forms, which he might add they had yet to actually use.
10 seconds later, his brother snapped his fingers "Magic Knight armor, I'm pretty sure her country has that, and we can just say that ours is custom made."
William nodded "Ok, that works, yeah, we can definitely use that."
Back to Louise, she waited for the brothers to come back, curious as to what they were discussing.
A few moments later however, they came back, and she supposed they must have reached a conclusion "Well? What have you found?"
Marcus decided to answer her "We aren't truly positive just yet, so we'll need to find a town, that way someone could inform us about what happened most recently, and tell us where we are."
She nodded at that, finding logic in his words "Then, I suppose we'll set out in the morning?"
"Actually, we might be able to reach a town in about an hour if we head off in that direction." William said as he pointed towards the direction Griffon had flown off to earlier.
She sighed at that, nodding reluctantly at the fact she was going to be walking for the better part of an hour.
She was surprised however when the two grabbed a new ring each, Marcus raising an eyebrow at William "You have a Connect ring?"
William grinned "Chimera was forging it in his belly for me, the driver literally opened for a second to spit it out."
"That reminds me, what are we gonna do about that problem?" Marcus asked in a slightly worried tone.
William seemed to be deep in thought, before smiling. "No worries, Chimera said that there's plenty of ambient magic in the air, so I'm safe." he said, prompting a sigh of relief from Marcus. The last thing he wanted right now was to worry about his brother literally being eaten alive from the inside out.
"What are you talking about?" Louise asked, rather curious about their conversation.
"Just, details about my brother's use of his magic." Marcus said, stopping for a split second to wonder how to word it.
"What kind of details?" Louise asked, honestly curious about what he meant.
"Well… my brother's magic is rather ancient, so he can't use too much, or it might...hurt him." Marcus answered hesitantly.
"...you don't need to sugar coat it, bro," William sighed. "If I overuse it, it'll kill me."
Her eyes went wide at that "Kill you?! B-b-but that's unheard of, the only kind of magic with that kind of risk would be the kind that deals with the dead." she gasped "Don't tell me-"
"No, no, he doesn't. The magic is literally just very old, and can prove dangerous when misused, he just needs to be careful when handling it and he'll be fine." Marcus said with a sigh as he cut her off.
"I also may need to absorb some mana to stay safe from time to time." William added with a shrug, prompting a look from Marcus who sighed and nodded as he got the hidden question.
Louise tilted her head in confusion "Mana?"
The brothers looked back at her "Magical energy, though it has a lot of names, you probably know it as something different."
"For example, it's also known as Ethernano." William said with a grin, and Marcus just realised he'd covered a mishap he almost put them in.
Louise quickly connected the dots, realising they were talking about what nobles referred to as willpower, but that did beg the question "How do you know these different names for it?"
Marcus shrugged "Those are the two most common names for it back in our hometown."
"And where is your hometown?" Louise asked. She'd never heard of something like their magic in Halkegenia, not even from what little she knew of the distant land of Rub' al Khali.
"We don't really know." William said, and Marcus thought up what to say quickly from just that one line.
"See, where we come from, we weren't really allowed to head outside, we were isolated from the rest of the world, so because of that, we didn't know where we were, and because of how isolated our town was, we developed our own kinds of magic, which ended up being mostly ring magic." he said, and honestly, he felt horrible for lying to her, but he knew she'd never believe the truth, at least not yet, and especially when they had no proof. "So, since we were tired of that kind of dull and boring life, we left, and, well, you know where we ended up as much as we do."
Louise frowned as she listened to him. From the sound of it, the two came from some kind of heretic colony, one that didn't worship the Founder, but, even they didn't seem to like it there, so she opted to stay silent instead of saying anything against them.
"Now, I think that's every issue addressed." William said, using it as a prompt to see if she had anymore questions, receiving a shake of the head from the girl.
"Alright, in that case." Marcus started as both he and William placed their rings in front of their belts, prompting two similar, but slightly different sounds.
"CONNECT, PLEASE."
"CONNECT, GO!"
Two large magic circles appeared next to each of them, one in red, and the other in gold, and she took the time to observe them.
The red on seemed to have jewel shapes in the middle ring, the outer ring being made up of ancient text even she couldn't describe, and a smaller ring surrounding what looked like a jewel, made up of the outer edges of a dragon's body.
As for the golden circle, it's edges were more pointed than the other's, and it was mostly made up of ancient text, with four animals depicted surrounding what she thought was supposed to be a lion's head, the animals being a falcon, a chameleon, a dolphin, and a bull.
Then they both reached into their respective magic circles, and pulled out… she didn't know how to describe it really, other than "Is that… some kind of steel horse?"
The two brothers looked up from their motorcycles, William grinning at the fact that the toy he had modified still carried Chimera's colors, before they realised she didn't know what a bike was "I guess… you could say this is like a steel chariot, only with two wheels, and only capable of carrying a maximum of two people." Marcus explained in a way he knew she'd understand.
Louise nodded slowly, not really understanding, and blinked in surprise as he threw something at her, fumbling around to catch it, until she managed to get a grip on it "This is…?"
"A helmet, you need to wear one to get on these." Marcus said as he and William both put on their own helmets.
Though William paused as he went and stomped out the fire, before finally getting on his bike.
Marcus got on his, bringing down the visor on his helmet, and motioned to Louise to climb on, which she did so hesitantly after putting on the helmet "Now what?" she asked when she noticed they had yet to move.
"Now you grab onto my waist or else you'll get thrown off." Marcus said matter of factly.
Louise blushed a bit in embarrassment as she grabbed onto his waist, before jumping as he made the engine roar. "What was that?!" she asked, both surprised and slightly afraid as she looked around.
"That would be the engine." William said as he revved the engine on his bike, Louise looking at it with wide eyes, understanding that they had made that sound.
When the bikes started to move, Louise reflexively tightened her grip, and was shocked as they rolled smoothly once they got onto the road, and they were even going fast as well, faster than any carriage she'd ridden on.
They made great time as well, reaching a decently sized town within half an hour, the sky a myriad of colors from the setting sun.
As they got off the bikes, with the brothers pushing them back into their Connect portals, Louise looked around as she heard metallic screech, though it was somewhat soft sounding, soon being shock as a small creature flew down from the sky and towards William.
As for William himself, he grinned as he saw Griffon fly down towards him, before landing in his outstretched hand "Good job Griffon." he praised it with a smile as it bowed, before disappearing, leaving behind it's ring which he pocketed.
"W-what was that?" Louise said, stuttering slightly as she pointed at where Griffon had been.
William turned to her "Hm? Oh, that was my familiar, Griffon."
Her jaw practically dropped "You have a familiar?!"
Marcus discreetly winced as he realised what the problem was, so he quickly went to work fixing it. "Ah, right, you did mention you were to summon one earlier, I guess that means their probably different from ours."
Louise blinked at that, turning to Marcus in confusion "Different how?"
"Our familiars are handmade and are mostly used for scouting purposes." Marcus said, pulling out one of his familiar rings at random, ending up grabbing the Golem ring, and scanning it over his buckle.
"GOLEM, PLEASE."
A purple tray formed in the air, quickly building up into a small purple golem, which Marcus placed one hand under before putting the ring into its head, bringing it to life as it fell into his hand, looking around before it looked up at him.
Marcus smiled down at it "Want to be my assistant Golem? I like to make jewels and rings."
The small purple familiar nodded excitedly at the question, before climbing up onto Marcus's shoulder.
Louise stared at him for a good few moments "Your familiar is a golem?"
"I actually have several, Garuda, Unicorn and Kraken all exist as scouts, Golem here is more of a personal assistant, and Cerberus is made to deliver small messages mostly." Marcus explained, shrugging the shoulder Golem wasn't sitting on.
"So… they aren't bound to you like true familiars then?" Louise asked, trying to understand it.
"Not really, anyone can summon them if they have magic and know how to channel it right I suppose, though I do think you need to have a driver to do it properly." Marcus explained, though he mumbled the last part mostly to himself.
"Driver?" Louise blinked. "Is that some kind of catalyst or wand?"
"In a sense, it's a catalyst, it takes the shape of a belt, and it scans any magic ring placed near it to activate the spell." Marcus said, not seeing the need to lie about it.
"What can these spells do?" she asked, honestly curious.
"Anything really, it depends on what the ring's image is crafted into, and the kind of magic stone used." Marcus explained as he showed her a few of his rings.
She nodded as she looked at them, seeing a dragon with a shield on one, a dragon spinning like a drill on another, and a dragon going through a portal on the third.
She rose an eyebrow "Why do all of them show a dragon?"
He shrugged "I just like dragons." he said, knowing better than to tell her about Wizardragon.
"She'd probably panic and scream her head off while calling you a demon."
He had to hold back a laugh at his tenant's words, knowing that laughing would be suspicious, so he faked it as a cough.
Louise simply nodded, accepting the answer as what it was.
"So, bro, I just thought of something." William said, catching his brother's attention "How are we gonna paid for food and lodgings?"
"I actually thought about that on the way here, and figured this was the right time to use my skills." Marcus answered with a small grin.
William blinked at him "Ah, so that's why you brought out Golem."
"What does he mean?" Louise asked curiously.
"He's gonna be making some jewelry for the inn runner in town to pay for our stay." William answered, with Marcus nodding.
"I suppose that's a good way of paying for a room." Louise nodded in agreement to the idea.
"So, let's find an inn, maybe that way we can finally figure out where we are." Marcus said, as the trio started to walk through the town.
"The place seems relatively advanced." William said as he looked around, seeing that the town looked like a cross between medieval and modern, and from the clothes people wore, he was pretty sure about their location, but still, they needed full confirmation anyway.
At least neither member of their three person group stood out, Louise just looked like a typical mage, and the brothers looked normal.
Eventually enough, they found a decently sized inn for travelers, and Marcus told them to leave negotiating with the owner to him.
As he was doing so, William and Louise looked around the main area of the inn, and eventually, one of them found a map.
"Bingo." William said with a grin as he found a map of the Kingdom of Fiore, which included their current location, a town called Valen near the eastern edge of the kingdom. He trailed his eyes around the map, soon finding what both he and his brother were looking for.
The town of Magnolia, due North-West from Valen.
It was there they would find the Fairy Tail guild, and hopefully, Makarov would let them join the guild.
Though, casting his eyes towards Louise, who was standing in front of a magazine rack and just staring at them in confusion, he wondered what they'd be doing in regards to the diminutive void mage.
Obviously they couldn't just leave her alone out here, she wouldn't survive a day on her own.
Looks like they were going to have to bring her with them.
Meanwhile, Louise was looking at the magazines in confusion.
She could understand what was written on them.
Which made absolutely no sense, since she'd never learned this language before.
But, thinking about it, maybe this was the result of the translation spell Marcus had used, and if so, it was an amazing spell to instill knowledge of a completely new language into her mind and automatically translate everything she said to anyone who heard her.
As she looked through the different magazine covers, she saw a common theme that most of them seemed to be talking about.
Wizard Guilds.
She had no idea what that was supposed to be, but, from how everything around it was worded, it was like a group of wizards and witches doing… things? It wasn't clear on what exactly these guilds did.
What she didn't understand at all though was, why would nobles be grouping together like this? She could understand one or two working together, after all, some nobles were disgraced and ended up grouping together, but, this was on a much larger scale, some of these guilds seemed to be huge even, with interesting names, like Blue Pegasus, or Lamia Scale.
This was very confusing to her, so she decided to go outside and breath in some fresh air to help her try and understand.
When she got outside and looked up at the sky though, her shock shot through the roof, enough that she just fell silent.
There was only one moon in the sky, not the two moons she was used to.
Moments later, William joined her outside, not saying anything, and simply waiting as he looked up at the sky.
Slowly, she turned her head to face him, her face a mixture of fear, confusion, and distress "What… what's going on?" she whispered, too afraid about the situation to raise her voice.
William looked back down at her, his expression neutral, but with a caring undertone to it "I overheard the inn keeper talking with bro, he mentioned something about an eclipse earlier, add that to you performing a summoning ritual, and my brother and I attempting… a spell to cross worlds, and, something happened that caused our separate spells, in two different worlds, to cross with each other, and land us here during the eclipse."
Thinking about it though, William did find it that it was one hell of a coincidence that an eclipse landed them here, especially when an eclipse is what caused the original Wizard to gain his powers, and only during an eclipse is Halkegenia linked to Earth. The fact that eclipses were greatly linked to stories of magic seemed to be a universal constant.
Louise took in a shaky breath "Does… does that mean we're stuck here?"
William shook his head "I can't answer that… how about we go get some sleep? You'll probably be thinking more clearly while well rested, and we can exchange more details."
Louise nodded after a few moments, following him back inside where they could see Marcus starting on making a piece of jewelry for the owner of the inn, giving them a small wave as they passed by and they both received a key, with Louise having her own room at the moment.
She was soon in her bed, having taken off her cape and broach, wearing her clothes for the simple reason she had nothing else at the moment, looking up at the ceiling, and praying to the Founder that she was just having a bad dream.
Holy shit that was a big intro chapter.
Even I didn't expect for it to be this long.
To be fair though, this was almost longer, and would have went into the second day, but I figured this was good enough to start.
Anyway, hope you enjoy this people.