Having a familiar was a weird experience for Louise.

After her little show, despite a few more jeers and laughs, everyone accepted that she was mage. She had a familiar, a familiar with the 'skull' of an insect a body of...

Well when she had suggested void, they all laughed at her even harder at her insinuation.

They called her a water mage considering the fluid nature of what had fired out from her wand.

She didn't really feel the need to argue with them, she accepted their remarks and instead held her familiar close to her.

It stared at her silently, still with those holes for eyes.

When it was time to go back to their rooms, Louise found herself holding her familiar's... 'hand' as they walked back to her room. It still felt like she wasn't holding anything, despite the tight grip that she had on it.

It was slightly spongy from how she was holding it, like jelly or slime.

She entered her room, her eyes went to the stack of hay that would've been the bed for a beast that she was expected to summon. She looked down at the child-like familiar and told her "Is that okay for you?"

It turned to look at her, still silent and without a word, and then turned to the stack of hay.

Louise's eyebrow twitched "Well, you can answer me right?" She asked irritated.

It didn't reply, instead it released the grip on her hand and took a seat on the stack of hay. And once more it just stared at her.

The mage sighed, ignoring the stare. Instead she shrugged off her cape, placing it on her bed, before she pulled out a chair and took a seat in front of the stack of hay.

Her familiar continued to stare at her the whole time. "You're attentive at least," she said to it. She took a deep breath and exhaled to calm her nerves, she shut her eyes "Okay, Louise this is your familiar, proof that you're a mage, a creature that is bound to your for your life." She opened them, once more staring into the empty sockets of the skull "Okay familiar, as you are bonded with me you will need a name."

Neither of them spoke, the silence stretched on as they stared at each other.

"Well?" She broke the silence with an irritated growl "I'm open to suggestions, familiar."

It titled it's skull, as if confused.

"Don't play dumb with me!" She snapped "I heard you talk when I summoned your body, so don't try to just keep silent!"

It continued to stare at her silently.

Her eyes narrowed, she reached forward and picked it up by it's cloak holding it to eye level. "Well?!" She asked "Don't just ignore me, speak!" She shook the small creature in her grasp.

The cloak that it work flailed about, as did it's small arms and legs. But it didn't react any more than that, the creature just continued to stare at her silently. She stopped shaking it, and it showed no reaction to have just been shaken.

"Fine," her eyes narrowed "If you don't want to talk, then you don't get to complain when I name you something you don't like." Her, rather harmless, threat was meet with silence as it had everything else.

She held back an annoyed sigh, she looked at the creature in her hands "What even are you anyway?" She turned to see it from the side turning it one way or another. Normally she would've been a bit wary about playing with such a small creature, but it was her familiar so it had to be powerful.

It had came back to life, so it had to be hardier than it looked.

"I thought that you were a bug at first," she muttered turning it around completely to stare at it from behind. There was nothing at the back of it's head, it was just smooth white skull and the tendril like cloak that it wore, she flipped it around until she was looking at it's 'Face' once more "But besides your head, you don't look like a bug." She brought it close to her, and one of her fingers reached into it's socket "So what are you?" Her finger vanished within the socket.

A CREATURE BORN OF GOD AND VOID

Her hands recoiled, pulling her finger out as a chill went up her spine. Her grip on it released and it dropped to the ground. Her eyes widened as she pointed at it "There, you spoke!"

It shook it's head, and then tilted it's head upwards to stare at her.

A snarl grew on her face "Fine, be like that!" She stood up, pulling the chair with her so that she could sit in front of her vanity mirror "If you're going to ignore me, then I'm going to do the same!" There was a rustle of noise as she focused on herself, rather than the irritating creature that she had summoned.

After a while, Louise found herself staring a parchment of paper with a quill in hand, contemplating on starting to write a letter to her family. After all, she had summoned a familiar and she had also proved herself to be a mage with her little trick.

So maybe... maybe mom would be proud of her now?

Her thoughts were cut short when she noticed her familiar by her side, the little thing was staring at the piece of paper on her vanity table. She ignored it, keeping true to her pro-

It reached for the piece of paper, and immediately her hand snapped out towards it "Hey, no!" Her hand gripped it's arm "What do you think you're doing?"

MAP?!

The chill returned, her grip on it's arm was released. She looked at it, her heart hammering in her chest "You can speak, so why do you insist on not saying anything to me when I ask you to?"

Silence.

She growled, her eyes went to the piece of paper and an idea appeared in her head. She held out the piece of paper in front of it "Can you write?"

It finally gave her a nod.

'Progress!' Smiling she gave the parchment of paper towards it, and then she gave it a quill "Here, write something for me familiar."

It looked up at her, and before she could give it an inkwell, it started to scribbled on the piece of paper in it's hand. A moment later it stopped.

"You need something to write wi-" Her statement was cut short when it revealed what it had wrote.

It was a map, a rudimentary one that showed how to get from the courtyard where it had been summoned and to her room. One part of her felt elated, she could communicate with it even if it refused to speak to her, another part of her however noticed something else.

Taking the piece of paper from it's hand, she looked at where there was the large circle that was meant to be the courtyard. A frustrated sigh escaped her lips when she couldn't understand the gibberish on it.

"Of course you wouldn't be able to write my language," she muttered "It was probably lucky that you could even speak or understand it." She handed back the map to her familiar, it took it and held it to it's side.

Despite that she smiled "Well at least I know I can understand you." The smile turned into a smirk "Hah, I'd like to see the looks on everyone's faces tomorrow when I show them all how much I'd bonded with you in just one day."

It tilted it's head.

"Silent as ever huh?" Her smirk vanished as she sighed. She looked at it "Well you still need a name, and I don't feel like making up anything unique since you don't want to help." She tapped her chin as she stared at it, and shrugged "I guess I'll just call you Bug." She reached out and gently she patted the top of it's head "Bug, that's your name now Familiar."

Bug nodded it's head.

"Good!" She got up from her chair and got ready for bed. As she lied on her bed she look at it, still staring at her "Get some rest familiar, we have class tomorrow."

It moved back to the stack of hay, and sat on it.

"Good night Bug."

As she blew out the light from the candle, she closed her eyes.

And faintly she could hear the scratching of quill on paper.

[Scene]

Deep within the magical Vaults of the school, a singular object seem to suddenly move of it's accord.

It was a skull, with two horns growing on the right side while the left side of it was cracked open. One of the horns was larger than the other, and with the lack of it one the left side it had long fallen over.

A pulse of black filled the skull for a moment, the tendrils that grew from the bottom of it fluttered upwards.

But then as sudden as it did, it went still again and the black that filled the skull vanished.