A/N: Things are still mostly fluff, and this is the last one from the thread.

By the time Louise and Bug had to head back to her dorm, neither of them managed any progress in understanding either of their languages.

Bug still seemed to be automatically translating anything that she wrote into its own language and then proceeded wrote in its own language. While Louise still struggled to understand the alphabets of Bugs.

Their efforts bore no results other than a couple of scrolls filled with meaningless scribbles of her Familiar, and her few attempts at her own.

Attempts that, from Kirche's mocking laughter when she saw them, were very poor. She seemed to have gotten over the awe of Bug making maps, and was back to bugging her instead.

It was, in her opinion, a mostly wasted day.

After Dinner, where she had tried and failed to feed Bug again, she decided it was enough for today.

So the two were heading back to her room. Louise looking irritatedly at the piece of paper that had both her alphabet and Bugs. It still didn't make sense to her, since the symbols that made it up were designed to be drawn together. She thought she could understand it more if she had Bug write it one by one.

But no luck.

In fact, with them not being connected to each other they seem to make even less sense.

She sighed and lowered the piece of paper from her face. While she shouldn't be so down at not being able to learn a new language in just one day, it felt kinda disappointing to her. She glanced at Bug, her Familiar was carrying the remaining scrolls that they hadn't use.

From the corner of her eye she saw Bug look at her. It turned its head back forward, raised it a bit and bent it forward.

She raised an eyebrow at the sight.

[Scene]

"Put the scrolls on the table Bug, I'll handle it later." Louise shrugged off her cloak, placing it in the laundry basket for the maid to pick up tomorrow.

Bug followed her orders, dropping the parchment ontop the table, before it moved around to drop the quills separate from them.

"I'm going to head to the baths," she told it as it went to sit on the haystack "I'm going to need you to join me." She called out to it before it could sit down.

Bug tilted its head.

"Well since solid food doesn't work for you apparently," she looked into the socket where she had put more than a couple of cherries and smaller fruits "I figured that since you're a Water Spirit, you'd feed off water." She ran a hand through her hair "Besides that, I'd need something to relax after today."

It un-tilted its head, and then sat down on the hay stack.

"Hey!" She stomped towards Bug and stood over it "Look I'm trying to be nice and seeing what to feed you, you shouldn't just toss away a Master's kindness."

It looked up at her.

She crossed her arms "If you're feeling annoyed, then it's your fault as well Bug." Tapping her fingers against her arm she gave it a slight glare "If you just told me what you can eat, maybe I wouldn't have to drag you to the bath house."

Its hand went to where its mouth would've been if it had one.

"Yes, you need to eat." Louise rolled her eyes and sighed "I don't need my Familiar suddenly falling over and dying because I didn't feed it. It'd be…" she looked away "Embarrassing." She shook her head and glared at it, bending over so that she could look it in the eye "And I'd also be angry that the reason I couldn't feed my Familiar was that because it was too stubborn to tell what it should eat."

It lowered its hand, for a moment she thought it looked annoyed. Though that was dispelled when it just stared at her as it usually did.

"Get up Bug," she stood up straight, arms still crossed "We're going to the baths."

Bug looked at her for a moment, and then looked at the ground.

Louise narrowed her eyes "Of all things, getting a bath is what disappoints you?"

[Scene]

Louise found herself in the bath house of the Academy, a towel wrapped around her as Bug followed her inside.

The steaming air from the hot water soothed her nerves immediately, even without stepping into the water. There were a couple of other students who were already there.

More than a few gave her wary looks, while some of them were looking at her Familiar. The latter being mostly First Years.

Louise kept her head high, ignoring the looks as she and Bug approached the pool of water in the middle.

Her Familiar was about to step in, but she was quick to pick it up before it could put its stubby little foot in "Hold it Bug!" She called out, keeping it in the air.

It stopped its movement, and turned its head towards her.

"Oh don't look at me like that, I just want to make sure you don't accidentally pollute the bath water." She told it. She looked at its body "You don't exactly look like clear water, if you haven't noticed."

The moment she said that, all the other students who had been relaxing in said pool of water, immediately climbed out. They all quickly found a bench at the walls, keeping as far away from her and her Familiar as possible.

"Zero, if you so much as turn it light gray!" One of the students, called out to her.

Louise snapped to her "Why do you think I'm testing it first!"

A First Year looked around nervously "A-Are Familiars allowed in the bath area?" She asked.

"No!" There was a chorus of replies.

"Leave it to Zero to bring a Familiar to the bathing area," the previous student called out to her.

"Shut it!" She shouted back "I can bring in a Familiar you idiots."

Bug seem to went limp in her grip as she and the other students argued.

The Familiar stared at the pool of water in the middle, the steam emanating from it told them it was hot. There were fish statues that seem to be pouring more water into the pool in the middle.

It was different from the giant bug statues it was used to, but it figured that once its summoner, or Master as she called herself, allowed it to rest inside it the pool would have the same recuperating effects of a Hot Spring.

So it simply waited as she and the others continued to yell at each other.

"I'm trying to actually be careful and mindful of my Familiar, and this is the thanks I get?!" Louise snarled out.

"Hah!" One of them laughed out "With your track record, it'll probably blow up the whole pool, or turn it black and icky!"

Bug turned its head towards her

THE SPRING WON'T BE CORRUPTED.

Her grip on Bug tightened involuntarily at its sudden voice, she glared at it for a moment, before turning that glare to the other students "You heard my Familiar, it won't pollute the bath water. So quick acting like babies!"

They looked among each other confused, one of them asked "What're you talking about, your Familiar has been silent the whole time."

"What?" She brought her Familiar closer to her, turning it so that Bug could face her without turnings its head "You talked didn't you? Why can't they hear it?"

It tilted its head.

YOU CAN HEAR MY THOUGHTS, BUT OTHERS CANNOT.

She flinched at the voice, but again she turned to the others "Can you really not hear that?"

They responded by laughing at her.

"Look at that, Louise is finally going nuts."
"She's talking to herself, and she thinks her Familiar can talk back."

Her face fell, turning away from the others. She looked into Bug's eye sockets, and sighed. Silently she walked towards the pool and held it just above the water. "Just, touch it so we can actually relax."

Bug looked down, and reached down with a foot. The stump made no other impact other than a small ripple in the water.

It looked up, and nodded its head at her.

Louis lowered her Familiar until it was up at its 'neck'. She followed suit, stepping into the hot water. She let out a sigh of relief as she sat down, submerging herself to her chest.

The other students watched her, which she paid no mind. Let them think that she was 'insane', it was stupid of her to engage in an argument with them in the first place.

Turning her head to Bug, she asked "This do anything for you?".

Her Familiar didn't respond, simply standing in the neck high water for a moment. Then it gave a nod.

She smiled "Well, I guess we might need to come here more often then." Louise leaned back against the edge, and allowed the hot water to soothe her nerves.

The other students were now whispering at each other about her Familiar sitting in the pool, some of them outright leaving the bathing area in disgust muttering about her letting a Familiar in the bath. 'Oh, who cares about them?' She closed her eyes and tried harder to relax.

As she did, she wondered what was ahead of her. She now had a Familiar proof that she was a mage, a Water Mage if she was to be specific. Her eyes opened slowly, to stare at the water that she was in.

Cupping her hands, she took out a handful of it. "If I'm supposed to be a Water Mage, how come I have just as much trouble with that as every other element," she muttered to herself.

Fire, Earth, Wind, and Water. The Four Elements that a Mage could use. There was a Fifth, Void, but it could only be used by the Founder Brimir himself, and to call one a user of the Void was almost akin to calling oneself as god.

And she doubted that her Familiar was truly made of the Void, nor did she believe that it was born of God as well.

Because the logic that followed that was that she was a user of the Void. Impossible, just the thought of it tickled her.

So that left a Mage being only able to use four elements. But she had been here for two years, and she never managed to cast any spells that didn't result in them being explosions.

But now, at least she knew where to focus her efforts on.

Water Mage.

She spoke the chant to make the water rise, it bubbled as she pointed her wand. It rose just a bit, before it detonated.

Water splashed over her face, knocking her out of her thoughts.

She turned to the source, and saw Bug staring at her. Her eyebrows furrowed "Di-Did you splash water at me?" She asked incredulously.

It responded by swinging its arms and splashing her again.

"Akh!" She raised her hands to cover herself, splashing herself with the water that was in her palms. She looked at it "Bug, what're yo-"

She was cut short as it splashed her once more.

"Hey, Bug!" Her Familiar continued to splash her, when she reacted. It seemed to splash her faster the more she tried to cover herself.

Had it have a mouth, Louise would've thought that it was smiling. But considering its face was just those two holes that it had for eyes, all she could think was that it was doing this just because.

Another splash hit her, and that made her growl. "That's it!" She moved away from the edge, pulled her arm back and swung.

Bug was pushed back by the amount of water she could splash at it with her, relatively, larger size. It seemed stunned for a moment, staring at her.

"Yeah," she narrowed her eyes "Doesn't feel good to be on the other end does it?"

Bug head tilted down, as if it was contemplating something.

Louise waited, once it wasn't going to splash her again she relaxed.

And the moment she did, its head snapped up and then splashed her again.

"Hey!"

[Scene]

"A Familiar shouldn't act that way towards its Master," Louise scolded Bug as she dried her hair. Despite her scolding tone, she couldn't, or didn't, hide the smile on her face.

Bug, who she had wrapped with a towel that was way too big for it, looked at her and tilted its head.

Holding the towel with one hand, she pointed at it "You should treat me with respect, not splash me with water in front of the other students." Her other hand went back to her towel and redoubled her efforts to get it dry "I have to keep up a reputation, and what would they think if they see that I cannot control my Familiar?"

Bug didn't respond, instead opting to grab the towel around it and dried its skull.

Louise paused in drying her hair. Once again holding the towel with one hand, she reached towards her Familiar. It stopped its own self drying to look at her hand touched its body.

"I said, I want to keep my reputation," She spoke slowly and carefully "Do you understand that Bug?"

UNDERSTOOD

"So that's the trick," Louise pulled her hand away, looking at it. "I have to touch you, before you can actually say anything to me."

Part of her felt elated, another step forward in proper communication. Another part of her felt irritated.

What kind of stupid limitation was it to need physical contact for Telepathy? The whole purpose of Telepathy was that they didn't need the two having the conversation to be near each other.

Whatever, it was still a step forward.

After she got dressed in the change of clothes she brought she was ready to leave, and so was Bug. After having to take the towel from it when it tried to leave with it, they left for her room.

After getting back to her room, refreshed after the bath, she was more than ready to sleep. Just as she was about to, she turned to Bug and wagged a finger in its direction "You get some rest today, because I'm bringing you to class tomorrow."

Already at its haystack, Bug did as it usually did and tilted its head.

"I'm still going to get you to write in my language, so you'll be following me to class tomorrow, got that?"

Bug nodded.

"Good," she turned and headed towards her bed "That means no leaving the room today." She climbed onto the big, and with a wave of her wand extinguished the candle in her room.

Bug looked at its Master as she quickly went to sleep. It pulled out its map and added the new Hot Spring space. It paused, before it drew the image of a fish there, since the statues were fish instead of bugs.

With that addition made, it kept the map in its cloak and then lied on its side.

It allowed itself to fall into unconscious.