Shut up.

I know what you're gonna say. Save it. I know I have a lot of fanfics on my plate. I know that most of them haven't been uploaded for months, maybe even more than a year or two!

But you must understand my mind.

When ideas and imagination pile up in my head, I can't concentrate. I can't think, I can't focus. I need to expunge a few ideas out just to clear my head and maybe set up a foundation for a new fanfic that somebody else will take over for me. When I let them. When I ask for it.

Now then, this little brainchild of mine has a brother, as you probably noticed. In fact, the other fic most likely has the exact same authors note at the beginning! Meaning, if you've read the AN from the other fic, feel free to skip this one, especially since here comes a rather lengthy DBZ Xenoverse rant.

Now then, this fanfic is one of the many few crossovers between ZNT and DBZ. I have been rather addicted to playing Dragon Ball Z Xenoverse in my spare time (specifically, 8 PMish until 10 or 11 PMish on Fridays and Saturdays and ONLY on those days. I have an IRL life as well!) with my really faulty Xbox 360 (it randomly ejects the disc when you least expect it. I REALLY FUCKING HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS. But, it happens much more scarcely between 8 PM and 11 PM, something to do with the voltage.) and needless to say, I love the game, as it not only lets me relive the battles of one of my childhood manga/anime, but also lets me do so using my own original character!

I made an Arcosian (the apparent official fanbase name for Frieza's species) and named him Sakurada. But then again, what kind of Arcosian doesn't have a punny name that relates to cold temperature?

Unfortunately, all the good ones were taken. So I just call him Aeez (Ice. Get it?). His current moveset is Milky Cannon (fruity name but this Ginyu technique is usefull when you're surrounded.), Death Beam (HAIL LORD FRIEZA!), Meteor Blow (Which can be spammed with the right timing to send your opponent into next week and next planet), Emperor's Sign (virtually useless but I need to "master" this technique before Frieza teaches me Supernova.), Blue Hurricane (Nuff said. Thanks Burter.) And Supernova (ALL HAIL LORD FRIEZA!)

Because of Xenoverse, I have been hooked into Dragon Ball again, which made me hooked into TeamFourStar DBZ Abridged again.

Things piled up and this fic happened.

Now then, you all probably skipped the author's note, so I'll just let you all get to the story. Enjoy.

Prologue: The Foundation for Perfection

Inside the decrepit and ruined remains of what was once a laboratory, was a large glass tube. It was full of a transparent green liquid, giving off an eerie glow inside the empty room.

There was no other source of light. No source of air. The lab was sealed shut, the ruins of the entrance blocking the way out under tons of rubble.

There were no life signals in this room.

Except for one.

Suspended inside the glass vat was a strange creature, resembling a mixture of insect larvae and a type of salamander. It wriggled as lights blinked on the surprisingly undamaged control panel attached to the vat. The panel had a small screen, with a slowly blinking sign.

Time until release: 23 hours and 15 minutes.

Roughly a day or so left until whatever manner of creature inside the pod was going to be released into the world.

Under any other circumstances, this creature would be freed, then it would proceed to evolve and burrow underground to sleep for 4 years until it is ready to become a force of evil so terrifying, the entire world would shudder as its citizens remember the name of the being.

But in this story...

Something rather magical happens.

#scene break#

In another world, another planet, another plane of existence, another dimension, was a school. This school was an academy for children who could do magic.

What?

No, not Hogwarts. Wrong fanfic.

This school was Tristain's Academy of Magic, a school that educates the nobles of the rather small country and foreign exchange students the ropes of magic, how to cast spells, do alchemy and generally be the perfect mage.

Perfect.

Yes, that's what Louise wanted to be.

Ever since she was a small child, no older than five years old, her mother was teaching her decorum and how to be a strong woman befitting of her status as a noble born from the house of Valliere. However, her mother was a harsh teacher. She was brutal and unforgiving as she taught Louise the famous Valliere 'Rule of Steel'.

Hide your emotions.

Master all your spells.

Become unrivaled.

Never cry.

Embody perfection.

Perfection... how Louise loathed that word, yet envied those who achieved it. Perfect was all she wanted to be. To make her mother proud of her, to see the stone cold woman actually smile at her for the first time in pride and not sneer in disappointment. To show her classmates that she could become powerful, beautiful and unrivaled, just like her mother.

To show them that Louise Valliere was NOT a zero.

Alas, perfection is a difficult target to reach, especially for the diminutive pinkette. For she was not cold like her mother, she was brash and loud. She was not level headed and calculative, she was foul tempered and aggressive. She was not blessed with a tall, voluptuous body and a mature and graceful face, she was flat chested, short and had an impish looking face, almost like a child's. She was not powerful in the slightest, she couldn't even cast a single spell without causing an explosion that harms not only those around her, but even herself. And crying? How many times has she cried herself to sleep from the harsh treatment from her mother, the insults and jeers of all the other students and from the fear that should she fail to succeed her mother's expectations, she would be thrown away, like common trash or sold off in an arranged marriage?

In short, "perfection" was not something she could achieve easily.

But she was about to be a step closer to achieving it.

It was the Springtime Familiar Summoning Ritual. The ritual in which the students could summon a familiar, be it a common animal like a dog or a magical creature like a dragon, to become their partner until the day one of them dies.

This was her chance to summon something strong. Something noble. Something to show them that she was not a failure. Something... perfect.

"Now then, miss Valliere, could you please step up and summon your familiar?" a kind and old voice asked.

Ah, Professor Colbert. Unlike most of the other teachers, he enjoyed helping her and didn't reprimand or look at her like she was a disappointment. Apparently he was good friends with her mother. They were such good friends that her mother even appointed him as Godfather should anything happen.

Professor Colbert was like an uncle to Louise. He was kind, patient, funny and apparently incredibly powerful as well.

He believed in Louise.

'Somebody here actually believes in me.'

With that thought in mind, Louise steps up to the summoning circle, wand in hand, her long pink hair waving in the wind, ignoring the whispers and insults her classmates gave.

"The zero? She can't cast a spell to save her life!"

"Hold on to your seats, here comes another explosion."

"Why is she still here anyway? She's better off leaving!"

Ignoring the scalding remarks, Louise stood in front of the summoning circle and began to chant.

#scene break#

Time until release: 5 minutes and 29 seconds.

Soon.

Soon the mad doctor of the Red Ribbon army's masterpiece will emerge. All the subliminal messages and the mental restraints implanted inside it as it was grown will take root and send it off on its journey to eliminate Earth's greatest hero (hint, he's not the guy with the afro and moustache) and obtain perfection.

The vat will open up, the liquid will flood out and the larvae will crawl and crawl until its enhanced evolution/metamorphosis kicks in and it will grow into its more insectoid form, before hibernating and then transforming into the first stage of its humanoid form.

Yes, the plan was perfect.

"Hear me, oh great and powerful familiar!"

Scratch that, the plan has gone to Hell.

"Oh wondrous and unrivaled being..."

The larvae twitched at that. It was still in its infant stage but it could understand spoken languages perfectly. It WAS meant to be perfect after all and it needed to know how to understand languages in order for its creator's orders implanted in its mind to actually work.

This... person who was speaking... it was definitely female and apparently speaking some kind of language that very closely resembles French.

The question was, WHY was she speaking to IT?

"Please... heed my plea! Come forth from wherever you are, and stay by my side until the day either of us die!"

She sounded lonely, that was for sure. IT didn't care though. Or maybe IT just COULDN'T care? It didn't matter. It didn't matter that IT could feel some sort of pull on its body, as if something was trying to snatch it up. It didn't matter that IT could feel the girl's emotions, strangely, which were filled with loneliness, pain and desperation.

"If you are listening right now, oh magnificent and perfect being..."

Now THAT got IT to pause.

Perfect.

The very word struck many bells inside the being's infantile mind.

Perfect.

Perfection.

That was what IT was meant to be.

This girl was calling for something perfect. The only thing she could possibly mean was IT. IT was made to be perfect. IT was meant to be perfect in every way. What kind of person had the power to call upon what would be a perfect being?

Slowly, the larvae began to wriggle, even as the vat's control panel began counting down from 10 seconds, it began to adjust to the strange pull it felt and follow it.

"...then please, come forth and stand before me!"

If she wanted perfection, then IT would give her perfection.

Time until release: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1-ERROR, ERROR, BREACH DETECTED. PROJECT 'CELL' HAS BEEN REMOVED. REPEAT: PROJECT 'CELL', HAS BEEN REMOVED.

#scene break#

To the surprise of none, an explosion erupted from the summoning circle. Following it was a series of coughs, swears and line class wind spells to clear away the dust and then laughter.

Louise nearly broke her wand in half as she grit her teeth. All that preparation, all those pep talks from her Godfather, all of that waiting with anxiety... pointless. Utterly pointless.

"Children, please, calm down." Professor Colbert said in an attempt to silence the students. But they just ignored him and laughed, the only one who wasn't was a petite and bespectacled bluenette who was reading her book.

Louise turned away from the summoning circle and the students as she began to walk away.

Until she felts something touch her shoe.

Looking down, she came face to face with the most bizarre creature she's ever seen.

It was a little green creature, almost reptilian and had two short and stubby front limbs that vaguely resembled a human baby's, a head without any sort of facial definitions other than a small mouth with no teeth and it was vaguely shaped like sort of helmet or shell. It had a 34 centimeter tail, a pair of stubby bipedal back legs and it was prodding and poking Louise's ankle with its front limbs.

As she bent down to pick it up, the laughter of the other students began to die out as they saw the strange being she summoned. Professor Colbert appeared amazed at the fact that she seemed to have successfully summoned a familiar.

Whatever it was.

"Congratulations miss Valliere! You have successfully summoned a familiar! Now all you need to do is finalize the contract!" the bald scholar exclaimed with a smile. Louise frowned thoughtfully as she looked at the thing she held aloft, each hand under its... armpits. It just hung there, staring dumbly at her with its mouth slightly agape, its tail wagging and its apparently purple tongue hanging out of its mouth.

THIS was her perfect familiar?

She held it closer to her face and narrowed her eyes at it. As she did so, it stopped whatever it was doing and just stared at her.

Then it opened its mouth and licked her nose.

Yep, perfect.

Perfectly ADORABLE.

Her eyes practically sparkling, Louise resisted the urge to squeal as she looked at her very own familiar, whatever it was. It wasn't big, it wasn't magical (as far as she could tell) and it certainly wasn't any kind of creature she's ever heard of.

But by the Founder, it was cute.

"My name is Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere. Pentagon of the five elemental powers, bless this being and make him my familiar." Louise said before giving the little green creature a small kiss on the crown of its helmet/shell looking head. With a spark, suddenly magic runes began to carve into the tiny being's head, before, much to Colbert's shock, spreading all over its body. Arms, legs, tail, head, all over it had archaic runes, glowing with light. Once they were carved, the light faded and the runes vanished.

"Splendid! Now then, off you all trot, it's nearly eight and you all need rest so you can enjoy the entire day with your new familiars tomorrow! Off you all go!" Jean Colbert said with a hearty chuckle as the students began to wander off, most of them still shocked that Louise managed to summon a familiar.

Louise herself was cuddling the little creature with gusto, completely oblivious of the fact that all but her and her Godfather have left.

"Ahem, Louise, bed time." The bald teacher said as he cleared his throat loudly, snapping Louise out of her little daze.

"A-ah, right. Good night Professor."

"Good night." Colbert said with a smile as Louise began to jog to the academy. Suddenly, she stopped and turned around with a smile.

"Thank you, Uncle Colbert. For believing in me."

"Anytime Louise."

After giving the man a beaming smile, Louise went off to her room, leaving behind a chuckling middle aged scholar.

"Looks like I won the bet after all, eh Karin?"

#Louise's room#

Completely ignoring the little pile of hay she originally prepared for her familiar, she placed it on her bed instead before beginning to change into her nightdress. She then crawled under the sheets, her familiar crawling under them with her, much to her delight. Good. That meant that it recognized her as its master and it also allows her to cuddle with it some more.

"I have a familiar... an adorable little familiar... I'm not a failure after all..." Louise muttered happily as she stroked her familiar's chin, until she came to a revelation. "Oh, that's right, I need to give you a name."

She paused for a moment, her face scrunching up into a thoughtful expression.

Minutes passed and yet she had no idea what to call her familiar.

"...you know what, confound it, I think I'll just call you Little Green. Yes, direct, simple and it describes you perfectly."

As she closed her eyes and hugged her familiar closer, she failed to notice it show a hint of a grimace at the name.

#elsewhere, in a different world, time and dimension, on a floating platform in the sky with a temple on top of it#

"ACCHOOO!" a small, green and humanoid being with a pair of antennae on its head sneezed.

"Bless you." An older and much more masculine being of the same species said not even a second later, his arms crossed as he stared at the horizon. The tiny being sniffled and rubbed its nose before grimacing.

"I just had the strangest feeling."

"Oh? Do tell."

"It was odd Piccolo. I felt like punching Krillin."

"Don't we all?" the tall Namekian chuckled with a smirk.

And that's the end of the prologue.

Yes. I am doing this.

I can work with this.

Updates will come when I find the time but I think I can roll with this.

Now then, the familiar (I'm sure you all know who he is) will be much more different in this fanfic. In the original DBZ, it was implanted with orders to kill Goku and reach perfection, yadda yadda yadda.

In here though? The familiar runes are overwriting those commands. It will still yearn for perfection.

But what's the point of trying to kill a man who doesn't exist in this world?

No, those orders will be replaced by orders concerning its master. Protect her, take care of her and shit like that.

So IT will be very different from the one you all know and love.

The personality I'm looking for though is a balance between IT's canon personality and IT's TeamFourStar DBZ abridged personality.

Yeah.

Anyhow, enjoy your day, Sakurada out.