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Familiar of Zero is owned by someone

Skyrim is owned by someone else

Neither of them are me.


The Tristian Academy of Magic was one of the largest attractions in the entire country of Tristian. Within its hallowed grounds mages from all countries came to teach the students and to pursue their own research. The students came from just as many countries and because of this there were bound to be some that were bitter and angry with each other. The best example of this was with the Valliere and Zerbst students, they were neighbors across the Tristian-Germania border and had a feud going back several generations. Today the newest generation had taken this feud and let it taint all of their interactions with each other. Just last night after class the Zerbst heir Kirche continuing this tradition by taunting The youngest of the Vallieres, Louise.

"So, what's the story?" Louise started as her enemy's voice mocked her leaving the headmasters office. The day had been particularly hard on Louise because she had once again been asked to perform a spell in front of the class. As expected she had caused an explosion in front of everyone and had made a fool of herself, again. This had happened several times over the last year and she just couldn't take it anymore.

No, her pride wouldn't allow her to give up, so in the face of the Zerbst words she maintained a cool attitude. "Another trip to the detention room? or are they finally expelling you?" Zerbst words were just that, words she could survive them.

"They decided not to punish me," she evenly retorted to Kirche and her entourage, Momorency a blond girl with extremely large curls in her hair, and Tabitha a quiet blue haired girl with her eyes firmly fixed in a book and her staff always in hand. "What?!" the two loud girls gasped at her words.

"Why not?" Louise moved down the stairs towards the way out.

"they said that it was particularly the teachers fault of making me do it even after all the students in the class tried to stop her," All the students, in the entire class had done their best to stop the teacher, that hurt.

realizing that her admitting that having everyone in the class try to stop you from casting could be a point for team Zerbst both girls started laughing uproariously. "I'm just having a bad day is all," Louise said trying and beginning to fail at preventing the hurt she was feeling show.

"Well you are always having a bad day," Momorency said snidely, "you can't even get a real code name, Louise the ZERO."

That finally got a rise from the girl, all of her hurt turned to anger as she yelled at them to be quiet. knowing that it would only take a little more pushing to get her truly angry Kirche reminded her of the one thing that will get her the reaction she wanted. "Tomorrow should be fun. I can't wait to see what kind of familiar you manage summon."

Louise humphed and turned to face her tormentors on the stairs, "oh yea? I'm competent in one spell, the summoning spell, summon servant!" She yelled at them her display of confidence probably the biggest lie ever told in the academy. The two tormentors were taken aback by her unexpected reaction, "Just you watch," Louise capitalized on their silence, "I will summon a familiar that is divine and as powerful as a dragon! It will be more powerful than anything you can summon up and then we will see whose laughing!" With that tirade Louise continued her way down the stairs and back to her rooms leaving the tormentors flabbergasted.

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Reaching her own room Louise got ready for bed, she washed, brushed her hair, teeth, and got her sleeping gown out of dresser. Pulling it over her head she walked over to her bed and promptly fell on her face. Her false confidence left her with a sigh, 'I'm competent in one spell, the summoning spell summon servant!' her own words haunted her.

Her mother was the former commander of the manticore knights, one of the most powerful women in the kingdom, often described as 'powerful' and 'brutal' however she also is known for her rule of steel, basically a personal standard that proclaimed that any weakness will not be tolerated. So far Louise had only been a disappointment, she was weak and Louise knew it. If she failed, her summoning then the most likely thing to happen to her was a swift marriage to remove her from her family without staining their prestige.

"why did I have to say that I would summon something as powerful as a dragon?" she mumbled into her pillow. The standard had been placed ridiculously high and it had been her mouth that had placed it there.

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A dragon, that is what Louise had claimed as what she was going to summon as her familiar. Tabitha was quietly reading her book when she felt her friend move. Kirche smirked to herself and petted behind the spiked ridge on Flames neck. The Large chested, tanned skinned, redhead was enjoying herself immensely since she had gotten the most wonderful creature in all of existence.

If anyone was going to get a familiar better than her beautiful fire lizard Flame, then it would be Tabitha. Kirche had been best friends with her since she had grabbed a hold of her cloak on the first day last year, now they were inseparable.

Professor Jean Colbert was in charge of this year's familiar summoning ritual. The other teachers in his opinion were rather cowardly, they had started to draw lots to determine who was going to do it. Confused as to why they were doing so when most of the time the right to be there was considered to be an honor he had asked them point blank why they didn't want to be there. They had all admitted that they were frightened by what the youngest daughter of the Valliere family would do when she cast the spell.

A rather angry Professor Colbert had then decided to be the one to attend, overriding the terrified chatter of the other teachers especially Chevreuse the Red Earth, she had the class the day before and had asked Louise to transmute some rocks to any metal she wanted. Chevreuse had finally gotten out of the medical wing just in time for the drawing and still had the bandages from the class.

Louise was sure that she would wet herself. She had gravitated towards the back of the class as more and more people had gone up to summon her familiar. She kept her eyes fixed on the ground by her toes and prayed to Brimir that she would be forgotten, that she wouldn't be forced to go up in front of everyone and prove once again that she was a failed mage, a Zero. As more people went up and less were left without some creature Louise could feel her terror rising.

The event had progressed smoothly, every student that had come up had summoned an animal that seemed to represent themselves, of course the animal did represent a person's affinity with an element but the animals seemed to show more than that for some people; a frog perfectly suited Momorency, and an owl fit just well with Malicorne. Then there were students that even he didn't understand, what did a large mole have to do with Guiches personality? It certainly showed his earth affinity but little else about him. Finally, there were the two that really impressed him, Kirche and Tabitha, their familiars showed their affinities and maybe a bit of their personality, but the main things that they showed was the power that both of them had, they would make very powerful mages when they graduated.

"Alright, I believe that everyone has performed the summon familiar ritual," Professor Colbert said looking around at all the students holding or standing by their new familiars. Kirche looked around in surprise, did she miss Louise's attempt?

She couldn't have because there would have been a large explosion. Spotting the flat chested pink haired girl near the back of the group Kirche grinned as she saw the look of relief on her face and the lack of any animal nearby, apparently she was hoping to be forgotten in the crowd.

That wouldn't do, "Oh teacher, Louise hasn't summoned her familiar," Kirche called out in a sing-song voice and was rewarded by the look of fear and anger on Louise's face a glare prepped and fired at the jiggly monster but unfortunately it sadly has no effect.

"Thank you miss, Zerbst," Colbert acknowledged kirches help but was a little confused as to why Louise hadn't proclaimed herself. Kirche smiled back at Louise, relishing her teasing not caring that it could be considered cruel. Kirche's noise was confusing Sylphid to no end. "Croon?" Sylphid, her wind dragon familiar, crooned at Tabitha.

"Teasing, bad at it," Tabitha said without looking up as Louise started to make her way to the summoning zone. Sylphid was left confused, Older sisters friend was teasing Louise but was hurting her by doing so? She didn't make sense, and she hoped that Louise wasn't hurt too bad.

Everyone in the group stepped away from Louise as if she was some infectious disease at the idea that she would be trying to use magic. "I think that I hear my mother calling me…" one person started lamely and as silenced by a glare from the Zero.

Squaring her shoulders Louise strode through the crowd until she was at the summoning area. Everyone got ready to run, Louise pulled out her wand and opened her mouth. Tabitha returned to her book and murmured a spell under her breath, Kirche moved a little closer knowing that she would have woven that spell to save them from the Zeros reaction.

Watching the class part in front of her and hearing the worried whisperings was reason enough for Professor Colbert to see their fear. The poor girl seemed to shrink in on herself before stiffening and marching towards the front of the class. As she marched through the crowd of fellow students, trying to not let their words hurt her.

"Not the Zero, please anyone but her,"

"Why did we have to be in the same class as her?"

"I think I hear my mother calling me," a particularly loud one said.

While Colbert was aware of her diminished talent at practical usage of magic he also knew that she had been the best at her class work, she was leading the class in grades until it came to actually performing magic itself, at that point she had sunk rather fast to the lower end of the class and had stayed there since.

Hoping that this would be the day that she proved herself, Colbert walked up to her, placed his hand on her shoulder, and softly said, "I know that you can do this, you can use just as powerful magic as anyone else." Seeing her smile, a little he broke off contact and returned to the crowd.

Taking a deep breath Louise started her chant, "My servant that exists somewhere in this vast universe," 'Please' Louise whispered in her head "my divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call," 'let me summon something, anything. please let it be something that can get Kirche to shut up. Please let me summon something that will impress my mother. Please bring me something that will show how strong I am!' "I wish from the very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear!"

As the last syllable left her mouth Louise was almost thrown backwards as a burst of hot smoke exploded from where she had pointed her wand.

'NO, NO, No nonononononono,' Louise moaned in her head as she desperately scanned the smoke for something that could be her familiar.

Colbert tensed as she finished and pointed into the casting area. The loud boom and subsequent burst of smoke was a surprise to him, however he was largely unaffected thanks to his years as a captain in the queen's army. As nothing seemed to be moving in the smoke Colbert felt afraid that Louise had failed again, glancing towards the girl he noticed that her cloths were a mess, her cloak was hanging to the side, and her eyes were fixed dead ahead. She was trembling a little and was almost on the verge of tears.

The words were… different Kirche thought to herself as she listened to the Zero chant, but as she pointed with her wand a burst of expected smoke and unexpected heat rushed across the field from where she had pointed. For a second or two everyone waited, but as the smoke began to clear people started to laugh. She was a failure, just as they had said.

Sylphid had become tense with the explosion and was trembling slightly. "What?" Tabitha's question brought Sylphid's head around to look her in the eyes. 'I smell her! I'm frightened!' the panicked voice in her head startled Tabitha, she knew that Sylphid could communicate like this but what startled her was how scared Sylphid sounded and admitted.

"Who?" She asked hoping for more information on this new terror. Sylphid cocked her head to the side and sounded confused, 'I don't know, I'm scared and I don't know why.'

That was surprising. Some laughed with relief that they weren't going to get hurt in the Zero's attempt but most laughed that she had failed again.

Kirche chuckled but felt bad for Louise, standing there with her skirt messed up by the blast, dirt smeared on her cheek, staring at the spot where her familiar should have appeared. The area was still covered in smoke but it was doubtful that anything had come from the attempt.

Louise ignored them all and focused on the cloud in front of her, she focused on it to the exclusion of all else, she didn't pay any attention to the crowd or the new drafts she felt that let her know that her cloths were probably damaged, she just stared at the smoke hoping her eyes would be able to pierce the screen and see her familiar.

Jean felt his heart ache for his student, she was trying so hard and always seemed to get the raw end of the deal when she tried to use magic. Walking up to comfort her Jean reached out his arm trying to console his student as he frantically tried to think of something to say to her. Just as her hope was being strangled, a high pitched, (feminine?) yet loud voice destroyed the laughter by roaring out of the smoke.

"Kolo Zu'u, druv los tinvaak dovahzul?"

Louise worried that someone might have wandered into the casting zone because no animal could have spoken and he or she might have frightened off her familiar. As she was about to charge in and find her familiar herself the voice spoke again.

"Tolakniir daar, Lok Vah Koor!"A sonic boom seemed to accompany the second half of the phrase and the clouds of smoke seemed to part with extra haste as at their utterance.

Before her eyes, which were growing wider and wider as they parted, a dragon was being revealed, head and neck were armored in light gray-blue scales, horns were segmented and sweeps back to the neck, with a second smaller pair next to them, small spikes started just past the horns and grew larger until they could be mistaken for daggers. The underside of the neck was white and the scales seemed larger and segmented, the edge of every scale seemed to be outlined in white. More smoke moved and the chest and upper arms were revealed, Louise was surprised because she had never heard of a dragon that had wings for an upper body.

Glancing back, she confirmed that Spyndrid had a pair of front legs as well as back and wings as well on top of it all. This dragon was biped and had wings, the wings were large graceful bat like things with three finger like structures coming from a 'palm' area at the peak of the wing and a clawed 'thumb' as well, a fourth 'finger' was grown out of the 'elbow' of the wing. The rest of the smoke had vanished as Louise gazed in complete awe of the reptile. The legs had at least four bones that went down, back, and forward before ending in a foot with power talons on each of its three toes, giving the dragon a crouched look even when it stood straight. Finally, the tail added almost another body length to the beasts already impressive length. Altogether it made every other reptile seen so far today look soft, the scales seemed to have a sharp edge to each of them instead of flowing together like Kirche's, or Tabitha's familiars. The dragon seemed to be examining itself just as much as the rest of the class.

"Fos ko oblivion?"

Only after an entire minuet passed did anyone move, to everyone's surprise it was the Zero who did it by turning to Kirche and shouting, "I TOLD YOU I WOULD SUMMON A DRAGON!"

Professor Colbert was rightfully awe struck by the dragon that had been summoned just twenty feet from him, but he was more concerned as to who had spoken in such a powerful voice, the only people he had heard with a voice like that were the royal announcers and they needed a hall to make their voice reverberated and become as powerful.

'where was the speaker?' he wondered to himself as the dragon lowered its body until it was face to face with the two mages

"Fos los hi sahgaat? fos tinvok los tol?"Jean and Louise both took a step backwards, the dragon was talking, it was the powerful voice that they had heard and now it was speaking to them."Fos ko oblivion koros wah zey?"

Everyone in the crowd was once again awe struck. Kirche was Jealous, JEALIOUS! of the Zero. Tabitha took one look at the dragon and cataloged everything she could see from her perspective, noticing that whatever type of dragon it was it was at least twice the size of Syphid and didn't seem to have any elemental affinity that she could see.

"Fos ko oblivion koros wah zey? Fos ko oblivion koros wah zey? Fos ko oblivion koros wah zey?" The dragon shook it head repeating the phrase over and over.

Louise looked to her professor for guidance, a talking animal was rare, but not unheard of. However, those animals usually gained the ability to speak only after they were bonded with a mage, they would get a boost of intelligence and then be able to speak, but a naturally speaking beast was completely unheard of in any lands she had heard of.

"Hello, I am Professor Jean Colbert of the Tristan Academy of Magic, who are you and what are you, we have never seen anything quite like your kind before," Jean repeated the same phrase over again in Germainian and again in every language he knew, hoping for a response.

The dragon's head snapped around to fix an eye on the professor, "Zu'u hon hi diist tiid, Zu'u nunon vis mindok druv Zu'u tinvaak dovahzul," came the unintelligible response. Jean looked down to the just as confused Louise and back to the dragon,

"if you can understand me nod your head." Much to everyone's surprise they got a nod from the dragon. "So you can understand us, but you can't speak the language can you?" a nod to the first part and a shake to the second.

Jean looked down to the frightened girl beside him. "I think that we can continue to the bonding ritual now, Louise," he said now that the mystery of the voice had been cleared up. She nodded and lifted her wand to begin.

"Wo, wo saag Zu'u fund vo some little joor cast spells on me and what do you mean by 'bonding'?"Everyone blinked, that last part was in Tristainian. "Oh so now my voice returns,"the dragon… grumbled? sounding like a light avalanche.

"You can speak? I thought you said that you couldn't," the professor said surprise at the new development showing on his face.

"I can speak this language, but before I was… confused and spoke in native Dovahzul,"the dragon answered.

"Dovahzul, I haven't heard of that language," Jean murmured thinking of all the places where he had learned the language of.

"Enough of this, what did you mean by bonding, and why did the little one immediately point her wand at me?"

Louise bristled at the 'little' comment and took a step forwards to get everyone's attention, "the bonding ritual is where the mage who has summoned a new familiar casts a spell to bind the two of them together, the animal summoned becomes the mages servant. Because I summoned you I get to bind you to me."

The dragon growled and drew itself up by stretching its wings down and glared down on the little girl, who was beginning to regret angering the dragon. "So you kidnap me from my home and that gives you the right to make me your slave? I get no say in whether or not I get bound to you at all, is that right?"

Colbert stepped in as Louise faltered and took several steps back. "It is how the ritual has been performed for hundreds of years," he said drawing the dragon's ire away from the student. "We have never really summoned anything intelligent before, there have been no records of such an event happening in all of our lore." The dragon walked around them, rather awkwardly they might add, as if she had been sitting or lying around for a long time and her legs had fallen asleep.

"I refuse to become anyone's slave, I simply want to return to the life I lived before this all occurred," the dragon stated.

Louise felt a flash of terror, "No! Please don't leave, I need something to prove that I'm not a failure of a mage!" She covered her mouth and seemed to shrink in on herself as everyone's gaze shifted to her. The dragon paused and looked over to her tiny form, something was griping at its heart, indecision tearing it on the inside.

"Please," Louise said in a broken voice not raising her head to look at the dragon, "I need to prove myself as a mage, every spell I cast explodes on me and this was my last chance to prove that I'm not the failure that everyone thinks I am I need something to show her that I'm not a weakness."

Silence reigned across the field and no one felt the need to disturb it. The dragon turned and looked at the child, taking this as a good sign Louise pressed her case. "I have failed to cast even the most basic of the spells I have been given, they always explode, they always cause a burst of smoke and destroy the item I tried to cast on or blow up the area I pointed in. M-mother was the commander of the manticore knights, I need to be as strong as she was if I am ever going to look her in the eye." Fear almost frozen Louise's voice but she continued in a whisper that her classmates couldn't hear, "I need something to prove that I am a successful mage, if I don't have anything to prove it then I will be married off to prevent shame from staining my family honor. I..." Her tears started spilling down her face and her voice broke down.

"Faas Ru Maar!"

A wave of pale smoke leaves the dragon's mouth immediately impacting Louise and traveling back to the crowd, many of whom cry out and fall backwards, gripped by some unknown terror. The dragon moves in close on the heels of the attack, in her face a second after it passed. Louise feels like she is facing her mother's glare, how she knows it will feel if she goes home without a familiar to please her. The dragon moves back to the wall and looks over it, gazing at the sun.

"..."

"..."

Finally, a crunch broke the silence as the dragon seemed to 'punch' the ground and returned to staring at the mage. "I will not be a slave, I will not be at your beck and call, I won't do just anything you ask, there will need to be a good reason to listen to obey if you give an order, but if you can meet all of these requirements then I will accept this 'bonding',"the dragon laid out the terms looking the child in the eye. Hope was bursting out of the Child's frame like a cloth balloon tied to the end of a compressed air canister.

"Does that mean?" She couldn't finish her sentence, fearing that if she did the dragon would change its mind.

"I agree to become your familiar if you don't treat me like garbage, if you do I will kill you myself,"the dragon stated and grinned at the frightened look that passed her face. Louise almost fell to her knees, whatever the smoke had done, she had somehow passed a test the dragon had placed.

"Well, are you going to cast the spell?"

"Oh, right," Louise says quickly and raises her wand, pointing at the dragon's head "My name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière. Pentagon of the five elemental powers; bless this humble being, and make her my familiar," with that she leaned forwards and kissed the dragon on the snout. Her lips landed on the hard scales and after a second the dragon pulled back shaking its head as it felt a pinching sort of pain on its left wing. Shaking the affected area and causing a minor windstorm to form, the dragon looked at the wing noticing a glowing set of runes on the back of the 'palm' area.

"May I see your runes?" the professor's voice draws the dragon's attention back to the people surrounding them. As the dragon nods Jean walks up to wing that lowers itself for examination. "Hum, I haven't seen anything like this type of rune before, then again this is a unique situation so that might have something to do with that," the professor murmurs half to himself.

"Well," Louise started, "I guess that now we can get you something to eat, or find a place to… ah, roost? dragon."

"Dovahkiin,"the dragon said, at her confused look the dragon elaborated, "The other dragons call me Dovahkiin."

Louise nodded and gestured to the Academy, "very well, Dovahkiin, would you like to find a place to roost or go hunting first?" looking around the dragon, Dovahkiin snorted,

"I would like to explore the surrounding area, get the lay of the land."Louise nodded and stepped back allowing Dovahkiin to sweep her wings up and down, leaping into the air she awkwardly took to the air and started flying ever growing larger circles in the air.

Kirche leaned down and whispered in Tabitha's ear, "did we just get out done, by the Zero?" Tabitha nodded. Kirche sighed and groaned, "I was hoping that I had imagined that part."

"Need more information," Tabitha said quickly gaining Kirche's attention, "What do you mean, she beat us that's all we need to know."

Tabitha shook her head and spoke, "type." Kirche frowned,

"type? oh what type of dragon, and hence what affinity, I get it." Tabitha nodded.


Any problems so far?

Translations are found online but FF won't let me give you the address,

but they are basically what you'd expect, "where am I? Who are you," and the like.

Feel free to look them up and enjoy my little trolling.