"Until we see each other again." The imposing Cyborg said, as he disappeared into the smoke behind him. With only the hellish glow of the Crucible's Blade being the last thing that can be seen.

And after that the Doom Slayer was teleported to only God knows where, as long as it was far away from Dr. Hayden as far as the Cyborg cared.

As he opened his eyes, he saw nothing but an empty void. He knew Dr. Hayden put him here so that he would be as helpless as he was when he was stuck inside that cursed coffin, at least when he was inside that thing, he was stuck in hypersleep for the most part. Here, he'll probably go even angrier and insane then he already had been.

As he continued to look at his surroundings hoping that there will be at least something he can interact with. So far the only thing he saw was few pieces of different kinds of materials that were obviously used to test on some teleportation device that where lost and the lower body of some poor bastard who probably had a random mishap with a teleporter.

But before he could ponder even more on what he should do besides floating around in this empty void and slowly lose whatever was left of his sanity. He heard a small voice calling out to him, clearly belonging to small girl. He could barely make it out but he swore the voice say.

"I beg of you…"

The Doom Slayer began to look at his surroundings wanting to know the source of the voice and found nothing, which didn't really surprise him at all. Although another thought crossed his mind that made him even more concerned then he already was, was he already losing his mind that fast inside this damn void? But then the voice continued.

"My servant who lives somewhere in the universe!"

A servant? Some form of Ancient pride that he long buried along with his Mortal self began to take the forefront. He had been called many things; a guardian, a leader, a knight, a sentinel, a demon slayer, a monster, and many more but being called a servant left a small but bad taste in his mouth. He thought about ignoring the heed of whoever was calling him if that was what she thought of him. But something inside him told him to continue listening.

"Oh sacred, beautiful, and strong familiar spirit!"

The Doom slayer couldn't help but slightly chuckle at what the voice said, he was definitely more than strong as the amount of demons he ripped and teared through can attest, and being called sacred and beautiful was something he didn't think someone would actually use to describe him, in fact he was the complete opposite.

His amusement abruptly stopped as he heard the voice continued to speak, whoever or whatever this person is and was going to do, If she is able to call out to him in this empty void, she might just be his only ticket out of here.

"I Call upon you from the bottom of my heart please hear and answer my call!"

And hear he did, The Doom Slayer's Tether System began to activate as it began to send him to who knows where.

But one thing's for sure, things are going to get a lot more interesting…

A Few Moments Earlier…

Today was the Springtime Familiar Summoning; every single student was excited on finally getting their life companion and had high hopes on what they would summon. Except for one particular student, she had long Pink hair and a small stature that would make any person be surprised that she was actually any older than 12 years of age. This student is none other than Louise de La Valliére, the third daughter of one of the most powerful noble families in Tristain.

She felt dread within every inch of her body if she failed, she would be finally be expelled and face the wrath of her family. But if she succeeds she might finally make all of her detractors finally stop calling her "Louise The Zero".

She looked on as her classmates began to summon differing types of familiars; Many of her classmates had mundane ones like cats and dogs of differing breeds to large creatures of unusual types and sizes. Kirche summoned a fire salamander; Guiche summoned a large mole and seem rather overjoyed by it, and Tabitha summoned a large Dragon. After everyone stopped gawking at Tabitha and her new familiar, a tall, balding, aged man began to look at his students and asked "Alright, has everyone summoned their familiars?"

"I think everyone is already done except Louise Mr. Colbert!" Lousie shot a glare at the person who called her out and saw none other than that Dark-skinned Cow: Kirche, who just looked right back at her and returned with a smug grin.

She mentally scolded herself; she knew that whatever she would do someone would bring attention to her. With a sigh she moved forwards towards Mr. Colbert, she heard small whispers that clearly were insults but she paid no heed to them, but the more she went forward the more insults she began to hear.

"Louise The Zero summoning a familiar? Don't make me laugh!"

"C'mon Zero! Make something happen!"

"I suggest we should take cover."

"Better start getting some helmets for the ensuing explosion!"

"Maybe I should get Vernandi to make a trench for all of us?"

Each and every one of those comments began to hurt her pride. But she wasn't willing to show it.

She'd prove them wrong; she will prove everyone who talked down her that they were wrong!

Back to the Present…

Everyone was busy coughing and trying to regain their composure from the powerful explosion that happened earlier.

"For The Founders Sake, Louise that almost killed all of us!"

"Once a Zero, Always a Zero!"

"That was probably her biggest explosion yet!"

Louise was busy being on her little bottom silently asking to herself what went wrong, paying no heed to the never ending insults being flung at her.

Tabitha meanwhile began to notice that her new familiar dragon, who took the name Sylphid, was shaking.

"Problem?"

Her newfound dragon friend looked down at her and said "I feel like something really dangerous is coming from that dust, Big Sister."

Tabitha slightly raised an eyebrow and looked at the small dust cloud, had Louise really summoned something that made even her own Rhyme Dragon feel fear?

As the dust cloud slowly cleared away and they all saw a shadow rising up. As the dust finally settled everyone looked in awe of what was in front of them.

A tall imposing giant of a man wearing strange armor was standing right in front of all them. He slowly looked around taking in his surroundings.

"Is it a golem?" One student asked.

"Did Louise some sort of Animated Armor?" Another one asked.

"It looks pretty otherworldly too." One student observed.
But their bickering quickly silenced as they heard a hiss and where left gawking at what was right in front of them…

As he was finally pulled out that goddamned void, he was kneeling and being greeted by a dust cloud; he slowly rose up.

As the dust finally began to clear he finally saw something.

What he saw was a real sight for sore eyes, green grass, blue skies, a shining sun and a large castle.

He felt something that he was sure he left a long time ago when he decided to let Hell suffer his wrath.

Serenity

He didn't know what possessed him, but he felt the urge to remove his helmet and take in his surroundings even more.

That he did…

As he removed his helmet, he felt the calming yet invigorating gust of cool clean air welcome his face. Being stuck in fiery and smoking pits of Hell, fighting for only Satan knows how long and then having a large temple fall on top of you, then waking up and fending off several demons in Mars and its air-conditioned facilities made natural air a very welcome experience.

He was cut from his incredibly rare chance to be completely tranquil when he heard a collective gasp come from the people in front of him.

Oh yeah, there were also a bunch of weird and oddly-dressed children & one man. All of the kids clothes looked quite similar except for that busty red-headed and some blonde fop, who had their shirts slightly unbuttoned revealing their chests. If he had to take a shot in the dark, he would guess that they where some kind of uniform.

He was abruptly cut from his musing when one of those kids said something he didn't understand, he wasn't sure what that little runt said but he felt liked it was something derogatory.

The entire student body began to collectively laugh, Yep it definitely was something derogatory.

"Louise The Zero summoned commoner! "One student shouted and a collective laughter and slinging of insults at Louise's expense commenced.

"Wow, she really is a zero!"

"As expected from Louise!"

As most of the student body continued their lovely game of "Mock The Zero" A selective few where at least serious enough to begin observing the man in front of them.

"He can't possibly be a commoner; his armor should obviously belong to a knight from a faraway land."

"I won't lie I would be pretty impressed if Louise was able to summon a foreign knight."

"But doesn't that mean that the kingdom that this foreigner belongs might get a bit angry that one of their own warriors was forcibly taken against his will?"

"Hmmm… He's quite handsome and pretty rugged too, don't you think Tabitha?" said Kirche licking her lips as she spotted her new prey.

Tabitha gave a small nod, while she wasn't exactly interested in boys as most girls. She did admit that despite the aura of pure anger the figure exhumed he was surprisingly handsome.

A few of the other girls noticed this too and began to slightly blush and gossip along with their fellow classmates about the stranger in front of them.

Trying his best to ignore the laughter of the children, he began to look at the other things surrounding him.

He began to notice the different fantasy creatures in front of him; a salamander with the tip of its tail on fire, a large eyeball, a large mole (no not that kind), some canines and felines of differing breeds and sizes and… Wait a minute is that a dragon?

Doom Guy gave a small whistle, he hasn't seen the likes of those for a pretty long time. Most of the time back in Hell he just fought some demons that looked like dragons.

Of course another thing that he noticed was that almost all of their eyes where at him, while some where clearly shaking; a few others were clearly on their guard. Not that he could blame them; they always said animals can sense danger better than humans ever could.

He also began to notice that some of the girls were also whispering to each other, he also noticed some of them where slightly blushing.

Wait did they have a crush on him? He wasn't sure why but he believed that his time in Hell must have at least made his mug at least a little bit uglier.

He wasn't sure if it was right but he did remember when his parents used to say that he looked a bit like one of his ancestors, although with brown hair and slightly less scars.

Of course he also isn't sure if that means anything anymore due to the aforementioned time in Hell. "Note to self: Find a damn mirror or any reflective surface." He mentally reminded himself.

He then began to notice that he heard a really familiar voice somewhere, as he tried to pinpoint its source his eye brought him to a small petite pink-haired girl talking with a balding middle-aged man wearing a robe and carrying a staff. "So that's who summoned me, huh? This going to be interesting…" The Doom Slayer thought to himself.

The pinkette huffed, despite her protests; Professor Colbert insisted that she should get on with it and bind her newfound familiar.

Still a nagging thought behind her head told her that there must be more than meets the eye on her familiar, she wasn't sure what it was but something or someone was telling her that her familiar was going to be her first step towards greatness.

As she stood in front of him, she looked up and saw that the large figure was looking at her with his eyebrow raised. She gave a small sigh and beckoned him to kneel down at her.

He tilted his head but gave a small shrug and complied. As they were finally face-to-face Louise got a good look at the man's features.

As much as she hated to admit he was quite handsome, despite the scarring and that weird rune at the top left of his forehead, he had quite the handsome visage.

"Maybe, he really is a knight…" she thought but immediately began to shake other thoughts that where clouding her mind away and mentally scolded herself for thinking such things. With a heavy sigh she finally did what she was told to.

The Doom Slayer has been through a lot of things to the point that if a large titan formed from all the corpses of all the demon's he's killed was right in front of him, it could do anything but slightly faze him.

Of course what happened to him now was something he didn't exactly had the luck of happening to him before.

The small pink-haired girl slowly walked up to him and KISSED him. He recoiled in both surprise and disgust, surprise in that somebody actually had the gall to kiss him and disgust in that somebody was none other than that small girl. Even though it has been a long time, he was still knowledgeable that doing anything like that to a small child will immediately land your ass in jail.

He then noticed some sort of odd sensation coming from his hands, he felt like something warm was being pressed on his body everywhere. It wasn't exactly the pleasant type of warm; it felt more like the annoying kind of warm. He took a look at his arms and noticed some odd runes were glowing through his armor, his eyes opened wide when he recognized what these runes were.

"These runes are of Argent Origin!" He thought as he began to examine them even closer. "Let's see… I think it reads as Ganda-…" but before he could finish reading the runes, they began to slowly fade slightly frustrating him. "Damnnit , and I was this close to deciphering what they mean…" He then looked down at his kisser and saw her blushing while trying to wipe her mouth.

He was about to ask her something before somebody cut him off. "Good work Louise, you managed to do the Bind Ritual without any problems!" "Yeah that was nice- Waitaminute did I just understood what he said?" He thought legitimately surprised.

He slightly raised an eyebrow as the professor walked closer and looked at him. "If it doesn't bother can I see you runes?" he inquired.

He let out a small sigh as complied and released his gauntlet, giving off its own small hiss as he removed it from his arm. He had a better look at his runes and noticed that they kept repeating some kind of name…

Today was a weird day for Colbert, not only did Louise surprisingly enough not failed the Ritual but also appeared to summon something human, well at least it appeared to be, he wasn't sure why but he felt like there was something peculiar about the person in front of him. He disregarded this thought and walked forward towards Louise and her newfound familiar, giving her a compliment while going near towards her familiar. He then asked if he could get a look at his runes, surprisingly the man complied (but sighed a little) and released his gauntlet it released a small hiss while doing so "Strange…" he silently remarked.

Then the professor began to scribble down the runes "My my, what peculiar looking runes, they seem to have a pattern too. I wonder what it means…"

"It means Gandalfr." The Doom Slayer immediately replied. The professor recoiled slightly as the man spoke; his voice was deep and booming, fitting for a man of his that stature. "Ummm… I- I'm sorry but could you repeat-"

"The runes on me seem to have some form of repetition but I think it means Gandalfr." The man flatly replied. He nervously nodded and began to take note of what the man said "Gandalfr… Why does that sound familiar? No matter, I'll go look for its meaning in the Library." He turned around and announced to his students "This marks the end of the Springtime Familiar Summoning ritual you can now go to your respective dorms; tomorrow you will not have any classes so that you can bond with your familiars. Anymore questions?"

Most of the class answered with no, satisfied he used his levitation to float towards the academy and immediately everyone followed suit, except for Louise of course.

Louise stared as her classmates used their Levitation to go to the academy; she wasn't capable of doing something like that last time she did that she accidentally blew herself as most of her spells did.

She looked at her familiar and said "Well what are we waiting for? Let's get to the academy!" and immediately began walking.

The Doom Slayer looked at the small pinkette walking towards the academy; he let out a small sigh and reattached his helmet.

"This is going to be one of those days…" he thought and began to walk alongside the cherry-blossom haired girl.