my first fanfic story I've written. Wanted to get into writing for a long time, but i never found the incentive till recently. post reviews and stuff

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"WILL YOU STOP DOING THAT!"

Louise was getting seriously annoyed at her familiar. Sure, he had certainly looked pretty impressive during the summoning. Tall, dressed in flowing purple robes, and holding an impressive looking staff tipped with some sort of green goop. His very presence emanated a sort of power; the kind that comes with immense amounts of knowledge. None of the students present, including Louise, had any idea what the familiar she had summoned was, and were only further confused after it had started speaking a foreign tongue. They had stood there, dumbfounded, until Professor Colbert reminded Louise to complete the binding ritual.

The ritual had gone through without any complications, and the students were told to return to their rooms, leaving Louise to wonder what exactly she had summoned.

She originally thought the familiar to be some sort of golem; an assumption made because of the familiar's strange face. This, however, did not explain how the familiar could speak, be it in a foreign tongue, since no golem could talk as they had no mind of their own.

Later, Louise realized that the best way to find out what her familiar was would be to ask it herself, and asked a passing teacher to cast a translation spell on the familiar. He told her that he that he was a human, and that his "face" was just a mask. He told her that his name was "Rubick", and he was the "Grand Magus," which is apparently a title given to his nation's most powerful mage. This knowledge had worried Louise, since she had technically kidnapped another noble; a powerful one at that, and if what he had said was true, then his nation would no doubt some after him, perhaps even start a war in the process. If that happens, then Louise would be the one responsible

The familiar had reassured her that his nation would not bother searching for him, as he had been gone for a long time. In fact, this was not even the first time he was unexpectedly pulled to a foreign land.

For the first day after the summoning, Louise had gotten along well with her newly summoned familiar. Though he had refuse to do any of Louise's chores, (understandable, as since he was such a powerful noble, he'd probably never washed cloths in his life) he had been nice enough to Louise, treating her with the respect one would expect from another noble. However, Louise had noticed that the familiar was constantly twitching. She'd attributed this to nerves, since the man had just been brought to a strange new land, and had expected him to stop after a good night's rest (Louise hadn't had a bed ready for the familiar, since she had expected and animal, but the man said he didn't mind).

But the familiar didn't stop.

In fact, he got worse, especially after he took a glance at the night sky and muttered to himself "curious…"

What had begun as small twitched of the hands and head had now become full body convulsions that shook the man's entire upper body.

And so, despite the fact that the man in front of her had claimed to be a powerful mage, Louise decided that, as the man's master, she would do smoothing about this.

"STOP THAT, stop that right now!"

"Stop what?" the man asked, still gazing intently at a passing student and her bugbear familiar

"Stop… MOVING! You keep twitching and shaking and shuddering and it's ANNOYING!"

"Oh, my apologies. I tend to do that when I… see something interesting," Rubick explained

"well it's annoying and as your master, I command you to stop," Louise pointed at him, which was quite a sight as she only came up to the man's waist, "and I don't see what's so interesting about this place; it's just a school of magic."

"Well for one," Rubick said, raising a finger, "the other familiars in the 'school of magic' are very new to me, several of which I have never seen before."

"Two, this place has two moons, while where I come from, there is only one."

Rubick glanced out of the window

"Which means three; I have been brought to another world, if not another plane of existence."

"W-w-wait," Louise stammered, "you from another WORLD? How do you know your lands are just very far away?"

"As I said, there are two moons in this land, and only one in mine," Rubick explained.

"But don't be too worried; I've been pulled to a different world once already, and I was having quite some fun with the experience until you brought me to this place."

"You've been summoned before?" Louise gasped, "By whom?"

"The ancients"

"The what?"

Rubick sighed internally; this girl must be quite dense if she doesn't even know about the Ancients.

"The ancients; two great primordial beings that were imprisoned and are now wagin war against each other."

Then, Rubick had a realization.

"Wait, you mean to say you've never heard of the war between Ancients?"

Louise shook her head, still trying to make sense of what her familiar had just told her.

"Curious," Rubick muttered, "curious indeed."

So, it seems that this world has yet to be contacted by the Ancients, which means…

Behind his mask, Rubick chuckled.

"What's so funny," Louise demanded

"Oh, nothing…"

A world that even the ancients themselves have not discovered, Rubick mused, I wonder what new arcanery this land has to offer.