A/N: Seeing as I had time on my hands and wanted to take a short break from writing Freedom and Democracy, I decided to pick up one of my ideas from the poll and write about it. I really like the idea of destroying Halkeginia for some reason, what with the Fics I write largely being world breaking. This story will not be a happy one as you will soon see and will basically depict the struggle of the Halkeginians as they try, in vain, to contain the outbreak when it becomes serious. Their doom is inevitable, but will the journey to their doom be a great one?

This story will likely be extremely fast paced since, obviously, they stand no chance, so just keep that in mind.

A flood spore floated in the air within High Charity when it heard a call. The gravemind heard it as well and gave the spore its directive, answer the call and search for new life. Report back if able, if not, establish a new flood presence in that world. The spore obeyed, and answered the call, entering the portal which spawned in its path and pulled it into a new world.

The spore was shot into the air as an explosion occurred when it passed through. It called out to its gravemind after arrival but received no answer. Its second directive then initiated, and it carried out its task. Observing its immediate surroundings, the spore looked for the simplest host and found a small sized human with pink hair.

With its tiny appendages, the spore propelled itself through the air and aimed for its target. The spore used the wind which suddenly came and blew the smoke away to slingshot itself into its future host's mouth. A clean entry, no one around noticed save for some coughing from said host due to the irritation she felt in her throat when it entered. The spore then settled, and began its mission.

"Haha! Louise summoned nothing!"

"After all that talk about summoning something amazing you still ended up summoning nothing. Then again, what else did i expect from Zero Louise?"

"Go home Zero, you aren't a proper mage!"

Louise recovered from her coughing fit, which she attributed to the smoke, and stared at the blank empty field ahead of her in a desperate hope of spotting something, anything, which could have been her Familiar. Alas, she saw nothing, not even a fly, and broke. She went on her knees and wept as her classmates jeered on.

"That's enough, all of you, back to class!"

The rowdy bunch were silenced and quietly returned to their lessons while the teacher, Professor Colbert, approached the crying girl and tried to comfort her.

"It's alright Louise, it's going to be okay…"

She paid him no heed and continued to sob. He backed away and gave her some space. He knew it wouldn't be okay, she had made an agreement with her family last year to allow her to continue to the second year until she summoned a Familiar. Sadly, she did not succeed and thus would be forced to drop out of the school and return to her family home.

She persevered and studied everyday even despite her lack of magical talent but now, she had to give up. It was sad to see such a hard working student go, but there was nothing he could do about it, her family had long pressed him and the Headmaster to expel her so she could return home and marry her fiance.

The teacher reluctantly left her alone in the yard to inform the Headmaster of the development and get him to prepare the necessary papers. He found the man being abused by his secretary, no doubt for sexually harassing her as usual, and was slightly annoyed he was not taking things seriously. He quickly got up from the floor where he was being kicked and sat back into his seat with a more stern look upon noticing Colbert's arrival.

"Old Osmond, Miss Vallière has unfortunately failed her summoning ritual."

"I see… That is most unfortunate indeed, it is unfortunate to see such a student leave but I guess we must abide by the agreement between her and her family. I will get the documents ready and inform her parents."

"And I will aid in her packing I suppose…"

The kindly Professor left the office and headed to the courtyard to find that she had supposedly recovered and gone to her room. He headed to the dorms to meet her and found her, instead of packing, lying on her bed in curled up in a ball and clutching her stomach. He attributed the behavior to the fear of what her family would do to her for failing and helped to pack her belongings into a sack with levitation.

He tied the knot to the bag and left it by her door for her when her family came to pick her up tomorrow. Professor Colbert was saddened that this was the most he could help his student, wondering briefly how strictly the Vallière family, one of the most influential countries in Tristain, would treat their magicless daughter.

Within the girl, the flood spore slowly started to spread throughout her. The spread was faster than anticipated however, as if aided by a magical force and the spore already infected her lungs and oesophagus as well as an upper part of her stomach. Its lysogenic replication was somehow catalysed by the strange blood within the girl and allowed it to grow exponentially.

The next day soon came and a depressed Louise was brought out of her room and loaded into the carriage. The one who had come to pick her up was Éléonore Vallière, the eldest of the three Vallière sisters. She was incredibly harsh towards her younger sibling, lecturing her throughout the entire journey back home about the consequences of being magicless as a Vallière.

A/N: This is just a test chapter for now so if you want a continuation, please vote for the option on my poll till around twenty.

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