Hello everyone and welcome to the first chapter of “Deals & Destiny”, I hope you find it entertaining and of good quality. For those of you wanting a more detail description of the story; an OC from our world gets summoned by Louise instead of Saito, makes a deal and get abilities, then makes other deals, and then using his abilities and knowledge of the ZNT anime, redoes the entire ZNT series and ends up killing a lot of nobles. This story will also contain sexually adult situations and content; you know the ones I mean. Warnings will be provided as needed. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own nothing, suing me is not even worth the court costs!

Chapter 1

A walk, a simple and peaceful walk along a lonely road in rural America, something any 25 year old guy should be able to do; in fact that is exactly what this ordinary guy is doing. It’s a nice sunny day as he moves along at a leisurely pace letting his mind wander and doing his favorite past time of daydreaming, specifically today he was thinking about the ‘Familiar of Zero’ anime show that he and a friend had been watching earlier today; he was mainly griping about how much of a pansy-assed little masochist Saito had been and how much of a sadistic pink-haired bitch Louise was.

‘I know it’s a slap-stick comedy, but come on, there is a point where you gotta stop taking it and say: “Fuck this, fuck you, and fuck off I’m out of here.” Or at least take the wand and whip away.’ His mental tirade continued for a few minutes until something caught his attention.

“The hell, is that a floating green sphere?” He asked aloud to no one as he took a few steps closer to examine it more thoroughly. “Holy shite it is, there it a green-fucking-sphere floating in front of me.” He paused in thought at that as something occurred to him.

‘Wait a minute, floating green sphere, just like…’ His eyes went wide at the realization. “Uh-oh.”

The sphere scooted forward a foot and he took a step back. “No.”

It slowly started approaching. “Nonono.” He took off running away from it and the sphere suddenly shot off after him.

“NononoNO OH FUUUUUUCK…” He yelled as the sphere easily caught him and then disappeared.

He fell, through time and space he fell for what seemed like ages; in fact he had long stopped screaming and just watched the strangeness pass him by. He noticed that at first he fell through a blinding white tunnel, then it seemed to distort slightly and now it was a black tunnel with pin-points of light streaking by. As time went on he gradually began to slow until he finally came to a stop, only problem was that he seemed to be floating in space; all around him was the endless expanse of star scape and while it was incredible to behold, he was still in the middle of no-where space and that understandably caused him to panic a bit.

He looked around and tried to focus, tried to keep his panic uncheck, and tried to get his breathing under control. ‘Wait a minute, breathing?’ He took a deep breath and realized he had no problems doing so. “How am I able to breath in space?” The question actually caused him to focus on the pure strangeness of his situation, which calmed him.

“Because I will it.” The abrupt answer to his spoken question in a deep and ominous voice startled him out of his calming musings and made him whip around to face what had answered only to find a hooded and cloaked figure standing several feet from him. The figure was easily six feet tall and completely enshrouded in its black cloak which seemed to nullify any light that touched it while its face, which it was doubtful there was one, was un-seeable and instead only unfathomable darkness within its hood that, unlike the cloak which cancelled light, consumed light instead.

“W-what do you mean you will it, who are you, what are you?” His throat felt dry and the presence of this… being… was overwhelming.

“I… am the Avatar of the Void.”

“’Avatar of the Void’? Do you mean the Void as in ‘Void Magic’, and why did you bring me here?”

“What you see before you is a representative of me and my power, the Void between and beyond the stars which exists in all universes, all time. The vast infinite blackness that awaits and greets the material universe no matter how far it expands; that is how infinite I am, how much my will encompasses, and it is by my will that I have brought you here to fulfill a purpose.”

“What purpose?” Nervousness was quickly turning into curiosity.

“As you have no doubt concluded, you are being summoned to Halkeginia be the familiar of a young mage who possesses the ability to utilize what has been dubbed ‘Void Magic’, this was to be your fate; however I have intercepted you to offer you a deal to change this as well as to fix the mistake of another that I had dealings with there, millennia ago, the one known as Brimir.”

“You made a deal with the Halkeginian version of Jesus?” It was almost funny, though the Avatar displayed no amusement.

“When I chose him Brimir was but a starving peasant child, the offer was simple; in exchange for an infinitesimal wisp of my power he would use it to bring order to the chaos which reined at the time. He succeeded, and from the warring barbaric tribes forged the various kingdoms which now exist and established a system which made the mages the protectors of the ordinary people.”

“Okay, it seems like the standard story consistent with the religion of the founder; he established the kingdoms and the aristocracy just as everyone knows, where’s the mistake?” It was quite possible that the faceless entity in front of him scowled.

“Brimir did not establish the aristocracy, the mages themselves did so after his death, and that was his mistake, he failed to plan for after his end. Now, six millennia later the nobility rules as a corrupt and abusive force over those they call commoners, all in Brimir’s name and in doing so suppress the common man’s creativity and ingenuity resulting in near total stagnation in all forms of advancement except for magic, and even then there has been hardly any development there either.”

“So, what do you want me to do?”

“If you accept my offer you will be granted not only the power of the Gandalfr, but also an upgraded mind and body as well as a special gift to further your power. In exchange you are to use these gifts to end Halkeginia’s stagnation and free the people from the heel of the nobility.”

“Just how do you expect me to do that, conquer their world?” By this point he was slack jawed at his new role.

“If that is what it takes then yes, you have seen the… show, you know the lore and have even read the works of others which have detailed possible methods to deal with this problem, add to that what I offer and only a fool could fail.”

The Void was right, only an absolute idiot could mess it up, but a question still remained.

“If you are so powerful, then why do you need me, couldn’t you fix everything yourself instantly.”

“Indeed I could, in fact in some realities I have done just that, however in this realty I have chosen this method of solving the problem, just as in others I have and will use other means, little matters but what I will. Here and now I give you the choice because I can, now, will you accept the deal?”

“You have explained what happens if I do, what if I refuse?”

“If you refuse then the summoning will continue as normal and you will become a familiar just like Saito and will experience all of the events similar to how he did.”

That did it, no more hesitation; with eyes wide and pupils narrowed from the thought of going through what that dumbass went through he accepted wholeheartedly.

“I ACCEPT THE DEAL!” Upon hearing this, the Avatar revealed and extended its hand which appeared to be made of space itself to include stars and nebulae.

“Excellent, then take my hand and seal the Deal.”

With that and only slight hesitation he reached out and grasped the cosmic hand, and as soon as he did tendrils of pure darkness erupted from the appendage traveled up his arm and enveloped him, his last thoughts as it was happening were; ‘I really hope I didn’t just sell my soul, because if I did then I am going to be so embarrassed when I get to hell for being fooled so easily.’

Tristan Magic Academy: POV (Louise)

The spring time familiar summon was an important time of the year for the students of the Tristan Magical Academy as it was the time when they finally got to call forth their familiars and come one step closer to not only graduating, but also becoming full-fledged mages worthy of nobility. This particular year has been a resounding success so far as all manner of creatures have been summoned from salamanders to frogs and even a dragon; now it was time for the last individual to summon her familiar. Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere was her name and she had been looking forward to this day for weeks and had spent much time studying the ritual, the spell words, and anything else to insure that she would succeed and not only get a wonderful familiar but also finally get undeniable proof that she was a mage, that she wasn’t a ‘Zero’, wasn’t a failure, her hopes have been high.

A third explosion rocked the courtyard, this one the biggest yet; when her turn came Louise had been extremely confident, then the first explosion happened, just like any other attempt at anything involving spell casting and the reason she was called the ‘Zero’, zero success at magic. She ended up trying the summon again, and got the same result, her hopes were essentially crushed and as the other students jeered she partially snapped and basically said to hell with it and went a third time, pouring everything she had into the spell and getting the biggest explosion of her life.

“Damn it Louise you worthless Zero.” One of the students yelled.

“Are you insane, are trying to kill us all?” Another one shouted.

“Why don’t you just quit this school and spare all of us real mages your catastrophic failures?” That last student’s remark really hurt.

‘[Sob] Why? I was sure this time it would work.’ Her eyes were just barely holding back the tears. ‘This explosion was the biggest yet, oh by the Founder there is even lightning… wait, lightning?’

Indeed, aside from the enormous cloud of dust and smoke, black arcs of lightning were seen all throughout the cloud appearing and disappearing from seemingly nothing. After a minute they started forming at a faster and faster rate until suddenly over a dozen all struck a point a couple of feet off the ground and seemed to swirl and then expand rapidly and as it did it began sucking up all the dust, dirt, and smoke around it quickly clearing it, though it didn’t stop and Louise and the students had to brace themselves from the strong vacuum that tried to inhale them.

“Zero what did you do?!” One of the students screamed over the sound of the rushing wind.

“I don’t know!” Louise yelled back.

The vortex of wind didn’t last long and when it finally ended Louise looked up and was stunned at what she saw. Floating less than an inch from the ground was a portal, and within that portal appeared to be the night sky, an endless expanse of stars, she found it breath taking. After a few moments of staring slack-jawed, she then noticed something strange moving in the star-scape, it slowly got bigger as it approached and she realized that it was the silhouette of a person, however it had no distinguishing features.

It took a few minutes but the form made it to the portal and took its first step through; first came its foot which reveal strange looking black boots, then its leg was shown to be covered in sturdy looking black pants of unknown material, then the body came and displayed a black greatcoat left open exposing a black belt and some kind of shirt also black and seemed to contain plates of unidentifiable metal. The last to be revealed was the face; the figure was now seen as a young man in his mid-twenties who seemed, at least to Louise, to be fairly handsome, he had a kind face and neat and short silver hair and sky-blue eyes. The man also stood just over six feet tall, far taller than she was.

As the man emerged full from the portal he took a quick look around and seemingly satisfied, proceeded to walk towards were Louise was standing, when he got within about two feet of her he stopped and spoke.

“Greetings, it is nice to meet you, Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere.” At this Louise’s eyes went wide and she sputtered out a response.

“W-wa, who are you, and how do you know my name?!” The man gave a gentle smile and answered.

“My name is Michael, and I know what I need to know, for example; I know that you desperately seek to summon a familiar to prove that you are a really a mage and not a ‘Zero’ as they say.” The man, now known as Michael said, to which Louise silently simmered in shame and rage, Michael however, did not give her time to retort as he continued. “I will also tell you that binding me or any other creature as a familiar will not convince your peers nor will it fix your magic.” This statement caused Louise to sink further into shame and misery, however what remained of her pride refused to accept his words.

‘How dare he say that, there is no way a commoner like him could know that!’ Her anger and denial were strong as she desperately clung to any reason for him to be wrong, even dismissing him as a commoner due to his clothing not being regal enough to be nobility, which she was right of course, Michael wasn’t a noble and though his clothing could be something a noble would ware if it had gold or gems, the fact it did not meant no noble would ware it. Louise was about to yell at him when he spoke further.

“However, I can offer you the proof you need, the proof that would convince everyone that you are without a doubt a true mage.” This stalled any tirade Louise might have had.

“What proof?”

“Why, the only absolutely undeniable means there is for proving one is a mage, the ability to cast spells.” Louise’s eyes widened once more. “If you accept the deal I offer you then you will be granted the capability to successfully cast any spell from all four magical elements with equal proficiency limited only by your own knowledge and will.”

She couldn’t believe it; this man was offering her what she has always wanted, in fact, she didn’t believe it, a fact she voiced.

“I don’t believe you, no one can do that, give someone magic, it’s impossible!” While a part of her desperately wanted to hope it was true, her own logic got in the way along with her growing pessimism, Michael however just continued to smile unfazed at her denial.

“Louise, what do you have to lose at this point, all you have to do is agree to the deal and you can have the one thing you have always wanted.” He was right, what did she have to lose; she has never managed to cast a spell without it blowing up in her face.

‘Maybe I should accept, even if it turns out to be fake it’s not like I’ll end up in any worse of a situation, if anything I’ll just punish him for lying to me.” At that she almost told him yes, but then something occurred to her.

“Wait a minute, you have only explained one side to this ‘Deal’, what are you getting out of this?” Michaels face suddenly went completely serious.

“How perceptive, you are right to question this; if you accept this deal you will gain magical ability as I said, I on the other hand will get to keep my freedom since the cost you must pay is that you will not be allowed to bind me nor anything else as your familiar, in fact if you much as ever even attempt to cast the familiar summoning again then you will lose… everything, you will be stripped of all your magic, you won’t even have your explosions, you will truly be a commoner.”

Louise considered this; on the one hand she’d never get a familiar, but that really didn’t matter much, after all a lot of mages didn’t have familiars, having to give up having one wasn’t so bad, especially considering what she could gain. After several minutes she finally decided.

“I, Louise Francoise le Blanc de la Valliere accept your deal Michael.” With that Michael extended his hand towards her in a handshake gesture.

“Very well Louise, just take my hand and grasp your destiny.” Taking a deep breath she reached out and firmly gripped his hand, and as she did Michael smiled a shark grin and ‘it’ happened.

When Louise gripped his hand Michael tightly gripped hers and as he did black tendrils burst out of her body and went into his and immediately after that silver tendrils came out of him and entered her and after it was done Michael released Louise’s hand and she backpedaled a few steps with a panicked look on her face.

“WHAT IN BRIMIR’S NAME WAS THAT?!” Her outburst caused him to chuckle a bit.

“That was ‘Deal’ being sealed between us.” At her incredulous look he laughed again. “Go on, cast a spell, any spell, except the familiar summoning spell or in my case the familiar binding spell, don’t ever forget that.”

Nervously, she took out her wand and pointed it at rock on the ground next to her, then she reviewed everything she knew about the levitation spell and casted it and… the rock slowly floated up to her wand. Her face took on an ecstatic smile as she moved her wand around and the floating rock obeyed her commands, numerous astonished gasps and exclamations of disbelief came from the surrounding students, even the balding teacher had a look of amazement on his face at the sight of the supposed ‘Zero’ successfully casting a magical spell, without an explosion.

Louise wasn’t paying them any attention as she laughed in pure joy at her first truly successful spell. ‘It’s working, it’s working; I am really using magic with no explosions!’

POV (Michael)

Michael was extremely pleased with how that went; in almost no time at all he had gotten Louise to accept his first ‘Deal’. The ‘Deal’ was the special gift that the Avatar of the Void had given him, it allowed him to make magically binding deals with anyone, its primary purpose was to let him take the void mages void magic and add it to his own power which until he made the deal with Louise had just been the powers of the Gandalfr which the Void made sure he had even if he didn’t become Louise’s familiar. The ‘Deal’ wasn’t all the Void had done for him; it had altered his physical appearance to what it is now as well as maxed out the physical capabilities of his body and gave him an incredible memory, not quite total recall but close. The last thing the Void gave Michael was his outfit, while all back wasn’t really his style, the fact that the ensemble had high magic resistance and was completely bullet proof for anything below an armor piercing 50 cal. sabot rounds allowed him to overlook the strange fashion.

With the completion of the first ‘Deal’, Michael had now gained Louise’s void magic and with its acquisition changed the fate of this world completely, he also got a new ability to his Gandalfr powers; the Gandalfr power allows the user to know anything and everything there is to know about any weapon or tool of war and combat as well as use it with absolute mastery simply by touching said objects, the user is also granted slightly enhanced strength and greatly enhanced speed. The new power Michael got from Louise’s void magic now permits him to manifest any weapons or tools of war and combat using his own will power, however unless he puts a lot of power into the object, then said object is only temporary, and the larger and/or complex it is, the more power it takes to make it permanent.

Watching Louise attempt to cast every dot class spell she knew all-the-while laughing in absolute happiness filled Michael with a mildly warm and fuzzy feeling at making someone so happy.

“Well done Louise.” He praised and then went over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder and presented her to her classmates and announced. “From now on you are no long ‘Louise the Zero’; from hence forth you are now ‘Louise the Elemental’!” Everyone was speechless, and then Michael was nearly bowled over as Louise embraced him in a great big hug.

“Thank you Michael, thank you so much, I’ll never forget this!” He just chuckled and patted her on the head.

“You are very welcome Louise; enjoy your new life to its fullest.” She released him from the hug and stepped back with a huge smile on her face.

[Ehem] They look to their side and saw the balding teacher standing there. “While I hate to interrupt I am afraid that Miss Valliere still needs to finish the ritual.”

“Unfortunately Professor Colbert, doing so would render her powerless.” Michael’s statement shocked the Colbert, not only due to the knowledge that gaining a familiar would cause Louise to cease being a mage, but also that the young man knew who he was.

“What, how is that possible?”

“Quite simple sir, it is part of the terms of our deal. However now that this is settled, it might be best to send your students on their way, after all no point in having them loiter around out here for no reason.” Colbert just sort of nodded numbly and dismissed his class for the day. As they left many casted levitate on themselves, Louise included and with a final happy wave good bye she floated away. When the students were all gone the professor turned to the young man and began to question him.

“Well now sir, since you obviously know me I think it’s time for you to explain who you are and what happened to young Miss Valliere.” Colbert’s voice was firm and a bit insistent.

“My name is Michael professor, and as to what happened to Louise, well I made her a deal, and now she is no longer a failed mage, in fact I can safely predict that soon she will be one of the youngest square class mages is history, however the cost of this is that she can never have a familiar or else she will lose all capability to use magic of any kind.”

“I see, well I do applaud you for help the girl, I must ask what are you going to do now, since you were summoned to be a familiar by someone who can now no longer have one?”

“Well as you can see…” Michael said as he gestured to the portal that just finished closing right as he pointed to it. “I am now stuck here with no way to return home, so I think that I shall stay at the academy for a little while.”

“While I sympathize with you sir, I do not think that it would be appropriate for you to remain here since this is a magic academy and that the only non-mages here are part of the work staff, however it might be possible if you were a mage, you did do something to Miss Valliere, are you a mage?” Colbert was slightly confused at this point, as despite what happened, the young man before him didn’t really seem like a normal mage.

“Technically… yes I am, because I can indeed use magic, however, it is limited to conjuration, specifically weapons.” To emphasize this he created a small dagger and then allowed it to dissipate. “I can also make magically binding deals, such as the one I made with Louise, so as you can see I am a mage due to a technicality.”

“That is very strange, I have never heard of a mage only being able to conjure weapons and do nothing else, but as you say you can use magic and therefore are a mage, this place still is a school however, meant for teachers and students but I do not think that letting you stay for a short period of time will be much trouble, especially considering the circumstances of your arrival.”

“I do agree that my magic is strange mister Colbert but that is just the way it is. As to me staying here, I don’t intend to stay long, just long enough to establish a means of supporting myself, and while here I do not intend to cause any problems if I can help it.” Colbert nodded in understanding.

“While I would like to speak with you more on your capabilities, it has gotten late and I have other business to attend to, unless you have any questions for me then I must bid you a goodnight.” Michael shook his head at the query.

“No professor I do not, and bid you a goodnight as well, I’ll be seeing you around.” They waved to each other as they went their separate ways with Michael pleased with how all this went and Colbert with many questions about the mysterious summoned man with the strange magic abilities.

For most of the evening Michael had occupied himself by exploring the academy grounds and was intrigued at how much bigger it was than the anime had depicted. Another thing he found odd was the fact that he was actually in an anime, not that he was in a place/world that was portrayed in one, no, but he was actually seeing everything as though it actually was an anime. Vibrant colors, slightly off physics, and unrealistic perfectness were just some of the examples; the only difference from the ZNT show was that the ‘art style’ was of a much higher quality, as though it was a CG anime. The phrase ‘skin blemish’ didn’t apply here unless it was caused by an outside force, i.e. scars, or burns; also facial expressions were just as easy to read as they were in anime, because, well, it is one.

All this gave Michael a huge advantage when it came to social interaction, as well as getting laid, case in point, the three pairs of students getting it on in secluded areas as well as another five pairs of the work staff. Those instances gave him proof that he was either in a ‘borderline hentai’ anime, or an actual hentai anime version of ZNT, either that or there was a lot of stuff the show never illustrated that was happening in the background.

Walking through the halls he eventually came across the maid Siesta, doing her usual duties of dusting, in this case a large and overly gaudy vase, and based on the perverted look on her face along with intense blush, she was clearly lost in one of her erotic fantasies brought upon by her raunchy novels. This of course made any attempt to go over and talk to her inevitably end in her being startled and knocking over the overpriced vase. Realizing this Michael took preventative measures by prepositioning himself to catch the vase before it hit the ground, and despite the fact it put him less than three feet away from her, she was so lost in fantasy that she was completely oblivious to his presence until he started speaking.

“Hello there Siesta.” He said in a slightly louder than necessary voice; this brought her out of her naughty musings and caused her scream, jump, and flail her arms about knocking the vase over in a comically funny way only possible in an anime world, luckily Michael was in position to catch that vase. “Whoa there, you almost broke something excessively expensive.” He spoke in a calm friendly manner, but as soon as she looked at him and the processed what he said she went into a panic attack and bowed hastily while apologizing profusely in one part panic, two parts embarrassment, and five parts dejected terror.

“Oh I am so sorry milord please forgive me I’m so very sorry I didn’t mean to it won’t happen again I’m terribly sorry please don’t punish me milord I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry…” Her tirade would have gone on even longer if Michael hadn’t interjected.

“Please relax Siesta, everything’s fine, and I’m not a noble.” This caused her to calm a bit and look up at him, though she still was somewhat freaked out. “My name is Michael, and it is very nice to meet you.” His friendly smile and voice apparently had the effect he wanted because Siesta finally stood up straight again as she calmed down. Realization then took hold on her though as she remembered something.

“Y-you’re the one that madam Valliere summoned this afternoon but never bound?” Michael nodded. “The one who fixed her magic.” He nodded again. “B-but that would have taken nothing less than magic to accomplish, and that would make you a mage!” She was starting to panic again.

“That’s true Siesta, it did take magic and I am a mage.” She was fidgeting nervously now like a child caught red-handed doing something bad and waiting for punishment. “However, as I said, I’m not a noble.”

“B-but sir, you just said that you are a mage.” Panic and confusion were mixing now.

“Yes, but you are forgetting a very important fact Siesta.” Her panic had been full replaced by confusion now as she wondered what she could have forgotten. “Not all mages are nobles.” She looked like she wanted to smack herself for not remembering something so well known. “Besides, I’m not a very good mage; all I can do is conjure weapons.” To emphasize his point he made a very fancy dagger and sheath, it was very gaudy with many gemstones and a lot of gold. Siesta looked at the item that she would probably never be able to afford with awe, when he handed it to her she held it as though she were afraid she might break it, she looked at it some more before attempting to hand it back, but Michael just shook his head.

“Please, keep it Siesta, a little gift for you.” Her eyes widened in astonishment.

“But sir, I couldn’t keep something so valuable, this is probably worth more than I make in a month!”

“I insist you accept, besides, you will most likely find better use for it than I would, even if you only sell it. It’s a pretty gift for a pretty girl.” She blushed and stammered at the comment.

“I’m just a commoner maid sir; I’m n-not really p-pretty.” Her voice was shy and meek, but Michael was undeterred and even one-upped it.

“Nonsense, you are very pretty, and very cute even.” If there is one word that can make any anime girl bush and fumble it was the word ‘cute’, calling any anime girl cute will definitely have an effect, only super hardened bitches can brush off such a complement.

“C-c-cute!” Her faced blushed so hard that steam burst out from the sides in a very anime way. She brought her hands to her face in embarrassment and appeared to get launched into one of her more intense fantasies and she mumbled to herself and shook and wiggled in interesting and humorous ways.

‘This is amazing, a few more comments like that followed by some confident and aggressive physical actions and I could have her bent over hands on the wall or on her knees in barely ten minutes, it so fucking easy.’ It took some serious effort for Michael not to laugh at this situation and while he could easily take advantage he chose not to because he had other plans. So instead he started talking more to her and helping her out with some of the cleaning all the while listening to her talk about herself and her life, occasionally he would slip in a comment to keep her blushing slightly and by the end he had made a good friend out of the maid and even got to meet a few other maids that they came across, all of them were of course attractive, most likely thanks to the headmaster’s hiring policies, Michael thought there wasn’t a single un-cute female worker in the entire academy.

“Well, I must say talking with you has been a real pleasure, but it seems to have gotten very late.” Siesta nodded at this.

“Yes, I should probably get back to the dorms and get some rest for tomorrow, I hope to see you again Michael.”

“Oh yes, I’ll be around for a while, I’ll see you tomorrow Siesta, goodnight.” With that he headed off to find a place to sleep for the night, all the while smiling to himself.

‘Well, that went very well for a first day, and I didn’t get embarrassed, humiliated, or yelled at even once, and I still made friends with the maid, take that Saito.’

The day after the familiar summoning was set aside for the students to get to know their new familiars, since Louise couldn’t have one she spent most of her free time practicing her now usable magic, totally happy with the world for the first time in her life, and it was all thanks to Michael and the ‘Deal’. As for Michael, since he was summoned but didn’t get bound into a familiar had just been moseying around not doing much at all. He woke up not too long ago and ate breakfast with some of the staff were he conversed and chatted being as friendly as possible; amazingly none of the ones he met yesterday were there. After he ate he wandered around some more and eventually came to an outside area were the students were having what he guessed was morning tea time. It seemed that nearly all the students were at the tables; however one was off by her lonesome leaning on a stone wall.

It was the very petite blue hair mage Tabitha, off on her own reading one of her many books totally uncaring of the rest of the world, and surprisingly not with her busty red-headed germanian friend. Seeing her, Michael decided to walk on over and even when he was right in front of her she still didn’t look up from her book, so he just leaned up against the wall along with her.

“Tabitha de Norfatul, it is nice to meet you, my name is Michael.” That got her to look up and over at him, after a moment she just nodded to him and returned to her book. Michael smiled at this and decided to try to get a more interesting reaction out of her.

“Not much for conversation eh? Hmm, perhaps I should address you as Charlotte Helene de Orleans instead?” That got a reaction, faster than one would expect she was in front of him with her staff pointed just inches front his face, a surprisingly serious expression donned her normally stoic face.

“How?” One word sentence, but it’s all she needs.

“How do I know, well I know what I need to know, for example; I know that you are a princess of Gallia, your uncle usurped the throne by murdering your father then tried poisoning you but instead got your mother and now her mind is broken, in attempts to kill you he sends you on suicide missions which you consistently survive and complete, he also controls you by threatening your mother. I believe that is all the important parts.” Tabitha’s eyes were huge now as he basically explained her life’s story to her.

“What do you want?” Michael smiled softly.

“To help.” Her staff lowered mostly.

“How?”

“I have a method to cure your mother, but to accomplish it I need time, and resources, and you as a very talented Chevalier would be a very good resource.” She had a look of disbelief on her face now.

“What method?” Oh she was interested now.

“It’s complicated, but suffices to say having your loyalty would help me greatly to succeed.” She seemed to be mulling it over a bit. “I’d like to make you a deal, in exchange for your absolute loyalty I vow to have your mother completely cured within a decade.”

For Tabitha it seemed to be too good to be real, so far she had no way to restore her mother and now out of the blue this mysterious man comes up and gives her what she most desperately wants. In truth she doesn’t really believe him, and a decade of servitude for a possible cure is a bit of a risk.

“I see you are unsure, how about I improve the deal, I’ll also swear to rescue your mother from your uncle’s grasp and place her somewhere totally safe from his reach, all within five years, and if I fail to up hold any of the conditions then the deal becomes null and you will be free to extract any punishment or vengeance you deem fit.”

Now this was a much better deal for Tabitha, if he is lying then she could get revenge on him, also it has the benefit of reducing the possible term of service, plus if he even held up the first half of the bargain then she would at least be free from her uncle, and this deal was the only lead to a cure she had. After a few minutes of consideration she took a knee and lowered her head, it may have been a risk, but it was the only hope she had.

“Am I to understand that you accept?” She gave a firm nod without looking up and so he held out his hand. “Then take my hand and seal the “Deal’.” She looked up and did so and as soon as she did he gripped her hand and the power of the ‘Deal’ sped up her arm and into her eyes and swirled around her pupils before vanishing. With that he released her hand, she was now his.

“Now then, it will take time to gather the resources that I need before I am ready to begin anything, so for now continue as you have been until I say otherwise but also keep an ear out for anything of interest.” She nodded at his commands and then retook her position on the wall and continued her book.

With Tabitha under his command he had a very capable ally and one possible threat totally dealt with, plus with her he essentially had Kirche as well, or at least he’d have an easier time getting her. As he walked over to where the other students were sitting he remembered something.

‘It’s about time for dumb-ass err, I mean Guiche to get caught two-timing, and then fight the Gandalfr.’ He had a smile on his face that many would call pure deranged evil. ‘Oh, I’m going to enjoy this far more then I should.’

Chapter End.

Well there it is, the first chapter of my new story. Please tell me what you liked, hated, or think should happen.

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