A Familiar Void

Chapter 1

Another spell, another explosion.

Louise didn't even know what she was expecting to be honest. Was she expecting that this single time things would be different? Why would it be, because it was a special day?

With her track record she should've expected things to go even more wrong, so had she even bother to get her hopes up?

Once the ringing from her ears was gone from the usual after-effects of her explosions, she heard the mocking laughter and jeers.

"What else should we expect from the Zero?"

"Another explosion? Typical."

"What a failure."

She shut them out as she usually did, standing up and dusting herself off. She stared at where the Familiar would've been if she had managed to summon it, and all she saw was du-

No, her eyes widened when she saw something within. She stepped into the dust, and reached for it with her hands.

When they felt something, her heart was elated. A smile tugged on her lips as there was actually something there for her.

A Familiar.

When the dust finally cleared and when she pulled it close, the feeling dropped from elation to dread.

There was something within the summoning circle.

Was.

When the other students saw what was in her hands, they gasped in shock and surprised. Not that she noticed, as the mage was too focused on staring at what was in her hands.

"Is that...?"

"I can't believe it, she summoned something..."

"But it's dead, look at it."

On the palm of both of her hands was a skull that belonged to something the size of a small child. It was smooth and shaped in a square with two empty holes where the eyes should've been. It had ]horns, growing on each side spread out but curved inwards halfway, at the tip it split into two points.

It looked like it would've belonged to a skeletal creature, or maybe even an insect.

If she wasn't holding the skull that had already broken in two.

She stared at the empty shell, her own eyes not believing it. She had summoned a Familiar, she was a mage, but she had to mess it up by killing it before she could even see what it even was.

Her hands shaking she pushed the two halves of the skull together, forming the original shape.

"By the founder, she actually killed her Familiar!"

"How much of a failure do you have to be to do that?!"

"I'm not a failure," she mumbled to herself, staring at the empty hollowed out skull. She had summoned something, she wasn't a failure.

"Miss Valliere, don't feel bad" Her teacher tried to reassure her "While it is uncommon, there have been cases where a mage can accidentally kill their Familiars."

She didn't know how that was supposed to make her feel better, so she didn't reply. Instead she chanted the spell that would've bounded it to her, so what if it was worthless, so what if it would explode if she did?

This was her Familiar.

The desperate thought was enough for her to finish the chant, and plant a kiss on the skull's forehead.

...WHO...ARE...YOU?

Her hands dropped the skull as a chill went up her spine. Her head turned from side to side, looking at who had said those words. But from the confused looks of her classmates, it was none of them.

...YOU...

She turned back to the skull, and noticed that it was glowing.

...JUST LIKE US...

On it own accord her hand reached out for the skull, the wand in her grasp glowed.

BORN OF GOD...

There was no explosion this time, a stream of pure black fired from the tip of her hand. It moved so fluidly in the space between her wand and the skull that it looked like it was water.

...AND VOID.

"Void?"

The mention of the fifth element knocked her out of her stupor, at the same time the skull that had been empty was now filled with the black that she had conjured. It allowed the skull to float in the air for a moment, and then in a burst of magic that was black in color a body formed.

A small body with stubby arms and stubby lends with no fingers or toes. Wrapped around it was a cloak that seemed like tendrils. The skull was the same, only now instead of seeing the whites of the back of the skull, she seemed to be looking at a black hole. It wasn't as if it was just simply black it either, it was like something was missing, and emptiness.

It was like..

"Looking into the Void." She said out loud.

The creature, her Familiar, walked up to her and tilted it's head up. It stared at her with those empty eyes.

There were whispers from her classmates, but she paid them no mind. She reached out for it, and when her hands were about to wrap themselves around it's body she stopped for a moment before going back in.

She felt nothing when she held it, no heat nor cold. She brought up to eye level, and once more stared into those empty eyes.

CREATURE OF THE VOID...ONE OF US.

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