All Purpose Negima Fanfiction Thread

It was a normal, boring day for one certain director of the International Solar System Development Agency. He'd founded the organization a mere two years ago, formally, but the progress made had been astonishing. It wouldn't be too long before he could sit back and relax for a while. He'd sent Chachamaru home not too long ago and had chosen to remain in his office for a while longer.

Just to look back for a minute, he'd said. Nothing to worry about. He'd catch up to her.

Nine years. Nine years since he'd last seen her. He wondered what she'd say if she saw him today. Would she be angry? Of that, he was almost certain. She'd kick him in the face and tell him to stop moping around and have fun. To stop focusing so hard on work and to look at his friends for a minute.

To pay attention to his cellphone. He still wouldn't, it was probably nothing important, and Chachamaru would be worried if he was too late. So as he tucked in the chair in his office, he turned to leave.

Odd. There hadn't been a green portal where his door had been. At least he thought there hadn't been one seconds ago. Then it fell on him. Maybe it was a summons from Ayaka. He couldn't be quite sure, after all, he had never been on the receiving end. So it was just common sense to walk into the emerald, or maybe jade, green portal. Otherwise the Geass on it would just force him to.

Only when it sucked him in did he hear that little voice that sounded like Evangeline calling him an idiot. And oddly enough, Rakan's voice congratulating him on learning the ways of the idiot and wandering into something without thinking it forty six times over. But by then, he was pretty damn busy following the light...

—-

The day had only been slightly less boring for the other protagonist, who had at the very least found something to focus her mind into rather than simply having to put up with paperwork authorizing the new delivery of toilet paper. She didn't know this, however, as she didn't know what Toilet Paper even is.

“Congratulations everyone for making it to your second year.” Louise thought for a second that their newest teacher was being a little too upbeat that morning, but let the thought go just as soon as it came. After all, she was busy trying to get herself as concentrated as she could. “From this year onwards, I will be teaching in Tristain Academy. My name is Chevreuse, my attribute is Earth. My runic name is Chevreuse the Red Clay.”

Droning on her boring introduction, the aged teacher in the ridiculous purple robe and wizard hat combo scanned the class once over. Not noticing anything out of the ordinary except perhaps a bit too much closeness amongst a redhead and a silver haired boy, she continued explaining her role and task in the school.

Louise was too engrossed in her book to particularly care. More important studies had her attention.

“Now, can anyone tell me which are the four main elements?”

Louise would always wonder how that blonde fop had managed to obtain a rose as a wand, but he raised it and almost let off bishie sparkles.

“The four elements are fire, water, wind and Earth!” He'd emphasized the last. “Oh, what a coincidence! Just like yours, my element is Earth! My name is Guiche de Gramont, runic name Guiche The Bronze. Please, keep it in mind!”

Sucking up to the teachers. The blonde girl next to the fop seemed vaguely annoyed by his overly dramatic gestures. Louise couldn't care less either way.

“Pleased to meet you, Mr. Gramont.” Though she sounded almost like she wanted to suck up to Guiche. Maybe a lesser noble that just had more talent than average wanting a name for herself through help of a high name family?

Guiche's family didn't have such a high standing, or did it..?

—-

Old Osmond got bitch-slapped by Longueville. He wasn't entirely certain how the secretary had managed to do it from across the room, but he was certain he didn't want to provoke her further by asking. After all, his poor, old ribs probably wouldn't survive another beating like that.

At least he'd gotten to see for himself that white thong. Black definitely suited her better...

He still thought he ought to thank Miss Valliere for the interruption, even if she'd probably destroyed a desk... and a teacher.

—-

All throughout the class, even during the time she'd made three pebbles explode spectacularly, she'd only been thinking about one specific event that would occur later that day. And that she needed new socks.

It was, after all, only a little miscalculation. A small mistake. Nothing cripplingly wrong with her magic. It wasn't like she was a colossal failure that couldn't do anything but explosions.

“Even today your success rate is still zero percent!” Guiche screamed at the top of his lungs, as he emerged from behind the desk he'd hidden under.

“Louise the Zero!” snapped the stupid dark skinned, germanian, curvaceous, strangely attractive boob monster...

The scolding wasn't even the worst part, no. The thing that stung the most was that she wasn't the one being blamed for the explosion. She wasn't being blamed because it was considered the Teacher's fault for allowing her to perform magic, as if she were a dangerous monster that could only bring destruction!

Then again, she couldn't argue with the evidence. Even if she claimed it was only a small mistake, she only got weird looks and Old Osmond laughing like a jackass. He was actually a jackass, but that's beside the point

All she needed was a powerful, beautiful, strong and magnificent familiar! She'd show them! She wouldn't fail!

It would be her familiar, the strongest, most beautiful and magnificent being summoned EVER!

“Bad feeling.” was all that Louise remembered from the conversation that she'd had one thousand times. It was odd for that particular girl to openly state her thoughts. It had to be a strong feeling to provoke her to speak...

—-

Busy rinsing herself off the day's grime, a lone redhead mused. “A bad feeling...” she ignored the water droplets running down her neck and into her plentiful bosom. “I wonder why.” She hadn't even bothered calling her newest night by his name. He knew he was just a passing fling anyway.

Meanwhile, in her own room, Louise cursed herself for boasting as she buried her head on her pillow. If she'd just shut up, then she wouldn't be humiliated...

—-

“Answer my call!”

The darkness was his element. Wether first or second, he wasn't entirely sure anymore. All he cared about right now was that he wasn't the least bit scared or disoriented from close interaction with it. Although this particular darkness felt different from his own, it was no doubt similar. Less pure, less filled with hatred and more sadness, but it was still darkness. Darkness that was reaching out to his own heart and the darkness that overflowed from within it.

Darkness that he felt drawn to. The tiny light ball that had spoken was flying at incredible speeds, but he was easily keeping up. After all, being one with darkness, he was everywhere and nowhere in a plane of darkness.

A brief flash of green and what would have been an imposing building, hadn't the sight been given from miles above, were the only confirmation he had that he'd followed the light correctly.

Now was the time when he actually felt somewhat dizzy.

—-

Guiche really had to leave the theatrics for when he was in private. By the look on the teacher's face, Colbert agreed. His verbal putdown had been the most interesting thing Louise had heard all morning.

Either that or Guiche's reaction to the giant mole thing that came out of the ground. She had to admit, the blond fop was proving uncharacteristically entertaining that day. She pointedly ignored Colbert's praise for Kirche's summoned salamander.

“It's a result that fits my runic name, Kirche The Ardent perfectly!” Though she seemed way pleased with her summon, she didn't seem to be bragging about it so much as she was simply stating how proud she was.

Louise jumped to bragging, though. It's what happens when you hate that person for their curiously attractive, round, firm brea- stop that, bad thought! Get back to writing mode, brain! Save porn for later!

“Is that everyone?” Asked Colbert, the teacher, as he scanned the class.

“Not yet.” Kirche smirked evilly. “Miss Valliere still hasn't summoned her familiar.”

Of course she'd be put on the center of attention right after that. The murmurs and whispers regarding her 'runic' name were starting to get on her nerves about the third repeat through. She wasn't about to fail.

“After what you said yesterday, I'm sure you'll summon something more impressive than me!” Kirche sounded way too condescending with that one. Unknown to Louise, she was actually hopeful that the pinkette would manage to summon something impressive enough that she'd make the name calling stop. It wasn't funny the 2593926th time. Maybe she'd even get them to make up a new nickname or something...

“Of course!” Louise nearly shouted, thinking that, for a second, she'd channeled a man by the name of Raul Julia although she was confused as to why.

“Please...” A soft murmur, something she'd never say out loud, a Valliere did NOT ask for things, a Valliere demanded them, she just wasn't in a position to do so right now. “My servant who is in some place of the confines of the universe!” She pointedly ignored the further questioning of her abilities and the snickers. “The sacred, beautiful and above all else powerful familiar..!”

Kirche didn't miss the way her blue haired companion's eyes seemed to widen the slightest fraction, or how she'd dropped the staring-into-the-book thing in favor of staring at the girl shouting the odd incantation.

“I summon you from my heart, I ask you to answer my call!”

She drew a circle in the air and shoved the wand forward. A tiny spark exploded from it, from the purest black Louise had ever bore witness to. Not a second later, the spark fizzled and seemed to draw light into itself. Merely a fraction of an instant later, the typical results of her magic took place, cranked up to eleven.

She was violently thrown off her feet, dragged her bottom across the ground for a few good seconds and started coughing from the dust cloud she'd raised. The sound of a distant thunderclap filled everyone's ears.

Seconds later, the complaints about her failure began, along groans of pain for those who'd been scared enough to try to jump away or fallen facefirst.

Oddly enough, both Kirche and her silent companion appeared to be standing without too much difficulty, but Louise was too afraid of failure right now to notice that.

Guiche's jaw fell as he followed the shocked (and was that a blush on her cheeks!?) Montmorency's finger. When he turned to the disappearing dust cloud, he saw Louise standing next to a noticeably taller individual. A red haired individual that Louise was staring at slack-jawed as well. He didn't seem to be all that impressive at first glance, as even his odd clothing was easily ignored (commoners dressed very poorly, after all... Though preliminary glance suggested that it was made of very nice fabric... whatever that thing was...). But Guiche had to admit.

There was something unsettling about him.

“What a violent summon...”

Maybe it was the fact that he seemed to talk in an odd, unintelligible language, or how he seemed to be that much more than the naked eye could see, but Guiche felt the comment about commoners die in his throat.

“A... A human?”

“Is it a commoner?”

“No doubt, it's a commoner.”

“Yep, no matter how you look at it...”

The man frowned for a minute. “Where am I?” Now that one had been perfectly understandable..

Louise didn't much care. “Is t-this my sacred, beautiful and above all else, powerful familiar?” Commoners were commoners, and she wouldn't dignify him with an answer. For the moment, anyway.

“Who are you?” She didn't have good manners, it seemed, or couldn't understand or hear him. Either way, he was a perfectly groomed English Gentleman and therefore, he'd actually answer.

“My name is Negi Springfield.” He replied. “Who are You?”

She continued to ignore his question. “Where are you from, commoner?”

He frowned at being ignored again, while still looking down on the pink thing that wasn't trying to get up. “Wales." he replied on reflex. “Where am I?”

“Oh my! This does match up with your declaration!” It sounded like an insult, but had anyone been listening and been familiar with Kirche, they'd have realized there wasn't an ounce of sarcasm in her voice. She had a faint blush on her face and a perverted smirk, all that Louise needed to know that she'd have to pry her off her familiar with a crowbar. She only wished those had been invented at some point... “This commoner...” The camera cuts away before her hands reach her chest, and only her perverted giggle is heard, muffled as it was.

“It's only a little mistake!” Louise cried, scrambling back to her feet and ignoring the hand that had been extended her way. She wouldn't give that commoner the benefit of touching someone of her position, even if he was impossibly handsome!

“As expected of Louise the Zero!”

“Always surpassing our expectations!”

Negi smiled at her, trying his best to look as mellow as Takamichi did, the insulting nature of the comments flying right over his head. So far, he'd managed to gather the information that she'd summoned him. If the explanation he'd been given was correct, then he'd been summoned to accomplish some task as a demon usually was. Kind of a downside to Magia Erebea was that Zazie had explained this could happen. He was sure the contract would be presented soon.

He did find it odd that he could be summoned just like that, granted he'd willingly walked into the portal... Why were they laughing, anyway?

“Mr. Colbert, please allow me to try again!” The girl shouted at the oddly unmoving teacher. Negi stared at the staff he was clutching. It'd only been moved a fraction of an inch, and it'd dug up the ground on where it'd been moved. The teacher had been close to the center of the explosion, but he was totally unharmed.

“I can't do that!”

“Why not!?” Louise screamed, clearly exasperated at her situation. Her, a daughter of the Valliere family, summoning of a commoner was an insult to her name!

“This ceremony is a sacred ritual that dictates the life of a mage!” he explained, oddly passionately. “Asking to repeat it is a dishonor to the entire ordeal!” he finished, his eyes only slightly narrowed.

Louise, still fuming, sighed dejectedly.

“Wether you approve or not, it has been decided that he is your familiar.” That one made Negi stop for a second. A familiar? Those kinds of contracts lasted for the entirety of the mage's lifespan!

Simply walking into such a contract was a very stupid decision, it was indeed a very important moment in the life of a mage... He'd chosen his own familiar after careful consideration (or rather, after Chamo had suggested it, but that was beside the point) and as a gentleman, it was his task to have this man reconsider.

“Excuse me, choosing a familiar is a very important matter.” Negi said, trying not to be too intrusive. “While I do agree that it's a sacred ritual, shouldn't she be allowed to try again if she doesn't like the result? She's gonna be stuck with me for a long time, after all...” what he didn't say, was that that long time would be the rest of her life. He was mildly hopeful that the spell would reverse once he was dismissed and he'd be back on the ISSDA's headquarters. The man chose to ignore him, further adding to Negi's annoyance level.

“I've never heard of anyone with a commoner as a familiar!” Louise seemed to still be hopeful about Colbert reconsidering, though she still glared at the next round of laughter.

“Be it a commoner or anything else, I don't accept exceptions!” Colbert finished, slamming his staff against the ground to shut everyone up. “Bind the contract.” He ordered.

Negi gulped. He'd gone and gotten himself into more trouble like a moron. Both he and Louise seemed to react similarly, though her discomfort had been much more obvious. “Eh..? With this..?” Okay, that would get annoying after a while. Not the name calling, the poking with the wand.

“Hurry.” the balding teacher ordered. “Or I will have to expel you.” That prompted another wave of taunts and laughter that went ignored. Oddly enough, they were only male voices this time...

She turned to him and reluctantly came close to him. “You should be grateful. Normally, no commoner would receive this from a noble in their entire life!” She said, noticeably angry. She raised her wand and seemed to fall into chanting mode, clearly concentrating yet again.

“My name is Louise Françoise Le Blanc De La Valliere! Pentagon of the five elemental powers, grant your blessing upon this creature, and bind it as my familiar!”

Getting a wand swung into his face wasn't a new occurrence for Negi. But that being directly followed by a kiss, however, was. When Louise pulled back, they were both pink in the face, although she was significantly more so.

While to her it'd probably been her first kiss, to him it was a slow Tuesday at the office.

“It seems you've completed the contract with your familiar.”

There was an odd stinging sensation running through Negi's arm, soon it became a burning pain that coated his left fist. He stared at it bemusedly. Was that normal? He hadn't marked Chamo... Maybe he was being branded so he'd be recognized as hers.

Wait a minute. Why was he being so calm about the whole deal? Maybe it was just the fact that his hand was f*cking burning and he was thus more concentrated on the pain than much else. He bit back the need to scream.

“Huh?”

“It'll be over soon. You are getting the runes of a familiar engraved.” Louise explained, still looking everywhere but at him. He noticed Colbert's eyes widening when the man spent a second staring at the newfound runes in his hand.

“That was certainly painful.” He said, frowning slightly.

Once the rest was done (apparently, they were all too giddy about fraternizing with their familiars to fly off right away), Louise finally allowed herself to relax and let the gravity of her situation sink in. It just wasn't salvageable at all. She'd summoned a commoner in the middle of class and brought shame to her name. At least it couldn't go any worse.

She wondered if thinking the words had the same effect as saying them. That tended to jinx her almost instantly. And once she turned around again to face her familiar, she found him chatting rather amicably with Kirche. The redhead rapidly turned around to change target to Louise.

“Congratulations, Louise, you've summoned a mar~velous familiar!” her perverted giggle further drove up the pinkette's nerves. Her familiar had no right to be so calm and collected when talking to women other than herself!

Wait, calm and collected? In fact, his sight hadn't lowered to Kirche's cleavage even once, although the germanian seemed mildly offended by that, and was probably intending to fix that issue at once. At least that was the image given, seeing as she seemed to be tugging at and lowering the line of her cleavage.

“Kirche, you...”

She smiled, the most perverted smile so far. “I don't intend to do anything...” An obvious lie. “For now. I'll come later to greet you formally some other time. See ya <3”

“See you later, Ms. Zerbst!” Negi said, waving as Kirche levitated away. “Man, flying like that seems really convenient.” he said, not even blushing at the sight of Kirche's rather racy undergarments. Still tame in comparison to what he had become used to.

“We're going back too.” Louise said.

“I kind of need you to explain a few things to me.” Negi said, trying not to sound too ignorant of their customs. He was only used to the kind of magic he was taught (and a bit of eastern magic), so learning something new was interesting.

—-

She wasn't the most pleasant company he'd ever had, that was for sure. Although he wouldn't ever say so to her face, as he was a gentleman, he really thought she could relax for a minute. The hypocrisy of that statement failed to hit him.

“Another world?” She seemed fairly disbelieving of his tale.

“Yes. Earth.” He explained, seeming as patient as ever with her overly demanding attitude. “So, I assume ending this contract is not easy.”

“One of us has to die.” Louise explained, sighing as they continued walking. She'd wanted to fly, but for obvious reasons, she'd been denied the chance. Negi couldn't fathom why, however.

It clearly wasn't going to be him who would die. So he just smiled and faced her once again. “Well, about the summoning...”

Louise sighed. “You're a commoner, so I guess I can explain.” She took it in stride, apparently she was very well versed into the material that she was talking about. “The summoning determines which type of magic a person will use. Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and the lost element of 'Void'.” Negi frowned slightly. They used far less elements than he did, apparently. Perhaps they qualified more complex elements as composites? “All magic is intimately related to life.” Or the taking of it.

But he didn't want to correct her on that one. No need for an idealistic student to be exposed to the harsher truths of the world, not yet, anyway. He didn't want anyone to have to suffer through what he'd had to.

“And so, magic users are naturally all...” She seemed to pause for dramatic effect. “Nobles!”

He blinked. What kind of culture had he been summoned to that placed mages as the nobility? Admittedly, it was normal for mages to be mild bigots regarding mundanes (although Negi himself had worked against that practice before, arguably because most of his ministra had been mundanes at some point and had surpassed many self entitled jerkasses who called themselves mages very easily), but going to those lengths seemed a bit extreme.

He noticed that the building she'd been leading him through was a very old fashioned place. All wood and stone. Not a single electrical socket in sight. The technology level of this world was far lower than Earth's, particularly after the advent of Magitek. He did have to admit, however, that her room was exquisitely decorated.

It was only after she'd began undressing that he'd realized something very important. “Um... You bound me to a contract, but you haven't given me a task yet.” He was fearing the worst.

“Isn't it obvious? You're my familiar. That means that whatever I order you to do, you should obey like a good dog.”

Going from the Director of the ISSDA to familiar was kind of a sharp drop. Being given the same name as he'd often used to annoy Kotaro was worse.

“Having said that, go wash these for me, okay? Today was tiring.”

It was at that moment that Negi began cursing his inability to simply say 'No', as with his cursed luck he set Louise's clothes and undergarments in a small pile. He didn't know where to go, after all, so he guessed he'd ask her next morning. For the moment, he was blessing the experience he'd had. Had this happened a mere nine years ago, he'd been reduced to a flustered mess by the mere presence of the underwear in close proximity to his face.

So he decided to wait until next morning and instead get himself familiarized with the castle-like dormitory's layout. When she was sleeping, he had to admit she was sorta cute, if in a childish way.

She had much more tame taste in panties than most of his, ahem, companions, but she still had even less of a nudity taboo than them, it seemed... Well, some of them, anyway.

—-

“I'm really good preparing Souffle!” Most decidedly the voice of a young female.

“I would love to try it!” A suave, smooth voice replied. Lovers, maybe? Ignoring them both, Negi shoved his hands into his pockets and went about on the most honest imitation of Takamichi he could manage.

“Really?” she sounded hopeful. Overly so.

“Of course, Katie! I cannot tell a lie to your eyes!” If one squinted, the bishie sparkles around the blonde boy's face were almost visible. Negi smiled and walked past them. It was nice to see two people who weren't stuck in a very difficult relationship for a change.

“Lord Guiche..!” Okay, that was a bit of an overreaction. The blonde boy seemed to be trying too hard, however, and Negi noticed he was very clearly faking it. Still, he wasn't anyone to deny the girl with the brown cape's happiness, so he let it be.

“There exist no lies in my feelings for you!” Too sappy. “Hey, it's the commoner the Zero summoned.” He said, possibly because he hadn't a followup even sappier than that one. Negi hadn't exactly been trying to pass by stealthily, after all.

“Oh, today was the ceremony, right? It's very important news, even amongst the first years!” The girl commented.

Negi just smiled and nodded his head. “Yes. Now, if you will excuse me...”

Nothing more of note happened that evening. Except Negi getting mildly lost and somehow coming across Ryoga Hibiki. Next reports place him somewhere in the same solar system as Namek.

“You're staying in Makie's room, right?” Nodoka asked. Homura merely nodded in response. “Well, here we are.” Nodoka gestured at the door. She could hear Makie's voice babbling from within.

“Thank you.” Homura said. As she reached for the doorknob, Nodoka took a quick step forward and wrapped her arms around Homura and squeezed.

“I'm sorry.” She whispered into Homura's ear. “About the mind reading, about...everything that you...I didn't know...” She released Homura from the hug and took a step back. “Sorry about that, too.” She mumbled.

“I..uh...it's alright..” Homura murmured. “Okay, I suppose, I'll see you around then.” Nodoka bowed and scurried back to her own room.

Homura allowed herself a small smile before she entered her room.

Fracture

“Well, it’s healed up,” the doctor said, finishing binding Yue’s leg. “Just take it easy for the night, and you’ll be able to take off the bandages tomorrow.”

Yue sighed, but nodded as Collette helped her off the examination table and handed her the cane she’d be using for the night.

“Cheer up, Yue-chan,” Collette tried to reassure her. “It’s not unheard off for people to break their leg with broom practice.”

“When they haven’t even gotten off the ground yet?” Yue asked.

“I’m sure it’s happened once or twice,” Collette said, a bit less certainly.

Yue winced with every step. “Stupid cane. I don’t think I’m using this right.”

Collette blushed, and offered her a shoulder. “Here, lean on me,” she said.

Yue gratefully put and arm over the other girl’s shoulder, and Collette held her hand to steady her. They walked on towards their room…

“So, how do we handle having sex tonight?”

Interlude: Just Not The Same

“Duck,” Sailor Venus said as she landed on a roof, not far from where she felt the latest thing that went bump in the night.

“Blonde,” Vigilante said, nodding curtly. His glower didn’t seem into it. “Where’s your ‘partner’?”

She glared at him. “We are not ‘partners’, we’re just partners! No quotes or anything, we’re co-workers!”

Vigilante reeled back, raising his hands defensively. “Hey, hey, no need to explode at me like that. I know how it is. Two guys hang out together, fight crime, and suddenly people start slandering about how they’re an ambiguously gay duo…”

“Just because one of them is a suave, sexy, debonair, awesome badass paired off with a relatively good-looking, totally platonic friend…” Sailor Venus said.

The two nodded in perfect agreement.

“Stupid totally platonic friend…” Vigilante muttered.

“Wish they were here…” Sailor Venus muttered.

“Not that we need them… or miss them…” Vigilante said defensively.

“Totally not.”

“Not at all.”

“Nope.”

“No way.”

They looked down at the Orphan below them.

Sailor Venus cracked her knuckles. “You know, I feel like kicking this thing’s ass.”

Vigilante cocked his gas gun. “Let’s get dangerous…”

Javelin

Gungnir and Titan Slayer faced each other as Negi and Quintum compared spears.

“Knew it,” Sextum said blandly. “Negi’s is bigger than yours.