All Purpose Negima Fanfiction Thread

He can emit spells when not going full throttle with ME.

No one found anything that would give up the thief's whereabouts. There were at the very least a good dozen extremely skilled mages going over the wreckage and nobody could find anything. Osmond would have chalked it up to amateurism had he not gone over the situation himself and found he was just as stumped as everyone else.

All that was left was a pile of dirt and molten rock (that was beginning to cool). That last one was hard to wrap their minds about. Eyewitness Tabitha had confirmed that whatever the hell that spell was, it had been lightning. A giant lance of lightning that then exploded, taking the golem with it.

Colbert was wondering how that was even beginning to make the slightest bit of sense, and he'd seen how creative one could get with spells personally. Nothing short of something amazing had transpired. The only thing he rescued out of the whole debacle was that all of his doubts about Valliere's familiar were cleared right then and there.

If nothing else, the man was worthy of respect and admiration. A familiar who would willingly take a direct hit from a giant golem for the sake of his master deserved, at the very least, that.

Still, the loss of the staff was unexpected. The vault was the most secure place for it to be held, and simple brute force shouldn't have done what it did. The tower had a large chunk missing that seemed to have been ripped off, not punched in. It merited further investigation, and both Colbert and Osmond knew better than to trust subordinates with it.

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“I'm really surprised it was Fouquet the Crumbling Dirt!” Kirche spoke, as she sat dangerously close to Negi's designated bed. The familiar had been left in pretty bad shape by the Golem's punches, but he'd recovered in record time. That fact still made Louise's mind take leaps and leaps, because it knew the world below made absolutely no sense.

Not long ago his insides had been turned to mush and he was in a position that would have rendered anyone else fully immobile, yet now he was sitting in his bed and talking with everyone like he'd just woken up of a particularly long nap. On one hand, it was confusing.

On the other, Louise just let it go and resigned herself to the comfort of knowing her familiar was alright. And that he was powerful as all hell. Her familiar had awoken apparently not too long ago, and the maid who had volunteered to watch over him was gone to fetch him a new set of clothes.

“I never saw her.” Negi commented, smiling sheepishly. “My priorities weren't there.” given what he'd done, it was to be expected.

“Covered.” Tabitha said, not looking up from her book.

“Ah, how boring!”

“Boring?” Louise's eyes narrowed. “She almost killed my familiar and you think this is boring?” she hadn't raised her voice one bit. The tone, carrying more rage and venom than ever before, shook Kirche quite noticeably.

Negi looked up at Louise from where he was sitting. She hadn't noticed she was standing. There was a silent plea in his eyes. Let it go. She wouldn't deny him a request when he was bedridden. “I'm just glad nobody was hurt.” Negi said, rubbing a still sore spot on his side. His ribs hadn't fully snapped into place yet.

Louise lit up when she heard a multitude of footsteps coming in. Only a single person carried such an entourage with her.

“Louise Françoise!” And her voice was still one of the most soothing sounds in the world. “Thank god you are alright!” Her guards had politely (most likely on her orders) remained outside the door.

Kirche was treated to another shock as the princess hugged Louise, who at this point was a blushing mess.

“I apologize.” Negi began, his tone serious. “If I had been paying attention, I could have prevented this. If I had taken the golem seriously from the start, I could have easily defeated it and stopped Fouquet from running away. This is my fault.” he would have kneeled, but his lower body was still mostly unresponsive.

She shook her head. “It was not your responsibility, Mr. Familiar.” The formality was kind of annoying, but it was a given that she would revert to it in public. “I am just glad you are mostly unharmed.”

He smiled. A smile halfway between charming and simply comforting. “It is, however, my fault. I had more than enough power to stop it. I underestimated it.”

Kirche had to sit down for a minute, trying to process everything that was going on. Terrible envy struck her of Tabitha, who could find solace in her book while the world stopped making sense.

“Your Highness, we must hurry.” One of the knights, a rather large man with blond hair, spoke, his voice heavy through the door.

“I must report what has occurred to the palace. I wish we could meet again, Louise, Mr. Familiar.”

Kirche turned to Louise. “You know the princess?”

A long story involving lots of yuri overtones was told. It might or might not have involved many things exploding in increasingly more hilarious ways. Louise denied any possibility of romantic involvement as she spoke.

Meanwhile, Kirche went “I knew it!”

Louise sighed. Whatever that Zerbst thought, she was tired and right now, she wouldn't bother fighting tooth and nail to deny it. “I just hope that the princess does not have to take responsibility for this...”

Negi turned to her. “It's never that easy.” He commented.

“Lately, I have heard many bad rumors from the court.” Louise spoke, forgetting who she was sharing the room with.

“... So have I.” Kirche's comment was a given. “From a reliable source, in fact.” Okay, that had been unexpected. Louise had thought that the germanian would've taken the chance to go on a tirade about how the tristainians went about looking down on germanians for their lesser inhibitions, instead of simply agreeing with her.

She ignored the fact that she had almost instinctively denied the reliability of her sources, for now anyway.

“Even though I can't do anything, I'm worried.”

Negi placed a hand on top of her head. Easy given she was sitting right next to the bed and she was as small as she was. “The princess is strong.” He said, a comforting smile on his face. “And if she ever feels weak, you will always be there for her. That is what you can do, Master.”

Louise looked up at him, feeling like a child again. “Negi...”

“I am your familiar, Master, I will always stand with you. Through the good, the bad and the ugly.”

Louise smiled. “Thank you, Negi.”

She was really cute when she smiled, she had to do it more often.

Kirche ruined the moment instantly by making it a group hug. Flustered as she was, however, Louise didn't care much about that.

“My priorities weren't there.” given what he'd done, it was to be expected.

Negi doesn't need to play matchmaker for Konoka and Setsuna. It's inevitable that Konoka on her own will manage to get Setsuna to be comfortable with their relationship.