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Abysia extra: the familiar

'Every good witch needs a familiar.'

'We know that, but why do we not have one yet?'

'Oh it's because we are too lazy, I mean isn't it obvious?'

'We have been searching and searching, and for what?'

'Eh don't you realize that we are absolutely pathetic?'

'...Can you guys please shut up?!' Great the voices are acting up again, although I guess it's justifiable, we've been on the search for a while. 'We are Chaos and Death, we deserve the best familiar we can find. We have a goal, we are close to finding them.' Let's see, there have been rumors of a Doll that prevailed against death, this originally caught our curiosity. After a few more months of searching we found out it was some sort of avian Doll, and we were able to narrow it down to Curiosity. Curiosity was one of the weaker Dolls, their existence was overlooked by most other Dolls, but they kept discovering more and more stuff… the last anyone heard of them, they found some strange object called the Gear of the Void. 'Dream was annoying to deal with but we got the info out of them.'

'Dream was only annoying because we weren't able to instantly slam them into a wall.'

'We could have just killed them…'

'Hush' Dream was the only Doll known to have a lot of contact with Curiosity, so we tracked them down, and turns out they were keeping tabs on Curiosity. 'We are at Curiosity's last reported location.' It's a small cave… "Hello?" Suddenly every part of our body starts to feel an immense amount of pain and we are slammed down into the floor.

"Another Doll… Look just leave me alone." Apparently, there's been a harpy perched in a tree for a while. "Oh, Chaos… How interesting." The harpy jumps out of the tree. "Why are you here, surely such a high-level Doll has better stuff to do than chase me around."

'...'

'...'

The voices are silenced… "What did you do to me?!" I can't even fight against the force against me. "Since when could you do this, Curiosity?"

"Oh good, you know who I was. ...you don't seem to want to kill me," the force disappears, and the voices come back. "Why exactly are you here?"

"I need a familiar."

"No, you don't know what you're getting yourself into. A witch and their familiar share their abilities both ways, if you can state what I am I'll agree."

"You are the Doll of Curiosity." Their expression becomes a frown. 'What's wrong…'

'Hah, we really are a failure.'

'It's not our fault, what would expect us to say?'

'Wait listen!'

'What?' Our ears perk up. There's a faint ticking almost like a clock, almost as if there's… "The Gear of Void!"

"Very good, Chaos. I merged with the Gear because of an accident. I guess I'm no longer 'Curiosity'," Their form shifts and becomes an automaton. "I guess I'm 'Void' now."

'Oooo exciting!'

'Do it make them your familiar!'

"So 'Void' will you become my familiar?"

"Eh, I guess I don't have anything else to do so sure. May I ask what may I call you?"

"I'm am Mokasera, the Witch of Chaos."

"Very well."

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