Your Familiar || Klance Witch AU

Lance McClain. Wizard extraordinaire. That is, for someone who hasn't found or bonded with his familiar.

Altea Alchemist Academy, best school around for wizards and witches to safely study magic under highly trained supervisors. The world of magic is strictly kept from the non-magical world with few doorways to travel freely between the two. At Altea Alchemist Academy, Lance studies magic with his best friends Pidge and Hunk, despite Hunk being a familiar himself.

In the world of witches and wizards, familiars are prized beings with pure magic in their blood that bond with their masters to aid them in the magical arts. Most get their familiars by the time they graduate middle school as a way of passing, but not Lance. None of the familiars presented to the graduates called out to him, and he was left without a familiar. Familiars are so respected that they even have citizenry rights as individuals, so long as they either have bonded with their master or have a family to vouch for them.

Altea Alchemist Academy sounds like a great and peaceful place in the magical world where everyone gets along, right? Wrong.

You see, there are other witches and wizards who use their magic for evil, a race known as Galra who follow their leader, Emperor Zarkon, and his witch Hagar. Altea Alchemist Academy is trying to teach its students to defend themselves and other non-magical beings against Zarkon and the Galra, and Lance is starting to struggle without the help of a familiar.

One night, Lance finds a mysterious black cat with glowing violet eyes in the non-magical world of humans, and he feels drawn to this cat. But why? Why can't he stop thinking of the cat, long after they part ways? Will Lance be able to keep up with his studies at Altea Alchemist Academy, or will he get expelled and have all his memories of magic erased? Is he strong enough to fight on his own, or does he need help from an unlikely source?