A/N forgive the jumps i just wanted to get the servants out of the way, also thank you from whoever pointed out Arturia's eyes are actually green not blue, some art I've seen her in has her with blue eyes that or i'm just color blind who knows anyway the next chapter will come out soon enjoy ^.^
The sea was calm and serene for a normal day in Fuyuki city, a man was standing in the surf feeling the waves lap against his boots. A car was waiting for him on the side of the road leading to the beach. The man exhaled slowly watching the steam come from his breath, it was a cold morning nothing out of the ordinary. In a sense the man felt at peace but running through his veins was mana, a source of energy that can be used for magic, not cheap parlor tricks, but for summoning rain clouds and casting spells. He was raised to be a Magus, a sorcerer that was to fight in a war dealing with six other magus, but he choose a different path albeit by the disgrace of his family he served in the United States Military, but his family had enough influence to get him stationed at the one place that the war that seven Magus were going to fight. Fuyuki, Japan. He sighed and exhaled deeply again watching the steam form. He was wearing his ABUs he felt more comfortable in them rather than plain old civilian clothes, the car door opened and a beautiful young woman stepped out her eyes locking onto the military man, her figure was curvy and her skin fair but pale compared to everyone else, she walked to him slowly keep a fair distance away from the man. She waited for a few seconds until she cleared her throat softly.
"Master Falke" her soft voice reached to his ears, he turned and gave a weary smile feeling the sun on his back as it peeked over the horizon
"Yes Annabelle?" he said putting his hands in his pockets
"The church is waiting for us to arrive, so if you please" she pointed towards the car; he nodded and made his way to the Mercedes. He climbed inside with Annabelle sitting on the opposite end "To the Kotonmie Church"
"Yes ma'am" the driver answered and started the engine and drove up the straight to an out of the way village on the outskirts of the city. Falke watched the scenery go by as they continued on their drive. Annabelle looked at Flake for a few seconds then returned to her files; inside them were the other Magus or otherwise known as Masters. Flake being one of them the other six were native citizens of Japan and some presided in the city of Fuyuki. The first Master was in the previous wars,
Rin Toshoka a college student at Fuyuki University
Shirou Emiya another college student at Fuyuki University
Sakura Matou a college student at Fuyuki University
Fredrick Steiner a German Magus from the Steiner Magus society know for brutal and horrific spells and conjuring and terrorizing the Munich citizenry
Helena Trist a French woman known for being a second coming of the night fox a super thief for stealing the Mona Lisa and the crown jewels twice all to return them back with no one the wiser
Douglas Jones, an American politician running for presidency for the upcoming year, also part of the same Magus society as Steiner. Known to use back room deals and spells to secure votes and win into the primaries.
Annabelle let out a soft sigh as the drive continued arriving at the Church on the top of a hill overlooking the city. Falke gave that a mental note; she looked at Falke and nodded confirming this is indeed the Kotonmie church. They left the car and Annabelle asked the driver to wait here. He nodded in acknowledgement and they proceeded inside the church. Falke entered the church the atmosphere oppressive and gloomy making it hard to breathe, they walked towards the alter that was covered in candles the pews were empty save three other bodies, Sakura Matou, Rin Toshoka, and Shirou Emiya. He sat down behind Sakura and Rin and waited quietly; Annabelle took her seat next to Falke and waited like the others. Rin looked over her shoulder and noticed Annabelle's complexion, and her eyes they were a dark crimson and empty. She opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by the opening of the father's room. A thin tall man in a priest's clothing walked out his brown eyes vacant with no emotion he arrived at the alter and examined the five people in the pews. He let a macabre smile spread across his thin lips and spoke.
"Welcome Magus to the ninth Holy Grail War" he said his arms extended as if receiving a divine summon from God. "You five are Masters seeing is that you are Magus of prominent Magus Families." He looked at Annabelle and his smile grew bigger "Ah I see that the Falke family has brought their own homunculus into this war" Falke looked at Annabelle who looked down at her skirt clutching it firmly, he set a hand on hers and squeezed she looked at him to see him smiling softly, he returned his gaze at the priest to listen to his sermon "You four and the other three will leave this place as enemies to summon your swords, or your servants" his smile went back to a thin line on his face "that is all young Masters"
"Kirei Kotomine" the young girl in the red turtle neck blurted out, the priest returned his vacant gaze onto Rin
"I am his son Sen Kotomine" his tin smile returned as he laughed back into his office, Rin's face paled as she sat back down slowly.
"Annabelle who do you see as the worst threat right now" Falke whispered to her quietly, she examined the three other people then returned her gaze back at him
"Rin Toshoka, Master Falke" she said quietly her eyes darting back between the three other Masters, one by one they started to leave only Falke and Annabelle remained, Falke put his hands in his pockets and fished out a green piece of a hilt to a sword with a green jewel in the middle he set it down on an open space big enough for a summoning circle. He drew the lines for the summoning circle and fished something else out of his pockets, a piece of a blade from another separate sword, he sliced it across his palm and clenched his fist to squeeze a drop of blood from the wound, it hit the ground and the area around them turned crimson with the magic energy. Annabelle took a few steps back watching Falke close his eyes and say the words for the summoning. 'he should be able to summon a Saber class but with what he chose the legendary soul should be from the era of the Three Kingdoms' her mind ran the thought home as the circle turned into a bright green and a young female woman appeared with two blades in her hands her armor was remnants of the Han dynasty in China, her brown black hair was in a ponytail and her bangs were in front of her face. Her stature was proud but humble at the same time, her grip on her twin blades were firm, her jade green eyes examined the area she was in, a soft chuckle came from the woman's lips, she looked at Falke who was standing in front of her wrapping a bandage around his palm, her figure was beautiful and elegant, her face was strong and caring at the same time, her jade green eyes had a strong sense of justice to them making them unrelenting to look at. She sheathed her twin blade by her side and put her hands to her hip her armor shuffling with her movement.
"Are you the one who summoned me?" she asked her tone was sincere
"Yes it was me" Falke shook his head "what class are you?"
"Saber class, I ask you are you my Master?" she answered and asked another question in the same sentence
"I am" Falke smiled a little "you know I was expecting the Warlord of Shu to be a man"
"Oh? What it seems that history has portrayed me as a man, Master" she said laughing "When my brothers in arms first met me they thought I was a man" Annabelle chuckled "But I assure you Master I am a woman" she patted her chest plate "It's just this armor here is what make people mistake me for a man" Falke nodded understanding the statement
"Well then Saber" Falke looked at Annabelle then back at Saber "Do you know what era you are in?"
"It seems the modern era, the transition to this time period has me most intrigued, and what of my country?" she asked with earnest in her voice
"China? Or Shu?" Flake asked
"Shu, Master" she answered not liking the comment
"Shu was absorbed into the Jin dynasty along with Wei and Wu" Falke watched her expression solemn and turn into a frown, Falke sighed and continued "Well after that I think you were immortalized by the novel of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he watched her face brighten up for a moment "Shu ideals were passed onto the Jin Dynasty when they unified China" her smile returned her hand resting on the hilts of her blades
"That I can feel at ease now" Saber chuckled softly
"Master Falke, let's move to our temporary home here" Annabelle interrupted
"Of course" he turned his attention back at Saber "can you dematerialize?" as he finished she disappeared from sight but her presence was still felt her chuckle echoing through Falke's mind
"Of course Master" her disembodied voice spoke
"Alright let's go" they walked out of the church and towards the car, the drive headed farther away from the city towards a lake outside the boundaries. The house was out of the way along the shores of the lake it resembled an old fashion Japanese house making it look homely and not to threating. They got out of the car and inspected the grounds of the house; it had its own small courtyard with the trees of the forest encasing it in a natural shield. Annabelle and Falke returned to the main hall it was a good decent size, Saber rematerialized a smile on her lips, and she flicked her bangs out of her face and explored the house examining the electronics and the bedrooms. She returned to Falke and Annabelle having a large smile on her face, she patted the hilts of her swords.
"This looks great for a base" she exclaimed heartily, a big beaming smile on her face.
"I'm glad you approve Saber" Falke took off his ABU shirt and set it on the coat hooks, he took his boots off and sat down on the floor "Annabelle relax I know the family sent you to look after me, but I can take care of myself" Annabelle's eyes shifted towards Falke and sat down with stiff movements
"Master Falke I recommend we get some early rest so we can scout out the other Masters" she spoke firmly
"I agree Master" Saber sat down as well looking between the two of them "We need good information for the coming battles"
"I know and thank you Anna" he let a smirk come across his lips, he looked at Annabelle a small ting of pink on her pale cheeks, she looked away
"O-of course Master Falke, your welcome" she stuttered her words
"Master let's head to our rooms so we can search tonight" Saber stated, Falke nodded in agreement, he stood up with Saber in tow. "If I may Master we should sleep together so we can have better security" her tone was serious but her smile was still there
"Of course Saber just don't try for a cop and feel" Falke joked making Saber blush bright red
"I would never a ruler would never stoop so low" Saber retorted defensively trying to hide her blush to which she was failing.
"And I thought the kind and compassionate ruler of Shu wouldn't be so flustered" he joked taking another stab, Saber growled
"Whatever" she dismissed it and followed Falke to his room with Annabelle behind them entering her own room. Saber took off her armor revealing a slender figure underneath she put on a cheongsam a Chinese body hugging dress it hugged her form, a split at the sides revealing her slender legs and white stockings running up half her legs, she blushed a little as she noticed Falke ogling, he shook his head and smiled. He got into a pair of basketball shorts and a plain shirt. He climbed into bed with Saber taking the other part of the bed.
"You look good" Falke spoke
"Thanks Master" she took the compliment and faced the opposite direction.
Emiya Household 2130hrs
Shirou had has arms crossed looking at Rin and Sakura, he pursed his lips thinking on a course of action to do with the new arrivals of Masters for this war. Rin shifted on her legs as she eats some of the meal Sakura prepared. They escaped the fate of a war for the past years; in a way he was glad to see Rin and Sakura alive and well. The past wars he summoned a Saber class by accident and watched her disappear from destroying the Holy Grail in the past war. Saber was blonde woman with green eyes, her place of origin was England during the years of Knights and kings, she was an experienced warrior from the past two wars making her accustomed to the last one. He sighed watching them eat; Sakura looked at Shirou and smiled.
"Eat senpai" her soft tone reached him out of his thoughts, he gave a forced smile and took a bowl of rice and chop sticks.
"Yeah you should get some food in you we got a lot of work to do" Rin spoke from her bowl she sipped on the soup and exhaled "we need to summon our servants before we get overwhelmed" her expression was hard and stern, "Try to be careful Shirou"
"I hear you Rin" he said quietly and continued to eat some of the food.
After they finished they went into the courtyard, Rin bowed and left Sakura with Shirou. Sakura returned to the house and cleaned up the inside, he made the summons circle and traced the lines with red chalk, and he held his artifact. A scabbard of Avalon his mind pleaded to him not to summon her again but he continued anyway part of him wanted to Arturia again, he squeezed it in his hand and summoned the fabled hero to this courtyard, the area shinning crimson. A woman appeared in knights armor her blonde hair in a bun with a blue ribbon holding it together, in her hands was an invisible weapon making it hard for her identity to be revealed, but Shiro knew and a wide smile appeared on his lips. she looked at Shirou and sighed, she looked around the house and smiled a little her eyes scanning the area again.
"Hello Shiro" she said softly
"Hey Saber" he walked over to her and embraced his long lost love
15,000ft above sea level in bound towards Okinawa International Airport
The flight was cold and turbulent his gloves did nothing but to cover up his command spells, he summoned his servant in midflight albeit at the expense of everyone on board and the copilot, the pilot was a shriveled up mess soiling himself and crying like a new born child. The senator for United States was his own private jet at the direction of the family ruler but their assassin, was to take a flight to Japan and deal with anyone he saw that would obstruct the goals of the Family. Fredrick tapped his gloved hand against his lips smirking at the servant he summoned, the man standing in front of him was robed in a dark cloak only his bottom half of his mouth was visible, his smile was ruinous and unholy, the robed bowed letting a small cackle out as he did. They got along without a hitch, they both loved to terrorize innocents and kill, although he was hoping for a Caster class servant but was happy to have the feared Assassin class, the robed man stood up straighter and examined the cabin blood all over and mangled bodies strewn apart, he let a low whistle out at the scene "It looks like I'll be having fun if I'm with you Master" he let another cackle out. Fredrick nodded in approval.
Cannes, France a few hours later
"Madam will you be taking your favorite wine with while you are a way?" an older butler question a stunning young woman her blonde hair held up in a ponytail and her blue black elegant dress was flowing in the evening wind. She smiled sweetly at the butler and walked past him heading deeper inside the mansion. She made her way towards her garage and examined the cars she had all of them sporty and sleek and all of them stolen; she smiled settling in for one of the Italian cars. Her butler gave her the keys. "Did you summon your servant madam?" he asked gingerly she settled into the car seat and looked at the butler sighing
"Jean, I'll summon my servant once I arrive in Japan" she patted his tired old hands and gave him another smile; she started the car and made her way to the airport in Paris.
Fuyuki City on top of a rooftop overlooking the residential district a few hours later
Falke was examining the night life of the towns' people through his high powered scope, he was tapping the side of his rifle with his trigger finger, the wind picking up slightly, and he sensed another presence on the roof top with him and exhaled softly.
"Saber" he spoke not looking away from the scope
"Master" she returned the greeting and went prone next to him examining the rifle in his hand, she sighed and rested her head on her hand
"Did you find who the next servant is?" he asked tapping the rifle again, she looked at him not expecting to be all business so soon, she sighed and pouted
"No but I have the feeling the Archer class and the Berserker class are about to make an entrance" she looked over the lights of the city below the red bridge in the distance, making a calm reflection off of the bay entrance. Falke didn't take his eye of the scope watching Rin Toshoka walk from Emyia's household to her manor, his finger hovered over the trigger, Saber noticed this and tapped her finger against his shoulder "It wouldn't be right to take her out now Master" Falke looked at Saber his face with a mixture of shock and annoyance, he exhaled and looked back through the scope watching her enter her house. He put his finger back against the rifle itself and waited for any other signs of movement.
"Where's Annabelle?" he asked his tone having a hint of annoyance
"She's back at the house making some spells and enchanting my blades" she pouted towards the last part of the sentence. Annabelle asked for her swords Virtue and Justice, and enhanced them with magic causing them to cut through anything, but Saber already knew they could do that seeing as her swords were the only reason why she had lived so long in the legend of the Three Kingdoms. She spoke to her master about her noble phantasm; in retrospect she wished she hadn't "Master?"
"if it's about the earlier discussion Saber" he looked at her sternly "We'll handle it back at the house right now we need some information" he went back to his scope swiveling the rifle to look at the Emiya household, he noticed the young man and a woman in knight armor were sparing in the back, the knight had an invisible weapon in her hands making it difficult for Shrio to get close with his blades, 'wait where did her get those blades' he thought and zoomed in on his hands adjusting the scope to record the actions, as the blade materialized out of thin air and another sword appeared a long sword then a shield to block an attack from the knight. He tapped the ear piece and heard static until Annabelle's tired voice spoke to him
"Yes Master Falke?" she asked with a huff of exhaustion
"When we get back I need your opinion on some Intel I have" he tapped the ear piece and the com went dead. Saber watched Shrio spar with the knight until she looked at the general direction of Saber and Falke "Shit" he hugged the concrete to get out of view as did Saber. "We need to move" he motioned towards the buildings exit and crawled towards it. Saber did the same and dematerialized as soon as they got to the entrance. They moved out of their line of sight and onto a new rooftop he set up his rifle and examined anymore movement from the Toshoka household. The telltale crimson glow erupted from one of the windows and a shadowy figure appeared. Falke switched to infrared, the figure brightened into a white figure holding sniper rifle of world war two make, he grimaced when he tried to figure the make and model. He frowned "Saber head back to the house I'll meet you there" he felt Saber's presences leave; he tapped the side of his rifle and stood up moving out from his position back to the house hold.
Emiya Household few minutes later
"Did you see them Shiro?" Arturia asked keeping her eyes on the roof top a few miles away, looking towards the sky rise watching for anymore movement
"No but I felt a servant's presences when you noticed them" Shiro had two swords in his hands one was black and the other white, two Chinese swords named Kanshou and Bakuya, twin swords that e encountered with his future self-Archer, he frowned "we don't know what class they summoned and I have a feeling that the Master accompany that Servant I have seen before" Arturia looked at Shiro questioningly. "He is a military man from America" he spoke lowly "he seemed to be from the country's Air Force but I didn't expect him to have different kinds of training" Arturia sighed fearing the future battles with this master might be difficult. He heard his phone ring inside his pocket and flipped it open. "Hello?" he tilted his head hearing Rin's voice "You summoned your Servant?" part of him hoped it was his future self. He frowned at the answer "He smells of alcohol?" Arturia let a chuckle go, "Well meet me at my house we have a big problem"
"Fine Shiro just have a bath Ready for my servant" Rin slammed the phone closed and pouted
"Oh come on Master I don't smell that bad, Vodka in Mother Russia is quite the excellent drink" he gave a shit eating grin "at least my shooting is very good when I'm drunk eh?" Rin closed her eyes tying to processes the information then shook her head.
"Just let's get going we have allies in this war and a common goal too" the Russian looked at the small Japanese woman he sighed and put his rifle on his shoulder
"Whatever the Commissar dictates" he huffed in disappointment.
At an Apartment deeper in the Fuyuki city area a few minutes later
"Hello Fraulein" a heavy accented man welcomed, his uniform was pressed to perfection and his medals were gleaming in the moonlight, he had his hands behind his back and walked closer to the woman who summoned him "Isn't it ironic you summoning the Desert fox for your help Frau?" he grinned at the Night fox Helena, she crossed her arms knowing the exact person she summoned and was very unimpressed with the outcome her mouth clenched refraining herself from yelling at him.
"What class are you General?" she managed to say.
"Rider Frau" he answered promptly "and might I added interesting choice of location for the battle I've never fought in urban warfare" he lied testing her knowledge of himself
"Bullshit" she spouted "Paris was no different" she held her anger back but made it apparent that it was there. He smirked taking off his hat and putting it under his arm he ran his hand through his blonde hair it was slicked back 'hmm they must of have summoned me when I just started in the army' he dematerialized "Why did you do that?" she frowned
"we are wasting your mana with me in my physical form Master, this is a war we need you at a hundred percent at all times, if you want to win" his disembodied voice laughed "at least I won't have to deal with that idiotic of a leader this time around" she let a smirk pass her lips and stood up from her bed, putting a glove on over her command spells.
"We need a better location Rider" she exited the room with Rider following.
Tokyo Embassy Japan, an hour later
"It's almost sun rise Sir" an aide said to the man looking out the window
"I know could you please leave the room and make sure I don't get any visitors" the aide bowed and left the room. The senator locked the door behind her and started to make the circle, he tapped his ear piece and static washed over until he heard a prompt "Hey old man" from the other end
"Fredrick" he said curtly and finished the circle
"Yeah boss?" he answered
"Did you land?" he asked holding out his artifact
"Yeah boss chill the police are gonna have a hell of a time trying to find out what happened to this flight" he let a snide smile go
"Good that should leave Fuyuki your little playground huh" he cut his palm and the area turned crimson, a figure appeared before him it was a woman, her dress was that of the Three kingdoms era, she was wearing a top that showed her stomach and her weapons were that of a lance her carefree smile on her face with a hand on her hip she eyed her master and tilted her head sensing something was off about him but pushed it to the back of her mind.
"Are you my master?" she asked putting her lance on her back.
"I am, you must be Lady Sun?" her expression changed slightly but regained her carefree smile
"I am so Master what's our first move" he held up a hand and turned off his earpiece, Lancer frowned some more her feeling coming back that something was wrong about her master.
"We are gonna head to Fuyuki City" he said shortly and crossed his arms "please dematerialize whenever we are in public" she looked around giving an annoyed huff
"Whatever" she dematerialized and lingered about for a few moments until the Senator left the room and continued towards Fuyuki.