The World is used to refer to the concept of the planet Earth. The use of the term "world" as by magi usually refers to the universal rules that can be manipulated or taken advantage of by mankind. Others may use "world" to refer to the two distinct Counter Forces of the Earth, Gaia and Alaya-shiki.
Gaia is the will of the Earth, the planet's intrinsic wish to survive and prosper. Alaya, on the other hand, is the collective unconsciousness will of mankind to avoid extinction. As humans are creatures of Earth, Alaya was a component of Gaia. However, as mankind begins to develop independent of nature, it became independent of the Gaian system. With this divergence, Alaya is no longer aligned with Gaia and potential conflict can result.
And that is where the story will begin.
As stated above, Gaia is the planet's will to survive. Gaia protects all creatures on Earth, but as mankind becomes independent, Gaia increasingly perceives humans as a source of threat due to their reckless destruction of the environment.
Gaia's response to the human threat is producing beings that can cull or rule mankind. Primate Murder was created to quickly eliminate humans.
But mankind was rapidly evolving to the point that even Gaia's agents or known as the Beasts of Gaia were unable stop it. To counter this, Gaia created a new, far more intelligent , Fairies known as Spirits. Unlike Primate Murder, a mindless beast whose role is to eliminate humanity, Gaia's new creation, her Spirits, possessed a mind of their own, a will of their own and a soul of their own.
They were able to think, to learn and to act on what they thought were best suited for the situation. Each individual Spirit has their own unique powers and abilities as well as the amount of "Mana" or "Prana" they hold within their bodies. But as a fail-safe plan, Gaia's command and will shall be carried on regardless of the will of her Spirit.
The first of Gaia's Spirits that had descended upon the face of the earth had achieved her purpose. After descending to Earth, Gaia's Spirits had a rather surprising and powerful impact to the world as each time they descended, they create a type of "spacequake" that is similar to a bomb explosion which destroys and kills everything that it engulfs.
The result?
The first Spirit had killed over 150 million people as well as starting a chain reaction of similar disasters around the world that lasted for approximately six months.
As humanity mourned over the death of their loved ones, various human organisation, magus and non-magus alike created various organisations to counter the Spirits and put an end to them, but it all proved meaningless as the power of the Spirits were far more powerful than they had expected and destroyed every organisation except for a few.
As humanity mourned, Alaya, the collective unconsciousness will of mankind to avoid extinction had empowered various individuals using the Counter Force to counter the Spirits but the Beast of Gaia was able to kill them before they manage to execute their plans.
Sitting on her chair and her fingers interlocking was a very beautiful woman with red eyes and long white hair, but her beauty was obscured by the frown on her face. There was only one thing that can describe the state of her mind right now.
Alaya was enraged.
As the death of humanity had almost surpassed the threshold of extinction, Alaya, seeing no other options had considered deploying her own Counter Guardians or the Beasts of Alaya to kill Gaia's very own Spirits.
But unlike Primate Murder, Gaia's Spirits were far more inferior to Alaya's Counter Guardians and deploying more than one Counter Guardian would only speed the process of extinction instead of averting it.
Not to mention that the majority of her Counter Guardians preferred to use more… destructive measures to terminate their target.
As Alaya pondered on which of her Counter Guardians were most suitable for stopping Gaia's creation, a thought occurred to her. Pushing her chair back, she smiled as she marched down the hall to the quarters of her Counter Guardians.
Theoretically speaking, each one of her Counter Guardians were able to terminate Gaia's creation, but only a few knew the meaning of holding back and less knew the weight of a life.
There was only one of her Counter Guardians that possessed every criteria and she knew that he would be the most suitable to complete her task, whether he liked to or not.
As she finally reached the room of her desired Counter Guardian, she didn't even bother knocking and slammed the door wide open much to the shock and irritation of said man who was in the middle of drinking his cup of tea.
Her Counter Guardian, the man who had made a contract with her to save the lives of many, the Wrought-Iron Hero, EMIYA.
"I refuse" answered a man white hair, black eyes and tanned skin colour or better known as EMIYA.
"May I ask why?" questioned Alaya as she sipped "her" tea.
"You took my tea"
"Now, now, Emiya, your things are my things" stated Alaya as she took another sip out of "her" tea like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "But I asked you a question, and I expect an answer."
Folding his arms, the Counter Guardian EMIYA could only sigh at her logic.
"You are asking me to kill and clean up more of humanity's mistake even though you know that goes against the very ideals I live-". Shaking his head "no, the very ideals I once lived by".
The same ideals that had damned his soul to be one of her Counter Guardians.
Smiling, she replied to him "On the contrary, Emiya, the task I have for you is different this time"
"Ho, and what of it?"
"This time"
The smile on Alaya's face was gone as the atmosphere around her changed.
"I want you to terminate Gaia's Beast that she had willingly let loose on earth to eliminate humanity"
"What?"
"You heard what I said Emiya. I want you to eliminate the various Beasts of Gaia that had descended upon earth" repeated Alaya.
As EMIYA processed what Alaya had said, one word had stood above the rest.
"You said various"
"Yes I did. What of it?"
"You've already tasked me and other Counter Guardians to restrain Primate Murder and now you expect me to singlehandedly terminate various numbers of those dogs that Gaia had sent?!"
"Do not be mistaken, Emiya." Said Alaya with a very dangerous edge in her voice. "If Gaia had unleashed numerous of her dogs then I will deploy every single Counter Guardians I have to stop them"
"Then why don't you?" countered EMIYA.
"Because this time, Gaia's Beasts are known as Spirits"
"Spirits?"
"Yes, they are called Spirits. They are much more weaker compared to her dog but much more powerful than those I've empowered using the Counter Force"
Saying that, Alaya stands and moves towards the exit.
"It is your choice to accept it or not Emiya, but know this, if you decline this task, then I shall give it to a more "professional" Guardian that can complete it, albeit with more collateral damage than I would like. I'll return for your answer in an hour."
The door swings shut behind her.
With a sigh, EMIYA projected a chair and collapses into it.
"What the hell do I do now"
Thought EMIYA as he pondered on Alaya's request.
Authors Note
Hey guys, Adam here and today, I was bored, read a few fanfics and somehow for some reason managed to write this story. Before you guys start raging, let me say this, I am unsure if there is only one Primate Murder or if Gaia can make more but for the sake of the plot lets just assume that Gaia can make more of it. And yes, I am aware that Gaia and Alaya doesn't really have an actual body but it I wanted to make the interaction with Emiya much more easier and thought "hey, let's just describe her face as vague as possible and hope for the best". Also, because I made this story on a whim, I'm not sure if I'm going to update this story anytime soon but I might if for some reason lots of people request for it (which I doubt). But anyway, if there are any grammar mistakes, be sure to tell me because English is not my first language and I might have screwed some things up. That's all for now, and hopefully, I might see you guys again.
