GL: (GalaxyLight) Here's a unusual crossover: Fate/Stay Night & Final Fantasy X. It takes place where the Fifth Holy Grail War is over as Saber returns to her kingdom and when Tidus arrives at Besaid Island (For the first time). Having thoughts about taking on a great journey she has never seen as a guardian of Yuna and facing Sin would be crazy but exciting too.
I know much about Saber and Shirou, but not with everyone else or even the story. If you could patch me up info for Fate/Stay Night & Fate/Zero, I'd be happy to extend the chapters.
This will only involve Saber in Tidus's story for the time being, but I'll send other characters from Fate/Stay Night at some point, not sure though. If you have any ideas on who they are and where I should put them, ask me on the review box.
Now let's start the prologue!
"Shirou... I love you..." Was Saber's last words of goodbye to her master, who she has grown feelings for, before vanishing away in front of him and out of Japan. She could see nothing but black and her mind was clueless with nothing to think about. She was ready to face her death as the Fifth Holy Grail War has finally ended. Ending her life at Britain, her country home... or so she thought.
She slowly opened her eyes revealing her emerald eyes that were staring at the blue bright sky with bird chirping. She had slight headaches after waking up but it was delayed as she saw the sun that brightened her causing her to cover her eyes with her arms, probably wasn't a good idea though. Just as she moved her right arm, her body began to slowly roll to her left, surprising her.
"Wha- BRGBLBH" Was what came in the knight's mouth as water was covering her face making her eyes widen. As she was panicking, she was slowly descending down to the water, mostly because of her heavy armour. She then began to act and change her clothes to her civilian outfit and swam back up to the surface before gasping for air after reaching it. "W-What happened!? Where am I!?" She yelled out without thinking. She stopped to look at herself for a moment.
She still appear to be in her late teens with a slender physique and white-skin, with long blond hair slightly from her hair braid, and a face that describes her of naivety and elegance. Before she changed to her civilian outfit which was a white old-styled buttoned shirt and a blue old-styled long-skirt, she wore shining armour like she did in the Holy Grail Wars. Nothing changed with her body, it's still warm, which is why it's odd, because she's not dead, she's very much alive.
"I'm... alive? But why?" She asked herself. After the war, she was supposed to die along with all the servants she's faced and defeated. But apparently, it didn't happen. It was hard to believe she was alive and kicking without any side effects. 'I'm supposed to be dead after the Holy Grail War... unless I was given another chance to live? Hm, The Holy Grail really is something else...' She thought. 'Hold on... why am I swimming?' Saber had the ability to walk on water gifted by the Lady of the Lake, so why is she swimming? 'Did I lose the ability when I was brought back?' It was a mystery.
'I hope there's land near here, I don't wanna end up swimming for hours...' Before she could think of anything she received a massive pain on the back on her head.
"OW!" She yelled out. The object splashed in front of her. It was some sort of white ball with blue stripes on it. She turned to around to see who hit her where she found people on an island. They were calling out for her.
"HEY! Over here!" One of them called out to her. He had dishevelled blond hair with spiky layers. He wears some sort of logo on his silver pendant, and the logo is also printed on his right trouser-leg. He wore yellow and black shoes, a gauntlet on his left hand and a black glove on the other, a yellow jacket with a white hood, and a blue pauldron and armour over his left arm. The dark dungaree-type outfit he wears over his other clothes is fastened with a black belt that has a metal chain.
"You okay!?" Yelled another one. He was tall and muscled, with tan skin, brown eyes, and long reddish-orange hair styled into a coif and girted with blue headscarf. He wore a yellow vest top cut away at the stomach, a yellow shoulder pad on his left shoulder, blue and yellow baggy trousers gathered above the ankle, brown wristbands with a blue and yellow armguard over the left arm, and open sandals. He wears a dolphin necklace and has a silver stud earring on his left ear.
Saber gasped when she found people on an island she was closed to. She became happy when there was land near her, otherwise she would have drowned in exhaustion, which could be the worst way to die for the King of Knights.
"I'm over here!" She called out to them as she waved her hand so they could see her before swimming to them. Good thing, she was very close to the island. She was surprised she didn't notice it, because she was mainly focused on herself. When she finally reached to the beach, she was instantly gathered by people with the same outfit, like they were sport uniforms or something. She then noticed the blonde and the tall one come to her.
"Is... there something you want to ask me about?" She slowly asked them. She wasn't really sure what to say, they were technically strangers to her and she wasn't good at doing that, despite being a king. The tall orange person looked at the blonde male.
"You sure you don't know her?" He asked him, which made Saber flinch in confusion.
"Nope! Never seen her at all." He replied.
"Really? Because you were the first one to be found on the sea before this girl did." Saber's eyes widen when she heard that. There was another person that appeared from the sea besides her? Then that makes him a stranger to these people as well, though they do look like they know each other, not much.
"Right... So where did you come from then?" The tall one asked Saber when he turned back to her. That gave the Knight a difficult time. She can't tell them about the Holy Grail War or her occupation. That'll drive suspicion towards her a lot.
"I-I... Well..." If she was going to hide her identity, she has to make one of the easiest excuse possible; Short-term Memory loss. "I don't know..." She answered. "I remember my head started hurting as I blacked out, and before I knew it, I was here. That's all I can remember. I don't know where I am now... or where I came from anymore." Her answer drive various murmurs around her.
"So you too got Sin's toxin." The tall orange man said.
'Sin?' Saber thought in confusion when he said that to her. "Excuse me? What do you mean 'too'?"
"This lad here also got the toxin." He patted the blonde boy at the back hard causing him to almost tip over.
"Hey!" He said angrily before regaining his balance.
"Still, you're alive. That's the main thing. Praise be to Yevon!" Everyone except for the blondes did an odd praying dance which confused her.
'Was that... praying?' Saber thought in confusion but shook her head deciding to slide it away for now.
"All right! Back to practise!" The tall one ordered his teammates as they all left to continue their game. "I'm Wakka, coach and captain of the Besaid Aurochs, mate." He lend out his hand, asking for a handshake. Saber accepted it just to be friendly without suspicion.
"Name's Tidus. I'm an ace Blitzball player of the Zanarkand Abes!" The blonde boy introduced herself to him. "Although some don't believe about my team. My head's fuzzy so I don't know much, not even this place either."
'So he has amnesia? I feel for him...' Saber thought with slight sadness.
"So what's your name? Surely you can remember it, ya?" Wakka asked her. Saber froze from that question. She no idea what name she wants to give them. Don't give her the wrong idea, she knows her real name, it's just that giving out her real name doesn't sound like a good idea. Although they don't look like they're from Britain.
'Is it a good idea to give out my name here?' She thought to herself as the two gave her a stare. Looking around only using her eyes, the place does seem unfamiliar to her. It didn't look like Britain, or even her world at all. Is she in another world? Just like Japan? If so, it would make things easier for her. Giving out the name Saber would be odd, since it's mainly a word that is now her codename.
Come to think of it, the two didn't give out their last names. Did they not have one? That confused the Knight a bit, since that's very uncommon. Maybe it would be good just to give out only her first name.
"My name... is Arturia." She stated her name. "I am a former knight journeyed to find whatever the world brings me." Most of that was a lie, except for the knight part.
"You're a knight? You don't look like one?" Wakka said to her. She then noticed that she was still in her civilian outfit, not in her armour.
"I... might have lost them when I blacked out." She lied again. The three suddenly heard two stomachs growling. Arturia's one being the loudest, which made her blush with embarrassment.
"You guys hungry, eh?" Wakka chuckled at the two. "Okay! Back to the village! I'll get you somethin'!" He then took off and out of the beach as the knight and the ace Blitzball player followed him.
'I cannot understand why, but I think I can trust this Wakka.' Arturia thought herself. 'I may feel ease with Tidus since he has amnesia, though I do worry for his safety...' The three stopped for a moment as Tidus asked something.
"Um... It's true Zanarkand was destroyed, right? A thousand years ago?" He asked Wakka.
Zanarkand? Destroyed a thousand years ago?' Arturia thought as she was trying to make out what Tidus is saying. What was Zanarkand she wondered? And what did he mean it was destroyed a thousand years ago.
"So it's just a big pile of rubble now, isn't it?" Tidus continued.
"Long time ago, there was a whole lot of cities in Spira." Wakka said.
'Spira? Is that the world I'm am in right now?' Arturia thought to herself.
"Big cities with machina-machines-to run em'." Wakka continued. "People played all day and let the machina do the work. And then, well, take a look." Tidus and Arturia looked around Besaid. Lots of trees, vines, beaches, and even ruins. "Sin came, destroyed the machina cities. And Zanarkand along with em'. Yeah, that was about a thousand years ago, just like you said."
'Sin... destroyed this place which was once a big city, and now it's like this? What kind of beast is it?' Artruria wondered feared about what Sin looks like.
"If you ask me, Sin's our punishment for letting things get out of hand." Wakka moved on. "What gets me, though... is we gotta suffer, 'cause of what goofballs did way back when! 'Course, we must always repent for our sins! That's important! It's just that, it's hard to keep at it sometimes, you know?"
'So... Sin destroyed the city, because it was the punishment of those people who easily go their way. Did they really need to suffer for that? Was it because they let their life get ahead of themselves?... Fate really is a cruel thing...' Arturia thought with a miserable feeling. He thoughts disappeared when Wakka laughed loudly.
"But you from the Zanarkand Abes-That was a good one!" He chuckled as he held his arm over Tidus. Tidus felt down as Wakka didn't believe him. "Hey, I'm not saying the team never existed, ya? But you gotta figure a team livin' in luxury like that'd be pretty soft, eh?" He the turned to Arturia. "And you, a woman who's a knight, sorry, but I find it hard to believe that you are one looking like that." The knight groaned loudly. It was true, she didn't look like one. If only she could just show her armour to them, but now is not the right time. "But if you are one, you should have some armour or at least a sword."
"I do have a... wait... Where's my Excalibur?" She search over her body but couldn't find her Noble Phantasm at all. She was about to panic from the loss of her most important possession until she remembered something. 'Oh, that's right. I ordered Sir Bedievere to take Excalibur back to the Lady of the Lake. didn't I...?' This left her deadpanned with a facepalm as she had no weapon to defend herself with. A Lady Knight without a sword felt so undignified for her. "I... lost it too when I blacked out." She lied once again with an embarrassed tone. Wakka just laughed.
"Man, you must have some bad luck to lose your armour and weapon." He said making the King of Knights groan again. "Don't worry, there are many weapons and armour in my village. You can have those if you want." This gave Arturia a sigh of relief as she found something she could use to fight again. A knight without a weapon wouldn't mean anything after all.
"I could lend you my sword but... it's the only thing I have..." Tidus said as he took out his Hunter's Sword.
"I thank you for your offer, Tidus, but I think you should keep it." She gave him a slight smile. "I'll take what I can recieve from the village."
"If you say so..." He still wasn't sure though.
"Come on, let's go to the village." He then left the beach as Tidus slowly followed him. Arturia stared at the beach once more to take one look at it.
She appreciated the fact that Wakka and Tidus was trying to cheer her up. But at that time, all she could think about was what happened to her; where is she in? Why is she here? And why is she still alive? There were many questions in her mind that needed to be answered but she could think of nothing. Having learned that Sin started the destruction, the wars and the suffering, maybe if she could find Sin, she could find her way home. For now, she'd just live the life until that time came. No more worrying about where, or when, she was. Sure it was hard not to think of home and Shirou too. But she started to feel better already with a smile, just a little though.
"Hey! Arturia! you coming!?" She heard Tidus call to her.
"Sorry! I'm coming!" She replied as she ran to catch with the boys as her story in a new world begins.
GL: I'll end the prologue there. I could write more, but it'll take way too long. I kinda changed Tidus's sword from Longsword to Hunter's sword since they looks similar to each other. I wonder what Saber will get without her Excalibur. What do you think? Guess we'll have to find out in the future chapters. Dunno how I'll process the events, so it'll take a while. See you in the next chapter.