Fate/Another Hallow

Chapter 0: The Beginning

"Tell me what is your heart desire?"

"Desire?"

"I shall grant your wish..."

"I wish... No, I will do it... Before I vanish, I will save more souls, even just one more soul... Even just one more..."

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"Let each be turned over five times, simply breaking assunder the fulfilled time..."

A young girl stood in the midst of a summoning circle.

"Set..."

Near her, a youth slightly older than her watched in anticipation.

"I shall declare here. Your body shall serve under me. My fate shall be with your sword."

The summoning circle began to glow with an eerie light.

"I swear here: I shall attain all virtues of all heaven. I shall have dominion over all evils of hell."

The glowing light intensifies, filling the room.

"From the seventh heaven, attended to by three great words of power. From the ring of restraint, Protector of Balance..."

Suddenly, a feathered mask appeared out of the circle, followed by a youth wearing a victorian era longcoat with a top hat matching his attire. The mask then settled itself near the youth's nape, forming something like a cape. The youth had a white hair and somewhat dark complexion but what made him peculiar was the scar running from his left forehead down to his cheek, forming a reversed pentagram above his left eye.

"I am Servant Rider. I have responded to your summons," the newcomer lazily said as he materialized.

"Amazing! So, this is a servant. He shall be my trump card in the Holy Grail War," Shinji thought as he beheld his Servant.

Seeing the girl naked, the Servant took off his coat and covered his summoner's body, "It's cold here. You shouldn't go naked."

"Hey, I am your master! You should be talking to me instead," Shinji angrily caught Rider's attention as he was very annoyed at being flatly ignored.

"Is that so?" Rider replied as he turned towards Shinji.

"I am your Master. This is the proof the you are my Servant," Shinji waved the Book of False Attendance in front of Rider.

"It doesn't still excuse you from being indecent. How could you let a maiden go naked in front of you?"

"Fine. Sakura, go upstairs. You are not needed here anymore."

Sakura silently went away as Rider pitifully looked at her. It seemed she has suffered as much as him in life.

"Now that we're alone, I want you to know your true name."

"Ummmm... I forgot..."

"What?"

"Though alot of people call me the Earl of Millennium."

"Heh? I never heard of that. Are you trying to make a fool of me?"

"Do you think I do?"

"Alright then, let us discuss our strategy for the Holy Grail War."

suddenly, a sound of a hungry stomach echoed within the basement walls. Rider touched his own belly as he felt hunger.

"One shouldn't go to war with an empty stomach," Rider said as he scratched his head.

"Impossible! What kind of Servant are you? You should only subsist on mana and not go hungry!"

"Can you supply me Mana, Master?"

Shinji knows he can't. His Magus bloodline has been thinned and could not anymore supply Rider with Mana. Thus Shinji's ascension in the Holy Grail War... As well as Matou Household's descent to bankruptcy, begins...