Note : alright, rest is over, this is my second try at fanfics and it's usual, set right after UBW scenario. I've assessed all the reviews I got from my first fanfic and came Up with this. especially thanks to jyoohan for his constructive and yet blatant Criticisms. (hope you all R & R!)

EPISODE 1 : The hero of justice

Archer stood up in front of rin as he felt his body disappear into thin air.

'it's been a hell of a ride', archer thought to himself as he recalled every event that had happened to him. He was once a hero of justice, he lived by the code which he has sworn to protect all his life. But the death of his love rin, fuji nee and illya had driven him to abandon his ideal. But even this wasn't enough to save him from his demise.

All the people he had known and all the one he had once loved vanished from his life.

And yet here she was, the girl he once loved was standing right in front of him.

It was really ironic, archer thought.

'I've given myself up to the grail…to erase myself from the world… and yet I find myself redeeming my past self back in the end… '

archer turned his head to his past self then to rin .she was placing her arms on the pendant she used to summon him.. He looked at her eyes… he could see that her eyes were soaked with tears…something he never expected.

'you're beautiful rin…'

a sudden will to hug her rose on his head but he shook it off quickly, knowing that it would just make it hard for her. The long silence went on just like that until rin broke the spell.

"Archer… will you stay…?"

archer turned his eyes over to the dawning sun, the light was unusually bright and the surroundings were lit golden by the brilliant sunray.

'beautiful…' archer sank into deep thoughts again but this time it didn't take long.

Archer redirected his eyes to rin and answered her.

"It's over …"

soon after, he turned his attention to shiro and gave a word of advice to him.

"take good care of rin… don't make the same mistake I did.."

Shiro nodded his head, he seemed strong on the outside but in truth he was very close to letting out his tear. Archer smiled on him and looked into the sun again.

'what awaits me beyond?'

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héroe de justicia

"thy the harbinger of balance?"

"W…What?"

Archer slowly opened his eyes, he was lying in a pitch black space.

'What the hell?' surprised, archer quickly chanted a spell on himself.

'trace on…reinforce eyes…clairvoyance activate.'

Archer re-opened his eyes but the end result was still the same. There really was nothing around him, there weren't any single particles of molecules around him. Not even light.

"I ask of you… Thy the harbinger of balance?"

"Who's there?"

archer turned around to the spot where he heard the voice emanating and summoned his trusty daggers.

"My name is arch… No, Shiro Emiya and I'm the hero of justice, who are you and what do you want?"

The voice suddenly stopped, it's echo. A full minutes passed and archer began assessing his situation.

'There is no Air , yet I can breath and hear voices, plus my clairvoyance doesn't work, as long as there is as little as a thousandth of light as a moonlight I can detect objects with my clairvoyance, and there can't be anywhere my clairvoyance doesn't work on earth. Then that means it's a reality marble…..'

archer closed his eyes and pictured his whole body as a one whole circuit. He began circulating his mana throughout his body and started a chant

""I am the bone of my sword.

Steel is my body, and fire is my blood.

I have created over a thousand blades.

Unknown to death. Not known to life.

I Have withstood pain to create many weapons.

Yet, those hands will never hold anything.

So as I pray, "Unlimited Blade Works!."

Archer opened his eyes and saw the manifestation of his own soul forming in front of him The innate bound field, his ideal fighting environment. No one had been a match to him inside this field. Up until his past self defeated him (or… at least he let him win)

"show yourself impostor, your tricks are useless inside this field."

"An EX class reality marble… impressive."

A sudden gust of wind formed at the place where archer was aiming at and a man clad in a pitch black cloak appeared out of nowhere.

"shiro emiya, harbinger of balance… I ask of you to deactivate your reality marble right
now. This is the holy ground where souls are judged"

"souls…? Harbinger of balance…?"

archer was initially confused at the old man's remark then it suddenly hit him, he was actually dead and this is the afterworld. But he lost the part about him being the harbinger of balance. He has a memory of him serving for humanity even after the afterlife but that was it.

"Have I ever been here before?"

archer asked the old man.

"Yes my dear, you were a member in this society. You came here as a soul once and we
hand picked you as our agent, the harbinger of balance."

"How can you prove that fact?"

Archer brusquely threw the words at the old man, though he was pretty sure about what the old guy said, he had to make sure. The old man sighed and approached archer.

"Do you know how you got your title as the hero of justice emiya?"

Archer circled around the man and showed a face of intrigue.

"interesting, go on."

The old man stopped his approach ,sat on the barren ground and started speaking to archer. he spoke about his horrid past life, about how the magi association used him as their agent ,how the magi association betrayed him by killing all his loved ones.how archer betrayed his own ideal by refusing to save the ones that needed help, And how archer acquired his abillity to manifest his souls into a reality marble and all that.

"is that all? I expected more."

The old man stood up and walked again towards archer and pointed his fingers at his twin daggers.

"shiro… do you remember how you acquired your swords?"

Archer was surprised, come to think of it, he only knew about how to summon these weapons. He never knew how he acquired it.

"Hero of justice, shiro emiya , as a harbinger of balance you've been to countless missions with us,
that sword, you learned how to trace when you went to gan- jiang's time period. You might also know how to summon Excalibur. And cadabolg. yes, you've restored balance to the world by traveling through time and becoming a hero of justice shiro emiya. You have your alias engraved on many historic documents."

Suddenly, all his fragmented memories merged and all his past memories were restored on his head. The process was really painful and hard. In the end he had to deactivate his reality marble. The intake of eons of years of lost memories were just too much to bear.

"Hah…Hah… I remember everything now. Your name is…"

"Gabriel, my dear…. I ask of you again… Thy Harbinger of balance?"

archer shook off the last of his pain, slowly arose, faced Gabriel.
And gave him the answer.

"I've for eons been trapped inside the tainted grail my mentor… and I've lost all memories of happiness in the process, though even so, it helped me redeem my true self."

Archer closed his eyes and after a while opened his eyes.and kneeled in front of the archangel.

"archangel Gabriel, I , as the harbinger of balance will serve to restore order and balance to the world."

Gabriel showed a smile of satisfaction and arose him from the ground.

"follow me shiro emiya. There are things we need to take care of."

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Velvet road

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héroe de justicia