Authors Note
hey guys i am pretty new to fan fictions just started around 1 or 2 months ago to read them.
After reading some ( especially In flight and from fake dreams both very good ) i thought 'hey why don't i try writing one myself?'
So i decided to start writing (trying it at least) and yeah this is what came so far.
Like my story? tell me if you want
Don't like it? please tell me why so i can improve
I hope u enjoy it.
*Story beginning*
This night i dreamed of swords.
I dreamed of swords and combat.
I dreamed about a weird guy, wearing a full body suit in red and black and a red mask covering his face only having a white colored hole on a small part of black where his eyes are supposed to be.
This guy was speaking totally weird things, mostly having a taunting effect on his opponents, while protecting a bunch of people from getting them self killed by some guys with strange, yet amazing powers. One of them even seemed to control all the metallic objects around.
This guy fascinated me.
He was what i wanted to become one day. No what i will become one day. A hero.
And so i kept watching him while he protected the people behind him.
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I woke up in my shed.
In front of me was the motorcycle i was repairing for Fuji-nee's grandfather. Using my structural grasp it was easy to detect what it was that i had to repair. And i had done so yesterday evening before falling asleep.
"Emiya-senpai it's no good to sleep in the shed. You'll catch a cold one day or another. You know that. Right?"
I turned around to the entrance of my shed just to see Sakura standing in the entrance. Her purple hair moving as the morning wind blew right through it.
'If Sakura is already here i should go make breakfast.
With that in mind i started to move.
"Oh Sakura. Good morning. I'm sorry but Fuji-nee's grandfather asked to see if i could repair his vehicle and i thought it would be good to be done with it as fast as i could. You know how he likes to drive this motorcycle. I should be going preparing breakfast then."
"That's not necessary i already did that senpai. You have been asleep for half an hour longer than normally. I thought i let u get the rest u needed and surprise u with breakfast already done when u wake up so u don't have to worry about it"
I was staring towards her way. Oh man i really did overslept this time huh?
"Sorry Sakura. I was sleeping so long i couldn't help you, you had to do it all by yourself. Sorry."
Sakura blushed for some reason.
"Uh no you don't have to be sorry. It's good if u sleep a bit longer after working so hard. Besides i enjoy cooking very much so it wasn't really a bother..."
A bit shy she looked down to the ground.
"Anyway i should be heading out now so i wont come late to the club. Fujimura-sensei already went ahead saying she needed to prepare for some sort of special training."
I looked in her way. Fuji-nee preparing some sort of special training? Sounds unusual.
"Well if it's like that, then you should better hurry... Or else you will have to face an angry Fuji-nee and you know how she is when she gets mad."
With a shudder the vision of her wooden sword Torashinai came to my mind. I swear that blade had to be cursed in some way. The blade was seeking way to much blood and i experienced that quite a few times already. Judging from the expression i could see for a few moments on Sakura's face she had apparently the same picture in mind right now.
"No i certainly don't want to make her mad. See you later then senpai."
"Yeah see you layer Sakura."
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Around 30 minutes after Sakura left the house and headed towards the school i was finished with eating and cleaning. With a quick look at the clock i noticed that i still had 30 minutes until i had to leave the house.
"Guess I'll practice my magecraft a bit before i head out."
So i headed towards my workshop, my shed.
"Ok lets see how far i improved with my reinforcement."
Quickly i grabbed a wooden stick from the ground and focused.
'Trace On'
The process just lasted a few moments. Not even a second and it was finished. But it wasn't that easy as it maybe seemed. In order to reinforce an object i first had to use structural grasp. Structural grasp. A magic skill that allows the user to see the very structure an object. Using structural grasp i had to look for all the imperfections in the object, for all the holes in the object. Then came the real reinforcing. In order to do that i had to led my 'Od', the magical energy within my body, flow into the holes. Filling them with my 'Od' i allowed the structure to get sturdier,sharper or whatever i tried to reinforce within said object. However if i filled not enough 'Od' into the holes the reinforcing wouldn't be that good and if i filled in to much the object would simply self destruct.
So it was very hard to find the right amount of 'Od' to fill into the Object.
However i was doing this for many years now so i was rather good at it.
While swinging the wooden stick to the ground and striking a small hole into the ground i had to think back to the beginning. When i started to learn magecraft.
It was around 8 years ago. 2 years after the man called Emiya Kiritsugu saved me from the fire that destroyed everything i had back then, not that i could remember what i had since i lost all my memories from before the fire, and adopted me.
Ever since he told me that he was a magus, a user of magecraft, i was asking him whenever i could if he would teach me magecraft. He would always say "No Shirou i want you to lead a normal life. The life you want to lead by yourself." . But i would still keep asking him.
And 8 years ago i finally succeeded.
"Ok i will teach you about magecraft. If it really is what you want."
"Yes that is what i want." was my simple and honest reply.
He went out to the shed with me.
"Ok Shirou before we start i have to tell you something very important. I want that you listen very good and think about it."
"Okay"
"To walk alongside magic means to walk alongside death. Everything in the world of magi can kill you. And quite a few of them will even actively try so."
"What do mean Dad?"
"I want to say that every step you take on the path of magic can lead to your death. For example if you want to accelerate an object so that it is basically thrown towards the wall of this shed but by mistake you get the coordinates of the object wrong and instead the process happens to your arm. What do you think will happen then?"
"uhm... My arm is thrown towards the wall?"
"Exactly. But only your arm. In other words your arm would be torn apart from your body. Now imagine you accidentally do that to your head."
Back then a little shudder went towards my body. "Ouch i guess?"
"Not just 'ouch' , you would die Shirou. Do you still want to do this? Even knowing the risk?"
Without hesitation i answered with yes back then.
"Ok then lets begin. Are you ready?"
And so for the next 3 years my dad showed me everything he could about magecraft. Starting with the difference between 'Mana', the magical energy flowing around us in the air at all time, and 'Od', the magical energy already existing within our body's the energy source used for magecraft. Going to finding out my magical origin and my magical nature, both apparently 'Sword' for me. And then showing me 3 of the most basic spells. Structural grasp, reinforcing and projection. And then 5 years ago he died. It seems that has suffering from some kind of disease that couldn't be healed. That was when he just started to teach me about runecraft.
And now 5 years after his dead i still know only this 4 forms of magecraft. But i became pretty good with them. My structural grasp now showed me not only the structure but i could also see the history and experiences of an object. Like how old said object is and such things. My reinforcing was so far that i could run as fast as a car when using it on my legs or destroy a wall just with a wooden stick. My projection, after increasing the effectiveness of my structural grasp, allowed me to even project the history and all into the object, so reaching a nearly perfect reconstruction of the object. And my runecraft ...well lets say i make progress. I just had no books with any runes or what they meant so i had to experiment with those my dad showed me. In fact i was only able to reinforce my body to a certain degree with runes and perform some minor water, fire and wind based attacks using those runes.
A sudden alarm pulled surprised me.
"Oh its already time to go to school."
Quickly i stored the wooden stick away and leaved the house heading towards school.
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It was a rather normal day at school.
Fuji-nee came late to homeroom lesson, like always. I got asked to repair the air conditioner and heater in the student council room by my friend Issei, the student council president. And Shinji was bragging about how cool and all he was.
Yep a totally normal day at school.
After school i volunteered to clean the archery club range. I had nothing to do anyway and like that the others could go home earlier and do whatever it was they had to do.
Its not like i disliked cleaning anyway. Quite the opposite, i liked it. Cleaning or doing other simple tasks would always set my mind at ease.
However since i was doing it alone and the archery range was rather big the time i was finished it became dark outside already.
"Damn if i don't hurry I'll wont make it home early enough to do my routine training."
As i worked outside i heard lout noises from the back of the schoolyard.
"Seems like I'm not the only one here at such hour. Well whatever i should head home. Fuji-nee is waiting most likely already. Waiting for her food."
However something about the back of the schoolyard seemed to bother me.
"Srry Fuji-nee but it wont hurt to take a quick look. Probably."
As long as she wont attack me with torashinai when i came home tonight.
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It was unreal. That was the only word i could use to describe the fight going on in front of me.
I knew that servants are powerful beings. But that was an understatement.
I knew that Rider, who i summoned the night before, was without a doubt a powerful warrior.
Even when he introduced him as the servant Rider, he was rather appearing like a Saber-class servant. He was wearing a gold and silver helmet. At the front side of the helmet was the symbol of a hammer inside a circle made of 12 stars. When i asked him about the symbol he said it was the symbol of the Dûrgrimst ingeitum, apparently a dwarf clan. The rest of his armor was rather simple. A leather-backed mail shirt, a mail coif on top of a leather cap and nail-backed gauntlets. In one hand was he wearing a broad shield having the simple of an oak tree in its middle. Hanging in his waist in a blue, the most beautiful blue i ever saw, was a sword. Judging from its appearance a sword that could be wielded with both one or two hands. On his back hanging a bow and arrows.
"You are my master?"
"Yes i am Tohsaka Rin looking forward to working with you Rider."
I didn't heard much more words from him until the battle. Except for his true name of course.
'Eragon Bromsson'
For some reason however i wasn't able to recall that name and i didn't found anything about him in the books i had.
So when this battle started i didn't knew what to expect from Rider.
However the moment my opponents, Lancer and her Master Liam Fraga de Barra, introduced themselves all of my doubts where rendered meaningless.
In an instant Rider shot forward rushing at Lancer drawing his blue sword shouting "Brisingr" and slashed with the sword, now covered in blue flames, at the girl in front of him aiming at her right shoulder. The girl however,looking no older than 12 years old wearing a black and red gothic lolita outfit, simply swung her giant halberd and stopped the slash before the blade could reach her.
In a swift motion she kicked off from the ground leaping backwards trying to slash Rider from toes to head forcing him to jump backwards.
This is when i realized how i underestimated the power of the servants.
Not only was this apparently young girl swinging this halberd, that was in fact bigger and most likely heavier than herself, like its nothing with a speed i couldn't follow with my eyes. No apparently my servant was able to follow the movement and dodge at the same time. And on top of that this little exchange of strikes happened in just in a single second.
"Holy shit"
"What is? did you thought my Lancer couldn't block a strike as simple as that one? I am a Fraga of course my servant would be able to do something as simple as that. Don't underestimate us little girl." Was the only thing the young man in front of me said.
'Okay that is enough i gonna kill that arrogant excuse of a man.'
"Ha sure you sent the one underestimating your opponent? My servant is not so easy to defeat."
Then without a warning i shot 5 gandr curses towards his way.
I shouldn't have done that. Just hearing the name Fraga was enough to know he was a battle experienced magus. And as such he simple dodged all 3 curses rushed towards me, runes starting to glow all over his casual looking clothes, and punched right into my stomach.
The strike was enough for me to fly 5 meters backwards and apparently damaging some of my bones
Standing up i quickly pulled out some of my jewels out of my pocket.
"Damn this will be a harder fight than i thought."
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I wasn't able to trust my eyes.
When i arrived at the back of the schoolyard i was able to see 4 people in total.
At least i thought it was 4 since at least 2 of them were moving so fast that i barely was able to see them. Even after reinforcing my eyes.
In front of me a battle was going on. A real battle with both parties trying to kill each other.
And one of them were Tohsaka Rin the honor student of this school.
She was running around firing black bullets from the tip of her finger or throwing jewels at her opponent. But it didn't looked good for her. Her opponent was to skilled, fast and strong for her to defeat. Even when one of her jewels hit her target, her opponent would keep rushing at hear not even noticing the damage.
The hole of schoolyard was covered with giant holes in the ground. Some of them reaching up to 2 meter into the ground.
Flashing around like 2 raging tempest i could sometimes see the other 2 combatants.
One of them was apparently a young man wearing a fascinating armor almost like some warrior armored in those middle age movies.
The other was a young girl maybe 12 or 13 years old wearing apparently a black gothic style outfit.
The man fighting with a blue sword and the girl with a halberd. The 2 of them were fighting on a level i never saw before.
It was a disturbing yet fascinating view.
However i could clearly see that Tohsaka was about to get killed.
And i, Emiya Shirou, would never sit by and watch as a person i knew and admired is killed.
Activating the runes at my clothes and body while using reinforcement on my body i rushed forward to protect the honor student Tohsaka.
"Watch out Tohsaka-san!!"
I closed the distance within a second using my left arm to block the punch that was aimed at Tohsakas head while using my right fist to strike a punch towards the stomach of the man in front of me and forcing him around 3 meters backwards.
"Emiya-kun? What are you doing here fake janitor?" I could clearly see the confusion in Tohsaka's face.
"Trying to safe you i guess ms. honor student"
The young man in front of me, wearing a blue jeans a white shirt and black gloves and a black mask covering his face, was seemingly annoyed by my interruption.
"Who are you? This is none of your business you should have gone home kid. Now i have to kill you what a shame. At least it looks like you are somewhat trained for combat. But i can already tell that your runes are not as good as mine. Don't fear though i will make it quick so you don't have to suffer."
"First of all i don't care if it's not my business you are attacking a student from this school so i cant just stay there and do nothing. Of course i help. There is nothing wrong with that. And second don't underestimate me just because your runes are stronger than mine."
"Oh so you wanna play the hero? Fine than i will be the villain. Let's have some fun."
With those simple words he rushed forward aiming a punch towards my head. Using all the power i had i used both my arms to block but the force of his strike simply threw my into the next wall behind me.
'Ok his runes truly are strong I thought standing back up.
"You sure have strong runes. Seems like i need a weapon for this."
"Ha there is no weapon that will help you. But go ahead and try."
Oh you are so wrong. I already saw the weapons of the other 2 fighting here. Ok i wasn't able to analyze the blue sword the armored man used, most likely it was made of some sort of metal not existing on earth. But that halberd. That one i could analyze. And so i could recreate it.
'Trace On'
In my hand apparently out of nowhere appeared the halberd the girl was using. It was a nearly 1.80m long pole with a purple silver axe-blade at upper end of it. The blade has 3 holes in it, used in the right way ideal to lock a blade temporarily. A thorn sticking at the lower end of the pole and at the other side of the axe-blade. At the top were 2 nearly 30cm long spikes.
All in all the halberd was beautiful.
But what was irritating about it was its history. Apparently it was wielded by a demi-goddess. A divine weapon huh? The first one i see in my life.
Definitely not expecting me to do something like that the mam in front of me stared with wide eyes at me then over to the girl using the original halberd and then back to me with the same weapon in my hands. I gave him a wide smile and then rushed forward. Maybe my body was not strong enough, even with reinforcements, to keep up with the original owner or the man with the blue sword i was still strong and fast enough to push the man in front of me back. With a quick step forward i slashed with the blade towards his head. He took a step backwards out of the reach of the blade just to see me spinning around stabbing with the lower end, or rather with the thorn at it, towards his heart. Taking a step to the side he aimed a punch at my stomach which was easily blocked by the pole. In a quick movement i was spinning once more stabbing the thorn at the other side of the blade into his left shoulder.
"aaaaaaah!!!! You damn bastard!"
Jumping backwards trying to get away from the thorn he just made the wound even bigger rendering his left shoulder and arm completely useless.
Giving in to the blood lust the halberd was emitting i jumped forward trying to split him into half with a slash from above my head just to be blocked by the pole of the original halberd.
"Master are you ok?"
"Yeah it's just my left shoulder and arm that i can't use anymore. This kid gave me a good surprise. That's exactly the same weapon you are using. How is this even possible?"
The girl gave me an interested look before she replied.
"I have no idea. But with your arm useless i think it would be best to retreat here and now. Even if 2 of those are just normal magi i don't think i can protect you from all 3 of our opponents.
"Yeah your right. Yo kid what is your name?"
"Emiya Shirou"
I replied my eyes still lying at the girl in front of me. Used by a demi-goddess. Does this mean the girl in front of me was a demi-goddess? But then why is she calling a simple human 'Master'? This made no sense.
Jumping to the roof of the building the man gave me a last look.
"I will remember this Emiya Shirou. One day you will pay for this."
Then he disappeared into the darkness of the evening.
"Shall i follow them master?"
Spinning around i saw the armored man standing next to Tohsaka Rin.
"No this should be enough for today Rider. Let them go."
"As you wish master."
Looking to me and bowing the man calmly said
"Thank you for protecting my master. I am called Rider. Pleasure to meet you. However it seems that we will end up fighting each other. Very unfortunate indeed."
"What do you mean Rider? Emiya-kun isn't looking like a master to me."
"Then take another look at him. Command seals appeared at his right hand. But it seems like they just appeared during the fight since they weren't there before."
I was very confused right now. Staring at my hand i saw a strange red symbol that wasn't there before.
"Seems like the holy grail beliefs he is worthy to be the last one to summon a servant, master. But judging the expression on his face he don't seem to know what we are talking about. Maybe you should explain it to him. To return the favor of him saving you of course."
Holy grail? What is he talking about?
"Yeah you are right i should do that. Come Emiya-kun let us take seat in one of the classroom they aren't used at the moment anyway. We should be able to have a good conversation there. But it will be a long since i believe you have many questions like i have. And there are many things i have to explain to you. So don't stand there like an idiot. I don't have so much time."
Very confused i followed the honor student.