Fate Stay Night: The Sword and the Blacksmith
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In a world much like ours a hidden event takes place called the Holy Grail War. In a certain city in Japan seven humans each partnered with legendary spirits called Servants, fight over an object called the Holy Grail, though it is not the one from King Arthur's legend. However this event is quite chaotic where even the smallest change in a given timeline will lead to a wildly different conclusion.
This is most apparent in the fifth cycle of this event thanks to a certain broken human called Shirou Emiya; 'but what makes this guy so special?' you're bound to ask as you witness time and again Shirou's almost total blindness to people's feelings that involve 'attraction, love, and screw it let's just put down the average human female here'. Yeah Shirou Emiya is a complete and total idiot when comes to the matters of the heart but wait, there's more! This idiot has two more fatal flaws hidden away like the world's worst Easter egg hunt. His biggest flaw is also his greatest strength, the impossible dream to save everyone or at the very least save as many people as he can. It doesn't stop there though because the kid has a little (BIG) case of survivor's guilt and possible PTSD. Yes sir, the universe is almost certain to use Shirou as its favourite pastime with how damaged he is; and what better way than to pass the time then to throw him into the highly dangerous Holy Grail War.
This is where all the little 'what ifs' tend to show their work, because Shirou is like a broken sword just waiting to be reforged and the end result is always nothing short of fantastic. With so many worlds created by a single 'What if' like the world where Shirou's gender is changed by a perverted red wand.
Meanwhile in a parallel universe
"Achoo!" The floating red per "DON'T FINISH THAT SENTENCE WRITER!" wand. The floating red wand looked around in confusion.
"Ruby what are you doing?" The red pervert wand giggled at the small girl with false cheer.
"Oh nothing, just a silly little
Back to the current parallel universe
WAIT I WASN'T FINISHED TALKING!"
So instead of viewing a world with only one 'What if'. Let's view a world with THREE 'What ifs' in place and see it all tumble into a complete mess of glorious chaos.
Fuyuki Hospital- Sometime after the Great Fire
The room was quiet; something that wouldn't be too uncommon in a hospital if it weren't for the fact the room was full of children. Not a single child was crying out in confusion, not even moaning about how boring it was and if a parent were in that room the most heartbreaking thing they would see was how every one of them had a haunted far off look in their eyes.
The haunting silence was broken however by a conversation between a man and a nurse.
"Yes I see, thank you." A man with a black long coat walked into the room and spotted who he was looking for, a small child with bright red hair and bright amber eyes.
"Hello, you must be Shirou." He said with tinge of uncertainty.
"I suppose I'll come right out and ask you which you would prefer. Being sent off to an orphanage or being taken in by a man you just met." He continued this time without the uncertainty. Shirou looked stunned by the man's rather ridiculous offer but started to make a small show of thinking over the choice. After closing his eyes to complete his look of 'Deep in thought' Shirou opened one eye to look at this stranger and gave him the answer by pointing at him.
The man let out a noise that can only be described as surprised and overjoyed at the same time.
"I'm glad, then let's get you dressed right away. You need to get acclimated to your new home as soon as possible." The man had a small smile on his face as he spoke.
"Oh. I forgot to mention something you should know. I have to tell you an extremely important fact. Ready?" Shirou looked at the man with rapt attention.
"Yeah I should do this right now." The man said under his breath as if to confirm something he spent some time mauling over.
"You see Shirou, I am a mage." Shirou looked at the man in awe and wonderment. As the new Father and Son walked out the hospital, Shirou saw a woman standing by the car that they were walking too.
When they reached the car Shirou looked at the woman inquisitively and then looked to his new father for an answer, the man saw this and his eyes suddenly seemed to convey a conflict of emotions.
"Right, Shirou I would like you to meet my partner and also your new mother." He said with some sadness leaking through his voice. The woman knelt down so she and Shirou were about eye level, she had an uncertain smile on her face.
"Hello Shirou, I'm Maiya Hisau." She paused for a moment looking unsure of what to say next.
"It's nice to meet you?" Shirou looked at Maiya in confusion before nodding his head at her as if to say the same thing.
"What a shady bunch we make." The man said under his breath however Maiya still heard him and paused for a moment, thinking on how to respond to his comment.
"We are not that shady Kiritsugu." Even though the response held the sounds of reprimanding and caring, it sounded like a hollow mimicry of something she'd once heard.
"Right, sorry about that." Kiritsugu responded with some befuddlement.
"Shirou." The kid looked up at Kiritsugu, waiting for him to continue.
"Are you ready to see your new home?" The kid responded by smiling and nodding his head.
An unknown Mage base in Switzerland
BOOM!
"I am become error!" A man shouted as he jumped through the newly created hole in the wall, as he landed he quickly jumped to his right as a barrage of curses and spells and mystic code based projectiles launched at him.
"Don't let him get any further away from the compound!" Someone yelled from inside the rather large facility.
"Got to get to the forest, got to get to the forest, got to get to the forest." The runaway repeated in a panic, the snow on the ground barely slowing down his pace as he continued to duck, weave, and roll past the flying projectiles.
"He's at the edge of the bounded field!" A random mook yelled while firing another curse at the runaway. Said runaway heard the mook's warning and couldn't help but complain.
"This is going to hurt like a bitch." The snow around the runaway started to sizzle and melt allowing the man to start sprinting. The rest of the mooks started shouting some message or warning to their higher ups but the runaway was having trouble hearing them at that point.
With his body starting to glow red from the heat he was giving off, the runaway tore through the bounded field with ease. The projectiles lessened quite noticeable after that, letting the runaway slip away from the fighting.
"Okay, I need a place to lie low. I need to go to a place where a bunch of snobs like them wouldn't think to look." The runaway said to himself as he slowed down to a brisk walk.
"England is a no go, those assholes have way too many eyes and ears there." The runaway heard the sound of shuffling in the snow; he quickly stopped and hid behind a tree.
"Any sign of him?" Random mook number one asked.
"Not yet, I think he's stopped using his magecraft." Random mook number two replied back.
"Damn it!" The two mooks ran past the runaway without spotting him.
"Phew~" The runaway wiped the imaginary sweat from his forehead and started walking again.
"Okay now where was I? Ah right, a place to lay low." He nodded to himself as if remembering where you left off a conversation with yourself was an achievement.
"America's out too because they know I only really speak English." The runaway then got his preverbal light bulb moment.
"I should go to Japan, no mage ever goes to Japan unless they absolutely have too these days." The runaway put his hand to his chin as he looked to go into deep thought.
"The problem with that however is that I don't speak the language, I guess I can get one of those translator books. I'll just wing the rest of it and see how it works out." The runaway went quiet as he heard more sounds coming his way.
'Just got to make it out of this hell hole first.' The runaway then continued his game of Hide 'n' Seek: The Probably Going to Kill You Edition-TM.
Meanwhile in a library where all the books have turned into 5kg gummy bears
"Why would you do this!" The owner of the library said with tears in her eyes.
"Well to be honest it seemed like a good idea at the time." An old looking gentleman said as he stroked his beard.
"How?! How did turning all my books into gummy bears sound like a good idea?!" The librarian yelled at the old gentleman.
"Everyone just looked so low energy and I thought that maybe giving everyone some snack food would be a nice thing to do." The old gentleman said with an amazing display of logic.
"I should've never let you enter this place." The librarian said to herself in a mumble.
"I would be impressed if you could keep me out, actually I'll have to look for a world where you are capable of keeping me out." The old gentleman said to himself. Then the old gentleman whipped his head up to the sky.
"Well I'll be! What a wonderful set of changes! I must go and see what happens next myself. Sorry for the trouble Ma'am, here is the mystic code to change all your books back to normal." The old gentleman tuned out the librarian's complaints of not understanding even a third of the mystic code to change back her books and started running towards Japan, of course this might change soon. Not where he was going but Japan's name that is, stranger things tend to happen when Zelretch is involved and he's not even one of the 'What ifs' of this misadventure.
AN:
I'M BACK!
Hello ladies and gentlemen! Right, let's get the big ones out of the way. I've completely forgotten where I was going with my persona story and I want to rewrite the Naruto story because I read it back and the spelling made me facepalm. So is this story going to be different and actually get updates? I have no idea! But this story is meant to just be a fun time with the serious stuff showing up really far off into the future, or really close in the future. Depends, I'm flipping a coin on what I want to do with Illya.
Oh and if someone would like to lend me a hand in making sure I don't stray too much from Fate/Stay Night magic rules that would be grand.
Until then I hope you have a lovely hot chocolate on hand with some biscuits or cookies to dunk with your drink. BYE BYE!