Half a year of absence was a bit too much, so I've decided to amend for thar mistake by correcting and revising every chapter of unlimited heaven's fate, I read every chapters and i was shocked at how bad they were presented. while ok in terms of story, careless errors had made been some kind of a downfall in this Fic, so for those of you who've read this before and ended up using this fic as a training reference for SAT writing section rather than as a Fanfic, I'm (deeply) sorry. Anyways enjoy reading this Fic
change logs : 1. 40. thousand Miles - 40 thousand meters
2. Slight change in Rin's dialog at the end of part 1, vagueness(or whatever) removed
3. It all started that fateful day- Dreams, are they connections?
4. Smoother transitions and several corrections in spellings
5.Several corrections in grammar( Which was the most bugging part of all)
6. And many other Errors.
Style: doujinshi or simply H- game
AUTHOR DISCLAIMER: Me no fate stay night owner
Fate: unlimited heavens fate.
Chapter 1: life ( part 1 of "The long first day")
Dreams, are they Connections?
Fuyuki 2005
"Where…huh?"
Shiro woke up from his deep slumber, the bright sun above him was on its zenith, blocking his visions. Assaulted by the sudden burst of light, Shiro immediately shielded his eyes with both his hands, giving him back his temporarily lost vision.
"Where…am I?"
As his eyes began to regain focus he was startled to see himself standing upon a mighty sheet of grass. The terrains were fairly uneven and strong winds were blowing from the west. Weaving the grass in a concordant way, as if the wind was the conductor and the grasses were synchronized dancers; A scene he thought he'd never ever see again… Until now.
Filled with an overwhelming urge to catch an otherwise elusive sight of his long lost love, the boy started wandering around the unlimited stretches of this grassy plain. All the steps he took felt utterly familiar, all the paths he had taken before flashed through his mind like a film. He knew that this void was the manifestation of his subconscious desires, accumulation of his suppressed cravings, a dream. Though this one fact was true, he wasn't able to shake off his uneasiness; he was actually controlling his own body, something he never experienced before… even when saber was around.
(I just need to go straight forward around 50 steps and take a direct right turn… easy)
His body did exactly as told, his steps were as light as a feather and his body felt as agile as ever. The sensation he felt was indescribable, it was like ascending and flying at the same time. It was like he controlled the very fabric of space.
(Alright… straight forward…)
step by step he crept nearer and nearer to the spot. The ground's inclination went up along with the change of the wind. There was no mistaking it, this was the right road. His head was filled with joyous optimism. Few steps on and he will finally witness his love…
(I should be seeing her right about…what?)
The valley, upon where his love grazed through her utopia, a place of serenity and peace... the epitome of Shiro's desire was nowhere to be seen, 'impossible' was the first word that passed through his mind. Fearing for the worse, his optimism slowly declined… he started wandering the plain it was imperative to him that he glimpses the image of his love.
The full sun slowly faded as his optimism slowly waned. The sun began to fall foot by foot, the flow of the wind slowly degraded, hours and hours passed by and still no hint of his former servant was found. Despite Shiro's will to find her the sky continued to darken. The sky now orange… prompted Shiro's urgency. Desperate for light, the boy sprinted towards the sun, he ran and ran.
As the sun touched the tip of the hill far away and Shiro's optimism was completely replaced by desperation. His surroundings suddenly changed, the grass upon which he stood was replaced by corpses of fallen medieval infantries; countless swords were poled on the ground, hilt facing upwards. At a distance a mountain of corpses caught Shiro's eyes; as he expected he found a figure on top of the stack.
Instinctively he picked up his pace. He was running at his top speed but the distance was too far away to reach before sunset,
(Faster… Faster!)
An image of a cheetah flashed on his mind and his body suddenly began accelerating. Beyond control, his clothes were torn apart by the blades and blood started leaking from the gashes but it didn't prevent him from reaching his destination.
"Saber!"
Like a man possessed he climbed up the rotting corpses' foul stench filled his nose and blood stained his Sports top.
"Saber!"
Finally, the boy reached the top, before him was his love. Her emerald eyes were gazing towards an unknown place and her golden hair was without the ribbons she usually wore, she was kneeling on the ground exhausted. Her blue alabaster armor was thoroughly tainted by blood and almost torn apart, though even so, the essence of her beauty never failed to impress him. Stunned by the sight before him, shiro stood where he was, it was almost painful for him to watch the image in front, knowing that this dream won't last. Finally after a minute which felt like an eternity, Shiro reached out his hand towards his love.
"Saber, it's me..."
Shiro placed his hand on her shoulder
"Shiro…?"
To shiro's amazement the figure in front reacted to him, her voice, the texture of her skin, her warmth, all were the same as he remembered. Suddenly he dragged saber onto his chest and held tight onto her.
"I missed you saber…"
He hugged her tight, trying not to let this women in front get away.
"Shiro… How has life been?"
Saber felt herself running out of air but she didn't resist him, parting from him this instance was far worse than anything imaginable to her, she'd rather suffocate in his arms than letting go of him.
Shiro closed his eyes. (Life……….)
Shiro didn't say anything. The truth is, life without saber has been miserable to him… Rin, Illya Fuji nee and Sakura…only their comfort has managed to hold him from snapping. Telling these things to her would only burden her, thinking so he kept silent.
"….how about you saber…?"
Shiro opened his eyes and asked
"Don't worry about me… Avalon is a good place…"
She smiled onto Shiro, though even so it failed to conceal the tears dripping out of her eyes. Whatever she has been through after her death, it was nothing compared to the experience she had with Shiro. Nothing was comparable to her love to Shiro… even heaven.
"…That's a… relief…"
To hold the tears from gushing out. He only murmured in a low voice.
"shiro… sorry I made that choice…I… made you …suffer."
Saber buried her head on shiro's chest. She held on tight to his shirt. Her tears penetrated through his clothing and onto his skin. Shiro faintly felt moisture seeping into his cloth. They stood there for as long as they knew.
(I have no regrets; this is the path I chose. My whole life was…)
The view before him slowly disappeared. The warmth he felt on his chest disappeared along with her. All that it left was a single golden hair. His exhausted body started to fail as the dusk slowly sank under the hill. His eyes, trying to catch the last of the sun's ray remained open.
"No…."
Tears leaked out of his eyes, if he parts with her now he might never get a second chance. Thinking so energy started circulating through his body, with superhuman strength he rose up again. His feelings of helplessness turned to determination and this determination was soon replaced by anger.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"
He let out a scream, at the same time the swords around him started floating on the air. Instinctively feeling his newfound power. Shiro hurled the swords at the sun. One by one the swords disappeared from his view until no single swords remained on his sight. The ignorant sun continued to sink.
(TRACE ON…COMPOSITION MYTHRIL, STEEL, DIAMOND…TRUE OWNER: ARTURIA PENDRAGON …WIELDER: SHIRO EMIYA…NAME: EXCALIBUR)
His magic circuits burst with a bang of light and on his hand, formed the ultimate weapon. Soon after summoning the weapon of his ex-servant he instinctively channeled his mana towards the sword and pictured the stance of his former servant; a technique he had no comprehension about before.
"EX…CALIBUR!!"
Golden light radiated from the sword, and soon a ray of pure energy blasted from the tip of the blade, the pressure almost knocked shiro off the ground. Shiro directed his sword towards the sun, but before he could witness the collision, his eyes closed up and his body abruptly collided with the ground. His surroundings turned bleaker and bleaker. Until all that was left was total darkness.
Shiro residence 7: 00am
"Saber!!"
Shiro opened his eyes and found himself awake once again in his workshop. He was wearing his usual workshop outfit. His shirt was drenched in sweat.
"God… was it a dream? It felt so real…"
Shiro covered his dizzy head and muttered to himself, it's been around a year since he had a dream similar to that, ever since saber departed to her own time. He stopped having that weird dream of his. According to Rin that's what naturally occurs when the link between a master and a servant is severed. Both won't be able to access each other's dream. It's natural she said, and that it won't happen again unless…
"Onii Chaan!!"
A sudden voice from the door knocked Shiro back to reality. Of course, the voice was Illya's: his unofficial sister and an illegal immigrant. The brat of this family, she's been staying with Shiro for almost a month now, thanks to her new school (Fuyuki junior high).
"Sleeping here again? Oh, come on!"
Said illya while leaning by the entrance.
"This has gone too far onii chan! There are limit to things! I used to get straight A's back where i came from and still, I slept 10 hours a day!, even a magi must take a breather you know? or you'll exhaust your mana supply. Imagine that happening in the middle of the night! Who'll be there to help you? i can't deliver emergency care with my petite body!"
She said so in a mix of worry and anger, it was a surprise to Shiro, by what he remembered, Illya used to be a very childish girl, with excessive lust for ehem...
(Let's skip it)
"Gosh Illya, you've grown up quite a bit now haven't you? Worrying about my health and all that. Don't worry about it, I'm not that stupid."
Shiro gave Illya his trademark clumsy smile. a smile that never failed to soothe people. even Rin.
"Phew, by the way, what's with all the blade works? Trace magic?"
"W...what?"
Upon hearing her words, it came to his realization. he looked around and saw blades scattered around the workshop. kanshou, Bakuya, Tsubame gaeshi, Gae bolg, Rule breaker and around a dozen more swords. In his grip was Excalibur and to his surprise, a single piece of golden hair.
(it wasn't a plain dream) he thought
Still leaning by the door Illya counted all the traced swords one by one,
"One... two... ten... and five noble phantasms... wew, an A+ Class tracer! you're cruising here onii chan! you're born for this, the MA should've detected you by know... oops."
illya covered her mouth as if she had let out something she shouldn't speak of.
"The MA? what's that?"
Shiro showed a face of intrigue. he had once heard something about the Ma from tohsaka before. According to her it's a place where the best of the magis' gather. it's supposedly a government body for the magus too. that's all he knew about the place, he always sensed that churning out information about it would benefit him. But it seemed like a taboo for all the magus he met for some reason.
"Nothing... let's go have a breakfast, school is in an hour you know."
She walked towards the kitchen. another same result, he might as well give up on it right now.
"Hey! Wait up Illya!"
Shiro deactivated his trace magic. But before he walked out of the workshop he took a glimpse at the golden hair on his hand.
(Must be someone else's) shaking his head, he put the golden hair inside his pocket and joined Illya to the dining room
Emiya residence: dining room.
"Hi sakura!"
"Oh come on in sempai! the food's ready!"
shiro gave a cursory look on the room, as usual fuji nee was munching on the delights and sakura was sitting by the rice cooker with her kitchen clothes on, All on their respective seats.
"Wow! Sakura nee chan! Your foods are always fantastic to look at!"
She ran to the closest seat from her and took a bite at Sakura's yakiniku.
"The food is fantastic too! Five out of five!"
"You're exaggerating Illya, you know I'm not that good."
She let out a shy smile on illya and faced shiro.
"Sempai, have as much as you want."
"Mm...Shwee wo... The yakwinikwu wis gweat!!"
Said Fuji nee with her mouth full.
"Alright then!"
Shiro joined the pack. as always the seat to his right was empty, he never really asked for it to be vacant but it seemed that his whole Family had a comprehension about the relationship between Shiro and saber. Not only that, they regarded saber as their very own Family member and respected her just as everybody else under this roof. The vacant seat; they kept the space as a tribute to her, a reserved seat for when she returns back...which sadly never happened
"Emiya kun!"
"Huh?"
Shiro turned his head towards the voice, to his surprise he found Rin walking to the dining room with her school uniform on.
"I'll be joining in today, i got permission from Fuji sensei, you don't mind right Shiro?"
"Oh yeah, of course Rin...you're always welcome here."
She pat on Shiro's shoulder and sat to his right.
(Well...there's no helping it, Rin will always be Rin.)
"Oh hi win, Wha too kyu so wong? "
Asked fuji nee, still stuffing her mouth with food.
"Oh, nothing you know, i got lost on the way, it's been a while since I've been here."
"Yeah, it's been a whole month sister! it feels like a family reunion."
For Shiro, it was a relief to see them being natural like this.
Just after the end of the holy grail war they rarely had any communication with each other, they just tried to avoid contact. it went on like that until Shiro bonded them together.( it was a long story)
"By the way, what brought you here sis?" asked Illya in a not-so-soft voice. it's been a whole year but the tension between Rin and Illya never seemed to go away. both of them were still pissed off about the thrashing of their servants, technically it's supposed to be Rin who should be angered at Illya but instead of a one sided hate, for some reason illya too has been apathetic towards Rin.
"Why should I tell you? I'm not your'Servant' aren't I?
Rin stressed on the word servant; another eye fight commenced. Both Shiro and Sakura swore they saw a beam of light coming out of their eyes.
"Hai! Hai!, let's settle our own quarrels outside shall we?"
After 5 bowls of rice and five pounds of meat, Fuji called for a time out. Her Tigerish charisma never failed to daunt Shiro, one minute she is an innocent teacher and in a blink of an eye she turns to a raging tiger
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
(Well, that's the end of it.)
"By the way sempai, schools in 30 minutes you should change your clothes and get yourself ready."
"Oh, shit!"
Emiya residence : front
"Emiya kun! Hurry! fuji sensei and sakura just left! we're going to be late!"
"Hurry onii chan! Don't listen to this old hag!"
"Hey! Who's calling me old hag? What about your hair? That your style or are you simply too old to grow any higher than three foot five?"
"WHY YOU! I"M GONNA!"
Illya charged on rin but it turned out exactly the opposite of what Illya had hoped.
"Shorty shorty shorty!"
Rin halted her movement by gently placing her hand on Illya's forehead, a technique she learnt after months of experience on handling brats.
"tohsaka! illya! Sorry!"
Out came Shiro, his shirt still unbuttoned,. The mischievous little devil ( a.k.a illya) broke free of Rin's block and abruptly grabbed on to Shiro, making him fall over.
"OWW... what's the matter Illya?"
with her A grade acting skills she let her tears out and showed Shiro a face of innocence. Her glossy ruby eyes were almost too innocent looking to just skip past by.
"Sob…Sob…, Onii chaan!! Rin was trying to rape me! Sob…I don't want to lose my virginity to an old hag like her...sob!"
"Rape you? Yeah right, I'm bisexual but I'd never lose my virginity to some brat like you! Right Emiya?"
Rin stared right onto Shiro's eyes. Unlike illya's her eyes were firing with killing intent, it sent Shiro chilling down to his spine(WHAT AURA!) Cute Versus tomboy, lolita hentai versus flat breast…
"Umm… Illya, I think you should say sorry to Rin.. You know…she's not that kind of girl and…
"Oww… Onii chaan… how could you."
She moved her face closer to Shiro's. Gravity pulled her orange uniform downwards, revealing her undeveloped valley.
"Ill…illya?"
Still pinned on the ground, Shiro helplessly watched illya as she seduced him into her world. Illya moved her index finger gently on shiro's chest, her finger slowly descending to his crotch.
"OniiChaaannn."
Soon after she let out that last word shiro felt something on the back of his skull and pretty soon blood came out of his nostrils. Her skill in seduction was too high class to be regarded as a teenager's. (I wonder in what subject she scored her straight A's…)
"Stoooopppp!!"
Just as Shiro's 'thing' was starting to get on the mood. Rin woke him back to this world. She pulled Illya from Shiro and helped him up.
"Illya! That's gone too far."
Rin's face was as red as an apple. Clearly she was turned on by the sudden event.
"Illya…apologize to Rin… please…"
Still half conscious, Shiro gathered his courage and begged the devil.
(The true face of Illya : Scary Lolipoon)
"Rats! I was this close."
Her face looked almost like the face of a woman who failed to bring her boyfriend to her nest.
"Illya… you're not human… alright, I'll admit defeat! Again! Oh for the name of god!"
Said Rin while wiping the blood of Shiro's nose.
"Twenty one to zero. You're still a hundred years away from your first victory sis!"
Near illya's school, around a kilometer from fuyuki
"Right, here we are!"
shiro and the gang arrived on their first destination, fuyuki junior high
"oh, so this is where you receive education illya?"
said rin as she watched agape. Even for rin, who is used to wandering around a super mansion was startled by this sight. The land it self was around 40 thousand square meters wide, the main building which is situated was as grand looking as an ancient greek temple. The entire environment was decorated in such a way that it resembled London. Even the buildings had gothic complexions about it. Fuyuki high was nothing compared to this place.
"No, that's the private school where the rich guys go; my school is around a hundred meters from here."
A few minutes later…
"Eh?"
Rin was utterly disappointed by the sight before her. The ground was barren without any grass, miniature sandstorms formed in the middle of the football court just in front of the main building which looked almost like a concrete block. In the middle of the court there were students and a teacher doing ridiculous experiments. Rin swore she faintly heard the teacher saying -and that's what sandstorms look like-
"Bye onii chan!"
"Yeah! Take care!"
Shiro waved his hand to his sister and continued on his way, few feet apart, Shiro heard illya's voice from behind. Shiro turned his head towards her, to his surprise illya was showing a nervous face, Something extremely unusual.
"Umm… Onii chan.! I've got something to ask you."
"What is it illya?"
Shiro leveled his body to illya's height and gently asked her. From afar they looked like a brother and a sister. This tender sight was very unpleasant to Rin who was watching them from a distance.
"Ummm…we have a parents' teachers' conference today and the school asked for every parents to gather around, Fuji nee's having a parents' teacher conference on her school so she won't be attending…I was wondering if…"
"Of course illya. What time should I be there?"
"Really bro?" her grim expression suddenly changed to a cheerful one. Yup she's Illya but when she's acting like that, she looks like any other children her age, an innocent angel.
"Well… 6 PM after school."
"Okay, wait for me at the house okay. I'll be going now illya."
"Ng, thanks onii chan! You're the best!" she gave a kiss on shiro's cheek and ran back to school.
(that's the first time I saw illya like that, well, it's no big deal.)
"Emiya kun… that was disgusting"
Shiro looked to his left and saw rin puking on a trash can. He immediately jumped to her and started patting on her back.
"There's no helping it… she's my sister you know… well, unofficially that is…"
"Don't ever do that in front of me ever again! Or I'll give you a greasy dose of gand shot's…ngg… bwaaahhhh! Cough! Oh! That devil !
After a full minute of vomit fiesta she redid her hair and wiped off the goo on her lips. She was still the school's official honor student; keeping her image tight had always been her first priority both in and out of school (except for shiro and his families) today was no exception.
"Let's go rin, you don't want to be late don't you?"
"…."
Somewhere down the road.
Both Shiro and Rin were running down the residential districts of Fuyuki city. There were hardly any people around them, only a handful of students were seen. It's been 5 minutes since that incident and silence kept trailing them ever since. Feeling awkward, Shiro started speaking. He stretched his arms to the air and started talking.
"Ah... what a good morning, don't you think Tohsaka?"
"…"
No response.
"tohsak…. "
"Shiro I have something to ask you."
She faced Shiro who was walking to her right and started conversing. Her face was indicating the seriousness of what they're about to talk about.
"Well… what is it."
Shiro was confused but decided to cope with Rin
"Have you had any strange experiences lately?"
"Well, umm… nothing really"
Rin stared at him, a look of doubt clearly portrayed on her face.
"Have you by any chance, wondered why I never showed in front of your house this past month?"
"I don't know… preparation for college maybe?"
It naturally occurred to him, they were less than 6 months to graduation and pretty soon all his classmates would be leaving for college. Including Shiro himself. He's been pushing himself hard the last 6 months of his life. Working part time no a market as a counter and studying hard for his college entrance exam, he still haven't given up on his ideal of becoming the hero of justice though, which further burdened him with the task of perfecting his trace magic. (Of course an honor student Rin would be studying her butt off in this situation…) or so he thought.
"Emiya kun, college is on the fringes of my worry right now."
Contrary to what Shiro expected, Rin let out a small giggle.
"Is there something wrong?"
"Remember the last holy grail war Shiro?"
"Um… well, yeah."
Shiro wandered about why she'd say something like that, certainly the holy grail was destroyed including the essence, he watched it happen right in front his eyes. There weren't any reason to talk about that taboo anymore.
" The fluctuation of energy has been increasing rapidly lately… I hope you noticed."
It still didn't quite get to Shiro, he never was adept at sensing spirits , actually he never did. As serious as this matter seemed nothing she said made sense to him.
"No…not yet…"
Rin stopped his giggles and suddenly changed to serious mode, she pushed Shiro towards the wall behind him and placed her hand on his chest; she pulled her sleeve up revealing her peculiar tattoo and started a chant.
"Release"
Light started emanating from her tattoo. Not like the red light that glows when she readies her gands the light on her tattoo was blue much like healing magic. The light grew brighter as she spoke the strange German words.
"Sector 1…2 …. .3… 4…….."
(What the?) shiro felt a strange sensation on his body, it felt like rin was browsing through his brain, one by one his memories flashed on his mind, the fire, the war, saber, archer… everything.
"Seal!" the process didn't take as long as Shiro thought.
though It seemed like a basic maneuver. In truth Rin's body used up almost half of its mana supply. Her exhausted body forced her to grab on to Shiro's shoulder. Trying not to let herself collapse.
"R…rin! Are you alright?" Shiro immediately helped her up; Rin's body was sweating incessantly, trying to keep her body temperature on the norm. in conjunction her heartbeat had risen dramatically. Her skin felt as if it had been continuously scorched by fire.
"Shiro… did you have that dream again?"
Shiro was dumbfounded by this, she didn't show her face for a whole month and she came here invading his privacy In the cost of her fatigue.
"What dream?" Rin slowly rose up, exhaustion still evident on her face.
"Nothing… it's too small an evidence to make any conclusion…let's continue on our way."
She picked up her bag and started walking. A few feet away Rin stopped and turned her body back towards Shiro who was motionless.
"Oh, by the way, sorry for invading your bedtime privacy, I guess all boys do it, Saber!! Saber!! Ha Ha! "
She gave a mischievous smile on shiro and continued on with her walking. Shiro's face started blushing, he had been portrayed as a diligent and clean by all of his acquaintances but of course there's always a secrete that all boys share within their outlooks, but all secrets are meant to be revealed someday and today was the day for Shiro.
"To… tohsaka! That's gone too far! Hey! Wait up!"
Fuyuki high : entrance
"Emiya kun, there's no need to get embarrassed about. I'm sure every girl in the school knows about that common knowledge;.M-A-S-T--B-A-T-I-O-N."
They've been quarreling about it for the whole journey, Rin's been laughing herself out all the way.
"Ok! Ok! Just please pipe down! Please!! It's embarrassing!"
Shiro's face was now as hot as boiling water. All he wanted now was just a small silence from the honor student.
"Okay, Okay! Ha Ha! Oh! It's been a while since I had that kind of laugh!" she drew her breath and suppressed her laughter. After all, she wouldn't want to let go of her grand reputation as an honor student won't she?
"Okay! School's here alright! Bye Shiro!"
Rin parted from Shiro and started running to her class, Shiro followed suit (Man that was a close call!) As he put his first step on the school ground he felt a slight sting on his head. It felt somewhat familiar to him. Shiro looked around but there weren't anybody. (must be my imagination) and with that he continued on to his class. Little did Shiro know that a mysterious figure was watching them from one of the windows Above.
"Gotcha!"