Prologue: Kaleidoscope
"Are you sure about this Rin?" asked the boy with red hair.
he and the girl with black hair stood in a basement filled with many strange tools that the girl would sometimes use.
"I am sure Shirou, I have collected everything we need to do this. It's time to do this!" replied the girl
These two were in truth Mages, they could create miracles.
The boy with red hair is named Shirou. He is not a very talented Mage but he has put effort into learning more. Shirou's talents with magic involve "Sword", when swords are the focus his magic becomes amazing.
The girl with black hair in twin-tails is named Rin. Unlike Shirou, Rin was a very talented Mage with access to a large quantity of magic power. Rin's specific talent with magic was "Imaginary Element", what this means is that she can manipulate all basic elements of magic, a rare talent
"We need to do this Shirou, If we create a new Jeweled Sword then we might be able to use other True Magic" Rin said as she drew another part of the magic circle she would use to attempt to bind the sword into reality, "Don't you want a way to see Saber again?" she continued, looking at Shirou as though he had been implying that very thing.
Shirou sighed as he drew a part of the circle "Of course I want to see her but Kaleidoscope is a very different magic to Heaven's Feel, Are you sure you can do this?"
The two of them had been planning to do this for a while so it was strange that Shirou was having second thoughts right before the ritual was to be performed
A few months ago the two had fought together in a battle of mages called the Holy Grail War, in which they barely came out victorious. In this battle they had created an alliance between themselves and some other mages in the war and with the help of them and the servants (Magical summons of lost heroes) of all mages in the alliance they were able to win.
Now Rin planned an audacious magical ritual of her own. The Tohsaka family that Rin was a part of was long ago given a gift by a great sorcerer, a magical tool known as the Jeweled Sword Zelretch, this tool could allow the user to pull Mana from other dimensions to power their spells. During the Holy Grail War, Rin and Shirou along with another Mage called Illyasviel were able to create a passable fake of the tool for Rin to use in order to save her sister. In the present Rin is planning to perform the creation of the Sword again in order to, in her own words, "Do it properly this time".
As the two of them continued creating the magic circle for the ritual, another conversation of importance was happening elsewhere in town
Sakura was a kind girl with hair dyed purple from magic experiments earlier in her life, at the moment she was sitting in Shirou's house across town talking to a friend of hers and Shirou; Taiga, their teacher (on those days they actually attend school).
Taiga had come today to drop off some work for Shirou to do as he had missed school yesterday (helping Rin with her ritual, not that Taiga was to know), Sakura had decided to talk to her now as if Taiga wasn't distracted she would probably try and find Shirou, which could be disastrous if she were to find him, say, in the middle of a magic ritual.
"You tell that boy that he is to stop missing school, that is 3 times this week" Moaned Taiga, Sakura felt sorry for Taiga as while Taiga would normally be able to tell Shirou that in person, events were out of her control. Taiga's calendar was filled with meetings for the next few months, at least one of these meetings was her being told off for striking students with her practice sword.
"I will miss Fujimura" said Sakura as she nodded, She would tell Shirou that anyway, he was spending too much time with Rin for her liking.
A few hours later Sakura was beginning to make supper for herself and Shirou, Taiga had left a few minutes after she had agreed to talk to Shirou about his attendance. As she looked at the darkness out the window, Sakura was forced to think of the events of a few months ago when she came close to trying to kill her friends. She had let the darkness within the Holy Grail take her over, if Rin had not had the Fake Jeweled sword then she might have very well killed her.
As Sakura finished up supper she began to worry about Shirou, he said he would be back by now. She decided to wait a few more minutes just in case.
Seven minutes later, Sakura was leaving the Emiya residence, hurrying to check on Shirou and Rin. As she ran along the dark streets she thought again of the past, if Shirou and Rin were hurt then Sakura would make sure that the two of them would be okay, it was what she owed them for all the trouble they went to in order to save her.
At the Tohsaka mansion, Sakura slowed and then stopped. what she saw clearly could not be real.
The Mansion had been completely destroyed, all that remained was rubble
Sakura ran pas the rubble, she had to find them! When she got near to the center of the destruction she found Rin, alive but pinned under rubble. Sakura was able to get her out and then continued looking for Shirou.
A few minutes later when she couldn't find him she ran over to Rin.
"Where is he Rin? What happened?" Asked Sakura as she held Rin in fear and desperation.
Rin's eyes slowly opened and she croaked "Gone..."
"Gone! What do you mean gone?" begged Sakura, now panicking
"He got pulled into the magic, he vanished right before me."
Shirou didn't know where he was, he felt grass on his back and wind on his face. He smelled the clear air around him, definitely not a city.
After a while Shirou managed to open his eyes, he was lying on the ground on what appeared to be a hill. He tried to stand and as he did he felt something very wrong, the Mana in this place was strange; there was too much of it. He felt a burning sensation in his magic circuits as the Mana washed over him. While the pain wasn't great it was still painful, he decided that until he understood this new place he should be sparing with his use of Magecraft.
This marks the end of the first part of the prologue, I welcome readers who found this by accident
I have seen ideas like this story before, Crossovers between the world of Exalted and other worlds but they never seem to last very long, hopefully I buck that trend.
Though you haven't seen much exalted yet, the next part of the prologue is based in creation so I think that will be interesting.
First though is a few notes I should make on how Shirou's magecraft translates over, Shirou is (From creation's perspective) A heroic mortal with awakened essence
I would say that he would have been essence 1 during the start of the grail war but by now he is essence 2
I'm simply defining his magecraft as charms, reinforcement for example is the ability to spend a mote to add a single dice to any roll, it's a general use first excellency that can only add one dice
for things like projection and UBW, well, you will see later
Thank you in advance for any suggestions for this story
In reply to the review saying "Rin is the Average One...or suitable for all basic elements. It's Sakura that uses Imaginary element." I thank you for the help, in this case I am pointing out Origins though, Shirou's is "Sword", Rin's is "An Imaginary element" (it's not specific to which) and you are right with Sakura in regards to her Origin being "Imaginary numbers"
Because of reviews I am changing the definition of Rin's origin in the story, It's name is "An Imaginary element" as I found on the type moon wiki but I added that it allowed control over all five main elements
