As the boy who had been crowned champion slowly started to fizzle away inside of the Moon Cell, he managed to let out yet another wish, not knowing whether the Grail would comply with it or no. Not only did he want the girl to make it out alive, he wanted his legacy to carry on. He wasn't ready to die yet, but if it meant that others could be saved by the cost of his own life, he was willing to except his fate. Little did he know though, that the grail would grant both of his wishes and he would awaken in a world that was unknown to him, inside a new world where he would be given a life that he could claim as his. Of course though, nothing can ever be completely perfect…

Fate Unlimited

Where am I…? The voice of a boy echoed throughout the endless space of the subconscious world, a place that existed only between the realms of reality and death. Unaware of what was happening, the boy could feel himself slowly falling, like he was sinking underwater. He tried to turn his body, but he couldn't move. He was stuck falling how he was. The only thing he could do was look straight ahead, unable to adjust his line of sight.

What is this place? Why can't I move? His voice continued to echo, even though he wasn't moving his mouth. It was like he was using some sort of telepathy to project his thoughts to the outside world. As he continued to wonder, his body turned itself on its own so that he was now falling with his feet first and he could now move his head. He looked downward where there was a bright light shining at the bottom. The light was shining red, but it didn't look ominous or misleading, it almost looked comforting, like something was calling him. Not being able to struggle, he simply closed his eyes as he drew closer and closer to the light. Soon it engulfed his body, causing it to phase through whatever was there, starting feet first.

When he opened his eyes again, his surroundings were completely different. He had appeared in what seemed to be an abandon room, the only light being from the moon that was shining down from the open roof. The air smelled so clean, so pure, and so real. The night was quiet, the only sound that could be heard was his breathing. He was sitting on an old reclining chair that had been covered up by a towel, and around him were a few broken tables. That was about it, this room was a total dump. He looked around the place, and then back up at the moon.

"So…this is life huh?" He mumbled softly to himself. He couldn't quite remember everything, but there were some parts that were clear. He knew who his previous servant was throughout the war that he fought in, and he knew that he had been victorious, but for some reason that was it. He couldn't remember who he was. He couldn't remember the names of some of the people that he had battled against. He couldn't remember some of the people that he had talked with, but the thing that was the strangest by far, was that for some reason, the idea of him having been called as a servant for what must be another war was the only thing going through his mind, like it was something that he just knew for reasons that even made him wonder. He didn't know where he was, he didn't even really know who he was, but he knew that he was here for a reason, and that reason was to be a servant.

He then turned his attention at his body, checking out his physical form. He was wearing a long sleeve black shirt that had two armor guards hanging off the shoulder, his hands were covered up by black metallic gauntlets, and the collar on his shirt was popped, revealing the top of a white t-shirt underneath. His bottom half was dressed in a pair of black leather pants that had a white belt looped around them, and on his feet were a pair of steel toed boots.

"I see what's going on, it looks like my wish was granted after all." He paused and looked back out towards the moon. "Just in a different way than I had hoped." He let out a soft chuckle as he stood up from the chair. He moved his fingers around in the gauntlets, getting a feel for them, and then kicked the ground with the tip of his shoe a few times. Before he could do anything else, he could hear the sound of footsteps running down the hallway, and they were moving very quickly towards his location. He stood in the light of the moon, waiting for whoever was running towards him to rush in through the door. Then, the door burst open, and a young woman came rushing in. She stopped when she stepped inside and looked at the boy that stood before her. The two locked eyes, her bright aquatic blue ones, and his solid dark blue ones.

"Hey there," The boy's voice was calm and friendly as he shot the girl a two finger salute. She had black hair that was put up in twin tails, with a pair of black ribbons that held them in place. She had on a long red sleeve shirt with a white cross across her chest. She also wore a black skirt with thigh high socks. The girl let out a sigh of disappointment as she looked away from the boy before her. He knew this girl already, there was no way he could ever forget a girl like her.

"I was sure I would summon a Saber class, maybe I just didn't do it right or something…" The girl mumbled.

So my guess was right…how ironic. The boy closed his eyes as the thought ran through his head. "So then, I take it you're the one who summoned me?" The boy reopened his eyes and smiled at her. She still had that disappointed look on her face as she looked back to him.

"I suppose I am. I guess you don't look totally worthless, maybe we still have a shot," The girl replied cold heartedly.

"Well aren't you just a little bag of sunshine…" The boy sighed sarcastically.

"What was that?!"

"Oh nothing…so then master, should we get started?" Finally it seemed that he spoke some words that actually caught the girl's attention.

"It's good that you're eager at least, but first off before we do anything, I need to get to know you a little, and I guess it wouldn't hurt to have you know a little about me as well. If we're going to be partners then we both should have some sort of knowledge of the other."

"If you insist, then I won't argue with you, but with 172 other contestants out there, I wouldn't waste too much time. The more training we get, the better off we'll be." The girl cocked her head at him and gave him a strange look.

"What are you talking about? 127 other people? That's ridiculous," She paused and let out a deep sigh before mumbling something to herself "Great, out of all the servants I get the clueless one…" She cleared her throat before speaking again.

"So you know that you're a servant…and you know you're in a war…do you know anything else?" She asked with a serious look in her eyes.

"Do I need to? As a servant those seem to be the only things I need to know. Well those, and the fact that you're my master."

"Well…why don't you tell me what you know, you seem to have been in a previous war, but it doesn't sound anything like the ones I've heard of."

"Very well… but must we do it in such a dark and gloomy environment? If we're going to have story time can't we at least have tea to go with it?" The boy smiled at the girl once more, trying to provoke more emotions out of her rather than disappointment. For a second he thought he saw a smile start to emerge in the corner of her mouth, but that was it and it was only for a second. The girl turned around and walked out of the room.

"Come on," she said, her voice becoming more irritated. She motioned him to follow her as she left the room, and so he did. He walked behind her and out of the building that they were in, neither of them saying anything. That was soon to change though as the girl spoke up,

"So, can you at least tell me what class you are so I know what I should call you? I know you can't be a Saber class but you look like you could fit a number of categories…judging by your personality and size you can't be a berserker…a Castor maybe? Or possibly an Archer? Actually I bet you're a Lancer! Or maybe you're actually an Assassin, you look pretty sketchy, I bet that's what you are," The girl continued to ramble on and on, not being able to decide what class that her servant belonged too.

"Well, honestly, I'm not exactly sure…" He let his sentence trail off as he looked up to the moon. The girl stopped in her place and turned around quickly.

"What?! You don't even know what class you are?! How is that even possible!" She yelled angrily at her servant, clenching her right hand into a fist.

"I apologize, but it seems that my memory is terribly broken, I can't even remember who I am. The only things I know is that you're my master and I'm your servant. I know that you have three command seals on your hand that you can use to make me do whatever you command without hesitation. I only vaguely have memories from the previous war I was in, so again I apologize but it seems that you've summoned quite the problematic servant," The boy tried to cover up his feelings of worthlessness with sarcasm but his master could see right through it. She turned back around and started to walk again, letting out a deep sigh.

"Well I need to call you something; you can't be running around a nameless servant." As she spoke those last few words a sudden flash of images ran through the boys mind, causing him to stop in his steps. It was like a flashback was playing in his mind. He saw another man, dressed in black with a red overcoat. His was relaxing peacefully in a chair with multiple school desks around him; the room that he was in was definitely a classroom. A smile was going across his face as he seemed to be looking at the boy, like he was there in the room with him. This man was his previous servant, it was Archer.

'"…My real identity huh? You just don't know when to drop it…well the truth is… I don't have a real name…you can think of me as a nameless servant I suppose."' And with the end of his sentence, the flashback stopped and reality closed in on the boy once more.

"Hello? Hey! Earth to servant!" The boy looked to the girl in front of him, she had a concerned and confused look on her face. "Are you feeling okay? You just kind of zoned out there for a minute."

"Yeah, I'm fine…I think I'm still adjusting to the real world a little. I'll be fine though, it won't slow me down." He flashed a reassuring smile to the girl. She turned back around and continued walking once again. "So while we're deciding on my name, why don't you tell me yours?"

"My name Rin Tohsaka, call me by my first or last name, it doesn't really matter to me."

"I'll stick with Rin, it's shorter. So how long of a walk are we taking?"

"My house isn't too far from here. Once we're there, you can start telling me things that you know. We'll exchange information with each other and then I'll show you around the city, that way you have some kind of idea where things are at."

"First night together and you're already taking me on a date? How romantic," The boy smiled and let out another chuckle.

"Please, I've turned down hundreds of dates from men far better looking than you, I'm showing you around simply for the fact that the more you know about your surroundings, the better suited you'll be in battle." Rin's voice was cold and harsh, not showing any more emotion than usual.

"Ouch, you know you're lucky I'm already dead otherwise those words might've killed me."

"Your sense of humor is rather sad if you ask me." The boy grunted and lowered his head a little.

"At least I have a sense of humor…" He mumbled.

"I-I have a sense of humor too! Nothing you say just happens to strike me as humorous!" She whipped her head around over her shoulder and looked at him, looking flustered as she responded to his comment. The boy's eyes opened a little and a smile came across his face.

"I knew you had more emotions in there somewhere! Now if I can just get you to show me the emotions that don't involve you yelling at me, we might actually get along." He continued to smile at her as she looked away with a slight blush.

"Whatever…my house is just up the street, come on we're almost there." Even though she was no longer looking at him, he still couldn't help but smile. He had a feeling that they were going to get along swimmingly.

He followed her to her house, and once they entered, he followed her up the stairs and to her room. As she stepped inside she walked over to her bed and sat down. The boy followed close behind her, but he remained standing, looking around her room.

"I don't know why you keep looking around, my room isn't that interesting," Rin said, staring at the boy.

"Sorry, I was just looking," He replied still in a happy tone. Rin looked at him with a puzzling look for a second, and then got back to the topic at hand.

"Anyways, you should start telling me what you know because it seems like you're about as well informed as some random guy off the street."

"Hey, first off, I believe the agreement was that we would talk over tea, and second, I'm not totally clueless. I do know things; it just so happens that some things I know are wrong is all." Rin let out a sigh as she stood up off her bed.

"Fine, I'll go make us some tea. Once you get something in your mind you don't let it go do you?" Once again, as she finished her sentence, the last few words seemed to trigger another flashback inside the boys mind.

The setting was the same as last time, still in the classroom, and the same man from before was there, sitting peacefully in his throne of desks.

'"…Hmm? Again with my name? You sure are persistent, I already told you to think of me as a nameless hero. Once you get something in your mind you just don't let it go do you?"'

Hero. The word had changed; he no longer wanted me to think of him as a nameless servant, but as a nameless hero.

After that, the flashback stopped. When reality came back to the boy, Rin was already gone; he assumed that she had gone downstairs. He looked around her room again, when something in particular caught his eye. It was some kind of electronic device that was sitting atop her dresser. It wasn't very big, and it had a small screen on it, it kind of looked like an iPod. He walked over to it and tried to turn it on, but nothing happened, it must be dead. About the time he went to set it back down, Rin had returned to the room with two cups full of tea.

"Oh, that old thing? It hasn't worked in years; I'm actually surprised that I still have it. I thought I got rid of it a while ago, but I guess not. If you want you can keep it, I have no use for it." Rin set the tea down on the table that was next to her bed and then proceeded to sit down.

"So on the first night, you've invited me into your room, you've given me a gift, you've made me tea, AND you're taking me on a date. If that's not luck, then I don't know what luck is." He laughed a little as he shot her another smile.

"You're unbelievable…" Rin let out another sigh. "Anyways, can you finally tell me what you know?"

"I suppose I can do that." The boy picked up his cup of tea, and took a seat next to Rin on her bed. "You see, I'm sort of special. This is actually my first war being a servant." A look of shock ran across Rin's face as he said it.

"What do you mean? Don't you have knowledge of war though?"

"Yes, but not as a servant."

"So…what you're saying is that-"

"Yup, in the war that I'm referring too, I was a master like yourself." Rin slowly took a sip of her tea as she processed what her servant was telling her. "I don't remember a whole lot about the war, but I do know that I was the one who ended up victorious."

"Really?!" Rin's voice was filled with shock and excitement. "Did you get to make a wish? Did it actually get granted? Who was your servant?" She continued to fire off question after question.

"My existence here in this war must be proof that my wishes got granted…as for my servant, well…he was a pain in the ass. The most stubborn person I've ever met but…he was a good person. He was strong and he was kind at heart. He was from the Archer class, but he never told me his true identity, he was just a nameless hero."

"So, out of curiosity, what did you wish for?"

"Well, first off, before we get to that I need to explain to you the kind of war I was in, apparently the one we're involved in now is different so you say. The war I fought in did not take place in the real world, but instead it took place inside of a virtual reality world known as the Moon Cell. In this war it was kill or be killed, much like most wars, but in this one you were given 6 days to prepare for a fight against an opponent, and then on the 7th day you would face off in an elimination battle. The winner would advance and the loser would die, their data would be erased. The war started with 128 contestants, and the battles continued until there was only 1 left. The winner was then granted a wish by the Holy Grail."

"That is definitely not the same world that you're in now, how could virtual reality control life and death in the real world? That doesn't make a lot of sense if you ask me."

"I'm sure that to you it doesn't, but to be there in that situation, you couldn't really argue."

"I suppose you're right…so then what happened? If you won then how come you're here as a servant? Servants are usually based off of hero's that have died, but if you won than how come you're dead?"

"That's…a complicated matter. You see, my body in the Moon Cell's system wasn't based off of a physical body in the real world, or so I thought, so my data didn't actually exist as a combatant. So once I got to the Holy Grail, the Moon Cell knew about me and instantly began to erase me, but before I died, I was able to make two wishes. I didn't know if they would be granted or not, but I wished for them anyways."

"What were they?"
"My first wish was for a girl that had aided me throughout my final battles to make it out alive, and my second was to make sure that my legacy lived on, thus spawning me in this war with a second chance at life. If I win again, the power of the grail can give me a new life, a life that I never got to live. So, that's my resolve, that's what will drive me to win this war, no matter what." The boy had a strong look of determination in his eyes as he looked into the eyes of Rin.

"That's quite the story, and while I do have a lot of questions about it, I need to catch you up to pace with this war. The one that we're in now is completely different. There are only 7 of us, and it's a free for all whenever, wherever. It's best to do it at night, that way innocent people don't get involved and killed, but of course there will be some that don't follow this rule. If any people should see servants fighting, they are to be killed instantly. The war ends when there is only one team of master and servant left, and since we don't have a preparation period like you did, we learn about our opponents as we go."

"I see…this is indeed quite different. I knew that people would die, though previously the system would just delete them, but now those deaths will have to be by my hands…its disturbing to say the least."

"I know what you mean, I don't like it either, but to win this war, I'll do anything."

"I will follow your orders as you give them, so don't hesitate to tell me when you want me to do something."

"Alright…and as your master I swear to you that I won't let you down."

"Hmph, please don't go soft on me…I was just getting used to your cold heart." He smiled at her as he said it. Rin got flustered again as she stood up off her bed in retaliation.

"I'm not cold hearted!" He stood up off the bed and placed his hand on her head.

"I know, I just like it when you get all flustered and embarrassed. It amuses me to watch the high and mighty fall." He let out a laugh as she swatted his hand off of her head.

"J-just shut up!" He laughed again before taking a drink of his tea. Rin took her seat back on the bed and started to speak again. "So, let me ask you this; can you phase in and out of the world?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like, while we're in public I can't risk you walking by my side out in the open, so most servants usually mask their presence by dematerializing themselves."

"Well, I've never tried…hold on." Rin waited and watched for a second as her servant sat quietly on her bed. He closed his eyes and took a couple deep breaths, and then in a second, he dematerialized.

"That's good, at least you can do that. Alright, you can show yourself again."

"Uhm…" The boy's voice could be heard but his body remained hidden. "…I can't. I don't know how." Rin's hand quickly came up to her face as she smacked her palm against her forehead. The boy then let out a long laugh as he materialized back into the world.

"Ah man, you should've seen your face! Priceless!" He continued to laugh as Rin glared at him.

"You…are so…annoying…" Rin gritted her teeth as she spoke.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Maybe one of these days my humor will get to you."

"Maybe one of these days your brain will get to you…"

"Again with such mean words…just because I'm an idiot doesn't mean you have to be a bitch…"

"EXCUSE ME?!"

"Oh, did I say that out loud?! I didn't mean it! Hey, what're you doing with that-" The sound of a vase smashing roared throughout Rin's bedroom walls. Pieces of the shattered vase were scattered on Rin's bed and on her floor.

"Man that hurt…" The boy mumbled as he rubbed the top of his head. Rin was panting heavily as she remained standing. It took her a second before she realized what she had done.

"S-sorry about that…sometimes I lose my temper and I get a little…violent."

"A LITTLE?! YOU SMASHED A VASE ON MY HEAD!" The boy roared back at her.

"W-well it was your fault in the first place!" Calming down a little, the boy let out a sigh.

"I know…I was just trying to crack that rock hard shell of yours. Loosen up a little, have some fun. I got a got a second chance, a chance to live an actual life, so I know what's at stake here, but if you don't have fun once in a while then you'll never really experience life. Tell me, how many friends do you have?"

"I don't see how this is relevant at all!"

"Just answer the question."

"I-I have tons of friends!"

"Oh really? So if you were on your deathbed who's the one friend that would most certainly be there? Who are you afraid to hurt if you die in this war besides your family?"

"Just who do you think you are-"

"Look I'll drop it now because I don't want to start us off on the wrong foot, but I will continue to push you until you come out of that shell of yours. Don't be so serious all the time, have a little fun."

"You talk like you know all about me even though we've only known each other for about an hour! You don't know anything about me!"

"When I served as a master in that war, there was a girl that was a lot like you. She had the same attitude and everything. At first she acted just like you are now, but as the weeks went on, she cracked out of her shell a little and she became the most important person in the world to me."

"Then why don't you just find her! If she got out alive then she's probably in the world somewhere! Maybe you were just better off dead." Rin turned and stormed out of her room, leaving the boy there with those devastating last words.

The boy continued to remain seated on her bed, still thinking about what she had said to him.

"Maybe you were just better off dead." Those words continued to play throughout his mind over and over again. He was staring down, into the cup of tea that he sad sitting between his legs. He then looked over to Rin's cup that was sitting on the table next to her bed. He stood up off of her bed and set his cup down next to hers.

"Looks like I really did it this time… I just wish that she knew that that girl…is her."

*AN* UPDATED 4/25/2017- Quick fix with grammar, phrasing, and spelling.

First chapter is done! Hopefully it grabbed your interest enough to continue on into the further chapters! Feel free to drop some reviews or PM me with general thoughts or ideas on how to better the story. Thanks as always! –Krazy4kirino