So this is an idea I thought up and quickly started assembling. This will probably be unique amongst crossovers, and at the same time, lots of fun to write. Enjoy this first chapter!
Chapter 1: A Bored Old Man
In a room underneath the Clock Tower in London, England, an old man with a grey beard and red eyes dressed almost completely in black sat behind a desk. This old man was Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. He idly read a book in the dimly lit room as he waited for his pupils to come back from a recent task he had given them.
He was bored. There was nothing else to it.
Sighing and closing the book, Zelretch stood up, no longer able to take the boredom of sitting around, and began activating his Second Magic, Kaleidoscope, to find a dimension that might interest him.
He smiled as he found a dimension that would interest him and slipped through the gap between dimensions, jumping from his own to another.
Taking in his surroundings, Zelretch found that he had arrived in the alleyway of a city. He quickly stepped out of the alley to explore his new surroundings.
He walked around the city, attracting a few strange looks from the locals at his appearance, but was otherwise ignored.
As he walked, he tried to learn what he could of this new world from the culture, shops, and people.
This world wasn't altogether different from his own, if a bit more technologically advanced, there were cars passing by on the streets, the traffic lights, while holographic, followed the same pattern as his own dimension, and, judging from the numerous weapon shops he passed, their weapons were far more advanced than anything in his own dimension.
The things he really took interest in, however, were the people, and the energy source that was used in almost everything.
As he walked, he noticed that some of the people he passed seemed to have extra, animal-like features. Some had ears or antlers resembling those of an animal, and others had tails from one animal or another. It was disconcerting at first, but being the seasoned dimensional traveler that he was, he took it in stride, and made a game of determining how many different kinds of animals he could determine based on the features.
The thing he found most interesting was the strange, apparently naturally occurring, crystals that could be seen in many of the shops he passed. From the signs on east shop, he guessed that these multi-colored, high-energy crystals were called "Dust". Based on what he saw, Dust came in either a solid crystal form, or a powdered form. He was interested in these crystals as, being a Jewel Magus, he wondered if they could be used in some form of magecraft.
As he neared one of the walls that surrounded the city, he detected a peculiar energy signature similar to the prana Magi gave off when they activated their circuits. Curious, Zelretch made his way towards the source of the energy, wondering if there were Magi in this world.
He soon came upon what seemed to be some kind of makeshift training ground near one of the walls of the city where he saw that the source of the energy came from two people who seemed to be sparring in the middle of a clearing.
One was a male dual-wielding two well-made swords, and the other was a female wielding a silver bow. Zelretch watched from a distance, interested to see what the two warriors were capable of.
The male rushed in, taking a slash at the female as she parried the swords with her metal bow before letting off three arrows at once at the slightly off-balance male. He was just able to regain his balance before using his swords to deflect the arrows. The female began sending arrow after arrow at the male, who was soon quickly and fluidly twirling his swords to halt the onslaught of arrows. When the female paused to grab more arrows from the quiver on her back, the male held his swords forward, blades pointed towards the sky, before his index fingers started moving, and gun shots could be heard as he started firing at the female.
Zelretch blinked in surprise. He certainly hadn't been expecting that, and he definitely wasn't expecting what the female archer did next.
As the bullets came towards her, she gripped the center of her bow tightly and twisted, causing the string to disappear as she separated the two ends of the bow, to created dual-short swords, which she quickly used to stop the bullets coming at her.
The fight went back and forth like this for a few minutes until the female reformed her bow and held out a hand towards the male as he charged forward.
Zelretch felt a spike of prana, as the male seemed to slow down considerably as the pressure of the prana built until he was on his knees with a look on his face saying that he was feeling considerable pressure. After a few seconds of straining against the force holding him down, he dropped his swords, ceding defeat.
The female then lowered her hand, the prana-like energy fading, and walked over to help the male up. He then sheathed his swords as they began conversing about something.
Having seen enough, Zelretch walked away with a smirk at his new discoveries to find a place to return to his original dimension.
He stopped cold, however, when a much more familiar prana signature came to him. It was something he hadn't felt since he helped oversee the formation of the Fuyuki Holy Grail War. A Lesser Grail was forming.
Walking quickly, he made his way towards the assumed Lesser Grail. It took almost half an hour by his estimate to finally find the area of the source.
It appeared to be some sort of plaza, several benches and grassy areas surrounding a stage of some kind.
Walking towards the stage, Zelretch began appraising the progress of the Lesser Grail that had begun to form. While it had no physical form just yet, its presence was very much there.
As he examined the beginnings of what could only be a Grail War, he idly thought about what he should do about this. He could, of course, dismantle it, or he could let it play out and see what happens. Remembering the spar he had witnessed earlier, he smiled a bit and decided to let it play out.
Still, he couldn't just let it play out without supervision, not after what happened in Fuyuki after the Fourth War, and during the Fifth. And then there was the interesting prana-like energy many of the people of this dimension had, along with those fascinating crystals that they used, there had to be some study done into both of these.
He couldn't do it himself, of course. He had far too much to do, but there were two people that could do both of these things for him. Monitor the Grail War, and study the prana-like energy and the crystals of this world. All he had to do was convince them to do it.
That wouldn't be too hard he decided as he walked away to find a suitable place to return to his original dimension. He chuckled; it was actually going to be fun to do.
2 Hours Later
Zelretch was once again sitting behind his desk in his dimly lit office as his two apprentices looked at him in shock. He could barely suppress a chuckle at the sight.
The first girl had long, wavy black hair and blue eyes, her hair coming down loosely over her shoulders. She wore a long red jacket, a white polo neck jumper, a black mini skirt, long black socks, and long leather boots. Her name was Rin Tohsaka. She specialized in Jewel Magecraft, and was a Master in the Fifth Holy Grail War, making her particularly valuable in monitoring the newly discovered Lesser Grail.
The second girl was Luvia Edelfelt. She had long golden blond hair styled in entirely in large coils with blue ribbons and brownish-red eyes. In contrast to her counterpart's outfit, she wore a long blue dress and white boots. Like Rin, she also specializes in Jewel Magecraft.
"You want us to do what?" Rin asked, snapping out of her stupor.
Zelretch raised an eyebrow. "Was I not clear? There is a Lesser Grail forming in a newly discovered world, and I would like you two to oversee it."
"Couldn't you have just dismantled it and ended the problem?" Rin asked.
"I saw no point in doing that, seeing as I couldn't detect that it was tainted like the Grail you are familiar with. Besides, there's another job I'd like you to do while you're there as well," Zelretch replied, his smirk not leaving his face.
"And what exactly would that be?" Luvia asked, finally rejoining the conversation.
"While I was there, I detected a prana-like energy coming off of many of the people there. While it was similar to prana, it definitely wasn't, and one person I observed was definitely doing something that I could guess to be gravity manipulation, though I could possibly be wrong. I want you two to study this energy, and its capabilities, along with the fascinating crystals they have that power just about everything with."
At the mention of crystals, aka jewels, both girls perked up, interested in a possible expansion of their craft.
After a few moments of silence, Rin groaned and said, "Fine, I'll go, if only because of those jewels, and the potential of that Grail to be dangerous."
Luvia remained silent for a few more moments before giving a cheshire grin as she said, "I suppose I should go too. After all, Rin might screw it up somehow, so she could use the help of a much more talented individual such as me."
A dark look crossed Rin's face as a tic mark appeared on her forehead. "And what exactly is that supposed to mean, Goldilocks?"
Luvia's eyes shown with a look of annoyance as she replied, "You know exactly what it's supposed to mean, Rin Tohsaka! I'm obviously the superior Magus!"
"Oh, yeah?" Rin challenged.
Zelretch sighed and returned to his book as his two apprentices once again began their petty arguing and scuffling. They really were very much alike.
All right! That's the intro chapter! I'll be working on getting the War started, and the Servants introduced next chapter. So, I'll see you guys next time!