A/N : Hello every body, pleased to meet y'all, the name is SlashHeaven a new writer in this website. There's not much to tell here about myself, except that I really like watching anime series, especially Fate series and Highschool DxD. I just finished watching Highschool DxD from season 1-4 and all three route of Fate stay night from the Visual Novel and the anime adaptations. After watching those two great series, I suddenly had a small desire to write this story. I don't know if it will work out good since English isn't my first language, but I guess I can only try to make it as good and enjoyable as possible.
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Emiya Shirou groaned painfully, his whole body are in unimaginable pain. His head is throbbing with great tremor from the inside as if it's about to explode. His whole muscles are aching, as if they were torn with thousands of blades from the inside.
Shirou tried to catch his breath. His magic circuits are on fire. It feels like the heat inside him is coming out of his pores.
With Kanshou and Bakuya in his hands. Shirou stare at his enemy with a cautious look.
Standing right in front of him while leaning on her black sword was the wounded black knight that once was his most trusted Ally and loyal servant, Saber. However, after she got corrupted by the black Shadow, she've became his greatest enemy.
The battle between the young Faker and the black knight have lasted for more than ten minutes.
At first, this fight was a battle between two servants, Rider Vs Saber. But after the servant of mount was slained by the servant of the sword, Shirou quickly jumped in to the battlefield to replace servant of the mount against the Black Knight. Fortunately the black knight has been significantly weakened from her previous battle against Rider.
However, even though Saber has been weakened from her previous fight, she is still strong enough to matched him. Shirou was only able to keep up against Saber due to Archer's knowledge and battle experience that he received from the Artificial Phantasm. The power that came from his alternate future-self have gave him a tremendous boost to his power to the point where Shirou technically can be called a Psuedo-servant at this point.
Unfortunately despite with the tremendous power boost that came from the Artificial Phantasm, fighting against one of the strongest servant in the Throne of Heroes proved to be a difficult task. Shirou wasn't able to land a solid on Saber, even all this time the only thing that he can do was on defensive. His sword skill is not as good as Saber, and Shirou was only able to severely wounded her after he executed Archer's ultimate Sword technique called the Crane Wing Three Realms that manage to caught her off guard.
"Ah...guh!"
The black Saber groaned as she coughed some blood from her mouth, the last attack Shirou have delivered was fatal. There's literally an X-slash wound right on her front body. Kanshou and Bakuya have splattered her organs out and crushed her spine. An impact with the force of an explosion.
"Ha, ah, guh...!" She groans again. She has fatal wounds, but she's still alive because she's a servant. And to add, she has natural healing powers. She has strong regenerative abilities, coupled with an almost infinite source of magical energy. One has to crush her head or heart if one wants to kill her. She will heal in ten minutes if she's left alone. But conversely, she cannot do anything for ten minutes and have accept any finishing blows.
"Haa...ah...you have grown stronger, Shirou." Saber calls out to the boy standing ten meters in front of her, he also has his own injuries but not as fatal as her. She smiles proudly at her former Master.
"...No, that is wrong. You were strong from the start." Saber said between her ragged breath, already accepting her defeat and impending death.
Shirou felt taken aback by Saber's sudden praise.
"Saber, you-"
"Please end this battle, Shirou. My body will regenerate if you don't hurry."
Whatever words that Shirou was about to say was immediately cut off by Saber as she told him to quickly end her before she recovers from her wound.
"But-"
"Do it now, Shirou! You must hurry if you want to help Rin to save Sakura!"
Shirou was once again cut off by Saber, he gulped as he steeled himself for what he's about to do.
The young Faker walk towards the wounded Black Knight. He dismiss both Kanshou and Bakuya into motes of blue light as he dug in to his pocket and pull out the Azoth sword from it.
Deep down Shirou doesn't want to do this. He doesn't want to kill Saber. Saber is one of many important person to him. He would rather choose to save her than to kill her.
However, he knew that it would be impossible to save his former servant from her corrupted self. The only way to save her is by killing her.
Shirou look sadly at Saber right in the eye, the Azoth sword is in his hand.
"I'm sorry, Saber..." Shirou said apologetically as he quickly drove the Azoth sword right through Saber's heart.
"läßt!" The Faker said loudly as he release all of the magical energy inside the dagger.
The magical energy that was released from the Azoth sword was enough to destroy the Black Knight's heart. Saber gasped her final breath before her life left her body.
Shirou laid Saber's lifeless body to the ground gently as he stare at her with a sad look. He then proceed to pull the Tohsaka's heirloom from Saber's chest and put it back to his pocket.
Shirou stood up to his feet as he witnessed the Black Knight sinks into the black Shadow with her eyes fix on him.
"Goodbye...Saber..."
There were memories
There was the warmth of life.
Her warmth was always by his side.
And then he killed her along with those memories.
Such a thing will never be forgiven.
Shirou perfectly know that in the end this kind of thing would happen right after he decided to forsaken his dream and ideal to be the Hero of Justice in exchange to protect every one that close to him.
He have chosen this path. He have killed one of his friend in order to save the other. And this is what it meant to ally with someone. He will keep sacrificing many things for the people he loves. And on this path, there's nothing brilliant enough to make up for what he have lost.
As he keep on walking in this path, he will keep losing more things than what he gain, and he knows that he'll stop someday. But he'll take the responsibility for deeds and for every crimes that he have accumulated until now.
"...and thank you...for everything."
Shirou swiped the tears that was about to escape from his eyes as he said his last parting words to his former servant.
There's no regret nor confession that can make up for what he have done tonight. He'll probably won't be able to forgive himself for killing one of his friend.
However, this is not the time to feel guilty or feeling remorse for the horrible deeds that he just done. He needs to focus because because he still two more jobs to do.
He still have to assist Rin to save Sakura from Angra Mainyu's influence, and then destroy the Holy Grail that have caused all of these horrible things from happening in the first place.
"Right... let's clean up this mess."
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Illyasviel von Einzbern was distraught at how the events of the Holy Grail War came to this. When she first came to Fuyuki, her only plan in this was had been to kill her brother and win the Grail. How could she not? Her father abandoned her for this boy. Kiritsugu chose someone he only just met, over her, his daughter! Alone for that, her father deserved death.
But the war came too late and her father have already died. SO she did the next best thing: Kill his adopted son in his stead. It was her one and only personal mission in this Holy Grail War. Her presumed abandonment of her father had caused the young Einzbern to initially hate Kiritsugu's adopted son. But after learning more about him and finding out the truth about their father, she could not help but let fo of her hate and become attached to the only family member she had left who actually cared for her well-being.
Both of them had gone through so much together to get to where they are now. When she first met him, instead of the cold, ruthless, and arrogant bastard she expected to find, she found a ridiculously kind, loving, and idiotic boy. Who would disregard his own life for someone they just met?! He was an enigma to her and she... she actually started to like him.
Their relationship started off rather hostile at first, however after spending some time with him for a while when they met at that park frequently simply just to chat with each other, she started to grow closer to him. Right after Berserker's death, he took her in his care and treated her like his own sister, which they technically are. He defended her from Rin and Sakura when the two almost attacked her after Shirou took her into his house for the first time. He wasn't anything but nice to her. And that is why she couldn't accept what he was going to do.
She just knew. In this short time, she already figured out his distortion. To save everyone, he will destroy the Grail and himself along with it. It will certainly save everyone, including herself. But for her, the price is too high. Between her and Shirou, she was the oldest sibling between the two. They're not blood related but after all the time she spent with him she can truly consider Shirou as her little brother. And her being the older sibling, letting her own little brother sacrifice himself for her sake is unacceptable. So, for once she will fulfill her role as the older sister and protect her little brother.
With this in mind, wearing her 'Dress of Heaven', she entered the cave where the Holy Grail resided. As she entered the cavern she came upon the figure of her adopted brother conversing or maybe arguing with the two girls next to him.
As she approached him, the petite homunculus could hear the conversation between him and the two girls next to him.
"Tohsaka, you and Sakura need to leave right now before I destroy the Holy Grail!" the red haired teen said with a stern expression towards his female companions.
A girl with long wavy black hair that was styled in twin-tails tied with black ribbons can be seen showing an irritated expression towards the only male present.
"But why?! Why of all people you're the one who have to destroy the Holy Grail?!" Rin yelled as she demand an answer from the red headed boy.
"Because between the three of us, only I have the power to do so!"
"How?!" The twin tailed haired magus said sternly, urging Shirou to explain how he's going to destroy the Holy Grail.
Shirou sighed as he showed his left hand that's wrapped in a red cloth to Rin.
The Tohsaka heiress then widened her eyes as she immediately realized what the red haired magus was about to do.
"I'm going to use this." Shirou said calmly while pointing at his left arm. "If I use Archer's arm, I should be able to project an imperfect version of Saber's Excalibur. It's not as strong as the original, but it should be enough to destroy the Greater Grail." He added calmly towards the Tohsaka heiress who seems to be more irritated by his explaination.
"But if you do that the likely outcome will definitely be your death, you stupid blockhead!" said by an exasperated Tohsaka Rin.
"Please. Please! Don't do this senpai. There has to be another way," pleaded Matou Sakura, who was leaning on the shoulder of her older sister, Rin.
Slowly moving closer to the two sisters, Illya could see the sad smile on Shirou's face as he tells them, "I'm sorry, but this is the only way. Please tell Illya 'I'm sorry', 'I'm sorry' that I won't be able to be by her side anymore and that I couldn't fulfill my promise that I won't disappear from her."
Illya froze after hearing what seems to be his parting words.
The Thoughts of the short time they spent together dominated her mind.
"No…" she muttered.
At her small voice, both the three magus finally noticed the Einzbern magus who had appeared a few paces behind them.
"Illya...," Shirou said softly as he directed a small smile towards her, intent on convincing her to leave.
"NO! No, I won't! I won't allow you to die, Shirou!" The small girl screamed.
Dread and panic began to well up inside her as she looked around the cave where the ritual that materialized the Holy Grail is taking place.
She quickly noticed something on the ground near her and grabbed it.
"If the Holy Grail just needs to disappear, then I will just destroy it myself!"
Shirou and the two sisters realized that Illya was now holding the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch.
The small white-haired magus began channeling magical energy into the blade.
"Illya! Don't-" Shirou began, but was cut off as the girl had unleashed a blinding stream of light from the sword she swung it towards the corrupted grail.
The attack collided with its intended target and in a moment, detonated in a sudden flash of bright white light that engulfed the entire cave and its occupants.
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"Uuuuhhh...I don't feel so good." groaned Illyasviel, who was currently lying face down on the cold ground. She tried to stand up while clutching her head meekly with both her hands.
"Ouww...my head hurts...uhh, where am I?" Illya who's still holding her aching head groan once again as she starts to inspect her surroundings.
It was night judging by the black sky, and air is quite chilly. There were buildings around her, they were low-built and European in design, made primarily of brick and marble. The signs on the street posts and shops that lined on the sidewalk, they weren't written in Japanese, they used the Latin alphabet in English. And lastly she recognized this city as London judging from the tall Big Ben tower that she saw the distance.
"Wait, this is not Fuyuki, this is London! How the hell did I get here?!" Illya wondered in confusion. The last memory she had was being in a cave that was far from Fuyuki, and now strangely she has been mysteriously transported to London. What the hell happened right after she destroyed the Holy Grail?
"Wait where is everybody? Where's Shirou?!"
Dread and panic began to well up inside her as she looked around for her missing brother and the two sisters. It didn't take her that long to found her brother laying unconscious near the side roads along with the two sisters who's also laying unconscious on the cold ground right near him.
"Shirou!" Illya cried as she quickly rushed towards her brother's unconscious form. She knelt right next to his unconscious body and start to shake him as she tried to wake him up.
"Shirou wake up! Please don't die! Don't leave me!" Illya cried as she pulled him to a tight embrace. She cried into the crook of his neck as she internally hoped for him to wake up.
"Uuuuhhh...not so tight, Illya."
Illyasviel widened her eyes after hearing that familiar voice. She lifted her head and she saw brother staring at her with a slightly pained look.
"Shirou! You're awake!" Illya cried in relief as she pulled him in a much more tighter embrace, much to the red head's dismay.
"Uaaahaagh! I told you not so tight Illya! My whole body is still hurts!" Shirou groaned painfully as he tried to pry his sister off him.
"Tehehe...Sorry Shirou." Illya apologize as she let go off her brother while blushing slightly. "I'm just glad that you are okay."
"That's funny, because I don't feel okay at all," Shirou claimed sarcastically. "But I'm glad that you are not hurt, Illya." Shirou add softly with a smile to his sister whilst slowly getting up to a sitting position.
"By the way, where are we? This isn't Fuyuki?" Shirou said whilst looking at his surroundings. He did not recognise the city. This place did not even resemble the city where he grew up in at all.
"That's right, Onii-chan. We are no longer in Fuyuki, right now we're at London." Illya respond to the her brother who turned and gave her a puzzled look.
"What? London? What do you mean by that, Illya? How did we end up in London all of the sudden?" Shirou asked as he inspect his surroundings for the second time to check wether what his sister just said was true or not.
"To be honest...I am not completely sure, but I think the shockwave that came from the destruction of the Holy Grail was the one that sent us here." Illya said, feeling a bit unsure about her own answer.
Shirou is in deep thoughts as he tried to recall the events that took place at the cavern beneath the Fuyuki city just before Illya destroy the Black Holy Grail. "Well, you did destroy the Grail using Zelrecth's Gem Sword, so I think after you destroy the Holy Grail with it, the destruction of the Grail have caused some kind of the Second true magic phenomenon that accidentally sent us to London." Shirou deduced thoughtfully while scratching his chin.
Shirou himself internally was quite surprised of himself for being able to come up with such a brilliant theory. To start with, Shirou was actually an inept third-rate Magus who wasn't properly trained by his adoptive father, so that's why his knowledge regarding Magecraft was limited. However, after having his Alternate Future-self's arm graft into his body, his knowledge in terms of Magecraft and fighting skill improved drastically. So, for him to be able to come up with a good theory on how they suddenly teleported from the cavern beneath Fuyuki to London, must've because of the influence from his left arm.
"...But are you sure that we just got accidentally teleported to London and not some kind of Parallel Dimension, Illya?"
"I...I don't know...Shirou." Illya respond hesistantly.
Like she said, she doesn't know. She wasn't sure what exactly happened to them after she destroyed the Holy Grail. She did know that they were teleported to London by the shockwave from the destruction of the Holy Grail, but she didn't know wether they got teleported to a Parallel World or not since her knowledge regarding the second true magic was limited.
Shirou sighed at his adoptive sister's lack of information, but he can't blame her though. There's no doubt that Illya is a very intelligent person, but that doesn't mean she knows everything. The Einzbern might've passed down a vast amount of knowledge regarding Magecraft and world's history. However, when it came to the power of true magic, the only true magic between the five of them that was pass down to her by the Einzbern are mostly knowledge regarding their lost magic, the third true magic that also known as the Heaven's Feel.
The Heavens's Feel had originally been achieved by the Einzbern family, but its secrets have been lost one thousand years ago. The Einzberns sought to recover it until they finally came up with a plan. The Holy Grail. Together with two other important magus families, they created the Holy Grail War original purpose of the ritual was to recover the Third Magic lost by the Einzberns, the "Cup of Heaven.". The Einzberns provided the alchemy to create it and prepared the vessel for the Grail, the Tohsaka provided the necessary land and called forth the Servants, and the Makiri assembled the magecraft to stabilize the starting materials and designed the Command Seals that command the Servants.
The Einzbern's homunculi had a very high quality and surpassed normal humans in a lot of areas. Some homunculi lived for hundreds of years and could lift hundreds of pounds easily. Illya on the other hand, had a vast reservoir of magic. Illya was originally intended to be the next Holy Grail in the Fifth Holy Grail War, however everything seems did not go exactly as what the Einzberns have hoped thanks to Zouken for deciding to reforge the destroyed Holy Grail from the Fourth War and made Sakura the second vessel of the Holy Grail in the Fifth War.
That being said, everything regarding the Holy Grail War was bizarre, but it's good to know and Shirou won't be able to know this if he didn't have Archer's arm graft into him.
Shirou sighed once again, "Well, at the very least we know where we are right now. We can find out whether we got teleported into a parallel world or not later on, for now we should-" The young Faker stopped all of the sudden, his eyes went wide when he finally remembered something important.
"Wait! Where's Tohsaka and Sakura?!" Shirou asked his sister, his voice is filled with panic.
"Umm...they are right behind you, Shirou." Illya answered as she calmly points at the unconscious girls behind her adoptive brother.
Shirou turn his head to the back and then breath a sigh of relief. A part of him is relief to be able to see them, but a part of him is also worried regarding the two sisters' condition.
"Have you checked on them, Illya?" The young Faker asked as he moves to the two unconscious sisters in order to check up on them.
"No, I was so worried about you that I didn't have the chance to check on them." Illya said as she move next to his brother who's now checking on Sakura.
"Hmm." Shirou hummed while trying to check on his Junior's condition. Shirou began checking her heart rate, pulse and breathing carefully. He then sighed in relief for the second when he found out that Sakura is alright, just unconscious that's all.
Shirou then move towards Rin and begin to check up on her condition as well. Honestly, there's no need for him to examine her since he already know that Rin will be just fine. However, even though he knew just how strong Rin is, he's still couldn't help but worried of her well-being. The young Faker then started to examine her, he carefully used the same procedure like he did when he examined Sakura and once again he smiles in relief when he found out that the Tohsaka's heiress is also fine.
"Thank goodness, they are okay." Shirou said in relief.
"Well, that's relief. By the way, what were you about to say just then, Shirou?" The small Homunculus asked her adoptive brother.
"Huh? Oh yeah...I almost forgot!" Shirou claimed while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. "Well, I wanted to say is that, I think we should find someplace to rest and get our bearings straight. I don't know about you Illya, but Tohsaka, Sakura, and I are pretty exhausted. This has been a rather rough night for us all, also I don't think staying here in such an open area is a good idea. We can easily draw an unwanted attention to ourselves if we stay here." Shirou explained to his sister with a good reason.
Illya didn't even need to think about it, what her brother have said was true, the four of them are pretty exhausted from tonight's fight, and not to mention that it's probably not safe if they stay out here. They need to find some place to rest and recuperate for the night. It's not that late yet, so there's should be some Hotels that are still open, if they are hurry, they might be able to get a room or two for the night. However, the problem is how are they supposed to carry the two unconscious sisters with them. Among the four of them, Shirou was the most exhausted one. he might still have a little energy to walk, but he didn't have enough energy to carry Rin or Sakura with him. and Illya will not be able to lift Rin or Sakura because of her child-like body.
"Nggh..."
However, it seems that for once luck is on their side for now, because not long after that, the two adoptive siblings noticed that the two Tohsaka sisters are starting to regain their consiousness.
"Uggh."
The elder Tohsaka was the first to regain consiousness with her younger sister being the second, she grunted as she pushed herself from the cold asphalt she was laying on. Her head hurts and her stomach is still aching from the stab wound that she received from her little sister, thankfully it's not as bad as it was from before. The bleeding has already stop. Her legitimate magic crest won't let her die so easily.
Rin shook her head trying to get rid off the dizziness, she looked up and through her slightly blurry vision, she saw two familiar figures staring down at her with a relief expression on their faces.
"Emiya-kun... Illyasviel.." Rin spoke their names with a tired and confuse tone.
"Tohsaka! Sakura! Thank the root you guys are awake!" The red head young man said in a mix of relief and happy tone in his voice as he kneel over the two sisters and then help them up to their feets.
"Senpai, what happened? Where are we?" Sakura asked, she's pretty much confused with their current situation as she scanned her surroundings. She can't recognized everything around her at all.
She remembered being in the cavern below Fuyuki, fighting against her older sister for a while until Shirou arrived and cut off her connection with Angra Mainyu using the Rule Breaker. And then she remember watching her older sister arguing with Shirou right after they managed to free her from Angra Mainyu's grasp. She remembered Illya using Zelrecth's Gem Sword to destroy the Black Holy Grail, and the next thing she knew they woke up in this unknown city.
"We're not completely sure, but in short we might accidentally got teleported to London." Shirou said as simply as he could.
The two sisters blinked as they stared at the young Faker with a dumbfound look for several seconds.
"..."
"..."
""WHAAT?!""
The two sisters eventually let out a panic shout that caused both Shirou and Illya to cover their ears from their loud voices.
"Geez, you guys don't have to yell you know." Illya grumbled while giving the two sisters an annoyed look. Sadly, her comments were pretty much ignored by them.
"Emiya-kun! Illyasviel! Can you please explain what you mean by the four of us got teleported to London?" The Tohsaka heiress asked the red-head magus, demanding an explanation from him regarding their current situation.
"Really Rin? Do we have to talk about this in Public?" Illya asked with a rather annoyed tone. "Alright, we will explain what we know. But, can we do it tomorrow? I think that it would be best for the four of us to find a place to sleep and rest up our mind first." Illya might not as exhausted as Shirou, Rin, and Sakura, but at this time she wasn't feeling well due to her first experience of teleporting.
"But-!"
"Nee-san, I think what Illya-san said was right." Sakura interrupted, cutting off her older sister from her attempt to protest. "We're all have gone through a lot tonight, It would be best that all of us here have a rest first in order to cool off our mind and then we can discuss about our situation tomorrow morning."
"Tch." Rin clicked her tounge in annoyance before relenting. As much as she wants some answers right away, she admitted that what the small girl and her sister said was true. Before they discuss their current issue any further, it would be best for them to find a place to rest and recuperate first.
"Fine. But I want an immediate answer from you two by tomorrow, got it?" Rin said while putting on a stern expression while pointing her finger at both Shirou and Illyasviel.
"O-of course...Tohsaka." Shirou replied hastily while the small homunculus simply rolled her eyes.
Right after the four of them finally came to an agreement, they then shifted their priority to find a place to sleep for the night. Fortunately, in the place where the four of them are currently gathering, there are several lodging places around them. Maybe looking for a place to take shelter for the night is not that hard after all.
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The Next Day.
"AARRGH! WHY DID EVERYTHING HAVE TO TURNED OUT LIKE THIS?!"
That loud voice came from a certain Tohsaka Heiress who's currently pulling her hair in frustration.
Earlier this morning, right after the four participants of the fifth Fuyuki Holy Grail War had had enough rest and recover from their exhaustion, Shirou and Illya then proceed to explain to Rin and Sakura what they knew about what happened after Illya destroyed the black Holy Grail and how the four of them had been teleported to London(mostly Illya who's the one doing the explaining, Shirou just help explaining what Illya was saying in a simpler way.)
However, despite everything that the adoptive siblings have told Rin what they know regarding their current situation, the Tohsaka Heiress somehow felt that there's more than meets the eye. She fully aware what the Jeweled Sword that Illya used to destroy the Holy Grail truly capable of.
Jeweled Sword Zelretch. It is a ritual dagger with a jeweled blade, an alien technology embodying general knowledge from a far future, beyond the reach of modern man. The sword is capable of the Multi-Dimensional Refraction Phenomenon, allowing the user to draw in potentially infinite magical energy. The kaleidoscope-like jewel blade creates a small opening to the same area in another parallel world, and it draws in all of the magical energy from that space.
In short, the Jeweled Sword of Zelretch is a special sword that has the ability to perform Space magic. This very sword is also the same sword that's used by the infamous Wizard Marshall of the Clock Tower, Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, to travel between dimensions.
So, after the child-like homunculi explained everything to the three teenage Magus regarding their strange situation and added with the possibility that they might have been teleported to a parallel world, the four young Magus then decided to explore the city for a little bit to gather some informations they could find so that they can find out if they are only being sent to London or to a parallel world instead. And after spending four hours wandering around London, collecting information here and there, the four young Magus then return to the Hotel where they are temporarily staying at the moment. The four them managed to get themselves two presidential suite rooms last night completely for free thanks to Illya who managed to hypnotized the Hotel's manager to allowing them to stay in this Hotel for free.
Anyways, from all the information that they managed to gather from their little adventure in London, they finally came to a shocking revelation.
What Rin have fear had finally come true. It turns out that the four them have actually been teleported to a Parallel or maybe a completely different world. It took them a while to find out about this since this world shares so many resemblances with their own world. The only differences between this world and their world is that there's no Mage's Association in this world, instead of magecraft the people with power in this world can perform true magic instead, and the most prominent clue that shows that they have been sent to a parallel world is that there is no Fuyuki in this world's Japan.
And the revelation of them being to sent to a different dimension is what makes the young Tohsaka heiress become frustrated right now.
"Umm..." Sakura had her hand raised. "So...what are we supposed to do now, Nee-san?"
Rin sighed as she turns to look at her sister, "Well, the most logical thing that we should do at this moment is to find a way to go back to our world."
"But how are supposed to do that?" Illya piped in, "Traveling between worlds is a very complex and difficult magic. So far, there's only one person who's able to that. And even though we had Shirou here, who could make a near perfect replica of Zelretch's mystic code, and Rin who has the ability to wield it, but without the proper technique to perform the magic it's pretty much useless." Illya said as she tried to explain to the other three magus in the room just how difficult it is to perform the second true magic let alone to imitate it.
"That's true...I guess." Rin admitted with a thoughtful look.
"So, does that mean we're going to be stuck in this world forever?" Sakura asked with a worried expression.
"No, there's has to be a way! Tohsaka, you're the smartest one here. Do you have any idea how we can go home?" The young Faker asked the genius Tohsaka with a serious tone.
The young Tohsaka heiress scratches her chin for a moment before turning back to the three magus who was sitting on the couch in front of her, "I think I have an idea on how to get us all back, but I'll need to test it out first." Rin paused for a second before continuing. ""The problem is, I'm not exactly sure it will work, and we'll need to do this quickly before our connection to our own world completely disappears. The lingering energy from the destroyed Holy Grail won't last much longer than a few more days at best, so it would be best for us to start the test tomorrow at two in the morning when everyone is still asleep and our prana is at its peak."
"Uhhh… what do you mean by us, Rin?" Shirou asked with a confused look on his face.
"Isn't it obvious? I need you and Illya's help with the plans I have tomorrow."
"You need our help?" both Illya and Shirou questioned at the same time while pointing blankly at themselves.
"Yeah," Rin smiled deviously at them. "How else am I supposed to conduct my test without the proper tools?"
The two guinea pigs began to shiver in fear whilst hugging each other closely as the demonic magus in front of them started to make a soft snickering laughter to herself.
"S-save me, Oniichan," cried Illya. "I don't want to be sacrificed."
"M-Me too Illya." Shirou responded while also shivering in fear.
"Nee-san, what about me? What can I do to help?" Sakura asked. She looks quite enthusiast for some reason.
Rin scratches her chin once again before looking at her little sister, "Sakura...I'm sorry, but I don't think there's anything that you can do to assist us. No, actually I don't think you should be helping us with this project. It's too dangerous and you're not in your best condition yet as well. It would be best that you stay here and had some more rest." Rin said, trying to reason with her little sister.
"Mou! But I'm fine, Nee-san," Sakura retorted with a pout.
Rin shook her head in disagreement. "No,whatever happened in the last Holy Grail War may have affected you more than the rest of us. I need not mention that you were about to unleash Avenger upon the world not more than a day past. I just want to make sure that you're perfectly alright."
"Rin is right, Sakura." Illya agreed. "In order to do this test, we'll need to be in our best condition. And if you want to participate in this test that Rin spoke of with us in your current condition you will only bring more harm to yourself." The small homunculi explained.
Sakura looked quite forlorn at their statement. Tears were starting to well up in her eyes and it looked like she was about to cry.
Seeing this, Rin looked a bit panicked as she didn't know what to do to prevent her sister from bursting into tears.
"It's true that it might dangerous. But I think we should bring Sakura with us as well, Tohsaka. We do need someone to set up a bounded field while we're working on this little test of yours." Shirou explained rationally.
Rin put on her thoughtful pose as she periodically shifted her eyes from Shirou and Sakura. What the Faker said was indeed true and quite logical as well. The experiment that they will conduct tommorow morning will take a lot of their prana, and they indeed need to set up a bounded field as well to minimize the damage just in case if her experiment went South. Unfortunately, they don't have the luxury to waste their prana to create even one bounded field if they didn't want their experiment to turn into a failure right even before they could perform it. Perhaps they do need Sakura's assistance too after all.
"Alright. You can come too, Sakura. And I expect you to make us a really strong bounded field so that the damage won't affect the surrounding area in case if our experiment went wrong."
The shy girl's face quickly lit up at the comment. "Y-yes! I'll do my best!"
The young Tohsaka breath a sigh of relief, seeing that her sister is no longer about to burst into tears.
"Well, I guess that concludes everything." Illya commented with a nod.
"Alright then. Since everything is settled, and we do still have plenty of times before we test the experiment. What do you say if we go out for a bit to kill sometime?" Shirou proposed to the three girls inside the room.
"That's a good idea, Shirou! I do want to visit the Big Ben ever since we got here." Illya said cheerfully with a dreamy look in her eyes.
The young Tohsaka heiress thought about Shirou's proposal to go out to the city for a bit while before agreeing to it. "Well, I guess that's alright. We do need some vacation to ease our mind for a bit, especially after everything we went through in the last Holy Grail War. And actually, I remembered that we need to purchase some essential ingredients for tomorrow's experiment."
"Yooosh! Let's go then!" Illya said enthusiastically as she quickly burst out of the room much to Shirou's chargin.
"Illya! Wait for us!" Shirou shouted to his overenthusiastic adoptive sister as he went to chase after her, leaving the two distant sisters inside the hotel room.
"Well, shall we chase after those two, Sakura?" Rin offered with a smile.
"S-sure, Nee-san."
Rin nodded at her sister's reply. The two of them then went out of the room together to chase after the two adoptive siblings who just left the room a few seconds, and not forgetting to lock the Hotel room first.
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The moon is high and shone brightly on the dark night sky of London. The air is cold and there was no body to be seen anywhere inside the city except for some punks here and there, and three teenagers and a small child who was walking down the empty street of London.
It's four o'clock in the morning, the four Magus who came from another world are currently making their way to the old abandoned house that they found yesterday afternoon that will become the base where they will test out Tohsaka's little experiment.
The four of them should have departed from the hotel since two hours ago. But their journey was a little hampered due to Rin who accidentally fell asleep.
"Really, Tohsaka...," Shirou sighed, "Weren't you saying just yesterday afternoon that today was important and that we need to test out your experiment at two a.m.?"
The teenage girl with him was avoiding his gaze and looked somewhat embarrassed. "I-It's not my fault I overslept! Yesterday we went to a lot of places after all, and I was so exhausted. What's wrong with sleeping in a little?!"
"No, I can understand that. It's just that… I wouldn't call it sleeping in a little when you decided to doze off for another two hours." Shirou stated blankly. "Even Illya and Sakura was able to wake up in time."
"Being a better magus has nothing to do with this!" argued Rin. "I just felt like staying in a warm bed for a while."
"Hoh, so you're saying you were just being lazy," countered Illya.
Rin looked surprisingly guilty at the accusation.
"I guess its fine," said Shirou, "I suppose we still have plenty of time to do what we have to do before the sun rises."
The slacker magus was glad that their topic of her laziness can be put on hold. "Yeah. Well, we're almost there, do we have everything we need for the experiment?"
"Hai." Sakura replied, patting the backpack(projected by Shirou) that she carried on her back that contains all of the essential materials they needed for the experiment. "We have everything we need right in here Nee-san."
"Good." Rin nodded.
A few minutes later, the group eventually arrived at their destination. They stood in front of a small empty house that looked like it hadn't been used in years. Some of the windows were shattered but everything else looked to be in okay condition.
"Alright, Sakura you're up! I need you to set up a bounded field around the building so no one can hear us," said Rin to her younger sister.
Sakura agreed, she handed the backpack to her older sister and left to work on her task, while Rin, along with Illya and Shirou, also started on preparing the necessary magic circle inside the center of the house.
"So what exactly am I supposed to be doing here, Rin?" Shirou asked as he observe the magic circle that's currently being drawn by both his sister and Rin.
Rin, who was kneeling on the floor etching the magic circle with Illya, answered, "Well, the first thing I need you to do is to project the Jeweled Sword of Zeltretch again."
"projecting the Jeweled Sword of Zeltretch? Ah! I see now! That's why you need my and Illya's help in your test." Shirou concluded.
Rin nodding her head in agreement. "Yes, and I will also need you to act as a magnet to pull us into the right dimension."
"Huh?" the red-head asked confusedly. He blinked at the young Tohsaka heiress after hearing her last sentence.
She needs him to act as a magnet to pull them into the right dimension?
How is he supposed to that?
Didn't she know that he doesn't have any knowledge at all regarding the second the second true magic?
"How am I supposed to do that? I'm already pretty useless with regular magecraft, and what you're basically asking me is on the level of Sorceries. That just seems pretty impossible for a third-rate magus like me."
"It's true, you're skills in magecraft are sorely lacking-," agreed Rin to a frowning Shirou, "but that's not really what I need you for. It's your arm that I need. Archer's arm to be precise. His presence in the Throne of Heroes should act as an anchor to our own dimension so we don't end up in a parallel dimension of this one."
"Parallel dimension? Wait, I don't get it. Are you saying that this world is not a parallel dimension our world?"
"Yes," said Rin, as she continues to work on the magic circle, "In parallel dimensions, there may be slight variations where history, countries, and even people can be different. But in the end, you end up in a world much similar to your own, where you can also have a version of yourself in it. Essentially, that is how the Second Magic is supposed to work, travel between parallel dimensions."
Shirou nodding his head in understanding at Rin's explaination regarding the function of the second true magic and the little bit of information regarding Parallel Worlds.
"I see, but that doesn't explain why you think that this world is not a Parallel World of our world." Shirou stated. "From what I've learned from our short time in this world version of London, this world has the same history, legends, and myths like the one from our world."
"That's true. On the mundane front, this world is eerily similar to our own. The Magical side of this world however, is completely different. And I'm pretty sure that I don't need to tell you the rest since you already know about it too right?" Rin replied glancing to Shirou with a small smile.
Shirou nodded at her, he did not need a long time to find out the difference between the magic in this world and the magic in his own world. After wandering around the town for nearly thirteen hours, analyzing every objects that he saw with his Structural Grasping magecraft. He was able to gained many informations about the mundane and magical side of this world. It was through a sheer luck that he was accidentally stumbled upon several Holy Artifacts.
"That's true. But then, how were we able to get here in the first place?"
Rin stood up from her preparations and faced the confused magus. "The Jeweled Sword uses the Multi-Dimensional Refraction Phenomenon, which is a fragment of the Second Magic that allows the ability to create openings in parallel universes, albeit small openings not big enough for humans. I can only guess that when Illyasviel here used the sword against the Grail, the ability mixed with the corrupted Grail's magical energy that, not only enlarged the opening, but connected to a completely different dimension."
"I see," said an impressed looking Shirou, "thinking of all of this, you really are amazing, Tohsaka."
Blushing, Rin said loudly, "I-Idiot! This much is nothing really, and besides, I'm only operating on pure theory right now! I could be utterly wrong and this whole thing and could just blow up in our faces again."
"It's okay," comforted Shirou, "I trust you. If there's anyone who can do this, it would be you." His smiling face showed just how sincere he was of his words.
The completely serious look the boy gave her caused Rin to face the other way to hide her face, which was now flushing red to her ears. She proceeded to concentrate on completing the magic circle to avoid any more embarrassment on her part.
After a while, both Rin and Illya finally finished drawing the necessary magic circle that they need for the test. Rin stood up with a proud smile.
"It's done!" said Rin with a proud smile as she take a look at the magic circle that she and Illya just draw.
It is perfect and flawless. Just like the one she wanted it to be.
"Hmm." Shirou hummed as he stares at the magic circle that was drawn by Rin and his sister with a complicated expression that didn't go unnoticed by Illya.
"What's wrong Shirou? Is there something wrong with this magic circle?" Illya asked as she curiously looked at the magic to see if there's anything wrong with it.
"Ah, no, there's nothing wrong with the magic circle, Illya." Shirou said, reassuring his sister that there was nothing with the magic circle that his sister and Rin had just drew. "It's just that why did you two draw a magic circle that looks exactly like the summoning circle I had back in my shed?"
Illya looked back at the magic circle that she and Rin just draw. It's true that the magic circle that they're going to use for the experiment was similar to the summoning circle that Shirou used to summon Saber(accidentally) at the start of the fifth Heaven's Feel.
"That's because the magic circle that We're going to use in this experiment is indeed the summoning circle back in your shed. We're going to use it as the catalyst to send us back to our world. If this test succeed, this magic circle should send us back straight to our world." Rin explained to the confused red head.
Shirou made an "O" shape with his mouth as he nodded his head in understatement to Rin's explaination. "Ooh, I see. So that's what the magic circle is use for."
"But are you sure that this will work, Rin?" Shirou asked as he look dubiously at the completed magic circle.
"No need to worry. We're just going to check if there is any connection at all with our dimension first. We won't be using the Jeweled Sword to travel to our dimension just yet. Not until I've made sure that this could actually work." Rin answered as she took out a dagger from her backpack.
"Isn't that the Azoth Sword?" Illya looked at Shirou and then back at Rin. "Why do you have it?"
"Shirou returned it to me just a while ago." Rin replied, "and I'm going to use it as a medium to cast the spell." She added.
"Wouldn't that make it useless to us then?" questioned Shirou. "I've used most of the Mana inside that sword in order to kill Saber."
"We won't be needing that much just for a simple test," the twin-tailed magus replied. "I only need to borrow a little bit of prana from Illya," she gave a nefariously wide smile at the little girl and her younger sister, "Well, coming from you a little bit should have more prana than most of my gems."
Illya gave an involuntary shudder at the look that Tohsaka Rin gave her.
"Besides, it should be a lot easier for you to project it this time around, now that you've done it once before," Rin said to Shirou.
Inwardly, Rin was still a bit worried about what Archer's arm might do to Shirou if he pushed himself a little too far into projecting the Jeweled Sword once more. But they really didn't have any other choice right now, and time was of the essence.
After some time, Shirou was now holding an identical copy of the Jeweled Sword he had projected back at his home. His arm was causing him some minor pain but aside from that, the toll was considerably easier to deal with than before. The shroud hugging his arm did feel a bit warmer though.
"Are you okay, Shirou?" Illya was holding her Oniichan's hand, looking at him with concern in her eyes.
"Yeah, I'm fine," he gave her a small smile, "It is a lot easier than before."
"Good. Now we can proceed with the next phase," said Rin.
The black haired Magus then mention Shirou to sit in the middle of the magic circle. She went inside the circle as well and sat next to him.
"Shirou, you need to hold on to the sword and pour a little bit of your prana into it. I'll help you channel it so that won't be a problem," Rin said as she instructed Shirou to hold the sword while she focused on activating the sword's magic. She then turned to address Illya and Sakura, "and Illyasviel, you need to give some of your prana to Shirou so it won't strain his arm too much. Hopefully, Archer's arm will connect us to the Throne of Heroes and it will help me locate our dimension."
"Okay, I'm going to activate the swords ability now," said Rin. She begins to channel some of her own prana to the jeweled sword to activate it's power.
Moments pass before Rin announces, "Got it! I can sense a connection."
During this time, Shirou can feel the sword drain his prana reserves in greater amounts. Something within him stirs and reacts to the link they've established.
"I think something's wrong!" he declared in worry.
"Shirou! You're using too much prana!" responded Illya.
"I-it's not me!"
Rin can feel the connection to their dimension surging with more energy. She realizes that they need to sever the link to stop the reaction from going berserk.
Unfortunately, it was far too late.
Something emits a pulse of prana into the Jeweled Sword from inside Shirou. It is draining him and Illya's prana reserves and the two are unable to stop it. The sword whines and shakes with energy.
Vibrating violently, the sword starts to slowly crack until it finally shatters to emit a blast of light and energy that envelops the surrounding magi. The shockwave causes them to get blown away and lose consciousness.
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"Okay, I think that's good enough."
Sakura nodded to herself as she finally finished setting up the sound proof bounded field just like what her Nee-san asked her to do.
Once the bounded field has been set up, Sakura then went towards the house, intending to see how the experiment goes.
However, when she was about to put her hand on the door handle, she was suddenly got blown away several feet away from a shockwave that came from inside the old house.
"Guh!" Sakura grunted as she fell to the grown. She lift her head slightly just enough so that she can see what the hell is going on inside the house.
She can see the house. It is still one piece, but there's a lot of smoke coming out through the window.
"Oh no..."
Dread and panic began to well up inside her as she feared that the experiment have gone wrong and that something bad must've happened to her Nee-san, Shirou, and Illyasviel.
"Senpai! Illya-san! Nee-san!"
Sakura quickly pushed herself back up to her feet before sprinting towards the house. She internally hoping that everyone is okay.
XXXXXXX
A minute later after the explosion from her failed test occurred, Rin tries to pick herself up from the floor while coughing out dust that nearly enter her lungs. From the look of it, it seems that she has been pushed all the way back to the wall of the room. Dazed from the blast, she attempts to reign in her focus. She couldn't see anything with all of these smokes in the room, and It was then she realized that both Illya and Shirou have gone missing.
"Shirou?!" Rin called desperately, "Shirou?! Illyasviel?! Where are you guys?!" she was scanning the entire room with her eyes but was unable to see much through the cloud of dust and smoke that was left behind by the failed test.
She kept looking around, determined to find her red-headed blockhead and his annoying sister. Thoughts of losing them was setting her in panic, but soon she was able to make out something on the floor a few feet away from her. Her vision was still obstructed but the smoke gradually began to dissipate, allowing her to finally identify what she had been looking at.
What she saw surprised her.
"No way..." She said with wide eyes. "Could it be really you...?"
A/N : Phew...it took me a while, but it's finally done. I can't believe it took me two weeks to finished this chapter. So, how was it? Was it bad or good? Can you guys read it? I'm sorry if you can't read it, my English is not that good. Anyways, I'm not gonna lie that this story is based on a Fanfiction called Fate : Shattered Moon, a great story that was written by Trick N. Zwei. It was a really good story and I recommended you guys to read it. Thought, sadly that good story has been discontinued for two years now. Well, anyway this is it for now. I planned to write this fanfic as a one-shot story, but if you guys want me to continue it, then just PM me or leave a message in the review box.
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