Chapter 1 - Saber
It had a been a week since Harry had returned to Fuyuki City, having called Taiga to let her know he returned. Early the very next morning he was bombarded by hugs, questions, and demands. The hugs were the easiest to explain as the oranged haired woman just barreled into him hugging him fiercely declaring how much she missed him, questions quickly followed asking how England was, will he need to go back, was he ready for school. Finally came her sole demand of breakfast. Harry chuckled at that, his so called surrogate older sister could be a bit of child at times.
Slinging his school bag over his shoulder he quietly marched to school, after feeding the tiger and seeing her off. He was so focused on his internal thoughts he almost missed walking pass a girl dressed in purple, with long pink almost white hair, and bright red eyes. He froze mid step turning slightly to look at her out the corner of his eyes. "Be careful big brother you haven't summoned your servant I don't want you to die so quickly."
"I see," Harry whispered sadly. "It's good to finally meet you, Illya, Dad talked about you a lot," he paused. "He wanted me to tell you one thing after he died."
Illyavael Von Eisenbarn turned her eyes twitching slightly, for a couple of reasons, this wasn't how she pictured her first meeting with Harry Potter-Emiya to go. "Fine, what did he say?"
"I'm sorry I couldn't bring you with me and to look after your younger brother," Harry replied.
"I see," Illya turned away unsure how to proceed, I should have known the old man lied to me, but was it a lie, she grimaced feeling the burn from the Mad Enhancement coming off of Heracles. "Does it matter really, you still need your servant, without him or her you're vunerable. I wouldn't want you to die prematurely big brother."
"Illya, I have a ritual that can give you a stable body," he stated turning to her fully. "All I ever wanted in my life is a family. I lost my biological parents when I was a year old to a terrorist with daddy issues, my mother's sister despised me because I was born into Wizardcraft, they beat me, starved me, and tried to kill me when that failed, the bastard Uncle of mine flew half way across the world to leave me in some alley in Japan," Harry extended a hand. "Your dad, our dad took me in when he didn't have too, told me everything about you and your mom. So please don't turn me away."
Illya didn't turn clenching her right hand her face hidden in the shadows of her hair. "...G-Get the strongest servant you can, d-daddy was given t-the best catalyst for summoning," Harry saw tears drop to the ground as Illya walked away.
Harry dropped his hand lowering his head slightly, Well it's progress but she's right I can't avoid this as much as I want to. Tonight, I guess is as good as any. With a sigh raking his fingers through his hair, continuing his walk to school.
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Grumbling slight tossing the drying cloth into the school hamper looking back at the Archery club gym with a mild sense of pride. He had spent a better part of the evening scrubbing the entire place down after being talked into it by the Archery club president and Shinji Matou, he did it mostly to defuse the situation before the borderline sociopath threw a temper tantrum which would later involve the younger teen slapping his sister. The last time that happened the blue haired boy ended up in the nurses office with a shattered jaw and Harry nearly avoided juvenile hall, mostly because the Fujimara clan bailed him out using bribes. When asked why he did it, he stated simply he had endured far worse for six years and he wasn't about to let someone else deal with it in his presence if he could stop it.
After that incident however Harry had taken to defusing the situation before it escalated mostly to prevent Shinji ending up dead or permanently injured. It worked for the most part but Harry personally thought seventy-five percent of it was fake simply Shinji using him to do the labor he didn't want to do. However he had seen Shinji get shot down for a date by Rin Tohsaka earlier in the day, so it was easy to see the boy was in the borderline sibling violence territory. So he caved to the clean up duty, Sakura did thank him though.
After stowing his school shoes and grabbing his schoolbag he moved silently through the hallways until he reach the back of the school. It was when he reach the tennis and basketball courts when he heard the first clangs of metal on metal. Looking in that direction he spotted a man in a blue and grey jumpsuit using a long spear fighting another man in black and red fighting with twin short swords. Lancer, but who is the other? He frowned quietly watching the fight. The guy in red, attacks are wild and full of holes, and the swords are similar to the ones I use. With a mental shrug he moved to leave quietly only shift the gravel under his feet, he cursed looking over his shoulder at the battle that had abruptly stopped. Not waiting to see which one was coming after him he quickly apparated to the alleyway behind his home and moved to his workshop. I have three minutes tops, grunting he quickly cleared the area around the summoning circle. He stepped back gently touching his chest, "Let's hope even though Avalon is inside me it's close enough to the circle to act as a catalyst.
Holding up his hand and closing his eyes he began the chant,
Let silver and steel be the essence.
Let stone and the King of contract be the foundation
Let Blue and Gold be the color I pay tribute to/Let my great Master Perevell be the ancestor
Let rise a wall against tyranny be raised
Let the four cardinal gates close.
Let the three-forked road from the crown reaching unto the Great Kingdom rotate.
I hereby declare.
Your sword shall serve under me.
My fate shall be your shield.
Submit to the beckoning of this Holy Grail
If you will submit to this will and reason…Then ANSWER!
Oath's shall be sworn here!
I shall attain all the virtues of Heaven!
I shall have purged the Gates of Hell!
From the Seventh Heaven, attended to the three great words of power,
Come forth from the ring of restraints,
Protector of the Holy Balance!
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As soon as the last phrase was uttered Harry felt a draw on his magic reserves, as the summoning circle flashed to life, it pulsed and steamed then mighty flashed left him blinded for a few seconds. When he rubbed his eyes enough to get the flash burn to clear enough, to see standing in the dim lighting of his work shop was someone who took his breath away. She was roughly a few inches shorter than him, she wore a a light leather blue battle dress, plate armor, had blond hair that was tied in braid and secured by a blue ribbon. Her green eyes were not unlike his own sharp emeralds gazing at him with a cool indifference, "I am the Servant Saber, I ask of you are you worthy to be my master?"
Harry tilted his head slightly blinking thinking of the question, "I imagine you're the one who would have to determine that, right?"
Saber frowned a second her eyes tilting up slightly thinking about it, "True I have not thought of that before," a small smile appeared on her face. "Were you the one who summoned me then?"
With a nod, "Yes, my name is Harry Potter, it is nice to meet you Saber." He tensed feeling his wards being tripped. "Seems like you were summoned just in time, Lancer or the unknown servant I met earlier managed to track my magical signature, back here."
Saber nods, "I sense a lone servant approaching, permission to engage, master?"
Harry nods, "Drive him off if you can I…, there somethings you need to know about this Grail war and about me."
"I understand master," Saber slid the door open just as Lancer jumped into the backyard he slid to a halt.
"Well I wasn't expecting this," Lancer muttered. "When I saw you vanish I didn't think anything about it, kid. So you're a master," he held up his spear in a defensive position.
Harry pursed his lips looking around he didn't feel Lancer's master enter his wards. He frowned, "this isn't like her," he muttered. "Where's Bazett?"
Lancer's eyes widen, "you know her?"
"I should her sister is going to marry my Godfather. The two of us were planning to meet up," Harry stated. He noticed Lancer get even more guarded, "What happened to her?"
Lancer grimaced a second before he smiled, Heh, the priest didn't know my former master was going to have an ally, maybe I can save her. "She's underneath the church in the mausoleum, her arm with the commands seals was cut off, by my current master," he gritted his teeth. "The coward he is now wants me to retreat."
Harry clenched his hand, "great not something I want to tell Amy," he frowned looking at the Heroic Spirit, "go Lancer, Saber and I will save her." The blue haired man nodded smirking slightly giving a salute before astralizing.
Saber looked at her master a bit confused, "I do not understand?"
"Someone in this war has blatantly, broke the rules," Harry stated. "Have a hunch on who it is, but in the meantime we're on a rescue mission."
"Understood master," Saber nodded.
Harry winced, "Please Saber call me Harry, there's no need to be formal." The blonde woman blinked a couple of times before her eyes focused, a second later Harry felt his wards trip again. "Seems we have company, again."
"Yes, a servant and a master this time," Saber responded.
"It's probably Lancer's opponent," Harry mentally cursed. "This is bloody great, looks like I have to put off explaining things further and going on that rescue mission."
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Rin Tohsaka had no idea who witnessed Archer and Lancer's fight the only thing she could tell was he used some form of teleportation. Archer was able to track it, whoever did the teleportation did it in rush no doubt forgetting to mask his or her's destination. However as they went she began to recognize the destination, "One of my classmates," she whispered as the duo turned the corner.
"Master," was her only warning before an armored clad woman dove down, Archer grabbed her and jumped away just as an invisible sword impacted the ground where Archer had stood.
"I guess I did apparate too fast when Lancer and this guy heard me," came a distinctive British accent.
Rin looked over at the source of the voice, "Harry, you're a magus?"
Archer actually shifted his head quickly to look at who Rin was speaking to. Archer's raised a single eyebrow, "What the…?" he whispered.
Harry was currently dressed in a black dress shirt, slacks, and a long coat similar to Kiritsugu Emiya's. "Well, I already met the von Eisenbern representative earlier today, I guess it only makes sense to meet the Tohsaka representative," Harry pushed his glasses up. "If you came looking for Lancer, Saber here drove him off."
"How are you a Magus?" Rin asked looking confused.
"Actually I'm a Magus/Wizard hyrbrid," Harry pulled out a wand from his left sleeve, "ta da."
Rin sweat-dropped, "So I came all this way for nothing?" she pouted.
Archer watched the dark haired teen boy shrug, "If you don't want it to be for nothing, I could use your help with something. My future godmother-in-law's sister needs to be rescued, she's currently bleeding out underneath the local church. Do you know if there's a back entrance?"
"Bazett McRemitz has a sister?" Archer stated.
"Indeed," Harry replied. "Though if I don't help her, that sister won't have a sister," he turned toward the white haired man. "Oh I have to ask what class are you, I summoned Saber, Bazzet originally was the one who summoned Lancer, Illya summoned Berserker, so that leaves Archer, Assassin, Caster, and Rider."
"I'm Archer," Archer said with shrug.
"He also doesn't know his own name," Rin pouted. "Blames a botched summoning."
"Hard to do that, but If that's true the Dream cycle should clue you in eventually," Harry shrugged.
Rin smacked her forehead, "I forgot about that."
Shaking his head Archer glanced at Saber who was holding her sword in resposte position turning her head to her master. "They aren't hostile?"
"I've known Rin long enough to know she's a bit of a Tsundere but a good person," Harry smiled earning a snort from Archer. Rin sputtered at the comment blushing throwing her head to the side. "The church?"
"Yeah I've been there a few times because my 'guardian' is the priest there," Rin scowled at the word guardian.
"I see," Harry frowned. "That 'guardian' wouldn't happen to be Kirei Kotomine?" getting a nod in response his frown deepening. "That shouldn't be possible, Kiritsugu told me he put one of his special bullets right into Kirei's heart at the end of the last Holy Grail war."
Archer raised an eyebrow, Kiritsugu, told this Harry guy more than he ever told me, then again I wonder where I'm at? he thought looking around. "Don't suppose you know a Shirou?"
"No," Harry stated simply crossing his arms looking deep in thought. "If Kirei was somehow resurrected by the Grail in the last war," he muttered to himself grimacing Saber glancing at him. "Great another bloody Horcrux."
Rin frowned at the mumbles, "So how you be a Magus and a wizard?"
Waving her off, "If you want me to tell you, help me out. I have a future in-law to save," Harry stated calmly. "Once I get her freed up and safe I'll tell you everything you want, yeah?"
