Everyone was silent when Gabriel declared the arrival of the Fifth Holy Grail War, and how could they not be? For Miyu and Shirou, the climax of the Forth Grail War took away their memories of who they were and the humanity that they had. For Irisiviel and Illya, it took away one's husband and the other one's father from her. For one ex-servant, it caused him pain seeing them like that and knowing that while they did save the kids, hundreds of people still died.

Then the panicking begun as everyone were looking to each other and checking their arms for if they might have the Command Seals on them save for Gabriel. And to their horror, both Shirou and Illya had the Seals on them, as Irisiviel began to panic even more over her two kids. As Miyu was on the verge of tears while Gabriel did her best to comfort her as he hugged her.

Then, he took control of the situation as he whistled very shrilly as everyone else covered their ears, and when the whistling was done. They looked up to see Gabriel looking grim but determined at them. "All right then, here's what we know for sure. Shirou and Illya are among the candidates for the Masters while Irisviel and Miyu do not have the deals on them."

As everyone nodded in agreement, then Gabriel focused on Irisviel who had a sinking feeling of what Gabriel will ask of her. "Irisviel, you and Miyu need to get out of this city while you still can. I do not wish to put you guys at risk and knowing your old family, they might come after you first if they were to learn of your location, so please dear. Do it for Miyu's sake."

Irisviel looked conflicted alongside Miyu, but eventually they both nodded as they know in a battle with Servants, they will be hostages at worst for the enemy so they both left and begun to pack up. While Gabriel then turned to both Shirou and Illya, both of them looked scared for obvious reasons. But Gabriel smiled at them as he rubbed both of their heads in comfort.

"As for you two, we are going to summon your servants. So come with me to the Tool Shed, I believe there is something that we can use to aid us." Gabriel said as he led the two scared, but now determined kids out of the house and into the Tool Shed where there was items on one side. As the other side had a magical circle that Gabriel sometimes uses to help top himself off at time.

Then Gabriel stopped them before they got close to the circle as he started explaining the summoning ritual for the Servants. Seven Servants and seven classes to go with, there are the three Knight classes which everyone desired and the four common classes which had everyone else. Gabriel told them about the advantages and disadvantages each Servant class had to verify what kind of Servant they wanted.

Well it was mostly for Illya's sake as Shirou was going to get her, and there was no else that Gabriel wanted by his side to assist them more than her. Eventually Illya desired an Assassin so that way she could use the class skills of the Assassin to watch out for the master. So Gabriel gave her an old poison vial from the Middle East that he picked up during his time there.

So as soon as Illya's power reached her max, she placed in the catalyst and begun the chant as the circle glowed with power.

Let silver and steel be the essence.

Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation.

Let black be the color I pay tribute to.

Let rise a wall against the wind that shall fall.

Let the four cardinal gates close.

Let the three-forked road from the crown reaching unto the Kingdom rotate."

"Let it be filled. Again. Again. Again. Again.

Let it be filled fivefold for every turn, simply breaking asunder with every filling.

Then the circle glowed brighter and brighter with every chant and soon enough a woman in black with the most beautiful features and elvish like ears appeared. She looked heavily amused at the girl in front of her while also taking a nice long look at the men behind her as well. Then she spoke, as she spoke it was a royal and delicate command and yet it was also a heavily amused one.

"Not for naught am I known as the world's oldest poisoner... Are you truly certain that you can wield Queen Semiramis?" She asked the girl before her as she was breathing in exhaustion from all the amount of Prana she poured into summoning her. As she looked back and grinned at the beautiful queen before her, as her own ruby red eyes shined with determination and relief.

"I know for a fact that I cannot wield you, I wished to ask of you to fight by my side, for I desire not the Holy Grail or the wish for it." It was at this rate the Assassin was surprised, but she had to admit. She was entertained so she wish to see what kind of depths her young and beautiful master will go then. As she smirked and declared herself before the group then.

"Then I shall graciously introduce myself master. By your summoning I have arrive as the class of Assassin, pleasured to meet you all." She said as Gabriel finally relaxed then, as he put away his Mysterious Magnum into his device behind his back. As she left with Illya to take a better look of the modern times while playfully teasing Illya over her love life as Illya blushed.

Then Gabriel turned to Shirou who looked determined yet nervous as Gabriel comforted him by patting his shoulders. "Don't worry Shirou, I am going to do everything within my powers to keep you and Illya safe. So you two will be able to have these carefree days with Irisviel, Miyu, and Aoko, got it Shirou?" as Shirou smiled at the comforting word of his uncle as he nodded.

"Now come on in Shirou, we will summon your Servant tomorrow, and don't worry that much. We have summoned one of the older spirits of the world with a varied skill set." As both Shirou and Gabriel left the tool shed/ workshop, the others are summoning their own servants as well.

In the Tohsaka Mansion Rin received word about the Fifth Grail War starting and that she and six other masters will be participating. One of the others however, included her sister and the other involved his daughter as well. And her sister on the other, wanted nothing to do with the war citing that they lost their uncle because of it. So Kirei stepped in and became her substitute.

And not only that, but he had also received word that Luvia and a skilled Enforcer by the name of Bazett was also taking part of the war as part of their team. While she does not relish the idea of working with her arch rival, she knew that they had to take every advantage they could get. As Kirei informed her that the opposing team were all Einzbern family members led by the Elder.

Not only that but someone has already summoned Assassin and Caren had summoned a Rider who turned out to be someone famous as Saint George. Which did not surprised her, considering how religious Caren was, Kirei will summon his servant after most of the other do and he clearly reminded her that her clocks were off by an hour so start later. He said as she prepared for it.

While she was also doing this with no catalyst, while she did have her father's old one. According to Kirei the King of Heroes would have been too much to deal with, not to mention having killed her dad as well. Also while she did have riches from her mother's good investing, she had none of the connections that her dad had forged at the Magus Association to call upon.

So once the clock was actually on her strongest moment she chanted the ritual for the Black team that she will be on for this Fifth grail War conflict. She really hoped that she summoned a Saber or perhaps a Caster, as the circle glowed with power as she covered her eyes until the glow faded away. And before her stood a tan man with white hair in a black outfit with a red overcoat.

At first he had his eyes closed but as he opened them, he looked surprised for a moment before smirking as he flexed his arms. "Well now it seems I have been summoned by quite a talented magus if I do say so myself. I believe you are my master then?" As Rin finished collecting her thought before nodding and showing him her Command Seals.

"Yes Servant, I am your master, are you perhaps the Saber class by any chance?" She asked hopefully, wanting to get the class she desired only for all of it to go down the drain as he shook his head in denial before her. As her sister started patting her on the shoulder for not making it.

"Unfortunately while I am one of the Knight classes. I have been, however, been summoned into this Grail War as the Servant Archer." Causing her to deflate in defeat in not being able to obtain the Servant class she desired, but still she managed to get one of the Knight classes so that had to count for something at the very least.

"Oh well, at the very least I got something correct." She knew full well that she was just being too picky as Archer class Servants have their own advantages and traditionally possessed more Noble Phantasms than any other Servant in the Grail War. So she decided to ask him about his summoning. While the man shrugged off as nothing too bad was going on right now.

"No problems here Master, I have actually been summoned at full strength. Check my stats if you so desired to do so." Deciding she might as well heed her Servant's words she activated her Master's Perspective and to her surprise he has C+ in all three of his physical stats, which is weird considering most Archers tend to fight from mid to long range combat. He also had a B+ in mana and an E+ in luck as well, while a question mark appeared for Noble Phantasms.

"Well it looks like your stats are pretty okay for an Archer class Servant, but there is something I am quite curious about, your true name considering I did not use any catalysts to summon you at all." She needed this info to know the strengths and weaknesses of his powers so she can coordinate better with the other Servants and Masters in this conflict.

Only the answer she got was less than satisfactory. "What! What do you mean you do not remember your own real name?!" She yelled at him wondering if her Servant was playing some kind of sick joke on her. If anything it seems to be true as he just smirked at her so annoyingly.

"What I mean Master, is that I do not recall anything that has happened in my legend, on the other hand I do recall my name and where I hail from. But anything else is just a blank in my head, and also Master do not bother asking me for my name, as it is completely pointless." He explained before finishing off his explanation before the irritated black haired master.

She narrowed her eyes at him as she asked her, while her sister and mother looked more concerned for her as they know full well that she had a short temper. "Oh? And do explain to me why I should not bother doing that?" As with her blessing the supposedly amnesic Archer went on as he told her a secret that surprised not only her but her mother and sister, but not as much though, as well.

"It is because the reasons why I highly doubt you will find anything on me is because my legend has yet to be written yet Master." Seeing the surprised look and the way she put the dots together he went on. "Yes Master I am indeed a Heroic Spirit from the future, due to that my legend and deeds has yet to be written in this time because like I said. They have yet to happen Master."

"And because Servants are influenced and powered by their legends, there would be no chance of there being any records of you." Rin muttered as Archer smiled at his Master's intelligence.

"Exactly Master, however I will tell you one thing, despite the fact that I received no power ups from the Grail itself. My power is as strong as they could be without them tells me one thing. You are an extraordinary magus to power me up to the level I am without the Grail, Master."

After hearing that she blushed a bit causing her mother and sister to giggle a bit as she regained her composure. "Oh well at least one of the salvable things is that our enemy cannot deduce who you are." So with that she told Archer she was heading to bed to rest and to go into spirit mode to rest her circuits as he did so and everyone followed after Rin to go get some sleep as well.

However Sakura looked at the summoning circle and thought that it was weird for that to happen as she narrowed her eyes at where Archer was moments ago. She knew he was lying as soon as he said that, she had met a Servant from the future and still had his memories before. "How suspicious." She muttered to herself as she went to bed soon after. If this Archer does anything to harm her sister, who she spent a long time with just to rebuild her bonds, then screw the fact that he was a Servant! Anyone who dares harm her sweet older sister will suffer most horrendously.

Bazett was having no end of bad luck since she was called upon to serve as a Master in the upcoming Grail War. At first everything was going fine considering she had the earing of one of her favorite childhood warrior and she was either going to meet up with the priest or the freelancer that she worked with at times. Both were not bad options and both were quite helpful.

But unfortunately, as soon as she arrived her bags got lost in transit, her cell phone got destroyed, someone stole her wallet, which she barely got back as soon as the police arrived pegging her as a criminal, then she had to flee and hide out in the local coastal districts and barely found a leyline over there. As soon as she had summoned her Servant Lancer. She immediately headed towards her friend's house as soon as one of his familiars appeared and guided her to him.

Then she was greeted by the sight of him smiling happily as he shook her hands as he then brought her up to speed on the allies that has occurred. Apparently his two kids were here as Masters and if she remembered correctly it was Shirou, she liked that kid, he had a good heart. Not to mention Gabriel paid her a lot of cash to train him in the usage of Rune magic as well.

In addition, he just loves cooking and she was a pretty big eater at times and he just complied quite happily to help feed the guests. Shirou was also going to summons his Servant tonight as well. So she did some easy training work with him in the form of learning new runes from her and her Lancer who was none other than Cú Chulainn, who did not mind teaching him at all.

Considering the fact that he made really delicious tea and food stuffed with Prana, he was in more than a good mood to help out. He had also tried his luck with the Assassin that the girl summoned but to no avail was she interested in him. As her attention was far more focused on the boy himself. Which for him kind of sucked, but he liked Shirou to not care about that.

Not to mention he had a lot more fun teasing the poor kid when it turns out both of his adopted sisters liked him a lot more than he thought. And began assisting his sister and her Servant in trying to get his attention. For Bazett, it was just pretty funny to see him stutter all the time when he conveniently lead him to where his sister and her Servant was as they tried seducing him a lot.

But unfortunately, that was also an endless source of pain for Gabriel as she sometimes see starting to bang his head on the wall while muttering "Why me?" Over and over again as she was just amused by the way he tried to keep things proper in the household. Ah well, does not really matter that much to her as she began eating her second helping of food prepared by Gabriel.

Then as soon as the night hit, Gabriel led Shirou into the tool shed in which the summoning circle was. She had to admit, whoever drew this circle was a genius with a very strong understanding of the leyline functions of this city. Not to mention it can provide additional Prana to Servants who just wish to top off a bit. As Lancer did gaining a nice amount of energy from it.

Then the boy started his own summoning chant for the Servant summoning as she and everyone else but Gabriel and Shirou waited outside of the tool shed. As soon as the Prana stopped overflowing, she heard some female voice being called out until she heard a gasp. Then she heard something clattering to the floor and something hitting someone, so she went to check it.

And much to her surprise and everyone else who just came in. They saw that Gabriel was smiling a bit sheepishly at them as he was being guarded heavily by a blonde woman in a blue battledress with silver armor. And to her right, she saw another blonde haired woman in polished armor, only instead of blue battledress, she had a black one on as she looked somewhat confused by what is going on right now as she fumbled a bit nervously as she too wonder what's going on.

(A few minutes ago.)

"By your summoning I have arrived to fight by your side, I ask of thee are thou my master?" Saber did not really have that much hope here, as she was once again summoned to the Holy Grail War. After finding out just what happened to the last Grail made her wonder why was it she fought still. As she took in the sight of her master, a red haired teen with the Command Seal.

She checked her own stats and her connection to her master and she was pleased to know that he was supplying her with more than enough Prana. Then she remembered the words of the one who she soon consider to be the brother figure in the last Grail War. She remembered Archer dearly, as he stood up for her during the King's Banquet and all the delicious food he made.

But her mind was soon cut out of its reminiscing as her master declared that he was the one who summoned her. "It is an honor to meet you King of Knights." He said surprising her a bit as he smiled kindly at her. "Inside me is the catalyst to summon you Saber, not to mention that Gabriel talked about you in a very high regard. Something that he rarely does these days in our lives."

Gabriel? She knew no such person by that name, till she looked over who was behind her master as her eyes widened in shock. There was Archer, or Courier as he was known in life, leaning back on the wall as he smiled happily at her. Sure there was a few differences in the way he looked but he just aged about ten years or so as she slowly walk towards him in a daze.

"My eyes, they can't be deceiving me are they?" She croaked out as she took in the sight of the man she once declared an oath of sibling bond with. "Is it really you Archer? Is it truly you from the Grail Conflict who fought by my side alongside my greatest Knight of the Round Table?" Sh asked desperately hoping beyond hoping it was her greatest friend during the last Grail War.

Then he smirked at her as he repeated the same words he said after the King's Banquet. "Every damn word of it Saber, every damn word of it." As soon as he said those words she knew that it was immediately him as she tackled hugged him in joy as he got the wind knocked out of his lungs. As he looked surprised before chuckling at the sight before him before patting her kindly.

"It has been truly a long time Saber, there is much that has happened and there is much to do right now. But I wish to know that if you will still continue our bond as we once did during the Grail Conflict." He said kindly to her but grew serious with every word he spoke out now. Then she stopped hugging her as she looked up and smiled very happily at him as she nodded quickly.

"Archer, or Gabriel as I should call you now, my dear friend. I will be honored beyond regard to stand by your side once more and fight with you in battle once again." She said as Gabriel started smiling as though it was a father reuniting with his daughter as he patted her on the head causing her to pout a bit. Casing the tall man to chuckle once more in amusement at his sister of sorts.

"Um excuse me, though I do not mean to intrude on your reunion right now, but can someone please explain to me what is going on here?" another voice called out as Saber widened her eyes and took a protective stance around him and her master and looked at the threat before her. And to her surprise it was a woman that looked very similar to her, only in black with braided hair.

(And Now)

"Who are you?! Identify yourself Servant!" Saber barked out as the woman who was most likely a Servant looked surprised just then as two other people appeared. And knowing her Archer, he already likely let them in as they were most likely allies. As the unknown woman looked nervous till her master, who was silent for most of their talk as she planned to rectify that, spoke up.

"Wait Saber don't attack her! I can feel a connection with her as well!" Causing everyone to look as her Master in shock, as he actually has two Command Seals, one on each hand for usage. But that was not the surprising part, she can still feel a strong connection with her Master and yet at the same time, the new Servant also felt strong and adequately sustained as well.

"If that is the case, then I apologize, it appears to be that we will both be serving the same Master then." She spoke royally after deciding that she will get more information out of her Master and her friend Archer, about what is going on. Though it seems that she should not be asking her friend as well, as he looked baffled by the odd summoning that has taken place here in the shed.

The odd one out just nodded a bit confused while her Master asked her class for the Holy Grail War and to everyone surprise, she was none other than the Ruler class Servant for the war. Not to mention she is the Maiden of Orleans herself, as she used her class skills to know each of the Servant that was summoned and are currently here right now.

She now knew for sure that there was still a major problem going on if the Ruler has appeared before the Grail Conflict as she listened to the new details of the format for this Grail War. As someone made the Conflict into a Team Death match of sorts, but she knew better than that. She knew that the Grail must be destroyed if Gabriel's pained expression is anything to go by.

"At any rate I believe that there are some things that I need to discuss with all of you once we reach the church with the rest of our team." Gabriel said gravely as everyone nodded with him before he sent them off to bed or what not. But not before feeding Saber and Ruler some of his amazing food that was also made by her master as well, good lord she missed his cooking.

Then when it came down to sharing the room, her master felt uncomfortable with her and Ruler sleeping in his room with him, but due to her and Ruler's unique summoning they needed sleep as well. Though Saber knew why she cannot vanish like the rest of the Servants. So he also knows that they need to guard him but he does wish for them to be in separate beds, which they agreed.

Though to be fair Ruler was supposed to be the visible referee of the war, so that made sense for her. Not to mention she was also a bit uncomfortable sharing the same room as her master, but she gotten used to it being treated as a tool and if her master was anything to go by, he does not intend to treat her like a tool. But more like a comrade and friend to ask for help from.

She knew full well that she should not take that kindness for granted as Gabriel explained in his world, such kindness was a gift to the people. During her talks with him during the last war, he taught her not to take anything for granted ever again, especially the milk of human kindness. As he once said to her. "War, war never changes. But men do, through the roads they walk. So because of that, we need to treasure the greatest of human emotion known as kindness."

There was not a lot that could honestly baffle the red clad Counter Guardian as he took up a view of everywhere around him on the roof of his master's house. But here he was baffled by everything that has happened in the last twenty four hours or so. One of the first thing that he noticed was off was the fact that he was summoned properly this time and he had additional boosts to his stats allowing him more strength and freedom then he could do if he was summoned normally.

Being able to have all of his memories is a big help and when he saw Rin summoned him successfully he decided not to get on her bad side. As that would only bring trouble in the long run for him. But there were also many issues that he found happening that worries him a lot.

This was a different time as he always remembered Rin lived by herself, her mom and dad were dead and she never interacted with Sakura. But yet here she is happily living with her sister and very much alive mother. Not to mention that Caren was also here and Luvia was in the city as well. There was also the different format of the Fifth Grail War conflict that had him bothered.

But perhaps one of the biggest surprises and shock that he got was when he listened in onto his master's talks were her complaints about Illya and her mom's crazy driving. He knew full well what happened to Irisviel and Illya was supposed to have been raised by that family growing up to only hate him and make his life as miserable as she could. Or just violently end his existence.

Then there was her mother, who was somehow still around alive and kicking who honestly looked like an adult version of Illya. But there was also the young girl Miyu that he has no knowledge about. Also there was the talk about the Uncle that the girls and his past existence had. It seemed to him that he was the catalyst for all the changes that has been going right now.

Heck with this guy around and a family that loves his past self, it may be possible that there is no point in killing him as he may not even have the ideals he once tried to live up to, but fail. Not to mention that apparently the Einzbern family was the one responsible for this team death match. So for now he would play the loyal Servant to Rin, and just continue to observe the events around him. But he will be paying close attention to this version of Shirou Emiya and his actions.

Oh, and he also has to take strides in not pissing off Sakura or do anything that would make him more suspicious. She seems to have her doubts about him not being able to remember his past life and already consider him suspicious. Though he has to wonder just on how on earth could she possibly guess that he was just spoon feeding them half lies and half-truths? So best be careful around her. Perhaps she may have a better understanding of Servants than Rin perhaps?

Pushing those thoughts away, he then came to the final anomaly in the timeline he is in right now. Kirei is actually a nice guy here, he was so shocked by the fact that the monster could actually smile as happily as he could as he hugged his daughter. At that point he knew for sure he was not in the right timeline and wondered if this was the work of the dimension traveling troll. But that was not important, due to there being a new string of events his past life won't cut it here. But he was always one who could adapt on the fly so he already came up with a plan.

So for now observe, make plans, do security check up, clean up the house, make the family tea and breakfast, then make the lunch, and just stick close to his Master. Oh gods how he shivered in pain as he wondered how could he just live through those times without being able to cook. He was so glad for this Rin to summon him properly so at the very least he can cook good food.

Archer just took one last look around the perimeter before jumping off the roof and going into the house. "I do not recall any of these events happening, best take a wait and see approach for now." Archer muttered to himself as he started cleaning up the house so it looks clean and comfortable.

Though he began wondering more and more about what kind of Shirou Emiya did this one grew up to be? He had the gift of having a loving family that cares about him and would do anything to give him emotional support. So is he still distorted or is he an actual functioning member of society who may just be a nice guy at times? He would have to wait and see this Shirou Emiya. Perhaps he might still be searching his own value in life, perhaps he found his own answer to why should he live. Either way, he looked forward to seeing this version of Shirou Emiya.