Chapter 1 Hell's Bells

Inside a once formerly grand theater room laid a cup or rather a grail, the 767th Holy Grail. But this grail was not in any way holy for inside lay a thing of utter malice and darkness something that could only be described as A LL THAT WHICH IS EVIL, it was at once a curse and a wish, a concept and a living thing, it was Angra Mainyu Persian God of Darkness and evil. Because that which lay in the grail had not always been there but rather had come to corrupt and taint it utterly.

During the previous Grail war the, 3rd Holy Grail war, the Grail was utterly corrupted when the Eizenbern, one of the three families who founded the Holy Grail War alongside the Wizard Marshall Zelretch, tried to cheat and summon a god. They both succeeded and failed for while the being they summoned was indeed a Divine Spirit it was before that a Heroic Spirit and the servant container, which could not hope to contain the full might of a Heroic Spirit could not even begin to contain a Divine Spirit. Said servant lost fairly quickly but in losing achieved something he did not imagine he became integrated with the Holy Grail's most basic system, the Greater Grail, which unlike his measly servant container (which could not even fully express the abilities he or any servant had when they were alive) could bear his full might.

Unfortunately for him that same thing also prevented him from escaping because while he was at full strength the grail was powerful enough to keep him from escaping. So trapped he realized his only way out was for someone to use the Grail on a significant enough wish that would allow him to brute force his way out onto the world in order to accomplish his goal.

So we come to the Fourth Holy Grail War were there was a man with such a wish a wish to end all war and conflict. When this man known as Kiritsugu Emiya was confronted by Angra Mainyu he rejected it and fled to its center so as to destroy it.
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Two beings enter into the room both are servants one is a male Archer, also known as Gilgamesh the King of Heroes, and the second is a female Saber, also known as Arutria Pendragon . King Arthur the King of Knights. Both desire the Grail if for different reasons and both are unaware of the truth about the grail. Saber enters through a hole in the wall and as she moves to approach the grail she hears one voice (a voice she has come to loath) say something the absolutely horrifies her.

"Saber by the power of my Command Seal I order you, use all your power to destroy the grail," commands Emiya Kiritsugu and again he says, "Saber by the power of my final command seal I order you, Annihilate the Grail."

"NOOOOOOO…" She hears someone scream before realizing it is she and at that moment she unleashes Excalibur one of the greatest holy weapons that's purity and power reaches unto the level of the Three Swords of the Cross and the blades of the Archangels. Its power unleashed it is a weapon that even ALL THAT WHICH IS EVIL would tremble before. Blasting through the Grail this colossal power collides with another and then something else happens for any another place and another time something similar happens.

But Kiritsugu is tossed from the building and the last thing he hears is tremendous crash like some great wall had been suddenly torn down.
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Hello my name is Harry Dresden and I am about to do something that is insanely and suicidally stupid. I am about to interrupt some necromancers who are in the process of completing a spell that will basically allow them to ascend into godhood.

Now interrupting any spell can be a dangerous thing, normally just for the wizard himself, but depending on the type of spell and the circumstances the casualties can get pretty extensive still I am pretty sure I won't have to worry about anyone outside of this park and inside well hopefully Butter was smart enough to run like hell away and the rest are just me, some Wardens and the aforementioned Necromancers.

So then as I run up to the center of the circle and slam my blasting rod right into the middle and pump as much magic as I can while shouting, "PYROFUEGO", I am only barely able to hear someone shout, "You fool you'll kill us all!"

Immediately after that three things happen:

1. The spell fails.

2. A giant explosion happens and throws me backwards.

3. And finally I hear a sound like something breaking.

The last thing I think as my vision is consumed by blackness is, "I really hope I didn't just break the universe."
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Kirei Kotomine wakes up. After realizing that he is, somehow, still alive he looks around and realizes he is surrounded by rubble and a hateful burning fire.

"No", he whispers to himself, "Rather a curse in the form of a fire."

Extracting himself from the rubble he goes looking and discovers his former master's and now his servant Gilgamesh sitting on top of some rubble.

"Ah, Kirei it is good to see you", says the King of Heroes. Kotomine a little put off by the Heroic Spirits unusual behavior asks, "If I may be so bold, what has caught your eye oh King."

"Oh, Kirei can't you feel it? The world is even now changing around us. Gaia is spreading out her power and greatly lessening her effect on magic in general. Both beings and spells are more powerful and longer lasting than before and it is not done yet this will only continue. Beyond that Alaya is releasing its grip on humanity. Soon all those mongrels will be far more powerful, if not as powerful as humanity was in my day. Do you not see Kotomine what you call the Age of the Gods shall soon be upon us again.

"New so-called heroes shall appear and old threats shall be revived. But beyond that my kingdom is at last whole once again."

"Whole what do you mean by that, the world is still divided between the various nations", asked Kotomine.

"Ah, Kirei still you do not understand, but since you have been such a worthy servant I shall tell you. This world and another lay side by side or rather this universe and another are so close that they touch. Now do to the unique nature of this one does not need to possess the Magic you call the Kaleidoscope to travel between the two. All one needed was the proper knowledge and magical ability. Honestly it might be possible to do so now with modern technology, on a practical level, just as we did so with magecraft during my time, and that's excluding the natural Ways that exist anyways. Now Gaia and Alaya exist in both universes but they are the same Gaia and the same Alaya. Too put it another way well you are an expert in healing so you can compare the two worlds to hemispheres of a brain ours being the Left and theirs is the Right, two distinct and vital parts but one true whole. And who should rule over all of Gaia and Alaya, but I Gilgamesh the King of Heroes?"

"I se.." Kotomine starts before he hears some rubble moving and notices Emiya Kiritsugu madly searching through the rubble trying to find someone anyone. Kotomine starts to move to kill him, but stops and leaves Kiritsugu to his task.

"Oh? I had not expected you to just let him go so easy Kotomine." Gilgamesh amusedly states. "But at any rate it does suit my purposes we must set up and get ready I believe the world will get very interesting soon." saying that Gilgamesh summoned a magnificent Golden flying ship, Viamanna. "But how Berserker destroyed it?" Kotomine Kirei asked as they boarded the magnificent aircraft. Gilgamesh turned back and smirking said, "Oh Kirei you haven't seen anything yet."
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The man known as Kiritsugu Emiya has finally saved someone. Having desperately searched through the ruins caused by him to prevent the release of a greater horror he found one person who had managed to hold on despite all the odds a young boy with red hair. Having found this one person he quickly extracts and implants Avalon into him. Noticing that the boy has lost consciousness he goes to pick him up and carry him out of this fiery hell when he stops for two reasons: number one all of a sudden a tattoo like a sword split into three parts appears on his hand (Command Seals he notes horrified) and two because he feels a blade pressed against his neck. Slowly turning around he sees the face of his former servant glaring down at him.

"Why, why should I not kill you now? Why did you betray me? Why did you take the grail from me?" Arturia Pendragon the King of Knights demands.

"Because the grail was horribly and irreversibly cursed." Explained Kiritsugu.

"Dammit and Damn you, but I believe you," accepted Arturia as she slowly lowered her sword. "I see you have implanted Avalon into this boy, my new master. Don't look surprised I am much more than I was as a servant." She says as she bends down and allows some of her Prana to fill Avalon to capacity. "There that should be enough to allow him to recover. He can keep the original though I do not need it and I believe I can sense something of a destiny about this boy," she says before getting a midly disgusted look on her face, "Ah, Great now I am starting to sound like Merlin."

"Now than I do want to know why you are so badly cursed?" Arturia inquired.

"How do you know I was cursed?" Inquired Kiritsugu.

"There you go again underestimating me. Though you probably don't know this I am actually a quite capable magic user. Though I have always personally disliked using it beyond my Prana burst and Invisible Air, during my life Merlin did insist on teaching me as much as he could and I was one of the few people with more Prana than even him. While my practical abilities did suffer, due to a lack of practice and interest, my theoretical knowledge was second only to Merlin and Morgana."

"When I rejected it the Grail personally cursed me." Explained Kiritsugu.

"I see well that is one powerful curse I don't think even Avalon could heal due to the nature of the way it is bound to you. It could probably delay it by healing its symptoms but due to the way it is bound unto your very soul I do not believe it could actually remove it. At any rate another thing that must be asked is why I am so different?" Asked Saber.

"You don't appear different." Pointed out Kiritsugu before a thought occurred to him, "How are you still alive, for that matter?"

"Through truly ridiculous amount of luck I was close enough to the grail that I was able to absorb some of the backlash from Excalibur. But far enough away that I only got hit by the shockwave and so was merely sent hurtling from the building. But anyways I was not talking about my appearance I was talking about the fact that I seem to have all of my original Noble Phantasms along with the fact I don't feel nearly as constrained as I was as a servant, if not as powerful as would be as a fully manifested Heroic Spirit." She said as she moved to help Kiritsugu carry the boy out of the destroyed area.

Later after they had dropped the boy off at the hospital Kiritsugu asked, "So what are you going to do from here on out?"

Saber replied, "I don't know maybe I'll travel the world and help out the Church with any monster extermination jobs they might have, as well as keep an eye out for my master and help train him for when the time comes."

"Ah that's right you are a Christian, what with the quest for the original Holy Grail and all, I guess you would feel a certain desire to aid the church. I do have some contacts within the Church I could set up some meetings for you. At any rate you don't have to worry about your master's safety that boy's family is probably dead sp I am thinking about adopting him."

"Fine, though you better take good care of him." She said.

"Heh, Don't worry I won't." Said Kiritsugu.
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Two men wake up finding themselves in a world not of men. One is a hero of legendary standing the other his friend, vassal and a magus. Waking up the magus says, "Rider you're alive."

The man identified as Rider proclaims, "Ha, of course I am alive as if even the King of Heroes could kill me. Though Waver what happened after I got stabbed by Archer?"

"After Archer stabbed you he seemed to realize that Saber had reached the grail and so hurried off before he had a chance to kill after that I tried to heal you and then there was this flash of light and I woke up here." Explained Waver Velvet and then he asked, "But Rider where are we."

"Well if I had to guess I would have to say we are in the lands of the Fae, but don't worry I will protect you." saying that he and the young man named Waver Velvet started to look for a way back home.
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A knight wakes up in a dark room. Though he had died with the destruction of his prison he had been hurled out into the world and beyond. He wakes up beneath an alien sky and in an alien room. He feels his power greater than it was before. He looks up and sees a man who to one such as the knight clearly possess inhuman blood and a companion who is far smaller possibly a child though it is impossible to tell what gender the child is both are clearly staring at him seemingly stunned at the situation. Though he had been betrayed and crushed still he had his dream and his honor and so with that in mind Diarmud of the Shinning Face simply said, "So you are my master."
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A masked man wakes up in an alley in some city whose name he is not aware and though he does not know it yet he is no longer on his home world. As the man stalks out of the alley his only thoughts are, "The shadows shall rise." Set on his path the 18th generation Hassan-i-Sabah sets out to explore his new surroundings.
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Tonight in a city in an alien world to both, two men murder a family. Both exemplify the worst attributes humans can possess. One asks the other, "Hey Mister Bluebeard what happened last thing I remember is this splitting feeling in my skull and then nothing?"

"Ah, my dear Ryonnuske it seems we have been given a second chance tonight we shall rest and tomorrow we shall see about initiating our plans again." Said the one called Bluebeard.
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Contrary to what Hollywood might tell you surviving an explosion is not easy nor is it comfortable. As I am counting my broken ribs I see a couple of the Kemmlerites and their zombie hordes approaching me. Just as I am pretty sure I am about to die a (and I kid you not) knight jumps out of nowhere and picking up some random branch off the ground proceeds to just absolutely butcher them. When the Kemmlerites try to use magic on him it just slides off and you quickly got the idea that they would probably have more affect if they just threw water balloons and hoped his armor rusted.

After his scarily short battle he approaches me and as I get a good look at his armor (which is some sort of Purplish-Black) which has a very gothic feel too it and was definitely designed to be intimidating. I am starting to get worried as he approaches and planning on going out with one last snark when all of a sudden he bows down and says, "I have come my Master."

After that I hear my own little shoulder-devil say, "Oh, you do not know what a wonderful gift you have received my host."
Between the shadow of a fallen angel and the super-powerful there is only one real response, "Hell's Bells, what have I gotten myself into?"

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Again this is my first real story and I (currently) have no beta reader, though I am looking for one and if anyone is interested please PM me, so please go easy on me.

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