Fate

Cross-Dimensional Family

Explanations

Shirou moved through the house, making sure not to hit Saber on any of the walls on his way through. Making his way through the living room, he walked down the hallway and placed her on his futon in his room. "That must have taken a lot out of you." He looked her over to check for wounds or anything wrong to find none. Letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding while he checked to make sure she was alright, he sat in a chair next to the bed and crossed his arm.

Once again looking over to Saber, "I don't know your actual name, how you know I'm your father or really anything that is going on, what I do know though is that I need to protect you." Clutching at his chest over his heart, "I can't explain it, but I believe you no matter how crazy it is. As I watched you fight I felt pride and worry as it went on, pride at how well you handled it and won, and worry that even though I somehow knew you could handle it that there was a chance that you could have been hurt or worse killed."

Sighing again, he looked away from her to look through the window, the moon seeping through the blinds. He felt his eyes get heavy as he looked back to her and then got comfortable in his chair. He knew that it would still be a few hours until the sun came up so he decided to drift off to sleep. As he drifted off to sleep, he didn't notice the single tear running down Saber's cheek or the slight smile she wore as she rested.

A few hours later

Saber's eyes opened slowly as her head stopped pounding from the spell she had used to finish Lancer. She was low on mana and papa wasn't giving her much to work with, combine that with the high-speed spell and mana wire she used and she was exhausted.

Propping herself up into a sitting situation she took a look around the room. It was a modestly sized room with a futon, dresser, and closet. Her eyes caught sight of her father sitting in a wooden chair next to the futon, she raised a hand over her scarf to stifle the chuckle at the sight of him sitting there with his arms crossed head down snoring away. Shaking her head, "Papa you dummy, that's a great way to catch a cold and be sore". She carefully and gently picked him up and laid him in the futon and through a small blanket over him, then quietly making her way out of the room.

She walked through the mansion with ease, making her way to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Her feet made little to no sound as she walked, enjoying the calm atmosphere of her papa's house. She opened up the sliding door to the living room only to come face to face with someone else.

Sabers eyes widened.

Sakura's eyes widened.

Saber slowly closed the door, then counting to 3 in her head. She opened it up to find the purple haired girl still there, shocked expression and all. Saber closed her eyes and sighed, " Damn, thought that would work".

Sakura backed away from her, eyeing her warily. "Who are you? Why are you in Senpai's house?"

Saber caught sight of a slight shimmer of mana move to Sakura's side. Smiling an honest smile, she said in a voice that made everyone feel at ease when they heard it. "I have been reunited with my papa and will be staying with him for a bit". Well everyone except Sakura apparently.

Sakura's eyes widened again as her face became a bright red as she fell backward, passing out from shock. "p pp papa?"

Chuckling a bit at her antics, Saber looked to the spot she knew she was standing in. Grinning a bit, the next line caught the mysterious guest off guard. " Hello Aunt Medusa"

Bedroom

Shirou's dreams were plagued by the same nightmare every time he went to sleep. The fire encompassing everything around him, the burned remains of buildings, cars, people. This time however he had a different dream, one that was foreign to him. He was on a hill looking out onto a beautiful field of grass and flowers as far as the eye could see. He goes to turn his head to look around to find he couldn't. He tried to walk only to stay in place, gaze fixed on the field of flowers.

" Hey, Emiya"

Raising his head involuntarily, it dawned on him that he was seeing this through someone else's eyes. The person turned to address the newcomer, "Hey Mordred"

Mordred? Shirou pondered this as the conversation continued.

Mordred moved passed them, leaning up against the tree on the hilltop. "Is it true, are you really going?" She moved her helmet up to gaze at us, the helmet holes boring into us as she did.

Keeping there gazes locked, a feeling of determination and sorrow filled him as the person spoke. "I have to, I'm the only person here that can perform the spell needed to find them and stop Angra Mainyu."

Mordred smashed her fist against the tree, "Take me."

BANG!

Shirou jolted upright awoken from the weird dream by the sound that echoed through the house. He was surprised to find himself in the futon, Saber nowhere to be found. Eyes widen in alarm as he remembered that Sakura was coming over this morning like usual.

Jerking his head to the window he muttered "crap" as he jumped out of bed and bolted to the living room.

Bolting through the hallway, he through the sliding door open and barreled through. Two steps in he tripped over the prone form of Sakura falling face first onto the floor and sliding until coming to a stop before the wall. Righting himself he grabbed the back of his head as he sat up. "Ow, oh, Sakura!" Crawling over he shakes her a couple of times. "Sakura! What happened to you, your face is turning red as well. Do you have a fever?"

"She just passed out from the shock of finding me here out of the blue papa."

Shirou turned to the kitchen to find his Servant holding what looked to be the handle of one of his cooking pots and another woman that Shirou also didn't recognize holding the handle of a spoon. Setting Sakura back down he walked over to find his kitchen to find it in shambles. Things thrown around everywhere, he looked back two the two of them. "What happened in the kitchen and who is this?

She looked to the taller woman with the blindfold and long pink hair as if asking if it was ok to respond. The tall woman looked to her and nodded before turning back to him. Saber turned back to Shirou, "she is Medusa, the rider class servant of this war. She is Sakura's servant and she is also my aunt."

Shirou just stared at her blankly before regaining some semblance of composure. "Medusa?"

They both nod.

"Aunt?"

Saber nods.

With a sigh, he asked, "what were you cooking that caused an explosion?" When they both just got hints of a faint blush on their cheeks that was the only thing he needed to know. "Saber please take Rider into the other room while I make breakfast." She bowed, squeaking out an apology for the mess and broken utensils as they left the kitchen and he got started on breakfast.

Breakfast

Breakfast was served and they all dug in. Shirou being hungry from not eating last night and the exhaustion from the spells Saber had cast. Saber and Rider ate enough for three with the justification being that they needed to keep their strength up and definitely not because this was the best food they had ever had. And Sakura had a bowl of her own, having recovered and was now eating while looking around the table trying to figure everything out.

After breakfast was over Shirou deposited the dishes into the sink to be dealt with later, there was a lot of unanswered questions and now was the time to get them. Tea was distributed and Saber started us off.

Taking a sip of her tea and putting it back on the saucer, she placed it down onto the table. "Thank you for the tea papa, if no one minds I would like to start to explain the situation we are in." When everyone gave a nod of approval she placed her hands in her lap and began. "Well, to start us off what you any of you know of the holy grail?"

It was Shirou who answered first, "I was under the impression that my father destroyed it in the last war." Gesturing to Saber and Rider he continued, "clearly that's not the case". "He also told me that the grail itself is some kind of lie or trick but he didn't go into much detail about it." He looked slightly downcast as he recalled the conversation with his father but wiped it away quickly, his stoic determination back in full.

Rider was next, "I have only what knowledge the Grail gave me when I was summoned."

Then came Sakura, she didn't meet any of there eyes. Looking away and answering, "all I know is what grandfather told me when I summoned Rider he told me I had to win it for the Matous"

Saber listened to each one nodding along with a polite smile. "This is all very true, and from what I've seen from this go around I expected your answers to be what they were". Looking at the puzzled expressions around the table save for Rider she continued, " this is not my first holy grail war". Their expressions were as she expected both the young ones were shocked and Rider leaned forward slightly in interest. " I'm from the dimension that caused all destruction and death that has started up here." " The holy grail wars were originally designed to test magi in fierce battles where they would summon a holy spirit to do battle against others and win the grail to have a wish granted." It wasn't until one mage family in my dimension decided to cheat the system that chaos broke loose." " They tried to summon something that shouldn't have been possible and they succeeded to point, they summoned an Avenger-class servant, that servant was Angra Mainyu."

This time it was Rider's turn to be shocked, she had her the tales of Angra Mainyu and the prospect of summoning him made her shiver, something that she long thought impossible for her. The others around the room looked thoughtful, trying to place the name that was given.

Stifling a giggle, Saber answered the unspoken question the two teens had. " He is the embodiment of all the worlds evil, and he's quite crafty." "It's understandable that you two haven't heard of him, he is quite an old legend and one that should exist in this day and age. When he was summoned in my dimension he was the first killed in the war, therefore being the first to be sucked back into the grail. However since he was not even supposed to summoned and on top of that pure evil, the grail got corrupted and as a result, he gained untold power and started causing havoc in our world." Looking to Shirou for this part, in particular, he spawned fires that scorched the land for miles, even when the fire was gone the malice was still palpable in the air when you stepped into the affected area."

Shirou flinched at that, he knew all too well the fires that plagued the land years ago. Marching through it aimlessly, reaching out to help someone to have their hand turn to ash when it touched his. As the memories came flooding back he had a distant gaze on his face as the events replayed in his mind again.

Saber turned to Sakura, "then there was dark forms of our fallen comrades, twisted and a shell of there usual selves. Cutting through legions of twisted images of our comrades and shadow creatures he spawned to keep us at bay.

Sakura looked away teary-eyed at that, she knew all too well what she was referring too. She could feel the darkness clawing at her every day, promising the world, promising anything she desired. Her eyes met the redhead who still was reliving his nightmare, Shirou is the light of my world, ever since that day she watched him fail and fail at the high jump he held a special place in her heart.

Saber then turned to Rider, " Lastly, when we finally reached the chamber where the grail resided I faced him in single combat along with my father and mother."

As she said this Shirou refocused on the conversation and Sakura wiped away her tears to rejoin the conversation.

Saber noticing this continued, " It was a fierce battle, he was enhanced by the grail and thus turning him into something closer to his legend. We threw everything at him but nothing worked." Her gaze turns distant as she recalls in vivid detail the battle. " Mom through everything she had at him, firing off spell after spell that lit the cave up in a purple glow as everyone hit him. She floated through the air raining hell upon as Papa came in from below throwing kanshuo and bakuya at him while following up with a flurry of broken Noble Phantasms. Nothing should have survived that, however, when the smoke cleared he stood in a crater, unfazed."

Saber's hands balled up into fists as she clenched her teeth at the crystal clear smugness on his features. " Then out of nowhere, he moved, I was a child then but when I heard the sound of metal breaking behind me I turned to see my fathers swords shattered as his first drove through them and into my father sending him skidding across the cavern like a ragdoll. Above me I heard my mother cry out no and started to unleash volleys of spells at him to no avail, he sidestepped and dodged each one before holding his hand out he launched a pulse of dark energy at her. She tried to block with shields and lastly RuleBreaker but it was too much. She fell, smoke trailing off of her where she got hit. As she hit the ground he started to walk towards her, a sword of pure darkness materializing in his hand. I had to do something, my mother was crawling on the ground towards my father's body, trying desperately to reach him. I didn't know what to do, all I had was my basic spells my mother taught me and the projection and reinforcement magic my father taught me. I shook my head and ran forward scooping up RuleBreaker in one hand and Kanshou in the other and ran at him with the form my father taught me. As I ran a noise rang out in my mind, like a chorus of machines coming to life as I held the weapons. I started to understand them on a level akin to any master blacksmith and then even better. My father was a master copier even coming close to surpassing the originals why my mother had an EX rank in item creation so when I picked up these swords I just knew that I could use these, maybe not directly but as a blueprint for something better, something that could hurt, something that could save my family!

Tears were streaming down Saber's face, the memory bringing up all the hardships she has had to go through to get to this point. She felt a hand rest on her shoulder.

Shirou was gripping her shoulder giving her a reassuring smile and reassuring her so she could go on. Flashing him a smile she reached up and wiped away the tears.

Sakura asked hesitantly, " you don't have to finish your tail if it's too painful a memory. You have clearly been through a lot Saber."

"Thank you Sakura, I appreciate your concern but you all have questions and this important to the story." Gathering herself for the rest of the story, she took a sip of her tea.

Shirou waited for her to put the cup and saucer back down before asking, " what happened?".

Meeting his gaze, she said with a determined look " I succeeded".

Author's Note: So I want to give a huge shout out BanalCrepe and WeirdGuyOne as well as the guests that left reviews on the next chapter. You guys left such helpful and respectful reviews about the story and how the dialogue needs to be better represented. I'm having so much fun writing this and I know that there are some unanswered questions and topics that haven't been explained but we will get there. This is my first fic and the support has been fantastic and I greatly appreciate you for showing it, I know it's my first fic so it's cough a little rough cough but I really think that this story is gonna be cool and I think you guys will really dig it. I split this chapter up into two since it was getting a little too long so expect more explanations in the next chapter.

Also when it comes to Lancer dying first, I would like to take this time to tell you that your favorite spearman will be back, you have my word on that. However, Lancer did need to die first because I needed to set sort of a glimpse at the power of the servant at the power cap of being Shirou's servant with the mana cap that comes with it.

And just to get some info out there, Chaldea will be referenced and possibly went to but we will be focusing on the Fate Stay Night world so that'll be cool.