Fate Stay Night /Date A Live
Fate Stay Night is Property of Type Moon
Date A Live is property of Kōshi Tachibana
WARNING! Rough Grammars ahead! You have been warned!
Fate A Live
Chapter 2
Shiro looked between his Servant, Saber, and the new mysterious girl as the two glared at one another daring the other to make the first move. "W-wait! We're not here to hurt anybody !" He said quickly and stupidly got in between his Servant and the purple armored girl.
"Shiro!" Saber said in alarm as her master did something so completely foolish and moved to push him out of the way only for the area around her to explode. 'What sorcery is this?' She thought as the explosion stopped and saw the purple Saber flew up.
"Agghh , what's going on?" Shiro shouted as he felt Saber tackled him to the ground protecting his body once more. Flat on his back he saw a swarm of multi color light streaking through the sky. The next moment he heard another loud whistling noise as the area around him exploded once more.
"Stay down Shiro." Saber said as she felt her master try to push her off of him. These exploding projectile hurt quite a bit. To her surprise the purple Saber started to engaged the flying enemies lighting up the night sky. Seeing her chance she nodded. " We must leave , now." She ordered as she got up and grabbed Shiro by his arm yanking him to his feet.
"No we can't just leave her Saber!" Shiro said not knowing why they were under attack but felt he couldn't simply abandon the purple armored girl. Looking up to the night sky he was surprised to see her fending off the flying attackers . As if she could feel his eyes on her the girl turned around and gave him a look filled with pain and sadness before turning back and engaging the flying lights once more.
" Now, while they are distracted." Saber said as she slung her master over her shoulder and was about to jump away another rain of explosive destroy the ground around her causing her to go on the defensive. A bit nicked from the explosive barrage she was surprised when one of the light quickly closed in on her and attacked her with a sword made of light.
Shiro stared as the light from the blade illuminated the skimpy clad female revealing her identity. "Tobiichi?" He said in amazement.
"Get away from him." Tobiichi Origami said as she leveled her sword at the new spirit.
"Wait! There's been some kind of misunderstanding!" Shiro protested only to see the futuristic armored Tobiichi attacked Saber.
Saber swung her sword at the smaller girl who skill in the blade were quite high but not high enough as she overpowered her with heavy strikes. Having nearly knocked the other girl sword away from her hand Saber hammered down with an overhead strike thinking she'd got the girl when a shield of some kind formed around said girl. "What is this?" She said as the girl had some kind of object in her hand.
"Saber! Watch out!" Shiro yelled Tobiichi assembled a huge beam canon from behind her protective shield and fired it at his servant knocking her away. "SABER!" He cried out as he saw her disappeared. He then looked at his classmate who appeared to be injured from fighting his servant.
"You should leave Shiro, this is not a safe place." Tobiichi said in a flat tone before a blue blur slam into her shield. Her suit blared in warning from the stress it was taking as the singed blue armored girl attacked her shield over and over again with powerful hammering strikes.
Shiro did not know what to do, on one hand Tobiichi was the one that attacked Saber, yet she seem more concern for his well being, as if he was a bystander. Suddenly a powerful purple energy wave smashed into Tobiichi shield, the energy spread out and sent him flying away in pain.
"Shiro!" Saber said as she stopped her attacked and saw the purple hair girl with her sword extended. "You!" She said as she jumped up closing the distance between the two and attacked the purple armor girl.
The purple armored girl responding in kind as the two exchange powerful blows in the air before landing on the ground.
In the mean time Shiro was trying to recover from the attack when he felt himself surrounding by white light before ending up inside a metal room with a sleepy eyes white hair woman looking at him.
"Who?" Shiro said clearly out of his depth once more as the woman closed in on him examining him from head to toe.
"I'm the Analytic officer, Reine Murasame." The sleepy eye woman said to herself. " And right now thanks to you the situation have become one giant clusterfuck." She said in a soft tone of voice.
"Wha? Me?" Shiro said before trying to wrap his head around the face pacing. "Where am I? What do you want from me?"
"This is the transporter room of the Fraxinus , we brought you here because you introduced a new equation that was not suppose to be there, we need more information." Reine said softly.
Information? Information on what? Still a more important thought occurred to him despite everything. "Wait! I can't go, my little sister is down there, her name is Kotori! You have to get me to her!" He said in a panicky voice.
"Calm down." Reine said softly. "She's fine, please follow me." And with that turned around and walked.
"Huh? Wait, what do you mean she's fine?" Shiro demanded as he followed the woman.
"She's safe," Reine said simply before pausing to look at Shiro with a pensive look. "I'm terrible at explanation, the captain should be able to answer all your questions." she finished before turning back on her heel and lead him down a narrow corridor.
Shiro followed uncertainly, the fact that they said his sister was safe...well He'll believe it when he see it but if they could pluck him from wherever he was then maybe they did the same for Kotori.
So Shiro obediently followed, it was finally when they reach the end of the corridor that the door opened revealed a handsome man with long blond hair in a white militaristic uniform.
"I brought him." Reine said to the blonde hair man who then turned to give Shiro a friendly smile.
"Ah , Thank you." The blond man said with a smile before looking to Shiro. "I'm the Executive Officer, Kannazuki Kyouhei, I am delighted to make your acquaintance." He said with a low bow but his hand was directing Shiro to look to his right.
Seeing the signal Shiro turned and received the biggest shock of his life yet as he saw the figure in the captain's chair. "K-KOTORI?!" Shiro exclaimed incredulously. There was his little sister, his LITTLE SISTER looking down at him from her position , that damnable lollipop in hand , with a bemused expression. She was no longer in the sailor uniform he saw her off with this morning, instead she was wearing a uniform of some sort.
"Welcome Aboard." Kotori greeted him with cheshire cat smile. "And welcome to Ratatoskr."
Before Shiro can even asked her anything she directed his attention to a massive view screen and on display was the image of the purple armored girl from earlier. "This is a magical beast we call a Spirit which we just lost track of," His little sister said nonchalantly as if the fact that she was the one in command was not a big shock to him. "In other word she just disappeared."
The imagine of the view screen flicker to a blue blur that also seem to be streaking across the city sky line. "Now this-" Kotori began again before Shiro interrupted her.
"Wait a second!" Shiro said in an effort to get his little sister to slow down. However unlike before when she always obediently obeyed his command , a look of annoyances adorned her face.
"What's the matter?" Kotori said miffed. "The captain is going out of her way to explain things for you, you should be honored you know."
Shiro looked at his baby sister as if she was not his baby sister. 'Who IS this girl? She's not like Kotori at all!' He thought to himself.
"For now I'll give you the honor of licking the sole of my feet." Kotori said magnanimously to her brother.
Shiro was about to rebutted his little sister attitude but the blond , Kyouhei, interrupted him first.
"R-really?!" The executive officer said with a excited look on his face making Shiro direct his attention from his sister to the blond pervert?
However, to Shiro surprised, his sweet , gentle kind sister fist shot out and punched the blond in the gut making him crumbled into a painful heap. "Not you!" Kotori said haughtily.
"T-thank you sooo much!" The Blonde to Shiro shock again said , the look on his face was pure bliss.
That was pretty weird for Shiro, he didn't know how to feel.
"Are you really Kotori?" Shiro said giving his imposter sister a skeptical look.
"Huh? What was that?" Impostor Kotori said giving HIM a weird look. "Have you forgotten how your own little sister look Shiro?" She said pointing at him with her lollipop.
"Wh, what happen to Oni-chan?!" Shiro said immediately. There was few pleasure he take in life for himself, having Kotori call him oni-chan affectionately was always one of those things. To her hear use his name so casually felt worse then when Lancer stabbed him with his spear.
Much to Shiro ire, his little sister continued on as if he never spoke. "I know you have a terrible memory but you disappointed me now, maybe I should reserve a spot for you in a retirement home since you can't even remember me." Kotori said in a miffed tone of voice.
Something in the way she said it, the look of genuine concern that he wouldn't accept her in her eyes, convinced Shiro as impossible as it may be, this Kotori with a different attitude was really his Kotori.
"Sorry." Shiro apologized before getting back on the subject at hand. "Still can you tell me what's going on, where are we and most importantly what are YOU doing here?" He asked giving his little sister a level look, the stern one he always use at home. To his surprised she returned it with one of her own no sign of backing down.
"Well, I'll explain everything else in detail, but here the important cliff notes dear brother of mine." Kotori said as the view screen was now split between the blue blur hopping everywhere in a giant circular wide pattern while the other showed the image of the purple armored girl. "We, humanity , are at war Shiro."
"What? With who? Since when?" Shiro asked, he knew he wasn't one to pay attention to outside news but a war on that scale would be known and he would have enlisted.
"It is a secret and public war at the same time." Kotori explained as she crossed her legs and looked at Shiro. "That magical beast, that we call a Spirit, is a creation of Gaia, also known as Mother Earth." She began as she pointed to the purple armored girl.
Shiro was familiar with Gaia having learn some of it from his father and nodded.
"Every time a Spirit appear, it cause the entire area to go BOOM, so to speak." Kotori said.
"Boom? You mean they are the one that brought the space quake?" Shiro asked as he looked back at the screen.
"Correct!" Kotori said pleased at Shiro deduction. "However, here the part where it became a secret. All of those space quake since it's started thirty years ago have always appear directly over mages workshops." She said looking at Shiro.
Shiro turned around and looked at the people around the room and looked back at Kotori. They were suppose to keep the existence of magic secret from the general populace. " Mages workshop? What's that?" He said trying to play stupid. He also gave her a look that told her she should play along.
"They know about magic Shiro." Kotori said flatly. "The rules that had been in effect for centuries have been completely scrapped, our father, may he rest in peace, did not realized how much things had changed with the magus plight."
"What? Changed how? What's going on?" Shiro asked cautiously as he saw the look of understanding on the bridge crew.
"Simply put, the magus as a population are being hunted and killed by Gaia itself." Kotori said. " These magical beast are her instrument , the harbinger of her wrath, in effect an extension of herself." She said as the screen is now filled with the purple armor girl image.
To said that Shiro was shocked was an understatement, the planet wanted people like him dead...
"However, that is not all, in addition to killing magus, Gaia is also culling the human population in general." Kotori said in a serious tone of voice as she looked at Shiro.
Shiro could not understand it, if the planet wanted them dead then what can they do? They can fight but in the end the planet rejects them.
"I see you understand, maybe you re not as dumb as you look sometime." Kotori said scathingly at her brother before at the screen. "The way the magus operates now is a lot different then when how our father are alive, being hunted and kill does that to you." She said.
Shiro looked around and stared at the purple armor Spirit before the memory of her pained face flashed back into his head. He did not know why but he could not get her distress look from his mind and the girl turn to be a servant of Gaia to kill them all. Yet why did she asked that weird question when she met. Clearly they were not mindless...
"The loss of their numbers and their inability to kill the Spirits without massive loss have force the magi community to look to outside for help." Kotori said looking at Shiro reaction and was pleased to see his shock face. "That's right, they have revealed themselves mainly to the top government officials but we are all in this together." She said looking at Shiro.
Now that he thought about it, they would need mystic code weapons of some sort to battle the Spirits and it appeared the weapon Tobiichi wield was one such relic.
"However, like all of humanity, mages are a selfish lot and there are disagreement on what to do." Kotori said as she turned her face back to the screen. "The Clocktower advocates extermination and have thus allied themselves with the world's superpower government to form division such as the AST to combat any Spirit that shows up. Others like Sea of Estray have gone into R&D to create weapons to better kill the Spirits, unlike the Clocktower who feels that if they gave humanity some means of fighting back then they won't need to suffer losses themselves , the Sea of Estray would rather create super weapons to kill the spirits regardless of collateral damages." She finished darkly.
Shiro was horrified and he recalled his father words again, to be a magus is to walk with death yet, the civilian never chose that path they never had a choice in the matter.
"Then finally you have our organization the Ratatoskr whom was founded since the very early days of the war by the Atlas Academy. We , feel differently." Kotori said proudly.
Shiro gave his sister an inquisitive look.
"We believe that we can co-exist with Gaia, eventually heal her and placate her anger." Kotori said with a grin. "These Spirits, Shiro, are Gaia own aspect in a sense, we must show it that humanity are different that not everyone wish it harm." She said smugly giving Shiro a grin.
Somehow, the way his sister was looking at him was putting him ill at ease.
"Shiro, is your dream of being a hero still just that a dream ?" Kotori asked her brother giving him a hard look.
Shiro was kind of embarrassed that she said it in front of everyone but no his dreams had not change. " I still have that dream and I WILL achieve that dream." He said with conviction.
"Good, Very good." Kotori said with a smile as she gave Reine a look that said 'I told you so.'. "Now Shiro, do you understand what being a hero entitled?" She asked.
"Of course, it's being able to save people!" Shiro answered with as much conviction as possible.
"So you would do it, you would save people if it was within your power?" Kotori said as she lead her brother on.
"Of course!" Shiro shot back.
"Would you help kill Spirits to protect humanity?" Kotori asked softly.
"Yes." Shiro said without hesitation. He saw his sister gave him a disappointed look before her face strengthen.
"Even if killing a Spirit further kill our planet which in will doom us some more?" Kotori asked.
Shiro was stunned by his sister question and was now in a dilemma. If he save just humanity only then he would be sentencing the planet to die but if the planet die then humanity dies. "I..what do you want from me Kotori? " He asked his sister.
"I want to know your conviction, if you truly want to be a hero." Kotori said imperiously from her perch seat. "Or if it was all some fantasy created by an over imaginative boy." She replied coldly.
"Of course!" Shiro shouted back to his sister offended. "My dream then and even now have never wavered, tell me how to help and I WILL!" He promised.
Kotori suddenly gave a victorious grinned. "Whatever it takes you will do it Shiro? No matter the sacrifice you have to make personally?" She asked archly.
"Yes." Shiro said again without hesitation. "If it is something that I can do and sacrifice myself for, then I will do it, without question!"
"Then Shiro, there is something that can be done to save the Spirits and humanity but it is something YOU and you alone can do ." Kotori said standing with challenging to her brother. "Are you willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save our planet and the people on it?"
"Yes!" Shiro said, this was what he lived for, to be the ultimate superhero.
"Good!" Kotori said with a clap of her hand. "I will hold you to that." She said smiling. Then her eyes frown and looked at the screen which imagine now replace a blur still moving around in a circular pattern. "Which now brings me to my next question, why is there another Spirit that was with you Shiro?" She said as the view screen show Shiro and Saber standing together talking.
"Ehhh..." Shiro said intelligently. Still when weighted about the secrecy of the Grail War versus the the fate of the planet the answer was obvious. So he told his little sister about the Holy Grail war and the servants.
"Oh..Reine, any information on this Holy Grail War?" Kotori asked the sleepy eye woman.
"Ah yes, but only the most powerful magus can participate as the tow is staggering." Reine replied softly.
"Hmm, and it would finally make sense on why the space quake have been happening here exclusively in Japan. Gaia must have senses it, something like this goes against her very nature." Kotori mused but then grinned. "And you are telling me brother that you control one of these...Servant version of heroic spirit?"
"Yes, her class is Saber." Shiro answered.
"It might be that she has a connection to her master as she had been circling our position from the ground for quite some time now." Reine commented and brought a map on the view screen showing Saber movement.
"That Heroic spirit was able to go toe to toe with the Princess." Kotori said softly. "This might turn out to be a boon."
"Who's the Princess?" Shiro asked having heard the conversation.
"Her." Kotori said as the imagine of the purple armored girl popped on the view screen. "Her code name is Princess."
"Princess huh.." Shiro said softly. Could he do it, could he save the Princess? His skill was not all that great compare to his own servant.
"Well it look like she is anxious to find you." Kotori said showing the blur on the ground. "We will tell you what we need from you tomorrow, remember it is something only you can do. You are these Spirits and humanity last hope. I hope you were serious about being that Hero." She said before a transporter beam sent him down stairs.
"Ok now Reine, let's see if we can find matching signatures of these Servants in the area." Kotori commanded.
+++ Down below ++++
Shiro materialized in a quiet part of the neighborhood that appeared to have been unaffected by the space quake, looking around he felt a tug on his senses before seeing a blue blur home in on him.
"Shiro!" Saber said in concern and relief when she landed in front of her master. Searching his body from head to toe she noted that the red hair boy was not injured in the slightest. Her concerned over, she now glared at the boy. "First that was stupid putting yourself between me and that fake Saber, second, where have you been? I could feel you but I could not reach you." She said glaring at the boy.
Quailing underneath the pretty blond hard stare Shiro tried to laughed it off until he remember how his sister said only he could save the planet and in turn it's inhabitants. 'This Grail war just got a lot more complicated.' He thought.
"Shiro~~~." Saber said warningly , she still demanded an explanation.
"Well, I'll tell you on our way home, how's that?" Shiro compromised.
Saber nodded as she was a bit placated by his answer as the two walked Saber listen gravely at what Shiro had to say. Before they knew it they were at the Emiya compound. "This complicates matters." Saber said after a moment of silence as she reentered the compound where she first arrived.
While it was true that Saber wanted to win the Holy Grail war and get her wish, as a King and knight she could not let innocent people die but when their enemy was nature it's very self, it complicated matter. From what her master told her , there might be a chance of saving both humanity and the planet. If that was the case then she would have to fight both the enemy of the grail and anyone that might prevent Shiro from doing his duty.
"So will you help me Saber? You said you were my servant, can you help me win both wars?" Shiro asked his blond companion.
"I am your blade, wield me as you must." Saber replied formally. "Though our task have been double, we will not falter." She reaffirmed and saw the boy gave her a beaming smile. Embarrassed she turned away.
"Wow, it's late." Shiro said looking at the clock. "Time to get some rest, Kotori said she will explain things to me tomorrow." Shiro said as got up and walked into his room.
"I shall stand guard over you." Saber said as she followed her master into his room.
"What?" Shiro said uneasy. "No! You can't sleep here!" He protested.
"How else will I protect you?" Saber asked in a tone that suggest that he was stupid.
"Not here!" Shiro half shouted again. "It's just not proper."
Saber eyes lighted up as she understood. "It appears you see me as a woman," She said patting her chest. "Don't, I am merely a tool to be use." She explain hoping it would make sense to the red head.
"No!" Shiro replied vehemently then held up his command seals. "I'll order you if I have to.." He threatened.
"You would waste a command seal over something so trivial?" Saber chided the red hair boy.
"Then don't make me use it, you can sleep in our guest room." Shiro pointed to a door a few feet down.
Sighing, Saber decided to acquiesce to her complicated master. "As you wish." She said and turned to walked away.
**** Day 2, The Next Morning ****
Shiro woke up from a dream where he saw a regal looking Saber in command of a thousand soldier but the details became hazy the more alert he became. Turning to his side he saw a pair of green eyes next to him staring at him.
"Oh good morning Saber." Shiro said in greeting before his mind completely woke up. "GAAAYAHH! SABER!"
The Servant sat up in his bed this time in a blue dress looking at him. "Good morning Shiro." She said.
"What are you doing in my ROOM?! " Shiro demanded. "I thought we agreed that you sleep in the guest room!"
Saber tilted her head making her look adorable in Shiro eyes. "No, you agreed to it, I just went along and waited for you to fall asleep." She said honestly.
Red face , Shiro did not know what else to say, and it was no use using a command seal in the the first place since it's was done and over with now.
"Come now, it is unbefitting of a master to act this way." Saber chided as she got out of his bed and waited obediently by his room door.
" We are going to have a chat you and I later!" Shiro promised and walked out of his room only to see breakfast was already ready and at the table was his sister Kotori and the Reine woman.
"Ah! Good morning Oni-chan!" Kotori said cheerfully.
Shiro blinked at that, now THIS was the sister he was use too. "Ah, Kotori, you're umm back to ..normal?" He asked hesitantly.
"Geez, " Kotori said with a pout. "It was me yesterday Oni-chan , you are so silly!" She teases playfully.
"And what are you doing here Reine-san?" Shiro said looking at the sleepy eye woman in a business dress.
"Good morning Shido." Reine said softly as she drank a coffee overloaded with sugar. "Starting today I will be working at your school to help train you in your task to save the world."
"Oh." Shiro said before what she said registered with him. "And my name is SHIRO." He said but found himself ignored by the woman after.
"Master, are these the people you told me about last night." Saber said as she came from Shiro room causing Kotori to do a spit take with her drink.
Shiro watched with interest as Kotori replaced her white ribbons for some black ones. He didn't know how else to describe it other then his little sister demeanor changed, her eyes went from wide and friendly to sharp and calculating. A look she turned on him.
"My My Shiro, Bedding a blond foreign beauty like that already, I guess our task will be easier then we thought." Kotori said with an imperious smirk.
Confused by his sister changed of attitude, he then registered what she said. "What? NO!" Shiro protested. "She went and slept in my bed all by herself!" He said pointing at his servant.
"Oh?" Kotori asked amused. "She went into your bed willing huh." Her tone implied anything but innocence at that suggestion.
"Kotori!" Shiro shouted. "It was not like that!"
"Whatever you say Shiro." Kotori said indulgently before taking out a large packet and tossed it at Saber who looked at it questioningly. "It's for you."
Shiro watched as Saber open the package and saw stuff fall out. The lady purse was the most recognizable followed by other things like bras and panties however it was the school uniform that made him took noticed as it was not just any uniform, it was his school uniform. 'Oh. No.' Shiro thought and looked to his sister who had a shit eating grin on her face.
"You will be in Shiro class to protect him, I hope that won't be a problem?" Kotori asked the blond servant looking at her.
Saber for once smiled. "It appears my master have some reliable allies." She said as she held up her I.D and nearly staggered. "Astoria Saber?" She asked. It was close to her name, really close. Did they know?
" We have matched your facial structure in our data base and found that you mostly resemble natives from the British isle." Reine said as she drank her sugar coffee. "We picked the first name in our database." She said in her usual flat voice.
"It's- fine." Saber replied and was relieved that her identity have yet to be compromised.
"I took the liberty of having breakfast made so we'd have time for me to explain to you what your mission would entitle." Kotori said as she beckon over to the table for Shiro to sit. "You too Saber." She said and watched as the Servant sat down next to her brother.
No sooner had Shiro sat down that Kotori put a lap top in front of him. At a glance it looked like a dating sim. "What's is this?" He asked as he started to eat.
"Watch Shido." Reine said as she click enter and game began to play.
Shiro watched the story unfold even as he ate until it finally hit him and he looked up at his little baby sister with a shock look. "You can't be serious!" He said to her.
"Yes Shiro, the only way to defeat these Spirits without killing them is for you to date them and make them fall in love with you." Kotori said with a wide grin.
Saber was looking a bit scandalized herself though they did not prevent her from continuously eating the food spread.
"But...But why me? Why not someone else?" Shiro protested.
"How disappointing." Kotori said looking at Shiro as if he was a bug. "Here I thought you said you would do anything in your power to save the world no matter the sacrifice but at the first sign of trouble or something uncomfortable you turn tail and run." She said scathingly.
Shiro bowed his head in shame, the look in his sister eyes shamed him a bit. "It's , it's not that, I mean, I never even had a girlfriend before, how will I even get them to fall in love with me? Surely there are better guys out there suited to woo them!" He explained. He wasn't a coward, he wanted his sister to know that at least.
"Without a doubt there are better guys out there suited for the job Shiro but on this, it HAS to be you." Kotori said seriously giving him a measuring gaze to emphasis her point. "If you can't do it then we are doom to fight Gaia until one side or the other dies." She explained.
Saber looked on and nodded her head. If there was no choice then her for the job then she herself would take on the mantle. She looked at Shiro to see how her master would respond.
"O-Okay, but I don't know much about ...da-dating and stuff." Shiro said uncertainly a small blush adorning his cheek. He never expected that THIS was going to be required of him.
Kotori grinned. "Why Shiro! I would never send you in without support, you have the entire resource of the Ratatoskr at your disposal." She said with an evil smile. "We will be there with you every step of the way to ensure you do not fail."
"But, I have no experience!" Shiro said and turned to look at his Servant.
Saber turned away blushing. "Ah, I, err, have no experience either in the subject Shiro so I can't help you." She replied regretfully.
"Do not worry Shido, the game in front of you is actually a training simulator created by me to ensure the most realistic scenario possible." Reine said as she ate a powdered doughnut.
Shiro looked doubtful at the dating sim game in front of him before sighing and strengthening his resolved. If this was what it took to save the world then he would make this Spirit fall in love with him no matter what!
TBC...
A/N: Here chapter 2, interest is probably small but that is to expected. I stretched what I wanted and laid down the ground work in earlier chapters so i can tell this story. As for the whole thing hopefully I achieve balance, and yes I plan on stretching out the grail war and shortening the DAL time line. It is what it is,
As always C+C Welcome, Reviews appreciated.