Fate/Divergence

Servant Caster Path C-S

Small recap

*Rin and Archer headed to the Emiya estate only to have their ass handed to them on a silver platter

*Shirou saves Rin

*Rin fix his house and began her usual exposition

*Shirou enters the Holy Grail war, meets Illya, fights her and got his back slashed while protecting Caster.


In a nearby park, clashing sound can be heard yet no one bothers to see what it was.

"Ohohoho! Is that the best your servant can do Tohsaka, Rin?"

"Heh! Assassin and I are just getting started,"

"Rin, Luvia, this is getting out of hand," Shirou tried to mediate their increasing tension only to make things worst. Saber on the other hand just stood behind him.

"Shut up Emiya!" Rin snapped at him.

"Ohohoho! Shero why not leave that ironing board aside and ally your self to me instead?"

"You're dead Luvia , You hear me! DEAD!"


In an unknown place, Shirou is staring at two individual, one of them being his very own servant Caster wearing a black full body tight and the other one is a familiar looking teen with long blue hair tied to a pig tail.

Multiple clashing sounds can be heard as they continue to spar. With each time the teen fell, Caster stood still and lectures him on his fault before starting the match once more. There Shirou noticed and was mesmerize not with 'just' Caster's body line but how joyous the smile she had.


Elsewhere, Mordred stood at the center of the crater Archer made earlier in their fight against Berserker.

"What do you think master?"

The man in his thirties with a refine look of a gentleman and a noble stood at the edge of the crater frown. "A strike that can kill Berserker in one blow sure is surprising but this Berserker is more formidable that the one summoned during the 4th war."

"That might have been the case but if that Caster can kill him more than one," Mordred said as she summoned her sword, Clarent. "Then I can kill him twelve times no question asked."

"We also need to be careful of Archer,"

"And you're not worried about Caster then?"

More than Berserker, for Mordred, Caster is the biggest obstacle no doubt about it. Caster has the same air as her mother, in a not scheming way.

"It would be a miracle if that master of hers survived that injury." The Master of Saber said coldly as he turns his back on the wreckage and proceeds on leaving. "Besides that, it would be difficult to sustain two servants so it will be a matter of time before Caster disappears.


Back at the Emiya resident, Archer laid a severely injured Shiro into his bed where Rin& Caster uses healing magic.

Damn! I am this close...

"Archer, go outside and keep watch."

"Very well master," Archer turned into his astral form before leaving.

Just what are you Emiya-kun? No normal being would heal this fast...

Severely injured he was, by the time they arrive at his house, half of the damage he got from Berserker already healed.

"Is something the matter, Rin?"

Shaking her head, Rin look straight into Caster's eyes. "Be honest Caster, do you know the identity of Archer?"

Good... she let that topic slide.

"No,"

"But the way you work together earlier..."

"True I may not know his real name but I have an idea of what kind of heroic spirit he is."

"And?"

"The nameless hero of Alaya,"

The wrought Iron hero that forge countless weapons. The only known Faker deployed by Ayala.

"A counter guardian?!"

Caster nods.

Yes, Yes, YES! It's like I hit a lottery!

While Rin is celebrating in her mind, Caster took a glance over her sleeping master.


"Caster, watch out-ack!"

Being slashed from behind, Shirou's body flew a decent meter away from Caster.

*clang*

*clang*

*clang*

Archer on the other hand continuously fires regular arrow just to distract Berserker."

"Rin!"

"On it!"

Rin throws three jewels at Berserker's foot that soon exploded creating a smoke screen.

As dust settles, Shirou, Rin, Caster and Archer are now where in sight.

"Hmph! This is boring, Berserker let's go back."


Foolish, naive and kind. A weak magus he is but he backs it up with courage. These thoughts continue to swirl inside caster's mind as she watches 'it' slowly heals Shirou.

"Rin as much as I appreciate the help you did for my master,"

"I know," Rin said casually. "It is getting late already."

Rin stood up, look above the ceiling, before turning her back on Caster.

So how should I use this new found knowledge about Archer to good use…

"Archer, we're going,"


On their walk to Rin's house, man in his thirties appears before them and beside him is a servant clad in armour from head to toe.

"I mean you no harm. I am Marisbury Animusphere" Marisbury introduced. "Would you care for a little chat?"

"Very well," Rin flipped her left twin tail while her right hand is placed on her right hip. "You have five minutes."


In a western styled mansion, sounds of shriek and moan filled the room as silhouette of two individual engage in a rampant fornicating while a tall slender body with long hair stood, motionless.


"Hmmmmm..."

Shirou woke up with a soaring body as he finds himself in his bedroom. The only different this time is the feeling he had on the back of his head as the visages of two plentiful mountains enter his sight despite the darkness of the room.

"Caster..." he reach his right hand onto her cheek and gently brush off the hair that gets in the was and tenderly cup his hand on her cheek. The frown on Caster's sleeping face stabbed his heart. Oh how he wish to see her smile.

"Is this to your liking, Shirou?"

Caster slowly opens her eyes to see a very flustered Shirou.

"Wa-wait Caster," Shirou begins to panic, waiving both of his hands in denial.

"Hmmm..." Caster gave him a mischievous smile

"And exactly what is it then?"

I got a feeling that If I answer this wrong would lead me to a bad end and would be reprimand by Taiga in her kendo outfit.

So Shirou did what any protagonist would do. Get off his feet, face caster and prostrate himself.

"I am very sorry."

As Shirou is waiting for his impending doom, he heard s lit chuckle coming Caster. The mood is getting nice until his stomach growl. Damn you body!

"I knew this would happen so I prepare a meal for when you woke up.


"So what would it be?"

Lying on her bed, Rin stared at the ceiling. Remembering the small talk she had with the old man.

An alliance, huh? It is true Berserker is the most formidable opponent so far having twelve lives and all but should I be glad caster was summoned by Emiya-kun? Her stats are unbalance and she has problems getting prana from Shirou probably due to her incomplete summoning but otherwise the war would have been long over.

Rin can't help but shudder in fear. A Caster Class, one of the physically weakest of all servants not only fights toe to toe with one of Greece's Strongest Hero but she also manages to kill him six times. True she had to rely on her servant's questionable Noble Phantasms but IF she was completely summoned by a competent master with a large Mana pool like the Einzbern Homunculi then reproducing the fight is possible if not Caster killing Berserker once and for all.

Relying to the Treacherous Knight might not be a sound idea as well...

"Archer, answer me honestly,"

After their small talk with Marisbury, Rin and Archer stayed in the park for a bit with her riding the swing and Archer pushing said swing.

"If you are to fight Mordred, can you win against her?"

"In an all out fight," Archer contemplates. "Eighty percent of the time I am confident that I would win against her."

"Is that confidence of a Counter Guardian?"

There was a small pause in Archer that it was all the confirmation Rin needed.

"My confidence stems as your Servant and not as Alaya's Counter Guardian." Archer said in deep thought.

"Then can you tell me where you got those Noble Phantasms?"

"Being a Counter Guardian has its perk," Archer smug. "One of them is a quick entry to the Throne of Heroes no matter of how nameless of a person you are like me," There is bitterness in his tone. "And the other is to be summoned in different period of time. There I met individuals who soon became known Heroes today. Gaia let me temporary borrows those individual noble phantasms for me to use" A lie but not exactly far from the truth either. I did meet them. "Though I have yet to meet the hound of Chullann in person," during my time as a Counter Guardian that is. "I met Connal who temporary wielded his spear and avenge his death by killing Lugaid."

"So you don't have your own Noble Phantasm then?" Rin finds it odd. Almost all heroes have a Noble Phantasm that represents their legacy. Either existing Weapons or like Heracles' God hand.

"I have one that can be considered as my own Noble Phantasm but I'd rather have it as our ace in the hole especially if we are going to deal with either Caster or Berserker."

"Then who are you then, Archer?"

"I already told you Rin," Archer sigh. "Due to the error in my summoning, I can't remember who am I. Though I could say that you're still lucky as I remember my time as a counter guardian so I can still fight properly."

"Okay, I understand," Rin said noticing that Archer stopped pushing the swing.


The next day,

Inside the Emiya's shed, Caster is looking at the various kettles and mugs that Shirou made using projection.

This level of projection is no laughing matter.

Caster examines the projected kettle that is a month old already. A month old projection. Normal projection won't even last a minute but this one lasted for a month. The only known difference is the durability.

"Can you show me how you project the kettle?"

Faced with a pleading eye, Shirou's face reddens like a tomato before giving a meek yes.

"Trace on," Shirou chanted. "Determining creation ideology, Envisioning base core. Hypothesis completed. Voiding."

Just as he was gathering prana for projection, Caster stops him.

"Something wrong, Caster?"

"How long have you been doing this procedure?" Caster asked with a grim tone.

"Ten years,"

Ten?! "Who taught you mage craft?"

"My father, albeit reluctant at first."

"Did he teach you to convert you nerves to magic circuit?"

*Shake* "I did it by myself."

"I see..." Caster sights. He really is a novice. But for him to be still alive after doing that for ten years must be due to that Noble Phantasm."You figure it out base on the information your father gave you, right?"

"Yes,"

Such an honest smile, if Rin would see this, she'll likely lose her temper.

And so Caster began to explain to him that the method he uses is wrong. One does not convert nerve to magic circuits nut rather one activates their innate magic circuits.

"I have a way to activate you circuits but it will hurt a lot."

"I'm willing,"

A nice aptitude for a student...

"Then take you shirt off then face backward."

"... okay,"

Though Shirou hesitated at first, he still follows Caster's orders.

Caster then proceeds in writing several runes on her chest, shoulders, back and arms. Runes for awakening, transferring of energy, recovery and strengthening"

"Stand on the middle of the circle and bite on this," Caster said as she hand him his shirt.

Recalling the experience, Shirou thought that Caster over simplify exactly how much it would hurt as it hurts as hell.


Shirou once again found himself in a different place, a graveyard. Beside Caster is a woman that has semblance to her image in a mourning dress.

Caster wears a bitter expression as she consoles her companion.

The scene one again shifted inside a castle. An old woman lays in bed, weak and exhausted. Caster held her hands, sat beside her bed as tears fell from her eyes. If one looks closely, the woman with Caster in the grave and the woman that lay on bed is the very same person. As for caster, she barely age even a bit.

Multiple scenes went by. One wear Caster is battling a horde of divine creature in a dark forest, Caster walking side by side with a handsome man, an injured Caster after fighting a black version of Lancer, Caster after giving birth to her first child and how happy she was.

Shirou once more wakes up in his room in a similar position than before minus the Shirt that covers his chest. He once more found himself resting on casters lap as she had her left palm placed on his forehead.

Just what is that?

Shirou slowly rise up so that he won't wake Caster up, wear his shirt not even bothering the rune writings and gently lay caster on his fouton before falling as sleep in a sitting position on the closet's door.


The next day, Shirou found himself at the centre of carnage.

*Jii*

At the dining table, Shirou sat beside Caster who introduced herself as Ana Pendragon, and the sister of his father's old colleague.

The deafening silence was unbearable until Taiga can't take it any longer.

"You, me, dojo, understand?" Taiga furiously said before stomping out of the dining hall.

"I'll handle the dishes, senpai," Sakura, Shirou's violet, shoulder length kohai, member of the archery club and regular visitor who cleans and cooks occasionally said.

What a really nice girl she is.

Years passed by and Shirou wished he could travel back in time and smack the head of his old self for being so dense.

Taiga challenges Caster on a duel to see if she is really capable of being Shirou's body guard.

All in all as much as Taiga hates to admit it, a defeat is still a defeat.

"See you at school then, Shirou," Taiga said as she was about to exit the estate. "Come now Sakura before we're late."

"Y-yes Fujimura-sensei."


Due to the awakening procedure he undergo last night, Caster advice Shirou to take a day off from school as she still needs to explain some things to him.

That leads to several discussions to the agony of Shirou.

"There's no need for me to rest, I'll be going now" was met by a karate chop in the head.

"There's no need to bring you to school... besides the war can only be done at night." Was met by two slaps from both cheeks and a strike to the head with a rolled up news paper.

"You can sleep in a room beside mine." Was met by "Oh? Didn't we sleep together in the very same room? You even lay me at your bed."

Lucky Fuji-nee isn't here.

"What do you mean by swords?"

Was their second to the last topic to be discussed that was void of any form of violence so far. Caster began explaining all about elements and origin and its connection to mage craft. She also states that since both of his origin and element is that of a sword, magic's from the five elements would be subpar at best in his hand.

Though he can abuse a possible loophole presented by his origin and element.

"But I still suggest you take the day off," Caster still pushed the topic one more."At least until your body fully recovers."

"But I am fine, Caster,"

*sigh*

"Shirou, you just got your magic circuit awaken." Caster said seriously. "Your body might be fine the way they are now but your magic circuit is a different story. Because they haven't been use for a long time, their quality degraded. You already know where I am going with this right?"

"So what do you want from me then?"

"Meditate inside the magic circle in your shed as I fortify your house and bounded field.


"Caster's master didn't come to school,"

"I know Archer,"Rin said while looking down at the school grounds from the schools' rooftop. "But considering the wound he receives from Berserker, I am not surprise at all."

"Have you considered the Master of Saber's offer?"

Rin have a grim look on her face. "I like to have my options open. I'd prefer allying with Emiya-kun more than Marisbury."

"Ara~, so you've fallen for that foolish master," Archer said with a grin.

"F-fallen? That would never happen!"

Judging by your reaction, you already have. Such a shame the boy will... no, he must die.


Caster watches Shirou meditate as the runes placed on his body slowly but surely repair his magic circuit.

I thank fate that I have met someone with untapped potential like that mutt.

Caster then took a glance at his projections. It all makes sense now, his element and origin,that dream, the sea of fire and that Noble Phantasm... You truly are hiding one wicked secret... Archer...


"Is that him?" the Queen of the clock tower inquired.

"Yes," Waver now known as Lord El Meloil II affirmed.

A week after entering the clock tower, Shirou already garners a lot of attention. 1. As the son of the magus killer. He already expects it but didn't expect it to this degree. 2. His peculiar preference for a useless mage craft like projection and his usage of Rune magic. Most attention was due to reason 1 and that also mean that all anger for his father's deed are redirected at him.

"He doesn't look special," the Queen off handily said. For the son of the Magus Killer, he doesn't have the aura of a magician that killed thousands. He is more suited in the kitchen or garden than the battle field.

"I better not judge him base on appearance," Marisbury said, joining their conversation alongside his daughter Olga.

"Quite confident, eh?" the Queen replied with a smug.

"Do you want to bet on it?"

"What would you wager then?"

"My entire estate,"

*cough*

Weaver's jaw dropped.

"Papa! You can't be serious?!" His daughter tugs his sleeve and objects.

"Then what would you want in return if you win?" the Queen asked in a serious and business manner tone."

"Money," Marisbury said with a grin. "Money to build my ideal organization."

"You got a deal then," the two shook hands leaving a stunned Weaver and Olga in silence.

The Queen is confident not because Shirou's opponent is of noble blood, namely the Archibald but because Shirou's opponent is one of the few new comer that is 'average'.

They then continue to watch as the two engage in a fierce duel. Shirou projects and fire multiple Shinai to his opponent while he is busy running around and setting up runes on the ground while his opponent smashing the projectiles using several elemental spell to distance himself to Shirou. It was an average and close fight base on the Queen's view until Marisbury drop a huge bomb.

"Do you know with Shirou's level of projection, he can project a Noble Phantasm?" Marisbury said in monotone loud enough to be heard by the Queen. "Powers and all..."albeit a rank lower than the original.

The Queen's smug expression vanishes, Olga cheers seeing the opponent was caught on the trap Shirou prepares and Waver paled to the point of fainting.

"That was a jest," Marisbury said seeing their reaction and an already fainted Lord El Meloi. "At best he can perfectly replicate a mystic code as long as it has an appearance of a sword."

*thud*

The highly anticipated average of the Archibald branch family fell flat on his face after falling for the Rune trap Shirou prepares for him that sucks his mana dry while receiving a powerful blow to the stomach.


Aaaaaaaaannd cut!

Compared to the original timeline, Shirou woke up in the middle of the night, due to Caster casting a healing spell that work in conjunction to Shirou's Avalon regeneration.

As for Caster knowing Archer's capabilities, Archer is summoned multiple times in different period of time as a Counter Guardian and since Caster still lives during those periods, she naturally winds up on the information.

Now then, surprise, surprise, Marisbury Animusphere is the master of Mordred in this iteration of the fifth holy grail war. Originally I did consider her Apocrypha master but I decided in using Masters that participated in the 2004 Holy Grail War to set for the future events of FSN Divergence.

So far the only masters during those time are Shirou, Rin, Sakura, Shinji, Zouken, Bazzet, Kotomine, Medea, Kuzuki, Atrum, Keynneth (Fate Kaleid) Angelica (Fate Kaleid) Zachary (Fate Kaleid), Kariya (fate Kaleid), and Marisbury (in the FGO).

Regarding some of Scathach's Servant status, her status was in shambles due to her incomplete summoning and some might notice that their stat was the mash up of Lancer and Assassin. For Mana, even if she was summoned correctly, it will still remain at D rank due to Shirou being her master. For her skill set esp rune magic, that was deliberately put there and to be upgraded to Primodial Rune later in the story similar to how servants stat on the game of FSN change. Same Goes for the Territory creation that would be updated in chapter 5.

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