The 2005 Fuyuki Holy Grail War was different from the one you may know. Much different. For one, it was the first after the grail's installation in 1800. 200 years ago, Angra Mainyu was summoned in a similar way as any servant, to destroy Japan. To make sure he wouldn't, the three major mage families of Japan; Makiri, Einzbern, and Tohsaka sealed Angra Mainyu beneath Fuyuki, using a fragment of the Holy Grail Of Arthurian Legend and the help of the counterforce.

it was untouched since then until a man named Kirei Kotomine happened upon it. He fashioned himself as 'overseer' and activated the holy grail. It gave 7 random Mages command seals as well as giving Kirei backup seals, to back the overseer idea. I am Shiro Yukigawa Emiya. call me Shiro Emiya for short.

I stumbled into this 'war' on accident; this red sign appeared on my hand and I found my self chased by this Blue man with a lance. Somehow though, through my 'command seals', I suppose, I summoned a servant. The Saber, Artoria Pendragon.

I eventually made a would be alliance with Rin Tohsaka; an acquaintance of mine, as well as the master of the Archer Servant, due to her taking pity on me for being a low-level mage; and she wasn't wrong. My magic only goes back to my grandmother and all my father taught me was projection magic anyways.

I mainly knew Rin through her sister Sakura, who I was a bit closer with, at the time. But, of course we weren't the only masters. There was Shinji Matou, the master of the Rider Medusa and Sakura's foster brother (I never knew all of the details on how); the master of the Berserker Hercules, Illya Von Einzbern, whose father was equally dangerous as their servant; Souichiro Kuzuki; master of the assassin Hassan of the Cursed Arm, and teacher at my school at the time; and lastly the master of the Caster Solomon of Israel: Marisbilly Animusphere.

Her servant was likely the strongest of all casters; or even of all servants, with the ability to command demons. Despite this, he seemed to know the truth of what was going on. "There's is no need for us to fight. Join me and help me destroy this fake grail. Only then, would we be free of fighting." While Rin and I were unsure, Archer decided to join him and convinced us to. But there were others who did rebel.

the masters of Rider, Berseker and Assassin all rebelled, and they were all defeated by Caster's demons. However, Caster did spare the masters though. "I only need to kill the servants. Killing the masters too is wasteful of potential, especially at such young ages." Even Kotomine's own servant; the Archer Gilgamesh, whom he had summoned as a backup, stood no chance to Caster.

the death of these four servants did materialize this fake grail however. Caster was going to destroy it using his demons but as soon as he turned around to face it, Archer activated his own Nobel Phantasm, the Unlimited Blade Works In an attempt to kill Caster. Turns out he was an agent of the counterforce, summoned to stop Solomon because if he destroys the grail, all of the world's evil would be released and destroy all of humanity. But even with all of his blades, Archer still stood no chance. Once his archer's Reality marble disappeared, caster decided he would use his own Reality marble to destroy the grail.

He reasoned that destroying it in his reality marble would protect the outside world from the evils. But he wasn't completely right. When he deactivated his Nobel Phantasm, it turned out that all of the worlds evil had entered Caster and it quickly exploded around us. Rin and I miraculously survived, as did Illya, and Sakura, and everyone else, but the surrounding part of Fuyuki was now nothing but flames and rubble. We were dug out of the rubble by Kiritsugu Emiya and The einzbern maids. We had wondered if this was their wish, but Animuspere dispelled this.

His wish was to have the money start this organization to save the world from disasters like this one. Casters with was just to reincarnate. And sure enough, in the rubble, there was a man with similar hair to Solomon. He had no memories but Animuspere was sure it was Caster.

It was hard, but after a year or two, we were able to rebuild that part of Fuyuki, or at least, what we could. Afterwards, since I had lost my family in the grail's destruction, I was offered a home with the Einzberns. I was hesitant but any way i looked at it, I did owe Kiritsugu Emiya something. He was the one that found all of us. I accepted the offer and I lived with them until Tohsaka and I went to the Clock Tower. But what we didn't know, was that all the destruction that one day was only a vision of what was to come.

(Fujiko POV)

My eyes fluttered open to the room I was used to now. I've been seeing this kind of nightmare for a while now... Was that a nightmare? Or is it a dream? No, wait... after a while, masters get some of their servants memories, right? Were those... were those Arch- Er, I mean, Father's?

"Ah, you're awake." A voice called out. It was father's, right on cue; materializing in the chair beside my bed. "... Did you have a nightmare? You were shaking a little."

"oh! Well... I've been getting dreams of your memories." I answer hesitantly.

"My-... So i really have become a servant." He comments. "Were they mine or were they Archer's?"

"They were yours." I answer immediately. "... did you ever know what became of that Caster?"

"... No. I do know that the organization Marisbilly created was Chaldea. likely whatever happened to Caster was likely directed by Marisbilly. Caster had no memories after reincarnating anyways." Father shook his head. Marisbilly made Chaldea? Wait, didn't that Anne Marie say her last name was Animuspere? "I wouldn't worry about it though. Even if that caster does work here at Chaldea, he could of died in the explosion like a lot of the other crew." Father noted. "Now I would suggest you get up soon. Even if you are outside the realm of time, breakfast is still important."

"You go on ahead; I'll get there." I nodded, stretching. That caster though... isn't he the same as that 'Grand Caster' Ritsuka saw in London? Actually... when that caster reincarnated... it looked like Doctor Romani... could it be?