Chapter 6: Killing the King of Kings, Killing the Matou head that helped found the Holy Grail War, Ending Rider, and freeing Sakura Matou

AN: Well everyone sorry for the wait. Here is the continuation of the story starting at the events immediately after the cliffhanger. Constructive criticism and other positive/useful reviews are loved and flamers with nothing constructive in their fires will be ignored as usual. P.S. to anonymous reviewer #2, the title states the reasoning for non-tracing abilities and I won't spoil it for everyone so feel free to learn what it is. To answer a major question posed by many people to me, and probably being wondered by others, is Shirou's ability to trace God Hand in this fanfic. This is due to Shirou's skill in tracing Avalon, structural analysis, and his practice of first reinforcing himself or pushing Avalon to engage and then analyzing the effect. This practice and skill has allowed him to learn how to trace conceptual abilities such as God Hand and either use them himself or trace them into weapons and have it work for the wielder of said weapon. Hope you all enjoy the story.

Disclaimer: *Author twitches* I'm getting tired of writing this every single fucking chapter everyone; you should have it memorized by now. I'll say it again so I don't get my story blown off the site, I don't own Fate/Stay Night, Fairy Tail, any used quotes, or any other related media.

After the Wounding of Gilgamesh recap – Servants Caster and Assassin dead, shaky truce with Rider, Lancer and Berserker pre-occupied with caring for and protecting their respective Masters and the 5th war Archer is aiding Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh tsked at the fact that the faking trash before of him had wounded him and barked out; "Bind Them, Enkidu!" as he pulled Ea from his Gate of Babylon, leaping at Shirou.

Shirou panicked slightly seeing the chains of Enkidu flying towards him and decided to piss off Gilgamesh to remove said Heroes tactical thinking and traced the dark red key-shaped shortsword which allowed the wielder to use the Gate of Babylon and spoke, "Open thy Gate which leads to the infinite treasury of Babylon." Thus creating a perfect copy of the Gate of Babylon and pulled out both Durandal and Ea from it and calling out his Gate's Enkidu to cancel out Gilgamesh's.

Gilgamesh roared angrily at Shirou, pissed off by his actions, "You Fake piece of trash! How can you use my gate and my greatest treasure?!" Shirou smirked calmly and replied, "By tracing and engaging the Gate of Babylon through its physical form I can access and use anything from your precious treasury even if you yourself are using it."

Gilgamesh, beyond pissed at this point, decided to wipe this disgusting freak of nature from existence and prepared to fire of a full-power strike from Ea causing Shirou to panic. Shirou began to power his own Ea and have it spin in the opposite direction of Gilgamesh's to try and cancel the attack out. The air and reality around them began to warp from the power of two anti-world noble phantasms powering up together above a leyline nexus. (AN: Nasuverse Wiki states the Ryuudou Temple is the location of a massive leyline nexus which is nearly drained to being empty by the Heaven's Feel Ritual.)

As the Ea's charged up Shirou dismissed Durandal and again called up Enkidu, binding both himself and Gilgamesh in their respective positions, having decided that if he was going down, it wasn't going to be alone. Together Gilgamesh and Shirou, having reached the highest level of stored power that their Ea's could hold, roared out the names of their attacks putting all of their prana into the attack, ""ENUM ALISH!"". The two attacks slammed into each other with a tearing noise, alerting the two and everyone nearby that the fabric of reality was under an immense strain from the clashing World-slaying blasts.

Shirou knew that his Enum Alishwould never stand up to Gilgamesh's own due to Gilgamesh being the original and true wielder of Ea. So Shirou did what he believed was the answer to all battles in which he had the disadvantage, he cheated. In this particular battle he did so through reinforcing Ea and dismissing Enkidu as he began to pull up the tracing blueprints of his strongest Noble Phantasm in his mind and pushed Ea forward, forcefully advancing his own Enum Alish. As Gilgamesh's Enum Alish failed and was canceled out by Shirou's own and the pressure on it; Shirou pumped prana and od into the Ea he still held, pulled what was left of his Enum Alish, traced an Excalibur, and charged Gilgamesh as he did something stupid – he Broke both Ea and Excalibur, turning them both into Broken Phantasms and impaled them in Gilgamesh. His last thought before he Shattered the already broken phantasms was, 'Thank god I have God Hand active…' Before he commanded the two Broken Phantasms to Shatter, releasing all of their stored energy, history, and potential power in an explosion which nearly turned the tall mountain upon which the Ryuudou Temple sat into a plateau, though it did turn it into a crater.

Saber, who had been sent back to the Emiya house with the use of Shirou's first Command Seal, stopped half-way back to the mountain upon seeing the explosion and noticed Archer standing next to her and questioned him on what happened. Archer sighed and replied, saying "Your idiot master somehow used Ea's attack Enum Alish to cancel out Gilgamesh's, which nearly destroyed the Fabric of Reality around them, and proceeded to turn Ea and a traced Excalibur into Broken Phantasms, impale them into Gilgamesh and then proceeded to command them to Shatter. From what my structural analysis could tell, this released the past time of the collected history of the Phantasm, its stored power, the power letting it exist in Gaia's world unopposed, and its potential power in a single massive release of energy." Archer had, of course, forgotten to mention his own involvement as Saber had missed the traced swords he himself had sent into Ichigo at the attack and she had thus seen him as an ally the entire time.

Saber began to run towards the large crater the explosion had caused, but Archer stopped her and asked, "Why are you heading towards that, your Master's dead and you need to find a new one before you disappear." Saber looked at him oddly before replying, "I can still feel a connection to the Command Seals that Shirou holds, he isn't dead yet." This reply shocked Archer to the bone as it should've been impossible for a human to survive that explosion and he quickly followed her with the intent to finish the job and they found something that unnerved Archer and scared the shit out of Saber.

There, standing in front of them, was a skeletal being with scorched bones and very small bits of muscle and flesh standing in front of a massive trench dug in the ground of the crater. But the state of the being wasn't what unnerved Archer and scared Saber, it was the fact that the skeleton was moving and its muscles and skin were regenerating quickly with a red, gold, and blue light emanating from the bones. The glow hinted to Saber what was happening, but Archer was still clueless; however, eventually the muscles and bone finished repairing themselves and flesh quickly formed from the feet up as the being stretched and popped its joints and muscles respectively. Archer only got who it was when red hair formed on the skull of the being, but both noticed that the eyes of the being which appeared to be Shirou had a golden tint to the amber and there were flecks of red and blue in the sclera. Shirou coughed as he stumbled, his newly reconstructed muscles which were far denser than his older ones and still new and unused to work, and commented "Ouch – not doing that one again. It completely drained God Hand, and would've killed me again if Avalon hadn't kicked in – even then I'm not sure how I survived that. OH! Hi there Saber."

Shirou did a quick double-take when he saw Archer, thinking 'Wasn't he the one that sent a Hrunting and Gae Bolg into my heart? Yes, yes he was.' Shirou's next thought, was 'Die you Motherfucker Die!' as he commented to Saber, "You know Archer there put a Hrunting and Gae Bolg into my heart right Saber? Actually now that I look at him clearly, he looks an awful lot like me but with black-tipped white slicked-back hair and well-tanned skin."

Archer blanched slightly at Shirou's first comment and turned almost transparent at the second, thinking 'Well damn, the last few Shirou Emiya's in the alternate fifth holy grail wars I was summoned too were a lot less observant.' He then blinked in confusion as Shirou commented idly, "Let's head home Saber – I'm too exhausted to fight him and your too low on Prana, hell you'll pass out soon if you keep your armor manifested much longer. I, Shirou Emiya, Command Servant Saber with the power of one of My Command Seals to take us both Back instantaneously to my House." Shirou and Saber then disappeared leaving Archer with his thoughts.

Two days Later, All remaining Master/Servant pairs are fully recovered, two servants are dead, four left. Masters (true) left are Sakura Matou, Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka, and Bazett McFraga with one Master (false) alive, identity is confirmed as Shinji Matou.

Shirou sighed as he cooked breakfast thinking about how much of a pain it was getting used to his boosted strength and how his prana reserves had gained a massive boost from the strain it took to both power Ea, Excalibur, break and then shatter both said phantasms, power a full God Hand, and power Avalon enough to fully repair his body which had become nothing but scorched bones. He heard a series of hard thumps, similar to those of a kendo practice sword slamming wood, and headed to the front door to let Taiga in. He greeted cheerfully, "Hello Taiga, oh Sakura I'm glad you could make it!"

Shirou's instincts came to the fore when Taiga swung her sword at him and he caught it, grabbed her arm, and threw her overhead before turning back to Sakura and stating, "The foods nearly done if you'll go to the dining room while I get it out," he paused looking back towards Taiga, who was on the floor dazed, "oh and if you don't mind, please drag Taiga back there with you."

"Alright Senpai, I'll get her to the dining room for you." Sakura replied smiling lightly. Shirou inwardly thanked the gods that it was Saturday and Taiga had a teacher's meeting to get to after breakfast and requested, "Sakura could you wait behind after breakfast? I'd like to discuss something about this month's event." Sakura nodded in a reply with a slight paling of her cheeks indicating her fear to which he quickly mentioned, "It's nothing bad Sakura, just a possible truce is all."

Sakura nodded sighing in relief and wondered how Shirou could miss her feelings for him but notice when she was afraid.

Later after Taiga left, Shirou began to discuss the previous happenings of the Holy Grail War including the information he had gained from Rider. When he got told that all of Rider's information was correct and that her grandfather's worm crest worms weren't the only thing to rape her pissed him off and caused his Magical Aura created by is Flame Dragon Slayer Magic, Telekinesis, and other abilities to flare up enough to give him an ominous glow.

"Sakura would you be so kind as to introduce me to your Grandfather." Shirou asked with a false warm tone, somehow making Grandfather sound like Asshole.

"Alright Senpai, follow me I'll lead you to the house." Sakura said with a tone of hope present in her voice and stepped out the front door as Shirou told Saber to follow them and be prepared to kill Rider if necessary. As they walked to the Matou household Shirou questioned Sakura, "If I could help arrange it would you want to rejoin the Tohsaka Family now that you and Rin are the only ones left in it?" Sakura enthusiastically nodded in reply commenting, "If you can remove my Adoptive Grandfather from the picture I'd love to Senpai. OH and we're here."

Shirou gave a cold smirk, conveying the fact that he was insanely pissed off as he was usually more expressive with his emotions, saying "Alright then, time to meet your lovely Grandfather. Shirou then commented, stopping Sakura from opening the door, "Oh let me, I'll do something I consider fun. Announcing My Presence With Authority!" Shirou then kicked the door and blew it off the hinges and into the opposite wall, splattering Shinji like a pancake as he was about to open the door and leave. Shirou pouted and muttered, "Damnit! I was hoping to kill him slowly, I guess this works though." Sakura blinked and found herself chuckling at what had happened despite the fact her brother had died.

"Humph. Who is this Sakura?" An old man with a cane commented as his presence and magical scent disgusted Shirou as he could feel the fact the old Bastard was older than dirt, inhuman, and evil. "This is my Senpai Shirou Emiya. I do believe I've mentioned him to you before Grandfather." Sakura replied with a slight hint of glee in her voice as she was still looking at the door.

Zouken Matou was confused at her glee before he saw the Shinji-pancake on the wall and growled looking towards Shirou and questioned him, "So why are you here boy? I'm guessing you were the one to kill Shinji." Shirou smirked and nodded to his guess before replying, "To kill an evil bastard who has been manipulating the grail wars ever since the first of them and who has cruelly raped one of my dearest friends."

Zouken's mind made the connection as he questioned Shirou, "Oh and how will you do that foolish boy?"

Shirou smirked, handed Sakura a small dagger which he had altered and added a one-shot version of God Hand's resurrection capabilities, and then launched a traced Gae Bolg at Zouken, said spear then proceeded to turn and impale Sakura. Shirou quickly ripped the spear and the worm impaled on it from Sakura and cruelly stomped the worm to death, killing the worm which represented the heart of Zouken Matou.

Zouken's eyes widened before his false body exploded into worms and Shirou traced Excalibur, broke it, and then proceeded to set a timed shatter command in it before grabbing Sakura's arm and running for it with her, as the dagger had exhausted itself fully restoring her by healing her heart and killing all the worms in her.

The resulting explosion from the shattered phantasm version of Excalibur turned the Matou home into a Crater, nearly killed Rider, and obliterated what was left of the worms which composed Zouken Matou. Shirou then focused on Rider's existence and fired a Broken Gae Bolg at her which exploded after impaling her heart, killing her.

AN: Well that's an explanation for 1-2 major questions and Chapter 6 everyone. A major fight, finally showing my morbid humor, and the 'jump' into what I intend to be the true 'meat' of the story so from here on out there will be fights happening more frequently and plot will be a bit more interesting – I hope….