Chapter 7 Father

Today had been a peaceful day for him, he had manage to barely make in time to work and after that it had been a regular day of work and now he was about to leave. Normally he would work a little more but he hasn't seen her sister since last night when he leave the house with Saber and if he knew her as well as he believed she would be mad.

He sight as he began to clean his working area.

"What wrong Ed?" A voice with a Hawaiian accent make Edward turn back.

He saw a fat bald man, wearing a white cooking jacket with black pant and matching crocks.

"Hey Jody, I'm surprised to see you here I tough today was your day off."

"I came to check some things with the owner. But what's with the long face."

"Nothing really, my sister is going to kill me that's all."

Jody was another worker in the restaurant, he was a nice guy that sometime pissed him off but he was a good friend. He has some circumstances that make him leave his country but Edward has never ask him why, it was the same as Saber he knew it was something he didn't like to talk about.

Also he had been working there even before him, the only reason he was in charge was that Jody had another job and couldn't come in the mornings to check things every day.

"Is she mad because you now have a girlfriend?"

"Yeah…Wait what?!"

"There a blonde beauty waiting for you. In front of the restaurant and he called you by some weird name. I didn't think you were into that."

Edward blushed for a second before he sigh while wondering why his servant was waiting for him.

"It's not like that. She is…" in that moment he began to wonder.

What was his relation with Saber? They were master and servant but he couldn't say that to Jody.

"She is just a friend." He decide it was the most appropriate answer.

"Well at least you aren't so focused on your little sis. Really man sometimes I think you have a complex."

"Shut up!" he yelled back as he finish to clean his station and began to leave. "Fucking Jody." He said with a smirk.

"See ya tomorrow." The Hawaiian said as he just smile back.

He leave the restaurant and saw Saber standing impatient at the other side of the street while waiting for him she was wearing the clothes he had bought her the other day. The moment she saw him she walk up to him.

"Why did it take you so long?! Do you know how long I have been waiting for you?!"

"Sorry?" he said putting his hand on the back of his head. "But tell me why did you come I mean you could have waited for me at home."

At this Saber blushed a little.

"Well… about that…"

"Sella kick you out right?"

Saber looked at him with an expression of shock.

"How did you…"

"I had a feeling. So what did you do?"

"A feeling uh?" Saber said ignoring his question. "You have good instincts Praetor."

He just smile and began to walk away.

"Let's go home."

Saber was about to follow him but Edward cellphone began to ring.

He stopped and check the number and realize it was from his house. So probably it was Sella, this make him remember how hard had been to teach the two homunculus how to use the phone at the beginning.

"Hi Sella"

"Good afternoon, are still on work."

"No I just got out I was going back."

"Good, I know you are tired but could you go and pick up Ilya?"

"I don't mind but where is she? Normally at this hour she should be home."

"Yeah, Taiga called and told me she would stay behind to help her with some things."

"Damn sis, well can't be helped." He said with a sigh as he hung up. "Let's go Saber."

"To where?"

"My sister school."

Saber put an annoyed expression.

"Hey don't be like that, I will treat you something on the way home."

She looked at him with bright eyes and he couldn't help but think once again that she acted like a child.


Back to the school the building had turned into a war zone. Once again Rider found himself running through the hallways of the school while grabbing his master avoiding the black magical beams coming at him at full speed.

If he were the target he could just cut them in two like the fire ball Archer shoot at him but for some sick reason all of them were aiming at Rin.

"Damn witch." Rider said while gritting his teeth's.

The beams followed them through the hallways, suddenly Rider stopped.

"Sorry my lady, take care of the landing."

"Rider? Wait! What did…?" he suddenly throw her at the end of the hallway.

The beams ignored the servant and follow the girl, who now didn't have the means to dodge. Rider smile as he draw his twin blades and move at great speed to cut the beams in two.

On the other side Rin saw the wall at the end of hallway get closer, she knew that is she crash directly she would die. So there was only one thing left to do, she reinforce her clothes and prepare herself for the impact as she cover her head with her forearms.

She felt a sharp pain the moment of the crash as she created a hole on the wall. She move the rubble ignoring the pain all over her body.

She turned and saw beam coming at her before it was cut in half right in front of her, Rider stood before her and before she could complain the knight kneel in front of her.

"My apologies my lady, you got hurt. But believe me when I said I didn't wish you any pain. Those beams were aiming at you and trying to cut them while holding you was more dangerous." Rider spoke with a solemn voice.

Rin could feel how her anger towards the knight began to fade. No wonder he was a man followed by many, even his enemies had come to respect him. Rin sighed, she couldn't deny it was better to be smashed into a wall that being reduced to ashes by that black magic.

But even if she had forgiven him she wouldn't let him off the hook so easy.

"You really put me in danger Rider. Any other master could have die with your little trick."

"Yes! I'm deeply sorry, even when I trust you my lady to be able to protect yourself I did something too dangerous."

The solemn look on his face make her feel a little guilty.

"All right! Really I was just kidding. You didn't have to look so serious." Rin said slightly embarrassed.

Rider smile at her, still there was something nagging on his mind. The girl that was with the witch, her master had called sister. Still the fact that the two looked completely different didn't miss the knight. He didn't know what could have happened but he feel sad at the fate of such girls.

He had been a father who had loved her daughters dearly, to the point that their happiness meant so much to him that he rather leave then in a monastery and cut any relation with them so they wouldn't be part of the shame he suffered when he was expulsed from his kingdom.

And so El Cid couldn't help but want to help her master bring her sister from darkness.

"Lady Rin, I think you should leave this place."

"What?! That witch is manipulating my sister and you want me to leave!"

"That is the thing my lady, I don't think she is being manipulated at least not in her feelings towards you." He said with a sad expression.

So the tough Rin had been trying to deny since she saw Sakura come to her.

"What…What are saying?"

Rider had felt the pain and the hate Sakura was feeling, he knew Caster had manipulated such feeling to turn her into a puppet and he also knew that her master was deluding herself.

"My lady…"

"You think I will let you leave?" a dark voice was heard on the hallway.

Black portals appeared from the ground and white and crimson lizards with the size of a big dog. The crimson ones had spikes all over his back even on his tail while the white one has a clean skin and the two kinds of lizards had the large hand menacing claws.

"Drakes!" Rider exclaimed.

"Rider do you what are those?"

"Yes, they are drakes a sub kind of dragon."

"Dragons?!" Rin couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Just who is that woman?!"

Rider got ready as the monsters jumped at them.


On the other side of the school a black wolf was fighting the very same lizards while a girl with silver hair was protecting herself with white wires in the form of blades slashing through the monsters while protecting a woman lying on the floor.

As more Drakes began to come the wolf stop fighting and run towards Ilya and put her over his back along with Taiga and began to run.

"Thanks Cerberus." She said while patting him on the head. "Really the only time I stay to help and you get me in this mess." Ilya said while looking at a sleeping Taiga.

The black wolf was another familiar his brother had got from Ciel just like Kyrph, the first time she had seen it was when he use it to escape the Einzbern. He wouldn't let her touch them but she had her means.

The wolf obey her as after all this time he had recognize her as his master sister so in a way she was also his master. That was the reason the wolf fight for her and protect her.

The moment the fight in the school began and the dragons began to appear she knock out Taiga as it would be annoying if she found out about magic. As the black wolf continue to run she began to think about the situation.

It wasn't an attack on her, she had been very careful to hide her identity and she hasn't tried to associate with the Tohsaka.

"A battle for the war." She conclude. "How come I didn't realize sooner."

She had been a little too tired and distracted about her brother so she didn't notice anomalies in the school.


Back in the classroom, Sakura remained seated while Caster stand behind her. Truth to be told Caster wasn't really there, Morgan Le Fay was a sorcerer who had the ability to move through space by using the Astral plane. So the Sorcerer wasn't really there but only her astral self.

This work as both an advantage and disadvantage, on one side she wasn't able to actually protect Sakura as she wasn't physically there. But in this state, where she was free of physical limitations and in the school she had turned into her territory she was completely invincible.

Caster looked at her master, at the beginning she didn't really care about her and she even cursed her broken personality as it make it hard to control but she had to admit she was a magician with talent.

She could feel a great amount of prana coming from her, even when the worms inside her body drain a great amount she had plenty of reserves.

Caster felt nothing at all for her master, she saw her as a pawn. With her abilities she would be able to easily kill that worm she called Grandfather and the worms that piece of trash had put inside of her.

She knew very well the purpose of the worms, that old man was using the girl as a new host body; and while she tough it was a waste to use such a girl for something like that, in her eyes he hasn't do anything wrong. Sure he had done inhuman and disgusting things to the girl but just like her he had use any means possible to achieve a goal.

After all she was a woman who had used her very own son to try and destroy her father and trick her own mentor and seal him inside a tree.

"What's wrong master?" she asked.

"Don't kill nee-san." Sakura said with a voice devoid of any emotion.

"Why? I tough that was the point of bringing her here."

"She deserves to suffer more." Sakura said with a small smile. "Just like father she thinks magic is everything. Kill her servant and take her arm."

Caster eyes widen a little before smiling back.

"Her family crest in her left arm isn't it?" she asked seeking confirmation.

Sakura just smile.


Edward and Saber were halfway to Ilya School. Edward had notice that Saber had been staring at him for some time.

He suddenly stop and look at her surprising her a little.

"Something wrong Saber?"

Saber looked at him and she couldn't help but remember.

She had been kicked out the house because she had kind of a discussion about Sella wanting her to help in the house and she refusing because she was a king. The maid didn't like her words and began to yell.

In the end Sella told her to leave and find Edward saying she was his responsibility.

"Treating me like a dog. That woman doesn't know her place." She tough really controlling herself to avoid problems with her master so called family.

But when she was about to leave she turned towards the maid.

"Yesterday we found a master. My Praetor told me her name was Lorelei, she attacked my master without mercy from the beginning. As if there was a grudge. Do you know why?"

The moment Sella her that name she felt her blood freeze and wonder how the boy was still alive.

"The Queen of London, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she is one of the most powerful magician alive. I guess it couldn't be helped."

Saber looked at her clearly confused by her words.

"The Barthomeloi, Lorelei's family, all have an irrational hate towards vampires. But Lorelei's hate goes beyond that is something no one has seen before in all the story of that family."

"That doesn't explain why she attack him with such hate! She was just targeting him!"

Sella look at her with an annoyed expression.

"I was going to that. Her family believes in complete perfection not only in them but in others. They seem vampires as imperfect beings that's the reason of their hate."

Suddenly Sella expression soften as if she weren't sure about what she was about to say.

"My lady's brother is not fully human. Lorelei must see him as an aberration, as nothing but a mongrel."

Saber looked at her with her eyes completely wide and blank. She knew the maid was speaking the truth she had seen him unleash a power beyond one of a regular human and also cheat dead using flames to regenerate fatal wounds.

"You think the same as that woman?" she asked the maid.

Instantly Sella expression change as if he had been offended.

"I won't say I'm fond of the boy but both I and Leysritt own him our gratitude as he protected Ilya. He had proven me how much he wants to keep her safe and so he has earn my respect. "

Saber was looking at the silver haired maid with distrust as Liz who had been in the living room hearing all the conversation decide to speak.

"Ed is human. Ed is Ilya brother. Nothing more, no matter what he said."

This time Saber turned towards Liz who had a sad expression.

"What…What do you mean?"

The two maids looked at each other both seemed sad.

"He already consider himself a monster." Sella said looking away.

"Saber you there?"

Saber was brought back from her memories by the voice of her master.

"You seemed as if you were thinking too deeply about something."

"No…Nothing is wrong."

Edward looked at her for a moment and was about to ask when he felt something wrong along with Saber.

His eyes looked turned crimson as he looked at the school, there was a black aura surrounding the school. Still something normal humans couldn't see and it took less than a second before a realization hit Edward and make him run towards the school.

"Ilya!"

"Wait Praetor!" Saber yelled as she began to follow him. But as she follow him she couldn't help but feel a little sad for him.

"Praetor… Do you really consider yourself a monster?" she said in a whisper.


At the same time Ilya found in a very dire situation. The dragons weren't so strong she couldn't handle, at least that would be the case if their only weapons were their fangs and claws but she wasn't so lucky.

The crimson one breath fire while the white ones breathe ice and they were so many in numbers that it was just matter of time before both her and Cerberus were surrounded and at their mercy.

She had left Taiga inside an empty room and had begun to move with Cerberus after realizing the dragons didn't care about the teacher.

Cerberus throw black flames from his mouth trying to create an escape route, it partially worked as it killed some of the small dragons coming at them but there were too many to create an exit. Ilya got ready for the next wave, but suddenly the dragons stopped and began to cower in fear as a woman dress in black appeared from a black portal.

Cerberus growl at her but the next moment shadows pierce the wolf turning him back into a jewel.

"Cerberus!" Ilya yelled trying to catch the jewel

But before she could grab it a black portal open on the floor and suck the jewel.

"A servant." Ilya said in a whisper as she felt the power coming from the woman.

"I am the servant Caster." Caster spoke with a smile.

Another of the advantages of astral projection was that she could be in more than one place at the time. Caster looked at Ilya with an amused expression.

"Aren't you quite the interesting being? You aren't human, no you are something similar…similar to my son."

Ilya was taken back by her words yet at the same time, she knew she was in a very bad situation. She couldn't beat Caster in a battle of magic

"Yes, you will be a fine sample for my research."

Shadows come from under Caster and began to suck Ilya yet at the very moment the sound of a gun being fire was heard and a rain of bullets kill the small dragons.

"Who dares?!" Caster yelled annoyed by the sudden attack as the bullets pass through her.

But as she yelled, she turned and give her attacker a small opening.

"Time Alter…" she heard a voice said.

But the only thing she manage to see was a black figure moving a great speed.

"…Double Accel"

In the next moment the black figure moved passed the spellcaster and took out his Calico semi-automatic and shoot the floor.

By the time Caste was able to react both Ilya and her sudden attacker were gone only leaving a hole on the ground and all the dragons around her were dead. She couldn't believe it, this was her territory it was impossible for anyone to enter without her noticing. Unless…

"Assassin." She said while gritting her teeth before disappearing.


Back with Rin all around her was tainted with red, as Rider moved at great speed to cut down the dragons while blocking the fire and ice coming at her master. While she support him shooting Gandr at an amazing speed keeping them at bay.

Rider realize this was just a waste of time and energy. He cut the dragons around the and in the small interval between the next attack he stuck his twin blades on the ground.

"Come my most loyal companion! Answer the call of your master!"

A black light filled the hallway and as the light engulf the dragons the windows and the walls were covered by blood.

Rin found herself moving at a great speed, it was as if she was mounting something.

Caster felt them coming but before she could even try anything they attacked.

The classroom was destroyed and from the explosion a woman clad in black along with a crimson dragon carrying Sakura came and landed at the back of the school.

Sure being in astral form Caster wouldn't be harmed but even when she didn't see her master as anything more than a pawn she couldn't lose her just yet.

The spellcaster look up and she saw how from the smoke a Spanish knight mounting a black stallion along with his master while holding his twin swords.

El Cid strongest weapon, the friend with his journey begin and through all those years he had fought and even when he lose many valuable friends along the way remain at his side. The horse that had been seen as anything but a burden for everyone except by him. The horse that even after his death carry him and allow him to achieve his greatest victory enter the battlefield once again to give his master the victory against his enemy.

"Babieca." Rider said with a whisper.

At the same time Caster looked at the horse with shocked, the horse didn't seem to have anything special but felt a great amount of power coming from him. In a way she was right the horse was normal at least according to the legend. In life the horse had been considered such a bad horse that when El Cid go with his godfather Pedro El Grande he exclaim "Babieca!" that means stupid.

But also the legend tell that the bond the knight and the horse developed was such that in the middle of the battlefield their body and mind become one. El Cid was different from any other Riders whose mount had a special power or was a mythical beast. The reason was that in life that mount never work alone, they worked together as just one being.

The power of unity, something that many didn't give enough attention and for Morgan was the worst kind of enemy. She only use people, so the concept of working together like equals was something strange for her and that make her angry. To see the knight make her angry. The knight remind her too much of her sister.

"Learn your place filthy knight!" Caster yelled as her eyes began to glow.

"Make me Witch!" Rider spat

The next moment the knight and his horse dashed at her at such speed that they seemed like a black comet.

Morgan didn't move, she didn't have a reason to, the knight pass through her and the moment he did she felt pain. To be more precise her real body felt pain, she break the trance she had put herself and cough blood.

It didn't make sense, in that state she should be able to get hurt but Rider had manage to achieve the impossible.

Rider turn and saw the sorcerer on her knees.

"Weird, I expect that to be enough to kill you."

To their surprise Caster just laugh.

"Interesting, being able to hurt me. Me one of the greatest mages of all time, I will really enjoy killing you Rider."

A dark aura began to surround her.

"My lady step down. Leave the rest to me." Rider said in all seriousness.

Rin do as she was told.

"Save your sister." The knight tell her with a smile.


Ilya couldn't believe what was happening, just moment ago she was about to be taken by a servant and suddenly another one came and save her and the most weird thing was that she felt safe with him. There was something similar in him that make her trust him.

Assassin suddenly stop and put her on the floor with care. Ilya looked at him, he had black hair and was wearing a black coat with a matching black shirt and pants with brown shoes but he was also wearing a plain black mask over his face.

Assassin looked at her for a moment before he make his weapon disappeared. Kiritsugu had been ordered by Julius to patrol the city and by mere coincidence he had felt the barrier Caster erect around the school and go to investigate as experience had proven him that the Caster class was always a problem.

The moment he arrive to the building in front of the school he saw her through one of the windows. Her daughter, the girl he had abandoned to fight the fourth war and the last person that had been taken from him.

Even as a servant, he act like a father and move in order to help her daughter. He looked at her, she hasn't grow too much since he left her inside that castle. But seeing her wearing a school uniform give him some peace, he didn't know how different this world was from his but in this moment he didn't care. There were so many things he wanted to say to her, to many questions and so many apologies.

He was about to take off his mask and talk with her when Ilya felt something.

"Brother!" Ilya said with a smile.

With the mask it couldn't be seen but Kiritsugu eyes widen in surprise.

As Caster and Rider were so focused on the other neither notice the new presence that had arrive at school, the hellhound arrived at the battlefield.


Well it took me a while to do this. Just to avoid confusions, this is a Kiritsugu from another world, so that explains why he doesnt know why Ilya is in school and all that. Also the myth about Babieca and El Cid has many versions i just decide to use this as i believe it was better for the moment. the battle in school keeps growing. Please review