A/N: Hey peeps, I'm back with the latest chapter, and the start of the Monkey King Arc. To those of you all who have been reviewing in Spanish despite my warnings, I will only say this: Anyone who from this point on posts a review in anything but English shall be ignored, unless anyone volunteers to translate for you in the reviews. I am tired of saying this, but I DO NOT SPEAK SPANISH! Just get it through you skulls already. Now onto the Reviewer Review:

1.) The whole thing about Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet, I took a few liberties on that one based on the knowledge I had about it, the Campioneverse and Nasuverse canon lore, and the best way to make it work. To give you guys an understanding about how it even worked, and how the Campioneverse mages even have circuits, allow me to clarify: Thaumaturgy in my fic is considered the school of origin among the mages of Campioneverse, where all other schools of magic were derived from, but some of the teachings, knowledge, and spells were lost or even forgotten over the years. While in Nasuverse canon magic circuits only came into existence after the Age of the Gods ended, to my knowledge, in canon the Age of the Gods merely adapted to the modern times in the Campioneverse, hence why they have the circuits in my fic, but the mages themselves do not know or realize their significance or even importance.

2.) The whole 'Seikirei' reference is there for a reason. I won't say it yet, but let's just say it has to do with a plot fodder I have in mind for the epilogue at the end of my fic. Also, the way Shirou healed Alice was something I left out on purpose. It has significant plot importance later, so I won't be revealing it until then. 8P

3.) The whole thing of Fate Mordred meeting Campione Mordred...yeah no...not happening in my fic. Maybe in an omake fic as a one-shot if anybody wants to do that, but I do not plan on doing it anytime soon. As in, ever. If any of you want to give it a crack, I will fully approve, so long as you make sure to reference any relevent fics, not just mine, as you use it. I make it a point to give credit where it's due to the best of my abilities, so I would appreciate it if you all would do the same.

Now that that's out of the way, it's time for the disclaimer:

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own either 'Campione!' or 'Fate', as both and any other references are owned by their respective publishers and authors. This story was created based of off Marcus Galen Sands' 'God Slaying Blade Works', with references to other fics as mentioned when used, as an AU with a heavy emphasis on 'WHAT IF', with the 'Harem Ending' of Nua Realta, a meshing of canon lore from both, and my own original ideas thrown in every now and then when applicable and to make the story make sense. This is a FREE, UNPAID fanfic, meaning I wrote this for free without any monetary gain, so if you paid to read this, then you were ripped off. This is a FANFIC of a FANFIC, meaning a fan-made fiction of a fan-made fiction. If you do not like it then you do not have to read it. Nobody is making you, so stop being an ass to everybody else only to make one of yourself in the comments and reviews for the site.

And Now:

Story Start

God Slaying Blade Works: The King of Wrought Iron

Fifteenth Blade: Brewing Storm, Rising Sage, and a Symbolic Gift

Kusanagi Residence

Godou P.O.V.

It's been about almost a week since Emiya-san ended the training camp a bit earlier than planned to deal with the Bronze-Black Cross's corruption and removal of the front runner of it's criminal activities. After he revealed to the world that Reki-san was back among the living, the Dragoons actually approached Kurogane-san about swearing themselves to his service, if for no other reason than out of respect for him giving Giovanni his just desserts.

So far, Emiya-san is willing to take them and try to incorporate them, but from what I can tell he is still trying to flesh out the details of the mages association he's trying to create. However, he seems intent on making it have codes of conduct no different from the knights of the Arthurian legend, while giving a place for any with unusual talents and outcasts a place to belong.

Other than that, for the most part, everything else is almost completely the same as it was before...except for one thing, which is currently what I found myself waking up to this morning…

*Warning: The following is a lemon. If you do not want to read it then skip it.*

"Godou, my dear, don't forget to make sure you get it all out..."

"Ena will make sure to get your royal gems completely emptied, my King..."

...as I was given morning wake-up sex as a threesome involving both Ena and Erica...this is just getting ridiculous, and they have even been taking turns by alternating with Yuri and Liliana as well, despite their obvious embarrassment at the rather improper relationship, as both were completely naked and switching between fondling my family jewels and sucking me off while they took turns deciding on who was going to be riding my morning wood.

They've actually became rather vigorous, and initiating it with me, even Yuri made it clear that while it may not have been started under the best of circumstances, she wasn't about to stop us, either. Liliana even acted more like a love-struck girl than an actual knight like she used to whenever she gets her turn. This morning while Ena was straddling my morning wood, Erica began to really start stimulating my balls, as she licked and slurped rather erotically...

Oh shit...I'm gonna-

*GWOOOOOSH*

I groaned so loudly as I exploded inside of Ena's womb to the point that if Shizuka didn't know what we were doing before, then she does now. And true to their word, Erica and Ena proceeded to wring me completely dry, emptying my balls for now until we continue again later tonight. I poured so much into Ena I would not be surprised if the Seishuuin heiress were to get knocked up right here and now, with how much her stomach swelled a bit from the sheer volume. The only guarantee I have that they aren't going to get pregnant is something Tohsaka-san gave us to prevent premature pregnancy. She basically called it 'birth control on steroids', and explained that unless I somehow spontaneously used magic on my body while getting laid, they shouldn't get pregnant unless they stop taking it. She even explained that the only reason that Emiya-san ever even got them pregnant was thanks to using magic to augment his body for so long his very being became passively enhanced with magic, hence it reduced the effectiveness of the birth control...

...in other words, he basically overpowered it with both his supernatural vitality as a Campione and his literally magical constitution…

After I finally stopped unloading inside of Ena for a full minute, we laid there for a few more minutes, before deciding to get up...and face the wrath of an Angry Shizuka...oh joy...and the two of them managed to slip away to leave me to suffer the little she-devil's ire alone...just great...

* End Lemon*

Thirty minutes later

"...and so, if you gonna do that Onii-chan, then at least make sure nobody can hear you next time, got it?!"

Shizuka finished wrapping up a full-blown thirty minute dress-down on me about properly starting relationships with women and what not to do to avoid causing such problems as being chewed out by my little sister…

"What. Was. That. Onii-chan." said little sister began to growl at me. I swear I could see an angry demon forming behind her, I just know it!

"...oh shit, I said that out loud, didn't I?" I suddenly began to sweat bullets in sheer terror over facing Shizuka's wrath...I would sooner fight a group of Heretic Gods completely unarmed, defenseless, alone, and naked before facing her rage when she's this angry...

*VhrrrrBrrrrrBrrr*

"Hang on Shizuka, I got a phone call!" I quickly pull out my phone and glanced at the caller ID after it started ringing, which Shizuka glared at me for, but begrudgingly accepted the excuse. Phew, saved by the bell…

"Hey Yuri, what's up? Is there something you-"

"King Kusanagi, please I need your help!" a girl sounding about Shizuka's age suddenly interrupted me from the other side of the line. The urgency in her voice was not something I could ignore, and Shizuka seemed to notice the change in my demeanor, given she got a concerned look when she saw my face.

"...okay, I'll see if there is something I can do. But first, I need you to calm down and tell me who you are, and how you got Yuri's cell phone." Just what is going on, did Yuri get kidnapped again?

"My name is Mariya Hikari, and I'm Yuri's sister. I know you have every right to be angry with me, but I need your help. Please..." The desperation in the now named Hikari's voice is something I cannot just ignore, especially when it's Yuri's sister begging for my help…

"...okay, where are you, I'll come as soon as I can get there or meet you somewhere nearby."

...I can only hope this won't become too much trouble to deal with, but knowing my track record with anything involving the Supernatural, that's about as likely as the sun rising from the west or a blizzard occurring in hell: Never gonna happen.

Scene Change

Emiya Mansion-Later that Evening

Shirou P.O.V.

"...and that outta do it, My King. Would you like to test it out now, or do so later?" Reki asked me after he and I finished up the little side project I asked him to do for me and help me out with. I took the finished product, handled the grips, and proceeded to test the handling for them, swinging them around and checking their balance and such...and I am liking it so far.

"So far so good. I'd like to test it out real quick before I do any field testing, though. It's better to find out if they work while we have the chance to correct them now than to have them fail on me when out in the middle of a life or death battle." I answer, and he nods at my decision. He and I then walk towards the back of the forge we set up for ourselves that we both share for making weapons. He uses one half of the room for producing his firearms and creating his modifications, while I use the other half for forging and enchanting any new sword-type mystic codes. This time he and I were collaborating by using a few of the fragments of [Kanshou] and [Bakuya] that Godou-san found and brought back for me from Sardinia, and it worked better than I could have hoped.

The testing for its firing and transformation from bayoneted pistols to gun-blades was flawless, and with practice the timing would be near instantaneous. It even had the bullets formed using my tracing in mind, rendering the need for reloading to be nonexistent so long as I had the reserves to produce the 'bullets' in the form of the swords in my reality marble. In other words, specially made firearms for me and me alone. This was what I needed Reki's help for: I could make the blade part of the design myself no problem, but I needed a gunsmith of Reki's caliber in order to actually make the sword's shattered fragments forged into usable weapon parts for twin pistols. And it still retained it's attractive properties to boot. I already knew this before, but now I definitely can honestly admit it with firsthand knowledge as a fact: Reki is an absolute bonafide genius.

"If I doubted you before Reki, I don't have any now. You are by far the biggest damned genius I know to help me pull this off. Thank you." I honestly praise Reki for this. After all, it's not every day someone manages to take the shattered fragments of a broken phantasm and reforge it into an entirely new weapon while retaining it's original properties and the traits from it's legend. With this, I now have a few more options for ranged combat if I need to summon my go-to swords while needing to fight at a distance. It would certainly come in handy.

After all, in my memories from the 'Counter-Guardian Route', I received some training in firearms and explosives from my old man before he died. While he gave up everything in order to save his little sister and fulfill his fraternal duty as a big brother, he willingly played the part of the villain to a former friend who had strayed too far from the path he should have been walking to be a 'Guardian of Humanity'. So that fragment of myself decided to oppose the plan to sacrifice his little sister, forsaking his dream of carrying out his Emiya Kiritusgu's dying wish in order to save his little sister from being sacrificed for a goal that was doomed to failvfrom the start. He became the Counter-Guardian to his ex-best friend's Guardian of Humanity, all because he knew something that the guy didn't figure out yet…

'…Condemning an innocent little girl who has never once felt happiness in her life to die for the sake of humanity wasn't going to save humanity...only destroy it...'

...it would merely force them to be forever tainted with his sin of having innocent blood on humanity's collective hands. He had seen how that would end for him, after all. His Kiritsugu had died trying and failing to find a way to make it work out, even though he knew it would condemn the little girl he had taken under his care to death in the process, resulting in his Kiritsugu's obsession over it ending with him, only to have others try to take advantage of said girl's powers and fail. Among the numerous useful skills my fragment got from training as Kiritsugu's assistant of sorts, he learned how to use firearms, so that got passed to me along with the skills and memories from the 'Counter-Guardian Route' my fragment's life had led to…

"I am glad you approve my King...though you do not need to praise me so much. I had sworn my service to you willingly, and even though I am no longer bound by my soul to serve you as a resurrected servant enforcing my loyalty to said oath, I intend to fully continue my service under your command to the day I die a second time. You earned my loyalty, and the Dragoons have also come calling and offering their fealty to you as well. Not only because you brought me back to life, but they also found the poetic justice of Giovanni being not only stripped of his position, but also physically and magically crippled permanently, as a bonus. They felt you scored some major respect points with them just for that last part, never mind the fact you also resurrected me on top of that. They have actually heard about the new mages association you were creating alongside King Kusanagi, and they wish to know how to join up with it."

That got my attention back to the present. So the Dragoons want in on the new mages association I was trying to create, huh. I still haven't quite gotten it all worked out in my mind either, but having the Dragoons as a part or even as an affiliated ally would be a boon. I know better than anyone just how useful their skills would bring to the particular direction I want the budding organization to go, but I also was not going to force their obedience if they did not wish to join up. As I told every resurrected soul I called back from the grave into my service, I do not seek mindless slaves who cannot think for themselves. I seek willing servants. So long as they willingly swear their loyalty to my organization of their own volition and without coercion, then I do not mind trying to make them a part of it or even as a consultant, so long as I can retain their services when they are needed in emergencies.

"But if you're going to use these new weapons, then you are going to need a name for them, my King. Names have power, you know, and it's only fitting for such a masterpiece as this to be given one. Since they were originally swords, why don't you give them a name, My King?"

A name, huh...I knew from 'my' memories there was two of my fragments who wielded firearms instead of swords. But one of them also used a similar weapon to my current twin pair, albeit a bit different in both quality and capabilities...if that's the case then…

"...[Kanshou and Bakuya Alter]...that's what I'll call them, since they were forged using the 'married swords' as their basis and main components, they will also be known as the 'married pistols' in honor of their original form's legacy..." I say with a genuine smile. I truly felt it was only right. EMIYA Alter used twin pistols made in the image of [Kanshou] and [Bakuya], but he called them [Kanshou and Bakuya Alternative], and they were his, not mine. He might have been my fragment, but my fragments lives were basically their own, even if they were originally part of me, they became their own identity through their own methods, thus I have no right to claim their weapon's names for my own, even if we were originally one and the same person. It just did not feel right for me to do so...

"I see, it's most certainly a fitting name. An altered form of the 'married swords', produced to form the 'married pistols' carrying their legacy in a pair of modified handguns with affixed bayonets. That's-" he started with an approving tone, but before Reki could even finish, he was interrupted by a loud knocking at the door to the forge.

"King Emiya, I have a message from Mistress Illya, she needs you in her workshop right away." One of the members of the Circle called out from the doorway to the forge.

That drew both our attentions instantly. Illya never really let me in her workshop after she showed me her new mystic code along with the pet project I had helped her with after dealing with the Circle's punishment...at least not since the one time I accidentally disrupted a few of her projects when I knocked some things over by mistake. So for her to call for me to meet her in her workshop, now of all times, it must be something important. It's nearing dinner time, so for her to interrupt that chance for me to cook shows how serious it is. "I'll be right there after I clean up a bit. It wouldn't do to show up in her workshop all sweaty from working a forge. I'll be there in a few minutes."

I look at Reki and he nods in understanding. He got my orders instantly without me even needing to say them aloud. He and I really are of like minds. He followed me out to clean up and change clothes real quick in order to come along and see what's up. If Illya felt the need to call for me, it usually meant one thing and one thing only:

…A Heretic God has appeared…

Oda P.O.V.

I went to Illya-chan's workshop door after she had called for me. I do not know why she did, but what I do know is that for her school of magic, a mage's workshop is as sacred a place as a sacred site can be to religions. It is where they research their magic and develop any new or improve preexisting spells. I had only ever had the privilege of being allowed into their workshops a few times, and never more than once or twice for all of them combined. But what I have seen whenever I had been inside them was enough to make my world turn upside down at the possibilities of magic that had been lost or even forgotten by the other schools of magic that was used by the school of origin from which they derived.

Illya-chan allowed me to enter into her workshop, and I followed the sound of her working on something to the corner where her magic tool for tracking Gods had been placed, though she seemed to be in an irritated mood about something. Then I noticed the magic tool itself seemed to be malfunctioning for some reason. It was reacting to mystical presences, going off, then suddenly winking out the detected presences.

"...Illya-chan, you called for me? And what are you doing?" I could not help but ask at the sight of what the teenage snow fairy was doing. The magic tool she created was most certainly acting bizarre from what I understood from the explanation I got from King Emiya. It was a perfect metallic recreation of Tokyo scaled down and constantly shifting to update in real time. But there was an anomaly in it's actions that apparently caused the source of irritation for the Emiya Mansion's resident teenage snow fairy.

"My Mini-Atlas Guide has been bugging out like crazy. It was working just fine when [Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi] appeared, but it's been acting buggy afterwards ever since. It keeps reacting to a god's aura, then says it's a false positive, right before it starts glitching like crazy, as if the stupid thing can't decide if it's detected a god or not-SEE?! There it is again! I was hoping you could help me with figuring out what is wrong with it before Shirou gets here and have it fixed."

Sure enough, the little recreation was certainly reacting to something, but kept shifting so fast it could not say if it was an actual God or simply a false reading caused by some kind of malfunction. However...

"Illya-chan, I am afraid I do not know how I can even help. My area of expertise is in combat and sensing mystic presenses, not formal craft and repairing or producing magic tools, so I don't know the first thing about this. How could I possibly help with something not related to my field of expertise?" I told her in genuine confusion as how asking for my help would be of any use, but she just waved me off and responded in a rather surprising manner.

"Don't sell yourself short, Kuhoutsuka. Just because your talent in [spirit sensing] is considered useless in combat does not mean it actually is. Shirou was even actually openly pissed off when he found out that the Kuhoutsuka clan were using such a talent in a blatantly demeaning manner, 'letting their talents go to waste and throwing away their potential', as he put it, word for word. Besides, it's this very talent you've all considered useless I need from you right now. Just use your [spirit sensing] on the mystic code while I try to adjust the filter settings. Let me know when it starts stabilizing, and then I can fix the problem."

This actually surprised me. King Emiya was actually openly upset enough to make such angry remarks about how my clan was mistreated in his eyes? Was there really more to [spirit sensing] that he saw that we didn't? Pushing said thoughts to the back of my mind for later, I began to start opening up my mystical awareness to the area around me, then focused it onto the magic tool that Illya-chan created…and nearly recoiled back about ten feet from the feeling it gave off. It was certainly chaotic, but this was not too strange. I had dealt with chaotic presences before. What separated this one and made it special was the fact it felt like I was actually sensing the area it was reacting to, like it was actually expanding my range to wherever it was displaying…

"...Illya-chan...do you have any idea how invaluable this magic tool you've created is? It's actually expanding my range of perception just by focusing on it right now. I can literally sense all presences in the area it displays right now as they happen to be in it's range of detection..."

I could not help the shock in my voice at such a tool. This thing would literally give the Kuhoutsuka family a means to detect any trouble, all enemies and any innocents in an area, potential plans of actions to make...and this was what she called a successful failure?

….if this is what she considers a failure, then just what would she consider a flawless success?

"I kind of figured it might have that effect on you. Shizuka-chan had a similar reaction when I showed it to her before, said she could literally feel everybody in the area it displays as they went about their daily lives. It wasn't exactly the purpose for it's creation, but it seems the successful part of it was that it's capable of expanding the effective range of any sensory-type mystical capabilities. Though it is still a failure because it cannot quite sense magical presences below a certain level, at least, not without nearly exploding from the sensory input overload...now I know how Shirou felt all the times he nearly blew himself up while he experimented with his [tracing] magecraft..."

That actually got me caught off-guard and completely flat-footed from the sheer implications of such a statement. It shocked me so much I nearly missed the subtle change in the mystical presence. "Illya-chan, it's subtle, but it's beginning to stabilize. Whatever you were doing is helping to calm down the rather chaotic mess of magical energy this magic tool of yours is emitting."

"Ha-HA!" The teenage snow fairy's triumphant exclamation was slightly muffled from under the table, but still audible. She crawled out from under the table, and I had to suppress the urge to laugh at the adorable sight. Though she may be a teenager only few years younger than I was, she tended to have a few childish tendencies. She looked like she was some kind of childishly cute fairy crawling under the table trying to fix something broken, and all she would need was overalls, a tool belt, and a pair of fairy wings to fit the mental image...the thought was simply too funny, and I could not quite keep the bemused smirk at the thought from creeping up on my face.

Said smirk, however, left my face as soon as I saw just where the constantly shifting locations stopped, as I had heard from my ojii-sama just what was there, and I know of its importance as the Heiress to the Kuhoutsuka family's main branch: Saitenguu in Nikkou National Park...oh shit…

"There we go. As I thought, it was a problem with the search filter, but I needed somebody to help me sense the problem while I fixed it. Now then, let's see...what...we...oh shit..." Illya-chan trailed off as she noticed exactly what I had was off with where it was detecting the anomaly's origin.

Illya P.O.V.

This is most certainly NOT good. There were literally four, maybe five, presences, though one of them is definitely Kusanagi-kun's, but the other three or four were unknown. When I turned to look at Kuhoutsuka, however, she was paling, as though she knew something was up...did she know something special about this location? Did the committee have something there, and Kusanagi-san was involved somehow in it?

"Kuhoutsuka...what is there, and why do you seem to be frightened by the fact that Kusanagi-san is there as well? What are you hiding-no, rather, what is the Committee hiding there that makes you so frightened?" I ask her as I narrowed my eyes in suspicion. The uncomfortable shifting the blonde warrior-priestess did before me did not go unnoticed by me, though. She knew something, but was trying to keep it to herself by hiding it…

"Illya-chan...I find myself in a difficult position. On the one hand, I swore my loyalty to King Emiya's services. But on the other hand, I am sworn to keep certain secrets the Committee has from getting out. I know what is in the Saitenguu, and I know what King Kusanagi is most likely doing there, but the problem is...I cannot say anything without breaking my oath of secrecy to the Committee, but if I don't tell you what I know, then I will be violating my vow of loyalty to King Emiya...can you see how difficult a position that is for me to be in?"

I was actually surprised by her rather straight forward response with the honest stress of what she felt was a conflict of interest between two oaths she swore to uphold. On the one hand, if she told us what she knew, she would be keeping her oath of following Shirou, but at the cost of betraying the trust of her superiors and family in the Committee. But on the other hand, if she didn't tell us what was going on and what she knew, then she would keep her oath to the Committee, but break her vow of loyalty to Shirou. She was literally caught between two loyalties, and which of the two oaths she would uphold and which to break. Not a pleasant position to be in, and definitely one I most certainly don't envy her for being in…

"Hey Illya. So what did you need me for?"

...and of course, the guy she has to decide whether or not to uphold her oath of loyalty to or break it to keep her oath of secrecy just had to walk in while she was conflicted about which loyalty to retain and which loyalty to break…

...I really don't envy her position right now…

Few minutes later

Shirou P.O.V.

"I get it...that's definitely a tough position to be in...On the one hand, you lose face with your organization and their trust by giving out classified information, but on the other hand you lose trust with one of the strongest beings currently in Japan by keeping said secret, thereby violating your oath of fealty to me. However, I have a suggestion, one that should solve the problem. If I were to use my authority as a Campione to order you to tell us, then the Committee would not have any right to be angry with or punish you for it as you would technically not be breaking your oath if it was to an authority with the proper security clearance, and they do not possess clearance ranked higher than a Campione, am I right?"

That seemed to surprise them both. Did they really not think of such an easy solution? I thought it was an obvious one, but then again the simplest solutions are usually the most overlooked when dealing with complex problems. I tended to use spells everybody else deemed useless, but I still managed to find uses for them that nobody else even bothered to try. But that's simply because while everybody else simply overlooks an already created spell that they deemed useless for anything but practicing basic magic control and emission, I took it to levels that nobody else ever thought possible, simply because they were the only spells I could even do halfway right.

"That...would actually help, yes."

"Then Kuhoutsuka Oda, I order you under my authority as a Campione to tell us what you know about what the Committee has in Nikkou National Park and what it has to do with Godou-san."

Oda-san actually seemed to visibly relax slightly as I ordered her under my authority. It was pretty obvious just how seriously the girl took her oaths, and how hard it was for her to break it on her own without being ordered to reveal it using my authority first. Before she complied with my order she took a deep breathe before she began speaking...

"Within the Saitenguu in Nikkou National Park, there is a god sealed there to be used in the defense of Japan in the event a foreign deity were to invade. I do not know the specific details, as only the Renjou know the full details of the Keeper of the Horses seal, since they are it's overseers, but what I do know is that the seal in question is to maintain a god of steel to be unleashed in defense of Japan, and cannot be utilized unless a dragon is involved in some manner. What I do know for certain, however, is the sealed god in question was also a trickster as well as a divinity of steel, has been under the seal for at least a few hundred years, and requires the presence of a dragon somehow in order to invoke the deity, but I do not know it's true identity."

"...oh shit...that was a stupid thing to even do...no, scratch that. Just thinking of doing that was bound to end badly...higher beings do NOT like being forced to do things like that by humans who they often perceive as beneath them...whoever it was who made that seal was either the biggest fool among fools in humanity's entire history, or the bravest of souls with a pair of brass balls the size entire mountains..."

I could not help but comment at the thought of somebody actually trying and succeeding in pulling off such an impossibly stupid feat or unbelievably reckless stunt, depending on your point of view...and this was coming from the guy who fought heroic spirits like Berserker as a normal human magus on equal footing in an upfront fight back during the Grail War...

"...coming from you Shirou, that's actually saying something...but then again, I have to agree...higher beings tend not to treat humans very well. Their entire history has proof of that fact. The only thing that amazes me about this is how nothing went wrong before now with the damn thing..." Illya and I were both gawking in disbelief, our minds of the same exact thoughts, reflected on both of our faces for all to see:

'How could anyone be so stupid and not be a genuine Child of Epimethius?'

"The seal was working just fine up until recently. But there have also been some anomalies going on lately with the Keeper of the Horses seal for almost two weeks now that have never happened in the entirety of the centuries it has existed up to this point, something that has confused even the Renjou, as they are the overseers of the seal, but none of their records of what the seal's functions were describe anything about these anomalies...that's why King Kusanagi is there right now, as Yuri-san's little sister, Mariya Hikari, was approached about becoming the new priestess to oversee the seal, and Hikari was not too happy about it. They needed somebody with her qualifications, and Lord Zaraki's nephew was a bit too pushy..."

"...so Kusanagi-san went to see if there was anything he could do to help, and something apparently went wrong..." Illya finished for the blonde Kuhoutsuka heiress, who merely nodded her head tiredly at the summation. She really did not take breaking her oaths very well at all..but still, even so…

"...something about this still doesn't make any sense..." their eyes turn back to me at my words. Illya looks like she might have an idea of what I was thinking, but Oda-san was confused by my words. "It's clear that Godou-san is there, but the energy spike denoting him is smaller than it was before the last time it reacted to his presence. Also, the other energy spike next to his is also probably a Campione, but looks like it was weakened as well. The two other spikes are most likely the God sealed within the Saitenguu, but had gotten loose, and the fourth being a possible dragon...but what the hell is that fifth phantom spike that keeps appearing then disappearing just as fast? Could there be a possible fifth entity? What kind of entity is it? Is it a friend or a foe? That fifth one is an unknown that makes me very nervous. Oda-san, thank you for letting me know, and I do not plan to let the trust you gave me go unreturned, but right now, I need to get to the Saitenguu and lend Godou-san a hand. Something about this whole thing feels just way too suspicious to me for my liking, and the current situation gives me a very bad feeling..."

I turn to leave, but Illya suddenly calls out to me. "Shirou, you're not planning to go by yourself again, are you?" I stop and turn around to her, with a genuine smile on my face at her unasked question.

"What are you two doing just standing around there for? I need to get Reki and Aya up to speed. You all are coming along with me. Everyone else is going to stay here. Bazett can hold her own against anything to attack here for now, plus the other girls are no slouches either. And with Aegeus as acting chief of security while we're out, everybody should be safe. The defenses here would weaken anything short of a God's best attempt to break in through brute force. But the four of you are all coming along with me. I'll handle the fighting, but I need you all to help with any injured so I can focus on the battle that we may end up having to partake in."

The looks on Illya and Oda-san's faces were that of surprise and awe. They knew they may not be able to do anything against a God, but the fact I was still bringing them along with a clear way for them to help gave them the encouragement they most likely were needing. Oda-san was clearly still nervous, but looked like she was prepared to follow my orders as needed. I was seriously going to need to do something about that confidence problem she had. Whatever it was that had caused such a squandering of her family's talent had created a deep seated psychological scar that is going to be an absolute pain in the ass to fix. But that will have to wait until later. Right now, though, I have more pressing life-or-death matters to deal with.

"My King, I take it you are preparing to leave?" Reki finally walked up to me after getting cleaned up. It looks like Aya came with him. Good, that saves me the time and trouble of having to find them both…

"I am. Reki, Aya, get ready, because you are both coming too. I need you two to come along with Illya and Oda-san to help with any injured we may need to help, while I handle the fighting. I need you all to rescue and help anybody you can so I can focus on the battle at hand." I answered Reki and gave my orders. I made it clear that while I was not going to force the issue, I still needed him and Aya's skill set if what I suspected may be going on turned out to be right.

If Godou-san and the other Campione had been weakened, then that meant they might be injured and in need of medical attention. While I may have a few ways to treat injuries, I cannot use them while having to focus on battle. Reki and Aya both have combat and medical training for both magic and mundane means. They could help protect any injured while alternating between healing them at the same time. Oda-san's skill at [spirit sensing] would help in not only locating the injured but also avoiding any enemies to threaten them if they needed to flee. As for Illya, she has been waiting for a chance to field test the little pet project she had me help her out with a while back, and this is the perfect chance to do so.

"As you command my King. Would you allow me to grab my full gear real quick?" Reki asked me, and I knew instantly what he was referring to, and could not help the smile at what the look on Aya's face would be when she saw the surprise he and I had been working on for her. Oh, I knew she was probably going to love this..

"Granted, but make it quick. We need to leave in the next few minutes to make sure Godou-san is still alive when we get there. Now then..." I close my eyes as I focus on the spell words for the authority I plan to use to get us there. While I do not need to actually use the spell words to invoke any authority, I found from my experiments on their use that trying to use the authority without the spell words causes a bit of resistance from the authority itself, resulting in using more power than necessary to actually invoke it.

While this may or may not be relevant, given my greatly enhanced magic reserves as a Campione on top of my nearly infinite prana levels as a sorcerer, I still only had a limited amount of stamina, and I did not wish to waste more power than I needed to, especially when the situation was currently unknown with Godou-san's status as possibly wounded and weakened, I did not want to take any unnecessary chances…

'I who am King of the World, shall never find myself without riches. My Domain is everywhere, so too is my treasury, for everywhere in my domain my Vault will always be with me.'

...and called upon [Gates of Babylon] to summon the [Vimana] from within it. While I could have invoke [Mount of the Hero], I felt that time was of the essence, and that taking a flying contraption would be far easier to launch a coordinated attack from if need be, and it would be easier to get everyone away on once we got there and out of harms way. It may seem overly cautious or even paranoid, but given the number of unknowns we were walking into, I felt erring on the side of caution might be the safest choice in this particular instance. If the Grail War taught me anything, it was that nothing ever goes the way you expect it to, and no matter how well you may plan it out, things will never work out the way you hope they will, and considering my E-rank luck, it will most definitely never go off without a hitch. Something is bound to go wrong, and I am simply hoping for the best while planning for the worst.

Not long after the [Vimana] was summoned from within the treasury, Reki came back bearing gifts for all of us, in the form of a special bulletproof vest he was helping me try to make. While the vest in particular was a failure, it was also better than most currently being produced, with special enchantments woven into the outfit to grant protection from magical or supernatural attacks in origin. I was trying to reproduce the body armor Archer used, but the material in question was very hard to figure out how to recreate. Even if this was a failed attempt, it still could be used, though. No need to simply leave something lying around when it could serve a purpose that can be helpful for a particular situation.

Reki also gave Aya the surprise we were working on for her, in the form of a Gunblade shaped more like a sword, but with the full capabilities of a rifle. While Reki was simply limited to using only firearms due to his complete lack of affinity and inability to wield swords or bows with any level of talent, Aya was different. Reki Told me how she refused the other divisions of training during the assignments for graduates of the knight academy they had overseas. It turned out that while the knights of the Copper-Black and Bronze-Black were separate organizations, they both used the knight academy as a training academy for prospective recruits to their respective organizations.

Aya had the talent for any division of any traditional knight order she wanted, with her pick of any she could have entered. But rather than choose a more traditional order like they wanted her to, she instead chose the Dragoons. It was due to the fact that she admired her brother, and Reki felt she was the only one who could possibly surpass him, but because she was so intent on remaining in his shadow, she was squandering her talent. So, we came up with a compromise, a way to get her to embrace her talents while still following through in her convictions: a custom gunblade with a semi-automatic rifle that can double as a sniper rifle, with a blade long enough to function as a way to practice her swordplay. It was the perfect way to allow her to continue as a Dragoon, but also a means to prevent her from wasting her potential, and she realized it almost the instant she saw it. But rather than complain, she actually seemed content, as though she was happy for the compromise.

"Thank you...what's it's name?" the one-eyed tomboyish beauty asked. Reki and I simply smiled at each other knowingly, nodded once, then looked at her and said at the exact same time…

"[Delphine], the 'Defier of Fate'."

...causing her to grin even bigger than the two of us combined. Oh, we both knew it was a name that fit her, which was why she was the one we had made it for specifically with her tastes and preferences in mind. With that out of the way, we now proceeded to head to the Saitenguu. If my suspicions are correct, then something big was going on, and I was not entirely sure Godou-san was ready to deal with it on his own yet. After leaving a quick message with Aegeus, I willed [Vimana] to fly towards Nikkou National Park, and hopefully arrive there before it was too late…

...what Emiya Shirou did not yet know, was this battle would lead to an encounter with none other than the Witch-queen of Briton and the de facto Queen of the Divine Ancestors...nor was he aware of the series of encounters this fated meeting would eventually result in, revealing just what his long-forgotten heritage was...or his ancient ancestry that even the King Who Appears at the End of Eras would feel a desire to avoid battling against at all costs...

A/N: And that's the chapter! To you all who are wondering, there is a reason why the gods keep referring to Shirou's power as 'that place', and I have given a little teaser as to what it is, but by the time the Monkey King arc finally ends, I will finally explain it by revealing it in the story. So please wait until the final part of this arc. Also, I plan to introduce the last members of the pairings and harems, and set into motion the series of events leading to their groupings. I will also give an updated character sheet for Shirou, along with a stat sheet for Godou and Luo Hao respectively during this arc. To start off, I plan to give either Godou's or Luo Hao's next chapter, and shall start giving an idea of Shirou's full capabilities in either the next chapter or the one after that. And to thos eof you who are wondering about Reki's RM, you are in luck, I plan on revealing it sometime during the fight scenes within the near future, so stay tuned!

Next time, The Monkey King Arc really gets into full swing, pun not intended. Until next Chapter, PEACE OUT!