Next Chapter up! Just a heads up- this chapter has a lot of explanation for what Chaldea is.
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NOTE: Depending on the POV, the name of characters will be different. Example, if it's Cleo's POV Arthur would be known as Saber since she doesn't know who he is or if it's Arthur's POV, he describes them since he doesn't know their name. Third person will have all the names. Hope it makes sense.
Chapter 6- Chaldea
"What's Chaldea?" Rin asked, looking at the opposite group, distrust still in her eyes.
"Chaldea Security Organization. I doubt it exist in this version of the world." Cleo said. "Chaldea is humanity's last stand, watching over the light of the past as well as seeing into the future."
Jeanne looked at Cleo in amazement. "The past and the future? How is that possible?"
Before Cleo could explain, Ariene cut in, her purplish-blue eyes scanning their surroundings. "I hate to cut this conversation short... but perhaps we should talk somewhere else."
"I agree." Arthur said immediately. "We're too exposed here."
Issie looked at Cleo. "We could go to the hotel. Maybe we can even get in contact with Chaldea."
"That's too much hope. We haven't been able to yet." Cleo said doubtfully.
"Why do you want to go to your turf?" Rin demanded, looking at the two Masters.
Issie glared back, her amber eyes narrowing at the accusation in Rin's voice. "It's not our turf. It's just where we're staying at the moment."
Ayaka spoke up before Rin could say anything else. "I think that works." That got her approving looks from both Arthur and Jeanne while Rin and Gawain looked at her with disbelief.
"Follow us." Siegfried said,taking the lead. Jeanne easily fell into step with him and the two of them immediately started talking like the old friends that they were.
Issie and Cleo exchanged amused glances before quickly following the servants and the rest followed suit.
Arthur POV
Arthur fell in the back of the formation, watching the rest of the group as they made their way towards the supposed Chaldeans hotel. Jeanne and Siegfried were at the head of the formation and Rin, Ayaka and the orange haired girl, who introduces herself as Issie or Isolde was walking with them. The darker haired Master, Cleo was walking in step with Gawain for some reason. The orange haired servant was walking to the left while the green haired female was walking at the right.
Arthur himself was at the very back of the diamond shaped formation that surrounded all the Masters. He wasn't the only one in the back however, the black haired servant was walking beside him, her eyes to the front and glued to both of her Masters.
He took this chance to really look at her. She had flawless peachy toned skin, midnight black hair pulled into a elegant bun; the sides of her dark hair were braided back before being pulled into the bun. Her eyes were a purple-blue that he had never seen before. She also wore a dark violet blue tunic that flared out as it reached her waist with silver accents and her legs weer wrapped in tight black leather-like material. Over her tunic, she had gleaming dark silver armor with and a midnight blue scarf that had a hood attached to it.
She also walked with a regal grace, making him think that in a past life, she must have been nobility or even royalty. Even then, the way she carried herself didn't make her seem arrogant.
"Did you need something?" She asked, meeting his green eyes, a clear challenge in them. But, there was something else too, he just didn't know what.
"No. I'm Saber by the way." He said as way of introducing himself. Unless he knew that they could be trusted, he would never tell them his name.
"Interesting." She said, a small smile forming on her lips. "I'm also Saber and from what I heard, so is your friend. Why are there two Sabers in one Holy Grail War?"
Arthur gave a sheepish laugh. "Honestly, I'm not sure myself. This is an odd war."
She gave him a smile in turn. "I suppose it is." Her voice was soft as she gazed at him with warm dark purplish eyes. Did he see recognition in those eyes? Did she know him?
Arthur blinked, that shouldn't be possible. He was certain that he would remember someone like this servant. "Do we know each other?"
"No." She immediately said, "But you can call me Ariene."
"Ariene?" He asked, stunned that she would just tell him her real name but she must have had a reason. He didn't remember a Heroic Spirit with that name at all.
Ariene just nodded before picking up her pace, catching up to Cleo and staying by her side for the rest of the journey to the hotel.
Arthur stayed in the back, Gawain joining him shortly after Ariene had joined Cleo. "That servant's name is Ariene." Arthur said absentmindedly to his Knight.
Gawain just nodded, "Cleo told me... My King, is it just me or do they seem familiar to you. I swear that it feels as if I've met them before."
Arthur furrowed his brows, "I feel the same. However, I don't remember meeting them."
"Neither do I." Gawain said.
Arthur stared after the two unknown girls, unable to shake the nostalgia that was filling him. Why did they look so familiar?! He knew that it was going to eventually drive him crazy because he just knew that both of them knew the truth. He wanted to force them to reveal why they were so familiar but he also knew that he couldn't force anything out of them. This was a puzzle that would only be solved it they wanted it to happen and he really hoped that they did.
Once they reached the hotel, Issie immediately led them to their room, which turned out to be rather large suite on the ground floor. She wondered how they afforded it. She also saw various clothes scattered on a bed and what looked like a very advanced electronic watch on the table, as well as what looked to be spiky, beautiful glass-like jewels.
"You didn't clean up the saint quartz?" Cleo asked, looking at Issie with a brow raised.
"My bad?" Issie asked with a nervous smile.
"So, Chaldea." Rin immediately said, trying to keep everyone on track. "You said it was an organization that could look into the future and the past?"
"Yes." Cleo said, settling on the couch in the room. "At first Chaldea was just a astronomical facility before becoming a research observatory around 2004 and was headed up by the Animusphere family until recently. They created SHEBA which could look into the future and eventually the light of the past."
"That's amazing." Ayaka said, to be able to see into the past, that seemed like a dream come true. If she could see into the past, she would try and see what really happened to her Father and sister.
Before Issie could continue, there was beep! beep! causing all of them to jump in surprise. Cleo looked down at her wrist and saw that her communicator was flashing a blue light. Finally!
"Cl-Cleo! Issie!" The holographic picture of a frantic Roman popped out of Cleo's intercom. He looked relieved when he saw that they were unharmed. "I finally got through!"
"Hey Roman!" Issie said, looking at his holographic form, a large smile on her face. "What's up?"
"What's up?! What's up?!" Roman snapped, Cleo was sure that if he wasn't a hologram he would shake Issie. "Do you have any idea how freaked out we were?! We couldn't reach you!"
"Sorry!" Issie leaned back, trying to put as much distance between her and the hologram. "Do you know why?"
Roman looked at them, before he finally seemed to realize that they were not the only ones in the room. "Who are they?"
"I am the servant class Ruler." Jeanne spoke up, looking at Roman, These are my friends, Rin, Ayaka, Saber and... Saber." Jeanne said, realizing how she sounded now that she thought about it. It was even more ironic that both servants were Arthurian Knights, and were blonde.
"I... see." Roman said, he met Jeanne's eyes and smiled. "I am Romani Arachaman, the acting Director of Chaldea. I also already know who you are Jeanne, we have a Jeanne in Chaldea as well. You were actually one of the first servants we were able to successfully summon."
Jeanne looked at him surprised. "You do?" She would not have thought that since she was a Ruler class, it would be impossible to summon her. "Chaldea is an organization that watches over humanity correct? Cleo and Issie were just explaining it to us."
"We didn't get far Romani, why don't you take over?" Cleo asked in a teasing tone.
"What have you told them?" Roman asked.
"The founding of Chaldea and I mentioned SHEBA once." Cleo explained.
Roman nodded, "Well the main aspects are CHALDEAS and SHEBA I would say." He then explained the function of CHALDEAS as the perfect representation of the worlds status in both the past and future and how SHEBA helps CHALDEAS make a time specific observation.
The non-Chaldean people in the room were stunned at the explanation, none of them had thought that such a project was possible. "Is there anything else Chaldea can do?" Rin finally asked.
Roman sighed, "Well we also were able to prove the Rayshift theory, the Pseudo-Spiritrons conversion projection. This theory is used in LAPLACE and the TRISMEGISTUS, which help with rayshifting, it's what Cleo and the others did to get to where you are." He then explained how rayshifting was a way of projecting a physical self into the past or future.
"Finally, there is the FATE system." Roman said, a smile forming on his face. "FATE, relatively is our grail. The system can summon servants or memorial essences or power ups for the servants."
"Incredible." Rin said, "I had no idea that there was any other way to summon servants."
"Shouldn't it be impossible to summon servants without the Grail?" Ayaka asked nervously.
"It should and it was extremely hard to create FATE. Until recently, FATE rarely worked." Roman explained.
"So you watch over humanity, past and present." Arthur finally spoke up after being silent. "Is that why you're here? Did your systems catch something off with this time?"
At that Roman grew quiet, as did the rest of the Chaldean group. They had been talking quietly while Roman was explaining Chaldea to the people in Tokyo.
Cleo looked at Roman, "Are you going to tell them?"
Roman sighed, "Yes, I think it's vital knowledge." He looked at the Tokyo group with much sterner eyes than before. "Listen closely..." Roman began to tell them that in the year 2018, SHEBA had seen the extinction of humanity in 2019, so that started the mission to fix history.
He went over how forty-eight masters were chosen for Singularity F, the first Singularity, and how forty-seven masters were lost in the program as well as more than 60 of Chaldea's staff due to the betrayal of Lev Lainur's betrayal and how the Director of Chaldea, Olga-Marie Animusphere had also died. He then went on over the seven singularities and how they had already completed three of them and were now on their fourth.
"This singularity just popped up and Ariene said that it was the merging of different worlds and time." Roman finished, "So we had to split our forces."
There was silence after that and it honestly looked like none of them were going to speak at all. When the silence continued for a few more minutes, Roman turned his gaze to the Chaldean Masters and servants.
"I'm going to check up with Kakeru and them in the London singularity. Keep safe and hopefully our connection doesn't cut off again." Roman said to them. "Keep me informed." the hologram then blinked out and Cleo sighed, annoyance shining in her green eyes.
"He didn't say why we couldn't contact them in the first place." She complained.
"Humanity is extinct?!" Ayaka finally asked, horror clear in her voice and on her face, her blue eyes looked stricken.
"And you still don't know who is causing all this? That this Lev man is helping whoever it is?!" Gawain asked, he knew he wasn't from the time or apparent world that they were from, but he still felt like he needed to retaliate for the people who were wronged.
"Impossible..." Jeanne stared at them, her eyes went to Siegfried and he looked away, as if he was feeling shame, even though it couldn't be his fault.
Ariene looked at them all, suddenly feeling horrible for the news that they had dropped on them. "We at least beat three singularities and Kakeru's in the middle of the fourth. We're doing good." She said, trying to cheer them up.
Rin groaned, of course this would happen! She had the worst luck! "You said worlds and time are merging in this new singularity? What do you mean?"
"Well, you were brought over from a different world right?" Ariene asked, looking over at Rin.
Rin gaped at her shocked, "How could you tell? We didn't tell you that!"
Ariene gave her a somewhat bitter smile, "Until I met Cleo, about four years ago, I was traveling from world to world. I've gained... well I don't really want to say ability, but I can tell when something doesn't quite belong."
"About that, Jeanne began, looking at Ariene. "I don't know who you are, even though you've said your name. Ariene Direcrest. I don't know the mythology."
"That's because my legend doesn't exist in this world." Ariene explained. "Like I said, I've traveled worlds. You'd be surprised how many different legends there are depending on the place."
"So, how is your legend known from where you come from?" Rin asked, crossing her arms.
"Well, besides Ariene Direcrest, I was known as the Eternal Queen or the Queen of the Celestial Heavens." Ariene said.
The explanation was longer than I thought it would be.
Next chapter: Queen of Celestial Heavens- background on Ariene Direcrest
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