Chapter 11

A trail of wind blew past as the two sides were at odds. With the exception of Morgan who was of the same nature as her, Gray and El-Meilloi ll on his side could only stand on guard, petrified just by her presence alone.

On the other hand, Sieg as well as Morgan, were scowling at their lifelong enemies and Shirou and Rin were stunned to see what looks to be Sakura but with different features stood against them, even more with seven servants at her command.

"What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost…" her voice was the same as Sakura, sweet and tendering but only it was true.

Deep down, he knew that it wasn't her as the Sakura he know was taking care of her brother after the events of the fifth holy grail war and she wasn't with them at the clock tower, so how did this guy became her, only one way to find out.

With a stern voice of his, he said "You are not Sakura, who are you actually and why have you taken the form of Sakura?"

The counterfeit Sakura still with her wide smile but close her eyes and tilted her head "Oh, I 've been found out, well no matter…", the gang was anxious at the situation before them, each of her servant were as powerful as their own and whether they start attacking, is up to them.

But they just stood still as if waiting for their master to issue an order to them.

"Don't need to be so tense, I have no desire to fight you as of now."

Hearing that, Morgan narrowed her eyes and pointed the black sword at her "What are you playing at…? Are you telling us that we are weak!?"

Saber Alter went to guard Sakura, but she put her hands-on Salter's guard, gesturing that there's no need for a fight. She put her sword down and Sakura continued "Now for Shirou question as to who I am, I am Sakura but also not Sakura."

This had stunned them for a few second as they clearly had no idea what she was talking about "What do you mean?"

This time, its Amakusa Shirou who intervene "What she means is, the body you see right now is a created vessel that our master Angra Mainyu has possessed in." he immediately look at Sieg "Just like you, who life was given by Siegfried but choose to waste it by aiding Jeanne d'arc to confront my ideals."

Sieg darted his eyes back at him and said "Yes, I'm just a selfish bastard, but I couldn't allow your wish to come true."


The tension between them was at all time high as the both sides stared, that is until a childish voice interrupted them "Heh, you would leave me out from all this excitement, Master?"

Angra Mainya clasp her finger together "Sorry Oda, I kind of forget about you."

"That is unacceptable!" she sighed "But well that is all right, since you are my master, I shall let this go…"

Shirou and the gang turn to look at the uniformed girl with her katana stab on the ground, with her hat half covering her eyes, she tiled her head for them to get a clearer picture of her and shouted out

"Rejoice, for you are in the presence of the Devil king of the Sixth heavens, Oda Nobunaga!"

Everyone including her comrades could was silences, not because of how majestic she was, but how she had missed her chance to give a grand speech.

Semiramis place her finger on her forehead and sighed "You do know that you should have declare yourself when you came out of the forest!?"

"Hmmh, you wouldn't know about having an epic entrance."

"Yes, I wouldn't…!"

About four magic circle appeared beside Semiramis as did two rifles beside Oda Nobunaga.

They were about to fire off their weapon, that is until "Both of you stop this instant!" Saber Alter and Jeanne Alter spoke in unison while stabbing their armament onto the ground.

Semiramis and Oda dematerialized their weapons and turn their head away from one another.

Jeanne Alter fold her arm "I can't believe you would try to kill each other over petite things, even more right when our master is trying to tell them something important."

"Never mind, it's ok… this sort of things is what I like about you guys, for you are the fruition of humanity's greed and lust." Angra said with a smile. Both Oda and Semiramis click their tongue.

"Now then…" Angra turn back to Shirou and the others "this vessel was created for me to possess by the Holy grail."

This had shock Shirou side as they could not believe what they had just heard "It can't be…!" El-Meilloi shouted out "The holy Grail was created by us the humans…! it shouldn't have a mind of its own!"

"That's where you're wrong." A low deep voice had alerted them. They turn and saw the fleece covered man wielding an arrow by his side "Our master Angra Mainyu have affiliated with Holy Grail for a quite some time, even before your teacher or your war has even begun." And Angra nod his head.

Even as there was not lot of information, El-Meilloi ll really had a hard time and a headache trying to process all this and Gray was looking worried for him.

She decided to help his teacher to relieve some stress by telling him this word "Don't worry, we are all here…if you ever need time, just count on us, we will make sure you get more enough time!" El-Meilloi could see Gray smile and lifted his spirit.

"Yes, you're right I am the elder of this group and a survivor of the fourth holy grail war, I shouldn't cower by this people." El-Meilloi ll turn to Shirou and Rin who's been solely focus on the counterfeit Sakura.

El-Meilloi ll walk through to reach Shirou "Time to switch Shirou, I will take it from here!" he said and Shirou immediately turn to see El-Meilloi ll passes by him.

Rin happen to confuse by El-Meilloi ll recent development and reach out to him "Hey, what do you think you are doing?"

She then felt a tap on her shoulder and look to her behind and saw Gray "Just believe in him." She smiled.

Rin had stop to think about it, at first she felt reluctant to do so as she knows the enemy right in front of her wasn't the type to lay off the ground, they will kill him if he does anything that might tick them off. But then again, the teacher has more wisdom than the student, so might as well give it a shot.

"All right, I trust that you will not fuck this up, Waver Velvet…" Everyone who witness it either was stunned or whistle out.

Upon hearing this, El-Meilloi ll shifted his eyes towards Rin in a glare before sighing "To go as far as using my true name, you really have no faith in me, do you Tohsaka Rin?"

"On the contrary, it's precisely I can trust you that I call your real name instead of that title you wear upon to mask yourself."

"I'm quite honored to be hearing that coming out from you."

"Hoh…" Semiramis narrow her eyes at Rin, amused by the event she had put up and shifted her eyes to Amakusa Shirou "Well this is certainly a surprise, don't you think so, Shirou…?"

"Eh?" Now this had turn from surprising to freaky "There are two Shirou? …but that cannot be!" Rin turning to look at Shirou who had the same face as she did.

Shirou look at his counterpart "Is it one of my future self, or…" Shirou clench his hand "No, I would have felt it, if he were my future self, so who is he?"

Amakusa Shirou stare back to him as well "It seem that we bear quite a resemblance to each other…"

"Yeah, I guess so…" Shirou gave a sarcastic answer in which Amakusa Shirou took it in nonchalantly. The stared off between the both had gone long enough with El-Meilloi ll had to intervened.

He gave a cough to divert their attention to him "Angra Mainyu…what's your game here? I'm sure you have a motive to lure us out all the way to this remote region."

"Well, I would be lying if I were to my servants caused to this meaningless destruction just for fun…even they would have thought I'm foolish."

Angra Mainyu shifted its eyes at Shirou "Emiya Shirou…" He became guarded when it said that and what it said next had took them by storm.

"A new Holy Grail war is coming." with that, the whole forest was in complete silence.


Rin took a step back "That can't be…!" she said and look at Shirou who had a face of fear.

Gray was concerned with her teacher and looked at him, his look had darkened, and he gritted his teeth anger by what Angra Mainyu had said.

Immediately she confronted Angra Mainyu and shouted, "Are you joking right now?"

Saber Alter and Jeanne Alter pointed their weapons at her "Disrespect our master one more time and we will make sure you aren't leaving out of this alive!"

Both said in unison and Gray was taken aback by their ferocity while Angra Mainyu hold their weapons down "It's okay, we are here only to have a talk with them."

"If that what you want Master, then we will obey your command." Both Saber Alter and Jeanne Alter relaxed their hand and let Angra Mainyu pass through "You can continue."

She swings her arm in a wide to arc to show her anger at Angra Mainyu "The holy grail hasn't been found, so how can you be so sure there's a new holy grail war coming?"

As staring of into space, Angra tiled his head up for a while before giving an answer "Hmm, well because I know."

"What kind of answer is that!?"

"Well, in time you will know about it but for now…know this, the rules of the holy grail have been changed quite a bit…Amakusa, if you can do the honors?"

"As you wish, my master…" with that Amakusa Shirou took a step forward to pick where Angra Mainyu had left off "The rules of this war is simple," he talk in a loud voice where everyone can perfectly hear what he's saying "It will be a war where one fractions of servants will fighting against another fraction."

"What is this, this has never happened in the past few wars!" Rin exclaim but she was hold off by Sieg as he immediately voice out "It's a seven versus seven where one fraction have to fight against the other in order to win and once the fraction wins, they would have to fight within themselves as only the Grail could grant one wish to the winner of the grail war."

Everyone including the other side look at him. Morgan gave a face of suspicion towards Sieg and narrowed her eyes at him "You know awfully a lot about this…"

"Yes, well…because I with Amakusa Shirou and Semiramis, have participated in the Grail war with the same rules." he replies with his ruby eyes lock on to them both.

"And all those plans that I have made, you and Jeanne managed to thwart it."

"And I will do it, as many times as I need to." Sieg said, shrinking his eyes as he was dead set on ending his scheme. Amakusa Shirou clench his hand into a ball and Sieg could see his face being covered up in rage "All those plans were for the sake of humanity, why can't you understand!?"

Oh great, first Oda and now Amakusa Shirou had gone off course.

Angra Mainyu could only lower her head with her five finger on her fore head and let out a sigh, she always let her servants do whatever they want and that had led to this but decide to let this go as she thought this is way more fun.

"Hehhhh…" Even though she did not show it, Morgan find this development quite interesting and decided to bear witness to this conversation.

Everyone just look at them and Semiramis stared at Amakusa Shirou "So now he let out his real self, this will be bliss for me to watch." she thought.

"If your plans were to succeed, then you will be cutting off all of humanity future…!" Sieg countered.

"So what?" Sieg was stagger a bit, surprise at what he had just heard "Humanity history is based on conflict and distrust against each other, over and over again…you been in this world for a few days…you only seen the light, you haven't even seen the dark side of humanity!"

Upon hearing those sentences, Sieg had been silence and Amakusa Shirou thought he had won this battle, never ever had him been sorely mistaken "It's true that I had been in this for a few days and only see the light, but my encounter with jack the ripper and Jeanne d'arc have shown me that people can have light and dark in their heart and whether they choose which they want to be if entirely up to them!"

"So, let me say it again, I will do whatever it takes to destroy your plan and how many times you set a new plan in motion, I will do it again…!"

Amakusa Shirou could see the determined look on his face and gritted his teeth in rage.

Then he closed his eyes and immediately relaxed. he unsheathed his sword and pointed his sword towards Seig "So, there is no way around this, is there?"

"Yeah…" Sieg also draw out his sword and took on his stance. Semiramis stood by Amakusa Shirou side as a magic circle appeared beside her "I will help you just this once, don't expect me to do it again."

He nods his head in gratitude "Hmm, thank you Semiramis."

Sieg grabbed the hilt of his sword tightly as he was at a disadvantage. But unexpectedly, Morgan also join in as stood on the opposite of Semiramis.

She smiles slyly" this seems like fun, let me have in on this..."

Rin had a face full of shock as she shouted, "Hey wait, are you going to fight right now!?"

Saber Alter and Jeanne Alter stood in front of Semiramis and Amakusa side with Jeanne Alter talking first "Sorry, but we will be joining as well. We have unfinished business with those two." She pointed to Sieg and Morgan.

El-Melloi ll turn his head to Gray as did she "Gray, you know what to do." Gray nodded her head and immediately ran to accompany Sieg and Morgan

While she ran, she took out from her sleeves a birdcage with a box with skull shape carving "Add!"

"Yahoo! It been o long since I take the stage…!"

"First stage restraint rescinded!" and the birdcage burst forth a scythe as Gray grabs it with her hand. She landed beside Sieg and Morgan.

Thud*

A sound could be heard beside Jeanne as Oda Nobunaga had stamp her hilt onto the ground and berserker was seen alongside Saber Alter "I can't believe you would leave me out of all this excitement!" she said with her smug smile as usual.

"And why should we? This is not even your fight to begin with." Jeanne Alter replied.

"True, but as a Demon King, I can whatever I want, and I want to cure by my boredom by fighting with this people!"

Jeanne Alter look at her for a few second before turn back to them "Well, it's not my business to hold you back so, you can do whatever you want…"

"Then I will do that!"

Saber Alter turn her head to Berserker as his black aura faded to form a sword "Lancelot, we are no longer in Camelot, so why are you still by my side …?"

He took out his mask to reveal a face with v shaped frown and purple long hair stretch to his shoulder and two bangs lingering on the forefront of his face.

He places his helmets by his side and kneel with one leg on the front and a knee at the back. He lowered his head to bowed before her and said "Whether this is Camelot or not, you are still my king, I will serve you with all my might and kill those who oppose you, that is my solemn pledge to you as the first knight of the round table."

Morgan look at the two, amused by the fact that Lancelot, while his class is berserker still hasn't fallen into madness by the madness enhancement skill of the class "Heh…this is a first, I didn't think that peerless knight would be the one in berserker class…" She thought to herself "Well, I guess I know why, though I will keep it to myself first."

Saber stared plainly at Lancelot and the air around them was silence. Saber Alter turn her body around and then open her lips "Then don't get in my way or I will kill you."

Lancelot smiled "Then, it will be my honor to once again serve you, my liege." With that, he stood up and put his helmet on and the sword had turn to mist, surrounding his body.

Amakusa Shirou move his head and went to asked "What about you, Heracles? Are you joining in on this fight?"

Rin startled at what Amakusa Shirou had just said "No way, that's Heracles?" she said and Shirou immediately widen his eyes remembering that Illya Heracles was much bigger and bore more muscle than this Heracles as he had given them a run for their money.

Even with two servants by their side, they were no match were Heracles and his unparalleled strength.

The red Archer just fold his arm and shake his head "No, seven against five would be at a disadvantageous for them and a dishonor for me as well."

Now this is unforeseen as Shirou and Rin couldn't believe what they had just heard, Heracles stepping down from a fight? Is it the same Heracles they know and despair against? it seems he had his sanity still intact and mind to comprehend to the situation around him.

"Suit yourself then."


Shirou had his twin swords ready for battle as he stood beside them, the tension between the two side has escalated a bit.

But before they could even make a move, a hand clap on the spot and everyone turns to look at the culprit "Alright, that's enough...!" Angra Mainyu said.

Looking at his master, Amakusa Shirou have no way to defies his master's orders and sheathe his sword and the others did the same as well.

Angra Mainyu turn to Shirou "You also, Shirou…would you put down your weapon? we are here only to talk right!?"

Shirou close his eyes and breath out before untraced his swords. Following him, the others put their weapons back and Angra Mainyu nod her head "Hmm, good."

"So master, care to explain why you orders us to put down our weapons?" Amakusa Shirou asked.

"Right back at you, I asked you to explain the rules and the next thing I see is you and that boy wanting to kill each other and even more you got the others involve as well!"

Amakusa Shirou stutter to say something but could not deny he's the one who started this, so he only accepts that she right and he is wrong.

Angra Mainyu fold her arms "Well, I was the one who let them do whatever they, so the responsibility lies with me.:

The next things Angra Mainyu said come as bit of surprise to them "Come you seven knuckles heads, we're going back."

"Eh? did master just calls us knuckles head?"

Oda spoke softly to Jeanne Alter so that her master could not hear but Angra Mainyu had super hearing as she turns her head towards the two "Is there a problem?" she makes a smile, but her face contradicts otherwise, indicating if they don't shut up, she would punish them.

Both could only distress, as their face sweat and gave a wryly smile "Y-yes…!"

Now her face brightens again and continuing to walk to the forest and Oda sigh in relieve and the seven of her servants followed her.

"Oh yeah, before I go," She twist her head and shifted her eyes towards Shirou and spoke in a formal tone "this is just my advice to you…beware of the people around you, there is a third fraction participating in this holy grail war."