Argentum: Back again hope you all enjoy this chapter. I have no idea if I will since I always write these chapters after the Author sections.

Grel'Slyfer: You know that actually explains a lot.

Argentum: Meh.

Tanjiro: But you do plan everything out right?

Argentum: Yes, in fact I have the next three worlds planned out already. Issue is motivation and actually getting there.

Rin: Hmph, laze author.

Argentum: I will not dispute this in the slightest.

Saber: I'm still concerned as to why there are three of me.

Gray: I am not you.

Saber: I sense some hostility there…

Castor: I think it's pretty easy to be hostile towards you.

Saber: Heh?

Tanjiro: This is just a prelude to things to come isn't it?

Argentum: Maybe, maybe not. On another note a two specific numbers in this chapter were randomly generated out a number of thirty five. You'll find out what I mean when you get there. In any case we need to continue. Rin do the honors!

Rin: What honor? Ugh fine… Don't own anything but our own stuff. Now without further bother…

Everyone: Here's the story!

Argentum: By the way… you suck Rin.

Rin: Heh, depends on what you mean by sucking, I'm sure Saber and Shir-

Saber/Shiro: RIN! NO!

Hello= Regular talk

Hello= Thoughts

[Hello]= Radio

(Hello)= Telepathy/Mind reading

Chapter Sixty Three: How we met some clones or… How we tamed the blondes…

The atmosphere was nearly apocalyptic as servants and masters met. Said servants and masters quickly wanted to kill each other. Well besides Tanjiro and Castor who continued eating peacefully ignoring the spells being cast around them.

"Trace On!"

"Grandr!"

"Lightning bolt!" Taking a sip of her soup Castor turned to Tanjiro.

"This food is actually really good isn't it?" Tanjiro smiled with a nod.

"It indeed is, wish I could have this kind of food on all my missions." She smiled cutely before taking a bite of bread. "So how long do you think they'll keep going?" Turning back to the chaos Castor shrugged. "Eh that's fair."

""I am the bone of my sword!"" As both Archer and the Red head chanted I started to panic. Though I was still busy trying to keep Gray from killing her's and Castor's doppelganger.

"STOP! I CAN'T AFFORD ANYMORE REPAIRS!" Then there was Waver whom was freaking the heck out. Then there was the twin-tail girl who kept firing curses at Archer and Gray. I didn't even know what set them off! They had sat down at the table easily enough, but then with one small comment from Archer. The twin-tailed girl punched him in the face! Gray then took that as her cue to threaten the brunette. Then her doppelganger got in her face, Gray attacked her,then everyone was trying to kill each other!

Also… "Ack! How do you hit so hard?!" As I yelled at the doppelganger, as I blocked a punch, I shook my stinging hands. "Seriously that punch would've broken most peoples arms!" She ignored me, and instead tried to punch me again. This time Gray tackled her and I could only watch as they rolled on the floor.

"Why is it that you look so much like me?!" Wrong thing to say to Gray.

"Why I look like you?! You ruined my life!" That was something that I didn't expect to hear, but seeing how it wasn't my business I wasn't about to open the can of worms. Instead I had to use both my slayer mark. AND! My dimensional surge to have enough strength to physically separate the two.

"OKAY! THAT'S ENOUGH OUT OF ALL OF Y'ALL!" At my voice and increase in power everyone looked at me. Besides Tanjiro and Castor who kept eating and chatting. Deal with those two later. As my eye twitched I turned back to the others. "I don't know what is going on here. But fighting in a hotel suite isn't acceptable between allies." The twin-tailed girl was about to say something but I cut her off. "And yes! Despite what history you may all have. I simply don't care. We're supposed to work together and that's what we'll do. END! Of discussion!" While the twin-tails glared at me as if killed her puppy, both Gray and her blonde, or other blonde doppelganger. Looked sheepish and bowed in apology. The red haired guy and Archer nodded at me but still glared at each other. I smiled seeing how I had calmed things down, as well as them terrified of me.

Waver clapped his hands while sweating. "Thank you for your help Smith San. I'd rather not have to pay for any more damages." He glared at the others, some looked sheepish, Archer looked indifferent, and the twin-tailed looked offended somehow. "Now then please take a seat so we can continue. You all can settle your differences with words. No need to act like a bunch of baboons." Some how the twin-tailed looked even more offended. "We are supposed to be civilized, now be civilized allies!" With a sigh the red head sat down, this prompted everyone else to sit as well. "Alright thank you mister Emiya. Been a while since I've last saw you all but please. For those of us who don't know you, may you all introduce yourselves?"

Once more the red head or Emiya spoke up. "Alright then I'll go first. I'm Emiya Shiro, a pleasure to meet the new faces." He then looked at Castor who simply smiled at him. "And I guess old faces?" Next was the doppelganger.

"I am servant Saber, one of three servants that survived the last grail war. I am under the command of both Shiro and Rin." She then bowed and Castor giggled.

"Heh she is also my Saber counterpart, only unlike me she took up the name of Pendragon. So yes technically that makes her Arthur Pendragon." I should've been more surprised. But honestly since it was a completely different dimension. The fact that King Arthur was a women didn't exactly phase me at that point. Saber Artoria on the other hand looked positively shocked.

"What do you mean you did not take up the name of Pendragon?! Does that mean you come from a timeline where I was not king of Britain?!" Castor unfazed by it all simply nodded. "I have many questions for you."

Castor simply shrugged. "Yeah I don't care too much, but since I'm talking let me introduce myself as Castor Artoria. Student of Merlin~." It looked as if Saber Artoria was about to have a stroke as Tanjiro spoke up.

"It is a pleasure to meet you all. I'm Kamado Tanjiro, master to Castor Artoria." Archer with a sigh then spoke.

"Just call me Archer, the only ones who know who I am are those three stooges and I rather keep it that way." Said stooges looked incredibly insulted and the twin-tailed spoke up.

"Well I don't care for that! I'm Tohsaka Rin! I was actually Archer's master during the last grail war." Still have no idea what that is. "Unfortunately unlike Lancer, Saber, and Rider he died." She then smirked like a witch. "Archer is also the alternate future version of Shiro here~." Archer actually didn't look surprised or mad at Rin, no instead he only looked disappointed. As if he expected it, yet was simply hoping that she wouldn't.

That's when he picked up on something. "Wait… Lancer survived?!" They nodded. "HOW?! He always dies!" All of us looked at him strangely. "Ahem. Sorry please continue." I shook my head before speaking up.

"Might as well, name is Michael Smith. Pleasure to meet you all, or at least I hope it is. Will have to see if everyone tries to kill each other again to decide on that. Also current Master of Archer." I then smirked. "Also if he acts up I don't mind giving him back to Rin." Her smile made me want to laugh, yet made everyone else shiver.

"Oh I think I'm going to like you~." Everyone but Tanjiro, Gray, and Castor looked horrified. "Alright then with that out of way. Please explain the situation Waver." The poor man sighed.

"Alright… as I was saying to the others this is the situation." Once more explaining the problem, he was interrupted by Shiro.

"Wait! If Kamado and Smith San were able to summon servants. Then those we're going after should have as well right?" Waver shrugged.

"No idea actually, all I know is that Tanjiro and Michael have something that allowed them to summon. None of those who tried using the circle were successful in their attempts." We couldn't help but glance at each other from the corners of our eyes. We kind of figured that the reason we were able to had something to do with, A because we were from a different dimension, or B we were dragon blooded. Weren't about to tell anyone but our own servants that though. Though that plan didn't last too long.

Hearing this Rin turned to us. "Can you think of any reason that it worked for you two?" I answered for the both of us.

"Eh theories, but that's about it. Doubt they're right though, could be anything really. We did bleed on the circle quite a bit." She nodded, not quite convinced but willing to let us keep our secrets. Or at least for the moment. Turning to Waver she started to grill him. "So you quite literally attacked two people, who could've been just some random civilians, that could have not known anything about the moonlit world eh?" The trio who attacked us looked to the side. "Hmph! I think I need to report this incompetence." Her grin reminded me of myself when I was gambling. "Unless you can convince me not to~?" Poor Waver only looked as if he aged another five years, as for Gray she simply patted the man on the head.

"It'll be alright Master." That only seemed to make him more depressed.

Magic circuits are made from Linebreaks!

After that little comedy, we decided to take a break. Seeing how everyone was more interested in talking about each other, and were tired from the previous fighting, yelling, and scheming. The conversation between the new trio and Archer was actually rather informative.

"So look who's back? Didn't expect to see you again." At Rin's sassy tone Archer sighed.

"While it is good to see you and Saber Rin. I'm not too happy at seeing my younger idiotic self once more." Shiro's eye twitched. "But you know what I am now. Couldn't refuse the job even if I wanted to. Speaking of the job, what are you three doing here anyway?"

Rin puffed out her chest in pride. "Well if you must know! Zelretch recommended that we do this. Something about an old friend of Chaos suggesting that it would be a good experience for us. Didn't ask too much, old man is crazy at the best of times."

My immediate thought was . Goddammit Judan! My second was. Just how did you know what we'd run into these guys? His foresight was so much greater than anyone I'd ever known. I'd admit it scared me quite a bit. I was still so inexperienced that I couldn't hold a candle to the Archdemon.

"Zelretch huh?" Archer's voice cut through my musings. "Can't say I'm too surprised in that case. As for friend of Chaos? Yeah not going to even comment on that." Me and Tanjiro once more glanced at each other nervously. "On the other hand." He turned to the two of us. "Hearing how these two have talked they might need help from not only you, but Castor and Waver." At her questioning look he shrugged. "Apparently while they've had better training then Shiro did, they have less knowledge on certain terms, spells, and other basics when it comes to magecraft." I wanted to say that we knew magic, but decided to hold my tongue. Didn't know any of these guys, and we could only really trust Archer and Castor at that moment.

Rin on the other hand. "You got to be kidding me?…" She then looked at Tanjiro who gulped. "Geez another teenaged red head who only knows a few things about Magecraft. Where have I heard that before?" She then looked at me. "And an older guy whose hair is turning white that also doesn't know more than a few things! Where have I heard that before!" Both Shiro and Archer seemed to think the ceilings or walls, were more interesting at the moment.

Couldn't help but speak up at that point. "Hey, just because we don't know certain terms, doesn't mean we're terrible at magic. I like to believe I'm pretty good. Not some kind of prodigy, but pretty good." She gave me a look.

"I guess we'll have to figure that out in a bit."

"What does that mean?"

She turned to Waver. "You'll help me and Castor right?" Poor guy simply nodded. "Good! Earn your title as professor!" I was starting to feel bad about the guy. On the other hand…

More magic means more magic. "Well if you want to teach us something far be it for me to say no." Rin simply nodded at me.

"In return you can teach me- us! Some of the spells you've come up with."

Sounded good enough for me. "Sure least I can do." With a clap and smile that bobbed her blue hat a bit Castor chipped in.

"Awesome! I only had magic taught to me! Never tried to teach anyone else before. Sounds like a lot of fun!" Saber looked at her as if she had grown a second head. She didn't seem to be able to quite grasp just why Castor was so different from her.

"Ahem!" Turning to Waver they calmed down. "While I'm glad you all wish to help one another… Well mostly all of you. But we need to discuss what we're doing next."

Deciding to go along with him I shrugged. "Well, not much to really discuss at this juncture. Let me study the other incident areas, look for those who might seem like good targets, and look for places they might be hiding out. Just have to be active about it."

"Hmm, you have a point. Yet why just let you study the effected areas?" I grinned with a wink.

"That's a secret I don't quite yet trust ya enough with." He nodded simply.

"Fair enough, every Magus has their secrets." He then turned to the others. "Anything else to put out there?" Shiro pointed at himself with a nod.

"Yeah, let me also study the areas. I have an advanced form of structural analysis, and just maybe I might be able to find something your other agents didn't"

"Not the only one, and my experience makes me better so I'll do it instead." Shiro looked once more annoyed at Archer's comment. "Hey just stating fact here idiot."

Deciding to intervene before another fight my tone was rather clipped. "Archer?"

"Uh yeah?"

"Shut up."

"...Alright. Another Rin I swear." He wasn't nearly as quiet as he thought he was and Rin Stood up only to kick him in the shin. "AGH! Dammit RIN! Ahh! And you used reinforcement to!"

"You should know better than to compare me to others Archer!" I'd admit to having fun with the entire situation.

Though because he was my servant I decided to step in. "Tohsaka San?"

"Hmm?"

I smiled as she turned to me. "While I do understand that you two have history and that he was your servant. He is now mine, and I'd appreciate it if you asked me before punishing him." She seemed to get what I was saying and a glint appeared in her eye.

"Ah! Yes you're absolutely right! Forgive me and do go ahead~."

I nodded. "Thank you my dear lady." I then turned to Archer. "Now I'm not a violent person." I could swear I heard liar from Tanjiro. "But I would appreciate it if you didn't insult those here. We kind of need everyone to work together. As punishment you shall stand in the corner for an hour. Now go! Shoo shoo!" He opened his mouth to say something but Rin cracked her knuckles. Thus knowing he wasn't going to win, Archer went and stood in a corner. "Good. Now stay there and think about what you did wrong." Knowing it was a losing battle, the poor guy went and sat in the corner sulking all the way. "He'll be fine." Rin gave a confident nod as Waver facepalmed.

"And this is what I'm working with. Ugh, you know what?! I'm too tired for this, go ahead and do your thing I'll add anything I think could be useful tomorrow. I'm going to bed." With a slump he left to his room.

"He'll be fine." With two evil grins me and Rin looked at one another. "So? What do you know?" With that Gray and Bazett left as Tanjiro and I began our "new education". "WHAT?!" And it ended up with her being absolutely jealous, yet flabbergasted at what we could do. "How can you do this all without Magic circuits?!" We shrugged as Tanjiro spoke up.

"Honestly? We never really thought about how we got the energy to do what we do. Come to think of it…" His face turned to contemplate. "Never really thought about how we can use our breathing styles either." He quickly turned to me. "Any idea?"

"Eh, it is sort of magic… though it really just uses physical energy instead of magical. Use it too much and it can kill you if you're not careful. Reason why we barely use magic for more than healing. We can heal both wounds and restore our physical energy. Too bad we haven't found some way to reduce the ungodly cost." It really did cost a lot. That's what I get from copying from an Archpriest. They had perks and skills to reduce the cost of healing, as well as boost the healing amount. I do not.

Rin sighed. "Alright then! ARCHER!" He turned from his corner. "You were able to help Shiro with his circuits. Because of that I assume you might be able to see if these two have circuits, or are just huge sacks of energy. Get to it!" Poor guy sighed and walked over to us.

"Turn around, I'll be using structural analysis on you to see if there are magic circuits inside your bodies." Doing as he said, the white haired man put his hands on our backs. We soon felt a tingle. "Hmm, what hell are you two?" That was a fairly blunt question. "I can feel not only magic-circuits. But also some sort of large container that the circuits not only feed into, but also take from. I think if I were turn on the circuits the amount you could use would be amplified."

With a grin I spoke up. "Well get to it then! I'll explain what we are a afterwards, you all at least deserve that much." With a nod Archer pushed on us, and with a painful jolt that made my nerves feel as if they were on fire. I felt a kind of switch turn up. Well twenty three switches to be precise. Next to me Tanjiro yelled out in pain as Archer winced.

"Yeesh! Thirty two circuits of A+ quality all turned on at once… I don't envy you kid." He then turned to me. "You on the other hand have twenty three circuits of A quality. Turns out while that other magic… I'll just call it generator is much larger than his. You not only have less circuits but also have them at lower quality. Guess that balances out." I nodded a bit dissapointed but also impressed with my younger brother figure. As such I slapped him on the back. Out of congratulations I assure you, and no I wasn't jealous in the slightest.

"Congrats Ototo!" He simply glared at me with gritted teeth. "Ack!" With shouts of surprise both me and Archer were pushed out of the way, replaced by Castor who hugged Tanjiro while glaring at us.

"Can't you both see he's in an immense amount of pain?! Treat him better why don't ya!" Both Archer and Rin's crew looked at her as if she grew a second head. "What?! Is it bad that I care for my master?" They shook their heads before glancing at Saber Artoria. Apparently the two really were different. "Whatever, anyways you two should take it easy for the rest of the night."

"Ugh fine…" Rin turned to us. "But you better explain everything tomorrow!" I simply gave her a thumbs up as we left for our rooms. I then ignored Tanjiro's protests of Castor following him.

"Master~." It was not a friendly tone despite her smile. "Best way to protect you is to go astral and stay in your room. Now take your bath and or shower and get ready for bed~." Thinking of it I doubted Tanjiro even knew how to use a modern bath.

"Whelp not my problem." Archer snorted as I entered my room. After doing so I sat on my bed before getting out my card. "What the hell?!" My shout caused Archer to give me a look before I waved him off. "This card helps me keep track of… well my stats for a lack of a better word. Turns out those magic circuits upped a couple of things." He didn't even question me. Instead just nodded. "You can ask me things you know."

"Yeah but after this I'll be gone once more, and I'll never see you again. So I don't really care to get to know you that much." Blunt and a bit cold but made sense all things considered. "Besides we servants through our bond with our masters have something called a dream cycle. We'll get to see each other's memories through them so no biggie in the end." I grimaced at that. "Guess you have some things you don't want to be seen?"

I sighed. "Yeah… mainly my panic attacks, nightmares, and my death."

He blinked. "Your death?"

"Yes my death."

"Meh I've died to"

"Hmm."

"Yep"

"Okay then I'm off for a shower."

"Have fun." And with that "conversation" I left to do as I said. But yeah, things would only get weirder.

Magic circuits are made from Linebreaks!

Argentum: And that's a wrap.

Archer: Not much happened besides a lot of exposition.

Grel'Slyfer: We'll get to more interesting things next chapter. This mini arc won't last for too long after all.

Argentum: Eh maybe, but yeah probably only a couple weeks of in story time translating to… I don't know.

Castor: Well on the bright side I'm having fun~!

Saber: Merlin has completely corrupted you.

Castor: No idea what you mean~.

Argentum: Well yeah, anyways hope you liked the chapter and are curious about what might happen next. For information on what the Magic Circuits did. Go ahead and look at my profile page under Micheal's stats. You'll get your answers there. Now! Saber Artoria please send us off!

Saber: Certainly! Ahem, This has been a Dark Guard production now signing off!

Everyone: Goodbye!