I am still alive, as is this fic. I am sorry for the delay, but I have been busy. Do not worry, because I will finish this story even if takes me some time.
I also want to thank my Beta Fenerath for his help and support.
Also, at the end of the chapter, I have added 3 ideas that I want to share with you as challenges, hoping that someone will take one of the ideas and make their own fic.
It had been a very long time since the Yotsuba twins last saw the man before them… and to be honest, they were hoping that they would never have to see him again. Not because they hated him, but because of his personality. He was always scheming and plotting something, and while that was common for the Master Clans, it was the fact that he was the best at it that caused distrust between them… well, that and another very important reason.
"It's a wonderful surprise to see that two of my ex-students have come to pay me a visit." said an old man.
"It's good to see you again, Kudou-sensei." Maya stated.
"And in such good health as well." added Miya.
Before the two of them was their former sensei and current leader of the masters clan, Retsu Kudou, a man that had always showed a great talent in annoying them, but at the same time being someone they respected.
"What can I say? That elixir of AvalonTech is truly a miracle. Many of my old ails are gone, and I even feel younger even though I'm still an old man." was Kudou's answer.
"It's good to hear that, Sensei." Miya stated, knowing full well the effects of the famous medicine for magicians. After all, it was the only reason why she was still alive.
"… But I have the feeling that this isn't a social call. Tell me, what can an old man like me do for his former students?" asked Kudou as he sent his assistant for some tea.
"Actually, you've already mentioned the topic, Sensei." Maya said. When she saw the expression on her former mentor's face, she continued. "It was when you mentioned AvalonTech."
"I see. May I ask what your sudden interest in that company is?"
"We're in the process of reevaluating the Yotsuba's point of view in regards to Thaumaturgy styled magic, and since they're the best in that field, we'd like to have more information about them before we take a decision about the matter." said Miya.
"Is that so?" asked Kudou, knowing that they were hiding something.
"Yes, and we would like to know your opinion about that type of magic. Do you believe that they can be as powerful as our type of magic?" asked Maya.
"I believe that I've told you before that magic is not a matter of power, but ingenuity. A weak spell used with ingenuity will be superior to a powerful spell used recklessly. So my answer to your question is that it depends on the magician. But, there is something else about it that has attracted my attention."
"And that is?" lead Miya, hoping to get even a little more information about the family that had been taking care of her son.
"I do not believe that Thaumaturgy and Ancient Magic are one and the same." Looking at the expressions on the faces of the twins, he continued. "Looking at the way in how Thaumaturgy style magic works, it's obvious that they share the same base. But in practice, the best way that I can describe it is that Thaumaturgy opens a door that Ancient Magic never opened. It's like the difference between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge."
"I see." stated Maya.
"There's something more. I'm not completely sure, and this is just my personal theory, but I believe that the Five Seats of Avalon have access to a source of knowledge never seen before in the field of magic."
"What do you mean Sensei?" asked Miya.
"The speed of advance made by the Seats of Avalon is something that I have never been seen before. Even if they're the best researchers, and have the full support of their company, that still does not explain the speed of their development. That's why I believe that they're adapting some source of knowledge that they happen to have access to in order to meet their needs."
"Are you sure of that?" asked Maya.
"As I told you, this is only a theory." Kudou stated.
The two sisters remained silent for a moment, thinking about what their old sensei just told them.
"We thank you for your time and information. You've given us a lot to think about, but it's time for us to leave. Have a good night, Sensei." Miya said, after a few moments.
"I hope that this small information helps you to reconnect with your son, Miya." finished Kudou.
That sentence stopped the sisters cold, but before they could say anything, he continued. "I've known that young Tatsuya was your child since the moment that I saw him in a party a couple of years ago. How he ended in the care of the Emiya family is a mystery to me, one that I hope that you decide to share with me one day. For now, all that I can tell you is that he looks like a fine and happy young man."
The Next Day, Saturday Morning
It was a normal Saturday morning in the center of the city and, with the exception of a few puddles that were left behind by the rain from the previous night, it had all of the appearance a sunny day.
It was the kind of day that used to give Tatsuya peace and calm, but ever since the relationship between Shirou and the girls advanced to the next level, things at home had become a little too exiting to be peaceful. And when his parental figures also followed the same example, every moment of free time became a game to them.
While Sella and Leysritt found the situation fun, he soon discovered that when they forgot to activate the sound barriers, it was better to take a walk in the city, even with the danger of the Yotsuba clan still present. This was why the young boy was currently walking alone in the streets.
"Is that you, Tatsuya-kun?" asked a voice from behind him.
"Suzune-sempai?" asked Tatsuya once he recognized the girl coming up from behind him.
A Few Moments Earlier
Suzune was wandering around without a set course. She had just walked with Mayumi and Miyuki to the front of her apartment building after they had experienced their first girl's night out, talking about everything and anything. She truly enjoyed the experience, but now their respective families had sent cars to pick them up, bringing an end to an experience that she hoped they could one day repeat again, with even more friends.
It was close to midday, and she didn't feel like returning to her apartment so she chose to take a walk, hoping to find something to kill time. Fortunately, after only a few moments, she saw something - or better said, someone - that she knew could provide her with some good fun.
"Is that you, Tatsuya-kun?"
"Suzune-sempai?" was Tatsuya's reply.
"What are you doing here?" asked Suzune.
"Just taking a walk, and a little air. What about you?" was Tatsuya's response.
"The same. I didn't want to stay in my apartment at the moment." answered Suzune.
"Something wrong?" he asked.
"No, I just had the desire to do something different. By the way, do you mind if I join you?" asked Suzune with a small smile.
At that moment, a shiver ran down Tatsuya's back. He suddenly felt like a mouse that was invited by a cat to go out and play. But being so close to Shirou had its price, and like all the Emiya men, he just dug his own grave with the next answer.
"It would be a pleasure, Sempai." was his reply.
In the beginning, the entire conversation was about the school and the Student Council, but after a while they were interrupted by a few drops of water that told them that it was about to rain. The two of them then decide to take refuge inside a coffee shop, where they continued their chat. The topic of the conversation then changed, however, to magic… or more specifically, magic development. The conversation lasted for a few hours, and both of them found themselves enjoying talking with someone of their own age who could really understand what they were talking about. However, all good things had to come to an end, and when darkness began to appear in the sky, they knew that their little time together had come to an end.
"Well, I have to say that I really enjoyed the afternoon." said Suzune.
"Yes, it was a welcome surprise." added Tatsuya.
"What do you mean, Tatsuya-kun? Are you implying that I can't be a good company?" teased Suzune.
"Of course not sempai. It's just that it was nice to have intelligent conversation."
"So, you're saying that you didn't believe that I could have given intelligent conversation." continued Suzune's teasing.
Even though Tatsuya knew what Suzune's game was, he still kept looking for a reply that would allow him to win the exchange. The reason for that was simple; after being on the losing side of his sister figures' games, he refused to lose against any other girl. Simply put, it was a matter of pride. For good or bad, in the end it was destiny that gave him a small win when a car, that was just passing by, ran over a puddle and made a splash that soaked Suzune all over.
"AHHH! DAMN IT!"
While normally that wouldn't present a problem, because she could simply use her magic to clean and dry herself up, they were on a public street. By regulations that all magicians had to follow, she could only use magic in public in the case of an emergency, and that situation wasn't one.
"I believe that we better finish this conversation somewhere else." Tatsuya said, after he saw the state that his sempai was now in and began losing the fight to hide his small grin at the situation.
Seeing that she had no other option, she agreed to leave behind their little game for the moment. But she was determined to get back at Tatsuya for seeing her in that situation.
"My apartment is a couple blocks from here, so you don't need to worry about walking me home."
"I insist. Walking you to your apartment is the least I can do, especially after such an entertaining time." Tatsuya replied as he took off his jacket and placed it over Suzune's shoulders, getting a small blush from the girl.
In a few short minutes they had arrived at the apartment building and, by Tatsuya's insistence, he walked her to her door.
"I have to thank you for this great afternoon. I hope that we can do it again some other time." said Tatsuya.
"Oh? Are you asking me out on a date? Mayumi-chan would be so sad to know that you're a playboy."
"Two friends that share the same interest don't need to date or be a couple to spend some time together, having a good conversation. Well, I better take my leave. I'll see you on Monday, Sempai."
And with that Tatsuya left, completely forgetting his jacket, not knowing what consequences that action would have.
As for the jacket, Suzune soon realized that she still had it on. After she removed the garment, she proceeded to use magic to clean her own clothes. After that was done, she headed to the bathroom to take a hot bath, but not before looking again at the jacket, a stray thought causing a small but evil smile to appear on her face.
"Yes Tatsuya-kun, we will see each other on Monday."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city - in an abandoned building complex
"How are the preparations going?" asked a man.
"We have the equipment, but we need to get some hired help for this operation." was the response he received.
"Didn't the plan say to recruit some Second Course students to help us get in the security system of the school and create a commotion?"
"That's no longer possible. With the arrival of the new teachers, the Second Course students are satisfied, which makes it harder to get them on our side. So we're going to recruit some First Course students that are unhappy with the changes in the status quo in the academy, and are easier to convince to see things our way. They're not that many, but it should be enough to get us in."
"That'll also mean that more our people will have to go with them to ensure that we accomplish all our goals. If something goes wrong and they're captured, we wouldn't be able to help them."
"It doesn't matter. From the beginning, all of them were just our pawns. Even if they're captured or killed, they'd have served their purpose." said Hajime Tsukasa as he walked inside the room and looked at all who were present. "We've waited a long time for this moment, and our goals are only a few short hours away. I know that all of you know the importance of this event to our cause. After this, we'll be the ones that'll determine the future of magic in this country, and under our leadership we will make this country the greatest magical power on the planet, with Blanc at the top!"
While all this was happening, a shadowy figure was looking at them.
"Are you done playing with these fools?" asked a second figure that was just as obscured as the first one.
"It's good to see you too." drawled the first shadow with a woman's voice.
"Don't forget your place and who you are talking to, witch."
"Don't be so uptight, golden boy. Remember that we agreed to play nice together, at least until we find a way to improve our current situation."
"And how will those mongrels will be of any help to that end?"
"Those 'mongrels', as you call them, are like insects. You place a little bit of sugar in the right direction, and they will go right where you want them. Maybe that's why this Asian Alliance took some interest in them. I just hope that they don't mind that I added a few more instructions to their minions."
"Oh? And what direction is it that you lead them to?"
"I just want to see if I can piss off someone enough to confirm if they have a relationship or not with an old acquaintance of mine."
"And how do you plan to make them do that?" asked the arrogant man in gold armor.
The woman in dark clothes smiled for a moment before snapping her fingers. A moment later, a man that was obviously part of the same group that was celebrating in the distance appeared. There was no expression on his face, the empty look in his eyes made him appear more like a doll than a man. The woman put her right index finger over the mouth of the man, and a dark smoke began to go from the finger to into the mouth. The man took a deep breath, which brought a pained expression to his face that lasted for a moment before it returned to the doll like expression that he had before.
"Now, go and play with your friends and enjoy the time that you have left with them. Because soon, you'll be of no more use to me." said the woman. As the man began to walk back to where his companions were, his appearance became more normal the closer to them he was. When he was right next to them, there was no apparent difference between him and the others.
"Any other questions?" the woman asked.
The man in golden armor only gave a small smile, and just like he arrived he disappeared.
"Soon, Merlin, we'll see if your legacy still exists in this world. If that's the case, I'll be the one to destroy it." said the woman, before disappearing as well.
The next Monday
Normally, students couldn't wait for the weekend to arrive when they had to attend class, but that wasn't the case with Tatsuya. Not because there were problems at home, everyone there got along rather well in fact. Indeed, the problem could be said to be that the other family members got along so well, in their own unique and special way, that he felt that it was only at school that he could get a taste of normality.
Tatsuya was heading to the Student Council room when he encountered both Miyuki and Mayumi, who were also heading in that direction. Everything seemed that it was going to be a nice and quiet morning.
"Hello there Tatsuya-kun." greeted Mayumi.
"Tatsuya-san" Miyuki stated, while in reality wanting to call him Oni-san.
"Sempai, Miyuki-san, good morning."
"You look full of energy today Tatsuya-kun. Did something good happen on the weekend?" asked Mayumi.
"Not really, I just took a walk in the city."
"Are you sure that you didn't seduce a poor and innocent girl while you were at it?" Mayumi asked again.
"Sempai, I don't believe Tatsuya-san to be that kind of person." Miyuki said in defense of her brother, before he even had the chance to say something.
"Just kidding! I know that Tatsuya-kun's too serious to do something like that." At that moment, Mayumi looked ahead and saw her old friend waiting for them at the door to the Student Council's room.
"Hi Rin-chan! What are you doing here today? You don't have any duty with the council, right?"
"Good morning everyone. I just wanted to return this." Suzune said as she held out a jacket that she had hung over her arm. At that moment, Tatsuya began to sweat as his intuition, developed by harsh exposure from years of living with his adopted sisters, began screaming at him that danger was on its way.
Unfortunately for Tatsuya, it was already too late to escape the trap set before him.
"Tatsuya-kun, I just wanted to return your jacket, the one that you left at my place. I truly enjoyed our time together, and I hope that we can do it again sometime soon." With that, Suzune handed him the jacket and, with a gentle smile on her face, turned and left with a small skip in her step. Left behind her was Tatsuya, who was frozen like a statue. He watched her joyful exit with a bit of despair, hand outstretched and unwilling to turn around, because he knew what was waiting for him.
It wasn't joyful at all.
"Oh, I see that I was wrong." Miyuki stated, a strained grin on her face.
"I'm happy to see that you and Rin-chan are good friends, but I never expected this. Maybe you really want to make your own personal harem, ne Tatsuya-kun?"
"Wait! This isn't what you think it is!"
"Is that true? Then it shouldn't be any problem for you to explain everything to us." said Mayumi as she got closer, the smile on her face creating a growing feeling of dread in his chest.
"Yes, with all the details." added Miyuki, following the president's lead with a similar smile.
He knew those smiles well, his adopted sisters had them on whenever Shirou did or said something foolish.
"Wait a minute! Don't you think that you're taking things too far?"
"NO!" was both girls' answer.
Once again, Tatsuya was between a sword and a hard place. He tried to think of a way to answer them that didn't sink him into even more trouble, but nothing came to his mind.
However, it was at that same moment that the gears of destiny began to move, and the road that they opened would lead him and his friends to face a world of magic that was beyond their imagination. Like most such roads, everything began with a-
BOOOOOM!
"What was that!?" asked Mayumi, completing forgetting their previous topic.
"Was that an explosion?" asked Miyuki.
It was at that moment that Tatsuya, using his Elemental Sight, realized what was happening.
"The school is under attack. I see armed men heading to the school building."
"We need to protect the students!" said Mayumi, with Miyuki agreeing with her.
Tatsuya knew that it was a lost cause to try to stop them, so he decided that it would be better to lead them.
"In that case, we need to go to the First Course building and ensure that everyone is fine." Tatsuya said as he began to jog in that direction.
"Wait! What about the second course building? Their students will be in danger!" said Miyuki.
"They're probably safer than anyone else in this campus. With the teachers there, even ten times this number of enemies wouldn't represent any real difficult for them." said Tatsuya as he continued to move. After a few moments, both girls chose to follow him.
A few minutes earlier
The day had begun as any other day, and Shirou, Sakura, Illya, and Rin were getting ready to start their classes. For the day, they were going to have joint classes. This wasn't something that would normally happen often, but no one could say that the four were normal teachers. Once a week they had a special session where they tested the progress of the students in all subjects at the same time. The reason behind this logic was that by presenting different challenges to the students that required all the elements that they learned from each teacher, the students would be able to explore their strengths. This would allow them to find out what kind of magic was the best for them, not only to resolve the challenges that were presented by their teachers, but in general as well.
The fact that some of the challenges were often of Spartan style and that it was funny to see the students struggling to complete those tests had nothing to do with it.
However, on that day the test would have to wait, due to the explosion that they just heard telling them that the day would not be a normal day.
"What was that?" asked Erica, but before anyone had the chance to answer her, a group of armed men showed up around them with their guns pointed at them.
"Today is the day where you will finally learn your places in the world, you Weed!" said one of them.
"Listen up, bakas! It'll be for the best if you just drop your weapons and surrender." Rin said without care.
"Rin, don't provoke them." Shirou said as he analyzed the situation.
"Oni-chan, by now you must have felt it already. They came here with killing intent. Like it or not, a battle is unavoidable at this point. You have to choose what is more important, the lives of the enemies, or the lives of our students." said Illya.
Shirou had already arrived to the same conclusion, but still part of him still wanted to find a way to save everyone. But with the lives of his students in the balance, he knew that he didn't have any choice.
"This is your last warning! Drop your magic tools now, or I will kill you all where you stand!" shouted the leader.
'Shirou, Sakura; you'll take care of the protection of the students.' ordered Rin through their telepathic link.
'But why us?' asked Shirou.
'Because your magic is the easiest to identify and connect to the events of Yokohama, and Sakura already had her fun with the Yotsuba.' Illya was the one that provided the answer this time.
Before any of them had the chance to reply to that logic, the leader of the attackers lost his patience.
"You asked for it! FIRE!"
The students, that until now were grouped together, reacted in the only way that they could and tried to take cover. They were expecting to hear some of cry of pain from their classmates, yet what they heard were metallic sounds, like stones falling on a metal roof. Leon was the first one to raise his head, and what he saw surprised not only him, but all the other students when they realized that the bullets didn't hit them.
What they saw were walls of shields that were formed in a phalanx formation around them. Once again, the experience that Shirou got from all the weapons stored in his Unlimited Blade Works was proving to be useful. Taking in account the number of weapons whose owners knew that tactic, creating this defense became even easier as he stood in front of his students.
"You did great Oni-san!" Illya said as she took her sword from her CSD.
"But now it's our turn." added Rin as she followed Illya's example and took out her gun-form magic tool.
Without another word, they jumped over the wall of shields, and soon sounds of battle and cries of pain and death become present. Inside the walls of shields, some of the students were becoming afraid of what was going on outside of the protection that their sensei made for them.
"Raise your heads." said Sakura, who remained with Shirou as a second line of defense for the students even if she knew that that was unnecessary. "For good or bad, you were born in this world as magicians. Even if you are working to take control over your destiny in the future, you must never forget the roots of your magic. Always remember that to become a magician, you must learn to walk with death."
They knew that Sakura was right, and soon all the students were raising their heads. However some of them were still very nervous.
"Stop whining like that! It's in this moment where our hearts are tested to see if we can become true magicians! Here's where we see if we can surpass the barriers that this society and ourselves have placed over us." Leon said as he took his magic tool from his CSD. This magic tool appeared to be a gauntlet, similar to those of medieval armors, with some runes written on the forearm.
"I hate to admit it, but the idiot is right." said Erika as she as well took out a full size Katana from her CSD. She looked to her sensei, with Mibu following her example. "Sakura-sensei, please allows us to help Illya-sensei and Rin-sensei."
"That won't be necessary." was Sakura's reply.
"But why not? This is also our fight!" said Leon.
"Because it's already over." finished Sakura.
"Shirou-kun, it's now safe. Could you please remove the shields?" Rin asked from outside.
"Are you sure? They're still too young to see that." was Shirou's reply.
"They need to get used to it sooner or later." responded Illya from outside.
Knowing that arguing with them was a losing battle, Shirou dispersed the shields, and the students could then for their first time the results of the battle. The bodies of the attackers could be seen on the ground, with pools of blood beginning to form under them. But the image that was marked forever in their minds was the view of two of their sensei covered in the blood of their enemies.
Before the students could react they heard some footsteps, and for a moment they were worried that there were more enemies on the way. Luckily for them, they soon saw that the footsteps belonged to friendly faces.
"My goodness." was all that Mayumi could say when she saw the scene before her.
"Is everyone ok?" asked Tatsuya. The two were accompanied by Miyuki, Suzune, and Kirihara, who they found during the defense of the First Course building.
"Don't worry, everyone is fine." answered Rin. The image of Rin cover in blood was something that disturbed the new arrivals.
"Was this really necessary?" asked Miyuki.
"They sealed their fates when they opened fire against us." was the answer that came from Illya, who was also covered in blood. Miyuki knew that there was some kind of message that they wanted to send here, using this battle as example.
"What are you doing here?" asked Shirou.
"There's another group in the administrative building at this moment. I managed to see them heading there from a window. I tried to call the other Student Council members, but all lines of communications are down. I found them on my way here, and told them what was happening."
"We were just finishing securing enemies in the First Course building when Suzune-sempai told us about that. For some reason, there were only a few enemies in the First Course building, so after we stopped them, we left them under the charge of Jumonji-sempai and other member of the disciplinary group before we headed here when we hear the sound of gunfire." added Tatsuya.
"That's interesting, because this group came with the intention of killing of the Second Course students." said Sakura.
"We still need to do something about the other group." added Miyuki.
"We can help." said Erika immediately.
"It will be dangerous." warned Shirou.
"It doesn't matter. This is the first step that we need to take to become real magicians." said Sayaka.
"Let them go." Everyone turned to see that Sakura was the one who said those words. "We can't protect them forever, and this isn't a foreign matter to them. This is their future."
"Then I should go with them." said Shirou, only for Illya to end up in front of him.
"But Nii-san, you must have used up all your magic power just keeping up those projections that were protecting the students. You must rest, because there's no way that a normal human could use so much power and still be standing. Really, you should sit and rest."
"Illya's right, Shirou-kun. Pretending to be a macho man isn't something that girls like." added Rin as she took his hand and began leading him to some seats that were close by. He would have protested, but the level of strength that she used to lead him away would had broken the hand bones of any other human, magician or not, and that told him that it was for the best to just do as they said.
'Baka, you've just used high level projection in front of the students! While we can say that it was a desperate measure in order to protect them, one that forced you to go beyond your limits, what do you think they will begin to believe if they saw you walking around as if it this was nothing? Now shut up and play the role of dead tired and weak!' Rin said through their telepathy.
"I'll go with the Student Council." said Illya. When she saw that the others were about to protest, she added, "We don't have time for this. We don't know what the other groups want, and you guys have to keep an eye on the other students and Shirou."
Without waiting for an answer, Illya left the place, followed by Erika, Leon, Tatsuya, Miyuki, and Mibu, while Mayumi and Suzume stayed with the rest of the students.
After they arrived at the building where they knew the last members of the attack group were at, they stopped to evaluate the situation.
"The only place of value in this building is the computer core, so it's only logical to believe that they should be there." said Tatsuya. He had just used Elemental Sight to determinate the location of the enemies, but said that to keep that skill a secret.
"Ok kids, you should stay here while I deal with them." Illya said to the students.
"No way Sensei! This is our fight too." said Leon
"We're also magicians, and this is also our business. We can't stay here and do nothing."
Illya knew that they were right, and that with Tatsuya there shouldn't be any big trouble that they couldn't handle. Yet, she still didn't want to expose them to their first kill, even if she knew that some of them had long accepted that act as part of their lives.
"Ok, but don't kill these ones. We may need to ask them some questions, got it? We'll divide into two groups. Tatsuya, you and Miyuki will go to the computer room, while the others and I deal with the guards." said Illya. Once everyone nodded their heads in acceptance of the orders from their teacher, they got ready to attack.
As one, Erika and Mibu ran towards the guards that had just begun to react to them, while being closely followed by Leon. Soon, the fighting began, and the two girls showed to be a natural combo against their enemies.
"You aren't bad at this Sempai." Mibu said as she took down a guard.
"Thanks, you too show a great talent." added Erika as she struck down a new enemy.
"Hey, don't forget about me." Leon said as he punched a guard that was trying to cast a spell.
As this was happening, Illya was looking after them to make sure that even in battle they would remain safe. Then, she just said "Go", and with that Tatsuya began to move; closely followed by Miyuki.
On their way to the computer room they didn't meet any guards, but once they arrived at the room they found that there were three people there, and one of them was someone that they already knew.
"Hurry up! There seems to be problems going on with the others, and it's only a matter of time before someone get here." one of them said.
"I'm doing it as fast as I can, so shut up!" replied the one in front of the computer.
While all this was happening, a lone First Course student was looking at them with a lost look in his eyes.
"So, your real goal was to steal the classified data from this server, wasn't it?" Tatsuya said as he entered the room, getting the attention all those present. "To be honest, I'm a little disappointed to see you here, Morizaki-san."
When Morizaki saw that Miyuki was also there with Tatsuya, he began to react, and not in a good way.
"You shut up! Miyuki-san, you must see that this is for the best. This world needs order, and we are the chosen ones that will lead it! We can't allow those inferior to us to cause problems to the order of the world. After all, the elite should remain together. So please, help us restore the balance that was lost against the likes of him!" Morizaki finished while he pointed at Tatsuya. This caused Miyuki to look at him with dark eyes.
"Do you really think that I would listen to someone like you, that hid behind those stupid ideas of Modern Magicians being elite? Look around you! You helped those criminals to attack your school mates, and for what? So that you can feel superior to the rest? I would never agree with someone like you, not now, nor ever."
"You've been corrupted." was all that Morizaki said before one of the terrorists launched a smoke grenade.
"We have to leave this place now!"
Unfortunately for them, the smoke did nothing to prevent Tatsuya not only from seeing them, but from use his Taijutsu against them either. He managed to defeat them with a single strike each. While this was happening, Morizaki took this chance to use his magic and run. However, he made another big mistake in doing this. He attempted to leave a woman who had something to say. And not just any woman, but Miyuki, and she was determined to have Morizaki hear just what she really thought of him.
Morizaki was running as fast as his magic allowed him to, hoping that he could escape. That hope ended when he landed on the first floor and saw that all the other guards were defeated, and a group of Second Course students were there waiting for him in the company of one of the teachers.
"I was wondering how those guys got here so easily, but it looks like they had internal help." said Illya.
"You better move away, or I'll make you sorry that you ever considered that you deserved to be here!"
"You're welcome to try." said Mibu.
"Yeah, bring it on!" Leon said as Erika got ready to fight.
"Wait." said a female voice that all of them knew.
All of them look up to see Miyuki descending after Morizaki.
"I believe that our talk wasn't over, Morizaki-san." said Miyuki.
"There's nothing to talk about. You've been corrupted!" said Morizaki.
"But there's something that I had to tell you. I'm glad that you call me corrupted, because being called that by someone that hides his own failings and insecurities from others is something I consider a compliment. But more than anything else, I'm glad because that makes me the same as the group of people that I call my friends, and those that I admire."
"You!" cried Morizaki as he rose his CAD in order to attack her. An impact wave hit him before he had the chance however, and the last he saw before he lost consciousness was the form of Miyuki with her hand up pointed at him. She had sent her own attack faster than Morizaki could.
All of this had been observed by Tatsuya from the second floor.
It took them just a few moments to secure the intruders to make sure that they couldn't escape. It was then that Tatsuya finally reunited with the group.
"It looks that their real goal was to use the terminal from this building to steal data from the National Magic University, but thankfully we managed to stop them."
"So, what are going to do we them now?" asked Leo.
"I guess that we have to wait for the authorities to arrive." was Mibu's answer.
"Or, I could give you all a new lesson; 'How to get information from an enemy that you have captured: 101'" Illya said as she stood in front of a recently regained consciousness Morizaki.
"What are you going to do, Weed?" Morizaki asked with a sneer when he saw the Second Course teacher in front of him.
"In order to help those trash get inside, you must had meet with the leader at one point to arrange it, didn't you? Now, I want to know everything." As she said those words, her eyes began to shine. Soon, Morizaki seemed to lose consciousness once again.
While this was happening, the other students looked on with great interest.
"Whoa! This is cool, and also kind of scary." said Erika.
"Remind me to never get on her bad side, and always bring my homework for her classes." added Leon.
"This is interesting." said Illya after a few moments.
"Did you find something?" asked Tatsuya.
"Yes, but we better talk about this with all the others." was her answer. But after a moment, she directed her eyes to a point in the distance behind a tree line.
"Is there something there Sensei?" asked Erika. After a few moments she got her answer.
"… It's nothing. Must had been my imagination."
Using levitation magic, they carried all of the criminals to where the others were. None of them saw the shadow figure that appeared in the same place that Illya was looking at a few moments earlier.
"That girl is good, much better than what I expected of the magician of this era." said the shadow as it moved, revealing that she was the woman that had been inside the complex when the intruders planned the attack. "Now my little pet, it's time for you to carry out your first and final task for me." As she said those words, she disappeared. Meanwhile, in the corner of the main building, a lone figure began to move.
Back with Illya and her group
"So, someone manipulated this fool to do this?" asked Rin after Tatsuya and Illya told them the story.
"Yeah. He still hates the Second Course students and Thaumaturgy users, but he also knows about the consequences of this kind of action. This Hajime Tsukasa, however, used some magic to remove his concern about the consequences from his mind and made him cooperate." answered Illya. "At this moment, they should be in the same storage building a few miles from here."
"We should go there and stop them before they have the chance to escape, or they could try something like this again when they learn that they failed to steal the data from the server." Shirou stated.
"Ah, no Shirou-kun, you're still too weak after using up all your power on those projections." said Sakura, who was sitting next to him to 'nurse' him. 'Don't forget that you need to pretend to be tired and weak.'
"Allow me to deal with that." said Tatsuya. When everyone turned to see him, he continued. "This is a matter that's related to me as a Thaumaturgy user, and I need to do this in order to get ready to face any future threat or obstacle in my life as a magician." While his reasoning and words sounded as if he was speaking about general issues, the Emiya clan knew that he was talking about the Yotsuba clan, and how he may need to face them.
Soon, many of his classmates, as well as Jumonji, also offered themselves to go with Tatsuya. But when Miyuki and Mayumi were about to offer to go as well, Tatsuya stopped them.
"You're needed here. With Juminji and I both going, the number of Student Council members present here when the authorities finally arrive will be reduced. Plus, we need to keep some of the more powerful members here as well in case there's also another wave of attackers. I know that this isn't what you want to do, but it's what you have to do." Those were the words that he used to convince them. Little did he know that those same words would be the ones that would also change their lives.
It had been about 30 minutes since Tatsuya and the others left to capture the leader of the attack. In that time, the others teachers arrived to talk with the members of the Emiya family because they were the most involved in defending the students. While they were talking, Suzune, Mayumi, and Miyuki were talking about the current events.
"I still believe that we should have gone with them." said Miyuki.
"I know what you mean, but what's done is done." answered Mayumi.
"Given their powers and combat skills, they should be ok, but there's something else here that worries me." added Suzune. "The Second Course teachers… they killed the attackers without a second thought. Not only that, but the Projections that Shirou-sensei used should have killed him to make that powerful. Yet not only is he alive, but he's also fine. Sakura sensei and the others even had to remind him that he was too weak to do anything else, that's not normal."
For Miyuki, those words only made her remember her brother's warning about a possible confrontation with the Emiya. At the time, she had believed that he was just exaggerating, but now she was no longer sure.
"What's that?" Mayumi asked, attracting the attention of the other girls. They turned to see some a youth wearing their school uniform. He looked weak and dizzy, and was stumbling forwards until he finally fell to the ground.
Seeing this, and believing that it was a fellow schoolmate, the girls hurried to where he fell.
"Are you ok?" asked Mayumi.
"He has a high fever, we need to call for help." added Miyuki.
"Wait, there's something strange." said Suzune
"What do you mean?" asked Mayumi
"He's no student of this school." was her reply.
"Are you sure, Sempai?" asked Mayumi
"I had to help with the files of all new students for the last two years as a member of the council, and I can say for certain that he's not one of them. But why's he wearing our uniform?" asked Suzune.
"Do you think that he's part of the attackers?" asked Mayumi
Unfortunately, before she could get her answer, the young man began to convulse.
"What's happening?"
"We need to get help now!"
But at that moment, the young man opened his mouth and, before the girls could react, expelled a cloud as black as ink which covered them all. In the years to come, those girls would remember this event as the one that marked their destiny, and opened a new path that would be full of good moments, bad moments, joy, and pain; but most importantly, it would open a path to a world that they had never believed possible. Yet in this moment, the only thing that they knew was the intense pain that they were suffering. They heard the screams of the teachers that had seen what happened and were coming to help them, just before their entire world turned black.
End of the chapter.
Idea #1: MAHOUKA KOUKOU NO RETTOUSEI/Mass Effect Crossover
Councilor Tevos looked outside of the window of her ship, where she could see hundreds, if not thousands, of ships. While under other circumstances, it would be an excellent sight, and a symbol of the Citadel's power, at the moment it was a sad remainder that this was the entire remainder of their once great civilization.
'Damn it! It's all because of those cursed machines.' Tevos thought as she remembered the last couple of years. They were filled with war, one that saw the destruction of every single world that was once part of the Citadel Council, and one that ended with their defeat when the Citadel, the heart of their galactic government, fell. The memories of that event still haunted her, as well as all those who were there to witness it. It likely would for the rest of their lives, no matter how short they may be under the circumstances.
"Attention all hands, we are about to arrive at our destination. Councilor, please come to the bridge." said a voice around all the ship.
Taking a deep breath, she left her room and headed to the bridge, gathering all her strength so that she could do the most difficult thing that she had ever had to do in her all life; beg.
She still couldn't believe that the only hope for the survival of what remained of their once great empire was with the young race that they had once called immature and childlike. Remembering how they met that race didn't help to reduce her stress.
It all happened many years ago, when the Turians launched a military invasion to punish a young race that had just activated a Mass Relay against the laws of the Citadel. What was supposed to be an easy campaign ended in the worse military disaster of the Turian military since the Rachni war.
She still remembered the recordings from the helmet cams of the Turian soldiers. How this young race uses technology and skills that were completely different from the biotics that they knew. And most of all, she remembered the destructive effects that it had on the Turians on the planet.
Turian soldiers that exploded, even if they were covered.
Enemy soldiers that marched forwards, with barriers so strong that fire from the Turians were stopped cold.
Enemy soldiers that flew in the sky, bringing more destruction to their enemies.
Enemy soldiers that used the elements, and the very planet itself as a weapon.
At the end of the battle, only a handful of Turian soldiers survived to be taken as prisoners. Taking in account that the Turian fleet sent to the planet was completely destroyed, it could be said that they were the lucky ones.
Thankfully, this new race, Humans, were not interested in conflict, and accepted a diplomatic solution that came in the form of reparations. They only demanded raw materials because, much to the surprise of the Council, they considered Element Zero to be useless to them. After that matter ended, another surprise came when this new race refused to join the Citadel. Tevos could still remember their reason, and while the Council races ignored them back then… how she wished she could turn back time, and actually listen to their reasons, especially the last one they gave.
"You expect us to join you, and give you all our secrets, after one of your members attacked us without reason? And you expect us to allow that same member to patrol our space? That's not going to happen."
"Some of our people have special skills that allow them to see the past. Others can see the future. All of them agree that the Mass Relays, especially this Citadel, will bring death and destruction to all those that use them. That's why we're removing and destroying all Mass Relays found in our space."
She could still remember the reaction of the Council at that moment, because it was unheard of that any race would do this because some of their 'magicians' saw something.
In the end, the humans agreed to leave the Relay of the system where they were first found as a place to trade, and to keep open communications in case they ever decided to change their minds. But that never happened. Their different FTL system and tech, neither of which relied on Element Zero, made them immune to the normal tactics used by the Council in the past.
But now, those same qualities that kept them independent from the Council had become the last, and only, hope to ever stop those damn machines; the Reapers.
She could still remember how a Salarian drone had reported that a fleet of 30 Reaper motherships that attacked the human world of Shanxi was destroyed by weapons that she had never dreamed of existing. Unfortunately, before they had the chance to send a request for help, the Citadel fell.
Now, as she arrived at the bridge, she could see the Councilors of not only the three original Council species, but members of all the surviving species as well. They were about to beg for passage into human territory, and sanctuary from the dead machines.
"Communications are ready." said the captain.
"Ok, let's do this."
End of idea #1
This is just a basic idea. If you want, you can make any changes that you want, but please keep these basic rules:
Humans never joined the Citadel; this created a state of cold war between them.
You have to show the reaction of the Council when they saw the recordings of human tech/magic.
By the use of alchemy, mankind created a new element that could be like a ZPM, or the Flubber from the Robins Williams movie.
For the next two ideas, I will use the first part of the first chapter of this same story. I will just modify the second part to show each idea; you will need to read the first part and add the different ends to see the ideas.
The world was collapsing. The sound of churning earth and collapsing rocks reverberated in the near distance, each passing second amplifying the volume of the approaching void. The culmination of all their efforts had finally resulted in the destruction of not only the corrupted Grail, but also the entity that existed within it, the entity that brought forth the corruption in the first place. At the very center of what was left of the world, four figures awaited the end. Neither surprise nor fear painted their faces. They had known the consequence of erasing the Greater Grail from existence, putting an end to the wicked rituals it called forth, and ending the evil that heralded the extermination of mankind. One of the four figures, a red-haired adolescent body, observed the world's collapse while ruminating through his thoughts.
He did it. He had finally become what he had always strived for; a Hero of Justice. He had managed to save the world of the murderous curse that was Angra Mainyu, and saved innumerable lives in the process. However, this victory came with a heavy price; a price that he, now that the battle was over, started to doubt was worth it. With him were three girls. These weren't mere high-school friends or classmates, but people he considered to be the most precious to him. They had fought, laughed, despaired, and cried together … and now they would die together as well.
Looking down at Illya's fragile body that he cautiously held in his arms, a strange thought crossed his mind. Despite being older than he was, she would insist on referring to him as her Onii-chan. Shirou considered that this may have been a tragic remnant of the scars Kiritsugu's disappearance, or rather the fabricated lies that labelled his exile as betrayal, left in her tender heart. She had long since discovered the truth, but it was only natural for injuries of the soul to take longer to heal.
"I am sorry Illya, I shouldn't have dragged you into this, I should have been able to prevent it. This wasn't supposed to happen, not like this…", Shirou apologetically pleaded, his tears framing Illya's faint smile.
Though faint, it showed not a single trace of regret. The light in her eyes had already begun to fade.
"It's ok Emiya-kun", Shirou looked up and met with captivatingly azure eyes.
"We knew that it was going to end this way. If anything, I should be the one apologizing. For years I purposefully avoided Sakura, thinking that she was happy, that my father had made the right decision. But in the end I was just trying to convince myself because I was afraid to face the truth", supporting Sakura's body much like Shirou held into Illya, Rin regretfully regarded her sister's unconscious expression.
"I should had been a better sister, should have never trusted my father. But now is too late. All I can do now is be with her until the end and hope that we can be sisters again in the next life, only this time I will make things right and care for her."
"Tohsaka-senpai…"
The weak voice startled both the girl in red, and the boy opposite her.
"Sakura!" was their instant reply.
"I am sorry for everything…", she whispered in the same weak voice.
"You should have left me behind. Because of me all of you are going to.."
"Shhh", Shirou interrupted her with a gentle tone before Sakura started sobbing.
"It is all right Sakura. We are here of our own free will, and believe me when I say that I would prefer to be with you right here and now than in any other place in the world. After all… you are the people I cherish most…"
"But-"
"Emiya-kun is right. Besides, we already have too much regret in our lives, there is no need for any more", Rin assured with a fond expression.
"Toh-… Nee-san. What you just said … about wanting to be my sister again… do you really mean it?"
There was no need for verbal confirmation, as Rin simply assured Sakura with a resolute nod. That alone was enough for tears to blur her vision.
"Me too! I also want to be your sister again. I want to be with Senpai and Illya-chan again, I want us to be together in this life and the next. I don't want to be separated from you again."
It was at that moment that an earsplitting noise forced their attention back to their unavoidable predicament. The collapsing world had finally caught up to them. A strong gust of wind accompanied the splitting earth and lifted everyone off their feet. It was now or never. Dragging every shred of remaining energy from his broken body, Shirou traced the heaven's golden chains, Enkidu, and used a single swing to bind the four of them together. Surprise was prevalent on the Tohsaka sister's faces when they witnessed Shirou's final act of defiance.
"I may not been able to do anything about what is going to happen, but I can make sure that we will all be together when the end comes!"
That single verse echoed infinitely in the blackened void that was nothingness, and just like that, the world had ended.
Unknown to the trivialities of mortals, two greater entities observed the unfolding events with great interest. One distinguished itself as the planet's enduring survival instinct, while the other … was slightly more infamous, though that subjective evaluation may differ from person to person.
Gaia, the representation of the plant's will, if not the not the planet itself, had been paying close attention to the fight that shouldered the fate of all living organism's survival, and welcomed the defeat of Angra Mainyu, the personification of all evil, with joy and pride. Kaleidoscope, summoned by Gaia to this ethereal plane for the purpose of cementing this defeat within all dimensions to prevent Angra Mainyu's victory over life, seemed unfazed by this course of events. Kaleidoscope had likely already expected this outcome.
"Well, I have to give it to the kids, they sure know how to put on a show."
Kaleidoscope was slightly sarcastic but Gaia payed it no heed.
"I am grateful for their efforts. Thanks to them the other realities will have a renewed chance at facing Angra Mainyu, but I do regret their sacrifice", Gaia melancholically stated.
"You already interfered with their deaths, is it alright to involve yourself to this extent?"
"I've done three things. That wish of theirs at the very end … I felt that the least I could do to reward their efforts and fulfill it to the best of my ability, though I don't know to which extent I can alter fate. Second is the body of that sad child. With that unnatural body structure of hers eating away at her life force, it would be too pitiful to die at a young age even after all my efforts. Lastly is Angra Mainyu's influence on it's host. His influence tainted her body and mind, so I cleansed her of his corruption and freed her from the Grail within her. Alas, all I can do now is hope that they will find happiness in whatever life they find themselves next."
Gaia, seemingly satisfied with her efforts, stepped back from influencing the laws of the world and returned to her passive state of rest. She had done all she could, and the fate of the world would continue with it's normal course.
That is, if it weren't for the additional presence still active in her realm.
"Wait until their next life to see the next chapter of their history? Hell no."
Kaleidoscope selfishly complained with a dark tone chilling his non-existent expression.
"Those kids provided me with the best entertainment that I had in years; such entertainment can't be easily found in most realities after all. There is no way that I am going to wait a lifetime to see what happens next! Oho~ especially with this new reality I found. A world where there is no border between magic and science … now this ought to be entertaining!"
Kaleidoscope looked towards the spot where the heroes had supposedly been swallowed by nothingness, and revealed the Boundary Field containing them. Enkidu had somehow persisted to exist and continued to link the four together, as if honoring it's user's wish to remain connected to his friends. The peculiar thing about this Boundary Field was that it trapped it's contents in a space between realities, and with their presences having seemingly vanished, Gaia had assumed that they had successfully started their reincarnation process. In fact, Kaleidoscope intentionally sent them to the rift between realities in a successful attempt to fool Gaia.
Gazing at the children before him, Kaleidoscope couldn't help but voice his thoughts.
"A world where magic and science blend together as one and where magi no longer need to hide themselves. Seems to be entertaining enough. On special with those strategic class, I wonder how those strategic class will react with magus at the level of heroic spirits"
Moving towards the center of the four magi, Kaleidoscope regarded golden chain that linked them together.
"This chain as well as Gaia's help… Fufufu, it's almost too easy", Kaleidoscope chuckled sinisterly.
"Enkidu, the chains of the heavens that can bind gods, I wonder what will happen if it were to continue to exist in a conceptualized state…"
Suddenly the projected chain that was already on the verge of collapsing, burst into a myriad of golden iridescence and sought shelter in the bodies of the four unconscious mages.
After this was done he turns to see where Sakura and Illya were. "Gaia, I thank you for showing me how to change the core of a person magic circuits, but now I am a little curious, I wonder if I will be able to do the same and what to do, Oh well because I can waste too much time I will just see what happen if I take a set of their core magic circuits" after that he proceed to rice both hands up and on that moment the bodies of the young heroes moved their chest out and on that instant three spheres of light come out of their chest and remain floating in front of them, the ones in front of Rin were red ones, the ones in front Illya were yellow ones, the ones in front of Sakura were green ones and the ones in front Shirou were blue ones. After a few moment they moved to Kaleidoscope hands where they started to flutter for a moment until they stopped and then moved back to be in front of the young magus, but this time they didn´t have the three spheres of light of the color that come out of their chest, this time each of the three spheres of light were of different colors, one coming from each of the other young magus that were unconscious, and a moment after that the spheres of light got inside their chest.
"All right with this they've joined not just their fates but also their very cores along with their Magic Circuits. I am not too sure what will happen with things having turned out like this, but I am sure that it will be interesting! Now just one little stop before you can see your new home", the embodiment of eccentricity, visibly pleased with his work, murmured to himself.
There were two things associated with trans-dimensional travel. The first, if he simply placed something into a different reality, then much like visiting a neighboring city, you would have no history or knowledge of the world. While it would have indeed been grandiose entertainment to see how the heroes before him would try to make sense of the situation, he refrained from doing so this time due to a rare feeling of empathy he felt for them, and thus settled with for his next best plan. Secondly, he had learned from Gaia that the self-correcting mechanisms of the worlds always keep a certain balance, regardless of the dimension, meaning that if Kaleidoscope were to simply toss the youngsters into a new reality from Gaia's realm, the fabric of that reality would be rewritten to welcome their arrival, assimilating them into it. He only needed to act quickly so that Gaia wouldn't notice and prevent him from doing so. With a final compulsory glance over the floating bodies before him, he tossed them out into the foreign world.
Idea #2: Fate Stay Night/Familiar of Zero crossover
Magic.
As opposed to science, which was meant to be studied and learned by all, it could just as likely be worshiped as a religion. Such was the case in the fantasy-like world of Halkeginia. Gathered in the courtyard of an ancient medieval castle, a group of robed students were currently engrossed in a traditional ritual which served as their rite of passage. The summoning of one's personal familiar held much importance for the nobles of Halkeginia.
However, a certain pink haired magician seemed especially eager to summon her familiar on that destined day. Rather than completing this rite for the sake of summoning a life-long companion, this particular girl cared little for the familiar itself, but rather the qualities associated with it. She eagerly awaited the ritual not for the summoning, but in order to prove to her classmates, her family, and most importantly to herself, that she wasn't the laughable failure she had been ridiculed as. She wanted to prove that she was not, and never would be, Louise the Zero.
"Now, was that everyone?" a hairless teacher asked the colorful mix of students and familiars before him.
"No, we still have Miss Vallière to go."
"Louise the Zero!"
"What will she summon?"
"There's no way she can summon anything!"
"We'll just have another explosion, nothing else!"
"After all that boasting, you'll summon something more amazing than this little guy, right Louise?"
"Of course!" Louse shouted in response to the last provocation, made by a voluptuous red-haired girl, while trying her best to control the shaking of her arms.
She was nervous, and rightfully so. Not once had she succeeded in casting even the simplest of magics, so why would this summon ritual be any different? Desperately clinging to a prayer deep within her heart, Louise the Zero raised her wand and focused her magic.
But unfortunately for her, the same result as usual occurred, and a big explosion happened. Once the smoke ended, they could see 4 bodies lying on the ground, all of them in bad condition.
"Louise, what were you thinking, calling 4 commoners with 'Summon Servant'?" mocked a student once he got up after the expected explosion had subsided.
"I-I just made a little mistake!" the pink-haired girl, who was standing in front of Shirou at the time, shouted in a refined voice that carried like a bell.
"What mistake are you talking about? Nothing unusual happened."
"Of course! After all, she's Louise the Zero!" someone else said, and the crowd burst into laughter again.
"Mr. Colbert!" the girl, apparently sick of the distasteful jeers, turned to the man seemingly responsible for the class of students.
"What is it that you want from me, Miss Vallière?"
"Please! Let me try the summoning one more time!"
As if pitying the expected plea of the small girl before him, the man by the name of Colbert dejectedly shook his head. "I cannot allow that, Miss Vallière."
"Why not?"
"It's strictly forbidden. When you advance to a second year student, you must summon a familiar, which is what you just did. Your elemental specialty is decided by the familiar that you summon. It enables you to advance to the appropriate courses for that element. You can't change the familiar once you've summoned it, because the 'Springtime Familiar Summoning' ritual is a sacred rite. Whether you like it or not, you have no choice but to take him."
"But... I've never heard of having a commoner as a familiar, especially four!"
As if rekindled by Louise's desperate voice, the crowd's laughter became even more audible.
"This is a tradition, Miss Vallière. I cannot allow any exceptions. They-" Colbert intentionally paused as he pointed towards the commoners with his fingers, "-they may be a commoners, but as long as they were summoned by you, they must be your familiar. Never in history has a human been summoned as a familiar, but the 'Springtime Familiar Summoning' ritual takes precedence over every other rule. In other words, there's no other way around it; they must become your familiar."
"You've got to be joking…" Louise drooped her shoulders in disappointment.
"Well then, continue with the ceremony."
"With them?"
"Yes, with them. Hurry, the next class will begin any minute. How much more time is this summoning going to take? After mistake upon mistake, you have finally managed to summon them. Hurry and form a contract."
Seeing that she had no other option, she began to say the final words for the familiar contract. But when she was getting closer to the only male of the group, she heard a voice start to shout. She didn't understand the language, but when she turned to see where the noise came from, she saw that it was the girl with a red jersey who was speaking in the unfamiliar tongue.
"Be quiet dog! After I mark him as my familiar, it'll be your turn." Louis said as she got event closer to the unconscious male. However, before she had the chance to seal the deal with a kiss, the girl with the red jersey had gathered strength from somewhere and, grabbing Louis from behind via the neck of her shirt, threw her with great strength a couple meters to where the other students were, impacting at their feet.
The comments about Louis come a second later.
"As expected of Louis, even the actors that she hired are against her." said a red haired girl.
Felling her humiliation grow, she took her wand and was about to punish the commoner for attacking a noble, but what happened next silenced all present. The girl pointed at Louis with her fingers, and a ball made of magical energy shot forth and hit Louis's wand, breaking it into multiple pieces.
All those present, even the teacher who got closer to prevent things from going out of control, froze at this.
The girl stood there in defiance. She said a few words in her strange language as she dropped a jewel from her pocket, and in that moment, a magical barrier appeared and covered the four of them just before she also fell unconsciousness.
"A noble! By the Founder, Louis just summoned a noble!" shouted one student.
"Not only that, but she also tried to turn her servant into her familiar!" said another student.
"How do we know that the others aren't nobles as well?"
"What if they were fine in their home when Louise summoned them, but got hurt by the explosion caused by Louis?"
"The Vallière family will have to pay a lot for this depending on how noble their houses are."
Many more comments could be heard, but Louis didn't pay them any mind as she was too busy watching the scene before them. Professor Colbert moved closer to study the barrier that the girl used to prevent the mages from getting closer to them while they were unconsciousness.
End of idea #2
With this idea, you are free to make the changes that you want. Just keep the characters of the main story (Rin, Sakura, Illya, and Shirou), but you can add more if you want.
Idea #3: Naruto/Fate Stay Night crossover.
This idea came to me after I read "A Seventh Path: Path of Swords" by Lost Revenant. It's sadly been abandoned and placed under adoption.
After the Kaleidoscope had just finished his mission, the four bodies of the heroes that had made the impossible and stopped the dark god were traveling between the void of realities. Their bodies soon began to turn into sparks of energy, leaving only their souls that shined more than any normal soul could ever hope to shine.
Soon, the souls arrived at their destination, a familiar yet strange land on a continent inhabited by strange warriors. They came to a powerful village in a country known as the Land of Fire, which was just celebrating the designation of their newest leader, their Fourth Hokage.
During that night of celebration, many new lives would be formed, but out of all of them, four of those lives would carry the souls of heroes who had powers and abilities unlike any ever seen before, who also contain the drive to change the world forever.
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It had been a few years since she could remember her past life, years since she began to feel a sense of anxiety. It all began when she was trying one of her experiments. Even at the young age of six, with her parents and other adults saying that it was all just childish imagination, she had something deep down in her soul that told her that those 'childish imaginings' not were simple games of childhood, but actual knowledge and power. Ever since she could remember, she had dreams about powers, skills, and warriors that were completely different from what she saw of the other members of her clan. She didn't know where those dreams came from until a year earlier, when her mother gave her a pretty necklace with fake jewels. Somehow, she felt the desire to see what would happen if she filled one of the fake jewels with her chakra, but that soon proved to be a bad idea as it caused a small explosion that sent her head over heels backwards where she ended up hitting her head. She awoke the next day in her clan infirmary with a very worried mother next to her, but this time everything was different. She remembered everything; her life, her powers, her fight… her death, but most importantly her loved ones.
Since that moment, she began to adapt to this new world that she knew wasn't her original one. She still had many questions about why she was there, how she could remember everything from her past life; but she still didn't have any answers to her questions.
However, in the last year she had been making greater progress in regaining her original skills, as well as combining them with the new ones that were used in the new world she found herself in, and she was called a prodigy. The fact that she was born into an elite family that had a genetic trait that gave them mystic eyes, along with a flow rate and control of mana that would make even the high class magi of her original word envious, only reinforced her self-esteem.
Yet, she still felt incomplete. It was true that she had a new family, even if most of them had an ego as big as the stick that they had shoved up their ass. She also gained a loving mother, and a beautiful little sister that she swore she would not fail, not this time.
But she still couldn't forget about her past life. Her friends and sister, would they also be here some place? Like her, would they regain their memories of their past lives, or were they living a normal life without them?
It was at that moment that something hit her. It wasn't an attack or something like that, but an energy that was powerful, yet gentle; but most importantly, familiar. It was at that moment that her magic circuits began to resonate with energy. She tried to use her mystic eyes that her new family called Byakugan to find out what the source of the energy was, only to see a golden chain that split in three different directions before disappearing into the distance. But that was enough confirmation for her, because she knew those chains. They were the same golden chains that Shirou had used to make sure that they would remain together, whatever happened. That meant that all of them were there, now she only needed to find them.
A few moments earlier, in another part of the village, there was a boy of the same age as the girl in the Hyuga complex, but unlike the girl he wasn't safe.
It all began when he saw a group of adults running after a blond kid that tried to escape into an alley, but was soon surrounded by the adults who then began to attack him. It was at that moment that something inside him told him that he needed to save that kid. Without event thinking, he ran and stood between the child and the adults to stop them from attacking. However, they just began to call him a demon's friend, and that the blond kid deserved to die. They said that if he didn't move, they would kill him as well. However, the boy refused to allow those adults to keep hurting the little kid, and was soon attacked as well. It was at that moment, one full of pain and impotence for being unable to save the other child, that he said a few specific words. They came out when he saw that they were about to be stabbed by one of the adults, and he was unaware of their meaning. Unknown to him however, or anyone else, those words would change the shinobi world forever.
"Trace on!"
End of idea #3
Rules of this idea:
Keep the characters of the main story (Rin, Sakura, Illya, and Shirou) but you can add more if you want.
Read "A Seventh Path: Path of Swords" by Lost Revenant, so you can know where this idea come from.
You have to distribute the girls among the main clans: The Hyuga, Uchiha, and Senju.
The girl that goes to the Uchiha needs a back story, like "Her mother was an Uchiha that never awoke the sharingan, and was considered a failure when she married outside the clan to a ninja that come from a civilian family". That would explain why she wasn't present during the night of the Uchiha massacre.
The one that goes to the Hyuga must be over-protective of Hinata and Hanabi.
The one that goes to the Senju must awaken the Mokuton, and thus be the main reason for Tsunade to return to Konoha. She'd refuse to leave because she doesn't want the others to have an advantage in the time that they manage to spend with Shirou.
If you decide to add another girl or girls, you can add them to those same clans if you want for the girls and Servants to remain together like Sakura and Rider, or Rin and Saber. Or you can add them to other ones, like the Sarutobi, Kurama, etc…
If you wish to take any of these ideas, please inform me so I can follow the story. If you need the first chapter so you can use it, send me a PM so I can send it to you.
Also, check this fic that was based on a previous challenge that I made:
s/12192482/1/The-Dragon-Container
Until the next time.
