Rin bounced up to Harry with a pleased glint in her eye.

"What happened and why do you scare me right now?" he asked. In the year that he had been here, he had helped Shiro, Rin and Sakura learn English to the point that they could speak it properly. As a result, everyone in the Emiya house could speak two languages.

On the plus side, their grades in English had never been higher.

"Thanks to you, I got my family crest a year early! I don't have to deal with that damn priest anymore!"

"Uh, what?"

Rin gave him a look.

"I was still apprenticing under a priest who knew my father until I could pass a few exams. As a result, I didn't have access to my family crest that my father had. I was supposed to get it next year under the usual time table, but because of our little study and discussion group I was able to pass them anyway."

"Congratulations, I guess."

"You do realize what this means don't you?"

"Not particularly, other than you're now allowed to cast without anyone to hold you hand."

"It means that even if the Magus Association finds out you've been living in my territory, they can't do a thing about it. That half of Fuyuki is officially under my purview."

"Wait, so you mean the Ministry now can't go through that priest to get to us?"

"Exactly!"

"Sweet. Does this mean you want to abandon our little discussion group?"

"Not on your life Potter! Do you know how hard it is to find someone willing to talk to me about that and not act like complete and utter pricks? Hell, most of Clock Tower is like that, and if they ever learned I let you stay and even shared spells with you they would look down on me!"

"Frankly I think Clock Tower is only slightly better than Hogwarts. At least there learning isn't completely restricted."

"Whereas Hogwarts is so backwards it's pathetic."

"Agreed."

Rin was so pleased about getting her family crest she almost missed the odd feeling in the air. It wasn't until she paused and actually felt for it that she recognized it.

It had been ten years since she felt it, but she could recall that feeling quite well. It was the same one that killed her father.

The Grail Wars, which weren't supposed to start for another fifty years, had started again.

She was torn between what to do. On one hand, she would undoubtedly have to join to have any say in what would happen. On the other, she would probably be unable to have her usual discussions with the others. She didn't want to drag them into the War between Seven Servants.

Though knowing her luck, Shiro and Harry would be dragged in whether they wanted to or not. At least she would have some back up.

She still remembered Kotomine's disbelieving expression when he found out that not only was she allowing three wizards from Hogwarts to stay in her territory, but that she often went to an apprentice Magi's house in order to have some very in-depth discussions on magic in general. She still had a picture of his face in her scrapbook.

From what she could tell, only one servant had been summoned. From the feel alone she guessed it was berserker.

She was halfway to Shiro's house when she noticed a woman who was definitely Irish walking past her in the street.

She had a case in her hand that looked very suspicious...and after sensing Berserker she had a feeling the woman was there to summon a servant.

If she was right, then chances were that she was going to the church since it was neutral territory to do it. Rin thought about what Shiro and Harry would do and made up her mind before she realized she was halfway across the street.

"Excuse me," she said in English.

The woman turned, and gave her an odd look.

"If you're heading to the church, then I would recommend summoning your Servant somewhere else. The Priest in charge of the church is such a weasel he might stab you in the back."

"How did you...? Who are you?"

"I'm Tohsaka Rin, the Magus in charge of this district. And I just felt Berserker being summoned."

Bazett looked at her in surprise. The girl had taken a leap of faith and guessed correctly that she was a fellow Magus.

"How on Earth did you know I'm a Magus?"

"You are clearly Irish, and the only foreigners around here are British. Even then they made sure to alert me when they entered my territory. It was pretty obvious after Berserker was just summoned that you are here for the War."

Bazett couldn't fault her reasoning. A foreigner in Magus territory after a summoning was pretty suspicious.

"So how do you know about the Priest?"

"He was my magic teacher until recently. I don't trust him at all, and you really shouldn't. I wouldn't put it past him to try and steal your Servant, since he was in the previous one."

"Do you know of anywhere else I could summon him?"

"Actually, I do. Luckily they all know about magic and they speak English."

If Bazett was shocked by Rin actually warning her from the church, she was floored by the simple fact of who she was going to meet.

She thought the girl had allowed some fellow Magi to live in her territory in exchange for a bribe. She certainly didn't expect three wizards there!

"Yo, Rin! Who's this?" asked the black haired teen.

"Another Magus. I'm fairly sure the Grail Wars have started up again."

"Grail Wars? You mean that battle royale with the Seven Servants you mentioned? I thought it wasn't supposed to start up for a few more decades," said the boy.

"Berserker was just summoned. And I'm not about to let someone go to the church with that weasel in charge," she said hotly.

"Don't blame ya at all. That place gives me the creeps. You can feel the Dark magic coming off of it," shuddered the older man.

"What's with her?" asked the other man, a tawny haired gentleman she was almost sure was a werewolf by his eyes.

"Don't you remember Remus? Magi and Wizards don't normally get along. She's probably in shock," said the boy amused.

"How...? How is this possible?" she asked in disbelief.

"You want to hear the long version or the short?" quipped the boy. Rin slapped him on the head absentmindedly.

"Long version. I can always bring Lancer out tomorrow night and I have the feeling this story is worth waiting," said Bazett.

Hell, with a tale like this she wouldn't have to pay for drinks with her fellow Enforcers for a year at least!

"Well it starts like this..." said the boy.

By the time Harry finished explaining how he had originally left London to find his cousin who he had never even met, Shiro had started supper. Sakura had come by earlier and was helping him. She didn't even bat an eye to the fact that another Magus had come to Fuyuki.

Her grandfather had felt Berserker's appearance just as Rin had earlier.

Bazett was in absolute shock as Harry told her about making the deal with Rin...of course said girl snarkily added she originally had allowed them to stay mostly because Harry helped her acquire jewels for her families craft.

By the time supper was done, (in which they had to postpone because of Taiga coming over to mooch off food) Harry got to the point where Sirius came over and started to help them learn magic.

When he finally finished, she was naturally impressed.

She first looked at Rin and said "You know most Magi wouldn't let a wizard into their territory in the first place."

"I didn't even know he was there until I saw his wand at school. I confronted him and he presented an argument I couldn't win, so I let him off. As long as he didn't do anything to cause me trouble, I didn't feel like chasing him out. When the second one showed up, he bargained for both of them with some books Black had in his family library that belonged to my ancestors. When Remus showed up Harry convinced me to let him stay with a line to the goblins and as many jewels from their family vaults as I needed. Considering how much I would have had to pay to buy the same quality I naturally accepted."

"Plus it gave you two new errand boys to push around," said Harry playfully.

Bazett looked at him owlishly.

"Wait...do you mean..."

"Harry here has an element of Wind and an Origin of Magic. He can use both wand and circuits to cast. And it took us ages to figure out why Shiro was having such problems with his... Honestly having an Element and Origin like that..." said Rin.

"You mean to tell me...that a wizard is able to use magic circuits and hasn't been throwing a fit?" she said incredulous.

"I'm not normal," said Harry dryly.

"You kidding? I still can't wait to see the Ministry's face when they find out he's willingly learning to use circuits like a Magus! The press is going to flip when they find out the boy-who-lived is breaching the unspoken agreement between the magic classes!" said Sirius grinning.

Bazett could only do one thing when her mind processed that information. She passed out from shock.

The boy-who-lived, the Wizard's golden boy who defeated a dark lord...learning how to become a Magus. She would never have to pay for her drinks again with a tale like that!

Remus lightly poked Bazett, and said with clear amusement "I think we broke her."

Sirius levitated the woman and her case to one of the spare bedrooms. When she woke up she would hope it was all a dream, before she found out the hard way it wasn't.

Still, since Harry was in the jurisdiction of a Magus and following the guidelines of both sets, she didn't have to do a thing.

There wasn't any rule stating you couldn't learn both sets of magic after all.

Since they were interested in Lancer, and they were all magical, she summoned her Servant with Shiro's permission in the back yard where the neighbors wouldn't see.

Sirius and Remus had gone over the yard and found Kiritsugu had placed an interesting ward around the perimeter of his house. With Shiro's permission, they expanded on it while leaving the original in place.

And since it was Magus territory, they didn't have to worry about the Ministry bothering them for placing such heavy duty wards around a muggle neighborhood so long as the Magus in charge of the area didn't care.

Rin actually helped them with the runes, since she had a few books she wanted to try out and it was a lesson on magic that everyone would enjoy.

Now the Emiya house was almost as secure as Rin's home, though they had to leave a few wards out because they didn't want to alert the other neighbors that something was amiss about the house.

As far as Taiga was concerned, they were doodling old runes to bring good luck to the house.

It had the added benefit of having the Mafia family next door overlook odd lights, since they admitted they often set off fireworks in the backyard.

They just thought Sirius was a pyro and left it at that.

Bazett finished the ritual, and with a crash Lancer appeared.

He shouldered his red spear and looked at her.

"Are you my master?"

She held up her left hand, showing the Command Mantra.

"I am."

"Servant Lancer, at yer service," he said with a grin.

"Huh...so that's a Servant. If I didn't know any better I would swear he was Irish," said Sirius.

Lancer was a bit surprised by the audience, but said nothing. It was pretty clear he was in a magical household and the war hadn't really started.

Besides, the rules only said to kill witnesses if they saw him fighting another Servant.

"He is Irish," said Bazett.

"Oh good. Anyone in the mood for some whiskey?" asked Sirius with a grin.

"I am not cleaning up your mess again Sirius. Not after last time!" said Harry.

"Seconded!" said Shiro.

"Third!" said Remus.

Rin growled. By process of deduction that left her or Sakura, and Sakura had already gone home.

Lancer grinned at Sirius.

"You're my kinda guy! Bring on the booze!"

Bazett groaned and face palmed. At least she got the one she wanted. She and Rin left the house for a bit.

She went to the church with Rin, and left feeling like something was horribly wrong about that place. Now more than ever she was glad that she had taken the girl's offer to meet with her friends. She had left Lancer with Sirius as they left to get drunk. The Irish hero fell in love with the fire whiskey the man had, and they got along very well.

Too well in her opinion.

"How interesting. The Irish Enforcer has already summoned Lancer..." said Kotomine.

"Yeah, and she did it in a place where we can't get to him," said a voice from behind.

A youth with golden hair and arrogant attitude came up from behind him.

"The best laid plans of mice and men," said Kotomine.

"Whatever. What are we going to do now? Thanks to that girlie of yours, we missed getting Lancer. And I doubt any of the others would be willing to summon their Servant here. Not if she's keeping an eye out for foreigners."

"Ah, but you are forgetting something. Not all the Servants have been summoned yet. If need be we can give the Command Mantra to young Shinji."

Gil grimaced. He disliked the Matou heir, because the kid was a slimy brat who had no sense of taste.

He had run into the wizard kid who had bargained his way into Rin's good graces once, and the kid reminded him far too much of Arturia. And it wasn't because of the British accent either.

Still, he did show the respect that he deserved, which was more than most people did until he whipped out his Noble Phantasm to scare them.

That was more than enough to get his interest.

Bazett was surprised when Shiro offered the use of his spare guest house. It wasn't like it got much use outside of the times Rin or Sakura stayed the night over. And since they were well used to people casting magic in the back, she didn't have to hide what she was doing.

Considering she had come to Fuyuki fully expecting to have to pay for a hotel to sleep in until the war was over, this was more than she had hoped for.

In fact the only thing Shiro asked for was that she share her knowledge on magic with them. Considering Bazett was naturally curious about how a trio of wizards managed to stay in the good graces of a Magus, she agreed.

Besides, as the Tohsaka girl pointed out, the chances of them becoming involved in the war one war or another were very high indeed. Harry had already expressed an interest in trying his hand at Summoning.

Bazett still couldn't figure out how three wizards managed to get in the good graces of a Magus. Or why they were so accepting of the youngest having a cousin who was a Magus.

The situation was so damn bizarre that she couldn't help but want to see how it would turn out.

Besides, it nice to hear English spoken in accent she could recognize so far from home.