Tsukiko Chronicle

by Mikarea

Daughter of James and Lily Potter. Named by Yuuko Ichihara, the Space-Time witch. Her fate changed by Zelretch, the Old Man of the Jewels. Will she be like many of her counterparts through out the multi verse, a pawn of fate, to be used by others. Or will she shatter fate and create her own destiny. Mainly HP/Type-Moon crossover. Minor other crossover. Year two complete.

4. Chapter 3 – Fated Future Home Sweet Hom

Tsukiko Chronicle

A/N: Sorry this one took some time to publish. Due to work, writer blocks and the need to double check all my plots. The chapter was later then scheduled. Being over 16000 words does not help at all, I kept writing until I hit the cut off point. I also managed to find a way to fulfil my first request, I hope you will enjoy my version of events. In this Chapter I tried to space out the paragraphs a lot more, hopefully it will make it less painful to read.

Version 2.0 correction 2.25.16

Chapter 3 – Fated Future. Home Sweet Home

Fifth of October, 1986

Charlwood , Henfold Lakes abandon camp house

It was a clear sky with few clouds, the sun was setting, casting a reddish orange colour across the skies. A young girl no more then six years old with dark hair and green eyes, she wore a white shirt, long sleeve pink jumper and mid length light brown skirt, carried a grocery bag filled with goods. As the young girl approached the abandoned camp house, she used Structure Analysis to examine the locked door and with Mr Shirou help, Projected a key to unlock the door.

Once inside Tsukiko listened to Miss Rin and took out a seal pot of lead paint and began to drawn a magic circle for the Bounded Field. Miss Rin explained to her that the Bounded Fieldwould only hide the house and those within them, It would turn anyone without a magic circuit away and hide magic signature and it's user within the field. To the ordinary masses, the house just simply never there. To wizards and witches, it was just a normal house with no one inside.

Once the perimeter was secured. Rin told Tsukiko to eat and drink before she attempt to enter her mind scape. Tsukiko finished her fill of instant meal and drink, she listened to Rin explanation on meditation and self hypnosis. As Tsukiko closed her eyes and cleared all her thoughts, she felt herself sway as if she was in the ocean. Tsukiko delved deeper into herself and when she opened her eyes, she was no longer within the abandon house. She was in the courtyard of a beautiful wooden house with blue tiles, paper screens and window. Beyond the house, she could see majestic trees and a clear night filled with stars, the interiors of the house were all lit up brightly.

The paper door opened, revealing Arcueid, she smiled happily when she saw Tsukiko on the lawn. Arcueid ran towards her and picked Tsukiko up and hugged her affectionately.

Arcueid said to her happily. "Welcome home! Tsukiko-chan." Arcueid returned to the Emiya resident with Tsukiko in her arms.

Tsukiko was very comfortable, she could feel the love and affection from Arcueid. When Arcueid carried her into the house, she saw everyone except Mr Shirou was there, they sat around a very low table, sitting on comfortable cushions.

Arcueid sat down with Tsukiko still in her lap and held her as close to herself as she could. Arcueid planned to monopolise as much cuddling time as she could while Tsukiko-chan was here with them. Arcueid had come to love Tsukiko, with her cold and emotionless exterior melted, she found a lovable little bundle of joy and she planned to keep her that way. Arcueid wonder if this was what being a mother was like. To love a child this much, even if she was not her own.

Shirou entered the room with a tray of cake and a cup hot coco. Tsukiko looked at the cake with stars in her eyes. Shirou smiled at her. "Go ahead and dig in, I think you will like them."

Tsukiko dug in and ate a piece of the strawberry cake Mr Shirou brought in, for the first time in her life she felt pure bliss. The cake was so creamy and sweet at the right level. Tsukiko never tasted anything so good in her life. She had hot coco before, but what Mr Shirou gave her was like heaven to her, she felt warm and relaxed just from drinking a sip of the hot beverage. Mr Shirou brought out more cakes and drinks for everyone at the table. Miss Arcueid ate her cake and her eyes widened.

Arcueid asked Shirou. "Shirou-san, we are currently in Tsukiko-chan mind scape. How is it possible to have such realistic tasting cake, specially for those of us who never ate them before?"

Before Shirou could answer, Rin took over and explained. "From what I can understand, the mind scape we are all in, is a joint one. What I experience, what everyone at this table experience is collected into one mind scape."

Arcueid, Shiki and Tsukiko looked confused at this. Rin explained further. "For example. Shirou strawberry cake is something he made and tasted before he came to this mind scape. His memory of how the cake taste, what the texture is like can be recreated in this mind scape and shared with the rest of us, like in the real world. Although he didn't really need to go through the trouble of actually making them, he could have just materialize it."

Shirou looked at Rin with a frown and said. "I like cooking, you know that Rin."

Rin ignored Shirou and continued. "Another example is this house, Shirou can recreate this place from his experience, along with ours, since we lived here more then enough times. Arturia could probably recreate Camelot castle within this mind scape as well. And as for me, the Tohsaka estate. The only thing we cannot recreate seem to be people and animals. When we tried, they seem to be nothing more then dolls. In this mind scape, we live in a shared experience with each other, when we chose to share."

Rin gained a thoughtful look and said. "It also mean we cannot learn new things unless they come from Tsukiko-chan. Since she is the only one connected to the outside world. The best we can do is watch through the looking glass from the obelisk. But I am getting off track, there is something important we need to do."

Rin looked to Tsukiko. "Tsukiko-chan. We cannot leave you alone out there by yourself. There is a spell I think you might be able to achieve. It's called servant summon ritual."

Shirou looked gravely at Rin and said. "Rin, you cannot be serious. Even if Tsukiko-chan have six thousand prana at her disposal, summoning a servant without the help of the Holy Grail is beyond even a magical prodigy like Tsukiko-chan."

Rin looked to Shirou with a serious expression. "Shirou, we're not going to have Tsukiko-chan summon from the Throne of Heroes. I am planning to have her summon Arturia from the mind scape. I know it's a long shot, but we cannot leave Tsukiko-chan out in the real world alone, she needs a guardian."

Shirou looked dejected. "Why Saber? Why not me or Arcueid-san or Shiki-san."

Rin sighed. "Shirou. I said it was a long shot, Arturia was a heroic spirit before Zelretch took her soul into the stone. She might be the only one who can leave Tsukiko-chan in the same fashion, and Arturia volunteered."

Arturia looked over to Shirou with a calm look. "Shirou, It is my duty to protect Tsukiko-chan and in turn protect everyone inside her. Tsukiko-chan is facing danger and unknown we have never seen before, I am the best choice to protect her from those danger."

Arturia looked over to Tsukiko and noticed the little girl looked like she was about to fall asleep. Arturia smiled and said to her. "Its all right, Tsukiko-chan. It's been a long day for you, go to sleep for now, we will wake you up if we need you." Arturia watched as Tsukiko nodded at her and gradually fell asleep in Arcueid arms. The image of Tsukiko-chan sleeping in Arcueid arms was truly beautiful and brought a smile to everyone, as they watched Tsukiko sleeping soundly in Arcueid arm.

Rin watched Tsukiko sleep for a moment before she broken the silence. "There is another important matter that we need to talk about. It's in regard to what we have found out from the shattered crystal that was formerly known as 'Lord Voldemort'. I prefer if Tsukiko-chan don't find out about this, till she is a bit older."

Rin moved into her Ikari Gendo lecture mode. "From the information we gained from those broken shards, we found details of spells, research into magic and history about the magic world in this dimension, but information on this creature 'Voldemort', his life, his organization, his connections were too badly damaged to be any use to us. All we have from those damaged information was his name and a organization called Death Eaters. How they are linked to Tsukiko-chan, we have no idea." Rin was silent for a moment before continuing. "Also this world magic is still within the age of the Gods or somewhere close to the end of that era."

Rin raised a hand to forestall any question thrown her way and explained. "From the information I have found out from Voldemort crystal, mythical creature like dragon, unicorn, giant and numerous others still exist in this dimension, thank the Root there is no information on entity like Aristoteles or true phantasmal beast, but I wont count them out just yet. The existence of those magical creatures, along with some truly amazing spells convinced me this world is practically filled with Mana. Remember what Zelretch told us. This dimension magic do not diminish no matter how many people use the same mysteries, and the world do not see magic as abnormal. This dimension Gaia is not actively trying to erase magic and everything relate to it."

Rin paused for a moment and drank the tea Shirou served to her. "Its only a hypothesis. But I think either there is no threat to Gaia in this world, as there is in ours, or the Gaia in this world just simply don't care about humanity and its environment. For the possible reason, that it can just start all over again from scratch." Rin gave everyone some time to absorb the information.

Shirou was the first to ask. "Rin, when you said they have truly amazing spells, the spells that 'Voldemort' used within the mind scape is possible in the real world? Namely the mass undead summoning and 'Fiendfyre' spell he used."

Rin smiled a little at Shirou and thought he might not be so hopeless after all. "That's right Shirou. In this mind scape we can only attack and defend, limited to what we can do in the real world. Attempt to imagine outside or lie about our real capabilities will result in failure or worse case scenario, a backlash. As you have seen, 'Voldemort' can use spells that would take a normal magus massive amount of preparation to achieve, what he did was not impossible for us to achieve. It just take us more time and prana to perform the same mysteries."

Rin paused a bit, took in another sip of tea and materialized a replica of 'Voldemort' wand. "There are also information on wands. They are made from various type of woods and contain magical cores like phoenix feather, unicorn hair, dragon heart string and other possible cores. The main function of those wands is to act as focus and amplifiers. With the correct wands, a wizard only expend a fraction of their od for their mysteries. The remaining nine tenth, use the surrounding Mana to power their mysteries."

Shirou looked stunned and said. "With such mystic code as those wands. It only use one tenth of od to realize mysteries, no wonder 'Voldemort' can perform that mass summoning and 'Fiendfyre' without looking even remotely exhausted. We might actually had a real fight had he taken us seriously. Come to think about it, he didn't even use his wand for those spells."

Rin raised an eye brow and said. "Shirou, they are not as strong as you think. Truth is, the wands, their spells and wizard society as a whole have many fatal flaws. It is my prediction this wizard society as a whole will die out in about two hundred years time, or at the very least unable to maintain their current form after such time."

Arcueid spoked up. "What fatale flaws are those Rin-san." Arcueid looked towards sleeping Tsukiko in her arms with a slight concern. "Do they effect Tsukiko-chan?"

Rin looked to Arcueid then to Tsukiko's sleeping form and smiled fondly. "No Arcueid-san, there is nothing that will effect Tsukiko immediately. The flaw I am talking about effect the entire magic society in this dimension, and to understand what I am talking about. I will be using examples and hypothesis."

Rin brought out several books of magic from 'Voldemort' memory. She passed the books to everyone at the table. "Turn to page twenty, it's a chapter under origin of magic."

As the other read the chapter, Shirou was the first to point out. "What the hell? Magic is a natural force that override the law of nature, it was an inborn quality passed on by blood of magical. While those born of 'muggle' parents are known as muggle born. Those born from magical parents but unable to use magic are known as 'squibs'."

Shirou furrowed his brows and a look of disgust mar his face. "Rin, this does not tell us anything about the origin of magic, it is more like a gloss over saying magic are born from magical couples, some time non-magical couple have magical children." Rin nodded at Shirou. Then he realized. "Rin, the magical society as a whole are not pursuing Akashic Records! They don't even know about magic circuits. The principle of prana, mana and od! They just assume magic is magic without looking deeper into it."

Rin smiled victoriously and said. "That is correct, Shirou. I am surprise you even picked up that much from that chapter." Shirou looked a little annoyed at her. Rin just smiled smugly and said. "The wizard society relies on two thing mainly when performing their 'magic', first being their wands and the second being the spells that get passed down to the masses. Very few spells are family secrets, if there is any. All magic are available to those who have the resource, funding and connections. Those two factors cause the biggest problem to wizard society as a whole, and that being the lack of progress. One example of this is the spell 'Imperius' curse. It is a spell that can dominate a person's mind completely, even able to make the cursed individual commit suicide if commanded to do so. The spell said to cause no pain, all feeling of anxiety and responsibilities are banished."

Rin looked into the empty tea cup and said. "A counter measure would have been found within the first ten years, if a magus decided to find a way to defeat this curse, faster if Clock tower itself decided the spell falls under sealing designation and a counter measure is needed. In the wizardry society this curse was left unopposed for almost a thousand two hundred years. It was not till the 1717 that it was labelled 'unforgivable'. But even to this day, there is no way to detect if someone was under the curse, let alone countering the curse."

The rest of the room looked seriously at Rin, as they realized the bigger picture Rin was painting. Rin continued. "Only one of two possible explanation can be used, given the record and evidence we have. Either the wizard society have stagnated so badly, they lost the ability to move forward and find new magic, or someone within the government opposed a solution to 'Imperius' curse. The sad thing is, the former is the most likely due to the wizard reliance on hand me down spells and wands to do all the heavy lifting. They never saw the need to reinvent spells or make drastic breakthrough in spell works and theory. This is the price they paid to have powerful mystic code like wands and spells they never worked to create. They lost virtually all ability in making new advancement. This is shown in their inability to cure 'squibs'."

It was Shiki who asked Rin. "How so? Form what I read squib are non-magical born from two magical parents, how can they be cured?"

Rin accepted a refill of tea from Shirou and said. "From various document, wizard hid themselves from 'Muggles' with various charms and spells, a whole building that cannot be seen unless you possess 'magic'. Squib can see those areas, they fulfil the conditions of being magical. Its only a hypothesis, but I think squibs are simply wizard that have not open a single circuit, or unable to open them to begin with."

Shirou looked to Rin with understanding and said. "Just like I was before you found me." Shirou thought for a moment then added. "No, that not right. Before Kiritsugu found me. If I had lived a normal life and never met a magus. I wont even know I possess magic circuits."

Rin nodded at Shirou and said. "The method of opening magic circuit is not known in this dimension, and truth be told, it is the cruellest and greatest irony of wizardry Britain."

At this Rin produced documents for everyone on the table, the title of the document was Pure-Blood Culture. After a few minute of reading, both Shirou and Shiki threw the documents onto the table with disgust, soon followed by Arturia and Arcueid.

It was Arturia who spoke next. "Rin, the information on this paper is both sick and disturbing. The wizard society prejudice against non-magical, the 'Mudblood', their view of magic being how pure their blood are? Elimination of 'squibs' from their blood line just to show how pure they are? Not to mention the inter marriage between numerous pure blood family, they must all be related to each other by now."

What Rin said next surprised everyone on the table. "And it worked." Rin raised a hand to stop Arturia shouting at her and pointed at Tsukiko. Arturia sat back down with a scowl on her face. "Let me explain, as you know magus marries and strengthen their blood line base on how many magic circuits their potential partner possess. The more inborn magic circuits that person possess, the more highly prized that person is for a chance to have offspring that possess high quality or quantity of magic circuits. The wizard society lived in a close nit community, also add onto the fact that the environment is filled with so much mana. I suspect their magic circuits would be both high quality and quantity, much like Tsukiko-chan."

Rin took a pause to breath in deeply and sighed. "But the irony is, they have no idea how much power they have. Without the basic theory of magic circuits and unlocking them. I suspect only a handful of wizard unlock maybe at best twenty percent of their full potential, and majority of them only unlocking five percent, if that." At this, Rin produce another set of documents for everyone on the table titled Wandless & Accidental magic.

Every one took a moment to read the research paper, it was Shirou who spoke up. "Its the wand. The wand is the main reason why their magic circuits is not opening."

Rin gave a genuine smile to Shirou. "Yes, the presence of the wand stop the wizard from over exerting their magic circuits, as you know the third way of opening dormant magic circuits is to push one self to the limit and force those circuits open in extreme conditions. The accidental magic shows magic can be used without wands. Later on it claims if a wizard practices enough, they can master the wandless version of said magic, which can quickly exhaust the wizard and the effect of the magic is less effective then the wand version of the same spell. Don't forget, it gets harder to force open circuits, when you have already open a few of them. Hence the reason why the wizard worlds assume a child magic grow stronger as they mature then stop growing once they hit adulthood. When in truth, they just simply open more magic circuit when practising magic day in and day out, while they were growing up. Of course all of this is just hypothesis, without actually observing more wizard and witch, I cannot be sure that Tsukiko-chan is not just a special case."

Arcueid looked to Tsukiko, then the rest of the people at the table. She said to them. "The wizard world don't have the will to make new magic because all magic are handed down. They don't realize their full potential, because their wands do all the heavy lifting. Their ignorance of the 'muggle' world and their pure blood belief will either wipe all wizards and witches out, or end in mutual destruction. The future of this world is very bleak, Rin-san."

Rin looked to Tsukiko and said. "There is also that spectre 'Voldemort'. I suspect he is a 'Horcrux' that was placed in Tsukiko-chan before she was two year old, the part of her memory that was wiped clean. 'Horcrux' can be describe as a magic crest with a will of its own."

Rin tightened her grip on the cup in her hands as she hissed out the next sentence. "They are similar to the Matou crest worms, anchoring the owners of the crest worms to the living world, preventing them from dying, should even one of those 'thing' remain in the world."

Rin took a deep breath and noticed both Shirou and Arturia were worried about her. She smiled sadly at them. "I'm fine." Rin gather herself and continued. "The 'Horcrux' is a more complete version of immortality, it splits part of a person's 'soul'. Embedding them into objects to give the caster an anchor to the living world, preventing its creator from death. This fragment of 'Voldemort' knew of this spell in great detail. I have sealed this information away. When we do return to our dimension. I will hand this knowledge to the Clock Tower director herself and preferably 'Voldemort' himself, if I get my hands on him." At this Rin gain a smile identical to Kirei Kotomine, sending chills down both Shirou and Arturia back.

Rin took a deep breath, she materialized five copy of the books titled Occlumency. She handed a book to everyone except Tsukiko and continued. "I think we covered enough subjects for one night. I want everyone to learn Occlumency defence, wizard's mind spells are the most dangerous. Shirou Unlimited Blade Work will definitely stop any and all mind spells. Considering his reality marble falls under 'Alien common sense'. Spells that were designed to work against human being or being with lower then human intelligence will not effect something so unexpected as Unlimited Blade Works. Tsukiko-chan will also be safe, since Zelretch somehow merged her mind scape with Shirou's. Shiki might be able to defeat 'Legilimency' a mind reading spell if he activate his 'Mystic Eyesof Death Perception'. It will be interesting to see what happens to the Legilimency user when he meet those mystic eyes. But just to be safe, I want every one to learn this defence before we return back into the real world."

Rin moved over to Arcueid with a sleeping Tsukiko in her arms and said with a fond smile. "Tsukiko-chan is truly amazing, we only known her for about two days and yet this little angel have captured all our hearts." Rin looked fondly at Tsukiko and felt a single tear ran down her cheek. "When I'm with Tsukiko-chan, I can't help but wonder if this is what it would have been like, if Sakura never left for the Matou."

Rin looked over to Shirou and Arturia. Her voice almost breaking. "Am I a bad person? Wishing for those lost possibility from Tsukiko-chan, is it right for me to feel so happy being with Tsukiko-chan when I see her as the little sister I have lost all those years ago."

Before Rin could say any more, Arturia embraced a tearful Rin and said to her. "Its never wrong wanting to be happy, Rin. Its never wrong wishing for happiness for yourself and other people."

Shirou knelt beside Rin and placed a hand on her back, to provide comfort and assurance. Shirou knew he need to take this slowly, neither Rin nor Saber had forgiven him yet, but this would be a good first step for them. Shirou looked over to Arcueid-san and Shiki-san, reassured them that everything would be fine.

Shirou said to Arcueid. "Arcueid-san, I think everyone here is feeling a bit tired for today. We should all retire to our bed rooms until Tsukiko-chan have her full rest, then we can proceed with the plan of summoning Saber into the real world." Arcueid nodded to Shirou, she took Tsukiko and Shiki to one of the bedroom. Shirou stayed with Saber and Rin, he swore he would never leave their side again, if he could help it.

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Time: Unknown

Location: Unknown

At a place between dimensions. Yuuko Ichihara with several crystal mirror looked into the future of Tsukiko Potter. They all showed her one vision, the vision of Zelretch's plan came to full fruition. Yuuko frowned at this. She had no issue with Zelretch attempts to fulfil his wish, but the cost of fulfilling this wish was both cruel and heartless of it's architecture.

Yuuko extended her hand and reached out for Tsukiko in her mind scape, drawing upon a silver thread between herself and Tsukiko. Yuuko followed the thread to Tsukiko and from her, multiple threads in colour of rainbow spreads out, Yuuko searched out the thread with the most potent connection to Tsukiko, unrealized reality and possibility. Threads that should not exist. Yuuko found two threads, one red and one purple. Yuuko was only expecting to find one thread of fate, but she found two of them, which was unexpected.

Yuuko knew the identity of the red thread, but the purple thread was new to her, she grabbed hold of the purple thread. Yuuko followed the thread and found this thread would not last long, soon it would vanish. Yuuko only had enough 'Favour' to bring one of those unrealized possibility into Tsukiko life. She looked deeper into the purple string of fate and found her solution. Yuuko opened a dimension door way to Yumizuka's resident.

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Fifteenth of August 2007

Yumizuka resident

The scene that had greeted Yuuko within Yumizuka's resident was death, both Mr and Mrs Yumizuka had been killed in a brutal manner. Yuuko knew she would not find Satsuki Yumizuka here, the peoples she came to see were her parents. Yuuko called upon her magic circle, brought forth a jade colour incense. As Yuuko burned the incense, she recited a prayer for the dead. As the smoke drifted across the magic circle, it stopped on top of both corpses and slowly took on humanoid forms, the form took the shape of both Mr and Mrs Yumizuka as they were when they were alive.

Yuuko respectfully bow to the two Yumizuka and said. "Greeting Mr Yumizuka-san and Mrs Yumizuka-san. My name is Yuuko Ichihara. I mean your family no harm and both of you know why I am here."

Both Yumizuka knew who Yuuko really were and why she was here, being dead give them an insight in what had come to pass and what was to come, to an extent. Both Yumizuka returned Yuuko bow and Mr Yumizuka said. "Yes Yuuko-san, me and my wife understand our circumstance and that of our daughter." At this Mrs Yumizuka gave her husband hand a slight squeeze, she was on the verge of tears and said. "We know she will soon join us. An executioner will find her and kill her for what she have become." Mrs Yumizuka choked back her tears. "There is nothing we can do about it."

Yuuko looked sadly at the couple and said. "There is something that can be done to save your daughter, that is why I am here now, before you." Both Yumizuka looked to Yuuko with hope in their eyes. "But the price is steep. You might find it better to leave things as they are."

Yuuko tone turned serious. "The price I ask for is both your memory and connection to your daughter Satsuki Yumizuka. If you pay the price, neither of you will remember her and all chance of meeting her again in the afterlife is also forfeited." Yuuko looked sadly at them. "It would be better if neither of you accept my offer, at least you will see her again in the afterlife."

Mr Yumizuka said to Yuuko in a kind voice. "How will my daughter's life turn out, if we accept your deal?"

Yuuko smiled gently and said. "She will find someone to love and protect. She will find happiness and live a long life."

Both Yumizuka looked happily at each other. Mr Yumizuka held onto his wife hand and said to Yuuko. "Yuuko-san, you may have our memories and connections, we will gladly pay the price you ask for." Both Yumizuka bow deeply to Yuuko. Mrs Yumizuka said. "Please save our daughter, all we want is her happiness."

Yuuko said in a sad voice. "It has been an honour to meet such caring parents as you two. I am sorry I have to ask for such heavy price of you." Yuuko extended her hands. A light blue orb with white threads circling the orbs flew to Yuuko left hand, another light blue orb with blue threads flew to her right hand. As Yuuko send the orbs to her treasure room in her workshop, the ghosts of Yumizuka vanished from the mortal realms. Yuuko opened a portal to Satsuki Yumizuka.

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Fifteenth of August 2007

Unknown Residential street

Satsuki Yumizuka was running as fast as she could, she tried to get out of the city before her Vampiric impulse kicks in. Satsuki Yumizuka came across a woman with pale white skin and midnight long black hair, she wore a strange black and partial white robe. Satsuki Yumizuka's Vampiric impulse took over and she charged at the woman, baring her fangs. The ground around the woman lit up, a circle with strange symbol flashed. When it died down, Satsuki Yumizuka found herself trapped within the magic circle.

Then the woman threw a bracelet and a blood bag into the circle. The woman said to her in a neutral tone. "The bracelet will stop your Vampiric impulse, drink the blood, it will take off the edge and rejuvenate you. I'm surprised you manage to hold back your impulse for so long."

Satsuki Yumizuka looked at the woman before her, uncertain how to react to all this. Before she knew it, Satsuki bite into the blood bag and drained it's content. Satsuki looked to the woman before her with distrust and said. "Why are you helping me? What's in it for you?"

Yuuko knew what Satsuki Yumizuka had been through and understood her distrust. "My name is Yuuko Ichihara, also known as 'The space-time witch', I run a shop that grants wishes. Both your parents made a wish to save you."

Satsuki Yumizuka laughed bitterly at this and said. "Why would they do that? It's because of me they are dead, I should have died along with them. I have nothing to live for, my family are dead, I am a danger to my friends and the one I love would kill me before I can even get near him." Satsuki cried and said. "I'm just a normal school girl with a normal life. I didn't wish for any of this. What do I have to live for now?"

Yuuko looked sadly at Satsuki, she was right. She was a normal girl struck with the worse series of misfortune. Yuuko gaze hardened and said. "Your parents paid a heavy price for their wish, they believe that you will find happiness in the future, that you will make something of your life and live it to the fullest. Were they wrong? Will you give up here and let HIM win?"

Satsuki Yumizuka felt anger when she mentioned the person who killed her parents and turned her into a dead apostle. Satsuki glared angrily at Yuuko. "I will live, only so I can kill HIM with my own bare hands!"

Yuuko smiled. After hearing her said that, Yuuko knew this young lady will be fine. "You will have your satisfaction and a great deal more to live for, wear that bracelet and follow me. We have much to discuss, there is a mission for you and couple of surprises." Yuuko opened a dimension doorway to her workshop.

Satsuki Yumizuka picked up the bracelet and wore it like Yuuko said, as the circle deactivated, she followed after Yuuko through the dimension doorway.

After both women left the street. Ciel came through the area and found nothing. She could have sworn she felt a trace of Roa in this area. After she searched the area thoroughly and still found nothing, Ciel decided to call it a day and returned home.

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Time: Unknown

Location: Unknown

Yuuko returned to her workshop after she explained to Satsuki about her mission and the world she was heading off to. Yuuko only gave her a brief ran down of the wizard world, the girl she was going to meet and the five souls she had within her. Yuuko gave her three rings that would assists her and one other that would help her, she had given Satsuki a method to enter Tsukiko mind scape without the use of mind magic, as long as both Tsukiko and Satsuki wore the rings. Yuuko also gave Satsuki a map, with the location to Gringotts bank in Diagon alley.

While Satsuki was getting ready. Yuuko had Maru and Moro fetch two items from the treasure room, one of the item was a silver tear drop earring, the other a magical sphere filled with impossible amount of prana, the size of a small marble. The sphere was made of a unknown crystal with numerous strands of shifting rainbow colour lines running through the interior of the sphere, it was a blend of artificial and nature into one item.

Yuuko watched Tsukiko drew the magic circle for the Servant Summon Ritual through one of the crystal mirror. Yuuko focused on the items in her hand, closed her hands and envision the items transformed into a pair of black swallow tail butterfly, as Yuuko opened her hands the butterfly flew through the crystal mirror with the image of Tsukiko preparing the magic circle.

Yuuko did everything she could on her part. She approached one of her many mirror and watched the only available future she could see of Tsukiko Potter, no matter what she does, she could not see beyond this vision or any other alternate vision.

The vision showed her a broken landscape. It showed a crying Arcueid Brunestud trapped within a bright golden magic circle. Arcueid slammed her fists against an unbreakable bounded field, she was trying desperately to reach the girl in front of her. The girl had long black hair and green eyes.

The girl was on her knees, she clutched her chest as if she was in great pain, she looked up toward Arcueid with a serene smile and tears of sorrow. With a tone tinged with sadness, she said to Arcueid. "Mum, I love you." With those words, the circle under Arcueid brightens, before Arcueid's eyes, the girl shatters into countless motes of white light.

For Yuuko, the vision ended here, she could see no further then this. Yuuko looked sadden and said in a whisper. "Tsukiko-chan, I did everything I can here. Now its up to you to change your fate, a fate set forth by that man, Zelretch." Yuuko placed one hand on the crystal mirror. "And if you do survive, this old woman will come and apologies to you in person." With this Yuuko returned to her shop.

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Sixth of October, 1986

Charlwood , Henfold Lakes abandon camp house

It was late afternoon when Tsukiko finally finished drawing the summoning circle. As it turned out, it was a bad idea to sleep within your own mind scape. Her mind was rested, but her body felt like it had stayed up all night. Tsukiko had to rest for the entire morning and did not wake up again till lunchtime.

Miss Rin had explained the ritual in detail and showed her what the circle looked like within her mind scape. With the circle completed, Tsukiko had a small precooked meal, a bottle of soda. After the meal Rin told her to wait till midnight before she attempted the ritual. For a time being, Tsukiko checked the circle for errors and had further practice her magecraft until it was time for the summoning.

Midnight was approaching. Tsukiko envisioned a calm ocean and a single drop of water falling upon its surface, causing ripples to expand endlessly outwards. Tsukiko now realized, this was her trigger for activating her magic circuits. Tsukiko closed her eye, with a small knife she spilled her blood around the circle and focus on channelling her prana into the summoning circle as she recited the words of the ritual.

"Silver and iron to the origin. Gem and the archduke of contracts to the cornerstone. The ancestor is my great master Schweinorg."

"The alighted wind becomes a wall. The gates in the four directions close, coming from the crown, the three-forked road that leads to the kingdom circulate."

"Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill."

"Repeat every five times."

"Simply, shatter once filled."

"I announce."

"Your self is under me, my fate is in your sword."

"In accordance with the approach of the Holy Grail, if you abide by this feeling, this reason, then answer."

"Here is my oath. I am the one who becomes all the good of the world of the dead, I am the one who lays out all the evil of the world of the dead."

"You, seven heavens clad in three words of power, arrive from the ring of deterrence, O keeper of the balance!"

Tsukiko did not see the two swallowtail butterfly landed onto the middle of the summoning circle, the butterfly transformed back into their original form of a tear shape silver earring and a impossibly beautiful crystal sphere. The crystal turned to dust releasing massive amount of prana into the circle, more then enough to reach the Thrones of Hero and the earring once belonged to Cu Chulainn acting as a catalyst to summon him. The circle lights up in a bright blue flash that would have hurt Tsukiko's eyes if she had not closed them.

As the light died down and the smoke clears. Tsukiko saw a man kneeled before her, he had swept back deep blue hair, the back of which tied into a pony tail, he wore a pair of tear shape silver earrings, a skin tight blue armour with silver lining and silver pauldrons. If Tsukiko had a preference for looks, she would have describe him as both handsome and sharp looking.

To a six year old Tsukiko, he looked scarier then Mr Shirou. Tsukiko could tell, the man before her were very powerful, an aura of strength and integrity surrounded this man, much like Miss Arturia, except his aura was more primal and wild, Tsukiko watched as the man open his ruby red eyes.

Lancer gathered himself and said while opening his eyes to greet his new master. "Servant Lancer, I ask you, are you my mas..." Lancer felt both confused and stunned when he saw a six year old girl before him "...ter?" Lancer instantly knew something was very wrong, a six year old magus? A young girl just succeeded in summoning a servant like him into this world. Lancer received information about the world he was in, the language, culture and information on his master, Tsukiko Potter.

He knew she was his master, all doubt was erased when he saw the command seal on the young girl right hand, it looked like a sceptre with six wings, it was a strange command seal. Lancer also realized there was no Holy Grail! The child before him have managed to summon a servant without the aid of the Holy Grail! He also discovered some extra information about his mission and duty. Lancer broke out in cold sweat when the term 'Baby sitter', 'child minder' and 'legal guardian' flashed through his mind.

He said the only thing that came to his mind. "I blame my E-rank luck for this."

No sooner had Lancer said this, a shrilled scream came from behind him, he turned to see what was going on, only to see panties, as a girl landed on his face ass first, the momentum drove the back of his head into the ground, dazing him.

Satsuki Yumizuka was not a happy bunny. Yuuko forced her to a drinking session with the witch, and while she was recovering from a massive hungover due to said drinking session. Yuuko just suddenly showed up and said it was time to go and threw her bodily into a portal.

She screamed all the way during the free fall, she found herself in a sitting position facing a very cute six year old girl with black hair and green eyes. She realized this must be Tsukiko Potter.

Satsuki was about to introduce herself when she heard a groan coming from where she was sitting, Satsuki looked down and saw a man's head under her skirt facing towards her, she immediately gone scarlet red when she realized the position she was in.

Satsuki immediately got off the man she was sitting on, then grabbed him by the collar with her left hand and proceeded to slap him multiple time as she screamed at him. "Pervert! Pervert! Pervert! Pervert! Pervert!"

One powerful hit had him spinning in mid air, the man landed face down onto the floor, as she hastily made her way over to Tsukiko and placed herself between Tsukiko and the unknown man on the floor.

Lancer no longer had a clue what was going on, first he got summoned by a six year old girl. Then some other girl rammed her ass onto his face at high speed, then the said girl slapped him silly and she packed quite a punch. As Lancer laid face down on the floor, he groaned out in agony. "Why me?"

Tsukiko was surprised when the strange girl flew out of a portal behind Lancer. She had light brown hair tied into twin pony tail, much like Miss Rin, except her hair was straight instead of wavy, she had red eyes like freshly spilled blood, she was quite nice looking and very soft expression. What Mr Shirou would have called cute. She wore a long sleeve white shirt, orange wool vest with a deep blue bow around her neck, short blue skirt, normal white socks and brown leather shoes.

Tsukiko opinion of her 'servant' Lancer dropped considerably, when the strange girl picked him up, slapped him repeatedly and send him to the floor face down. The strange girl seemed to care about her, as she moved between Lancer and herself.

It was then Tsukiko had a revelation, she placed her right fist into her left palm in a eureka moment, she then pointed at the down Lancer and said. "Mr Pervert." Tsukiko could see Lancer twitched on the ground as if he had being struck.

Rin Tohsaka and Arturia Pendragon found Shirou on the floor, he was clutching his stomach and laughing hysterically. It seemed like he was laughing so hard, he had forgotten to draw breath and was in great deal of pain. Rin and Arturia was a little unnerved by what they saw, they decided to wait for Shirou to stop laughing, before asking what in the Root was going on outside.

Lancer was not having a good day and being called 'Mr Pervert' by his six year old master had really hurt his pride. Lancer got back up onto his feet and looked at the new arrival. Lancer instantly went on guard and brought out Gae Bolg, Lancer pointed his spear at the new girl and said with hostility. "Get away from my master, 'Apostle'". Lancer readied his stance to drive his spear into the undead before him,

Satsuki felt the man's killing intent and concluded, he must be the servant Lancer Yuuko told her about, she paled and said rapidly. "Wait. We're on the same side! Yuuko Ichihara send me here to help Tsukiko-chan." Satsuki was relieved when Lancer lowered his spear and dissipated his killing intent, but she became confused when Lancer started to tremble and turned pale white.

Lancer said with no small amount of fear in his voice. "Yuuko Ichihara send you here!? The 'Space-Time Witch'! 'The Dimension Witch'!" Lancer had a look of pure horror on his face when he mentioned her name, as if the act itself would summon her to him.

Satsuki felt curious and asked in a meek voice. "Umm, Lancer-san, you know Yuuko-sama?"

Lancer shouted. "PLEASE! Don't ask! You are going to reopen old wounds! Dealing with HER and Scathach impromptu drinking match is something I refuse to remember! EVER!"

Satsuki Yumizuka could relate a little to what Lancer was going through, since she was forced to drink for the first time by Yuuko, that woman was a nightmare.

Satsuki decided to introduce herself before anything else happened, she turned towards Tsukiko. "Hi Tsukiko-chan, my name is Satsuki Yumizuka. It is a pleasure to finally meet you and the other five souls inside of you." Tsukiko looked taken back by that knowledge, Satsuki continued. "Yuuko-sama told me about you and gave me three rings, so that we can communicate with the others inside of you." Satsuki gave one ring to Tsukiko and one to Lancer.

Lancer examined the ring closely and discovered it was made by Scathach, the runes and the magic on it was unmistakably belong to his teacher. For Lancer this brought back both good and bad memories. He quickly discarded that thought and wore the ring, he wished to meet those 'souls' that Satsuki mentioned and find out what in the Root was going on.

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Satsuki was in awe at the mind scape before her, endless expanse of desert, countless sword stood like grave marks, massive gears in the skies and the perpetual dusk loomed over the whole landscape. To her it felt both familiar and alien, she marvelled at the mind scape as she made her way towards the centre of this strange world.

Shirou Emiya managed to get himself under control. He was disturbed and confused when Tsukiko summoned Lancer instead of Saber, what followed after was pure gold. It was only now that he noticed both Rin and Saber looked at him with worried expression, as if he had finally lost it.

He got back up onto his feet and was about to reassured them that he was fine, when Tsukiko and two other people appeared behind Saber and Rin. Shirou heard Lancer let out a gasp and said. "Miss Rin, Saber and Archer? You lot are the 'souls' inside my master?" Rin and Saber turned around to face the familiar voice of Lancer.

Rin Tohsaka could not believe it. Cu Chulainn was summoned by Tsukiko! How was that possible? Then again, Rin thought to herself, that Tsukiko had been doing the impossible since she met her, also this Cu Chulainn seemed to remember them, this was their Lancer from the fifth holy grail war, the same Lancer that had save her from Kotomine and Shinji, with appreciation in her voice. "Its good to see you again, Lancer. From the way you greeted us I assume you're the same Lancer that saved me from Kotomine and Shinji?"

Lancer was surprised to say the least, this was the same Rin he saved with his dying breath. She sure had grown into a lovely young woman, now Lancer would not mind at all if she hit on him. Lancer replied. "I hope so, I did save you after that 'Beep'Kotomine commanded me to kill myself."

Lancer paused for a moment then said. "What was that Beep?" Then he saw Rin pinch the bridge of her nose with a few tick marks on her head as she explained the rules within the mind scape, she also mentioned the age restriction.

Lancer only laughed and said. "Suck to be you guys."

Rin tried to be polite, she had forgotten how much of an ass Cu Chulainn could be. Rin said to Lancer in a sarcastic tone. "Well, since Tsukiko-chan summoned you, looks like your going to be her baby sitter and guardian for quite some time." Rin once again had the same sadistic smile similar to Kotomine Kirei.

Lancer got a slight twitch on his left eye and retorted. "I haven't agree to anything! I'm a fighter, a warrior, a hero, not a wet nurse for some snot nose child! Even if she have summoned me."

Rin, Arturia and Shirou was a bit upset by what Lancer said. They were about to rip into him, when the new girl interrupted and said in a meek voice. "Lancer-san, I forgot to pass on a message."

Lancer looked towards Satsuki with a slight annoyance and snapped at her. "What!?"

Satsuki winced and said quickly. "Yuuko-sama said if you refuse Tsukiko-chan as your master, she would summon you to be her servant for the next one hundred years for wasting her time and treasure in summoning you."

Lancer lost all his anger and paled, he turned to Tsukiko and said. "Master, it will be an honour to be your servant. I look forward to our time together for a very VERY long time."

At this Lancer thought to himself. 'Anything is better then being a servant to that walking nightmare!' Even if she was responsible for the current predicament he was in, she was almost as bad as Kotomine and Gilgamesh combine.

In another dimension, Yuuko got an angry twitch and said. "Some one is bad mouthing me, and it feels like Cu Chulainn."

Tsukiko hid herself behind Arturia, she found her servant Lancer rather scary, when Lancer introduced himself and called her master, she hid further away from him and said "I don't want Mr pervert to be my servant, he is scary and looked up Miss Satsuki skirt."

Lancer flustered and shouted. "I am not a pervert! That was an accident." At this both Saber and Rin moved closer to Tsukiko and block Lancer from her. Rin was giving him the evil eyes, Saber was giving him dubious look that questioned his honour, while Satsuki looked away from him, her face bright red, and that bastard Archer just kept laughing at him!

Shirou spoked up before an argument broken out, he thought it was best to stop this before either side did or say something regrettable. "Everyone calm down, Lancer is innocent, Satsuki-san here was send to us via a portal, her landing was a bit off when she entered our world. It was a misunderstanding." At this both Rin and Saber relaxed a bit, but still kept Tsukiko behind them.

Rin said. "Shirou, how did you know the name of this girl? And what happened?"

Shirou replied. "I was looking through the obelisk, I saw the whole thing happened, that's also why I was laughing quite a bit earlier. I promise to share the memory later on. Trust me, we can trust Lancer."

Shirou turned to Satsuki and said. "Even thought I already knew you name, I think it would be best if you introduce yourself to the rest of us."

Satsuki realized how rude she had been! The entire time she had forgotten to introduce herself to the people before her. She bowed and said with embarrassment. "My name is Satsuki Yumizuka. Yuuko Ichihara send me here to look after Tsukiko-chan along with Lancer-san."

Rin Tohsaka heard the name Yuuko Ichihara before, but she could not place where she heard that name from. Then she remembered, it was from the history department within the Clock Tower, they were debating the existence of a unknown magi that had been sighted through out history.

Yuuko Ichihara was the only name they found, the title of 'space-time witch' and 'the dimensional witch' was later found. She remembered this particular incident, because the magi who spear headed this investigation was laughed out of the Clock Tower. Because he suggested Yuuko Ichihara might be a master of the fourth true magic as well as second true magic, a magus with two true magic under her belt, utterly ridiculous! Rin said what came to her mind. "That can't be right. Yuuko Ichihara is a myth, one member of the Clock Tower seemed to think she is a master of fourth true magic and second true magic, it's insane!"

Satsuki tried to argue against Rin's dismissal. It was Lancer who answered. "She's real, Rin. I met her when I was alive, my teacher Scathach even confirmed she possess fourth and second true magic, she might even possess the third true magic as well, since she has the power to grant any wish as long as the payment is equal to the wish."

Lancer then had a look of despair and said "I wish she was a myth, believe me, I really wish she was a myth."

Rin Tohsaka felt her legs goes weak. Rin said with fear in her voice. "Oh dear Root, are you telling me, there is someone out there that have THREE true magic's! She is worse then Zelretch! She might even be related to him!"

Meanwhile in the clock tower, Zelretch felt GREATLY offended, he had not felt this offended in centuries.

In another dimension, Yuuko was GREATLY angered when Rin suggested that she was related to Zelretch and swore to make Rin pay ten fold for that insult.

Rin felt as if someone had walk over her grave twice, she passed it off as nerve.

Shirou noticed Tsukiko was still hiding from Lancer and he tried to think of a way to mend the damage, Shirou had a great idea and said. "Tsukiko-chan, you don't need to be afraid of Lancer, he might look rough and scary, but he is actually Cu Chulainn, the Irish hero." Shirou knew his plan had worked when Tsukiko suddenly had stars in her eyes, as she looked at lancer with wonders.

Tsukiko went up to Lancer. Admiration in her voice. "Mr Lancer, are you really Cu Chulainn? The hero from Ulster Cycle of the Irish mythology?"

Lancer was impressed with how knowledgeable his six year old master was, to know about his myth. He was impressed until Tsukiko added. "Your parents are Deichtine and the deity Lugh, you are also known as the Dog of Culann."

Lancer face planted the floor and growled out. "Its HOUND of Culann! I am NOT a dog!" He heard his master screamed in fear and saw her ran behind Saber again, hiding herself from him. Lancer realized he really must control his temper, what kind of hero lose his temper against a six year old for crying out loud.

Arturia was quite amused by this point, little Tsukiko really had a way with words. She decided to give Lancer a helping hand. Arturia kneeled down and faced Tsukiko, the young girl looked a little scared. Arturia said to her in a gentle yet commanding voice. "Tsukiko-chan, as a master, it is your duty to trust in your servant, and it is the duty of the servant to be both shield and sword to their master."

Arturia smiled at Tsukiko and said. "As the king of the knight, I give you my word, Cu Chulainn will never harm you."

Arturia turned to Lancer and said. "Lancer, as a servant and as a knight, do I have your word, you will protect your master to your dying breath, will you stake your honour as a hero, that you will never harm your master or let harm come to her."

Lancer was surprised that Saber had vouched for him and said with a serious tone. "I swear on my name and honour, that I will protect my young master from all harm, even from myself, you have my word, king of the knights." At this Lancer watched, as Saber gently nudged his master towards him. His young master looked scared.

Tsukiko approached him and said to Lance. "I'm sorry, I got your title wrong, My name is Tsukiko Potter. I'm really glad to meet you, Sir Cu Chulainn." Lancer could see how painfully shy she was, it made him felt like an ass being mean to her. Lancer got onto his knees, ruffled his little master hair.

Lancer said with tone of affection. "A leanbh, I'm sorry I scared you. My former master was actually a very bad person, so my temper was a bit out of control. I am sorry I yell at you. Also just call me Lancer, it's better if the world don't know my real name." Lancer gave his master a real smile to show what happen before was water under the bridge.

Satsuki was happy to see Lancer finally got along with Tsukiko-chan, as she watched the group interact, she noticed two people moving towards them. Satsuki eyes widened in disbelief as Shiki sempai appeared before her.

Before she even realized her action, she ran towards her sempai and hugged him, with tears in her eyes she said with affection and relief. "Shiki-sempai! It's really you! I missed you so much." Satsuki cried into her sempai chest, unaware of the killing intent coming from the blond woman next to his sempai.

Shiki was surprised when Sacchin turned up and hugged him. Satsuki cried onto his chest was complete unexpected. He never knew she felt this strongly about their friendship. Shiki said with a shock tone. "Sacchin? Is that really you? What are you doing here?" Shiki watched as Sacchin lifted her head to face him, she turned scarlet red and scrambled away.

Only then did Shiki saw her blood red eyes and the Nanaya blood that was reacting towards her. Shiki said with some worry in his voice. "Sacchin, what happened to you? Who turned you into a dead apostle?" Shiki could see fear in her eyes, that fear was directed at him.

Satsuki said in a voice filled with pain "I'm sorry sempai, but I can't tell, not you." with tone tinged with sadness. "Please don't make me tell you."

It was painful for Shiki to see Sacchin like this, he said to her with as much reassurance as he could muster. "It's ok. Tell me when you're ready, you don't have to be afraid of me or anyone else here." Shiki noticed Arcueid gave him a warning glance, but he returned that with a stern look. He was telling her to let him handle this. Arcueid sighed and backed off.

It was Tsukiko who came to Satsuki rescue, as she came up to Satsuki side and held her hand. Tsukiko said with a hint of worry. "Miss Satsuki is a good person, please don't be mean to her, Miss Satsuki protected me when she thought Lancer was a bad person."

Arcueid wanted to pull Tsukiko away from Satsuki. She knew how dangerous dead apostle could be. However Tsukiko was pleading for Satsuki and Shiki was warning her to let him to handle this. Arcueid was stuck between a rock and a hard place, before she could voice her concern, Shiki interrupted her.

Shiki kneeled down before Tsukiko and said in a gentle voice. "Tsukiko-chan, It's ok, I know Miss Satsuki, she was an old friend of mine." At this Shiki looked up to a tearful Satsuki and said. "And she still is my beloved kohai 'Sacchin', that haven't changed at all even if she is a dead apostle." Satsuki had broke down and cried while embracing Shiki.

Arcueid could not take it any more and said with a bit of annoyance. "Shiki! We are going have a talk about your relationship with Miss Satsuki here, and I will not ignore the fact that Tsukiko-chan is under the care of a dead apostle, you should know how dangerous Vampiric impulses are. I will not place Tsukiko-chan under her care!"

Satsuki looked to the blond woman with a hint of annoyance. Satsuki banished her sorrow for a moment. She said to her with steel in her tone. "Miss, you don't have to worry about my Vampiric impulse. Yuuko-sama already gave me a bracelet that stopped my desire to drink blood indiscriminately." At this Satsuki showed her the bracelet Yuuko gave her.

Lancer looked at the bracelet Satsuki was holding up, he grabbed hold of her hand, startling her and looked at the bracelet very closely and said with admiration. "This is incredible! The runes and the magic patterns used in this bracelet is ingenious. I have never seem this kind of combination before. From what I can gather, this bracelet really can stop the desire for blood as Miss Satsuki said." It's only then Lancer realized everyone was staring at him, and Satsuki was blushing quite a bit.

Lancer realized he just placed himself and Satsuki in an awkward position, he let go off her hand and said. "Since everyone is here, I guess a proper introduction is needed." Lancer tried his best to divert everyone's attention.

Lancer said with pride. "Servant Lancer. Or formally know in life as Cu Chulainn, the Hound of Culann, may I have the pleasure of knowing your name, my lady." Lancer said this to the blond hair, red eyes woman. He heard Rin, Saber sighed in annoyance and Archer was giggling.

A giggling Archer was not a good sign, Lancer began to wonder what he had done wrong, when the woman introduced herself.

Arcueid smiled and said. "Greeting Lancer. My name is Arcueid Brunestud, White Princess of the True Ancestor, this young man here is my lover Shiki Tohno." At this Arcueid smiled victoriously at Satsuki Yumizuka, she saw her dumbfounded slack jaw expression, which was priceless. Arcueid continued. "and the young girl here is my daughter Tsukiko Potter. It is good to know I have such a dependable knight looking after my daughter."

Lancer had broken out in cold sweat, when he realized he almost hit onto his master's mother and a True Ancestor, he heard Archer giggle turned into full blown laughter. He knew! Archer knew all along and didn't warn him! Lancer turned towards Archer, he looked angrily at Archer and said. "Archer! Quit laughing at me! If you knew this, why didn't you say anything!"

Shirou replied with mirth. "Because its a lot more fun to see you make an ass of yourself and by the way, I am not Archer, it's Emiya Shirou."

Lancer blinked twice as his thought process tried to adjust to what he just heard. "Emiya Shirou as in the red hair kid I stabbed in the heart at the beginning of the holy grail war, the same kid that summoned Saber." Lancer smiled evilly and said. "Are you telling me, that your future self was Archer. Who happen to be a complete 'Beep'. I must say, you begin to resemble Archer. Not only in appearance, but also in attitude." Lancer knew he got under his skin, when a twitch mark appeared on Emiya's forehead.

Rin had seen enough and said with annoyance. "As interesting as it is to see some male bonding going on between you two, I have to remind you that we have a lot to catch upon." Rin looked over to Arcueid and said. "Arcueid-san, can you take Tsukiko-chan to the amusement park you and Shiki went to earlier, I will fill you in later." Arcueid nodded at her, she understood the conversation need to be kept from Tsukiko for now.

Arcueid looked to Tsukiko and smiled. "Tsukiko-chan, lets go and play at the amusement park, then we can go see some movies afterwards. I think your going to like them." Arcueid then pulled Shiki and Tsukiko along with her to the mind scape she created along with Shiki.

Satsuki tried to follow them, but Miss Rin stopped her and said. "Satsuki-san, you need to stay here, so I can fill you in on what's going on, along with Lancer." At this, Rin proceeded to create a portal to the Emiya resident mind scape, everyone else moved to the living room in the Emiya resident. Rin explained to both Lancer and Satsuki about what had happened so far with Tsukiko, their own circumstances and whatever secret plan Zelretch had for Tsukiko.

Lancer had a grim look on his face and said. "My master have been through a lot for a six year old, my concern is. Why is the old vampire so interested in her? Also why Yuuko Ichihara interested in my master?" Lancer looked over to a depressed Satsuki and said to her. "Did Yuuko ever mention why she was interested in my master? Or why she send you and me to be her guardian?"

Satsuki was feeling depressed from hearing about Tsukiko's circumstances. She could not believe such a cute little girl have been through such horrible experience at the hands of her suppose relative, and the conspiracy that she seemed to be wrapped up in.

She was broken out of her depression when Lancer asked her a question. She was a bit startled and said. "No, Yuuko-sama kept a great deal out, she said the only thing we need to do is go to Gringotts bank in Diagon Alley. She said there are important information for us there." Satsuki paused for a bit and said. "I think Yuuko-sama cares about Tsukiko-chan greatly. When ever she mention Tsukiko-chan, Yuuko-sama always have this sad look in her eyes."

Rin took over. "Well, we covered almost everything. I guess the only thing we can do now is go to this Gringotts and see what information Yuuko-san was referring to. I want you two to get ready to move as soon as possible. Tomorrow we will take Tsukiko-chan to Gringotts and see where we go from there." Both Lancer and Satsuki nodded at this and left the mind scape

Later on when Arcueid, Shiki and Tsukiko returned. Tsukiko left the mind scape to get some rest before the next day arrives.

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Seventh of October, 1986

Leaky Cauldron

Lancer, Satsuki and Tsukiko stood before the Leaky Cauldron and each of them had a different reaction to the establishment. Lancer felt nostalgic, the place reminded him of the Irish pub he frequent back when he was alive. Satsuki felt dirty just by looking at the place. Tsukiko was getting an irresistible urge to give the place a good clean.

Lancer dressed in a smart black business suit. Satsuki dressed as she was when she first came to this world. Tsukiko was in a smart white long sleeve dress, it made her more presentable.

As the trio entered the pub, the innkeeper greeted them without looking up from his book. There was very few patrons in the pub, since it was early in the morning.

Lancer went up to the innkeeper and said. "We will like direction to Diagon alley, can you show us the way?" The innkeeper put his book down and looked up to Lancer, instantly there was fear in his eyes and he backed away. Lancer was about to asked what was wrong.

The innkeeper seemed to recovered from his initial shock and said. "Sorry about that. You startled me! Its not often we see people with red eyes. Ever since you know who, many of us are weary of people with red eyes."

Lancer looked confused, you know who? Who was he talking about? Lancer thought for a moment and realized it must be this Voldemort guy that Rin mentioned. Lancer opinion of wizard and witches dropped significantly. They must have very little back bones, if they were afraid to speak his name after all this years. Lancer had little patience for this and said. "My eyes aside, I like to reach Diagon alley. So we can complete some business at Gringotts, can you show us the way or not?"

The innkeeper gestured for them to follow him out to the back of the pub. They came to a brick wall. The innkeeper pulled out a wand and tapped five bricks anti-clock wise. Each bricks started to move independently and moved aside to show a busy street full of witches and wizards. Lancer was slightly impressed with what he saw. Both Satsuki and Tsukiko have stars in their eyes as they behold the sight before them.

As the trio walk through Diagon alley, both Lancer and Satsuki received strange looks, either curiosity or outright fear. Lancer thought it might be a better idea to just hurry along and get to Gringotts and be done with this place. The map show Gringotts at a junction near the end of Diagon alley.

When he arrived at the bank, he resisted the urge to sigh. Who ever designed this place must either be drunk or mad, maybe both. He got a feeling the damn place was going to fall on his head. Both Satsuki and Tsukiko tilted their head to their right shoulder as if they might see the building straighter that way. Lancer sweat drop at their antics.

Rin was speechless by what she saw. She knew the Clock Tower and magus could be a bit backwards with their fashion. Victorian style and all, but those wizard and witches took the biscuit. Who in the Roots wore ROBES, it screamed wizard and witches to all who looked at them, not to mention the horrid colour clash and lack of mobility inside one of those THINGS. Rin sighed in exasperation.

The goblin guards was bored, very bored. Greeting snobby wizards and witches, tried to look intimidating to anyone coming through the door and sneer at them. He really wish their shift would end, so he could return inside to count the coins, that was a far better job then standing here till the bank close.

That was until the guard spotted a trio of strangely dressed individuals heading towards them, judging by their clothing they must be muggle born wizard and witches. The goblin laid eyes on the blue hair man with red eyes and instantly went rigid, they tightened their grips on their halberds. This man before them was dangerous, the way he walked show he was a season warrior, a warrior of old, his aura screamed overwhelming power, as far as the guard could tell, he was not human!

The young woman beside him was even stranger, she felt like desolation and blood, it was complete contradiction to the way she looked. The guard nudged his partner and said. "Inform director Ragnuk, we have unknown being heading to our bank. Do not over react! We don't want to offend them." The goblin guard rushed off into the bank.

Lancer stood at the entrance of Gringotts, silver doors with words that states.

Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.

Lancer smiled at this, he could respect those who took their duty seriously, to him those goblins were the best sort to look after other people's treasure and money. Even thought those goblins were a greedy lot, they would protect their and other valuables with their lives. Their code and honour also stopped them from stealing or cheating others out of their valuables. Rin already gone through the basic of goblin society with him, so he knew how to deal with them.

Lancer had gone through the silver door and entered the Gringotts bank along with Satsuki and Tsukiko. He was VERY impressed with what he saw, the interior was much more lavished, marble patterned floor and hall ways, crystal chandeliers, well lit rooms, rows of reception desks on either side when they entered the building, great numbers of goblins was working in the area.

Satsuki was stunned upon seeing multitude of strange short humanoid creature running around. Their face was set in a perpetual scowl. They reminded her of midget with sharp features, sharp ears, sharp nose and very angular face, they dressed in professional suits and they actually scared her a little. Satsuki looked over to Tsukiko and realized she was hiding behind Lancer, placing Lancer between herself and the goblins, she must had felt the same as she did judging by her expression.

Upon entering the building. Lancer was greeted by a goblin and two guards. "Greeting sir, can you and your companion follow me, so we can talk in a more private setting." Lancer noticed the three goblins were tense, it seemed like they knew what he was and was unnerved by him, Lancer thought for a moment, even if it was a trap, he could easily break out along with Satsuki and Tsukiko.

Lancer replied in a respectful tone and bow a little to the goblin before him. "Greeting, master goblin. We will follow you, for what we need to discuss would be best remain private." Lancer signal for Satsuki and Tsukiko to follow him. Satsuki at the rear and Tsukiko between them. Should anything go wrong, Tsukiko would be protected. They entered a private room on the side of the hallway.

Lancer noted the two goblin guards stationed behind him, protecting the entrance and the master goblin sat himself on the high desk over looking the trio. The master goblin said in a neutral tone. "I am the head of Gringotts bank, Ragnuk the second. I will be blunt. What are you and what do you want with us?"

Lancer thought 'straight to the point'. He replied with respect. "As for what we are, that will take some time to explain. We are here for information on my ward, Tsukiko Potter. A reliable source have informed us, that we can get some information from Gringotts. " Lancer noticed Ragnuk's eyes widened a little before he returned to that perpetual scowl.

Ragnuk the second replied with a tone of interest. "This young girl here is Tsukiko Potter? The girl who lived. I will need to confirm her identity as well as all of you, if she is who you claim she is. Then I will help you find what you wish to know. However if you lied to me, I will see to it that all of you are severely punished."

At this Ragnuk reached into the draw and took out three long parchment of papers. "This parchment will reveal your true name and heritage, all we need is one drop of blood given willingly, if she is Tsukiko Potter, then you have nothing to fear, as for you two. It will speed up the process if we can be assure to who and what you are."

Lancer thought for a moment and decided they need the information. The goblins may know who had been after Tsukiko, and those responsible for placing her with the Dursley. Lancer turned to Tsukiko and Satsuki. "Master, Satsuki-san. We need to give them a drop of our blood, are you ok with this?" Both girl nodded, Tsukiko went up to Ragnuk first.

Ragnuk pricked the young girl's finger and let a single drop fall onto the parchment. The scroll revealed that she was indeed Tsukiko Potter and a list of names of her blood line spread out as far back as it could through the family tree.

Next he pricked the young woman's finger and let her blood dropped onto the parchment. It revealed her name as Satsuki Yumizuka, but instead of two parents, a third name appeared and said 'Sired by Michael Roa Valdamjong' and her race stated she was a Dead Apostle. Ragnuk was completely thrown off by this, but instead of pondering what it all meant. He moved onto the blue hair man.

He prick his finger and let the blood drop onto the parchment, the man's name was Cu Chulainn, his parent was Deichtine and the deity Lugh. Ragnuk almost fell out of his chair when he saw this. He looked at the man in awe and admiration. He said the only thing he could in shock. "How is this possible!?"

Lancer pinched the bridge of his nose and said. "I had hope that it wont reveal my full information. I will tell you, but only if you agree that my real name will never leave this room."

Ragnuk was still in shock and said. "As you wish. Nothing we discuss here will leave this room." Lancer proceeded to tell him how he was summoned to be a guardian and protector to Tsukiko Potter. Along with the circumstances that brought Satsuki to them as well. Lancer left out the five souls resided inside of Tsukiko and other details like magecraft and so on. He only told Ragnuk what he needed to know.

During Cu Chulainn's explanation. Ragnuk managed to recover from his shock. When Cu Chulainn explained that Tsukiko Potter had been under the care of the Dursley.

Ragnuk snapped and interrupted Cu Chulainn. "Did you just say, Tsukiko Potter have been UNDER the care of the Dursley family, the sister of Lily Potter, Petunia Dursley."

Cu Chulainn confirmed what he said, that Tsukiko had been in the care of Dursley family until a few days ago. Ragnuk was truly angry and said. "Tsukiko Potter was not to be looked after by the Dursley UNDER any circumstances, this was stated in the Potter's will!"

Ragnuk slammed his fist onto the table. "Damn that Albus Dumbledore! He sealed the will, so only he or the heir of Potter's house can open it. Then he send the last Potter to the family that the will expressively excluded from looking after the child!" Ragnuk rubbed his temples to relieve the oncoming headache. He thought to himself. 'Dumbledore had play them like a bunch of fools!' then he looked over to the blood line parchment and noticed something interesting. Ragnuk smiled maliciously.

Ragnuk turned to Cu Chulainn and said. "Two can play at this game. Have a look at the blood line parchment." Ragnuk handed Cu Chulainn his own bloodline parchment and said. " Look to the bottom of your blood line and tell me what you see."

Lancer dropped the parchment in shock at what he saw. Both Tsukiko Potter and Satsuki Yumizuka were related to him, they were his last two descendent in the world! Lancer also noticed that Lily and Petunia were half sisters, it seemed like it was Lily's father side that had his bloodline.

Both Tsukiko and Satsuki picked up the parchment Lancer dropped and saw a long list of names that ended with them as his descendent. Satsuki said with shock. "This mean Cu Chulainn is my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great..." Lancer hit the upside of Satsuki head and stopped her from finishing that sentence.

Lancer with a tick mark on his forehead said. "Neither of you will ever call me grand dad or anything else. I am NOT that old!" Lancer turned to Ragnuk and said. "So how will this help?"

Ragnuk explained with a victorious smirk. "Albus Dumbledore, Supreme Mugwump of the ICW, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and current head master of Hogwarts will not be able to stop me from appointing you two to be Tsukiko Potter's magical guardian, even if Cu Chulainn is eighty generation apart from Tsukiko Potter and Miss Satsuki is forty generation apart. You two are still her blood relative and I have the legal backing to appoint you two to be her guardians and remove Albus Dumbledore as her magic guardian."

Ragnuk relaxed into his chair and said. "Of course by law, we will have to inform the current magical guardian about the change." At this Ragnuk motioned for one of the guard to come forward and said to him. "Be sure to deliver the message to Albus Dumbledore, lets try that new RAT delivery service and be sure to let our newly minted apprentice to handle the paper work, they could do with some practice." The goblin guard that received the order just smiled widely and left the office.

Ragnuk then said with a smug tone. "The best part is, even if Dumbledore was to somehow discover the changes, he cannot challenge me without unsealing the will. Keep the will seal, he have no ground to challenge this decision. Unseal the will and he will face legal repercussion and years of legal wrangling against us, on the ground he have violated the wishes within the will."

Ragnuk took a long drag from his pipe and said. "Congratulation, both of you are now officially Tsukiko Potter's legal guardians, a new key to the Potter trust fund will be granted to you. We will also changed the lock free of charge, to make sure Albus Dumbledore will not be able to access the vault."

Lancer and Satsuki looked dumbfounded for a moment before they realized what this means. Tsukiko was now legally their ward. Satsuki wept a little as she realized she have a living relative, even if she was distantly related, she have a little sister she could call her own. Satsuki hugged Tsukiko in joy and said in happiness. "I have a family! I'm not alone!"

Tsukiko did not understand everything that had happened, but apparently Miss Satsuki and Mr Lancer was related to her by blood, even if they were very distantly related. She felt happy that there was someone here that cares about her. Some one else she could call family beside the Dursley.

Lancer was feeling a bit out of his depth. dealing with crying woman and girl was not his speciality, thus he was glad when Ragnuk coughed into his hand to get their attention. "I will send for someone to escort everyone to the Potter trust vault, as soon as the keys arrive. You can convert your Galleon to pounds at one of our reception desk. There are twenty nine Knut in a Sickles, seventeen Sickles in one Galleon. Every Galleon is worth five British pound or seven point five US dollar."

Ragnuk paused for a bit and reached into his desk and brought out a wonderfully crafted dagger and a feather quill. Ragnuk said in a hopeful voice. "Sir Cu Chulainn, I would consider it a great honour if you can sign my personal dagger for me." Lancer was slightly taken back by that request and thought. 'He did go through a lot of trouble for us.'

Lancer said with appreciation. "Sure, it's the least we could do." Cu Chulainn took the dagger and quill and put his initial on the dagger, he could see the ink burning into the blade and returned the dagger along with the quill to Ragnuk. The Goblin looked like Christmas and new year came early for him, as he sheathed the blade and stashed it on his person, no doubt to show off later on.

Ragnuk gathered himself and said to the trio. "I almost forgot, here is some documents on recent events in the wizard world. They concern your ward Tsukiko Potter. If you can, don't use her real name. Albus Dumbledore have many followers, they might use underhanded tactic to secure their symbol of light. Also if you have time, go visit Godric's Hollow. It's the last resting place of the Potters. Here is the ward key, it will give you access to the Potters house without alerting the Ministry, there might still be some artefact left, that only a member of Potter's bloodline can recover."

Ragnuk then bowed to Cu Chulainn and said in admiration. "It's has been an honour to meet a living legend such as yourself." Cu Chulainn nodded to Ragnuk in appreciation.

A goblin named Griphook soon turned up with the key to Vault 687 and led the trio onto a cart, Lancer thought the ride was pretty normal. Satsuki got a death grip onto the handle bar, bending the metal with her great strength. Griphook looked a little unnerved by that display. Tsukiko looked like a kid on sugar high, almost gave Lancer and Satsuki a heart attack when she leaned over the bar.

They soon arrived at the vault, when the door opened, Lancer and Satsuki jaws almost hit the floor. There was a small mountain of gold coins.

Rin Tohsaka was cackling like a mad woman when she saw the mountain of gold in Tsukiko vault. Shirou and Arturia were already making plans to keep Rin away from Tsukiko as much as possible, the world does not need two Rin Tohsaka running around.

Lancer was the first to come back to his senses and said. "It would be best we take only two thousand Galleon to exchange into pound for now. It will give us around ten thousand pound to invest and spend on necessity for quite some time, I'm sure Rin-san already got plans to turned this pile of gold into more gold. We can always come back if we need more." Griphook handed a magical bag over to Lancer. To his surprise, the bag remained the same size and weight despite how much coin he put in. Once they have collected the necessary fund and converted them into British pound. They left Gringotts and Diagon alley.

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Eighth of October 1986

Godric's Hollow Potters safe house

It was late afternoon when the trio arrived, they stood before a half demolished house that used to be the Potters resident. As they approached the house and gone pass the barrier. Tsukiko had gone into a trance like state as she approached the door way.

As soon as Tsukiko walked pass the door. Instead of an abandon building, she saw a sun lit room filled with joys and laughters. She could not see anyone, but she could hear her name being called. As Tsukiko walked passed the living room, she heard cheers and celebration, an unknown voice said with joy "Happy birthday, Tsukiko." The sound soon vanished into silence, and a whisper of her name drifted further upstairs.

Tsukiko followed the voice up to the second floor and found her room. A glint of light flashed in the corner of the room, gained her attention. Tsukiko kneeled down and dig through the rubble, soon she found the source of the light. A square cube made of clear crystal, with rune etched into its side and corner. Tsukiko said on instinct, a memory from long ago. "Menu."

Lancer and Satsuki followed Tsukiko from behind, they realized she was acting strangely when she entered the house, but instead of stopping her and breaking her trance, they decided to follow her. On the second floor they saw Tsukiko digging through the rubble and found a strange crystal cube, she whispered out the word "Menu."

Before Lancer eyes, the crystal floated and flashed a display screen. Lancer watched as Tsukiko tapped the screen. The screen showed a woman with a baby in her arms, she introduced herself and said how much she love her daughter Tsukiko, this was followed up with recording of her father, god fathers, god mother.

As Tsukiko watched the recording in silence, both Lancer and Satsuki sat just behind her, watching the recording that Tsukiko families made for her. They watched her birth day party, her first broom stick flight, playing with other children, the Weasley, Longbottom and others. When they reached the last recording.

They saw Tsukiko mother Lily frantic and in a state of panic, she said with sorrow and fear. "Oh god, he is here! I don't know how long James can hold him off."

Lily with tears in her eyes said. "Severus, if you are seeing this. I am sorry, I should have tried to make amends before the end of seventh year, we both said such hurtful things to each other, but all those years of friendship should have meant more. I am sorry for leaving it like this." Lily looked over to the door and said franticly. "Severus, I don't trust Dumbledore. I have added you as the magical guardian for my daughter in my will. Please Severus, I know I have no right to ask you of this, but please take care of Tsukiko for me."

The door behind Lily was blasted down, with desperation she pleaded with the dark robe figure. "Please! Not Tsukiko."

The robe figure said with menace. "Move aside."

Lily pleaded with him. "Kill me! Spare Tsukiko! Spare my daughter."

The robe figure said with anger. "MOVE ASIDE!"

Lily pleaded for the last time. "Please spare my daughter!"

The robe figure chanted. "Avada Kedavra"

A bright green flash emitted from the robe figure's wand, Lily died on the spot. The figure turned his wand onto the baby Tsukiko Potter and chanted the same death spell, resulted in a bright white flash and ended the recording.

Satsuki watched the recording and was moved to tears, she watched as Tsukiko broke down crying. Satsuki pulled Tsukiko towards her and embraced her, providing comfort to her. Satsuki held onto Tsukiko until she cried herself to sleep, holding onto the memory crystal as if her very life depend on it. Satsuki with a sleeping Tsukiko in her arms, leaned against the walls of the room, Lancer joined her.

Satsuki looked to Tsukiko and said a little sadly. "It's really sad how alike we are, Lancer-san. Tsukiko-chan lost her parents because of a murderous mad man."

Satsuki felt tears flowed down her cheeks as she said in a weak voice. "My parents was killed, because I fell in love with Shiki-sempai, That man killed my parents, turned me into a dead apostle, all to punish his younger adoptive brother Shiki. He told me about Shiki-sempai Nanaya bloodline, how he won't be able to control his killer instinct." Satsuki looked to Lancer with a weak smile. "He ordered me to turn Shiki-sempai into a dead apostle, he said if I can do that, we can be together forever, that he would be mine forever. I knew that was a lie. He said all that with a malicious smile on his face, he knew I would fail. He knew that, when I die at Shiki-sempai's hand. Shiki-sempai would be haunted by my death, so like a coward, I ran away."

Satsuki said in a sad voice. "Even with everything that happened, I still love him, I love him so much, that I almost follow through with that plan, even if it was a lie. My parents died because of me and all I can think about is my own selfish desire."

Satsuki was about to say more when she felt Lancer hit the upside of her head. She groaned in pain at being hit, she glared at Lancer.

Lancer said in annoyance. "How is it your fault that your parents died, you silly little girl. Your parents are dead because of that maniac, not because of you." Lancer then ruffled Satsuki hair and said. "So stop blaming your self, if you must blame someone, blame the killer, its his choice in the end. You're a victim in all of this." Lancer then smiled fondly at her. "And be proud of yourself, you went against the command of the one that sired you and made the right choice. That in itself is a miracle. So stop blaming yourself."

Arcueid Brunestud watched through the obelisk and listened to the conversation between Lancer and Satsuki Yumizuka. She realized she had a lot to think about, she would trust Satsuki for now, but there was no way in hell she was going to hand Shiki over to her. At that point, Arcueid became depressed when she realized Shiki was very thick headed. He didn't even realized once, that Satsuki had romantic interest in him. Arcueid decided that she and Shiki would tell her what happened to her Sire SHIKI when she visit the mind scape next time, hopefully she could settle for the news that Shiki already killed him.

Lancer, Satsuki and Tsukiko stayed at the abandon building until morning, as the dawn approaches. Lancer and Satsuki with Tsukiko in her arms left the Potter home. Tsukiko woke up for a moment when they left her birth place, she looked back towards the entrance of the abandon house and saw a man standing there.

Tsukiko never saw a man that beautiful before in her life, silky black hair that reaches the middle of his neck, red eyes that outshines even the most beautiful ruby. He wore a silver cross earring on his left ear and an immaculate white formal suit with light blue shirt and a white tie. The man smiled at her serenely, she could feel joy and longing from him. Tsukiko closed her eyes for a moment, when she opened them again. The man was nowhere to be seen, she decided it was just a dream. Tsukiko gone back to sleep in the arms of Satsuki Yumizuka.

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First of July 1991

46a Craigdarragh Road, Helens Bay

It was mid afternoon, a beautiful day with few clouds in the skies. A ten year old Tsukiko Potter ran through the quite street at high speed. She had grown up into a beautiful child, long black hair tied into twin pony tail like her sister Sacchin, emerald green eyes filled with joy, she wore a noticeable long trench cloak with a hood, at the back of the cloak there was the six wings on sceptre emblem of her command crest, a blue T-shirt with a white star in the middle, Mid thigh black denim shorts and long boots that reaches her knees. She carried a briefcase with widest and happiest smile.

Tsukiko arrived at the front of her house and saw Lancer was just about to leave, she ran straight into him with a flying tackle and shouted with pure joy. "Lancer-oniisan! I'm home!"

Lancer was surprised by Tsukiko's flying tackle, it was good she was no longer the shy and easily frightened little girl like before, but the fact that she had become more and more like Arcueid was very worrying for all of them.

Lancer sighed and said. "A leanbh, how many time had I told you. You cannot just go flying tackle people, if it was anyone else besides me and Sacchin. They would have flown five foot back with the amount of force you put in." Lancer looked down and saw the happiest grin on her face, she had come a long way since that day she summoned him, with a happy smile, Lancer ruffled her hair and said. "Welcome home Tsukiko-chan."

Tsukiko got her hug, she took a step back and started riffling through her briefcase and took out a document, she said in a happy voice. "I have officially completed my high school course with the highest grade possible." Tsukiko smile widened. "As promise, Lancer oniisan. You will take me to Easter Island for my birthday. I get to see the Moai Moai!"

Lancer sighed, he did promised her that he would take her to any holiday destination if she managed to graduate high school before her eleventh birthday, and now he had to pay the fool's gamble. He had to take her and hopefully Sacchin as well to Easter island.

He doesn't have to worry about money since they made more then they could spend with the royalties from the novel series 'Garden of Sinners'. He also heard some big shot in America planned to create several movies from the novel.

Originally the novel was made from the case file Rin got from Touko Aozaki. Rin mentioned if Touko ever found out they made so much money from her case file, she would be lucky if Touko only ask for a cut of the profit. It was completely unexpected that the novel became a world wide hit, that was about to be made into films. Hence the reason why Sacchin was currently in America at the moment to hammer out another loyalty deal. It was decided that she would be the author and the face for the novels.

Their secondary income was from Galleon converted to magically alter gem stones, then converted to British pound exchange. This form of currency exchange had netted them a twenty-five percent profit per investment, magically altered perfect diamond, ruby, sapphire and so on sold for way more British pound then Galleon. Also purchasing damaged gem stones from the goblin in bulks gave them a massive discount, needless to say this loop hole had generated enough income to create a state of the art work shop for Tsukiko and also made Rin VERY happy, as one could tell from the happy cackle she made every time she looked at the bank statements in Tsukiko's mind scape.

Lancer had to make a new Gringotts vault to store their Galleon for the gem stone alteration investment and some profits in the form of Galleon. Rin wanted a library on all magical books in this dimension, both legal and illegal. However without a wand and Rin trapped in Tsukiko's mind scape, there was very little they could do except collecting them for future uses, a good deal of those Galleon were spend on gem stone and jewellery artefact. Needless to say, they had much to work on under Rin's supervision.

It was then, an owl swooped down on the pair, Tsukiko immediately tackled the owl. The owl was stunned and let out a confused "Hoot?"

Tsukiko said with stars in her eyes. "Can we keep him?"

Lancer sighed deeply. Tsukiko also had a bad habit of wanting every cute animal she saw. It was not a problem for her, considered all animals, mundane or magical seemed to instantly like her as well, with the exception of truly dark creatures.

Lancer said with a hint of annoyance. "No you cannot, you know how magical creatures react around Sacchin and mundane creature would run at the sight of her." Lancer saw Tsukiko pouted at him and tried to use the puppy dog eyes.

Lancer noticed the owl was carrying a letter and said. "Tsukiko-chan, I think its trying to give you that letter." The owl nodded at Tsukiko franticly, Tsukiko let the owl go. The owl dropped the letter and flew off.

Tsukiko shouted in joy at the owl. "Come back soon! I will have some food ready for you next time." Lancer could have sworn the owl looked back at Tsukiko and blushed.

Lancer and Tsukiko opened the letter.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Miss Potter

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on First of September. We await your owl by no later than thirty-first of July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Second page

HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

UNIFORM

First-year students will require:

1. Three sets of plain work robes (black) 2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear 3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar) 4. One winter cloak (black, with silver fastenings)

Please note that all pupil's clothes should carry name tags.

COURSE BOOKS

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)

by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic

by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory

by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration

by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi

by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions

by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection

by Quentin Trimble

OTHER EQUIPMENT

1 wand 1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2) 1 set glass or crystal phials 1 telescope 1 set brass scales

Students may also bring, if they desire, an owl a cat OR a toad.

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS

ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICK

Yours sincerely

Tsukiko looked at the letter with confusion and said. "Lancer-oniisan, I don't remember applying for this University. I thought we were trying to apply to either Oxford or MIT in America. It even said my application was accepted."

Lancer recognised the name Albus Dumbledore and said with a bit of worry. "We need to contact Sacchin as soon as we can. Tsukiko-chan, tell Rin and the others we need to have a emergency meeting when Sacchin gets back."

Lancer knew the magic world would some day drag Tsukiko back into it's fold due to her undeserved reputation and burden placed on her by one senile old man.

A/N: That's the end of the beginning Arc, the first year Arc will have more humour, family value and adventure. Unlike the beginning Arc, it will have more happy moment in them. I will try my best to update as much as possible, hopefully I will have less writers block when we move into the main story.