The Warden and the Holy Grail

I'm so sorry for being so le in my updates but my old computer died on me and it took awhile to get my new one. I hope this rush chapter can in some way make it up to us guys and sorry if this chapter is not as good as it is a rush. I lost a lot of work I'm rushing to get a few chapter up as soon as possible. please no flames.

Chapter One : Magic of another Land.

The Einzbern Forest

Not far from a clearing, a camp fire burns around an area that had been cleared of snow. By the fire are two individuals, one was a young child wearing a white dress while the other sat across the fire who appeared to be a knight of some sort. They had been sitting around the fire for half an hour. The child had been starring into the night, trying to comprehend the knights nature. the knight had played a pack of wolves earlier in the night, saving her life. She had summoned him in anticipation of the fierce holy grail war. Her family had planned for her to summon the son of Zeus, Hercules, the hero of Greece. The family had hoped that the servant would have been their trump card to win the grail war. Due to his immense strength from told legends and the possibilities of mad enchantments to enhance him, and with Illya's incredible monarch reserves, Hercules would have been able to control. Everything for the summonings was perfect, the catalyst perfect, the incantation was correct. Illya was in top condition. By all accounts, Hercules should have been summoned. Instead of the Hero from Greece, a knight appeared from the middle ages with his sanity intact, completely unaffected by the mad enchantment. What bothers Illya was that the mad enchantment of this servant was the rank EX. Illya knew that anything that had fallen under the ranking EX was supposed to be in an independent league all unto their own. What troubled her the most, was the act that this particular servant may hamper her plans to get revenge on her step brother, Shiro. It was because of this boy, her father had abandoned her to the Einzbern. Here her grandfather, through the use of alchemy, turned her into ultimate master.

The servant, Berserker, decided to break the silence and to help lessen the burden on his young master mind spoke.

"What is it that you seek master?"

Lily blinked twice before responding. "Yes. How are you still capable thinking and talking? berserker servants are stripped of all higher thought processes in exchange for extra strength. How is it that you posses the rank of EX for this particular enchantment, higher the rank - the less ability to think independently."

Berserker nodded to this statement. "What you speak is true master. The mad enchantment does indeed strip all heroes and spirits of the berserker class of their mind. AS for me, there are two reasons why I still have my mind. The first being that I posses more than one class. You have summoned me with the personal skill known as double summon. this skill allows a servant two have two classes. The outcome of your summoning me, I am both Berserker and Saber. The condition of the skills for both these classes is intertwined with one another. The second reason young master, in life I trained as a Berserker where I can control my anger, despite being under the influence of rage and anger. I use strategy while in the battle field. My control over my rage where I can turn the mad enchantment on and off at will".

Lily';s eyes widened at what the knight had just informed her. Not only did she summon a servant so skilled that he can control the mad enchantment, but also a servant under the strongest servant classes as well. After closing her eyes she thought to herself, debating to herself whether or not the knight will aid her in her quest against her step brother.

Opening her eyes, she reached a conclusion. "Berserker, tell me, what are your thoughts on revenge?"

Raising a brow, the Berserker replied, "Depends on the reason master. I, myself, have desired vengeance as did some of my friends and allies. In the end I would need o know the purpose for the revenge before I can give my answer. So tell me master, what is the reason for the revenge?"

Lily then told the Berserker about her mother and father, what she had been told by her grandfather during the last holy grail war, and how her brother Shiro made her father break his promise and had her return. Throughout the entire conversation, his eyes remained steady on the tiny master looking and hearing all the details she had to say. When she was done, he closed his eyes. When he opened them her replied, "I understand your reasoning and have no problem in aiding you in reaching your brother. But know this young master, I believe that you should be the one who takes his life if that it truly what you desire".

Turning his gaze back to the clearing, his eyes rested upon a giant stone weapon protruding from the ground. "The weapon lying over there was for the original servant you had hoped to summon. The original means of vengeance. The weapon can still be used for your means of revenge if you allow me to show you how". the Berserker stated.

Lily cocked her head in confusion, a lost glazed look inquired to his meaning, "What do you mean? I am a mage. I am not physically fit nor meant to hold that weapon that belongs to the fabled Hercules. How can I hold that huge stone slab without it crushing me in the process?"

The Berseker chuckled quietly. "In life master, I have traveled far and wide in my quest to stop a corruptive darkness from swallowing my homeland. Even the love of my life had been a witch and I have seen her teach my son what she knew of magic. I am well familiar of shapeshifting, but that is a discussion for another time should you wish it. What I speak of is knowledge from a spirit trapped within a gem from old ruins that once were my explorations." "Knowledge from a spirit? what do you mean?" more curious with the Berserker, Illya sat fø®ward intrigued with the knowledge her servant posses. "The spirt was known as a an arcane warrior, one of many titles given to those of that discipline. Master this is elven magic. Though I can not remember the name in the native tongue,but only the name translated in the human language known as the wrong path. Those who follow this discipline turn their magic into physical strength allowing them to wear heavy armor and use mighty weapons that only knights could wield. For the amount of mana that I feel traveling through our link,

I can tell your magic circuits of very high quality. I believe, if you allow, I can pass this knowledge to you so that you may use the weapon in which you had deemed its purpose for originally, if not in a different fashion." When the Berserker finished speaking, he had a smile smie cross hiis face as he waited for his masters response.

Illya's eyes were wide with interest sparkling with the promise of knowledge from the Berserker. She admits that the prospects of killing her brother with her own hands. The revenge would be much more sastsfying than to allow her Berserker to do it for her. If she used Hercules weapon, she would find it amusing to see the horror upon her brothers face when he would see her wielding a giant stone axe sword, a mere child carryng the weapon of a demigod. Nodding her head fiercely, Berserker got up, motioning for her to follow him.

d"Come master, there is much to learn. Should you learn enough from the arcane warrior, I might show you another discipline that I had mentioned earlier that may aide you in your quest." He headed towards the clearing containing the weapon.

The Einzbern Castle

Jubstacheit Van Einzbern is currently conflicted. He is fairly disappointed in the fact that the servant that he had picked to serve his family in the upcoming grail war was not summoned as planned. Instead, some medieval knight was. He admits though, that so far the new servant has proven to be more useful than what was anticipated when he learned of him. Gazing out his window, he sees Illya currently studying a bear in which he had ordered his servants to bring in hopes that Illy would learn tp shape shift into. From what he had learned, the servant knows two forms of mage craft. The first is form of elven magic that the servant had gained the memory of through a spirit that he had freed in exchange for the information. This discipline works similar to reinforcement magic. Unlikely reinforcement magic, the magic is temporary and dangerous since it can cause severe damage to the body. If th person overloads the object or themselves, they could end up breaking. This magic only works on the body it uses the persons quality of magic circuits to act like a form of second muscles granting them the physical strength to use heavy armourments and armor. The second discipline intrigued him a bit more. From what he had learned, it is a form of witchcraft to perform shapeshifting. This brand of magic allows a person to shape shift into any animal in which they have an understanding through observation. So far, Illya had learned to change into three different animals at the moment. The firs being a wolf, the second a dove, the last being a spider.

Jubstacheit Van Einzbern turning back to the request that Berserker had written out in his spare time for him to read, Jubstacheit put some considerable thought into actually accepting most of these requests from Berserker. Some of which he was willing to admit, needed to be attended to such as sending up a second base of operations inside the city which the holy grail war will be held in. After four wars, most marquises who knew the Einzberns will easily locate their main castle inside the forest on the outskirtts of the city. As well as to reinforce its own defenses as well. The only time that this has ever been done was in the last war. But that was just modifying the boundary field surrounding the woods. Another request was about Illiyai own health condition. Berserker originally brought this in regards to showing her this witch craft. Reluctantly, Jubstachelt had to agree to this. Both for the opportunity to learn this craft and to gain another tool for the Einzbern cause. Letting out a sigh, he decided to complete most of these requests. But he is definitely was not going to scour the world to find some type of breed of dog called a mabari.

Fukeyaka City

Getting out of the airplane, Illiyai was spinning around smiling, enjoying her first time away from the Eiznbern castle and seeing the outside world for the first time. "Berserker! Berserker! Do you enjoy your first plane ride?" Berserker emerged from the plane, looked bit upset. "Illiyai

my trip would have been much better if your maids would have let me have my drink." He said in a grumble. Allay let out a giggle. "Well Selley is a buzz kill. Still, I don't understand why you are so upset by that? I thought you would havee been more upset by the fact that Lettiy constantly poked you and asking you if we were there yet."

He nodded his head. "Thats why I needed my drink." He mumbled.

Allay started to turn towards the direction of their car, " Don't worry we will get you something when we get into the city. Shelley and Lettity will get the mansion set up while we check out the town."

" And for you to either a. kill your brother and start to goof around or b. scare him and start buying every toy and game you can get your hands on."

Allay pouted at that comment. She spun around a faced Berserker, "That better not be some type of joke about my appearance. I can't help if the modifications grandfather did to me stopped my body from aging." Berserker nodded his head. He put his hand on Illiyai and they made their way into the car. "Worry not, I was not making any jokes about your age. But you do have a grudge against your brother and have been known to goof off. So wha† are we to do first?"

Closing her eyes she brought her finger to her chin, pondering the question loudly. "Well…Lets first head down towards the docks. Thats where the first of the official battle of the grail war took place. So chances are, there might be a servant there or at the very least, some clue as to where the other masters are. "

Berserker agreed, and told the driver to head towards the docks.

And hour and a half later they finally got to the docks. After walking around for thirty minutes, they only cross paths with a few fisherman and some dock hands. As Illiyai was about to inform them that they should check somewhere else, she noticed that Berserker had tensed up, narrowing his eyes. Following his gaze, she found what he was looking at. At the end of one of the piers, ws a blue haired man wearing a haywain shirt, fishing. From what she could see, the mans eyes were red and were starring straight at Berserker. Allay quickly understood what this man was. She motioned Berserk to head towards the man. When Berserker got within a few feet of this man, Berserker said "Looks like fishes aren't biting today. Hey there my blue haired aquactianc." The blue haired man let out a grin, replied "Well I originally came here for, correct, but it appears I managed to catch something far more fun." The man suddenly jumped up, his clothes disappearing and a blue body suit replaced it. In his hands a crimson lance appeared where there once was a fishing pole.

Berserker let out a chuckle and smile. He reached towards his back, there was a sudden burst of mana, his armor appearing and his hand on his broad sword. In a quick movement, he had his blade drawn. Bending his knees ever so slightly, his other hand grasped the blade, he was solely focussed on his opponent. the blue haired servant grin turned into a blood lust smirk. He spoke "HA! What do you know. This is my lucky day. Appears I caught myself a saber. Well then I guess this should be polite to say that I am the lancer for this war."

Allay now standing behind Berserker, quickly casted a boundary field surrounding where the three stood. Keeping people out and from them seeing the battle that was about to follow. Letting out a small laugh, she said to Lancer, "Silly Lancer, your only half right. This is not Saber you're fighting, this is the Berserker." Lancers eyes quickly widened at this piece of information. But his smirk grew even larger, "Berserk you say? Well this is the first I have ever heard or seen that has maintained theyr mind. I bet this is going to be you agree Berserker?"

Giving a small smile, "You might be right Lancer, but the real question is" he dashed forward attempting to slash Lancer. He quickly jumped out of the way and countered by thrusting his lance forward towards Berserker. Berserker used his sword to redirect his lance, "But who will be fun for." And thes the first battle of the fifth holy grail war has started.