Coincidence's & Misfortune
Hello everyone once again this was written before the first chapter. To answer some presumed questions, yes, I have the servant's identity picked, it's not someone you've ever met in any type-moon works. Hm? Alexander contradicting himself? I'm sure its nothing. I do not own type-moon or any of their works. (Bit of an early chapter for you since I might not be able to post this on the first.)
English countryside, Tuesday, October 3rd 2000.
On a small country road surrounded by hills and grasslands almost as far as the eye can see, walks Alexander, who after his stolen hearse unfortunately broke down a few miles back. Just follows the direction, he thinks leads to London. He has already walked for quite a while, and he continues to do so for many more miles, walking through the idyllic countryside till eventually he finally sees a small town, Sigh relived at his luck finally starting to turn, he starts heading off to the town.
After about half an hour of walking Alexander finally makes it to the edge of town, thankfully this one is populated, so Alexander approaches an older man to ask for directions. "Uhm excuse me sir?" he asks, the older man, hearing Alexander stops walking and turns to him and says "Yes is there something I can help you with?" he says slightly uneasy, noticing this Alexander responds "Yeah, I got lost on my way to London and my car broke down a couple miles back, so I'm sorry you seem really uneased is there something going on?"
Letting out a breath the man says "It's nothing that should worry you, just some people going missing recently. Your headed to London, right?" Nodding Alexander pushing aside the missing people for a second says "Yeah got kind of lost.". Letting out a small chuckle the man says "Kind of, sonny you're going the complete wrong way, London's a long way in the opposite direction." the man says while pointing behind Alexander
Nodding Alexander says "Thank you, I guess I'm not walking there, is there somewhere I can use a phone?" Nodding the older man points behind him and says, "Just head to the center of town, there's a place there you can use the phone." Nodding despite not really being given any information Alexander starts heading to the center of town.
Along the way Alexander notices the sheer amount of mission persons fliers around. Once more ignoring the abnormality Alexander eventually finds a pub, near the center of town. Entering the pub, Alexander immediately notices the surprising lack of people inside, walking up to the bar and addressing the woman behind it he asks, "Excuse me do you have a phone I could use?" the woman not verbally responding just points to a side of the room, walking over to the phone Alexander takes it and dials the one number he can.
"Zelretch, I'm in some town I don't know the name of." He says before he starts listening to Zelretch on the other end. "Don't lie to me Zelretch, just come pick me up please..." listing to the other side once more Alexander responds "now you're just pissing me off, either bring your ass down here or I permanently end you're fun." He says in by far the harshest tone he's ever used, clearly even more pissed off by the laughter coming from the other end, Alexander finally shouts at him "Fine, who are you sending then?"
Alexander dropping the phone at hearing the name Zelretch said, quickly picking up the phone again he says, "Zelretch you're planning on sending someone with worse luck than me? What's going on in this town." Alexander having spent enough time around Zelretch says demanding an answer since he knows somethings up.
Sighing to himself at Zelretch hanging up the phone Alexander mumbles under his breath. "I'm going to need more ammo." with that pessimistic note Alexander, moves away from the phone and out of the building in its entirety. Now out of the building and needing to prepare for His pick-up, Alexander Goes to find a bed and breakfast, due to him being in the center of town Alexander didn't look long as he is now standing outside a little bed and breakfast.
Alexander having gotten a room, goes onto the next step, which was looking into the suspicious disappearances, normally the best course of action would be to go into a police station, and ask kindly for the files on the disappearances, unfortunately Alexander is not proficient in hypnosis type mage-craft, so he'll have to put that idea on hold. Which means he must find out the area in which to most disappearances have taken place, and wait around their, till something interesting happens.
So In this effort, Alexander with his hand on his pistol, and prana flowing through it, activates the Sowilo rune on it. Immediately feeling a drastic change in mindset, Alexander goes around looking for the area with the most missing fliers, and after a while he succeeds at this goal. Now waiting at a roof top close to an area he thinks is close to the area people are going missing from.
And so, he waits... and waits, till night falls. Now night Alexander suddenly turns off his circuits completely, clicking his tongue, Alexander tastes a very faint taste of Prana. Correctly guessing the mage-craft being used to scry on him, Alexander acts as normally as he can, then suddenly the taste is gone.
Quickly looking around from his vantage point Alexander tries to look around for anything strange, only for his search to bare no fruit, slightly pleased with confirming that a magnus is somehow involved with the town, Alexander heads back to the bed and breakfast, reaching it without problem, Alexander heads to bed.
The next day, Wednesday October 4th 2000.
Waking up Alexander starts his morning by doing the same thing he does every morning, and after a decent breakfast, he goes out, headed to a public library. Along the way he makes sure to keep his circuits off, as to not arouse suspicion from the magus in town. Alexander upon arriving at a library, completely ignores the librarian behind the desk and follows the system to city plans.
And he spends the next two hours looking through them, attempting to find the one corresponding to the area around the most disappearances, but unfortunately, he doesn't find anything. Meaning he has to go to a government building and request a copy of the plans for that district. But that can be done after finding out whom is currently about to enter the building.
Alexander moving to a point where he can see the front door but is still out of the way, after tasting prana in the air, watches as a man with short blond hair walks in an flashes a kind smile to the librarian. Upon fully seeing this man Alexander immediately starts reading a book and makes sure all his traces of prana are gone from him.
"James, how are you doing, is Uni scouting going well?" the blond man asks politely to the librarian now known as James. Smiling at the man he says "Ah Sam! It's been a while, no luck so far, but I'm still optimistic." James says extremely cheerful as Alexander acts a normal as he can ignoring the disgusting taste of the man's prana
Letting out a light chuckle the mage says. "You know if you ever get tired of this library, theirs's always a position open at the museum." Sam says flashing the man a bright smile. "Maybe one day, but not yet." James says denying the offer.
Noticing Alexander Sam asks "Hey James, who's the new guy?" James looking over to the table where Alexander is sitting responds. "I don't know, I think his car broke down yesterday." taking a deeper observation of Alexander Sam says "He looks a bit young, to be going on a road trip by himself."
Alexander hearing this gets up and places the book back where he found it before walking over to the talking duo, and says "Speculating about someone within ear shot is extremely rude." Alexander ignoring the slight mumble from the librarian instead focuses on the mage who holds out a hand and says. "My apologizes, let me introduce myself, I'm Samson, Adienfugre. And you are?" Alexander not taking the mages hand because of possible traps says
"Edward Moore, and I'm going to leave." Alexander says giving the fake name his book mentioned before walking out of the library ignoring the comment of rude, in favor of making preparations for dealing with the fact a magus is five feet from him.
And so he goes around the town subtly investigating the area trying to find a museum, but ends up stopping at a Tea house, not due to any desire to eat there, but because of an annoying bird tailing him. Going into the Tea house as the owner asks "Hello sir is there anything I can get you?" not paying attention to the question Alexander says "Sorry about your door." he says laying down a large number of pounds, and precedes to walk to the back door and kick it right next to the lock, sending it flying open.
Quietly making his way through the alleys till, he reaches an alley facing the store he just broke the door of, with a small bird in it, picking up a brick Alexander chucks it at the bird, killing it. Walking back into the tea shop Alexander turns to the man and before he can shout at him says "Sorry I was being followed by some unsavory types. And since you're probably pissed with me I'll just leave." he says leaving without giving the man a chance to speak.
Now back inside the confines of his B&B room, Alexander has started freaking out, pacing back and forth mumbling to himself, some of these mumbling consist of. "Okay, Samson Adienfurge, he's definitely a magus but is he responsible for the disappearances?" and, "The museum, decent place to cover a workshop, a bit too public, and depending on the value of the items on display, the security going off and sending the police would possibly uncover his work."
And can't forget, "Aghh! Why did I have to end up in a town with a potentially rouge magus just eleven days away from when I go after a sealing designation. Zelretch you bastard!" he says amongst his ramblings letting out as much frustration he can. He continues with his mumbling trying to piece together his limited knowledge together till eventually he goes to sleep.
Line break, Wednesday October 4th 2000.
Waking up, Alexander goes through his normal routine, before going down stairs and after having some breakfast goes up to the older man running the bed and breakfast, Smiling at Alexander the man says "Mister Moore, is there anything I can do for you?" Smiling back, Alexander Says "Yeah my boss got in touch I'm going to be leaving, so I'm checking out." nodding the man says "Okay, would you like your money back for the remaining nights you were going to spend?" Shaking his head, Alexander says "No, keep it, I've already taken my things and cleaned up, so I'm going to be going."
And with that he left the B&B, planning on dropping off the map because of him killing the familiar. But still needing the location of the museum, Alexander starts making his way to the library where he met Samson. Taking a twisting and longer path to avoid all possibilities of being followed. Till he makes it to the library.
Heading inside to see the same librarian, Alexander smiles at him and says "James, right?" Frowning a bit the man says "Mister Moore is there something I can help you with?" Rubbing the back of his head faking shame Alexander says "I would like to apologize for my behavior yesterday, I've had a very bad week."
His frown letting up James says "Sorry to hear that." smiling a bit Alexander says "thanks, I'd also like to apologize to Samson? Do you know where I can find him?" Nodding curtly James says "Yeah, he's usually at the museum, ah give me a second." he says before ducking down and opening some drawers before eventually coming up with a pamphlet. "Here's a map it has the location of the museum on it." taking it and uttering a quick thank you Alexander leaves the library.
Waiting till night fall Alexander, finally makes his move after the museum closed, clicking his tongue to confirm something, at the faint taste of prana around the building and deducing it being a bounded field. Unable to figure out what it does Alexander places his hand onto the ground and says. "Depend," and floods the ground with his prana, attempting to find the location the field is bound by, and succeeds.
Quickly moving to the statue on top of the fountain, which is thankfully for Alexander on a timer, and places his hand on the book the statue is holding and says "Rend, end." as the statues arm, crumbles breaking the first bounded field not very stealthily.
Gritting his teeth from the feedback, Alexander stops himself from yelling and instead, goes to the power box and starts messing with it, before cutting power to the alarm. Not waiting a moment knowing, Adienfurge could show up any second. Alexander goes to a side door, and using alteration unlocks the door. Relieved to not hear an alarm.
Alexander once more clicks his tongue and follows the taste of prana, to a wall Alexander knowing somethings up puts his hand onto the wall, and starts going through his cant quickly. "Mend, bend, rend, end." as the wall starts to crack before some of it falls apart revealing, a hidden passage way, sliding the door the rest of the way, Alexander takes a light and clips it to his coat, pulling out his gun he steps inside.
Only to immediately start gaging at the overwhelmingly disgusting taste of the prana permeating the air, reaching inside his jacket Alexander pulls out a tin of mints, and chucks one in his mouth. Careful of traps Alexander slowly moves down the staircase, and slowly opens the door at the end of it.
Inside the room, are books, diagrams and research notes. Looking through some of them, Alexander reads the most recent paper.
Poor, John while I continued my research he died on my table, I was so close, now I need to get another subject, while it's frustrating, I need to keep going. Looking through every paper Alexander comes to the realization of what Samson's researching, the third magic, it seems he's attempting to identify and capture the soul of people in order to use it as a mana battery.
Thoroughly disgusted with the research Alexander, grabs certain papers not mentioning mage craft while still being incriminating and goes through another door, this one being locked. Done with subtlety Alexander kicks the door open and sees three people in a cell chained to the walls. Hearing the door open two don't move and one looks up to the door. Seeing him the teenage boy says "Who are you?" with a equal amount of hope and dread causing another one to look up.
Running up and shooting the lock on the door, Alexander says "Listen to me, when I get you out, you're going to help them get out and go to the police, understand." Nodding quickly the teenager waits as Alexander takes his pistol and fires at the chains breaking them, and continuing this process with the other two captives, with the third one falling to the ground unresponsive.
"Help me with him." Alexander says after checking for a pulse. Nodding the other captive helps him lifting the man's arm over her shoulder. Lifting the man up Alexander leads them through the room he was just in, and up the stair case, before suddenly dropping the man and shooting to the side, as a gun shot rings out.
Alexander now behind a display case, holds onto his bleeding side barley holding back shouts of pain, as Samson's voice rings out. "I really should have pegged you as an enforcer sooner."
Omake, Zelretch adventure's, 1
Antartica, sometime after twenty seventeen
Alexander currently finding himself once more transported to some random location by his boss. Immediately goes through the process he's developed for this sort of occurrence, and surveys the white hall way around him, then he slowly starts moving through them. Looking for any sign of life. And he finds it but certainly not in the way he expected.
"Fou!" looking down at the small squirrel like animal looking up at him curiously, Alexander stops completely doing his best to hide his shaking as he was warned of this animal by Zelretch, and judging by the taste in the air Alexander knows he wasn't kidding. Backing away slowly with both his hands up while saying softly.
"Nice Cath Palug," the adorable beast, tilts it head to the side surprised by Alexander knowing its name and says "Fou?" before getting up from its seated position and slowly walks up to the retreating Alexander, before growling and charging towards and leaping at him yelling "Fou! Die Merlin!" Alexander ducking as a white-haired man sneaking out of a door suddenly gets violently attacked by Cath Palug
As the man shouts in pain and Alexander has a panic attack at the number one dead apostle ancestor going off the rails attacking a random man. Another door slams open as a voice shouts "Not this again! Merlin some of us are trying to have a relaxing time!" and coming out of the door is none other than Waver Velvet.
"Professor?" Alexander lets out having his panic overridden by his confusion, looking at Alexander Waver surprised says "Alexander you look so young!" looking back to the man currently getting his face ripped apart, says "Should we help him!?" regaining his panic.
"It will be over in about an hour or so." looking to the man with wide eyes Alexander says "How are you so chill with the being known for having the unrivaled ability to kill humans right next to us?!" taking a look between Alexander and Cath he shrugs his shoulders and says "Mostly because their cute."
"More importantly, why are you so young? Did master summon you younger?" putting the pieces together with the wording of the sentence Alexander yells "You're a servant?!" upon hearing this outburst Waver slams his fist into his palm and says "Zelretch."
And so, Leading the very lost Alexander through Chaldea, and explaining things along the way, he and Alexander eventually end up in line at a mess-hall. A tan white-haired man setting a well-made meal, on the tray of Alexander smirks and antagonistically says "Silver." not paying too much attention Alexander flips the man off and retorts with "Emiya" before sitting down at an empty table.
He didn't wait alone for too long as before Waver could get there, he's sudden sitting across from a woman wearing a grey cloak, smiling she says "Alexander, why are you so young?" Alexander barley recognizing her says "Gray?" smiling a bit she says "how are you doing, where you just summoned?"
"Zelretch." letting out a slightly long oh, before realizing "Wait, what year was it when you disappeared?" not hesitating for a second Alexander answers "Two thousand." Waver sitting down next to Alexander says "I wouldn't tell him too much, but out of curiosity how much do you know about your future?"
Scratching the back of his neck Alexander says "Uh, not much, I had a fiancé, I at some point died, and I can make Artificial noble phantasmas" nodding at those waver smiles lightly and says "Ah yes, Miss Edelfelt was so distraught when you died, to sad you two couldn't tie the knot."
"Wait I proposed to Luvia!" Alexander shouts in surprise knocking his chair clattering to the ground as Waver starts laughing. As Gray glares at her teacher before turning to Alexander and says "No, you don't, he's just messing with you." sighing with relief Alexander says "Okay good I don't know how I'd act having that knowledge."
"Yeah, you two could barely stand each other." Gray says lightly chuckling causing Alexanders eyes to dart to her filled with confusion
And that's it, not much to say, Alexander's been shot. If you're wondering if he's going to be okay, do you really have to ask?, now the fake name Alexander gave this chapter, is a random name I pulled off a name generator. When first writing this chapter the stand in name was a reference to Lancelot, might use it at some point but, to be clear this omake is obviously the current Alexander.
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