First Order: Sundering of the Gate of Heroes

There was a dream. You all had it, but it was mostly forgotten by the time you woke up. But some of it was still there..

Some of you would remember the fires. Others the blood. The breaking of walls, the destruction of homes, the slaying of innocents. And finally, a blinding light that did not comfort but instead unnerved.

January 12, 2015 AD, Chaldea Security Organization HQ (The Himalayas), 12:00 PM

Today was the day. Today would begin your mission to save the world or die and doom yourself and the planet.

The Chaldea Security Organization. Your choice of employ, thought it wasn't like you had complete control in the matter. World saving is not particularly a career you can turn away from easily.

Chaldea. An organization separate from the Mage's Association, but considered an ally of it for convenience. They were formed with the sole mission of saving Humanity from whatever it was that served to destroy it. In this effort, they built machines, machines created by a fusion of magecraft and modern scientific marvels.

The Phenomenon Recording Cyber-Daemon "LAPLACE". The Pseudo Global Environment Model "CHALDEAS". The Near-Future Observation Lens "SHIVA". The Heroic Spirit Summoning System "FATE" The Spiritual Computer "TRISMEGISTUS". These five devices promised to bring forth an era where man could take the reigns of destiny itself and survive for aeons.

And yet,

Two years ago, SHIVA detected an anomaly. It could not see beyond the year 2015. The only thing that existed beyond that was extinction. The end of all life on Earth.

Chaldea's esteemed director, Director Olga Marie Animusphere, put all of her efforts into finding out how this came to be.

The answer? A series of anomalies. Distortions in time scattered throughout history, altering the natural flow of the world and driving it to ruin. And in each of them lied the unmistakable signature of a Holy Grail.

From that point on, Chaldea began finding and training its Master Candidates, those with the potential to be able to use the Heroic Spirit Summoning Device, FATE.

Their mission was simple. Jump through time. Find the distortions and eliminate them. Save humanity.

It's about time that they begin to summon their servants. After the rituals were complete, it would be time to use the final device created by Chaldea "GRANDORDER" to leyshift into the past and set the flow of time right. The weight of the world lied upon their shoulders.

But for now, they would have to wait to receive their Servants.

Atrium of the Spirit Summoning System, FATE. The Master Candidates become true Masters

You can summon them in a first come first served kind of fashion, but canonically they're doing it in order.

edited 27th Oct '15 11:29:25 PM by GyroZ

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Puff.

The black-haired girl shifted the pipe in her mouth, from one corner to another. The ritual was just about ready to be finished. Just a couple more adjustments and... well, she wasn't quite familiarized with her chances. It could have been an Archer... or a Rider, maybe something else.

It didn't matter. It's not like she was going into this on her own. With a small smile she finished the gestures. Any moment now, the Servant would materialize.

Sally Mc Morrigan puffed her pipe, watching the results.

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Assasin: Queen of the Damned

For a while, nothing happened. Just the soft blue glow of the FATE system. The room was silent. Had the summoning failed?

However, at that moment. Mist. Cold mist filled the room, then a howling wind. The blue light vanished, and the new Master could hear soft laments. Like mourners at a funeral.

A figure walked out of the mist, and the eerie curtain receded. She was a woman. A lovely woman in white, skin pale as snow and matching hair. Cool blue eyes looked at the Magus.

Then. For a split second she was a corpse. But the moment was gone and she was lovely as ever.

The pale woman smirked. "You have summoned me, and I have come. Servant...Assasin."

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The Eight Master

For the first time in a very long while, Maria Isadora Cruz-Tahtinen was excited. She was a Master now. She was going to summon her Servant.

Now, it was not the title itself that mattered to Dora. No, such a thing was just a means. A means to her real goal: a purpose.

Surely saving the world was something worthwile?

Dora breathed deeply, looking at the cool blue lights. Heh. Technology. How Ama loathed it.

Smiling slightly, Dora raised a hand, fuelling magical energy into her circuits.

She loathed using magic, but it wasn't like she had a choice.

She felt the burning sensation of an active magic circuit and began chanelling it into the blue machine.

"Servant...just show up already...so I can get this over with."

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Summoning Ritual

"Set Amp."

With a familiar phrase Aaliyah's circuits were opened. Fire ran up her spine, hammered against her brain, and rushed though her limbs filling them with an unnatural strength.

"Source found, Field Effect confirmed."

"Connecting..."

She ran though a mechanical sounding aria. It was obviously practiced, and executed without flaw. Her mana flowed out as an extension of her arm. It reached though the ether, finding invisible pathways and into the machine.

"Burst Mode Active."

The FATE machine's sigil spun faster, and faster as Aaliyah's output increased, and she switched to a more natural sounding chant.

"By this hand be bound."

"In fire be forged, a vessel though which you will cross the Aether."

"Should our cause be one..."

"I am thine holder, and you my sword"

"I swear to become a cleansing fire, that will strike down the blight up on the world."

"Hear my call, and come forth!"

"Gaurdian of the Scales!"

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Summoning Ritual: Aaliyah

Aaliyah would see the color silver. The curve of a bow, a steady hand. The intricacies of a card representing the servant she would summon.

But it did not last for long.

Lightning flashed at the edges of her vision, crackling across the silver surface, burning it away to reveal gold underneath.

The sound of thunder rolling. The beat of the drum echoing a heartbeat greater than her own.

The card gave way to the silhouette of a man who soon became lit up by the blue glow of the FATE system. In one of his hands was a weapon that could not rightfully be called a bow; the word "tree" suited it better.

"I have arrived at your calling." He spoke, in a deep baritone. "I am Archer.. Jakuta. It would serve you well to remember."

At his introduction, the bow in his hands faded away into green-flecked gold dust.

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Ultra Summoning Fun Time

Bees. Bees everywhere.

Richard took a deep breath. This wasn't just his neck of the woods anymore. This was the world. Now here he was, one of forty-eight people selected for the express purpose of making sure the entire natural world remained in place. When he had decided all those years ago that he would work to protect nature, he had never anticipated doing something at this scale. Of course, he was going to have to work for it.

The bees flew at each other with all their might, cutting down the distance between them until they were all touching and all that was visible was a single sphere. A sphere that, for all intents and purposes, could be considered a sphere of Richard's mana.

He was going to have to work harder and smarter than anyone else if he wanted to help. He wasn't a very talented mage, and when he compared his magical abilities to some of these other people, it almost felt like the difference between a human and a servant. So he was going to have to rely on gumption.

Well, gumption, and binding a heroic spirit as a servant via contract.

With a snap of his fingers, the sphere exploded outwards in a burst of energy as all the bees were converted back into mana.

Simplicity.

That was the word that best described Floren's current situation. She stood in the center of the room, her Azoth Blade held with both hands in a prayer-like stance. Her mana, in the form of ice cold fire traveled up the side of the blade. Her eyes were squeezed shut as she lowered her breathing.

Snapping her eyes open, she brought the blade to the air as she pushed the ball of mana away from her. "I need a Servant that is effective. Bring one to me," she told the room as she began to put away her Azoth Blade and move to the far left wall of the room.

Aaliyah

At first she thought something might have gone wrong, the veil wasn't lifting. Was the Servant...somehow stuck? Aaliyah began going over the ritual in her head, but she couldn't find anything off. But her fears were somewhat assuaged as she felt her hand burn, and saw the command spell form on the back of it.

It seemed that instead of soemthing going wrong, instead it went very right. The card became gold and lifted away, revealing a darkskinned man in ancient looking armor, weilding....she wasn't sure what that was.

He introduced himself, prompting her to respond in kind, but she found her self staring at him in disbelief for a moment before she came to her senses.

"My name is Aaliyah Cartwright. Welcome back to the World." she held out her hand towards him.

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A flash of light filled the room before Floren, the sound of the crashing waves of the sea echoing around her. The light began to fade, along with the waves, leaving a gentle cloud of mist and the aroma of the ocean.

There in the mist stood a figure, silhouetted by the blue glow of the FATE system. The mist receded revealing a beautiful woman with blue hair, wearing a revealing outfit that showed off her physique and light colored skin. The gaze of her blue eyes fell on Floren, examining her.

"Upon your calling, I, Ching Shih, have been summoned under the class of Rider." She said, her tone detached from any emotion. She folded her arms under her chest and leaned forward slightly, her eyes narrowing at the one who summoned her. "May I know the name of the one who summoned me?"

Aaliyah

"Aaliyah Cartwright." Jakuta repeated, looking down at her hand then back up at her. He did not extend his own hand.

"Welcome back? I have never left." He stated cryptically, taking a step forward.

When he did, he looked around at his surroundings, then, once he stopped moving, down at himself. He extended his hand in front of him and stared at it.

"I'm honestly surprised that this container is able to hold even this meager amount of my power. Very interesting."

Jakuta now looked back at his "Master". "Count yourself lucky, girl. You have summoned a god."

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Master

Sally twisted the pipe in her mouth before nodding. "Well met." She replied with a small smile, taking a small puff. "You're something else. Can feel that already..." She mused, examining Assassin with no small dose of curiosity.

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Servant

In the circle Richard made stood a tall, handsome man with long blond hair. His clothing was fairly unassuming for a Heroic Spirit and yet one could feel the sheer power coming from him, mixed with the divine power wrapped around him, like a cloak.

The Servant dropped on one knee, respectfully bowing to his Master. "Thou, who hast summoned me, greetings. I of Lancer class offer my assistance and servitude." He spoke.

How do lizards fly?

Summoning Ritual

Alba stood there among the forty seven people chosen by fate to be the many Masters to fix the course of history. She stood silently, watching the people going in order before her by their number. She showed no anxiousness, no excitement, not even so much as a nervous gulp. At a glance, her drag clothing and quiet demeanor would make it easy to assume she somehow wandered in here by accident. When she was commanded to call forth her Servant now, she calmly nodded and prepared her own summoning ritual.

Alba Pryce was not raised as a proper magi. Her knowledge and practices were rough, gained through years of piecing together the rituals of mystics and thaumaturges in the process of compiling their history. She took out her mystic code in the shape of a pen and wrote down the mystical chant she was told. It was the bare minimal mental preperation needed for her magic circuits to activate, but she hoped it would suffice. Once she was finished and waited a minute for the ink to dry, she muttered aloud off her arm. In the back of her mind, she was skeptical about this working, but her goal was too great to back down now...

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FATE Chamber

Aaliyah's hand dropped to her side. This was no doubt going to be a fun partnership. She took a breath and looked him in the eye, a look of determination on her face. God or not if he was going to parade around bragging without backing it up what use is he?

"I just need to know one thing Archer. My mission, is to save this world. Are you with me?"

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Ultra Summoning Fun Time

Richard glanced at his newly-summoned servant. Having no real intimate knowledge of the entire servant system, he wasn't exactly sure how well he had done. Still, the man standing in front of him seemed like a tough sort. So things were probably fine.

"Greetings, Lancer," he said finally. "It is an honor to meet you. I am Rick- er, Richard. Of the Smith... clan. That is, I am Richard, the scion of the most honorable Smith Clan."

Albania

For an ever-so-brief moment, nothing happened in response to Alba's magic. Another brief moment later, and her world was fire. Rather than burning and consuming all around her, though, it was pleasantly warm as the fire itself quickly concentrated into a single point a few feet above the ground as a staff materialized. Attached to the staff was a right hand, which in turn was connected to an arm, and the arm brought with it a woman in an ornate outfit with a large crown-like helmet.

She glanced down at her left hand, squeezing it a couple times as if testing that it was, in fact, real. Shifting her gaze from her hand to the young mage. It seemed as if she were about to say something, but paused and tightened her lips into a grim smile, looking as if she were thinking of something. "The words of this time lack linguistic style. The things that I speak sound so ugly, quite vile."

She shook her head as if in disapproval. "As you require introduction, I am servant Caster. Who are you who has called me with the ritual of the master?"

Blue light flared in a pillar of energy as a Servant appeared before Maria. Julie d'Aubigny opened her eyes, examining her new Master. "Servant Saber, La Maupin, has come forth at your command," she said as she bowed with a flourish.

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Alinia tried not to show any of her stress as she walked up to the FATE machine. Was it really necessary for all the Masters to be present for all the summonings? Well, even if it wasn't she probably was required to attend anyways. Ugh, she had to focus.

She stood at the machine, wrinkling her nose at the smell of ozone, and held out her hand. She closed her eyes, imagining the trigger of her magic - a spark flaring up - as power flowed through her magic circuits. She had to do this right.

"Fill, fill, fill fill, fill. Repeat five times, but destroy each when filled. Let silver and steel be the core. Let stone and the Archduke of Contracts be the foundation. Let my great master Sieglinde be the ancestor."

"Raise a wall against the wind. Close the four cardinal gates. Come forth from the Crown, and follow the forked road leading to the Kingdom."

"Let it be known. Your body shall be under my will, and my fate shall be with your sword. If you will heed the call of the Grail and submit to my will and reason, answer me."

"I declare. I will be all the good in the world. I shall defeat all the evil in the world. From the Seventh Heaven, attended by three great words of power, come forth from the ring of restraint, Protector of the Balance!"

Alinia stared into the machine of the FATE system as the smell of ozone and heat filled the air. Three crackling rings of electric-blue energy burned around the machine, before a massive column of light exploded upwards. Alinia grabbed her wrist in pain as she felt something - her Command Seal, of course, she knew this was going to happen but it still hurt - burn into her wrist. She blinked hurriedly as the light began to fade, and she got a look at her Servant.

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As the pillar of light faded, Aliana would see a headless man standing before her, his severed head secured in his arm.

"Servant Rider...Dullahan, has answered your summons." The newly identified Rider spoke in a calm, friendly tone as he bowed to her. "May I know the name of my Master?"

Kasumi slowly approached the FATE machine, a bit nervous when it was her turn, despite being a rather high rank, she was not exactly used too any of this. Compounding the nervousness about the ritual itself, was worry about what kind of servant she would be paired with? Would they get along with each other? Would her servant be useful?

With a deep breath she held out her left hand, Watching her her lack of formal training would become apparent by the simple fact she was nervously copying the most rehearsed person that had went before her.

"By this hand be bound."

"In fire be forged, a vessel though which you will cross the Aether."

"Should our cause be one..."

"I am thine holder, and you my sword"

"I swear to become a cleansing fire, that will strike down the blight up on the world."

"Hear my call, and come forth!"

"Gaurdian of the Scales!"

"Thou hast given me your name, it is only fair that I repay the favor." Lancer nodded, picking himself up from kneeling. "My name is Cassius Longinus."

"I expect nothing but a successful cooperation, Master."

edited 29th Oct '15 1:07:19 AM by FergardStratoavis

How do lizards fly?

Aaliyah

Jakuta smiled. He balled the hand in front of him into a fist.

"If I wasn't willing to save the world.. with you, then I would not have shown up, now would I?"

His fist started to spark up a little with electricity. "And I would suggest against doubting my strength, lest you start making some poor decisions."

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Ultra Summoning Fun Time

"Pleasure to meet you, Cassius," Richard said, holding his hand out. They were going to have to work on a nickname.

"Well we ought to clear the room, there's still a few folks left who have to perform their summons," he added. "I'm sure you'll get a kick out of meeting everyone else. If not, well, I hope you like People Magazine. They have a few old copies in the waiting room."

Aaliyah

The purple haired magus watched as Jakuta gave his warning. Her expression slightly unreadable. This Servant was clearly powerful, and if his claim of being a god was correct possibly one of the more powerful ones they would have on team.

However he seemed to be constnatly challenging her. That was perfectly fine in Aaliyah's book. She wanted to summon a hero not a simple tool. She had Squarewave and Sawtooth for that.

"I don't doubt your power Jakuta." the edges of her lips turned up into a smile. "In fact I'm looking forward to seeing it on the battlefield." She answered with her own challenge. If Jakuta wanted to be revered by her, he might as well earn it.

Kasumi

As the sigil spun, instead of the normal blue light, a rainbow colored corona began to fill the room. Colors flew in every direction, growing ever brighter until it was blinding.

As it faded Kasumi would see a golden card depicting a knight in a dutiful pose, the symbol of the Saber class. It dissolved into flecks of gold dust leaving behind humanoid figure. They gave off a soft glow, that could only described as holy. It faded leaving behind a tall woman, in shining armor with inviting blueish-purple eyes, and a long thick braid of bright blonde hair. She held a thin ornate sword, in an elegant pose.

The woman smiled softly to Kasumi. "Congratulations on your summoning Master. I am Jeanne D'Arc of the Saber Class".

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Summoning Ritual

Floren met her Servant with a similar pose as she eyed the pirate up and down. With a sigh of frustration she gave the other woman the reply she'd been waiting for. "You may call me Floren." She paused for a moment, breathing in the scent of the ocean.

"Let's get out of here and get you into some more appropriate clothing."

Kasumi stared at her newly summoned servant for a few seconds in shock at who she had managed to summon before curtsying to her, "I-I am Fujikawa Kasumi, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance madam Jeanne" before she gave a quick nod to look down at the back of her hand, still a bit stunned.

shhhhhhhhh

edited 29th Oct '15 6:20:12 PM by GyroZ

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Alba was visibly surprised for a moment. Not necessarily because the ritual worked, she'd seen it done so many times that she knew it would. It was the servant themselves that shook her senses. Rarely had she met a force of personality so strong and refined. It was clear from her crown to her toes that this was a woman of great dignity and history. The kind of person that Alba was searching for in many years, but never did she dare dream...

...Oh yeah, she'd just been asked a question. Cripes, she nearly got sucked in again. Alba took a deep breath and tried to speak to Caster as confident a tone as possible, even if she was still mentally shaken.

"Alba Pryce. For the sake of bringing history back to its rightful course, I am your Master."

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