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Prologue: It all started among flames and ashes...
It had all happened without a reason.
At first it was a nice day to spend with his family, blurred faces smiling as they walked him around the beautiful city that was Fuyuki.
He could remember the pleasant touch of a sibling, of his father and... his mother.
The boy blinked as tears started to flow once more from his eyes as he continued to run through the rubbles of the destruction that had teared him away from his own family.
His chest hurted as did his legs, too much strained by the unexpected need to escape from the danger, the flames that were hungrily burning through the city without control, without restraint and.. without mercy.
He had hoped for a firefighter, an adult to save him out of that horrifying scene that not even in his darkest nightmare he had ever seen.
It was approaching, the child mused, the pain was approaching.
He tried to deftly move around the obstacles made from the remainings of cars and buildings' walls, finally hopeful that he was close to reach a safer place.
Away from the tragedy behind him, from the screams of people dying around him as he tried to not fall to the heat of the ruthless fire.
Yet this.. this wasn't a tale meant to end happily.
That very realisation struck the moment he felt his body shift and land on the ground, one of his legs tripping over some embed rocks that he had not noticed in his rush.
He was done, the boy considered somberly. The flames weren't going to relinquish the chase and they were incredibly close to where he was.
It was his end that he was going to witness, to feel, and soon he turned around.
Dying embers moved to the sky where the most terrifying thing cruelly slammed onto his soul.
The round circle of darkness, the origin of this unnatural flame.
It felt calling, demanding him to concede his life for.. something. Something he couldn't know about.
His lungs started to slowly relax as the child kept still in his defeated moment, mourning his last happy memories, mourning the end of his life.
The screams slowly disappeared as he went numb.
He was dying and nobody was going to save him and thus, in this final hour of his short existance, the boy closed his eyes and let his consciousness slip in that hell on earth.
"This is not the end of your life, child. You shall live to see your future unfold." A candid voice quietly and melodiously crashed the cacophony of death and sorrow around him. "I bestow a gift to you. Use it to protect, to save the lives of those who are suffering."
His eyes opened at those words that sounded so beautiful and inspiring but the child saw no one around here.
He thought this was just a silly trick of his mind as dangerous smoke started to fill his lungs, causing him to cough loudly.
His vision spiralled once more in the darkness, this time it was his little body uncapable of keeping up with the pain, with the horror that he was suffering... but he couldn't give up now.
As his mind slowly started to shut down, his arm stretched up, his palm open and waiting for someone to hold him, to save him from this agony or to comfort him in this last moments of hurt.
He felt it, a strong hand grasped his arm but it was not the soft and light touch he had expected from the hallucination, the voice of the kind woman.
One last time, he begged to himself and.. he saw him.
The man had short, black hair, his face rough and partly covered by smoke and ashes, hiding parts of his features as it all disappeared in that set of clothes with such dark themes, a long coat covering his black suit, shirt and tie.
What surprised the young child was the man's eyes as he looked at him.
As tears flowed and fell on his younger visage, his charcoals lacked any sort of lights, as if the man was actually a corpse walking. Defeated by life.. but not by the flames around them.
"Thank God, you are alive.."
The boy closed his eyes as a strange yellow light started to warmly caress his soul, too tired to deal with that unnatural predicament with his exhausted mind.
A perpetual darkness filled his dreams, a soft lulling of a caring woman keeping all the horrible nightmares regarding that terrible experience away.
The lullaby.. he couldn't remember hearing it anywhere in his life, yet it filled him with a warmth that made those weird sounds turn into something lovely and caring, as if a mother was trying to protect him from the dark, real world that he had just passed away from.
Sadly, all of this disappeared once as he woke up from possibly the best dream he will ever experience.
He started to feel the weakness that had been there during his last, few moments before fainting, but it felt mitigated, soothed somehow.
His eyes opened slowly and he found himself laying in a bed with warm, white covers and a soft pillow below his head.
The room was blank and almost empty, just like any classic Hospital room. He was alone in that room as the entire line of beds coming from his left and right were unoccupied.
As he processed his current situation, something else caught his attention as he noticed a blue-like light over his face.
A blue screen was hovering just in front of him with white words written on it.
Was he still hallucinating?
[Your HP and MP had been fully replenished]
What?
What was that.. and why it was in front of me?
The blue screen disappeared but another one, this time green, appeared on its place.
[A newer, Gamer Life]
Greeting child and good norning to the first day of your new, improved life!
After having been forced to witness such horrible tragedy, a greater force has decided to gift you with the power of living your life like a Videogame.
A Gamer is someone that has the possibility to exceed the limitations of mortality and become more than everyone has ever dreamt.
Your real limits? Your willpower to accomplish the impossible!
Your incredible dreams? You will achieve them in a matter of time!
Your long journey to become the greatest has just started!
Good luck!
Once again, the green screen closed and was replaced by another blue one.
[Status]
Name: Unknown
Title: The Gamer
Level 1 - Exp: 0.00%
Health Points (HP) : 100
Mana Points (MP) : (Blocked)
Attributes
POW: 2
INT: 4
AGI: 2
WIS: 4
VIT: 2
CHA: 5
LUK: 10
Skills
Gamer Body (LVL Max.) - Congratulations, your body had been turned into one influenced by the rules of the Game Module. This Skill is present in all Users from the very beginning.
Unbreakable Willpower (LVL Max.) - The hardships of your life had been making you stronger than the average human being. Risk of Possession and Mind Control are reduced by the 75%.
Noble Soul (LVL Max.) - Having experienced the worst trauma, you know the pain and sufferings of others. Your Soul is brave and determined enough to let you become whatever you wish.
Beginners' Luck (Non-Level Skill) - This temporary Skill will add a EXP multiplier related to LUK for Skills and LVLs. Expiration Level: LVL 10.
That was something he had certainly expected. Wait, why is name was not written there? And why he could remember anything before the Fire.
[The Trauma you have experienced during the Great Fire has blocked almost every memory prior to the disaster.]
The child was speecheless. He just had lost more than he had thought he had lost in that Fire.
He couldn't remember his parents' faces, his friends, everything else...
[Warning! A set of actions has triggered a new Quest]
-Discovering the Past-
Time Limit: Unlimited
Your Trauma has seriously damaged all your memories of your past life. Find any hints or documents that will help your memories to come back.
Reward
-Your Past Name-
-500.000 EXP-
-?-
Failure or Refused
-Your Past Life is forever forgotten-
Accept?
Y/N
The child immediately pressed Yes and nodded to himself.
There was a strong probability to return to his family once more and he wasn't going to refuse this opportunity.
In a certain way, he felt a bit thankful towards this new development.
Another screen popped out.
[Your gratefulness has been noted and a new skill has been unlocked]
-Observe (LVL. MAX)-
Essential to any Gamer, Observe is useful to determine the stats or the history behind friends or foes.
This Skill has a limit: Observing people with a higher level than yours (at least 10) will have their informations immensely reduced.
His surprise to know about that this 'Game' was capable of hearing his thoughts was cut off when the door of his room opened.
The same man that had saved him from the Fire entered the room.
The two stared at each other and the child noticed how, even though the man seemed impassive, he seemed to relax seeing him, as if relieved of seeing him still alive.
What had happened to this man to make him so much empty and distant?
His musing soon were answered by an explanation that he certainly would have never dreamt about.
The child was soon going to be pulled into the Moonlight World and he was going to become an important part of it.
The legend of Shirou Emiya has just began in this World of Magic and Lore.
AN
I... I own you all an apology. After finishing Arc III of FPO, I noticed how much I screwed up in the overall situation.
I had plans to rewrite this with the help of some BetaReaders, but decided against it as the work was... absurdly insane to accomplish.
I had (and still have) an incredibly serious schedule and several projects beyond my writing time, damaging furtherly my efforts to actually pull something to better up this story.
So, after fighting some nasty moments of reluctance to actually try this and the fear of being unable to truly accomplish this rightfully, I hereby proclaim the beginning of Fate: Player Online v2!
Changes that have been planned:
Age Situation: The HF movie confirmed that Shirou and Rin are 17, thus Shirou is currently 7 and not 5 (same for the others, their ages will be adjusted properly);
Length of some parts: I will extend several sections, like Illya's part and add some more action that is realistically acceptable as per Nasuverse's rules; (No more plot armoring)
Cleaning up some messes: I had left some unpleasant, unresolved situations in the first few chapters and I will make sure to rework them in a more calibrated way;
Possible Minor Xovers: It's a maybe, but I might be able to make some minor xover or cameo in the future;
Update Plans: Differently from my other fanfics, this one will not have a set date for the updates. I know that this is asking you all your trust on this, but I need time to plan properly this series without screwing up again and I don't want to lie to you all by having a set date when I can easily miss it or even rush a chapter too quickly.
I hope this small, humble apology reached everyone's hearts and minds as I am now going to make this story greater than it was!
Signed, SocialistBukharin