This is my first first fan fiction honest criticism are welcome.

The Great Seal

Minato POV

'Another day at the great seal. Oh, joy.' -I think silently to myself.

Sitting on top of the huge door and swinging my legs like a child, I look upward.

There is nothing to do right now. No, its not because the great seal is almost empty, the only object being the huge door. Its because I don't feel like doing anything.

How long has it been since I died and awakened the universe arcana within myself? Day and night doesn't exist in this world, and I sure as hell don't have a watch on me. Maybe a month? A year? A decade?

It doesn't really matter. I'm stuck here forever anyway.

My body and clothes are the same as on the day of my death. A winter Gekkoukan high school uniform with the headphones Fuka made for me.

The long silence was broken by a voice... in my head.

'You alright, kid? You have been silent for a long time. All of us are starting to worry. If somethings wrong just summon or talk to us for fucks sake.' -the irritated yet concerned voice says.

The voice just now was one of my persona Cu Chulainn. After I awakened to the universe arcana and become the great seal I started to hear voices in my head. At first I thought that I lost my marbles out of loneliness, until the voice introduced himself as Cu Chulainn. That was the name one of my persona. After realizing I still had my evoker with me, I tried to summon him.

And when I did, the shock I received was the same as that time I found out that I had death sealed inside me.

The persona I summoned was not the same Chulainn I knew. Instead of long black hair, he had blue hair tied in a ponytail, the white armor became blue and his eyes were red. Oh yeah, he could also talk.

I was a little skeptical that he was the same persona, until he told me about the shadows, the first meeting with me in the Velvet room after I fused him and his experiences fighting as my persona. After that I had no doubt that he was one of my most trusted persona.

As time went by more and more of my persona started to talk, and gain their own minds. Well, everyone except Thanatos and Orpheus. One of them mutated like Chulainn.

But that was not the only benefit of the universe arcana. I no longer had a limit of how much persona I could have with me at the same time. So all of the persona I had when I was alive started to return to the sea of my soul as well as some new ones I never seen before.

Because of them I was never bored. I could talk to them, some of them offered training which was great for passing time and helping to improve my skill, we also spar sometimes... and when I say spar I mean it being a one-sided slaughter. The current score of The Great Seal Fighting Tournament (or TGSFT) is 0-379 team Persona being in the lead.

It's all thanks to them that I still have my sanity, and living here is enjoyable, although monotones.

'I'm fine, Chulainn, don't worry about me. I'm just not in the mood to do anything.' -I answer to him with my thought.

'Well if you say so.' -he goes quiet for few seconds and continues 'Before I forget, the fox hasn't said a single word for a long time.'

'How long?'

'A half an hour, he-he that has to be a new record for her.' -a snarky voice replies.

That was Robin Hood, a hero, who hid in the shadows using traps and poisoned arrows to kill his enemies, he stole from the rich and gave everything to the poor. He was the second new persona to join me. The first one being the "fox" he and Chulainn mentioned. Her name is Tamamo-no-Mae she's a kitsune, a fox spirit, or is it a jackal? Whatever. She is very energetic and caring, even more caring than Mitsuru, Fuka and Yukari combined!Tamamo and Robin don't get along at all, when they see each other, the result is always the same: Robin tries to poison her, and Tamamo tries to hit him with her castration fist. One of my persona always projects two cages and puts them inside said cages.

The point being Tamamo talks a lot which annoys Robin. And if she's so quiet, she is ether dead, or something happened.

..Now I'm worried.

'Tamamo, whats wrong?' -I ask being concerned.

'….Master, I feel magical energy it was weak at first, but now...' -she answered after a short silence.

I frown at this. Who or what could possible by here except me?

Soon something bright appears in the corner of my vision. I lower my head and look at the unknown light source. In the center of the floor there is a red light. Its some kind of red circle.

'Whats the plan, boss?' -Robin asks. Is that excitement in his voice? Yep it is, because I'm excited too.

"Do you rely have to ask?!" -I answer aloud. Yep I'm really exited.

I get up to my feat and jump down from the door. I quickly start to channel a persona and use one of his skills called "reinforcement" to strengthen my bones, so that they won't brake. After a rough landing, I start to walk in the direction of the circle.

'If you are wandering, yes, you are really exited.' -the persona EMIYA says to me in mild amusement.

Honestly, I don't know much about him, he is the third, and for now, the newest persona to join me. I never heard about any hero or a being by that name. What little he told me about himself, it seems to me his life was not a happy one. But he is a cool guy to have around, and a really helpful one. He is the one who tutors me about combat strategy, fighting using my own strength without channeling a persona, and thinking on the fly. As I said, he's cool and helpful.

After getting closer I got a good look of the circle. Looks like my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. It is a red circle. In its center is a symbol that looks like a star with weird writing all over it. Well, what the circle looks like is not what interests me. The real question is how it got here? And what does it do? I get the answer pretty quickly.

'A magic circle? How in the world did it get here?' EMIYA seems to recognize it. Before I even open my mouth he already started answering.'Before any of you start bombarding me with questions its easier to just step inside it. Nothing is going to happen to Minato, well unless he is wiling for the circle to complete its function.'

After thinking for a second I decide to step in the center of the circle. Instantly my head is quickly filled with so much information, that I thought it was gonna explode. It only lasted a second, I didn't even get a chance to scream from the pain.

'Master are you alright?!' -Tamamo says in a worried voice.

'Yes, I'm fine, no need to worry. But next time, EMIYA, give me a warning before something like that is going to happen again.'

'If I told you that it would be painful would you step in the circle?' He has a point...

...Wait, what's this? Holy Grail War? Servants? Magus? My parameters,class and skills? I never heard about any of this, yet I have the knowledge.

Ooh, so that's what the circle did to me. It literally gave me the knowledge in a second. Well, it turns out I fulfilled the requirements to become a Heroic Spirit. Usually the Throne of Heroes keeps the information on anyone who qualifies, well everyone except me. Apparently when I erased everyone's memory of anything shadow related, I also erased the memory of the world... How? I don't care how, but that does explain why there isn't a copy of me in the Throne of Heroes. I died before the world itself remembered about what I did. And heroes are registered when they die, while I was already dead before my information was stored in the Throne of Heroes. Which makes it impossible to make a copy of me.

Well it's official, I'm the biggest troll in human history for trolling the world itself.

Getting back on topic, I can still become a Heroic Spirit, but instead of a copy, the Grail will use my soul. I can't be summoned unless I agree to be summoned. Even if I get 'killed' during the war, my soul will be sent back here until another Holy Grail War starts. While the catalyst to summon me does not exist, I can still be summoned to a compatible Master if they use themselves as a catalyst.

But that is not the biggest shocker, ooh no, the biggest one, is that time does not exist around the great seal. Which means I could be summoned both in the past, and the future! Maybe even into a different world.

OK, calm the hell down, Minato.

'Soooo, what do the four of you think about this?' -I question the four representative persona.

Since I have a huge number of persona, they usually never agree on anything. So I decided that Chulainn, Robin, Tamamo and EMIYA will represent all persona in the sea of my soul. Since all of them are rational, even Tamamo, when she wants to be that is...

'Kid, you already know my answer, if there is a good fight, I'm in!' -Chulainn answers. I can already see his bloodthirsty grin.

'Same here, all of us need a change of pace. Especially you, boss. And I need target practice, I can never hit that damn fox!' -Robin really needs to vent out his frustrations.

'Master you deserve the chance to live a little, even for a short time. And we might finally get some "one on one" time~' -Tamamo says in a suggestive voice. Note to self, always check if my pants are on when she's around.

'Even if I say no, you would still go. Oh well, consider this as vacation from being stuck in this place.' -the final persona answers with a sigh.

Smiling to myself I accept the summoning. And become enveloped in the red light.

Jokes on them, I would still go regardless of their decision.

?

The red light started to fade away. After it disappeared, I found my self in a mansion which could compare to Mitsuru's vacation home. In front of me stood a group of people, on instinct I began studying them.

The first one was a man in a red suit. If I would describe his face, I would say he looks Junpei, only has a similar hair style to mine, but has his brown hair pulled backwards, so it would not cover his eyes. He also has a goatee. But that's where the similarities end. When I look at him, the person who appears in my mind is that bastard Ikutsuki. I should be cautious.

'He's not the master. Nor is it that fake looking priest.' -EMIYA says in a low voice.

I turn my head to look at this "fake priest". There is almost nothing special about him, he has short brown hair and a priest uniform. The uniform seems out of place, like he's trying to hide who he really is.

A fake priest indeed. But the most noticeable thing about him are his eyes. They're hollow, empty like mine used to be.

'...You have got to be kidding me.' -Both Chulainn and Robin say those words at the same time.

I hold in an inward sigh and look at the cause of their surprise. A little girl standing three meters away from me.

She has light gray hair, which is almost white like Akihiko's and dark yellow eyes. Wearing something similar to a miniature nun uniform with a black hat.

'Master there is no doubt that she's the one who summoned you.' -Tamamo said in an unusually serious and surprised voice.

I sigh deeply.

"...Well, isn't this just fan-freaking-tastic." -I finally break the silence.

Four minutes earlier.

Caren POV

I look at the magic circle that my father has just finished drawing on the floor. The circle I'm going to use to summon my Servant.

And I think back.

Back when my mother killed herself. Back when my father gave me away to my mothers relatives.

But here I am standing in front of a summoning circle that my father drew, with a command seal on the back of my hand.

My guardians were surprised when I showed the strange mark on my hand. But I was more surprised when my father came by and told me what the mark was meant for. I was chosen to be a master in the Holy Grail War. And then I found out that the winner gets one wish granted, like in a real fairy tail.

I always had a wish since my mother died, but as time went by, I grew, and my childish naivety started fading away, I understood that my wish would never be granted.

Yet here I am, preparing to summon a hero from a legend so I could get my wish. The wish I always wanted granted.

"Caren its time." -my teacher Tohsaka Tokiomi says with his fake caring voice.

Walking a little closer and extending my left arm with the command seal I began to chant.

The circle began to glow red. With every word it glows brighter and brighter. Until I finished chanting.

The light was so bright that even closing my eyes didn't help me. As soon the light faded, and after opening my eyes, there was a figure standing in the center of the circle.

It was a boy, he looked older than me. He was taller than me but not as tall as my father and teacher. His hair was blue and it was as long as my tracher's, but instead of being pulled back, it covered one of his eyes. He wore a school uniform like the older kids I've seen, but it seemed different from the other uniforms I saw.

There was something hanging around his neck with a wire connected to a small object hanging around his chest.

He was staring at us with blue emotionless eyes. Which gave me a feeling, like he's reading us like a picture book.

His eyes looked around the room for a second, then he looked at my teacher, after a second he looked at father, and finally he turned his eyes to me.

A second passed ,then another one, and another one.

Then came the sigh. A really deep one.

"...Well, isn't this just fan-freaking-tastic." -he says in a monotone voice that showed no emotion.

…My mind went blank. And the room went silent again. After what seemed to be an eternity, he spoke up again.

"So you're the one who summoned me?" -he says and puts his hands in his pockets. While keeping his stair on me.

"...Yes. Could you please tell me your class, and true name?" -I finally regain my voice.

"I would, but there's a two pair of ears who are listening in right now."

The next person who answered was my teacher.

"Excuse us." -he quickly bows and leaves, my father did the same.

After they left, my Servant spoke up.

"Master what is your name?" - the monotone in his voice was gone, now his voice showed curiosity.

"Caren Hortensia." -the fear I felt when he looked at me was gone. "And whats yours?"

"Minato Arisato" -I never heard of any hero by that name. But Minato wasn't finished talking "My true name is not important, call me by class or by name, however you feel like."

Now I was really confused, teacher said that the most important part of the war was gathering information to figure out the enemy servants true identity. And he didn't even care if someone found out true name.

"Why?" - I asked confused

He walked up closer to me and sat. His eyes were on the same height as mine.

"Well, did you recognize my name?" -I shook my head "That's why. Caren, what will you wish for if we win?"

"...I want to save someone..." - that's the only thing I said. I expected him to question me about my wish. But the only thing he did is give me a small, but warm smile.

"Then I see no problem in being your servant! As for my class. Servant Saver at your service."

So what do you think does this story has any potential or not.