Diary Entry #1: How did I get here?

"Lately I've found myself in some sort of a weird situation. Perhaps it was from the invitation that was sent in the form of a request for help or something more. All I know is that it somehow ended up with this."

"Hey hey, Shirou! What are you writing? Ya know, ever since Archer got you that book you've been staring at it but not writing anything in it!" Someone with a very familiar voice said as they draped themselves over the redhead who was writing in the diary. This was also in a way- Shirou Emiya.

Now in order to truly understand the situation, we'd have to go back to two days ago.

Shirou was in front of the mansion left by Kiritsugu Emiya checking the mail as he usually did around this time of week when he noticed a strange smell coming from one of the letters. It was enchanted with magic as to make sure he was the only one to read it, but the obscure thing was that the letter smelled like him. Since there was no school that day and Sakura was at home, it was only him today- meaning the Magus could train for as long as he wanted in Magecraft before going to work at the Copenhagen and open the note without anyone staring over him. Going back into the home, Shirou settled down the normal letters and bill notices at a distance and then opened the letter.

Dear Shirou Emiya of this world,

Hello, if you're reading this letter then it really did work! How exciting! Though you must be wondering who I am since this magic has a smell similar to yours, right? And no one knows that the famous Magus Killer adopted a son ten years ago….

Well, enough of keeping you waiting! My name is also Shirou. Though it's Shirou Zeltrech instead of Emiya! The reason why I'm sending this to you is because I need a place to stay. Grand-dad went missing a few days ago leaving only a letter saying to 'have fun with yourself' and gave me two really strange chibified spirits! The thing is that they seem to be 'Emiya' as well…

Anyway, if you're reading this letter now, then I should be there within a few minutes. It took a while to configure my magic circuits so that it could come to this universe, so you should be hearing the doorbell ring in five…four…three…two-

Before the rather bizarre letter could even finish, a loud explosion came from the door along with the bells from the bounded field chiming calmly. Taking one of the metal poles in the kitchen with him, Shirou walked cautiously towards the entrance hall and looked. What he saw was of course, a major surprise.

"Ah ta ta ta….I wasn't expecting the spell to throw me in front of the house. Hope nobody saw that…" The other said as something growled at him while the clouds dissipated, revealing another Shirou Emiya.

Though this one wore a black cape over the red and white shirt, black boots, and blue jeans and had a small ponytail in his hair that brushed against his neck. Besides the clothes, hair, and the slightly tanned areas of skin blending with the paler parts, there was no mistaking the other as Shirou for their eyes were exactly the same golden-brown color. On his shoulders however seemed to be two of the same thing but with different clothing styles. They were both tanned and had white hair, but the one with a condescending look on his face and wore a red coat+battle skirt combo over black battle armor and the others was ripped apart with red bandages and combat gloves while wearing no shoes. When he noticed his staring, the other Shirou grinned sheepishly and cut his finger in the glass, mumbling an aria before the damage repaired itself.

"Well, now that's been fixed. How about I explain all of this over a cup of tea?" Shirou could only nod as the other walked in after removing his shoes as if he owned the place.

'W-What the heck is going on? I thought that letter was a prank! Though from what dad said, Magus don't like to fool around, especially when it comes to magic.' In the end the metal pole ended up going back into his workshop and went to work on the tea, though surprised that the other Shirou had already prepared four cups- two of them being drunken by the two chibi spirits.

"Hm, you look rather surprised at all of this Shirou. Though I suppose I would be too, going to alternate universes usually tends to cause some strange things to happen. Apparently these little guys are from an alternate universe where they became something akin to capsule monsters or Pokémon." The other Shirou spoke while taking a sip of his own tea with a mischievous look on his face.

"P-Pokémon? Wait, besides all of that what's going on? You introduced yourself as another version of me, but how could that be possible?" Shirou couldn't deny how confused his was at the situation, since nothing like this ever happened before. And who exactly was Zeltrech? For some reason, he sounded like a whole lot of trouble…

"Well to put it in a simpler way, I'm Shirou Zeltrech- also known as Shirou of the Kaleidoscope. Though not to confuse the both of us, you can just call me Zelhirou. I'm from a severely altered universe because instead of being raised by Kiritsugu Emiya, I was taken in by Zeltrech. Though because of this, my 'suicidal heroism' as he so greatly put it was lowered from trying to save everyone, to just saving the ones that I can. Though thanks to this, I ended up avoiding the afterlife of becoming Alaya's dog." The other Shirou er-Zelhirou explained while he the main one took it all in.

"The alternate universes, I think I remember dad saying something about only one person being able to travel easily from universe to universe through the third magic." He also said not to attract his attention because it NEVER ends well for any magus.

"Pin-pon~ of course! Though since you've read my letter you already know much about my situation at hand. Since the old man went missing, he locked his workshop and limited me to using the Kaleidoscope to only a few times a week." He had the decency to look rather sheepish while rubbing the back of his head. One of the chibi spirits (the one with all its clothes in tact) sighed and shook its head, seeing to be rather disappointed at Zelhirou's attempt at explaining. He really was as bad as his grandfather at times.

Shirou looked down at the chibi spirits and then back at Zelhirou himself who had an almost expectant look on his face. It wouldn't be so bad to allow him to stay here, right? He had plenty of space to spare and the chibis looked rather harmless- though it would be hard trying to explain how Zelhirou appeared here. Taiga-er, Fuji-nee wouldn't be so akin to believing that a long-lost sibling had come out of nowhere. As if he sensed what he was thinking, the red-haired Zeltrech grinned and pulled out a file teeming with Prana from his messenger bag.

"Ah, you must be concerned about dear 'ol Taiga-san right? Don't worry for I have that covered as well. In this file are forged papers of the existence of Zelhirou Emiya, your older brother who was visiting London at the time of the Fuyuki Fire. Thinking that his adorable younger brother died along with his parents- he was devastated and continued to live with Grandpa Zeltrech when finding out 9 years later that he was in fact still alive! Not waiting anymore for a chance to see his ototou, he rushed to Japan and ran around looking for him in Fuyuki until finally!" He said this while waving his hands around like he was an actor in a play.

"He finds him in the Shinto district and tackles him in a wondrous embrace! The scene is so tearful that not even the famed Raiga Fujimura could not prevent himself from crying!" Finally, Zelhirou slammed his hands on the table, eliciting a hiss from the blindfolded chibi and making Shirou almost flinch in surprise.

"It's perfect, is it not? Besides- it's a lot more cost-effective that using Mystic Eyes on them all the time." The excited smile on his face even took the red-haired Magus off guard. Unlike his, it was full of life and not empty like the ones he gave after Kiritsugu died. He wondered…how was he able to smile like that?

It was so strange that Shirou couldn't help but to smile himself at the alternate version of himself.

"Okay, you can stay here for as long as you need to- Zelhirou!" An almost uncharacteristic squeal came from the other Magus as he jumped over the table without somehow knocking their cups of tea over and hugged Shirou, squeezing him tight while happily saying thank you. Even if he was rather strange and out of character, making him happy made him happy as well…

"Right, now that all the stuffy stuff is over- I present you with this!" Even while he had one arm still wrapped around his waist, he grabbed the blindfolded chibi by its ripped battle skirt and plopped him right onto Shirou's head. It looked ready to hiss and even bite the Zeltrech-raised Magus, but relaxed automatically when smelling Shirou's hair and nuzzled into it. He couldn't help but to blink again in confusion while staring at Zelhirou, who grinned again.

"It's a welcoming present! Remember how I mentioned that they were from another universe where they were kinda like Pokémon but with Gatchapon? Well this little guy is an Alternate version of grumpy pants over here where he's what's known as a Class Card!" He responded while holding onto the other one who struggled with a frown apparent on his face.

"What makes it better is they're so tiny that they don't need a lot of Mana to keep them going and their compact. Besides, it's perfect having a little helper around, even if it's like those Hunters from Left 4 Dead." Eh, Left 4 Dead…? What was that?

"W-Wait, I can't accept him! Besides, your grandfather gave them to you, right?" He just waved it off and continued grinning.

"Its alright really! Besides, I'm pretty sure Gramps gave them to me since he knew I would do something like this. Hmm, perhaps he had 10- years of insight. Damn Grandpa Zeltrech, wanna use some of that on the present?" At that point, Shirou just ignored Zelhirou's strange rambling and got up to make lunch- the chibi Alter holding onto his hair not too tight and continued purring in pleasure.

This was either going to be really annoying or really helpful, and he could feel it.

Aschlyn: Is Zelhirou...the Deadpool of this story?

Ashi: HA HA HA HELL NO! Only TIM (AKA, The Infamous Man) could pull off Deadpool well. Making Zelhirou like him would be overkill. Imagine him more like...Genie from Aladdin.

Aschlyn: Ah...Well that's a lot more subdued when you really think about it.

Ashi: Yep. Along with that, I will be writing the next chapter of "Rituals for the Soul" soon (though tbh, I started but didn't get to finish) and post the last few chapters of FSTA.

Aschlyn: Much to my dismay, she has a Prequel coming up for the story...And a slight chance that Kazuma will have his own story in a Tales of Xillia fanfiction.

Ashi: -Mutters- Its not 100% ready yet, I've still got a few other things planned like "Trois a' Penible" and "Life of Castertosk"...

Aschlyn: Don't sweat it. Anyway I'll shall be saying the disclaimer. The following is a fan-based fiction. Fate/Stay Night belongs to Kinoki Nasu along with the ideas from Fate/Prisma Illya and Fate/ Capsule Phantasm (which is a Mini-game located in Hollow Axtaria). None of these belong to DeathhunterAshi except for the stupid idea to name the alternate Shirou "Zelhirou".

Ashi: It could have been worse! Now we're off! Ja ku ne! (Man, I really need to change my catchphrase).