Fate/Grand Order Alternative (up for adoption if you want)

Chapter 9: The Counter-Guardian System

After the funeral possession, Maiya took the liability to introduced the three Bishops/casters she had forged contracted with before coming to Chaldea to Romani who'd become the permanent director after the late and last Animusphere. Frau, a blond hair male with sharp blue eyes, the temperamental one, Castor, a reddish brown hair male with warm black eyes behind his spectacles, the smart one, and lastly Labrador, a pink hair male with lavender coloured eyes, often being confused as a woman due to his soft spoken and gentle nature, the healer.

To say that the doctor was excited was very expected. He was all over Castor, Labrador and Frau, asking every questions he could think of about the other world, the alternate throne. It's a good thing that Castor and Labrador had the patience to answered him, albeit Frau on the other hand were excused by the two bishops since he didn't have to engage in the conversation due to his short tamper.

Said Bishop on the other hand took this chance to spend it with Maiya, enjoying her company like any servant with their master in her summon kitchen. It's a shame that Frau had to share his master with the others, and the caster knows there will be more of them that would be happy to form a contract with a respected, wise, skilled, courageous and understanding master like her. He had long accepted that, and his view on his bond with Maiya changed from romantic to siblingship like his fellow sentinel spirit servants.

"...san...nii-san...Frau nii-san!" Maiya voice broke the caster off his daze, before the ash blond male turns his attention to the woman. She looked at him with a worried look in her beautiful violet eyes, worries that Frau knew that he was the one who caused it. Sighing softly, the caster than ruffled her head, earning a squeak of surprise from the female.

Frau's blue eyes also fell on the pair of rune stone earrings that hung next to the sapphire earrings she always wore. "Nii-san, please stop. You are undoing my hair-ties?!" Maiya yelped, trying to remove the sentinel's hand from her hair. Of course, it was a futile attempt since Frau wasn't an ordinary or humanoid spirit like the spirits of the Knights of the Round Table she had forge her contract with.

After all, Frau was what you would called a three quarter god, one of the seven ghost deities, and still holds the title of The Severing God, Zefel, who in charge of cutting spiritual bonds amongst the living and the dead. In other words, he's stronger than any 'normal' or divine servants from this world.

After completely messing with his master's tresses and earning a pout from the individual, Frau could only give her a smug smile. "So... is there something you want to ask me, imotou? And whose earring those belongs to?" he asked. Scowling while fixing her hair, Maiya blushed a bit before directing her angry violet gaze towards the bishop/caster, clearly upset with the mess-up hairdo.

However, the demi-god caster knows that her anger was usually short-lifted since the female master was impossible to be angered in a long period of time. So Frau waited patiently until she re-tied her hair, in which taken a while since Maiya silvery locks was long, passing her waist. Many would choose to cut such lengthy hair. However, Maiya can't do that since her hair was like the bond emblems decorating her figure.

Yep, you heard it right. For each individual strands of hair acted as a bond meter, the longer a strands were, the deeper the bonds between the master and servants pair was in. But if you look closely, not every strands were silver. Some of them were coloured, cleverly hidden amongst other strands, and these strands represent the strongest sentinels she had formed bonds with, in which, every one of them are deities.

"It's from this world Cu Chulainn. That's aside, I have two questions actually... the first one was can I form a contract with the heroic spirits from this world, and the second one was wither any of you guys can free the counter-guardians from their contract with this world's Alaya," Maiya stated after securing her hair. But the term 'counter-guardians' caused the caster to did a split take, spilling out the coffee from his mouth before getting a coughing fit.

Once he calms down, Frau looked at her in disbelieved. "Master, do tell me you are joking, right? The counter-guardian system had been demolished by the all fathers from each religion due to its cruelty to the spirits... Wait... don't tell me this world still have it!?" yep, totally disbelieved, and there's a hint of disgust in the male's tone.

It's true that back in her world, the counter-guardian system was disabled after the Deities found out about the hideous truth behind the system the will of humanity had created for survival, and recreate it with the temporal-guardians, where everyone had their responsibility to protect themselves and others around them.

Maiya just nod, sensing that the blond would report this to the High Deities after this regarding the counter-guardian system that still exists in this world. But, he hasn't answer her first question yet. "So... regarding my first question. Can or can't I forge a contract with the Heroic spirits from the 'Throne of Heroes'?" she asked again.

Despite Maiya could form contract with any spirits from Dyna dimension, they'll need 'local' heroic spirits to be their guide during any singularity in the upcoming future. Arthur was the one who address the issue and Frau understands that.

"You can, actually. Those emblems on your body will work the same way to them as it did to us. But since you are the patience type, I suggest you to take heroic spirits with some problems with their past since we need to deal with their experience first and no extreme pervert ones or else they will face every one of us should anything inappropriate happens," Frau said, running his slender fingers through his hair.

The man was clearly disapproved with what he found out. Seeing this, Maiya laid her hand on the caster's arm, pursing her flame and mana into the spirit to calmed him down. Luckily it worked like a charm, Frau was calmer than he was before. "Nii-san, you can return to Dyna and report this, you know that right? I'll be fine here with father and the others," she said, reminding the male of others sentinel spirits she'd form bonds with besides him and the other ghost.

Finding no excused to argue, Frau sigh before ruffled his master's silver tresses, once again messing it up. "I told you not to do that!" Maiya chided. Seeing that her spirit partners always played with her locks, Maiya gave up tying it and let the tresses fall freely behind her back after arranging a few raising strands. But then, Percival appeared besides her, holding a silver clip much like Lancelot's before taken the liberty to arranged his niece's hair into a loose tie.

"Well, since Percival's here, I'll take my leave for now. Anything you want to ask, lil' sis?" Frau stated as he got off his chair. "Yes. Actually, I was thinking of forging a contract with any counter-guardians that want to help saving this world. I know Eugene's counterpart in this world would like to help us. Can you ask Landkart or Lord Gabriel to ask him for me?" Maiya said, giving the hint that they were dealing with a reality marble user. Amongst the seven ghosts or divine beings, only the said two had the ability to break into or getting out of it.

"Sure, I'll ask. Make sure to partner up with some assassins or dragon related spirits within your next mission though. I had a feeling that you'll need their help a lot." Frau advised before disappeared into a golden portal, heading back to Dyna without even hearing her reply.

Then again, Maiya always follows the advises given to her by others, only when it's seems logic or importance or she sees it as a warning, that is. It was hard to fooled the silver hair master, the very reason why she was the most trusted within the current count of England in their world.