The Moon's Crimson Archer

Blade 1: Lost and Found...

It was after the Holy Grail War, which Kiritsugu won and destroyed as he commanded Saber to slice the Grail with her Excalibur!

The Contents of the Grail leaked over and set the entire town of Fuyuki ablaze!

Many died in the fire due to the corrupted contents of the Holy Grail as the deaths were unfathomable, as Kiritsugu looked to the sky after seeing what he accidentally caused...

Guilt-ridden, he sets off into the ruins of the town to find any survivors...

He wandered through the ruins and uncovered debris after debris...

Rocks after Rocks...

He searched through the whole town as Saber stared at Kiritsugu seeing a broken man as she dissipates into Golden Dust.

Kiritsugu searches the whole entire town and tried to find any survivor that survived the fire and he was now tired and desperate.

That was until the moon that he looked at, made a beam of light that landed somewhere nearby.

Kiritsugu followed the beam and saw where it landed, as he took out the debris and the multitudes of rocks that covered a Red-haired child...

As he took out the Debris he saw that the child's parents protected the child with their bodies as he noticed that they weren't breathing, that they were crushed by the debris in an attempt to save their child.

The Child looked so dull as his eyes looked at the moon as Kiritsugu saved him.

Kiritsugu saved Shirou, while the young boy was staring at the moon with an odd familiarity.

Kiritsugu brought the child home and adopted him, thus Shirou Emiya was born as a kid who survived the horrendous fire, as the child who survived the sacrifice of his parents, as the child who was the only survivor of the Fuyuki Fire...

And that's all thanks to the moon's guidance.

He didn't know how, but he felt that the moon saved him.

Kiritsugu paid no mind and continued to raise him as his actual Son.

As time progressed Kiritsugu trained Shirou on how to use Magecraft, seeing as the boy had developed an affinity for this Magecraft as the boy had specialized in Projection Magecraft with the fact that he is an unorthodox Magus, only able to use Reinforcement and Projection Magecraft with a low level of success.

While Shirou had better luck in Reinforcement allows him to analyze the structural composition of an object, and increase its effectiveness, such as making it more durable or its shape more practical, or returning it to its original state.

The boy was also able to apply this to his own body as well, as he could strengthen his muscles to be more durable.

The boy had lived with Kiritsugu for years and grew into a fine young lad who has inherited his adopted father's ideology of saving everyone and redeeming them...

But Kiritsugu had died due to a curse inflicted upon him by the Corrupted Grail, as his body slowly withered away into dust in which the boy couldn't even have a body to put in a casket for closure.

Emiya Shirou had lost his Biological Family and his Adoptive father, as he screamed into the night sky filled with grief!

Nothing had changed and yet everything had changed for the young boy...

But as Shirou grew up he realized that the only person with who he could share his thoughts and talked to was the moon itself.

Ridiculous right...?

It was ridiculous, but it felt normal for him.

He felt as if every time he talked to the moon he felt like someone hugged him.

He felt the warm embrace of the moon...

He felt as if he was at home...

Little did he know that the moon was finally ready to talk back to him.

And grant him what he wants the most...

A family...

Chapter Ends...