Nasuverse The Nasu Files (Dresden Files/Nasuverse)

[Jouaint]

Dresden Files/ Nasuverse crossover challenge

Two universes have always stood closely next to on another, being so close one need not posses the Kaleidoscope to travel between them. One of Merlin's less well known abilities is his ability to see in to the future so what if one day he had a vision and erected a barrier between the two worlds. It stood for nearly 2,000 years, but all things come to an end.

This is a Dresden Files and Nausverse Challenge. Rules are simply to follow the above premise.
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Chapter List
Chapter 1
I do not own the Dresden Files or the Nasuverse
Chapter 2.1

My first actual story so bear with me.

I have decided to get rid of the Prologue because I realized that it gave away way to much information. Thankfully since its still fairly early in the story I can do this.

I will confirm for my faithful readers that the events that happened in the prologue are cannon for my story.

 

[Jouaint]

Chapter 1 Hell's Bells

Inside a once formerly grand theater room laid a cup or rather a grail, the 767th Holy Grail. But this grail was not in any way holy for inside lay a thing of utter malice and darkness something that could only be described as A LL THAT WHICH IS EVIL, it was at once a curse and a wish, a concept and a living thing, it was Angra Mainyu Persian God of Darkness and evil. Because that which lay in the grail had not always been there but rather had come to corrupt and taint it utterly.

During the previous Grail war the, 3rd Holy Grail war, the Grail was utterly corrupted when the Eizenbern, one of the three families who founded the Holy Grail War alongside the Wizard Marshall Zelretch, tried to cheat and summon a god. They both succeeded and failed for while the being they summoned was indeed a Divine Spirit it was before that a Heroic Spirit and the servant container, which could not hope to contain the full might of a Heroic Spirit could not even begin to contain a Divine Spirit. Said servant lost fairly quickly but in losing achieved something he did not imagine he became integrated with the Holy Grail's most basic system, the Greater Grail, which unlike his measly servant container (which could not even fully express the abilities he or any servant had when they were alive) could bear his full might.

Unfortunately for him that same thing also prevented him from escaping because while he was at full strength the grail was powerful enough to keep him from escaping. So trapped he realized his only way out was for someone to use the Grail on a significant enough wish that would allow him to brute force his way out onto the world in order to accomplish his goal.

So we come to the Fourth Holy Grail War were there was a man with such a wish a wish to end all war and conflict. When this man known as Kiritsugu Emiya was confronted by Angra Mainyu he rejected it and fled to its center so as to destroy it.

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Two beings enter into the room both are servants one is a male Archer, also known as Gilgamesh the King of Heroes, and the second is a female Saber, also known as Arutria Pendragon . King Arthur the King of Knights. Both desire the Grail if for different reasons and both are unaware of the truth about the grail. Saber enters through a hole in the wall and as she moves to approach the grail she hears one voice (a voice she has come to loath) say something the absolutely horrifies her.

"Saber by the power of my Command Seal I order you, use all your power to destroy the grail," commands Emiya Kiritsugu and again he says, "Saber by the power of my final command seal I order you, Annihilate the Grail."

"NOOOOOOO…" She hears someone scream before realizing it is she and at that moment she unleashes Excalibur one of the greatest holy weapons that's purity and power reaches unto the level of the Three Swords of the Cross and the blades of the Archangels. Its power unleashed it is a weapon that even ALL THAT WHICH IS EVIL would tremble before. Blasting through the Grail this colossal power collides with another and then something else happens for any another place and another time something similar happens.

But Kiritsugu is tossed from the building and the last thing he hears is tremendous crash like some great wall had been suddenly torn down.

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Hello my name is Harry Dresden and I am about to do something that is insanely and suicidally stupid. I am about to interrupt some necromancers who are in the process of completing a spell that will basically allow them to ascend into godhood.

Now interrupting any spell can be a dangerous thing, normally just for the wizard himself, but depending on the type of spell and the circumstances the casualties can get pretty extensive still I am pretty sure I won't have to worry about anyone outside of this park and inside well hopefully Butter was smart enough to run like hell away and the rest are just me, some Wardens and the aforementioned Necromancers.

So then as I run up to the center of the circle and slam my blasting rod right into the middle and pump as much magic as I can while shouting, "PYROFUEGO", I am only barely able to hear someone shout, "You fool you'll kill us all!"

Immediately after that three things happen:

The spell fails.

A giant explosion happens and throws me backwards.

And finally I hear a sound like something breaking.

The last thing I think as my vision is consumed by blackness is, "I really hope I didn't just break the universe."

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Kirei Kotomine wakes up. After realizing that he is, somehow, still alive he looks around and realizes he is surrounded by rubble and a hateful burning fire. "No", he whispers to himself, "Rather a curse in the form of a fire."

Extracting himself from the rubble he goes looking and discovers his former master's and now his servant Gilgamesh sitting on top of some rubble.

"Ah, Kirei it is good to see you", says the King of Heroes. Kotomine a little put off by the Heroic Spirits unusual behavior asks, "If I may be so bold, what has caught your eye oh King."

"Oh, Kirei can't you feel it? The world is even now changing around us. Gaia is spreading out her power and greatly lessening her effect on magic in general. Both beings and spells are more powerful and longer lasting than before and it is not done yet this will only continue. Beyond that Alaya is releasing its grip on humanity. Soon all those mongrels will be far more powerful, if not as powerful as humanity was in my day. Do you not see Kotomine what you call the Age of the Gods shall soon be upon us again.

"New so-called heroes shall appear and old threats shall be revived. But beyond that my kingdom is at last whole once again."

"Whole what do you mean by that, the world is still divided between the various nations", asked Kotomine.

"Ah, Kirei still you do not understand, but since you have been such a worthy servant I shall tell you. This world and another lay side by side or rather this universe and another are so close that they touch. Now do to the unique nature of this one does not need to possess the Magic you call the Kaleidoscope to travel between the two. All one needed was the proper knowledge and magical ability. Honestly it might be possible to do so now with modern technology, on a practical level, just as we did so with magecraft during my time, and that's excluding the natural Ways that exist anyways. Now Gaia and Alaya exist in both universes but they are the same Gaia and the same Alaya. Too put it another way well you are an expert in healing so you can compare the two worlds to hemispheres of a brain ours being the Left and theirs is the Right, two distinct and vital parts but one true whole. And who should rule over all of Gaia and Alaya, but I Gilgamesh the King of Heroes?"

"I se.." Kotomine starts before he hears some rubble moving and notices Emiya Kiritsugu madly searching through the rubble trying to find someone anyone. Kotomine starts to move to kill him, but stops and leaves Kiritsugu to his task.

"Oh? I had not expected you to just let him go so easy Kotomine." Gilgamesh amusedly states. "But at any rate it does suit my purposes we must set up and get ready I believe the world will get very interesting soon." saying that Gilgamesh summoned a magnificent Golden flying ship, Viamanna. "But how Berserker destroyed it?" Kotomine Kirei asked as they boarded the magnificent aircraft. Gilgamesh turned back and smirking said, "Oh Kirei you haven't seen anything yet."

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The man known as Kiritsugu Emiya has finally saved someone. Having desperately searched through the ruins caused by him to prevent the release of a greater horror he found one person who had managed to hold on despite all the odds a young boy with red hair. Having found this one person he quickly extracts and implants Avalon into him. Noticing that the boy has lost consciousness he goes to pick him up and carry him out of this fiery hell when he stops for two reasons: number one all of a sudden a tattoo like a sword split into three parts appears on his hand (Command Seals he notes horrified) and two because he feels a blade pressed against his neck. Slowly turning around he sees the face of his former servant glaring down at him.

"Why, why should I not kill you now? Why did you betray me? Why did you take the grail from me?" Arturia Pendragon the King of Knights demands.

"Because the grail was horribly and irreversibly cursed." Explained Kiritsugu.

"Dammit and Damn you, but I believe you," accepted Arturia as she slowly lowered her sword. "I see you have implanted Avalon into this boy, my new master. Don't look surprised I am much more than I was as a servant." She says as she bends down and allows some of her Prana to fill Avalon to capacity. "There that should be enough to allow him to recover. He can keep the original though I do not need it and I believe I can sense something of a destiny about this boy," she says before getting a midly disgusted look on her face, "Ah, Great now I am starting to sound like Merlin."

"Now than I do want to know why you are so badly cursed?" Arturia inquired.

"How do you know I was cursed?" Inquired Kiritsugu.

"There you go again underestimating me. Though you probably don't know this I am actually a quite capable magic user. Though I have always personally disliked using it beyond my Prana burst and Invisible Air, during my life Merlin did insist on teaching me as much as he could and I was one of the few people with more Prana than even him. While my practical abilities did suffer, due to a lack of practice and interest, my theoretical knowledge was second only to Merlin and Morgana."

"When I rejected it the Grail personally cursed me." Explained Kiritsugu.

"I see well that is one powerful curse I don't think even Avalon could heal due to the nature of the way it is bound to you. It could probably delay it by healing its symptoms but due to the way it is bound unto your very soul I do not believe it could actually remove it. At any rate another thing that must be asked is why I am so different?" Asked Saber.

"You don't appear different." Pointed out Kiritsugu before a thought occurred to him, "How are you still alive, for that matter?"

"Through truly ridiculous amount of luck I was close enough to the grail that I was able to absorb some of the backlash from Excalibur. But far enough away that I only got hit by the shockwave and so was merely sent hurtling from the building. But anyways I was not talking about my appearance I was talking about the fact that I seem to have all of my original Noble Phantasms along with the fact I don't feel nearly as constrained as I was as a servant, if not as powerful as would be as a fully manifested Heroic Spirit." She said as she moved to help Kiritsugu carry the boy out of the destroyed area.

Later after they had dropped the boy off at the hospital Kiritsugu asked, "So what are you going to do from here on out?"

Saber replied, "I don't know maybe I'll travel the world and help out the Church with any monster extermination jobs they might have, as well as keep an eye out for my master and help train him for when the time comes."

"Ah that's right you are a Christian, what with the quest for the original Holy Grail and all, I guess you would feel a certain desire to aid the church. I do have some contacts within the Church I could set up some meetings for you. At any rate you don't have to worry about your master's safety that boy's family is probably dead sp I am thinking about adopting him."

"Fine, though you better take good care of him." She said.

"Heh, Don't worry I won't." Said Kiritsugu.

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Two men wake up finding themselves in a world not of men. One is a hero of legendary standing the other his friend, vassal and a magus. Waking up the magus says, "Rider you're alive."

The man identified as Rider proclaims, "Ha, of course I am alive as if even the King of Heroes could kill me. Though Waver what happened after I got stabbed by Archer?"

"After Archer stabbed you he seemed to realize that Saber had reached the grail and so hurried off before he had a chance to kill after that I tried to heal you and then there was this flash of light and I woke up here." Explained Waver Velvet and then he asked, "But Rider where are we."

"Well if I had to guess I would have to say we are in the lands of the Fae, but don't worry I will protect you." saying that he and the young man named Waver Velvet started to look for a way back home.

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A knight wakes up in a dark room. Though he had died with the destruction of his prison he had been hurled out into the world and beyond. He wakes up beneath an alien sky and in an alien room. He feels his power greater than it was before. He looks up and sees a man who to one such as the knight clearly possess inhuman blood and a companion who is far smaller possibly a child though it is impossible to tell what gender the child is both are clearly staring at him seemingly stunned at the situation. Though he had been betrayed and crushed still he had his dream and his honor and so with that in mind Diarmud of the Shinning Face simply said, "So you are my master."

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A masked man wakes up in an alley in some city whose name he is not aware and though he does not know it yet he is no longer on his home world. As the man stalks out of the alley his only thoughts are, "The shadows shall rise." Set on his path the 18th generation Hassan-i-Sabah sets out to explore his new surroundings.

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Tonight in a city in an alien world to both, two men murder a family. Both exemplify the worst attributes humans can possess. One asks the other, "Hey Mister Bluebeard what happened last thing I remember is this splitting feeling in my skull and then nothing?"

"Ah, my dear Ryonnuske it seems we have been given a second chance tonight we shall rest and tomorrow we shall see about initiating our plans again." Said the one called Bluebeard.

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Contrary to what Hollywood might tell you surviving an explosion is not easy nor is it comfortable. As I am counting my broken ribs I see a couple of the Kemmlerites and their zombie hordes approaching me. Just as I am pretty sure I am about to die a (and I kid you not) knight jumps out of nowhere and picking up some random branch off the ground proceeds to just absolutely butcher them. When the Kemmlerites try to use magic on him it just slides off and you quickly got the idea that they would probably have more affect if they just threw water balloons and hoped his armor rusted.

After his scarily short battle he approaches me and as I get a good look at his armor (which is some sort of Purplish-Black) which has a very gothic feel too it and was definitely designed to be intimidating. I am starting to get worried as he approaches and planning on going out with one last snark when all of a sudden he bows down and says, "I have come my Master."

After that I hear my own little shoulder-devil say, "Oh, you do not know what a wonderful gift you have received my host."

Between the shadow of a fallen angel and the super-powerful there is only one real response, "Hell's Bells, what have I gotten myself into?"

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Again this is my first real story and I (currently) have no beta reader, though I am looking for one and if anyone is interested please PM me, so please go easy on me.

Any reviews are welcome, though I ask that any flamers at least keep the obscenities down to a minimum. I will answer any questions that might be asked (so long as they don't reveal anything to important about the plot) either by directly PM the asker or by posting it at the bottom of my next new chapter.

 

[Jouaint]

I am looking for feedback and at this point am honestly willing to reorganize and rewrite any part of the story so long as I am given sufficient reason. I do have a basic idea of what I want to do but I need suggestions to help get it fleshed out. Next chapter is going to deal with Lancelot and Harry's meeting.

 

[AJ_Katon]

Well I overall liked it but there were some issues.

Gilgamesh's speech: While informative and a bit of an infodump to get Kirei up to base, how does Gil know all this? Is it a throne of heroes thing? Or is it his right as a King to know?

Saber and Kiritsugu: The whole interaction was...off. There was no time to process things and the whole confrontation was over way too quickly. There was so much build up earlier with the Grail destruction and with all that, Saber had to hate Kiritsugu. It just didn't feel right to go one second from cutting his head off to just going along with just one quick response. Just sayin, you may want to go back and put more detail or slower wind-down for what Saber is to do there.

Other than that, pretty good.

 

[Jouaint]

Gilgamesh's speech: While informative and a bit of an infodump to get Kirei up to base, how does Gil know all this? Is it a throne of heroes thing? Or is it his right as a King to know?

Saber and Kiritsugu: The whole interaction was...off. There was no time to process things and the whole confrontation was over way too quickly. There was so much build up earlier with the Grail destruction and with all that, Saber had to hate Kiritsugu. It just didn't feel right to go one second from cutting his head off to just going along with just one quick response. Just sayin, you may want to go back and put more detail or slower wind-down for what Saber is to do there.

Other than that, pretty good.

With Gilgamesh I am saying that he literally ruled both worlds when he was alive and so he knows most of this stuff simply because he was there and observed it. While the rest comes partly from the grail and partly from his own intuition and observations. One of my plans with Gilgamesh is to emphasize his knowledge base and intelligence.

With Saber and Kiritsugu I was trying to go for a feel of both of them being of a little of balance at the moment and trying to cover it up with a show of bravado.

Also thanks.

 

[Jouaint]

Hey I have heard that the Church in the Nasuverse didn't Schism unlike in our/Dresden TL is that true or just fanon?

 

[Amodelsino]

Well there's no Catholic or Orthodox Church, it's just the Church, so yeah.

 

[Jouaint]

As a heads up I have edited the prologue and there a few important differences you should look at.

I have decided to do things like other authors have recently and post my chapters in segments this will make it easier for me when I go to edit it or change any necessary parts.
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Chapter 2: The Black Knight​

You know I thought my life was complicated enough, but then the universe decides that Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden’s life just isn’t complicated enough. Anyways I am fighting these powerful, dangerous, and almost definitely insane necromancers, and just when it looks like they’ve won everything blows up. Next thing I know I am waking up and about to be attacked by the aforementioned necromancers (who seemed to have waked up before me) and their undead minions.

Then out of nowhere this (and I kid you naught) knight in full plate armor appears from out of nowhere and starts tearing them apart. The zombies try to attack him but he picks up a stick and starts cutting them in half like it were made out of solid steel. While the knight is still attacking the zombies one of the necromancers let loss with a lethal blast of, honestly I am not sure I want to know, magic. Just as he finished the last zombie he looked up and got hit right in the face with it. Just as it made contact, and looked like it was all over for him, it just fell apart.

The necromancer was just as surprised as I was and even managed to get out a little ‘what?’ before the knight took the branch and threw it at him so hard it (and I really, really kid you not) created a freakin’ SONIC BOOM and soared straight at him, utterly destroying his chest. Oh, yeah than it exploded with about three times the force of the average grenade and turned everyone with in twenty-feet into tiny chunks.

Then the big badass knight in black armor turns around and starts walking towards me and just as I am starting to wonder if my death curse will even do anything to this guy. He kneels down and says, “I have come my master.”

And what could possibly put me more off my game you might ask? Why my own personal shoulder (fallen) angel saying, “Oh, you do not know what a wonderful gift you have received my host."
So you can’t really blame me when I accidently let out, "Hell's Bells, what have I gotten myself into?" Of course the knight unaware of my own inner turmoil says, “You have summoned me. I shall be your sword and your shield. But my master I must ask that you complete our contract, while I am not in danger of fading away I can’t access my noble phantasms without it and my skills alone can only carry me so far.”

“How” I asked numbly.

“All you must do is affirm that you are my master.” The Knight replied.

“Is that it, no signing some hundred foot long scroll in my own blood?”

I snarked. The knight just stared at me or at least I assume he did seeing as it is impossible to tell with that helmet on. “Ok, Ok I get it. I am your master.” All of a sudden I feel this sharp pain on my hand and then a tattoo appears out of nowhere on my hand. It looks like a sword except split into three parts.

“Those command seals on your hand signal that our contract is complete and that you are indeed my master.” The Knight says as he helps me up. After he making sure I was stable he reached down to grab my pistol. He moved to hand it towards me before stopping and saying, “I currently do not have any weapons if it is fine with you I would like to use this.” I numbly nodded my assent. “Good then my Master we should be off I hear more fighting in that unnatural cloud over there.” He said pointing towards the deep bank of fog one of the necromancers summoned.

I stared off into the distance for a second before stopping and finally getting over (most) of my shock. “Hey wait a minute, who are you and what the hell is going on here?” Okay so maybe I still wasn’t doing all that well sue me.

“I am your servant; you did summon me, correct?” The knight questioned.

“Look all I know is that I was breaking up a necromantic ritual that would have allowed its users to ascend to godhood then there is the enormous explosion and well you know the rest.”

“I see you don’t know anything.” He murmured to himself before saying, “To be brief I am a Heroic Spirit, a ….”, He starts to say before he is interrupted by a massive sounding explosion coming from the fog.

“It appears that events are conspiring against us, master, tell me did you come with any back-up and if so would they happen they happen to be in that bank of fog?”

“Yeah I have a few in there”, After I had gotten my feet back under me I asked him, “Can you at least tell me your name.”

“...You can call me Berserker.” He almost hesitantly replied.
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Again this is my first real story and I (currently) have no beta reader, though I am looking for one and if anyone is interested please PM me, so please go easy on me.
Any reviews are welcome, though I ask that any flamers at least keep the obscenities down to a minimum. I will answer any questions that might be asked (so long as they don’t reveal anything to important about the plot) either by directly PM the asker or by posting it at the bottom of my next new chapter.

 

[Kale]

Berserkers normally cannot speak properly. As for servant choice, Inner Harry is all about logical reasoning and practicality, regardless of morality. In addition, the Dresden Files are all about Dresden taking on bigger, nastier things through intelligence, strategy and cunning rather than brute force. Having him summon Berserker does not make sense when you put that all together.

 

[Jouaint]

Berserkers normally cannot speak properly. As for servant choice, Inner Harry is all about logical reasoning and practicality, regardless of morality. In addition, the Dresden Files are all about Dresden taking on bigger, nastier things through intelligence, strategy and cunning rather than brute force. Having him summon Berserker does not make sense when you put that all together.

First off I don't remember mentioning Inner Harry that was all just regular Harry. Second off his will be a plot point but honestly I was going to reveal in either this chapter or the next so I guess it is ok:
The "Servants" won't have classes or even actually be servants as time goes on (up until 10 years in the future) until when the Holy Grail War properly starts "servants" will exist in sort of a middle phase between servants and full-on Heroic Spirits. To put simply as of right now all "servants" are still servants with a little more added on. But as time goes on the Grail (i.e. Angra Manyui) will be able to widen its path to Akasha and uses it to draw in more and more of the original Heroic Spirit, Until The Actual Heroic Spirit will exist on earth, except for a tiny bit that will snap them back to the Throne of Heroes when they "die". The consequences of these immensely powerful and dangerous beings will be gone into. While Harry was the first to "Summon" (in reality he was just the first person the grail could find to dump off the copy of Lancelot of the Lake, who just picked the name Berserker because he had been using it until recently) a servant. This will change and soon more and more people will begin to summon "servants" of their own (as a little spoiler Marcone will be getting a "servant").