Devil's Wings 1

By Trooper1023

An "In Flight" omake from the EMIYA CLAN scenario.

"But I'm booooooored, Rin-kaa..."

"You're kidding, right Shinta? Bored of the city library?"

"Age limited access."

"Family library?"

"Even more age limited access. Duh."

"Don't 'duh' me, young man!"

"S-sorry, Rin-kaa-san... It's just..."

Sigh. "You really are bored, huh. Well, how about a little trip up to Uminari City?"

"Wha—seriously?"

"Chiho and I are paying a visit to Uminari University Hospital to look into an unusual case... I can drop you off at the University Library, and pick you up later—just as long as you promise to stay out of trouble."

"Haaaaaaai!"

Shinta's ears twitched, his head snapping up from the book he was reading. It wasn't an actual sound, but a phantom one... meaning magic.

'Where's all that prana coming from?'

Yuuno Scrya knew this would happen sooner or later. But no, he just had to take responsibility for his find getting lost...

The last of the magical binds gave way and the monstrous manifestation of the Jewel Seed lashed out at Yuuno with a spectral arm. Sealing spell only half-completed, he braced himself for the coming impact...

"Look out!"

...Only to be blindsided from a different direction. Yuuno felt his hair ruffle from the missed attack as another body collided with his, carrying both out of the way.

Curling his body, Shinta rolled both him and the skinny blonde boy upright, planted his feet and gripped the other tightly, and leaped.

Just in time, too, as the furry-monster-blob-thing plowed into the ground beneath them.

Bouncing from tree branch to branch with the other boy flapping behind him, Shinta scowled mightily. "I've got to ask you: what kind of idiot magus just stands there and takes it if their spells doesn't work. Shinta Emiya, you?"

Twitch. "Yuuno Scrya, and I'm an archaeologist, confound-it, not a combat mage!"

"Oh. So, what is that thing, anyway? And that girly wand?"

"Well..."

"[I AM NOT GIRLY. I AM ELEGANT.]"

"Eeeh! It talks!"

Sigh. "Raging Heart..."

"...Did the Kaleidostick spawn when Rin-kaa-chan wasn't looking?"

The blonde boy blinked at the unfamiliar reference, while hoping that this Shinta boy wasn't so harshly sarcastic all the time...

"This..." Yuuno began with a grimace, seeing the manifestation of the Jewel Seed break out of his latest binding spell and buck off Shinta, yet again, "Is not working..."

Shinta hit the ground on his back and bounced, flipping back up on to his feet with a growl as frustration mounted. "No! Ya think?" 'Maybe I should call Rin-kaa and just get it over with...'

Yuuno opened his mouth to reply, but Raging Heart preempted him.

"[THE OTHER IS CORRECT, MY BEARER. OUR COMPATIBILITY IS INSUFFICIENT FOR RAPID CASTING, WHILE THE OTHER'S STYLE OF MAGIC IS UNKNOWN. WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS: RETREAT OR BORROW MAGICAL ENERGY FROM A THIRD SOURCE. RETREAT IS RECOMMENDED.]"

The two boys exchanged looks, and reached the same conclusion simultaneously. Retreat was not an option.

"Ano, Nanoha-chan, Arisa-chan? I really don't think we should go this way, today..."

"Eh? Why not, Suzuka?"

"I heard a crashing sound a while ago… There's another—Nanoha-chan?"

"...I hear someone calling for help." Nanoha Takamachi considered for a moment, then decided. Leaping off the path, she darted into the forest, leaving her friends behind.

"[NEW MAGICAL SIGNATURE DETECTED.]"

"New—? Argh, what now!"

"Um... What's going on?" The brawl before Nanoha's eyes stilled for a moment. She could see two boys, one hanging in mid-air, while the other, who was in the middle of grappling with the monster, suddenly met her eyes. His face suddenly paled, before turning rather red.

Then the monster lunged for her, and the orange haired boy lunged at it, intercepting it with a flying tackle. "Yunno, hand it off!" Both blurred together in a tangle of spectral limbs, scraps of cloth, and a few flecks of blood.

"Right!" 'Yuuno' flew(!) toward Nanoha and thrust the pretty white and gold wand into her hands. Then he whirled about, spreading both hands as a green circle with strange letters appeared underneath him.

Glowing chains sprouted from beneath the monster, restraining it enough that the orange-haired boy was able to wrestle out from its grasp... Only to turn around and resume grappling with the thing! That one's feet sank holes into the forest ground, yet amazingly he didn't buckle under what had to have been an immense amount of pressure.

'What is going on here...?' Nanoha thought to herself.

Then the wand spoke. "[NEW USER DETECTED. MAGICAL POWER: HIGH. COMPATIBILITY: VERY HIGH. I, RAGING HEART, ASK OF YOU: WILL YOU BE MY MASTER?]"

"Eeeh? Um, ah, sure! How can I help?"

'Well, all's well that ends well,' or so Shinta thought as he waved good bye to Nanoha and Yuuno. He had the girl's cell phone number and they would meet up later, after Nanoha had gotten Yuuno situated...

Now if only Shinta could figure out why he kept blushing every time Nanoha's face came to mind.

"SHINTA EMIYA! YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!"

"Erk! Ow ow ow, not the ear, Rin-kaa!"

"What have I told you about running around without telling someone where you were going? And look at you! What, get in a fight with a lawnmower?"

"Um, well, I won?"

"..."

"And, um, I was around, see... I sent you a text saying that I was going to the park outside the university campus..."

"What."

"...On your cell phone, Rin-kaa. You did remember to bring it, right?"

"Eh... Oh, here it is! Of course I did... 'More age limited access, going out to the campus park'..."

"...You forgot to check, didn't you."

"He's got you there, Rin."

"Chiho... You're not helping. And you. Come along, before I decide to actually punish you..."

"...Thank you, Matsu," Rin replied through gritted teeth. "...Now please let go before I have to do something drastic."

Matsu giggled and patted Rin's hip one final time, then unwrapped herself from the magi's side. Before leaving, however, she glomped onto Shirou with an audible purr, groped his butt and giggled again as he stiffened, before releasing him and flouncing off back to her computer nest of a room.

Both magi twitched as they watched the hacker go, before turning to each other.

"So..." Shirou began.

"The detection grid did, in fact, pick up the unusual spike of prana in Uminari city. However, detection isn't fine enough outside Shin Tokyo to pinpoint where exactly it happened."

Her husband nodded. "But you have your own senses, and were in the area anyway. So what did you find?"

Rin scowled. "I didn't find anything, because Shinta found it first. It appeared completely dealt with by the time I found him."

Shirou raised an eyebrow, unconsciously imitating Rin herself.

Who found this even more off-putting. "Alright! Alright! I'll admit it, the little sneak distracted me with that stupid phone-message-thing, and I forgot to ask him what exactly he found."

"Rin..."

"Don't say it! Don't you dare say it!" A gandr formed at the tip of Rin's finger. Shirou only grinned.

"What is this racket about?"

"Well, Saber... Rin here forgot about her cell phone while trying to find Shinta this afternoon... She really needs to remember how useful modern technology is." Then Shirou ducked.

"...You said it." ~BANG~

Arturia sighed as she eyed the hole in the wall where Shirou's head had been a moment ago. 'The kids had to get it from somewhere, didn't they?'

Dramatis personæ by order of appearance: Shinta Emiya, Rin Tosaka-Emiya, Yuuno Scrya, Nanoha Takamachi, Chiho Hidaka-Emiya, Matsu Emiya, Shirou Emiya, Arturia P. Emiya (Saber)

This will not make much sense unless you have browsed the Mechanics of In Flight forum, specifically the Omake threads. For details on all the OC children of the Emiya clan see "Emiya Clan Reference Data Sheet" by kittybear, or search for the "In Flight OMAKES" community. Or check our TvTropes page, at http:/ tvtropes. /Fanfic/TheEmiyaClan

First draft at: http:/ forum. fanfiction. net/topic/88086/41169280/37/ post #1,814