A/N: So, after a looooong break, I have returned! I have learnt from the mistakes in the original Fate/Absolute Miracle and the 1st rewritten version so I now present the vastly improved Fate/Absolute Miracle the 2nd!
For the details about my Shirou's background, please visit the first chapter of Steel Sword of Fairy Tail. In this fic, Shirou has already abused Lost Paradise to the point that he develops an evil personality who still cares about the world but bends on killing his enemies with the most brutal ways he can think of, unlike the main personality who just wants to finish his job as quick as possible. From that moment, each time he ulitilizes Lost Paradise, he will don the armor similar to Nameless's Wrought Iron but with a cape made of black flames and a helmet modeled after Lancelot's. As normal Shirou, he can be under Saber, Archer and Assassin classes, but as 'All the Worlds Evils' Shirou, he is either Berserker or Avenger depending on his mentality respectively.
While All the World's Evils is Angra Mainyu's Noble Phantasm that takes form as a curse putting all kinds of evil into the victim, Shirou's All the World's Evils (False) can only inflict the Despair into his target. By putting his opponent into the depth of Despair, Shirou can absorb the essences leaked from his/her and fuel his Lost Paradise, which runs out of prana in order to activate All the World's Evils (False). If the target is cured of Despair, Shirou can re-inflict that Evil into them again. The progress can only be stopped permanently by killing Shirou, as incinerating his body and soul at the same time not just simply as stabbing his heart or head.
Shirou born from All the World's Evils, Black Shirou for short, is qualified for Avenger-class because he hates the World a.k.a Gaia for killing his beloved Servants (a lie he created and self-implanted) and for sending certain characters to kill him, which will be elaborated in the chapter later, just for a ridiculous reason.
That's all I can spoil for you now. Right then, let's begin Fate/Absolute Miracle the 2nd!
~Prologue~
Shirou looked at the letter with the sigil of Burial Agency with contempt. Ciel informed him that the Agency required his service as rumors about a group of Dead Apostles trying to perform a ritual that accorded to the Wizard Marshal, it might bring them to higher beings. While he refused to mention further details, Merem Solomon speculated that the ritual could transform them into something on par with Dead Apostle Ancestor. Of course this kind of job would be assigned to Shirou, the infamous Apostle Killer of Burial Agency.
After half an hour of reading the content carefully, Shirou decided to cut his breakfast short and prepared his gears. He checked the Shroud of Retribution that warped around his arms and tried projecting a random Noble Phantasm stronger than the regular Kanshou and Bakuya. Answering his call was Gae Bolg. Shirou practiced some moves he learned from Lancer and was relieved to see that the spear was not shattered despite Gaia's interference, though he felt the usual weight on his soul each time he used Trace On. He poured a little more pranas into Gae Bolg and almost got consumed by the sheer bloodlust the spear radiated.
"Ha…Haa…"
Shirou panted as he dismissed the Noble Phantasm. He went inside his house and rechecked his equipments for the last time. While passing the living room, he caught the sight of a photo well kept inside a frame. Shirou smiled warmly as he picked it up and looked at the image: It was taken 12 years ago during his double date with Arturia and Jeanne at Fuyuki Plaza a pouting Illya with her maids could be seen not too far from the center.
"Ah, those wonderful, happy and pleasant memories…"
Said the voice coming from the mirror nearby. Shirou didn't bother to look at it to check whoever said that, because it was him. In other words, Black Shirou. Normally, a person's reflection mirrored what he did in the real world but in Black Shirou's case, he just did anything he wanted inside that place. The Shirou born from AtWE stood against the wooden door while smirking toward the real Shirou with a glint in his eyes. His appearance was not much different than Shirou's, except his eyes were completely golden and his hair was black as the results of being exposed to All the World's Evils.
"What do you want, Black? We don't have time to chat. I have to stop those Apostles –"
"Tch tch tch, stop lying to yourself, White." Black Shirou raised his finger to make his point. "You knew from the beginning that those rumors were false, didn't you? Also, both you and I know that this is just a scheme from Alaya to exterminate you since you declined her proposal rather…violently last year."
Black ended with a snicker. True to his words, last year when Alaya, posing as his decreased sister Illya, visited his place and made a short yet clear declaration: be her Dog –er, Counter Guardian and she would grant his wish. Needless to say, Shirou cleaved her head with no remorse before saying a flat 'Fuck you'. Since then, all of his missions became oddly more dangerous. The higher ups at the Agency even forced him to engage with Enhance of all people. Lucky for him, the DAA was very friendly and agreed to fake death in exchange of cooperating with him to eliminate other Ancestors. Coincidently, Shirou's next mission was to kill Gransurg Blackmore for almost nonexistent reason. He and Enhance battled with the Black Wing Lord for ten days straight until Merem arrived and asked Gransurg to ceasefire in favor of that.
*Flashback*
"What is the meaning of this, old man? We were just getting the best part!"
"Calm down, Enhance-san. I am sure that Merem has his reason, whether it is good or not." Shirou placed a hand on the Dante-lookalike's shoulder. "Besides, we have been fighting nonstop for the whole ten days! I am starting to feel hungry here."
Enhance was about to retort but relented and sat down on the ground while pouting. Merem chuckled at the odd friendship between the Apostle Killer and the Dead Apostle Ancenstor before focusing to the main business.
"Where was I? Ah yes. Shirou-kun, I believe you are familiar with Altrouge Brunestud, yes?" Shirou nodded. "That saves me the explanation. As we are speaking, she and her band of misfits are gathering for something big and unpleasant, of course. And worse, she even calls her pet."
At this point, Gransurg slammed his hands on the makeshift table violently, nearly breaking it in process. Before he could speak, Merem raised his hand to silent him. "I know. That's why I am here." He turned to Shirou. "You are one of the reasons that fake princess resorted to this, my friend."
"Huh? Why me – Oh, I think I know why." Shirou said darkly as he thought of a potential cause. "That fucking Alaya is such a sore loser that she even relies on Gaia to punish me."
"Yes. That, and Enhance-kun also takes quite a large role as well. You did assault on one of her bodyguards after all."
"Oh, you mean that fucker riding on a ship all the time? Yeah, blasted his arm and almost destroyed that ghostly ship. Just barely ran away before getting sucked into his Reality Marble, though." Enhance casually said while snatching his cheek. Shirou and Merem stared at him incredulously at how indifferent the Knight of Vengeance was to such a disaster. Altrouge was known for her protective attics over her subjects and the man just attacked one of her bodyguards while walking away like nothing bad had happened.
"That aside. While I can tolerate the movements from Altrouge and her goons, the matter regarding Primate Murder is something that even Zelretch can't ignore. I am here to propose an alliance for you three, especially you Gransurg. We have an unfinished business with the fake Brunestud after all." Merem said with seriousness in his voice. Gransurg suddenly twitched uncontrollably at the mention of Altrouge's name.
"Relax, my friend. Just a little longer and there will be no Crimson Moon impostor walking on this planet." Merem smirked dangerously. Back to Shirou and Enhance, the latter said as long as he could kill other Dead Apostle Ancestors, he could ally with anyone.
"How about you, kid? Heard you have quite a grudge against Gaia and her Dog, wonder why tho?"
"Well, I have nothing against Primate Murder actually as I possess a fragment of a Humanity Killer myself. I just despite Gaia for messing with my life too much, that's all." He stood up and walked to Merem. "I and Enhance-san agree to join your alliance, Merem-dono. I am looking forward to working with you."
"Ah, I recall hearing this from you ten years ago Shirou-kun. Once again, yes, I am looking forward to it as well."
*Present, timeskip*
Shirou landed on the forest guided by a local villager. Rumors around the area said that this forest was haunted but to Shirou, it's just Dead Apostles nothing more, nothing less. He projected a pair of cross-type blades and entered it. Immediately, he was greeted by a hungry Ghoul but easily to kill it with a single swing. To save some time, he activated Time Alter, set it at Double Accel and advanced. On his way, Shirou quickly eliminated any Ghouls and Apostles standing on his way until he reached a wider space.
"Well well well, what do we have here? The infamous Apostle Killer, it is my greatest honor to meet you." A man in priest clothing stepped out from a tree's shadow and walked toward Shirou. Normally, he would ignore a low lever Apostle like this and head to the bigger one, but looked like he didn't need to do that as following after that priest was a gigantic canine in pure white fur. Sitting on it was a woman who Shirou didn't need to identify since it was clear that who was the Master of Primate Murder.
"Altrouge Brunestud…!"
"Shirou Emiya, the Apostle Killer…" The older sister of Arcueid mused while caressing her pet. "The source of Gaia's headache recently. I wonder how in the Crimson Moon did you manage to do that. A human making a pact with Angra Mainyu and the Saint of Joan at the same time is quite a neat feat, I dare say. No one can withstand the curse of All Evils without being driven to madness. You intrigued me…"
While paying attention to her rambling, Shirou secretly released all of the limiters on Lost Paradise and his other self. He was confident to say that he could hold off Altrouge for a good amount of time, the same could not and impossible to say with Primate Murder. That Beast was the perfect killing machine, it held the authority to kill humanity. The message was clear.
"How about becoming my bodyguard? I will make sure that even ORT cannot touch you if you accept my proposal. What do you say?"
"Pff, an obvious and hilarious lie. Hey White, I am sensing more and more cockroaches coming. How about switching to me? I am better at dealing with groups. Furthermore, we need to get a clear shot at that bitch though we will be eaten alive by Beast IV regardless the outcome."
"...We can hear you, you know. Alright, so it's a no after all. My dear, go and play with him." Altrouge patted the Beast and it let out a howl before lunging at Shirou. He quickly threw two pairs of the married swords to distract the beast and jumped back to get a better distance. He then ripped the Shroud apart from his arms and muttered.
"Limiters, disabled. Lost Paradise, maximum output. Accessing to Angra Mainyu, completed."
With each sentence he spoke, Shirou's sanity faded and his body began to change. His hair turned black and multiple cracks appeared across his face and limbs, his sigils turned to golden. On his hand was now Arondight II and Gae Bolg II, both fueled with tremendous amount of prana in order to remain in this realm without being interfered by Gaia. Without a beat, Shirou turned on Time Alter at Hexa Accel and initiated his 'Exorcising'. An Apostle was unfortunate enough to be his first target, as being impaled at heart and cleaved in clean two halves. The next one was stabbed to death and another was brutalized to the point no one could recognize. In the span of five minutes, the Dead Apostles had returned to God.
"As expected of Apostle Killer. My pet, go and finish this. We have unattended matters to deal with."
Primate Murder obeyed Altrouge's order as it let go of the 'toys' and resumed its assault at Shirou only smirked.
"Oh well, here goes nothing. Arturia…Jeanne…Illya….ILLYAAA…AAAAAAAAAARGH!" Now Mad Enhancement had been enabled, Shirou had nothing to hold back. He headed toward the incoming Beast IV with the equal roar.
…
"Kuh…Aaah…" Shirou stood weakly before the lying Primate Murder. He could not believe in his eyes anymore: Him, a human, managed to subdue Gaia's Beast into deep slumber due to exhaustion. Looked like even the perfect Killing Machine like it could not resist the Absolute Despair after all. Across the battlefield, Altrouge covered her gaping mouth in disbelief and fear as Shirou now approached her with his blood-stained sword and spear. The amount of negative emotions Altrouge was having was enough to convert to Despair for him to feed on. Before he could advance further, he felt a sharp pain on his body. Shirou slowly looked down to see a silver spike piercing his chest. A gunshot was next as he felt the immortality granted by Lost Paradise disappeared.
"Argh…This is…Ciel-san, why?"
"…I am sorry, Emiya-kun. This is an order."
Before Shirou could reply, a woman dashed forward him and impaled him with her shield. The sharp tip went through his heart this time. All the strength Shirou possessed now faded into nothingness as he dropped to his knees, his Noble Phantasms soon dissolved into particles.
"Sion-san…Riesbyfe-san...!"
The two mentioned Church members stood silently as another woman with long silver hair in Agency uniform walked toward him. Shirou suddenly realized the meaning of this as he sneered at her.
"Narbareck…! So this is your game!"
"Ufufufu, don't antagonize me like that, Emiya. You brought this to yourself. Look around you. You killed your fellow Agency members and violated the rules regarding Altrouge Brunestud and her pet. That should be enough to warrant your death sentence, right?"
"W-Wait what?! Impossible! I only saw Dead Apostles and it is my duty to exterminate them –"
Shirou looked at the corpses again and widened his eyes in disbelief and anger. The rotten fresh was gone and replaced by the empty standard Burial Agency uniform. While Ciel, Sion and Riesbyfe could not or would not see it, the uniforms were quite…clean and appeared undamaged in contrast of the Apostles earlier. Shirou remembered clearly that he stabbed, slashed and ripped them apart. All came to the single conclusion. He laughed at the discovery, surprising those that were present in the area.
"So you even begged them to get revenge on me huh, Alaya? Fine then, screw this world and those inhabiting it!"
Flames began spurting out from the gaping wounds on his body and tears of blood rolling down from his eyes. Shirou directed his gaze at the looming moon above him and then the people who betrayed him.
"I loathe this world! I curse you all to damnation! I shall release All the World's Evils into this forsaken planet! Even your pathetic Counter Guardians can do nothing but be devoured! Just you wait, Alaya, Gaia…! I will drown this world into utter Chaos and call the Ultimate Ones! They will exterminate you pitiful race! Mark. My. WORDS! GUARRRRRRRRRRRGH!"
And with that, his body and soul were finally consumed and ceased to exist. But at that moment, the world was engulfed in Despair released by All the World's Evils (False). Alaya soon regretted her mistakes and tried her best to amend by searching for Shirou's soul but it was too late.
How was it? Please leave your comments in the reviews and let me know if I can improve more.
