What will happen if Hecate switches sides and leave Bal Masque for Yuji? What if she fell in love to the Mystes after her Faux Vessel merges with her? What could have been the outcome if Shana decides to stay with Yuji whatever may happen? Follow the story of two girls who fell in love to the Mystes of Reiji Maigo and learn what may happen when two worlds collide. This is the continuation of Shakugan no Shana Season II Episode 15.

By the way, this is my very first fan fiction. I am sorry if there are many errors in this chapter.

I DO NOT SHAKUGAN NO SHANA NOR ITS CHARACTERS! HOWEVER, EXPECT THAT THIS FANFICTION WILL HAVE VERY HIGH SIMILIRATIES WITH THE ORIGINAL STORY BUT DO NOT WORRY! Expect OCs and plotlines different from the original.

Chapter 1 – Doubts

"Faux Vessel'

"Open yourself and come to me"

"I can feel it. The void is feeling up"

"Konoe-san?"

"What in the world in going on?" Keisaku was in shock while Konoe merges by Hecate.

"KONOE" Yuji screams with all his might and still in shock.

-End of Flashback-

A few days after that event, after Konoe merged up with Hecate and the intervention by Pheles and Johan, Yuji was still in shock of what happen. "Hey Shana are all those memories and times we've spent with Konoe-san was for nothing?" Yuji asked Shana with sad voice.

"I doesn't matter anymore Yuji. What matters is that the Reiji Maigo is still in your chest." Shana said with a relieving tone. "Although I was quite relieved that she's gone," she added but in a lower tone.

"What did you say again Shana?" Yuji asked.

"Huh, did I say something?" Shana said with rushed tone.

"Ah ok"

Meanwhile in Sereiden, Konoe, and the tempest Hoof was back. Although they failed to make a 100% success, they still manage to keep the Silver sealed.

"Bel Peol, Ill returns this to you" Hecate returns the bracelet to Bel-Peol and connects it back to her chain.

"So how did things go?' Bel Peol asked.

"Unfortunately we have failed to relocate the Reiji Maigo by destroying the Mystes due to the interruptions" the Tempest hoof answered.

"So it's nothing to be brooding over. The place does not matter anyway. It shouldn't cause any problem anyway," Bel-Peol said.

"Exaaaaaatly! In faaact, I may have the chance to gather mooooreeeee baaaattttle daaataaa from this! Wooondeeerfuuul!" the seeking researcher added to Bel Peol's claim.

"But I what is this something in my mind. I cannot comprehend it. I felt warmth in him! That Mystes is he the answer of my problems." Hecate thoughts were starting to become one. While she was activating the silver, Konoe's thoughts were still flooding in to her mind.

"Is there something bugging you Hecate?" Bel-Peol asked

"Nevermind it's nothing important." Hecate answered.

Back to Yuji and Shana and company….

"Hey, you guys do you have some time tonight? Margery-san what's to ask you to talk about something" Satou asked to the group especially to Yuji.

"What is it?" Yuji asked Satou

"Probably it's about organizing. We need to make plan soon." Shana complemented.

"Your right! However, do you notice something? Nothing that happens just a few days ago makes sense." Satou said

"I agree but what is it I wonder." Yuji said.

Everyone was on deep thought was what the two have said.

"Oh Yoshida-san are you alright?" Satou asked to Yoshida.

-Flashback-

"Here take this." Pheles gave the Giralda to Yoshida.

"What is this Pheles-san?" Yoshida asked.

"It's a treasure. When that Mystes is in trouble, use that to summon me. But beware you can only use it once since it use all of your existence when you use it." Pheles answered.

"But why?" Yoshida responded.

"Because I know that you know what I feel for Johan."

-End of Flashback-

"I-I'm fine!" Yoshida answered.

"If you say so. But if it is all too much, you don't have to come" Satou replied.

"I'm! I'LL GO!" Yoshida gave him a swift reply.

"Ah… Ok!

Yoshida's resolve impressed Shana. However, she is still hesitant about her place, that if she uses the treasure, it will consume her power of existence. That night, they thoroughly investigated Yuji's Reiji Maigo.

"Haayyyyy! How pathetic! Three Flame Haze where defeated by one crimson denizen" Marchosias mumbled with disappointment.

"Indeed a fine example of a great blunder! We were first approach her with caution but it turns out they have outwitted us and the truth was she was a lookout to the Reiji Maigo." Alastor was disappointed to himself of why he has failed to notice it.

"So, all of those things, that laughter we all once shared, all those times we have been together with her. It was for nothing," Satou said.

"It's done!" Margery claimed.

"So what's happening with Yuji? Is he alright!" Shana asked.

"That priestess planted a seal to the Reiji Maigo. Based on my observation it was more like a transmitter." Margery answered.

"A transmitter?" Wilhelmina clarified. Margery nodded.

"There's already that annoying keeper and now a seal. This is pissing me off. Now I can't carelessly go for it." Margery said it with a cold voice sending chills to Yuji.

"The Silver" Satou clarified.

"When Pheles tried to summon Johan back, she accidentally summoned the Silver which was against Bal Masque's plans." Margery concluded.

"So it appears that they reseal the Silver back into him." Wilhelmina said.

"It seems that they took advantage on the insignia on the Reiji Maigo placed on Yuji which enables the flow of existence to flow from the inside out." Margery claimed.

"So you're saying that he uses it to compose his body!" Marchosias asked

"For the creator of the Reiji Maigo it's not that hard." Wilhelmina reinforced the claim.

"Regardless of that, you have problems piling up one after the other, don't you kid." Marchosias claimed. Yuji smiled a bit.

"Now there next objective is to translocate the Reiji Maigo to its destruction." Wilhelmina warned Yuji.

"Attention! Caution!" Tiamat said.

"I will protect Yuji at all cost!" Shana declared her resolved.

"You should collect more information in the outlaw. The world is going nuts!" Margery asked Wilhelmina.

"Affirmative" Wilhelmina replied.

"To this Misaki City, Crimson Denizens of great power come to this place at an alarming frequent rate. This city maybe perhaps is a Maelstrom of Warfare." Alastor claimed.

"Maelstrom of Warfare" Shana asked.

"This city may natively contain a force that attracts misfortune. Reiji Maigo could be a part of that. Alastor said.

"So you mean this city is constantly attracting Crimson Denizens and Flame Hazes." Shana asked.

"Exactly!

Everyone fell into silence.

Meanwhile in Sereiden, Hecate is now starting her daily routine, praying. Somehow, there is something not right in her. She is always seeing a glimpse of Yuji Sakai.

"What is this feeling? What is this! What did that faux vessel have acquired during that mission? She is not empty. She is full of feelings, especially for that Mystes. Why do I even inherit those things? Why do I envy her? Wait is this what it feels like to be envious?" Hecate was troubled about what her seeing.

"Hecate, are you alright?" Sydonay asked her.

"I'm fine" Hecate answered.

"If you feel troubled just ask me and I will help you." Sydonay responded.

"None of those things matters. Leave me alone" Hecate replied.

Sydonay fall into silenced and retreated.

"What should I do? What should I do about these feelings? Hey father, what should I do?" the troubled priestess prayed.

"Hecate, I have never seen you like that before. This is the first time I have seen you like this for three thousand years. Anyway, whatever is troubling I will always help you?" Sydonay claimed.

"Well! Well! Well! What do we have here? This is something unexpected, a worried general, and a troubled priestess. This is going to be interesting!" Bel Peol smirk in excitement in what will happen next, curious of what things may unfold in the future.

Another day has passed by. The outlaw reports arrived. Wilhelmina gave Yuji a mountain-load of documents to search for any important reports regarding the Silver.

"Here! Sort out all of these documents. Find something that is important to our cause. Nowadays the outlaw was continuing sending us a lot of reports like advanced weather forecast and train schedules." Wilhelmina demanded.

Yuji was pulled down by the sheer weight of the document. "Yes I understood." Without a hitch of complain he take on his task.

While sorting out the documents he asked Shana.

"Ummm, Shana can I ask you something" Yuji asked.

"What is it?" Shana replied.

"Can I borrow the blutsauger?" Yuji asked again.

"Borrow the Blutsauger? Why?" Shana asked.

"It's because I want to become stronger so that I can help you more." Yuji declared.

"But being there with me is already big help Yuji!" Shana claimed.

"It's not enough! I insist!" Yuji insisted.

"So you want to use it then." Alastor said.

"I want some strength to let me do something." Yuji said.

"Alastor" Shana consented Alastor.

"It might be a necessary power for him to proceed on. Very well, I allow you!" Alastor approved.

"Thank you" Yuji thanks Alastor.

"I don't think they will send the priestess to do just that. There is something is not right here. I have a bad feeling about this. This has to be an ulterior motive behind this," Wilhelmina thought about why BAL Masque would send someone like her in this kind of task.

That evening in the Sereiden, Hecate uses her trigon to the silver. The silver, after activating it using the trigon, started to move.

"Well! Well! Well! It's moving now." Bel Peol said while she smirks.

"Everything is going well! Doooomiiiiinooooo!" the seeking researcher said.

"Just as what you have expected Professor the results was astonishing!" Domino reported the results of the experiment and the professor laugh with excitement.

The experiment was a success. Bel Peol was amazed to the achievement. The Seeking Researcher was shouting like crazing laughing like there's no tomorrow. Nevertheless, to Bel Peol's surprise, she saw Hecate eyes where different. It is not the eyes of the merciless Supreme Throne but the eyes full of doubts and confusions.

She followed her from Sereiden Research Centre. As she passed by the door of the Hall of Prayers, she stops for a while. She looks at the statute of the Crimson God. Instead of stopping there to pray, she went outside the window and flew away. Bel Peol used some of her hougo to hide her presence and continued to stalk on Hecate. Then she found her standing on the top of highest structure of Sereiden.

"Mystes, what have you done to me. What did you do?" Hecate is screaming in her thoughts.

"Strange to see the ruthless priestess who would decimate a city with no second thoughts will be disturbed like this. Now tell me what's bothering you, Hecate, the Crimson Lord Priestess of the Trinity" Bel Peol asked Hecate.

"It's nothing. Whatever I am thinking, it's none of your business!" Hecate states her answer with annoyance.

"Thinking huh! HAHAHA! I knew it. Something is not right with you. The Hecate I see in front of was the Hecate who existed four thousand years ago. Tell me, why are you doing these? If it wasn't the case then why are you here and not in the hall of prayers." Bel Peol asked Hecate.

Hecate fell into silence and wonder if these things inside her are changing her personality. She just stared at the night sky. Meanwhile Bel Peol was smirking silently. Watching them from a distance, Sydonay watch Strategist and the Priestess having a conversation.

"Now it's clear. You are changing Hecate. You are starting to lose your purity as well as your emptiness. What spell did that Mystes did to your Faux Vessel and your changing like that." Sydonay then stood up from the distance as he watches her precious Hecate.

At the same time, Margery was thinking about the recent events. Drinking a glass of booze, she was having a conversation with Marchosias.

"A seal and a keeper on the Reiji Maigo, God this is too much work" Margery asked to herself.

"Who exactly that silver is, how he appeared and how to kill him, setting aside the keeper. You got a lot of homework piled up, my practical researcher Margery Daw." Marchosias said to Margery.

"Your right. Nevertheless, the good thing is, after many centuries I spent on looking for him, I finally found him. I won't let him get away, not anymore that he is already within my grasp now." Margery claimed.

Meanwhile, walking in streets of Misaki city, Kazumi is thinking what she will do now. She has a hougo that could help Yuji and Shana but she does not want to die.

"What shall I do now? I am scared of dying. Nevertheless, I want to be able to stand with him. I want to be in the same place with them. I want to fight alongside with Shana and the others. I want to stand along with Sakai-kun."

"But…"

"Like Pheles-san said, I need power to stand where they stand. However, if I use this Ill disappear. Sakai-kun and Shana-chan will remain…"

"That's"

Kazumi was in tears, crying. She grips the Hougo hard. She thought she does not want to die so she removes the Hougo from her neck. She was to throw it away when all of a sudden a Fuzetsu was activated. The crimson colour filled up the sky. Then she saw Yuji practicing with the blutsauger under the bridge.

"Don't swing it like a bat. Use your body to feel the power of existence." Shana instructed Yuji.

"I have to become stronger, much stronger." Yuji swings the blutsauger with all his might.

"I would have never imagined he would make such a request," Alastor said.

"Yeah!" Shana replied.

From the distance, Kazumi watch Yuji practicing with his new sword. She feels motivated then.

"I also"

"I also want to be where Sakai-kun is! Kazumi said as she tightens her grip to the hougo.

In the balcony in the Sereiden, Hecate watched as a bird flew over her. It landed over her hand. As the bird landed over her hand, she remembers Yuji when they were in the park watching the birds. She also remembers Yuji's smile, a smile that has enough warmth to feel her heart. Then she remembers him again, this time when Yuji helps her make friends, when he opened up Konoe's world, her faux vessel, to the world. Then she realize why these things, these memories are showing up her.

"Reiji Maigo Mystes, Sakai Yuji, I knew now what I have been missing for so long. In addition, thanks to you, I now knew what is important to me. Sakai Yuji, thank you very much for being my first friend. Thank you for all the feelings you have taught to me"

"Now… Now I knew I want to be with you, Sakai Yuji."

The bird flew away from her hand. She watches all the birds flying in the Sereiden. Above her, at the roof, Sydonay was observing her. He himself was surprised about the revelation.

"I would have never thought that a Mystes could change you Hecate. You even start to feel love! Hmmm! do not worry Hecate, you have my support. Even if it means leaving Bal Masque behind, I will still be by your side. I owe you such Hecate, now it's my turn to return the favour back." Sydonay calmly accept Hecate's desires as he watches those birds flew away under the heat of the sun.

-End of Chapter 1-

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