Note: I've been having a few tests lately so updates have been a bit late. but it's over and now I've returned to my writing. I've assessed some reviews and found that I had too much dialogue. Some reviews said that I've been inputting too much mystery, but I decided to keep that, after all it's supposed to be a suspense right?
Chapter 4 The Vatican (Part 2)
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Somewhere in the Vatican
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It was a very peaceful night when The head of the holy see, Pope Joseph XIII finally finished his secret meeting with the 6 divisions. According to their intelligence, the einzbern family branches were trying to revive some vessel similar to that of the holy grail. Which was certainly a very bad news indeed.
'Finally, The balance of power began to stabilize after 4 centuries…but again?'
The pope's head was filled with stress and frustration. During his servings as the pope here in the Vatican he has witnessed the abominations of the 7th division, They controlled every interior systems of the order including the holy see, Their authority in the holy grail war made their power absolute. Until the unexpected destruction of the holy grail rendered them powerless. But Still, this wasn't enough to stop them from trying to relive their glory days. The temporary peace and order was just a prelude to another new page of bloodbath, it was all just a delusion…
Sinking into deep thoughts, Joseph walked down the magnificent hallway, normally there would be swarms of priests and workers walking down the hallway but it was deep in the night and most had returned top their quarters, none were in sight. The pope slowly walked through the corridor which was clad in baroque style paintings and did so until he finally stopped his steps nearby a paint which depicted two figures exchanging a form of gifts, a spearhead and a grail. The pope touched the paintings and muttered to himself.
"The spear of destiny…So, it was in Kremlin."
"sinking into deep thoughts again my master?"
The cardinal turned his head and found someone leaning at the sidewall, it was herald.
His trusty servant and a loyal companion. They first met each other ten years ago when he was still new to the place. He had to summon a servant just like every other security- deprived popes did in the past. The pope intended to summon a berserker class servant but a freak accident occurred and an unexpected servant class appeared. Much like avenger.
"Oh, it's you…"
The cardinal turned his head to the painting then after a while started asking a question to herald.
"herald, how's operation 'New order' going?"
Herald slowly approached his master and gave him a scroll. The cardinal opened it and read through the contents
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Operation 'New order' Page 1. Agents.
1.Diego Luigi (The king of kings)-Lancer-5th division(covert)
2.Hector vyacheslav(The harbinger of balance)-Archer-Vigil Anza
3.Johnny adams (The king of Illusions-Krishna)-Caster-2nd Division
(Swiss army)
4.Sakura Matou (Gorgon, Medusa)-Rider-7th Division(Holy Grail)
5.Mohammadou Diarra(The king of Marksmen-Arjuna)-Archer-1st Divison
(Special force-SF)
6. Illyasville V. einzbern(The Wallbreaker-Sciipio africanus)-berserker-7th division
7. Shiro emiya(?????????)
8.El-Melloi III(The First emperor)-Saber-4thDivison-(Noblemen)
9.Kayneth Sophia-Ri(The last assassin)-Assasin-3rd division-
(spiritual evocation-Clock tower)
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The cardinal felt confusion on his head as he read through the reports. There were 4 unidentified servants. Two agents whose name he's never heard of and two agents from the 7th division. Joseph stopped reading the report and gave herald an intimidating look. Sign that he's waiting for an explanation. Herald immediately caught the sign. He let out a small cough and began his explanation.
"Ehem, Well, We were short on servants so we had to summon more, I intended to summon only Three but this 'Harbinger of balance' guy appeared on his own, sort of like a bonus. Moreover, we were short on reliable agents as well The reason why I chose hector is because he knows well the interior of Moscow, he was a former CIA in the cold war. And about Shiro… well, he was a student of rin and one of the winners of the last grail war. he has power equivalent to a normal saber class servant too, which is why I decided to supply him with no servant."
The cardinal Thought about what he said, then asked one more time.
"You still haven't given me explanation about illya and sakura."
Herald was annoyed but decided to give him the answer.
"Well, Zouken matou is supposedly dead, and illya was abandoned by the einzberns after the end of the last grail war. I thought they might have some grudge against their family."
Long silence went on after herald finished his last sentence, his explanation seemed to make sense but the cardinal was still unsure of his choice.
"Do you, Take full responsibility of your choice, Herald of Olympia?"
Herald smiled and nodded his head, a sign that he is confident of his choice.
"Phew… Well, what's done is done you may return to your quarters"
Herald vowed his head and disappeared into thin air. Joseph returned to his office and read through the rest of the report. 'Hmmm…No caren and rin…Strange'
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Somewhere in rome
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"I can't believe we're in rome…"
Shiro showed a dumbstruck face as he walked out of the shuttle bus. Everything around him looked out of this world, the city looked more like a national museum than a normal city. It was totally different from London, every buildings here were elegant, baroque and very artistic.
"Is this the roman empire? Funny, I thought it was a lot bigger."
Saber said to herself. She remembered the place(The roman empire) as a more grandiose place.(She often visited the place for diplomatic reasons you see.)
"Oh, come on saber we're in the 21st century, things change."
Shiro and saber started walking towards ST. peters square when something suddenly hit him.
"Saber! Why don't we go on a little sightseeing?"
Saber was very uncomfortable with this. For one thing they had already crossed the line and second, 2 years of life in the 21st century gave him the notion of the definition of dating.
She didn't want to double cross her master so she tried to come up with a well constructed reply, (a brusque one in fact).
"ABSURSD,don't forget that we're using rin's stock money and we're not out here for some P.L.A.Y.I.N.G, playing!!!!"
Shiro thought about what saber said but it didn't take long anyway.
"It's still 5 hours from closing time and rin's stocks are skyrocketing by the minute .
a little euros' won't hurt"
Then suddenly shiro grabbed saber's arms and pushed through the crowd
"Hey, let me go! You imbecile!"
shiro felt the stares of the publics pointing towards them but he didn't mind.
"No, I Won't!"
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Site 1 Giorgio Armani
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they ran a full 5 minutes when shiro finally stopped at a cloth shop
"come on in Saber!"
"No ,No, No!"
Saber tried to resist by grabbing the door with her other hand, but her human form wasn't enough to shake the boy. In the end she had to give up and enter the place.
"What's wrong with you shiro!, you've been continuously harassing me all day today!
Where are your manners!"
Shiro scratched his head and gave her a sorry face.
"Well, sorry about that… I was unusually on high today.
(Maybe because of the prospect of meeting rin)"
Saber shook off the dust on her cloth and looked on her surroundings, she was startled to see the wonderful collection of cloths around her.
(She wasn't very fond of clothes in the but two years of life in the 21st century managed to give a bit of notion about fashion to her.)
Forgetting about what she had said to shiro early on, saber picked a jacket.
"Ummm…Saber are you listening?"
"Shiro, I want this"
Shiro was surprised by saber's reaction, They've lived together for two years and he had never seen her like this before. Sure, she saw a few fashion TV's together with rin but this was extraordinary. Shiro Chuckled and thought to himself
'Well, A woman's a woman I guess.'
"What's so funny shiro?"
shiro stopped his chuckle and asked if she'd forgive him if she'd bought her that Dress
"Depends…"
without further hesitation he reached to the counter, winked to saber and asked for a count
"574 e.u.r.o s.i.r"
The word struck him like a nuclear bomb, darkness began to swarm up on his face and his hand went numb. Trying to cling on to the dimmest hope he looked at the price tag.
(Giorgio Armani, 100 Alligator skin 574 euro.). A full minutes past and shiro went back to his senses. He opened his wallet with his trembling hands…550 euro…Shiro closed his wallet and asked the cashier.
"Do(hick up)…You allow(hick up)…Credit cards here miss?(hick up)"
"Well, yes usually…but unfortunately the machine is broken"
'Fk!' Now he was in deep trouble.
"Ummm…Sir, There are customers waiting here."
Shiro suppressed his desire to steal then told saber to wait while he went out to the toilet and walked out of the store.
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Site 2 : ATM
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"……."
Shiro was in his limits. Tears began to flow out of his eyes as he pulled out a thousand dollar from rin's account
"I'm sorry…rin"
He really screwed up, all he wanted was some fun but his ignorance led him to this.
'I should've asked saber to choose the other clothes…' he knew he should've said that but his guilty conscience (The event last week, remember?)kept him from saying that.
"Phew."
Shiro stocked the money in his wallet and walked out of the ATM when he heard a loud voice on his left.
"onniChaaan!"
Shiro turned his head to his left and saw something running on full speed towards the ATM
'a dog?'
"onniChaaan!"
as the figure drew closer shiro kept looking at it, until the figure began to take it's shape
'A girl?'
"OnniChaaan!"
The figure was wearing a purple shirt and a white gown.she was now around a 100 meter away from him
'a lunatic?'
"OnniChaaan!"
The figure was now 50 meter away from him. Her hair was white and her eyes were dark red. 'Wait a minute? I've seen her before!'
"Onnichaan!"
20 meters away, his Bleak Memory was now totally restored, with less than one second to react shiro had no choice but to scream out loud.
"Ill…Illyaaaaa!!!!!!!!"
alright, a bit of comedy here. Yes, rin's been playing with some stocks before she went to Vatican and saber's become a bit modern. Herald is in fact Hermes, The herald of Olympia and about the unidentified servants… their mystery will be revealed when appropriate. ( R& R Guys!!!)