Ok, here is the tenth Chapter everyone, sorry it took so long. In this chapter we final get back to some fighting instead of just the talking. I have decided that for the for the most part the story line will be following Unlimited Blade Works but since there are thing about it I do not like I will be taking thing from Fate and Heavens Feel to fill part I do not like where I cannot come up with something of my own. Having reached the first way point of sort I will be taking a break from this fan fiction to work on the one I am doing for Tsukihime having been asked to continue working on it. So might be a little while before a release anymore chapters for this at least until get some more out for Tsukihime. As always thank you for reading please post me some of your review good or bad, or please send me a message via the private messenger.
Fate friend or Foe two
Shiro standing next to Tohsaka stare up the hill at the statue like monster and the little girl standing at the top. Shiro finishes the unlocking one of the seals on his magical energy and the air is blown away from him as it is released. Tohsaka stares him in a look of shock showing on her face as she felt the surge of magical energy that was impressive but quickly turned back to look up the hill. "Archer, this is not an enemy that can be beaten head on. You should fight it in your unique style", Tohsaka said to the Servant who was without form. She was answered by a disembodied voice from behind her. "Understood, but what about your defense? You cannot defend against his charge."
Shiro agreed with Archers point, they would be mincemeat if they tried to take him on as is or tried to flat out run for it. Shiro pressed the buttons on the handles of each knife and the blades extended make a hissing sound. "There are three of us. We can manage if all we need to do is defend", Tohsaka replies not sounding overly confident. The presence vanish agree going with the plan Tohsaka had hastily concocted. "Emiya-kun, you can choose whether to run or fight. But if you can, try to run away." At this Shiro ignores her as he chants spells under his breath on himself and the shadows around him. The shadows boil and gather at his feet darkening as they combine.
"Are you done, can I start now", the girl ask and Shiro head throbs just like at the church as unfamiliar images flood his mind again this time at the girl voice. The girl laughs playfully and then lifts the side of her skirt in a curtsy. "It is nice to meet you, Rin. I am Ilya. You should figure it out if I make that Ilyasviel von Einzbern." At hearing Tohsaka stiffen apparently recognizing the name at once. Shiro on the hand had his headache increase as more images flooded his mind and the name seemed strangely familiar to him. The girl smiles at Tohsaka reaction and then put her hand behind her back. "Then I will kill you now. Go ahead, Berserker."
The massive statue like form leaps from the top of the hill and flies through the air crossing the distance between them. "Shiro, stay back", Saber yells as slivers of moon light rain on Berserker as he falls from the sky. The beast let out a roar as arrows rain down on him with extreme accuracy, the amount like machine gun, and strong enough to punch through rock. But the arrows have no effect of him and Tohsaka curses out loud. Saber who had leapt forward tearing the coat to pieces and arrives at Berserker land spot a second before he does. There two swords impact with the force of a hurricane and sparks shoot in the air from metal impact metal and magical energies repelling against each other.
Saber in overpowered by Berserker attack but she does not give up and return with slashes of her own as they trade blows. Silver light fills the darkness as the two of them trade blows with each other. Though she is small Saber is block and slashing at Berserker head on without using her power that is weaker then Berserkers. Shiro feels the line between him and her tug and starts pouring magical energy in to her reserves and he is glad he released the seal. He continues to cast spells as he watches Saber trading blows with giant knowing she will need his help and the shadows rise behind him and start gathering as orbs hover close behind him. Tohsaka and even the Master of the monstrosity in front of them stare in away as they trade blows.
Tohsaka comes back to her sense and shacks herself and before yelling at Archer. "Archer, back her up!" In response, a sliver of moon light flashes forward and impact the giant with the force of a tank shell. The air rings with an explosion and Saber slashes at Berserker with a lot of force. But the slash is counter by a huge blow and Saber is flung away. Shiro thinking quickly fires a one of his shadow strings at Saber and when it attaches he pulls with all his strength to stop her from flying to far away. Saber sees this and grabs the string and uses it to right herself in the air. She lands and slides across the asphalt and come to a stop as the string lets go gritting her teeth
The massive shadow follows in pursuit ready to swing his sword and cleave her in to piece should he get the chance. Silver lights intercept him and impacting him one after the other like a heavy rain, but have no effect on him. Saber who is ready for him blocks his blow from his massive blade. She is knocked and sent flying from the force of the blow she had blocked. Shiro fire two strings and from his hand and the rap around one of the nearby trees and before grabbing her slowing her fall. She lands with her knees on the ground and does not move. "That is it, smash her, Berserker", the girl yells and the giant runs after her like a steam train. Shiro start running as he chants a spell under his breath the shadows still gathering behind him.
"Keep firing, Archer", Tohsaka said yelling to archer as she starts running behind Shiro. She pulls something from her pockets and chants a spell. She scatters what look like jewels from her pocket in the sky and numerous bright lights fly toward the giant. The explosions ring out around him but have no effect on him as he charges ahead unharmed. The girl said something that Shiro was not able to here and then the giant slashes at Saber who is still on her knees. She brings her sword up and blocks the blow again and flies back from the force of the blow. She smash into the road hard and dust shoots up around her. Shiro curse in-between the word of the spell as he rushed forward hoping she is not dead.
Berserker then rushes forward and slashes at the sights she had impacted with a roar coming from his mouth apparently not done with her. Grave stone fly all around the place as Berserker swings his sword make the stone look like glass. Saber gets up and runs through the gravestones avoid his storm like caused by his blows. Saber trades blows with him fact with more power then she had previously been using as the drain on Shiro magical energy can attest. The advantage now belongs to Saber as the role is reversed since she can maneuver through gravestones with ease. The scales begin to tip in favor of Saber from the slight advantage.
Shiro stops and duck avoiding a large chunk of rock and finishes the last line of the long spell and the shadows behind him are full formed into compact sphere that are still gathering more. He flips hand back and grabs one of the spheres with the tip of his sword. He then points it in Berserker back the front of the sphere explodes and thousands of shadow arrows fire toward. Saber sees the attack coming and with the help of Shiro tugging the string attached to her she leaps out of the way. The shadow arrows impact Berserker and the area around in a black rain impacting with the sound of explosions. Saber launches herself forward her sword ready.
She slashes at him as the rain of arrows hits him and he is knocked back on his heels losing his footing. The his arm swing out in desperation but Saber dodges it by jumping back and holds her sword with both her hands. Saber charges forward ready to hit him with all her strength but… "Archer, what do you mean, get away." Shiro turns to look at her but is stopped by a massive intent to kill aimed from a great distance. Shiro turns and looks behind him and his eyes zoom to see Archer standing hundreds of meters away, readying his bow. A chill run through Shiro as he realizes that Archers intent to kill is not focus on Berserker only. "Saber", Shiro screamed and rushed at her out of his cover moving as fast as his magically enhanced muscles would allow. Tohsaka yell for him to stop but he keeps on going at full speed towards Saber.
She stops and looks at him dumbfound as he rushes toward her. "Shiro…?" Shiro fire several of his strings out to a tree a little ways of and the wrap around it and he shoots two more at Saber. "What are you doing, why did you come out!?" Shiro charges and pulls the string attached to her causing her to tilt forward. He grabs her pull her along with him as her runs. "Are you insane, Master!?" "We will talk later! Just come this way", he yelled while jumping and then pulling the string attached to the tree. They shoot forward as string pull them away. Archer releases the arrow and the Berserker turn to focus on it knowing that it is the great threat. At that instant Shiro put himself over Saber as the impacts the ground and slide to a stop the string broken.
There was a bright flash and all sound disappears as waves heat smack into Shiro body and the ground shake underneath them. Things fly around them and something embeds itself in Shiro back and he grits his teeth enduring it. An instant later the light fades and they had survived the destruction. They raise their head and stare in astonishment looking at their surroundings. The arrow had destroyed the cemetery in an instant leaving a crater at the center of the explosion. Flames and sparks flickered around them as object still rained from the sky. But the giant shadow still stands in the center of the destruction appearing unharmed.
"Berserker is unharmed even after taking a direct hit from a Rank-A Noble Phantasm", Saber said from underneath him her voice weak. Everyone stare wordless as the flames crackle around them at the monster who had not been hurt. There is a clatter nearby as something falls and Shiro looks to see a sword no doubt the weapon used by Archer. As he watches the broken object disappears as it turning into dust. "Shiro that was…" "It was Archer's arrow. I do not know anything else about it." Shiro raises his head and glares at Archer in the distance. He sees a smile on his face and Shiro anger boils up as he realizes he was trying to kill them as well.
Shiro curse at him as his head throbs with a bad headache and a chill runs down his back that will not go away. Shiro look over to where Ilya is standing and she glance at him a strange express on it at seeing his face. The girl Ilya said something more and then and then both her and Berserker disappear the black shadow disappearing in the smoke. After a few minutes Shiro is still holding his head and feeling the chill in his back. "Master, I thank you for saving me. But can you let go of me now?" Saber speaks in a calm voice catching his attention. "Oh, yeah… sorry about that." He manages to answer her despite his throbbing skull. He let her go and tries to stand but falls over on his butt.
His vision starts to blur and as the pain in his back and head increase. "Shiro, what is wrong? Do you not fell well…Shiro, your back!" she supports him as he cannot hold himself up and she put her hand on his back. He feels a sharp pain in his back in place of the chill. "This is terrible. It is dangerous like this. Please hold still while I remove this piece." Shiro does not say anything but grist his teeth in preparation for worse pain. Grabs on to object in his back and pull with force not hesitating. Shiro resist yelling but groan after the object is removed. He the pain hit him like a car and he can only clench his teeth as he breath come in gasp. He looks up at Saber who is still holding him she has seemed to calm down a little. "Your wound is healing…I see, you had a way to heal yourself." She sighs with relief as the spells Shiro has cast on himself take effect.
Tohsaka run over a look of worry on her face. "Are you alright, Emiya-kun", she asks look at him the worry still on her face. He raises his hand to tell her that he is fine. She straightens and nods to him her face appearing calm now that she had check on him. "I see then let's go. People might come here with all the commotion we have caused." She runs out of the cemetery, her hair fluttering as she goes. Shiro goes to lift himself up, but when his foot touches the ground his there is a tearing sound and blood gushes from his chest. His vision goes white an instantly later as the energy drain from his body and he fall. Saber yells and catches him before he hits the ground as his feeling start to fade away.
He realizes the cause of his condition straight away even as his mind began to fog over. He had used to much magical energy through the battle all night, he had sustained wounds several time, and finally the explosion had caused more damaged then his spells could heal. That had caused the spell to back fire and damage his body instead. He feels himself being lifted and then air passing by his face as he is being moved before the feeling incompletely gone. He then passes out his head throbbing the last feeling he has before he is gone.
Shiro stirs and he wake up blinking as his eyes burn from harsh air and bright light. He still could not feel his body as he lifted himself up on hands that were not there. He looks around and finds himself in a strange place. He is on a vast sunbaked hill underneath a flaming smoke choked sky. Stick from the ground like tree are thousands of swords forming a forest as ash filled wind blows through them. Shiro turns to look around and his vision fades again and he becomes unaware of his surroundings yet again.
He wake up sometime later his vision returning to him as sunlight warmed his body from the window close by. He looks around and finds himself in his room lying on his bed and her wonder for a second if he had been dreaming about the events of last night. This is proven wrong soon after though. "Oh, you are awake? If you are alright now, that is good." Shiro brain is thrown for a loop as talks to him in her normal tone while looking down at him. He jumps up and back up against the wall to get away from her. "T-T-Tohsaka… why are you in my room!" He panics as his brain spins not think rationally at the moment. Her face goes from one of shock to one of disbelief and pity at seeing him panic at her presence.
Shiro manages to calm himself down enough to talk and he asks her the question again. "Tohsaka, why are you here, and what was I doing!?" Tohsaka rubbed her forehead as she looked at the spectacle he was putting on. "You should just be surprised about one thing. You are not skilled enough to handle two." She said her tone showing she was acting like she was cool. Shiro is try to blurt out another ridiculous statement but stops as pain shoots up the side of his chest and as if a bull had stomped on his ribs. The pain brought him back to his senses and the memories from the previous night flooded fully back into his mind.
He looked back up at her while holding his hands to the spot where his spells had rebounded and injured him yesterday. "I see, I guess you carried me here after I fell unconscious", he said realizing the simple facts. Tohsaka straighten a look of surprise appearing on her face before she smiled at him. "Wow, you are sharper than I thought. You are confused, but you are thinking as well. Yeah, this is certainly interesting." Shiro stared at her blankly since the comment could be taken as an insult or praise. "So it has only been half a day? So we made it back home after all." "Yup, I am glad you are so smart. Well then goodbye." With that she turned to leave the room.
She Shiro jumps up at seeing her do this. "Huh, hey where are you going?" She turns and looks at him a skeptical look on her face. "Are you still asleep? This is your house. It is not a place I can stay in." He then remembers the talk that he had with once they had left the church. She had said that they would be enemy from then on. "You are right, I am sorry. And sorry for being late, but thank you", He said this realizing that he truly did not want to fight with her. At her hearing this from she comes to a stop turns around and glares at him crossing her arms. She stares at him silently for a few minutes not saying anything as she barely shifted around.
"Hold on, why are you thanking me", she asked while staring at him her eyes in a questioning glare. He managed to get him into a standing position and pulled himself of the wall before speaking. "Well, you help me, right? I am even more thankful for that if you are my enemy." After hearing this she walks back into the room still staring at him. "Hey, sit right there, Emiya-kun", she said as she sat down and motioned for him to sit with her hand pat the tatami. He reluctantly walks over a sit down with some effort due to the pain. She stares at him seriously for a few quite seconds her expression hardened.
"Look… it will tell you, since you do not seem to understand. You will die if you think like that." She said this, her voice sharing in the coldness as her face. "What do you mean if I think like that", he asked her even though he knew what she meant. "I am telling you not to thank your enemies. You will die a hundred times if you are worried about such a thing. Look, others are just obstacles. Do not think they are like you just because they have human form or they speak." She speaks to him her tone cold and her eyes even like glass mirror's. She was right, he should not feel compassion for an enemy, but he could not see her as an enemy.
His thoughts must have shown his face as she gets angry at him and pokes him in the chest with her finger while yelling at him. "Are you listening to me!? The Holy Grail War is just a war to kill each other, so do not consider other Masters as human beings. Be ready to kill even your own family. Geez, this is the first rule of being a Master." He understands her point but realizes that something does not add up with her words. "I understand that, but then, why did you not kill me", he asked wanting to see her reaction to it as well as answer his curiosity. At that he was reward with her look of surprised and then covering with her hand and staring off to the side. "Uh, that is because…."
Her previous attitude had evaporated and she grumble angrily under her breathe no looking him in the eye. She crossed her arms and turned her head to the opposite side again not giving him a chance to look her in the eye. "Heh, I just did not feel like it. I owed you and it is not fair to get you when you are sleeping. So I just was not in the mood." Shiro stared at her stunned at her word she had just changed direction according to her statement from before. "Tohsaka, did you not just say something like doing everything to win?" She closed her eyes as he pointed this out to her making frustration showing clearly on her face. "Yes, so this is a mistake on my part. It was a mistake I made because I know I am stronger. Well, I guess it is flab on my mind."
He did not let the anger show on his face at her saying he had not skills as a magus since he was trying to keep that mostly under wraps from her. "Flab on your mind, Does that mean you are fat", he asked his mouth moving faster than it should have. At that the atmosphere in the room changed. "Ha-ha, you sure are funny, Emiya-kun." She smile but it shows no sign of being one of amusement and a chill runs down Shiro's spine. "But you should not say unnecessary things from now on. Stupid comments will only bring you death." For a few seconds Shiro even feels some killing intent from her but it quickly disappeared as she flipped her hair back.
"Well, that is all I had to say. Ask your Servant about the rest", she said this changing subject and ending her conversation with him. She then get up and to leave for sure this time. "Goodbye, we will be enemies the next time we meet, so be prepared." She disappears leaving him alone in his room as she goes off. She leaves with no regrets or sentiments, leaving only the line that he and her were enemies. He lets out a long and slow breath as he tried to release the stress that had been accumulating as the events. He uses runs through the event that had transpired over the past twenty four hours that had felt like a week to him. He gets up after a few minutes walks out of the room deciding to go and look for Saber.
He searches the entire house for her but finds no traces of her in the house after searching hit up and down. He stops and thinks where she was since there was no way she would be able to go into spirit form. He then thought of the exact place where she would go on the property and leaves the house heading for the dojo. He arrives at the dojo, slides the door open, and enter the silent dojo. He is surprised when he finds her sitting silently, but she is wearing some plain clothes in the place of her silver armor. She is sitting in pilot Japanese fashion on wooden floor of the dojo her eyes closed as if she was sleeping.
Shiro voice goes dead as he stares at her sitting quietly simply looking beautiful. Seeing her like this help final assures him that she will help him without betraying him. "Saber, he calls out to her finally find his voice and stepping into the dojo. Her eyes stir and she slowly opens them and returns his gaze with her emerald colored eyes. "You are awake, Shiro", she said in a calm voice as she stood up and walked over to where Shiro was standing. Her voice echoes through the dojo bouncing off the walls and floor sounding as if it belonged there. "Yeah, I just got up. What were you doing here?" "I was resting. I cannot treat you, so I thought I would make sure I was in perfect condition."
Saber looks at him and he feels a tension, different from the one he had felt from Tohsaka. He then must have gone pail because Saber moves closer a look of worry on her face. "Shiro, what is it? Could it be that your body is still?" Shiro's head throbbed and then the pain in his chest throbbed at the mention of his wounds but he was just flustered. He tries to say he fine and that it was just that he was perplexed but is word come out all jumbled. He takes a quick step back and shakes his head to clear it. He looks away from Saber, who is tilting her head questioningly at him while he tries to calm his head. Saber speaks his name again to get his attention and their eyes meet again. He takes a few breaths to calm himself down before he speaks again. "Alright, May I Saber," he said and motion for her to sit down. "I will be the first time we sit down and talk."
She looks up at him and then stops him with a glance before he continues speaking again. "Shiro, before that, there is something I would like to address regarding last night." Shiro get a feeling in his gut knowing she is going to complain. "Alright…What is it", he ask feeling unsure he should get her explain to him. She lowers her hands on either side of her body and her emerald eyes narrow into a glare she points at him. "It is about last night. You are my Master. It is troubling if you take such actions. Battle is my duty, so you must concentrate on your role." His mind flashes back to that night and to him tackling her to the ground to save her.
He returns let his eyes focus back on her and let his features harden a little but not by much. "Hey, I could not help it at the time. You were doing much of the fighting at the time that was the least I could do. Plus I am not as defenseless as I would appear to be I have had fighting and magic training I can handle myself. It was only natural for me to help when your partner is in danger." At his her face showed since of shock and disbelief as she stared at him. "Impossible, you do not understand what Servants are, yet you have so much faith in me already?"
He smile at her after hearing her saying that and seeing her face her. "Well, we did shake hands. And you have helped me so many times already. It would pretty strange not to trust you." She looks at him with even more surprise on her face. "Uh, um, did I have the wrong idea about our contract", Shiro said wondering if she had not taken him seriously. Saber shakes her saying that was not the case. "As a Servant, I appreciate your words. And I would have been dealt a fatal wound had you not stopped me. The method was not a good one, but your instruction was." "I see that is good. I was a little desperate, but I think I did alright."
Hearing that from him she put her hand on her hip and narrowed her eyes she gave him a hard stare. "Yes, but please refrain from such actions next time. I can heal immediately even if I am wounded with you supplying me with magical energy. But I have no way to heal you if you are wounded." Shiro resisted the urge to role his eyes at her underestimating him. "Ugh, Alright, I will watch out. That was definitely reckless. I will do better next time." He let his mind flicker as his mind as he realized he would have to make some changes in order to fight Servants. He would have to go to his workshop after this to prepare.
"Yes, that is a good reply, Master", she said letting a smile appearing on her face and the pressure hit Shiro again, but he shake it off quickly enough as he decides to move on to the more important things. "Okay, going back to our conversation, Saber. Oh, is it alright for me to call you Saber as your name?" "Yes, since I have formed a contract with you as a Servant, I am your sword. I shall follow your orders, defeat your enemies, and protect you." With that the conversation continued as they both sat down on the floor. Their conversation covered everything from how she was summoned to what his goal was for the war as well as hers.
With that conversation out of the way Shiro decided he address several of the problems that I had come to his attention of the past few days. "Saber, there is something that I need to address while we are here. The connection I have with you is mostly complete but if you were to need a lot of magical energy at once the connection may short circuit since it is not a complete. So I am going to have to fix it using magic soon, well if you will let me." Saber stared at him quietly for a few minutes as if she was trying to test the connection herself. "Very well, Shiro if you must do it then please do so. Oh, I do have one question though what will the process entail to fix it?" "Well, it will require me to remake our contract a little by making another contract. It will repair the connection and make a mental connection between us." Saber nodded to him but said nothing more agreeing to the change.
"Alright, the second issue is you not being able to go into spirit form if the fixing the contract does not allow for that then I may have a way to allow you to accompany me while being unseen. I have a magical item that will allow you to hide in plain sight." Saber took this information in but said nothing as her nod without any further words. "I can fix the problems now so let go to the shed. That is where I have set up my workshop." Saber nodded silently again and they both got up and left the dojo Saber following behind Shiro at a slow pace because of Shiro soreness. After about a few minutes the arrived at the shed which doors where open since the fight the previous night. They walked through the door and into the shed closing the door behind them.
Saber looked around as the door shut her face mostly expressionless as she studied the small room. Shiro light the two candles on the wall and moved over to the desk. He reached under the desk and pressed a hidden button hidden in a recess on its bottom. There was a sound of gears clanking against each other and one the bookcase on the back wall slide into the wall and then to the side. Shiro walked over to if revealing stairs leading down into the ground. Saber showed a small shocked face apparently not expecting something like this as she followed him down the dark stairs lite by candles in the recess in the wall.
The after about five minute they reached the bottom of the stair and a thick metal door with symbols carved into it. Into his pocket and removed silver key a little bigger than a finger and inserted it into the lock in the door. There was a loud creaking noise and the door slowly sliding into a recess in the wall revealing a massive room. There walls were covered by bookcases that went all the way to the celling with thick volumes stacked on them and various pieces of magical equipment. The floor and tables were covered in stack of book, pieces of paper, beakers, jars and stranger objects. In the center of the room a massive stone circle was carved into the floor with symbols running along all of the lines with candles appearing in intervals. Then finally toward the back of the room was a massive steel safe door recessed into the wall.
Shiro stopped and looked at Saber who was staring around the room her face gaping at the massive room and all that was in it. "Welcome to my mages layer. My Master made it for me so that I could train my magic in peace and so I would have a safe place to hide should I need it." "It is quite impressive. I was not expecting you to have such a large amount of magical knowledge or supplies." With that said Shiro motioned for her to follow and walked through the room toward the massive steel door. They went down two set of small stairs and passed by the spell circle in the center of the room. As they passed by a nook in between two of the bookcase Saber came to a sudden stop staring in the nook her face showing a look of shock. Shiro stops and turns to see why she had stopped and he find her staring at a two glass display cases that were in a row of glass display cases in the nook in the wall.
He stepped forward and stood beside her not saying anything as she still stared a look of shock on her face. "Shiro, where did you get these from", she asked not moving her eyes from the display case. Inside the first case was a staff carved out of a dark stained wood with a blood red stone at the top carved in the likeness of a rose. In the second one was an English long sword resting inside a black scabbard the hilt of the sword decorated with silver and runes carved into it. "Those are two things are heirlooms passed down from my family before I was adopted by Kiritsugu. They were among the only things to survive the fire eight years ago besides me and my sister. Apparently one of my ancestors came to the land from Europe a long time ago."
Saber said nothing but slowly turned to look at him her face now showing no emotion as she stared at him. "The staff from what I remember from what I was told to me by my Master belonged to Morgan Ley Fey and as for the sword it belonged to her son Mordred. Since you are staring at them like so then I guess you know of them. Yes, these are the real deal both of them are noble phantasm level weapons." She stared at him quietly for a few minutes in silences before her stare returned to the two weapons. "May, I ask how your family had them in the possession in the first place", she asked her tone sound slightly cold. Shiro walked forward examining the two items more closely leaving her standing behind him.
"Well, from what my Master and I were able to learn, it would seem that my ancestor who came to japan was somehow related to noble house during that time period. After the war in England and King Arthur's death she left in England at the same time as Mordred body disappearing from the battle field. It would seem that my ancestors ancestor help her escape from Britain for an unknown reason. From there we can only assume but it seems she gave the weapons to my family for safe keeping. The rest is kind of trivial so that about it." With that he turns and looks at her and finds her staring at him and the two weapons her expression unreadable. He motioned for them to continue and she nodded to him as she broke from her thoughts.
The arrived at the massive steel doors and Shiro went over to the corner of the door which had a plate with a spell circle on it. He placed his hand on the circle and forced some of his magical energy into the circle which started to glow at his touch. There was a loud thumping sound through the door and then the door began to open moving without make any other sounds. Shiro and Saber walked through the door and into the safe which was about half the size of the room they had just left but filled with creates, chest, display cases, and various scattered random items. Shiro turned to Saber and a serious look on his face. "Be careful in here. A lot of the items in here are magical and not all of them are strictly safe to handle."
They continued forward through the maze of item and finally reached the back wall which had rows of metal draws all stacked on top of each other up to the ceiling. Shiro motioned for Saber to wait there and he went forward and started searching through the drawers. He opened one of them and found something he was look for and pulled a small metal box from it and set it on a nearby table. He then moved to another drawer and pulled it open reviling a rack of scrolls covered in leather covers. He looked them over and then pulled out two of them which had silver end cover on them placed them on the table. Finally he went to one final drawer this one with a lock on it and opened it with a key from his pocket. He slipped the drawer open and they were both hit with a heavy magical energy pressure coming from the drawer.
Shiro reached into the drawer and pulled a small box out of the drawer and the magical pressure increased slightly in the room. He shut the drawer and locked it and most of the pressure disappeared but they both could feel a light thrumming of magical energy from the item in Shiro hand. He went over to the table and gathered the rest of the items in his hands. "Alright, that I the stuff we will need from here", he said turning to Saber who was looking at the items in his hand with some curiosity. They then made their way back through the maze of items and back into the massive room. The door to the safe shutting as it slid silently closed.
Shiro walked to a table next to the spell circle and placed the item on to it setting them down each beside the other. He then went to a nearby shelf and grabbed two bottles from the wide selection that was there. He then took them and poured a measured amount from each of them into a cup nearby. He put the bottles back and then picked the cup up. "What exactly is that for", Saber asked him as he was bringing the cup to his lips making him pause. "It's a potion to do two things, the first is restore all of the magical energy I used last night and the second is to ease the pain in my sore muscles." He then gulped the cup down making a face the contents tasting terrible and he goes back to the items.
"Alright, Saber let gets started," he said as he picked up the small box and motion for her to walk to the spell circle center. Once there he had her stand in a smaller circle and he stood in the other connected to it by a line about a foot away. He opens the box and a slight glow shine from inside of illuminating his face. Inside was a blue oval cut crystal about the size of a golf ball that was emitting the mysterious glow from the box. "Saber, this is what I while be using to complete the contract with you. It is an item that my master invented for making contracts with familiars. It will repair the line supplying you with magical energy and allow for you to be able to speak with me using your mind."
Saber stared at the stone silently for a few minutes then she looked back up at him. "What exactly will you be using it for?" "The stone will be absorbed into your body and then the magic inside of it will do the rest." Saber fell silent again and then nodded for him to go ahead. "The contract needs to be fixed if I am to be able to fight at full strength", is all she said before waiting for him to begin. He nodded to her hand lifted the stone from the box.
He then placed the stone over her against her chest above her heart after she had nodded her approval. The stone glow intensified at touching her and he closed his eyes and began to chant the word to a spell underneath his breath. The magical energy coming from the stone increased and the stone disappeared absorbing into Saber chest. There was a flash of light as the circles Shiro and Saber were in started to glow two different colors. The circle around Saber glowing with a blue light while the one around Shiro was a red. There was a spark of magical energy from each of their circle and then white light began to gather on the line connecting the two circles. Starting from Shiro and moving toward Saber as the line between them was being repaired.