Chapter-10: Learn Black Magic.
Shirou's POV:
"Wooohhhaaaaahhh!...Sa...Saber!" I was shouting at the top of my lungs, I was so scared of heights and by then the girl had made me jump over more than ten skyscrapers.
"What Shirou?" she asked landing us both on ground, I was thankful that she finally had responded to my pleadings.
"Saber, can't we just walk to my home? I am too scared of heights." I told her.
After studying me silently for a while she gave a nod and now as I led the path she followed.
"So how do you and Goku know each other?" I asked.
"We met at the world martial arts tournament." She replied.
She must have been to many tournaments as this was how she met that Archer guy too. I thought.
Once we reached my house, Saber barged in as soon as I opened the front door for her and headed for one of the rooms as if it wasn't a new but some place she was quite familiar with.
I too moved inside and followed her trial to find her checking the bed sheet lying on the floor. Owing to the fact that I had learnt so far, Saber was not a jolly kind of person and a serious demeanour still occupied her face yet the way she sat and hopped feebly on the bed made her look so adorable making me chuckle.
"I am going to take this room." She said eyeing me.
"Alright. As you wish." I said. Since I lived alone in the house I hadn't any problem with which room she chose.
"You can go now." She told me and thus I was suddenly reminded that without even realizing it I had been staring at her for a while. Being caught offguard I felt very awkward, so quickly bidding her goodnight I got into another room and out of her sight.
Blushing I slid down against the door releasing a sigh, my heart beating hard against my chest. I wondered how and why this girl inspired such foreign feelings in me.
"Strange." I thought. All the events of the day came rushing to my mind. My whole world has turned upside down just in a span of a day. The mere thought was making me feel more tired than ever and before my eyes drooped close I heartily wished it all to turn out to be a dream when I wake up in the morning, though it also meant Saber would be gone too, but I doubt if I wanted that to happen.
Goku's POV:
"It's not working guys." I said with a defeated sigh, failing to summon my servant for up the nineteenth time.
I, Rin and Shirou had decided to figure out as to who all were involved in the war and among them who would be choosing our side and who all would turn out to be our enemies. So to start with, we three had chosen a secluded corner of the college library where I was trying to summon my servant but to no avail.
"Goku now I can say this servant of yours is for sure not on our side, I mean you had been trying for so long. I think your servant is someone with black magical powers through which he has come to know of our views as how we are against this war and it's ill effects. And since he must be a supporter of it he has already declared his rivalry against us by not answering your summons." Rin said.
"Wow, so we have already found an enemy that too my own servant." I acknowledged with disappointment.
"Or maybe we are thinking the wrong way. Maybe he could have been attacked by some servant or master thus he is hurt and isn't able to ans my summons." I suggested.
"Goku I told you that if a servant would be even a bit hurt the master will also feel it, as their souls are connected. But you haven't felt anything amiss, not even a small pain or anything which simply means he is fine and just not answering your summons." Rin said with a frown.
"So what now?" I asked her.
"Let's try finding others." she said taking out a shiny globe from her bag.
Placing it on the table she spread her hands over it and closed her eyes, her brow creased in concentration as I and Shirou watched the globe curiously.
Seconds changed to minutes and minutes to an hour, my and Shirou's hope had already long gone as Rin's globe kept showing nothing except some hazy black clouds. She finally dropped her hands in defeat and released a tired sigh.
"I give up!"
"It's not working. Seems all servant- master pair are way too strong in black magic than me, they have blocked the vibrations of their energies through their magical powers thus my magic isn't able to sense them. Now the only way left is, we wait for them to find us." She said.
"No Rin, we don't have that much time but only 30 days with us! We can't just sit and wait." I retorted.
"Goku I tried, ok. We don't have any other option." She retorted back, helplessly my eyes found the floor because she was right.
"The least we can do is, we should start working on our black magical powers. You two should know this war is more of a game of black magic than physical powers and thus if we want to win we have to improve our magical abilities."
"So you suggest we need to find someone who could teach us black arts or do you already know someone?" Shirou asked.
"I suggest no person can teach black arts better than books. I know some of the well known books on black magic, I would arrange for them and then the rest of the hard work to learn from them remains for us." Rin replied.
"Boy! If I would have known that I would be so much in need of black magical powers one day I would have start learning it long ago though it has never been my point of interest." I said with distaste, Rin and Shirou chuckled.
"Aaahhhhhh!"
Suddenly we heard screams. The little moment of merry was blown to airs as we rushed out of the library to know the cause and the sight that greeted us was beyond horrible.
The entire corridor was laden with students, blood oozing out of their mouth. A thick mist had surrounded the insides as well as outside of the college and the temperature had become too low within a matter of seconds. I, Rin and Shirou almost shivered with the chilling cold surrounding us.
Even through the layers of dense mist the piercing stare of the emotionless blue eyes was hard to miss as it neared us accompanied by a disturbing rattling sound of some steel armour.
I covered Shirou and Rin protectively. A lady like figure began to materialize as it neared us further. I could figure out that she held a sword and the armour that had been producing the sound hanged loosely around her body. She smiled at us menacingly. I quickly got into a fighting stance, but to my surprise instead of attacking us the woman pierced the sword into her neck from one side to the other and then winds started blowing so hard it was even difficult to keep one's eyes open. When the storm finally subsided, the mist was gone. Temperature was back to as it had been before and the lady had vanished.
"What just happened?" Shirou was asking, his horrified and shocked eyes still glued at the students lying in the corridor.
I rushed and began checking on them. A sense of relief washed over me as I could feel their pulse.
"Rin they are alive! Come on let's call some ambulances. They can be saved." I shouted with hope though my heart sank when she just shook her head in dismay.
"They are alive but won't be for too long. Their souls have been sucked out of them. The servants do this for becoming more and more powerful. Now no medical treatment can save them. Not even magic has a solution to save those whose souls have been sucked out." She said.
"You mean we can do nothing?" I asked, just to be sure I heard her right or to say I was just trying to find excuses because I couldn't bring myself to accept the bitter truth Rin was telling.
But whether I accepted it or not it was the truth anyway. I got up, balled my fists and hit them hard against the wall. I hadn't felt so helpless ever before. The war has only started and Infront of my eyes lay the soon to be dead bodies of my classmates and other students and I could do nothing! How worse could it all get. I screamed with resentment as I hit my fist again and again against the wall.
Suddenly Shirou ran away without an exchange of a word.
"Shirou!" Rin called out but he didn't stop.
"Let him be alone for sometime. You know how difficult it is for us to take this." I said, Rin nodded in understanding as a tear slid down her cheek.
"Their black magic is so powerful Goku, they can always find others but others can't find them, she was in college itself and yet I couldn't sense her. If only I could have sensed her when she would have been few meters away from college then we could have arranged something to save everyone. We could have saved them! We could have saved them!" she repeated as she bent down on the floor and wailed, her body shaking miserably.
"Rin it's not your fault!" I tried to soothe her as I went and wrapped her up in my embrace. Though it was quiet difficult to console her when I myself was so shaken up.
It was then when we heard sirens of vans.
I and Rin peeped out of the balcony to find a crowd of people gathered in the college ground. Police and media were making their way inside.
"The news that something amiss has occurred here has reached the people. We need to go now. You know we won't be able to ans them as to what happened here. They won't even believe us." Rin said.
I gave a nod and flew away from a classroom window taking Rin with me. I took her to her home.
Still the dried tears marred her face, as I put her down at her front door.
"You okay?" I enquired, though I knew well she was not.
She gave a feeble nod.
"I will be fine. Just need some time alone." She said.
"Alright. Take care." I said.
"You too take care." She said.
I nodded and was about to leave when she took hold of my hand,
"Goku we really need to be very fast. Today after what happened you must have come to know how important it is for us to become as good in black magic as possible. It's just the beginning. This bloody war is going to make us loose more. We have to outdo ourselves. All lives depend on us. I would surely arrange for the books till tomorrow and we will start our training then."
"Rin we will give our best." I assured her. We gave each other a final hug and then she went inside while I headed towards my home.
Generally I would always fly to places but at the moment I was feeling so nostalgic, so broken that I just didn't feel like flying so I took to walking.
When I reached the park that was along the way, I saw a young girl who looked around twelve or thirteen years of age. With those long golden hair and peculiar eyes almost the color of blood yet so enchanting she sure was one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. She was feeding grains to some birds and it seemed from the lovely smile on her face that it gave her immense joy.
Poor kid, look how adorable and innocent she is. How horrible it would be if her soul gets sucked by some wicked servant.
As soon as the thought stuck me I went to her,
"Hey kiddo!" I called out, and so she turned, her eyes already the size of a saucer grew even bigger on seeing me. Though I couldn't understand why.
"You should not be out like this. You know it's not safe for kids to roam around as bad people are lurking around the streets. You can be in big trouble thus be inside your home, ok." I tired to scare her a bit so that she took my advice seriously. Though it can't be called scaring her because in a way it was simply the truth.
The girl looked merrily at me and smiled beamingly.
"Alright! Thanks for the advice mister." she chirped happily.
"Good kid." I said patting her head. Then after asking her to head straight to her home, I left.
Though I didn't know why the rest of the way home I had a feeling of being followed but when I turned back there was no one. Finally when I reached home I found shoes at the front porch which obviously didn't belonged to my sister.
Who had come to visit us? I wondered as I made my way to the drawing room to find the least expected person having tea with my sister.
"Saber!" I exclaimed with surprise as her sea-green eyes met mine.
TBC...
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