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AN: Well, I'm sorry for the few months this story wasn't updated. I seriously had a lack of idea where to take this chapter and I think it can be seen here. It was hard to write and I only got this far by adding to it every once and a while. Again I am sorry for the long wait for the next chapter (one I think could be way better but I didn't want to postpone this anymore). Please accept my deepest apologies for this.

The creature known as Zouken Matou decided to simply observe for now as most things were heading in a favorable direction and those that weren't could be remedied at a later point. Of course nothing could be done until he acquired Sakura once again, perhaps the Tohsaka as well. Given a few days he could dissolve Sakura into a new stronger body and perhaps if he was lucky he could also capture one of the two Servants with the Magus. But all of those would be worth nothing if he could capture Kiritsuga's adopted son, the boy was already marked and had a powerful Reality Marble he could change into something much stronger upon possessing him.

Of course such a process would destroy the boy's spirit but Zouken had done countless similar things throughout his long existence so it hardly mattered to him. Through all of his plans were useless as he was nothing but a single Crest Worm for now, the blasted Tohsaka and her Jewel Magecraft destroyed all but one of them so he had to make due until he could find another nest amongst the rubble of his once great home but it was harder than one would think when one was so small.

He had hoped to use his hold over Sakura to help him get the boy's power during the Fifth Holy Grail War once he had discovered his unique status but that plan had failed rather easily. Kiritsuga surely knew no boundaries if he had delved so deep into the Grail War, somehow he had constructed a very special summoning for a Heroic Spirit and Zouken was truly surprised that Alaya hadn't stepped in and stopped the summoning. He actually wouldn't be surprised if Kiritsuga had even planned for that and it helped to partly explain the boy's such rapid growth.

But in the end, he would succeed so the method did not matter as long as he could gain the boy's power. Something only patience would allow and patience was one of his strongest abilities as well.

Elsewhere…

Shirou dragged a rather immature Illya back onto the plane an hour or so after Arthuria had arrived and the Einzbern sat down in her seat with a huff and her arms crossed. It was hard for Shirou to believe that someone who was technically older than him could look like that, even pouting at him. But then again, he did know Taiga Fujimaru and she was sometimes worse than Illya.

"I still don't see why I can't have one too." Illya was obviously annoyed at whatever happened between her and Shirou and the Sword Magus simply sighed, one hand smoothing back his white hair for a moment before sitting down at a small table across from Rin and handing her a flower.

"These flowers are special and I need them to help accelerate how fast I can fill a Jewel for my Magecraft, you don't need them since you're a walking power battery half the time." Rin's tone was distracted as she carefully moved the flower around in her hands and seemed to be satisfied as she put it away into a case.

"Rin, where is Luviagelita?" Shirou regretted asking the question but he figured they couldn't forget about the Magus that Zelretch had basically forced them to bring with them on what was most definitely a future disaster in the making.

"I may have…"

"Tied her up and thrown her into the closet next to you, the one you've been conveniently leaning against while silently locking it with Magecraft? I am correct, right?" Shirou was glad for Archer's knowledge when it came to dealing with Rin and she only nodded and it was with a sigh that Shirou allowed a skeleton like dagger to appear in his hands and throw it at the closet, instantly freeing Luviagelita from the closet but not releasing her from the bonds.

"Rin, please bring Luviagelita with you to the back. We have a lot to talk about before we take off." Shirou didn't really leave Rin time to argue as he stood up and left the room, his mind elsewhere at the moment. Rin, instead of getting angry, simply sighed for a moment before dragging Luviagelita out of her seat and throwing her over her shoulder before following after him.

"Hm, I'm not surprised you're as beautiful as I remembered you to be. It's nice to see you again, Rin." Archer stood in the doorway to Rin's study, a worn but durable looking dark red backpack slung over his shoulder with a deep crimson shirt and black pants on.

"Shirou! How did you even get here? How did you get through my Bounded Fields?" Rin seemed surprised as she looked up from her book and rose out of her chair and Archer simply smirked as he walked further into the room.

"You left them open to me a long time ago Rin, did you really forget something like that?" Archer was now in front of her with only her desk separating the two of them.

"It's been five years without a single damn word you bastard! Of course I forgot something like that!" Rin snapped at him, rage filling her voice and Archer looked away for a moment, his eyes closed before he turned them back to Rin.

"I'm sorry for that but i…"

A slap resounded across the room and Archer seemed dumbstruck as Rin refused to look at him, her hair shadowing her eyes and her hands balled into fists, the muscles at her neck straining as she held herself back.

"Out." One hand rose to wave towards the door as Archer seemed frozen, more shocked than he would like to admit at Rin's single word.

"Rin.." Archer couldn't seem to think of words at this point as he blindly reached out to the woman he loved, who he would to anything for. His mind was blank as it tried to understand what Rin was telling him.

"Get out!" Rin had to trouble speaking and her Prana was beginning to leak from her and into something at her side.

"Rin, please lis…" Archer tried to think of anything, anything at all to say but his words failed him yet again.

"I said GET OUT!" Rin's eyes looked up into his own and Archer took a step back at the sheer amount of rage in her eyes at the sight of him." Get out or DIE!"

The jewel tipped cane that was once leaning against her desk was now pointed at Archer and he rose his hands in surrender as he walked away, a card gently falling to rest on the page Rin was reading in her book.

"Do call when you think you're up to it." Archer closed the door behind him and silently walked out of the large and empty Tohsaka Manor.

Shirou loosened his grip on the door frame and gently pried his fingers out of the indents his strength had left as the memory struck him, a wave of his hand later and the frame was repaired and he silently stepped into the room and sat down in one of the comfortable leather chairs surrounding a conference table.

His mind was running rampart, trying to piece together the odd events he was being shown of Archer's life with great difficulty as each cycle may have had some constants but some were always different. The only constants were of the flashes of images he got when he first experienced one of Archer's memories. One of the single figure, most likely Archer or someone close to him, against an army, another of the doves that flew above Archer, the third was the golden light which he figured was Gilgamesh doing something, the fourth was the moon and Shirou had tried but still knew nothing on why he was seeing the image, he had a guess on what the fifth one was but also hoped he was dead wrong.

His thoughts were interrupted when the door opened behind him and Rin walked in and threw the still bound Luviagelita onto the couch in the room and sat down next to him in another chair.

"So, do you have any reasons for dragging me into the conference room?" Rin asked once she realized Shirou was not going to speak, he simply injected Luviagelita with something and it knocked her out the moment she had walked into the room with her.

"I simply want to give you something." Shirou answered with a small grin and with a small flourish an ornate dagger appeared on the table in front of him before he pushed it over to Rin.

"This is…" Rin was in too much shock to actually speak properly so Shirou finished her sentence for her.

"A modified Rule Breaker, an insurance policy you could say." Shirou answered and Rin gently picked up the weapon Shirou had handed her.

"Why are you giving me this?" Rin asked after a moment and Shirou simply sighed as after a moment he rolled up his sleeve and Rin noticed the many small blades sprouting from his skin for a moment before they receded.

"I'm dying the longer I'm forced to use these abilities that aren't my own. Since I don't want to die in agony I've decided I'm going to trust you with this, I've modified it several times over and have the perfect weapon. Just use it like a jewel and it'll get the job done." Shirou answered ad Rin gave him a pointed look that made him chuckle despite the situation.

"Ah, always freshening to see your natural suspicion Rin. But if you really do wish to know then I'll tell you, I'm giving you Rule Breaker since I don't have many people I can actually rely on to finish me off if it comes to it." Shirou answered as he leaned back in his seat, closing his eyes and crossing his arms over his chest." Saber would be too hesitant to kill me if it came to it, Gilgamesh would immediately kill me if I gave him the knife, Illyasveil would hesitate on doing it and it could cost us all later, and everyone else is either untrustworthy or not available at the moment."

Rin, despite all reasoning against it, began laughing as she really began thinking over what Shirou had just told her, her laughter turning nearly mad as she fell onto the table and continued laughing even then. Shirou waited for a moment but as it continued for longer than he thought was necessary he was close to threatening Rin to stop, nothing about the information he was about to tell her funny at all.

"So, what's so funny Rin?" Shirou was clearly not amused as he idly checked a katana he had Traced into existence and gently ran his fingers over the blade, runes burning themselves into sight along the blade and following the path his fingers made.

"It's not just funny, it's hilarious that you would trust me with killing you! You really think that little of me, don't you?" Rin's laughter had steadily changed into sobs as she spoke. "Am I really that heartless to you, Shirou?"

Shirou's silence didn't help Rin in stopping a long building breakdown but he gently laid a hand on her shoulder, his closed eyes opening as he turned to face her.

"I'm not saying your heartless, I'm saying you'll make the right choice if it comes to it." Rin felt something enter her skin and with a frown Shirou withdrew his hand from her shoulder, showing the many blades spreading through it before he brought them under control and they receded into his skin." The fact is, I'm going to die in agony and that is inescapable. I really don't want that, frankly, I'm terrified of dying like this. I know I have less than ten years left in my life and that's only if I'm lucky and don't have to fight anymore. The more I use my Magic Circuits, the worse and worse this gets and since I know I have to fight I'll be dead before this is all over."

"This is what your Reality Marble does to you?" Rin was surprised, she had never heard of anything close to what Shirou was going through and the Sword Magus only chuckled, a dark smirk moving over his face. Sure, she had known that some Reality Marbles manifest on the user, causing changes despite not being actively used but this was a first for her, she had never heard of anything like Shirou's case.

"I really am just a blade now, aren't I?" Shirou gave another humorless chuckle as he for the first time truly thought of his fate. "I'll slowly turn into nothing but a blade, that's my fate."

The problem of not accepting one's fate until forced to clearly showed as Shirou's laughter took on a maniac quality as his eyes held a mad light in them as he continued laughing. He was looking very similar to how Rin was only a few moments ago.

"I'm going to die in the worst way possible, I'll feel myself turning into nothing but blades and can't do a damn thing about it!"

Rin felt more than saw Shirou losing himself as tears poured from his eyes even as he continued to laugh, losing himself in the certainty of his fate.

"I'll fail Kiritsuga, I'll fail Sakura, I'll fail everyone and I can't do a thing about it! This isn't even something I can fight! I can't overpower it, I can't trap it, I can't beat it! There's nothing I can do but die!"

"What if the Reality Marble was extracted?" Rin's question seemed to bring Shirou back and he stopped laughing, Rin's words helping to bring him back to himself, as he turned his steel grey eyes onto the Tohsaka Magus.

"Won't work I'm afraid." Shirou leaned back in his chair as he allowed his left sleeve to burn away and reveal his arm, burning red markings completely covering it and still spreading as the shroud and armor continued to move away until his entire torso was left bare. "My Reality Marble wasn't luck, I was born to have it no matter what happened, it would still develop and eventually consume me."

"I'm not following, what could possible make someone have a Reality Marble?" Rin's question wasn't easy to answer and Shirou only shook his head.

"I have no idea and the one man who could actually tell me is dead, or at least gone from this timeline." Shirou had a thoughtful look on his face, remembering the man who was his greatest ally for a short time as well as his greatest enemy.

"Archer, he knew all of this then?" Rin was honestly surprised as she asked, knowing nothing but Archer's status as a rather unique Servant.

"Of course." Shirou told her as he gestured to his arm. "This through, I know something about this, none of it good."

"Then what is it?" Rin looked at the marking on Shirou's body.

"Look closely." Shirou's words made little sense to Rin but she did, using Reinforcement to increase her eyesight and stunned at what she saw, stun swiftly shifting into horror as she looked up at Shirou, Rin suddenly noting the similarities between Shirou and a certain spirit.

"It…" Rin couldn't bring herself to ask her fears, hating to even think of her suspicion being true.

"Yes, part of it at least possessed me." Shirou looked down at the markings on his arm, letting out a few dark chuckles as he looked down at the markings. "The curses of mankind weave themselves onto my skin, becoming one with me as time passes. Such a concept is incredible if it wasn't turning me into the Incarnation of Curses."

"How is this even possible?" Rin grabbed his arm, running her fingers over the curses, most of it written in a language no one of this era would ever understand. "Gilgamesh said he saw the spirit flee from the Grail before he destroyed it, he said it was too weak to pose a threat and would fade away given time! How did it get into you?"

"It was mainly my own fault, part of it is your fault, and part of it is Sakura's fault. It all circumstantial things that alone would cause a slight problem but together they made something like this happen." Shirou briefly sighed before he pointed to himself as he spoke.

"My fault in this is my summoning of Archer, more specifically, my old man and his plans that revolved around me. He looked into a variety of things, mainly summoning spirits, binding spirits into a specific medium, and the process of summoning a Heroic Spirit, all of this, including my merging with Archer created a, for lack of a better way to describe it, hole in my Soul, something that would have been patched up long before we faced off against the Corrupted Grail."

"Then I turned you into my Servant, it stopped the hole from healing, correct? What I did kept it from healing like it normally would have." Rin looked away, she was still sickened at what she had done to him, everything she did to him out of a fear she had lived with for almost her entire life.

"Precisely, a Servant is connected to their Master and that connection kept the hole in my Soul opened, you acted as the physical anchor, such a thing was what allowed Archer to exit into the world once I was possessed by Sakura." Shirou couldn't help himself, he still shook slightly, briefly closing his eyes as he tried to fight off the visions that almost instantly shot to the forefront of his mind talking about what happened. Rin gently grabbed his hand when she noticed this and he shot her a small grateful smile before he took in a deep breath and Rin continued for him.

"And then Sakura possessed you after I turned you into a Servant, this made the hole in your soul worse, right?" Shirou only nodded at Rin's words, gesturing for her to continue as he seemed to fully get himself under control again. "This allowed a path for Angra Mainyu, at least a part of him at least, to enter your soul and those are the marks on your arms, the results of his spirit binding itself to you and projecting its powers onto your physical self."

"Bingo." Shirou waved his unmarked arm at the curses spreading over his skin. "Eventually I'll be sharing my body with the spirit of the Third War's Avenger, if things go as I planned then I'll be able to cleanse any residual taint in the Grail given time."

"You won't survive it through, you're lucky you managed to merge with Archer's soul like you did, any other and the process will kill you." Rin's words were met with a grim smile by Shirou, showing he knew what would happen.

"I figured something like that would happen and, when it does happen, I'll be ready for it." Shirou waved his hand over the markings on his arm yet again.

"You'll be ready to die then?" Rin was clearly displeased with Shirou's plans for the future but didn't truly show it, not snapping at him.

"Hopefully I'll already be too far from saving." Shirou spoke his words low, disliking the idea of people going out of their way for him.

"So no one tries to save you, you'll be suffering long before Avenger can completely merge with you." Rin resisted the urge to hit Shirou, deciding to go for a more subtle approach when it came to dealing with him and the twisted mindset that gave him his Reality Marble.

"Exactly, but the Rule Breaker I gave you is not only my insurance but also a backup plan for this. If I die before I can take Avenger with me, if he gains access to my Reality Marble, he'll twist it into something more fitting to him and I can't allow that to happen." Shirou's hands briefly tightened into fists as he spoke of Avenger gaining possession of his body before he briefly nodded towards Rule Breaker, the blade laying on the table in front of Rin. "The knife will shatter my connection to my inner self if you stab me with it, it will destroy any connections I have with my soul, leaving Avenger trapped in a body made out of blades."

"So he'll just animate it, it can draw power directly from the Grail Shirou, even if we destroyed the physical form it still exists as long as Servants do."

The look Shirou gave her was more than enough answer for her, she knew his entire plan and looked away from him. Unbidden, her minds drew out the memory of Archer's betrayal…

"Ah, I should have known you'll come out of hiding once the fighting had finished, that's just like you, Kirei." Rin was not amused at the Fake Priest, the Grail War had dragged on for far too long and he had just now revealed himself to the Masters still left.

"I apologize Rin but I had to remain impartial during these events, even if they risked to reveal Magecraft. I am loyal to the duties assigned to me by the Holy Church."

"Do you have anything important to say Kotomine?" Shirou was leaning heavily against Rin, his body exhausted after not only dealing with Sakura but the army the Grail possessed from her. "If you don't, get out of our way."

Kirei simply smirked at the exhausted Sword Magus, his struggles to even remain standing an amusing sight for the Fake Priest. His attempts to glare at the amused Priest only made it worse as he fought to keep his eyes open while trying to do so.

"Kotomine, I suggest you answer the question." Archer stepped forward, the married swords Kanshou and Bakuya appearing in his hands as he did so. "Either do so or leave."

"My, my, what an unruly Servant you are, threatening the War's Moderator like this. I'm almost surprised your Master allows you to do this even." Kirei's eyes locked onto Shirou, already knowing everything about his and Archer's situation. "I wonder which one of them could put up with you, perhaps the Einzbern made such a foolish decision? No, I recall Berserker perishing not too many days ago, Tohsaka would have snapped by now so that leaves only Emiya, the Magus that Kiritsugu himself adopted and trained."

"Leave my father out of this you.." Shirou's lurch forward in anger proved detrimental as Rin barely managed to keep hold of him from his sudden movement, both nearly falling to the ground.

"Kirei, it is best for you to leave if you have no information for the Grail War." Gilgamesh materialized his physical form, gold dust spiraling as it formed his body. "A King grows annoyed when their servants drivel on and on, do you wish to suffer for such a thing?"

The Gate of Babylon opened behind Gilgamesh with a lazy wave of one hand, three or four portals opening above his head. Kirei acknowledged the very real threat now in front of him and rose his hands up in the universal gesture for surrender, very much not wanting to face even a single weapon from King of Kings' limitless treasury.

"Please do not attack me my King, I simply wish to inform the remaining two Masters that the Holy Grail War may now off..." Kirei's words were cut off as blood splattered on the ground in front of him.

"Be quiet."

"What have you've done!" Saber screamed and, despite her exhaustion at the long battle she had just endured, charged Archer as he threw Kirei's dying body aside. "How dare y.."

Three floating swords ripped into Saber's stomach seconds later and she collapsed only a few centimeters from the suddenly traitorous Servant. Gilgamesh, oddly enough, did nothing, simply stepping forward to crouch down next to the collapsed Saber, examining her wounds before grabbing one of the swords in his armored hand. The swords shattered into red light the moment Gilgamesh touched them and Shirou slowly pushed away from Rin, glaring at the impassive Archer.

"So, is this it? Is this when you try to kill me again?" Shirou struggled to remain on his feet without Rin's help but he kept her back from the upcoming fight he knew was coming. "Is this when you betray everyone you've fought with Archer!"

"You don't know a damn thing." Archer's voice was the opposite of Shirou's enraged one, almost deadly calm as his impassive glaze stayed locked with Shirou's own, brimming with anger as he stared at the Servant he had summoned what seemed like such a long time ago. "You don't know anything at all? I've already told you, Fakers like you and me shouldn't care for concepts like pride, honor, loyalty. We are simply fakes, illusions created by our warped ideals. If you thought I would not follow the concepts that kept me alive for so long, the same things I tried to teach someone like you, then you are a bigger fool than I originally imagined. All of the training I gave you was worthless now that I see the truly important ones continue to elude you even now, after everything you've experienced. I've simply wasted my time with someone like you in the end."

"Is everything we've been through pointless then? Does nothing matter to you?" Shirou was on the verge of attacking Archer and he knew this, walking over to Kirei's dying body and taking from it the black sword he had stabbed into it.

"You're right in one aspect, none of the things you've done with my power matter to me. All of them are worthless to me. The experiences through, they've been enjoyable from the regular circumstances I am used to." Archer kicked Kirei's body off to the side, his face twisting into a sneer as he observed the dead priest. "I certainly enjoyed killing this trash when I had the chance."

"Yo.."

Archer struck then, striking with amazing speed and throwing Shirou back and into Rin, who caught him as Gilgamesh stepped forward. He was covered in his armor and simply glared at Archer, almost daring him to make a move as the Gate of Babylon opened behind him, dozens of portals opening behind him and shielding the collapsed Shirou and Rin from view.

"I dare you Archer, try it." Gilgamesh smirked as he spoke, knowing the Servant was weak from the many battles of the past few days. "I have wished to tear apart one of you Fakers since this War has begun."

"My fight isn't with you King of Heroes." Archer turned away from Gilgamesh, looking down the street and the skyscrapers of Fuyuki City visible in the distance. "I only wish to fight my Master." Archer spoke the last word with obvious disdain, his hatred for Shirou a surprising thing to Rin as she tried to keep him awake, the Magus already fading in and out of consciousness from his brief movements, showing how weak he truly was after the last several days.

"Archer, why do you want to kill him? What has he done that to you th…"

"Quiet you damn girl!" Archer lost his composure at Rin's words, his preferred twin blades appearing in his hands as he lunged forward. "Stop speaking as if you know everything!"

Gilgamesh stopped Archer from reaching the Magus, a spear with the blade shaped like a bird appearing from the Gate of Babylon and appearing in his hands. Archer knew it was pointless to attempt to battle against the King of Kings at his current state and so quickly jumped back but the white sword, Bakuya, was pointed at Shirou, steel grey eyes locking with steel grey eyes, one filled with a now cold rage while the other struggled against exhaustion.

"Shirou Emiya, meet me at where your warped ideals came to be. I will kill you there tomorrow before this War is over." Archer wasted no more energy with them at that point, astralizing his form before another word could be spoken.

"Archer…" Shirou couldn't keep his eyes open any longer, quickly losing his battle to remain conscious as Gilgamesh picked up an already healing Saber from the ground.

"Girl, take the Faker back to his home. I will take Saber back myself." Gilgamesh allowed his armor to fade, somewhat annoyed at Archer's departure.

Without another word, the King of Heroes continued his walk down the street with Saber over his shoulder and, after some deliberation, Rin hurried to follow after him, careful to move with the exhausted Sword Magus.

"Why do you think this plan will even work, Shirou? Angra Mainyu corrupted the Grail itself, how are you so sure it won't do the same to you?" Rin's question didn't bring a response from Shirou for a long time, several moments passed before the Emiya sighed, resting his head in his hands before turning to face Rin.

"That's what I'm worried about, I don't know if my plan will work in the first place so I decided to have one last option, a last resort if you want to put a name to it." Shirou gestured to the door and, more importantly, to where the luggage was stored. "I don't carry it with me everywhere I go, but I keep it close by just incase everything goes horribly wrong."

"I take it this involves killing yourself as well?" Rin's question was met with a grim smile from the Emiya.

"You know me too well Tohsaka, and in such a short time." Shirou stood up from the table before walking over to the unconscious Luviagelita and injected her with something else, instantly waking up a now annoyed Edelfelt Magus as he freed her.

"Sorry, the conversation was a private one but now I feel I can answer most of your questions about the Grail War, it's a pet project of yours, researching it that is." Shirou spoke in an open and inviting tone, his smile made to be disarming as Rin's mind once again moved back to Archer, how similar the two were to one another.

"I believe so, it is the least you people owe me for your treatment." Luviagelita flipped her blonde curls over her shoulder, an expression of displeasure clear on her face, the Magus ignoring how Shirou's expression seemed to shift, losing any trace of emotions in what seemed like an instant.

"If you weren't so annoying than perhaps you wouldn't be treated as such, I have no problem killing you if it comes to it. Something I believe will benefit us in the end, especially if you insist on keeping your current mindset." As Shirou spoke, several swords appeared floating over Luviagelita's head. "It's bad enough I've had to deal with all the Magus in the Grail War, but if I have to deal with another than I will most likely simply kill you to prevent the headaches you will cause."

Rin realized something as she saw Shirou so easily threaten Luviagelita. He was his father's son. Despite how he acted he was still the son of a man known as the Magus Killer.

Shirou was glad when he saw his words and brief actions were enough to silence Luviagelita, he was far from a pleasant mood at the moment and he didn't have neither the time or patience to deal with a Magus. If he did, he would snap and almost undoubtedly kill someone because of it. As it was, he was at nearly the end of his rope with everything he was dealing with, especially the none too helpful urges the embodiment of the curses writing themselves into his skin had begun giving him.

Outside the room, Illya set bored. Her Onii-chan had left her to talk with Tohsaka and Edelfelt and had just left her with an almost overbearing Saber and an uncaring Gilgamesh. She would usually just talk with her two maids but until Tohsaka could check them over more, they were forbidden from getting close to her, something put in place by Shirou after what had nearly happened to her while they were away in London.

'At least things will pick up soon, that's one thing to look forward to.' Illya knew it wasn't in a good way but she knew it was inevitable, truly she had expected to be attacked already. 'We Einzberns are persistent, they'll be coming for me some. They'll want the Class Cards now that they've materialized.'

It was times like this that Illya missed Berserker, he may have hurt her at first but it was no different than what everyone else did, everyone would eventually hurt her, it was simply a matter of time. Only Berserker had actually ever protected her, he had defended her all the time from anything that wanted to hurt her, he was willing to give up everything for her. Something he eventually did.

She could still remember that day, her invincible Hercules was blackened by the tainted Holy Grail, she had no control over him anymore. His last actions were done completely willingly, he protected her even than.

'He's not here anymore.' Illya looked down, avoiding anyone from on the plane from seeing the single tear she shed for her fallen Berserker.

AN: Well how was it? Again sorry for the long delay between updates, I'll try not to have it happen again, I'll try to have a new chapter for this story out every week if I can manage it.

Peace.