Chapter 10: Reincarnation

A/N: Alright, things in this story draws to a close. Heracles appeared at the last moment and saves Ilya from Gilgamesh, with Adalbert taking a rather serious blow. The rest, however, are fighting the army that Gilgamesh sent against them.

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Ilyasviel looked at the man who took the blades for her.

"Adalbert-san?" she said in a soft voice, "Are you all right?"

"Heh, yeah, still alive, but I'm afraid for not much longer."

She turned around sadly, and cast a fierce look at Gilgamesh. "Berserker! Let's finish him!"

The giant simply growled before taking out a gigantic bow and shouted, "Nine Lives: The Shooting Hundred Heads!" A large rain of arrows appeared from the bow, swiftly flying towards the Golden King. Gilgamesh was quite taken aback by the skill of Heracles, and jumped back nervously while blasting his own arsenal of blades at him. Heracles jumped forward rather clumsily yet quickly, and wielded the axe and slashed Gilgamesh, in an attempt to injure. Although Berserker was fast, Gilgamesh was faster, and was dodging the axes without much problem.

"You expect to kill me with that type of mediocre skills? What stupidity is this?" exclaimed Gilgamesh, before he leapt forward with another blade, this time, Medorach, the Original Sin, the original blade that was used to create Caliburn. Gilgamesh waved his blade a few times before leaping forward, going in for the kill. Heracles knew the power of Caliburn, so he knew that one blow could easily end his life. With extreme caution, he dodged the blade.

Ilya helped along by blasting some energy at Gilgamesh, but it simply bounced off his armour. Gilgamesh turned around rather angrily and shouted, "That is it. I had it with you two. Time for you two to die!" A large chain flew towards Gilgamesh's hands, and he swung both ends around and secured one end at Ilya and the other at Heracles. In glee, Gilgamesh took Medorach and proceeded to stab Heracles, until he found out that Heracles was free.

A familiar figure in a white kimono stood under the moonlight, with a large dagger in her hand.

"It's been quite a while, Gilgamesh-kun," Shiki announced.

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Meanwhile, the others were having a rather fun battle with the large army. Shiro and Saber proceeded with the usual hacking at them (chippin' them off one by one...), Archer just did the same while Rin threw down jewels to turn them either into ash or statues of ice. Sakura was sucking the souls from their dead bodies, while Rider simply killed them using her chains. Yuuri was attacking them ineffectively using Morgiff (but what can I say?) and fortunately, Conrad was able to assist him everytime. Wolfram and Gwendal each threw out their magic with their sword play while Murata and Gwendal individually struck them with magic and blades respectively. Soon, the place turned into a mountain of bloody corpses.

Rider simply wondered who would be here to take care of this mess as they neared Gilgamesh. Seeing how badly Yuuri had performed, Shiro suggested, "Hey, Yuuri, why don't you gulp this down, it is bound to increase our chances."

Yuuri thought for a while, and realised what is was. He raised his eyebrows in shock.

"The Pill of Reincarnation?!" He shouted, before going back into his thinking again.

"Hmm... If I do not take the pill, my powers are still the same, but if I take the pill, more likely everyone will be happy but I have my power decreased by a margin. That's not good, but as a King, I should think of the better good," he thought before he threw the pill down his mouth without a second thought.

Soon, a mist of purple clouds engulfed the Demon King in a sphere. Shouts of "What's this?" and "Get this thing off me!" came from Yuuri, and the rest came to look curiously. Then, the mist exploded and erupted into a ball of familiar light, and a woman with blue eyes and silver hair was bowing down at the Demon King, who seemed only a bit magically weaker than before.

"Good evening, Your Majesty," Suzannah Julia von Wincott greeted Yuuri.

The rest were left in awe. But all of them hurried along soon enough, until Conrad pointed out, "Hey, where's Adalbert? I know Shiki was supposed to ensure Ilyasviel's safety, but I certainly did not give Adalbert that order!"

Shiro replied, "Let us be quick or we will regret going too late!" Immediately, all of them charged quickly, except Yuuri and Julia, whose face was wet with burning tears as she muttered, "Adalbert, you fool..."

Yuuri knew something bad had happened to Adalbert and without a second thought, bribed it out of Julia.

"I think... Adalbert is about to die..."

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"Hmm... Ryougi, looks like you have not learnt your lesson. You are not to betray me," Gilgamesh declared before he started to wield another blade in his other hand, this time, Durendal. "And I absolutely hate it when you break Enkidu."

Without warning, he appeared behind Shiki, who was taken aback by the sudden seriousness and speed of him and was held by the neck. She was then thrown back, and coincidentally, Heracles was there to get her in his arms. "Thanks," she muttered before she leapt towards Gilgamesh, who started to raise both his blades for a final attack. Shiki also saw his Death Lines and started to attack through them, but Gilgamesh was faster, and she was forced to break the blades instead. Both of them leapt back and Shiki said, "Darn..." when she realised her dagger was broken.

She then turned around and asked Heracles, "Yo, do you have any more blades for me to use? Or will you want to fight him now?"

Heracles replied promptly, "The latter, of course," as he wielded his axe and started to attack Gilgamesh again. But this time, Gilgamesh had already wielded Ea and shouted, "Enuma Elish!"

Both Shiki and Heracles were thrown back by the force. Heracles flipped in mid-air and landed on his chest while Shiki bounced on the ground before landing on her back. Slowly and painfully, Shiki got up while Heracles was simply too weak to get up. But Gilgamesh appeared beside her and gripped her back the neck with such force that it could suffocate her.

"You shall pay now, Ryougi Shiki. Begone from this world..."

Nearly dead and certainly weakened by Gilgamesh's attacks, Shiki was thrusted to the floor, without any energy to get up. Meanwhile, she heard the familiar spinning of Ea, and turned around, certainly horrified by the looks of her expression.

"Enuma... Eli..."

"Excalibur!"

Gilgamesh was forced to draw back his attack to avoid the Sword of Promised Victory. He was shocked to see all of them running towards him. While Saber asked whether Shiki could get up, Ilya did the same to Heracles and Julia attended to Adalbert. Yuuri and Sakura were undergoing power transformations as well...

"Julia... I am glad... that I can see you again before I atone for my crimes..."

"You are so silly... Adalbert... you have done so much for the Demon Kingdom that the Great One shall forgive you..."

"I am glad for that..." Adalbert said before he went into an endless slumber as Julia, resisting tears, put his cloak over his face. Soon enough, Gilgamesh found himself in the centre of many attacks.

"Unlimited Blade Works!"

"Excalibur!"

"Gand, the Ultimate Front of Depression!"

"Unlimited Blade Works!"

A bolt of lightning.

"Bellorophon!"

"Nine Lives, The Shooting Hundred Heads!"

Sakura's powerful blast of mana, along with Ilya's and then Shiki's blades cutting the Death Lines.

A Fire Lion and Mud Monster.

Another wave of blades by Conrad

And a finishing attack by two dark ravens of death.

It was no wonder that Gilgamesh was annihilated immediately. Once Gilgamesh was all but history, they walked back towards the cruise ship where Gisela, Lady Celi and the rest of the maids were waiting, with Adalbert's body, and proceeded back towards the Blood Pledge Castle.

It was finally over. Shiro's torment, Shiki and Adalbert's imprisonment, Yuuri's dual personality. It was over.

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A/N: Well, the epilogue will be coming shortly. And I mean very shortly (probably tomorrow). So stay tuned and remember to drop a comment!