Fate/Asterism Liner Zwei
Chapter 1: Back on Deck
"There. Can't even tell there was a hole now."
Eil tossed the hammer he had aside as he leaned back a bit on the roof of the estate, though even with what he said there was at least something of a mark to what had previous been a hole… coincidentally right over his bedroom.
"HEY! Don't just throw stuff around, you could hurt somebody!"
"You're the reason we had to fix this hole in the first place!"
Eil slid down from the roof and onto the ground with a quick move, Rin tapping a foot while the hammer he'd thrown was stuck in the ground near her. The reason for said hole was rather simple… Rin had fallen through it during the previous scuffle with Lluvia in the helicopter.
"Not to mention the fact it took a month because of what else we had to replace to fix it."
"Well ex-cuse me." Rin responded, Eil sighing.
"Need I remind you why it is you and Lluvia are stuck here for a year again?" Eil said, Rin proceeding to clam up. "If it wasn't for those attitudes you wouldn't be in this mess either! Geez. And we'd been doing so well up until then."
"You saw what happened! That hyena was gonna run off with the Cards and hog all the glory for herself!"
"So you jumped onto the ladder and ended up crashing a helicopter… and of all places it had to be near my house!? You two are lucky nobody saw that!"
"Ohhh? My my, you two argue like an old married couple!" Taiga then took such a time to slide on out, a hand near the woman's mouth as she chuckled, the two mages just giving her flat stares. "Keep acting like that Eil and you'll make Illya-chan jealous! Shame on you, flirting with another girl behind her back!"
"You're the one making it sound weird!" Both Eil and Rin snapped in response to Taiga's teasing tone, the woman laughing about it.
"Hey, Taiga, don't you need to get to school early?" Eil coolly spoke as he put his hands on his hips, Taiga yelping. "Did you forget?"
"I did not! It just slipped my mind for a moment! I'll see you in class! ORYAAAA!" With that ferocious yell, Taiga turned and dashed off back through the house.
"Geez… it's hard to keep putting up with her. And she's been showing up here more and more ever since a month ago!" Rin said, Eil chuckling as he followed his senior back into the house.
"Well… obvious reason should be obvious. She's just being herself." Eil pocketed his hands as he said so, Rin just sighing. While it wasn't like one could understand the reasonable amount of suspicion one could have on the basic fact Eil and Rin were a similarly aged boy and girl living "alone" together (one had to take the family servants into account)… but then add on the fact in the month that had since passed since Eil and Illya had effectively started dating, the Einzbern girl had regularly made a point of visiting the compound.
And often spending the night to boot.
Though when Eil thought about it, that month came with what could be called surprisingly little groundway in terms of certain things. Dates on the weekend were nice, and had been a good way for Eil to learn more about Fuyuki thanks to Illya's knowledge of the city, and fun ways to learn more about one another's choices of hobbies and other such topics. All was well and good on that end, being friends and dating was a good combination he had to say… even if he still felt like he hardly knew what the hell he was doing.
"But then there's that end of things." How could he put it? When it comes to being more on the intimate side, Illya was both bold but innocent. Her stays over had quickly started resulting in her sneaking into Eil's bed at night, and casual physical contact wasn't an issue. After getting over that one incident, Eil was confident in being able to say that kissing was achieved… but no further than that. Both in part because Eil himself didn't know about taking anything further, and because Illya tended to "blank out" if they did try anything more.
Which at times was more than a bit troublesome for Eil to deal with because of the fact Illya had quite the tempting body… that particular incident where they learned Miyu worked as a maid at times still had him stuck on it… and the newfound casual physical contact had downright engraved the feeling of the girl's curves pressing into him onto his brain.
"It's always so soft… her lips, her body it's… AHHH! No no no, not the time to be thinking about this!" He wanted to start hitting himself a bit, especially when he started imaging Illya in lingerie… on a bed… with arms stretched out too him and cooing his name. "AHHHHHHH!"
"Eesh?! Why are you randomly screaming? Wait… why is your nose bleeding?" Rin pointed at Eil's face, and that was when he noticed something on his upper lip and down to his chin.
"Uh, it's nothing." Eil pulled out a small clothed and wiped away the blood, muttering as he saw the red stain on it. "Ah wait… aghh, I just remembered what we've gotta take care of today."
"Ah yeah. Be sure to tell Illya and Miyu about it. We're gonna need Sapphire and Ruby to get the job done." Rin said, Eil nodding as he pocketed the cloth.
"Yeah yeah, I won't forget about it." Eil said, stretching an arm. "Alright, let's get the new day started!"
It was a normal day for the elementary kids as far as they were concerned, a quiet, normal day in class as June continued on, the summer heat beginning to settle in. Though, as Eil had learned, with the group of friends he'd more or less been inducted into over this past month, the beginning of the day wouldn't be quiet for long.
"Let's go to the beach!" Tatsuko came barreling in as loud as ever, Edge blinking at how she was wearing a bow up ring around her waist as she dashed over, constantly repeating "Beach" again and again like a broken record.
"Tatsuko it's June. Isn't it a bit too early to make summer plans? Wait what am I saying? If I was back in England I'd already be making plans…" Eil murmured, hanging his head.
"What is it, Tatsuko?" Illya asked, then the usual peanut gallery arrived.
"Plans for summer." Suzuka muttered, grabbing Tatsuko by the head to halt the small blonde, "It's June but she's all excited already!"
"I see." Illya chuckled.
"The beach? What do you do at the beach?" Miyu asked, earning a confused look from Tatsuko.
"What do you do? You swim of course!" Tatsuko declared, Miyu tilting her head, "Oh! School swimsuits are forbidden! You each have to bring your most erotic swimsuit!"
"Uh… Tatsuko have you ever heard of modesty?" Eil's retort was done quickly, but then he felt his head starting to burn as that idea brought to mind something… what'd Illya and Miyu look like in choice swimsuits. "NO! Don't think about it don't think about it!"
"Quiet pretty boy! You should feel honored you'll get to go on a beach trip with not just your girlfriend, but a bunch of other pretty girls too! You're a veritable protagonist type!" Tatsuko said, Eil's expression now shifting to a confused one as he looked at the blonde, Illya however, seemingly off in lala land with her hands on her cheeks.
"The hell are you on about?" Eil grumbled, sighing and leaning his chin on a hand, Tatsuko spinning around and starting to run off.
"Settle down!" Nanaki snapped, landing a solid uppercut to Tatsuko's floatie, Tatsuko ending up flat on her stomach after the impact.
"That had to hurt." Edge mused.
"Oh… Miyu, have you never been to the beach before?" Illya turned to the other girl as she asked, Edge peering in as it piqued his interest, Miyu nodding.
"Then we should all go together!" Mimi suggested.
"Knowing you I bet you're a fast swimmer." Suzuka chuckled, "With the beach this close, it'd be a waste not to go!"
"Hope it's better than back in the England. Odds of finding a place to swim that isn't a pool are next to none if you're the cautious type. But then back at my home in Russia swimming is a purely indoor thing." Eil murmured, Illya patting him on the shoulder as his mood suddenly sank.
"I-If Illya and Eil are going..." Miyu murmured, Illya and Eil glancing at once another.
"Yeah, let's all go together!" Illya nodded, Eil shrugging.
"Hey why not? A beach trip sounds fun." Eil nodded, leaning on a hand as he spun a pen in the other.
"Alright, it's settled then!" Suzuka nodded, leaning on the window.
"I can't wait." Mimi giggled.
"Turtles! Bring on the turtles!" Tatsuko yelled. "We'll rescue them, then eat them dancing!"
"I doubt we're gonna find any turtles Tatsuko." Eil sighed.
"You're making the Dragon King's Palace shudder…" Nanaki murmured.
"Well everyone is as lively as ever." Eil thought, an amused grin on his face, "And Miyu seems to have changed a bit. Still a bit shy, but she's actually talking to the others now. Still… hard to believe it's been around a month since then… since I arrived in this town and ended up in that crazy mess with those Cards. Hard to believe that all fell down to a chance encounter on that bridge… and then things just got crazier as the battles go harder. We got hurt, physically and emotionally… but, in the end we pulled through."
Edge's grin then faded when he thought about what else had happened… to both him and Illya, those weird moments where something seemed to overtake her, and what had happened to him during the Berserker fight, that being he met, the one called Oryx… a being of white and purple flames.
"But then there were those moments… what was all of that? Illya entering some kind of trance… and then that Oryx thing. That one had something to do with my family, but I still have no idea what any of that was… but I just know it has to be something important. Odds are… it's linked to the fact she's an Einzbern."
At a public park not too far from the high school, Eil was sitting up in one of the trees as the girls played around on the park equipment, everyone snacking on the ice cream they'd ordered (courtesy of Eil's pocket money), though Eil was stuck in thoughts again as he shifted to hang upside down and stare up at the clouds as they rolled by.
"Hmmm… I need to find a chance to tell Illya and Miyu about that thing we need to take care of." Eil said, tossing the trash in his hands into the nearby trash can with precise aim despite the whole "hanging upside down" bit, "Guess using the Archer card helped my accuracy a bit…"
"Eil."
Eil blinked, looking down from his cloud watching to see Miyu standing before him, flipping off of the branch and pocketing his hands.
"Yeah?" Eil hummed, Miyu scraping some ice cream onto the wooden spoon and holding it out to him.
"Ah." Miyu hummed, holding the stick out, Eil blinking, glancing around at how the rest were watching, but shrugging.
"Ahhh." Eil opened his mouth and took the treat, humming at the sweet flavor, "Not bad."
"AAAHHHHH!" Illya suddenly gave a scream and dashed over, swiping off a rather large bit of her own treat and holding it out, "Say ahh!"
"Eh?" Eil raised a brow, Illya's stern look saying otherwise, Eil sighing again, "Alright alright, ahh."
Illya then, rather than the stick, nearly shoved the entire cone into his mouth.
"Why the sudden reaction?" Miyu asked, Illya nearly ripping the cone out of Eil's mouth as she yelped, Eil gagging a bit as he held his throat and stumbled backwards.
"Eh? W-Well, why did you feed Eil in the first place?" Illya demanded.
"Because the others did it, so I got curious." Miyu stated, Eil still gaging a bit as he held his throat from. "But I don't think there was a need for you to react like that."
"I-It's just that… Eil is a boy so while it may be normal for friends among girls to do that… o-only couples actually feed each other! And I'm Eil's girlfriend so I should be the one feeding him treats like this!" Illya proclaimed, Eil raising a brow at the statement.
"That… makes no sense. Though maybe that's just the wording you used." Eil said, Illya shooting a look at him.
"Don't act innocent!" Illya snapped, trying to hide the fact she was quite flustered, "Ah… wait… AHHH! My entire cone is gone!"
"Pffhehe… well you did kinda shove it into my face." Eil snickered, Illya shuffling back and forth a bit in embarrassment, Miyu giving a small chuckle of her own. While elsewhere…
"My my, did you see that, Nanaki-san?" Suzuka chuckled.
"Almost like the last time something like this happened between the three of them. Look at how passionate they are, Suzuka-san." Nanaki chuckled.
"I'm glad all three of you are so close now." Mimi chuckled, Illya and Eil raising a brow.
"You three are so steamy Suzuka's ice cream melted!" Tatsuko laughed, spinning like a maniac on the twirling playset.
"Yeup… WAIT! You ate mine didn't you?!" Suzuka snapped, getting revenge by reversing Tatsuko's spin.
"You were guys were doing it too, I don't see the problem." Eil muttered, "Besides, I'm the one who paid for all of it… for some reason."
"Eil is right. Mimi and Nanaki did it too!" Illya stated, the other two shaking their heads. "I mean… I wanted to do more with it though."
"I don't recall." Nanaki snickered.
"Nope!" Mimi giggled, Eil sighing.
"That's mean you two!" Illya snapped, throwing her clenched hand up, "That much is normal between friends isn't it?!"
"Not when one of the friends is a boy. Especially when you're reaction is like that just because another girl shared her food with him. Oh by the way Illya, have you and Eil finally done it? Have you?! Have you?! I need het material!" Suzuka chuckled.
"Suzuka!" Illya shouted, her face starting to burn crimson, Eil coughing into a hand.
"Not something that we need to talk about in public!" Eil snapped, Suzuka cackling as she spun around a bit.
Eil was also almost not surprised that he was immediately confused as the walk through town continued on, the girl's eventually getting into swimsuit talk that just left the foreign boy at a complete loss, so he chose simply to remain quiet on the matter.
"I'm just gonna pick out some trunks and a beach shirt… can't be that complicated can it?" Eil thought, sighing with his arms behind his head as they stopped at the next crosswalk.
Only for a rather familiar limo to screech to a halt in front of the kids and within the next moment, Eil, Illya, and Miyu were pulled into the car, leaving their friends to stand in stunned silence as the limo shot off.
"Miyu… she's been kidnapped!" Tatsuko shouted, Mimi's hand shooting for a whistle in her pocket. "What do we do, hey what do we do?!"
"Officer!" Mimi shouted, blowing on the whistle with all her might
"Come on, calm down!" Suzuka spoke as she and Nanaki stopped the two panicking girls.
"Isn't that car from Miyu's place?" Nanaki added, everyone staring at the rear end of the limo as it continued off along the road.
And meanwhile in the limo, while Miyu and Illya were recovering from being yanked in, Eil looked rather annoyed above anything else as he sat up on the seat.
"Was that really necessary?!" Eil snapped, looking up to see none other than Rin and Lluvia, dressed in the local high school uniforms of all things, sitting before the trio of students and the Kaleidosticks, Illya and Miyu looking somewhat surprised to see the older girls yet again.
"Sorry it's so sudden." Rin stated.
"There's work to do." Lluvia added, Eil sighing. "Eil, did you explain the situation to them?"
"I uh… was going to be getting to that. But we were around the normals, so I couldn't." Eil replied, Rin shaking her head.
"Then let us. It has to do with the ley lines, somewhat predictably." Rin sighed, a hand on her forehead. "It shouldn't be too hard to fix.
"We've been tasked with restoring the damage left by the Cards. We did seal any perforations, but for some reason they haven't been recovering naturally as expected." Lluvia added, Eil folding his arms.
"That is weird. Leylines normally replenish pretty quickly once they've had any leaks sealed up, and considering the amount of leylines gathered here in Japan, especially in several areas here in Fuyuki, it's odd they haven't been fully restored." Eil explained, Rin nodding.
"And that's the issue. Hopefully they're neither plugged or restricted. So we're going to inject high density mana into the ley lines." Rin explained.
"Which you can do with just us since Illya and Miyu have the Kaleidosticks. Ruby, Sapphire, your prana reserves come from Second Magic." Eil said, the two Mystic Codes nodding, "Which makes it easy. They have an infinite mana supply, so they're perfect for the injection we have to perform."
"Well no surprise you know that. You are Zelretch's current apprentice." Rin murmured, a hint of jealousy in her tone, Lluvia grumbling as well, Eil looking to the side with a chuckle.
"What can you expect?" Eil said, clearing his throat, looking to Illya and Miyu. "But, yeah… we kinda need your help with this one."
"Same." Rin closed the subject, the younger three teenagers looking between themselves, Ruby humming as she floated out.
"My… judging by those uniforms you and Lluvia-san must have transferred to the high school recently, right?" Ruby mused, completely ignoring the previous subject.
"Yes." Lluvia answered, though Rin wasn't as receptive to the change in subject.
"Were you even listening to me?!" Rin began throttling Ruby, the Kaleidostick gagging (rather fakely at that) at the deadly vice that was Rin's grip.
"That reminds me… what happened to the Cards we gathered?" Illya inquired, Rin releasing Ruby.
"We have them, Lluvia and I, half each." Rin clarified.
"But there's seven." Eil added.
"But weren't you trying to steal the Cards from each other before?" Illya's inquiry continued, Ruby nodding. "I mean it got bad enough, Rin fell through Eil's roof and the helicopter came close to crashing in his back yard."
"Indeed! They even involved a helicopter in their distasteful dispute!" Ruby chuckled, spinning around to imitate the helicopter rotors, Eil picturing how that could have happened in his head.
"I feel sorry for that pilot. Good thing he wasn't too badly injured." Eil murmured.
"Ohhohohoho! Whatever are you saying? Right, Rin Tohsaka?" Lluvia laughed, Eil's look immediately hitting that flat stare that said he was about to say something snarky.
"Yes, I'm a Japanese woman who values harmony. Why would I be part of such an unseemly argument?" Rin asked, Illya and Miyu blinking.
"To translate, both of them were informed that neither could return to the Mage's Association until they learned to cooperate." Sapphire stated.
"Thank you, Sapphire." Eil nodded, Sapphire nodding in return.
"I still think there's something wrong about fighting so hard you crash a helicopter." Miyu pointed out the absurdity of such an event once again, Eil nodding.
"Ahahahaa! They're both hopeless idiots!" Ruby cackled, Rin and Lluvia's eyes shifting to glares, Eil lowering five fingers on one hand in time enough to when Rin and Lluvia went for each other's throats.
"Took them long enough." Eil snidely remarked.
"You think they'll actually learn cooperation?" Illya asked.
"No." Eil bluntly replied.
"It seems more like they tactfully rid themselves of a nuisance." Ruby quipped.
The rest of the car ride was spent with the first years having to listen to Rin and Lluvia argue, though when they finally did reach their destination, the sun was starting to set, and the group found themselves face to face with the many, many steps leading up to the local temple yet again.
"Last time we were here was to fight Caster." Miyu noted.
"No matter how often I see them, I don't want to go up." Illya commented, looking somewhat intimidated by the amount of steps.
"Man the mana here feels as strong as it did last time. I'm surprised the leylines bunched up around here could be that damaged." Eil looked at the map of the leylines he still had from before, noting this particular area was one of the three very large clumps of the "veins" the leylines were marked by.
"Yeup. Let's stop dawdling and get moving!" Rin stated, the march up the steps beginning, Eil mystified by the air around the place, even if they weren't even at the temple grounds itself. It was like he was finally noticing things he didn't have the time to think about before… or maybe now, he was more in tune to them due to the recent changes he'd experienced.
"The amount of prana in this area has to be insane, enough where… right… Fuyuki City is where the Grail Wars took place… that ritual connected to those Cards… but from what I read, don't physical Spirits get summoned like what was formed from the Cards? Eh, questions for later I suppose." Eil thought, stopping at a certain point, swearing he saw a flash of something, two blindingly fast figures with blades clashing, but the image was too short and too fuzzy for Eil to properly make anything out of it, "What was that?"
"Eil? Are you okay?"
Eil felt like he'd snapped back, looking over to see Illya looking at him with a concerned expression, Miyu following Rin and Lluvia down another path to the side.
"Hm? Uh, yeah! It was nothing, just zoned out for a bit is all! Ehe… don't worry Illya, I'm fine." Eil chuckled, Illya tilting her head as he walked past her, the troupe continuing on through the woods, Sapphire eventually coming out from her hiding spot in Miyu's hair.
"Nee-san, I think it's best we don't come out too often in places where people may see us." Sapphire warned against Ruby's rather uncaring tendency of showing herself.
"That's true. It's safer to hide in Illya's hair anyway!" Ruby quipped, the group stopping at one a cliff face, much to Illya's confusion.
"It seems there's a barrier here." Lluvia observed, looking up and down the cliff face.
"A barrier?" Illya asked, Eil nodding. "Oh right, you've been teaching me about those as of late!"
"It was likely put up to keep normal people out. If this is a ley line spot, it'd be best to try and keep the area under wraps for security reasons." Eil explained.
"Then we won't be able to enter will we?" Illya asked, Lluvia shaking her head.
"A barrier of this level poses no problem for us." Lluvia stated, Rin looking back to the younger trio.
"Illya, stand back please." Rin spoke, the first years doing as told, the air beginning to whip around as Rin lifted her hand, and within moments of the gale started, it ended, revealing that behind the false cliff face was an open glade within the tree line, Illya aweing at the sudden reveal, "Now, let's go."
"For a couple of temperamental hot heads, I can't deny that Rin and Lluvia are skilled magi in their own right." Eil thought, pocketing his hands, "Even if they're always fighting each other, they at least know how to handle themselves."
Though Eil immediately felt like retracting his opinion on the two as, right in front of them, the year-older teenagers ended up falling right into a rather obvious bog as if they hadn't even noticed it was there in the first place, Eil and Miyu sharing a blank but disillusioned looks, while Illya merely blinked, a forced, rather crooked grin forming as she tilted her head, the three approaching the bog and kneeling over the lip.
"A-A bottomless bog-" Illya murmured, Rin and Lluvia bursting up from below as they flailed about, covered head to toe in the dark liquid.
"Why is there such a lethal trap here?!" Rin screamed.
"What do you mean?!" Lluvia shouted, the first-years looking between themselves, Illya grabbing Rin's arms, while Miyu grabbed Lluvia by her hair, the two starting to pull immediately. "OW OW! Why are you grabbing my hair Miyu?! This is not a way to help your older sister!"
"I retract my earlier praise on these two… they're idiots." Eil sighed, a hand on his forehead, Miyu and Illya not having any luck with pulling the mage duo out as they were.
"Uh-oh, it doesn't appear you can pull them out." Ruby chuckled.
"Miyu-sama, with a bottomless bog, I believe we'll have no trouble disposing of the bodies." Sapphire stated, Eil's eyes widening at the rather demure Mystic Code saying something of that sadistic nature.
"Now isn't the time to be saying that is it?!" Illya yelped.
"Illya, in this case…" Miyu murmurd.
"Yeah but…" Illya muttered, her face flushing a bit.
"But what?" Miyu asked.
"Eil is standing right there! Do we really want to let him watch us Trans?!" Illya stated, outright hissing the words to try and keep Eil from hearing her.
"I don't get why you're so embarrassed. I mean you two are dating." Miyu bluntly replied.
"That's not the point Miyu!" Illya whined, shuffling a bit. "I'm just still not comfortable with the idea of him seeing me… like that while it's happening."
"But there was that…"
"We promised not to talk about that time!" Illya snapped.
"I'll keep them above the water, you two do your thing." Eil stated, grabbing an arm from both of the other teens, more or less simply sitting as the flashing lights and such of Illya and Miyu entering Trans in the non-immediate manner began, Rin and Lluvia flailing about while Eil just planted himself on his rear, "Can you two please stop struggling?"
"Eil, we're done!" Illya spoke, Rin growling.
"About time! Get us out of here!" Rin snapped, Miyu and Illya taking holds themselves.
"One, two…" The three spoke, yanking Rin and Lluvia out with hard pulls, Lluvia and Rin coughing and spluttering once they hit the ground.
"And with that done can we now find the insertion point?" Eil asked, hands on his hips.
"Pheeoooo. This is a big ass cave." Eil let out a whistle as he looked around the rather large space inside of the cave they'd been lead to, noting the rather loud echoing going on.
"I didn't know this was here." Illya awed, Lluvia at the same time finishing the set up for the ritual, placing the last gem in the circle that had been made.
"Okay, let's finish this quickly and head home." Rin then reached into the case she had, pulling out a staff of twisted wood and jabbing it into the ground, a magic circle forming from its base as the staff then grew and expanded like a tree reaching towards the ceiling of the cave, "Finished placing the dowser."
"So, this is what a ley line dowser looks like." Eil hummed, looking down at the spinning magic circle as it rose up around them. "I'll take another position."
Rin nodded to that, Eil stepping to the side and forming a triangle with the other two magi, Illya and Miyu standing right at the dowser with the Kaleidosticks ready.
"Commence mana injection!" Rin shouted, Illya and Miyu aiming the sticks at the dowser, Eil and Lluvia placing a hand on the ground each, and a progressively brighter glow began emanating from the magic circles and the dowser as mana flowed into it.
"Injection at ten percent." Lluvia stated, keeping a read on the process, Eil noting that it was possible to feel the mana flowing into the ground itself from where he was, Rin also placing a hand on the ground, "Twenty… Thirty… Forty… Fifty…"
"Maintain output at those levels!" Rin ordered, Illya looking up at the glowing dowser.
"Sixty-five… Eighty… Ninety-five… One hundred!" Lluvia shouted.
"Release!" Rin snapped, the Eil's eyes wide as he watched the flow of energy move down the dowser in a twirling ribbon of light, the glow growing brighter and brighter before eventually fading down, the dowser returning to its original staff form.
"Are we done?" Illya asked, the magi standing, Eil nodding.
"That should be it, right? Cause I've got a prickling on the back of my neck." Eil murmured, feeling a burning sensation starting to ebb across him. "Not again…"
"At least for now." Rin replied, "Until we measure again, we won't know how successful it was."
"For now, our work is complete. Let's leave and go home." Lluvia stated, Eil rubbing the back of his head as he gave a sigh, then he felt that familiar danger sense start blaring in his head as the ground seemed to shift, the ground beginning to shake, the ground then beginning to split from the dowser, violet light coming from the cracks in the earth.
"Knockback?!" Rin gasped.
"Crap!" Eil yelped, the ground starting to cave, Rin and Lluvia getting carried up on a large chunk that shot up as the floor collapsed, Illya shooting up after them, Eil and Miyu getting in front of her.
"Illya, we'll handle this!" Eil stated, pushing off from mana foot holds. "Connect, Pegasus!"
"You secure our escape!" Miyu added, Illya nodded as the other two grabbed Rin and Lluvia, the two dodging the rocks as they pushed off of the air, though as they headed for the exit, an all too large chunk began falling in front of them, Eil already reacting as he lifted his free hand, ready to cast a spell of his own to stop it, but as he was, he saw Illya streaking towards them, her expression falling blank as her eyes changed color, and with a flash, she had wordlessly Installed the Archer card from Rin's pocket.
Eil was barely keeping up with the lightning fast movements, Illya calling forth a four layered bounded field, the light from the burst of mana being blinding as things came down around the group.
"Illya?!" Eil shouted, the light eventually becoming blinding, and next Eil knew, he found himself on the ground, staring up at the roof of the cave from atop a pile of rubble, dust settling all around everywhere else that could be seen, "Oww…"
"Is everyone okay?!" Ruby shouted, Eil looking down to see a battered but relatively unharmed Rin and Miyu, jumping down to the ground, noting that there was a bit of a warm feeling on his face, likely bleeding from a gash.
"Just now, what was that?!" Rin coughed, Lluvia shooting up herself, a rock perfectly balanced on her head, and she seemed perfectly ignorant of the stone and the blood on her face, Eil almost reeling back in surprise.
"Yes, I'm fine-But you aren't, Lluvia-nee-san." Miyu murmured, Lluvia lifting a brow.
"How are you keeping that so perfectly balanced?" Eil murmured, looking around, "Where's Illya? And, what happened back there? She used the Archer card all of a sudden for some reason. And her eyes… they looked like they did back then."
"Illya, where are you?!" Rin shouted.
"Over here!" Illya's voice carried over from a short way off, sighs of relief going around as she looked relatively unharmed, "My head hurts, I think I hit it!"
"Ah thank goodness." Eil sighed, trotting after Miyu as she went ahead, though it only took moments for everyone else to stop dead and reel back in shock, "What the hell…?"
"What is this?!" Rin gasped.
"What's going on?" Lluvia murmured, Illya lifting a brow.
"Illya… next to you." Eil pointed out, his eyes stuck on the fact that, right next to Illya, there was now someone else, a perfect look-alike to the girl with tanned skin and pale lavender hair, her a mysterious golden color, the same one Eil remembered seeing before, the doppelganger also garbed in a tattered, caped version of the Archer install… and the one who was the most confused by this was Illya herself, who could only stare in wide eyed shock.
But, what came to a surprise to Eil was when the Illyas managed to look away… and the dark Illyas gaze fell right to Eil, the boy blinking as a small smile curled onto her face.
"What the hell is going on?!" Eil's thoughts perfectly matched his expression, nothing but shock, but for some reason, a strange familiarity rose up in the back of his mind, one that left him at a complete and utter loss as his eyes remained fixed on the other Illya's smile.
"It was that day, the day Illya became two people, that I think the story really began for us… a new beginning spawned from the end of the first story, but it was this beginning that was bound to spiral into more. And it all began here, with thisgolden eyed girl who'sfirst expression towards me was a smile."
A/N
Well this was a surprising case of "don't need to fix what isn't broken." With the way 2wei is some of my workload should be a bit lighter for this first arc of it from what I did beforehand. Not too bad of a deal honestly. Of course I'mma add PLENTY of things due to all the stuff that's going on. Some of it well be lewd, I can assure that one.