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Chapter 12: A Fiery Preparation


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Analysing the impressive power behind the Fireball had finally got Shirou to look at his new skill in neutral appreciation.

Yes, slimes were easy enemies to pick on and they were the perfect way to upgrade the low-ranked skills in the young Emiya's arsenal, but something told him that the Fire Manipulation was going to give him some good results against future opponents.

Once the dungeon was cleared, the young teen decided to sit on the ground, reflecting on the serious change of few days ago.

The appearance of this new threat was something he had hoped it wouldn't have happened.

That's why his training schedule had started to get more lax after Angra Mainyu.

He could remember the promise made with Illya, to avoid any confrontations of this kind.

Shirou had accepted at the time, accepting the reasoning behind her decision.

There was no reason for him to train so hard for no apparent reason.

Yet Illya's wishes had not come true and her brother was now preparing once again to deal with a situation a normal boy should never be taken into.

He had felt bad the day earlier as he had to make some faux excuse to avoid unnecessary questions.

Still training was proving to be something incredibly relaxing as the young Emiya had felt an incredible amount of frustration to the futility of his current level.

If it hadn't been for Jeanne's intervention, he...

The thought died there as the implications of that what if were far too much hurting to his unprepared mind.

Surprisingly enough Fire Manipulation didn't limit itself to simple spells.

It had happened just few hours ago. Kanshou and Bakuya felt rusty and so he decided to get on touch with his oddly favourite falchions.

The Dungeon selected was akin to a fantasy-like forest and Ent-like monsters were attacking him relentlessly.

As he dodged a punch from the tree creature, he felt his body being grasped from behind by a big hand.

He thought little of this moment of weakness but as the blades failed to cut the tangled branches, he felt his worry rise as he felt the hand starting to crush his body.

Several notifications appeared in front of him, showing his constantly decreasing HPs.

In that moment of panic and fear, Fire Manipulation activated and the two Chinese falchions seemed to transform in his eyes.

Similar to what he had planned for the Trace Overedge he had decided to test later, the two blades extended their figure.

Bakuya's form was covered in a light blue aura, while Kanshou's was red.

As the falchions impacted on the uncaring beast of wood, Shirou watched in morbid surprise how easily the blades cut through the strong arm.

The monster backed away holding his damaged arm, now a melted stump.

Let's just say that in a matter of minutes the opponents were defeated and that the forest now had a particular smoke-like odour.

A quick interrogation inside his mind proved his suspects true as Jeanne confessed nonchalantly her simple imposition over this unfamiliar mechanism of the Gamer.

Surprisingly enough she had appeared less smug than usual and eying him with curious empathy.

When asked of this weird behavior, the other four Servants were unable to give a proper answer.

Another surprise was Diamond's rekindled PTSD.

The Kaleidoband had been quite silent the day before and now seemed to have lost his usual chirpy attitude.

"My neechans are both onto me, Shirou-kun." He had stated earlier that day in a blank tone. "They have both shown their true, stalkerish self."

A part of him felt symphatetic towards the traumatized Mystic Code, yet Shirou himself was unsure of why.


"Keh! You should learn your manners when eating." Luvia stated while laughing at the rival's behavior.

Rin's right eye twitched in annoyance. "You sneezed too, Edelfelt. You should be less uncouth as me since you grew up with your parents."

The Tohsaka's heiress nowadays cared little of her social status as Orphan and this had caught the young Blonde offguard everytime.

In her mind, after being spoiled so much by her mother and father, thinking so little of them was surreal and disgusting.

Yet the foreign girl recognised the sense behind Rin's tone and somehow felt that there was some connection between the two.

Her, the noble heiress of the Edelfelt Family, lived a lonely childhood because of her pedigree.

Rin Tohsaka, last member of the Tohsakas (not counting her younger, removed sister Sakura), and had cultivated true relatioships with the Emiyas and the Ainsworths.

Unwilling to show weakness to her love rival, Luvia looked away. "Tch!"


Shirou paused as he felt as if he had caused some deep changes in the world.

It was weird how specific this information was, yet he was... sure of it.

His reverie was broken by the quick slash from the right that he barely dodged.

"I cannot leave you any opening, can I?"

The monster answered with a growl as his pitch-black form itched to cause more damage on the puny human.

"Then I shall step up my Game. I hope you can keep up!"

With a smirk, Shirou Emiya continued his battle against the fake Boss resembling Kotomine's monstrous form.

Hard times required hard work and the young Emiya was no stranger to harsh training.


AN

Another Chapter is done!

As some have been asking in the past, I can now give you with more certainity that the Arc will last till Chapter 20-25.

Shorter than Arc 1, but then there was a lot to do and it's kind of difficult to come up with an original plotline without reconnecting or copying from Arc 1's story.

I noticed that my descriptions are quite lacking and I hope to be able to draw what I wanted to show regarding the falchions' new form.

Review Q&A!

Cole shiryu: Yup, Shirou and Diamond are in for some quite similar predicaments in the near future. At least Luvia and Rin are less creepy than their Kaleidosticks.

merendinoemiliano: Not that much fun if you feel fire burning your ass. Still thank you!

MWkillkenny84: Thank you! And no, the antagonist is original (AKA created by me with an original story).

R-king 93: Diamond sends his thanks to the support coming from the Review section.

KRKing: Yes, Shirou's experience with fire and the quite Traumatic dream he had been feeling before discovering this new Skill kind of threw him off balance. You can find more about Balilla on Wikipedia, still there she is described as a boy but I decided to pull a Arthur/Arthuria change.

Saberfang Orcalodon: He got two yandere sisters that are not backing off from the hunt . If Irony was a drug, then Shirou is possibly the most permanent drug user in the world. xD

Guest(Chapter6): Some traumas can led to some mature mindsets in children. In canon Shirou found in Kiritsugu and Taiga pillars of light in the grim world he had just witnessed.
The death of Kiritsugu, while not being the major cause of this change, has led Shirou to grow faster to protect his sister. It is quite similar to the massive growth Miyuverse!Shirou experience during the movie. He is initially quite attached to Kiritsugu's ideals but because he regarded Miyu as his true sister, he decided to do the right thing in his mind and become an adult. Still thank you for the critic, as I said I have no reason to go 'Bad Cop' on anyone if they have done nothing wrong and you did nothing wrong by voicing your question. :)

AngelaVargas1: Yup!

: I think someone asked that in the last chapter of Arc 1. My answer has not changed: while Shirou is the Gamer, he lack the Gamer's mind and so he is unable to remember everything in a moment of huge mental stress. Plus Excalibur would have needed some time to prepare and Shirou had none as he had to defend himself from Avenger's last assault.