Black Zero 4
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A mother's love is a powerful thing. God help the B*stard that tried to harm her child because no one else will. -Unknown
People who sin say that they had to, to survive. People who sin say that it's too late to stop now. The shadow called Sin dogs them steadily from behind, silently, without a word. Remorse and Agony are repeated, only to end up at Despair. But what sinners don't know, or what they have forgotten, is that there is a light, a light which keeps shining on them ever so warmly. A light that will never fade. - Trigun
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In a land of snow and ice where normal people do not go, there stood a castle belonging to the Einsberns. That day, the old castle was enjoying a rare winter's day where the snow did not blow and the sky was merely cloudy and gray.
On this day, a Master and his daughter played one of their old favorites, count the chestnuts.
"Alright, today, I will not lose!" Saying so, the excited Ilyasviel quickly moves into the forest ahead of her father. She is adorable in her small purple boots that crunch the snow beneath her feet, but her eyes are like that of hawks and don't miss anything of the surrounding trees, no signs of careless exist in her eyes. Right now, the girl was in the midst of a fierce battle with her father and she would not lose
"Oh, here's one. The first for today." Kiritsugu announced happily
"No way! Where? I can't have missed it!" Illya declared as she tried to find the elusive one she had missed. Returning a bold smile towards his beloved daughter, Kiritsugu pointed at a twig above his head. From a frost branch of walnut, a humble winter sprout was sticking out.
"Fuhhuhu, I get the first point. Let's keep that rhythm." Kiritsugu said playfully
"I won't lose! I swear I won't lose today!" Illya declared as she spun around and began her search. She didn't make it very far before she suddenly bumbed into Saber
"It-t-t-tai" Illya moaned.
"Ah, gomen Illya." Saber apologized.
"mou~," Illya fumed, "No time, the champion is in the middle of a fight."
Saber smiled at Illya and pointed to a small sprout on Illya's right. Rather than being pleased to see the sprout, Illya pouted then announced, "Mou! Saber found one as well." Illya said upset. Then she smiled. "A new challenger comes to face me, very well. The Champion accepts all challenges." She puffed out her chest and scampered off.
Kiritsugu ceased to smile as he looked at his Servant who interrupted their fight. The man said nothing as he moved past her.
"I understand your concern Kiritsugu. You are not the first to be angry that a woman took the throne." Saber said.
Kiritsugu looked at her with his dead eyes not giving away anything.
"However, what's done is done. We can only go forward unless we wish to make our pasts into lies." Saber continued. "Your dream is an admirable one, though it is flawed." She smiled at him kindly, "I knew another with the same dream and fell in love with it." She looked whistful as she remembered Shirou. How he fought his future self, how he had faced his ideal and won finding that everything he had done and all that he might do would be worth it. That it was not meaningless to devote one's life to a flawed ideal even if the rest of the world clamored against the ideal.
"Your ideal is nor the same." Saber said "However, I still want to see it none the less."
Kiritsugu's eyes widened at that.
"I found one as well." Illya called out.
"I found two." Both Kiritsugu and Saber called out at the same time.
"EHHHHHH?" Illya cried out. "Where? Where? I thought I didn't miss any."
Kiritsugu pointed to two buds to his left while Saber pointed to two more in the same direction as the one she pointed out earlier. Illya fumed at that missing all the points. The champion was under heavy pressure today. The new challenger was throwing her off, but she would persevere.
"Why don't we invite Irisviel?" Saber suddenly asked.
"Eh?" the two others said at once. Saber pointed off to the distance where they say Irisviel standing off to the side.
"Ah, Mother!" Illya cried happily waving her arms, "Come, come. Let's play." Saber smiled kindly while Kiritsugu actually smirked.
Irisviel walked on over, "Is it alright?" She asked Illya.
"Yeah, let's all play one last time before you leave." Illya said. For a moment, the others all lost their smiles, then they regained it.
"Fufufu," Irisviel chuckled, "Don't regret it Illya, Mama is su~uper strong."
"it's true," Kiritsugu said playing along, "You up to it Illya?"
"Fufu," Illya said puffing out her chest, "A Champion accepts all challengers. I won't lose."
As they began the search, Saber kept filing away every defense, every barrier, familiar, weakness, and anything else useful about the Einzbern. It may be necessary for her and Kiritsugu to assault this place to save Illya after the Grail War. After Illya was safe, Saber would be content to return back to the Throne and her family. Kiritsugu would not have to command her to destroy the Grail this time, but she would first try to save Iri and Shirou.
It would be a lot of work, but all her life, she had been victorious in battle. Only when she had forgotten her ideal and searched for the Grail to undo her past had she lost. Only when she had lost herself had she been defeated. So, she would remember herself and do all that she could to bring Kiritsugu victory and a better ending.'
She owed him that much for raising Shirou
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Sahashi Tamaki would always remember this day till she died. It started out as a fairly normal day. She had slept little with Yukari waking up in the middle of a night after having a nightmare about her brother which took hours to calm down the little girl. Breakfast consisted of Yukari eating a bowl of cereal while Tamaki contented herself with a couple of cups of coffee. While Yukari got ready for daycare, Tamaki snuck out to smoke her first cigarette of the day.
D*mn Minaka, the man was giving her more and more grey and white hairs by the day. It was getting so bad that little Minato kept calling her Shiro (White). It seemed to have become her son's favorite phrase 'Shiro, Shiro' she'd have to talk to him about tack soon, but with his chicken pox and fever he was staying with her parents in Fuyuki.
Speaking of her parents, she would need to call them on her lunch break but today was going to be busy with the new modification attempts on Homura. Not to mention she wanted to try something else on Yume today to see if there was a way to increase her power. The Broken Seikirei would never be able to be winged, so they might as well try to make her stronger. Never know when another invasion attempt may be made against the island…
After dropping off Yukari at daycare, she quickly made her way to the new headquarters of MBI smoking her second cigarette of the day already preparing herself to deal with the Idiot Genius's newest plot to make her die from a stroke. 'Let's see, will it be some new idea to turn the moon into cheese? Or maybe overthrow the Japanese government so that he can make a law that everyone wears only swimwear?' Whatever the reason, whatever the idea, she had her handy dandy clipboard ready to smash his head the instant he opened his mouth.
She made her way into the building, slipped her card through the reader while Hiro the security guard waved at her. She made her way to the elevator and slid her card through another reader before she pressed the button for the top floor. One elevator ride later, she exited the machine and entered Minaka's office.
"Sahashi-san." A cheerful voice called out.
Tamaki nodded at the head of the Disciplinary Squad Yume.
"I see you're as perky as ever," a sardonic voice called out. Tamaki ignored Karasuba and looked on at her living migraine
"Minaka," Tamaki said already feeling a familiar headache building up.
"Ah, Tamaki it's good to see you, though you don't look like you slept much." Minaka said with his signature grin. How Tamaki wanted to rip that off him, it's not like he knew anything about raising children.
Before the day could begin though, the office phone rang.
"Hello?" Minaka said cheerfully as he answered the phone. "Yes, she is right here. Oh my, someone's in trou~ble." Minaka said as he put the phone on speaker.
"Sahashi Tamaki." A serious male voice called out
"Yes," Tamaki said wondering who would be calling her. She pulled out a cigarette and prepared to light it ignoring the warnings not to smoke posted in the room.
"This is Captain Fuwara of the Fuyuki Police Department. I'm sorry, but your parents are dead."
Tamaki dropped both the cigarette and lighter instantly. "What?" she asked. No, she had to have heard incorrectly.
"Sometime last night, two intruders broke into their home and killed your parents. We don't know the full details, but it seems that the two intruders had an argument and one of them-"
"What about Minato?" She cried out feeling her body turn to ice
"Who?" The captain asked
"My son, he was staying with them, what about him?" Tamaki cried
There was a pause and the sound of shuffling of papers and whispers of various men. "I'm sorry, but I cannot release that information at this time."
"G*ddammit that's my son, what happened to him?" She screeched. Never before had she felt so weak, so pitiful as right now.
"Ma'am, please calm down we're-"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?" Tamaki roared causing everyone in the room, including both Disciplinary Seikirei to flinch.
There was a sigh, "We don't know. Two of our officers responded to a disturbance call about your parents' house. When they got there, the door burst open as one of the intruders left. The intruder killed one of my men and wounded the other. The man mentioned he thought he saw a child on the intruder's back but he isn't very coherent right now. Keeps babbling about demons and such."
"So he was kidnapped?" Tamaki asked quietly, dangerously quiet. Men had heard that quiet voice right before they died.
"We don't know….Ma'am, is there any reason for someone to attack your parents or your son?"
Oh, there were several reasons she could think of at the top of her head, many people using her son as leverage against her and Minaka and the whole of MBI. However she responded with, "No, why would anyone do this?"
She listened as the policeman said his condolences, which were worth warm spit, and asked her to go to the nearest police station in Shin Tokyo to get more information before he hung up.
Tamaki stood there for a bit, unable to move, unable to breathe as she took it all in. Her son, someone had taken her son and possibly killed them. Someone had killed her parents and taken her son. How? How could anyone one have known that Minato was here. While a part of her panicked, another part analyzed the information and came to two hypotheses. Either, someone had attacked her parents and didn't know Minato was there until they got there. Said intruders would have debated on what to do with the kid, which sounded like they then got into a fight over what to do with her son. The Second hypothesis was that someone in the company had leaked about her son being left with her parents. They had taken her son and her parents had resisted getting themselves killed in the process.
Tamaki looked up and glared at Minaka who shrank from her gaze. Never before had she looked so bloodthirsty.
"Find my son." She said. It was so quiet, almost a whisper, but there was more grief and bloodlust in it than Karasuba and Miya combined could hope to match. "Find him, no matter the cost."
"R-r-right." Minaka said unable to look at her, instead he looked over at Yume, "Use all resources to find Sahashi Minato."
"Understood," Yume said dangerously.
"Ho~o, things got a lot more interesting." Karasuba said who then had to duck a clipboard being thrown at deadly speeds.
"Find my son." She said one more as tears began falling from her eyes. "Find him, and being me the heads of those responsible."
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Save Him Kiritsugu Save Him
Why won't they shut up? The more I climb the more voices I hear and they all won't shut up. I am so tired though. With all this endless climbing, the voices, the torrents of liquid on me, the weight on my leg, I am so tired. It would be so easy to let go, to fall until I hit the rising liquid below me and drown. It would be so easy…
I hAvE fOuGHtoVeR cOuNtLeSs bAtTlEfIeLdS
So I won't…
I won't stop, I'll keep going. I don't know why, I don't care why. I just know I have to keep going, to keep pulling myself up.
Save Him
Now if only the voices would do me the favor of being quiet long enough for me to concentrate fully on the chains.
The wind was sharp as a whetted knife
As it blew from the salty seas
I climb and climb again and again against the torrent of liquid moving up, always up away from the ever rising pool. I know not how long I have climbed, but it has to be a long time, I am so tired, but I keep on climbing lest I drown.
What's that? A light? Yes, there's a light above me. It's not very bright, but it's there. It flashes between red and gold, bit I see a light. Well…it's not like there's anything to see down here.
Kiritsugu Save Him
So I climb, toward that light. I can only hope it leads to my sa-
The storm wind stirred to a ghostly life
The Gaunt black skeletal trees:
Or it could just lead me to the voices where I can shut them up. Either one works.
HaNdS StAiNeD wItH bLoOd, aNdhEaD fUlL of hOrrOrS
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Curse the sun, it was a false light. It did not glow warmly like the Light, it glared like a shadow wanting to be a Light. Curse it with all the hate possessed. How were offerings supposed to be gathered to offer to the Light in the sun? The shadows were darker in the sun, only in night were the shadows pale. More offerings had been found before the sun came, but the Light would need more, much more. Only the first offering pleased the Light. All others had failed to please it. More offerings, more things to please the Light
Moremoremore
It should be noted that while the first one was chicken soup, things like potato chips, uncooked ramen, sake, and blood splattered bread stolen from a freshly killed hobo are not good foods for a sick child. But of course, try telling that to Berserker.
And so there was nothing to do but watch the Light, it was always pleasant to watch. So warm and beautiful; the sun was a pale comparison to the Light. Tonight more offerings would be needed, more delectable and tasty offerings. Only the best offerings will be given to the Light. Only the best to make it glow so warmly and perhaps it will praise the one that gives the offering.
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The boy dreamed of school, of friends made and bows shot; of a girl with more in common with tigers and vacuum cleaners than humans. He dreamed of a boy that looked down on all others and a boy that was raised by monks. He dreamed of helping so many others to make them happy which made him happy, only for him to move on before he heard a word of thanks.
He dreamed of a crush on an idol and the beginning of a crush on a girl with purple hair. He dreamed of so many things, and he forgot none of it.
Minato Sahashi was dying, suffocating under the onslaught of images. And another was being born from his corpse.
He dreamed of a man in blue facing a man in red, of a spear in the heart and an invisible blade saving his life. He dreamed and dreamed and dreamed unaware of what was occurring around him.
His body, already weakened from the chicken pox and fever began to burn form an alternate source. Things similar, yet, different to nerves, similar, but, different than veins and arteries began opening; twenty seven of these things began flashing as they opened for the first time ever wracking the boy in pain, pain he did not notice as he dreamed.
He dreamed of a girl in blue with golden hair making an oath to him, of a man with dead eyes in the vestments of a priest; of a black giant and a little girl with white hair and red eyes. He dreamed of a man in red with blades as white as the moon and as black as the night.
"I…have created…over…a…thousand blades."
Kiritsugu closed his eyes as the plane took off, he would be in Fukyuki in twenty hours. He would scout out the area with Maiyu then join up with Saber and Iri when they arrived. Saber had agreed to protect Iri with all her power and act as the decoy for him. He had been surprised how little she fought him, but Saber had said that thought she did not like this way to fight, she did acknowledge that this was the best way to fight.
The last thing Saber had done before he left was warn him that
"Do not ever make assumptions about anyone. Nothing is as it seems in the Grail war Kiritsugu, be careful and do not underestimate anyone."
It had been so seriously, Kiritsugu knew that she was to be heeded. She knew something, and he would be a fool to ignore it. So, anything Maiyu took up, he would look over twice just to make sure that he assumed nothing.
He closed his eyes and began to dream
He saw a bright light, and then he saw Saber fight a man in blue and chased him out of a shed. The place looked familiar for some reason. The Saber turned around and looked at a redhead boy that sat on the ground looking at her in wonder. They gaze he gave her was filled with something os powerful there were no words to describe. Wonder, fear, awe, worship, so much was in that gaze.
Then Saber spoke "I ask of thee, art thou my Master?"
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