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Chapter 13: The Heirs' challenge starts!


The New York - Paris flight went smoothly as the previous weather problems originating from South America had finally passed and the Airlines had been quick to take advantage of the first window of opportunity to return to their usual work.

Yet some worry was impossible to completely soothe.

He had hoped to met up with that woman after so many years passed at training privately.

"You have the determination to become someone better than me in the future. If you truly try this, Marcus, you will even surpass my son."

Words that once motivated him and gave him the drive through the hardships of military training died the moment a particular newspaper described an airplane 'accident'.

He might be dumb once in a while but Marcus was sure that there were different reasons for the mysterious explosion that destroyed the plane with Natalia Kamiski inside.

He had tried to replace the lack of the promised challenge, trying to turn to the professional mercenary's heir, but he seemed to vanish just four years after her dead.

Kiritsugu Emiya became a ghost as the dossiers about him vanished with him.

Enquiring further in former superiors during his training resulted in weird behaviors in the senior officers.

Some tended to ignore the questions, while others just answered with vague words of caution.

"Marcus, while I consider you a tough soldier, you are not capable to winning that kind of battle if they caught notice of your search. Give up."

The warning caused the rise of two clashing feelings in the now older and more mature Marcus.

These words reminded him of the warning that assassin had gave to him and he had started to look around his everyday routine, paranoia controlling his mind once in a while.

Who were those people? Who were they?

While the words had impacted his drive to learn more about the woman that had saved him in that facility, the final two words were actually the ones that cemented his resolve.

Give up.

Marcus remembered too well how those words were said by the monstrous deformation of bodies as it was about to strike him down once for all.

Then, even through he had been a young teenager, the words were able to trigger an hidden strength he didn't even knew of having.

He decided to not give up. He decided to not surrender himself to sure death. In that moment Marcus had taken control of his own life and won the fear of death.

When those words were once more said this time by the former superior, his drive re-awakened and his need of answers seemed to become a vital part of him.

His efforts reached some positive results only after much time passed on old census books and searching keywords like Emiya or Assassin.

Eight years since his disappearance Kiritsugu resurfaced in the world.

Further research confirmed that he had retired from his job (not yet described by none of the documents found) to the small town of Fuyuki.

Suprise and shock demanded from Marcus to find reasons, motivations for this totally weird move.

When he had met Kiritsugu so many years ago, he had seen someone who was willing to die in the battlefield to achieve his dreams.

Yet he had decided to not kill anymore.

The reason that was truly acceptable to Marcus' mind was the young red-haired boy that had been adopted by the old Emiya after a great fire happening in the city.

It was acceptable but it felt like it lacked a major reason for Kiritsugu's decision to adopt an orphan.

He had seemed quite detached from children and older kids when he had seen him in public, a smoke lit and his face twisted in masked annoyance.

Further research was done but nothing else came up.

His first attempt to try and contact Kiritsugu failed as it seemed that the man had his house completely deprived of usual devices of communication.

He had then decided to met with him personally, prenoting a flight to Japan.

Marcus threw the tickets on the trashcan as soon as the news of Kiritsugu's death had been heard.

And while checking up with his usual contacts, he was surprised of another change.

It seemed that Shirou Emiya had not been Kiritsugu's first child as one Illyasviel von Einzbern had moved in with him.

She was documented as Kiritsugu's biological daughter and more information were given in her birth certificate.

Her mother had been Irisviel von Einzbern and she had died an year earlier than Kiritsugu because of some serious genetic illness.

This new change had opened several new ways to look for the answers Marcus searched for and he had planned to do so before he had been called for this situation in France.

He looked the watch in his wrist and grunted in annoyance.

The man had been waiting for the rendesvouz with Peter.

A feeling of emptiness started to spread in his body as he knew that Peter was quite punctual with his time, especially with those kinds of situations.

The ever-familiar ringtone of his cellphone snapped Marcus out of his broody self and he answered the call without checking the caller.

"M-Marcus. I-It's Peter. I need your help. T-That beast has been chasing me for almost an entire hour."

"Peter? Man, where are you? Where are the others?"

Few minutes passed filled by the sound of ragged breathing.

"T-T-That monster. Marcus, he took them! He took them..." Peter sobbed while saying those words.

Dread filled Marcus' heart, yet he stood his ground. "Peter, your location. Now!"

"I-I'm in the forest. W-We are insane to think of beating that. We need to- No! NO! STAY AWAY! NOO-!*SLASH*"

Marcus put the phone back in the pouch as he could now hear the scream of pain from where he was.

"PETER! I'M COMING!"

And so the man ran deeper in the green area.


Shirou walked slowly, following one of the many small trails of the forest.

Diamond was with him and the young Emiya was donning his Mystic Hero form.

"Be careful, Shirou-kun. The energy I felt was quite powerful and whoever or whatever it is it might be stronger than us."

Shirou didn't reply immediately, looking around his proximity.

"I know." He started. "Still, I want to end this story quickly if possible."

The silence of the night was interrupted as a bloodcurling scream made Shirou jump warily.

"We might have found something!" His legs started to move quickly as Prana from the Mystic Code reinforced his lower limbs.

Once again, battle was going to starts between good and evil.


AN

Phew! This chapter took a while!

Before starting the Q&A, I remind you all Marcus Faire will not be replacing Shirou in this story. His presence is similar to Tanaka's in FKLPI. He will serve as an useful secondary character that will be active in the end of the Arc. After that the only time he will retain importance is through the spinoff that I plan to start this summer.

Yes, another major news: I might took a month of Hiatus in this story after ending Arc 2.
The reasons are that 1) I will focus on this spinoff; 2) I can finally starts the comic especially with the free time coming from the post-exams session.

Lastly, while this chapter his considered the 50th of the fanfic I decided to take off the two ANs chapter from the count. So celebrations will commence in two chapters. HUZZAH!

Now Review Q&A!

Cole Shiryu: Are we talking about Rin's/Luvia's rivalry, then yes.

merendinoemiliano: Thank You!

MVkillkenny84: I was a bit confused by your retelling of F/HA story behind Rin's and Luvia's family bond. Yes, the two are related because of the two Edelfelt sisters having split off during the Third Grail War with the one similar to Rin getting integrated after a big discussion between the two. Still I noticed that the two might be unaware of this since Rin had been educated by Kirei and by books, while the Edelfelt might have classified the story as a stain in their family records and had it completely removed from the common knowledge given to the heirs. Still thank you!

Saberfang Orcalodon: Yup! Diamond's and Shirou's relationships are quite parallel with each other.

AngelaVargas1: LVL UP! LVL UP! LVL UP!

tanithlipsky: Thank you!