A challenge


Rin waited at the exit that Sakura had last used from this building, Her demons hadn't been able to tell her much about it as it had only be recently built. All she had been able to get out of them was it's name (The Conventicle Malfeasant) and that only certain people were allowed in.

As Rubinrot had described it "It is like a special town that are only for the master's secret weapons." If Sakura was in there then she much have been one of these secret weapons too.

Her plan was; Wait for Sakura to show herself, try and remind her of their sibling bond, if that didn't work then battle her and take her back to Shirou. Even if she couldn't help her, Shirou could almost certainly help.

She looked up towards a nearby roof where Silber was keeping an eye on other exits. He gave her the all clear so she moved on.

Rubinrot was with her just in case she needed to move quickly and Blutspucke waited nearer the gates. He wasn't very stealthy so Rin had decided to have him act as a distraction when and if she needed it.

Sakura had never been the best close quarters fighter so Rin knew if it came to a fight then she would need to get close. A distraction was useful for that sort of thing.


After a while of waiting, impossible to know how long due to Malfeas' strange time, Rin felt something was wrong and looked to the mouth that acted as the door. It was in it's cycle so someone was coming out. She was on high alert while peering forward, hoping for it to be Sakura.

The door finished it's cycle. No matter how much Sakura changed, Rin wouldn't mistake her.

Sakura, with bleached white hair and a barely visible green pallor to her skin, walked out of the door. She was followed by what appeared to be a maid. The maid appeared to be carrying a near-empty bag of something.

Rin waited for her to make her way further away from the door before standing up straight and walking out to see her.

When Sakura saw her she stood, frozen in place. The maid whispered something to Sakura who finally turned to respond. Rin was unable to hear what was said but it was likely about her.

Rin continued to approach only to stop when Sakura pulled a spear out of her shadow and pointed it directly at Rin. "Be gone, I don't care if you are really her or not, be gone or be destroyed."

Rin opened her arms "Please Sakura, if not for me then for Shirou." If she needed to use his name to bring her back she wasn't afraid of it.

At this Sakura pounced with the spear out front "Don't you dare speak his name! You Witch!"

Rin redirected the spear away from her heart to just slicing her skin. While the self defense training she had was good it seemed that Sakura had been training as well. Rin cried out in pain and backpedaled to a slightly safer distance.

Sakura's maid looked between the two of them before asking Sakura "Should I take care of this, my lady?"

The response from Sakura was a quick "No! She is mine!"

The spear came forward again, this time with two quick stabs. Rin wasn't able to dodge fast enough so she ended up shoving the first one away only to take the second in the shoulder.

Rin decided that she didn't have another choice "My demons; Aid me!"

A clatter of noise as Blutspucke charged forward, Rubinrot joined her and lowered herself to be mountable while Silber charged the maid.

As Rin mounted Rubinrot, Sakura's spear shot forward, three times now, at Blutspucke. Blutspucke simply laughed before dodging the first and parrying the next two leaving Sakura open. Rin had miscalculated however, not about Sakura but her own demons.

Nothing could stop a blood ape from killing and consuming the blood of their enemies.

The demon's arm came down in a blow designed to break Sakura's skull, Rin cried out and ordered Rubinrot to bring her to the fight.

She barely made it in time. Blutspucke's arm crashed against Rubinrot's chitinous body. It sent Rin and Rubinrot's bodies flying but it gave Sakura time to make it away to her maid who was putting up a relatively matched fight against Silber.

Rin gave the command then "We are falling back." All her demons heard and understood.


Sakura watched her twice-sister retreat, It seemed she was still not strong enough. She hadn't trained nearly as much as she should have. She had charms to learn and martial arts to practice. Next time they met she would pierce Rin's heart and brain.

Her maid gathered any dropped belongings and Sakura decided they should go to the library another day.


Rin wondered how to punish a demon for following their nature. That had really been all Blutspucke was doing, following his nature of killing.

She did need to punish him though. He disobeyed her order and their would be a reckoning for that.


End of chapter.

A little short.

What Sakura means by "Twice-sister" they were once sisters before sakura was sold away, they were sisters again after Shirou saved her, now however they are not.

Also; While Sakura did grow stronger, she still isn't that strong compared to supernatural stuff.

Everything below is just me complaining about how hard Shirou is for me to write for right now.

Still can't think of good plotlines for Shirou right now. What could I have him do that wasn't just banal.

"Go save a town from [insert villain here] because he is a good person" Banal

As I mentioned previously I have a plot ready when he gets to the blessed isle but the army isn't yet ready to move.

The best case scenario would be something like "Shirou learns to use his new powers" but I can't currently think of a plot that would allow that.