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Peaceful Days

Prologue

So…why don't you just get the soul of the Zouken Matou from this timeline?

Well, first of all, it might already be dead. Second, even if it isn't, between what I already know and what you've told me about that sick fuck, my timeline's Zouken could have its soul…somewhere else. I just want a quick smash and grab before going on vacation. I'll find the time for a proper vampire hunt later.

…good point. Any other reason, though?

Well, it's more fun this way. Here, let me tell you about an idea I just had.

There was a flash of light, like lightning in the middle of the day from a clear blue sky free of clouds in spring, followed by a thunderclap that had the school shaking and the students reeling. Then a strangely familiar-looking woman walked out of a shimmering dimensional rift, whistling 'Yankee Doodle' while twirling the Jeweled Sword in one hand. "Surprise!" she yelled with a wide grin. "The Jeweled Sword Blue, Brand Rin Tohsaka is in the house!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!" Rin Tohsaka, newly-graduated from mandatory education, started screaming.

"HOHOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!" Shirou Emiya followed suit soon after.

"Hmm…" Jeweled Sword Blue hummed while looking her younger self's counterpart over. "…you need to eat more. First, you're a few inches shorter than you should be at your age. Second, while I get that you're more muscle than bone, you still need more mass on your frame. I mean, look at me. I'm five foot eight inches tall weighing sixty-eight kilograms. In contrast, you're what? Five feet and five inches, more or less, and weighing only fifty kilograms?"

Jeweled Sword Blue paused, placed her hands on her lips, and then shook her head in disappointment. "I know you don't want to get fat, but starving yourself isn't healthy either." She said before smirking mischievously. "That, and it's not healthy for the baby either."

"WHAT?" the student body screamed, while incredible amounts of killing intent suddenly began to be directed at the very flustered-looking Shirou.

"I'M NOT PREGNANT!" Rin screamed, looking crazed with bloodshot eyes and frizzy hair while grabbing Jeweled Sword Blue by the collar and shaking her frantically. "DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? YOU…YOU…YOU…YOU USED MAGIC IN PUBLIC! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TROUBLE THIS IS GOING TO CAUSE?"

"Oh, please." Jeweled Sword Blue said with a roll of her eyes. "It's not like we can't just hypnotize everyone. Observe."

Then she clapped her hands, and everyone else fell unconscious and drooling on the ground. Everyone, except for the Matou Siblings, Shinji and Sakura, plus another magus who'd apparently arrived unnoticed, and one with a disturbingly-similar appearance to Sakura. "Good day." She said. "I am Pride Sakura Tohsaka, the Murderer Blue. You have something I want."

Then she pointed a finger at Shinji's groin, and fired a single Finn shot. Blood immediately bloomed across Shinji's trousers, the boy screaming as he collapsed, clutching at his ruined genitals while curling up into an agonized ball on the ground.

"SHINJI!" Shirou screamed, and turned to run to his friend's side…

…only to be stopped by a cubic barrier that fell into place around them. "You want to be a Hero of Justice, Shirou?" Jeweled Sword Blue asked, suddenly looking and sounding cold. "Don't be ridiculous. You couldn't even see how much help Sakura needed, and even just took her for granted. So much so that you'd just throw it all away to play house with my counterpart here. And you."

Jeweled Sword Blue halted her younger alternate self's advance by pointing her mystic code at the latter's throat. "Be grateful." She sneered. "We'll do what you couldn't do, so take note, and do better in the future."

"And just what couldn't I do?" Rin snarled.

Jeweled Sword Blue sneered. "Be a good sister." She snarled back.

Murderer Blue gestured, telekinetically lifting Sakura up into the air. "W-w-what do you want?" she asked in terror.

"To help you, of course." Murderer Blue replied. "You just need to give me your grandfather's soul first. Your brother's already volunteered to help, his life will make for an excellent blood sacrifice to power this ritual. So, let us begin."

Murderer Blue approached, and pulling open Sakura's blouse and pushing her bra out of the way, pressed the index and middle fingers of her right hand over Sakura's heart. "Open the Gate." Murderer Blue began to cast. "Let Silence fill the Grave, Denying the Freedom of Death, Extinguishing the Fire of Life and Unlife, Winding the Chains of Slavery about the Spirit…"

Sakura began to convulse and scream, sickly lights flickering over her skin as her flesh bulged and rippled as though something underneath was fighting to get out. Then she began to shout, begging in a deep and unnatural voice that was hers and not hers at the same time.

"No…no…wait…stop…don't do it…stop…stop…so close…stop…so close..."

Murderer Blue ignored the pleading, and continued to cast her spell. "Bound by a Work of Beauty," she said. "As Woven by a Master of Mystery, Never to End Until the Long Night Everlasting…"

Witchfire burned over her fingers, spreading over her hands, and then Murderer Blue reached into Sakura's chest, blood boiling and steaming over her hands as flesh sizzled and burned, dying crest worms wiggling out to fall dead on the ground. "…stop it…so close…" Zouken pleaded through Sakura's voice, but Murderer Blue was relentless.

"Let the Voices of the Beyond Echo in Witness," Murderer Blue said, holding Sakura's frantically-beating heart along with the worm wound around it. "The Gate is Closed."

Then clutching tight, Murderer Blue pulled back, Sakura and Zouken screaming as one as Murderer Blue tore the former's heart out along with a third of her nervous system, and Zouken's soul with it. Almost immediately, Zouken tried to parasitize Murderer Blue, but witchfire burned hot over her hand and arm, burning away corrupted flesh and nerve tissue and leaving only a sickly spot of light in her palm.

Turning back to Sakura, Murderer Blue took a gem from Imaginary Numbers Space, and injecting a small amount of od into it, caused it to ignite with rainbow light. Kneeling down, she pushed the gem into Sakura's chest, and cast a new spell.

"In all things, opposition." She began. "For fire, water. For earth, sky. For body, spirit. And for life, death."

Prana exploded, Sakura's eyes opening wide as she gasped explosively, forcing air into her lungs under her own power. The gem in her chest began to shift, crystalline planes turning into muscle, blood, and nerve tissue, replacing what was taken away, and cleansing what corruption there was.

Heaving, she rolled up on all fours, and vomited out bile and acid with the lifeless forms of crest worms. White crept up from her scalp into the roots of her hair, the violet almost certain to disappear in the next few days from the sheer shock.

Struggling to breathe and clutching at her chest, Sakura looked up…

…and flinched back, eyes wide and shaking at the sight of Murderer Blue delivering the coup de grâce to Shinji execution style. "Big brother…" she breathed in horror and grief. "…WHY?"

"He was a rapist and a thug." Murderer Blue replied with no hint of regret.

"…he was my brother…" Sakura whispered in denial.

"…you can do better." Murderer Blue replied.

"SAKURA!" Rin shouted, finally released and rushing to Sakura along with Shirou. Murderer Blue walked away, sharing a nod with Jeweled Sword Blue as the latter walked to meet her.

"Where do you think you're going?" Shirou shouted angrily as he got up from Shinji's corpse, the latter beyond saving with his skull blown open and his brain splattered across half a matter of ground. "You killed Shinji! You think you're just going to get away with this?"

"He got away with raping his sister." Jeweled Sword Blue shot back, and causing Shirou to stagger away in shock. "So yes, we can get away with murdering him back."

"Sakura…?" Shirou breathed, looking at her in disbelief.

Sakura didn't say anything, just looking away shaking and unable to meet Shirou's eyes. "…I'm sorry…" she whispered, the victim having to be the one to apologize striking Shirou deeper than any of the King of Heroes' priceless blades.

"…no…" Rin whispered in disbelief, as next to her Shirou collapsed to his knees, crushed beneath the weight of failure.

Murderer Blue and Jeweled Sword Blue were right.

He had no right to call himself a Hero of Justice.

"All your life you've lived in a cage." Murderer Blue remarked, causing Sakura to look in her direction. The older magus held up a hand, and above it, Zouken's soul flickered and wobbled amidst swirling shadows, before vanishing with a pop of displaced air, drowning in the bottomless depths of the sea of Imaginary Numbers. "I've broken the lock, so now, step forward!"

Smiling encouragingly at Sakura, Murderer Blue turned, followed Jeweled Sword Blue back into a dimensional rift, and vanished from the timeline.

A/N

I love Bioware, don't you? There's so many references to them here, so let's play a game: Spot the Reference!

Anyway, that's probably all the action you'll get in this story, because now Jeweled Sword Blue and Murderer Blue are off to get a vacation.