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Illyasviel found herself laying down in an open field of flowers, a grassy land that stretched to the horizon and felt seemingly endless, the sky was blue and lit up despite the absence of the sun and the heat that comes with it.
"Illya…"
A soft voice called from behind her, a voice that made her thoroughly shudder.
"Ma… ma…"
Illya said, eyes full of shock when she turned around to see her mother, Irisviel.
The woman clad in a white dress stared at her with a pure smile on her face, the smile of a mother reunited with her daughter.
Illya jumped at her and hugged her waist tightly, the woman welcomed her with open arms and hugged her back just as warmly.
"Mama, I… You… How?" Illya asked as she let go of her mother's dress.
"Didn't I tell you before I left?"
Illya's eyes watered as she remembered the words she had long forgotten.
"Remember... Illya, I will never truly leave you as long as you hold me dear in your heart."
Irisviel's last words to her daughter ringed in her ears as she could resist the feeling no longer.
Illya cried and cried in Irisviel's lap, as the mother comforted her daughter and played with her hair.
"Mama... it's terrible… Papa went and never returned… Shirou has… Changed… The world is wrong...!" Illya spoke through her tears.
"I know, I know it all, I have always been with you and saw everything you saw. It's all going to be okay now, Illya. Don't cry…"
The woman picked up the girl and sat her on her lap, then she began to braid her hair for her.
"Listen to me Illya, there are a lot of things you should know about yourself, and your brother…"
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Shiki was not laying on his bed either, he found himself standing inside a castle full of people wearing formal clothes, a castle was not the best description but the hall was so huge that it could only belong in a castle.
Careful to not attract attention, he approached a pair of old men, but failed to understand a single word, their language was beyond him to even identify.
All of a sudden he caught a glimpse of a girl with pale long hair that covered her right eye… Everything was distorted at that moment.
Suddenly he was within a crowd, everyone was staring at the same direction with angry faces, Shiki decided to make his way to the front to see what this was about.
Shiki grasped his mouth in an attempt not to vomit, a man, a woman and the pale haired girl were bleeding on the ground, smoke still rising from the mouth of the rifle that was aimed at them... Publicly executed...
"Ca...ster…"
Then darkness came.
Shiki stood up, struggling to keep his balance, feeling sick to the stomach.
But even that feeling dissipated as the warm darkness around him lit up with two light blue orbs.
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Rin found herself somewhere unfamiliar, a desert landscape, the first thing she noticed were the swords, the countless amount of words that spread far and wide into the desert.
The sky was gray and dull, no sun was present but the weather was hot, the smoke overtook the clouds, turning them into a shade of sandy brown… And the sound of metal on metal that was not ignorable, the gears turning slowly in the sky… The swords plunged into the sandy land.
"Where the hell am I…"
Then on a hill that was slightly larger than the others, sat a figure not so unfamiliar to Rin, she attempted to approach the man, she took a step, a sword came out of his back, making him cry out in pain.
"Archer!"
She screamed in panic.
He did not hear her.
The swords did not stop, they kept coming out violently from his back accompanied with screams of agony from the silver haired man.
She took another step, just to realise that with each step she took, the velocity and amount of swords multiplied.
Rin cried out helplessly, approaching him would only worsen the situation, she was forced to stand in place and watch him suffer.
Then all of a sudden, she felt the weather change, the ground shifted under her legs and wind forced her eyes to shut instinctively.
It was cold.
Tohsaka felt cold in the darkness that spread in front of her, the gears turning ferociously in the starry night sky outlined by a heavy line of silver stardust. The swords glimmered under the starlight, as there was no moon.
Then she heard steel on steel clashing, she followed the sounds over a hill and she saw the view.
The swords rained from the sky, and tore the ground asunder, all aimed at one red haired boy in a gray top and jeans.
"Shirou…?"
Tohsaka pondered to herself.
She laid low and continued to watch.
The swords that appeared to come out of nowhere suddenly became clearer and seemed to come out of yellow portals.
The orange haired teenager would counter them with other swords that would appear around him from thin air or from those countless swords plunged at the ground.
The boy did not flinch at the barrage of weapons being thrown at him, he always had a counter prepared and closed the distance between him and the portals with each step.
Suddenly, he stopped advancing as the portals stopped firing.
The portals vanished, except for one that stayed horizontally.
From it, slowly, an entity radiating divinity came out, a sword shaped drill-like item that is divided into three sections.
The boy briefly stared at the sword before he smiled bitterly and raised his arm above his head.
The sections of the sword began to spin in different directions emitting crazy divine aura and enormous pressure.
The boy did not miss a single beat and closed his eyes.
"I am the bone of my sword…!"
Rin's eyes widened when she heard the self hypnosis incantation again.
The sword, now spinning at full speed, started to release waves of pure energy. Rupturing the surrounding swords plunged into the pitch black ground.
"Enuma!"
"NINE-LIVES BLADE WORKS!"
"ELISH!"
And all hell broke loose.
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When he opened his eyes, terrible things entered his vision so he hurriedly closed them and started to feel the nearby cupboard looking for his glasses.
His hand felt something soft and cold, he opened his eyes slightly to see what was that, before he noticed his glasses being put on.
"C-Caster…!"
Shiki muttered as he stared at his hand holding hers, then he quickly pulled it away.
"S-Sorry for that… How long have you been there?"
"I materialized just before you woke up. You were having a bad dream... right?"
"Ahh… Yes…"
"You saw it right? How they were smiling after ending me… Right?"
"Huh…?"
"I'm just kidding… It seems like the Master/Servant bond allowed you to see some of my memories."
Shiki smiled and stood up from the bed.
"I see… Anastasia… I'm sorry for seeing something I shouldn't have seen."
Anastasia shook her head and smiled softly.
"No need to apologize… I myself have seen some… Memorable events from your past… Umm, Master? Is it true that you participate in this grail war just to meet Arcueid-san again?"
Shiki nodded in answer.
"Yeah… I know it's a selfish wish… But it's what I desire the most."
Anastasia was moved by the honest confession… So moved that in fact, she couldn't help but let out a soft giggle.
"Eh? Why are you laughing? Caster?"
Shiki was flustered, he spoke as his face got all red.
"It's not a big deal… I just realized that my cute little master is as innocent as a child."
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Earlier that night:
"By the way Illya, don't you feel strange?"
Shirou asked Illya who was yawning, it was already two in the morning.
"What…? No, I'm okay… Just a bit sleepy…"
Replied Illya.
"I see… Then you can go take a rest, I will be leaving soon. Don't worry about me."
Illya nodded and stood up, then she left the room. It was obvious that she was too tired to think straight.
"Shirou. Are we attacking the Matous tonight? Aren't you sleepy?"
Shirou gave a smile to the pondering Saber.
"Nah, I'm excited to see what their reaction would be once we arrive at their door."
Would they surrender peacefully and offer their alliance? Or would they fight back?
The thought amused shirou.
—But what's with Illya?
After berserker's death, she must at least feel different due to absorbing his soul, but she didn't seem affected at all.
That could pose a serious problem.
Could a grail's self awareness have a hand in the ritual? If so, Shirou would have a lot on his plate.
He did not like that thought.
But it's okay, after all, his older self had the delicacy to 'lend' him two awesome swords and a dagger that is priceless.
Now… It's all smooth sailing.
Shirou stood up and gestured at Saber to follow, then they left the house, heading for the Matous' Mansion.
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Author's note:
New chapter, writing this one was a pain, especially due to the lack of action aside from Archer's past.
Note that this Archer, is the embodiment of a suicidal Emiya, who would sacrifice himself to save another person(s). When he noticed that he cannot defeat EA, he did his best to kill Gil even if it meant he'd die.
More on that later.
Now a Servant profile for NRVNQSR Chaos.
True Name:
NRVNQSR Chaos (read: Nero Chaos).
Other Known Titles: The Tenth of the Twenty seven Dead Apostle Ancestors, Fabro Rowan, Professor Chaos.
Description:
Nrvnqsr Chaos (ネロ・カオス, Nero Kaosu) is the tenth of The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors. He is a living mass of chaotic matter analogous to the Primordial Sea, created from the accumulation of the lives of 666 creatures. Unskilled in Magecraft except Alchemy and prefers to fight with his natural abilities more than weapons, he is only fit to be summoned as a Berserker. If the summon is somehow tampered with or corrupted, he can be summoned as an Avenger that bears hatred towards all of mankind.
Appearance: Nrvnqsr has a tall and strongly built body, and he wears a black trench coat that fully covers his body. While he looks like a regular human from his initial appearance, only his head and hands still retain their original form. Under his trench coat is a pure darkness that doesn't have a visible outline. He only retains the basic shape of a man, while the rest of his body looks like it is constructed due to being made of chaos.
Skills:
Vampirism A+++ :
A skill possessed by Vampires in general, allows him to absorb Prana from living creatures and servants by drinking their blood, or in his case, swallowing them whole.
Primordial Sea (Body) B+ :
Unique Skill possessed only by Chaos, Allows him to freely manipulate the shape of his body and integrate his Reality Marble into it. It also allows him to utilise living creatures as means to repair any damage done to his body.
Soil of Genesis (Fake) A :
An ability that allows him to mimic the Soil of Genesis from the Age of Gods, a cage of pure chaos that slowly devours whatever it captures. This cage is unbreakable by pure physical strength and can only be destroyed with a divine weapon that goes back to the Age of Gods.
Battle Continuation EX :
This skill comes from his ability to regenerate from the most dangerous of wounds, his nature as a merge of 666 beasts makes him extremely hard to completely kill, the only way to fully kill him without this skill activating is to kill all 666 Beasts at the same time.
Note:
Although Chaos as a berserker does not have the independent action skill, he can stay in this world without a master if provided enough pray for him to devour using his highly ranked Vampirism skill.
Noble Phantasms:
I - Lair of The Beast King:
A Reality Marble. The Lair of the Beast King (獣王の巣, Jūō no Su), which allows him to absorb and merge his existence with the lives of other creatures and manipulate them in the form of chaos. It is different from normal Reality Marbles that are superimposed upon the world, as he only deploys it within his own body.
The corrective impulses of the world don't see this usage as a contradiction, so the cost of maintaining it is much lower than normal. It is always active, and he can sustain it indefinitely as long as he has a sufficient amount of energy.
II- 999th Beast:
Nrvnqsr can condense all his beasts to the limit into one ultimate form, the 999th Beast (武装999, Busō 999), the ultimate expression of the chaos's strength. It stands several feet above Nrvnqsr's six foot normal form, and it is referred to as the "best Beast." In that form, his Agility's Rank is increased from C to A, but he seems unable to fully control it while he charges at his opponent without stopping. It can function without all 666 lives at once, and he only makes use of 560 during his final assault that is described as a beautiful, simple, and efficient motion to kill with speed so fast that one couldn't ask for more.
Parameters:
Strength: A
Endurance: C
Agility: C
Mana: B
Luck: C
NP: EX
Compatible Classes: Berserker. Avenger.