I do not own Fate/Stay Night, Freezing, or any other series that might be referenced in this story including the characters.
AN: Hey Raynare here again. This chapter took a lot longer than expected so sorry about that. Anyways, I'm going to put the rest of the AN at the bottom of the chapter since it would spoil the chapter if I put it here. This next part are just some responses to some reviews.
YuukiAsuna-Chan: Yea I don't like Kazuya either I find him really annoying, but he was the excuse for Emilya to be at Genetics, after this it'll move away from him. While I would like to, I most likely won't kill him off, but he'll probably be relegated to being in the background or something I haven't actually decided what to do with him.
tphod: So in the original scene in the manga/anime the thugs had molested Kaho and I put that in there, but decided to remove it. I left what would have been Emilya's reaction to it because of Sakura's situation. So yea it was kinda unjustified brutality.
: Sorry for it being slow. I'm not one of those super motivated people, when it comes to writing I get bored really easily. :P Anyways, while it is high school themed Freezing gets darker as the manga continues on so I just started off with the dark aspect. It won't be depressing or anything and will get brutal at points but I don't plan on focusing on the high school aspect too much.
As always any helpful reviews are welcome. I hope you enjoy the chapter.
Emilya's Room, Several Days Later
Emilya had just gotten out of the shower when her phone went off playing the theme song of one of her favorite magical girl animes. Taking the phone she thought. 'I wonder if I would make a good magical girl. I think it would be really fun to be a magical girl.' The phone rang again bringing her back to reality. Noticing that it was her father, Emilya immediately answered. "Hello otou-chan. You need something?"
Within seconds her face went dark and her tone completely changed. ". . . I see. So the Novas attacked East Genetics. How many were there otou-sama? . . . Four but two were destroyed. Ok that's good, but what about the remaining two, where are they? . . . Tsk. So they are headed here. That's just great. This is going to complicate things a lot. What information is there on the Novas otou-sama? . . . S type Novas that have particle beams and the ability to take over Pandoras. Haaaaa. Great just great. What are the parameters for this mission otou-sama? . . . Alright, securing mother is the main priority, keeping Kazuya safe and eliminating the Novas is secondary. Also I'm not to reveal my full power. Got it. Thank you for telling me. Stay safe otou-sama. Bye."
Emilya stared pensively at her phone for a while before looking up. Then she pulled out several strands of hair and injected prana into them to create her Zelle familiars. She proceeded to link her senses to the bird constructs before having them station themselves at various points around the school. 'There that should give me sufficient information during the attack. Hmmm. I'll have to prepare more tomorrow.' Thought Emilya before she turned off the lights and went to sleep.
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Classroom, Next Day
Unfortunately Emilya didn't have the time for more preparations, during first period the siren rang causing an uproar among the first year students. Immediately afterwards, the teacher who had subdued Satellizer, Yu-Mi Kim, came in the room and shouted. "SILENCE! You are soldiers in training so act like it! Now I am going to assign all of you to different locations where you are to guard with your life. Unless ordered to, running away will be an act of insubordination and will be punished afterwards if you are not dead already. UNDERSTAND!" None of the students responded. "I SAID DO YOU UNDERSTAND!" "YES MADAM!" Shouted out the students.
South Gate, Later
Emilya was cursing her luck. She had been assigned to the South Gate with Elizabeth, her limiter Andre, four other Pandoras she didn't know and of those four three had limiters with them. Kazuya on the other hand had been stationed at the Central Elevator Entrance which was where her mother was also located. Emilya had one of her Zelle follow Kazuya to his post so that she could check if she was needed to secure mother and Kazuya. While another one went to scout out the Novas. The rest were scattered throughout the school at other vital positions.
Her zelle was able to locate the 2 Novas who were approaching the school at high speeds from the sea. They were massive with large blade like whip arms. Emilya estimated that they were about ten stories high. She also noticed that Nova form Pandoras were merged to the Novas' bodies and sadly for her, there were a lot of them.
"Tsk. They're coming." She told Elizabeth. Trusting her judgement, Elizabeth ordered the others to get ready. "How do you know?" Elizabeth inquired looking curious.
"My eyes can see really far." Lied Emilya. It was true with reinforcement she probably could see them from here, but she wasn't going to say anything about her familiars. Elizabeth nodded, but looked skeptical.
About thirty minutes later there was a loud explosion and out of the forest came six of the Nova form Pandoras, meaning that the front lines had been breached. They had blade-like protrusions coming out of their backs and had Nova-like tissue structures. When they saw Emilya and the others, they instantly dashed towards them at speeds that surpassed what regular Pandoras were capable of and employed their Freezing. They temporarily paralyzed, but the limiters quickly activated their Anti-Freezing field, therefore negating the enemies'. Unfortunately the Nova form Pandoras weren't affected by the limiters' Freezing rendering them useless.
As Elizabeth ordered the Pandoras to engage the enemy, Emilya reinforced her body and attacked the closest one which was wielding a rapier. While she was easily able to deflect its attacks with her blades, it was doing the same with her's. Even though the situation wasn't too good, Emilya was happy. Sparring was okay, but actual battle experience was the best if she wanted to improve and fighting was just fun. The others didn't notice, but a grin started to form on her face. "Neh, Neh. This is really fun. My blood is really pumping now. Entertain me more!"
With her rising bloodlust, Emilya began to push the Nova form back, but then it suddenly spoke. "You, you are like us . . . You are not from here, why do you help these humans . . . Wait . . . Yes, we sense the presence of a Beast of Alaya . . . Is that why you help them? . . . No, the presence is there, but you are not one of them . . . Yet, at the same time there is a part of us in you . . . You, who are you?"
"W-what? Who? H-how?" Shocked Emilya faltered for a second and as a result, the Pandora was able to pierce her left arm. "Aaarrghh!" Emilya cried out, quickly she slashed downwards severing its right arm. Jumping back, Emilya pulled the blade out of her arm and threw it to the side. Thankfully with Avalon Emilya was able to heal quickly.
Unfortunately for her though the enemy's arm immediately regenerated and transformed into a blade. It made an attempt to stab her again, but Emilya was able to dodge. "You, you are strong . . . You have shown only a little of your power to us . . . Yes, yes we have decided . . . You will come with us . . . You aren't like them . . . You are a part of us . . . Come join us." It decided offering its hand to her. In response, Emilya shook her head. "Sorry, but I can't do that."
"We see . . . Then we will simply take you with us. " The Nova replied before attacking again, this time focusing on incapacitating her. Emilya pushed what the Nova had said to the back of her mind, deciding to deal with it later. The mood had been killed, no longer enjoying the battle, Emilya elected to end the battle quickly.
Unluckily for her it seemed like the Nova had used something akin to reinforcement and her strikes were no longer doing any damage. Switching things up, Emilya used the Creation and Forging of Matter to combine Kanshou and Bakuya into a black and white great sword. Emilya glared at it and asked. "Neh. Can you die for me?" Then she dashed forward reinforcing her sword and cleaved downwards right through the middle of the Pandora's body as it tried to block the blade with its arms. Both pieces of the Pandora fell on the ground and did not regenerate.
Emilya, seeing that it was dead, quickly used structural grasp on its body and found that there was a large stigmata between its collars that was the source of the possession. Looking back at the others she saw that they were still engaging the other Nova form Pandoras and were getting nowhere.
Emilya shouted at them. "There's a large stigmata between their collarbones, it's what's controlling them!" Hearing her, her comrades redoubled their efforts, this time focusing on the collarbone area.
She quickly sprinted over to Elizabeth, who was shooting lasers at the possessed Pandora with Stigmata like satellites. Since the Pandora was distracted by the lasers, Emilya was able to get inside its guard and cut off one of its arms allowing Elizabeth to pierce the stigmata with her lasers. Elizabeth nodded her appreciation and the two quickly proceeded to help the rest. Unfortunately two of their own Pandora were killed before they could get to them, but within minutes of the two arriving, their numbers allowed them to overpower the rest without losing any more on either side.
As the other Pandoras and limiters were resting and mourning for the dead, Emilya helped Elizabeth check on the unconscious East Genetics Pandoras. Besides the one Emilya had killed the others were alive, but had multiple injuries. Three of them had missing body parts but it wasn't anything too severe since the hospital could fix almost anything.
Suddenly the zelle that Emilya had following Kazuya was destroyed. She looked over at Elizabeth and said. "Hey Lizzy, I'm going to go help out the others since there are no enemies here. What are you going to do?"
Elizabeth turned and replied. "I'm going to check up on Attia and the rest. Stay safe Emi."
Emilya nodded and sprinted into the forest. She wasn't sure if her zelle had been destroyed on purpose or by accident, but since it's better to be safe than sorry, she would assume that they could sense the use prana.
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Central Elevator Entrance, Minutes Later
As Emilya approached the perimeter of the building, she heard the sounds of fighting. Cautiously she advanced towards the clearing and saw that there was a hole in the wall. Behind it Satellizer fighting a twin tailed green hair girl with brown eyes along with two other corrupted Pandoras. Emilya realized that the green haired girl was Cassie Lockheart, the 4th strongest Pandora in the world.
Emilya grimaced as she assessed the situation. She noticed that Arnett and who Emilya guessed to be her limiter were knocked out, along with a heavily injured Ganessa. Thankfully Kazuya was barely injured at all along with Arthur who was tending to Ganessa. Seeing that entrance was also broken meant that some of the Nova form Pandoras got in so Emilya created a zelle and sent it to follow whatever got through.
Seeing that the three enemy Pandoras were going to attack Satellizer, Emilya threw one of her blades at them before repositioning herself next to Satellizer. "Emilya?! What are you doing here?!" Cried out Kazuya in surprise. "Aim for the stigmata between their collarbones, it's their weakness and will turn them back." Emilya told Satellizer ignoring Kazuya. Although she was also surprised, Satellizer immediately recovered and curtly nodded. Kazuya on the other hand looked hurt for being ignored. Emilya then asked. "How many got through?"
"One." Satellizer replied. Emilya nodded, one wasn't enough to warrant her attention. There were higher level personnel stationed with her mother so it would be quickly dispatched of, but she couldn't let Lockheart get through. "I'll take care of Lockheart, you and Kazuya deal with the others." Emilya stated, quickly engaging Cassie so there would be no room for discussion.
Lockheart raised her arm-mounted blades, easily blocking Emilya's attack. Emilya and Cassie traded a few blows gauging each other's strength. Emilya noticed that Lockheart's skin was much harder than the previous Pandoras, every strike she landed didn't even pierce her skin. Cassie was also aiming to incapacitate her rather than killing her, therefore she had to assume that they a hive mind and Cassie was ordered to capture her.
Emilya began to grin as they fought. With every blow they traded, Cassie kept getting faster and faster forcing Emilya to speed up to match her making her grin wider. Stuck in a stalemate, Emilya utilized Archer's fighting style and left an opening on her left side. Seeing the opening the Pandora immediately tried to stab her there, but at the last second Emilya countered, and pushed Lockheart back.
As Emilya attempted to strike the staggered Pandora, Lockheart grabbed her arm and threw her backwards. Emilya flipped through the air and landed on the opposite side, but before she could move, she was hit by a Freezing. Emilya instantaneously activated her own Freezing which canceled Lockheart's, but those precious seconds were all that Cassie needed to fire her Particle Beam. It hit Emilya right in the center of her chest hurling her right through the wall and into the forest.
Emilya smashed through several trees before stopping, thankfully her body was reinforced so she only lost her clothing and received 2nd degree burns. Seeing as the Nova wanted her alive she hadn't expected the laser at all. Materializing new clothes, she immediately jumped to the right just as another laser hit, destroying the area. Emilya quickly retreated further into the forest and sent out several zelle to scout the area. Things were getting more interesting.
Her zelle easily found Cassie who was standing by the crater where she had landed. Emilya snuck around behind her and used a Triple Accel Turn closing the distance in seconds, but just as she reached her, Lockheart disappeared and reappeared right behind her using her famed Quadruple Accel Turn. Emilya twisted her body and had just enough time to block the continuous onslaught of attacks.
Emilya had the zelle that were tracking Cassie shift into blade forms and sent them straight at her back. Sensing them Cassie turned around to defend against them leaving her back open. Emilya initiated a Tempest Turn, creating four copies of herself all of which struck Lockheart's back side. Unfortunately, because of the enhanced Nova tissue, her attacks did little damage only piercing to the muscle. Cassie quickly employed her Quadruple Accel escaping further damage. "Mooouu. Why won't you die already? . . . Ah. Wait I'm not supposed to kill you." Emilya said realizing she was too aggressive.
Cassie tilted her head. "Why do you continue to fight . . . We will obtain you eventually . . . Why do you continue to resist us?"
Emilya's eyes narrowed and her child like demeanor changed. She hissed. "What I do and why I do things is none of your business."
Emilya decided she needed to end this. She had gotten too into the fight and forgot her mission, meaning the chances of more Nova form Pandoras approaching rose. Taking a deep breath she began to chant.
Spirit and technique, flawless and firm
She then threw Kanshou and Bakuya at Cassie's neck causing her to deflect the blades. The Nova possessing Lockheart must have realized the danger as she dashed towards her in an attempt to stop her.
Our strength rips the mountains
Our swords split the water
Emilya summoned two more blades before Cassie could do anything and swung both blades at her who parried both, but as she was doing this the two thrown blades flew back stabbing her in the back.
Our names reach the imperial villa
The two of us cannot hold the heavens together.
Letting go of her current swords, Emilya materialized two more and brought them down in X motion slashing Cassie's chest and as a result, destroyed the stigmata. As Cassie fell backwards, her eyes cleared. Looking at Emilya, she said. "Thank you."
Emilya's eyes widen, she reached over and caught the falling Pandora. "Tsk. This is bad." Emilya muttered to herself. "There's a possibility that she remembered everything that happened. It was fine with the previous one since I killed her, but I can't just off such a well-known person. I'll have to talk to otou-sama about it." Then she remembered the zelle she had sent after the Pandora that had gotten through. Checking on it she saw that it had been taken care of by Chiffon and the vice president. Since the two of them were protecting her mother, none of the infected Pandoras would get through. Emilya proceeded to put the larger girl over her shoulder and began her trek back to the Central Elevator.
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Central Elevator Entrance, Minutes After
Just as Emilya arrived, she saw Satellizer in Nova form except with spikes protruding from her back, defeat the other two Pandoras. She proceeded to try and kill the two Pandoras, but then Kazuya intervened grabbing Satellizer's arm. "Don't kill them Satella! You're not a murderer!"
It was such a cliché moment. Oh don't kill him you are better than that. "Haaaaaaaa." Emilya sighed and walked up to them before putting Cassie on the ground. Noticing her, Kazuya cried in relief. "Oh! Emi, you're ok! Thank god!" Satellizer although heavily injured, scrutinized her. Of course Emilya didn't blame her. She had returned barely injured at all after going against the world's fourth strongest Pandora. Now that she thought about it, she'd need some sort of excuse for defeating Cassie. "Mooooouuuu this is going to be such a pain." She muttered quietly to herself.
Emilya looked up at him and smiled. "Yea, I'm fine. Can you watch over her for me? I'm going to see if anyone else needs my help." Kazuya looked surprised. "E-Eh? Ok." Emilya nodded and left.
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Beach, Minutes Later
Standing on one of the branches of a tree, Emilya gazed over the battlefield. Of the two Novas, only one of them had been taken down, but over a quarter of the fourth year forces had been killed already. "Haaaaaaa. I really don't want to go against otou-sama's orders, but if I don't do something most of our forces are going to die here and we are going to need them in the future. What should I do?" Emilya asked herself. ". . . Well technically I'm not revealing my full strength, just a bit and as long as I don't get caught it'll be fine."
Emilya sent more of her familiars out to secure the area. Seeing that no one was in the vicinity, she summoned her bow and Caladbolg II. Notching Caladbolg, the spiral sword twisted and became thinner.
I am the bone of my sword
Caladbolg was reinforced and she aimed towards the remaining Nova, channeling massive amounts of prana into it turning the arrow into a Broken Phantasm. The Nova noticing her, turned and created a barrier as Emilya called out its name, "Caladbolg" before releasing it.
The barrier was useless as Caladbolg broke right through it, piercing its chest. It didn't stop there though. The arrow went straight through flying right into the ocean before blowing up, releasing large shockwaves. The shocked Pandoras watched as the Nova began to dissolve while Emilya immediately ran.
Seconds later the teachers announced over the PA that the 10th Nova Clash was over and for everyone to return.
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Emilya's Room, Nighttime
Emilya flopped on her bed. She was dead tired. During her report, she had to BS her way through, saying how she was lucky and how Cassie was like a mad beast so she was easier to fight. Of course they didn't really believe her, but they couldn't disprove it either so they were most likely just monitoring her right now. They also didn't say anything about what happened with the 2nd Nova which had made Emilya frown. Were they plotting something?
She had gotten into contact with her father and had told him how the Novas talked to her through Cassie with the possibility that she remembered everything that was said. Gengo was intrigued by what was essentially the first contact made outside of her mother. Emilya though didn't reveal the true content of what it said and simply said that it wanted her to join them. Gengo informed her that he would take care of it and thankfully didn't scold the use of her other abilities.
Emilya sighed. She was very confused over the Novas' contact. 'They knew where I was from and were able to sense the lingering power of EMIYA. Are they demons? They're from another dimension, but from EMIYA's memories none of the demons he ever fought were like that. Also was that the reason for why mother had picked me up?'
"Mooooooouuu if only I had the Clocktower's resources then I would have a better chance at finding out what they are." Wailed Emilya. Unfortunately there was no such thing as the Clocktower or magi in this world. Although Gaia exists because her projections still disappeared, but it took significantly longer, so did that mean that Gaia's weaker here? Emilya wasn't sure, although she was pretty sure Alaya didn't exist or was also very weak since the Novas haven't already been dealt with by the Counter Guardians.
"I don't understand what's going on anymore." Emilya pouted. She resolved to question the Novas the next time they met, but for now she was lacking the information needed to formulate any sort of plan. Sighing again Emi turned around and tried to go to sleep.
AN Continued: So how was it? Since this is my first time writing a fight I'm not sure how it went. Was it too short? I tried to make Emilya more even with the enemies here since she lacks experience fighting against them and since her body isn't at full power. I also tried to give her some flaws so that she wouldn't be too OP just yet. I had no idea if using the creation and forging of matter requires an incantation so I just went without one. Can any of you guys guess who the Nova are? Technically they are a single being and it is something real from the Nasuverse.
Once again thanks for reading.
