Infinity Stratos Blades
An Infinite Stratos/Fate Stay night fanfic
Chapter 5: Healing, more questions and shadows.
Shirou was on the operating table after his fight with Bodewig-san... he was currently on the infirmary table resting... eh felt weaker than he should.
He opened his eyes and saw Rin in front of him, her trade-mark smirk on her.
"Ugh... Rin... what are you?" Shirou begun to ask.
"Don't worry.. I placed a bounded field around the infirmary... no one can enter, they will suddenly 'remember' something important, anyways Ilya is currently 'convincing' some people to leave the room... it seems you are quite popular nowadays" Rin said with an evil smirk.
"H...how long?"
"You been here? I had to shoot you with Gandrs to keep you down... it would be problematic if you healed too fast, wouldn't you?" Rin said as she let a weary sigh.
"Yeah... Avalon WOULD make for some questions, questions I rather avoid" Shirou said.
"That's why I came here to put you under with some Gandrs... it would 'help' you with looking normal anyways... I got to get going... Ilya will come in later, she is in your room right now with that roommate of yours... Dunois-kun I believe?" she said.
Shirou gulped, he would be safe as long as no one realized that Charles was actually a girl.
"Anyways I better leave... Rider will help me get out here without no one knowing... since Ilya is your older sister, not that anyone would believe it, she can stay overnight... I will pick her up tomorrow morning" Rin said as she waved Shirou goodbye.
Shirou sighed, he smelled the scent of the bounded field dissipate... a few minutes later Houki, Cecilia and Lin came in.
"Emiya-kun... are you... are you feeling alright?" Cecilia asked.
"Yeah... I am... how long...?" Shirou asked
"you been here for 4 days... thankfully that... thing... did not hit any important organs, you went into the emergency room for a nanomachine surgery, it helped that you are a fast healer... it had managed to micro-suture you, you spend 4 days in here" Lin said.
"And Bodewig-san?" Shirou asked.
The girls chuckled at the question...
"W... what did I say? I am serious" Shirou said.
"You worry about a girl who was fine after a nights sleep?" Cecilia said with amusement.
"A nights sleep?" Shirou said.
"Yes... other than some dehydration and slight nerve damage she will be fine" Houki said.
"I see.. that's good" Shirou said.
"Actually we are more surprised that you got up so soon" Lin said.
"Yeah.. they never seen someone heal so quick... they said it would take at least one more week for you to get up... but you got up faster than expected" Cecilia said.
"Well I never been sick one day in my life" Shirou said.
It was true... due to Avalon in his body he never had gotten sick.
"That is most amazing, you must been really gifted" Cecilia.
"Uhmm... I can attest to that... he never got winded in our spars and we went at it for hours" Houki said.
"So he has a lot of stamina uh?" Lin said with a red blush on her face, she was panting really hard.
Another person then entered... this one was someone I didn't want to see so soon.
"I have to say... when we saw the wound on you, we weren't sure you would make it, even with the advanced medicine and machines for that purpose I never seen a person who heals as fast as you did... not to mention your last attack with that long katana" Orimura-sensei said.
"I learned to use swords a long time ago.." Shirou said.
"Yes.. but after looking at the remains of Bodewig-san's machine we discovered something really interesting... that attack you did... it was 3 attacks, at the exact same time... care to explain how that was possible?" Orimura-sensei asked.
"Yes, that technique... I think I heard of it before" Houki said.
"Ah.. yes... I recreated a infamous technique... the one used by Sasaki Shoujirou" Shirou explained.
It would be best if he was honest about it, no sense of covering that up.
"Tsubame Gaeishi... it's the name of the technique... I learned by reading some old scrolls about it and managed to recreate it" Shirou said.
He did... in fact by tracing the sword he was able to recreate the technique due to it.
"I see... that is rather, incredible" Orimura-sensei said.
Her eye twitched, his attack was a physical impossibility... you can't do 3 attacks at the same time, this was not an anime damn it!
Still she could not counter him, there were a LOT of martial arts scrolls, maybe he got one that was the real deal? She doubted this, but she had no proof.
She would need to further investigate this.
"Anyways... what will happen with Bodewig-san's IS unit? And what about that program... the Valkyrie Trace System... what will happen, will someone be punished?" Shirou asked.
"Oh? So you know about that? Well at least you seem to be putting some extra work on your studies... anyways... due to some legal loopholes there is no one who will be held accountable due to it happening in the IS academy, as much as I hate this, there is not gonna be any charges brought to the German government" She said as she crushed a pencil on her hand.
Obviously she was pissed beyond measure, not to mention that her star pupil was put at risk... she felt bad about the argument they had, but her face did not show it.
"Anyways... I wish to thank you for rescuing Bodewig-san" Orimura-sensei said.
"What about her IS?" Shirou asked.
"While the IS was totaled the core was not, they will ship parts to remake her unit whole, the mechanics here are doing their best... so there is nothing for you to worry about" Orimura-sensei said.
However Shirou was thinking other things "How is it that the supposedly prototype of a 3rd gen IS has ready made parts for it? This is WAY too fishy"
Orimura-sensei left the room... moments later Bodewig came in.
She looked at Shirou in the eyes.
"It seems you have won... so you are allowed to command me" she said.
"Eh? No I didn't win... since what happened to you was outside of either one's expectations... I don't think that counted as a win for either side... so... how about we call it a draw? That way no one has to suffer the penalty?" Shirou said with a pained smile.
Freaking Gandrs man.
"I must say... you are the only male that has bested me... even if that... episode had not happened, your chances of winning would not have decreased... however, I am... content with your decision of choosing a draw" Bodewig said.
"I am just glad you are ok Bodewig-san" Shirou said.
"I must ask a question... Why? Why did you try to save me when all I done is antagonize you?" Bodewig asked.
"You don't know much about me, but... I made a promise to become a hero... someone who up holds justice... watching you die... it would be to turn against my very being... that promise is something that is in my very core" Shirou said.
He was a sword at his very core.
I am the bone of my sword, steel is my body and fire is my blood.
Nothing else was important.
That promise he did to Kiritsugu... to himself, Archer.
He did not wish to become a here, he WOULD become one.
"You are very stupid, there is no shame in retreating if the enemy is too strong" Bodewig said looking at the side.
"Yes, but every second you spend inside that, it was a second more you would be damaged, if you stayed any longer by waiting for the teachers and reinforcements... what would had happened to you? No, rather than risk that I preferred to do what I could to get you out of that aberration, that and... you remind me of my sister, just do me a favor and look at your machine next time, look for any hidden functions so this will never happen again" Shirou said.
"I see... very well... since I still firmly believe you won, regardless of you asking for it to be considered a draw, you are to call me Laura... good day Emiya-San" Laura said as she slightly blushed.
"So... can I go to my room?" Shirou asked.
"Ah... yes... allow me" Cecilia said as she helped Shirou stand up, he was still slightly trembling, again due to Rin's gandrs, those things where EVIL, they would enforce sickness of the body, but without the apparent cause.
And so he went to his room where a little girl was waiting for him.
"ONICHAN!" Ilya said as she jumped at him
"LAURA?!" the 3 girls said in shock.
"Ah... no.. this is" Charles begun.
She did a curtsy, "good evening I am Illyasviel von Einzbern... nice to meet you, I wish to thank you caring for my little brother" she said.
Houki blinked, but the little girl's way of speaking was different than Laura's. At least she was somewhat pleasant, but there was something odd on what she said, but ignored it.
"Ah, good evening lady Einzbern... wait... you are Shirou's sister? Why do you have different last names?" Cecilia asked.
"ah... while dad and mom where married he never did change the last name... besides, my family from my mother's side where VERY proud so they didn't let us change the last name to dad's" Ilya lied skillfully.
It was not a complete lie tough... the Einzberns are a rather proud family of magus.
"Anyways... I am going to stay for the night... I hope that doesn't inconvenience you Dunois-san?" Ilya asked.
"Uh? Oh! no... not at all... I assume you got permission from the IS academy officials?" Charles asked.
"yes, it was a bit tiresome but I did" Ilya lied.
In fact she has used her magic on the officials to speed up the 'paperwork' by hypnotizing them. Truly this girl would do anything to get what she wants.
There was no paperwork for her, but they would fill it up for her regardless and back-date it.
With some words of farewell they all left for their own rooms.
"So... good night Shirou-sempai, Ilya-san" Charles said.
"Good night,Charles/Dunois-san" Shirou and Ilya said.
Ilya dressed on her cute Pjs as Shirou went to sleep without a shirt and on his Pjs pants.
Ilya snuggled against Shirou, he had yearned for having her brother's warmth... Charles had to admit, they looked so cute together.
The next morning
Charles woke up, she looked at the pair, the sister laid on top of him, her arms outstretched on his chest , her hand holding his, almost as if afraid to let go.
She smiled bitterly as she went to change, remembering to lock the door this time.
After her showing, bandaging her breasts to pass off as a man and changing into his uniform she got out of the shower, she took a while in there, or so she tough, she was looking at Shirou cooking wile Ilya was fetching the ingredients for him to cook, he was smiling, an actual smile, not that smile he had that looked he put on for the social norm, but an actual one.
It was, a peaceful scene and she was, if she was honest, a bit jealous of it all.
It made her miss her time with her mother. It was a hard life with her... but she loved her so much.
"Sit with us Charles, I made some breakfast, I still can't go to class till tomorrow but I can at least make something to eat" Shirou said as he put down the dishes on the table.
Charles was eating with a fork this time, she did not feel like stealing time from the young girl from her brother.
After thanking him for a delicious meal Charles left for class.
"Hey Shirou... I heard from Bazett she gave you some help?" Ilya said.
"Yeah it wasn't that hard..." Shirou said, truthfully it was a bit difficult, but it all went to the crapper when that Valkyrie Trace System came about, he had to use a noble phantasm and a noble phantasm-like skill.
"Ne ne... Onii-chan, how about you show me around? I have a visitor's pass after all" Ilya asked.
Shirou just smiled and took his sister to see his school.
Ilya was taken back by the sheer technological stuff, it made her a bit miffed, she was a magus after all, though she did like to play video-games.
She loved to beat Rin, who couldn't even for the life of her understand the controls even if it was an old video game system... a Pretendo system.
The technology was surreal, they had holographic displays almost everywhere, vending machines around the outside, as well as maps on the outside that showed in a holographic displays.
The school was really showy... but it was worth it... as a magus, she did not like the technology they used. Still she could appreciate how simple they made things.
Shirou showed her the 'workshop' where they worked on the IS and enhanced their abilities.
"Wow... that's amazing... ne ne... onii-san... show me your IS, pretty please?" Ilya asked.
Shirou smiled, "Sure, but we should go to the arena first" Shirou said as he led his sister, he put her on his shoulders/
"Yaa! I like the view from up here!" Ilya said in glee.
In truth, Kiritsugu used to to this with Ilya back then...
No... no sense on remembering the past...
Ilya was giggling as she had fun on Shirou's shoulder.
All the girls where awwing at this, thinking he would make a great father one day.
Ilya and Shirou arrived.
"Ne nee... can I see it? Your IS?" Ilya asked.
"Aka no Kishin... START!" Shirou said as he rose his arm high.
The IS materialized around him, and placing itself around.
Ilya gasped, the color, the shape...
"Shirou... did you...?" Ilya asked.
"Yes, I did it as an homage to him" Shirou said.
Ilya smiled, it was a bittersweet smile, "yes... it suits you"
"So... what can it do?" Ilya asked.
"Well it gives me a 'shield' around me and protects me, and... I can do this" Shirou said as he scooped up Ilya and took off.
"WAAAH!" Ilya yelled in fright and then saw she was several yards in the air.
He flew slowly around the arena as Ilya giggled at the ride.
Shirou then gently went back down.
"Boooo... over so soon?" Ilya said.
"Ilya, I can't just give rides on the IS suit at will you know, is not against the rules or anything but it is frowned upon" Shirou said.
"Oh? If you knew that why did you do it the, Emiya-san?" a voice said that made Shirou cringe even inside the IS suit.
Orimura-sensei.
"And what might you bee doing here... Orimura-sensei?" Shirou said, he was doing a superb job of not showing fear.
"Uhmm... Bodewig-san? What might you... wait... you are not her... who are you?" Orimura-sensei asked as she saw the girl.
"Good morning, I am Illyasviel von Einzbern, how do you do... thank you for taking care of my brother" she said with a curtsy.
Orimura rose an eyebrow, this girl didn't show any fear to her, even if she was releasing a lot of hostility this girl was unaffected.
She refrained from demonstrating her pressure of presence as she smirked, this girl was strong, she hopped she could make into an IS candidate.
"Emiya-san I need to talk to you, about this upcoming tournament" Laura said as she stopped in her tracks.
In front of her was what could be said a 'clone' of her, she was exactly alike, except this girl was smiling as she pulled Shirou's sleeves, Shirou smiled and patted her, and for some reason Orimura-sensei was there as well.
"D... did someone clone me?!" Laura said in shock.
"Cloning? What's that?" Ilya asked.
"Uhmm, is like reproducing a person, think of it like... a copy machine" Shirou said
"Copy... machine?" Ilya asked, not used to the modern machineries.
"I'll tell you later... under a bounded-field" he said in a whisper... Ilya nodded.
"What is it Bodewig-san" Orimura-sensei asked.
"I wish to pair up with Emiya-san for the upcoming tournament, mam sir!" Laura said with a military salute.
Onimura glances once more at Ilya and at Bodewig, both looked the same, but similarities where only superficial.
"Very well... you and Emiya-san will participate as a team on the tournament" Orimura-sensei said.
Laura was slightly blushing with a slight movement of her lips indicating something akin to a smile.
Ilya and Orimura-sensei however did, Ilya was hiding her smirk, while Onumura-sensei just hid her's using her clipboard.
"Onii-chan, you are going for lolis now? How low have you fallen" Ilya said with a smirk as she threw a mock-glare at him.
Shirou fell on the floor, the light went off as a spotlight lighted on him.
"Yeah... I fell a long way" he said as he looked at the floor with sadness.
"Tell me about it... I didn't even get my own route" Ilya said.
"Your own...what?" Shirou said scratching his head, confused by her statement.
"Maah... never mind onii-chan" Ilya said with a giggle.
Shirou was blinking as Rin came over, a visitor's pass on her neck.
"Yes, I came here to pick a troublesome brat?" Rin said as she pushed her tails out of the way.
Ilya jumped and bit her heard, it sounded like a saw was going on in there as Rin yelled in pain as ran around the place with Ilya firmly in place.
"is that you family Emiya-san?" Orimura-sensei asked.
"H...Hai" Shirou said awkwardly.
"Huhmm... I must say... they are funny, to say the least" Orimura-sensei said.
"Now go back to bed, you shouldn't be out and about... unless you want some extra work to do?" she said, it sounded like a question but it was a threat more than anything.
So he did a strategic retreat.
After classes
Shirou was in his room resting, or at least that is what he wanted people to believe, however he was tracing IS cores as much as he could, however, even if he had more than enough power to make them he had to be careful, his circuits could only process a measly 270 units of prana using all his circuits, meaning he could only process 10 units per circuit.
Making as many cores as he did... it wiped him out.
He fell asleep for a while to recover.
"Hey Shirou-sempai, how are you doing?" Charles said, she was wearing an apron as she was over the stove cooking something.
"Charles... what are you doing?" Shirou said as he woke up. "and what is that smell?"
"ah...Shirou-sempai... how about you call me by my real name? It's Charlotte, and for what I am making, it's called Choucroute Garnie, it's a traditional dish from France... here I made Huguenot for both" Charles/Charlotte said.
It looked delicious, and the taste was divine.
"Wow.. this is delicious, you would definitely make a good wife to some lucky guy someday" Shirou said as he smiled at her.
Charlotte's face turn into a dangerous shade of red, steam came out of her head "Y-y-you think so?" she said with a slight stutter.
"uhmm... this is the first time I had french food, and I must say, I am quite taken, I wouldn't mind learning how to make some dishes myself" Shirou said as he savored the ingredients.
Charlotte's face turned even more red if such thing was possible.
After lunch
"Here I will clean up, it's only fair since you cooked" Shirou said as he stood up and took the dishes and the pot into the sink.
Shirou looked out the window as he cleaned up, he looked serene, just like when he was sleeping with his little sister.
"There... all done" Shirou said with a satisfied smile.
"You would make a good father yourself you know" Charlotte said.
"No... I couldn't, not with the goal I have in mind" Shirou said.
"Goal?" Charlotte asked.
"I wish to become a hero of justice, no... I'll become one" Shirou said with complete and total conviction.
"Hero of justice?" Charlotte asked.
"Yes, I wish to be one, to save people... but it is really hard ideal, even if it's a borrowed one" Shirou said.
"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked.
"People don't realize this but... in order to save someone, it's the same as hopping someone is in danger... that is the weight of my ideal... I was called a hypocrite... a delusional person... but that's a promise I did to my father, I am the one who carries that dream from him, he passed it down to me, and it's my job to see it trough for him" Shirou said. "Also... I believe in the inherently goodness that comes from helping people"
"It seems like a heavy burden, why do you carry it?" Charlotte asked.
"It's a heavy burden, so I would not let anyone to carry it but me" Shirou said.
"But why?" Charlotte asked one more, some tears could be seen in her eyes.
Shirou turned cold, he remembered the same answer Archer gave to him.
"Charlotte, I want you to think about this, if you had to kill one person with your bare hands to save 10... would you do it?" Shirou asked.
Charlotte could not answer, such a question...
"What about 10 for 100? a 100 for 1000?... in the end... sometimes you can't save them all, we are not gods and we can't be everywhere at once and sometimes we are constrained by choices... we aren't perfect and sometimes if you want to save someone, someone else must die... if two people are fighting, each with a knife to each others trough... you can only choose one to save, as they will continue until one kills the other or both die?... now you see what is the crux of my ideal?" Shirou said.
Charlotte looked really sad, looking at Shirou in a different light, she saw him as a sad, broken person who placed others in front of himself, self destructive... but so kind.
"Shirou... you are wrong, sometimes you have to just have to do the impossible to do it... I was once told, the impossible is just something that people are afraid of doing" Charlotte said with a smile.
"Tha... that is true... why did he became like this? I don't think I am wrong... but what Charlotte is saying also has merit still" Shirou thought.
"It might be bad, it might be self destructive... but 'helping people' is never wrong" Shirou said with a self-depreciating smile.
"You are kind, but you need to put that into your goal too..." Charlotte said as she tip-toed up and gave Shirou a chaste kiss on his cheek. "you need to improve that personality... I don't find it bad but... it's always better to better yourself, no?" she said with a smile and a blush.
Shirou was taken back by Charlotte's sudden kiss, even if it was a chaste peck on his cheek he came to realize something... Charlotte was really beautiful.
Shirou was unable to console sleep that night, not that he now that Charlotte was having the EXACT SAME problem.
"AAAAAAH~! I can't believe I just did that! What was I thinking?!" She mentally berated herself as she wiggled in her bed.
Shirou however was able to recover fast from this.
The next morning
Shirou was able to go to classes as per usual, but NOT before going to the medical facility.
He was given a clean bill of health he returned to his regular school duties, thanks to his time out he was able to catch up to the IS classes as well as being able to trace some more cores. It was an arduous task and it stressed his circuits to the max, his body was sweating due to the stress and heat in doing so.
Shirou stopped the flow of the IS core's energy and the circuits on his body shut down, the bright aqua colored lines vanished.
Shirou took off his shirt and went into the shower.
He was due to class tomorrow after 10 days absent, due to injury and thus excused, but thankfully the girls came and gave him some print-outs of class.
Now that he was 'healed' he had to attend class once more, made hard due to Laura's furtive glances at him.
Still he did his duty and continued with class as he absorbed everything he could and read ahead somewhat to get ahead of the curve, the more he learned the better he could replicate the cores, but it was no use, those things where black boxes and actual development was a secret bu the one who made it... he 'cheated' by learning their history via his structure analyze. But he did not know HOW to make it with his own hands in case he should ever do it... same as with noble phantasms, mostly due to their forging process and enchantments and the like.
Also because some are made by the divine and the...well... not so divine.
Shirou continued to modify and purge unnecessary data and add some more bus slots to hold more weapons, he managed to also become more in-tune with Aka No Kishi, he felt something on the machine beginning to grow... metaphorically speaking.
He kept on going at it, training with Charlotte as well as Lin and Cecilia to help him cover all the areas of fighting he would have to take out other IS users or even rouge IS like the one that came a while ago.
Cecilia, Charlotte and Lin's skill also rose considerably, only Houki was left behind as she tried hard to reach, but they seemed so far away, her efforts only could get her so far... without an IS unit...
Unknown location
"Eeeh... that Shi-kun... he is so interesting, his combat abilities, the way he modified his IS... not to mention those weird readings on his head when he deployed those weapons... he is a mystery... sooo interesting... and my little sister, I think is time I gave her a nice gift... so... when should I send it... oh... I heard some interesting news on the school's chats... I guess I could do it by then... yes that would be interesting " the female person said.
She stood up, her face was an enigma, but she had 2 robotic bunny ears.
"Well, is time to make that for my sister~" she said as she went to work.
"Tehe "
Emiya mansion
Sakura stood up, her body was still a bit weak but thanks to her magecraft she was able to heal most of her injuries during the worm-crest removal, true she still had heightened sexual desires (at least 3 times more than a regular human should) as well as her power not dropping, she had, for a lack of better words, assimilated the power and abilities of the worm-crest and made her own, minus the worms... those things where repugnant and penis shaped.
Rider looked at her master, her health was as it should, still a bit weak due to the ordeal but she was now able to function nicely in society.
Rin and Ilya where on the kitchen preparing something for Sakura, well only Rin, Ilya was sitting on a counter watching Rin make something for her sister.
"Hello Onee-san" Sakura said.
Rin blanched, Ilya stopped giggling.
"So, can you kindly answer me... what is sempai doing in the IS Academy?" Sakura said with a sweet smile.
Ilya was sweating, Rin was nearly hyperventilating.
The room turned dark.
Sakura had a dangerous smile.
A Dark Sakura event had just begun.
"G... GYAAAAH!" Rin and Ilya yelled, however no one heard their screams due to a bounded field made by Sakura's imaginary element magecraft.
Half an hour later
Rin was curling in a corner, Ilya was hugging Rin in said corner, and Rider had just arrived from her job.
Sakura was cutting some vegetables "Ah... Rider, do you think you could do me a favor? Can you take me were sempai is?" Sakura asked.
"Uh... s...sure?" Rider said looking at the side.
"Thank you" Sakura said.
To be honest, with the sheer dreadful aura Sakura was giving off it wasn't a question, but rather an order that couldn't refuse.
IS academy
Shirou suddenly felt a rather cold shiver run down his spine.
It was violent, cold and unexpected... and it distracted him, so the girls got a hit in, which he re-payed in kind by knocking their shields down to 0.
"Damn... and just when we got him to nearly half his shield energy down..." Lin said.
"Yes, but Shirou was only slightly distracted by something, what happened Shirou?" Laura asked as she was observing Shirou intently.
"Ah... I felt something cold run trough my back... I dunno but maybe a premonition?" Shirou half stated, half asked.
"Yes... I've felt those before in Germany during my intense training, it might be wise for you to listen to your instincts, they are invaluable asset to any warrior" Laura said.
"Yeah... I learn that the hard way... but I can't shake that uneasy feeling, like it's something I know... but I can't remember what" Shirou said.
"Just ignore it... it's probably nothing" Cecilia said.
Shirou smiled but he was still worried, this was something he felt before, a dark foreboding feeling.
After Classes
Shirou was still on guard, something was wrong, his feelings NEVER had lied to him, but he couldn't for the life of him get a reading on what was going on... a rouge IS again?
He was feeling uneasy... but at least Orimura-sensei had left to both check on her brother and to no doubt use her down time to find more dirt on him.
Things where more simple when it was just a bloody war like the Grail War... he would miss it... the non bloody parts that is.
However the fact that she was still digging up stuff on him was more unsettling.
Shirou took a shower after Charlotte was done with hers, she changed in the bathroom so it was all good.
Shirou made a few more cores while on the shower and stored them within his IS subspace.
It was a uneventful afternoon and then the sun begun to set in.
And on that moment was when the new rumor begun to run on IS academy... the Dark Ghoul
The rumor originated due to what happened this day, and since then many girls had begun to put charms on their doors, regardless of the scientific absurdity of ghosts and the like, still the girls wanted to be safe than sorry.
The events take place between the hours of 5:50 PM and 8:00 PM at the IS Academy portions of the events have never been uncovered and will probably never will be.
Shirou was on the track field's shed, he was making more cores as he could in there before being kicked out by the ruthless king of the shed, the gardener.
Still something was feeling wrong, there was a dark scent filled with can be categorized as 'being in heat'... it was all over the place.
Shirou was running but he could feel a creeping feeling all over the place.
"Shirou-sempai... I don't... I don't feel so good" Charlotte said as she fainted on the floor.
Shirou flushed prana around his body, he could feel an invading prana going around and flushed it out of his system to cancel whatever this was, it was magecraft.
Many girls begun to faint, the lights begun to flicker in and out.
"OK... this is more and more looking like a horror movie" Shirou tought as he looked around, luckily the girls where only out, not being drained of prana and the like, so they where just unconscious, not dying or the like.
One word, a single word but with a voice that was both sweet and poisonous as well as warm and cold.
"Sempai" a female's voice said in a sultry seductive and sexually charged way.
Shivers run trough his back... that voice... he immediately knew what was going on.
This was bad, really bad, this was so bad that if you looked for the definition of bad it would picture this exact situation.
Him being in an all-girl's school and him being the only other man (well the other one was a fake but no one knew).
And Sakura was on full on Dark Sakura mode.
A girl dressed in a ratty black dress with red lines running down, a vein like pattern running trough her body could be seen on her legs and on both sides of her face, her hair turned white and her bow turned red, as well as her eyes.
And those eyes where fixated on Shirou.
Last time she was like this Shirou was so exhausted he had to miss class for 3 days.
Even Rin was thorn between laughing at him, being marveled at his stamina, or the fact that he had sex for 20 hours with HER YOUNGER SISTER.
Still the angry make-up sex with Rin was worth it (in Rin's mind) tough Shirou had to drink a LOT of sport drinks the next few days.
Shirou begun to run, this would end REALLY BAD for himin more ways than one.
Talk about a death flag.
Shirou was able to dodge an attack from one of the 'shadows', apparently she made some shadow golems to look for him.
Shirou was going to use his IS, however something strange happened.
"Error unable to connect. All systems are down"
So using IS is out, that also means that recording systems are also down... or so he hopped.
So far no alarms sounded off due to the intrusion of the one currently hunting Shirou.
He dodged by rolling down on the ground, the shadow familiar missed by inches, however the tree was completely corrupted due to the curses that flowed within them.
It became a twisted nightmare-ish version of itself, and then crumbled into dust.
Shirou traced a small athame blade in a zig zag shape.
The best blade to combat such things, Medea's blade... Rule Breaker.
He cut the abomination and dissolved into shadows, a small reprieve due to him knowing who the cause was, and how many she could generate if she so willed it.
Shirou rushed around, the girls were all fine, a bit flushed but fine.
He did not know but Dark Sakura had feed on their carnal desires, and being that they only had 2 guys... and teens in the hormonal phases... it was akin to an all you can eat buffet for her.
Some of the girls that had resisted her pressure would to date speak of the scary ghoul that feed off people's souls.
Shirou was running for his collective life and unlife... being swallowed once by 'all the evils of the world' was an experience he did not care for to be repeated... it's worst due to his soul being trapped in there, should he had failed to get free from it... it did no good to his mind, it nearly broke under all the 'evils in the world'
Shirou defended himself using the seemingly brittle dagger, he made many copies of it on his mind and shot them out as fast as he could, piercing the monsters bodies.
Shirou's sense of smell was not working, due to the prana scent being ALL over, so he couldn't track Sakura down, worst of it all the girls in here would suffer greatly due to Sakura's corrupting presence.
Shirou ran trough the school shooting the dagger at the opponents.
The monsters slammed the ground and chucked debris at Shirou, preventing him from attacking them with the dangerous dagger.
"Sempai... where are you?" the voice called, honest fear creeped up on him.
Shirou turned around, the bloody red moon.
Dark Sakura was there, looking lustily down at Shirou.
Shirou was sweating, this was bad, last time she nearly broke his hips due to her being in estrous... and she looked twice as bad as last time, this wasn't a joke he would seriously die... Avalon or not.
Shirou had to attack... desperately he traced as many conceptual armaments and noble phantasms he could recreate and would at least entrap the girl, and thus he made 40 black keys and threw them to her.
The black keys where conceptual weapons that hurt spiritual beings, and due to Dark Sakura being one such being, the Keys where specially harsh, however Shirou was not looking to kill or harm her, rather he was hopping to stop her by using the Key's secondary ability.
That is to say, he used the keys to pin down Dark Sakura by sealing her moves by piercing her shadow, however that was not to be, Dark Sakura had complete control over her Shadow, or rather, she had no shadow but a magical construct that 'acted as a solidified shadow' to protect Dark Sakura and moved itself out of the way to protect the interests of it's master.
"Damn it... this will be harder than I thought" Shirou said as he dodged another Shadow familiar.
He either had to attack her [real] Shadow, or buy time till someone of the Emiya house, or from the Kotomine parish comes down here.
For now he had to survive... he had limited amount of Prana, his body was aching, he had used his circuits too much and even reinforcement was flaky at best.
"Damn it... this is both a blessing and a curse... all the people here are passed out due to Sakura's prana leeching abilities by making the girls orgasm and draining their primal emotion once they do..." Shirou thought, but he didn't know how effective that would be against Orimura-sensei.
"She see,s the kind of woman who would ignore her own womanhood to keep on fighting" Shirou thought as he smirked at that and slightly chuckled.
Elsewhere on the world, Orimura-sensei was violently sneezing.
Shirou continued to dodge and hide from the Shadows, breaking into the girls rooms as he used them as a short reprieve from running from the Shadows. A few minutes at the most, until he had to run again from them.
"Sempai... the longer I wait... the worst your punishment it will be " Dark Sakura said with a lustful tone.
This made Shirou more resolute to run even faster.
Shirou then felt something wrap around him
"Eh? EEEEH!?" Shirou yelled as he fell into the floor after being dragged a couple yards from the room.
"Goodness... it seems like the premature ejaculator is in his new found heaven, I wonder why it was necessary my intervention" a cold and rather irritating voice said.
Let's go back a second... the 'thing' that wrapped Shirou is a mystic code called the Shroud of Magdalene, a mystic code that works only on men and only served to stop them, any attack to them while wrapped on the shroud would render it's effect null.
"Stilll, being called that... I wanna think I gotten better at it... wait... that's not the issue here!" Shirou thought "C... Caren, what are you doing here?" Shirou asked.
"What am I doing here? I wonder, I believe I has something to do with your sex fiend over there" Caren said as she nodded towards Dark Sakura.
"But what can we do?! I am low on prana, you have no skills other than the shroud, and your demon detecting abilities, you are not really useful in this situation" Shirou said.
"Uhm... I liked the possessed you better" Caren muttered.
"Eh?"
"No... nothing... you think I would come here without backup?" Caren said.
Then a small blonde boy walked in.
"Wow... nee-san over there looks really 'eager', hey oni-san, you should have taken better care of nee-san's 'needs' over there" the blond boy said.
No way... just no way this person would be here.
"Then... we should restrain her, Shirou, do you have any prana to trace my chains?" Gilgamesh [kid version] asked.
"No... I am runnign dry here... if I try tracing..."
Yeah... his body would break down.
"Man... how troublesome, anyways I'll do what I can... ENKIDU!" he yelled as he stretched his arm out towards Dark Sakura.
"GYAAAH!" Dark Sakura yelled as she was being bounded by the heavenly chains... except.
"Shibari?" Shirou said in shock at seeing Dark Sakura being tied in a turtle shell-like design, that made her breasts seem bigger as her nether regions where being carrassed by the cold steel of the chains, her moaning and lustful look said it all.
"OK... this stupid situation has GOT to stop" another female voice said.
*Crack*
A blow to the neck... Dark Sakura passed out turning back to her usual form.
"Seriously Shirou, you got so lucky today... and I don't know if we can restrain her again... you were lucky today... you should really think on just giving up... my sister is really into you" Rin said with a scary smile.
"R... Rin... you are not mad are you?" Shirou asked, afraid for his life once more.
Rin sighed, "I wish I was, but you are not guilty, but if you want I can find something to be angry... I can spare some gems after all" Rin said as she took a handful of them as showed them to Shirou
It was a lie of course, she wouldn't use her gems for this... but physical violence was something she would do, especially after reinforcing her limbs.
Still this was good, this was over... with a bit of hypnotism and some illusions all the damages would be covered up and forgotten.
Shirou went to his room... Charlotte laid on the floor unconscious with a deep blush and heavy breathing. Shirou Carried her to her bed and covered her.
He was just glad that no one...
"Oh... so the only other guy was really a girl uh?"
No... anyone but her.
"Who would have tough about that the shy Shirou would WANT to keep on living alone, with such a nice pure girl" Caren's voice came out from the door.
Shirou didn't want to turn, he was just going to ignore this, this was just a dream, a bad dream.
"uhmm... how rude... even when we both done 'it' once... you shot so much I almost got pregnant" Caren said.
Shirou coughed up.
"Lies! I never done nothing of the sort!" Shirou said.
"Fuhuhuhu... maybe you did, maybe you didn't... now, don't you wish to talk about this? I know I don't act like it but I am STILL a priestess" Caren said.
Shirou sighed, it was either confess to her... or have her tell everyone about his current living arrangements.
And so he told her everything.
"Ah... I see, it seems Shirou still hasn't lost that part of himself, while I can say that I understand her plight, it seems you are quite the christian" Caren said.
"Please, I am a magus, if anything I think I am just spiritual... or downright atheist perhaps, tough I meet some demi-gods and gods on the heaven's feel" Shirou said "So I am really unsure about it"
"I see, that is indeed a conundrum, while my faith only speaks on one true god, I cannot deny the existence of previous gods" Caren said.
"Anyways, can you do something about their memories?" Shirou asked.
"well... is not that they will have any memories, if Sakura's jealous rampage was anything to go by, I would think you would have been of you" Caren said.
"Ah... if it's like that..." Shirou said.
Wait... his brain stopped working.
"W-WAIT A MINUTE! THAT'S BAD! THAT'S REAAALY BAD! NO SCRATCH THAT WOULD BE A HORRIBLE BLOW TO MY REPUTATION... I WOULD BE CALLED A SERIAL RAPIST IN HERE!" Shirou said in shock.
"Oh? I think that would be better than a premature ejaculator tough" Caren said with a surprised look on her face at Shirou's comment.
"Ok, first off... why would you even say that? And second... I had plenty of experiences since that time so I don't know where you base that from, and third... it matters cause the girls in here MIGHT be liable of shooting me, piercing me, or any other number of things they could do with their IS machines" Shirou said.
"Well, when you put it that way..." Caren said as she tsked under her breath.
And so Rin and Caren made a lot of 'overtime' by modifying the girls memories to an accident on the lab that cause the blackout...
It was not perfect by any means, but at least it was something, still most girls where confused as to why their underwear was so... wet.
At the Emiya household all of the girls where taking a well deserved break, after chaining Sakura down with some holy conceptual armaments to keep the darkness of the grail inside of her to resurface again and have this event rear it's ugly head once more.
Chapter end