Infinity Stratos Blades
An Infinite Stratos/Fate Stay night fanfic
Authors notes: I seem that from ALL reviewers only 3 had guessed right about the servants.. and only 1 guessed them all correctly (they all said the same answers so they all got ONE right... but only ONE person had all 3 of them right... and only 2 had 2 right XD)
Am I teasing you too much? I hope so XD, regardless of the cruel ministrations of mine, you are hopping for more. So here is a new chapter... enjoy.
Chapter 10: Accidental revelations and The punishment of hubris
It has been a couple weeks since last time he went home, he had been ran ragged and was tired, but satisfied.
This was due to him working to help his classmates with their own Servant Cafe (a new he was downright chuckling at, he couldn't associate a Servant with a... 'servant'... if someone made Gilgamesh work at a cafe, and a small one like that.
He could imagine Gilgamesh's face at the prospect... he would possibly use Enuma Elish in his rage.
They were setting up the room as he brought nice covers for the round tables, he had asked his old boss for some non-alcoholic drinks that he bought with the help of everyone in the class, they had the best non-alcoholic drinks that were NOT soda.
And so Shirou managed to bring the drinks with the help of Cecilia, Houki, and Charls. Lin was helping her own classmates (Class 2).
Shirou was carrying 4 cases on his shoulder Cecilia was carrying one (with a bit of difficulty) while Houki and Charls did the same (they had some difficulty but not as much as Cecilia), after their trip his old boss called saying that they would deliver for him 10 more cases to the IS academy, since he was a good worker and needed the help. After giving thanks they sighed in relief, it was hard to travel all the way, specially since they couldn't use their IS for the time being since they where on maintenance for the time being
So they, along with their classmates prettied up the classroom, they would have their festival this Monday.
Shirou felt another shiver in the back once more.
There was NO way his girls back home even knew about this event... right?
Monday 9 in the morning
Shirou was shocked... there were a lot of people, but what shocked him the most was 6 people who came in.
It was none other than Rin and Sakura, followed by Ilya and Kuro, and Bazett with Rider.
Shirou was in shock, how did they know?!
Ilya and Kuro smirked together as they pulled a pamphlet about this event.
Shirou's eyes widened... he remembered now... he had it once when he visited, it must have fallen off from his pant's pocket!
Shirou turned around, hopefully they wouldn't find him... or recognize him.
Fat chance, the only male student in a school full of women? Is trying to find a panda mixed with polar bears.
Rin, Sakura and Rider gasped at seeing Shirou, he was dressed rather sharply. He was dressed in a tailcoat that reached below his knees, he had pristine white gloves and his hair neatly combed back,
he was wearing a deep red tie on his neck.
He was elbowed by one of the girls "Good day young ladies, would you care for our services?" he said in a smooth silky voice.
Rin and Sakura had to turn around as they begun to bleed from their respective noses, Rin was panting rather fast, as was Sakura.
Ilya and Kuro where looking at him "Not bad bro... you looking sharp" Kuro said.
Shirou was forcing himself to not break character. This way please... I have your seats ready" he said as he ushered in the girl.
Rider's eye was twitching while Bazett was shivering as she was fighting back the urge to laugh.
Still Shirou maintained his professionalism even when he felt like he wanted to cry.
"Here is the menu... choose whatever you wish, young ladies" Shirou said.
"Uh... Shirou-kun... about this 'Feed your butler' special?" Rin asked.
Shirou tensed.
"Ah... I would instead recommend the crepe... it's very nice, fluffy and has strawberry filling as well as whipped cream, it comes with a nice cup of coffee, organic one too" Shirou said trying to evade what might be a disaster waiting to happen.
"Ah... I am interested in that one! I like sweets!" Ilya said
"Ah, how about we share?" Kuro asked
Ilya nodded enthusiastically.
"You can have the coffee Rin" Ilya said.
"Ah... yes thanks... What about you Sakura?" Rin asked.
"oh, the bunny pastry sounds delicious, what is it?" Sakura asked.
"Oh that is an eclair with marshmallow ears filled with sweet pastry cream and whipped cream as a tail, decorated with fresh fruit around to give a nice feeling at the same time.
"I will have that, with some tea please" Sakura asked.
Bazett asked just for some coffee, however Rider was watching Shirou who tensed when Rin asked him about the 'Feed your butler special'.
"If that is all then..." Shirou said as he was stopped by a single request.
"I will have the 'Feed your butler special' please" Rider said with a playful smirk on her.
Shirou twitched as he sighed in resignation... the other girls from his class where looking at Rider with no small amount of envy, she had, after all, a perfect figure, not only that but she asked for THAT.
After going on the back he brought a small brandy sniffer filled with strawberry pocky.
"Shirou? What is going on?" Rin asked as she blinked at the weird outcome of Rider's order.
"Due to a certain person, they decided that this little 'game' would attract costumers, however I said that it was only for a single time only... so here" Shirou said as he gently put it down for Rider as he sat down on a chair next to her.
"The objective of this 'game' is to 'feed' me" Shirou said as he looked to the side, feeling awkward as hell.
Rider put the pocky on her mouth and gently got close to Shirou, who begun to nibble at it, both of them getting closer, closer.
"Wow... how bold onii-san... but... are you sure this is safe?" Kuro said.
Rin was grabbing Sakura on a chokehold while Bazett was feeling the pouch on her pocket for a fragarch.
"Rider! no fair! I want in too!" Sakura said.
"W... what she said!" Rin said.
"Oh? It seems like is getting livelier... isn't it... shameful man?" a voice said.
The Fuyuki group turned to see Caren in her robes.
"You two sister should stop acting like bitches on heat after a male dog... even if this one is just but a mutt" Caren said.
"Who are you calling bitch you faker priestess! What kind of priestess wears no pants!?" Rin said.
"Is because I like to seduce men, and they are constricting to my movements" she replied in a matter of fact that Rin wanted to jump and beat her up, unfortunately for her she had someone who was her 'body guard' of sorts.
"ah... so this is what a cultural festival looks like, it's nice, they didn't do something like this back then" Gilgamesh (kid) said.
All of the girls where instantly smitten with how cute he was.
"Is he a foreign?" "He is sooo cute!" "I wonder if he is also an IS pilot" "I wanna hug him"
Yes, Gilgamesh's charisma is something to be feared (A+ Rank while on kid version)
"Good evening laddies, might I have something nice and sweet to eat please? Whatever you recommend" Gilgamesh said.
The girls where fighting each other to serve him.
"Th... thank god for small miracles" Shirou said as his eye was twitching.
The rest of the day came out rather tame, Bazett enjoyed herself on a test of strength (She won first prize easy along with Rider)
Rin and Ilya enjoyed a small school themed haunted classroom that used holographic projections to make them realistic.
It scared Sakura that she made a small shadow gollem that covered both sisters as they ran towards the exit.
"Those... those scientist... what kind of satanic contraption could make such a thing!... the Clock Tower would put a sealing designation of those people where they of them, Waver Velvet would LOVE this" Rin said while grumbling.
Just then... Orimura-sensei happened to pass by.
"Clock... Tower?" Orimura thought, good, she now got one small piece of information about Shirou, since Rin was close to him it was only logical that Shirou would know about this.
A lot of the girls where cheering as they saw Bazett fight some guy's on an arcade game, due to her proficiency with combat and having sharp reflexes the guy, no matter how good a gamer was, she was beyond a regular human's abilities.
Bazett was also gorging herself with the cheap stand's foods made by the girls at the academy.
Rin was enjoying some other attractions until she meet up with Tatenashi-san.
"Rin-san, Sakura-san, ohayoo... please come in... I have something to tell you... oh, Rider-san you are here as well? Good please join us" Tatenashi said with a smile.
They entered a room.
Shirou felt a second wave of cold terror sweep him from head to toe today.
"Hey Shi-kun, you done well... so how about you head out, the festival is also designed for students after all" Hononone said.
"eh? Are you sure? I don't mind helping out" Shirou said as he felt awkward.
"Go on... enjoy yourself... don't make me bring Orimura-sensei on you" Hononone said with a smirk.
"Alright, I know when to give up" Shirou said as he pulled his hands up in surrender.
He went out, and decided to go about, the girls from all classes gave him free entrances to their own attractions, due in fact that he took the time to help them as well.
He had a good time but he wanted to find Rin, Sakura, Ilya and Kuro, as well as Bazett and Rider.
"Ah... the useless man is here" a bland voice said.
"C... Caren...san... that is harsh" Shirou said.
"Well you should at least make up for my help of last time... and the fact that I am still hiding that secret" Caren said.
"Well it won't do you any good, cause I got my own room now" Shirou said.
"Ah... that puts a damper on my plans..." Caren said as she 'tsked'
"You... you are so not a priestess at all" Shirou said with a deadpan look on his face.
"Anyways, have fun..." Shirou said as he left.
Caren went back to looking for Gilgamesh, even if he was a kid he gets into trouble no problem, even tough he doesn't really look for it.
With Gilgamesh
Somehow Gilgamesh had turned back to his usual age, and had to admit this place was nice, tough the many girls surrounding him was a bit disconcerting, was he in one of those lands where only women lived? No... that couldn't be, those places disappeared at best of his knowledge to the the grail's giving servants all the information they would need about the world they were summoned.
After reading the pamphlet he learned that he was in what is called a 'cultural festival', he was interested, that meant that many people in this place gathered to show about their different cultures, and from what he had gathered, this place held people of all different countries.
He was delighted at all "Ahahaha it seems some things changed since last time I went to my garden, it's only natural as things must progress to please the king!" as he finished his ranting he saw her.
He was smitten, that woman, even if she was a mere human, she held herself like a warrior, it a way, she had an aura of 'power' or 'authority' about her.
"Hooo... interesting... you there... the woman over there, come here" he called.
Orimura-sensei only rose an eyebrow as she came over, she was curious as to who this rude person was.
"Just who are you?"
"I will forgive your insolence of not knowing me... if you cannot distinguish my name from my presence then it's a pity, tough ignorance is a sin, it's not something that cannot be remedied, you shall accompany me" Gilgamesh proclaimed.
"EEEEH~?! A foreigner asked Orimura-sensei out!?" "Wow how bold!" "Onee-sama is ours!" the girls said.
"Quiet, this is a decree of a king!" he said and immediately all the girls shut up.
"AAHHH! be more cold to us... but be nice!" they said, but they opened a path for them to walk and stopped harassing them.
Orimura-sensei was going against her will and she found herself more and more inclined to hurt the blond bastard who was acting like he was king of the world (ironic cause he is in fact the king of it... or was at any rate)
"You are being awfully arrogant, you think I am yours or something?"Orimura said as she was getting pissed.
"Of course, everything in this world is mine, why ask or be bothered" Gilgamesh said with a arrogant smirk.
She grabbed a shinai that was left due to the kendo club having an exhibition match and went to smack the arrogant blond.
Gilgamesh dodged as it was nothing. "Oh... nice form... very nice, I am starting to like you more woman..." Gilgamesh said with his ever arrogant smirk on his face.
Orimura-sensei was livid, this guy... was toying with her, he was not attacking, he was just dodging her attacks, nothing could touch him.
His arrogance was not unwarranted, he was THE KING... the one that had it all and all was his.
He was able to fight against the first homunculus and the heavenly bull, a mere mortal, no matter how skilled, was not a match for him.
"Ah... I found the golden idiot" a flat voice said.
"EEEEH!?" Gilgamesh yelled as he was suddenly wrapped around with a red cloth by... a nun?
This nun was familiar, she caught her once on the security cameras after that 'dark incident' the cameras came back up and picked her image up.
What is this woman doing here.
"I am sorry that my idiot caused you any troubles, I leave this as a token of apologies" Caren said as she left a HUGE wad of cash.
With that said she left while dragging the King of Heroes unceremoniously trough the ground.
Still it was weird, who was that man? She would run his face on the data base to find out.
She had to admit, as arrogant as he was, he had the skill to back it up.
With the Fuyuki group.
The Fuyuki crew came out with their talk with Tatenashi, she asked them to be part of a ad-lib story the theater group where doing, but lacked members due to them getting the flue.
Rin and Sakura declined, however Rider was interested due to her love of books, Sakura wished her to break her leg (as wishing good luck on a play was of bad luck).
And so... The time for the play was upon them.
With Shirou
A water clone of Tatenashi came over to Shirou.
"Ah... Shirou-san, I wanted to ask for a small favor, since we lack a proper person to play the prince for the play, would you mind taking part of it?" Tatenashi said.
"Eh? But... I didn't read any lines, even if I wanted to..." Shirou said.
"Oh? Don't worry, it does not follow any lines, it's an ad-lib play, make line as you go along" Tatenashi said.
"W...well if that's how it is... I suppose I can help" Shirou said.
"Wonderful... come with me so you can get ready" Tatenashi said.
And so Shirou was once more dressed up... this time he was dressed as a prince, with a small saber on his hip (a prop). He really looked the part now.
Shirou was feeling awkward, he never seen himself as a prince, he didn't have the qualities to be one, after all he was one drenched in blood and violence.
If anything he would be a warrior, or, Root save him, an anti-hero.
Still it was nice to play this role, he supposed. It was one he was not used to and you never knew when you had to play the role of one.
And so the foolish man went foolishly without knowing what awaited for him.
The fool.
And so the play begun, as the foolish hero appeared.
Apparently, the theme of the play was a fight of princesses to find their prince, each princess from a different country.
And those countries where Germany (Laura Bodewig), France (Charlotte Dunois), England (Cecilia Alcott), Japan (Shinono Houki) and Greece (Rider)...
"Wa... wait... Rider?! What are you doing here?" Shirou said in shock.
"The princessess looking for the perfect prince found the one in this country... and the only way for them to claim the prince is to take his crown by force!" the announcer said.
Rin and Sakura, as well as Bazett and Caren and a now de-aged Gilgamesh where looking at the play, all save for Gilgamesh and Caren where looking at it dumbstruck.
"It seems the beast is only a male dog in perpetual heat" Caren said as she looked down at Shirou.
"Must... kill... Tatenashi-san" Rin said.
"Hai... Nee-san, would you mind if I helped out?" Sakura said as dark veins begun to crawl up her body, a little shadow golem appeared behind her hair as it waved around.
"Ah... Sakura... how about we WAIT before the people leave, we don't want unnecessary casualties" Rin said.
"Oh? That's ok? I can make them vanish by consuming the with "all the evil's of the world" or as Rider to set her Blood Fort Andromeda... so it's ok... there will be no witnesses" Sakura said with a cheery smile.
"IS when nee-san over there says horrible things like that, with that angelic smile and sweet voice tha makes it thousand times worst... no?" Gilgamesh said as he shivered in his seat.
"A...ahhh" Bazett agreed.
The play continued, and Shirou had decided to drop this and take off his 'crown'... however just as he was about to touch it a brief round of structural analysis told him that it had been rigged to shock him should he take it off.
It had to be taken off by another person.
And so, he threw himself behind a column when he felt a projectile almost hit his shoulder.
"Sniper? Then that must mean... Cecilia then." Shirou surmised in his mind.
Then a round of knives rained down on him, he grabbed his prop blade and reinforce it as he parried a knife that almost hit his head.
"You are my bride now!" Laura said with a blush.
"Isn't it the other way around!?... no... before that why is that?!" Shirou thought frantically.
"You are a rare man, you bested me when no one, no woman ever done so before... I like that, I won't let anyone take you away" she said as she jumped to attack once more.
Shirou parried her attacks with the single blade.
"Oh... it seems you can use a single blade style as well as a two bladed style, not bad" Laura complemented.
Shirou then had to jump to avoid another sniper's round.
"Shirou... over here!" a voice called out.
He looked to see Charlotte dressed rather beautifully, the princess dress suited her like a glove, to be honest they all looked like princess, and made him feel awkward.
She snuck Shirou out... however Cecilia saw this.
"Where do you think you are going!?" Cecilias shouted as she shot at them.
Charlotte however had a riot gear shield that was tempered to withstand bullets. So she covered Shirou.
With Fuyuki
"Kill...killkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkill" Sakura said as her murderous aura begun to rise up.
"Someone better put this play out else everyone is gonna die" Rin said as she was holding her sister in an arm lock.
"But Nee-san, are you alright seeing him with those women? I know you agree with me on that much" Sakura said.
It was such an insidious and evil words she was using, but it made Rin falter just a bit.
"Ah... so you agree... well... if anything we can just alter their memories so they think something else happened" Sakura said.
Then... the lights went out.
"I am sorry ladies, but this one is mine" Rider said, this time wearing her servant outfit.
With a smirk she threw he dagger chain towards Shirou, however a katana blocked the blade.
"B... back away succubus! We will protect this prince and claim him ourselves, and outsider has no room on this" Houki said.
Why she said that? Easy, Tatenashi promised that the one who claimed Shirou's crown would be able to stay with him on his room, and as student council president it was within her authority, and of course the girls bought it hook, line, sinker and rod.
Rider was having a blast, while not going full out herself she was quite taken, this girl had skill... however it was poor compared to other proper servants or a trained magus (Enforcers, because regular magus aren't capable of fighting against a servant), but with proper training this girl would be able to protect herself at least till Shirou or someone of the Fuyuki group came to cover for them.
As it stood Sakura was more than likely to kill them herself.
Houki was getting pissed, this woman... as much as she hated to admit it, was good, her footwork was spot on, flowing like water...no... that did not do justice, it was more like a snake... slithering around the attacks. A seductive poisonous snake that was playing.
She could feel somewhat the danger level this woman posed to her, while she was just enjoying herself by lightly attacking, even a casual fling of her weapon was enough to stress her blade to the limit... if it wasn't specially made... it would have broken LONG ago.
Rider had to back away a bit to doge a bullet from a sniper, it appears that Cecilia was a good shot, but her instincts are superior to that of man due to her being a monster.
With a weak fling she shot out her chain and dagger out and broke Cecilia's sniper rifle as she was going to fire.
"GAH!" Cecilia yelled as she almost misfired horribly due to the broken rifle.
Laura hid herself, she could tell that the statuesque woman was not even trying in earnest, but even that lazy fling of hers was enough to break a military grade sniper rifle, and to boot it was German made, and Germany prided herself of making the best quality weapons. Yet this woman broke it like it was a toy.
She jumped from the rafters up top, hopping to take her by surprise.
Rider slipped by as she (gently) smashed her against the ground by using her own falling speed against her.
"IM... impossible... how?" she thought in both shock and awe "Wa...was she the one who trained Shirou-san?" Laura thought.
"Uhmmm... no, I am not, but I do help him to train him... the one who trained is not here currently... but we are hopping she will return soon" She said with a smirk.
"Unreal... that woman is unreal... I shiver to think how she would be if she pilots an IS" Laura thought.
"W... wait just a minute... I am not going to give up that easily... so... Rider-san... I am going to win" Charlotte said as she pulled a pair of Uzis from her dress and shot at Rider.
Of course all bullets where rubber ones, and not real life ammo.
Rider however blocked the shots with her chain and dodged those she couldn't.
Charlotte rushed over to her but Rider just dodged her by vaulting over her and shot out her dagger-chain at her.
She redirected her attack by shooting them away, however she had to empty the remaining of both clips to move it just a few inches away from her.
It was gonna miss her regardless but she did so out of reflex.
Rider smiled at her.
She went over and sweep her off her feet so fast she did 4 turns in midair, and it was so fast she lost consciousness due to the sheer speed of it.
"This looks fun... I'll join in too!" Lin said as she jumped as threw a flying kick towards Rider.
Rider dodged but Lin, twisted herself to try and slash her, Rider moved her chain and wrapped it around her sword, Lin tskd, but let go of her sword and closed the distance to CQC, she delivered a strong blow to her gut, only for her to stop it by using her hand at the last second.
Lin was amassed, her reaction speed was monster-like, then the stage begun to change, the floor begun to slip upwards.
Rider and the girls begun to fall down.
"Damn" Rider thought as she moved her legs faster, accelerating, more... more!She was so fast that it seemed like she was sticking to the wall. (She really was)
She got to the apex of the raising floor as Shirou was about to fall.
Rider jumped out and lashed her chain out, Shirou stretched out his arm as he smiled at Rider.
Shirou wrapped his arm around the chain as he was pulled by Rider.
Laura Bodewig would not let this lying down and so she threw 2 of her combat knives towards Shirou in an effort to take down his crown.
Her first knife was shot down by Rider's dagger-chain, however the other knife was hidden in the shadow and got the crown.
"CRAP!" Sihrou shouted.
Charlotte woke up, she was still dizzy, but seeing the crown shine and falling down, she got up on her feet fast, as she saw the golden tell-tell of the crown, she dashed towards it as she streched out her arms in a bid to capture the coveted prize.
Laura was furious, academically she understood that this was a free for all, but she still fell mad that someone was going to use her hard work to benefit herself.
As Charlotte was making her bid, Laura pulled a wire she had planted and made Charlotte trip on it, falling face first, Houki however had taken from a small platform.
At the same time Shirou cursed his luck, he reinforced his prop blade to the point of making it a 'broken prop' meaning it had the power of an E noble phantasm.
He threw the blade towards the crown.
Houki threw her own in the hopes of stopping his.
Shirou's blade, overcharged, tore by her blade as it was made of paper, and hit the crown, detonating it on impact.
Rider was smirking as Shirou was dangling from her chain, Shirou sighed in relief, and Sakura had calmed down somewhat.
After the even Ilya and Kuro appeared with her hands filled up with prizes they won at some of the stalls.
"You seemed like you had fun" Shirou said after he got outside of his outfit, thank the root.
"uhmm... yes! Look I got a lot of candied apples" Ilya said with a grin.
"I had some cotton candy, and we even got some pictures taken in a picture booth, and some girl asked to do a charcoal drawing of us" Kuro said as she held a small drawing.
It was surprisingly well done, both Ilya and Kuro side to side, Ilya with white wings and Kuro with dark ones.
They looked like a friendly angel with a friendly fallen one, a very good comparison, save that they both where little imps.
Shirou helped them to the station, while they all said their goodbyes.
Half an hour before
Orimura-sensei sat down in front of a holo-screen, she had heard some interesting things due to Tohsaka's slip up.
Waver Velvet... Clock Tower... Zelretch...
After looking all over the internet for those names she found something... interesting.
Waver Velvet, had a small gaming blog, apparently he liked to post and rant about games he played, and from what she found, he ALLWAYS filled out the costumer satisfaction forms inside the games and mailed them (even paid international postage) and after looking for the origin of his IP address.
The address was coming from was England, a place called Caffe Nero, near a rather auspicious place...
The Big Ben.
She decided to look for more answers, maybe someone in England would be able to help her investigate? No... too dangerous, she had to go to this place on her own, but her presence could cause a lot of problems as she was rather famous/infamous.
So she decided to investigate this undercover, she now had a solid lead on the enigma that was Emiya Shirou and his 'extended family'
"London here I go." she thought to herself.
With help from someone of the IT department she made a fake ID and put a fake name on a fake website about gaming industry... this guy loved games so he would be more vulnerable when talking from someone that had something to do with the gaming world.
"It seems that my vacation with my brother will have to wait a bit... oh well... I have a lot of time saved up so it's not like 2 weeks will put a dent on it much" She thought.
Clock Tower
One Lord El-Mellio II was playing a rather hard RPG game when his focus slipped due to a sneeze he had.
"I hope is not that stupid belief from Japan about someone talking behind your back" Lord El-mellio II (Waver) said.
He finished playing the game and put his thoughts down on the survey cards to ship them away...
He looked behind him as he finished writing, in the card said he could win a special figurine, he had send so many he was not able to remember them all, his video game addiction came from his time with the Rider Izkander.
Most people on the Clock Tower did not understand his tutor's 'quirk', but whatever, he was an excellent lecturer and able to drag the potential out of them.
He had a feeling, one he developed due to his participating on the Heaven's Feel...
Something was coming, and it was big.
He did not know what it was, but it was inherently dangerous.
He prayed that it would not tip the balance of the world.
He looked to his mantle made from his Rider's cape... a weird feeling flowed to him.
"No..." he said in but a whisper.
He looked around on his office looking for some instruments, until an old aged man, but with a strong looking body came to his office.
"Wizard Marshall... what do I owe this visit?" he asked.
"I fear I have bad new... Waver-kun" he said.
Lord El-Mellio II grunted, he hated his old name, it was a name from when he was an arrogant coward... but is not like he could do anything about it... he was facing a wilder of a "True Magic"
Fighting one such as him was tantamount to suicide, also... he was the one who shoved the freaking moon back into orbit when it was crashing down to earth, an event done by Type-moon, he managed to save the earth, but Type-moon would not go out willingly, as a last act he bit him turning him into a Dead Apostle Ancestor.
Still he is on the side of humanity... sort of...
He does like to play pranks that make people go mad though.
"W... what has happened?" Lord El-Mellio II asked.
"Weeeell... to be frank I felt a 'disturbance' in my domain... I don't know exactly what it was, but it was a violent one, however it lasted for a few seconds, it was somewhat controlled, but then it was disrupted" the Wisard Marshall said.
"Any idea on it's location?" Lord El-Mellio II asked.
"Fuyuki" Zelretch said with 100% certainty.
"What makes you say that?" Lord El-Mellio II said.
"Is due to a two fold problem" he said with a smirk...
Lord El-Mellio II waited for the old vampire to continue.
"First, the effect of the second magic came from a Jeweled Sword, one in possession of a Tohsaka Rin" he said as Lord El-Mellio II graoned, he HATED her, she was the worst Japanese person EVER, how was it that she wasn't into video-games, manga or anime?
"The second was, due to WHERE she is currently" Zelretch said.
"Was she the one who used it then?" Lord El-Mellio II asked.
"No... her style is a LOT more refined... stupid family rule about being perfect on everything... no... it was not her, it was more... desperate feeling... I am unsure, but... I do know one thing" he said.
Lord El-Mellio II was gripping his armrest digging his nails on the wood.
"They tried to connect to a Holy Grail of a different reality, it was a partial success, but not in the way they had hopped... in their ritual... they connected to 3 different grail systems of 3 different worlds... but the 3 systems fused somewhat, or rather overlaid each other" he said as he grumbled at this. He had never seen something like this before.
"Y... you mean" Lord El-Mellio II said in shock.
"It is quite possible 3 Heavens Feel ritual are happening in tandem... or rather a single Heavens Feel with the rules of 3 of them happening... to be honest only once had I seen happen, but in another alternate universe... but nothing like this" he said.
To be honest he was ecstatic, this was new, unprecedented even... however, he was not in the loop... how annoying was that?
Hoisted by his own petard, so to speak.
And so Lord El-Mellio II and The Wizard Marshall talked about what to do... inform the rest of the association... or...
"How about we just pretend we did not notice? This looks like fun!" Zelretch said with a smirk.
Of course Lord El-Mellio II faceplanted... as strong and as powerful as Zelretch was... he was a brat at heart, regardless if he was a couple centuries old.
"How... annoying" Lord El-Mellio II said.
He looked at his arm... still unmarred, he had not been chosen by the Grail this time around.
"Well... even if I summoned him back, is not like it would be the same... it will only be a body of someone named Izkander, and not the Izkander I know..." Lord El-Mellio II thought bitterly.
And so... he sat down, now alone since the old vampire left, to reminisce about the past... his own past, and how he had changed.
He smiled, yes, he had changed... and he was glad of it.
He now was respected, he had all he wanted... and it did not take a wish on a 'monkey paw' of a grail to make it.
Indeed... there would be no satisfaction from such a thing...
But, what about those wishes that cannot be granted by sheer hard work?
Would those people be denied...? did they deserve such a fate?
And now... with this non-sanctioned Grail War had started... would it be the same as before? Was it tainted by Angra Mainyu?
So many questions... so little time.
He decided to drink some water, he needed to calm down...
He had a lecture to attend in an hour after all.
IS Academy
Orimura-sensei had just bought her ticket to London, she had packed all she would need, some weapons should things get out of hand, recording devices, regular and... more stealthy ones.
She left money for her brother, and made a last will and testament in case something happened, never bad thing to be overly prepared. She also told Yamada to take the reigns of the class for the time being, which she accepted with tears on her eyes.
She would leave on the next flight in the morning.
She sighed, Shirou was being so problematic, all of this would be unnecessary would he just talk, she had to give it to him tough, he would make a hell of a government agent spy... he wouldn't talk under threats, was strong enough to at least escape, and she was sure he was the one who repelled the unofficial invasion, she knew something happened, a lot of data was erased and she found herself unable to 'see' certain things, as if her mind told her to 'avoid seeing that which should be seen'.
This irritated her, but now she had a strong lead. She now had something on him.
And she would not let go, she would look at the end of this all the way trough.
She was going into the unknown, there she was, walking trough an abyss, walking in the edge of a katana, she was going to the theoretical stronghold of an organization that held power comparable to if not higher to that of an IS.
She had to be careful, a wrong word, a wrong step...
She would not be able to come back alive.
And so she set out to her home to pack.
She put on her resolve... she would come back alive, she HAD to... she had someone she had to protect.
She hopped that her resolve would be enough...
Chapter End