Two chapter back to back for the long wait.
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Undisclosed amount of time later….
Shirou's eyes caught the plane as it left the city and sighed in relief at that, Illyasveil was safe with Arthuria and Gilgamesh with her.
"Shirou, pay attention." Rin's arms tightened around him as she said this, a consequence of his their mode of transportation for a while.
"Don't worry Rin, I have almost full control." Shirou chuckled as Rin's grip tightened again and he rode the Yamaha V-Max Kiritsuga Emiya had lent to Saber during the Fourth Holy Grail War and something he had been working on when he had the time too and was glad he did so.
"What do you mean almost!"
"This."
With little warning Shirou put on a burst of speed and thanks to Magecraft added to the bike it went to full speed almost instantly. Of course it wasn't the bike's true speed as Shirou was in no mood to kill himself or at least try the turns of London with Rin very nearly killing him, his cracking armor the only thing keeping him able to breath. But back to the topic at hand, Shirou could change the bike into a speed demon but also nearly kill himself in the process if it was anything but a straight shot, turning would be completely impossible without Arthuria's skills and abilities to give him even a remote chance of turning the beast of a machine.
"Rin, could you stop screaming?" Shirou called back to her, discovering the Tohsaka Magus had a very powerful set of lungs." I can't really focus."
"…" whatever Rin said was lost from the force of the wind around them but Shirou was pretty sure it was cursing directed at him and a lot of it.
The bike eventually slowed to a stop in an alley and Shirou leapt off of it with a grin with Rin falling off it behind him and Shirou was glad Kiritsuga found an easy way to store the bike as it vanished in a flash of light.
"I am going to kill you." Rin's threat was really halfhearted in Shirou's opinion as she was still lying on the ground as a trembling mess from the ride.
"You could do better Rin and you should really get up, it looks pretty cold down there." Shirou told the Magus and Rin took his offered hand before grinning and he sighed.
"Should have seen this coming I guess."
His legs hit the wall with his back hitting the ground and all he could do was look up at a chuckling Rin.
"Ouch." It was halfhearted at best but then again he had been through worse, much, much worse.
A few minutes later the two were sitting in a coffee shop and having a quiet conversation.
"What is our plan now that we're here?" Shirou felt that was the most pressing question since they, at least he, had a very high likelihood of execution by the Mage's Association for destroying the Holy Grail, a path to Akasha, the thing all Magus strived for and they had destroyed the most promising path to reach it.
"Use the Tohsaka money and power and your power if necessary to avoid execution for destroying the Corrupted Grail and begin my studies at the Clock Tower." Rin's plan was very basic and Shirou sighed as he pulled up a newspaper.
"Rooftop, two blocks down and third on the right."
Rin refused to look there while taking a sip of her drink, asking her next question with her mouth covered by the cup.
"How many?"
"Three, scouts most likely since they're keeping an eye on us at such a distance."
"Can you take them?"
"No, at least not without drawing attention somewhere else first and making an unwanted scene, something I can't do without some damage to the buildings behind us."
"Perhaps a distraction would help, like a smoke cloud down the street or something?"
"Won't work, Magus seem to be suspicious by nature and the fact they have three, through no doubt rookies, watching us is a shocker itself. They'll see through anything abnormal like that and immediately leave the area or, if they're arrogant, try to take us down and I'll have to kill them then anyway, creating too many problems for me to actually feel like doing it."
"It's a good thing the other four are gone then, this would be much worse than scouts if they were here."
Rin was right as luckily, thanks to no small part to Rin's influence and fortune, Gilgamesh, Arthuria, the comatose Sakura, and Illyasveil along with her two maids were on a private jet and Gilgamesh turned out to be an incredible pilot so neither had to worry about any of them for the duration of their stay in London as Gilgamesh had made it clear his intentions to travel the world and see what had become of his treasury in his absence.
"You're right, do you think we should head to the Clock Tower now?"
"No, it'll look suspicious. Let's head back to the hotel and wait for tomorrow at least."
"If you insist, I guess I'll get to take them out when they get stupid enough to attack the room."
The two Magus left their table at that point and Shirou found he held a strong dislike for following orders because whoever those three were could follow them since Rin wouldn't let him kill them. Even if she had good reasons it was annoying to know three Magus were following them. Now that Shirou thought about it the merge with Archer may have changed his personality more then he really thought about it or it was his old man's journals that were pretty clear cut on his methods on saving the majority as to him it was always the needs of the many over the few and Shirou respected Kiritsuga for such a thing, it was hard to take a life when he wanted to be a 'Hero of Justice' and even harder to know people would always have to die to save others and for Kiritsuga to accept that had a certain level of respect from the Sword Magus.
"Shirou, don't stay awake all night, eventually come to bed."
They had finally got to their hotel at around midnight and Rin was already in bed with Shirou leaning in a chair against the wall, nearby the nearly clear glass doors out to the small balcony attached to their room, near the top floor of the hotel.
"Don't worry about me, I can stay up."
Rin was already asleep and Shirou counted down from ten, only reaching six when the doors opened and the three scouts that had tailed them all day stepped into the room, seemingly invisible to the naked eye while Shirou hid his grin as he silently vanished from the chair and chains wrapped around the waists of two and ripped them out and over the balcony with the last meeting a gauntleted fist to the face that sent them flying out and crashing into the railing if Shirou didn't grab their foot to stop them.
"I think you should leave, Tohsaka is sleeping and does not like to be disturbed."
Shirou threw them over the railing seconds later and the chains holding the other two unwound from their waists and he pulled them up as the two fell. The three Magus, of course, saved themselves from certain death but fled seconds later.
Shirou was satisfied at having scared them off and after changing into a pair of shorts he was asleep next to Rin.
His sleep wasn't peaceful, the nightmares continued.
His broken body refused to move as he laid on the ground and when he tried to get up he collapsed, the blades in his body tearing out as he rolled down the hill. Even then his blood soaked hand reached out, hoping to at least…
Shirou found himself shooting upright barely an hour later and he looked down at his hands, needing reassurance they weren't soaked in blood.
"What the hell is going on, was that…"
"Shirou, lay back down and we'll deal with it in the morning." Rin seemed to only be half awake from his sudden movements and one arm went over his chest and pulled him back down to the bed." If you wake me up again I'll chain you to the bed."
Shirou found himself Rin's new pillow somehow but also found his sleep a little more peaceful, the nightmares changed to dreams something better.
"What an interesting young woman you've grown into Rin, now do you think you could untie me from the chair?"
"If I do are you going to go running off again Shirou?"
"It depends, I have…stuff to do."
"No you don't, now stay still so I can take the picture."
"Wait! You said this was a joke!"
"It is and it's also blackmail for later."
"So that's why you have my face looking like a clown's! You even dyed my hair all these stupid colors and I let you change it! Do you have any idea how long it takes me to get it that spiky?"
"To be fair you let me do it and I figured it was natural."
"That's not the point Rin!"
Somewhere over China Gilgamesh was looking over a map in annoyance.
"This is ridiculous, a King can't fly where he pleases?" Gilgamesh demanded and Arthuria once again sighed, reaching her limits with the King of Heroes and his attitude towards the modern world.
"Certain airspaces are restricted from commercial flight by the rulers of the present world, if we fly over them then they're likely to shoot us down if you ignore their warnings." Arthuria felt like it would have been better to just stay in Fuyuki with Gilgamesh's attitude towards the laws of the present.
He was…uncooperative to put it lightly.
"No! I refuse to listen to these Mongrels!" Gilgamesh exclaimed as he tossed aside the map and took control of the plane once again." A King bows to no one!"
"No!" Arthuria shouted in vain as she made a panicked dive for the controls.
Arthuria was too late as Gilgamesh had flown the plane over the base she had told him to avoid where Gilgamesh then ignored the several warnings from the personal and once again they were forced to avoid the hostile action the base took.
'Why do I even bother sometimes?' Arthuria strapped herself in as Gilgamesh laughed at their attempts to shoot him down.
"You fools, I am King even in the air!"
'And these two are supposed to protect me how?' Illyasveil glanced to her maids and the still comatose Sakura they had brought along with them.
'I would feel better with Sakura doing it.'
With a sigh at Gilgamesh's wild flying she looked out the window.
'I hope Onii-chan is having a worse time than me at least.'
Illyasveil may have let go of her hatred for the Sword Magus and felt they were siblings now but that didn't mean she wanted him to have a better time than her, especially when he gave her these two as protection.
In London Shirou was bored, really, really, really bored. Bored enough that he was very sure death was more preferable than sitting through the meeting Rin had dragged him into and the one he had been sitting in a wooden chair for the past FOUR hours for.
Rin had dragged them both to the Clock Tower the moment she woke up and now he was counting the number of idiots in front of him for the thirtieth time in a row, he had already gone through most snobbish look, most arrogant, most annoying voice, and a dozen other categories already and was now stuck on this one.
'Would it be worth using Unlimited Blade Works for this? A little chant and then BOOM unlimited swords exploding everywhere!' Shirou wasn't sure he was joking at this point so changed his mind to looking through the mental catalogue of every weapon or armor in Unlimited Blade Works, an exercise Archer had used to calm himself down in life and one Shirou had a feeling he would be using more than his possible future self.
'I really wish Archer was still here, I could at least hold a conversation with him, or is it me? Well he was at least a future me but then if that's right then he could or could not be me which is making this more confusing than it should be. Maybe he was the most likely future since I summoned him?'
A nudge to his side got his attention and he instantly snapped out of his thoughts on, in his opinion, rapidly fading sanity at asking himself questions he expected an answer to.
"Pay attention." Rin somehow didn't move her lips when she hissed the words to him and Shirou found himself impressed at such a skill.
"Tohsaka, you are saying that the Holy Grail was corrupted, correct?"
"Yes, I've been saying that for the past several hours." Rin answered Idiot #1.
"And we are supposed to believe such a thing?"
And give it up for Idiot #2 for sparking a new argument (AKA shouting match) on if the Holy Grail was destroyed on purpose or with no other choice available.
"Do I kill them now?" Shirou felt the need to finally ask Rin the question in a whisper, seeing her reaching the limits on holding in her annoyance and staying respectful to the idiots that would be deciding her future.
"I'm on the verge of saying yes." Rin's answer had Shirou shocked, actually more surprised than shock since he wanted to unleash Unlimited Blade Works even while knowing he would immediately get a Sealing Designation from it.
"Maybe we should do this again later once you've calmed down, do you think it's a possibility?" Rin slowly nodded to Shirou's question and stepped forward.
After a short speech by the Tohsaka Magus the mostly elderly Magus around them were sent into a furious argument that made them completely ignore the two Magus they had begun the meeting about and with that distraction Shirou scooped up Rin before rushing out the room, everyone ignoring the two of them as they fled.
"So, how long until they notice you've left?"
"I give it a few hours."
"Enough time to at least go on a tour I guess."
"Or come back with me and finish this nonsense." The unexpected voice had Shirou set Rin down on her feet and Shirou ready to call a certain pair of blades from Unlimited Blade Works.
Rin only sighed and face palmed.
"Of course it would have to be you."
Illyasveil was glad Gilgamesh had landed the plane and they now explored the beautiful meadow nearby.
"Arthuria, what do you think of my brother?" Illyasveil was lucky Gilgamesh was elsewhere or else he would have gone into a rage as his thoughts went wild and eventually lead to a Faker taking away his queen and he would then swear to kill Shirou for such a thing even if it was just his own thoughts running rampant, Arthuria would then beat him into the ground in annoyance while her two maids shielded her from the brutal scene it would be.
"I find him a capable warrior and suitable guard for my Master, even if he can be just as annoying as Gilgamesh at some times." Arthuria dropped the subject at that and walked over to the plane." Please don't wander off, we still don't know if we've been fol…"
"YOU DARE? DIE YOU FILTHY MONGRELS!"
Part of the forest around the meadow exploded and seconds later a very satisfied Gilgamesh stepped out of the smoke, brushing dirt off his jacket.
"What did you do?" Arthuria was on the verge of summoning her armor and ripping Gilgamesh to pieces at whatever he did but the King of Uruk simply smirked.
"A bear attempted to attack me, I destroyed it for such an offense to the King." Gilgamesh told her and Arthuria sighed as she walked onto the plane.
"I may start drinking at this point, being trapped with you is worse than any torture Morgana could ever conceive." Arthuria walked onto the jet with Gilgamesh watching as she climbed the steps, annoyed at her continuing her actions in ignoring him.
Illyasveil walked up to Gilgamesh and after a moment gestured for him to bend down and slapped him seconds later, the King of Heroes shocked at such an offense and was silent for now because of it.
"It's obvious you want to marry Arthuria so let me give you a few tips. First one, destroying everything that annoys you will only insure she stays away from you, believing your psychotic. Second, your attitude could use a little work if you're trying to be serious about this. Third, if you really want to get her attention in the right way then start acting like you're sane, so that means you don't destroy an entire forest because a bear tried to attack you, and it was probably just walking by in the first place, and stop ignoring the rules. We're supposed to be keeping a low profile, remember? So do you have all that or do I have to repeat it? I wouldn't so you don't have to answer and both of us would be on the jet when you decide to leave."
Illyasveil boarded the jet with her maids bringing the flowers she had picked with them with a stunned Gilgamesh still outside even after what was at least ten minutes.
'Did she just slap me?'
In London Rin was both worried and afraid at the scene in front of her because on one hand Shirou was getting along with the old man after an initial rocky start but on the other hand this old man was Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, the very definition of having too much free time mixed with extreme amounts of power and extreme boredom and to make it worst the two seemed like old friends reuniting after a few years apart.
"Is that Wizard Marshal Zelretch?"
"What is he doing here?"
"Who is he talking to?"
"Oh no, that guy's back, we've got to get out of here."
"You've gotta to be kidding me, what is he doing here now?"
"It's Kaleidoscope, run. Now!"
Rin ignored the many voices from the Magus around her and walked up to the two, grabbing Shirou by the arm.
"Shirou, we need to leave."
"Ah, Rin, how is your progress on that project I've left your family?" Zelretch turned his attention to the Tohsaka Head and she mentally cursed even while giving him a smile she reserved for getting out of serious trouble.
"Zelretch, I've had very little time to work on it with the handling of the Tohsaka family in its entirety and the early Grail War." Rin was telling the truth when she said this and Zelretch nodded.
"Yes, I'm actually here to help dismantle that foolish competition. I was trying to contact you but couldn't reach you in Fuyuki, do you mind if I escort you back to the meeting you've just left from?"
"Damn." both Magus cursed as they now found themselves walking with Zelretch back to the meeting they had just managed to escape from.
"I must say, I'm impressed that either of you are still alive. After that disaster of a Grail War I was sure both of you would be dead, killed by that Sakura girl during her insanity."
Rin and Shirou both noticed the group of Magus following them, not at all hiding it once the Grail War was mentioned.
"I mean the sheer mess that war turned into was incredible and it's mostly on your shoulders, the two of you were keys that opened a door of chaos that was almost kept open forever."
"Are you trying to get us killed?" Rin asked Zelretch after a moment who chuckled once again.
"I'm here to stop the Grail Wars, that's all."
"Do I get to kill him?" Shirou directed his questioned towards Rin who shook her head.
"He uses the Second Magic and he's lived for centuries, he gained that title of Wizard Marshal himself so he'll demolish you in seconds."
Shirou seemed to be focused on something else at this point and somehow slipped away, even with Rin looking right at him.
'He's about to do something stupid.'
Zelretch led her to the meeting and Rin was stuck inside for the next few hours with Shirou nowhere in sight for the entire duration of it even if the meeting really wasn't much as it was Zelretch talking the Magus there into dismantling the Holy Grail with obvious signs of corruption while ignoring their suggestions for his next group of apprentices, repeatedly saying he already had some in mind.
In a more open space of the Clock Tower Shirou stopped walking and turned to whoever was following him.
"Alright, who are you?" Shirou demanded and the blonde who was following him gave a short bow.
"My name is Luviagelita Edelfelt, Luvia for short, and I'm interested in the Grail War, and you were a Master in the last one, am I right?" the named blonde answered and after a moment Shirou gave a quick nod and Luviagelita smiled at that." Then you can answer my questions on it and the disaster the Fifth War was, correct?"
"Why do you think I'll tell you anything?" Shirou asked, crossing his arms over his chest and mentally going over the risks of pulling something out of Unlimited Blade Works, if the feeling he was getting was right then the girl in front of him was dangerous and would need more than martial arts to bring her down.
"Because if you insist in withholding information I might find useful I will have no choice but to force it out of you." Luviagelita answered and Shirou smirked at that while he changed his footing, preparing himself for the imminent confrontation between him and Luviagelita.
"I'll like to see you try." Shirou told her and Luviagelita matched his smirk as she began walking forward.
"If you insist." Luviagelita told him as she began speeding up and Shirou noticed her at first pointlessly frilly dress was designed for movement and fashion, something he took note of as he uncrossed his arms and took a step or two back as Luviagelita neared him.
Shirou figured he could take the Magus, he had fought Berserker while still getting used to his enhanced abilities and almost succeeded in killing him so a Magus should be easy to take down.
Even if Rin didn't want him using Tracing while they were at the Clock Tower it should be easy and he should have enough time to get back to Rin before the meeting ended. He would very soon find out he was very, very wrong in a painful way.
Hours later Rin found Luviagelita shooting Gandr at a tied and upside down Shirou who managed to turn his body to avoid each of them, cursing the fact that he held back most of his power to avoid killing the Magus and after learning she was a grappler type fighter he had planned to overpower her but had used too little strength and she had tied him up after slamming him into the ground, stunning him long enough to pull him up upside down over a branch.
"Rin, please help me!" Shirou shouted the moment he saw her and she sighed." This girl is insane and freakishly fast!"
"Luviagelita Edelfelt I presume?" Rin asked the Magus casually firing on the trapped Sword Magus and she nodded.
"Rin Tohsaka?" Luviagelita asked and Rin nodded and the Edelfelt Magus turned to her." You were also a Master in the Fifth Holy Grail War, correct?"
"I'm afraid I was involved in that disaster of a Grail War, how do you even know that?" Rin looked to Shirou to see him shaking his head towards her.
"I'm researching the Grail War and it seems I'm very lucky, not only do I have two Masters but one of them is part of a founding family. So do you mind answering some questions for me?"
"No, I really don't feel like it."
"Then I guess I'll talk to him for a while longer." Luviagelita turned her attention back to Shirou who had almost gotten the knots keeping his hands behind his back with one of Luviagelita's Gandr slammed into his stomach and knocked the wind out of him and sent him into a violent coughing fit before a second Gandr sent his head snapping back.
A third Gandr from Luviagelita was knocked off course by one from Rin and the Edelfelt Magus turned to her while Shirou quickly shook off the Gandr as he looked at his armor for a moment and saw it patching itself shut.
'I didn't do anything there, what's going on with this thing?' Shirou thought.
"What do you think you're doing?" Rin demanded from Luviagelita with both Magus ready to shoot Gandr at the other.
"I'm getting information Tohsaka, no need to involve yourself in such a thing." Luviagelita fired another Gandr at Shirou and he was glad for his armor as it seemed to have been aimed to punch into his chest, a part where the armor was strongest.
"Can you please stop her?" Shirou was sent into another coughing fit as another Gandr knocked the wind out of him again." Dammit that is getting annoying!"
"Shirou, you can use that now."
"Finally!"
Shirou freed his wrist with a dagger suddenly in his hands and he cut the rope Luvia had tied his hands up with. He tossed the dagger up and it cut through the rope at his legs and he landed in a crouch on the ground with both hands out and red light taking a shape in them.
"I am the bo…"
Someone clapping drew his attention and with a glance from Rin the light died down as Zelretch walked out to the grounds with a group of Magus behind him.
"Alright, I've decided on who will be my apprentice." Zelretch announced before pointing to both Rin and Luviagelita." Both of you will act as one so get used to each other's presence as I'm not allowing either of you to leave the view of the other. If you do then I'll consider the apprenticeship over from your actions."
Zelretch didn't bother answering any of the questions fired at him as he walked away as he finished and Shirou walked over to a frozen Rin.
"You may want to leave them for a while, they're both in shock." Zelretch's words were ignored by Shirou as he walked up to Rin and shook her.
It seemed to snap her out of her daze and she turned to the stunned Luviagelita.
"Grab her and let's go, we're going back to the hotel."
"I don't see why we're even doing this, that guy seems like a whack job."
Shirou sidestepped something thrown at him from behind while tossing Luviagelita over his shoulder and then grabbing Rin before he was a streak of red and black.
Gilgamesh eventually boarded the plane and wordlessly he took off, without a specific destination in mind.
"Arthuria, I wish to…"
"If this is another of your marriage proposals I will throw you out of this plane, understood?"
"Yes, I just wish to…"
"Ilya!" one of Ilya's maids screaming her name sent Arthuria rushing from her seat and found a convulsing Ilya held down by her maids.
"You have got to be kidding me." Gilgamesh whispered to himself as he mentally went through his treasury and drew out what could only be called a robot." Pilot, now."
Gilgamesh rushed to the back to see Ilya screaming as something appeared in her hands.
"Ilya, what's wrong?" Arthuria wasn't getting an answer from the screaming Ilya so she turned to her two maids." What's happening to her?"
"Neither of us have any idea, it may be part of her status as a Lesser Grail through." Gilgamesh really didn't bother learning the differences between the two maids so couldn't tell which one spoke." The Einzbern may have placed a failsafe."
"What?" Arthuria demanded, turning around and grabbing both maids." What is happening?"
"Recently the Einzbern family has split into several groups, one wished to continue the plan of obtaining the Third Magic they had lost, another wanted to harness the power of the Holy Grail and take control of the Mage's Association, their reasons are unknown to me, and another wanted to destroy Ilya after the Fourth Holy Grail War threatened to expose Magecraft. There are more but this is most likely the work of a branch of the second group, they wish to acquire the powers of Servants and strengthen themselves with it." Again, Gilgamesh had absolutely no idea which maid said it.
"Then how are they obtaining this power?" Arthuria let the two maids go and Gilgamesh immediately moved forward, his iron grip on their wrist stopping one of them from attacking with a knife.
"Illyasveil has been specially made to channel the spirits of the defeated Servants she stores into special containers that should be emerging now."
Ilya screamed as the convulsions stopped and instead she slumped forward with Saber catching her as Gilgamesh summoned his armor and restrained both maids, trusting neither at this point.
"And what are these containers?" Gilgamesh asked the maid who had been speaking the most but the other spoke.
"They've been named Class Cards, but the project was deemed ineffective and the system was proven to be unstable and destructive to the conduit the power is channeled through unless their body had had time to adjust to the power of a number of spirits for a still unknown amount of time, the plan was for Illyasveil to manifest them and we were to then retrieve them after the Grail War was prolonged long enough as planned."
At London Shirou kicked open the door leading to the balcony and set both Magus down on the couch while moving over to the chair he had sat in last night.
"You two should work this out, I'm going to watch for anyone who may attack." Shirou dragged the chair outside with him and a quick Reinforcement to the glass doors made it somewhat soundproof and tinted it.
Shirou barely sat down in the chair before his phone rang and he saw it was from Arthuria, he had given her a cellphone to call the two of them in emergencies and he cursed that it even needed to be used.
"Arthuria, what's wrong?"
"Ilya is in pain and I'm holding something called Class Cards in my hands, it's almost impossible to believe this but they can give Magus the power of a Servant." Arthuria's words had Shirou move the phone away from him.
"FUUUUUUUUUUU…."
Arthuria held the phone away from her ear at Shirou's very long curse.
"What is that?" Gilgamesh demanded as he strapped the two maids down, not trusting them even when they seemed to snap out of the trance they seemed to have been in when he arrived in the back.
"Shirou."
"Then tell him to shut up."
"…UUUUUCK!"
Shirou put the phone back to his ear after he was done and cleared his throat.
"Hold onto them and we'll be there soon with company." Shirou hung up before Arthuria could question him and stepped into the room to find it in shambles.
'Note to self: do not soundproof and tint doors again with those two in same room.'
Shirou followed the trail of destruction to the bedroom and the moment he opened the door he was blasted back by a pair of Gandr to his chest and he was glad for his armor being strongest there as he managed to stay on his feet and rush into the room moments later.
"Rin, we've got a problem with Ilya and if either of you shoot me again I will hurt you." Shirou's threat seemed to work as neither fired at him again.
"What's wrong with Ilya?" Rin asked after a moment and Shirou gave a pointed look to Luvigelita to which Rin made a dismissive gesture." If she becomes a problem she can be killed easily, now tell me what's wrong with her."
"Short and simple, Magus can gain the full power of Servants from something that happened with Ilya." Rin pinched the bridge of her nose in annoyance and turned to Luvigelita.
"What you see you do not tell to anyone or else you and everyone involved and in the surrounding area will be killed, understood?" Rin's words were answered with a nod and she turned to Shirou.
"Set a meeting point and get us a way there." Rin turned from Shirou to Luviagelita." You're coming with me to clean this mess up."
"Who put you as the leader?" Luviagelita demanded almost instantly before turning and pointing at Shirou." And what is he talking about?"
"Long story short, the Grail War was a catastrophe every time so anyone involved was lucky to survive and it looks like there's a problem leftover from it so we've got to deal with it." Rin wasn't even looking at Luviagelita as she spoke and instead kept her attention on Shirou." Any idea on how they get the power?"
"Arthuria said something about Class Cards but couldn't say much." Shirou nodded towards Luviagelita." Do I kill her now or later?"
"Neither of you are killing me, I'm studying the Holy Grail and this is the best opportunity I'll ever have and neither of you are going to stop me from taking it." Luviagelita seemed ready to fight both of them and with a nod from Rin the Sword Magus was gone from the room she turned to the Edelfelt Magus.
Shirou ignored everything as he sat on the floor and visualized Unlimited Blade Works in his mind.
'Let's see if I've picked up that trick from Archer.'
"I am the bone of my sword."
Fire flooded the room and everywhere it spread a desert of blackened sand filled with swords took its place.
"Steel if my body and fire is my blood."
Shirou saw new blades appear around him but ignored them.
"I have created over a thousand blades."
The desert around him seemed to grow and a sea of blades began to form, the sand around him beginning to move as winds began.
"Unknown to Death, Nor known to Life."
The blowing sand began taking shape and the number of blades grew.
"Have wit…"
Shirou's hands clutched at his throat as he was lifted into the air.
"Do you really think you could use this without me killing you in it? This world is MINE you brat, remember that."
Shirou found himself slamming into the wall of the hotel with the weapon filled desert around him gone.
"Damn, he's stronger than I thought." Shirou slowly made his way back to his feet using the wall as support." And he's still trying to kill me."
Shirou didn't really understand what He was doing there but the Sword Magus could take a guess.
'I guess Unlimited Blade Works really is out, some part of Archer is still inside it and he won't let me use it. That's just my luck, my best ability, really my only one, and I can't manifest it fully right now.'
Shirou felt a stinging pain in his hand seconds later and with some effort the multitude of small blades emerging from it receded and the skin knitted itself back together.
'And that's going to get annoying if I don't get it back and soon or else that will get me killed.'
AN: Well, I could do with some feedback on this chapter since it still seems messed up to me even after reading it over and editing it a few times.
Peace.