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Chapter Five

It had been a month since Shirou and Arturia had started to read the journals, both had used the majority of their free time to go through them.

Even with everything they had reed so far they had yet to figure out a way to activate their cores, which resulted in Arturia training more believing that she could start the process that way, while Shirou chose to finish the journal's before taking that route.

However, even with the lack of knowledge that they had gained on activation, they had still found the knowledge they needed to find out what type their cores actually were.

(One Week Ago, Castle's Garden)

While Arturia had been training, Shirou had come across a process that Garth had accidentally found and then created with the help of his fellow hero's. From what Shirou had looked at the process consisted of the user using his blood with several gem's to found out what their 'hero' cores were.

Garth had stated that he had been using gem's in his early research to found out if they could hold magic, and if they could how much, when he had cut himself on an edge of a gem and covered his gem collection in spec's of blood. The wound hadn't seemed to worry him that much, maybe due to the fact that it was similar to a paper cut by his description. What did seem worry him however, was the fact that all his sapphire gem's had began to glow faintly while the rest stayed lifeless.

From what Shirou could understand Garth had been unable to find out the reason for the glow no matter what he had tried, so he had put the subject on hold until he had gained his friend's aid. With the aid of Uther and Hammer, Garth had been able to find the reason rather quickly, that being the cores of 'heroes'.

The research Garth had done showed him that the combined blood of the three hero's only worked on three gems, Garth's blood only worked on sapphires, Hammer's only worked on rubies, while Uther's worked on rubies, emeralds and sapphires. All other gem stones had no effect.

At that point it was a simple A= equation for Garth. A Strength core equalled a glowing ruby, a Skill core equalled a glowing emerald, a Will core equalled a glowing sapphire, and for people with more than one core like Uther more than one type of gem would glow. He was also able to tell that only people with a certain amount of power would cause this effect, he had tried it with random people to get the effect after all, only for nothing to happen.

It didn't surprise Shirou that Arturia had a gleeful reaction to the news of this process, and quickly went to retrieve the needed gem stones for the task. While she went to 'borrow' some jewel's from her mother's jewellery, Shirou chose to head for the kitchen's for a small knife, some salve for the wound's they would be inflicting onto themselves and some water to clean the gem's when they were done.

What did surprise Shirou was the fact that Arturia had beaten him to the garden, the fact that her parents room was on the other side of the castle while the kitchen was right next to it only highlighted the impossibly of her arriving before him. He didn't even get to question her before he was dragged behind a hedge were she had placed the jewellery.

The jewellery itself was surprisingly gaudy as well as tacky in design. She had brought a thick silver ring with an emerald, a ruby pendant and a sapphire bracelet. The fact that royalty even owned such pieces of jewellery ruined the elegant image that Shirou had of the family.

"Shirou?" Hearing his name called in a questionable manner brought him back to his senses, allowing him to see Arturia sitting excitably next to her mother's jewellery with a slight look of confusion.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," he replied as he sat down on the other side of her. The confusion Arturia showed had quickly returned to excitement, which resulted in her almost bouncing were she sat.

With that they began the process, Arturia almost demanding to go first. Shirou stressed the fact that he would be the one to use the knife, mainly because he didn't want Arturia to wound herself more than she had to because of her excitement.

A small prick of her finger with the knife allowed several drops of blood to land on all of the gem's, getting a warm glow in the process. Shirou watched in amusement as Arturia jumped up and did a little jig in victory, which was halted when he dragged her back to the ground so he could apply the salve onto the wound to stop the bleeding. A chuckle escaped once he spotted the pout she was wearing since he ended her 'dance of victory'.

It wasn't long before Shirou took his own turn, removing Arturia's blood with some of the water he had brought before cutting his finger to add some drop's of his own. Both Arturia and Shirou wondered what his core would be, both of them knowing that he would only have one core if what Garth had written was true. Imagine the shock both of them had when all three gem's glowed just like Arturia's had.

(End)

Shirou had repeated the test several times to make sure he had the correct result, even going as far as stealing a few drop's of blood from his drunk-uncle-Walter to make sure the test wasn't faulty. The result proved that the test worked perfectly when only the ruby glowed from Walter's blood.

Once they had returned the item's they had 'borrowed' they had quickly made their way to the library, and swiftly began to discuss how Shirou could have gotten three cores. Both Arturia and Shirou had agreed that there was no way that Uther would cheat on her mother, and thus no way that he could be related to her. Once both of them had realized that they couldn't think of a reason they began to skim through the journal's looking for an answer.

It was Arturia that found an answer, which shocked both of their systems rather thoroughly. From the first segment that they had read from the journal's, a single sentence showed them how Shirou could of gotten three cores, 'a direct descendent of either of those two hero's (Villain in Jack's case) will have all three cores of a hero's power'. Shirou had expected Arturia to react several ways when he read the line over her silent form, he had expected anger, hate, even a look of betrayal, what he hadn't expected was her ripping the page out of the journal and announcing that they should hide it. A sigh of relieve resounded through the silent room once Arturia had made that announcement before they argued on the hiding place for the page.

Shirou was the one who came up with the hiding spot, the middle section of 'Magical Me', the book that he had found while he was looking for books on magic a month ago. It wasn't hard to get Arturia to agree, just five second's of her reading the book and she couldn't stomach reading anymore, meaning no one else should be able either.

(Present Time - Garden)

And now we come to the present, both children playing in the Garden, re-enacting the old story of the Hero slaying Jack of blades. Shirou held two small branches in his hands as he did an evil laugh while Arturia held a branch in-between, puffing her check's out in an attempt at glaring.

The hero (Arturia) and Jack of blades (Shirou) charged at one another and engaged each other in mortal combat. Their branches started to crack as they collided with one another, the villain grinned as he easily evaded Arturia's blows and countered with a few of his own. The hero began to huff slightly since she couldn't get Jack to stand still long enough to hit him.

Jack jumped back and throw one of his branches at the hero, fully expecting to win with that move. The hero in defiance broke the thrown branch in half and quickly charged at Jack to deliver a blow while he stood shocked. The villain brought his smaller branch in front of him in a hasty guard when he realized that he couldn't dodge in time.

A loud crack could be heard as the hero's branch broke through the villain's and broke upon his head, knocking him cleanly to the floor. The hero raised her broken branch into the air in victory.

"Oww," Shirou moaned as he got up rubbing the top of his head. "Did you have to hit me hard enough to snap the branch?"

Arturia giggled slightly as she looked at Shirou with a smile on her face. "Of course, a hero must always take down villain's with all of their strength."

Shirou grumbled slightly before turning back to Arturia. "Next time, I'm playing the hero."

Arturia looked towards Shirou and answered with a straight face. "Nope, you will always be the villain, Jack junior," she quickly began to giggle madly.

Shirou shot a small glare towards the giggling princess before a smirk appeared on his face. "Let's give you something to laugh about," he spoke before tackling her to the ground and tickling her.

Laughter filled the garden as the children tickled each other and rolled across the ground, getting covered with mud and grass stains. Later they would get scolded by Jasper and the Queen but neither really cared at that moment.

Narrator Section:

Gilgamesh: You are the King of this story, you should not be pushed around by peasants!

Gazzadcs: When was I being pushed around by anyone?

Gilgamesh: Why would you be carrying food like a servant otherwise!?

Gazzadcs: *He looks at the Several bags of groceries held within his hand* It's only fair since I'm free loading at Ilya's home.

Gilgamesh: Why you! Gates Of Babylon! *Gate appears behind him*

Gazzadcs: "Crap, gotta think fast! Wait! The readers are here!" Gilgamesh, some people are here to hear the words of a king.

Gilgamesh: *Sneer at the readers* That's the end of this chapter peasants.

Gazzadcs: Thanks for reading!

Gilgamesh: You will review this chapter! That's an order of a king!

Gazzadcs: See you around people. "Your going to scare away my readers you golden all-powerful idiot!".

Gilgamesh: Now as I was saying, Gates Of Babylon! *Gate reappears*

Gazzadcs: "I'm doomed!"

Gilgamesh: *Pulls a book from the gate titled 'Being a king, For dummies'* Read this, don't disappoint me again! *Walks away*

Gazzadcs:…Did that just happen?

Extra: Even king's have man's biggest weakness.

Teen Shirou, with the help from Child Shirou, had quickly fixed the damages. As well as sending his teacher and free loader of an older sister to the hospital for her injuries.

The door was smashed inwards as a golden king stamped into the room.

"I have come for what's mine," Gilgamesh announced arrogantly as he glared at Child Shirou. "Look at you, you grow small in my presence Faker!" he growled at towards him, completely ignoring the other three people in the room as he stroked his ego.

Child Shirou took several steps back at the man's growling. Before Saber or Teen Shirou could do anything Arturia dived forward.

"Leave Shirou alone!" Arturia yelled out as she got in front of Shirou with her wooden sword drawn.

"What?" The king looked towards Arturia in confusion before glaring at Child Shirou again. "How dare you contaminate my possession with your weakness! Gates of Ahhh," before he could summon his treasures he let out a high pitch scream.

The cause? Arturia had taken a swing with her wooden sword at the king, but instead of hitting him in his mid section like she would if she was sparing against Shirou she got him in his most precious treasure.

"How dare you," a high pitched voice spoke from the king, before Arturia continued unleashed strikes towards the area she had hit, seeing it as the golden king's weak spot.

As high pitch scream's rang through the room Saber was smiling as if she had won a prize to an all you could eat buffet. Teen Shirou was looking towards the king with a look of pity while he held his hands in front of his own treasures, Child Shirou just looked on in confusion.