Something about Emilya's character. Decided to write and post it to remind myself that even though I have RL issues, i shouldn't forget about fun things.
“Where’s he, Lancer? I’ve been waiting for half an hour already.” asked Illyasviel, standing up from the bench, not far away from Emiya residence, and starting to walk back and forth.
“Don’t worry, Ilya. There’s no archer practice today, so he was probably asked to help to repair or clean something. He’ll be here soon.”
Ruby eyed girl turned to her Servant and said, impatiently and slightly irritated.
“But you are him from the future, so couldn’t you remember exactly when we can meet him? I’m bored!”
“I’m sorry, but it was a lot of time ago.” Lancer sighed and brushed away a lock of her white hair that fluttered before her eyes from a sudden gust of wind.
-
“Finally!” exclaimed Ilya when she saw the redheaded boy appear from around the corner and ran to him.
“Why are you so late?! I’ve been waiting for an hour!”
Shiro stopped in hesitation, but soon remembered who she was and answered.
“I was busy at school, sorry for making you wait. And I couldn’t remember anything about the sheath you asked about.”
“That’s all right, onii-chan. I know where it is.” said Ilya smiling and answered Shiro’s questioning gaze by poking him in his chest.
“It’s here. You never got sick for past ten years, didn’t you?”
Ignoring Lancer’s shocked gasp and Shiro’s confused look, Ilya took the boy’s hand and pulled him to his home.
“Come on, I’ll get it out of you and I won’t have to kill you in a month.”
Lancer’s who looked at them, couldn’t decide what to do. On one hand she wanted to run to Ilya and asked her to tell her everything about Avalon, but on the other, a giant sweatdrop, that formed when she saw Shiro’s face after Ilya’s last words, prevented her from moving.
She stayed in indecision for a minute until her Master impatiently motioned for her to come in and, sighing, Emilya walked in after them.
-
When they entered Emiya’s residence living room, familiar surroundings snapped Shiro out of shock of hearing the young girl speak about killing someone so easily. Forgetting her answer about the sheath’s location, he turned to Ilya and said.
“You can’t talk about killing anyone! Even if it was a joke!”
“I wasn’t joking, Shiro. I don’t really want to kill you now, but I’ll have to do it in a month if we don’t remove Avalon from your body.” answered Ilya, once again surprising the redheaded boy by contrast between her calm, even cheery voice and her words.
“Why…”
“I’ll answer you questions sometime later, onii-chan.” said Illyasviel, interrupting the boy’s, most likely, protests and chiding.
“Come here, Lancer.” she said and took Shiro’s hand, pulling him to her Servant.
“Now, Shiro. Concentrate and imagine a gold and blue sheath that appeared in your body ten years ago and will to gather in one place.”
Seeing that the boy wanted to ask something, se put a finger on his lips, silencing him and turned to Emilya.
“You must pull it out of his body.”
Lancer, with some trepidation, stepped closer to the boy, who stood with closed eyes, and gathering her will she tried to feel the connection between herself and Avalon. When, in her mind, she saw the item, its image distorted as if she saw two sheaths, she reached into Shiro’s chest and felt something solid in her hand.
“Yay! You did it!” happily cried Ilya, when her Servant pulled out Avalon. She choose not to highlight the fact that for a brief moment her Servant’s body gained same glow as Shiro’s did when Avalon gathered in one place.
“I did?” asked Emilya in half-disbelieving voice as she looked at her hand.
“Now, if you’ll excuse us, we must leave.” said Ilya, formally bowing and a few seconds later, Emilya repeated her Master’s movements.
When they turned to leave, Shiro, clearly nervous, said.
“Wait! You promised to answer my questions!”
“I’m sorry Shiro, but even though you’re a mage, we can’t tell you yet because it will put a lot of people in danger.” He heard the answer. Unexpectedly, it wasn’t Ilya who said that, but the woman that came with her.
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“How did you know that it was inside of his body, Ilya?” asked Lancer as they exited Shiro’s home and walked home.
Ilya looked at her sister as if she wondered about something and answered.
“You said that you never got sick even before your 5th War.”
Ilya stopped and bringing a finger to her chin, asked with an expression that mixed pouting and curiosity.
“Don’t tell me you never knew that you had Avalon inside of your body? You even never asked yourself how could you die with that sheath?”
“That’s a very good question.” said Emilya, clenching her fists and feelings that flashed in her eyes, showed that she did have some of Ilya’s personality and magi that visited her several times while she was still alive, would die as slow as she could manage.
Also, imagine Reisen, from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, fight with Gilgamesh. I think it'll be a fun scene
