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Counter Guardian Arturia @ Tower of Animus ([personal profile] no_longer_a_king) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-08-29 10:26 am

ITP: Avenger

Characters: [AU5] Saber and Shirou/Avenger
Setting: Floor 62; The beach
Summary: Arturia thinks Shirou is ready to go monster hunting with her and takes him to a floor to see how well he does. Little does she know she's gotten more than she's bargained for.
Warnings: Violence, character breakdown, Avenger's mouth, the mun's squeeing over the big reveal.


[After things quieted down, after Arturia had some time to process what had happened, and contemplate things, she returned to the Shirou in the Tower to resume their training. He was used to her having days where she couldn't face him, though they were getting less and less frequent, especially now that he knows the reasoning behind her odd behavior. She will not tell him of the shadow child who saw her off, and the school ID she had been given is tucked safely in her trunk for now. No, they need to get back to training.

After a short hour of fighting, she'd realized something: Shirou had improved. His senses were sharper and there were a few moments where Arturia had to put in actual effort to block his hits. It made her lips quirk into a pleased smile and she told him he was ready. They made arrangements to meet up just before sunset on the beach. Not too far from an elevator (though Arturia loathed them by now), and not too easy to fall off of. Shirou's abilities would be in tact here and soon he could test his mettle against the monsters themselves.]


Remember to keep close to the stairs.

[She says as the sun sets in the distance. Some part of her is filled with pride that Shirou's come this far, that she's letting Shirou get this far. For so long she'd been afraid to let him fight. If nothing else what happened with the phantoms reminded her of how hypocritical that was. Shirou had done the same thing to her, though he had been very vocal about it. Arturia, on the other hand, just kept telling him he wasn't ready with nary an explanation. Not that Shirou asked for one.

But now? Well. Maybe he can start helping her with her maps and finding the secrets here. Maybe next time she goes downstairs, she can see about him coming with her.]



This particular floor tends to have mostly Chuchus and Miniblins. Dangerous, but there's never too many of them. We can move on to another floor once we've cleared out this one.
heroicprinciple: we will die with our arms unbound (just close your eyes)

[personal profile] heroicprinciple 2013-09-02 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Actually he didn't have a plan in mind outside of that basic intention to draw its attention away from her. He doesn't really plan these things out so let's say it half-way worked in that it protected Arturia for a few moments.

When the Big Daddy bellows in fury and swings, the swing takes him in the side, and sends him skidding onto the beach, Shirou's ribs screaming at the mistreatment and smashing back into the ground, leaving some reddish splotches on the sand. He probably gets sand in his face, and hair. The teenager groans softly in pain, his eye half-closed. ow everything hurts.

Kaushou and Bakuya, without the prana to sustain them and his concentration broken, disappear from his hands.

Of course, without prana, that's not the only that can no longer sustain itself. His silhouette distorts, sputtering as the illusion of 'Emiya Shirou' struggles to maintain itself while Arturia is occupied with fending off the Big Daddy, vehemently denying it. Then it begins to fade away, burnt orange hair turning black in patches and tattoos creeping over his skin and revealing themselves.
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