Fate: Bonds Beyond Humanity

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Even when they fought to stop the disaster, and they succeeded, another had happened and in the middle of it there was a boy, a survivor. "Your brother is different Illya, you know it. His origin and element…"

"If you haven't done it Shirou would have died." Illya tried to console her mother but it was not her that needed it.

"It was your father. But even then the boy he was is not the man he will become." Iri remembered examining Shirou after that fire, that cursed fire.

"Even if he is an incarnation of 'sword' that is not what makes him 'Shirou'… isn't it? At least not alone."

"Three elements were there on that dark day." Irisviel remembered it like it was yesterday. "The boy who survived, the cursed fire that burned him and the sheath that saved him."

"Avalon." Illya whispers the name in reverence. In a way Illya going to the Clocktower is dangerous because she was an anomaly buf if discovered it wouldn't be impossible to 'make' someone like her… If the information that Shirou had Avalon was leaked to the supernatural community in general there would be a lot of people trying to get their hands in such a unique 'specimen'. "Are you going to tell him about it?"

"It isn't like a sacred gear, it can't be detected that easily… not unless king Arthur decides to come back from the dead." It is funny for Illya that was the one that showed more signs of being an anomaly while Shirou was the one truly bizarre.

Sacred gears were things that pop every other day, many have been studied. The effects of Avalon and its constant exposition in a human being? That was new and that was dangerous but Shirou was not the true owner and thanks to that fact they were not that prevalent. Except for the fact that Shirou never got sick ever since he started to live with them but that was something so small that nobody would even bother to ask.

"Illya, why are you going to the Clocktower? Why really?… You never showed interest in the Root." The origin of all human souls. Was it a creation of God? Or the planet? Sorcerers are said to have tapped on it and gained great powers but to truly reach it is to become a god with all knowledge that exists and it was the goal of all in the Clocktower. But in a world where gods run around in droves and monsters were a common thing there were whispers that the thing may not even exist.

"I don't care about it." Illya denied, not taking her eyes off her mother's. "But I don't like the state the world is in right now and I want to know how to fix it."

There was more there, Iri was sure but she also promised a long time ago that whatever the path her daughter wanted to take she would let her. "Shirou is still working on something in the backyard… he is not done, but if you want to go now..."

Illya decides to go, there was no point in being angry and their time was short since she still planned to leave.

Opening the door she sees Shirou working, there was a tool box to his side with tools all around him but what he was working on was something that they both started together but never had managed to finish.

A telescope, it may look simple and easy to make but that was not supposed to be a normal telescope but the result of Shirou's and Illya's efforts on making one that could by itself pierce the clouds and ignore the world's lights to watch the stars at any hour and any time.

The older sibling always liked to watch the stars, it was her hobby and for years she had difficulties in the cities but she always enjoyed it.

But creating a telescope capable of piercing the clouds had some disturbing implications such as 'can do clouds, can do walls' as Liz pointed out when they started the project. Illya was sixteen at the time and got the importance of the information, the thirteen year old Shirou didn't but Illya was too embarrassed to explain.

It was their first work together, Illya did try to help him on making his swords and he tried to help her develop her alchemy but they had zero compatibility on their crafts.

She needed to make the material herself, while she refused to make homunculus in consideration to half of her family but she could still work on transmutation… It was slow going and the main reason why she was leaving, since the part of her family that worked on alchemy focused only on homunculus, she wanted to expand her horizons.

Of course there were attempts of her part to try and make different kinds of metal for her brother to work with but forging was complicated, even if she gave him a better metal than iron or even steel the difficult of forging the different metals was just random, as in their points of heating were too different or they were too frail.

Even in combat he couldn't help her. Instead of fighting directly Illya opted for range while for Shirou it was suggested he go for the path of the sword and to be as close quarters as he could.

Of course the siblings were alike in their woes. Shirou tried to make strings for her sister to apply her magic and avoid the need to use her hair and he succeeded… to an extent. Her hair can still make the better familiars in comparison and she had to use more mana with them for anything.

Every so often both siblings tried again and again to make something for each other but never anything felt right or was truly 'complete' and while the years passed they both just kept trying.

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