'A few minutes ago…'
"Come on, you damn handsome! Wake up already!" Ise yelled out in anger as he tried to lay one hit on the knight to knock him out only to be forced back by the armors that have no qualms on decapitating his head.
"Damn it! These suits of metal are getting on my nerves!" Tsubasa growled as she pulled out a lamp post and swung hard at the armors, shattering them before more took their place. "They just keep coming!"
"We can't get to Galilei, so we would need to subdue Kiba properly!" Sona replied as she used the water within the area to make the ground wet to the point of making the armors sink from the weight.
"Speak for yourselves! We are just trying to stay alive!" Xenovia growled as she avoided having her head cut off by Kiba. "I have no qualms in killing him if need be!"
"You would do no such thing to my knight! Got that?!" Rias swung her arm to release a few balls of her dark energy at the armors, making them disintegrate upon contact.
"Can we at least agree on just trying to remove the device off him for now?!" Ise growled in frustration at the lack of progress. "We just need to remove it then this entire bullshit can be dealt with!"
"Agreed." Griselda remarked as she expertly took down four armors in quick time. "The main priority would be to remove the device that is supposedly controlling him or the apparatus granting him these armors. Whether we do so by disabling him temporarily or permanently" She looked at Rias without flinching at her glare. "That would be decided later."
'Works for me.' Ise thought as he used his gauntlet to block an attack from Kiba. This was getting very problematic, and the only reason they were not up to their necks in dirt was due to a certain final boss who was merely looking at them with a bored expression. It seemed that Creed taking Shirou away from him sucked the enthusiasm away from him, leaving him hovering in the air without any desire to fight them. A part of Ise felt a little insulted at Kokabiel's lack of enthusiasm but the bigger part of him and logical side was thankful.
Now the important question: how were they supposed to restrain Kiba? At least Shirou had enough time to create another dagger for their use, but now that Kiba had seen the item, he was making sure they did not have a chance to get near to remove the spider. Darn it, if only Shirou was here to help out!
Wait, Shirou?
He wasn't sure why he had that thought, but the moment Ise thought of the magician while looking at the swords littered around them, words started to come out of his mouth.
"OUI! [Sword Birth], can you hear me?!" Ise yelled loudly, not knowing if it would work and not caring that he looked stupid at the moment. "You do realize that your master is going ape-shit on us right?"
"Ise, what are you doing?" Rias looked at him with a confused expression.
"Are you really okay with this? Sitting behind and watching your master try to kill us under some weird mind control shit?!" Ise sidestepped one of the swords swung at him. "I figured a weapon like you would rather be taking on real opponents rather than be a backseat driver for some stupid mind-controlled shit!"
"Has Ise-san gotten hurt in the head?" Asia asked in a distressed tone while trying to get close to him. "Don't worry, I will heal your injuries!" Ise wanted to refute that statement, but he ignored it in favor of continuing his tactics, especially when Kiba was heading straight for Koneko's head.
"Not to mention that your master is about to go after Shirou with the intent to kill him!"
There, right there. It was for a brief moment, but the swords in Kiba's grasp clearly reacted in some manner considering his speed dropped without warning. Koneko took the chance to kick Kiba away before get back to her feet.
"… Do that again." Koneko nodded her head, likely remembering what happened during the training camp. Ise obliged her as he thought of more ways to talk to a weapon. Ise thought back to a small conversation he had with Draig regarding the effects the magician has on the dragon and possibly the other Sacred Gears.
"I thought Shirou was supposed to be someone important, like your creator, your dad or whatever he is supposed to be!" Ise said as he pushed back Kiba who decided that Xenovia would make a better target. "Are you sure you want to assist your master in hurting him, because I think that is rather stupid!"
Again, the swords reacted by pulling themselves back at the last second, denying Kiba his killing of Xenovia, who promptly swung hard at him to knock him off.
"Okay, spill it. What is going on here?" The blue-haired exorcist demanded as she readied her sword, likely noting the odd behavior.
"Emiya-kun has some weird effect on some of the Sacred Gears where they actually respond back in different manners." Rias answered now understanding the strange ramblings that Ise made. "In Kiba's case, [Sword Birth] has a way of being overprotective towards Emiya-kun."
"So that explains a lot about the odd words you were using." Xenovia narrowed her eyes. "If that is the case…"
"I will just need to keep saying something to make [Sword Birth] stop or at least give us a chance to retaliate." Ise looked at the others trying to occupy Kiba. "With any luck, we can do this safely."
"Safely? Right~" Xenovia drawled while rolling her eyes. "That is so not in our job resume." Ise ignored her in favor of thinking of more words to try and get a bigger reaction from [Sword Birth]. Unfortunately he did not have a lot to go on as Draig was not sure himself about the whole deal with the Gears being attracted to Shirou, and Kiba did not exactly talk a lot about it.
Oh well, he might as well follow the old saying. When in doubt, wing it.
"So like seriously, are you going to be gunning for Shirou's head? Some loyalty there huh?" Ise continued to talk, noting that the swords from Kiba were now displaying more noticeable signs of holding back. Unfortunately it also clued Kiba in that something was wrong and that Ise was the source of the problem. With a quick step, Kiba almost got up close and personal to Ise's face.
"Oh shit!" Ise threw himself backwards, and through the reflexes brought by Shirou's hellish training and sheer dumb luck, avoided a sword strike to the head, embedding itself into the wall behind him. He used that opportunity to kick Kiba away and get to safety.
"We just need to get him in one spot so that we can immobilize him." Reya said as she cradled her arm. Before anyone could throw in any ideas, a yell from Saji distracted them.
"Incoming!" The boy barely had time to react before a spear detonated the ground, sending them flying everywhere and hitting the ground hard. Blinking in pain, Ise directed his attention to Kokabiel who seemed to have gotten tired of boredom and just threw a spear to get some reaction.
"I might as well do something to pass my boredom." Kokabiel looked on with disinterested eyes. "So which one of you is willing to fight me?"
"Princess, you devils concentrate on your knight." Griselda forced herself up to her feet alongside Xenovia and Irina. "We will deal with Lord Kokabiel."
"Are you sure about that?" Sona asked while cradling her arm.
"I am open to other suggestions." Griselda commented dryly before gripping her weapon tighter. "Go." With that, the exorcists went forward to Kokabiel, leaving the devils to deal with the knight.
"Continue talking!" Rias leapt forward to restrict Kiba in certain areas while the others continue dealing with the armors. Ise frowned as he tried to think of more words to get a bigger reaction from the sword-type sacred gear.
"Come on [Sword Birth], you got to work with me here! Do you want your master to be doing this shit?!" Ise yelled while noting the swords around him were glowing a light red around the edges. "Okay, I don't get anything about his past or whatever resolve he has about this whole revenge crap, but I would like to think that you have his interest, and I am pretty sure his buddies does not want that!"
The effect of his words was now more noticeable, as the swords started to vibrate and give off faint hints of demonic energy, as if the sacred gear was now working to free itself, but it just needed one more push.
And Ise may have the perfect one.
"So with all that, you think that Kiba would want to get himself mind-controlled, so that he can be used to kill us and Shirou!"
'BZZT! BBOOORMFKDFFK!'
With a sudden surge of energy, the swords around the area glowed a crimson red and started to have electricity flowing between them in the air, linking each other in an unholy mesh of dark energy, with Kiba being in the thickest area. Before the knight could do anything, the energy gathered above him and struck him hard, forcing him to his knees and shocking him with enough electricity to make his body spasm and release his grip on his weapons.
"He is immobilized! Quick, everyone get rid of those armors now!" Rias called out to everyone before turning to Akeno. "Akeno, can you summon some chains to restrict him more?"
"No problem." With a gesture, several chains appeared and bound him tightly, their ends embedding themselves deeply into the ground. "Ise-kun, now!"
'This time I will get it in!' Ise pushed through the onslaught and made his way behind Kiba, who tried to make a last ditch effort of killing him by summoning a wall of swords. Despite the amount of killing intent, Ise could not help but feel it was lacking compared to Shirou's steel.
It was official, Shirou Emiya's weaponry had more intent to kill even during training. It was sad, yet currently it was the only thing going for him.
With that in mind, Ise pulled back [Boosted Gear] and gave a hard punch that broke the swords into pieces and used the opening to quickly jab the dagger into the spider-like device.
'SQUEQLLLQLR!'
'AAAHHH!' MY EARS!' Ise winced as the spider let out a shrilling squeal of pain as it writhed and struggled to free itself from the dagger. While gritting his teeth and maintaining a hold on the dagger, he used the gauntlet to grab the spider and with a firm tug, ripped it out of the apparatus and out of Kiba's neck before throwing it to the ground. "Buchou!"
"On it!" Rias called forth another dark ball of energy and personally walked to the spider before slamming the ball right on top of it, pinning it down and making sure it could not escape. Then with a final squeal of pain, the body cracked and disintegrated, leaving behind a small pile of ashes that drifted in the breeze.
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A/N : The Story Needs More Power Stones ;)
PS : if we can reach 400 Stones by the end of the week, I will throw you an extra chapter
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