Seeds of Summoning

The sounds of birds chirping could be heard as the two displaced lay on the ground when suddenly a “BOOM!!!!” could be heard and young voices screaming followed.

“Why do I feel like I am in pain?” Christina asked.

“SOMEONE ANYONE HELP US!” a young girl's voice screamed from nearby.

Christina heard that and ran right to where she could hear the voice.

Emiya staggered to his feet, swaying not unlike a drunk… or a newborn horse or giraffe. He staggered and stumbled towards the shouting despite feeling a strong sense of vertigo, hastily grabbing the bag that held his gear.

He blinked several times, realizing Christina looked very similar to Nijūichi's human guise, though she had streaks of strawberry in her hair. It was rather cute.

“BOOM!” “BOOM!” “BOOM!” The sounds got closer reminding both human hybrids of a radioactive lizard for some reason. “SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-oOoOrrRrRRrrnNK!”

Emiya snorted as he tried to hold back a laugh. “Did someone close a squeaky door over a clown horn?” he muttered under his breath before his hand dove into the bag, pulling out the Sengoku Driver, which seemed to be naught but a lock hole with an insert for a Lockseed, a blank little window screen beforehand pulled out the Orange Lockseed. He held the Driver to his waistline, not even noticing the dark brown, almost black simian tail swaying from just above his arse or that his clothes were all but rags from his body's rapid physical changes as he felt the belt expand and cinch around his waist as he paused, noticing the dragon.

The two of them didn’t notice the streak following them from the trees. The glint of gold and white was just barely noticeable to them but their focus was on the dragon. The beast was chasing two young girls both of them mostly nude except for some jewelry.

“HELP!!!!!” The grey girl screamed.

Emiya takes a deep breath as he releases the switch and opens the Lockseed to a shout of “Orange!” slams the Lockseed into position, depressing the lock hasp so the Driver invoked “Lock On” before he took a deep breath, flicking the blade as tribal horns blew for a moment.

“Soiya! Orange Arms! Hanamichi on stage!” could be clearly heard by anyone nearby. He immediately felt a rush of energy from the Lockseed as he felt the undersuit form.

His ears twitched at the sound of a large zipper unzipping before he glanced up, seeing a large orange over his head. He blinked as he heard a voice mutter in his mind ‘Koko kara ga ore no sutēji da!’

As he heard it, feeling the weight at his left hip from the Musou Saber, the orange descended, not noticing the dragon blowing a jet of flames his way through the armor spun thrice swiftly, scattering the flames, before unfolding.

In a flash the dragon was knocked back by something unseen, causing the beast to swing its tail at Christina who was floating inches off the ground with ki knocking her into a set of bushes nearby. The unseen presence tossed a rock at Emiya from the direction of the bushes hitting his helmet with a hollow “THOCK!”

Emiya's eyes widened slightly as he pushed off, focusing on the most immediate threat - the dragon. His boots tapped the ground thrice in Ki-augmented strides before he pushed off, planting a scissors kick into the upper chest of the dragon with just over five tons of impact.

“Idiot” Emiya just barely heard as another stone hit his helmet.

“Get outta here, dragon…” he pauses as he notices something: vines embedded in the back of the dragon's neck from a nearby tree before he shifted the Daidaimaru before he dodged the claw swipe of the dragon before he tossed the Daidaimaru like a Frisbee, the blade spinning and shearing through the vines before returning to his grasp.

He sees the dragon almost collapse, freed from the vines which he was almost sure were Helheim vines.

“Uh you probably should help your friend instead of fighting that dragon.” a woman’s voice said in Emiya’s head. a status window appeared out of thin air to accompany the voice. “Normally i would only be heard By Christina since she's my new master but Truth allowed my power to extend to all three of you Christina’s hp is down to 3 and she’s stuck in the bushes please help her then the kids.”

“Screw this! Blackfirebolt!” A girl’s voice said as an orb of black flames hit the vines burning them away rapidly. “God killing fire should burn those things and free her. Go help the girls Rider.” the voice said as a girl landed in front of Emiya her right arm looking like white porcelain with golden energy underneath it forming a demonic claw.

“I’ve got the dragon, brute force isn’t needed here.”

Christina groaned as she tried to move. “What hit me?” Turns out getting slapped by a dragon tail so soon after waking up from time travel can knock someone unconscious luckily she had a healing factor thanks to truth giving her majin DNA to stabilize her mixed heritage. “I can guess that you're here too Mel care to tell me how fucked i am?”

Emiya turned, spotting Christina head and shoulders down by a heavily cracked tree before he focused, a pale golden sphere of Ki forming in his hand before he tossed it at her, noticing most of her nasty bruises and cuts fading from the Kaifuku Ki bolt before he pulled apart the thorny bush she was stuck in, wincing slightly as the thorns bit into his flesh, drawing blood. He grunted, pulling her free.

“You’re a bit more crass than Kelvin was but your friend here healed you using a ki healing technique of some kind so you’re barely hurt,” Melfina said as Max kicked the dragon in the jaw stopping it from trying to bite the two girls.

“Silver, get Tiara out of here!” Max shouted as a spectral arm grabbed the beast’s head. This golden arm moved in sync with Maximum’s Right arm as if it were her own.

“MAX?!” the two shouted, surprised at the Bird girl showing up.

Emiya exhaled as he turned, spotting the young girls before he pushed off, catching both of their forearms as his Ki aura flared pale white for a moment before he rose slowly off the ground, noticeably wobbling as the ground just under their feet was abruptly washed out due to the nearby stream.

“The vines are controlling her, she’s never this far from home normally,” Max said as she noticed the burnt vines regrowing. “Going to have to burn these things to the root. Sorry in advance Emerald!!!” with that her glowing arm caught fire, black flames surging to her palm. “BLACKFLAME LANCE!!!!” she shouted as the beam of black fire hit the center of the vines stuck on the Dragon.

“Those aren't normal vines, lass… they're Helheim vines… you gotta take out the one controlling them… they're in the tree that the vines retreated to!” Emiya grunted, managing to toss both Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon far enough from the edge of the stream they wouldn't get dragged in.

“Then that’s your job! I’ll keep Emerald busy,” Max said as she launched another blackflame lance.

Emiya nodded slightly before he pushed off, a golden green glow forming in his hand, its edges a bright orange as he lobbed it at the tree, which detonated in a shower of splinters as something rolled out of it.

“Ugly fucker,” Max said as Emerald reared back to breathe fire and Max shielded the group with a hexagonal Energy shield that looked slightly familiar. “Thanks, Crust!!!” Max said as she pushed the flame back.

“An Inves… a Berserk, I think…” Emiya drawls warily as he notices something amidst the plants before the Inves leaps at it as well before Emiya grabs it first, kicking the Inves back as something falls in its lap from the trees ‐ a Helheim Fruit.

Emiya's eyes widen slightly as the Fruit he grabbed glows, almost missing the Inves greedily consuming the Fruit.

His gaze rises, seeing the Inves’ body bulging in places before it erupts in glowing juice, revealing a decidedly different appearance.

“That a temporary power-up or something bad?” Max asked as she looked him over.

“Those two are going to need help. I suggest you grab a hold of them, Christina.” Melfina said, everyone hearing it.

“That other form was an ‘Elementary’ Inves… this one? ‘Advanced’,” Emiya's reply was wary as his hand dipped to the blade at his belt, flicking it once over the face of the Lockseed, “but if you ever find fruit like that one… never eat them… you will become one of those,” he finishes as he pushes off, the Daidaimaru, a short sword resembling an orange slice, trailing an orange glow. He slashed as he vaulted over the stream flowing from an underground spring, two arcs of what seemed to be glowing orange juice slamming into the Advanced Inves before forming a projection of an orange that paralyzed it before he slashed it in half seconds before the Inves was consumed in a fireball, ending its threat.

He exhaled as he removed the Lockseed from the belt, his armored form dissipating in a rush of fizzy bubbles.

“Hopefully those things are few and far in between… hope that dragoness is okay,” Emiya sighs.

“You do realize I have demon blood in me it'd be very hard for me to become one of those things,” Max said, her right arm shifting for a moment, the golden glow still there but now the white had a silver sheen to it. “Still I'll take your word for it, but if we find any solid gold fruit that's still edible I'm eating it, most likely a version of the Norse golden apples that extend life.”

“I hope that Nelo gets here soon I kind of miss the others,” Melfina said the group could feel her sadness, “I suggest you make a contract with the dragon if you can Christina such a powerful monster-” she started to suggest before she felt the bloodlust emanating from Max.

“CALL A DRAGON A MONSTER AGAIN AND I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR DIVINE NATURE I’LL BEHEAD YOU MYSELF,” Max said a burning aura of black flames sparking up around her. “DRAGONS AND OTHER SENTIENT RACES ARE PEOPLE NOT MONSTERS I’VE FOUGHT MONSTERS BOTH TRADITIONAL AND THOSE THAT HIDE IN HUMAN FLESH I SWEAR TO MY MOTHER I WON’T DEAL WITH RACISUM IN ANY FORM GODLY OR NOT.”

“Oh,” Melfina said as she looked into Max’s mind seeing the horrors she had faced in her many lifetimes.“I’m sorry, I didn’t know.”

“Now you do.” was all Max said in response having felt Melfina’s mental touch and figuring out just what the goddess had done.

Christina looked dazed as she examined the two teenagers. “OK, what was all of that the dragon and those vines?! And now the fact that Mel sounds like she’s on the verge of breaking down?”

“Let’s just say getting my wings wasn’t worth it kid,” Max said as she walked over to the fallen over Emerald the vines withering away as Max approached. “Em you okay?”

“Max what happened?” the dragon asked as she slowly stood up. “Last i remember was plucking weeds outside my cave, a sharp pain in my neck, and now this.”

“Simply put, there's an invasive species that seems to be popping up in the Everfree, which can only be defeated using its own power… one of its ‘avatars’ attacked you. Fortunately, it is no longer a threat… for the moment,” Emiya sighs wryly. He tugs out the new Lockseed he gained. “Mango… though there are ‘Golden’ Helheim fruits… I know one is Apple… but the true Ōgon no Kajitsu has more than enough power – as it holds the essence of not just a planet but all the life on said planet – to handle three Sengoku Driver users and two Genesis Driver users… simultaneously. In truth… the Kiwami Lockseed is but a seed of one.” In truth, he wasn't sure how he knew this, but knew it was true.