Spar (II)

|3rd POV|

Scathach charged toward Shirou with her spear in hand. She rained Shirou down with a flurry of attacks with a mighty thrust. Shirou tries his hardest to twirl his spear to block all the incoming attacks and decides to break away from her by kicking Scathach away from him.

After kicking her away, Shirou quickly creates distance between them and takes out his bow. Ten arrows let loose and fly toward Scathach at high speed. However, instead of dodging all the arrows, Scathach uses her spear to hit the incoming arrow before it can hit her.

The arrow exploded, but the strongest spear master did not really care about it. When the dust vanishes, Shirou can see a barrier around Scathach and a three rune character floating in front of her.

The rune disappears when there is no more explosion.

"You decide to use a bow?"

"Ahhhh, well. I'm more of an archer myself."

"Hmmm, very well. Let's test your archery."

After saying that, a hundred or so runes appear around her, and a second later, they fire many kinds of elemental attacks. Seeing the incoming attack, Shirou quickly fires arrow after arrow toward the incoming attack.

Shirou was not only in a defensive mode. He fired one or two arrows toward Scathach, who easily blocked it. Seeing Shirou still able to attack her, Scathach decides to increase the number of attacks.

Shirou started struggling to keep up with all the attacks and did not notice that Scathach had disappeared from her previous position and appeared next to him. Shirou widens his eyes and tries to dodge, but she is too fast for him, and he receives the blunt end of her spear.

*BOOM*

The hit is so strong that Shirou hits the wall on the end of the arena and creates a massive spider web shape on the wall. He coughs a little bit of blood from the impact. He shakes his head a little before looking up just in time to see Scathach appear in front of him with her spear in hand.

This time Shirou can block the incoming attack, barely. However, he did not have enough footing to let him stay on the ground. Once again, Shirou becomes a rag doll and gets thrown away from the powerful swing. However, before he could hit the wall, Shirou was able to stop using his wing.

He shakes his head once again and decides to continue to fight her in close combat. Taking out his spear, Shirou flies toward Scatchach and arrives in front of her in a second before thrusting his spear forward.

Shirou is fast, but it cannot be compared to Scatchach, who easily blocks the attack and makes her own counterattack. She twirls her spear around and blocks the incoming attack while her other spear attacks Shirou from his blind spot.

Slowly but surely, Shirou's body starts to fill with wounds as both of them continue to dance around the arena. It was a beautiful dance, both fighting moves like a wild animal attacking each other with their claws and teeth, but it contained a beauty that cannot be described. It was a dance, a dance of death.

After seven minutes of fighting Scathach in close combat, Shirou decided to finish the fight with a bang. He kicks Scathach away with all his might and quickly leaps away from her. After leaping away, Shirou's left-hand touches the ground and quickly dash forward but instead of charging toward Scathach, he jumps high above with his spear in hand glowing blood red.

The bloodlust in the arena intensifies by twenty times the original as the Gae Bolg glowing dangerously. Shirou pumps a large amount of his demonic energy into this attack. If the other people see this attack, they will be nervous but not Scathach.

Instead of being nervous, Scathach grinned in excitement. She knew about this attack. She experienced it a long time ago. This is the same attack that Setanta uses when he wants to finish the fight after knowing that he can't win the fight. It was a technique that Setanta created by copying the attack of Brionac, the spear of his father, Lugh.

"I see. Very well! You want to end this fight, huh? Let's end this!"

After saying that, the two spears in Scathach's hand start to glow and combine into one longer spear. An almost identical spear to the spear in Shirou's hand. This is the Gae Bolg alternative. A replica that Scathach created to remember the weapon of her beloved student.

It did not have the same firepower as the original, but it should be the same.

Scatchach took a throwing stance and poured enormous energy inside the spear. Like Gae Bolg, the spear in Scathach's hand starts to glow the same blood-red color and release a massive bloodlust.

A few seconds later, Shirou shouts before throwing his spear.

"Gae Bolg!"

A red thunder strike falls from the sky and flies toward Scathach, who smirks before throwing her own weapon.

"Gae Bolg Alternative!"

The two spears hit each other and created a massive explosion. The explosion is so strong that Riser and the others in the spectator area almost get thrown away by the shockwave. When both spears meet, a massive ball of energy expands and destroys anything it touches.

The ball of energy disappears a minute later, and Scathach can see Shirou once again. However, when she can finally see him, she sees him with a bow in his hand with a somewhat familiar sword on the string.

"Soar! Hrunting!"

Scathach quickly creates a barrier between her and the incoming attack. A second later, another explosion is happening, and this time it was a clash between Shirou's Hrunting and Scathach's barrier.

The sword tries its best to pierce through the barrier, and Scathach pumps a large amount of energy into her barrier to block the blood-seeking sword. After a few seconds, the barrier that Scathach created in haste started cracking and let the sword fly past the barrier. Scathach can dodge the sword, but she can feel a slight pain coming from her left arm.

Shirou, who is on the ground and panting heavily, smiles a little. His body is heated up, and smoke is coming from his body. Those two attacks take much of him. He even uses his magic circuit to power up the last attack. He can feel his circuit overheating, but it will be good enough for him.

He looks at Scathach and says,

"I hit you."

Shirou then fell to the ground and went unconscious. Scathach, on the other hand, looks at her left arm, and true to Shirou's word, there is a scratch on it and blood coming from the wound. She looks at the unconscious Shirou and smiles.

"That you did."