This choice: Scenario One: Messing with the Kaleidoscope. • Go Back...Chapter #4Kaleidoscope + Curiosity = ? by: OddPersona   Deep within the Tohsaka Manor, a young woman sits alone inside the Study, her eyes focus on the small crystal fragments lying on the desk in front of her. To the average human the crystal pieces could be classified as "worthless junk" but for a Magus worth her weight in salt those little bits and pieces could hold the key to accessing a power that no level of science can explain.
They were pieces of the Jewel Sword Zelretch, a Mystic Code that could draw a practically endless amount of mana.
Rin couldn't believe her luck when she found fragments on her clothes a few days after the insanity that was the Fifth Holy Grail War. When she detonated the sword as a last ditch move during her final battle she was sure that the code was utterly vaporized in the blast. Perhaps her luck have finally turn out to the better after all the insanity that has happen to her before hand.
A part of her, the part that is Tohsaka Rin the Magus, is already processing the possibilities this finding can bring. The Jewel Sword itself is capable of drawing in infinite mana, despite it being only a cheap copy, the fragments themselves could theoretically be able to do the same albeit diminished to a degree. To unlock the mysteries of these crystal fragments would mean unlocking the mystery that is the Second True Magic. To unlock the Kaleidoscope could also mean one step closer to her goal, the goal of all Magi, to reach the Akasha Records, the Root of all things.
Yet another part of her, the part that isn't Tohsaka Rin the mage or Tohsaka Rin the honor student, but Tohsaka Rin the girl can't even bring up the drive beyond just twiddle the crystal shards between her fingers and checking the cut of the gems. She can only pay half a mind to the little gems and focus more on her personal issues.
The first rule of being a Magus is to walk with death. Their experiments could prove fatal, their research can twists minds into a macabre of insanity and madness, there is always that one possibility that one moment could mean the difference between life or death. She understood that fact, acknowledge it, accepted it as just another fact of being a Mage and still carried herself with grace, dignity, and pride. Yet for all her pride and understanding of what it means being a mage of Tohsaka, it was during the hell that was the Fifth Grail War that she can see the she was still nothing more than a child in the end.
A frown crosses her features. The Grail Wars, within those few weeks she has experienced horrors and madness that will haunt her till the end of her days. She saw the bloodshed it can cause, the chaos it can brew, the damage it can create, all for the sake of one wish...only to find out it was nothing more than a red herring. Still it was not just the Grail war that disturbed her...
"Sakura..." Rin murmurs to herself as she rests herself against the chair she was sitting on. Within those few weeks she found the truth of the HELL that was her sister's treatment at the hands of that despicable clan, Matou. She saw the signs, she saw how Sakura changed from the time she last saw as a child of Tohsaka before being sent away by her own father, but despite her wish to bring back her blood sister one fact cruelly plays in her mind every time.
Such is the life of Magi.
Her frown deepens. In a sense, the Grail Wars and Sakura's condition had one thing in common: Magi. It was Magi that established the Grail Wars and the madness that ensue (not to mention how it is tied in with Emiya Shirou's "condition"), and it was the pride and rules of Magi that made her father gave away Sakura.
She too is a Magus, but a thought plagues her. Will she maybe do the same? To sacrifice what it means to be a decent human just for sake or pride or whatever that is that drives a Magus forward. Just like...
"Like hell!" She shouts as she slams her hand on the desk as in defiance to something, "I am the heir of Tohsaka but I will not go to such extremes like...that." She says the last part as if it was a curse. She turns back to the matter at hand before such hesitations grips her heart once again.
"Now where was I? Oh yeah, putting these pieces back together or something." She tries to regain her posture and grace befitting the not just the Head of the Tohsaka House, but as Tohsaka Rin the magus. She quickly piles the jewel fragments together and goes back to the task at hand i.e. "What the hell am I going to do with these?"
"Despite these shards originally came from something that was only brought into this world by Gradation Air they still exist without being erased by the World." She observes before honing in her senses, "I can still feel power within them, not at the level as the Jewel Sword but still quite a bit. I wonder..." She places a hand above the shards, her magic circuits start circulating with prana, "...since these things are just pieces of a while, I believe that single spell might put them together into a single item." She takes a deep breath, "Was verbirgt sich getrennt (What lies seperated)," the pieces begin to glow, "so einig sein wie eins (shall be united as one)."
The conservation of mass states that the mass of a matter in a isolated system will remain constant over time. So theoretically, just combining some jewel shards together into one gem, the product will have the same mass as the components that were used in its creation.
Apparently modern science didn't take into account the little black box that is the Kaleidoscope.
The pieces converge and emit a bright, Rin only had a fraction of a second to see a reaction coming from the gems before...
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A bright blast of prismatic light shines forth as the jewel shards somehow detonated themselves...with equally expected results.
A blast wave sends the red-clad mage back away from her desk into a nearby wall. Normally such an event could possibly cripple anyone, but a Magus skilled in Reinforcement will be only dizzy, slightly blinded by the light, ears ringing from the explosion, and a bit sore from the hit.
"Well," she blows a tuff of hair out of her eyes, "That was a...set back." Not missing a beat she picks herself off the ground and makes her way to the desk, grimacing as she finds her work bench has been reduced to wooden planks and scraps. "Damn it, these things get expensive." She moans the lost of her work station before checking out her own body. "No cuts or bruises building up. My circuits all are in perfect shape. Strange, no way can I emerge from this accident practically unscathed." She furrows her brow and waits a few moments, inspecting herself for any delayed after effects.  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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