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CHP 38: Power High

As he smashed his armoured fist into Archer's face, flinging him through the air as he had a number of times over the course of the past few seconds, Aston found his current emotions a bit lacking as compared to what he should have been feeling.

"As it was work, I am certain there were no personal motivations for your actions." He spoke to his assailant calmly as he grabbed him by the throat and spun around to add more momentum when threw him to the skies, "Perhaps it is because I 'get ...

CHP 37: Archer's Bread & Butter

Rin Tohsaka struggled to gain a foothold on the grass-laden, uphill path she'd chosen for herself. Her shoes only appeared clean because they were the same colour as the mud that had found it's way inside them and the slight squishy feeling of wet earth between her toes annoyed her to no end.

Heaving a sigh, she moved aside a strand of her dark hair, "Ugh, it just HAD to rain." Rin complained to nobody, groaning in annoyance at the light shower accompanying a particularly dark night tha...

CHP 36: A Reason To Fight

Sakura Matou looked at Aston in a stunned silence.

Disbelief at the sudden, staggering, changes in her situation made her disregard the scenic sight of the setting Sun Aston seemed a bit too infatuated with as well as the fact that they were standing atop a veritable skyscraper in the modernised Shinto District.

Forced into a paralysed state up until now, she'd only watched as a magus that resembled a witch removed the dreaded worms nestling in her body before going on to, shockin...

CHP 35: One Stone For Five Birds

Illyasviel von Einzbern felt a bit odd at the situation and could only stare at the impudent Tohsaka girl standing near her with her hands on her hips, displaying as much annoyance as she physically could with that boorish face of hers.

Bewildered by Rin's proposition and further stupefied by the fact that the smarter of her own two homunculus aids, Sella, saw it as a fruitful opportunity to strike two birds with one stone, Illya fell into deep thought, unable to make any snide or hatef...

CHP 34: Intriguing Possibilities

Medea stared at the paralysed girl lying against the wooden wall of Ryuudou Temple with a bland expression, eyes masked by the hood over her head, "You're..." She touched her purplish lips in curiosity, "Conscious, aren't you?"

It was moments like these that reminded her of the nature of her newest servant, even if it was the first among them. Aston had saved a girl he had no real relation to expecting no recognition or reward, killing Rider and her Master in the process with no real di...

CHP 33: A Necessity

Standing with her arms limp, Medusa couldn't help but click her tongue at the situation she'd found herself in.

When Rin Tohsaka had appeared at the Academy, Shinji had wanted to approach her for some unknown reason but she managed to steer him away. When Lancer's Master arrived, she'd been able to appeal to Shinji's cowardly nature with ease and in doing so, avoided conflict she had no way of coming out on top of.

BUT,

"Rider! RIDER!!"

Ignoring the screams of the manc...

CHP 32: The Strange Guest

Sakura Matou felt her gaze linger on the strange 'guest' a moment longer than it should have as she turned away, walking back into the dark, gloomy manse that had been her prison for the better half of her life with whatever grace she could manage, afraid of even slightly sullying the reputation of the Matou family.

The reason for just why she did that was a bit strange.

Being adopted into a family centuries old would excite some, being adopted as a prospective heir would excite e...

CHP 31: A Reputable Enforcer

Sitting on the matted floor as was tradition, dressed in her usual business suit, Bazett fiddled with her almost-pale fingers, scrutinising the cup of tea laid on the table before her as if it were the answer to all her current problems. The sunlight from open windows against her skin was barely noticed and the furnished wooden walls and furniture of the Emiya Residence didn't interest her.

She was an Enforcer, taught and trained to hunt down undesirables by one of the most powerful gov...

CHP 30: Saints & Heroes

Dressed such that one might mistake him for a simple foreigner, wearing a white shirt with a black jacket on top, similarly coloured pants and shoes, the King of Heroes, Gilgamesh observed the morning sunrise with one hand in his pocket and the other slicking back his bright golden hair.

Behind him was, or what used to be, the Church a certain sadistic priest had been calling home for the past ten years. It was no more than ruins now, one side entirely blown apart and the others on the ...

CHP 29: Tohsaka, Matou & Einzbern

Archer silently watched over the battle on the cusp of becoming a bloodbath, perched atop an excessively tall building in the more, modern part of Fuyuki. He ignored his Master's dubious gaze and went over his own thoughts.

An unknown fact about the Holy Grail War was that it didn't just summon people from the past, it summoned them from the future as well.

He would know, his too was such a case after all.

Archer was who the young stupid Shirou Emiya would go on to become, b...

CHP 28: Last Bit Of Hesitation

Preparing to face the two fully armoured knights ready to face her, Medusa couldn't help the small barely noticeable sigh that escaped her lips.

She was probably going to die here, wasn't she?

Summoned as a Rider Class servant in an entirely different time period by a girl, Sakura Matou, whose life was nothing but suffering, Medusa had resolved herself to look after the child, even if she would never admit that fact.

How could she not?

The girl had been sold off, tortu...

CHP 27: What Is Wrong?

Aston let go of his spear and turned to Bazett, staring at her with a gaze that gave no hint as to his actual emotions, "My Master, you need not do this."

He had a massive problem with changing allegiances but that wasn't what motivated his words, if Caster could take innocent children hostage just to gain an advantage, there was no assurance she wouldn't order him to attack Bazett the moment the contract was exchanged, "Honourless wench." He clicked his tongue, racking his brain for a ...

CHP 26: To Save The Many

Floating in the sky above Ryuudouji Temple, Medea had more than a few thoughts in her mind even with the threat that was this war's Lancer Class servant headed right for her because, as he'd said, she was a vile and depraved witch. He wasn't the first to perceive her as such and he wouldn't be the last.

But looking at it from a different perspective, maybe her own choice in fashion had something to do with it.

Dressed in a hooded purplish-blue robe with golden embroidery that was ...

CHP 25: A King's Musings

Artoria observed the moon in silence, her emerald eyes reflecting her contemplative mood unappreciative of the oddly beautiful night sky, dotted with varying stars large and small but in the end, completely inconsequential to the people observing them unless they were moving but that was an entirely different can of worms not worth poking.

The British King had opted for a more modern and casual attire in light of the fact that they had guests over at her Master's house, wearing a dark b...

CHP 24: Surpassing Time

Bluntly put, Sasaki Kojirou as a combatant was in a realm beyond the Knight of Atrocity as far as skill with their weapons were concerned, perhaps on equal grounds, the Lancer would overpower the Assassin through sheer difference in raw power but, it seemed the world would not have it that way.

Any difference in parameters was more than made up for by the boost provided by being in his homeland coupled with the honestly insane quantities of mana Sasaki’s master could supply him with.<...

CHP 23: Monstrosity

Aston observed his newest adversary in silence, his posture unusually erect and alert as he let go of his spear and unhooked the cloak covering half his form, letting it fall to the side to reveal his armour in it's full glory.

This strange behaviour didn't go unnoticed by Bazett who easily picked up on the fact that despite the servant's apparent lower parameters, her own servant recognised him as a powerful foe, "What do you need from me?" She spoke through their mental connection, ma...

CHP 22: Lancer vs Assassin

Perched atop the hotel his Master was staying in, Aston stared at the setting Sun with a strange expression on his face.

Something had been bothering him since his run-in with the priest overseeing the war, this whole war simply felt wrong. As if something was incredibly off, or vile in nature, moving in the shadows and the Lancer trusted his instincts a fair bit, they'd saved him too many times for him to not, behaving like a supernatural sixth sense.

"Uninvolved civilians are tu...

CHP 21: A Reason To Fight

Aston sat on a random rooftop, peering off into the distance listlessly.

He hadn't donned his armour since the battle earlier and was still in casual clothing, thinking to himself even if he himself noticed that that wasn't like him at all. He didn't ponder too long on the things he'd done lest he fall into the bottomless pit called regret, "Huh." Maybe that was why his hair had lost it's colour.

"Sir Aston, get off there." Artoria released a small sigh, her knight had a strange h...

CHP 20: Manmade Monster

Bazett closed her eyes in an attempt to somewhat dull the sudden influx of information from her vision shifting once again. She put both hands behind her back and put on a stern expression, intent on scrutinising whatever went on for hidden details.

King Arthur, she had more than a few things to that person now but was willing to withhold judgement until this was over.

This time she'd found herself standing in grassy plains and crop fields, near a small stone house one would gener...

CHP 19: Unacceptable King

Bazett Fraga McRemitz was in a bit of a conundrum.

She'd returned to her temporary quarters earlier and after giving Aston permission to go do his own thing, went to sleep hoping that when she woke up next it would allow her to think about all she'd seen with a cool head.

That was a rather simple course of action right?

So,

"Where am I?" Bazett muttered to herself, scrutinising her surroundings for anything that might've given her a hint.

Here she was, standing i...

CHP 18: Nature of War

Unlike their previous encounter or perhaps exactly like it, Aston wasted no time in appearing right next to Kirei and smashing his armoured fist into the sadistic priest's chin.

An action that would have thrown the man into the air did he not actually succeed in reacting to the sudden attack, tilting his upper body backwards to avoid it entirely leaving his assailant a bit awed at his physical prowess.

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CHP 17: Odd Familiarity

It was certainly an odd sight, to see two teens and a grown woman walking up a paved road-like path in the dead night a small distance away from a flaming forest. It was even MORE odder that they were being followed after by two individuals in strangely gaudy sets of armour that looked to be a mixture of both old and modern walking side by side as if that simple gesture was of immense significance.

The crickets had long gone silent, either burnt to death, crushed under the massive feet ...

CHP 16: Priests & Children

Shirou Emiya truthfully hadn’t had much contact with Rin Tohsaka aside from the eventual coincidental run-ins during the day at Homurahara Academy, other than that he only knew of her because of her popularity.

Upright, studious, well-mannered and so, the model student the teachers would tell the average student to strive to be like.

That said however, “What the hell are you doing here?!” This was NOT what Shirou expected her to talk like. It was even more surprising when sh...

CHP 15: Lancer vs Berserker vs Archer

Archer jumped away with Rin in his arms, eyes wide at the tall hulking mass of nothing but pure muscle growling at them with red eyes burning in pure unwarranted rage, "Come on." He complained pointlessly, slightly annoyed by how hectic the night was turning out to be.

First they ran into the absurd completely monstrous slaughterer passing as a knight and now they had to face a literal DEMIGOD, the son of Almighty Zeus who had performed twelve labours for the Gods of Olympus, the mighty...

CHP 14: Allied Front

Bazett released a small sigh but didn't react any further than that, such a thing was to be expected from a teenager and so it didn't irk her at all, what DID irk her though was the smirk on Aston's face as Artoria parted from him, looking as if all the embarrassment that should've been there from the start had finally started kicking in.

"You're.." He wasn't smirking at the situation, he was smirking at her, "Are you picking a fight?" Bazett spoke monotonously, stepping closer to Shiro...

CHP 13: The Knight Who Remained

Artoria Pendragon was at a loss for words, she tried to speak, she did but nothing would come out. Aston was a knight with a background of no renown who had been among the first to answer her call, when she was but a cheery teen and served her until both his and her final moments.

Initially, as the perfect greedless ruler, she had discarded the very fact that she was a woman but that changed no sooner than she made the decision.

How couldn't it?

In the constant company of so...

CHP 12: Knight of Atrocity

Artoria had believed she'd wept enough, mourned enough on that dreary hill surrounded by the corpses of those that had followed her into battle and of those who had battled against her. She'd believed she'd let her guilt and hatred for herself, for all she'd done, all she'd taken away and all she'd lost, out at the world around her.

That was why when she was summoned in another era, by a teen boy being hunted down by his foes, to fight for the Holy Grail, to obtain a wish that would let...

CHP 11: My King?

Rin Tohsaka bit her nails, ignoring the fact that her servant was holding her in one arm and leaping from building to building to navigate back to her mansion, "That was a servant?" Her tone carried clear disbelief, of course it did, she'd faced something that was abnormal even in it's absurdity, with parameters and skills only few servants could ever hope to actually contend with.

"This is why I wanted us to retreat right from the start." Archer shared his thoughts, ignoring the pain a...

CHP 10: Archer vs Lancer

Night once more fell on the city of Fuyuki, coating the regions not illuminated by artificial lighting in a blanket of darkness.

Many of it's denizens, tired from their busy schedules, drifted off to sleep while others only now woke up, intent on enjoying themselves during the night regardless of the consequences such a lifestyle would bring somewhere down the line.

Rin Tohsaka, accompanied by her still unnamed Archer servant, walked through the grounds of Homurahara Academy, the ...