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The Second VS Wiki Holy Grail War (Season 1)

LlamaGod1411 said:
[Inb4 Ruler GOB's me right next to wherever Fab is heading]
[Wasn't even considering that. You're showing up at the top of the ESB, same place I hung out most of last game]
 
[Rude AF]

Lancer escorts me back out.

"So.." I say to him

"I overheard you talking about Roma?"

I should not have asked this. All the way out he spouts out random gibberish about the glories of Rome. I'm almost thankful by the time I'm out and he returns.

I prepare to make my way to the next servant to talk to, but I sense a second presence.

Well well well

I make my way towards them. Saver appears to have sensed my presence too, and we both meet in the middle of the street a few blocks away from Lancer's warehouse. There are a few scant passerbyers, but none looking our way.

She materialises a few meters in front of me. She wears a blue and silver armour with a silver crown upon her head, her golden hair blowing in the faint wind.

"Hello Ruler" she says with a cold voice.

I look at her and whistle.

"I admit. I was not expecting Saver to be someone so pretty"

[Small warning. I am assuming that the possession with Latetia has affected Saver and her skill with men somewhat]

She looks slightly shocked, but I continue speaking.

"So you're the irregular class are you? The one who showed up out of nowhere. And I though this was going to be a normal war"

[Owari I'll edit in your dialogue and my response to it here once you've written our meeting from your perspective]

"Why did you choose to meet here? Where there are witnesses around?" She asks

"Well I would have prefered to meet somewhere more private, but an alley seemed unfit for meeting with a beautfiul lady such as yourself, and while a rooftop would have sufficed I'm afraid something went wrong with my summoning. I find myself unable to take spirit form, so accompanying you up was a problem"

"Oh please. You didn't even know what I looked like before I materialised, you practically admitted it yourself" she says, but she blushes faintly. She looks at me again and blinks. "What, is the blindfold just for show?"

"Oh not at all. All my eyes see is darkness" I smile. "But I have senses beyond the eyes. And to those sense, you look as beautiful as the dawn" She blinks again, the blush starting to form, but she slightly shakes her head.

"Stop that" she says.

"Stop what?"

"That.. charisma! I know you're doing something"

"Not at all Ms Jeanne. Your EX magic resistance would nullify any compulsion within my words. Your reactions to my words are purely your own"

"Then stop it! With the, the compliments, and the flirting!"

I smile again, and dip my head.

"I'm sure I don't know what you are talking about. But very well".

"Good, good" She regains her composure "Now, you were saying something. You said you can't take spirit form?"

"Indeed. A most pressing concern"

"Well. Back in my own world... I was once summoned as Ruler and the same thing happened to me"

I tilt my head "Is that so? Perhaps you can shed some light on the condition?"

She tells me of her time being summoned in Romania for the Great Holy Grail War. Two of each servant? Two teams? Truly fascinating. I attune SNI to view parallel worlds and observe the events for myself as she speaks. She is most impressive. After a few minutes, she speaks what I already know.

"So it is likely the Ruler of the previous war is still here"

"I see. He is probably up to no good then. Perhap he is the cause of the corruption of the war you spoke of in your message to us all"

"Perhaps - speaking of which, hey! You said I needed to be killed"

"I did. My apologies. However, the grail's power is split between the servants it summons, and the majority of the servants it summons must be killed in order for a wish to be granted. I did my duty and make sure the other were aware of this"

I grin slightly.

"I would never have said such a thing if I knew it was a woman as wonderful as yourself who was summ - ow!"

She lightly smacks me in the head.

"No more of that, remember?", but she is holding back a smile.

"Of course" I smile back.

"Well it was very nice to meet you Jeanne, and I thank you for your help. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours, but I must be going now. I wish to question the others on what their wishes are.. oh. Speaking of which, I suppose your only wish to stop the war?"

"[Whatever your response is]"

"I see. Well I am the supervisor, not a participant, so it won't affect me. Again, I must be off. I hope we meet again"

She dissolves into spirit form, and I continue to the next location. Night is already about to fall. I make my way to Rider's location in East Village
 
[Precisely]

[Well, considering I did literally nothing to make her tsudere for me last game, I felt I might as well give her a reason this game]

[Righto, need sleep. Be back in a few hours]
 
[Owari tsundere/yandere OVO]

  • As my master was sleeping I took a jacket and put a crap ton of knives that were durable putting them in a place that i can take out on a moments notice and a mask wondering around at night*
"Wow this night seems pretty can't get master in trouble..." *then i felt a presence a servant yet I can't seem to put my finger on it so i went to the location...I saw him a person with a blindfold come at me at first one would underestimate him but I wouldn't after all a servant cannot be underestimated*

"Yo so what does a servant like you doing here...anyway what class are you curious"

"[Can say ruler class and such idk]"

"Ahh i see I don't want a fight just yet its too annoying on the first day yo..." *I got an idea what to do to relieve the boredom* "Hey how about we do for a midnight motorcycle drive I'll drive it so tell me where you want to do though i don't want to fight just yet"

"[Want to join or not?]"
 
[lul Owari you can't escape your fate as a tsundere/yandere]

After exiting the building I hear a voice.

"Welcome heroes and anti-heroes, to the Holy Grail War. I am Ruler, and I am to be the overseer and supervisor of this war. As I'm sure you know, this war takes place for the omnipotent wish granting device, the holy grail. So fight. Fight for your wish. There are 7 other Servants you must kill. So go forth, and feed their souls to the grail and make your wish. Let's have a nice clean game. Also, I should point out, that I am not to be attacked"

Hmmm that's odd, it seems that a Ruler class servant has been summoned by the grail. Rulers are only supposed to be summoned if there is something abnormal about the Holy Grail War. Also pointing out that he should not be attacked is silly because the Ruler does not actually take part in the Holy Grail War. To be summoned as a Ruler in the first place means they must meet the requirement to not desire the grail as such there is no reason to fight him for the grail. However the Ruler is there to judge us servants so that we don't violate the rules, which I might do on accident with my many powerful noble phantasms which could lead to the Ruler issuing a hunt for me which could be quite troublesome but also convenient since then I wouldn't need to search for them

But killing Ruler does also give many merits since it gives me more freedom to act as I want, by avoiding penalisation for rule-breaking. However, as the position demands that the Ruler brings judgement upon Servants and Masters that violate rules, a fitting amount of combat strength is required. So I would assume that the Ruler would be a quite formidable hero, but that won't matter against I the Great King Of Kosla


While deciding my best course of action another voice echos in my head.

"Hear my words, brave warriors gathered here, legion of heroic spirits who retain their reason! My true name is Jeanne d'Arc! In the name of my lord, I shall end this corrupted war and save you all! No matter if you were sworn enemies or no matter how far your time periods apart, now you must entrust your backs to one another! Please lend me your strength to bring an end to this falseness!"

Geez what a fool. Who reveals their true identity as their first course of action, now it's guaranteed that one of her noble phantasms is her the battle standard, the holy battle flag that she kept by her side all her life. The flag had inspired and uplifted her soldiers who had believed a saint walked amongst them, said to have continually protected her as she ran ahead in battle as the vanguard. She and my master would make a great team, the dynamic duo of idiots. What an absurd statement, She wishes to put an end to the Holy Grail War? That's ridiculous, but it does also explain why Ruler was summoned I guess if she wishes the end the Holy Grail War.

However I do not disagree with her, war is very terrible because it would make me lose my subjects and my loved ones if I were to die. War is truly frightening... But only when you have something great to lose, at this point in time none of my subjects nor loved ones are alive as such I have nothing to lose, but something great to gain which is namely a reunion with my beloved Sita. And my warrior soul can't decline a honourable battle between heroes. Because this saint stands between me and my beloved Sita she will die by my hands.


Suddenly Rulers voice echos in my head

"Apologies respected Heroic Spirits. It appears a Servant of an irregular class has also been summoned. Seeing as the Grail's power is split among the servants in the summoning, it seems that you must actually kill 8 other servants"

Couldn't figure out that by myself thanks Ruler

Suddenly I hear the voice of my master in my head

"Archer go buy me something to eat, I'm hungry!!!!!"

"What happened to the request to hunt down the servants?"- I ask curiously

"My life takes priority. Do you wish for me to starve to death? I won't allow such acts of treachery, but I will let this slide this time since I need pizza.

"Although I am a servant I'm also a King so I would not want to be treated as someone of a lower rank, you understand master? I'M NOT YOUR ERRAND BOY!!!!!!!

"Ok if you insist, Chinese food is also fine. Geez what a picky servant you are, see Heracles wouldn't do something like this. Anyway once you get the food go back to my building, after that we will hunt down the other servants or try to ally with them, it would be preferable if there is a pretty girl master, that I can use for numerous things.

"You disgust me- I exclaim

As I end our telepathic conversation with many curses, I go back into the building and get a change of clothes to suit the modern world and I also get some money before heading off to the nearest Chinese restaurant.
 
[Sorry, too busy recently. This will continue from the last part, but still before Ruler and Saver's message.]

Helena takes me out of the basement. Now i can have a better look around, but this place is extremely huge. To be straight, it's a mansion already, not a normal house anymore. I can see maids running around so maybe this one really is a mansion. Everything is white, the walls, the furnitures, even the flowers are white, too. Seeing my confusion, Helena point to the window. I look through and see, a large field of White Lily surround this mansion, that may be their garden but it's too big to be a garden though. Helena says:

"This is White Lily Mansion, where my family reside. This place was built by my grandpa to show his love for that whoever Owari, something like "she was beautiful and pure like a white lily" or some sort. Right now my parents are working at the Clock Tower so i'm the only one here. Don't worry, we still have many mansions everywhere, so we can use this one as our headquarter and fight without trouble."

"You are really rich?"

"Thanks to my grandpa. He failed to summon his love, but he achieved many things for the Clock Tower as well. He also discovered many catalysts from ancient heroes. His last discovery was Great King Rama's arrow but i heard it was stolen from the Clock Tower some days ago."

"You really proud of him, right?"

"Of course i do, he's my hero as a mage. Also, i don't want you to roam around NYC while wearing that armor. And your clothes aren't that beautiful, too. I'll give you something else. This is my room, get inside".

My armor was a product of my Mana Burst so if i want to, i can make it disappear. And i also prefer clothes that i can easily fight without trouble, but i don't really have any choice now. She opens her room and take me in. If i have to describe, her room looks exactly like how one would imagined about a princess's room. Still full of white, but there are some white lily engraved on the wall beautifully, must be from a great artist. She takes out a white short dress from her dresser and give it to me. It's embarrassing to change in front of people even though she's a girl too, so i ask her to get out first. As i take of my clothes, i find 2 small bottles in my pocket. One with red liquid and other with blue. I put them on the table, i need to finish my change before having any deeper thought about them. Anyway, white short dress with black stockings... Helena, this is way too much... this is too feminine... even though i can change my clothes back if i want to fight, but is she realy trying to make me look like some normal girl? Guess i'll let this slide for now. I take a look at those bottles, what are they? Are they Merlin's medicine that i somehow bring with me? I won't know until i try, and with my Magic Resistance and Lady's Blessing, this won't cause much trouble for me whatever it is. I take the red bottle and drink. Just after some seconds, i can feel it, like a fire dancing in my body. It's hot, too hot, i'm getting burned from inside. I collapse to the ground and scream out loud. Helena rushes inside and yell:

"Are you alright? What happened, Saber?"

The heat is gone, but i believe there's something wrong with my body right now. Not from outside but inside instead. Something inside has changed, but it changes so smoothly that i can't tell it. I look at Helena and ask in a small tone:

"Hwawawa... Miss Helena... what is... going on... there's something wrong... with my body..."

Helena look at me with some confusing eyes. Then, she turns to the table and realize those bottles. However, that empty bottle that i have already drunk is slowly refilling with red liquid again under our eyes. Helena grab those bottle and immediately examine them with her magic. Then, she says out of surprise:

"They are Potion of Youth and Potion of Reverse! Potion of Youth will rewind one's body's time back, so they will become younger. However, Potion of Reverse will reverse Potion of Youth's effect and turn one back to normal. I also used their fragments which my grandpa found while investigating Babylonia's ruin, so even if i can't summon Owari, i can summon Gilgamesh himself. But seeing how you have link with that cloth, you shouldn't be Gilgamesh, right? But you still have those potions as your NP, this is really strange and interesting all at the same time."

"So... Miss Helena, did i... make a mistake...? I... did something wrong...?

Helena freezes at her place, like seeing Medusa's eyes or something. Just when i was about to ask about her condition, she jumps straight to me, pushes me to the ground and hugs me tightly like some huge size teddy bear while yelling:

"MY GOSH! YOU'RE WAY TOO CUTE! YOUR APPEARANCE REMAIN THE SAME, BUT YOUR PERSONALITY CHANGED A LOT! YOU LOOK LIKE A CUTE TEENAGER FROM THE BEGINNING BUT YOU RIGHT NOW EVEN CUTER! CUTENESS OVERLOAD! NEVER REGRET SUMMONING YOU!

[Saber didn't age after she took Caliburn, so her appearance remain the same, only personality change. As Saber, i am more mature, aggressive and hard-headed. But as Lily, i am more childish, shy and obedient. However, when it come to a fight to protect someone, no matter as Saber or Lily, i'm strong-willed and courageous. And my memories remain the same as well, only personality change. Time to study. Will continue this later.]
 
Ramesses the Sun King said:
it would be preferable if there is a pretty girl master, that I can use for numerous things.
[Completely willing to shamelessly exploit my "pretty girl master" so that Archer doesn't immediately kill me lol.]
 
TISSG7Redgrave said:
  • As my master was sleeping I took a jacket and put a crap ton of knives that were durable putting them in a place that i can take out on a moments notice and a mask wondering around at night*
"Wow this night seems pretty can't get master in trouble..." *then i felt a presence a servant yet I can't seem to put my finger on it so i went to the location...I saw him a person with a blindfold come at me at first one would underestimate him but I wouldn't after all a servant cannot be underestimated*

"Yo so what does a servant like you doing here...anyway what class are you curious"
"Hello Rider. I am servant class Ruler. No doubt you heard my message a few hours back. I have simply come to observe and to talk"

"Ahh i see I don't want a fight just yet its too annoying on the first day yo..." *I got an idea what to do to relieve the boredom* "Hey how about we do for a midnight motorcycle drive I'll drive it so tell me where you want to do though i don't want to fight just yet"

"Hmmm. Well actually I wanted to go to the zoo next, so if you could drop me off there we can talk on the way"
 
Fabtastic Glasses said:
[Lancer isn't rude however. His master is just a highly functional antisocial dude]
[What, and not even my A+ Charisma that makes people prostrate themselves at my feet can fix that?]
 
"Massacre your family?" I repeat what my master just suggested with a smile on my face and curiosity in my eyes.

"Yeah, and any magus studying magic with them as well. I decided they don't deserve to live." (Liz)

"How come?" (???)

"They're the kinds of people who would reject an opportunity sitting right in front of them. In the previous war, Gramps was apparently in a position where he could've won. His servant had caught the last two remaining servants off guard when they were both nearly drained of prana. And what do you think the two of them do? The servant decides he doesn't want to win, while Gramps just sits around without caring as he kills himself! It's so frustrating! And then when time for the new war came around, everyone just sits around on their hands just cause Gramps tells them 'Grail wars really suck, y'know?' They just let the perfect opportunity to get their wish pass by on a whim! People who can't even take advantage of opportunities don't deserve to live." Liz looks about ready to rip her hair out as she talks about them. I grab onto her hands, move them away from her hair, and reach up to pat her head. Hair is important.

I begin thinking a little, and say "If they're magus who don't deserve to live, what about batteries?"

Liz' eyes light up, "Great idea, together they should have plenty of od after all, they'd make perfect human batteries!" We both start laughing like maniacs. I have a good master.

"Now about payment" after we stop laughing, I bring it up. My master looks confused.

"You do know you are my servant right? I can order you to do it if necessary…" (Liz)

Ignoring her words I tell her, "usually I would charge an arm and a leg, but since you're my master I'll give you a discount, just an arm!" Her look of confusion intensifies. I take another look at her arm and get desperate, grabbing her hands my eyes water a little as I look into hers, "Please, please, please! You have really nice arms, and although your right one is better, it has command seals so the left arm is enough!"

My master looks moved, under her breath she mutters "c-cute." Then she hugs me and calls out, "alright, I'll let you have my left arm!" I hug her back, and she continues, "Just, it's my first time, so try not to make it hurt… or cause me to bleed to death"

I nod. "It may not be the most up to date and it may not be enough to get a skill, but I do have surgical experience. Don't worry." I back away and give her a thumbs up. I then use my hair to cut her arm right off and stop the bleeding, as my master screams out in agony for 20 straight minutes and eventually loses consciousness.

When my master comes to, I'm cradling her arm in my own with the back of her hand up against my cheek, while giving her a lap pillow. She stares up at me with anger in her eyes, and I say "see, almost painless!" She's dumbfounded, I wonder why?

"What do you mean painless!? I thought I was gonna die!" (Liz)

"Really? I thought from the volume of your screams you were only in a little pain." (???)

"That's as loud as I can scream!" (L)

I see, now I understand my mistake. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize lung capacity was such a sore spot for you, I won't bring it up again!" (?)

Her response left me confused again, "That's not why I'm angry!" She starts flailing her arm and her stump at me. It's always funny to watch when they forget they lost an arm. "Grah… how can you be an idiot about something so weird?" She's starting to sound exasperated instead of scary, that's probably good for me. "Well, I think it's time for you to go through on your end of the deal."

After seeing me nod, Liz says "The building they occupy is nicknamed the birdhouse, it's an apartment complex that looks abandoned on the outside. It's surrounded by a powerful bounded field, apparently created in the form of an item by Gramps' servant, the previous Caster. Currently it has the effects of stopping things like drones, familiars, and normal people from entering, it and the people within it can't be sensed, seen, or heard through standard magical means from the outside, it ranks down an enemy's parameters by 1 if they don't possess good magic resistance, and it raises the parameters of allies. It was apparently more impressive in the past, but without a Caster controlling it, it can't be used to its full potential. Gramps also has various magic items and a weapon left behind by the Caster, all of these will be useful in our efforts. He's also made prosthetic arms based on a design and prototype Caster left behind, though they aren't as strong as the Caster had intended I could probably use something like that right about now." How odd, I suddenly feel a bit guilty, I wonder why. After I tell her it's not an issue, Liz keeps going, "its location and even existence isn't something that's known to the outside world's mages. Everyone there learned from texts left by the Caster and has thus had next to no contact with the rest of the magic world, and with a single exception that you happen to be talking to they're all stupidly loyal. Speaking of that one exception, here's the birdhouse's location, the trapless path through, and all the necessary keys." Liz pulls out a map of the city and points to a building in Midtown East, then a floor plan of a building with a line going through it in a very roundabout manner, and lastly a set of magic keys with labels on them.

"So, does that mean go?" (?)

"Of course." (L)

The two of us smile as I activate Presence Concealment and Sphere Boundary to be certain no servants will sense me as I cross the city, and head straight for the building.

Upon arrival I calmly walk in, loosely wrapping my hairs around every person I walk past. If any of them have nice arms I wrap my hair around their shoulders as well. When I reach the central room, it's some sort of workshop with a number of people working on an item, the one leading them is an old man with a sheathed sword at his side and a bird on his shoulder. Is that "Gramps"? I wrap all of them in my hair, and once I'm done I attack, reducing my abilities' effect. I tighten my hairs around them. Every single person in the building is smashed against the walls or floor around them, while some of them have their arms cut off and brought to me.

"There we go, as long as I stop the bleeding no one should die." As I reinspect the arms I chose, there's a noise behind me, the old man stands up and says something about servants, but to me it's drowned out by my thoughts. Did he have something that heals him? How fun! A self-repairing punching bag. I decide to try using my hair to cut him up a little for fun.

First when he charges at me I cut away the front of his foot and he trips, after it quickly heals I rip out his finger and toe nails one by one, next I smash every one of his ribs and all the bones in his limbs, then I begin skinning his legs and as he starts to puke I skin his arms and then face too. Things continue like this for a while, until I cut his arm off and he faints. At this point a few of the other magus have woken up, but they just stuck to the ground trembling in puddles of blood.

As I knock the ones who woke up back out, I look at the floor map and start retrieving tools for binding from a store room. Next I take away all their magic items and keys, bind them, and move everyone to a jail they have set up.

Using my telepathic link to Liz, I tell her that I cleaned up all the people and will be back soon. As I'm returning I hear a message from the Ruler, then from Jeanne D'arc, and then Ruler again. Something about the second message makes me tremble inside.

I tell Liz about the message after escorting her back to the birdhouse with my presence concealed. She's a bit annoyed upon hearing his Jeanne talked about banding together to fix the corrupted war, "Is she an idiot? She really thinks any of those fools could have corrupted the Grail? And she's trying to stop the wish from being granted and end the war, wasting the opportunity so many have awaited so long? We'll annihilate her, right Assassin?" Yeah, just a bit annoyed.

"Down she'll go!" Something about her leaves me scared, but her NP shouldn't be a problem with a sneak attack.

After Liz calms down, we sort through the magic items left by the previous Caster, and she tells me their names and effects. Liz takes the shoes of flight [flight for a limited time+lightening+agility up 2], a magi-mechanical arm [prosthetic arm that responds no differently from a real one+ possesses physical parameters on par with D rank], wind accelerators [uses wind magic to increase her acceleration speed], the mana bracelet [mana up 1], and one of the Lord of Rings [allows increased flow of od from master to servant+ can locate and monitor the physical, mental, and magical condition of wearers of the other rings it was made with, but with the exception of the two Lord of Rings those were destroyed by Blahster]. I took the agility shoes [agility up 1], the magic absorption ring [mana up 1+ improved mana recovery], and the other Lord of Rings. Eventually I convinced Liz to take the Sensou no Owari [strength and endurance up 1+ calming effect+ high low Regenerationn or B+ ranked wind blades] after telling her I don't use swords and threatening to never talk to her again if she didn't. That sword must not have been named by the Caster.

After that we set up base in the birdhouse. I find a good place to store my arms, framing Liz's, and organize them beautifully. Then I set up hairs in the jail so I can kill and take od from our prisoners if ever necessary.

Once she's set up her stuff in the master bedroom, helping me clean up all the bloodstains, and reconfigured the magic item controlling the bounded fields, Liz comes to warn me, "I said this place wasn't known, but in the last war two people definitely knew about this base, and two others' servants had been here, so they might know. They weren't the kinds of people who would tell anyone, but their family members could know and be participating in this war, so it's not like there's no one to watch out for. In particular there's a certain irritating, family obsessed girl a bit older than me. Her gramps was a master of that war too, he was an obsessed hunter of heroic spirits' relics. And if the news we heard was right, he's recently given her a motivational push to participate in the war. Since this place heavily dissuades people from getting involved in the Grail War, I doubt she'll come here searching for servants. But if she were to come here searching for help from Gramps it could turn out annoying."

"Umu… we can just kill her then!" (?)

"Heheh, sounds good to me" (L)

The two of us smile and Liz laughs a bit.

[@Arturia, your master should know about our base's location via Shirou, but wouldn't know that anyone there was participating, and should probably expect that they would avoid participation. Basically, you're free to attack our base, but have some good in story explanation for what made you suspicious, or some initial reason to come that doesn't involve fighting us.]
 
[Damn blah, that was absolutely brutal]

[Ok, things are happening. Time to send in Llama]

{Llama emerges from the golden portal into my Colosseum. I hold out my manuscript towards him.

"Are you prepared?" I ask

"What am I to be given?"

"Thrice Setting Suas a reflection of the 3 times I revived you in this world. The ability to return from death up to 3 times in battle, though you must prepare to use it before hand. In otherwords, you must be prepared to die. A Knight Does not Die with Empty Hands as a reflection of the weapons mastery you have achieved in this world. Anything that could be thought of as a weapon to be grasped in your hands shall become your Noble Phantasm. And Empyrean Eye , as a reflection of that loaded die you carved for yourself. If there is a goal, a future, that has even a 1% chance of being achieved, as long as you put all your heart, all your effort into fulfilling the steps required to obtain this future, that is the future that shall be achieved. I grant you these powers now. Be rewritten. Be reborn. Marchen Meines Lebens!"

The book begins to shake, and rises into the air, light spilling from it. The golden words on the page, the story of Llama's life rise from the manuscript and flow through the air towards him. They wrap around him, raising him into the air, and sink into his flesh, the words painlessly burning themselves into his body before healing an instant later. Pink light shines from every pore of his body. Then, the light is gone, and he drops to the ground, gasping.

"Now then. Are you prepared?"

"Yes"

A golden portal appears beside him.

"My manifestation in space-time is already prepared. Simply enter the portal, and you shall pass through my treasury and out through the portal my manifestation opens into New York. Remember my request"

"Of course" Llama says. He nods to me, then steps through the portal.

It closed behind him with my gesture, and I return to sit on my Throne. I rest my hand on my head, attune SNI, and prepare to observe the war}
 
ahh the zoo i see well then strap on *I took a motorcycle my master let me borrowed and gave Ruler a helmet though he asked*

"Where is your helmet??"

"Don't need one" I grin cheekily "Alright let's rock" *He got to the backseat while i start the engine and we zoom all the way to the zoo* "So what is it you want to talk about exactly??
 
"Oh I'm just trying to get to know the servants of this war a bit. What are you fighting for? What is your wish? What's your favourite colour?
 
"Ahh i see. What i want to fight for hmmm not sure i just want a great fight. Wish still not sure honestly and my favorite color is red. Well I could as you the same thing and btw why do you where a blindfold? Is it because you can through people's clothes or something??"
 
"well obviously its because I'm blind Rider. Geez, that was a bit insensitive don't you think? Also, I have no wish. Kinda why I'm Ruler. My favourite colour is also red though. Fancy that"
 
"sorry i like to taunt others in a casual talk though you have good seismic sense which is cool in my books but i'm curious have you met any other servants?"
 
"Two other servants actually. Lancer's master was a bit rude. Saver was quite nice though. I can't tell you where they are though. I'm meant to be impartial after all."

We are getting closer to the Zoo.
 
"I would like to meet them myself anyways though i feel like Lancer's master as you said can be a D bag...oh look the zoo" *We are closing in on the zoo*

[Also monarch the post where you said obviously i'm blind i think you meant rider not lancer]
 
[Oops. Fixed]

We approach the zoo and begin to slow down.

"Well it was nice to meet you Rider. Good talk." I wave goodbye "See ya 'round"

I hop off the motor cycle and begin walking into the park.

[Follow me or leave]
 
"Well i don't think i want to leave so soon just yet ruler mind if i follow you m8?"
 
[I'm home. Can't believe a king like me have to spend hours at school...]

[@Ex-Saver: Shirou is still alive, but he's in vegetative state for 3 years already due to a magic accident.]

[@Assassin: Erm, no. Shirou can't really tell us anything about it now but he may mention about it in the past so Helena may know something. By this time, you maybe the only Evil heroic spirit that i can unseal my sword on.]

After some sort of skinship with Helena, i drink PoR and change back to my original self. It's really embarrassing to show my shameful past on people like that. Though Helena seems regret about this, she still wants my younger self to call her as "sister" or something, people's fetish these days... As for the white dress, i don't like it at all so i have to decline my Master's request. She said something about me wasting my beauty and really pushy about how she want me to wear feminine clothes but i don't really care. In the end, i decided to wear a set of butler's clothes. Guess men's clothes still suit me better.

We left the house on a Roll Royce and head to Washington Heights. With my Riding B, i can easily ride this car like a piece of toy. We reach our destination at Washington Heights after 10 minutes, a hospital owned by her father called Stella. On the outside, this is just a normal hospital and it still serve civilian but it actually is a hospital which specialize in mage treatment. On the highest floor is a secret place which is protected by 20 layers of barrier, each layer must be around Rho Aias's level. I can still destroy all of them but still take me sometime. Those barriers will prevent people without permission from getting inside but with permission, one can casually walk through, just like me at the moment. We passed many barriers and many mechanical doors, until we reach the final room. This one look like a lab with special devices all over the place. And in the middle of the room, there's a lab capsule filled with green liquid with an old man inside, and that man doesn't seem in his conscious right now. Helena walks near the capsule, touch it and say:

"I'm here, grandpa. Right now, i'm a combatant of this Holy Grail War. I'll win and make your dream come true."

"What accident did your grandpa suffer? You only said it was a magic accident but a mage at his calibre should be tough enough, right?"

"He tried to create a Holy Grail."

"Wait, what? That's insane!"

"Yes, i know, all of us think the same. And he failed, that experiment created a huge explosion and destroyed his secret research mansion on an island. He managed to survive long enough until we get there. With the help from his friend called Birdie or something like that, we created this green liquid by mimicking the healing effect from Sensou no Owari. His body has been fully healed, but his soul is damaged heavily, most of his magic circuit has been destroyed and he can only live for 3 months. We can't fix soul, it goes beyond what a mage can do already. If there's something can do that, must be NP from the Age of Gods or the Holy Grail."

"I see... i'm sorry..."

But, as i finish my sentence, we hear an announcement from Ruler about this war. Seems like all servant has already been summoned. But, after that a minute or two, another announcement from Jeanne reach out place, about corrupted war or something like that, and another message from Ruler come later. There's someone actually tell her true identity as a Servant to people like that? She must be an idiot, not even me can imagine about this. I turn to Helena, she nods and says:

"Corrupt or not, i still need the Grail to save my grandpa. If that Saint of Orleans want to step on my way, i'll defeat her to reach my goal."

"I shall be your blade, then. The war has begun, let's go, Master!"

She looks at her grandpa for the last time and says "goodbye grandpa". Then, we leave the hospital. With that, our fight begin from here. She fight for a cause, for her grandpa. I fight for her wish, not mine as King of Knights. I've already left my wish behind when i meet that boy from Fuyuki years ago. Right now, i'll hold my blade not to remove my existence from the history but to fulfill people's desire.
 
"Hmm? Well... I'd rather you didn't. But if you must"

The zoo gates are closed, but I simply jumped over the wall and continued in. I follow the pedestrian paths through the zoo. Near the centre, I sense a magical presence. I suspect Rider senses it too. I tilt my head and attune SNI.

Ah

I walk over to the hippo pit. There is a summoning circle within. I hop in, careful to avoid the hippo's excrement all around, and reach the circle. Rider follows in.

I trace my hand over the circle, making a show of feeling what it says.

"This was Berserker's circle. See the runes? Thou who art trapped in a cage of madness, and I who holds thy chains"

I look up.

But where did they go?

"Oi!" There's a voice from the pedestrian paths above the encolusre. Me and Rider turn around. An old man in zoo uniform and gear is standing there.

"What d' ya vagrant's think yer doin' down there! Get out!"

"Who's this guy?" Rider says to me.

"Hmm. If I had to guess..." I bent down and tapped the circle. The man pales.

"I would say this is Berserker's master"

[Should have had your master appear when you were first summoned Hizack. No magical girls for you this time]

I jump up to him, and the old man stumbles back.

"So where's your servant old man? I don't sense him nearby"

"I dunnot know... I dunnot know what yer are talkin' about!"

"Oh come. Don't lie. One of my special Skills lets me determine truth and lies"

The man stammers, then gives up.

"I dunnot know. I summoned 'im at dawn this morning [It is midnight, so technically he means yesterday morning], but he just vanished a moment later"

"And you didn't summon him back? You have command seals don't you?"

"Command seals?"

"Oh my... the red marks? They should have appeared on your body somewhere"

"Oh those? I just thought that was a bad rash."

"... I see. What do you even know of the grail war?"

"Uhhh. Summon a hero and use the hero to kill other heroes, then get a wish granted"

"Well. You aren't wrong, but clearly you are missing some important bits. I'll help explain once your servant is back. In the meantime, if you run your mana through those command seals and issue a command to your servant, verbal or though based, your servant will be forced to obey, even if it was something normally not possible. So if you simply command them to appear before you, they will"

I turn back to Rider.

"Rider, I'm afraid I must insist you leave now. You wouldn't even have been here if not for me, and I would prefer it if I was not the cause of any battles"

He looks at me for a moment, then shrugs.

"Sure man. I'm not up for killing seniors anyway"

He disolves into spirit form. After a moment I sense he's gone.

I turn back to the old man.

"well then old man?"

"Me name's John"

I sense mana start to run through him, and see a command seals on his arm start to glow.

"Berserker, appear before me!" the man says.
 
[I'm back. My internet connection right now is extremely bad due to some kind of internet maintenance. And how come people have something like "if it's Owari, she should be a tsundere"!? This is against my human rights! Gah! I hate you all! Idiot! Idiot! And for you Monarch, i'm supposed to be a holy maiden without any experience with men, but you made me look like some girl who will easily go with any men... damn your flirting! Next time, i'm gonna pick Zabaniya: Poison Body together with Brynhildr Romantia!]

[Also, please remove the part from old Ruler of this war and 2 side of servants if you can. I already said my Jeanne was a Ruler from another HGW, but that one wasn't supposed to be Fate/Apocrypha. In fact, me right now have no information about Ex-Ruler or Ex-Saver even a single bit.]

[Gonna write my POV after sometime later, you can fix yours after my post. And people is proceeding a little slow, huh? Barely anyone made a move. Also, R.I.P Birdie...]
 
[Also, please remove the part from old Ruler of this war and 2 side of servants if you can. I already said my Jeanne was a Ruler from another HGW, but that one wasn't supposed to be Fate/Apocrypha. In fact, me right now have no information about Ex-Ruler or Ex-Saver even a single bit.]
[Oops, forgot that bit. But we need a connection! How else is this relationship meant to start if we don't have something to talk about!!]
 
[I'm gonna come up with something later, you can continue whatever you're doing. Right now i'm a little busy to write long post. And damn Artoria, i thought we were friends! Now you want to save the Ex-me's Master and letting him meet the Ex-me by killing the current me!? This is even more insane than Ex-Ruler's madness!]
 
[Also...]

OwariNepgear said:
I'm supposed to be a holy maiden without any experience with men, but you made me look like some girl who will easily go with any men
[Not really... Joan seemed pretty taken aback and embarrased my Ruler's compliments, and didn't know how to take them. That doesn't strike me as "easily go with any men"]
 
"Hmm? Well... I'd rather you didn't. But if you must" He said

The zoo gates are closed, but we both simply jumped over the wall and continued in. We both follow the pedestrian paths through the zoo. Near the centre, I figured he and I sense a presence and went to a hippo pit when we heard a voice

Oi!" There's a voice from the pedestrian paths above the enclosure. Me and Rider turn around. An old man in zoo uniform and gear is standing there.

"What d' ya vagrant's think yer doin' down there! Get out!"

"Who's this guy?" I felt a bit bothered

"Hmm. If I had to guess..." Ruler bent down and tapped the circle. The man pales.

"I would say this is Berserker's master" Ruler says

He jumps up to him, and the old man stumbles back.

"So where's your servant old man? I don't sense him nearby"

"I dunno know... I dunno know what yer are talkin' about!"

"Oh come. Don't lie. One of my special Skills lets me determine truth and lies"

The man stammers, then gives up.

"I dunno know. I summoned 'im at dawn this morning [It is midnight, so technically he means yesterday morning], but he just vanished a moment later"

"And you didn't summon him back? You have command seals don't you?"

"Command seals?"

"Oh my... the red marks? They should have appeared on your body somewhere"

"Oh those? I just thought that was a bad rash."

Wait...those were the seals then...oh man so my master had them at her chest area...great how the hell does that work...

"... I see. What do you even know of the grail war?"

"Uhhh. Summon a hero and use the hero to kill other heroes, then get a wish granted"

"Well. You aren't wrong, but clearly you are missing some important bits. I'll help explain once your servant is back. In the meantime, if you run your mana through those command seals and issue a command to your servant, verbal or though based, your servant will be forced to obey, even if it was something normally not possible. So if you simply command them to appear before you, they will"

"So masters can force servants to do ANYTHING??"

"Yes Rider"

I started thinking of many things my master may want me to do and some just got into 18+ water which made me laugh considering they would waste one just for that but then he turns back to me as I kept listening to them. Did he know what i was thinking???

"Rider, I'm afraid I must insist you leave now. You wouldn't even have been here if not for me, and I would prefer it if I was not the cause of any battles"

He tells me that and i realized i should go and he didn't really know what i was thinking off.

"Sure man. I'm not up for killing seniors anyway"

I dissolve into spirit form and use my motorcycle to leave away from the zoo but i thought to myself...now what and i'm a pervert but doesn't change i prefer a fight time to go around new york
 
[Eh Redgrave... I'm all for having mutiple perspectives of the same events, but they need to bring something new to the table, like your character's thoughts and things. Simply copying and pasting my perspective and switching the pronouns so it is from your perspective is kinda pointless. Only the end bit about driving away on the motor cycle was actually anything new]
 
[ahh alright was tired of writing lol plus not much to add other than my train of thoughts tbh also @Owari you keep saying idiot idiot so definitely tsundere~ ;)]
 
[@Arturia, Don't worry, I know. Based on what you said in your POV I figured Shirou hadn't held back much on the details of the previous war to his family, which is why I said your master would know due to Shirou. Also, though Birdie would help Shirou, he wouldn't reveal that he has Sensou no Owari. With Shirou's obsessiveness that could spell trouble for him later. And 20 barriers on par with Rho Aias, which can already block A and B+ rank NPs, is that really possible for modern mages? I thought they were meant to be way below servants' levels or something like that.]

[@Monarch Thank you for taking note of my brutality, it was fun to write.]

[@Owari Don't worry, Birdie's still alive. For now. He's just lost some weight.]
 
[@Assassin: Shirou shouldn't know about Sensou no Owari and Birdie only use Sensou no Owari as a prototype for his family to mimicking Caster's creation. Because i doubt normal mage can achieve a creation from a Pioneer of the Stars without mimicking. So his family know about SnO, but that's after his accident so he must have no idea about it, Birdie can tell his family to keep it as a secret though.]

[Instantly create 20 barriers at that level is impossible for mage. However, it's already 3 years, man. With 3 years of prep time, they still can.]

[Edit: To be more accurate, it's already 3 years after Shirou's accident. But this hospital has been built long before that time, so the true prep time may be a lot more than that with how this hospital was mean for mage treatment, a secret room with high protection is a must anyway.]
 
[Oh! Ok! So that just Happened! (Damn you monarch! While i'm not thinking about having magical girl and not even a girl and go for male master but seriously? Old man?)]
 
[@Fab Wait - you only arrived at your hotel 21 hours ago... and you are already driving home? Huh, short vacation. Just a day at the beach/mountains or something?]
 
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