Merlin Pranks101: Why hello there fellow internet explorers,(See what I did there?), it is I, Merlin. I have come with a proud new idea along with my fellow writer ZilverHope. Death Battle: Fate Edition! A series of 1v1 and if we feel up to the challenge more than that! We will both write how we think the fight would go and see what you guys think of it. Say which you agree with the most or if you think it would go in a completely different direction. We are always open to criticism as long as it has a decent explanation. We love to argue, so don't be afraid of that. I mean, heck, this fic is mostly to settle our arguments of who would win a fight. We accept requests, though we might not always do it, for reasons... Oh well, I have nothing more to say, so I'll leave the rest to ZilverHope.
ZilverHope:Wassup people. Me and my friend here (Sup Merlin.) Are doing this thing in which we use our abilities as petty people to write fights between servants and blah blah blah, Merlin should explain this in his part of the A/N.
For now though, leave us a few suggestions on fights, we can do multiple servants vs multiple servants (But only 3v3 max since we don't want to do something too crazy...yet.)
I hope you enjoy this, it's just something casual that me and Merlin thought of doing and here we are, sharing it, leave us your opinions in reviews and stuff like "I think Merlin's version makes more sense." or vice versa. This is just our point of view for the fights. We can occasionally both find the same outcome to the fight so don't be surprised if we both choose the same servant as the victor in one of the fights, I can promise you that we have no idea what the other person is writing until it is time to publish it.
That said, we'll be doing our best to keep this logical. Now, come check out a few of my stories. No self promotion or anything, and Merlin, if you delete this (NOT) self promotion I'm going to kill you.
Lastly: In my opinion, my version of the fight makes more sense for Cu vs Lancelot though I can definitely see Merlin's version happening.
Cu Chulainn, Ireland's Child of Light vs Lancelot Du Lac, Knight of the Lake
Merlin's view of things:
Cu charged at his opponent, spear blazing with its usual bloodlust. His opponent raised his dark sword and charged to meet him. Their weapon of legend clashed in a mighty burst of steel, both fighters struggling against the others strength, but slowly Lancelot pushed back the spear and pushed it to the side. The Lancer jumped back and held his spear at the ready, he suddenly disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared behind the knight, his weapon aimed straight at his heart. Sadly, the Knight of the Lake was too experienced for such a trick and turned to deflect. He did not let the Lancer jump back as he did before and pressed his attack. He scored but a few glancing blows before the Irish spearman decided to finally go all out. Gae Bolg lashed out suddenly towards the French swordsman who leaned back and backflipped away. How he did that with that kind of armor, I do not know. Ireland's Child of Light held his spear in one hand so that it pointed towards the knight.
He shouted two words.
"Gae Bolg!"
The spear flew straight towards the heart, but the purple themed man blocked it with Excalibur's sister sword. Time and space seemed to freeze at the brief struggle. Something wasn't right, the heart was pierced so why did the spear not hit? The World set about to correct this irregularity and everything seemed to rewind. To Lancelot, it seemed as if the spear had suddenly teleported into the side of his abdomen. It was a pretty shallow gash, it would not hinder him, he had worse against stronger. If his opponent had shown him the courtesy of presenting his noble phantasm, he would do the same.
His sword glowed with the light of the moonlight, his noble phantasm would normally be a beam of magical energy not unlike Excalibur's, but it did not fit his style as a technical fighter. Which was why instead of releasing a wave of magic, he contained it inside the sword. He dashed to his opponent with his glowing sword and slashed across his chest with a sword filled with an amount of magical energy rivaling Excalibur.
"Arondight Overload!"
The man fell, a deep gash across his chest. The knight turned to walk away, but suddenly ducked as spear flew over him, he grabbed the spear, his skill activating, red veins spread across. He turned to throw it back but as distracted by the glowing runes which suddenly exploded, mangling his arm. He turned towards the blue-haired man and charged stabbing him through the chest with his sword. He looked at his face to see a slight smirk on the man's face, his hand was held out. Lancelot's eyes widened as he heard the wind whistling. he tried to dodge but he was too late and the spear stabbed him straight through the stomach. Cu Chulainn disappeared into blue dust as Lancelot walked back to his master for healing.
ZilverHope's view of things:
Cu waits for Lancelot to attack first.
Lancelot charges in, sword ready to slash sideways into Cu but he fails as Cu, which was waiting for this moment precisely, intercepts his sword then immediately pulls his weapon back, with Lancelot's weapon being on one side of his body Cu takes the opening and tries slashing with Gae Bolg from the other direction, it's not enough to get the better of the knight of owner as he blocks the strike and kicks Cu in the stomach, pushing him back a few steps.
With Lancelot not being as aggressive as other servants Cu has a chance to regain balance, if this was Berserker Lancelot then Cu wouldn't have been able to do anything since he would probably have been barely keeping up with blocking multiple strikes from all directions and sooner or later get overwhelmed.
But now, this is saber Lancelot who is more balanced. Cu readies his lance again, this time learning his mistake and deciding to not let Lancelot get too close to him again. He charges forward, spear aimed to thrust Lancelot in the heart. Lancelot sees this as an easy opportunity to deflect Cu's spear and throw it out of his hand, winning the fight instantly. And so he tried to swing his sword upwards which would have resulted in such case. Sadly for him, that was exactly was Cu wanted.
He pulled his spear backward right in the last second, making Lancelot fail to touch his weapon and only succeed in trying to parry the air. Cu took the opportunity and did a backflip that was also a kick, hitting Lancelot straight in the chin and ruining his balance completely.
While staggered, Lancelot sees Cu which while in the air decided to plummet to the ground straight at him, this time the spear aimed at him for sure, he didn't have enough time and barely got out of the way, but only saving himself from a fatal blow, it still resulted in the spear stabbing him in the right shoulder.
Cu, knowing that he used all of his openings decides to end his chain of strikes and disengages out of the current fight. Giving himself a few steps away from Lancelot who lost control of almost all of his right arm.
Cu readies his spear and unleashes his noble phantasm. Lancelot tries to dodge but only succeeds in avoiding another fatal blow, this time the spear hitting him in the other shoulder.
For the next minute or so Cu kept chaining his strikes, some from the left, some from the right, a few stabs and a number of overhead swings. Lancelot held firm for as long as he could and managed to swing his sword a few times as well to attack back but it was never good enough to hit Cu. Without the ability to control his arms he was eventually stabbed by Cu's multiple chain strikes until he couldn't fight anymore, that is when Cu delivers the final blow, a thrust to the heart.
