Hello! This is my second story after taking a hiatus and I hope people like it. I'm not the best writer but I will try my hardest to make this story the best it can be. I would also like to inform that since this is an au the events of Fate/ Zero and related never happened and is entirely exclusive to the Seven Deadly Sins universe. I kind of walked myself into a corner when I decided to include other characters such as the Lancers, Archer, and Gilgamesh but I think I can work it out. As for Saber, I'm having her be Arthur's older sister... I want to get to the story now so here goes. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Fate series nor Seven Deadly Sins.

Not once in her life did she think that she would be reduced to the very condition she was in now. Perhaps if she hadn't been so reckless and unaware she may have never ended up imprisoned in Baste Prison. She and her small group of lesser ranked Holy Knights had been patrolling the border when they had been ambushed. Everyone except her died and she suspected that her comrades that had remained home likely thought she was dead. While the thought was upsetting, losing Excalibur and Avalon was even more so. While she hoped that weapon and sheath had been found by investigating comrades she doubted that was the case. More so than the sword, she worried about the loss of Avalon. Without it she was susceptible to injuries and death. In many ways the sheath had more uses than the sword and it made her feel all the more vulnerable. Back to why she had been imprisoned and not killed, Arturia thought it was because she had been obviously more stronger than the companions that had accompanied her. She had taken out a good majority of the enemy forces before brought down herself out of exhaustion. It seemed to her that the enemy had known a great deal about her abilities which lead her to think that there had to be some sort of inside mole in Camelot. The battle had left her severely depleted of mana after that it had been easy to capture and imprison her. When she had been taken to the Prison they had tried to torture her for information though it was a useless endeavor as all they got out of it was her name(a fake one of course). They had grown bored and instead of killing as they should have, they just let her sit and rot in her cell while they came and went as they pleased. It was only a few days later that she learned that the cell next to her's was occupied. It only offered her a small comfort but she felt better that she wasn't alone to go insane by herself.

"Hey, you okay?" The first time she heard the male voice coming through a miniscule hole in the wall of her cell she crawled weakly. She tried to peer through but it was unfortunately too dark and gloomy for her too see so instead she settled herself against the wall next to the hole. "Yes, I'm fine." She finally said. After that there was no reply for quite some time as if there wasn't enough energy to be mustered to speak any more than those few words. In the next few weeks after speaking to the voice her captors, the Weird Fangs, came and went as they pleased. Mostly it was the knight with the dark thorny helmet the holy knight Jude. He seemed to enjoy causing her pain, getting excited when she wouldn't react and he had to find a new way to torture her. Every so often the voice in the cell next door would whisper questions to her.

"So how'd you get here?" He asked one time.

"What?"

"I can already tell that you hold a great amount of power so it definitely wasn't easy to get you here. So tell me already." She felt a faint stab of annoyance before replying.

"Me and my comrades were ambushed, everyone died except me." She said shortly. She suddenly tried to peer uselessly through the hole, catching only a glimpse of a bloodied foot. "Who are you anyway? How I came to be here isn't any of your business." she snapped. Honestly, it caught her off guard how easily she had shared the information. This man(at least she assumed it was, she knew women with very deep voices) was a virtual stranger she knew practically nothing about. Besides that, she rarely shared personal information anyway. Why was that? Did she feel more at ease because it was likely that she would never actually get to meet this man or something else? And besides that, this man also held a great deal of power, far more than she had at this point. If he really wanted too, he could break out of Baste Prison easily.

"I guess it's only fair but only if you tell me your name too." She mulled it over, she didn't really want to give him her real name lest he turned out to be less than trustworthy which was very likely. They were in a prison afterall.

"Very well I accept your terms, so tell me who you are and how you came to be here." She finally replied.

"My name is Ban… and as for why I'm here… I want to feel aliive." She could hear the smile in his voice. This man… was surely insane, no sane living being would like to feel pain to feel alive, at least no one she had ever met until now. She also thought that the name sounded familiar but couldn't put her finger on why.

"Your turn, so tell me… what's your name?"

"You may call me Saber." She said. Until she decided that he was a man that could truly be trusted, she would not reveal her true identity.

"Are you really going back on your word, you didn't strike me as the type." He was trying to antagonize her and was succeeding. She flushed with anger and crossed her arms.

"I don't reveal my true name to people I don't know or trust, besides I am often identified as Saber, it's a nickname if you will." She shot back.

"Ah I see, well then… I guess I'll just have to take you with me when I leave."

"Sure-surely you jest! What do you mean you'll bring me with you? You barely know me!" she sputtered.

"It's exactly as I said, if I break you out of here you'll owe me and if you owe me you'll have to come with me and tell me your name."

"You-you despicable man!" He only laughed.

"Nah, I'm just reaaaally curious is all."

"Yes, I'm sure you are…" She murmured sarcastically. After that she was left to sit in thought and her mind soon wandered to her comrades and family at home. Was Archer doing okay? Was he improving further since the last time she saw him? He always worked so hard to enhance the skills he learned. Her mind then wandered over to her other comrades like Cu and his carefree attitude. Then there was that narcissistic fool Gilgamesh, admittedly she missed his confidence and even his twisted(albeit almost amusing) way of proposing marriage to her. She wondered how her father and brother were doing as well. Mostly she thought of Diarmuid and what he would have thought of her being in this situation.

Time passed on as she dwelled on her past and the decisions she had made. She sat against that wall for a good duration of that year while talking to Ban and getting to know him better. He told her about a girl he loved called Elaine and his plans to bring her back to life.

"She sounds like a lovely girl. I hope you will succeed in bringing her back." She didn't tell him that she thought his plans were unrealistic. Meanwhile she told him of her home and the adventures she had been on and the people she had met. She told him of her ideals and of her dream to serve her people. She omitted the one true tragedy she had witnesses, after all the time that had passed it was still too painful to speak about it.

"What about your friends? Tell me about them. You mention them all the time in your stories but I don't actually know anything about them" Saber sighed as she thought about what to say.

"Well there's Archer…"

"Another nickname?" he seemed to complain and she allowed a small smile to grow on her face.

"Yes, another nickname. Anyway, I've known Archer since he was a young man. He's changed so drastically since then. He has a noble dream to be a hero of justice-" Ban interrupted her by laughing boisterously. In the back of her mind she registered the shouting guards through her indignation.

"A hero of justice?! Please, what a joke!" He laughed.

"What?! Even if it's a useless endeavor I-" Saber was interrupted by the guards barging into the cell next to her's.

"How did you get free of your gag, you shouldn't even be able to speak!" Ban was still chuckling even after they left but he spoke no more.

It was only a few days later when she overheard the guards talking. "Have you heard what happened to Fort Solgales?"

"Yeah… It was reduced to a mountain of rubble in one night…"

"Supposedly, the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins did it!" Saber jerked, even in Camelot the Seven Deadly Sins were renowned. She remembered in a time long ago she had met the mage Merlin and briefly met the Captain, she also remembered the stories of how the Sins conspired to take the kingdom and assassinated the Grandmaster Zaratras.

"He-He's alive!? Then isn't this bad? One of them is locked up in here, right?" Saber suppressed the gasp that threatened to spill past her lips. She had never even recognized that the very man that she had spoken with for almost a year was a member of the Seven Deadly Sins. 'I recognize the name now, he's the Fox's Sin of Greed, Undead Ban.' He was responsible for the destruction of the Fairy King's Forest. It was the source of a lot of outrage throughout Camelot especially between mages and the King.

"Is it going to be alright?" One guard asked worriedly.

"Don't be so scared. This dungeon is a fort built in preparation for battles to come. It won't be conquered or destroyed so easily, even by the Seven Deadly Sins. Besides, the four Holy Knight chosen from the best of the kingdom, the Weird Fangs are here! There's no way anyone would take such a huge risk just to save this man." The first of the two explained confidently.

"Heh you're right."

"Ever since he was captured by the weird Fangs five years ago, he's…" Even though, ashamedly, she had also been captured by the Weird Fangs, she knew they weren't very high ranked. Ban would have had no trouble dealing with them, but then again he did say that the entire reason he was still in the dungeons was because he wanted to 'feel alive'.

"Never felt the sunlight, never been allowed to move, never able to talk. He's never eaten any food worth eating, he's just going to be tortured until the day he dies. It's a miracle he's still even alive."

"To think that this man was once the legendary Fox's Sin… How pitiful." After that statement a man's voice began to filter through the stone walls of the prison. It was Ban humming merrily and Saber could imagine a smile on his face. "Huh…? Humming…? Where is that coming from…?" She could hear the guards clanking around in their armor as they turned towards the cell they were guarding. She had to fight to hide a small smile as Ban continued.

"Huuuuumnnnnnnnnnn…" It continued on for an hour before Ban finally stopped. The guards kept rotating in their shifts until finally she heard the news. She was sitting in thought, her knees tucked to her chest and her arms wrapped tightly around them. The Captain of the Seven Deadly Sins had arrived in Dalmary Town along with a giant girl thought to be Diane, the Goat's Sin of Envy. It also had been reported that Diane was now engaged in combat with one of the Weird Fangs.

"It looks like it finally began…"

"Wanna bet who wins?"

"The story of the Seven Deadly Sins' invincibility is a thing of the past. There's no way they can stand up to the protectors of the kingdom, the Holy Knights."

"Heeeeey… That…! Is pretty iiiiiiiinteresting!"

BANG

The big metal cell door next to hers crashed down.

"Eek!"

"No… No way!?" The guards squealed. Saber stared at the door from her spot, trying to process what she had just heard.

"Aaaaaaah, it's nice to take walks every once in a while." She could hear Bans voice say.

"Why… Why you… How did you escape?!"

"How…? Can't you tell by looking? I kicked the door down.

"But… But why do this now? The Fox's Sin of Greed… Ban!"

"Why? Because you guys were talking about something really interesting.?

"Wh… What?"

"He was alive…? Our Cap'n?" There was a wet shlick and then a clatter as something metal met the stone floor..

"Not… Not good! Notify the Weird Fangs immediately!" The guards continue to panic as more cracks resounded.

"What's the commotion?"

"OH!" All the guards on the scene squealed. Saber got to her feet and yanked on her chains as if they would loosen to allow her near the peephole in the door. She scowled as she tugged uselessly at the chains. In normal circumstances she would be able to snap the chains easily but it was like there was a block placed on her. While she had above average strength it wasn't like the conditions she had to live in allowed her to keep her strength. She couldn't call on any of her mana either that again could probably be attributed to the poor conditions.

"Lord Jericho!" The guards voices were all filled with renewed hope. "It's an emergency! Ban broke out!"

"What?" A rather feminine voice rang out in a haughtily. "The Deadly Sin Ban… I don't know how you got out of your cell, but hurry up and get back in." Jericho ordered the Sin as if he would listen.

"Hey, brat, shouldn't you watch you watch your attitude when you're talking to a hero?" 'Of all the things he could have called himself… While, yes he was a Holy Knight for sometime, his past is riddled with stories of criminality.' Saber thought an eyebrow raised.

"You dare address an apprentice Holy Knight as 'Brat" huh? For a half-dead criminal, you've sure got a lively mouth." Jericho spoke almost arrogantly. Saber heard the slight click as she slid her sword free of its sheathe. "Send this message to Lord Golgius. A prisoner broke out of his cell and resisted, so Jericho had no choice but to kill him."

"Yes, sir!" There was a clatter of footsteps as a guard left to inform Lord Golgius. Succeeding those footsteps there was a series of footsteps afterwards followed by the whistling of a sword swinging through the air.

"Gwaaaaaaaah!" Saber yanked even more desperately at the chains holding her down. 'Damnit, Ban!' In a way, she owed him her sanity. If she had been forced to be entirely alone she might've gone mad. She held her breath in anticipation.

"Awwww man!" Bans voice suddenly sang. Saber allowed herself to sigh in relief. "Did I cut it too short?" He asked Jericho. Saber imagined him smirking as he did so. "Well, it feels refreshing, so I guess it's alright… You have a lot of talent… As a hairdresser." He teased.

"Im… Impossible! You dodged my blade despite having wounds all over your body?!" Jericho raged disbelievingly.

"Wounds? What wounds?" 'So the stories behind his name are true, he must truly be immortal!' Saber thought in amazement.

"No way! You just had steel stakes sticking through your limbs!" Jericho pointed out.

"Remember this well, brat… This…" There was a pause, "What you call a wound, got it? The wound that he gave me… Is a special case though." She heard the impact of a body against the wall. "Now take your clothes off, I need them."

"W… What?! No way!" The protest was quickly cut off followed by the rustle of clothing. There was a knock against her cell.

"You might want to get out of the way, I'm going to knock this door down." Ban's voice ordered her along with a passing glimpse of scarlet-red eyes. Saber scrambled to gather the chains around her and press herself to one of the walls. A few moments pass before the door abruptly flies forward out of the wall, a clear footprint impressed into the center of the door.

A man that very clearly surpassed her in height padded through the opening. Saber watched him wearily as her eyes painfully adjusted to the influx of light. She had to lift back her head to look at him more clearly. He had short pale blue hair and those scarlet-red eyes. A large scar crawled from his face and over his neck. He was well muscled and wore red pants that sat low on his waist. All in all, he was handsome in a roguish way. She stayed where she was as he looked her up and down, spying the slight softening of his eyes as he took in her appearance. "Here, I thought they looked cool but they're too small for me so you might as well wear them." He told holding out a poofy dark purple overcoat and black pants. As Saber reached out and took them, she directed a glare at Ban who merely smirked at her. 'You've undressed in front of men before, this is no different.' She encouraged herself as stepped out of her raggy clothing and pulling the clothing items he gave her. Once they were on she stretched, 'A little big but not enough to impede movement.' She turned back towards Ban only to get a sword shoved into her face.

"Don't you need a weapon? In my condition I might not be much use to you." She told him and he shrugged.

"Fighting with a sword isn't my style, I don't need it to kill a person." Ignoring the slight ominous tone in his voice she took the sword and considered it.

'Fairly lightweight, for one-handed use. I'll have to make adjustments, I'm used to a two-handed style of fighting.' She inspected the blade and left the sheathe on the floor. She felt bad that she was using another knight's weapon so she decided that once she was out of Baste she would leave the sword behind.

"Are you ready yet?" She raised her head to Ban who had crossed his arms behind his head, looking at her languidly.

"Yes I am, thank you. I owe you a great debt." He turned around and began to walk away.

"Don't worry about it, at least not yet anyway." Saber scowled at his back but followed after him.

AN: I hoped you like the first chapter! I've already written ahead but I'm taking time to proofread and edit each chapter. Unfortunately my parents live separately and I spend the most time at my moms. The laptop I have at my moms is school issued and has blocked Fanfiction. The laptop I'm using right now is my personal laptop but it's at my Dads and can only stay at my dads so I won't be updating very often.

Anyway I welcome all reviews with the exception of flames and please don't hesitate to give me advice to make this story even better!