Okay guys, I just have had a crazy idea of mine of a crossover fanfic story between Fate/stay night and Nanatsu no Taizai. And after a long time thinking about it and I finally decided to make one after having wild imaginations of Saber clashing with Meliodas or any of the Deadly Sins including the Holy Knights on my head! Saber meets the Seven Deadly Sins eh? Awesome, huh?
Summary: After the end of the Fifth Holy Grail War and the destruction of the Grail, Saber founds herself transported back to the medieval era of Britannia not only to find out that her wish may have come true as she was no longer the king but also the entire land being subjugated and oppressed by the Holy Knights. Even without Excalibur, Saber will not back down and watch her homeland suffer even it means it costs her second chance of life and atone for her sins! Eventually the King of Knights end up teaming up with a ragtag group of people (and pigs?) who has the power to oppose the Holy Knights calling themselves the Seven Deadly Sins... and became an employee of the Boar Hat!?
Disclaimer: I do not own Nanatsu no Taizai and Fate series. That includes all the characters involved in the fanfic story. They belong to Nakaba Suzuki and TYPE-MOON.
Enjoy and review! :)
Chapter 1
In the vast beautiful grassland filled with trees, harmless little critters and a small river nearby, there was a young woman sleeping underneath a large tree, there was a young woman sleeping underneath a large tree. The young woman appears in her late teens with a slender physique and soft, white skin, with long blond hair slightly loose from her hair braid, and a pretty face that displays signs of naivety and elegance. She also wears shining armor with an old styled dress, made from old-fashioned blue cloth, underneath that made her look like a lady knight.
The blond woman soon woke up from her seemingly deep slumber, revealing her emerald eyes and slowly helped herself in a sitting position as she rubbed her forehead to ease the slight headaches she experienced after waking up. After a few moments of silence while panting, the young woman began to remember who she was: her name is Altria Pendragon, daughter of King Uther Pendragon and Lady Igraine. Remembering more, in life she was the king of Britain through Camelot, her title as the 'King of Knights', and the leader of the Knights of the Round Table; and in death, she was known as Saber-class Servant of Kiritsugu Emiya in the Fourth Holy Grail War and of Shirou Emiya, whom she has grown feeling for, in the Fifth Holy Grail War. Not only that she remembers her life's failures as a king, causing tragedies to happen leading to her downfall and the collapse of her country. That she considered them as...her sins. Altria's only wish if she won the Holy Grail is to redo her life so that she would never become king, someone better than her. But since she destroyed the Holy Grail twice: unwillingly by Kiritsugu's forced Command and later with Shirou together, the man she has grown feelings for and opened up her emotions towards him and his friends, Altria wonders if she'll never get her wish and decides to accept her fate.
But something came into her head. Altria wasn't dead not yet anyway or even in her dying moments. She felt alive. Weakened but alive. "Huh? What's going on? I'm not...dying?", the King of Knights wondered as she couldn't believe the fact that she is alive and breathing like she was perfectly okay. Why am I still alive? I'm supposed to be dying and had a peaceful death. Unless...was I given a second chance to live? The Holy Grail really is something..., she thought.
Hearing a stick break, Altria was about to draw her weapon to defend herself with... Excalibur? "What? Where is it? Where's my Excalibur?!", Altria frantically panicked to know her Noble Phantasm gone missing from her possession but then the realization struck her. ...Oh right, I ordered Sir Bedievere to throw it back to the Lady of the Lake. This leaves the young woman in a deadpanned and embarrassed expression that she has no weapon to defend herself and no Excalbur at her side. A lady knight with no sword to hold? How undignified for the legendary King of Knights! I bet Gilgamesh and Rider (Alexander the Great) is laughing at me now somewhere.., as she mentally sighed, picturing the King of Heroes and the King of Conquerors making a hilarious laughter at her face for her recent misfortune. If losing her magic sword wasn't enough, a squirrel reveals itself as the culprit behind the snapping of a stick, making Altria feel degraded even a little further, being afraid of little animals now.
Luckily, no one saw it or it would have been very humiliating.
Feeling a grumbling on her stomach, Altria blushes slightly in embarrassment, deciding to have nourishment to sustain herself but there is one problem: she had no money with her at all. All she had is her suit of armor dress.
"I'm alive. That's great. Excalibur gone and I...had no money...", the young lady knight muttered under her breath in her current situation. "I need to find a town nearby and regain my strength. Hopefully no one follows me..."
Slowly getting up, Saber began to walk with a thick elm branch she found on the ground made into a makeshift staff due to her weakened state on a road she found hoping to encounter civilization along the way after leaving the forest. Unknowingly from a far distance, an enigmatic armored figure is heading to the same direction as well albeit in a slow pace due to the heavy rusted armor it wore.
At Kaynes Village
Arriving at a very small rural town named Kaynes, Altria Pendragon passed by the townsfolk living there although noticed either some of them looking at her suspiciously, gulping nervously of her presence even the glimpse of the elm branch she carried around, whispering and muttering towards her, or simply going about their business as if she didn't even exist.
What's with the atmosphere in this town?, she thought while continuing her way around the village, in search for a place to eat while selling pieces of her armor dress to have a small pouch of gold and silver coins.
Asking few of the villagers where she can get to eat, they told her that there was a bar situated on top of the hill although showed signs of uneasiness towards her. Politely thanking them, the King of Knights proceeds to head the bar's location, bewildering the people she asked.
"What the?...a Holy Knight?", a young man with light brown hair wearing chain mail armor and wielded a shortsword wondered as he noticed Altria walking by past him and his fellow comrades who were patrolling around Kaynes Village.
"Uh, Mr. Alioni. What did you say?", the small midget soldier asked.
"I could have sworn that beautiful maiden was a Holy Knight.", Alioni replied, explaining to his comrades.
"You idiot! Of course she's a Holy Knight! I mean almost every Holy Knight wear all kinds of armor and helms too. Must be their fashion sense especially some to women.", the taller man playfully retorted.
Alionio's friends then laughed and the former joined in too, realizing he might have gone retarded before they resumed their patrolling duties.
On top of the hill near Kaynes Village
After trekking up to the hill, Altria entered the tavern with a sign 'Boar Hat' and a pig as its symbol, full of customers drinking ale and talking to each other, an adolescent voice greeted her. "Welcome to my establishment, the 'Boar Hat'! We serve the best of ale in Britannia!"
The one who greeted Altria is a short boy with messy blond hair and a pair of emerald green eyes. wearing an ordinary, clean white button-front shirt and a black sleeveless vest on top with a loosely worn tie and black boots. He brandishes a dragon-hilted sword with scabbard held on by a green leather belt with gold-colored buckles.
Britannia? That's an old name for Britain., she thought while politely asking, "You got room for one more?"
"Sure! Take that vacant table right over there, miss. I'll be right back! There ya go! Five giant steins of beer!", the kid replied as he served more ale drinks to the other customers excitingly thirsting for ale. The King of Knights bowed in thanks and took her place on a vacant table, patiently waiting for the meal as she saw various men enjoying their drinks and listened to the drunken men's trivial talks. She also had to prepare herself against them in case if they have any ideas on her, readying her elm branch she brought along while on the road.
"Is there more room for me and my pals?", the man at the door asked.
"Right here is fine!", the boy told the men where they should sit. "Sorry but do you mind if they sit here?", while grabbing more empty mugs to refill.
Some of the men obviously drunk noticed the latter's hard work and one of them complimented, "He really works hard for a waiter for being so small. Hic!"
However, the blond boy was offended by the man's words and retorted, "I'm the owner of this place, not a waiter. It's my bar after all."
"That kid's the owner?...", the drunken man said in a baffled tone.
After serving up a few more drinks to the other customers, the yellow-haired kid approached Altria and asked her, "So what do you order for today?"
Looking down on the menu, Altria was enthralled by the lists of meals the Boar Hat has to offer and made her choice. Having received the order, the boy smiled and heads off to the bar's kitchen to cook up the meal and finished it on time. The food was served with meat and vegetables with tasty looking sauce complete with spoon and fork. That includes the ale.
Upon looking at the meal she ordered, Altria drooled her mouth, unaware of the customer's "oohs" and snickering behind her back as she took a bite into her mouth and into the stomach. As her taste buds made contact, the lady knight's face turned purple all of a sudden as her body twitches.
What the...it's disgusting!, as she vomited the contents of her meal on the floor, while clutching on her stomach and covering her mouth unable to comprehend the meal that looked so delicious turned out to be disgusting!
"I knew it. I guess my bar's known more for its alcohol than its food after all.", the blond boy commented.
"Then why didn't you say something about that earlier!?", the lady knight angrily retorted of his carefree nature. But the blond boy shrugged off her angry comments and called for the cleaner...revealing to be a pig? Or to be exact, a talking pig with a feminine voice but it's clearly a male no doubt as it made comments while eating Altria's vomit, clearly enjoying it, and cleaned the floor at the same time.
The King of Knights was baffled to see the pig talking but she had seen stranger things back in the Grail Wars and suddenly vomited again when the talking pig ate her vomit from the disgusting food she ordered. The men laughed at Altria's misfortune in her expense but the laughter died down when a brown-haired man suddenly burst in the door, panting in exhaustion and exclaimed, "I-it's real!"
"I'm not joking! I saw him with my own eyes. I'm absolutely sure of it. It's the Wandering Rust Knight.", the man explained as he sat on the table next to his friends while holding an ale mug.
"It's a rumor that's been floating around recently.", the drunken man said, doubting the Rust Knight's existence.
Another drunken man supported his friend's notion as he said, "There's no way something like that exists. It's just something we make up to scare children. 'Don't tell so many lies. If you do, the blood-rusted knight of the Seven Deadly Sins will come get you.', right?" before sharing laughs together.
"The Seven Deadly Sins?", the blond boy asked the men while tending to the drinks at the bar stand.
"Yeah, the young owner here doesn't know the story?"
"Yeah, you even have a poster of them. You know, that one over there."
Altria, feeling quite upset lately after all that happened with the boy's bad cooking and reluctantly decided to have a drink of ale instead having recovered from the vomiting, overheard the conversation and looked at the board containing wanted posters of seven people:
Meliodas - an older man in his 30s
Ban - a young man with a scar on his neck
King - a fat man with a sneer on his face
Diane - an older mature woman with pig-tails
Gowther - an armored figure wearing a terrifying helm appearing quite intimidating
Merlin - a beautiful young woman with strange smile on her face
Escanor - an elderly but presumably strong-built man
I remember those names before..I've seem to forget while I was king at that time. Some of them were lords who pledged fealty to me or some of the famous knights from the Round Table. Wait?...Merlin?! Why is that old pervert a woman? Clearly wanting to experience of being a woman personally...as if turning me into a pseudo-male wasn't enough...or that woman claimed to be Merlin..., the lady knight mentally said as she knew their names in her old life as the king of Britain.
"It was ten years ago, right? When many of the Holy Knights that gathered from all over the the kingdom lost their lives. It was a huge ordeal. Those are murderers there. They're known as the 'Seven Deadly Sins'. The Great Holy Knight was murdered so brutally that you could barely recognize him anymore. Their captain, Meliodas, was the worst of the bunch. There's a rumor that he destroyed an entire country single-handedly...", the drunken man explained.
The King of Knights somewhat felt disgusted having heard of what the man just said. She can't believe that these seven people calling themselves the Seven Deadly Sins would go as far tarnishing chivalry of knighthood, killing a Great Holy Knight, might be a high-ranking knight, in a dishonorable face-to-face single combat that made her more sick than the blond boy's bad cooking. The Holy Knights, she never heard or known about them so far while she was king. Probably a name for the knights of whatever kingdom she is in Britain. She might have no qualms of their deaths as war takes lives after all but murder is horrid and utterly brutal. And also the rumor of its captain named Meliodas, the older man in the wanted poster, destroyed an entire country on his own and if she had to guess that man might be on Gilgamesh's level but finds it a little absurd. No man can take down an entire country by himself unless he's a Heroic Spirit or has an army of his own like Alexander the Great, even her during her time as a king. Even Gilgamesh too no doubt. Every ruler needs an army.
Then the men continued the debate while the blond boy filled up a mug and gave it to the elderly man. "Here you go.", he said. And for the talking pig stood silent and listened too the same way Altria did.
"...They still haven't been caught yet, have they?"
"Yeah not a single one of them."
"Some rumor is going around that they've died already though.."
"There's no way they're dead. The Holy Knights wouldn't have just simply let them go."
"Yeah that's true. Even though the king passed away due to an illness, the Holy Knights did a good job defending the kingdom."
"But these wanted posters are renewed every year. Maybe there's a chance, they're still alive."
If any of the Seven Deadly Sins are alive and by chance encounter them, Altria silently swears that she will make them regret they should never would have been knights in the first place and will not hold back no matter how strong they are for she is the King of Knights whether she had a sword, spear and even an elm branch if she had to!
"Even if they are, it's a bit of a stretch to say there's a knight in rusty armor wandering around, don't you think?"
Everyone laughed in response as one of them said, "Yeah, you're right! Hahaha-"
Then all of a sudden, everyone in the Boar Hat heard creaking metallic noise coming from behind the door as, the men and the talking pig looked nervously except Altria and the blond boy who remained calm as the talking pig commented, "Pugo! Pugo! What's with this rusty smell?"
As the door slowly opened, it revealed to be a large person in armor complete with a helm with horns and a tattered cape as it entered the Boar Hat, muttering, "The...Seven...Deadly...Sins..."
The Rust Knight reminds me of Lancelot when he was Berserker..., Altria wondered as she remembered her old friend, Lancelot of the Lake, famously known as the Knight of the Lake who fought against her in the Fourth Holy Grail War under Kariya Matou with all the rage he had towards her for all the sufferings he felt in life before being killed by her hand and the Rust Knight reminded the the King of Knights of the similarities minus the rage, earning the moniker 'The Black Knight'. And Altria was guilty for his suffering, even lamented of his death when she had to kill him in their seemingly last encounter. The Rust Knight sounds more ghastly terrifying with the looks and the slurred voice behind the helm.
"HE'S HERE! HE REALLY CAME! THE RUST KNIGHT!", everyone in the Boar Hat exclaimed, quickly lost their wits and drunkenness as they dropped their mugs in fear and panic and ran away for their lives as fast as their legs can carry, leaving the blond boy, the talking pig and Altria the only ones left.
The talking pig trembled in fear but the blond kid, with no fear, confronted the approaching Rusted Knight and asked, "Who are you?" Altria readies herself in case if the Rust Knight attacks and probably borrow the boy's sword if she had to if the elm branch she carried with her is not enough to challenge the enigmatic knight head-on. But it reminded her how her old friend Lancelot of how even after falling into a trap and being forced to face the enemy's blades with only his bare hands, he had proved victorious with his skilled fighting prowess using only an elm branch. Such skill would soon become the "Knight of Honor" when he became Berserker in the Fourth Holy Grail War that made him a very difficult foe to deal with, Altria admitted. Even Gilgamesh couldn't handle him not while his weapons from the "Gate of Babylon" provided the Black Knight endless supply of whatever weapons he got his hold into in battle.
Then the Rust Knight stood silently for a few seconds and collapsed under the heavy weight of its armor with the helm fell off to reveal...an unconscious young woman with silver hair with bangs covering her right eye and wears an earring. This surprises Altria and the boy as the talking pig wondered in doubt, "Is this really one of the Seven Deadly Sins?"
"Yo, help me up..uh what's your name?", the boy asked Altria to help him carry the Rust Kni-er the woman in armor upstairs while asking her name.
"Altria...", she replied but held back her last name wondering what would have happened if anyone knew who she was and the consequences might not be pleasant if word gets out of the king of Camelot's survival after the battle of Camlann. Nevertheless, she dropped the elm branch and helped carry the unconscious armored woman upstairs and removed the rusted armor, placing them on the floor while the boy placed her on the bed.
On the bed, the silver-haired young woman has a slender figure and normal-sized cleavage, wearing sleeveless black clothing and boots.
"It's a woman!", the talking pig said. You don't say..., Altria mentally retorted with her eye twitching. It's quite obvious that the Rust Knight is a woman!
The boy appeared to be skeptical despite the look and began to 'check' on her in every detail, copious detail as he spoke, "This sleeping face...This body line. This smell." Then the most unbelievable happened! "...and this elasticity...", he groped on her right breast shamelessly!
"It's definitely a woman!", he concluded while continuously groped the silver-haired girl.
Seeing how the way the blond kid touching that woman he took in just to 'confirm' if the Rust Knight is actually a female or not greatly upsets the talking pig retorting, "You can tell just by looking!" and Altria face-palms in response as she mentally berated, This kid has no sense of shame!..., feeling the urge to teach him some manners and respect towards women after a good beat-up on his face!
The silver haired girl woke up from unconsciousness probably from all the groping the boy did who is still doing as she blushed, "U-um?"
With the satisfied look on his eyes, the blond boy stopped groping her and said, "Nothing out of the ordinary here." Altria and the talking pig now are very upset of his shamelessness, both wanting to beat him senseless.
"Th-thank you very much..", the woman naively gave her thanks, completely oblivious of the blond boy's perversions towards her body. "Where am I? Um?...Why am I?", she asked.
"You came into the bar in a daze and suddenly fainted. Me and Altria had to carry you up here and take off your heavy armor.", the yellow-haired kid explained.
"A bar?", she said.
"It's called the Boar Hat. It's my bar.", he straightly told her.
The supposed Rust Knight continued asking questions and the blond kid revealed that his dragon-hilted sword he carries around is revealed to be a broken blade and claims it as a deterrent to those who didn't pay for the (disgusting) food he made. The King of Knights would not let that happen not with her as his customer. She can demand a refund if she liked.
"And you are?.. Altria right?", the girl asked the lady knight.
"Yes, that's my name.", the latter replied, bowing politely to her.
"U-umm...did you work here?", the girl nervously asked again.
"No, I'm just a customer and a travelling knight.", Altria replied but noticed her slight uneasiness. Was it her armor? Or something else that scares her.
The talking pig commented, mentioning of the unlucky customers having to pay for the food the kid cooked. The girl squealed with joy as she lovingly rubbed on the pig as if he was her pet, claimed that she once asked her father a talking pig but sadly in the end didn't have one.
"The name's Hawk.", the talking pig introduced himself. Hawk? How ironic, Altria thought of the talking animal's name in contrast to what he really is.
The blond kid offered the silver haired woman a bite to eat, leaving Hawk sweat nervously all of a sudden.
"Of Pork?", she wondered.
"My name is Hawk! Not Pork!", the talking pig retorted. Pork might not be bad for him but it sounds racist..., the blond woman mentally commented.
The King of Knights later went downstairs and stood by the table noticing the woman looking at the wanted posters of the Seven Deadly Sins while passing by before the yellow-haired kid called out to her that he just finished cooking, listening on the conversation between the young blond boy, the silver-haired girl and the talking pig but still kept a watchful eye on the former if he did his perverted antics again.
The girl thanked the boy and Hawk for taking them in and Altria as well including the food. Hawk retorted that she should try it first before asking for gratitude. When the alleged Rust Knight took a bite on the meal the blond boy cooked, she had the same reaction as Altria did when she had her first taste on the food but didn't even vomit.
"Well? It's bad, right?", the kid asked.
"Y-yes..." was all she can say.
"I knew it.", the three said together, knowing the obvious answer. But the girl cried in tears with a small smile on her face. "...but it's very...good."
That girl must have an iron stomach..., Altria praised of the girl's strong stomach despite how disgusting the food she ate.
"By the way, what were you doing in that suit of armor?", the blond haired boy asked questions this time.
The girl answered, "I'm searching for the Seven Deadly Sins." Hawk questions her while The King of Knights was somewhat taken aback of what the supposed Rust Knight just said. Searching for the Seven Deadly Sins? Why would she do that? From the looks of her, she has no strength or skill to face them on or why was she searching for them? An accomplice, perhaps..., she thought.
Then a loud knock on the door of the Boar Hat occurred when the young man named Alioni, accompanied by his men, the ones Altria just passed by earlier in Kaynes Village, spoke in a demanding voice, "Open up! We've got a tip from one of the villagers. We are the knights stationed at the base of this mountain. The Beard of the Mountain Cat! We serve the Holy Knight himself! We're here to capture the Rust Knight as a lead to the Seven Deadly Sins. Come out peacefully!"
There's no way this girl is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. She clearly has no skills with the sword, Altria rationalized.
"We've got some pretty noisy guys Out there.", the blond boy commented.
"Holy Knights..", the girl spoke in a scared voice, leading Altria to worry about her. Was she hiding something? What did the Holy Knights want with her?
Outside of the Boar Hat, Alioni and his men began to discuss among themselves while waiting for the occupants of the building to come out and surrender the Rust Knights, debating of the bar's alleged location as they never saw it before three days ago, the Seven Deadly Sins' existence, believing that one of them is an old man by now and the alleged massacre of Holy Knights ten years ago, something Alioni's comrades seriously doubted as they knew of the Holy Knights' power and would not be killed that easily, but Alioni attempts to defend his statement as he invoked his personal experience while at the kingdom's capital 10 years earlier, leading his big-nosed friend to calm him down and took over the position to make demands.
"Hey! Get your ass out here!"
"Hey, you called?", the blond kid finally opened the door, shocking Alioni and his friends of his appearance, expecting an old man living inside the building.
"Who the hell are you?", Alioni demanded.
"I'm the owner of this bar.", the latter replied.
"Where's the Rust Knight?...", the young man demanded again but his words slowly fail when Altria walking out of the door.
"Oh, pardon me sirs. I'm about to leave the bar after a good meal and drink. By the way, do you mind if you gentlemen can help me find a blacksmith at Kaynes for the best armor and weapons?", the lady knight politely said to Alioni and his friends, charming them with her looks. The branch she carried around backed up her statement, leading Alioni can impression that she needs a sword to replace an...elm branch?
Slightly enthralled by her beauty, Alioni said with a small blush, "Y-yeah, sure..m'lady." His friends were charmed in her beauty as well and were more than glad to help Altria out leading the way and talked to her in ways that would impress a women, seemingly forgetting about the Rust Knight with the blond boy and Hawk waving goodbye.
However, the silver haired girl walked out of the back door of the Boar Hat and rushed quickly into the forest. Her presence was noticed by one of Alioni's friends, a small teenage boy with brown hair.
"Mr. Alioni, a woman is escaping from the back!"
"What?! Tell Lord Twigo immediately! She's most likely the Rust Knight! Get going! After her!", Alioni ordered his men to go after her and send a message to their superior to which they complied immediately, as they ran into the forest.
Turning to the lady knight, "U-uh excuse me, m'lady. It'll have to wait. Sorry.", Alioni politely apologized to Altria before catching up to his men chasing the "Rust Knight", leaving behind the lady knight, Hawk and the blond kid.
You idiot! I'm supposed to lead these guys away away from you but you blew it!, Altria mentally blamed herself and the silver haired girl for ruining the plan she made with the blond kid who apparently agreed to it earlier inside before executing it and decides to salvage the situation by saving the girl from the clutches of Alioni and his men.
In the forest near Kaynes Village
Later, as the Knights of the Beard of the Mountain Cat chased the alleged Rust Knight, who has great reflexes and agility while on the run, into the forest with Alioni said out loud, "If she really is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, she must possess some incredible Power! If that's true, I can finally became a Holy Knight!" in hopes getting a promotion if he captures her.
One of his friends was suddenly knocked down, Alioni demanded, "H-huh? What's wrong?"
The big-nosed man's eyes bulged in surprise and exclaimed, "The pig and that woman are chasing us!"
"WHAT?!", Alioni and his men exclaimed, didn't expect a pig and the woman whose beauty they were enthralled to were chasing them down. Men were supposed to be chasing women not the other way around! And pigs, that's quite a bit too racist...
"ORARARARA!", Hawk yelled his battle cry as he knocked down some of them with ease while Altria used her normal speed to take the other remaining men out with the elm branch as if it was a sword, leaving Alioni left as he desperately ran for his life.
"He's all yours Hawk!", the blond woman called out to her talking animal friend as Hawk heads to hit his last target.
"No, don't come near me! Stay away!", Alioni cried out as he reached a dead end at the end of the cliff. He stopped and noticed the alleged member of the Seven Deadly Sins had disappeared, "She's gone?!" but it gave Hawk the opening to push him off the cliff. "Take this!"
"AAAHHHHHHHH!", the young man yelled as he fell deep into the depths of the cliff.
"I've got nothing against you guys, but I'm gonna get double the dinner for tonight for this! Pugo!", the talking pig apologized to Alioni.
"Good job Hawk.", Altria complimented. "Where's she?", she wondered.
Hearing voices, Altria saw the girl and the blond boy were on top of the tree, clearly the latter saved her from Alioni and his men but were upset that he's at it again as he groped her left breast with no sense of shame at all.
"You know, you can totally hit him if you want.", Altria and Hawk said together, with tick marks on their head.
Meanwhile in the forest, a very large figure in armor walked, having heard the message from Alioni's men who regained consciousness earlier, heading towards the group of three people and a pig's direction...
After everything has been calmed and settled down, the time for answers has come when the yellow haired kid asked, "Why are ya searching for the Seven Deadly Sins?"
"To stop...the Holy Knights.", the girl revealed.
What? The King of Knights was shocked of the girl's true intentions. Why did she want to stop the Holy Knights? For what reason? Why search for the Seven Deadly Sins? Too many questions were in her head! Man, what the hell is going on here in this country?!
"Why do you want to stop the Holy Knights?", Hawk asked. "The Holy Knights are the ones protecting the kingdom of Liones. They're heroes, aren't they? A group of terrifying individuals, with each able to match an entire country's army in strength and power.", the talking pig continued.
Liones? So that's the name of the kingdom I'm in. And the Holy Knights were that powerful? They might be on the level of Saber-class Heroic Spirits...
The girl then continued, asking Hawk what would happen if the Holy Knights were to start a war on the very country they swore to defend and revealed that a few months ago, the Holy Knights staged the coup d'etat, overthrowing the king and confined every member of the royal family and told the king dying of an illness was a lie. She revealed more that the Holy Knights started subjugating all the citizens from towns and villages throughout the kingdom, enslaved or forcefully recruited into the military effort: the men forcibly trained as soldiers, the women and children forced to amass food for storage, and the elderly forced to construct castle walls. Death has now become the penalty for insubordination under the rule of the Holy Knights, with them justifying their enslaving of the citizens with the fact that the war is being fought for their protection to begin with, according to her.
"I'm sure the effects of their actions will reach the area soon as well."
"Seriously?", Hawk said in surprise of the revelations the girl told them about behind the Holy Knights.
"That sounds pretty bad.", the blond kid calmly said.
"How are you always so calm?", Hawk retorted.
For Altria Pendragon, however, now she knows what really going on in her country. Oppressed and enslaved by the Holy Knights! Her people are dying and these powerful knights pushing everyone around like kings- or tyrants to be exact! They're supposed to serve and defend the realm not control it with an iron fist! All for preparations for war, against who? And at what cost? Was this the result of her wish for the Holy Grail? But what about the Seven Deadly Sins? What is their role in this game of thrones?
"So how do the Seven Deadly Sins tie in with all of this?", Altria decided to speak up and asked.
The only hope we have of stopping the Holy Knights is with the help of the Seven Deadly Sins!", the silver haired girl boldly declared.
"Come on, you're searching for them despite knowing full well what they're like?", the blond kid skeptically said.
"I agree with him, are there any others out there who can stop the Holy Knights?", the King of Knights supporting the kid's opinion.
Shaking her head, the girl said, "There were other kingdoms in Britannia that had Holy Knights of their own. They condemned the Liones Holy Knights' actions but seemingly none of them had the military power to challenge the kingdom as it was the dominant power in the continent since the tragic downfall of Danafor who was in par with the same country at that time."
"Not even a rebellion against them?", Altria asked one more time if there was at least a form of revolt against the Holy Knights, although it reminded her of her 'son' Mordred who led the rebellion against her while she was on a campaign and both armies fought to the death at the Battle of Camlann where the King of Knights and the Knight of Treachery lost their lives together a brutal way of "father-and-son going out together".
"The Holy Knights stamped out all possible resistance from the people and there were no deserters from their ranks too, I believe...", she answered lamentably, crushing the King of Knights' hopes of the people fighting for their freedom.
Altria held her silence, allowing the silver haired girl to continue, "Apparently, the Seven Deadly Sins were the strongest and cruelest chivalric order of knights in the kingdom, formed by seven brutal criminals who carved symbols of seven beasts into their bodies. Ten years ago, they were accused of plotting to overthrow the kingdom of Liones after all the Holy Knight launched a general offensive against them."
Glimpses of them appear within the girl's mind as if she had met them before. All of them wearing different kinds of colored armor and unique-looking helms. Even their weapons looked unique and dangerous looking befitting their reputation.
Why would the kingdom of Liones made these seven brutal criminals with no sense of honor or humanity knights? Were the Seven Deadly Sins some sort of the dark side of knighthood or something I do not know...How did she know of them? Might be royal loyalist of the kingdom seeking for help...
"And then, there was a rumor that they were all killed.", the blond boy spoke.
"There's no way those people would be killed off that easily!", the silver haired girl retorted.
"But they're criminals...".
The girl tearfully retorted again, "The only one who made the people suffer are the Holy Knights! In the past, when I just five or six, my father used to tell me about them. Although they were criminals, the Seven Deadly Sins were the only hope we've got to defeat the Holy Knights!"
You placed far too much hope on those people whom everyone thought they are dead? But she does have a spirit of risking her life for our country. I-, Altria commented mentally on Elizabeth's words but was interrupted by a loud thud on the ground.
Then all of the sudden, a huge portion of the cliff was cleaved in two and the group were falling, seemingly to their deaths.
"Whoops. I forgot to confirm whether there were people in the report or not. Confirmed! Three unknown people dead!", a very large man with a peculiar curly mustache and thick plucked eyebrow wearing heavy red armor spoke, revealing himself to be the culprit behind the destruction of the cliff as he sheathed his large greatsword.
Turning to his men, the knight asked, "Is that all right?"
"B-but Mr. Alioni was beneath the cliff!"
"Then we'll just report that four people died."
"B... but! Lord Twigo, that's terrible!"
"Well, is it seven dead?", the large man named Twigo asked them if the death toll was seven, implying he would kill them for saying so.
"Eek! Please, anything but that!..." as the Knights of the Mountain Beard Cat panicked in fear of their superior as Twigo was about to do the horrible deed. But this was interrupted when the blond hair boy and Altria jumped back from the cliff, carrying everyone including Alioni who lost consciousness.
Alioni's friends were pleased to see him alive and well but Twigo was very upset seeing them alive as he yelled at them while reaching for his weapon, "What're you lot doing alive?! Don't just go and change my confirmed death toll like that!"
"Don't confirm it so easily then!", Hawk retorted.
"Hey, are you awake?", the blond kid asked the silver haired girl he carried.
"Oh!..Yes!", she replied.
"Alright. When I give the signal, run to the forest. Got it?"
The woman replied as she got off the boy's arms and stood up.
"So which one of you is the supposed member of the Seven Deadly Sins?", Twigo asked the group with a careful look on his eye on the three individuals, not counting the talking pig. "Neither of you resemble the ones in the posters but...", he continued but when he noticed the earring on the silver-haired woman's ear, he knew who she really was.
Began his move towards them, Twigo spoke, "It seems I'm in luck. The symbol on your earring means you're from the royal family. That means you're...Confirmed! You're Princess Elizabeth!"
Twigo's discovery surprises Altria, the blond boy and the talking as they say her name and title.
"Princess Elizabeth?"
"Princess Elizabeth?! As in the third princess of the kingdom?!"
"Princess...Elizabeth?..."
The silver haired girl revealed to be Third Princess Elizabeth of the kingdom of Liones shuddered in fear that she has been compromised as Twigo spoke, "There's a search order out for you throughout the kingdom. The orders are to capture you alive, but...it can't be helped if you die in an accident on the battlefield, can it?"
No wonder why Princess Elizabeth was in that suit of armor. The Holy Knights are after her! She must known everything in their plans and the Holy Knights intends to capture her. I must protect her... she thought, now knowing what's going on in Elizabeth's situation as she draw her sword, ready to defend the princess. Well it's a little bit on the contrary that knights protect princesses but Altria is no man but nevertheless will uphold that knight's obligation.
"We're leaving!", the blond boy ordered everyone to run for it. Normally, Altria refuses to run from any battle even during her time as Saber in the two Grail Wars but since the third princess' life, the boy and the talking pig as well, is at stake, she ran as well to get the princess to safety away from the danger.
"There's no way I can allow myself to get captured now! I can't just give up now!", Elizabeth declared as she ran deeper into the forest as fast as she can.
Seeing them running into the forest, Twigo was enthusiastic of the recent development, "Ooh... Confirmed! Accidental death!" as the knight then unsheathed his large greatsword, that unleashes a large slice of sharp wind from his sword slash that chopped down the entire forest and seemingly killed the people caught in his powerful attack.
But after the smoke cleared and trees falling down from the sky due to Twigo's mighty slash, Elizabeth, despite her clothes were in a little tattered state, was saved by the blond boy and Altria who easily blocked the attack with the sword she 'borrowed' from Alioni after she saved him earlier and the elm branch which soon broke to pieces. Thanks to her experience in the two previous Grail Wars, she knew how to deal with Servant-powered attacks and luckily that kicked in on time. Infusing her power into the sword and the elm branch helped boost the sword defense against Twigo's attack but the branch wasn't so lucky and the sword survived.
"Yo. It seems you're fine too from the looks of it.", the blond boy commented.
Ironically, the talking pig was far from fine. He was skewered by a branch from one of the fallen trees! "You call this skewered-pig's state 'fine'?! Wah! Momma!" The talking pig cried in pain tearfully as he ran away from the scene trying to get the branch off his back.
"Poor Hawk...", Altria muttered, feeling sorry for the talking pig's misfortune while dropping the broken elm branch.
"A pig?...Well no matter.", Twigo noticed Hawk running away but couldn't care less as he was about to continue his advance but Altria suddenly appeared in front of him and attacked quickly, swinging her sword on the large knight to cut him down who blocked it with ease, causing the ground to crack under the heavy pressure of her blow.
"You Holy Knights disgust me! Dirtying the ways of chivalry and knight's honor! You're even worse than the Seven Deadly Sins!", Altria angrily said in response to Twigo's actions as she continuously performed multiple powerful sword slashes at Twigo head-on in an honorable face-to-face single combat while the latter either took or parried her blows with ease. Everything around them were cut and destroyed by their constant clashing between swords. The blond boy and Elizabeth watches in awe of Altria's fighting prowess.
"That woman...could she be *gulped*...one of the Seven Deadly Sins?", the big-nosed soldier asked nervously upon seeing the intense battle between knights. His other comrades either placed their arms up in a doubting position while Alioni remained unconscious.
After being on the defensive, trying to parry and hit the woman several or more times while taking damage, Twigo grew annoyed and retorted "One unknown swordswoman, dead!", making his counterattack as he made a large slash that pushed Altria back few meters away from him and immediately sent a shockwave line of his frontal slash that sent the young woman flying crashing on the ground and nearly hit Elizabeth if not for Meliodas who pushed her out of the way. Then Twigo hit her again. This time with greater force as he struck the ground, producing a big shockwave that caught Altria, beating the King of Knights in brute strength. Laying on the ground with bruises on her face and her armor dress moderately destroyed/ripped, Altria didn't have the strength left to get up and continue fighting.
Is this...the power of... a Holy Knight? That man's strength is almost like Berserker (Hercules) if he wasn't that mad enough!, she weakly thought, trying to reach for her sword when Twigo made his way towards her.
Then all of a sudden, a crunching noise happened and Altria's face looked on in horror and disbelief as Twigo raised his heavy foot and stomped on her right arm! The pain of her broken arm reached into her brain as she screamed in agony frantically punching at the man's leg to make him let go of her arm this instant with her tears threatening to flow from her eyes which some leaked. The larger man then removed his foot to reveal a broken bloodied right arm looking like a branch that snapped. Not even the armor arm pads protected her arm from the crushing foot showing its severely dented state. Meliodas and Elizabeth looked on with horror of Twigo's brutality and that includes the latter's subordinates sans Alioni who remained unconscious as well who couldn't believe that their superior's ruthlessness extends towards women.
Seeing his opponent incapacitated, Twigo continues onward towards Elizabeth and Meliodas as he said, "One unknown swordswoman not dead but crippled. Confirmed!" leaving behind Altria trying to bear the intense pain of her now crippled right arm.
Filled with extreme pity, Elizabeth couldn't take more of this as to what her savior has suffered and stood up.
"Elizabeth...hey where are you going?", the blond boy asked.
The silver-haired princess spoke, "I won't be able to escape."
Her words made the latter a bit surprised of what she just said. "You. Didn't you just say that you'd never give up?".
"If I surrender to him quietly, there's no reason for him to take your life as well and Altria's too.", Elizabeth explained.
But Twigo immediately made a powerful frontal slash that cut the ground at the princess but the boy got her out of the way, although it ruined his left sleeve with no trace of any wound on him at all. Altria could do nothing but watch helplessly not while her arm was broken.
"I beg of you! At the very least, you should make it out of here alive!", Elizabeth tearfully begged.
"It looks like he'll kill us all either way.", the blond boy commented, noticing Twigo's killing intent.
Elizabeth began to cry in tears as she said, "Why are you... I was so happy... I went to search for the Seven Deadly Sins all on my own. I've never been on a journey until now. I was so worried."
Just as Twigo continued his approach, Elizabeth spoke again still crying, "In order to hide my identity, I wore the armor I wasn't used to and walked until I was exhausted . And I wasn't able to rely on anyone... But you and Altria... Someone who didn't even know who I was..treated me so kindly and defended me. That's why I don't want you to get involved any further. You, whose name I don't even know!"
Feeling quite helpless for the first time, the King of Knights lamented on her fate. Was this her wish? To redo her life while someone else a better king. Yet everything changed with the Holy Knights ruling her country like tyrants and her people she swore to serve and defend were suffering. Although she has great power within her, the prana (blood) of the dragon, and formidable swordsmanship skills but without Excalibur, she was nothing more than someone who can only hold on her own against the likes of a Holy Knight in almost equal terms before losing her right arm to the latter's heavy foot. Hearing the princess' words touched her heart. She has hold great love for her country and will do anything to save it as does Altria, but what can she do?
There's seemingly almost no hope left...
Then suddenly Altria overheard the yellowed haired boy spoke with a smile on his face almost as if he snapped out of his stupor all of a sudden touched by Princess Elizabeth's words, "Meliodas. That's my name."
The King of Knights blinked her eyes and jaw-dropped. She could not believe the madness the boy just spouted, claiming that he's Meliodas! The captain of the Seven Deadly Sins. But he looks nothing like the one in the wanted poster! Is he crazy?!Unless...she began to recall the blond boy's incredible speed and mobility when he saved Elizabeth back when Alioni and his men chased her and from Twigo's first attack earlier then. No normal kid can do that!
"It can't be. That's...But you look like..", the princess said in surprise as Altria had while the boy named Meliodas smiled in response to her reaction.
"Where is he at?!", Alioni suddenly asked after regaining consciousness.
"Mr. Alioni!", his comrades expressing relief.
Ignoring them, Alioni said, "Where's the big guy with the sword?!"
"Please calm down, Mr. Alioni. Lord Twigo is chasing them right now.", the big-nose soldier trying to assure his friend.
"Idiot! It'll be bad if he enrages him! The country will be destroyed!", the young man panicked, baffling his friends and Altria, as well, having overheard his outburst. "When he saved me, I saw it! He's the real deal, the most dangerous of them all. The symbol on his shoulder...", he continued with fear on his eyes, knowing the boy's true nature.
On the blond boy's left shoulder, quite muscled for his age, whose sleeve was ripped off reveals a tattoo of a dragon that looks like it was eating its tail.
Elizabeth still shocked, saw it and said, "That symbol of a beasts...no...a dragon."
Approaching them, Twigo made his seemingly killing blow on the two people, causing the ground to quake and debris flying with his sword made contact but suddenly he felt his cheek got scratched and in a blink of an eye he got pushed back hard. Altria could not fathom of what she just saw. The larger knight was pushed back by a boy who claimed to be Meliodas!
Baffled of a sudden counterattack as the blond boy stood defiantly against him, Twigo thought out loud. "What's the meaning of this?! My attack should have killed you by now. But the one who get hit instead...was me?! What is that? A sword with a broken blade?"
That weapon? How did this kid- er Meliodas able to harm the man larger than him with that useless weapon?! Unless..., Altria mentally exclaimed, even more surprised that a sword with a broken blade with no length of its steel at the hands of Meliodas can harm Twigo unless the former had power like her.
"Meliodas, are you really...", the silver-haired girl wonders in awe.
A sudden realization came into Twigo's mind as he exclaimed, "Wait...I remember seeing your face before. But how can this be?! You haven't changed a bit since then!"
"What? What does he mean by that? Owww!..." Altria said wondering of what Twigo just said about Meliodas' appearance while trying to get up without further injuring her broken arm but hissed in pain as a result.
"So you've finally realized who I am?", Meliodas asked, readying himself in a battle stance with the dragon-hilted broken bladed sword, preparing to strike.
"I-it can't be! IS IT REALLY YOU?!", Twigo angrily yelled in a state of fear and panic with his eye twitching, trying to deny Meliodas' existence as he swung his large greatsword at Meliodas with the full power of his blow...but the Dragon's Sin of Wrath slowly swung his Broken Blade after the large knight made his last blow with a sound of a metal clinking.
Then, a large amount of power started to glow, as it began to engulf Twigo in a blind flash of light. "C-confirmed! This immeasurable power...the legendary...", finally knowing who the yellow-haired boy was before a massive explosion occurred surrounding the entire forest seen by the villagers of Kaynes Village, sending Twigo flying with his armor and weapon shattered and heavily injured from the full backfire of his attack.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!"
Elizabeth and Altria could only gape in surprise and awe of Meliodas' over-powerful reflective attack on Twigo as the yellow-haired boy introduced himself of who he really is, "The Seven Deadly Sins' captain. Dragon's Sin of Wrath. Meliodas!" proudly brandishing his dragon's symbol.
After Twigo's defeat and the Dragon's Sin of Wrath's introduction, Meliodas re-sheathed his broken dragon-hilted blade as he turned around to Elizabeth who was helping up a wounded Altria clutching her broken right arm.
"With that, it looks like you've found your first one, Elizabeth.", Meliodas spoke. The silver-haired girl could only say "Huh?" in response and Altria could only remain silent and listen.
The Seven Deadly Sins captain continued, "As for the remaining six...I have business with them, so I'm also trying to find them where they are. I've been running the bar for the sake of information. If I had a girl serving in a bar, I think I'd get even more. You'll come with me right?"
Elizabeth was in tears of joy flowing from her left eye as she happily accepted the offer. "Yes!"
Turning his attention to Altria, "You should come with us too. With that arm seriously broken, it needs proper medical treatment. Until then, you'll have to bear with the pain and Hawk got a first aid kit inside the Boar Hat.", Meliodas assuring the King of Knights.
The King of Knights was in complete shock to see that Meliodas is actually a child, not the older man in the wanted poster. A child that defeated Twigo in a blink of eye. Is Meliodas really that too powerful?! No wonder why he was the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins! Her thoughts were interrupted by Meliodas' words as she got back to reality.
"...M-my thanks, Sir Meliodas. I accept the offer. But let me come along to find your comrades and put an end to the Holy Knights' oppression.", Altria said in accepting the Dragon's Sin of Wrath's offer of help and expressed her desire to help Elizabeth and Meliodas to find the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins and free the country she had drastically changed due to her wish by the Holy Grail although her pride as a knight and the King of Knights is hurt after a near fatal encounter with Twigo and hung her head in shame. Without Avalon, she could not heal herself or fix her broken right arm, what a real shame to lose it along with Excalibur.
"Don't call me 'sir'. I'm no longer a knight you know. I'm the owner of the Boar Hat remember. Ni-shi-shi. Seeing how you fare against Twigo for quite a long while moments before he crippled your arm, I might consider the offer. You're welcome to join us Altria.", the blond kid reminded her and made comments of her fighting ability as well, causing the latter to raise her head slightly blush a bit for that remark before turning away.
"And also you will have to work to pay for the food you ordered earlier.", Meliodas added.
"W-wh-whaat?!", Altria exclaimed in surprise after hearing what the Dragon's Sin of Wrath just said, turning her head with a shocked look on her face. "B-b-but your food tastes horrible!" as the lady knight tried to protest, defending her reason not to pay for it.
"But you still have to pay for it. I'm serious. That includes the ale too", Meliodas bluntly told her. The young woman tried to protest again but the third princess of Liones stepped in the conversation.
"Uh, Altria, don't argue with Lord Meliodas, he did all he can to help you.", Elizabeth pleaded with a worried look on her eyes.
Altria finally relented after a few moments of hesitation and heeded Elizabeth's words. "Fine...", she muttered, sealing her fate to become an employee of the Boar Hat. Meliodas displays a satisfied look and a thumbs up to her answer.
Somewhere nearby the destroyed forest, there lays Twigo after he was sent flying by Meliodas crashed into the ground with a crater formed around him in impact and his subordinates rushed to his side trying to help him up.
"Lord Twigo, snap out of it!"
Recovering consciousness, Twigo got up weakly as he ordered his nearby soldier, still shocked of what has transpired. "R-requesting for reinforcements from the kingdom! This is serious!"
Suddenly Twigo heard a loud squealing sound and looked up in the sky to see a huge green-colored pig with the Boar Hat on its head falling from the sky and landed on him and the Knights of Mountain Beard Cat.
"Nice timing!", Hawk yelled as he laid down the ladder for his human friends to hop aboard and ride.
Meliodas grabbed hold of the ladder, "As expected of Hawk's momma!", praising the giant green pig arriving just in the nick of time as he held Elizabeth by the waist and Altria used her left arm to grab on as well carefully due to her broken right arm.
"I'm the one who jumped here!", Hawk angrily retorted, obviously upset that Meliodas forgot that it was him who had his mother come right on time.
Ignoring Hawk, Meliodas said to his giant green friend, "Let's get going to the next town! Let's go, Hawk's momma!". Elizabeth screamed and Altria held on as the ladder started pulling up on top of the Boar Hat.
So this is what Boar Hat means..., Altria thought upon realizing that Hawk's Mother wears the bar like a hat as Hawk's Mother complied to Meliodas' orders and started moving away from Kaynes Village as Twigo, Alioni, and the Beard of the Mountain Cat, who were under the giant pig after it landed on them, watched with jaws dropping and eyes bulging in complete shock and surprise to what they have seen.
As Meliodas and Hawk looks forward towards to their next destination away from Kaynes Village, Elizabeth watches behind Meliodas as she thought:
Was this meeting coincidence or fate? Is it hope or despair that awaits us? And thus, my adventures with Meliodas in search of the remaining Seven Deadly Sins begins...
For Altria as she stood next to Elizabeth, still holding her crippled right arm mentally thought, Was this my wish? Is this what people used to say nowadays 'Be careful of what you wish for' because my wish is to redo my life without being the king of my country and someone else a better king than me but instead Britain or Britannia now as everyone call it is currently under the yolk of the Holy Knights of great power in level of the Heroic Spirits. The Grail is truly corrupted indeed. The least thing I can do for my country is to help Princess Elizabeth and Sir Meliodas find the Seven Deadly Sins and stop the Holy Knights. ...but my arm is broken and I'm nothing more than a cripple... *mentally sobbing* Gilgamesh and Rider must really be laughing at me now! 'The Crippled King of Knights', how humiliating...
And thus, Altria Pendragon's quest to save her country begins...
Approximately 38 miles east of Kaynes Village at Fort Solgales
Despite his heavy wounds, Twigo heads to Fort Solgales east of Kaynes Village where he made his reports of his encounter with Meliodas, the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins, Elizabeth, the third princess of the kingdom of Liones, and...a blond woman whose name he did not know who suddenly took him by surprise with her superior sword skills and great power before managing to cripple her, leaving the young woman a broken right arm to the Holy Knight in charge of the fortress.
The Holy Knight sitting at his throne-like chair in the long table filled with empty seats revealed himself to be a relatively tall pink-haired man with blue eyes and wears a dark-colored full body armor with a flowing cape and wields a single-handed broadsword sheathed next to his waist. The man got up from his seat and approached Twigo as the latter sweats nervously, expecting punishment from his superior but thankfully the Holy Knight walked pass by him and looked upon the wall painted with the entire map of Britannia.
"The Seven Deadly Sins...I guess this is the real deal this time. I've waited for ten years for this day...The day when I finally destroy the Seven Deadly Sins.", the pinkette Holy Knight said coldly with no hint of emotion but within his mind he thought, I knew you'd be alive Meliodas and I need to tell you of my current situation lately when I had the chance to meet you. Please take care of Princess Elizabeth for Margaret's sake...but the woman in Sir Twigo's reports...who is she? According to the reports, the woman blond of hair and blue eyes was very good with the sword, has excellent combat skills as if she had many years of fighting experience and great power probably in Meliodas' level as to what Sir Twigo claimed. Was she a Holy Knight? No,...I've been in the Holy Knights for ten years and never seen the likes of her. Where did she come from?...Doesn't matter as long as someone stand up against the Holy Knights alongside the Sins but how will she help Meliodas if she could not fight in full strength with a crippled arm Sir Twigo reported to have done the deed?
Nevertheless, the pink-haired Holy Knight believed that woman may somewhat play a role in the events to come.
At the Capital City of the Kingdom of Liones
Within the huge castle towering over all the infrastructure, the homes of the citizens of the Liones Kingdom, there is a royal bed chambers where an elderly man with a large build despite his age named Bartra Liones, the 11th king of the kingdom of Liones was kept under house arrest after the Holy Knights staged a successful coup d'etat and took over the kingdom.
In his sleep, Bartra began to experience small glimpses of the future thanks to his power Vision and saw scenes of a young woman of blond hair and blue eyes probably in the age of his beloved daughter Elizabeth fighting alongside his dear and trusted friend Meliodas and his comrades, the Seven Deadly Sins throughout their adventures and facing and defeating great evils although albeit one arm and the other in an arm cast sling for some reasons.
Waking up from his dream, Batra breathed heavily and said to himself, "What is this? What does my Vision tells me? I wonder who was that young girl with my daughter, Sir Meliodas and the Seven Deadly Sins...", as he ponders of what the visions of his Power meant, foreshadowing Altria Pendragon's involvement that would change everything in the whole face of Britannia...
Find out in the next chapter! ;) XD
(plays Netsujō no Spectrum by Ikimono-gakari at the end of the chapter)
Author's Note: First chapter of Fate Sins is done and I hope you guys enjoyed it. The second chapter will come by later on after your reviews. ;) I had this idea cooked up in my head. Made some drafts in my paper and finally had it through. Sorry if I made her a little OOC though. The anime and manga of Nanatsu no Taizai are so awesome especially the battle animations (freaking cool!), so I had them on a little mix into this story. lol. Altria (Saber)'s adventure with the Seven Deadly Sins begins...
Notes:
* Altria Pendragon/Saber is sent to a parallel world of the Middle Ages in Britannia after her wish was granted by the Holy Grail before its destruction by her hands where she's no longer the king but Arthur Pendragon (Nanatsu no Taizai) is. I wonder how will everyone react if there are two Pendragons of the similar name together. Might be amusing. lol Btw, I made some references of Altria recognizing the names of the Seven Deadly Sins from the real-life counterparts in the Arthurian mythology.
* She no longer possess Excalibur because she told Sir Bedivere to send it back to the Lady of the Lake for there were no worthy wielders of The Sword of Promised Victory and to keep it away from those who seek to use it for their evil purposes before her "death" in the aftermath of the Battle of Camlann being fatally wounded by her 'son'/daughter Mordred who was killed by her too.
* Altria became an employee of the Boar Hat not only to pay for the (disgusting) food she requested from Meliodas but to join in the quest to free Liones from the Holy Knights not wanting her homeland to suffer more if they continue conquering and subjugating everyone. I wonder if it would be nice if she help train Elizabeth to use the sword to fight her own battles just like she did with Shirou back in Fate/stay night if you guys liked the idea.
* Since Altria no longer had Excalibur but still has her superhuman abilities granted by her blood of the dragon and that includes her awesome swordsmanship in life and in her time as Heroic Spirit, Saber, I need to think what kind of Power she might have. Probably she's in the same position with her male amber-haired counterpart. LOL, he fought Hendriksen but doesn't know what kind of Power he possesses. Talk about badass normal! If any of you guys had suggestions for Altria's Power in this story. Be my guest. Or maybe I would have her use makeshift weapons of any kind she picked up while in a fight like Berserker (Lancelot)'s Knight of Honor that would be her new Power if you liked the idea.
* If you are wondering why I had Altria with a broken arm after an encounter with Twigo is because I want her to know how is it like to be slightly helpless without her trusty Excalibur, or how powerful the Holy Knights are although Twigo is actually an Apprentice Holy Knight but close enough. Normally, she would easily beat Twigo but didn't due to not having Excalibur and is hungry. Ever heard of a fighter battling enemies on an empty stomach? LOL. Oh don't you worry, she'll get better soon if you know what I mean. (Spoiler: Elizabeth has *cough* healing *cough, cough* power. *cough*) ;) Might as well make Altria a badass cripple in the few chapters before fully healed. Fwah Fwah.
Anyways, enjoy and don't forget to review so I can do better from your criticisms, comments, suggestions, etc. :D