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Waver barely touched his Fillet Mignon as he watched Rider utterly devour plate after plate in a glutinous manner. After convincing his Servant that he did not need to be dragged like an unwilling child, he decided that the best way of calming down Rider's enthusiasm was to actually bring him to one of the few restaurants still open at this late hour. They had been in the restaurant for only one hour, and Rider had eaten about five servings. He chugged down his soft drink immediately after filling his mouth with rice before proceeding to swallow the whole thing. He then proceeded to utterly demolish the meat without using his knife; he just picked it up with the fork and tore a large portion off with his teeth. Rinse and repeat with each serving, and it looked like Rider was not going to stop anytime soon.
"Wooh! That was some good meat!" Rider shouted while patting his amazingly not bloated stomach. "Not as good as pig-mole steaks, but almost just as great! Hey babe!" The, admittedly cute waitress squeaked in fright and rushed to Kamina's side. Apparently, everyone within the restaurant mistook Rider for one of those Japanese criminals, the Yakuza if Waver recalled. "Get me and my partner here some more food!"
"Y-yes sir!" The waitress stammered out while shaking before running away to the kitchen, making Waver groan. Now he was going to be marked as a member of the Yakuza just because of his Servant's appearance. This shouldn't be happening! Rider was his Servant! Although Waver hated to do it, he needed to reassert his role as Master.
"Rider, enough!" Waver shouted while slamming his hands on the table. "You have had more than enough food to satiate whatever appetite you had, and I can tell you do not need Prana! And besides, you are supposed to be following my lead!" Waver then lowered his voice so that only Rider could hear him. "I am your Master…" Rider then seemed to give him a short glare, silencing Waver from continuing. Rider seemed to contemplate something before getting out of his seat.
"I'll be waiting outside, pay for our meals and we can talk out there." Rider spoke before leaving the restaurant.
The waitress then returned, giving Waver the bill with a shaking hand. Waver then looked at the bill for a second before he felt his mouth drop.
There goes the extra money he brought for this little trip….
After five minutes, Waver left the restaurant with a depressed expression on his face. There, leaning on the lamppost was Rider, with the same amused expression on his face. As if what had happened before did not bother him in the slightest.
"Look, I know you are my 'Master', we made a contract on the whole thing remember?" Rider asked, while Waver nodded in response. "But, I just wanna enjoy myself a bit before the fighting starts. Never got to mess around like this for a long time. Last time I was able to was in a hot spring with my blood brother, checking out all the babes…." Rider then got a dopey expression on his face, confusing Waver. What was the big deal with a hot spring? "Anyway, I gotta ask, since we are going to be partners in this." Rider seemed to emphasize on the 'partners' part, confusing Waver. Weren't the Servant supposed to actually respect the Masters to a greater degree than what Rider demonstrated? That's what all his research agreed on. "What are ya going to use the Grail on?"
"W-why do you want to know?" Waver asked, honestly confused as to why Rider would want to know his motivations.
"Well, I just want to know! If we wanna trust in each-other, we got to know each-others dreams!" Rider shouted with a grin on his face. "I want to get the over-sized cup to… go back to my blood brother and help him out in his fight." Rider's grin faltered a bit, making Waver wonder just what happened in the man's life. "Okay, now it's your turn! So, what do you want to get the Grail for? To get a babe or two?"
"D-don't be an idiot! Women? I wouldn't waste the Grail's power on something like that!" Waver shouted with a blush on his face. Admittedly, he was never truly popular with the ladies in Clock Tower. And he would have to probably rely on whatever political marriage his family set up to even get into a decent conversation with a woman. A bit depressing in his opinion, but he was not desperate enough to go to war for that. Waver took a deep breath before whispering out, "I just want people to treat me fairly. I want to make all those at the Clock Tower who never gave me a chance to acknowledge their error."
"You dumbass!" Rider shouted before flicking Waver on the forehead, making Waver cry out in shock and start rubbing the sore spot with his right hand while Rider stood over him imposingly. "You don't need the Grail to get acceptance! You just stand your ground with who you are, and shout your ideals at the top of your lungs until they have no choice but to perk up and listen! That wish you want to make is retarded!"
"You idiot!" Waver shouted at the top of his lungs. "The world does not work that way!"
"Don't give me that crap! The world doesn't work that way? So what?" Rider then pointed at Waver, surprising him. "You are a member of Team Dai-Gurren! We kick logic out and do the impossible! That is the way we roll!" Rider then turned around, staring at the moon.
"H-how can he speak to me like that? Saying that I have never done enough to try and be accepted!" Waver thought in anger, his fists shaking. "I've tried damn it! But all I do is get mocked because of my family, ignored as if I was nothing but dust in the wind! And he has the gall to say I have not tried enough?" He then lifted his right arm, his Command Seals glowing red on his hand as he thought, "By the power of this Command Seal, I order that this man, Kamina…." Waver then stopped himself from completing his dangerous line of thought. This man, his Servant, actually believed he could get acceptance on his own. That he did not need some all-powerful wish-seeking device to get it. He actually believed in him.
No one believed in him like that besides his own parents.
"Besides…" Waver thought as he lowered his arm, the Command Seals loosing their glow. "A Master can only use the seals to compel their Servant three times. If I loose them all, I won't be able to control him…."
Although Waver could not see it, Rider gained a tiny grin on his face.
Waver then walked beside Rider and looked at the moon before asking, "Why…?"
"Because…" Rider started, cutting Waver off from finishing his question. "I always wanted to go up there, ever since crawling up onto the surface." Rider then chuckled a bit, but Waver could tell it was humorless. "But I bit the dust before I could."
Waver looked at the man in wonder for a bit before huffing out, "Well, as long as I get the Grail, I guess it does not matter that you want to mess around a bit. But we have to make plans for the other Servants and Masters…"
"Oh please, just who the Hell do you think I am?" Rider asked with a grin. "If you wanted to witness my awesomeness, you could have just asked." He then brought out his Nodachi and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Come out and pierce the world with your drill, Lagann!" He then swung his sword forward for no apparent reason, confusing Waver. The streetlights then seemed to flicker for a moment before all the power within the area went out. Then, something literally drilled itself out of the Earth in a burst of green energy, obscuring Waver's vision and making him fall on his back while Rider stood his ground, his grin seeming to get bigger by the second. When the energy dissipated, Waver got a good look at what was in front of him and gasped in shock. It was a big, red-colored mechanical head with stubby legs and arms at each side. Its eyes were yellow and its face was gunmetal grey.
"W-wha…?" Waver stammered in shock while Rider stepped forward with the widest grin Waver had ever seen.
"This is my blood-brother's Gunmen, and the ride we will use for now. After all, if I brought out my Gunmen, Gurren, things might get kinda… difficult for us." Rider explained before hopping onto 'Lagann' and grabbing the controls. Rider then had Lagann's right arm pick up the shocked Waver by the back of his shirt and dumped him into the cockpit as well, albeit with his legs hanging off the edge. "Well, lets go!" Rider shouted before thrusters popped out the back of Lagann and spewed out green energy, launching them into the sky like a rocket.
"RIDERRR!" Waver shouted in fear while hanging on for dear life.
Elsewhere:
Kariya blinked as a green streak of light went across the sky and heard the shrill, frightened scream of what was probably a teenage girl before shaking his head thinking, "Probably just my imagination…" Kariya then continued to limp down the practically abandoned streets before coming across an alleyway behind a mattress store.
And as luck would have it, one was almost clean and about to be thrown away.
"Perfect." Kariya muttered to himself before stalking over to the mattress and laying down on it, deciding that the place was safe enough to rest in.
"Why the Hell are you letting yourself sleep with the garbage again?" Berserker asked while materializing, a sneer on his face.
"Because I will not rest under Zouken's roof. And the landlord of my old apartment probably won't recognize me anymore." Kariya responded while turning over. Damn thing was lumpy as Hell… "I also don't know how to do hypnotism, so I'm out of luck trying to rest in another person's house. Besides, with me doing this, the other Masters cannot pinpoint my exact location. Especially when I go from place to place all the time."
"All this sneaking around crap is retarded. We should be searching for the other Servants to fight!" Berserker ranted out, making Kariya sigh at his Servant's battle-lust. "Especially those three Knight classes, I want to go after those guys first!"
"Knowing Tokiomi, he got the best hero his money could buy." Kariya said with disdain in his tone. "Wouldn't be surprised if we had to face Hercules as one of the Knight classes."
"Then what the Hell are we waiting for?" Berserker growled out while Kariya glanced at him.
"I have an insect familiar watching over the Tohsaka manor. If we could just see the Servant, we would know what we were in for. After that, then you can fight." Kariya explained slowly, only making Berserker sneer even more.
"Tch. Your just as cautious as that bastard Aizen." Berserker spoke while he dissipated from view. "You better have me fight soon, because acting all careful and shit bit Aizen on the ass later."
When Berserker was fully gone, Kariya let out a sigh of relief. Finally, he could go to sleep in relative peace…
If only Berserker had been a growling lunatic who just responded to the words 'kill' and 'him'. That would have been so much easier to deal with…
Elsewhere:
"Fill, fill, fill'er up, fill…. Repeat four times…" Uryuu Ryuunosuke muttered to himself as he painted the symbol he had seen in his ancestors' book on the floor with his bare feet and the blood of the family he just murdered. Honestly, he had no real reason for continuing to try his ancestors' ritual in summoning demons. Or at least he thought it was for summoning demons, their notes were a bit vague. It said something about summoning the 'source of all evil' into the world, so it has to be demons! Honestly, he just preferred killing his victims. But their faces were so damn priceless when he told them that they were going to die so that he could summon a demon, he just kept continuing.
On second thought, he would just keep doing this. It never gets old!
"Or was it five times?" Uryuu asked himself in confusion. "Um, destroy each when filled…" He then re-read his ancestors' book before counting on his fingers, "Fill, fill, fill, fill, fill… yes! Exactly five times! Okay!" The still-on TV and news played its report on the three other family killings he had performed, the headless corpses of the mother and father still sitting on the couch. "…maybe I just had a little to much fun…." Uryuu admitted to himself before shutting off the TV. After all, the police would never catch him. While he had fun with each killing, he made sure to be extra careful in 'cleaning up' after himself. He then heard a whimpering noise and looked to see the youngest, still alive, and scared shitless son still hogtied right where Uryuu left him.
"Do you think demons exist kiddo?" Uryuu began, already liking the kid's expression. "The news keeps calling me a demon, but I think that's a little rude if demons actually do exist, don't you think so?" Uryuu then walked in front of the kid, whose eyes widened with each step. He then quickly kneeled down, surprising the kid saying, "Sup! I am Uryuu Ryuunosuke, and I'm a demon! But I don't know if that's how I should be introducing myself…" He then waved his ancestors' notes at the kid. "You know, I found this old book while digging around my storehouse! It looks like my ancestors were trying to summon demons. So like, I gotta see if demons actually do exist!" Oh man, the kid was now crying and pissing himself some more! "But if one actually does pop out, I'd have to be pretty dumb to not offer it something. So kid…" He then patted the boy's shivering head and asked, "If a demon actually comes, do you mind if we let it kill you?"
"MMMMRRRRRPPPHHHHH!" The boy cried into his gags and began thrashing around in a desperate attempt to get free.
"AHahahaha!" Uryuu laughed while jumping up and down. "I wonder what it's like being killed by a demon! I bet it would be pretty coo-ow!" Uryuu then grimaced as his right hand felt like it was on fire, and looked down to see three scythe-like red crimson markings appear on it. The circle then began to glow before billowing out smoke.
A figure then appeared, shocking Uryuu. He was around sixteen if Uryuu had to guess and had slicked back dark spikey hair with onyx eyes. He wore a long-sleeved white shirt that was open to the torso with a crest of a fan on the collar. He also wore dark-blue pants with a blue cloth hanging halfway up his stomach to his knees, black arm-guards, and a giant purple rope tied in a bow around his waist as a belt with a sword strapped to his back.
He eyed Uryu for a second before asking, "You summoned me, who are you?"
"Um…" Uryuu began, rubbing the back of his head. He honestly did not expect this… "I'm Uryuu Ryuunosuke. I'm currently unemployed and I like killing people pretty much. Especially women and children."
The teenager stayed quiet for a minute before saying, "Fine, the contract is complete. I am the Servant Caster for the Holy Grail War."
"Okay…" Uryuu drawled out. Honestly, he did not get any of that. "Hey, you wanna kill this kid?"
The child looked at Caster with utterly terrified eyes while Caster looked at him coldly. Slowly, Caster drew his sword and made some rapid movements before sheathing it again. Before Uryuu could ask what he did, the child split onto a million pieces, literally becoming nothing but a bloody smear on the floor.
"I only did that to satisfy your murderous tendencies Master." Caster spoke, disdain in his tone. "But we must now focus on the Holy Grail W…"
"That was so COOL!" Uryuu cheered while jumping for joy. He then grabbed Caster's hand and shook it. "You are so freaking awesome man! I don't know about this Grail crap, but I will be following you around! Let's go! Show me cooler and cooler ways to kill people!"
Cater stayed silent for a moment, disgust literally in his eyes before muttering, "As you wish Master."
Tohsaka Manor:
"The final Servant has been summoned, it is time." Kirei muttered, while Assassin walked out of the woods behind him.
"Fina-freaking-ly!" Assassin shouted while throwing his hands in their air. "God, you have the most boring freaking life I have ever seen! Seriously, how can you not have a TV? Everyone else does! I had to be away from my sweet Bea Arthur for so long. I'm just glad that TIM decided to just go straight to this rather than giving a boring-ass filler chapter!"
"I have no use for a television Assassin, so please drop the subject." Kirei muttered under his breath while ignoring the comment about the 'TIM' person Assassin mentioned several times before. He had to deal with his Servant for literally a week now, he even attempted to use a Command Seal to make him shut up.
No such luck, because Assassin just stitched together his lips before cutting the off and allowing them to grow back from scratch, creating a loophole to the 'absolute' command.
Since then, he stopped trying.
"Oh right, because you can just jerk off the body count of a war or an underage boy rather than look up real porn…" Assassin said wistfully, making Kirei growl.
"I am not like those heretic priests!" Kirei shouted at Assassin, who seemed to smirk under his mask.
"Then prove it, buy me a TV when this is over and watch 'Lesbian Sex Slaves from Outer Space 4' with me." Assassin said with 'raised' eyebrows. Kirei glared at his Servant before giving a sigh of defeat.
"Very well Assassin, complete this mission and we shall go purchase a TV." Kirei muttered out, making Assassin smile before jumping off the railing behind the Tohsaka manor with a 'Tallyho!'. "But I have full control of the remote." Kirei said with a smug grin.
Assassin then grabbed onto a tree branch just before he hit the ground and swung to the next one singing, "George, George, George of the Jungle! Friend to you and me…!" He then jumped into the sky over the Tohsaka manor's courtyard and fired three gunshots with a handgun that had a silencer to the red rubies on each of the pedestals. He then landed inside of the flower-patch and walked towards the strange ornament in the center of the courtyard that had a jewel inside of it.
"I swear, this Tokiomi guy is a complete fag. I mean, what kind of self-respecting wizard uses jewelry of all things for their magic? When that Tsundere daughter of his used it, I could understand. Hell the fanboys loved her for it! But a grown man playing around with jewelry? Come on, one would think that Rin and Sakura were Kariya's daughters with how much attention the guy gives his wife…" Assassin said out-lout to himself before throwing a bowie knife at the ornament, which bounced off and revealed a barrier. Assassin then walked forward, avoiding the practically invisible moving lines and circles.
"This place is practically like a rave!" Assassin said apparently to himself while avoiding the 'alarms'. "All I need are some glow-sticks and a crappy techno beat! Where the hell is the OST in this fic? Ah well, I'll make my own beat! Unce! Unce! Unce!" He then took out his pistol which had the silencer attached and fired at the ornament, slowing down the 'alarms' to a great deal and allowing him to come within arms reach of the jewel. "Now come to papa…" A gunshot then rang out, piercing Assassin's right hand and destroying the jewel. "Ow! Not the jerk arm!"
"Sorry." Archer spoke on the roof, his silver revolver aimed at Assassin and his sunglasses reflecting the moonlight. "I can't let you murder my Master."
"Parley?" Assassin asked weakly, only to be shot twice in the chest, one in his left arm, one bullet through the head, and finally one bullet into the grenade Assassin had strapped onto his hip.
The explosion rocked the whole manor, creating a huge crater within the courtyard with Assassin's bloody, bullet-ridden, and burnt corpse at the center. Archer then calmly re-loaded his revolver before firing several shots nearby familiars of other Mages, scaring them away and finally shooting a camera that was recording the whole event nearby.
After re-loading and making sure the coast was clear, Archer called down, "It's okay man! Their gone!"
"Oh damn it! You went freaking overkill there!" Assassin called back while sitting up and allowing his wounds to heal. "I mean, it's an honor of Otakus everywhere to actually get shot by you, but what happened to your 'no killing' rule?"
"Well…" Archer said with a smile while rubbing the back of his head. "Since you can never die, I was actually able to go through with shooting you like that. If you hadn't been who you are, then there was no way I could have gone through with it!"
"Just hope the readers accept this little re-hash of the 'deceiving dead Assassin' scene." Assassin muttered to himself. "Say, does that Tokiomi guy have booze in there?"
"Just wine!" Archer called back, jumping down to help Assassin up.
The next morning, Tokiomi would receive a massive headache from the sight of a shit-faced drunk Assassin and Archer in his kitchen.
And they used up all of his good wine too!
To Be Continued…
Omake- It's A Real Thing! Taiga Dojo Preview!
"Yosh! We are finally in the fic!" Fujimura Taiga cheered out loud while swinging her Bouken in the air. "How can the author not include me, the sexy Fujimura Taiga and main star of the Fate series in this fic from the start?"
"Um, sensei…." Illyasviel von Einzbern whispered while walking beside Taiga in her gym clothes. "You weren't really in Fate/Zero at all…"
"NONSENSE!" Taiga yelled at full volume. "We shouldn't let a minor detail like that stop us my student! We must resist and force the author to acknowledge our importance! Now lets go!" Taiga then ran to the door and attempted to open it, only for it to remain shut. "T-this won't stop me…!" Taiga gritted out while using all her strength for the task.
Illya giggled a bit before turning to the readers and saying, "Trust me, the author isn't stupid enough to let her out. Now stay tuned for the next chapter 'In The City!'!"
"Check it out!" Taiga yelled while using a crowbar she somehow found for the doors.
End Omake.
Note- Yosh! Another chapter bites the dust! I am astounded at all the reviews this story has gotten, and they all praised me for my work! This chapter is your guy's reward! Now, I would really love lots of reviews giving your opinion on this chapter. I tried to keep both Kamina and Waver's personalities like they were in canon because honestly, Alexander was like an ancient version of Kamina. So while Kamina's relationship will be similar to Alexander's, it will also be different in it's own little way. Also, I will be using Ryuunosuke's last name to refer to him because typing up his first is way too long. So review this chap bitches!
…Please?