Disclaimer: Fate Stay night is owned by type-moon
UEFA champions League is owned by FIFA, i guess.
AN: After the preliminaries there will be two "groups" each featuring a "normal grail war" of eight servants, so each servant needs a new master. Submit your master for the group phase of this Champions War. Your character may end up as master of Saber XD.
I was reading Fanfics while Watching ESPN, this... was inevitable.
FATE STAY NIGHT: CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.
Chapter 2:Preliminaries I. Berserk but thinks
In the Heroes' meeting Hall the preliminaries of the champions war are held. The runner ups and third places of the past wars fight each other to get the right of descending to earth to join the grail champions war. The first matchups can be seen in the green scoreboard that dominates the field of vision:
(BSK) Jason-----------------------VS----------------------------- Ajax (BSK)
---------------------------------------------Traits--------------------------------------.
Jason: Intelligent, Good Judgement, Weak-Hearted
Ajax: Unstopable, Temperamental, Alcoholic
-------------------------------------Noble Phamtasms-------------------------------.
Jason: Argonaut : A wave of healing cures Jason and, to a lesser degree, the
opponent.
Golden Fleece: A cursed armor surrounds the enemy, halving their mana.
Ajax: Axial Axe: Upward slash + Ajax gets a burst in strenght. Lasts one minute
with a five minute cooldown
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Next:
(RDR) Richard The Lionhearted---VS-----------------Frederick Barbarrossa (RDR)
----------------------------------------------Traits-----------------------------------------.
Richard the Lionhearted: Good Leader, Pious, Great Strategist
Frederick Barbarrossa: Good Leader, Duelist, Can't Swim.
----------------------------------------Noble Phamtasms-------------------------------.
Richard: Crusade: Powerfull Charge which aim for the head. Lethal if hits.
Frederick: Sacred Empire : Powerfull Holy Slash. Raises 2 minions.
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Now both Berserkers, Jason and Ajax, are taking their places in the middle of the improvised combat arena. Both look dangerously fierce, but is obvious that Ajax is stronger. Everyone knows that Jason is a rarety in the berserker class as he is more a brain than agile or strong, nonetheless he is still a force to recognize.
The referee in this match is Valkirye Brunhilde. As she raises her spear both warriors draw their weapons. Jason gets his Estoc and makes deep wounds in his chest with it. Ajax tighten his grab in the two-handed axe.
Watching for the sidelines are Arturia, Shirou, Ryan and Alana. Everyine studying the oncoming combat. Shirou turns to Arturia.
-"What do you think.? Jason already made his sacrificial cut."
Saber frowns and answers without taking his eyes of the warriors.
-"That thing is double edged. It trully improves his strenght for a while, but his bleeding makes him weaker as time passes by."
-"Yeah, just like the Marine's stim pack." Says Alana, everyone else turns to her with a raised eyebrow. She gets defensive.
-"What, nobody else played Starcraft?."
Shirou smiles.
-" I did. But as the stim pack, That skill is better with a medic beside you, and Jason's Noble phamtasm is a healing move, so he can make it over and over."
-"Yeah, but he losses a bit of Agility everytime he does it, he must be thinking about ending this quickly." Ponders Arturia.
-"He better do. They have fought five times here at Heroes Hall and Ajax has won four of them." Says Ryan
-" However.."
Their chat is cut as Brunhilde does her Battlecry, signal that the fight may begin.
With a shout themselves, both heroes charge at each other. With a wild swing, the Estoc and the Axe collide in a powerfull slash. Incredibly, even if Ajax is a head taller than Jason, their strenght is evenly matched.
-"Whoa, that thing really works." Says Alana.
-"Wait for Ajax to do his Axial Axe." Comments Ryan.
-" Yeah, but look. Jason won the pulse and repelled Ajax back. NOW use the iniciative." Says Arturia. Ryan raises an eyebrow.
-"An estocade? No way he will land that, he is not agile enough. See? Ajax evaded to the left. Whoa, punch."
Jason had no other choice that to do an 180 and receive the damage in the back, he is thrown back. Shirou makes a face.
-" Ouch, that Hurt. ?! Great he used that impulse to do a kick but... Ajax grabbed his leg and... Ouch to the wall." Shirou makes yet another face. Arturia, highly concentrated, frowns once again.
-"Now, Ajax is being reckless charging like that."
And she proves right as Jason throws his Estoc at Ajax, who dodges right but is surprised as Jason is right behind him. Alana gasps.
-"No, he will use it?"
And Jason Cries GOLDEN FLEECE, and a golden orb gets in his right hand and then he punches Ajax, who moves just to late. With a unholy yellow glow, the fleece grabs itself to Ajax's chest. He lets out a groan of pain.
-"Now he is cursed for the rest of the battle. With half his mana, his other stats go down greatly as well." Says Arturia darkly.
-"Now his only chance is..." Begins Shirou but is interrupted as Ajax turns quickly and makes an upward slash, with his axe glowing with a cyan light. However, at the last moment Jason jumps back... Ajax just missed his Axial Axe.
-"So long for the one-hit win. Now Ajax is down, his Noble Phamtasm has a five-min cooldown. Too bad for Ajax, if they have been battling in a normal war, Jason woudn't been taking advantage of the extensive knowledge of each other." Says Shirou. Ryan watches Ajax.
-"However, he still got the strenght boost."
-"Yeah..." Begins Shirou, but is stopped by the enigmatic look of his father.
-"I'm just saying that Ajax knows this stuff as good as any of us."
Jason grabs his estoc again and Ajax begins to charge like a bull at him. Arturia comments
-"He seems pretty desperate to me. Atack, again, again, another one. WAIT."
After each sucessful block Jason bleeds more and more, even weakened, Ajax is stronger than most Heroes. Jason finally evades narrowly the Axe and launches an estocade, this time it hits. Alana begins to narrate like a football match.
-"Oh, man. Wait.. Ajax took it...laughs and slashes Jason... He withdraw the Estoc and atacks again, while Ajax hurt him too. Oh i get it, they are doing a punch-by-punch."
Indeed, both Berserkers where slashing and stabing without caring for defense. However, it was pretty clear that Ajax wanted to cut Jason into two, and Jason evaded him, making him just slash his legs. With a final slash, Jason withdrew, weakened.
-"Now is a good time to use it, i guess. As the Axial Axe is off." Said Arturia.
And yes, Jason raises his Estoc and calls for the Argonaut, his Healing Noble phamtasm, who healed him to a great extend. But before that he did two more sacrificial cuts. Then he went once again towards Ajax.
-"Again?" Asked Shirou.
-"Yeah, Jason can heal himself over and over, so is Ajax who is in disadvantage, even if he gets healed a bit too." Says Alana.
-"Yeah, but Ajax seems to be tooking it too good." Frowns Shirou. Saber smiles.
-"Is because the Fleece. It is cursed and weakens you, but it is still an armor, and offers protection, and since he is atacking Ajax's chest, it tooks more of the damage. I guess Jason didn't took it in consideration."
Once again, Jason withdraws, quite injured. Ajax, even if he is not in a perfect shape, seems better and unwilling to let go the punch-by-punch. Jason makes three more sacrificial cuts ,raises his estoc and calls his noble phamtasm ARGONAUT again. After this, Ryan focuses.
-"It is time."
This time Ajax is the one who charges to Jason. Jason tries to evade, but to his surprise, Ajax is faster. Jason has exchanged to much speed for strenght with his sacrificial cuts. Ajax punches Jason in the face, and then grabs him in the leg and throws him to the wall. Alana raises her eyebrow.
-"Deja Vu?" Arturia answers with a smile in the face.
-" No, is on purpose."
Jason seeing the same situation once again, throws his Estoc. However Ajax didn't evade this time and the Fleece reflected the Estoc. Ajax tries to grab Jason in the face, but Jason resists with his own arms. He can't do anything else as he in unarmed now. Finally Ryan shouts.
-" NOW AJAX."
And Ajax's Axe begins to glow Cyan again. The great berserker shouts AXIAL AXE, and with an upward slash sent Jason Flying, then he intercepts him in midair and makes him land hard, making a crater in the floor. Jason has lost, and the Fleece dissapear. Valkirye Brunhilde raises her spear.
-" Ajax is the winner, and will go to the Champions War."
A great Cheer echoed through the hall. Shirou is just simply amazed. Ryan smiled.
-" Told ya. Ajax played the fool and moved Jason to his ground. He used Jason's fleece as a Troy's Horse, making Jason shuffle from Agility to strenght, and then he went agile himself. Remember the punch-by-punch? It was no casuality that Ajax was aiming for the legs."
Arturia completed.
-"Yeah, everyone thought that Jason would be making the best plan. Ajax also did it, so he formulated a worst-case strategy. In the end, as Ryan said, he used the knowledge to overpower Jason's brain. He may be not the smartest, but he is indeed cunning."
-"This war is getting more interesting by the minute." Says Alana with an inflamated look.
Brunhilde speak once again:
-"Next Fight is:"
The Scoreboard Changes.
Clasified to Group Phase:
(SBR) Aquiles, (SBR) Arturia Pendragon, (RDR) Joan of Arc, (RDR) Alexander Magnus, (ASN) Echo, (ARC) Atalanta , (LNC) Leonidas, (AVR) Kiritsugu Emiya, (BSK) Ajax.
Next Fight:
(RDR) Richard The Lionhearted---VS-----------------Frederick Barbarrossa (RDR)
----------------------------------------------Traits-----------------------------------------.
Richard the Lionhearted: Good Leader, Pious, Great Strategist
Frederick Barbarrossa: Good Leader, Duelist, Can't Swim.
----------------------------------------Noble Phamtasms-------------------------------.
Richard: Crusade: Powerfull Charge which aim for the head. Lethal if hits.
Frederick: Sacred Empire : Powerfull Holy Slash. Raises 2 minions.
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After That.
(ARC) Shirou Emiya-------------VS-----------------------------Gilgamesh (ARC)
--------------------------------------Traits------------------------------------------------.
Shirou Emiya: Self-Sacrified, Temperamental, Strong Willed
Gilgamesh: King of Jerks, Insane amount of mana, Duelist
------------------------------Noble Phamtasms------------------------------------------.
Shirou Emiya: Imagine: Shirou can replicate any weapon he has seen.
Unlimited Blade Works: An alternate world where all the
weapons crafted by Shirou lay.
Gilgamesh: Gate of Babylon: Thousand of Swords thrown at the enemy.
Enuma Elish : Powerfull wind slash.
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Shirou smiles darkly. His turn draws near.
Next: Preeliminaries II. King VS Emperor.
AN: Well, this chapter was intented to be of the first two fights, but i guess the Berserkers one grew a bit too large. Doesn't matter, i think it is quite good. GO AJAX XD. And Remember, you can create an OC to be his master.
