Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Fate series. All ownership is given to Type Moon for the Fate/Extra PSP Game, and Manga. I only own my OC Mahiro Ishida
This world that I'm in now if I had to describe it in one word it would be bad. But even though this world isn't the greatest it still contains some good parts to it.
The morning hit me like a brick. Still today wasn't the same as yesterday. It was different. Oh well I can't quite figure out how it's different, but it just is. Then yesterday flashed into my head. My face turned red. No more like a flaming red so hot a fire alarm could go off from be being near it. I closed my eyes and lifted the covers to my futon nervously. To my surprise Saber wasn't there. I was kinda relieved that she wasn't so we wouldn't have to go through yesterday again. I should probably get a shower.
I got out of my futon and slugged myself to the shower. I got in and started to get washed. So my opponent will be Shinji? Damnit! I don't want to fight him! Yes he's a dick. Yes he's an ass, but at the end of the day he's still my friend. This isn't fair why does SERAPH do this to me? So this isn't right! I have to kill him I wish I wasn't the the one who would have to do this to him. But I have no choice.
"Mahiro are you in here?" I heard a females voice ask. It broke my chain of thought and I figured out that it was Saber's.
"Yeah" I replied. I wonder why she's up this early, she was the one doing all of the fighting.
"Okay just checking" She said as the door shut. Now back to my fight with Shinji. I don't want to hurt him so I'll just take out his servant. I soon finished my shower and got out. I looked around the bathroom to find the towel that I left there. But it wasn't where I left it, nor were there any extra ones laying around. It was right here. Wait wasn't Saber just here? Also didn't I hear the door shut too? I put two and two together and got… GOD DAMNIT! She did this it has her name written all over it. I know if I ask for one she won't give me it, so that leaves only one option. I swallowed my pride that I had. I covered my private parts with my left have and cracked the door a little just so I could see where she was. I found her over on the bed kicking her feet back and forward, while looking in the air and whistling like nothing happened. I pushed the door open and went after her. Before she knew it both of my hands were on her shoulders. Filled with rage I lashed out at her with words.
"Give me the damn towel!" I yelled at her. I looked her in the face, but… But she was looking below the waist. I slowly tilted my head down to see what she was looking at. I got to the same level she was at and she was looking at my… I fell to the ground in embarrassment. My face was as red as a basket of apples. My expression was one of pure embarrassment knowing that now she… she.. she. She seen every last inch of me. I heard her cracking up on the bed, but it wasn't funny! She threw the towel on my head.
"Wow Mahiro who would of guess that you were packing a long bow" She was getting out through her laugh. "Are you sure that you're not an Archer?" She asked while still making fun of me. This girl is going to be the death of me.
"Screw you!" I yelled at her while I ran back into the bathroom. She really pisses me off. Not just that just why was she looking at my… My face felt hotter, than the sun when his thought came into mind. I had the towel around my waist. My hair was dripping water onto the floor from it not being dried. I finished drying myself off and put on my uniform. No matter how hard I tried to get my hair to be straight it always ended up being curved to the right and a little scruffy. I left the bathroom and seen that Saber was still getting a good laugh from what just happened. "You done yet?" I asked her agitated.
"Almost" She replied while giggling still. It's been like about ten minutes now how can she still be like this? She finally settled down after about another minute or two.
"Come on. We're going down to the cafeteria for breakfast" I said to her. She looked at me with her mouth watering.
"Okay!" She said without a second thought. She was as happy as could be upon hearing "cafeteria". Saber got up and the two of us went down to the bottom floor and got food. Once we were down there Saber went straight to the meat section. We both took our seats. I looked at Saber's plate and seen that it mainly contained sausage. God damnit! She's going to keep at this one for a while now.
"Really Saber?!" I asked her while my face was turning red. She looked at her plate, then back at me. She repeated it about four times till the light in her head turned on. She let out another giggle.
"Mahiro in all seriousness I just realized that" She said as she took her pause from her giggling, but it soon turned into an all out laugh. Wow, just wow.
I went back to my meal and started to ignore her. I lifted my head to see if she was done. But to my surprise there was like a Saber double across the room. But with her was a man with red hair that looked as though he was in his early twenties wearing a black business suit, a white undershirt and a red necktie. The most curious thing about his clothing was black gloves with red linings he wore on his hands. Saber couldn't tell what I was so intrigued about. That was until she had turned her head and seen the exact replica of her standing with a man with red hair. But Saber and Saber 2.0 weren't dressed the same either. Saber 2.0 over there was wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, black shoes, and a red zip up hoodie. Saber's face dropped as if she had seen a ghost or something. She then started to grit her teeth at the Saber 2.0. Maybe they knew each other in their past lives.
"Out of curiosity Saber are you related to her?" I asked. Saber looked at me as if I was hitting her below the belt. She must not of really wanted to talk about this. You'd think that anyone would be happy to see a family member who they had not seen in a while. But in all honesty with Saber that thought was dead wrong.
"If you must know Mahiro yes, the two of us are related. But the two of us never got along very well in our time" She said. Now that I think about it. Didn't Saber say that "I was the only family that she had that didn't betray her"? I wonder what Saber 2.0 did to her? It probably wouldn't be the best idea to ask her now. I pushed back my chair and got up from out of it. I started to walk over to the man to get his name. I barely felt Saber's fingertips on my sleeve as she tried to stop me while she was still sitting.
"Excuse me sir, could I have your name?" I asked the man.
"Hmm..?" The man was still looking at his meal before he turned around to meet me. "What do you want?"
His brown eyes looked at me in curiosity before seeing Saber in the corner of his sight. A small smile was made on his face before he turned to Saber 2.0 who was now eating her food as fast a freight train!
"Oi, Partner! Is this the Servant you were looking for?"
Saber 2.0 stopped eating and looked toward the spot the man pointed. A big grin was appeared on her face. It was not a nice smile though, I could feel the bloodlust radiating from her. Her red eyes seemed to be slightly glowing as well causing me take a few steps back. The cafeteria which was quite lively with speech slowly died down as Saber 2.0 then stood up and approached Saber.
"Boy, what is your name?" the man said.
"M-Mahiro, sir."
"Well, Mahiro…it seems you should be cursing your luck."
"What do you mean?"
The man looked at me in surprise before shaking his head and returning his attention back to the two sisters. Does he know who Saber is?
"I did not expect to find you here. How are you?" Saber 2.0 asked Saber who was now standing up and was staring at Saber 2.0 with a neutral expression. "Don't tell me you forgotten me?"
"I could never forget someone like you."
"That's right," Saber 2.0 got close enough to Saber's face that their noses touched. "It's hard to forget the person you hate the most!"
Saber took a few steps and looked to the ground in shame." I never once hated you…"
Saber 2.0's smile faded as a look of rage adorned her face and threw a punch toward Saber's face," Yet and yet… when it came to that one point you threw me out!"
Saber was barely able to dodge the blow by stepping back but the backlash of the thrown fist still cut her cheek!
"Saber!"
"I'm fine Mahiro!" Saber spoke back to me placing her hand on the cut. Saber 2.0 looked toward me now.
"I see, your "Saber's" Master then?"
"I-I am ma'am."
Suddenly the whole room felt like it was freezing cold.
"Oh….Shit.." said the man standing next to me. What did I say? Saber 2.0's eyes locked on me. I couldn't move from being stunned by the absolute fear of what was going to happen next. I narrowed down the possibilities from two to one. The possibility that chose was one that said it wasn't gonna turn out well. I slowly took a few steps back in a pose that read absolute fear. If I tried to see what would happen next it would be too late by the time the spell was produced. No! Mahiro calm down! Deep breaths… In through the nose… Out from the mouth. I repeated this a few times until I regained my cool and could stand straight. My mind went blank. I walked past Saber 2.0 and got to where her "Father" was. I grabbed her hand and left the cafeteria. We made it to the campus grounds.
"Saber I'm gonna assume that you don't want to talk about who that person is so I'm gonna save you the trouble by not asking" I said. Saber looked dumbfounded by what I had just said. She might of been caught off guard by something about it.
"Thanks I appreciate it" She replied.
"Saber we're going to the library" I said to her. She had a look of fear on her face. "I'm not gonna try to find you there I just wanna look up Shinji and his servant and try to pass the time a little bit" I added. We got to the library, But it hit me. All I knew about Shinji's servant is that she had dual pistols, Scars, and was most likely a pirate. So I just sat down and started to read a Criminal Investigation book.
"Why are you reading that?" Saber asked. "And what is it about?"
"I'm bored, and it gives you hypothetical cases that you solve" I replied.
"So you can solve these?" She asked. Her face was full of pure amazement.
"More than likely" I replied as I handed her the book. She flipped through it to try and find a crime for me to solve.
"Okay I bet you won't get this one" She said. "There's a Old Lady who raises hare. He home in a mansion. She lives with her granddaughter, her butler, and her maid. The granddaughter and the butler only knew English, but the maid only knew Arabic. The Old Lady knew both English and Arabic. On a dark night a gunshot goes off around the Old Lady's room where she had been. The whole house goes up near the door of the room. The butler tries to kick the door down, but the granddaughter stops him. The maid walks up to the door with a gun and calls through the keyhole, then fires through the hole and the door opens. They find the Old Lady dead with a bullet wound in her left eye, but no glass was shattered. What happened?" Saber had thought that she had gotten me with this one, but she was dead wrong.
"This one was easy. It was the maid. The first shot was the get everyone to the room. Then the Granddaughter stopped the Butler from knocking down the door, but the Maid wouldn't of known that because she only knew Arabic. The Maid had the gun and went and shot the lock. The Old Lady went to the lock as the Maid called out 'It's safe now come to the door and unlock it'. The Old Lady probably went to the door to see who it was. But the granddaughter and the Butler probably thought that the Maid said,'We're coming in'. When the Old Lady looked to see who it was the Maid shot and ended her life" Saber's jaw dropped on how I solved that within seconds of her finishing it. "Anymore?" I asked. Saber put the book down and gets up.
"Lets go to the Arena" She says. I get up as well and nodd in agreement. The two of us leave the Library on the second floor and go down to the first floor where the Arena is. We walked to the corner of the hallway where I seen Shinji and his Servant there. I stopped at a distance that I would be able to hear him. But someone else was there with him. It was a girl. She had black hair, and skirt, while wearing a red long sleeve.
"So Tohsaka, I know that no other Servant is a match for Rider's Invincible Armada" Shinji said. "You know that my Rider is even on par with a Saber Servant because she is said to be dwelling within Avalon too like King Arthur" He added.
"Giving out information like that is just asking to be countered" She replied. Shinji got nervous and ran away. Luckily for me he didn't see me.
"That would explain why she looked familiar" I heard Saber mumble. I didn't know exactly why she said that, but it would be best if I pretended not to hear that.
"Saber the Arena can wait a minute we're going back to the Library" I said. We went to the Library as I kept repeating on what I knew about Shinji's Servant, or should I call her Rider now. We made it to the Library and I found a book about the Invincible Armada. It said that it belonged to Spain and was Destroyed by Francis Drake. That must be Rider's true name. So she was the first to circumnavigate the globe too. "Saber her true name is Francis Drake" I said to her.
"I'm aware" She said. "Once he said Avalon, and was on par with King Arthur I knew" She added.
"I guess you're really well versed in the Arthurian Legends" I replied.
"Well of course" Saber said triumphantly. "I mean why wouldn't I be I am King-..." She stopped mid sentence.
"King who?" I asked. Saber's face went red with embarrassment. That must mean that she didn't want me to know she was a king. But if she was a king.. And she even knew the people of Avalon, but not only that she knew the Arthurian Legend. Then she is King Arthur.. It might be best if I don't tell her I figured it out.
"Nothing forget I said anything" She replied as she turned away from me. Yup she doesn't want me to know just yet. It's fine this way.. I'll just wait until she is ready to tell me and see if my theory was correct.
"If you say so" I said as I put my hands behind my head. and started to walk out of the Library. I could tell Saber was happy that I had just dropped the thought, but he didn't know that I knew her true identity. "Look Saber I don't think that we'll have any time to really get things done in the Arena today so lets compile our information and call it a day" I said.
"As you wish" She replied. The two of us walked back to our room together. We found out Rider's true name and what she did in her life span. We were walking through the dormitory's halls and there I seen a familiar face. Saber went straight to spirit form. His servant wasn't there with him either. I walked up to him and asked, "I never got your name?"
"Oh it's you…. Mahiro was it?"
"Yes"
"We'll I'm Keith. But for no one stay clear of me because we're enemies now" He said this with an ice cold look in his eyes. I would call him an ass like Shinji and all, but he was right. He was absolutely correct there can only one one winner. Not only that but teaming or making friends here could lead to my downfall. Saber and I went back to our room. I fell asleep with that thought in my mind. The color red flashed before me. As a piece of my past was starting to appear…
TBC
Author's Note:
I want to thank everyone who has read this. Also King Keith who allowed me to use his OC Keith King in my story. You should really read his story The Defiant Ones it's really good and you won't regret reading it. Once again Thank you to those who have been reading this.
