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Rider reacted first to the changing situation by shooting pistols at Archer and Lancer, causing them both to split from each other. then instantly as though a bell rang out the battle continued as though nothing happened though Saber required a punch from Berserker to get her out of her stupor that the father that she loved and looked up to now was now a womanly woman.
"Oh? That was a cheap shot there, Berserker!" Mordred said viciously as she cracked her neck at Berserker who only narrowed his eyes on her. "Let's see you take this then!" She yelled as she activated her Prana Burst to charge at Berserker with her now electrifying blade as Berserker grunted and retaliated by firing at Saber as quickly as he could.
But Saber was simply tanking all of his shots and thus Berserker was forced to shift to his sword as he clashed with her once again as the ground shook at their clash and soon parts of the road were torn up from the amount of force that they were putting into their blows with each other. "How annoying." Berserker grunted. "You are even more reckless in comparison, like a brat."
"Take that back!" Saber growled as she slammed her sword at Berserker's neck only to be deflected by him again as he side stepped her every attack or blocked while making the small turn around and pulling out his rifle to fire at her direction. Only for Saber to simply tank it or to block the shot with her sword.
Then she charged at him and grabbed his neck of his uniform, causing Berserker's eyes to widen as she smashed him into the ground and screamed as she dragged him against said ground and threw him at a nearby wall as he smashed straight through it and then she had to block multiple gun shots aimed at her and much to her surprise managed to push her back and some even pierced her armor as Berserker came out of the rubble looking very furious and very injured as he growled viciously as he made several soldiers appear before him and they all took aim and fired at her.
"Damn!" Saber cursed as she pulled back as far as she could as more and more soldiers similarly dressed to Berserker appeared and opened fire on her. "Wasn't this supposed to be a one on one duel!?" She complained only for Berserker to be where she is suddenly and then smashed her sword with his sword sending her screeching against the road.
"My apologies." Berserker said insincerely as he pulled out his rifle and opened fire on par her once again as Saber got pelted with shots from not only him but also his smoky summons now. "I didn't think straight or remember that, I am a Berserker after all." He stated as he charged at her once more and now this time Berserker had the edge over her as his eyes seem to get increasingly more and more red as he redirected the blows that she was desperately trying to make into the ground, to the sides, or at herself causing even more damage to her.
"Damn it!" Saber cursed as she suddenly dropped her sword to grab Berserker's sword, causing him to be surprised and to his eyes widen in shock. As he was still in shock, he didn't raise his rifle in time for Saber to wrench his sword to the side and then headbutt him hard and breaking his nose while she was at it. Recoiling in pain he grunted and glared at Saber who took back her sword and then charged at him with the intent to kill him once more as Berserker retaliated soon enough.
"How about that you piece of shit?" Saber breathed heavily as Mordred raised her sword as Berserker clashed with her once again as they fought each other for supremacy and everyone that was not fighting can only be in awe of the power, strength, and skill that these two Servants have shown to the Master. Each showing why they were contenders to be among the strongest Servants in the Grail War.
"Damn you! Stay still so I can hit you!" Rider screamed at Archer as she kept on firing her pistols at Archer who managed to dodge all of her shots through her own agility and her own unique skills that allow her to keep track of what could possibly hit her. As Archer would sometimes jump away then release one of her arrows at Archer who dodged out of the way as the arrow in question made a long crater into the road that she once stood upon.
"Why don't you make me then?" Archer taunted as she offered up her hand in a 'come at me' motion that annoyed Rider more than she would like to admit as she continued to open fire on Archer as the two long range fighting Servants continued to try and hit each other with their shots as fast as they could or as accurately as they can but Archer was simply far too fast for her to simply hit. Likely due to the nature of her being an older known legend while Archer's arrows were rather easy for Rider to see and dodge in the nick of time.
The Headless Servant's mount growled angrily at Lancer as he showed all of its teeth and narrowed its eyes in rage in pure hatred. Something that worried Shirou to no end as he gulped upon seeing the sight of the supernatural folklore coming to life and it seems as though the concept of Death has finally come to claim his soul. Soon Shirou was pulled out of his scared thoughts as Lancer calmly and gently grabbed his shoulder as Shirou looked up to see Lancer smiling kindly at him.
"You have nothing to fear Shirou, so long as I am here, that Servant will not lay any form of harm or danger on you." Lancer assured as Shirou's hearts started to slow down and calm down a bit at Lancer's words which was enhanced by her Charisma Skill. It wouldn't do for her Master be scared as she intended to face this Servant down.
"Okay Lancer, please take care of that Servant." Shirou said as Lancer nodded as she slid her helmet back on. As Shirou soon secured himself in a position for him to make sure that he was both safe and would not accidentally get in her way when she is fighting this unknown Servant.
The unknown Servant's giant wolf simply snarled at her and Shirou and charged at them with the intent to fully rip out their throats. Soon she spurred her mount into action as she brought up her lance to deal with the mount as did the other Servant did with his sword and soon they clashed with their weapons sparkling in the night as their metal weapons struck each other.
Then the wolf quickly rebounded as he tried a different tactic of maneuvering itself so it can take advantage of the environment to go after her in a different way by jumping on the top of the buildings to deal with them. Which Lancer quickly noted as the unknown Servant was trying to get the jump on her and Shirou by staying on the higher ground despite the disadvantages that it cost the unknown Servant. Thankfully for her, luckily for Shirou, and most unfortunately for the unknown Servant. Lancer was not your run of the mill Servant as Lancer motioned her steed to go forth and pursue the unknown Servant on the top of the buildings as well.
Then as her mount continued to run faster towards the buildings, it did something completely unexpected in which it seemed to push extra force to the back legs and leaped right front the ground and onto the building tops leaving a small crater behind where Lancer used the power of her mount to push herself upwards.
The unknown Servant was taken aback by this as it seemingly recoiled at what Lancer did and then started moving ahead of Lancer who was now quickly coming up rather fast to catch up with him. Soon Lancer was close enough to the unknown Servant that she could start to use her lance to attack him with it forcing the unknown Servant out on the defensive as it did everything that it could do to block the attack.
Soon both sword and lance clashed with each other once again as the Servants struggled to dominate each other for dominance on the battlefield. With both of their mounts adding even more to their struggle as the wolf from the unknown Servant's side snarled and tried to rip or bit into the mount that Lancer was with its teeth and claws in hopes of crippling the mount long enough for its rider to get the edge on the lady knight.
Her mount on the other hand and in contrast to the wolf was playing a more defensive approach to the Wolf using the armor that was afforded to the mount. It was able to shrug off or use its superior agility to safely get away from the wolf's fangs and claws and either headbutting the wolf hard in the face or actually using its powerful legs to kick the wolf away. It is also noted that the horse acts independently and acted in the best manner it could to protect Lancer and Shirou from harm while giving Lancer the best opportunity to strike back at the unknown Servant.
Meanwhile with the Servants that were trying to kill each other. Lancer had the advantage in armor and skills, however the unknown Servant had the advantage of being much more supernaturally inclined and sometimes she could feel as though something invisible was attacking her at times. The more and more Lancer fought with this unknown Servant, the more and more she began to wonder about this one and worry about it as she fought with it as she blocked a slash from the enemy's sword preventing him from taking her head.
'There were seven confirmed Servants already.' Lancer thought to herself as she tried to get out of the close range in which the short sword that the unknown Servant had was better for her than her own lance. 'So why is it that there are eight Servants here instead? I do not remember there being an Extra Servant that was summoned.' She finished her thoughts as her horse instantly crouched down as the unknown Servant was about to cut her head off but only got parts of the plume that was connected to her helmet as the horse then backed away rather quickly to stay out of range of the wolf's snapping jaws.
And then just now the unknown Servant targeted not her, but instead targeted Shirou with his sword, fully intending to cut him down to cause her to fade away. The first emotion that she felt when that happened was shock at the fact that the unknown Servant was about to kill a child. And then came rage at the audacity that the unknown Servant had when it intended to kill a child and more importantly her master and basically her ward as of this Grail War.
The first thing that she did was grabbed the arm that held the sword instantly causing the unknown Servant to be surprised. And then using her strength she used her power to crush his arm causing him to drop his sword as the unknown Servant backed away in pain and agony looking at his now crushed arm. And soon before the unknown Servant could react she rushed ahead with her mount and basically punched him hard in the chest causing an indent to form and knocking the Servant off the wolf before she glared down at the wolf through the helmet visor.
Soon she raised her lance and then with a twirl of her lance's power shining just a bit, she punted the wolf where the unknown Servant was to rejoin with his master knocking said unknown Servant out again under the weight of his own mount as Lancer huffed in annoyance at the two. "That's why you never target children when I'm around." She muttered.
"Mash calm down." Olga ordered as Mash seemingly blinked at the sight of Archer and then for some reason started to send all of their creations after her. And for the first time since Olga knew Mash, she could see only one emotion that burned in her eyes that were not hers but also hers at the same time.
Rage. Pure unadulterated Rage.
She didn't know why but somehow, she had a working theory and one that could prove to be an acceptable reason why. The Servant that was within Mash was acting out the moment it saw Archer. So, she can only conclude that the Servant that entered Mash while she was summoning a Servant was somehow connected to Archer on some level. It was the only reason why she seemingly lost control of herself and someone else came and took control of her.
"Mash, snap out of it!" Olga nearly shouted as she slapped Mash only to wince at the pain she felt when doing so. And during the incident, Masha had seemingly regained control of herself and gasped at what she had just tried to do and remember.
"Olga, what happened?" She asked sounding very scared now and Olga couldn't blame her, imagine losing complete and total control of yourself only for another entity to effectively take control of your body and then use it like a puppet. And Olga couldn't blame Mash for feeling that way as she soon knelt down to reach where Mash was.
"Mash, you lost control of yourself the moment you saw Archer." Olga said as Mash went wide eyed at that. "Yes, I am not lying Mash." She replied.
"Oh no!" She gasped out. "What about our creations?" She instantly spoke as Olga blinked then her eyes went wide as she went back to see what happened only to see that the vast majority were taken out already. She kept on looking around and saw that the creations they sent out got turned to rubble when they tried moving but suddenly stopped at their lack of command and during that time. The Servants Saber and Berserker had continued their clash and completely blown past them as Olga struggled to find out what happened to them only to see that they were no longer around.
"They're all gone." Olga muttered as she looked to see that the few remaining golems of sorts that they had created were badly damaged and at her command were now retreating. "They never stood a chance against any of the Servants now." She muttered to herself as one of their creations came back and was scratched all over but looking the best out of the entire lot of them.
"Olga?" Mash spoke up.
"…We're going now." She ordered causing Mash to blink. "It is pretty clear that we don't stand a chance, we need to regroup and rethink our strategies, just sending them out to fight is not good enough we need to think ahead." She said to Mash who nodded at what she said.
"Very well Olga, I will follow your orders." She said as the two girls left the scene as fast as they could before they could be noticed by anyone else who would see them as easy prey.
Sigma looked through the scope of his rifle as he examined the fight that Archer and Rider were having and was understandably…less than impressed by what he saw. Compared to the massive fight that Saber and Berserker had earlier tonight, this looks like a mere supernatural shootout between two Servants and he find the idea to be quite silly.
Assassin had been ordered to go on ahead to observe Lancer and that unknown Servant that was summoned to fight her and her little master. Sigma will admit that he is surprised by the summoning of an unknown Servant…but then again that's what they were hired for by the Grand Assassin. Or more likely forced to enlist against his will, but for now he will admit that he was interested in taking out the Master of Lancer and then seeing him die.
Soon Sigma blinked at the thought of killing the Master of Lancer. He will admit, he was a bit more than intrigued by the boy more than he thought. If only for his family name, a name that is very infamous in both the mercenary works and the Moonlit World. A name that has become related with the word fear for most Magus.
Emiya.
He should know that name very well, after all. The Magus Killer was a Master in the Fourth Grail War and he was the only person to have known what had happened to his mother, the woman who gave birth to him and then left him for his own good. Maiya. He wanted to know what had happened to his mother and the moment that the Magus Killer went on the move in Fuyuki his mother ended up dead along with hundreds at the climax of the Grail War.
He didn't know why, but the moment he heard that his birth parent was dead because of him, he felt some semblance of emotion that made him want to scowl or sneer at the sight of the Magus Killer. He felt rage, pure and honest to God rage. And Assassin was right, he shouldn't have thought about killing that brat or that woman. They could have ended up not involved in the Grail War, but the moment he heard that last name of the boy, it is as though he lost all semblance of control and became rage.
'Just how petty have you become Sigma?' Sigma sighed and berated himself as he looked around. 'You are better than this, you're not a fool, you had a mission to accomplish and because of your own foolishness you have foolishly caused the last two masters to be found and all but alienated yourself from Assassin. In any situation a fractured relationship is likely to end up with you dead if you keep on alienating all those you need to trust to work with in order to survive this Grail War.' He reminded himself.
Shaking his head of those thought he paid attention to where Archer and Rider were fighting. He can get details on the unknown Servant that Lancer was fighting later on. For some reason, the moment he saw that unknown Servant appeared on the battlefield. He had a feeling that the Servant in question was an abnormality. He just felt something wrong about it, like it wasn't even supposed to exist, it was far too off putting for a mere Servant to be like even though Servants can vary from time to time.
But even Assassin, which represented the more nobler side of soldiers who fought and not the crueler or darker side of war was picked through an Avatar that represented it best. The unknown Servant was something that wasn't suppose to exist, in fact it's more like multiple weaker spirits forming together to become a strong entity. He knew the tales of the Headless Horseman but never as he ever heard of any variations of a story in which the Headless Horseman rode a wolf ever. Now that he also remembered that wolf seemed rather independent and rather proactive for being a simple mount unlike that of Lancer's horse.
"It seems I have a lot to discuss with both Assassins and apologize to Assassin for being a prick later on." Sigma said to himself as he kept watch on the situation and soon narrowed his eyes at what he saw next. "Have to gather as much info as I can at this moment." He muttered to himself.
"Get back here and die!" Rider roared as she fired her pistols at Archer once again as Archer dodged out of the way and retaliated on her by firing arrows of her own. They both dodged before they could get shot by each other's bullets and arrows.
Rider soon got away from Archer and slumped down and sighed at what she had to deal with next. "Damn it, her being an Archer grants her an advantage over me." She muttered. "And worse yet is she hasn't use her Noble Phantasm yet and I can't even use mine here in such a crowded area." She muttered as she looked around where she can best deploy her noble Phantasm to the best of her ability. "Ideally I would have a body of water to take advantage of my Noble Phantasm to its limitations." She muttered to herself as she still kept looking.
Soon she paused as she looked a bit closer before she gained a smirk on her face as before stood a big pool of water that was currently used as a pool. If she could get there in time then she can deploy parts of her Noble Phantasm and take advantage of that. First, she took a deep breath and then she soon started running as fast as she could while avoiding the arrows that were being shot at her. As she casually retaliated with her pistols.
If it were anyone else, this would be a completely insane maneuver with no chance of success. But Rider was not just simply anyone. She was a Servant that stood above normal men and women with her deeds and actions. She was a Heroic Spirit that carved her name into history. And her abilities were simply enhanced by her summoning as a Heroic Spirit. She had the Luck stat at EX Ranked, which was basically unquantifiable to calculate and basically means things that should not happen will happen because of her high luck. And the other important bit about her is that she had Pioneer of the Stars Skill at EX Ranked as well so she can most likely succeed in situations that would be impossible for normal Heroes or Servants.
So, in other words, she was able to reach the open spot where she can use her Noble Phantasm to possibly counteract Archer's attack. But she also had to be careful, it wouldn't to do well at all if a Heroic Spirit accidentally caused collateral damage in the form of civilian lives to be used. She did have her standards after all and not to mention her Master would most likely be disappointed with her and use her adorable puppy eyes to make her feel bad.
And as a rule of thumb, making children sad tends to make her feel like garbage and she would rather not feel like garbage ever. Hell, she only started to cut back down on drinking because of her little master, all the girl had to do was pout in a cute way and start to tear up and soon she would give in. It was a damn good thing that Berserker wasn't there to see it otherwise he would never ever let her live it down.
"Oh? I must admit, you are quite lucky if you can avoid all of my shots with ease." Archer spoke up to her as she kept her cool and collected eyes on her as Rider turned around and faced her. "But I am afraid that luck can only buy you so much time before it fails you." She said. "What a disappointment, I was wondering what you would use as your mount but it seems that you were far too arrogant to even call it up for this battle." She commented.
Rider sighed as she raised her hands up in a mock surrendering fashion. "Suppose you got me now." She stated but here's one more thing though." She said as Archer raised her eyebrows. "I'm only beginning to fight." She said as she opened fire at Archer as she retaliated as Rider fired even more shots and used her ricochet tricks to buy her some time as she started to call upon her Noble Phantasm.
As Archer backed away from the shots that were fired Rider started chanting to call upon her Noble Phantasm.
"Remember my name by the death from my passing! Temeroso el Draque! I am the woman who set the sun! You rascals, it's time! The King of Storms, a swarm of ghosts, this is the beginning of the Wild Hunt! Golden Wild Hunt: The Night of the Golden Hind and the Storm"
Rider roared out as a ghostly ship came out of the storms that gathered the moment she started chanting and grinned viciously as Archer went wide eyed and took a step back from her. She could only one ship safely and that was her personal ship. "Archer, you wanted to see my mount? Well here it is!" Rider declared viciously hope you're ready because I'm about to bring the thunder!" She roared at her as the cannons on her ship opened fire on Archer. Who then started to run away as fast as she could while trying to hit Rider, which proved useless as she was simply well too protected inside her ship which made Rider smirk.
While her Noble Phantasm was rather taxing and no doubt that Fiore would feel rather uncomfortable about her using her Noble Phantasm which should be no surprise since Noble Phantasms are always draining as a rule of thumb. Fiore was good with her Magic Circuit but summoning high ranking Noble Phantasms especially for those of the Rider Class were not easy to summon.
Ah well it will be worth it once she blew that Archer Servant to bits and pieces as she shifted her personal ship around to have its cannons fire at Archer and it really annoyed her that Archer was really damn fast like almost at the Lancer Class speed which made it unfair in her opinion. And to make things even more annoying for her, that Lancer she saw also had a mount as well, that was completely and utterly unfair in her opinion.
Archer was having a rather annoying time in her opinion as her foe had managed to summon a ship out to fight her. She knew that she was at a disadvantage as that ship made it impossible for her to use conventional means to take down her target. Honestly her best shot was to use one of her Noble Phantasms to take it down as only a Noble Phantasm can take down another Noble Phantasm in direct combat. But it's not like she was going to have the time to prep and ready herself to use it as Rider was currently blasting everything to bits and pieces.
But on the other hand, she now knew who it was she was dealing with and the foe she was facing was a rather annoying one in all honesty.
Francis Drake, the Explorer, she's practically famous in the Western half of the world and basically discovered many new lands and territory. And she had skills and stats that made her a truly dangerous foe despite being a relatively new Heroic Spirit on comparison to her. She wasn't equipped or build to take on foes like her ship or her cannons at all in the least.
The Boar Hunt that she went on could attest to that one. While she did land the wounding shot, she certainly did not land the killing blow on the damned Boar. She was all about agility and hit and run tactics and using swarm of her arrows to take down multiple enemies. In fact, she could say that she was not ideal in taking on Servants in one on one. In only there was something that she could do to stop that ship from moving or use something that could allow her to get up on the ship and fight the Servant in hand to hand.
Then she noticed something to the side and widened her eyes and then smirk a tiny a bit as it was a long haul of cable cord that they used for construction purpose. Soon she started running towards it and managed to get the cord before the cannon fire blew it up and then started taking one of her stronger arrows and then started tying a knot around the arrow and then started running out as she avoided all the shots that were being made at her and soon she took the time to take a deep breath in while she was prepping the shot.
Soon she was able to find a pattern in the shots and soon when they stopped firing for a moment she took the moment to fire the arrow and poured in as much magical energy as she could into it. And soon she released the arrow at the ship and as it soared through the sky. She was worried for a moment that it would not hit the ship but was glad to heard the satisfying clunk on the arrow connecting to the ship. Soon she started climbing up the ship and on the rope as the ship spun around trying to find traces of her but had no luck as Rider could not see below her ship at all.
Once she finished climbing she used her arrows as climbing tools till she could reach part of the ship that she could scale and soon managed to climb the sides of the ship and then reached the top where she released an arrow at Rider who jumped back in shock and surprise at her managing to scale her ship and managed to succeed in doing so.
Soon Rider smirked at her as she pulled out her pistols. "So, you managed to reach here eh? Got to say you're pretty determined, but you're still going to fall here." Rider taunted as Archer narrowed her eyes.
"The only one who will fall shall be you." Archer retorted and just as the two were about to retaliate once again, they both soon heard the sirens of police cars and looked down to see far away that the police were heading here.
Rider scoffed. "Damn it, guess they heard the mess we're making here." She said before she shrugged and smirked at Archer. "Guess we have to finish it another time." She said before the ship they stood on vanished and soon Rider vanished as she turned to her sprit form leaving Archer to fall high down.
Both Berserker and Saber panted as they glared each other viciously and both raised their weapons once more to fight but soon as Saber was about to retaliate. Gun shots went off and soon two human hearts went off in the direction on Saber's face and exploded covering her face in blood and heart flesh as Kairi drove by Berserker's side.
"Get in, the police are coming." Kairi ordered as Berserker nodded and got in before he vanished and dusted off.
Saber was able to get the flesh off her face but soon cursed upon being ordered to retreat as well but complied regardless.
Lancer was facing down the unknown Servant and soon arrows came whistling out of nowhere as they struck down the wolf mount causing it to yelp as it pierced its legs and soon Archer came landing down and faced Lancer.
"We need to move now. The mortal lawmen are coming." She said as Lancer nodded and motioned for her to get on board her horse, which she did and soon the trio left as the unknown Servant growled viciously but retreated as well.
The first night of the Tokyo Grail War was officially over for now.
Hope you guy enjoy the first battle in Fate Fake War. I know that some people disappointment about Assassin and Caster. but don't worry they will had chance so shine.
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