AzureKing: Yo everyone!
AzureQueen: Hello been awhile huh?
AK: Well its' my birthday, so please enjoy this update and wish me a happy birthday tomorrow~! Also...Got Emiya Assassin awhile ago WHOOO, I'm just missing Ilya to complete the Emiya Family XD
Anyway some Q and A,
eniox27: She was but I think the idea I used was the same thing.
Stratos263: Yeah he does its a Blessing/Curse.
CHAPTER START!
The next morning had come and after having breakfast (which was stew deer thanks to Oda and Atalanta), the group all looked at each other, "So where are heading?" Yukiko stated as she placed the wooden bowl, that was made from Tamamo's magic, on the ground after finishing her meal.
"We'll first have to cut through this forest and head to Orléans." Jeanne replied but quickly frowns at the next tidbit she will say. "Of course, it will be difficult to enter directly. But we should be able to gather information from the surrounding towns and forts."
"That sounds reasonable." Naruto stated as he stood up stretching his neck, "Assuming we don't run into the enemy so soon."
"Quite so, but we have to be ready for anything nonetheless." Olga added, as she was about to set her food away until Arthur spoke.
"Miss Olga, you've barely eaten your stew. Was it not to your liking?" The King of Knights stated.
"It's fine… I'm not that hungry anyways." Olga said, easily letting the servants know that she wasn't telling the truth.
"It doesn't matter, you got to eat to keep up your strength." The blonde stated as he looked down at her, "Yesterday was light walking, I have a feeling that we will be walking miles without a long meal. I suggest you eat before we go on."
"I said-"
"Please… I'd rather not feed you by force," Arthur frowned.
The young woman would usually be brustled at the order but… she picked up her stew and resume eating despite wanting not to…
Naruto looked at the team and spoke, "We need to speak about dynamics."
"What?" His childhood friend asked as the blonde pointed at the servants.
"How to fight, I'd rather not get into Oda-sama or Atalanta's arrows and bullets." He stated as the short female grinned at her Master's friend acknowledgement of her skills. "So we need to figure out this before someone gets friendly fire."
"Perhaps they would be our first line of offense?" Jeanne suggested. "That way, when the enemy forces have dwindled down enough, a second line of offense can move in."
"I don't know, Oda I can see. How many of those flint rifles can you use?" The priest asked the warlord who smiled as she had a few of her trusty rifles floating.
"I can produce five before sending them back to be reloaded."
"Okay." Naruto nodded. "So me, Arthur, and Oda would be in the front lines. Okita, my Saber, and Medusa would guard the girls, and lastly Tamamo, Atalanta and lastly Mashu would help provide support."
"Yes, senpai." Mashu nodded.
"Understood." Okita replied.
The priest nodded as the rest seem to agree with his choice, "Let's see if this works."
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A FEW HOURS LATER
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The group spend most of the time walking out the forest as they were now finally, and literally, out of the woods. Jeanne smiled as she looked around, "We're almost close to La Charite." She stated as the servants and master seem to enjoy hearing some good news on some rest in the horizon.
"I'm guessing that will be our first stop?" Naruto questioned.
The director of the Grand Order, nodded, after catching her breath first, "That would be… best… given that we… need… information." She breathed heavily as the long hike nearly made her lose her stomach contents a few times.
"Are you alright, Miss Olga?" Arthur asked worriedly, moving toward her to make sure she wasn't going to be ill.
"I'm quite fine, thank you." Olga huffed, trying to stand up and regain her posture to its normal state.
"Really? Because the way you puked last time-" Yukiko said.
"I didn't." The white haired girl glared dangerously at her subordinate. "I told you I'm-" She then felt her body getting heavy as she fell.
"Whoa!" Naruto grabbed the girl, before realizing her breathing was getting shallow, "What the hell? This isn't just a few miss breakfast, you're malnourished!"
"Don't… be ridiculous…" Olga wheezed, trying to pull away from Naruto only to for her arms to fall limp. "I'm-"
"Olga, stop," Naruto frowned, placing her on the ground taking off his priest jacket to fold it, and place it under her head… "You need rest. You need to keep up your strength." He pulled up his wrist and activated the contact button, "Oi, doctor, we got a problem. Director Marie is… complicating some things. Is there anyway to send her back?"
Soon the group watched as blue colored hologram appeared before Naruto, "No, once the team is sent in, they would have to stay until the Singularity is fixed. Sorry but you have to protect her best as you can."
"Lovely…" Naruto sighed. "Arthur, do you mind carrying her?"
The man nodded as he gently grab the girl into his arms, "We must find some place for her to rest properly."
"That La Charite place should be fine, right? We're going there anyways." Yukiko said.
"I'd rather avoid meeting the forces of the other me, if at all possible." Jeanne stated as she was unsure of the army they will be facing soon.
"You seem awfully calm about it though." Naruto said as he never seen her once scared or lost her composure in the time they spent.
"Quite the opposite. I'm actually terrified." Jeanne replied. "No matter how you look at it, the other "me" clearly isn't in her right mind. The mere thought of what she could do controlling the people- I can't imagine it. Hatred and power can overwhelm even the most noble of people."
"That and most governments," Yukiko stated offhandedly, as she knew that people would often be corrupted by greed.
"I suggest you stop talking." Caren came, after pushing Romani to the side, "The radar states you got an enemy servant in that town you are heading towards."
"What?!" The blondes stated as they looked around
"W-Wait, they're leaving...dammit I lost them." The nun growled as she hit the console and effectively cutting the transmission.
"Did she-" Yukiko stated as the only reason the cut tranmission happen was-
Naruto nodded as Yukiko facepalmed, "Magus, don't know how to use machines and must've hit the off button."
"So now what?" Atalanta asked. "Shall we dispose of the enemy?"
"I wouldn't chase after running targets." The priest stated, as he pointed at Olga. "Not when we got a weakened ally with us." He then looked to the enemy coming closer. "We'll have to let the enemy come to us. Mashu, Okita, we're taking point."
"Understood/Hai~" The two girls said moving to the front of the team, moving ahead the team quickly made way into the destination of the town. Naruto eyes keep looking for any danger that is until Fou suddenly popped out of nowhere and started to climb onto Mashu's head.
"Fou?" Mashu looked up.
"What's he doing here?" Naruto asked.
"Must've slipped in." Yukiko stated as she saw the Fou cutely jumping up and down on the woman's head. "Aww… he's dancing."
"You call that a dance?" Naruto deadpanned. "He's just jumping." However he realized the panic look in the smart creature, and looked at the direction of where- "Shit, the town's on fire!"
The Maid of Orleans's eyes widened in horror, dashing like Hell was behind her, "We have to save the people!"
"Huh!?" Yukiko said startled.
"Yeah, so much for dancing, c'mon!" Naruto urged before running off.
"R-Right!" Yukiko shouted as she follows her friend with the servants running towards them as well.
"Romani, I need a status update on the town!" Naruto commanded.
"T-There's nothing alive! The villagers are all dead!" Romani stated as his voiced was only heard in case the team need to keep their eyes open. Jeanne lowered her flag in pain of the lost lives while Mashu spoke out a soft, 'No way…'
"Damn…" Naruto cursed.
"Watch your backs everyone." Atalanta warned, readying an arrow.
"Why-" Ritsuka eyes widen as Medusa threw a silver nail, nearly a foot long at her. But thankfully it went past her, making the red haired girl gasp as a man with grey skin and dead eyes was stabbed in the head. "Wha!" she gasped out unable to speak as she saw the monster.
Medusa quickly removed the nail, along with the ghoul's head, as she stood in front of her master. "Master are you alright?"
"I-I'm fine!" She squeaked.
Soon the dead that were around them started to stir and stand up slowly as Naruto glared at them. "Ghouls, usually a Dead Ancestor pet project." He growled killing many of them when working with his blonde True Ancestor.
"Apostle." Olga stated, "It's Dead Apostle."
"W-What's that?" Yukiko asked.
"Another time!" Naruto yelled when he stabbed a ghoul with a black key, "Okay, you guys know the drill those who protect, those who are shooting, and those in the front lines. Let's go, people move!"
Medusa and Mashu quickly moved between Yukiko and Arthur, who was still holding Olga, as they were driving back the enemies. "What, where's that Dark Saber?" Yukiko stated as she saw the dark dress woman, now wearing her pitch-black armor busting ghoul's blades with her metal arm guard and slicing their heads.
"Saber, protect the girls!" Naruto ordered parrying a ghoul's lance as Oda shot him down.
"Nonsense, I will not be held back from the fight!" She yelled kill three when her sword length was extended.
"Dammit, Caster-"
"Casko, dear husband!" The fox girl cried out, but not until snapping the neck of a ghoul… as it twisted off like spring from the raw power of fox woman. "And hai~ I shall help the snake woman and the Shield Lass!"
"Have some of this!" Oda shouted as she fired her five rifles at a group of ghouls, destroying them into dust.
Okita was next to a ghoul as she stabbed him into a wall, "She having too much fun, huh?"
"Gahhh~!"
"Right? Anyway thanks Seta." She stated as the girl pulled her katana and sliced the body in half. "Man, this sucks." She added before coughing out blood, she rubbed her wrist to wipe the blood off. "Ugh… that too…"
Quickly in a matter of moments the group was able to kill the ghouls, "Everyone okay?" Naruto asked as he pulled out a black key.
"Yes, we're okay." Mashu nodded.
"Well, so much for resting here. We have to keep moving." Naruto said, before glaring at his Saber. "And what the hell was that?"
"I told you that I would not be held back." Saber Alter glared.
"You still disobeyed my order." Naruto said, but before he can say more he felt more beings coming. Looking at the ground he saw nothing.
"Dragons!"
Everyone turned to Yukiko as she pointed above them, and they gawked when they saw large orange colored dragons the size of a small house.
"Dragons… no, wyverns," Jeanne corrected. "How is this possible?"
"Dunno, but when in doubt… aw fuck it shoot!" Oda yelled as she pull out her rifle and aim at the draconic monsters. Successfully hitting one in the eye, as it fell to the ground! "Haha! How did you like that!?" She boasted… that is until the other dragons glared at her, and suddenly Oda shrank in realization, "Oh no…" She stated and ran as most of them chased after her. "Someone help~!"
"Dammit!" Yukiko cried as one was able to grab her, only for a paper talisman enter its mouth and in a second exploded with large ice crystal where it head was supposed to be. "W-Wha-?"
"You need to be more careful," Tamamo said with a cute smile, before being tackled by another wyvern.
"More like you." Medusa smirked as Tamamo ripped the head off the beast.
"Uhh, Naruto?" Romani voiced echoed to Naruto's head as he jumped onto wyvern back to slice off its wings. "We got a problem!"
"Kinda busy at the moment!"
"It's kinda important, those servants we thought that were gone?"
"Yeah- don't tell me!" he started as the wyverns started to flee.
"Why are they flying away?" Yukiko wondered.
"That's why…" Naruto stated as he saw flames slowly entering from the opposite end of the town. "We got to run." He stated, as Alter shook her head.
"We can kill them."
"I highly recommended that you do NOT do that! Any sane person would!"
"He's right. We have to run. Now." Naruto said, before bolting off, but watched as Saber held her ground. "Dammit, with my First Command seal!" The priest raised his hand, "Saber you will come and listen to my orders." One part of his Command Seal faded away and Alter glowed, her body being forced to turn around and run towards him.
"Kotomine!" She screamed out, as she and the others ran off.
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OUTSIDE OF LA CHARITE
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"Did we… lose them?" Yukiko panted heavily after they managed to hide back into the forest.
"I… where's Naruto and Jeanne?" Atalanta stated looking around for her master and her new ally/foe, "I knew she couldn't be trusted!"
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BACK AT THE TOWN
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"Jeanne-san, are you okay?" Naruto asked, as he stays behind when realizing that she wasn't going anywhere.
"I won't run… I must learn why they are doing this." She stated, as Naruto noticed she was clutching her flag tighter than ever.
However the time for talking was over, five beings were slowly walking in front of the two. The priest and the saint moved closer as they saw them. One was a tall man, extremely pale but had an elegant black suit while holding a lance. His wavy long wait and beard and moustache combo made him into wealthy man.
Standing to him was woman of similar looks, she wore a masquerade mask showing bright yellow cat like eyes. She wore a red dress that barely did anything to cover herself as her breasts and mid section was nearly nude if not for the black leather undergarments and corset. What really worried Naruto was the metal like thorn cage around her body, and the staff in her hands. Her long white bone colored hair was done in small curls in the end, to top off her sadistic like image was to long red and black.
Another two came from behind the blondes, a total opposite to the first pair. The one on right was… something odd. He couldn't tell if the person was a girl or a boy. The blue suit was covering a one-piece white dress, the sleeves of the suit were frilly. On top of the suit, was a flower-like cape. On her head was large blue musketeer hat, and to complete the look were white gloves.
Odd… his measurement sensory wasn't online yet at the same time he can guess… weird.
The one beside the girl(?) like the other woman held a staff, but it was a large Christian design. Her clothing was a loose and white dress that covered her sides and breasts. Showing a lovely amount of skin in the middle and legs as well. On her arms were silver armguards, and silver shin guards on top of the boots. On her shoulders were a red cape with chainmail added to it, her long purple hair was long and straight keep it in golden accessory with a white ribbon that was long enough to go past her shoulders.
The last one… shocked Naruto… it was like looking in a mirror… that made you into a dark version of the person reflecting. "What.. the… hell?"
Naruto didn't say that… and certainly not Jeanne… but it was Jeanne…
A Jeanne standing in front of them, a Jeanne wearing obsidian colored armor and dress that Jeanne was currently wearing. However the difference was her pale skin, yellow colored eyes that reminded him of Saber, and the fact that her hair was white and short, not sporting the big braid that Jeanne has. "Oi, one of you guys splash water on me." She said with an annoyed look, "I see the weakling version of me."
The one with purple hair spoke out, almost robotically, "It is you, Lady Jeanne."
"Gah, great." She said before noticing Naruto and giving a cruel grin. "Hello handsome."
Naruto couldn't believe it…
Another Joan of Arc…
CHAPTER END
AK: I hope you all enjoy it, please leave a review and have a great rest of the year!