And again it took me forever. In my defense I only got one review and I stumbled across the Fate Zero anime.

Of course I had to watch the whole thing but real life kept interfering.

I know a lot of people probably aren't happy with Assassin being Sakura, but anyone who has played the game knows she does go crazy under AM pretty easily. This just has her with a fragile attachment to Shirou going crazy so it's not too hard to go to this. I was going to use this chapter to go into more detail with her as well as a little thing I was leading to at the end of last chapter and show the comparison between them.

Then I remembered a loose end that I came up with an idea for I absolutely loved. The two storylines still have a tie between the events, just not the one I had intended.

And the little thing I was leading up to….I know people are going to hate that even more than Assassin being Sakura but I couldn't get the idea out of my head and since I'm getting no reviews anyways there's not too many people to object.

Plus, in my opinion it makes things a hell of a lot more fun, then again, I love twisting things both in mind twist and in fucking characters over

I do feel that the first bit could've been done better but I couldn't come up with any better way to do it. I did my best, tried to convey what I was feeling, if you think you can do it better PM me and I may put in your rewrite for the first bit if it works better, I can't do any better and I know others can.

I know anyone still reading probably wanted to see Sakura's torture, I hope this works instead XD
Also, I had to go in and do a bit of a text edit and place in the transfer to the next line, if it's awkward you'll know the point I'm talking about and if so I'm sorry, I just didn't have a better way to do it.

Torment of Rebirth

Chapter 8

Corruption

Assassin's Rebirth

Shirou's Perspective

Kill, kill, kill the world, slaughter the vermin andNO. I will not kill anyone. I am a hero Heroes kill people I don't How will you save anyone if you allow those trying to hurt them to live? I will find a way There is no way There has to be a way. Kill them. Kill them all. I am a Hero of Justice Justice is a lie. Nothing is fair, nothing is reasonable. Only one thing will truly save anyone. And what is that? Death. Death will set them free. Release them from the pain and suffering into a world where they will receive what they deserve. A world with true justice.I do not kill. Sure you do, you ordered your Saber to kill someone, that's the same as you killing him.He was hurting people. So it's okay to kill the villains. Let me kill the villains. Let me slaughter them like the rats they are and destroy the filth that corrupts the world. And what do you consider filth? Anyone that hurts someone else. What if they…Kill hunt, feed, save, rubbish, filth, slime, muck, STOP IT kill them all and leave no one, end the world and still not done That is not a hero It's a hero that saves everyone from pain I want everyone to be happy They can be happy to be dead. The whole world burns and no one can see it. Their life is suffocating them as their bodies are being reduced to ash. Person after person caring only for themselves and those rare few willing to help others are killed by those they help. In the end every one falls, crushed by the world around them and charred beyond recognition. Family doesn't matter, love doesn't matter, happiness doesn't matter. All they do is make it more painful in the end. Better to bring the end now then let them suffer. Stop ignoring their pain and end it. End it end it end it END IT END IT END IT ENDITENDITENDITENDITENDITENDITSAVETHEMENDITENDITENDITENDITENDIT.

Stop their pain.

Caster could only hide behind her equipment as the boy's laughter filled the room. Gilgamesh's countless treasures were reproduced and shot all around. She knew for a fact that the Priest was dead and Gilgamesh was nowhere to be seen. Since her command seal hadn't faded, she guessed Rider was still alive but how she had no idea nor any as to where the Gorgon had disappeared to or what state she was in.

Then the laughter stopped.

Caster turned to look, expecting to have to stand slightly to look over her apparatus. She didn't.

Her lab was not what was now in front of her.

What she saw was an endless landscape. The sky was almost entirely black except for a red light in the distance. Caster placed her hand on the ground to push herself up but was met with an odd squelching sound and her hand felt like it separated some soft material. She looked down and was met with the familiar sight of disassembled bodies. Most were faceless but two she was able to distinguish.

The priest and Gilgamesh. Another was starting to form a face so the magus looked away. The bodies covered the endless landscape with a single hill and blades were struck into many of them. All the blades she had just shown the boy so she wouldn't lose Gilgamesh's treasury.

"They're waiting to be saved." She turned to the boy with a cringe. His skin had darkened considerably and a black ink-like substance was shifting along it, forming different runes and curses before changing shape, his eyes had turned red as the blood surrounding the body parts on the ground around him and his hair had changed color. The roots of his hair were as white as the Servant's who was supposed to be his future but the tips were as black as the curses shifting along his body, "I'll save them all, starting with you." He held his hand out and countless blades shot at her.

Caster's body fell into place where the image of her corpse had been.

"Repulsive vermin that you are."

Archer's Torment

Archer's Perspective

The moment Emiya Shirou touched the gate of his home, Archer and Rider shot out of it. The command seal Sakura had used on them now used up. The girl had gone to the mansion in the woods. She wasn't safe. Rider got to the forest first-she was naturally faster-but she had gone off in a wrong direction. Archer got to the woods about the same time as a familiar black mist.

"No…" He muttered to himself and only sped up. The mist was faster. The sound that Archer heard made him pale. He had saved her. She wasn't supposed to go through this.

He arrived at the door just in time to be shot back by holy light. Blinded from the flash, Archer went for the door again. All he could see was the familiar shape of that figure falling. He caught her.

Archer stayed still for a moment, trying to get his vision back.

"That disgusting creature. Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck!" Archer regained his vision to see a one armed man in gold surrounded by blades aimed at the two. Suddenly the man froze, unable to move. Archer turned to find the source.

"Don't look at me." He turned away, trusting Rider's words, "None of you look at me." None? Sakura was asleep. Archer kept his eyes firmly on the girl, having already had to face the Gorgon once, "Focus on anything but me." He heard Rider sigh, "Archer, get the three of them out of here." He nodded, not looking at her and heading to the door with his head down. When he reached it he found out who she was talking about and the two were quite firmly staring in the same direction.

Apparently Shirou had followed the Servants and Ilya had been on her way home. He placed Sakura on his back, creating some rope to tie her in place before scooping Shirou and Ilya each up in one arm and running.

Even now he could feel the consciousness he pulled out of Sakura settle once more into her with a hiss at Archer. It had no power over her now but it may just have pull.

He had wasted enough time. Sakura needed to learn to control her abilities as a grail now.

Assassin's Rebirth

Assassin's Perspective

As Assassin landed she mused over the remnants of the taint, kill, she knew that letting Gilgamesh dissolve rather than destroying any trace of the tainted king was a risk but Kill the Servant could tell that there was still a good amount of its consciousness Kill!left in the world despite how much she had been purifying it. The taint within KILL! her was even reacting to it.

Assassin knelt down to where Gilgamesh had fallen, her hand already glowing with one of the two abilities melded to her soul rather than the body of Matou Sakura.

And she cursed.

In the place that should have been SLAUGHTER MAIM TORTURE END KILL KILL KILL covered with the remaining particles of Gilgamesh's existence was only a minor taint, not nearly enough for if the King had truly been obliterated. There was even a trail she could sense if only because END IT ALL DESTROY KILL MAIM FEED KILL KILL the consciousness within her was growing because of it. Assassin placed the holy light she held against the ground and stood, letting the light follow the trail of Angra Mainyu as she moved to the side Torment pain end of it. The further the corrupted Matou traveled, the more she was starting to regret leaving Gilgamesh to fade.

Because she was obviously moving towards Ryudou temple. Odds are the mountain destroy crush hungry was once again Caster's territory. Just as Assassin reached the stairs, Rider shot out of the gate, followed closely by Saber. Then she felt it.

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Assassin grabbed her head and pulsed a small amount of the holy spell to ease the taint to her mind. As the voice died down she noted that the repetitive requests seemed to have a few additions to their normal violent intentions. The moment Archer appeared, another string of curses-these all directed towards the former redhead-appeared in her mind but as she was already diluting the consciousness within her, Assassin barely noticed the most practiced of the Evil's lines.

Archer frowned at Assassin as he noticed her, an odd mix of anger, worry, regret, pain, and caring within his eyes for the moment he focused on his former house-mate. Assassin jumped to the top of the steps in one go, meeting eyes with him with a smirk.

"Oh, sure. Now you show up." Assassin nearly chuckled as Rin growled this, stepping out of the trees, "What the hell were you doing?"

"I was going to make sure that Gilgamesh had fully vanished, apparently not." As Assassin spoke, reality shifted leaving three bodies and a single living being. Caster's mangled corpse degenerated rapidly while the priest's dismembered body laid in a heap. Gilgamesh, however, was being held up by a dark hand. The others were confused, but Assassin could tell exactly what was going on.

She knew well the signs Emiya Shirou gave off when his magical circuits were being overworked and had long since begun the habit of analyzing the state of them when he showed these signs. His circuits were melting within his body from the strain of whatever happened, every time a circuit would collapse the black substance on his skin would shift to rebuild it but obviously for the goals of the consciousness she could feel inside him, Shirou needed more mana. With a distant blood-relative right next to the boy, the obvious choice was to take the circuits within the fallen King of Heroes and drag them into the boy-which was what he was doing now-the former Servant had lasted a long time after being given human form by the tainted grail so obviously he had quite a bit. The extra taint being pulled into the boy would only serve as a bonus.

Assassin frowned and charged the holy light she held, the boy may be too tainted to save and her past self still deeply cared for him. A glance at the state of his body showed the weak point. Though one arm was holding Gilgamesh, the other held a cloth wrapped around it. That must be where the taint originated in his body, if she could block that maybe he could be purified before it got any worse. Assassin pulled out her undamaged glove from her previous outfit and soaked it in the hold light.

"Looks like I have to kill myself, wonderful." Archer smirked.

"No, what you need to do is use Rule Breaker." His eyes widened and he looked at Assassin, "Soon it'll move through the command seal and get to Saber. If Rin can support both of you, connect it to her, otherwise yourself. Rider is also now Masterless though given the state she's been forced into, it may be a blessing to her to be freed." Archer frowned and looked at Shirou.

"Can you take care of him on your own?" He asked worriedly. Assassin smirked to herself.

"How many times did I hold my own against you? Neither of the minds within him know how to truly control his powers yet and I know more than I need to about Angra Mainyu." He frowned then nodded, turning to go after Saber.

Assassin shot forward towards the boy, improvised holy bandage in her hand.

However, when she got close red eyes met hers and a hand shot to grab her by her neck. Fortunately her bevor kept any direct contact from happening to spread the taint into her directly though she could feel it slowly slipping into the material of her armor.

"You." The boy said as the last of Gilgamesh dissolved into his being, the black on his skin shifting rapidly to adjust the circuits within his body "I know you." She felt his mana starting to pour into her armor as if to reinforce it, "Be honored, dog. Your King has a use for you." Too much mana was poured in and her bevor shattered, shards of it embedding itself into his skin and her neck before his hand shot forward to get a firm grip on her neck directly. Black started to spread along her neck as their blood mixed, "Feed for me." His lips met hers and shoved black corruption into her very being.

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Archer's Torment

Saber's Perspective

The Servant of the sword had searched day and night for her Master with no luck. The more she looked, the more she panicked as the last time someone had been abducted when she was away the woman had ended up dead. Saber couldn't help but feel she was failing again. Shirou wasn't the grail as Irisviel had been and yet he had still been taken.

The one place she had left to look was the place she had appeared years ago to tell Kiritsugu she had failed. Only now it held two Servants. If anyone was likely to claim a Master, it was definitely Caster though. Who knew what kind of experiments a Magus from the past could use her Master for; fortunately Rider had already told her a few details about the pair on the mountain.

So Saber was not surprised as she ran up the stairs to meet a swordsman.

She was, however, surprised when the next step she took after spotting him froze her entire body.

Magic should not work on her so easily; only true magic or a dragon slaying sorcery should be able to affect her this much.

"Amazing that it worked, two thirds god indeed." Caster muttered to herself as she walked out from the gate. Saber glared as she had been unable to do anymore, "Quite the fortunate timing, you will make an excellent bargaining chip." The woman held her hand up and spoke a few words. The glowing red circle on the ground below Saber rose then adjusted itself so it was on her body, "We have much to prepare for."

Assassin's Rebirth

Rin's Perspective

'Can you handle another Servant or should I have her be mine? She'd be weaker being a Servant of a Servant but there's not much else we can do at the moment.' Rin frowned. She was being offered the chance to have Saber, exactly what she had wanted. Could she handle it though?

'Give her to me; I'll use jewels to cover if necessary.' She would make sure she could.

As Archer passed her to go claim Saber, Rin watched the Servant attack Shirou. She couldn't tell what was wrong with him but she could sense that he was unstable. Rin frowned; she just might have to kill him if whatever Assassin was doing didn't work.

Her eyes widened as he caught the speeding Servant and held her up, apparently stronger than her. If the battle with Gilgamesh had been any indication, Assassin wouldn't want to risk absorbing energy from Shirou at the moment so she was left with little she could do.

And then….he kissed her. Well, more like he broke the part of her armor covering her face, choked the shit out of her with shards of said armor stabbing into both his hands and her neck, then kissed her but still. Shirou kissed her. Apparently he was fated to be either a pedophile or a grave robber.

Rin shook her head of those thoughts as Assassin's whole body seemed to be turning black. Whatever was about to happen, it probably wasn't good.

'I'd hurry up if I was you, she's…' Rin's thought was cut off as suddenly her circuits flared.

'On our way.' Was Archer's response.

As Shirou pulled away, Assassin screamed in a way that sent chills down Rin's spine. Shirou dropped Assassin and shadows around the Servant started to shift.

Rin's eyes widened. No.

The black in Assassin's skin had covered all but her eyes, the mask she wore pushing against the taint. The mask burned away. As soon as the Servant's whole body was covered it faded, leaving her pale.

But without the mask distorting her face, even pale Rin could recognize it. She knew those dull purple eyes. No.

Assassin roared, making a sound similar to what she had heard from Berserker and turned to Rin.

"Sakura…." Rin muttered as purple eyes stared at her. It only lasted a moment, the next black and red strips of cloth-like mana shot for her.

It was knocked away by an arrow it quickly absorbed.

"Rin, get back." Archer said, standing beside her as Saber rushed forward.

"That's Sakura." Rin muttered.

"I know." Archer frowned, staring at what had become of his crush.

"That's my sister!" Rin shouted at him, "That's Sakura!"

"And if we can get her back, we will. Unfortunately, I never found out how to purify her like the Archer of my time did." Archer muttered as he watched Saber dodging the absorbing tendrils.

"Don't give me that! Save my sister!" Archer frowned as he felt a command seal being activated.

Then he projected his favorite swords to block the blades launched at him by the tainted Master.

Said Master was staring at him like a piece of food.

Archer's Torment

Gilgamesh's Perspective

Those mongrels would pay! To force a King to cut off his own arm was punishable by death. And die they would, Gilgamesh would make sure they suffered every moment he permitted the vermin to live before dying in the worst agony he could imagine for them. The world was his garden, everything belonged to him. He would destroy those who opposed him as was his right.

No one disobeys the King.

It was about that moment that Gilgamesh realized he wasn't in the pile of rubble he had been rendered unconscious in. His arm ached….well, the place his arm should have been ached.

No, sitting up Gilgamesh realized that in fact his arm did ache. He had no idea how his arm had been restored so fast as the King had doubted that it could be restored at all.

"King of Uruk, it is an honor to meet you." He glanced over to the voice to see a Servant bowing at him. Gilgamesh sat up, "I hope my accommodations were to your liking."

"The bed was not soft enough. If I ever permit you to house me again see that you fix it." The woman nodded as Gilgamesh tested his arm.

"I restored it, I fear it cost a bit of your blood and a Servant I controlled, but I felt it was worth it." He could hear the smirk in her voice.

"I gave you no permission to make use of my blood whether its use was in restoring my arm or not. Do you have a way to compensate me for it?" Gilgamesh demanded. None could make use of his possessions without his prior permission.

"I do, King of Heroes, though I fear I had to use more of your blood to obtain it." Gilgamesh's eyes narrowed as the woman gestured behind him. Skeptically he turned around before his eyes widened and he smirked, "I have a Noble Phantasm that will allow me to break prior contracts and reassign them. Tell me, how would you like to be Saber's Master?"

Hehehehehehehehehehehe, I never did say Saber actually returned, and if she had then she wouldn't have allowed Rider to put a nail to Shirou's throat. In case it wasn't obvious, Caster sacrificed her Assassin to give Gil(Cause I'm getting fucking tired of typing it out) his arm back in hopes that Gil would team up with her while having Saber under his control. If those three fought together they'd probably pwn the world. Besides, I couldn't have Gil actually be bad enough to cause Assassin to panic if he lost his arm that early, even if it did involve shoving his hand into her chest.

I know it's obvious that Shirou and Assassin's taint from AM is different. That's because Shirou's is from Gil himself and I tried to make it show. His taint is from an existence that was so independent AM couldn't possess him and instead spit him out. That is the only strong source other than Kotomine that Assassin hadn't destroyed besides the greater grail itself. For Sakura, the consciousness that Archer removed from her was released into the air after being pushed out of both her and Archer. It wasn't destroyed so when Gil created an opening, the consciousness itself found her and inserted itself. I did make sure to explain that bit in this chapter even if I did move to another plot point before going back to her.

And yes, I know taking the Shirou from that time and basically doing the same thing I did to Sakura from the earlier one is being repetitive, but I felt that Assassin wasn't being a good enough bad guy and I was reading a fanfic that said there were no good evil Shirous…..I don't expect them to think mine is but it made me want to try and I had a perfect chance in here. Besides, I just wanna see the chaos I can bring from having an evil Shirou with Assassin as his berserk dog XP And the contrast may be fun to play with

I'm debating doing a dream sequence for Sakura going into Assassin in the next chapter to explain where the abilities that don't come from the girl do come from and in order to explain how said abilities work since obviously at the moment we're not gonna be getting anything from Assassin, then again the Sakura that becomes Assassin now has access to some of those memories again so maybe I can do it that way.

On a side note, I did put in a few things I learned from Fate Zero, sorry if it was spoiled for you. I am making it so that you can still understand without seeing it with just little things for those who do know it.

Anyways, I would appreciate reviews. They make things more fun! If not I may just screw things over even more to test my writing abilities XP
Or, you could review saying I should just screw things over even more to test my writing abilities :)

Reviews are loved, let me know what you think please. Maybe if my writing's good enough that one author may notice but she(Not actually sure but seems like one) won't if I have no reviews XP