Hey guys, Flipkicks here, and today I bring you is an update for "Fate: A Reaper's Grand Order" thank you guys for checking out the story and what you all thought of the previous chapter.
Sorry again for not updating as much but things have been busy for me. I've been trying to get back but I've been getting physically tired from working nonstop and losing some interest in writing. Some of my time is to mainly relax my back and also spending time on recording some game footage for Youtube.
0. Fool:
I. Magician: Mash (Shielder), Okita (Saber/Assassin)
II. Priestess: Leonardo Da Vinci (Caster/Rider Lily), Xuanzang Sanzang (Caster)
III. Empress: Artoria (Saber/Archer/Lily/Ruler/Lancer)
IV. Emperor: Arthur (Saber), Nero (Saber/Caster)
V. Hierophant: Sherlock Holmes (Ruler), Chiron (Archer), Zhuge Liang (Caster)
VI. Lovers: Jeanne D'Arc (Ruler/Archer), Paravati (Lancer) Bleach Character (Caster)
VII. Chariot: Miyamoto (Saber/Berserker) Francis Drake (Rider), Minamoto-no-Raikō (Berserker/Lancer)
VIII. Justice: Frankenstein (Berserker/Saber), Paris (Archer), Nursery Rhyme (Caster) Jack (Assassin), Beni-Enma (Saber), Illya (Caster) Chloe-Illya (Archer) Miyu (Caster)
IX. Hermit: Merlin (Grand Caster), Tamamo-no-Mae (Caster/Lancer) Shakespear (Caster) Merlin (Prototype)
X. Fortune: Ishtar (Archer/Rider), Qin Liangyu (Lancer), Ereshkigal (Lancer)
XI. Strength: Quetzalcoatl (Rider/Ruler) Martha (Rider/Ruler), Siegfried (Saber), Heracles (Berserker/True Archer)
XII. Hanged Man: Diarmuid (Lancer/Saber), Emiya (Archer), Achilles (Rider)
XIII. Death: Lancelot (Saber/Berserker), King Hassan (Grand Assassin), EMIYA (Assassin), Shiki (Assassin/Saber)
XIV. Temperance: Nightingale (Berserker), Irisveil (Caster), Scáthach-Skaói (Caster) Scáthach (Lancer/Assassin)
XV. Devil: James Moriarty (Archer), Cu Chulainn (Lancer/Berserker/Caster)
XVI. Tower: Mordred (Saber/Rider), Karna (Lancer)
XVII. Star: Gilgamesh (Caster/Archer), Enkidu (Lancer)
XVIII. Moon: Nobunaga (Archer/Avenger), Valkryie (Lancer)
XIX. Sun: Jeanne D'Arc Alter (Avenger/Berserker) Artoria Alter (Saber/Rider/Lancer) Okita Alter (Alter Ego)
XX. Judgment: Bedivere (Saber), Astraea (Ruler), Arjuna (Archer/Alter)
XXI. Aeon: BB (Moon Cancer)
XXII. The World
I do not own either series or characters involved in this story.
Singularity F
Fuyuki City Part 6
Fuyuki City
"Are you fine now master?" Saber asks her master
"Yeah, should be fine." She helps him up and the two would continue on where they last left off and venture into the cave and hopefully reunite with Mash and Olga towards the pillar of light.
As the two ventured further into the cave, they would encounter different creatures that Ichigo hasn't even seen. Some were floating eyeballs, strange-looking octopuses, and other bizarre-looking creatures that lurked in the cave.
The two would slash and impale the creatures that stood in their way but as they were killing the creatures, everything around Ichigo started to slow down.
'What the?' He felt his movements starting to slow down, he sees Saber slowing down as well. Everything around him was slowing down to a complete halt as if time itself has stopped. Soon enough, Ichigo blacked out.
Unknown World
When Ichigo finally awoke, it was to a field of flowers. A blue sky stretched overhead, seemingly casting itself infinitely outwards. It was the sort of idyllic perfection that painters often sought and poets used as inspiration. It was like nowhere Ichigo had ever seen before. He simply wondered where he might be.
Ichigo slowly picked himself up off the ground, expecting some pain from the fall, only to find none. Even bruises that Archer had left on him that about an hour ago for it seemed to have vanished. He frowned slightly. How long had he been lying in this field? Looking around himself, he didn't see anyone else, though a forest stood in the distance in one direction and in the other a white tower stood, outlined against the sky. Well, if he was to find out where he was, then the best place to find people would likely be that tower.
He began walking, but he couldn't help but wonder. He had never been somewhere with so much nature or so few people. The closest he had come was the park in Karakura when he was facing Hollows or just relaxing with his family, but that was hardly worth commenting on. Wherever this was, it was certainly far from any civilization. What was more concerning, perhaps, was that however long he seemed to walk, the tower didn't seem to grow any closer. It was as though he were walking on a treadmill, still somehow in the small meadow. He bit on his lip for a moment, beginning to worry, but not willing to stop until a voice called out behind him, "Oh, I thought something felt strange. How unusual for someone to slip through to here." He hears a feminine voice coming from here.
Ichigo turned and stared wide-eyed at the woman who most certainly hadn't been there a moment ago. The woman was strange at a glance. Her tousled white hair swayed gently in the wind, but despite her hair color, the woman seemed rather young; she certainly didn't seem like an old woman at all. Even more unusual was the woman's clothes. She wore what seemed to be some sort of white robe, long and flowing with voluminous sleeves, though the intricate decorations certainly precluded the idea that it was a bathrobe of any sort. Perhaps the most strange thing was the woman's eyes, however - a soft lavender that seemed to peer into Ichigo and know the boy was thinking instinctively.
Ichigo took a deep breath. Well, he had been looking for someone to give him directions, he might as well take his chances now that he had found someone. "And where might here be?
"The Far Side of the World, you might say. Or at the very least, a small garden that I happen to look after. I don't think that is the question you were looking to ask though, was it?"
"I'm not sure I would say that, given I know nothing about where here is." Ichigo frowned and glanced around the meadow once again before looking at the woman. Something was unsettling about her. More than her odd appearance at least. "Who are you? And how do I get home from here?"
The woman's smile widened and she leaned back to sit on a chair that Ichigo was sure had simply appeared in the moment that he had blinked. "Ah, now there's a tricky question. For who I am, let's say you can call me Caster for now. It wouldn't be any fun if I gave you my full name. Now as for how you get home, that's another matter entirely. You see, this space is supposed to be closed off. It is not simple to either enter or leaves. The fact that you arrived here by accident is already quite remarkable."
'A Servant huh?' He says to himself, 'Can't be coincidental with this Singularity that I'm in.' He then looks at Caster, "Then there's no way for me to go home?"
"Ah, now I didn't say that. The barriers here allowed you in, I dare say they will allow you out again. Of course, the question you should really be asking is if you want to leave at all." Caster grinned and stretched her hand out to tap the tip of her staff against Ichigo's head. "I imagine even an unknown land is preferable to the house, wouldn't you say, Ichigo?"
Ichigo hesitated. Caster wasn't wrong. He had no idea where he was or who this stranger in front of him really was. But did it matter? How much worse could it possibly be than living with the Servants? Sure, Caster was downright weird, but then, so was Ichigo, wasn't he? "I suppose you're right about that. But it's not like I have anywhere else to go. It's not like I can go around eating flowers and I wouldn't know how to survive in the woods. So unless you're offering to take care of me?"
It was a leading question, a fairly obvious one at that. Still, Caster didn't seem to mind. Instead, she simply waved his hand unconcernedly. "Oh, you won't have to worry about that here. It does seem like you've made your decision regardless though. Shall we?"
With that, Caster gestured behind himself to where the tower sat. But that couldn't be right. Ichigo had been walking towards the tower when he turned to speak to Caster, so shouldn't the tower be behind Ichigo now? He spun wide-eyed to look behind himself, only to see a line of trees blocking his view. "How?"
"How did the tower move? I think you will find, young Ichigo, that distance and direction are much more relative here. You can easily see the distance to the tower, but it could take as little as five feet traveled to reach it, or as much as five miles. Space bends and stretches and is not quite the same as in the world above. The intent is much more important to reach your destination." Caster smiled and took Ichigo's hand to lead him onwards, even as the teen gaped for a moment before accepting the statement with the sort of credulity that only a child could bring to bear.
As it turned out, the distance was neither five feet nor five miles to reach the tower - it was twenty-five feet. One moment they were walking through the meadow, the next they stood in front of the white edifice that seemed to stretch into the sky. It almost seemed too thin to support itself, like some great spear had been thrust into the ground rather than a work of architecture. Yet Ichigo was once again surprised as they stepped inside and found that the room was far larger inside than the circumference of the tower had suggested outside. Occasionally there were landings off to other rooms, but that white helix continued onwards into seeming infinity.
What took his attention, however, was what lay in the center of the room. There an altar was built, a bed of marble, upon which laid the unmoving form of a girl so beautiful that she stole Ichigo's breath away. Her skin is a healthy peach tone, her hair is a mixture of colors, parts of her hair being silver-ish with parts of her hair being brown as well but Caster moved to the girl's side, running a hand along her forehead and pushing back her bangs in a gesture of affection, before turning back to Ichigo.
'Olga? Lisa Lisa?' He raises an eyebrow since her appearance is very similar to the women that he just met with Lisa Lisa and Olga Marie. "Is she dead?" Ichigo asked.
"No but I'm sure you'll figure it out Though, it has been a long sleep indeed." Casters' eyes turned wistful for a moment before she shook his head. "I hope you don't mind stairs, we have a few to walk up and I have a few things to tell you."
Ichigo simply nodded and followed after. "Who is she?"
Caster went silent for a long moment before finally answering, "A friend of mine. She was once my student and almost like a daughter to me in some ways. And in the end, I failed to protect her." She says sadly to the teen but for some reason, Ichigo had a feeling that this servant could be lying. There is still stuff that he needs answers too.
"What happened to her?" Ichigo asked.
"She met an unfortunate incident in the future " Caster shook her head. "She had great potential, but could never accept that some things could not be hers." Ichigo looks at the woman, still trying to figure out her true identity but for all, he could know is that this could be something with magic from what he's dealing with.
Ichigo suddenly stopped as the implications of everything the stranger had been telling him finally caught up. "And how did you know my name anyway? And everything about the Fuyuki Fires? Have you been watching me?"
"I'll admit, I'm a little surprised that it took you this long to ask! Though, are you really that surprised after everything else you've seen here?" Caster let out a loud laugh before practically skipping up the steps and turning about with a grandiose gesture that sent his robe fluttering. "The simple answer is that magic makes knowing a great deal about the world a much easier task. After all, Ichigo, I am a wizard."
"I guess that makes everything that's been happening since I wound up here make a lot more sense." He really didn't have much choice in the situation so he might as well accept whatever this woman is saying. "How can I help these guys with this singularity and find a way for me to get home?" He asks the Servant to which she lets out a chuckle.
"Maybe this..." She shows him a marble of sorts, "This is a Reality Marble."
Omake
Saint Quartz
With Caster
"By the way Caster," She looks at him, wondering as to what his question might be, "What's this?" He shows her a colorful triangle-shaped object in his hand.
"Oh!" She is very surprised to see that he had this item on him. "That is a Saint Quartz. A stone of divine power. A crystallization fo concepts that decides many a future. Also called pseudo-spiritron crystal." She explains to Ichigo and continues, "You have a fragment of a whole piece of the Quartz, you need 7 pieces to make a whole one."
"So what do I do with this?"
"If I were to guess from what you've told me, this Quartz should able you to summon more Servants."
"Really?" He raises an eyebrow, still not having a clue that this piece or a whole piece could summon more servants.
"Yes!" She says excitedly, "How about I give you more!"
"Wait wha-" With her staff beaming with a light on the tip, she summoned a whole bunch more of the complete pieces that would cover Ichigo from head to toe. She chuckles that she summoned about 300 Saint Quartz on the poor teen that didn't think that this was about to happen to him. "Ara seems that your older sister seems to spoil the poor master."
Using his hands to bury himself out of the Quartz, a tick mark appears on his forehead as he stares angrily at Caster.
"You tryna kill me?!" She chuckles as she sees Ichigo completely red from the points of the Quartz poking at him. "At least warn me before you summon more of those damn things! They fucking hurt!" She continues on chuckling at the poor master, much to his annoyance.
'I swear I'll never get women...' He says in his head, "You do know that I can't carry these right?"
"Oh that should be simple." She uses her staff and all 300 Quartz all gathered up and magically came together in the form of a card. "Here."
"You're kidding me right?" He stares at the card, "A credit card?"
Of course, this what you people call it 'Pay to win'."