Hey author here!
Well for most of you this is nothing new, but I really recommend reading these first two chapters. They are much better edited. For the newcomers I welcome you to my story. With everything said…
I hope you enjoy!
*Chapter start*
(Bedivere's pov)
I had my king at my back, unconscious after the battle with Mordered and his rebellious knights. It was my hardest battle, having to engage and slay my own brothers in arms, the knights that I once fought alongside with.
But I suppose it was the only end, because even I, the first knight to ever swear loyalty to our king, couldn't perceive our king's specialty.
Yes, only now I notice that our king is a woman.
It's in times like this that I feel useless, someone unworthy of trust. How could I let this be for so many years. To let a girl no more than sixteen go to her own doom. We put such weight on her back for decades, I can't even imagine how it feels like to hide your true self from everyone, having no one to trust in your own home... and what do we do?
Betray her.
Ahh... Having to blindly put my hopes and dreams on someone that already has enough to care about I put everything on her, stripping her rights of happiness, her gender and maybe even a chance of a different life away from such unfairness that is the throne.
But now it's too late, the battle is over, the knights of the round table are divided, to never get together again, but war isn't over. The saxons are still there, invading our country and burning our I need to hide King Arthur and get some reinforcement.
*Scene break*
(Bedivere's pov)
I get off my horse and take my king dawn, we are in the middle of the woods, some kilometres away from the actual road will probably give me some cover while I hide our king and get to contact Camelot for reinforcements. And also much farther from the battlefield.
I gently put her under the shade of a tree. I had to admit, the scene of my king sleeping under the tree it's really beautiful. It's really strange how I never noticed that such a beautiful woman was actually my king.
While I got up in preparation to go after reinforcements to get away I heard a voice.
"B-Bedivere..." Under the shade of the three, my king calls for me.
"My king, are you finally awake!?" Noticing my now awake king, getting down and almost kneeling without noticing.
"Yes, I was dreaming... a thing that rarely was a precious experience." My king says with such a beautiful smile. A smile that she was never able to show while in the throne
So even her dreams...
I fastly replied."So I will let you continue your sleep, if you close your eyes again you will be able to start where you left in your dream."
While I say such a lie her eyes shine in a way I have never seen before.
"Continue my dream... if I sleep again can I have that same dream again?" She hopefully asks.
With the question of my king I finally see everything that we have done to her, everything that we have taken from her. A reality that even dreams are a privilege, a privilege only returned in death.
I take a deep breath to contain my frustration and agony... Now it isn't time for this, she needs something more than this.
I smile and say.
"Yes, I have already tried before, you just have to wish for it very hard." I lie with a smile.
"Bedivere... you surely are a man of diverse knowledge..."
*Scene break*
(Arturia's pov)
It's strange. I was just a moment ago in the middle of the Holy Grail War fighting alongside Shirou, now I'm before Bedivere ready to give him my last order.
I can't say that I didn't enjoy it and I wonder if it will ever be reunited... No, I promised to forever wait for him even if it takes us an eternity, but now isn't time for this Excalibur is still here and I'm dying. Shirou's horse is very beautiful.
I must not let such power encounter the hand of our enemies, so I tell Bedivere to throw the sword in a lake behind the battlefield where I slayed my son.
Now that I think about it, I had never asked Shirou about what my legend said about me, maybe the entire world considered myself a fool.
I can hardly deny it. Really, who would have thought about the mighty King Arthur falling in love with a teenager. Now that I look back I really feel like the foolest... but a happy fool, a fool with one of the most beautiful dreams.
I start to feel numb, I think I get it, it's my time to go. Go to my Avalon, my distant utopia and forever wait for him.
*Scene break*
(Arturia's pov)
I open my eyes again but I feel strange. Everything is blurry and my body hurts. This definitely isn't Avalon.
Besides that I feel so tiny like a baby, I feel so weak and my belly hurts a lot more, like something is trying to come out from within me. For a second I started to feel a lot of emotions that are not mine, it feels so wrong, like these feelings are trying to curse everything, and now I can hear a voice inside my head filled with hate and anger.
"To be sealed again inside of another brat, to be used again as a tool for a war that isn't mine slaved to others will... " A voice of pure hatred and anger appears in my head.
For a moment I'm afraid, this voice reminds me of something wrong... something that resonates deep within me... yes Angra Mainyu, but this voice is still softer, it feels like more the frustration of betrayal and abandonment.
"Hum... for a toddler you are really strange..." The mysterious voice once again sounded in my head, but this time much more calmer, intrigued even."But it doesn't matter, I will just wait for the opportunity to rise."
Well that doesn't sound good. This thing is clearly inside of me... and clearly it's speak japanese. I think?
Now that we established that something evil lives inside of me I take a good look around. There are only trees around here.
I'm in a clearing and that's some serious markings near here, probably a fight with something really big and well... two corpses as well.
One is a red haired woman. Her hair is a lot like Shirou's hair, but more vibrant and alive. She has a gigantic hole in her abdomen. Behind her there is a white caped man with the same rohe in his abdomen, there are also some red flamed marks on his cape saying something... it's japanese too.
'The fourth shadow of the leaf.'
The advantages of the grail I gess. While I think about my predicament someone picks me up.
"Well, well if she isn't a beautiful girl."
Okay now some old men are carrying me with an ugly face. Maybe now I know why babies cry so much. It's not comfortable to be just a few centimeters away from something that can open its mouth and eat your entire head with just one bite.
"Hokage-sama just killed this thing already before it destroyed us." A man is barred by a few other men and screams at the old man carrying me.
That's... a lot of hostility against a baby. What could I do to you?
"Stop this nonsense of killing the daughter of one of your friends, Chosa." THe old man also angrly screams at the man.
"But Hiruzen the Kyubi is inside of her if we don't kill it now..." THe man tries to argue.
"Enough I will respect the will of the fourth and secure her life. She is just a victim not a monster." The old man finishes the conversation and runs away from the site.
*Scene break*
(Arturia's pov)
This really is strange.
Apparently this city has just been attacked by a giant monster and somehow this monster is inside me now. What should be impossible by normal standards, phantasm or monsters shouldn't exist on this side of the world anymore.
Maybe this isn't my world? It shouldn't be impossible Merlin always talked about a second magic that could operate in other dimensions.
"Aren't you energetic one."
Ok this man really creeps me out. Being a baby and looking up to someone is not pretty, especially when you are completely at someone's full grasp.
"Now we should get going. Seems like I will have to take care of you for a while." He says with a smile
Oh no...
While I'm lamenting my predicament, someone appeared in front of us.
"Hiruzen, where do you think you are taking the thing?" Just as a voice sounds in my ears, another old man appears.
Well it seems like more trouble appears.
"What are you trying to say Danzo?" THe old man called Hiruzen asks.
The old man starts to give out a dangerous aura. He is strong.
"What are you doing Hiruzen? Such a thing isn't human. It would be better to hand the baby to the root. With the power of a bijuu and the proper training it will become a valuable tool to the village." Danzou says while standing his hands to catch me.
Hmm... so it's right to assume that the thing inside of me is a bijuu? Well if he is trying to convince the old man it isn't working.
"Stop now Danzo." The old man refuses to give me and slaps Danzo's hand.
"You can't be serious Hiruzen. The village needs this power. We can't let this thing be like her mother, we nee-" He once again tries to take me ignoring Hiruzen's words.
"Enough Danzo I won't let you do anything with the daughter of the fourth and Kushina." The old man angrily says while releasing an absurd level of prana in the air.
What is the level of these guys? I can't say for sure that I would be able to beat someone as strong as this guy even if I were alive and at my peak. And also that dead man is my father? If so, does that mean that woman on the ground was my mother?
"Hmph, one day you will regret your soft heart."
As the other old man departs this old man continues to creep me out.
"Don't worry little one I won't let anything happen to you. I promise at least this much." He starts to give those smiles of his again. Hah I really don't like how things are going already.
*Chapter end*