Notes
Hey guys, this is a worseman, and this is the fourth part of the second arc in this crossover fanfiction.
To be honest, I was planning to expand this chapter more but my mind went back as I continued to write. I know that this chapter might be disappointing to some of the readers so this might get rewritten sooner or later unless I decided not to. Although I already tried my best to write this chapter, I simply do this story for fun but I will listen to your reasonable criticisms, not trolling or discouraging comments.
If you spot any grammar errors or spelling in this story, I will try my best to improve my story.
Disclaimer
I don't own any characters from both Kamen Rider and Fate Franchise as both belong to their respective owners except my OC.
Cross-Z rushed towards the grunt and punched Fomica Pedes's face, sending it toward the rest to collide. The Ghoul swung his spear down towards him but he moved to the side to avoid the hit and punched it thrice. Catsith Phantom lunged at him for the surprise attack but he round kicked to its face when he noticed it. As he was about to swing his arm to punch the grunt, his arm was suddenly wrapped by Anguis Femineus's whip. It pulled his arm away to expose him to the grunt to attack but Agito rushed in time and swung his polearm down to cut the thong. It stumbled back by its strength on its whip.
"Thanks!" Cross-z said, appreciating Agito for saving him.
The western party arrived at the outside step of the demolished wall where Cross-Z came from.
"Quite a brute person, isn't he?" Amadeus asked as he scanned around to see the eastern party and Phantom and Kaijins. "It seems like we arrived in time!"
"Yes, and we should help them right now, Amadeus," Marie replied with a smile and began to fire her crystallized shard towards the grunt and hit it.
Artoria, Archer, Den-O, and Wizard began to charge towards the Kaijins to fight to assist the eastern party. Wizard went through the ruckus while slashing the nearby grunts on his way to clear the path for the rest to attack easily with more space. Agito deflected every whip attack from Anguis Femineus but he was being pushed back as the whip attack was getting faster. As the whip flew towards him, he jumped to the right, avoiding it, and rolled until he stood up to stop.
Archer jumped back from Ghoul's spear and landed in front of Ritsuka behind his back. "You've done very well to last this long, Master."
"... I don't know whether you're sarcastic or didn't have faith in me as a master?" Ritsuka questioned with his friendly tone.
"I always have faith in you and your ability, Master, although you need to sharpen your skill more to survive," Archer assured Ritsuka as he began to charge towards the grunts with his duel dagger.
Mashu moved her shield to block Caitsith's attack from every direction as it was trying to find the opening to kill her. Her eyes tried to follow Caitsith Phantom's both pattern and trail of attack but it was too fast to be seen. She was unsure as to know when and where it was going to attack again but she was distracted as it lunged towards her. However, she was saved by Amadeus's mana blast. It fell to the ground with a loud thud and quickly recovered to continue to attack but received a slash from Den-O when it stood up. He turned to Mashu and asked, "You alright?"
"I'm fine and thank you for saving me," Mashu thanked Den-O.
"Don't thank me yet because we're not out of the woods yet," Den-O replied as he focused on Caitsith Phantom.
Cross-Z continued to dodge Phantom's aggressive attack while moving back as Phantom was moving forward as well. As Phantom was about to strike his claw down at him, Cross-Z quickly punched his claw upward, making him stumble backward. He then proceeded to punch Phantom many times without giving him a chance to be recovered. He jabbed left and right, grabbed his head with both hands on both sides and knee kicked to his face. A crack formed on Phantom's mask and a small piece broke off from it. Phantom staggered backward and when he was about to face Cross-Z, Cross-Z immediately punched him to his face again.
Agito's polearm was warped by Anguis Femineus's whip and pulled away, but Agito grasped tightly, not letting his weapon be taken away. Fortunately, Anguis Femineus was distracted, not knowing Artoria jumped in the air upon her with her sword until her cry gave out. She successfully swung down and cut the thong away. Anguis Femineus staggered a little by the pull of its whip but was later hit by Marie's crystalline shard. It fell to the ground and quickly stood up to return o fight, but was suddenly stabbed by the thrust of the sword by Artoria. She twisted her sword, agonizing it, and pulled out. It stumbled backward and reached its hand out to the sky while pressing her wound with its other hand. The white halo ring was displayed on top of its head. It fell to the ground on its back with its agonizing scream and exploded.
"Tch! This is fucking annoying to deal with that!" Den-O said irritatedly as he missed his attack on Caitsith Phantom who dodged with ease without tiring out. As he missed his attack to the floor, It uppercut him in the air with its claw. He fell to the ground with his face forward to the floor.
Mashu began to run forward and jumped up in the air to land on Caitsith Phantom with her shield. However, Caitsith Phantom dodged, avoiding being smashed by her shield. As her shield crashed to the ground, it took an opportunity to kill her by rushing towards her. However, upon getting closer to her, it saw Cu, who appeared out of nowhere, thrusting his spear beside Mashu's head to its chest with his grin. His spear successfully pierced into its chest and went straight through its body. He rushed forward with Caithsith Phantom's body hanging by his spear inside and kicked his leg toward it. Its body flew off his spear and exploded when it fell upon contact with the floor.
Ghost pulled his belt lever quadruple times.
DAI KAGIAN!
A spectral of eyescon flew out of the belt and grew gigantic to thrice the size of the human in the air. This shocked some of them at its sight.
ORE OOMEDAMA!
Ghost jumped to the sky and does a bicycle kick towards the giant eyescon. It flew down at the couple of gunts and instantly destroyed them.
Phantom fell to the ground with his mask falling into pieces, revealing his full-face filled with blood and bruises. His teeth gritted in anger and his blood vessels became visual on both his hand and head while his whole body shook in fury. He then became resentful towards Cross-Z for his broken mask and being punched. He slammed his fist to the ground and stood up to face the group. He then roared angrily, "How dare you humiliate me by your brutal action!"
"Just take a beating bravely and admit that you have lost, asshole!" Cross-Z said loudly.
Phantom facepalmed his face and laughed maniacally, disturbing Cross-Z and the group. Amadeus began to have a dread feeling that Phantom had a trick up in his sleeves which was his noble phantasm. As Phantom stopped laughing, he smiled. "Lost, you said? It is you who have lost!"
Phantom flew his both arms out and the ground began to rumble, startling the group to be in their defensive stance. A huge object manifested from the group and moved up until stopped, revealing an ominous and gigantic musical instrument that was much identical to a pipe organ. Almost everyone became disgusted and felt sick in their stomach by the appearance because it was constructed by combining some of the corpses who appeared to be Phantom's former victims.
"How foul and vile by that being built with human corpses," Jeanne commented negatively with a glare at Phantom while gripping her standard.
"..Is that his Noble Phantasm?" asked Ritsuka.
"It appeared so, my dear master," Amadeus replied before turning to Jeanne. "And I wholly agree with you, Jeanne, although I find humans to be disgusted by this…" He then looked at the pipe-organ with pure disgust, "... is way beyond disgusted. I bet his music was very awful."
"I will send all of you all to hell with my performance!" declared Phantom.
"I will handle his noble phantasm with mine," said Amadeus as he prepared his stick.
"I will assist you, Amadeus," Ghost said as he took out a gray eyescon and pressed, creating a hologram of music notes. He opened his belt and took out his ore eyecon as his ore parake disappeared. He put it inside and closed the belt before pushing the lever.
KAIGEN BEE~THO~VEN!
UNMEI! JA-JA-JA-JA~N!
(Orchestrated tune choir)
A grey parka emerged and flew towards Ghost to put itself on him. As it was done, his mask lit up with a grey glow and the faceplate was identical to the hologram. His coat was identical to the seventeenth-century musical pianist coat with piano key designs. Kamen Rider Ghost Beethoven Damashii.
Amadeus examined Ghost from top to bottom and asked, "Whose musical power that you acquired from?"
"Ludwig Van Beethoven," answered Ghost.
"Ah, he's a composer and pianist after me. I should have met him sooner if I stay alive a little longer," Amadeus sighed in disappointment but chuckled with delight. "There's no point in reminiscing. We should focus on defeating him."
Ghost nodded and pushed the lever.
DAI KAIGEN!
BEETHOVEN!
OMEGA DRIVE!
Both Phantom and Amadeus have chanted to activate their own Noble Phantasm.
"Listen, to this bewitching sound!"
"Sing...Sing, my Angel."
"REQUIEM FOR DEATH!"
"CHRISTINE, CHRISTINE!"
Phantom instantly raised his both arms to the skies and smacked down on the organ pipe piano keys. It caused an abhorrent sound while releasing a soundwave towards the group while destroying the street and building on its path. Amadeus pointed his stick forward, projecting numerous music notes moving towards Phantom's soundwave while summoning a group of light angels playing their musical instrument behind him. Ghost swung his arms around like the music conductor does, releasing a soundwave while firing music notes as well to support Amadeus's Noble Phantasm. All of their attacks clashed together and exploded, releasing a shockwave around the area while shaking the building down a bit. Everyone either covered their eyes or looked away to avoid their eyes contacting dust produced by the falling pieces on the ground.
Seeing the opportunity, Cross-Z grabbed his belt crank lever and turned it around clockwise. He then readied his foot while a blue energy dragon flew out of nowhere and went behind him. This shocked Chaldea and the servant to see it.
"What the hell did it come from?!" Cu questioned loudly with his confused face.
READY GO!
DRAGONIC FINISH!
Cross-Z jumped up and the dragon breathed fire, sending him forward. He flew towards Phantom, who unfortunately reacted late to counter him, and roundhouse kicked him to his face. Phantom flew to the side and crashed into the wall while Cross-Z landed further behind him. He tried to stand up slowly but staggered and fell to his knee. He lifted his head and looked at the group with his defeated face.
"Ugh! Still, my mission is accomplished. Though, I shall never be rewarded, never. This is where my song ends, but the real Hell starts now. Rejoice, oh Holy Maiden! Your evil has grown even more than you."
"Be silent. It must be hard to even talk now," Jeanne retorted.
"These are not words. This is a song. To lament your future, and to mourn it. Forget about the Dragon Slayer… Run to the ends of the earth. If lady luck is on your side, you might just have a chance to escape." Said Phantom as he looked up to the sky. "Here it comes. The Dragon is here. The Devil is here. An evil dragon unlike any of you has seen before."
Phantom slowly stood up again and readied his claw to attack again but was later hit by the mana energy from Amadeus to finish him off.
"You're a stubborn one, aren't you?" Amadeus asked before his face turned serious. "The coda has ended, now back to hell with you."
Phantom fell from behind but disappeared into a cloud of golden dust to the sky in his midway falling.
"An evil… Dragon?" Mashu repeated as she was concerned about the unknown foreseeable future related to Phantom's words.
A beeping sound was heard from Ritsuka's wrist communication device. Ritsuka raised his arm and it displayed the screen of Roman and the riders.
"Finally, I got through to you!" Roman said, feeling relieved.
"Banjou?" Sento called Cross-Z in surprise as he saw him.
"Yo, Sento! Where are you?" Cross-Z asked, looking at the screen.
"I'm in Chaldea Headquarters with others to monitor the situation that you have been in," Sento replied with an explanation. "Is anyone with you by any chance?"
"Yeah, I'm not the only one who is here but the rest is at the castle for safety," replied Cross-Z.
"How many?"
"Two."
"Everyone!" Roman cut off the conversation between Sento and Cross-Z and went straight away to tell. "I recommend that we evacuate! This reading is way beyond a Servant. It's indicating an 'ultra-size lifeform'. It's approaching at an incredible speed!"
Everyone was shocked at Roman's words with Mashu exclaiming, "...Beyond a Servant! Can such a lifeform even exist in this world?"
"Of course they can. The world's a big place!" Roman exclaimed but stopped to realize whom he was speaking with. "Um, sorry." He then later quickly told, "Save the chatter for later! I am also detecting three Servants heading this way."
"It must be them. This is quite a problem." Maria said with her concerned face.
"The orchestra is done. Let's get out of here. I know we just wanted our effort, but that's life," suggested Amadeus while the group began to look restless.
"What the hell did you say, you bastard musician?!" Den-O shouted in anger at Amadeus who flinched at his fury. "We're not giving up on finding that dragon slayer! Just because that's a goddamn big swarm of monsters or dead spirits heading towards us!"
"Calm down," Agito said, calming Den-O.
"Momotaros is right."
Everyone turned to Artoria who continued to speak, "We can't afford to abandon our search yet. We need to find that person now because he might be our chance to defeat the other Jeanne and her servants."
"No, no, no!" Roman argued, "No time for that!"
"But if we leave the servant here, then our efforts will be for nothing!" Jeanne interjected.
"Master, your order?" Mashu rounded on Ritsuka with a somewhat desperate look in her eyes.
Rituska breathed out and locked his eyes with Mashu. "We must find the Dragon Slayer. If we run here, things might get worse and we might not have a chance to defeat her."
"I agree with him. It's a do-or-die situation right now and we will lose if we don't find that person," Agito agreed with Ritsuka.
"Doctor!" Kota's voice called Roman who turned his head around to the right. "Tell them the coordinator of the servant now!"
Roman nodded and turned back to the screen, His stare looked at a monitor to his left for a few moments. "Searching now… Aha! There's a faint reading in the castle in the center of the city!"
The group turned around to look at Cross-Z with a look of surprise but Cross-Z quickly explained before their misunderstanding appeared while raising both arms in surrender. "Hey! I didn't know that that person is the dragon slayer that you're looking for!"
"Roman, what the hell have you done to the desk!" Another voice chimed in from just off the screen.
Roman and the Kamen Riders blinked and turned around to someone much to their surprise.
"Director!" Roman gaped, "You're up and you're looking like an eyesore!"
"No time for a joke, you imbecile! I'm out of commission for only a few days and you turn the command center into a pigsty!" Olga raged at Roman, making him wilt slightly. "What's going on with the Singularity team?"
"They're doing fine, Director. There's no need to worry for a small matter," Sougo lied, not wanting Olga to know the worst situation.
"Be quiet, commoner!" Olga shouted at Sougo, who was flinched by her words.
"Oi, Ritsuka! Hurry up and find a Dragon Slayer now! Otherwise, you and the group will be toasted for the next few minutes!" Kota blurted out to Ritsuka without any care.
"Wait! What did you ju-"
Ritsuka switched off his communication and quickly looked at Cross-Z to ask. "Do you know where the path leads to?"
"Yeah. Follow me!" Cross-Z nodded and began to run along with the group and broke into a sprint towards the center of the city.
"Let's hope Sougo and the rest would be alright from her director's scolding, especially me," Ritsuka said loudly, wishing for this thought to come true.
"I doubt that, Master," chuckled Cu.
1413
New Orleans, France
The group arrived outside of the devastated castle and saw the worst condition that it ever had. Most of the outer walls were beyond repair and the small chunk of debris fell off the destroyed tower to the ground with a loud crash. Archer turned around to behind and spotted a swarm of the flying wyverns in the sky at a further distance away from them. He sighed in annoyance and called loudly, "Master, we got a company heading towards us!"
The group turned around to Archer in the direction where he was seeing. Their situation was getting worse as it indicated that Jeanne Alter and her servants were getting closer to their location. Archer materialized his bow in his hands while Ritsuka commented dryly, "You gotta be kidding me..."
"Master, I suggested that you, Mashu, and Jeanne go to follow Cross-Z inside first to find the dragon slayer now while the rest of us will face off the wyverns," Artoria suggested to Ritsuka while summoning her sword.
"Are you sure you're all going to be right?" Ritsuka asked in his worried tone.
"Kid, you completely forget that we're servants who can handle all kinds of shits that are thrown at us," Cu said as he moved to his battle stance. "We'll be alright."
Ghost turned his head around to Wizard and Den-O. "You two go ahead with them to help their search." He then pointed at the servants, "Agito and Itime will help to buy you some times until you find the dragon slayer."
"Okay," Wizard replied with a nod.
"Go now!" Amadeus shouted at the search party with impatience as they unknowingly wasted their time.
The search party began to run inside the castle, following Cross-Z to the destination where the Dragon Slayer was believed to be at while the rest prepared themselves to face the swarm of wyverns to buy them some enough time before Jeanne Alter and her servants found them.
[~~~~~]
The group burst through the castle and followed Cross-Z down the stairway and past the rotting corpses of slain undead and shattered skeletons.
"Jeez, did you do all that damage to those guys?" Den-O asked, pointing at the deceased undead and skeleton.
"That's not me. It's the Dragon Slayer who did all that before we encountered him," Cross-Z answered.
Mashu was the first one into the room and immediately had to block a strike with her shield and bisect her.
"One after another…"
"Wow, wait! She's not a monster!"
Mashu lowered her shield down to see two persons who were male. The first one was wearing modern clothes which was a light brown fur hoodie with a yellow shirt, blue pants, and dark brown boots. He had light gold messy slicked back undercut hair and light brown eyes. The second and last was a tall knight with long silver hair, covered in wounds with what appeared to be a series of curses festering on his body. The man raised both his hands in front of the knight to stop and turned his head back to Mashu.
"You okay, Miss?" The man asked with his concerned look.
"I'm fine, Mister," answered Mashu.
"Please wait!" Jeanne rushed forwards. "We mean you no harm!"
"Hm?" The knight turned towards her with his continuing ragged breaths.
"The lady is right. She's not going to kill you like the rest of the monster," The man reassured the knight to ease his tension of killing the group.
"Wait, I know that voice…" Wizard muttered with his widened eyes under his helmet and walked past the group at the front. He stopped at the track and looked at the man who was also looking at him as well. "Kosuke?"
"Haruto!" Kosuke said loudly with a smile. "I'm glad to see you!"
Mashu turned to the Wizard with her questioning look. "Haruto-San, Is he a kamen rider as well?"
"Yes, His power is similar to mine but different. However, that's not the point..." replied Wizard before turning to examine the knight's condition. "He looked very much worse due to his wound."
"Yeah, his wound was very big so I asked Banjou-San to look for any medical tools to patch him up although it might be magical sickness," Kosuka said as he looked at the knight's wound with a worried look.
"We've got a dragon and several servants incoming," Ritsuka said bluntly, drawing the knight's attention to him. "You're a dragon slayer, right? We need your help."
"A dragon…" The knight muttered, then nodded. "I see. So, that's why I was summoned and attacked…"
"We'll get you out of here," Mashu said as she slung the knight's arm over her shoulder with Jeanne talking the other side as they carried him out of the castle cellar along with the rest.
[~~~~~]
As the group exited the castle, they saw the rest having a difficult time keeping the wyverns at bay. As Artoria cut Wyvern's head off its body, she turned around to see Ritsuka and others' arrival. She shouted, "They're back! We should hurry now! We can sense it approaching!"
"I can see it!" Archer pointed into the distance and the rapidly approaching shape which was flapping huge wings. He had only one thought. 'Shit.'
"It is within plain sight now! This is… No, it can't be!" Roman shouted in disbelief.
"But it is, Doctor!" said Sento.
The black dragon came to a stop above the group and its large wings were producing a gust of wind which flattened the nearby houses. This forced Ritsuka and Kosuka to take shelter behind Mashu.
"Wyverns can't compare to that thing…" Mashu said with her eyes widened in disbelief, "That's a real dragon!"
"What?!" Ritsuka shouted in confusion.
"That's no surprise that Dragon would be here because of the Wyvern," Archer said, aiming his bow at the dragon.
"I always wanted to fight a dragon to the death but I think it's too much for me to handle because of the aura that it gives out," Cu commented as he readied his spear while examining the dragon.
"You're right, that dragon's aura is giving out maliciously and danger, unlike the monster that we fought with," Artoria agreed with Cu.
"...I was wondering what you found, turns out it's just another dying Servant." The voice of Jeane Alter echoed out from above them.
"Why not come here and fight us, lady?!" Den-O demanded Jeanne Alter loudly.
"I love to, but I don't think you're worthless," Jeanne Alter frowned. "If you are all eager to fight, then you will die together! Fafnir, incinerate them all!"
The black dragon began to ignite a fire in his mouth with a small gap for a black small to move out.
"Here it comes!" Ghost shouted as he readied his weapon.
"Master, stay behind me!" Mashu shouted as she rushed in front of the group.
Jeanne rushed as well and stood next to Mashu with a determined look. "I'll join you, Mashu!"
Mashu nodded and began to chant along with Jeanne to activate their noble phantasm to shield the group from the attack from the Dragon.
"LUMINOSITE-"
"LORD-"
"ETERNELLE!"
"CHALDEAS!"
Both Mashu and Jeanne slammed their respective weapons to the ground. Mashu's shield manifested a spectacle of castle brick wall while Jeanne's flag banner emitted a bright light out. At the same time, the dragon puffed out a stream of flame towards the group. They were encompassed by a bright light a moment before a torrent of its fire impacted their position. The ground surrounding them began to liquefy under the intense heat as fires began to spread amongst the remaining buildings.
"Kya!" screamed Marie.
"This is the most intense heat that I ever felt!" Kosuke commented with a little hint of fear in his voice while somewhat feeling the heat from outside.
"I don't know how much longer for both of them to hold off?" Ghost asked, looking at Mashu and Jeanne with his concerned look.
"Whoa! What an immense amount of energy!" Roman shouted out.
"Damnit, Roman! What do you have them doing!?" Olga shouted in a panic, "Are you having them fight dragons!"
"Director Animusphere!" Kota called, drawing Olga's attention to him. "Calm the hell down! They will be alright!"
"How is that they are…."
"Both of you, will you shut the hell up!" Ritsuka shouted with a little annoyance in his tone, silencing both Olga and Kota.
"Ugh!" Jeanne groaned in pain, "Just as I thought, this is…"
"I can't hold on anymore, it's no use!" Mashu said as she skated backward slightly.
The knight smiled and stood up to his full height with brandishing his large greatsword in his hands. "You've done enough. Thanks to you my power's restored for a little while."
"Huh?" Jeanne turned around to see the Knight walking forward.
"What are you doing?" asked Artoria.
The fire died down and the group blinked in surprise as all of the dragon and wyvern's attention was now on the knight who was still walking forwards without worry. He began to say, "It's been a long time, Evil Fafnir. If you have indeed been resurrected, then I shall return you to your slumber…" He held his sword in front with two hands.
"Fafnir is shaking?" Jeanne Alter muttered in disbelief and then her eyes went wide in the realization of the identity of the knight. "That Servant-!"
"He's Siegfried. The Germanic Folk Hero from the Nibelungenlied who bathed in the blood of Fafnir after slaying it," Ghost exclaimed, revealing the identity of the Servant but shocking some with a gruesome part.
"...That's so messed up," Den-O commented in a deadpan tone.
"Arise, my sword!" Siegfried clicked the handle, and instantly blue steam of energy burst out into the sky. "Hear me! One who rules the blue sky! My name is Siegfried! He who once defeated thee!" He held his sword above his head and light from the blade intensified. "BALMUNG!" He swung the blade down, cleaving through the clouds in the air as it raced towards Fafnir.
"Fafnir! Climb!" Jeanne Alter shouted in a panic.
Fafnir screamed an affirmative as it scrambled away through the air. The blue light barely grazed its side but more than enough to elicit a scream of pain as its scales were scorched. Siegfried collapsed to the ground, using his sword as a crutch to prevent himself from kneeling over.
"Sorry… This is the best… I can do…" Siegfried panted out.
"Let's get you out of here," Artoria said as she slung Siegfried over her shoulder and began carrying him away.
"Everyone, let's retreat while we can!" Jeanne shouted before jogging away.
Everyone nodded and began to move fast to exit out of the city.
1413
New Orleans, France
While Fafnir flapped its wing in a little stagger, Jeanne Alter began to frown at the incident a moment ago and thought, "It's dangerous. Considering what's to come, I can't exhaust Fafnir. If they use that sword again, it may be a problem." She turned around. "Berserker, Saber. That "Dragon Slayer" is the prize. Concentrate on getting him. Berserk Assassin will be joining us soon. This time, finish them off for good."
1413
New Orleans, France
"I am not detecting the ultra-size lifeform anymore, but the enemies are still on our tails, hurry!" Roman said in a panic.
The group was running for nearly five minutes but the fear of being attacked again had provoked the group into a full-scale mad dash away from the city as fast as possible but they were a little slower due to Siegfried being carried by Artoria and Kosuke. They were now at the outskirt of the city.
"Senpai, I want a horse!" Mashu cried as she saw Marie riding a crystal horse.
"Sorry, this is a one-seater and even if I created a carriage for all of you to ride, this might take a ton of my mana and we might get caught," Maria apologized with an explanation to Mashu.
Mashu turned to the Kamen Riders to summon their motorcycle but Agito beat her to it. "Sorry, Mashu. Same as Maire and we can't fit many people into our motorcycle."
"I'm used to traveling, but this is a first for me!" Amadeus asked with his panting, "This is just retreating, right?"
"I thought you had a lot of stamina to run due to traveling?" Cu questioned Amadeus.
"...Unfortunately, unlike you, I mostly ride on a carriage," Amadeus answered while trying to control his breathing with annoyance.
Mashu turned her head around to see Ritsuka who was in aspiration of running too much and his breath was getting heavier. She then shouted, "Master, don't fall behind!"
"Sorry, Mashu, but my leg…" Ritsuka tried to say but his panting overtook it as his leg began to feel the strain.
"Well, in that case…."
"Hey, you're not going to leave him behind to be eaten by a dragon, aren't you?" Kosuke asked in shock.
Mashu was shocked by Kosuka's guesses and retorted, "Of course not! I'm not that heartless to leave Senpai behind!"
"Sorry!" Kosuke apologized. "By the way, are you perhaps her boyfriend?"
"Boyfriend?!" Mashu screamed in shock at Kosuka's assumption to everyone's ear. She slapped her hand over her mouth after realizing her mistake and Her face turned red like a cherry. When she looked at Ritsuka from behind, he was also the same as her. Everyone was mixed with amusement, shock, disappointment, or all of it.
"Oh, what a lovely couple," Marie said with a smile, making the situation more awkward for both Ritsuka and Mashu.
"Maria…" Amadeus sighed in disappointment.
"Up ahead!" Jeanne shouted, the group looked to where she was pointing. "It's the French Army!"
The army or what was left of them were struggling as they were in the midst of a massive wyvern raid with many of the soldiers were either being ripped apart or incinerated. Jeanne gritted her teeth as she heard the agony screaming, furious shouting, and tearing the flesh of living beings. She had enough running so she changed direction and went straight towards them before telling the group. "We need to help them!"
"Jeanne, wait!" Ritsuka called loudly in surprise but was not available as she was further away from the group.
"That girl..." Archer muttered while shaking his head.
"Master, your order?" asked Mashu.
Ritsuka turned around to Mashu and the group. "Regardless, we will get caught by the servant anyway! We need to help the French. Follow Jeanne!"
"On it!" replied Artoria.
The group spotted several undeads heading towards the group. They prepared themselves to fight to clear their path to assist the army until Den-O ran past them and slashed the undead. He then shouted, "I will clear the path for you to run!" He jumped up and sliced the Wyvern by its neck.
"Hey, don't leave me out, ghostly!" Cu grinned as he thrust his spear through the undead.
Ritsuka wanted to protest Ghost for handling the enemies with Cu but knowing his abilities as Kamen Rider, he needed to be worried for Jeanne and the army first. Even though she was a servant, she would get overwhelmed by the large numbers of wyverns and her stats have been ranked due to her other-self. He nodded towards Ghost and Cu to acknowledge. "Got it!"
The group went past Ghost and Cu but Kosuke stopped at his track and turned around in front of Ghost and Cu and jogged towards them. "I will help you too!" He shouted as he raised his right hand that had his black and silver ring with an insignia of a gate. He placed his right hand on his belt buckle.
DRIVER ON!
A gold magic glyph appeared on the buckle, the buckle seemed to grow out of his waist that had some sort of slots on each side and the belt holding his driver also changed into a silver belt. "Heeeeen…" Kosuke said as raised his left arm which was equipped with a Kosukegold and black ring which looked like a lion's mane with green eyes and a red gem in the forehead. He then raised his right arm at the same time bringing his left arm down, he then moved them around clockwise until his arm was crossed. "...Shin!" he finished as he brought both arms to his right side with his left below on arc position, his right arm above on arc position as well, he then stood up straight, raised his left arm, and punched his ring to the left slot on his driver.
SET!
Kosuke twisted the slot clockwise, opening the silver gate on his driver revealing a face of a golden lion while the gates' doors have an image of the animals: A falcon and dolphin on the left while a bull and chameleon on the right.
OPEN! L-I-O-N, LION!
A large yellow magical glyph circle appeared in front of Kouska and went through him to transform. His whole body was covered in black and gold armor suits His lower body has golden shin guards with a golden ankle cuff, which also includes golden knee pads. He had a golden arm-guard and his wrist had gold cuffs, and his hands were covered in a white glove. His right shoulder guard is black with a gold design below it, while his right shoulder guard was a golden lion head. His body armor was black on the right side to the back, but on the left side was golden. It was designed like the continuation of the mane from the lion head right shoulder guard. His helmet was identical to his transformation ring and had a silver mouthpiece that looked like a lion's mouth. Kamen Rider Beast.
"Who the hell are you supposed to be?" Cu asked.
"I am the Mage, Beast! Kamen Rider Beast!" Beast introduced himself.
Beast took out his sword, Dice-Saber, with a strange device which was that its square had a gold lion face with its mouth wide open while the other side had a black disc with a gold emblem that resembles Beast's face-mask. Its blade was strange as it only goes to the middle part, it was colored black on its lower part, silver with gold on the middle, the top was rounded and the tip looked like a gold lion's tail.
Beast simply wiped the blade of his sword with his left hand. "It's Lunch Time!"
1413
New Orleans, France
Sin was enjoying the view of the battlefield outside of the city from the top of the hill which was further away from that area. He knew that the Chaldea and Kamen Riders were fighting in the outskirts and presumingly tried to help the army despite Jeanne Alter's Servants chasing after them. Although they already found and rescued Siegfried, they have yet to reverse his curse condition. Not even Jeanne who had lost her stats and was unable to utilize her power to undo it.
Sin presumed that Jeanne Alter's Servants might not be able to finish both Chaldea and Kamen Riders off so he already gave them powerful assistance although it could be troubling because it was simply a little too powerful to control. Nonetheless, this might help them a little.
1413
New Orleans, France
Mashu bashed the wyvern away and scanned the situation. Most of the attacking wyvern have been dealt with while Ghost, Beast, and Cu charged off to deal with the ongoing undead and clearing the open path a moment ago. She saw the flying wyvern breathing out a stream of flame towards her and successfully raised her shield in time to protect herself. A crystallized shard flew forward and hit the flying wyvern's head. It fell to the ground and tried to flap its wing to fly up but was shot by an arrow to its head. She turned her head to the direction where the arrow came from and saw Archer who was aiming his bow.
"Thanks, Archer," Mashu thanked Archer.
"Don't space out during the battle whether we're winning or losing," Archer told Mashu to focus on the battle before firing another arrow.
"Understood," Mashu acknowledged Archer.
"It's annoying to fight that flying little dragon, but at least, we wiped most of them, " Den-O grumbled in annoyance.
"I don't think it's over yet, Momotaros. We got the other Jeanne's servant on our tail and they might arrive here soon," Wizard reminded Den-O.
"Ah… Right, I completely forgot about those guys," Den-O said before sighing and readying his sword. "So, where the hell are they?"
"A- UrRrR!"
The group turned around in the direction of the distorted voice and saw two individuals walking towards them. The first person was the man with his white hair and mint green eyes clad in a black long coat with white detail only and a white twin horse head shaper shoulder pad on his both shoulders. He wore a white shirt with bright lilac Cravat around his neck, black pants, and boots. The second and last was a pitch-black knight with a purple plume attached to his helmet and glowing red visor.
Artoria was shocked to see the knight, who was familiar to her and looked at him with wide-eyed horror. She muttered, "It can be…" She gripped her sword and readied her battle stance before shouting. "...Why are you here? All of the people, why are you here?!"
"Saber…" Archer muttered in shock at Artoria.
"Saber, who is this man?" asked Mashu with her narrow eyes. She could not know but felt a sense of familiarity with the knight with a feeling of irritation.
Unfortunately, Saber did not respond to Mashu as she stood still with her wide eyes filled with shock and fear.
"Saber!" Archer called, raising his voice to snap Artoria out of her trance. He never saw her shaken before and turned to the black knight for a quick look with the thought. Was the presence of the servant truly terrifying or was he someone from her past?
Artoria gasped out for air as she broke out of her temporary catatonic state. "He's… one of my knights… One of my greatest who would go so far as to be accepted as my friend… That's Lancelot."
"Lancelot?! As in one of the knights of the round table?!" Wizard asked in shock, making Artoria nod sadly.
"Who is the other one then?" asked Agito, looking at the white-haired man.
"Damn you!"
The group turned their head to Amadeus whose face was scowled in disgust and anger towards the white-haired man and wondered if he knew him.
"My, what a coincidence. I've never forgotten your face, you lazy artisan," Marie declared, looking at the white-haired man.
"That's good to hear. I've never forgotten yours either. Your face, and your pale white neck. At the same time, I feel like this destiny," The white-haired man materialized his sword into his hand. "That you and I share a special connection, don't we?" He smiled. "The fate of an executioner killing the same person twice, I feel like only we share that connection."
"...You gotta be kidding me that we are going to deal with a crazy knight and yandere man? Argh, I should know we must always prepare for some weird but messed up shit," Den-O complained.
"Is he always looking crazy?" Cross-Z questioned.
"Yes, he is always mad that he is eager to execute Maria not only in life but even now…" Amadeus answered Cross-Z before looking face to face with the white-haired man, "Don't you agree, Charles-Henri Sanson, because you are genuinely mad?"
Sanson was silenced at Amadeus's blunt answer to Cross-Z's questions. "...As a human, it pains me to discuss our relationship with a low-life like you." He began to look at Amadeus with disappointment in his eyes. "Amadeus, you claimed all lives, all humans, are filthy. Not I. Humans are scared, precious things. That's why we, executioners, respect life. We are incompatible, you and I." He raised his voice a little, "Trash who couldn't even love humans, trash who couldn't understand her, has no right to be next to her."
As their exchange banner was going on, Lancelot, armed with a pipe, began to charge forward to kill Artoria but Mashu immediately intervened by shielding Artoria behind and blocking his attack. As his weapon hit against her shield, she skated back by a powerful impact from him but stopped at her track.
"...ArRrRrRrRrRrR!"
"Ugh! What an attack!" Mashu commented in shock at the sheer amount of force to Lancelot's weapon from him. She turned her head to Ritsuka behind. "Master, please stand back!" She turned back to Lancelot with her eyes focusing on him. "This Berserker is much more frightening than any Servant we have faced so far!"
"Are you sure this is Lancelot because he doesn't act like an honorable knight from the book that I read?" questioned Agito.
"Yes, he unfortunately is…" Artoria answered with a little hint of sadness in her eyes.
"Shit!"
The group rounded on where they heard Lancer's curse, only to see something hit to the ground from the sky and exploded with both blazing blue flame and a loud boom. They saw Ghost, Beast, and Cu fly across the ground and crash in different directions.
"Lancer!" Ritsuka shouted with concern.
"Kosuke! Takeru!" Wizard shouted Beast and Ghost's civilian's name loudly before his eyes at the corner spot someone in the direction where the explosion was. He turned in the direction but widened his eyes in both shock and horror to a similar silhouette in the smoke. "It can't be…"
As a shadow figure in the smoke stepped out, it was revealed to be a maroon red bird-like humanoid creature with a yellow bird head-shaped shoulder pad and grey eyes. Its head had a dark red wing-like mohawk with its yellow and orange tip. He slowly walked towards the group with its broadsword resting on its shoulder to join Sanson and Lancelot. The group began to be alert with the phantom because he easily released his malicious presence of killing them all until Wizard revealed his identities loudly in shock.
"Phoenix!?"
Extra Notes
I added Phoenix to be in this arc because I want him to be challenging for Kamen Riders and Chaldeas and how the heroic servant dealt with him although I think some of them can finish him off with ease. However, he is not Phoenix from Kamen Rider Wizard series where he was defeated and stuck inside the sun after being defeated by Wizard using All Dragon Form. He may or may not have some of the abilities to be the same as his counterpart in the show, He will be revealed of what he was by the next chapter.
I think I know the fight with Phantom of the Opera and Kaijins can be disappointing as the Kaijins didn't do much but be destroyed by a Servant. Like I said at the beginning, I will rewrite this story if it doesn't suit your reading taste.
I will be honest that I already planned to do both North American and Camelot Arcs and I already decided which riders to be these two arcs. However, this may or may not be likable to you all and you might easily know who are the riders that I'm going to insert in.
Besides this story, I'm going to plan to write a reaction story sooner, later or not, which reacting to Fate Strange Fake with either Chaldea or Cast of Fragments of Chaldea (which was inspired by DISCOBOT's Cast of Forgotten Remnant reacts to Fate Stay Night VN) even though I don't think Cast of FOC would work out due to copyright. There are not many stories about reacting to FSF besides Fate Stay Night, Fate Zero, and Fate Apocrypha. The servants in FSF are overpowered, especially Archer Gilgamesh and Lancer Enkidu who are in this story. I can imagine what their reaction looks like when watching awesome and badass scenes (including Artoria's reaction to her fanboy, whom I am referring to, including the knight of the round tables' reaction too). If you want to know more about FSF, just simply use google search to find more about it. However, I may or may not post it on my Fate one-shot fanfiction to see if more readers want more.
If you all have a problem with it along with my story, I will try my best to rewrite it to suit your taste.