Fuyuki had become hell. Fires were everywhere, law and order had been forgotten, and people were hurt and scared, with the Creatures of Grimm spread all over and killing them. Such a sight would make even the bravest of soldier's weep in terror and sadness. As they saw such a sight that consumed the city with the casualties still rising.

The police had done everything they could, but they fell easily with only a few escaping. The criminals and gangs didn't even bother fighting. They just escaped as best they could, with the Fujimura's having gotten a head start and gathering their closest to leave the city, where one Taiga Fujimura had grabbed many students to come with them.

As for the magus from the association, well…

"No Wait! Ahhhh!" Let's just say those who were unprepared found themselves culled. Certainly, the Association expected to face Grimm alongside the Church, but thus many? While the Grimm did fall easily enough to those that knew the right spells, it appeared the Grimm with more bone armor and greater size were much harder to kill. The Wyvern above the sky being the most difficult as one magus tried to fly up and dominate its mind.

Kirei Kotomine saw a leg falling from the sky while smiling. This sight before him, the utter destruction of Fuyuki, a beautiful view to his eyes. Especially when he saw the people begging for help, only to be slain by the Grimm. Children that cried and begged for their parents, gobbled up whole if they were lucky.

'And this is their nature, is it not?' Kirei could only ask himself as he saw the Grimm kill everyone, despite the fact the humans did no sin against them. This wasn't like wild animals attacking because they were hungry or felt threatened. These creatures, they attacked because it was their nature to attack humanity. While Kirei was amused by this fact, he couldn't feel fully satisfied as he pondered if the Grimm were always like that, or just made to attack humanity like that.

Still, he enjoyed himself even while defending his body against them. He might enjoy the spectacle the Grimm brought forth, but even Kirei wouldn't allow himself to die against them. Not that the creatures focused much on him, as he didn't emit much negative emotions compared to the scared screaming people of Fuyuki city.

Although as much as Kireo loved this, he had other problems for now. Mainly, the disappearance of Lancer. 'A failure as always.' Kirei thought of that useless Servant, and how he couldn't even do his job. 'At the very least I got good use out of that fool. A dog's death is exactly what he deserved.'

Archer was now gone, adding in Caster alongside Lancer, that was at last three Servants finally dead. Which left Saber, Assassin, Rider, and Berserker. Only four more left before Kirei can finally see Angra Mainyu, the goal he sought ever since the Fourth Holy Grail War. Still, he must be careful. Archer, the King of Heroes, the strongest Servant in both wars, is dead.

'The worst part is I never saw what happened to him.' All Kirei knew was that the King of Heroes left to deal with trash as the Servant called it. But now he was gone, leaving Kirei with no Servant since Lancer died as well. Well, Kirei supposed he could just kill the Masters to ensure the Servants vanished like so.

Then his wish will be granted. All he needed to do was just kill Rin Tohsaka and Shirou Emiya and be done with it. Smirking, Kirei looked forward to their deaths and all the others.

"SHRAAAAHHHH!"

"And it appears I'm not the only one looking forward to more death." Kireo saw the Wyvern as it seemed to be focused on one area of the city for some particular reason. Reinforcing his eyes, Kirei saw Grimm dropping out of the Wyvern meaning this thing could create reinforcements. As Kirei continued walking towards where the Greater Grail is at, he pondered just why that Wyvern is so attentive to that area.

Little did Kirei know that the reason for this was very simple. Involving an old rival that once participated in the very war where he gained his goal and ambition. One who bravely entered this city to solve the problems.

"Shit!" Who also found himself worrying for his apprentice. Waver doing his damn best to stay out of Gray's way who did her utmost ability to kill all the Grimm around them.

"Ruagh!"

"Rah!"

"Sssss!"

Which was a lot since they were all attracted to Gray. Or as Waver discovered, her scythe. 'They must be attracted to the relic inside of it somehow.' The way they always targeted his apprentice and aimed for her weapon showed it.

Thankfully, Gray was fully capable at dealing with them. Striking them down and removing their limbs and heads. The werewolves, bears, and boars all fell to her. Where it seemed Add could even absorb their forms a bit as whenever they turned to smoke, Add consumed them. Yet despite all this, the Grimm just as much they surrounded her while the Wyvern, which had landed onto a nearby skyscraper, watched them. Directing the Grimm with uncanny tactics. Waver felt a chill as he looked up and saw those red eyes staring down at Gray.

'Just one hit.' Waver thought. 'If Gray can charge up the time, she can kill them all. Including the boss.' However, with all these Grimm here, Gray didn't have that time. Waver himself unable to really help other than his cigarettes providing a mystic code to keep himself calm at all times. Being a rather poor magus after all.

As for the Wyvern, it kept observing the woman killing its brethren. Snarling as it's lesser kin could do nothing but fail. However, unlike most of its kind, the Wyvern could think more properly after ages of learning and battling. Where it saw how the Grimm were ignoring the human for some reason nearby. Yet also seeing how the woman always seemed to go near the man whenever some Grimm got closer.

That'll do.

Shrieking, the Grimm then paused for the briefest of moments. Hearing the commands of the alpha, and their heads then turned towards Waver. El-Mello II gulped.

"Master!" Gray screamed as the Grimm then focused everything on Waver and charged towards him. The Lord stepped backwards in a panic as a Beowolf lunged at him, its maw opened wide as it got ready to bite him in two. "No!" Gray slammed the end of her weapon at the Beowulf, cracking its skull apart and caving it in. Gray then jumped up into the air to get a good view of what Grimm to kill.

FWSH!

Only for a dark looming shadow to cover her with her and Waver's eyes to look up, the former forgetting about the Wyvern during the moment Waver had been in danger. The building's glass falling apart as this massive presence went down from the perch of the skyscraper, its maw open to devour Gray whole.

To survive, Gray then threw her scythe which turned into a boomerang to knock the head away. Instead, the Wyvern adjusted its head and snapped down onto the boomerang. While the weapon actually did harm, and the sense of its own being was being absorbed, unlike the other Grimm the Wyvern was massive. As such it could handle the weapon as it then flew off, no longer caring about the humans and left.

Gray landed and looked at her empty hands. Realizing the creature actually took her weapon. Shock entering her eyes, as she never expected a creature, even one as large as this, would just take it. For Waver he just clicked his tongue. That thing intentionally did this to get Gray to lose her weapon. The reason she fell for it was because who would think a creature of slaughter could even think of such things. Demonic Beasts were rarely known for their brains, with that Wyvern using that to its advantage to fool Gray into believing it was just a mindless monster.

'But no time for that now!' Waver then shouted out, "Gray!" Gray snapped out of her shock and continued to fall from the sky and landed where her Master is. Landing on an Ursa and breaking it's back, Waver is still being targeted by the Grimm. Gray then grabbed her Master in a princess carry and leapt away with him. All while the Wyvern flew off with its prize.

"Mmm…mmmm.." Sakura grunted, as she slowly stirred. Her eyes opened up slowly, while feeling some pain from her head and face. Moaning, Sakura began blinking as she slowly regained consciousness. As her vision began to settle, Sakura became confused as she wondered what was even happening. Attempting to move only to find herself unable to, not even capable of moving her limbs.

"Huh. Wha-!" Then Sakura remembered. All of it. How she had gone to see what the disturbance was, to deal with it. Where she then met two people, one of them she disliked on sight, the other who looked similar to her. The…then…

Sakura's eyes glow red. "That bitch!" The master of the shadows and Grimm then roared out, enraged. Feelings of hate and humiliation coursed through her. 'She knocked me out. Me of all people! Me!?'

Even while binded, it did little to stop Sakura and her rage. As she couldn't believe that some nobody could stop her. Beat her. Humiliate her! She wasn't that same pathetic girl as before who would take the abuse. Yet that woman, she-she-hurt her! Slapped her! Using her mana to enhance herself, Sakura broke out of her binds that held her down, realizing she had been tied to the ground.

Sitting up, utter contempt can be seen on Sakura's face. At how that woman made her look like a fool. As if she was better than her. She just caught her off guard, that was it. That bitch didn't win, and she didn't lose. It was just bad luck on her part. No way she had been beaten so easily. This was just a setback. A setback!

'I'll find her and tear her apart. Drain her dry. Ensure she regrets trying to think she's better than me.' Sakura thought while biting her nails. Unwilling to accept that she was beaten like so. Now that she knew better, she can take on that woman again and crush her like the lowly insect she was. Rin and the others can wait. She can easily kill them another time.

Sakura got ready to stand up and leave when suddenly, she heard a voice. "Hello dear granddaughter. Going somewhere?"

Looking up, Sakura then saw that man from before. Blue hair, and a handsome face turned into a sneer. The person looked at her with a nasty gaze as if seeing her as nothing but meat. Disgusting.

"Die." Sakura then said as she then attempted to attack the bastard. He had been near that bitch, so as such he must die since he's associated with her. Launching many ribbons at him to drain him die when suddenly, the man burst into countless bugs that could fly and avoided her attack. Bugs…Just like…

"You." Sakura stood up, enraged again. "Grandfather."

"Oh, how it pains me that my precious granddaughter didn't even recognize me." Zouken mocked as he reformed while grinning. "Are you just that inattentive, child?"

"Shut up." Sakura said as she now glared at him with anger. "As if I should care about some bastard like, my pathetic brother, my weak sister, why should I give a damn about any of you?" Sakura didn't know why Zouken looked like this, but she also didn't care. She then grinned as she glanced at Zouken like a predator. "Though I suppose I should thank you."

"Oh."

"After all." The shadow beneath Sakura grew. "Now I can devour you whole, bit by bit. Making you suffer just as you made me suffer."

"Suffer. Hm." Zouken then acted the fool, like he didn't know what she was talking about. Then he snapped his fingers. "Ah yes, now I remember. I suppose you must have meant your training." Gritting her teeth, Sakura had her shadow slowly loom closer to Zouken.

"As if that hell could be called training." Sakura shouted while she gripped her fists so tight, they began bleeding.

"Well, you weren't exactly a good student." Zouken chuckled. "Perhaps…You just need another lesson."

Sqrnp.

Sakura then felt a stinging pain. One that caused her to cry out as she felt something painful below her. It wasn't in her legs though. It felt near her stomach, however. No, not that it was her-!

"You haven't had a lesson in quite a while." Zouken then slowly chuckled. "So, the worms are a bit eager to 'dine in' Sakura."

At that moment Sakura then felt another stinging pain and lifted her dress while her eyes grow watery while also recognizing this horrible sensation. Where once she lifted her wonderful dress, she saw crawling all over her once beautiful legs are nothing but worms and bugs. With the biggest one right inside her body by entering through her-

"Ahhhhhhh!" Any thoughts that could continue on went away as Sakura then screamed. The second she did that though, the bug crawled further inside her, tainting her, making her dirty again. For all of Sakura's power, one should remember one thing. Even with all the power in the world, trauma doesn't go away so easily.

Memories flooded into her. All the way back to where she was first thrown into the pit. When the worms and bugs bit at her and entered through all the orifices they could find. Even when Sakura succumbed to accepting it, pain was still pain and because she had gained power, Sakura believed she would never feel such a thing again. Now, she was and all that traume inhibited her.

Instead of using her powers, Sakura fell onto the ground and crying as she tried to get the bugs off of her. Then Sakura suddenly felt something on her back, and she turned. A lumpy worm with teeth opened its maw and sunk itself onto her neck. Another then entering in her mouth and trying to go down her throat where she tried to cough it out to no avail.

"Ah-ahhhhh!" As Sakura felt all the bugs crawling all over her, Zouken watched with sadistic glee.

'Yes. This is it. This is how it shall be done.' Zouken thought as he saw Sakura wailing like a bay, as the worms did what they always did to her. The ancient Matou having done this to precisely cause Sakura to remember the trauma. Even if she had more mana than Zouken had in his lifetime, that didn't change the fact that she was nothing but a dirty broken girl.

One where all he had to do was remind her who was in charge of this relationship. If he pushes well enough, then Sakura will break further and obey him. Then, he can have another useful tool like that woman Salem.

'But this is wrong. And using Salem can backfire on me.' Zouken then blinked again, while feeling something wet running down his face. "Huh?" Zouken then wiped beneath his eye and checked to see that there were…tears? While Zouken still felt glee in what he was doing to Sakura, suddenly he felt disgust and hate. All aimed not to the world and others like he normally did, but at himself.

As Sakura screamed while crying, Zouken felt his emotions going wild.

"D-damn it." Ozpin. Ozpin was still affecting him. Messing with his mind. Zouken realized this merger was perhaps more troublesome than he thought. Still, Zouken decided he could just suppress these feelings again and-

Zzzsss!

Zouken then became aware that he had a hole in his chest. The bugs that made that part up, incinerated. "What?"

Someone had entered the building he had been holding himself in. Ozpin's emotions distracted him, and as Zouken turned, he felt instant fear both from his own emotions and Ozpin as he saw none other than Salem. Who looked beyond angry, as she looked past Zouken and at the tormented Sakura. Where Salem noticed the bugs doing what may as well be rape, especially with that one bug centered between the legs.

She had arrived to tell Zouken she had seen what he had told her. Ready to work with him, even if temporarily, to learn more about this world.

Not anymore.

"...I thought there was something I didn't like about you." Salem may be a monster, and in some ways worse than Zouken as she desired destruction of all. However, even then she did hold certain standards. While she certainly tortured people before, seeing the girl she knocked out reacting like this and at the man who did it made Salem feel repulsed and disgust at the man. Because what he did went beyond torture, with Salem having her own standards of breaking people. This wasn't one of them.

Realizing the danger, Zouken then readied himself. Acting as fast as he could, yelling out, "By this Comm-!" He didn't even get to finish as Salem was in front of him. Where she then slapped his jaw which ripped apart in that instant. Splattering on the floor and busting into bugs which Salem then set on fire.

"Die. You piece of garbage." Salem has killed many men before, particularly Ozma. However, even then she never felt as much abhorrence when killing her old love compared to this sick bastard.

Her arm was up and Zouken felt thirty percent of all his worms die as they were set aflame.

"Nonononononnooo!' The merge wasn't complete yet. If he died it'll be permanent while Ozpin's soul would be freed. Zouken burst into countless bugs and tried to spread himself out and fly away. Doing this was difficult as his bugs normally followed a set pattern, but this was necessary to live.

Salem didn't let that as she then began setting aflame all the worms and bugs that tried to escape. Killing them each as the revolting creatures squealed in agony. Salem having felt this much rage at a normal person for quite a while as she killed the bugs, where she then saw one bug trying to crawl away. She stomped on it with no mercy.

'It's been a while since I've felt this much disgust.' At least her dear Ozma had some honor remaining. The Brothers puppet being a fool who lost his heroic ways, but never went this far when even interrogating her own pawns at times he captured them.

As for the girl, Sakura as Zouken called her, Salem saw her on the ground shivering and weeping. The worms seemed inactive, and Salem saw a few fleeing into the ground. Still, they did the damage and now Salem could see that this girl…was similar to her.

'A broken woman, and in ways worse than me.' Having an abusive guardian like her father, yet it seems this child had it worse. For where Salem had isolation, it was clear the relationship Zouken had with Sakura was a physically abusive relationship, one involving psychological scars as well. It would explain quite a lot on why she acted the way she was.

Salem then walked toward Sakura, with no intent of even harming the girl at all. Instead feeling pity for her as she then knelt down towards the girl. Where Salem then used her magic into killing the remaining worms and bugs on Sakura without harming the girl herself. Sakura didn't even seem to care at all.

Instead, Sakura just kept shivering from what had been done to her. Even though she knew the worms stopped and that woman was there, she couldn't find the motivation to move or attack. For that physiological attack Zouken used on her had been very much effective in sapping her newfound confidence. Shaking her to her core at how she had been reduced to this despite all the power she had. Unable to use even the shadow or call on her familiars to get rid of them and Zouken.

In that regard, Zouken had succeeded. Maybe not in breaking her and putting Sakura under his command, but certainly in destroying much of her gained ego. Her body might have been healing the wounds she had gained, but not her emotions.

Sakura then looked at Salem and then asked bitterly, "What do you want?"

Salem stayed quiet for a bit. Then she said, "How long has he been doing that to you."

"..." Sakura just turned her head, not wanting to even think about it.

"I see." Salem sympathized with the girl. "You've been through a lot, haven't you?" Sakura sniffed loudly. She didn't want to say anything at all. Not wanting to be seen as weak in front of some total stranger. Yet the truth was, she did want to say that she had been through a lot.

To Shirou, to Taiga, to her own sister. But she always had to stay silent. Quiet. Never telling anybody of the pain she went through, the 'training', the poisoned food she ate, the beatings. The only person who did care had been her long-dead uncle, and he died for disobeying Zouken.

Still, despite Sakura not saying anything, Salem could tell she was someone who went through a lot of pain. Somehow, she felt connected to the girl. Likely because while not much, there seemed to be some of the Grimm substance inside her, making the girl not a hybrid like Salem, but maybe one-fourth of a human Grimm. Because of that, Salem could feel this girl's pain alongside a great vengeance deep in her.

"Now I understand. You, you're like me." This caught Sakura's attention, who then snarled.

"Like me." She then glared at Sakura, her own eyes glowing red like Salem while the veins on her also glowed bloody. "You…Just what could you know about me? Huh? The things I had to go through. The isolation? The torment that I had to go through since I was a child. What could some bitch possibly understand about me, when nobody else even gave a damn!?"

Salem then grabbed Sakura's face, and for a moment Sakura thought she was about to die.

Instead, she saw something else instead of darkness. Visions.

A small girl who only wanted her father's love. Only to be locked in a tower with nobody to truly talk to or love. Her only friend being her nanny, and nobody else.

Eventually she was saved, and finally met someone she loved. Only for him to die not by battle or age, but because of a sickness.

The Gods, almighty and powerful, both she had gone to ask for a simple thing. To bring back her beloved. Only to be turned away while watching her husband be revived, die, and cursed to never even see him in the afterlife.

She gathered allies to bring down the Gods and kill them. Only for all to die with her as the last one, cursed to wander her planet for thousands of years with nobody to talk to. All attempts to kill herself, no matter how painful, failing.

Then at last, the people of Remnant came back. Weaker but the same as the first humanity. Only for them to shun her for her new appearance, leaving her isolated again.

But suddenly, like a miracle, her husband came back. In another form and name, but the same regardless. Where at last she had everything to make her happy, even children. With a desire to bring a new age of Remnant, and for her husband and children to be by her side.

…Only for him to choose the Gods and take away their children. Where, in her own rage she unintentionally killed them…And decided to kill Ozma where no longer she would be the victim. For if this world is to make her suffer, then she may as well make it suffer in turn. And wait for the day the Gods arrive and end her misery.

Sakura gasped and breathed out heavily. Coughing a bit after she saw all of that and shocked by it. She then looked at Salem who was standing, but not smiling or even looking confident. Instead, she just seemed…Tired.

"You're not the only one to have suffered." Salem then spoke to Sakura. "It is through humanity and the Gods great things have occured. Yet it is also through them that certain others suffer for countless years."

"...Yeah…How true that is…" Sakura agreed fully. As nobody in this city knew about her pain, and just acted as if she was okay. Leaving her alone where she only felt happy with one man, Shirou. 'But' Sakura then thought about him and Rin, and how her own sister seemed to have gotten him to her side. 'It seems he didn't choose me.'

Her nails dug into the ground while she felt her resentment towards Shirou and the world grow. It was irrational of course, and even unfair. But emotions aren't fair, and as such Sakura didn't care. Salem then lends her a hand, with Sakura grabbing hold of it with the former lifting her up.

"It seems your world and mine aren't particularly any good." Salem said to Sakura.

"Zouken would be considered an 'outstanding' magus by others like him." Sakura told Salem, knowing there were many magus like Zouken who also abused their children just to get results. Leading into those children doing the same, all for something stupid for the Root. "I can see why you want your world gone."

"The same to you." Salem nodded. "In which case, why not help one another to accomplish it." Salem then turned her head in the direction she came from. "If what that disgusting man said was true, the item your kind is so eager to kill one another for is capable of granting a wish, yes?"

"Yeah." Sakura smiled. "It is. Though, there seems to be a lot of people in the way." A scratch is then heard, where suddenly, the front of the building collapsed as the ground shaked. Where once the front half of the building fell apart the massive Wyvern is seen, where it opened its maw and from it an object filled with godly power landed on the ground. Power comparable to a Relic in terms of raw energy.

"Then we swat them away like the vermin they are." Salem told Sakura as she picked up the strange item while petting the Wyvern for a wonderful job.

"Yeah. That's true." Sakura then giggled, as she felt the instincts Grimm felt alongside Salem and their views of humanity. Of them being nothing but vermin to kill, to accomplish their goals.

"So, do you wish to come?" Salem asked.

"...alright. Sure. But senpai and my sister are mine." Sakura told Salem, not wanting her to kill her targets. Salem nodded, understanding what she wanted and agreed to it. The two then leave to find the remaining Servants and kill them. All while the few remaining bugs that couldn't even form a proper body watched with anger and regret.

'I…may have made a mistake.' Zouken thought as he saw the two leave with the Wyvern. The two are now working together to cause who knows what kind of trouble upon the earth.

In the Greater Grail, in the cavern, a massive burn mark is there. Where Salem had attacked and killed two humans and four Servants just like so. Even if the Servants had been prepared, they would have died due to taking a direct hit from the powerful magic of the otherworld Servant.

"Man. That was a close one." A cubic square then appeared where it flickered and vanished. Inside the protective barrier, the four were shocked at how they were alive, with them all turning to see a man they thought was dead.

Lancer smirked. "What's the problem?" He twirled his spear. "Thought I was dead?"

Alright, this is the last freebie chapter and NOW we go back to Friday schedules. Moving on:

This chapter focuses on others, mainly Salem and Sakura and a bit of Kirei. The latter of which is enjoying himself in the hellhole formerly called Fuyuki. And for the matter, the Association is failing at culling the Grimm's number, especially because of that Wyvern. Not to mention Gray lost her weapon, which I'm sure will be very bad in enemy hands. At least she and Waver are okay.

Meanwhile Zouken is facing more and more problems. At first, he was succeeding against Sakura, as in my belief Sakura, even in the Heaven Feel trilogy, could have her confidence shaken when others don't act the way she thinks they should. Becoming angry especially when they say they don't care about what she's been through, showing that certain responses can shake her confidence. Zouken-that piece of shit-used that and nearly broke Sakura.

But then Salem came and well, I'd think canon Salem would be just as repulsed by Zouken's methods. The bastard lived of course, but he's now incapable of even making a proper body while Ozpin's emotions are affecting him more and more. Not only did he lose Rider's book though-which will be discussed in the next chapter-but now because of him, Sakura is going to work with Salem. Damn!

But there is hope, as just as I mentioned before, heroes NEVER die. The one who saved them though, I wonder if you all expected that? How Lancer is alive will be explained in the next chapter, but I bet most of you can figure out how.