Chapter 5

Warm wind…Ardrice thought after he felt a calm gust of wind brushed against his skin. He slowly opened his eyes. Lay before him was a long, silent hallway. The walls where painted in white while the pillars were coated in a familiar gold color.

"My dream…my servant's dream." Ardrice knew he was back again in Lion-O's dream. He looked to his left and saw a vast city standing below. This must be his palace. He glanced to his right and saw a wall, adorned with an insignia of a lion, with its mouth opened, stuck into an eternal roar.

"Royal crest seal-hmm?" he felt a presence behind him and it made him turn around. Lion-O was sitting on a chair, beside a door. His head was down, his eyes closed and he was seemed to be in deep thought.

"Lion-O." Ardrice moved closer but his servant didn't move. Why does he look tense, did something happened? He thought, confused to his state. The door beside Lion-O suddenly opened.

A person came out, and it looked like an old aged cat, he was wearing an all-white attire. I guess everyone on Lion-O's home planet look like animals. Ardrice thought as the person bowed.

"Your Majesty, the delivery was successful."

"How is she, doctor, the Queen, my Queen?" Lion-O asked as he cast his worried eyes at the doctor.

The doctor hesitated at first. "It's too late, your Majesty. The Queen's pulse was too weak, her breathing had stopped after an hour of hard labor." Queen? Wait, Lion-O has a wife! Ardrice glanced at Lion-O and saw his face becoming wide from shock, tears began to build up.

"Ah-my—She's dead." Lion-O breathed hard and swayed a little, loosing his balance slightly from sorrow. "Your Majesty, you…have a son." Just as the person said it, Lion-O's eyes quickly shifted into a hopeful one.

"Please, come inside." The doctor bowed and then walked inside. Ardrice followed as The King walked inside. The room was a large one, just like the room before, from his first dream. A four poster bed was standing on the far left corner and on it, a figure was lying down.

It was a woman with a face of a cat, similar to Lion-O. Her face was sharp and dignified and she looked like a queen. However despite what the doctor said, her face was still and peaceful as if she didn't suffer at all. "Oh no…" Ardrice shifted to Lion-O, the King kneeled down beside the bed, tears were streaming down from his eyes.

"My love." Lion-O whispered, softly and in despair. "But you have a son, Lion-O." a serene smile formed in Ardrice's face as he glanced back at bed and noticed a small figure, lying on top of the woman near her chest. The baby's face was almost identical as his servant. He also has a red spike hair that looks like a lion's mane.

Lion-O gently took the baby from the queen's chest. He was still crying from sadness but he slowly formed a sad smile. "My boy, my little prince…Leonis. That will be your name and I swear…that I shall protect you from all that is evil." Ardrice blinked, surprise to what he had heard. So that's why he insists on being called Leonis that time.

Ardrice woke up to the reality. "Lion-O, why didn't he say anything to me?" he thought while he got up from the bed and then, in a flash, he remembered last night's event.

"Oh right we were defeated…but that Archer. What's he doing here and why did he want to know my wish?" he rummaged his thoughts hard. Why on earth, Rin's servant help them and why did he want to know his wish?

Ardrice walked out of his room, still thinking about Archer. He paused his thoughts however when he walked into the dining room and found his servant looking in front of a laptop.

"Lion-O?" Lion-O glanced at him and smiled. "Good morning master. I am just researching about the enemy last night." Oh that's thoughtful. Ardrice thought as he sat down beside him.

"Medusa, according to the Greek mythos and legends, she was one of Gorgon sisters who were all trapped in a place called the 'Shapeless Isle,'. And she got a power called Mystic Eyes." He paused as he fixed his glasses. "And it wasn't her noble phantasm." Ardrice thought hard but his eyes were focused on Lion-O's glasses. Where on earth did he get that?

"Say Lion-O…you look good in glasses. Where did you get that?" Lion-O shrugged and then pointed at a credit card lying on the table beside him.

"I bought it online. Human laptops are too bright for my eyes." Ardrice looked at the credit card and sighed. "That's mine. Well never mind that."

"Hmm, so cat's eyes are really sensitive to light huh." Rin said as she stood behind Lion-O and looked at website that he was surfing.

"I'm surprise Rin that you don't know the fact that cats are actually sensitive to light-wait, what are you doing here!?" Ardrice jumped from his sit and darted to Rin who was wearing the Homurohara Academy uniform.

Rin blinked, oblivious to Ardrice's reaction. "Archer followed you last night, it seems he wanted to investigate you more. But I told him not to." Rin said as she fixed one of her ponytailed hair. "I thought it would be better if I fight you fair and square."

Ardrice was taken aback from what she said. "Wow…I thought you would cheat. Sorry about that." Rin gave her a hard frown look before she sighed heavily and regained her composure.

"The reason why your traps didn't work last night was because someone had already tampered it." Ardrice shot at her. Someone had already tampered my traps? Ardrice thought hard. I keep my traps clean who could do such a- an idea formed in his head.

"Another master, beside you." Rin nodded and then added. "Or a servant. Looks like you're now a hot target for others."

"Yes that includes you." Lion-O remove his glasses and cast a serious frown at her. "You could be the one who tampered it."

"Blame me, but I didn't do it…besides I didn't noticed one, so I was zapped." Rin clutched blushed and look away and crossed both of her arms. "You're using electricity burst mana and what's up with that flash grenade!"

Lion-O and Ardrice both looked at each other. Did she just confess her clumsiness to us, and she fell right into two of my traps!? Ardrice thought, ridiculously, before he burst into laughter.

Homurohara Academy – Class 2-C

The only way for my traps to be tampered is to overload it with mana until it fries. But my flash grenade didn't exploded…Ardrice thought hard silently in the middle of his class. His subject today was world history and it was boring one.

"Master, you seem be in deep thought." Lion-O, in his human disguise form, whispered to him. "Yeah, who could do such a thing, to my traps?"

"One with a very huge amount of Mana. It's not Rin." Ardrice grumbled as he flipped his book. "In any case we really need to visit the overseer tonight."

"Agreed." Lion-O thought and went back to his notebook and began writing lecture notes.

Ardrice and Lion-O walked into the roof top. It was lunch time, the cafeteria was jam-pack with students. There was no room for a secret meeting with Rin and him.

"Rin, we're here." They found Rin, sitting on a bench, drinking from a orange juice box, with a frowning face. He felt a sour mood emitting from her, making him feel nervous. "Uh, is it a bad time." Ardrice asked softly but Rin darted her eyes at him.

"Yes, but you're not the one at fault." She looked both at them, the two looked at each other, puzzled to her rough mood. "Hey guys!" Just then they heard Shirou from behind them. A smile from him greeted them.

"Eh, why's Rin angry?" he asked Ardrice but Rin shot up suddenly. "I don't know if you're dumb or have an ace up your sleeves but you sure do have the guts to talk to us, without a servant guarding your back."

Eh? Ardrice then finally noticed. Shirou's Saber servant was nowhere in sight. "Is Saber fine, Shirou?" Lion-O asked, faintly.

"That's not the point here! You can't just walk outside without your servant, what if someone attack you?" Rin voiced in a concern manner.

What if we attack you. Ardrice however thought while glancing at Shirou with judging eyes.

"So sorry about that, but please Saber isn't a servant…she's human like us." Shirou said as Ardrice eyes hardened while Lion-O made a disapproving grunt. Rin however, darkened her face to the point that it made everyone felt dread.

"In any case, Shirou hasn't grasp this war. Perhaps we should all go to the overseer tonight." Ardrice suggested to Rin who snorted vehemently. Frustrated to Shirou's naivety.

"Also Rin, should we talk about the bounded field around this school? It seems it was getting thicker." Ardrice then motioned making the girl glanced at the field below them.

"Indeed, but we can't act now. Rider's attack on you last night might've been the response of the master who build this bounded field around this school." And that means it really is the Rider's master who tampered with the traps, Lion-O thought while he clutch his right ear, after he remembered last night's event.

"Whiskers!" The three masters glanced at him but went back to the topic.

"Um…what's a bounded field guys?" Rin and Ardrice slowly turned their heads at him. They've completely forgotten that Shirou wasn't fully magus. Rin first reacted, she slowly made a hardened smile with sinister intent.

"Well prepare your brain." Oh boy, Rin is gonna go nuke him. Ardrice and Lion-O both thought and prepared for an eventual fallout.

Near Fuyuki Church - Night time

Night time arrives fast at Fuyuki City, a cold wind swept across an empty road that leads uphill. On the sidewalk, Ardrice and Lion-O silently walk. The master was wearing a black jacket and pants with a hood over his head. Lion-O, still in his human form quietly followed, a black hood was also covering his head.

"Say do we look suspicious?" Lion-O ask but Ardrice grunted. "Well the potion is about to wear off anytime soon. I don't want you to be seen by anyone." He explained as the two stop in an intersection.

Ardrice looked in front. Across the intersection and a huge iron gate, stood a white church. It looked normal to some but to a Magus like Ardrice he felt a foreboding presence.

"Ardrice, I neve thought that human churches look menacing at night."

"It's because they don't Lion-O." This isn't a normal church, Ardrice and Lion-O began to walk towards the church and into the unknown.

"Oh, you're here. One minute late though." Ardrice and Lion-O meet up with Rin and Shirou who were both standing in front of the church's door.

"Now, now Rin, let us just proceed inside. I'm dying to meet our overseer." Ardrice said in a jovial manner earning him a smile from Rin and Shirou.

Lion-O glanced at the church's door, intensely. The feeling from earlier was still knotting inside his chest.

"Master, it's better if I stay outside. Someone should guard the door." Lion-O suggested. "Oh Lion-O about that, the overseer would like to see the eighth servant." Wait he wants to see me? Lion-O thought strangely.

"I will guard the door." Lion-O turned around after he heard a familiar voice.

"Saber." The lion servant blushed as he saw the Saber servant wearing a very casual clothing of white buttoned shirt and blue skirt, and she was beautiful tonight.

"S-sure thanks, Saber-san." Lion-O stammered as the Saber servant lightly bow and proceed to walk to the gate.

"Well then shall we enter?" Rin asked as all of them agree and entered the church.

Ardrice looked around. The church was even more sinister inside. The atmosphere was thick and heavy, because of magical barriers that surround the whole place.

"This isn't so bad." Lion-O lied for he too felt uncomfortable.

"Welcome, Servants and Masters of the fifth Holy Grail war." A booming voice made all of them stopped. On the altar a man in a black cloth, stood. His shoulder length brown hair waved as he moved, his eyes were black and almost lifeless.

"I pray that you're all fine, and" he paused and glanced at Ardrice and Lion-O, "that someone is ready to give up an extra servant to me because the Holy Grail war only requires seven participant."

Ardrice's eyes became stern. "I'm sorry. I know that I am the eighth master and I know that the Holy Grail war only requires seven masters and servant to participate. I would like to join this war at any cost." He stopped and stood firmly on the ground.

The priest stared at him with cold dead eyes and then slowly he made a malicious smirk. "You forgot to ask my name, Lord Ardrice."

"I know who you are. Kirei Kotomine, a survivor from the fourth holy grail war." Everyone darted their look to the priest called Kirei.

"Wait, Kirei-you were a master at the fourth holy grail war?" Rin asked but Kirei raised his left hand at her.

"He was talking to me Rin. It's good that someone from the Magus association is still watching me." Kirei said calmly while he moved closer to Lion-O. "By the way, I want to see your eight servant in his own flesh."

Lion-O looked at him but before he could react the priest poke his forehead. He grunted as foreign mana, that felt like a bolt of electricity, crawled all throughout his body.

"Lion-O!" Ardrice gasped as Lion-O's disguise suddenly disappeared. His pointy ear and sharp fangs returned.

"The hell—"

Interesting…Kirei's grin widened more. "My first condition, I want a complete transparency from you and your servant, Ardrice." He walk towards Ardrice, the boy clutch his gun on left waist and took a step back.

"Second…your servant possess a skill called God's resolution which allows your servant to possess many command skills. I want you to command your servant to seal that skill." Ardrice's eyes widened and looked at Lion-O whose eyes darkened at the Priest.

"Is fighting fair and square difficult for a nobleman like you?" Kirei asked, his tone was heavy and frightening. He glanced down at his four command spells and sighed.

"Lion-O, I command you…never use God's resolution to me and to other masters." Lion-O growled angrily behind Kirei but to no avail, Ardrice's right hand glowed, a single jagged line disappeared and the light on Lion-O's tattoo disappeared.

"Wait, your servant has God's resolution!?" Rin reacted violently but again the priest raised his left hand, silencing her.

"Do you know the servant class, Beast-Class?" he began as Ardrice shook his head while Rin darted her eyes again at him, shocked to what the priest said.

"I don't know."

"You may now speak Rin." Kirei said and added. "I'm sure you have a little bit of information regarding the beast-class." Rin stared hardly at Lion-O like he was suddenly a dangerous creature.

"Not much, but from what I read from my father's books…the Beast-class are actually 'not considered' as servants." Ardrice looked puzzled to what he just heard.

"The Beast-class was said to be…a special container for the Evils of Mankind." Now it was Lion-O's turn to react. His eyes widened and froze in fear.

"What's the meaning of that, Rin!?" Ardrice shouted as Rin shook her head. "I'm sorry that's all I learned, most of my father's grimoire had gone missing during the fourth holy grail war." She explained as Ardrice only grunted in anger and didn't noticed Kirei, the priest smirked in amusement.

"And that leads again to you Kirei. You never told me that you're a participant of the tragic fourth holy grail war." Tragic…? Shirou thought strangely as he moved forward.

"What happened…why's the fourth one tragic?" Kirei finally noticed him. He cast his black eyes at him. "Boy, what's your name?"

"Shirou, Emiya Shirou." Emiya? Ardrice thought, he had read that name before but where? The priest stood still for a moment before a low, gurgling chuckle came out form his lips.

"Fate sure is strange." Kirei laughed in a foul resonating tone and stopped, he cast his eyes at the boy. "The great Fuyuki Fire." Shirou's eyes widened in shock. His heart beat loudly suddenly, the air around him felt more thicker than before.

Fuyuki Fire? "Didn't that happened ten years ago?" Ardrice asked but Shirou answered in a stammering voice. "Y-Yes…I was…survivor." Ardrice mouth opened slightly, startled that Shirou was a survivor of such disastrous tragedy.

"It was because the ritual was interrupted. The grail didn't fully activated." Kirei explained as he then began to walk around, encircling the masters and Lion-O.

"The grail oozed a vile liquid that slowly destroys anything it touches." He stopped in front of Lion-O. "And as for the Beast-class…they are the ones who usually stores those vile liquid. Because those are the 'Evils of Mankind'."

Lion-O's eyes darkened and burned right through Kirei's face. He couldn't believe what he just heard from him. "And the one who destroyed the grail…was none other than, Emiya Kiritsugu." Ardrice gasped. He had recognized the name.

"I know him…wait he's related to Shirou?"

"My father is a hero, he wouldn't cause such a disaster. He saved me." Shirou straightly explained, anger was in his tone. "What's your proof of it…you lousy priest?" a heavy vengeful tone cut the whole atmosphere. Ardrice slowly turned to Lion-O and he shook away after he saw Lion-O's eyes turning deep, blood red.

Kirei however, undeterred, only blew his nose. "The moon is already high, its time for all of you to rest for tomorrow." He bowed and turned away, Lion-O growled more and took a step forward but Ardrice stood in front of him and looked through his eyes.

"Lion-O, please…not here." Lion-O's anger quickly ebbed away after he saw his Master's pleading eyes. "Let's just go home for now everyone…it's getting really late." Ardrice suggested and the three masters quietly nodded.

Lion-O was still silent as he followed Ardrice. The group had just passed the iron gate. Saber was there also, she looked at the three with a normal face but her eyes cast a curious glance at Lion-O's sullen frowning face.

"Did you get what you want master?" she asked as Shirou only nodded silently. "What's wrong with Sir Lion-O?" she then asked again as Ardrice suddenly face Lion-O.

"Lion-O you're never evil…because you love your son, Leonis." The Lion king servant darted his eyes at him, appalled to what he said. The mention of his son's name quickly erased the anger in his eyes.

"You finally discovered I had a son." Lion-O made a remembering smile.

"Yes, I believe you're a good father to him…no evil father would protect his son from all evil." Lion-O stared at him, with a smile still. Then his senses perked up. Lion-O darted his eyes in front together with Saber who then stood in an attacking stance.

"Wait, Saber what is-"

"Enemy sighted." Lion-O said as he stood beside Saber. Ardrice, Rin and Shirou looked in front and were startled to see a little girl standing a couple of meters away from them.

The girl was wearing an all purple jacket and a purple hat, she possessed a white hair and red eyes that looks menacing. She took a bow after she noticed the eyes of the group.

"Good evening, masters. So you've finally finish your little meeting at the church?" she asked in a petit voice that was filled with evil intent.

"My name is Illyasviel von Einzbern. Nice to meet all of you." Einzbern…no wonder I could feel a strong mana from her! Lion-O thought as Ardrice pointed his gun at her. "She's one of the founders."

"Indeed, why didn't I notice her?" Rin grumbled as Illya waved her right hand. "So the eighth master and servant is here hmm…and Saber class too. Would you all like to play?" and at the waved of her right hand, a large being appeared and cast a shadow to them.

Lion-O's eyes widened in terror. The large figure has dark gray skin tone and shoulder length hair, it was wearing a skirt armor around its huge waist. He held a large sword made from stone on its right hand. And it was spewing mana just like him.

"What is this-?"

"I don't-but I think its a Berserker-class?" Illya smiled at Ardrice and then shifted her eyes to Shirou. "Yes, my Berserker-class is the strongest. Now Berserker, kill them!"

It disappeared, Lion-O and saber looked around then a shadow loomed above them. "Whisk- watch out all of you!" Lion-O shouted as everyone jumped back as Berserker landed from where they're standing, creating a massive crater.

"Oh boy…tonight is gonna be a long night!" Lion-O exclaimed as the Berserker entered in stance.

WOo-hoo! Finally uploaded a new chapter! Ladies and Gentlemen, things are about to go down again! What do you think is the power of the Berserk-Class? Do you think it will rival against Saber and Beast-class? And What is truly the purpose of Beast-Class, find out more and stay tuned!.

True Identity: Lion-O

Class: Beast

Class Skill:

-Independent Manifestation (?)

- Authority of the Beast (?)

- Magic Resistance (EX)

-God's Resolution (EX - SEALED)

Personal Skills:

- Charisma (A)

- Instinct (B)

- Luck (B)

Noble Phantasm:

- ARMOR OF OMENS (EX)

- Unknown

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