Argentum: Hello Y'all!

Grel'Slyfer: Back once more.

Shadow: Meh.

Tanjiro: Excited as usual aren't we?

Shadow: Meh. Just here for reviews.

Grel'Slyfer: Aww little brother doesn't have too much of a job to do~.

Shadow: I can still kill you a trillion times over in five seconds.

Grel'Slyfer: But ya won't~!

Shadow: And I hate how you're right about that.

Shiro: Is Grel'Slyfer just another Archer?

Archer: I detest that.

Shadow: Yeah whatever. AS for me… yes Ether02. Zelretch is involved and chaos shall reign. Also Yes! Apathy Incarnate exposition. Can't have pure action all the time. Though we did try to make things interesting. And that's it for me! PEACE! (Leaves slamming broadcasting door in process.)

Everyone: Okay.

Grel'Slyfer: Hey Shiro want to end this before things get crazier?

Shiro: Huh? Oh sure. Ahem, The Dark Guard productions do not own any of the properties shown. They do however own world building concepts and original characters. Now without further delay…

Everyone-Archer: Here's the story!

Archer: Yeah I ain't doing that.

Argentum: Not even surprised…


Hello= Regular talk

Hello= Thoughts

[Hello]= Radio

(Hello)= Telepathy/Mind reading


Chapter Sixty Four: How we met some old and new foes or… How we visited a Witch…


The next day was started with me waking up with a cold sweat. "Flames and swords…" I saw something in my dreams, or to be more accurate I saw a memory, a vision.

"So it started already huh? Not too surprised little dragon." Turning to Archer I shrugged.

"Yeah well not like your life was any better. Cool weapons though, mind if I steal your bow?"

"Nah, at least you asked unlike Shiro. Guy's basically a fake of a fake at this point. Only more happy thanks to Rin, Saber, and the others."

I nodded. "Mhm fun." His smirk wasn't as condescending this time.

"Indeed, also good job with the goddess and princess." At my red face and my now desire to punch him again, the warrior from the future laughed. "HAH! Well gotta go make breakfast, see you at the table." As he left I shook my head before looking at my hand.

"Hmm…" Concentrating and using the knowledge I got from my vision of Archer's past. I summoned his rather enormous black bow. "Sweet~!" I was more than happy, I finally had a bow that I could use, and what's more… "Alright Caldabolg two?" The spiral arrow popped into existence within my hand. Of course I put the least amount of power into it as I could. But I was successful, thus the sword arrow, thing, came to be. I laughed. "HEHEHEHEHAAHA! Archery here I come once more!" Archer's unique advanced alteration, reinforcement, tracing, and structural analysis was an amazing combination. "And with my newfound magic pool I'll break it even further~." Yeah I was on a bit of a power high at the time. Especially when I also traced Hrunting as an arrow, replacing Caldabolg. " And with this… I doubt Grel'Slyfer or Nel'Ren will see this coming." Dismissing everything I left to find what chaos awaited me outside.

Was actually more peaceful then what I was expecting."Umai!" Mostly because the food was the best I've ever had. Funnily enough both Archer and Shiro had worked on the omelette breakfast. Best food ever! I had quickly concocted plans to get everything I could out of him. Both magic and cooking that is. Though in Archer's case it was more of me stealing his weapon's blueprints for myself. Did I feel bad? Not really, I mean he copied everything himself, and now I'm copying him. Though I still think with enough time my sword will surpass any of his. So I would leave most of them alone. Was still wondering how he came to be though, along with how he remembers every last blueprint he has. I had a bonus of being a dragon, helped out my memory quite a bit.

Though even I would say it would be impossible for me to remember all that he has. Questions for later. Instead I focused on trying to eat what I could, I say what I could simply because of the clones at the table.

"I love this!~"

"Mhm! Shiro's cooking is the best!"

"I will admit, this is very good." Turns out Castor,Saber, and Gray had appetites that could in fact rival my Cassandra's. A horrifying thought for anyone's budget. In this case, Waver's budget.

"One wasn't enough was it? Just had to introduce two others!" Seeing how he was next to me I put a hand on his shoulder.

"Trust me, I get it, one of my girlfriends eats just as much." I then squinted at the three look a likes. Funny enough they had some similar features to my princess. "Maybe it's a female warrior blonde thing?" To my side Shiro shrugged.

"I can't answer that question, but maybe you're onto something."

"Maybe, wonder who else deals with things like this?" Throughout reality a number of people sneezed at once. A couple of I even knew well. "Ah well can't worry about them." I then turned to Waver. "So what's on the agenda today?" With a sigh he began.

"So this is it huh?" Couple hours later we were in front of a small cottage.

"Yep but let's try not to destroy this one okay?" Rin had heard about what happened and didn't want a repeat.

"No promises." She sighed before gesturing forward.

"Just get in there and do… whatever it is you do my new student." Complying I went inside followed by Archer, Rin, and Gray. If you're curious groups were split up based on who wouldn't try to kill whom. That and who would be better oversight for whom. Which is why Waver and Bazett went with the others. Now inside I could see that once more did our perpetrators try their best to hide their magic use. Useless against my eyes as I went into the kitchen and punched down. Breaking the wooden floor boards. This revealed the magic circle they were using. "I can see why you didn't promise anything…"

Ignoring her as I further used my eyes to decode the circle, pushing just a bit of magic in to see it better. I noted that it was so much worse than the version Tanjiro and I used to summon Archer and Castor. Even then, that one we used only worked thanks to our magic enhanced blood.

Rubbing my chin I ripped the page I used to draw the circle out of my note book. "What can you two make of this?" I handed it to Rin as Archer looked at it over her shoulder.

"Hmm, yeah this is definitely a servant summoning circle. However there are some unique differences here. My guess is that with no grail to help summon them, whomever is doing this was trying to best summon them with minimal magic help."

As Archer nodded I agreed. "My thoughts exactly. Though even the one Tanjiro and I used, while better than this one, only worked because of what we are."

With a scowl she turned back up to me. "Speaking of which…" I couldn't help but gulp. "You still haven't told me what you are! So spit it out or else I'll sick Saber and Rider on you!" Archer took a step back as I did the same.

And today was going so nicely as well… With a sigh I started to tell my tale.


Witches and Magic create Linebreaks!


It was a jealous Rin who kicked the door open to our next destination. "Worked so hard to make it to where I am, only to be shown up by someone with lucky genes! Stupid dragons, stupid demons, stupid Darkwraiths, Stupid Chaos gods, and stupid Multiversal OLD MEN!" Yeah she was taking things a little hard.

"You know… normally I'd say to someone to suck it up. But seeing how this is Rin… I'mma take a step back." Honestly, a really smart decision from Archer. With a nod Gray also made the same decision. I however…

"If it helps, I didn't exactly ask for this." Her glare was enough to set me back. A surprising act seeing how only three others before who could do that to me. Those being my Mother and my two girlfriends. Rin was just that intimidating. "Heheh, so what do you think?"

Sweeping her hair back she turned forward. "Oh I don't know? Why doesn't the "dragon" figure it out?" She was going to be difficult. Deciding to just get to my detective work, I stepped passed her into the house. Eyes shining purple I looked around for anything suspicious. Behind me Archer did the same, he also beat me to it.

"Hey! There's a cellar over here." As Rin and I looked at one another we had the same thought.

""If there's something down there, then I'll call it cliche." Another blink we then grinned at one another, her earlier jealousy gone. The two of us were pretty similar, just I wasn't as outgoing… or a tsundere. Moving towards Archer we opened the hatch that he found under the couch. There was a distinct smell coming from below that was oddly familiar to me. Though with how dark it was I couldn't see what I might've been. ""Hmm dark."" Again we chuckled as Archer looked even more worried.

(Uh… Master? Should I be concerned with how well you get along with that witch?)

I couldn't help it at that point. "Hey Rin San?" She turned to me. "Archer just called you a witch." The look of betrayal he gave me said it all. As for Rin…

"Yeah I ain't surprised. Still! Archer!" I started making my way downstairs as Rin Kicked his shin and smacked the downed guys head.

"Dammit RIN!" I was beginning to find a lot of amusement in my situation as Gray spoke up.

"Should we stop them?" I waved her off.

"Nah." With that we made it to the bottom of the stairs as I cast my light spell. "Ah! I thought I smelt something familiar." With a grimace I covered my nose, around me was the remains of dead civilians. Next to me Gray looked ready to vomit. Deciding to help the girl I got out a cloth and held it to her nose. "Here this will help with the smell at least." She nodded gratefully and took it from my hand.

"Thank you." I couldn't help but smile and ruffle her hair. "Hey!" Her response only made me want to pat her more as she pouted. The younger girl was quite cute. Reminded me of a less expressive Nezuko. Seeing Rin and Archer climb down I stopped and turned to them.

"Well there's nothing magical down here, just lots of bodies. Seeing how you three know more about the protocol for things like this. I'll let you decide on what we do with them." Archer gave me a stoic nod while Rin grit her teeth.

"We'll need to call this in and have Waver's men come in and pick them up. Both for study and disposal." I could tell that it left a bad taste in both her's and Gray's mouths. Honestly I felt the same, but these were the laws at play. Thus I only patted the two on the shoulders as I started climbing up. Now more motivated than ever to bring the monster behind this to justice. As we let Gray called up Waver before we moved onto the next target. This time it was an older hotel building. Unfortunately there were still people working there. But fortunately we had Rin with us.

"We're with the police investigating the disappearances. You shall let us through." Poor receptionist was hypnotized. On the plus side my eye were on and I copied her magic. Honestly didn't know how to feel about that. Deciding to just roll with it we went up to the third floor. That's when I saw it and held my hand up.

"Wait a second. There's some kind of detecting field on this floor."

Rin huffed. "A basic boundary field then." I had no idea what that was. "Archer think you can get rid of it?" The red servant nodded before tracing something, a rather strange looking dagger. Looked like a lightning bolt with a handle.

Rule Breaker? Oh… oh! I like that one! The dagger broke magical bindings and contracts. Well to a certain extent. Could even steal or seal them as well. Something I happily memorized for future use. Gonna need to write these things down when I can. Didn't want to lose anything useful.

With a simple thrust the Rule Breaker broke the bounded field and we ran in. Following the source before we ran into a room. It was this room that the most magical energy was emanating from. Huddling around as I quietly picked the lock I slowly opened the door. Only for it to be flung open and a gust of wind sucked us in.

"WAH!" We all yelled out in shock as the door closed behind us and we fell into a dark pit. "OOPH!" only to land on the hard wood ground. With a groan I got up and looked around. "How are you still standing?" Archer simply smirked at my question. Deciding that it was the best I'd get I helped Gray and Rin up as I looked around. "Everyone alright?" As they confirmed they were I narrowed my eyes. "Why does this look familiar?" Walking up to one of the four metal doors I couldn't help but come to have horrifying realization. "Oh no…"

[OH YES!] I couldn't help but groan with a face palm as I heard that familiar voice over an intercom. [WELCOME BACK LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! It is I! Hin'gorn!]

[AND I! Gorn'Veln! And today we bring you yet another wonderful competition! This time with giant reptiles and a huge maze! Also as a bonus! We have two teams! Separated by both distance and enemies… Wait a minute? What the hell are they doing here again?!]

Hin'gorn sounded just as distraught. [NO! Not again! You didn't say anything about running into them again! I mean sure the Voidwalker isn't here. But I don't want to deal with those dragons again!] There was another voice that spoke up in irritation at their complaints.

[As if I knew it was going to be them! Now stop complaining and do your stupid show! It is literally your only job right now!]

[SCREW YOU WITCH!] Tapping her chin Rin spoke up.

"You know this voice sounds very familiar somehow."

"Hnn, strange enough I have to agree." As the two pondered Gray and I Shrugged at one another.

That's when Rin snapped her fingers. "AH HA! Castor!" We blinked at her. "No not Kamado's Castor! The one from our grail war! MEDEA! What are you doing back?!" There was a pause.

[What the?! Tohsaka! What?! Oh this is better than I thought! Revenge time for you killing me and my hubby! OH! Look at that~! Saber and Emiya as well, my this is wonderful! Have fun in MY labyrinth children~! I can't wait to see you all ripped apart!] With static the walls and ceilings vanished into the ground and… well higher ceiling. Around us were many paths. I couldn't help but sigh.

"Haaa… really is a maze, how wonderful. Archer can you find a way to our comrades that also seem to be trapped in here?" He shook his head. "Great, anything you can tell us about this woman? I can tell you about the Darkwraith twins." Rin gave a nod before beginning her story.


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"Okay, so Medea of Colchis. Fought her in the last war, beat her and her summoned assassin, and she isn't happy about that. Also what's a Minotaur?" All of them gave me a rather dissapointed look. "What?"

"Think half man half bull monster."

"Oh, yeah seen weirder." Another look. "What?" Before anything else could be said the sounds of footsteps started approaching. Turning towards a back passage a huge three headed black wolf ran around the corner and growled at us. "I suggest we prepare for battle." Archer summoned two white and black Chinese falchions, Gray her scythe, and Rin simply reinforced herself as I did the same. My sword drawn as I prepared to charge forward. Only for the wolf to be stepped on by an enormous centaur looking creature. It's muscles showing as its horse head neighed as if in pain. The abominations human half simply shrieked lowly at the sight of us.

Rin gulped and backed away at the sight. "Oh… that's a Nuckelavee, Archer get it!" I had no idea what a Nuckelavee was so simply gave Archer a thumbs up to see how he dealt with it. His response was to un-summon his swords and trace his bow. Creating Caldabolg two and firing it at the creature. I was rather shocked a the sudden overkill. I was sadly mistaken on the overkill part. Because as the enormous explosion engulfed the hallway I could still hear the neighing. After a few moments, the abomination charged out of the smoke and screamed as it raised its spear at us.

"Okay how is it alive?!" As I yelled the others simply braced for combat. It reached us in a single moment, much too fast for Rin. Thankfully Archer was there to pick her up, and jump back to safety as the creatures spear cracked the ground. The giant spear slammed into the ground digging deep and shattering the area around its entry point. The force was enough to send me flying back along with Gray. With a groan my back slammed into the wall as I fell to my feet. "Okay that happened." Shaking my head I used reinforcement on both my own body and sword.

Now stronger I launched myself forward aiming for one of its long red arms. Twirling its spear it knocked me away as I was forced to defend myself. Grunting I teleported to its side and hacked a the other arm. I couldn't help but both wince and grin as I lobbed the arm off and it screeched in horrible pain. My anti-demon weapon seemed to be working well on the creature. Or at least I thought so until the arm grew back. I was really starting to get annoyed with regeneration. Furious I slashed forward engaging in a fast melee with the creature. As I slashed and hacked the creature proved to be quite skilled as I only met its spear. Now angrier then before I activated my demon mark only for the abomination to get faster as well.

Okay! What is this thing?! Blocking the tip of the spear, I wasn't fast enough to defend myself from the metal orb at the bottom of the spear. As I coughed out blood I was thrown down the hallway. As I got back up a wall sprang up from the ground blocking me off from my allies. "Dammit!" With a yell I ran at the wall and swung, my sword screeching off with sparks. Looking at my blade I could see no discernible damage. As I heard the sounds of battle coming from the wall the sound system went off.

[OOH! And like that the dragon got separated from his group! What shall he- What is he doing?] Sclera turning black and blade going crimson I swung once more. Purple flames coming off my blade. I wasn't about to deal with this whole nonsense. [Holy SHIT! HE'S GOTTEN TOO STRONG!] Cutting right through the wall I then kicked it, sending debris everywhere as I saw Archer fighting off the abomination with Gray. I was having none of that and teleported ahead, going at max speed I swung. MY blade catching fire with purple flames.

It could only stare at me. "Too slow." Cutting right through its torso it died before even hitting the ground. Melting as its body touched the ground into a sticky viscera. "Ew…" Looking at the others I relaxed my body as exhaustion hit me, leaving me almost vulnerable. "Ugh, still not used to that." Rin was the first to speak up.

"Okay first, WHAT?! Second, THE HELL?!" Cracking my neck as I studied Archer's swords I answered, weren't anything I was interested in so I simply moved on from them.

"Simply put, that was something I cannot use too often. It's like an emergency power up that basically drains me completely after I stop using it. Though the after affects are worse the longer I use it, still this left me without any magic to speak of." Rin grimaced as Archer sighed.

"Great, another suicidal idiot. You do remember that I run off of your power right?" I nodded and waved him off while taking out one of my specially made rice crackers.

Deciding to thank Shinobu and Aoi later I reassured him. "Don't worry about it. I'll recover enough to let you stay, in fact I've already recovered a bit since we started speaking." Taking a bite out of my cracker I had to appreciate my magical recovery. Over two thousand points recovered per minute. Take about two hours to fully recover, one and a half with the crackers. Thankfully that was enough to not leave me defenceless, unlike a certain explosion girl. That only happened if I used every last drop of magic in a single sitting. Done that enough for one lifetime. As I ate my crackers I felt some physical strength return as well. Least I'm getting used to the after affects. Training with Sanemi helped a lot on that front. He was the only one of two whom I could use the dimensional surge on. The other being Kyojuro. As I let myself relax and regain energy I looked back at the mess. "So anyone want to try and explain that one?"

Both Archer and Gray looked at Rin who groaned. "UGH! Fine leave the explaining forever to me then." Looking at me she got into a pose that I would dub, Rin's teaching pose number one. "Okay so that was a demon creature known as a Nuckelavee. You can find a lot about it in Orcadian mythology." With a frown she then turned to the goop. "Well I wouldn't really call it mythological anymore but my point still stands!" I just nodded as she continued. "Long story short it's a sea demon that hates both life in general as well as fresh water. Loves to cause havoc, pain, disease, death, and yadda yadda. You know your average malevolent spirit monster. Turns out they were real and just as powerful as the stories suggested. Well until you killed it when you went lightning mode on it."

"Heh heh… yeah I wasn't near as fast as lightning there. Somewhere around five hundred thousand miles per hour. But that's besides the point." I turned back to the now smoking black and red tar. "The point is that I won't be able to keep killing these things, especially if they're spread out in any good distance. We need to come up with some sort of plan to meet up with the others." The others agreed as we all felt chills up our spines. Another screech coming from behind us. As one we turned to see another horrific creature.

"And that's a gigantic undead!" Once more the speakers turned on.

[And another creature comes after the Dragon and his team! This time instead of a Nuckelavee! IT's a Gashadokuro! A giant skeleton created from the bones of people who have starved to death!] As Hin'gorn paused the other Darkwraith spoke.

[That's right! And what's more… It bites its victims necks and then drinks their spraying blood! How it drinks as a skeleton I'll never know! But the better question is… What shall the dragon and co do now?!]

I quickly decided on something. "HEH! I'll tell you what we'll do!" Putting my crackers away I turned around, picked up Rin and Gray over my shoulders, much to their protests, used reinforcement and my mark… and started running away. "I say we run away!" I was quickly followed by Archer as the skeleton started chasing us.

Medea spoke up completely baffled. [This is who you're scared of? I mean sure he's smart to run when he's tired but…] The Darkwraiths simply told her to shut up as we ran. Honestly wasn't even the last time we'd run that day.


Witches and Magic create Linebreaks!


Argentum: And that's a wrap! Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Complete with even more old characters.

Hin'gorn: HEY! It's rude to call a lady old! Even if it is true by human standards.

Gorn'Veln: I don't think he was mentioning your age sis.

Hin'gorn: Oh.

Medea: And these are my partners in crime… I don't know why I even bother.

Grel'Slyfer: Heh yeah my baby brother and sister are quite the handful.

Hin'gorn/Gorn'Veln: SHUT UP!

Argentum: Yeah that sounds about right. Well hope I'm at least doing the characters justice and hope you all are enjoying this mess. Medea please send us off.

Medea: Finally… Ahem! This has been a Dark Guard production now signing off.

Everyone: Goodbye!