"This is insane…"
The entire time we'd been walking towards the site of their final confrontations, Johnathan muttered out loud, mainly to himself, about how this was a terrible idea. In some ways, he wasn't wrong. There were many lines the actions the kids were going to take could lead to, and not even I could guarantee what line would end up being the one Assassin or Assassin's master went for. However, I stood by this being their best course of action, and no, I wasn't just saying that because I wanted to see what Saber and Lancer could do against one another.
…Keyword being just.
"And what if neither Assassin nor his master decide to act against us" Johnathan raised his voice slightly, this time clearly addressing the rest of us.
"Well, if that happens" I turned my head and grinned, "get ready to be the most wanted man in the world of magecraft, because you'll have a lot of explaining to do to the Americans. Also, pray the American government is understanding, but I wouldn't bet on that."
"Sortiara, this is suicide" Johnathan turned his complete focus onto his somewhat teammate. "If the American government doesn't kill us, they'll lock us up for life. That's after they interrogate and quite possibly torture us. The cells won't stop magi from killing us afterwards either!"
"Hey, I don't like this either, but do you have any better ideas?!"
"Several!"
"If they don't give us a chance to win the grail, they aren't better!"
"…"
"You two really should keep your voices down" I sighed. "I get that it's the middle of the night, but there's bound to still be a fairly significant police presence out and about. Who knows where they are, and what they can hear."
"…"
"…"
"…That's better" I nodded. "We're not far now, so if you still have doubts, back out now. Otherwise, stop worrying about what could happen, and get ready to do what you need to do."
"You know, I'm getting really tired of parks" Johnathan sighed.
"Didn't even know there were this many parks in the city" Sortiara joined in on the sighing. "Of all the places for Assassin and his master to choose, why did they have to pick a place so far out of the way?"
"Clearly, someone other than me was paying attention to all the places fighting was breaking out" I shook my head. "Of course it was going to be some place this side of the city; y'all have already gone and blown up most of the other areas before."
The place in question we were going to was a small park called Meadow Creek Park. When I say small, I really do mean small. Far as I could tell, it only existed because trying to build houses after drying the creek out would have costed too much money to be worth it. That, and the people living in the surrounding area apparently saw some value in keeping the park around, despite the fact it was literally nothing more than a section of flat grassland, weeds, and one of the most pitiful creeks I've ever seen.
Supposedly it was a good spot to launch fireworks for Independence Day though, so hell if I know what hold legitimate value to Americans.
"Look at that" I grinned as I took my first step onto the grassy patch of land. "Only took us, what? About… two hours to walk here."
"Yeah, fantastic" Sortiara rolled her eyes. "Now what are we supposed to do?"
"Well, I'd assume that Assassin, Assassin's master, or both are around. I'd bet that there's some kind of bounded field type thing set to activate so that other people can't see in here if things go to shit. I'd also bet that whoever is here, other than us, can hear us right now, so… get looking, I guess."
Of course, their jobs weren't actually to look around. Technically, that was my job, but even though this was a flat, empty patch of land, effectively, I highly doubted I'd be able to find Assassin or his master, considering they hadn't been found by either Saber or Lancer yet. Speaking of Saber and Lancer, the two of them finally materialized beside their respective masters. Neither of them looked to be in bad condition, but I suppose that was just a trait of Heroic Spirits, being able to hide what was effectively their stamina or health.
…Now to see if my theory holds true…
In all fairness, I actually had no idea what the kids planned to do from this point onwards. I'd simply given them the suggested course of action, that being to fight one another in a way to attract the attention of outsiders before something like the bounded field the priest put up against us could be activated. As to how they went about doing that, I didn't know. They could fight one another for a bit first, but realistically speaking, that would only serve to waste the magical energy of both of their Heroic Spirits. In my opinion, simply unleashing Noble Phantasm was the correct course of action. But I wasn't the kids. I wasn't even part of this war, technically speaking.
All I would do from here, until the end, was witness all the remaining beauty this war had to offer.
A/N
Short bit, but I plan on doing a few perspectives for this section, so expect the next few bits to be fairly short. Sorry in advance for those who dislike shorter posts, but it is what it is, y'know what I mean?
Also... I have started writing the next work for FATE I planned on doing, and have also posted what is basically the prologue bit to it. While I don't believe it is a surprise at this point who I plan on having win/lose/die/live etc. in this work, this next work I am doing is a continuation from FATE Scattered Fragments, and the prologue will contain aspects people consider spoilers. I will put a waring up in the prologue of that work as well, but consider this as an extra warning to those who are reading this work here, and have gotten to this point.
While work for the next, well, work has started, I have every intention to finish this work this summer (it's less than ten posts away anyways, by my current estimates). Only reason why I started on the next one while this is still going is because I do want to be as close to the start of the next war (or at the start of the next war, if I really have a bunch of free time, though that is highly unlikely) when this is finished. Simply so it's not as boring for me to write xD
As always, see y'all in the next post o7
