Fate/Kyon's Order: The Return

A Haruhi Suzumiya & Fate/Grand Order Crossover

by Derald Snyder

Part 27: Advent Beast

"Mystic Eyes of Death Perception." Shiki's attack failed to cut Emiya Alter's death line, due to his agility, but she still drew blood, causing him to slow just a tiny bit.

"Yew Bow!" Robin Hood intoned, Emiya Alter suddenly being engulfed in vines which transformed into a tree!

"Now, Gawain!" Ritsuka ordered.

"Yes, Master! Excalibur Galatine!" Gawain cried, the heat of the sun causing the rotting tree to catch fire, and Emiya Alter along with it! "Artesia, finish him!"

"Forgive me, Shirou...!" the blackened King of Knights as she rushed forward, slicing faster than the eye could see! Emiya gurgled as blood sprayed from his body, falling to his knees, then collapsing forward, his blood staining the shallow water.

"..." Ritsuka could only stare at the fallen archer, his outstretched arm floating limply in the water...

"I didn't like doing that any more than you did," Haruhi sighed... then her head jerked up as someone else emerged from the shadows. "You!"

"Wow, you got him!" Mable Macintosh gasped, looking down at Emiya Alter's body. "I thought he was one of yours, though... wasn't that kind of harsh?"

"Mable! You managed to make it here!" Tamamo Cat exclaimed... but then her smile turned upside down. "Suuuuure, I bet that's what you were expecting me to say. I juuuust now realized you're in the deep dark in all of this!"

"Good instincts, Cat," Haruhi walked up to the berserker's side. "Honestly, I've had my suspicions about you ever since we first met."

"You have?!" Gawain gasped in surprise.

"It's simple, if you use your head instead of your dick," Haruhi shot back, causing the knight to flush. "How does such a sweet, innocent woman survive for this long in such a hellhole without weapons or servants? She doesn't. Only somebody as ruthless as Arnold Beckman could survive this long! Not to mention, you gave yourself away when Andersen was killed."

"How so?" Mable's eyes narrowed.

"You fell on your butt BEFORE he got skewered!" Haruhi exclaimed with a pointer finger. "In other words, you were putting on an act! You KNEW Hans was about to die... because YOU were the one who did the deed!"

"SHE killed Andersen?!" Shiki gasped.

"Yes, and likely Sir Tristan as well! And sent that demon pillar to send Melt to her doom after Suzuka was defeated!"

"So she's the Demon God Pillar?!" Artesia tightened her grip on her sword.

"No. She's something even worse," Haruhi shook her head. "A demon pillar can't reproduce itself... or make smaller spawns of itself. Only one thing is capable of creating new demon pillars... an Evil of Humanity. Isn't that right, Beast III?!"

"BEAST III?!" Everyone cried in shock and horror.

"Heh heh heh... HA HA HA HA HA HA!" 'Mable' laughed, her skin suddenly splitting off her body and sliding to the floor below! Beneath the facade was a busty woman dressed in a nun's habit that showed off all her curves, with unnatural golden eyes! "My, I'm impressed, Haruhi Suzumiya. You even managed to deduce that I was a Beast, of all things! I really must applaud your intelligence..." She began to clap in a slow, sarcastic manner.

"A nun?! Wait, you're the therapist!" Suzuka realized.

"That's right. I'm Kiara Sessyoin, the therapist assigned to Seraphix," the Beast introduced herself. "To be fair, though, I didn't really want to kill Andersen... he was my favorite author back in my youth. That's why I threw him into the Cage of the Fallen instead... but you just had to bring him back with you. YOU were the one that forced my hand, Suzumiya." Kiara directed a hateful glare at Haruhi.

"Godforsaken cow," Haruhi shot back with an evil smirk. "So it WAS you that tried to get rid of me by throwing me there, and then you sicced Kuyou and Kingprotea on me!"

"Hm, more or less," Kiara admitted. "It's clear I seriously underestimated you, though..."

"Just what are you trying to do here?!" Artesia demanded. "Why summon so many servants?!"

"Why? Oh, isn't it obvious? Just becoming one with the demon pillar wasn't enough to become a full Beast... But these Master candidates in stasis, provided me with all I needed, summoning servants over and over again, killing and slaughtering each other... with me absorbing their prana before they faded away..." She licked her lips like a lion savoring its meal. "Oh, how I would have loved to devour you, valiant knight... but alas, I had to make do with your scrawnier partner instead."

"Y-you foul wench!" Gawain backed off a few steps, gripping his sword tightly, sweat beading on his face. "You meant to consume me... no, consume ALL of us!"

"Exactly," Kiara smiled without a care in the world. "Not that I won't do so anyway..." She was interrupted by a small tremor. "Oh, but it seems we're out of time. We've hit the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Soon, SERAPH will merge into the Earth's core, and I along with it... and then I shall emerge from this chrysalis as a fully-formed Beast, all of humanity succumbing to desire, becoming my pleasure slaves for all eternity... It will be their ultimate salvation."

"HELL NO!" Suzuka screeched in fury. "Cat, let's get this sick, twisted bitch!"

"Wait-!" Ritsuka called out to no avail.

"You got it!" Tamamo Cat agreed, baring her claws. "Napping in the Dazzling Sunshine and Feasting!" she intoned, slashing at Kiara faster than the eye could see!

"Demonic Sun Shower!" Suzuka invoked her Noble Phantasm next, as hundreds of katanas converged on the nun, resulting in an explosion!

"You idiots! You're jumping the- Gaaahhhh!" Haruhi cried in pain as a dark tentacle skewered her from behind!

"Suzumiya!" Ritsuka cried, he and Artesia running to her... only to stop as their surroundings suddenly changed, now bathed in unnatural golden light, the Mooncell insignia off in the distance, looking like an artificial sun! "What the...?"

(Music- 'The Goddess Metamorphosis')

"Hmhmhmm... simple-minded fools," Kiara's voice echoed, soon reappearing, now dressed in skimpy white robes with pink highlights, a pair of long curved pink horns jutting from under her headdress. Her hair was now flowing loose, thick and full-bodied, while her eyes' irises had changed from gold to darkest black. "You still don't understand... your fates were sealed as soon as you arrived here. All of you were toys in the palm of my hand from the very beginning. All that's left is to consume you, then merge with the Earth's core. Nothing you do can stop me. Hee hee hee... Hahahahaha!"

Haruhi's eyes went wide upon seeing Kiara's changed form... (Those eyes... that hair! Of course! NOW it all makes sense! Shit, I'm such an idiot-!) She cried out in pain as she bled profusely from her wound.

"Hold on, Suzumiya!" Ritsuka tried to use his Mystic Code's healing magic to stanch the bleeding.

"How dare you!" Artesia cried, attepting to blast Kiara with dark energy, only for the attack to vanish without touching her! "What?!"

"I told you, resistance is futile." Kiara said, as she suddenly started growing... soon, she towered over the party, even larger then Kingprotea's 'normal' height. "Now, succumb to pleasure!"

The servants cried out as they were all restrained and violated by several demonic tentacles erupting from the ground, none of them able to fight back, their cries of agony and ecstasy echoing throughout the space! "Wha..." Ritsuka's face contorted in horror at the sight.

"And now, I shall have my way with you..." Beast III chuckled, Ritsuka suddenly being pulled toward her by an unseen, unstoppable force! "Mmm, so young, so ripe..."

(No...!) Haruhi thought in futility, knowing it was only a matter of time before she bled out. (If only I'd realized sooner... I could have... Please... Kyon, Yuki, Koizumi... somebody, anybody, help us!)

"Anybody? Absolutely anybody?" A voice echoed... but it wasn't Kiara's...

Haruhi wasn't sure if she was having a near-death hallucination or not, but... (Yes! Anybody! I'll even take BB at this point!)

"Wish granted~!" Suddenly the reality warper saw BB's grinning face, an outstretched hand... With the last of her strength, Haruhi lifted her own hand...

-and felt the other's hand grip her own! "Got it! Contact established! Lip, press that load button!"

"?!" Kiara suddenly realized there was a presence that shouldn't have been here!

"Here we go! BB Shift!" Suddenly, Haruhi felt herself being pulled through a rayshift! A flash of light, and suddenly she was laying on the floor of a Japanese classroom, her hand clasped firmly with BB's. "Success! Welcome back, everyone!"

Looking over herself, Haruhi realized her mortal wound was gone. Then she looked around, seeing Artesia, Ritsuka, and all the others looking none the worse for wear! Pulling herself to a sitting position, she faced the AI who just minutes ago had been her enemy. "I don't know how you did that... and honestly, I don't fucking care." With that, she pulled the moon cancer into a grateful bear hug, tears of relief streaming down her face.

"-you're welcome...!" BB gasped out.

*To be continued...*