Fate/Kyon's Order: The Return

A Haruhi Suzumiya & Fate/Grand Order Crossover

by Derald Snyder

Part 29: Advent Beast II

*Central Core*

(Music- 'The Goddess Metamorphosis')

The scene was exactly as Ritsuka remembered it from before, golden light shining around the enormous merged form of Kiara Sessyoin and Kuyou Suou."Oh, my... the little bird who flew away earlier returns to my embrace. Mmm, what a delightful turn of events. Like a moth to the flame... Perhaps you couldn't just stop thinking about me? ...But it seems that false goddess Suzumiya isn't here. Perhaps she was too traumatized by what happened last time? Of course, with power I have now, she hardly poses a threat to me anymore..."

"Do you ever stop talking?" Meltryllis cut her off. "Forget how to shut your mouth in your old age?"

"Meltryllis..." Kiara-Kuyou leveled a hateful glare at the Alter Ego. "Why do you help Ritsuka? Try as I might, I cannot for the life of me understand. Mmm, I will take my sweet time tending to your destruction. Your legs are the only part of you that is worthwhile... perhaps I'll start with the arms first."

"Go ahead and try," Melt gave a knowing smirk. "Oh, I can't wait to see the regret on your face. All you'll be thinking is 'If only I'd started with the legs, this wouldn't have happened. I should have saved the hands for last...'" Ritsuka then stepped in front of Meltryllis protectively.

"My, my, look who's found his spine," Kiara-Kuyou smiled. "Do you imagine you can protect her, then? Or... is it that you have something you'd like to say? It's not too late to join with me instead."

"Sorry, I'm not into old hags!" Ritsuka shot back forcefully.

"Wha..." Kiara-Kuyou recoiled in shock, her black eyes going wide. "O-of all the things, you would state something so groundless?! I'm only 28! Or rather, I was when I was still human..."

"So why did you become a Beast, anyway?" Meltryllis inquired next.

"Why, you ask...? Hm, well... Because I was envious," Kiara-Kuyou blushed a little. "it was so unfair, you see... Zepar's memories... The battle at the Temple of Time played out for me like a dream. I wanted to experience countless deaths at the hands of countless Heroic Spirits. But I could not make that dream a reality simply as a human, or a Demon God. No, the only choice was to become a Beast!"

"Of all the reasons...!" Ritsuka took a step back, his face a mix of shock and utter disgust.

"I know how you must feel, but that's just Kiara for you," Melt said with a sympathetic look. "Honestly, she would have had all the qualities of a savior, but she chose to focus on herself instead." Turning back to the Beast, she exclaimed, "You said you offer salvation to humans, but that's a lie! In your world, you're the only human! Everyone else are just toys for you to play with!"

"That is correct. I am the only true human. Were that not the case, salvation would be impossible. But so it is. The rest of humanity is but a pack of wild beasts," Kiara-Kuyou proclaimed smugly. "They follow me without hesitation, worshipping me as a god or messiah. There are some who see who I truly am, but when they try to come after me, society shuns them and declares them criminals, villains. ...Much like that wayward archer." She smiled as she glanced at the fallen form of Emiya Alter briefly. Unseen by her however, said archer's limp hand suddenly began to clench...

"You're wrong! It's YOU who made that Emiya into somebody Melt could no longer love! It's all your fault!" Passionlip shouted defiantly.

"Lip! Ixnay on the upid-stay!" Melt's face went beet-red.

"Oh how I enjoy this witty banner. But enough of that. Let's pick up where we left off," Kiara-Kuyou returned her focus to Ritsuka. "You don't really think you can overcome by all-encompassing embrace of pleasure, especially now that the false goddess is no longer here to save you?"

"I do!" Ritsuka nodded firmly. "We still have one final trump card to play!" With that, a puddle of black mud materialized before the Master, who backed off a fair distance... Raising his right hand, he intoned, "By my Command Spell, I restore your Spirit Origin! Arise, Tiamat!" One of the marks on his hand faded away, two now remaining.

(Music- 'Childhood's End')

"What?!" Kiara gasped in shock as the black mud suddenly rose up into a tower almost as tall as herself, before forming into a female shape with silver hair and double-curved horns! "I-impossible! This is... Beast II?! But I thought Kingprotea already defeated you!"

"OooooooOOOOOOOOHHHH!" Tiamat roared back defiantly.

"You knew about the Temple of Time, but not the Babylonia singularity!" Ritsuka exclaimed with a knowing smile. "Otherwise you would know that Tiamat doesn't die so easily!" He then shouted, "Tiamat! This Beast before you wants to make your children into nothing but her playthings! Do you agree with that?!"

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Tiamat cried angrily, promptly lashing out with a left hook that Kiara barely blocked!

"Seems she doesn't like that idea," Meltryllis taunted.

"Argh!" Kiara-Kuyou grunted as she broke away, only for Tiamat to whip her in the side with her tail, causing her to double-over in pain! But before her fellow Beast could press her advantage, Kiara abruptly teleported behind her, striking the Mother of Life with a palm strike to lower back, causing her to fall forward! "Don't get so cocky, now... I've far surpassed even this Beast!"

Tiamat apparently begged to differ, rising into the air and trying to hit Beast III/R with a body slam, Kiara-Kuyou easily flash-stepping aside... But then Tiamat unleashed several lasers from her body, a few managing to strike Kiara! She then swung another haymaker, only for Kiara to catch her mid-swing! Undeterred, Tiamat pressed forward, slamming her head into Kiara's, both Beasts recoiling in pain from the impact!

"Gah! My face!" Kiara-Kuyou screamed, even as her broken nose knit back together. "How dare you attempt to mar my divine beauty!" Kiara then telported several times, hitting Tiamat with palm strikes and punches from all angles, the silver-haired titan crumpling to the ground from the assault! But then a detached claw hit Beast III/R in the lower leg, causing her to fall to a knee!

"Come on, Tiamat! Don't let that old hag get the better of you!" Passionlip cried as she recalled her claw.

"Again with the 'old hag' insult?! This one is millennia older than I am!" Kiara raged. She barely blocked Tiamat's attempt to headbutt her again, breaking away and standing straight! Tiamat then unleashed more lasers from her body, but this time they stopped before ever touching her opponent! "To think I would have to rely on the alien's powers to get the upper hand... Well, no matter. Now return to your primordial sea!" The area was engulfed in blinding light, Tiamat screaming in pain as she was hit with an all-out assault even she couldn't withstand, collapsing back into black primordial ooze as the light faded.

"Oh no! Tiamat is down!" Passionlip cried in distress.

(Music- 'The Goddess Metamorphosis')

"Hmph. So much for your trump card," Beast III/R chuckled in triumph. "I admit I was almost scared for a moment there, but I should have known such an ancient primordial god could never match me as I am now. Now, where were we...?" She focused again on Ritsuka who took a step back in silence, raising his hand, which had only one Command Seal remaining... "Oh, no, I'm not about to fall for the same trick twice! Sukhāvatī, Heaven's Hole." Her uterus suddenly opened up, Ritsuka being drawn in with an unstoppable force!

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Meltryllis screamed as her Master was consumed, Kiara's uterus closing up soon after.

"Ah... I should have done that so much sooner," Kiara-Kuyou sighed in contentment. "Don't worry... you'll all join him in the embrace of pleasure soon enough..." just then an image of an average-looking high school student flashed in her mind's eye. "Kyon...? Wait, why am I thinking of that insignificant human just now?"

"He may be insignificant to you, but he's everything to me!" a familiar female voice suddenly called out from everywhere and nowhere.

(-record screech!)

"That voice! Suzumiya?! Where are you?!" Kiara-Kuyou looked around, before realization slowly dawned. "N... no, no, it can't be!"

"Oh yes it can! You thought you devoured Ritsuka, but it was ME in disguise!" Haruhi proclaimed from inside the Beast. "Now take this!"

"AAAaaaAAAaagggGGGhhhh...!" Kiara-Kuyou cried as she doubled over in pain, clutching her uterus. "This... can't be... happening! I know it was Ritsuka standing before me...!"

"At first it was, but you were so distracted by Tiamat, you didn't see the switch-out until it was too late!" Meltryllis said smugly. "Not a bad actor, eh?"

"You tricked me...!" Kiara realized, before screaming again as the pain multiplied tenfold!

"Now, be rent asunder, Beast III!" Haruhi declared. And so she was, Kiara unleashing an unholy screech as her giant body was literally ripped apart, the two halves slowly dissolving into golden light!

"Oh wow...!" Passionlip gasped in awe!

"Holy shit!" Meltryllis cried, unable to process what she'd just witnessed. Soon, a familiar form touched down before them in a three-point landing, Haruhi heaving a sigh as she stood back to her feet! "I-I never thought you would outright kill her like that! Wh-what the hell ARE you...?!"

"...Good question. I'm still trying to figure that out myself," Haruhi admitted, brushing herself off, then doing a full-body cringe. "Ugh, that was disgusting! I'm gonna need a cold shower- no, several cold showers after that!" Just then, something slammed into the ground beside her, soon revealed to me a mop of thick, full-bodied black hair! "Oh, there you are, Kuyou Suou."

"What...?" the alien shoved herself over, now lying on her back, looking over at the brunette. "Suzu... miya...?"

"Looks like she managed to split off from the Beast at the last moment," Shiki observed as she walked up with the rest of the servants, Ritsuka himself bringing up the rear.

"Or perhaps she never wished to fuse with Kiara to begin with," Gawain spoke up.

"Well, either way, I don't feel like dealing with you now," Haruhi sighed. "So just... go home!" she waved Kuyou away as if dismissing her.

"A... ga..." was all the interface managed to get out before suddenly vanishing in a flash of light.

"So... is that it? Did we win?" Ritsuka asked. But no sooner did he ask that, than the area began to quake again!

"You fool, Master! You jinxed it!" Artesia yelled.

"nnnnNNNOOOOoooOOOO...! I won't... let... it... end like this...!"

"That voice...! It's Kiara!" Meltryllis gasped, gritting her teeth.

"No way! How could anyone survive that?!" Passionlip cried in disbelief.

"Masters, stay behind us!" Gawain ordered, watching as several motes of golden prana began to coalesce...

*To be continued...*