Fate/Kyon's Order: The Return

A Haruhi Suzumiya & Fate/Grand Order Crossover

by Derald Snyder

Part 30: Kiara's End

(Music- 'Anima Ataraxia FGO')

"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... soon the prana took physical form, revealing the visage of Kiara Sessyoin once more, albeit now human-sized... but her appearance had changed. Her eyes were now golden in color again, her long black hair now thinner and spreading wildly everywhere. Her once white robes were now a sickly yellow color, her horns now formed from demon pillar tentacles, with a demon pillar's blood-red eye nestled in her cleavage.

"Wow, Kiara, you're not looking so good," Haruhi said with a knowing smirk. "Ate something that disagreed with you?"

"What I'd like to know is how she came back from the world's worst stomach ulcer like that!" Robin Hood cut in.

"Fools... I possess the Independent Manifestation skill," Kiara stated as she stood straight once more. "It grants me resistance to instant death attacks, like what Suzumiya just tried! Did you really think you could escape my embrace so easily?"

"I suppose not," Artesia muttered. "But the fact remains, you've lost a lot of power, now that you are no longer fused with that alien!"

"Yeah, what she said! No more data manipulation or whatever to stop our Noble Phantasms!" Tamamo Cat concurred. "This time you're getting sliced and diced for sure!"

"What Cat said! This ends here and now!" Suzuka Gozen asserted, her katana at the ready.

"How amusing... even without that alien's power, I'm more than capable of consuming you all," Kiara smiled confidently.

"That will never happen," a new voice suddenly spoke up. "I will not permit it." A familiar female figure suddenly appeared before Kiara from a data spiral. "Beast III Rapture, this time you will meet your destruction."

(Music- 'outbreak FGO')

"Yuki?!" Haruhi gasped in recognition.

"Nagato?!" Meltryllis' eyes went wide.

"Yes, it is I. Suzumiya-san, I apologize for lying to you earlier. The true reason I could not intervene was due to Kuyou Suou's presence. But thanks to you, that is no longer a factor now." Yuki said, turning to look at Melt. "Meltryllis, I apologize for not explaining the situation sooner, but surely now you see why things had to be this way..."

"...Right," Melt nodded in understanding. "I figured as much ever since Suzumiya told me about that Kuyou..."

"Wait, you know each other?!" Haruhi cut in.

"Yes, but explanations will have to wait," Yuki confirmed, turning back to face Beast III/R.

"Wait, who the hell are you?!" Kiara's face contorted in confusion. "I feel as if I should know you, and yet..."

"The fact that you do not know me proves that Kuyou Suou has been severed from your Spirit Origin," the interface commented. "Which means you are no longer invulnerable to Black Blossom-san's hacking. BB, if you would please."

"You got it~!" BB's voice echoed. "Goooo, Kiara Punishers~!"

"What?!" Kiara cried as a 'stop' hand imposed over a 'no' symbol appeared over her. "NO! My skills! My pleasure! My powerrrrr! BB, you...!"

"As you can see, Mother has been plotting your downfall ever since you forced her to run the Holy Grail War here for your own twisted pleasure!" Meltryllis stated smugly.

"That's right! As bad as Mother is, even SHE has standards, and you violate every single one of them!" Passionlip piled on.

"And it gets worse for you, Beast III/R," Yuki added, "for I have retrieved the servants that you ordered BB to imprison when Fujimaru-san and Suzumiya-san first arrived here." With that, three data spirals appeared beside her, revealing...

"Ta-daaa! Rejoice, for your glorious Empress has returned!"

"Nero!" Ritsuka gasped.

"Ugh, to think Kiara was behind everything yet again... How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, you old hag?!"

"Tamamo!"

"Kiara Sessyoin... in the name of my altered counterpart whom you so cruelly manipulated, I will take you down here and now!"

"Emiya! You're all here!"

"Ugh... now there's three faces I had hoped to never see again," Kiara muttered in disgust.

"About time you showed up, stupid me!" Tamamo Cat spoke up. "Lemme tell you right now, you better not steal the spotlight! I wanna piece of this Beast too!"

"Oh, don't you worry about that, Cat. For once, we are in alignment," Tamamo asserted.

"I think it's safe to say we ALL want a piece of this bitch," Artesia spoke up.

"Indeed. This time she will die for good," Shiki's eyes glowed blue. "Especially now that I can finally perceive your death lines!"

"You will never cut them," Kiara said ominously, as the area suddenly went dark, the party now standing on a gigantic demon pillar tentacle, the Beast standing atop the palms of two giant phantasmal hands. "Since you all reject my nirvana, I shall instead send you to the deepest hell! I will show you the nature of a Beast!"

"Nay, Kiara Sessyoin! For it is YOU who shall be banished to hell!" Gawain exclaimed. Raising his blade to the sky, he proclaimed, "Now, fellow servants! To arms, for God, king, and all humanity!"

The party (save Yuki) roared as one in agreement.

...Of course, with the odds so stacked against her, all Kiara could really do in the end was delay the inevitable. In the end, after being sent spiraling into the air by Meltryllis' Sarasvati Meltout, the Beast was skewered by a combination of swords from Emiya's Unlimited Blade Works and Suzuka's Demonic Sun Shower, fading into golden dust soon after. With that, the hellish landscape faded into the underwater view of the Mariana Trench once more.

"We did it! We won!" Ritsuka pumped a fist in triumph.

"Yes," Yuki nodded in confirmation. "Now there is one matter left to resolve..."

"We gotta destroy SERAPH itself, right?" Haruhi guessed. But then, there was a shaking as everyone's feet suddenly lifted off the ground! "What the...?!"

"I'm floating!" Ritsuka cried, suddenly feeling as if he was actually submerged underwater, though he could still breathe just fine.

"We all are! What the heck's going on?!" Suzuka cried.

"SERAPH's gravitational field is weakening! Grab on to my hands, everyone!" Passionlip cried. This they did, Yuki using her data manipulation to keep the party from being insta-gibbed by the claws of Durga.

"Don't tell me... she's STILL not dead?!" Haruhi realized.

"Ahahahaha! You fools! Have you so soon forgotten? I AM SERAPH, and SERAPH is me!" The outline of the woman that had comprised SERAPH's boundaries now fully transformed into Kiara Sessyoin. "You only defeated my avatar... but I shall forgive your transgressions this one time. Just wait there, despairing, for my return..."

"Does she not know when to give up?!" Nero yelled in frustration. "Learn to accept defeat, you old hag!"

"You're not helping, Nero!" Tamamo-no-mae complained.

(Music- 'spinal swan coaster')

"Hmph," Meltryllis suddenly smirked. "I knew you'd do that, I knew you'd just shut off the gravitational field if you were cornered. But that field was your greatest protection. With it gone, SERAPH is exposed and vulnerable." Turning to Ritsuka, she then said, "Now's our chance to end this. Give us your remaining Command Spells. We just need the energy, nothing else."

"What are you plotting to do, Meltryllis?!" Gawain demanded.

"...I trust you to the end. Farewell, Meltryllis." With that, Ritsuka held up his hand, intoning, "By my remaining Command Spells, defeat Kiara once and for all!"

Meltryllis smiled as she and Passionlip were imbued with the Command Spells' power. "Mother! Hurry up and collect everyone but me and Lip!"

"Understood. I will assist," Yuki nodded. Soon, everyone but the Alter Egos were consumed by data spirals, reappearing in the classroom from before!

"Retrieval complete," BB stated, only for worry to suddenly pop up on her face. "What's this?! The the demon pillars in SERAPH are multiplying out of control! I can't keep up with them! Argh, Nagato, help me! I need someone with Mooncell-level processing power!"

"In that case, Suzuka Gozen should be able to assist you," Yuki deferred. "Violet, come with me."

"What... Say WHAT?!" BB looked over at Suzuka in shock.

"Um, yeah, if you're talking about calculating speed, I can get it done," the saber affirmed in a surprisingly meek tone of voice.

"...As you wish, Nagato-san," Violet agreed, heading off with Yuki.

"So what are we, chopped liver?!" Haruhi grumbled. "I want to see that bitch destroyed too!"

"I understand your feelings, Master, but there is nothing more we can do," Artesia said sadly. "All my prana reserves are exhausted..."

"So, there's nothing more you can do," Haruhi amended. "Okay then, time to tag out, Artesia." She placed a hand on her servant who vanished in a flash of light, another servant appearing in her place!

"What the-?! Asagami Fujino?!" Shiki gasped in recognition.

"What...? Ryougi-san, why are you here? What's going on?" the esper looked around confusedly.

"No time to explain, Asagami-san," Haruhi stated. "Come with me, we need to time this perfectly..."

*Down below...*

"Byrnhild Romantia! Catapult!" Passionlip intoned. "Ready, Virgin Laser!"

"Sorry to leave you again, Lip," Meltryllis sighed, tensing her body in anticipation.

"It's okay, I understand!" Lip assured her. "Palladion! Fire!" With that, Melt was shot downward at SERAPH Kiara, exceeding the speed of light...

"What?!" Kiara cried as the Noble Phantasm pierced through to her very core! "Meltryllis...!"

"This is it for both of us, Sessyoin!" Melt cried, even as she felt her body breaking apart. "Did you think I'd let anyone else land the final blow?! We were destined to hate each other from the beginning!"

"Indeed, for we are both beings born from the sea of pleasure!" Kiara agreed. "But that doesn't mean I won't use you for my own ends...!" Several demon pillar tentacles suddenly shot out from Kiara's body!

"What?!" Melt cried in disbelief. "You don't mean...?!"

"Ahahahaha! I assimilated you, Passionlip and BB into myself back so long ago... so possessing you should be simplicity itself!" Kiara laughed in triumph. "Once I have you, I'll consume the other two as well! And since human desire is endless, I'll have a never-ending supply of food, biding my time until-"

"That day will never come, Beast III," a male voice spoke up from nowhere. "This is your end!" With that several shots rang out, destroying the tentacles and freeing Meltryllis!

"You...!" Kiara gasped. "To foil me at the edge of death... no, from beyond the grave?!"

"Did I fade away? This is all I can do, but it's enough," Emiya Alter grunted. "Just like in life, I sacrificed everything to put an end to you. How fitting..."

"D-destroy my demon pillars all you want, but I can still use my hands...!" SERAPH Kiara grunted, slowly lifting her arms even as they began to break apart... But then, something like a whip's end wrapped around Meltryllis under her armpits, pulling her up, up, and away! "What?! Who-?!"

"And THAT is how... a swan should fly..." Emiya Alter gasped, going limp. "But you have... neither wings nor fins... so sink like the stone you are..." His body then finally dissolved into gold dust, carried away by the water currents.

"NO! NOOOOOOOOO!" Kiara cried as her body began to break apart and implode...

(She's probably already done for at this rate,) Haruhi mused to herself, (but I'm not taking any chances!) Raising up her hand she intoned, "Archer, by my final Command Spell, twist that bitch to pieces!"

"Gladly, Master," Asagami Fujino gave a slasher smile, before grimacing as her appendicitis flared up. "Mystic Eyes of Distortion... TWIST!"

"NOOOOOO! I'M NOT SATISFIIIIiiiiiii...!" Was all Kiara could get out as she was rent asunder by an unstoppable force, her form soon fading into multiple pieces of steel architecture, mangled beyond recognition- all that remained of the Seraphix oil rig.

SERAPH, as well as Beast III/R, were no more.

*To be continued...*