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Chapter 2 – Second Chance

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She remembered she had asked Bedivere to throw her Excalibur Sword back to The Lady Of The Lake on Avalon and she could feel that she fell back to Avalon. The last thing she remembered, was Bedivere who stood in front of her after he fulfilled her last order, before she closed her eyes slowly.

"thanks to Shirou, I understand that I don't have to regret after I tried my best. Although it didn't end well, I've tried... but even so... if I still do have a regret, I only have one regret... just if I'm given second chance, I hope I can meet with you again to fix whatever happened between us... in the end, we can't have our reconciliation, Mordred?".

"will you really take it if you're given the second chance?".

After she landed somewhere, Arthuria opened her eyes. She was floating above the lake and everything around her was only white. It felt peace, so calm. Looking up, she asked someone in front of her "who are you?".

There was a dark cloaked figure with a pair of bat-like wings from his back. Death Scythe on his left hand and scroll on his right hand. His face was unseen due to his wide hood but from his voice, Arthuria recognized him as a man.

"allow me to introduce myself first, King Of Knights, Lady Arthuria Pendragon", he bowed his body before introducing himself as Thanatos, the Death God "and like I said, will you take it if you're given second chance? Everything will turn as you wished. Instead of you, someone else will be the King of Britannia and you also can have your reconciliation with your 'son', Mordred. We are, the Council of Gods decided you deserve to have the second chance from your achievement as long as you lived your life as 'King Arthur' and as Heroic Spirit Saber Class. We offer this to you now because you have found the enlightenment and peace for your life after your latest Holy Grail War".

Arthuria couldn't believe it. Once again, she felt grateful to her Master and lover, Emiya Shirou. Thanks to him, she could find the enlightenment and peace. Thanks to him, she also could get the new start of her life. This could be the start over for her life and it felt like dream. Her wish would be granted, she would be no longer a King and she could get her fresh start over with Mordred. Of course, she only had one answer. Before she said yes, however, Thanatos lifted his hand.

"but before you give your decision, I'd like you to choose between two choices", Thanatos snapped his finger, revealing two doors behind him. The red door on the left and the white door on the right "you have two choices about to where you will reincarnate. First, to human realm in modern time where you can meet with Emiya Shirou, your Master and lover again. You can live your life happily and peacefully with him again. You needn't to wield your weapon again. Second, you will reincarnate in Britannia, old Britain before you ruled all over Britain as their King where you can meet again with Mordred. Like I said, you will no longer be a King, somebody else will be the King because you will born as someone else's daughter. However, you will still need to raise your weapon in order to protect your beloved ones just like the old time. Think it carefully, Lady. You only can choose one door in between these two".

Arthuria was conflicted. If she chose the white door on the right, yes, she could meet again with Shirou and she could live her life happily, peacefully with him, without the needs to fight again and there was no need for her to raise her weapon again but she would lose her chance to have the reconciliation with Mordred. If she chose the red door, she would reincarnate to the past, where she hadn't been a King yet and Britain was still Britannia, its old self before she ruled over as a King. Her wish would be granted no matter how wrong it was (considering what Shirou said). She would not be King but somebody else would be and she could meet with Mordred again to have their reconciliation.

Thanatos asked again as he reached out his hand "now, which door you will take? Red door where you still have to walk down on the bloodied path or White door where you can live your life peacefully and happily with someone you loved?".

"...Shirou, forgive me. Although I really want to see you again, but still...", Arthuria lifted her face with resolve on her face "I will choose the Red door".

Looking down to the surface of water, she inspected her form after the reincarnation in her 3 years old as Alexandria, the firstborn daughter of Meliodas, Great Holy Knight of Danafor Kingdom and his wife, Elizabeth. Somehow, she could understand what did Thanatos mean with she would still need to raise her sword to protect her beloved ones. She was the firstborn daughter of Great Holy Knight on Danafor Kingdom, after all.

She was glad that she still had her blonde hair although she rather missed her previously Emerald orbs. Unlike hers, her twin sister Bellatrix had Emerald orbs from their father while she had Sapphire orbs from their mother. Although, there was once when Bellatrix told her that she preferred Alexandria's blonde hair instead of her own red hair after Alexandria commented about how she preferred Bellatrix's Emerald orbs instead of her own Sapphire orbs.

One more issue, 'Alexandria' sounded similar with 'Alexander', right? Somehow, when she heard her name after she reincarnated as 'Alexandria' and no longer 'Arthuria', somehow she was remembered of Alexander the Great, King Of Conquerors, that Grizzly Bear... his words sometimes still stung her heart but she had no words to deny his words because what he said was the truth. Besides, thanks to him, she realized her mistakes so it was not like she could protest of anything. Though, she wondered what the King Of Conquerors and King Of Heroes would react when they knew what happened to her, to reincarnate into this strange world even without her Noble Phantasm. Both Excalibur and Avalon no longer belonged to her, obviously (which meant she would need other weapon when she was older. For now, well, she only would try to act as normal kid). Actually, it was not her main problem, she guessed. After all, people in this world, especially Holy Knights, were born with innate magic. Although not all people would born with strong innate magic that provide them to be the Holy Knight like their parent, but considering their parent (especially their father) being the Holy Knight, obviously she and Bellatrix would inherit some sort of innate magic power, right?

Scratch that. Her main problem was...

First, her Noble Phantasm that surely would affect to her body. After she pulled out Caliburn, she never got older but now, maybe she would get older and her body would grow into mature woman properly, right?

Second, in the name of whatever Gods and Creators of all worlds included this world, just please, she really hoped they wouldn't see her in this child version of her or they would laugh her off for sure! The first time that Grizzly Bear saw her, he immediately insulted her, not hoping that the 'little girl' like her to be the King Of Britain. The other one was even worse, he seduced her with his rude manners and his rude words, such arrogant, stabbed her with a sword of his Noble Phantasm when she jilted him after he proposed her?

Argh, just imagine how embarrassing it could be for her, was enough to make her covering her face and rolling on the ground like she did right now!

"Alexa!".

Turning her head behind, she saw her twin sister Bellatrix running to her as she swinging her wooden sword. Alexandria smiled, she knew of her twin sister's tomboyish antics. On their 3rd birthday, when their parent asked them about what they wanted, she remembered that Shirou once mentioned about how perfectly match her figure with the Lion, so Alexandria asked the stuffed animal Lion and books. Surprisingly, Bellatrix demanded sword and dagger, even exclaimed that someday she would be the King Of Knights and she just couldn't wait to be the King. She flinched and gulped that time (thankfully no one of her family noticed it seemed). Elizabeth, their mother brightened and cheered up, encouraged her instead to go after her high dream after telling her second daughter that before she could be the King Of Knights, she still had to win against their father first. Meliodas, their father laughed and encouraged them to go pursue their dream. As her twin sister, no wonder Bellatrix had so much resemblance with her but Bellatrix really reminded her with Mordred. Red was the color that symbolize Mordred. Most of Bellatrix's clothes had red colors, while hers was blue.

Picking up the book and her stuffed animal (Lion doll, of course) from the ground, she approached her twin "coming, Bella!".

Leaning her wooden sword (Meliodas and Liz didn't want to give her the real sword yet, so the wooden sword, that was it for now) on her shoulder, Bellatrix wondered before she cleaned the dust and grass off that stuck on her hair and her blue dress "what are you doing? Rolling on the ground and covering your face like that... see? It only made you dirty and mommy wouldn't like it".

Alexandria giggled sheepishly "sorry, just remembered of something that make me embarrassing... fret not, let's go home! It's time to have lunch!".

"um! I'm starving after my training!", holding her hand, Bellatrix dragged her back to home "do you think what is our lunch today?".

Alexandria shuddered at the worst memory of her life in this world "whatever, as long as it's not father who cook".

Bellatrix shuddered as well "indeed".

Unbeknownst by Alexandria (Arthuria), Bellatrix was indeed Mordred's reincarnation.

A/N :

Here we have Arthuria's POV and next will be Mordred's POV.