[Investigations in the Moonlit World]
A white-haired young man stepped into the Fujimura home, the location of the head to the largest Yakuza group in Fuyuki City.
"You called?" He spoke.
"Yes," Replied the ancient, kimono-clad man. "you're Kurusu Soma-san, yes?"
Soma nodded. "Yes. Now, why did you call for me to come here? From what I saw as I arrived, the city seems quite calm, nothing like the places I'm usually called."
Fujimura Raiga sighed. "Normally that would be the case. However, something has been killing people. The last time something like this occurred was ten years ago and we were warned by a now-deceased friend that if anything of the sort were to occur again we should just leave it as we would be unable to deal with it. This man's information was always correct, so we spent some time looking around for someone who we believed could handle it. We found you, Detective Kurusu."
Briefly closing his eyes before responding Soma spoke. "I'm glad you have such faith in me. I shall proceed with the case immediately. Do you have any information?"
Raiga nodded. "Some; the attacker uses a sharp stabbing weapon, and victims are found dead; there are no survivors."
The conversation continued for a few minutes as Raiga expanded on Soma's expected duties, before dismissing him.
Watching him leave, Raiga turned to one of his men. "Call Taiga-chan. Let her know that we have someone on the case and that she is to stay safe."
-]l[-
It had been a day since his meeting with Raiga, and Soma's route was taking him by one of the houses that Raiga had specifically mentioned to him as important to watch, the Emiya Residence.
He stood outside for a minute but there was nothing unexpected and Soma was about to move on when he heard a faint crash. 'Must've knocked over a box or something,' But as he finished the thought, there was the sound of shattering glass. With his enhanced hearing, Soma also heard the distictive thump of a body hitting the ground, something he had heard plenty when he was eighteen.
Dashing forward, Soma gathered his power, kicking off the ground and then mid-air, landing on the other side of the wall surrounding the Emiya Residence.
As he sprinted through the area, Soma heard more yelling. Rounding the corner of the main building, he saw a spandex-wearing warrior kick a teenager. It looked like the attacker was about to attempt to stab Shirou (the owner of the building this fight was taking place in) with his large crimson spear.
Seeing this, Soma reached inside himself once more to his source of power, forcing his body to move faster and position itself between the spearman and the boy. Soma grasped at something before whipping his arm forward and colliding his newly-revealed longsword with the attacker's spear.
"Alright then buddy, if people just want to keep stopping me from killing this one kid, then I guess I'll have to reveal my trump card..." The spearman swung his spear behind his back before repositioning his footwork. Red energy ran up and down the spear before concentrating at its tip, and as the bloodlust began growing the lancer opened his mouth to begin speaking.
"Gáe..."
Soma's eyes widened at the attack. 'Oh hell, this might be bad.'
"Bol-"
Soma was knocked backward by a shockwave of energy. As he stumbled against the shed wall, he saw a young woman in an armored dress. She was wielding an invisible sword, and had just knocked the man's spear out of position.
"-G!"
The spear went flying off to the side of the backyard, impaling a tree that was immediately diced apart by hundreds of chains of incredibly sharp thorns the same color as the spear itself.
Soma cursed under his breath at the power the weapon had just displayed. He had dodged the attack, but from the tree's destruction, he could tell that that was not all the power within the spear.
"Warrior, are you willing to protect my master?" The woman asked Soma warily.
"What?"
"You have been dragged into the Holy Grail War, and when I was summoned you we're protecting my master, Shirou. Can you continue while I hunt Lancer?"
not sure who she was, but willing to let her fight the spearman -especially after seeing how strong his attack was and how easily this woman blocked it- Soma nodded. "Yes, I will protect Shirou."
"Good." And with that, the blonde woman dashed away after the spearman.
Turning towards the shed, Soma watched as Emiya Shirou emerged from inside the building holding a hand to his head. "Who are you and did you see where that blonde girl went?" He questioned Soma.
"Kurusu Soma, Raiga-san hired me to investigate the area, I feel I just found a lead." Soma pointed out the sillouettes the were slowly dissapearing in the distance.
-]l[-
The blonde woman -Saber- had returned quickly thereafter with another Servant-Master pairing one of whom was Shirou's classmate, and the master -Tohsaka Rin- had explained the the combat that they had just experianced as part of the Grail War, a battle of magic users called Magi that takes place every 60 years. Turns out that Shirou had been selected as a Master of the war, the seven magi who summoned heroes from the past called Servants.
With this in mind, Soma had taken a few more minutes of questioning Rin for knowledge on the war before heading back to his hotel to prepare for the coming conflicts that Rin promised would occur.
Having learned about this 'Holy Grail War', Soma had realized, that if there were 5 more servants of equal power to 'Lancer' who had attacked Shirou that night and the girl Saber, and thusly Soma decided to send a message to his acquaintances Julius, Yoko, and Arikado in hopes that they might come to help, or at least have some idea on how to deal with this situation.
Even though he was going to ask for his friend's opinions, he also valued the opinion of the magus he had just met, Tohsaka Rin, who mentioned that while there wasn't a rule against it, it was generally discouraged for non-masters to become involved due to the power difference between the servants and them.
'Just because I've been doing this monster killing thing for close to 6 years doesn't mean I'm any good at it, especially not with how I purposely attempt to avoid all interaction with the magic side of the world. I'm starting to wish I took Yoko up on those introductory classes to the moonlit world.'
Writing and sending a letter within just a few minutes, including only pertinent information, Soma decided to spend the rest of the day preparing for war. The last time he had been sucked into the moonlit world, he hadn't been prepared. He'd had rebuild his arsenal from scratch during the battle with the cult that had kidnapped him, 'With Light'. This time he would not go unprepared into a fight for his life.
Soma opened the hotel room closet to find a large trunk with runes inscribed on it, opening it revealed an expanded space filled to the bring with racks upon racks of weapons of all kinds, swords, axes, maces, spears, and even more. Reaching inside, Soma manipulated the magic to summon several weapons to his person alongside his combat gear.
'What did Yoko call them again? Noble Phantasms?' Letting out a grin, Soma closed up his room before stepping out onto the balcony and leaping off.
-]l[-
Soma:
Julius wasn't available for this letter, but both Arikado and I were, so we compiled all our knowledge. Sadly, neither of us are very knowledgeable about the war, despite our involvement in the supernatural.
First things first, the victor gets one wish of unlimited power. Or at least that's what the rules say, given how the only person to win didn't wish we don't know if that's accurate. The winner of last war is believed to be Kiritsugu Emiya, a well-known assassin also known as the Magus Killer, though his current status is unknown.
Next up, Heroic Spirits, heroes from times past summoned to do combat under the command of one of seven 'Masters'. They all have Noble Phantasms, or crystallization of their mysteries, (just like several of your own weapons) and most Noble Phantasms either have amazing destructive power or special effects when used.
Lastly, this Tohsaka Rin whom you mentioned in your letter is a member of a magus family and is likely trained in magecraft, be careful around her. Since I know you're wondering, yes, the Belnades is also a magus family, though a fringe one and my family shares close ties with the Belmonts, as well as their offshoot clan, the Morris clan.
Yoko Belnades
-]l[-
In the several days since Yoko's reply Soma had spent his time patrolling the city near Emiya's house. He hadn't witnessed any more battles, but had arrived in time to see the cooling remains of some trees just a night ago.
Soma was getting slightly irritated by the magi and their sneaking around, and wished that they would come out of hiding already.
'Back in my day we just kidnapped people and took them to secret castles hidden in the solar eclipse.'
Letting out a laugh at his thought, Soma continued walking along the road, this time towards the Ryuudou Temple above the town. As he moved along, he spotted a purple-haired girl alone on a bench and looking decidedly dejected.
Ignoring it in favor of his instincts Soma just walked past the purplette and onwards towards the temple.
"Damnit Shirou... why did you have to go and get dragged into this..." A female voice asked.
Whipping his head around at the name of one of the people he was tasked to protect, Soma searched for the girl. Nothing. It was as if she had never been there in the first place.
Letting out a sigh at his luck, Soma turned back to the path that led to the temple, before his head suddenly started to ache. 'What the hell?'
Deciding to question his unexpected burst of pain later, Soma continued on. Several minutes later, he felt his senses tingle as if he had just passed into a boss room within Castlevania. Reaching inside his coat, Soma readied Valmanway for combat before quickening his pace towards the temple.
Boom!
Soma was launched as an explosion ripped through the air. Flipping, Soma repositioned before launching himself towards the ground in a downwards kick. Cursing as he landed, Soma turned towards the explosion's orgin and saw that there was a large section of forest burning near the temple.
Activating his speed soul Sonic Dash, Soma sprinted towards the battle, preparing for combat as he drew closer.
Clang! Skish!
The sound of metal striking echoed in the otherwise silent forest, and Soma moved towards the sounds in an attempt to reach the fight before it ended. He needed to see what was happening.
There, in the clearing, he saw multiple figures squaring off in teams. Closer to Soma, he could see four people, all of whom he'd already met, Emiya Shirou, Tohsaka Rin, and both of their servants. Three were presumably holding a defensive position while Tohsaka's servant disappeared to more advantageous terrain.
Across the steps leading to the temple, on the other side of the clearing in the forest, Soma saw two unkown people, and the the servant Lancer fighting on his own. The strangers were a young white-haired girl a who Soma could only assume was her servant, a hulking mass of muscle who was swinging around a massive rock club.
There was a second where all parties just stared at each other before the moment was broken, just like the ground, as the club wielding brute took a giant bound towards Shirou and his friends. In preperation of the clash Shirou was using some form of magecraft to form a pair of Chinese dao, whille Tohsaka readied some- gems? -and the Servant Saber readied herself to protect both of the teens.
As combat commenced Shirou's servant had just taken a blow from the albino's presumed servant and was sent flying up the steps, where the rest of her team quickly retreated to gaining the high ground.
"Berserker! Kill them!"
'Well, I guess that answers all my questions regarding him.' Soma thought as he contemplated the battle before deciding to stay out of the fight, for the time being, he still wasn't certain in his battle capabilities against servants, and it seemed that Shirou and Rin would be fine for the time being though if he saw a chance to help them he would take it.
As Soma hid in the trees nearby, Berserker charged once more towards Saber and prepared another swing with his club, though unlike the previous, Saber managed to block this blow and counterattack with one of her own. There was a brief exchange of strikes between the two servants, before Beserker's greater strength and agility once again overwhelmed Saber and forced her farther back up the steps.
Meanwhile, Shirou was engaging Lancer in a duel, his dao clashing with Lancer's spear. Despite his obvious skill, Shirou was still very undeveloped in his battle talents, and was taking a beating though he had managed to dodge any fatal blows. 'I swear I recognize that spear.' Just as he thought that Soma heard something flying through the air at incredibly high speeds.
"Caladbolg."
Shirou dove to the ground at Archer's words, and was lucky that had good endurance, as the -sword?- flew through his previous location and towards Lancer who's eyes were widening as he stabbed his spear at the sword.
A massive explosion rocked the clearing, and as the smoke cleared Soma saw that the lines had been redrawn once more, now, Shirou's team was split down the middle, with Shirou and the newly appeared Archer standing side by side near the top of the stairs while facing Lancer, and Berserker and the brute's master on the other side of Lancer facing Saber and Rin.
Just as the group prepared to clash once more, the sound of a chain cracked through the air and Soma saw a whip -whip?- headed towards Shirou's unguarded back.
"Oh hell no!" Soma positioned himself back to back with Shirou as he caught the chain whip on Valmanway before sliding it off and gazing towards where the attack came from.
There, standing in the temple gate, framed by the setting sun, was a brown-haired man with stubble, wearing a white tunic and gauntlets as well as a set of pouches and belts to hold gear in which had a sword sheathed in it. None of that had set any major alarms off in Soma's head until he saw the crest on the man's chest. Immediatly wheels began turning in Soma's head as he connected the appearence of the man with the chain whip he held.
"Well fuck." Soma muttered.
There was a brief pause in the combat as everyone took in the newest combatent before resuming.
"...Belmont..."
"Why yes, that is my name, but please don't say it with such a tone, I only let Sypha do that when we're about to-" The Belmont cut himself off. "Sorry, I always forget that I shouldn't brag about my sex life when I'm in the middle of a battle... Or at least that's what Alucard says whenever he beats me."
Soma's eyes widened as the name that the Belmont just said reminded him of something from his time within Castlevania.
[]
Soma stepped into a hallway filled with bookshelves and was confronted with a blonde woman wearing red robes and a red crystal earring.
"Hey, you're... Soma, aren't you? You must be him." The mysterious woman spoke.
"Y-yes, but... who are you...?"
"Oh, forgive me. I'm Yoko Belnades. I'm a member of the church." The newly identified Yoko responded.
Both curious and suspicious, Soma spoke once more. "How would a member of the church recognize me?"
"You've met Aluca... um, I mean, Genya... Arikado, right?"
"I did meet him, but..."
"He told me about you, and asked me to help you if you were in trouble." (1)
[]
Of course, it all made sense to Soma now. Genya Arikado was the legendary son of Dracula himself, Alucard. And if this man knew both Alucard and someone named Sypha... "You're Trevor Belmont. Kurusu Soma, a pleasure."
The man let out a grin at Soma's statement. "So you already figured it out? I mean my master says I should keep it a secret, but I don't really mind if you knowing. In exchange though..." Trevor's voice became more menacing, "I'd like to know why you smell like a Vampire."
"..."
Trevor let out a sigh. "Not going to tell me, well, I guess I'll just have to beat the answer out of you!"
The last time Soma had fought a Belmont, it was Julius Belmont, a friend that Soma met during his teenage years, and he had been both aged past his prime as well as holding back in an attempt to help Soma resist the pull of Dracula's power. Now he was facing one of the most well known Belmonts, one of those brave people who killed Dracula for the first time, with no compunctions about holding back, and in the prime of his life. 'Shit.'
The battle between the first Belmont to kill Dracula and Dracula's reincarnation began with Trevor flicking his whip toward Soma, who leapt back into the air to dodge it before suddenly being whipped in the chest and knocked off to the side and into a tree.
Soma's eyes widened at the strike. 'He used a hand on the extra chain to control the direction of the whip, I've gotta be careful while fighting this guy.'
Raising himself from the ground, Soma dashed forwards towards Trevor with Valmanway in hand. Whipping his wrist, Soma swung the blade six times in a second, creating green lines that traced the path his blade had taken.
Unfortunately for Soma, even the special speed of Valmanwaywasn't enough to take Trevor off guard, and he barely had time to get back in a defensive position and deflect the knives that flew at him.
"I recognize that sword. I think the bastard used it once or twice. Bullshit sword, thankfully I know how to counter it... but why do you have it?"
Soma let out a grunt at this statement before leaping sliding backward in a blur and raising his hand and launching out a set of three fireballs towards Trevor before focusing once more and whipping a set of cards towards the Belmont.
"Heh, you're weaker then most of the vampire I've fought, that's for sure." Trevor taunted Soma as he sliced through the fireballs with his sword before knocking the cards out of midair with the his whip, which Soma remembered as being called the Morning Star.
"Shut up." Soma grunted at Trevor, before flicking Valmanway back into its sheath and reaching down to his hip to pull a silver handgun on Trevor.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bullets flew through the air towards Trevor, and despite his insane grail-boosted reflexes he still gained a light gouge across his shoulder from where he didn't quite avoid one of the bullets.
"That's it! I'm done playing around here." Trevor shouted before dashing towards Soma with his sword drawn. Flicking it towards Soma's neck, Trevor took the parry in stride as he leaped and twisted in mid-air to land a two-foot side kick to Soma's chest. As Soma flew back several feet, Trevor's hand blurred in the air, as a series of knives, axes, and jars of holy water flew towards Soma's landing space.
Soma let out a pained groan as the projectiles impacted his body, but thankfully his enchanted coat and tunic managed to take the brunt of the damage. "Fuck man, I barely beat Julius when he wasn't trying, now I need to take on fucking Trevor Belmont?"
Pulling himself to his feet, Soma had just righted himself when he took an elbow to the face, courtesy of his opponent, and right as Soma went to protect himself with the Kaiser Knuckles he buckled in on himself as he was kneed in the crotch.
Letting out a yell, Soma attempted to roll on his collapse to get back into a combat state when he heard Trevor speak.
"Huh, I guess you aren't a vampire, after all, that's never worked on Alucard or Dracula after all..." Just then, Trevor's face scrunched up slightly before he moved a hand to his forehead. "Damnit-... Sorry about this, my master has given me an order to eliminate you. No hard feelings?"
Trevor flicked Morning Star back behind him as he wound up for a killing blow on Soma, and as the whip descended and Soma closed his eyes the world exploded into light.
"EXCALIBUR!"
As the Noble Phantasms power filled the clearing, Soma dove out of the way of the now blinded Trevor's attack, before speaking clearly. "Zephyr."
TIme stopped.
Or at least it did for Emiya Shirou, Tohsaka Rin, and Illyasviel von Einzbern. The servants? Their magic resistance was high enough for its effect on them to lessen. In the case of Lancer, his speed was cut by about a quarter, Saber was barely affected and Beserker even less so, but more importantly to Soma, Trevor Belmont, Servant Assasin, was slowed to nearly a third of his speed, and that was enough for Soma to dash past Trevor with Death's Scythe drawn and behead his opponent.
As the head tumbling towards the ground disappeared into motes of Prana, a glowing red orb erupted from Trevor's chest before flying straight into Soma's body. Doubling over, Soma took a second to accept the soul of Trevor Belmont that his Power of Dominance had granted him, before rising and turning to the encounter that he had been part of before his duel with Trevor.
Servant Berserker stood tall, seemingly unaffected by the Noble Phantasm that had just ripped through the clearing, Lancer was gone, seemingly having run when Soma took down Assassin, and Beserker's master was looking decidedly less sure of herself then she had been a minute ago.
Soma spun Death's Scythe in one hand, embedding it into the earth and letting out a small prayer towards the Shinigami for Trevor's soul before he looked towards the last two remaining enemies. "We outnumber you three to one. Surrender."
"Please, Illya, I want to get to meet my sister." Shirou added in.
The albino looked as if she was considering declining the offer, but after taking a moment to reevaluate her situation and Shirou chiming in she nodded. "I... surrender."
-]l[-
Soma had split from the group almost immediately after the fight though not before giving a few parting words of advice to Shirou in hopes of improving his swordplay a bit, as well as possibly changing his world view.
Words like: 'don't commit suicide by fighting a superior force for no reason', 'being a hero sucks', and also 'get more sleep'.
Soma really stood by that last one, sleep had been one of the last things on his mind during his time within Castlevania, but after nearly falling asleep during the fights with both Chaos and Menace he learned the advantages of being well rested during any combat situations.
Following his own advice, Soma was on his way back to his hotel, when he was distracted by a slight feeling in the air, closing his eyes to focus had Soma activating the Peeping Eye soul to gain increased perception and... there, the scent of blood.
Adrenaline filled Soma's body reawakening him, and following his senses to travel through a few alleyways he ended up standing in front of a perfectly normal house. Or at least it would be perfectly normal if the door wasn't knocked out of its hinges and there wasn't black mud leaking of the doorframe.
Reaching inside his coat, Soma grasped the handle of a large two-handed hammer before moving inside the building. He stepped across the threshold and immediately felt a curse try to take hold of his body from touching the mud that lay all around the room.
Ignoring it for the time being, but making a mental note to cleanse himself with one of his souls later, Soma continued moving through the building until he reached the family dining room where he paused at the sight before swallowing his vomit and moving further inside the room.
There, on the cushions was a family of three, two older adults whom Soma assumed to be the parents, and one male who appeared to be in his early twenties... All three looked horribly mutilated, the younger one's head had been ripped off and launched halfway across the room at the same time as half his chest being gouged out and the other two corpses were in a similar state to the first one, limbs are torn off and chunks of flesh scattered across the blood stained room.
Gagging slightly as he kept taking in more detail, Soma once again saw the black mud staining everything in the room, and as he crouched down he swore that he saw it pulse very slightly.
Focusing briefly to activate the Ectoplasm soul, Soma could feel the curse that had been applied to him removed, and with that, he let out a slight prayer to the newly deceased family before promising himself that he would find whatever did this and destroy it.
-]l[-
Soma had gotten a message from Fujimura Raiga that one Emiya Shirou had invited him over for lunch just this morning, and was now headed over to the residence that Shirou lived in.
As he knocked lightly at the door, Soma took a second to look towards the backyard, where he could see several piles of dirt kicked up and wondered what had happened there.
"Ah, Hello. Senpai told me to expect you, you are Kurusu Soma-san yes?"
Soma turned to see the girl who had addressed him and saw the same purple haired teen that he had seen a few nights previous before fighting Trevor Belmont.
"Yes. I'm Soma. May I know your name?"
"Ah, sorry! I'm Matou Sakura. Pleased to meet you!"
Letting out a quick smile to the girl Soma followed her inside and to the dining area.
[]
There, on the cushions was a family of three, two older adults whom Soma assumed to be the parents, and one male who appeared to be in his early twenties... All three looked horribly mutilated, the younger one's head had been ripped off and launched halfway across the room at the same time as half his chest being gouged out and the other two corpses were in a similar state to the first one, limbs are torn off and chunks of flesh scattered across the blood stained room.
[]
"Ah, welcome to the Emiya Residence Kurusu-san."
Soma jerked awake from his sudden memory trip to turn and see Shirou step out of the kitchen with several plates loaded with food in his arms.
"Thank you for inviting me." Soma gave a small bow to his host for the meal.
Waving it off, Shirou smiled at Soma, "No need to thank me, you've helped me out previously and I had to repay that debt somehow."
"Don't say things like that Emiya-kun!"
A shout came from a room over, and as Soma, Shirou, and Sakura all turned they saw a black haired girl emerge in a red sweater followed quickly by the blonde haired servant Saber of Shirou's.
"Soma-san, you've already met Saber, but this is Tohsaka Rin, a classmate of mine." Shirou introduced Soma to one of the remaining participants of the battle with Berserker.
"Oh! And there's one more that you don't know, Illya! Get down here, the food's ready!"
Turning their attention to the hallway everyone could hear the sound of feet pattering on the wood floor before a white-haired young girl burst into the dining room.
"I'm here Onii-chan! Where's the food?!"
Letting out a laugh at the girl's exuberance, Shirou introduced her to Soma. "This is Illyasviel von Einzbern, my sister, please call her Illya."
Soma nodded, this was Berserker's master most likely, and after a few more brief introductions and saying thanks for the food, they all dug into the meal that Shirou had prepared.
"So, what brings you to Fuyuki?" This question came from Rin, who was staring intently at Soma.
"Work, I'm a detective and was hired to investigate a few things in the town."
Everyone around the table nodded at his statement, before asking more questions about whether he had discovered anything ("Nothing much"), where he was from ("Hakuba Shrine"), and a few more questions about his life.
Not to be the only one being questioned, he made sure to ask his own questions of the group such as why Illya had white hair ("Genetics"), or how Shirou was so good at cooking ("Heh, dad tried once and he almost burned down the house.")
It had been a good meal, and Soma was almost regretful to leave the enjoyable atmosphere, but he had a job to do, and so he said his farewells to the group and promised to meet them again at some other point in time.
-]l[-
"Urgh..."
Turning quickly, Soma found the source of the sound in a heavily wounded Lancer laying in a ditch at the roadside several meters away from him. Drawing Valmanway, Soma slowly approached his target before slowing as Lancer seemed to fade slightly for a second before reaffirming his existence in the world.
"What the hell?" Soma asked confusedly of the wounded servant though not really expecting an answer.
"I ha-cough-have no mana to sustain my existence." The answer surprised Soma as he knew that servants gained mana from their masters, which meant that...
"Your master is dead then?" It was more of a statement with the knowledge he had, but Soma wanted to confirm it anyways with the downed servant.
"Yes... He was killed by a shadow, the taint of the grail he identified it as."
Raising an eyebrow at this knowledge Soma spoke again. "And why are you informing me of this?"
"Why else? I want you to become my new master, my third one technically, though the first one wasn't really around for very long..." Lancer trailed off at the end as if talking about his first master pained him slightly.
"And why do you want to be my servant?" Soma asked one last question before making his decision on whether or not to save his the man.
"Heh, I need to fight with this one servant, Gilgamesh. After that, I don't really care what we do. I have no regrets in life."
"Very well."
-]l[-
Soma and Lancer turned the corner to a battlefield, on one side was Shirou, Rin, and Illya, and on the other was Matou Sakura, but... darker. Soma didn't know how to put it, besides the obvious differences in skin tone and hair color, Sakura's magical feel was different then the times Soma had met her previously.
Of course. Soma understood it now, Sakura had been the killer all along, clearly she had somehow gained a dark power, and that meant that she was the one that he swore to kill previously.
With this realization came a calmness over his mind, and with that, the Black Panther soul activating. Soma moved at speed towards Sakura, drawing one of his strongest holy weapons Claimh Solais and slashing towards her neck in an attempt to end the fight before it even began.
The blade closed distance with her neck as Soma came in from an angle, but right before it would've sliced her skin, there was another darker sword protecting her, a black English longsword with blood-red accents.
Raising his head to gaze towards the defender, Soma locked his own grey eyes with her own yellow. It was Shirou's servant, Saber but seemingly corrupted by Sakura's energy, apparent through the change in outfit from a blue dress to a black one.
"Lancer! Take her out!" Soma shouted to his new servant.
"Sorry master, I'm a bit caught up over here." Not being the reply he expected, Soma took a second to turn and look for his servant before realizing his mistake and turning back to his own engagement just in time to be kicked away from Sakura by... Shirou? What the hell, was he trying to stop Soma from killing the corrupted girl?
"Hah, I guess I can respect that kid, you'd better have that problem solved when I get back or we'll I'll have to kill you both."
"Hrrngh!" Was Shirou's response as he heaved the dark blade away from him and went to engage Sakura, slowly pushing her towards a nearby opening in the mountain.
"Now... to see what Lancer's been caught up in." Soma turned towards where he last heard his Servant and saw the blue haired man surrounded by zombies and other monsters from Castlevania. 'What the- did With Light recombine and come to Fuyuki or is this someone else creating the monsters.'
Just as the thought finished, Soma heard a familiar sound from the nearby treeline. "Lancer, DUCK!"
The servant immediatly dropped to the ground in a crouch, and not a moment too soon as a massive cyan and white laser as wide as a man is tall blasted through the air right where Lancer had been.
Following to the beam's point of orgin Soma found a Gergoth, one of the strongest monsters he had fought within Castlevania, as well as one of the largest. It was a masssive beast, at least 15 meters tall, and it stood hunched over on two thick legs, it had no arms, legs, nor eyes, and it's entire body was rotting with the ribcage open to the air.
"Lancer, clear the small ones, I'll deal with this one!"
"About that... Master, we're not the only ones out here."
Soma's response died in his throat as he turned one last time to see. No, beheld a golden armored man standing against a massive hoard of undead. But seemed to be having no trouble dealing with them as he seemed to be controlling a number of golden circles floating in the air behind him that spewed a seemingly endless number of weapons of all kinds.
"What about him?" Soma yelled over to Lancer as he once more moved towards Gergoth.
"He's the one I mentioned needing to fight! And I mean since you seem to care about that Shirou kid, blondie over there wants to kill him." Lancer spoke with a smirk as he danced around his foes, slicing and stabbing them all.
"All right, you go kill him then, and I'll deal with these monsters before helping you out."
Soma saw Lancer sprinting off out of the corner of his eye before being forced to refocus his attention entirely on Gergoth as it's ribcage opened up and poisonus fumes spewed towards Soma.
Taking a deep breath, Soma slid along the ground under the fumes to reach a position under Gergoth's chest where he swung Claimh Solais multiple times in succession to rip apart Gergoth's body even more then it was naturally.
Clang
'It's like hitting a wall... Well, I have another option to try if my swords won't work.'
And so Soma reached inside his mind feeling for the power he was given when birthed. And so Soma took ahold of the soul he had gained for killing Trevor Belmont and released it's power.
There was no sound, but Soma could tell that behind him Trevor Belmont was standing in an ethereal state.
"Let's go, I'll distract it and you go for the kill." Soma commanded his newest guardian before dashing once more towards Gergoth, drawing it's attention away from the vampire hunter flanking it.
Flipping into a cartwheel, Soma dodged over another laser blast and slashed the monster in the head, blade once more dealing no damage. 'It must be power from Sakura that's protecting them from harm... I hope Shirou can deal with her soon before any more monsters appear.'
As Soma slid away from another cloud of poison, he heard the sound of chains rattling, and a thump as the head of Gergoth landed on the ground behind him.
Dismissing Trevor's soul, Soma let the body of Gergoth dissolve behind him as he ran to support Lancer in his fight against the blonde. 'I'm glad the enchanted anti-undead properties of the Morning Star were enough to get through Gergoth's protection.'
"Gáe..."
Soma turned at the sound of Lancer activating his Noble Phantasm and prepared his own attack to pair with Lancer's. Drawing a two-handed hammer with an intricately carved chevron shaped metal head attached to a somewhat bent wooden handle, beginning to channel magical energy into the hammer, Soma prepared for whatever might come next as the golden armoured opponent of Lancer raised his arm towards the servant.
"Ig-Alima." The intoned, and from a large portal several meters in height behind the man came a massive rocky sword over fifty meters in length flying at Lancer.
"I got you," Soma stepped up next to Lancer as the sword flew towards them, before raising his hammer slightly and settling into a stance. "Scatter into elemental dust! Smash all, Mjolnir!" (2)
A massive bolt of lightning arced from the tip of Mjolnir, and as it struck the Ig-Alima the massive blade was knocked off course and crashed to the ground several meters away from Lancer and his master.
Soma dropped slightly to the ground as he rested on Mjolnir's handle, that last attack had drained him immensly, and now it was up to Lancer to finish off the fight.
"Bolg!"
A streak of red flew.
A splash of blood as the spear laid in the blonde's chest.
A sigh as Lancer knelt stood next to his master.
"Served the bastard right, always going on about how superior his armory was to anything else in existence." Lancer spit on the dissolving corpse of their opponent. "Now master, I don't mean to worry you, but there are still zombies around- ...or not."
Raising his head at his Servant's confusion, Soma turned and saw an undead free battlefield. "Huh, I guess that means Shirou succeeded." And with that statement Soma fell silent, only speaking to acknowledge Lancer's offer to go drinking to celebrate.
"Yeah... let's do that. I'm sure Tohsaka can clean this mess up."
[End]
(1) - Taken from the Aria of Sorrow dialogue when Soma meets Yoko for the first time.
(2) - Quote from the wiki page on 'All-Crushing Hammer of the Thunder God' NP of Mjolnir.
A/N: Daaaaaaamn. I guess I finished this chapter like... over a month ago, but I just kept delaying the editing process till just now. Anyways, hope ya'll enjoy the chapter. Review, and favorite and do all that shit yknow. Omake is below the stats and other ANs.
Ah man, can't wait for no one to know who the fuck Soma is... (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow & Dawn of Sorrow). Anyways, I watched Castlevania S2, it's good. Also, Soma has like 15 different Noble Phantasms in his weapons from both games, these include Mjolnir, Excalibur, Gae Bolg, Caladbolg, and Hrunting.
In other news, I started writing this while watching Castlevania and listening to 'Satorl Marsh' (both day and night) from Xenoblade Chronicles, and just finished it while listening to a playlist that included the original 'Discord' by eurobeat Brony, some OCRemixes of Megaman, Touhou, Zelda, and Metroid, a ton of Cloudjumper's arrangements, (Bad Apple, Bloody Tears, You Say Run, and The Day!), as well as a couple eurobeat remixes of Raildex songs & Persona 5s 'Rivers in the Desert'.
Here's the sheets for Soma as a human/vampire thingy, and Trevor as a servant, don't think too much of them since I was tired when I wrote them. Omake is below those.
Servant Class N/A
Real Name: Kurusu Soma
Epithet(s): Count Dracula's Reincarnation
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: Unknown
Alignment: Neutral Good
Paramaters
Strength: E-
Endurance: C
Agility: B
Magical Energy: A
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: A
Class Abilities
N/A
Noble Phantasm
Power of Dominance: E-A+
Armory of the Count: B-A
Servant Assassin
Real Name: Trevor Belmont
Epithet(s): [Vampire Killer]
Age: 38
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: Unknown
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Paramaters
Strength: D
Endurance: D
Agility: B+
Magical Energy: D-
Luck: D
Noble Phantasm: B+
Class Abilities
Presence Concealment: B-
Noble Phantasm
Morning Star: B+
[Omake]
Just as the group prepared to clash once more, the sound of a chain cracked through the air and Soma saw a whip -whip?- headed towards Shirou's unguarded back.
"Oh hell no!" Soma positioned himself back to back with Shirou as he caught the chain whip on Valmanway and gazed towards where the attack came from.
There, standing in the temple gate, framed by the setting sun, was a brown-haired man with a stubble of average height, wearing a white tunic and gauntlets as well as a set of pouches and belts to hold gear in. None of that set any major alarms off in Soma's head until he saw two things. One, the crest on the man's chest, and two, the chain whip held in his hand that practically glowed to Soma's eyes.
There, standing in the temple gate framed by the setting sun, was a brown-haired young man, with a white headband on his forehead wearing white leggings and boots. But that didn't set off the alarm bells in Soma's head until his gaze landed on the blue tunic that fell long down to his knees.
"Richter Belmont!" Soma correctly identified his opponent as one of the best known Belmonts in history and more importantly, one that Arikado was always telling stories about.
"That's right, now... Begone monster!" And with that, Richter whipped his hand forwards flinging a spinning cross towards Soma with surprising speed.
Soma attempted to slip out to the side of the cross but as soon as he had dodged the first attack there was holy water crashing onto the ground and igniting underneath him. Activating a soul to make himself immune to the holy aspect Soma guarded for another attack when he was suddenly launched into the air from the cross returning to Richter.
Speaking of Richter... he was in the air slightly above Soma falling slightly slower than the axe next to him. Letting out a gulp, Soma took the cut of the axe to his chest before being knocked straight into the tip of Richter's chain whip. Flying even further backwards Soma righted himself in midair only to just barely dodge another incoming cross.
Thwip
Blood sprayed and Soma's body was cut in two by one last axe falling from the sky. Landing on the ground with a thump, Richter stood himself straight up before raising his hands and tightening his headband.
"Farewell."
[End]
A/N: Written in about 15 minutes on 1/6/19.
This is why we can't have SSBU Belmont as servant Assassin.
6,866 non A/N notes.
Published on 2/15/19.