Mirari Moon Wars Chapter 2 – Face To Face
I'm going to attempt something that I've never actually done before I'm going to respond to your reviews.
Ergast – I agree. Archerko is one of my favorite characters, joining Saber and Lily (I was tempted to throw Lily in the story but I decided against it.)
Nitro – The Female Archer servant is an interesting character from the mind of Himura Kiseki. Look up the Doujin, Sword Dancers, if you wish to know more.
MAGNUM777 – You are entitled to your opinion, but if it looks like leather to me, it becomes leather.
Disclaimer: I do not own Magic: The Gathering, Tsukihime, Fate/Stay Night or Archerko, they belong to their respective owners.
Before Shirou could stop her, the female Archer had run out of the shed and into the yard to face Lancer and his master.
"Hey wait!" Shirou called as he ran outside after her.
When the female Archer appeared before Lancer and Bazett, both servant and master were in shock of the sight.
"Are you of the Saber class?" Bazett asked as she tried to put some distance between her and the female Servant.
The white-haired swordsman smiled before shaking her head.
As much as I wish that were so, I have been summoned here as a member of the archer class." The white-haired teen explained.
Lancer's expression quickly changed to that of anger at the girl's words.
"Don't mock me, because I've already fought an Archer and he's not you." The blue-haired knight exclaimed, before taking a better look at the teenage girl's appearance and her two swords.
The jacket and duster that she wore were exactly like the male Archer that Lancer had fought earlier that evening. However she lacked the armor that the male Archer was wearing, instead she wore a black pleated mini-skirt and a black turtleneck that seemed to instead show off her attractive body.
The greatest similarity between the two Archers however lain in their swords. Both Archers' swords featured gold hilts with a Yin-Yang symbol in the center of the cross-guard, and they both had one sword whose blade was white as freshly fallen snow while the other whose blade was black as a moonless summer night. Their only difference however lain in the length and design of the blades, the swords of the male Archer were short and thick, suitable primarily for defense, where as the blades of the woman before them slender and nearly twice the length of her male counterpart's.
"He may not be you but you sure are dressed similarly to him." Lancer commented as he altered his grip on his lance. "Bazett, your orders?"
"Do you need to ask?" Bazett stated before dropping into a martial art stance, "Can you handle the servant?"
Lancer smirked before twirling his crimson lance around.
"I'm glad to see that you're so reasonable." Lancer stated before charging towards the white-haired servant, who smirked back at the blue-haired lancer.
Out of nowhere, forty plain looking swords appeared around the female servant, stopping Bazett in her tracks as she tried to determine the girl's true identity.
'What sort of magic is this?' The violet haired woman said as she turned her attention towards the unknown servant.
"Eh?" Lancer stated out of confusion as the girl summoned the large numbers of swords from nowhere before lowering his lance and adjusting his grip on it, "That's cheap, creating weapons out of nowhere."
The female Archer smiled at the blue haired knight before charging towards him at a speed that made her seem like a blur to Shirou's eyes.
Lancer was instantly forced on the defensive beneath the onslaught of the girl's twin blades.
'She's fast.' Lancer thought as he leapt back onto the estate's wall hoping to separate the girl from her master, with the hopes that Bazett could take out the girl's master while he distracted her.
Bazett rushed towards Shirou hoping to end this conflict with a single blow. However the white-haired servant was much faster, appearing before Bazett and forcing her to abort her attack on Shirou.
Shirou was having difficulties following the lithe Archer's movements across through the yard.
"Damnit." Bazett swore as she was thwarted once more by the white haired girl before ordering her servant, "Lancer, end this fight."
Lancer smiled before bringing the spear tip low as he poured mana into his lance.
The atmosphere of the compound seemed to freeze as the man's murderous intent skyrocketed.
"Good decision master. Archer," Lancer stated as he focused his red eyes on the girl, "your heart is mine! Gae…"
He thrust the crimson lance forward as he finished speaking the name of his legendary lance.
"Bolg!"
The white haired girl tried to leap away from Lancer's strike only to have the crimson spear seem to bend to strike at her chest.
The girl cringed in pain as the cursed spear pierced her left shoulder. As her blood ran down the spear's shaft Lancer to frowned in disappointment while her two swords vanished.
"You must have a faerie on your side to allow you to survive Gae Bolg's curse by this extent." Lancer stated with annoyance in his voice before trying to pull his spear from her of the girl, only to have the girl grip it with her two hands and hold it in her.
"Gae Bolg, an enchanted spear that seeks its opponent's heart whenever it is thrust. Interesting, I might have been able to figure out your identity if I had paid more attention to my history lessons." The white-haired girl stated with a smile as she looked at the Irishman before bringing her left arm up and pointed it towards his face while her right arm held fast to the spear in her shoulder. "You know this is checkmate, right. Sealed Bow, Second Release…" She continued as what appeared to be a magical bow appeared from a leather bracer on her forearm, "I'll give you a choice, Lancer. Take your master and leave this compound or…" She projected a sword onto the weapon as she talked, "I fire this arrow through you head and I skewer your precious master." She stated as a dozen swords appeared surrounding Bazett.
Lancer laughed as he looked at the girl before stating coldly:
"You're bluffing."
The female Archer smiled before speaking, "Perhaps I am, but then again… I have effectively nullified your master's Fragarach and with me holding your spear in the initial wound, I've also neutralized your primary weapon. So I guess all that I can ask is, Do you feel lucky?"
Lancer frowned at the girl as he finally realized the point that she was trying to get at.
"Bitch." Lancer cursed before posing a question to Bazett, "Your orders?"
Bazett looked at the white-haired girl curiously when she spoke of her weapon Fragarach.
"How did you know about Fragarach?" Bazett asked angrily.
The girl simply smiled as she continued staring down Lancer, before replying:
"Trade secret."
Bazett turned to look at her servant as she calmly tried to think of a winning strategy, however she couldn't think of one for a lack of information.
"We'll fall back for now, Lancer." Bazett stated regretfully to the white-haired servant.
Lancer grumbled as he looked towards the violet-haired woman and sighed before disinterestedly stating.
"Well whatever. I can't let my master get killed, so I guess that we'll call it a draw for now."
Archer nodded before dispelling the swords that she had surrounding Bazett and willed the bow to return to its sealed form.
"We'll finish this fight at a later date, until then 'au revoir'."The white-haired girl said before pulling the crimson spear out of the wound in her shoulder with both of her hands.
"…" Lancer glared at the white haired girl before grabbing Bazett and leaping over the stone walls disappearing from sight.
The grounds of the Emiya estate returned to a state of stillness as the intruders were 'forced' to flee. Without hesitation, the white-haired girl turned towards Shirou with worried eyes.
"Are you hurt Shirou?" she stated as she ran over to him.
Shirou looked at her curiously when she said his name.
"How do you know my name?" Shirou asked the white-haired girl, causing her eyes to grow wide and her cheeks to flush.
"Well I, um…" The girl started to state sheepishly before turning her head towards the front gate. Her eyes narrowing as she recreated her black-bladed curved long sword in her right hand, "That conversation will have to wait. I sense there's another Servant at the front gate."
Before Shirou could respond to the girl she had ran across the courtyard in a matter of seconds before leaping over the front-gate.
Outside of the Emiya estate…
"Rin are you certain that this is the place?" The silver-haired man stated as he walked towards the gate.
Rin nodded before reaching for the gate, before Archer pushed her behind him as a flash of steel slashed downward from above the gate as a red cloaked figure dropped down of them.
"Damn, I missed." The figure said as she turned around to face the two of them. The white-haired woman smiled when she noticed the pair, "Looks like irony allows me to face you again, Protector of the status quo."
Both Rin and Archer looked towards the woman with similarly odd looks on their faces.
"Who are you?" Rin and Archer said at the same time.
The white-haired woman brought up her long sword and stated as she narrowed her eyes towards the man.
"Isn't it obvious, I'm the Servant Archer." She stated nonchalantly.
Rin's servant Archer laughed as he summoned his twin short swords.
"If you're Archer then I'm the King of England." He said sarcastically as he ran towards the girl.
The girl smiled as she channeled mana into her legs dramatically increasing her speed.
"Then it'll be a pleasure to knock that smug look off your face, your majesty." She replied as she ducked under his attack and moved behind him in a single motion to strike at his unprotected back.
"Clang." cried the blades as the two Archers fought neither able to overpower the other.
"Dammen, I was hoping that I'd have been able to surpass you this time." She cried out as she leapt back to distance herself from them.
The male Archer looked at her with a confused look on his face as she increased the distance between them.
"The way you fight is very distinctive and very much like my own style. Once again who are you?" The man said before dropping into a defensive stance.
The girl seemed to pout at the fact that the man didn't recognize her.
"How can you be so cruel as to forget me? Fine then, I'll make you remember me and your dreams!" The girl stated before her sword and saying, "Gehem."
Countless swords appeared around the young woman.
"Archer, stop!" A voice called out from the front gate of the house causing the girl to stop her attack.
The female Archer turned towards her master with a look of frustration on her face.
"But why Shirou!" She called out halfway on the verge of tears, "He's a servant like me, and his master is 'most' likely here to kill you."
Shirou replied as he walked over to her, "I don't understand what this master thing is. So if you can stop trying to randomly kill people long enough to tell me what's going on, I'll listen."
"What do you mean randomly killing people!" The white haired girl exclaimed as her dozens of swords floated around her. "I'm only defending myself and you, how can you ask me to stop in front of someone who wishes you harm."
Without hesistating, he said blantantly.
"Girls shouldn't be swinging swords around anyway, especially if they're wounded."
The female Archer looked at Shirou in surprise before sighing.
"Look there aren't many masters like you, Shirou." The female said, before willing her flying swords to disappear. "Most of them aren't going to show you mercy and don't expect any in return."
"Are you done talking?" Rin stated as she stepped forward.
Shirou and his servant turned towards the voice.
"Tohsaka!" Shirou asked as he looked at the dark-haired school idol standing behind the male who was dressed in the black leather armor and red duster.
"Good evening, Emiya." Rin said politely before turning towards the male Archer and ordered, "Since you spared my life I shall respect that gesture and explain this battle royale that you are now a part of. Archer, please go to spirit form."
"But Rin…" Her servant started to complain.
Rin glared at him and replied, "I wish to speak to Emiya and with you in physical form, I do not wish for his servant to fight us at this point in time."
"As you wish, Rin." The male Archer stated before turning into spirit form.
"Let's go talk in your house, Emiya-kun." Rin said with a smile before walking into his estate.
Meanwhile across town at the Kotomine Church…
"Kirei!" Bazett cried out angrily as she forced open the doors to the church, "Kirei come out."
Lancer hung his head at his master's antics.
"Geez, Bazett. You keep yelling like that and he'll never come out." Lancer stated as he followed behind the martial artist mage.
Bazett however didn't seem to care.
"Kirei, come out I want to talk to you." Bazett yelled as marched closer to the confession booth.
"So what brings you to this humble church at this hour, Miss Bazett McRemitz?" A dark-haired man in navy priest robes said as he stepped into the sanctuary from the back of the church. "Have you decided to quit the Holy Grail War?"
Bazett frowned at the priest before dismissively stating, "Of course not. I came to ask you a question?"
Kirei's eyebrows arched to show his curiosity.
"I will answer what I can."Kirei said as he walked over to one of the pews and sat down, "Ask your question?"
Bazett looked towards Kirei sternly and said, "My servant witnessed two different Archer servants this evening."
Kirei blinked twice but did not show even the slightest bit of interest.
"Can you describe the two servants in detail along with their masters?" Kirei asked as he stood there.
Bazett shrugged before turning to her servant, Lancer.
"Tell him, Lancer." The violet-haired Irishwoman ordered.
"Well, the first Archer servant was a tall tan-skinned man with silver hair. The only weapons that he used were a pair of short swords that no matter how many times I disarmed him they would reappear in his hands. He was dressed in black leather armor and had a red duster that he wore over top of the armor. His master was a pretty girl with long black hair that was in two pigtails. Before I could kill them our battle was discovered by a high school student, so in accordance to the rules I tracked him down and stabbed him in the heart." Lancer explained.
Kirei nodded as he listened.
"Well, somehow the boy lived and he's the master of the chick Archer. She's short, young, with long white hair, she fought with swords, and had faerie-like luck. Her noble phantasm is a wrist bracer that transforms into a bow to launch her conjured weapons." The blue-haired man stated before making a clenched fist, "I'll kill that cheating bitch next time for making fools of us."
Kirei smirked as Lancer's description came to a close.
"So this servant Archer fought with swords and sorcery, interesting." Kirei stated as he got up from his seat, and started for the back when he turned back towards Bazett, "By the way as of right now the only servants that have been summoned to my knowledge are Berserker, a pair of Casters, a Rider, your Lancer, an Archer and this mysterious second Archer."
Bazett's violet eyes grew wide as she took in what the man had said while her red-eyed lancer began smiling at the battles that he believed were coming.
"So are you telling me that we are looking at the very real threat of a fourteen man battle royale?" Bazett asked.
The Priest smiled before answering.
"It would be a safe assumption." Kirei face turned serious as he looked towards Lancer's master, "Is that all the questions that you have for me, Miss McRemitz?"
Bazett stopped to think for a moment before responding.
"I can't think of anything at this moment."
"Understood, I assume that you can find your way out?" The Priest stated condescendingly before walking to his quarters and leaving the pair alone in the sanctuary.
"au revoir" is a French statement used like goodbye
"Dammen" is German for 'damn'