Disclaimer: I do not own any of the anime characters listed in the story. However, I do own Douglas Kreig (Father), Terry McCormick (Alchemist), Ivan Gredenko (Knight), Rina Kisungji and Vespin Otonashi (Queen).
Groups of commandos, swordsmen, knights and Marines were standing on the cliff where it overlooks the castle which used to be the place where the sacred tools were kept. The castle was huge, pentagonal-shaped and has 5 towers on each vertex. And there are 5 layers built on top one another. They saw Nick Owen's army assembling and they seemed to be expecting them, but didn't notice their presence. Father, Alchemist and Knight stood in front of the pack while Rina, Saber, Saya and Edward stood behind the trio.
"Wow, you actually built the Pentagon here," commented Rina, but Father ignored her. Father gave a few hand signals to Shuurei, on a horse with a cavalry of knights behind her. She ordered the men to get ready for the signal. Alchemist called in a mortar team and they came immediately.
"Try and hit those barrels over there," commanded Alchemist as he pointed to the barrels at the base of the castle. The mortar team set up, adjusted the mortar tube and loaded the tube with a mortar round. They all closed their ears and the mortar round burst and shot into the sky. The stickmen, still standing there, heard the faint sound but never knew where it came from. The mortal shell hit one of the barrels, causing a chain reaction, detonating the barrels next to it. This definitely caused some casualties on the stickmen's side, and also causing confusion. The mortar strike was the signal for Shuurei and her cavalry of knights to charge from the flanks.
"Get ready, Marines. Expect them to pop out from the towers," commandeered Father and the Marines went to sniping positions. And as expected stickmen popped out from the towers and started to snipe off the knights. The Marines covered the knights by taking out the snipers. Then, a bunch of stickmen burst out from the front gate with rifles and started to fire at the knights. Father gave a hand signal. The commandos, equipped with jet packs, flew from the cliff to the battle zone. Ueki, Rinko and Mori, however, were on Tenko and Tenko brought them down. Ueki summoned his wings and flew up to a certain height and started killing the stickmen with his cannon and Rinko and Mori attacked the stickmen from Tenko's back, flinging bead bombs and spikes to the stickmen below.
"Now's our turn," said Father and he commandeered the swordsmen to attack the path to the front gate. The swordsmen ran and made a way to the gate. Father, Alchemist, Knight, Rina, the Fate/Stay Night characters, Fullmetal Alchemist characters and the Blood+ characters ran through the path and entered the castle. In the castle was rather quiet, with no stickmen or whatsoever to come and attack them, but a huge number of doors that line up row by row on the walls, each door leads to a different place.
"Did you actually build this?" asked Rina sarcastically, probably insulting the guardians' intelligence.
"No, we didn't. That guy must be scared," replied Father.
"Ready or not, here we come!" announced Knight. Then one by one, each door disappeared from the wall until one is left.
"Good thinking. I think you got the right password," said Alchemist.
"I just randomly said that," commented Knight to himself. They all went to that one door and opened it. When they all entered it, the door closed behind them.
"Damn, the door closed," said Kai, who was the last one to enter through the door. They found themselves in a very foggy place, where visibility is so bad that they couldn't even see their hands. The fog cleared and they found themselves in front of a flight of steps that led up to a gate of a temple, with trees by the side.
"We're back in Fuyuki City," said Rin. Everyone looked at her.
"The Fuyuki City temple is straight on top of those steps, the last time where Saber and Shirou fought Kotomine and Gilgamesh," continued Rin, pointing to the steps above. When they got up there, they saw a big, giant hole with muck dripping from it. In the middle of it is Sakura, stripped naked and crucified on it. Below it is a throne where a Saber look-alike sat in her dark dress and Gilgamesh standing next to her.
"Welcome to my world, Knight," said Gilgamesh in a loud voice.
"Sakura!" shouted Rin.
"What are you planning to do with the Holy Grail, Gilgamesh?!" demanded Knight.
"Oh, it's easy. I want to make myself a harem," said Gilgamesh and Rider and Caster popped out from behind the throne.
"You sick bastard," insulted Saber.
"Oh, Saber feels jealous because I have my own little Saber here," said Gilgamesh and Dark Saber stood up.
"We'll see whose better," continued Gilgamesh. Knight and Saber summoned their swords and Rin got her jewels together and created a dagger. They got into a fighting stance.
"Those who wish to fight Nick, please go through that door. These three are mine," said Gilgamesh.
"Go. Kill Nick Owen for us," said Knight.
"You sure you're okay with this?" asked Alchemist.
"This is a fight I can't escape. Now go!" said Knight. Alchemist nodded and the rest all headed through the door. Knight, Saber and Rin were the only three that stood there.
"I want my Avalon!" shouted Dark Saber as she started to charge at Saber.
"The Avalon is not yours!" shouted Saber as she lunged at Dark Saber.
"To hell with you!" shouted Knight as his battle cry, as he sped towards Gilgamesh. The clashes of their swords broke the eerie atmosphere.
When they got through the door, they found themselves in a huge open space in a building. It looks like an opera house, with box offices stacked row upon row.
"We're back to the FMA world, the underground Central," said Alphonse. On the stage stood the homunculi Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth and Lust. Envy is the one with the long, green, spiky hair, Gluttony is the one who is really fat and chubby, Wrath is a small boy with a right arm and a left leg a different color from his body, Sloth and Lust are women, but can change their bodies to different forms. Behind all of them is one woman with short hair and wearing a gown.
"It had to be you, Dante," said Alchemist.
"Yes, of course. Then who else would bring them back to life?" said Dante, showing the homunculi.
"They you leave me no choice," said Alchemist as he clapped his hands. A rather short sword, the same blade he used while saving Father, was formed from the transmutation.
"Those who seek Nick please help yourselves out," said Dante, pointing to the door on the right.
"Nii-san, get him for us, I'll hold these guys here," said Alchemist. Father nodded and left Alchemist and the characters of the Fullmetal Alchemist world with Rina and the Blood+ characters.
"Ed, don't you want your arm and leg back? Try and get it," teased Wrath.
"If you try to mess with Ed, you'll have to go through me!" exclaimed Armstrong, ripping his shirt and flexing his muscles.
"Attack!!!" shouted Alchemist as he lunged at Dante.
When Father and his tem got through the door, they found themselves in an opera house. The place looks all too familiar.
"The New York Opera House," said David. On the stage stood Diva, Amshel and James.
"You all don't have enough, do you?" asked Father.
"Just hand us Rina," said Amshel, convincingly.
"It's not going to work, asshole," retorted Father. Diva drew out her straight sword.
"Am I supposed to be intimidated by that?" asked Father. He then turned to Saya.
"Well, you know what to do," said Father. Saya drew out her katana, stained it with her own blood and her eyes glowed red. Father, Saya and Hagi charged at the trio on the stage.
"Kai, take Rina out of here!" shouted Father as he dodged James' slashes. He fired a few shots from his revolver and then summoned his sword.
"Go!" David said to Kai and Lewis as he shot a few rounds at the Chiropterans that started flowing in from the roof. Kai took Rina's hand and started sprinting through the corridors of the opera.
"Wait up, Kai," said the tired Lewis as he panted after running for a while. A fat man like him really couldn't run far.
"Lewis, watch out!" shouted Kai as he pointed to behind Lewis. He turned around and saw a huge Chiropteran with its jaws wide open, roaring at Lewis. Lewis pointed his shotgun at the beast's mouth and shot a few rounds. The beast was down, for now. They raced through the corridor until a Chiropteran broke through the walls and blocked their way. Kai let off a few shots from his rifle and asked them to turn back. But when they turned back, another Chiropteran is blocking the way. Lewis fired a few rounds on the Chiropteran's head, but it doesn't seem to budge. Then a shadowy figure raced down and sliced a Chiropteran in half. Then the figure stopped in front of Lewis.
"Lulu!" exclaimed Lewis to the little girl in a cloak with purple hair.
"Sorry if I've been late!" said Lulu.
"You're not too late," responded Lewis. The other Chiropteran tried to strike Kai and Rina but they dodged the attack. Lulu leaped and sliced the other Chiropteran and they ran to the exit. Seeing David escape from the opera house, Father then turned to his opponent. He raised his sword and started to do offensive attacks, putting James on defensive.
"This is going to end," said Father. He gathered all his strength, made a big swish and sliced off James' head, causing blood to spill on Father's face. Amshel, seeing James died in front of his eyes, took Diva and rushed out through the roof. Saya and Hagi were about to chase them when Father stopped them.
"Wait," said Father, taking out his shades and keeping them, revealing his glowing red eyes.
"I know where they're heading, please follow me," said Father before he turns for the exit. Saya and Hagi followed him.
As Rina, Kai, Lewis and Lulu exited the opera house, they found themselves at the edge of a coliseum playing field. In front of them stood a stage where a figure, with jet black hair and a part of his fringe covered part of his face, sat on his throne. He wore an outfit similar to the Fullmetal Alchemist's State Alchemist.
"Nick," growled Kai. Nick stood up and all his stickmen minions came out and started shooting them. Kai, Rina, Lewis and Lulu took cover behind some stone columns that dotted the playing field. Kai and Lewis opened fire and killed a few stickmen. Lulu hopped into the center of the playing field and started slashing the stickmen, then charged at Nick. With Nick within her sights, she raised her axe and ready to strike him when Nick launched his fist and punched her to the ground. She rolled down the stage and lay on the floor. She tried to get up but she couldn't feel her legs and arms. She looked at her hands and she saw them crystallizing. The 'Thorn' has returned.
As she screamed frantically for help, Lewis, Kai and Rina couldn't do anything but watch her crystallize and die because they were pinned down but machine gun fire. David entered the playing field and faced a bunch of stickmen aiming their rifles at him. Kai tried to cover David while he tried to run and dodge the bullets, but a machine gunner shot at his column, preventing him from shooting back. And the stickmen rattled their rifles and riddled David with bullets.
"David!" shouted Kai as David died from rifle and machine gun fire focused at him. Even when he died, the stickmen continually shot his body, mutilating his body.
"Damn you! Don't you dare disrespect David!" shouted Kai as got mad and he jumped out from his column, plucked out several stickmen and charged towards Nick.
"Kai!" shouted Lewis as he saw Kai rushed towards Nick. Lewis saw Rina hiding behind the column alone, so he leapt from his hiding place and got to Rina. Kai killed a few more, and then he got shot by machine guns. But that didn't stop him. He continued forward and shot another few more stickmen. But the machine guns kept on firing and a few more bullets found its way to Kai. Lewis and Rina could do nothing but watch him struggle to reach Nick. When Kai reached Nick, he was battered; blood flowed from his wounds and feeling exhausted. The machine guns stopped firing when Nick signaled. Kai dragged himself up the stage and pointed his pistol at Nick. Nick summoned a plain, straight sword and chopped his hand off.
"Aaugh!" screamed Kai in pain as his hand rolled on the ground of the coliseum. Nick walked towards him and grabbed him by the hair. Nick looked at Kai in the eyes and saw a flame of rage and anger. Kai looked in Nick's eyes and in return saw something sinister in this evil lord; no mercy. Nick lifted his sword and chopped off his head. Lewis closed Rina's eyes as they witnessed the execution. Nick tossed the head away and started to speak.
"It's no use resisting. Give up and you will be spared," announced Nick. Then Father, Saya and Hagi made it into the coliseum. They saw David, Kai and Lulu sprawled dead on the ground.
"KAI!" screamed Saya and her eyes swelled up. The machine gunners fired at them. The dust kicked off and blurred their vision. Nick signaled the machine gunners to stop firing and the dust cleared. Father, Saya and Hagi were still standing there, with bullet holes in their bodies, but it doesn't seem to do any effect. Hagi leapt and killed all the machine gunners on top of the coliseum and returned back to Father and Saya. Then the trio charged at Nick. Upon reaching Nick, Amshel and Diva came from above the coliseum and stopped Saya and Hagi in their tracks. Father continued and lunged at Nick. Nick was barely hit; Father managed to tear his coat. Nick retaliated and swung his sword. Father defended the strike, pushed the sword away and leapt backwards.
"You are a dead man soon, Nick," said Father.
"You must be referring to yourself," said Nick.
Author's note: Chapter 8 is live