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).
"Aah!" shouted Knight as he was flung towards Saber's body. They both lay on pools of blood, unable to move, after being battered by Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm, The Gate of Babylon, and then being slashed by Dark Saber. Rin took care of Rider and Caster, but was killed when Gilgamesh unleashed his Enuma Elish. With his face down, Knight looked up and saw Dark Saber, grabbing Saber by the neck with her arm and pointed the blade of her Excalibur to her neck.
"Give me the Avalon," said Dark Saber. Saber didn't respond. Her eyes were half-open.
"I said, GIVE ME THE AVALON!" shouted Dark Saber as she put the blade closer to Saber's neck. Gilgamesh walked towards Knight. He grabbed his hair and lifted him till they're eye-level.
"Too weak to defend your little possession?" asked Gilgamesh and indicated it by looking at Saber.
"She's no longer in your possession anymore," said Gilgamesh as he slammed Knight's head on the ground. Gilgamesh walked up to Dark Saber, who was at the brink of killing Saber.
"No, no, Dark Saber. You won't get what you want like that. Let me get it," said Gilgamesh and Dark Saber handed Saber to him.
"Before you die, I'm gonna give you the time of your life," whispered Gilgamesh into Saber's ear. That line caused her to widen her eyes, filled with tears, and she started to scream.
"Knight! Knight!" screamed Saber as she sobbed, struggling to get to Knight, but Gilgamesh pulled her back.
"Saber…" said Knight as he tried to get up but he collapsed on his own weight. His body started to fail him.
"You're coming with me!" said Gilgamesh as he laughed. Saber tried to struggle but she was pulled away by Gilgamesh.
"KNIGHT!" screamed Saber before she fainted.
"Enough!" said a voice from the covers of darkness. Gilgamesh stopped and both he and Dark Saber looked into the dark. A shadowy figure came out from the dark, a girl with short hair, wearing a pink tank top, short skirt and boots, with two katanas by the side of her waist that looked like Saya's earlier katana.
"Another intruder," said Gilgamesh and he dropped Saber.
"Who are you?" demanded Gilgamesh.
"I am the Queen of the Guardians," said the girl. In a blink of an eye, she came forward and stabbed Dark Saber, and then came face to face with Gilgamesh.
"But you can call me Queen," continued the girl before cutting right through him. Knight took the opportunity to crawl to Saber who lay on the ground.
"It's okay, Saber. I'm sorry," said Knight as he picked her up from the ground and wrapped his arms around her from the back. Saber regained her consciousness after hearing Knight's voice. She then responded by holding his arms with her hands. Knight rested his head on her shoulder, exhausted after the fight.
Queen stepped up to the Grail and looked at the unconscious Sakura. She raised her sword, mumbled a few words and then did a slash reaction. That caused the Grail to shrink, collapsing into itself. Sakura fell and Queen caught her in her arms and then slowly laid her on the ground.
"Knight, show me the way to Alchemist and Father," said Queen. Knight turned around and saw Queen walking towards him. He nodded and he and Saber got up and they went through the door.
BOOM! BOOM! The sound of explosions rang in the open space of the opera. Edward and Alphonse were busy with Wrath and Envy, Roy Mustang with Lust, Armstrong with Gluttony, Riza and her subordinates with Sloth, and Alchemist with Dante. Dante claps her hands and an invisible wave spiraled towards Alchemist. Alchemist claps his hands and a stone wall came in between. Dante then claps her hands, got a spear and charged at Alchemist. Alchemist used his blade to try stab Dante. He missed.
"You got to try better than that," commented Dante. Alchemist turned around and found Dante ready to strike him down. He got into defensive and used his blade to protect himself. He then pushed her away and charged at her.
Roy was flicking his fingers, sending sparks of flames towards Lust. Lust dodged with incredible speed and then extended her fingers to Roy. Roy dodged it, but one of the fingers cut through one of his gloves.
"Damn!" exclaimed Roy as he kept dodging Lust's attacks. He then retaliated by flicking his fingers of his other hand and that sent sparks towards Lust. Lust dodged it, and an explosion happened behind her.
Gluttony raced towards Armstrong, trying to eat him like it was his nature, and Armstrong grabbed him by the shoulders, carried him up and threw him off. Then he flexed his muscles and shot stone spikes at Gluttony. Gluttony dodged the spikes easily.
"You damn Fullmetal midget!" said Envy.
"Who're you calling Fullmetal midget!?" Edward shot back.
Riza fired a few shots at Sloth with her dual Glocks. Several of her comrades shot Sloth with their M-14 rifles. But the bullets seemed to go through Sloth's liquefied body. Then Sloth extended her liquid arms and caught a few of the soldiers shooting at her, including Riza. Roy saw Riza caught through the corner of his eye.
"Riza!" shouted Roy. He didn't notice Lust extended her fingers and they came piercing through the distracted Roy.
"Sir!" screamed Riza, bounded by the watery hand, as she saw Roy died before her eyes. Lust retracted her fingers that pierced through Roy. Roy fell to his knees and then on the ground. Blood started to flow out from his body. In the meantime, Edward managed to pin Envy on the ground. Envy changed to become Maes Hughes, hoping to distract Edward. Edward didn't care and punched him straight.
"Don't think you can distract me like that," said Edward, ready to stab him with his bladed auto-mail. Then Envy changed to Hohenheim, Edward's father. Edward was stopped in his tracks.
"What? Can't you do it?" said Envy, imitating Hohenheim's voice.
"Dad…." said Edward before he got stabbed by Envy. Edward died with his eyes wide open.
"Nii-san!" screamed Alphonse as he saw his brother die. Wrath claps his hands and touched Alphonse's armored body with his palms. The armored body crumpled under its own weight.
"What the hell?!" said Alphonse when he became immobile. Wrath stopped and walked towards Edward's body.
"Now I'll take his body," said Wrath. Then Knight's sword came and stabbed through Wrath's head. Envy looked to where the sword came from and saw Knight, Saber and Queen.
"Hold my katanas, nii-san," said Queen as she handed her katanas to Knight. Knight took her katanas and then Queen claps her hands. She appeared before Envy and put her palms on Envy's stomach. Then Envy started to spit out red stones. Saber charged at Envy and sliced him. He didn't managed to protect himself, thus he died. Then Queen claps her hands and touched Wrath's stomach, causing him to spit out red stones as well. But with the sword stuck in his head, he immediately died after that.
"Eat!" exclaimed Gluttony as he shot towards Queen. Queen looked up, claps her hands, jumped to Gluttony and touched his back. She leapt off to some distance before Gluttony exploded from inside out. The Queen raced towards Sloth, claps her hands and touched Sloth's liquefied body. Sloth began to evaporate and the soldiers who were in her grasp fell down. She then turned her attention to Lust. She did the same, clapping her hands and then touching her stomach. Lust gave the same reaction, and Knight went in with one of Queen's katanas to finish the job. He then threw one of the katanas to Queen, where she grabbed it and stood in place of Alchemist and defended Dante's strike.
"Quick, open the Gate!" exclaimed Queen. Alchemist nodded, leapt to the back, claps his hands and touched the ground. The Gate opened right before Dante. The Gate threw out its tentacles to grab Dante and pulled her into the Gate.
"Noooooo!" screamed Dante as she was dragged into the Gate. When she was finally in the Gate, the Gate closed its doors and disappeared from view. The bodies of the homunculi disappeared as well. Riza rushed towards Roy and tried to wake him.
"Roy! Roy!" called Riza while trying to shake him, as though he's asleep. When Roy didn't respond to any of her calls, she landed her head on his chest, crying and cursing herself for causing his death. Her other comrades just stood there, helpless. Knight returned the katana back to Queen and reached for his own sword. Alchemist then walked towards Knight, Saber and Queen.
"Now what we've go to do is to get to Father," said Alchemist.
"You take all of them out. I'll go help nii-san," said Queen.
"You sure, nee-chan?" said Alchemist. Queen started walking towards the door.
"Nee-chan," said Alchemist. Queen turned around.
"Be careful," continued Alchemist.
"I will, nii-san," replied Queen as she entered the door.
Father lay in a pool of blood. Saya, Diva, Amshel and Hagi lay crystallized after stabbing each other, and Nick still stood dominant among the dead bodies. Lewis and Rina were still hiding from Nick and his stickmen minions. Rina sobbed softly as Father had died. Nick kept his sword and commanded his minions to take Rina. The stickmen came to the hiding place in order to get Rina.
"Damn you," Lewis shot a few stickmen before they shot him.
"No!" exclaimed Rina. Then they took Rina by the arms and dragged her to Nick.
"Let go of me!" screamed Rina as she struggled and sobbed. She was brought before Nick. He walked towards her and stared at her face.
"Now, now, Rina. You just have to give me the pen and I'll let you go," said Nick.
"After what you did? Never!" she retorted, still trying to struggle out from the stickmen's grasp, and tears still flowed from her eyes.
"Well then," said Nick as he removed his coat.
"I'll just gonna have to fuck you to get it," continued Nick as he started to harass her. Then he started to kiss her, pushing his tongue into her mouth.
"NO!" screamed Rina before she began to glow brightly and Nick started to take a few steps back. When the light dimmed, she was no longer there, but the guards still stood.
"What the……" and before he could say another word, the stickmen's heads lopped off and rolled on the ground. Then a figure landed at the entrance. The figure had wings, a white tank top and short skirt, a sword in her right hand and a shield on her left. The figure also had armor protection on the bottom half of her arms which are similar to Saber's arm armor and knee-long boots. The figure looked up and Nick saw her to be Rina, but not the helpless Rina he captured.
"Oh, this will be interesting," said Nick as he summoned his sword.
"You have killed a lot of anime characters," said Rina in an emotionless voice.
"I won't forgive you!" continued Rina as she charged at Nick with her sword. The sword is very broad, with two red diamond-shaped stones at the base. In between them, an insignia of the Fullmetal Alchemist world and three dashes by the side of the sword, like on every guardians' swords, to symbolize Guardian status. On her shield is a design similar to Saber's chest armor, only with the Fullmetal Alchemist's insignia in between. She tried to strike Nick from the side, but he blocked the attack.
"My turn," said Nick as swung his sword towards Rina. She dodged it, but the blade got close enough and made a slight cut to her cheek. She then tried to stab him, but he made a quick offensive that forced Rina into defensive. She defended with her shield, but Nick struck it so many times that it started to crack, rendering it useless. Rina jumped off to safe distance and dropped the shield. She wasn't prepared when Nick got near to her and almost sliced through her.
Clang! The sound of the swords clashing rang across the coliseum. In front of her, she noticed Queen blocking Nick's attack. Nick then jumped off to a safe distance. When Rina looked at Queen's face, she recognized it.
"Vespin! It's you!" exclaimed Rina.
"O hai o, Rina," replied Queen as she smiled. They got into fighting stance; Rina split her broad sword into two straight swords and Queen drew out her other katana and got ready.
"Oh, my, my," said Nick as he was attacked by both Rina and Queen. Nick found it harder to defend as the attacks became more aggressive and quick. One of the attacks got him in the leg. He jumped off to the top of the coliseum to attend to his leg. Looking at the wound on his leg, he knew that his agility has been compromised.
When Rina and Queen jumped up to attack him, he claps his hands and touched a stone statue next to him. The stone statue became alive and attacked both of them. Rina jumped back to a safe distance while Queen claps her hands and touched the statue. The statue cracked and broke into tiny pieces. Nick tried to run to another stone statue when Queen claps her hands and air blasted through the stone statue like it was paper. Nick made his last stand by summoning two pistols and started shooting at them. They took cover from Nick's shooting. Rina then summoned a grenade and tossed it at Nick. Nick tried to run for cover, but his injured leg failed him.
BOOM! The explosion rang across the coliseum. The smoke cleared, and Nick was found on the ground, wailing as he has lost his leg. Rina and Queen went up and looked at the pathetic tyrant.
"You've not seen the last of me," said Nick. Queen sliced his left arm off.
"Aaargh!" screamed Nick in pain.
"Don't think you can get away with teleportation alchemy," said Queen, using her katana to move Nick's arm away to reveal an alchemic array drawn in blood.
"This is for Douglas," said Rina as she sunk her sword deep into Nick's heart, therefore killing him. Queen quickly clapped her hands and touched him, and then standing up.
"The pencil's safe with me," said Queen.
"Where's Father?" asked Queen. Rina indicated to the body on the ground by looking at it.
"Nii-san!" screamed Queen as she raced towards the body. Rina followed behind. They turned his body around and saw a gaping hole through his chest.
"Nick must have used the powers of the pencil. There's only one way to save him. Hold my hand," said Queen. Rina held her hand, then she reverted to her old self, still wearing the same school uniform as she has been wearing for the whole journey.
"Now the pen is with me," said Queen. She claps her hand and put her palms on his chest. The wound started to close up, and then Queen took her bloodied palms off. The Father woke up.
"Douglas!" exclaimed Rina.
"Nii-san!" exclaimed Queen. They made way for Father to get up. He looked around and saw Queen. He gave a light slap to her head.
"Ow! That hurt. What was that for?!" exclaimed Queen.
"Where were you!? You're supposed to come before the month ends! Now it's one and a half," scolded Father.
"Fine. I came half a month late, but I still came, right?!" retorted Queen. Rina could only watch them quarrel like brother and sister.
Author's note: Chapter 9 is live