This is the chapter that I'm happy angel wrote with me and edited. I guess all of them make me happy because they were done from collaboration. Thanks.

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"Now that you have lost your servant, I can't have you running around trying to find a new one or joining forces with the enemy," a cool voice said as Rider's master walked into view, a blood stained katana in his hand.

Rin was on her guard pulling a few gems out of her pocket she would use as a weapon against the master.

Shirou tried his best not to puke as he got ready for another round of fighting.

The Master saw how sore Shirou's body was, weak and feeble he thought it was.

"Did you really have to kill him?" Rin demanded. Everyone was on edge.

"This whole game is a battle to see who can kill the most enemies, so yes."

"You filthy scumbag," Shirou growled as he formed a bow and arrow in his hands, pointing the arrow at the older man.

"Go ahead. If you use a bow and arrow you'd better be ready to fire with it."

Rider was just perched on top of the bridge, watching as his master faced off with the others. He never knew his master was that cruel and violent.

Maybe there were things Rider needed to show him.

"Master, I hate to interrupt but I don't quite agree with your antics. Sure they may be a threat but I don't like the idea of my master going around chopping people who had lost in half," he commented.

"And I don't like how you couldn't kill these two when we first met them. If anything...killing the Master is your fault."

Rider looked taken aback as he stepped down from the bridge, his sword resting on his shoulder. His eyes were trained on his master, who fumed as he glared at his servant.

Rin felt something like that with Archer sometimes but not so fierce.

"If you don't agree with my antics, maybe I should get rid of you," the master growled as Rider gulped.

"Don't be an imbecile. You need me to help you win the Holy Grail War."

"Oh but I can always summon a new servant can't I?" he sneered as he held out his katana. Rider's grip on his sword tightened as he readied himself for the worse.

Rin and Shirou couldn't believe this was happening. Rin whispered a plan to Shirou on how they could use this to their advantage.

"Say Rider, why don't you join our little group? I may even forgive you for running a sword through me the last time," Shirou grinned, trying his best not to hack the guy in half. Dammit, doesn't this only happen in a shojo manga or something?

Rider was hesitant, but he knew it could be fun joining the group of these teenagers.

"If you dare join them, I'll make sure to confiscate that sword of yours. You know that it is because of it that you can fight the way you are now," he growled as Rider yelped.

Rider gave his master a raspberry followed by his middle finger.

His master was finding that the seal that would end their partnership.

The others just stared at them and wondered what the heck they were doing.

Shirou decided to have a master versus master battle against Rider's former master.

"How about this? If we beat you, Rider goes free. If not, you get to keep him," Shirou offered. That was the worse offer he could have given the older man.

"No. if I beat you...I exchange him for a different Servant. Maybe a Berserker because they have slow brains so they will listen to deadly force."

Shirou couldn't imagine him working together with Thor.

The only way it would happen was if he reminded himself different things were good.

"I can't believe you would want to help me after what I said to the little missy," Rider muttered as Shirou faced off with his master.

"It was a cruel and mean thing to say to her and I will hold you as a rude and uncaring person for it, but no one deserves to have a master as cruel as him."

"Come on. Let's get over with this," the master growled as he got ready his knives. Shirou just formed his swords in his hands and spun them.

It was a battle of blade slashing as both Shirou and the master went head-to-head with their weapons.

Archer felt this would take while.

Shirou was fighting as hard and as on his feet as he could.

The other master wasn't letting up and Rider felt guilty for dragging them into this mess but it had to be done. He was tired of having him as his master anyway.

Shirou swung his sword so strong it made the Master back up clumsily and tumble backwards.

Rin just yawned and hoped he didn't get hacked to pieces.

Shirou could sense her lack of faith in him and was happy he was actually doing good in this fight.

This continued on for a while and soon both men were too tired to continue. Rider's master had suffered some cuts along his arms while Shirou had been cut in several places.

Shirou and him were in severe pain and crying their hardest to stand up.

Rider wished he could just get rid of the both of them but he didn't have the freedom to get rid of his master.

Finally Shirou got mad enough to kick his opponent in the chest.

He was the one with the freedom to hurt the master.

With a yell Shirou hurled both swords at the master and while the master blocked them, Shirou formed an arrow and bow in his hands and took aim. "Let's just end this damn war!" he yelled as he let the arrow fly through the air with enough force to send the master flying.

Shirou immediately regret the barbaric and dark way he shot an arrow that pushed a man like he was hit by a wrecking ball.

On the bright side, one master was out of the running.

Shirou now unarmed turned around and walked to Rin to hear what she thought of his victory.

"I didn't know you had what it takes to kill someone...' she said, wondering how the quiet boy she thought he was had been transformed to a killer in a week.

Shirou felt incredibly bad for the thing he did to that master, but if he didn't do it the master would have killed him.

"Well bravo. Now what?" Rider asked. He may have been freed but currently being a masterless servant means he would disappear soon.

He looked a little sad that the servant was masterless. The idea of a servant disappearing was too much for him to handle.

"Don't worry. Now that I have freedom to do what I want for the moment I can be of help to you guys," Rider grinned.

Current status of the war:

Alive: Archer, Cuirasser, Rider, Berserker

Out of the game : Servants : Caster, Lancer, Assasin

Masters out of the game : Rider, Caster