Short one-shot on the first revealed Servant: s/9258564/1/What-Happened-to-Susan

Nico removed the glove covering the back of his right hand, exposing his Command Spells. Dan observed and saw that it was in the shape of a cross. Kim looked at Dan and realized

"Hey! You're wearing your white hoodie." Said Kim to Dan. "You got it when we stopped by your house."

"Of course!" replied Dan. "Every chance I can wear this I'll wear it."

"I wonder who gave it to you..." Dan smiled at her, knowingly.

"Yeah, yeah, you know me."

Nico clapped his hands once, as if to get ready and to call attention. "Children, if I can have your attention please." Kim and Dan look his direction. He was in the middle of the clearing, behind him, he dripped a Summoning Circle out of mercury. Nico asks,

"Daniel, are your ready?"

Dan flexes his shoulders and cracks his neck. "Ready as I'll ever be."

Dan is about to step into the Summoning Circle when Nico stopped him. "Wait, do you happen to have any object that's close to you? Something that may represent your Servant?"

"You mean a catalyst? Oh!" Dan takes of his hoodie eagerly and shows it to Nico. "Will this do?"

"How close is it to you?"

He looks at it, then at Kim. He then responds, "Very close."

"Good, 'cause you'll need it. Here." de Vera hands Dan an old piece of paper. "Recite what's on this piece of parchment and focus on the Servant you aim to summon."

"That wouldn't be a problem." Dan walks to the center. He holds out the white hoodie. He closes his eyes to focus and then starts reading.

"I hereby propose: my will shall create thy body, and ..."

'Master,' whispered Caster to Sir de Vera.

'Yes? Any news?'

'I sense a Servant is quickly approaching us.'

'What? From where?'

'I, I'm not sure.'

"Kim! Quick get Archer to scan the skies! a Servant is fast approaching!"

"Got it! Archer, you heard him!" reacted Kim.

Archer materialized quickly. She ran to the top of a tree and shouted, "I see something! Just a few kilometers away!"

"Can you shoot it?"

"I have a clean line line of fire." Archer grabs a red-feathered arrow and notches it on her bow. She focuses and fires.

"It's not stopping! We need Dan finish his summoning!"

"The object is fully mad of metal!"

Caster appear, using her magic to try to steer the metal bulk away, but it doesn't stop. It's heading straight for Dan. The metal object started looking like an airship the closer it got, except it was thiner and streamlined. It was painted blue with white stripes that started from the tip of the cockpit and extended toward the edges of the ship. It had 2 cylinders on either side, one above a wing and the other below. It shot at Dan. Caster shot something red out of her wand and Archer dried to deflect the shots with her arrows, but the arrows phased right through the energy bullets and the magical shots just vanished when it got too close. The energy shot straight at the center of the Summoning Circle.

Mercury and dust exploded everywhere. The blue ship swooped up. Soon, the dust cleared and Dan was nowhere to be found.

Kim immediately felt anguish and grief. "You bastard! The wars haven't even started yet!" Nico looked on, he couldn't believe that he failed. He failed to defend his student. The ship turned around and went toward them again. It slowed down and slowly disintegrated. In the middle was the pilot. He was obviously a Servant. He had curly, chestnut hair and wore layers of brown robes. He had a scar the cut through his right eye. His right hand hand a black glove over it, but the other didn't. He lifted out his robe and demanded,

"Where is the other Master?"

"Were you too blind to see that you killed him?" Said cried Kim.

"Please, where, then, is his body. Now tell me, where is the other Master?" As he queried, he raised his right hand and metal cylinder flew out from the fold of his robes. He gripped it with both hands. It hummed and emitted a bright, navy blue blade. He looked to his right, as if somebody tapped him on his shouder.

"I'm right here."

The Servant ducked, and from behind him, another Servant pulled out a rapier and started lunging and attacking. The new Servant was a little hard to make out. he looked very familiar yet you know you have not met him yet. He word a white hood that had an embroidered peak on it, like an eagles beak. While the hooded Servant was quick, the robed servant demonstrated that his sword of light could cut through anything and sliced the rapier as if it were nothing. The hooded Servant threw away the hilt a started throwing punches and grapples. The sword of light was slashing vigorously and purposefully, but the hooded Servant evaded every move.

"Dan! You're alive!" Daniel turned to the direction of the call to see Kim's tear-drowned face. Before you know it, Dan's Servant is choking a few feet from the ground. The robed Servant is reaching out his hand, pinching at thin air, almost as if he was gripping the hooded one at the throat so far away. Caster tries to run to help and Archer prepares another arrow but the Servant gestures toward the, pushing Caster away and deflecting the arrow that shot from Archer's bow. When all seemed lost,

"STOP!" yelled a young man's voice. The robed Servant dropped his arm and Dan's Servant dropped his arm. "Rider, you will have to be disqualified for attacking before the Wars started."

The robed Servant, Rider, shifted his feet. "But, you know what, I'm letting you go. Now, scurry off before I change my mind" Rider first gave some thought. And then, he put on his hood and ran into the forest by the mountain.

The stranger was left alone. He stood dignified as his eyes followed Rider into the forest. He wore a dark, camouflage green pants, a black bullet proof vest with red linings, and a black face mask. Strapped to his back was a huge automatic rifle. His arms were left bare, exposing various red tattoos all over them. They glowed similarly to the Summoning Spells a Master would have. He turned around a liftes his mask to reveal a native man. Filipino, but a look in his eyes that showed experience, misery, and even hope.

Dan asked, "Who… ?"

"Ah, of course," said the stranger. "Nico, I'm guessing these are the new Masters?"

"Yes. This is Kim, the Master of Archer, and that's Dan."

"Master of Assassin," said the black soldier with understanding.

"Daniel, Kimberly, meet Red Maverick. He is the Supervisor of the 1st New Manila Holy Grail War."