Benjamin placed his face to the steering wheel, in a highway traffic jam in the middle of a New Jersey road. "Are you kidding me!" Benjamin grimaced and sighed.
He turned on the car radio and listened to what was on the news. A suicide bomber kills 21 teenagers in a disco place, a tropical storm produces 36 inches of rain and damages a medical center.
More and more bad news around the world, which is not making Benjamin feel any better or passing the time. The terrorist attacks and bad weather get worse each year.
"Is there something wrong Benjamin? You look upset." Chiron said, who is in the passenger seat. Atalanta and Enkidu, who are studying the modern buildings and highway lights, are in the back seat. Alice, who is in the middle seat, is just reading her book.
"Not really Chiron, it's just that this traffic is making our trip to the mall even harder," Benjamin answered. "Even listening to the news on the radio is not making things better."
Chiron paused and raised an eyebrow to hear what was on the news radio. He looked to be pretty interested in what was going on in the news.
"Does this happen a lot around the world, Benjamin?" Chiron asked and rolled the window down, looking at the sky.
Benjamin sat in a slouched position, with his head resting against one of his hands and other holding the steering wheel.
"Yes, it happens a lot Chiron. The terrorist organizations are getting bolder each time they succeed in killing more people". Benjamin frowned. "Hell, I would not be surprised if they crash a plane into the Pentagon." Every time Benjamin turned on his TV, it was always about bomb attacks, suicide bombings, and the high crime rate. In fact, Benjamin was one of the few people who was lucky enough to never be in danger of a serious crime risk or a terrorist attack. But he feels sad when he feels unable to help the people who are crying in misery. He is forced to watch people around him crying with all their pain and suffering while he has never ever been attacked from dangerous events.
"Indeed, this is a lot of troubling news, Benjamin," said Chiron. "It looks like your government is trying hard to solve world problems. This is a troubled era for you to live in, Benjamin."
"Yeah, welcome to the year 2001, it is a really dangerous world that we live. I just hope the U.S President hurries up with signing the Economic Growth and Tax Act, it's taking so long just to sign a piece of paper." One reason he hates U.S.A is that they take too long and are too slow to solve any problems. And, another reason is that they have a habit of trying to be involved with everything, which backfires pretty much with everything.
A few minutes later, the traffic jam was clearing up and Benjamin drove up onto another highway. Soon, they entered downtown Jersey City and parked near the parking area. As Benjamin got out of his car, he looked at his phone a few miles to the shopping mall. Benjamin noticed that Atalanta and Chiron carried their bows and Enkidu held hands with Alice.
"Atalanta, Chiron you don't need to bring your weapons, you can just put them in the car," Benjamin said deadpanned. "I do not want to be arrested by the police for bringing weapons to the city."
"We would be fine of any police question us, I would do the talking. Do not worry Benjamin." Chiron answered and smiled softly. It took all of Benjamin's strength not to be overwhelmed by the air Chiron exuded. While he does not have skills of leadership, his gentleness and seriousness with words are like magic to Benjamin, who feels that he is listening to his teacher.
"Alright you do the talking and I will guide you guys to the shopping mall." Benjamin sighed and start walking. The other group followed him in hopes of seeing more of the beautiful City of Jersey.
After an hour-long march, Benjamin just realized he could have chosen a better spot or chosen a better moment than in broad daylight only two hours before noon to visit the mall, especially since he was surrounded by one of the most strange groups ever seen. "It appears we attract too much attention." Atalanta mused in an annoyed voice. Benjamin couldn't help but to agree to the statement.
Needless to say, pretty much anyone who saw the five of them walking together on the sidewalk stopped whatever they were doing to gaze at the odd group. Not only was Benjamin surrounded by four people that wouldn't look out of place in a storybook, but, in addition, the four of them looked so attractive and beautiful that people couldn't help but stare. Atalanta, with her long, green, golden and platinum-blonde unkempt hair and green eyes, made to look like a fairy out of some sort of story, also with her cat-like ears sticking out of her hair and a matching tail. Chiron, with a calm-looking face and wearing leather armor that looks like it's from ancient Greece, gives him the appearance of an ancient Greek archer. His presence was like a massive forest, where cold and clear air engulfed people around him. And then there was Alice, with innocent pink eyes and an adorable outfit that made her look like a Victorian doll. Benjamin even heard some people remark that she looked like Alice in Wonderland. They have no idea how right they are about that.
To Benjamin's shock, even Enkidu, who is wearing his/her casual clothes, is still attracting people. Some of them try to guess if Enkidu is a boyish girl or a girlish boy. Others even commented that Enkidu's face was too perfect that it looked inhuman and gave off a strange and uncomfortable feeling just by staring at it.
To make things even worse for Benjamin, the sheer abnormality of the four servants made Benjamin stand out, even more, much to his embarrassment. And worst of all, someone had the guts to ask Benjamin if Alice was his daughter. Who the hell in their right mind would say that to him? Whoever asked that question was going to have a fist in the mouth.
"Everywhere I look, all eyes are upon me," Enkidu said in a cheerful voice. "I wonder if it's my fault? Is it because of my status?" he said with a smile. Benjamin thought "He is really enjoying all of this attention, it makes it harder to get through all these people in the crowd."
Their trip to the shopping mall got even harder as some people asked to take a photo or two with them or some people just told Atalanta and Chiron to pose with their bows. Benjamin was asked if their tails and cat eyes were real. He just replied that they are really good cosplayers and it worked perfectly.
When they finally got to the mall, Benjamin took Atalanta and Chiron to one of the clothes stores. It was pretty hard to find the right clothes for them and was very hard to fit the tails inside the pants that they were wearing. While Atalanta and Chiron went to different clothes racks to pick what clothes they wanted to wear, Benjamin looked around the clothes stores to buy some good clothes that he thought other heroic spirits would wear in the future. Benjamin went to the cash register and paid a lot of money. The cashier gave him an odd look. He was not sure if it was because he was buying so many men's and women's clothes or because he was playing with so much money, but he didn't like it one bit.
In the end, Benjamin bought way too many clothes that he had to fill several shopping bags, so many that he lost track of how many shopping bags he had. Benjamin sighed in such as defeated tone, he thought in his head "Being a caretaker of Heroes is expensive." He can only sigh more and just accept his fate.
Later Chiron managed to find clothes that he likes. He wore a green sweatshirt under a dark green hunting vest, a pair of camouflage pants, with a brown scarf covering his neck and a camouflage hat. Chiron looked like a modern day ranger on duty and seriously he really loves green. Atlanta wore a Columbia Flash Forward Windbreaker with a black tee underneath, also black pants and brown Cetrone Lace-Up Boots. She looked like a modern day hunter.
After they were done, Benjamin took them to the food court to eat. While eating, Benjamin noticed Atalanta seemed to enjoy eating apple pie, it may be because of her legend still, it put her in a good mood nonetheless. When they were done eating, they looked around the shopping mall with curiously at the strange invention that was from shop mall. Even they know what it is from the information of Holy Grail, but to actually seeing the real things is not same from knowing it. Still the four servants looked like tourists who just discovered a whole new world, which not is actually true but who care.
After a couple of hours, Benjamin looked at his watch it was evening and it was time go back home. Benjamin called rest of servants back. Even when Atlanta and Chiron were wearing their casual clothes, they were still attracting attention from people who were taking photos at of them. The crowd was stunned that Enkidu, Chiron, and Atalanta were carrying three bags over their shoulders which were fifty kilograms without losing their balance. While Benjamin was carrying one bag of clothes over his shoulder, he can not help that he lost his man pride over this event.
When they got to the car, Alice got into the car while Benjamin, Enkidu, Chiron, and Atalanta put the shopping bags in the back of the car. The three Servants got into the car when they were done and Benjamin put the car key in the keyhole and started to drive to the highway.
"So How do you guy like the city ?" Benjamin asked, not taking his eyes off the road. "It was pretty interesting," Chiron answered. "I found the medicine and building the most interesting".
Atalanta replied, "Foods is good here, but the city smells real bad." She felt discomforted by the stench of metal and machine oil cars. They were unbearable to her keen sense of smell.
Benjamin was extremely pleased that servants were interested of Jersey city and hope that other servants were going to be interested in Jersey city too. Benjamin saw to it that they got to their home all right.
As other servants got out of the car and walked inside the mansion, Benjamin could not help that he noticed an apple tree in the front yard. "I do not remember that there was an apple tree here." Benjamin also saw there are different kind of plants around the house and from looked of it, the way it grew must take a few hours to grow.
"What the hell is going on around my house?" Benjamin wonder. Pretty soon he sensed a massive energy come out of the house, he quickly run into his house and walked downstairs into the basement just see an Egyptian necklace on top of Holy Grail in which circle started to glow red. Enkidu, Chiron, and Atalanta were already there to watch the summoned ritual, Alice was near to the basement door peek the event.
A bright light appeared and engulfed the whole basement room. Wind and smoke were appearing and blowing everything away, Benjamin had covered his face from the smoke and wind.
"Behold I am glorious, I am heavenly, and I am lenient". "Rejoice and Observe it, for I Ozymandias the King of Kings is destined to govern this world".
Benjamin opened his eyes.
There from the smoke appeared in front of him is the man who is almost 6 feet with a solid build. He wears an undergarment on his upper body that wraps over his shoulder, down his arms, up around his neck but leaves his front exposed. He wears a white cloak above this bucket together with a golden sash adorned with an ankh. His hands and arms are coated in a golden armor that appears to have many interlocking rings. His waist is protected by a golden lame that encircles his hips. Below his waist armor is a battle dress adorned with fabrics colored in blue, black, and white. His feet are scarcely covered by sandal footwear that is adorned with gold. His hair is swept back away from his face and it appears to almost have a golden gradient from its usual brown by the way it shines in the glowing circle. His ears have simple golden earpieces hanging from his earlobes.
His eyes were gold in color and it liked the sun. His presence was a king, no, a Pharaoh of Egypt who believed that the world should kneel by the return of his radiant presence.
"Tell me are you my vessel?" Ozymandias looking at Benjamin. His last thought is "Great I must deal with a Heroic King."
"This Servant would be the death of me."
Author note: Sorry guy for taking so long to update this chapter for this is my first time write around 2,000 words. yeah me
This is Ramses II / Ozymandias first main debuting in the fan fiction. sure other writer write him first, but he is not the main role in their story, so I am the first write the main role for him in the story.
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Oh one more thing in the future when the most of the servants are summoned from the canon fate series, I would add non-canon Heroic Spirit in my story. the first one none canon servant would be Caster Skuld, Scandinavian Elvish Princess. google search her name it would be a very interesting servant.