Be Warned, major spoilers to all three routes appear in this chapter, do not read ahead unless you wish to be heavily spoiled on Fate Stay Night's event. Also, if interested, be sure to read the past Gensokyo Chronicles stories as this is a follow up to those stories but not required due to the explainations that will happen here.
Troublesome, he was supposed to be heading home to grab Keine and Jotaro to speak of this alliance with Rin, that he clearly knew was gonna end in a backstab but with how strong they were, he had no fear at all.
Instead, he ended up getting into a fist fight with a master and is now currently in his home with them, serving them tea with Rin and Archer on heavy guard. But he did notice something odd. " That kid, Shirou, he didn't come with you?" They had already had their talk of introductions but Ziden was not gonna reveal the true reason he came down here yet.
" hmm? No, he said he wanted to clear his head before coming here, he did just get sucked into a war he knew nothing about." Rin moved that finger through her long locks of hers.
" I see, I'll go find him and bring him here. Keine, fill em in on things while I am gone." Ziden said while opening the sliding door and heading outside, the moon was full tonight and he could tell tonight was gonna be nice for the normal folks.
Oh how it felt nice to be normal long ago. Time to go find Shirou and that odd woman of his.
Elsewhere...
Shirou only meant to go on a walk to clear his head, a simple thing before going to Ziden's home and see exactly what was going on with this weird war he was dragged into, he had no real choice ready, fight or die. But he was gonna use this on his own terms, fight this war and hope he can keep innocent lives out of it.
He did not expect to run right into a Master out of the gate, purple long coat with a fluffy purple hat, long flowing silver hair and red eyes that showed no mercy behind them. A declaration was made from her, that he was to fall here.
The loud clangs of steel that rang out in the night and the sound of steel screeching along the rocky ground, with Saber breathing out heavily and gripped onto her sword, wreathed in invisible air. Under most circumstances, she would be facing a Berserker, a foe that pushes her to the limit to a retreat with Shirou
But this was not that Timeline, this is a new path that was created by the existence of this fused world, where the boundaries of various different realities are one. This battle was different because a pink warrior was before Shirou and Saber and Berserker simply stood there behind her, watching the battle.
" Do you like him, Saber? He's a new friend I made when I came here, a visitor from the stars, isn't that something, alien life!" The Master of Berserker, illya Von Einzbern was proud of this, but the scary thing was this creature. It ate sword that Berserker had and now he was fighting Saber to a standstill
Kirby was a hero of the stars and to the beings in this war, the most horrifying thing to face. By far. Saber merely gripped her blade harder and got ready for the next round as she was certain she could best it if she got through his guard.
Meta Knight Battle ( Kirby Super Star Ultra)
" Music? Then it really is him then. No matter, music bolsters the soul." Shirou was more caught off guard by the music but Kirby was used to it. Even Illya found it odd music was playing. Kirby wasted no time, dashing forward and doing a vertical spin slash, causing Saber to hold up her blade and feel it stagger under the weight spin strike, causing sparks to fly down onto the ground.
A Step and a powerful diagonal swing which Kirby countered with his own, Sword Kirby was a master of the blade, that she could tell, so she had to be careful with him, or she could easily be skewered or sent back to the throne. She wasted no time with her follow up strikes, powerful swings that clashed with Kirby's who continued to match her blow for blow during this fight.
Kirby was made for long and vicious fights, hence why he has no fear in facing Artoria. A strong leap into the air and he came down like a missile. Downwards his blade stabbed into the earth and caused Saber's stance to be broken from the sheer wasted no time at all, leaping forward with a rising slash she was quick to block and be knocked off guard.
Her blade was a holy one but it seemed to have struggles with what appears to be a normal blade and she found out, it bites hard. Because that rising Slash, had a follow up. " Final Cutter!" A light cute voice, unbefitting of the power the creature had, a strong slash down that cut through her armor like butter and what was left behind, was a powerful Shockwave that sent her soaring along the ground, tearing earth and street apart as she was smashed into a grave, coughing up blood from the impact.
" My goodness! With this pink creature, Berserker really won't even have to get involved anymore." And loud claps came from the small girl, Illya was enjoying this. " But, I can't let that fella have all the fun. Berserker, kill him." And Illya pointed right at Shirou, which Saber saw. Her blood running cold.
" Master!" And she tried to get up, only to have to block another blow from Kirby, that pushed her into the floor. And the massive berserker dashed forward like a train.
Shirou felt the world slow down around him, as he saw the massive being of darkness bearing down on him and that massive blade swinging down. Normally, he would try to save Saber from this monster, only to get his internal organs to become External organs.
But here, something different happened, a green glow that came from his chest when he was in danger, and it seemed, Berserker, slowed down massively, like he lost all speed, Illya saw. " Wait, is this...True magic?" Illya saw the Berserker slowing down but unfortunately, it would not do much, his blade was still gonna slice Shirou apart and he was a deer in headlights.
Until...
CLANG!
A red Crimson blade slammed into that massive weapon of stone and metal and was fending it off, Shirou's eyes opening to see Ziden holding back the sheer force of the servant with his own and soon forcing the beast back, skidding along the ground as Ziden landed in front of Shirou. " Seriously kid, I leave for a moment and you just, get into trouble?"
" Z-ziden!" Shirou was caught off guard and Saber seemed to let out a breathe of relief now that her master was saved. She was ready to fight against this Puffball, or was, when she saw his attacks stop and the creature soon running towards Kirby and seeing him soon leap onto Ziden's face.
" Gah! Seriously Kirby!?" It clicked for a moment before he realized it. " Wait, Kirby!?" And he soon pried the puffball off of his face before holding him before him and soon seeing what was happening and the enemy master before him. " Well...smaller than I expected."
"...Who exactly are you?" Illya knew well who this was, after all, she was already told by the Church and the Mage association but she wanted to hear it from his mouth.
" Ziden Icrim, a detective of sorts here to stop this war before new nightmares are formed." Ziden said while standing before her, her brow raised as she gazed at him.
" To stop this war, that means you seek to make sure no one gets the Grail then? End the dreams of the Mages that are fighting in this war for their wish?" Her eyes was laser focused on him as Berserker was ready to continue the fight.
" No reason for it to continue when you're fighting for a tainted, destruction engine." Ziden said as she inhaled sharply at that.
" Tainted?" Illya was staring at him As Saber slowly got to her feet with a raised brow of confusion.
" Tainted yes, I dunno when it happened but at some within the history of this town, the Grail was summoned and with it, came its corruption." Ziden asked while Saber was slowly remembering.
" Corruption? How do you-"
" I'm a good detective." In truth, it was a form of Crime Scene sleuthing he was good at, Temporal Recreation, using Time Manipulation to reveal a crime scene to see what happened, but it sadly cannot reveal faces. " There is no doubt, if it is summoned in this War, destruction will rock this city again and I am here to stop that."
Shirou almost knew what he was referring to, the nightmare burned into his mind as he soon looked up at Ziden. " So, you would end the hopes of the Three great Families to protect this town? That would certainly make you an enemy to kill you know."
Ziden said while gently moving his hands down into his pockets while gazing at the girl with a grin. " Yeah? Good thing I'm down for a brutal knuckledragging fight. Sides, if a wish is that important to you, I'll grant it. I have access to artifacts not even the mage families are aware of. You side with me and aid me in removing the grail from this world, and you live, I'll grant it."
Her eyes remained focused on him, she did not plan on humoring this plan but his eyes told no lies about what he was saying, even if it was, Berserker could kill him at anytime she desired. That, and it seems she would be able to be around him more. She would not kill him yet, but she was gonna relent. " Very well, we shall have an alliance. But I shall come and aid you whenever I see fit."
Well, it was better than nothing. " Good, more allies mean this war will be alot easier." Ziden said, jinxing this war to high hell. " We'll keep in contact, I'll send a familiar to you so you know where my home is." Ziden said while Illya sighed. Ziden did notice that Kirby ended up standing next to him as Illya noticed.
"...Fine fine, Kirby, you can go with him, you seem to know him. Lets go, Berser...ker?" Illya noticed that Berserker seemed to be distant right now, staring off into the distant as if noticing something, as Ziden felt it too.
" We're being watched, and whoever it is, ain't that friendly." Ziden was quick to turn his back on illya, drawing his blade once more to gaze in that direction, only to see the figure in the distance fade away. Illya was more focused on Berserker, even with the grips of madness, she could tell the emotion on his face...a longing sensation of comradery?
Back at the Ziden residence...
" Honestly, it sounds so far fetched for the grail, but you guys seem so sure about it." Rin was enjoying a homemade bowl of ramen that Keine made for the group that were currently still there, Medea and her master having headed home a while ago.
" We are, this Grail is so soaked in evil, corrupted energy, pretty sure making a wish on it would no doubt end badly." Ziden explained while looking at Kirby. "More concerned about why you are here on Earth lil buddy."
" An Alien...I can safely say I did not expect this at all." The Archer that hung in the doorway gazed at Kirby, his knowledge was telling him the truth. " This war is different than any before it."
Kirby gazed at the duo before them, as his mind remembers exactly what happened to him during the last adventure and how he got here
The images of the event flowed into the minds of everyone, as everyone felt that absurd weightlessness the flashback brought them as they viewed Kirby's battle as many did, from a cutscene like view. Watching the vile plant that covered his world, taken over by Sectonia and the energy she was firing down on him, the intent to destroy him clear.
But the new power he gained, Hypernova stopped that when he decided to inhale that beam into his mouth like it was food, watching the colorful beam swell up kirby until he was full of the energy.
A single moment passes before Kirby utterly blasts Sectonia to pieces with her own powers, wings that turned to ash and her soul that simply vanished into thin air. And the energy that flowed through him left him. But without the queen, the Stalk could hold itself together anymore, and soon, Kirby was blasted skyhigh from the blast and sent through the void of space.
Who knows how long he was flying for, but he was eventually in Earth's pull and felt himself crashing down through the atmosphere before landing where he was all this time, the Einzbern castle.
The flashback ended with the Fuyuki crew confused on what they just witnessed. " What in the world was-"
" Don't question it, I'll explain it later." Ziden quickly brushed off as the Archer asked the big question in the room.
" Well, the weird mind thing aside, that blast wrapped around that Star shaped planet but I see no scars on him or any damage at all, just how durable is this thing?" Archer asked while looking down at Kirby who was relaxing on the table after that whole reenactment.
" Yeah he is, but the thing I wanna know is myself, Mr. Jotaro...how come you are down here in Fuyuki?" Keine asked while placing down her cup of tea.
Jotaro thinks for a moment before explaining it.
His long grand tale of adventure that took place a mere weeks ago, from imprisoning himself from an evil spirit, to traveling to Egypt to defeat his family's greatest enemy, the vampire, DIO. Many battles were raged across the road to Egypt and while many were lost in the battle, Jotaro succeeded in his battle.
The scene shifted Jotaro and Dio standing on that bridge as Jotaro dealt the final blow to Dio, everyone watching the vampire literally explode apart like fire works. The battle was won but the war was not over.
Dio had servants all over and it seemed one had plans to bring their master back to life, the Holy Grail War, by using a wish, they would revive and empower Dio to make him stronger and take vengeance against the Joestar Clan.
" Vampire...not a Dead Apostle, though the differences between the two are not that vast. Well, the Church would help, but, I am curious about these Stand things. So you can count me in on this alliance, I shall see for myself if this isn't a big evil plan to get the grail for yourself." Rin stated while standing up.
" Before I go, I should explain the oddity of this war. The Throne of Heroes imparted a particular memory inside of me, the uniqueness of this War." Archer softly inhaled for a moment. " This is a war of Light and Dark. 7 Servants of Light vs 7 of Dark. The Grail will appear to the opposing side once one side is totally destroyed or when only a single Servant on either side is alive."
" so its either, team up with others and win the grail or just go solo and kill every other servant. Fun times." Ziden said while cracking his knuckles. " Fine by me, I get to fight legendary heroes of the past, can't say I am opposed."
" Haaah? Are you crazy? A human can't stand up to a Servant, no matter how strong they think they are." Rin said while Ziden scoffed.
" Yeah? We'll see about that. Now, you kids get home, we got school tomorrow and I still have stuff to do there." Ziden said while the duo blinked for a moment before realization set in.
" Ah! Moi! I've got to get home! I don't want to go to school tired when exam week is coming up." Rin seemed frizzled for a moment before heading to the door with Archer, leaving Shirou there with Saber.
" Ziden." The Saber's voice rang through the room as he stares at her. " Do you truly..."
" Sorry lass, if you were someone I know, my memories got jumbled up thanks to some assholes, if you say ya knew me, then for right now, sorry, that guy ain't around until he remembers. Now, go ahead and get your Master home. " Ziden said while Saber stood there for a moment.
" Then...I will say it, as we were once comrades in the past, I am Artoria Pendragon, I hope that your memories return soon. "That name did cause ziden to stare at her confused before seeing her head out, a weird chill going down his spine, the same name as that woman in the Tokyo Singularity...strange. But their auras are vastly different, he'd figure this out later.
On The next day of school...
Normally, one would be working hard in their first period class but the school itself was moving quite slow due to the clean up of a murder that occurred last night, a student that Rin and Shirou had seen here and there
They were allowed into the school but no classes were starting due to the clean up and the grieving students and teachers. All while Ziden, Shirou, Rin and Jotaro were in their own class, talking amongst themselves. but there was a guest among them.
" So, let me get this straight, the rascal sent you here to give us help, despite the fact, i do not really need it" Ziden gazed down at the blonde child that Keine had found hiding in one of the cabinets, a being from their past adventure. Alice, a demon that hailed from the expanse.
" So you ended up hiding here in School because you somehow knew Ziden was gonna be here? You could have told us last night you were just pretending to be a student." Rin asked while looking at him.
" Oh shush, it didn't come to mind. But yeah, just here under the geise of a student to rack down this killer I was hired by the Speedwagon Foundation. Seems the Principal is a member of it." Ziden said while rubbing under his jaw.
" Honestly, well, it explains alot, so that means this whole vampire thing is legit, wonder if this Dio guy is related to the Dead Apostles..." Rin wondered while looking at Alice, who was pouting.
" Well why can't I help!?" And a cute stomp of her foot while Ziden sighed.
" Well because you are gonna get us dragged into a mess we want no part of-" and a loud boom came from the entrance of the school, a bright flash of light that blasted out the windows of the school and caused the students inside to scream, a certain blue haired male was crawling along the floor to get away from the glass.
Once the light and shaking stopped, Ziden saw a curious sight, a horde of humanoid demons were waling into the schoolyard with sharply dressed men, some clearly of Mafia types and others being Yakuza. Even though he could not hear it, he could tell the sight of the security guard that had his skull crushed by a large human sized orc and the blood that oozed down onto the earth.
On almost instinct, Shirou and Rin placed their command seal adorned hand into their pockets just in case
" Everyone, remain calm and do not leave your classroom! I repeat, do not leave-" The announcements were shut right off by what seems to be a loud struggle happening on the comms as Ziden felt a shift in space. The hammering click of guns being drawn.
" Don't none of you shitheads move, or we'll be sure to blast your heads clean off your shoulders!" Rough Kansai dialect but he was definitely American, ziden knew that much. Ziden simply turned to look at the man for a moment.
" Well, think this is a bit much, coming to bust up a school for no real reason?" Ziden asked, his command seals easily visible to the man.
" Remember you wormy spirits and demons, find the Masters in this school and slaughter them. Anyone gets in your way, kill them. Orcs, you may have your fun with the females as you are known for. But if you find the spiky haired human with blue eyes, bring him to me."
Ziden felt his eyes drawn instantly to the massive demon that formed in the school yard as Rin almost fell down.
" Are, they mad, these Masters, do they not care about the Masquerade?! This is gonna be hell to cover up!" Rin looked at the demon who seemed to be gazing at the school. The security guards tried their best but they were smashed apart by by the large orcs that came for slaughter and fun with their slow strides.
" Honestly." Ziden felt a gun being pushed more in his face as he could see Alty getting antsy, the air around some of them were magical. But not a threat.
"Oi punk, didn't I say not to move or your head is gonna be gone?" The Gangster pushed the gun more into Zid3en's face while the Yakuza thug pointed his gun at Jotaro's head.
" Yeah? You gonna do that with your safety on dumbass?" Ziden asked while looking at the man who chuckled.
" You fucking dumbass, you think I am stupid enough to-" And he didn't even need to look, Ziden already had him on the ground, his gun disarmed and a fist that slammed right into his face.
" What the!?" and the Yakuza thug was gonna strike, but an unknown force literally punched the soul out of him and sent him flying out into the hallway with a spiral.
" Good grief, looks like today is gonna be a violent one." Jotaro rubbed his hat's brim while walking forward.
" Keine, keep the students safe, we're gonna go do some clean up. Alty, lets roll!" Ziden was quick to run out of the classroom, drop kicking the remaining two Yakuza before they could react to the attack. Blood spraying out from broken noses and shattered jaws as Ziden and Alty dashed out into the ahllway.
" Ah Moi, come on, lets go 'hide'!" Rin was quick to grab Shirou and run out of the classroom and into an empty one. "Call your Servant, seems like we really will have to come and fight here at school!"
Shirou nods for a moment as his command seal burns. " Come! Saber!" The lights that formed and burned from his hand, soon had the famous knight of the Round appearing right in the classroom, her blade sheathed in wind. " Save the people in this school and help Zideen and Jotaro!" Saber nods at this while running off, Rin soon seeing Archer appearing next to her, having a window opened and literally sniping the skulls away from many of the orcs. But some did get into the school.
Down below, Ziden already had his sword drawn as he saw an orc grabbing a girl, that cloth moving away to reveal nothing but a censored mess on the floor as Ziden cleaved it away with the Crimson edge and Alty stabbed through its skull with that rainbow blade, spraying the hallways red.
And with Ziden's speed, he was literally cutting down the orcs without mercy. " Remembering hearing there was adult game where orcs slaughtered and pillaged an all girls school, but sadly, this isn't that day for you pigs!" And the final orc inside of the school was slain and the place heavily stenched of blood.
And with Ziden now standing before the entrance of the school and heading out to the large group of Orc, Yakuza and Gangsters from the Archer of Darkness's side. " Oh? Looks like a student got some balls and came out to die, ain't that cute."
The demon gazed down at him, all while Alice silently watched from the window. " Uncle Belial?"
" Nah, i decided, if I am gonna get to work in this town, i need to make myself known so the rabble gets scared. What a perfectly opportune time." ziden said while slamming his blade into the ground.
" The Demon Hunter, Slayer of Oscura. Ziden Icrim. So you were here in this school, posing as a student." Belial gazed down while holding onto his trident, his eyes focused rioght on him, the air around the two turning violent in an instant, prey and Hunter staring each other down.
" Yeah I was. but now, i doubt I need to pose as a student anymore." Ziden said while looking at the Yakuza pointing guns at him. " Yakuza huh, Tojo or Omi Alliance?" Ziden wondered while one walked besides Belial
Isurus walked forward, a nice pure red suit with a black shirt underneath, and a few gold chains around his neck, a stern face with sharp green eyes. Most notable was the slicked back brown hair. " I would prefer you would not mislabel us as those weaklings. We're the Ashura Kai, the true yakuza of Japan, not those pathetic fossils."
Ziden knew of them, supposedly, had he not stopped those nukes, they'd be the sole Yakuza of Japan. " Ain't that neat, well, I am not happy about you guys coming to kill up a school for no reason. So you guys mind going home?"
Isurus scoffed at that, his neck cracking for a moment while he was motioning his men to march forward. " We'll go home, after we take your head and the other masters here attending this school."
Ziden looked at this for a moment before slowly reaching into his jacket and soon pulling out his Elemental Driver, causing the horde to stop. " That a fact? Well, come and take it, I'm gonna make sure I get a nice dance out of you clowns."
Ziden slapped the Driver down onto his waist, watching the belt form around as the blood in some of the Yakuza went cold as he pulled out a red coin, he was out enough that his classmates could see what he was doing, Shirou and Archer could even see it as well.
" Wait, that belt-!"
" Salamander!" A dragon's roar tore through the area as the enemies fell down onto their ass as he was spinning the coin and soon slapping it down into the Driver.
" Henshin!" At the utterance of those words, the flames of the dragon soon formed out of a red magic circle next to him as a fire dragon soon flew around and soon slammed down onto him, soon forming an armor around him.
His armor was a bright red armor, seemed to be styled after dragon scales, the gauntlets and greaves were Draconian and even the helm had the design of a dragon's head, a silver faceplate to cover his mouth and bright red glass orbs for eyes. On the helm was a fireball with the kanji for Fire on it in pure black. Most notable was the buckle on his right waist and that the gauntlet on his right arm had a card shaped indention on it. " Infernal Justice! Burn away the Stains of Evil!" The fire was blasted away from him as everyone here knew what he was now as even Isurus was shaken
" I-impossible...one of the Masters of this war...is a Kamen Rider!?" Isurus saw Ziden standing there, Kamen Rider Avenger had come and the fire soon spun around until it formed that Salamander Saber, his eyes under the helm focused on his foes. A Hero of Japan had come to save this school.
Elsewhere not far...
" Kamen Rider!" And Illya, as ill timed as it was quite excited as Berserker was carrying her as they ran to the school. " To think the Church's greatest Enemy in their eyes, is a Kamen Rider! Come Berserker, we shall aid him and see just what that monster is that is threatening to muck up this war!" Illya was on her way to the school, ready for a great battle.
In a mysterious place...
A cloaked figure stood there in the abandoned factory turned Mage workship, the most notable feature on the man was the Jester's mask he wore on his face. " Oho...so this how things are, a Kamen rider is here in the fold. Come, my Rider of Darkness, let us go watch this and let ourselves be known."
The Rider softly grinned. " Kamen Rider huh? Hope this guy doesn't think that armor can hold up against mine."
At a Hotel...
Sisigou was watching this from the tv in their hotel, seeing the massive amount of cops, news trucks and other stuff that turned up at the school. even Copters were there. " That thing...it can't be a familiar...is that a whole demon incarnated!?"
" Eh? That guy that transformed looked familiar but that thing, its a demon alright. We had some pop up in Camelot." Mordred was scratching her head while looking at the screen. " We should stay here honestly And let them deal with it, demons got annoying qualities. let those masters deal with em. If they live, it means they are worth fighting."
Sisigou looked at the tv screen with a sweat drop. " R-right, this war, something tells me its not normal."
On an Unknown world...
" I see, so that there puffball got blasted through space? Then what are we waiting for, lets go get em!" A large penguin could be seen walking up to the massive space ship that was under his castle, as a cloaked puffball knight walked with him.
" Indeed, he seems to be on Earth of all places, I have the ship ready to depart and fully stocked with supplies." Meta Knight was his name as he boarded his Halberd with his King in tow.
" Then lets get moving, gotta thank that Kirby for saving me from the Giant Wasp, alright, then lets get to earth!" The King leapt into the ship with Meta Knight in tow, their journey towards Earth in tow, unaware of the darkness that awaits them.
Trivia:
1. Berserker's name is being kept kinda secret for now and will be revealed when he meets a certain someone.
2. Ziden referenced a H-game involving orcs and such.
3. Archer's identiy however, will be revealed next chapter.
4. This fate system is similar to Apoc's but more focused on a sense of teamwork but do not think things will be so smoothly
Author's note: Well, here we are, chapter two, was feeling down due to the stimulus situation so, apologies on the whole no new chapter before the year ended, but I apologize, this story will be alot more dark and adult compared to my usual stories, so I hope ya enjoy it. As always, feel free to fav, review and hit me up in the PMs if you got questions, have an amazing 2021!
