Jebest: I try my best and glad ya liked the chapter
Archer watched the horrible sight that was playing out before him, the pill was ingested and one could see a red tint soon flowing through his neck and instantly flaring up his veins, flesh bulging out and bones seeming to break and reset and the agony screams that distorted and deepened, fingers that broke and soon molded together, a jaw that tore itself in half and soon reformed to be more reptilian. Eyes that were glowing red before shining down to yellow, but one splitting and breaking apart to being five separate eyes. His clothes torn and showing the green patches of flesh from his now growing body.
Fused fingers that gained claws, the massive green tail that came from his extended spine and soon slamming down onto the ground before him. Those flesh rending fangs that replaced his teeth, Rin stood in horror from the sight, this was, no longer a human but a demon in the flesh, a demonized human.
" W-what in the hells?" Rin was caught severely off guard as Archer instantly stood before her, summoning those blades of his.
" Gehehe, heheheheh. The pain, unbearable, burning, but, not compared, to what I shall put you through. This power, intense power!" Red lightning was crackling off of his body as he stares at Rin with all of those eyes of his.
" Rin, how the hell do you even know a freak like this?" His grip on his swords tighten as the people inside the store instantly took cover.
" He is one of the rich freaks that came to our school once, he wanted me to be his trophy or whatever, Hideyoshi Lector, supposedly a Japanese tourist from America." Rin had her gems primed with mana coursing through them.
" Two names like that, one's of monster and the other...is a monkey, hah, you know some weird folks Master." The male shifts his stance.
" All I know is that he's got a fancy mansion but the girls he fancies, vanish into thin air and I really do not feel like finding out why that is, normally, I'd never let you kill a human but-"
" He's not a human anymore, no worries, even with this, he shouldn't be a match for a servant." Archer gazed at the creature before Hideyoshi lets out a laugh.
" No worries, I will make your death painless, but you can listen, to your master scream!" Hideyoshi's lizard like maw opened with a roar as he charged right at Archer.
Cerberus Battle ( Devil May Cry 3)
Like lightning he struck, a clawed hand that cleaved down and made Archer back away, watching the ground quite literally explode from the impact, but he was quick to counter, those blades hit right into the skin...and barely even nicked that flesh, which caused Hideyoshi to laugh. " What!?"
" Weak is what ya are!" And that hand slammed right into that chest, causing Archer to cough up spit from the sheer force of the hit and watched himself soar clean through the store behind him as the lizardman took chase after him. And the next thing he witnessed, was pure horror. Watching as that several ton lizard barrel through the store and bash through countless human bodies. A servant body could take alot of punishment from a being like this, but a human? All one could see was an explosion of red and gore from the strike
And Rin withheld the need to vomit, old, young, it didn't matter to the beast Hideyoshi became, even snatching up a child off the ground and snapping it down within his jaw, letting the viscera rain down from his jawline. " Geh! Monster!" She wasted no time, and charged up a Gandr, a mystic gem that fired akin to a bullet. Hideyoshi felt an attack was coming and ducked down out of the way to watch the attack fly over his head.
Soon watching as Archer's blades came down on his face, once more barely damaging him during this attack, which caused the servant to click his teeth. and keep on swinging, his blade would have to get through those scales somehow.
And all the Lizard did was laugh from the attempts, flesh barely being cut and his fist soon curling to come down on Archer's head, which he was quickly dodged, watching the ground itself cave from the sheer force of the impact coming from his fist. Archer's eyes squinted at this, whatever that drug did, it was absurd to be able to give him an even standing against even a servant like him. And even worse, seeming to resist his main swords.
Would it even matter if he got distance to blast him? He was in a supermarket, how could he do this? " Hahahah, so Rin's Boyfriend isn't so tough, now, time to turn you into red paste!" Like lightning he danced forward, punching clean through an aisle and throwing the entire shelf at Archer, the servant opting to slide and switch to his bow. He had no choice. He had to hit him now Even if it fails.
Or he would have, if Hideyoshi didn't just slam his foot down into Archer's stomach and caved the floor in like a spider web under him, Archer could feel blood rising up in his throat.
" Now, for the finishing touch! Die, so that I can take my-" A sick crunch came as Hideyoshi felt his head literally be hit by an absurd force, sending him crashing right through the aisles like a rocket being fired.
Rin saw what happened and stood there, stunned and baffled by what happened, an older woman, donned in a kimono, literally used a fire extinguisher to blast that bastard across the room. " Honestly, do they teach you rookies nothing in the Academy?" a bright pink and blue Kimono, with green hair that was tied down into a ponytail, a smooth but aged face with a scar over her left eye. " The Creature resists physical attacks, your option is to use Ranged attacks or use Ice. Come to do some shopping for my grandkids and I have to teach a runt."
Archer was confused. An academy? The hell was she talking about? But Resist physical attacks? That form gave him resistances? But how was she able to hit him so hard then? Was she just that strong? A slow work up to stand up and let out a heavy sigh, blood caked his mouth but he seemed fine. His bow being held up high as he formed an arrow as Hideyoshi got up to his feet, blood pouring down the side of his head.
" You old bitch! I'll tear you to shreds for getting in my damn way!" Like lightning he moved, all while Emiya formed a sword into an arrow, a sword that was wreathed in Ice as the arrow itself seemed to leak frost off of it as a red light came from his arrow.
" Thanks Lady, I'll end this quickly fort him." Archer made sure his bow was aimed true, as the roar of the man who became a demon raged through the store, as the Lizardman raged and dashed through the store to get to his prey, only to feel intense cold ripping through him, the arrow flew, and a massive hole blasted clean through him and the wall behind him as the arrow flew high into the air to avoid exploding in the ground.
The demon stood eerily still while ice clung to its body, followed by that hellish blast of blood that sprayed out and covered an unfortunate shopper as he was screaming from the amount of blood hitting him. " I-Impossible...I...I had every...right...to take what was mine..." ITs body shook as Archer watched that body smash down into the floor, odd red lights coming from his body as it slowly began to desolve.
" Lesson to ya for the future runt, demons like that, they got resistances. If your blade barely cuts, you either have to swing your hardest, or switch to using ranged or magic based on Western Elements. Even Eastern works." Like he was a child, the woman made sure to pat his head before heading to the check out, whose surviving staff was, quite literally in shock, leaving money there and soon heading out.
Rin herself was in shock from the things that happened, Hideyoshi became a demon strong enough to give a servant pause, all she could feel was her legs giving out from under her. What the hell was this War becoming where even humans unrelated to it could become massive threats.
But Archer himself was wondering something, that sword of Ice he used to make an arrow for it, how in the world did he know about it? In his life, he never thought of or found a weapon like that. A Katana made of the purest ice, how in the world did he craft this weapon?
Elsewhere...
"Garuda, a Demon of the Avian Class of Expanse Demons. A lesser Divinity from Hindu and Buddhist Mythology said to be the steed of Vishnu. A powerful being whose winds could stop the spinning of the Heavens, Earth and the Underworld, a Master of Physical and Wind based attacks. A truly powerful demon. An S Rank, his weakness to Guns and Ice based attacks."
" Ah, lovely, an S rank this early in, this ought to be fun." The winds in the park was picking up to the point that the sky darkened with clouds, the demon seemed to be smiling behind its golden mask.
" Heh, so I get to test my hand against the Slayer of Oscura, the famous lil Godslayer. I couldn't care less about the flies around you, so come on, Hero, lets dance." Garuda made his intentions known, the others he couldn't care less about. which upset the Servants greatly.
" Not even going to give us the time of day? How overconfident." Altera swings that blade down and stood next to ziden, with Medusa absurdly wary. A Divinity like this here and it didn't at all feel like a servant, was this the real deal before her? It did not matter, she would simply have to fight and Survive.
" The Overconfidence of Demons is still high I see, do not be surprised, when your head lies on the ground from your body, Garuda." The glowing yellow eyes of Meta Knight focused on him but his words were ignored entirely, Garuda simply spread those massive wings and screeched, the winds picking up at the park was now in the middle of a windstorm.
Garuda (Final Fantasy XIV)
There was not a single second wasted from Garuda once the music started, because his claws were already inches from Ziden's throat, quickly parried and smashed into the ground by his blade which blocked the claws and a kick that smashed his face down into the ground, his eyes focused on the demon that gazed back up at him, watching Garuda's taloned leg kicking up to get him in the side of the head.
The attack forced Ziden to leap away, as he watched Medusa come down like a meteor with those chains anchored into the ground, like a slingshot she fired and like a sickle, she sliced right down into Garuda's flesh, drawing blood before went right back on the assault on Ziden.
Lightning movements were likely not even the high end of how fast this thing could move and that was the scary part, a blink and he was already swinging down on Ziden, but Meta Knight was quick to Intercept, causing the two servants to blink before they realized just how fast the demon was.
Two golden blades fired from Kirby and caught the demon right in the shoulders, causing him to stagger back before Ziden's fist collided right into his chest, almost piercing through him and causing the demon to cough up spit from the force. The blow was enough to send him skidding back along the earth, twice the size of a normal humans he towered over his foes, as his eyes looked over at Kirby and Meta Knight.
" Hold the phone...the Pink one, geh!? The Star Warrior!? And that means the blue one is the Swordsman who defeated Galacta!? What the hell! No one told me that there were other damn Monsters down here! And all three at once!" Garuda seemed to now be split between the two.
" You know who Galacta Knight is?" Ziden asked while gaz9ng at the demon, whose gaze now focused on the trio.
"Of course I do, all those with a spark of Divinity should. The Scourge of the Heavens that not even the titan of Sefar could replicate. The Gods banded together to seal him in case he ever turned against us. To think, he would be unsealed and defeated...you mortals have only grown more of a threat than ever." Garuda's winds picked up even further, as Medusa came down like a rocket, her leg smashing down onto the skull of the bird man, as he staggered from the blow, her chains swinging up and combing with Altera's downward slash, cleaved right into his chest, but that did not stop his movement. Grabbing both by their faces, he tossed them with brutal force through the air, watching them smash clean through a tree, the sickening crunch of wood being shattered was heard. " The Great Will has given mortalkind too much freedoms to grow this powerful. The order of nature and this universe of you lesser beings being under our boot could be threatened. I will fix this now. You three will die here!"
Ziden watched his claws come down onto his blade and cause the ground to cave in while he looked back to his servants, before feeling that leg slamming into his ribs, taking him off the ground. " Shit!" And a follow up kick right to the chest to send him violently crashing through the air and smashing along the earth, feeling the very ground itself exploding around him.
Garuda wasted no time in his attack before coming down onto Kirby, who blocked that kick of his. " Final Cutter!" Rapid twin slashes against his chest, a powerful rising slash and an explosive downswing that crushed Garuda under a wave of energy from Kirby's blade, all while Meta Knight followed right after him with those wings flapping at lightning speeds.
" Drill Rush!" And like a golden drill, he smashed into the chest of the demon, blood and gore blasting out from the impact as it became an even bigger drill of energy, dragging him all around the battlefield, before letting the explosion of golden drill energy explode into rapid fire slashes that carved deep into Garuda, with a final slash smashing him down into the earth.
A single bounce and the bird deity was up onto his feet, a glowing green orb in his hand. " Zandyne!" And down into the earth he smashed it, as towering green tornados exploded from the earth and raced towards the trio. Ziden channeling magic to his hand while looking at the Twisters.
" Agidyne!" A massive orb of fire that smashed into the towering pillars of wind and actually canceled out his magic with the utterly massive explosion of fire, with Kirby ditching Cutter and inhaling parts of the fire, to become Fire Kirby, soon shooting through the explosion like a meteor and slammed right into the chest of Garuda, breaking several of those ribs.
" Geh!" A powerful blow to his body and he was reeling back and he soon saw the familiar rainbow glow of a sword coming down onto him, Altera came down like a meteor and her drilling impact cleaved clean through his side, causing his side to have a massive hole gashed through it, causing Garuda to cough up blood. " You worms!"
The crimson glow of his claws, he was gathering alot of demonic energy into them and Ziden soon saw him directly in front of him, time slowing down to a crawl, as that glow soon exploded outwards.
" Madness Nails!" Three powerful swipes came down, one Ziden blocked by clashing with it, at the cost of his guard being opened. A second that tore through flesh like it was butter, spraying the air with his blood, and the third, was when bone itself was cleaved apart, leaving Ziden to fall backwards and tumble from the sheer force of the impact, as Garuda looks at his blood covered hands while getting ready to follow up. " I'm gonna rip that still beating Heart out of that chest, icrim!"
" Oh no you don't!" A blade wrapped in wind soon came in and cleaved down the arm of Garuda, watching it leave that body of his, a ring of blood coming from the impact and a now Armless Garuda was falling backwards screaming, as Ziden saw Artoria standing over him, that blade of hers still cloaked in wind but the blood staining it let Ziden know of its shape.
"...It really is the same shape as that other one. But this one, I feel no animosity for, but, what is this feeling I feel to have for her after seeing that blade?" Ziden thought before those wounds on his chest quickly closed and bone that was shattered and cleaved, now reformed as the ground was soaked in his blood. " Guessing Shirou sent you to help me?"
" He did indeed. Even if he had not, I would have come to aid in this battle." Artoria's hold on her blade tightened, as Garuda's calm expression was now crazed.
" Accursed fang of the Fairies and ****! It was not enough to take my Godhood away, but he had to give humanity access to those accursed holy weapons! The fairies are even worse!" His rage seemed to be boiling as a green glow came from his body, all while Ziden saw Rider and Altera leaping down next to him, twigs and branches stuck in their hair and clothes, the magic that was pouring down over them, was absurd, crushing even. But that name he yelled...YHVH? Even if the name itself was a scratch of the record, he knew what he said.
" Enough Garuda. I have seen enough of these heroes to have an idea of their fighting ability. I'm not impressed." A familiar voice came over to the group, as ziden looked over to see the headless Yakuza slowly getting up off the ground, his head growing back and slowly reforming that smug mug.
" What? His head grew back?" Rider was, unsettled by this as the man stood next to the fuming demon.
" A Regenerator...you're one of the church aren't you? One of their Regenerators they use to take down the Supernatural and tough Heretics." Ziden asked while getting up and sheathing his blade, hearing it click when it came down.
" Hah, you know your stuff, 'hero' boy. Used to be, then I joined up with the Ashura Kai because the church was too, passive to my beliefs." In his hand, Ziden could see a familiar book in it. A bible with a rather worn cover.
" And what is that belief?" Ziden asked while getting up to his feet, warily staring down Yukimura
" That Heroes, a sin upon God's good Grace." The group stared at him, confused. " Heroes save people from their misfortunes, be it the weather, sickness or even just monsters. When in truth, man should only be saved by God's Fortune, his angels or even his own power. To interfere with that process. Makes you heroes a besmirch upon his name. That is why, killing your types, brings me joy."
" And here I thought I heard sillier reasons for killing. Mankind can live without God's protections, heroes exist to protect the weak and we will continue to do that even if your beliefs state otherwise." Artoria was the one who spoke up, which caused Garuda to glare at her from under his mask. " I am more surprised the church is fine with a Deserter still holding onto their blessings."
" Hah, as expected of a relic of the past and this, nobody Kamen Rider." Yuki pointed at Ziden, which prompted an eyebrow raise as Ziden placed his hands in his pocket, as even Garuda raised a brow at this. " Besides, the Church is too afraid to come after me now that I am with the Ashura kai."
" Nobody?" A dual formed thought that was in their heads as they stared at the man that spoke such a thing outloud.
" Now then, I'll be kind and say this, stop fighting in this war, ya loser. Our boss is gonna win the Holy Grail and make the Ashura Kai the dominant Yakuza force in Japan. Because if you don't, I'll be sure your lives are snuffed out in the name of the Lord." A Magic circle that blazed to life under their feet, Ziden didn't bother to chase after them when it lit up and took them away to reaches unknown. The whipping winds that tore through the area vanished as swiftly as they came, Ziden soon sighing.
" Sheesh, a nobody? I've fought demons that have taken bigger shits than that Bible loving clown." Ziden placed his hands in his pockets while looking at the massive damage the park has taken from this battle.
" Master, should you really be focused on that and not...this?" Rider seemed to have spoken up, it really looked like a hurricane passed through this entire area, and that was, somewhat bad.
Artoria herself was about to agree before she saw Shirou entering the park as well as a presence she immediately noticed. " If you are done hiding, make yourself known to us, spy."
Ziden blinked for a moment before seeing a flash of light before them as Ziden soon saw the cloaked figure appearing before them, a sense of familiar dread stood over them.
" As I should have expected from the fabled King of Knights to be able to sense my presence. It is good, to finally meet you, Icrim and Master of Arthur." That cloak flowed with a mysterious wind as Ziden could see a silver mask adorning his face.
" And who, exactly are you, wearing a Silver Clown mask like you're something big and bad?" Ziden asked while Altera went over to him.
" I am Zero. The man whose potential shall be infinite. And while we have not personally met, you have interfered with my plans twice so far." Ziden raised his brow at this, that deep booming voice did not sound familiar at all
" I have? Really do not recall us meeting before." Ziden answered before the masked man let out one deep rumbling of a laugh.
" Oh no, we most certainly haven't, but this will ring your memories of who I am connected to, young hero." A snap of his fingers and a familiar sound hit Ziden's ears.
" EEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
" What!?" Ziden watched a myriad of wrestling costumed henchmen, quite literally swarm in out of nowhere, some leaping in out of nowhere, or some outright just coming out of the ground. Shocker Combatmen, it shouldn't even be possible. " How is this possible, we took out Shockerloo!"
" You absolute fool, and to think Hongo put his faith into your company and you didn't even ask him who the head of Shocker was. All I did was give that fool, Bison /some/ of my army. I am, once more, Zero. Great Leader of Shocker!" Upon this declaration the Combatmen Saluted to their leader, all while Ziden and the Servants stared him down.
" So the battle against Shocker still continues?" Ziden asked, slowly reaching for his Rider belt as Zero held out his hand.
" The battle against Shocker, will never end as long as Riders exist. We exist to oppose Riders and conquer the world. Nay, we exist to oppose heroes and their existence/ With the Holy Grail of this war, our goals will be realized." Zero gazed at the servants before him as they were all ready to pounce at even the most instant of a flex of force.
" How will you do that? you know the Holy Grail is tainted and will only bring destruction, correct?" Altera was the one who asked this, her blade still crackling with energy and primed to strike.
" Its corruption, only speeds along to what I want. A mage I might be, but I plan to obtain the Root by other means, while I will use the Grail's power to aid in my, other endeavors." Zero was being purposely cryptic but Ziden didn't buy it.
" It speeds it along, the hell does that even mean?" Ziden asked before Zero laughed once more.
" When more of the Servants' blood are spilt, you will slowly learn that yourself what our plans are, a shame for you that you must deal with so many flies in your path." Zero spoke simply before ziden watched him and the Shocker troops vanishing into a void of darkness.
Ziden wanted to continue ahead and check out this Dreamstalk but. "...Lets get back home and let the Paramedics deal with any injured, tomorrow, we will scope out that tree and find out exactly what is going on with it." Ziden said, seeing the nods of the servants as Artoria stared at where where Zero once stood.
Later that night...
While everyone rested and slept, Ziden was already heading back to the park after sneaking out from his resting allies. " Been doing too much team stuff, time to go Solo again. Time to figure out the deal with this tree."
The Silence of the park weighed down on him as he over looked all the wind damage this place had taken from the battles that happened here, man repairing this place later would be a pain. But his footsteps were the only sounds that came in this park, as he approached the large forest surrounding the Dream Stalk.
That, and the massive bloodlust that was co0ming from it. In an instant, Ziden ducked to avoid a massive blade of wind that cleaved through the trees and tried to take his head off. " Damn, so close to taking that shitty head of your shoulders!" A click of teeth that came from the darkness and ziden saw Gale stepping out of the woods, that scythe on his shoulder.
" So you're that Kamatachi that was slicing up people at the school then?" Ziden said, while slamming his driver down onto his waist. " Henshin." That familiar dragon of fire came out of the air behind him and slammed down onto him, forming that familiar armor around him.
" Not even gonna have a chatty back and forth with me? So hostile! but no worries, I'll make sure that for the glory of the Dark Youkai Army, your death will be the first one of this War. And take out that servant of yours right after." Gale grinned darkly while spinning that scythe of his.
" Man you sure are confident, come on then, show me what ya got." Ziden summoned his saber and got ready for another bloody battle, unaware of the female figure watching their battle, a red spear in hand, ready to jump in, soon enough
Trivia:
1. REDs are special drugs that essentially are demonic steroids that can cause someone to demon out, giving them resistances and powers similar to demons but a good bit weaker
2 The Old grandma is an oc you will see later on
3. Zero is, spoiler alert, gonna be one of the big threats of this story and to the Rider fans reading this, yes, he is indeed, the very same Great Leader you have seen in the past.
4. YHVH, you will learn about, very hard and soon enough.
5. Excalibur's story is gonna be slightly changed and revamped to fit the greatest Storyverse here
Author's Notes: ADHD, Genshin Impact, Monster Hunter Stories 2, those are my excuses to the delay of this chapter, by this time, this story would be finished and I would be starting Pokemon Doomed but, my focus has been split between gaming, and relaxing to keep my sanity during these Lockdowns and I just can't focus on stories like I used to, doesn't mean that I am gonna quit anytime soon though! All my stories shall come and I will try to get a chapter out each 1-2 weeks so this story can be finished. Thanks so much for enjoying the story though, as always, read and leave a nice review!
