Welcome back everybody to the start of chapter 3 of the story. This one took a little bit longer to come out because I was doing 'stuff' (cough final exams cough).

Anyway, without further delay(that rhymed,nice) let's start it!

DISCLAIMER: All the Nasuverse characters belong to Nasu and are property of Type-Moon, with the exception of the OC's that belong to me, the author.


A sunny sky and a soft breeze running free along the vast green of the plain graced Peko's eyes as the boy looked around, not knowing where he was. The place was somewhat quiet and peaceful. That's when he spotted a man in front of him.

The man was on a seat, his back turned to Peko. It looked like he was doing something. Something that Peko couldn't quite see it.

Taking a few steps onwards, he started to see what the man was doing. He was painting. A regular sized canvas in front of him as with his right hand, he would paint the canvas with any sort of colour. With the curiosity growing more on the boy, Peko decided to take a closer look.

That is, if it wasn't for a feeling that something suddenly touched his foot.

As he gazed down to see what had caught him, Peko's pupils widened as he saw that the green and soft grass he was walking in just some seconds ago, was now a huge dark pool, with a couple of hands sprouting from it. Those same hands catching Peko's feet and now his leg as well.

In panic, Peko struggled against it, but the hands were more and more as also grew stronger. Peko wanted to scream for help. That the man painting would help him since it looked like he didn't noticed the danger Peko was in. But for some reason, Peko couldn't scream.

He couldn't do anything but try as hard as he could to get free from the hands grip. The green grass was slowly being replaced by the dark pool as the same was happening to the blue sky, being assaulted by an equal type of darkness. The man on his painting, not only still hadn't noticed the awful change on the environment, was now starting to fade.

Peko's body was now halfway inside the dark pool and it would only be a matter of seconds before having the whole body under it. The heartbeat was faster. The man almost out of sight. The lungs screaming for air. The swings of the arms and legs getting more wild. His eyes getting plunged into the black water.


"AH!" Peko woke up startled, sweating from what he had just experience. Taking a look at his surroundings Peko saw that he was in his and Nala's bedroom in Chaldea. Da Vinci and Romani had disponabilize the bedroom for the two of them.

"It was...just a nightmare." Peko relaxed down, knowing now that whatever it was, it was only a nightmare. But the painter he saw in it. Who could he be? Or was that just a product of Peko's dream? "Dreams are weird." The boy muttered to himself, dismissing what he saw for being just stuff in his head.

Peko turned his head to the right, where Nala's bed would be. It was empty. The clue of the messy blankets and the state that it was still waiting to be maked, told him that Nala was already awake. She wasn't on the room either.

That's when Peko's mind clicked.

" Oh! It's today!"


In the command room Ritsuka, Mash and Nala were standing next to Romani who was about to give them the details about the very first Singularity they were about to go into.

"Good morning to all of you. Did you slept well Nala?" Romani asked Nala.

"Sure! The bed is comfy. Thank you for giving me and Peko a bedroom." She shown her gratitude to Romani.

"It's good to see that you two are getting adjusted to the place. Normally it would get some time for feeling comfortable in a new environment." Mash said.

"I guess that's because since I don't remember of my home, I just have to accept this place as my new one." Nala commented.

Ritsuka approached her. "And it's a very different home from the normal ones don't you think?" He asked to the girl.

"Yeah. It's definetly something else. Even if it's in a middle of a ice desert, at least it's warm inside here."

"H-Hey! Good morning guys!" Peko entered the room in a hurry. He stopped and took some time to take a breathing. "Sorry for being late." Peko excused.

"Oh, it's nice to see you too Peko." Ritsuka greeted the boy. "I bet you must have had a nice dream."

"Hmm,actually-"

Nala interrupted her brother. "Hi there Peko! Sorry if you had to eat just 3 cookies, I ate the rest." She said happily without concern.

"So it was you! W-why?!" Peko exclaimed angrily as Nala closed her right eye and showed her tongue to him.

"It's not my fault that you took so long to wake up." She teased her sibling.

"C'mon,behave you two." Mash said,not hiding her smile at seeing the two kids interact with each other. Romani was also smilling but coughed slightly to call the attention of the others.

"Anyway, let's resume the history of our first Singularity before you rayshift."

"Spit out the info then Doc." Ritsuka and the rest were now with all of their attention pointed torwards Romani.

"Our first Singularity is located in 15th century France, during the 100 year war period." Romani informed.

"France... What's that?" Peko asked, oblivious of the local.

"It's quite a beautiful country my boy!" Da Vinci appeard behind them, walking into the room. "But not as beautiful as Italy I may say."

"I-taly? Is that another country?" It was Nala's turn to do the question.

"Yes. Mine to be exact. We should go there one of these days." The woman passed through the group until reaching Romani.

"I know you would love it Roman." Da Vinci poked his right cheek.

"Please, stop it Leonar-ow ow ow ow!" Romani's right cheek was now being pinched by Da Vinci.

"Even thou I can't forgive you for liking pineapple on a pizza." She sighed in disapointment.

"Wait?! You love eating pineapple pizza Doctor?!" Ritsuka looked at Romani with a face of disapproval.

"Is that a bad thing?" Nala just didn't know what the conversation was about anymore.

"From what I've heard, there's lot of people who don't like it, despite that I've never had the experience to eat it." Mash whispered to Nala.

"Oooooh. Now I see."

"H-hey! Don't judge me! There's a person for everything. And I'm one of those that likes pinapple pizza. Is there a problem with it?" Romani shrugged Da Vinci off, sighing as the inventor giggled.

"Whatever. I think you've already seen him...her? What matters is this is the famous italian Renaissance inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci, Chal-"

"-Chaldea' first ever successfully summoned servant." Da Vinci sung. "I'm also your honorary tech advisor. Nice to meet you."

"I was talking, for crying out loud!" Romani protested behind her.

Mash looked amazed. "You're a servant? That's amazing! A fully fledged one, senpai. Not like me who's just half a servant."

Ritsuka put an hand on his chin. "Altough, it's so weird to see Leonardo Da Vinci as a woman."

"Yeah it does feel wrong." Mash replied, now getting confused by the sight of a famous person she knew as a man being in front of her as a woman. "It's just doesn't make sense! Da Vinci was supposed to be a man!"

"Well,at least be grateful for seeing such a beauty in front of you. It's not every day you can see such beautiful women after all." Da Vinci replied. "Also, cultures are always maturing. Who'se to say wanting to be a cute girl won't be the norm in the future?"

Romani still critizised it. "That may be. But that doesn't changes the fact that you are the biggest perv that I've ever known in history for changing your gender to look like Mona Lisa."

"You're the one who said to not judge and there's people for everything, right?" Da Vinci counter attacked, much to Romani's annoyance.

"Either way, how are you two? We've just met brifely yesterday and didn't even had the opportunity to talk." The woman turned her gaze to Peko and Nala. "I hope the bedroom was to your liking." She said gently.

"O-oh, sure was Miss Da Vinci. We appreciate the hospitality." Peko thanked her. Nala nodded in agreement.

"It was indeed. Thanks Da Vinci." She said.

The grown women smile grew a bit as she looked at Ritsuka, Mash, Peko and Nala.

"It's good to see our protagonists finally here. I'll be aiding you from here on out with supplies." She told them.

"Good." Romani claped his hands together. "With the introduction out of the way I'd say it's time for our Rayshift. Remember, the fist thing you got to do is set up a base camp and finding a leyline. Got it?"

"Yes sir! Count me ready." Ritsuka exclaimed.

"Very well. Now go ahead torwards the platform and prepare for the Rayshift." He ordered. The four of the group started walking torwards the platform, however, Romani stopped Peko, puting his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Easy there Peko. Where are you going?"

Peko looked Romani in the eyes with a normal expression. "I'm going too." He smiled. "T-they say four people is better than three,right?"

Those simple words caused Romani to stare at the boy with a sorrowful look, acting like he was hesitant to say something. And the doctor wasn't the only one who had a reaction. The trio that was about to rayshift also seemed to be a bit reluctant, specially Nala.

"G-guys?" Peko felt like a stranger, with everyone looking at him, like if they were analyzing what he had just said.

"Look Peko." Romani said with a dismotivated tone and a sad face. "It may hurt you but...you aren't going. You have to stay here for your safety." Surprisingly, Peko reaction wasn't that bad, as if the boy knew that it was more probable of him just staying here at Chaldea than try to join the adventure.

He simply tilted his head donwards. "I should've seen it coming." He said discouraged. "I'm an idiot for thinking I would be able to be useful to you." The sense of worthlessness taking over him.

"Peko..." Mash couldn't help but to feel pity for him. She could only imagine the frustrated position he was in.

"You really want to go with us?" Ritsuka asked with concern. The master was aware of the risks it could happen if Peko goes with them. But it didn't meant he saw Peko as a dead-weight. Ritsuka just wasn't sure if it would be the best decision to make.

Da Vinci,watching the saddness in the boy, decided to console Peko. "Hey don't be that sad Peko. There's plenty of other things you can do in here at Chaldea." Da Vinci said. "Don't you find it quite interesting?" Her voice trying to sound curious. However, little that helped lifting Peko's mood.

"I appreciate the offer but, I don't think that would be enough." Peko lifted his head. "G-going with you to the Singularity is how I think I could at least make a significant help.

I don't want to be-"

"Don't be stupid. You're nothing more than a crybaby." Nala said coldly out of nowhere, still showing her back to her brother. That caused a bit of a reaction on Peko.

"And I want to overcome that! I really do! Just give me a chance!" Peko begged, accepting the fact that he was weak and wanted to inprove that.

But Nala still wasn't convinced. "You don't understand do you?" She had finally turned around to face Peko. "Or do you also want to end up dead?" Nala raised her voice up a bit, reminding not only Peko but the rest of Olga's recent death, trying to show in a way to her brother, that the journey ahead would be too much for him.

Peko, altough being taken aback by a little, still refused to give up and continued to insist. "I made a promise. That I would become stronger and build up courage. If I don't do it now then when will I do it? Tomorrow? Next week? Month?"

"Shut up! You don't know what you're saying!" Nala shouted at Peko, being already full of his begging.

"Nala-san please calm down!" Mash advised the girl, wanting the discussion beetween the two siblings to end.

"Rrrgh, fine! If you want to come so be it! Try to not call me when in danger or cry then!" Nala ended the conversation beetween her and Peko, not feeling the need to continue.

"I swear I'll try to help." Peko now looked at Romani and then Ritsuka, speaking with both of them. "I also want to find our dad. A-And if he's out there, I want to meet him personally alongside Nala. So that we can discover our past and why we are here in the first place."

With that, Romani took some seconds to think in silent, before finally speaking up. " Listen,Peko. I understand that you want to show you're value to the team but-"

"You can go with us." Ritsuka said, surpising everyone else inside the room.

"Wha-. Are you sure Senpai?" Mash asked to her master.

"Yes,I am Mash." Ritsuka reaffirmed it, walking torwards the boy. "Like you said it earlier Peko, four pople are better than three." Peko couldn't help it but feel happy. Ritsuka trusted him.

"Ah, t-thanks Ritsuka!" He smiled to the last master of humanity who smiled back at him.

"What's your opinion doctor?" Ritsuka asked to Romani.

"Hmmmmm. Well, if you make sure he's safe then I allow it." Romani also gave in, accepting Peko's request.

"Thank you Dr. Romani!" Peko was feeling better and better. Romani saw it and couldn't help it but smile.

"You're welcome."

Mash was the next one to speak. "I guess the decision is made up. Welcome to the group Peko-san." The shielder smiled gently at Peko. "I hope we can also help with your desires."

"Nice. Now that the topic is out of the way let's iniciate the Rayshift. Go to your positions." Romani ordered.

Now the group with Peko, stood in the center of the platform. Big smiles could be seen in their faces except for Nala who still was upset by seeing Peko going with them.

"Oh, but before you go, a warning Peko." The boy concentrated his attention on what the doctor was about to say. "It will be dangerous and it's by no means, a happy go lucky adventure you see on cartoons. Someone's might get injured or in the worst cases,dead." The last part put Peko a bit nervous. "Do you understand?"

"Yes sir, I do!" Peko exclaimed, trying to cast away is nervousness.

"Good. The same goes for you, Ritsuka, Mash and Nala." The three nodded, comprehending the seriousness of the mission.

"Hehehe, our heroes are ready Romani. Now it's just start." Da Vinci told the doctor, telling him that the moment was now.

"Alright! Let's iniciate the Rayshift. This is our first Singularity out of seven. Our path to save humanity starts here! Good luck!" And with that, the Rayshift was activated.


"Wow." Nala looked around, seeing the location she and the team were now in. France already looked a lot better than the blazing hell that was Fuyuki.

"It's really beautiful don't you think?" Ritsuka stood next to her.

"True. It's quite nice and relaxing. I wonder if all of that 'France' is like this." Nala wondered if the country was like this in the present time.

"It's almost absurd hearing that this territory has been on a fight for a hundred years!" Peko entered the conversation, getting a 'hphm' out of Nala. Mash after seeing if there was no danger near them, walked torwards the rest of the group, wanting to join the conversation.

"It's the year 1431, so it means we're in the middle of the Hundred Years war." She informed the group. "And most probably during the respite period." Ritsuka was confused about the respite part.

"Wait! You're telling us there's a time were people decide to stop fighting temporarily?" He asked, never knowing of this fact before. Peko and Nala also didn't knew abou this.

"Yep. This war wasn't really fought for the full 100 years." Mash explained. "The kingdoms needed some periods to rest their army and reorganize things for the next encounter." Peko was marveled at the knowledge that Mash had. For a girl that spent all her life inside Chaldea, she sure knew a lot of things.

"Even then, a war lasting that long is crazy! I can't even imagine a war lasting a couple decades, talk about a hundred!" Peko said to the shielder.

"Unfortunately humanity sometimes is like that. Very hard to get it out of it's own hatred." Mash frowned at her own statment.

"But thankfully we learn from those mistakes to improve ourselfs as a species." Ritsuka said happily, trusting that humans were able to change for the better.

"Fou!" A noise came from Mash.

"Hey did you all ear that?" Nala asked.

Peko was sure he has heard it somewhere. "Sure! It's quite familiar."

Shortly after an animal appeard right behind Mash on her shoulder. It was Fou.

"Well. Looks like we've got another member to the team." Ritsuka laughed a bit.

"Yeah. It looks like Peko wasn't our newest addition." Nala approached Mash who was now holding Fou on her hands. "Can I?" she asked politely. Mash just smiled in return.

"Sure." She handed the animal to Nala.

"Bad Fou! You shouldn't have sneaked your way in without telling us!" She rerpimanded Fou while patting him in the hand.

"Fou..." the creature looked sorry for what it did.

"Luckily for you, you're cute." Nala hugged the animal in affection.

"Can I also pat him?" Peko asked Nala. However she just looked at the boy meanly and ignored him. "No" Nala just said.

"Oh,please Nala! Don't tell me you're- Huh?" A touch of Ritsuka's hand caught Peko off guard. "What was it Ritsuka?" He asked to the master of humanity who was looking up at the sky in bewilderment.

"I'd say that discussing over Fou isn't the thing we should worry now." Peko and Nala didn't understand exactly what Ritsuka wnated to mean by that. Until the decided to look upwards as well. Mash decided to do the same.

"It's...huge." She said shortly after doing it.

At the exact moment, Romani had finally established contact. "Nice, we've got contact. Sorry for the wait but I...why are you all gawked?" The doctor got his answer immediatly after.

Up there in the sky, the clouds formed a huge ring, like if a hole had been made in the middle of it. The discription of big wouldn't be enough to describe it of how large it was.

"Oh, now I understand why. That ring must've been one of the reasons why the future has collapsed. And damn, that has to be at least the size of the entire North America!" He exclaimed.

"That thing caused humanity's destruction?" Ritsuka wasn't believing on what he was seeing.

"According to- Oh, what's this? I'm detecting very signals some distance away from you." Romani said, putting the team on alert. At the same time, noises of people screaming could be heard nearby.

"Something tells me there's someone is being attacked." Nala runned to the direction that the noise was coming from, being followed by the others. A village was being raided and destroyed. People running around in panic.

"W-what are those things?" Peko asked, showing again a sign of fear in his face has he saw who were the attackers. Huge flying lizards who hovered the area. There was 5 of them.

"Dragons, I suppose?" Ritsuka wasn't sure but they seemed like ones.

"No! These creatures are smaller than actual dragons. They're wyverns!" Mash cleared her master's doubt and respond to Peko at the same time. Nala didn't care what was the identity of the enemy.

"It doesn't matter! We have to save those citizens!" She proceeded to run right through the gates of the village, taking the iniciative.

"She's right! We have to help those poor people!" Mash looked to Ritsuka and Peko. "Senpai, Peko, stay close to me as I and Nala will deal with the enemies, alright?"

"Sure. Get ready for the battle Mash!" Ritsuka told her servant. "You too Peko. Stay close!"

"R-right!" Peko was now behind Ritsuka, trying to at least sound confident. The trio entered the village and soon they spotted Nala a bit ahead, fending off against a wyvern.

"Nala, hold on! I'm already going to help you!" Mash yelled in the girl's direction. But before, she pointed a rubble were Ritsuka and Peko could take cover. "You two stay here! Senpai protect Peko at all costs! Don't leave this spot!" Mash went on to help Nala against the wyvern, leaving Ritsuka and Peko behind. Ritsuka was still watching the fight behind the rubble in case he needed to give orders to Mash and see if she and Nala would be okay.

"Alright Peko, they've got this!" Ritsuka said as he let Peko to watch his sister and Mash fight against the wyvern.

"Ya!" Nala exclaimed as she used Mash's shield to be propelled higher and slash the wyvern right into it's left eye. "Take this!" She yelled. Mash also went up ahead, delivering a huge blow on the wyvern's chest with her shield. As soon as the blow had finished, Nala had landed on the ground and with her speed, she immediatly pirced the wyvern on what she would assume was were the creature's heart was located.

"They fight pretty well." Peko smiled, seeing that his sister was showing her skills at fighting alongside Mash. But deep down he was a bit jealous for seeing Nala taking care of the problem while he was hiding behind a broken wall. He said he would get stronger right before this Singularity but here was, being a coward again.

"Not like I can be of much help either." Peko thought to himself. That was when to his right, Peko noticed a person weakly calling for help, as he had a leg stuck under a derbie and couldn't get it out. It may was weak for Ritsuka to ear it, but not for Peko. In that moment, the boy knew what to do.

"And you will fight like them one day Peko. You just have to- Hey! Nala look out!" Ritsuka shouted at the girl who still had her sword pierced in the wyvern's chest, not noticing the imminent attack the creature was about to do with it's right claw.

"Huh? Wha-" She turned her head to see the claw coming to cut her. She wouldn't be fast enough to react. Thankfully Mash was fast enough. The demi-servant blocked the attack with her shield and with the sharp parts of it, she sliced the wyvern's throat, killing it instantly.

"Phew! That was close!" Mash looked at the white haired girl. "You're okay?"

"Yeah. Thanks for the help Mash." Nala thanked Mash for the cooperation and blocking the wyvern's hit that would land on her.

"That's my girl! Good job Mash!" Romani cheered as he had been watching the fight.

"You've been here all this time doctor?" Ritsuka asked, forgetting that they were talking to him right some minutes ago.

"Well, you could say I was at the edge of my seat. They've done a good job. But this isn't the end. There's other 4 wyverns we need to take care of." Romani reminded Ritsuka.

"Yeah, you're right doctor." Ritsuka replied. "What did you think of the fight Peko?" The asnwer didn't came. "Huh? Where's Peko?" Ritsuka only now noticed the absence of the boy. He got worried in a instant. "Peko were are you?" He said louder.

"Hrrhg. Right here Ritsuka!" Ritsuka looked to were the voice was coming and saw Peko a bit far away from him, trying to lift up a derbie that was trapping the leg of a person underneath.

"Please try harder!" The man was in panic, telling Peko to hurry up, fearing he could die by the hands of the wyverns.

"Hrghh! I'm doing my best!" Peko put all his strenght in his arms to try and lift the derbie and altough he managed to lift up a bit, it still wasn't enough to free the man's leg.

Ritsuka concluded that Peko alone wouldn't be able to remove the derbie. He needed help. "Don't worry Peko, I'll help you." Ritsuka said to Peko.

"But how the wyvern didn't die instantly if I pierced it's heart? Perhaps I simply got wrong it's location?" Nala was talking to Mash as the two girls were heading back to Ritsuka and Peko.

"I don't think that. Perhaps you didn't pierced the heart fully enough Nala-san." Mash said, trying to make Nala feel better.

"I guess so. Either way we have to defeat immediatly the other 4. This isn't over yet!" Nala closed her fist, ready to kill the enemies that were left.

'You're right. We have to- Huh? What is Peko doing?" Mash stoped walking to observe Peko in the distance, trying to remove derbies off of a civilian. Nala also seemed to have spotted it.

"Is he trying to save someone? Never tought he would actually try to do it." Nala saddened whe she saw that her brother was having difficulty to save the person. "Even tough he's not very good at it." She sighed.

"Don't worry. Master is already going there to help him." Mash pointed to Ritsuka, who was about to help the boy.

"Heh. That's good at-" Nala stared in panic at the sight of a wyvern appearing right behind Peko, trying to do a surprise attack. "PEKO! WATCH OUT!" Nala screamed to Peko. It was loud enough for him to hear it.

"Sis?" Peko turned around just in time to see the wyvern behind them. Clearly huge and with giant claws that would tear apart his flesh. The voy didn't even had reaction to process properly what was about to happen to him.

"So...is this how it ends?" Peko closed his eyes in fear, expecting to be killed off by the wyvern, knowing that neither Nala or Mash would be fast enough to save him.

That's when Ritsuka put himself in front of the boy, serving as an human shield.

"Arrgh!" Ritsuka exclaimed in pain as the claw of the wyvern cut right on his left shoulder. The blood spilling out of his wound.

Peko was terrified. "R-RITSUKA!"

To be continued...


And suddenly...wyverns!

These guys early FGO were a fucking pain in the ass, not in terms of difficulty but in terms of being in every goddamn fight! Thank god those days are long gone.

But anyway, Peko want's to get stronger, tries to help someone and it goes wrong with Ritsuka getting wounded. Ops! It happens.

And this time it's good they have Nala alongside Mash so one can take the offensive while the other takes the defensive. And so that they can also do cool combos toghether.

So, that was all I wanted to say and see you next time on chapter 4! Peace!