Welcome back everyone to the start of chapter 4 of the story. And yes, you're still reading the same story. I've just changed the title of the story because yeah, having the name of the fanfic the same name of the first saga of the game doesn't look that attractive.

So don't worry, this is still the same story, but with a different name.

But with that out of the way, 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.


"SENPAI!!" Mash yelled, launching torwards the wyvern, fending it off with her shield. With the enemy stunned, Nala took the opportunity and slashed it's head off, finishing the creature. Now only 3 wyverns remained.

"Are you okay?!" Mash crotched down near Ritsuka, worried for the recent wound on his shoulder.

Peko was also near the master, checking if he was alright, feeling overly guilty. "S-sorry! I-I didn't mean-"

"No problem, it was nothing!" Ritsuka immediatly tried to calm down the situation. "But I think someone needs more help than me right now..." He turned his head to the civilian who was still stuck in the derbie, transmiting the message to Mash.

"R-right!" Mash said, confirming she understood Ritsuka's intentions. Since Mash was a demi-servant, lifting huge pieces of rubble wasn't much of an effort to her. "Pleace stay steady, okay?" Mash pacified the citizen and in an instant removed the huge derbie, allowing the man to finally get up from the ground.

"Thank you! Thank you so much!" The man said to Mash, still in fear for his dear life. As the man started to run away in direction to the village gates he shouted something to the group. "There's still more people in the village square! The rest of those monsters must be there as well, be careful!"

"Thank you for the information!" Mash shouted back. "Can you still move Senpai?" She asked to Ritsuka. Altough with a great pain coming from it's wound, thankfuly for him it wasn't that deep. Peko still helped him get back up.

"Phew! You're surely lucky Ritsuka." Romani noted, still being in contact with them. "As a doctor, I can say it could have been way uglier. That wyvern could have ripped off your arm!"

"You're not helping doctor!" Mash scolded Romani.

"Sorry! I was just trying to see the things from a better perspective." Romani apologized. "But make sure to treat his wound okay?"

"Does it hurt?" Peko asked to Ritsuka, still holding him.

"Don't worry. You've heard the doc. It's almost nothing." Ritsuka laughed it off before receiving a sharp pain through the shoulder letting out a small groan of pain. Still, the master tried his best to appear okay.

"Hey Peko!" Nala called her brother, heading torwards him. She didn't looked happy. In antecipation, Peko let go Ritsuka off his grip, allowing the master to sat on the floor.

"W-what is it Na-" She grabbed him by the collar forcefully before pushing him to a wall.

"H-hey! What are you-"

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!" Nala shouted angrily at Peko, getting the attention of both Ritsuka and Mash with the latter about to apply a bandange on Ritsuka's shoulder.

Peko just couldn't get the right words to say in response to his sister's rage. "I..."

"You what?! You couldn't have just stayed back in Chaldea could you?! You had to come right?!" The grip of Nala's hands on Peko's collar getting tighter. "You were told to stay out of this! Yet you tried to make yourself a hero! Guess how it went?!" Nala was right. Peko tried miserably to save someone and ended up only embarassing himself and worst, Ritsuka suffered from it. Hell, the man they had just saved didn't even thanked him for his patethic efforts. Tears started to form on his eyes.

"I...I just wanted to help..." Peko said, trying to fight back the tears from rolling down his face. Once again he was showing how weak and miserable he was. And to Nala above all else.

The white haired girl just sighed, releasing Peko from her grip. He just stood there, defeated. "Do you want to help, Peko?" Nala turned her back on him. "Just stay out of this. Don't interfere us. Or else, you'll be just deadweight." She said coldly even if a part of her deep down hurted to say this.

"O-Oi Nala-san that was just..!" Mash was incredulous of what Nala had just said, bringing the moral of Peko down. The relationship beetween the siblings wasn't looking good. Ritsuka watched in silent, not helping but to feel sorry for Peko. He was desperatly trying his best and Ritsuka knew that.

Peko's tears were now falling free from his face, cursing himself for being so useless to his group that even his sister would consider him a 'deadweight'.

Romani also was a bit down by the moment that had just happened. "H-hey guys...I don't want to say this now but, the people in the village square, remember?"

"You're right. We must go there now!" Ritsuka told the others, getting up. However, the pain of the wound came back, forcing him to make pressure on it. "Grrgh!"

"You're still injured. Threat your wound first Ritsuka!" Nala advised him. "I'll go ahead! You catch me later okay?"

"Sure! Just be careful all right?" Ritsuka agreed with Nala's proposition. She smiled at him with confidence.

"No problem! I will be careful!" Before she went to the center of the village, Nala looked back at Peko, who was still crying and covering his face with his arms. Nala started to regret what she had said to him. But she had to. Peko had to understand this would be a dangerous journey. Deep down she just didn't want to lose him. But, not having time to talk to him now, she decided to just head to the village's square

Half a minute later, Mash was finishing the bandage on Ritsuka's shoulder. "And done. I hope this prevents the wound from getting worse."

With the injury now treated, Ritsuka felt more motivated now. "Heh, thanks Mash. We should get going to where Nala went."

"That's right! We don't have time to waste!" She said. But the shielder knew there was still someone who they couldn't left behind. The two looked at Peko.

He had stopped crying but was still covering his face, looking down to the ground were his tears have fall. Fou was now next to him, trying to cheer up the boy. "Fou fou." The creature gently touched Peko's leg, trying to get his attention.

"Hey Peko, we must go." Ritsuka told him. Peko didn't replied immediatly, opting to pretend he didn't hear it at first.

"Are you okay?" Mash approached him.

"Y-yeah. It's...nothing." Peko finally talked, uncovering his face. His eyes dried from crying. "We should go now so that you can help sis, right?"

Ritsuka and Mash wanted talk to him, wanted to make Peko feel better, but now it was not the time. The danger hasn't been totally eliminated yet.

"Yes. Let's go!" Ritsuka exclaimed and the three alongside Fou rushed torwards the village's square, were Nala was by now.


"The screams are getting louder! We must be close!" Mash yelled back as the group was running inside an alley. Some more steps ahead and they have finally reached the village's square.

And it was a total war zone.

People running wildly everywhere, screaming for their lives. Buildings destroyed with it's wreckage scattered all over the square. Blood could also been seen, belonging to some corpses or injured that the wyverns had attacked. Peko was getting a bit sick by the sight of the corpses, trying to ignore it. Right in the middle of the area, there was a group of soldiers fending off against the remaining wyverns. Nala was among them.

"Hey Nala! We've arrived!" Ritsuka yelled.

Nala notice their arrival. "Good! Mash!"

"Already going!" Just like before, Mash told Ritsuka and Peko to take cover. "Please stay there this time! Senpai, make sure Peko is with you!" The demi-servant went to join the fight.

Ritsuka nodded. "Roger that!"

Nala and the soldiers were fighting the three wyverns, separated in little groups focused on each wyvern. Nala with some other allies were taking care of one when Mash had arrived. The two girls looked at each other, already thinking of a way to defeat the creature.

Nala blocked the wyvern attack with her sword, giving the chance for Mash to hit from behind, stabbing the wyvern with her shield. The creature let out a painful roar, swinging it's tail to make Mash retreat. The shielder jumped out of the wyvern's reach. Nala took her turn and took advantage of the wyvern's distraction by Mash to slash it's right wing. Realizing it was being attacked on both sides, the wyvern tried to flee, flying to the sky.

"Oh no you wont!" Mash threw her shield with all her strenght torwards the fleeing wyvern. It landed successfully on it's head, damaging the enemy and make it go unconscious for a bit. Seeing that, Nala jumped towards the falling wyvern, and efficiantly slashed it's head off with her sword. Another one has been killed. Now there was only 2 to deal with.

"Nice! They're doing good!" As Ritsuka was watching the battle with Peko, a soldier came close to them in a hurry.

"What are you two doing here?! This is dangerous for civilians! You should retreat now!" He demanded the duo to leave.

"It's not like that! We're with-"

"WE'RE DOOMED! DOOMED!" Has Ritsuka was trying to explain his and Peko's situation to the soldier, a loud voice among the chaos interrupted him.

"There's nowhere to hide! This is our Lord's punishment for killing that girl!" The voice came from a soldier who had likely gave up from fighting, succumbing to all the destruction around him.

"What the hell is he saying?" Nala briefly commented before returning her attention back to the battle against another wyvern.

"What the..."

"Well you know, there's those kind of people..." The soldier with Ritsuka and Peko said, lamenting the state of the other soldier as Ritsuka and Peko watched confused.

The insane soldier still was far from finishing. "Now, shortly after her death, she's back! She's back to kill us and all of France! First the king and now the common people! We're doomed! That witch is our-"

A slap came out nowhere, shutting the crazy soldier from continuing his lunatic cries. It came from a middle aged woman.

"You shut up about my daughter! You don't know the first thing about her!" She shouted. The soldier in anger for the sudden hit on his face, yelled back.

"How dare you hit me bitch?! I'm going to-"

The soldier never came to finish his words since a wyvern came out of nowhere and bite off his head, killing him instantly.

"A wyvern escaped from our sight!?" Mash tried to make way to reach out to the woman but her fight with the other wyvern was keeping her busy. Same with Nala.

"We can't make it in time!" She proclaimed frustrated.

Ritsuka again would not stand there and watch. He had to save that person, even if it meant getting the other shoulder wounded.

"O-oi Ritsuka, it's dangerous!" Peko exclaimed as he saw Ritsuka ran away from him and the soldier.

"Don't do it kid!" The soldier that was with them warned Ritsuka in vain.

"I have to safe her. I have to. I can't let innocent die this way!" The master of humanity said to myself. He had to make it in time.

But someone was faster than him.

"Huh?" Surpassing Ritsuka in speed, a hooded figure jumped right beetween the woman and the wyvern and with what seemed a flagpole, it landed a strong blow right in the middle of the wyvern, killing it.

"Ah! Are you...?" The middle aged woman gazed at the figure in front of her, possibly recognizing it from somewhere. The figure didn't respond.

Looking closely, it could be said the figure was feminine, the way she fighted resembling a certain person that was still fresh in mind of the french people.

"It's her, the witch! Quick men, this is our opportunity!" A soldier standing nearby Mash and Nala told to the rest of the group. The other soldiers seemed to have agreed and collectively went after the hooded woman.

"W-wait! What is even happening?!" Nala wasn't understanding the sudden change of priority of the soldiers when it still remained one wyvern to deal with. Seeing the group running torwards her, the hodded woman started to run away, passing through Ritsuka and holding his hand.

"Come with me!" She said shortly.

"F-fine,I guess!" Ritsuka accompained her, before looking at Peko as they were now passing through him aswell. "Come Peko!" The boy decided there was no time to lose and join the two as they were almost out of the village's square. "You too, Mash! Nala!" Ritsuka looked behind, seeing both girls fighting the remaining wyvern.

Mash looked at her Master and Peko going away with the hooded woman. "Right Master!" She touched Nala before starting running away. "Let's go Nala! The soldiers can take care of the rest!"

However, Nala wanted to finish the job. "No! I can't risk it! They aren't safe until the last one is defeated!" She said, much to Mash frustration.

"But Master and Peko are waiting for us! We can't stay here for much longer!" Despite knowing there was still one wyvern remaining and that Nala wanted to finish it, Mash had to accompany Ritsuka as her servant and protect both him and Peko.

"Tsk!" Nala, clenched her teeth, being in a dilemma right now. She just couldn't abandon these people now. Not when the threat was almost done. Who knows how more could die if she doesn't treat with this last wyvern? "You go ahead! I'll catch you later!" Nala yelled her decision, making sure not only Mash but Peko and Ritsuka could hear it.

Peko didn't like it. "But si-"

"You shut up!" Nala yelled at her brother, not wanting to hear his pleading to make her regret the decision. She turned her around to look at Peko, Rituska and Mash, but most importantly Peko. Nala let out a comforting smile. "I'll be alright, don't worry! Now go!"

Peko, altough wanting to protest, realized that Nala could stand her own against her enemy. "Nala's strong. She won't lose against that thing, right? I shouldn't be concerned, or else I'll just bring her down..."

Peko remembered of the words his sister said to him moments earlier, pain striking him again. "The lesser I interfere, the better." Peko tought to himself. "Ok! See you soon!" He yelled back to Nala.

Seeing that Peko had accepted leaving Nala momentarily behind, Ritsuka felt more comfortable in the making of his decision. "Alright! Be careful Nala!"

Mash seeing that Ritsuka and Peko had made their choice, had no other option but to trust in Nala's fighting skills. "You sure you catch us later?"

Nala gave a reassuring nod, looking at the shielder with determination. "You can bet it! I'll see you later!"

"I hope so! We will be heading to the gates that we used to enter here! If anything, the doctor will tell you our coordinates!" With that said, Mash went to join the trio, leaving Nala behind to fight the last wyvern.

Way up in a tower of a church, a woman dressed in black armour watched all the commotion happening. "Hmph! Damn strangers trying to ruin my fun. Specially that girl."


Now the group separated from Nala and in the company of the hooded woman, were now a good distance away from the village.

"I hope Nala doesn't take to long to deafeat that creature." Ritsuka said, hoping that his friend was doing alright.

"You all seem to be quite worried." The hooded woman spoked for the first time. "But don't let that deteriorate your bonds. Trust is essential to a group like you."

"Thank you." Mash said. "But, who exactly are you?" She asked to the woman.

"Sorry, I think I should reveal myself now." The woman took out the hood from her head, showing her face to the trio. She had a long blond hair, tied into a braid with a blue ribbon and her eyes amethyst colored.

"I am the servant of the ruler class, Jeanne D'arc!"


With the final wyvern slained, Nala and the other soldiers could finally take a break from all the adrenaline and chaos that had just occurred. With the battle won, some of the soldiers exited the village to see if the civilians right outside the walls were okay, others would search around the area for any person that could possibly be missing while others stayed at the square to clean the destruction and reagroup the corpses.

Two soldiers in particular were talking with Nala.

"Phew! That last one was stronger than the others. Thank you for the help. I don't know what would happen to us if it weren't for you." The soldier said to her.

"Thanks. I'm glad I was able to help greatly." Nala shaked hands with the soldier.

"But aren't you too young to be wielding a sword and fighting?" The second soldier asked.

"Well I just have the gift to do it, you know?" Nala said with a smug on her face.

"Still, you're just a kid and also a girl. It feels weird to see someone like you being capable of such skills." The second soldier gave his counter argument.

"Hey, perhaps we have the next Jeanne D'arc right here!" The first soldier said happily, only to be elbowed by the second soldier.

"Shut it you idiot! Don't compare this kid with that despicable witch!" He said angrily at his companion.

"It was just a comparation, calm down." The first soldier sighed. "Anyway, we better get going. Have luck in reuniting with those friends of yours!" The soldier waved as he and the other soldier walked away.

"Bye! See you around!" Nala waved back to the pair. "Hmm. Witch? What were they talking?" She muttered to herself.

"It's all a misunderstanding dear." A voice came from behind. It was that middle aged woman again. "I know my daughter, she would never to anything like that." The woman said saddened.

"They were talking about your child? Is she the witch?" Nala asked, trying to see if she could at least get some explanation for what was happening.

"No!" The woman shouted abruptly, scaring Nala a bit, before calming down shortly after. "At least, that's what I want to think."

"How was she like?" Nala made another question.

"Beautiful like an angel, with a pure and golden heart. She was always helping those in need. My little Jeanne was a girl that would always think on everyone first before herself." The voice of the woman was starting to tremble, tears appearing in her eyes.

"She-she would never commit those hideneous crimes to innocent people. That's just not her!" The middle aged woman fell to her knees and started to weep in bitterness.

Nala went right to her side, putting an hand on the older woman's back. "H-hey it's okay lady!" She said. "If your daughter is really like you said then there's no chance she can be the witch those soldiers were speaking of."

The woman wiped her tears. "You really think that?"

"Yep! This witch is probably other person or an impostor. I'd say she's using your daughter's name to trash her reputation." Nala explained, making the woman feel better.

"Y-yeah. You may be right little girl. I hope you are." She said to Nala, getting up from her knees. "And if it's truly an impostor, I want her to be brought to justice. For all the massacre she's doing on the country." She said with a bit of stern in her voice.

Nala smiled a bit. "That's the spirit. Oh, and also, it might be rude of me to ask you this but, you're daughter must be a real big deal here. Like, why they would even associate her with a witch in the first place?"

"My daughter, Jeanne D'arc, was a warrior and leader of the french army. Protecting us against the enemy during a recent period of the war."

"Oh,right! The Hundread Year war. Almost forgot about it! So this Jeanne D'arc was a leader of an army? For her previous description I was expecting her to be a nun or something." Nala still found the idea of Jeanne D'arc being a warrior to be quite awsome.

"Yes it's quite unexpected." The woman continued her talking like if she had just read Nala's mind. "A girl in this day and age be a knight and general of an army? Now that's quite a dream. But weren't you suppose to know it? My daughter was such a popular figure after all."

In that exact moment, Nala started to sweat a bit. She had to think of an excuse quickly. "Hum...well...you see, I'm from another region you know?" She partially lied? hoping the woman to not suspect anything. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

"Oh really? Then you mustn't be from France if you don't know my daughter very well. Mind telling me the region you live in?"

Nala was now comically sweating, her smile nervously showing up. Nala didn't know what to respond. "Region? What region?! Hell I don't remember anything from my life, so how will I know a damn region?!"

"Are you ok little girl?" The woman asked a bit concerned.

"Huh? N-No! Not at all! We-well the region I came from is...aaah...it's aah...aaaaa" Nala started to think and making up the first name that would appear in her head. "It's aaa..aaaa..A..Akasha! I came from the region of Akasha!" Nala responded quickly as she could and started panting like if she had just done one of the hardest things in her life. She hoped the questions had ended.

"Akasha? That's a weird name. It's even localized in Europe?" Nala felt like just killing herself. She didn't even knew what was in Europe. Her brain would probably explode from thinking hard so much. That's when she remembered of a talk she had with Da Vinci before going to this Singularity.

"It's in...I..It..It-Italy! Akasha is a region in Italy! You should really visit one of these days, they say it's beautiful." Nala lied again, but if that meant she could avoid these type of questions again she would lie gladly.

"Oh, I see. When all of this ends then perhaps I could visit it one day." The woman smiled to Nala. "But as I was saying. My daughter Jeanne was doing an excellent job guiding the soldiers and gaining back territory that we had previously lost. People started calling her the Maiden of Orleans. She was even present during King Charles coronation!"

"Wow! She must really been an incredible woman."Nala could only imagine how influential these woman's daughter could be.

"She was. Jeanne D'arc died recently. One week ago if I recall." That information came shockingly and unexpected to Nala.

"She's...dead?"

"Well, this is where the witch part starts appearing." The woman's tone got depressing. "One day she was captured by the enemy and hold captive. In trial, she was accused of blasphemy and witchcraft, sentencing her to death." The woman tried to not cry again, not wanting to make Nala worried. "And then she was...executed by being burned in public."

"That's horrible!" Nala exclaimed. She couldn't believe such warrior like Jeanne D'arc died such a terrible way. "A-and what about her army? The king? Did they try to rescue her?"

"That's the problem. We as a country done nothing to help her! We let her die!" The tears were now rolling down her face. Nala couldn't even know what to say. To be left behind like that, was probably painful.

"And so,rumours said recently someone with her exact same appearence appeard! And now that supposed witch, wich goes by the name of my daughter, wants to take revenge by killing all of us."

"That's just..." Nala was trying to find words to speak.

"But, I do believe my daughter is really back."

"Huh?"

"That hooded figure that saved me moments before, I believe it was her. The weapon and that fighting. It had to be her."

The woman put a hand on her chest. "I could feel it."

"See? That's what I'm saying. The witch must actually be an impostor. Your daughter is probably trying to stop her." Nala said, with certainty on her words.

"You also think that?" The woman asked.

"Yes! And also, a mother is always the one who knows their children best, right?" Nala smiled at the woman, who smiled back.

"Yes, I'd say you're right."

As the two had spend a long time talking, Nala remembered something. "Oh crap! The rest of my group! I should be going!"

"Hehe. Go then. It was a pleasure to have this talk with you little lady!" The woman said goodbye to Nala, as the girl was about to exit the village's square.

"Heh. I enjoyed too! Until a next time!" Nala sent her goodbye in return, feeling good for the conversation she had with the older woman.


"Now where did they headed? Uhmmm...Ah,yes! Those same gates!" Nala runned in direction to the gates they've used to enter the village.

But along the way, a pain erupted on Nala's head.

"Hrgh!" She put an hand in her head. "Wha-what is this all of a sudden?"

A...mother...knows...

The pain was getting stronger, before stopping as suddenly as it had started.

"What...just happened?" Nala breathed heavily, asking to herself what were those blurry images she had just imagined.

"E-either way, I need to continue and meet the others!" She composed herself and run through the gates, finally exiting the village and being in the outside of the walls.

But at that moment, Nala briefly saw in her peripheral vision, a young woman leaning back against the wall, that made her stop forcefully the run.

"An impostor you say? You don't know how much that hurts to hear." The woman speaked, her voice with a hint of venom.

Nala turned around to take a look at her. The woman was wearing a full black armour, she had short white-blond hair and two piercing yellow eyes. Nala could tell from the get go that this woman didn't seem friendly.

"Who are you?" She summoned her sword, getting ready to fight if needed.

"Heh. You're 'impostor'. You don't even know exactly what's happening to go around saying those things brat." The woman summoned her own sword.

"A-are you the witch?" Nala questioned the other woman, a bit of sweat appearing on her face. This would be the first time she had to fight all alone.

"Hehe. You're correct about that. But I also go by another name. My mother did told you after all." The woman smiled evily, sending a shiver down Nala's spine.

"Krgh! Jea-Jeanne D'arc?" Nala asked apprehensive. It was really true that the witch and Jeanne D'arc were the same?

"Yep! You've guessed correctly the other half." Jeanne D'arc looked playfully at her sword before taking a few steps in Nala's direction. "And I'd say it's time to put a bratty girl like you in her place. You're ruining my vengeance."

"Hphm! Y-you can try all you want witch! I'm going to make you regret causing pain to all these people!" Nala exclaimed, trying to hide her fear with a smile.

"Oh, is that so? Hehehehehe" Jeanne laughed almost madly, causing Nala to take a step back. "You talk to much for a girl." She said in a deadly tone, preparing to fight Nala.

"You better know what you've got yourself into after all. I'm Jeanne D'arc, the dragon witch!"

To be continued...


And were done with chapter 4. I'm honeslty satisfied with it. I initialy tought about ending the chapter with the Jeanne D'arc (ruler) revelation but decided to extend a bit and tease the Nala vs Jalter fight next chapter.

Oh and Jeanne's mom is also here because Turas Realta manga exists and it does a decent (if not better) retelling of the early Singularities than the game. So I might take some ideas here an there from the manga, but not major ones that can change the course of my story.

And yep, sibling relationship...complicated. But let's hope the things beetween the two get better.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to say and see you next time in chapter 5! Peace!

(Whispering: Also don't forget to roll for the Castoria banner that is coming soon. Stay strong brothers and sisters!)