Hello everyone and welcome back to chapter 34 of the story! And get ready because we are about to knock Nero down a peg! (What a great time to say this since Fate Extra/CCC made 10 years yesterday. I sware I genuinely couldn't make this timing more accurate even if I wanted to.)

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.


Fate Extra/CCC OST- Lunar Mare in Tranquility

The watery drops of rain fell on the flowers of the palace's garden. It was raining alot that day. Nero let the rain fall abundantly on her body, the eyes only focusing on the flowers in front of her. Anyone would be inside their houses or taking shelter with this weather. The emperor however, decided to soak herself with it. There wasn't a single thing that was happy in that moment. The day wasn't happy. The flowers weren't happy. Nero wasn't happy. The only thing she felt was sorrow to make her company in the cold rain.

"Come inside before you catch a cold Nero." The voice of Seneca sounded, the philosopher appearing behind her and walking torwards his emperor.

"I know." Nero responded with a low tone. She didn't bothered to hide her sadness from her advisor who noticed it in no time.

"What's troubles you My Praetor?" Seneca asked her.

"My mother...all that she said was true?" Nero ansewered while also making another question and bringing up that moment her mother tried to poison her and was caught by Seneca. It had happened yesterday. The pain from that mental wound was still fresh and Nero was trying to process if what she heard from her mother's mouth as she was arrested was true.

"Hmm...I fear so." Seneca responded, looking to the side. It was now a trauma he couldn't just take out of Nero with simple words. Time is what he hoped could heal Nero slowly and day by day. For now at the beggining, it was obvious that Nero would be feeling all this conflict of emotions inside her.

"Then...is it true?" Nero's voice trembled as she hugged herself and stared at the flowers with apphrehension. "Everybody hates me? Do you think that no one really loves me Seneca?"

The philosopher immediatly went to console her. "That's not true my emperor. The people of Rome do and will always love you." He told her. "That I am sure of it."

"But what if it isn't Seneca? What if Rome does hate me and wants to see me dead? Am I not good enough for it? I'm not worthy of it's beauty and citizens?" Nero's tears started to mix up with the rain. "Am I a monster that should better be dead?!"

"Nero." Seneca said as he touched her shoulder and made the emperor stare at him, wiping out the tears from her face. "Even if that becomes the case, I'll always stay by your side. Until the day this old man dies, I won't ever stop from loving you as my emperor."

Those words helped Nero smile a little. "Thank you, Seneca."


"Ghgg!" Boudica was thrown to the ground after receiving a blow from Nero. Blood runned down her face as she got up again. She never heard Nero being that good of a fighter. Boudica wondered if part of her sword skills were due to the power she was receiving from the Holy Grail. But the female warrior was also able to damage Nero. The emperor was checking the wound on her own cheek as Boudica stood up. The redhair had to remind herself that she couldn't fataly wound Nero because of what she told to her friends and recent master. As much as she wanted to kill, have her revenge, the promise she made to Chaldea was more important. Killing Nero was out of question here. She had to defeat the emperor by other means.

Meanwhile, Nero was looking at her own blood on her hand. "Hmm, you just gave me an wonderful idea Boudica." Nero smiled. "To celebrate my victory, I'll make sure to use your blood to create the greatest painting that will grace my new Rome!"

"You are dead wrong if you think I'll let you do that!" Boudica replied. "No one would appreciate such horrific art!"

Nero in response, shaked her finger. "In my Rome, everyone will praise me as the figure the city and empire deserves."

"Hphm! Deserve what? Suffering?" Boudica responded.

Before Nero could proceed to talk, steps sounded from the doors behind Boudica and from it, The Chaldea group as well as the servants from the United Roman Empire emerged. Nero was dessatisfied in seeing they were still all here, meaning her remaining servants have failed their mission.

"Hope we aren't too late!" Ritsuka said as he stood next to Boudica, looking at her.

The woman smiled in return. "No, you are not. Now that we are all here, Nero's chance of winning got slimmer."

Romulus took a step to the front, locking his eyes with Nero's. The founder of Rome was now eye to eye with it's present emperor. "Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus." The founder said the emperor's full name, meaning that he wanted Nero's full attention at this precise moment. "Are you aware of your trangressions to Rome and it's people?"

"Transgressions? What transgressions? O Great Founder, can you not see?" Nero mockingly bowed before Romulus as well as mocking the founder's title and status. "The Rome you have originaly built has become too fragile, weak and unstable to be handled. I just look forward to better it, that's all." Nero smirked to him by giving her empty explanation.

"Despite it's sheer power, Rome was never perfect and perhaps never will." Caesar said, taking a step and joining Romulus. "We can always better it, that's true. However, there are many other means to reach that. And this Nero, it's not one of them."

Nero laughed at Caesar's words. "Have you forgotten what means you used to make Rome reach where is at now?"

Before he could answer, Cleopatra stood in front of Caesar. "Whatever he did was in the past! We can't change that. But what you are doing is happening right now, in the present. What Julius did was for his homeland! What you are doing is for the sake of non other but yourself!" The egyptian woman told her.

Nero scoffed to Cleopatra. "And you must be the perfect role model for honest and selfless rulers then."

"At least she has more moral than you." Nala called Nero out, making the mad emperor stare at the Chaldea group.

A fake pleasent smile runned across Nero's face as she saw them again for the first time ever since that travesty of a dinner. "Ah, my so welcome guests are here too. How good to see you again." Her smile slowly started to become into a psycothic grin. "You can't even imagine how much I wished I could have sliced all of your damn throats that night you traitors!" She shouted to them in anger. "I won't let that second chance pass by now."

"You can only blame yourself for that." Peko told Nero. "If you had told us about the Holy Grail and Lev Lainur instead of hiding the truth from us, we could have continued to work together. It didn't had to be like this Nero!"

Mash put an hand close to her ear. "Dr. Romani. Do you copy?" The hologram of doctor Romani appeard in front of her.

"Yes. In case there was any doubts left, what Nero has in her hand is indeed the Holy Grail." The Chaldea group stared at the cup in Nero's right hand, confirming that was in fact, the Holy Grail. "She is clearly drawing power out of it! If we can somehow take the grail away from her and defeat Nero, this Singularity should get resolved!"

"Understood Doctor!" Mash said to him before looking at Nero. "We aren't planning to kill you Nero. Only let go of that grail you have in your hand and this will all be over in an instant."

"Mash is right. The Holy Grail has done nothing but corrupt your mind." Ritsuka said to Nero, trying to open the emperor's eyes. "The mage that gave it to you, Lev Lainur, wanted you to exactly do this. He wasn't offering help but destruction to the empire instead! You are being manipulated by him!"

"I myself reached to the conclusion Rome should be erased and rebuilt. What am I doing is purely of my own consciousness." Nero responded, giving an annoying look at them by even daring to put the possibility she was just being manipulated. "Unlike with that woman who was called my mother, unlike with the entire senate, unlike with Seneca...This time, no one is pulling any strings on me!" Nero smiled widely. "I am my own master! Rome's master and lord!"

"You really want to destroy what is precious to you?!" Peko asked her with indignation.

"Forget it Peko." Nala told her brother. "Her mind is too far gone to do any reasoning with us."

"Wich means the only way we can stop this is by knocking the grail out of her hand and defeating her." Ritsuka commented.

Peko lowered his eyes. "If it's the only way..." He then stared at Ritsuka. "So be it! Let's make this!"

"Same!" Nala added.

Ritsuka nodded his head to the twins before looking at Mash. "Are you prepared Mash?"

The shielder nodded. "Preparing for combat master!" She then looked at Nero. "We won't kill you Nero, but that doesn't mean we won't do our best to defeat you!"

"Really? How ironic." Nero smiled to Mash. "I plan to do the exact opposite to you."

"Then let's fight already." Romulus said. "Roma's punishment on you as arrived Nero."

"Cool." Nero drunked from the cup. "All that talking was getting me bored. Time to entertain the audiences!"

Without warning, Boudica sprinted torwards the emperor. "We aren't here to entertain your sick mind!" She said, clashing her sword with Nero.

"And you aren't in position to tell me what or what not I can have!" Nero replied. "Your bodies will perish alongside this miserable old city!" She and Boudica fought each other before Cleopatra joined in and kick Nero in the stomach, allowing for Boudica to slash Nero on the other cheek and Cleopatra finish the combo by hitting her chin.

"How about this to shut up?" Cleopatra told Nero who backed off from the two women.

"Try to keep up with this then!" Nero shouted as she summoned two huge buildings to crash on both Boudica and Cleopatra. The two immediatly tried to get out of the buildings way, getting far from Nero. That however, gave space for Romulus and Caesar to attack her, quickly replacing Boudica and Cleopatra.

"Pay for what you have done to Rome, Nero!" Caesar said, attacking Nero.

"Make me!" Nero replied, noticing that Caesar and Romulus were about to both hit her at the same time. She was fast to dodge by jumping above their weapons.

"It isn't over yet!" Romulus proclaimed as he summoned huge tree branches from his red lance.

Nero was capable to escape most of them, getting scratched in her body by one or two. She was now running on the top of one of the branches while summoning buildings to block the other tree branches that Romulus summoned.

Peko who was more to the back and on the side, started shooting his light bullets at Nero, in hopes that it would hit her, mainly on her legs. Unfortunately, Nero's skills were way above then what she was normaly used to and the mad emperor was able to avoid the bullets coming torwards her while still running on top of the branches.

"Are you all even trying?" Nero laughed as she taunted them, before stopping her run and blocking Nala's sword as the girl appeard in front of her.

"You're the one who should be paying attention!" Nala responded, her sword fending off Nero's. Nero avoided a swing from Nala and kicked the girl in her stomach, throwing her some feet away. However, Nala got to recover her balance by landing her feet on Mash's shield who used her weapon to save her companion from hitting the ground. Taking this opportunity, Nala used Mash's shield as a trampoline and jumped straight back to Nero, clashing their swords with one another.

"Ha!" Nala headbutted Nero on the face, stunning the enemy for a second. "Your turn Mash!" The girl said as she stepped away and left space for Mash to step in and bash her shield against Nero.

"Grghg! You..!" Nero cleenched her teeth in fury, launching buildings torwards Mash and Nala before receiving a strong kick of Cleopatra on her head, followed up by Boudica's sword cut on the emperor's back.

"Forgetting someone?" Boudica said as Nero turned her back to look at her.

"Ggrrggghh! BOUDICA!" Nero lashed out, rageful, at the redhaired woman and the person she wanted to kill the most now. She strongly hit her sword on Boudica's shield, who was able to hold on the vicious attack. "Your ugly presence is ruining everything! Once this is over, your tribe will be hunted down until the very last one of them!" Nero yelled to Boudica.

"Over my dead body!" Boudica responded in the same coin, pulling Nero away from her with the shield.

"And mine too!" Cleopatra said behind Nero, kicking the emperor again.

"Make that three!" Caesar said, appearing on Nero's left side and cutting her in the leg, causing Nero to fall to her feet. She was shortly picked up by Boudica who abruptly got the emperor standing up again before receiving a strong and hard punch on her face, making Nero fall from the giant tree branch and hit the ground below.

As she got back up, Nero spotted the Holy Grail on the ground and a couple of meters away from her. She tried to run torwards it but was stopped in her tracks by Peko. "Get the hell out of my sight brat!" Nero yelled as she and Peko fought each other off.

"I won't!" Peko replied back, only making Nero angrier and more frustrated.

"Fuck off then peasent!" Nero cut Peko slightly in the chest and shoved him away. "People like you should never dare to touch an emperor like me!" She restarted her run but was once more stopped, this time by Nala and Mash.

"That isn't an excuse to treat others like trash!" Mash shouted, blocking Nero's sword with her shield. The emperor dodged from Nala's attack as well as Mash's next one. As Nala swinged her sword, Nero dodged it and went to grab the girl by the arm, pushing her closely and headbutting her.

"You two will die like trash!" Nero exclaimed as she threw Nala's body at Mash who first instinct was to catch her.

"Na-Ghg!" Mash was able to catch the girl but the force Nero made on that throw was enough to force Mash's feet drag on the ground for some distance.

Without any opposition, Nero runned torwards the fallen Holy Grail, getting closer to it. But as she was two meters away, Romulus summoned small brenches from the ground that wrapped themselves around Nero's right leg, causing the emperor to trip and fall. "Give up Nero Claudius! This whole turmoil must stop!" Romulus told her.

"I won't!" Nero shouted. "The plans for my new Rome are bound to happen!" She stretched her arm torwards the Holy Grail. As the fingers were getting close to touch it, Peko fired a light bullet that hit the grail, making it slide on the floor and out of Nero's possible reach to it.

"It's over." Ritsuka said as he helped Peko get up from the ground and everyone else reunited around them. "You don't have a chance to win like this alone Nero."

"For the good of Roma, that insane plan of yours ends now." Romulus told her. "An emperor should always be a mantle of protection for it's people. They trusted in you. They swore to you. Prayed to you. And you, Nero Claudius, have stabbed Roma in the back."

"..." Nero didn't respond, her eyes only focusing on the Holy Grail at the distance. But her ears were hearing Ritsuka and Romulus words. And she feared it. Hated it. "My Rome. My prescious Rome. This can't be the end for you..." In vain, Nero tried to reach out for the grail, being reminded that the tree branches were still holding her leg in place.

"It's useless to continue this Nero." Mash commented, seeing Nero's attempts to reach the grail.

"Admit defeat already." Nala told the emperor. "Can't you see you've lost?"

"S-Shut up. All of you shut the hell up!" Nero shouted in anger to them, ignoring the reality of her situation. "I won't allow this! I wont permit it! My vision of a new Rome must continue!" Nero was now desperatly trying to get her leg out of the branches as quick as possible.

"She is really obsessed with the Holy Grail." Peko said.

"Such powerful and magicful relics do that to many persons minds." Cleopatra told the boy. "Nero knows that without the grail she comes back to be just an ordinary emperor."

"I've already seen many people driven mad by power. But this certainly takes the cake." Caesar said, remembering of how many schemes he witnessed and was part of during his lifetime. "Power in the hands of unstable minds can lead to an horrendous amount of harm. And Rome's citizens had to be the targets." He said sadly.

"So it's time to talk some sense into her." Romulus told them. "I have to remind her of the dutites that come with being Roma's emperor."

"Do you think she is willing to dialogue with us about that at this point?" Ritsuka asked to Romulus, doubting that Nero would want to hear any word coming from the founder.

"I too am not sure if Nero would want to hear any words we have for her." Peko added.

"Well, if we can't talk some sense into Nero..." Boudica took a step up. "Then we can at least knock some into her." She started to walk torwards Nero.

"You sure that is our most reasonable method Boudica-san?" Mash asked a bit concerned. She hoped Boudica's intentions of killing Nero were gone by now.

"It's our best option we have I guess." Nala commented, not seeing other ways to reason with the mad emperor.

Nero looked to Boudica as she heard the steps of the warrior woman getting closer to her. In that instant, fear strucked her body. After all, Boudica couldn't possibly have any other intetnion to walk torwards Nero but to kill her. "S-Stay back! Stay the hell away from me!" Nero shouted frightened as she saw the cold and judgemental look on Boudica's face. Nero tried to summon a building to get in Boudica's way, but it seemed that the Holy Grail was way too far from her for Nero to pull that off.

Nero continued to struggle in vain as her fear would grown by feeling Boudica getting closer. The mere thought of Boudica getting her revenge right there while Nero was completely helpless was something she despised. "It can't end like this! Everyone still as to see what I am capable of! The true potential I ,Nero Claudius, am capable of reaching!" The image of her mother taunting her started to materialize in her mind. Mocking her daughter's efforts. "Stop that! You have no right! You have no right to mock me! I'm better than you! I'll show you!"

From her skin, black lines and patterns started to appear as well as some dark mist around Nero. "My Rome...My love..." Nero muttered to herself, making Boudica become suspicious and stop from walking any closer torwards Nero. "You people...Your beauty...Your richness...It all belongs to me!" Nero shouted as the dark lines would spread more on her body. "It's all mine! MINE!" The dark mist around the emperor then exploded into a vast breeze of wind.

"What a-" Boudica covered her own eyes as the gust of wind hit her and everyone else behind her.

"W-what's happening?!" Nala asked confused.

"Something tells me Nero isn't done yet!" Ritsuka responded.

As the violent wind died down and nothing seemed to have changed at all, Nero started to laugh crazily. She had freed her leg from Romulus branches.

"Crap! She's free!" Cleopatra said, before feeling the earth shaking alongside everyone else.

"What was this?" Mash asked, worried and confused. This couldn't mean a good thing for them. And the shielder was indeed right, as a sound of a shrieking and frightening loud growl was heard in the sky, paralyzing everyone with shock.

Even Doctor Romani's hologram appeard. "This is bad! T-This is straight up terrifying!" He said, sweating in panic.

"What is it Doc?" Ritsuka asked him.

"My monitors are picking up a tremendous and hostile signal on some couple kilomoters away from you! This type of magic and being...It's utterly insane! I don't know if all of you could even defeat it."

"Defeat what? Tell us Doctor!" Peko wanted to know what the hell was Doctor Romani talking about, leaving the boy and the group in a more panicking postion.

Boudica looked to Nero. "What did you do?" Boudica questioned her enemy who was still laughing. "Answer me damnit!" Boudica was about to attack Nero but stopped and got completely astonished by what she saw in front of her. Everyone did.

"It will devour you." Nero said evily as from the distance, on the top of one of Rome's seven hills, a giant monster looking thing in the shape of a snake started to reveal itself behind the hill. "It will devour all of you!"

"W-What is that thing?" Caesar himself, the once great general of Rome, couldn't even believe in the sheer size of the demonic monster.

"Can...Can we even defeat something like that?" Peko at that moment was so speechless that the possibility of defeating such enormous and horrific monster couldn't fit into his head at all.

Even Nala herself doubted of their own capabilities. "I...dont know." She tightened the grip on her own sword and looked dreadly to the ground. "Damn it! How can we defeat this thing?! All that effort from the previous battle will have meant nothing!"

"M-Master..." Mash looked to Ritsuka, trying to find an advice in him. "What can we do?"

For much Ritsuka didn't want to admit it and he had to try and say something a leader would say at this moment, he to be real with the situation they were in. "I'm...afraid we can't do nothing. We are clearly outmatched against it."

"Then what the hell can we do?!" Nala said, rising her voice a bit. "We have to at least try, right?"

"I too want to think like that but..." Peko said to his sister before looking to Romulus, Caesar and Cleopatra. "Is there any chance we can defeat it?"

"Unfortunately, as we stand now, we cannot." Caesar told to Peko.

"Really?!" Ritsuka asked him.

"What Julius is saying it's true. Even at our best, it would be very difficult to take that thing down." Cleopatra replied, bitting her own lips. "And to think we reached so far to have come to this..."

"Then we really have no chance of winning this?!" Romani exclaimed before starting to feel anxious.

"No. It isn't all hopeless as it seems." Romulus responded, gaining everyone's attention.

"What are you talking about Romulus?" Ritsuka asked to the founder. "There is a chance then?"

"Yes there is." Romulus said, before looking at the master of humanity's eyes. "And I have to die for that to happen."

"What!?" Mash exclaimed in shock just like everybody. "You have to sacrifice yourself Romulus-san?"

"I know it ain't easy to explain but, if I die, specially in Roma, I most certainly can come back...altough with a different look and Spirit Origin." Romulus explained to them.

"Wait!" Caesar exclaimed. "Don't tell me you are referring to-"

"Yes I am. A stronger servant than anyone else that is here. One capable of taking down that demonic monster. It is our only chance."Romulus said.

"So that means we will have to kill you here and now?!" Boudica exclaimed.

"If we want to win, it needs to be done." Romulus responded, keeping his composure.

"Are you okay with that?" Peko asked to the founder.

"A great ruler is always ready to do sacrifices for the good of his nation." Romulus smiled to Peko. "Besides, as the creator of this huge nation, it is nothing but a honour to give my entire body in order to save it."

"Will it work?" Ritsuka asked to Romulus.

"Trust in me, mage from Chaldea." The founder showed him the torn piece of cloth of the wolf with the two babies. "I promise on our very own souls."

Seeing that Romulus was sure of it, Ritsuka nodded his head. "Understood then Romulus!"

"But who will kill you Romulus-san?" Mash asked, putting the question of who would be the one taking out Romulus's life.

"We must be quick with that! At any moment the monster Nero summoned will start moving!" Romani warned them.

Caesar raised his sword. "It shall be me. I presume nothing is more worthy to the founder but to be killed by the hands of a general that did everything for the empire you've built. It will be a roman to spill the blood of another roman."

Romulus left his chest opened for Caesar. "Then let's do this my child! Roma awaits for slavation!"

Nero was on the distance, happily watching Romulus about to do a sacrifice. The idea of wanting to die for this old Rome was genuinely funny and pathetic on Nero's mind. "Hahahaha! Do try then O Great Founder." She picked up the Holy Grail on the ground. "You will die here but not in the way you wish!" She then turned around to look at the giant monster on the horizon. "Heed me! Destroy and vaporize my enemies until not even their bones are left!"

Hearing Nero's words, the monster slowly started to move.

"It's coming here!" Nala said.

"Quick Caesar! We shouldn't waste any more second!" Romulus told his fellow roman to hurry.

"This will be the end for all of you!" Nero laughed and smiled to them, celebrating her 'victory' in advance. "Become wasteful remains alongside this city and perish! This old era of the Roman Empire has come to a close!" Nero raised her arms upwards and grined to the sky. "From now on, this shall be known as the Nero Claudius empire!"

As soon as she finished saying those words, something in the distance started to shine. It looked like some sort of yellow and white light.

Noticing it, Romulus ordered Caesar to stop before he could pierce the founder's heart. "Wait a moment!" He said. "That shine. It can only be..."

Just like him everyone else noticed that light in the horizon.

"What is that-" Before Ritsuka could fully finish his sentence, the light bursted into a huge white and yellow ray, hitting the serpent monster who cried in pain from the ruthless blow.

Even Nero was shocked by such thing. "W-What the hell?!"

The beam was so powerful that had totally annihalated the monster, wiping it out from existence and saving the Chaldea group the trouble of fighting it. Now all that remained was small yellow lights that dispersed alongside the beam that had diminished until it dissapeard.

What Peko's eyes had saw was just inexplicable. "That powerful light. What was even that?"

Nala looked at everyone. "Can anyone explain what just happened?"

"I'm as confused as you girl." Cleopatra told Nala. "That huge ray was definetly stronger than my Noble Phantasm could ever be though."

"So are you implying that what we saw right now was another Noble Phantasm Cleopatra-san?" Mash asked to the egyptian woman.

"Perhaps. I also think that ray felt somewhat familiar." Ritsuka said to Mash, trying to remember where and when he saw such thing similar.

"There is only one kind of weapon that could unleash such type of power like the one we witnessed." Romulus said to them. "Such powerful and mystical one, forged with the finest magic to ever exist on earth."

Doctor Romani, who had still been present this entire time, was figuring out what weapon Romulus was talking about. "I guess it's pretty clear what weapon could have done that."

"It is?" Nala asked the doctor.

"The one of legendary and famous aspect." Romulus said. "It's name-"

"DAMN YOU!" Nero yelled in rage, interrupting Romulus from revealing the weapon's name and make her enemies pay attention to her again. "Did this had to happen right now?! Out of nowehere like that?! I had the win on the palm of my hands damnit!" She complained, finding absurd and unfair on how her greatest asset and ally had been wipped from the fight so quickly.

"I presume she doesn't have any more tricks left." Boudica said, seeing Nero had runned out of options and majority of her mana power had been used in summoning that creature that was no longer their problem.

"She still has the Holy Grail however, so we can't be that sure." Peko told Boudica, being aware of the powers the grail had.

"Then we do just like we did previously and this time make sure Nero doesn't try to pull something off." Mash said.

"Then let's start round two!" Nala exclaimed.

"Sure! Ready to fight again guys?" Ritsuka asked his group and the servants, who all nodded. He then looked at Boudica. "Also, to help you out..." His Command Seals shinned as he gave a little help to Boudica. "I offer you my mana...I hope is of helpt to you..." Ritsuka said, before starting to lose balance.

"Ritsuka!" Peko helped his friend to stay on his feet. "Don't abuse too much of it."

"He is right master. Your body mustn't push itself too hard." Mash advised him, concerned for her master's health.

Boudica smiled and touched Ritsuka's shoulder. "Thank you master. I appreciate it. Your mana won't be spent in vain."

Ritsuka smiled back. "Glad to hear that."

Turning her body around, Boudica looked at Nero. "Now let's not prolong this. You are going down, Nero!"

"Mind me if I give you a hand?"

A voice sounded out of nowhere, caughting everyone off guard.

"Did you all just heard something?" Ritsuka asked as he was confused as the rest.

"I'm glad I could arrive just in time."

The voice said and right in front of them, a white beam of light descended from the skies and hit the ground, later revealing a tan skinned young woman with long white hair and clothes of grey patterns, red eyes and a crystal tri-colour sword. It was without a doubt another servant.

"Hm? Are you..." Caesar tried to wonder who the new arrived servant could be.

"You are our ally from the east?!" Cleopatra exclaimed.

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The servant smiled. "Correct. It's a pleasure to finally be here aiding you side by side. The name is Altera. But you may know me better as Attila the Hun." She introduced herself to them.

Romulus smiled all happily. "It's great to see you came all the way from the east to help us personaly. Now our group has become stronger than ever!"

"Attila the Hun. A very fitting ally for this situation." Mash said while observing Altera.

"Is she like Nero's weakness?" Peko asked to the shielder.

"Not quite but during her time, Attila used to be the emperor of a tribal empire and Rome's greatest enemy." Romani explained. "Her stats against Roman opponents must be great."

"Then it couldn't have been a better pairing than this." Nala said with a smile.

"True! Our chances of victory have increased immensely now!" Ritsuka told them.

"Fou fou!" Fou also showed his happiness by appearing behind Mash's shoulder.

"Are you the mages from the future?" Altera asked Ritsuka and the rest of the group.

"Yes we are. We came from Chaldea to save humanity." Ritsuka extended his arm to Altera. "It's nice to meet you."

"Hmm. I see." Altera looked to the side. "I'll have to tell you something later." She said, gaining a confused look from Ritsuka. "For now, I must make sure that this civilization doesn't end up rottened and badly influenced by it's emperor!" Altera proclaimed, pointing her sword at Nero. "I have come to destroy the bad civilization you want to create!"

"Well said." Boudica told Altera, the two warrior women standing side by side with their swords ready.

Nero was fumming at this point. First she lost the creature she summoned and now this. She felt her mind would break and collapse at any moment. She had no way to defeat them. She had her back leaned against the wall. "What do I do now?! What the hell can I do?!" With the hands shaking from the utter nervousism, Nero looked to the Holy Grail she had in hand. It was a desperate thing to do but there wasn't much Nero could think of right now. "Screw it! It's all or nothing!" In a rushed movement, Nero put the Holy Grail against her lips and she started drinking the black liquid from it nonstop.

Seeing this, all the servants alongside Chaldea rushed torwards her.

But Nero had finished drinking from it, with a dark grin forming on her face. "Now, for the last time." Her voice sounded demonic now. "PERISH!"

With her scream, Nero summoned tall and large buildings to get in the way of her enemies.

"Ah!" Altera sliced the first one that appeard in front of them. However, the buildings wouldn't stop getting summoned now alongside other debris that would appear and fall at an high speed.

Romulus decided to once again use the powers of his lance and summoned the tree branches, colliding it with Nero's buildings while staying behind. "Keep going! I'll hold as many buildings as possible!" He shouted to the rest to keep going.

"You don't understand do you?" Nero speaked as she watched her enemies trying to reach to her while avoiding the attacks.

Four more appeared. Two to the left and the other two on the right. Caesar and Cleopatra destroyed them.

"We will also stay behind and block the buildings from hitting you!" Cleopatra told the rest.

"Don't waste time and go!" Caesar said.

The Chaldea group continued running with Boudica and Altera, getting closer to Nero.

"The emperor is Rome. Without an emperor the empire falls. Therefore, what I want is what Rome wants!" Nero summoned one giant building in front of them.

While Boudica and Altera sliced it with not much problem, Ritsuka was getting tired and fatigue, causing him to slip.

"Ritsuka!" Peko went right back to pick his friend up. "Are you okay?"

"I'm...just a bit tired." Ritsuka said, feeling is energy getting drained by using is mana on Boudica.

"And an empire where everyone admires me..." Nero summoned a giant building above Ritsuka and Peko, ready to crush them. "...is what Rome wants."

"Peko! Ritsuka!" Nala screamed as she tried to run back to save them from getting crushed.

Mash saw that the building was almost collapsing on the two boys. "Nala won't be able to reach them in time!" "Senpai! Peko!"

Feeling that he had to use it or it would be the end for both of them, Peko stretched his arm to the falling building. "There's no choice! I have to use it!" Peko's arm started to shine brightly and of pure white, making Ritsuka surprised.

"Peko, what are you doing?" The moment he asked the boy, Peko discharged a powerful blast of light that obliterated the middle of the building, causing a giant hole in it. Ritsuka was open mouthed by what he had saw.

"Grrrrhaaaaa!" Peko grabbed tightly the arm from wich he had shooted the blast, feeling the nerves burning.

"Peko, are you okay!?" Ritsuka hold him as he saw his friend contorting his face in pain.

"It was...worth it..." Peko forced a smile. "But this was way too unstable. I could have lost my arm there!"

Nala had shortly reached them and went immediatly to her brother's side. "Peko! Is your arm alright?! Does it hurt a lot?!" She asked him, deeply worried.

Even the hologram of Romani went to see the condition of his arm. "It must have suffered a huge shock and it's mana circuits have overheated. Thankfully, it didn't suffered any lasting damages." Romani told Nala and Ritsuka who sighed in relief.

"That was a close call." Ritsuka said before looking to Nala. "Go ahead Nala. I'll stay here taking care of Peko."

"Okay!" Nala got up and was about to go but not before saying something to her brother. "For an idiot you did well, Peko." She smiled to him.

"I...I know sis." Peko smiled back to her. "I can't let you have the...entire spotlight after all."

Nala runned back to Mash, Boudica and Altera who were now getting closer to Nero.

"Those who do not love me cannot love Rome!" Nero said, trapping the four by putting buildings around them.

"Hphm!" Altera sliced all of them, creating a path that would lead them torwards Nero.

"Almost there!" Boudica said as she went ahead and the rest followed her.

"Every city has it's apogee and decadence." Nero then summoned a tall skyscrapper that was about to fall on them. "But I'll make the new Rome's glory be eternal!"

Mash put her shield in the air. "Everyone, stay below my shield!" Ready fot the impact of the skyscrapper, Nala, Boudica and Altera took cover on Mash's shield and the shielder herself put a lot of strenght in her body to tank the impact.

With the tall skyscrapper falling above them, Mash was able to protect everyone and create a hole in the building with her shield. With the dust faiding away, they all saw Nero at the other end of the destroyed skyscrapper, waiting for them. "Die!" She summoned a huge amount of spikes inside the building, heading them torwards the four enemies. "Die die die die!"

Mash slashed and blocked the incoming spikes, allowing for the other three to keep going.

"As the emperor I order you to die!"

Nala cut and slashed more of the spikes coming torwards them, letting Boudica and Altera sprint torwards Nero and getting closer to her, with Boudica even summoning her chariot and get much closer to the enemy.

"YOU WON'T BE TAKING ANYTHING FROM ME!"

Altera jumped out of Boudica's chariot and made way for the redhaired woman to proceed alongside her chariot that was now on full speed and reaching to the end of the skyscrapper.

"ROME BELONGS TO MEEEEE!"

Nero created a wall of spikes to protect herself from Boudica but that didn't helped as soon as Boudica's chariot crushed the wall completely and the woman who Nero had caused so much suffering, humiliated and brought so much pain to her life and tribe was now right on top of Nero, about to give her the long awaited payback.

"NERRROOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Screaming with all the courage and pent up anger she had been built ever since the day she had died, Boudica descended her loyal sword to a paralyzed and shocked Nero Claudius.

"Sword of Boudica: Sword Without Promised Victory!"

Shinning brightly, Boudica's sword quickly came down and cut off Nero's right arm. The one she was holding the Holy Grail.

Nero couldn't even get time to scream as the impact Boudica's chariot made was enough to throw her away.

As the emperor was in midair and about to fall to the ground, only one thing passed through her mind.

"Rome...I..."


Battlefield 1 OST- The Flight Of The Pigeon

"Hey Seneca! Do you want to know what my first order will be as an emperor?"

"Do tell me My Praetor."

"It will be making Rome the greatest and largest city to have ever been created."

"Now that is a bit of a complex task, don't you think?"

"I know. But if there is a place to start, I'd like to built a huge theater in the middle of the city."

"How huge?"

"Huge enough that every civillian can be fit inside it. I want it to be a cultural landmark of our empire! Everyone from the farest regions of the world will come here to see! It will be my gift and legacy to Rome and it's future generations."

"That sounds wonderful Nero. What do you think of doing next then?"

"Hmmm, perhaps a garden next to it umu! One full of roses!"

"And the plays? What will they consist of? Who will be the actors?"

"Me of course! As the emperor, it will be my duty to bring joy to every citizen of Rome!"

"I see. Well, better start planning it's construction then. Altough I doubt if I'll ever seen such construction be finished with my own eyes."

"Why are you saying that Seneca?"

"I won't last forever Nero. I do think I gave everything I could to the empire. And now, in my twilight years and onwards, I hope you can do the same."

"I will! I promise you Seneca that I will! Even after you're gone, I'll make sure to treat Rome the way you teached me."

"Hmmm, then I may rest peacefuly."

"My theater will make sure to play your works even after your death. I'll do my best for the people to never forget them."

"That sounds endearing. But do you know what truly would give me happiness?"

""What?"

"The emperor's joy. That is the thing I cherish the most. Treat them well Nero, and they will treat you the same in return."

"Heh. Thanks for the advise, Seneca."

"Anyways. Does the praetor have a name for the theater?"

"I guess that's the hard part. I have so many names in mind you know?"


"I..." A tear dropped from Nero's eye. "...wanted to be happy, alongside everyone else."

Nero's body hit the ground at the same time her now separated right arm did. The landing made the cut off arm release the Holy Grail from it's grip, the cup making metalic sounds as it hit the ground. Rolling on the floor, the Holy Grail stopped, with no more liquid inside it, being completely empty.

Boudica panted exhausted, her sword now stenched with Nero's blood. "It's over...we won."

The buildings stopped being summoned and the giant fires slowly started to die. The red sky was now vanishing, it's clouds getting back to normal and making space for the blue sky.

Feeling the battle over and the mood and weather changing overall, Mash sat on the ground, being able to rest. "Finally." She sighed, before being hugged by Nala.

"We did it Mash! We won!" She said happily and the shielder couldn't help but smile in return to the girl.

"Nala! Mash!" Peko shouted to the two girls while he helped Ritsuka walk with him.

"I'm fine Peko." Ritsuka told to him. "Me legs just feel a little weak, that's all."

Nala and Mash went torwards the two. "How's your arm Peko?" Nala asked her brother.

"Better now and I can still move it." Peko responded. "And with this done, you know what that means."

"Two down and five more to go." Nala responded. "We are clearly making progress here! Give me an high five!"

"Of course!" Peko said and the two siblings high fived with each other.

"How is your body feeling Senpai?" Mash asked Ritsuka.

"Better than some seconds ago when Boudica unleashed everything she had." Ritsuka said. "But I'm happy that I was able to help."

The hologram of Doctor Romani appeard, crying. "Damn you guys make me proud! I can't believe an understaffed Chaldea with a low mana average human, demi-servant and two kids have just cleaned two Singularities now waaaaah!"

"Are you saying you didn't believed in us?" Peko asked to Romani, feeling weirded out by the doctor's excessive crying.

"Let it be. Doctor Romani is just...emotional sometimes." Mash told Peko.

"I think we deserve a little something when we get back doc." Ritsuka said with a smirk.

"Hell yeah! This time I hope there is a strawberry cake waiting for me!" Nala told to Romani.

"Don't worry guys. I'll tell Da Vinci to start making it. Also, I'll start programming the Rayshift right now. Expect to leave in the next minutes."

"Fou fou!" Fou came out of Mash's back and jumped to the middle of the group, jumping up and down happily.

"Looks like Fou wants to celebrate as much as us." Ritsuka said with a smile.

"Well, he is also part of the team so it makes sense." Mash said as she watched both Peko and Nala patting the animal.

"Then let's give him chocolate!" Nala said.

"Do you really think we can feed him that?" Peko asked his sister.

"Hmmmm, good question." Nala responded.

"Fou!" The animal jumped and started to tap Peko's cheek repeatedly.

"Ok ok! We will give you chocolate!" Peko begged for Fou to stop tapping his cheek.

As the group would laugh and relax, Boudica would watch them in the distance with a smile. Hopefuly, she got what she wanted without having to kill Nero.

Altera approached the warrior woman. "You did well. Hearing about your backstory, I know it took some restraint to not do it." She extended her arm to Boudica for a handshake.

"Same to you." Boudica accepted Altera's handshake. "You were pretty good."

"So, will you finally let it go?" Altera asked to Boudica, referring to her hatred and revenge for Nero.

Taking a deep breath and looking to the now blue sky, Boudica replied. "That will depend on what she does next." Boudica gave a look to the defeated Nero on the ground, not noticing someone behind her.

"That is my Bou!" Cleopatra gave a tight hug on Boudica from behind, surprising the redhaired woman. "You just saved humanity girl! I'm so happy for you!"

"Ghg! T-thanks Cleopatra. But can you please not hug me that tightly?" Boudica said, forcing a smile on her face before the gyptian woman undid the hug.

Caesar appeard next to Cleopatra. "You all did greatly. My work as a general can finaly return to the retirment. Phew! I have to say that this last operation may have been the most difficult of my entire career."

"But it was all worth it, don't you think?" Cleopatra said to Caesar.

"To save Rome or spend time with you? I'd say both. But only one of my two loves has a physical form." He smiled to Cleopatra.

The egyptian queen blushed. "Oh Julius you dummie!" She tried to hide her blush.

"So what you two will be doing next?" Boudica asked them.

"Heh. You already know the answer to that." Cleopatra blinked to Boudica.

"But before that..." Caesar looked to Romulus who was watching the view of Rome that altough heavily damaged, managed to survive. Caesar walked torwards him. "What do you have to say, Great Founder?"

"Roma lives." Romulus responded. "All thanks to your combined efforts. You were a child Roma was lucky to have, Julius Caesar. I am deeply grateful for your help."

"W-Well, the pleasure is all mine Great Founder. But I alone couldn't have done it despite my skills as a military man." Caesar told him. "It was a huge honour to serve you."

Romulus smiled to Caesar. "I see why you ended up so famous. However, there is still something that needs to be done." Romulus said as he spotted Nero, still in the ground with a defeated look in her eyes. "The empire, can't be led astray again."

Having lost, Nero now contempated the sky above her, knowing she wasn't able to do nothing anymore. Even her blonde hair was loose now.

"You have explanations to give, Nero Claudius."

The words of Romulus reached her ears as the figure of the Great Founder of Rome appeard in her vision, looking at Nero with a dissapointing and reprimanding face.

Not being able to stand the shame, Nero's eyes that had went back to normal started to tear up as she tried to cover them with her remaining arm. "F-Founder Romulus..." She said beetween her sobs. The guilty and shame could be felt so much in her right now. Nero knew what she had just tried to do. How much she let her ancestors down. How much she failed as an emperor. And now she was being judged by the glare of the man who founded the nation she currently had to take care of. If there was a hole, Nero would jump straight into it and cover herself up to hide from the embaressment.

"What you did was of a great crime to Roma itself. No ruler should ever harm it's nation in such ways." Romulus said to Nero, calmly scolding her.

Everyone else was watching behind Romulus, watching Nero cry full of regret. Despite having been their main enemy on this Singularity, no one of the Chaldea group felt exactly happy or satisfied by seeing Nero like that.

"I-I'm sorry founder..." Nero tried to apologize as she continued sobbing. "I-I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy at all!"

"You knew what you were about to do and still did it, didn't you?" Romulus asked Nero.

"I-it told me to do. I thought everything would be fine if I did what it told me." Nero revealed while crying, making Romulus and everyone raise an eyebrow.

" 'It'?" Romulus asked, wondering what Nero was talking about.

Ritsuka then remembered of something. Or rather, someone. "Could it be-"

A sound of clapping suddenly appeard. "Well done. Quite the show you have made."

The voice made all four memebers of Chaldea freeze as they instantly recognized who it was.

"Congratulations, Chaldea. You managed to ruin our little plot." A familiar figure stepped out of the shadows.

"I knew you would still be in this Singularity!" Romani shouted to the man who had just appeard in front of everyone. It has been quite some time but the Chaldea group still remembered him fairly well.

Ritsuka frowned in anger and tightened his fist. He as well as Mash, Peko and Nala still hadn't forget what he had done to Olga.

"We meet again, Chaldea." Said the other magus from their current time and traitor, Lev Lainur.

To be continued...


And that's it for chapter 34!

Nero has been finally defeated, but like in the og version of the game, Lev Lainur appears at the end to ruin everyone's fun. And at last the last servant of the Singularity, Altera, makes her appearence, wich again, is at the end of the Singularity like the og version but this time under different terms and circumnstances.

Now be on alert for the next chapter because it will be the last one of Septem! So beware of the Ides of the last chapter! (Wich totally doesn't make sense this joke because I'll certainly release it in the beggining of April so we won't be in March anymore and we probably have passed through this months ides for a long time now).

Anyways, that's all I wanted to say and see you next time on chapter 35! Peace!

P.S: TIAMAT ON FGO MOBILE! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!