Hello everyone and welcome back to the start of chapter 40 of the fanfiction! Hope you're having a good day (or good night depending at what hour you're reading this) and get in a comfortable position to read!

And with that said, 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.


Inside the giant labyrinth of marble walls, the Chaldea group wandered in its halls alongside captain Drake. They had to discover what was the source of the Bounded Field that was stucking them to this island as fast as possible. And with the transmissions cut, there was no Romani and Da Vinci to guide them through the halls. Thankfully, the space was at least well lighted.

The group eventually reached to the end of an hallway where a giant stone door stood in front of them. All of they wondered what there could be beyond it.

"Do you think there is enemies on the other side of it?" Nala asked to the rest of the team.

"Having good enough understanding and expertise on videogames, this smells exactly like to a boss room." Ritsuka said.

"A boss room?" Peko asked confused. Everyone besides the master of humanity was, since they never played a videogame in their lives before. Some never even knew about their existence.

"Yep. Once we open the door, some monster will probably be waiting for us on the other side." Ritsuka said. "So you better be preparing your weapons already." After Ritsuka saying that, the whole group went to summon their weapons preparing to fight if what Ritsuka told was true.

"Aye, but first lend me a hand here." Drake said as she went to the door, who clearly needed more than one person to be opened.

The Chaldea group went to help Drake and now all of them were making efforts to push the door in order to open a gap. Even Fou was trying to help.

"Foooou!"

"This thing is heavy!" Nala said as she felt not much progress was being made. But soon after she said that, the gates started to slightly move.

"Yes! We are doing it!" Drake exclaimed, still making strenght on the door alongside everyone else.

"Just a little more!" Mash told them, before stopping from pushing the door after another five seconds. The gap they had made on it was large enough for the group to pass.

"We did it!" Peko speaked while catching up his breath. "Uff, this was a bit tiring."

Ritsuka approached the gap. "And now onto the next room." He covered his body behind the door, peeping on the next room, expecting to see any hostile monster in there. Instead, he found nothing. The room was completely empty. Surprisingly, since it was a very big room. "N-No enemies?" Ritsuka said almost in dissapointment.

"I think you have been playing too many games Senpai." Mash told him as she passed through the gates and entered the room, with both Peko and Nala following her while giggling at Ritsuka for his dissapointment of the 'boss room'.

Drake even clapped his back. "Don't be that sad now, will ya? Think positive, at least we don't have to worry about any monster for now." The pirate woman smiled to him.

"Yeah. That is definetly a good thing." Ritsuka said while stepping inside the room as well. But as he had done that, the master of humanity stepped on a tile that immediatly got pushed down and made a sound of something being activated. He realized he had just triggered a trap. "Uh oh."

The doors behind them immediatly closed and locked up behind them.

"This doesn't sound good." Peko said, catching sight of a hole appearing on the ceiling.

From it, a monster fell down into the room. It was an enemy they hadn't seen before, a mixture of lion, goat and snake all together into one individual monster.

"It's a chimera!" Mash exclaimed, putting herself and her shield in combat position. "Everyone get ready!"

"Is this the boss?" Nala asked to Ritsuka.

"Hum...seems like it." Ritsuka responded, expecting any other thing but a chimera to be the enemy they would have to fight in this room.

"Then this thing must be the cause of the Bounded Field." Drake smirked, picking up her handguns. "Time to make it bite the dust!"

The chimera roared in return,its claws and teeth sharp to fight the intruders.

"Nala!" Ritsuka shouted the girl's name.

"Always the first!" She responded to him, dashing torwards the monster who with its snake part threw some venom at Nala who dodged it with ease. She then jumped forward and descended her sword torwards the snake part of the chimera. "Take this!" Nala exclaimed, delivering an almost cut clean. Almost because the girl wasn't able to cut totally the snake off from the rest of the monster's body. That visibly frustrated Nala. "H-How?!"

As the chimera turned its body to face the girl, the goat head got shot in the eye by Peko. "Focus Nala!" He told to his sister.

The chimera then shifted its attention to the boy, and from the goat head, it threw some fireballs at him.

"Behind me Peko!" Mash told him as she got in front of Peko and blocked the fireballs with her shield. As Mash was thinking about approaching the wild creature, the lion part of the chimera's body jumped torwards her and Peko, forcing Mash to hold the enemy down as it tried to tear down her defenses with the lion's claws.

"You get here!" Drake shouted, hitting the lion's face with one of her hatchets, trying to force the chimera to let go off of Mash and Peko. The snake part tried to attack the pirate woman from behind by using its fangs. Thankfully, Nala made sure to finish the job this time by cutting the snake off of the body.

"One down, two to go!" She exclaimed.

Peko immediatly got out from Mash's cover and went to attack the other side of the lion's head, plunging his sword on the animal's face.

Seeing that her and Peko's weapons were stuck on the lion's face, Drake stared at the boy as the two alongside Mash tried to pull the monster away. "With me boy, savvy?"

"Aye aye captain!" Peko exclaimed, and he and Drake put more strenght on their weapons, using their collective effort to ward off the enemy as Mash also put more strenght on her shield.

The three's strenght was able to force the chimera stand on two feet of the lion's body and about to fall to the ground on its back. Nala also helped them by piercing the goat's head that was about to lunch more fireballs at the group. Eventually, the girl also stabbed the chimera's back as soon as she got on the ground.

With the abdomen exposed, Peko took the chance and also prefurated the chimera's body, who now was stabbed in the front and back, immobilizing the body.

"The creature is totally open! Deliver the final blow Mash!" Ritsuka exclaimed to his servant, who runned torwards the lion's head, making sure to slice it. However, the chimera still wanted to give a fight and tried to attack the shielder by using the lion's claws.

Drake quickly saw that and blasted thee lion's claws by shooting at it, opening the way for Mash who then landed the final hit by slicing the lion's face in the middle, killing the chimera who's body went limp and then dissapeard. As soon as the body dissapeard, the door behind them unlocked as well as a new passaged appear in front of the group.

"Well done guys!" Ritsuka said, approaching the rest of his group.

"Aren't bosses supposed to be harder?" Peko asked to Ritsuka, expecting that the chimera would be way more difficult.

"Perhaps this was the sub-boss of the dungeon then." Ritsuka pondered. "The real boss may be just ahead of us."

"I hope that speculation doesn't become real again." Peko responded, feeling that it would be better if they could get out of this labyrinth with only having to fight the chimera.

"I fear to say this but master is probably right." Mash told the boy. "My shield readings tells me that the Bounded Field is still up, wich means that the chimera wasn't the cause behind this."

"Fou..." Fou said in a sad tone, hoping that defeating the chimera would clear the Bounded Field problem.

"Then we still don't have a culprit." Drake corssed her arms. "Meh, let's go searching again." She said, looking at the passage that opened in front of them. "Perhaps the next room has some treasure! Let's go everyone!"

"Aye captain!" Ritsuka, Mash and Peko exclaimed and where about to follow her. Mash however stopped when she noticed Nala a bit far away from them, looking at her own sword.

"It wasn't good enough..." Nala murmured to herself, thinking about how she failed to cut clean the snake at her first try. "Have I really got better?" She tighten the grip on her sword a bit. The attacks were still efficient, but not as efficient as she could like. There was still something missing. Something to turn her sword slashes powerful. Nala tried to think on how as her mind would go deeper in those toughts.

"Are you okay Nala?" Mash touched the girl in the shoulder, pulling her out from the toughts.

"A-Ah? Y-yes I am Mash!" Nala said, giving the shielder a clumsy smile. "I was just dreaming with my eyes open! It happens sometimes!"

Feeling that she sould ask more but that now wasn't time for it, Mash decided to give the girl a small smile instead. "Ok. But we have to move." She pointed at the hallway in front of them. "They already went forward. We must catch them up."

Nala nodded. "Understood!"


And it didn't take too long for both girls to rejoin the group who was walking slowly so that Mash and Nala could quickly catch to them.

"Alright, we are all here and just in time." Ritsuka said as he turned around to stare at the end of the hallway that would lead to another room. "Good thing that this one doesn't have a door to push."

"Being so open like that, it's almost like they want us to enter." Drake said with suspicion. "Be careful guys. It can be another trap."

"Well, the only way to know is to enter the room." Peko said. "If we want to discover the source of the Bounded Field then we will have to proceed."

"Trap or not, we just wont be standing here waiting." Nala told them, deciding to go ahead. "Let's enter."

Everyone followed her and entered the room, this time watching their step to see if it wouldn't activate a trap or something.

"This room looks as empty as the previous one." Mash commented, don't caughting sight of anything.

"Looks..That's the problem." Drake replied to Mash. "We can't be sure it's totally empty just like the other time. Continue to stay on alert still."

"Aye captain." Mash responded.

Ritsuka looked to the passage in front of them, composed of pillars, with some being broken. It looked like the entrance to an temple just like the one they saw outside. "Something tells me we are getting closer. Or not."

Peko stared around to the marble walls, seeing that no trap was still activated. So far the room appeard to be completely normal. "It seems we may don't have to worry with any monsters this-"

"Fou fou!" Fou appeard and jumped torwards Peko shoulder, trying to say something to the boy.

"What is it Fou? What's the reason for the fuss?" Peko asked to the animal.

"I wouldn't say he wants to eat." Nala speaked, feeling that Fou was trying to warn them of a possible danger. "The reaction is that of an enemy nearby."

Before the group could continue talking, heavy footsteps sounded, coming from the hallway in front of them. The sound quickly made everyone's defense to saty high and prepare to fight.

"I'm detecting a magic signal coming from that way!" Mash informed them.

"Another servant?" Ritsuka asked to Mash.

"Yes, much likely." The shielder answered him.

"Is it that Bloodaxe King again?" Nala asked.

"No. He couldn't have possibly reach to this island first than us to then set this whole labyrinth to trap us in." Drake responded to the girl.

From the shadows of the hallway, a giant muscular man appeared, wielding two giant axes in both hands. His eyes were red and he had large white hair with two black horns sprouting from it. The hair was so long that even covered the servant's neck, almost like fur. He had some heavy shackles on his arms and legs, with a cannon ball attached to one of his cuff's legs, making a metalic sound as it was dragged on the floor. The servant was only wearing some red clothes from the waist down, the rest of the body being completely naked and revealing the enomorus scars on the servant's body.

"That's the servant?" Peko said, feeling a bit intimidated by the large posture of the arriving servant. He was the tallest of the servants he had ever seen until now, surpassing both Spartacus and Lu Bu in height.

"Now THAT has a boss appearence." Ritsuka said, being able to tell that this servant was clearly more dangerous than the chimera.

"He must be the one who put this Bounded Field." Nala speaked.

"By the readings I got, seems like it." Mash responded.

"Then let's end this!" Drake exclaimed. "My men have probably started to grow tired of waiting soo much by this point."

"Grrr." The servant showed them his teeth agressively, perhaps angered that they had just broke into his domain.

"Wait Asterios!" A voice sounded behind the big servant, coming from a young girl with purple twin tail hair and simple white clothing with black lines. "You shouldn't fight in that state!"

"Huh? A girl here?" Ritsuka asked confused at the sight of her.

"Is that servant protecting her then?" Peko wondered.

"That or she was kidnapped." Nala told him.

"Then we must rescue her!" Peko replied to his sister.

"It won't be that simple." Drake said, staring at the servant. "He looks tough."

"GRRAAAAAH!" The servant roared and proceeded to run torwards his enemies, ignoring the advises of the young girl behind him.

"Here he comes!" Nala exclaimed.

Without time to lose, Peko pointed his finger at the servant, firing a light bullet at the enemy. The big servant defelcted it with the swing of one of his axes.

Drake also fired from her gun, but the result was the same with the servant blocking the bullet.

Nala rushed torwards the servant and exchanged some blows of her sword with his big axes.

"Air Step"

Nala unleashed her skill, being able to dodge from the servant axes at light speed and deliver a critical cut on the enemy's back. "Yes! It came better this time!"

However, the moment Nala had touched the floor, the servant was fast to descend his giant axe on her, trying to cut the girl in two. Nala tried to block the incoming blow but the strenght that the impact made was enough to creat a hole on the ground Nala was standing on. Even the bones in her arms screamed in pain as she was trying to hold back the axe. "Grgh! Why is it always Berserkers?"

"Nala!" Mash went to the girl's aid, bashing her shield against the servant, pushing him away.

"Our turn!" Peko runned torwards the servant alongside Drake, with the boy slashing the enemy on the leg and Drake delivering the hit on the shoulder.

"Not bad kiddo!" The pirate woman said to Peko.

"Heh, thank-" Getting distracted to look at Drake after the compliment, Peko did not saw the axe coming torwards him, slashing the boy's shoulder and throwing his body against one of the marble walls. "GHA!"

"Kid!" Drake reacted in shock.

The Chaldea group as well. "Peko!" Nala stared at the wall his brother had crashed into, shortly before turning her gaze to the enemy again, this time staring at him with anger. "You want to fight with anger?!" Nala quickly dodged one of the servant's axes and jumped torwards his face, kicking him on the chin. "Then I'll do the same!"

On the back of the fight, Ritsuka runned torwards Peko, picking up his body on the ground. "Hey Peko, are you okay!?"

The boy slowly opened his eyes, having blood coming out from his head due to the impact as well as the shoulder that had been wounded. "R-Ritsuka...Sorry. I got careless..." He tried to apologize.

"Just take a rest for now, okay?" Ritsuka said to Peko, trying to stop the boy's wounds from bleeding.

Seeing the hard time the servant was having, the purple haired girl tried to stop the fight by running torwards him. "Stop hurting him!"

Ritsuka caught sight of her running right besides him, and so he grabbed the girl, preventing her from going to the middle of the fight. "Don't do it! It's dangerous!"

"Let me go you fool!" The girl yelled, trying to get off of Ritsuka's grasp.

The girl yell made the servant turn around to see her struggling against Ritsuka. That made him go completely mad, growling like a wild monster. He then shoved one of his axes against Mash's shield, making her get out of his way with brute strenght.

"Ghh! He has become stronger!" Mash said, watching the servant also taking Drake out of his way and sprinting torwards Ritsuka and Peko since both where near the girl.

"Shit! This isn't good! Watch out you two!" Drake yelled to both boys. Seeing the enemy going torwards them, Peko got up from the ground and tried to get in front of Ritsuka, in hopes that he could block the enemy's assault despite his condition.

"No Asterios!" The girl screamed to the servant. "Don't force yoursel-"

Suddenly, some old wounds reopened on the servant's body, forcing him to stop sprinting and observe his own injuries. He had pushed way beyond his limit.

"Asterios!" The girl yelled. Wanting to aid him as quick as possible, she elbowed Ritsuka on the stomach and got away from him, on her way torwards the servant.

Mash thought that the name that the girl had spoken was familiar to her. "Asterios...hum, isn't that-" The shielder stopped talking as she was surprised by Nala's exceeding speed as she sprinted torwards the fallen servant with the sword in hand.

"A clean cut! A clean cut and he gets put down!" Nala readied her blade and was about to deliver the killing blow on the servant. She would make him pay for having hurt her brother. "This is i-!" Within inches from cutting, Nala stopped her act before the sword could slash the skin. Not because she suddenly had pity to strike the servant down, but because the purple haired girl got in fron of her, shielding the servant with her own body. Thankfully Nala was quick to stop her sword movement, getting centimeters away from slashing the girl's body.

"Stop fighting now!" The purple haired girl demanded to Nala and the rest of her group, still protecting the servant behind her.

"Move out!" Nala told to the other girl. "Don't you see he his dangerous? Why are you protecting him?"

"Because he is my friend!" The girl responded immediatly, gaining a confused look from Nala and everyone else.

"Your...friend?" Nala slowly moved the sword away from the girl's body.

"So he was indeed protecting you." Peko commented as Ritsuka was helping the boy walk torwards the center of the room.

"Of course he was. Asterios put this Bounded Field of his to protect me from evil pirates that want to capture me." The girl told them. "You must be here to finish the job eh? Since you are pirates as well."

"What are you talking about? Me and my crew aren't afilliated with any other pirate crew around here." Drake responded to the girl, denying her claims of being part of another pirate group.

"Right. We didn't even knew about your existence before." Ritsuka explained to the girl.

"Hphm! Then why didn't you told us that already?" The girl asked with a grumpy face.

"As if that friend of yours didn't started the fight first." Nala responded to the girl in a mean tone.

"You scared him! Plus it isn't like someone will treat intruders with generosity and hospitality." The girl replied back.

"It almost killed my brother!" Nala said angrily.

"And you almost killed him." The girl responded in her same bothering tone, provoking Nala and slowly transforming the conversation into a squabble.

"You-"

"It's okay sis. I understand their point of view." Peko told Nala, calming her down. "Your friend was just trying to protect you from people he thought could harm you. I would do the same in his position." He said.

The girl smiled at hearing that. "Glad someone has common sense here. But then, you aren't the same pirates that were chasing me?"

"No, so you can rest easy." Mash responded. "Also, if I'm not mistaken, your friend's name is Asterios, right?"

"Do you know who he is Mash?" Ritsuka questioned his servant.

"Yes master. Asterios was the name of the infamous minotaur of the greek myths." Mash responded to him.

"Ah, the one that wanders inside a labyrinth? Now that explains for the scenario we are in now." Ritsuka said, having heard about the legend of the minotaur of the island of Crete. Body of a human with a bull's head.

"Exactly. This labyrinth is the one from Asterios myth." Mash told Ritsuka.

"Also, who are ya girl?" Drake asked to the purple haired girl. "You must have a name as well."

"First, ask me with more politeness. Second, my name is Euryale, one of the Three Gorgon Sisters and also a goddess." The girl, revealed herself as Euryale.

"A goddess?" Ritsuka asked in surprise.

"And one of Three Gorgon Sisters no less." Mash added.

"Who are they exactly?" Nala asked.

"You never heard about me and my sisters?" Euryale asked, feeling indignated by Nala's ignorance. "Heh, you probably aren't a clever girl then." She said with a smirk.

"As if knowing about you and your sisters existence would affect my life or not." Nala replied to Euryale.

"Please let's try to stay in okay terms now, savvy?" Drake said, already feeling like these two wouldn't like each other very much.

"The Three Gorgon Sisters were a trio of greek goddesses created by the desires of men into creating images of a 'perfect idol' so to speak." Mash explained to Nala. "Euryale is the middle sister of the three if I'm not mistaken."

"And mistaken you are not lady of the shield." Euryale replied with a cute smile. "Me and my sisters are the embodiment of perfect cuteness, with me, Euryale, being the carefree girl with purity in her heart. A pleasure to meet you all." She said with such joy and brilliance that it could be view as a way to show her goddess status. "Also, as a divine being, make sure to treat me well."

Nala rolled her eyes as she heard all the talk from Euryale. "Sheesh. Can't tell if all that cuteness is just an act or not."

"Nice to meet you as well, Euryale and Asterios." Ritsuka told the two. "My name is Ritsuka Fujimaru."

Drake put her handguns away. "So we already started doing the introductions eh? I'm Francis Drake, nice to meet ya!"

"I am Mash Kyrielight. Good to meet you." Mash also introduced herself.

"Fou fou!" Fou appeard behind Mash, also introducing himself.

"Oh, this animal here is Fou. He is also part of our group." Mash told them.

"Glad to meet you. I'm Peko." Peko said to them, before being surprised by Asterios who stretched his giant hand to the boy.

"Asterios...S-So...rry." The Berserker speaked. And altough he speaked in a broken way, it still shocked everyone in the room minus Euryale.

Seeing the big servant trying to apologize for the injuries he did on the boy earlier, Peko smiled to Asterios and shook hands with him. "No problem. I know you didn't do it out of malice."

"As you can see, Asterios doesn't act much of a monster despite the legend surrounding him." Euryale told the group.

"Now that you mention it, Asterios does seem very calm and gentle now." Ritsuka commented.

"Greetings. My name is Nala an-"

"I didn't asked for your name idiot." Euryale responded to Nala, coldly interrupting her introduction.

"You didn't asked for anyone's name stupid!" Nala replied back. "Grgh, this girl! She really wants to piss me off!"

"More respect please. I'm a goddess." Euryale said, staring at Nala with looks of superiority.

"Cool. And I'm royalty you know?" Nala responded, bringing the fact she had the magic crest of a crown on her back.

"And? What is a queen to a goddess?" Euryale said in a dismissive tone.

Ritsuka immediatly went to separate the two girls before they could heat up the squabble even more. "Alright! I guess we have all intoduced ourselves here then!"

"Wich moves us to the next topic." Peko speaked as he stared at Euryale. "I doubt that Asterios would deactivate the Bounded Field of we were the ones to ask him. So can you please ask him to turn it off instead Euryale?"

"Yeah. My ship and the rest of the crew is stuck on the beach and we can't be leaving this island unless your friend turns the Bounded Something off." Drake requested to the young goddess.

Euryale wasn't sure if she should do it. "Hmm, but if he does it then..."

"I'm sorry Euryale-san but there isn't much options that can help us leave the island. I know it's to protect you but it is also preventing us from leaving this place." Mash said to Euryale, trying to convince her.

"Look, I don't want to sound rude or mean but there's only two ways of turning off this Bounded Field." Nala turned around to look at Euryale. "One, you tell Asterios to deactivate it. Second, I think I don't need to explain that much." Nala said, making a small sound with her sword, giving the clear intention what was the second choice to turn off the Bounded Field.

Not wanting to lose her friend there and knowing that the first option was more easier to digest, Euryale accepted their request. "Okay, I give up." She then looked at Asterios face. "Asterios, cancel your Bounded Field please."

Obeying the order, Asterios did exactly that and in the next seconds, the walls of the labyrinth started to dissapear, alongside with the whole maze and mountain, making the group return to the exterior, where now the island seemed to have gone back to normal.

"Readings confirmed the dissapearence of the Bounded Field." Mash reported. "We can go back to the ship now."

"Well, back to sailing the seas!" Ritsuka exclaimed.

"And to clean the deck's floor..." Nala said with a dreading voice.

"Nah, I can tell you are exhausted. So I allow you all to rest for the next hours." Drake told to the girl. "You all did a good job."

"Thank you captain!" Peko exclaimed happily.

"No need to say that kid. What matters is that this case is finally resolved." Drake told him.

"Also, we will probably reconnect the communications with the doctor and Da Vinci in the next minutes." Mash informed them.

"They must have been worried through all this time." Ritsuka said.

"Then let's go to the ship already and sail off!" Nala said, feeling that she had already spent too much time on this island.

"Wait sis!" Peko grabbed Nala by the shoulder. "What about them?" He pointed to Euryale and Asterios.

"Humm..." Nala looked at the two. As much as she didn't had a good first impression with Euryale, Nala couldn't let her and a wounded Asterios all by themselves,specially after seeing the minotaur servant apologizing to her brother, showing that he had a good heart and only wanted to protect his friend. So it wouldn't be fair to just leave them alone after destroying the only safe space they had. Nala ended up sighing. "Fine, I think they can joi-"

"Hold up there! I'm the captain here so I'm the one deciding." Drake told her with a stoic face, before looking at Euryale and Asterios. "And as the captain, I allow you two to join my crew!" She speaked with a smile, welcoming both of them with open arms. "Any opposition?"

"Nope captain!" Peko responded, happy with Drake's decision but also for seeing that Nala was willing to let the two in.

"It also sounds good to me." Ritsuka responded.

"The captain choosed well so I have no intention of changing her choice." Mash gave her opinion, being okay with Drake's decision.

"Same here." Nala said, showing a little smile to them. "Welcome to the crew you two."

"A nice deal don't ya think?" Drake said to Euryale and Asterios. "In return for letting us leave this island, we will also let you join the crew and give you protection from any other pirate group that may attack you."

"Hm, it indeed sounds like a fair deal." Euryale smiled to them. "What do you say about this Asterios?"

"Asterios...agrees..." The servant responded.

With that said, Euryale shook hands with Drake. "Then it's set. We will board with you."

And so the group, now accompained with Euryale and Asterios, walked back to the ship that was still harbored on the beach, with the rest of the crew still waiting for their captain and rookies return.


Now inside the ship and finally sailling the seas once again, the group saw this as the perfect time to explain the things better and fully to the new additional pair of the crew.

"Then what we are in now is a Singularity eh?" Euryale talked after hearing the Chaldea group explanation.

"Yes. And the only way to solve it is to find a Holy Grail. A second one that is also here." Mash told to the young goddess.

"Once we do that, this Singularity is resolved and we come closer from saving humanity." Ritsuka added.

"I see. This explains why I still didn't found the island where I and my sisters used to reside." Euryale noted.

"You told us you went to hide with Asterios protecting you because you were being chased by a group of pirates right?" Peko talked with her. "Do you remember how they looked like?"

"Hmm, it's a bit difficult to remind of that. But all I can say is that their captain is one of the most deranged and annoying people I've ever met." Euryale said, talking with an annoyed tone as she reffered to the captain of said pirate group. "Scummy in all ways possible."

"Welp, you have just described majority of the pirates girl." Drake told her, feeling that Euryale small description of the pirate's crew captain wasn't very objective. "Altough I think I have some candidates in mind that could fit those characteristics."

"Then it could be any pirate that is in this Singularity." Nala said. "Do you at least remember what their ship looked like?"

"Not exactly. When you are running for your life, it's a bit hard to memorize the details." Euryale told her.

"Okay. Let's just worry about reaching to the next island for now. We will protect you from any other pirate ship on the way, being the people who tried to kidnapp you or not." Drake told to Euryale before ordering the crew to start working minus the Chaldea group who could rest for now after the fights that happened on Asterios's labyrinth.

Taking that chance, Peko walked torwards Nala who was sitting on the border of the ship, silently gazing at the ocean. Peko sat right next to her, knowing that Nala wouldn't mind.

"How is your wounds?" Nala asked to her brother.

"They are healing. So I guess I'm doing fine now." Peko responded.

"I'm sorry..." Nala lowered her head, closing her hands into fists. She felt it was somehow her fault for Peko getting hurt in the fight with Asterios. Nala tought she had failed to protect him back there.

"You don't have to be." Peko told to his sister, trying to comfort her. "I am the one who ended up getting myself hurt. You aren't to blame for it."

Nala still wasn't convinced. "But if I-"

"If you were stronger you could have protected me better. Is that what you were about to say?" Peko looked at her in the eyes. The twins stare at each other for some good seconds before both staring back at the ocean. "Something has been bothering you Nala."

Nala tried to lie. "I don't kno-"

"There's no use in lying. I heard your conversation with Ritsuka before we had reached to the previous island." Peko told her.

Nala immediatly made a sulky face. "Eavesdropping is wrong you know?"

"Sorry." Peko chuckled a bit, rubbing his own head. "But you are my sister as well. So don't go thinking you are the only who has to worry about a sibling."

Nala gave him a small smile after hearing that. "Heh, as if I needed you to worry about me." Despite saying that, she felt grateful for Peko's comment.

"Eitherway..." Peko put an hand on Nala's shoulder. "Whatever the problem you may be having, don't hesitate to call me or Ritsuka or Mash to help you. Understood?"

"...Okay." Nala grabbed his hand gently. "Thank you Pek-"

"What are you two blabbering about?" Euryale asked, appearing behind the two alongside Asterios, giving a scare to the two siblings.

"W-What did I said about eavesdropping?!" Nala yelled at the two angrily.

"You could have just warned us that you where here!" Peko also expressed his dissaproval for the two's actiom of surprise.

"Asterios...liked...conversation." Asterios responded to the two siblings. "Find...intresting..."

"Likewise. You two seemed to been having a good talk eh?" Euryale said, proceeding to sit in the middle of the two without even asking first. "You don't mind if I join you, do you?"

Peko didn't know what to say but he didn't seemed to mind. "Hum..N-Not at all."

Nala however was totally against it. "Hey! This was supposed to be a sibling conversation only!"

Ignoring the girl's complaints, Euryale instead looked at Peko, more specificaly to his wounds. "Hoped you are doing okay...Peko, was it?" She gently touched his shoulder. "Asterios may have been brutal but he didn't mean it."

"I-It's all right really. I'm doing a lot fine now!" Peko blushed a bit.

"If anything, I could help you treat those wounds a lot faster." Euryale told him with a warm and calm voice.

"Oh really?" Peko asked her, thinking Euryale had some sort of magic to help him heal those wounds.

Nala whoever, was fumming from Euryale's interaction with Peko. "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM MY BROTHER YOU STUPID GODDESS!"

"Who are you calling stupid?!"

"You! Unless you are also deaf!"

"(Gasp) How dare you?! I demand respect here! I'm the perfect idol!"

"Yeah yeah. More like the perfect trash!"

"Can you two please stop bad mouthing each other?"

"Asterios...doesn't understand..."

In the distance, Ritsuka and Mash were watching the small group with Nala and Euryale arguing against each other again.

"I doubt those two will become friends." Mash sighed.

"Fu fou..." Fou agreed with the shielder.

"At least I think Asterios can become a good friend." Ritsuka said, trying to see the positive.

"Yes, he does seem sweet." Mash responded.

Then, after some hours of not having contact, Romani's hologram appeard, with him and Da Vinci finally being able to establish contact. "Damn this took longer than usual but we finally made it. How is everyone?" He asked to Mash and Ritsuka.

"We were able to leave the island doc. We where trapped inside a Bounded Field but managed to turn it off by fighting a servant called Asterios." Ritsuka explained the situation to Romani.

"Oh! The minotaur from Crete? That one?" Romani asked with curiosity.

"Indeed doctor. We defeated him inside his own maze, and made him cancel the Bounded Field. We also found one of the Three Gorgong Sisters, Euryale, that was being protected by Asterios because she was being chased by pirates." Mash told more.

"Sheesh! Looks like I lost a good portion of the show then. And where are those two now?" Romani asked them.

"There." Ritsuka pointed to the direction where Asterios and Euryale where. And all they saw was the minotaur servant holding back the young goddess from lashing out at Nala as well as Peko doing the same with his sister, resulting in Ritsuka, Mash and Romani to release some sweat drops.

"Hum, I-I see." Romani said nervously. "Anyways, I think I still didn't revealed the identity of the pirate flag from that ship that had previously attacked you."

"Oh, right! The communications were cut before you could tell us." Ritsuka said, remembering that Romani was about to drop the pirate's name before being cut.

Drake quickly appeard next to them. "Tell us who they are."

"So fast!"
"So fast!"

"Sure." Romani said, now making sure that nothing was going to interrupt him. "The identity of the jolly roger you saw, is from the famous pirate Edward Teach a.k.a Blackbeard."

To be continued...


And that's it for chapter 40!

We now have finally met Asterios and Euryale and get ready for next chapter to also meet Blackbeard alongside the other servants of his crew. When I played Okeanos, this is the part where I think things started to pick up on the Singularity, has before I tought it was going kinda slow.

Also squabbling will be the dynamic beetween Nala and Euryale because of course my OC's need interaction with other characters from the game and add some comedy into the mix.

Now that's all that I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 41! Peace!

P.S: Here's another scenario for you.

Peko: Hey Voyager, want to play ball with us?

Voyager: Absolutely! It will be fun!

(Suddenly, the Dioscuri appear)

Castor: Wait a minute now. As his older 'siblings', we're the ones who decide if he goes or not.

Nala: Khh! The Dioscuri...

(The two pair of twins start to look at each other menacingly, creating a feeling of bad blood between the two pairs)

Pollux: Now, how about you two just leave before me and Big Brother get angry?

Peko: We won't be leaving until Voyager comes with us.

(The tension is so high that Voyager just laughes nervously as sweat drops appear on his head)

Voyager: How about we all play together instead?