Hello everyone and welcome to the start of chapter 49 of the story! And Oberon as arrived sooner to make sure I won't even have the chance to roll for him properly. The fact I'm impotent to summon him, is delightful to the Mothman. Truly a devious and evil bastard. 10/10, greatest character of LB6.
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 catacombs that would lead to the ark, Peko rubbed his slightly tired eyes as he walked the trail alongside, Nala, Mash and Drake. The time he spent yesterday at night with David may have been long. So long that the boy only ended up sleeping four hours, lesser than the rest of his group. But it was worth it in Peko's mind. Even if he got scolded immensily by Atalanta when he got back to the camp, Peko had gone to sleep knowing that he would put the knowledge he acquired from David to use.
As Peko was thinking about it, he let out a long yawn. The other three couldn't help but notice that he was with a face of someone that clearly went to sleep late.
"Did you stayed up late Peko?" Mash questioned the boy.
"N-No. I just yawn a lot and spontaneously during the day." Peko tried to evade Mash's question by giving a poor answer. It could be said he wasn't fooling anyone.
"Yeah yeah. If you had slept at the same time as us, your brain would be working easier to create a much better lie than that." Nala told to him, unsurprisingly unconvinced. "Just what you were up to?"
"Exercise." Peko responded, looking to the side.
"Of what exactly?" Mash asked once again, not satisfied with the answer given.
"...Of-"
"Here ya go!" Drake speaked as she threw some water from her glass bottle to Peko, much to the boy's surprise.
"W-What was tha for?!" He exclaimed, his eyes now more open and alive.
"Just to fully wake you up of course." Drake responded. "Hope that it helped."
"And I can say it worked by your reaction." Nala chuckled as she stared at Peko trying to dry his hair.
"I wonder what yours would have been." Peko replied back.
"You need to be fully prepared and ready for this Peko. Fighting Heracles requires the maximum of our capabilities." Mash warned him. "It's absolute danger to combat him if you are drowsy."
"I know. Sorry for that." Peko replied, removing the water from his face and eyes. "But I'm feeling more awake now! So don't worry about me falling asleep. I know how crucial this plan is to even dare doing that."
"Okay then. Just make sure nothing will slow you down. If you're feeling something, tell us, understood?" Mash told him, wanting to ascertain if the situation was under control.
"Understood." Peko responded as they proceeded to walk inside the underground tunnels on their way torwards the chamber with the ark.
"We must be getting clos-" Nala was about to said before being interrupted by a huge noise from the exterior, an indication that the Argonatus had finally arrived and the plan was set in motion.
"Right on time! Let's speed up the pace then!" Drake said to the rest. "The others can arrive here at any minute now!"
The other three all nodded in agreeance before all of them started running into their destination, where they would wait until the next step of the plan could be carried out.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Why all these arrows are only going for me!?" Jason screamed in cowardice a he tried his best to dodge from the vast number of arrows falling upon him. He then stared at his crewmembers "H-Hey! Save me! I'm your captain dammit!"
Answering to his distress, Medea, Hector and Heracles all went to his rescue, fending off the arrows. That however didn't stopped the attacks from coming. The Argonauts could only defend themseles and wonder how long the enemy would attack them like this.
"They don't stop firing at us!" Medea said before feeling a presence in the interior of the island getting far from them. They were stalling them enough time so that the goddess, and perhaps even the ark, could leave the island and get away from them. "The signal of the goddess I'm detecting is getting further from us! They're trying to prevent us from getting inside the forest and give enough time for her to escape!"
"What!? You serious!?" Being so obsessed in getting his goal and fantasy realized, Jason wouldn't let that happen, even if he had to sacrifice all of his crew to get it. "Crap! I can't let that goddess escape through my fingers again!" Thinking quickly despite the situation, Jason turned his face to Heracles. "Herc! Go up ahead! Find the goddess and bring her back to me! Kill anyone who's protecting her!"
Growling in response, Heracles obeyed his friend's order and sprinted immediatly torwars the forest in search of Euryale, leaving Medea and Hector to defend Jason from the arrows.
From the spot they were firing their arrows at the Argonauts on the beach, Atalant noticed Heracles entering the forest.
"He went to the forest alone. We separated Heracles from the others!" She announced to the other two Archers.
"We must keep shooting though!" Artemis responded. "At least long enough so that the rest of the crew doesn't catch up to him!"
"Hell, we've been firing arrows non-stop for minutes now!" Orion exclaimed.
"And we shall continue doing it for some more minutes!" David replied. "The rest of the plan is up to the people of Chaldea and Francis Drake. May they have good fortune."
"Woah!" Ritsuka gasped as he stumbled on a tree root while accompanying Euryale in the middle of the forest.
"Watch your step." Euryale told him. "Or do you want to make enough noise to alert him?"
"Sorry." Ritsuka responded with a nervous smile as he tried to shake the entire uneasy feeling away from his body. This was risky and he knew. If it doesn't work, Ritsuka would die a pretty brutal death. Euryale could notice it on him.
"Why are you afraid if this part was your idea? Don't tell me only now you are regretting it." Euryale told him in a slightly bothered tone.
"Afraid? Kinda. Regretting it? No. I can't for the sake of the plan and everyone else's hope in me." Ritsuka responded. "So I will carry on with this, scared or not."
Euryale was a bit surprised by those words, following it with a small smile. "How can you humans be pathetic and yet intriguing at the same time? I truly believe my life would lose flavour without your kind."
"Wonders of the human nature." Ritsuka responded to her with a chuckle.
As they were about to reproceed their walking, loud growling noises started to sound some distance away from them. Heracles was nearby.
"We must hurry!" Euryale told to Ritsuka as he took her hand and they both begun to run.
"If I'm right, the entrance to the cave mustn't be that far away." Ritsuka used his brain to remember of the location. "Once we get there-"
"GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
A second louder growl could be heard as from some meters away, a fast swing completly destroyed all the trees on its way, revealing the big empowering and menacing Heracles behind.
"HE'S ALREADY HERE!" Ritsuka shouted in shock and terror, seeing how quick the greek hero was to catch up with them. Nevertheless, his legs didn't gave up from the sheer scare and Ritsuka continued to run alongside Euryale, now with Heracles chasing them right behind.
Thankfully for them, the entrance to the cave appeard soon after. Euryale in the meantime tried to slow Heracles down with some of her arrows as she and Ritsuka entered the cave, with Heracles also doing the same right after. Inside, the greek warrior started to bash his weapon against the rock walls of the cave, causing some parts of the cavern's roof to fall to the ground, as an attempt to stop Ritsuka and Euryale in their tracks.
"He'll collapse the entire catacombs if he continues doing this!" Euryale said. "Does he know they need me alive?!"
"I guess that's the Berserker way of solving problems!" Ritsuka replied. His heart was beating faster than ever, with his entire body rushing on adrenaline by being in an absolute perilous situation. Being chased by a tall, muscular, enraging warrior who could kill a simple human like him with just one stroke was certainly horrific.
Heracles continued to provoke the collapse of the cavernous hallways, still chasing the two. Ritsuka and Euryale runned at the highest speed they could for their lifes. And they wouldn't stop until they reached to a certain chamber.
Avoiding the falling boulders and rocks, Ritsuka and Euryale turned left around a corner, being greeted by the vision of the entrance to the ark's chamber at the end of the corridor. They were almost there. One final push.
"Just a little longer!" Ritsuka yelled to Euryale as they sprinted torwards it, with Heracles loud raging noises accompained by the hits of his weapon skirling behind them.
The path was now getting more filled with rocks, falling left and right and almost on top of the fleeing duo. It was starting to get narrowed.
"Come on!"
Altough closer, the entrance to the ark's chamber was in threat of being blocked by the rocks and Heracles was within meters away from catching them, his furious breath being sensed on the back of their necks.
"Come on!"
Reaching to the conclusion that either Heracles would catch them or the entrance would be covered by entire piles of boulders in front of their faces, Ritsuka united all the courage inside of him and with a decision made in an instant, acting by reflex, the master of humanity grabbed Euryale by her waist.
"COME ON!"
Ritsuka yelled and closed his eyes the moment he threw his own body with Euryale's torwards a remaining gap of the ark's chamber entrance, putting all of his faith into this one dangerous action. And just in time, as both their bodies passed successfuly by the hole right before the entrance was totally covered by the falling rocks. Ritsuka and Euryale had made it to the Ark's chamber.
"You are completely insane." Euryale told to Ritsuka as they now laid on the ground, trying to recover their breath and energy from all the running and escaping they did.
Ritsuka took some breaths before smiling at Euryale. "But it worked, didn't it?"
"You have more luck than sense." Euryale responded before a crash came from the chamber's entrance, clearing all the rubble covering it.
Heracles came out the cloud of dust. Mere rocks and boulders wouldn't be enough to stop him from getting Euryale and handing her to Jason. Now she was right there, with nowhere left to run and only Ritsuka there to protect her. If this was all, then Heracles wouldn't have much trouble in capturing the goddess.
"Glad that you didn't decide to turn around and just leave." Ritsuka told to Heracles with a confident smile despite the greek demigod walking torwards them. "You did just as we had thought." He then took a deep breath and yelled. "You're getting defeated right here and now!"
From the shadows, a bullet was fired into Heracles, with him dodging it by moving his head to the side just in time. Heracles then felt an attack coming from behind, with him turning around to look at his attacker before sliding his entire body to the side. He then dodged from another incoming slash and blocked a strike from a shield.
"Welcome to out trap big guy!" The voice of Drake said as she stepped out of the shadows and together with Mash, Peko and Nala, stood by Ritsuka and Euryale's side, all of them facing Heracles. "You ain't getting out of it!"
"If we force him to touch the ark we win!" Mash told. "Simple as that!"
"I doubt making Heracles do contact with the ark will be a simple part." Peko replied to the shielder, anticipating that Heracles wouldn't let them do that without giving the group a fight.
"Better than having to kill his remaining lifes one by one!" Nala replied.
"Took the words straight from my mouth!" Drake said to her.
Ritsuka put himself and Euryale behind Mash, getting in position for the confront. "Everyone ready?"
"Yes master!" Mash responded.
"Ready!"
"Ready!"
"Charge!" Drake shouted, firing bullets from her two handguns before replacing them with her hatchets and running torwards Heracles.
Fighting back, Heracles blocked the two bullets and went sprinting in Drake's direction, raising his giant ironclad sword, only to be stopped by Mash who put her shield to clash against Heracles weapon. Taking Mash's help, Drake swinged her htachet torwards Heracles hip. However, he was an artful enemy, dodgind the blow in time before proceeding to kick Drake and using his strenght to push Mash away. As the Berserker had finished from getting some distance from his attackers, Nala carried on the assault by jumping torwards the big warrior, planning to cut him on his back. Presaging the attack, Heracles fastly swinged his weapon, clashing it with Nala's sword.
"Gghh!" Nala put a lot of effort in trying to break through Heracles's defense. And altough she had gotten stronger thanks to the enemy she was fighting now, the greek demigod's strenght was still leagues above her.
Peko immediatly came to his sister's aid, trying to cut Heracles on the tendon. "Take this!" Alas, it ended up in nothing as Heracles lifted his feet to strike Peko in return and parry the boy's blow, shoving him to the back.
The greek servant then proceeded to break the struggle with Nala and punch her sword, causing the girl to fly to the other side of the chamber. Drake and Mash tried to go for a surprise attack but ended up being bested by Heracles who once again got them out of his way.
Ritsuka could only watch in alarm and shock as he observed Heracles beating up everyone with not much as a single drop of sweat. "We will never be able to make him touch the ark if we keep like this!"
"There's no way we can throw the ark at him, is there?" Euryale asked as she also had the same feeling when watching the others fight Heracles.
"Nngh..." Slowly getting up from the ground, Peko saw how dire this was looking for them. "He's fast, he's strong, he's agile! With all our combined efforts he still won't go down!" Peko cursed to himself, trying to think on someway to turn the tables. Then he remembered the night he spent with David yesterday. "That's it!" Closing his free hand into a fist, Peko stared at Heracles. "I have to try it now!"
Channeling his inner mana into his hand, Peko made a finger gun and pointed at Heracles. "I have to elevate more! This isn't enough yet!" Peko said to himself as he tried to condensate more mana into the tip of his finger. "But I also have to be careful to not hurt my own body in the process like David said! The usage and maintenance of my circuits needs to be better!" Peko focused even more more on the energy he was putting on his index finger, with the skin of his hand starting to slowly transform into a glowing white. "Altough not being the same as that blast, this bullet will probably my strongest one yet! I will-"
"Look out boy!" A yell from Drake made Peko snap from his own thoughts, with the boy raising his head to see the giant figure of Heracles towering over him, his red bloody eyes shinning on his overshadowed serious face. The Berserker had his weapon up high, already prepared to deliver the fatal blow on Peko.
"PEKO!"
"NO!"
Ritsuka and Mash screamed as they both where far from their friend to do anything to save him from Heracles impending strike.
Peko's own eyes could only watch Heracles about to lower his big weapon at an insane speed to split him in two. He couldn't react, he couldn't move. He stood paralyzed in front of the big feary figure that was the greek demigod.
"I...I'm dying here?"
"PEKOOOOO!"
A loud yell from Nala came as the girl's legs runned at an almost unobservable speed and Nala rescued her brother right on time by preventing Heracles attack with her sword, tanking it.
"S-Sis!" Peko exclaimed in surprise and relief, getting out of his own stunnement to look at Nala couragely putting herself in front of him to stop the enemy's blow.
Nala's feet got slightly pushed to the back as the girl tried her best to hold off Heracles blow. "Gghg!" Trying to do this felt like trying to lift up an anvil as her arms and body felt all the pressure of the clash going through her body. "Why are you doing this!?" She shouted at Heracles. "Do you really want the world to be destroyed!? Is that what heroes like you do Berserker?!"
Hearing that name coming from her mouth, triggered a certain hesitation on Heracles for a moment as he stared at Nala with other eyes. It made him feel something. Something that Heracles himself wasn't sure of what it was. Things that could be just mere hallucinations or memories. Perhaps, he really couldn't bring himself to kill her after the time they spent together, even if it was small.
Sensing the pressure of his weapon weakening, Nala was able to pull out enough strenght to break the clash.
"He's open!" Drake exclaimed. "Now it's our opportunity!" She chraged torwards Heracles and was able to land the first hit on the Berserker by slashing him on the chest.
Mash immediatly came right after, about to bash her shield into Heracles and push him to the ark. "You're done!"
"Now we will make the entire world sing it. Mine and yours. Both of us, will be sitting at the summit."
Finding new reinvigorated strenght, Heracles's mind had decided on who he should be helping. Growling loudly, Heracles used his bare hands to hold Mash's shield and then efortlessly throw her away before she forced him to touch the ark.
"It was almost!" Mash said with some frustration after hitting the ground.
Ritsuka went to her side with Euryale. "You're okay Mash?"
"I'm fine master. No worries!" Mash responded.
"He seems more angrily than ever." Euryale said as she saw Heracles furious expression. It was possibly his way to show determination.
"But we landed the first hit already!" Peko responded as he, Nala and Drake quickly joined them.
"And a furious Berserker is one who tends to not defend to much." Drake said. "He'll be more focused on blindly throwing whatever attack at us."
"His mind is made up it seems." Nala saw it on Heracles expression. The Berserker had decided. Decided to go against them and be loyal to the Argonauts, his lifelong crew. As much as Nala didn't want to come to this, unfortunately there was no other way and she had to undertsand Heracles choice. She had to accept that. "And so is mine!" Nala pointed her sword at him. "Let's kill him once and for all!"
On the other side of the island, Bombe and the rest of Drake's crew stood on the ashored Golden Hind, waiting for any signal of their captain. Either one of victory or one to retreat and flee immediatly. They could hear some noises coming from the opposite side of the island.
"Do you think captain and the rest will be okay?" A crewmember next to Bombe asked.
"If I think? I'm one-hundred percent sure about it ya idiot! Never doubt the captain or the rookies!" Bombe replied. "In no time, they will come back with cheers and celebrations on their faces." He was sure that Drake and the others would win. But until then, they would wait here as per her orders.
"Aaaaah!" Suddenly, a scream coming from another crewmember alerted everyone on the ship. "M-M-M-Monster! Monster!" The sailor said, his entire body trembling while pointing his finger at the waters in front of them.
"What the hell are ya sayin'?" Bombe asked to the terrorized crewmember in confusion.
"I-I saw something moving in the water! B-Big dark spines appeard on the surface and everything! The terrefied crewmember responded.
"You're telling me a monster is swimming nearby!?" Bombe exclaimed incredulous. "Don't ya think ya are perhaps mad-hgh!?"
With no warning, the entire ship started to shake violently, caughting the entire crew off guard who just couldn't comprehend what was happening at this exact moment.
"Hold on tight men!" Bombe shouted to all the other pirates in the ship to endure the agressive shaking. But what he didn't knew, is that it wasn't only the Golden Hind that was shaking tremendously, but the entire island.
On the cliff that the three archers were firing their arrows, they stopped the moment they felt rough vibratons of the earth, almost losing their balance by sheer surpise.
"What's happening? Heracles is strong but to shake an entire island!?" Atalanta said, thinking if it was her ex-crewmate who could have provoked such shakenning on the island.
"Or the plan failed and Euryale ended up sacrificed to the ark!" Orion replied in horror. "Then this is the beggining of the end of the world! We weren't able to stop them!"
"Don't be such a doomer darling!" Artemis told him, not believing in that scenario. "It can't be that!"
"And it isn't!" David speaked. "I can feel the ark and tell you that yet neither Euryale nor Heracles touched it! This must be an whole other machination!" He said before feeling a more violent trembling of the ground.
"Then what is it!?" Atalanta asked, trying to understand what was happening.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! E-Earthquake!" Jason yelled in fear as he was about to fall, being grabbed by Hector just in time.
"Gosh! As a captain can you please show a bit of calmness to your crew?" He asked him.
"Just shut up! As your captain I don't wanna die!" Jason shouted. "We need to get out of here immediatly!"
Meanwhile, Medea tried to analyse the situation and think of a reason that could be causing such unexpected earthquake. "I-Is this another type of magic from that mage!?"
"I'm going back to the Argo!" Jason exclaimed. "If you have the smallest bit of love for your life then go to the ship as well!" He then proceeded to run in dispair torwards the Argo.
"Lord Jason wait!" Medea tried to warn him before what appeard to be giant darkish purple teeth emerged from the shore, stucking Argo in the middle of two of them.
"What kind of creature is doing this?!" Hector questioned as he let a drop of sweat fall from his face, showing his first sign of concern ever since he had appeard on this Singularity.
Inside the ark's room, the group was still trying their best to force Heracles make contact with the sacred artifact. Altough the Berserker was more violent now, he had also become more easier to attack, not being as careful or as evading and defensive as before.
Swinging his weapon aimlessly, Heracles had let himself exposed to an attack from Mash on his left side and then one of Drake's on his right.
"That's it! Keep it going!" Ritsuka cheered his companions on the back. The situation was starting to turn on their favour.
Making a combined effort, Peko fired one of his light bullets torwards Heracles who initially dodged it but didn't account for Nala to appear quickly from behind, rebounding the bullet with her sword, hitting Heraces on the back.
"Nice one!" Peko told to his sister who jumped at Heracles, trying to slice his face.
The Berserker defended with his fist, altough it still caused some blood spill from his hand upon contact with the blade. Heracles then pushed Nala away, proceeding to take his turn to attack her.
"Air Step!"
Activating her skill, Nala hopped around the area, dodging the insane blows from Heracles weapon as the enemy went after her in an opportunity to strike her.
"Hm!" Taking the small opening she got after dodging the latest attack from Heracles, Nala quickly slashed him near the neck. It was a pretty good damage despite Heracles skin being so rigid that Nala wasn't able to cut his head off. Cleaning the blood from her blade, Nala turned around to look at Heracles who was still up and with lots of energy to keep fighting.
"He's getting easier to attack but still difficult to approach him to the ark." Drake said, taking some breaths and cleaning the sweat from her face. It had been some minutes since they were fighting Heracles.
"At this point we are closer to take one of his lifes then all of them in one go." Peko responded.
"Then on the next assault, you try to stun him or wear him out and I'll push him to the ark with my shield!" Mash said to them.
"You're sure it will work?" Drake asked her.
"At least it sounds like a strategy." Peko replied.
"We'll have to try!" Nala said, about to charge torwards Heracles again. "Defeating him will-huh!?" To her and everyone's surprise, the entire cave started to tremble.
"Why is the ground shakenning all of a sudden?" Ritsuka said before his feet started to slip as the ground was getting inclined. He instinctively grabbed Euryale and tried to maintain his balance on the ground alongside everyone else, grabbing a column in a nearby wall.
"A possible earthquake?" Mash pondered, stucking her shield on the ground in order to not fall. Drake used the weapon as a support for her. Peko and Nala also pierced their swords on the floor to not fall. Even Heracles ceased fighting, opting instead to hold on to his balance, being as confused as his opponents.
"But why is it happening now?!" Nala asked.
"Can it be it that they are also fignting outside?" Euryale thought about their allies and enemies outside the cave and the possibility it might just be them fighting.
"Is it normal for natural catastrophes to occur in a Singularity?" Peko questioned, thinking how strange it was fo an earthquake to begin now.
"That's a good question!" Mash replied. "The Doctor might kn-"
"Guys! Guys! Are you alright!?" The hologram of appeard in front of them.
"Your timing ability is quite impressive doc!" Ritsuka greeted Romani. "But can you explain exactly what is happening right now?"
"The charts of my monitors are going haywire! The sensors also don't stop detecting enormous quantities of mana signal!" Romani informed them with a worried expression. "The flux is so abundant right now that is almost a miracle the monitors and sensors are still working! This might be the biggest mana signal we've detected so far!"
"Do you know where exactly the signals are coming from doctor?" Nala asked to Romani.
"We haven't figured it out yet! But they certainly are connected to this earthquake and whatever may be provoking it!" Romani responded. "Crap! The entire keyboard and computer are overheating! I need to disconnect right now or else the entire system crashes!"
"Will it take long for you to come back?" Peko asked to the doctor, seeing that Romani had to be forced to temporarily disconnect from them.
"Hopefully in a minute or two!" Romani told him. "In the meantime, me and Da Vinci will try to undertsand what's happening! Stay safe until then!"
"We will!" Ritsuka responded before the image of Romani's hologram dissapeard.
"The biggest mana signal we've detected yet..." Mash murmured, thinking about what Romani told them.
"By the sound of it, it ain't good thing!" Drake told her.
"Clearly ain't!" Peko said. "Doctor didn't told us that this was work of one of the Argonauts or an ally of ours! It's an entire different thing!"
"One that is right next to us!" Nala speaked before slipping for an instance as a violent shake from the earth occured, vibrating the whole island from all the directions. It caused the entire underground channel to start collapsing, including the chamber they were in now with the ark.
"It's getting worse!" Euryale exclaimed. "We will die buried here if we don't get out!"
As Ritsuka slightly took his arm out from the front of his face after protecting it from any falling debris, he saw an entire group of boulders and smaller stones desintegrate from the walls and falling torwards Nala. "Nala! Watch out!"
Having recently got her balance back from the violent shake, Nala was too late to hear Ritsuka's warning, raising her head in confusion right as a falling stone hit her in the head. "Argh!" The unexpected painful blow made Nala remove her sword from the ground unconsciously and start a free fall. A fall torwards the ark down below the room. Everyone else watched in panic, specially Peko.
"NALAAAA!" He screamed in horror in the quick realization that his sister could die within the next second and none of them could do anything to prevent it.
"We won't reach her in time!" Mash said in fright.
"Dammit!" Drake cursed. "We have to do som-"
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaawr!"
As quick as an arrow, Heracles passed through everybody and in no time was close to catch the falling Nala before she touched the ark.
"H-Heracles!?" Ritsuka yelled in surprise as he saw the Berserker grab the girl's pulse.
In a vertiginous state and with her vision smudgy, Nala stared at what had catched her arm, seeing the big muscular figure in front of her. "B-Berserker...?"
With the two now closer to touch the ark at the bottom and a shower of debris about to come down from above on the two of them, Heracles gave a simple but gentle smile to her before launching Nala up high and far from any falling rocks.
Seeing his sister being projected torwards him, Peko stretched arm and fortunately was able to catch Nala. "Got you sis!"
With Nala safe, Heracles had nothing more to do. Not even save himself as he was inches away from touching the ark that would undoubtly kill him for good and an imminent avalanche of boulders and rocks. Between a rock and an hard place, Heracles closed his eyes and accepted there was nothing he could do anymore. Altough one part of him regretted it had to end like this, not being able to grant his friend's wish, Heracles also felt he had done the right thing in saving Nala from dying. He didn't know exactly why he did it. And perhaps he would never know. All that he did know, is that by doing such action, it replaced his inner anger and fury with something else: happiness. And Heracles accepted to go off with that feeling as his back hit the ark.
"Heracles touched the ark!" Mash exclaimed. "We did-ggh!"
Upon being touched by such Heroic Spirit and erasing it, the ark started to shine immensely, blinding everyone else before they could have proper time to celebrate. At the same time, the earth tremores hit a peak, trembling extremely agressively than ever before. And that's when, to their surprise,a huge explosion of light bursted from the ark and was about to engulf the chaldeans, Drake and Euryale.
"Look out!" Ritsuka yelled as he protected himself and Euryale from the incoming explosion, with Peko doing the same with Nala and Mash using her shield to cover herself and Drake. Unfortunately, there was nothing they could do as the bright explosion swallowed them anyways as well as the entire cavern.
In Chaldea, Romani typped restlessly on his keyboard as he tried to perceive the situation alongside Da Vinci and other members of the Chaldea staff.
"SHEBA's system is on overload! Its satellite is facing turbulences of great magnitude!" One of the staffs said.
"We are having difficulty with accessing any possible observation of the Sigularity as of now!" Another one claimed. "The cause of interfearence is in a great magical density! TRISMEGISTUS is also having problems on calculations!"
"What do you think it can possible be Leonardo?" Romani asked to Da Vinci who was next to him. "The readings we got as of now aren't leading us to anywhere. The sensors can't analyze this kind of mana signal without starting to go crazy. I've already hear about magical spirits and beings with great amounts of mana but this is on a whole absurd scale!"
"It could be a servant of high Spirit Origin or an entire new thing all together." Da Vinci said. "I'm as confused as you. To interfere this much with SHEBA's and unstable TRISMEGISTUS's systems, it certainly has to be something uncommon."
"Director! Good news! Altough with great distrubences, SHEBA was able to render some images of what's happening now in the Singularity!" A member from the staff yelled the information at Romani.
"Then reveal it! We must see what's causing this!" Romani ordered. With the staff memeber transfering the recently taken images to Romani, he and Da Vinci were now able to see what was causing such turmoil.
And the result let both of them in pure awe.
"W-What is that?" Da Vinci muttered as she watched to the shocking image alongside Romani.
In the middle of the ocean, towered a wide and tall serpentine body of tar skin and flesh, with large fish spines sticking out of it. On the creature's draconic head, two glowing yellow eyes in each side as well as two deep red horns at the top. And in the middle of the monster's countless sharp dark purple teeth, it secured the entire island on its mouth, putting it almost as high as the clouds in the sky. The most fascinating, or unsettling, aspect of the image that Romani and Da Vinci observed, is that how only the creature's head and a bit of its body was out of water, possibly indicating how large this monster that came out of it actually was.
Romani couldn't help but think of one thing when looking at it. "I-Is that...a Leviathan?"
To be continued...
And that's it for chapter 49!
And yes, you didn't misread the final parts of it. The freacking Leviathan has indeed appeard and is holding the island everyone is currently in, on its mouth up high...
For this you weren't expecting uh? Now, I have to say that throughout all my years of being a Fate fan and playing FGO, I'm impressed how they have yet to introduce a type of monster such as the Leviathan in the game. Like, all that we get from it is just some sort of foundation to the creation of Meltryllis (Wich isn't a complaint. Melt deserves all the love in the world)
But like, did you ever wondered how cool it would be to have the giant demonic sea serpent of the Bible implemented in the actual game? Welp, it isn't the same thing as appearing in FGO itself but hey, now the actual Leviathan has appeard in this story! Why did it appeard? Mysteries that I can't tell to you right now.
Now moving to other stuff. R.I.P to Heracles. Saved Nala from dying before dying himself. An end with honour basically. May he continue to be on every new player's Support List to help them.
That's all I wanted to say, and see you next time on chapter 50! Peace!
P.S:
Crazy Wacky Dangerous RollerCoaster! (Height Limit to enter: 1.50cm)
Sétanta: Oh boy! You made it Peko! And by an inch!
Peko: Aahaha! So this is what lucky feels like! (Does euphoric handshake with Sétanta)
Sétanta: Now let's go dude! I can't wait to feel the soul leaving my body!
(Both pass through the entrance laughing, leaving a frustrated Nala and Kama behind)
Nala: What the-!? This ain't fair! What difference does 2cm make huh?! Now how are we going to the rollercoaster?
(Kama proceeds to transform into her 2nd Ascension)
Kama(smirks): Well, it sounds like a YOU problem hehe.
Nala: You big fu-
