Apollo

I pulled out another sucker as I walked towards the three in front of me, all of them in full black uniforms. The only thing of note beyond their animal features were the small numbers on their chest.

The one with the number four seemed like the leader, I don't know why but they just gave off that feeling. I rushed closing the distance between us grabbing on their antlers and kneeing him in the face. They managed to stand their ground but they stumbled back a little.

As I was about to create some distance Four wrapped their arms around me not allowing me to move as the other two with the numbers Seven and Nine written on them had both stabbed my side with swords in hand.

"For someone who blocked Six and I's arts so easily and talked about being the 'villain' or something I expected more from him." Four said. "Maybe if you had been in a different place we could have used that shield of yours, could have saved a lot of lives." They continued.

I fell to my knees as Four dropped me, I could feel the cold steel of the blade quickly warmup inside my chest. I could hear the three walking away from me as I felt my heart shake not in fear but in excitement.

"It's been so long since I've been running through like that, I think a mouth or so at this point." I said as I stood up causing the swords to wiggle.

"How are you still moving? That should have taken you out of commission if not killed." Seven said.

I felt my lips curl into a small smirk.

"It will take more than that to knock me out, and much more to kill me." I said as I pulled the swords out of me and threw them at the ground in front of them causing the blood to flow unrestricted. "Come at me again. Show me that drive of yours."

Seven and Nine quickly picked up their blades and rushed towards me. I took a step forward only to have my foot sink into the ground causing me to lose my balance. Seven went for my knee while Nine went for my neck. My body is already strengthened by mana. I deflected both blades, one with my leg and the other with my right arm.

"Good speed from you two as well." I said.

I kicked Seven in the face then punched Nine in the chest, neither hard enough to knock them out but enough to create some distance. Let's drop the power a little, I breathe in as I feel various points on my body get heavier. The best way to describe it was like a phone getting heavier, slower, overall weaker.

"That's weird, it feels as if I reached this low power quicker than I should. I'll worry about that later." I said to myself.

I snap out of my daze to see the two going for another team attack while further back I saw Four charge some attack. Three against one, that's rather... unfair personally but it is what it is.

I dashed forwards meeting the two in the middle. Seven stopped short of me and dropped their blade, I decided to keep my focus on them instead of the blade. Nine was on my left sword in hand. Seven grabbed my chest keeping me in place as Nine thrusted her sword towards my neck, I pushed my hand out retracting my strengthening causing the sword to pierce not only my hand but go deeper in my arm.

Knowing where the first two are, I looked up back at Four who had a mass of fire in the shape of a blade with their fist behind it. They punched it which instantly caused them to split into many different projectiles. I raised my free hand and an image of a shield appeared in my mind.

"What did Shirou say again, eh whatever." That same image started to take shape in the physical world as I projected it into existence to deflect the attack. "You guys are indeed good fighters, if you guys came from where I'm from you'll fit pretty well. Maybe the church would have taken you in."

As the blades of fire failed to penetrate my shield. I kneed Seven in the chest causing them to release their grip on me as two ribs could be heard getting broken, afterwards I pulled Nine who was trying to get their sword out of my hand to no avail.

"This is why you should always carry a second blade, trust me it will do you much good." I pulled my arm back causing them to move closer to the fist I had prepared for them. "Don't worry, I'll make sure they will keep you alive." I made firm contact with Nine's face as I could feel their nose being broken. As their bodies hit the ground I made sure that the two are together so I don't have to bother searching after I'm done with the last one.

I looked up to see Four staring at me, I couldn't tell their expression but I don't believe it to be a good one. "I'm sorry for that but I made sure that they aren't dead, I'm in my right mind currently." I said to them.

"The hell are you?" They asked as they pulled a small silver tube from their back, they pressed a button as the tube extended into an average size spear about two meters in length.

I didn't bother healing my arm because I feel like if I do, their fight or flight instinct will cause them to retreat. "I'll answer that later. However I will admit those two did a good number on me. My sides and arms are killing me, guess I'm stuck with my right hand with you."

I let my left hand go limp, deciding to heal all my injuries later. "Let's have some fun." I dashed towards Four clearly slower than the other times due to me lowering the amount of power I'm using, making me slightly stronger than Four from my guess. While my arm was still enforced I went not for the gut but rather their heart, with enough of a shock they would pass out.

Four on the other hand saw my straightforward plan of attack pulled out a flaming dagger that was kept behind them and launched it with another punch.

"You got another one?" I said as I got closer to the ground to avoid the attack. As soon as I got within arms reach of them I grabbed their outstretched arm and jerked it up as I elbowed them in both the ribs and heart. Like with Seven I hear a rib or two crack from the impact as they were sent flying into the wall causing cracks to form.

"That should be the end of it, now let's see who you all are under those masks." I grouped all three together and pulled off their mask as if this was an episode of Scooby Doo. Flowing strands of hair of three different colors came together as I unmasked the three. All of them being women. "Seems in this world too that women scare the shit out of me, however they are good fighters." I say this as a future that I hope for comes to mind of the young one being strong enough to handle herself. "I hope she can be like you guys when it comes to power or maybe even greater.

I casted a spell to bind the three together and in place so they can't leave while I go check up and maybe help Aurora with her fight. Once done I made a mad dash to her location which was easy to find. Upon reaching the location I saw a pleasant sight. The two people Aurora was fighting were on the ground seemingly knocked out, like the first three they have numbers printed on their uniforms, '6' and '10' respectively.

However the best part of the scene was seeing a passed out Aurora, there was a lot of scars, cuts and clear signs of a hard fight victory. Seeing her injured like this was causing a constant euphoric feeling to spread across my upper body, no lower. After a moment of bliss an equally heavy feeling replaced it, guilt and disgust.

"I should get you healed up." I said as a green magic circle appeared under her. Her various wounds were healing although at a slower rate than I'm used to. I then decided that when supporting others I would use more power behind my spells than when they are used on myself. With that new rule in mind I upped the spell causing the wounds to heal much faster.

Once I finished healing Aurora I placed her on the wall and placed a sucker in front of her so she can eat it once she wakes up. I decided to do some clean up as I brought the three I defeated closer to the duo Aurora dealt with binding all of them together. As I finished doing that I looked at the building and saw that a battle was clearly fought. Here was all the cracks in the wall and rubble littered around.

"How the hell am I going to explain this?" Was the only thing I could say.

The Ark

Dusk

The low roaring of the waterfall in the distance signal that I was heading in the right direction, traveling through the various mini worlds brings me peace as I wait for the actions of my siblings and the world to happen. Once I reached the top of the waterfall I took a seat on the cliff, I summoned paper and a brush already dosed in ink. However before I did one stroke something caught my attention, it was a small child sleeping holding onto a spear as if it was a toy.

"How did a child get in here? I would have noticed if any entered the cottage." Upon further inspection the spear she was holding onto was the one I threw in here a few days ago, however I expect that it's been a few years within the painting.

I felt a flash of inspiration when I looked at the child, mainly the white gas-like energy that covered both them and the weapon. I created a flight of stairs so I could scale down the cliff. The closer I got the more I understood what was happening, the weapon was pouring energy into the child; however there was no clear harm being done.

As I sat down a few feet away from the child their features made their gender quite clear. They suddenly stood up. It was slow and sloppy confirming they just woken up, however as the girl looked around she never opened her eyes. Once she locked on to me she decided to walk towards me, she didn't have any clothes on her. She looked like me, however the key difference was that she didn't have a tail or horns. Anything that connected me to Sui wasn't there. Instead there were a pair of fluffy tails

"Where am I?" The girl asked.

"A world within a painting, how did you get here?" I asked.

The girl looked up at the sky before looking back at me.

"I don't know." She replied

I could only sigh in response as the girl didn't appear to be lying. "Then how did you get that spear?" I asked.

The girl looked at the spear then me. "I don't know, it was here when I woke up."

I could only pinch the bridge of my nose with that response. "So you truly don't remember anything?"

The girl shook her head.

"At the very least can you remember your name?" I asked.

"I don't remember, but for some reason the word Hermes keeps coming to my mind.

"Then we'll call you that. Follow me, staying here will do you no good and bring the spear." I said as a small door came from the ground. "Let's get you cleaned up, Hermes."

As I walked through the door and the light footsteps of the child now named Hermes followed, a thought passed my mind.

Who is that child and what is that spear?

Sup everyone, just want to thank you all for read this thing for the last few months. So summer is ending for me soon and it my senior year so thing will be busy so chapter may come slower than they already are so heads up

Secondly truly an feedback is loved considering that I still fill very awkward with fight scenes so tell me what you like and don't like.

Lastly would you people want operator files for Apollo, Marth and other OC characters I plan to add, along with a glassory of terms from both Arknights and Fate/Nasuverse stuff since I assume people have different understands of things especially when anything Nasuverse is involved
Beyond this long Authors note thank you for reading 'The Ark'