"Archer! Give supporting fire to Saber!" His master was as loud as usual.

"Hmph." Archer summoned a pitch-black bow and a twisted sword. "I am the bone of my sword."

-

Saber cursed, the mad servant was something she couldn't defeat using pure strength alone. It was like facing a really strong Phantasmal Beast but worse. Worse as in it is stronger than all the dragons she had encountered.

She might need to use her Noble Phantasm, she grimaced at that thought. Her master might not survive the strain.

-

Illyasviel frowned when Shirou took off running towards Saber like a stupid madman. That left her and the Tohsoka who was Archer's master.

"So... Where might be your servant?" she inquired as she sent her familiars throughout a 500-meter distance in an effort to find the bow-wielding servant. She heard the twin-tailed magus curse.

"Not much for talk, huh? Very well," she then proceeded to remove a strand of hair and created a bird familiar made from alchemy. "I shall take care of you then take care of big brother~"

A large explosion diverted both of their attention to the forest. "Your servant used his Noble Phantasm this early?" Illyasviel questioned. "No matter, Berserker will tank through it."

-

Boom. Saber swiveled around and took a stance as she heard the explosion behind her. Archer seemed to have released his Noble Phantasm in an effort to swiftly defeat the mad servant, something she was begrudgingly grateful for.

"Grr..." The growl sent tremors into her soul as the silhouette of a beast of six tails emerged from the inferno revealing the mad servant without any injuries whatsoever.

Cursing, Saber took off again to get into a clearing. There! Shooting off to her left, she reappeared in an old cemetery. Taking up a stance again, she remained firm and tensed as a red blur shot towards her.

Getting a good footing this time, Saber sidestepped the attack and aimed a downwards strike upon the servant. Unseen by her due to the dust cloud created by the mad servant, the mad servant aimed a claw at her midriff.

They hit each other at the same time, Saber was sent flying while Berserker was forced to the ground, creating an imprint.

A rainbow streak was directed at the downed mad servant and another inferno from before lit up the forest once again. Ka-boom.

"Graaa!" The mad servant screamed in pain as it took massive damage from the Broken Phantasm.

Illyasviel was present as was Rin and Shirou when the inferno subsides revealing Berserker with half of his "face" missing, revealing a crop of blonde hair and heavily damage skin with red slitted eyes. He was in a large crater surrounded by small fires.

"Berserker!" Illyasviel shouted in worry as she saw the damaged state her servant was in.

"Raaaaaaaaooooorrrrr!" The loud roar blew away the trees, effectively doubling the size of the clearing. His "face" reformed and he opened his maw. A small ball of condensed energy formed before he ate it.

Deciding to aim at the general direction where the attack came from, he released a massive beam of energy that broke the sound barrier and charged straight at Archer's position.

The world was lit up as light as bright as the sun charged straight into one of the taller buildings of Fyuki.

Saber took the chance to try to injure the mad servant with a side strike. It connected but to her surprise, it didn't pierce the weird substance that surrounded it. Her slight hesitation was all Berserker need to retaliate and with a swipe of his claw, he broke the magical armor that the knight wore.

"Grk," Saber coughed up blood from having her organs sliced.

"Saber!" she heard the voice of her master call out.

The beast of a servant marched up to her and had its tails poised to pierce her. Even now, I will never get the grail.

Shrkkk. Blood covered her face, blood that didn't belong to her. It belonged to her master.

Seeing the corpse of a boy pierced by his tails, Berserker threw the body aside towards his master.

Seeing the dying body of her prey, Illyasviel could only think. "You weren't supposed to do that." You're supposed to be a coward. Was left unsaid. Her eyes darkened as she saw the corpse of her prey, she should be happy right? Right?

A feeling welled up in her heart. "This isn't fun..." She turned her gaze from the body to her servant who stood over the boy's servant. "Berserker, bring her here."

Confused, her servant gave her a look before complying. Dragging the sword-wielding servant to her, the servant threw her down roughly.

"Illyasviel..." the servant spoke quietly.

"So my gut was correct, you were my mother's and father's servant," Illyasviel said darkly. She redirected her focus on the dying boy, an idea forming in her head. "Berserker, we're leaving."

Chapter 1 End


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