by camea42123 » Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:57 pm
Saber - Female - Straight - Fate/Stay Night - Location: Underground, Near the Center - Tags: Hajime
Saber moved towards the narrow pathway cautiously, Hajime following closely behind her. As they walked closer, two shadows seemingly appeared out of thin air. The knight immediately froze in place, hand reaching for her sword ou of habit. She noticed and dropped her hand back to her side sheepishly. The shadows eventually revealed themselves to be human beings, but something seemed off about them. She could not feel the aura of any human other than Hajime’s beside her, but the two did not appear to be Heroic Spirits, either. In fact, they didn’t even seem to have an aura at all. What was even more strange was the fact was that she recognized the second person. “Lancelot,” she hissed under her breath. “You shouldn’t even be alive right now.” It was indeed the Knight of the Round Table who had also become a Heroic Spirit after his death, standing before Saber in all his Berserker glory. However, if Lancelot was supposedly alive even after Saber had impaled him with her own sword in the previous Holy Grail War, it basically confirmed Saber’s suspicion that this was a mere illusion. This was further supported when she heard Hajime shout something and turned her head back so she could hear him. It was a warning to be cautious about the identity of the second shadow, and the boy also appeared to recognize the one in front of him that had him at knifepoint. She spun back towards the fake Lancelot with Excalibur in hand, only to feel cold metal against her own throat. She swallowed, staring at the illusion. Alright then, the weapons are real. Nice to know. Saber quickly jammed her sword against the other knight’s black one, and both of them jumped away lightly. She leveled her sword and pointed it at the shadow. “Just remember that you asked for this,” she said softly, then charged forward without warning.
The fight went on for a while, but Saber and the fake Lancelot eventually came to a standstill. Both were visibly exhausted from the long and grueling fight, and both swords were wedged into the earth. Saber wished that she couls use her Noble Phantasm to try to end it quickly, but that would be disastrous underground. The least that would happen was tear a huge hole in the earth, but the worst outcome was collapsing the seemingly fragile tunnel system and being buried alive. She was still weighing the positives and negatives when the Berserker finally opened his mouth to speak in a hoarse voice. “You...shall...not...pass...Artoria,” he said with great effort. The sound of her true name gave Saber the energy to raise her sword again. She jumped towards the wall of the underground chamber and bounced off of it, doing a somersault over the fake Lancelot’s head and landing behind him, her sword impaled in the shadow’s chest. “I’m sorry, but I have to get back home,” Saber said with finality as the illusion crumbled into ashes and faded away completely. A tear slid down her cheek. It was already hard enough that she had to kill Lancelot once in the Holy Grail War of all things, but even destroying an illusion of him could move her to tears as she was not currently fighting a war against the inhabitants of the island. She sighed and raised her sword once more turning warily towards Hajime to see if he needed help.