《A Bittersweet Hero Series : The Slumbering Champion (Fate/Grand Order/Fate CYOA)》


 Prologue (1/2)

    It''s had ended.


    The battle-No! the one-sidded massacre from Him, a highest-ranking servant toward a rather high-ranking group of magus (From the modern maguc scale) from the Faction Of Blue that had obtained his ire had ended with the tittle of the winner bestowed upon him.


    Just like it will always be.


    Crinsom colored liquid slowly flowed down from his blade, he steadily calmed down his beating heart, trying to ignore the phantom image of a screaming adult magus begging to be spared, one of the participating female master staring up to him with an unfocussed eyes as he combusting her heart with[Throthum : The Fangof Daemon], of a cooling corpse of a bunch of children soldiers being sended to him by his former teamate Noble Phantasm.


    The phantom Image of his Ruler,his jeanne, use herNoble Phantasm[La Pucelle: The Crimson Saint], to save him from the tainted grail and it''s cursed personafication who image it self as a female by keliminating the said personafication.


    He opened his eyes, presenting his clear blue eyes toward the vast and dense forest infront of him, and slowly lowered his vision toward one of his Noble Phantasm which is stuck in one of the pineapple trees, with it hilt sticking out toward him.


    [Galvwarin : The Bone of Amon],one of the E-RankedNoble Phantasmfrom his seemingly never ending arsenal of legend that created from his original Noble Phantasm,it doesn''t have any special capabilities beside being very sharp to the point of able to cut through diamond with ease and nigh-indestructible , he just stand still on there staring toward one of his thousands B-RankedNoble Phantasmbefore shaking his head and start to dismaterialise it, it doesn''t matter how much he tried to deny it, he does felt a little sick when the memory of the mutilated corpse of his enemy come sufaced trough his mind, just thinking onhow easyit is for his[Galvwarin]to cut through a line of magus who had enhanced their body with[Reinforcement], making them lose their lower part of body in the process, making him feelinhuman.


    ''Well... youarenot a human anymore you know ?."his sapient Noble Phatasm ''helpfully'' added it''s two cent.


    Ah.... That''s right, he''s not a human anymore right ?


    Sometimes he forgot that he was in fact, was not a normal human anymore since he filled that cursed CYOA sheet, he had become something more, something that had surpassed the limit itself, he ahd become a Servant, A legendary figure.


    A Hero


    Hah!.


    him?, a hero ?,what a laughable nonsense, he is nothing but a disilsional man, afaker that wore the mantle of a true hero, he wasnothing but a grown up man who have an extreme eight grader syndrome, a foolish man who dreamed up to be an inspiring figure or hero,an impostor.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    A Fake


    A sneer paint it self on his well-endowed faces, the splattered blood on his face only making him look more terrifying more than he should have, his sneer instantly changed into a grimace when he caught the sight of his face in one of the puddle along the dirt road that he walked upon.


    Jeanne won''t like to see me to have this kind of face.


    Yeah. Jeane D''Arc, the saintess who the greater grail had choosen among the many ruler-class servant on the throne of heroes to be the administrator of this war, the saintess who had been trageted by the Blue faction because they don''t want the female servant to find out their little ''secret'', the female servant who had somehow able to befriend his original master, even to the point where his original master daring to betray his former faction, the same female servant who had became his master after his original master had transfered his command seal to her right before being struck down by Ivan The Terrible, the female servant who had somehow able to captured his heart, someone who had able to make him felt love and warmth for the first time since he was born.


    Someone who he had failed.


    Failed because of his weakness, because of his uselessness, because of his incompetence to do something so simple, because of his hesistation to cut down the Lancer Of Blue, and also someone who he will most likely would never gonna meet ever again unless some miracle occured.


    Wait...


    ''Miracle''


    What he needed is a miracle isn''t it ?, how could he never thought about that !?, his[God Grace]Noble Phantasmcould give him an EX-Ranked [Miracle] Skill.


    ''Master..."Vhelda, his sapientNoble Phantasmsighed while giving him an annoyed glare after teleporting herself outside his Reality Marble by using her [A++] Ranked {Astral Projection} skill, with her tiny white-gloved hand settled on her huggable waist, having the upper part of her body bended toward him, giving him the ability to see the twin small ''Mountain'' while giving him the scariest glare the she could muster, which. To be honest, it''s look more like a pout than a glare.


    Rather than responding toward her glare with a response, he insted give his sentientNoble Phantasmthe best flattest look that he could do, which to be honest, if ther are an olymmpic for the flattest look on the world, it would become the champion.


    ''You couldn''t possibly thinking on using the wish-granting ability of the greater grail do you ?.''Vhelda asked with a smallterrifyingsmile on her lips, making shiver to runs up and down on his spin,


    her smile dropped when she noticed that he had purposedly avoiding to meer her imaginary eyes, a frown appeared on her imaginary faces, making her looks more like an angry mother who is scolding a little trouble makers kid for going to do something stupid.


    ''Master...., you are the one who know the most about the risk of what are you intended to do, it''s a really risky gamble, i cannot allow you to take that risk..''


    ''Why Not ?'' i asked a simple quetion inside mind, knowing that she could hear it since her original for is inside my Reality Marble, when i see that she doesnt answer my first question, i continues to press the matter foward. ''Jeane has already sacrificed herslef to kill the evil personafication of the greater grail, i think it''salrightfor us to take a little gambling to even it no ?'' i asked mentally toward the astral projection of my dozen [EX] RankedNoble Phantasm,[Armor Of Dragas : For Nothing Shall Scratch It].


    My sapient armor-shapedNoble Phantasmdidn''t give a comment toward my second question, she only directed her astral head toward the dirt ground beneath them, and when she brought her ehad up again to meet his faces again, it felt like a sword had pierced his heart, making him felt an inimaginable amount of guilt. ''Ialready had lost big sister Jeanne, i din''t want to lose you as well.'' that word alone had almost make his canceled his plan on going to use the greater grail wish-granting ability.


    Kuh!.


    It''s too much!.


    But he know her secret !, he can turn the table once more!.


    And so he took a small breath and said in a normal voice while looking at her eyes. ''Vhelda, that look won''t work on me anymore.'' he stated flatly toward his forever-present companion, making the female Noble Phantasm giving him a pout, before she huffed and turned her head toward the top of the mountain, while he starting to watch the wild life around them, who had started to gather because of Vhelda nature-attracting presence that are originated fromher nature dragon blood.


    ''It''s true though.''said the spirit that reside within his armor-shapedNoble Phantasm,making him turned his head toward his only companion, ''Immortal Companion'', i thought when i remembered her immortality,the said companion had already continued to inspect the peak of the mountain, seemed to had finded something worth to watch on it.


    He keeps watching his companion for a few minutes before giving her a reply outloud with a small smile placed on his face. "Don''t worry, i won''t leave you alone anymore, i was too stubborn to die anyway.".


    He didn''t see it, but he can feel her smile and hear her giggle and her ''that one is a truth'' response.


    The formerly human-turned-heroic spirit and an ancient spirit of a billion years nature dragon that had been sealed inside an armor-based Noble phantasm continued their measely walk in silence and serene, enjoying their brief moment of peace that they knew wont last for long.

 Chapter 2

    The non-human duo stopped their measely walk when they reach a desolate part of the forest, the sapient Noble Phantasm take her time to scanning the scenery around them, her cute loli face scrunched up in disgust at the sight that she seen, the desolate land had no tree or bush to decorate it, but it had numerous corpse of a magus and a homunculus, they are so many to the point where their corpse could reach the sky if they are piled up together.


    Neo clicked his finger together, the small sound of ''snap'' that had been produce by it catched the attention of the sapient Noble Phantasm, Vhelda turned her head toward her master with a nothing but curiosity.


    "What''s wrong master ?" she asked with her face filled with curiosity, any kind of worry toward an enemy around them was the last thing on her mind, not because of arrogance, but because it''s already nigh-impossible to defeat his master without her, let alone when she was near his vicinity, the nigh-impossible become impossible when they are around each other, the thought was not a simple boast but a factas long as there are any kind of nature in the radius of 100 miles around her, living or not, than she will be literally invulnerable and unkillable, her master is also terribly strong, the only being in th entire history who could fight against him on an even ground could be counted in one hand, and that''s only if his master did not use his seemengly endless amount of Noble Phantasm.


    "We had arrived toward my former fotress." the black haired man replied as he crouched down toward the croched soil and put his palm on it and began to chant,"O lux illa intelligunt de pulcherrima mundi.."the scroched soil began to shine as a few weirdly shaped rune appeared on the surface, the scorched soil started to rippled up and down, much to the amazement of the other living being beside him who stood still in wonder.


    "-dona mihi visum sublimis!"the chant if finished with a loud bang as dust began to flied around wildly, Vhelda shielded her eyes with her gloved hand, the eart around them began to tremble as the wind around them began to howl madly, the tree around them uprooted and the sky darkened,


    when Vhelda lowered her arm, the formerly deserted terrain had changed, none were the scroched tree that formerly surrounding it, now there a small old castle that filled it, Neo smiled in nostalgia, it''s him and jeanned first base. before the blue faction and the corrupted grail attacked them, destroying more than 70 % of the casttle in the proccess.


    the both of them start to walk toward the castle, Vhelda had started to dismaterialise to avoid any detection from the enemy servant, since he alerady had filled two of the slot on his [God Grace] Noble Phantasm with an EX-Ranked Presence Concealment and an EX-Ranked Nothingness, he had literally become one with the world, and thus making it become impossible to detect him, while Vhelda is a spirit, and the corrupted grail are able to detect a spirit and thus able to send a blackened servant to them, the only possible way for some servant to be able to detect their position is by detecting Vhelda herself.


    The former human stepped inside the castle and put his right hand on the castle wall, letting an EX-Ranked Rune Magic skill fill in one of the free slot on his [God Grace] Noble Phantasm, the rush of information about everthing that included rune magic had nearly make him fall in suprise, but his [No Fall For Me Today] Noble Phantasm had prevent that kind of thing from happening.


    he give his head a few shakes to clear his mind, before placing the palm of his left hand on the nearest wall, "JERA" a small rune materialise itself as he finished the whisper, the rune seemed to glow for a brief moment before it faded away, leaving a cleared and fixed up castle behind, he take out his hand from the wall and began to walk toward the main entrance


    He walk toward a round table right in the middle of the room, taking a wood seat and sat on it.


    He let out a loud yawn as he streched his hand, and then place both of his hand at the back of his head, placing his right leg on top of the table, while having his elft leg crosed on top of his right one.


    ''tired master ?'' Vhelda asked with a gentle voice, his ever present sapient Noble Phantasm concern make him show a little smile toward the empty stone ceiling.


    "Nah~ My [Chasseur de la nuit : Hunter of The Moonless Night] didn''t allow me to sleep remember ?."


    ''i do, i just asking to make you feel better.''


    "Ah. Thank you, that means a lot for me."


    And that is true, beside shirou, sakura and jeanne, Vhelda was the last being in the world who seemed to cared about his well being.


    His previous life familiy didn''t even bother to act like they care.


    ''What will you do now ?'' Vhelda curious question make him put both of his foot down from the table, he put his left hand on his lap, while his right hand on his chin.


    "For now ? i will wait."


    ''Wait ?"


    "Yep! servant are from the start are nothing but tool, a sapient and living one ! but still a tool nonetheless. And a tool will become rusty if it has not been used for a long time, the same econcept applied to a Servant, if they don''t fight or do something beyond human limits for a long time, they will get antsy." he explained toward her with an eplaining tone that make the living armor twitched in irritation, it''s like as if he was explaining how 1 + 1 is 2 !, it''s make her claws itchy.


    ''I see. So that''s why you decide to wait here, because you are lazy to search them ?." she snarked back in irritation.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    His eyes twitched a little bit at being called ''lazy'', but he can retort it back, it''s one of the reason after all.


    silnce descended on them, the only sound in the castle was just the sound of a rustling leaves near the entrance.


    Neo relaxed his back, letting both of his arms dangling on the side of the chair, both of his feet placed on top of the table. A peacefull smile opainted on his face.


    it has been quite a long of time since the last time he had been this relaxed, the last one was when he and jeanned cuddling each other right before being ambushed by the silver faction and the corrupted grail.


    his face twitched a little when he heard the dampened sound of a rustling grass.


    ''Master ?''


    ''Yeah ?."


    "It''s Assassin of Silver."


    Ah! it''s false hassan isn''t it ?


    It had been a long time since he and the false hassan-i-sabbah had fought each other.


    he wondered whatever or not will he be able to finally killed that cowardly insect ?


    The former Saber of Silver had drown deep into his thought to the point that he didn''t realise that there are a presence right infront of his body, the presence weapon is lifted high toward the sky in a vertical position, ready to cut the former Saber of Silver.


    ''Master!'' Vhelda, his sapient Noble Phatasm panicked shout broke him out of his musing, his whole body jolted in alarm as he swun his body and making a backflip toward the forest outside, with the intent of avoiding being slashed by his attacker.


    ''I know!," He replied internally as he grab the nearest tree branch and echanced it with one of his [A+++] rankedNoble Phatasm, making it become as strong as a B+ ranked Noble Phatasm, swinging it in an ''X'' motion, literally disarming both ofAssasin of Silver armin the process, Asassin of Silver let out a silent scream as he tried to activate his [Dreaming Fatamorgana],to escape once more.


    ''As if i would fall for that again!.'' He quickly summoned his B Ranked Noble Phantasm,[7 Deadly Sins], hepicked the 4 strongest dagger-shaped sin and throw them at the retreating Assasin, he need to eliminate this pain in the ass now, his [Dreaming Fatamorgana] Noble phatasm is a pain in the ass to dealt with.


    [Sloth] pierced Assasin of Silver left thigh, causing him to be pinned on the stone street below him, making him stunned as a strong flow of electricity flow throgh his vein, [Envy] pierced his right heel, green marking started to appear at his right heel, indicating that the poison inside the dagger-shaped sin has entered his blood collection system, making the skull-masked Assasin right heels become fully numb, his [Pride] pierced the skull masked Assasin right in the middle of his stomatch, making the organ inside started to getting organ failure, making him puking out a few liters of raw blood from the hole in his skull-shaped mask, his [Wrath] pierced the left side of his lungs, making the cell on the left side of his lungs started to heating up, burning his body from the inside on the process.


    Thanks to his EX-Ranked Projectile skill, and his [Clockwork Animosity] Noble Phatasm. he able to do all of that in 0.042 seconds, he slowly walked tword the dying Heroic(?) Spirit, calmly analyzing the situation around them, searching for any kind of reinforcement that Assasin of Silver master may had possibly sent to help his dying servant.


    Only his EX-Ranked instict had saved him from being screwed by an endless rain of arrow, carefully twisting his body in a way that makes his vanished from the trajector path of the never ending rain of arrows, he only need one small slp and wrong body movement to be iimpaled by the endless amount of sure-kill Noble Phatasm.


    The hero(?) beneath him is not so lucky, the endless amount of arrow that had rained upon them had skwered him, since he had been stucked into the earth beneth him by his [7 Deadly Sins], his death is a certain one.


    his face scrunched up in irritaton, twisting and bending his body in a weird angle is an alien sensation for him, he was a human dammit!, not an octopus!.


    with nothing but a flick of his wrist,the biggest tornado in the whole history had been born, the wholde forsest has been uprutted, the sky become cloudless, the endless rain of sure-kill Noble Phatasm scattered around the starting-to-become-a-wasteland forest, rendered useless infront of his [Might].


    "So...." his word trailed as the tornado that he had caused slowly died down, slowly adjusting his feet at the now vaste wasteland that was once a forest, the light of the sun blazing greatly as he turned his head upwards toward one of the highest tree on the radius of 5000 miles, and also toward his assailant, who calmly nicked an arrow at his bow once more, prepared to unleash another batch of endless amount of sure-kill Noble Phatasm.


    "You missed me again Arjuna, or should i call you Blarjuna?, since you have been tagged by the black mud you know? ." The said blackened indian Demi-God didn''t do anything more than pulling the string of his bow backward,.


    "The same cold treatment again Arjuna ?. Really ?. Even after getting blackened and losing your personality, you still giving me this ?. " He asked in an annoyed tone while crossing his hand infront of his torso, face scrunched up in iritation, not even bothering to registering the blackened indian Heroic Spirit in the distance as an opponent.


    a loud booming sound resonding around the forest, the former human just ignoring the endless amount of sure-kill Noble Phatasm that would be rained upn him, knowing fully that his [Resistance]  Would fully protect him from any of it, Arjuna was just a half-god and half-human, not a fully god, and his [Resistance] grant him total invulnerability to any kind of attack bar the attack that are launched by gods, so the result of this fight had been decided from the start, just like at their previous encounter.


    the Archer of Blue unleash his Noble Phatasm, [Agni Gadniva] toward him, the majestic arrow soaring through him, cutting through the wind it self as it''s readjusting its path towards him, to make sure it would never miss hitting it''s target, and yet, even as the earth around him exploded, the water around the lake is being evaporated, when the landscape is being reshaped by being hit by the mighty son of indra Noble Phatasm, never did once he move from his standing position, Fire is being absorbed into his body, used to replenish the missing Prana and od, the AOE attack damage had been turned null when it come in contact with his body, leaving not even a scratch behind.


    The landmass around him exploded once more, earth turning into lava, the fire from [Agni Gadniva] burn greatly, showing their majesic heat, schorching everything around him as he was consumed by the flame from the indian Demi-god Noble Phatasm.


    the former Archer of Blue lowered his bow, watching the scene played out with an intense sharpness, searching anykind of clue that his enemy is still alive, he would not admit it out loud, but beside LUK, the Saber Of Silver had outclassed any other servant in the two-sided war by an insanely large margin, and the Noble Phatasm of the former Saber Of Silver is also on an entire realm higher than any other servant in this Two-sided war.


    his eyes narrowed when he caught the glimpse of a black humanoid figure among the burned land, standing tall and proud in the middle of the greatly scorching fire, with an arm crosed over it''s torso and a bored look on his face, and of course, there are no sign of injury on his body, again.


    the blackened servant of the bow cursed outloud for the seven times on the same day.


    He prepared his Noble Phatasm once more, Prepared to uneleash a third [Pashphata] toward the guardian of Ruler and the former servant of sword from the Silver Faction, he bring his left hand toward his front, chanelling his power toward his Noble Phatasm, causing a shining pale blue light began to form on his hand, he was about to shoot it toward the sky, before the balckened servant heard a defeaning exploding soun d on the ground, it took him a full one second to understand the meaning behind that eploding sound before a hand make it way toward his neck, and then the said hand increase it grip stregth, making him chocking and cancelling his anti-unit Noble Phatasm.


    He didn''t have the luxury to undestand his current sitation before the hand on his neck began to lift him sideways, his eyes widen up in a horror realization on what does the former Saber of Blue gonna do.


    Hipless Wheel


    The air around them exploded as the blackened servant was launched at the speed of mach 78 toward the ground beneath them, the tree where he formerly used as an archery tower had turned into dust after being hitted by the explosion from the soundwave.


    The son of indra gritted his teeth as he felt the impact at the back of his spine, the mountain shook at the impact, many tree had been uprooted in the process, the blackened servant coughed up a dozens liters of bloods, he blinked his eyes for a few times to adjust them on his new surrounding, he tried to get up from his position before he heard a male voice that sends chills toward his spine, "Oh ?, Still alive eh ?, no matter, you will die soon enough anyway.".


    A strong stomp on his stomach had stopped his attempt, the stomp had cracked the earth beneth his body, making a really huge spider wab crack, the dust that flyed around him had hit his eyes, making his eyes teary, he blink his eyes for a few time when he heard a sound, the familiar sound of the one who had stomped his stomach, the sound that announce his demise. "Good Bye."


    Stomp Ground


    And everthing went black.