Fate/Sunset

Last time on Fate/Sunset.

New threats are at the works to deal with our hero.

“No!” screamed the teen, causing her servant to look at her in confusion. “ I will not lose this war! Especially to Sunset Shimmer of all people!”

“So… what will be our plans with dealing with her?” asked Caster, grinning at the display of emotion being cast to him. Whoever this Sunset Shimmer was, it was able to lite a fire within his master’s soul.

“Oh trust me Caster, whatever plan I come up with, it will be sure to get us far into this war,” stated the teen.

And it seems she might have ended up with an unstable Servant.

A grin that was both beautiful and deranged slowly formed on her face, and a low chuckle escaped from her lips as memories of her past life, and all those victories started to pop up in her mind. This even helped her ignore the freezing snow, as she walked through the street with more vigor in her step.

And heck if the cold was still bothering her, she could always find another mountain to burn, and if she was lucky, then some stupid monks will be on that one as well.

Let’s hope that our hero can work through this challenges… less she faces an early grave.

We’ll find out in the next installment of Fate/Sunset!

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Pain.

That’s all Sunset could feel right now, not just from her back from where she slammed into the wall, not from her hand where that stupid mark was that felt like it was burning a hole in her hand last night. No the pain she was feeling was all over her body as if someone poked every inch of her with a hot iron.

This pain was felt by her even in her sleep, which only added to the stress she was going through right now in her dreams.

Images flashed through her mind as she saw burning villages, dead warriors wearing Samurai armor who had bullet holes lettering their bodies, and finally, a mountain that was engulfed in flames with people on it screaming for mercy… mercy that they never got.

All these images flashed before her in a first-person view, as if she was there herself! The terror she felt would have broken a weaker person, but Sunset held strong because even though she felt horrible for what she was seeing, she felt an even worst fear from another feeling creeping into her, that was both foreign, and familiar to her.

Pride.

As soon as she registered that feeling the fear in her became too overwhelming and her vision went white.

~~~~~~~~~~~(unknown location.)~~~~~~~~~~~

Waking up with an ear-splitting scream Sunset jolted upward into a sitting position. Breathing deeply the young teen took in her surrounding, a habit she picked up after she started living in the streets after getting kicked out of her apartment once Anon-A-Miss’s shinanigans affected her landlord’s kids back at school. Due to Sunset being the one everyone blamed, she was short one home and even lost her job when her boss’s kid’s secrets were spilled the next day after losing her apartment…

After shaking her head from those memories, Sunset went back to looking around, and taking note she was in what looked like a library, well if the rows of shelves filled with books where any hint anyway. Heck, she was even sleeping on some books that were being used as a makeshift bed… god did that bring back memories of her first few nights living in the human world.

Getting up from her “bed” and walking around just to confirm that yes, she was in a library, but not in any that she’s been in. For one the decor was more dated, almost as if she just sent thirty years in the past kind of dated. She also took notice of the strange feeling in the air, a tingling sensation she’d had only felt in this world when magic was involved. She was planning on investigating more before a voice rang out from behind her.

“Oi~! It’s good to see my lazy master is now wide awake,” a voice filled with mirth cheered from behind her. Causing her to nearly jump from her skin.

Whipping around Sunset saw the same girl from last night who chased that old man away, her ruby red eyes filled with mirth, and a smirk that looked like it belonged on her face twenty-four-seven.

“Hehehe~! It’s good to see you awake master~!” the shorter girl laughed out. “I was worried you would be out for most of the war!”

Blinkin in confusion, our protagonist, could only respond with only the most elegant way possible. “Uhhhh…”

“Though before we do anything, I think we should deal with your… clothing problem,” the red-eyed girl said with her smirk getting even broader as her eyes trailed down, prompting Sunset to do the same, and quickly gain a burning blush from doing so.

For you see, to make sure her master didn’t get ill from wearing wet clothes Archer had to… strip her down to her undergarments. Leaving Sunset out in only her bra and panties, a view that quite a few backs in school would kill for.

The sun themed girl shrieked as she wrapped her arms around herself to keep some form of decency.

“Umu! You might want to put this on,” the dark-haired girl said as she handed Sunset blanket, witch the teen quickly snatch from her and wrapped herself in. “*snort* you look like a caterpillar hehehe~!”

Glaring at the laughing girl Sunset demanded. “W-who the heck are you? Why are we in a library? And why am I naked!?”

Letting out a few chuckles the cape-wearing answered Sunset. “Well, the easiest one to answer would be your lack of clothing, and the reason you're out in you delicates is that I had to remove them before you caught your death in the cold.”

Seeing the logic and feeling a bit grateful that she didn’t wake up with ammonia. “Thanks… but where are my clothes? There all I have.”

“There in the dryer,” the red-eyed girl answered. “We’re lucky that this place has a built-in apartment, and it’s own generator.”

“And this place would be?” Sunset asked with a raised brow. This wasn’t a library she’s been in, and she spent all day yesterday looking through all of the biggest libraries in the city… god, she hoped that was yesterday, and she wasn’t out for too long.

“Oh, this place is called the Golden Oaks Library,” the dark-haired girl said with a shrug. “Yeah, apparently this place was the first library built in this city back when it was just a small town,”

“And why are we here, and why does this place look like it hasn’t been used in quite a while?” the sun-themed girl asked while taking note of the thick layer of dust covering most of the place.

“Oh well that’s because it’s abandoned, the only reason it was never torn down was that of its historical background,” the dark-haired girl said with a shrug. Pulling up a seat knowing that this might take a while. “And before you ask how I know all this, I found out the same way I found out about this in the first place.”

~~~~~~(flashback: a few hours ago. location: some random street in the slums.)~~~~~~

“*grumble* damn snow, I might just waste my wish to have snow never be a thing,” muttered Archer as she carried her unconscious master through the deep snow. As you can figure she was having a bad time.

“You so owe me for this…” she mumbled towards her master as she glanced over her shoulder to see that the sun-themed girl was getting paler and frost was starting to appear on her. She NEEDED to find somewhere warm quick, or she is without a master and any hope of winning this war.

“This is an outrage!” screamed a voice from across the street causing her to turn her attention towards some hobo sitting against an old abandoned store, most of his appearance being covered by a brown jacket and gray hoodie and scarf. The only thing that stands out was that fact that he wore a yellow glove and one tanned one, and he had one of those fake reindeer antlers that people would sometimes wear during Christmas, though one of the horns were broken off halfway witch just made him look ridiculous.

“I can’t believe they put a fence up at the Golden Oaks Library!” ranted the hobo, who was more than likely drunk if his slurred words were any indication. “How’s a homeless person going to get a nice warm sleep from the cold now? It’s not like it was being used, the damn things abandoned! Nothing but dust and books in there!”

Ok. this was a lucky break, and while some people might have questioned the convenience of the situation, but Archer was never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, especially during the times in her past life when one of her more crazy planes worked.

Liking what she was hearing the servant yelled out. “Oiiii~! Old Man, could you tell me where this Library is?”

Letting out a few grumbles about not being old the homeless man pointed down the street. “Just keep going that away and make a left when you reach the stop sign, and just keep going, and you’ll be there in no time.”

“Thanks, When I win this wore I’ll include you in my victory speech!” the red-eyed girl said with a grin as she made her way down the street.

As the homeless man watched the strange girl and passed out comrade make their way down the street, he let out a small chuckle as he fished out a silver flask. Opening it up and taking a swig, the homeless man let out a sigh before sporting a grin that showed off unusually long fang.

~~~~~~~~~~~(flashback end)~~~~~~~~~~~

“And that’s about it,” Archer said with a shrug. Leaving the room in uncomfortable silence, leaving her master to digest the information.

After taking a second to think things over Sunset let out a sigh and looked at the red-eyed girl who was calling herself Archer.

“Ok “Archer,” finale question,” the teen started. “What's this about a war?”

Letting out a sigh the archer class servant closed her eyes. “ I was afraid you would ask me this… but I guess I have to answer it, but not now.”

“What? Why!?” Sunset snapped. If this war was the reason, she was almost killed and roped in with this strange girl she wanted to know dammit!

“Because… you need a bath,” Archer said in a flat tone while pinching her nose. “You reek!”

Sputtering from the sudden insult and sporting an embarrassing blush for the sole fact that it was true. When one lives on the streets, baths become something of a rarity.

“F-fine! But I want answers when I’m done!” scream the blushing teen as the laughter of her servant could be heard throughout the building.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~(unknown location.)~~~~~~~~~~~~

The scene is now located in a dark room filled with small candles that held green flames.

In the center of the room was a figure that was bearly illuminated by the light, the only real thing that could be made out was that the character was female and that she had teal colored hair.

“Report!” snapped the figure without turning her head to the person she was addressing in the dark.

From the darkness, a deep voice echoed out. “The scouts have reported that they sensed a magical presence similar to a servant has just appeared a few hours ago.”

Humming over this news, the figure asked. “And?”

“I have already sent out the scouting teams in search of more information, they should be back within the hour,”

“Hmhmhm~! Good~!” the figure purred out as she looked towards the direction of the voice. “You’ve done good work… Berserker.”

Letting out a small hum the now named Berserker replied. “Anything to win this war, my master.

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It seems another player is already on the move. You better watch out Sunset, your in way over your head on this one.

Let’s hope she survives in the next chapter of Fate/Sunset!