A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

Okay, I want to say this now because I know that people whose parents are siblings are going to comment about it, for now people are chill but we know how this goes after. Just because Artoria became an alter doesn't mean her name now is f.u.c.k.i.n.g Peppa Pig! She is still Artoria, alter or not. If you gain weight suddenly and people start calling you fat whale, does that mean your name becomes that? No, right?

Well, I just wanted to say that to the people who are more toxic than Chernobyl and think because they see something in a Wikia, then there are no other options available. I'm thankful to the bros who commented about that in the previous chapter (in a good way, without sounding like a 5-year-old kid throwing a tantrum) as I could prevent a disaster later on!

RANT OVER.

==============================

They had been walking for thirty minutes after Seth finished almost all the Wyverns. They decided to stop walking a rest a bit in the walls surrounding an abandoned fort.

"At least we can rest now." Fujimaru said, tiredness present on his voice. All the supply of mana he had to give Saber during her fight with Lancelot had taken its toll on him.

"Yes, you especially need to rest, senpai. I will give you something to replenish your magical energy, just wait a moment." Mash said once her Master sat down on the ground with his back resting on the wall.

Now that they didn't have to hurry, they could relax a little and chat about things, especially about Siegfried's situation right now which was the most important topic.

"What were you doing in that town? How did you get wounded?" Dr. Roman was the first one to ask.

"I was defending it, when I came across that town it was already being attacked by multiple Wyverns, I managed to fend them off. Sadly, reinforcements came, this time they were Servants. They were the ones who caused me this wounds." Siegfried explained to them what occurred after his summoning.

"I'm surprised you are still alive considering how the Dragon Witch operates." Amadeus said, a little perplexed.

"I was actually saved by a woman mounting a Dragon... No, a Turtle... No, that's not right either. A Dragon Turtle? Anyway, she was the one who hid me inside that castle." He was a little confused but still tried to clarify.

"A Dragon Turtle? Could that be—"

"Tarasque." Marie wanted to speak but was interrupted by Seth, not being offended she nodded confirming their guess matched.

"Tarasque? So the woman who saved me was Saint Martha, huh?" Once the name of the Dragon was said, Siegfried finally knew the name of the woman who saved him.

"Yes, she was also the one who told us to find you before dying." Seth added causing the white-haired Servant to release a somewhat sad sigh.

"I see... I wish I could've thanked her. But I guess she was prepared for everything and did what her faith told her in the end." After the momentary discomfort, he gave a smile.

"U-um... Master, I think you should be more tactful about these things." Jeanne whispered to him in an attempt to prevent him from being misunderstood.

"... And you should worry about your troubles before worrying about someone else." He hit where it hurt without mercy.

"I will worry about my troubles when I'm done worrying about yours." She didn't have any mercy either.

'Aghh!!!! This girl is driving me crazy! Why am I the one with the insufferable girl here?!—Oh wait, Fujimaru has Marie, nevermind.' Outside he didn't show any change in his facial expression but inside he was losing his sanity. Finishing his internal monologue, he decided to ignore her to avoid more disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.es.

"We should do something about Siegfried's wound and fast." Fujimaru came to a decision as he couldn't allow the armored man to suffer more than he is now.

"I agree with senpai, but how do we do it?" Mash asked unsurely.

"Oi, Saint. Do you have any idea how to cure this guy?" Saber asked Jeanne who didn't seem to be into the conversation.

"Eh? Ah, yes! There are multiple layers of curses intertwined together. Baptism Rites should remove this curse. The thing is, we need another Saint to perform it as I alone am not enough." She was startled at first but still explained the best solution they had at the moment.

"Another Saint? There certainly is a chance considering Saint Martha and Jeanne were summoned..." Mash said after a bit of contemplation.

"Yeah, we must pray the Counter Force summoned another one." Romani said from the side.

"What if we divide ourselves to search, it's not the safest option but it will save us time." Marie proposed the best way she could think of to find another Saint, if there was one of course.

"Great, another search. Are we explorers or something?" Saber clicked her tongue in annoyance. First, they went to all the trouble of finding a Dragon Slayer and now they have to find a Saint to cure him.

"I'm sorry for causing you troubles..." Siegfried apologized.

"Don't mind it, Artoria didn't mean to be rude." Fujimaru smiled in reassurance.

"If you are feeling upset then you should smile! It will surely brighten your day." Marie did her signature pose while smiling which earned a twitch on Saber's eyebrow.

"But how are we going to form groups, Maria?" Amadeus asked Marie, he was already used to her antics so you could say he was immune.

"Hm... Oh! I know, we can draw lots! That way it will be fair." She came with a proposition after thinking for a bit.

Amadeus smiled seeing her enthusiasm. "Then I will go search for some twigs we can use to make them."

After a minute, the musician was back carrying twigs on his hands, they then proceeded to draw lots and the results were as follows:

Group one: Amadeus, Siegfried, Mash, and Fujimaru.

Group two: Marie, Jeanne, and Artoria.

Seth didn't pick one as he said he needed to do something first and will later catch up to the group who had less overall fighting power which in this case was group one.

After that, the conversation somewhat ended in a story about how Amadeus proposed to Marie which neither Seth nor Saber had any interest in.

Before parting, the three girls received a communication device from Mash to keep in touch in case they found something. Just as they were starting walking Seth stopped them.

"Wait, Ruler." He said while approaching the trio.

"What is it, Master?" She cutely tilted her head in confusion. Seth didn't say anything and just extended his right hand toward her head, something that for some reason caused her to be embarrassed.

However, contrary to the expectations she wasn't sure she had, the black-haired man just flicked her forehead. "A lucky charm." He said which honestly confused her more and made her question his reason while holding her forehead. What she didn't notice, like the rest of them, was the little mana that entered her when he did that 'weird' action.

Thinking this was some kind of change of his personality for the better, Jeanne got motivated and this time truly left with the other two.

"I didn't know you could actually show care for her." Amadeus said with a smile and although his words seemed to mock him, they didn't have that purpose nor Seth took it that way.

"What can I say...miracles happen sometimes." He said before sitting down next to Siegfried.

They started to talk about random things with Seth intervening every now and then. Different from the other group, they had to rest a little more due to Fujimaru who was tired as he was not yet used to the continuous drain of mana.

Sometimes, beasts would come from the little forest near the fort but they were all burned before they even got a little close to it, now that his authority had grown enough Seth didn't have to fight the mob personally except for some special cases.

Resting for half an hour more, the group was finally ready to depart. After getting up, they all looked at Seth but was Mash the one who asked. "Kuro-san, are you sure you don't want to come with us?"

"I already told you I have things to do, I will catch up later. You can move on your own now, right Siegfried?" The Egyptian God reassured them before asking his Servant.

Nodding, Siegfried spoke. "Yeah, at least now I can walk without support. I still can't be of help in combat, though. I'm sorry."

After exchanging a few more words, the group also departed to their respective direction. Seeing them disappear in the distance, Seth decided to jump and sit on top of the wall of the fort waiting for 'them' to arrive.

'They sure take their time...' It's been one hour since he sent Fujimaru's group off and he was starting to feel bored out of his mind.

Just as he was thinking this, his senses caught magical reactions getting near. They were ten kilometers far but judging by their speed they will be here in one or two minutes.

It wasn't long before two beings mounted on two Wyverns with many more behind them appeared before him.

"I was getting tired of waiting for you, bloodsuckers." Seth said to his new visitors, Carmilla and Vlad.

"Oh? Is that so? My apologies, but they said that meat gets better if you left it in the sun for a while, I was hoping that principle applied to blood too." Carmilla did a curtsy bow that was as sarcastic as her words.

"My tardiness is inexcusable, but I at least promise to keep you alive so that our Master can finish the job herself." Vlad said like it was a blessing, not that being s.u.c.k.e.d dry by a Vampire looked pretty.

"Hm...now that I look carefully, there are no signs of the others, don't tell me they left you alone? A poor soul indeed." Carmilla said in fake lament.

"Did you come here to talk or you came here to die?" Seth said before jumping from the wall and landing on the ground.

Vlad chose not to comment. However, Carmilla did. "Didn't your parents teach you manners? Food needs to obediently stay in the table."

Deciding that speaking with dead people was of no consequence he started walking toward them. With each step he took the atmosphere became heavier and the illusion that gravity was increasing was making its way in the minds of everyone present. Even the Wyverns started having trouble maintaining flight.

Carmilla and Vlad could feel the increasing pressure so they decided to throw all pretense out of the window and also become serious.

Thus, the battle began.

==============================

The group of women had been walking for a while, talking about a lot of things although it was mostly Marie who spoke, Artoria stayed silent and Jeanne found it difficult to talk as the majority of topics were about love.

"It's nice that we could all be grouped together, it must be destiny!" Marie smiled while skipping.

"I'm also glad we could be grouped together, Marie." Jeanne gave a smile of her own. Saber just ignored them and continued walking.

Seeing this, Marie pouted. "Don't be grumpy all the time, you need to have fun once in a while!"

Closing her eyes, she spoke. "I didn't come here to have fun, I came here to kill the one who is behind this."

"But that doesn't mean you can't relax from time to time! Look at Jeanne, even if she is facing another her who is destroying everything she fought to protect, she still smiles!" Marie countered a little sad for Artoria's gloominess.

"Don't lump me with her. We are totally different." Saber said coldly causing Jeanne to look at the side uncomfortably.

"Hm..." Marie looked at Saber intensely trying to figure something before she came to a realization. Putting her fist on her palm, she said, "Oh! I've got it! You are jealo—" Before she could finish, a sword was on her throat.

"One more word and it won't be our enemies the ones who will end your life." She said with hidden embarrassment.

"Okay~" Marie gave a knowing smile.

They continued idle chatting like that for the rest of the journey, with nothing major happening.

For their part, the other group arrived on the outskirts of Thiers. "It seems this city is still intact, I must say it's surprising." Amadeus said looking at the still-standing settlement.

"If it hasn't been destroyed there is a possibility of a Saint being there. Doctor, any signals of a Servant being there?" Mash asked Romani through the communicator.

"Yup! I'm actually detecting two Servants in that town, and they are actually close to each other." Dr. Roman gave a positive answer.

"Close to each other? Are they fighting?" Fujimaru asked unsurely. Just when he said that, a pillar of flame went toward the sky from the town.

"I guess that was the confirmation we needed." Siegfried said releasing a small sigh. A fight breaking out was the less d.e.s.i.r.ed outcome seeing as he was wounded, Amadeus was not combat-oriented and Mash was inexperienced and could only hit hard with her shield.

"Agh! What is this?!" Amadeus suddenly fell to the ground covering his ears and having something like an epilepsy attack.

"Amadeus, are you okay?!" The young Master kneeled beside him trying to do whatever he could.

"I don't know what's happening. I don't detect anything abnormal from here!" Romani said from the side.

"Oh God of Music, what is that infernal sound?! That's a crime against music, someone please make it stop!" Amadeus trembled. Everyone else exchanged glances of confusion.

"I-I think we should check the city out, maybe that way we will know what's causing Amadeus to be like this..." Mash made a proposition seeing the strange situation.

"Shouldn't we wait for Master? I'm useless at the moment, sorry." Siegfried asked.

"I'm not sure if Amadeus can wait, though..." Fujimaru said, scratching his cheek while looking at the state of the musician Servant.

"Then there is no alternative, I apologize for being s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e."

They started walking toward the town, Amadeus was being supported by Fujimaru as he still was suffering from the 'evil sound'.

What greeted them was the sight of two little girls bickering and throwing insults at each other faster than a machine gun can shoot.

"Please stop this sacrilege! I feel like my ears will bleed if you don't stop talking." Amadeus said with a face that looked like he had motion sickness.

"What do you want? Don't you see we are busy?" The red-haired girl with a tail and strange horns on her head said.

"For the first time, I agree with this lizard. We are in the middle of something so why don't you return from where you came." This time, the green-haired girl with a green kimono and two horns on each side of her head followed up.

"Who are you calling lizard, you creepy stalker?!" The red-haired girl retorted.

And so, the verbal fight started again causing Amadeus to suffer even more. "Enough! Please, I beg of you, let's fight them and get this over with. I don't think I can continue standing if this keeps up!" The musician begged the rest of the group to fight as to put an end to his suffering.

"Hm? You guys haven't gone away yet? I think I was clear enough." The green-haired girl said in disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e.

"Are you an idiot, Kyohime? It's obvious they want to fight!" The dragon girl said.

"Shut up, Elizabeth! After I burn them I will make sure you will be the next." Kyohime said.

"That's my line, this is just a temporary truce!" Elizabeth pointed at Kyohime and shaking it with every single word.

"Can you both shut up and get this over with?!" Amadeus was at the border of insanity.

==============================

The women trio had found a city some minutes ago and were already roaming its streets in search of a Saint, that's when Jeanne noticed a man with long brown and a bronze armor mounted on a white horse¹

"Halt. Who are you?" The man inquired the group with a hand on the handle of his sword.

"I'm a Servant, Rider Marie Antoinette." Marie replied with a smile. The man looked at them for a few seconds before abandoning the hostile stance he had previously.

"I see... You are not under Madness Enhancement so I presume you don't work for the Dragon Witch." The man inquired further, this time not so sternly.

"Yes. In fact, we are opposing her. There are more of us who separated to search for a Saint." She said.

"Our Dragon Slayer is suffering for multiple curses but I alone can't remove them, that's why we need the help of a Saint, you are one right?" Jeanne said, feeling a similarity between the man in front of her and Saint Martha.

"The Holy Maiden, huh? Yes, I'm in fact one, my name is Georgios. I get the situation now, the residents of this town are evacuating, we can depart once they are done." The Saint gave a positive response which made the two girls happy.

"And you are...?" The mounted man turned toward Artoria.

"Saber." She simply replied, understanding she was a woman of few words the man nodded.

After their conversation, Marie and Georgios started helping the residents evacuate faster while for obvious reason Jeanne stayed in stand by. Saber just didn't have any interest to help.

They have been evacuating for one hour before Georgios looked toward the sky. "I'm feeling the presence of a dragonkin approaching, another Wyvern attack?"

"No! This presence...it's not just Wyverns...It's the Dragon Witch!" Jeanne exclaimed with clenching her fist.

Now THIS got Saber's attention, it seems the time to avenge Sir Lancelot was closer than she thought originally.

"We must retreat!" Jeanne said in hurriedness.

"I'm sorry but we can't do that. There are still civilians evacuating." Georgios shook his head at her words.

"I agree, we can't retreat now." Artoria agreed with the man's words but for different reasons.

"But you will die!" Jeanne tried to reason with them, Saber was an irreplaceable fighting power and Georgios was needed to cure Siegfried. They couldn't lose both!

"I'm aware of the consequences, however, I can't simply abandon them when they asked for my protection." Georgios said to the dismay of Jeanne.

"This is the perfect chance to teach that mad dog a lesson, you can go and cower all you want." Saber supported Georgios, albeit again for a different reason.

"Lord Georgios, can I ask you something?" Marie finally spoke.

"Yes, go ahead." Giving his confirmation, the Saint motioned her to ask.

"You only are staying to ensure these civilians evacuate safely, aren't you?" The man nodded in affirmation. "Then, let me assume that role. As a Queen is my obligation to protect the people of France, and I'm sure your help is more needed than mine." She made him a proposition.

"Marie...!" Jeanne was surprised at her words, Marie just giggled a little. "It's fine, Jeanne. This is what I want to do."

The man thought for a bit before finally agreeing. "If that is your d.e.s.i.r.e, then I entrust the lives of these people to you."

"Thanks!" Marie smiled before looking at Saber, who by the looks of it, wouldn't be convinced so easily.

She got near to her and whispered something to her ear. "Wha—! You wouldn't dare!" Saber's eyes opened wide at her words. Marie in response just smiled innocently.

"Kuh...FINE! But this will be the last time!" She reluctantly accepted not forgetting to elevate Marie's level of threat in her mind.

"Then it's decided. Have a safe trip!" Marie waved at them.

"Promise you will catch up to us, Marie—Gah!" Jeanne was saying her goodbyes when she felt pain her c.h.e.s.t like something was trying to get out. She kneeled on the ground and used her free hand to support herself before vomiting a black liquid.

"Jeanne, are you okay?!" Marie rushed to her side in concern.

"Y-Yes...I'm fine, sorry." Jeanne got up slowly while looking at the strange substance that seemed to be corroding the ground before disappearing.

"Was that a curse?" Marie asked a little worried, both Georgios and Jeanne shook their heads. "It's not, I don't know what that is but it's definitely not a curse."

"If you are done then we need to hurry, don't make me regret my decision." Artoria said not at all caring about the Saint's situation.

"She is right...we must go, good luck Marie." The Holy Maiden said looking at the Queen in the eyes one last time.

"Rest assured." With those final words, they separated again.

On Seth's side, the moment Jeanne threw up the Evil God looked at her direction. "I knew it, Fate is always a bitch no matter the era or the world." He said with disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e.

"Don't you agree, you two?" Seth said looking at the decapitated heads he was holding in his hands before they disappeared.

All around him, a sea of blood, guts and body parts was the only thing that could be found. The abandoned fort that stood strong just a few hours ago was nothing more than ruins now. With the death of the two Vampires, one of the chains holding the door broke. Making him closer to return being a God.

The sky darkened, thunderbolts were dancing amidst the clouds until one of them struck him banishing him from the battlefield. Once that happened, the storm began moving toward Marie's direction.