A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

Once Marie dismounted from her crystal horse, she was met with a tackle from Mash and Jeanne who hugged her happy that she was alright and nothing bad happened to her. Amadeus was near too, welcoming her with a smile.

Seth did the same as Marie and dismounted the Wyvern. "You are free to go again, don't get caught into trouble after I gave you a second chance." He said to him before walking toward the male group. The Wyvern looked at him for a second before growling in acknowledgment and flapping its wings, finally departing.

"Welcome back, Master. It seems everything went well." Siegfried was the first to greet him, followed by Fujimaru.

"You must be the Saint we were looking for, right?" The black-haired God said, but even without an answer, he could tell that he was indeed the one. The aura surrounding him was similar to the one surrounding Martha and Jeanne.

Unaware of his thoughts, Georgios answered. "Indeed, I don't know if I can be of much help but please let me fight together with you all. Also, I wish to express my thanks for saving that little girl over there, the reason she was in danger in the first place was because of me."

"Don't mind it, she saved my life before so I was just returning the favor." Seth waved his hand dismissively.

"Now all we have to do is wait for that little Saint over there to finish her reunion so we can remove Saber's curse." The King of Knights said, joining the conversation.

"Well, let them have their reunion, they thought they had lost a friend after all." Dr. Roman said from the communicator on Fujimaru's hand.

"I don't know if you can call someone you just met for a few days a friend." It's what she wanted to say but she refrained.

'Hm...?' Seth turned to look at the other two Servants that weren't with them before. Feeling his gaze, both trembled. Elizabeth hid behind Fujimaru's back.

Seth looked confused before remembering that he kept releasing an aura that instilled fear on Serpents and Dragon sub-species since he fought against the two Vampires, he was in a hurry to reach the town where Marie was that he forgot to turn it off and considering those two weren't proper Dragons, it made sense it could somehow affect them.

With a simple mental command, the aura that was oppressing both Elizabeth and Kiyohime disappeared. The self-proclaimed Idol heaved a sigh of relief while the girl with the fan started panting lightly all of sudden. It seemed each one had a different interpretation of the oppressing feeling they were suffering a while ago...

They talked about some random stuff while waiting for the other guys to finish catching up about whatever they did in a few hours they were separated.

Once that was over, they were finally ready to lift Siegfried's curse that has been preventing him from helping in combat.

Both Saint positioned themselves in opposite sides of the kneeling Siegfried, one at the back and the other in front.

Almost everyone surrounded the trio to see how they were going to lift his curse. It was nothing flashy and in half an hour it was over.

When the curse got removed, Marie healed Siegfried leftover wounds. Now the Servant was ready to fight Fafnir once again and prove his usefulness.

The first thing the white-haired man did was kneeling in front of Seth and present himself again. "Once again, I'm Saber, Siegfried. The 'hero' who once slew the Evil Dragon Fafnir, I'm at your command to slay him once again and help in whatever I can." He said, this time with more seriousness than before.

"Hm...I'm counting on you, make sure to kill that Dragon again." Seth said looking at the kneeling man who nodded at his words.

"And I'm going to be the one who will slay Carmilla!" Out of nowhere, Elizabeth's voice resounded. They all looked at her who blushed at the stares. "Cough...I mean, let's go!"

"You certainly don't know how to read the mood." Kiyohime said, moving closer to Seth in a 'discreet' manner.

"I don't want to hear that from you!" And they started to argue again.

"A strange but lively bunch." St. George commented seeing the fight between the two girls that at this point has become a common occurrence.

"More girls in the group are always nice." Marie said, smiling beside Georgios and Amadeus.

"I'm glad you are happy about it, Maria." The Caster Servant said from the side.

"Yeah! And aren't you happy, too? It seems this time I can finally hear your piano." Marie smiled, getting closer to Amadeus.

"Yes, I am." He simply said to her with a faint smile on his face.

Meanwhile, Seth was having a certain doubt in his mind. 'Should I tell that strange girl I already killed Carmilla? I don't know... My instincts are telling me that my ears will regret it if I do so for some reason...'

Once they finally managed to stop the two bickering girls, the group parted toward Orleans to have their final fight against Jeanne and her army of Wyverns and of course, Fafnir.

The blue sky was slowly turning orange so they decided to set up a camp in a nearby forest and get supplies such as food, some medical equipment in case Fujimaru got hurt and other necessities in general.

Finishing all their preparations, they sat around a bonfire and started talking about things to pass the time, all was well until Marie told everyone how Seth saved her and later almost killed the other Jeanne.

"You did what?! How did that happen?! Last time she almost killed you!" Dr. Roman's annoying voice came from their communicator device just to make Seth's eyebrow twitch at his comment.

"Impressive, even escaping from her is no mean fit." St. Georgie said in genuine amazement.

Complicated emotions flashed through Jeanne's face but overall she was glad that he was alright and thankful because he could save Marie from a certain end.

"Now our chances of resolving this Singularity are greater, isn't that right, Mash?" Fujimaru asked the pink-haired girl beside him with enthusiasm.

"Yes, Senpai. At least now our future doesn't look so dark!" She replied smiling, sharing his enthusiasm.

Their enthusiasm was drowned by Seth's next words, though. "Don't get your hopes up, when I was about to kill her someone teleported her before my strike connected. I didn't detect any presence in a wide range so that could mean two things, the one who teleported her tremendous amount of magical power to do large scale teleportation from such a distance or has a device that could power him up to do so. In other words..."

"The Holy Grail..." Dr. Roman said knowing where the man was getting at. "But couldn't it be that she had a pre-set magic circle somewhere on her body in case she was in danger and it would teleport her to a specific location?" He asked to cover more possibilities.

Seth shook his head. "I didn't detect anything of the sort, of course, that doesn't mean the possibility of it becomes zero, but it only will make things more troublesome."

"So there is someone else behind all of this...?" Jeanne asked with mixed feelings.

"There is a high chance of it, yes." Seth answered her question truthfully.

There was a heavy silence for a moment before Amadeus released a sigh. "Well, let's just worry about it when we get to it, there is no point of thinking about it. It will only affect our performance in battle."

"I agree with Amadeus, besides, I'm sure that mysterious person isn't at an unreachable level. If he were, I'm sure France would have been destroyed long ago...more than it is now." Romani agreed with the musician's thinking. It would do any good to have them underperforming on the final stretch.

"Doctor..." Mash disappointedly said, his words had made even the happy and optimist duo look at him with a glare.

"O-Oh... I'm sorry, that was not what I meant...ahaha..." The Doctor awkwardly scratched his head.

After that incident, they prepared to finally receive the supplies but it turns out that Romani did a terrible job and the supplies got sent to another location. Mash, Fujimaru and Alter were the ones who went to retrieve them.

Fortunately, it didn't take more than a fight with hungry beasts to get them back. They all had an enjoyable dinner courtesy of EMIYA, of course the majority of it went to certain hungry King.

The time to sleep had come, Fujimaru was the first to do it as he was a normal human and was more tired than everyone else. Mash was sleeping not far from him.

The rest also were also sleeping to conserve as much magical energy as possible. The exceptions were Georgios and Seth who were on the lookout for nocturnal attacks.

Seth had her back resting against a tree trunk while reading a book he had asked Romani to sent him. It was at that moment that Jeanne approached him.

"What are you reading, Master?" She asked with curiosity, Seth showed her the cover that said "History Of The World In Depth" and continued reading.

"U-Um...I...don't know how to read." She said in embarrassment while looking sideways.

"It's just a History Book." He simply replied, he had asked Romani to give him this book because he wanted to be up to date with Humanity's progress. Sometimes there was a big gap in the time frame he reincarnated and when he did he didn't usually get access to knowledge.

"What does it say?" She asked again. Seth closed his book and turned to look at her. "I will teach you how to read if you go to sleep and let me do my watch in tranquility."

Jeanne was pleasantly surprised. "Really?" She asked for confirmation to which Seth nodded in affirmation.

Her mood turned for the better and complied with his request, leaving him alone to keep reading. "Good grief, the difference between social classes seems to be the same as always." He shook his head before continuing with his reading.

Now, everyone was truly sleeping except for the watchers. It was at that moment that Siegfried and Jeanne appeared in an enormous throne room.

They looked around before noticing each other existence. "Ruler?" "Siegfried?" Both of them asked in confusion.

It was strange to see another Servant in your dream, especially if you didn't meet him or her in your life. This could only mean one thing, this wasn't their dream but their Master's.

"Do you know where this is? You have been Master's Servant for much longer after all." Siegfried asked Jeanne who shook her head.

"No... It's similar but at the same time different from the one I had seen before." Jeanne replied to Siegfried's inquiry.

"It's definitely weird we are seeing the same dream at the same time and in the same space at that." He said while continuing to look around.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of someone whistling. Following the sound, they saw their Master using the throne as a bed while he moved his legs from back to front.

"Is that Master...?" Jeanne asked unsurely, he didn't look like a kid this time but like his grown-up self.

"I don't know, I'm sorry. It may have been him at one point in the past." Siegfried while looking at the man who continued whistling with a...condescending smile?

"Ahhh...there is no time like the present, the only thing we can change. The past already happened and the future is already set in stone." Their 'Master' got up from his throne after saying that.

"This is giving me a bad feeling." Jeanne said and Siegfried agreed with that.

He looked at the throne before kicking it, destroying it into pieces. "Oh... Where are my manners?" He said before turning around to look at them in the eyes.

At that moment, alarm bells rang out throughout their whole body. This was a dream, how was it possible that he could know of their existence?

Without them realizing, the man was standing beside them with each hand on one of their shoulders. "I forgot to welcome you, sorry about that." He said with an apologetic smile but the two Servants knew better than believe he was not faking it.

They were petrified, for some reason, they couldn't move a single muscle. "What's with those faces? You should smile more often." His apologetic smile transformed into a warm one.

Still, they didn't believe his fake kindness. "What? We are not going to play pretend anymore? Boring..." He said before his smile vanished to transform into a cold look filled with killing intent that could suffocate even Gods.

"Get the f.u.c.k out of here. NOW." Their 'Master' let go of their shoulders and pierced their c.h.e.s.ts with his b.a.r.e hands after saying that. Not yet over, he burned them from the inside until they were mere ashes.

After getting rid of the intruders he sat on the stairs leading to where the throne was before. The man looked ahead as a dark fog started forming, slowly revealing the figure of Seth.

On the outside world, Jeanne and Siegfried woke up abruptly, panting and with sweat all over their bodies.

Returning to the 'Dream World', two figures were locking eyes. The 'fake' one was the first to speak. "Hello there, it seems you got here late. I already kicked out our unwanted guests."

"I don't remember asking you to do that nor I remember a thing like you existing inside me." Seth said, his voice getting colder by the second.

The sitting figure shrugged his shoulders. "What can I say? I pride myself on being sneaky. Besides, it's not like I have to ask permission from you to chase away the rats that dare to enter here."

"Who are you?" Seth asked not bothering to play games with him.

"It hurts, you know? It's obvious that I'm the 'past' you. Really hurts, really." He said while faking a crying expression.

"I'm asking who are you." Seth repeated himself again.

"Tch. Like Servant like Master. You are all boring." He said before resting his head on the stairs.

"You can call me Stargazer, as for my real name. That would be for you to discover." The man now known as Stargazer got up and walked toward Seth.

"Now let's have a little talk. Shall we, Evil God?" Stargazer mockingly said, smirking with his face centimeters away from Seth's.