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[scorchedchivalry]

Characters: Saber (Alter) and YOU!
Setting: 9/7 (Dorm 1-09, Cafeteria, 4th Floor)
Format: Prose or Action (I will match your preference)
Summary: Saber wakes up and isn't happy about her predicament.
Warnings: possible violence


[Room 1-09]

From with 1-09, there was a loud crashing sound and anyone capable of sensing energy will have just felt a big spike from within the room. Those investigating - roommates or others passing by - will find the door ajar and half the furniture turned over or blown back from the black armored knight standing in the center of the room. An ominous-looking black sword with glowing red markings on it was held down at her side, a visor covered her face and she had her free hand grasping her collar (violet in color).

It seems someone just woke up.


[Cafeteria]

Sitting at a table was a young woman with pale hair and yellow eyes in a black dress. She had three empty bowls sitting before her and was starting on her forth bowl of oatmeal. As she ate, she watched anyone passing by with a look of disdain.


[4th Floor]

Saber stood at one of the windows with a rigid posture, looking out over the land outside the Tower. So bleak... Her eyes narrowed. Where in all this was her master. Someone was providing her ample prana.

The knight paused to glance over the lounge and the others taking a rest for a moment before walking to the other side of the floor and gazing out those windows in case there was anything different to see.

There wasn't.

Comments

[faithstaynight]

... I am not sure if there is or will be a War here, to be quite honest. I have run into several others familiar with the Holy Grail War aside from yourself, both Servant and Master, and yet... I cannot sense the Grail's presence. If we were to fight now, I have a feeling that it will be all for nothing.

[scorchedchivalry]

Somewhere here the Grail exists. Of that I am certain.

[If there was no Grail, Saber wouldn't be present. That was the deal she had made with the World.]

I will obtain it this time - one way or another.

[faithstaynight]

I will not stop you, should your assumption be correct. I am merely the one who watches over the events that unfold. I will only raise my sword should the rules be broken - or any innocents within the tower become threatened by a Servant's actions.

[scorchedchivalry]

And yet you claim to be one of the seven classes. You possess your own desire for the Grail.

[faithstaynight]

I do not. I have been summoned for the purpose of taking the role as overseer, and that is all. I have no desire to obtain the Holy Grail.

[scorchedchivalry]

I find that hard to believe.

[faithstaynight]

I know I cannot make you believe what I say, but it is the truth, I assure you.

[scorchedchivalry]

I'm certain I will know the truth when the only Servants remaining are you and I.

[faithstaynight]

[... Confidence? Or arrogance? It's frustratingly difficult to tell with this one.]

I certainly hope your battle prior to that is a memorable one, Saber. I'm afraid you'll be quite disappointed if you're hoping for a showdown between you and I to be a grand climax to this potential war.

[Even if she would raise her sword to fight for the Grail... dying as a result of her Noble Phantasm, rather than the blow of an enemy, would be rather anticlimactic for both of them.]

[scorchedchivalry]

[A lot of Column A with a little Column B.]

The grand climax would be the Grail in my possession.

[faithstaynight]

[This Grail obsession is... a tad unnerving. And this is coming from a person who saw her dear friend descend into rambling, murderous insanity thanks to the memories given to her of the previous War. Maybe it's because this is so different from what she knows of this woman...?]

Well, until that day comes, there may be times where it will be beneficial to join forces. There are... strange things that go on within the walls of this prison.

[As if being summoned to a mysterious tower and collared isn't strange enough...]

[scorchedchivalry]

I request that you be more specific. I am familiar with strange things.

[faithstaynight]

Close to a month ago, a gigantic whale swimming through the sky crashed into the tower and monsters poured out of it.

[She is serious as she says this. Dead. Serious.]

[scorchedchivalry]

[....what?]









A whale.

[faithstaynight]

A whale.

It sounds absolutely insane, I know. I could scarcely believe it, but I am speaking the truth.

[scorchedchivalry]

...

[Saber stares for a moment before turning on her heel and walking away from Ruler. She only goes a few steps before turning right back around and returning.]

A whale? Swimming through the air?

[faithstaynight]

I am not sure how it was able to do such a thing, but it was most certainly a whale.

[scorchedchivalry]

Did it survive?

[faithstaynight]

[She shakes her head.] It did not. It perished when it crashed into the tower.

[scorchedchivalry]

...and this building withstood the impact of an aerial whale large enough to contain monsters in its belly?

[Saber kind of wants to see the whale's remains.]

[faithstaynight]

Several of the upper floors were destroyed - the dormitory levels mostly, and many more below them were in various states of ruin because of the impact and the monsters. But yes, all in all, it remained standing after such an attack.

I have to admit, it's a little impressive.

[scorchedchivalry]

I saw no such indications of damage while in my dorm room. I assume the top floor suffered the greatest damage.

[faithstaynight]

That is one of the strange things about this incident... the tower was in ruin definitely. I recall blacking out for a short time, and when we all awoke once more, we were in our assigned rooms, which were all the same as when we left them.

It's obvious repairs were made, but in such an absurdly short amount of time...

[scorchedchivalry]

[Blacked out...]

How can you claim it was only a shot period of time? You were unconscious.

[faithstaynight]

It certainly felt like only a short period of time... but you do raise a good question.

[Hmm...] It could not have been more than a day or two, if it was longer than some think it was. As far as I can tell, none of the humans were provided with the nutrition they would need with the lack of food while we were all unconscious...