Episode 8: Saber's Return

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Dimension 3130 <Fate Stay Night>: North forest of Fuyuki City:

"This should be the place the soldier was talking about" Saber mumbled as she approached the open grassland where the soldier directed.

"Wait Saber" Shiro grabbed Saber's arm and pulled her into a nearby bush. From the bush, they observed the portal dispatching the soldiers into the dimension.

"That's the portal. We must find a way to get inside" said Saber.

"Hey! What are you two doing here?" a soldier spotted the two, soon the other soldiers headed for their direction.

"Shiro, we're rushing through" Saber grabbed Shiro's wrist and ran at top speed towards and into the portal. A bright light hit their faces; they closed their eyes for a while and opened them after a minute had gone by.

They were in what seemed to be a school yard. Students continued their activities, completely ignoring the two outsiders.

"Where are we now?" Shiro asked.

Saber looked around the area, trying to recognise the area from the data she had been reading day to day when she was in the Dimension Light. But nothing came to mind, "I don't know..."

Suddenly strange black figures appeared, their shape was disfigured, their eyes were blank, and their torso was wide.

"These are Shadows... I thought they were only a rumour... but if Shadows have appeared. Then this place must be..."

"Trace on!" Shiro prepared himself for a fight, he projected his favoured weapons, Kanshou and Bakuya.

Dimension 0 <Zero>: Eastern side of the wall, Capital City Astroth:

Gilgamesh's golden armour was cracked and heavily damaged. Meliodas slowly approached Gilgamesh with his usual mischievous smile. With one swing of his sword, Meliodas created a shockwave that sent Gilgamesh flying into the wall and landed hard onto the floor.

"No... No... get away from me... demon... monster...!" Gilgamesh slowly crawled away from Meliodas.

"I thought you were going to take my life away from me... so you're just all talk huh?" said Meliodas.

Meliodas caught up to Gilgamesh and with one slash, he finished Gilgamesh off with a clean cut to the neck. Gilgamesh imploded into golden particles and floated up into the sky.

The army that followed Gilgamesh retreated toward the side gate of the wall.

"Come one guys, we have to get to the rendezvous point" Meliodas reminded the group and too ran toward the side gate.

Dimension 0 <Zero>: Western side of the wall, Capital City Astroth:

The two sisters watched each other's moves, battled with their minds, predicting the other's moves.

They soon once again clashed, but this time, Akame felt a small spike of pain from her left shoulder. She looked at the cut on the shoulder, "Lucky hit"

"That's not the only spot" Kurome clicked her finger as if a spell was caste, another cut revealed itself on Akame's left waist, "That was the actual hit"

Akame covered the cut on her waist with her left hand to stop the bleeding, while the other arm remained on guard, "I guess I should take off the training wheels"

Akame dashed forward, hitting Kurome in the stomach with the hilt of Murasame. Kurome kneeled down in reaction to the pain, Akame immediately placed the blade of Murasame in beside Kurome's neck.

"You'll never take me..." Kurome pierced her own chest with her blade.

"No! Kurome!" Akame kneeled down and caught Kurome in her arms, "Why...?"

Tears poured down Akame's face, as she knew that being killed with another weapon other than her own meant death. She held Kurome close to her chest and continued to cry.

The guards began to retreat now that their leader had been killed. Enraged at what Requiem had down to Akame, Tatsumi chased down and killed a few more guards before he let the remaining guards escape.

Tatsumi and Mine stood by Akame as she mourned for her fallen sister.

After Akame had calmed down, their will to destroy Requiem became greater than ever, they then stomped off toward the gate of the city.

Twenty minutes later, everyone managed to arrive at the rendezvous location.

Meliodas began his instructions on their next move, "Everyone, we will now be storming the tower of the Life Crystal, then we unseal the gateway to Dimension 00"

"But wait! The wall around the tower and the gateway is too well sealed, it practically impossible to get in" Tatsumi added.

"We'll figure something out, for now, let's head to the wall first" said Meliodas.

Dimension ??? <???>: Outside a school:

Saber sliced through the black shadows one by one with her Excalibur, "This is endless" she exclaimed.

"We should make a retreat for now" Shiro suggested as she lunged at a Shadow.

Saber agreed and retreated with Shiro to the gymnasium storehouse. They breathed in and out heavily as they lied against the wall.

"So Saber, did you figure out which dimension this is?" Shiro asked.

"I believe so. Judging from the fact that there at Shadows here, this may perhaps be Dimension 00"

"Dimension 00?"

"Yes, this dimension is the reason people won't be killed in Dimension 0"

"This dimension has such an effect?"

"But it is also very dangerous, that is why no-one ventures into this dimension and I've heard that none of the dead in Dimension 0 came from this dimension"

"Are you saying that no one dies in here even with all those Shadows around?"

"Exactly, the full dimension name was... Dimension 00, Angel Beats..."

Dimension 0 <Zero>: City of Kikorowa underground sewage base:

"Here take a sip of water" Kirito handed a glass of water to the girl with short black hair that matched her eyes.

She accepted the glass of water and gulped it all in one go.

It seems as though she had not eat or drank for a week or perhaps more, poor girl.

"Would you mind telling us your name? You seemed to fit a description of my friend's relative"

The girl nodded...

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