Fated Destiny

Fated Destiny Chapter Nine Battle Of The Bridge

I watch helplessly as Mashu plummets to the river below. I want to leap over the railing and jump after Mashu, but I only know that would be to my own demise. My thoughts are quickly interrupted as a pain shoots through my body and something jerks me back and I twist around and land on my ass, I hold my shoulder and feel the blood oozing through my shoulder and coating my suit jacket. My heart beated loudly and I winced at the pain.

"God damn it." I murmured as I tried heal my wound using Healing magic, but I couldn't do it. "My mana levels must be low..." I thought to myself. Then the sound of boots hitting the pavement were heard and I looked up to see a woman in black boots that went up to her thighs, a pink and black strapless dress top, pink and black gloves that went to her shoulders, wearing one of those pink eye covers girls wore when they went to sleep, a black spiked collar around her neck, and had flowing pink hair that almost touched the ground. She also had a tattoo on her forehead. In her hands she held a dagger attached to a chain, blood dripped from the tip of the dagger onto the ground. My blood. She had a dark aura to her as she had a black glow to her I couldn't quite describe. There was no doubt about it...

"It was only a matter of time until we ran into an enemy servant..." I said weakly holding my shoulder. The woman remained silent as she stood there staring me down, if she was even staring at me. I couldn't really tell while she was wearing that eye mask. "I don't suppose you could give me directions to the Tohsaka residence, I appear to be lost." I said, she continued to remain silent. My mind raced as I thought what to do. Fighting an enemy servant in my condition would be suicide and even if I wasn't bleeding out I doubted I would be able to do anything against a servant. This woman didn't have any interest in talking to me, so I doubt I would be talking my way out of this. Not like she showed any interest in talking in the first place considering she was the one who had stabbed me. I tried to read her servant stats, but the aura around her appeared to be preventing me from doing that. However I did know one thing.

"Rider, are you going to just stand there and watch me bleed out. I didn't realize servants took pleasure in slowly killing their enemies. What happened to the nobility and heroics." I said weakly, Rider didn't say anything again and continued to just stand there. I leaned my head back against the railing and sighed.

"No I take no pleasure in watching you suffer... I'm merely just observing you. You are a curious Master, you weren't part of the Fifth Holy Grail War." Rider spoke up to my surprise.

"No I can't take the pleasure in saying I was. I was a little too young to be fighting gods and legends in 2004." I said jokingly.

"You are stronger than most men, to make jokes in the face of death." Rider said. "Or perhaps just stupid." Rider added.

"Tch. You were at the Church weren't you? Servant level mana levels were reported to be at the church, but you weren't there when we arrived." I said bitterly.

"....... I was at the church. I observed you from the woods, deciding the church would not be the best place to ambush you and your servant. If she even was a servant, she is a class I have never encountered before. So when I learned that you must cross the bridge again I rushed to cut you off and prepare an ambush." Rider said blankly.

"Heh this bridge should be blown to bits and sent into the river." I say reaching for my pistol slowly. Rider remained silent for a moment and didn't move.

"Where is your other Servant? You have another command seal. So where are they?" Rider asked, My eyes narrowed at Rider. I wasn't going to tell Rider anything about Scathach, but it's not like I could tell Rider where Scathach was anyway, I didn't even know where she was myself. Than I saw a sparkle of something approaching the bridge fast and low. I squinted my eyes and faintly made the outline of a fighter jet, it appeared to be a F-35b and it was on a collision course straight for Rider. My eyes narrowed, who could possibly be flying an F-35 through Fuyuki? Was it the American Airforce? No unlikely. So who was it? Could it possibly be? I looked down at my left hand and saw Mashu's Command seal was still on my hand. That must mean Mashu is still alive, but how? I shook my head. "It doesn't matter how, so long as she is alive." I thought to myself.