Fate/Zero - The Saint of Chaldea

Prologue : The master's end?

'So this is how you feel when you're dead, huh.' Ritsuka Fujimaru thought to herself all the while floating in a dark void.

'I'd expected a more painful death than dying in my sleep, since you know I was cursed and all. Still I'm not really complaining either. I knew it would come but I didn't expected it to be so sudden.' Ritsuka continued mentally as she remembered what had happen last two weeks.

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"Wake up, Mommy." A white haired, green eyed girl said as she tried to wake up an orange haired woman who was sleeping on an infirmary bed.

"Jack, I don't think shaking Ritsuka's arm will wake her up." A pink haired, red eyed woman who was wearing a military nurse uniform, said to the other female.

"Shut up! I know Mommy will wake up." Jack said angrily at the nurse.

"Jack, please stay calm. It won't..." The nurse said, trying to calm down the younger girl, before she stopped herself when she heard the woman she had called Ritsuka groan.

"Ugh, my head. It's feel like I have been hit by a truck." Ritsuka said as she slowly sat up while holding her head with her right hand.

"Mommy!" Jack said as she throw herself against Ritsuka, burying her teary head within the older woman chest.

"Shh, Mommy is here Jack, I won't go anywhere." Ritsuka said while rubbing the younger girl head.

"But Nightingale said that..." Jack started but stop herself as her tear intensified.

"Nightingale, what is going on?" Ritsuka asked the military nurse while she kept on hugging the crying girl.

"Two week ago upon your return from the last singularity, you crumpled to the ground falling into a deep coma. After realizing multiple physical exams, I noted that you had fainted from unnatural causes. I thus asked Merlin and Irisviel to take a look at your condition and they informed me that you were cursed. We tried to lift the curse however, we failed. If my estimate are correct you have at most a week or two left to live." Nightingale replied informing Ritsuka of what had happen recently.

"So I was cursed by Solomon and I have only two weeks left to live?" Ritsuka asked not believing her current situation.

"That is correct, Master. Shall I inform the other servants that you're awake?" Nightingale asked.

"Yes, please." Ritsuka replied softly. Her voice sounded hollow to Nightingale but it seems as though Ritsuka herself hadn't noticed it.

"Mommy? Are you alright?" Jack asked Ritsuka, weary of her adoptive mother feelings and well-being.

"I don't know, Jack, I don't know." Ritsuka said as she hugged the younger girl closer to herself, not noticing the tears that were forming in her eyes.

A minute or two passed in silence where mother and daughter embraced each other in hug before being disturbed by the loud sounds of footsteps and shouting voices.

"Calm down, our Master just woke up. It will do her no good if you all swarm her like you are planning to!" Nightingale yelled over the chorus of voices that belonged to Ritsuka's other servants.

Ritsuka heard the various protest coming from the group of servants that had rushed to see her after her two weeks coma and almost laugh to herself when she heard Arash, Robin Hood and Mozart among all the one to three stars servants arguing violently with the military nurse when they were silenced by the voice of Ritsuka's first SSR servant.

"Did you not hear what Nightingale said? Master just woke up from her coma, she is still unwell. If we all go all at once we may worsen Master condition." Artoria Pendragon, the King of Knights, said to the servants that had swarmed the corridor leading to Chaldea's infirmary calming them down.