Fate/Zero - The Saint of Chaldea

Chapter 4 : The Adventures of a Mother and her Daughter

 "Jack did you found him?" Gudako asked her daughter through the telepathic link they shared as she jumped from buildings to buildings in the direction of Jack's position. Jumping from one building to the next was something Gudako had found quite enjoyable to do since she became a Servant.

"Yes, we found him in an alley and he is alone." Jack replied, sensing her mother getting closer.

"Good." Gudako said as she jumped to the next rooftop. "I am on the roof of the building to his left, can you see me?"

"We can see you Mother, do you want us to knock him out?" Jack asked.

"Yes, I can't sense Berserker near him so the coast should be clear." Gudako replied.

Once she heard her mother reply, Jack move quickly out of the shadows she was hiding in and bopped Kariya Matou on the head, knocking him out. Before he could fall face first into the ground Jack caught the man and lowered him gently to the ground.

Seeing that Jack had knocked Kariya out, Gudako checked one last time that neither Berserker nor a body of Assassin were in the vicinity before she jumped from the roof she was on and into the alley below, doing a superhero landing as she touched the ground.

"So what are you going to do with him?" Jack asked her mother who had approached the unconscious man's body.

"I'm going to place a delayed activation spell on him. In our timeline, at the end of this Holy Grail War, he had attempted to rescue Sakura from Zouken Matou but failed because he died." Gudako explained to her daughter, who nodded inviting her to continue her explanation.

"Thanks to my Revelation skill, I know that it is something that will happen unless he is killed earlier in the war. Thus I'm going to use him to destroy the Matou residence and thanks to a geis I will place in the spell the moment Sakura sees the flame she'll be put out of harms way." Gudako finished her explanation as she placed Kariya on his stomach and pushed up his clothes leaving his back bare.

"The geis is going to make auntie Sakura run out of the house?" Jack asked to which Gudako nodded.

Gudako was inscribing various runes she had learned from Cu Chulainn Caster as well as Scáthach-Skaði upon the back of Kariya. Once Gudako had finished her inscribing, Jack could see that her mother had place twelve runes she did not recognize arranged into a circle centered around a thirteen rune she recognized as a fire rune.

The runes' glow disappeared a few seconds after they were drawn, leaving no trace of their presence. Gudako took Kariya's body over her shoulder and placed him against a wall in a somewhat seated position before she turned to Jack.

"Well we're finished here, ready to go see what my mother house look like?" Gudako asked.

"Yeah, let's go see Grandma's house." Jack said with childish excitement.

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Gudako and Jack stood in front of the Tohsaka residence, observing the residence from outside the fence surrounding it.

"So that's Grandma's house, it's so big." Jack said with star in her eyes, making Gudako laugh. Jack may be an Assassin class Servant but she was still an impressionable child due to her nature as a collection of wraith of unborn children.

"Yep, we're going to slip through the bounded field and go inside the house. Gilgamesh is not here so his Master is alone." Gudako said to her daughter.

"Uncle Gil is here?" Jack asked. A little know fact about Gilgamesh is that he actually has a massive soft spot for children, although he would never admit that to anyone. If you sneak around Chaldea where the children are, however, you might see him telling interesting stories, usually about himself or his adventures with Enkidu, to the child Servants while Atlanta and Iri were away. Or it may also be because no matter how many times he tells them his story he always receive praise from the children.