Fate/Grand Order Alternative (up for adoption if you want)

Chapter 8: Returning to the base, The Bad News

"Grand order... the battle to obtain the Holy Grail has only just begun..." saber's words echoing through Maiya's mind, waking her up from her slumber. Immediately, her sight was greeted by brightness, causing Maiya to grumbled slightly in pain and closed her eyes. She could hear some rustling sound nearby, followed by the familiar cooing sound of one of her contracted dragons and squeal-like sound from a familiar animal.

The sensation of wet tongues licking her cheeks causes Maiya to open her eyes, now slightly less irritate than before. As soon as she did, Maiya was greeted with the sight of Skyler, her sky dragon in her miniature form and Fou, this world Cath Purge. Both beast let out a happy sound of their own before pouncing on her, licking the living daylight out of her.

"Stop it, Skyler, Fou. That's tickles," Maiya said between her laughter, yet both beasts were persistence in 'punishing' her for making them worried. The sound of her laughter attracted someone's attention, causing the person to approaches her bed. The sound of the curtain being moved causes both Fou and Skyler to stop, leaving Maiya panting after all the laughing.

"Ara... seems like our heroin had a rude awake. Sorry for not keeping these two away from you," a cheerful, feminine voice said, causing Maiya to turns her attention to the speaker. Her eyes met the sea-blue gaze of a certain Italian inventor, Leonardo de Vinci. Though she'd already known the caster's name, Maiya wisely didn't say it. Instead, she chooses to asked her, "You are... a caster, aren't you? You gave off the same aura as Merlin despite different..."

Her statement causes the female caster to looked at her in amazement, before let out a giggle. "Seems like Sir Kay was right about your senses. You can determine a servant class just by looking at them. That's right. I'm the Caster class, Leonardo da Vinci. I was usually being summon as a rider class. So being in this form is quite rare for me," Da Vinci said. Maiya nodded, "Nee, Da Vinci-chan, what happened when I was unconscious?" she asked.

The servant gave her a sad look, before sighing softly. "According to Mash, Leff appeared right after you passed out. The director, Olga Maria Animusphere died at the location..." Da Vinci said. Hearing the report, Maiya knew that she had failed to protect the girl. Then again, Olga had been dead since the beginning of the sub mission. But at the very least, she could had call forth Verloran to make her passing less painful. If only she had the strength to fight against her uncle's flame...

Thinking of everything, tears subconsciously flow down her cheeks and a sod escaped her lips. Feeling miserable, Maiya curled her body up, drawing her knees to her chest and cried. This causes the sky dragon to coiled its body around her master, nuzzled her cheek to try and comfort her. Fou jump onto Maiya shoulder and licked her tears, its own way to comfort the woman. Both beast was making a cooing like sound as they did this and Da Vinci who saw this sigh, knowing that the master in front of her was mourning for the late director. The young woman was kind, she could see that.

Deciding that she should eased her tears, the caster settled down on the bed before pulling her into her embrace. Maiya didn't make an attempt to protest or escaped. Instead, she just burrowing deep into the warm hug and cried into the older woman's bosom. Da Vinci doesn't seem to mind at all, just running her hand through the silky strands of silver tresses in a comforting manner. Meeting later, right now this child in her arms in need of comfort.

Sensing his master distress, the knight called Lancelot materialise next to them. Seeing the said woman crying in Da Vinci's arms, Lancelot moved attentively next to them before placing his hand on his master's back. The knight's hand lightens to a soft blue as he rubs it in a soothing circular motion on her back. Whatever he was doing, it seems to work amazingly to calm the young woman down, reducing her sods to hiccups.

Another servant appeared, this time it was the ruler named Arthur. In his hand held a cup of what smells to be rich chocolate, more like hot dark chocolate drink. "Here, drink this. Galahad made it as an apologize for not knowing your reason of wanting to remain conscious, and we'll sorry for our failure not being able to protect that child," the King of Knight said, his eyes soften upon the sodding figure of his master.

The king was also blaming himself for not realizing the upcoming danger. Only when Merlin yelled at the Perfect Knight and the appearance of Leff Lynor Flauros was when he and his knights comprehended the danger that causes his teacher's and daughter's distress.

With Maiya's out of commission, the Dyna servants had lost three quarter of their strength, and Galahad senselessness had cause them the young life of a magus. They should had been on guard and asked what's was the matter. But that was too late now, and their hands had been soiled with the life of the people from this world.

Maiya accepted the cup and slowly sips on the chocolate drink her uncle made for her. It somehow managed to calm her down completely, knowing how Galahad was a wizard in the kitchen with Bedivere. Drinking half of the cup, she set it down near the nightstand and whispers a thanks towards her saber and ruler servants, before turning her attention towards Da Vinci.

"Da Vinci-chan, thank you for the comfort. But, may I ask when will the funeral possession for the victims that we couldn't save being held on?" she asked, a depressing question to answer. "Two days from now actually, why do you ask?" the caster questioned. That was the beginning of the discussion for the religious activity for the dead. There were about twenty casualties that they had failed to prevent, the newest was the late director Animusphere. Romani or Solomon agreed with the arrangement. Since this gave him the chance to see new servants from another world.