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

Chapter 12: France Singularity 2: Arriving

The discovery of the new singularity, located in France during the year 1431... the year even Maiya herself knows the tragedy happened during this time around. Yes... the death of the Holy Maiden of Orleans, Jeanne D' Arc by burning at the stake. It also happened back in her world. Jeanne's death had causes many griefs, and sorrow. Even caused Gilles de Rias, her friend and the commander that had fight alongside her to lose his sanity, bringing forth the dark mage and child murderer, Blue Beard.

After the briefing, Mash and the two masters went ahead to prepared their necessity for the journey. They didn't bring much, just some cloth, food, water and other hygiene produce before Maiya told them to shove it into her inventory, a convenient solution when travelling. Once everything set, the three of them entered their 'coffins' which was improvised by Merlin and the other casters from Dyna. A good thing since they won't be freefalling from the sky like what the Grand Caster had foresaw.

After rayshift...

Thanks to the casters' hard works, Fujimaru, Maiya and Mash arrived in an open field within the France region without having to freefalling from the sky. Once they spear of light that surrounded them touches the ground and erupted, Maiya quickly summoned some of Europe's, mostly Italian's spirit contract before Fujimaru decided to summoned Artoria and Gahelis. Maiya than summoned sixteen horses for solo riding and five carriages with two mares as transportation. There were also some goods prepared by Arthur and other rulers from Dyna in order for them to disguised as traders from another country to prevent any suspicion.

After discussing their temporary 'role' for this mission, it was agreed upon that they were act as mercenaries send from Italy with while the rest of the team will act as a guarding party payed to protect them. So they set off with two team of seven lead by Berlias and Fionn Mac Cullhain, took the fourteen horses while the carriages were led by Lancelot, Wolfgang and Maiya rides the first carriage while Artoria drive the second carriage with Mash and Fujimaru, leaving the other three to be driven by Castor, Labrador and Fionn's counterpart from Dyna, much to Chulainn disbelieved when this one was different from the one he knows of.

Maiya was chatting with Tchaikovsky, the Russian composer/musical caster about music when their carriage driven by Lancelot suddenly slowed down. This raised suspicions when they weren't supposed to be any roadblock for traders. So Maiya and her musician decided to check what was going on.

She and Tchaikovsky made their way in front of the carriage to hear Berlias speaking to someone in France, with Lancelot added some titbits in between. "What happened to King Charles VII? I thought his majesty had sign the treaty with England?" Berlias asked since the said man was practically a descendent of his king. "King Charles? So you didn't know? The king is dead, burned by a witch's flames." One of the soldiers replied the baron's question.

"Witch flame?" Maiya whispered, before her mind drifted to the vision she'd received the night before. "Could it be Jeanne D' Arc?" she asked. The soldier nodded despite his surprise to see her and Wolfgang in the carriage. "Indeed, she had raised again as the 'Dragon Witch'. England had retreated a few weeks ago. However, we have nowhere else to go. This is our homeland, yet there's nothing for us to do to free it from her gasp," he said, sorrow and regret laced the soldier's voice as he admits their weakness.

Hearing that, most of the party frown. There were no life and bravely in these soldiers, almost as if they had given up hope. But before any of them could say anything, screams and yelling can be heard coming from the frontline followed by the stench of death. "Undead?" Tchaikovsky whispered. "Most likely. If anything, I bet the lesser dead are also here," a voice coming from the back of the carriage, before a short, blond haired priest walked out of the shadow. "Bishop Frau, I thought you're resting?" the German caster said, greeting his fellow caster as casually as possible despite the said male had just appeared at the scene.

Frau just grimace at the question before replying, "Who can rest with the stanch of death polluting the air? Even the woman looks uncomfortable with the idea." "Noted. Than what should we do, Bishop?" Lancelot said. A feral grin decorated the said man's lips, "what else? We're going to purify them of course," he said grabbing his Cross shape staff and channelled his mana into it, causing the said item to emitted a bright glow which he directed to the sky, in which was mirrored by others with bishop's status within the travelling group as well to create a powerful barrier around the area.

At once the area was covered by some kind of barrier, preventing anything from entered or escaped. The sentinel casters also managed to knock out and teleported the soldiers into the carriages under Maiya's and some of the casters and archer protection to prevent them from getting caught between the crossfire of the Heroic Spirits and the undead. When they were cleared from any burdens that would get in between them and the undead, the battle began.

Time Skipped...

As the last of the undead were taken care by Chulainn, the group of warriors was about to return to their transports when a roar stopped them from doing so. They turned their attention towards the source to see a group of wyverns flying towards them. "Frau, take down the barrier! I'll lure them in with my blood!" Maiya ordered before teleported at the middle of the field, already in her mage uniform.

As Maiya stood in the middle of the field with a silver ceremonial knife in her hand, with a swift motion, she slashed her palm. Fujimaru and Mash gasp as blood began to poured out of the said wounds, spreading it metallic scent around her. As if on cue, the wyverns' roars and flew towards their direction. But before they could get to the source, the winged-beasts were killed by the sabers and lancers using their respective weapons as soon as the casters and archers immobilised the wyverns' wings using their own sets spells and projectiles.

All of this happened while the only assassin in their group stayed close to Maiya in case the wyverns get passed the frontline fighters. Fujimaru had Mash with him so the male master protection was assured as his own frontline servants help the others.

When the last of the beast was taken care of, Frau and the rest of Maiya contracts quickly went to their master to check on her after the self-inflict wound accidents with Fujimaru and his own right behind them. Thought the Dyna spirits knew she could easily heal the cut herself, they wouldn't take the risk of leaving traces of it to be misused by others who doesn't know what they are up against. Not when it has the capability to empowered any spirits that consumed just a drop of it or usable as the catalyst to summoned Spirits, phantasmal beast and any related creatures. Not that this world need to know about it anyway.

When they arrived, the group could see that Sogami Urie, Maiya's personal contract demon was helping her with the wound, using his healing magic to healed it. Maiya on the other hand was very much tired from the large amount of mana used by the casters, blaming Frau for using Zehel's power, in the addition of the slight blood-loss from her action. Seeing that she was in good hand, albeit slightly annoyed by the fussy spirit around her if not for the happiness in her eyes,

Tchaikovsky turns his attention towards the patch of blood not far from where they were and chanted a flame spell. At once blue flame appeared on the patch and began to engulfed it, burning the blood to nothing so that no one will get it while keeping the grass intact. Only rain and mist flame could do this without any damage. After finish burning them, he turns his attention to the group, which payed more attention to Maiya than him and received a grateful smile from the said woman. She was happy he'd took precaution, though Maiya herself could not escape from being 'chewed-out' by her ancestors, mentors and companions alike after this.