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

Chapter 14: France Singularity: The campsite, Bonding Time with New comrades

The campsite filled with noises as the spirits and human enjoying themselves with their own carefree activity once they settled in, thanks to Maiya advice that is. They need some time to de-stressed and to bond among themselves, important since they'll be working together for a long period of time. The addition of Marie Antonietta and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were much more welcoming to any of the dimension/time travellers, knowing that some of the heroic spirits weren't under Jalter's control.

Maiya was reading through a golden rimmed scroll, one that she'd just received from the kingdom that she was named as its heiress and monarch, the ancient kingdom of Uruk. Blame their Gilgamesh for that. Why on earth he had to choose a distance descendent to be the ruler of his ancient kingdom anyway? She's not a full royalty at the very least, and even if she's going to inherit a kingdom, the closes would be the Kingdom of Camelot since her uncle, who was her mother's brother was planning on naming her his second heir if not for Gilgamesh to appeared after her birth and named her his heiress then and there. King Ryland Pendragon was still grumbling about it since.

Signing the scroll her approval, Maiya moved her attention to the last one which was from Greek when Fujimaru dicided to approaches the older master. The boy was hesitance at first when he saw that she was busy with the scroll. They seem to be importance if Maiya had to read them through. Plus, the present of a gold stamp, wax and pen confirm it when the woman used them on the document for correcting, signing and stamping the said documents. He began to wonder his decision in approaching Maiya while she's busy.

"You should ask if you want to ask her..." a gentle, baritone voice broke Fujimaru out of his thought, causing the boy to diverted his attention towards the owner of the voice. There, leaning against one of the trees surrounding the campsite was a tanned skinned man in his mid-twenty, an inch taller than Caster Cu with odd tri-coloured short hair and wine-red eyes.

The man wore what seems to be a traditional ancient Egyptian garment consist of white silk robe tied with a blue coloured one around his waist. A dark blue cloak draped across his shoulders from his back, held down by several gold accessories. On his head was an odd headpiece, a golden crown with a large eye carved into it. Around his neck was a golden, upside-down pyramid necklace, bore the same eye just like his headpiece.

"Umm... Who...are you?" Fujimaru asked, a bit hesitant since the man was a stranger. But clearly the tri-coloured hair stranger was one of Maiya's contracted servant judging from the earring on his left ear. The man blink, before a playful smirk appeared on his feature. "I'm Atem, one of the Egyptian Ruler spirits that serves the young miss here," the man, Atem said. That's when Maiya decided to throw one of the scrolls, the purple rimmed one towards Atem who caught it at ease before sending the woman a playful smile as he knew what the cause of her sudden outburst.

Seeing the grin on Atem's face, Maiya huffed, pouting as she knows that she'd fell for his jokes. So instead of being angry at her lover (yep, you read it right, lover...), Maiya decided to poked the pharaoh on the forehead lightly with two fingers, a habit she picked up from one of her brother-figure. "You do know I dislike the word 'serves' don't you, anata?" she huffed.

Atem chuckled before moving to kissed her on the forehead, causing the onlooker to either baffled, blushed or plainly ignored the public display of affection. "I know, love. That's why many of us were grateful to be with you who, see us as an equal, a family, a friend and a comrade-in-arms. Not a tool to gain power or a non-exist presence once being called," the man said as he cupped her cheeks, causing her to purred slightly as she nuzzled into the heat of his palm.

Fujimaru couldn't hold his blushed as he felt awkward facing the Public Display of Affection situation in front of him. Luckily enough, someone took pity at the poor teen and decided to help. "As much as I like you lovers have your own bonding time like this, there's minors and those who weren't used to this kind of display in the camp," King Arthur warned softly as he approaches the trio holding two mugs of hot chocolates.

Arthur handed one of them to Fujimaru who murmured a thank after receiving the cup before giving the other to Maiya, who happily received the mug of hot liquid before leaning against the pharaoh. Atem thanked his fellow ruler for her as he watches his wife enjoying her beverage with a fond smile, a silent huffed come from the Ruler of England who decided to settled down on the other side of the log they were sitting at.

"So, did you have something that you want discuss with me, Fuji-chan?" Maiya asked after sipping her Chocolate drink, eyes gentle as she gazed over the young man in front of her from her husband's side. The said young man blushed upon address before nervously said what he wants to said to the older master regarding her opinion on their approaches, experience and other things regarding their status and missions.

This, gave Maiya and her Dyna comrades a clear image on how in-secured the boy felt and the lack of confident he has, causing the group to soundly agree over their telepathic connection between master and contract that they need to teaches the boy everything each of them knows after the mission. For now, Maiya had to give him a quick tutorial he'll need for now.