Second Day 8

'….I should call Lancer.' you thought blearily, before immediately crushing that thought.

You weren't out of options yet, you still had one card left to play!

Your hand tightened around your katana and then you opened your mouth and you howled right back at him, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the sheer power of your lungs reinforced and enhanced over many a years kicked up a small gust of wind.

And you took advantage of that, 'Grow!' you commanded mentally, infusing the wind with your prana.

That small gust of wind, became a monstrous gale in a second and Berserker gave a startled roar of his own as he was lifted bodily up by it and tossed high into the air.

And now that he was immobile in the air…!

You jumped to your feet and transformed your prana into the the ether element, running it across your blade.

You fed your mass amounts of prana into it, and drew upon the mass amount of prana stored within the diamond encrusted blade, a buzzing red glow of dense prana formed around your blade.

You roared once again and swung the blade with all your might, unleashing nearly all of your mana and that stored within the blade in a beam of energy as wide as you were tall.

"GROW!" you savagely snarled, feeding the last of your energy into it. It was no big deal, you'd recover it quickly anyway!

The large red beam as wide as you were tall, exploded into monstrous proportions, spreading out so far and wide it looked like the entire sky was lit up with a crimson red ominously crackling glow.

Even Herakles was unable to do anything in the face of your strongest attack as it swept over him like a bloody red tidal wave.

It only lasted for a few moments, and when it ended you fell to your backside, panting deeply, your consciousness heavy and feeling like you could pass out any moment.

A second later, the ground shook as the lower half of Herakles bodily slammed right into it beside you, that was all that was left of him.

You vaporized his entire top half, heart, brain, head and all.

"Heh, how do you like that?" you smiled savagely, blood leaking from the corner of your lips, "Not so tough now are you!?" you crowed, pushing yourself to your feet.

As you did, the blade in your hand began to crumble away into dust, but that was fine, it did its purpose. You would mourn such an amazing weapon later.

"Herakles smerkales!" you laughed, "I'll admit you were powerful, but in the end you couldn't take me on son of Zeus, my power is maximu-"

You stopped abruptly. Because…

The lower half of Herakles body, instead of disappearing, began to glow an ominous red and before your eyes, bubbled and rumbled, and then his torso regrew from his legs, chest, head, hair and everything else.

"Noo….No no no!" your eyes grew wide and frantic and you launched yourself at the regenerating corpse and began to unleash a rapid fire bevy of punches, each one enough to destroy a car or turn a normal human into pulp.

"ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!" you punched and punched and punched and punched, until you felt your knuckles pulp and bones shatter, blood oozing from the wrecked remains.

But it was all in vain, because, your punches didn't even slow the regeneration down, and a moment later, crimson glowing eyes stared down at you menacingly, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!" it felt like your ear drums popped as Berserker roared once more and lashed out with a giant fist that caught you in the face.

And sent you flying.

You skipped across the ground like a stone skipping a pond, each hit like a pot hole the size of your body, smashed through multiple trees and landed back where you started this mess, where a familiar pair of girls were, the cute little pixie and the sexy fat ass twin tails.

"Kei!" Rin cried out in worry and rushed over to you, "What were you thinking, trying to fight a servant like that! I know you're strong, but this is servants we're talking about here."

Ugh, how unmanly. That prick beat you up so bad and tossed you out here to let your woman see you like this?

Not that it would take you long to recover, but it as the principal of the matter.

You tried to response, but you couldn't. The agony in your jaw as you tried to speak, and a quick inspection of your body told you, your jaw was broken.

You simply wanted to tell her nobody gets to threaten your woman without dying a painful death.

"You know Onii-chan," Illyasviel skipped her way over quite merrily, not at all threatened without her servant off in the forest, "You're really impressive, I can't believe you managed to kill Berserker and take one of his lives."

….One of his lives?

"One of his lives!?" Rin demanded for you, glaring bloody murder at the girl who just shrugged off the twin tailed girls anger.

"Oh yes," the white haired girl preened, "Berserker has twelve lives, so you have to kill him twelve times to beat him. And the best of it is, he can't be killed by something that killed him before! And I can even regenerate any lives he loses. I told you didn't I? My servant is unbeatable."

….That's some real fucking bullshit! You knew Noble Phantasm conceptual shit would be insane, but this is taking the cake!

"But maybe there is something to this faction team up thing in the end?" Illyasviel mused before grinning at Rin, "Well, with Onii-chan at least, not you Rin, you're useless."

Rin snarled, but didn't reply. It seemed she was holding herself back to not make the girl angry again.

"You impressed me onii-chan, so I'll let you and your little Tohsaka bed warmer live for now," she said to you, before waving at you, "bye-bye." she said simple, turning on her heel and skipping away.

As you watched her skip merrily away, your pride got the better of you. You at least had to get the last word in, so you forced your jaw to move and ignored the pain, "…I'm gonna pound that loli ass one day." you swore vengeance.

Illyasviel paused and looked back at you, staring at you oddly for a moment before snorting and giggling, "Well you can feel free to try Onii-chan," she laughed, then sneered at Rin victoriously, "What was that about an ass no real man would want? cuz I think onii-chan is pretty manly."

And with that said, she continued on and disappeared through the trees out of sight.

For a moment, you and Rin were just silent, before the twin tailed girl sighed, "…Seriously?" she deadpanned at you.

"…She's cute." you muttered, ignoring the pain in your jaw. And she'd be a real looker when she grew up.

"She's a homunculus, she isn't gonna change from that form, and all homunculus have a shelf life." Rin pointed out.

You shrugged, ignoring the pain it caused you. God, your entire body felt like one giant bruise.

You could deal with that easily with your magecraft.

Rin shook her head at you, "You're a real idiot, why didn't you summon your servant," she sighed, but despite her saying that, she gently lay your head on her lap, "But thanks…you got all this beaten up fighting that guy for me."

"…Nobody messes with my women." you grunted, not moving and just enjoying the feel of her soft thighs on the back of your head.

Her cheeks flushed a bit at your words, "I guess so," she hummed, looking to the side in embarrassment, "It's…It's a good thing I accepted to become one of your women then huh? I'd be dead right now if you didn't step in."

Then she surprised you once again. Cheeks blazing, the older girl leaned down and pressed her lips to yours, "…Y-you can take this as a little bit of my appreciation." she stuttered.

"It'll do…for now," you chuckled, before wincing, it even hurt to laugh, "And the reason why I didn't bring out Lancer, is cuz I thought I could take him."

Lesson learned, you were not the top of the food chain. Granted, you were still pretty high up. Oh well, you always planned to get much much stronger anyway.

"And you saw how that went, huh?" Rin snarked, "Though, you did way better than I thought possible, that last attack you gave out was amazing, how'd you do that?"

Honestly, you felt like you could pass out at any moment. That punch Berserker gave you at the end there really rattled your brain, and it took you a moment to process her words.

In the end though, you weren't the one who responded.

A shimmer of blue light in front of you announced the appearance of Lancer, "He stored a mass amount of mana inside his mystic code using the base principles of that jewel craft you employ little girl," the beautiful servant explained for you, before pinning you with a steely gaze, "You were sloppy, unprepared and rash." she admonished you.

Rin froze at the sight of your servant before gritting her teeth, "Hey, he's beaten up pretty bad here, can't you giving him the third degree wait until he recovers?" she demanded.

Lancer scoffed, "The little braggart will be fine after a nights sleep," she responded, "His body is far more beyond that of a normal plebian after all."

Rin had no words to respond, so Lancer looked at you, "Still, despite how amateurish your attempts were, for a man of this day and age, you are indeed impressive," she nodded, "You are rough, like the coal you like to play with to impress girls, but I can make a diamond out of you I'm sure."

Was it you, or could you see the phantom of a smile under that veil she wore?

Before you could say anything, Scathach thrust two fingers in front of your face, a rune forming into existence atop then, "Now sleep." she ordered, pressing it against your forehead.

And then, darkness took you.