Atop one of the many buildings in this unusual city ... a city everyone would know parts of... but others were new, stood a woman, wearing a white sweater, and a purple skirt. She spectated a few of the events that transpired, making sure not to be noticed by many. She saw only a couple faces she recognized, however ... some of the new faces bothered her. There seemed to be heroic spirits about. Though as far as she knew there was no such grail war, or anything like that going on at the moment.

As she jumped down to the ground, no longer desiring to keep watching, she caught glimpse of someone on the side of a building. As she hit the ground she looked up and around for them, but she saw noone there. "Hmm... " She stared curiously, and hard. She knew she hadn't imagined anyone there. It only took a few moments for her to reach the top of the building, and to her surprise she found a young man, in a brownish uniform of some sort.

He was apparently quite afraid. "R...Rider! Rider come here!" He yelled, backing away to around the corner of the doorway leading to this rooftop. From what Arcueid understood Rider was a servant class for heroic spirits. She frowned in disappointment, though she had been right and the heroic spirits it was still unusual for them to be about. Not only was the town seemingly ever changing, but it seemed that others were being brought here as well.

"Rider, get over here this instant!" As he yelled again, a woman with long flowing purple hair appeared. She wore an eye visor and seemed to have some sort of unusual chained spike weapon. "Hmm...?" Arcueid stared questionably. "So you're the servant Rider?" She wasn't impressed, not only was there nothing to ride, but she didn't seem very powerful.

Rider was "Looking" her way, though Arcueid wasn't sure if she could see through that visor at all. "Rider ... kill her, kill that woman... she lept all the way up here... she must be a servant!" The young man yelled out again. As Rider finally entered some sort of strange stance which Arcueid presumed was a battle stance of some sort she gave a smug smile. "No hero can hope to match me."

"Don't underestimate me..." The servant responded, in a cold tone. She tossed one side of the chained weapon, a large spike flying Arcueid's way. "You shouldn't show yourself unnarmed before me!" She called out again, though as the spike neared Arcueid's face, she slapped it away in a high speed motion... even for a servant's eyes it was fast. "You shouldn't overestimate yourself." Arcueid answered, a confident smile showing.

Rider tossed the other side in a similar fashion, though it was met with an equally similar response. It seemed it wouldn't be so easy to hit the unarmed woman before her. " ... how dare you mock me? Fighting me without your noble phantasm?" She jumped into the air, striking with both spikes at once. Rider was expecting them both to be deflected, or perhaps evaded, but... what happened was a surprise. Infact she barely had registered the movement. She looked infront of herself, still quite high in the air. There was Arcueid before her, having risen to the same height in a mere flash.

"My turn!" Arcueid shouted as she swatted at Rider. Having just realized what was going on she wasn't capable of blocking the attack. She was knocked over the edge and would normally have fallen to the ground. However for Rider fighting at this height was as easy as fighting on the ground for a normal servant. As she fell over the edge, her spiked chain entered the side of the building, and using her falling momentum she swung upwards back up onto the building. Landing with as much grace as you'd expect from such a dexterous warrior.

"I see ... you aren't one I can fight so casually against." Rider admitted with some degree of sadness in her tone. She reached for her visor. "Though I'm confident you'll be able to resist this ... I'll have to go all out against you. Master ... please hide." As she snapped off her visor letting her silvery eyes show Arcueid couldn't help but stare curiously. Suddenly she didn't feel quite right. Something had affected her. "... ah... I see." Arcueid began, "You're Medusa ..." She said, knowing exactly now what these eyes are capable of.

Rider smirked. "Even if you know my identity ... it won't be of any help to you at this point." She threw a spike at Arcueid, then the other shortly afterwards. Though Arcueid felt a bit off, due to the weakening effect of the Jeweled Eyes of Cybelle it still wasn't difficult to deflect the two spikes tossed her way. As she knocked them aside she ran towards Medusa, and lunged her vampiric claw her way. Medusa could more easily follow Arcueid's movements, but still they were incredibly fast. For being a servant who focuses on speed it was a large disability to so much slower than an enemy. She managed to avoid the lunge, but Arcueid quickly followed it up with a spinning backhand which was too fast and quick for Rider to avoid.

Rider stumbled back several feet, having a bit of blood dripping from her lip. Before she had much time to consider the next course of action Arcueid was already above her. She threw a spike towards her, though it had relatively no effect as it was deflected again, though Rider managed to jump back to avoid Arcueid's overhead strike. As Rider was about to hit the ground from jumping back Arcueid had already lunged through the air at her, striking her across her stomach with her clawed hand, drawing a significant injury across it.

Not wanting to let up so easily Arcueid struck overhead with her other arm. The force of the impact striking onto her shoulder sent Rider into the ground, causing a small crater in the ground where she hit. Arcueid gracefully landed near Rider with a cheerful expression showing. "Heheh... had enough yet?" She asked, though of course the spirit of Medusa, servant rider wouldn't give in so easily.

"It's not so simple to beat me... " She stated bluntly, jumping onto the upraised portion of the roof where the doorway down was. Suddenly she impaled the side of her neck, a large blast of blood spraying all around. Arcueid stared curiously, not sure what manner of ability this was. Medusa had been famous for her eyes, afterall... this wasn't something as well known.

Arcueid felt a slight tinge and craving for blood, but she quickly overcame it. The blood formed a strange seal before her and then suddenly there was a flash of light. Arcueid was momentarily blinded, but then as she regained her sight she saw the reason Medusa was a rider class servant. She rode a phantasmal creature, a pegasus. "Ah... so that explains it." She stated, mostly to herself. "But I'm afraid such a creature cannot help you defeat me."

Rider pulled out her golden reigns, her noble phantasm. "This is the end for you... servant." She realized she wasn't aware what servant this strange, but unusually powerful woman was, but it didn't matter. Arcueid decided to simply stand her ground, it wouldn't be much of a task to defeat her, without letting her go on with her most likely ultimate attack. "Go on with it" Arcueid called out, mockingly.

Rider smirked, thinking the woman a fool to mock her so, when he end was so near. Suddenly she pulled back on the reigns, her pegasus flying through the air with high speeds, looking like a flash of light to any onlookers. As the light turned around back towards Arcueid gaining ever more momentum and speed she called out "Bellerophon~!" the true name of her Noble Phantasm.

As Arcueid watched the surprisingly power attack head her way she debated in her mind what course of action she should take to counter it. She held out her hand suddenly, while chanting a moment. "From dreams to reality... Marble Phantasm."

In that same instant thousands of chains appeared around Rider, grappling her and her pegasus, stopping even their speed completely in their tracks, a dead halt."W...wh..at?" Medusa struggled to even say. The chains were not only binding them completely, but crushing them between them, too. "I'll end this quickly, Medusa!" Arcueid shouted, as she jumped through the air towards the mid-air chained Rider. She waved her clawed hand through the air after she was around ten feet away from Rider, and red clawed stream of energy slashed the servant to shreds easily.

Arcueid landed on a building not too far from the one they had previously fought on. She was sure that the Master knew his servant had been destroyed a moment ago, though she had no reason to go deal with him. He was a simple mage, seemingly incompetent based on his earlier reactions. Plus eliminating them wasn't her job... she had more important things to deal with, such as whats going on, exactly.

Arcueid jumped back towards the ground. She wanted to find Shiki first... with servants and others on the lose it may not be long before he'd be endangered.