I am the quill of my stories.
Paper is my body and ink is my blood.
I have created over a thousand tales.
Unaware of Sues, Nor aware of tropes.
Withstood pain to create fables, waiting for one's arrival.
I have no royalties. This is the only path.
My whole life was unlimited disclaimer works!

An Insignificant Event

Chapter four: Never assume.

The two servants and their masters looked up. And up. And up. Saber was a very large black man, with dark blue eyes currently swinging a equally large stone axe-sword at them.

The axe-sword simply cratered the pavement it hit. However, there was a noticeable lack of blood and body-parts at the impact site, Berserker and Archer reacting in time to save their masters.

"What manner of servant did she summon!?" Rin asked rhetorically, not expecting anyone on her side to know the answer or for the little enemy master to reveal anything. Thus Berserker speaking up caught her off guard "Heracles, the greatest greek hero."

Illya and Saber looked interested at statement "Shame, I was going to let that 'slip' if you managed to kill him. How do you know that, Berserker?" the little girl asked far too innocently.

Berserker sighed like she let slip a little too much "Back before I was a heroic spirit, I took part in a holy grail war. Funnily enough, the Berserker of that war was your Saber while I was the master of that war's Saber for a good majority of it. What a coincidence." Berserker tapped her lip with a finger "And what do you mean 'another thing that should be mine'? It you wanted Berserker so much, there a version of the spell to summon that class."

Illya blushed "I...I sneezed during the last two lines so the summoning went as normal. STOP LAUGHING!" Berserker was laughing her head off "SABER!"

"On it, little lady." Saber replied as he batted Berserker, too busy laughing to dodge, into a wall. "BERSERKER!" cried Shirou.

Coughing, Berserker stumbled out of the ruined wall "I'm fine. Alter, not so much." the cloud of dust faded, showing Berserker with arms folded over her chest as her dress fix itself.

"Who is Alter?" asked Rin. With the black ribbon dress fixed, Berserker lowed her arms "Oh, right." Rin said on seeing that Berserker right breast was currently missing. After a moment, she pointed at the remaining left one "The other called Rin." Berserker said with a smile.

Rin turned beet red "I do not need to know that." Berserker just smile a little more "She the naughty one." "SHUT UP!" Rin shouted. Berserker giggled.

A booming cough drew Berserker's attentions back to Saber and his master "Oh yeah, you're a thing. Archer, how many A-ranks or greater attacks do you have?"

Archer glance to Rin "She knows the enemy, follow her lead for now." Rin ordered. Archer gave a thoughtful look "Five."

Berserker nodded "Good, you kill him five times, I'll take the remaining seven." Saber looked impressive "So you two think you can take me on?"

Berserker shrugged "I almost killed you while alive. As a heroic spirit, it should be a walk in the park. Archer, give me a boost."

Archer got the idea and cupped his hands so he could launch Berserker into the air. With her skyward, he created his black and white swords and attacked Saber.

Illya giggled "That half-hearted assault won't kill Saber, Archer." Saber realised something "He not trying to."

A gibbering missile knows as Berserker impacted Saber and with Saber too busy fighting Archer to block, the snarling buzz-saw under both Mad Enchanted and Monstrous Strength aided by gravity to reach A-rank tore through Saber's rib-cage. Landing nearby, Berserker, still in Madness, created a mass of dark shapes that looked like worms. The berserked Berserker howled something that might be a spell name, but came across as simple rage. At the howl, the shadow worms swarmed the just revived Saber.

Calming down, Berserker intoned "One, two, I think that three in all." Looking behind herself, she asked "Do you want a go, Archer."

A feeling of danger make her look back, allowing her to just dodge the slab of stone from taking her head. However she could see that the Axe-sword was returning too fast 'Damn, I should of guessed Saber class allows Heracles to recovered from a miss faster then his Berserker class.'

The attack wouldn't be fatal, but with the amount of broken and missing limbs it would leave her with, it may as well of been. 'I'm sorry, Shirou, Rin, Taiga too I guess since she be in the blast range when someone wins, hell everyone bar gramp and Shinji, the bastards.'

However there is one thing that always seem to happen in this fight. Berserker view point moved, avoiding the Axe-sword that hit something else.

Berserker landed, wondering what happen, before looking back to where she was. "Shirou?" so much blood "Shirou?" arms don't bend that way "Shirou?" was that a bone sticking out? "Shirou!"

Turning to Saber and his master, Berserker snarled "I'm going to rip you apart." Saber looked at the small (to him) servant, the shadows curling around her and then picked up Illya under one arm "Saber? What are you doing?" And fled. While he would win that fight, he didn't think he could protect his master. One part of him even thought that he wouldn't be able to walk away after himself.

Berserker took a step as if to follow them, before walking to her master side. He was still breathing, but not for long. She had one choice, but...she looked at a worried Rin and an unaffected Archer.

While writing this, I learn that Heracles eye colour is either blue or black.

Reviews: tuvarkz: Good point, adding Mental Pollution to stats. Dark0w1: Probable not. Berserker has enough tricks up her sleeves at the moment. Ame no Kagaseo: Plot twist: It Athuria wearing a Heracles suit with Nero wearing a Illya's suit as master! I'MNOTCRAZY1: Does it make sense now? And as for Mad Enhancement not being reversible, Fate/extra's Arcueid Brunestud's 'death' shows it possible. Once something has been shown as possible, it is simply a matter of tweaking the variables till you can do it on command, like lighting was once the domain of the god, but now we have hand-held lighting bolts known as tasers. Bigreader in The Omniverse: That the word! I kept respelling but it never felt right. ArcherShirou: 'What the effects it causes the normal Sakura?' ...I have completely forgotten about the bleeding effect because it wasn't Archer-Shirou focused. Now I got a few ideas.

More complete servant sheet(barring NPs since spoilers)

Servant: Berserker

Other classes: Saber, Archer, Caster and if not for the Grail bug, Assassin(1)

Master: Shirou Emiya

Name: Dark Sakura(current name)/Sakura Matou(old name)/Sakura Tohsaka(old name)

Alignment: True neutral(count as evil chaotic thank to NP)

Titles: The Shadow's Harbinger(former), Tyrant of Saviours, The True Shadow

Strength: C

Endurance: C

Agility: B

Magic: A

Luck: E

Noble Phantasm: ?

Class skills:

Mad Enhancement: C

Rank up for all parameters except Luck and Mana, but in exchange one can no longer think and speak properly.

A lifetime of suffering has left marks upon Berserker mind, but the core of her being can not be washed away.

Independent Action: A+(N/A)

Servant can remain in this world indefinitely even without a Master.

Berserker actually lacks Independent Action, but thank to her NP, as long as evil exist, she work at an A+ rank. She hold effectually an unlimited supply of mana, but due to her surprisingly low capacity, a high-level fight can snuff her out without a master to pick up the slack.

Personal skills:

Battle Continuation: A+

Anything short of atomization or staving their mana is likely to be shrug off unless it got a good enough trick to counter this skill.

Thank to her connection to Angra Mainyu, Berserker can return from any wound as long as something survive and she has mana to spare. Unlike most versions of this skill, Berserker's take a few minutes to regenerate, so many attacks in a short time spam can overwhelm this skill.

Eternal Magic Mastership(Imaginary Numbers only): A+

Mastership of magic arts has reached the point of being said to be unrivaled in one's era. By complete merging of mind, body and technique, it is possible to make use of full casting skills even when under the influence of any sort of mental hindrance.

Berserker is one with the shadows to the point that it as simple as breathing

Eye for Art(cooking): C

If she happens to see a Noble Phantasm that possess culinary attributes, there is a chance that she might be able to figure out its true name.

Thank to years of training under Shirou plus her own culinary exploits, Berserker has develop a keen eye for fellow cooks works.

Imaginary Numbers: A

A power highly effective against spiritual beings. Also know as the shadow element.

Berserker's unique Elemental Affinity. Unlike her Thaumatury, Berserker has not suffered a drop in this skill

Instinct: B(A)

Refined sixth sense is now close to true precognition. Bonus effect of reducing by half the penalties caused by obstructed vision and hearing. (Mad Enhancement has degraded it slightly)

As a possible Angra Mainyu, Berserker has the knowledge of how evil may be done in any situation and uses this knowledge as a pseudo-sixth sense to protect and attack.

Magecraft: D(A)

This Servant is very skilled in the art of Thaumaturgy. (Mad Enhancement has degraded it a lot)

Mental Pollution: D

Attacking this servant's mind is a uphill struggle due to their strange way of thinking.

Berserker is functionally insane.

Monstrous Strength: C

temporary boost of the Strength parameter.

As a (former)harbinger of Angra Mainyu, Berserker has this skill.

Noble Phantasm

Something that give mana

?

(1)How does a name of class affect who is summon? Since you can't choose assassin class, that must mean the hero is chose first then class is assigned- and whoop, the name assassin is a catalyst, have one of these 19 'heroes' instead. Never made any sense to me and thus I choose to see it as a bug of the holy grail.

Anyway review, flame or lurk