14) The Final War for the Holy Grail Part 1
(Author's Note: I am not uploading because my heart melted after seeing your comments but because I might lose the huge view streak by making it on hiatus for long so don't misunderstand me hmph! Anyway, Enjoy the chapter guys! Also wondering why the Doraemon Three Swords Magician theme song rocks?)
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3rd Pov
The final war approached, and it was finally time for the remaining servants in this War to meet each other and give their all to fight to win the Holy Grail War, remaining Servants were utterly ready to battle against each other for the Omnipotent wish-granting object known as Holy Grail. All their goals were somehow related to it even if a few didn't want it in the end.
" We are near," said Mordred excited, Jeanne nodded and Poseidon looked in front, in the distance a small object can be seen floating and flying away at quite a good pace, he said," This much distance is enough, if we move any closer she will fire beams and even an A Rank Magical Resistance won't help us much against them".
Mordred and Jeanne became surprised hearing that," You know a lot about servants and their abilities a lot Lord Poseidon", said Jeanne, Mordred nodded in agreement," Is that some Personal Skill of yours? Or a Noble Phantasm?", asked Mordred intrigued, she and Jeanne have noticed Poseidon often knows how to deal other servants, their Noble Phantasm and details about them.
Even revealing their true names won't grant this much info, at first Jeanne and Mordred didn't think much about it, for them it happened the first time when he battled with Hercules, Mordred was watching their battle and was first confused why he is fighting Hercules so weirdly and even was disappointed by the fact with how weak he was before he killed the Hercules for the first time.
But once he killed him once and Hercules resurrected she understood that Poseidon probably knew about Hercules's Noble Phantasm, and what followed was just Hercules's repeated deaths shocking her to the core, Hercules's ability was perverted, and after talking with Jeanne and Chiron during when Poseidon was unconscious she got to know Hercules's ability made him immune to his previous cause of death.
While surprised by Hercules's cockroach-like life-saving abilities and impressed by Poseidon's strength and capability to kill someone like him she didn't think much about it either considering they were of the same Homeland but after repeated displays of him knowing almost all of the abilities of other servants even of not belonging the same Homeland even a battle junkie like her would know something is interesting.
As for Jeanne, she was confused as well, since from her skill she knew that Poseidon possessed no such skill that could give him such info, Poseidon looked at them and said," I am a God and as a God, it is normal to know everything", Mordred's face twisted in confusion and she asked," Huh? As a God you are supposed to know everything? What kind of stupid logic it is?".
On the other hand, Jeanne looked enlightened and said," Is that so? I Understand it now!", she smiled content with his answer, Mordred looked at her speechless and said," Oye, you can't be serious right?! That doesn't make any sense!", Jeanne retorted and said," God is supposed to be all Knowing and as Lord Poseidon is a God so he is supposed to know everything! See it makes complete sense!".
Mordred sighed in defeat and said," Whatever", and looked at Jeanne who for some reason looked a bit dumb to her, well despite how serious Jeanne is, people don't know she is a bit dumb and an airhead, though it isn't as exaggerated shown in 'Learn with Manga!' parody fortunately, otherwise Poseidon himself would have converted her into materials instead of Gudako.
(A/N:*COugh* We got a bit distracted here, anyway if Holy Virgin was to sweat will it be considered Holy Water?🤔)
"Oye Master, how about you join us as well?", asked Mordred smiling, Kairi looked at her and then at Poseidon and said," If he doesn't mind then sure", she smiled and said," Okay! Master is going with us as well!", Poseidon meanwhile cast some spells on himself and then said," Let me warn you if he went with us his chances of dying is as high are the chances of dying a guy with lung cancer, brain tumor, and heart attack simultaneously".
Kairi's eyebrows twitched hearing that wondering if Poseidon was cursing him, while others were dumbfounded as well, "Anyway let's not wait any longer and leave, they might fire if we wait any longer", he said, Mordred sighed and said," Master, then wait for me to come back with the Holy Grail".
He nodded helplessly, the gates of the airplane opened and Mordred quickly hopped on his back sticking like a koala, and said," Let's go, Mister God, don't disappoint me", Jeanne looked confused about how to grab Poseidon who sensed it and took her in a princess carry," Lo-Lord Poseidon! Thi-This!", she said blushing heavily while stuttering.
Poseidon said, "Stop stuttering like this and focus on the objective", his words washed away all the mood of Jeanne who sighed and nodded, he then looked at Kairi, Claues, and Fiore a final time and nodded at them before jumping out," Lord Poseidon take care of yourself!", shouted Fiore surprising her brother a bit.
"Ohhh! Yeah!", Mordred shouted as they fell a bit before suddenly they flew towards the hanging Gardens of Babylon Breaking the Sound Barrier, and started approaching it at a fast speed, Serimanis who was inside the throne room smiled seeing this on a Holographic Magical Projection before her, " Finally out of those flying pieces of metal huh? Let's see if you can survive my Magic Canons".
A huge Magic canon aimed at them and fired a powerful magical beam, the powerful beam of super condensed super hot mana could even pulverize servants with A Rank Magical Resistance but Poseidon showed no movement to dodge it," Hey! Dodge it! What are you doing Dodge it!!", shouted Mordred on top of her lungs.
She closed her eyes ready to feel extreme pain, Jeanne didn't shout unlike her and instinctively hugged Poseidon while closing his eyes, but as a few seconds passed they felt nothing, they opened their eyes to see a thin barrier of water reflecting all the Magical power away from them.
Serimanis stood up from her throne and looked at the spectacle on the Holographic projection shocked," What the...", her eyes focus on Poseidon to see a thin blue light shining on him, her eyes widened as she quickly checked it using her Magecraft, and once she did a look of horror appeared on her face," I- It can't be! How?! How is he able to use his Authority?!!", she shouted shocked beyond any measure.
What separates a God from Humans? Their Divine Potential? The presence of True Ether inside them? Huge amounts of Pure Mana? Nope, all of these things can be attained by humans, but there is a hurdle they can rarely cross, a thing that makes God a God, it's their Divine Authority, or Divinity for short, different from the Divinity of Demi-Gods, Divinity of a True God is said to be Omni-potent.
While exaggerated it is true that the Divinity of a God is on a whole another level, though in fate there are many ways to kill a God, making them look weaker than they are supposed to it doesn't change the fact that a God's Authority is something so strong that it is often compared to True Magics.
Poseidon as a top-tier Water God has one of the highest Divinity and powerful Authority among all Gods, his control and sheer power over is simply something third-rate Gods like Eurayle, and Stheno can't compare to, even as of now being reduced to mere A- didn't mean it can't go against a Powerful Magical Attacks of Serimanis.
Serimanis who herself felt proud of her Divine heritage knew better than anyone the horror of a God's Authority, she gritted her teeth looking at the screen, if Poseidon was to fight with them as a Divine Spirit then they were pretty much finished, she forcefully calmed herself down and looked at the screen seeing them entering Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
' Achilles, Atalanta they are inside go and fight them ', she telepathically sent them a message,' Okay ', she received the reply and sighed, then she started thinking about how Poseidon was able to use his Divinity, she knew that after the end of the Age of Gods, no God was supposed to born, and even a summoned Divine Spirit can't use their Authorities, even if they somehow manage to remain as Divine Spirit summoned after the end of Age of Gods their powers will weaken as hell.
She started ramming her brain searching for an answer and looked at Poseidon and the other two making their way inside destroying all the Tooth warriors as they proceeded, her eyes quickly catch on the fact that Poseidon didn't have his Authority right now, her eyes twinkled as a cruel smile formed on her face," I see, it is just temporary".
While it didn't change the fact that Poseidon was the biggest hurdle in front of them it did make her more relaxed realizing Posiedon can access his Authority only temporarily which increased their chances of winning against this abomination greatly, for their winning didn't mean they have to kill him but only delay for a bit.
"A God huh?", she muttered remembering someone she extremely loathed, then her mind went to Poseidon's lore on how he was a r*pist and did several heinous things, obviously the modern world has several origin stories of mythical heroes, Gods, etc, which while do affect them to an extent like granting them an ability or Noble Phantasm it doesn't change their original persona.
In Fate's world for example Poseidon wasn't a r*pist and neither did he ever r*ped Medusa impressed by her he rewarded her a Divine Pegasus which later on manifested as her strongest ability after becoming a Servant, obviously it is Fate Poseidon we are talking about not this Poseidon who is of a different verse, but due to Parallel World Phenomena, it made no difference to anyone whether Servants or Magus that the Person they know is a different version of their world for them they are same person while being different.
Serimanis didn't know that Poseidon belonged to the other timeline unlike Jeanne and Mordred, but it mattered little to her and she already believed in the origin story of Poseidon which depicted him as a heinous r*pist than someone who granted heroes rewards impressed by them, her personal bias made her blind and stupid in such things.
Thinking of being able to kill a bastard(Self-proclaimed) God like him, her eyes twinkling, after experiencing one mood swing after another since the beginning of the Great Holy Grail War due to Poseidon, and now her mood has become worse for the bad," Well, I guess it will be worth it making him suffer", she muttered with a smile. It seemed she has finally released her Evil Side.
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Mordred and Jeanne followed after Poseidon who lead the way, they also encountered Tooth Warriors and even Dragon Winged warriors but for first-class servants like them, it was as easy breathing for them to dispose of such beings who would give any modern magus run for their Magecraft.
They weren't that far from Throne Room by now and ran at a mild pace, suddenly an arrow headed for Jeanne only to be cut in half by Poseidon using his sword, they went in defense knowing who has arrived, Atalanta and Achilles came out of hiding, Achilles pointed his lance at them and said," Sorry but you aren't allowed to go any further".
Mordred grinned upon hearing that and said," Really? Then all I have to do is kill you, bastards", Poseidon walked forward and said," You two go and I will take care of them", Mordred grinned and said," You take that girl, I will take on this boy", Poseidon replied her, "Nope he has a bad match for you".
Mordred froze and then glared at him," Are you saying I am weaker than him?!", she shouted summoning his sword and pointing it toward him, everyone was baffled by the turn of events, Jeanne summoned her Holy Flag and gripped it tightly ready to defend Poseidon incase Mordred tried to attack him while the Greek Hero Duo was dumbfounded.
How Poseidon reacted to it? He gave Mordred a powerful smack on her head before she could process and the next moment her head started hurting, her sword fell from her hand as she grabbed her head in pain," Ouch! Ouch! It hurts! It hurts!", she grunted in pain, angered she wanted to attack the person who smacked his head but before she could Poseidon said," That guy posses a powerful Divine Nature, thus one would need a Divine nature equal or higher than him to even hurt him, while you can bypass this by using your Mana Burst in a battle of attrition you would still lose".
Now that Poseidon has explained she calmed herself, and clicked her tongue," What with the Heroes of your Mythology being so resilient like cockroaches?", she asked, obviously she didn't receive no answer while Achilles and Atalanta fumed in anger hearing her words, Poseidon summoned his Trident and said," Jeanne, go and stop Shirou".
Jeanne nodded and said," Okay, Lord Poseidon!", she quickly left without waiting any further, he then turned to Mordred and said," You wanted to fight Serimanis right? Go straight to the left side and take a right turn, you will get her inside the room which has a large and luxurious gate on the front".
Hearing that Mordred's mood become better and said," Thank you, and don't take my previous words to heart, okay?", he nodded and she left, Poseidon looked at the duo still waiting like idiots, to be honest, he was ready for any surprise attack, using surprise attack on him wasn't that useful as he was always on guard.
Still, he was surprised at how the two waited for their little chat to be over, he looked at them and said," I am surprised you didn't attack us while talking", Achilles smiled and said," As an honorable Hero how can I attack someone when they haven't got ready to attack?", Atalanta snorted hearing him, unlike him she believed on killing the opponent no matter the method used to achieve it and despised the weak.
However, due to Achilles and his dream she decided to put some of her personal feelings aside, even if she didn't like the fact that this bastard courted her, he was still one of the few people she could call a friend and she thought that she is nothing losing by helping him fulfill his dying wish while her is already secured to be fulfilled and thus waited for Achilles to strike first and officially began their battle.
"Oh, It is rare to see a person like you", said Poseidon ready to attack, then he smiled and thought,' Who is such a big idiot ' and dashed towards them.
To be continued...
(Author's Note: Many people are saying I have nerfed Poseidon. I dunno, I think I am already making him pretty strong and please do remember that all the amazing Magic he has used till now is only at the level of tier 4, he even hasn't learned to use the truly Op Magics, and 11th-tier abilities which are equal of A+ Tier Noble Phantasms or abilities)