//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Chosen wielder. // Story: Fall Of Equestria: Grail Warriors. // by Neutral Boy //------------------------------// "Had I not been burned at the stake, then I would have kept fighting." -Ruler. "If God exists, then I will certainly receive divine punishment." -Avenger. In one of the Canterlot buildings, a griffon is seen being punched in the gut by a Caribou. "Incompetent fool! I told you to eliminate the guard and grab the treasures!" The griffon scout coughed up some drools and wipes his mouth before replying. "W-We tried to sir, but when our squadron got him into a tight corner, he wasn't there. One of the members think he might've found a secret passage way and escaped before we tried to get him. Although, it's possible he couldn't had gotten far away." The caribou gritted his teeth, fuming in anger and thinking on how these scouts have failed. 'This isn't good, we can't let these divine treasures fall into the wrong hands. They serve as a good means of power to us. If the treasures would surely be found by those blasted resistance snakes, King Dainn and his alliance won't be very happy.' Thinking to himself on some change of plans, he calms down and turns to the griffon. "Reinforce the scouting parties, make sure that these great treasures are found and the head of the former guard as a trophy. King Dainn and his followers won't tolerate multiple failures." "Yes sir." After the scouts has flew off, a door opens up of another caribou, greeting him. "How goes the Crystal Empire defense and our new project toy?" "Precisely good, the resistance have no chance of entering the Empire, either by teleport or even try to dig underground. Also the project is have way completed in procedure, we just need a little more time before it's operational. I'd estimate less that four months." "Very well, continue as planned. We can't let these lowlife weasels know of our advantage." Meanwhile, back on Earth. . . The human boy who's found the injured guard picked him up on his back and slowly walk. "Jeez, this alien is a heavy son of a bitch." In his mind, his first thought was to call for help, but he chalked that out since he didn't want the government to take it away and do experiments. So instead, his next idea was to take it back to his house and treat the wounds. "How am I going to explain this to my roommate?" While carrying the alien to his house, he didn't know that it's still alive. 'Ugh. . . w-where am I. Who's c-carrying me?' After making it to the house, he, unlocks the door and closes it behind him. He then dragged the alien to his living room and place it on the couch as he goes to go get some medical supplies. He stop when he felt something on his bottom shoe and looks down to see an item, along with several more on the ground. "Eh, I'll look at them later. Right now I need to get the supplies." So he begins to pick them up and place them in his pockets before getting the ones out of the restroom. Making sure it's the ones he got, he goes out of the restroom and goes back into the living room as he proceed to have the bandages. "Alright, I hope my training care is paying off cause I won't let anyone die here." When busy of getting each item kit out, the pony guard inhales and exhales as his vision is blurry. 'W-Why am I here? Is there another pony beside me or a traitor? Are they treating me good? Oh wait, my mission is still on. I can't even move my body. Need to rest for a bit, then find the one outside the borders.' Some hours later, the human boy finishes up the treatment as he wipes his forehead. "Whew, I got that done. Good thing my training is paying off." So he packed up the kits and put them back in the restroom while he washes both of his hands in the sink. After washing his hands, he grabs the six items out of his pocket and inspects them. "I'm guessing these must've belong to the sentient alien. Question is, what are they used for?" Rubbing one of his fingers to the items, something on it poked his finger as it drips his blood. "Ack! Dammit." He places the items by the sinks and washes his finger. He glances over at the items thinking on what they could be, but got interrupted when the bell at the door is ringing. "That must be my roommate." He quickly goes to the front door and opens it up to see his roommate in a drunken state. Her eyes are green, has long light blue hair in a mess, got a nice set of breasts, and her clothing look like it's wet from the rain. "*hic* O-Oh hey there *hic*big fella. How a doing roomy~?" She says drunkenly. "Oh not again, have you been drinking behind my back Jasmine?" "W-Why you say t-t *hic* that?" "Come on, let me take you to bed." Not waiting to hear Jasmine's response, he closes the door and drags her. Her eyes groggily looks to see someone on the couch and looks back at her roommate. "W-Who that's in the *hic* l-living room Ric?" She asked him. ". . . Just a friend who needs help." He replied, slightly lying to her. "Awwwww, you finally becoming a man to your crush~? I'm *hic* p-proud of you!" He blushed a bit, but shakes it head as he drags her upstairs. What he doesn't know is that after he got his roommate to bed and himself in a separate different bedroom, the items are glowing blue like mana as the relic symbols light up, revealing a mysterious unknown figure. It then vanishes and appears inside the boy's dream world, whispering the echoed words to him. "Thou has been chosen and I hereby thee command thy children. Be wary young blood, for when you awaken more of the slumbering warriors, you will face love, pain, bond, loss, survival, danger, and consequences. The choices are yours to make on you travel. Fare thee well chosen wielder and take good care of my children." The next morning day, the boy wakes up with a long yawn out of his mouth. He scratches his head before rubbing his eyes to get crusts out and pulls the covers away. "Oh man what a night." His nose then smells something cooking in the kitchen, perhaps his favorite food. "I'm guessing Jasmine is already making a meal. Better make sure she didn't vomit in her room." He gets off the bed and changes his underwear as well as his pair of clothing before walking out of his room. He walks over to his roommate's room and opens up the door. Then he pauses in confusion when he sees Jasmine asleep in her bed. "Wait, if my roommate is still asleep, then who's cooking in the kitchen?" Thinking it might be the alien or something else, he grabs a metal bat from the closet and slowly tip toes to the kitchen. When he gets there, he peeks over and his face frozen in shock upon looking at the girl figure. What he sees is that she has a long braided blonde hair, amethyst-colored eyes, glasses, large sweater, pair of breasts slightly larger than his roommate, blue pants, and a purple bow by the end of her hair. He hears the blonde haired girl humming a weird tune he couldn't recognize, but his hand accidentally let go of the metal bat. When it dropped on the floor, the blonde girl yelps. He didn't have time to register or apologize when someone from behind him grabbed both of his arms and pin him to the floor. "Identify yourself field! Who are you and why did we end up in this castle?!" A voice yelled behind his head. "Calm down, you're being a little harsh! He hasn't attacked anyone yet!" Another voice replied. The boy slowly looks up to see the blonde walk towards him and bends down to look at his face. "Are you okay? I'm sorry she was forceful to pin you down, but. . ." Her word trailed down all of a sudden as she inspects him while he looks confused. The girl's eyes widen as she looks up and frown at the one pinning his back. "Mordred, I ask you to please let him go." "What for Jeanne?! He's probably a spy to our enemies! Why would I even think of-" "Mordred, he's not an enemy or a spy. When I inspected him, I saw something in his eyes. If I'm right, I believe he's the one who has awakened us from our slumber. He must be our new master." She smiled. There was some silence for a moment later and the pressure on his back lifts. He saw an armored figure with two horns and the armor's mix grey & red color walking over to stand beside the blonde. The armored warrior bows on one knee while the blonde girl named Jeanne help him back on his feet. "I'm terribly sorry, let us start over and introduce ourselves. I am known as Servant Ruler, Jeanne d'Arc. I'm really glad to meet you!" Jeanne bows to him while the armored warrior stands up. The helmet is slowly taken off and reveal a girl with short blonde hair and green eyes. "Forgive me for my selfish action master. I am called Saber, but my true name's Mordred." The whole awkward meeting felt confusing for the boy as he merely scratches his head. "Uh. . . hello and your forgiven I guess. My names Richter Valley. Also why are you two calling me master?" He questioned. "I know you must have a lot of questions, but we'll try our best to answer them." Jeanne answered. She places both hands cupping on his left hand with a warm smile and him blushing from her warm touch. Though she ignores Mordred fake gagging. "Uh thanks, but what does that-" "Master~!" Another voice called out. Richter felt someone hugging him from behind and his hand leaving away from Jeanne's hand, earning her a pouty frown and Mordred sighing. "Astolfo! We were having a nice conversation." Jeanne said, trying to pull her off of Richter. "I'm sorry, but it's been like forever since we last have one!" Astolfo said, rubbing her face in his back neck. Getting a shivering feeling of two girls touching him, he looks at Mordred with a question. "Speaking of new people, is there any more I'm meeting besides this one that's holding me?" "Only three more, including one obsessed with meat and organs." His face grew pale on what she just said. "I think I'm going to be sick." "Awww cheer up young master, none of us are here to kill you or anything. Besides, your the one who has awaken us and it's our job to follow your command and protect you from our enemies. I can count on it." She smirks with confidence. "AHHHHH! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU PSYCHOS! RICHTER HELP!" All four of them pause when they heard a loud noise from upstairs as Richter sighs. "I'm guessing those three have introduce to my friend. Better get the breakfast ready." "Not to worry master, I already have breakfast ready for us." Jeanne says, giving a thumbs up. ". . . I'm somehow beginning to like you more Jeanne." Richter said, earning her a blush and a wide smile. Elsewhere in Equestria. . . Two locations of events unfolding, one in the dragon lands and the other outside the borders. In the dragon home of Torch and his family, the dragons are doing their best to hold the territory ground against the Caribou Alliance. While the dragons are at a disadvantage against weapons used to kill any dragons, none won't be expecting another competitor to join the battlefield. At the same time however, the old Caribou Kingdom home base is under attack. The caribou guards were impaled and sliced one by one from the figures. One with a lance, the second a book, and the third one holding a sword.