Bad First Impressions (AU)
pathwaytothefuture:
The raindrops pounded on the sheets of thin glass throughout the house. The temperature was mild within the basement in which the girl performed her summoning. The crimson red light that belonged to the circle softly vanished, as if it was never there to begin with.
The white haired girl kneeled on the ground, coughing due to the dust kicked up from the summoning. If it was a different time, she would have thought to clean the place before performing the ritual. But that was a minor thought. The only thing the girl could truly register within her mind was the condition of the summoning.
Did she do it? Did she draw the strongest card? No she had to have! There was no way she could have failed! Though…
“I…I did it…I…I summoned a servant! The strongest card!!” It was not a matter if she succeeded or not. It was a downright fact. But…
“…..eh? Where the hell is-”
BOOM!
A light gasp escaped the girl. Without much thought the girl quickly ran up the stairs.
“Why the hell of all times?!” She ran as fast as her legs could carry her. If she was right, that explosion took place in the guest room. The two story house that she lived in was quickly traversed as she arrived at her destination.
The moment she stepped through that doorway, her breathe was caught in her voice.
In what used to be a tidy guest room now was a mess of a room. The roof collapsed in, as if something had fallen through.
And the object was standing in front of her.
A young boy wearing her era’s school uniform. Black hair with yellow spikes, a black gakuen styled in a rather cool looking way. It was actually a shock to see him.
But it was his words that he spoke that caused the girl’s enlightened mood to vanish. Eyes widen as pink lips parted. Was he….serious?
“……So instead of an Alpha, I drew a Beta….” The girl spoke out in shock. Even when speaking the fact out loud could she not understand. How…could this be possible?!
“This…this isn’t possible…I…I summoned forth a hero from the Throne itself! How did I end up summoning a high school boy….”
There was just no other way to explain it.
There was no other way to observe this event.
Collapsing on her knees whilest letting the rain continue to fall in, the girl’s face said it all.
The summoning was an utter failure.
….no….this was not how things where supposed to go. What could she do to reverse this? Nothing, the ritual could not be performed a second time. Then…how would she handle this?
“….Dammit….I have to make due with myself then…” Standing up the girl crossed her arms, a look of utter disappointment in her eyes. “Guess I better confirm it for you. I am a master. And sad to say it seems you are the servant I summoned to assist me. So then, are you of the class Saber, Mr. Beta blond delinquent?”
『城戸灰都』— “……Hey. I can hear you, you know…?” He muttered feeling pretty offended by the way she seemed to be looking down on him as the most disappointing creature in the entire world. She didn’t even try to hide her dissatisfaction with summoning him. He almost felt sympathy for her when she fell to her knees like that but the sympathetic feelings all too soon morphed into deep resentment as she continued to lament her summoning. Needless to say this put the servant into a pretty bad mood.
If that’s how she’s going to be he’ll just wait till it was the time for him to shine and show what he was REALLY made of. He would let his peerless skill be the means by which to make his surely troublesome master shut her mouth and reevaluate her horrifically wrong assessment of him just because he looked like an ordinary high-school student. She can bet her ass on that.
『城戸灰都』— “Jeez, sorry I’m not King Arthur or something…” He sighed, picking a loose screw out of his hair and flicking it into a corner of the ruined room as she wrapped up the last of her lamentations. Hearing her inquiry of his class a somewhat smug smile touched the servants lips and he gave an exaggerated shrug. So she was aiming for his class, after all, huh? Looked like she lucked out after all, then.
Sadly, Saber wasn’t exactly about to make it that easy for her.
『城戸灰都』— “Who knows?” He responded with thinly-veiled spite and sat cockily on a pile of rubble, both hands stuffed into the pockets of his coat. Not particularly minding the ice-cold droplets of rain pouring down on his figure through the hole he made he continued his spiteful teasing.
『城戸灰都』— “Heh. Maybe I’m a Caster or an Archer or maybe even an assassin. ...Seeing how messed up the person who summoned me is I feel like I might even be Berserker. That gonna be some kind of problem, Ms. Granny-haired princess? Ah, I mean...master?”