A Not So Evil God In Fate/Grand Order

When everyone entered the Throne Room, they were met with a smiling Nero who praised them for achieving victory against the United Empire. She didn't want to keep them with her for too long as she understood they must be tired, having fought for an entire day, so she immediately assigned them sleeping quarters.

She had many free rooms, so everyone got their own. They were very modest, a swing door outside, and inside them, there was some furniture, a bed, a mirror, and a large window that led to a balcony with a white marble bal.u.s.trade surrounding it.

After thanking her, the group each went to their respective room. Fujimaru was the first one to go to sleep. Although he didn't fight, the mental exhaustion certainly got to him. He immediately went to dreamland the moment he rested his head on the pillow.

The rest were Servants, a Demi-Servant, and a God in a human body, so their mental fatigue wasn't much. However, they couldn't say no to a good night of sleep.

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It was late at night, but Seth couldn't sleep even if he wanted to. He just kept staring at the ceiling with unblinking eyes as if lost in thought.

Releasing a sigh, he got up from the bed and made his way to the balcony. Once there, he sat on the bal.u.s.trade while looking at the moon with his legs dangling. He wasn't thinking about anything; he just enjoyed the peaceful night. 'It seems what I needed was not rest but this.' Being a God of Chaos and Disorder, enjoying tranquillity was quite ironic.

'Six more to go, huh?' Seth thought to himself. The question was what came next, what was he going to do. That chicken may stop reincarnating him endlessly, but he was sure Ra wouldn't just let him roam around free without a collar. The bastard was a controlling God through and through.

'There is the option of returning to that place as per my original plan, but...now I'm not so sure.' Sometimes he wondered why everything had to be so complicated, or maybe he was the one who was making it that way. 'No point thinking about it now, when I get to the end of the line will be the moment I will decide.'

Just when he was preparing to go to bed now that his mind became clear, he heard some footsteps outside his room. Seth rolled his eyes the moment he bothered to know who they were.

A minute ago, Kiyojime could be seen silently exiting her room and slowly walking toward a particular place. She wasn't alone, however, as another figure was doing the same. Jalter was being careful of not making any noise. What they seemed to forget was, they both lacked Presence Concealment, so every Servant knew what they were doing, they decided to ignore it, though even if someone was uncomfortable to do so.

The two figures met at the door of Seth's room, the first to speak was Jalter. "Kiyohime?! What are you doing here?!" Although she was speaking in a barely audible voice, her tone was pretty high.

With a frown on her face, Kiyohime responded. "I could ask you the same thing. There is no reason for you to be here either."

"I-I was just going to go to drink a glass of water! Yes, that's right!" She crossed her arms and nodded with a smile on her face. It wasn't clear if she was trying to convince Kiyohime or herself.

"The kitchen is the other way so you can turn around now." Kiyohime victoriously smirked, she could see how her face was getting redder by the second.

"T-That can wait, I-I'm not that thirsty anymore. I see you are trying to disturb my Master's sleep, so it's natural. I try to stop you." She wasn't good with excuses, so she said the first thing that came to her mind.

Ignoring her, she pulled the door handle that was facing her way. Strangely enough, Jalter didn't bother to stop her. They both peeked their heads with their hands on the door that remained closed. However, neither Kiyohime nor Jalter could see Seth anywhere.

Looking around and confirming he was not here, they decided to enter. "Weird...I saw him enter this room, but I never saw him leave." Kiyohime said while biting her thumb.

"You must have scared him away, you creepy stalker!" Jalter couldn't help but retort listening to her words, even if those same words perfectly could apply to her.

Out of options, they went to the balcony. Opening the window, they looked up and down, left and right, but they still couldn't find him.

"What are you two doing? Don't you see you are disturbing everyone's sleep?!" Just then, a voice came from behind them, and with it, the holy knuckle.

"Gah!" "Ouch!" Both girls let out a small cry of pain. Turning around, they saw Martha looking at them with a glare.

At first, the Saint didn't bother with them. However, as time passed and they kept making noises and shouting now and then she couldn't take it anymore, so she decided to come personally.

"It's Kiyohime's fault! She was trying to barge into Master's room." Jeanne defended herself while throwing the blame to Kiyohime without hesitation.

"Why are you blaming me? You were also doing the same." She gave her a sidelong glance, not amused at all by her words.

"I don't care what you did or were trying to do. Get out of here now and don't cause troubles to other people, good grief." Martha grabbed and dragged them both out of the room then threw them to their respective sleeping quarters before sighing and returning to her own.

Unaware to them, someone, or something, was watching them from high up in the sky. It was a creature with the legs, torso, and tail of a lion and the neck and head of an eagle. It possessed majestic wings with the same yellow color as his body except at the end where they turned black. Its mane also had a darker shade of color.

(A/N: I will be leaving the image on Discord, together with Nephthys which I forgot to put lol)

'It wouldn't be a bad idea to try to summon exclusively male Servants next time.' The creature thought, revealing it to be Seth.

Seth, now shapeshifted as a Griffin, started flying around the capital. It's been millenniums since the last time he had done it, so he wanted to enjoy it. The only downside was he couldn't speak and only make noises.

-Shapeshift: A→ Increases own defense for a short amount of time. Further increases own defense by a much longer amount of time.

'That's certainly surprising. I didn't know I could also obtain skills that belonged originally to this system. Well, considering I'm obtaining skills while still alive, it's not that weird. But, that opens a whole realm of possibilities.' While it was a surprise, it was a welcomed one.

Although he certainly got stronger with the unlocking of his Noble Phantasm, it still took time to prepare it, so it was not ideal to use in a one on one battle. He was not the only one who was getting stronger, his future enemies were too, so having more weapons in his arsenal was a must.

Shaking his head to shake those thoughts out of his head, he started doing l.a.p.s around the whole city. This continued for the entire night.

When the sun was rising through the horizon, Seth got an idea. 'Might as well.' Flapping his wings, he flew to the place where he felt Amaterasu's presence before. It didn't take him long to get there considering he was faster in this form than as a human.

He decided to observe from above, although when he shapeshifted he didn't emit the same aura, he didn't want to risk it.

Looking down, he noticed three figures sitting on crudely made chairs talking among themselves. He first set his gaze on Elizabeth. 'So that noisy kid is also here.' He then turned toward the Divine Spirit. 'And that is the Goddess...she smells of trouble.' Finally, he turned his head to the reason he came here in the first place.

Seth almost forgot to keep flapping to maintain himself in the air when he saw Tamamo Cat. 'W-What is that...?' He didn't have words to describe his feelings right now. The majestic and intimidating Amaterasu was reduced to a girl with a cat costume.

'We both have fallen quite low, haven't we? Ha...haha...hahahaha.' Seth couldn't help but laugh inside his mind. It was a refreshing feeling, not only seeing Amaterasu again, or what was left of her. But also to know they shared a similar fate, being a downgraded version of their prime.

'See you later, Ama. I hope one day I have the courage to apologize for leaving you.' He smiled as much as his eagle head allowed before turning around and going back to Rome.

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It was a new day and everyone seemed to have a good rest. Of course, there were some grumbling Servants but they were royally ignored.

After an extravagant breakfast prepared by Nero's chefs, Romani asked Nero if they could excuse themselves to go to Mt. Etna. Apparently, there was an important leyline there so they needed to secure it to send the usual supplies.

So here they were now, traveling to a famous location known for its many eruptions. As this mission was not something that could be called extremely risky, only a few have come. Mainly Fujimaru, Mash, Martha, Caster, and Seth.

On their way, they met some ghost spirits that were around the foot of the volcano. However, instead of attacking them. They simply stared at them for a second before making way for them to advance, something that confused some of them but they decided not to think much about it. If they could avoid wasting Magical Energy unnecessarily then they wouldn't complain.

The strange thing was, they didn't meet any soldier from the United Empire. It was like they weren't interested in the leyline or simply didn't care.

"Maybe the reason we aren't seeing enemy soldiers is that we are near the capital?" Romani wondered with a hand on his chin.

"They attacked the capital before, what makes you think they care about if it is near or far?" Cu Chulainn didn't agree with the Doctor's theory.

"Whatever the reason, we should be thankful we don't have to shed unnecessary blood." Martha said, not caring about why they haven't encountered any soldiers so far.

"Wah... As expected of a Saint." Romani gave a honest praise that was quickly shut down by Mash.

"I already put my shield on the leyline, it's your turn now Doctor."

"On it!" With a swift response, Romani completed all the procedures.

"Now we only have to return to Rome, I saw some soldiers running around when we exited the city so maybe that little girl is planning an attack or something." Caster said, crisscrossing his fingers behind his head.

"I guess that kid got tired of being always defending." To Seth, this was going to happen sooner or later with the little he knows about that personality of hers.

"I know I'm no position to say this, but I think we should help her. If we want to know more about what's going on then we need to be in the frontlines." Dr. Roman said with a serious tone he rarely used.

"It's okay, Doctor. I know you are doing the best you can to help us. Besides, this is what we came for, isn't it? Then there is no reason to ask, we will do it without hesitation." Fujimaru spoke words from the bottom of his heart. To save Humanity, he was willing to risk his life if it was necessary.

'Despite saying this, I know there are people who will protect me when the time comes. Still, I don't want to always rely on them, I don't want to be a burden. That's why...that's why I will try to become a better Master, so my Servants won't ever need to have to worry about me.' He swore in his heart with a newfound determination.