The myriad explosions occurring in the sky above caused the eyes of everyone to look up in awe of the power of Gray and this strange woman. The concept of a "Servant", as far as they were aware were spiritual beings that ate magical power.
Batman had theorized that the possession of the strange red markings on the hand of Hawkgirl, Rider and himself had symbolized something to do with the Holy Grail War, a war which would be fought between Servants.
The use of the Command Seals and the powers of the Servants were strange in the eyes of the caped crusader.
Rider had revealed himself as Achilles at the battle of Themiscyra, yet possessed weapons completely unlike that of his legend. Berserker that the League just fought revealed himself to be the famed General of Repetition from the Three Kingdoms.
And Gray had called the blonde woman he was currently in battle with the Hero King of Uruk. A figure who was the protagonist of one of, if not the oldest living story in existence that used words instead of pictures.
Gilgamesh.
He stopped typing on his wrist-bound computer before glancing over at the group of six Servants watching the battle between Rider and the Hero King of Uruk, noting each of their expressions before they all turned to Batman with a frown.
One of the Servants, a peerlessly beautiful looking woman wrapped in a garment more black than midnight smiled at Batman before making a slicing gesture at her throat while smiling at the Dark Knight. Her smile looked anything but friendly.
A shiver went up the spine of the peak level human but he showed no outward changes. The look in the eyes of the one Gray called "Saber", was much more threatening than the pointy-eared woman despite the former's beauty outshining her feeling of death.
The gazes of everyone on the battlefield was once more attracted by Gray, as a single word caused the changes in expression of the Servants.
"[Transfiguration]".
The exact moment Gray spoke this word, his figure vanished once more, and only the occasional streak of long green hair could be seen traveling through the countless shooting blades. His feet rapidly moving along with the direction of the wind generated by the countless explosions and his figure twisting and swerving to dodge the myriad weapons shot at him.
The skill allowed for Enkidu to transfer his stats from one Parameter to another. At the cost of his Luck and Strength, he could increase his Agility and Endurance to A+ in order to weave through the approaching projectiles with absolute ease.
Gray, who had installed Berserker carried a look alike of [Merodach: The Original Sin] that he created using [Age of Babylon: The Wisdom of the People]. The sword was present in Gilgamesh's treasury, and was the original model of the legends of the swords of selections from all over the world.
While [Gate of Babylon: The King's Treasure] held all the treasures that Gilgamesh had accumulated over his life, [Age of Babylon: The Wisdom of the People] could create weapons only crafted by human hands, each at the pinnacle of craftsmanship.
Gilgamesh saw the copy of the sword and her expression turned into one of distaste.
"How arrogant! My friend would never use a weapon other than himself to battle me! Looks like I might have to show you the true power of a Heroic Spirit!".
[Age of Babylon: The Wisdom of the People] could create weapons, not Noble Phantasms. The Mystery behind the copy of the legendary weapon in his hand couldn't match up against the real thing being propelled towards him, and he threw the copy towards the original, causing both to explode in a bright crimson light.
A large dust storm was kicked up by the explosion and Gilgamesh frowned as she looked down at the earth below him. Her eyes narrowing slightly, before widening hugely and jumping back several meters to dodge the chains that were shot through the dust.
The clinking and rattling of chains echoed throughout the battlefield as the dust died down and a sharp blade tip could be seen coming out of Gray's sleeve, retreating up his unblemished white robe as he smiled up at Gilgamesh.
"You can't use it, can you? The ultimate weapon that my friend once used to almost destroy the Earth...".
Gilgamesh frowned but didn't respond to Gray's words. She raised her head slightly and looked down at the Pseudo-Servant in front of her, a look of arrogance could be seen in her eyes.
"I do not need the power of Ea to kill someone like you. A mere Faker like you, should just roll over and die!".
Two golden blades, each exquisite in their own right appeared in the hands of Gilgamesh. Gray's eyes widened in familiarity at the two blades before looking around at the city of Metropolis around him his expression turning into one of anger.
"Gilgamesh! Just because you cannot use Ea does not mean you need to use Enki to destroy me! At least with Ea, I could cancel-".
"Do not attempt to talk to your King like that! I have saved up enough magical power to use this.... and it will be a fitting end for a mere Faker like you!".
Gilgamesh huffed out in a loud voice as she joined the two golden blades causing the hilts to tilt inward slightly as a golden bow strand appeared, connecting the two blade tips. The King of Heroes aimed the bow directly at Gray's figure, her eyes narrowing as she pulled back on the golden bow strand.
The power gathering at the tip of Gilgamesh's bow far exceeded any power that Gray possessed without using any of his Noble Phantasms. Enki was an EX Ranked Noble Phantasm capable of destroying most of the eastern seaboard in this world.
The Age of Gods never ended, so the worry about the Mystery of the Noble Phantasm declining was not needed to worry about. Rejection from Gaia and Alaya wasn't needed to be worried about either since neither of them existed in this world.
Gray turned around towards the Justice League, glancing at Diana for a moment before giving her a wry smile.
".... I'm going to do something stupid. I hope you don't look down on me for it....".
The fellow members of the Justice League shot a queer glance at Wonder Woman, who didn't meet any of their gazes, opting only to look at Gray with a small smile before nodding.
The single nod was all the Berserker Class Card installed Gray needed to know before taking a deep breath before looking up at Gilgamesh with a frown.
"You know what the best part is about having Class Cards Gilgamesh?".
The strange term drew raised eyebrows from all the Servants present, and the King of Heroes couldn't think of anything by that name in her treasury.
She rolled her eyes and drew even farther back on her bowstring.
"Irrelevant. If it does not exist in my treasury, than it is not worth possessing!".
Gray chuckled but let out a deep breath. The moment he spoke, streaks of electric yellow lightning bounced off his body like a Tesla coil. The power behind that strange electricity was not positively or negatively charged electrons...
It was just raw magical power that came off Gray's body like electricity. If one were to get hit by this lightning, they were surely feel the same effects if they were hit by the real thing.
He showed a wry smile, and a vision of a divine harlot came to Gray's mind. She taught him how to be "human". And what it was like to walk amongst mortals. She tamed his monstrous nature, and turned into the Hero he was in his legend.
He raised both arms slowly with his palms facing upward. His mouth opened widely, and a strange song came out of Gray's lips.
"Sorry Shamhat. But....".
The ground beneath Gray's feet exploded with a violent growth of enormous trees and forestry. The park in the middle of Metropolis was no longer a park, but a garden from an age long thought past.
The mana in the air trembled even further at Gray's presence. As if greeting a family member for the first time in many, many years. This center area of Metropolis had trees that soared above the skyscrapers that marred the skyline of this society of man. The man, no, Gray was calling out to the world, and the world was answering.
The last traces of sanity vanished in his electric yellow eyes the last word leaving his mouth caused almost everyone present to look at the Pseudo-Servant in a slight fear.
"[Madness Enhancement]".
[Madness Enhancement].
It was a Skill that was a characteristic of all Berserker Class Servants. As the name suggests, it gave up a portion of the users sanity in exchange for an increase in parameters all across the board. It may just twist a Servants personality, however the exchange for power most of the time came at a great cost.
Lu Bu, the famed General from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms had some grasp over his Madness Enhancement, unlike the majority of Servants. Vlad III, the King of Romania became nothing more than a bloodthirsty vampire the moment his Madness Enhancement activated. The legend of the Impaler vanished, and Dracula came into being.
A Dead Apostle whose strength rivaled even the likes of Nrvnqsr Chaos, another Dead Apostle Ancestor who is the living mass of chaotic matter, created from the accumulation of 666 creatures.
But Enkidu wasn't a Dead Apostle. He was just a lump of clay, crafted by the Gods to be a deterrent against the keystone in the case that he betrayed the Gods. In the beginning Enkidu was neither name nor woman, just a monster whose happiness came from being free in the wild.
"!".
A strange roar came from Gray's mouth as his white garbed robe vanished and strange tattoos covered his body. They were electric yellow, which paralleled heavily with Gilgamesh's red tattoos. A pair of strange looking horns broke through Gray's forehead before separating like branches, only a few inches each in length.
The flora around Gray grew uncontrollably in his presence. The trees that showed no signs of stopping covered the entire block in a single giant entwined tree that pierced the clouds above Metropolis.
The Justice League and the group of Servants all stood underneath the tree, as the base of the tree was in a dome-like shape, the interior of the massive piece of flora was hollow, and a perfect setting for a battle.
Gilgamesh frowned at Gray's figure before looking up at the gigantic tree above them. Her tone was one of confusion, before she looked at Saber with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't recall my friend every possessing an ability like this. At the very least, this cannot be the Enkidu that I am familiar-".
"Wrong".
The female King of Heroes turned back to look at Gray, before noting that his body had vanished from its position, and appeared directly in front of her.
Those electric green eyes that appeared only when her best friend was either extremely angry in the presence of Ishtar were looking down on the King of Uruk. Her eyes widened and she tried to leap back but felt a hand hit the side of her face, sending her flying dozens of meters backwards.
"How dare you!".
Gilgamesh regained her posture when she landed and instantly activated her [Gate of Babylon: The King's Treasure], dozens of golden portals opening behind her, all aimed at Gray's figure which stared at her before vanishing once more.
Despite being a King and not a warrior, the Caster Servant felt a deathly feeling on the back of her neck and jumped forward once more, noting the loud sound of earth cracking where she once stood.
Gray, in his shirtless figure, still with the strange branch horns on his head stood tall as the od from his body rolled off him like lightning during a storm. The mana from the world supplemented his powers, and it was evident from a glance by the other Servants, that all his Parameters had reached A+ at the very minimum.
They saw Enkidu, or Gray rather give them a wide smile.
"The version of Ryougi Shiki that was born from the 「 」.... The General who became an Emperor after the Revolution.... The King of Lions who gave up the Sword in the Stone....
A twisted Heroic Spirit who gave their humanity in order to rule and world of ice and snow.... The female King of Heroes who I would come to call a friend...
The wife of a King, killing her husband with poison and ruling his domain with an iron fist..... And the General of Repetition, who hates betrayal, but would give up his best friend in order to succeed.... How cute".
The brows of all the Servants in front of Gray furrowed at the words of the Pseudo-Servant, implying that he knows their identity. Archer raised his right arm and pointed it at Gray, and a massive canon appeared on the man's arm, magical power gathering in the barrel of the weapon.
Lancer removed her helmet and let her divinely beautiful face be revealed to the world. At the cost of using Rhongomyniad she physically changed to suit the appearance of such a goddess, yet her emerald green eyes were anything but happy.
Rider crossed his arms and harrumphed through his weirdly shaped tusk mask at the mention of his humanity been through away in pursuit of power.
Assassin merely smiled at Gray, not caring for her legend been revealed to the other Heroic Spirits she was standing beside.
Berserker just stood still behind Saber. A good General knows when to act, and when to bide his time and wait....
Caster just frowned, pulling back on the bow of Enki once more, as far back as her C Ranked Strength would allow. The words of Gray, had both caused her distress as well as angered the King of Heroes.
Despite being better known as the Sage-King, this particular version of Gilgamesh still remembered herself as the King of Heroes. Even if her temper was much more restrained.
Gray's gaze turned towards the members of the Justice League, much to the ire of Caster, who released her bow and shot the tracer arrow towards Gray.
Before the tracer could even hit said target, beautifully crafted chains rose up from out of the earth and pierced the tracer where it stood, signifying to the six bolts and the Star of Destruction in the atmosphere above to hit directly above the massive tree in the center of Metropolis.
The Chains of Heaven ignored the incoming tsunami that could wipe out most of the eastern seaboard and looked towards the various Heroes underneath the tree he had created.
"Do you know the difference between you and us?".
The Green Lanterns, Hawks and the Flash all shared a look, but Martian Manhunter, Batman and Wonder Woman all looked straight at Gray's electric yellow eyes. They were completely unlike Rider's flirty golden-amber eyes, as well as Lancer's bloodthirsty crimson red ones.
All these ones contained was power. Pure, unrivaled power.
Superman might've been the only one who could exceed a Servant in terms of Strength and Endurance, yet even the Man of Steel couldn't overpower a pair of eyes that saw the death of even inanimate objects.
Lines of death, we the ultimate weak points on every living being. Theoretically, one could kill anything if they cut upon a line of death, and almost every form of regeneration would do nothing to heal or repair said wound.
Gray was no exception. But he did have one advantage.
He turned to the other Servants and gestured at them with one hand, and to the League with the other. His words carried an absolutism about it.
"That unlike us, you have absolutely nothing to lose".
Gray squatted down for a moment before leaping upwards with an A+++ Ranked Strength. The massive tree created a gap for the Pseudo-Servant to move through towards the sky, as the figures of the Servants vanished and appeared on a rooftop nearby. All their gazes were eagerly turned towards the sky, and the bright golden falling spear which was coming down through the stratosphere at a dramatic rate.
Enki was normally and Anti-World Noble Phantasm capable of flooding the world with enough water to kill every living being on land, thus it would be more accurate to call it an Anti-Continent Noble Phantasm.
The wind whistled in Gray's ear as his body floated in the sky above the gigantic tree. His head raised upwards to look up at the spear above him, before he raised his arms once more and opened his mouth to sing.
"That which spreads life,".
The planet once more cried out in response to Gray's call. Normally, this couldn't be done in such a rapid succession, yet with his Berserker Class, Enkidu could show his true power that was restrained when he took on human form.
"Fighting mankind's first fears, spinning stories around a dying fire"
With his Berserker Class status, both his true power and his existence that could right be said to be a Noble Phantasm used by a God. Enkidu's true power, became closer and closer towards the Divine, despite being a weapon to kill the Divine.
"From the past to the future, from the future to eternity".
Scientists from all over the world in this exact moment, experienced an outburst of power coming from everywhere on the Earth. It was completely unlike the burst of power Ado Edem created over the North Atlantic Ocean.
This energy caused massive growth in flora and fauna all over the Earth. The waves of power coming off the planet gathered in one spot, causing every living being born and raised on Earth to stare in the direction of Metropolis.
"The land, together with the sea, and those, in turn, to the sky".
Gray raised his arms above his head, and the members of the Justice League, watched as the Earth around them shifted and the Lanterns carried Batman and Wonder Woman away, in the opposite direction of the Servants watching on the other side of the city.
Diana noticed a small seed sprout out from beneath the ground. The beauty behind the seed enraptured the daughter of Zeus but her eyes widened as it exploded upwards, becoming more like a spear pointed at the heavens rather than a flower ready to bloom.
The massive tree was nothing in comparison to the small spear shaped flower, and the flora twisted and turned and electric yellow energy bounced off it as it quickly raised towards the sky.
A hidden figure looked on with a strange mixture of awe and respect in their eyes. A strange black sword was wielded in their hands.
All eyes turned towards Gray, whose eyes glowed with an untold power.
The words he spoke resounded not just on Earth, but everywhere, in every time, every space, in every frequency. There was nowhere that this declaration could not reach.
""O Humans, Let Us Restrain The Gods Above: Enuma Elish!".
I wanted a Enkidu versus Gilgamesh battle at the very start of the War. The scene in Fate/Strange Fake was f**king amazing and I wanted to repeat it here.
Anyway, I'm sorry about all the cliffhangers but I can't upload the entire battle scene in one go. Just like Gray, I like messing with people.
Your (kinda) Faithful Author, MrMoist
P.S. I'm working on a Pa**on but I need to get some things in order first.