Normal POV
A woman clad in all black and blue turns to stare at the knight in white staring at her with intense hatred in his eyes "oh what a surprise to see you Sir Ezikiel I thought you would be with your fellow surviving Knight"
"Did...you really think teleporting me directly into the sun was going to do anything?" the man asked reaching over to his sword. The woman chuckles deliriously "no but it did give enough time for your precious Arthur to fall hahaha and now Camelot is mine!"
She then rose a brow upon seeing the dark look in the red haired man's eyes "oh so it does seem that your capable of hatred," Ezikiel jaws clenched "indeed it's quite a surprise in all honestly I didn't quite think I could feel such emotions."
The witch laughs "so you've found a new you! Congratulations Sword Saint Ezikiel Van Astrea I hope you're having a nice birthday," his grip tightened on the dragon sword and for a moment the world shook as it was unsheathed "sorry but there is no new me but...today is the end of you Morgan Le Fay!"
Everything around them shook Gaia released a short cry of sadness feeling the sadness and wrath that currently overwhelmed her most beloved child as he forcibly drew the dragon sword Reid.
Once the sword was unsheathed the cries vanished and the shaking halted as if the last few seconds was nothing.
Morgan's smirk faltered the moment the dragon sword Reid was fully unsheathed.
The dragon scratched blade forged by the very fires of Gaia and tempered in the blood dragon of over 100 dragons two of which included the White Dragon Albion and Red Dragon Ddraig Y Goch , shimmered with a cruel red hue instead of the normal white. The air thickened mana twisted unnaturally contorting around them like the battlefield itself feared the clash to come.
"It doesn't matter if you kill me now Sword Saint my dream has been accomplished Artoria is dead and there's nothing you can do," Morgan said knowing that with his many protections from GAIA Ezikiel would be able to simply just stop her magic.
His blue eyes narrowed "then die...die alongside all those whose lives were lost because of your crimes," Ezikiel said as he raised the dragon sword upward with waves of pure mana gathering around the sword.
The light emanating from the legendary sword was simply blinding to Morgan's fairy eyes she closed her eyes letting out a sigh of resignation "in the end a hero is all you can ever be Ezikiel Van Astrea, never a man."
The mana surged to its peak the sword now glowed like a star torn from the heavens themselves, and for a brief second, the battlefield stood still silent, reverent even as if the world itself waited for the judgment of the Sword Saint.
Ezikiel whispered, not to Morgan, not even to himself, but to the countless knights crying out for justice.
"Reid...Bear Thy Will."
Finally he brought the blade down.
The moment the sword cleaved through the air a wave of unfiltered mana tore not just the room but the entire castle. It wasn't fire, it wasn't light, it was pure resolve made manifest every soul, every prayer, every death screaming through the blade of a man who was never allowed to be just a man.
Morgan Le Fay was consumed.
There was no scream nor cry only light.
Her body shattered into glimmering particles fay magic unweaving, torn apart by the sheer purity of Gaia's wrath channeled through her chosen. The very earth wept beneath their feet, flowers blooming and dying in a single heartbeat as if mourning and celebrating all at once.
then it was over.
The wind howled, Gaia exhaled, and Alaya allowed itself to breathe
Ezikiel stood alone the dragon sword Reid now dim in his hand the cruel red glow fading into dull silver.
His white cloak fluttered in the breeze torn and singed stained with not a single trace of blood.
"She was right," he muttered barely above a whisper his blue eyes turning into a duller shade "in the end… I was never allowed to choose."
He looked to the sky blue eyes empty of triumph.
"Happy birthday to me."
He closed his eyes the silence around him swallowing him whole drowning out even his own thoughts. A subtle tremor ran through his body it wasn't from the battle's toll, it wasn't from the force of the magic that had ripped through the air.
Rather it was the feeling of emptiness a gnawing, insistent emptiness that had always been there deep within him, but now louder than ever.
He had killed her Morgan Le Fay, the witch who had taken his friends and very purpose of living.
His eyes flicked down to the blade in his hand Reid.
The sword that had taken the lives of countless enemies, that had cleaved through gods and monsters alike. The sword that was not just a weapon but the symbol of a hero something he was meant to be for his country.
But what about the man... the man he never got to be that Ezikiel could never allow himself to be.
"No she was wrong a hero would have still been able to save those he loved" he whispered to no one in particular "I am nothing more but a monster just like Father and Grandfather said," something wet begins to run down his face but he was quick to wipe it away with his sleeve.
"Ah...I truly deserve to die," he said in a hollow tone while lifting the dragon sword to stab it into his chest.
This time he wanted a true death no Divine Protection of Phoenix to bring him back then without a second thought he stabbed the sword deep through his heart ending his own life.
However, Gaia would not allow its most beloved child to pass on it could not, he was needed to protect her very existence from its destruction by the rest of humanity.
"I am sorry my precious child but I cannot allow you to pass," were her words to his momentary fleeing conscious before the Divine Protection of the Phoenix revived him.
Of course, he should have known better a monster couldn't be allowed to have a merciful end. So Ezikiel slowly stood up and picked up his sword sheathing it then he simply walked away ignoring the steady stream of tears running down his face.
He doesn't know where to go because there is no Camelot.
No Round Table.
No...King.
-end of prologue-
So what are your thoughts to this start of the fanfic and idea.
Also this will be an Ezikiel x Artoria pairing.
I thought of simply just letting him use the name of 'Reinhard' but I figured that since he wouldn't act exactly like him then it would be best to just turn him into an OC Astrea.