Well to say we were hungry would be sort of an understatement...

When I woke up the next morning, I sat up to find, much to my delight.. everything had been turned into sweets!

The trees were stacks of cinimon buns with green twizzlers for branches.. the grass was made of green gummi bears, and chocolate colored strawberries were what constructed the squirrels.. 

The ground was one giant cake, and there was a mountain of ice cream nearby... HEAVEN! I had gone to heaven!!

But then as I began to gobble on a nearby cake, I woke up FOR REAL that time.. to find that I was actually nibbling on Annabeth's head..

.. awkward..

"What are you doing?" Annabeth muttered, staring at me. 

I quickly sat up blushing and internally cursing myself a hundred thousand times. "Uh... nothing! J... just... testing.. your hair strength... c.. can't have unhealthy roots now right?! Healthy hair's the best!"

At that moment the part of my body I like to call 'The King's Chambers' gave a great rumble.. and Annabeth no longer needed an explanation. 

She suggested we all go looking for something to eat before moving on, a suggestion to which we heartily agreed. 

At that moment, I had to say my life felt like a big joke.. almost as if some writer decided to make a crossover noncanon fiction with me in it that involved silly skit moments with pointless humor meant to highlight the relationship between the characters in a comedic fashion. 

Did... I just unintentionally reference something? 

We searched for so many hours... Breakfast.. Lunch.. Dinner? We didn't care anymore.. if we just found one little morsel we'd be happy.

But we searched for the entire day, only to find that unless we had a knack for instantaneous gardening, or hunting squirrels without accidentally burning them to smithereens.. (Excalibur.. good for killing enemies.. not good for squirrel hunting).  We were going to have to deal with starving for a while..

But then.. it was after  the sun had once more started setting behind the hills that we found ourselves smelling something glorious..

Greasy.. Fried... meat.. Yes.. I smelled it. I knew the smell of American Fast Food.. I felt it in my very soul.. and the King's Chambers demanded to be filled.. filled with that wondrous thing known as a Double Cheeseburger... No! A Triple Cheeseburger! Wendys invented that!... wait.. no... A QUADRUPLE Burger.. I think Burger King did that with the Whopper... NO! A SEXTEPABURGER!! I would be the one to invent that.. before finally inventing the Decaburger!!

Screw Diabetes! The King must be fed!

So.. me and Annabeth, amid our rumbly tummies, decided to follow the smell. 

"Girls.. I'm not sure about this.." Grover muttered as me and Annabeth veered towards the smell like zombies in a trance. 

"Grover.. we haven't eaten.. like.. at all.." said Annabeth. "And we just blasted down 2 miles of forest trying to catch a squirrel by cleaving it with a Holy Sword of Super Whatsit power!  We need something a little more promising than tree bark.. we need meat!"

"Blaha! Meat!" Grover said in disgust. "I'm a vegetarian!"

"You eat Enchiladas and Tin Cans."I reminded Grover. 

"Those are vegetables!" Grover stammered. "Come on.. can we please not go towards a suspicious smell we know nothing about?"

"Oh I know precisely about this smell." Annabeth said. "It is the rare species.. Cheeseburgerus.. Deliciousiticus! From the I'llFillYourBellyicus Phylum! We must study this rare endangered animal... for science."

"Agreed!" I said, nodding fervently. "For Science!.. All educational Grover, that means we have to do it.."

"Oh come on.." Grover muttered 

Finally after a few minutes of following the smell, we came upon a large street side store standing next to a dirt road. 

The outside of the store was filled with what appeared to be life sized stone Garden Gnomes.. various garden statues, from Satyrs and Centaurs, to people from all walks of life.. even a few children.   

The sign above the building was sort of faded and hard to read..  

"I can't read it.. somebody.." Annabeth muttered.

"Really!?" I said. Annabeth was the last person I expected to not be able to read something.

"Half-Blood brains are hardwired for Greek." said Annabeth. "This makes us Dyslexic. "

Huh.. well you learned new things every day.

Me and Grover peered at the sign, narrowing our eyes..

"Heaven's Feel Garden Gnome Emporium.." I muttered. "That's an odd name."

There was a light in the store window.. so me and Annabeth figured there was no harm in knocking.. 

As  Annabeth stepped forward to knock on the door, Grover looked around nervously. "Man.. these statues.. are looking at me."

He had a point, when I looked myself, I found the statues not only highly detailed down to the last wrinkle and discolored rock freckle, but, but oddly alive.. as if they were indeed looking at me.. and it was weird how all of them seemed to have the same look on their faces.. a look of terror..

What kind of person made this kind of art?

Annabeth knocked on the door a couple of times. 

"Coming!" A voice exclaimed.

The door opened, to reveal a young looking girl, who seemed to be around my own age appearance.  She had dark violet colored hair, with a kind face, and a white dress with a purple ribbon in her hair. 

And she also seemed strangely familiar..  But I couldn't place her face anywhere.. The moment the girl caught sight of us, she let out a small gasp. "Young ones? alone in the cold? But.. what are you doing so far from the city.. all the way out here? Where are your parents?"

"You're pretty young yourself." Annabeth pointed out. "And uh.. sorry for the intrusion.."

"Oh no.. it's fine! We're open 24/7 anyways.. I tend to run the night shift, while my partner Ms. M runs the day shift.. " said the girl. "My name is Sakura Matou, it's a pleasure.. and.. um.. you all are?"

"Grover.." said Grover nervously. 

"Annabeth." said Annabeth. 

"Saber. " I murmured.

Sakura froze when she heard me introduce myself. She looked in my direction. "Excuse me.. could you.. step a little into the light so I can see you properly?"

I did as Sakura asked, and for a brief moment, I saw a flash of fear cross her face.. but it was immediately replaced by her pleasant smile.. so I assumed I imagined it.. 

"My you are so pretty." said Sakura "And you seem to be the oldest am I right?"

"I guess I would be." I said.  "My apologies Ms. Matou.. but we haven't eaten for such a long while.. and.. we smelled food so we found our way here.. if you would be so kind, could you perhaps spare us some.. some..?"

Suddenly my stomach growled hugely.

"Oh yes! I understand.. don't worry.. I'll have you all fed in no time." said Sakura. "It's the least I can do for such nice visitors.. we don't get those often.. most of the business here is delivery ordered.. come in come in!"

As we trooped inside, Sakura spoke again. "Oh.. and please.. my partner.. Ms. Em.. has a very big temper.. so I IMPLORE of you not to wake her up... ever.. she's upstairs.. and she REALLY loves her sleep.. 

"yeah, we'll be quiet." said Annabeth as me and her got seated at what appeared to be a minibar that was next to a kitchen filled with sizzling burgers on frying pans.  "So.. you and this Ms Em work on Garden Gnomes together?"

"Oh.. er.. actually it's all Ms. Em.. she's the artist." said Sakura as she set to work flipping patties and putting them on buns with cheese, lettuce and tomatoes..  "She's the artist.. though.. she's a bit shy about it... she doesn't like doing it.. we have to to make a living you know.. it's how it happens.. "

"Odd.. why not focus on something you two love then?" I asked. "Surely that would be a better and more enjoyable way to make money."

"Well it's not like we got here by choice." said Sakura. "you see.. Ms. Em is sick.. she has a condition that makes her not so well around people... especially people like her.."

Sakura gave me a strange look now.. staring straight at me... as if.. warning me.. but the smell of the burgers were so intoxicating.. I didn't really seem to notice ..  the delicious smell was so incredible.. especially considering how completely empty my stomach was at the moment.. 

Grover was the only one who didn't look like he was at ease.. He kept on staring nervously around him.. chewing on the wax paper of the basket plates that Sakura handed us, stacked high with food..

And while Annabeth got a nice helping of burgers and fries, and Grover was given some apples to eat.. my plate was stacked high with 10 Double Cheeseburgers overflowing on the plate.. 

Grover gave my plate an extremely odd look as I began chowing down like a vacuum cleaner.. "Uhhh.. Miss.. how did you know she could eat all that?"

"Oh.. the look in her eyes." Sakura said hastily. "I've seen many kinds of hungry mouths before... "

Sakura again gave me one of her weird 'warning' glances.. was she trying to tell me something? ehhh.. probably nothing.. 

As we ate, I noticed there were more Gnomes inside as well.. 

Grover eyed one of them nervously, a grimacing Satyr with reed pipes that looked a little like the reed pipes Grover himself owned. "Blaha.. looks like my Uncle Ferdinand. "

At that moment, Grover backed up and accidentally knocked over a vase, which shattered onto the ground..

Immediately, there was a grunting sound upstairs... and a voice.. a  drowsy woman's voice called out.. "Master... ? Is something wrong?"

Sakura looked horrified. "J.. JUST SOME VISITORS RIDER!!!"

Annabeth seemed to freeze immediately. "R.. Rider?"

Sakura whispered frantically to us. "Hide her.. hide Saber now!!"

Annabeth put a hand on my head and forced me under a table, before jumping in front of it.. as somebody new made her way down the stairs.

She had the appearance of a beautiful well endowed, mature woman.. her body could honestly be that of a super model's. She wore a black short hemmed strappless black dress that only went down to her upper thigh.. with purple arm guards and straps over her black arm warmers..  with black high knee boots.

Chains were wrapped around her arms, ending in long twin knives that looked more like stakes than actual blades, and she bore long purple hair that went down to her legs.. and the most unusual of all.. she had a blindfold of some sort.. a purple blindfold over her eyes, right under a strange red mark on her forehead.

Rider... a Rider Class Servant..  The first one my amnesiac self ever saw since the Berserker attacked me in what seemed forever ago..

Rider sniffed the air.. strolling slowly into the living room.. her back slouched, her arms swinging below her as if she were part rag doll and part animal. 

"Visitors.." Rider muttered as she sniffed near Annabeth's hair. "Yes..  I can smell their stench.."

The blindfold.. was she blind..? But she seemed to be able to judge where everything was just fine.. as if her sense of smell, and hearing were absolutely incredible. 

Grover shifted away from Rider with a frightened look on his face. "Uhhhh.."

"This is Ms. Em.." stammered Sakura. "Please, she's... she's perfectly harmless when she's not on shift.. "

"Indeed.. I don't plan on working or crafting tonight.. though I do ask that vase be replaced.." muttered Rider. "It was a gift.. from my older sisters.."

"Your sisters?" said Annabeth nervously. 

"Yes... they weren't made the same way I was.. they have... a more primordial existence than I... oh I apologize.. I shouldn't bother a mortal and a Satyr with such sad tales.. " muttered Rider.  "I must return to sleep.. I have a long day.."

Grover stared at Rider. "Uhh.. how did you..?"

"I can smell goat fur on you, it doesn't take a rocket science.. " Rider muttered. "You two must be from that Camp... yes I know of it.."

"R.. Rider.. you really should get to sleep." said Sakura. "And.. don't forget to take your medicine.. "

"Yes.. of course.. this curse really takes a toll.. on my psyche.." Rider said as she moved up the stairs slowly. "Strange.. I could've sworn that I smelled a third visitor.. I.."

At that moment.. Sakura let out a cry of pain..  a strange blue rune on her finger that had been glowing.. like some sort of enchantment stopped.. 

Rider stopped in her tracks.. "The smell... it returned.. and that's not it... I also feel mana..."

Rider looked at Sakura her face pained. "Oh... dear Master.. what have you been trying to hide from me..?"

"Rider-san.." Sakura whispered carefully as she shot Annabeth an extremely frantic warning glance. "Remember.. Zeus doesn't dominate your fate.. you control it.. you control-.."

"SABER.. I KNOW THAT SCENT!!!" Rider growled.. 

"Oh crap.." Annabeth stammered as Grover,  backed against the Satyr gnome.. and gasped.

"That.. IS my Uncle Ferdinand.."

And suddenly it all made sense to me too.. the covered up eyes..  the garden gnomes..

Ms. Em? No... Ms. M.

Medusa's chains unraveled as she grabbed the hilts of her two knives.. and she turned in my direction.. 

"MY APOLOGIES!!" Screamed Rider.. as a bit of foam seemed seeth out of her mouth.. her skin growing pale with an addictive sickness that could only be a curse.. "I MUST HAVE... THE GRAIL!!!!!!!!"

Rider  launched herself at me as I stood up, smashing the table aside and exploding into my Servant form..

I only brought Excalibur up to block just in time.. and a shockwave and sparks exploded from the collision of the two knife blades 

I felt my entire body rattle, my bones quiver, Rider was almost as physically strong as Berserker.. her physical strength was immense!

Rider moved like a feral animal.. maneuvering around me as I slashed my blade at her, whipping her knives forward, 

I parried again and again.. as the chains on the knives slashed and grinded against the edge of my blade.

Her style of fighting was unusual, a combination of dual knife wielding and Whip style attacks, the chains being used to attack just as much as the knife blades themselves. The unusual style overall was tough to predict, especially since nobody in the era of Camelot ever used such a type of weapon. This woman was far more formidable than the three Furies. 

I maneuvered my footing, managing to get behind Rider.. before hurling a powerful glowing slash at Rider's side..

But Rider lashed her knives upwards, and her chains wrapped around Excalibur's blade, wrenching it upwards so she was able to duck under the slash and stab her two knives towards my chest.

I let go of my sword with my left gauntlet and grabbed the two nail-like knives with my hand.. stopping them before they could reach my breastplate.. My arm shook, and I panted as I struggled to keep Rider's incredible strength at bay.. but Rider was physically stronger than me..

My feet dragged gouges in the concrete floor as Rider pushed and pushed, and we smashed straight through the wall into the back garden that was filled with more stone people. 

"GRRRAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Rider slammed my face with her own forehead, and in my daze, I was thrown off, smashing through several garden ornaments before I collided with the rocky wall on the side of the hill next to the house. 

Did it hurt? Oh yes it did.. 

"SABER!!! SABER WAKE UP!!" Somebody was slapping me in the face repeatedly. 

"I'll.. take a Double Cheeseburger.. with fries and a milkshake.." I groaned.

"SABER DINNER!!" the voice screamed.

"WHERE!!?" I sat upright quickly, determined to get dibbs on whatever was available at the serving table.  oh.. wait a second.

Annaabeth was stooped over me, and my armor was dented up. 

I got up, panting. "Sorry.. "

"SORRY!? I've seen you hit Berserker! You went EASY on her! WHY!? That's MEDUSA!! One of the craziest evillest monsters out there!! And she's in SERVANT form!" stammered Annabeth. 

"I went easy?" I muttered.

Did I? But why? Why would I unconsciously go easy on any opponent? 

I shook myself. "Where's Rider!?"

SHEEEENNN!!" Two chains exploded from the hole in the wall, the knives digging into the ground as Rider pulled on the chains, using them to slingshot herself out into the garden. 

"SAAAABERRRRRRRRR!!!!" Rider dashed at me.. moving at immense speed.

I gritted my teeth. "Annabeth.. stay back.."

"You're hurt, let me help!"

"One punch from her.. and you're dead.." I said.. "STAY BACK!!"

"Oh like I'm gonna listen to you your Majesty." Annabeth said as she whipped out her Yankees cap and disappeared.

Rider closed in, and we exchanged furious blows. This time, I was ready for her attack, using Excalibur's powerful light to my advantage so that with every slash, I was able to deflect Rider's chains at a wider range while she whipped them around viciously.

I ducked a few chains then I moved in at the opening I saw to her left.. and sent a powerful stab forward.

"PIERCE AND DIE!!!" I roared, using the energy from my blade to create a concussive blast as I stabbed, and Rider was sent flying..

But as she flew, she threw out her knives, stabbing them into the ground again, pulling herself back to earth with her chains, stooping down on all fours like a twisted spider.

Whether I was holding back or not.. this woman was tough..  especially since unlike me, she seemed to possess a feral anger that boosted her adrenaline beyond the norm.. was this what Zeus's curse did!? Made you fight viciously without reason or sanity?

"GRAILL.. GRAIL.. GRAIL GRAIL.. GRAAAAAAAILLLLLL!!" Medusa screamed, hammering her fists against the ground, creating a crater bigger and bigger in the ground.  "I WILL TURN YOU TO STONE.. SMASH YOUR BODIES TO DUST.. AND BATHE IN THE ESSENCE OF THE HOLY GRAIL!!!"

"I see. So you are no longer yourself.. you are just a monster twisted by Zeus." I muttered, feeling a horrible boiling sensation in the pit of my stomach.. "I am sorry."

Medusa charged forth, a shockwave blasting from her feet.. but before she could get close.. she screamed in pain as a