(Artorias POV)
"I ask thou, art thou thy master?"
Oh my I hope I did that right it felt so coool, I hope I made a great first impression
"Mas..ter?" (Shirou)
He looks like, a deer in headlights. I guess I have to give him a bit of an introduction
"I'm your Saber class servant and I have come in accordance to your summons, my sword will henceforth be at your side.." (Artoria)
I start to tense my muscles and tighten my grip around the invisible Excalibur. At the same time I start to cycle Prana through my legs "...Your fate is henceforth my fate. The pact is not sealed" After I'm done saying that u jump through the open door to face Lancer.
As I'm jumping I hear shirou mutter to himself "What do you mean "pact"?".
'I have to mentally prepare myself for the hardest battle I have had yet, all that time at camlann will be used to help me in this battle' (Artoria)
As soon as I ahve landed I engage Lancer in a duel, I swing from the bottom right to his top left shoulder but he flawlessly blocks it and attempts to attack attack but I parry the strike with equal power behind it.
After our short bought we brake off and we make distance between each other to get into a battle ready stance.
while I'm getting into a battle position I channel more pranna into my arms and legs so I can close the gap in our speeds, After staring at each other for a while we both fly at each other at immense speeds, We both attack and parry each others attacks. In about 3 seconds we have thrown dozens of attacks at each other but I see and opening and swing for it, just in time he backs away and runs off into the distance to get into a piercing strike once he throws out his arm to pierce me I use my only option and duck to the side of it to get under the spear and parry it up.
'This is my chance' (Artoria)
With that in mind I push the attack forward to back him into a corner. I can see he's having a hard time getting into a position to attack so he keeps having to block my attacks, with me being able to push him back I perform a spinning attack with all my might to decapitate him, unfortunately he blocks it with all his might and slides off my sword and does a pirouette in the air to get away from me
"Coward ! What's the meaning of this, concealing your weapon ?!" (Lancer)
'Stop speaking this I'd a battle to the death not a pow wow' (Artoria)
I use his distraction to take a swing at his hip but sadly he jumps over me to get away from the strike but doesn't bother trying to attack me.
'I guess I'll humour him (Artoria)
"What is the matter, Lancer if you simply stand there, you will give spearmen a bad name. If you will not come to me, I shall go to you !" (Artoria)
"Before you do, let me ask you one thing. Your Noble Phantasm, is it a sword ?" (Lancer)
'Oh this is my chance..' (Artoria)
"Perhaps, Perhaps not, it may be a battle axe. Or perhaps a polearm or maybe even a bow ... Lancer." (Artoria)
'Oh my lord I always wanted to say that I'm mentally fan girling... wait did I just call myself a fan girl oh no this is bad..' (Artoria)
"Very funny, Swordswoman !" (Lancer)
Currently Lancer is getting into a unique stance.
"That stance..." (Shirou)
"One question, Since this is our first meeting, would you like to call it a draw ?" (Lancer)
'I want to say yes but I don't want to influence the time line to early' (Artoria)
"I think not, you will fall here, Lancer !" (Artoria)
"Dam my orders were simply to observe.." (Lancer)
A/N - Cliff hanger ❤ (sorry I was at 666 words thought that would be cool)