[center][h1][color=gold]Lorelei Baggett[/color][/h1][/center]

[center][h3][Back Yard, Abandoned House South of the Matou Estate, Southwesrt Part of Fuyuki City][/h3][/center]

[center][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mK_0up-LMc[/url][/center]

"I...am finally finished," Lorelei said with a slight huff of tiredness, dropping the dead body of a chicken she had bought earlier to the side, also backing up from the summoning circle she had just finished making on the ground before her with blood in the back yard of this abandoned home. 

The Holy Grail War had finally begun, and the black-haired, fair-skinned homunculus was ready to get her servant summoned as soon as possible. She was no military strategist, but if she could summon her servant first and attempt to secure a base of operations, it would give her all the more advantage in surviving the entirety of this conflict. Though as for the idea of securing a leyline, she did not know whether to do so or not. To take a fallen leyline would be to place a target on her back, but would also make for being able to provide for her servant especially well in regards to mana. Still, just "summoning and running" might be a better position to take up for her, and/or perhaps trying to ally with one of the two magus families that were orchestrating this Grail War could be of use. She was still thinking over the ideas at the moment. After all, if she were attacked here or the like she would have to adjust plans for fleeing to a safer area first. 

Whatever her initial actions and decision would be, she was summoning her servant here where one of the fallen leylines were. She had just arrived here the other day, getting in some rest and planning where to summon her servant if nothing else. It was a start, a small one, but a start in her quest for the Grail and to survive. Why had she been chosen for the Holy Grail War as a master, though? It was an odd thing, as she could not recall having any specific wish she would want to search for in a conflict like this. Yet all the same, her family had sent her here to observe the Grail War and its details, and to participate as well to try to get a chance to observe the rumored chalice itself. Were the Holy Grail to be too dangerous of an object...well, she understood fully what that meant for her. 

But for now, beginning the ritual to summon was of most importance. With that in mind, the homunculus picked up a small wooden box she had brought with her and placed on the ground while she had been making the summoning circle for the ritual. Cracking it open, a piece of old and worn iron sat inside, something that according to the people her family had bought the artifact from was from the weapon of a great hero. A strong hero, one who slew monsters and rode upon a great and powerful steed. This was who she, with the help of the Baggett family archives, had picked to try to summon as her servant. 

Placing the piece of simple and incredibly old iron into the center of the summoning circle, Lorelei stepped back once more to begin the incantation she had memorized for this very occasion...

[center][i]"Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Fill. Let each be turned over five times, simply breaking asunder the fulfilled time.

Let silver and steel be the essence. Let stone and the archduke of contracts be the foundation. Let my great master Schweinorg be the ancestor. Raise a wall, against the wind that shall fall. Close the four cardinal gates. Come out from the crown. Rotate the three-branched road reaching the Kingdom.

I shall declare here. Your body shall serve under me. My fate shall be with your sword. Submit to the beckoning of the Holy Grail. If you will submit to this will and this reason…… then answer!

An oath shall be sworn here! I shall attain all virtues of all of Heaven. I shall have dominion over all evils of all of Hell! – From the Seventh Heaven, attended to by three great words of power, come forth from the ring of restraint, Protector of the Balance!"[/i][/center]

As she chanted aloud the incantation, Lorelei saw the circle before her begin to glow with what at first was a faint red light. Yet as she spoke each line of the incantation, the circle seemed to glow brighter and brighter, and the command seals on the back of her left hand began to glow as well. Brighter and brighter the glowing became as she continued on, until upon finally delivering the last remaining line of the ritual...the summoning circle erupted with power in front of like an explosion, causing the homunculus to pull her arms up to protect her eyes and head. 

Had she...done it? Had she managed to summon a servant? The servant she wanted?